praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Executive vice governor Wei Hong confirmed on November 21, 2008 that more than 90,000 people in total were dead or missing in the earthquake. He stated that 200,000 homes had been rebuilt, and 685,000 were under reconstruction, but 1.94 million households were still without permanent shelter. 1,300 schools had been reconstructed, with initial relocation of 25 townships, including Beichuan and Wenchuan, two of the most devastated areas. The government spent $441 billion on relief and reconstruction efforts.

question: Who was the executive vice governor? 

answer: Wei Hong

question: How many homes were rebuilt? 

answer: 200,000

question: How many homes were left without permanent shelter? 

answer: 1.94 million

question: How many schools were reconstructed? 

answer: 1,300

question: Who spoke about the dead and missing people on November 21, 2008? 

answer: Wei Hong

question: How many people did Wei Hong say were dead or missing? 

answer: 90,000

question: How many homes had been rebuilt? 

answer: 200,000

question: How many houses were still under construction? 

answer: 685,000

question: How many families were still without permanent homes? 

answer: 1.94 million
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: General Secretary and President Hu Jintao announced that the disaster response would be rapid. Just 90 minutes after the earthquake, Premier Wen Jiabao, who has an academic background in geomechanics, flew to the earthquake area to oversee the rescue work. Soon afterward, the Ministry of Health said that it had sent ten emergency medical teams to Wenchuan County. On the same day, the Chengdu Military Region Command dispatched 50,000 troops and armed police to help with disaster relief work in Wenchuan County. However, due to the rough terrain and close proximity of the quake's epicenter, the soldiers found it very difficult to get help to the rural regions of the province.

question: Who flew to the earthquake area 90 minutes after it hit? 

answer: Premier Wen Jiabao

question: What was Premier Wen Jiabao's background in? 

answer: geomechanics

question: What did Jiabao oversee in the region? 

answer: the rescue work

question: How many troops were dispatched by the Chengdu military? 

answer: 50,000

question: How soon after the earthquake was Premier Wen Jiabao on his way to the area? 

answer: 90 minutes after

question: How many medical teams were sent to Wenchuan county? 

answer: ten

question: How many troops were sent to the area for relief work? 

answer: 50,000

question: Besides the rough terrain, why was it difficult to get to the area? 

answer: proximity of the quake's epicenter
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The National Disaster Relief Commission initiated a "Level II emergency contingency plan", which covers the most serious class of natural disasters. The plan rose to Level I at 22:15 CST, May 12.

question: What did the National Disaster Relief Commission initiate? 

answer: Level II emergency contingency plan

question: What does a Level II emergency contingency plan cover? 

answer: the most serious class of natural disasters

question: When did the plan rise to Level I? 

answer: at 22:15 CST, May 12

question: What level alert was instated for the quake? 

answer: Level II emergency

question: What class of disasters is a level II emergency? 

answer: most serious

question: What level was the disaster set at 22:15 CST, May 12? 

answer: Level II

question: What department initiated the emergency contingency plan? 

answer: National Disaster Relief Commission
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: An earthquake emergency relief team of 184 people (consisting of 12 people from the State Seismological Bureau, 150 from the Beijing Military Area Command, and 22 from the Armed Police General Hospital) left Beijing from Nanyuan Airport late May 12 in two military transport planes to travel to Wenchuan County.

question: How many people were in the earthquake emergency relief team? 

answer: 184

question: How many of the relief team were from the State Seismological Bureau? 

answer: 12

question: How many of the team were from the military? 

answer: 150

question: How many of the team were from the police? 

answer: 22

question: What kind of team left Beijing to go to Wenchuan? 

answer: earthquake emergency relief

question: How many people comprised the relief team? 

answer: 184

question: How many soldiers were from the Beijing Military? 

answer: 150

question: Where did 22 of the relief team come from? 

answer: Armed Police General Hospital

question: How did the relief team travel to Wenchuan county? 

answer: in two military transport planes
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: In the China Digital Times an article reports a close analysis by an alleged Chinese construction engineer known online as “Book Blade” (书剑子), who stated:

question: What did the China Digital Times report? 

answer: a close analysis by an alleged Chinese construction engineer

question: Who was the construction engineer known as? 

answer: Book Blade

question: Where was an article reported about the scandal? 

answer: China Digital Times

question: What was the name of the person who published a report in the China Digital Times? 

answer: Book Blade
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: On Children's Day, June 1, 2008, many parents went to the rubble of schools to mourn for their children. The surviving children, who were mostly living in relief centres, performed ceremonies marking the special day, but also acknowledging the earthquake.

question: What was June 1, 2008 called? 

answer: Children's Day

question: Where were most of the surviving children? 

answer: living in relief centres

question: What did these children do on that day? 

answer: performed ceremonies

question: Where did parents go to mourn their children? 

answer: rubble of schools

question: When is Children's Day? 

answer: June 1

question: Where were surviving children living? 

answer: in relief centres
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Central State-owned enterprises have accumulatively donated more than $48.6 million. China National Petroleum Corp and Sinopec donated 10 million yuan each to the disaster area.

question: How much did central state-owned enterprises donate? 

answer: more than $48.6 million

question: How much did China National Petroleum Corp and Sinopec donate? 

answer: 10 million yuan

question: How much have Central state enterprises donated? 

answer: 48.6 million

question: How much did China National Petroleum and Sinopec donate? 

answer: 10 million yuan each
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: On May 16 China stated it had also received $457 million in donated money and goods for rescue efforts so far, including $83 million from 19 countries and four international organizations. Saudi Arabia was the largest aid donor to China, providing close to €40,000,000 in financial assistance, and an additional €8,000,000 worth of relief materials.

question: How much did China receive in donated money and goods? 

answer: $457 million

question: How many countries donated? 

answer: 19 countries

question: How many international organizations donated? 

answer: four

question: What country was the largest aid donor to China? 

answer: Saudi Arabia

question: How much financial assistance did Saudi Arabia give China? 

answer: €40,000,000

question: How much money was donated from foreign sources? 

answer: 83 million

question: What country was the largest aid donor to China? 

answer: Saudi Arabia

question: How many international organizations made donations? 

answer: four
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: In 2008, State Council established a counterpart support plan (《汶川地震灾后恢复重建对口支援方案》). The plan is to arrange 19 eastern and central province and municipalitie to help 18 counties, on "one province to one affected county" basis. The plan spanned 3 years, and cost no less than one percent of the province or municipality's budget.

question: What did the State Council establish in 2008? 

answer: a counterpart support plan

question: How long did the plan last? 

answer: 3 years

question: What did the state council set up in 2008? 

answer: counterpart support plan

question: What is the basis for this plan? 

answer: one province to one affected county

question: How long is the plan due to last? 

answer: 3 years

question: What is the cost per province's budget? 

answer: one percent
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: An article in Science suggested that the construction and filling of the Zipingpu Dam may have triggered the earthquake. The chief engineer of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau said that the sudden shift of a huge quantity of water into the region could have relaxed the tension between the two sides of the fault, allowing them to move apart, and could have increased the direct pressure on it, causing a violent rupture. The effect was "25 times more" than a year's worth of natural stress from tectonic movement. The government had disregarded warnings about so many large-scale dam projects in a seismically active area. Researchers have been denied access to seismological and geological data to examine the cause of the quake further.

question: What was concluded about the construction? 

answer: that the sudden shift of a huge quantity of water into the region could have relaxed the tension between the two sides of the fault, allowing them to move apart, and could have increased the direct pressure on it, causing a violent rupture

question: What structure did an article contemplate could have caused the quake? 

answer: Zipingpu Dam

question: What was the affect of the dam on the stresses in that area? 

answer: 25 times more

question: Who disregarded warnings about dams in the area? 

answer: The government

question: What type of area is Sichuan? 

answer: seismically active

question: What have researchers been denied? 

answer: access to seismological and geological data
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The earthquake also provided opportunities for researchers to retrofit data in order to model future earthquake predictions. Using data from the Intermagnet Lanzhou geomagnetic observatory, geologists Lazo Pekevski from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in Macedonia and Strachimir Mavrodiev from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences attempted to establish a "time prediction method" through collecting statistics on geomagnetism with tidal gravitational potential. Using this method, they were said to have predicted the time of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake with an accuracy of ±1 day. The same study, however, acknowledges the limitation of earthquake prediction models, and does not mention that the location of the quake could be accurately predicted.

question: What did the earthquake allow? 

answer: opportunities for researchers to retrofit data in order to model future earthquake predictions

question: What did the professors predict? 

answer: the time of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake

question: What did they try to establish? 

answer: time prediction method

question: What did they collect to use in this method? 

answer: statistics
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: In a press conference held by the State Council Information Office the day after the earthquake, geologist Zhang Xiaodong, deputy director of CEA's Seismic Monitoring Network Center, restated that earthquake prediction was a global issue, in the sense that no proven methods exist, and that no prediction notification was received before the earthquake. Seismologist Gary Gibson of Monash University in Australia told Deutsche Presse-Agentur that he also did not see anything that could be regarded as having 'predicted' the earthquake's occurrence.

question: What was stated in the press conference? 

answer: that earthquake prediction was a global issue

question: What do many geologists believe about earthquake prediction? 

answer: no proven methods exist

question: What kind of issue is earthquake prediction? 

answer: a global issue

question: What was received before the quake occurred? 

answer: no prediction notification

question: What did  seismologist Gary Gibson have to say about the prediction of the quake? 

answer: did not see anything
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: In 2002, Chinese geologist Chen Xuezhong published a Seismic Risk Analysis study in which he came to the conclusion that beginning with 2003, attention should be paid to the possibility of an earthquake with a magnitude of over 7.0 occurring in Sichuan region. He based his study on statistical correlation. That Sichuan is a seismically active area has been discussed for years prior to the quake, though few studies point to a specific date and time.

question: When was a Seismic Risk Analysis published? 

answer: In 2002

question: Who published the Seismic Risk Analysis? 

answer: Chen Xuezhong

question: Who published a Seismic Risk Analysis Study? 

answer: Chen Xuezhong

question: In what year did Chen Xuezhong publish an earthquake study? 

answer: 2002

question: What strength did he predict the next quake in Sichuan to be? 

answer: over 7.0
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The earthquake was the worst to strike the Sichuan area in over 30 years. Following the quake, experts and the general public sought information on whether or not the earthquake could have been predicted in advance, and whether or not studying statistics related to the quake could result in better prediction of earthquakes in the future. Earthquake prediction is not yet established science; there was no consensus within the scientific community that earthquake "prediction" is possible.

question: How long had it been since an earthquake of similar magnitude? 

answer: over 30 years

question: How long since the Sichuan area has had  a severe quake? 

answer: 30 years

question: Does the scientific community agree that earthquake prediction is possible? 

answer: no consensus

question: People wanted to know if the study of what math could produce better predictions? 

answer: statistics

question: What is not an established science? 

answer: Earthquake prediction
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Many rescue teams, including that of the Taipei Fire Department from Taiwan, were reported ready to join the rescue effort in Sichuan as early as Wednesday. However, the Red Cross Society of China said that (on May 13) "it was inconvenient currently due to the traffic problem to the hardest hit areas closest to the epicenter." The Red Cross Society of China also stated that the disaster areas need tents, medical supplies, drinking water and food; however it recommended donating cash instead of other items, as it had not been possible to reach roads that were completely damaged or places that were blocked off by landslides. Landslides continuously threatened the progress of a search and rescue group of 80 men, each carrying about 40 kg of relief supplies, from a motorized infantry brigade under commander Yang Wenyao, as they tried to reach the ethnically Tibetan village of Sier at a height of 4000 m above sea level in Pingwu county. The extreme terrain conditions precluded the use of helicopter evacuation, and over 300 of the Tibetan villagers were stranded in their demolished village for five days without food and water before the rescue group finally arrived to help the injured and stranded villagers down the mountain.

question: What department was ready to join the rescue effort by Wednesday? 

answer: the Taipei Fire Department

question: How many Tibetan villagers were stranded? 

answer: over 300

question: What was the reason that many rescue teams could not join the relief efforts? 

answer: the traffic problem

question: What action did the Red Cross recommend ? 

answer: donating cash

question: What problem continued to stop rescue teams from reaching affected areas? 

answer: landslides

question: Where were the soldiers under commander Yang Wenyao trying to go? 

answer: Tibetan village of Sier
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Persistent heavy rain and landslides in Wenchuan County and the nearby area badly affected rescue efforts. At the start of rescue operations on May 12, 20 helicopters were deployed for the delivery of food, water, and emergency aid, and also the evacuation of the injured and reconnaissance of quake-stricken areas. By 17:37 CST on May 13, a total of over 15,600 troops and militia reservists from the Chengdu Military Region had joined the rescue force in the heavily affected areas. A commander reported from Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan, that around 3,000 survivors were found, while the status of the other inhabitants (around 9,000) remained unclear. The 1,300 rescuers reached the epicenter, and 300 pioneer troops reached the seat of Wenchuan at about 23:30 CST. By 12:17 CST, May 14, 2008, communication in the seat of Wenchuan was partly revived. On the afternoon of May 14, 15 Special Operations Troops, along with relief supplies and communications gear, parachuted into inaccessible Mao County, northeast of Wenchuan.

question: What natural disasters were occurring in Wenchuan County? 

answer: landslides

question: How many helicopters were deployed? 

answer: 20

question: How many militia reservists joined in on rescue efforts? 

answer: 15,600

question: How many survivors were found? 

answer: around 3,000

question: How many troops parachuted into Mao County? 

answer: 15

question: What were the biggest difficulties in reaching affected areas? 

answer: heavy rain and landslides

question: How many helicopters were sent to deliver aid to the affected areas? 

answer: 20

question: By May 13, how many troops had been added to the rescue efforts? 

answer: 15,600

question: How people were reported to be survivors in Yingxiu Town? 

answer: around 3,000

question: How many persons were still unaccounted for in Yingxiu? 

answer: around 9,000
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: By May 15, Premier Wen Jiabao ordered the deployment of an additional 90 helicopters, of which 60 were to be provided by the PLAAF, and 30 were to be provided by the civil aviation industry, bringing the total of number of aircraft deployed in relief operations by the air force, army, and civil aviation to over 150, resulting in the largest non-combat airlifting operation in People's Liberation Army history.

question: What did Premier Wen Jiabao order? 

answer: the deployment of an additional 90 helicopters

question: How many helicopters were provided by the PLAAF? 

answer: 60

question: How many helicopter were to be provided by the civil aviation industry? 

answer: 30

question: How many aircraft were there in total? 

answer: over 150

question: What is the total number of aircraft used in the relief operation? 

answer: over 150

question: How many helicopters came from the PLAAF? 

answer: 60

question: Who provided the other 30 helicopters? 

answer: civil aviation industry

question: What kind of operation did this massing of aircraft produce? 

answer: non-combat airlifting
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Beijing accepted the aid of the Tzu Chi Foundation from Taiwan late on May 13. Tzu Chi was the first force from outside the People's Republic of China to join the rescue effort. China stated it would gratefully accept international help to cope with the quake.

question: What Foundation wanted to aid Beijing? 

answer: the Tzu Chi Foundation

question: Where was the foundation based? 

answer: Taiwan

question: When did Beijing agree to aid from Taiwan? 

answer: late on May 13

question: What was the first group from outside China to join in the relief operation? 

answer: Tzu Chi Foundation

question: What did China say they would accept? 

answer: international help

question: What did China need help for? 

answer: cope with the quake
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: A direct chartered cargo flight was made by China Airlines from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport sending some 100 tons of relief supplies donated by the Tzu Chi Foundation and the Red Cross Society of Taiwan to the affected areas. Approval from mainland Chinese authorities was sought, and the chartered flight departed Taipei at 17:00 CST, May 15 and arrived in Chengdu by 20:30 CST. A rescue team from the Red Cross in Taiwan was also scheduled to depart Taipei on a Mandarin Airlines direct chartered flight to Chengdu at 15:00 CST on May 16.

question: Who made a direct chartered cargo flight? 

answer: China Airlines

question: What date did the cargo flight leave? 

answer: May 15

question: When did a rescue team depart? 

answer: May 16

question: How did the move the relief supplies from Taiwan to the stricken area? 

answer: chartered cargo flight

question: From what airport did the chartered flight leave? 

answer: Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport

question: Where did the chartered flight from Taiwan land? 

answer: Chengdu

question: What Red Cross team left Taipei on May 16 

answer: rescue team

question: Where did the Red Cross team from Taiwan land? 

answer: Chengdu
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: On May 16, rescue groups from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Russia and Taiwan arrived to join the rescue effort. The United States shared some of its satellite images of the quake-stricken areas with Chinese authorities. During the weekend, the US sent into China two U.S. Air Force C-17's carrying supplies, which included tents and generators. Xinhua reported 135,000 Chinese troops and medics were involved in the rescue effort across 58 counties and cities.

question: What did the US share? 

answer: satellite images of the quake-stricken areas

question: Who did the US share the satellite images with? 

answer: Chinese authorities

question: How many Chinese troops were involved in the rescue efforts? 

answer: 135,000

question: When did groups from South Korea, Japan, and others arrive in China? 

answer: May 16

question: What did the U.S. share with China? 

answer: satellite images

question: What was included in the the Air Force C-17 supplies? 

answer: tents and generators

question: How many Chinese troops and medics were involved in the relief efforts? 

answer: 135,000
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The Internet was extensively used for passing information to aid rescue and recovery efforts. For example, the official news agency Xinhua set up an online rescue request center in order to find the blind spots of disaster recovery. After knowing that rescue helicopters had trouble landing into the epicenter area in Wenchuan, a student proposed a landing spot online and it was chosen as the first touchdown place for the helicopters[not in citation given]. Volunteers also set up several websites to help store contact information for victims and evacuees. On May 31, a rescue helicopter carrying earthquake survivors and crew members crashed in fog and turbulence in Wenchuan county. No-one survived.

question: What was extensively used to pass information to aid rescue and recovery efforts? 

answer: The Internet

question: What did the Xinhua news agency set up? 

answer: an online rescue request center

question: What was the purpose of this online rescue request center? 

answer: to find the blind spots of disaster recovery

question: Where did rescue helicopters have trouble landing? 

answer: Wenchuan

question: What was used as a communications aid in the relief efforts? 

answer: The Internet

question: Who set up an online site to focus on blind spots in recovery? 

answer: news agency Xinhua

question: What person suggested a landing spot for helicopters near the epicenter? 

answer: a student

question: What kind of information were websites set up to store? 

answer: contact information

question: On what date did a rescue helicopter crash with no survivors? 

answer: May 31