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80,454 | 80,112 | 5a515044ce860b001aa3fcf3 | generic | According to the Sichuan Department of Commerce, the province's total foreign trade was US$22.04 billion in 2008, with an annual increase of 53.3 percent. Exports were US$13.1 billion, an annual increase of 52.3 percent, while imports were US$8.93 billion, an annual increase of 54.7 percent. These achievements were acc... | What was equal to 8.93 billion CNY? | {'text': 'imports', 'answer_start': 227} |
79,965 | 79,623 | 5727dce34b864d1900163eb2 | generic | As an example, Santiago de Compostela, the political capital city, has an average of 129 rainy days and 1,362 millimetres (53.6 in) per year (with just 17 rainy days in the three summer months) and 2,101 sunlight hours per year, with just 6 days with frosts per year. But the colder city of Lugo, to the east, has an ave... | How many days with frosts? | {'text': '6', 'answer_start': 239} |
9,408 | 9,066 | 56de418fcffd8e1900b4b721 | generic | Amensalism is the type of relationship that exists where one species is inhibited or completely obliterated and one is unaffected. This type of symbiosis is relatively uncommon in rudimentary reference texts, but is omnipresent in the natural world.[citation needed] There are two types of amensalism, competition and an... | What does the black walnut give out that kills plants? | {'text': 'juglone', 'answer_start': 1155} |
21,439 | 21,097 | 56e8638c37bdd419002c44e4 | generic | In 1353 Bern joined the Swiss Confederacy, becoming one of the eight cantons of the formative period of 1353 to 1481. Bern invaded and conquered Aargau in 1415 and Vaud in 1536, as well as other smaller territories; thereby becoming the largest city-state north of the Alps, by the 18th century comprising most of what i... | What is the largest city-state north of the Alps? | {'text': 'Bern', 'answer_start': 8} |
112,070 | 111,728 | 572ff1a704bcaa1900d76f0a | generic | In response to concerns that clubs were increasingly passing over young English players in favour of foreign players, in 1999, the Home Office tightened its rules for granting work permits to players from countries outside of the European Union. A non-EU player applying for the permit must have played for his country i... | What was one of their changes? | {'text': "A non-EU player applying for the permit must have played for his country in at least 75 per cent of its competitive 'A' team matches", 'answer_start': 246} |
12,772 | 12,430 | 5ad2c906d7d075001a42a214 | generic | A Christian ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. "Christian" derives from the Koine Greek word Christós (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach. | Which term is derived from the word Christian? | {'text': 'Christós', 'answer_start': 213} |
126,514 | 126,172 | 5a8216b131013a001a3351c7 | generic | Religious humanism is an integration of humanist ethical philosophy with religious rituals and beliefs that centre on human needs, interests, and abilities. Though practitioners of religious humanism did not officially organise under the name of "humanism" until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, non-theistic reli... | What couldn't replace the Virgin Mary on any altars? | {'text': 'Lady Liberty', 'answer_start': 697} |
65,691 | 65,349 | 5a1e07ce3de3f40018b26452 | generic | These theorists were driven by two basic questions: one, by what right or need do people form states; and two, what the best form for a state could be. These fundamental questions involved a conceptual distinction between the concepts of "state" and "government." It was decided that "state" would refer to a set of endu... | What two questions joined the concepts of state and government? | {'text': 'by what right or need do people form states; and two, what the best form for a state could be', 'answer_start': 57} |
12,608 | 12,266 | 56de9b07cffd8e1900b4ba2b | generic | In Ancient Indian philosophy, materialism developed around 600 BC with the works of Ajita Kesakambali, Payasi, Kanada, and the proponents of the Cārvāka school of philosophy. Kanada became one of the early proponents of atomism. The Nyaya–Vaisesika school (600 BC - 100 BC) developed one of the earliest forms of atomism... | Around what time did materialism become part of Ancient Indian philosophy? | {'text': '600 BC', 'answer_start': 59} |
82,644 | 82,302 | 5a12520e6614be00188f24f0 | generic | It also used to be commonplace to have a team play an exhibition against Minor League affiliates during the regular season, but worries of injuries to players, along with travel issues, have made this very rare. Exhibitions between inter-city teams in different leagues, like Chicago's Crosstown Classic and New York's S... | What made these type of exhibition games more popular? | {'text': 'worries of injuries to players, along with travel issues', 'answer_start': 128} |
6,821 | 6,479 | 56d38b8959d6e414001466e2 | generic | The dominance of American Idol in the ratings had made it the most profitable show in U.S. TV for many years. The show was estimated to generate $900 million for the year 2004 through sales of TV ads, albums, merchandise and concert tickets. By season seven, the show was estimated to earn around $900 million from its a... | How much money did American Idol generate from ads in its seventh season? | {'text': '$900 million', 'answer_start': 145} |
129,581 | 129,239 | 5a8317ede60761001a2eb3d9 | generic | Evidence of infection in fossil remains is a subject of interest for paleopathologists, scientists who study occurrences of injuries and illness in extinct life forms. Signs of infection have been discovered in the bones of carnivorous dinosaurs. When present, however, these infections seem to tend to be confined to on... | What profession finds evidence of infection in fossil remains to be pointless? | {'text': 'paleopathologists', 'answer_start': 69} |
5,035 | 4,693 | 56cfb40b234ae51400d9bea6 | generic | In 2011, the International Energy Agency said that "the development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge longer-term benefits. It will increase countries’ energy security through reliance on an indigenous, inexhaustible and mostly import-independent resource, enhance sustainab... | What effect will solar energy have on the price of fossil fuels? | {'text': 'keep fossil fuel prices lower than otherwise', 'answer_start': 395} |
42,654 | 42,312 | 570df5a00dc6ce1900204d6d | generic | The lifestyle of an adolescent in a given culture is profoundly shaped by the roles and responsibilities he or she is expected to assume. The extent to which an adolescent is expected to share family responsibilities is one large determining factor in normative adolescent behavior. For instance, adolescents in certain ... | Does adolescent participation in family work and routines have a positive or negative influence on feelings of self-worth, care, and concern for others? | {'text': 'positive', 'answer_start': 699} |
111,670 | 111,328 | 5733e3bfd058e614000b64e3 | generic | Television money had also become much more important; the Football League received £6.3 million for a two-year agreement in 1986, but when that deal was renewed in 1988, the price rose to £44 million over four years. The 1988 negotiations were the first signs of a breakaway league; ten clubs threatened to leave and for... | For how many years was the 1986 television rights contract? | {'text': 'two', 'answer_start': 102} |
99,089 | 98,747 | 5a46e57f5fd40d001a27dcdf | generic | Rajasthan's economy is primarily agricultural and pastoral. Wheat and barley are cultivated over large areas, as are pulses, sugarcane, and oilseeds. Cotton and tobacco are the state's cash crops. Rajasthan is among the largest producers of edible oils in India and the second largest producer of oilseeds. Rajasthan is ... | How many opium producers are in India? | {'text': 'two', 'answer_start': 426} |
11,186 | 10,844 | 5ad0cf7a645df0001a2d046e | generic | Below is a list of countries in the top quartile by Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI). According to the report, the IHDI is a "measure of the average level of human development of people in a society once inequality is taken into account." | What does HIMI stand for? | {'text': 'Human Development Index', 'answer_start': 72} |
47,000 | 46,658 | 5719e93110f8ca1400304e9a | generic | In November, Seattle averages more rainfall than any other U.S. city of more than 250,000 people; it also ranks highly in winter precipitation. Conversely, the city receives some of the lowest precipitation amounts of any large city from June to September. Seattle is one of the five rainiest major U.S. cities as measur... | What weather feature is highly unusual in Seattle? | {'text': 'Thunderstorms', 'answer_start': 530} |
30,349 | 30,007 | 5706635252bb891400689a0d | generic | Other lossy formats exist. Among these, mp3PRO, AAC, and MP2 are all members of the same technological family as MP3 and depend on roughly similar psychoacoustic models. The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft owns many of the basic patents underlying these formats as well, with others held by Dolby Labs, Sony, Thomson Consumer El... | What model type do all of the lossy formats roughly depend on? | {'text': 'psychoacoustic', 'answer_start': 147} |
73,428 | 73,086 | 5ad417da604f3c001a4003c2 | generic | The controversy surrounding affirmative action's effectiveness is based on the idea of class inequality. Opponents of racial affirmative action argue that the program actually benefits middle- and upper-class African Americans and Hispanic Americans at the expense of lower-class European Americans and Asian Americans. ... | What do some people believe should be the basis for affirmative action instead of religion based legislation? | {'text': 'class-based affirmative action', 'answer_start': 455} |
111,123 | 110,781 | 57302364b2c2fd1400568927 | generic | Originally, every electronic component had wire leads, and the PCB had holes drilled for each wire of each component. The components' leads were then passed through the holes and soldered to the PCB trace. This method of assembly is called through-hole construction. In 1949, Moe Abramson and Stanislaus F. Danko of the ... | What type of construction was originally used for all electronic components? | {'text': 'through-hole', 'answer_start': 240} |
96,821 | 96,479 | 572a56b9d562191400bc867a | generic | Until the second half of the 15th century the empire had a Christian majority, under the rule of a Muslim minority. In the late 19th century, the non-Muslim population of the empire began to fall considerably, not only due to secession, but also because of migratory movements. The proportion of Muslims amounted to 60% ... | What group ruled the empire until the 15th century? | {'text': 'a Muslim minority', 'answer_start': 97} |
102,588 | 102,246 | 572e97d1c246551400ce43aa | generic | Dams remain the principal source of water both for domestic and agricultural use; Cyprus has a total of 107 dams (plus one currently under construction) and reservoirs, with a total water storage capacity of about 330,000,000 m3 (1.2×1010 cu ft). Water desalination plants are gradually being constructed to deal with re... | What do the people of Cyprus rely on for domestic and agricultural supply of water? | {'text': 'Dams', 'answer_start': 0} |
94,933 | 94,591 | 572b8309f75d5e190021fe1b | generic | Other sources include fortified food and dietary supplements, which come in various forms. A 1998 review concluded that zinc oxide, one of the most common supplements in the United States, and zinc carbonate are nearly insoluble and poorly absorbed in the body. This review cited studies which found low plasma zinc conc... | What is the Tolderable Upper intake of zinc? | {'text': '40 mg/day', 'answer_start': 682} |
18,503 | 18,161 | 5acd3fbb07355d001abf3a42 | generic | Although the Estonian orthography is generally guided by phonemic principles, with each grapheme corresponding to one phoneme, there are some historical and morphological deviations from this: for example preservation of the morpheme in declension of the word (writing b, g, d in places where p, k, t is pronounced) and ... | What principles never govern the Estonian orthography? | {'text': 'phonemic principles', 'answer_start': 57} |
68,428 | 68,086 | 5726bb4add62a815002e8e89 | generic | According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports, in 2010 the Raleigh Police Department and other agencies in the city reported 1,740 incidents of violent crime and 12,995 incidents of property crime – far below both the national average and the North Carolina average. Of the violent crimes repo... | What were there 12,995 of in 2010? | {'text': 'property crime', 'answer_start': 209} |
49,660 | 49,318 | 57263383271a42140099d746 | generic | On 14 January 1858, an Italian refugee from Britain called Orsini attempted to assassinate Napoleon III with a bomb made in England. The ensuing diplomatic crisis destabilised the government, and Palmerston resigned. Derby was reinstated as prime minister. Victoria and Albert attended the opening of a new basin at the ... | When did Orsinin attempt to assassinate Napoleon? | {'text': '14 January 1858', 'answer_start': 3} |
125,198 | 124,856 | 5732850d57eb1f1400fd2d62 | generic | The development of the appreciation medals was initiated by the White House and executed by the Bureau of the Mint through the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. The medals were struck from September 1958 through October 1960. A total of twenty designs are cataloged with a total mintage of 9,858. Each of the designs incorporat... | How many appreciation medals were destroyed by the Bureau of the Mint? | {'text': '1,451', 'answer_start': 587} |
4,301 | 3,959 | 56cffcb0234ae51400d9c209 | generic | The New York Public Library, which has the largest collection of any public library system in the United States, serves Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Queens is served by the Queens Borough Public Library, the nation's second largest public library system, while the Brooklyn Public Library serves Brooklyn. | What is the second largest library in the US? | {'text': 'Queens Borough Public Library', 'answer_start': 185} |
2,678 | 2,336 | 5a8db51fdf8bba001a0f9b91 | generic | Media requests at the trade show prompted Kondo to consider using orchestral music for the other tracks in the game as well, a notion reinforced by his preference for live instruments. He originally envisioned a full 50-person orchestra for action sequences and a string quartet for more "lyrical moments", though the fi... | What were replicas of the media requests bundled with? | {'text': 'soundtrack', 'answer_start': 533} |
10,506 | 10,164 | 56de2d374396321400ee2638 | generic | Marshall's words and future court decisions gave Congress much latitude in delegating powers. It was not until the 1930s that the Supreme Court held a delegation of authority unconstitutional. In a case involving the creation of the National Recovery Administration called A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States... | In what year was A.L.A. Schechter v. United States tried before the Supreme Court? | {'text': '1935', 'answer_start': 336} |
129,084 | 128,742 | 57343a9f4776f41900661aa8 | generic | The area between Belvidere Street, Interstate 195, Interstate 95, and the river, which includes Virginia Commonwealth University, is socioeconomically and architecturally diverse. North of Broad Street, the Carver and Newtowne West neighborhoods are demographically similar to neighboring Jackson Ward, with Carver exper... | Along with Newtowne West, to what neighborhood is Carver regarded as having comparable demographics? | {'text': 'Jackson Ward', 'answer_start': 289} |
19,291 | 18,949 | 56e74ffe37bdd419002c3e53 | generic | In 1992, after a three-year trial of daylight saving in Queensland, Australia, a referendum on daylight saving was held and defeated with a 54.5% 'no' vote – with regional and rural areas strongly opposed, while those in the metropolitan south-east were in favor. In 2005, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association an... | What was the name of Queensland's political party set up solely to support their particular DST arrangement? | {'text': 'Daylight Saving for South East Queensland', 'answer_start': 446} |
66,136 | 65,794 | 5a81b79c31013a001a334dd1 | generic | The Norfolk Island Group Nepean Island is also home to breeding seabirds. The providence petrel was hunted to local extinction by the beginning of the 19th century, but has shown signs of returning to breed on Phillip Island. Other seabirds breeding there include the white-necked petrel, Kermadec petrel, wedge-tailed s... | What island in the Norfolk Island Group is home to bioluminescent seabirds? | {'text': 'Nepean Island', 'answer_start': 25} |
108,404 | 108,062 | 5a3ae0193ff257001ab842d3 | generic | The exact relationship between these eight groups is not yet clear, although there is agreement that the first three groups to diverge from the ancestral angiosperm were Amborellales, Nymphaeales, and Austrobaileyales. The term basal angiosperms refers to these three groups. Among the rest, the relationship between the... | What is the status of the relationship between Nymphaeales and monocots? | {'text': 'not yet clear', 'answer_start': 53} |
37,149 | 36,807 | 5ad173e5645df0001a2d1c60 | generic | After the costly U.S. involvement in World War I, isolationism grew within the nation. Congress refused membership in the League of Nations, and in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia, the gradually more restrictive Neutrality Acts were passed, which were intended to prevent the U.S. from supporting eith... | What general sentiment was the result of losses in World War II? | {'text': 'isolationism', 'answer_start': 50} |
32,513 | 32,171 | 570969eaed30961900e840d1 | generic | Though situated in a remote part of the country, Himachal Pradesh has an active community of journalists and publishers. Several newspapers and magazines are published in more than one language, and their reach extends to almost all the Hindi-speaking states. Radio and TV have permeated significantly. Judging by the nu... | What are the newspapers that are in Hindi and read widely? | {'text': 'Aapka Faisla, Amar Ujala, Panjab Kesari, Divya Himachal', 'answer_start': 504} |
121,907 | 121,565 | 5731ab21b9d445190005e44d | generic | The meaning and origin of many archaic festivals baffled even Rome's intellectual elite, but the more obscure they were, the greater the opportunity for reinvention and reinterpretation — a fact lost neither on Augustus in his program of religious reform, which often cloaked autocratic innovation, nor on his only rival... | What did obscure festivals offer Romans the opportunity to do? | {'text': 'reinterpretation', 'answer_start': 169} |
100,298 | 99,956 | 572b7304f75d5e190021fde0 | generic | After the Fall of Rome, the Catholic Church became the sole preserver of literate scholarship in Western Europe. The church established cathedral schools in the Early Middle Ages as centers of advanced education. Some of these establishments ultimately evolved into medieval universities and forebears of many of Europe'... | What did these early schools during the Middle Ages evolve into? | {'text': 'medieval universities', 'answer_start': 266} |
54,194 | 53,852 | 5726d01c5951b619008f7ebb | generic | UN aerial reconnaissance had difficulty sighting PVA units in daytime, because their march and bivouac discipline minimized aerial detection. The PVA marched "dark-to-dark" (19:00–03:00), and aerial camouflage (concealing soldiers, pack animals, and equipment) was deployed by 05:30. Meanwhile, daylight advance parties ... | When would PVA forces march to minimize the chances of being seen? | {'text': '19:00–03:00', 'answer_start': 174} |
95,092 | 94,750 | 5a2c3244bfd06b001a5aea3c | generic | From about 1800 a fresh influx of Greek architectural examples, seen through the medium of etchings and engravings, gave a new impetus to neoclassicism, the Greek Revival. There was little to no direct knowledge of Greek civilization before the middle of the 18th century in Western Europe, when an expedition funded by ... | What had there been very little of in Western Europe prior to the 1800s? | {'text': 'direct knowledge of Greek civilization', 'answer_start': 195} |
28,632 | 28,290 | 56fde79819033b140034cd9d | generic | It combined the high speed of electronics with the ability to be programmed for many complex problems. It could add or subtract 5000 times a second, a thousand times faster than any other machine. It also had modules to multiply, divide, and square root. High speed memory was limited to 20 words (about 80 bytes). Built... | ENIAC was constructed by whom? | {'text': 'John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert', 'answer_start': 344} |
64,393 | 64,051 | 5ad0221377cf76001a686b37 | generic | Up until the mid-14th century, Europe had experienced steadily increasing urbanisation. Cities were also decimated by the Black Death, but the role of urban areas as centres of learning, commerce and government ensured continued growth. By 1500, Venice, Milan, Naples, Paris and Constantinople each probably had more tha... | What event decimated urban populations in the 13th century? | {'text': 'the Black Death', 'answer_start': 118} |
45,721 | 45,379 | 5ad3f93e604f3c001a3ffaa5 | generic | The last use of the firing squad between 1608 and the moratorium on judicial executions between 1967 and 1977 was when Utah shot James W. Rodgers on March 30, 1960. The last use of the gallows between 1608 and the moratorium was when Kansas hanged George York on June 22, 1965. The last use of the electric chair between... | Who was executed on March 30, 1990? | {'text': 'James W. Rodgers', 'answer_start': 129} |
94,946 | 94,604 | 5acfcc9377cf76001a686086 | generic | For fortification, however, a 2003 review recommended zinc oxide in cereals as cheap, stable, and as easily absorbed as more expensive forms. A 2005 study found that various compounds of zinc, including oxide and sulfate, did not show statistically significant differences in absorption when added as fortificants to mai... | What year had the only study regarding zinc compounds? | {'text': '1987', 'answer_start': 336} |
100,026 | 99,684 | 5a7a09ec17ab25001a8a0251 | generic | The languages have not undergone the deliberate highlighting of minor linguistic differences in the name of nationalism as has occurred in the Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian standards of Serbo-Croatian. However, most Slavic languages (including Czech) have been distanced in this way from Russian influences because of wi... | What has happened to languages in Russia? | {'text': 'deliberate highlighting of minor linguistic differences in the name of nationalism', 'answer_start': 37} |
109,400 | 109,058 | 572f580c947a6a140053c896 | generic | At the outset of the Korean War the CIA still only had a few thousand employees, a thousand of whom worked in analysis. Intelligence primarily came from the Office of Reports and Estimates, which drew its reports from a daily take of State Department telegrams, military dispatches, and other public documents. The CIA s... | What president announced the new CIA director? | {'text': 'Truman', 'answer_start': 436} |
68,732 | 68,390 | 5727218cdd62a815002e9946 | generic | A dramatic example of the effect of food processing on a population's health is the history of epidemics of beri-beri in people subsisting on polished rice. Removing the outer layer of rice by polishing it removes with it the essential vitamin thiamine, causing beri-beri. Another example is the development of scurvy am... | Which disease became prevalent among infants in the United States as an effect of processed foods? | {'text': 'scurvy', 'answer_start': 311} |
82,973 | 82,631 | 5727fd7e2ca10214002d9acc | generic | The undergraduates have a number of traditions: Painting The Rock (originally a fountain donated by the Class of 1902) is a way to advertise, for example, campus organizations, events in Greek life, student groups, and university-wide events. Dance Marathon, a 30-hour philanthropic event, has raised more than 13 millio... | What name is freshman orientation known as? | {'text': 'Wildcat Welcome', 'answer_start': 776} |
83,915 | 83,573 | 572873c13acd2414000dfa10 | generic | Kadamba (345 – 525 CE) was an ancient royal dynasty of Karnataka, India that ruled northern Karnataka and the Konkan from Banavasi in present-day Uttara Kannada district. At the peak of their power under King Kakushtavarma, the Kadambas of Banavasi ruled large parts of modern Karnataka state. The dynasty was founded by... | Who founded the Kamdamba dynasty? | {'text': 'Mayurasharma', 'answer_start': 321} |
71,950 | 71,608 | 572705155951b619008f84ba | generic | Astronomy: The first textual mention of astronomical concepts comes from the Vedas, religious literature of India. According to Sarma (2008): "One finds in the Rigveda intelligent speculations about the genesis of the universe from nonexistence, the configuration of the universe, the spherical self-supporting earth, an... | The second section of the Siddhanta Shiromani has how many chapters? | {'text': '13', 'answer_start': 888} |
128,433 | 128,091 | 5733cc56d058e614000b62a1 | generic | Applied Anthropology refers to the application of the method and theory of anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems. It is a, "complex of related, research-based, instrumental methods which produce change or stability in specific cultural systems through the provision of data, initiation of direc... | What type of action does applied anthropology initiate? | {'text': 'direct', 'answer_start': 315} |
18,222 | 17,880 | 5ad152f1645df0001a2d1771 | generic | By the late 1950s, the motion picture business was again changing. The combination of the studio/theater-chain break-up and the rise of television saw the reduced audience size for cinema productions. The Music Corporation of America (MCA), then predominately a talent agency, had also become a powerful television produ... | How much did Universal sell its lot to MAC for? | {'text': '$11 million', 'answer_start': 524} |
123,080 | 122,738 | 5731dc25b9d445190005e5c7 | generic | In Europe, there has been a general move away from religious observance and belief in Christian teachings and a move towards secularism. The Enlightenment is largely responsible for the spread of secularism. Several scholars have argued for a link between the rise of secularism and Protestantism, attributing it to the ... | What direction has Europe moved towards? | {'text': 'secularism', 'answer_start': 125} |
63,931 | 63,589 | 5ad3d6fd604f3c001a3ff320 | generic | Milton Winternitz led the Yale Medical School as its dean from 1920 to 1935. Dedicated to the new scientific medicine established in Germany, he was equally fervent about "social medicine" and the study of humans in their culture and environment. He established the "Yale System" of teaching, with few lectures and fewer... | What wasn't the driving force behind Milton Winternitz's research? | {'text': 'social medicine', 'answer_start': 172} |
123,353 | 123,011 | 5731dae40fdd8d15006c659c | generic | Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961, ordered the construction of Brasília, fulfilling the promise of the Constitution and his own political campaign promise. Building Brasília was part of Juscelino's "fifty years of prosperity in five" plan. Lúcio Costa won a contest and was the main urban plann... | When did Kubitschek leave office? | {'text': '1961', 'answer_start': 55} |
119,962 | 119,620 | 57312388e6313a140071cc75 | generic | The Qing dynasty was founded not by Han Chinese, who constitute the majority of the Chinese population, but by a sedentary farming people known as the Jurchen, a Tungusic people who lived around the region now comprising the Chinese provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang. The Manchus are sometimes mistaken for a nomadic p... | Who founded the Qing dynasty? | {'text': 'Jurchen', 'answer_start': 151} |
129,132 | 128,790 | 5734415cacc1501500babd29 | generic | Hinduism is actively practiced, particularly in suburban areas of Henrico and Chesterfield. Some 6,000 families of Indian descent resided in the Richmond Region as of 2011. Hindus are served by several temples and cultural centers. The two most familiar are the Cultural Center of India (CCI) located off of Iron Bridge ... | How many Indian-descended families lived in or around Richmond in 2011? | {'text': '6,000', 'answer_start': 97} |
2,702 | 2,360 | 5a8db847df8bba001a0f9ba5 | generic | A high-definition remaster of the game, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, is being developed by Tantalus Media for the Wii U. Officially announced during a Nintendo Direct presentation on November 12, 2015, it features enhanced graphics and Amiibo functionality. The game will be released in North America and E... | What is the name of the remastered Amiibo? | {'text': 'The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD', 'answer_start': 40} |
52,367 | 52,025 | 57267430dd62a815002e857d | generic | It is the third language of South Africa in terms of native speakers (~13.5%), of whom 53 percent are Coloureds and 42.4 percent Whites. In 1996, 40 percent of South Africans reported to know Afrikaans at least at a very basic level of communication. It is the lingua franca in Namibia, where it is spoken natively in 11... | About how many South Africans speak Afrikaans as their primary language? | {'text': '6.8 million', 'answer_start': 417} |
72,295 | 71,953 | 572a2b011d046914007797fc | generic | The third Digimon series, which began airing on April 1, 2001, is set largely in a "real world" where the Adventure and Adventure 02 series are television shows, and where Digimon game merchandise (based on actual items) become key to providing power boosts to real Digimon which appear in that world. The plot revolves ... | What can tamers do in order to give their partners advantages? | {'text': 'slide game cards through their "Digivices', 'answer_start': 979} |
97,254 | 96,912 | 572a30906aef05140015534e | generic | The shelter of the early people changed dramatically from the paleolithic to the neolithic era. In the paleolithic, people did not normally live in permanent constructions. In the neolithic, mud brick houses started appearing that were coated with plaster. The growth of agriculture made permanent houses possible. Doorw... | Where were entrances located in early homes? | {'text': 'Doorways were made on the roof', 'answer_start': 315} |
118,932 | 118,590 | 5730d552b54a4f140068cca7 | generic | Space Control is defined as "operations to ensure freedom of action in space for the US and its allies and, when directed, deny an adversary freedom of action in space. This mission area includes: operations conducted to protect friendly space capabilities from attack, interference, or unintentional hazards (defensive ... | What is one of the areas of operation that space control serves to protect? | {'text': 'operations conducted to protect friendly space capabilities from attack', 'answer_start': 197} |
5,712 | 5,370 | 56d1d5e8e7d4791d0090227f | generic | While he searched for enlightenment, Gautama combined the yoga practice of his teacher Kalama with what later became known as "the immeasurables".[dubious – discuss] Gautama thus invented a new kind of human, one without egotism.[dubious – discuss] What Thich Nhat Hanh calls the "Four Immeasurable Minds" of love, compa... | Gautama combined the yoga practice of what teacher? | {'text': 'Kalama', 'answer_start': 87} |
109,830 | 109,488 | 572f73dfb2c2fd1400568141 | generic | Another approach to hardware support for database management was ICL's CAFS accelerator, a hardware disk controller with programmable search capabilities. In the long term, these efforts were generally unsuccessful because specialized database machines could not keep pace with the rapid development and progress of gene... | What is a CAFS accelerator? | {'text': 'a hardware disk controller with programmable search capabilities', 'answer_start': 89} |
101,234 | 100,892 | 5a0f4709decec9001847554f | generic | Canadian football has mostly been confined to Canada, with the United States being the only other country to have hosted a high-level Canadian football game. The CFL's controversial "South Division" as it would come to be officially known attempted to put CFL teams in the United States playing under Canadian rules betw... | When was the Grey Cup aborted? | {'text': 'after three years', 'answer_start': 360} |
68,729 | 68,387 | 57272043f1498d1400e8f3ce | generic | Modern separation techniques such as milling, centrifugation, and pressing have enabled concentration of particular components of food, yielding flour, oils, juices, and so on, and even separate fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. Inevitably, such large-scale concentration changes the nutritional content ... | Outside of oxidized fats, what is another substance that is deemed harmful that can be found in processed foods? | {'text': 'trans fatty acids', 'answer_start': 1092} |
57,817 | 57,475 | 5a51a822b308da001a5a2330 | generic | During World War II, Imperial Japan invaded most of the former western colonies. The Shōwa occupation regime committed violent actions against civilians such as the Manila massacre and the implementation of a system of forced labour, such as the one involving 4 to 10 million romusha in Indonesia. A later UN report stat... | Who invaded the western colonies during WW I? | {'text': 'Imperial Japan', 'answer_start': 21} |
41,782 | 41,440 | 570d2929b3d812140066d4af | generic | The Vietnam War is often regarded as a low point for the U.S. Army due to the use of drafted personnel, the unpopularity of the war with the American public, and frustrating restrictions placed on the military by American political leaders. While American forces had been stationed in the Republic of Vietnam since 1959,... | What political structure did Vietnam have? | {'text': 'communist', 'answer_start': 620} |
10,650 | 10,308 | 5ad3a4a3604f3c001a3fea8e | generic | Richard Nixon used national security as a basis for his expansion of power. He asserted, for example, that "the inherent power of the President to safeguard the security of the nation" authorized him to order a wiretap without a judge's warrant. Nixon also asserted that "executive privilege" shielded him from all legis... | Into which tapes was there an ongoing civil investigation? | {'text': 'Watergate tapes', 'answer_start': 632} |
103,203 | 102,861 | 5ad4dc9f5b96ef001a10a483 | generic | Drawing from his own experiences in Scouting, Spielberg helped the Boy Scouts of America develop a merit badge in cinematography in order to help promote filmmaking as a marketable skill. The badge was launched at the 1989 National Scout Jamboree, which Spielberg attended, and where he personally counseled many boys in... | In what year did Spielberg start helping the Boy Scouts of America out? | {'text': '1989', 'answer_start': 218} |
82,023 | 81,681 | 5727bbc63acd2414000deadd | generic | In the West, the ancient Greeks initially regarded the best form of government as rule by the best men. Plato advocated a benevolent monarchy ruled by an idealized philosopher king, who was above the law. Plato nevertheless hoped that the best men would be good at respecting established laws, explaining that "Where the... | On what principle did the Ancient Greeks first think was best for governance? | {'text': 'rule by the best men', 'answer_start': 82} |
46,524 | 46,182 | 5ad2b482d7d075001a429fc4 | generic | A thriving market of unlicensed NES hardware clones emerged during the climax of the console's popularity. Initially, such clones were popular in markets where Nintendo never issued a legitimate version of the console. In particular, the Dendy (Russian: Де́нди), an unlicensed hardware clone produced in Taiwan and sold ... | Which country marketed an anti-clone called "Family Game?" | {'text': 'Argentina', 'answer_start': 573} |
97,603 | 97,261 | 572a531bb8ce0319002e2ab4 | generic | Diarrheal disease may have a negative impact on both physical fitness and mental development. "Early childhood malnutrition resulting from any cause reduces physical fitness and work productivity in adults," and diarrhea is a primary cause of childhood malnutrition. Further, evidence suggests that diarrheal disease has... | What can early childhood malnutrition cause? | {'text': 'reduces physical fitness and work productivity in adults', 'answer_start': 149} |
72,813 | 72,471 | 5a73865253a187001ae6321b | generic | In 1996, Comcast bought a controlling stake in Spectacor from the company's founder, Ed Snider. Comcast-Spectacor holdings now include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers National Basketball Association basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia. Over a number of years... | What did Comcast rename the Philadelphia 76ers basketball arena in 2014? | {'text': 'XFINITY Center', 'answer_start': 673} |
90,867 | 90,525 | 5ad22fced7d075001a42869a | generic | The bandolim (Portuguese for "mandolin") was a favourite instrument within the Portuguese bourgeoisie of the 19th century, but its rapid spread took it to other places, joining other instruments. Today you can see mandolins as part of the traditional and folk culture of Portuguese singing groups and the majority of the... | What does bandolin mean? | {'text': 'Portuguese for "mandolin', 'answer_start': 14} |
72,514 | 72,172 | 57276fe9f1498d1400e8f813 | generic | The permanent snow cover necessary for glacier formation is affected by factors such as the degree of slope on the land, amount of snowfall and the winds. Glaciers can be found in all latitudes except from 20° to 27° north and south of the equator where the presence of the descending limb of the Hadley circulation lowe... | Why do mountains between 19N and 19S tend to have snow? | {'text': 'precipitation is higher', 'answer_start': 447} |
89,870 | 89,528 | 5728a5753acd2414000dfbbf | generic | Statehood for Alaska was an important cause of James Wickersham early in his tenure as a congressional delegate. Decades later, the statehood movement gained its first real momentum following a territorial referendum in 1946. The Alaska Statehood Committee and Alaska's Constitutional Convention would soon follow. State... | On what day was Alaskan Statehood finally approved by Congress? | {'text': 'July 7, 1958', 'answer_start': 495} |
11,648 | 11,306 | 56de708bcffd8e1900b4b8d5 | generic | On May 20, 1971, his brother, Meinhard, died in a car accident. Meinhard had been drinking and was killed instantly. Schwarzenegger did not attend his funeral. Meinhard was due to marry Erika Knapp, and the couple had a three-year-old son, Patrick. Schwarzenegger would pay for Patrick's education and help him to emigra... | What is Meinhard's son named? | {'text': 'Patrick', 'answer_start': 240} |
63,735 | 63,393 | 5726b4e8dd62a815002e8d86 | generic | The Somerset Coal Canal was built in the early 19th century to reduce the cost of transportation of coal and other heavy produce. The first 16 kilometres (10 mi), running from a junction with the Kennet and Avon Canal, along the Cam valley, to a terminal basin at Paulton, were in use by 1805, together with several tram... | What was never built | {'text': 'A planned 11.7 km (7.3 mi) branch to Midford was never built', 'answer_start': 326} |
54,625 | 54,283 | 5ad0172677cf76001a686983 | generic | Some copyright owners voluntarily reduce the scope of what is considered infringement by employing relatively permissive, "open" licensing strategies: rather than privately negotiating license terms with individual users who must first seek out the copyright owner and ask for permission, the copyright owner publishes a... | What is an example of a paid software license? | {'text': 'GNU General Public License', 'answer_start': 661} |
98,199 | 97,857 | 5ad38cdf604f3c001a3fe5df | generic | In 1960, non-Hispanic whites represented 80% of Miami-Dade county's population. In 1970, the Census Bureau reported Miami's population as 45.3% Hispanic, 32.9% non-Hispanic White, and 22.7% Black. Miami's explosive population growth has been driven by internal migration from other parts of the country, primarily up unt... | Starting in what decade did immigration from inside the United States begin to have a significant influence on Miami's population? | {'text': '1960s', 'answer_start': 380} |
13,480 | 13,138 | 56df680f8bc80c19004e4bde | generic | Many groups continued their hunter-gatherer ways of life, although their numbers have continually declined, partly as a result of pressure from growing agricultural and pastoral communities. Many of them reside in the developing world, either in arid regions or tropical forests. Areas that were formerly available to hu... | In what type of climate do hunter-gatherers live? | {'text': 'arid regions or tropical forests', 'answer_start': 246} |
88,193 | 87,851 | 5acfc07077cf76001a685c90 | generic | Some Christians argue that the earliest source of political federalism (or federalism in human institutions; in contrast to theological federalism) is the ecclesiastical federalism found in the Bible. They point to the structure of the early Christian Church as described (and prescribed, as believed by many) in the New... | Where can't the elements of federalism can be found? | {'text': 'in almost every Christian denomination', 'answer_start': 668} |
46,043 | 45,701 | 5710ab2eb654c5140001fa06 | generic | However, the prime example of reference works that systematized scientific knowledge in the age of Enlightenment were universal encyclopedias rather than technical dictionaries. It was the goal of universal encyclopedias to record all human knowledge in a comprehensive reference work. The most well-known of these works... | In what work is the goal to record the extent of human knowledge in the arts and sciences outlined? | {'text': 'Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot', 'answer_start': 757} |
10,530 | 10,188 | 56de3bf44396321400ee26c0 | generic | Congress often writes legislation to restrain executive officials to the performance of their duties, as laid out by the laws Congress passes. In INS v. Chadha (1983), the Supreme Court decided (a) The prescription for legislative action in Art. I, § 1—requiring all legislative powers to be vested in a Congress consist... | By what margin can congress over ride a Presidential veto? | {'text': 'two-thirds', 'answer_start': 525} |
114,607 | 114,265 | 57301616947a6a140053d0ae | generic | Versions of revived Palladian architecture dominated English country house architecture. Houses were increasingly placed in grand landscaped settings, and large houses were generally made wide and relatively shallow, largely to look more impressive from a distance. The height was usually highest in the centre, and the ... | What floor were the main receptions rooms generally located? | {'text': 'mezzanine floor', 'answer_start': 476} |
53,474 | 53,132 | 5726083a89a1e219009ac164 | generic | Arsenal's longest-running and deepest rivalry is with their nearest major neighbours, Tottenham Hotspur; matches between the two are referred to as North London derbies. Other rivalries within London include those with Chelsea, Fulham and West Ham United. In addition, Arsenal and Manchester United developed a strong on... | What football club is Arsenal's greatest rival? | {'text': 'Tottenham Hotspur', 'answer_start': 86} |
123,962 | 123,620 | 573227fbe17f3d14004226c9 | generic | Second, Democrats have always elevated their minority floor leader to the speakership upon reclaiming majority status. Republicans have not always followed this leadership succession pattern. In 1919, for instance, Republicans bypassed James R. Mann, R-IL, who had been minority leader for eight years, and elected Frede... | Which party has always elevated minority floor leaders to speakership? | {'text': 'Democrats', 'answer_start': 8} |
30,205 | 29,863 | 5706324275f01819005e7a6e | generic | During encoding, 576 time-domain samples are taken and are transformed to 576 frequency-domain samples.[clarification needed] If there is a transient, 192 samples are taken instead of 576. This is done to limit the temporal spread of quantization noise accompanying the transient. (See psychoacoustics.) | What accompanies a transient? | {'text': 'quantization noise', 'answer_start': 234} |
45,550 | 45,208 | 5ad3f8c8604f3c001a3ffa88 | generic | The United States Supreme Court in Penry v. Lynaugh and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Bigby v. Dretke have been clear in their decisions that jury instructions in death penalty cases that do not ask about mitigating factors regarding the defendant's mental health violate the defendant's Ei... | What sentencing factors did Bigby v. Dretke reject considering? | {'text': 'mitigating', 'answer_start': 235} |
113,523 | 113,181 | 5a544428134fea001a0e16db | generic | Muslim physicians contributed to the field of medicine, including the subjects of anatomy and physiology: such as in the 15th century Persian work by Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn al-Faqih Ilyas entitled Tashrih al-badan (Anatomy of the body) which contained comprehensive diagrams of the body's structural, nervous and circul... | What book was a standard text in universities until the 1800's? | {'text': 'The Canon of Medicine', 'answer_start': 451} |
125,630 | 125,288 | 573346cc4776f419006607f0 | generic | Behavior that may be optimal for an individual (e.g., saving more during adverse economic conditions) can be detrimental if too many individuals pursue the same behavior, as ultimately one person's consumption is another person's income. Too many consumers attempting to save (or pay down debt) simultaneously is called ... | Financial institutions cannot all de-leverage simultaneously without a decline in the value of this? | {'text': 'their assets', 'answer_start': 608} |
11,673 | 11,331 | 56de7b7fcffd8e1900b4b968 | generic | One of the first competitions he won was the Junior Mr. Europe contest in 1965. He won Mr. Europe the following year, at age 19. He would go on to compete in, and win, many bodybuilding contests. His bodybuilding victories included five Mr. Universe (4 – NABBA [England], 1 – IFBB [USA]) wins, and seven Mr. Olympia wins... | What bodybuilding title did Schwarzenegger win in 1965? | {'text': 'Junior Mr. Europe', 'answer_start': 45} |
16,185 | 15,843 | 56e07b187aa994140058e551 | generic | The German rocket center in Peenemünde was located in the eastern part of Germany, which became the Soviet zone of occupation. On Stalin's orders, the Soviet Union sent its best rocket engineers to this region to see what they could salvage for future weapons systems. The Soviet rocket engineers were led by Sergei Koro... | After the war, Sergei Korolev was known under what title? | {'text': "USSR's chief rocket and spacecraft engineer", 'answer_start': 536} |
19,306 | 18,964 | 56e757c000c9c71400d76fdb | generic | Proponents of DST generally argue that it saves energy, promotes outdoor leisure activity in the evening (in summer), and is therefore good for physical and psychological health, reduces traffic accidents, reduces crime, or is good for business. Groups that tend to support DST are urban workers, retail businesses, outd... | Which group is more likely to support DST: urban workers or rural farmers? | {'text': 'urban workers', 'answer_start': 282} |
127,722 | 127,380 | 57339febd058e614000b5f11 | generic | Russian Imperialism led to the Russian Empire's conquest of Central Asia during the late 19th century's Imperial Era. Between 1864 and 1885 Russia gradually took control of the entire territory of Russian Turkestan, the Tajikistan portion of which had been controlled by the Emirate of Bukhara and Khanate of Kokand. Rus... | What was Russian interested in Tajikistan area for? | {'text': 'gaining access to a supply of cotton', 'answer_start': 342} |
107,864 | 107,522 | 57307298396df9190009610a | generic | In Canada, "the 51st state" is a phrase generally used in such a way as to imply that if a certain political course is taken, Canada's destiny will be as little more than a part of the United States. Examples include the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988, the debate over the creation of a common defense... | What is another connotation for the 51st state label? | {'text': "if a certain political course is taken, Canada's destiny will be as little more than a part of the United States", 'answer_start': 86} |
27,336 | 26,994 | 56fa02638f12f31900630070 | generic | It is remarkable that the inner heartwood of old trees remains as sound as it usually does, since in many cases it is hundreds, and in a few instances thousands, of years old. Every broken limb or root, or deep wound from fire, insects, or falling timber, may afford an entrance for decay, which, once started, may penet... | What part of a tree often stays impressively sound even when hundreds or thousands of years old? | {'text': 'inner heartwood', 'answer_start': 26} |
97,725 | 97,383 | 5ace26c332bba1001ae49bc1 | generic | Madrasa (Arabic: مدرسة, madrasah, pl. مدارس, madāris, Turkish: Medrese) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious (of any religion). The word is variously transliterated madrasah, madarasaa, medresa, madrassa, madraza, medrese, etc. In the West, the word usually refers to... | What does Madrasa mean in French? | {'text': 'Medrese', 'answer_start': 64} |
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