praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: All Mainland Chinese television stations (along with some stations in Hong Kong and expatriate communities) cancelled all regularly-scheduled programming, displayed their logo in grayscale, and replaced their cancelled programmes with live earthquake footage from CCTV-1 for multiple days after the quake. Even pay television channels (such as Channel V) had their programmes suspended.

question: What did stations replace programming with? 

answer: live earthquake footage

question: What was the source of the live feeds? 

answer: CCTV-1

question: What about pay TV channels? 

answer: programmes suspended
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Although the Chinese government was initially praised for its response to the quake (especially in comparison to Myanmar's ruling military junta's blockade of aid during Cyclone Nargis), it then saw an erosion in confidence over the school construction scandal.

question: What government blocked aid after Cyclone Nargis? 

answer: Myanmar

question: Over what scandal did the Chinese government lose in public opinion? 

answer: school construction scandal

question: What was the Chinese government first praised for? 

answer: response to the quake
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: On May 29, 2008, government officials began inspecting the ruins of thousands of schools that collapsed, searching for clues about why they crumbled. Thousands of parents around the province have accused local officials and builders of cutting corners in school construction, citing that after the quake other nearby buildings were little damaged. In the aftermath of the quake, many local governments promised to formally investigate the school collapses, but as of July 17, 2008 across Sichuan, parents of children lost in collapsed schools complained they had yet to receive any reports. Local officials urged them not to protest but the parents demonstrated and demanded an investigation. Furthermore, censors discouraged stories of poorly built schools from being published in the media and there was an incident where police drove the protestors away.

question: What did parents accuse builders of doing? 

answer: cutting corners

question: As of July 17, 2008 what did parents complain of not receiving? 

answer: any reports

question: What kind of stories were being censored in the media? 

answer: poorly built schools
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The AP reported that "The state-controlled media has largely ignored the issue, apparently under the propaganda bureau's instructions. Parents and volunteers who have questioned authorities have been detained and threatened."

question: Who has ignored the school issue? 

answer: state-controlled media

question: Who gave instructions to ignore the school issue? 

answer: propaganda bureau

question: What media source has reported this happening? 

answer: The AP
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: On May 15, 2008 Geoffery York of the Globeandmail.com reported that the shoddily constructed buildings are commonly called "tofu buildings" because builders cut corners by replacing steel rods with thin iron wires for concrete re-inforcement; using inferior grade cement, if any at all; and using fewer bricks than they should. One local was quoted in the article as saying that "the supervising agencies did not check to see if it met the national standards."

question: Why are the buildings so shoddily built? 

answer: builders cut corners

question: What did builder's use in place of steel rods as re-inforcement? 

answer: thin iron wires

question: Who was supposed to inspect building to see if they met national standards? 

answer: supervising agencies
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: However questions still remain, as some of the corrupt government officials have still not been brought to justice, while the many families who lost their only child, are still seeking compensation and justice to what had happened. According to the Times, many parents were warned by the government not to stage a protest under the threat of arrest.

question: Who has not been brought to justice? 

answer: corrupt government officials

question: Who is still looking for compensation and justice? 

answer: many families

question: What has the government threatened people with to keep them from protesting? 

answer: threat of arrest

question: What media reported the threat of arrest? 

answer: the Times

question: What did many families lose in the earthquake? 

answer: their only child
Title: New_York_City
Context: New York—often called New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part—is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.

question: What city in the United States has the highest population? 

answer: New York

question: In what city is the United Nations based? 

answer: New York

question: What city has been called the cultural capital of the world? 

answer: New York

question: What American city welcomes the largest number of legal immigrants? 

answer: New York

question: The major gateway for immigration has been which US city? 

answer: New York City

question: The most populated city in the United States is which city? 

answer: New York City
Title: New_York_City
Context: Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State. The five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 8,491,079 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. By 2014 census estimates, the New York City metropolitan region remains by a significant margin the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area (20.1 million residents) and the Combined Statistical Area (23.6 million residents). In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly US$1.39 trillion, while in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion, both ranking first nationally by a wide margin and behind the GDP of only twelve and eleven countries, respectively.

question: How many boroughs comprise New York City? 

answer: five

question: In what year were the five boroughs combined into one city? 

answer: 1898

question: In 2014, what did the census estimate the population of New York City to be? 

answer: 8,491,079

question: What is the size of New York City in square miles? 

answer: 305

question: What is the population of New York's Combined Statistical Area? 

answer: 23.6 million

question: How man boroughs does New York City contain? 

answer: five

question: The five boroughs of New York City are named what? 

answer: Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island

question: All five boroughs of New York City formed into one city on what date? 

answer: 1898

question: What is the population of New York City as of 2014? 

answer: 8,491,079

question: How many languages are spoken by the people of New York City? 

answer: 800
Title: New_York_City
Context: New York City traces its roots to its 1624 founding as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664. New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the country's largest city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a globally recognized symbol of the United States and its democracy.

question: What was the trading post that preceded New York City called? 

answer: New Amsterdam

question: What nation founded New Amsterdam? 

answer: the Dutch Republic

question: In what year did New York become the largest city in the United States? 

answer: 1790

question: When did the English take over the area from the Dutch? 

answer: 1664

question: In what year did New York cease the be the capital of the United States? 

answer: 1790

question: When was New York City established? 

answer: 1624

question: New Amsterdam became the title of New York City in what past date? 

answer: 1626

question: The English occupied New York City beginning on what date? 

answer: 1664

question: New York City is the biggest city in the United States since what historical date? 

answer: 1790
Title: New_York_City
Context: Many districts and landmarks in New York City have become well known, and the city received a record 56 million tourists in 2014, hosting three of the world's ten most visited tourist attractions in 2013. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world. Times Square, iconic as the world's "heart" and its "Crossroads", is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. The names of many of the city's bridges, skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and the city is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world. Manhattan's Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 469 stations in operation. New York City's higher education network comprises over 120 colleges and universities, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, which have been ranked among the top 35 in the world.

question: How many tourists visited New York in 2014? 

answer: 56 million

question: How many stations are operated by the New York City Subway? 

answer: 469

question: In what borough is Wall Street located? 

answer: Manhattan

question: How many school and universities are in NYC? 

answer: 120

question: NYC has the two largest stock exchanges in the world which are called what? 

answer: New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ
Title: New_York_City
Context: During the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the geologic foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, the ice sheet would help split apart what are now Long Island and Staten Island.

question: What island was once a part of Long Island? 

answer: Staten Island

question: During what period was the area around New York City located at the edge of an ice sheet 1,000 feet deep? 

answer: the Wisconsinan glaciation

question: Long Island and Staten Island were split in half by what geographical phenomenon? 

answer: ice sheet
Title: New_York_City
Context: In the precolonial era, the area of present-day New York City was inhabited by various bands of Algonquian tribes of Native Americans, including the Lenape, whose homeland, known as Lenapehoking, included Staten Island; the western portion of Long Island, including the area that would become Brooklyn and Queens; Manhattan; the Bronx; and the Lower Hudson Valley.

question: What was the name of the Lenape homeland? 

answer: Lenapehoking
Title: New_York_City
Context: The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown, who sailed his ship La Dauphine into New York Harbor. He claimed the area for France and named it "Nouvelle Angoulême" (New Angoulême).

question: In what year did the first European arrive in the New York area? 

answer: 1524

question: What was the name of the first European who arrived in the New York area? 

answer: Giovanni da Verrazzano

question: What was the name of Giovanni da Verrazzano's ship? 

answer: La Dauphine

question: What nation did Giovanni da Verrazzano serve? 

answer: France

question: What did Giovanni da Verrazzano call the area when he staked claim on it? 

answer: Nouvelle Angoulême

question: When was the first European to visit the area of NYC? 

answer: 1524

question: Giovanni da Verrazzano's ship that sailed to New York was named what? 

answer: La Dauphine

question: Giovani da Verrazzano was an explorer from which country? 

answer: France
Title: New_York_City
Context: A Spanish expedition led by captain Estêvão Gomes, a Portuguese sailing for Emperor Charles V, arrived in New York Harbor in January 1525 aboard the purpose-built caravel "La Anunciada" and charted the mouth of the Hudson River, which he named Rio de San Antonio. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August. The first scientific map to show the North American East coast continuously, the 1527 world map known as the Padrón Real, was informed by Gomes' expedition, and labeled the Northeast as Tierra de Esteban Gómez in his honor.

question: In what year did a Spanish expedition visit New York Harbor? 

answer: 1525

question: Who commanded the Spanish expedition? 

answer: Estêvão Gomes

question: What was the nationality of Estêvão Gomes? 

answer: Portuguese

question: What monarch did Estêvão Gomes serve? 

answer: Charles V

question: What was the name of Estêvão Gomes's ship? 

answer: La Anunciada

question: The front of the Hudson River was named what by Estevao Gomes? 

answer: Rio de San Antonio

question: What was the first map to show the whole North American East coast? 

answer: Padrón Real
Title: New_York_City
Context: In 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson re-discovered the region when he sailed his ship the Halve Maen ("Half Moon" in Dutch) into New York Harbor while searching for the Northwest Passage to the Orient for his employer, the Dutch East India Company. He proceeded to sail up what he named the North River, also called the Mauritis River, and now known as the Hudson River, to the site of the present-day New York State capital of Albany in the belief that it might represent an oceanic tributary. When the river narrowed and was no longer saline, he realized it was not a maritime passage and sailed back downriver. He made a ten-day exploration of the area and claimed the region for his employer. In 1614, the area between Cape Cod and Delaware Bay would be claimed by the Netherlands and called Nieuw-Nederland (New Netherland).

question: What was the name of the explorer who visited the area in 1609? 

answer: Henry Hudson

question: Who was Henry Hudson working for? 

answer: Dutch East India Company

question: In what year did the Netherlands claim the area between Delaware Bay and Cape Cod? 

answer: 1614

question: How many days did Henry Hudson spend exploring the region? 

answer: ten

question: What did Henry Hudson call the river that is now called the Hudson River? 

answer: North River

question: Henry Hudson worked for which company in the 1600s? 

answer: Dutch East India Company

question: In what year was the land between Cape Cod and Delaware Bay claimed by the Dutch? 

answer: 1614

question: Which explorer sailed his ship into New York harbor in 1609? 

answer: Henry Hudson
Title: New_York_City
Context: The first non-Native American inhabitant of what would eventually become New York City was Dominican trader Juan Rodriguez (transliterated to Dutch as Jan Rodrigues). Born in Santo Domingo of Portuguese and African descent, he arrived in Manhattan during the winter of 1613–1614, trapping for pelts and trading with the local population as a representative of the Dutch. Broadway, from 159th Street to 218th Street, is named Juan Rodriguez Way in his honor.

question: Where was Juan Rodriguez born? 

answer: Santo Domingo

question: What did the Dutch call Juan Rodriguez? 

answer: Jan Rodrigues

question: What was Juan Rodriguez's occupation? 

answer: trader

question: What is the street that is named after Juan Rodriguez? 

answer: Juan Rodriguez Way

question: During what season did Juan Rodriguez first come to New York? 

answer: winter

question: Who was the first non-Indian person to live in what is now NYC? 

answer: Juan Rodriguez

question: Which street in NYC today is now named after Juan Rodriguez? 

answer: Broadway, from 159th Street to 218th Street
Title: New_York_City
Context: A permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624 – making New York the 12th oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States  – with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on a citadel and a Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam). The colony of New Amsterdam was centered at the site which would eventually become Lower Manhattan. The Dutch colonial Director-General Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from the Canarsie, a small band of the Lenape, in 1626 for a value of 60 guilders (about $1000 in 2006); a disproved legend says that Manhattan was purchased for $24 worth of glass beads.

question: On what island did the Dutch set up a settlement to trade furs? 

answer: Governors Island

question: On what island was Fort Amsterdam built? 

answer: Manhattan Island

question: In what year did construction begin on Fort Amsterdam? 

answer: 1625

question: What person bought Manhattan from the Canarsie for the Dutch? 

answer: Peter Minuit

question: In what year did the Dutch buy Manhattan? 

answer: 1626

question: New Netherland established a permanent European presence in what year? 

answer: 1624

question: What year did building begin of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island? 

answer: 1625

question: What was the myth that Manhattan was bought for by General Peter Minuit ? 

answer: glass beads
Title: New_York_City
Context: In 1664, Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of the colony of New Netherland, surrendered New Amsterdam to the English without bloodshed. The English promptly renamed the fledgling city "New York" after the Duke of York (later King James II).

question: What did the English call New Amsterdam after its capture? 

answer: New York

question: What was the regnal name of the Duke of York? 

answer: James II

question: What person gave up New Amsterdam to the English? 

answer: Peter Stuyvesant

question: What was Peter Stuyvesant's title? 

answer: Director-General

question: In what year did the English take over New Amsterdam? 

answer: 1664

question: Who gave up New Amsterdam to the English without a fight in 1664? 

answer: Peter Stuyvesant
Title: New_York_City
Context: On August 24, 1673, Dutch captain Anthonio Colve took over the colony of New York from England and rechristened it "New Orange" to honor the Prince of Orange, King William III. However, facing defeat from the British and French, who had teamed up to destroy Dutch trading routes, the Dutch returned the island to England in 1674.

question: What was the regnal name of the Prince of Orange? 

answer: William III

question: What was the date of Anthonio Colve's capture of New York? 

answer: August 24, 1673

question: What did Colve call New York after he captured it? 

answer: New Orange

question: In what year did the Dutch give New York back to the English? 

answer: 1674

question: August 24, 1673 is when which Dutch officer  took control of NYC? 

answer: Anthonio Colve

question: The Dutch gave back the island to which country in 1674 after their trade routes had been destroyed? 

answer: England

question: New York was called New Orange for a period based off which historical figure? 

answer: King William III
Title: New_York_City
Context: At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the English gained New Amsterdam (New York) in North America in exchange for Dutch control of Run, an Indonesian island. Several intertribal wars among the Native Americans and some epidemics brought on by contact with the Europeans caused sizable population losses for the Lenape between the years 1660 and 1670. By 1700, the Lenape population had diminished to 200.

question: After what war did the English receive New Amsterdam? 

answer: Second Anglo-Dutch War

question: How many Lenape lived in the area in 1700? 

answer: 200

question: What was the name of the island the English traded to the Dutch in return for New Amsterdam? 

answer: Run

question: In 1700, the Lenape Native American population had dwindled to how many? 

answer: 200

question: After which war did England gain New York in exchange for Run, an Indonesian island? 

answer: Second Anglo-Dutch War
Title: New_York_City
Context: New York grew in importance as a trading port while under British rule in the early 1700s. It also became a center of slavery, with 42% of households holding slaves by 1730, more than any other city other than Charleston, South Carolina. Most slaveholders held a few or several domestic slaves, but others hired them out to work at labor. Slavery became integrally tied to New York's economy through the labor of slaves throughout the port, and the banks and shipping tied to the South. Discovery of the African Burying Ground in the 1990s, during construction of a new federal courthouse near Foley Square, revealed that tens of thousands of Africans had been buried in the area in the colonial years.

question: In 1730, what percentage of New York households were slave-holding? 

answer: 42%

question: In 1730, what American city had the highest percentage of slaveholders? 

answer: Charleston, South Carolina

question: Near what square was the African Burial Ground unearthed? 

answer: Foley Square

question: What was being built that resulted in the discovery of the African Burial Ground? 

answer: courthouse

question: Which city in North America held the most slaves in the 1700s? 

answer: Charleston, South Carolina

question: When was as African burial ground discovered after the building of new courthouse? 

answer: 1990s
Title: New_York_City
Context: The trial in Manhattan of John Peter Zenger in 1735 helped to establish the freedom of the press in North America. In 1754, Columbia University was founded under charter by King George II as King's College in Lower Manhattan. The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October 1765 as the Sons of Liberty organized in the city, skirmishing over the next ten years with British troops stationed there.

question: In what year was John Peter Zenger tried? 

answer: 1735

question: On what island did Zenger's trial occur? 

answer: Manhattan

question: In what year was Columbia University chartered? 

answer: 1754

question: Under what king did the founding of Columbia University occur? 

answer: George II

question: What was the original name of Columbia University? 

answer: King's College

question: Which trial in Manhatten helped establish the right of freedom of the press? 

answer: John Peter Zenger

question: Columbia University of New York was founded in what year? 

answer: 1754

question: The Stamp Act Congress had a meeting in 1765 in which US city? 

answer: New York