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46,601 | 46,259 | 5acec39532bba1001ae4b332 | generic | The accession of Valens gave a fresh lease of life to the Arian party. He issued a decree banishing the bishops who had been deposed by Constantius, but who had been permitted by Jovian to return to their sees. The news created the greatest consternation in the city of Alexandria itself, and the prefect, in order to pr... | Valens didn't issue a decree banishing the bishops that were deposed by who? | {'text': 'Constantius', 'answer_start': 136} |
64,053 | 63,711 | 5726e0c9708984140094d47f | generic | Yale is noted for its largely Collegiate Gothic campus as well as for several iconic modern buildings commonly discussed in architectural history survey courses: Louis Kahn's Yale Art Gallery and Center for British Art, Eero Saarinen's Ingalls Rink and Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges, and Paul Rudolph's Art & Architectu... | Who called Hillhouse Avenue the most beautiful street in America in the 1840's? | {'text': 'Charles Dickens', 'answer_start': 488} |
77,799 | 77,457 | 5a8254cf31013a001a33541a | generic | TCM regularly airs a "Star of the Month" throughout the year on Wednesdays starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, in which most, if not all, feature films from a classic film star are shown during that night's schedule. Hosted by Robert Osbourne, the network also marks the occurrence of a film actor's birthday (either ant... | Who hosts the Star of the Year films? | {'text': 'Robert Osbourne', 'answer_start': 227} |
64,160 | 63,818 | 5726efa6dd62a815002e95bd | generic | Yale's residential college system was established in 1933 by Edward S. Harkness, who admired the social intimacy of Oxford and Cambridge and donated significant funds to found similar colleges at Yale and Harvard. Though Yale's colleges resemble their English precursors organizationally and architecturally, they are de... | Who established Yale's residential college system? | {'text': 'Edward S. Harkness', 'answer_start': 61} |
101,171 | 100,829 | 572e7c7303f9891900756692 | generic | The first written account of a game played was on October 15, 1862, on the Montreal Cricket Grounds. It was between the First Battalion Grenadier Guards and the Second Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards resulting in a win by the Grenadier Guards 3 goals, 2 rouges to nothing.[citation needed] In 1864, at Trinity College, T... | What is the oldest football club in Canada? | {'text': 'Hamilton Football Club', 'answer_start': 528} |
9,962 | 9,620 | 56ddf05366d3e219004dae2f | generic | While the incumbents of some sees are regularly made cardinals, and some countries are entitled to at least one cardinal by concordate (usually earning its primate the cardinal's hat), no see carries an actual right to the cardinalate, not even if its bishop is a Patriarch. | Do any sees carry the right to the cardinalate? | {'text': 'no', 'answer_start': 185} |
75,016 | 74,674 | 5a3168b7e4dcb1001abb22ce | generic | Historians trace the earliest Baptist church back to 1609 in Amsterdam, with John Smyth as its pastor. Three years earlier, while a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, he had broken his ties with the Church of England. Reared in the Church of England, he became "Puritan, English Separatist, and then a Baptist Separa... | In what year did Smyth baptize himself for the second time? | {'text': '1609', 'answer_start': 880} |
115,532 | 115,190 | 573296880342181400a2027e | generic | The majority of studies indicate antibiotics do interfere with contraceptive pills, such as clinical studies that suggest the failure rate of contraceptive pills caused by antibiotics is very low (about 1%). In cases where antibacterials have been suggested to affect the efficiency of birth control pills, such as for t... | What is birth control failure rate due to antibiotics? | {'text': 'about 1%', 'answer_start': 197} |
92,342 | 92,000 | 57293720af94a219006aa1ad | generic | The following week, John Edwards won the South Carolina primary and finished a strong second in Oklahoma to Clark. Lieberman dropped out of the campaign the following day. Kerry dominated throughout February and his support quickly snowballed as he won caucuses and primaries, taking in a string of wins in Michigan, Was... | Which candidate went on to win the South Carolina primary? | {'text': 'John Edwards', 'answer_start': 20} |
56,905 | 56,563 | 5726bd78dd62a815002e8ef7 | generic | The city is also a leading center of popular culture and music. There are a multitude of venues hosting Spanish and foreign-language performers. These include the 10,000-seat National Auditorium that regularly schedules the Spanish and English-language pop and rock artists, as well as many of the world's leading perfor... | How can you see the Grand Opera of New York in Mexico City? | {'text': 'giant, high definition screens', 'answer_start': 435} |
16,790 | 16,448 | 5acd4db307355d001abf3c88 | generic | In December 2011, the system went into operation on a trial basis. It has started providing navigation, positioning and timing data to China and the neighbouring area for free from 27 December. During this trial run, Compass will offer positioning accuracy to within 25 meters, but the precision will improve as more sat... | After official launch, the system declined to offer customers positioning information accurate to the nearest what? | {'text': '10 m', 'answer_start': 459} |
19,869 | 19,527 | 56e78dc200c9c71400d772af | generic | NARA also maintains the Presidential Library system, a nationwide network of libraries for preserving and making available the documents of U.S. presidents since Herbert Hoover. The Presidential Libraries include: | What agency maintains the Presidential Library system? | {'text': 'NARA', 'answer_start': 0} |
22,037 | 21,695 | 56ea99270030b61400a34fd2 | generic | The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has observed that "there is no such thing as an apolitical food problem." While drought and other naturally occurring events may trigger famine conditions, it is government action or inaction that determines its severity, and often even whether or not a famine will occur. | While natural occurrences can cause famine, what determines the severity of it? | {'text': 'government action or inaction', 'answer_start': 208} |
58,690 | 58,348 | 5ad0c7df645df0001a2d0301 | generic | All major cities have their distinctive local department stores, which anchored the downtown shopping district until the arrival of the malls in the 1960s. Washington, for example, after 1887 had Woodward & Lothrop and Garfinckel's starting in 1905. Garfield's went bankrupt in 1990, as did Woodward & Lothrop in 1994. B... | In what year didn't Garfield's go bankrupt? | {'text': '1990', 'answer_start': 278} |
76,127 | 75,785 | 5727d08a2ca10214002d9737 | generic | Evolutionary ideas, although not natural selection, were accepted by German biologists accustomed to ideas of homology in morphology from Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants and from their long tradition of comparative anatomy. Bronn's alterations in his German translation added to the misgivings of conservatives, but ent... | Why were political radicals such as Ernst Haekel so interested in On the Origin of Species? | {'text': "aiming to synthesise Darwin's ideas with those of Lamarck and Goethe while still reflecting the spirit of Naturphilosophie", 'answer_start': 385} |
25,529 | 25,187 | 56f8e59e9b226e1400dd11a6 | generic | The prevalence of HIV-infection among the adult population is 1.8%. Only 20% of infected pregnant women receive anti retroviral coverage to prevent transmission to newborns. | What infection has a very small prevalence in Guinea-Bissau? | {'text': 'HIV', 'answer_start': 18} |
56,245 | 55,903 | 57266c04f1498d1400e8df45 | generic | While true exhibition matches are not uncommon, most matches tell a story analogous to a scene in a play or film, or an episode of a serial drama: The face will sometimes win (triumph) or sometimes lose (tragedy). Longer story arcs can result from multiple matches over the course of time. Since most promotions have a c... | What can be wagered in a match? | {'text': "from a character's own hair to their job with the promotion", 'answer_start': 420} |
112,317 | 111,975 | 57300d2e04bcaa1900d770a5 | generic | The Hortensian Law deprived the patricians of their last weapon against the plebeians, and thus resolved the last great political question of the era. No such important political changes occurred between 287 BC and 133 BC. The important laws of this era were still enacted by the senate. In effect, the plebeians were sa... | What group of people often failed to use the power that was given to them? | {'text': 'the plebeians', 'answer_start': 299} |
96,459 | 96,117 | 5a3bf7fdcc5d22001a521c70 | generic | With the forced abdication of Emperor William II in 1918, Germany became a republic. Most of West Prussia and the former Prussian Province of Posen, territories annexed by Prussia in the 18th century Partitions of Poland, were ceded to the Second Polish Republic according to the Treaty of Versailles. East Prussia becam... | What was one of the countries that forced Emperor William II to abdicate? | {'text': 'Germany', 'answer_start': 58} |
93,620 | 93,278 | 5a671646f038b7001ab0c1d2 | generic | In 2004, NIST researchers presented evidence that an isotropic non-crystalline metallic phase (dubbed "q-glass") could be grown from the melt. This phase is the first phase, or "primary phase," to form in the Al-Fe-Si system during rapid cooling. Interestingly, experimental evidence indicates that this phase forms by a... | What is diffraction? | {'text': 'an isotropic non-crystalline metallic phase', 'answer_start': 50} |
128,647 | 128,305 | 573413594776f41900661803 | generic | Railroads have been an important method of transportation in Montana since the 1880s. Historically, the state was traversed by the main lines of three east-west transcontinental routes: the Milwaukee Road, the Great Northern, and the Northern Pacific. Today, the BNSF Railway is the state's largest railroad, its main tr... | What is the states largest railway? | {'text': 'BNSF Railway', 'answer_start': 263} |
47,772 | 47,430 | 5ad2c0f8d7d075001a42a0fb | generic | After the Civil War, racial segregation forced African Americans to share more of a common lot in society than they might have given widely varying ancestry, educational and economic levels. The binary division altered the separate status of the traditionally free people of color in Louisiana, for instance, although th... | What kept the separate status of the traditionally free people of color in Louisiana the same? | {'text': 'binary division', 'answer_start': 195} |
107,989 | 107,647 | 573078ee069b531400832105 | generic | There are four categories of terra nullius, land that is unclaimed by any state: the small unclaimed territory of Bir Tawil between Egypt and Sudan, Antarctica, the oceans, and celestial bodies such as the Moon or Mars. In the last three of these, international treaties (the Antarctic Treaty, the United Nations Convent... | What do the treaties defend against? | {'text': 'prevent colonization and potential statehood of any of these uninhabited (and, given current technology, not permanently inhabitable) territories.', 'answer_start': 388} |
20,158 | 19,816 | 56e782a500c9c71400d771f3 | generic | On February 20, 1863, Kansas Governor Thomas Carney signed into law a bill creating the state university in Lawrence. The law was conditioned upon a gift from Lawrence of a $15,000 endowment fund and a site for the university, in or near the town, of not less than forty acres (16 ha) of land. If Lawrence failed to meet... | On what date was KU's Lawrence campus made official? | {'text': 'February 20, 1863', 'answer_start': 3} |
41,055 | 40,713 | 570da9dadf2f5219002ed0d9 | generic | In 1925 the British adopted a new instrument developed by Vickers. It was a mechanical analogue computer Predictor AA No 1. Given the target height its operators tracked the target and the predictor produced bearing, quadrant elevation and fuse setting. These were passed electrically to the guns where they were display... | What was the Vickers device adopted by the British named? | {'text': 'Predictor AA No 1', 'answer_start': 105} |
96,225 | 95,883 | 5729f781af94a219006aa6ff | generic | In cosmology and astronomy the phenomena of stars, nova, supernova, quasars and gamma-ray bursts are the universe's highest-output energy transformations of matter. All stellar phenomena (including solar activity) are driven by various kinds of energy transformations. Energy in such transformations is either from gravi... | What is driven by various kinds of energy transformations? | {'text': 'stellar phenomena', 'answer_start': 169} |
98,664 | 98,322 | 572ac2a9be1ee31400cb821d | generic | The first experimental radio license was issued in Philadelphia in August 1912 to St. Joseph's College. The first commercial broadcasting radio stations appeared in 1922: first WIP, then owned by Gimbel's department store, on March 17, followed the same year by WFIL, WOO, WCAU and WDAS. The highest-rated stations in Ph... | Name the 3 public radio stations? | {'text': 'WHYY-FM (NPR), WRTI (jazz, classical), and WXPN-FM', 'answer_start': 484} |
23,657 | 23,315 | 56f71800711bf01900a44947 | generic | After 13 months at the hospital, Broz was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains where prisoners selected him for their camp leader. In February 1917, revolting workers broke into the prison and freed the prisoners. Broz subsequently joined a Bolshevik group. In April 1917, he was arrested again but managed to escap... | Where was Broz's work camp? | {'text': 'Ural Mountains', 'answer_start': 69} |
107,139 | 106,797 | 572f4fb704bcaa1900d7683c | generic | In a switching circuit, the idea is to simulate, as near as possible, the ideal switch having the properties of open circuit when off, short circuit when on, and an instantaneous transition between the two states. Parameters are chosen such that the "off" output is limited to leakage currents too small to affect connec... | How quickly does the change from open circuit to short circuit happen? | {'text': 'instantaneous', 'answer_start': 165} |
42,122 | 41,780 | 570d4876b3d812140066d63b | generic | The quick German victory over the French stunned neutral observers, many of whom had expected a French victory and most of whom had expected a long war. The strategic advantages possessed by the Germans were not appreciated outside Germany until after hostilities had ceased. Other countries quickly discerned the advant... | What is at least one German innovation that other countries would later adopt in other wars? | {'text': 'highly detailed mobilization systems', 'answer_start': 470} |
7,007 | 6,665 | 56d9a582dc89441400fdb68c | generic | Dogs bear their litters roughly 58 to 68 days after fertilization, with an average of 63 days, although the length of gestation can vary. An average litter consists of about six puppies, though this number may vary widely based on the breed of dog. In general, toy dogs produce from one to four puppies in each litter, w... | Smaller dogs tend to have how many pups per litter? | {'text': 'one to four', 'answer_start': 283} |
31,763 | 31,421 | 570aa4a44103511400d598b6 | generic | The second-largest commercial airport is William P. Hobby Airport (named Houston International Airport until 1967) which operates primarily short- to medium-haul domestic flights. However, in 2015 Southwest Airlines launched service from a new international terminal at Hobby airport to several destinations in Mexico, C... | What is the second airport that serves Houston? | {'text': 'William P. Hobby Airport', 'answer_start': 41} |
37,392 | 37,050 | 570b6a916b8089140040f939 | generic | While these few hard rock bands managed to maintain success and popularity in the early part of the decade, alternative forms of hard rock achieved mainstream success in the form of grunge in the US and Britpop in the UK. This was particularly evident after the success of Nirvana's Nevermind (1991), which combined elem... | What was the hard rock style that emerged in the early 1990s? | {'text': 'grunge', 'answer_start': 182} |
4,673 | 4,331 | 56ce70aaaab44d1400b8878f | generic | As children coming of age, Scout and Jem face hard realities and learn from them. Lee seems to examine Jem's sense of loss about how his neighbors have disappointed him more than Scout's. Jem says to their neighbor Miss Maudie the day after the trial, "It's like bein' a caterpillar wrapped in a cocoon ... I always thou... | What was the name of the neighbor that Jem speaks too after Tom Robinson's trial? | {'text': 'Miss Maudie', 'answer_start': 215} |
118,000 | 117,658 | 5731335fe6313a140071ccfb | generic | The rising population has resulted in an increased demand on fish stocks, which are under stress; although the creation of the Funafuti Conservation Area has provided a fishing exclusion area to help sustain the fish population across the Funafuti lagoon. Population pressure on the resources of Funafuti and inadequate ... | What organization has funded a waste management control plan on Tuvalu? | {'text': 'European Union', 'answer_start': 508} |
2,824 | 2,482 | 5ad220dcd7d075001a4284cc | generic | Spectre was released on 26 October 2015 in the United Kingdom on the same night as the world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London, followed by a worldwide release. It was released in the United States on 6 November 2015. It became the second James Bond film to be screened in IMAX venues after Skyfall, although i... | What James Bond movie was released on 6 November 2015 in the UK? | {'text': 'Spectre', 'answer_start': 0} |
129,490 | 129,148 | 57342b4c4776f419006619e8 | generic | Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ... | What is the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms? | {'text': 'Frequent hand washing', 'answer_start': 142} |
101,182 | 100,840 | 5a0f3ff6decec9001847551f | generic | The first written account of a game played was on October 15, 1862, on the Montreal Cricket Grounds. It was between the First Battalion Grenadier Guards and the Second Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards resulting in a win by the Grenadier Guards 3 goals, 2 rouges to nothing.[citation needed] In 1864, at Trinity College, T... | Where were the rules based on the Hamilton Football Club created? | {'text': 'at Trinity College, Toronto', 'answer_start': 299} |
56,766 | 56,424 | 572687e35951b619008f75f2 | generic | The Human Development Index report of 2005 shows that there were three boroughs with a very high Human Development Index, 12 with a high HDI value (9 above .85) and one with a medium HDI value (almost high). Benito Juárez borough had the highest HDI of the country (.9510) followed by Miguel Hidalgo which came up 4th n... | How many boroughs had high (not very high) HDI scores? | {'text': '12', 'answer_start': 123} |
96,959 | 96,617 | 572a18491d0469140077976b | generic | The example Leibniz uses involves two proposed universes situated in absolute space. The only discernible difference between them is that the latter is positioned five feet to the left of the first. The example is only possible if such a thing as absolute space exists. Such a situation, however, is not possible, accord... | How far are Leibniz's universes situated apart? | {'text': 'five feet', 'answer_start': 163} |
76,811 | 76,469 | 5727785fdd62a815002e9dc1 | generic | In Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada was established in 1875 but only became the highest court in the country in 1949 when the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was abolished. This court hears appeals of decisions made by courts of appeal from the provinces and territories and appeals of ... | Canada's Supreme Court didn't actually become that country's highest court until when? | {'text': '1949', 'answer_start': 115} |
64,499 | 64,157 | 5ad027ef77cf76001a686bfa | generic | This new approach liberated scientific speculation from the dogmatic restraints of Aristotelian science, and paved the way for new approaches. Particularly within the field of theories of motion great advances were made, when such scholars as Jean Buridan, Nicole Oresme and the Oxford Calculators challenged the work of... | What school of scientific thought was accepted by Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme? | {'text': 'Aristotelian', 'answer_start': 83} |
70,011 | 69,669 | 5aceaae532bba1001ae4af80 | generic | George Sarton, the author of The History of Science, described Ibn Sīnā as "one of the greatest thinkers and medical scholars in history" and called him "the most famous scientist of Islam and one of the most famous of all races, places, and times." He was one of the Islamic world's leading writers in the field of medi... | What did George Sarton read? | {'text': 'The History of Science', 'answer_start': 29} |
14,300 | 13,958 | 56df7f5a56340a1900b29c4e | generic | His father encouraged Bell's interest in speech and, in 1863, took his sons to see a unique automaton, developed by Sir Charles Wheatstone based on the earlier work of Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen. The rudimentary "mechanical man" simulated a human voice. Bell was fascinated by the machine and after he obtained a copy o... | What part of the automaton did Bell create? | {'text': 'skull', 'answer_start': 749} |
104,738 | 104,396 | 5ad420e3604f3c001a400723 | generic | Charleston is known for its unique culture, which blends traditional Southern U.S., English, French, and West African elements. The downtown peninsula has gained a reputation for its art, music, local cuisine, and fashion. Spoleto Festival USA, held annually in late spring, has become one of the world's major performin... | What minor award did Gian Carlo Menotti win? | {'text': 'Pulitzer Prize', 'answer_start': 364} |
126,029 | 125,687 | 5733ecdb4776f41900661524 | generic | The President, who is elected to a five-year term, has an executive role: the current President is Aníbal Cavaco Silva. The Assembly of the Republic is a single chamber parliament composed of 230 deputies elected for a four-year term. The Government is headed by the Prime Minister (currently António Costa) and includes... | How many members sit on the Constitutional Court? | {'text': 'thirteen', 'answer_start': 520} |
66,210 | 65,868 | 5726bb03dd62a815002e8e82 | 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... | According to Lisle Snell, Australian Parliament thought that abolishing Norfolk Island's self-governance would be what? | {'text': 'overwhelmingly supported by the people of Norfolk Island', 'answer_start': 710} |
56,038 | 55,696 | 5a1e1aa53de3f40018b264c8 | generic | In the 1990s, marked by the liberalization of language development and mother tongue movement in Taiwan, Taiwanese Hokkien had undergone a fast pace in its development. In 1993, Taiwan became the first region in the world to implement the teaching of Taiwanese Hokkien in Taiwanese schools. In 2001, the local Taiwanese ... | When did Tai-lo develop at a fast pace? | {'text': 'In the 1990s', 'answer_start': 0} |
117,823 | 117,481 | 5730d8b2f6cb411900e244e3 | generic | From 1974 (the creation of the British colony of Tuvalu) until independence, the legislative body of Tuvalu was called the House of the Assembly or Fale I Fono. Following independence in October 1978 the House of the Assembly was renamed the Parliament of Tuvalu or Palamene o Tuvalu. The unicameral Parliament has 15 me... | What was formed in 1974? | {'text': 'British colony of Tuvalu', 'answer_start': 31} |
29,562 | 29,220 | 5705f85275f01819005e77e9 | generic | The primary motivation for migration appears to be food; for example, some hummingbirds choose not to migrate if fed through the winter. Also, the longer days of the northern summer provide extended time for breeding birds to feed their young. This helps diurnal birds to produce larger clutches than related non-migrato... | what do the longer days of summer provide the birds? | {'text': 'time for breeding birds to feed their young.', 'answer_start': 199} |
55,389 | 55,047 | 57262598271a42140099d5a0 | generic | If Mammalia is considered as the crown group, its origin can be roughly dated as the first known appearance of animals more closely related to some extant mammals than to others. Ambondro is more closely related to monotremes than to therian mammals while Amphilestes and Amphitherium are more closely related to the the... | Which two groups are closely related to therian mammals? | {'text': 'Amphilestes and Amphitherium', 'answer_start': 256} |
19,406 | 19,064 | 56e793ad00c9c71400d772f7 | generic | Some applications standardize on UTC to avoid problems with clock shifts and time zone differences. Likewise, most modern operating systems internally handle and store all times as UTC and only convert to local time for display. | What system of time do some applications use so they won't have problems with time changes? | {'text': 'UTC', 'answer_start': 33} |
61,180 | 60,838 | 57266c4add62a815002e8474 | generic | While performing as a backup singer and dancer for the French disco artist Patrick Hernandez on his 1979 world tour, Madonna became romantically involved with musician Dan Gilroy. Together, they formed her first rock band, the Breakfast Club, for which Madonna sang and played drums and guitar. In 1980 or 1981 she left ... | After leaving the Breakfast Club, who did she formed the band Emmy with? | {'text': 'Stephen Bray', 'answer_start': 366} |
2,788 | 2,446 | 56cdaf0362d2951400fa680c | generic | Spectre (2015) is the twenty-fourth James Bond film produced by Eon Productions. It features Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond, and Christoph Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with the film marking the character's re-introduction into the series. It was directed by Sam Mendes as his second James Bond fi... | How much money did it take to make Spectre? | {'text': '$245', 'answer_start': 504} |
123,022 | 122,680 | 5731c7ade17f3d14004223db | generic | On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther supposedly nailed his 95 theses against the selling of indulgences at the door of the All Saints', the Castle Church in Wittenberg. The theses debated and criticised the Church and the papacy, but concentrated upon the selling of indulgences and doctrinal policies about purgatory, part... | Who did Martin Luther criticize in the 95 theses? | {'text': 'the Church and the papacy', 'answer_start': 200} |
65,301 | 64,959 | 572693d7708984140094caba | generic | Historians have divided the history of Cubism into phases. In one scheme, the first phase of Cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, a phrase coined by Juan Gris a posteriori, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1910 and 1912 in France. A second phase, Synthetic Cubism, rem... | Who coined the phrase Analytic Cubsim? | {'text': 'Juan Gris', 'answer_start': 146} |
21,504 | 21,162 | 56e8800d0b45c0140094cce6 | generic | As of 2000[update], there were 67,115 private households in the municipality, and an average of 1.8 persons per household. There were 34,981 households that consist of only one person and 1,592 households with five or more people. In 2000[update], a total of 65,538 apartments (90.6% of the total) were permanently occup... | What percentage of the apartment homes in Bern were occupied in 2000? | {'text': '90.6%', 'answer_start': 278} |
97,897 | 97,555 | 5ace7f1332bba1001ae4a837 | generic | As Muslim institutions of higher learning, the madrasa had the legal designation of waqf. In central and eastern Islamic lands, the view that the madrasa, as a charitable endowment, will remain under the control of the donor (and their descendent), resulted in a "spurt" of establishment of madaris in the 11th and 12th ... | What disciplines were destroyed at al-Azhar in 1961? | {'text': 'economics, engineering, medicine, and agriculture', 'answer_start': 1178} |
35,103 | 34,761 | 5a39779b2f14dd001ac7235f | generic | Everton regularly take large numbers away from home both domestically and in European fixtures. The club implements a loyalty points scheme offering the first opportunity to purchase away tickets to season ticket holders who have attended the most away matches. Everton often sell out the full allocation in away grounds... | How many of Everton's travelling fans attended the 1985 European Cup Winner's Cup Final? | {'text': '7,000', 'answer_start': 423} |
123,423 | 123,081 | 5731dff4e99e3014001e638f | generic | After a visit to Brasília, the French writer Simone de Beauvoir complained that all of its superquadras exuded "the same air of elegant monotony," and other observers have equated the city's large open lawns, plazas, and fields to wastelands. As the city has matured, some of these have gained adornments, and many have ... | What is Brasilia famous for? | {'text': 'its cuisine and efficiency of transit', 'answer_start': 700} |
14,778 | 14,436 | 56dfe4617aa994140058e223 | generic | Pubs that cater for a niche clientele, such as sports fans or people of certain nationalities are known as theme pubs. Examples of theme pubs include sports bars, rock pubs, biker pubs, Goth pubs, strip pubs, gay bars, karaoke bars and Irish pubs. | What is a blanket term for pubs that, for example, cater to sports fans? | {'text': 'theme pubs', 'answer_start': 107} |
37,364 | 37,022 | 570b6750ec8fbc190045b9e7 | generic | In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to modify rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming, and louder vocals, from electric blues. Early forms of hard rock can be heard in the work of Chicago blues musicians Elmore James, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf, The ... | What garage rock classic was recorded by The Kingsmen? | {'text': '"Louie Louie"', 'answer_start': 342} |
17,906 | 17,564 | 56e16cd4cd28a01900c67902 | generic | The city's growing Latino population has given rise to a number of local and regional Spanish-language newspapers. These include El Planeta (owned by the former publisher of The Boston Phoenix), El Mundo, and La Semana. Siglo21, with its main offices in nearby Lawrence, is also widely distributed. | Where is the main office of Siglo21? | {'text': 'Lawrence', 'answer_start': 261} |
50,633 | 50,291 | 5acf90d077cf76001a68529c | generic | In 1983, the Church issued a new code of canon law. Unlike its predecessor, the 1983 Code of Canon Law did not explicitly name Masonic orders among the secret societies it condemns. It states: "A person who joins an association which plots against the Church is to be punished with a just penalty; one who promotes or ta... | What year was an old code to the Canon Law issued by the church? | {'text': '1983', 'answer_start': 3} |
89,785 | 89,443 | 5ad404f3604f3c001a3ffdf1 | generic | With its myriad islands, Alaska has nearly 34,000 miles (54,720 km) of tidal shoreline. The Aleutian Islands chain extends west from the southern tip of the Alaska Peninsula. Many active volcanoes are found in the Aleutians and in coastal regions. Unimak Island, for example, is home to Mount Shishaldin, which is an occ... | How much tidal shoreline doesn't Alaska have in miles? | {'text': 'nearly 34,000 miles', 'answer_start': 36} |
1,003 | 661 | 56d4ee342ccc5a1400d8336f | generic | Beyoncé has worked with Tommy Hilfiger for the fragrances True Star (singing a cover version of "Wishing on a Star") and True Star Gold; she also promoted Emporio Armani's Diamonds fragrance in 2007. Beyoncé launched her first official fragrance, Heat in 2010. The commercial, which featured the 1956 song "Fever", was s... | What was Beyoncé's first fragrance called? | {'text': 'Heat', 'answer_start': 247} |
82,463 | 82,121 | 5ad0021777cf76001a686750 | generic | Historically, the population of Tibet consisted of primarily ethnic Tibetans and some other ethnic groups. According to tradition the original ancestors of the Tibetan people, as represented by the six red bands in the Tibetan flag, are: the Se, Mu, Dong, Tong, Dru and Ra. Other traditional ethnic groups with significa... | What groups represented by the red bands in the flag of India are the original ancestors of the Tibetan people? | {'text': 'Se, Mu, Dong, Tong, Dru and Ra', 'answer_start': 242} |
104,298 | 103,956 | 572eaddec246551400ce44e7 | generic | Likewise the migration of Spanish-speaking Nicaraguans also began as a result of political instability during the end of the 1970s and the 1980s. The uprising of the Sandinista revolution which toppled the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 caused many Nicaraguans to migrate particularly from those opposing the Sandinistas. T... | Why did the Nicaraguans come to America? | {'text': 'political instability during the end of the 1970s and the 1980s', 'answer_start': 81} |
44,114 | 43,772 | 570f40f65ab6b81900390eb3 | generic | Melatonin is absent from the system or undetectably low during daytime. Its onset in dim light, dim-light melatonin onset (DLMO), at roughly 21:00 (9 p.m.) can be measured in the blood or the saliva. Its major metabolite can also be measured in morning urine. Both DLMO and the midpoint (in time) of the presence of the ... | What chemical is absent or low during daylight? | {'text': 'Melatonin', 'answer_start': 0} |
122,734 | 122,392 | 5ad14342645df0001a2d1464 | generic | The incorporation of the First Amendment establishment clause in the landmark case of Everson v. Board of Education has impacted the subsequent interpretation of the separation of church and state in regard to the state governments. Although upholding the state law in that case, which provided for public busing to priv... | What landmark case hasn't impacted all subsequent interpretations of the separation of church and state in regard to state governments? | {'text': 'Everson v. Board of Education', 'answer_start': 86} |
88,609 | 88,267 | 5a3c6b53cc5d22001a521da8 | generic | Monotheists hold that there is only one god, and may claim that the one true god is worshiped in different religions under different names. The view that all theists actually worship the same god, whether they know it or not, is especially emphasized in Hinduism and Sikhism. In Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity... | What does the Trinity doctrine describe according to theists? | {'text': 'God as one God in three persons', 'answer_start': 331} |
37,686 | 37,344 | 570b933d6b8089140040f9a6 | generic | Infrared radiation is popularly known as "heat radiation"[citation needed], but light and electromagnetic waves of any frequency will heat surfaces that absorb them. Infrared light from the Sun accounts for 49% of the heating of Earth, with the rest being caused by visible light that is absorbed then re-radiated at lon... | What is the common range of emitted radiation of room temperature objects, in micrometers? | {'text': '8 to 25', 'answer_start': 527} |
82,165 | 81,823 | 5727dd8dff5b5019007d970e | generic | In 1959, an international gathering of over 185 judges, lawyers, and law professors from 53 countries, meeting in New Delhi and speaking as the International Commission of Jurists, made a declaration as to the fundamental principle of the rule of law. This was the Declaration of Delhi. They declared that the rule of la... | When did the Declaration of Delhi happen? | {'text': '1959', 'answer_start': 3} |
53,340 | 52,998 | 5725ebb338643c19005ace89 | generic | In 1949, the club unveiled a modernised crest featuring the same style of cannon below the club's name, set in blackletter, and above the coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington and a scroll inscribed with the club's newly adopted Latin motto, Victoria Concordia Crescit "victory comes from harmony", coine... | Who did Arsenal supporters think should have been consulted before announcing the new crest? | {'text': 'fans', 'answer_start': 1337} |
65,616 | 65,274 | 5a21a5b98a6e4f001aa08e51 | generic | Chanakya, 4th Century BC Indian political philosopher. The Arthashastra provides an account of the science of politics for a wise ruler, policies for foreign affairs and wars, the system of a spy state and surveillance and economic stability of the state. Chanakya quotes several authorities including Bruhaspati, Ushana... | What are a few examples the Bruhaspati gives for governance? | {'text': 'policies for foreign affairs and wars, the system of a spy state and surveillance and economic stability of the state', 'answer_start': 137} |
8,371 | 8,029 | 5ad0157877cf76001a68693e | generic | Congo is located in the central-western part of sub-Saharan Africa, along the Equator, lying between latitudes 4°N and 5°S, and longitudes 11° and 19°E. To the south and east of it is the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is also bounded by Gabon to the west, Cameroon and the Central African Republic to the north, and C... | What has a long coast on the Atlantic Ocean? | {'text': 'Congo', 'answer_start': 0} |
121,459 | 121,117 | 5731882fe6313a140071d046 | generic | The ban on figurative depiction was not taken so seriously by the Jews living in Byzantine Gaza. In 1966 remains of a synagogue were found in the ancient harbour area. Its mosaic floor depicts King David as Orpheus, identified by his name in Hebrew letters. Near him were lion cubs, a giraffe and a snake listening to hi... | In Byzantine Gaza, Jews were relaxed on what ban? | {'text': 'figurative depiction', 'answer_start': 11} |
43,929 | 43,587 | 570e51b50b85d914000d7e23 | generic | In 1972, the French physicist Francis Perrin discovered fifteen ancient and no longer active natural nuclear fission reactors in three separate ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon, West Africa, collectively known as the Oklo Fossil Reactors. The ore deposit is 1.7 billion years old; then, uranium-235 constituted abo... | How old are the ore deposits in the Oklo mine? | {'text': '1.7 billion years', 'answer_start': 264} |
26,380 | 26,038 | 56f985bd9b226e1400dd1509 | generic | During the First Opium War, the British navy defeated Eight Banners forces at Ningbo and Dinghai. Under the terms of the Treaty of Nanking, signed in 1843, Ningbo became one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened to virtually unrestricted foreign trade. Much of Zhejiang came under the control of the Taiping Heavenly K... | What did much of Zhejiang come under control of during the Taiping Rebellion? | {'text': 'the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom', 'answer_start': 298} |
119,407 | 119,065 | 5ad19511645df0001a2d2071 | generic | Digital-RGB LEDs are RGB LEDs that contain their own "smart" control electronics. In addition to power and ground, these provide connections for data-in, data-out, and sometimes a clock or strobe signal. These are connected in a daisy chain, with the data in of the first LED sourced by a microprocessor, which can contr... | How are non-Digital-RGB LED strobe signals connected? | {'text': 'daisy chain', 'answer_start': 229} |
68,138 | 67,796 | 5acd50c607355d001abf3cf0 | generic | Raleigh (/ˈrɑːli/; RAH-lee) is the capital of the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The c... | What city is known as the City of Elks? | {'text': 'Raleigh', 'answer_start': 203} |
36,770 | 36,428 | 570b2dfcec8fbc190045b8c3 | generic | Since these problems surfaced, Microsoft has attempted to modify the console to improve its reliability. Modifications include a reduction in the number, size, and placement of components, the addition of dabs of epoxy on the corners and edges of the CPU and GPU as glue to prevent movement relative to the board during ... | What was the root cause of hardware failures with the 360? | {'text': 'heat', 'answer_start': 320} |
98,227 | 97,885 | 572a797834ae481900deab25 | generic | During the mid-2000s, the city witnessed its largest real estate boom since the Florida land boom of the 1920s. During this period, the city had well over a hundred approved high-rise construction projects in which 50 were actually built. In 2007, however, the housing market crashed causing lots of foreclosures on hous... | When did the Florida land boom occur? | {'text': '1920s', 'answer_start': 105} |
41,796 | 41,454 | 570d2e5bb3d812140066d502 | generic | The army is led by a civilian Secretary of the Army, who has the statutory authority to conduct all the affairs of the army under the authority, direction and control of the Secretary of Defense. The Chief of Staff of the Army, who is the highest-ranked military officer in the army, serves as the principal military adv... | Who does the Chief of Staff serve as the principal military adviser to? | {'text': 'Secretary of the Army', 'answer_start': 353} |
17,976 | 17,634 | 56e14623cd28a01900c67715 | 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... | After a trip to what city did Carl Laemmle leave the dry goods business? | {'text': 'Chicago', 'answer_start': 311} |
73,864 | 73,522 | 5a8ccb6cfd22b3001a8d8e86 | generic | The final has never been contested by two teams from outside the top division and there have only been eight winners who weren't in the top flight: Notts County (1894); Tottenham Hotspur (1901); Wolverhampton Wanderers (1908); Barnsley (1912); West Bromwich Albion (1931); Sunderland (1973), Southampton (1976) and West ... | How many finalists have come from inside English football's top tier? | {'text': '24', 'answer_start': 645} |
126,535 | 126,193 | 5732a488d6dcfa19001e8a5b | generic | The ad fontes principle also had many applications. The re-discovery of ancient manuscripts brought a more profound and accurate knowledge of ancient philosophical schools such as Epicureanism, and Neoplatonism, whose Pagan wisdom the humanists, like the Church fathers of old, tended, at least initially, to consider as... | Who quoted the line of Terence most notably? | {'text': 'Seneca', 'answer_start': 1035} |
82,902 | 82,560 | 5727f2323acd2414000df07d | generic | Undergraduate tuition for the 2012/13 school year was $61,240; this includes the basic tuition of $43,380, fees (health $200, etc.), room and board of $13,329 (less if commuting), books and supplies $1,842, personal expenses $1,890, transportation cost of $400. Northwestern awards financial aid solely on the basis of n... | What was the total undergrad tuition for the 2012/2013 school year? | {'text': '$61,240', 'answer_start': 54} |
65,022 | 64,680 | 5ad0d460645df0001a2d05f3 | generic | Increasing military and cultural contacts with the Muslim world, including the Norman conquest of Islamic Sicily in 1090, the Crusades, beginning 1096, and the Islamic presence in Spain, may have influenced Medieval Europe's adoption of the pointed arch, although this hypothesis remains controversial. Certainly, in tho... | What is the only cathedral in which the mixing of Romanesque, Gothic and Islamic styles can be seen? | {'text': 'Cefalù Cathedrals', 'answer_start': 544} |
91,895 | 91,553 | 5728f1da6aef05140015488e | generic | For centuries, Paris has attracted artists from around the world, who arrive in the city to educate themselves and to seek inspiration from its vast pool of artistic resources and galleries. As a result, Paris has acquired a reputation as the "City of Art". Italian artists were a profound influence on the development o... | What art was Paris famous for in the 16th and 17th centuries? | {'text': 'sculpture and reliefs', 'answer_start': 383} |
96,814 | 96,472 | 572a553e7a1753140016aebc | generic | Ottoman Turkish was the official language of the Empire. It was an Oghuz Turkic language highly influenced by Persian and Arabic. The Ottomans had several influential languages: Turkish, spoken by the majority of the people in Anatolia and by the majority of Muslims of the Balkans except in Albania and Bosnia; Persian,... | What language was used for religious uses in the Empire? | {'text': 'Arabic', 'answer_start': 646} |
10,571 | 10,229 | 56de3f73cffd8e1900b4b707 | generic | The president is the civilian Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States. He has the authority to command them to take appropriate military action in the event of a sudden crisis. However, only the Congress is explicitly granted the power to declare war per se, as well as to raise, fund and maintain t... | Who has the power to declare ware? | {'text': 'Congress', 'answer_start': 216} |
71,234 | 70,892 | 5726d756f1498d1400e8ecb9 | generic | Most notably, there was also a secret protocol to the pact, revealed only after Germany's defeat in 1945, although hints about its provisions were leaked much earlier, e.g., to influence Lithuania. According to said protocol Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland were divided into German and Soviet "sp... | What country would reclaim the city of Vilnius? | {'text': 'Lithuania', 'answer_start': 842} |
122,559 | 122,217 | 5ace498c32bba1001ae4a1cb | generic | In May 2014, prior to the launch of YouTube's subscription-based Music Key service, the independent music trade organization Worldwide Independent Network alleged that YouTube was using non-negotiable contracts with independent labels that were "undervalued" in comparison to other streaming services, and that YouTube w... | What reason did Robert Kyncl give in May 2014 for YouTube blocking content labels? | {'text': '"to ensure that all content on the platform is governed by its new contractual terms', 'answer_start': 605} |
117,675 | 117,333 | 5730b9a8396df919000962e5 | generic | As is known from the "Sumerian Farmer's Almanac", after the flood season and after the Spring Equinox and the Akitu or New Year Festival, using the canals, farmers would flood their fields and then drain the water. Next they made oxen stomp the ground and kill weeds. They then dragged the fields with pickaxes. After dr... | How many times did Sumerian farmers plow, harrow and rake the ground? | {'text': 'three times', 'answer_start': 370} |
99,592 | 99,250 | 5a57cf87770dc0001aeefdac | generic | The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism. Hume argued in keeping with the empiricist view that all knowledge derives from sense experience, but he accepte... | Who argued that skepticism was a form of empiricism? | {'text': 'David Hume', 'answer_start': 25} |
1,675 | 1,333 | 56cfef3c234ae51400d9c10d | generic | Some of Chopin's well-known pieces have acquired descriptive titles, such as the Revolutionary Étude (Op. 10, No. 12), and the Minute Waltz (Op. 64, No. 1). However, with the exception of his Funeral March, the composer never named an instrumental work beyond genre and number, leaving all potential extramusical associa... | What is another title Op. 10, No. 12 has garnered? | {'text': 'the Revolutionary Étude', 'answer_start': 77} |
95,699 | 95,357 | 5ace39de32bba1001ae49f41 | generic | Animals that characterize the Appalachian forests include five species of tree squirrels. The most commonly seen is the low to moderate elevation eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Occupying similar habitat is the slightly larger fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) and the much smaller southern flying squirrel (Gla... | What is the most commonly seen squirrel in higher elevations? | {'text': 'the red squirrel', 'answer_start': 405} |
101,141 | 100,799 | 572e7aa8dfa6aa1500f8d00f | generic | In Canada, the term "football" may refer to Canadian football and American football collectively, or to either sport specifically, depending on context. The two sports have shared origins and are closely related but have significant differences. In particular, Canadian football has 12 players on the field per team rath... | Which version of North American football has smaller end zones? | {'text': 'American', 'answer_start': 66} |
10,986 | 10,644 | 5acfb1de77cf76001a685901 | generic | One such reaction to the cold aesthetic of modernism and Brutalism is the school of metaphoric architecture, which includes such things as biomorphism and zoomorphic architecture, both using nature as the primary source of inspiration and design. While it is considered by some to be merely an aspect of postmodernism, o... | What are two examples of non-metaphoric architecture? | {'text': 'biomorphism and zoomorphic architecture', 'answer_start': 139} |
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