praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: Namibia
Context: Since independence Namibia has successfully completed the transition from white minority apartheid rule to parliamentary democracy. Multiparty democracy was introduced and has been maintained, with local, regional and national elections held regularly. Several registered political parties are active and represented in the National Assembly, although the Swapo Party has won every election since independence. The transition from the 15-year rule of President Sam Nujoma to his successor Hifikepunye Pohamba in 2005 went smoothly.

question: What did Namibia transition to after white minority apartheid rule? 

answer: parliamentary democracy

question: What type of independence was introduced in Namibia after independence?  

answer: Multiparty democracy

question: What party has won every election in Namibia? 

answer: Swapo Party

question: Who succeeded Sam Nujoma? 

answer: Hifikepunye Pohamba

question: How long did president Same Nujoma rule? 

answer: 15-year
Title: Namibia
Context: The Kalahari Desert, an arid region shared with South Africa and Botswana, is one of Namibia's well-known geographical features. The Kalahari, while popularly known as a desert, has a variety of localised environments, including some verdant and technically non-desert areas. One of these, known as the Succulent Karoo, is home to over 5,000 species of plants, nearly half of them endemic; Approximately 10 percent of the world's succulents are found in the Karoo. The reason behind this high productivity and endemism may be the relatively stable nature of precipitation.

question: What Desert is shared between South Africa and Botswana? 

answer: Kalahari Desert

question: How many plants species are found in Succulent Karoo? 

answer: 5,000

question: How many plants are endemic to the Succulent Karoo? 

answer: half

question: How many of the worlds succulents are found in Karoo? 

answer: 10 percent

question: What is probably the reason there are so many unique plants in Karoo? 

answer: stable nature of precipitation
Title: Namibia
Context: Namibia extends from 17°S to 25°S: climatically the range of the sub-Tropical High Pressure Belt, arid is the overall climate description descending from the Sub-Humid (mean rain above 500 mm) through Semi-Arid between 300 and 500 mm (embracing most of the waterless Kalahari) and Arid from 150 to 300 mm (these three regions are inland from the western escarpment) to the Hyper-Arid coastal plain with less than a 100 mm mean. Temperature maxima are limited by the overall elevation of the entire region: only in the far south, Warmbad for instance, are mid-40 °C maxima recorded.

question: What is the climate range for Namibia? 

answer: 17°S to 25°S

question: What is the overall climate description for Namibia?  

answer: arid

question: What is the mean rain above in Namibia? 

answer: 500 mm

question: What is the semi-arid measurements in Namibia? 

answer: 300 and 500 mm

question: What is the arid measurement in Namibia? 

answer: 150 to 300 mm
Title: Namibia
Context: Typically the sub-Tropical High Pressure Belt, with frequent clear skies, provides more than 300 days of sunshine per year. It is situated at the southern edge of the tropics; the Tropic of Capricorn cuts the country about in half. The winter (June – August) is generally dry, both rainy seasons occur in summer, the small rainy season between September and November, the big one between February and April. Humidity is low, and average rainfall varies from almost zero in the coastal desert to more than 600 mm in the Caprivi Strip. Rainfall is however highly variable, and droughts are common. The last[update] bad rainy season with rainfall far below the annual average occurred in summer 2006/07.

question: What is the typical amount of sunshine days in Tropical high pressure belt? 

answer: 300 days

question: What feature cuts Namibia in half? 

answer: the Tropic of Capricorn

question: What is the winter in Namibia like? 

answer: dry

question: When is the rainiest season in Namibia? 

answer: between February and April

question: What is humidity like in Namibia? 

answer: low
Title: Namibia
Context: Weather and climate in the coastal area are dominated by the cold, north-flowing Benguela current of the Atlantic Ocean which accounts for very low precipitation (50 mm per year or less), frequent dense fog, and overall lower temperatures than in the rest of the country. In Winter, occasionally a condition known as Bergwind (German: Mountain breeze) or Oosweer (Afrikaans: East weather) occurs, a hot dry wind blowing from the inland to the coast. As the area behind the coast is a desert, these winds can develop into sand storms with sand deposits in the Atlantic Ocean visible on satellite images.

question: What current dominates the coastal area of Namibia? 

answer: Benguela

question: What direction does the current in the coastal area flow? 

answer: north

question: Which ocean is on the coastal area of Namibia? 

answer: Atlantic

question: What is the condition that happens in winter in Namibia? 

answer: Bergwind

question: What do hot dry winds blowing inland to the coast create? 

answer: sand storms
Title: Namibia
Context: Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa and depends largely on groundwater. With an average rainfall of about 350 mm per annum, the highest rainfall occurs in the Caprivi in the northeast (about 600 mm per annum) and decreases in a westerly and southwesterly direction to as little as 50 mm and less per annum at the coast. The only perennial rivers are found on the national borders with South Africa, Angola, Zambia, and the short border with Botswana in the Caprivi. In the interior of the country surface water is available only in the summer months when rivers are in flood after exceptional rainfalls. Otherwise, surface water is restricted to a few large storage dams retaining and damming up these seasonal floods and their runoff. Thus, where people don’t live near perennial rivers or make use of the storage dams, they are dependent on groundwater. The advantage of using groundwater sources is that even isolated communities and those economic activities located far from good surface water sources such as mining, agriculture, and tourism can be supplied from groundwater over nearly 80% of the country.

question: What is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa? 

answer: Namibia

question: What is the average rainfall in Namibia? 

answer: 350 mm per annum

question: Where does the highest rainfall occur in Namibia? 

answer: Caprivi

question: How much of the country does dam water supply the rest of the country with?  

answer: 80%
Title: Namibia
Context: Namibia is one of few countries in the world to specifically address conservation and protection of natural resources in its constitution. Article 95 states, "The State shall actively promote and maintain the welfare of the people by adopting international policies aimed at the following: maintenance of ecosystems, essential ecological processes, and biological diversity of Namibia, and utilisation of living natural resources on a sustainable basis for the benefit of all Namibians, both present and future."

question: What does Namibia protect in it's constitution?  

answer: natural resources

question: What article in the Namibia constitution supports natural conservation? 

answer: Article 95

question: What do Namibians believe sustains them? 

answer: utilisation of living natural resources
Title: Namibia
Context: In 1993, the newly formed government of Namibia received funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Living in a Finite Environment (LIFE) Project. The Ministry of Environment and Tourism with the financial support from organisations such as USAID, Endangered Wildlife Trust, WWF, and Canadian Ambassador's Fund, together form a Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) support structure. The main goal of this project is promote sustainable natural resource management by giving local communities rights to wildlife management and tourism.

question: When did Namibia receive funding from USAID? 

answer: 1993

question: What does LIFE project stand for? 

answer: Living in a Finite Environment

question: What does CBNRM stand for? 

answer: Community Based Natural Resource Management

question: What does USAID stands for? 

answer: United States Agency for International Development
Title: Namibia
Context: Namibia follows a largely independent foreign policy, with persisting affiliations with states that aided the independence struggle, including Cuba. With a small army and a fragile economy, the Namibian Government's principal foreign policy concern is developing strengthened ties within the Southern African region. A dynamic member of the Southern African Development Community, Namibia is a vocal advocate for greater regional integration. Namibia became the 160th member of the UN on 23 April 1990. On its independence it became the fiftieth member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

question: Who does Namibia have affiliation with in their foreign policy? 

answer: states that aided the independence

question: What ties does Namibia want to strengthen? 

answer: Southern African

question: Which number member is Namibia in the UN? 

answer: 160th

question: When did Namibia join the UN? 

answer: 23 April 1990

question: Which number member is Namibia in the Commonwealth of Nations? 

answer: fiftieth
Title: Namibia
Context: According to the Namibia Labour Force Survey Report 2012, conducted by the Namibia Statistics Agency, the country's unemployment rate is 27.4%. "Strict unemployment" (people actively seeking a full-time job) stood at 20.2% in 2000, 21.9% in 2004 and spiraled to 29.4% in 2008. Under a broader definition (including people that have given up searching for employment) unemployment rose to 36.7% in 2004. This estimate considers people in the informal economy as employed. Labour and Social Welfare Minister Immanuel Ngatjizeko praised the 2008 study as "by far superior in scope and quality to any that has been available previously", but its methodology has also received criticism.

question: What was the highest unemployment rate in Namibia? 

answer: 36.7%

question: Who is the Labour and Social Welfare Minister? 

answer: Immanuel Ngatjizeko

question: When was the lowest unemployment rate in Namibia? 

answer: 20.2%

question: What is Namibian's unemployment rate? 

answer: 27.4%
Title: Namibia
Context: In 2013, global business and financial news provider, Bloomberg, named Namibia the top emerging market economy in Africa and the 13th best in the world. Only four African countries made the Top 20 Emerging Markets list in the March 2013 issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine, and Namibia was rated ahead of Morocco (19th), South Africa (15th) and Zambia (14th). Worldwide, Namibia also fared better than Hungary, Brazil and Mexico. Bloomberg Markets magazine ranked the top 20 based on more than a dozen criteria. The data came from Bloomberg's own financial-market statistics, IMF forecasts and the World Bank. The countries were also rated on areas of particular interest to foreign investors: the ease of doing business, the perceived level of corruption and economic freedom. In order to attract foreign investment, the government has made improvement in reducing red tape resulted from excessive government regulations making the country one of the least bureaucratic places to do business in the region. However, facilitation payments are occasionally demanded by customs due to cumbersome and costly customs procedures. Namibia is also classified as an Upper Middle Income country by the World Bank, and ranks 87th out of 185 economies in terms of ease of doing business.

question: What did Bloomberg name Namibia? 

answer: top emerging market economy in Africa

question: What rank did Bloomberg name Namibia's economy? 

answer: 13th best in the world

question: How many African countries made the list for top Emerging Markets? 

answer: four
Title: Namibia
Context: About half of the population depends on agriculture (largely subsistence agriculture) for its livelihood, but Namibia must still import some of its food. Although per capita GDP is five times the per capita GDP of Africa's poorest countries, the majority of Namibia's people live in rural areas and exist on a subsistence way of life. Namibia has one of the highest rates of income inequality in the world, due in part to the fact that there is an urban economy and a more rural cash-less economy. The inequality figures thus take into account people who do not actually rely on the formal economy for their survival. Although arable land accounts for only 1% of Namibia, nearly half of the population is employed in agriculture.

question: How much of the population depends on agriculture? 

answer: half

question: How much more is the per capita GDP in Namibia compared to the rest of Africa's countries? 

answer: five times

question: Namibia has one of the highest rates of what type of income problems in the world? 

answer: inequality

question: Where does a majority of Namibia's people live? 

answer: rural

question: How much of Namibia's land is arable? 

answer: 1%
Title: Namibia
Context: Providing 25% of Namibia's revenue, mining is the single most important contributor to the economy. Namibia is the fourth largest exporter of non-fuel minerals in Africa and the world's fourth largest producer of uranium. There has been significant investment in uranium mining and Namibia is set to become the largest exporter of uranium by 2015. Rich alluvial diamond deposits make Namibia a primary source for gem-quality diamonds. While Namibia is known predominantly for its gem diamond and uranium deposits, a number of other minerals are extracted industrially such as lead, tungsten, gold, tin, fluorspar, manganese, marble, copper and zinc. There are offshore gas deposits in the Atlantic Ocean that are planned to be extracted in the future. According to "The Diamond Investigation", a book about the global diamond market, from 1978, De Beers, the largest diamond company, bought most of the Namibian diamonds, and would continue to do so, because "whatever government eventually comes to power they will need this revenue to survive".

question: How much revenue does mining provide Namibia? 

answer: 25%

question: Where does Namibia rank in the exportation of uranium?  

answer: fourth

question: What does rich alluvial diamond deposits make Namibia a source of? 

answer: gem-quality diamonds

question: Namibia was expected to become the largest exporter of what in 2015? 

answer: uranium
Title: Namibia
Context: There are many lodges and reserves to accommodate eco-tourists. Sport hunting is also a large, and growing component of the Namibian economy, accounting for 14% of total tourism in the year 2000, or $19.6 million US dollars, with Namibia boasting numerous species sought after by international sport hunters. In addition, extreme sports such as sandboarding, skydiving and 4x4ing have become popular, and many cities have companies that provide tours.[citation needed] The most visited places include the capital city of Windhoek, Caprivi Strip, Fish River Canyon, Sossusvlei, the Skeleton Coast Park, Sesriem, Etosha Pan and the coastal towns of Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and Lüderitz.

question: What accounts for almost 14% of total tourism in Namibia? 

answer: Sport hunting

question: How much economic assistance does Namibia get from tourism from hunting?  

answer: $19.6 million US dollars

question: What other types of sports are popular in Namibia? 

answer: extreme sports

question: What is the most visited city in Namibia? 

answer: Windhoek

question: What type of town is Swakopmund? 

answer: coastal
Title: Namibia
Context: The capital city of Windhoek plays a very important role in Namibia's tourism due to its central location and close proximity to Hosea Kutako International Airport. According to The Namibia Tourism Exit Survey, which was produced by the Millennium Challenge Corporation for the Namibian Directorate of Tourism, 56% of all tourists visiting Namibia during the time period, 2012 - 2013, visited Windhoek. Many of Namibia's tourism related parastatals and governing bodies such as Namibia Wildlife Resorts, Air Namibia and the Namibia Tourism Board as well as Namibia's tourism related trade associations such as the Hospitality Association of Namibia are also all headquartered in Windhoek. There are also a number of notable hotels in Windhoek such as Windhoek Country Club Resort and some international hotel chains also operate in Windhoek, such as Avani Hotels and Resorts and Hilton Hotels and Resorts.

question: What is the capital of Namibia? 

answer: Windhoek

question: What is the airport in Namibia? 

answer: Hosea Kutako International Airport

question: What is the most popular hotel in Windhoek? 

answer: Windhoek Country Club Resort

question: Avani Hotels and resorts is a chain resort in Windhoek, what is another? 

answer: Hilton Hotels and Resorts
Title: Namibia
Context: Namibia's primary tourism related governing body, the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB), was established by an Act of Parliament: the Namibia Tourism Board Act, 2000 (Act 21 of 2000). Its primary objectives are to regulate the tourism industry and to market Namibia as a tourist destination. There are also a number of trade associations that represent the tourism sector in Namibia, such as the Federation of Namibia Tourism Associations (the umbrella body for all tourism associations in Namibia), the Hospitality Association of Namibia, the Association of Namibian Travel Agents, Car Rental Association of Namibia and the Tour and Safari Association of Namibia.

question: What does NTB stand for? 

answer: Namibia Tourism Board

question: What is act 21 of 2000 in Namibia? 

answer: Namibia Tourism Board Act, 2000

question: What does act 21 in Namibia regulate? 

answer: tourism industry

question: What market does Act 21 promote? 

answer: tourism
Title: Namibia
Context: Apart from residences for upper and middle class households, sanitation is insufficient in most residential areas. Private flush toilets are too expensive for virtually all residents in townships due to their water consumption and installation cost. As a result, access to improved sanitation has not increased much since independence: In Namibia's rural areas 13% of the population had more than basic sanitation, up from 8% in 1990. Many of Namibia's inhabitants have to resort to "flying toilets", plastic bags to defecate which after use are flung into the bush. The use of open areas close to residential land to urinate and defecate is very common and has been identified as a major health hazard.

question: Most residential areas are insufficient in what area of Namibia? 

answer: sanitation

question: Besides installation cost, why are private flush toilets too expensive for most residents in Namibia? 

answer: water consumption

question: What do Namibian's use as a toilet? 

answer: flying toilets

question: Where do flying toilets end up after use? 

answer: bush

question: Urinating and defecating in public has been identified as what? 

answer: major health hazard
Title: Namibia
Context: Whites (mainly of Afrikaner, German, British and Portuguese origin) make up between 4.0 and 7.0% of the population. Although their percentage of population is decreasing due to emigration and lower birth rates they still form the second-largest population of European ancestry, both in terms of percentage and actual numbers, in Sub-Saharan Africa (after South Africa). The majority of Namibian whites and nearly all those who are mixed race speak Afrikaans and share similar origins, culture, and religion as the white and coloured populations of South Africa. A large minority of whites (around 30,000) trace their family origins back to the German settlers who colonized Namibia prior to the British confiscation of German lands after World War One, and they maintain German cultural and educational institutions. Nearly all Portuguese settlers came to the country from the former Portuguese colony of Angola. The 1960 census reported 526,004 persons in what was then South-West Africa, including 73,464 whites (14%).

question: Whites make up how much of Namibia's population? 

answer: 4.0 and 7.0%

question: What is the language of Namibia? 

answer: Afrikaans

question: Where do a large minority of whites trace their Namibian roots to? 

answer: German settlers

question: What was the population in South-West Africa in 1960? 

answer: 526,004

question: How much of the population was white in South-West Africa in 1960? 

answer: 73,464
Title: Namibia
Context: Namibia conducts a census every ten years. After independence the first Population and Housing Census was carried out in 1991, further rounds followed in 2001 and 2011. The data collection method is to count every person resident in Namibia on the census reference night, wherever they happen to be. This is called the de facto method. For enumeration purposes the country is demarcated into 4,042 enumeration areas. These areas do not overlap with constituency boundaries to get reliable data for election purposes as well.

question: When was the first Population and Housing Census in Namibia? 

answer: 1991

question: How often does Namibia conduct a census? 

answer: every ten years

question: What is it called when the census counts every person wherever they are the night of the census?  

answer: de facto method

question: How many enumeration areas are there in Namibia? 

answer: 4,042

question: The enumeration areas in Namibia do not overlap with what in order to get reliable data? 

answer: constituency boundaries
Title: Namibia
Context: Up to 1990, English, German and Afrikaans were official languages. Long before Namibia's independence from South Africa, SWAPO was of the opinion that the country should become officially monolingual, choosing this approach in contrast to that of its neighbour South Africa (which granted all 11 of its major languages official status), which was seen by them as "a deliberate policy of ethnolinguistic fragmentation." Consequently, SWAPO instituted English as the sole official language of Namibia though only about 3% of the population speaks it as a home language. Its implementation is focused on the civil service, education and the broadcasting system. Some other languages have received semi-official recognition by being allowed as medium of instruction in primary schools. It is expected of private schools to follow the same policy as state schools, and "English language" is a compulsory subject. As in other postcolonial African societies, the push for monolingual instruction and policy has resulted in a high rate of school drop-outs and of individuals whose academic competence in any language is low.

question: German, English, and Afrikaans were the official languages until when in Namibia? 

answer: 1990

question: What is the primary language of Namibia, as SWAPO instituted? 

answer: English

question: SWAPO thought Namibia should have what type of official language? 

answer: monolingual

question: How many Namibian's speak English? 

answer: 3%

question: There was a high rate of what due to monolingual instruction? 

answer: school drop-outs