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111,370 | 111,028 | 572fccbda23a5019007fca09 | generic | In the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, Graecus is presented as the son of Zeus and Pandora II, sister of Hellen the patriarch of Hellenes. Hellen was the son of Deucalion who ruled around Phthia in central Greece. The Parian Chronicle mentions that when Deucalion became king of Phthia, the previously called Graikoi were n... | what does the author of the mortal female focused early example hexameter poetry say of the Hellenic protector ? | {'text': 'Hellen was the son of Deucalion who ruled around Phthia in central Greece.', 'answer_start': 136} |
93,492 | 93,150 | 5a66f357f038b7001ab0c112 | generic | The most familiar, and historically the oldest, types of glass are "silicate glasses" based on the chemical compound silica (silicon dioxide, or quartz), the primary constituent of sand. The term glass, in popular usage, is often used to refer only to this type of material, which is familiar from use as window glass an... | Which kinds of containers existed furthest in the past? | {'text': 'silicate glasses', 'answer_start': 68} |
56,535 | 56,193 | 572663cd5951b619008f7149 | generic | The Recommended Exposure Index (REI) technique, new in the 2006 version of the standard, allows the manufacturer to specify a camera model’s EI choices arbitrarily. The choices are based solely on the manufacturer’s opinion of what EI values produce well-exposed sRGB images at the various sensor sensitivity settings. T... | What distinction does the Recommended Exposure Index have? | {'text': 'the only technique available under the standard for output formats that are not in the sRGB color space', 'answer_start': 327} |
70,756 | 70,414 | 5726dcbf708984140094d3fb | generic | Goodluck Jonathan served as Nigeria's president till 16 April 2011, when a new presidential election in Nigeria was conducted. Jonathan of the PDP was declared the winner on 19 April 2011, having won the election with a total of 22,495,187 of the 39,469,484 votes cast, to stand ahead of Muhammadu Buhari from the main o... | Who won the 2011 election? | {'text': 'Goodluck Jonathan', 'answer_start': 0} |
53,534 | 53,192 | 57261351ec44d21400f3d892 | generic | Arsenal have often been stereotyped as a defensive and "boring" side, especially during the 1970s and 1980s; many comedians, such as Eric Morecambe, made jokes about this at the team's expense. The theme was repeated in the 1997 film The Full Monty, in a scene where the lead actors move in a line and raise their hands,... | In what decades were Arsenal players stereotyped in a negative way? | {'text': '1970s and 1980s', 'answer_start': 92} |
56,444 | 56,102 | 572650e6708984140094c219 | generic | Based on earlier research work by Loyd Ancile Jones (1884–1954) of Kodak and inspired by the systems of Weston film speed ratings and General Electric film values, the American Standards Association (now named ANSI) defined a new method to determine and specify film speeds of black-and-white negative films in 1943. ASA... | Who pioneered research that led to the new ANSI values? | {'text': 'Loyd Ancile Jones', 'answer_start': 34} |
81,821 | 81,479 | 5a4c3f987a6c4c001a2bbbc4 | generic | The rainfall inhibition and the dissipation of cloud cover are most accentuated over the eastern section of the Sahara rather than the western. The prevailing air mass lying above the Sahara is the continental tropical (cT) air mass which is hot and dry. Hot, dry air masses primarily form over the North-African desert ... | What type of high is strongest in the summer? | {'text': 'thermal', 'answer_start': 472} |
71,201 | 70,859 | 5726d35edd62a815002e917c | generic | From April–July, Soviet and German officials made statements regarding the potential for the beginning of political negotiations, while no actual negotiations took place during that time period. The ensuing discussion of a potential political deal between Germany and the Soviet Union had to be channeled into the framew... | Which Soviet Foreign Minister lost his job because of his favorable attitude towards the west? | {'text': 'Maxim Litvinov', 'answer_start': 546} |
90,279 | 89,937 | 5728a7583acd2414000dfbf0 | generic | Popper puzzled over the stark contrast between the non-scientific character of Freud and Adler's theories in the field of psychology and the revolution set off by Einstein's theory of relativity in physics in the early 20th century. Popper thought that Einstein's theory, as a theory properly grounded in scientific thou... | Whose recent breakthrough in physics did Popper view as paradigmatic science? | {'text': 'Einstein', 'answer_start': 163} |
50,674 | 50,332 | 5acf825f77cf76001a685053 | generic | All Freemasons begin their journey in the "craft" by being progressively initiated, passed and raised into the three degrees of Craft, or Blue Lodge Masonry. During these three rituals, the candidate is progressively taught the meanings of the Lodge symbols, and entrusted with grips, signs and words to signify to other... | How many versions of the Hiram flag are there? | {'text': 'at least two', 'answer_start': 671} |
35,072 | 34,730 | 570a85536d058f1900182f22 | generic | Current manager, Roberto Martínez, is the fourteenth permanent holder of the position since it was established in 1939. There have also been four caretaker managers, and before 1939 the team was selected by either the club secretary or by committee. The club's longest-serving manager has been Harry Catterick, who was i... | Who is the current manager of the Everton Football Club? | {'text': 'Roberto Martínez', 'answer_start': 17} |
18,641 | 18,299 | 5ad4f8ac5b96ef001a10a822 | generic | Its knowledge and uses spread from China through the Middle East to medieval Europe in the 13th century, where the first water powered paper mills were built. Because of paper's introduction to the West through the city of Baghdad, it was first called bagdatikos. In the 19th century, industrial manufacture greatly lowe... | What greatly increased the cost of paper in the 19th century? | {'text': 'industrial manufacture', 'answer_start': 285} |
50,821 | 50,479 | 5725bcba38643c19005acc26 | generic | The First Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule, broke out in 1987, with waves of uncoordinated demonstrations and violence occurring in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Over the following six years, the Intifada became more organised and included economic and cultural measures aimed at disrupting the I... | How many people were killed in the violence? | {'text': 'More than a thousand people', 'answer_start': 339} |
72,555 | 72,213 | 57277f55f1498d1400e8f9eb | generic | At the start of a classic valley glacier is a bowl-shaped cirque, which has escarped walls on three sides but is open on the side that descends into the valley. Cirques are where ice begins to accumulate in a glacier. Two glacial cirques may form back to back and erode their backwalls until only a narrow ridge, called ... | What are extremely steep cirques called? | {'text': 'horns', 'answer_start': 508} |
55,967 | 55,625 | 5a1342dac8eab200188dc950 | generic | In general, Hokkien dialects have 5 to 7 phonemic tones. According to the traditional Chinese system, however, there are 7 to 9 "tones",[citation needed] more correctly termed tone classes since two of them are non-phonemic "entering tones" (see the discussion on Chinese tone). Tone sandhi is extensive. There are minor... | How many tones are there in modern Chimese? | {'text': '7 to 9', 'answer_start': 121} |
98,713 | 98,371 | 572a982b34ae481900deaba7 | generic | Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University class of 1966 with a political science major. Kerry enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966, and during 1968–1969 served an abbreviated four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam as officer-... | What group was Kerry a spokesman for? | {'text': 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War', 'answer_start': 550} |
7,930 | 7,588 | 56dc610914d3a41400c2683f | generic | Tandem repeats are usually caused by slippage during replication, unequal crossing-over and gene conversion, satellite DNA and microsatellites are forms of tandem repeats in the genome. Although tandem repeats count for a significant proportion in genome, the largest proportion in mammalian is the other type, intersper... | Unequal crossing over can create what type of repetitive DNA? | {'text': 'Tandem repeats', 'answer_start': 0} |
114,612 | 114,270 | 5a137e29c8eab200188dc99f | generic | Versions of revived Palladian architecture dominated English country house architecture. Houses were increasingly placed in grand landscaped settings, and large houses were generally made wide and relatively shallow, largely to look more impressive from a distance. The height was usually highest in the centre, and the ... | What area had high windows just below ground level? | {'text': 'the basement area or "rustic"', 'answer_start': 539} |
50,768 | 50,426 | 5725b701ec44d21400f3d439 | generic | The first wave of modern Jewish migration to Ottoman-ruled Palestine, known as the First Aliyah, began in 1881, as Jews fled pogroms in Eastern Europe. Although the Zionist movement already existed in practice, Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl is credited with founding political Zionism, a movement which sough... | Who is credited as founding political Zionism? | {'text': 'Theodor Herzl', 'answer_start': 239} |
96,515 | 96,173 | 5a3bfe73cc5d22001a521cd6 | generic | Shortly after the end of the war in May 1945, Germans who had fled in early 1945 tried to return to their homes in East Prussia. An estimated number of 800,000 Germans were living in East Prussia during the summer of 1945. Many more were prevented from returning,[citation needed] and the German population of East Pruss... | How many forced labourers were there in the smallest camp? | {'text': '48,000', 'answer_start': 616} |
93,374 | 93,032 | 5729281f6aef051400154ae6 | generic | The Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, the federal constitution, stipulates that the structure of each Federal State's government must "conform to the principles of republican, democratic, and social government, based on the rule of law" (Article 28). Most of the states are governed by a cabinet led by a Min... | Which article stipulates that the structure of each Federal State's government must "conform to the principles of republican, democratic, and social government, based on the rule of law"? | {'text': 'Article 28', 'answer_start': 250} |
60,858 | 60,516 | 57268dd3708984140094c9ec | generic | The Suez Crisis very publicly exposed Britain's limitations to the world and confirmed Britain's decline on the world stage, demonstrating that henceforth it could no longer act without at least the acquiescence, if not the full support, of the United States. The events at Suez wounded British national pride, leading o... | Who referred to 'Suez Syndrome'? | {'text': 'Margaret Thatcher', 'answer_start': 441} |
32,789 | 32,447 | 5709744f200fba1400368015 | generic | However, relatively few organisations maintain computer systems with effective detection systems, and fewer still have organised response mechanisms in place. As result, as Reuters points out: "Companies for the first time report they are losing more through electronic theft of data than physical stealing of assets". T... | How many organisations are estimated to maintain computer systems with effective detection systems? | {'text': 'relatively few', 'answer_start': 9} |
72,027 | 71,685 | 5727f5f53acd2414000df0da | generic | The renewal of learning in Europe, that began with 12th century Scholasticism, came to an end about the time of the Black Death, and the initial period of the subsequent Italian Renaissance is sometimes seen as a lull in scientific activity. The Northern Renaissance, on the other hand, showed a decisive shift in focus ... | What was the focus of the Northern Renaissance? | {'text': 'chemistry and the biological sciences', 'answer_start': 361} |
116,047 | 115,705 | 5ad49d1dba00c4001a268dcc | generic | Windows 8 was distributed as a retail box product on DVD, and through a digital download that could be converted into DVD or USB install media. As part of a launch promotion, Microsoft offered Windows 8 Pro upgrades at a discounted price of US$39.99 online, or $69.99 for retail box from its launch until January 31, 201... | What is the Windows 9 Pro price? | {'text': '$199.99', 'answer_start': 388} |
29,252 | 28,910 | 5706148075f01819005e795a | generic | In the James Bond series by Ian Fleming, James Bond, reads The Times. As described by Fleming in From Russia, with Love: "The Times was the only paper that Bond ever read." | The author, Ian Fleming, created a fictional character named James Bond who prefers to only read what newspaper? | {'text': 'The Times', 'answer_start': 122} |
86,011 | 85,669 | 5ad2a64bd7d075001a429df2 | generic | In September 2012 at the Tokyo Game Show, Sony announced that a new, slimmer PS3 redesign (CECH-4000) was due for release in late 2012 and that it would be available with either a 250 GB or 500 GB hard drive. Three versions Super Slim model were revealed: one with a 500 GB hard drive, a second with a 250 GB hard drive ... | The PS4 Super Slim was released in the what country with Uncharted 3? | {'text': 'United States', 'answer_start': 713} |
71,106 | 70,764 | 5726e77d5951b619008f81f7 | generic | Utrecht city has an active cultural life, and in the Netherlands is second only to Amsterdam. There are several theatres and theatre companies. The 1941 main city theatre was built by Dudok. Besides theatres there is a large number of cinemas including three arthouse cinemas. Utrecht is host to the international Early ... | What is the name of the music hall | {'text': 'The city has an important classical music hall Vredenburg', 'answer_start': 416} |
5,309 | 4,967 | 56cf7a5a4df3c31400b0d813 | generic | West founded the record label and production company GOOD Music in 2004, in conjunction with Sony BMG, shortly after releasing his debut album, The College Dropout. John Legend, Common, and West were the label's inaugural artists. The label houses artists including West, Big Sean, Pusha T, Teyana Taylor, Yasiin Bey / M... | What did Kanye call the label he founded in 2004? | {'text': 'GOOD Music', 'answer_start': 53} |
126,304 | 125,962 | 57327819e99e3014001e67cb | generic | Gellius says that in his day humanitas is commonly used as a synonym for philanthropy – or kindness and benevolence toward one's fellow human being. Gellius maintains that this common usage is wrong, and that model writers of Latin, such as Cicero and others, used the word only to mean what we might call "humane" or "p... | Who has disagreed with this connotation of the word? | {'text': 'Gellius', 'answer_start': 149} |
2,522 | 2,180 | 56d128ed17492d1400aabadb | generic | There is very little voice acting in the game, as is the case in most Zelda titles to date. Link remains silent in conversation, but grunts when attacking or injured and gasps when surprised. His emotions and responses are largely indicated visually by nods and facial expressions. Other characters have similar language... | What character has the most voice acting? | {'text': 'Midna', 'answer_start': 434} |
3,015 | 2,673 | 56cde39b62d2951400fa6980 | generic | Filming temporarily returned to England to shoot scenes at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, which stood in for a location in Rome, before moving on to the city itself for a five-week shoot across the city, with locations including the Ponte Sisto bridge and the Roman Forum. The production faced opposition from a variety... | How many engines did the C-X75 originally have? | {'text': 'four', 'answer_start': 727} |
37,800 | 37,458 | 5a0803c33fc8740018207114 | generic | Earth's surface and the clouds absorb visible and invisible radiation from the sun and re-emit much of the energy as infrared back to atmosphere. Certain substances in the atmosphere, chiefly cloud droplets and water vapor, but also carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and chlorofluorocarbons, a... | What keeps the atmosphere and surface re-radiated? | {'text': 'greenhouse effect', 'answer_start': 412} |
87,619 | 87,277 | 5728562e3acd2414000df92f | generic | In the mid-1980s Lucasfilm pioneered the EditDroid non-linear editing system for film and television based on computer-controlled LaserDisc players. Instead of printing dailies out on film, processed negatives from the day's shoot would be sent to a mastering plant to be assembled from their 10-minute camera elements i... | How many EditDroid systems were ever built? | {'text': '24', 'answer_start': 777} |
30,381 | 30,039 | 5706950a52bb891400689a9d | generic | In the late 1980s, many local Chicago house music artists suddenly found themselves presented with major label deals. House music proved to be a commercially successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular. Artists and groups such as Madonna, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Aretha Frank... | What are some popular subgenres of House? | {'text': 'G-house, Deep House, Tech House and Bass House', 'answer_start': 716} |
57,536 | 57,194 | 5729483faf94a219006aa252 | generic | The Napoleonic Wars were the cause of the final dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, and ultimately the cause for the quest for a German nation state in 19th-century German nationalism. After the Congress of Vienna, Austria and Prussia emerged as two competitors. Austria, trying to remain the dominant power in Central... | What two countries emerged as competitors after the Congress of Vienna? | {'text': 'Austria and Prussia', 'answer_start': 217} |
104,643 | 104,301 | 57302879947a6a140053d1cb | generic | The city also had a large class of free people of color. By 1860, 3,785 free people of color were in Charleston, nearly 18% of the city's black population, and 8% of the total population. Free people of color were far more likely to be of mixed racial background than slaves. Many were educated, practiced skilled crafts... | In what year was the Brown Fellowship Society created? | {'text': '1790', 'answer_start': 385} |
128,963 | 128,621 | 573403a24776f419006616f3 | generic | The fairs held at the shrines of Sufi saints are called urs. They generally mark the death anniversary of the saint. On these occasions devotees assemble in large numbers and pay homage to the memory of the saint. Soul inspiring music is played and devotees dance in ecstasy. The music on these occasions is essentially ... | Where is Zakria's shrine? | {'text': 'Multan', 'answer_start': 643} |
87,139 | 86,797 | 572817492ca10214002d9da6 | generic | In 2004 the Central African Republic Bush War began as forces opposed to Bozizé took up arms against his government. In May 2005 Bozizé won a presidential election that excluded Patassé and in 2006 fighting continued between the government and the rebels. In November 2006, Bozizé's government requested French military ... | What war started in 2004? | {'text': 'Bush War', 'answer_start': 37} |
80,047 | 79,705 | 5727bb19ff5b5019007d9397 | generic | Full-featured USB Type-C cables are active, electronically marked cables that contain a chip with an ID function based on the configuration data channel and vendor-defined messages (VDMs) from the USB Power Delivery 2.0 specification. USB Type-C devices also support power currents of 1.5 A and 3.0 A over the 5 V power ... | Electronically marked cables have a chip that contains what? | {'text': 'an ID function based on the configuration data channel and vendor-defined messages', 'answer_start': 98} |
105,931 | 105,589 | 572ebc9303f98919007569c0 | generic | At the beginning of the Western Han dynasty, thirteen centrally controlled commanderies—including the capital region—existed in the western third of the empire, while the eastern two-thirds were divided into ten semi-autonomous kingdoms. To placate his prominent commanders from the war with Chu, Emperor Gaozu enfeoffed... | Who could appoint staff to the kings? | {'text': 'imperial court', 'answer_start': 878} |
9,932 | 9,590 | 5ad2ee21604f3c001a3fd9e8 | generic | The Dean of the College of Cardinals in addition to such a titular church also receives the titular bishopric of Ostia, the primary suburbicarian see. Cardinals governing a particular Church retain that church. | What other title does the Dean of the College of Priests receive upon appointment? | {'text': 'titular bishopric of Ostia', 'answer_start': 92} |
96,695 | 96,353 | 572a37f06aef05140015539b | generic | As the Ottoman Empire gradually shrank in size, some 7–9 million Turkish-Muslims from its former territories in the Caucasus, Crimea, Balkans, and the Mediterranean islands migrated to Anatolia and Eastern Thrace. After the Empire lost the Balkan Wars (1912–13), it lost all its Balkan territories except East Thrace (Eu... | How many Muslims fled the Balkans with the Ottoman armies? | {'text': '400,000', 'answer_start': 360} |
99,904 | 99,562 | 572b764d111d821400f38ea8 | generic | Hegel certainly intends to preserve what he takes to be true of German idealism, in particular Kant's insistence that ethical reason can and does go beyond finite inclinations. For Hegel there must be some identity of thought and being for the "subject" (any human observer)) to be able to know any observed "object" (an... | What does Hegel mean by "object"? | {'text': 'any external entity', 'answer_start': 318} |
84,617 | 84,275 | 5727fd58ff5b5019007d9a47 | generic | In February 1925, the Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Gasparri summoned him to the Vatican and informed him of Pope Pius XI's decision to appoint him as the Apostolic Visitor to Bulgaria (1925–35). On 3 March, Pius XI also named him for consecration as titular archbishop of Areopolis, Jordan. Roncalli was initially ... | When was his nomination as apostolic visitor made official? | {'text': '19 March', 'answer_start': 442} |
66,206 | 65,864 | 5726bb03dd62a815002e8e7e | generic | The Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly decided to hold a referendum on the proposal. On 8 May 2015, voters were asked if Norfolk Islanders should freely determine their political status and their economic, social and cultural development, and to "be consulted at referendum or plebiscite on the future model of governan... | When did the Legislative Assembly of Norfolk Island vote regarding the proposed Australian reforms? | {'text': '8 May 2015', 'answer_start': 89} |
53,978 | 53,636 | 57260903ec44d21400f3d816 | generic | The Korean War (in South Korean Hangul: 한국전쟁, Hanja: 韓國戰爭, Hanguk Jeonjaeng, "Korean War"; in North Korean Chosungul: 조국해방전쟁, Joguk Haebang Jeonjaeng, "Fatherland Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953)[a] was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal fo... | Which country aided South Korea during the war? | {'text': 'United States', 'answer_start': 287} |
90,968 | 90,626 | 5728b988ff5b5019007da576 | generic | Mandolin has also been used in blues music, most notably by Ry Cooder, who performed outstanding covers on his very first recordings, Yank Rachell, Johnny "Man" Young, Carl Martin, and Gerry Hundt. Howard Armstrong, who is famous for blues violin, got his start with his father's mandolin and played in string bands simi... | Who got his start with his father's mandolin? | {'text': 'Howard Armstrong,', 'answer_start': 198} |
94,567 | 94,225 | 5a74d5a642eae6001a389ae4 | generic | There is no green pigment in green eyes; like the color of blue eyes, it is an optical illusion; its appearance is caused by the combination of an amber or light brown pigmentation of the stroma, given by a low or moderate concentration of melanin, with the blue tone imparted by the Rayleigh scattering of the reflected... | Where is the green pigment in eyes located? | {'text': 'the stroma', 'answer_start': 184} |
80,864 | 80,522 | 5acd59fb07355d001abf3e5c | generic | Characters with diacritical marks can generally be represented either as a single precomposed character or as a decomposed sequence of a base letter plus one or more non-spacing marks. For example, ḗ (precomposed e with macron and acute above) and ḗ (e followed by the combining macron above and combining acute above)... | Macrons are used only in what form of Idic? | {'text': 'romanization', 'answer_start': 579} |
76,241 | 75,899 | 57279587708984140094e18f | generic | On July 1, 1988, the fourth and last day of a bruising 19th Party Conference, Gorbachev won the backing of the tired delegates for his last-minute proposal to create a new supreme legislative body called the Congress of People's Deputies. Frustrated by the old guard's resistance, Gorbachev embarked on a set of constitu... | What was Gorbachev trying to separate? | {'text': 'party and state', 'answer_start': 354} |
63,096 | 62,754 | 57269ef4f1498d1400e8e52b | generic | Despite its initial opposition to the closures, until 1997, the newspaper repeatedly called for the implementation of further Thatcherite policies, such as Royal Mail privatisation,[verification needed] and social security cutbacks, with leaders such as "Peter Lilley is right, we can't carry on like this",[verification... | What is an example of a Thatcherite policy? | {'text': 'Royal Mail privatisation', 'answer_start': 156} |
31,729 | 31,387 | 5ad42417604f3c001a400879 | generic | The Baylor College of Medicine has annually been considered within the top ten medical schools in the nation; likewise, the MD Anderson Cancer Center has consistently ranked as one of the top two U.S. hospitals specializing in cancer care by U.S. News & World Report since 1990. The Menninger Clinic, a renowned psychiat... | What Houston medical school ranks in the top ten UK medical schools? | {'text': 'Baylor College of Medicine', 'answer_start': 4} |
35,760 | 35,418 | 5a2e0d6df28ef0001a526748 | generic | By the mid-1970s, the agency had achieved a semi-automated air traffic control system using both radar and computer technology. This system required enhancement to keep pace with air traffic growth, however, especially after the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 phased out the CAB's economic regulation of the airlines. ... | When was airline deregulation phased out? | {'text': '1978', 'answer_start': 257} |
45,727 | 45,385 | 5710224aa58dae1900cd68d9 | generic | Since 1642 (in the 13 colonies, the United States under the Articles of Confederation, and the current United States) an estimated 364 juvenile offenders have been put to death by the states and the federal government. The earliest known execution of a prisoner for crimes committed as a juvenile was Thomas Graunger in ... | In what year was Thomas Graunger executed? | {'text': '1642', 'answer_start': 320} |
39,690 | 39,348 | 5ad138e0645df0001a2d124f | generic | The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament describe Mary as a virgin (Greek: παρθένος, parthénos) and Christians believe that she conceived her son while a virgin by the Holy Spirit. This took place when she was already betrothed to Joseph and was awaiting the concluding rite of marriage, the formal home-taki... | Where did Mary first meet Joseph? | {'text': 'Bethlehem', 'answer_start': 375} |
116,658 | 116,316 | 573082488ab72b1400f9c533 | generic | Translation of a text that is sung in vocal music for the purpose of singing in another language—sometimes called "singing translation"—is closely linked to translation of poetry because most vocal music, at least in the Western tradition, is set to verse, especially verse in regular patterns with rhyme. (Since the lat... | What type of example an be found of translating poetry for singing? | {'text': 'church hymns', 'answer_start': 590} |
112,615 | 112,273 | 5731ca06e17f3d14004223f6 | generic | The war entered a new phase with the unprecedented defeat of the Japanese at Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang and 1st Battle of Changsha. After these victories, Chinese nationalist forces launched a large-scale counter-offensive in early 1940; however, due to its low military-industrial capacity, it was repulsed by Japanese a... | What year did China and Japan reach a stalemate? | {'text': '1941', 'answer_start': 592} |
94,621 | 94,279 | 572a1dd76aef0514001552b2 | generic | The late nineteenth century also brought the systematic study of color theory, and particularly the study of how complementary colors such as red and green reinforced each other when they were placed next to each other. These studies were avidly followed by artists such as Vincent van Gogh. Describing his painting, The... | What type of colors are red and green? | {'text': 'complementary', 'answer_start': 113} |
63,060 | 62,718 | 572696f75951b619008f776b | generic | Television personality Piers Morgan, a former editor of the Daily Mirror and of The Sun's Bizarre pop column, has said that during the late 1980s, at Kelvin MacKenzie's behest, he was ordered to speculate on the sexuality of male pop stars for a feature headlined "The Poofs of Pop". He also recalls MacKenzie headlining... | What did Piers Morgan offer opinions about in a late 1980s column? | {'text': 'the sexuality of male pop stars', 'answer_start': 208} |
35,235 | 34,893 | 5a67a413f038b7001ab0c3c0 | generic | The Latin alphabet of the time still lacked the letters ⟨j⟩ and ⟨w⟩, and there was no ⟨v⟩ as distinct from ⟨u⟩; moreover native Old English spellings did not use ⟨k⟩, ⟨q⟩ or ⟨z⟩. The remaining 20 Latin letters were supplemented by four more: ⟨æ⟩ (æsc, modern ash) and ⟨ð⟩ (ðæt, now called eth or edh), which were modifie... | What was originally used to mark long vowels? | {'text': 'Macrons', 'answer_start': 643} |
129,250 | 128,908 | 5734580c879d6814001ca545 | generic | Richmond city government consists of a city council with representatives from nine districts serving in a legislative and oversight capacity, as well as a popularly elected, at-large mayor serving as head of the executive branch. Citizens in each of the nine districts elect one council representative each to serve a fo... | How many years does the term of a Richmond city council representative last? | {'text': 'four', 'answer_start': 318} |
98,775 | 98,433 | 572aadc2be1ee31400cb8157 | generic | After Kerry's third qualifying wound, he was entitled per Navy regulations to reassignment away from combat duties. Kerry's preferred choice for reassignment was as a military aide in Boston, New York or Washington, D.C. On April 11, 1969, he reported to the Brooklyn-based Atlantic Military Sea Transportation Service, ... | When did Kerry leave the Naval Reserve? | {'text': 'February 1978', 'answer_start': 789} |
51,101 | 50,759 | 5725c5dd89a1e219009abe69 | generic | Independent city states were unable to compete with Hellenistic kingdoms and were usually forced to ally themselves to one of them for defense, giving honors to Hellenistic rulers in return for protection. One example is Athens, which had been decisively defeated by Antipater in the Lamian war (323-322) and had its por... | When did Demetrius Poliorcetes capture Athens? | {'text': '307', 'answer_start': 456} |
55,974 | 55,632 | 5a1e08313de3f40018b2645f | generic | In general, Hokkien dialects have 5 to 7 phonemic tones. According to the traditional Chinese system, however, there are 7 to 9 "tones",[citation needed] more correctly termed tone classes since two of them are non-phonemic "entering tones" (see the discussion on Chinese tone). Tone sandhi is extensive. There are minor... | What do Hokkien tones follow depending on where you are in Taiwan? | {'text': 'the patterns of Amoy or Quanzhou', 'answer_start': 404} |
84,753 | 84,411 | 572806953acd2414000df287 | generic | On 25 May 1963, the pope suffered another haemorrhage and required several blood transfusions, but the cancer had perforated the stomach wall and peritonitis soon set in. The doctors conferred in a decision regarding this matter and John XXIII's aide Loris F. Capovilla broke the news to him saying that the cancer had d... | What did the pope suffer on 25 May 1963? | {'text': 'haemorrhage', 'answer_start': 42} |
82,480 | 82,138 | 5ad0097677cf76001a6867c2 | generic | Muslims have been living in Tibet since as early as the 8th or 9th century. In Tibetan cities, there are small communities of Muslims, known as Kachee (Kache), who trace their origin to immigrants from three main regions: Kashmir (Kachee Yul in ancient Tibetan), Ladakh and the Central Asian Turkic countries. Islamic in... | What is an Indian term for Chinese Muslims? | {'text': 'gya kachee', 'answer_start': 722} |
52,897 | 52,555 | 5725d74389a1e219009abf89 | generic | Albon Man, a New York lawyer, started Electro-Dynamic Light Company in 1878 to exploit his patents and those of William Sawyer. Weeks later the United States Electric Lighting Company was organized. This company didn't made their first commercial installation of incandescent lamps until the fall of 1880 at the Mercanti... | When did Electro-Dynamic Light Company install its first lights? | {'text': 'fall of 1880', 'answer_start': 292} |
121,255 | 120,913 | 57314fb3e6313a140071ce0a | generic | In the 5th-century Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, became the center of late Roman mosaic art. The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia was decorated with mosaics of high artistic quality in 425–430. The vaults of the small, cross-shaped structure are clad with mosaics on blue background. The central motif abo... | In the 5th century what was the capital of the Western Roman Empire? | {'text': 'Ravenna', 'answer_start': 19} |
70,177 | 69,835 | 5726e5ab5951b619008f81c0 | generic | In addition to strictness in character size and shape, Chinese characters are written with very precise rules. The most important rules regard the strokes employed, stroke placement, and stroke order. Just as each region that uses Chinese characters has standardized character forms, each also has standardized stroke or... | What has standardized character forms? | {'text': 'Chinese characters', 'answer_start': 231} |
12,110 | 11,768 | 56df730c5ca0a614008f9a80 | generic | 58.1% of the population described themselves in the 2011 census return as being at least nominally Christian and 0.8% as Muslim with all other religions represented by less than 0.5% each. The portion of people without a religion is 32.9%; above the national average of 24.7%. 7.1% did not state their religious belief. ... | What percentage of Plymouth residents follow Islam? | {'text': '0.8%', 'answer_start': 113} |
36,218 | 35,876 | 570af6876b8089140040f647 | generic | Technological developments by videoconferencing developers in the 2010s have extended the capabilities of video conferencing systems beyond the boardroom for use with hand-held mobile devices that combine the use of video, audio and on-screen drawing capabilities broadcasting in real-time over secure networks, independ... | What type of applications have videoconferencing manufacturers begun to offer? | {'text': 'mobile', 'answer_start': 622} |
40,008 | 39,666 | 570e8e700b85d914000d7f96 | generic | Melbourne has the largest tram network in the world which had its origins in the city's 1880s land boom. In 2013–2014, 176.9 million passenger trips were made by tram. Melbourne's is Australia's only tram network to comprise more than a single line and consists of 250 km (155.3 mi) of track, 487 trams, 25 routes, and 1... | How many passenger trips were made by tram in Melbourne between 2013-2014? | {'text': '176.9 million', 'answer_start': 119} |
56,568 | 56,226 | 5a67d77bf038b7001ab0c481 | generic | where is the maximum possible exposure that does not lead to a clipped or bloomed camera output. Typically, the lower limit of the saturation speed is determined by the sensor itself, but with the gain of the amplifier between the sensor and the analog-to-digital converter, the saturation speed can be increased. The f... | What does the amplifier prevent from increasing? | {'text': 'the saturation speed', 'answer_start': 276} |
7,862 | 7,520 | 56dc5baa14d3a41400c26806 | generic | Genome composition is used to describe the make up of contents of a haploid genome, which should include genome size, proportions of non-repetitive DNA and repetitive DNA in details. By comparing the genome compositions between genomes, scientists can better understand the evolutionary history of a given genome. | What aspect of a genome can genome compositions help researchers in learning about? | {'text': 'evolutionary history', 'answer_start': 274} |
50,137 | 49,795 | 5ad17ae9645df0001a2d1de7 | generic | Between April 1877 and February 1878, she threatened five times to abdicate while pressuring Disraeli to act against Russia during the Russo-Turkish War, but her threats had no impact on the events or their conclusion with the Congress of Berlin. Disraeli's expansionist foreign policy, which Victoria endorsed, led to c... | Who lost the Disraeli general election in 1808? | {'text': 'Disraeli', 'answer_start': 93} |
102,028 | 101,686 | 572eb93fdfa6aa1500f8d319 | generic | Muammar Gaddafi was born in a tent near Qasr Abu Hadi, a rural area outside the town of Sirte in the deserts of western Libya. His family came from a small, relatively un-influential tribal group called the Qadhadhfa, who were Arabized Berber in heritage. His father, Mohammad Abdul Salam bin Hamed bin Mohammad, was kno... | How come no one knows for sure when Gaddafi was born? | {'text': 'Nomadic Bedouins, they were illiterate and kept no birth records', 'answer_start': 461} |
127,853 | 127,511 | 5acedd5932bba1001ae4b79d | generic | Tajikistan's rivers, such as the Vakhsh and the Panj, have great hydropower potential, and the government has focused on attracting investment for projects for internal use and electricity exports. Tajikistan is home to the Nurek Dam, the highest dam in the world. Lately, Russia's RAO UES energy giant has been working ... | Romania's RAO UES energy giant has been working on what? | {'text': 'the Sangtuda-1 hydroelectric power station', 'answer_start': 323} |
47,168 | 46,826 | 571a395610f8ca1400304f82 | generic | The city has started moving away from the automobile and towards mass transit. From 2004 to 2009, the annual number of unlinked public transportation trips increased by approximately 21%. In 2006, voters in King County passed proposition 2 (Transit Now) which increased bus service hours on high ridership routes and pai... | From what kind of transportation has Seattle been moving away? | {'text': 'automobile', 'answer_start': 42} |
88,957 | 88,615 | 5a85b7e3b4e223001a8e71ba | generic | On 14 September 2009, U.S. Special Forces killed two men and wounded and captured two others near the Somali village of Baarawe. Witnesses claim that helicopters used for the operation launched from French-flagged warships, but that could not be confirmed. A Somali-based al-Qaida affiliated group, the Al-Shabaab, has c... | How many were captured in the 2002 Mombasa attacks? | {'text': 'two', 'answer_start': 82} |
34,240 | 33,898 | 570a54a84103511400d5960c | generic | In 2003 Imperial was granted degree-awarding powers in its own right by the Privy Council. The London Centre for Nanotechnology was established in the same year as a joint venture between UCL and Imperial College London. In 2004 the Tanaka Business School (now named the Imperial College Business School) and a new Main ... | Who granted Imperial degree-awarding powers? | {'text': 'Privy Council', 'answer_start': 76} |
119,304 | 118,962 | 57311c03e6313a140071cc44 | generic | Multi-color LEDs offer not merely another means to form white light but a new means to form light of different colors. Most perceivable colors can be formed by mixing different amounts of three primary colors. This allows precise dynamic color control. As more effort is devoted to investigating this method, multi-color... | Multi-color LEDs offer what else besides the formation of white light? | {'text': 'to form light of different colors', 'answer_start': 84} |
5,903 | 5,561 | 56d246e7b329da140004eccf | generic | Initially, prajñā is attained at a conceptual level by means of listening to sermons (dharma talks), reading, studying, and sometimes reciting Buddhist texts and engaging in discourse. Once the conceptual understanding is attained, it is applied to daily life so that each Buddhist can verify the truth of the Buddha's t... | In theory when can one attain Nirvana during practice? | {'text': 'at any point', 'answer_start': 394} |
118,720 | 118,378 | 5a8632c8b4e223001a8e74cf | generic | In Kazakhstan Russian is not a state language, but according to article 7 of the Constitution of Kazakhstan its usage enjoys equal status to that of the Kazakh language in state and local administration. According to estimates from Demoskop Weekly, in 2004 there were 4,200,000 native speakers of Russian in the country,... | What percentage of the population of Kazakhstan was employed in 2006? | {'text': '46%', 'answer_start': 410} |
119,955 | 119,613 | 5731223aa5e9cc1400cdbc6d | generic | Nurhaci declared himself the "Bright Khan" of the Later Jin (lit. "gold") state in honor both of the 12–13th century Jurchen Jin dynasty and of his Aisin Gioro clan (Aisin being Manchu for the Chinese 金 (jīn, "gold")). His son Hong Taiji renamed the dynasty Great Qing in 1636. There are competing explanations on the m... | What imagery is suggested in the Chinese characters of the dynasties new name? | {'text': 'water imagery', 'answer_start': 771} |
14,762 | 14,420 | 56dfe1e57aa994140058e210 | generic | A trend in the late 20th century was for breweries to run their pubs directly, using managers rather than tenants. Most such breweries, such as the regional brewery Shepherd Neame in Kent and Young's and Fuller's in London, control hundreds of pubs in a particular region of the UK, while a few, such as Greene King, are... | What law required that a pub offer at least one beer from a brewery it wasn't tied to? | {'text': 'The Beer Orders', 'answer_start': 718} |
34,978 | 34,636 | 570a7fd06d058f1900182ec7 | generic | The Tower has been inextricably linked with the Everton area since its construction in 1787. It was originally used as a bridewell to incarcerate mainly drunks and minor criminals, and it still stands today on Everton Brow in Netherfield Road. The tower was accompanied by two laurel wreaths on either side and, accordin... | What is the Everton club motto? | {'text': 'Nil Satis Nisi Optimum', 'answer_start': 471} |
90,250 | 89,908 | 5728a2bfff5b5019007da37a | generic | Other awards and recognition for Popper included the City of Vienna Prize for the Humanities (1965), Karl Renner Prize (1978), Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1980), Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize (1981), Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna (1983) and the Premio Internazionale of the Italian Federico Nietzsche Socie... | In which year did Popper win the Karl Renner Prize? | {'text': '1978', 'answer_start': 120} |
89,416 | 89,074 | 5ad15afb645df0001a2d1878 | generic | From the late-1980s onwards, the party adopted free market policies, leading many observers to describe the Labour Party as social democratic or the Third Way, rather than democratic socialist. Other commentators go further and argue that traditional social democratic parties across Europe, including the British Labour... | What did the Conservative party do from the 1980s onward? | {'text': 'adopted free market policies', 'answer_start': 39} |
71,936 | 71,594 | 5726fe6af1498d1400e8f1e2 | generic | Theophrastus wrote some of the earliest descriptions of plants and animals, establishing the first taxonomy and looking at minerals in terms of their properties such as hardness. Pliny the Elder produced what is one of the largest encyclopedias of the natural world in 77 AD, and must be regarded as the rightful success... | What characteristic was Pliny the Elder the first to recognize about amber? | {'text': 'was a fossilized resin', 'answer_start': 887} |
74,768 | 74,426 | 57276a08f1498d1400e8f79f | generic | In India, Carnival is celebrated only in the state of Goa and a Roman Catholic tradition, where it is known as Intruz which means swindler while Entrudo, the appropriate word in Portuguese for Carnival. The largest celebration takes place in the city of Panjim which was part of Velha Conquista, Goa, but now is celebrat... | What does the Indian word "Intruz" mean? | {'text': 'swindler', 'answer_start': 130} |
70,033 | 69,691 | 5aceac4a32bba1001ae4afbe | generic | In 1980, the Soviet Union, which then ruled his birthplace Bukhara, celebrated the thousandth anniversary of Avicenna's birth by circulating various commemorative stamps with artistic illustrations, and by erecting a bust of Avicenna based on anthropological research by Soviet scholars.[citation needed] Near his birthp... | In 1980, how many years had it been since Avicenna's death? | {'text': 'thousand', 'answer_start': 83} |
31,824 | 31,482 | 570ab07c4103511400d5993d | generic | Houston has sports teams for every major professional league except the National Hockey League (NHL). The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball (MLB) expansion team formed in 1962 (known as the "Colt .45s" until 1965) that made one World Series appearance in 2005. The Houston Rockets are a National Basketball Asso... | When were the Houston Astros formed? | {'text': '1962', 'answer_start': 180} |
66,916 | 66,574 | 5726def05951b619008f80d1 | generic | Rugby union is the national sport in Samoa and the national team, nicknamed the Manu Samoa, is consistently competitive against teams from vastly more populous nations. Samoa has competed at every Rugby World Cup since 1991, and made the quarter finals in 1991, 1995 and the second round of the 1999 world cup. At the 20... | What organization governs the Samoan rugby team? | {'text': 'Samoa Rugby Football Union', 'answer_start': 504} |
49,878 | 49,536 | 57265c18dd62a815002e82a8 | generic | Victoria's youngest son, Leopold, was affected by the blood-clotting disease haemophilia B and two of her five daughters, Alice and Beatrice, were carriers. Royal haemophiliacs descended from Victoria included her great-grandsons, Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, and Infante Gonzalo of Spain. Th... | What disease affected Leopold and was carried by two of Victoria's daughters? | {'text': 'haemophilia B', 'answer_start': 77} |
29,835 | 29,493 | 5706268775f01819005e7a04 | generic | The city hosted the 1964 Democratic National Convention which nominated Lyndon Johnson for President and Hubert Humphrey as Vice President. The convention and the press coverage it generated, however, cast a harsh light on Atlantic City, which by then was in the midst of a long period of economic decline. Many felt tha... | Despite being in the midst of a long period of economic decline many felt that the Convention was only held in Atlantic city because of a friendship between what two men? | {'text': 'Johnson and Governor of New Jersey Richard J. Hughes', 'answer_start': 345} |
21,361 | 21,019 | 56e8372c37bdd419002c44a1 | generic | There have been cases of a variety of speech being deliberately reclassified to serve political purposes. One example is Moldovan. In 1996, the Moldovan parliament, citing fears of "Romanian expansionism", rejected a proposal from President Mircea Snegur to change the name of the language to Romanian, and in 2003 a Mol... | In what year was a Moldovan-Romanian dictionary published? | {'text': '2003', 'answer_start': 310} |
103,963 | 103,621 | 572f3315b2c2fd1400567f77 | generic | Some street trams (streetcars) used conduit third-rail current collection. The third rail was below street level. The tram picked up the current through a plough (U.S. "plow") accessed through a narrow slot in the road. In the United States, much (though not all) of the former streetcar system in Washington, D.C. (disc... | What is the other name for the street trams? | {'text': 'streetcars', 'answer_start': 19} |
11,747 | 11,405 | 56debe573277331400b4d705 | generic | Schwarzenegger then went against the advice of fellow Republican strategists and appointed a Democrat, Susan Kennedy, as his Chief of Staff. Schwarzenegger gradually moved towards a more politically moderate position, determined to build a winning legacy with only a short time to go until the next gubernatorial electio... | Who did Schwarzenegger choose as Chief of Staff? | {'text': 'Susan Kennedy', 'answer_start': 103} |
109,479 | 109,137 | 572f706ab2c2fd140056811c | generic | Local anesthetic injections into the nerves or sensitive areas of the stump may relieve pain for days, weeks, or sometimes permanently, despite the drug wearing off in a matter of hours; and small injections of hypertonic saline into the soft tissue between vertebrae produces local pain that radiates into the phantom l... | How long can an anesthetic, at max, relieve pain for, despite wearing off in only hours? | {'text': 'permanently', 'answer_start': 123} |
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