xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What did the Honours act do?
Sentence: Thus the outright sale of peerages and similar honours became a criminal act.
Question: What element makes up about 6% of the chemical composition of wood?
Sentence: The chemical composition of wood varies from species to species, but is approximately 50% carbon, 42% oxygen, 6% hydrogen, 1% nitrogen, and 1% other elements (mainly calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, and manganese) by weight.
Question: What did Ottoman madaris have that was similar to modern American schools?
Sentence: Thus, Ottoman madaris were very similar to present day schools in the sense that they offered a wide range of studies; however, these studies, in their ultimate objective, aimed to further solidify and consolidate Islamic practices and theories.
Question: When did Beijing lose to Li Zicheng's rebel forces and the Manchu-led Qing dynasty?
Sentence: After the fall of Beijing to Li Zicheng's rebel forces and then to the Manchu-led Qing dynasty in the spring of 1644, the Ming prince Zhu Yousong was enthroned in Nanjing in June 1644 as the Hongguang Emperor.
Question: Airburst fuses could be which two things?
Sentence: Zeppelins, being hydrogen filled balloons, were targets for incendiary shells and the British introduced these with airburst fuses, both shrapnel type-forward projection of incendiary 'pot' and base ejection of an incendiary stream.
Question: Who was the military theorist in 1939 who said 250,000 deaths and injury could occur in the first week of war in Britian?
Sentence: In 1939 military theorist Basil Liddell-Hart predicted that 250,000 deaths and injuries in Britain could occur in the first week of war.
Question: What large cat has a particular taste for dogs no matter how big the dog is?
Sentence: Leopards in particular are known to have a predilection for dogs, and have been recorded to kill and consume them regardless of the dog's size or ferocity.
Question: What year started the increase of population to 7 billion?
Sentence: From 1950 to 2011, world population increased from 2.5 billion to 7 billion and is forecast to reach a plateau of more than 9 billion during the 21st century.
Question: Where was one main concentration of Humanism?
Sentence: There were important centres of humanism at Florence, Naples, Rome, Venice, Mantua, Ferrara, and Urbino.
Question: What paid for Nigeria's fourth satellite?
Sentence: On 24 March 2009, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, NigComSat Ltd. and CGWIC signed another contract for the in-orbit delivery of the NigComSat-1R satellite.
Question: What year was Victorien Sardou's Madame Sans-Gêne written?
Sentence: Datta (2005) shows that, following the collapse of militaristic Boulangism in the late 1880s, the Napoleonic legend was divorced from party politics and revived in popular culture.
Question: What example did Darwin give of eyes evolving?
Sentence: He discussed various simple eyes found in invertebrates, starting with nothing more than an optic nerve coated with pigment, as examples of how the vertebrate eye could have evolved.
Question: When were Beyonce and Jay Z married?
Sentence: On April 4, 2008, Beyoncé and Jay Z were married without publicity.
Question: When Liszt lived close to Chopin, where did he call home?
Sentence: Chaussée-d'Antin, and Liszt at the Hôtel de France on the Rue Lafitte, a few blocks away.
Question: What areas of San Diego are primarily served by the trolley?
Sentence: The Trolley primarily serves downtown and surrounding urban communities, Mission Valley, east county, and coastal south bay.
Question: Laurel Sutherlin spoke to which TV station about his concerns?
Sentence: Sutherlin said he was worried that the torch's planned route through Tibet would lead to more arrests and Chinese officials would use force to stifle dissent.
Question: what law is halakha to the Orthodox Jew?
Sentence: However, there is significant disagreement within Orthodox Judaism, particularly between Haredi Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism, about the extent and circumstances under which the proper application of Halakha should be re-examined as a result of changing realities.
Question: Who show the 2011 final?
Sentence: The 2011 final was also shown live on Sky 3D in addition to ESPN (who provided the 3D coverage for Sky 3D) and ITV.
Question: What percentage of Hyderabad city was covered by roads in 2012?
Sentence: As of 2012[update], there are over 3.5 million vehicles operating in the city, of which 74% are two-wheelers, 15% cars and 3% three-wheelers.
Question: Which work did scribes from Khorasan translate in the 10th century?
Sentence: The first fully attested complete translations of the Quran were done between the 10th and 12th centuries in Persian.
Question: In which video was it the most obvious?
Sentence: This symbolism and imagery was probably the most prevalent in the music video for "Like a Prayer".
Question: Who broke the eunuch influence at court?
Sentence: Grand Secretary Yang Tinghe under Jiajing was determined to break the eunuch influence at court which typified the Zhengde era, an example being the costly escort of the eunuch Liu Yun as described above in his failed mission to Tibet.
Question: What is the match day earning of Emirates Stadium?
Sentence: The Deloitte Football Money League is a publication that homogenizes and compares clubs' annual revenue.
Question: What contains a block of characters used to showcase Hokkien Chinese?
Sentence: In addition, there are a number of dialect characters (方言字) that are not used in formal written Chinese but represent colloquial terms in non-Mandarin varieties of Chinese.
Question: When did the clerics and tradesmen start spreading architectural information?
Sentence: The major architectural undertakings were the buildings of abbeys and cathedrals.
Question: Who was forced to surrender to troops formed by forces of the Banda Oriental?
Sentence: After this conflict, the governor of Montevideo Francisco Javier de Elío opposed the new viceroy Santiago de Liniers, and created a government Junta when the Peninsular War started in Spain, in defiance of Liniers.
Question: What kind of background did Kanye West grow up in?
Sentence: West's middle-class background, flamboyant fashion sense and outspokenness have additionally set him apart from other rappers.
Question: What gun are FBI special agents issued?
Sentence: Special agents of the FBI HRT (Hostage Rescue Team), and regional SWAT teams are issued the Springfield Professional Model 1911A1 .45 ACP pistol (see FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams).
Question: What other language did Old Czech's declension patterns resemble?
Sentence: The Czechs' language separated from other Slavic tongues into what would later be called Old Czech by the thirteenth century, a classification extending through the sixteenth century.
Question: What was Nasser's position in Egypt's society?
Sentence: Nasser spent most of his spare time reading, particularly in 1933 when he lived near the National Library of Egypt.
Question: Who began to host Essentials Jr. in 2011?
Sentence: Who Knew Too Much.
Question: What is considered the earliest form of artificial lighting?
Sentence: With the discovery of fire, the earliest form of artificial lighting used to illuminate an area were campfires or torches.
Question: What is the goal of the textual critic?
Sentence: The textual critic's ultimate objective is the production of a "critical edition".[citation needed]
Question: What were the floor panels of the caliphs and high ranking officials modeled after?
Sentence: They were closely modeled after the mosaics of the Roman country villas, once common in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Question: What year did Armenia split into Greater Armenia and Armenia Sophene?
Sentence: Orontid Armenia formally passed to empire of Alexander the Great following his conquest of Persia.
Question: When did the Chalukyans rule from Badami?
Sentence: During this period, they ruled as three related yet individual dynasties.
Question: Visits to The Times website have decreased by how much since October 2011?
Sentence: As of October 2011, there were around 111,000 subscribers to The Times' digital products.
Question: What is this kind of introduction and transfer used for?
Sentence: Today, genetic modification of the Ti plasmid is one of the main techniques for introduction of transgenes to plants and the creation of genetically modified crops.
Question: What depends on what religion is usual for the respective Slavic ethnic groups?
Sentence: The Orthodox use the Cyrillic alphabet and the Roman Catholics use Latin alphabet, the Bosniaks who are Muslims also use the Latin.
Question: What area exceeded 1 million people in 2015?
Sentence: As of 2015, The Greater Tucson Metro area has exceeded a population of 1 million.
Question: What differs in vowel reduction?
Sentence: Catalan has inherited the typical vowel system of Vulgar Latin, with seven stressed phonemes: /a ɛ e i ɔ o u/, a common feature in Western Romance, except Spanish.
Question: What musical piece had a Larghetto dedicated to the female singing student Chopin was infatuated with?
Sentence: He was also attracted to the singing student Konstancja Gładkowska.
Question: What date did Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders leave Earth on the Apollo 8 mission?
Sentence: Apollo 8 safely landed in the Pacific ocean on December 27, in NASA's first dawn splashdown and recovery.
Question: Who designed, develped, and marketed the Mac computers?
Sentence: Since 1998, Apple has largely phased out the Macintosh name in favor of "Mac", though the product family has been nicknamed "Mac" or "the Mac" since the development of the first model.
Question: What is Antarctica topographically ?
Sentence: Antarctica is the coldest of Earth's continents.
Question: How much do the lexicons of Czech and Slovak differ, according to on study?
Sentence: The two lexicons are generally considered similar, with most differences in colloquial vocabulary and some scientific terminology.
Question: What document was signed in 1899?
Sentence: After the German–Spanish Treaty of 1899, in which Germany acquired the Carolines, Palau, and the Marianas from Spain, Germany placed all of its Micronesian islands, including the Marshalls, under the governor of German New Guinea.
Question: What did this research also show about face-shape?
Sentence: 2015 research suggests that "gaydar" is an alternate label for using LGBT stereotypes to infer orientation, and that face-shape is not an accurate indication of orientation.
Question: What is the second largest Protestant denomination in North Carolina?
Sentence: There are also a substantial number of Quakers in Guilford County and northeastern North Carolina.
Question: What is a nickname given to Miami?
Sentence: Miami is nicknamed the "Capital of Latin America", is the second largest U.S. city with a Spanish-speaking majority, and the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality.
Question: When was Panama colonized by Scotland?
Sentence: Besieged by neighbouring Spanish colonists of New Granada, and afflicted by malaria, the colony was abandoned two years later.
Question: Who made a film called 'Bronx Burning'?
Sentence: The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that "The Bronx is burning": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.
Question: What interstate is the West side west of?
Sentence: Moving past the Tucson Mountains, travelers find themselves in the area commonly referred to as "west of" Tucson or "Old West Tucson".
Question: What station has an Orthodox church representative?
Sentence: Many of the stations are staffed year-round, the winter-over personnel typically arriving from their home countries for a one-year assignment.
Question: Words such as horn, kogel, gipfel, spitz, and berd are used in what regions?
Sentence: An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term "the Alps", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.
Question: What was the name of the town in which Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla declared independence?
Sentence: He started on a march to the capital, Mexico City, but retreated back north when faced with the elite of the royal forces at the outskirts of the capital.
Question: What was HP's growth during the third quarter of 2006?
Sentence: Dell's 3.6% growth paled in comparison to HP's 15% growth during the same period.
Question: What group wanted to conquer India from earliest times?
Sentence: After conquering Persia, the Arab Umayyad Caliphate incorporated parts of what are now Afghanistan and Pakistan around 720.
Question: At the end of 2014 what entity would handle the the transaction services for BSE-Mumbai?
Sentence: In 2013, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) facility in Hyderabad was forecast to provide operations and transactions services to BSE-Mumbai by the end of 2014.
Question: When was the beginning of the Tonian period?
Sentence: During the beginning of the Tonian period around 1 billion years ago, there was a decrease in Stromatolite diversity, which may indicate the appearance of grazing animals, since stromatolite diversity increased when grazing animals went extinct at the End Permian and End Ordovician extinction events, and decreased shortly after the grazer populations recovered.
Question: When did the Russo-Persian War end?
Sentence: In the late 1820s, the parts of historic Armenia under Iranian control centering on Yerevan and Lake Sevan (all of Eastern Armenia) were incorporated into the Russian Empire following Iran's forced ceding of the territories after its loss in the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828) and the outcoming Treaty of Turkmenchay.
Question: What funding organization uses the IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats?
Sentence: The most authoritative classification in use today is IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats which has been adopted by major international conservation organizations such as the US Nature Conservancy, the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and BirdLife International.
Question: Why was the Centre de Liasion et d'information des Puissances maconniques signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg set up?
Sentence: In 1961, an umbrella organisation, Centre de Liaison et d'Information des Puissances maçonniques Signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg (CLIPSAS) was set up, which today provides a forum for most of these Grand Lodges and Grand Orients worldwide.
Question: who began opening "superclubs"?
Sentence: Major record companies began to open "superclubs" promoting their own acts.
Question: In what year did Universal make a film version of Dracula?
Sentence: Among them are Frankenstein (1931), Dracula ( also in 1931), The Mummy (1932) and The Invisible Man (1933).
Question: When was Warrington added to Lancashire?
Sentence: The borders around the Manchester area were particularly complicated, with narrow protrusions of the administrative county between the county boroughs – Lees urban district formed a detached part of the administrative county, between Oldham county borough and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Question: How large a force did Frederick send against the occupying Russians?
Sentence: In the undecided Battle of Tornow on 25 September, a Swedish army repulsed six assaults by a Prussian army but did not push on Berlin following the Battle of Fehrbellin.
Question: Who distributed 'War Horse'?
Sentence: The film, based on the novel of the same name written by Michael Morpurgo and published in 1982, follows the long friendship between a British boy and his horse Joey before and during World War I – the novel was also adapted into a hit play in London which is still running there, as well as on Broadway.
Question: Was the famous school in Alexandria religious only?
Sentence: Its famous catechetical school, while sacrificing none of its famous passion for orthodoxy since the days of Pantaenus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Dionysius and Theognostus, had begun to take on an almost secular character in the comprehensiveness of its interests, and had counted influential pagans among its serious auditors.
Question: What do the comentaries rely on for some of their information about Virgil?
Sentence: Although the commentaries no doubt record much factual information about Virgil, some of their evidence can be shown to rely on inferences made from his poetry and allegorizing; thus, Virgil's biographical tradition remains problematic.
Question: What does Hinayana mean in English?
Sentence: Buddhists themselves have a variety of other schemes.
Question: Why was Victorias eyesight clouded?
Sentence: Through early January, she felt "weak and unwell", and by mid-January she was "drowsy ... dazed, [and] confused".
Question: How many ITES and IT companies are located in HITEC city?
Sentence: In 2009 the World Bank Group ranked the city as the second best Indian city for doing business.
Question: In which document did the term "affirmative action" first appear?
Sentence: In the event of discrimination, employees were to be restored to an appropriate status in the company through 'affirmative action'.
Question: Who was the leader in Asia Minor?
Sentence: Antigonus fled for Greece, and then, together with Antipater and Craterus (the satrap of Cilicia who had been in Greece fighting the Lamian war) invaded Anatolia.
Question: The revenues did what under the first 4 years of Watson being president?
Sentence: Watson joined CTR as General Manager then, 11 months later, was made President when court cases relating to his time at NCR were resolved.
Question: How many Members of Parliament are from London?
Sentence: The British Parliament is often referred to as the "Mother of Parliaments" (although this sobriquet was first applied to England itself by John Bright) because it has been the model for most other parliamentary systems.
Question: Who did Prince Edward marry in 1818 in the hopes of producing a child?
Sentence: In 1818 he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children—Carl (1804–1856) and
Question: What were lodges called that included women?
Sentence: As Freemasonry spread, continental masons began to include their ladies in Lodges of Adoption, which worked three degrees with the same names as the men's but different content.
Question: Without using an external box, cable-ready TVs can display what?
Sentence: They have a QAM tuner built-in and/or a card slot for inserting a CableCARD.
Question: What has sociocultural anthropology been heavily influenced by?
Sentence: During the 1970s and 1990s, there was an epistemological shift away from the positivist traditions that had largely informed the discipline.[page needed]
Question: When did Britain finish paying back the US loan?
Sentence: Britain was left essentially bankrupt, with insolvency only averted in 1946 after the negotiation of a $US 4.33 billion loan (US$56 billion in 2012) from the United States, the last instalment of which was repaid in 2006.
Question: What caused alarm in France?
Sentence: Britain also dispatched 9,000 troops to reinforce Ferdinand's Hanoverian army, the first British troop commitment on the continent and a reversal in the policy of Pitt.
Question: Who achieved success at cracking secret German military communications during World War II?
Sentence: During World War II, the British at Bletchley Park achieved a number of successes at breaking encrypted German military communications.
Question: Which scientist was able to create a model for the digestive process?
Sentence: Physician Herman Boerhaave modeled the digestive process.
Question: What is Vedic Sanskrit meant to be used as?
Sentence: The present form of Vedic Sanskrit can be traced back to as early as the second millennium BCE (for Rig-vedic).
Question: What was the purpose of the Bethe-Feynman formula?
Sentence: He was assigned to Hans Bethe's theoretical division and impressed Bethe enough to be made a group leader.
Question: What dynamic needs were the reason for building to be done?
Sentence: As human cultures developed and knowledge began to be formalized through oral traditions and practices, building became a craft, and "architecture" is the name given to the most highly formalized and respected versions of that craft.
Question: Queen Victorias Golden and Diamond jubilees were a time of public what?
Sentence: Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe".
Question: What was the second industrial revolution was labeled?
Sentence: The first Industrial Revolution merged into the Second Industrial Revolution around 1850, when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered ships and railways, and later in the 19th century with the internal combustion engine and electric power generation.
Question: Lee uses which writing styles to express humor in a tragic story?
Sentence: To address complex issues, however, Tavernier-Courbin notes that Lee uses parody, satire, and irony effectively by using a child's perspective.
Question: If all wrestlers are down, how long do they have to rise?
Sentence: A wrestler can win by knockout (sometimes referred to as a referee stoppage) if they do not resort to submission holds, but stills pummels their opponent to the point that they are unconscious or are unable to intelligently defend themselves.
Question: What can be used to classify small groups even though there is no classification of all finite groups?
Sentence: Computer algebra systems can be used to list small groups, but there is no classification of all finite groups.q[›]
Question: What did Opera America call the San Diego Opera at the Civic Center Plaza?
Sentence: The San Diego Symphony at Symphony Towers performs on a regular basis and is directed by Jahja Ling.
Question: As of 2008, geothermal power development was underway in more than how many countries?
Sentence: The development of binary cycle power plants and improvements in drilling and extraction technology may enable enhanced geothermal systems over a much greater geographical range than "traditional" Geothermal systems.
Question: What type of effects are a major focus of the anthrozoologic research?
Sentence: Anthrozoology (also known as "human–animal studies") is the study of interaction between living things.
Question: Along with Dante and Boccaccio, who was a notable Italian author of the 14th century?
Sentence: The publication of vernacular literature increased, with Dante (d. 1321), Petrarch (d. 1374) and Giovanni Boccaccio (d. 1375) in 14th-century Italy, Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400) and William Langland (d. c. 1386) in England, and François Villon (d. 1464) and Christine de Pizan (d. c. 1430) in France.
Question: Which contestant was disqualified because of an assault charge?
Sentence: Jaered Andrews for an arrest on an assault charge, and Frenchie Davis for having previously modelled for an adult website.
Question: How many Buddhists are in China?
Sentence: China is the country with the largest population of Buddhists, approximately 244 million or 18.2% of its total
Question: Wages and salaries represent how much % of the island's expenditure?
Sentence: The contribution of UK budgetary aid to total SHG government expenditure rose from £4.6 million in to £6.4 million to £12.1 million over the same period.
Question: How many miles of shelving are in BYU's Harold B. Lee Library?
Sentence: BYU's Harold B. Lee Library (also known as "HBLL"), which The Princeton Review ranked as the No. 1 "Great College Library" in 2004, has approximately 8½ million items in its collections, contains 98 miles (158 km) of shelving, and can seat 4,600 people.
Question: Red paper is used to wrap gifts of money during what special celebration in China?
Sentence: Special red packets (simplified Chinese: 红包; traditional Chinese: 紅包; pinyin: hóng bāo in Mandarin or lai see in Cantonese) are specifically used during Chinese New Year celebrations for giving monetary gifts.