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73,308 | 72,966 | 572739b6dd62a815002e99bc | generic | In the beginning, racial classifications that identified race were inherently suspect and subject to strict scrutiny. These classifications would only be upheld if necessary to promote a compelling governmental interest. Later the U.S. Supreme Court decided that racial classifications that benefited underrepresented mi... | Who later confirmed that racial classifications were only to be upheld if they were necessary? | {'text': 'U.S. Supreme Court', 'answer_start': 231} |
85,671 | 85,329 | 57282ad24b864d1900164641 | generic | St. John's is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway, one of the longest national highways in the world. The divided highway, also known as "Outer Ring Road" in the city, runs just outside the main part of the city, with exits to Pitts Memorial Drive, Topsail Road, Team Gushue Highway, Thorburn Road, Allandal... | Outer Ring Road is a another name for what? | {'text': 'The divided highway', 'answer_start': 115} |
81,123 | 80,781 | 5728d4373acd2414000dff98 | generic | The city is governed pursuant to the Home Rule Charter of the City of Detroit. The city government is run by a mayor and a nine-member city council and clerk elected on an at-large nonpartisan ballot. Since voters approved the city's charter in 1974, Detroit has had a "strong mayoral" system, with the mayor approving d... | When was Detroit's charter approved? | {'text': '1974', 'answer_start': 245} |
91,852 | 91,510 | 5728e35a2ca10214002daa33 | generic | The second-largest business district in terms of employment is La Défense, just west of the city, where many companies installed their offices in the 1990s. In 2010 it was the workplace of 144,600 employees, of whom 38 percent worked in finance and insurance, 16 percent in business support services. Two other important... | How many people worked for La Defense in 2010? | {'text': '144,600', 'answer_start': 189} |
15,476 | 15,134 | 56e0359f231d4119001abfcc | generic | The importation of slaves was made illegal in 1792. Governor Robert Patton (1802–1807) recommended that the company import Chinese labour to supplement the rural workforce. The coolie labourers arrived in 1810, and their numbers reached 600 by 1818. Many were allowed to stay, and their descendents became integrated int... | How many coolie labourers were on the island by 1818? | {'text': '600', 'answer_start': 237} |
39,154 | 38,812 | 5ad365c7604f3c001a3fe048 | generic | J. Edgar Hoover served as Director from 1924 to 1972, a combined 48 years with the BOI, DOI, and FBI. He was chiefly responsible for creating the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, or the FBI Laboratory, which officially opened in 1932, as part of his work to professionalize investigations by the government. Hoover... | What year did the FBI laboratory officially close? | {'text': '1932', 'answer_start': 235} |
59,535 | 59,193 | 5acfc0ce77cf76001a685cb2 | generic | Presbyterians place great importance upon education and lifelong learning. Continuous study of the scriptures, theological writings, and understanding and interpretation of church doctrine are embodied in several statements of faith and catechisms formally adopted by various branches of the church, often referred to as... | The point of what is to enable one to put education into practice? | {'text': 'learning', 'answer_start': 396} |
122,867 | 122,525 | 5731d7dbe99e3014001e6326 | generic | The "religious test" clause has been interpreted to cover both elected officials and appointed ones, career civil servants as well as political appointees. Religious beliefs or the lack of them have therefore not been permissible tests or qualifications with regard to federal employees since the ratification of the Con... | What clause are both elected officials and appointed ones covered by? | {'text': 'religious test', 'answer_start': 5} |
39,716 | 39,374 | 570dfb650b85d914000d7c51 | generic | The main passenger airport serving the metropolis and the state is Melbourne Airport (also called Tullamarine Airport), which is the second busiest in Australia, and the Port of Melbourne is Australia's busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo. Melbourne has an extensive transport network. The main metropoli... | Where is the world's largest urban tram network located? | {'text': 'Melbourne', 'answer_start': 441} |
62,204 | 61,862 | 5ace8dd832bba1001ae4aa2d | generic | Although the Israelites were divided into Twelve Tribes, the Jews (being one offshoot of the Israelites, another being the Samaritans) are traditionally said to descend mostly from the Israelite tribes of Judah (from where the Jews derive their ethnonym) and Benjamin, and partially from the tribe of Levi, who had toget... | Where did the Southern Kingdom of Israel migrate to? | {'text': 'the Kingdom of Judah', 'answer_start': 428} |
40,165 | 39,823 | 570c5f39b3d812140066d19d | generic | Popular representations of John first began to emerge during the Tudor period, mirroring the revisionist histories of the time. The anonymous play The Troublesome Reign of King John portrayed the king as a "proto-Protestant martyr", similar to that shown in John Bale's morality play Kynge Johan, in which John attempts ... | When did popular representations of John begin to emerge? | {'text': 'Tudor period', 'answer_start': 65} |
39,180 | 38,838 | 570c2effec8fbc190045bd54 | generic | In response to organized crime, on August 25, 1953, the FBI created the Top Hoodlum Program. The national office directed field offices to gather information on mobsters in their territories and to report it regularly to Washington for a centralized collection of intelligence on racketeers. After the Racketeer Influenc... | After the RICO Act took effect what did the FBI start investigating? | {'text': 'former Prohibition-organized groups', 'answer_start': 412} |
79,174 | 78,832 | 5727b502ff5b5019007d9311 | generic | As the School grew, more students were allowed to attend provided that they paid their own fees and lived in the town, outside the College's original buildings. These students became known as Oppidans, from the Latin word oppidum, meaning town. The Houses developed over time as a means of providing residence for the Op... | About how many students are in a typical Oppidan house? | {'text': 'fifty', 'answer_start': 466} |
116,121 | 115,779 | 5ad4a032ba00c4001a268e3c | generic | The interface of Windows 8 has been the subject of mixed reaction. Bright wrote that its system of hot corners and edge swiping "wasn't very obvious" due to the lack of instructions provided by the operating system on the functions accessed through the user interface, even by the video tutorial added on the RTM release... | What kind of feedback has Windows 9 received? | {'text': 'mixed', 'answer_start': 51} |
36,456 | 36,114 | 5a36fcf095360f001af1b3aa | generic | Lilius's proposals had two components. Firstly, he proposed a correction to the length of the year. The mean tropical year is 365.24219 days long. As the average length of a Julian year is 365.25 days, the Julian year is almost 11 minutes longer than the mean tropical year. The discrepancy results in a drift of about t... | What was originally set as March 25? | {'text': 'vernal equinox', 'answer_start': 546} |
94,685 | 94,343 | 57296ef16aef051400154e98 | generic | Brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc, has been used since at least the 10th century BC in Judea and by the 7th century BC in Ancient Greece. Zinc metal was not produced on a large scale until the 12th century in India and was unknown to Europe until the end of the 16th century. The mines of Rajasthan have given ... | What two metals are mixed to create Brass? | {'text': 'copper and zinc', 'answer_start': 28} |
90,002 | 89,660 | 5728ec472ca10214002daa9a | generic | Most food in Alaska is transported into the state from "Outside", and shipping costs make food in the cities relatively expensive. In rural areas, subsistence hunting and gathering is an essential activity because imported food is prohibitively expensive. Though most small towns and villages in Alaska lie along the coa... | Which state in the US is the only to have higher fuel prices than Alaska? | {'text': 'Hawaii', 'answer_start': 979} |
9,037 | 8,695 | 5a6b244ea9e0c9001a4e9f03 | generic | In 2003, Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey defended a client from a trademark dispute using the Archive's Wayback Machine. The attorneys were able to demonstrate that the claims made by the plaintiff were invalid, based on the content of their web site from several years prior. The plaintiff, Healthcare Advocates, then ... | What laws did Healthcare Advocates accuse Early Follmer & Frailey of having broken? | {'text': 'the DMCA and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act', 'answer_start': 454} |
76,337 | 75,995 | 572816e43acd2414000df43c | generic | In late February, large public rallies took place in Kiev to protest the election laws, on the eve of the March 26 elections to the USSR Congress of People's Deputies, and to call for the resignation of the first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Volodymyr Scherbytsky, lampooned as "the mastodon of stagnatio... | Who visited the Ukraine while the protests were taking place? | {'text': 'Gorbachev', 'answer_start': 397} |
23,200 | 22,858 | 56f8bb289e9bad19000a03d3 | generic | The city is home or birthplace to a number of contemporary musicians such as R'n'B singer Craig David, Coldplay drummer Will Champion, former Holloways singer Rob Skipper as well as 1980s popstar Howard Jones. Several rock bands were formed in Southampton, including Band of Skulls, The Delays, Bury Tomorrow, Heart in H... | What genre of music is James Zabiela known for? | {'text': 'dance', 'answer_start': 456} |
12,450 | 12,108 | 56de8542cffd8e1900b4b9da | generic | The strategy behind the formation of the Warsaw Pact was driven by the desire of the Soviet Union to dominate Central and Eastern Europe. This policy was driven by ideological and geostrategic reasons. Ideologically, the Soviet Union arrogated the right to define socialism and communism and act as the leader of the glo... | The Soviet Union feared invasion from which potential enemy? | {'text': 'Western Europe', 'answer_start': 639} |
58,111 | 57,769 | 572889ae3acd2414000dfab5 | generic | For 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked BYU as tied for 66th for national universities in the United States. A 2013 Quarterly Journal of Economics study of where the nation's top high school students choose to enroll ranked BYU No. 21 in its peer-reviewed study. The Princeton Review has ranked BYU the best value for ... | Who ranked BYU the vest value for college in 2007? | {'text': 'The Princeton Review', 'answer_start': 265} |
104,869 | 104,527 | 5ad42525604f3c001a4008d9 | generic | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston Office of Education also operates out of the city and oversees several K-8 parochial schools, such as Blessed Sacrament School, Christ Our King School, Charleston Catholic School, Nativity School, and Divine Redeemer School, all of which are "feeder" schools into Bishop England ... | Which organization oversees several K-9 Parochial Schools? | {'text': 'The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston Office of Education', 'answer_start': 0} |
72,340 | 71,998 | 572a2eb21d04691400779829 | generic | A new Digimon series was announced 30 months after the end of Digimon Fusion at a 15th anniversary concert and theater event for the franchise in August 2014. The series announced the return of the protagonists from the original Digimon Adventure series, most of them now as high school students. A countdown clicking ga... | Rather than a TV series, What kind of series would the Digimon become? | {'text': '6-part theatrical film series', 'answer_start': 713} |
3,208 | 2,866 | 5ad245e3d7d075001a428abb | generic | Spectre has received mixed reviews, with many reviewers either giving the film highly positive or highly negative feedback. Many critics praised the film's opening scene, action sequences, stuntwork, cinematography and performances from the cast. In some early reviews, the film received favourable comparisons with its ... | On Metacritic, the film has a rating of 70 out of what? | {'text': '100', 'answer_start': 664} |
73,345 | 73,003 | 5ad41549604f3c001a4002f0 | generic | Following the end of World War II the educational gap between White and Black Americans was widened by Dwight D. Eisenhower's GI Bill. This piece of legislation paved the way for white GIs to attend college. Despite their veteran status returning black servicemen were not afforded loans at the same rate as whites. Furt... | What was not considered to be a major cause of the increase in educational gap? | {'text': "Dwight D. Eisenhower's GI Bill", 'answer_start': 103} |
66,628 | 66,286 | 5726b5565951b619008f7b4c | generic | Writing to a friend in May 1795, Burke surveyed the causes of discontent: "I think I can hardly overrate the malignity of the principles of Protestant ascendency, as they affect Ireland; or of Indianism [i.e. corporate tyranny, as practiced by the British East Indies Company], as they affect these countries, and as the... | What did Burke call corporate tyranny in India? | {'text': 'Indianism', 'answer_start': 193} |
87,247 | 86,905 | 5a330056bd0d7f001aef9553 | generic | The 2009 Human Rights Report by the United States Department of State noted that human rights in CAR were poor and expressed concerns over numerous government abuses. The U.S. State Department alleged that major human rights abuses such as extrajudicial executions by security forces, torture, beatings and rape of suspe... | What are prision conditions like according to CAR? | {'text': 'harsh and life-threatening', 'answer_start': 378} |
14,194 | 13,852 | 56e0a5b6231d4119001ac324 | generic | On June 12, 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Republic adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR, which was the beginning of the "War of Laws", pitting the Soviet Union against the Russian Federation and other constituent republics. | What body passed the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR? | {'text': "the Congress of People's Deputies of the Republic", 'answer_start': 18} |
38,352 | 38,010 | 570be5f1ec8fbc190045bbd2 | generic | Digestive systems take many forms. There is a fundamental distinction between internal and external digestion. External digestion developed earlier in evolutionary history, and most fungi still rely on it. In this process, enzymes are secreted into the environment surrounding the organism, where they break down an orga... | What still uses the external digestion system? | {'text': 'most fungi', 'answer_start': 177} |
118,654 | 118,312 | 5a8628b7b4e223001a8e748c | generic | Ethnic Russians constitute 25.5% of the country's current population and 58.6% of the native Estonian population is also able to speak Russian. In all, 67.8% of Estonia's population can speak Russian. Command of Russian language, however, is rapidly decreasing among younger Estonians (primarily being replaced by the co... | What percentage of Russians are between 15 and 19? | {'text': '53%', 'answer_start': 355} |
54,062 | 53,720 | 572686d25951b619008f75b4 | generic | While these preparations were underway in the North, there were frequent clashes along the 38th parallel, especially at Kaesong and Ongjin, many initiated by the South. The Republic of Korea Army (ROK Army) was being trained by the U.S. Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG). On the eve of war, KMAG's commander General ... | What group trained the Republic of Korea army? | {'text': 'U.S. Korean Military Advisory Group', 'answer_start': 232} |
74,680 | 74,338 | 5a6fe7e38abb0b001a67603a | generic | The constitution of the Fifth Republic states that French alone is the official language of the Republic. However, Alsatian, along with other regional languages, are recognized by the French government in the official list of languages of France. A 1999 INSEE survey counted 548,000 adult speakers of Alsatian in France,... | How many children speak French? | {'text': 'one in four', 'answer_start': 566} |
126,407 | 126,065 | 5a81ffc731013a001a335099 | generic | After 1517, when the new invention of printing made these texts widely available, the Dutch humanist Erasmus, who had studied Greek at the Venetian printing house of Aldus Manutius, began a philological analysis of the Gospels in the spirit of Valla, comparing the Greek originals with their Latin translations with a vi... | Where was Renaissance humanism against the law? | {'text': 'German North', 'answer_start': 583} |
121,344 | 121,002 | 573169afa5e9cc1400cdbf32 | generic | The heyday of mosaic making in Sicily was the age of the independent Norman kingdom in the 12th century. The Norman kings adopted the Byzantine tradition of mosaic decoration to enhance the somewhat dubious legality of their rule. Greek masters working in Sicily developed their own style, that shows the influence of We... | Who adopted the Byzantine mosaic tradition? | {'text': 'Norman kings', 'answer_start': 109} |
42,490 | 42,148 | 570db299df2f5219002ed0fe | generic | Some examples of social and religious transition ceremonies that can be found in the U.S., as well as in other cultures around the world, are Confirmation, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, Quinceañeras, sweet sixteens, cotillions, and débutante balls. In other countries, initiation ceremonies play an important role, marking the t... | Do cultural transitions into adulthood vary, or are they the same? | {'text': 'vary', 'answer_start': 563} |
101,360 | 101,018 | 5a0f91a2decec900184755cf | generic | The clock does not run during convert attempts in the last three minutes of a half. If the 15 minutes of a quarter expire while the ball is live, the quarter is extended until the ball becomes dead. If a quarter's time expires while the ball is dead, the quarter is extended for one more scrimmage. A quarter cannot end ... | When does the clock not run when a penalty is pending? | {'text': 'in the last three minutes of a half', 'answer_start': 47} |
80,414 | 80,072 | 5a514b8cce860b001aa3fcc8 | generic | Sichuan has been historically known as the "Province of Abundance". It is one of the major agricultural production bases of China. Grain, including rice and wheat, is the major product with output that ranked first in China in 1999. Commercial crops include citrus fruits, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, peaches and grapes.... | What area produces the most silkworm? | {'text': 'Sichuan', 'answer_start': 0} |
55,964 | 55,622 | 5726bc4d5951b619008f7c72 | generic | In general, Hokkien dialects have 5 to 7 phonemic tones. According to the traditional Chinese system, however, there are 7 to 9 "tones",[citation needed] more correctly termed tone classes since two of them are non-phonemic "entering tones" (see the discussion on Chinese tone). Tone sandhi is extensive. There are minor... | What patterns do Taiwanese tones follow? | {'text': 'Amoy or Quanzhou', 'answer_start': 420} |
118,016 | 117,674 | 57313831497a881900248c75 | generic | Because of the low elevation, the islands that make up this nation are vulnerable to the effects of tropical cyclones and by the threat of current and future sea level rise. The highest elevation is 4.6 metres (15 ft) above sea level on Niulakita, which gives Tuvalu the second-lowest maximum elevation of any country (a... | Where does Tuvalu rank among other countries as to lowest elevation? | {'text': 'second-lowest', 'answer_start': 271} |
9,881 | 9,539 | 56def6ffc65bf219000b3e55 | generic | In cities other than Rome, the name cardinal began to be applied to certain church men as a mark of honour. The earliest example of this occurs in a letter sent by Pope Zacharias in 747 to Pippin III (the Short), ruler of the Franks, in which Zacharias applied the title to the priests of Paris to distinguish them from ... | Which pope declared that cardinals would be from Rome? | {'text': 'Pius V.', 'answer_start': 555} |
61,908 | 61,566 | 5726e331f1498d1400e8eec8 | generic | In October 2012 the number of ongoing conflicts in Myanmar included the Kachin conflict, between the Pro-Christian Kachin Independence Army and the government; a civil war between the Rohingya Muslims, and the government and non-government groups in Rakhine State; and a conflict between the Shan, Lahu and Karen minorit... | Were any terrorist groups involved in the Burmese conflicts ? | {'text': 'al-Qaeda', 'answer_start': 575} |
39,090 | 38,748 | 570c2b766b8089140040fbb8 | generic | The FBI is near-impenetrable, with applicants intensely scrutinized and assessed over an extended period. To apply to become an FBI agent, one must be between the ages of 23 and 37. Due to the decision in Robert P. Isabella v. Department of State and Office of Personnel Management, 2008 M.S.P.B. 146, preference-eligibl... | What group of people may apply to join the FBI after age 37? | {'text': 'preference-eligible veterans', 'answer_start': 302} |
48,463 | 48,121 | 5ad374ab604f3c001a3fe2d2 | generic | Other notable new vaccines of the period include those for measles (1962, John Franklin Enders of Children's Medical Center Boston, later refined by Maurice Hilleman at Merck), Rubella (1969, Hilleman, Merck) and mumps (1967, Hilleman, Merck) The United States incidences of rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, measles... | When did measles come out? | {'text': '1969', 'answer_start': 186} |
42,173 | 41,831 | 570d5c15fed7b91900d45f21 | generic | The immediate cause of the war resided in the candidacy of a Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, a Prussian prince, to the throne of Spain. France feared encirclement by an alliance between Prussia and Spain. The Hohenzollern prince's candidacy was withdrawn under French diplomatic pressure, but Otto von Bismarck goad... | In whose cadidacy did the immediate cause of war reside? | {'text': 'Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen', 'answer_start': 61} |
103,042 | 102,700 | 5ad4cd325b96ef001a10a11b | generic | In 2011, Spielberg launched Falling Skies, a science fiction television series, on the TNT network. He developed the series with Robert Rodat and is credited as an executive producer. Spielberg is also producing the Fox TV series Terra Nova. Terra Nova begins in the year 2149 when all life on the planet Earth is threat... | What was the first original show on the TNT network? | {'text': 'Falling Skies', 'answer_start': 28} |
101,712 | 101,370 | 5a8dc8addf8bba001a0f9c10 | generic | The young Feynman was heavily influenced by his father, who encouraged him to ask questions to challenge orthodox thinking, and who was always ready to teach Feynman something new. From his mother he gained the sense of humor that he had throughout his life. As a child, he had a talent for engineering, maintained an ex... | What person influenced Feynman to think shallow? | {'text': 'father', 'answer_start': 48} |
47,608 | 47,266 | 5ad292abd7d075001a429ac3 | generic | Multiracial Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of "two or more races". The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2010 US census, approximately 9 million individuals, or 2.9% of the population, sel... | What percentage of the population did not identify as multiracial? | {'text': '2.9', 'answer_start': 293} |
53,657 | 53,315 | 5a0cf8bef5590b0018dab6be | generic | According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the earliest clothing likely consisted of fur, leather, leaves, or grass that were draped, wrapped, or tied around the body. Knowledge of such clothing remains inferential, since clothing materials deteriorate quickly compared to stone, bone, shell and metal artifacts. A... | Where have we not yet found flax fibers | {'text': 'prehistoric cave', 'answer_start': 528} |
91,059 | 90,717 | 5728b8b93acd2414000dfd4e | generic | The higher-level phylogeny of the arthropods continues to be a matter of debate and research. In 2008, researchers at Tufts University uncovered what they believe is the world's oldest known full-body impression of a primitive flying insect, a 300 million-year-old specimen from the Carboniferous period. The oldest defi... | What is the term for a mandible with two articulations? | {'text': 'dicondylic', 'answer_start': 521} |
14,682 | 14,340 | 56dfd68c231d4119001abe1d | generic | The restrictions were tightened by the Defence of the Realm Act of August 1914, which, along with the introduction of rationing and the censorship of the press for wartime purposes, restricted pubs' opening hours to 12 noon–2:30 pm and 6:30 pm–9:30 pm. Opening for the full licensed hours was compulsory, and closing tim... | Along with the period 6:30 pm–9:30 pm, what opening hours were acceptable under the Defence of the Realm Act? | {'text': '12 noon–2:30 pm', 'answer_start': 216} |
91,053 | 90,711 | 572913d3af94a219006aa043 | generic | The word "insect" comes from the Latin word insectum, meaning "with a notched or divided body", or literally "cut into", from the neuter singular perfect passive participle of insectare, "to cut into, to cut up", from in- "into" and secare "to cut"; because insects appear "cut into" three sections. Pliny the Elder intr... | Who gave this class of life the name "insect"? | {'text': 'Aristotle', 'answer_start': 449} |
718 | 376 | 56bfafdba10cfb1400551241 | generic | In an interview published by Vogue in April 2013, Beyoncé was asked if she considers herself a feminist, to which she said, "that word can be very extreme... But I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality". She would later align herself more publicly with the movement, sampling "We should all be femin... | What does Ban Bossy encourage? | {'text': 'leadership in girls', 'answer_start': 586} |
119,466 | 119,124 | 5731458d05b4da19006bcf98 | generic | Assistive listening devices in many theaters and similar spaces use arrays of infrared LEDs to send sound to listeners' receivers. Light-emitting diodes (as well as semiconductor lasers) are used to send data over many types of fiber optic cable, from digital audio over TOSLINK cables to the very high bandwidth fiber l... | Where are infrared LEDs used in everday life? | {'text': 'theaters', 'answer_start': 36} |
19,418 | 19,076 | 56e798c700c9c71400d7734b | generic | The IANA time zone database maps a name to the named location's historical and predicted clock shifts. This database is used by many computer software systems, including most Unix-like operating systems, Java, and the Oracle RDBMS; HP's "tztab" database is similar but incompatible. When temporal authorities change DST ... | What's the name of the HP database that's similar to IANA but not compatible with it? | {'text': 'tztab', 'answer_start': 238} |
118,925 | 118,583 | 5730d389b7151e1900c01553 | generic | Defensive Counterair (DCA) is defined as "all the defensive measures designed to detect, identify, intercept, and destroy or negate enemy forces attempting to penetrate or attack through friendly airspace" (JP 1-02). A major goal of DCA operations, in concert with OCA operations, is to provide an area from which forces... | What kind of missile defense does active defense protect against, according to the DCA? | {'text': 'ballistic', 'answer_start': 599} |
117,372 | 117,030 | 5a42da674a4859001aac736c | generic | All versions incorporate a top-loading slot for game cartridges, although the shape of the slot differs between regions to match the different shapes of the cartridges. The MULTI OUT connector (later used on the Nintendo 64 and GameCube) can output composite video, S-Video and RGB signals, as well as RF with an externa... | Why does the MULTI OUT connector differ between regions? | {'text': 'to match the different shapes of the cartridges', 'answer_start': 120} |
49,195 | 48,853 | 571b3d469499d21900609c31 | generic | A number of technologies allow asphalt/bitumen to be mixed at much lower temperatures. These involve mixing with petroleum solvents to form "cutbacks" with reduced melting point, or mixtures with water to turn the asphalt/bitumen into an emulsion. Asphalt emulsions contain up to 70% asphalt/bitumen and typically less t... | What does mixing bitumen with water create? | {'text': 'emulsion', 'answer_start': 238} |
38,943 | 38,601 | 570c24bcec8fbc190045bc96 | 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... | Do states have access to CJIS? | {'text': 'Many state and local agencies use these data', 'answer_start': 597} |
20,013 | 19,671 | 5ad3cd38604f3c001a3ff17b | generic | In 1958 as part of an experiment, Operation Argus, the United States Navy detonated an atomic bomb 160 kilometres (100 mi) high in the upper atmosphere about 175 kilometres (109 mi) southeast of the main island. | During which mission did the US Army detonate an atomic bomb? | {'text': 'Operation Argus', 'answer_start': 34} |
13,474 | 13,132 | 5acd446b07355d001abf3b42 | generic | Forest gardening was also being used as a food production system in various parts of the world over this period. Forest gardens originated in prehistoric times along jungle-clad river banks and in the wet foothills of monsoon regions.[citation needed] In the gradual process of families improving their immediate environ... | What type of gardens originated in modern times? | {'text': 'Forest gardens', 'answer_start': 113} |
81,898 | 81,556 | 5a4c55277a6c4c001a2bbbf6 | generic | The central Sahara is estimated to include five hundred species of plants, which is extremely low considering the huge extent of the area. Plants such as acacia trees, palms, succulents, spiny shrubs, and grasses have adapted to the arid conditions, by growing lower to avoid water loss by strong winds, by storing water... | what desert area has 500 species of animals? | {'text': 'central Sahara', 'answer_start': 4} |
31,683 | 31,341 | 5ad41de2604f3c001a4005f5 | generic | According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 656.3 square miles (1,700 km2); this comprises 634.0 square miles (1,642 km2) of land and 22.3 square miles (58 km2) of water. The Piney Woods is north of Houston. Most of Houston is located on the gulf coastal plain, and its vegetation is class... | What is the square mile area of Texas? | {'text': '656.3 square miles', 'answer_start': 75} |
129,035 | 128,693 | 573427f7d058e614000b6a3a | generic | On 17 April 1861, five days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, the legislature voted to secede from the United States and joined the Confederacy. Official action came in May, after the Confederacy promised to move its national capital to Richmond. The city was at the end of a long supply line, which made it s... | On what date was Virginia's secession from the Union? | {'text': '17 April 1861', 'answer_start': 3} |
67,514 | 67,172 | 5726cdc15951b619008f7e7d | generic | Stepper motors were and still are often used in computer printers, optical scanners, and digital photocopiers to move the optical scanning element, the print head carriage (of dot matrix and inkjet printers), and the platen or feed rollers. Likewise, many computer plotters (which since the early 1990s have been replace... | List two alternatives to rotary stepper motors in printer applications. | {'text': 'linear stepper motors or servomotors', 'answer_start': 465} |
9,658 | 9,316 | 56dee1f8c65bf219000b3dcb | generic | In the 1950s, the recruitment of women was open to roles in medicine, communication, logistics, and administration. The roles of women in the CAF began to expand in 1971, after the Department reviewed the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, at which time it lifted the ceiling of 1,500 women ... | What charter directly affected a women's right to serve in the CAF? | {'text': 'Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms', 'answer_start': 652} |
123,995 | 123,653 | 57322fcce17f3d14004226ee | generic | The minority leader has a number of formal and informal party responsibilities. Formally, the rules of each party specify certain roles and responsibilities for their leader. For example, under Democratic rules for the 106th Congress, the minority leader may call meetings of the Democratic Caucus. He or she is a member... | According to democratic rules of the 106th congress what committee does minority leader head? | {'text': 'Steering Committee', 'answer_start': 472} |
115,384 | 115,042 | 5733801f4776f41900660c04 | generic | Historically Whitehead's work has been most influential in the field of American progressive theology. The most important early proponent of Whitehead's thought in a theological context was Charles Hartshorne, who spent a semester at Harvard as Whitehead's teaching assistant in 1925, and is widely credited with develop... | Who was the most important early supporter of Whitehead's work in the context of theology? | {'text': 'Charles Hartshorne', 'answer_start': 190} |
45,993 | 45,651 | 57109e32b654c5140001f9cd | generic | In the mid-18th century, Paris became the center of an explosion of philosophic and scientific activity challenging traditional doctrines and dogmas. The philosophic movement was led by Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who argued for a society based upon reason rather than faith and Catholic doctrine, for a new civi... | Which city in the mid-18th century became the center of an explosion of philosophic and scientific activity? | {'text': 'Paris', 'answer_start': 25} |
62,608 | 62,266 | 5a818e2831013a001a334ca7 | generic | GM cotton acreage in India grew at a rapid rate, increasing from 50,000 hectares in 2002 to 10.6 million hectares in 2011. The total cotton area in India was 12.1 million hectares in 2011, so GM cotton was grown on 88% of the cotton area. This made India the country with the largest area of GM cotton in the world. A lo... | What country has the largest area of non-transgenic cotton on Earth? | {'text': 'India', 'answer_start': 148} |
27,794 | 27,452 | 56fae6888f12f3190063027a | generic | Additionally, henna is an important part of Somali culture. It is worn by Somali women on their hands, arms, feet and neck during weddings, Eid, Ramadan, and other festive occasions. Somali henna designs are similar to those in the Arabian peninsula, often featuring flower motifs and triangular shapes. The palm is also... | Along with triangular shapes, what are common henna designs in Somalia? | {'text': 'flower motifs', 'answer_start': 267} |
119,353 | 119,011 | 5ad193ad645df0001a2d203d | generic | A new style of wafers composed of gallium-nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) is being used to produce white LEDs using 200-mm silicon wafers. This avoids the typical costly sapphire substrate in relatively small 100- or 150-mm wafer sizes. The sapphire apparatus must be coupled with a mirror-like collector to reflect light... | What size are the wafers used to create red LEDs? | {'text': '200-mm', 'answer_start': 115} |
22,644 | 22,302 | 56f7302e711bf01900a44a49 | generic | During World War II, Hitler's Generalplan Ost (general plan for the East) entailed killing, deporting, or enslaving the Slavic and Jewish population of occupied Eastern Europe to create Lebensraum (living space) for German settlers. The Nazi Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost would have led to the starvation of 80 million... | What would have led to the starvation of 80 million people in the Soviet Union? | {'text': 'The Nazi Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost', 'answer_start': 233} |
110,444 | 110,102 | 572fb217947a6a140053cb9f | generic | The TSFSR existed from 1922 to 1936, when it was divided up into three separate entities (Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR). Armenians enjoyed a period of relative stability under Soviet rule. They received medicine, food, and other provisions from Moscow, and communist rule proved to be a soothing balm i... | Who provided the Armenians with supplies? | {'text': 'Moscow', 'answer_start': 263} |
119,765 | 119,423 | 57311a4705b4da19006bcda2 | generic | Birds live and breed in most terrestrial habitats and on all seven continents, reaching their southern extreme in the snow petrel's breeding colonies up to 440 kilometres (270 mi) inland in Antarctica. The highest bird diversity occurs in tropical regions. It was earlier thought that this high diversity was the result ... | Some penguins have been recording diving up to how many feet? | {'text': '980', 'answer_start': 707} |
54,719 | 54,377 | 57261f2f38643c19005ad042 | generic | Greece is home to the first advanced civilizations in Europe and is considered the birthplace of Western civilization,[citation clutter] beginning with the Cycladic civilization on the islands of the Aegean Sea at around 3200 BC, the Minoan civilization in Crete (2700–1500 BC), and then the Mycenaean civilization on th... | What was the last civilization to rule Greece? | {'text': 'Mycenaean', 'answer_start': 292} |
70,537 | 70,195 | 5ad419a1604f3c001a400473 | generic | This is a socio-economic bloc of nations in or near the Caribbean Sea. Other outlying member states include the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Republic of Suriname in South America, along with Belize in Central America. The Turks and Caicos Islands, an associate member of CARICOM, and the Commonwealth of The B... | What status do the United States Virgin Islands have with CARICOM? | {'text': 'observer status', 'answer_start': 531} |
64,272 | 63,930 | 5ad01c1b77cf76001a686a46 | generic | Combined with this influx of classical ideas was the invention of printing which facilitated dissemination of the printed word and democratized learning. These two things would later lead to the Protestant Reformation. Toward the end of the period, an era of discovery began (Age of Discovery). The rise of the Ottoman E... | Which invention resulted in less widespread use of the printed word? | {'text': 'printing', 'answer_start': 66} |
78,728 | 78,386 | 5ad2487cd7d075001a428b69 | generic | Prior Diego saw immediately one of the paramount reasons for the spread of the unorthodox movement: the representatives of the Holy Church acted and moved with an offensive amount of pomp and ceremony. On the other hand, the Cathars lived in a state of self-sacrifice that was widely appealing. For these reasons, Prior ... | What state did the Cathers not live in? | {'text': 'in a state of self-sacrifice', 'answer_start': 239} |
21,680 | 21,338 | 5ad3f4c7604f3c001a3ff959 | generic | In 1535, the abbey's annual income of £2400–2800[citation needed] (£1,310,000 to £1,530,000 as of 2016), during the assessment attendant on the Dissolution of the Monasteries rendered it second in wealth only to Glastonbury Abbey. | When was the abbey's annual income £2400–2700? | {'text': '1535', 'answer_start': 3} |
65,762 | 65,420 | 5726a49df1498d1400e8e5d4 | generic | From the end of World War II until 1971, when John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, political philosophy declined in the Anglo-American academic world, as analytic philosophers expressed skepticism about the possibility that normative judgments had cognitive content, and political science turned toward statistical ... | Who published A Theory of Justice? | {'text': 'John Rawls', 'answer_start': 46} |
67,710 | 67,368 | 57279543f1498d1400e8fcc8 | generic | Direct democracy and federalism are hallmarks of the Swiss political system. Swiss citizens are subject to three legal jurisdictions: the commune, canton and federal levels. The 1848 federal constitution defines a system of direct democracy (sometimes called half-direct or representative direct democracy because it is ... | What type of democracy was defined in the 1848 federal constitution? | {'text': 'direct', 'answer_start': 224} |
66,079 | 65,737 | 5a81b1fd31013a001a334d84 | generic | After the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, Norfolk Island was placed under the authority of the new Commonwealth government to be administered as an external territory. During World War II, the island became a key airbase and refuelling depot between Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand and the ... | Whose responsibility did Norfolk Island avoid during World War II? | {'text': 'New Zealand', 'answer_start': 468} |
21,941 | 21,599 | 56e8fbad0b45c0140094cdc5 | generic | The Westminster Abbey Museum is located in the 11th-century vaulted undercroft beneath the former monks' dormitory in Westminster Abbey. This is one of the oldest areas of the abbey, dating back almost to the foundation of the church by Edward the Confessor in 1065. This space has been used as a museum since 1908. | What is located in the vaulted undercroft beneath the monks' dormitory? | {'text': 'The Westminster Abbey Museum', 'answer_start': 0} |
103,443 | 103,101 | 572f0fb8c246551400ce488c | generic | The high-speed observation deck elevators accelerate to a world-record certified speed of 1,010 metres per minute (61 km/h) in 16 seconds, and then it slows down for arrival with subtle air pressure sensations. The door opens after 37 seconds from the 5th floor. Special features include aerodynamic car and counterweigh... | At what floor do the doors open on the way down? | {'text': '52nd', 'answer_start': 516} |
69,547 | 69,205 | 5726e302f1498d1400e8eeac | generic | Philosophy has become an increasingly academic discipline. More of its practitioners lament this situation than occurs with the sciences; nonetheless most new philosophical work appears in academic journals. Major philosophers through history—Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Augustine, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche—have... | Serious studies in logic tend to resemble what discipline, moreso than literature? | {'text': 'mathematics', 'answer_start': 549} |
11,078 | 10,736 | 5ad0cd5f645df0001a2d03dc | generic | Some countries were not included for various reasons, primarily the lack of necessary data. The following United Nations Member States were not included in the 2014 report: North Korea, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, San Marino, Somalia, India, Pakistan, South Sudan, and Tuvalu. | What is the main reason that countries were excluded from the 2013 report? | {'text': 'lack of necessary data', 'answer_start': 68} |
124,978 | 124,636 | 57325772b9d445190005ea5f | generic | In the general election, against the advice of his advisors, Eisenhower insisted on campaigning in the South, refusing to surrender the region to the Democratic Party. The campaign strategy, dubbed "K1C2", was to focus on attacking the Truman and Roosevelt administrations on three issues: Korea, Communism and corruptio... | In what part of the country, previously neglected by Republican presidential candidates, did Eisenhower campaign? | {'text': 'South', 'answer_start': 103} |
119,505 | 119,163 | 5ad1981f645df0001a2d20e0 | generic | Many sensor systems rely on light as the signal source. LEDs are often ideal as a light source due to the requirements of the sensors. LEDs are used as motion sensors, for example in optical computer mice. The Nintendo Wii's sensor bar uses infrared LEDs. Pulse oximeters use them for measuring oxygen saturation. Some f... | What video game console doesn't use infrared LEDs? | {'text': "Nintendo Wii's", 'answer_start': 210} |
106,545 | 106,203 | 5ad23316d7d075001a42878c | generic | Vocalization markers indicating specific vowel sounds were introduced into the Arabic language by the end of the 9th century. The first Quranic manuscripts lacked these marks, therefore several recitations remain acceptable. The variation in readings of the text permitted by the nature of the defective vocalization led... | Which recitation is the later basis of the Quran of Cairo? | {'text': "ʻAsim's", 'answer_start': 1311} |
35,556 | 35,214 | 5acd614a07355d001abf3ff4 | generic | Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear-powered warships that carry dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets and helicopters. As of 3 March 2016, there are thirty-seven active aircraft carriers in the world within twelve navies.... | What were carriers used for in the early 19th century? | {'text': 'to deploy balloons', 'answer_start': 100} |
101,488 | 101,146 | 572eb7dfcb0c0d14000f14ae | generic | Accordingly, leaving Field Marshal Count Kurt von Schwerin in Silesia with 25,000 soldiers to guard against incursions from Moravia or Hungary, and leaving Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt in East Prussia to guard against Russian invasion from the east, Frederick set off with his army for Saxony. The Prussian army march... | How did Frederick protect Silesia when he went to invade Saxony? | {'text': 'leaving Field Marshal Count Kurt von Schwerin in Silesia with 25,000 soldiers to guard against incursions from Moravia or Hungary', 'answer_start': 13} |
16,408 | 16,066 | 5a4d37147a6c4c001a2bbc53 | generic | Apple's Safari had its first beta release in January 2003; as of April 2011, it had a dominant share of Apple-based web browsing, accounting for just over 7% of the entire browser market. | When did web browsers become active? | {'text': 'January 2003', 'answer_start': 45} |
62,741 | 62,399 | 572771b85951b619008f8a07 | generic | A public genome sequencing effort of cotton was initiated in 2007 by a consortium of public researchers. They agreed on a strategy to sequence the genome of cultivated, tetraploid cotton. "Tetraploid" means that cultivated cotton actually has two separate genomes within its nucleus, referred to as the A and D genomes. ... | What is the final sequencing goal of sequencing diploid cotton genomes first ? | {'text': 'tetraploid cotton', 'answer_start': 169} |
102,369 | 102,027 | 57318a0ae6313a140071d06d | generic | In the conflict's early months it appeared that Gaddafi's government – with its greater firepower – would be victorious. Both sides disregarded the laws of war, committing human rights abuses, including arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial executions and revenge attacks. On 26 February the United Nations Security ... | In what month did the UN Security Council set up a no fly zone? | {'text': 'March', 'answer_start': 536} |
1,458 | 1,116 | 56cc0f056d243a140015ee83 | generic | At the funeral of the tenor Adolphe Nourrit in Paris in 1839, Chopin made a rare appearance at the organ, playing a transcription of Franz Schubert's lied Die Gestirne. On 26 July 1840 Chopin and Sand were present at the dress rehearsal of Berlioz's Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, composed to commemorate the te... | What event were Chopin and Sand at on 26 July 1840? | {'text': "Berlioz's Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale", 'answer_start': 240} |
113,357 | 113,015 | 5730338eb2c2fd1400568a61 | generic | San Diego's roadway system provides an extensive network of routes for travel by bicycle. The dry and mild climate of San Diego makes cycling a convenient and pleasant year-round option. At the same time, the city's hilly, canyon-like terrain and significantly long average trip distances—brought about by strict low-den... | In what year was San Diego rated as the country's best densely populated city for cycling? | {'text': '2006', 'answer_start': 770} |
4,190 | 3,848 | 56cff16a234ae51400d9c12a | generic | Real estate is a major force in the city's economy, as the total value of all New York City property was assessed at US$914.8 billion for the 2015 fiscal year. The Time Warner Center is the property with the highest-listed market value in the city, at US$1.1 billion in 2006. New York City is home to some of the nation'... | The previous record beaten by Park Avenue was for what real estate? | {'text': '660 Madison Avenue', 'answer_start': 606} |
84,987 | 84,645 | 5a7dfe5270df9f001a8753ee | generic | In Book 11 of his Confessions, St. Augustine of Hippo ruminates on the nature of time, asking, "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not." He begins to define time by what it is not rather than what it is, an approach similar to that taken in other negative de... | What does St. Augustine say when someone asks him about memory? | {'text': 'I know not', 'answer_start': 186} |
54,595 | 54,253 | 5ad015bf77cf76001a686946 | generic | In the U.S., for example, copyright case law contains a substantial similarity requirement to determine whether the work was copied. Likewise, courts may require computer software to pass an Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test (AFC Test) to determine if it is too abstract to qualify for protection, or too dissimilar... | What test might courts require hardware to pass to determine if it is protected or infringing? | {'text': 'Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test', 'answer_start': 191} |
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