Bern

context: The city of Bern or Berne (German: Bern, pronounced [bɛrn] ( listen); French: Berne [bɛʁn]; Italian: Berna [ˈbɛrna]; Romansh: Berna  [ˈbɛrnɐ] (help·info); Bernese German: Bärn [b̥æːrn]) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".[note 1] With a population of 140,634 (November 2015), Bern is the fifth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities, had a population of 406,900 in 2014. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000. Bern is also the capital of the Canton of Bern, the second most populous of Switzerland's cantons.
qas: answers: text: Berne
question: What city is the de facto capital of Switserland? 

answers: text: Canton of Bern
question:  What is the second most populous of Switzerland's cantons?

answers: text: Canton of Bern
question: Which canton is Berne the capital?

answers: text: 36 municipalities
question: How many municipalities are in the Berne agglomeration?

answers: text: 140,634
question: What is the population of Berne?

answers: text: Switzerland
question: Where is Bern located? 

answers: text: 36
question: How many municiplaities are in Bern?

answers: text: Canton of Bern
question: Bern is the capitol of which canton?

answers: text: second
question: Where does Bern rank in population in Switzerland?

context: The official language of Bern is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the Alemannic Swiss German dialect called Bernese German.
qas: answers: text: German
question: What is the official language of Bern?

answers: text: Bernese German
question: What is the main language spoken in Bern?

answers: text: Alemannic Swiss
question: What dialect is Bernese German?

answers: text: German
question: What is the official language of Bern?

context: In 1983 the historic old town in the centre of Bern became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bern is ranked among the world’s top ten cities for the best quality of life (2010).
qas: answers: text: 1983
question: In what year did the historic old town in the center of Bern become a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

answers: text: the world’s top ten
question: What is Bern's ranking for the best quality of life?

answers: text: the centre of Bern
question: Where is the UNESCO World Heritage Site located?

answers: text: 2010
question: In what year was Bern ranked as one of the 10 best cities for their quality of life?

answers: text: centre of Bern
question: Where is the UNESCO World Heritage Site?

answers: text: top ten
question: Where does Bern rank for top cities for the best quality of life?

answers: text: 1983
question: When did the centre of Bern become the UNESCO World Heritage Site?

context: The etymology of the name Bern is uncertain. According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear. It has long been considered likely that the city was named after the Italian city of Verona, which at the time was known as Bern in Middle High German. As a result of the find of the Bern zinc tablet in the 1980s, it is now more common to assume that the city was named after a pre-existing toponym of Celtic origin, possibly *berna "cleft". The bear was the heraldic animal of the seal and coat of arms of Bern from at least the 1220s. The earliest reference to the keeping of live bears in the Bärengraben dates to the 1440s.
qas: answers: text: Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen
question: Who was the founder of the city of Bern?

answers: text: a bear
question: What animal does legend say Bern is named after?

answers: text: the 1440s
question: What is the earliest reference to keeping live bears in the Bärengraben?

answers: text: a pre-existing toponym of Celtic origin, possibly *berna "cleft"
question: What is the common assumption of what Bern was named after?

answers: text: the Bern zinc tablet
question: Finding what in the 1980s changed the assumption as to what the city was named after?

answers: text: bear
question: What animal is on the seal and coat of arms of Bern?

answers: text: bears
question: What live animals did they keep in the Bärengraben?

answers: text: 1440s.
question: What is the earliest that they kept live bears in the Bärengraben?

context: No archaeological evidence that indicates a settlement on the site of today′s city centre prior to the 12th century has been found so far. In antiquity, a Celtic oppidum stood on the Engehalbinsel (peninsula) north of Bern, fortified since the 2nd century BC (late La Tène period), thought to be one of the twelve oppida of the Helvetii mentioned by Caesar. During the Roman era, there was a Gallo-Roman vicus on the same site. The Bern zinc tablet has the name Brenodor ("dwelling of Breno"). In the Early Middle Ages, there was a settlement in Bümpliz, now a city district of Bern, some 4 km (2 mi) from the medieval city.
qas: answers: text: 12th century
question: When was the earliest evidnce of settlement in the city centre?

answers: text: Roman era
question: What era was there a Gallo-Roman vicus on the same site?

answers: text: Brenodor
question: What is the name of the Bern zinc tablet?

answers: text: Early Middle Ages
question: When was the settlement in Bumpliz close to the medieval city?

context: The medieval city is a foundation of the Zähringer ruling family, which rose to power in Upper Burgundy in the 12th century. According to 14th century historiography (Cronica de Berno, 1309), Bern was founded in 1191 by Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen.
qas: answers: text: Zähringer
question: The medieval city is a foundation of what family?

answers: text: 12th century
question: When did the Zahringer ruling family rise to power?

answers: text: Upper Burgundy
question: Where did the Zahringer ruling family rise to power?

answers: text: 1191
question: What year was Bern founded?

answers: text: Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen
question: Who founded Bern?

context: In 1353 Bern joined the Swiss Confederacy, becoming one of the eight cantons of the formative period of 1353 to 1481. Bern invaded and conquered Aargau in 1415 and Vaud in 1536, as well as other smaller territories; thereby becoming the largest city-state north of the Alps, by the 18th century comprising most of what is today the canton of Bern and the canton of Vaud.
qas: answers: text: 1353
question: what year did Bern join the Swiss Confederacy?

answers: text: 8
question: How many cantons were there between 1353 to 1481?

answers: text: 1415
question: What year did Bern invade Aargau?

answers: text: Bern
question: What is the largest city-state north of the Alps?

context: 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 the modern-day railway station) until 1622. During the time of the Thirty Years' War, two new fortifications – the so-called big and small Schanze (entrenchment) – were built to protect the whole area of the peninsula.
qas: answers: text: River Aare
question: What river was the city near?

answers: text: Zytglogge
question: What was the name of the tower that was the western boundary?

answers: text: Käfigturm
question: What tower took over after Zytglogge?

answers: text: the whole area of the peninsula
question: What did the big and small Schanze protect?

context: After a major blaze in 1405, the city's original wooden buildings were gradually replaced by half-timbered houses and subsequently the sandstone buildings which came to be characteristic for the Old Town. Despite the waves of pestilence that hit Europe in the 14th century, the city continued to grow: mainly due to immigration from the surrounding countryside.
qas: answers: text: 1405
question: What year was there a huge fire?

answers: text: the city's original wooden buildings
question: What was destroyed in the fire?

context: Bern was occupied by French troops in 1798 during the French Revolutionary Wars, when it was stripped of parts of its territories. It regained control of the Bernese Oberland in 1802, and following the Congress of Vienna of 1814, it newly acquired the Bernese Jura. At this time, it once again became the largest canton of the confederacy as it stood during the Restoration and until the secession of the canton of Jura in 1979. Bern was made the Federal City (seat of the Federal Assembly) within the new Swiss federal state in 1848.
qas: answers: text: 1798
question: What year was Bern occupied by French troops?

answers: text: French Revolutionary Wars
question: Why were French troops in Bern?

answers: text: 1802
question: When did Bern regain control of Bernese Oberland?

answers: text: Bernese Jura.
question: What new territory was aquired in 1814?

answers: text: 1979
question: When did the canton of Jura seceed?

context: A number of congresses of the socialist First and Second Internationals were held in Bern, particularly during World War I when Switzerland was neutral; see Bern International.
qas: answers: text: First and Second Internationals
question: What congresses were held in Bern?

answers: text: Switzerland was neutral
question: In World War I, what side was Switzerland on?

context: The city's population rose from about 5,000 in the 15th century to about 12,000 by 1800 and to above 60,000 by 1900, passing the 100,000 mark during the 1920s. Population peaked during the 1960s at 165,000, and has since decreased slightly, to below 130,000 by 2000. As of October 2015, the resident population stood at 140,634, of which 100,634 were Swiss citizens and 40,000 (30%) resident foreigners. A further estimated 350,000 people live in the immediate urban agglomeration.
qas: answers: text: 30%
question: What percent of the populatin of Bern resident foreigners?

context: Bern lies on the Swiss plateau in the Canton of Bern, slightly west of the centre of Switzerland and 20 km (12 mi) north of the Bernese Alps. The countryside around Bern was formed by glaciers during the most recent Ice Age. The two mountains closest to Bern are Gurten with a height of 864 m (2,835 ft) and Bantiger with a height of 947 m (3,107 ft). The site of the old observatory in Bern is the point of origin of the CH1903 coordinate system at 46°57′08.66″N 7°26′22.50″E﻿ / ﻿46.9524056°N 7.4395833°E﻿ / 46.9524056; 7.4395833.
qas: answers: text: the Swiss plateau in the Canton of Bern
question: Where is Bern located?

answers: text: glaciers
question: What helped form the Bern countryside?

answers: text: Bantiger
question: What is the tallest mountain closests to Bern?

context: The city was originally built on a hilly peninsula surrounded by the River Aare, but outgrew natural boundaries by the 19th century. A number of bridges have been built to allow the city to expand beyond the Aare.
qas: answers: text: Aare
question: What peninsula is Bern located on?

answers: text: bridges
question: What was built to help Bern grow bigger than the peninula?

answers: text: 19th century
question: What century did Bern outgrow the peninsula?

context: Bern is built on very uneven ground. There is an elevation difference of several metres between the inner city districts on the Aare (Matte, Marzili) and the higher ones (Kirchenfeld, Länggasse).
qas: answers: text: uneven ground.
question: What type of ground was Bern built on?

answers: text: several metres
question: What is the elevation difference between the inner cities and the other cities?

answers: text: Länggasse
question: Which city is higher, Matte or Langgasse?

context: Bern has an area, as of 2009[update], of 51.62 square kilometers (19.93 sq mi). Of this area, 9.79 square kilometers (3.78 sq mi) or 19.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 17.33 square kilometers (6.69 sq mi) or 33.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 23.25 square kilometers (8.98 sq mi) or 45.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 1.06 square kilometers (0.41 sq mi) or 2.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.16 square kilometers (0.062 sq mi) or 0.3% is unproductive land.
qas: answers: text: forested
question: What is 33.6% of the land in Bern?

answers: text: 2009
question: When was the last time the area of Bern was measured?

context: The City Council (Gemeinderat) constitutes the executive government of the City of Bern and operates as a collegiate authority. It is composed of five councilors (German: Gemeinderat/-rätin), each presiding over a directorate (Direktion) comprising several departments and bureaus. The president of the executive department acts as mayor (Stadtpräsident). In the mandate period 2013–2016 (Legislatur) the City Council is presided by Stadtpräsident Alexander Tschäppät. Departmental tasks, coordination measures and implementation of laws decreed by the City Parliament are carried by the City Council. The regular election of the City Council by any inhabitant valid to vote is held every four years. Any resident of Bern allowed to vote can be elected as a member of the City Council. The delegates are selected by means of a system of Majorz. The mayor is elected as such as well by public election while the heads of the other directorates are assigned by the collegiate. The executive body holds its meetings in the Erlacherhof, built by architect Albrecht Stürler after 1747.
qas: answers: text: as a collegiate authority.
question: How does the government of Bern operate?

answers: text: five
question: How many councilors are there?

answers: text: Alexander Tschäppät
question: Who is Bern's mayor, or Stadtprasident?

answers: text: every four years.
question: How after are the elections?

answers: text: in the Erlacherhof
question: Where is the executive body held?

context: As of 2015, Bern's City Council is made up of two representatives of the SP (Social Democratic Party, of whom one is also the mayor), and one each of CVP (Christian Democratic Party), GB (Green Alliance of Berne), and FDP (FDP.The Liberals), giving the left parties a majority of three out of five seats. The last election was held on 25 November 2012.
qas: answers: text: left parties
question: Who has the majority of the seats in Bern's City Council?

answers: text: Social Democratic Party
question: What party also had the mayor as of 2015?

answers: text: CVP
question: What is the Christian Democratic Party also known as?

context: The City Parliament (de: Stadtrat, fr: Conseil de ville) holds legislative power. It is made up of 80 members, with elections held every four years. The City Parliament decrees regulations and by-laws that are executed by the City Council and the administration. The delegates are selected by means of a system of proportional representation.
qas: answers: text: The City Parliament
question: Who holds the legislative power?

answers: text: 80
question: How many members are part of the City Parliament?

answers: text: every four years.
question: How often are elections held for the City Parliament?

context: The sessions of the City Parliament are public. Unlike members of the City Council, members of the City Parliament are not politicians by profession, and they are paid a fee based on their attendance. Any resident of Bern allowed to vote can be elected as a member of the City Parliament. The parliament holds its meetings in the Stadthaus (Town Hall).
qas: answers: text: public
question: Are the sessions of City Parliament private or public?

context: The last regular election of the City Parliament was held on 25 November 2012 for the mandate period (German: Legislatur, French: la législature) from 2013 to 2016. Currently the City Parliament consist of 23 members of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), 11 Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC), 8 Green Alliance of Berne (GB), 8 Grüne Freie Liste (GFL) (Green Free List), 7 The Liberals (FDP/PLR), 7 Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD), 7 Green Liberal Party (GLP/PVL), 2 Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC), 2 Evangelical People's Party (EVP/PEV), 1 Junge Alternative (JA!) (or Young Alternatives), 1 Grüne Partei Bern - Demokratische Alternative (GPB-DA) (or Green Party Bern - Democratic Alternative), 1 Swiss Party of Labour (PdA), 1 Alternative Linke Bern (AL) and finally one independent. The following parties combine their parliamentary power in parliamentary groups (German: Fraktion(en)): Independent and AL and GPB-DA and PdA (4), SP (23), GB and JA! (9), GFL and EVP (10), GLP (7), BDP and CVP (9), FDP (7), and SVP (11). This gives the left parties an absolute majority of 46 seats.
qas: answers: text: left parties
question: Which party has the absolute majority of the seats?

answers: text: 46
question: How many seats are there?

answers: text: Social Democratic Party
question: Which specific party has the most members in the City Parliament?

context: Bern has a population of 140,634 people and 34% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the 10 years between 2000 and 2010, the population changed at a rate of 0.6%. Migration accounted for 1.3%, while births and deaths accounted for −2.1%.
qas: answers: text: 140,634
question: What is the population of Bern?

answers: text: 34%
question: What percent of the population are resident foreign nationals?

answers: text: .6%
question: What was the population change from 2000 and 2010?

answers: text: births and deaths
question: What counted for more of the population change?

context: Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (104,465 or 81.2%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (5,062 or 3.9%) and French is the third (4,671 or 3.6%). There are 171 people who speak Romansh.
qas: answers: text: German
question: What is the main lanuage of Bern?

answers: text: Italian
question: What is the second most common language?

answers: text: 81.2%
question: What percent of the population speaks German?

context: The city council of the city of Bern decided against having twinned cities except for a temporary (during the UEFA Euro 2008) cooperation with the Austrian city Salzburg
qas: answers: text: having twinned cities
question: What did the city decide again?

answers: text: during the UEFA Euro 2008
question: When did they have a temporary twinned city?

answers: text: Salzburg
question: What was the twinning city with Bern in 2008?

answers: text: Austrian
question: What country is Salzburg in?

context: As of 2008[update], the population was 47.5% male and 52.5% female. The population was made up of 44,032 Swiss men (35.4% of the population) and 15,092 (12.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 51,531 Swiss women (41.4%) and 13,726 (11.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 39,008 or about 30.3% were born in Bern and lived there in 2000. There were 27,573 or 21.4% who were born in the same canton, while 25,818 or 20.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 27,812 or 21.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
qas: answers: text: 35.4%
question: How many Swiss men live in Bern?

answers: text: 20.1%
question: What percent of the population is born somewhere else in Switzerland?

answers: text: 21.6%
question: What percent were born outside of Switzerland?

context: As of 2000[update], children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 15.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 65% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.9%.
qas: answers: text: 15.1%
question: What percent of the population are 19 years old and under?

answers: text: 65%
question: What percent of the population are between 20-64?

answers: text: 19.9%
question: What percent of the population are over 64 years old?

answers: text: adults
question: What age group has most of the population included?

context: As of 2000[update], there were 59,948 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 49,873 married individuals, 9,345 widows or widowers and 9,468 individuals who are divorced.
qas: answers: text: 59,948
question: How many people were single in Bern in 2000?

answers: text: 49,873
question: How many people were married in Bern in 2000?

answers: text: 9,468
question: How many people were widows or widowers in Bern in 2000?

answers: text: single
question: Where there more married or single people in Bern in 2000?

context: As of 2000[update], there were 67,115 private households in the municipality, and an average of 1.8 persons per household. There were 34,981 households that consist of only one person and 1,592 households with five or more people. In 2000[update], a total of 65,538 apartments (90.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5,352 apartments (7.4%) were seasonally occupied and 1,444 apartments (2.0%) were empty. As of 2009[update], the construction rate of new housing units was 1.2 new units per 1000 residents.
qas: answers: text: 1.8 persons
question: What is the average of people per household in Bern?

answers: text: 1,592
question: How many households have 5 or more people living in them?

answers: text: 90.6%
question: What percentage of the apartment homes in Bern were occupied in 2000?

answers: text: 7.4%
question: What percent of apartments are seasonal apartments?

context: As of 2003[update] the average price to rent an average apartment in Bern was 1108.92 Swiss francs (CHF) per month (US$890, £500, €710 approx. exchange rate from 2003). The average rate for a one-room apartment was 619.82 CHF (US$500, £280, €400), a two-room apartment was about 879.36 CHF (US$700, £400, €560), a three-room apartment was about 1040.54 CHF (US$830, £470, €670) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 2094.80 CHF (US$1680, £940, €1340). The average apartment price in Bern was 99.4% of the national average of 1116 CHF. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010[update], was 0.45%.
qas: answers: text: 1108.92 Swiss francs
question: What was the average price to rent an average apartment in Bern?

answers: text: .45%
question: What was the vacancy rate for Bern in 2010?

context: From the 2000 census[update], 60,455 or 47.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 31,510 or 24.5% were Roman Catholic. Of the rest of the population, there were 1,874 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.46% of the population), there were 229 persons (or about 0.18% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 5,531 persons (or about 4.30% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 324 persons (or about 0.25% of the population) who were Jewish, and 4,907 (or about 3.81% of the population) who were Muslim. There were 629 persons who were Buddhist, 1,430 persons who were Hindu and 177 persons who belonged to another church. 16,363 (or about 12.72% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 7,855 persons (or about 6.11% of the population) did not answer the question. On 14 December 2014 the Haus der Religionen was inaugurated.
qas: answers: text: 24.5%
question: What percent of the population were Roman Catholic?

answers: text: .25%
question: How much of the population is Jewish in Bern?

answers: text: 4,907
question: How many muslims were there in Bern in 2000?

answers: text: 12.72%
question: How much of the population had no religion?

context: The structure of Bern's city centre is largely medieval and has been recognised by UNESCO as a Cultural World Heritage Site. Perhaps its most famous sight is the Zytglogge (Bernese German for "Time Bell"), an elaborate medieval clock tower with moving puppets. It also has an impressive 15th century Gothic cathedral, the Münster, and a 15th-century town hall. Thanks to 6 kilometres (4 miles) of arcades, the old town boasts one of the longest covered shopping promenades in Europe.
qas: answers: text: medieval
question: The structure of Bern's city centre is mainly what type of buildings?

answers: text: a Cultural World Heritage Site
question: What does UNESCO recognised Bern's city center to be?

answers: text: Zytglogge
question: What is Berns most famous site?

answers: text: Münster
question: What is the name of the 15th century cathedral?

answers: text: Gothic
question: What type of cathedral is Muster?

context: Since the 16th century, the city has had a bear pit, the Bärengraben, at the far end of the Nydeggbrücke to house its heraldic animals. The currently four bears are now kept in an open-air enclosure nearby, and two other young bears, a present by the Russian president, are kept in Dählhölzli zoo.
qas: answers: text: a bear pit
question: What is the Barengraben?

answers: text: the far end of the Nydeggbrücke
question: Where is the Barengraben located?

answers: text: heraldic animals
question: What are held at the Barengraben?

answers: text: the Russian president
question: Who gave Bern their bears?

answers: text: Dählhölzli zoo
question: What zoo are the bears of Bern kept?

context: The Federal Palace (Bundeshaus), built from 1857 to 1902, which houses the national parliament, government and part of the federal administration, can also be visited.
qas: answers: text: The Federal Palace
question: Where is the national parliment housed?

answers: text: Bundeshaus
question: What is the Federal Palace called?

context: Albert Einstein lived in a flat at the Kramgasse 49, the site of the Einsteinhaus, from 1903 to 1905, the year in which the Annus Mirabilis Papers were published.
qas: answers: text: the Kramgasse 49
question: Where is Albert Einstein live?

answers: text: Annus Mirabilis Papers
question: What was published the same years?

answers: text: Einsteinhaus
question: What is the flat that Einstein called?

context: The Rose Garden (Rosengarten), from which a scenic panoramic view of the medieval town centre can be enjoyed, is a well-kept Rosarium on a hill, converted into a park from a former cemetery in 1913.
qas: answers: text: Rosengarten
question: What is the Rose Garden also known as?

answers: text: view of the medieval town centre
question: What can you see from the Rose Garden?

answers: text: a park
question: What was the Rosarium converted into?

answers: text: 1913
question: What year was the Rosarium converted?

context: There are eleven Renaissance allegorical statues on public fountains in the Old Town. Nearly all the 16th century fountains, except the Zähringer fountain which was created by Hans Hiltbrand, are the work of the Fribourg master Hans Gieng. One of the more interesting fountains is the Kindlifresserbrunnen (Bernese German: Child Eater Fountain but often translated Ogre Fountain) which is claimed to represent a Jew, the Greek god Chronos or a Fastnacht figure that scares disobedient children.
qas: answers: text: public fountains
question: Where are the statues at in the Old Town?

answers: text: disobedient children.
question: Who does the Kindlifresserbrunnen scare?

answers: text: Hans Hiltbrand
question: Who created all the statues except the Zahringer fountain?

context: It includes the entire Old Town, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and many sites within and around it. Some of the most notable in the Old Town include the Cathedral which was started in 1421 and is the tallest cathedral in Switzerland, the Zytglogge and Käfigturm towers, which mark two successive expansions of the Old Town, and the Holy Ghost Church, which is one of the largest Swiss Reformed churches in Switzerland. Within the Old Town, there are eleven 16th century fountains, most attributed to Hans Gieng, that are on the list.
qas: answers: text: a UNESCO World Heritage Site
question: What does the UNESCO consider the entre Old Town?

answers: text: 1421
question: When was the biggest cathedral in Switzerland built?

answers: text: Holy Ghost Church
question: What is the largest Swiss Reformed church in Switzerland?

answers: text: Hans Gieng
question: Who is attributed to the 11 fountains in Old Town?

context: Bern has several dozen cinemas. As is customary in Switzerland, films are generally shown in their original language (e.g., English) with German and French subtitles. Only a small number of screenings are dubbed in German.
qas: answers: text: German and French subtitles
question: What subtitles are included in the movies?

context: Bern was the site of the 1954 Football (Soccer) World Cup Final, a huge upset for the Hungarian Golden Team, who were beaten 3–2 by West Germany. The football team BSC Young Boys is based in Bern at the Stade de Suisse Wankdorf, which also was one of the venues for the European football championship 2008 in which it hosted 3 matches.
qas: answers: text: 1954
question: What year was the Football World Cup Final in Bern?

answers: text: West Germany
question: Who won the game?

answers: text: BSC Young Boys
question: What football team is based in Bern?

context: SC Bern is the major ice hockey team of Bern who plays at the PostFinance Arena. The team has ranked highest in attendance for a European hockey team for more than a decade. The PostFinance Arena was the main host of the 2009 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, including the opening game and the final of the tournament.
qas: answers: text: SC Bern
question: What is the major hockey league team of Bern?

answers: text: PostFinance Arena
question: Where do they play?

answers: text: 2009
question: What year was the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship held in Bern?

context: Bern was a candidate to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, but withdrew its bid in September 2002 after a referendum was passed that showed that the bid was not supported by locals. Those games were eventually awarded to Vancouver, Canada.
qas: answers: text: 2010
question: What year did Bern want to host the Winter Olympics?

answers: text: 2002
question: What year did they withdraw their bid?

answers: text: Vancouver, Canada
question: Where were the 2010 Winter Olympics held?

context: As of 2010[update], Bern had an unemployment rate of 3.3%. As of 2008[update], there were 259 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 59 businesses involved in this sector. 16,413 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 950 businesses in this sector. 135,973 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 7,654 businesses in this sector.
qas: answers: text: 3.3%
question: What was Berns unemployment rate in 2010?

answers: text: 59
question: How many businesses are there in the primary sector?

answers: text: 950
question: How many businesses are there in the secondary sector?

answers: text: 7,654
question: How many businesses are there in the tertiary sector?

context: In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 125,037. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 203, of which 184 were in agriculture and 19 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 15,476 of which 7,650 or (49.4%) were in manufacturing, 51 or (0.3%) were in mining and 6,389 (41.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 109,358. In the tertiary sector; 11,396 or 10.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10,293 or 9.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 5,090 or 4.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7,302 or 6.7% were in the information industry, 8,437 or 7.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 10,660 or 9.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 5,338 or 4.9% were in education and 17,903 or 16.4% were in health care.
qas: answers: text: 125,037.
question: How many full time jobs were there in 2008?

answers: text: 184
question: How many jobs in the primary sector were agrictulture?

answers: text: 19
question: How many jobs in the primary sector were in forestry or lumber production?

answers: text: 15,476
question: How many jobs are in the secondary sector?

answers: text: 109,358
question: How many jobs are in the tertiary secotr?

context: In 2000[update], there were 94,367 workers who commuted into the municipality and 16,424 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 5.7 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. Of the working population, 50.6% used public transport to get to work, and 20.6% used a private car.
qas: answers: text: 94,367
question: How many workers commute into the municipality?

answers: text: 16,424
question: How many workers had to commute away from the municipality?

answers: text: 50.6%
question: How much of the working population uses public transportation?

answers: text: 20.6%
question: How many of the working population use private cars?

context: The University of Bern, whose buildings are mainly located in the Länggasse quarter, is located in Bern, as well as the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) and several vocations schools.
qas: answers: text: Länggasse quarter
question: Where are the majority of the buildings for the University of Bern?

context: In Bern, about 50,418 or (39.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 24,311 or (18.9%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 24,311 who completed tertiary schooling, 51.6% were Swiss men, 33.0% were Swiss women, 8.9% were non-Swiss men and 6.5% were non-Swiss women.
qas: answers: text: 39.2%
question: What percent of the population has completed non-mandatory upper secondary education?

answers: text: 18.9%
question: What percent of the population has completed additionaly higher education?

answers: text: Swiss men
question: The majority of the population to finish tertiary schooling in bern are what people?

context: The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory kindergarten, followed by six years of primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower secondary school where the pupils are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower secondary pupils may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.
qas: answers: text: non
question: Do you have to go to the one year of kindergarten?

answers: text: ability and aptitude
question: What seperates the children in secondary school?

context: During the 2009–10 school year, there were a total of 10,979 pupils attending classes in Bern. There were 89 kindergarten classes with a total of 1,641 pupils in the municipality. Of the kindergarten pupils, 32.4% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 40.2% have a different mother language than the classroom language. The municipality had 266 primary classes and 5,040 pupils. Of the primary pupils, 30.1% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 35.7% have a different mother language than the classroom language. During the same year, there were 151 lower secondary classes with a total of 2,581 pupils. There were 28.7% who were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 32.7% have a different mother language than the classroom language.
qas: answers: text: 10,979
question: How many students were attending school during the 2009-2010 school year?

answers: text: 89
question: How many kindergarten classes were there?

answers: text: 266
question: How many primary classes were there?

answers: text: 151
question: How many lower secondary classes were there?

context: Bern is home to 8 libraries. These libraries include; the Schweiz. Nationalbibliothek/ Bibliothèque nationale suisse, the Universitätsbibliothek Bern, the Kornhausbibliotheken Bern, the BFH Wirtschaft und Verwaltung Bern, the BFH Gesundheit, the BFH Soziale Arbeit, the Hochschule der Künste Bern, Gestaltung und Kunst and the Hochschule der Künste Bern, Musikbibliothek. There was a combined total (as of 2008[update]) of 10,308,336 books or other media in the libraries, and in the same year a total of 2,627,973 items were loaned out.
qas: answers: text: 8
question: How many libraries are in Bern?

context: 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.
qas: answers: text: 9,045
question: How many pupils lived in another municipality?

answers: text: 1,185
question: How many pupils attended school outside of the city?

context: A funicular railway leads from the Marzili district to the Bundeshaus. The Marzilibahn funicular is, with a length of 106 m (348 ft), the second shortest public railway in Europe after the Zagreb funicular.
qas: answers: text: A funicular railway
question: What connects Marzili to Bundeshaus?

answers: text: 106 m
question: How long is the Marzilibah funicular?

answers: text: Marzilibahn
question: What is the second shortest public railway in Europe?

answers: text: Zagreb funicular
question: What is the shortest public railway in Europe?

context: Bern is also served by Bern Airport, located outside the city near the town of Belp. The regional airport, colloquially called Bern-Belp or Belpmoos, is connected to several European cities. Additionally Zürich Airport, Geneva Airport and EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg also serve as international gateways, all reachable within two hours by car or train from Bern.
qas: answers: text: Bern Airport
question: What is the name of Bern's airport?

answers: text: Bern-Belp or Belpmoos
question: What is the name of the regional airport?