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50,662 | 50,320 | 5acf816477cf76001a68502a | generic | Regularity is a concept based on adherence to Masonic Landmarks, the basic membership requirements, tenets and rituals of the craft. Each Grand Lodge sets its own definition of what these landmarks are, and thus what is Regular and what is Irregular (and the definitions do not necessarily agree between Grand Lodges). E... | What concept is not based on adherence to Masonic Landmarks, basic membership requirements, and tenets and rituals of the craft? | {'text': 'Regularity', 'answer_start': 0} |
13,364 | 13,022 | 56df7ee45ca0a614008f9b57 | generic | Oklahoma City is home to the state's largest school district, Oklahoma City Public Schools. The district's Classen School of Advanced Studies and Harding Charter Preparatory High School rank high among public schools nationally according to a formula that looks at the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccala... | What year did KIPP Reach College Preparatory School win the National Blue Ribbon Award? | {'text': '2012', 'answer_start': 720} |
26,541 | 26,199 | 56f98f939b226e1400dd157b | generic | Catholicism arrived 400 years ago in the province and Protestantism 150 years ago. Zhejiang is one of the provinces of China with the largest concentrations of Protestants, especially notable in the city of Wenzhou. In 1999 Zhejiang's Protestant population comprised 2.8% of the provincial population, a small percentage... | What percent of Zhejiang was Protestant in 1999? | {'text': '2.8%', 'answer_start': 267} |
105,619 | 105,277 | 572e9317cb0c0d14000f12e3 | generic | Vacuum is space void of matter. The word stems from the Latin adjective vacuus for "vacant" or "void". An approximation to such vacuum is a region with a gaseous pressure much less than atmospheric pressure. Physicists often discuss ideal test results that would occur in a perfect vacuum, which they sometimes simply ca... | What does the term used by Physicists, partial vacuum, refer to? | {'text': 'imperfect vacuum', 'answer_start': 401} |
56,545 | 56,203 | 572665495951b619008f7195 | generic | The Standard Output Sensitivity (SOS) technique, also new in the 2006 version of the standard, effectively specifies that the average level in the sRGB image must be 18% gray plus or minus 1/3 stop when the exposure is controlled by an automatic exposure control system calibrated per ISO 2721 and set to the EI with no ... | What is the output level measured in? | {'text': 'the sRGB output from the camera', 'answer_start': 383} |
25,004 | 24,662 | 56f8c7c89b226e1400dd0fca | generic | By 1940 the Third Reich had occupied many of the Alpine countries. Austria underwent a political coup that made it part of the Third Reich; France had been invaded and Italy was a fascist regime. Switzerland was the only country to luckily avoid invasion. The Swiss Confederate mobilized its troops—the country follows t... | Who wired the infrastructure leading into Switzerland? | {'text': 'The Swiss commanders', 'answer_start': 468} |
1,566 | 1,224 | 56cf5433aab44d1400b88fef | generic | Chopin's music was used in the 1909 ballet Chopiniana, choreographed by Michel Fokine and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Sergei Diaghilev commissioned additional orchestrations—from Stravinsky, Anatoly Lyadov, Sergei Taneyev and Nikolai Tcherepnin—for later productions, which used the title Les Sylphides. | Who choreographed a ballet which included Chopin's work? | {'text': 'Michel Fokine', 'answer_start': 72} |
123,407 | 123,065 | 5a2eee0ea83784001a7d2589 | generic | A series of low-lying annexes (largely hidden) flank both ends. Also in the square are the glass-faced Planalto Palace housing the presidential offices, and the Palace of the Supreme Court. Farther east, on a triangle of land jutting into the lake, is the Palace of the Dawn (Palácio da Alvorada; the presidential reside... | What supports the modernest gardens? | {'text': '16 gracefully curving supports', 'answer_start': 563} |
41,695 | 41,353 | 570d2f3db3d812140066d50b | generic | In May 2005, GE announced the launch of a program called "Ecomagination," intended, in the words of CEO Jeff Immelt "to develop tomorrow's solutions such as solar energy, hybrid locomotives, fuel cells, lower-emission aircraft engines, lighter and stronger durable materials, efficient lighting, and water purification t... | What type of technology related to water was to be developed under the Ecoimagination program? | {'text': 'water purification technology', 'answer_start': 300} |
82,690 | 82,348 | 5727c5932ca10214002d95f1 | generic | The Arena Football League briefly had a two-game exhibition season in the early 2000s, a practice that ended in 2003 with a new television contract. Exhibition games outside of a structured season are relatively common among indoor American football leagues; because teams switch leagues frequently at that level of play... | Indoor league teams sometimes play against what type of outdoor league team? | {'text': 'semi-pro', 'answer_start': 504} |
104,141 | 103,799 | 572f65c704bcaa1900d768d5 | generic | Central station electricity can often be generated with higher efficiency than a mobile engine/generator. While the efficiency of power plant generation and diesel locomotive generation are roughly the same in the nominal regime, diesel motors decrease in efficiency in non-nominal regimes at low power while if an elec... | How can electric train be more energy efficient? | {'text': 'by regenerative braking', 'answer_start': 506} |
88,556 | 88,214 | 5a3c5b22cc5d22001a521d80 | generic | There are many names for God, and different names are attached to different cultural ideas about God's identity and attributes. In the ancient Egyptian era of Atenism, possibly the earliest recorded monotheistic religion, this deity was called Aten, premised on being the one "true" Supreme Being and Creator of the Univ... | In Christianity what is Bramen considered? | {'text': 'a monistic deity', 'answer_start': 998} |
34,932 | 34,590 | 570a7e7c4103511400d5977c | generic | The motor centers of reptiles react to sensory cues of vision, sound, touch, chemical, gravity, and motion with pre-set body movements and programmed postures. With the arrival of night-active mammals, smell replaced vision as the dominant sense, and a different way of responding arose from the olfactory sense, which i... | How do the olfactory lobes of mammals compare in size to those of reptiles? | {'text': 'larger', 'answer_start': 561} |
83,192 | 82,850 | 5727cfc5ff5b5019007d95ba | generic | The Romans under Nero Claudius Drusus established a military outpost belonging to the Germania Superior Roman province at Strasbourg's current location, and named it Argentoratum. (Hence the town is commonly called Argentina in medieval Latin.) The name "Argentoratum" was first mentioned in 12 BC and the city celebrate... | What was Strasbourg called in 12 BC? | {'text': 'Argentoratum', 'answer_start': 255} |
56,566 | 56,224 | 5726722df1498d1400e8dff1 | generic | where is the maximum possible exposure that does not lead to a clipped or bloomed camera output. Typically, the lower limit of the saturation speed is determined by the sensor itself, but with the gain of the amplifier between the sensor and the analog-to-digital converter, the saturation speed can be increased. The f... | What can too much exposure lead to? | {'text': 'clipped or bloomed camera output', 'answer_start': 64} |
105,253 | 104,911 | 57304755b2c2fd1400568b68 | generic | From the German point of view, March 1941 saw an improvement. The Luftwaffe flew 4,000 sorties that month, including 12 major and three heavy attacks. The electronic war intensified but the Luftwaffe flew major inland missions only on moonlit nights. Ports were easier to find and made better targets. To confuse the Bri... | How did the Germans confuse the British? | {'text': 'radio silence was observed until the bombs fell', 'answer_start': 326} |
25,263 | 24,921 | 56f8cf249e9bad19000a055d | generic | During the process of meiotic cell division, an event called genetic recombination or crossing-over can sometimes occur, in which a length of DNA on one chromatid is swapped with a length of DNA on the corresponding sister chromatid. This has no effect if the alleles on the chromatids are the same, but results in reass... | Each of a parent's two genes for each trait will sort independently into gametes according to what Mendelian principle? | {'text': 'independent assortment', 'answer_start': 410} |
7,654 | 7,312 | 56d973fedc89441400fdb49a | generic | Prior to the rally, seven anti-China protestors were arrested in Hanoi after unfurling a banner and shouting "Boycott the Beijing Olympics" through a loudhailer at a market. A Vietnamese American was deported for planning protests against the torch, while a prominent blogger, Điếu Cày (real name Nguyễn Văn Hải), who bl... | Which torchbearer sent a letter of protest to the president of the International Olympic Committee? | {'text': 'Lê Minh Phiếu', 'answer_start': 542} |
49,898 | 49,556 | 57265f505951b619008f70d3 | generic | Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Both the Duke of Kent and King George III died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her German-born mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She inherited the throne aged 18, after... | When did Victoria inherit the throne of England? | {'text': 'aged 18', 'answer_start': 306} |
20,395 | 20,053 | 56e79cf000c9c71400d773b6 | generic | The University of Kansas has had more teams (70) compete in the National Debate Tournament than any other university. Kansas has won the tournament 5 times (1954, 1970, 1976, 1983, and 2009) and had 12 teams make it to the final four. Kansas trails only Northwestern (13), Dartmouth (6), and Harvard (6) for most tournam... | How many times has KU won the national debate championship? | {'text': '5', 'answer_start': 148} |
114,000 | 113,658 | 5acd86d507355d001abf45b5 | generic | The Greco-Egyptian scientist Claudius Ptolemy referred to the larger island as great Britain (μεγάλης Βρεττανίας - megális Brettanias) and to Ireland as little Britain (μικρής Βρεττανίας - mikris Brettanias) in his work Almagest (147–148 AD). In his later work, Geography (c. 150 AD), he gave these islands the names Alw... | What did the German scientist refer to Ireland as? | {'text': 'little Britain', 'answer_start': 153} |
51,611 | 51,269 | 5a0cea77f5590b0018dab655 | generic | One of the foundation's goals is to lower poverty by increasing the number of college graduates in the United States, and the organization has funded "Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery" grants to think tanks and advocacy organizations to produce white papers on ideas for changing the current system of federal financi... | What did the foundation fund to change the poverty rate? | {'text': 'Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery" grants', 'answer_start': 151} |
50,134 | 49,792 | 5ad17ae9645df0001a2d1de4 | generic | Between April 1877 and February 1878, she threatened five times to abdicate while pressuring Disraeli to act against Russia during the Russo-Turkish War, but her threats had no impact on the events or their conclusion with the Congress of Berlin. Disraeli's expansionist foreign policy, which Victoria endorsed, led to c... | Who did Victoria try to convince Disraeli to act against during the Russo-Turkish war? | {'text': 'Russia', 'answer_start': 117} |
40,133 | 39,791 | 570c5be2fed7b91900d4591e | generic | John was incensed about what he perceived as an abrogation of his customary right as monarch to influence the election. He complained both about the choice of Langton as an individual, as John felt he was overly influenced by the Capetian court in Paris, and about the process as a whole. He barred Langton from entering... | Who was barred Langton from entering England? | {'text': 'England', 'answer_start': 321} |
12,376 | 12,034 | 56de7280cffd8e1900b4b914 | generic | Orthodox Judaism considers views on the part of Jews who depart from traditional Jewish principles of faith heretical. In addition, the more right-wing groups within Orthodox Judaism hold that all Jews who reject the simple meaning of Maimonides's 13 principles of Jewish faith are heretics. As such, most of Orthodox Ju... | What does Orthodox Judaism regard Jews who depart from traditional practices as? | {'text': 'heretical', 'answer_start': 108} |
31,743 | 31,401 | 570aa1e34103511400d598a2 | generic | Three community college districts exist with campuses in and around Houston. The Houston Community College System serves most of Houston. The northwestern through northeastern parts of the city are served by various campuses of the Lone Star College System, while the southeastern portion of Houston is served by San Jac... | How many community colleges serve Houston? | {'text': 'Three', 'answer_start': 0} |
17,307 | 16,965 | 56e11807cd28a01900c6758e | generic | In English, the term referring to a person first appears in the mid 14th century as Catelaner, followed in the 15th century as Catellain (from French). It is attested a language name since at least 1652. Catalan can be pronounced as /ˈkætəlæn/, /kætəˈlæn/ or /ˈkætələn/. | What is a Catalan person called in the 15th century? | {'text': 'Catellain', 'answer_start': 127} |
83,264 | 82,922 | 5727f8794b864d19001640e8 | generic | During the Franco-Prussian War and the Siege of Strasbourg, the city was heavily bombarded by the Prussian army. The bombardment of the city was meant to break the morale of the people of Strasbourg. On 24 and 26 August 1870, the Museum of Fine Arts was destroyed by fire, as was the Municipal Library housed in the Goth... | Who bombarded the city of Strasbourg? | {'text': 'Prussian army', 'answer_start': 98} |
58,558 | 58,216 | 57266bdd5951b619008f7231 | generic | Parkson enters by acquiring local brand Centro Department Store in 2011. Centro still operates for middle market while the 'Parkson' brand itself, positioned for middle-up segment, enters in 2014 by opening its first store in Medan, followed by its second store in Jakarta. Lotte, meanwhile, enters the market by inking ... | What was Makro re-labeled as after it's purchase? | {'text': 'Lotte Mart', 'answer_start': 493} |
101,252 | 100,910 | 572e844703f989190075670b | generic | The Canadian football field is 150 yards (137 m) long and 65 yards (59 m) wide with end zones 20 yards (18 m) deep, and goal lines 110 yards (101 m) apart. At each goal line is a set of 40-foot-high (12 m) goalposts, which consist of two uprights joined by an 18 1⁄2-foot-long (5.6 m) crossbar which is 10 feet (3 m) abo... | How many yards wide is a Canadian football field? | {'text': '65', 'answer_start': 58} |
93,421 | 93,079 | 5a515bcace860b001aa3fd36 | generic | Municipalities (Gemeinden): Every rural district and every Amt is subdivided into municipalities, while every urban district is a municipality in its own right. There are (as of 6 March 2009[update]) 12,141 municipalities, which are the smallest administrative units in Germany. Cities and towns are municipalities as we... | What rights do cities and towns give up if they are a municipality? | {'text': 'city rights or town rights', 'answer_start': 336} |
115,588 | 115,246 | 5a65d0fec2b11c001a425d61 | generic | With advances in medicinal chemistry, most modern antibacterials are semisynthetic modifications of various natural compounds. These include, for example, the beta-lactam antibiotics, which include the penicillins (produced by fungi in the genus Penicillium), the cephalosporins, and the carbapenems. Compounds that are ... | What is the molecular weight loss of chemical synthesis? | {'text': '2000 atomic mass units', 'answer_start': 621} |
1,221 | 879 | 56cf61d3aab44d1400b891a5 | generic | In 1817 the Saxon Palace was requisitioned by Warsaw's Russian governor for military use, and the Warsaw Lyceum was reestablished in the Kazimierz Palace (today the rectorate of Warsaw University). Fryderyk and his family moved to a building, which still survives, adjacent to the Kazimierz Palace. During this period, F... | As a child Chopin was invited to play with the son of whom? | {'text': 'Grand Duke Constantine', 'answer_start': 428} |
70,577 | 70,235 | 572955023f37b3190047826a | generic | Construction began in 1941 of two airbases consisting of 5.8 km2 (2.2 sq mi) of land, largely reclaimed from the sea. For many years, Bermuda's bases were used by US Air Force transport and refuelling aircraft and by US Navy aircraft patrolling the Atlantic for enemy submarines, first German and, later, Soviet. The pri... | What was the Naval Air Station Bermuda originally? | {'text': 'Kindley Air Force Base', 'answer_start': 341} |
92,686 | 92,344 | 5728ea302ca10214002daa8a | generic | The Liberal Party's organisation is dominated by the six state divisions, reflecting the party's original commitment to a federalised system of government (a commitment which was strongly maintained by all Liberal governments until 1983, but was to a large extent abandoned by the Howard Government, which showed strong ... | Who makes party policy? | {'text': "almost entirely by the parliamentary parties, not by the party's rank-and-file members", 'answer_start': 454} |
100,615 | 100,273 | 572cad3cdfb02c14005c6bfb | generic | Most of the state has a humid subtropical climate, with the exception of some of the higher elevations in the Appalachians, which are classified as having a mountain temperate climate or a humid continental climate due to cooler temperatures. The Gulf of Mexico is the dominant factor in the climate of Tennessee, with w... | What is Tennessee's average annual precipitation in inches? | {'text': '50', 'answer_start': 713} |
79,041 | 78,699 | 5ad269b0d7d075001a4292eb | generic | For English Dominican mystics, the mystical experience was not expressed just in one moment of the full knowledge of God, but in the journey of, or process of, faith. This then led to an understanding that was directed toward an experiential knowledge of divinity. It is important to understand, however, that for these ... | What did English Dominican mystics not experience? | {'text': 'a mystical process that allowed them, in the end, to experience what they had already gained knowledge of through their faith only.', 'answer_start': 479} |
24,775 | 24,433 | 56f87b15aef23719006260eb | generic | Crossing the Italian-Austrian border, the Brenner Pass separates the Ötztal Alps and Zillertal Alps and has been in use as a trading route since the 14th century. The lowest of the Alpine passes at 985 m (3,232 ft), the Semmering crosses from Lower Austria to Styria; since the 12th century when a hospice was built ther... | Who crossed the Great St. Bernard Pass with 40,000 troops? | {'text': 'Napoleon Bonaparte', 'answer_start': 670} |
35,444 | 35,102 | 570ab06e4103511400d59934 | generic | An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases fo... | Typically, what is the capital ship of any fleet? | {'text': 'An aircraft carrier', 'answer_start': 0} |
69,523 | 69,181 | 5a7a51ac17ab25001a8a04f8 | generic | Genre fiction also showed it could question reality in its 20th century forms, in spite of its fixed formulas, through the enquiries of the skeptical detective and the alternative realities of science fiction. The separation of "mainstream" and "genre" forms (including journalism) continued to blur during the period up... | Alternative fantasies are also know as what? | {'text': 'science fiction', 'answer_start': 193} |
111,561 | 111,219 | 5ad2a02cd7d075001a429c8d | generic | Notable Greek seafarers include people such as Pytheas of Marseilles, Scylax of Caryanda who sailed to Iberia and beyond, Nearchus, the 6th century merchant and later monk Cosmas Indicopleustes (Cosmas who sailed to India) and the explorer of the Northwestern passage Juan de Fuca. In later times, the Romioi plied the s... | What else is this particular captain known for not doing? | {'text': 'sailed to Iberia and beyond', 'answer_start': 93} |
6,016 | 5,674 | 56d28bf559d6e4140014607a | generic | In the second half of the 20th Century a modern movement in Nichiren Buddhism: Soka Gakkai (Value Creation Society) emerged in Japan and spread further to other countries. Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is a lay Buddhist movement linking more than 12 million people around the world, and is currently described as "the ... | What Buddhism emerged in the second half of the 20th century in Japan? | {'text': 'Nichiren Buddhism: Soka Gakkai', 'answer_start': 60} |
55,804 | 55,462 | 5a84799b7cf838001a46a847 | generic | In 1803, an Act of Parliament, promoted by the East India Company, established the East India Dock Company, with the aim of establishing a new set of docks (the East India Docks) primarily for the use of ships trading with India. The existing Brunswick Dock, part of the Blackwall Yard site, became the Export Dock; whil... | What company did the East India Dock Company split off from in 1838? | {'text': 'West India Dock Company', 'answer_start': 416} |
81,183 | 80,841 | 5728dffeff5b5019007da8a4 | generic | Metro Detroit has an extensive toll-free network of freeways administered by the Michigan Department of Transportation. Four major Interstate Highways surround the city. Detroit is connected via Interstate 75 (I-75) and I-96 to Kings Highway 401 and to major Southern Ontario cities such as London, Ontario and the Great... | Which Interstate is the major north-south route? | {'text': 'I-75', 'answer_start': 337} |
129,743 | 129,401 | 57344cb3879d6814001ca4cb | generic | New Zealand has a strong hunting culture. The islands making up New Zealand originally had no land mammals apart from bats. However, once Europeans arrived, game animals were introduced by acclimatisation societies to provide New Zealanders with sport and a hunting resource. Deer, pigs, goats, rabbits, hare, tahr and c... | What does New Zealand have? | {'text': 'strong hunting culture', 'answer_start': 18} |
111,829 | 111,487 | 5733eddad058e614000b6605 | generic | An exception to the usual European qualification system happened in 2005, after Liverpool won the Champions League the year before, but did not finish in a Champions League qualification place in the Premier League that season. UEFA gave special dispensation for Liverpool to enter the Champions League, giving England f... | Which team received special dispensation from the UEFA in 2005 so they could enter the Champions League? | {'text': 'Liverpool', 'answer_start': 80} |
121,119 | 120,777 | 5731bee9e17f3d1400422387 | generic | Egypt has a developed energy market based on coal, oil, natural gas, and hydro power. Substantial coal deposits in the northeast Sinai are mined at the rate of about 600,000 tonnes (590,000 long tons; 660,000 short tons) per year. Oil and gas are produced in the western desert regions, the Gulf of Suez, and the Nile De... | Is Egypt able to sustain just from its own energy production? | {'text': 'has been a net oil importer since 2008', 'answer_start': 963} |
57,206 | 56,864 | 5726a6bedd62a815002e8c00 | generic | In the early morning of 10 April, leading elements of the Austrian army crossed the Inn River and invaded Bavaria. The early Austrian attack surprised the French; Napoleon himself was still in Paris when he heard about the invasion. He arrived at Donauwörth on the 17th to find the Grande Armée in a dangerous position, ... | On what date did the Austrian army first cross the Inn River? | {'text': '10 April', 'answer_start': 24} |
13,593 | 13,251 | 56dface3231d4119001abc68 | generic | Mutual exchange and sharing of resources (i.e., meat gained from hunting) are important in the economic systems of hunter-gatherer societies. Therefore, these societies can be described as based on a "gift economy." | What is the basis of a hunting an gathering economy? | {'text': 'gift economy', 'answer_start': 201} |
21,084 | 20,742 | 56e820ad37bdd419002c4447 | generic | A standard dialect (also known as a standardized dialect or "standard language") is a dialect that is supported by institutions. Such institutional support may include government recognition or designation; presentation as being the "correct" form of a language in schools; published grammars, dictionaries, and textbook... | Standard Philippine English is a standard dialect of of what language? | {'text': 'English', 'answer_start': 575} |
106,253 | 105,911 | 572e9f6ddfa6aa1500f8d210 | generic | The word qurʼān appears about 70 times in the Quran itself, assuming various meanings. It is a verbal noun (maṣdar) of the Arabic verb qaraʼa (قرأ), meaning "he read" or "he recited". The Syriac equivalent is (ܩܪܝܢܐ) qeryānā, which refers to "scripture reading" or "lesson". While some Western scholars consider the word... | Which word do most Muslim scholars point to as the origin of the Quran's name? | {'text': 'qaraʼa', 'answer_start': 418} |
22,162 | 21,820 | 56eab6715a205f1900d6d43a | generic | Mobile telecommunications and radio broadcasting help to fight corruption, especially in developing regions like Africa, where other forms of communications are limited. In India, the anti-corruption bureau fights against corruption, and a new ombudsman bill called Jan Lokpal Bill is being prepared. | Who works against corruption in India? | {'text': 'the anti-corruption bureau', 'answer_start': 180} |
100,133 | 99,791 | 5a7a185f17ab25001a8a0320 | generic | Czech, the official language of the Czech Republic (a member of the European Union since 2004), is one of the EU's official languages and the 2012 Eurobarometer survey found that Czech was the foreign language most often used in Slovakia. Economist Jonathan van Parys collected data on language knowledge in Europe for t... | How long has Slovakia been a member of the EU? | {'text': 'since 2004', 'answer_start': 83} |
13,090 | 12,748 | 5ace424c32bba1001ae4a0df | generic | Over the past two years,[clarification needed] dozens of rights-holders, including Sony Music, have sent complaints about Wikipedia.org directly to Google to have content removed. | Over the past twenty years, rights-holders have complained to whom? | {'text': 'Google', 'answer_start': 148} |
54,114 | 53,772 | 57269adedd62a815002e8ad7 | generic | Acting on State Secretary Acheson's recommendation, President Truman ordered General MacArthur to transfer matériel to the Army of the Republic of Korea while giving air cover to the evacuation of U.S. nationals. The President disagreed with advisers who recommended unilateral U.S. bombing of the North Korean forces, a... | Who disagreed with the idea of unilaterally bombing the North Korean military? | {'text': 'President Truman', 'answer_start': 52} |
69,861 | 69,519 | 5acea15032bba1001ae4add5 | generic | The Necessary exists 'due-to-Its-Self', and has no quiddity/essence (mahiyya) other than existence (wujud). Furthermore, It is 'One' (wahid ahad) since there cannot be more than one 'Necessary-Existent-due-to-Itself' without differentia (fasl) to distinguish them from each other. Yet, to require differentia entails tha... | The necessary exists despite what? | {'text': 'Its-Self', 'answer_start': 29} |
37,651 | 37,309 | 5a07ec283fc874001820705f | generic | Infrared vibrational spectroscopy (see also near-infrared spectroscopy) is a technique that can be used to identify molecules by analysis of their constituent bonds. Each chemical bond in a molecule vibrates at a frequency characteristic of that bond. A group of atoms in a molecule (e.g., CH2) may have multiple modes o... | What technique can be used to identify organic compounds by analysis of their constituent bonds? | {'text': 'Infrared vibrational spectroscopy', 'answer_start': 0} |
87,012 | 86,670 | 57283f6d2ca10214002da17c | generic | In abstract algebra, more general structures are defined by relaxing some of the axioms defining a group. For example, if the requirement that every element has an inverse is eliminated, the resulting algebraic structure is called a monoid. The natural numbers N (including 0) under addition form a monoid, as do the non... | What method formally adds inverses to elements to any monoid? | {'text': 'the Grothendieck group', 'answer_start': 541} |
16,794 | 16,452 | 5acd4e4b07355d001abf3c98 | generic | The BeiDou-2 system began offering services for the Asia-Pacific region in December 2012. At this time, the system could provide positioning data between longitude 55°E to 180°E and from latitude 55°S to 55°N. | During which month of 2015 did the BeiDou-3 system begin offering services to Japan? | {'text': 'December', 'answer_start': 75} |
69,631 | 69,289 | 5726b5a9f1498d1400e8e859 | generic | Ibn Sina created an extensive corpus of works during what is commonly known as the Islamic Golden Age, in which the translations of Greco-Roman, Persian, and Indian texts were studied extensively. Greco-Roman (Mid- and Neo-Platonic, and Aristotelian) texts translated by the Kindi school were commented, redacted and dev... | What was one dynasty that provided a great atmosphere for cultural development? | {'text': 'the Buyid dynasty', 'answer_start': 571} |
116,387 | 116,045 | 5a569d8d6349e2001acdce90 | generic | The main centre for technical training in Swaziland is the Swaziland College of Technology which is slated to become a full university. It aims to provide and facilitating high quality training and learning in technology and business studies in collaboration with the Commercial, Industrial and Public Sectors. Other tec... | What university offers technical training? | {'text': 'Swaziland College of Technology', 'answer_start': 59} |
20,680 | 20,338 | 56e7ad0337bdd419002c431b | generic | Port of Nanjing is the largest inland port in China, with annual cargo tonnage reached 191,970,000 t in 2012. The port area is 98 kilometres (61 mi) in length and has 64 berths including 16 berths for ships with a tonnage of more than 10,000. Nanjing is also the biggest container port along the Yangtze River; in March ... | When did Longtan Containers Port Area open up? | {'text': 'March 2004', 'answer_start': 314} |
21,572 | 21,230 | 56e9644c0b45c0140094cdef | generic | As of 2000[update], there were 9,045 pupils in Bern who came from another municipality, while 1,185 residents attended schools outside the municipality. | How many pupils lived in another municipality? | {'text': '9,045', 'answer_start': 31} |
8,246 | 7,904 | 56dce5b69a695914005b946b | generic | Following the revision of the French constitution that established the Fifth Republic in 1958, the AEF dissolved into its constituent parts, each of which became an autonomous colony within the French Community. During these reforms, Middle Congo became known as the Republic of the Congo in 1958 and published its first... | When did the Congo establish its first constitution? | {'text': '1959', 'answer_start': 337} |
124,733 | 124,391 | 57325e6d0fdd8d15006c6a43 | generic | On the other hand, in his study on nine of "the Bibles most widely in use in the English-speaking world", Bible scholar Jason BeDuhn, Professor of Religious Studies at the Northern Arizona University, wrote: “The NW [New World Translation] emerges as the most accurate of the translations compared.” Although the general... | BeDuhn clarifies that the differences are actually due to what? | {'text': 'greater accuracy', 'answer_start': 529} |
23,451 | 23,109 | 56f736513d8e2e1400e3747d | generic | International tribunals and arbiters are often called upon to resolve substantial disputes over treaty interpretations. To establish the meaning in context, these judicial bodies may review the preparatory work from the negotiation and drafting of the treaty as well as the final, signed treaty itself. | What judicial bodies might be called upon to resolve disputes pertaining to the interpretation of treaties? | {'text': 'International tribunals and arbiters', 'answer_start': 0} |
5,072 | 4,730 | 56d0f47a17492d1400aab69d | generic | Raised in Chicago, West briefly attended art school before becoming known as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s, producing hit singles for artists such as Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004 to widespread comme... | How many total CDs has Kanye West released in his career so far? | {'text': '7', 'answer_start': 562} |
99,970 | 99,628 | 572b7a8ff75d5e190021fdf7 | generic | J. M. E. McTaggart of Cambridge University, argued that minds alone exist and only relate to each other through love. Space, time and material objects are unreal. In The Unreality of Time he argued that time is an illusion because it is impossible to produce a coherent account of a sequence of events. The Nature of Exi... | In what year was The Nature of Existence published? | {'text': '1927', 'answer_start': 328} |
66,428 | 66,086 | 5726a7965951b619008f7940 | generic | Burke was a leading sceptic with respect to democracy. While admitting that theoretically, in some cases it might be desirable, he insisted a democratic government in Britain in his day would not only be inept, but also oppressive. He opposed democracy for three basic reasons. First, government required a degree of int... | What type of impulses did Burke think could gain power through commoners' passions? | {'text': 'authoritarian', 'answer_start': 569} |
38,093 | 37,751 | 5a8cb0dcfd22b3001a8d8d41 | generic | Biodiversity provides critical support for drug discovery and the availability of medicinal resources. A significant proportion of drugs are derived, directly or indirectly, from biological sources: at least 50% of the pharmaceutical compounds on the US market are derived from plants, animals, and micro-organisms, whil... | What field has economic resources made critical advances in? | {'text': 'bionics', 'answer_start': 618} |
103,365 | 103,023 | 572edff503f9891900756aab | generic | Safety testing of mine shaft elevator rails is routinely undertaken. The method involves destructive testing of a segment of the cable. The ends of the segment are frayed, then set in conical zinc molds. Each end of the segment is then secured in a large, hydraulic stretching machine. The segment is then placed under i... | What is the first step in destructive testing? | {'text': 'The ends of the segment are frayed, then set in conical zinc molds', 'answer_start': 136} |
96,713 | 96,371 | 572a3c5c3f37b31900478802 | generic | Before the reforms of the 19th and 20th centuries, the state organisation of the Ottoman Empire was a simple system that had two main dimensions, which were the military administration and the civil administration. The Sultan was the highest position in the system. The civil system was based on local administrative uni... | On type of system were the civil administrations of the empire based on? | {'text': "local administrative units based on the region's characteristics", 'answer_start': 296} |
123,036 | 122,694 | 5731ca8be17f3d1400422402 | generic | Parallel to events in Germany, a movement began in Switzerland under the leadership of Huldrych Zwingli. Zwingli was a scholar and preacher, who in 1518 moved to Zurich. Although the two movements agreed on many issues of theology, some unresolved differences kept them separate. A long-standing resentment between the G... | What Prince hosted the Colloquy of Marburg? | {'text': 'Prince Philip of Hesse', 'answer_start': 446} |
90,780 | 90,438 | 5ad21390d7d075001a428348 | generic | The Sydney Mandolins (Artistic Director: Adrian Hooper) have contributed greatly to the repertoire through commissioning over 200 works by Australian and International composers. Most of these works have been released on Compact Disks and can regularly be heard on radio stations on the ABC and MBS networks. One of thei... | On what media was most of these work never released? | {'text': 'Compact Disks', 'answer_start': 221} |
102,258 | 101,916 | 57317cc7a5e9cc1400cdbfcb | generic | Following Anwar Sadat's ascension to the Egyptian presidency, Libya's relations with Egypt deteriorated. Sadat was perturbed by Gaddafi's unpredictability and insistence that Egypt required a cultural revolution. In February 1973, Israeli forces shot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114, which had strayed from Egyptian... | Why did Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 accidentally fly into Israel's airspace? | {'text': 'sandstorm', 'answer_start': 367} |
62,828 | 62,486 | 5a668b99f038b7001ab0bf9c | generic | There is a close connection between machine learning and compression: a system that predicts the posterior probabilities of a sequence given its entire history can be used for optimal data compression (by using arithmetic coding on the output distribution) while an optimal compressor can be used for prediction (by find... | What has a close connection to machine equivalence? | {'text': 'compression', 'answer_start': 57} |
7,726 | 7,384 | 56d97e69dc89441400fdb4ea | generic | Some Western media have reported on Chinese accusations of Western media bias. The Daily Telegraph published an opinion piece by the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom, Fu Ying, who accused Western media of "demonising" China during their coverage of the torch relays. The Telegraph also asked its readers to send ... | Which United Kingdom newspaper published a Chinese ambassador's opinion that Western media had demonized China with torch coverage? | {'text': 'The Daily Telegraph', 'answer_start': 79} |
79,713 | 79,371 | 5a5d6daa5e8782001a9d5f08 | generic | Public bus services within the city are provided by the national bus operator Bus Éireann. City routes are numbered from 201 through to 219 and connect the city centre to the principal suburbs, colleges, shopping centres and places of interest. Two of these bus routes provide orbital services across the Northern and So... | What connects the suburbs to shopping centers and places of interest? | {'text': 'City routes', 'answer_start': 91} |
123,035 | 122,693 | 5731ca8be17f3d1400422401 | generic | Parallel to events in Germany, a movement began in Switzerland under the leadership of Huldrych Zwingli. Zwingli was a scholar and preacher, who in 1518 moved to Zurich. Although the two movements agreed on many issues of theology, some unresolved differences kept them separate. A long-standing resentment between the G... | What was the name of the meeting to make an alliance between Zwingli and Luther? | {'text': 'the Colloquy of Marburg', 'answer_start': 590} |
4,367 | 4,025 | 56d10a4717492d1400aab7d8 | generic | New York City has more than 2,000 arts and cultural organizations and more than 500 art galleries of all sizes. The city government funds the arts with a larger annual budget than the National Endowment for the Arts. Wealthy business magnates in the 19th century built a network of major cultural institutions, such as t... | What technological development led resulted in elaborate stage productions? | {'text': 'electric lighting', 'answer_start': 440} |
25,088 | 24,746 | 56f896ef9e9bad19000a019e | generic | Prior to Mendel's work, the dominant theory of heredity was one of blending inheritance, which suggested that each parent contributed fluids to the fertilisation process and that the traits of the parents blended and mixed to produce the offspring. Charles Darwin developed a theory of inheritance he termed pangenesis, ... | What year was Mendel's work first published? | {'text': '1866', 'answer_start': 498} |
66,242 | 65,900 | 5a81c62831013a001a334e8f | generic | Australian citizens and residents from other parts of the nation now have automatic right of residence on the island after meeting these criteria (Immigration (Amendment No. 2) Act 2012). Australian citizens must carry either a passport or a Document of Identity to travel to Norfolk Island. Citizens of all other nation... | What do citizens from other nations need in order to talk about Norfolk Island? | {'text': 'a passport', 'answer_start': 333} |
75,221 | 74,879 | 57276fdb5951b619008f89d7 | generic | Accurate present day child labour information is difficult to obtain because of disagreements between data sources as to what constitutes child labour. In some countries, government policy contributes to this difficulty. For example, the overall extent of child labour in China is unclear due to the government categoriz... | Where is present day child labour stats unclear? | {'text': 'China', 'answer_start': 272} |
42,181 | 41,839 | 570d5cf5fed7b91900d45f42 | generic | The Battle of Wörth (also known as Fröschwiller or Reichshoffen) began when the two armies clashed again on 6 August near Wörth in the town of Fröschwiller, about 10 miles (16 km) from Wissembourg. The Crown Prince of Prussia's 3rd army had, on the quick reaction of his Chief of Staff General von Blumenthal, drawn rein... | What number of troops did France have to contend with? | {'text': '35,000', 'answer_start': 448} |
128,048 | 127,706 | 57339a5bd058e614000b5e95 | generic | Since the construction of its oldest buildings, the university's physical plant has grown substantially. Over the years 29 residence halls have been built to accommodate students and each has been constructed with its own chapel. Many academic building were added together with a system of libraries, the most prominent ... | Which baseball stadium is found at Notre Dame? | {'text': 'Frank Eck Stadium', 'answer_start': 1755} |
1,059 | 717 | 56bfe66ea10cfb1400551380 | generic | In October 2014, Beyoncé signed a deal to launch an activewear line of clothing with British fashion retailer Topshop. The 50-50 venture is called Parkwood Topshop Athletic Ltd and is scheduled to launch its first dance, fitness and sports ranges in autumn 2015. The line will launch in April 2016. | What is Beyonce's percentage of ownership in the new venture? | {'text': '50', 'answer_start': 126} |
106,742 | 106,400 | 572ecd39dfa6aa1500f8d3db | generic | The Great Basin and Columbia Plateau (the Intermontane Plateaus) are arid or semiarid regions that lie in the rain shadow of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada. Precipitation averages less than 15 inches (38 cm). The Southwest is a hot desert, with temperatures exceeding 100 °F (37.8 °C) for several weeks at a time in summ... | Which areas have arid regions? | {'text': 'The Great Basin and Columbia Plateau', 'answer_start': 0} |
56,674 | 56,332 | 57267507f1498d1400e8e048 | generic | Mexico city primarily rests on what was Lake Texcoco. Seismic activity is frequent here. Lake Texcoco was drained starting from the 17th century. Although none of the lake waters remain, the city rests on the lake bed's heavily saturated clay. This soft base is collapsing due to the over-extraction of groundwater, call... | Where are most of the trees located in Mexico City? | {'text': 'southern boroughs', 'answer_start': 696} |
104,123 | 103,781 | 572f618b04bcaa1900d768a6 | generic | Network effects are a large factor with electrification. When converting lines to electric, the connections with other lines must be considered. Some electrifications have subsequently been removed because of the through traffic to non-electrified lines. If through traffic is to have any benefit, time consuming engine ... | What can be a drawback of electrification of long distance freight trains? | {'text': 'electrification to isolated areas', 'answer_start': 718} |
19,981 | 19,639 | 5ad3c4e8604f3c001a3fefd0 | generic | In 1816, the United Kingdom annexed the islands, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa. This is reported to have primarily been a measure to ensure that the French would be unable to use the islands as a base for a rescue operation to free Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on Saint Helena. The occupation al... | Where was the prison of Tristan da Cunha located? | {'text': 'Saint Helena', 'answer_start': 289} |
21,701 | 21,359 | 56e8df710b45c0140094cd31 | generic | The abbey was restored to the Benedictines under the Catholic Mary I of England, but they were again ejected under Elizabeth I in 1559. In 1560, Elizabeth re-established Westminster as a "Royal Peculiar" – a church of the Church of England responsible directly to the Sovereign, rather than to a diocesan bishop – and ma... | The abbey was regiven to the Benedictines under whom? | {'text': 'Mary I of England', 'answer_start': 62} |
80,403 | 80,061 | 5a68f8138476ee001a58a93c | generic | Due to great differences in terrain, the climate of the province is highly variable. In general it has strong monsoonal influences, with rainfall heavily concentrated in the summer. Under the Köppen climate classification, the Sichuan Basin (including Chengdu) in the eastern half of the province experiences a humid sub... | What climate classification does the Garze Basin hold? | {'text': 'humid subtropical climate', 'answer_start': 311} |
43,373 | 43,031 | 570e24420b85d914000d7ceb | generic | Eritrea has achieved significant improvements in health care and is one of the few countries to be on target to meet its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets in health, in particular child health. Life expectancy at birth has increased from 39.1 in 1960 to 59.5 years in 2008, maternal and child mortality rates hav... | Which part of Eritrea's health care goals have they been most successful in? | {'text': 'child health', 'answer_start': 188} |
28,650 | 28,308 | 56fde92d761e401900d28c47 | generic | The bipolar transistor was invented in 1947. From 1955 onwards transistors replaced vacuum tubes in computer designs, giving rise to the "second generation" of computers. Compared to vacuum tubes, transistors have many advantages: they are smaller, and require less power than vacuum tubes, so give off less heat. Silico... | When was the bipolar transistor created? | {'text': '1947.', 'answer_start': 39} |
102,543 | 102,201 | 572e874adfa6aa1500f8d0b2 | generic | In 1964, Turkey tried to invade Cyprus in response to the continuing Cypriot intercommunal violence. But Turkey was stopped by a strongly worded telegram from the US President Lyndon B. Johnson on 5 June, warning that the US would not stand beside Turkey in case of a consequential Soviet invasion of Turkish territory. ... | Which US President prevented Turkey from invading Cyprus? | {'text': 'Lyndon B. Johnson', 'answer_start': 176} |
97,937 | 97,595 | 572a8196be1ee31400cb805a | generic | According to the Sunni scholar Ibn ʻAsākir in the 12th century, there were opportunities for female education in the medieval Islamic world, writing that women could study, earn ijazahs (academic degrees), and qualify as scholars and teachers. This was especially the case for learned and scholarly families, who wanted ... | Who created a pathway for education for women in the Islamic world? | {'text': "Muhammad's wives", 'answer_start': 530} |
37,747 | 37,405 | 5a07d87b3fc874001820701c | generic | Thermographic cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 900–14,000 nanometers or 0.9–14 μm) and produce images of that radiation. Since infrared radiation is emitted by all objects based on their temperatures, according to the black body radiation law, thermography makes it... | What is the range of the black body radiation law? | {'text': '0.9–14', 'answer_start': 127} |
107,736 | 107,394 | 5a8a22833b2508001a72a64c | generic | Puerto Rico has been discussed as a potential 51st state of the United States. In a 2012 status referendum a majority of voters, 54%, expressed dissatisfaction with the current political relationship. In a separate question, 61% of voters supported statehood (excluding the 26% of voters who left this question blank). O... | What percentage of voters expressed dissatisfaction with their current territorial relationship? | {'text': '54%', 'answer_start': 129} |
57,639 | 57,297 | 5a63e2947f3c80001a150b71 | generic | German philosophers have helped shape western philosophy from as early as the Middle Ages (Albertus Magnus). Later, Leibniz (17th century) and most importantly Kant played central roles in the history of philosophy. Kantianism inspired the work of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche as well as German idealism defended by Fichte... | What did Engels develop in the 1900's? | {'text': 'communist theory', 'answer_start': 354} |
15,602 | 15,260 | 56e06f74231d4119001ac11f | generic | In recent years[when?], there have been reports of child abuse in St Helena. Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has been accused of lying to the United Nations about child abuse in St Helena to cover up allegations, including cases of a police officer having raped a four-year-old girl and of a police offic... | Who has Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office been accused of lying to about child abuse? | {'text': 'the United Nations', 'answer_start': 154} |
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