praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Office buildings in Shanghai's financial district, including the Jin Mao Tower and the Hong Kong New World Tower, were evacuated. A receptionist at the Tibet Hotel in Chengdu said things were "calm" after the hotel evacuated its guests. Meanwhile, workers at a Ford plant in Sichuan were evacuated for about 10 minutes. Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport was shut down, and the control tower and regional radar control evacuated. One SilkAir flight was diverted and landed in Kunming as a result. Cathay Pacific delayed both legs of its quadruple daily Hong Kong to London route due to this disruption in air traffic services. Chengdu Shuangliu Airport reopened later on the evening of May 12, offering limited service as the airport began to be used as a staging area for relief operations.

question: Where were office buildings evacuated? 

answer: Shanghai's financial district

question: How did a receptionist describe the atmosphere after the evacuation? 

answer: calm

question: How long were workers in Ford Plant evacuated for? 

answer: 10 minutes

question: Which airport was shut down? 

answer: Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport

question: When did the airport re-open? 

answer: May 12

question: What happened to office buildings in Shanghai? 

answer: evacuated

question: Which airport was shut down? 

answer: Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport

question: Why were flights delayed and diverted? 

answer: disruption in air traffic services

question: What were they using the airport to stage for? 

answer: relief operations
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Reporters in Chengdu said they saw cracks on walls of some residential buildings in the downtown areas, but no buildings collapsed. Many Beijing office towers were evacuated, including the building housing the media offices for the organizers of the 2008 Summer Olympics. None of the Olympic venues were damaged. Meanwhile, a cargo train carrying 13 petrol tanks derailed in Hui County, Gansu, and caught on fire after the rail was distorted.

question: Where did the reporters say they saw cracks on walls of some buildings? 

answer: in Chengdu

question: Where were office towers evacuated? 

answer: Beijing

question: Where did a cargo train derail as a result? 

answer: Hui County, Gansu

question: What happened to the cargo train? 

answer: caught on fire

question: What was reported in Chengdu? 

answer: cracks on walls

question: What was evacuated in Beijing? 

answer: office towers

question: What part of the Olympic area was not damaged? 

answer: venues

question: Where did a cargo train derail? 

answer: Hui County, Gansu

question: Why did the train catch fire? 

answer: rail was distorted
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: All of the highways into Wenchuan, and others throughout the province, were damaged, resulting in delayed arrival of the rescue troops. In Beichuan County, 80% of the buildings collapsed according to Xinhua News. In the city of Shifang, the collapse of two chemical plants led to leakage of some 80 tons of liquid ammonia, with hundreds of people reported buried. In the city of Dujiangyan, south-east of the epicenter, a whole school collapsed with 900 students buried and fewer than 60 survived. The Juyuan Middle School, where many teenagers were buried, was excavated by civilians and cranes. Dujiangyan is home of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, an ancient water diversion project which is still in use and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The project's famous Fish Mouth was cracked but not severely damaged otherwise.

question: How many highways leading into Wenchuan were damaged? 

answer: All of the highways

question: What percentage of building collapsed in Beichuan? 

answer: 80%

question: Where did two chemical plants collapse? 

answer: Dujiangyan

question: How many students out of the 900 in the school, survived the collapse? 

answer: 60

question: What highways into Wenchuan  were damaged? 

answer: All of the highways

question: What did the damaged roadways cause to the rescue operations? 

answer: delayed arrival

question: How many of the buildings in Beichuan collapsed? 

answer: 80%

question: What leaked liquid ammonia in Shifang? 

answer: two chemical plants

question: How many of the 900 students buried in a Dujiangyan school collapse survived? 

answer: fewer than 60
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Both the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange suspended trading of companies based in southwestern China. Copper rose over speculations that production in southwestern China may be affected, and oil prices dropped over speculations that demand from China would fall.

question: Where were the exchanges based? 

answer: southwestern China

question: What metal rose in value? 

answer: Copper

question: What natural resource dropped in value? 

answer: oil

question: What did the Shanghai Stock Exchange do? 

answer: suspended trading

question: Where were companies located that had their stock trading suspended? 

answer: southwestern China

question: What metal rose due to speculation? 

answer: Copper

question: Besides the Shanghai Stock Exchange, what other exchange suspended trading of southwestern China stock? 

answer: Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Immediately after the earthquake event, mobile and terrestrial telecommunications were cut to the affected and surrounding area, with all internet capabilities cut to the Sichuan area too. Elements of telecommunications were restored by the government piece by piece over the next number of months as the situation in the Sichuan province gradually improved. Eventually, a handful of major news and media websites were made accessible online in the region, albeit with dramatically pared back webpages.

question: What kinds of telecommunications were cut? 

answer: mobile and terrestrial

question: What capabilities were cut to the entire Sichuan area? 

answer: internet

question: How long did it take for these capabilities to be restored? 

answer: months

question: What was cut after the earthquake? 

answer: telecommunications

question: Where were the internet cut? 

answer: Sichuan area

question: Who restored communications over a period of months? 

answer: the government

question: What internet services were decreased in the area? 

answer: news and media websites

question: What services were finally online again? 

answer: major news and media
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: China Mobile had more than 2,300 base stations suspended due to power disruption or severe telecommunication traffic congestion. Half of the wireless communications were lost in the Sichuan province. China Unicom's service in Wenchuan and four nearby counties was cut off, with more than 700 towers suspended.

question: How many base stations did China Mobile have suspended? 

answer: 2,300

question: How many Unicom towers were suspended? 

answer: more than 700

question: How many China Mobile base stations stopped working? 

answer: 2,300

question: Besides power disruption, what caused telecommunications to be suspended? 

answer: traffic congestion

question: How many wireless communications failed in Sichuan? 

answer: Half

question: Whose service in Wenchuan was cut off? 

answer: China Unicom

question: How many of China Unicom's towers were cut? 

answer: 700
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Initially, officials were unable to contact the Wolong National Nature Reserve, home to around 280 giant pandas. However, the Foreign Ministry later said that a group of 31 British tourists visiting the Wolong Panda Reserve in the quake-hit area returned safe and uninjured to Chengdu. Nonetheless, the well-being of an even greater number of pandas in the neighbouring panda reserves remained unknown. Five security guards at the reserve were killed by the earthquake. Six pandas escaped after their enclosures were damaged. By May 20, two pandas at the reserve were found to be injured, while the search continued for another two adult pandas that went missing after the quake. By May 28, 2008, one panda was still missing. The missing panda was later found dead under the rubble of an enclosure. Nine-year-old Mao Mao, a mother of five at the breeding center, was discovered on Monday, her body crushed by a wall in her enclosure. Panda keepers and other workers placed her remains in a small wooden crate and buried her outside the breeding centre.

question: What place could officials not contact? 

answer: the Wolong National Nature Reserve

question: How many pandas live at the Reserve? 

answer: around 280

question: How many British visitors to the Reserve left unharmed? 

answer: 31

question: How many pandas were injured? 

answer: 2

question: What nature center was cutoff? 

answer: Wolong National Nature Reserve

question: How many pandas escaped the reserve? 

answer: Six

question: How many security guards died at the reserve? 

answer: five

question: What famous panda was killed under the rubble? 

answer: Mao Mao
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The Zipingpu Hydropower Plant (simplified Chinese: 紫坪铺水库; traditional Chinese: 紫坪鋪水庫) located 20 km east of the epicenter was damaged. A recent inspection indicated that the damage was less severe than initially feared, and it remains structurally stable and safe. The Tulong reservoir upstream is in danger of collapse. About 2,000 troops have been allocated to Zipingpu, trying to release the pressure through spillway. In total, 391 dams, most of them small, were reported damaged by the quake.

question: What power plant was damaged? 

answer: Hydropower Plant

question: How far away was the plant located from the epicenter? 

answer: 20 km east

question: How many troops were allocated to Zipingpu? 

answer: 2,000

question: How many dams were damaged? 

answer: 391

question: What power plant was damaged by the earthquake? 

answer: Zipingpu Hydropower Plant

question: How near to the epicenter was the power plant? 

answer: 20 km

question: What has a recent inspection found about the damage to the power plant? 

answer: less severe

question: What might possibly collapse upstream from the power plant? 

answer: Tulong reservoir

question: What is the total number of dams damaged? 

answer: 391
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: According to Chinese state officials, the quake caused 69,180 known deaths including 68,636 in Sichuan province; 18,498 people are listed as missing, and 374,176 injured, but these figures may further increase as more reports come in.[dated info] This estimate includes 158 earthquake relief workers who were killed in landslides as they tried to repair roads.

question: How many deaths were reported? 

answer: 69,180

question: How many deaths were reported only in the Sichuan province? 

answer: 68,636

question: How many people were listed as missing? 

answer: 18,498

question: How many people were injured? 

answer: 374,176

question: How many earthquake relief workers were killed? 

answer: 158

question: How many died in Sichuan? 

answer: 68,636

question: What is the total tally of known deaths caused by the earthquake? 

answer: 69,180

question: What is the number of missing persons? 

answer: 18,498

question: How many people were injured? 

answer: 374,176

question: What were the 158 relief workers doing when they were killed? 

answer: tried to repair roads
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: One rescue team reported only 2,300 survivors from the town of Yingxiu in Wenchuan County, out of a total population of about 9,000. 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed in Beichuan County, Sichuan alone; in the same location, 10,000 people were injured and 80% of the buildings were destroyed. The old county seat of Beichuan was abandoned and preserved as part of the Beichuan Earthquake Museum. Eight schools were toppled in Dujiangyan. A 56-year-old was killed in Dujiangyan during a rescue attempt on the Lingyanshan Ropeway, where due to the earthquake 11 tourists from Taiwan had been trapped inside cable cars since May 13. A 4-year-old boy named Zhu Shaowei (traditional Chinese: 朱紹維; simplified Chinese: 朱绍维; pinyin: Zhū Shàowéi) was also killed in Mianzhu City when a house collapsed on him and another was reported missing.

question: How many survivors were there from Yingxiu? 

answer: 2,300

question: Where is Yingxiu located? 

answer: in Wenchuan

question: How many people in total lived in Yingxiu? 

answer: 9,000

question: How many people were killed in Beichuan County? 

answer: 3,000 to 5,000

question: How many people were injured in Beichuan County? 

answer: 10,000

question: How many survivors were there in the town of Yingxiu? 

answer: 2,300

question: What was the previous population of Yingxiu? 

answer: about 9,000

question: How many residents were killed in Beichuan County? 

answer: 3,000 to 5,000

question: How large was the number of injured in Beichuan County? 

answer: 10,000

question: What is the number of schools that collapsed in Dujiangyan? 

answer: Eight schools
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Experts point out that the earthquake hit an area that has been largely neglected and untouched by China's economic rise. Health care is poor in inland areas such as Sichuan, highlighting the widening gap between prosperous urban dwellers and struggling rural people. Vice Minister of Health Gao Qiang told reporters in Beijing that the "public health care system in China is insufficient." The Vice Minister of Health also suggested that the government would pick up the costs of care to earthquake victims, many of whom have little or no insurance: "The government should be responsible for providing medical treatment to them," he said.

question: What is poor about inland areas such as Sichuan? 

answer: Health care

question: Who was the Vice Minister of Health? 

answer: Gao Qiang

question: What did Gao Qiang tell reporters in Beijing? 

answer: public health care system in China is insufficient

question: How economically forward has this area been? 

answer: neglected and untouched

question: Where is health care poor in China? 

answer: inland areas

question: What did the Vice Minster of Health call the public health system in China? 

answer: insufficient

question: What should the government of China be responsible for providing to earthquake survivors? 

answer: medical treatment
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: In terms of school casualties, thousands of school children died due to shoddy construction. In Mianyang City, seven schools collapsed, burying at least 1,700 people. At least 7,000 school buildings throughout the province collapsed. Another 700 students were buried in a school in Hanwang. At least 600 students and staff died at Juyuan Elementary School. Up to 1,300 children and teachers died at Beichuan Middle School.

question: How many school children died due to shoddy construction? 

answer: thousands

question: How many schools collapsed in Mianyang City? 

answer: seven

question: How many people were buried in the collapsed schools? 

answer: 1,700

question: How many school buildings collapsed in the province? 

answer: 7,000

question: How many students were buried in a school in Hanwang? 

answer: 700

question: What caused the deaths of many school children? 

answer: shoddy construction

question: How many schools collapsed in Mianyang City 

answer: seven

question: How many people were buried under rubble in Mianyang City? 

answer: 1,700

question: How many school buildings fell in the entire province? 

answer: 7,000

question: How many were killed at the Juyuan Elementary School? 

answer: 600
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Details of school casualties had been under non-governmental investigation since December 2008 by volunteers including artist and architect Ai Weiwei, who had been constantly posting updates on his blog since March 2009. The official tally of students killed in the earthquake was not released until May 7, 2009, almost a year after the earthquake. According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, the earthquake killed 5,335 students and left another 546 children disabled. In the aftermath of the earthquake, the Chinese government declared that parents who had lost their only children would get free treatment from fertility clinics to reverse vasectomies and tubal ligations conducted by family planning authorities.

question: When did an investigation occur under school casualties? 

answer: December 2008

question: When was the official tally of students killed in the earthquake released? 

answer: May 7, 2009

question: How many students were killed in Xinhua? 

answer: 5,335

question: How many students were disabled in Xinhua? 

answer: 546

question: What date were the official numbers of students killed in the earthquake released? 

answer: May 7, 2009

question: Who kept a blog about the school deaths? 

answer: Ai Weiwei

question: What is the total of school children killed? 

answer: 5,335

question: How many children are disabled? 

answer: 546

question: Where did the Chinese government decide that parents who had lost children could go for free treatment? 

answer: fertility clinics
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The earthquake left at least 5 million people without housing, although the number could be as high as 11 million. Millions of livestock and a significant amount of agriculture were also destroyed, including 12.5 million animals, mainly birds. In the Sichuan province a million pigs died out of 60 million total. Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide reported official estimates of insurers' losses at US$1 billion from the earthquake; estimated total damages exceed US$20 billion. It values Chengdu, at the time having an urban population of 4.5 million people, at around US$115 billion, with only a small portion covered by insurance.

question: How many people were left without housing? 

answer: 5 million

question: How many people could be potentially without housing? 

answer: 11 million

question: How many animals were killed? 

answer: 12.5 million

question: How many pigs died in Sichuan? 

answer: 1 million

question: Because of the earthquake, how many people did not have housing? 

answer: at least 5 million

question: How many people might actually be homeless? 

answer: 11 million

question: How much livestock was lost? 

answer: 12.5 million animals

question: How many pigs died from the earthquake in Sichuan ? 

answer: a million
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Reginald DesRoches, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech, pointed out that the massive damage of properties and houses in the earthquake area was because China did not create an adequate seismic design code until after the devastating 1976 Tangshan earthquake. DesRoches said: "If the buildings were older and built prior to that 1976 earthquake, chances are they weren't built for adequate earthquake forces."

question: Who was a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech? 

answer: Reginald DesRoches

question: What is the profession of Reginald DesRoches? 

answer: professor of civil and environmental engineering

question: When did China create a seismic design code for building? 

answer: 1976

question: What catastrophe inspired them to make a building design code/  

answer: Tangshan earthquake
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: In the days following the disaster, an international reconnaissance team of engineers was dispatched to the region to make a detailed preliminary survey of damaged buildings. Their findings show a variety of reasons why many constructions failed to withstand the earthquake.

question: What happened days following the disaster? 

answer: an international reconnaissance team of engineers was dispatched to the region

question: What did the team of engineers do? 

answer: make a detailed preliminary survey of damaged buildings

question: What did their findings show? 

answer: a variety of reasons why many constructions failed to withstand the earthquake.

question: After the quake what kind of international team was sent to the area? 

answer: team of engineers

question: What was the team sent to China to make? 

answer: survey of damaged buildings

question: What kind of reasons do their findings show? 

answer: variety of reasons
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: News reports indicate that the poorer, rural villages were hardest hit. Swaminathan Krishnan, assistant professor of civil engineering and geophysics at the California Institute of Technology said: "the earthquake occurred in the rural part of China. Presumably, many of the buildings were just built; they were not designed, so to speak." Swaminathan Krishnan further added: "There are very strong building codes in China, which take care of earthquake issues and seismic design issues. But many of these buildings presumably were quite old and probably were not built with any regulations overseeing them."

question: What areas were the hardest hit? 

answer: the poorer, rural villages

question: Who was an assistant professor of civil engineering and geophysics at the California Institute of Technology? 

answer: Swaminathan Krishnan

question: What part of China did the earthquake occur in? 

answer: rural part

question: What did Swaminathan Krishnan mean when he said the buildings were just built? 

answer: not designed

question: What manner of building codes are there in China? 

answer: very strong

question: What were many of these old buildings built without? 

answer: regulations
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Even with the five largest cities in Sichuan suffering only minor damage from the quake, some estimates of the economic loss run higher than US$75 billion, making the earthquake one of the costliest natural disasters in Chinese history.

question: What is an estimate of the economic loss from the quake? 

answer: $75 billion

question: What damage did the major Sichuan cities have? 

answer: minor damage

question: What is an estimate of losses to economics? 

answer: US$75 billion

question: Whose is this one of the costliest disasters in history of? 

answer: Chinese history

question: Which cities in Sichuan had minor damage? 

answer: five largest cities
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Strong aftershocks continued to strike even months after the main quake. On May 25, an aftershock of 6.0 Mw (6.4 Ms according to CEA) hit northeast of the original earthquake's epicenter, in Qingchuan County, Sichuan, causing eight deaths, 1000 injuries, and destroying thousands of buildings. On May 27, two aftershocks, one 5.2 Mw in Qingchuan County and one 5.7 Mw in Ningqiang County, Shaanxi, led to the collapse of more than 420,000 homes and injured 63 people. The same area suffered two more aftershocks of 5.6 and 6.0 Ms (5.8 and 5.5 Mw, respectively, according to USGS) on July 23, resulting in 1 death, 6 serious injuries, collapse of hundreds of homes and damaging kilometers of highways. Pingwu County and Beichuan County, Sichuan, also northeast of Wenchuan and close to the epicenter of a 7.2 Ms earthquake in 1976, suffered a 6.1 Ms aftershock (5.7 Mw according to USGS) on August 1; it caused 2 deaths, 345 injuries, collapse of 707 homes, damages to over 1,000 homes, and blocked 25 kilometres (16 mi) of country roads. As late as August 5, yet another aftershock of 6.1 Ms (6.2 Mw according to USGS) hit Qingchuan, Sichuan, causing 1 death, 32 injuries, telecommunication interruptions, and widespread hill slides blocking roads in the area including a national highway.

question: How many buildings collapsed as a result of the May 27th aftershocks? 

answer: 420,000

question: How strong was the May 25 aftershock in Qingchuan county? 

answer: 6.0 Mw

question: How many people were injured in the May 25 aftershock? 

answer: 1000

question: How many homes were destroyed because of the May 27 aftershocks? 

answer: more than 420,000

question: During the May 27 aftershock, how many people were injured? 

answer: 63

question: Where was the aftershock of August 5 that caused widespread hill slides? 

answer: Qingchuan, Sichuan