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16,316 | 15,974 | 56e107fecd28a01900c67476 | generic | The trip to the Moon took just over three days. After achieving orbit, Armstrong and Aldrin transferred into the Lunar Module, named Eagle, and after a landing gear inspection by Collins remaining in the Command/Service Module Columbia, began their descent. After overcoming several computer overload alarms caused by an... | At what time on Earth did Armstrong first step onto the Moon? | {'text': '9:56 pm CDT July 20', 'answer_start': 688} |
70,699 | 70,357 | 5726c29a5951b619008f7d7b | generic | For centuries, various peoples in modern-day Nigeria traded overland with traders from North Africa. Cities in the area became regional centres in a broad network of trade routes that spanned western, central and northern Africa. In the 16th century, Spanish and Portuguese explorers were the first Europeans to begin si... | What region has Nigeria traded with for centuries? | {'text': 'North Africa', 'answer_start': 87} |
67,856 | 67,514 | 5727b5944b864d1900163afa | generic | Swiss citizens are universally required to buy health insurance from private insurance companies, which in turn are required to accept every applicant. While the cost of the system is among the highest it compares well with other European countries in terms of health outcomes; patients who are citizens have been report... | In 2012, what was Switzerland's world ranking for life expectancy in 2012? | {'text': 'highest', 'answer_start': 459} |
35,683 | 35,341 | 570b0780ec8fbc190045b7f0 | generic | Although STOVL aircraft are capable of taking off vertically from a spot on the deck, using the ramp and a running start is far more fuel efficient and permits a heavier launch weight. As catapults are unnecessary, carriers with this arrangement reduce weight, complexity, and space needed for complex steam or electroma... | What do Russian carriers still use to recover? | {'text': 'traditional carrier arresting cables and a tailhook on their aircraft', 'answer_start': 584} |
1,290 | 948 | 56d3148359d6e4140014621c | generic | In September 1828 Chopin, while still a student, visited Berlin with a family friend, zoologist Feliks Jarocki, enjoying operas directed by Gaspare Spontini and attending concerts by Carl Friedrich Zelter, Felix Mendelssohn and other celebrities. On an 1829 return trip to Berlin, he was a guest of Prince Antoni Radziwi... | What year did Chopin return to Berlin? | {'text': '1829', 'answer_start': 253} |
28,518 | 28,176 | 5a82162231013a001a3351bc | generic | In addition to the minimal units that can serve the purpose of differentiating meaning (the phonemes), phonology studies how sounds alternate, i.e. replace one another in different forms of the same morpheme (allomorphs), as well as, for example, syllable structure, stress, feature geometry, accent, and intonation. | What studies how geometry alternates? | {'text': 'phonology', 'answer_start': 103} |
7,895 | 7,553 | 5a594d7b3e1742001a15d062 | generic | Genome size is the total number of DNA base pairs in one copy of a haploid genome. The genome size is positively correlated with the morphological complexity among prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes; however, after mollusks and all the other higher eukaryotes above, this correlation is no longer effective. This phenomeno... | What is the term for the total DNA base pairs in one lower eukaryote? | {'text': 'Genome size', 'answer_start': 0} |
7,302 | 6,960 | 56daf4e0e7c41114004b4b9d | generic | In many cities along the North American and European route, the torch relay was protested by advocates of Tibetan independence, animal rights, and legal online gambling, and people protesting against China's human rights record, resulting in confrontations at a few of the relay locations. These protests, which ranged f... | Who put out the torch along the route for protection? | {'text': 'Chinese security officials', 'answer_start': 513} |
69,007 | 68,665 | 572722e65951b619008f865a | generic | This view of 'diplomatic drift' as the cause of the war was first popularised by A. W, Kinglake, who portrayed the British as victims of newspaper sensationalism and duplicitous French and Ottoman diplomacy. More recently, the historians Andrew Lambert and Winfried Baumgart have argued that, first, Britain was followin... | What did A.W Kinglake make the British out to be? | {'text': 'as victims', 'answer_start': 123} |
21,624 | 21,282 | 5ad3f29f604f3c001a3ff8c2 | generic | Between 1042 and 1052 King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was not completed until around 1090 but was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward's death o... | What year was the building started? | {'text': '1090', 'answer_start': 239} |
76,881 | 76,539 | 57278aac708984140094e058 | generic | The titles of state supreme court vary, which can cause confusion between jurisdictions because one state may use a name for its highest court that another uses for a lower court. In New York, Maryland, and the District of Columbia the highest court is called the Court of Appeals, a name used by many states for their i... | The Court of Appeals is the high court in which US States or territories? | {'text': 'New York, Maryland, and the District of Columbia', 'answer_start': 183} |
288 | 288 | 142209 | pubqa | On 25 March 2012, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) was notified about several cases of gastroenteritis in schoolchildren following a stay at a Norwegian holiday farm. Cryptosporidium oocysts were identified in faecal samples from some of the children. A retrospective cohort study was conducted in school-... | What symptoms did the people had? | {'answer_id': 274856, 'document_id': 450393, 'question_id': 142209, 'text': 'abdominal pain, nausea and headache', 'answer_start': 1115, 'answer_category': 'LONG'} |
78,371 | 78,029 | 5727b09f4b864d1900163a6f | generic | French political scientist Maurice Duverger drew a distinction between cadre parties and mass parties. Cadre parties were political elites that were concerned with contesting elections and restricted the influence of outsiders, who were only required to assist in election campaigns. Mass parties tried to recruit new me... | What are cadre parties? | {'text': 'political elites that were concerned with contesting elections and restricted the influence of outsiders', 'answer_start': 122} |
108,038 | 107,696 | 572f5908b2c2fd140056805b | generic | At low frequencies (such as AM broadcast), arrays of vertical towers are used to achieve directionality and they will occupy large areas of land. For reception, a long Beverage antenna can have significant directivity. For non directional portable use, a short vertical antenna or small loop antenna works well, with th... | For radio broadcast that one would hear in their car what type of towers are used? | {'text': 'vertical', 'answer_start': 53} |
36,383 | 36,041 | 570af6316b8089140040f63b | generic | To unambiguously specify the date, dual dating or Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) are sometimes used with dates. Dual dating uses two consecutive years because of differences in the starting date of the year, or includes both the Julian and Gregorian dates. Old Style and New Style (N.S.) indicate either whether t... | What is the Old Style date mean? | {'text': 'Julian calendar', 'answer_start': 509} |
16,232 | 15,890 | 56e0eaeb7aa994140058e7ba | generic | The US reacted to the Luna program by embarking on the Ranger program in 1959, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Block I Ranger 1 and Ranger 2 suffered Atlas-Agena launch failures in August and November 1961. The 727-pound (330 kg) Block II Ranger 3 launched successfully on January 26, 1962, but missed t... | The first spacecraft to make it to the Moon was what? | {'text': 'Ranger 4', 'answer_start': 352} |
58,878 | 58,536 | 572657b6dd62a815002e8229 | generic | Further along these lines, The ethical problems brought up by IP rights are most pertinent when it is socially valuable goods like life-saving medicines are given IP protection. While the application of IP rights can allow companies to charge higher than the marginal cost of production in order to recoup the costs of r... | What is an example of socially valuable goods? | {'text': 'life-saving medicines', 'answer_start': 131} |
128,070 | 127,728 | 5733a55a4776f41900660f3d | generic | The School of Architecture was established in 1899, although degrees in architecture were first awarded by the university in 1898. Today the school, housed in Bond Hall, offers a five-year undergraduate program leading to the Bachelor of Architecture degree. All undergraduate students study the third year of the progra... | In which location do students of the School of Architecture of Notre Dame spend their 3rd year? | {'text': 'Rome', 'answer_start': 325} |
88,990 | 88,648 | 572847174b864d190016489f | generic | The first ground attack came at the Battle of Umm Qasr on 21 March 2003 when a combined force of British, American and Polish forces seized control of the port city of Umm Qasr. Baghdad, Iraq's capital city, fell to American forces in April 2003 and Saddam Hussein's government quickly dissolved. On 1 May 2003, Bush ann... | Which nationalities worked together in the Battle of Umm Qasr? | {'text': 'British, American and Polish', 'answer_start': 97} |
74,281 | 73,939 | 572b8ba1be1ee31400cb842c | generic | New Haven has a history of professional sports franchises dating back to the 19th century and has been the home to professional baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer teams—including the New York Giants of the National Football League from 1973 to 1974, who played at the Yale Bowl. Throughout the second hal... | What famous NFL team played in New Haven own stadium in the 70s? | {'text': 'New York Giants', 'answer_start': 199} |
92,522 | 92,180 | 5a6a3f515ce1a5001a969767 | generic | Domestically, Menzies presided over a fairly regulated economy in which utilities were publicly owned, and commercial activity was highly regulated through centralised wage-fixing and high tariff protection. Liberal leaders from Menzies to Malcolm Fraser generally maintained Australia's high tariff levels. At that time... | Which group is currently known as the Australia party? | {'text': 'Country Party', 'answer_start': 358} |
58,012 | 57,670 | 5ace948332bba1001ae4aad6 | generic | BYU offers programs in liberal arts, engineering, agriculture, management, physical and mathematical sciences, nursing and law. The university is broadly organized into 11 colleges or schools at its main Provo campus, with certain colleges and divisions defining their own admission standards. The university also admini... | What does CSE stand for? | {'text': 'Church Educational System', 'answer_start': 429} |
69,008 | 68,666 | 572722e65951b619008f865b | generic | This view of 'diplomatic drift' as the cause of the war was first popularised by A. W, Kinglake, who portrayed the British as victims of newspaper sensationalism and duplicitous French and Ottoman diplomacy. More recently, the historians Andrew Lambert and Winfried Baumgart have argued that, first, Britain was followin... | Who believed Britain was following a strategy when trying to destroy Russian Navy? | {'text': 'Andrew Lambert and Winfried Baumgart', 'answer_start': 238} |
28,980 | 28,638 | 57070b1490286e26004fc83e | generic | The U.S. census race definitions says a "black" is a person having origins in any of the black (sub-Saharan) racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "Black, African Am., or Negro" or who provide written entries such as African American, Afro-American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian. The Cen... | What classification are given? | {'text': 'socio-political constructs', 'answer_start': 368} |
32,340 | 31,998 | 5a149516a54d420018529277 | generic | Kenneth Gergen formulated additional classifications, which include the strategic manipulator, the pastiche personality, and the relational self. The strategic manipulator is a person who begins to regard all senses of identity merely as role-playing exercises, and who gradually becomes alienated from his or her social... | What type of person sees all of life is a role-playing exercise? | {'text': 'strategic manipulator', 'answer_start': 150} |
120,801 | 120,459 | 5ad4eb5c5b96ef001a10a656 | generic | Saint Valentine, a Roman Catholic Bishop or priest who was martyred in about 296 AD, seems to have had no known connection with romantic love, but the day of his martyrdom on the Roman Catholic calendar, Saint Valentine's Day (February 14), became, in the 14th century, an occasion for lovers to send messages to each ot... | Who was martyred in about 269 AD? | {'text': 'Saint Valentine', 'answer_start': 0} |
114,481 | 114,139 | 5a79ea8f17ab25001a8a01bb | generic | In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the IFAB experimented with ways of creating a winner without requiring a penalty shootout, which was often seen as an undesirable way to end a match. These involved rules ending a game in extra time early, either when the first goal in extra time was scored (golden goal), or if one te... | What is the golden goat? | {'text': 'the first goal in extra time', 'answer_start': 253} |
44,716 | 44,374 | 570fa4675ab6b81900390f60 | generic | A third concern with the Kinsey scale is that it inappropriately measures heterosexuality and homosexuality on the same scale, making one a tradeoff of the other. Research in the 1970s on masculinity and femininity found that concepts of masculinity and femininity are more appropriately measured as independent concepts... | What is the advantage of measuring these elements separately? | {'text': 'the degree of heterosexual and homosexual can be independently determined, rather than the balance between heterosexual and homosexual', 'answer_start': 878} |
105,028 | 104,686 | 572fa4b4a23a5019007fc81a | generic | The government planned to voluntarily evacuate four million people—mostly women and children—from urban areas, including 1.4 million from London. It expected about 90% of evacuees to stay in private homes, and conducted an extensive survey to determine available space. Detailed preparations for transporting them were d... | What was most unpopular affect of the war with civilians ? | {'text': 'the blackout', 'answer_start': 515} |
18,726 | 18,384 | 5ad68ece191832001aa7b1d2 | generic | Pressing the sheet removes the water by force; once the water is forced from the sheet, a special kind of felt, which is not to be confused with the traditional one, is used to collect the water; whereas when making paper by hand, a blotter sheet is used instead. | What is used to collect the rain expelled from pressing? | {'text': 'felt', 'answer_start': 106} |
37,547 | 37,205 | 570b690bec8fbc190045b9f8 | generic | After 1870, the new railroads across the Plains brought hunters who killed off almost all the bison for their hides. The railroads offered attractive packages of land and transportation to European farmers, who rushed to settle the land. They (and Americans as well) also took advantage of the homestead laws to obtain f... | after about what year did railroads bring hunters to the great plains? | {'text': '1870', 'answer_start': 6} |
15,440 | 15,098 | 56e02b8a7aa994140058e2f1 | generic | The Portuguese found the island uninhabited, with an abundance of trees and fresh water. They imported livestock, fruit trees and vegetables, and built a chapel and one or two houses. Though they formed no permanent settlement, the island was an important rendezvous point and source of food for ships travelling from As... | What kind of buildings were built by the settlers? | {'text': 'a chapel and one or two houses.', 'answer_start': 152} |
25,208 | 24,866 | 56f8bd719b226e1400dd0efa | generic | In prokaryotes, transcription occurs in the cytoplasm; for very long transcripts, translation may begin at the 5' end of the RNA while the 3' end is still being transcribed. In eukaryotes, transcription occurs in the nucleus, where the cell's DNA is stored. The RNA molecule produced by the polymerase is known as the pr... | Where does a eukaryote store the cell's DNA? | {'text': 'in the nucleus', 'answer_start': 210} |
17,648 | 17,306 | 56e124adcd28a01900c67649 | generic | Boston was an early port of the Atlantic triangular slave trade in the New England colonies, but was soon overtaken by Salem, Massachusetts and Newport, Rhode Island. Eventually Boston became a center of the abolitionist movement. The city reacted strongly to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, contributing to President Fr... | What law involving slaves did the city react strongly to? | {'text': 'the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850', 'answer_start': 260} |
34,410 | 34,068 | 5a105346decec9001847561f | generic | As an important railroad and road junction and production center, Hanover was a major target for strategic bombing during World War II, including the Oil Campaign. Targets included the AFA (Stöcken), the Deurag-Nerag refinery (Misburg), the Continental plants (Vahrenwald and Limmer), the United light metal works (VLW) ... | How many civilians were killed during the axis bombing raids in World War II? | {'text': 'more than 6,000', 'answer_start': 671} |
96,555 | 96,213 | 5a3c0417cc5d22001a521d2d | generic | Although the 1945–1949 expulsion of Germans from the northern part of former East Prussia was often conducted in a violent and aggressive way by Soviet officials, the present Russian inhabitants of the Kaliningrad Oblast have much less animosity towards Germans. German names have been revived in commercial Russian trad... | In which year did the present Russian inhabitants of the Kaliningrad Oblast start to emigrate there? | {'text': '1945', 'answer_start': 522} |
36,675 | 36,333 | 5a70ba688abb0b001a676109 | generic | In 2009, IGN named the Xbox 360 the sixth-greatest video game console of all time, out of a field of 25. Although not the best-selling console of the seventh-generation, the Xbox 360 was deemed by TechRadar to be the most influential, by emphasizing digital media distribution and online gaming through Xbox Live, and by... | Who declared Kinect as the most influential console? | {'text': 'TechRadar', 'answer_start': 197} |
109,305 | 108,963 | 57300eee947a6a140053d012 | generic | Washington University has a large number of student-run musical groups on campus, including 12 official a cappella groups. The Pikers, an all-male group, is the oldest such group on campus. The Greenleafs, an all-female group is the oldest (and only) female group on campus. The Mosaic Whispers, founded in 1991, is the ... | When did the group After Dark perform MSNBC? | {'text': '2008', 'answer_start': 816} |
27,589 | 27,247 | 56f9f9a18f12f31900630030 | generic | An Ancient Chinese document from the 9th century referred to the northern Somali coast — which was then called "Berbera" by Arab geographers in reference to the region's "Berber" (Cushitic) inhabitants — as Po-pa-li. The first clear written reference of the sobriquet Somali, however, dates back to the 15th century. Dur... | Who ordered that a hymn be composed that first mentioned the Somalis? | {'text': 'the Abyssinian Emperor', 'answer_start': 405} |
64,235 | 63,893 | 5ad3ed86604f3c001a3ff7b6 | generic | Yale has produced alumni distinguished in their respective fields. Among the best-known are U.S. Presidents William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; royals Crown Princess Victoria Bernadotte, Prince Rostislav Romanov and Prince Akiiki Hosea Nyabongo; heads of state, includin... | Who was the mother of American football? | {'text': 'Walter Camp', 'answer_start': 1224} |
120,052 | 119,710 | 57313a71e6313a140071cd42 | generic | After the Kangxi Emperor's death in the winter of 1722, his fourth son, Prince Yong (雍親王), became the Yongzheng Emperor. In the later years of Kangxi's reign, Yongzheng and his brothers had fought, and there were rumours that he had usurped the throne(most of the rumours believe that Yongzheng's brother Yingzhen (Kangx... | How old was Yongzheng when he took over? | {'text': '45', 'answer_start': 751} |
54,191 | 53,849 | 5726d01c5951b619008f7eb8 | generic | UN aerial reconnaissance had difficulty sighting PVA units in daytime, because their march and bivouac discipline minimized aerial detection. The PVA marched "dark-to-dark" (19:00–03:00), and aerial camouflage (concealing soldiers, pack animals, and equipment) was deployed by 05:30. Meanwhile, daylight advance parties ... | What were PVA troops told to do when planes flew by? | {'text': 'remain motionless', 'answer_start': 410} |
75,790 | 75,448 | 5a3beef2cc5d22001a521c32 | generic | As culture flourished, so did decentralization. Whereas the first phase of shōen development in the early Heian period had seen the opening of new lands and the granting of the use of lands to aristocrats and religious institutions, the second phase saw the growth of patrimonial "house governments," as in the old clan ... | What flourished along with centralization? | {'text': 'culture', 'answer_start': 3} |
97,991 | 97,649 | 572a8c0c111d821400f38bdb | generic | In Southeast Asia, Muslim students have a choice of attending a secular government or an Islamic school. Madaris or Islamic schools are known as Sekolah Agama (Malay: religious school) in Malaysia and Indonesia, โรงเรียนศาสนาอิสลาม (Thai: school of Islam) in Thailand and madaris in the Philippines. In countries where I... | What are madaris referred to as in Indonesia and Malaysia? | {'text': 'Sekolah Agama', 'answer_start': 145} |
50,079 | 49,737 | 5ad16f9d645df0001a2d1b4b | generic | At the start of her reign Victoria was popular, but her reputation suffered in an 1839 court intrigue when one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting, Lady Flora Hastings, developed an abdominal growth that was widely rumoured to be an out-of-wedlock pregnancy by Sir John Conroy. Victoria believed the rumours. She hated Con... | What wasn't Flora hastings abdominal growth rumored to be? | {'text': 'an out-of-wedlock pregnancy', 'answer_start': 228} |
124,696 | 124,354 | 573258d2e17f3d14004228d5 | generic | In the United States, their persistent legal challenges prompted a series of state and federal court rulings that reinforced judicial protections for civil liberties. Among the rights strengthened by Witness court victories in the United States are the protection of religious conduct from federal and state interference... | Where have cases in the Jehovah's Witnesses favor been heard outside of the U.S.? | {'text': 'Canada', 'answer_start': 532} |
29,007 | 28,665 | 57070e8590286e26004fc867 | generic | Approximately 12 million Africans were shipped to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade from 1492 to 1888, with 11.5 million of those shipped to South America and the Caribbean. Brazil was the largest importer in the Americas, with 5.5 million African slaves imported, followed by the British Caribbean with 2.76 ... | How is black identified in South America? | {'text': 'closely tied to social status and socioeconomic variables,', 'answer_start': 797} |
80,054 | 79,712 | 5727bdeeff5b5019007d93f3 | generic | The design architecture of USB is asymmetrical in its topology, consisting of a host, a multitude of downstream USB ports, and multiple peripheral devices connected in a tiered-star topology. Additional USB hubs may be included in the tiers, allowing branching into a tree structure with up to five tier levels. A USB ho... | How many devices can be connected to a host controller? | {'text': 'Up to 127 devices', 'answer_start': 423} |
125,255 | 124,913 | 573252870fdd8d15006c699b | generic | The Bronx underwent rapid urban growth after World War I. Extensions of the New York City Subway contributed to the increase in population as thousands of immigrants came to the Bronx, resulting in a major boom in residential construction. Among these groups, many Irish Americans, Italian Americans and especially Jewis... | What led to the Bronx's population growth? | {'text': 'Extensions of the New York City Subway', 'answer_start': 58} |
56,255 | 55,913 | 57266d835951b619008f7275 | generic | Behind the scenes, the bookers in a company will place the title on the most accomplished performer, or those the bookers believe will generate fan interest in terms of event attendance and television viewership. Lower ranked titles may also be used on the performers who show potential, thus allowing them greater expos... | Who might they use a lower ranked title on? | {'text': 'performers who show potential', 'answer_start': 257} |
119,217 | 118,875 | 5730f8caa5e9cc1400cdbb56 | generic | In September 2003, a new type of blue LED was demonstrated by Cree that consumes 24 mW at 20 milliamperes (mA). This produced a commercially packaged white light giving 65 lm/W at 20 mA, becoming the brightest white LED commercially available at the time, and more than four times as efficient as standard incandescents.... | Who demonstrated in 2003 the new type of blue LED? | {'text': 'Cree', 'answer_start': 62} |
44,318 | 43,976 | 570f96935ab6b81900390f2e | generic | The Queen, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, also opened the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in London, making her the first head of state to open two Olympic Games in two different countries. For the London Olympics, she played herself in a short film as part of the opening ceremony, alongside Dani... | What actor also appeared with Elizabeth in the film? | {'text': 'Daniel Craig', 'answer_start': 316} |
64,369 | 64,027 | 572732f9dd62a815002e997d | generic | Around 1300–1350 the Medieval Warm Period gave way to the Little Ice Age. The colder climate resulted in agricultural crises, the first of which is known as the Great Famine of 1315-1317. The demographic consequences of this famine, however, were not as severe as the plagues that occurred later in the century, particul... | When did the Medieval Warm Period end? | {'text': 'Around 1300–1350', 'answer_start': 0} |
43,557 | 43,215 | 570e3d930dc6ce1900204ece | generic | According to recent estimates, 50% of the population adheres to Christianity, Islam 48%, while 2% of the population follows other religions including traditional African religion and animism. According to a study made by Pew Research Center, 63% adheres to Christianity and 36% adheres to Islam. Since May 2002, the gove... | What percentage of Eritrea is estimated to adhere to Islam? | {'text': '48%', 'answer_start': 84} |
63,629 | 63,287 | 5726a6d2dd62a815002e8c0c | generic | The county has a long tradition of supplying freestone and building stone. Quarries at Doulting supplied freestone used in the construction of Wells Cathedral. Bath stone is also widely used. Ralph Allen promoted its use in the early 18th century, as did Hans Price in the 19th century, but it was used long before then.... | What are some uses for Blue Lias | {'text': 'Blue Lias has been used locally as a building stone and as a raw material for lime mortar and Portland cement', 'answer_start': 717} |
57,787 | 57,445 | 57264da3f1498d1400e8db86 | generic | The Majapahit Empire was an Indianised kingdom based in eastern Java from 1293 to around 1500. Its greatest ruler was Hayam Wuruk, whose reign from 1350 to 1389 marked the empire's peak when it dominated other kingdoms in the southern Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, and Bali. Various sources such as the Nagarakertaga... | How long did the Majapahit Empire last? | {'text': '1293 to around 1500', 'answer_start': 74} |
38,350 | 38,008 | 570be5f1ec8fbc190045bbd0 | generic | Digestive systems take many forms. There is a fundamental distinction between internal and external digestion. External digestion developed earlier in evolutionary history, and most fungi still rely on it. In this process, enzymes are secreted into the environment surrounding the organism, where they break down an orga... | What are the two types of digestion? | {'text': 'internal and external digestion', 'answer_start': 78} |
100,748 | 100,406 | 572c9bb7f182dd1900d7c7f8 | generic | After disenfranchisement of blacks, the GOP in Tennessee was historically a sectional party supported by whites only in the eastern part of the state. In the 20th century, except for two nationwide Republican landslides of the 1920s (in 1920, when Tennessee narrowly supported Warren G. Harding over Ohio Governor James ... | How many times has Tennessee supported Democratic presidential candidates in the general elections since the 1950s? | {'text': 'four', 'answer_start': 786} |
111,963 | 111,621 | 572fe613a23a5019007fcb0b | generic | The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme. In Australia, Fox Sports broadcasts almost all of the season's 380 matches live, and Foxtel gives subscribers the option of selecting which Saturday 3pm match to watch. In India, the matches are broadcast live ... | How many games does each of them broadcast? | {'text': 'both rival networks holding rights to 190 matches per season.', 'answer_start': 573} |
83,977 | 83,635 | 57288f98ff5b5019007da2f1 | generic | Several Islamic kingdoms (sultanates) under both foreign and, newly converted, Rajput rulers were established across the north western subcontinent (Afghanistan and Pakistan) over a period of a few centuries. From the 10th century, Sindh was ruled by the Rajput Soomra dynasty, and later, in the mid-13th century by the ... | What Muslim endeavors thrived on the coastal areas of south India? | {'text': 'trading communities', 'answer_start': 363} |
21,006 | 20,664 | 56e7b2f200c9c71400d77514 | generic | After its return in 2010, the AFL had its national television deal with the NFL Network for a weekly Friday night game. All AFL games not on the NFL Network could be seen for free online, provided by Ustream. | What streaming service broadcast AFL games that were not on NFL Network? | {'text': 'Ustream', 'answer_start': 200} |
81,012 | 80,670 | 5727d7992ca10214002d97d3 | generic | Detroit remains one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States. From the 1940s to the 1970s a second wave of Blacks moved to Detroit to escape Jim Crow laws in the south and find jobs. However, they soon found themselves excluded from white areas of the city—through violence, laws, and economic discrim... | What is an example of economic discrimination? | {'text': 'redlining', 'answer_start': 335} |
86,625 | 86,283 | 5acfbf4977cf76001a685c3f | generic | Before the reign of Henry VIII, the sovereign always granted his or her assent in person. The sovereign, wearing the Imperial State Crown, would be seated on the throne in the Lords chamber, surrounded by heralds and members of the royal court—a scene that nowadays is repeated only at the annual State Opening of Parlia... | Who would wear the Imperial State Tiara? | {'text': 'sovereign', 'answer_start': 94} |
111,756 | 111,414 | 5ad0c7b1645df0001a2d02f6 | generic | The years following 2009 marked a shift in the structure of the "Big Four" with Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City both breaking into the top four. In the 2009–10 season, Tottenham finished fourth and became the first team to break the top four since Everton in 2005. Criticism of the gap between an elite group of "s... | In which season did Tottenham finish third? | {'text': '2009–10', 'answer_start': 158} |
15,946 | 15,604 | 5acd2d8007355d001abf37f4 | generic | Some forms of Greek before the Koine Greek period are reconstructed as having aspirated stops. The Classical Attic dialect of Ancient Greek had a three-way distinction in stops like Eastern Armenian: /t tʰ d/. These stops were called ψιλά, δασέα, μέσα "thin, thick, middle" by Koine Greek grammarians. | A two-way distinction in stops was called what? | {'text': 'ψιλά', 'answer_start': 234} |
55,102 | 54,760 | 572617bcec44d21400f3d8b1 | generic | Shell was vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It has minor renewable energy activities in the form of biofuels and wind. It has operations in over 90 count... | Shell has how many service stations worldwide? | {'text': '44,000', 'answer_start': 396} |
17,008 | 16,666 | 5a21dad08a6e4f001aa08f94 | generic | Currently, (2004), there are principles of canon law common to the churches within the Anglican Communion; their existence can be factually established; each province or church contributes through its own legal system to the principles of canon law common within the Communion; these principles have a strong persuasive ... | What is not fundamental to self understanding of each of the churches of the Communion? | {'text': 'principles of canon law', 'answer_start': 225} |
28,427 | 28,085 | 5a81fdbf31013a001a335059 | generic | In 1976 John Goldsmith introduced autosegmental phonology. Phonological phenomena are no longer seen as operating on one linear sequence of segments, called phonemes or feature combinations, but rather as involving some parallel sequences of features which reside on multiple tiers. Autosegmental phonology later evolved... | What became the standard theory of phenomes? | {'text': 'geometry', 'answer_start': 334} |
71,396 | 71,054 | 5726dc97708984140094d3f6 | generic | The Soviets also helped Germany to avoid British naval blockades by providing a submarine base, Basis Nord, in the northern Soviet Union near Murmansk. This also provided a refueling and maintenance location, and a takeoff point for raids and attacks on shipping. In addition, the Soviets provided Germany with access to... | Where was the sub base located? | {'text': 'northern Soviet Union near Murmansk', 'answer_start': 115} |
88,626 | 88,284 | 572857772ca10214002da2a5 | generic | Deism holds that God is wholly transcendent: God exists, but does not intervene in the world beyond what was necessary to create it. In this view, God is not anthropomorphic, and neither answers prayers nor produces miracles. Common in Deism is a belief that God has no interest in humanity and may not even be aware of ... | How does a deistic God feel about us? | {'text': 'no interest in humanity and may not even be aware of humanity', 'answer_start': 267} |
21,693 | 21,351 | 56e8de4b99e8941900975ee1 | generic | Westminster diocese was dissolved in 1550, but the abbey was recognised (in 1552, retroactively to 1550) as a second cathedral of the Diocese of London until 1556. The already-old expression "robbing Peter to pay Paul" may have been given a new lease of life when money meant for the abbey, which is dedicated to Saint P... | When was Westminster Diocese dissolved? | {'text': '1550', 'answer_start': 37} |
100,062 | 99,720 | 572b8668f75d5e190021fe2c | generic | The Czechs' language separated from other Slavic tongues into what would later be called Old Czech by the thirteenth century, a classification extending through the sixteenth century. Its use of cases differed from the modern language; although Old Czech did not yet have a vocative case or an animacy distinction, decle... | What other language did Old Czech's declension patterns resemble? | {'text': 'Lithuanian', 'answer_start': 476} |
26,454 | 26,112 | 56f98a729b226e1400dd1542 | generic | The politics of Zhejiang is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in Mainland China. The Governor of Zhejiang is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Zhejiang. However, in the province's dual party-government governing system, the Governor is subordinat... | Who is the Governor subordinate to? | {'text': 'the Zhejiang Communist Party of China (CPC) Provincial Committee Secretary', 'answer_start': 325} |
56,146 | 55,804 | 57265208dd62a815002e8177 | generic | Many modern specialty matches have been devised, with unique winning conditions. The most common of these is the ladder match. In the basic ladder match, the wrestlers or teams of wrestlers must climb a ladder to obtain a prize that is hoisted above the ring. The key to winning this match is that the wrestler or team o... | What is a common prize in a ladder match? | {'text': 'championship belt', 'answer_start': 558} |
88,908 | 88,566 | 572844774b864d190016486c | generic | Subsequently, in October 2001, U.S. forces (with UK and coalition allies) invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime. On 7 October 2001, the official invasion began with British and U.S. forces conducting airstrike campaigns over enemy targets. Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, fell by mid-November. The remai... | What was the goal of the US invading Afghanistan? | {'text': 'oust the Taliban regime', 'answer_start': 97} |
105,099 | 104,757 | 572fd474947a6a140053cd23 | generic | Bomber crews already had some experience with these types of systems due to the deployment of the Lorenz beam, a commercial blind-landing aid which allowed aircraft to land at night or in bad weather. The Germans developed the short-range Lorenz system into the Knickebein aid, a system which used two Lorenz beams with ... | The Germans flew along one beam until they picked up the second beam the sound telling them when to start doing what? | {'text': 'dropping their bombs', 'answer_start': 754} |
8,375 | 8,033 | 56dcfd2266d3e219004dab8e | generic | The capital, Brazzaville, is located on the Congo River, in the south of the country, immediately across from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | What country does Kinshasa serve as capital of? | {'text': 'Democratic Republic of the Congo', 'answer_start': 139} |
41,749 | 41,407 | 59d2870d2763a6001828406e | generic | In April 2014, it was announced that GE was in talks to acquire the global power division of French engineering group Alstom for a figure of around $13 billion. A rival joint bid was submitted in June 2014 by Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) with Siemens seeking to acquire Alstom's gas turbine business for... | How much was GE worth as of April 2014? | {'text': '$13 billion', 'answer_start': 148} |
92,316 | 91,974 | 57291e601d04691400779078 | 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... | What agency provided statistical information regarding the Presidential Candidates' individual contributors? | {'text': 'Federal Election Commission', 'answer_start': 133} |
44,966 | 44,624 | 5ad35625604f3c001a3fddcd | generic | Dell was listed at number 51 in the Fortune 500 list, until 2014. After going private in 2013, the newly confidential nature of its financial information prevents the company from being ranked by Fortune. In 2014 it was the third largest PC vendor in the world after Lenovo and HP. Dell is currently the #1 shipper of PC... | Dell is currently the #2 shipper of what? | {'text': 'PC monitors', 'answer_start': 318} |
22,726 | 22,384 | 56f74522aef2371900625a81 | generic | Proto-Slavic, sometimes referred to as Common Slavic or Late Proto-Slavic, is defined as the last stage of the language preceding the geographical split of the historical Slavic languages. That language was uniform, and on the basis of borrowings from foreign languages and Slavic borrowings into other languages, cannot... | Proto-Slavic is sometimes referred to as what? | {'text': 'Common Slavic or Late Proto-Slavic', 'answer_start': 39} |
124,372 | 124,030 | 5ad3b199604f3c001a3fece2 | generic | In 1870, Charles Taze Russell and others formed a group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to study the Bible. During the course of his ministry, Russell disputed many beliefs of mainstream Christianity including immortality of the soul, hellfire, predestination, the fleshly return of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, and the burni... | In what year did Nelson H. Barbour die? | {'text': '1879', 'answer_start': 1007} |
17,247 | 16,905 | 5a551bb5134fea001a0e1932 | generic | As of 2009, Internet via satellite had a steady growth rate of 10% to 15% per year. It was particularly in demand in remote areas that did not have either dialup or wireless online services. The local telecommunications company Dalkom Somalia provided internet over satellite, as well as premium routes for media operato... | How many terminals linked to North America? | {'text': '300', 'answer_start': 798} |
71,061 | 70,719 | 5a580827770dc0001aeeff62 | generic | Utrecht Centraal is the main railway station of Utrecht. There are regular intercity services to all major Dutch cities; direct services to Schiphol Airport. Utrecht Centraal is a station on the night service, providing 7 days a week an all night service to (among others) Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Inte... | What station opened in 1939? | {'text': 'Utrecht Maliebaan', 'answer_start': 702} |
73,140 | 72,798 | 5a87418c1d3cee001a6a1150 | generic | A number of medications are being studied for multi drug resistant tuberculosis including: bedaquiline and delamanid. Bedaquiline received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in late 2012. The safety and effectiveness of these new agents are still uncertain, because they are based on the results of a relat... | Who approved the drug delamanid? | {'text': 'U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)', 'answer_start': 139} |
114,909 | 114,567 | 5a62c355f8d794001af1c210 | generic | The Kpelle comprise more than 20% of the population and are the largest ethnic group in Liberia, residing mostly in Bong County and adjacent areas in central Liberia. Americo-Liberians, who are descendants of African American and West Indian, mostly Barbadian settlers, make up 2.5%. Congo people, descendants of repatri... | What county contains 20% of Liberia's population? | {'text': 'Bong County', 'answer_start': 116} |
129,520 | 129,178 | 57342dcc4776f41900661a22 | generic | Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th... | When may immunity be acquired? | {'text': 'following a disease', 'answer_start': 51} |
69,993 | 69,651 | 5acea9b232bba1001ae4af5a | generic | Avicenna's astronomical writings had some influence on later writers, although in general his work could be considered less developed than Alhazen or Al-Biruni. One important feature of his writing is that he considers mathematical astronomy as a separate discipline to astrology. He criticized Aristotle's view of the s... | What planet did Aristotle think was a spot on the moon? | {'text': 'Venus', 'answer_start': 485} |
27,975 | 27,633 | 56fb645ab28b3419009f1d02 | generic | Roman city life and culture changed greatly in the early Middle Ages. Although Italian cities remained inhabited, they contracted significantly in size. Rome, for instance, shrank from a population of hundreds of thousands to around 30,000 by the end of the 6th century. Roman temples were converted into Christian churc... | About how many people lived in Rome at the end of the 500s? | {'text': '30,000', 'answer_start': 233} |
10,964 | 10,622 | 56e4c33039bdeb14003479bd | generic | Architects such as Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer worked to create beauty based on the inherent qualities of building materials and modern construction techniques, trading traditional historic forms for simplified geometric forms, celebrating the new means and methods made possible by the Industria... | What new type of construction allowed the making of skyscrapers? | {'text': 'steel-frame construction', 'answer_start': 344} |
84,780 | 84,438 | 572807c9ff5b5019007d9b5d | generic | On 3 December 1963, US President Lyndon B. Johnson posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award, in recognition of the good relationship between Pope John XXIII and the United States of America. In his speech on 6 December 1963, Johnson said: "I have also determi... | When did President Johnson award him? | {'text': '3 December 1963', 'answer_start': 3} |
35,390 | 35,048 | 5acd6dd107355d001abf41bb | generic | A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet and usually provides an offensive capability. These are the largest carriers capable of fast speeds. By comparison, escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships. They were smaller and slower with lower numbers of aircraft carried. Most... | What were few escort carriers built from? | {'text': 'mercantile hulls', 'answer_start': 337} |
77,073 | 76,731 | 5a8c7c73fd22b3001a8d88fb | generic | External evidence is evidence of each physical witness, its date, source, and relationship to other known witnesses. Critics will often prefer the readings supported by the oldest witnesses. Since errors tend to accumulate, older manuscripts should have fewer errors. Readings supported by a majority of witnesses are al... | Why do critics prefer geographically similar witnesses? | {'text': 'particular care was taken in their composition', 'answer_start': 528} |
33,259 | 32,917 | 57098db1200fba1400368189 | generic | Modern Orthodoxy, as a stream of Orthodox Judaism represented by institutions such as the U.S. National Council for Young Israel, is pro-Zionist and thus places a high national, as well as religious, significance on the State of Israel, and its affiliates are, typically, Zionist in orientation. It also practices involv... | What does the US national council for Young Isreal represent? | {'text': 'Modern Orthodoxy', 'answer_start': 0} |
85,111 | 84,769 | 57280f51ff5b5019007d9c13 | generic | Stephen Hawking in particular has addressed a connection between time and the Big Bang. In A Brief History of Time and elsewhere, Hawking says that even if time did not begin with the Big Bang and there were another time frame before the Big Bang, no information from events then would be accessible to us, and nothing t... | In which publication does Hawking say that any events that existed before the Big Bang would not be accessible to us? | {'text': 'A Brief History of Time', 'answer_start': 91} |
51,762 | 51,420 | 5725d03438643c19005acd7e | generic | Parque Rodó is both a barrio (neighbourhood) of Montevideo and a park which lies mostly outside the limits of the neighbourhood itself and belongs to Punta Carretas. The name "Rodó" commemorates José Enrique Rodó, an important Uruguayan writer whose monument is in the southern side of the main park. The park was concei... | What does the name "Rodo" commemorate? | {'text': 'José Enrique Rodó', 'answer_start': 195} |
43,833 | 43,491 | 5ad14b13645df0001a2d15d9 | generic | Salts of many oxidation states of uranium are water-soluble and may be studied in aqueous solutions. The most common ionic forms are U3+ (brown-red), U4+ (green), UO+
2 (unstable), and UO2+
2 (yellow), for U(III), U(IV), U(V), and U(VI), respectively. A few solid and semi-metallic compounds such as UO and US exist for ... | Along with uranyl sulfate and uranyl chloride, what compound isn't formed by the UO2+ 2 ion? | {'text': 'uranyl carbonate', 'answer_start': 606} |
63,097 | 62,755 | 57269ef4f1498d1400e8e52c | generic | Despite its initial opposition to the closures, until 1997, the newspaper repeatedly called for the implementation of further Thatcherite policies, such as Royal Mail privatisation,[verification needed] and social security cutbacks, with leaders such as "Peter Lilley is right, we can't carry on like this",[verification... | What was The Sun's stance toward the EU? | {'text': 'The paper showed hostility', 'answer_start': 329} |
57,312 | 56,970 | 5726d8f6708984140094d373 | generic | Napoleon had a civil marriage with Joséphine de Beauharnais, without religious ceremony. During the campaign in Egypt, Napoleon showed much tolerance towards religion for a revolutionary general, holding discussions with Muslim scholars and ordering religious celebrations, but General Dupuy, who accompanied Napoleon, r... | Napoleon's marriage to Joséphine de Beauharnais lacked what kind of ceremony? | {'text': 'religious', 'answer_start': 69} |
118,412 | 118,070 | 5acfab8877cf76001a6857db | generic | Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa and depends largely on groundwater. With an average rainfall of about 350 mm per annum, the highest rainfall occurs in the Caprivi in the northeast (about 600 mm per annum) and decreases in a westerly and southwesterly direction to as little as 50 mm and less per annu... | What is the record amount of rain in a year on the coast? | {'text': '600 mm', 'answer_start': 207} |
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