xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: How much less viscous is lead glass compared with soda glass?
Sentence: The viscosity decrease of lead glass melt is very significant (roughly 100 times in comparison with soda glasses); this allows easier removal of bubbles and working at lower temperatures, hence its frequent use as an additive in vitreous enamels and glass solders.
Question: Can people in New Zealand vote for the 51st State Party?
Sentence: As of 2014[update], the party remains unregistered and cannot appear on a ballot.
Question: What class of PCBs are even more susceptible to static than standard ones?
Sentence: Traces have become so fine that it's quite possible to blow an etch off the board (or change its characteristics) with a static charge.
Question: When did he leave France for Venice?
Sentence: It was around this time that he, with the aid of Monsignor Bruno Heim, formed his coat of arms with a lion of Saint Mark on a white ground.
Question: How many US warships were damaged by gun fire and mines?
Sentence: Aside from very occasional gunfire from North Korean shore batteries, the main threat to United States and UN navy ships was from magnetic mines.
Question: What do the Chinese say is the total number of shocks after the quake?
Sentence: According to Chinese official counts, "by 12:00 CST, November 6, 2008 there had been 42,719 total aftershocks, of which 246 ranged from 4.0 MS to 4.9 MS, 34 from 5.0 MS to 5.9 MS, and 8 from 6.0 Ms to 6.4 MS; the strongest aftershock measured 6.4 MS.
Question: When was the Young Turk Revolution?
Sentence: Sultan Abdülhamid II distrusted the admirals who sided with the reformist Midhat Pasha, and claimed that the large and expensive fleet was of no use against the Russians during the Russo-Turkish War.
Question: Diesel powered freight deliveries continued through what date?
Sentence: Service was discontinued in 1953 but diesel-powered freight deliveries to warehouses along the route continued until March 11, 1988.
Question: Along with critical dimension and depth, what can the infrared light reflectance be used to determine in regard to high aspect ratio trench structures?
Sentence: In the semiconductor industry, infrared light can be used to characterize materials such as thin films and periodic trench structures.
Question: In what year did the Hudson's skyscraper close?
Sentence: By 1961 the downtown skyscraper accounted for only half of Hudson's sales; it closed in 1986.
Question: What does Link morph into in A Link to the Past?
Sentence: In A Link to the Past, Link travels between a "Light World" and a "Dark World"; in Ocarina of Time, as well as in Oracle of Ages, Link travels between two different time periods.
Question: What aims at bringing EU and its neighbours closer?
Sentence: The UK is seen as having a "natural" relationship with Israel on account of the British Mandate for Palestine.
Question: What was the company that was responsible Connecticut rise as a manufacturing economy?
Sentence: His factory, along with that of Simeon North, and the lively clock-making and brass hardware sectors, contributed to making early Connecticut a powerful manufacturing economy; so many arms manufacturers sprang up that the state became known as "The Arsenal of America".
Question: Of how many ships does the merchant marine fleet consist?
Sentence: These ships carry cargo and passengers between the main atolls and travel between Suva, Fiji and Funafuti 3 to 4 times a year.
Question: The Scorpions hailed from what country?
Sentence: From outside the United Kingdom and the United States, the Canadian trio Rush released three distinctively hard rock albums in 1974–75 (Rush, Fly by Night and Caress of Steel) before moving toward a more progressive sound with the 1976 album 2112.
Question: Who regarded Bolama as their own in the 19th century?
Sentence: But by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory, also up north in part of present South Senegal.
Question: What percentage range of uranium oxide is usually contained in low-grade uranium ore?
Sentence: Low-grade uranium ore mined typically contains 0.01 to 0.25% uranium oxides.
Question: On which floor is the Belgian Suite located?
Sentence: They are allocated a large suite of rooms known as the Belgian Suite, situated at the foot of the Minister's Staircase, on the ground floor of the north-facing Garden Wing.
Question: What does the State have no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from?
Sentence: In Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97 (1968), the Supreme Court considered an Arkansas law that made it a crime "to teach the theory or doctrine that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals," or "to adopt or use in any such institution a textbook that teaches" this theory in any school or university that received public funds.
Question: Who wrote the fictionalized "Chopin?"
Sentence: Possibly the first venture into fictional treatments of Chopin's life was a fanciful operatic version of some of its events.
Question: When was the meeting held?
Sentence: On December 8, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus secretly met in Belavezhskaya Pushcha, in western Belarus, and signed the Belavezha Accords, which proclaimed the Soviet Union had ceased to exist and announced formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a looser association to take its place.
Question: What is the first year of the Shamsi Hijri Calender based on?
Sentence: The Solar Hijri calendar, also called the Shamsi Hijri calendar, and abbreviated as SH, is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan.
Question: What weakens cell walls?
Sentence: Lignin is also used in other cell types like sclerenchyma fibers that provide structural support for a plant and is a major constituent of wood.
Question: By how much did foreign trade increase in Sichuan in 2008?
Sentence: These achievements were accomplished because of significant changes in China's foreign trade policy, acceleration of the yuan's appreciation, increase of commercial incentives and increase in production costs.
Question: What's the largest retail center in Southampton?
Sentence: Southampton's largest retail centre, and 35th largest in the UK, is the WestQuay Shopping Centre, which opened in September 2000 and hosts major high street stores including John Lewis and Marks and Spencer.
Question: Along with the United States, the United Kingdom and France, who formed SEATO?
Sentence: Alliance with the U.K., France, New Zealand and Australia in defense of Vietnam against communism.
Question: Who comprises the invisible church?
Sentence: Because the five solas are the main tenets of the Protestant faith, non-denominational groups and organizations are also considered Protestant.
Question: What USDA hardiness zone is Santa Monica located in?
Sentence: It is located in USDA plant hardiness zone 11a.
Question: What natural resource dropped in value?
Sentence: Both the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange suspended trading of companies based in southwestern China.
Question: What is the food coated with for easier passage?
Sentence: In the pharynx, the food is lubricated by mucus secretions for easier passage.
Question: What path did Buddha find to soothe the strictness of Sramana religions?
Sentence: Buddha found a Middle Way that ameliorated the extreme asceticism found in the Sramana religions.
Question: What do hunters pay to obtain hunting license?
Sentence: There is presumed to be relatively very little subsistence hunting in the country (with most hunting for either sport or commercial profit).
Question: Who sent the Byzantine craftsmen that built Yaroslav's cathedral?
Sentence: It was built mainly by Byzantine master craftsmen, sent by Constantine Monomachos, between 1037 and 1046.
Question: How does nucleoid look?
Sentence: The phylum Planctomycetes and candidate phylum Poribacteria may be exceptions to the general absence of internal membranes in bacteria, because they appear to have a double membrane around their nucleoids and contain other membrane-bound cellular structures.
Question: Who coined the term post-punk?
Sentence: These artists instead defined punk as "an imperative to constant change", believing that "radical content demands radical form".
Question: By the end of Augustus's reign what was an established fact?
Sentence: By the end of his reign, Augustus had appropriated Rome's political apparatus – and most of its religious cults – within his "reformed" and thoroughly integrated system of government.
Question: What were biologists trying to avoid discussing the political implications of?
Sentence: The authors attributed this to biologists trying to avoid discussing the political implications of racial classifications, instead of discussing them, and to the ongoing discussions in biology about the validity of the concept "subspecies".
Question: What was the recording time available on a 12 inch disc?
Sentence: Because a 10-inch 78 rpm record could hold about three minutes of sound per side and the 10-inch size was the standard size for popular music, almost all popular recordings were limited to around three minutes in length.
Question: How many credits were needed for an M.Sc. (Tech.) degree before the Bologna Process?
Sentence: (Tech.) required 180 credits, whereas M.Sc.
Question: Who kept the demonstrators separated?
Sentence: Demonstrators and counter-demonstrators were kept apart by the Australian Federal Police.
Question: What process is done to polish the surface of the paper?
Sentence: Coated paper has a thin layer of material such as calcium carbonate or china clay applied to one or both sides in order to create a surface more suitable for high-resolution halftone screens.
Question: What was the name of one man who thought Avicenna was Sunni?
Sentence: Similar disagreements exist on the background of Avicenna's family, whereas some writers considered them Sunni, some more recent writers contested that they were Shia.
Question: For how long did the Paris Commune exist?
Sentence: The original red banners of the Commune became icons of the socialist revolution; in 1921 members of the French Communist Party came to Moscow and presented the new Soviet government with one of the original Commune banners; it was placed (and is still in place) in the tomb of Vladimir Lenin, next to his open coffin.
Question: Which three territories make up the Upper Rhine?
Sentence: Alsace was united with the other Alemanni east of the Rhine into the stem duchy of Swabia.
Question: Where are Boduli located?
Sentence: Note: Besides ethnic groups, Slavs often identify themselves with the local geographical region in which they live.
Question: Another form of corruption, the practice of usury, is called what?
Sentence: Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, gombeenism, parochialism patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement.
Question: Did that used to have a different name?
Sentence: The FA Cup winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League (formerly named the UEFA Cup; until 1998 they entered the Cup Winners' Cup instead).
Question: What geographic portion of the front did the Sixth US Army Group operate on?
Sentence: Once the coastal assault had succeeded, Eisenhower insisted on retaining personal control over the land battle strategy, and was immersed in the command and supply of multiple assaults through France on Germany.
Question: Which is the other name that Madonna is always referred as?
Sentence: Often referred to as the "Queen of Pop", she is often cited as an influence by other artists.
Question: What is the 2000-watt society initiative designed to cut by more than half by 2050?
Sentence: The agency is supporting the 2000-watt society initiative to cut the nation's energy use by more than half by the year 2050.
Question: How much did it cost each company for the first season?
Sentence: The sponsorship deal cost around $10 million in season one, rising to $35 million by season 7, and between $50 to $60 million in season 10.
Question: What religion has the most followers in Montevideo?
Sentence: The religion with most followers in Montevideo is Roman Catholicism and has been so since the foundation of the city.
Question: What year did the tradition of Laulupidu start?
Sentence: The tradition of Estonian Song Festivals (Laulupidu) started at the height of the Estonian national awakening in 1869.
Question: What percent of the population are between 14 to 30 years old?
Sentence: Tajikistan has a population of 7,349,145 (July 2009 est.) of which 70% are under the age of 30 and 35% are between the ages of 14 and 30.
Question: How many more people does Seattle expect to have by 2040?
Sentence: In 2006, after growing by 4,000 citizens per year for the previous 16 years, regional planners expected the population of Seattle to grow by 200,000 people by 2040.
Question: What is a major factor whn it comes to electrification?
Sentence: In theory, these trains could enjoy dramatic savings through electrification, but it can be too costly to extend electrification to isolated areas, and unless an entire network is electrified, companies often find that they need to continue use of diesel trains even if sections are electrified.
Question: Do scientists believe that parenting and/or childhood play a role in sexual orientation?
Sentence: Scientists do not know the exact cause of sexual orientation, but they believe that it is caused by a complex interplay of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences.
Question: What would have maintained power if the treaty was signed?
Sentence: However, it would have meant some degree of continued Communist Party control over economic and social life.
Question: What part of speech does Dutch mostly use cases for?
Sentence: In the spoken language cases and case inflections had already gradually disappeared from a much earlier date on (probably the 15th century) as in many continental West Germanic dialects.
Question: How much of the US believes Spielberg is influential?
Sentence: Gerry Philpott, president of E-Poll Market Research, supported Spielberg's score by stating, "If anyone doubts that Steven Spielberg has greatly influenced the public, think about how many will think for a second before going into the water this summer."
Question: What position was the teacher later given by the Holy Roman Church ?
Sentence: Pope Pius IX would later appoint Spada Master of the Sacred Palace in 1867.
Question: What do Presbyterians put importance into?
Sentence: It is generally considered that the point of such learning is to enable one to put one's faith into practice; some Presbyterians generally exhibit their faith in action as well as words, by generosity, hospitality, as well as proclaiming the gospel of Christ.
Question: What year does the city plan on having a bicycle infrastructure?
Sentence: The city is also in the process of implementing a 5-year and 20 year Bike Action Plan with a goal of attaining 14 to 35% bicycle transportation mode share by 2030 through the installation of enhanced bicycle infrastructure throughout the city.
Question: What was the name of Roland Barthes' essay?
Sentence: The French theorist Roland Barthes was among the first to propose that wrestling was worthy of deeper analysis, in his essay "The World of Wrestling" from his book Mythologies, first published in 1957.
Question: What ingredients give glass-ceramics its useful heat tolerance?
Sentence: Thus, glass-ceramics have become extremely useful for countertop cooking.
Question: What American naval officer led a raid that destroyed a captured American ship?
Sentence: The U.S. paid protection money until 1801, when President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay and sent in the Navy to challenge the Barbary States, the First Barbary War followed.
Question: Who do some scholars think the Sumerian language originally belonged to?
Sentence: However, some scholars contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language.
Question: How many towns are believed to be found by   Archaeologists?
Sentence: The Garamantes grew populous and strong, conquering their neighbors and capturing many slaves (which were put to work extending the tunnels).
Question: Why did Whitehead think people continued to subscribe to materialistic thinking?
Sentence: After all, each moment of each person's life can hardly be given a different proper name, and it is easy and convenient to think of people and objects as remaining fundamentally the same things, rather than constantly keeping in mind that each thing is a different thing from what it was a moment ago.
Question: On what day were beer houses closed?
Sentence: Beer houses were not permitted to open on Sundays.
Question: Who can be credited with saying essentially humans are the gods of gods?
Sentence: Humanistic thought is also contained in other Confucian classics, e.g., as recorded in Zuo Zhuan, Ji Liang says, "People is the zhu (master, lord, dominance, owner or origin) of gods.
Question: How much of Pakistan's large-scale manufacturing is in Punjab?
Sentence: It counts for 39.2% of large scale manufacturing and 70% of small scale manufacturing in the country.
Question: What was inspired by the fall of the Berlin wall?
Sentence: By 1990, inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall, a pro-democracy movement arose.
Question: A 2001 study by Nebel et al. showed that which two populations share the same overall paternal Near Eastern ancestries?
Sentence: A 2001 study by Nebel et al. showed that both Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish populations share the same overall paternal Near Eastern ancestries.
Question: What percentage makes up for the whites living in the city?
Sentence: As of the 2010 U.S. Census, there were 113,394 people, 45,634 households, and 21,704 families residing in the city.
Question: What year did Cixi die?
Sentence: Seeing a desperate situation unfold, the Qing government brought Yuan Shikai back to military power.
Question: Which countries adopted the 'prefecture system' from China?
Sentence: Law enforcement in Ancient China was carried out by "prefects" for thousands of years since it developed in both the Chu and Jin kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn period.
Question: What military overran much of East Prussia?
Sentence: I led the rebuilding of East Prussia, founding numerous towns.
Question: What is the common term for copyright infringement?
Sentence: It is often called "piracy".
Question: What is the name of the section of the Saturday edition of The Times that features travel and lifestyle?
Sentence: These supplements were relaunched in January 2009 as: Sport, Weekend (including travel and lifestyle features), Saturday Review (arts, books, and ideas), The Times Magazine (columns on various topics), and Playlist (an entertainment listings guide).
Question: How many square miles of territory were added to the British Empire between 1815 and 1914?
Sentence: Alongside the formal control it exerted over its own colonies, Britain's dominant position in world trade meant that it effectively controlled the economies of many countries, such as China, Argentina and Siam, which has been characterised by some historians as "Informal Empire".
Question: Intellectual history and social history are used in what?
Sentence: (The history of the arts and humanities is termed as the history of scholarship.)
Question: Why might the method gradually applying the operating voltage not be suitable to protect electrolytic capacitors in modern devices?
Sentence: Such remedies may not be applicable to modern high-frequency power supplies as these produce full output voltage even with reduced input.
Question: In what year did the Rus attack Constantinople?
Sentence: In 867 the Patriarch announced that the Rus' had accepted a bishop, and in 874 he speaks of an "Archbishop of the Rus'."
Question: What did Feynman think that the truck windshield would shield him against?
Sentence: On witnessing the blast, Feynman ducked towards the floor of his truck because of the immense brightness of the explosion, where he saw a temporary "purple splotch" afterimage of the event.
Question: What speech did he give?
Sentence: On that same night following the conclusion of the first session, the people in Saint Peter's Square chanted and yelled with the sole objective of getting John XXIII to appear at the window to address them.
Question: When did two clans take up action against the German occupiers?
Sentence: The survivors, when finally released from detention, were subjected to a policy of dispossession, deportation, forced labour, racial segregation and discrimination in a system that in many ways anticipated apartheid.
Question: How high could the homeless number possibly go?
Sentence: The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million.
Question: What romantic drama might be used in a story?
Sentence: Also, anything that can be used as an element of drama can exist in professional wrestling stories: romantic relationships (including love triangles and marriage), racism, classism, nepotism, favoritism, corporate corruption, family bonds, personal histories, grudges, theft, cheating, assault, betrayal, bribery, seduction, stalking, confidence tricks, extortion, blackmail, substance abuse, self-doubt, self-sacrifice; even kidnapping, sexual fetishism, necrophilia, misogyny, rape and death have been portrayed in wrestling.
Question: What is the name of the regiment that frequently served as Napoleon's escort?
Sentence: When he became First Consul and later Emperor, Napoleon eschewed his general's uniform and habitually wore the simple green colonel uniform (non-Hussar) of a colonel of the Chasseur à Cheval of the Imperial Guard, the regiment that often served as his personal escort, with a large bicorne.
Question: What outcome did the accusations against the Christians produce?
Sentence: From that point on, Roman official policy towards Christianity tended towards persecution.
Question: When was ISO's first acceptance of an international recommendation?
Sentence: From early in its development, ASCII was intended to be just one of several national variants of an international character code standard, ultimately published as ISO/IEC 646 (1972), which would share most characters in common but assign other locally useful characters to several code points reserved for "national use."
Question: What are madaris referred to as in Indonesia and Malaysia?
Sentence: In countries where Islam is not the majority or state religion, Islamic schools are found in regions such as southern Thailand (near the Thai-Malaysian border) and the southern Philippines in Mindanao, where a significant Muslim population can be found.
Question: How many people attended cricket at Lord's?
Sentence: Some people even told government surveyors that they enjoyed air raids if they occurred occasionally, perhaps once a week.
Question: What was the English title of Le scandale?
Sentence: It was only involved in approximately 20 French film productions.
Question: What is Switzerland's ranking for per capita gross domestic product on the IMF list?
Sentence: It has the highest nominal wealth (financial and non-financial assets) per adult in the world according to Credit Suisse and the eighth-highest per capita gross domestic product on the IMF list.
Question: When did mixed tag teams start?
Sentence: If a tag was made, the other team had to automatically switch their legal wrestler as well.
Question: What is the study of ancient, fossilized plants?
Sentence: Paleobotanists study ancient plants in the fossil record to provide information about the evolutionary history of plants.
Question: What was project Lantern exploring
Sentence: At the time that the results were released, the IJM was exploring opportunities to replicate the model in other regions.
Question: What is Portuguese pavement?
Sentence: Portuguese pavement (in Portuguese, Calçada Portuguesa) is a kind of two-tone stone mosaic paving created in Portugal, and common throughout the Lusosphere.