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2,603 | 2,261 | 5a8da7d2df8bba001a0f9b4a | generic | In four months, Aonuma's team managed to present realistic horseback riding,[l] which Nintendo later revealed to the public with a trailer at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2004. The game was scheduled to be released the next year, and was no longer a follow-up to The Wind Waker; a true sequel to it was released for the... | What was the name of the second Aonuma game? | {'text': 'Phantom Hourglass', 'answer_start': 357} |
101,638 | 101,296 | 572f9a52b2c2fd140056823b | generic | The Anglo-French hostilities were ended in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris, which involved a complex series of land exchanges, the most important being France's cession to Spain of Louisiana, and to Great Britain the rest of New France except for the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Faced with the choice of retrieving e... | What part of North America did Britain end up with? | {'text': 'they now controlled all of North America east of the Mississippi.', 'answer_start': 897} |
18,333 | 17,991 | 56e3a745d654871900275377 | generic | One distinctive feature that has caused a great amount of interest among linguists is what is traditionally seen as three degrees of phonemic length: short, long, and "overlong", such that /sɑdɑ/, /sɑˑdɑ/ and /sɑːdɑ/ are distinct. In actuality, the distinction is not purely in the phonemic length, and the underlying ph... | Who is interested in the degrees of phonemic length? | {'text': 'linguists', 'answer_start': 73} |
6,757 | 6,415 | 56d3881459d6e4140014666f | generic | The continuing decline influenced further changes for season 14, including the loss of Coca-Cola as the show's major sponsor, and a decision to only broadcast one, two-hour show per week during the top 12 rounds (with results from the previous week integrated into the performance show, rather than having a separate res... | How many people watched American Idols finale in season 14? | {'text': '8.03 million', 'answer_start': 621} |
103,003 | 102,661 | 5ad4ca4c5b96ef001a10a0c2 | generic | Spielberg directed 2015's Bridge of Spies, a Cold War thriller based on the 1960 U-2 incident, and focusing on James B. Donovan's negotiations with the Soviets for the release of pilot Gary Powers after his aircraft was shot down over Soviet territory. The film starred Tom Hanks as Donovan, as well as Mark Rylance, Amy... | How many times has Spielberg won Best Director? | {'text': 'six', 'answer_start': 644} |
85,785 | 85,443 | 5728230b4b864d1900164541 | generic | In a number of von Neumann's papers, the methods of argument he employed are considered even more significant than the results. In anticipation of his later study of dimension theory in algebras of operators, von Neumann used results on equivalence by finite decomposition, and reformulated the problem of measure in ter... | In 1938 what was von Neumann awarded? | {'text': 'Bôcher Memorial Prize', 'answer_start': 510} |
32,824 | 32,482 | 5a5579bf134fea001a0e1ad4 | generic | China's network security and information technology leadership team was established February 27, 2014. The leadership team is tasked with national security and long-term development and co-ordination of major issues related to network security and information technology. Economic, political, cultural, social and milita... | Why is network security under study? | {'text': 'enhanced national security capabilities', 'answer_start': 565} |
30,833 | 30,491 | 57070ba69e06ca38007e930c | generic | As briefly discussed in Unicode Technical Note #26, "In terms of implementation issues, any attempt at a unification of Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic would wreak havoc [and] make casing operations an unholy mess, in effect making all casing operations context sensitive […]". In other words, while the shapes of letters lik... | What distinguishes Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic from one another? | {'text': 'sets of symbols', 'answer_start': 1105} |
58,264 | 57,922 | 5728a5c6ff5b5019007da3a0 | generic | BYU mandates that its students who are members of the LDS Church be religiously active. Both LDS and Non-LDS students are required to provide an endorsement from an ecclesiastic leader with their application for admittance. Over 900 rooms on BYU campus are used for the purposes of LDS Church congregations. More than 15... | How many BYU campus rooms are used for the purposes of LDS Church congregations? | {'text': 'Over 900', 'answer_start': 224} |
116,146 | 115,804 | 5ad4a115ba00c4001a268e6b | generic | In March 2013, Microsoft also amended its certification requirements to allow tablets to use the 1024×768 resolution as a minimum; this change is expected to allow the production of certified Windows 8 tablets in smaller form factors—a market which is currently dominated by Android-based tablets. Despite the reaction o... | What changes did Microsoft make to its certification requirements in March 2012? | {'text': 'amended its certification requirements to allow tablets to use the 1024×768 resolution as a minimum', 'answer_start': 30} |
43,122 | 42,780 | 5ad2af74d7d075001a429f0b | generic | There is some evidence, in the form of ice cores drilled to about 400 m (1,300 ft) above the water line, that Lake Vostok's waters may contain microbial life. The frozen surface of the lake shares similarities with Jupiter's moon, Europa. If life is discovered in Lake Vostok, it would strengthen the argument for the po... | Where did a NASA team go on 8 February 2007? | {'text': 'Lake Untersee', 'answer_start': 406} |
70,944 | 70,602 | 5726c38bdd62a815002e8fcf | generic | By the mid-7th century, English and Irish missionaries set out to convert the Frisians. The pope appointed their leader, Willibrordus, bishop of the Frisians. The tenure of Willibrordus is generally considered to be the beginning of the Bishopric of Utrecht. In 723, the Frankish leader Charles Martel bestowed the fortr... | Who did the pope appoint Bishop | {'text': 'The pope appointed their leader, Willibrordus, bishop of the Frisians', 'answer_start': 88} |
69,849 | 69,507 | 5acea0d232bba1001ae4adcb | generic | Avicenna's consideration of the essence-attributes question may be elucidated in terms of his ontological analysis of the modalities of being; namely impossibility, contingency, and necessity. Avicenna argued that the impossible being is that which cannot exist, while the contingent in itself (mumkin bi-dhatihi) has th... | What is one modality of being that Avicenna never analyzed? | {'text': 'necessity', 'answer_start': 182} |
72,633 | 72,291 | 5a7330e253a187001ae6315a | generic | Comcast has also earned a reputation for being anti-union. According to one of the company's training manuals, "Comcast does not feel union representation is in the best interest of its employees, customers, or shareholders". A dispute in 2004 with CWA, a labor union that represented many employees at Comcast's offices... | What does the initialism CWA stand for? | {'text': 'Writers Guild of America', 'answer_start': 539} |
23,186 | 22,844 | 56f8b7329b226e1400dd0e9a | generic | There are many innovative art galleries in the city. The Southampton City Art Gallery at the Civic Centre is one of the best known and as well as a nationally important Designated Collection, houses several permanent and travelling exhibitions. The Millais Gallery at Southampton Solent University, the John Hansard Gall... | What's the all-lowercase named arts organization in charge of the art gallery in Southampton's Bargate? | {'text': 'a space', 'answer_start': 521} |
11,557 | 11,215 | 5a835545e60761001a2eb5b9 | generic | Programmes, such as the politically fuelled Give My Head Peace (produced by BBC Northern Ireland) and the soap opera River City (produced by BBC Scotland), have been created specifically to cater for some viewers in their respective nations, who may have found programmes created for English audiences irrelevant. BBC Sc... | What popular children's show does BBC Wales produce for its Gaelic-speaking viewers? | {'text': 'Eòrpa and Dè a-nis', 'answer_start': 470} |
117,911 | 117,569 | 573106f5e6313a140071cb6e | generic | The cuisine of Tuvalu is based on the staple of coconut and the many species of fish found in the ocean and lagoons of the atolls. Desserts made on the islands include coconut and coconut milk, instead of animal milk. The traditional foods eaten in Tuvalu are pulaka, taro, bananas, breadfruit and coconut. Tuvaluans als... | At what event is pork traditionally eaten on Tuvalu? | {'text': 'fateles', 'answer_start': 516} |
47,380 | 47,038 | 571a776810f8ca140030505f | generic | Stressful life experiences may be a cause of memory loss as a person ages. Glucocorticoids that are released during stress damage neurons that are located in the hippocampal region of the brain. Therefore, the more stressful situations that someone encounters, the more susceptible they are to memory loss later on. The ... | What neurons are damaged during stressful events? | {'text': 'The CA1 neurons found in the hippocampus', 'answer_start': 316} |
34,597 | 34,255 | 5ad23dbbd7d075001a4288a2 | generic | Emotions are complex. According to some theories, they are a state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence our behavior. The physiology of emotion is closely linked to arousal of the nervous system with various states and strengths of arousal relating, apparently, to particular emot... | What type of people show their emotions? | {'text': 'introverted', 'answer_start': 455} |
91,510 | 91,168 | 5729234a1d046914007790a5 | generic | Anthropologists such as C. Loring Brace, the philosophers Jonathan Kaplan and Rasmus Winther, and the geneticist Joseph Graves,[page needed] have argued that while there it is certainly possible to find biological and genetic variation that corresponds roughly to the groupings normally defined as "continental races", t... | Cluster structure of genetic data is dependent on what initial thing? | {'text': 'hypotheses', 'answer_start': 464} |
55,737 | 55,395 | 5a846f547cf838001a46a805 | generic | In 1838 with the amount of smuggled opium entering China approaching 1,400 tons a year, the Chinese imposed a death penalty for opium smuggling and sent a Special Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, to curb smuggling. This resulted in the First Opium War (1839–42). After the war Hong Kong island was ceded to Britain under... | How many tons of opium were stolen from China per year in 1838? | {'text': '1,400 tons', 'answer_start': 69} |
35,769 | 35,427 | 5a2e0066f28ef0001a5266dd | generic | The Air Commerce Act of May 20, 1926, is the cornerstone of the federal government's regulation of civil aviation. This landmark legislation was passed at the urging of the aviation industry, whose leaders believed the airplane could not reach its full commercial potential without federal action to improve and maintain... | Who passed the Air Commerce Act? | {'text': 'the aviation industry', 'answer_start': 169} |
27,381 | 27,039 | 56fa184cf34c681400b0bfae | generic | The greatest strength increase due to drying is in the ultimate crushing strength, and strength at elastic limit in endwise compression; these are followed by the modulus of rupture, and stress at elastic limit in cross-bending, while the modulus of elasticity is least affected. | Is the strength of the modulus of rupture or elasticity increased more when wood is dried? | {'text': 'modulus of rupture', 'answer_start': 163} |
32,807 | 32,465 | 5709750fed30961900e8418b | generic | One use of the term "computer security" refers to technology that is used to implement secure operating systems. In the 1980s the United States Department of Defense (DoD) used the "Orange Book" standards, but the current international standard ISO/IEC 15408, "Common Criteria" defines a number of progressively more str... | What is the standard for EAL6? | {'text': 'Semiformally Verified Design and Tested', 'answer_start': 578} |
116,012 | 115,670 | 5ad49bdeba00c4001a268d8a | generic | Several notable features have been removed in Windows 8, beginning with the traditional Start menu. Support for playing DVD-Video was removed from Windows Media Player due to the cost of licensing the necessary decoders (especially for devices which do not include optical disc drives at all) and the prevalence of onlin... | Which main feature was removed in Windows 9? | {'text': 'traditional Start menu', 'answer_start': 76} |
103,911 | 103,569 | 5acd6f5f07355d001abf41fb | generic | Motors have very little room for electrical insulation so they generally have low voltage ratings. Because transformers (prior to the development of power electronics) cannot step down DC voltages, trains were supplied with a relatively low DC voltage that the motors can use directly. The most common DC voltages are li... | Motors have a lot of room for electrical what? | {'text': 'insulation', 'answer_start': 44} |
102,807 | 102,465 | 5ad4aeca5b96ef001a109d8b | generic | His first professional TV job came when he was hired to direct one of the segments for the 1969 pilot episode of Night Gallery. The segment, "Eyes," starred Joan Crawford; she and Spielberg were reportedly close friends until her death. The episode is unusual in his body of work, in that the camerawork is more highly s... | In what year did Spielberg direct an episode of Marcus Welby, M.D.? | {'text': '1969', 'answer_start': 91} |
19,370 | 19,028 | 56e7825400c9c71400d771e9 | generic | Damage to a German steel facility occurred during a DST transition in 1993, when a computer timing system linked to a radio time synchronization signal allowed molten steel to cool for one hour less than the required duration, resulting in spattering of molten steel when it was poured. Medical devices may generate adve... | What year did an accident occur at a German facility with molten steel because of the change to DST? | {'text': '1993', 'answer_start': 70} |
36,521 | 36,179 | 570b241bec8fbc190045b860 | generic | The Council of Trent approved a plan in 1563 for correcting the calendrical errors, requiring that the date of the vernal equinox be restored to that which it held at the time of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 and that an alteration to the calendar be designed to prevent future drift. This would allow for a more co... | What did mathematicians of the time want to use to set the date of Easter? | {'text': 'motions of the sun and moon', 'answer_start': 603} |
61,694 | 61,352 | 572cb395dfb02c14005c6c05 | generic | Unlike the situation with the states, there is no plenary reception statute at the federal level that continued the common law and thereby granted federal courts the power to formulate legal precedent like their English predecessors. Federal courts are solely creatures of the federal Constitution and the federal Judici... | What does Article Three give federal agencies? | {'text': 'implied judicial power of common law courts to formulate persuasive precedent', 'answer_start': 576} |
36,168 | 35,826 | 570ae41e4103511400d59acb | generic | The dominant land plant species of the time were gymnosperms, which are vascular, cone-bearing, non-flowering plants such as conifers that produce seeds without a coating. This is opposed to the earth's current flora, in which the dominant land plants in terms of number of species are angiosperms. One particular plant ... | What is an example of a gymnosperm? | {'text': 'conifers', 'answer_start': 125} |
111,298 | 110,956 | 572fbf48a23a5019007fc942 | generic | A distinct Greek political identity re-emerged in the 11th century in educated circles and became more forceful after the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, so that when the empire was revived in 1261, it became in many ways a Greek national state. That new notion of nationhood engen... | When did the nation reestablish itself ? | {'text': 'empire was revived in 1261', 'answer_start': 210} |
44,292 | 43,950 | 5ad36afc604f3c001a3fe13c | generic | A year later, at the height of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed from his post by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, after the Opposition-controlled Senate rejected Whitlam's budget proposals. As Whitlam had a majority in the House of Representatives, Sp... | In what year did Sir John Kerr become governor-general of Australia? | {'text': '1975', 'answer_start': 35} |
14,421 | 14,079 | 56df973238dc421700152097 | generic | Bell began a series of public demonstrations and lectures to introduce the new invention to the scientific community as well as the general public. A short time later, his demonstration of an early telephone prototype at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia brought the telephone to international attention. In... | What important person saw the telephone at the Centennial Exposition? | {'text': 'Emperor Pedro II', 'answer_start': 366} |
14,755 | 14,413 | 56dfe0f17aa994140058e204 | generic | Strictly the term refers to the pump itself, which is normally manually operated, though electrically powered and gas powered pumps are occasionally used. When manually powered, the term "handpump" is often used to refer to both the pump and the associated handle. | Along with electricity, what sometimes powers beer pumps that aren't operated by hand? | {'text': 'gas', 'answer_start': 114} |
96,770 | 96,428 | 572a4a80fed8de19000d5b79 | generic | The establishment of Ottoman military aviation dates back to between June 1909 and July 1911. The Ottoman Empire started preparing its first pilots and planes, and with the founding of the Aviation School (Tayyare Mektebi) in Yeşilköy on 3 July 1912, the Empire began to tutor its own flight officers. The founding of th... | What new military academy was formed in June 1914? | {'text': 'the Naval Aviation School (Bahriye Tayyare Mektebi)', 'answer_start': 742} |
36,353 | 36,011 | 570b221b6b8089140040f769 | generic | In May 2005, the first high definition video conferencing systems, produced by LifeSize Communications, were displayed at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, able to provide video at 30 frames per second with a 1280 by 720 display resolution. Polycom introduced its first high definition video conferencing syst... | Who produced the first high definition video conferencing system? | {'text': 'LifeSize Communications', 'answer_start': 79} |
6,903 | 6,561 | 56d998c8dc89441400fdb597 | generic | The term "domestic dog" is generally used for both of the domesticated and feral varieties. The English word dog comes from Middle English dogge, from Old English docga, a "powerful dog breed". The term may possibly derive from Proto-Germanic *dukkōn, represented in Old English finger-docce ("finger-muscle"). The word ... | Where does the word dog originate? | {'text': 'Old English docga', 'answer_start': 151} |
33,966 | 33,624 | 5a8ce413fd22b3001a8d8fbc | generic | The United States Mint produces Proof Sets specifically for collectors and speculators. Silver Proofs tend to be the standard designs but with the dime, quarter, and half dollar containing 90% silver. Starting in 1983 and ending in 1997, the Mint also produced proof sets containing the year's commemorative coins alongs... | When did the Mint begin producing budget sets? | {'text': '1983', 'answer_start': 213} |
62,191 | 61,849 | 572678f9708984140094c743 | generic | Modern archaeology has largely discarded the historicity of the Patriarchs and of the Exodus story, with it being reframed as constituting the Israelites' inspiring national myth narrative. The Israelites and their culture, according to the modern archaeological account, did not overtake the region by force, but instea... | Which culture was largely Canaanite in nature? | {'text': 'Israelite', 'answer_start': 898} |
94,893 | 94,551 | 572b7eb8be1ee31400cb83ef | generic | 64Zn, the most abundant isotope of zinc, is very susceptible to neutron activation, being transmuted into the highly radioactive 65Zn, which has a half-life of 244 days and produces intense gamma radiation. Because of this, Zinc Oxide used in nuclear reactors as an anti-corrosion agent is depleted of 64Zn before use, t... | Why is zinc oxide used in nuclear reactors? | {'text': 'anti-corrosion agent', 'answer_start': 266} |
17,570 | 17,228 | 56e1d349e3433e14004231c2 | generic | There is a tendency to abandon traditionally gender-invariable adjectives in favour of marked ones, something prevalent in Occitan and French. Thus, one can find bullent/bullenta ("boiling") in contrast with traditional bullent/bullent. | What would be the traditional form of a gender-invariable adjective? | {'text': 'bullent/bullenta', 'answer_start': 162} |
24,751 | 24,409 | 56f8752baef23719006260b7 | generic | The Alps are a crescent shaped geographic feature of central Europe that ranges in a 800 km (500 mi) arc from east to west and is 200 km (120 mi) in width. The mean height of the mountain peaks is 2.5 km (1.6 mi). The range stretches from the Mediterranean Sea north above the Po basin, extending through France from Gre... | What is the mean height of the Alp's peak? | {'text': '2.5 km (1.6 mi)', 'answer_start': 197} |
53,686 | 53,344 | 5a0cfbf2f5590b0018dab6e4 | generic | By the early years of the 21st century, western clothing styles had, to some extent, become international styles. This process began hundreds of years earlier, during the periods of European colonialism. The process of cultural dissemination has perpetuated over the centuries as Western media corporations have penetrat... | Easter media corporations have spread what? | {'text': 'Western culture and styles', 'answer_start': 363} |
50,335 | 49,993 | 5724eebf0a492a190043567a | generic | In contrast to Catholic allegations of rationalism and naturalism, Protestant objections are more likely to be based on allegations of mysticism, occultism, and even Satanism. Masonic scholar Albert Pike is often quoted (in some cases misquoted) by Protestant anti-Masons as an authority for the position of Masonry on t... | Who is generally accepted as the voice of Freemasonry? | {'text': 'No one voice', 'answer_start': 736} |
100,645 | 100,303 | 572bf9b1dfb02c14005c6b15 | generic | During the American Revolutionary War, Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals (in present-day Elizabethton) was attacked (1776) by Dragging Canoe and his warring faction of Cherokee who were aligned with the British Loyalists. These renegade Cherokee were referred to by settlers as the Chickamauga. They opposed North Carolina... | What did American settlers call the Cherokee who attacked Fort Watuaga in 1776? | {'text': 'the Chickamauga', 'answer_start': 276} |
22,481 | 22,139 | 56f7607aa6d7ea1400e17222 | generic | Numerous examples show influence in the opposite direction, including popular songs based on classical music, the use to which Pachelbel's Canon has been put since the 1970s, and the musical crossover phenomenon, where classical musicians have achieved success in the popular music arena. In heavy metal, a number of lea... | Baroque or Classical era influence can be seen in what modern musical style? | {'text': 'heavy metal', 'answer_start': 292} |
37,815 | 37,473 | 570bc2566b8089140040fa17 | generic | This multilevel construct is consistent with Dasmann and Lovejoy. An explicit definition consistent with this interpretation was first given in a paper by Bruce A. Wilcox commissioned by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) for the 1982 World National Parks Conference. Wil... | What year did the United Nations Earth Summit define "biological diversity"? | {'text': '1992', 'answer_start': 504} |
128,652 | 128,310 | 57341539d058e614000b6906 | generic | Montana has been a destination for its world-class trout fisheries since the 1930s. Fly fishing for several species of native and introduced trout in rivers and lakes is popular for both residents and tourists throughout the state. Montana is the home of the Federation of Fly Fishers and hosts many of the organizations... | Since when has Montana been a destination for trout fisheries? | {'text': '1930s', 'answer_start': 77} |
38,953 | 38,611 | 570c25306b8089140040fb6c | generic | The FBI director is responsible for the day-to-day operations at the FBI. Along with his deputies, the director makes sure cases and operations are handled correctly. The director also is in charge of making sure the leadership in any one of the FBI field offices is manned with qualified agents. Before the Intelligence... | Who now reports to the President? | {'text': 'Director of National Intelligence', 'answer_start': 572} |
95,517 | 95,175 | 572a4fa81d046914007798fd | generic | While its fellow Canadian broadcasters converted most of their transmitters to digital by the Canadian digital television transition deadline of August 31, 2011, CBC converted only about half of the analogue transmitters in mandatory areas to digital (15 of 28 markets with CBC Television stations, and 14 of 28 markets ... | Which two large metropolitan areas lost CBC and Radio-Canada broadcasts? | {'text': 'London, Ontario (metropolitan area population 457,000) and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (metro area population 257,000)', 'answer_start': 930} |
130,593 | 130,251 | 5a7dccd270df9f001a8751aa | generic | Strange matter is a particular form of quark matter, usually thought of as a liquid of up, down, and strange quarks. It is contrasted with nuclear matter, which is a liquid of neutrons and protons (which themselves are built out of up and down quarks), and with non-strange quark matter, which is a quark liquid that con... | What is nuclear matter similar to? | {'text': 'Strange matter', 'answer_start': 0} |
120,467 | 120,125 | 57318951497a881900248fe7 | generic | About 5% of the Nicaraguan population are indigenous. The largest indigenous group in Nicaragua is the Miskito people. Their territory extended from Cape Camarón, Honduras, to Rio Grande, Nicaragua along the Mosquito Coast. There is a native Miskito language, but large groups speak Miskito Coast Creole, Spanish, Rama a... | What percentage of the Nicaraguan population are indigenous? | {'text': 'About 5%', 'answer_start': 0} |
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Turkey: The torch relay leg in Istanbul, held on April 3, started on Sultanahmet Square and finished in Taksim Square. Uyghurs living in Turkey protested at Chinese treatment of their compatriots living in Xinjiang. Several protesters who tried to disrupt the relay were promptly arrested by the police. | What happened to protesters who tried to interrupt the carrying of the torch? | {'text': 'arrested', 'answer_start': 282} |
36,073 | 35,731 | 570ace2c4103511400d59a1a | generic | The Late Triassic spans from 237 million to 200 million years ago. Following the bloom of the Middle Triassic, the Late Triassic featured frequent heat spells, as well as moderate precipitation (10-20 inches per year). The recent warming led to a boom of reptilian evolution on land as the first true dinosaurs evolve, a... | What was the span of the Late Triassic? | {'text': '237 million to 200 million years', 'answer_start': 29} |
17,056 | 16,714 | 5a54e6d8134fea001a0e175e | generic | After the start of the civil war, various new telecommunications companies began to spring up in the country and competed to provide missing infrastructure. Somalia now offers some of the most technologically advanced and competitively priced telecommunications and internet services in the world. Funded by Somali entre... | What did Chinese entrepreneurs create? | {'text': 'telecommunications firms', 'answer_start': 397} |
119,597 | 119,255 | 5a14a60da54d4200185292ef | generic | Shifts of international power have most notably occurred through major conflicts. The conclusion of the Great War and the resulting treaties of Versailles, St-Germain, Neuilly, Trianon and Sèvres witnessed the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan and the United States as the chief arbiters of the new world order. In th... | When did The United States pull out of the conference temporarily? | {'text': 'the decision-making of the Treaty of Versailles', 'answer_start': 966} |
3,713 | 3,371 | 56d658061c850414009470aa | generic | However, Reuters reported in June that, to date, Chinese prosecutors have joined an official inquiry into ten collapsed schools during May's devastating earthquake to gain first-hand material of construction quality at the collapsed schools, launch preliminary inquiries and prepare for possible investigations into prof... | What group reported that Chinese prosecutors were involved in investigating the schoolhouse collapses? | {'text': 'Reuters', 'answer_start': 9} |
117,621 | 117,279 | 5730b4be8ab72b1400f9c6ca | generic | The Sumerian language is generally regarded as a language isolate in linguistics because it belongs to no known language family; Akkadian, by contrast, belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. There have been many failed attempts to connect Sumerian to other language groups. It is an agglutinative la... | What has been the result of attempts to connect Sumerian to other language groups? | {'text': 'failed', 'answer_start': 233} |
68,170 | 67,828 | 5acd521e07355d001abf3d2d | generic | Raleigh is home to numerous cultural, educational, and historic sites. The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Raleigh features three theater venues and serves as the home for the North Carolina Symphony and the Carolina Ballet. Walnut Creek Amphitheatre is a large music amphitheater located in South... | Which US president died in Raleigh? | {'text': 'Andrew Johnson', 'answer_start': 955} |
71,034 | 70,692 | 5726dcb95951b619008f8047 | generic | Utrecht is the centre of a densely populated area, which makes concise definitions of its agglomeration difficult, and somewhat arbitrary. The smaller Utrecht agglomeration of continuously built up areas counts some 420,000 inhabitants and includes Nieuwegein, IJsselstein and Maarssen. It is sometimes argued that the c... | What does the dense population make difficult | {'text': 'which makes concise definitions of its agglomeration difficult, and somewhat arbitrary.', 'answer_start': 51} |
126,681 | 126,339 | 57329c6ed6dcfa19001e8a20 | generic | During the Permian all the Earth's major land masses, except portions of East Asia, were collected into a single supercontinent known as Pangaea. Pangaea straddled the equator and extended toward the poles, with a corresponding effect on ocean currents in the single great ocean (Panthalassa, the universal sea), and the... | During which period was the Tehtys Ocean dominant? | {'text': 'the Mesozoic Era', 'answer_start': 607} |
129,883 | 129,541 | 5736175f012e2f140011a1a0 | generic | Regulation of hunting within the United States dates from the 19th century. Some modern hunters see themselves as conservationists and sportsmen in the mode of Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club. Local hunting clubs and national organizations provide hunter education and help protect the future of the s... | What century is U.S. regulations dates from? | {'text': '19th', 'answer_start': 62} |
68,050 | 67,708 | 5726d30bf1498d1400e8ec5c | generic | Mali's constitution provides for an independent judiciary, but the executive continues to exercise influence over the judiciary by virtue of power to appoint judges and oversee both judicial functions and law enforcement. Mali's highest courts are the Supreme Court, which has both judicial and administrative powers, an... | Constitutional Court provides what type of review of legislative acts? | {'text': 'judicial review', 'answer_start': 368} |
119,780 | 119,438 | 57312208497a881900248b7d | generic | Birds have one of the most complex respiratory systems of all animal groups. Upon inhalation, 75% of the fresh air bypasses the lungs and flows directly into a posterior air sac which extends from the lungs and connects with air spaces in the bones and fills them with air. The other 25% of the air goes directly into th... | Which animal has one of the most complex respiratory system of all animal groups? | {'text': 'Birds', 'answer_start': 0} |
72,736 | 72,394 | 5a73707753a187001ae631c1 | generic | Comcast announced in May 2007 and launched in September 2008 a dashboard called SmartZone. Hewlett-Packard led "design, creation and management". Collaboration and unified messaging technology came from open-source vendor Zimbra. "SmartZone users will be able to send and receive e-mail, listen to their voicemail messag... | What was the name of the Hewlett-Packard antivirus software? | {'text': 'Trend Micro', 'answer_start': 536} |
110,398 | 110,056 | 572f91a0947a6a140053ca76 | generic | While Western Armenia still remained under Ottoman rule, the Armenians were granted considerable autonomy within their own enclaves and lived in relative harmony with other groups in the empire (including the ruling Turks). However, as Christians under a strict Muslim social system, Armenians faced pervasive discrimina... | What type of social system was in place under the Ottoman Empire? | {'text': 'Muslim', 'answer_start': 262} |
73,033 | 72,691 | 5727b4f53acd2414000dea40 | generic | Roughly one-third of the world's population has been infected with M. tuberculosis, with new infections occurring in about 1% of the population each year. However, most infections with M. tuberculosis do not cause TB disease, and 90–95% of infections remain asymptomatic. In 2012, an estimated 8.6 million chronic cases ... | About how many people died in 2010 carrying both HIV and TB? | {'text': '0.35 million', 'answer_start': 510} |
62,700 | 62,358 | 5a81a14f31013a001a334d03 | generic | Cotton lisle is a finely-spun, tightly twisted type of cotton that is noted for being strong and durable. Lisle is composed of two strands that have each been twisted an extra twist per inch than ordinary yarns and combined to create a single thread. The yarn is spun so that it is compact and solid. This cotton is used... | How is color perceived to be for gloves in comparison with stockings? | {'text': 'more brilliant', 'answer_start': 414} |
70,495 | 70,153 | 5ad414ce604f3c001a4002b9 | generic | Executive authority in Bermuda is vested in the monarch and is exercised on her behalf by the Governor. The governor is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the British Government. The current governor is George Fergusson; he was sworn in on 23 May 2012. There is also a Deputy Governor (currently David Arkley JP). D... | What title does George Arkely currently hold? | {'text': 'governor', 'answer_start': 196} |
86,645 | 86,303 | 572aa9e7be1ee31400cb812b | generic | During the 1960s, the ceremony of assenting by commission was discontinued and is now only employed once a year, at the end of the annual parliamentary session. In 1960, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod arrived to summon the House of Commons during a heated debate and several members protested against the disruptio... | During which decade was assention by commission discontinued? | {'text': 'the 1960s', 'answer_start': 7} |
122,640 | 122,298 | 5731b868e17f3d1400422312 | generic | Jefferson's opponents said his position was the destruction and the governmental rejection of Christianity, but this was a caricature. In setting up the University of Virginia, Jefferson encouraged all the separate sects to have preachers of their own, though there was a constitutional ban on the State supporting a Pro... | What did Jefferson encourage the separate sects at the University of Virginia to have of their own? | {'text': 'preachers', 'answer_start': 229} |
54,477 | 54,135 | 5acfdcfa77cf76001a686333 | generic | The United States No Electronic Theft Act (NET Act), a federal law passed in 1997, in response to LaMacchia, provides for criminal prosecution of individuals who engage in copyright infringement under certain circumstances, even when there is no monetary profit or commercial benefit from the infringement. Maximum penal... | How much were statutory damages lowered by? | {'text': '50%', 'answer_start': 427} |
10,329 | 9,987 | 56df50fc96943c1400a5d38e | generic | With the discovery of fire, the earliest form of artificial lighting used to illuminate an area were campfires or torches. As early as 400,000 BCE, fire was kindled in the caves of Peking Man. Prehistoric people used primitive oil lamps to illuminate surroundings. These lamps were made from naturally occurring material... | What is considered the earliest form of artificial lighting? | {'text': 'campfires or torches', 'answer_start': 101} |
100,204 | 99,862 | 5a7a21e917ab25001a8a0367 | generic | Czech syntax has a subject–verb–object sentence structure. In practice, however, word order is flexible and used for topicalization and focus. Although Czech has a periphrastic passive construction (like English), colloquial word-order changes frequently produce the passive voice. For example, to change "Peter killed P... | Is word order fixed or flexible in Pavla? | {'text': 'flexible', 'answer_start': 95} |
38,939 | 38,597 | 570c24bcec8fbc190045bc92 | generic | The Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, is located in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Organized beginning in 1991, the office opened in 1995 as the youngest agency division. The complex is the length of three football fields. It provides a main repository for information in various data systems. Under the... | Where is the CJIS located? | {'text': 'Clarksburg, West Virginia', 'answer_start': 73} |
100,010 | 99,668 | 572b6c54f75d5e190021fdc3 | generic | Czech (/ˈtʃɛk/; čeština Czech pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃɛʃcɪna]), formerly known as Bohemian (/boʊˈhiːmiən, bə-/; lingua Bohemica in Latin), is a West Slavic language strongly influenced by Latin and German language, spoken by over 10 million people and it is the official language of the Czech Republic. Czech's closest relat... | What languages strongly influenced Czech? | {'text': 'Latin and German', 'answer_start': 184} |
57,533 | 57,191 | 57268623f1498d1400e8e2ab | generic | The Napoleonic Wars were the cause of the final dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, and ultimately the cause for the quest for a German nation state in 19th-century German nationalism. After the Congress of Vienna, Austria and Prussia emerged as two competitors. Austria, trying to remain the dominant power in Central... | When was Germany's unification? | {'text': '1860s', 'answer_start': 657} |
121,979 | 121,637 | 5731c36fb9d445190005e517 | generic | Official cults were state funded as a "matter of public interest" (res publica). Non-official but lawful cults were funded by private individuals for the benefit of their own communities. The difference between public and private cult is often unclear. Individuals or collegial associations could offer funds and cult to... | What group benefited from non- official cults? | {'text': 'own communities', 'answer_start': 171} |
14,236 | 13,894 | 5ace097a32bba1001ae499e5 | generic | On December 24, Yeltsin informed the Secretary-General of the United Nations that by agreement of the member states of the CIS Russian Federation would assume the membership of the Soviet Union in all UN organs (including permanent membership in the UN Security Council). Thus, Russia is considered to be an original mem... | When did the Russian Federation reject the Soviet Union's membership in the UN? | {'text': 'December 24', 'answer_start': 3} |
123,214 | 122,872 | 57324d6d0fdd8d15006c6938 | generic | They formed, and identified with various religious groups advocating greater purity of worship and doctrine, as well as personal and group piety. Puritans adopted a Reformed theology, but they also took note of radical criticisms of Zwingli in Zurich and Calvin in Geneva. In church polity, some advocated for separation... | When did separatists become powerful in Puritanism? | {'text': 'the 1640s', 'answer_start': 465} |
50,045 | 49,703 | 5723febc0a492a19004355d9 | generic | By 1836, the Duchess's brother, Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831, hoped to marry his niece to his nephew, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold, Victoria's mother, and Albert's father (Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) were siblings. Leopold arranged for Victoria's mother to invite... | What year did Leopold become King of the Belgians? | {'text': '1831', 'answer_start': 81} |
58,610 | 58,268 | 5ad0c224645df0001a2d01f9 | generic | The first department store in the Philippines is the Hoskyn's Department Store of Hoskyn & Co. established in 1877 in Iloilo by the Englishman Henry Hoskyn, nephew of Nicholas Loney, the first British vice-consul in Iloilo. Some of the earliest department stores in the Philippines were located in Manila as early as 189... | Where were some of the newest Philippines stores located? | {'text': 'Manila', 'answer_start': 298} |
19,824 | 19,482 | 56e7896737bdd419002c40db | generic | Because of space constraints, NARA opened a second facility, known informally as Archives II, in 1994 near the University of Maryland, College Park campus (8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001). Largely because of this proximity, NARA and the University of Maryland engage in cooperative initiatives. The Coll... | What is the second facility of NARA named? | {'text': 'Archives II', 'answer_start': 81} |
40,304 | 39,962 | 5ad548db5b96ef001a10ac36 | generic | With the new Motorola 68030 processor came the Macintosh IIx in 1988, which had benefited from internal improvements, including an on-board MMU. It was followed in 1989 by the Macintosh IIcx, a more compact version with fewer slots and a version of the Mac SE powered by the 16 MHz 68030, the Macintosh SE/30. Later tha... | How many Apple I CPUS's did the new Macintosh llfx include? | {'text': 'two', 'answer_start': 879} |
93,211 | 92,869 | 572912746aef051400154a26 | generic | Federalism is one of the entrenched constitutional principles of Germany. According to the German constitution (called Grundgesetz or in English Basic Law), some topics, such as foreign affairs and defense, are the exclusive responsibility of the federation (i.e., the federal level), while others fall under the shared ... | What is an entrenched constitutional principle in Germany? | {'text': 'Federalism', 'answer_start': 0} |
90,300 | 89,958 | 5ad2451ed7d075001a428a89 | generic | Popper coined the term "critical rationalism" to describe his philosophy. Concerning the method of science, the term indicates his rejection of classical empiricism, and the classical observationalist-inductivist account of science that had grown out of it. Popper argued strongly against the latter, holding that scient... | What does critical rationalism embrace? | {'text': 'classical empiricism', 'answer_start': 144} |
51,688 | 51,346 | 5725c051271a42140099d122 | generic | Montevideo is situated on the north shore of the Río de la Plata, the arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the south coast of Uruguay from the north coast of Argentina; Buenos Aires lies 230 kilometres (140 mi) west on the Argentine side. The Santa Lucía River forms a natural border between Montevideo and San José ... | What river forms a natural border between Montevideo and San Jose Department? | {'text': 'Santa Lucía River', 'answer_start': 247} |
61,148 | 60,806 | 572665b6dd62a815002e838e | generic | Having sold more than 300 million records worldwide, Madonna is recognized as the best-selling female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) listed her as the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second best-selling female arti... | How many records did Madonna sell worldwide? | {'text': 'more than 300 million', 'answer_start': 12} |
102,205 | 101,863 | 573176cba5e9cc1400cdbf8c | generic | After Nasser died in November 1970, his successor, Anwar Sadat, suggested that rather than a unified state, they create a political federation, implemented in April 1971; in doing so, Egypt, Syria and Sudan got large grants of Libyan oil money. In February 1972, Gaddafi and Sadat signed an unofficial charter of merger,... | What was the alternative to creating an Arab political federation? | {'text': 'unified state', 'answer_start': 93} |
880 | 538 | 56d4e5922ccc5a1400d83306 | generic | In September 2010, Beyoncé made her runway modelling debut at Tom Ford's Spring/Summer 2011 fashion show. She was named "World's Most Beautiful Woman" by People and the "Hottest Female Singer of All Time" by Complex in 2012. In January 2013, GQ placed her on its cover, featuring her atop its "100 Sexiest Women of the 2... | What museum has made several models of Beyoncé in wax? | {'text': 'Madame Tussauds Wax Museums', 'answer_start': 443} |
114,377 | 114,035 | 57303e18a23a5019007fcff6 | generic | Association football is played in accordance with a set of rules known as the Laws of the Game. The game is played using a spherical ball of 68.5–69.5 cm (27.0–27.4 in) circumference, known as the football (or soccer ball). Two teams of eleven players each compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the... | What is the captain a part of before the start of the game? | {'text': 'the coin toss', 'answer_start': 647} |
87,446 | 87,104 | 5a5032aace860b001aa3fb01 | generic | For those with severe persistent asthma not controlled by inhaled corticosteroids and LABAs, bronchial thermoplasty may be an option. It involves the delivery of controlled thermal energy to the airway wall during a series of bronchoscopies. While it may increase exacerbation frequency in the first few months it appear... | What does taking corticosteroids increase in the first few months of use? | {'text': 'exacerbation frequency', 'answer_start': 264} |
108,712 | 108,370 | 572fa7a8b2c2fd14005682c2 | generic | South Indian music and dances such as the Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam styles are popular in the Deccan region. As a result of their culture policies, North Indian music and dance gained popularity during the rule of the Mughals and Nizams, and it was also during their reign that it became a tradition among the nobility... | What kind of music is dholak ke geet? | {'text': 'songs based on local Folklore', 'answer_start': 761} |
34,138 | 33,796 | 5709d00a6d058f1900182bb8 | generic | The Royal College of Chemistry was established by private subscription in 1845 as there was a growing awareness that practical aspects of the experimental sciences were not well taught and that in the United Kingdom the teaching of chemistry in particular had fallen behind that in Germany. As a result of a movement ear... | When was the Royal College of Chemistry established? | {'text': '1845', 'answer_start': 74} |
29,268 | 28,926 | 5705e3a452bb891400689657 | generic | Although colloquially Delhi and New Delhi as names are used interchangeably to refer to the jurisdiction of NCT of Delhi, these are two distinct entities, and the latter is a small part of the former. | New Delhi is a small part of what larger territory? | {'text': 'Delhi', 'answer_start': 22} |
20,832 | 20,490 | 56e79a2237bdd419002c41fb | generic | From the 1987 season until the late 1990s, the most exposure the league would receive was on ESPN, which aired tape-delayed games, often well after midnight, and often edited to match the alloted time slot. The league received its first taste of wide exposure in 1998, when Arena Bowl XII was televised nationally as par... | What AFL game was broadcast on ABC? | {'text': 'Arena Bowl XII', 'answer_start': 274} |
19,878 | 19,536 | 56e78f3100c9c71400d772bf | generic | Libraries and museums have been established for other presidents, but they are not part of the NARA presidential library system, and are operated by private foundations, historical societies, or state governments, including the Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge l... | Libraries that are established for other presidents are operated by private foundations, historical societies, and what government entities? | {'text': 'state governments', 'answer_start': 195} |
67,742 | 67,400 | 57279d1edd62a815002ea20e | generic | Switzerland has a stable, prosperous and high-tech economy and enjoys great wealth, being ranked as the wealthiest country in the world per capita in multiple rankings. In 2011 it was ranked as the wealthiest country in the world in per capita terms (with "wealth" being defined to include both financial and non-financi... | How does the Swiss economy rank worldwide by nominal GDP? | {'text': 'nineteenth largest', 'answer_start': 492} |
85,567 | 85,225 | 5a6271a6f8d794001af1bfdc | generic | Starting as a fishing outpost for European fishermen, St. John's consisted mostly of the homes of fishermen, sheds, storage shacks, and wharves constructed out of wood. Like many other cities of the time, as the Industrial Revolution took hold and new methods and materials for construction were introduced, the landscap... | What type of buildings date to the Industrial revolution? | {'text': 'most residential and other wood-frame buildings', 'answer_start': 432} |
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