[Q]: Given the following passage "As of 2008[update], the population was 47.5% male and 52.5% female. The population was made up of 44,032 Swiss men (35.4% of the population) and 15,092 (12.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 51,531 Swiss women (41.4%) and 13,726 (11.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 39,008 or about 30.3% were born in Bern and lived there in 2000. There were 27,573 or 21.4% who were born in the same canton, while 25,818 or 20.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 27,812 or 21.6% were born outside of Switzerland.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Which gender constituted over 50% of the population?
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[A]: female

[Q]: Given the following passage "The Alps provide lowland Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power. Although the area is only about 11 percent of the surface area of Europe, the Alps provide up to 90 percent of water to lowland Europe, particularly to arid areas and during the summer months. Cities such as Milan depend on 80 percent of water from Alpine runoff. Water from the rivers is used in over 500 hydroelectricity power plants, generating as much as 2900 kilowatts of electricity.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Qanats are the oldest known __ method.
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[A]: irrigation

[Q]: Given the following passage "The Kushan Empire expanded out of what is now Afghanistan into the northwest of the subcontinent under the leadership of their first emperor, Kujula Kadphises, about the middle of the 1st century CE. They came of an Indo-European language speaking Central Asian tribe called the Yuezhi, a branch of which was known as the Kushans. By the time of his grandson, Kanishka, they had conquered most of northern India, at least as far as Saketa and Pataliputra, in the middle Ganges Valley, and probably as far as the Bay of Bengal.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Most of what India had been conquered by the time of the leader's grandson?
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[A]: northern India, at least as far as Saketa and Pataliputra

[Q]: Given the following passage "The island has two local newspapers, both of which are available on the Internet. The St Helena Independent has been published since November 2005. The Sentinel newspaper was introduced in 2012.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: The two newspapers come with what names?
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The St Helena Independent has been published since November 2005. The Sentinel newspaper was introduced in 2012