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44,529 | 44,187 | 57100918b654c5140001f77e | generic | In February 1974, the British Prime Minister, Edward Heath, advised the Queen to call a general election in the middle of her tour of the Austronesian Pacific Rim, requiring her to fly back to Britain. The election resulted in a hung parliament; Heath's Conservatives were not the largest party, but could stay in office... | What did Heath do after his party could not form a coalition with the Labor party? | {'text': 'resigned', 'answer_start': 378} |
89,190 | 88,848 | 572846ff2ca10214002da22c | generic | After a debate, the 129 delegates passed Hardie's motion to establish "a distinct Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests o... | How many delegates passed the motion? | {'text': '129', 'answer_start': 20} |
130,420 | 130,078 | 5a6b8ce7a9e0c9001a4e9f6e | generic | Atypical symptoms are more frequently reported by women, the elderly, and those with diabetes when compared to their male and younger counterparts. Women also report more numerous symptoms compared with men (2.6 on average vs. 1.8 symptoms in men). The most common symptoms of MI in women include dyspnea, weakness, and ... | How long after the ischemic event do symptoms manifest? | {'text': 'one month', 'answer_start': 451} |
21,678 | 21,336 | 56e8dca40b45c0140094cd23 | generic | In 1535, the abbey's annual income of £2400–2800[citation needed] (£1,310,000 to £1,530,000 as of 2016), during the assessment attendant on the Dissolution of the Monasteries rendered it second in wealth only to Glastonbury Abbey. | To which other abbey was Westminster Abbey second in wealth? | {'text': 'Glastonbury Abbey', 'answer_start': 212} |
4,316 | 3,974 | 56d1053c17492d1400aab74a | generic | The most well-known hospital in the HHC system is Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States. Bellevue is the designated hospital for treatment of the President of the United States and other world leaders if they become sick or injured while in New York City. The president of HHC is Ramanathan ... | Who is the HHC president? | {'text': 'Ramanathan Raju, MD', 'answer_start': 309} |
124,501 | 124,159 | 5ad3c9e3604f3c001a3ff0b4 | generic | The entire Protestant canon of scripture is considered the inspired, inerrant word of God. Jehovah's Witnesses consider the Bible to be scientifically and historically accurate and reliable and interpret much of it literally, but accept parts of it as symbolic. They consider the Bible to be the final authority for all ... | How often do many Jehovah's Witnesses read other religions literature? | {'text': 'frequently', 'answer_start': 578} |
96,983 | 96,641 | 572a1c096aef051400155298 | generic | Mach suggested that thought experiments like the bucket argument are problematic. If we were to imagine a universe that only contains a bucket, on Newton's account, this bucket could be set to spin relative to absolute space, and the water it contained would form the characteristic concave surface. But in the absence o... | How did Mach describe thought experiments like the bucket argument? | {'text': 'problematic', 'answer_start': 69} |
111,180 | 110,838 | 5ad23ef7d7d075001a4288e5 | generic | Around 1200 BC, the Dorians, another Greek-speaking people, followed from Epirus. Traditionally, historians have believed that the Dorian invasion caused the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, but it is likely the main attack was made by seafaring raiders (sea peoples) who sailed into the eastern Mediterranean aro... | What was the period of time called when the Mycenaeans were considered sea raiders? | {'text': 'Greek Dark Ages', 'answer_start': 434} |
21,442 | 21,100 | 56e8648f37bdd419002c44ec | generic | The city grew out towards the west of the boundaries of the peninsula formed by the River Aare. The Zytglogge tower marked the western boundary of the city from 1191 until 1256, when the Käfigturm took over this role until 1345. It was, in turn, succeeded by the Christoffelturm (formerly located close to the site of th... | What tower took over after Zytglogge? | {'text': 'Käfigturm', 'answer_start': 187} |
86,663 | 86,321 | 572aabf334ae481900deac1b | generic | When the act is assented to by the sovereign in person, or by empowered Royal Commissioners, royal assent is considered given at the moment when the assent is declared in the presence of both houses jointly assembled. When the procedure created by the Royal Assent Act 1967 is followed, assent is considered granted when... | When is assent effective if the presiding officers inform their houses at different times? | {'text': 'when the second announcement is made', 'answer_start': 682} |
27,656 | 27,314 | 56fa09148f12f319006300ab | generic | On 15 October 1969, while paying a visit to the northern town of Las Anod, Somalia's then President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards. His assassination was quickly followed by a military coup d'état on 21 October 1969 (the day after his funeral), in which the Somali Army seized power ... | On what day, the day after the funeral of Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, did a coup occur? | {'text': '21 October 1969', 'answer_start': 237} |
92,603 | 92,261 | 5a6a637fa9e0c9001a4e9dd4 | generic | The Gorton Government increased funding for the arts, setting up the Australian Council for the Arts, the Australian Film Development Corporation and the National Film and Television Training School. The Gorton Government passed legislation establishing equal pay for men and women and increased pensions, allowances and... | Which government put an emphasis in supporting free film? | {'text': 'The Gorton Government', 'answer_start': 0} |
19,792 | 19,450 | 56e7862c37bdd419002c40a5 | generic | Most records at NARA are in the public domain, as works of the federal government are excluded from copyright protection. However, records from other sources may still be protected by copyright or donor agreements. Executive Order 13526 directs originating agencies to declassify documents if possible before shipment to... | What office of NARA oversees the declassification of classified materials? | {'text': 'Information Security Oversight Office', 'answer_start': 432} |
68,389 | 68,047 | 5726b92a708984140094cf33 | generic | The National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes franchise moved to Raleigh in 1997 from Hartford, Connecticut (where it was known as the Hartford Whalers). The team played its first two seasons more than 60 miles away at Greensboro Coliseum while its home arena, Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena (later RBC Center... | What is the home stadium of the Carolina Hurricanes called? | {'text': 'PNC Arena', 'answer_start': 329} |
59,226 | 58,884 | 5acda66407355d001abf48cd | generic | NASCAR (headquartered in Daytona Beach) begins all three of its major auto racing series in Florida at Daytona International Speedway in February, featuring the Daytona 500, and ends all three Series in November at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Daytona also has the Coke Zero 400 NASCAR race weekend around Independence Day ... | What locations do not hold Indy car races? | {'text': 'Grand Prix of St. Petersburg and Grand Prix of Miami', 'answer_start': 418} |
125,787 | 125,445 | 573374204776f41900660b02 | generic | There is a direct relationship between declines in wealth and declines in consumption and business investment, which along with government spending, represent the economic engine. Between June 2007 and November 2008, Americans lost an estimated average of more than a quarter of their collective net worth.[citation need... | How much net worth did Americans lose between June 2007 and November 2008? | {'text': 'more than a quarter', 'answer_start': 256} |
126,090 | 125,748 | 5733fa9a4776f41900661628 | generic | In the second decade of the 21st century the Portuguese economy suffered its most severe recession since the 1970s resulting in the country having to be bailed out by the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. The bailout, agreed to in 2011, required Portugal to enter into a range o... | When did Portugal exit the bailout? | {'text': 'May 2014', 'answer_start': 392} |
25,635 | 25,293 | 56f930029b226e1400dd127e | generic | 11th Street is in two parts. It is interrupted by the block containing Grace Church between Broadway and Fourth Avenue. East 11th streets runs from Fourth Avenue to Avenue C and runs past Webster Hall. West 11th Street runs from Broadway to West Street. 11th Street and 6th Avenue was the location of the Old Grapevine t... | 11th Street and 6th Avenue was the home of what tavern from the 1700s? | {'text': 'Old Grapevine', 'answer_start': 305} |
41,550 | 41,208 | 570d66c6fed7b91900d45ff3 | generic | Valencia was founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC. The city is situated on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, fronting the Gulf of Valencia on the Mediterranean Sea. Its historic centre is one of the largest in Spain, with approximately 169 hectares; this heritage of ancient monuments, v... | What Valencian museum has a photography collection? | {'text': "Institut Valencià d'Art Modern", 'answer_start': 987} |
84,965 | 84,623 | 5a80f0448f0597001ac0020f | generic | Two distinct viewpoints on time divide many prominent philosophers. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. An opposing view is th... | Who believe in the third view? | {'text': 'Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant', 'answer_start': 628} |
81,769 | 81,427 | 5a4c243e7a6c4c001a2bbb9f | generic | To the north, the Sahara skirts the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt and portions of Libya, but in Cyrenaica and the Maghreb, the Sahara borders the Mediterranean forest, woodland, and scrub ecoregions of northern Africa, all of which have a Mediterranean climate characterized by hot summers and cool and rainy winters. Accor... | What forest is to the western Sahara? | {'text': 'Mediterranean forest', 'answer_start': 143} |
10,279 | 9,937 | 5a18e8519aa02b0018605f1f | generic | Middle Persian (Pahlavi) was the official language under the Sasanian dynasty in Iran. It was in use from the 3rd century CE until the beginning of the 10th century. The script used for Middle Persian in this era underwent significant maturity. Middle Persian, Parthian and Sogdian were also used as literary languages b... | What language was in use in Iran before the third century? | {'text': 'Middle Persian', 'answer_start': 0} |
98,439 | 98,097 | 5ad39976604f3c001a3fe83d | generic | Florida High Speed Rail was a proposed government backed high-speed rail system that would have connected Miami, Orlando, and Tampa. The first phase was planned to connect Orlando and Tampa and was offered federal funding, but it was turned down by Governor Rick Scott in 2011. The second phase of the line was envisione... | From North Florida, where will All Aboard Florida stretch to? | {'text': 'Orlando International Airport', 'answer_start': 558} |
109,624 | 109,282 | 572f94bca23a5019007fc79b | generic | When a person is non-verbal and cannot self-report pain, observation becomes critical, and specific behaviors can be monitored as pain indicators. Behaviors such as facial grimacing and guarding indicate pain, as well as an increase or decrease in vocalizations, changes in routine behavior patterns and mental status ch... | Facial grimacing and guarding indicate what? | {'text': 'pain', 'answer_start': 204} |
27,270 | 26,928 | 56f9eb0bf34c681400b0bede | generic | Wood, in the strict sense, is yielded by trees, which increase in diameter by the formation, between the existing wood and the inner bark, of new woody layers which envelop the entire stem, living branches, and roots. This process is known as secondary growth; it is the result of cell division in the vascular cambium, ... | What do many places have four of that would cause growth rings in a tree? | {'text': 'seasons', 'answer_start': 405} |
15,146 | 14,804 | 56e01d2f231d4119001abf33 | generic | Illustrated humour periodicals were popular in 19th-century Britain, the earliest of which was the short-lived The Glasgow Looking Glass in 1825. The most popular was Punch, which popularized the term cartoon for its humorous caricatures. On occasion the cartoons in these magazines appeared in sequences; the character ... | What was the first illustrated humor periodical in Britain during the 19th century? | {'text': 'The Glasgow Looking Glass', 'answer_start': 111} |
10,592 | 10,250 | 5ad39813604f3c001a3fe7e1 | generic | The power to review the constitutionality of laws may be limited by Congress, which has the power to set the jurisdiction of the courts. The only constitutional limit on Congress' power to set the jurisdiction of the judiciary relates to the Supreme Court; the Supreme Court may exercise only appellate jurisdiction exce... | Who lacks the ability to review the constitutionality of laws? | {'text': 'Congress', 'answer_start': 68} |
91,154 | 90,812 | 57293e7c1d046914007791e3 | generic | At least a few insects have nociceptors, cells that detect and transmit sensations of pain. This was discovered in 2003 by studying the variation in reactions of larvae of the common fruitfly Drosophila to the touch of a heated probe and an unheated one. The larvae reacted to the touch of the heated probe with a stereo... | Which probe did the larvae react to? | {'text': 'the heated probe', 'answer_start': 290} |
76,352 | 76,010 | 572820d23acd2414000df518 | generic | On August 19, 1989, the Russian Orthodox Parish of Saints Peter and Paul announced it would be switching to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. On September 2, 1989, tens of thousands across Ukraine protested a draft election law that reserved special seats for the Communist Party and for other official organi... | How many protesters were there in Lviv? | {'text': '50,000', 'answer_start': 329} |
127,448 | 127,106 | 5a39950a2f14dd001ac72421 | generic | Saint Barthélemy was for many years a French commune forming part of Guadeloupe, which is an overseas region and department of France. Through a referendum in 2003, island residents sought separation from the administrative jurisdiction of Guadeloupe, and it was finally accomplished in 2007. The island of Saint Barthél... | In what city does St. Barthelemy have its main port? | {'text': 'Paris', 'answer_start': 613} |
107,117 | 106,775 | 5a7b6a0a21c2de001afe9fea | generic | There are two types of transistors, which have slight differences in how they are used in a circuit. A bipolar transistor has terminals labeled base, collector, and emitter. A small current at the base terminal (that is, flowing between the base and the emitter) can control or switch a much larger current between the c... | Where is the gate terminal located? | {'text': 'between source and drain', 'answer_start': 482} |
4,221 | 3,879 | 56cff567234ae51400d9c16f | generic | Many of the world's largest media conglomerates are also based in the city. Manhattan contained over 500 million square feet (46.5 million m2) of office space in 2015, making it the largest office market in the United States, while Midtown Manhattan, with nearly 400 million square feet (37.2 million m2) in 2015, is the... | How much office space did Manhatten possess in 2015? | {'text': '500 million square feet', 'answer_start': 101} |
51,741 | 51,399 | 5725cbb3ec44d21400f3d5b7 | generic | The Towers Square, is an area of remarkable aesthetic design, intended to be a platform for the development of business activities, art exhibitions, dance and music performances and social place. This square connects the different buildings and towers which comprise the WTC Complex and it is the main access to the comp... | How much space is World Trade Center 4 projected to have? | {'text': '53,500 square metres', 'answer_start': 477} |
26,002 | 25,660 | 56f98c609e9bad19000a0a9c | generic | The oldest brain to have been discovered was in Armenia in the Areni-1 cave complex. The brain, estimated to be over 5,000 years old, was found in the skull of a 12 to 14-year-old girl. Although the brains were shriveled, they were well preserved due to the climate found inside the cave. | The oldest brain found in a cave was from what gender of human? | {'text': 'girl', 'answer_start': 180} |
90,040 | 89,698 | 5ad41129604f3c001a4001f5 | generic | Alaska's well-developed state-owned ferry system (known as the Alaska Marine Highway) serves the cities of southeast, the Gulf Coast and the Alaska Peninsula. The ferries transport vehicles as well as passengers. The system also operates a ferry service from Bellingham, Washington and Prince Rupert, British Columbia in... | Which areas doesn't the Alaska Marine Highway serve? | {'text': 'southeast, the Gulf Coast and the Alaska Peninsula', 'answer_start': 107} |
123,111 | 122,769 | 5731e27cb9d445190005e618 | generic | Although the Adventist churches hold much in common, their theologies differ on whether the intermediate state is unconscious sleep or consciousness, whether the ultimate punishment of the wicked is annihilation or eternal torment, the nature of immortality, whether or not the wicked are resurrected after the millenniu... | What Adventist groups observe the Sabbath? | {'text': 'Seventh-day Adventists and some smaller Adventist groups', 'answer_start': 478} |
2,706 | 2,364 | 56cda5a862d2951400fa67b7 | generic | Special bundles of the game contain a Wolf Link Amiibo figurine, which unlocks a Wii U-exclusive dungeon called the "Cave of Shadows" and can carry data over to the upcoming 2016 Zelda game. Other Zelda-related Amiibo figurines have distinct functions: Link and Toon Link replenish arrows, Zelda and Sheik restore Link's... | Which Amiibo figure makes Link lose more health when attacked? | {'text': 'Ganondorf', 'answer_start': 333} |
65,011 | 64,669 | 5ad0ceb6645df0001a2d043d | generic | The pointed arch, one of the defining attributes of Gothic, was earlier incorporated into Islamic architecture following the Islamic conquests of Roman Syria and the Sassanid Empire in the Seventh Century. The pointed arch and its precursors had been employed in Late Roman and Sassanian architecture; within the Roman c... | Which type of architecture first used the pointed arch during the fifth century? | {'text': 'Islamic architecture', 'answer_start': 90} |
86,922 | 86,580 | 57282a4b2ca10214002d9fc3 | generic | Symmetry groups are groups consisting of symmetries of given mathematical objects—be they of geometric nature, such as the introductory symmetry group of the square, or of algebraic nature, such as polynomial equations and their solutions. Conceptually, group theory can be thought of as the study of symmetry.t[›] Symme... | What is the name of the rule that must be met for a group operation to occur? | {'text': 'group law', 'answer_start': 532} |
54,454 | 54,112 | 5726d4d1708984140094d2af | generic | The first criminal provision in U.S. copyright law was added in 1897, which established a misdemeanor penalty for "unlawful performances and representations of copyrighted dramatic and musical compositions" if the violation had been "willful and for profit." Criminal copyright infringement requires that the infringer a... | What is the threshold of the number of copies and the value of the works? | {'text': 'very low threshold', 'answer_start': 785} |
8,288 | 7,946 | 5ad005e077cf76001a686781 | generic | Sassou Nguesso aligned the country with the Eastern Bloc and signed a twenty-year friendship pact with the Soviet Union. Over the years, Sassou had to rely more on political repression and less on patronage to maintain his dictatorship. | What did Sassou sign a ten year friendship pact with? | {'text': 'the Soviet Union', 'answer_start': 103} |
77,398 | 77,056 | 5727ad89ff5b5019007d9262 | generic | One early attempt at lengthening the playing time should be mentioned. At least one manufacturer in the early 1920s, World Records, produced records that played at a constant linear velocity, controlled by Noel Pemberton Billing's patented add-on governor device. As these were played from the outside to the inside, the... | What was a unique feature of World Records records? | {'text': 'played from the outside to the inside', 'answer_start': 278} |
117,518 | 117,176 | 5730aa008ab72b1400f9c63b | generic | By the time of the Uruk period (c. 4100–2900 BC calibrated), the volume of trade goods transported along the canals and rivers of southern Mesopotamia facilitated the rise of many large, stratified, temple-centered cities (with populations of over 10,000 people) where centralized administrations employed specialized wo... | How were trade goods transported in southern Mesopotamia? | {'text': 'transported along the canals and rivers', 'answer_start': 87} |
78,480 | 78,138 | 5a2eeab2a83784001a7d255f | generic | While worship in the Temple in Jerusalem included musical instruments (2 Chronicles 29:25–27), traditional Jewish religious services in the Synagogue, both before and after the last destruction of the Temple, did not include musical instruments given the practice of scriptural cantillation. The use of musical instrumen... | What Temple forbade the use of instruments? | {'text': 'Temple in Jerusalem', 'answer_start': 21} |
93,660 | 93,318 | 572982021d046914007794ef | generic | In physics, the standard definition of a glass (or vitreous solid) is a solid formed by rapid melt quenching. The term glass is often used to describe any amorphous solid that exhibits a glass transition temperature Tg. If the cooling is sufficiently rapid (relative to the characteristic crystallization time) then crys... | How is "glass" defined in physics? | {'text': 'a solid formed by rapid melt quenching', 'answer_start': 70} |
71,374 | 71,032 | 5ad288c3d7d075001a429968 | generic | When a joint German–Soviet peace initiative was rejected by Britain and France on 28 September 1939, Soviet foreign policy became critical of the Allies and more pro-German in turn. During the fifth session of the Supreme Soviet on 31 October 1939 Molotov analysed the international situation thus giving the direction f... | Why was the east creating a war? | {'text': 'to maintain the Versailles system', 'answer_start': 497} |
22,853 | 22,511 | 5ad501565b96ef001a10a924 | generic | In 2008, biochemist Boris Arkadievich Malyarchuk (Russian: Борис Аркадьевич Малярчук) et al. of the Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia, used a sample (n=279) of Czech individuals to determine the frequency of "Mongoloid" "mtDNA lineages". Malyarchuk found Czech m... | When was the steppe population migration? | {'text': '2,000–3,000 BC', 'answer_start': 616} |
58,033 | 57,691 | 5728807d3acd2414000dfa5c | generic | The school broke off from the University of Deseret and became Brigham Young Academy, with classes commencing on January 3, 1876. Warren Dusenberry served as interim principal of the school for several months until April 1876 when Brigham Young's choice for principal arrived—a German immigrant named Karl Maeser. Under ... | Who was the first Brigham Young Acadamy, now BYU, principal chosen by Brigham Young? | {'text': 'Karl Maeser', 'answer_start': 301} |
65,935 | 65,593 | 5726b450708984140094ce60 | generic | Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people. Native copper, however, was found worldwide, along with silver, gold and platinum, which were also used to make tools, jewelry, and other objects since Neolithic times. Copper was the hard... | Around what time did bronze start being formed? | {'text': '2500 BC', 'answer_start': 522} |
14,617 | 14,275 | 56dfb801231d4119001abcf5 | generic | Inns are buildings where travellers can seek lodging and, usually, food and drink. They are typically located in the country or along a highway. In Europe, they possibly first sprang up when the Romans built a system of roads two millennia ago.[citation needed] Some inns in Europe are several centuries old. In addition... | What role did inns serve other than housing travelers? | {'text': 'community gathering places', 'answer_start': 391} |
93,548 | 93,206 | 572946226aef051400154c3a | generic | In the 20th century, new types of glass such as laminated glass, reinforced glass and glass bricks have increased the use of glass as a building material and resulted in new applications of glass. Multi-storey buildings are frequently constructed with curtain walls made almost entirely of glass. Similarly, laminated gl... | The walls of skyscrapers are often made of what material? | {'text': 'glass', 'answer_start': 190} |
82,860 | 82,518 | 5ad2c578d7d075001a42a18d | generic | In January 2009, the Green Power Partnership (GPP, sponsored by the EPA) listed Northwestern as one of the top 10 universities in the country in purchasing energy from renewable sources. The university matches 74 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of its annual energy use with Green-e Certified Renewable Energy Certificates ... | Which IPA club is Northwestern University included in? | {'text': 'Green Power Partnership', 'answer_start': 21} |
81,675 | 81,333 | 5a39a8772f14dd001ac72538 | generic | Cultural sociology first emerged in Weimar Germany (1918–1933), where sociologists such as Alfred Weber used the term Kultursoziologie (cultural sociology). Cultural sociology was then "reinvented" in the English-speaking world as a product of the "cultural turn" of the 1960s, which ushered in structuralist and postmod... | Who was the last to refer to culture as sociology? | {'text': 'Alfred Weber', 'answer_start': 91} |
74,879 | 74,537 | 57278e51f1498d1400e8fbf8 | generic | Carnival is known as Crop Over and is Barbados's biggest festival. Its early beginnings were on the sugar cane plantations during the colonial period. Crop over began in 1688, and featured singing, dancing and accompaniment by shak-shak, banjo, triangle, fiddle, guitar, bottles filled with water and bones. Other tradit... | What year did Crop Over begin? | {'text': '1688', 'answer_start': 170} |
29,191 | 28,849 | 5706095a75f01819005e78cb | generic | The Times and The Sunday Times have had an online presence since March 1999, originally at the-times.co.uk and sunday-times.co.uk, and later at timesonline.co.uk. There are now two websites: thetimes.co.uk is aimed at daily readers, and the thesundaytimes.co.uk site at providing weekly magazine-like content. There are ... | The website, thesundaytimes.co.uk, provides what kind of content? | {'text': 'weekly magazine-like content', 'answer_start': 280} |
32,181 | 31,839 | 5a836e5fe60761001a2eb6ce | generic | Copper has been used since ancient times as a durable, corrosion resistant, and weatherproof architectural material. Roofs, flashings, rain gutters, downspouts, domes, spires, vaults, and doors have been made from copper for hundreds or thousands of years. Copper's architectural use has been expanded in modern times to... | What is one interior use copper has been forbidden to include? | {'text': 'antimicrobial indoor products', 'answer_start': 424} |
58,250 | 57,908 | 5728a3732ca10214002da507 | generic | BYU's stated mission "is to assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life." BYU is thus considered by its leaders to be at heart a religious institution, wherein, ideally, religious and secular education are interwoven in a way that encourages the highest standards in both areas. This weaving of the... | What two types of education does BYU strive to excel in while combining? | {'text': 'religious and secular', 'answer_start': 192} |
111,683 | 111,341 | 5733e473d058e614000b64f4 | generic | At the close of the 1991 season, a proposal was tabled for the establishment of a new league that would bring more money into the game overall. The Founder Members Agreement, signed on 17 July 1991 by the game's top-flight clubs, established the basic principles for setting up the FA Premier League. The newly formed to... | What was the argument made for the splitting off of the FA Premier League which would lead to being able to compete across Europe? | {'text': 'extra income', 'answer_start': 561} |
71,759 | 71,417 | 5acf735477cf76001a684e4a | generic | where a single prime denotes the real part and a double prime the imaginary part, Z(ω) is the complex impedance with the dielectric present, Ccmplx(ω) is the so-called complex capacitance with the dielectric present, and C0 is the capacitance without the dielectric. (Measurement "without the dielectric" in principle me... | How is the complex capacitance mathematically unrepresented with the dielectric present? | {'text': 'Ccmplx(ω)', 'answer_start': 141} |
108,110 | 107,768 | 572ff872b2c2fd140056868b | generic | It is also possible to use multiple active elements and combine them together with transmission lines to produce a similar system where the phases add up to reinforce the output. The antenna array and very similar reflective array antenna consist of multiple elements, often half-wave dipoles, spaced out on a plane and ... | What can be paired with transmission lines to create phases that would support output? | {'text': 'active elements', 'answer_start': 36} |
18,644 | 18,302 | 5ad68d38191832001aa7b19d | generic | Its knowledge and uses spread from China through the Middle East to medieval Europe in the 13th century, where the first water powered paper mills were built. Because of paper's introduction to the West through the city of Baghdad, it was first called bagdatikos. In the 19th century, industrial manufacture greatly lowe... | In what century did the papermaking process spread from France to Europe? | {'text': '13th', 'answer_start': 91} |
39,478 | 39,136 | 570cc5e1b3d812140066d26c | generic | The Qur'an relates detailed narrative accounts of Maryam (Mary) in two places, Qur'an 3:35–47 and 19:16–34. These state beliefs in both the Immaculate Conception of Mary and the Virgin birth of Jesus. The account given in Sura 19 is nearly identical with that in the Gospel according to Luke, and both of these (Luke, Su... | Which Sura in the Qur'an describes the visitation of an angel upon Zakariya? | {'text': '19', 'answer_start': 227} |
95,091 | 94,749 | 5a2c3244bfd06b001a5aea3b | 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 influenced neoclassicism during the eighteenth century? | {'text': 'Greek architectural examples, seen through the medium of etchings and engravings,', 'answer_start': 34} |
25,023 | 24,681 | 56f8cdb69e9bad19000a053c | generic | Cheesemaking is an ancient tradition in most Alpine countries. A wheel of cheese from the Emmental in Switzerland can weigh up to 45 kg (100 lb), and the Beaufort in Savoy can weight up to 70 kilograms (150 lb). Owners of the cows traditionally receive from the cheesemakers a portion in relation to the proportion of th... | When is Carnival celebrated? | {'text': 'before Lent', 'answer_start': 906} |
98,968 | 98,626 | 572a9a1cbe1ee31400cb80a2 | generic | The first mention of the name "Rajasthan" appears in James Tod's 1829 publication Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India, while the earliest known record of "Rajputana" as a name for the region is in George Thomas's 1800 memoir Military Memories. John Keay, in his book I... | In what year did George Thomas write the memoir known as Military Memories? | {'text': '1800', 'answer_start': 265} |
57,309 | 56,967 | 5726d8f6708984140094d370 | generic | Napoleon had a civil marriage with Joséphine de Beauharnais, without religious ceremony. During the campaign in Egypt, Napoleon showed much tolerance towards religion for a revolutionary general, holding discussions with Muslim scholars and ordering religious celebrations, but General Dupuy, who accompanied Napoleon, r... | What did Napoleon display tolerance related to during his time in Egypt? | {'text': 'religion', 'answer_start': 158} |
35,795 | 35,453 | 570aa9676d058f1900183050 | generic | In 1967, a new U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) combined major federal responsibilities for air and surface transport. The Federal Aviation Agency's name changed to the Federal Aviation Administration as it became one of several agencies (e.g., Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, the... | Who would the FAA administrator report to? | {'text': 'Secretary of Transportation', 'answer_start': 512} |
119,543 | 119,201 | 5a1496f2a54d420018529283 | generic | Early writings on the subject tended to judge states by the realist criterion, as expressed by the historian A. J. P. Taylor when he noted that "The test of a great power is the test of strength for war." Later writers have expanded this test, attempting to define power in terms of overall military, economic, and polit... | Who was the founder of the neorealist theory on the test of strength for war? | {'text': 'Kenneth Waltz', 'answer_start': 335} |
97,263 | 96,921 | 5a7d349070df9f001a875007 | generic | A significant and far-reaching shift in human subsistence and lifestyle was to be brought about in areas where crop farming and cultivation were first developed: the previous reliance on an essentially nomadic hunter-gatherer subsistence technique or pastoral transhumance was at first supplemented, and then increasingl... | What trend led to a major shift in the livelihoods of early towns? | {'text': 'crop farming and cultivation', 'answer_start': 111} |
16,115 | 15,773 | 56e19ab0e3433e1400423002 | generic | This reaction is favored at low pressures but is nonetheless conducted at high pressures (2.0 MPa, 20 atm or 600 inHg). This is because high-pressure H
2 is the most marketable product and Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) purification systems work better at higher pressures. The product mixture is known as "synthesis g... | Besides methane, what else can be used to produce synthesis gas? | {'text': 'Hydrocarbons', 'answer_start': 412} |
71,402 | 71,060 | 5ad28a70d7d075001a4299bc | generic | The Soviets also helped Germany to avoid British naval blockades by providing a submarine base, Basis Nord, in the northern Soviet Union near Murmansk. This also provided a refueling and maintenance location, and a takeoff point for raids and attacks on shipping. In addition, the Soviets provided Germany with access to... | Which oceans did the sub base restrict access to? | {'text': 'both the Atlantic and the Pacific', 'answer_start': 505} |
117,882 | 117,540 | 5730ec2a497a881900248a53 | generic | Fetuvalu offers the Cambridge syllabus. Motufoua offers the Fiji Junior Certificate (FJC) at year 10, Tuvaluan Certificate at Year 11 and the Pacific Senior Secondary Certificate (PSSC) at Year 12, set by the Fiji-based exam board SPBEA. Sixth form students who pass their PSSC go on to the Augmented Foundation Programm... | What group funds the Augmented Foundation Programme? | {'text': 'government of Tuvalu', 'answer_start': 337} |
25,512 | 25,170 | 56f8e26d9e9bad19000a068f | generic | 14% of the population speaks the official language Portuguese, the language of government and national communication during centuries of colonial rule. 44% speak Kriol, a Portuguese-based creole language, which is effectively a national language of communication among groups. The remainder speak a variety of native Afr... | What percentage of the population speaks Kriol? | {'text': '44%', 'answer_start': 152} |
24,362 | 24,020 | 56f81745aef2371900625dc7 | generic | Nobles were born into a noble family, adopted by a noble family (this was abolished in 1633) or ennobled by a king or Sejm for various reasons (bravery in combat, service to the state, etc.—yet this was the rarest means of gaining noble status). Many nobles were, in actuality, really usurpers, being commoners, who move... | Who denounced many nobles? | {'text': 'Hieronim Nekanda Trepka', 'answer_start': 442} |
16,672 | 16,330 | 5acd3f4f07355d001abf3a3b | generic | The first satellite, BeiDou-1A, was launched on October 31, 2000. The second satellite, BeiDou-1B, was successfully launched on December 21, 2000. The last operational satellite of the constellation, BeiDou-1C, was launched on May 25, 2003. | In what month was the first satellite, BeiDou-1X, launched? | {'text': 'October', 'answer_start': 48} |
45,089 | 44,747 | 570fce815ab6b81900391030 | generic | The board consists of nine directors. Michael Dell, the founder of the company, serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Other board members include Don Carty, William Gray, Judy Lewent, Klaus Luft, Alex Mandl, Michael A. Miles, and Sam Nunn. Shareholders elect the nine board members at meetings, an... | Which Dell committee handles accounting issues? | {'text': 'Audit Committee', 'answer_start': 614} |
123,642 | 123,300 | 5a7b395d21c2de001afe9de6 | generic | In the 2005 OECD report for Greece, it was clearly stated that "the impact of new accounting rules on the fiscal figures for the years 1997 to 1999 ranged from 0.7 to 1 percentage point of GDP; this retroactive change of methodology was responsible for the revised deficit exceeding 3% in 1999, the year of [Greece's] EM... | What was the year of Greece's EMU membership disqualification? | {'text': '1999', 'answer_start': 289} |
29,710 | 29,368 | 5706c6190eeca41400aa0e21 | generic | A related phenomenon called "abmigration" involves birds from one region joining similar birds from a different breeding region in the common winter grounds and then migrating back along with the new population. This is especially common in some waterfowl, which shift from one flyway to another. | What is it called when birds from one region join birds from a different region? | {'text': 'abmigration', 'answer_start': 29} |
114,085 | 113,743 | 5acd915107355d001abf4750 | generic | Few species of reptiles or amphibians are found in Great Britain or Ireland. Only three snakes are native to Great Britain: the common European adder, the grass snake and the smooth snake; none are native to Ireland. In general, Great Britain has slightly more variation and native wild life, with weasels, polecats, wil... | Certain species of wood lice are native to Great Britain but not where? | {'text': 'Ireland', 'answer_start': 552} |
32,619 | 32,277 | 57096d77200fba1400367fcd | generic | Family communication study looks at topics such as family rules, family roles or family dialectics and how those factors could affect the communication between family members. Researchers develop theories to understand communication behaviors. Family communication study also digs deep into certain time periods of famil... | What is some factors in family communication that could affect communication between family members? | {'text': 'family rules, family roles or family dialectics', 'answer_start': 51} |
58,044 | 57,702 | 57266d61f1498d1400e8df68 | generic | In 1903, Brigham Young Academy was dissolved, and was replaced by two institutions: Brigham Young High School, and Brigham Young University. (The BY High School class of 1907 was ultimately responsible for the famous giant "Y" that is to this day embedded on a mountain near campus.) The Board elected George H. Brimhall... | How old was George H. Brimhall when he completed High School? | {'text': 'forty', 'answer_start': 407} |
38,962 | 38,620 | 5ad3a614604f3c001a3feab5 | generic | The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) compile data from over 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the country. They provide detailed data regarding the volume of crimes to include arrest, clearance (or closing a case), and law enforcement officer information. The UCR focuses its data collection on violent crimes, hate crim... | What agency compiles data from law enforcement agencies outside of the country? | {'text': 'Uniform Crime Reports', 'answer_start': 4} |
50,919 | 50,577 | 5725cb32ec44d21400f3d5a5 | generic | India established full diplomatic ties with Israel in 1992 and has fostered a strong military, technological and cultural partnership with the country since then. According to an international opinion survey conducted in 2009 on behalf of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, India is the most pro-Israel country in the world. ... | When did India establish full diplomatic ties with Israel? | {'text': '1992', 'answer_start': 54} |
36,590 | 36,248 | 5a37191595360f001af1b409 | generic | The Gregorian calendar improves the approximation made by the Julian calendar by skipping three Julian leap days in every 400 years, giving an average year of 365.2425 mean solar days long. This approximation has an error of about one day per 3,300 years with respect to the mean tropical year. However, because of the p... | In the Julia system what is the error rate for the vernal equinox first 7700 years? | {'text': '1 day', 'answer_start': 640} |
28,978 | 28,636 | 570709ba9e06ca38007e92dd | generic | In 1988, the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson urged Americans to use instead the term "African American" because it had a historical cultural base and was a construction similar to terms used by European descendants, such as German American, Italian American, etc. Since then, African American and black have often had ... | Why did some argue that "black" was the better term? | {'text': 'because "African" suggests foreignness', 'answer_start': 640} |
63,729 | 63,387 | 5acf8a0277cf76001a685173 | generic | Bath Rugby play at the Recreation Ground in Bath, and the Somerset County Cricket Club are based at the County Ground in Taunton. The county gained its first Football League club in 2003, when Yeovil Town won promotion to Division Three as Football Conference champions. They had achieved numerous FA Cup victories over ... | In what year did horse racing start in Wincanton? | {'text': '2003', 'answer_start': 182} |
11,000 | 10,658 | 56e4cdc339bdeb14003479d8 | generic | Since the 1980s, as the complexity of buildings began to increase (in terms of structural systems, services, energy and technologies), the field of architecture became multi-disciplinary with specializations for each project type, technological expertise or project delivery methods. In addition, there has been an incre... | Who can no longer design a large structure? | {'text': 'one person', 'answer_start': 782} |
70,201 | 69,859 | 5726e991708984140094d5a0 | generic | The majority of simplified characters are drawn from conventional abbreviated forms, or ancient standard forms. For example, the orthodox character 來 lái ("come") was written with the structure 来 in the clerical script (隶书 / 隸書, lìshū) of the Han dynasty. This clerical form uses one fewer stroke, and was thus adopted a... | What was written with the structure in the clerical script? | {'text': 'orthodox character', 'answer_start': 129} |
78,918 | 78,576 | 5ad25bd3d7d075001a428e8c | generic | Albertus Magnus championed the idea, drawn from Dionysus, that positive knowledge of God is possible, but obscure. Thus, it is easier to state what God is not, than to state what God is: "... we affirm things of God only relatively, that is, casually, whereas we deny things of God absolutely, that is, with reference to... | What is not easier to do regarding God? | {'text': 'state what God is not', 'answer_start': 137} |
14,286 | 13,944 | 56df7da25ca0a614008f9b30 | generic | From his early years, Bell showed a sensitive nature and a talent for art, poetry, and music that was encouraged by his mother. With no formal training, he mastered the piano and became the family's pianist. Despite being normally quiet and introspective, he reveled in mimicry and "voice tricks" akin to ventriloquism t... | What part of his mom's head would Bell talk into? | {'text': 'forehead', 'answer_start': 740} |
64,282 | 63,940 | 5ad01d0777cf76001a686a74 | generic | The term "Late Middle Ages" refers to one of the three periods of the Middle Ages, along with the Early Middle Ages and the High Middle Ages. Leonardo Bruni was the first historian to use tripartite periodization in his History of the Florentine People (1442). Flavio Biondo used a similar framework in Decades of Histor... | Along with the Late Middle Ages, what are the other three period of the Middle Ages? | {'text': 'Early Middle Ages and the High Middle Ages', 'answer_start': 98} |
107,024 | 106,682 | 572f748904bcaa1900d76982 | generic | Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and storing photos on a CD. Launched in 1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high-quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CDs are defined in the Beige Book and conform to the CD-ROM XA and CD-i Bridge specifica... | What type of paper can Photo CD images be produced on? | {'text': 'photographic paper', 'answer_start': 515} |
70,128 | 69,786 | 5726dd13f1498d1400e8edb8 | generic | While new characters can be easily coined by writing on paper, they are difficult to represent on a computer – they must generally be represented as a picture, rather than as text – which presents a significant barrier to their use or widespread adoption. Compare this with the use of symbols as names in 20th century mu... | What can be easily coined by writing on paper? | {'text': 'characters', 'answer_start': 10} |
48,358 | 48,016 | 571ac3f89499d21900609afc | generic | Prior to the 20th century drugs were generally produced by small scale manufacturers with little regulatory control over manufacturing or claims of safety and efficacy. To the extent that such laws did exist, enforcement was lax. In the United States, increased regulation of vaccines and other biological drugs was spur... | What caused a Tetanus outbreak? | {'text': 'contaminated smallpox vaccine and diphtheria antitoxin', 'answer_start': 386} |
60,292 | 59,950 | 5726e64b708984140094d538 | generic | Predatory animals often use their usual methods of attacking prey to inflict or to threaten grievous injury to their own predators. The electric eel uses the same electric current to kill prey and to defend itself against animals (anacondas, caimans, egrets, jaguars, mountain lions, giant otters, humans, dogs, and cats... | The electric eel uses electric shock for defense and what other purpose? | {'text': 'to kill prey', 'answer_start': 180} |
40,367 | 40,025 | 5ad505055b96ef001a10a9eb | generic | In 1982, Regis McKenna was brought in to shape the marketing and launch of the Macintosh. Later the Regis McKenna team grew to include Jane Anderson, Katie Cadigan and Andy Cunningham, who eventually led the Apple account for the agency. Cunningham and Anderson were the primary authors of the Macintosh launch plan. The... | What role did Andy Cunningham and Jane Anderson have in the Microsoft launch plan? | {'text': 'primary authors', 'answer_start': 271} |
1,231 | 889 | 56cbe1996d243a140015edc3 | generic | From September 1823 to 1826 Chopin attended the Warsaw Lyceum, where he received organ lessons from the Czech musician Wilhelm Würfel during his first year. In the autumn of 1826 he began a three-year course under the Silesian composer Józef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory, studying music theory, figured bass and com... | Which tsar did Frédéric perform for due to his success in previous concerts? | {'text': 'Alexander I', 'answer_start': 725} |
3,136 | 2,794 | 56cf58c1aab44d1400b890ae | generic | On 13 March 2015, several members of the cast and crew, including Craig, Whishaw, Wilson and Mendes, as well as previous James Bond actor, Sir Roger Moore, appeared in a sketch written by David Walliams and the Dawson Brothers for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on BBC One. In the sketch, they film a behind-the-scenes mock... | Who wrote the comedy sketch for the cast and crew? | {'text': 'David Walliams and the Dawson Brothers', 'answer_start': 188} |
119,518 | 119,176 | 5730d9eaf6cb411900e244ed | generic | The term "great power" was first used to represent the most important powers in Europe during the post-Napoleonic era. The "Great Powers" constituted the "Concert of Europe" and claimed the right to joint enforcement of the postwar treaties. The formalization of the division between small powers and great powers came a... | During the post Napoleonic era where were the first Great Powers concentrated? | {'text': 'Europe', 'answer_start': 166} |
109,565 | 109,223 | 5acd131107355d001abf3360 | generic | Wilhelm Erb's (1874) "intensive" theory, that a pain signal can be generated by intense enough stimulation of any sensory receptor, has been soundly disproved. Some sensory fibers do not differentiate between noxious and non-noxious stimuli, while others, nociceptors, respond only to noxious, high intensity stimuli. At... | What is Erb Wilhelm's intensive theory? | {'text': 'that a pain signal can be generated by intense enough stimulation of any sensory receptor', 'answer_start': 41} |
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