community-datasets/selqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In how many countries does Norway operate an embassy?
About the article "Norway", section "Foreign relations".

Candidate passages:
Norway was one of the first countries to recognize Israel on February 4, 1949.
Both countries established diplomatic relation later that year.
Israel has an embassy in Oslo.
Norway has an embassy in Tel Aviv and 2 honorary consulates (in Eilat and Haifa).
See also History of the Jews in Norway  Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: search Israel Kazakhstan has its embassy in Oslo.
Norway recognized Kosovo in 28 March 2008.
Norway has an embassy in Pristina, while Kosovo has hinted that it will include Norway in the second wave of embassy openings.
Both nations established diplomatic relations in 1922.
Norway has an embassy in Mexico City.
Mexico has an embassy in Oslo.  
Croatia–Norway relations are foreign relations between Croatia and Norway.
Both countries established diplomatic relations on February 20, 1992.
Croatia has an embassy in Oslo.
Norway has an embassy in Zagreb and an honorary consulate in Rijeka.
Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe. 
Greece–Norway relations are foreign relations between Greece and Norway.
The Greek Embassy in Oslo opened in 1980 and the Norwegian Embassy in Athens opened in 1974.
Greece's embassy in Oslo (since 1980) and an honorary consulate in Bergen represents Greece diplomatically in Norway.
Norway has an embassy in Athens, and six honorary consulates in Piraeus, Patras, Corfu, Crete, Rhodes and Thessaloniki.
Both countries are members of NATO. 
Malaysia–Norway relations refers to a foreign relations between the two countries, Malaysia and Norway.
Malaysia has a consulate in Oslo, while Norway has an embassy in Kuala Lumpur. 
Israel–Norway relations refers to the bilateral relations between Israel and Norway.
Norway was one of the first countries to recognize Israel on February 4, 1949.
Both countries established diplomatic relation later that year.
Israel has an embassy in Oslo, which serves Norway and Iceland.
Norway has an embassy in Tel Aviv and two honorary consulates (in Eilat and Haifa).
553 Israeli citizens live in Norway and 260 Norwegians live in Israel.
Question: What is box lacrosse?
About the article "Lacrosse", section "Box lacrosse".

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The Prairie Gold Lacrosse League, formally known as the Saskatchewan Major Box Lacrosse League, is a Junior B box lacrosse league in Saskatchewan, Canada. 
The Czech Lacrosse Union (), is the governing body of lacrosse in Czech Republic.
It conducts national junior and senior championship tournaments for men and women in field lacrosse, box lacrosse and intercrosse.
It also participates in the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, World Lacrosse Championship and Women's Lacrosse World Cup. 
Jesse Hubbard (born September 18, 1975) is a former professional lacrosse player who played professional box lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League (NLL) and professional field lacrosse in the Major League Lacrosse (MLL).  
The Scotland national indoor lacrosse team represents Scotland at box lacrosse.
It is governed by Lacrosse Scotland. 
The Goaltender or Goalie is a playing position in indoor or box lacrosse.
More heavily armoured than a field lacrosse goaltender, since the invent of indoor lacrosse in 1931, the box lacrosse goalie has evolved into a much different position than its field lacrosse cousin.
Question: What proportion of citizens identify as Viet or Kinh?
About the article "Vietnam", section "Ethnicity".

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According to the 2009 census, the dominant Viet or Kinh ethnic group constituted nearly 73.6 million people, or 85.8% of the population.
The Kinh population is concentrated mainly in the alluvial deltas and coastal plains of the country.
A largely homogeneous social and ethnic group, the Kinh possess significant political and economic influence over the country.
However, Vietnam is also home to 54 ethnic minority groups, including the Hmong, Dao, Tay, Thai, and Nùng.
Many ethnic minorities – such as the Muong, who are closely related to the Kinh – dwell in the highlands, which cover two-thirds of Vietnam's territory.
Before the Vietnam War, the population of the Central Highlands was almost exclusively Degar (including over 40 tribal groups); however, Ngô Đình Diệm's South Vietnamese government enacted a program of resettling Kinh in indigenous areas.
The Hoa (ethnic Chinese) and Khmer Krom people are mainly lowlanders.
As Sino-Vietnamese relations soured in 1978 and 1979, some 450,000 Hoa left Vietnam.
Many people in Hà Giang belong to one of Vietnam’s ethnic minorities.
Aside from the Viet (or Kinh), the most numerous ethnic groups in Hà Giang are the Tày, the Dao, and the Hmong. 
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Vietnam, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Originating in what is now southern China and northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese people pushed southward over two millennium to occupy the entire eastern seacoast of the Indochinese Peninsula.
Ethnic Vietnamese, or Viet (known officially as Kinh), live in the lowlands and speak the Vietnamese language.
This group dominates much of the cultural and political landscape of Vietnam. 
Vietnamese, Champa and Khmer live together in harmony.
The three main religions in this region are Mahayana Buddhism (Kinh/Vietnamese, Hoa/Chinese); Theravada Buddhism (Khmer/Cambodian), and Sunni Islam (Cham).
The total population is around 120,000 [http://www.thixachaudoc.com/] with a vast majority of Kinh (Viet) and some Khmer Krom.
As of 2003 the district had a population of 112,155.
The district covers an area of 100 km².
In July, 2013 the city had a population of 157,298. 
Traditional Vietnamese musical instruments poopare the musical instruments used in the traditional and classical musics of Vietnam.
They comprise a wide range of string, wind, and percussion instruments, used by both the Viet (Kinh) majority as well as the nation's ethnic minorities.
Question: During the 1920s, what was the average number of annual visits to the Pier?
About the article "Navy Pier", section "First use: commercial pier and entertainment".

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Pier 54 is a tourist pier Seattle, Washington.
Previously an active shipping pier and warehouse, Pier 54 was originally known as Pier 3 until it was renumbered during World War Two.
This pier was also known as Galbraith dock and the Galbraith Bacon dock.
Because of the large number of smaller local steamships, generally built of wood, that used the pier up until the 1930s, the pier was also known as the “Mosquito Fleet dock”. 
Since 1996 the society has presented an annual Pier of the Year award.
Past awards have been given to: Eastbourne Pier 1997 Brighton Palace Pier 1998.
Clevedon Pier 1999 Cromer Pier 2000 Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier 2001 Southwold Pier 2002 Southport Pier 2003 Blackpool North Pier 2004 Llandudno Pier 2005 Worthing Pier 2006 Southend Pier 2007 Deal Pier 2008 Saltburn Pier 2009 Boscombe Pier 2010 Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier 2011 Swanage Pier 2012 Clevedon Pier 2013 The society also presents a bi-annual award for engineering excellence, the Peter Mason Award named after a past Chairman.
In 2005, a limited company - The National Piers Society Ltd. - was created as the NPS trading arm. 
Seletar Pier was used for transport of construction materials during Naval Base construction in early 1920s.
On 20 January 1942, the pier was bombed by Japanese, and only the remains of the Seletar pier stands at the end of Sembawang Road. 
Even as Chicago Municipal Pier was being built, mass-produced automobiles and trucks were beginning to wreak havoc on the package freight and passenger steamboat industries of Lake Michigan.
The Pier proved to be much more successful as a public gathering place.
In the 1920s, the Pier expanded to have its own streetcar line, a theater, and an emergency room.
It gained wide recognition in 1922 by hosting the "Pageant of Progress."
In 1927 the Pier was officially named Navy Pier in honor of the Naval personnel that served there during WWI.
In this period, the Pier was described as a summer playground, with recreational facilities that included picnicking areas, dining pavilions, a dance hall, auditorium, and children's playground.
A radio station.
WCFL, operated from the north tower of the auditorium.
During the 1920s, it is estimated that an average of 3.2 million visitors frequented the Pier annually.
This decade is sometimes called the Pier's "Golden Age".
The advent of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, as well as the increased use of trucks and automobiles, resulted in the decline of freight and passenger ship activity; however, cultural and recreational use of the Pier continued.
In 1933, the Century of Progress Exposition (World's Fair) on the lakefront also drew many conventions and visitors to the Pier.
During the 1930s, the Pier also housed various New Deal agencies.
Pier 1 was located at the foot of Washington Street.
Pier 1 was immediately to the north of Pier A and immediately to the south of Pier 2.
Question: What changes when an oven is used?
About the article "Peking duck", section "Reheating".

Candidate passages:
There are cases of oven bags being used to commit suicide.
When used for this purpose, the bag is referred to as a Suicide Bag. 
An oven is a thermally insulated chamber used for the heating, baking or drying of a substance, and most commonly used for cooking.
Kilns and furnaces are special-purpose ovens, used in pottery and metalworking, respectively. 
An oven bag is a plastic bag used for the roasting of meat or other food in an oven.
An oven bag helps to keep the food being cooked moist by trapping the moisture in the bag and preventing it from escaping into the oven; as such, it serves a similar purpose to basting.
The plastic used for manufacture of the oven bag must be chosen so that it will not melt at the temperature during cooking and thus spoil the food.
To this end, many oven bags are formed from a special heat resistant nylon.
Oven bags should be carefully placed so that the bag does not come in contact with any hot surfaces in the oven, such as heating elements or oven racks.
These may cause the bag to melt, smoke, or catch fire. 
The Bedourie oven is an Australian adaptation of the camp oven (Dutch oven).
Drovers working on Bedourie Station, in western Queensland, found that the heavy cast iron camp ovens they used for cooking would often break as a result of falling from their pack horses.
The Bedourie oven was developed in response to this problem.
Made from mild steel, it was lighter and less brittle than cast iron, and would not break if dropped. 
Baking needs an enclosed space for heating - typically in an oven.
The fuel can be supplied by wood, coal, gas, or electricity.
Adding and removing items from an oven may be done by hand with an oven mitt or by a peel, a long handled tool specifically used for that purpose.
Many commercial ovens are provided with two heating elements: one for baking, using convection and thermal conduction to heat the food, and one for broiling or grilling, heating mainly by radiation.
Another piece of equipment still used for baking is the Dutch oven.
"Also called a bake kettle, bastable, bread oven, fire pan, bake oven kail pot, tin kitchen, roasting kitchen, "doufeu" (French: "gentle fire") or "feu de compagne" (French: "country oven") originally replaced the cooking jack as the latest fireside cooking technology," combining "the convenience of pot-oven and hangover oven."
Question: Which country is a transcontinetal country?
About the article "Turkey", section "Geography".

Candidate passages:
Country Roads is a Canadian country music television series which aired on CBC Television in 1973. 
Down Home Country is a Canadian country music television series which aired on CBC Television in 1975. 
Country Homes & Interiors is published by IPC Media, part of Time Inc. and is a magazine which focuses on country style interior design. 
Colonia is a country subdivision term. 
The song is a mid-tempo in which the narrator expresses his pride for the country.
Question: Do palate cleansing salads exist?
About the article "Salad", section "Abstract".

Candidate passages:
Salad is a popular ready-to-eat dish often containing leafy vegetables, usually served chilled or at a moderate temperature and often served with a sauce or dressing.
Salads may also contain ingredients such as fruit, grain, meat, seafood and sweets.
Though many salads use raw ingredients, some use cooked ingredients.
Most salads are served cold, although some, such as south German potato salad, are served warm.
Some consider the warmth of a dish a factor that excludes it from the salad category calling the warm mixture a casserole, a sandwich topping or more specifically, name it for the ingredients which comprise it.
Leafy vegetable salads are generally served with a dressing, as well as various garnishes such as nuts or croutons, and sometimes with meat, fish, pasta, cheese, eggs, or whole grains.
Salads may be served at any point during a meal, such as:
Appetizer salads, light salads to stimulate the appetite as the first course of the meal.
Side salads, to accompany the main course as a side dish.
Main course salads, usually containing a portion of heartier fare, such as chicken breast or slices of beef.
Palate-cleansing salads, to settle the stomach after the main course.
Dessert salads, sweet versions often containing fruit, gelatin and/or whipped cream.
Sweet after-dinner desserts are not a part of traditional Chinese meals but are becoming more common, especially among younger diners and among the Shanghainese, who are well known in China for their sweet tooth.
Digestive or palate-cleansing snacks such as red bean soup or small watermelon slices remain more common at formal Chinese dinners, though, and many restaurants do not even offer dessert. 
The hard palate forms before birth.  
Body cleansing and detoxification have been referred to as an elaborate hoax used by con artists to cure nonexistent illnesses.
Some doctors contend that the "toxins" in question do not even exist.
Medical experts state that body cleansing is unnecessary as the human body is naturally capable of maintaining itself, with several organs dedicated to cleansing the blood and the gut.
Alan Boobis OBE, a professor and toxicologist at Imperial College London states:The apparently satisfied testimonial and anecdotal accounts by customers may arise through:  astroturfing companies or individuals creating false anecdotes  legitimate customers who are experiencing the placebo effect after using the products  natural recovery from an actual illness that would have occurred without the use of the product  psychological improvements on illnesses that are psychosomatic or the result of neurosis  the lack of a larger number of dissatisfied customers not posting equally applicable anecdotes about their poorer experiences.  
This section lists incidents that have been termed "ethnic cleansing" by some academic or legal experts.
Not all experts agree on every case; nor do all the claims necessarily follow the definitions given in this article.
Where claims of ethnic cleansing originate from non-experts (e.g., journalists or politicians) this is noted.
Question: In gymnastics, which elements are combined?
About the article "Gymnastics", section "Rhythmic gymnastics".

Candidate passages:
These are venues which are dedicated exclusively to gymnastics.
Olympic Gymnastics Arena  
Sport aerobics, or aerobic gymnastics, is a competitive sport originating from traditional aerobics in which complex, high-intensity movement patterns and elements of varying difficulty are performed to music.
In addition to aerobics, it combines elements of sports acrobatics and rhythmic gymnastics, along with music, dance and choreography. 
Gymnastics Australia runs a head office in Melbourne, Victoria, and is the representative body to FIG.
Gymnastics Australia coordinates and provides gymnastics for Australians through eight Association Members:  ACT Gymnastics Association Inc.  NSW Gymnastics Association Inc.  NT Gymnastics Association Inc.  Queensland Gymnastics Association Inc.
Gymnastics South Australian Inc.  Tasmania Gymnastics Associations Inc.  Victorian Gymnastics Association Inc.
Gymnastics Western Australia Inc.
Gymnastics Australia sets the routines and routine guidelines for the National Levels Program which are used by gymnasts around the country.
Prominent gymnastics from Australia through the ages include Lauren Mitchell, the first Australian gymnast to win gold at the World Championships and Damian Istria who won Gold in the 2006 Commonwealth Games.  
 Release move or release: Skill on the uneven bars, parallel bars or high bar in which the gymnast lets go of the apparatus, performs a skill in the air, and regrasps the bar.
Ribbon: A gymnastics apparatus used in rhythmic gymnastics.
The ribbon is a long piece of material attached to a stick.
Rings: See "still rings".
Roll: A roll is a rotation over an axis in the body over a surface.
Rope: A gymnastics apparatus used in rhythmic gymnastics.
It is made of a material that retains the qualities of lightness and suppleness.
It is knotted at the end.
Rhythmic gymnastics: A discipline of gymnastics in which competitors manipulate apparatuses.
The sport combines elements of ballet, gymnastics, theatrical dance, and apparatus manipulation.
Athletes are scored on their leaps, balances, pivots, flexibility, apparatus handling, and artistic effect.  
Cast- Uneven Bar skill  Cartwheel : The maneuver where one moves sideways, from hands to feet, in a straight line (in the motion that the wheel of a cart would follow), while keeping the back, arms, and legs straight, and the feet pointed.
Chalk: Carbonate of magnesia, used by gymnasts on their hands, feet and apparatus to make the surface of the equipment less slippery, or to mark lines on the mats.
Clubs: A gymnastics apparatus used in rhythmic gymnastics.
Code of Points: The document that regulates scoring of each discipline.
Combined: Presented only during acrobatic gymnastics finals, the Combined routine features the elements of both the Balance and the Dynamic (Tempo) routines.
Competition: When you do gymnastics (or other sport) in front of a judge which then the judge will score you.
Other people do competitions with you and you win by getting a higher score than the other competitors.
Question: Which techniques did they employ?
About the article "Mexican muralism", section "Artistry".

Candidate passages:
The idea of such techniques was first postulated by David Matza (born May 1, 1930) and Gresham Sykes (born 1922) during their work on Edwin Sutherland’s Differential Association in the 1950s.
While Matza and Sykes were at the time working on juvenile delinquency, they theorised that the same techniques could be found throughout society and published their ideas in "Delinquency and Drift" 1964.
Matza and Sykes' theory states that people are always aware of their moral obligation to abide by the law, and that they have the same moral obligation within themselves to avoid illegitimate acts.
Thus, they reasoned, when a person did commit illegitimate acts, they must employ some sort of mechanism to silence the urge to follow these moral obligations.
This theory rejects other theories which suggested that groups containing delinquents have set up their own permanent moral code which completely replaces moral obligations.
Thus, Matza and Sykes were able to explain how offenders 'drift' from illegitimate to legitimate lifestyles repeatedly, as they retain the moral code rather than wipe it clean to be replaced by a more illegitimate one as previous theories suggested. 
They are known for selling products which use wood such as plywood and Chinese maple.
Toys are designed to be primarily about play, with a focus on educational and developmental aspects.
Early Learning Centre playtest their toys to check they can withstand the expected knocks and bumps and employ various techniques into their manufacturing process such as ultrasonic welding and use of plastics. 
Paleoclimatologists employ a wide variety of techniques to deduce ancient climates. 
The term pop-up book is often applied to any three-dimensional or movable book, although properly the umbrella term movable book covers "pop-ups", "transformations", "tunnel books", "volvelles", "flaps", "pull-tabs", "pop-outs", "pull-downs", and more, each of which performs in a different manner.
Also included, because they employ the same techniques, are three-dimensional greeting cards. 
Speed geeking is a participation process used to quickly view a number of presentations within a fixed period of time.
Speed geeking gets its name from speed dating, since they both employ similar techniques.
Question: Who established the basis of the modern Italian Language
About the article "Italy", section "Literature and theatre".

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  Tuscan dialect, the ancestor of the modern Italian language  Tuscan gorgia, a sound  
TÖMER is an institution of Ankara University, run on revolving fund basis.
Language courses are organized throughout the year, with weekday and weekend classes.TÖMER has about 55 thousand learners receive language education in one academic year.
Languages taught in TÖMER include Turkish, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Modern Greek, Dutch, Bulgarian, Chinese, Ottoman language, Arabic, Polish and languages of the Central Asian Turkic Republics. 
Standard Italian derives from Tuscan, specifically from its Florentine variety: the Florentine influence upon early Italian literature established that dialect as base for the standard language of Italy.
In particular Italian became the language of culture for all the people of Italy, thanks to the prestige of the masterpieces of Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.
It would later become the official language of all the Italian states, and after the Italian unification it became the national language of the Kingdom of Italy.
Modern Standard Italian's lexicon has been deeply influenced by almost all regional languages of Italy while its received (known as "Pronuncia Fiorentina Emendata", Amended Florentine Pronunciation) is based on the accent of Romanesco (Rome's dialect); these are the reasons why Standard Italian can't be considered identical to Tuscan. 
An important event that helped the diffusion of Italian was the conquest and occupation of Italy by Napoleon in the early nineteenth century (who was himself of Italian-Corsican descent).
This conquest propelled the unification of Italy some decades after, and pushed the Italian language into a lingua franca used not only among clerks, nobility and functionaries in the Italian courts but also in the bourgeoisie. 
Advanced Placement Italian Language and Culture (also known as AP Italian Language and Culture or AP Italian) is a course offered by the American College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program.
It is intended to give students a thorough background in the Italian language and Italian culture equivalent to a college-level course.
Due to low numbers of students taking AP Italian, it was temporarily discontinued after the 2008-2009 year.
On July 3, 2008, The Italian Language Foundation was established to support Italian language education and the AP Italian program.
On November 10, 2010 the College Board announced that the program will be reinstated in the fall of 2011, with the first AP Italian Exam scheduled for May 2012.