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33,088 | 32,746 | 5a55742a134fea001a0e1a9a | generic | In 2013 and 2014, a Russian/Ukrainian hacking ring known as "Rescator" broke into Target Corporation computers in 2013, stealing roughly 40 million credit cards, and then Home Depot computers in 2014, stealing between 53 and 56 million credit card numbers. Warnings were delivered at both corporations, but ignored; phys... | Why was the malware uninteresting? | {'text': 'could have easily been stopped', 'answer_start': 610} |
25,952 | 25,610 | 56f984649b226e1400dd14f5 | generic | A key component of the arousal system is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a tiny part of the hypothalamus located directly above the point at which the optic nerves from the two eyes cross. The SCN contains the body's central biological clock. Neurons there show activity levels that rise and fall with a period of abo... | The RHT is an abbreviation for what? | {'text': 'retinohypothalamic tract', 'answer_start': 636} |
19,264 | 18,922 | 56e7415337bdd419002c3e03 | generic | DST is generally not observed near the equator, where sunrise times do not vary enough to justify it. Some countries observe it only in some regions; for example, southern Brazil observes it while equatorial Brazil does not. Only a minority of the world's population uses DST because Asia and Africa generally do not obs... | Which part of Brazil observes Daylight Saving Time? | {'text': 'southern Brazil', 'answer_start': 163} |
88,401 | 88,059 | 57282f6c2ca10214002da019 | generic | Some polychaetes breed only once in their lives, while others breed almost continuously or through several breeding seasons. While most polychaetes remain of one sex all their lives, a significant percentage of species are full hermaphrodites or change sex during their lives. Most polychaetes whose reproduction has bee... | What are most polychaetes lacking for reproduction? | {'text': 'permanent gonads', 'answer_start': 335} |
120,786 | 120,444 | 573143cd05b4da19006bcf8e | generic | Surveys show that red is the color most associated with courage. In western countries red is a symbol of martyrs and sacrifice, particularly because of its association with blood. Beginning in the Middle Ages, the Pope and Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church wore red to symbolize the blood of Christ and the Christia... | What trait do people most commonly link red with? | {'text': 'courage', 'answer_start': 56} |
119,485 | 119,143 | 573147db05b4da19006bcfb5 | generic | Machine vision systems often require bright and homogeneous illumination, so features of interest are easier to process. LEDs are often used for this purpose, and this is likely to remain one of their major uses until the price drops low enough to make signaling and illumination uses more widespread. Barcode scanners a... | What is the most common example of a machine vision system? | {'text': 'Barcode scanners', 'answer_start': 302} |
1,053 | 711 | 56d4f6e02ccc5a1400d833a0 | generic | In 2005, Beyoncé teamed up with House of Brands, a shoe company, to produce a range of footwear for House of Deréon. In January 2008, Starwave Mobile launched Beyoncé Fashion Diva, a "high-style" mobile game with a social networking component, featuring the House of Deréon collection. In July 2009, Beyoncé and her moth... | What was the name of the junior fashions launched in 2009 by Beyoncé and her mother? | {'text': 'Sasha Fierce for Deréon', 'answer_start': 360} |
80,661 | 80,319 | 5727e8cc4b864d1900163fcd | generic | Unicode is developed in conjunction with the International Organization for Standardization and shares the character repertoire with ISO/IEC 10646: the Universal Character Set. Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 function equivalently as character encodings, but The Unicode Standard contains much more information for implementer... | What does Unicode share a character repertoire with? | {'text': 'the Universal Character Set', 'answer_start': 148} |
67,090 | 66,748 | 5726d168f1498d1400e8ec36 | generic | Ecclesiam suam was given at St. Peter's, Rome, on the Feast of the Transfiguration, 6 August 1964, the second year of his Pontificate. It is considered an important document, identifying the Catholic Church with the Body of Christ. A later Council document Lumen Gentium stated that the Church subsists in the Body of Ch... | What was being celebrated in the Catholic calendar when the Eccelsiam suam was given in 1964? | {'text': 'Feast of the Transfiguration', 'answer_start': 54} |
9,245 | 8,903 | 56ddee0866d3e219004dae1e | generic | In the Union of Utrecht of 20 January 1579, Holland and Zeeland were granted the right to accept only one religion (in practice, Calvinism). Every other province had the freedom to regulate the religious question as it wished, although the Union stated every person should be free in the choice of personal religion and ... | What did the Union state that every person should be free to choose? | {'text': 'personal religion', 'answer_start': 298} |
29,417 | 29,075 | 57069b2b75f01819005e7c44 | generic | New Delhi is a cosmopolitan city due to the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural presence of the vast Indian bureaucracy and political system. The city's capital status has amplified the importance of national events and holidays. National events such as Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (Gandhi's birthday) ... | What New Delhi celebration showcases India's cultural diversity and military power? | {'text': 'Republic Day Parade', 'answer_start': 597} |
56,719 | 56,377 | 57267bf95951b619008f7447 | generic | Mexico City, being the seat of the powers of the Union, did not belong to any particular state but to all. Therefore, it was the president, representing the federation, who used to designate the head of government of the Federal District, a position which is sometimes presented outside Mexico as the "Mayor" of Mexico C... | If Mexico City was declared a state, how many states would be in the federation? | {'text': '32', 'answer_start': 787} |
126,189 | 125,847 | 5734188e4776f41900661861 | generic | The most important demographic influence in the modern Portuguese seems to be the oldest one; current interpretation of Y-chromosome and mtDNA data suggests that the Portuguese have their origin in Paleolithic peoples that began arriving to the European continent around 45,000 years ago. All subsequent migrations did l... | In what group of people do the Portuguese have their origin? | {'text': 'Paleolithic peoples', 'answer_start': 198} |
94,554 | 94,212 | 57296da23f37b31900478391 | generic | Animals typically use the color green as camouflage, blending in with the chlorophyll green of the surrounding environment. Green animals include, especially, amphibians, reptiles, and some fish, birds and insects. Most fish, reptiles, amphibians, and birds appear green because of a reflection of blue light coming thro... | How do animals typically use the color green? | {'text': 'camouflage', 'answer_start': 41} |
37,577 | 37,235 | 570b828bec8fbc190045ba4c | generic | The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie states and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts, but not all, of the states of Colorado, Kansas, Mon... | what is the great plains? | {'text': 'broad expanse of flat land', 'answer_start': 24} |
42,705 | 42,363 | 570d9730df2f5219002ecff1 | generic | Integral to the story of the origin of the name "Antarctica" is how it was not named Terra Australis—this name was given to Australia instead, and it was because of a mistake made by people who decided that a significant landmass would not be found farther south than Australia. Explorer Matthew Flinders, in particular,... | What explorer gave the name of Terra Australis to Australia? | {'text': 'Matthew Flinders', 'answer_start': 288} |
35,004 | 34,662 | 5a397d0c2f14dd001ac723cd | generic | Everton hold the record for the most seasons in England's top tier (Division One/Premier League), at 111 seasons out of 114 as of 2014–15 (the club played in Division 2 in 1930–31 and from 1951–54). They are one of seven teams to have played all 22 seasons of the Premier League since its inception in August 1992 – the ... | How many seasons has Liverpool played? | {'text': '111', 'answer_start': 101} |
27,570 | 27,228 | 56fa5e2df34c681400b0c0b1 | generic | Many other types of sports and recreation equipment, such as skis, ice hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and archery bows, were commonly made of wood in the past, but have since been replaced with more modern materials such as aluminium, fiberglass, carbon fiber, titanium, and composite materials. One noteworthy example o... | What other modern material has joined composites, carbon fiber, titanium, and aluminum to replace wood in the manufacture of sporting equipment? | {'text': 'fiberglass', 'answer_start': 235} |
24,706 | 24,364 | 5a7e71d048f7d9001a0636f7 | generic | The structure known as "Virgil's tomb" is found at the entrance of an ancient Roman tunnel (also known as "grotta vecchia") in Piedigrotta, a district two miles from the centre of Naples, near the Mergellina harbor, on the road heading north along the coast to Pozzuoli. While Virgil was already the object of literary a... | Where did Virgil die? | {'text': 'the Mergellina harbor', 'answer_start': 193} |
120,867 | 120,525 | 5731564c05b4da19006bd062 | generic | Major League Baseball is especially well known for red teams. The Cincinnati Red Stockings are the oldest professional baseball team, dating back to 1869. The franchise soon relocated to Boston and is now the Atlanta Braves, but its name survives as the origin for both the Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox. During the... | What political movment was red identified with in the 1950s? | {'text': 'communism', 'answer_start': 365} |
77,010 | 76,668 | 5a8c775dfd22b3001a8d8859 | generic | In the English language, the works of Shakespeare have been a particularly fertile ground for textual criticism—both because the texts, as transmitted, contain a considerable amount of variation, and because the effort and expense of producing superior editions of his works have always been widely viewed as worthwhile.... | When were the most recent documents in criticism? | {'text': 'Mesopotamia and Egypt', 'answer_start': 566} |
20,020 | 19,678 | 5ad3cdcd604f3c001a3ff1a5 | generic | The 1961 eruption of Queen Mary's Peak forced the evacuation of the entire population via Cape Town to England. The following year a Royal Society expedition went to the islands to assess the damage, and reported that the settlement of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas had been only marginally affected. Most families returne... | When was the population of England forced to Cape Town? | {'text': '1961', 'answer_start': 4} |
31,797 | 31,455 | 570aabda4103511400d5990e | generic | Centered on Post Oak Boulevard and Westheimer Road, the Uptown District boomed during the 1970s and early 1980s when a collection of mid-rise office buildings, hotels, and retail developments appeared along Interstate 610 west. Uptown became one of the most prominent instances of an edge city. The tallest building in U... | Until 1999 what was the Williams Tower known as? | {'text': 'Transco Tower', 'answer_start': 444} |
28,881 | 28,539 | 5706bbd52eaba6190074acc1 | generic | The Siddi are an ethnic group inhabiting India and Pakistan whose members are descended from Bantu peoples from Southeast Africa that were brought to the Indian subcontinent as slaves by Arab and Portuguese merchants. Although it is commonly believed locally that "Siddi" derives from a word meaning "black", the term is... | Where does the term Sayyid come from? | {'text': 'the title borne by the captains of the Arab vessels that first brought Siddi settlers to the area', 'answer_start': 353} |
28,745 | 28,403 | 56fe016d761e401900d28c97 | generic | The ability to store and execute lists of instructions called programs makes computers extremely versatile, distinguishing them from calculators. The Church–Turing thesis is a mathematical statement of this versatility: any computer with a minimum capability (being Turing-complete) is, in principle, capable of performi... | The ability to store and execute lists of instructions are called what? | {'text': 'programs', 'answer_start': 62} |
68,655 | 68,313 | 572708fa5951b619008f84fb | generic | Nutrition is taught in schools in many countries. In England and Wales, the Personal and Social Education and Food Technology curricula include nutrition, stressing the importance of a balanced diet and teaching how to read nutrition labels on packaging. In many schools, a Nutrition class will fall within the Family an... | What does FCS stand for? | {'text': 'Family and Consumer Science', 'answer_start': 311} |
86,758 | 86,416 | 5acfca5977cf76001a685fed | generic | Articles 41 and 68 of the constitution empower the sovereign to withhold royal assent from bills adopted by the Legislative Assembly. In 2010, the kingdom moved towards greater democracy, with King George Tupou V saying that he would be guided by his prime minister in the exercising of his powers. Nonetheless, this doe... | What bill was adopted by eight votes to ten? | {'text': 'Arms and Ammunitions (Amendment) Bill', 'answer_start': 436} |
86,085 | 85,743 | 5ad34089604f3c001a3fdbe0 | generic | PS3's hardware has also been used to build supercomputers for high-performance computing. Fixstars Solutions sells a version of Yellow Dog Linux for PlayStation 3 (originally sold by Terra Soft Solutions). RapidMind produced a stream programming package for PS3, but were acquired by Intel in 2009. Also, on January 3, 2... | What company sold Yellow Dog Linux after Fixstars Solutions? | {'text': 'Terra Soft Solutions', 'answer_start': 183} |
5,251 | 4,909 | 56cf755f4df3c31400b0d7cd | generic | West's musical career has been defined by frequent stylistic shifts, and has seen him develop and explore a variety of different musical approaches and genres throughout his work. When asked about his musical inspirations, he has named A Tribe Called Quest, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, George Michael, LL Cool J, Phi... | What name did Kanye's early production style coin. | {'text': 'chipmunk soul', 'answer_start': 601} |
62,172 | 61,830 | 572674a0f1498d1400e8e026 | generic | The etymological equivalent is in use in other languages, e.g., يَهُودِيّ yahūdī (sg.), al-yahūd (pl.), and بَنُو اِسرَائِيل banū isrāʼīl in Arabic, "Jude" in German, "judeu" in Portuguese, "juif" in French, "jøde" in Danish and Norwegian, "judío" in Spanish, "jood" in Dutch, etc., but derivations of the word "Hebrew" ... | What is the origin of the word Yiddish? | {'text': 'Jude', 'answer_start': 479} |
34,960 | 34,618 | 5ad2616cd7d075001a42902c | generic | Attempts are frequently made to regulate emotion according to the conventions of the society and the situation based on many (sometimes conflicting) demands and expectations which originate from various entities. The emotion of anger is in many cultures discouraged in girls and women, while fear is discouraged in boys ... | What emotion do many cultures encourage in women? | {'text': 'anger', 'answer_start': 228} |
2,730 | 2,388 | 56d13482e7d4791d00901ff0 | generic | Twilight Princess was released to universal critical acclaim and commercial success. It received perfect scores from major publications such as 1UP.com, Computer and Video Games, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Game Informer, GamesRadar, and GameSpy. On the review aggregators GameRankings and Metacritic, Twilight Princess h... | What scores did it receive from major game publications? | {'text': 'perfect', 'answer_start': 97} |
28,866 | 28,524 | 5706b0e42eaba6190074ac46 | generic | About 150,000 East African and black people live in Israel, amounting to just over 2% of the nation's population. The vast majority of these, some 120,000, are Beta Israel, most of whom are recent immigrants who came during the 1980s and 1990s from Ethiopia. In addition, Israel is home to over 5,000 members of the Afri... | When did they migrate to Israel? | {'text': 'during the 1980s and 1990s', 'answer_start': 217} |
32,055 | 31,713 | 5a8342b6e60761001a2eb4d4 | generic | The softness of copper partly explains its high electrical conductivity (59.6×106 S/m) and thus also high thermal conductivity, which are the second highest (to silver) among pure metals at room temperature. This is because the resistivity to electron transport in metals at room temperature mostly originates from scatt... | What occurs when copper is placed apart from another metal? | {'text': 'corrosion', 'answer_start': 655} |
42,750 | 42,408 | 5ad2caa7d7d075001a42a272 | generic | The passing of the Antarctic Conservation Act (1978) in the U.S. brought several restrictions to U.S. activity on Antarctica. The introduction of alien plants or animals can bring a criminal penalty, as can the extraction of any indigenous species. The overfishing of krill, which plays a large role in the Antarctic eco... | What passed in 1987? | {'text': 'Antarctic Conservation Act', 'answer_start': 19} |
11,530 | 11,188 | 56de7e1d4396321400ee2973 | generic | In 1967 Tom and Jerry cartoons first aired on BBC One, with around 2 episodes shown every evening at 17:00, with occasional morning showings on CBBC. The BBC stopped airing the famous cartoon duo in 2000. | When was the first broadcast of Tom and Jerry on BBC One? | {'text': '1967', 'answer_start': 3} |
45,491 | 45,149 | 570ff55ab654c5140001f6f2 | generic | As of November 2008, there is only one person on death row facing capital punishment who has not been convicted of murder. Demarcus Sears remains under a death sentence in Georgia for the crime of "kidnapping with bodily injury." Sears was convicted in 1986 for the kidnapping and bodily injury of victim Gloria Ann Wilb... | In what year was Demarcus Sears convicted of kidnapping? | {'text': '1986', 'answer_start': 253} |
25,742 | 25,400 | 56f968aa9e9bad19000a08d8 | generic | 122nd Street is mentioned in the movie Taxi Driver by main character Travis Bickle as the location where a fellow cab driver is assaulted with a knife. The street and the surrounding neighborhood of Harlem is then referred to as "Mau Mau Land" by another character named Wizard, slang indicating it is a majority black a... | What street is mentioned in the movie Taxi Driver as the location where a cab driver is assaulted? | {'text': '122nd Street', 'answer_start': 0} |
129,418 | 129,076 | 573423bed058e614000b69d4 | generic | Another principal tool in the diagnosis of infectious disease is microscopy. Virtually all of the culture techniques discussed above rely, at some point, on microscopic examination for definitive identification of the infectious agent. Microscopy may be carried out with simple instruments, such as the compound light mi... | What can antibodies with artificial fluorescence be directed to do? | {'text': 'bind to and identify a specific antigens present on a pathogen', 'answer_start': 812} |
129,342 | 129,000 | 5a82f81be60761001a2eb26f | generic | Wound colonization refers to nonreplicating microorganisms within the wound, while in infected wounds, replicating organisms exist and tissue is injured. All multicellular organisms are colonized to some degree by extrinsic organisms, and the vast majority of these exist in either a mutualistic or commensal relationshi... | What type of organisms tickle and heal tissue in infected wounds? | {'text': 'replicating', 'answer_start': 103} |
56,099 | 55,757 | 57262c2c271a42140099d6ef | generic | Professional wrestling (colloquially abbreviated to pro wrestling or wrestling) is an athletic form of entertainment based on a portrayal of a combat sport. Taking the form of live events held by touring promotions, it portrays a unique style of combat based on a combination of adopted styles, which include classical w... | What is professional wrestling abbreviated as? | {'text': 'pro wrestling', 'answer_start': 52} |
39,252 | 38,910 | 5ad3ab36604f3c001a3feb6c | 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 agencies do not generate NIBRS data? | {'text': 'Local, state, and federal agencies', 'answer_start': 240} |
3,394 | 3,052 | 56cde29b62d2951400fa696b | generic | The Zipingpu Hydropower Plant (simplified Chinese: 紫坪铺水库; traditional Chinese: 紫坪鋪水庫) located 20 km east of the epicenter was damaged. A recent inspection indicated that the damage was less severe than initially feared, and it remains structurally stable and safe. The Tulong reservoir upstream is in danger of collapse.... | How many troops were allocated to Zipingpu? | {'text': '2,000', 'answer_start': 327} |
14,697 | 14,355 | 56dfdaca7aa994140058e1b5 | generic | The Licensing Act 2003, which came into force on 24 November 2005, consolidated the many laws into a single Act. This allowed pubs in England and Wales to apply to the local council for the opening hours of their choice. It was argued that this would end the concentration of violence around 11.30 pm, when people had to... | When did the Licensing Act 2003 come into effect? | {'text': '24 November 2005', 'answer_start': 49} |
118,161 | 117,819 | 5730f375a5e9cc1400cdbb35 | generic | Popular opinion remained firmly behind the celebration of Mary's conception. In 1439, the Council of Basel, which is not reckoned an ecumenical council, stated that belief in the immaculate conception of Mary is in accord with the Catholic faith. By the end of the 15th century the belief was widely professed and taught... | What happened to Tom at one of the 1567 that changed his title ? | {'text': 'declared "Doctor Angelicus" of the Church in 1567', 'answer_start': 484} |
91,604 | 91,262 | 572933831d0469140077915d | generic | The concept of biological race has declined significantly in frequency of use in physical anthropology in the United States during the 20th century. A majority of physical anthropologists in the United States have rejected the concept of biological races. Since 1932, an increasing number of college textbooks introducin... | What percentage of articles in 1996 employed a bio-race paradigm? | {'text': '28 percent', 'answer_start': 802} |
62,733 | 62,391 | 57276f4cdd62a815002e9cc8 | generic | In addition to concerns over subsidies, the cotton industries of some countries are criticized for employing child labor and damaging workers' health by exposure to pesticides used in production. The Environmental Justice Foundation has campaigned against the prevalent use of forced child and adult labor in cotton prod... | What country has been accused of forced child and adult labor? | {'text': 'Uzbekistan', 'answer_start': 330} |
69,378 | 69,036 | 5a7d0a7370df9f001a874f1d | generic | Greek drama exemplifies the earliest form of drama of which we have substantial knowledge. Tragedy, as a dramatic genre, developed as a performance associated with religious and civic festivals, typically enacting or developing upon well-known historical or mythological themes. Tragedies generally presented very seriou... | The latest form of drama we are aware of is from what culture? | {'text': 'Greek', 'answer_start': 0} |
125,429 | 125,087 | 57326ae20fdd8d15006c6aac | generic | The peninsular borough's maritime heritage is acknowledged in several ways.The City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum occupies a former public school designed by the New York City school system's turn-of-the-last-century master architect C. B. J. Snyder. The state's Maritime College in Fort Schuyler (on the... | What was the City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum's building originally? | {'text': 'a former public school', 'answer_start': 139} |
45,438 | 45,096 | 5ad3fcc2604f3c001a3ffbad | generic | Within the context of the overall murder rate, the death penalty cannot be said to be widely or routinely used in the United States; in recent years the average has been about one execution for about every 700 murders committed, or 1 execution for about every 325 murder convictions. However, 32 of the 50 states still e... | How many states in the US do not have the death penalty? | {'text': '32', 'answer_start': 293} |
79,043 | 78,701 | 5727fc3cff5b5019007d9a20 | generic | The center of all mystical experience is, of course, Christ. English Dominicans sought to gain a full knowledge of Christ through an imitation of His life. English mystics of all types tended to focus on the moral values that the events in Christ's life exemplified. This led to a "progressive understanding of the meani... | How did the English order hope to gain knowledge of Christ? | {'text': 'through an imitation of His life', 'answer_start': 122} |
119,200 | 118,858 | 5ad18fe7645df0001a2d1f77 | generic | The first high-brightness blue LED was demonstrated by Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Corporation in 1994 and was based on InGaN. In parallel, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano in Nagoya were working on developing the important GaN nucleation on sapphire substrates and the demonstration of p-type doping of GaN. Nakamura, Akasa... | Who investigated the efficiency of low-brightness LED at Cardiff University in 1995? | {'text': 'Alberto Barbieri', 'answer_start': 403} |
41,886 | 41,544 | 570d58c8b3d812140066d702 | generic | Currently, the army is divided into the Regular Army, the Army Reserve, and the Army National Guard. The army is also divided into major branches such as Air Defense Artillery, Infantry, Aviation, Signal Corps, Corps of Engineers, and Armor. Before 1903 members of the National Guard were considered state soldiers unles... | National Guardsmen are under the authority of who? | {'text': 'the governor', 'answer_start': 496} |
23,754 | 23,412 | 56f7348f3d8e2e1400e37464 | generic | The event was significant not only for Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of socialism, since it was the first major split between Communist states, casting doubt on Comintern's claims for socialism to be a unified force that would eventually control the whole world, as Tito became the first (and ... | Who became the first leader to defy Stalin's leadership? | {'text': 'Tito', 'answer_start': 293} |
60,377 | 60,035 | 5a5f7ddfeae51e001ab14b0f | generic | Martin Goodman founded the company later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a pulp magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. Launching his new line from his... | Who created the western pulp genre? | {'text': 'Martin Goodman', 'answer_start': 108} |
16,064 | 15,722 | 56e16a26e3433e1400422eda | generic | In 1671, Robert Boyle discovered and described the reaction between iron filings and dilute acids, which results in the production of hydrogen gas. In 1766, Henry Cavendish was the first to recognize hydrogen gas as a discrete substance, by naming the gas from a metal-acid reaction "flammable air". He speculated that "... | What does gas produce when burned? | {'text': 'water', 'answer_start': 457} |
19,164 | 18,822 | 56e6f4fdde9d3714000680e4 | generic | Adult contemporary R&B may be played on both soft AC stations and urban AC. It is a form of neo soul R&B that places emphasis on songcraft and sophistication. As the use of drum machines, synthesizers, and sequencers dominates R&B-rooted music, adult contemporary R&B tends to take most of its cues from the more refined... | Along with smooth soul and quiet storm, what genre influenced adult contemporary R&B? | {'text': 'Philly soul', 'answer_start': 365} |
113,575 | 113,233 | 5a544e99134fea001a0e170c | generic | Literacy rate in the Muslim world varies. Some members such as Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have over 97% literacy rates, whereas literacy rates are the lowest in Mali, Afghanistan, Chad and parts of Africa. In 2015, the International Islamic News Agency reported that nearly 37% of the population of ... | What did the Organization of Islamic Cooperation report in 2015? | {'text': '37% of the population of the Muslim world is unable to read or write', 'answer_start': 295} |
103,049 | 102,707 | 5731c705e17f3d14004223d0 | generic | Apart from being an ardent gamer Spielberg has had a long history of involvement in video games. He has been giving thanks to his games of his division DreamWorks Interactive most notable as Someone's in the Kitchen with script written by Animaniacs' Paul Rugg, Goosebumps: Escape from HorrorLand, The Neverhood (all in ... | When was The Neverhood released? | {'text': '1996', 'answer_start': 320} |
109,609 | 109,267 | 5acd43b207355d001abf3b23 | generic | A person's self-report is the most reliable measure of pain, with health care professionals tending to underestimate severity. A definition of pain widely employed in nursing, emphasizing its subjective nature and the importance of believing patient reports, was introduced by Margo McCaffery in 1968: "Pain is whatever ... | Who defined pain in 1986? | {'text': 'Margo McCaffery', 'answer_start': 277} |
790 | 448 | 56bfbacaa10cfb1400551285 | generic | In 2001, she became the first African-American woman and second woman songwriter to win the Pop Songwriter of the Year award at the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Pop Music Awards. Beyoncé was the third woman to have writing credits on three number one songs ("Irreplaceable", "Grillz" and "Check... | Who listed her at number 17 in their list of Top 20 hot 100 Songwriters? | {'text': 'Billboard magazine', 'answer_start': 587} |
39,777 | 39,435 | 570e53690b85d914000d7e3c | generic | Melbourne is experiencing high population growth, generating high demand for housing. This housing boom has increased house prices and rents, as well as the availability of all types of housing. Subdivision regularly occurs in the outer areas of Melbourne, with numerous developers offering house and land packages. Howe... | What effect has the housing boom had on house prices and rents? | {'text': 'increased', 'answer_start': 108} |
27,458 | 27,116 | 56fa3a3b8f12f319006300f4 | generic | The single most revealing property of wood as an indicator of wood quality is specific gravity (Timell 1986), as both pulp yield and lumber strength are determined by it. Specific gravity is the ratio of the mass of a substance to the mass of an equal volume of water; density is the ratio of a mass of a quantity of a s... | In addition to lumber strength, what important indicator of wood's quality can be determined using specific gravity? | {'text': 'pulp yield', 'answer_start': 118} |
110,678 | 110,336 | 572fb5b0b2c2fd1400568397 | generic | Certain genera of Gram-positive bacteria, such as Bacillus, Clostridium, Sporohalobacter, Anaerobacter, and Heliobacterium, can form highly resistant, dormant structures called endospores. In almost all cases, one endospore is formed and this is not a reproductive process, although Anaerobacter can make up to seven end... | What are ribosomes in endospores are enclosed in? | {'text': 'cortex layer', 'answer_start': 435} |
53,967 | 53,625 | 57269483708984140094cad8 | generic | During the summer of 1969, a Chicago studio group produced a single record called "Hey Hey! Holy Mackerel! (The Cubs Song)" whose title and lyrics incorporated the catch-phrases of the respective TV and radio announcers for the Cubs, Jack Brickhouse and Vince Lloyd. Several members of the Cubs recorded an album called ... | What was the name of the album several members of the cubs recorded? | {'text': 'Cub Power', 'answer_start': 320} |
78,659 | 78,317 | 572783e85951b619008f8bfa | generic | The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum, hence the abbreviation OP used by members), more commonly known after the 15th century as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Roman Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Saint Dominic de Guzman in France and approved by Pope Honorius III (1216–27) ... | What Pope approved of the Order of Preachers? | {'text': 'Pope Honorius III', 'answer_start': 292} |
419 | 77 | 56be8c8a3aeaaa14008c90ab | generic | The group changed their name to Destiny's Child in 1996, based upon a passage in the Book of Isaiah. In 1997, Destiny's Child released their major label debut song "Killing Time" on the soundtrack to the 1997 film, Men in Black. The following year, the group released their self-titled debut album, scoring their first m... | For which song, did Destiny's Child take home the grammy award for best R&B performance? | {'text': '"Say My Name"', 'answer_start': 848} |
67,389 | 67,047 | 5726b6a15951b619008f7b94 | generic | In a WRIM, the rotor winding is made of many turns of insulated wire and is connected to slip rings on the motor shaft. An external resistor or other control devices can be connected in the rotor circuit. Resistors allow control of the motor speed, although significant power is dissipated in the external resistance. A ... | From where may a converter be fed? | {'text': 'rotor circuit', 'answer_start': 350} |
106,809 | 106,467 | 572ec5f7cb0c0d14000f1536 | generic | Compact Disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format. The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM). Several other formats were further derived from these, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD... | When did Audio CDs become available for purchase? | {'text': '1982', 'answer_start': 513} |
40,221 | 39,879 | 570c65bcfed7b91900d45993 | 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 ... | Who dismissed William FitzAldelm as the Lord of Ireland? | {'text': 'Henry', 'answer_start': 675} |
57,821 | 57,479 | 572654d6dd62a815002e81bf | generic | Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia and it also the largest archipelago in the world by size (according to the CIA World Factbook). Geologically, the Indonesian Archipelago is one of the most volcanically active regions in the world. Geological uplifts in the region have also produced some impressive mou... | Geologically what is Indonesia's region most active for? | {'text': 'volcanically active', 'answer_start': 207} |
20,204 | 19,862 | 56e7878500c9c71400d77249 | generic | The city management and urban policy program was ranked first in the nation, and the special education program second, by U.S. News & World Report's 2016 rankings. USN&WR also ranked several programs in the top 25 among U.S. universities. | What program at the University of Kansas was rated highest among its peers? | {'text': 'city management and urban policy', 'answer_start': 4} |
38,553 | 38,211 | 570ce8b4fed7b91900d45ac6 | generic | On the uneven bars, the gymnast performs a routine on two horizontal bars set at different heights. These bars are made of fiberglass covered in wood laminate, to prevent them from breaking. In the past, bars were made of wood, but the bars were prone to breaking, providing an incentive to switch to newer technologies.... | What are these bars made out of? | {'text': 'fiberglass covered in wood laminate', 'answer_start': 123} |
47,296 | 46,954 | 5a8cdae5fd22b3001a8d8f4c | generic | In contrast, procedural memory (or implicit memory) is not based on the conscious recall of information, but on implicit learning. It can best be summarized as remember how to do something. Procedural memory is primarily employed in learning motor skills and should be considered a subset of implicit memory. It is revea... | What is another term for procedural senses? | {'text': 'implicit memory', 'answer_start': 35} |
28,053 | 27,711 | 56fb7490b28b3419009f1d60 | generic | Missionary efforts to Scandinavia during the 9th and 10th centuries helped strengthen the growth of kingdoms such as Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, which gained power and territory. Some kings converted to Christianity, although not all by 1000. Scandinavians also expanded and colonised throughout Europe. Besides the set... | Along with the kingdom of León, what Spanish kingdom was established during this period? | {'text': 'Asturias', 'answer_start': 737} |
79,090 | 78,748 | 5ad202ead7d075001a4281f4 | generic | Eton has a long list of distinguished former pupils. David Cameron is the 19th British prime minister to have attended the school, and has recommended that Eton set up a school in the state sector to help drive up standards. Eton now co-sponsors a state sixth-form college in Newham, a deprived area of East London, call... | How much did the London Academy of Excellence cost to build? | {'text': '£15 million', 'answer_start': 697} |
12,998 | 12,656 | 5ace295332bba1001ae49c2b | generic | In 2004, SME and Bertelsmann Music Group merged as Sony BMG Music Entertainment. When Sony acquired BMG's half of the conglomerate in 2008, Sony BMG reverted to the SME name. The buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which then relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Out of the "Big Three" record companies, with Universal... | In 2014, SME and Bertelsmann Music Group merged as what? | {'text': 'Sony BMG Music Entertainment', 'answer_start': 51} |
104,524 | 104,182 | 57300d74a23a5019007fccd2 | generic | After Charles II of England (1630–1685) was restored to the English throne in 1660 following Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, he granted the chartered Province of Carolina to eight of his loyal friends, known as the Lords Proprietors, on March 24, 1663. It took seven years before the group arranged for settlement expedi... | Who prepared the plan known as "the Grand Model"? | {'text': 'John Locke', 'answer_start': 512} |
85,536 | 85,194 | 5a626263f8d794001af1bfa2 | generic | St. John's, and the province as a whole, was gravely affected in the 1990s by the collapse of the Northern cod fishery, which had been the driving force of the provincial economy for hundreds of years. After a decade of high unemployment rates and depopulation, the city's proximity to the Hibernia, Terra Nova and White... | What has caused St. Johns to fall behind the rest of the province in economic output? | {'text': "the city's proximity to the Hibernia, Terra Nova and White Rose oil fields", 'answer_start': 262} |
56,253 | 55,911 | 57266d835951b619008f7273 | generic | Behind the scenes, the bookers in a company will place the title on the most accomplished performer, or those the bookers believe will generate fan interest in terms of event attendance and television viewership. Lower ranked titles may also be used on the performers who show potential, thus allowing them greater expos... | What happens behind the scenes of a match? | {'text': 'bookers in a company will place the title on the most accomplished performer,', 'answer_start': 23} |
71,530 | 71,188 | 5acf57a177cf76001a684bbe | generic | In October 1745, Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania, Germany, found that charge could be stored by connecting a high-voltage electrostatic generator by a wire to a volume of water in a hand-held glass jar. Von Kleist's hand and the water acted as conductors, and the jar as a dielectric (although details of the mechani... | Who did not discover the basic properties of capacitors? | {'text': 'Ewald Georg von Kleist', 'answer_start': 17} |
22,697 | 22,355 | 5ad4b6b25b96ef001a109e2c | generic | Pan-Slavism, a movement which came into prominence in the mid-19th century, emphasized the common heritage and unity of all the Slavic peoples. The main focus was in the Balkans where the South Slavs had been ruled for centuries by other empires: the Byzantine Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice. Th... | What did Austria-Hungary use pan-slavism for? | {'text': 'a political tool', 'answer_start': 357} |
28,175 | 27,833 | 56fb81e5b28b3419009f1dab | generic | The development of a three-field rotation system for planting crops[AA] increased the usage of land from one half in use each year under the old two-field system to two-thirds under the new system, with a consequent increase in production. The development of the heavy plough allowed heavier soils to be farmed more effi... | What invention led to an increase in efficiency in the farming of heavy soils? | {'text': 'the heavy plough', 'answer_start': 259} |
122,794 | 122,452 | 5ad145f4645df0001a2d14e2 | generic | In Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97 (1968), the Supreme Court considered an Arkansas law that made it a crime "to teach the theory or doctrine that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals," or "to adopt or use in any such institution a textbook that teaches" this theory in any school or university ... | Who wrote the court's opinion in Epperson v. Kansas? | {'text': 'Justice Abe Fortas', 'answer_start': 380} |
40,763 | 40,421 | 570d3941fed7b91900d45d4b | generic | Initially sensors were optical and acoustic devices developed during the First World War and continued into the 1930s, but were quickly superseded by radar, which in turn was supplemented by optronics in the 1980s. Command and control remained primitive until the late 1930s, when Britain created an integrated system fo... | What agency stated that the arrangements were an air defence ground environment? | {'text': 'NATO', 'answer_start': 473} |
74,924 | 74,582 | 57279a875951b619008f8e6b | generic | In Argentina, the most representative Carnival performed is the so-called Murga, although other famous Carnivals, more like Brazil's, are held in Argentine Mesopotamia and the North-East. Gualeguaychú in the east of Entre Ríos province is the most important Carnival city and has one of the largest parades. It adopts a ... | What kind of tradition does the city of Corrientes have? | {'text': 'Carnival', 'answer_start': 417} |
124,471 | 124,129 | 573245eeb9d445190005e975 | generic | Each congregation has a body of appointed unpaid male elders and ministerial servants. Elders maintain general responsibility for congregational governance, setting meeting times, selecting speakers and conducting meetings, directing the public preaching work, and creating "judicial committees" to investigate and decid... | What ecclesiastical privilege may elders employ? | {'text': 'confession of sins', 'answer_start': 785} |
46,227 | 45,885 | 5ad2b3f4d7d075001a429fb0 | generic | In 1986, Nintendo released the Famicom Disk System (FDS) in Japan, a type of floppy drive that uses a single-sided, proprietary 5 cm (2") disk and plugs into the cartridge port. It contains RAM for the game to load into and an extra single-cycle wavetable-lookup sound chip. The disks were originally obtained from kiosk... | How were the disks sold? | {'text': 'buyers could select a title and have it written to the disk', 'answer_start': 361} |
25,129 | 24,787 | 56f8a1fa9e9bad19000a0215 | generic | The expression of genes encoded in DNA begins by transcribing the gene into RNA, a second type of nucleic acid that is very similar to DNA, but whose monomers contain the sugar ribose rather than deoxyribose. RNA also contains the base uracil in place of thymine. RNA molecules are less stable than DNA and are typically... | What specifies the correspondence between codons and amino acids during protein translation? | {'text': 'The genetic code', 'answer_start': 489} |
89,639 | 89,297 | 5728c4c42ca10214002da74d | generic | Because of the global economic recession that began in 2007, the GDP of Estonia decreased by 1.4% in the 2nd quarter of 2008, over 3% in the 3rd quarter of 2008, and over 9% in the 4th quarter of 2008. The Estonian government made a supplementary negative budget, which was passed by Riigikogu. The revenue of the budget... | What year did Estonia start their economic rise based on strong exports? | {'text': '2010', 'answer_start': 406} |
96,645 | 96,303 | 572a28cdaf94a219006aa83f | generic | During his brief majority reign, Murad IV (1612–1640) reasserted central authority and recaptured Iraq (1639) from the Safavids. The resulting Treaty of Zuhab of that same year decisively parted the Caucasus and adjacent regions between the two neighbouring empires as it had already been defined in the 1555 Peace of Am... | When was Kösem murdered? | {'text': '1651', 'answer_start': 606} |
83,082 | 82,740 | 57280cfc3acd2414000df324 | 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 first mascot of Northwestern Athletics? | {'text': 'a live, caged bear cub from the Lincoln Park Zoo', 'answer_start': 91} |
104,286 | 103,944 | 572eacbb03f9891900756919 | generic | Immigration to the United States of Spanish-speaking Cubans began because of Cuba's political instability upon achieving independence. The deposition of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship and the ascension of Fidel Castro's government in 1959 increased Cuban immigration to the United States, hence there are some one mill... | Is there a particular place where Cubans live and speak Spanish in the U.S.? | {'text': 'In the city of Miami today Spanish is the first language mostly due to Cuban immigration.', 'answer_start': 486} |
68,805 | 68,463 | 5726c8615951b619008f7dff | generic | Napoleon III responded with a show of force, sending the ship of the line Charlemagne to the Black Sea. This action was a violation of the London Straits Convention.:104:19 Thus, France's show of force presented a real threat, and when combined with aggressive diplomacy and money, induced the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid ... | Who held authority over Roman Catholic holy places after Sultan Abdülmecid I agreed to the new treaty? | {'text': 'France and the Roman Catholic Church', 'answer_start': 357} |
100,232 | 99,890 | 572ba616111d821400f38f38 | generic | Nouns are also inflected for number, distinguishing between singular and plural. Typical of a Slavic language, Czech cardinal numbers one through four allow the nouns and adjectives they modify to take any case, but numbers over five place these nouns and adjectives in the genitive case when the entire expression is in... | What is Czech's handling of cardinal numbers typical of? | {'text': 'a Slavic language', 'answer_start': 92} |
41,246 | 40,904 | 570e5ffb0dc6ce1900204fc8 | generic | Since the late 18th century, Sanskrit has been transliterated using the Latin alphabet. The system most commonly used today is the IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration), which has been the academic standard since 1888. ASCII-based transliteration schemes have also evolved because of difficulties rep... | What transliteration system is most common today? | {'text': 'IAST', 'answer_start': 131} |
95,498 | 95,156 | 5a552284134fea001a0e196d | generic | According to filings to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) by Thunder Bay Electronics (owner of CBC's Thunder Bay affiliate CKPR-DT) and Bell Media (owner of CBC affiliates CFTK-TV in Terrace and CJDC-TV in Dawson Creek),[citation needed] the CBC informed them that it will not extend... | The CBC's refusal meant that hundreds of thousands would not have television access after what date? | {'text': 'August 31, 2011', 'answer_start': 379} |
54,700 | 54,358 | 5726162238643c19005acfd0 | generic | Greece has one of the longest histories of any country, and is considered the cradle of Western civilization, and as such, is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, includ... | Who was the son of Philip of Macedon? | {'text': 'Alexander the Great', 'answer_start': 432} |
53,291 | 52,949 | 5acd028907355d001abf319a | generic | The return of former player George Graham as manager in 1986 brought a third period of glory. Arsenal won the League Cup in 1987, Graham's first season in charge. This was followed by a League title win in 1988–89, won with a last-minute goal in the final game of the season against fellow title challengers Liverpool. G... | In what year did George Graham first play for Arsenal? | {'text': '1986', 'answer_start': 56} |
3,419 | 3,077 | 56d5307f2593cc1400307abe | generic | One rescue team reported only 2,300 survivors from the town of Yingxiu in Wenchuan County, out of a total population of about 9,000. 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed in Beichuan County, Sichuan alone; in the same location, 10,000 people were injured and 80% of the buildings were destroyed. The old county seat of Beich... | How large was the number of injured in Beichuan County? | {'text': '10,000', 'answer_start': 224} |
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