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730 | 388 | 56d4d5ef2ccc5a1400d83287 | generic | In 2015 Beyoncé signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorit... | Who was the letter addressed to? | {'text': 'Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma', 'answer_start': 125} |
44,655 | 44,313 | 5ad38102604f3c001a3fe46e | generic | At her Silver Jubilee in 1977, the crowds and celebrations were genuinely enthusiastic, but in the 1980s, public criticism of the royal family increased, as the personal and working lives of Elizabeth's children came under media scrutiny. Elizabeth's popularity sank to a low point in the 1990s. Under pressure from publ... | When was Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee? | {'text': '1977', 'answer_start': 25} |
90,192 | 89,850 | 57288ea43acd2414000dfafd | generic | Popper left school at the age of 16 and attended lectures in mathematics, physics, philosophy, psychology and the history of music as a guest student at the University of Vienna. In 1919, Popper became attracted by Marxism and subsequently joined the Association of Socialist School Students. He also became a member of ... | Which Austrian political party did Popper join as a youth? | {'text': "Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria", 'answer_start': 324} |
19,117 | 18,775 | 56e6dbd66fe0821900b8ebf7 | generic | A large portion of music played on this format are either considered oldies or recurrent. It often deals with modern romantic and sexual relationships (and sometimes other adult themes such as work, raising children, and family) in a thoughtful and complex way. Soft AC, which has never minded keeping songs in high rota... | What radio station format is soft AC often contrasted with? | {'text': 'hot AC', 'answer_start': 552} |
116,105 | 115,763 | 57304f698ab72b1400f9c42e | generic | Reviews of the various editions of Windows 8 have been mixed. Tom Warren of The Verge said that although Windows 8's emphasis on touch computing was significant and risked alienating desktop users, a "tablet PC with Windows 8 makes an iPad feel immediately out of date" due to the capabilities of the operating system's ... | Who equated windos 8 as the first desktop operating system that understand what a computer is supposed to do? | {'text': 'David Pierce', 'answer_start': 372} |
58,256 | 57,914 | 5728a4fdff5b5019007da38e | generic | BYU has been considered by some Latter-day Saints, as well as some university and church leaders, to be "The Lord's university". This phrase is used in reference to the school's mission as an "ambassador" to the world for the LDS Church and thus, for Jesus Christ. In the past, some students and faculty have expressed d... | What perception do some feel that the nickname "The Lord's University" gives about university officials? | {'text': 'always divinely inspired and never to be contradicted', 'answer_start': 427} |
25,514 | 25,172 | 56f8e26d9e9bad19000a0691 | generic | 14% of the population speaks the official language Portuguese, the language of government and national communication during centuries of colonial rule. 44% speak Kriol, a Portuguese-based creole language, which is effectively a national language of communication among groups. The remainder speak a variety of native Afr... | How long was Guinea-Bissau under colonial rule? | {'text': 'centuries', 'answer_start': 124} |
128,040 | 127,698 | 573398ebd058e614000b5e67 | generic | A Science Hall was built in 1883 under the direction of Fr. Zahm, but in 1950 it was converted to a student union building and named LaFortune Center, after Joseph LaFortune, an oil executive from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Commonly known as "LaFortune" or "LaFun," it is a 4-story building of 83,000 square feet that provides the... | In what year did the student union building at Notre Dame get renamed to LaFortune Center? | {'text': '1950', 'answer_start': 73} |
52,415 | 52,073 | 57268a8d708984140094c976 | generic | In an interrogative main clause the usual word order is: conjugated verb followed by subject; other verbs in final position: "Kun jij je pen niet vinden?" (literally "Can you your pen not find?") "Can't you find your pen?"
In the Dutch equivalent of a wh-question the word order is: interrogative pronoun (or expression)... | What never changes in a subordinate clause in Dutch? | {'text': 'word order', 'answer_start': 689} |
4,831 | 4,489 | 56ce5b66aab44d1400b886e8 | generic | The total solar energy absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, oceans and land masses is approximately 3,850,000 exajoules (EJ) per year. In 2002, this was more energy in one hour than the world used in one year. Photosynthesis captures approximately 3,000 EJ per year in biomass. The amount of solar energy reaching the surface... | Each year the Earth absorbs how much solar energy in exajoules? | {'text': '3,850,000', 'answer_start': 95} |
102,685 | 102,343 | 572eabafc246551400ce44a9 | generic | Epic poetry, notably the "acritic songs", flourished during Middle Ages. Two chronicles, one written by Leontios Machairas and the other by Georgios Voustronios, cover the entire Middle Ages until the end of Frankish rule (4th century–1489). Poèmes d'amour written in medieval Greek Cypriot date back from the 16th centu... | Where did scholar Ioannis Kigalas flee to in the 17th century? | {'text': 'Italy', 'answer_start': 544} |
85,800 | 85,458 | 572829bd4b864d190016461e | generic | The physics of quantum mechanics was thereby reduced to the mathematics of Hilbert spaces and linear operators acting on them. For example, the uncertainty principle, according to which the determination of the position of a particle prevents the determination of its momentum and vice versa, is translated into the non-... | What are the physics of quantum mechanics? | {'text': 'mathematics of Hilbert spaces and linear operators acting on them', 'answer_start': 60} |
15,392 | 15,050 | 56e03c3c7aa994140058e3ed | generic | Panels are individual images containing a segment of action, often surrounded by a border. Prime moments in a narrative are broken down into panels via a process called encapsulation. The reader puts the pieces together via the process of closure by using background knowledge and an understanding of panel relations to ... | What are the individual images with action called in comics? | {'text': 'Panels', 'answer_start': 0} |
117,923 | 117,581 | 5731124005b4da19006bcd3b | generic | The popular sports in Tuvalu include kilikiti, Ano, football, futsal, volleyball, handball, basketball and rugby union. Tuvalu has sports organisations for athletics, badminton, tennis, table tennis, volleyball, football, basketball, rugby union, weightlifting and powerlifting. At the 2013 Pacific Mini Games, Tuau Lapu... | In which competition did Lapua win a metal for Tuvalu? | {'text': 'Pacific Mini Games', 'answer_start': 291} |
75,641 | 75,299 | 5727acd3ff5b5019007d9257 | generic | College sports are also popular in North Carolina, with 18 schools competing at the Division I level. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is headquartered in Greensboro, and both the ACC Football Championship Game (Charlotte) and the ACC Men's Basketball Tournament (Greensboro) were most recently held in North Carolina... | Where is the ACC headquarters? | {'text': 'Greensboro', 'answer_start': 158} |
110,141 | 109,799 | 573428154776f419006619b9 | generic | Also on the north side is the suburban community of Catalina Foothills, located in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of the city limits. This community includes among the area's most expensive homes, sometimes multimillion-dollar estates. The Foothills area is generally defined as north of River ... | Which big resorts are in Catalina Foothills? | {'text': 'Hacienda Del Sol, Westin La Paloma Resort, Loews Ventana Canyon Resort and Canyon Ranch Resort', 'answer_start': 466} |
37,373 | 37,031 | 570b6879ec8fbc190045b9f0 | generic | Emerging British acts included Free, who released their signature song "All Right Now" (1970), which has received extensive radio airplay in both the UK and US. After the breakup of the band in 1973, vocalist Paul Rodgers joined supergroup Bad Company, whose eponymous first album (1974) was an international hit. The mi... | Bad Company's self titled debut album was released in what year? | {'text': '1974', 'answer_start': 282} |
31,015 | 30,673 | 57071bec9e06ca38007e9436 | generic | Villa and Carranza had different political goals causing Villa to become an enemy of Carranza. After Carranza took control in 1914, Villa and other revolutionaries who opposed him met at what was called the Convention of Aguascalientes. The convention deposed Carranza in favor of Eulalio Gutiérrez. In the winter of 191... | The convention deposed Carranza in favor of whom? | {'text': 'Eulalio Gutiérrez', 'answer_start': 281} |
41,545 | 41,203 | 570d65c3fed7b91900d45fcd | generic | Valencia is also internationally famous for its football club, Valencia C.F., which won the Spanish league in 2002 and 2004 (the year it also won the UEFA Cup), for a total of six times, and was a UEFA Champions League runner-up in 2000 and 2001. The team's stadium is the Mestalla; its city rival Levante UD also plays ... | Where does Huracan Valencia play? | {'text': 'Municipal de Manises', 'answer_start': 523} |
129,906 | 129,564 | 57345360879d6814001ca527 | generic | Varmint hunting is an American phrase for the selective killing of non-game animals seen as pests. While not always an efficient form of pest control, varmint hunting achieves selective control of pests while providing recreation and is much less regulated. Varmint species are often responsible for detrimental effects ... | What detrimental effects are varmint species often responsible for visiting on? | {'text': 'crops, livestock, landscaping, infrastructure, and pets.', 'answer_start': 323} |
20,194 | 19,852 | 5acf4b8f77cf76001a684b40 | generic | KU is home to the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, the Beach Center on Disability, Lied Center of Kansas and radio stations KJHK, 90.7 FM, and KANU, 91.5 FM. The university is host to several museums including the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and the Spencer Museum of Art. The libraries of the Unive... | Whom isn't the Anschutz Library named for? | {'text': 'Philip Anschutz', 'answer_start': 437} |
69,435 | 69,093 | 5a7d116470df9f001a874f59 | generic | In ancient China, early literature was primarily focused on philosophy, historiography, military science, agriculture, and poetry. China, the origin of modern paper making and woodblock printing, produced one of the world's first print cultures. Much of Chinese literature originates with the Hundred Schools of Thought ... | What do the years 759-259 BCE mark the existence of? | {'text': 'Eastern Zhou Dynasty', 'answer_start': 352} |
50,576 | 50,234 | 572656fbdd62a815002e8208 | generic | Freemasonry, as it exists in various forms all over the world, has a membership estimated by the United Grand Lodge of England at around six million worldwide. The fraternity is administratively organised into independent Grand Lodges (or sometimes Grand Orients), each of which governs its own Masonic jurisdiction, whi... | The United States has how many Freemason members? | {'text': 'just under two million', 'answer_start': 674} |
5,847 | 5,505 | 56d21d1fe7d4791d00902658 | generic | Traditionally, the first step in most Buddhist schools requires taking refuge in the Three Jewels (Sanskrit: tri-ratna, Pāli: ti-ratana)[web 19] as the foundation of one's religious practice. The practice of taking refuge on behalf of young or even unborn children is mentioned in the Majjhima Nikaya, recognized by most... | What mentions taking refuge on behalf of young or unborn children? | {'text': 'Majjhima Nikaya', 'answer_start': 285} |
265 | 265 | 138451 | pubqa | An inappropriate cross-connection between sewage and drinking-water pipelines contaminated tap water in a Finnish town, resulting in an extensive waterborne gastroenteritis outbreak in this developed country. According to a database and a line-list, altogether 1222 subjects sought medical care as a result of this expos... | What measures were taken to prevent the event?
| {'answer_id': 273663, 'document_id': 445515, 'question_id': 138451, 'text': 'waterworks across the country ', 'answer_start': 4324, 'answer_category': 'LONG'} |
5,169 | 4,827 | 56d1084017492d1400aab7a2 | generic | Fresh off spending the previous year touring the world with U2 on their Vertigo Tour, West felt inspired to compose anthemic rap songs that could operate more efficiently in large arenas. To this end, West incorporated the synthesizer into his hip-hop production, utilized slower tempos, and experimented with electronic... | Other than U2 and Led Zeppelin, what other band inspired Kanye West? | {'text': 'The Rolling Stones', 'answer_start': 444} |
94,199 | 93,857 | 5ad1375b645df0001a2d11d8 | generic | As of 2012, renewable energy plays a major role in the energy mix of many countries globally. Renewables are becoming increasingly economic in both developing and developed countries. Prices for renewable energy technologies, primarily wind power and solar power, continued to drop, making renewables competitive with co... | What plays a major role in the energy mix of every single country? | {'text': 'renewable energy', 'answer_start': 12} |
58,464 | 58,122 | 572656cf708984140094c2e7 | generic | David Jones was started by David Jones, a Welsh merchant who met Hobart businessman Charles Appleton in London. Appleton established a store in Sydney in 1825 and Jones subsequently established a partnership with Appleton, moved to Australia in 1835, and the Sydney store became known as Appleton & Jones. When the partn... | When did the partnership between Jones and Appleton end? | {'text': '1838', 'answer_start': 344} |
11,387 | 11,045 | 5a63406b68151a001a9222a1 | generic | The predominant religion is southern Europe is Christianity. Christianity spread throughout Southern Europe during the Roman Empire, and Christianity was adopted as the official religion of the Roman Empire in the year 380 AD. Due to the historical break of the Christian Church into the western half based in Rome and t... | When did the Romans say that Christianity was true? | {'text': '380 AD', 'answer_start': 219} |
130,654 | 130,312 | 5a7e05ef70df9f001a875428 | generic | These quarks and leptons interact through four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, weak interactions, and strong interactions. The Standard Model of particle physics is currently the best explanation for all of physics, but despite decades of efforts, gravity cannot yet be accounted for at the quantum level;... | Mass and energy can always be compared to what? | {'text': 'matter', 'answer_start': 711} |
70,317 | 69,975 | 572932f2af94a219006aa17c | generic | Bermuda's pink sand beaches and clear, cerulean blue ocean waters are popular with tourists. Many of Bermuda's hotels are located along the south shore of the island. In addition to its beaches, there are a number of sightseeing attractions. Historic St George's is a designated World Heritage Site. Scuba divers can exp... | Where are the majority of Bermuda's hotels? | {'text': 'south shore of the island', 'answer_start': 140} |
14,881 | 14,539 | 56dfefe9231d4119001abec5 | generic | The number of pubs in the UK has declined year on year, at least since 1982. Various reasons are put forward for this, such as the failure of some establishments to keep up with customer requirements. Others claim the smoking ban of 2007, intense competition from gastro-pubs, the availability of cheap alcohol in superm... | Competition from what new form of establishment is sometimes blamed for the decline of pubs? | {'text': 'gastro-pubs', 'answer_start': 264} |
77,543 | 77,201 | 5727e6212ca10214002d9907 | generic | Vinyl records can be warped by heat, improper storage, exposure to sunlight, or manufacturing defects such as excessively tight plastic shrinkwrap on the album cover. A small degree of warp was common, and allowing for it was part of the art of turntable and tonearm design. "wow" (once-per-revolution pitch variation) c... | What is a cause of once per revolution pitch variation? | {'text': 'warp, or from a spindle hole that was not precisely centered', 'answer_start': 337} |
37,224 | 36,882 | 570b5cafec8fbc190045b9a6 | generic | Starting in 1940 (18 months before Pearl Harbor), the nation mobilized, giving high priority to air power. American involvement in World War II in 1940–41 was limited to providing war material and financial support to Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Republic of China. The U.S. entered officially on 8 December 1941 f... | What event led to America entering the war? | {'text': 'the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii', 'answer_start': 329} |
36,339 | 35,997 | 5a1f6b1454a786001a36b2aa | generic | Videoconferencing is a highly useful technology for real-time telemedicine and telenursing applications, such as diagnosis, consulting, transmission of medical images, etc... With videoconferencing, patients may contact nurses and physicians in emergency or routine situations; physicians and other paramedical professio... | How much did it cost to contact a doctor in rural Ohio? | {'text': '$10,000', 'answer_start': 711} |
14,667 | 14,325 | 56dfc02e7aa994140058e11a | generic | The beer houses tended to avoid the traditional pub names like The Crown, The Red Lion, The Royal Oak etc. and, if they did not simply name their place Smith's Beer House, they would apply topical pub names in an effort to reflect the mood of the times. | What is an example of a name for a beer house? | {'text': "Smith's Beer House", 'answer_start': 152} |
24,052 | 23,710 | 56f799d2a6d7ea1400e17261 | generic | A number of vessels visiting the islands were attacked and their crews killed. In 1834, Captain DonSette and his crew were killed. Similarly, in 1845 the schooner Naiad punished a native for stealing with such violence that the natives attacked the ship. Later that year a whaler's boat crew were killed. In 1852 the San... | In what year did missionaries arrive to live in the Marshall Islands? | {'text': '1857', 'answer_start': 585} |
117,469 | 117,127 | 5a4305f04a4859001aac73f1 | generic | In 2007, GameTrailers named the SNES as the second-best console of all time in their list of top ten consoles that "left their mark on the history of gaming", citing its graphic, sound, and library of top-quality games. In 2015, they also named it the best Nintendo console of all time, saying, "The list of games we lov... | Who said the Playstation was simply the most timeless system ever created? | {'text': 'GamingExcellence', 'answer_start': 799} |
17,308 | 16,966 | 56e11807cd28a01900c6758f | generic | In English, the term referring to a person first appears in the mid 14th century as Catelaner, followed in the 15th century as Catellain (from French). It is attested a language name since at least 1652. Catalan can be pronounced as /ˈkætəlæn/, /kætəˈlæn/ or /ˈkætələn/. | What language is the source of the term Catellain? | {'text': 'French', 'answer_start': 143} |
91,272 | 90,930 | 572994a7af94a219006aa52b | generic | The eusocial insects build nest, guard eggs, and provide food for offspring full-time (see Eusociality). Most insects, however, lead short lives as adults, and rarely interact with one another except to mate or compete for mates. A small number exhibit some form of parental care, where they will at least guard their eg... | What do eusocial insects build? | {'text': 'nest', 'answer_start': 27} |
69,281 | 68,939 | 5726b1a8dd62a815002e8d17 | generic | Definitions of literature have varied over time; it is a "culturally relative definition". In Western Europe prior to the eighteenth century, literature as a term indicated all books and writing. A more restricted sense of the term emerged during the Romantic period, in which it began to demarcate "imaginative" literat... | During that 18th century period, literature began to be applied how? | {'text': 'it began to demarcate "imaginative" literature', 'answer_start': 277} |
46,133 | 45,791 | 5711008ba58dae1900cd6ba8 | generic | The debating societies discussed an extremely wide range of topics. Before the Enlightenment, most intellectual debates revolved around "confessional" – that is, Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist), or Anglican issues, and the main aim of these debates was to establish which bloc of faith ought to have the "monopo... | Before the Enlightenment, most intellectual debates revoled around what subject? | {'text': '"confessional"', 'answer_start': 136} |
89,516 | 89,174 | 5728ac583acd2414000dfcab | generic | On 6 August 1940, Estonia was annexed by the Soviet Union as the Estonian SSR. The provisions in the Estonian constitution requiring a popular referendum to decide on joining a supra-national body were ignored. Instead the vote to join the Soviet Union was taken by those elected in the elections held the previous month... | What date was Estonia annexed by the Soviets? | {'text': '6 August 1940', 'answer_start': 3} |
124,779 | 124,437 | 573241140fdd8d15006c688d | generic | Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (/ˈaɪzənˌhaʊ.ər/ EYE-zən-HOW-ər; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of... | What was Eisenhower's nickname? | {'text': 'Ike', 'answer_start': 14} |
7,307 | 6,965 | 56daf68de7c41114004b4bc1 | generic | The attacks on the torch in London and Paris were described as "despicable" by the Chinese government, condemning them as "deliberate disruptions... who gave no thought to the Olympic spirit or the laws of Britain and France" and who "tarnish the lofty Olympic spirit", and vowed they would continue with the relay and n... | What was said to have occurred between some supporters and protesters? | {'text': 'skirmishes', 'answer_start': 698} |
126,399 | 126,057 | 5a81ff2b31013a001a335086 | generic | The humanists' close study of Latin literary texts soon enabled them to discern historical differences in the writing styles of different periods. By analogy with what they saw as decline of Latin, they applied the principle of ad fontes, or back to the sources, across broad areas of learning, seeking out manuscripts o... | What was missing in this quest for knowledge of the belief system? | {'text': 'Patristic literature', 'answer_start': 322} |
88,530 | 88,188 | 572837da4b864d1900164770 | generic | In theism, God is the creator and sustainer of the universe, while in deism, God is the creator, but not the sustainer, of the universe. Monotheism is the belief in the existence of one God or in the oneness of God. In pantheism, God is the universe itself. In atheism, God is not believed to exist, while God is deemed ... | In what belief is God the creator and sustainer of the universe? | {'text': 'theism', 'answer_start': 3} |
77,835 | 77,493 | 57278bc7708984140094e06a | generic | "Funday Night at the Movies" was replaced in 2008 by "Essentials Jr.", a youth-oriented version of its weekly series The Essentials (originally hosted by actors Abigail Breslin and Chris O'Donnell, then by John Lithgow from 2009 to 2011, and then by Bill Hader starting with the 2011 season), which included such family-... | Who began to host Essentials Jr. in 2011? | {'text': 'Bill Hader', 'answer_start': 250} |
57,583 | 57,241 | 572696a1708984140094cb08 | generic | After World War II, eastern European countries such as the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia expelled the Germans from their territories. Many of those had inhabited these lands for centuries, developing a unique culture. Germans were also forced to leave the former eastern territori... | How long did many of the Germans live in the eastern Europe countries before being expelled? | {'text': 'for centuries', 'answer_start': 214} |
474 | 132 | 56bf8fc1a10cfb1400551177 | generic | Beyoncé's first solo recording was a feature on Jay Z's "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" that was released in October 2002, peaking at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her first solo album Dangerously in Love was released on June 24, 2003, after Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland had released their solo efforts. T... | The album, Dangerously in Love achieved what spot on the Billboard Top 100 chart? | {'text': 'number four', 'answer_start': 123} |
108,604 | 108,262 | 572f7f3f04bcaa1900d76a27 | generic | Hyderabad's lakes and the sloping terrain of its low-lying hills provide habitat for an assortment of flora and fauna. The forest region in and around the city encompasses areas of ecological and biological importance, which are preserved in the form of national parks, zoos, mini-zoos and a wildlife sanctuary. Nehru Zo... | Which environmental preserve in Hyderabad is known to be a home for migratory birds? | {'text': 'Patancheru Lake', 'answer_start': 795} |
91,863 | 91,521 | 5728e5624b864d1900165047 | generic | The majority of Paris' salaried employees fill 370,000 businesses services jobs, concentrated in the north-western 8th, 16th and 17th arrondissements. Paris' financial service companies are concentrated in the central-western 8th and 9th arrondissement banking and insurance district. Paris' department store district in... | Where are Paris' financial service companies majorly located? | {'text': '8th and 9th arrondissement', 'answer_start': 226} |
101,063 | 100,721 | 5a285510d1a287001a6d0b8b | generic | In the early 1980s, Downtown Manhattan's no wave scene transitioned from its abrasive origins into a more dance-oriented sound, with compilations such as ZE's Mutant Disco (1981) highlighting a newly playful sensibility borne out of the city's clash of hip hop, disco and punk styles, as well as dub reggae and world mus... | Which venues avoided parties? | {'text': 'Club 57 and the Mudd Club', 'answer_start': 596} |
111,949 | 111,607 | 572fe534a23a5019007fcaf7 | generic | The BBC's highlights package on Saturday and Sunday nights, as well as other evenings when fixtures justify, will run until 2016. Television rights alone for the period 2010 to 2013 have been purchased for £1.782 billion. On 22 June 2009, due to troubles encountered by Setanta Sports after it failed to meet a final dea... | How much did BT and Sky pay for their rights up to the 2018-19 season? | {'text': 'Sky and BT paid a total of £5.136 billion to renew their contracts with the Premier League for another three years up to the 2018–19 season.', 'answer_start': 973} |
79,613 | 79,271 | 5727bdcd4b864d1900163c29 | generic | St. Patrick's Street, the main street of the city which was remodelled in the mid-2000s, is known for the architecture of the buildings along its pedestrian-friendly route and is the main shopping thoroughfare. The reason for its curved shape is that it originally was a channel of the River Lee that was built over on a... | When was St. Patrick's Street remodeled? | {'text': 'mid-2000s', 'answer_start': 78} |
23,232 | 22,890 | 56f8c50f9e9bad19000a046b | generic | The city is also well provided for in amateur men's and women's rugby with a number of teams in and around the city, the oldest of which is Trojans RFC who were promoted to London South West 2 division in 2008/9. A notable former player is Anthony Allen, who played with Leicester Tigers as a centre. Tottonians are also... | What division was Trojans RFC promoted to in 2008-9? | {'text': 'London South West 2', 'answer_start': 173} |
115,299 | 114,957 | 573364444776f419006609a0 | generic | God's consequent nature, on the other hand, is anything but unchanging – it is God's reception of the world's activity. As Whitehead puts it, "[God] saves the world as it passes into the immediacy of his own life. It is the judgment of a tenderness which loses nothing that can be saved." In other words, God saves and c... | How does Whitehead describe the judgment of God? | {'text': 'It is the judgment of a tenderness which loses nothing that can be saved.', 'answer_start': 214} |
79,580 | 79,238 | 5a7e53b470df9f001a875739 | generic | The city's FM radio band features RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ lyric fm, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Today FM, 4fm, Newstalk and the religious station Spirit Radio. There are also local stations such as Cork's 96FM, Cork's Red FM, C103, CUH 102.0FM, UCC 98.3FM (formerly Cork Campus Radio 97.4fm) and Christian radio station ... | What was Cork Fm Community Radio on 100.5FM formerly known as? | {'text': 'Cork Campus Radio', 'answer_start': 266} |
112,111 | 111,769 | 5ad0e9b7645df0001a2d0836 | generic | The record transfer fee for a Premier League player has risen steadily over the lifetime of the competition. Prior to the start of the first Premier League season Alan Shearer became the first British player to command a transfer fee of more than £3 million. The record rose steadily in the Premier League's first few se... | Alan Shearer became the fifth British player to do what? | {'text': 'command a transfer fee of more than £3 million.', 'answer_start': 211} |
81,240 | 80,898 | 5727e856ff5b5019007d981a | generic | By the 11th century, London was beyond all comparison the largest town in England. Westminster Abbey, rebuilt in the Romanesque style by King Edward the Confessor, was one of the grandest churches in Europe. Winchester had previously been the capital of Anglo-Saxon England, but from this time on, London became the main... | Who rebuilt Westminster Abbey? | {'text': 'King Edward the Confessor', 'answer_start': 137} |
51,554 | 51,212 | 5725c64b271a42140099d190 | generic | Since the launch of the "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge", more than a dozen research teams, mainly at universities in the U.S., Europe, India, China and South Africa, have received grants to develop innovative on-site and off-site waste treatment solutions for the urban poor. The grants were in the order of 400,000 USD ... | How much were the grants for | {'text': 'The grants were in the order of 400,000 USD for their first phase, followed by typically 1-3 million USD for their second phase', 'answer_start': 276} |
79,405 | 79,063 | 5727fa593acd2414000df140 | generic | Eton College has links with some private schools in India today, maintained from the days of the British Raj, such as The Doon School and Mayo College. Eton College is also a member of the G20 Schools Group, a collection of college preparatory boarding schools from around the world, including Turkey's Robert College, t... | Where do Hennessy Scholars typically reside? | {'text': 'Wotton house', 'answer_start': 1202} |
43,157 | 42,815 | 5ad2c209d7d075001a42a10f | generic | Emilio Marcos Palma was the first person born south of the 60th parallel south (the continental limit according to the Antarctic Treaty), as well as the first one born on the Antarctic mainland, in 1978 at Base Esperanza, on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula; his parents were sent there along with seven other families... | What mainland was Marcos Emilio Palma the first to be born on? | {'text': 'Antarctic', 'answer_start': 175} |
117,786 | 117,444 | 5730c30bf6cb411900e24461 | generic | Trading companies became active in Tuvalu in the mid-19th century; the trading companies engaged palagi traders who lived on the islands. John (also known as Jack) O'Brien was the first European to settle in Tuvalu, he became a trader on Funafuti in the 1850s. He married Salai, the daughter of the paramount chief of Fu... | What type of traders did the trading companies employ on Tuvalu? | {'text': 'palagi traders', 'answer_start': 97} |
64,836 | 64,494 | 572782b6dd62a815002e9f31 | generic | Left-wing politics have been particularly strong in municipal government since the 1960s. Voters approved charter amendments that have lessened the penalties for possession of marijuana (1974), and that aim to protect access to abortion in the city should it ever become illegal in the State of Michigan (1990). In 1974,... | What kind of politics have been strong in the municipal government? | {'text': 'Left-wing politics', 'answer_start': 0} |
40,102 | 39,760 | 570c56adfed7b91900d458d9 | generic | One of John's principal challenges was acquiring the large sums of money needed for his proposed campaigns to reclaim Normandy. The Angevin kings had three main sources of income available to them, namely revenue from their personal lands, or demesne; money raised through their rights as a feudal lord; and revenue from... | Where did John derive income from? | {'text': 'fines, court fees and the sale of charters and other privileges', 'answer_start': 805} |
30,499 | 30,157 | 5ad27ab2d7d075001a429617 | generic | Chip E.'s 1985 recording "It's House" may also have helped to define this new form of electronic music. However, Chip E. himself lends credence to the Knuckles association, claiming the name came from methods of labeling records at the Importes Etc. record store, where he worked in the early 1980s: bins of music that D... | When was Warehouse's hit "It's House" released? | {'text': '1985', 'answer_start': 10} |
96,405 | 96,063 | 5a3bedd8cc5d22001a521c28 | generic | Although Brandenburg was a part of the Holy Roman Empire, the Prussian lands were not within the Holy Roman Empire and were with the administration by the Teutonic Order grandmasters under jurisdiction of the Emperor. In return for supporting Emperor Leopold I in the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector Frederick III... | In what year was Emperor Leopold I crowned? | {'text': '1701', 'answer_start': 371} |
44,971 | 44,629 | 570fc65b80d9841400ab366d | generic | Originally, Dell did not emphasize the consumer market, due to the higher costs and unacceptably low profit margins in selling to individuals and households; this changed when the company’s Internet site took off in 1996 and 1997. While the industry’s average selling price to individuals was going down, Dell's was goin... | What was happening to Dell's average sale to individuals? | {'text': 'going up', 'answer_start': 316} |
61,427 | 61,085 | 5726f906f1498d1400e8f177 | generic | During her childhood, Madonna was inspired by actors, later saying, "I loved Carole Lombard and Judy Holliday and Marilyn Monroe. They were all incredibly funny ... and I saw myself in them ... my girlishness, my knowingness and my innocence." Her "Material Girl" music video recreated Monroe's look in the song "Diamond... | Who stated that Madonna was a bad actress to watch? | {'text': 'Stephanie Zacharek', 'answer_start': 1038} |
115,784 | 115,442 | 57301c9bb2c2fd140056889d | generic | Three milestone releases of Windows 8 leaked to the general public. Milestone 1, Build 7850, was leaked on April 12, 2011. It was the first build where the text of a window was written centered instead of aligned to the left. It was also probably the first appearance of the Metro-style font, and its wallpaper had the t... | When was Build 7959 divulged? | {'text': 'May 1, 2011', 'answer_start': 838} |
20,196 | 19,854 | 56e786e700c9c71400d77242 | generic | The University of Kansas is a large, state-sponsored university, with five campuses. KU features the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, which includes the School of the Arts and the School of Public Affairs & Administration; and the schools of Architecture, Design & Planning; Business; Education; Engineering; Health P... | What term describes the nature of how the university is partially funded? | {'text': 'state-sponsored', 'answer_start': 37} |
5,998 | 5,656 | 56d273d059d6e41400146006 | generic | This period marks the first known spread of Buddhism beyond India. According to the edicts of Aśoka, emissaries were sent to various countries west of India to spread Buddhism (Dharma), particularly in eastern provinces of the neighboring Seleucid Empire, and even farther to Hellenistic kingdoms of the Mediterranean. I... | Emissaries were sent to various countries to what direct from India? | {'text': 'west', 'answer_start': 143} |
57,208 | 56,866 | 5726a6bedd62a815002e8c02 | generic | In the early morning of 10 April, leading elements of the Austrian army crossed the Inn River and invaded Bavaria. The early Austrian attack surprised the French; Napoleon himself was still in Paris when he heard about the invasion. He arrived at Donauwörth on the 17th to find the Grande Armée in a dangerous position, ... | When Napoleon reached Donauwörth, how much distance were the wings of the Grande Armée separated by? | {'text': '75 miles (121 km)', 'answer_start': 352} |
103,476 | 103,134 | 572e8363dfa6aa1500f8d06f | generic | Neptune is not visible to the unaided eye and is the only planet in the Solar System found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus led Alexis Bouvard to deduce that its orbit was subject to gravitational perturbation by an unknown planet. Neptune was su... | How was Neptune found? | {'text': 'mathematical prediction', 'answer_start': 94} |
128,947 | 128,605 | 5a690a478476ee001a58aa1b | generic | As of June 2012[update], Pakistan's electricity problems were so severe that violent riots were taking place across Punjab. According to protesters, load shedding was depriving the cities of electricity 20–22 hours a day, causing businesses to go bust and making living extremely hard. Gujranwala, Toba Tek Singh, Faisal... | Which energy supplier rioted? | {'text': 'Fesco, Gepco and Mepco', 'answer_start': 565} |
119,134 | 118,792 | 5730c0c0396df91900096320 | generic | Recent developments in LEDs permit them to be used in environmental and task lighting. LEDs have many advantages over incandescent light sources including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime, improved physical robustness, smaller size, and faster switching. Light-emitting diodes are now used in applications as di... | What does LED stand for? | {'text': 'Light-emitting diodes', 'answer_start': 264} |
82,592 | 82,250 | 5727be5c4b864d1900163c47 | generic | In the UK and Ireland, "exhibition match" and "friendly match" refer to two different types of matches. The types described above as friendlies are not termed exhibition matches, while annual all-star matches such as those held in the US Major League Soccer or Japan's Japanese League are called exhibition matches rathe... | What are two examples of leagues holding all-star exhibition matches? | {'text': "US Major League Soccer or Japan's Japanese League", 'answer_start': 235} |
74,646 | 74,304 | 5a6fe2ed8abb0b001a676011 | generic | From the annexation of Alsace by France in the 17th century and the language policy of the French Revolution up to 1870, knowledge of French in Alsace increased considerably. With the education reforms of the 19th century, the middle classes began to speak and write French well. The French language never really managed... | When did writing French in the middle class fall out of fashion? | {'text': 'the 19th century', 'answer_start': 205} |
51,995 | 51,653 | 572644e91125e71900ae1943 | generic | Clay models of ducks found in China dating back to 4000 BC may indicate the domestication of ducks took place there during the Yangshao culture. Even if this is not the case, domestication of the duck took place in the Far East at least 1500 years earlier than in the West. Lucius Columella, writing in the first century... | How far behind the east society was the western culture in domesticating ducks? | {'text': 'domestication of the duck took place in the Far East at least 1500 years earlier than in the West', 'answer_start': 175} |
110,968 | 110,626 | 572fe1edb2c2fd1400568554 | generic | PCBs intended for extreme environments often have a conformal coating, which is applied by dipping or spraying after the components have been soldered. The coat prevents corrosion and leakage currents or shorting due to condensation. The earliest conformal coats were wax; modern conformal coats are usually dips of dilu... | A conformal coating can be applied by spraying the PCB or by doing what else to it? | {'text': 'dipping', 'answer_start': 91} |
67,781 | 67,439 | 5727a452ff5b5019007d91c3 | generic | There are 12 universities in Switzerland, ten of which are maintained at cantonal level and usually offer a range of non-technical subjects. The first university in Switzerland was founded in 1460 in Basel (with a faculty of medicine) and has a tradition of chemical and medical research in Switzerland. The biggest univ... | What is the biggest university in Switzerland? | {'text': 'University of Zurich', 'answer_start': 349} |
26,124 | 25,782 | 56f8f0819e9bad19000a0745 | generic | Throughout this article Norman uses "Near East" to mean the countries where "the eastern question" applied; that is, to all of the Balkans. The countries and regions mentioned are Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina (which was Moslem and needed, in his view, to be suppressed), Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, R... | What does Norman mean in the article when saying "Near East"? | {'text': 'the countries where "the eastern question" applied', 'answer_start': 56} |
43,040 | 42,698 | 5ad2623cd7d075001a42908b | generic | The Antarctic fur seal was very heavily hunted in the 18th and 19th centuries for its pelt by sealers from the United States and the United Kingdom. The Weddell seal, a "true seal", is named after Sir James Weddell, commander of British sealing expeditions in the Weddell Sea. Antarctic krill, which congregate in large ... | What is the keystone species of the Arctic Ocean? | {'text': 'Antarctic krill', 'answer_start': 277} |
4,709 | 4,367 | 56cf4ccdaab44d1400b88f7b | generic | Songbirds and their associated symbolism appear throughout the novel. The family's last name of Finch also shares Lee's mother's maiden name. The titular mockingbird is a key motif of this theme, which first appears when Atticus, having given his children air-rifles for Christmas, allows their Uncle Jack to teach them ... | Harper Lee's mother's maiden name was what? | {'text': 'Finch', 'answer_start': 96} |
19,071 | 18,729 | 56e6d3336fe0821900b8ebad | generic | Another format, rhythmic AC, in addition to playing all the popular hot and soft AC music, past and present, places a heavy emphasis on disco as well as 1980s and 1990s dance hits, such as those by Amber, C&C Music Factory and Black Box, and includes dance remixes of pop songs, such as the Soul Solution mix of Toni Bra... | What artist notably remixed "Unbreak My Heart"? | {'text': 'Soul Solution', 'answer_start': 291} |
20,824 | 20,482 | 56e7993000c9c71400d77354 | generic | The first game in Arena Football League history was played on June 19, 1987, between the Gladiators and Commandos at Pittsburgh Civic Arena in front of 12,117 fans. The game was deliberately not televised so that it could be analyzed and any follies and failures would not be subject to national public scrutiny. Followi... | On what date was the first AFL game that aired on television? | {'text': 'June 20, 1987', 'answer_start': 498} |
63,311 | 62,969 | 5a710d100efcfe001a8afd0c | generic | Pesticides may cause acute and delayed health effects in people who are exposed. Pesticide exposure can cause a variety of adverse health effects, ranging from simple irritation of the skin and eyes to more severe effects such as affecting the nervous system, mimicking hormones causing reproductive problems, and also c... | When was Non-Hodgkin lymphoma first diagnosed in a patient? | {'text': '2007', 'answer_start': 337} |
38,686 | 38,344 | 570c17c4ec8fbc190045bc51 | generic | A month after the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, several players from Barcelona enlisted in the ranks of those who fought against the military uprising, along with players from Athletic Bilbao. On 6 August, Falangist soldiers near Guadarrama murdered club president Josep Sunyol, a representative of the pro-independen... | Besides being club president, what was Sunyol involved in to have caused his murder? | {'text': 'pro-independence political party', 'answer_start': 306} |
76,099 | 75,757 | 5727c69b4b864d1900163cee | generic | Later chapters provide evidence that evolution has occurred, supporting the idea of branching, adaptive evolution without directly proving that selection is the mechanism. Darwin presents supporting facts drawn from many disciplines, showing that his theory could explain a myriad of observations from many fields of nat... | What are the three things John Herschel maintains need to be shown to allow for a mechanism be called a true cause? | {'text': 'its existence in nature, its ability to produce the effects of interest, and its ability to explain a wide range of observations', 'answer_start': 639} |
68,801 | 68,459 | 5726c8615951b619008f7dfb | generic | Napoleon III responded with a show of force, sending the ship of the line Charlemagne to the Black Sea. This action was a violation of the London Straits Convention.:104:19 Thus, France's show of force presented a real threat, and when combined with aggressive diplomacy and money, induced the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid ... | What was the name of the ship that Napoleon sent to the Black Sea? | {'text': 'Charlemagne', 'answer_start': 74} |
114,600 | 114,258 | 5a1379ecc8eab200188dc993 | generic | Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube. Regularity, as with ashlar (uniformly cut) stonework, was strongly approved, imbuing symmetry and adherence to ... | Why were Georgian additions where earlier structures remained visible so approved of? | {'text': 'lack of symmetry', 'answer_start': 341} |
38,012 | 37,670 | 570bda82ec8fbc190045bb84 | generic | The control of associated biodiversity is one of the great agricultural challenges that farmers face. On monoculture farms, the approach is generally to eradicate associated diversity using a suite of biologically destructive pesticides, mechanized tools and transgenic engineering techniques, then to rotate crops. Alth... | What is one of the great agricultural challenges that farmers face? | {'text': 'The control of associated biodiversity', 'answer_start': 0} |
117,331 | 116,989 | 5730ad472461fd1900a9cf7f | generic | In October 1997, Nintendo released a redesigned model of the SNES (the SNS-101 model) in North America for US$99, which sometimes included the pack-in game Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Like the earlier redesign of the NES (the NES-101 model), the new model was slimmer and lighter than its predecessor, but it la... | What features were removed in the SNS-101? | {'text': 'S-Video and RGB output', 'answer_start': 325} |
62,762 | 62,420 | 5726767edd62a815002e85d7 | generic | In signal processing, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction involves encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Compression can be either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy. No information is lost in lo... | What can be either lossy or lossless? | {'text': 'Compression', 'answer_start': 158} |
20,502 | 20,160 | 56e786c937bdd419002c40ab | generic | A number of sculptural ensembles of that era, erected at the tombs of royals and other dignitaries, have survived (in various degrees of preservation) in Nanjing's northeastern and eastern suburbs, primarily in Qixia and Jiangning District. Possibly the best preserved of them is the ensemble of the Tomb of Xiao Xiu (47... | What has survived in Nanjing's suburbs? | {'text': 'A number of sculptural ensembles', 'answer_start': 0} |
42,492 | 42,150 | 570db375df2f5219002ed103 | generic | Romantic relationships tend to increase in prevalence throughout adolescence. By age 15, 53% of adolescents have had a romantic relationship that lasted at least one month over the course of the previous 18 months. In a 2008 study conducted by YouGov for Channel 4, 20% of 14−17-year-olds surveyed revealed that they had... | How many percent of adolescents have had a romantic relationship lasting one month or longer by age 15? | {'text': '53%', 'answer_start': 89} |
67,167 | 66,825 | 5726e9c2708984140094d5a5 | generic | In December 2013, Vatican officials approved a supposed miracle that was attributed to the intercession of the late pontiff which was the curing of an unborn child in California, U.S.A in the 1990s. It was expected that Pope Francis would approve the miracle in the near future, thus, warranting the beatification of the... | According to the Vatican who could the healing of an unborn child be attributed to in the 1990's? | {'text': 'pontiff', 'answer_start': 116} |
18,612 | 18,270 | 5ad4e7325b96ef001a10a5d0 | generic | The pulp papermaking process is said to have been developed in China during the early 2nd century AD, possibly as early as the year 105 A.D., by the Han court eunuch Cai Lun, although the earliest archaeological fragments of paper derive from the 2nd century BC in China. The modern pulp and paper industry is global, wi... | When is the pulp papermaking process said to have been developed by Han court? | {'text': 'as early as the year 105 A.D.,', 'answer_start': 111} |
16,534 | 16,192 | 5a4d7eb1755ab9001a10f413 | generic | Web browsers consist of a user interface, layout engine, rendering engine, JavaScript interpreter, UI backend, networking component and data persistence component. These components achieve different functionalities of a web browser and together provide all capabilities of a web browser. | What does a user interface achieve when part of a UI backend? | {'text': 'different functionalities', 'answer_start': 189} |
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