praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: On May 12, 2009, China marked the first anniversary of the quake with a moment of silence as people across the nation remembered the dead. The government also opened access to the sealed ruins of the Beichuan county seat for three days, after which it will be frozen in time as a state earthquake relic museum, to remind people of the terrible disaster. There were also several concerts across the country to raise money for the survivors of the quake.

question: What was done for the anniversary? 

answer: a moment of silence

question: Where did the government open access to? 

answer: the sealed ruins of the Beichuan county seat

question: How long was it opened for? 

answer: three days

question: What did China do to mark the first anniversary of the quake? 

answer: a moment of silence

question: What will the Beichuan county seat be used for? 

answer: earthquake relic museum

question: What kind of event were given to raise money for quake survivors? 

answer: several concerts

question: What is the Beichuan museum meant to remind people of? 

answer: the terrible disaster
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Following the earthquake, donations were made by people from all over mainland China, with booths set up in schools, at banks, and around gas stations. People also donated blood, resulting in according to Xinhua long line-ups in most major Chinese cities. Many donated through text messaging on mobile phones to accounts set up by China Unicom and China Mobile By May 16, the Chinese government had allocated a total of $772 million for earthquake relief so far, up sharply from $159 million from May 14.

question: What was also donated? 

answer: blood

question: What companies received the money? 

answer: China Unicom and China Mobile

question: After the quake, people from where in China made donations? 

answer: all over mainland China

question: What caused long lines in most major cities? 

answer: donated blood

question: What were the Chinese setting up to take in donations? 

answer: booths

question: How did a lot of people donate using mobile phones? 

answer: text messaging

question: How much had the Chinese government designated by May 16? 

answer: $772 million
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The Red Cross Society of China flew 557 tents and 2,500 quilts valued at 788,000 yuan (US$113,000) to Wenchuan County. The Amity Foundation already began relief work in the region and has earmarked US$143,000 for disaster relief. The Sichuan Ministry of Civil Affairs said that they have provided 30,000 tents for those left homeless.

question: How many tents were flown to the region? 

answer: 557

question: How many quilts were flown to the region? 

answer: 2,500

question: How much were both supplies worth? 

answer: 788,000 yuan

question: What county were the supplies flown to? 

answer: Wenchuan County

question: How many tents did the Sichuan Ministry provide for the homeless? 

answer: 30,000

question: What group took tents and quilts to Wenchuan county? 

answer: Red Cross Society of China

question: How much has the Amity Foundation designated for disaster relief? 

answer: US$143,000

question: How many tents did the Sichuan Ministry of Affairs provide? 

answer: 30,000

question: What were all these tents and quilts for? 

answer: those left homeless

question: What foundation had already begun relief work in the area? 

answer: The Amity Foundation
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The central government estimates that over 7,000 inadequately engineered schoolrooms collapsed in the earthquake. Chinese citizens have since invented a catch phrase: "tofu-dregs schoolhouses" (Chinese: 豆腐渣校舍), to mock both the quality and the quantity of these inferior constructions that killed so many school children. Due to the one-child policy, many families lost their only child when schools in the region collapsed during the earthquake. Consequently, Sichuan provincial and local officials have lifted the restriction for families whose only child was either killed or severely injured in the disaster. So-called "illegal children" under 18 years of age may be registered as legal replacements for their dead siblings; if the dead child was illegal, no further outstanding fines would apply. Reimbursement would not, however, be offered for fines that were already levied.

question: How many schoolrooms collapsed in the quake? 

answer: 7,000

question: What catch-phrase was invented as a result of collapsed schools? 

answer: tofu-dregs schoolhouses

question: Why did so many schools collapse during the earthquake? 

answer: inadequately engineered

question: What are the estimations of how many schoolrooms collapsed? 

answer: over 7,000

question: What has the citizenry started calling these type of schools? 

answer: tofu-dregs schoolhouses

question: What can illegal children be registered as in place of their dead siblings? 

answer: legal replacements
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: On the evening of May 18, CCTV-1 hosted a special four-hour program called The Giving of Love (simplified Chinese: 爱的奉献; traditional Chinese: 愛的奉獻), hosted by regulars from the CCTV New Year's Gala and round-the-clock coverage anchor Bai Yansong. It was attended by a wide range of entertainment, literary, business and political figures from mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Donations of the evening totalled 1.5 billion Chinese Yuan (~US$208 million). Of the donations, CCTV gave the biggest corporate contribution at ¥50 million. Almost at the same time in Taiwan, a similarly themed programme was on air hosted by the sitting president Ma Ying-jeou. In June, Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan, who donated $1.57 million to the victims, made a music video alongside other artists entitled "Promise"; the song was composed by Andy Lau. The Artistes 512 Fund Raising Campaign, an 8-hour fundraising marathon, was held on June 1 in Hong Kong; it was attended by some 200 Sinosphere musicians and celebrities. In Singapore, MediaCorp Channel 8 hosted a 'live' programme 让爱川流不息 to raise funds for the victims.

question: What did CCTV-1 host on the evening of May 18th? 

answer: four-hour program called The Giving of Love

question: Who was the show hosted by? 

answer: Bai Yansong

question: How large were the donations from the program? 

answer: Donations of the evening totalled 1.5 billion Chinese Yuan

question: How much did Jackie Chan donate to support? 

answer: $1.57 million

question: What was the name of the music video that Jackie Chan made for the event? 

answer: Promise

question: What was the program that CCTV-1 hosted? 

answer: The Giving of Love

question: What did the donations total for the program? 

answer: US$208 million

question: What company gave the most? 

answer: CCTV

question: How much did actor Jackie Chan donate? 

answer: 1.57 million

question: What was the name of Chan's music video? 

answer: Promise
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Rescue efforts performed by the Chinese government were praised by western media, especially in comparison with Myanmar's blockage of foreign aid during Cyclone Nargis, as well as China's previous performance during the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. China's openness during the media coverage of the Sichuan earthquake led a professor at the Peking University to say, “This is the first time [that] the Chinese media has lived up to international standards”. Los Angeles Times praised China's media coverage of the quake of being "democratic".

question: What did a professor at the Peking University say about the handling of the earthquake? 

answer: This is the first time [that] the Chinese media has lived up to international standards

question: What did Myanmar block after Cyclone Nargis? 

answer: foreign aid

question: What did a Peking professor say about Chinese media coverage? 

answer: up to international standards

question: Who praised Chinese media coverage as being democratic? 

answer: Los Angeles Times

question: In which previous catastrophe not live up to international standards? 

answer: 1976 Tangshan earthquake
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: As a result of the magnitude 7.9 earthquake and the many strong aftershocks, many rivers became blocked by large landslides, which resulted in the formation of "quake lakes" behind the blockages; these massive amounts of water were pooling up at a very high rate behind the natural landslide dams and it was feared that the blockages would eventually crumble under the weight of the ever-increasing water mass, potentially endangering the lives of millions of people living downstream. As of May 27, 2008, 34 lakes had formed due to earthquake debris blocking and damming rivers, and it was estimated that 28 of them were still of potential danger to the local people. Entire villages had to be evacuated because of the resultant flooding.

question: What formed behind blockages? 

answer: quake lakes

question: How many quake lakes formed? 

answer: 34

question: How many of the lakes were a danger to people? 

answer: 28

question: What was the magnitude of the Sichuan earthquake? 

answer: 7.9

question: What blocked many of the area's rivers? 

answer: large landslides

question: What formed behind the blocked rivers? 

answer: quake lakes

question: By May 27, how many earthquake lakes had formed up behind landslide debris? 

answer: 34

question: What had to be evacuated due to potential flooding? 

answer: Entire villages
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The most precarious of these quake-lakes was the one located in the extremely difficult terrain at Mount Tangjia in Beichuan County, Sichuan, accessible only by foot or air; an Mi-26T heavy lift helicopter belonging to the China Flying Dragon Special Aviation Company was used to bring heavy earthmoving tractors to the affected location. This operation was coupled with the work done by PLAAF Mi-17 helicopters bringing in PLA engineering corps, explosive specialists and other personnel to join 1,200 soldiers who arrived on site by foot. Five tons of fuel to operate the machinery was airlifted to the site, where a sluice was constructed to allow the safe discharge of the bottlenecked water. Downstream, more than 200,000 people were evacuated from Mianyang by June 1 in anticipation of the dam bursting.

question: Where was the most precarious quake lake located? 

answer: Mount Tangjia in Beichuan County, Sichuan

question: How could you only get to this quake lake? 

answer: by foot or air

question: What machinery was airlifted into the location? 

answer: tractors

question: How many people were evacuated downstream? 

answer: 200,000

question: What was the fear that caused 200,000 people to be evacuated from Mianyang? 

answer: the dam bursting

question: Where was the worst of the quake lakes located? 

answer: Mount Tangjia

question: Where is Mount Tangjia? 

answer: Beichuan County, Sichuan

question: How many soldiers had to travel to the area by foot? 

answer: 1,200
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The State Council declared a three-day period of national mourning for the quake victims starting from May 19, 2008; the PRC's National Flag and Regional Flags of Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions flown at half mast. It was the first time that a national mourning period had been declared for something other than the death of a state leader, and many have called it the biggest display of mourning since the death of Mao Zedong. At 14:28 CST on May 19, 2008, a week after the earthquake, the Chinese public held a moment of silence. People stood silent for three minutes while air defense, police and fire sirens, and the horns of vehicles, vessels and trains sounded. Cars and trucks on Beijing's roads also came to a halt. People spontaneously burst into cheering "Zhongguo jiayou!" (Let's go, China!) and "Sichuan jiayou" (Let's go, Sichuan!) afterwards.

question: Who declared the mourning period? 

answer: The State Council

question: What did the State Council declare a period of? 

answer: national mourning

question: This was the biggest display of mourning since the death of who? 

answer: Mao Zedong

question: When did the Chinese hold a moment of silence? 

answer: May 19, 2008

question: What came to a halt during the moment of silence? 

answer: Cars and trucks

question: How long was the national mourning for the quake victims to last? 

answer: three-day period
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The Ningbo Organizing Committee of the Beijing Olympic torch relay announced that the relay, scheduled to take place in Ningbo during national morning, would be suspended for the duration of the mourning period. The route of the torch through the country was scaled down, and there was a minute of silence when the next leg started in city of Ruijin, Jiangxi on the Wednesday after the quake.

question: What was suspended for the duration of the mourning period? 

answer: Olympic torch relay

question: Where was the relay scheduled to take place? 

answer: Ningbo

question: What was suspended during the period of mourning? 

answer: Beijing Olympic torch relay

question: Where was the torch relay supposed to take place? 

answer: in Ningbo

question: What part of the relay did they change? 

answer: The route

question: Where was there a minute of silence during the relay? 

answer: Ruijin, Jiangxi
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Many websites converted their home page to black and white; Sina.com and Sohu, major internet portals, limited their homepages to news items and removed all advertisements. Chinese video sharing websites Youku and Tudou displayed a black background and placed multiple videos showing earthquake footage and news reports. The Chinese version of MSN, cn.msn.com, also displayed banner ads about the earthquake and the relief efforts. Other entertainment websites, including various gaming sites, such as the Chinese servers for World of Warcraft, had shut down altogether, or had corresponding links to earthquake donations. After the moments of silence, in Tiananmen Square, crowds spontaneously burst out cheering various slogans, including "Long Live China". Casinos in Macau closed down.

question: What colors did many websites convert their home pages to? 

answer: black and white

question: What did internet portals remove from their home pages? 

answer: all advertisements

question: Many of what shut down completely? 

answer: various gaming sites

question: What did the crowds in Tiananmen Square do after the moment of silence? 

answer: burst out cheering

question: What business closed in Macau? 

answer: Casinos
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Ye Zhiping, the principal of Sangzao Middle School in Sangzao, one of the largest in An County, has been credited with proactive action that spared the lives of all 2,323 pupils in attendance when the earthquake happened. During a three-year period that ended in 2007, he oversaw a major overhaul of his school. During that time he obtained more than 400,000 yuan (US$60,000) from the county education department, money used to widen and strengthen concrete pillars and the balcony railing of all four storeys of his school, as well as secure its concrete floors.

question: Who was the principal of Sangzao Middle School?  

answer: Ye Zhiping

question: What was the principal credited with? 

answer: proactive action that spared the lives of all 2,323 pupils in attendance when the earthquake happened

question: How many students attended the school? 

answer: 2,323

question: How much money was used to strengthen the construction of the school? 

answer: 400,000 yuan

question: What school principal strengthened his school? 

answer: Ye Zhiping

question: Where is the Sangzao Middle School? 

answer: Sangzao

question: The Sangzao school is one of the biggest in what county? 

answer: An County

question: How many years was Ye Zhiping involved in the school overhaul? 

answer: three-year period
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: However, Reuters reported in June that, to date, Chinese prosecutors have joined an official inquiry into ten collapsed schools during May's devastating earthquake to gain first-hand material of construction quality at the collapsed schools, launch preliminary inquiries and prepare for possible investigations into professional crime. It was also reported that safety checks were to be carried out at schools across China after last month's earthquake.

question: Why were the schools inspected? 

answer: to gain first-hand material of construction quality

question: What was to be carried out at schools after the quake? 

answer: safety checks

question: Who has joined an official inquiry into the school scandal? 

answer: Chinese prosecutors

question: What investigation are the prosecutors pursuing? 

answer: professional crime

question: Where are the Chinese going to perform safety checks? 

answer: schools across China

question: What group reported that Chinese prosecutors were involved in investigating the schoolhouse collapses? 

answer: Reuters
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: The New York Times reported that "government officials in Beijing and Sichuan have said they are investigating the collapses. In an acknowledgment of the weakness of building codes in the countryside, the National Development and Reform Commission said on May 27 that it had drafted an amendment to improve construction standards for primary and middle schools in rural areas. Experts are reviewing the draft, the commission said." To limit protests, officials pushed parents to sign a document, which forbade them from holding protests, in exchange of money, but some who refused to sign were threatened. The payment amounts varied from school to school but were approximately the same. In Hanwang, parents were offered a package valued at 8,800 USD in cash and a per-parent pension of nearly 5,600 USD. Furthermore, officials used other methods of silencing: riot police officers broke up protests by parents; the authorities set up cordons around the schools; and officials ordered the Chinese news media to stop reporting on school collapses.

question: What was given in exchange of signing the document? 

answer: money

question: What other methods were used to break up protests? 

answer: riot police

question: Who did the New York Times report was investigating the school collapses? 

answer: government officials

question: What are officials seeking to do about protesting parents? 

answer: limit protests

question: What are officials offering parents in exchange of protests? 

answer: money

question: What has happened to some who refuse to agree to not protest? 

answer: were threatened

question: What did officials order Chinese news media to stop reporting? 

answer: on school collapses
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Besides parents, Liu Shaokun (刘绍坤), a Sichuan school teacher, was detained on June 25, 2008 for "disseminating rumors and destroying social order" about the Sichuan earthquake. Liu’s family was later told that he was being investigated on suspicion of the crime of inciting subversion. Liu had travelled to the Shifang, taken photos of collapsed school buildings, and put them online. He had also expressed his anger at “the shoddy tofu-dregs buildings” (豆腐渣工程) in a media interview. He was ordered to serve one year of re-education through labor (RTL). According to the organization Human Rights in China, Liu has been released to serve his RTL sentence outside of the labor camp.

question: Who was a Sichuan school teacher? 

answer: Liu Shaokun

question: What was Liu's family told? 

answer: that he was being investigated on suspicion of the crime of inciting subversion

question: What was Liu Shaokun's profession? 

answer: Sichuan school teacher

question: Why was he investigated? 

answer: crime of inciting subversion

question: What did Liu Shankun do with the pictures he took of collapsed schools? 

answer: put them online

question: Where did he call the schoolhouses shoddy? 

answer: in a media interview

question: What was his assigned punishment ? 

answer: one year of re-education
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: In January 2010, Hong Kong-based English newspaper The Standard reported that writer Tan Zuoren attempted to document shoddy construction that may have led to massive casualties in schools, was sentenced to in prison ostensibly for his writing an article in 2007 in support of the pro-democracy movement in 1989.

question: When did the sentencing occur? 

answer: in 2007

question: When was the article published about the case? 

answer: January 2010

question: What did he think that the poor construction led to? 

answer: massive casualties
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Because of the magnitude of the quake, and the media attention on China, foreign nations and organizations immediately responded to the disaster by offering condolences and assistance. On May 14, UNICEF reported that China formally requested the support of the international community to respond to the needs of affected families.

question: What did UNICEF report? 

answer: that China formally requested the support of the international community

question: What did foreign nations offer China because of the severity of the quake? 

answer: condolences and assistance

question: When did China formally ask for help from the international community? 

answer: May 14

question: What organization reported that China asked for help? 

answer: UNICEF

question: Why did the world community notice the need for help? 

answer: magnitude of the quake
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: By May 14, the Ministry of Civil Affairs stated that 10.7 billion yuan (approximately US$1.5 billion) had been donated by the Chinese public. Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, one of the country's most popular sports icons, gave $214,000 and $71,000 to the Red Cross Society of China. The association has also collected a total of $26 million in donations so far. Other multinational firms located in China have also announced large amounts of donations.

question: How much did Yao Ming donate? 

answer: $214,000 and $71,000

question: How much did the Red Cross collect in donations? 

answer: $26 million

question: How much money had been donated by May 14? 

answer: 10.7 billion yuan

question: What group donated the 10.7 yuan? 

answer: the Chinese public

question: What famous basketball player made two large donations to the crisis? 

answer: Yao Ming

question: How much has the Red Cross Society  collected? 

answer: 26 million
Title: 2008_Sichuan_earthquake
Context: Francis Marcus of the International Federation of the Red Cross praised the Chinese rescue effort as "swift and very efficient" in Beijing on Tuesday. But he added the scale of the disaster was such that "we can't expect that the government can do everything and handle every aspect of the needs". The Economist noted that China reacted to the disaster "rapidly and with uncharacteristic openness", contrasting it with Burma's secretive response to Cyclone Nargis, which devastated that country 10 days before the earthquake.

question: What did Francis Marcus say of the Chinese relief effort? 

answer: swift and very efficient

question: What uncharacteristic attitude did China display? 

answer: openness

question: What kind of attitude did Burma display in response to a cyclone a few days earlier? 

answer: secretive

question: How long before the quake did Cyclone Nargis strike Burma? 

answer: 10 days

question: What organization did Francis Marcus represent? 

answer: International Federation of the Red Cross