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99,354 | 99,012 | 572b589c34ae481900deadb1 | generic | Guam is governed by a popularly elected governor and a unicameral 15-member legislature, whose members are known as senators. Guam elects one non-voting delegate, currently Democrat Madeleine Z. Bordallo, to the United States House of Representatives. U.S. citizens in Guam vote in a straw poll for their choice in the U... | How many people make up the Guam legislation? | {'text': '15', 'answer_start': 66} |
100,484 | 100,142 | 572bba49111d821400f38f5c | generic | Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Although the terms "educational psychology" and "school psychology" are often used interchangeably, research... | Who are likely to be identified as educational psychologist? | {'text': 'researchers and theorists', 'answer_start': 312} |
82,294 | 81,952 | 5727c4ac2ca10214002d95d4 | generic | The earliest Tibetan historical texts identify the Zhang Zhung culture as a people who migrated from the Amdo region into what is now the region of Guge in western Tibet. Zhang Zhung is considered to be the original home of the Bön religion. By the 1st century BCE, a neighboring kingdom arose in the Yarlung valley, and... | What is considered to be the original home of the Bon religion? | {'text': 'Zhang Zhung', 'answer_start': 171} |
78,957 | 78,615 | 5ad25fdbd7d075001a428fa1 | generic | Although Albertus Magnus did much to instill mysticism in the Order of Preachers, it is a concept that reaches back to the Hebrew Bible. In the tradition of Holy Writ, the impossibility of coming face to face with God is a recurring motif, thus the commandment against graven images (Exodus 20.4-5). As time passed, Jewi... | Who did not want to instill mysticism in the Dominican order? | {'text': 'Albertus Magnus', 'answer_start': 9} |
18,718 | 18,376 | 56e758c700c9c71400d76fe6 | generic | Pressing the sheet removes the water by force; once the water is forced from the sheet, a special kind of felt, which is not to be confused with the traditional one, is used to collect the water; whereas when making paper by hand, a blotter sheet is used instead. | What is used to collect water when hand-making paper? | {'text': 'blotter sheet', 'answer_start': 233} |
119,852 | 119,510 | 5731e292b9d445190005e622 | generic | Calls are used for a variety of purposes, including mate attraction, evaluation of potential mates, bond formation, the claiming and maintenance of territories, the identification of other individuals (such as when parents look for chicks in colonies or when mates reunite at the start of breeding season), and the warni... | What do some birds use for auditory communication? | {'text': 'mechanical sounds', 'answer_start': 450} |
102,761 | 102,419 | 57318ba805b4da19006bd28c | generic | As a child, Spielberg faced difficulty reconciling being an Orthodox Jew with the perception of him by other children he played with. "It isn't something I enjoy admitting," he once said, "but when I was seven, eight, nine years old, God forgive me, I was embarrassed because we were Orthodox Jews. I was embarrassed by ... | How many bloody noses did Spielberg get in high school? | {'text': 'Two', 'answer_start': 577} |
2,762 | 2,420 | 5a8dc231df8bba001a0f9bd6 | generic | Twilight Princess received the awards for Best Artistic Design, Best Original Score, and Best Use of Sound from IGN for its GameCube version. Both IGN and Nintendo Power gave Twilight Princess the awards for Best Graphics and Best Story. Twilight Princess received Game of the Year awards from GameTrailers, 1UP.com, Ele... | What 2 critics gave Game Radar awards for Best Graphics and Best Story? | {'text': 'IGN and Nintendo Power', 'answer_start': 147} |
59,346 | 59,004 | 5726ad72708984140094cda5 | generic | In summer of 1986, Queen went on their final tour with Freddie Mercury. A sold-out tour in support of A Kind of Magic, once again they hired Spike Edney, leading to him being dubbed the unofficial fifth member. The Magic Tour's highlight was at Wembley Stadium in London and resulted in the live double album, Queen at W... | How many fans saw Queen at Slane castle? | {'text': '95,000', 'answer_start': 834} |
52,560 | 52,218 | 5a7a385917ab25001a8a03b0 | generic | Buckingham Palace finally became the principal royal residence in 1837, on the accession of Queen Victoria, who was the first monarch to reside there; her predecessor William IV had died before its completion. While the state rooms were a riot of gilt and colour, the necessities of the new palace were somewhat less lux... | Who was the worst monarch to reside there? | {'text': 'Queen Victoria', 'answer_start': 92} |
12,266 | 11,924 | 56de70a8cffd8e1900b4b8dc | generic | The first known usage of the term in a legal context was in AD 380 by the Edict of Thessalonica of Theodosius I, which made Christianity the state church of the Roman Empire. Prior to the issuance of this edict, the Church had no state-sponsored support for any particular legal mechanism to counter what it perceived as... | In what year was the first usage of the term heresy in a legal context? | {'text': 'AD 380', 'answer_start': 60} |
75,722 | 75,380 | 57276d6add62a815002e9c9e | generic | Nominally, sovereignty lay in the emperor but in fact power was wielded by the Fujiwara nobility. However, to protect their interests in the provinces, the Fujiwara and other noble families required guards, police and soldiers. The warrior class made steady political gains throughout the Heian period. As early as 939 A... | What noble family wielded power during the Heian period? | {'text': 'Fujiwara', 'answer_start': 79} |
88,432 | 88,090 | 5ace8ac432bba1001ae4a9e5 | generic | Terrestrial annelids can be invasive in some situations. In the glaciated areas of North America, for example, almost all native earthworms are thought to have been killed by the glaciers and the worms currently found in those areas are all introduced from other areas, primarily from Europe, and, more recently, from As... | What type of forests are immune to invasive worms? | {'text': 'Northern hardwood forests', 'answer_start': 324} |
27,498 | 27,156 | 56fa455af34c681400b0c050 | generic | Aside from the lignocellulose, wood consists of a variety of low molecular weight organic compounds, called extractives. The wood extractives are fatty acids, resin acids, waxes and terpenes. For example, rosin is exuded by conifers as protection from insects. The extraction of these organic materials from wood provide... | What do conifers use rosin to protect themselves from? | {'text': 'insects', 'answer_start': 252} |
48,012 | 47,670 | 571a79a64faf5e1900b8a9ba | generic | Religious Jews have Minhagim, customs, in addition to Halakha, or religious law, and different interpretations of law. Different groups of religious Jews in different geographic areas historically adopted different customs and interpretations. On certain issues, Orthodox Jews are required to follow the customs of their... | For religious Jews, what does Minhagim mean? | {'text': 'customs', 'answer_start': 30} |
32,496 | 32,154 | 5a36242d788daf001a5f8751 | generic | Railway Himachal is famous for its narrow gauge tracks railways, one is UNESCO World Heritage Kalka-Shimla Railway and another one is Pathankot–Jogindernagar. Total length of these two tracks is 259 kilometres (161 mi). Kalka-Shimla Railway track passes through many tunnels, while Pathankot–Jogindernagar gently meander... | What are the two tunnels in Railway Himachal? | {'text': 'UNESCO World Heritage Kalka-Shimla Railway and another one is Pathankot–Jogindernagar', 'answer_start': 72} |
78,205 | 77,863 | 5a73a0a942eae6001a389943 | generic | At the same time, the political party reached its modern form, with a membership disciplined through the use of a party whip and the implementation of efficient structures of control. The Home Rule League Party, campaigning for Home Rule for Ireland in the British Parliament was fundamentally changed by the great Irish... | What did the British Parties create to ensure committed members were selected? | {'text': 'a new selection procedure', 'answer_start': 572} |
83,372 | 83,030 | 572814623acd2414000df3fb | generic | The German Renaissance has bequeathed the city some noteworthy buildings (especially the current Chambre de commerce et d'industrie, former town hall, on Place Gutenberg), as did the French Baroque and Classicism with several hôtels particuliers (i.e. palaces), among which the Palais Rohan (1742, now housing three muse... | What did the military governors residence used to be called? | {'text': 'Hôtel des Deux-Ponts', 'answer_start': 493} |
98,562 | 98,220 | 572aa6e4111d821400f38c8a | generic | The average population density was 11,457 people per square mile (4,405.4/km²). The Census reported that 1,468,623 people (96.2% of the population) lived in households, 38,007 (2.5%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 19,376 (1.3%) were institutionalized. In 2013, the city reported having 668,247 total ... | What percent own 2 or more cars? | {'text': '23', 'answer_start': 679} |
74,126 | 73,784 | 57279e8c4b864d19001638af | generic | In 1970, the New Haven Black Panther trials took place, the largest and longest trials in Connecticut history. Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale and ten other Party members were tried for murdering an alleged informant. Beginning on May Day, the city became a center of protest for 12,000 Panther supporters, co... | In what year did the New Haven Black Panther trials take place in New Haven? | {'text': '1970', 'answer_start': 3} |
34,827 | 34,485 | 5ad248ded7d075001a428b7c | generic | Stanley Schachter formulated his theory on the earlier work of a Spanish physician, Gregorio Marañón, who injected patients with epinephrine and subsequently asked them how they felt. Interestingly, Marañón found that most of these patients felt something but in the absence of an actual emotion-evoking stimulus, the pa... | What wasn't the nationality of Gregorio Marañón? | {'text': 'Spanish', 'answer_start': 65} |
93,634 | 93,292 | 5729765a6aef051400154f4b | generic | The term mainly refers to a mix of lithium and aluminosilicates that yields an array of materials with interesting thermomechanical properties. The most commercially important of these have the distinction of being impervious to thermal shock. Thus, glass-ceramics have become extremely useful for countertop cooking. Th... | What ingredients give glass-ceramics its useful heat tolerance? | {'text': 'lithium and aluminosilicates', 'answer_start': 35} |
46,068 | 45,726 | 5710e166a58dae1900cd6b1f | generic | Though much of Enlightenment political thought was dominated by social contract theorists, both David Hume and Adam Ferguson criticized this camp. Hume's essay Of the Original Contract argues that governments derived from consent are rarely seen, and civil government is grounded in a ruler's habitual authority and forc... | In what year did Ferguson publish An Essay on the History of Civil Society? | {'text': '1767', 'answer_start': 672} |
13,316 | 12,974 | 56df64b396943c1400a5d4d1 | generic | The Oklahoma History Center is the history museum of the state of Oklahoma. Located across the street from the governor's mansion at 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive in northeast Oklahoma City, the museum opened in 2005 and is operated by the Oklahoma Historical Society. It preserves the history of Oklahoma from the prehistoric t... | When was the Oklahoma History Center created? | {'text': '2005', 'answer_start': 204} |
88,684 | 88,342 | 5a3c7fdccc5d22001a521de3 | generic | Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow state in their book, The Grand Design, that it is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God. Both authors claim however, that it is possible to answer these questions... | What does Stephen Hawking think we can know about God? | {'text': 'some of his attributes', 'answer_start': 694} |
114,402 | 114,060 | 573040c2a23a5019007fd00e | generic | There are 17 laws in the official Laws of the Game, each containing a collection of stipulation and guidelines. The same laws are designed to apply to all levels of football, although certain modifications for groups such as juniors, seniors, women and people with physical disabilities are permitted. The laws are often... | Who maintains the Laws of the Game? | {'text': 'International Football Association Board (IFAB)', 'answer_start': 496} |
97,707 | 97,365 | 572a82dff75d5e190021fb34 | generic | WHO recommends a child with diarrhea continue to be fed. Continued feeding speeds the recovery of normal intestinal function. In contrast, children whose food is restricted have diarrhea of longer duration and recover intestinal function more slowly. A child should also continue to be breastfed. The WHO states "Food sh... | What happens when a childs food is restricted? | {'text': 'children whose food is restricted have diarrhea of longer duration and recover intestinal function more slowly', 'answer_start': 139} |
10,732 | 10,390 | 56e472028c00841900fbaf8d | generic | The 19th-century English art critic, John Ruskin, in his Seven Lamps of Architecture, published 1849, was much narrower in his view of what constituted architecture. Architecture was the "art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by men ... that the sight of them" contributes "to his mental health, power, an... | When was Seven Lamps of Architecture published? | {'text': '1849', 'answer_start': 96} |
127,840 | 127,498 | 5acedca532bba1001ae4b78f | generic | Tajikistan's economy grew substantially after the war. The GDP of Tajikistan expanded at an average rate of 9.6% over the period of 2000–2007 according to the World Bank data. This improved Tajikistan's position among other Central Asian countries (namely Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), which seem to have degraded econom... | Whose economy declined after the war? | {'text': 'Tajikistan', 'answer_start': 372} |
113,472 | 113,130 | 572ff2f6947a6a140053ce5e | generic | Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, derived features of and episodes about Bolgia from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the Hadith and the Kitab al-Miraj (translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before as Liber Scale Machometi) concerning the ascension to Heaven of Muhammad, and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi. T... | Which works by Shakespeare is believed to be inspired by The Moors? | {'text': 'Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello', 'answer_start': 524} |
64,615 | 64,273 | 5ad02f5777cf76001a686d7a | generic | Hunyadi succeeded during the Siege of Belgrade in 1456 against the Ottomans, the biggest victory against that empire in decades. This battle became a real Crusade against the Muslims, as the peasants were motivated by the Franciscan monk Saint John of Capistrano, who came from Italy predicating Holy War. The effect tha... | Which Franciscan monk motivated the peasants to fight for Muslims at the Siege of Belgrade? | {'text': 'Saint John of Capistrano', 'answer_start': 238} |
119,708 | 119,366 | 5730ed42497a881900248a6a | generic | Birds (Aves) are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) o... | What is the size of the smallest bird? | {'text': '5 cm (2 in)', 'answer_start': 270} |
69,887 | 69,545 | 5acea28132bba1001ae4ae37 | generic | There are occasional brief hints and allusions in his longer works however that Avicenna considered philosophy as the only sensible way to distinguish real prophecy from illusion. He did not state this more clearly because of the political implications of such a theory, if prophecy could be questioned, and also because... | What did Avicenna consider to be the only way to distinguish fake prophecy from illusion? | {'text': 'philosophy', 'answer_start': 100} |
90,459 | 90,117 | 5ad26e27d7d075001a4293eb | generic | Popper played a vital role in establishing the philosophy of science as a vigorous, autonomous discipline within philosophy, through his own prolific and influential works, and also through his influence on his own contemporaries and students. Popper founded in 1946 the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Me... | Who did Imre Lakatos lecture to? | {'text': 'Paul Feyerabend', 'answer_start': 415} |
49,318 | 48,976 | 5ace83b532bba1001ae4a90b | generic | In British English, the word 'asphalt' is used to refer to a mixture of mineral aggregate and asphalt/bitumen (also called tarmac in common parlance). When bitumen is mixed with clay it is usually called asphaltum. The earlier word 'asphaltum' is now archaic and not commonly used.[citation needed] In American English, ... | What is the shortened form of asphalt tarmac? | {'text': 'asphalt', 'answer_start': 380} |
99,513 | 99,171 | 572b323ebe1ee31400cb8287 | generic | This idea was later developed in ancient philosophy by the Stoic school. Stoic epistemology generally emphasized that the mind starts blank, but acquires knowledge as the outside world is impressed upon it. The doxographer Aetius summarizes this view as "When a man is born, the Stoics say, he has the commanding part of... | Whose ideas did Sextus build on? | {'text': 'Aetius', 'answer_start': 223} |
98,832 | 98,490 | 572abc96be1ee31400cb81f7 | generic | The junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, Paul Tsongas, announced in 1984 that he would be stepping down for health reasons. Kerry ran, and as in his 1982 race for Lieutenant Governor, he did not receive the endorsement of the party regulars at the state Democratic convention. Congressman James Shannon, a favorite of... | When did Kerry run for Lt Governor? | {'text': '1982', 'answer_start': 152} |
31,776 | 31,434 | 570aa83c6d058f190018301f | generic | The Houston area has over 150 active faults (estimated to be 300 active faults) with an aggregate length of up to 310 miles (500 km), including the Long Point–Eureka Heights fault system which runs through the center of the city. There have been no significant historically recorded earthquakes in Houston, but researche... | What geological feature has been removed underground to cause sinking in areas of southeast Houston? | {'text': 'water', 'answer_start': 494} |
1,721 | 1,379 | 56d39bdf59d6e41400146809 | generic | The 21 nocturnes are more structured, and of greater emotional depth, than those of Field (whom Chopin met in 1833). Many of the Chopin nocturnes have middle sections marked by agitated expression (and often making very difficult demands on the performer) which heightens their dramatic character. | Which type of Chopin's compositons were difficult for perfomers due to their middle sections? | {'text': 'nocturnes', 'answer_start': 7} |
54,744 | 54,402 | 5726281438643c19005ad17a | generic | The process was completed in 27 BC when the Roman Emperor Augustus annexed the rest of Greece and constituted it as the senatorial province of Achaea. Despite their military superiority, the Romans admired and became heavily influenced by the achievements of Greek culture, hence Horace's famous statement: Graecia capta... | What saying by Horace became famous? | {'text': '"Greece, although captured, took its wild conqueror captive"', 'answer_start': 343} |
36,013 | 35,671 | 570b03246b8089140040f6d0 | generic | More recent Lancashire-born composers include Hugh Wood (1932- Parbold), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-, Salford), Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934-, Accrington), Gordon Crosse (1937-, Bury),John McCabe (1939-2015, Huyton), Roger Smalley (1943-2015, Swinton), Nigel Osborne (1948-, Manchester), Steve Martland (1954-2013, ... | In what year was Hugh Wood born? | {'text': '1932', 'answer_start': 57} |
86,265 | 85,923 | 5ad34a47604f3c001a3fdc80 | generic | PlayStation Home is a virtual 3D social networking service for the PlayStation Network. Home allows users to create a custom avatar, which can be groomed realistically. Users can edit and decorate their personal apartments, avatars or club houses with free, premium or won content. Users can shop for new items or win pr... | What is the uncustomizable representation of a user in PS Home called? | {'text': 'avatar', 'answer_start': 125} |
14,660 | 14,318 | 56dfbf737aa994140058e104 | generic | In the first year, 400 beer houses opened and within eight years there were 46,000 across the country, far outnumbering the combined total of long-established taverns, pubs, inns and hotels. Because it was so easy to obtain permission and the profits could be huge compared to the low cost of gaining permission, the num... | How many beer houses existed throughout Britain eight years after the passage of the Beer Act? | {'text': '46,000', 'answer_start': 76} |
105,079 | 104,737 | 572fc229b2c2fd1400568406 | generic | Dowding accepted that as AOC, he was responsible for the day and night defence of Britain, and the blame, should he fail, would be laid at his door. When urgent changes and improvements needed to be made, Dowding seemed reluctant to act quickly. The Air Staff felt that this was due to his stubborn nature and reluctance... | What did the Air Ministry plan to do with his failures? | {'text': 'attack him and his abilities', 'answer_start': 544} |
83,221 | 82,879 | 5727d6b4ff5b5019007d9686 | generic | A revolution in 1332 resulted in a broad-based city government with participation of the guilds, and Strasbourg declared itself a free republic. The deadly bubonic plague of 1348 was followed on 14 February 1349 by one of the first and worst pogroms in pre-modern history: over a thousand Jews were publicly burnt to dea... | In what year did Strasbourg declare itself a free republic? | {'text': '1332', 'answer_start': 16} |
56,237 | 55,895 | 57266a045951b619008f71f4 | generic | As with personae in general, a character's face or heel alignment may change with time, or remain constant over its lifetime (the most famous example of the latter is Ricky Steamboat, a WWE Hall of Famer who remained a babyface throughout his entire career). Sometimes a character's heel turn will become so popular that... | What did Steve Austin become? | {'text': 'one of the greatest antiheroes', 'answer_start': 1012} |
127,994 | 127,652 | 573387acd058e614000b5cb1 | generic | One of the main driving forces in the growth of the University was its football team, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Knute Rockne became head coach in 1918. Under Rockne, the Irish would post a record of 105 wins, 12 losses, and five ties. During his 13 years the Irish won three national championships, had five undefea... | The Notre Dame football team got a new head coach in 1918, who was it? | {'text': 'Knute Rockne', 'answer_start': 117} |
34,835 | 34,493 | 5ad261d7d7d075001a42906d | generic | In the 1990s, sociologists focused on different aspects of specific emotions and how these emotions were socially relevant. For Cooley (1992), pride and shame were the most important emotions that drive people to take various social actions. During every encounter, he proposed that we monitor ourselves through the "loo... | What emotions didn't Cooley regard as of paramount social importance? | {'text': 'pride and shame', 'answer_start': 143} |
3,891 | 3,549 | 56cfbab4234ae51400d9bf19 | generic | In 1785, the assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York the national capital shortly after the war. New York was the last capital of the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation and the first capital under the Constitution of the United States. In 1789, the first President of the United States, George ... | Which organization made New York the national capital in 1785? | {'text': 'Congress of the Confederation', 'answer_start': 29} |
23,546 | 23,204 | 56f7e9f4a6d7ea1400e172b2 | generic | A state's consent may be invalidated if there was an erroneous understanding of a fact or situation at the time of conclusion, which formed the "essential basis" of the state's consent. Consent will not be invalidated if the misunderstanding was due to the state's own conduct, or if the truth should have been evident. | An erroneous understanding of a fact or situation may only invalidate a state's consent to a treaty if what is also true about the erroneous understanding? | {'text': 'formed the "essential basis" of the state\'s consent', 'answer_start': 133} |
81,260 | 80,918 | 5727fb052ca10214002d9a9d | generic | During the English Civil War the majority of Londoners supported the Parliamentary cause. After an initial advance by the Royalists in 1642 culminating in the battles of Brentford and Turnham Green, London was surrounded by defensive perimeter wall known as the Lines of Communication. The lines were built by an up to 2... | How long did it take to build the Lines of Communication? | {'text': 'under two months', 'answer_start': 356} |
117,314 | 116,972 | 5a42ac754a4859001aac7293 | generic | Game players were not the only ones to notice the violence in this game; US Senators Herb Kohl and Joe Lieberman convened a Congressional hearing on December 9, 1993 to investigate the marketing of violent video games to children.[e] While Nintendo took the high ground with moderate success, the hearings led to the cre... | How did game players affect Nintendo's policy? | {'text': 'decided its censorship policies were no longer needed', 'answer_start': 506} |
111,762 | 111,420 | 572fc61f04bcaa1900d76cf2 | generic | Due to insistence by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), the international governing body of football, that domestic leagues reduce the number of games clubs played, the number of clubs was reduced to 20 in 1995 when four teams were relegated from the league and only two teams promoted. On 8 Ju... | What was the number of clubs reduced to in 1995. | {'text': 'the number of clubs was reduced to 20 in 1995', 'answer_start': 191} |
87,115 | 86,773 | 5a32e05cbd0d7f001aef94cf | generic | When a second round of elections were finally held in 1993, again with the help of the international community coordinated by GIBAFOR, Ange-Félix Patassé won in the second round of voting with 53% of the vote while Goumba won 45.6%. Patassé's party, the Mouvement pour la Libération du Peuple Centrafricain (MLPC) or Mov... | What did Goumba help to coordinate in 1993? | {'text': 'a second round of elections', 'answer_start': 5} |
40,219 | 39,877 | 570c65bcfed7b91900d45991 | generic | John had spent the conflict travelling alongside his father, and was given widespread possessions across the Angevin empire as part of the Montlouis settlement; from then onwards, most observers regarded John as Henry II's favourite child, although he was the furthest removed in terms of the royal succession. Henry II ... | John spent the conflict traveling alongside who? | {'text': 'his father', 'answer_start': 49} |
120,889 | 120,547 | 5ad4f7e35b96ef001a10a805 | generic | Red is one of the most common colors used on national flags. The use of red has similar connotations from country to country: the blood, sacrifice, and courage of those who defended their country; the sun and the hope and warmth it brings; and the sacrifice of Christ's blood (in some historically Christian nations) are... | What colors do all former British colonies use on their flags? | {'text': 'red, white, and blue', 'answer_start': 471} |
30,414 | 30,072 | 5ad269fad7d075001a4292ff | generic | The electronic instrumentation and minimal arrangement of Charanjit Singh's Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat (1982), an album of Indian ragas performed in a disco style, anticipated the sounds of acid house music, but it is not known to have had any influence on the genre prior to the album's rediscovery in the ... | What sort of arrangement did Charanjit Singh use on his 1981 album? | {'text': 'minimal arrangement', 'answer_start': 35} |
3,507 | 3,165 | 56cec033aab44d1400b889b0 | generic | An earthquake emergency relief team of 184 people (consisting of 12 people from the State Seismological Bureau, 150 from the Beijing Military Area Command, and 22 from the Armed Police General Hospital) left Beijing from Nanyuan Airport late May 12 in two military transport planes to travel to Wenchuan County. | How many of the relief team were from the State Seismological Bureau? | {'text': '12', 'answer_start': 65} |
39,656 | 39,314 | 570d078afed7b91900d45bde | generic | Roman Catholics believe in the Immaculate Conception of Mary, as proclaimed Ex Cathedra by Pope Pius IX in 1854, namely that she was filled with grace from the very moment of her conception in her mother's womb and preserved from the stain of original sin. The Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church has a liturgical fe... | According to the doctrine of Immaculate Conception, where was Mary when she first become filled with grace? | {'text': "in her mother's womb", 'answer_start': 190} |
125,840 | 125,498 | 5733835e4776f41900660c4e | generic | This credit freeze brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse. The response of the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and other central banks was immediate and dramatic. During the last quarter of 2008, these central banks purchased US$2.5 trillion of government debt and t... | In October 2010, who was the Nobel laureate that explained how the U.S. Federal Reserve was creating currency to combat the liquidity trap? | {'text': 'Joseph Stiglitz', 'answer_start': 816} |
39,251 | 38,909 | 5ad3ab36604f3c001a3feb6b | generic | The National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) crime statistics system aims to address limitations inherent in UCR data. The system is used by law enforcement agencies in the United States for collecting and reporting data on crimes. Local, state, and federal agencies generate NIBRS data from their records manage... | What system do Canadian law enforcement agencies use? | {'text': 'National Incident Based Reporting System', 'answer_start': 4} |
18,682 | 18,340 | 5ad4fa485b96ef001a10a852 | generic | There are three main chemical pulping processes: the sulfite process dates back to the 1840s and it was the dominant method extent before the second world war. The kraft process, invented in the 1870s and first used in the 1890s, is now the most commonly practiced strategy, one of its advantages is the chemical reactio... | What is a specialty process used to hardwoods with high silicate content? | {'text': 'Soda pulping', 'answer_start': 632} |
42,902 | 42,560 | 570dedb80dc6ce1900204d1b | generic | Some scientific studies suggest that ozone depletion may have a dominant role in governing climatic change in Antarctica (and a wider area of the Southern Hemisphere). Ozone absorbs large amounts of ultraviolet radiation in the stratosphere. Ozone depletion over Antarctica can cause a cooling of around 6 °C in the loca... | In what do some scientists believe ozone depletion may have a role ? | {'text': 'climatic change', 'answer_start': 91} |
67,832 | 67,490 | 5727afec3acd2414000de9ba | generic | Switzerland has one of the best environmental records among nations in the developed world; it was one of the countries to sign the Kyoto Protocol in 1998 and ratified it in 2003. With Mexico and the Republic of Korea it forms the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG). The country is heavily active in recycling and anti-... | What percentage of recyclable materials are being recycled in Switzerland? | {'text': '66% to 96%', 'answer_start': 393} |
85,243 | 84,901 | 5727ff303acd2414000df1b6 | generic | The primary objective of the European Central Bank, as laid down in Article 127(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, is to maintain price stability within the Eurozone. The Governing Council in October 1998 defined price stability as inflation of under 2%, “a year-on-year increase in the Harmonise... | What is the primary goal of the ECB? | {'text': 'maintain price stability within the Eurozone', 'answer_start': 145} |
32,830 | 32,488 | 5a5d023b5e8782001a9d5e57 | generic | China's network security and information technology leadership team was established February 27, 2014. The leadership team is tasked with national security and long-term development and co-ordination of major issues related to network security and information technology. Economic, political, cultural, social and milita... | When were China's enhanced national security capabilities established? | {'text': '2014', 'answer_start': 97} |
4,764 | 4,422 | 56cf5a6aaab44d1400b890e3 | generic | Harper Lee was pleased with the movie, saying: "In that film the man and the part met... I've had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I've always refused. That film was a work of art." Peck met Lee's father, the model for Atticus, before the filming. Lee's father died before the film... | What item did Lee give the actor Gregory Peck after portraying Atticus Finch? | {'text': "father's pocketwatch", 'answer_start': 403} |
60,349 | 60,007 | 5a6bf3af4eec6b001a80a613 | generic | A predator's effect on its prey species is hard to see in the short-term. However, if observed over a longer period of time, it is seen that the population of a predator will correlationally rise and fall with the population of its prey in a cycle similar to the boom and bust cycle of economics. If a predator overhunts... | What happens if wildlife conservationists limit prey populations? | {'text': 'the prey population will lower to numbers that are too scarce for the predators to find', 'answer_start': 331} |
101,960 | 101,618 | 5a8de14fdf8bba001a0f9d0a | generic | In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, he gives advice on the best way to pick up a girl in a hostess bar. At Caltech, he used a nude or topless bar as an office away from his usual office, making sketches or writing physics equations on paper placemats. When the county officials tried to close the place, all visitors ... | Where did Feynman lose his equations at the topless bar? | {'text': 'paper placemats', 'answer_start': 238} |
32,410 | 32,068 | 5a360d7c788daf001a5f86da | generic | The history of the area that now constitutes Himachal Pradesh dates back to the time when the Indus valley civilisation flourished between 2250 and 1750 BCE. Tribes such as the Koilis, Halis, Dagis, Dhaugris, Dasa, Khasas, Kinnars, and Kirats inhabited the region from the prehistoric era. During the Vedic period, sever... | During what time period did King Harshavardhana rule? | {'text': 'between 2250 and 1750 BCE', 'answer_start': 131} |
82,110 | 81,768 | 5727d29d2ca10214002d9760 | generic | Others argue that the rule of law has survived but was transformed to allow for the exercise of discretion by administrators. For much of American history, the dominant notion of the rule of law, in this setting, has been some version of A. V. Dicey's: “no man is punishable or can be lawfully made to suffer in body or ... | When was a compromise reached over administrative procedures for law determination? | {'text': '1941', 'answer_start': 1151} |
11,425 | 11,083 | 56de62fc4396321400ee286b | generic | Baird Television Ltd. made Britain's first television broadcast, on 30 September 1929 from its studio in Long Acre, London, via the BBC's London transmitter, using the electromechanical system pioneered by John Logie Baird. This system used a vertically-scanned image of 30 lines – just enough resolution for a close-up ... | How many lines made up the picture on Britain's earliest TV broadcasts? | {'text': '30', 'answer_start': 68} |
41,544 | 41,202 | 570d65c3fed7b91900d45fcc | generic | Valencia is also internationally famous for its football club, Valencia C.F., which won the Spanish league in 2002 and 2004 (the year it also won the UEFA Cup), for a total of six times, and was a UEFA Champions League runner-up in 2000 and 2001. The team's stadium is the Mestalla; its city rival Levante UD also plays ... | In which division does Huracan Valencia play? | {'text': 'Segunda División B', 'answer_start': 552} |
115,873 | 115,531 | 5ad49663ba00c4001a268caf | generic | Windows Explorer, which has been renamed File Explorer, now includes a ribbon in place of the command bar. File operation dialog boxes have been updated to provide more detailed statistics, the ability to pause file transfers, and improvements in the ability to manage conflicts when copying files. A new "File History" ... | What is the old name of Windows Explorer? | {'text': 'File Explorer', 'answer_start': 41} |
116,424 | 116,082 | 5a56a25c6349e2001acdcecb | generic | The Reed Dance today is not an ancient ceremony but a development of the old "umchwasho" custom. In "umchwasho", all young girls were placed in a female age-regiment. If any girl became pregnant outside of marriage, her family paid a fine of one cow to the local chief. After a number of years, when the girls had reache... | Who preformed labour for the chieften? | {'text': 'girls', 'answer_start': 304} |
87,260 | 86,918 | 5728098f2ca10214002d9c31 | generic | There is no cure for asthma. Symptoms can be prevented by avoiding triggers, such as allergens and irritants, and by the use of inhaled corticosteroids. Long-acting beta agonists (LABA) or antileukotriene agents may be used in addition to inhaled corticosteroids if asthma symptoms remain uncontrolled. Treatment of rapi... | How can symptoms be prevented? | {'text': 'by avoiding triggers, such as allergens and irritants, and by the use of inhaled corticosteroids', 'answer_start': 55} |
72,809 | 72,467 | 5a73865253a187001ae63217 | generic | In 1996, Comcast bought a controlling stake in Spectacor from the company's founder, Ed Snider. Comcast-Spectacor holdings now include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers National Basketball Association basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia. Over a number of years... | Who founded the Philadelphia Flyers? | {'text': 'Ed Snider', 'answer_start': 85} |
127,494 | 127,152 | 57336c1cd058e614000b5ac2 | generic | Residents of Saint-Barthélemy (Saint-Barthélemoise people) are French citizens and work at establishments on the island. Most of them are descendants of the first settlers, of Breton, Norman, Poitevin, Saintongeais and Angevin lineage. French is the native tongue of the population. English is understood in hotels and r... | How does the determination between Patois and Creole French usually determined? | {'text': 'racially', 'answer_start': 742} |
34,525 | 34,183 | 570a0b984103511400d59528 | generic | The Berggarten is an important European botanical garden.[citation needed] Some points of interest are the Tropical House, the Cactus House, the Canary House and the Orchid House, which hosts one of the world's biggest collection of orchids, and free-flying birds and butterflies. Near the entrance to the Berggarten is ... | What is the Berggarten? | {'text': 'European botanical garden', 'answer_start': 31} |
87,195 | 86,853 | 5a32f0a0bd0d7f001aef951f | generic | In 2006, due to ongoing violence, over 50,000 people in the country's northwest were at risk of starvation but this was averted due to assistance from the United Nations.[citation needed] On 8 January 2008, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon declared that the Central African Republic was eligible to receive assistanc... | In what year was the Central African Republic created? | {'text': '2005', 'answer_start': 686} |
79,201 | 78,859 | 5727bbbe4b864d1900163be2 | generic | For much of Eton's history, junior boys had to act as "fags", or servants, to older boys. Their duties included cleaning, cooking, and running errands. A Library member was entitled to yell at any time and without notice, "Boy, Up!" or "Boy, Queue!", and all first-year boys had to come running. The last boy to arrive w... | What year was "fagging" phased out of most houses? | {'text': '1970s', 'answer_start': 422} |
85,684 | 85,342 | 57282d193acd2414000df651 | generic | St. John's is served by the Eastern School District, the largest school district in Newfoundland and Labrador by student population. There are currently 36 primary, elementary and secondary schools in the city of St. John's, including three private schools. St. John's also includes one school that is part of the provin... | How many private schools are in the Francophone public school district? | {'text': 'two', 'answer_start': 421} |
80,678 | 80,336 | 5acd1b1d07355d001abf3546 | generic | The Consortium first published The Unicode Standard (ISBN 0-321-18578-1) in 1991 and continues to develop standards based on that original work. The latest version of the standard, Unicode 8.0, was released in June 2015 and is available from the consortium's website. The last of the major versions (versions x.0) to be ... | What extra sections are not included on the Unicode website? | {'text': 'code charts or standard annexes', 'answer_start': 754} |
106,744 | 106,402 | 572ecd39dfa6aa1500f8d3dd | generic | The Great Basin and Columbia Plateau (the Intermontane Plateaus) are arid or semiarid regions that lie in the rain shadow of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada. Precipitation averages less than 15 inches (38 cm). The Southwest is a hot desert, with temperatures exceeding 100 °F (37.8 °C) for several weeks at a time in summ... | In the southwest, how high do temperatures get? | {'text': '100 °F (37.8 °C)', 'answer_start': 268} |
83,083 | 82,741 | 57280cfc3acd2414000df325 | generic | The mascot of Northwestern Athletics is Willie the Wildcat. The first mascot, however, was a live, caged bear cub from the Lincoln Park Zoo named Furpaw who was brought to the playing field on the day of a game to greet the fans. But after a losing season, the team, deciding that Furpaw was to blame for its misfortune,... | What was the name of Northwestern Athletics's bear cub mascot? | {'text': 'Furpaw', 'answer_start': 146} |
37,498 | 37,156 | 5a5a44279c0277001abe70e0 | generic | Established acts benefited from the new commercial climate, with Whitesnake's self-titled album (1987) selling over 17 million copies, outperforming anything in Coverdale's or Deep Purple's catalogue before or since. It featured the rock anthem "Here I Go Again '87" as one of 4 UK top 20 singles. The follow-up Slip of ... | What did Steve Erlwine and Greg Prato call the performance of Deep Purples' song Here I Go Again? | {'text': 'it was a considerable disappointment', 'answer_start': 409} |
54,095 | 53,753 | 572693ee5951b619008f7739 | generic | By mid-1950, North Korean forces numbered between 150,000 and 200,000 troops, organized into 10 infantry divisions, one tank division, and one air force division, with 210 fighter planes and 280 tanks, who captured scheduled objectives and territory, among them Kaesong, Chuncheon, Uijeongbu, and Ongjin. Their forces in... | How many infantry divisions did N. Korea have engaged in the war? | {'text': '10', 'answer_start': 93} |
100,031 | 99,689 | 572b701cbe1ee31400cb8390 | generic | One study showed that Czech and Slovak lexicons differed by 80 percent, but this high percentage was found to stem primarily from differing orthographies and slight inconsistencies in morphological formation; Slovak morphology is more regular (when changing from the nominative to the locative case, Praha becomes Praze ... | The most differences between Czech and Slovak can be found in colloquial vocabulary as well as what? | {'text': 'some scientific terminology', 'answer_start': 453} |
18,630 | 18,288 | 5ad68d08191832001aa7b195 | generic | The oldest known archaeological fragments of the immediate precursor to modern paper, date to the 2nd century BC in China. The pulp papermaking process is ascribed to Cai Lun, a 2nd-century AD Han court eunuch. With paper as an effective substitute for silk in many applications, China could export silk in greater quant... | Who is uncredited with the papermaking process? | {'text': 'Cai Lun', 'answer_start': 167} |
88,980 | 88,638 | 5a83a094e60761001a2eb839 | generic | Following the ceasefire agreement that suspended hostilities (but not officially ended) in the 1991 Gulf War, the United States and its allies instituted and began patrolling Iraqi no-fly zones, to protect Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'a Arab population—both of which suffered attacks from the Hussein regime before and after t... | What was instituted to protect Iraq's Arab and Shi'a Kurdish population? | {'text': 'Iraqi no-fly zones', 'answer_start': 175} |
122,080 | 121,738 | 5731f519e17f3d140042257a | generic | Excessive devotion and enthusiasm in religious observance were superstitio, in the sense of "doing or believing more than was necessary", to which women and foreigners were considered particularly prone. The boundaries between religio and superstitio are perhaps indefinite. The famous tirade of Lucretius, the Epicurean... | What was the basis of Roman religion? | {'text': 'knowledge', 'answer_start': 455} |
82,932 | 82,590 | 5727f604ff5b5019007d994f | generic | In April 2016, Northwestern announced that it signed on to the Chicago Star Partnership, a City Colleges initiative. Through this partnership, Northwestern is one of 15 Illinois public and private universities that will "provide scholarships to students who graduate from Chicago Public Schools, get their associate degr... | Who encouraged local universities to increase opportunities for students in the public school districts? | {'text': 'Mayor Rahm Emanuel', 'answer_start': 455} |
107,105 | 106,763 | 5a7b64e521c2de001afe9fc0 | generic | The essential usefulness of a transistor comes from its ability to use a small signal applied between one pair of its terminals to control a much larger signal at another pair of terminals. This property is called gain. It can produce a stronger output signal, a voltage or current, which is proportional to a weaker inp... | How large is a transistor in comparison to a terminal? | {'text': 'small', 'answer_start': 73} |
42,825 | 42,483 | 570dce860b85d914000d7b81 | generic | European maps continued to show this hypothesized land until Captain James Cook's ships, HMS Resolution and Adventure, crossed the Antarctic Circle on 17 January 1773, in December 1773 and again in January 1774. Cook came within about 120 km (75 mi) of the Antarctic coast before retreating in the face of field ice in J... | When was the first recorded landing on Antarctica? | {'text': '1895', 'answer_start': 1518} |
69,888 | 69,546 | 5acea28132bba1001ae4ae38 | generic | There are occasional brief hints and allusions in his longer works however that Avicenna considered philosophy as the only sensible way to distinguish real prophecy from illusion. He did not state this more clearly because of the political implications of such a theory, if prophecy could be questioned, and also because... | What did Avicenna consider to be the only way to distinguish real philosophy from illusion? | {'text': 'philosophy', 'answer_start': 100} |
87,918 | 87,576 | 5acf9c4777cf76001a6854ae | generic | In contrast, Europe has a greater history of unitary states than North America, thus European "federalism" argues for a weaker central government, relative to a unitary state. The modern American usage of the word is much closer to the European sense. As the power of the Federal government has increased, some people ha... | What branch does the United Nations want to limit under the federalist model? | {'text': 'judiciary', 'answer_start': 557} |
72,511 | 72,169 | 57276fe9f1498d1400e8f810 | generic | The permanent snow cover necessary for glacier formation is affected by factors such as the degree of slope on the land, amount of snowfall and the winds. Glaciers can be found in all latitudes except from 20° to 27° north and south of the equator where the presence of the descending limb of the Hadley circulation lowe... | Do glaciers require permanent snow or only temporary coverage? | {'text': 'permanent snow cover', 'answer_start': 4} |
34,991 | 34,649 | 5a396d042f14dd001ac72326 | generic | On matchdays, in a tradition going back to 1962, players walk out to the theme tune to Z-Cars, named "Johnny Todd", a traditional Liverpool children's song collected in 1890 by Frank Kidson which tells the story of a sailor betrayed by his lover while away at sea, although on two separate occasions in the 1994, they ra... | In what year was "Get Ready For This" released? | {'text': '1994', 'answer_start': 356} |
55,824 | 55,482 | 5a847dab7cf838001a46a86f | generic | "Azure, three ships with three masts, rigged and under full sail, the sails, pennants and ensigns Argent, each charged with a cross Gules; on a chief of the second a pale quarterly Azure and Gules, on the 1st and 4th a fleur-de-lis or, on the 2nd and 3rd a leopard or, between two roses Gules seeded Or barbed Vert." The... | What does DEO DUCENTE NIL NOCET mean in Russian? | {'text': 'Where God Leads, Nothing Hurts', 'answer_start': 651} |
31,294 | 30,952 | 570985de200fba1400368133 | generic | The England national football team represents England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man for football matches as part of FIFA-authorised events, and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England are one of the two oldest national teams in ... | Who is the current team manager of England's football team? | {'text': 'Roy Hodgson', 'answer_start': 508} |
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