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81,513 | 81,171 | 5728d0262ca10214002da888 | generic | London is one of the major classical and popular music capitals of the world and is home to major music corporations, such as EMI and Warner Music Group as well as countless bands, musicians and industry professionals. The city is also home to many orchestras and concert halls, such as the Barbican Arts Centre (princip... | In which facility is the London Symphony Orchestra based? | {'text': 'the Barbican Arts Centre', 'answer_start': 287} |
40,673 | 40,331 | 570d3164fed7b91900d45cf0 | generic | Updated Motorola CPUs made a faster machine possible, and in 1987 Apple took advantage of the new Motorola technology and introduced the Macintosh II at $5500, powered by a 16 MHz Motorola 68020 processor. The primary improvement in the Macintosh II was Color QuickDraw in ROM, a color version of the graphics language w... | What marked the start of a new direction for Macintosh? | {'text': 'The Macintosh II', 'answer_start': 486} |
5,904 | 5,562 | 56d246e7b329da140004ecd0 | generic | Initially, prajñā is attained at a conceptual level by means of listening to sermons (dharma talks), reading, studying, and sometimes reciting Buddhist texts and engaging in discourse. Once the conceptual understanding is attained, it is applied to daily life so that each Buddhist can verify the truth of the Buddha's t... | What can be applied to daily life once it is attained? | {'text': 'conceptual understanding', 'answer_start': 194} |
85,901 | 85,559 | 57284fc8ff5b5019007da160 | generic | Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim described von Neumann as the "fastest mind I ever met", and Jacob Bronowski wrote "He was the cleverest man I ever knew, without exception. He was a genius." George Pólya, whose lectures at ETH Zürich von Neumann attended as a student, said "Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of. If ... | How did Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim describe von Neumann? | {'text': '"fastest mind I ever met",', 'answer_start': 54} |
58,201 | 57,859 | 5aceb36332bba1001ae4b0c9 | generic | The main campus in Provo, Utah, United States sits on approximately 560 acres (2.3 km2) nestled at the base of the Wasatch Mountains and includes 295 buildings. The buildings feature a wide variety of architectural styles, each building being built in the style of its time. The grass, trees, and flower beds on BYU's ca... | What is the tallest building in Utah? | {'text': 'Spencer W. Kimball Tower', 'answer_start': 713} |
10,550 | 10,208 | 5ad3887d604f3c001a3fe579 | generic | Congress may establish "legislative courts," which do not take the form of judicial agencies or commissions, whose members do not have the same security of tenure or compensation as the constitutional court judges. Legislative courts may not exercise the judicial power of the United States. In Murray's Lessee v. Hoboke... | Which type of courts are established by Hoboken Land & Improvement CO.? | {'text': 'legislative courts', 'answer_start': 24} |
14,934 | 14,592 | 56dff532231d4119001abf05 | generic | In Ireland, pubs are known for their atmosphere or "craic". In Irish, a pub is referred to as teach tábhairne ("tavernhouse") or teach óil ("drinkinghouse"). Live music, either sessions of traditional Irish music or varieties of modern popular music, is frequently featured in the pubs of Ireland. Pubs in Northern Irela... | What country outside Ireland is known for having Irish pubs? | {'text': 'New Zealand', 'answer_start': 664} |
76,484 | 76,142 | 5a8c6e36fd22b3001a8d879e | generic | The baptism of Jesus and his crucifixion are considered to be two historically certain facts about Jesus. James Dunn states that these "two facts in the life of Jesus command almost universal assent" and "rank so high on the 'almost impossible to doubt or deny' scale of historical facts" that they are often the startin... | How many trials had Pilate presided over before Jesus? | {'text': 'one', 'answer_start': 950} |
93,261 | 92,919 | 5a473e445fd40d001a27dd8b | generic | Federalism has a long tradition in German history. The Holy Roman Empire comprised many petty states numbering more than 300 around 1796. The number of territories was greatly reduced during the Napoleonic Wars (1796–1814). After the Congress of Vienna (1815), 39 states formed the German Confederation. The Confederatio... | After the Napoleonic Wars how many states formed the North German Federation? | {'text': '39', 'answer_start': 261} |
63,313 | 62,971 | 57269f685951b619008f77ff | generic | The World Health Organization and the UN Environment Programme estimate that each year, 3 million workers in agriculture in the developing world experience severe poisoning from pesticides, about 18,000 of whom die. Owing to inadequate regulation and safety precautions, 99% of pesticide related deaths occur in developi... | How many workers in agriculture die a year from severly poisining pesticides in developing countries? | {'text': '18,000', 'answer_start': 196} |
46,812 | 46,470 | 571ae05d9499d21900609b86 | generic | After the death of the replacement bishop Gregory in 345, Constans used his influence to allow Athanasius to return to Alexandria in October 345, amidst the enthusiastic demonstrations of the populace. This began a "golden decade" of peace and prosperity, during which time Athanasius assembled several documents relatin... | What happened when Constans died? | {'text': 'civil war', 'answer_start': 441} |
80,281 | 79,939 | 5727af8b4b864d1900163a5e | generic | Qin armies finished their conquest of the kingdoms of Shu and Ba by 316 BC. Any written records and civil achievements of earlier kingdoms were destroyed. Qin administrators introduced improved agricultural technology. Li Bing, engineered the Dujiangyan irrigation system to control the Min River, a major tributary of t... | By what year did the Qin armies finish their conquest of Shu and Ba? | {'text': '316 BC', 'answer_start': 68} |
1,322 | 980 | 56cf6d3e4df3c31400b0d781 | generic | Chopin arrived in Paris in late September 1831; he would never return to Poland, thus becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration. In France he used the French versions of his given names, and after receiving French citizenship in 1835, he travelled on a French passport. However, Chopin remained clo... | When did Chopin reach Paris? | {'text': 'September 1831', 'answer_start': 32} |
78,652 | 78,310 | 5727c4324b864d1900163cc6 | generic | The Swingle Singers used nonsense words to sound like instruments, but have been known to produce non-verbal versions of musical instruments. Like the other groups, examples of their music can be found on YouTube. Beatboxing, more accurately known as vocal percussion, is a technique used in a cappella music popularized... | On what website can many a capella groups' music be listened to? | {'text': 'YouTube', 'answer_start': 205} |
82,843 | 82,501 | 5727e7f83acd2414000def76 | generic | In Fall 2008, Northwestern opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar, joining five other American universities: Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Texas A&M University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Through the Medill School of Journalism and School of Communication, NU-... | What bachelor's degree is offered at NU-Q through the Medill School of Journalism? | {'text': 'journalism', 'answer_start': 351} |
89,245 | 88,903 | 5ad133c3645df0001a2d111c | generic | The government collapsed after only nine months when the Liberals voted for a Select Committee inquiry into the Campbell Case, a vote which MacDonald had declared to be a vote of confidence. The ensuing 1924 general election saw the publication, four days before polling day, of the Zinoviev letter, in which Moscow talk... | What had a big impact on the Labour vote? | {'text': 'letter', 'answer_start': 368} |
36,206 | 35,864 | 570af0f8ec8fbc190045b789 | generic | Videophone calls (also: videocalls, video chat as well as Skype and Skyping in verb form), differ from videoconferencing in that they expect to serve individuals, not groups. However that distinction has become increasingly blurred with technology improvements such as increased bandwidth and sophisticated software clie... | What is an example of a videophone call program? | {'text': 'Skype', 'answer_start': 58} |
19,524 | 19,182 | 5a788597b73996001af5a76f | generic | In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the RIBA and its members had a leading part in the promotion of architectural education in the United Kingdom, including the establishment of the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) and the Board of Architectural Education under the Architects (Regist... | Where did Lional Bailey Budden study? | {'text': 'Liverpool University School of Architecture', 'answer_start': 424} |
38,223 | 37,881 | 5a6528c5c2b11c001a425cb4 | generic | Most early home computer systems developed their own 8-bit character sets containing line-drawing and game glyphs, and often filled in some or all of the control characters from 0–31 with more graphics. Kaypro CP/M computers used the "upper" 128 characters for the Greek alphabet. The IBM PC defined code page 437, which... | What did Digital Equipment Corporation develop for use in game glyphs? | {'text': 'the Multinational Character Set (DEC-MCS)', 'answer_start': 620} |
62,231 | 61,889 | 5ace92a232bba1001ae4aa82 | generic | The Hebrew Bible, a religious interpretation of the traditions and early national history of the Jews, established the first of the Abrahamic religions, which are now practiced by 54% of the world. Judaism guides its adherents in both practice and belief, and has been called not only a religion, but also a "way of life... | What percentage of the world does not follow an Abrahamic religion? | {'text': '54%', 'answer_start': 180} |
55,177 | 54,835 | 5a624428f8d794001af1bf05 | generic | The name Shell is linked to The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company. In 1833, the founder's father, Marcus Samuel, founded an import business to sell seashells to London collectors. When collecting seashell specimens in the Caspian Sea area in 1892, the younger Samuel realised there was potential in exporting lamp oi... | When was Marcus Samuel born? | {'text': '1833', 'answer_start': 74} |
104,314 | 103,972 | 572eaf07dfa6aa1500f8d2b9 | generic | The exodus of Salvadorans was a result of both economic and political problems. The largest immigration wave occurred as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s, in which 20–30% of El Salvador's population emigrated. About 50%, or up to 500,000 of those who escaped headed to the United States, which was alrea... | How many Salvadorans immigrated? | {'text': "20–30% of El Salvador's population emigrated. About 50%, or up to 500,000 of those who escaped headed to the United States,", 'answer_start': 181} |
119,854 | 119,512 | 5731e292b9d445190005e624 | generic | Calls are used for a variety of purposes, including mate attraction, evaluation of potential mates, bond formation, the claiming and maintenance of territories, the identification of other individuals (such as when parents look for chicks in colonies or when mates reunite at the start of breeding season), and the warni... | Which birds drum territorially? | {'text': 'woodpeckers', 'answer_start': 569} |
75,013 | 74,671 | 572792345951b619008f8ddf | 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... | Where did John Smyth go into exile? | {'text': 'Amsterdam', 'answer_start': 551} |
78,936 | 78,594 | 5ad25df6d7d075001a428f09 | generic | As the image of God grows within man, he learns to rely less on an intellectual pursuit of virtue and more on an affective pursuit of charity and meekness. Meekness and charity guide Christians to acknowledge that they are nothing without the One (God/Christ) who created them, sustains them, and guides them. Thus, man ... | What does not guide Christians to acknowledge that are are nothing without God? | {'text': 'Meekness and charity', 'answer_start': 156} |
59,743 | 59,401 | 5acfdbe277cf76001a686316 | generic | African Presbyterian churches often incorporate diaconal ministries, including social services, emergency relief, and the operation of mission hospitals. A number of partnerships exist between presbyteries in Africa and the PC(USA), including specific connections with Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Ghana and Zambia. Fo... | Which services do most Lackawana churches to offer? | {'text': 'social services, emergency relief, and the operation of mission hospitals', 'answer_start': 79} |
35,213 | 34,871 | 570a83046d058f1900182ef4 | generic | Old English contained a certain number of loanwords from Latin, which was the scholarly and diplomatic lingua franca of Western Europe. It is sometimes possible to give approximate dates for the borrowing of individual Latin words based on which patterns of sound change they have undergone. Some Latin words had already... | From what language did Old English borrow some words? | {'text': 'Latin', 'answer_start': 57} |
97,205 | 96,863 | 5a7d1cfd70df9f001a874fac | generic | In Mesoamerica, a similar set of events (i.e., crop domestication and sedentary lifestyles) occurred by around 4500 BC, but possibly as early as 11,000–10,000 BC. These cultures are usually not referred to as belonging to the Neolithic; in America different terms are used such as Formative stage instead of mid-late Neo... | What hunting weapon was found in the Southwestern US during 1200 to 500 BC? | {'text': 'bow and arrow', 'answer_start': 794} |
81,753 | 81,411 | 5727cb242ca10214002d9666 | generic | The central part of the Sahara is hyperarid, with little to no vegetation. The northern and southern reaches of the desert, along with the highlands, have areas of sparse grassland and desert shrub, with trees and taller shrubs in wadis where moisture collects. In the central, hyperarid part, there are many subdivision... | What is the central part of the Sahara Desert? | {'text': 'hyperarid', 'answer_start': 34} |
99,514 | 99,172 | 5a57b998770dc0001aeefcfa | generic | This idea was later developed in ancient philosophy by the Stoic school. Stoic epistemology generally emphasized that the mind starts blank, but acquires knowledge as the outside world is impressed upon it. The doxographer Aetius summarizes this view as "When a man is born, the Stoics say, he has the commanding part of... | Where was Aetius from? | {'text': 'Chaeronea', 'answer_start': 409} |
36,226 | 35,884 | 570af885ec8fbc190045b79d | generic | Videoconferencing provides students with the opportunity to learn by participating in two-way communication forums. Furthermore, teachers and lecturers worldwide can be brought to remote or otherwise isolated educational facilities. Students from diverse communities and backgrounds can come together to learn about one ... | Who can benefit from two-way communication forums? | {'text': 'students', 'answer_start': 27} |
46,168 | 45,826 | 57111370b654c5140001faf5 | generic | In June 1989, Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing Peter Main, said that the Famicom was present in 37% of Japan's households. By 1990, 30% of American households owned the NES, compared to 23% for all personal computers. By 1990, the NES had outsold all previously released consoles worldwide.[better sourc... | In June 1989 who was Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing? | {'text': 'Peter Main', 'answer_start': 64} |
19,265 | 18,923 | 56e7415337bdd419002c3e04 | generic | DST is generally not observed near the equator, where sunrise times do not vary enough to justify it. Some countries observe it only in some regions; for example, southern Brazil observes it while equatorial Brazil does not. Only a minority of the world's population uses DST because Asia and Africa generally do not obs... | What part of Brazil does not observe DST? | {'text': 'equatorial Brazil', 'answer_start': 197} |
40,333 | 39,991 | 5ad55fe75b96ef001a10ad03 | generic | Mac OS continued to evolve up to version 9.2.2, including retrofits such as the addition of a nanokernel and support for Multiprocessing Services 2.0 in Mac OS 8.6, though its dated architecture made replacement necessary. Initially developed in the Pascal programming language, it was substantially rewritten in C++ for... | What spoken language was the Mac OS initially developed in? | {'text': 'Pascal', 'answer_start': 250} |
32,365 | 32,023 | 57095dca200fba1400367ee5 | generic | After independence, the Chief Commissioner's Province of H.P. came into being on 15 April 1948 as a result of integration of 28 petty princely states (including feudal princes and zaildars) in the promontories of the western Himalaya, known in full as the Simla Hills States and four Punjab southern hill states by issue... | When did Himachal emerge as the 18th state of the Indian Union? | {'text': '25 January 1971', 'answer_start': 1490} |
72,705 | 72,363 | 5a7356c553a187001ae631a2 | generic | In 2001, Comcast announced it would acquire the assets of the largest cable television operator at the time, AT&T Broadband, for US$44.5 billion. The proposed name for the merged company was "AT&T Comcast", but the companies ultimately decided to keep only the Comcast name. In 2002, Comcast acquired all assets of AT&T ... | What city is Comcast Spotlight located in? | {'text': 'Centennial, Colorado', 'answer_start': 667} |
65,009 | 64,667 | 5726a450f1498d1400e8e5c6 | generic | The pointed arch, one of the defining attributes of Gothic, was earlier incorporated into Islamic architecture following the Islamic conquests of Roman Syria and the Sassanid Empire in the Seventh Century. The pointed arch and its precursors had been employed in Late Roman and Sassanian architecture; within the Roman c... | Parabolic and pointed arches were used in what type of constrcution? | {'text': 'palace and sacred construction', 'answer_start': 515} |
9,696 | 9,354 | 5ad3e99d604f3c001a3ff69e | generic | The Canadian constitution determines that the Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces is the country's sovereign, who, since 1904, has authorized his or her viceroy, the governor general, to exercise the duties ascribed to the post of Commander-in-Chief and to hold the associated title since 1905. All troop dep... | Who must sign these orders for them to be invalid? | {'text': 'monarch or governor general', 'answer_start': 489} |
60,171 | 59,829 | 57266c0d5951b619008f7243 | generic | Predators are often another organism's prey, and likewise prey are often predators. Though blue jays prey on insects, they may in turn be prey for cats and snakes, and snakes may be the prey of hawks. One way of classifying predators is by trophic level. Organisms that feed on autotrophs, the producers of the trophic p... | When a new apex predator moves into an area this changes. | {'text': 'trophic pyramid', 'answer_start': 311} |
43,445 | 43,103 | 570e2def0dc6ce1900204e44 | generic | After the decline of Aksum, the Eritrean highlands were under the domain of Bahr Negash ruled by the Bahr Negus. The area was then known as Ma'ikele Bahr ("between the seas/rivers," i.e. the land between the Red Sea and the Mereb river). It was later renamed under Emperor Zara Yaqob as the domain of the Bahr Negash, th... | What were the main provinces of Medri Bahri? | {'text': 'Hamasien, Serae and Akele Guzai', 'answer_start': 516} |
96,097 | 95,755 | 5acd11e007355d001abf333b | generic | Examples of energy transformation include generating electric energy from heat energy via a steam turbine, or lifting an object against gravity using electrical energy driving a crane motor. Lifting against gravity performs mechanical work on the object and stores gravitational potential energy in the object. If the ob... | What transforms non-nuclear potential energy to other forms of energy? | {'text': 'Sun', 'answer_start': 524} |
16,168 | 15,826 | 56e1a8b5e3433e140042308f | generic | Even interpreting the hydrogen data (including safety data) is confounded by a number of phenomena. Many physical and chemical properties of hydrogen depend on the parahydrogen/orthohydrogen ratio (it often takes days or weeks at a given temperature to reach the equilibrium ratio, for which the data is usually given). ... | How long can it take to reach the equilibrium ratio? | {'text': 'days or weeks', 'answer_start': 213} |
129,464 | 129,122 | 573427ac4776f419006619a9 | generic | Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been... | What are primers derived from the genomes of? | {'text': 'infectious agents', 'answer_start': 698} |
95,109 | 94,767 | 5a2c346fbfd06b001a5aea4d | generic | At the same time the Empire style in France was a more grandiose wave of neoclassicism in architecture and the decorative arts. Mainly based on Imperial Roman styles, it originated in, and took its name from, the rule of Napoleon I in the First French Empire, where it was intended to idealize Napoleon's leadership and ... | What neoclassic style in France was less grandiose? | {'text': 'Empire style', 'answer_start': 21} |
72,142 | 71,800 | 572831f64b864d19001646e9 | generic | The end of the 19th century marks the start of psychology as a scientific enterprise. The year 1879 is commonly seen as the start of psychology as an independent field of study. In that year Wilhelm Wundt founded the first laboratory dedicated exclusively to psychological research (in Leipzig). Other important early co... | What did Hermann Ebbinghaus study? | {'text': 'memory studies', 'answer_start': 385} |
130,219 | 129,877 | 5735b0dedc94161900571f2c | generic | Metropolitan Kathmandu is divided into five sectors: the Central Sector, the East Sector, the North Sector, the City Core and the West Sector. For civic administration, the city is further divided into 35 administrative wards. The Council administers the Metropolitan area of Kathmandu city through its 177 elected repre... | How many sectors make up the Kathmandu metropolitan area? | {'text': 'five', 'answer_start': 39} |
16,286 | 15,944 | 56e0fd56231d4119001ac552 | generic | The UN ultimately created a Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, which was signed by the United States, USSR, and the United Kingdom on January 27, 1967 and went into force the following October 10. | The Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space was signed by three countries on what date? | {'text': 'January 27, 1967', 'answer_start': 245} |
10,993 | 10,651 | 56e4cced8c00841900fbafef | generic | Beginning in the late 1950s and 1960s, architectural phenomenology emerged as an important movement in the early reaction against modernism, with architects like Charles Moore in the USA, Christian Norberg-Schulz in Norway, and Ernesto Nathan Rogers and Vittorio Gregotti in Italy, who collectively popularized an intere... | What term did Venturi use for brutalist and mondernist buildings? | {'text': '"ducks"', 'answer_start': 910} |
127,683 | 127,341 | 573358b94776f41900660867 | generic | Tajikistan means the "Land of the Tajiks". The suffix "-stan" (Persian: ـستان -stān) is Persian for "place of" or "country" and Tajik is, most likely, the name of a pre-Islamic (before the seventh century A.D.) tribe. According to the Library of Congress's 1997 Country Study of Tajikistan, it is difficult to definiti... | Why is it hard to find the origin of the word Tajik? | {'text': 'because the term is "embroiled in twentieth-century political disputes about whether Turkic or Iranian peoples were the original inhabitants of Central Asia."', 'answer_start': 363} |
85,685 | 85,343 | 57282d193acd2414000df652 | generic | St. John's is served by the Eastern School District, the largest school district in Newfoundland and Labrador by student population. There are currently 36 primary, elementary and secondary schools in the city of St. John's, including three private schools. St. John's also includes one school that is part of the provin... | What school offers the lowest tuition in Canada? | {'text': 'Memorial University of Newfoundland', 'answer_start': 854} |
114,713 | 114,371 | 5a13b059c8eab200188dca05 | generic | In the early decades of the twentieth century when there was a growing nostalgia for its sense of order, the style was revived and adapted and in the United States came to be known as the Colonial Revival. In Canada the United Empire Loyalists embraced Georgian architecture as a sign of their fealty to Britain, and the... | What was the Georgian style cold in the colonies? | {'text': 'Colonial Revival.', 'answer_start': 188} |
128,546 | 128,204 | 5733e7c4d058e614000b6559 | generic | Ethical commitments in anthropology include noticing and documenting genocide, infanticide, racism, mutilation (including circumcision and subincision), and torture. Topics like racism, slavery, and human sacrifice attract anthropological attention and theories ranging from nutritional deficiencies to genes to accultur... | What are good topics to attract the attention of an anthropologist? | {'text': 'racism, slavery, and human sacrifice', 'answer_start': 178} |
52,649 | 52,307 | 57261935ec44d21400f3d8cb | generic | At the centre of this wing is the famous balcony with the Centre Room behind its glass doors. This is a Chinese-style saloon enhanced by Queen Mary, who, working with the designer Sir Charles Allom, created a more "binding" Chinese theme in the late 1920s, although the lacquer doors were brought from Brighton in 1873. ... | Which room feature the famous balcony? | {'text': 'Centre Room', 'answer_start': 58} |
57,327 | 56,985 | 5726dccf708984140094d409 | generic | While the Concordat restored much power to the papacy, the balance of church-state relations had tilted firmly in Napoleon's favour. He selected the bishops and supervised church finances. Napoleon and the pope both found the Concordat useful. Similar arrangements were made with the Church in territories controlled by ... | In what year did Napoleon say that skilled rulers were able to both control and use priests? | {'text': '1801', 'answer_start': 482} |
52,568 | 52,226 | 57261391271a42140099d437 | generic | By 1847, the couple had found the palace too small for court life and their growing family, and consequently the new wing, designed by Edward Blore, was built by Thomas Cubitt, enclosing the central quadrangle. The large East Front, facing The Mall, is today the "public face" of Buckingham Palace, and contains the balc... | What is considered the public face of the palace? | {'text': 'The large East Front', 'answer_start': 211} |
12,752 | 12,410 | 5acd161a07355d001abf340e | generic | Some scientific materialists have been criticized, for example by Noam Chomsky, for failing to provide clear definitions for what constitutes matter, leaving the term "materialism" without any definite meaning. Chomsky also states that since the concept of matter may be affected by new scientific discoveries, as has ha... | Who is praised for providing a clear definition of materalism? | {'text': 'Noam Chomsky', 'answer_start': 66} |
74,512 | 74,170 | 5a6fb5868abb0b001a675f6f | generic | As in much of Europe, the prosperity of Alsace came to an end in the 14th century by a series of harsh winters, bad harvests, and the Black Death. These hardships were blamed on Jews, leading to the pogroms of 1336 and 1339. In 1349, Jews of Alsace were accused of poisoning the wells with plague, leading to the massacr... | During what year were Jews blamed for the poor harvest? | {'text': '1349', 'answer_start': 228} |
69,857 | 69,515 | 5726d6abdd62a815002e91f1 | generic | The Necessary exists 'due-to-Its-Self', and has no quiddity/essence (mahiyya) other than existence (wujud). Furthermore, It is 'One' (wahid ahad) since there cannot be more than one 'Necessary-Existent-due-to-Itself' without differentia (fasl) to distinguish them from each other. Yet, to require differentia entails tha... | What is one thing that the Necessary is detached from? | {'text': 'time', 'answer_start': 833} |
92,315 | 91,973 | 57291e601d04691400779077 | generic | In the race for individual contributions, economist Lyndon LaRouche dominated the pack leading up to the primaries. According to the Federal Election Commission statistics, LaRouche had more individual contributors to his 2004 presidential campaign than any other candidate, until the final quarter of the primary season... | Who earned the fewest individual contributions as of the April 15th filing date? | {'text': 'Gephardt', 'answer_start': 570} |
94,158 | 93,816 | 57296daa1d04691400779428 | generic | Setting national renewable energy targets can be an important part of a renewable energy policy and these targets are usually defined as a percentage of the primary energy and/or electricity generation mix. For example, the European Union has prescribed an indicative renewable energy target of 12 per cent of the total ... | The European Union has prescribed an indicative renewable energy target of what percent? | {'text': '12 per cent of the total EU energy mix', 'answer_start': 295} |
107,558 | 107,216 | 572f59f204bcaa1900d76892 | generic | The Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period spanning the reign of King Edward VII up to the end of the First World War, including the years surrounding the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In the early years of the period, the Second Boer War in South Africa split the country into anti- and pro-war factions. The i... | What event split the United Kingdom into two groups? | {'text': 'Second Boer War', 'answer_start': 232} |
42,264 | 41,922 | 570d7002b3d812140066d934 | generic | A series of swift Prussian and German victories in eastern France, culminating in the Siege of Metz and the Battle of Sedan, saw the army of the Second Empire decisively defeated (Napoleon III had been captured at Sedan on 2 September). A Government of National Defence declared the Third Republic in Paris on 4 Septembe... | Which army definitively defeated Napolean III? | {'text': 'the army of the Second Empire', 'answer_start': 129} |
94,045 | 93,703 | 5ad12914645df0001a2d0ff8 | generic | Geothermal power capacity grew from around 1 GW in 1975 to almost 10 GW in 2008. The United States is the world leader in terms of installed capacity, representing 3.1 GW. Other countries with significant installed capacity include the Philippines (1.9 GW), Indonesia (1.2 GW), Mexico (1.0 GW), Italy (0.8 GW), Iceland (... | In the Phillipines, geothermal did not represent what percentage of the total power mix at the end of 2008? | {'text': '17 percent', 'answer_start': 530} |
34,342 | 34,000 | 5a48747484b8a4001a7e7888 | generic | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust was formed on 1 October 2007 by the merger of Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust (Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital and Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital) and St Mary's NHS Trust (St. Mary's Hospital and Western Eye Hospital) with Imperial College London Faculty of Med... | what hospitals were formed from Imperial College Healthcare? | {'text': "Charing Cross Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, and Western Eye Hospital.", 'answer_start': 395} |
80,585 | 80,243 | 5727b3022ca10214002d9438 | generic | Unicode can be implemented by different character encodings. The most commonly used encodings are UTF-8, UTF-16 and the now-obsolete UCS-2. UTF-8 uses one byte for any ASCII character, all of which have the same code values in both UTF-8 and ASCII encoding, and up to four bytes for other characters. UCS-2 uses a 16-bit... | What are the most commonly used encodings of Unicode? | {'text': 'UTF-8, UTF-16 and the now-obsolete UCS-2', 'answer_start': 98} |
119,259 | 118,917 | 5ad1915b645df0001a2d1fc6 | generic | In the late 1980s, key breakthroughs in GaN epitaxial growth and p-type doping ushered in the modern era of GaN-based optoelectronic devices. Building upon this foundation, Dr. Moustakas at Boston University patented a method for producing high-brightness blue LEDs using a new two-step process. Two years later, in 1993... | What is one modern gadget that benefits from high-power red LED lighting? | {'text': 'tablets', 'answer_start': 926} |
2,349 | 2,007 | 56cd7a3f62d2951400fa6602 | generic | iPods have won several awards ranging from engineering excellence,[not in citation given] to most innovative audio product, to fourth best computer product of 2006. iPods often receive favorable reviews; scoring on looks, clean design, and ease of use. PC World says that iPod line has "altered the landscape for portabl... | What two companies use the AAC format for music files? | {'text': 'Sony Ericsson and Nokia', 'answer_start': 535} |
22,471 | 22,129 | 56f75c11a6d7ea1400e17204 | generic | The primacy of the composer's written score has also led, today, to a relatively minor role played by improvisation in classical music, in sharp contrast to the practice of musicians who lived during the baroque, classical and romantic era. Improvisation in classical music performance was common during both the Baroque... | What part did Mozart and Beethoven often improvise? | {'text': 'the cadenzas to their piano concertos', 'answer_start': 494} |
37,107 | 36,765 | 570b5245ec8fbc190045b97f | generic | The Berbers along the Barbary Coast (modern day Libya) sent pirates to capture merchant ships and hold the crews for ransom. The U.S. paid protection money until 1801, when President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay and sent in the Navy to challenge the Barbary States, the First Barbary War followed. After the U.S.S. Ph... | Who sent pirates to capture merchant ships? | {'text': 'The Berbers', 'answer_start': 0} |
70,000 | 69,658 | 5aceaa2032bba1001ae4af61 | generic | Liber Aboali Abincine de Anima in arte Alchemiae was the most influential, having influenced later medieval chemists and alchemists such as Vincent of Beauvais. However Anawati argues (following Ruska) that the de Anima is a fake by a Spanish author. Similarly the Declaratio is believed not to be actually by Avicenna. ... | What work by Avicenna is thought to be a real? | {'text': 'Liber Aboali Abincine de Anima in arte Alchemiae', 'answer_start': 0} |
17,571 | 17,229 | 56e1dab2cd28a01900c67bc0 | generic | As in the other Western Romance languages, the main plural expression is the suffix -s, which may create morphological alternations similar to the ones found in gender inflection, albeit more rarely. The most important one is the addition of -o- before certain consonant groups, a phonetic phenomenon that does not affec... | What is the usual way to make a plural? | {'text': 'suffix -s', 'answer_start': 77} |
11,833 | 11,491 | 56dedc703277331400b4d775 | generic | Schwarzenegger was the first civilian to purchase a Humvee. He was so enamored by the vehicle that he lobbied the Humvee's manufacturer, AM General, to produce a street-legal, civilian version, which they did in 1992; the first two Hummers they sold were also purchased by Schwarzenegger. | In what year did AM General grant Schwarzenegger's wish for a street-legal Humvee? | {'text': '1992', 'answer_start': 212} |
112,908 | 112,566 | 57324f67b9d445190005ea25 | generic | In Japan, 14 August is considered to be the day that the Pacific War ended. However, as Imperial Japan actually surrendered on 15 August, this day became known in the English-speaking countries as "V-J Day" (Victory in Japan). The formal Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on 2 September 1945, on the battleship... | What date does Japan consider the end of the Pacific War? | {'text': '14 August', 'answer_start': 10} |
21,503 | 21,161 | 56e8800d0b45c0140094cce5 | 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... | How many households have 5 or more people living in them? | {'text': '1,592', 'answer_start': 188} |
38,837 | 38,495 | 570c7e1eb3d812140066d215 | generic | Traditionally, Espanyol was seen by the vast majority of Barcelona's citizens as a club which cultivated a kind of compliance to the central authority, in stark contrast to Barça's revolutionary spirit. Also in the 1960s and 1970s, while FC Barcelona acted as an integrating force for Catalonia's new arrivals from poore... | What type of supporters did Barcelona attract? | {'text': "Catalonia's new arrivals", 'answer_start': 285} |
22,877 | 22,535 | 56f76139a6d7ea1400e17229 | generic | In the Western Balkans, South Slavs and Germanic Gepids intermarried with Avar invaders, eventually producing a Slavicized population.[citation needed] In Central Europe, the Slavs intermixed with Germanic and Celtic, while the eastern Slavs encountered Uralic and Scandinavian peoples. Scandinavians (Varangians) and Fi... | In the Western Balkans, South Slavs and Germanic Gepids intermarried with who? | {'text': 'Avar invaders', 'answer_start': 74} |
44,856 | 44,514 | 57101890b654c5140001f7d6 | generic | The SASO consists of 12 questions. Six of these questions assess sexual attraction, four assess sexual behavior, and two assess sexual orientation identity. For each question on the scale that measures homosexuality there is a corresponding question that measures heterosexuality giving six matching pairs of questions. ... | What questions corresponds to the homosexual ones? | {'text': 'heterosexuality', 'answer_start': 264} |
42,897 | 42,555 | 5ad221f5d7d075001a4284ea | generic | Aristotle wrote in his book Meteorology about an Antarctic region in c. 350 B.C. Marinus of Tyre reportedly used the name in his unpreserved world map from the 2nd century A.D. The Roman authors Hyginus and Apuleius (1–2 centuries A.D.) used for the South Pole the romanized Greek name polus antarcticus, from which deri... | What book did Aristotle write in the 3rd century B.C. | {'text': 'Meteorology', 'answer_start': 28} |
64,878 | 64,536 | 5ace4ac032bba1001ae4a1e5 | generic | Four major AM radio stations based in or near Ann Arbor are WAAM 1600, a conservative news and talk station; WLBY 1290, a business news and talk station; WDEO 990, Catholic radio; and WTKA 1050, which is primarily a sports station. The city's FM stations include NPR affiliate WUOM 91.7; country station WWWW 102.9; and ... | What AM station plays country music? | {'text': 'WWWW 102.9', 'answer_start': 304} |
32,436 | 32,094 | 5a361ff0788daf001a5f8732 | generic | The era of planning in Himachal Pradesh started 1948 along with the rest of India. The first five-year plan allocated ₹ 52.7 million to Himachal. More than 50% of this expenditure was incurred on road construction since it was felt that without proper transport facilities, the process of planning and development could ... | When did the era of road construction start in India? | {'text': '1948', 'answer_start': 48} |
28,089 | 27,747 | 56fb79f28ddada1400cd6435 | generic | Other sections of society included the nobility, clergy, and townsmen. Nobles, both the titled nobility and simple knights, exploited the manors and the peasants, although they did not own lands outright but were granted rights to the income from a manor or other lands by an overlord through the system of feudalism. Du... | In what century were castles first built? | {'text': '9th', 'answer_start': 855} |
110,906 | 110,564 | 572fb2d4b2c2fd1400568371 | generic | Matte solder is usually fused to provide a better bonding surface or stripped to bare copper. Treatments, such as benzimidazolethiol, prevent surface oxidation of bare copper. The places to which components will be mounted are typically plated, because untreated bare copper oxidizes quickly, and therefore is not readil... | What alloy can no longer be used in HASL because of restrictions on the use of one of its metal components? | {'text': 'tin-lead', 'answer_start': 551} |
99,037 | 98,695 | 572a9fa6f75d5e190021fbbe | generic | The northwestern portion of Rajasthan is generally sandy and dry. Most of this region are covered by the Thar Desert which extends into adjoining portions of Pakistan. The Aravalli Range does not intercept the moisture-giving southwest monsoon winds off the Arabian Sea, as it lies in a direction parallel to that of the... | What is the most populous city in the Thar Desert? | {'text': 'Jodhpur', 'answer_start': 442} |
9,731 | 9,389 | 56deebdc3277331400b4d820 | generic | Currently, the Regular Force component of the Army consists of three field-ready brigade groups: 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, at CFB Edmonton and CFB Shilo; 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, at CFB Petawawa and CFB Gagetown; and 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, at CFB Valcartier and Quebec City. Each con... | What squadron is present but not an official part of the Brigade? | {'text': 'tactical helicopter squadron', 'answer_start': 565} |
122,684 | 122,342 | 5ad141b5645df0001a2d13f8 | generic | The original charter of the Province of East Jersey had restricted membership in the Assembly to Christians; the Duke of York was fervently Catholic, and the proprietors of Perth Amboy, New Jersey were Scottish Catholic peers. The Province of West Jersey had declared, in 1681, that there should be no religious test for... | What didn't the original charter of the Province of East Jersey restrict membership in its Assembly to? | {'text': 'Christians', 'answer_start': 97} |
93,200 | 92,858 | 57290ee56aef051400154a08 | generic | In 1952, following a referendum, Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merged into Baden-Württemberg. In 1957, the Saar Protectorate rejoined the Federal Republic as the Saarland. German reunification in 1990, in which the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) ascended into the Federal Republic, re... | Why did a regional referendum in 1996 to merge Berlin with surrounding Brandenburg fail? | {'text': 'failed to reach the necessary majority vote in Brandenburg', 'answer_start': 749} |
21,664 | 21,322 | 5ad3f42d604f3c001a3ff92e | generic | The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings. None were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic na... | What kind of pavement was commissioned for in front of the Low Altar? | {'text': 'Cosmati', 'answer_start': 571} |
2,876 | 2,534 | 56cdd28562d2951400fa68bd | generic | Bond and Swann return to London where they meet M, Bill Tanner, Q, and Moneypenny; they intend to arrest C and stop Nine Eyes from going online. Swann leaves Bond, telling him she cannot be part of a life involving espionage, and is subsequently kidnapped. On the way, the group is ambushed and Bond is kidnapped, but th... | Who does M fight with? | {'text': 'C', 'answer_start': 105} |
117,947 | 117,605 | 57311acfa5e9cc1400cdbc11 | generic | Government revenues largely come from sales of fishing licenses, income from the Tuvalu Trust Fund, and from the lease of its highly fortuitous .tv Internet Top Level Domain (TLD). In 1998, Tuvalu began deriving revenue from the use of its area code for premium-rate telephone numbers and from the commercialisation of i... | How much money does Tuvalu's tv domain name earn each year? | {'text': '$2.2 million', 'answer_start': 435} |
10,228 | 9,886 | 5a18da649aa02b0018605ee8 | generic | The other directly attested Old Iranian dialects are the two forms of Avestan, which take their name from their use in the Avesta, the liturgical texts of indigenous Iranian religion that now goes by the name of Zoroastrianism but in the Avesta itself is simply known as vohu daena (later: behdin). The language of the A... | What dialect is the Avesta language from? | {'text': 'Old Iranian', 'answer_start': 28} |
9,555 | 9,213 | 5ad3e48f604f3c001a3ff587 | generic | The responsibility for military command remained with the British Crown-in-Council, with a commander-in-chief for North America stationed at Halifax until the final withdrawal of British Army and Royal Navy units from that city in 1906. Thereafter, the Royal Canadian Navy was formed, and, with the advent of military av... | When did the French Army and Royal Navy withdraw from Halifax? | {'text': '1906', 'answer_start': 231} |
96,740 | 96,398 | 572a437f1d046914007798ae | generic | These court categories were not, however, wholly exclusive: for instance, the Islamic courts—which were the Empire's primary courts—could also be used to settle a trade conflict or disputes between litigants of differing religions, and Jews and Christians often went to them to obtain a more forceful ruling on an issue.... | Where were the empire's law schools? | {'text': 'in Istanbul and Bursa.', 'answer_start': 805} |
62,770 | 62,428 | 572677855951b619008f738d | generic | Compression is useful because it helps reduce resource usage, such as data storage space or transmission capacity. Because compressed data must be decompressed to use, this extra processing imposes computational or other costs through decompression; this situation is far from being a free lunch. Data compression is sub... | What helps reduce resource usage? | {'text': 'Compression', 'answer_start': 0} |
60,463 | 60,121 | 5a5fcdfdeae51e001ab14c63 | generic | In 1968, while selling 50 million comic books a year, company founder Goodman revised the constraining distribution arrangement with Independent News he had reached under duress during the Atlas years, allowing him now to release as many titles as demand warranted. Late that year he sold Marvel Comics and his other pub... | How many comic books had Goodman sold by 1968? | {'text': '50 million', 'answer_start': 23} |
86,112 | 85,770 | 5ad3413c604f3c001a3fdbf3 | generic | At its press conference at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show, Sony announced DualShock 3 (trademarked DUALSHOCK 3), a PlayStation 3 controller with the same function and design as Sixaxis, but with vibration capability included. Hands-on accounts describe the controller as being noticeably heavier than the standard Sixaxis cont... | What did Sony name their vibrating PS2 controller? | {'text': 'DUALSHOCK 3', 'answer_start': 93} |
117,318 | 116,976 | 5a42ac754a4859001aac7297 | generic | Game players were not the only ones to notice the violence in this game; US Senators Herb Kohl and Joe Lieberman convened a Congressional hearing on December 9, 1993 to investigate the marketing of violent video games to children.[e] While Nintendo took the high ground with moderate success, the hearings led to the cre... | What organizations were created due to Nintendo taking the high ground? | {'text': 'the Interactive Digital Software Association and the Entertainment Software Rating Board', 'answer_start': 329} |
16,517 | 16,175 | 5a4d569d755ab9001a10f3ce | generic | Most browsers support HTTP Secure and offer quick and easy ways to delete the web cache, download history, form and search history, cookies, and browsing history. For a comparison of the current security vulnerabilities of browsers, see comparison of web browsers. | How do you know if your web cache is secure? | {'text': 'see comparison of web browsers', 'answer_start': 233} |
95,267 | 94,925 | 572996166aef051400154ff3 | generic | Comparative and historical linguistics offers some clues for memorising the accent position: If one compares many standard Serbo-Croatian words to e.g. cognate Russian words, the accent in the Serbo-Croatian word will be one syllable before the one in the Russian word, with the rising tone. Historically, the rising ton... | Which dialects did not follow the Neoshtokavian retraction? | {'text': 'Chakavian, Kajkavian and the Old Shtokavian', 'answer_start': 626} |
14,543 | 14,201 | 56dfbab97aa994140058e0ad | generic | In 1880, Bell received the Volta Prize with a purse of 50,000 francs (approximately US$250,000 in today's dollars) for the invention of the telephone from the Académie française, representing the French government. Among the luminaries who judged were Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. The Volta Prize was conceived by Na... | Who first established the Volta Prize? | {'text': 'Napoleon Bonaparte', 'answer_start': 318} |
55,238 | 54,896 | 57262d01ec44d21400f3dba3 | generic | On 20 May 2011, Royal Dutch Shell's final investment decision for the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility was finalized following the discovery of the remote offshore Prelude field—located off Australia's northwestern coast and estimated to contain about 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equ... | The final investment decision for what was finalized by Royal Dutch Shell in May 2011? | {'text': "the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility", 'answer_start': 66} |
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