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30,221 | 29,879 | 5706371452bb89140068996f | generic | When performing lossy audio encoding, such as creating an MP3 file, there is a trade-off between the amount of space used and the sound quality of the result. Typically, the creator is allowed to set a bit rate, which specifies how many kilobits the file may use per second of audio. The higher the bit rate, the larger ... | What would an example of lossy audio encoding be? | {'text': 'creating an MP3 file', 'answer_start': 46} |
15,725 | 15,383 | 56e084e27aa994140058e59f | generic | The UK national curriculum is adapted for local use. A range of qualifications are offered – from GCSE, A/S and A2, to Level 3 Diplomas and VRQ qualifications: | What curriculum does the island adapt? | {'text': 'The UK national curriculum', 'answer_start': 0} |
35,678 | 35,336 | 5acd7f5e07355d001abf4484 | generic | Conventional ("tailhook") aircraft rely upon a landing signal officer (LSO, radio call sign paddles) to monitor the aircraft's approach, visually gauge glideslope, attitude, and airspeed, and transmit that data to the pilot. Before the angled deck emerged in the 1950s, LSOs used colored paddles to signal corrections to... | What are LSO's no longer being used to do? | {'text': 'transmit voice calls to approaching pilots by radio', 'answer_start': 496} |
120,998 | 120,656 | 57314908497a881900248d58 | generic | In 525 BC, the powerful Achaemenid Persians, led by Cambyses II, began their conquest of Egypt, eventually capturing the pharaoh Psamtik III at the battle of Pelusium. Cambyses II then assumed the formal title of pharaoh, but ruled Egypt from his home of Susa in Persia (modern Iran), leaving Egypt under the control of ... | What pharaoh was captured by the group led by Camyses II? | {'text': 'Psamtik III', 'answer_start': 129} |
100,370 | 100,028 | 5acd77a607355d001abf439a | generic | While considered "alternative" today, most alternative systems have existed since ancient times. After the public school system was widely developed beginning in the 19th century, some parents found reasons to be discontented with the new system. Alternative education developed in part as a reaction to perceived limita... | What hasn't gained importance in public education? | {'text': 'Charter schools', 'answer_start': 733} |
114,422 | 114,080 | 573045c504bcaa1900d7744b | generic | The basic equipment or kit players are required to wear includes a shirt, shorts, socks, footwear and adequate shin guards. An athletic supporter and protective cup is highly recommended for male players by medical experts and professionals. Headgear is not a required piece of basic equipment, but players today may cho... | Who wears clothing that easily sets them apart from everyone else on the field? | {'text': 'goalkeeper', 'answer_start': 506} |
128,813 | 128,471 | 5a68bcef8476ee001a58a7d7 | generic | Punjab during Mahabharata times was known as Panchanada. Punjab was part of the Indus Valley Civilization, more than 4000 years ago. The main site in Punjab was the city of Harrapa. The Indus Valley Civilization spanned much of what is today Pakistan and eventually evolved into the Indo-Aryan civilisation. The Vedic ci... | When did Punjab comprise the Gujar empire? | {'text': 'more than 4000 years ago', 'answer_start': 107} |
74,760 | 74,418 | 572767ee5951b619008f897e | generic | Some of the best-known traditions, including carnal parades and masquerade balls, were first recorded in medieval Italy. The carnival of Venice was, for a long time, the most famous carnival (although Napoleon abolished it in 1797 and only in 1979 was the tradition restored). From Italy, Carnival traditions spread to S... | What were rabbis from the ghettos forced to march through the city streets wearing? | {'text': 'foolish guise', 'answer_start': 790} |
47,961 | 47,619 | 571a5fc410f8ca1400305000 | generic | People of Ashkenazi descent constitute around 47.5% of Israeli Jews (and therefore 35–36% of Israelis). They have played a prominent role in the economy, media, and politics of Israel since its founding. During the first decades of Israel as a state, strong cultural conflict occurred between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jew... | When Israel was in its infancy as a state, there were cultural conflicts between which two groups? | {'text': 'Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews', 'answer_start': 293} |
31,931 | 31,589 | 5709614c200fba1400367f0c | generic | Copper, silver and gold are in group 11 of the periodic table, and they share certain attributes: they have one s-orbital electron on top of a filled d-electron shell and are characterized by high ductility and electrical conductivity. The filled d-shells in these elements do not contribute much to the interatomic inte... | Name a property that copper, silver and gold have in common. | {'text': 'one s-orbital electron', 'answer_start': 108} |
9,988 | 9,646 | 5ad2f87c604f3c001a3fda72 | generic | There are seven suburbicarian sees: Ostia, Albano, Porto and Santa Rufina, Palestrina, Sabina and Mentana, Frascati and Velletri. Velletri was united with Ostia from 1150 until 1914, when Pope Pius X separated them again, but decreed that whatever cardinal bishop became Dean of the College of Cardinals would keep the s... | Which two sees were united from 1250 to 1944? | {'text': 'Velletri was united with Ostia', 'answer_start': 130} |
113,123 | 112,781 | 573009aca23a5019007fcc8f | generic | San Diego County has one of the highest counts of animal and plant species that appear on the endangered species list among counties in the United States. Because of its diversity of habitat and its position on the Pacific Flyway, San Diego County has recorded the presence of 492 bird species, more than any other regio... | What is special about the animal and plant species found in San Diego? | {'text': 'highest counts of animal and plant species that appear on the endangered species list', 'answer_start': 32} |
4,212 | 3,870 | 56cf5478aab44d1400b88ffc | generic | Lower Manhattan is the third-largest central business district in the United States and is home to the New York Stock Exchange, on Wall Street, and the NASDAQ, at 165 Broadway, representing the world's largest and second largest stock exchanges, respectively, when measured both by overall average daily trading volume a... | On what street is the New York Stock Exchange headquartered? | {'text': 'Wall Street', 'answer_start': 131} |
23,207 | 22,865 | 56f8bcbf9e9bad19000a03e8 | generic | Southampton also has 2 community FM radio stations, the Queens Award winning Unity 101 Community Radio (www.unity101.org) broadcasting full-time on 101.1 FM since 2006 to the Asian and Ethnic communities, and Voice FM (http://www.voicefmradio.co.uk) located in St Mary's, which has been broadcasting full-time on 103.9 F... | What local FM station won the Queens Award? | {'text': 'Unity 101 Community Radio', 'answer_start': 77} |
74,384 | 74,042 | 5727d90c2ca10214002d97fc | generic | New Haven lies at the intersection of Interstate 95 on the coast—which provides access southwards and/or westwards to the western coast of Connecticut and to New York City, and eastwards to the eastern Connecticut shoreline, Rhode Island, and eastern Massachusetts—and Interstate 91, which leads northward to the interio... | Which New Haven interstate is less congested throughout times designated as peak travel? | {'text': 'I-91', 'answer_start': 618} |
105,885 | 105,543 | 5a87c9a319b91f001a626dbe | generic | The above explanation is merely a simple introduction to vacuum pumping, and is not representative of the entire range of pumps in use. Many variations of the positive displacement pump have been developed, and many other pump designs rely on fundamentally different principles. Momentum transfer pumps, which bear some ... | What are entrapment pumps usually considered above all of the others? | {'text': 'universal', 'answer_start': 594} |
75,211 | 74,869 | 57276a47708984140094dd24 | generic | Home-based manufacturing operations were active year round. Families willingly deployed their children in these income generating home enterprises. In many cases, men worked from home. In France, over 58 percent of garment workers operated out of their homes; in Germany, the number of full-time home operations nearly d... | What were the working conditions described as for the children employed at home? | {'text': 'unhealthy and insanitary', 'answer_start': 993} |
50,367 | 50,025 | 572639beec44d21400f3dc61 | generic | In some countries anti-Masonry is often related to antisemitism and anti-Zionism. For example, In 1980, the Iraqi legal and penal code was changed by Saddam Hussein's ruling Ba'ath Party, making it a felony to "promote or acclaim Zionist principles, including Freemasonry, or who associate [themselves] with Zionist orga... | In some countries, anti-Masonry is related to what? | {'text': 'antisemitism and anti-Zionism', 'answer_start': 51} |
104,409 | 104,067 | 5a7748a42d6d7f001a4a9fab | generic | Spanish is currently the most widely taught non-English language in American secondary schools and of higher education. More than 1.4 million university students were enrolled in language courses in autumn of 2002 and Spanish is the most widely taught language in American colleges and universities with 53 percent of th... | How many university students were enrolled in autumn of 2002? | {'text': 'More than 1.4 million', 'answer_start': 120} |
6,009 | 5,667 | 56d28a5d59d6e41400146055 | generic | By the late Middle Ages, Buddhism had become virtually extinct in India, although it continued to exist in surrounding countries. It is now again gaining strength worldwide. China and India are now starting to fund Buddhist shrines in various Asian countries as they compete for influence in the region.[web 20] | China and India are now starting to fund what type of shrines in various Asian countries? | {'text': 'Buddhist', 'answer_start': 215} |
82,107 | 81,765 | 5a3b474b3ff257001ab843f4 | generic | Scholars continue to debate whether the U.S. Constitution adopted a particular interpretation of the "rule of law," and if so, which one. For example, John Harrison asserts that the word "law" in the Constitution is simply defined as that which is legally binding, rather than being "defined by formal or substantive cri... | What law professor says the Constitution does it meet either the formal or substantive? | {'text': 'Frederick Mark Gedicks', 'answer_start': 457} |
35,199 | 34,857 | 570a82334103511400d597b8 | generic | Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc) or Anglo-Saxon is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers probably in the mid 5th century, and the first Old English literary works ... | What language developed from Old English? | {'text': 'Middle English', 'answer_start': 571} |
66,751 | 66,409 | 5a6254d7f8d794001af1bf71 | generic | The New Zealand police attempted to arrest one of the leaders in the demonstration. When he resisted, a struggle developed between the police and the Mau. The officers began to fire randomly into the crowd and a Lewis machine gun, mounted in preparation for this demonstration, was used to disperse the demonstrators. Ch... | How many New Zeland police were killed during the demonstration? | {'text': 'Ten', 'answer_start': 454} |
9,377 | 9,035 | 5a8006548f0597001ac00146 | generic | Adaptation of the endosymbiont to the host's lifestyle leads to many changes in the endosymbiont–the foremost being drastic reduction in its genome size. This is due to many genes being lost during the process of metabolism, and DNA repair and recombination. While important genes participating in the DNA to RNA transcr... | What do the insects need for vertical transmission? | {'text': 'endosymbiotic bacteria', 'answer_start': 763} |
52,666 | 52,324 | 57261a80ec44d21400f3d8ea | generic | When paying a state visit to Britain, foreign heads of state are usually entertained by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. They are allocated a large suite of rooms known as the Belgian Suite, situated at the foot of the Minister's Staircase, on the ground floor of the north-facing Garden Wing. The rooms of the suite are ... | How are the rooms in the Belgian Suite connected? | {'text': 'by narrow corridors', 'answer_start': 327} |
130,092 | 129,750 | 5736357e506b471400236596 | generic | The American bison is a large bovid which inhabited much of western North America prior to the 1800s, living on the prairies in large herds. However, the vast herds of bison attracted market hunters, who killed dozens of bison for their hides only, leaving the rest to rot. Thousands of these hunters quickly eliminated ... | What did large herds of bison attract? | {'text': 'market hunters', 'answer_start': 184} |
796 | 454 | 56beba293aeaaa14008c92ef | generic | Beyoncé names Michael Jackson as her major musical influence. Aged five, Beyoncé attended her first ever concert where Jackson performed and she claims to have realised her purpose. When she presented him with a tribute award at the World Music Awards in 2006, Beyoncé said, "if it wasn't for Michael Jackson, I would ne... | To whom did Beyonce credit as her major influence on her music? | {'text': 'Michael Jackson', 'answer_start': 14} |
110,632 | 110,290 | 572fa3e9b2c2fd140056827f | generic | Bacteria often attach to surfaces and form dense aggregations called biofilms or bacterial mats. These films can range from a few micrometers in thickness to up to half a meter in depth, and may contain multiple species of bacteria, protists and archaea. Bacteria living in biofilms display a complex arrangement of cell... | What is part of secondary structure in the complex formation of bacteria? | {'text': 'microcolonies,', 'answer_start': 390} |
29,361 | 29,019 | 570685bf52bb891400689a31 | generic | Much of New Delhi, planned by the leading 20th-century British architect Edwin Lutyens, was laid out to be the central administrative area of the city as a testament to Britain's imperial pretensions. New Delhi is structured around two central promenades called the Rajpath and the Janpath. The Rajpath, or King's Way, s... | What are the names of the two central promenades around which New Delhi is structured? | {'text': 'Rajpath and the Janpath', 'answer_start': 266} |
72,996 | 72,654 | 5a87184d1d3cee001a6a10c5 | generic | The World Health Organization declared TB a "global health emergency" in 1993, and in 2006, the Stop TB Partnership developed a Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis that aims to save 14 million lives between its launch and 2015. A number of targets they have set are not likely to be achieved by 2015, mostly due to the incr... | How many lives has Stop TB Partnership saved? | {'text': '14 million', 'answer_start': 179} |
27,090 | 26,748 | 56fa88b8f34c681400b0c0e9 | generic | The Freeview HD service currently contains 10 HD channels (as of December 2013[update]) and was rolled out region by region across the UK in accordance with the digital switchover process, finally being completed in October 2012. However, Freeview HD is not the first HDTV service over digital terrestrial television in ... | Which service contains 10 HD channels and finished its roll out in October 2012? | {'text': 'Freeview HD', 'answer_start': 4} |
37,351 | 37,009 | 570b66566b8089140040f92e | generic | The term "retro-metal" has been applied to such bands as Texas based The Sword, California's High on Fire, Sweden's Witchcraft and Australia's Wolfmother. Wolfmother's self-titled 2005 debut album combined elements of the sounds of Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Fellow Australians Airbourne's début album Runnin' Wild (2... | When did the band The Darkness break up? | {'text': '2006', 'answer_start': 653} |
4,729 | 4,387 | 56cf54baaab44d1400b89010 | generic | To Kill a Mockingbird has been a source of significant controversy since its being the subject of classroom study as early as 1963. The book's racial slurs, profanity, and frank discussion of rape have led people to challenge its appropriateness in libraries and classrooms across the United States. The American Library... | To Kill a Mockingbird was first studied in American schools in what year? | {'text': '1963', 'answer_start': 126} |
121,830 | 121,488 | 5a77aa20b73996001af5a4e2 | generic | Examining the influence of humanism on scholars in medicine, mathematics, astronomy and physics may suggest that humanism and universities were a strong impetus for the scientific revolution. Although the connection between humanism and the scientific discovery may very well have begun within the confines of the univer... | Which historian argues that traditionalism in a university system hindered attempts to form new views on medicine and mathematics? | {'text': 'Richard S. Westfall', 'answer_start': 479} |
130,408 | 130,066 | 5a6b6844a9e0c9001a4e9f58 | generic | The onset of symptoms in myocardial infarction (MI) is usually gradual, over several minutes, and rarely instantaneous. Chest pain is the most common symptom of acute MI and is often described as a sensation of tightness, pressure, or squeezing. Chest pain due to ischemia (a lack of blood and hence oxygen supply) of th... | What type of heart problem has a typically instantaneous onset? | {'text': 'myocardial infarction', 'answer_start': 25} |
33,517 | 33,175 | 5acd6c1707355d001abf417b | generic | Beer is composed mostly of water. Regions have water with different mineral components; as a result, different regions were originally better suited to making certain types of beer, thus giving them a regional character. For example, Dublin has hard water well-suited to making stout, such as Guinness; while the Plzeň R... | What kind of beer is Dublin's soft water well-suited to make? | {'text': 'stout', 'answer_start': 278} |
103,429 | 103,087 | 572f0d29dfa6aa1500f8d591 | generic | As of January 2008, Spain is the nation with the most elevators installed in the world, with 950,000 elevators installed that run more than one hundred million lifts every day, followed by United States with 700,000 elevators installed and China with 610,000 elevators installed since 1949. In Brazil, it is estimated th... | In 2008, what country had the largest number of elevators? | {'text': 'Spain', 'answer_start': 20} |
89,869 | 89,527 | 5ad40aa9604f3c001a3fffc1 | generic | Starting in the 1890s and stretching in some places to the early 1910s, gold rushes in Alaska and the nearby Yukon Territory brought thousands of miners and settlers to Alaska. Alaska was officially incorporated as an organized territory in 1912. Alaska's capital, which had been in Sitka until 1906, was moved north to ... | From what countries were South American settlers in Alaska? | {'text': 'Norway and Sweden', 'answer_start': 421} |
15,576 | 15,234 | 56e06be17aa994140058e48b | generic | Most residents belong to the Anglican Communion and are members of the Diocese of St Helena, which has its own bishop and includes Ascension Island. The 150th anniversary of the diocese was celebrated in June 2009. | What communion do most residents of the island belong to? | {'text': 'Anglican', 'answer_start': 29} |
19,064 | 18,722 | 56e6cf636fe0821900b8eb97 | generic | In response to the pressure on Hot AC, a new kind of AC format cropped up among American radio recently. The urban adult contemporary format (a term coined by Barry Mayo) usually attracts a large number of African Americans and sometimes Caucasian listeners through playing a great deal of R&B (without any form of rappi... | What demographic group is the urban adult contemporary format marketed to? | {'text': 'African Americans', 'answer_start': 206} |
71,093 | 70,751 | 5a580e33770dc0001aeeffa0 | generic | A large indoor shopping centre Hoog Catharijne (nl) is located between Utrecht Centraal railway station and the city centre. The corridors are treated as public places like streets, and the route between the station and the city centre is open all night. In 20 years from 2004, parts of Hoog Catharijne will be redevelop... | What shopping center is located in the city center? | {'text': 'Hoog Catharijne', 'answer_start': 31} |
86,490 | 86,148 | 572a9a0134ae481900deabba | generic | During the rule of the succeeding Hanoverian dynasty, power was gradually exercised more by parliament and the government. The first Hanoverian monarch, George I, relied on his ministers to a greater extent than did previous monarchs. Later Hanoverian monarchs attempted to restore royal control over legislation: George... | Which monarch granted assent reluctantly under the advise of his ministers? | {'text': 'George IV', 'answer_start': 720} |
28,347 | 28,005 | 5a81e42031013a001a334f80 | generic | The word phonology (as in the phonology of English) can also refer to the phonological system (sound system) of a given language. This is one of the fundamental systems which a language is considered to comprise, like its syntax and its vocabulary. | What is another term for vocabulary? | {'text': 'sound system', 'answer_start': 95} |
68,824 | 68,482 | 5726df6d708984140094d43b | generic | The European powers continued to pursue diplomatic avenues. The representatives of the four neutral Great Powers—the United Kingdom, France, Austria and Prussia—met in Vienna, where they drafted a note that they hoped would be acceptable to both the Russians and the Ottomans. The peace terms arrived at by the four powe... | What European powers met in Vienna for a conference? | {'text': 'United Kingdom, France, Austria and Prussia', 'answer_start': 117} |
92,381 | 92,039 | 5a7239a30efcfe001a8afeff | generic | Bush focused his campaign on national security, presenting himself as a decisive leader and contrasted Kerry as a "flip-flopper." This strategy was designed to convey to American voters the idea that Bush could be trusted to be tough on terrorism while Kerry would be "uncertain in the face of danger." Bush (just as his... | What perception made Bush appear weaker than Dukakis? | {'text': 'would be "uncertain in the face of danger."', 'answer_start': 259} |
20,503 | 20,161 | 56e786c937bdd419002c40ac | 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... | In what district are these sculptural pieces located? | {'text': 'Qixia and Jiangning District', 'answer_start': 211} |
119,819 | 119,477 | 57314ee9497a881900248d93 | generic | Most birds can fly, which distinguishes them from almost all other vertebrate classes. Flight is the primary means of locomotion for most bird species and is used for breeding, feeding, and predator avoidance and escape. Birds have various adaptations for flight, including a lightweight skeleton, two large flight muscl... | How many large flight muscles do birds have? | {'text': 'two', 'answer_start': 298} |
59,109 | 58,767 | 5acd99d907355d001abf47e0 | generic | From 1952 to 1964, most voters were registered Democrats, but the state voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election except for 1964. The following year, Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, providing for oversight of state practices and enforcement ... | What were voter demographics in the 1940s? | {'text': 'most voters were registered Democrats', 'answer_start': 19} |
44,670 | 44,328 | 570f8a7d5ab6b81900390f07 | generic | Scientists do not know the exact cause of sexual orientation, but they believe that it is caused by a complex interplay of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences. They favor biologically-based theories, which point to genetic factors, the early uterine environment, both, or the inclusion of genetic and social ... | Do scientists know the cause of sexual orientation? | {'text': 'Scientists do not know the exact cause of sexual orientation', 'answer_start': 0} |
4,931 | 4,589 | 56d07aa6234ae51400d9c315 | generic | In the last two decades, photovoltaics (PV), also known as solar PV, has evolved from a pure niche market of small scale applications towards becoming a mainstream electricity source. A solar cell is a device that converts light directly into electricity using the photoelectric effect. The first solar cell was construc... | What is a solar cell? | {'text': 'a device that converts light directly into electricity', 'answer_start': 200} |
19,083 | 18,741 | 56e6d7856fe0821900b8ebc8 | generic | With the mixture of radio friendly AC tunes with some rock and pop fare also landing on the pop charts, mainstream songs won over many critics in the need to define AC, and appeared to change the tolerance and acceptance of AC music into mainstream day to day radio play. Part of the reason why more and more hot AC stat... | Why is new rock not suitable for mainstream radio? | {'text': 'too alternative', 'answer_start': 412} |
75,219 | 74,877 | 57276ed9708984140094dd67 | generic | Child labour accounts for 22% of the workforce in Asia, 32% in Africa, 17% in Latin America, 1% in the US, Canada, Europe and other wealthy nations. The proportion of child labourers varies greatly among countries and even regions inside those countries. Africa has the highest percentage of children aged 5–17 employed ... | Right now what percentage of children are employed in the US? | {'text': '1%', 'answer_start': 93} |
36,689 | 36,347 | 5a70ba718abb0b001a67612b | generic | The Xbox 360 sold much better than its predecessor, and although not the best-selling console of the seventh-generation, it is regarded as a success since it strengthened Microsoft as a major force in the console market at the expense of well-established rivals. The inexpensive Nintendo Wii did sell the most console un... | What PlayStation put pressure on the Xbox One? | {'text': 'PlayStation 3', 'answer_start': 702} |
43,648 | 43,306 | 5ad11eda645df0001a2d0e3e | generic | It is estimated that 5.5 million tonnes of uranium exists in ore reserves that are economically viable at US$59 per lb of uranium, while 35 million tonnes are classed as mineral resources (reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction). Prices went from about $10/lb in May 2003 to $138/lb in July 2007. This has... | How much economically viable uranium is there in ore reserves, in billions of tonnes? | {'text': '5.5', 'answer_start': 21} |
47,667 | 47,325 | 5ad29f56d7d075001a429c6a | generic | Racial discrimination continued to be enacted in new laws in the 20th century, for instance the one-drop rule was enacted in Virginia's 1924 Racial Integrity Law and in other southern states, in part influenced by the popularity of eugenics and ideas of racial purity. People buried fading memories that many whites had ... | What kind of laws had been proposed and passed in the late 19th century in South Carolina? | {'text': 'Similar', 'answer_start': 374} |
62,756 | 62,414 | 5a81a9d631013a001a334d3b | generic | The public sector effort continues with the goal to create a high-quality, draft genome sequence from reads generated by all sources. The public-sector effort has generated Sanger reads of BACs, fosmids, and plasmids as well as 454 reads. These later types of reads will be instrumental in assembling an initial draft of... | What companies finished much of the sequencing of the BAC genome? | {'text': 'Monsanto and Illumina', 'answer_start': 359} |
22,306 | 21,964 | 56f72e823d8e2e1400e373f2 | generic | In 1997, the Vienna Philharmonic was "facing protests during a [US] tour" by the National Organization for Women and the International Alliance for Women in Music. Finally, "after being held up to increasing ridicule even in socially conservative Austria, members of the orchestra gathered [on 28 February 1997] in an ex... | What instrument did Anna Lelkes play? | {'text': 'harp', 'answer_start': 415} |
37,646 | 37,304 | 5a07d2a20ff9ab00181693e0 | generic | The concept of emissivity is important in understanding the infrared emissions of objects. This is a property of a surface that describes how its thermal emissions deviate from the ideal of a black body. To further explain, two objects at the same physical temperature will not show the same infrared image if they have ... | How does comparing two differing objects to a black body give you accurate results? | {'text': 'The concept of emissivity is important in understanding the infrared emissions of objects.', 'answer_start': 0} |
13,130 | 12,788 | 5ace349132bba1001ae49e27 | generic | By 1987, CBS was the only "big three" American TV network to have a co-owned record company. ABC had sold its record division to MCA Records in 1979, and in 1986, NBC's parent company RCA was sold to General Electric, who then sold off all other RCA units, including the record division (which was bought by Ariola Recor... | By 1997, which network was the only "big three" to also have its own record company? | {'text': 'CBS', 'answer_start': 9} |
115,320 | 114,978 | 5ad3d617604f3c001a3ff2e8 | generic | For Whitehead the core of religion was individual. While he acknowledged that individuals cannot ever be fully separated from their society, he argued that life is an internal fact for its own sake before it is an external fact relating to others. His most famous remark on religion is that "religion is what the individ... | What is Whitehead's most famous statement on nonreligion? | {'text': 'religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness', 'answer_start': 292} |
18,520 | 18,178 | 5acd40ec07355d001abf3a7a | generic | It should be noted that Estonian words and names quoted in international publications from Soviet sources are often back-transliterations from the Russian transliteration. Examples are the use of "ya" for "ä" (e.g. Pyarnu instead of Pärnu), "y" instead of "õ" (e.g., Pylva instead of Põlva) and "yu" instead of "ü" (e.g.... | What famous encyclopedia contains a Estonian back-transliteration of Russian? | {'text': 'Encyclopædia Britannica', 'answer_start': 360} |
46,771 | 46,429 | 5ace92fd32bba1001ae4aa9d | generic | Alexandria was the most important trade center in the whole empire during Athanasius's boyhood. Intellectually, morally, and politically—it epitomized the ethnically diverse Graeco-Roman world, even more than Rome or Constantinople, Antioch or Marseilles. Its famous catechetical school, while sacrificing none of its fa... | Where did Athanasius meet pagans? | {'text': 'Alexandria', 'answer_start': 0} |
25,802 | 25,460 | 56f8b80e9e9bad19000a039f | generic | The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. Only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have a brain; diffuse or localised nerve nets are present instead. The brain is located in the head, usually c... | In people, how many neurons make up the cerebral cortex? | {'text': '15–33 billion', 'answer_start': 561} |
48,676 | 48,334 | 571d2ccfdd7acb1400e4c23d | generic | The top ten best-selling drugs of 2013 totaled $75.6 billion in sales, with the anti-inflammatory drug Humira being the best-selling drug worldwide at $10.7 billion in sales. The second and third best selling were Enbrel and Remicade, respectively. The top three best-selling drugs in the United States in 2013 were Abil... | What was the name of the top-selling anti-inflammatory drug in 2013? | {'text': 'Humira', 'answer_start': 103} |
12,276 | 11,934 | 56de70e54396321400ee28e7 | generic | Within six years of the official criminalization of heresy by the Emperor, the first Christian heretic to be executed, Priscillian, was condemned in 386 by Roman secular officials for sorcery, and put to death with four or five followers. However, his accusers were excommunicated both by Ambrose of Milan and Pope Siric... | Who was the first Christian individual to be sentenced to death by the church for heresy in Rome? | {'text': 'Priscillian', 'answer_start': 119} |
17,980 | 17,638 | 5ad129c4645df0001a2d1016 | generic | Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane[a] and Jules Brulatour. One story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the day's takings. Within weeks of his Chicago t... | Who founded Universal Studios in Chicago? | {'text': 'Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane[a] and Jules Brulatour', 'answer_start': 33} |
125,801 | 125,459 | 573376974776f41900660b42 | generic | Several commentators have suggested that if the liquidity crisis continues, an extended recession or worse could occur. The continuing development of the crisis has prompted fears of a global economic collapse although there are now many cautiously optimistic forecasters in addition to some prominent sources who remain... | What was one of the actions taken by government to fix the financial crisis? | {'text': 'capital injection', 'answer_start': 742} |
63,800 | 63,458 | 5ad3d121604f3c001a3ff1eb | generic | Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony as the Collegiate School, the University is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The school was renamed Yale College in 1718 in recognition of a gift from... | When was the Collegiate School of Saybrook Colony closed? | {'text': '1701', 'answer_start': 108} |
17,895 | 17,553 | 56e16a12cd28a01900c678b9 | generic | The city has several federal facilities, including the John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building, the Thomas P. O'Neill Federal Building, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. | What is the name of the famous bank located in Boston? | {'text': 'Federal Reserve Bank of Boston', 'answer_start': 270} |
47,364 | 47,022 | 571a72d84faf5e1900b8a9b4 | generic | Brain areas involved in the neuroanatomy of memory such as the hippocampus, the amygdala, the striatum, or the mammillary bodies are thought to be involved in specific types of memory. For example, the hippocampus is believed to be involved in spatial learning and declarative learning, while the amygdala is thought to ... | What changes can be linked to learning and memory? | {'text': 'neuronal synapses,', 'answer_start': 837} |
99,494 | 99,152 | 5a57a1cf770dc0001aeefc9e | generic | Philosophical empiricists hold no knowledge to be properly inferred or deduced unless it is derived from one's sense-based experience. This view is commonly contrasted with rationalism, which states that knowledge may be derived from reason independently of the senses. For example, John Locke held that some knowledge (... | Who were the main philosophical empiricists? | {'text': 'Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz', 'answer_start': 554} |
50,078 | 49,736 | 5ad16f9d645df0001a2d1b4a | generic | At the start of her reign Victoria was popular, but her reputation suffered in an 1839 court intrigue when one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting, Lady Flora Hastings, developed an abdominal growth that was widely rumoured to be an out-of-wedlock pregnancy by Sir John Conroy. Victoria believed the rumours. She hated Con... | What health issue did Flora hastings develop that began to help Victorias reputation? | {'text': 'an abdominal growth', 'answer_start': 177} |
91,699 | 91,357 | 5728bf3a2ca10214002da6d2 | generic | By the end of the 12th century, Paris had become the political, economic, religious, and cultural capital of France. The Île de la Cité was the site of the royal palace. In 1163, during the reign of Louis VII, Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, undertook the construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral at its eastern extre... | What was the site of the royal palace in the 12th century? | {'text': 'Île de la Cité', 'answer_start': 121} |
9,922 | 9,580 | 5ad2e95d604f3c001a3fd9b9 | generic | Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to 70, comprising six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons. Starting in the pontificate of Pope John XXIII, that limit has been exceeded. At the start of 1971, Pope Paul VI set the number of cardinal electors at a maximum of 120, but set no limit o... | What can popes not dispense from? | {'text': 'church laws and have sometimes brought the number of cardinals under the age of 80 to more than 120.', 'answer_start': 618} |
4,636 | 4,294 | 56d121d317492d1400aaba29 | generic | Judge Taylor appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. Although many of Maycomb's citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees to defend Tom to the best of his ability. Other children taunt Jem and Scout for Atticus's actions, calling him a "nigger-lo... | Who stopped the mob by shaming them? | {'text': 'Scout, Jem, and Dill', 'answer_start': 508} |
4,513 | 4,171 | 56d1089117492d1400aab7ae | generic | New York City has been described as the cultural capital of the world by the diplomatic consulates of Iceland and Latvia and by New York's Baruch College. A book containing a series of essays titled New York, culture capital of the world, 1940–1965 has also been published as showcased by the National Library of Austral... | What institution of higher education has described New York as the cultural capital of the world? | {'text': 'Baruch College', 'answer_start': 139} |
107,124 | 106,782 | 5a7b6e4f21c2de001afea005 | generic | In a grounded-emitter transistor circuit, such as the light-switch circuit shown, as the base voltage rises, the emitter and collector currents rise exponentially. The collector voltage drops because of reduced resistance from collector to emitter. If the voltage difference between the collector and emitter were zero (... | Why does "current" have that name? | {'text': 'flowing from collector to emitter', 'answer_start': 484} |
101,094 | 100,752 | 5a285dedd1a287001a6d0bc9 | generic | The original post-punk movement ended as the bands associated with the movement turned away from its aesthetics, often in favor of more commercial sounds. Many of these groups would continue recording as part of the new pop movement, with entryism becoming a popular concept. In the United States, driven by MTV and mode... | Which bands were least successful during post-punk? | {'text': 'U2', 'answer_start': 694} |
40,417 | 40,075 | 5ad55bd45b96ef001a10aca9 | generic | In response, Apple introduced a range of relatively inexpensive Macs in October 1990. The Macintosh Classic, essentially a less expensive version of the Macintosh SE, was the least expensive Mac offered until early 2001. The 68020-powered Macintosh LC, in its distinctive "pizza box" case, offered color graphics and was... | What was the more expensive version of the Macintosh SE that was offered until 2001? | {'text': 'The Macintosh Classic', 'answer_start': 86} |
75,080 | 74,738 | 5a31745be4dcb1001abb231e | generic | In May 1845, the Baptist congregations in the United States split over slavery and missions. The Home Mission Society prevented slaveholders from being appointed as missionaries. The split created the Southern Baptist Convention, while the northern congregations formed their own umbrella organization now called the Ame... | When did Baptist congregations combine efforts over slavery? | {'text': 'May 1845', 'answer_start': 3} |
120,611 | 120,269 | 57312dde05b4da19006bce58 | generic | Red clothing was a sign of status and wealth. It was worn not only by cardinals and princes, but also by merchants, artisans and townpeople, particularly on holidays or special occasions. Red dye for the clothing of ordinary people was made from the roots of the rubia tinctorum, the madder plant. This color leaned towa... | What was carmine made from? | {'text': 'the carminic acid in tiny female scale insects', 'answer_start': 471} |
119,023 | 118,681 | 5730f9b405b4da19006bccaa | generic | AFSCs range from officer specialties such as pilot, combat systems officer, missile launch officer, intelligence officer, aircraft maintenance officer, judge advocate general (JAG), medical doctor, nurse or other fields, to various enlisted specialties. The latter range from flight combat operations such as a gunner, t... | What is an example of an occupational field position in the USAF? | {'text': 'computer specialties', 'answer_start': 441} |
58,885 | 58,543 | 57265877dd62a815002e8242 | generic | Another limitation of current U.S. Intellectual Property legislation is its focus on individual and joint works; thus, copyright protection can only be obtained in 'original' works of authorship. This definition excludes any works that are the result of community creativity, for example Native American songs and storie... | What type of creativity is excluded from the US definition of IP? | {'text': 'community creativity', 'answer_start': 254} |
98,655 | 98,313 | 572ac19f111d821400f38d26 | generic | Philadelphia's two major daily newspapers are The Philadelphia Inquirer, which is the eighteenth largest newspaper and third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the country, and the Philadelphia Daily News. Both newspapers were purchased from The McClatchy Company (after buying out Knight Ridder) in 2006 by Philadelphi... | How many major papers are published? | {'text': 'two', 'answer_start': 15} |
43,405 | 43,063 | 570e29460dc6ce1900204e1b | generic | Eritrea (/ˌɛrᵻˈtreɪ.ə/ or /ˌɛrᵻˈtriːə/;, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in East Africa. With its capital at Asmara, it is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red Sea. The n... | What country borders Eritrea in the southeast? | {'text': 'Djibouti', 'answer_start': 195} |
97,144 | 96,802 | 572a1bc11d0469140077979e | generic | The Neolithic 2 (PPNB) began around 8,800 BCE according to the ASPRO chronology in the Levant (Jericho, Israel). As with the PPNA dates, there are two versions from the same laboratories noted above. This system of terminology, however, is not convenient for southeast Anatolia and settlements of the middle Anatolia bas... | What era followed the The Neolithic 2 (PPNB) era? | {'text': 'the Mesolithic era', 'answer_start': 344} |
90,424 | 90,082 | 5ad26921d7d075001a4292be | generic | Instead, he formulated the spearhead model of evolution, a version of genetic pluralism. According to this model, living organisms themselves have goals, and act according to these goals, each guided by a central control. In its most sophisticated form, this is the brain of humans, but controls also exist in much less ... | What does Popper think is more likely to be lethal to an organism than changes of phenotype? | {'text': 'behavioural changes', 'answer_start': 749} |
77,781 | 77,439 | 5a82510831013a001a3353df | generic | Most Paramount sound releases made prior to 1950 are owned by EMKA, Ltd./NBCUniversal Television Distribution, while Paramount (currently owned by Viacom) holds on to most of its post-1949 releases, which are distributed for television by Trifecta Entertainment & Media. Columbia's film output is owned by Sony (through ... | Who owns Walt Disney Fox? | {'text': 'The Walt Disney Company', 'answer_start': 511} |
26,985 | 26,643 | 56f9ebe18f12f3190062fffb | generic | Since 1972, International Telecommunication Union's radio telecommunications sector (ITU-R) had been working on creating a global recommendation for Analog HDTV. These recommendations, however, did not fit in the broadcasting bands which could reach home users. The standardization of MPEG-1 in 1993 also led to the acce... | What is the DVB? | {'text': 'an alliance of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers and regulatory bodies', 'answer_start': 457} |
46,383 | 46,041 | 5711225fa58dae1900cd6c8c | generic | A number of special controllers designed for use with specific games were released for the system, though very few such devices proved particularly popular. Such devices included, but were not limited to, the Zapper (a light gun), the R.O.B., and the Power Pad. The original Famicom featured a deepened DA-15 expansion p... | How were the special controllers connected to the NES? | {'text': 'control ports on the front', 'answer_start': 481} |
28,354 | 28,012 | 56fc2f352603e71400409ff6 | generic | Phonology is often distinguished from phonetics. While phonetics concerns the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function within a given language or across languages to encode meaning. For many linguists, phonetics belongs to descriptive... | When was the phonome's modern concept developed? | {'text': 'mid 20th century', 'answer_start': 654} |
5,111 | 4,769 | 56d45f882ccc5a1400d830f2 | generic | Kanye West began his early production career in the mid-1990s, making beats primarily for burgeoning local artists, eventually developing a style that involved speeding up vocal samples from classic soul records. His first official production credits came at the age of nineteen when he produced eight tracks on Down to ... | What firm managed Kanye West's rap group? | {'text': 'Hustle Period', 'answer_start': 793} |
72,865 | 72,523 | 57270d33dd62a815002e985c | generic | If a tuberculosis infection does become active, it most commonly involves the lungs (in about 90% of cases). Symptoms may include chest pain and a prolonged cough producing sputum. About 25% of people may not have any symptoms (i.e. they remain "asymptomatic"). Occasionally, people may cough up blood in small amounts, ... | What percentage of tuberculosis infections don't ever manifest in symptoms of the disease? | {'text': '25%', 'answer_start': 187} |
104,575 | 104,233 | 57301dd3a23a5019007fcdb5 | generic | Colonial Lowcountry landowners experimented with cash crops ranging from tea to silkworms. African slaves brought knowledge of rice cultivation, which plantation owners cultivated and developed as a successful commodity crop by 1700. With the coerced help of African slaves from the Caribbean, Eliza Lucas, daughter of p... | What products were exported along with indigo from the Lowcountry? | {'text': 'naval stores', 'answer_start': 499} |
21,599 | 21,257 | 56e8d28e0b45c0140094ccf7 | generic | Since 1066, when Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror were crowned, the coronations of English and British monarchs have been held there. There have been at least 16 royal weddings at the abbey since 1100. Two were of reigning monarchs (Henry I and Richard II), although, before 1919, there had been none for some ... | Who were the first monarchs crowned at Westminster Abbey? | {'text': 'Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror', 'answer_start': 17} |
82,933 | 82,591 | 5727f604ff5b5019007d9950 | generic | In April 2016, Northwestern announced that it signed on to the Chicago Star Partnership, a City Colleges initiative. Through this partnership, Northwestern is one of 15 Illinois public and private universities that will "provide scholarships to students who graduate from Chicago Public Schools, get their associate degr... | Through the Chicago Star Partnership, what is provided to students from Chicago public schools that meet further educational criteria? | {'text': 'scholarships', 'answer_start': 229} |
121,947 | 121,605 | 5731bb00e99e3014001e6218 | generic | Human sacrifice in ancient Rome was rare but documented. After the Roman defeat at Cannae two Gauls and two Greeks were buried under the Forum Boarium, in a stone chamber "which had on a previous occasion [228 BC] also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings". Livy avoids the word "s... | What type of sacrifice was rare in Rome? | {'text': 'Human', 'answer_start': 0} |
116,315 | 115,973 | 573045e2947a6a140053d38e | generic | The considerable spending did not lead to more growth and did not benefit the poor. Much of the increased spending has gone to current expenditures related to wages, transfers, and subsidies. The wage bill today constitutes over 15% of GDP and 55% of total public spending; these are some of the highest levels on the Af... | What amount of total public spending in Swaziland is going to wages? | {'text': '55%', 'answer_start': 244} |
30,125 | 29,783 | 570623ba75f01819005e79e6 | generic | ASPEC was the joint proposal of AT&T Bell Laboratories, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Fraunhofer Society and CNET. It provided the highest coding efficiency. | What was the name given to the proposal? | {'text': 'ASPEC', 'answer_start': 0} |
58,426 | 58,084 | 5ad0a806645df0001a2cffbd | generic | Arnold, Constable was the first American department store. It was founded in 1825 by Aaron Arnold (1794?-1876), an emigrant from Great Britain, as a small dry goods store on Pine Street in New York City. In 1857 the store moved into a five-story white marble dry goods palace known as the Marble House. During the Civil ... | Who rejected Arnold, Constable? | {'text': 'Aaron Arnold', 'answer_start': 85} |
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