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19,910 | 19,568 | 5a7ba34d21c2de001afea1f2 | generic | In July 2007, the National Archives announced it would make its collection of Universal Newsreels from 1929 to 1967 available for purchase through CreateSpace, an Amazon.com subsidiary. During the announcement, Weinstein noted that the agreement would "... reap major benefits for the public-at-large and for the Nationa... | In what year did CreateSpace begin partnering with Amazon.com? | {'text': '2007', 'answer_start': 8} |
99,046 | 98,704 | 572aa08a111d821400f38c5f | generic | The Aravalli Range and the lands to the east and southeast of the range are generally more fertile and better watered. This region is home to the Kathiarbar-Gir dry deciduous forests ecoregion, with tropical dry broadleaf forests that include teak, Acacia, and other trees. The hilly Vagad region, home to the cities of ... | What is the name of the ecoregion to the east and southeast of the Aravalli Range? | {'text': 'the Kathiarbar-Gir dry deciduous forests ecoregion', 'answer_start': 142} |
108,693 | 108,351 | 572f99a7a23a5019007fc7c2 | generic | Like the rest of India, Hyderabad has a large informal economy that employs 30% of the labour force.:71 According to a survey published in 2007, it had 40–50,000 street vendors, and their numbers were increasing.:9 Among the street vendors, 84% are male and 16% female,:12 and four fifths are "stationary vendors" operat... | Of the street vendors in Hyderabad what percentage owned their own stall in 2007? | {'text': 'four fifths', 'answer_start': 277} |
76,219 | 75,877 | 572790d55951b619008f8dad | generic | On September 10, 1987, after a lecture from hardliner Yegor Ligachev at the Politburo for allowing these two unsanctioned demonstrations in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin wrote a letter of resignation to Gorbachev, who had been holidaying on the Black Sea. Gorbachev was stunned – no one had ever voluntarily resigned from the Po... | Who disagreed vocally about the demonstrations being permitted? | {'text': 'Yegor Ligachev', 'answer_start': 54} |
9,464 | 9,122 | 56dde0ea66d3e219004dad7f | generic | This unified institution consists of sea, land, and air elements referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Personnel may belong to either the Regular Force or the Reserve Force, which has four sub-components: the Primary Reserve, Supplementary Reserve, Cadet Organ... | What act defines the CAF? | {'text': 'the National Defence Act', 'answer_start': 398} |
100,751 | 100,409 | 572c9ce2750c471900ed4cb5 | generic | By 1960 African Americans comprised 16.45% of the state's population. It was not until after the mid-1960s and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that they were able to vote in full again, but new devices, such as at-large commission city governments, had been adopted in several jurisdictions to limit their polit... | What Congressional Act fully re-enfranchised African-American in Tennessee? | {'text': 'Voting Rights Act of 1965', 'answer_start': 126} |
105,859 | 105,517 | 5a87b5c11d3cee001a6a1316 | generic | Manifold vacuum can be used to drive accessories on automobiles. The best-known application is the vacuum servo, used to provide power assistance for the brakes. Obsolete applications include vacuum-driven windscreen wipers and Autovac fuel pumps. Some aircraft instruments (Attitude Indicator (AI) and the Heading Indic... | What are electrical systems used to provide power assistance for on a car? | {'text': 'the brakes', 'answer_start': 150} |
76,101 | 75,759 | 5727c82c3acd2414000dec40 | generic | While the book was readable enough to sell, its dryness ensured that it was seen as aimed at specialist scientists and could not be dismissed as mere journalism or imaginative fiction. Unlike the still-popular Vestiges, it avoided the narrative style of the historical novel and cosmological speculation, though the clos... | What did On Origin of Species avoid in order to raise its chance of being taken seriously? | {'text': 'it avoided the narrative style of the historical novel and cosmological speculation', 'answer_start': 220} |
14,254 | 13,912 | 5ace0a6932bba1001ae499f9 | generic | The Russian SFSR was controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, until the abortive 1991 August coup, which prompted President Yeltsin to suspend the recently created Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. | What political organization controlled the RSFSR up to 1919? | {'text': 'the Communist Party of the Soviet Union', 'answer_start': 35} |
75,349 | 75,007 | 57279cf2708984140094e251 | generic | Malian migrants have long worked on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast, but in 2000 cocoa prices had dropped to a 10-year low and some farmers stopped paying their employees. The Malian counsel had to rescue some boys who had not been paid for five years and who were beaten if they tried to run away. Malian officials belie... | Where did the children mainly come from? | {'text': 'slums', 'answer_start': 470} |
28,437 | 28,095 | 56fc3e072603e7140040a03e | generic | In a course at the LSA summer institute in 1991, Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky developed optimality theory—an overall architecture for phonology according to which languages choose a pronunciation of a word that best satisfies a list of constraints ordered by importance; a lower-ranked constraint can be violated when ... | Where was optimality theory created? | {'text': 'LSA summer institute', 'answer_start': 19} |
121,216 | 120,874 | 57313c1205b4da19006bcf03 | generic | Bronze age pebble mosaics have been found at Tiryns; mosaics of the 4th century BC are found in the Macedonian palace-city of Aegae, and the 4th-century BC mosaic of The Beauty of Durrës discovered in Durrës, Albania in 1916, is an early figural example; the Greek figural style was mostly formed in the 3rd century BC. ... | The Beauty of Durres is in what country? | {'text': 'Albania', 'answer_start': 209} |
51,023 | 50,681 | 5725b56a38643c19005acba6 | generic | After Alexander the Great's ventures in the Persian Empire, Hellenistic kingdoms were established throughout south-west Asia (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), north-east Africa (Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South Asia (Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom). This resulted in the export of Greek culture and languag... | Where is the Ptolemaic Kingdom? | {'text': 'north-east Africa', 'answer_start': 165} |
7,246 | 6,904 | 56d63b901c8504140094703b | generic | In Hindu mythology, Yama, the god of death owns two watch dogs who have four eyes. They are said to watch over the gates of Naraka. Hunter god Muthappan from North Malabar region of Kerala has a hunting dog as his mount. Dogs are found in and out of the Muthappan Temple and offerings at the shrine take the form of bron... | What is the name of the god of death? | {'text': 'Yama', 'answer_start': 20} |
103,849 | 103,507 | 5acee61232bba1001ae4b8f7 | generic | Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft that has visited Neptune. The spacecraft's closest approach to the planet occurred on 25 August 1989. Because this was the last major planet the spacecraft could visit, it was decided to make a close flyby of the moon Triton, regardless of the consequences to the trajectory, similarly t... | What near Neptune did a spacecraft land on? | {'text': 'Triton', 'answer_start': 251} |
6,166 | 5,824 | 56d369ca59d6e41400146320 | generic | Guest judges may occasionally be introduced. In season two, guest judges such as Lionel Richie and Robin Gibb were used, and in season three Donna Summer, Quentin Tarantino and some of the mentors also joined as judges to critique the performances in the final rounds. Guest judges were used in the audition rounds for s... | In what season was Lionel Richie a guest judge on American Idol? | {'text': 'season two', 'answer_start': 48} |
115,131 | 114,789 | 5ad3cbf4604f3c001a3ff136 | generic | This is not to say that Whitehead's thought was widely accepted or even well-understood. His philosophical work is generally considered to be among the most difficult to understand in all of the western canon. Even professional philosophers struggled to follow Whitehead's writings. One famous story illustrating the lev... | In all of the western canon, what is Whitehead's work never considered? | {'text': 'the most difficult to understand', 'answer_start': 148} |
22,109 | 21,767 | 56eaac850030b61400a3502b | generic | Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, pioneered this field with the CPI, first released in 1995. This work is often credited with breaking a taboo and forcing the issue of corruption into high level development policy discourse. Transparency International currently publishes three measures, updated annual... | What is the measure that it publishes that involves polling to determine the public's take on how corrupt various countries are? | {'text': 'CPI', 'answer_start': 82} |
51,471 | 51,129 | 5725b72fec44d21400f3d43e | generic | In November 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are adopting an open access (OA) policy for publications and data, "to enable the unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research funded by the foundation, including any underlying data sets". This move has been widely app... | What does the OA policy for publications and data do ? | {'text': 'open access (OA) policy for publications and data, "to enable the unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research funded by the foundation', 'answer_start': 92} |
62,757 | 62,415 | 5a81a9d631013a001a334d3c | generic | The public sector effort continues with the goal to create a high-quality, draft genome sequence from reads generated by all sources. The public-sector effort has generated Sanger reads of BACs, fosmids, and plasmids as well as 454 reads. These later types of reads will be instrumental in assembling an initial draft of... | When was the sequencing of D genome of AD, raimondii mostly completed? | {'text': '2010', 'answer_start': 338} |
98,639 | 98,297 | 572abae4be1ee31400cb81dd | generic | Like many American cities, Philadelphia saw a gradual yet pronounced rise in crime in the years following World War II. There were 525 murders in 1990, a rate of 31.5 per 100,000. There were an average of about 600 murders a year for most of the 1990s. The murder count dropped in 2002 to 288, then rose four years later... | What was the average murder rate during the 90's? | {'text': '600', 'answer_start': 211} |
55,762 | 55,420 | 572679f45951b619008f73e7 | generic | Pitt's Act was deemed a failure because it quickly became apparent that the boundaries between government control and the company's powers were nebulous and highly subjective. The government felt obliged to respond to humanitarian calls for better treatment of local peoples in British-occupied territories. Edmund Burke... | what was the name of the person who was once a large shareholder in EIC and talk to the issues with with the new Regulating bill in 1793? | {'text': 'Edmund Burke', 'answer_start': 308} |
113,926 | 113,584 | 5acd190e07355d001abf34a4 | generic | The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles. Situated in the North Atlantic, the islands have a total area of approximately 315,159 km2, and a combined population of just under 70 mil... | What are the only teo islands belonging to the British Isles | {'text': 'Great Britain, Ireland', 'answer_start': 122} |
75,669 | 75,327 | 5727b2d43acd2414000dea0d | generic | North Carolina has rich traditions in art, music, and cuisine. The nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $1.2 billion in direct economic activity in North Carolina, supporting more than 43,600 full-time equivalent jobs and generating $119 million in revenue for local governments and the state of North Carolina.... | How much money does the nonprofit arts and culture industry raise for government? | {'text': '$119 million', 'answer_start': 242} |
114,106 | 113,764 | 573027e804bcaa1900d77265 | generic | The linguistic heritage of the British Isles is rich, with twelve languages from six groups across four branches of the Indo-European family. The Insular Celtic languages of the Goidelic sub-group (Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic) and the Brittonic sub-group (Cornish, Welsh and Breton, spoken in north-western France) a... | How many groups do these languages belong to? | {'text': 'six groups', 'answer_start': 81} |
16,823 | 16,481 | 56e1207fcd28a01900c6761f | generic | On July 25, 2015, the 18th and 19th satellites were successfully launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, marking the first time for China to launch two satellites at once on top of a Long March 3B/Expedition-1 carrier rocket. The Expedition-1 is an independent upper stage capable of delivering one or more sp... | When were the 18th and 19th satellites for the BeiDou system launched? | {'text': 'July 25, 2015', 'answer_start': 3} |
17,535 | 17,193 | 56e1bb90e3433e14004230fe | generic | The AVL, created by the Valencian parliament, is in charge of dictating the official rules governing the use of Valencian, and its standard is based on the Norms of Castelló (Normes de Castelló). Currently, everyone who writes in Valencian uses this standard, except the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture (Acadèmia de C... | Who is exempt from the standard and uses their own? | {'text': 'Royal Academy of Valencian Culture', 'answer_start': 271} |
38,808 | 38,466 | 570c73d8b3d812140066d1f8 | generic | In 1918 Espanyol started a counter-petition against autonomy, which at that time had become a pertinent issue. Later on, an Espanyol supporter group would join the Falangists in the Spanish Civil War, siding with the fascists. Despite these differences in ideology, the derbi has always been more relevant to Espanyol su... | From what language did Espanyol translate their name? | {'text': 'Spanish', 'answer_start': 498} |
89,018 | 88,676 | 5728484a3acd2414000df877 | generic | The Obama administration began to reengage in Iraq with a series of airstrikes aimed at ISIS beginning on 10 August 2014. On 9 September 2014 President Obama said that he had the authority he needed to take action to destroy the militant group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, citing the 2001 Authoriza... | Where were the Sep 21-22 airstrikes? | {'text': 'Syria', 'answer_start': 969} |
102,975 | 102,633 | 5ad4c77c5b96ef001a10a058 | generic | In early 2009, Spielberg shot the first film in a planned trilogy of motion capture films based on The Adventures of Tintin, written by Belgian artist Hergé, with Peter Jackson. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, was not released until October 2011, due to the complexity of the computer animation invo... | What will be the name of the next Tintin movie? | {'text': 'The Secret of the Unicorn', 'answer_start': 204} |
77,615 | 77,273 | 5727f8d7ff5b5019007d9990 | generic | Over time, fidelity, dynamic and noise levels improved to the point that it was harder to tell the difference between a live performance in the studio and the recorded version. This was especially true after the invention of the variable reluctance magnetic pickup cartridge by General Electric in the 1940s when high qu... | What was a unique feature of the Capeart radio phonographs? | {'text': 'large diameter electrodynamic loudspeakers', 'answer_start': 422} |
5,610 | 5,268 | 56d120b717492d1400aaba07 | generic | Within Buddhism, samsara is defined as the continual repetitive cycle of birth and death that arises from ordinary beings' grasping and fixating on a self and experiences. Specifically, samsara refers to the process of cycling through one rebirth after another within the six realms of existence,[note 2] where each real... | How can you be freed from samsara? | {'text': 'by following the Buddhist path', 'answer_start': 601} |
50,372 | 50,030 | 5acfa86377cf76001a685764 | generic | In some countries anti-Masonry is often related to antisemitism and anti-Zionism. For example, In 1980, the Iraqi legal and penal code was changed by Saddam Hussein's ruling Ba'ath Party, making it a felony to "promote or acclaim Zionist principles, including Freemasonry, or who associate [themselves] with Zionist orga... | Who wrote that it was shocking that the blame for 9/11 was trying to be blamed on a masonic world order? | {'text': 'Professor Andrew Prescott', 'answer_start': 332} |
13,132 | 12,790 | 5ace349132bba1001ae49e29 | generic | By 1987, CBS was the only "big three" American TV network to have a co-owned record company. ABC had sold its record division to MCA Records in 1979, and in 1986, NBC's parent company RCA was sold to General Electric, who then sold off all other RCA units, including the record division (which was bought by Ariola Recor... | RCA's parent company NBC was sold to whom ? | {'text': 'General Electric', 'answer_start': 200} |
118,943 | 118,601 | 5730dce3b7151e1900c0157e | generic | Command and control is "the exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission. Command and control functions are performed through an arrangement of personnel, equipment, communications, facilities, and procedures employed by a ... | What is the definition of Command and Control in the Air Force operations? | {'text': 'exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces', 'answer_start': 28} |
67,232 | 66,890 | 5ad14e08645df0001a2d16ce | generic | In 1827, Hungarian physicist Ányos Jedlik started experimenting with electromagnetic coils. After Jedlik solved the technical problems of the continuous rotation with the invention of the commutator, he called his early devices "electromagnetic self-rotors". Although they were used only for instructional purposes, in 1... | What did Jedlik's improved device make the need for? | {'text': 'permanent magnets', 'answer_start': 479} |
62,706 | 62,364 | 5a81a32031013a001a334d09 | generic | The largest producers of cotton, currently (2009), are China and India, with annual production of about 34 million bales and 33.4 million bales, respectively; most of this production is consumed by their respective textile industries. The largest exporters of raw cotton are the United States, with sales of $4.9 billion... | In 2009 what were the largest importers? | {'text': 'China and India', 'answer_start': 55} |
105,402 | 105,060 | 572e94b2c246551400ce437d | generic | President Richard Nixon declared current species conservation efforts to be inadequate and called on the 93rd United States Congress to pass comprehensive endangered species legislation. Congress responded with a completely rewritten law, the Endangered Species Act of 1973 which was signed by Nixon on December 28, 1973... | The team leader was the first appointed head of what organization? | {'text': 'the Council on Environmental Quality', 'answer_start': 428} |
100,909 | 100,567 | 5a283015d1a287001a6d0ace | generic | During the initial punk era, a variety of entrepreneurs interested in local punk-influenced music scenes began founding independent record labels, including Rough Trade (founded by record shop owner Geoff Travis) and Factory (founded by Manchester-based television personality Tony Wilson). By 1977, groups began pointed... | What year was independent music considered the least popular? | {'text': '1977', 'answer_start': 294} |
59,044 | 58,702 | 5acd8c7607355d001abf46d0 | generic | Hurricanes pose a severe threat each year during the June 1 to November 30 hurricane season, particularly from August to October. Florida is the most hurricane-prone state, with subtropical or tropical water on a lengthy coastline. Of the category 4 or higher storms that have struck the United States, 83% have either h... | What season ends on June 1st? | {'text': 'Hurricanes', 'answer_start': 0} |
72,579 | 72,237 | 5727009f5951b619008f846b | generic | Comcast Corporation, formerly registered as Comcast Holdings,[note 1] is an American multinational mass media company and is the largest broadcasting and largest cable company in the world by revenue. It is the second largest pay-TV company after the AT&T-DirecTV acquisition, largest cable TV company and largest home I... | Comcast is also the largest media company in the United States in what broadband area? | {'text': 'Internet service provider', 'answer_start': 319} |
58,571 | 58,229 | 5ad0b2f8645df0001a2d00b8 | generic | Ireland developed a strong middle class, especially in the major cities, by the mid-nineteenth century. They were active patrons of department stores. Delany's New Mart was opened in 1853 in Dublin, Ireland. Unlike others, Delany's had not evolved gradually from a smaller shop on site. Thus it could claim to be the fir... | In what city was Delany's New Mart closed? | {'text': 'Dublin', 'answer_start': 191} |
83,831 | 83,489 | 57284ab33acd2414000df8b7 | generic | In the later Vedic Age, a number of small kingdoms or city states had covered the subcontinent, many mentioned in Vedic, early Buddhist and Jaina literature as far back as 500 BCE. sixteen monarchies and "republics" known as the Mahajanapadas—Kashi, Kosala, Anga, Magadha, Vajji (or Vriji), Malla, Chedi, Vatsa (or Vamsa... | What was the first major urbanization in India? | {'text': 'Indus Valley Civilisation', 'answer_start': 574} |
11,280 | 10,938 | 5a63251e68151a001a922228 | generic | Beginning roughly in the 14th century in Florence, and later spreading through Europe with the development of the printing press, a Renaissance of knowledge challenged traditional doctrines in science and theology, with the Arabic texts and thought bringing about rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman knowledge. | When was the start of the period known as Greek and Roman? | {'text': '14th century', 'answer_start': 25} |
40,858 | 40,516 | 570d67fafed7b91900d46011 | generic | After World War I the US Army started developing a dual-role (AA/ground) automatic 37 mm cannon, designed by John M. Browning. It was standardised in 1927 as the T9 AA cannon, but trials quickly revealed that it was worthless in the ground role. However, while the shell was a bit light (well under 2 lbs) it had a good ... | What did the United States Army begin to develop after the first World War? | {'text': 'a dual-role (AA/ground) automatic 37 mm cannon', 'answer_start': 49} |
56,717 | 56,375 | 57267b3c708984140094c78d | generic | In 1941, the General Anaya borough was merged to the Central Department, which was then renamed "Mexico City" (thus reviving the name, but not the autonomous municipality). From 1941 to 1970, the Federal District comprised twelve delegaciones and Mexico City. In 1970 Mexico City was split into four different delegacion... | How many districts does the federal government control in 1970? | {'text': 'sixteen', 'answer_start': 432} |
122,365 | 122,023 | 5731a004e99e3014001e6191 | generic | YouTube does not usually offer a download link for its videos, and intends for them to be viewed through its website interface. A small number of videos, such as the weekly addresses by President Barack Obama, can be downloaded as MP4 files. Numerous third-party web sites, applications and browser plug-ins allow users ... | Youtube intends for users to watch videos where? | {'text': 'through its website', 'answer_start': 97} |
120,180 | 119,838 | 5731579e497a881900248e30 | generic | Qing China reached its largest extent during the 18th century, when it ruled China proper (eighteen provinces) as well as the areas of present-day Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet, at approximately 13 million km2 in size. There were originally 18 provinces, all of which in China prope... | How many kilometers was Qing China at its height? | {'text': '13 million km2', 'answer_start': 233} |
36,348 | 36,006 | 5a1f6f6654a786001a36b2be | generic | VRS services have become well developed nationally in Sweden since 1997 and also in the United States since the first decade of the 2000s. With the exception of Sweden, VRS has been provided in Europe for only a few years since the mid-2000s, and as of 2010 has not been made available in many European Union countries, ... | What has the European Union become a world leader in providing? | {'text': 'VRS services', 'answer_start': 641} |
52,426 | 52,084 | 57268e0ff1498d1400e8e3aa | generic | Some nouns have two different diminutives, each with a different meaning: bloem (flower) → bloempje (lit. "small flower"), but bloemetje (lit. also "small flower", meaning bouquet). A few nouns exist solely in a diminutive form, e.g. zeepaardje (seahorse), while many, e.g. meisje (girl), originally a diminutive of meid... | Sometimes uncountable nouns in Dutch get a diminutive ending to make them refer to what, like an ice cream cone? | {'text': 'a single portion', 'answer_start': 467} |
44,260 | 43,918 | 570f8bb680d9841400ab35b9 | generic | Elizabeth and Philip were married on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey. They received 2500 wedding gifts from around the world. Because Britain had not yet completely recovered from the devastation of the war, Elizabeth required ration coupons to buy the material for her gown, which was designed by Norman Hartnell.... | What former King was not invited to the wedding? | {'text': 'Duke of Windsor', 'answer_start': 483} |
55,703 | 55,361 | 5a8466b67cf838001a46a7e3 | generic | By the Treaty of Paris (1763), France regained the five establishments captured by the British during the war (Pondichéry, Mahe, Karikal, Yanam and Chandernagar) but was prevented from erecting fortifications and keeping troops in Bengal (art. XI). Elsewhere in India, the French were to remain a military threat, partic... | How many establishments captured by the British were destroyed after the treaty of Paris? | {'text': 'five', 'answer_start': 51} |
112,942 | 112,600 | 572fce07b2c2fd140056848b | generic | The first European to visit the region was Portuguese-born explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailing under the flag of Castile. Sailing his flagship San Salvador from Navidad, New Spain, Cabrillo claimed the bay for the Spanish Empire in 1542, and named the site 'San Miguel'. In November 1602, Sebastián Vizcaíno was sen... | Who was sent to survey the California coast in 1602? | {'text': 'Sebastián Vizcaíno', 'answer_start': 294} |
115,800 | 115,458 | 57302039b2c2fd14005688db | generic | On February 29, 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8 Consumer Preview, the beta version of Windows 8, build 8250. Alongside other changes, the build removed the Start button from the taskbar for the first time since its debut on Windows 95; according to Windows manager Chaitanya Sareen, the Start button was removed to re... | When was the beta version of Windows 8 made available to the public? | {'text': 'February 29, 2012', 'answer_start': 3} |
114,800 | 114,458 | 5a62ac2bf8d794001af1c1a2 | generic | The rebels soon split into various factions fighting one another. The Economic Community Monitoring Group under the Economic Community of West African States organized a military task force to intervene in the crisis. From 1989 to 1996 one of Africa's bloodiest civil wars ensued, claiming the lives of more than 200,000... | What did the Economic Community Monitorig Group cause the rebels to do? | {'text': 'split into various factions fighting one another', 'answer_start': 16} |
35,462 | 35,120 | 570ab73a4103511400d5995a | generic | Modern navies that operate such aircraft carriers treat them as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously held by the battleship. This change took place during World War II in response to air power becoming a significant factor in warfare, driven by the superior range, flexibility and effectiveness of carrier-la... | Which ship was originally known as being the capital ship of the fleet? | {'text': 'the battleship', 'answer_start': 121} |
29,128 | 28,786 | 5705fb2375f01819005e781f | generic | On 3 May 1966 it resumed printing news on the front page - previously the front page featured small advertisements, usually of interest to the moneyed classes in British society. In 1967, members of the Astor family sold the paper to Canadian publishing magnate Roy Thomson. His Thomson Corporation brought it under the ... | What is the name of the corporation that bought The Times in 1967? | {'text': 'Thomson Corporation', 'answer_start': 279} |
34,156 | 33,814 | 5709d0e84103511400d5945e | generic | City and Guilds College was founded in 1876 from a meeting of 16 of the City of London's livery companies for the Advancement of Technical Education (CGLI), which aimed to improve the training of craftsmen, technicians, technologists, and engineers. The two main objectives were to create a Central Institution in London... | What was the former name of the City and Guilds College? | {'text': 'CGLI Central Technical College', 'answer_start': 931} |
100,114 | 99,772 | 5a7a161417ab25001a8a030d | generic | The Czech people gained widespread national pride during the mid-eighteenth century, inspired by the Age of Enlightenment a half-century earlier. Czech historians began to emphasize their people's accomplishments from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, rebelling against the Counter-Reformation (which had ... | What time period inspired the Counter-Reformation? | {'text': 'the Age of Enlightenment', 'answer_start': 97} |
31,392 | 31,050 | 570942b39928a814004714f0 | generic | One wave of the population boom ended abruptly in the mid-1980s, as oil prices fell precipitously. The space industry also suffered in 1986 after the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after launch. There was a cutback in some activities for a period. In the late 1980s, the city's economy suffered from the ... | In the 1990's, what is something Houston did to try to diversify it's economy? | {'text': 'reduced its dependence on the petroleum industry', 'answer_start': 481} |
72,313 | 71,971 | 572a2c616aef05140015533a | generic | After a three-year hiatus, a fifth Digimon series began airing on April 2, 2006. Like Frontier, Savers has no connection with the previous installments, and also marks a new start for the Digimon franchise, with a drastic change in character designs and story-line, in order to reach a broader audience. The story focuse... | What was the main focus of the 5th season? | {'text': 'D.A.T.S. ("Digital Accident Tactics Squad")', 'answer_start': 364} |
111,811 | 111,469 | 5ad0cece645df0001a2d044f | generic | There are 20 clubs in the Premier League. During the course of a season (from August to May) each club plays the others twice (a double round-robin system), once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents, for a total of 38 games. Teams receive three points for a win and one point for a draw. No points a... | Each team plays the others three times during the course of what? | {'text': 'a season', 'answer_start': 63} |
26,979 | 26,637 | 5ad3b065604f3c001a3fec9f | generic | In addition, recording and reproducing an HDTV signal was a significant technical challenge in the early years of HDTV (Sony HDVS). Japan remained the only country with successful public broadcasting of analog HDTV, with seven broadcasters sharing a single channel. | How many broadcasters did Japan have sharing a multi channel? | {'text': 'seven', 'answer_start': 221} |
21,282 | 20,940 | 56e8311437bdd419002c4493 | generic | The Sardinian language is considered to be its own Romance language family, separate not only from standard Italian but also the wider Italo-Dalmatian family, and it includes the Campidanese Sardinian and Logudorese Sardinian variants. However, Gallurese, Sassarese, and Corsican are also spoken in Sardinia, and these l... | What language is Sassarese closely related to? | {'text': 'Italian Tuscan', 'answer_start': 380} |
56,346 | 56,004 | 57263b5b38643c19005ad33d | generic | Relatively insensitive film, with a correspondingly lower speed index, requires more exposure to light to produce the same image density as a more sensitive film, and is thus commonly termed a slow film. Highly sensitive films are correspondingly termed fast films. In both digital and film photography, the reduction of... | What leads to lower quality images? | {'text': 'reduction of exposure', 'answer_start': 308} |
32,248 | 31,906 | 5709690e200fba1400367f84 | generic | Boundaries can be inclusive or exclusive depending on how they are perceived by other people. An exclusive boundary arises, for example, when a person adopts a marker that imposes restrictions on the behaviour of others. An inclusive boundary is created, by contrast, by the use of a marker with which other people are r... | What boundary is given as an example that can be inclusive or exclusive? | {'text': 'language', 'answer_start': 794} |
13,828 | 13,486 | 5a29982f03c0e7001a3e1807 | generic | UNFPA provided aid to Peru's reproductive health program in the mid-to-late '90s. When it was discovered a Peruvian program had been engaged in carrying out coercive sterilizations, UNFPA called for reforms and protocols to protect the rights of women seeking assistance. UNFPA was not involved in the scandal, but conti... | Peru was found to have been protecting against what? | {'text': 'sterilizations', 'answer_start': 166} |
54,405 | 54,063 | 5726d1bdf1498d1400e8ec41 | generic | In a study published in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, and reported on in early May 2014, researchers from the University of Portsmouth in the UK discussed findings from examining the illegal downloading behavior of 6,000 Finnish people, aged seven to 84. The list of reasons for downloading give... | Who did downloaders want to help by avoiding studios and record companies? | {'text': 'artists', 'answer_start': 466} |
90,950 | 90,608 | 5728b835ff5b5019007da564 | generic | Other major bluegrass mandolinists who emerged in the early 1950s and are still active include Jesse McReynolds (of Jim and Jesse) who invented a syncopated banjo-roll-like style called crosspicking—and Bobby Osborne of the Osborne Brothers, who is a master of clarity and sparkling single-note runs. Highly respected an... | What technique did Jesse McReynolds create? | {'text': 'crosspicking', 'answer_start': 186} |
25,818 | 25,476 | 56f8be139e9bad19000a0402 | generic | The brains of all species are composed primarily of two broad classes of cells: neurons and glial cells. Glial cells (also known as glia or neuroglia) come in several types, and perform a number of critical functions, including structural support, metabolic support, insulation, and guidance of development. Neurons, how... | Which of the two broad classes of cells: neurons and glial cells send signals to other cells? | {'text': 'neurons', 'answer_start': 80} |
62,994 | 62,652 | 57267c915951b619008f7463 | generic | Seizing the opportunity to increase his presence on Fleet Street, he made an agreement with the print unions, promising fewer redundancies if he acquired the newspaper. He assured IPC that he would publish a "straightforward, honest newspaper" which would continue to support Labour. IPC, under pressure from the unions,... | Whose offer to buy the paper was turned down? | {'text': "Maxwell's offer", 'answer_start': 330} |
119,973 | 119,631 | 573127d505b4da19006bcdfd | generic | This was followed by the creation of the first two Han Banners in 1637 (increasing to eight in 1642). Together these military reforms enabled Hong Taiji to resoundingly defeat Ming forces in a series of battles from 1640 to 1642 for the territories of Songshan and Jinzhou. This final victory resulted in the surrender o... | When did the Han Banners grow to eight? | {'text': '1642', 'answer_start': 95} |
117,353 | 117,011 | 5a42bfc04a4859001aac72db | generic | PAL consoles face another incompatibility when playing out-of-region cartridges: the NTSC video standard specifies video at 60 Hz while PAL operates at 50 Hz, resulting in approximately 16.7% slower gameplay. Additionally, PAL's higher resolution results in letterboxing of the output image. Some commercial PAL region r... | How much slower are games on PPU consoles than PAL due to incompatibility? | {'text': '16.7% slower', 'answer_start': 186} |
53,071 | 52,729 | 5ad19d3c645df0001a2d2127 | generic | In 1906, the tungsten filament was introduced. Tungsten metal was initially not available in a form that allowed it to be drawn into fine wires. Filaments made from sintered tungsten powder were quite fragile. By 1910, a process was developed by William D. Coolidge at General Electric for production of a ductile form o... | What was initially available in a form that allowed it to drawn into fine wires? | {'text': 'Tungsten metal', 'answer_start': 47} |
32,141 | 31,799 | 5a836761e60761001a2eb677 | generic | Alloying copper with tin to make bronze was first practiced about 4000 years after the discovery of copper smelting, and about 2000 years after "natural bronze" had come into general use[citation needed]. Bronze artifacts from the Vinča culture date to 4500 BC. Sumerian and Egyptian artifacts of copper and bronze alloy... | What started about 3000 years after copper smelting was discovered? | {'text': 'Alloying copper with tin to make bronze', 'answer_start': 0} |
7,677 | 7,335 | 56db70ebe7c41114004b5114 | generic | There were several protests along the torch relay route. Members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, including pro-democracy activist Szeto Wah, waved novelty inflatable plastic Olympic flames, which they said symbolised democracy. They wanted accountability for the Tiananme... | What did radio host Christina Chan wear before waving it? | {'text': 'Tibetan snow lion flag', 'answer_start': 1269} |
21,759 | 21,417 | 56e8e8bf0b45c0140094cd58 | generic | Since the coronations in 1066 of both King Harold and William the Conqueror, coronations of English and British monarchs were held in the abbey. In 1216, Henry III was unable to be crowned in London when he first came to the throne, because the French prince Louis had taken control of the city, and so the king was crow... | When was Henry III crowned? | {'text': '1216', 'answer_start': 148} |
5,726 | 5,384 | 56d1d7cbe7d4791d00902291 | generic | The concept of liberation (nirvāṇa)—the goal of the Buddhist path—is closely related to overcoming ignorance (avidyā), a fundamental misunderstanding or mis-perception of the nature of reality. In awakening to the true nature of the self and all phenomena one develops dispassion for the objects of clinging, and is libe... | Liberation is know as what? | {'text': 'nirvāṇa', 'answer_start': 27} |
98,073 | 97,731 | 5ad371aa604f3c001a3fe28f | generic | Miami is noted as "the only major city in the United States conceived by a woman, Julia Tuttle", a local citrus grower and a wealthy Cleveland native. The Miami area was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth. In the late 19th century, reports described the area as a promising wildernes... | Who was "the father of Miami"? | {'text': 'Julia Tuttle', 'answer_start': 534} |
70,016 | 69,674 | 5726f847f1498d1400e8f15d | generic | In modern Iran, he is considered a national icon, and is often regarded as one of the greatest Persians to have ever lived. A monument was erected outside the Bukhara museum[year needed]. The Avicenna Mausoleum and Museum in Hamadan was built in 1952. Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamadan (Iran), Avicenna Research Institut... | Where is a monument located that honors Avicenna? | {'text': 'the Bukhara museum', 'answer_start': 155} |
130,001 | 129,659 | 57351496879d6814001cab0d | generic | A variety of industries benefit from hunting and support hunting on economic grounds. In Tanzania, it is estimated that a safari hunter spends fifty to one hundred times that of the average ecotourist. While the average photo tourist may seek luxury accommodation, the average safari hunter generally stays in tented cam... | What do a variety of industries obtain benefit from? | {'text': 'hunting', 'answer_start': 37} |
30,130 | 29,788 | 570624f252bb8914006898f8 | generic | A working group consisting of Leon van de Kerkhof (The Netherlands), Gerhard Stoll (Germany), Leonardo Chiariglione (Italy), Yves-François Dehery (France), Karlheinz Brandenburg (Germany) and James D. Johnston (USA) took ideas from ASPEC, integrated the filter bank from Layer 2, added some of their own ideas and create... | Where was the filter bank taken from? | {'text': 'Layer 2', 'answer_start': 271} |
129,680 | 129,338 | 5735f37c6c16ec1900b92891 | generic | On ancient reliefs, especially from Mesopotamia, kings are often depicted as hunters of big game such as lions and are often portrayed hunting from a war chariot. The cultural and psychological importance of hunting in ancient societies is represented by deities such as the horned god Cernunnos and lunar goddesses of c... | What tale is seen as cautions against disrespecting prey or impudent boasting? | {'text': "Euripides' tale of Artemis and Actaeon", 'answer_start': 555} |
97,948 | 97,606 | 5ace812a32bba1001ae4a89f | generic | "The first Ottoman Medrese was created in İznik in 1331 and most Ottoman medreses followed the traditions of Sunni Islam." "When an Ottoman sultan established a new medrese, he would invite scholars from the Islamic world—for example, Murad II brought scholars from Persia, such as ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn and Fakhr al-Dīn who help... | Who didn't traveled abroad to get an education at madaris? | {'text': 'Ottoman Medrese', 'answer_start': 11} |
42,910 | 42,568 | 5ad2dc64d7d075001a42a521 | 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... | What enhanced the pole vortex? | {'text': 'ozone depletion', 'answer_start': 786} |
67,123 | 66,781 | 5726dcbfdd62a815002e932a | generic | This was a significant step towards restoring communion between Rome and Constantinople. It produced the Catholic-Orthodox Joint declaration of 1965, which was read out on 7 December 1965, simultaneously at a public meeting of the Second Vatican Council in Rome and at a special ceremony in Istanbul. The declaration did... | What statement addressed the relationship of Italy to Greece in the Catholic church? | {'text': 'Catholic-Orthodox Joint declaration of 1965', 'answer_start': 105} |
98,476 | 98,134 | 572a8e0834ae481900deab83 | generic | Based on the similar shifts underway the nation's economy after 1960, Philadelphia experienced a loss of manufacturing companies and jobs to lower taxed regions of the USA and often overseas. As a result, the economic base of Philadelphia, which had historically been manufacturing, declined significantly. In addition, ... | Where did wealthy residents move? | {'text': 'suburbs', 'answer_start': 778} |
67,034 | 66,692 | 5726bc075951b619008f7c60 | generic | Paul VI opened the third period on 14 September 1964, telling the Council Fathers that he viewed the text about the Church as the most important document to come out from the Council. As the Council discussed the role of bishops in the papacy, Paul VI issued an explanatory note confirming the primacy of the papacy, a s... | Who did Paul VI feel was most important in the Catholic Hierarchy? | {'text': 'papacy', 'answer_start': 236} |
91,453 | 91,111 | 57290ceeaf94a219006a9fda | generic | One crucial innovation in reconceptualizing genotypic and phenotypic variation was the anthropologist C. Loring Brace's observation that such variations, insofar as it is affected by natural selection, slow migration, or genetic drift, are distributed along geographic gradations or clines. In part this is due to isolat... | What is Frank Livingstone's profession? | {'text': 'anthropologist', 'answer_start': 630} |
122,981 | 122,639 | 5731ba0e0fdd8d15006c64a4 | generic | Collectively encompassing more than 900 million adherents, or nearly forty percent of Christians worldwide, Protestantism is present on all populated continents.[t] The movement is more divided theologically and ecclesiastically than either Eastern Orthodoxy or Roman Catholicism, lacking both structural unity and centr... | What Protestant church has members around the world? | {'text': 'the Anglican Communion', 'answer_start': 432} |
100,840 | 100,498 | 572d333e8351f81400e9d374 | generic | Nicholas Lezard described post-punk as "a fusion of art and music". The era saw the robust appropriation of ideas from literature, art, cinema, philosophy, politics and critical theory into musical and pop cultural contexts. Artists sought to refuse the common distinction between high and low culture and returned to th... | Which artists were influential in post-punk? | {'text': 'Captain Beefheart and David Bowie', 'answer_start': 380} |
26,322 | 25,980 | 56f97e1c9e9bad19000a09ba | generic | Despite the continuing prominence of Nanjing (then known as Jiankang), the settlement of Qiantang, the former name of Hangzhou, remained one of the three major metropolitan centers in the south to provide major tax revenue to the imperial centers in the north China. The other two centers in the south were Jiankang and ... | What was the former name of Hangzhou? | {'text': 'Qiantang', 'answer_start': 89} |
65,489 | 65,147 | 5acfd14f77cf76001a6861a5 | generic | The most innovative period of Cubism was before 1914. After World War I, with the support given by the dealer Léonce Rosenberg, Cubism returned as a central issue for artists, and continued as such until the mid-1920s when its avant-garde status was rendered questionable by the emergence of geometric abstraction and Su... | In what year did Rosenberg refuse to exhibit Cubist works at Galerie de l’Effort Moderne? | {'text': '1918', 'answer_start': 870} |
71,177 | 70,835 | 5726d25e5951b619008f7f12 | generic | For Germany, because an autarkic economic approach or an alliance with Britain were impossible, closer relations with the Soviet Union to obtain raw materials became necessary, if not just for economic reasons alone. Moreover, an expected British blockade in the event of war would create massive shortages for Germany i... | Between german and the soviet union which country needed military machinery? | {'text': 'military machinery', 'answer_start': 459} |
22,372 | 22,030 | 56f7469ca6d7ea1400e17138 | generic | During the Baroque era, keyboard music played on the harpsichord and pipe organ became increasingly popular, and the violin family of stringed instruments took the form generally seen today. Opera as a staged musical drama began to differentiate itself from earlier musical and dramatic forms, and vocal forms like the c... | Opera began to differentiate itself from earlier forms as what? | {'text': 'staged musical drama', 'answer_start': 202} |
98,179 | 97,837 | 5ad38c2b604f3c001a3fe5cb | generic | The wet season begins some time in May, ending in mid-October. During this period, temperatures are in the mid 80s to low 90s (29–35 °C), accompanied by high humidity, though the heat is often relieved by afternoon thunderstorms or a sea breeze that develops off the Atlantic Ocean, which then allow lower temperatures, ... | What isn't the typical August dew point in degrees Fahrenheit? | {'text': '73.7 °F', 'answer_start': 510} |
79,999 | 79,657 | 5727e99aff5b5019007d9841 | generic | Hundreds of ancient standing stone monuments like dolmens, menhirs and megalithics Tumulus were erected during the prehistoric period in Galicia, amongst the best-known are the dolmens of Dombate, Corveira, Axeitos of Pedra da Arca, menhirs like the "Lapa de Gargñáns". From the Iron Age, Galicia has a rich heritage bas... | Name two of these cities. | {'text': 'Lugo and Ourense', 'answer_start': 721} |
112,655 | 112,313 | 572fd400b2c2fd14005684c7 | generic | Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 800,000-member America First Committee vehemently opposed any American intervention in the European conflict, even as America sold military aid to Britain and the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease program. Opposition to war in the U.S. vanished after the attack. On 8 December, t... | What program allowed America to sell military supplies to Britain and the Soviet Union? | {'text': 'Lend-Lease', 'answer_start': 227} |
13,208 | 12,866 | 5ace36dd32bba1001ae49ea2 | generic | Sony renamed the record company Sony Music Entertainment (SME) on January 1, 1991, fulfilling the terms set under the 1988 buyout, which granted only a transitional license to the CBS trademark. The CBS Associated label was renamed Epic Associated. Also on January 1, 1991, to replace the CBS label, Sony reintroduced th... | Renaming the company fulfilled the terms of the 1998 what? | {'text': 'buyout', 'answer_start': 123} |
36,402 | 36,060 | 570af9f26b8089140040f663 | generic | Philip II of Spain decreed the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, which affected much of Roman Catholic Europe, as Philip was at the time ruler over Spain and Portugal as well as much of Italy. In these territories, as well as in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (ruled by Anna Jagiellon) and in the Pap... | Besides part of Italy, over what areas did Phillip rule? | {'text': 'Spain and Portugal', 'answer_start': 164} |
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