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5,540 | 5,198 | 56d1c2d2e7d4791d00902121 | generic | This narrative draws on the Nidānakathā of the Jataka tales of the Theravada, which is ascribed to Buddhaghoṣa in the 5th century CE. Earlier biographies such as the Buddhacarita, the Lokottaravādin Mahāvastu, and the Sarvāstivādin Lalitavistara Sūtra, give different accounts. Scholars are hesitant to make unqualified ... | The Jataka tales of the Theravada happened in what century? | {'text': '5th ce', 'answer_start': 118} |
104,846 | 104,504 | 5ad42479604f3c001a40089f | generic | Interstate 26 begins in downtown Charleston, with exits to the Septima Clark Expressway, the Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge and Meeting Street. Heading northwest, it connects the city to North Charleston, the Charleston International Airport, Interstate 95, and Columbia. The Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge and Septima Clark Exp... | U.S. Highway 87 merges with what street? | {'text': 'Meeting Street.', 'answer_start': 836} |
129,350 | 129,008 | 5a82f946e60761001a2eb282 | generic | Because it is normal to have bacterial colonization, it is difficult to know which chronic wounds are infected. Despite the huge number of wounds seen in clinical practice, there are limited quality data for evaluated symptoms and signs. A review of chronic wounds in the Journal of the American Medical Association's "R... | What is there unlimited quality data for evaluating despite the huge number of wounds seen in a clinical practice? | {'text': 'symptoms and signs', 'answer_start': 218} |
38,595 | 38,253 | 5a611333e9e1cc001a33ce9d | generic | Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance and control. Internationally, all events are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Each country has its own national governing body (BIW) affiliated to FIG. Competitive artistic gymnastics is ... | What gymnastic event was discontinued? | {'text': 'skills for mounting and dismounting a horse', 'answer_start': 633} |
15,731 | 15,389 | 56e085d7231d4119001ac25c | generic | The Governor's Cup is a yacht race between Cape Town and Saint Helena island, held every two years in December/January; the most recent event was in December 2010. In Jamestown a timed run takes place up Jacob's Ladder every year, with people coming from all over the world to take part. | What months does the Governor's cup take place? | {'text': 'December/January', 'answer_start': 102} |
106,786 | 106,444 | 5a0f3f1cdecec90018475509 | generic | In central portions of the U.S., tornadoes are more common than anywhere else on Earth and touch down most commonly in the spring and summer. Deadly and destructive hurricanes occur almost every year along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. The Appalachian region and the Midwest experience the worst floods, ... | Where tornadoes least common on earth? | {'text': 'central portions of the U.S.', 'answer_start': 3} |
92,907 | 92,565 | 5728fc671d04691400778f08 | generic | In the 1500s a new type of armor started to become popular due to the advent of firearms, new fighting tactics and the need for additional protection. The kozane dou made from individual scales was replaced by plate armor. This new armor, which used iron plated dou (dō), was referred to as Tosei-gusoku, or modern armor... | What type of armor was replaced? | {'text': 'kozane dou', 'answer_start': 155} |
69,406 | 69,064 | 5726c8c3708984140094d14a | generic | As a more urban culture developed, academies provided a means of transmission for speculative and philosophical literature in early civilizations, resulting in the prevalence of literature in Ancient China, Ancient India, Persia and Ancient Greece and Rome. Many works of earlier periods, even in narrative form, had a c... | Besides entertainment or informational value, classic literature also possessed what quality? | {'text': 'a covert moral or didactic purpose', 'answer_start': 317} |
88,870 | 88,528 | 572843362ca10214002da1e6 | generic | On 7 August 1998, al-Qaeda struck the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans. In retaliation, U.S. President Bill Clinton launched Operation Infinite Reach, a bombing campaign in Sudan and Afghanistan against targets the U.S. asserted were associated with WIFJAJC, although othe... | How much of Sudan's medicines were produced by a pharmaceutical plant Clinton's operation bombed? | {'text': 'around 50%', 'answer_start': 480} |
101,306 | 100,964 | 5a0f5f07decec90018475594 | generic | Each play constitutes a down. The offence must advance the ball at least ten yards towards the opponents' goal line within three downs or forfeit the ball to their opponents. Once ten yards have been gained the offence gains a new set of three downs (rather than the four downs given in American football). Downs do not ... | What must the offence do within 10 yards or forfeit the ball? | {'text': "advance the ball at least ten yards towards the opponents' goal line within three downs", 'answer_start': 47} |
43,343 | 43,001 | 5ad0cc1d645df0001a2d03a7 | generic | In an attempt at reform, Eritrean government officials and NGO representatives have participated in numerous public meetings and dialogues. In these sessions they have answered questions as fundamental as, "What are human rights?", "Who determines what are human rights?", and "What should take precedence, human or comm... | What ancient cultural practice occurs in urban areas? | {'text': 'female genital mutilation', 'answer_start': 379} |
98,760 | 98,418 | 572aa931f75d5e190021fc12 | generic | Kerry's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander George Elliott, stated to Douglas Brinkley in 2003 that he did not know whether to court-martial Kerry for beaching the boat without orders or give him a medal for saving the crew. Elliott recommended Kerry for the Silver Star, and Zumwalt flew into An Thoi to personally... | What was released on March 17, 1969? | {'text': 'a historical summary', 'answer_start': 600} |
84,628 | 84,286 | 5727ff7c2ca10214002d9b04 | generic | On 30 November 1934, he was appointed Apostolic Delegate to Turkey and Greece and titular archbishop of Mesembria, Bulgaria. Thus, he is known as "the Turcophile Pope," by the Turkish society which is predominantly Muslim. Roncalli took up this post in 1935 and used his office to help the Jewish underground in saving t... | Who did he introduce Bulgarian pilgrims to? | {'text': 'Pope Pius XI', 'answer_start': 516} |
53,571 | 53,229 | 5a0ce2a9f5590b0018dab62e | generic | Physically, clothing serves many purposes: it can serve as protection from the elements, and can enhance safety during hazardous activities such as hiking and cooking. It protects the wearer from rough surfaces, rash-causing plants, insect bites, splinters, thorns and prickles by providing a barrier between the skin an... | What helps keep you warm in hot conditions? | {'text': 'Clothes', 'answer_start': 339} |
33,185 | 32,843 | 5a57bf28770dc0001aeefd3f | generic | Haredi Judaism advocates segregation from non-Jewish culture, although not from non-Jewish society entirely. It is characterised by its focus on community-wide Torah study. Haredi Orthodoxy's differences with Modern Orthodoxy usually lie in interpretation of the nature of traditional halakhic concepts and in acceptable... | In what interpretation are Haredi and Modern Orthodoxy the same? | {'text': 'traditional halakhic concepts', 'answer_start': 273} |
25,371 | 25,029 | 56f8a93c9b226e1400dd0d87 | generic | Early reports of Europeans reaching this area include those of the Venetian Alvise Cadamosto's voyage of 1455, the 1479–1480 voyage by Flemish-French trader Eustache de la Fosse, and Diogo Cão. In the 1480s this Portuguese explorer reached the Congo River and the lands of Bakongo, setting up the foundations of modern A... | What was the name of the Portuguese explorer? | {'text': 'Diogo Cão', 'answer_start': 183} |
106,500 | 106,158 | 572ec7e8dfa6aa1500f8d3a7 | generic | Commentaries dealing with the zahir (outward aspects) of the text are called tafsir, and hermeneutic and esoteric commentaries dealing with the batin are called ta'wil ("interpretation" or "explanation"), which involves taking the text back to its beginning. Commentators with an esoteric slant believe that the ultimate... | What is the Arabic term for the surface-level aspects of a text? | {'text': 'zahir', 'answer_start': 30} |
19,147 | 18,805 | 56e6f3236fe0821900b8ec4e | generic | The urban AC stations resemble soft AC rather than hot AC; they play predominantly R&B and soul music with little hip-hop. This is reflected in many of the urban AC radio stations' taglines, such as "Today's R&B and classic soul", "The best variety of R&B hits and oldies" and "(City/Region)'s R&B leader". Urban AC's co... | What adult contemporary radio format is urban AC not similar to? | {'text': 'hot AC', 'answer_start': 51} |
123,652 | 123,310 | 5a7b472821c2de001afe9e40 | generic | An error sometimes made is the confusion of discussion regarding Greece’s Eurozone entry with the controversy regarding usage of derivatives’ deals with U.S. Banks by Greece and other Eurozone countries to artificially reduce their reported budget deficits. A currency swap arranged with Goldman Sachs allowed Greece to ... | What was the result of the rejection with the U.S. banks? | {'text': 'artificially reduce their reported budget deficits', 'answer_start': 206} |
90,842 | 90,500 | 5ad22b4bd7d075001a4285f0 | generic | Noteworthy Irish mandolinists include Andy Irvine (who, like Johnny Moynihan, almost always tunes the top E down to D, to achieve an open tuning of GDAD), Paul Brady, Mick Moloney, Paul Kelly and Claudine Langille. John Sheahan and the late Barney McKenna, respectively fiddle player and tenor banjo player with The Dubl... | What Irish guitarist played the mandolin off stage? | {'text': 'Rory Gallagher', 'answer_start': 627} |
49,509 | 49,167 | 5723d1300dadf01500fa1f3b | generic | On 2 March 1882, Roderick Maclean, a disgruntled poet apparently offended by Victoria's refusal to accept one of his poems, shot at the Queen as her carriage left Windsor railway station. Two schoolboys from Eton College struck him with their umbrellas, until he was hustled away by a policeman. Victoria was outraged wh... | Who shot Queen Victoria? | {'text': 'Roderick Maclean', 'answer_start': 17} |
14,882 | 14,540 | 56dfefe9231d4119001abec6 | generic | The number of pubs in the UK has declined year on year, at least since 1982. Various reasons are put forward for this, such as the failure of some establishments to keep up with customer requirements. Others claim the smoking ban of 2007, intense competition from gastro-pubs, the availability of cheap alcohol in superm... | What business that sells cheap alcohol has sometimes been held to have resulted in the decline of pubs? | {'text': 'supermarkets', 'answer_start': 314} |
46,658 | 46,316 | 5aceb4ed32bba1001ae4b0df | generic | Athanasius recounts being a student, as well as being educated by the Martyrs of the Great (tenth) and last persecution of Christianity by pagan Rome.[citation needed] This persecution was most severe in the East, particularly in Egypt and Palestine. Peter of Alexandria, the 17th archbishop of Alexandria, was martyred ... | Who could have been one of Athanasius's students? | {'text': 'Peter of Alexandria', 'answer_start': 251} |
71,855 | 71,513 | 5acf922c77cf76001a6852c3 | generic | Capacitors may retain a charge long after power is removed from a circuit; this charge can cause dangerous or even potentially fatal shocks or damage connected equipment. For example, even a seemingly innocuous device such as a disposable-camera flash unit, powered by a 1.5 volt AA battery, has a capacitor which may co... | To what voltage could a capacitor from a disposable camera be never charged to? | {'text': 'over 300 volts', 'answer_start': 369} |
65,466 | 65,124 | 5727a8483acd2414000de8fd | generic | Cubist sculpture developed in parallel to Cubist painting. During the autumn of 1909 Picasso sculpted Head of a Woman (Fernande) with positive features depicted by negative space and vice versa. According to Douglas Cooper: "The first true Cubist sculpture was Picasso's impressive Woman's Head, modeled in 1909–10, a co... | What was the name of the 1909 Cubist sculpture Picassos created? | {'text': 'Head of a Woman', 'answer_start': 102} |
100,407 | 100,065 | 5acd79d907355d001abf43e4 | generic | The concept of 'education through recreation' was applied to childhood development in the 19th century. In the early 20th century, the concept was broadened to include young adults but the emphasis was on physical activities. L.P. Jacks, also an early proponent of lifelong learning, described education through recreati... | What happened in the 21st century? | {'text': 'include young adults but the emphasis was on physical activities', 'answer_start': 160} |
73,496 | 73,154 | 57276006708984140094dcb5 | generic | The racial preferences debate related to admission to US colleges and universities reflects competing notions of the mission of colleges: "To what extent should they pursue scholarly excellence, to what extent civic goods, and how should these purposes be balanced?". Scholars such as Ronald Dworkin have asserted that n... | What does the racial preferences debate indicate about universities and colleges? | {'text': 'competing notions of the mission of colleges', 'answer_start': 92} |
38,145 | 37,803 | 5a651f58c2b11c001a425c3d | generic | DEC operating systems (OS/8, RT-11, RSX-11, RSTS, TOPS-10, etc.) used both characters to mark the end of a line so that the console device (originally Teletype machines) would work. By the time so-called "glass TTYs" (later called CRTs or terminals) came along, the convention was so well established that backward compa... | What did Gary Klidall clone to create PC DOS? | {'text': 'RT-11', 'answer_start': 394} |
79,482 | 79,140 | 5a5d206c5e8782001a9d5e84 | generic | The city's municipal government was dominated by about 12–15 merchant families, whose wealth came from overseas trade with continental Europe — in particular the export of wool and hides and the import of salt, iron and wine. The medieval population of Cork was about 2,100 people. It suffered a severe blow in 1349 when... | What war did Cork take part in in the 1400's? | {'text': 'English Wars of the Roses', 'answer_start': 441} |
37,954 | 37,612 | 5a8cac2bfd22b3001a8d8d0e | generic | Agricultural diversity can also be divided by whether it is ‘planned’ diversity or ‘associated’ diversity. This is a functional classification that we impose and not an intrinsic feature of life or diversity. Planned diversity includes the crops which a farmer has encouraged, planted or raised (e.g.: crops, covers, sym... | What type of agriculure arrives uninvited? | {'text': 'associated diversity', 'answer_start': 390} |
30,046 | 29,704 | 5706f5de90286e26004fc763 | generic | Immunology is strongly experimental in everyday practice but is also characterized by an ongoing theoretical attitude. Many theories have been suggested in immunology from the end of the nineteenth century up to the present time. The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century saw a battle between "ce... | The routine practice of immunology can best be characterized as? | {'text': 'strongly experimental', 'answer_start': 14} |
52,914 | 52,572 | 5725de3489a1e219009abff5 | generic | On 13 December 1904, Hungarian Sándor Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman were granted a Hungarian patent (No. 34541) for a tungsten filament lamp that lasted longer and gave brighter light than the carbon filament. Tungsten filament lamps were first marketed by the Hungarian company Tungsram in 1904. This type is often c... | When did Just and Hanaman receive their patent for the tungsten filament lamp? | {'text': '13 December 1904', 'answer_start': 3} |
102,105 | 101,763 | 57316e8ae6313a140071cf30 | generic | The Bovington signal course's director reported that Gaddafi successfully overcame problems learning English, displaying a firm command of voice procedure. Noting that Gaddafi's favourite hobbies were reading and playing football, he thought him an "amusing officer, always cheerful, hard-working, and conscientious." Ga... | What language did Gaddafi have difficulty learning? | {'text': 'English', 'answer_start': 101} |
111,364 | 111,022 | 572fca32a23a5019007fc9e2 | generic | Homer refers to the "Hellenes" (/ˈhɛliːnz/) as a relatively small tribe settled in Thessalic Phthia, with its warriors under the command of Achilleus. The Parian Chronicle says that Phthia was the homeland of the Hellenes and that this name was given to those previously called Greeks (Γραικοί). In Greek mythology, Hell... | Is the name more ancient than other group names in the area ? | {'text': 'The name Hellenes seems to be older and it was probably used by the Greeks with the establishment of the Great Amphictyonic League.', 'answer_start': 1292} |
10,171 | 9,829 | 56ddee969a695914005b96d3 | generic | The Iranian languages or Iranic languages form a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, which in turn are a branch of the Indo-European language family. The speakers of Iranian languages are known as Iranian peoples. Historical Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (4... | What are the Iranic languages a subgroup of? | {'text': 'Indo-Iranian languages', 'answer_start': 63} |
49,445 | 49,103 | 5ad16b84645df0001a2d1a8d | generic | Victoria later described her childhood as "rather melancholy". Her mother was extremely protective, and Victoria was raised largely isolated from other children under the so-called "Kensington System", an elaborate set of rules and protocols devised by the Duchess and her ambitious and domineering comptroller, Sir John... | What system of rules kept her in contact with other children? | {'text': 'Kensington System', 'answer_start': 182} |
83,978 | 83,636 | 57288f98ff5b5019007da2f2 | 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 ... | Which south Indian coast was favored by Muslim traders? | {'text': 'western coast', 'answer_start': 446} |
86,035 | 85,693 | 572814c34b864d1900164420 | generic | At E3 2007, Sony was able to show a number of their upcoming video games for PlayStation 3, including Heavenly Sword, Lair, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Warhawk and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune; all of which were released in the third and fourth quarters of 2007. They also showed off a number of titles t... | At what event were two new Final Fantasy games for PS3 first shown to the Japanese market? | {'text': 'TGS 2007', 'answer_start': 882} |
104,317 | 103,975 | 5a75142d97ca42001a521e7f | generic | The exodus of Salvadorans was a result of both economic and political problems. The largest immigration wave occurred as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s, in which 20–30% of El Salvador's population emigrated. About 50%, or up to 500,000 of those who escaped headed to the United States, which was alrea... | Why did Salvadorans begin an exodus? | {'text': 'economic and political problems', 'answer_start': 47} |
112,554 | 112,212 | 572fc27ea23a5019007fc9ab | generic | Japan used the name Greater East Asia War (大東亜戦争, Dai Tō-A Sensō?), as chosen by a cabinet decision on 10 December 1941, to refer to both the war with the Western Allies and the ongoing war in China. This name was released to the public on 12 December, with an explanation that it involved Asian nations achieving their ... | What was the reason Japan gave for the war? | {'text': 'achieving their independence from the Western powers', 'answer_start': 304} |
125,016 | 124,674 | 57326547e99e3014001e6778 | generic | Eisenhower's goal to create improved highways was influenced by difficulties encountered during his involvement in the U.S. Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy. He was assigned as an observer for the mission, which involved sending a convoy of U.S. Army vehicles coast to coast. His subsequent experience with enco... | When did Eisenhower sign the law to create the Interstate Highway System? | {'text': 'June 1956', 'answer_start': 891} |
95,679 | 95,337 | 5729a2163f37b31900478527 | generic | In eastern Pennsylvania the Great Appalachian Valley, or Great Valley, was accessible by reason of a broad gateway between the end of South Mountain and the Highlands, and many Germans and Moravians settled here between the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers forming the Pennsylvania Dutch community, some of whom even now ... | Where did these Germans eventually occupy? | {'text': 'all of the Shenandoah Valley', 'answer_start': 632} |
114,575 | 114,233 | 573012f504bcaa1900d7710e | generic | Georgian succeeded the English Baroque of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Thomas Archer, William Talman, and Nicholas Hawksmoor; this in fact continued into at least the 1720s, overlapping with a more restrained Georgian style. The architect James Gibbs was a transitional figure, his earlier buildings are Baro... | Which architect was a transitional figure? | {'text': 'James Gibbs', 'answer_start': 251} |
35,808 | 35,466 | 5a2e024ff28ef0001a5266e9 | generic | The Aeronautics Branch was renamed the Bureau of Air Commerce in 1934 to reflect its enhanced status within the Department. As commercial flying increased, the Bureau encouraged a group of airlines to establish the first three centers for providing air traffic control (ATC) along the airways. In 1936, the Bureau itself... | When was the Aeronautics branch renamed to reflect it's decreased status? | {'text': '1934', 'answer_start': 65} |
97,110 | 96,768 | 572a18f23f37b319004786d5 | generic | Traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age, the Neolithic followed the terminal Holocene Epipaleolithic period and commenced with the beginning of farming, which produced the "Neolithic Revolution". It ended when metal tools became widespread (in the Copper Age or Bronze Age; or, in some geographical regio... | What event is associated with the start of farming? | {'text': 'Neolithic Revolution', 'answer_start': 189} |
44,881 | 44,539 | 57102005a58dae1900cd68c8 | generic | Of all the questions on the scale, Sell considered those assessing sexual attraction to be the most important as sexual attraction is a better reflection of the concept of sexual orientation which he defined as "extent of sexual attractions toward members of the other, same, both sexes or neither" than either sexual id... | Rather than define sexual orientation as sexual idenity or behavior what did Sell define it as? | {'text': 'extent of sexual attractions toward members of the other, same, both sexes or neither', 'answer_start': 212} |
19,980 | 19,638 | 5ad3c4e8604f3c001a3fefcf | generic | In 1816, the United Kingdom annexed the islands, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa. This is reported to have primarily been a measure to ensure that the French would be unable to use the islands as a base for a rescue operation to free Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on Saint Helena. The occupation al... | When were the islands annexed by Napoleon Bonaparte? | {'text': '1816', 'answer_start': 3} |
22,351 | 22,009 | 56f743d9aef2371900625a64 | generic | It is in this time that the notation of music on a staff and other elements of musical notation began to take shape. This invention made possible the separation of the composition of a piece of music from its transmission; without written music, transmission was oral, and subject to change every time it was transmitted... | How was music transmitted before the invention of musical notation? | {'text': 'oral', 'answer_start': 263} |
86,380 | 86,038 | 572849443acd2414000df89a | generic | The PlayStation 3 Slim received extremely positive reviews as well as a boost in sales; less than 24 hours after its announcement, PS3 Slim took the number-one bestseller spot on Amazon.com in the video games section for fifteen consecutive days. It regained the number-one position again one day later. PS3 Slim also re... | PC World's rave review of the PS3 Slim was a complete turnaround from their thoughts on what older model console? | {'text': 'PS3', 'answer_start': 568} |
96,956 | 96,614 | 5a42ba0b4a4859001aac72c7 | generic | Arguing against the absolutist position, Leibniz offers a number of thought experiments with the purpose of showing that there is contradiction in assuming the existence of facts such as absolute location and velocity. These arguments trade heavily on two principles central to his philosophy: the principle of sufficien... | What states that two things are not necessarily the same just because no difference can be identified? | {'text': 'The identity of indiscernibles states', 'answer_start': 527} |
68,142 | 67,800 | 5acd50c607355d001abf3cf4 | generic | Raleigh (/ˈrɑːli/; RAH-lee) is the capital of the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The c... | What lost city is 142 miles large? | {'text': 'Roanoke Colony', 'answer_start': 606} |
10,417 | 10,075 | 56dfa6de7aa994140058df9b | generic | A study conducted in 1972 and 1981, documented by Robert Ulrich, surveyed 23 surgical patients assigned to rooms looking out on a natural scene. The study concluded that patients assigned to rooms with windows allowing lots of natural light had shorter postoperative hospital stays, received fewer negative evaluative co... | Did patients that have natural scenes require more potent analgesics? | {'text': 'no', 'answer_start': 338} |
123,526 | 123,184 | 5731ea7eb9d445190005e683 | generic | The metro leaves the Rodoviária (bus station) and goes south, avoiding most of the political and tourist areas. The main purpose of the metro is to serve cities, such as Samambaia, Taguatinga and Ceilândia, as well as Guará and Águas Claras. The satellite cities served are more populated in total than the Plano Piloto ... | What is the Rodoviária? | {'text': 'bus station', 'answer_start': 33} |
112,802 | 112,460 | 57322b3ce17f3d14004226dd | generic | On the second day, U.S. reconnaissance planes located Ozawa's fleet, 275 miles (443 km)[citation needed] away, and submarines sank two Japanese carriers. Mitscher launched 230 torpedo planes and dive bombers. He then discovered the enemy was actually another 60 miles (97 km)[citation needed] further off, out of aircraf... | How many U.S. aircrews were lost? | {'text': '76', 'answer_start': 543} |
57,213 | 56,871 | 5726a94b708984140094cd2d | generic | By 17 May, the main Austrian army under Charles had arrived on the Marchfeld. Charles kept the bulk of his troops several miles away from the river bank in hopes of concentrating them at the point where Napoleon decided to cross. On 21 May, the French made their first major effort to cross the Danube, precipitating the... | On what date did French forces make their first significant attempt to cross the Danube? | {'text': '21 May', 'answer_start': 233} |
109,646 | 109,304 | 5acd4df707355d001abf3c8f | generic | Cultural barriers can also keep a person from telling someone they are in pain. Religious beliefs may prevent the individual from seeking help. They may feel certain pain treatment is against their religion. They may not report pain because they feel it is a sign that death is near. Many people fear the stigma of addic... | What can religious barriers prevent? | {'text': 'may prevent the individual from seeking help', 'answer_start': 98} |
75,812 | 75,470 | 572778285951b619008f8aa7 | generic | Bushi interests were diverse, cutting across old power structures to form new associations in the tenth century. Mutual interests, family connections, and kinship were consolidated in military groups that became part of family administration. In time, large regional military families formed around members of the court ... | Bushi formed new associations in what century? | {'text': 'tenth', 'answer_start': 98} |
124,524 | 124,182 | 5732499de99e3014001e6648 | generic | Jehovah's Witnesses believe that God's kingdom is a literal government in heaven, ruled by Jesus Christ and 144,000 "spirit-anointed" Christians drawn from the earth, which they associate with Jesus' reference to a "new covenant". The kingdom is viewed as the means by which God will accomplish his original purpose for ... | What do Jehovah Witnesses believe of God's kingdom? | {'text': 'a literal government in heaven', 'answer_start': 50} |
102,966 | 102,624 | 573195b3e6313a140071d0d6 | generic | In early 2009, Spielberg shot the first film in a planned trilogy of motion capture films based on The Adventures of Tintin, written by Belgian artist Hergé, with Peter Jackson. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, was not released until October 2011, due to the complexity of the computer animation invo... | What was the first non-Pixar movie to win the Best Animated Feature Film award? | {'text': 'The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn', 'answer_start': 178} |
96,091 | 95,749 | 5acd10cb07355d001abf3301 | generic | For "closed systems" with no external source or sink of energy, the first law of thermodynamics states that a system's energy is constant unless energy is transferred in or out by mechanical work or heat, and that no energy is lost in transfer. This means that it is impossible to create or destroy energy. While heat ca... | What states that the system doing work always gains some energy as waste heat? | {'text': 'second law of thermodynamics', 'answer_start': 475} |
128,046 | 127,704 | 57339a5bd058e614000b5e93 | generic | Since the construction of its oldest buildings, the university's physical plant has grown substantially. Over the years 29 residence halls have been built to accommodate students and each has been constructed with its own chapel. Many academic building were added together with a system of libraries, the most prominent ... | How many books are housed at the Theodore Hesburgh Library? | {'text': 'almost 4 million', 'answer_start': 398} |
94,239 | 93,897 | 5ad13859645df0001a2d1228 | generic | Similarly, in the United States, the independent National Research Council has noted that "sufficient domestic renewable resources exist to allow renewable electricity to play a significant role in future electricity generation and thus help confront issues related to climate change, energy security, and the escalation... | Insufficient domestic reneewable resources exist for what reason? | {'text': 'to allow renewable electricity to play a significant role in future electricity generation', 'answer_start': 137} |
12,066 | 11,724 | 56df6dc656340a1900b29b1a | generic | Plymouth Council is currently undertaking a project of urban redevelopment called the "Vision for Plymouth" launched by the architect David Mackay and backed by both Plymouth City Council and the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce (PCC). Its projects range from shopping centres, a cruise terminal, a boulevard and to increase... | Along with Plymouth Council, what body supports the "Vision for Plymouth"? | {'text': 'the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce', 'answer_start': 192} |
47,823 | 47,481 | 5ad2c7e1d7d075001a42a1e7 | generic | Some early male settlers married Indigenous American women and had informal unions with them. Early contact between Indigenous Americans and Europeans was often charged with tension, but also had moments of friendship, cooperation, and intimacy. Marriages took place in both English and Latin colonies between European m... | When was John Rolfe divorced from Pocahontas? | {'text': 'April 5, 1614', 'answer_start': 358} |
59,265 | 58,923 | 57267a69dd62a815002e8678 | generic | After the band's six-night stand at New York's Uris Theatre in May 1974, Brian May collapsed and was diagnosed as having hepatitis. While recuperating, May was initially absent when the band started work on their third album, but he returned midway through the recording process. Released in 1974, Sheer Heart Attack rea... | What Queen album was released after Sheer Heart Attack? | {'text': 'A Night at the Opera', 'answer_start': 929} |
47,450 | 47,108 | 5a8cedddfd22b3001a8d903b | generic | Although people often think that memory operates like recording equipment, it is not the case. The molecular mechanisms underlying the induction and maintenance of memory are very dynamic and comprise distinct phases covering a time window from seconds to even a lifetime. In fact, research has revealed that our memorie... | How does a person build their confidence? | {'text': 'when they encode them and/or when they recall them', 'answer_start': 375} |
11,607 | 11,265 | 5a83667ee60761001a2eb669 | generic | In February 2016, it was confirmed by BBC Worldwide that Keeping Up Appearances is the corporation's most exported television programme, being sold nearly 1000 times to overseas broadcasters. | What was confirmed about Keeping Up With Appearances? | {'text': "the corporation's most exported television programme", 'answer_start': 83} |
90,172 | 89,830 | 57288c842ca10214002da466 | generic | Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. He used the black swan fallacy to d... | What is necessary for a scientific theory to be falsified? | {'text': 'decisive experiments', 'answer_start': 263} |
124,674 | 124,332 | 573256c6e17f3d14004228b7 | generic | Political and religious animosity against Jehovah's Witnesses has at times led to mob action and government oppression in various countries. Their doctrine of political neutrality and their refusal to serve in the military has led to imprisonment of members who refused conscription during World War II and at other time... | Of the 20,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany in 1933, how many were later imprisoned? | {'text': '10,000', 'answer_start': 453} |
48,497 | 48,155 | 571ae0179499d21900609b7c | generic | Prior to the second world war, birth control was prohibited in many countries, and in the United States even the discussion of contraceptive methods sometimes led to prosecution under Comstock laws. The history of the development of oral contraceptives is thus closely tied to the birth control movement and the efforts ... | In 1965, how many women were on the birth control pill? | {'text': '6.5 million', 'answer_start': 879} |
2,099 | 1,757 | 56ce72ecaab44d1400b8879c | generic | Like other digital music players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB for the iPod Shuffle to 128 GB for the iPod Touch (previously 160 GB for the iPod Classic, which is now discontinued). | What's the storage capacity for the iPod Touch? | {'text': '128 GB', 'answer_start': 160} |
60,074 | 59,732 | 5a7cde39e8bc7e001a9e208d | generic | The first railways in Thuringia had been built in the 1840s and the network of main lines was finished around 1880. By 1920, many branch lines had been built, giving Thuringia one of the densest rail networks in the world before World War II with about 2,500 km of track. Between 1950 and 2000 most of the branch lines w... | When was Thuringia's worst railway built? | {'text': '1840s', 'answer_start': 54} |
64,992 | 64,650 | 5ad0cada645df0001a2d0397 | generic | By the 12th century, Romanesque architecture (termed Norman architecture in England because of its association with the Norman invasion), was established throughout Europe and provided the basic architectural forms and units that were to remain in evolution throughout the Medieval period. The important categories of bu... | What century was the Romanesque style forgotten all over Europe? | {'text': 'the 12th century', 'answer_start': 3} |
12,680 | 12,338 | 5acd16f507355d001abf343a | generic | The nature and definition of matter - like other key concepts in science and philosophy - have occasioned much debate. Is there a single kind of matter (hyle) which everything is made of, or multiple kinds? Is matter a continuous substance capable of expressing multiple forms (hylomorphism), or a number of discrete, un... | What is the term for lacking then gaining properties? | {'text': 'prima materia', 'answer_start': 430} |
5,317 | 4,975 | 56cf7bf44df3c31400b0d829 | generic | On March 30, 2015, it was announced that West is a co-owner, with various other music artists, in the music streaming service Tidal. The service specialises in lossless audio and high definition music videos. Jay Z acquired the parent company of Tidal, Aspiro, in the first quarter of 2015. Including Beyoncé and Jay-Z, ... | What platform was Kanye named a co-owner of in 2015? | {'text': 'Tidal', 'answer_start': 126} |
76,770 | 76,428 | 5a8cbcd7fd22b3001a8d8dbe | generic | Jesus' death and resurrection underpin a variety of theological interpretations as to how salvation is granted to humanity. These interpretations vary widely in how much emphasis they place on the death of Jesus as compared to his words. According to the substitutionary atonement view, Jesus' death is of central import... | According to the moral influence theory, Jesus death is how important? | {'text': 'of central importance', 'answer_start': 303} |
63,583 | 63,241 | 57269c32708984140094cbac | generic | Bridgwater was developed during the Industrial Revolution as the area's leading port. The River Parrett was navigable by large ships as far as Bridgwater. Cargoes were then loaded onto smaller boats at Langport Quay, next to the Bridgwater Bridge, to be carried further up river to Langport; or they could turn off at Bu... | what was manufacture in Bridgeport in the 19th and 20th century | {'text': 'was a centre for the manufacture of bricks and clay roof tiles, and later cellophane, but those industries have now stopped', 'answer_start': 481} |
53,089 | 52,747 | 5ad19f40645df0001a2d213a | generic | One of the problems of the standard electric light bulb is filament notching due to evaporation of the filament. Small variations in resistivity along the filament cause "hot spots" to form at points of higher resistivity; a variation of diameter of only 1% will cause a 25% reduction in service life. These hot spots ev... | What evaporates slower than the rest of the filament? | {'text': 'hot spots', 'answer_start': 308} |
103,433 | 103,091 | 572f0d29dfa6aa1500f8d595 | generic | As of January 2008, Spain is the nation with the most elevators installed in the world, with 950,000 elevators installed that run more than one hundred million lifts every day, followed by United States with 700,000 elevators installed and China with 610,000 elevators installed since 1949. In Brazil, it is estimated th... | How many elevators are in Brazil? | {'text': '300,000', 'answer_start': 347} |
110,098 | 109,756 | 573423e9d058e614000b69da | generic | Central Tucson is bicycle-friendly. To the east of the University of Arizona, Third Street is bike-only except for local traffic and passes by the historic homes of the Sam Hughes neighborhood. To the west, E. University Boulevard leads to the Fourth Avenue Shopping District. To the North, N. Mountain Avenue has a full... | Which Tucson street is devoted to bicycles? | {'text': 'Third Street', 'answer_start': 78} |
11,846 | 11,504 | 56de64cf4396321400ee2875 | generic | Plymouth (i/ˈplɪməθ/) is a city on the south coast of Devon, England, about 37 miles (60 km) south-west of Exeter and 190 miles (310 km) west-south-west of London, between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west where they join Plymouth Sound to form the boundary with Cornwall. | In kilometers, what is the distance from Plymouth to Exeter? | {'text': '60', 'answer_start': 86} |
73,409 | 73,067 | 5ad4175f604f3c001a400395 | generic | In the year 2000, according to a study by American Association of University Professors (AAUP), affirmative action promoted diversity within colleges and universities. This has been shown to have positive effects on the educational outcomes and experiences of college students as well as the teaching of faculty members.... | What did a study claim about the beliefs of faculty members on decreased diversity? | {'text': 'helps students to reach the essential goals of a college education', 'answer_start': 442} |
58,840 | 58,498 | 5726559af1498d1400e8dc4e | generic | On the assumption that intellectual property rights are actual rights Stallman argues that this claim does not live to the historical intentions behind these laws, which in the case of copyright served as a censorship system, and later on, a regulatory model for the printing press that may have benefited authors incide... | Stallman thinks what type of IP historically served as a censorship system? | {'text': 'copyright', 'answer_start': 185} |
84,691 | 84,349 | 572803713acd2414000df235 | generic | Far from being a mere "stopgap" pope, to great excitement, John XXIII called for an ecumenical council fewer than ninety years after the First Vatican Council (Vatican I's predecessor, the Council of Trent, had been held in the 16th century). This decision was announced on 29 January 1959 at the Basilica of Saint Paul ... | Where was the decision made for this council? | {'text': 'the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls', 'answer_start': 293} |
81,939 | 81,597 | 5728c7763acd2414000dfe36 | generic | By 6000 BCE predynastic Egyptians in the southwestern corner of Egypt were herding cattle and constructing large buildings. Subsistence in organized and permanent settlements in predynastic Egypt by the middle of the 6th millennium BCE centered predominantly on cereal and animal agriculture: cattle, goats, pigs and she... | By what time period were the Egyptians constructing large buildings? | {'text': '6000 BCE', 'answer_start': 3} |
44,229 | 43,887 | 570f59605ab6b81900390efb | generic | More-or-less independent circadian rhythms are found in many organs and cells in the body outside the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), the "master clock". These clocks, called peripheral oscillators, are found in the adrenal gland,[citation needed] oesophagus, lungs, liver, pancreas, spleen, thymus, and skin.[citation nee... | What is the SCN considered to be in comparison to the peripheral oscillators? | {'text': 'master clock', 'answer_start': 137} |
45,119 | 44,777 | 570fd09a80d9841400ab36a8 | generic | In the 1990s, Dell switched from using primarily ATX motherboards and PSU to using boards and power supplies with mechanically identical but differently wired connectors. This meant customers wishing to upgrade their hardware would have to replace parts with scarce Dell-compatible parts instead of commonly available pa... | What part of their motherboards does Dell not reveal the specifications of? | {'text': 'pin-outs', 'answer_start': 463} |
57,123 | 56,781 | 57268554f1498d1400e8e285 | generic | To expand his power, Napoleon used these assassination plots to justify the creation of an imperial system based on the Roman model. He believed that a Bourbon restoration would be more difficult if his family's succession was entrenched in the constitution. Launching yet another referendum, Napoleon was elected as Emp... | What did Napoleon use to justify his creation of an imperial system? | {'text': 'assassination plots', 'answer_start': 41} |
99,490 | 99,148 | 572aed7d34ae481900dead28 | generic | Philosophical empiricists hold no knowledge to be properly inferred or deduced unless it is derived from one's sense-based experience. This view is commonly contrasted with rationalism, which states that knowledge may be derived from reason independently of the senses. For example, John Locke held that some knowledge (... | Where does rationalism say knowledge comes from? | {'text': 'reason independently of the senses', 'answer_start': 234} |
98,153 | 97,811 | 572a7506fed8de19000d5c2a | generic | The northern side of Miami includes Midtown, a district with a great mix of diversity with many West Indians, Hispanics, European Americans, bohemians, and artists. Edgewater, and Wynwood, are neighborhoods of Midtown and are made up mostly of high-rise residential towers and are home to the Adrienne Arsht Center for t... | What is the name of the architectural style originating in 1950s Miami? | {'text': 'MiMo', 'answer_start': 512} |
91,517 | 91,175 | 57292506af94a219006aa0f1 | generic | Many social scientists have replaced the word race with the word "ethnicity" to refer to self-identifying groups based on beliefs concerning shared culture, ancestry and history. Alongside empirical and conceptual problems with "race", following the Second World War, evolutionary and social scientists were acutely awar... | When did the civil rights movement take place? | {'text': 'the 1960s', 'answer_start': 459} |
5,288 | 4,946 | 56cf78de4df3c31400b0d801 | generic | On October 1, 2011, Kanye West premiered his women's fashion label, DW Kanye West at Paris Fashion Week. He received support from DSquared2 duo Dean and Dan Caten, Olivier Theyskens, Jeremy Scott, Azzedine Alaïa, and the Olsen twins, who were also in attendance during his show. His debut fashion show received mixed-to-... | When did Kanye debut his second effort in the fashion world? | {'text': 'March 6, 2012', 'answer_start': 563} |
128,227 | 127,885 | 5733cd504776f41900661292 | generic | Notre Dame alumni work in various fields. Alumni working in political fields include state governors, members of the United States Congress, and former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. A notable alumnus of the College of Science is Medicine Nobel Prize winner Eric F. Wieschaus. A number of university ... | Which notable astronaut is known to have attended Notre Dame? | {'text': 'Jim Wetherbee', 'answer_start': 1232} |
104,330 | 103,988 | 572eb75ec246551400ce4557 | generic | As civil wars engulfed several Central American countries in the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans fled their country and came to the United States. Between 1980 and 1990, the Salvadoran immigrant population in the United States increased nearly fivefold from 94,000 to 465,000. The number of Salvadoran immigr... | Is the Salvadoran population still growing? | {'text': 'the United States continued to grow in the 1990s and 2000s as a result of family reunification and new arrivals fleeing a series of natural disasters', 'answer_start': 328} |
91,653 | 91,311 | 572944df6aef051400154c27 | generic | Mass incarceration in the United States disproportionately impacts African American and Latino communities. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010), argues that mass incarceration is best understood as not only a system of overcrowded prisons. Mass incarcer... | Who does Alexander think a second class citizenship is imposed upon disproportionately? | {'text': 'people of color', 'answer_start': 694} |
82,156 | 81,814 | 5727daee3acd2414000dee22 | generic | In India, the longest constitutional text in the history of the world has governed that country since 1950. Although the Constitution of India may have been intended to provide details that would limit the opportunity for judicial discretion, the more text there is in a constitution the greater opportunity the judiciar... | In what year was India's constitution drafted? | {'text': '1950', 'answer_start': 102} |
82,829 | 82,487 | 5ad2c433d7d075001a42a154 | generic | The Chicago Transit Authority's elevated train running through Evanston is called the Purple Line, taking its name from Northwestern's school color. The Foster and Davis stations are within walking distance of the southern end of the campus, while the Noyes station is close to the northern end of the campus. The Centra... | Which train stations are within driving distance of the southern end of campus? | {'text': 'Foster and Davis', 'answer_start': 153} |
42,333 | 41,991 | 570d7b36fed7b91900d461b5 | generic | On 28 January 1871 the Government of National Defence based in Paris negotiated an armistice with the Prussians. With Paris starving, and Gambetta's provincial armies reeling from one disaster after another, French foreign minister Favre went to Versailles on 24 January to discuss peace terms with Bismarck. Bismarck ag... | What consequence of war were Parisians suffering? | {'text': 'starving', 'answer_start': 124} |
105,923 | 105,581 | 572eb82403f9891900756996 | generic | After 92 AD, the palace eunuchs increasingly involved themselves in court politics, engaging in violent power struggles between the various consort clans of the empresses and empress dowagers, causing the Han's ultimate downfall. Imperial authority was also seriously challenged by large Daoist religious societies which... | Who was the last Emperor of the Han dynasty? | {'text': 'Xian', 'answer_start': 679} |
81,517 | 81,175 | 5728d2774b864d1900164ed9 | generic | London has numerous venues for rock and pop concerts, including the world's busiest arena the o2 arena and other large arenas such as Earls Court, Wembley Arena, as well as many mid-sized venues, such as Brixton Academy, the Hammersmith Apollo and the Shepherd's Bush Empire. Several music festivals, including the Wirel... | In which recording studio did the Beatles do much of their recording? | {'text': 'Abbey Road Studios', 'answer_start': 486} |
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