praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: Somalis
Context: Due to Somalia's proximity to and close ties with the Arabian Peninsula, many Somali men also wear the jellabiya (jellabiyad or qamiis in Somali), a long white garment common in the Arab world.

question: What is the jellabiya? 

answer: a long white garment

question: Along with jellabiyad, what is the jellabiya called in Somali? 

answer: qamiis

question: In what region do men commonly wear the jellabiya? 

answer: the Arab world
Title: Somalis
Context: During regular, day-to-day activities, Somali women usually wear the guntiino, a long stretch of cloth tied over the shoulder and draped around the waist. It is usually made out of alandi, which is a textile common in the Horn region and some parts of North Africa. The garment can be worn in different styles. It can also be made with other fabrics, including white cloth with gold borders. For more formal settings, such as at weddings or religious celebrations like Eid, women wear the dirac. It is a long, light, diaphanous voile dress made of silk, chiffon, taffeta or saree fabric. The gown is worn over a full-length half-slip and a brassiere. Known as the gorgorad, the underskirt is made out of silk and serves as a key part of the overall outfit. The dirac is usually sparkly and very colorful, the most popular styles being those with gilded borders or threads. The fabric is typically acquired from Somali clothing stores in tandem with the gorgorad. In the past, dirac fabric was also frequently purchased from South Asian merchandisers.

question: What is the regular garment of Somali women? 

answer: the guntiino

question: What is the guntiino normally made from? 

answer: alandi

question: What is the usual formal attire for Somali women? 

answer: the dirac

question: Along with silk, saree fabric or chiffon, what might the dirac be made out of? 

answer: taffeta

question: What is the underskirt of the dirac called? 

answer: the gorgorad
Title: Somalis
Context: Married women tend to sport headscarves referred to as shaash. They also often cover their upper body with a shawl, which is known as garbasaar. Unmarried or young women, however, do not always cover their heads. Traditional Arabian garb, such as the jilbab and abaya, is also commonly worn.

question: What is the name of the headscarf worn by married women? 

answer: shaash

question: What is the name of the shawl that married women wear on their upper bodies? 

answer: garbasaar

question: Along with abaya, what is a traditional Arab garment sometimes worn by Somali women? 

answer: the jilbab
Title: Somalis
Context: Additionally, Somali women have a long tradition of wearing gold jewelry, particularly bangles. During weddings, the bride is frequently adorned in gold. Many Somali women by tradition also wear gold necklaces and anklets.

question: What is the jewelry worn by Somali women commonly made from? 

answer: gold

question: Along with anklets, what pieces of jewelry are traditionally worn by Somali women? 

answer: necklaces

question: What type of jewelry do Somali women wear at their weddings? 

answer: gold
Title: Somalis
Context: The Somali flag is an ethnic flag conceived to represent ethnic Somalis. It was created in 1954 by the Somali scholar Mohammed Awale Liban, after he had been selected by the labour trade union of the Trust Territory of Somalia to come up with a design. Upon independence in 1960, the flag was adopted as the national flag of the nascent Somali Republic. The five-pointed Star of Unity in the flag's center represents the Somali ethnic group inhabiting the five territories in Greater Somalia.

question: In what year was the Somali flag invented? 

answer: 1954

question: Who devised the Somali flag? 

answer: Mohammed Awale Liban

question: What was Mohammed Awale Liban by profession? 

answer: scholar

question: What is the star at the center of the Somali flag called? 

answer: Star of Unity

question: How many points does the Star of Unity have? 

answer: five
Title: Somalis
Context: Somali cuisine varies from region to region and consists of a fusion of diverse culinary influences. It is the product of Somalia's rich tradition of trade and commerce. Despite the variety, there remains one thing that unites the various regional cuisines: all food is served halal. There are therefore no pork dishes, alcohol is not served, nothing that died on its own is eaten, and no blood is incorporated.

question: What is the one culinary tradition that is present among all Somali regional cuisines? 

answer: all food is served halal

question: What type of meat is never present in halal dishes? 

answer: pork

question: What beverage is not halal? 

answer: alcohol

question: Along with alcohol, what liquid is never present in halal food? 

answer: blood
Title: Somalis
Context: Qado or lunch is often elaborate. Varieties of bariis (rice), the most popular probably being basmati, usually serve as the main dish. Spices like cumin, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, and garden sage are used to aromatize these different rice delicacies. Somalis eat dinner as late as 9 pm. During Ramadan, supper is often served after Tarawih prayers; sometimes as late as 11 pm.

question: What is the English word for qado? 

answer: lunch

question: What is bariis in English? 

answer: rice

question: What is the most popular variety of bariis? 

answer: basmati

question: When is the latest a Somali might eat dinner during Ramadan? 

answer: 11 pm

question: After what event during Ramadan is dinner served? 

answer: Tarawih prayers
Title: Somalis
Context: Xalwo (halva) is a popular confection eaten during festive occasions, such as Eid celebrations or wedding receptions. It is made from sugar, corn starch, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and ghee. Peanuts are also sometimes added to enhance texture and flavor. After meals, homes are traditionally perfumed using frankincense (lubaan) or incense (cuunsi), which is prepared inside an incense burner referred to as a dabqaad.

question: What is another term for xalwo? 

answer: halva

question: Along with wedding receptions, when is xalwo often consumed? 

answer: Eid celebrations

question: What do the Somalis call frankincense? 

answer: lubaan

question: What is the English word for cunnsi? 

answer: incense

question: What do the Somalis call incense burners? 

answer: dabqaad
Title: Somalis
Context: Somali scholars have for centuries produced many notable examples of Islamic literature ranging from poetry to Hadith. With the adoption of the Latin alphabet in 1972 to transcribe the Somali language, numerous contemporary Somali authors have also released novels, some of which have gone on to receive worldwide acclaim. Of these modern writers, Nuruddin Farah is probably the most celebrated. Books such as From a Crooked Rib and Links are considered important literary achievements, works which have earned Farah, among other accolades, the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Farah Mohamed Jama Awl is another prominent Somali writer who is perhaps best known for his Dervish era novel, Ignorance is the enemy of love. Young upstart Nadifa Mohamed was also awarded the 2010 Betty Trask Prize. Additionally, Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi' is considered by many to be the greatest living Somali poet, and several of his works have been translated internationally.

question: When did Somalis begin to render their language using the Latin alphabet? 

answer: 1972

question: Who is the most well-known modern Somali writer? 

answer: Nuruddin Farah

question: In what year did Nuruddin Farah win the Neustadt International Prize for Literature? 

answer: 1998

question: Who wrote Ignorance is the enemy of love? 

answer: Farah Mohamed Jama Awl

question: Who won the 2010 Betty Trask Prize? 

answer: Nadifa Mohamed
Title: Somalis
Context: Somalis for centuries have practiced a form of customary law, which they call Xeer. Xeer is a polycentric legal system where there is no monopolistic agent that determines what the law should be or how it should be interpreted.

question: What is the Somali system of customary law? 

answer: Xeer
Title: Somalis
Context: The Xeer legal system is assumed to have developed exclusively in the Horn of Africa since approximately the 7th century. There is no evidence that it developed elsewhere or was greatly influenced by any foreign legal system. The fact that Somali legal terminology is practically devoid of loan words from foreign languages suggests that Xeer is truly indigenous.

question: In what century did the Xeer system begin? 

answer: 7th

question: In what region did the Xeer system develop? 

answer: the Horn of Africa

question: What fact about Somali legal terms implies that Xeer developed locally? 

answer: devoid of loan words
Title: Somalis
Context: The Xeer legal system also requires a certain amount of specialization of different functions within the legal framework. Thus, one can find odayal (judges), xeer boggeyaal (jurists), guurtiyaal (detectives), garxajiyaal (attorneys), murkhaatiyal (witnesses) and waranle (police officers) to enforce the law.

question: In the Xeer system, what are judges called? 

answer: odayal

question: What does xeer boggeyaal mean in English? 

answer: jurists

question: What does the Xeer system call attorneys? 

answer: garxajiyaal

question: By what term are witnesses known in the Xeer system? 

answer: murkhaatiyal

question: What does the Xeer system call cops? 

answer: waranle
Title: Somalis
Context: Somali architecture is a rich and diverse tradition of engineering and designing. It involves multiple different construction types, such as stone cities, castles, citadels, fortresses, mosques, mausoleums, towers, tombs, tumuli, cairns, megaliths, menhirs, stelae, dolmens, stone circles, monuments, temples, enclosures, cisterns, aqueducts, and lighthouses. Spanning the ancient, medieval and early modern periods in Greater Somalia, it also includes the fusion of Somalo-Islamic architecture with Western designs in contemporary times.

question: Along with Somalo-Islamic architecture, what influences modern Somali architecture? 

answer: Western designs

question: Along with the early modern and ancient, during what period did Somali architecture exist? 

answer: medieval

question: What material was used to make Somali cities? 

answer: stone
Title: Somalis
Context: In ancient Somalia, pyramidical structures known in Somali as taalo were a popular burial style, with hundreds of these dry stone monuments scattered around the country today. Houses were built of dressed stone similar to the ones in Ancient Egypt. There are also examples of courtyards and large stone walls enclosing settlements, such as the Wargaade Wall.

question: What do Somalis call their ancient pyramids? 

answer: taalo

question: What were taalo used for? 

answer: burial

question: What were ancient Somali houses made out of? 

answer: dressed stone

question: Ancient Somali houses were similar to houses in what country? 

answer: Egypt

question: What is a notable stone wall built in ancient Somalia? 

answer: the Wargaade Wall
Title: Somalis
Context: The peaceful introduction of Islam in the early medieval era of Somalia's history brought Islamic architectural influences from Arabia and Persia. This had the effect of stimulating a shift in construction from drystone and other related materials to coral stone, sundried bricks, and the widespread use of limestone in Somali architecture. Many of the new architectural designs, such as mosques, were built on the ruins of older structures. This practice would continue over and over again throughout the following centuries.

question: During what period was the Muslim faith introduced to Somalia? 

answer: early medieval

question: Along with Arabian influences, where did architectural influences come from in the medieval period? 

answer: Persia

question: In the medieval period, what buildings were notably built atop older ruins? 

answer: mosques

question: Along with sundried bricks and coral stone, what construction material was widely used after the introduction of Islam? 

answer: limestone

question: Before Islam was introduced, what was a common building material in Somalia? 

answer: drystone
Title: Somalis
Context: The scholarly term for research concerning Somalis and Greater Somalia is known as Somali Studies. It consists of several disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, historiography and archaeology. The field draws from old Somali chronicles, records and oral literature, in addition to written accounts and traditions about Somalis from explorers and geographers in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. Since 1980, prominent Somalist scholars from around the world have also gathered annually to hold the International Congress of Somali Studies.

question: What is the academic study of the Somali people called? 

answer: Somali Studies

question: Along with sociology, linguistics, historiography and archaeology, what field is part of Somali Studies? 

answer: anthropology

question: Along with chronicles and records, what indigenous sources are used in Somali Studies? 

answer: oral literature

question: What is the name of the annual gathering of Somali Studies scholars? 

answer: the International Congress of Somali Studies

question: When did the International Congress of Somali Studies begin? 

answer: 1980
Title: Middle_Ages
Context: In European history, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: Antiquity, Medieval period, and Modern period. The Medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, the High, and the Late Middle Ages.

question: In what century did the Middle Ages begin? 

answer: 5th

question: What century saw the end of the Middle Ages? 

answer: 15th

question: What event marked the beginning of the Middle Ages? 

answer: the collapse of the Western Roman Empire

question: Along with the Renaissance, what era occurred at the end of the Middle Ages? 

answer: Age of Discovery

question: What is the first period of the three that Western history is traditionally divided into? 

answer: Antiquity
Title: Middle_Ages
Context: Depopulation, deurbanisation, invasion, and movement of peoples, which had begun in Late Antiquity, continued in the Early Middle Ages. The barbarian invaders, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East—once part of the Eastern Roman Empire—came under the rule of the Caliphate, an Islamic empire, after conquest by Muhammad's successors. Although there were substantial changes in society and political structures, the break with Antiquity was not complete. The still-sizeable Byzantine Empire survived in the east and remained a major power. The empire's law code, the Code of Justinian, was rediscovered in Northern Italy in 1070 and became widely admired later in the Middle Ages. In the West, most kingdoms incorporated the few extant Roman institutions. Monasteries were founded as campaigns to Christianise pagan Europe continued. The Franks, under the Carolingian dynasty, briefly established the Carolingian Empire during the later 8th and early 9th century. It covered much of Western Europe, but later succumbed to the pressures of internal civil wars combined with external invasions—Vikings from the north, Magyars from the east, and Saracens from the south.

question: Along with the movement of peoples, invasion and depopulation, what event started in Late Antiquity and continued into the Middle Ages? 

answer: deurbanisation

question: In what state did barbarian invaders establish kingdoms? 

answer: the Western Roman Empire

question: What empire was North Africa previously a part of? 

answer: the Eastern Roman Empire

question: In what century did the Caliphate conquer North Africa? 

answer: 7th

question: In what year did Italians discover the Code of Justinian? 

answer: 1070
Title: Middle_Ages
Context: During the High Middle Ages, which began after 1000, the population of Europe increased greatly as technological and agricultural innovations allowed trade to flourish and the Medieval Warm Period climate change allowed crop yields to increase. Manorialism, the organisation of peasants into villages that owed rent and labour services to the nobles, and feudalism, the political structure whereby knights and lower-status nobles owed military service to their overlords in return for the right to rent from lands and manors, were two of the ways society was organised in the High Middle Ages. The Crusades, first preached in 1095, were military attempts by Western European Christians to regain control of the Holy Land from the Muslims. Kings became the heads of centralised nation states, reducing crime and violence but making the ideal of a unified Christendom more distant. Intellectual life was marked by scholasticism, a philosophy that emphasised joining faith to reason, and by the founding of universities. The theology of Thomas Aquinas, the paintings of Giotto, the poetry of Dante and Chaucer, the travels of Marco Polo, and the architecture of Gothic cathedrals such as Chartres are among the outstanding achievements toward the end of this period, and into the Late Middle Ages.

question: What year marked the beginning of the High Middle Ages? 

answer: 1000

question: What event led to larger crop yields in the High Middle Ages? 

answer: the Medieval Warm Period

question: What was the name of the economic system that organized peasants into villages owing labor and rent to nobles? 

answer: Manorialism

question: What was the name of the political system that gave rents to knights in return for military service? 

answer: feudalism

question: In what year did the Crusades begin? 

answer: 1095
Title: Middle_Ages
Context: The Late Middle Ages was marked by difficulties and calamities including famine, plague, and war, which significantly diminished the population of Europe; between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed about a third of Europeans. Controversy, heresy, and schism within the Church paralleled the interstate conflict, civil strife, and peasant revolts that occurred in the kingdoms. Cultural and technological developments transformed European society, concluding the Late Middle Ages and beginning the early modern period.

question: When did the Black Death end? 

answer: 1350

question: In what period of the Middle Ages did the Black Death occur? 

answer: Late

question: What portion of the European population died in the Black Death? 

answer: a third

question: What era occurred after the Late Middle Ages? 

answer: the early modern period

question: Along with controversy and schism, what upset the peace of the Church during the Late Middle Ages? 

answer: heresy
Title: Middle_Ages
Context: The Middle Ages is one of the three major periods in the most enduring scheme for analysing European history: classical civilisation, or Antiquity; the Middle Ages; and the Modern Period.

question: Along with Antiquity and the Middle Ages, what is the other major division of European history? 

answer: the Modern Period

question: How many major periods is European history divided into? 

answer: three

question: What is another name for Antiquity? 

answer: classical civilisation
Title: Middle_Ages
Context: Medieval writers divided history into periods such as the "Six Ages" or the "Four Empires", and considered their time to be the last before the end of the world. When referring to their own times, they spoke of them as being "modern". In the 1330s, the humanist and poet Petrarch referred to pre-Christian times as antiqua (or "ancient") and to the Christian period as nova (or "new"). Leonardo Bruni was the first historian to use tripartite periodisation in his History of the Florentine People (1442). Bruni and later historians argued that Italy had recovered since Petrarch's time, and therefore added a third period to Petrarch's two. The "Middle Ages" first appears in Latin in 1469 as media tempestas or "middle season". In early usage, there were many variants, including medium aevum, or "middle age", first recorded in 1604, and media saecula, or "middle ages", first recorded in 1625. The alternative term "medieval" (or occasionally "mediaeval") derives from medium aevum. Tripartite periodisation became standard after the German 17th century historian Christoph Cellarius divided history into three periods: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern.

question: Along with the Six Ages, what other scheme did writers in the Middle Ages use to divide history? 

answer: Four Empires

question: What writer referred to the Christian period as new? 

answer: Petrarch

question: Who wrote the History of the Florentine People? 

answer: Leonardo Bruni

question: When was the History of the Florentine People published? 

answer: 1442

question: Who first divided history into the ancient, medieval and modern periods? 

answer: Christoph Cellarius
Title: Middle_Ages
Context: The most commonly given starting point for the Middle Ages is 476, first used by Bruni.[A] For Europe as a whole, 1500 is often considered to be the end of the Middle Ages, but there is no universally agreed upon end date. Depending on the context, events such as Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492, the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, or the Protestant Reformation in 1517 are sometimes used. English historians often use the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 to mark the end of the period. For Spain, dates commonly used are the death of King Ferdinand II in 1516, the death of Queen Isabella I of Castile in 1504, or the conquest of Granada in 1492. Historians from Romance-speaking countries tend to divide the Middle Ages into two parts: an earlier "High" and later "Low" period. English-speaking historians, following their German counterparts, generally subdivide the Middle Ages into three intervals: "Early", "High", and "Late". In the 19th century, the entire Middle Ages were often referred to as the "Dark Ages",[B] but with the adoption of these subdivisions, use of this term was restricted to the Early Middle Ages, at least among historians.

question: What date is usually given as the beginning of the Middle Ages? 

answer: 476

question: Who was the first writer to date the Middle Ages from 476? 

answer: Bruni

question: When is the Middle Ages generally considered to have ended? 

answer: 1500

question: In what year did the Turks conquer Constantinople? 

answer: 1453

question: When did Ferdinand II die? 

answer: 1516