xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the difference in role for Minority leader when majority party holds white house?
Sentence: Greatly outnumbered in the House, Minority Leader Ford devised a political strategy that allowed Republicans to offer their alternatives in a manner that provided them political protection.
Question: The support of Asoka and his descendants led to what being built more?
Sentence: Buddhism may have spread only slowly in India until the time of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, who was a public supporter of the religion.
Question: When did the western half of the state become Hesse?
Sentence: After the extinction of the reigning Ludowingian line of counts and landgraves in 1247 and the War of the Thuringian Succession (1247–1264), the western half became independent under the name of "Hesse", never to become a part of Thuringia again.
Question: Who was Altan Khan's nominal superior?
Sentence: " To further cement the Mongol-Tibetan alliance, the great-grandson of Altan Khan—the 4th Dalai Lama (1589–1616)—was made the fourth Dalai Lama.
Question: Who blocked the takeover attempt?
Sentence: A statement from Shell read: "Royal Dutch Shell acknowledges the outcome of Woodside Petroleum Limited's shareholders' negative vote on the selective buy-back proposal.
Question: Why are hydrocarbon pesticides not excreted?
Sentence: Since chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides dissolve in fats and are not excreted, organisms tend to retain them almost indefinitely.
Question: When is the Korean dog recipe usually eaten?
Sentence: The most popular Korean dog dish is gaejang-guk (also called bosintang), a spicy stew meant to balance the body's heat during the summer months; followers of the custom claim this is done to ensure good health by balancing one's gi, or vital energy of the body.
Question: An EEG of the brain stands for what?
Sentence: When large numbers of neurons show synchronized activity, the electric fields that they generate can be large enough to detect outside the skull, using electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG).
Question: When did Beijing agree to aid from Taiwan?
Sentence: China stated it would gratefully accept international help to cope with the quake.
Question: Who was the captain of the crew killed in 1834?
Sentence: In 1852 the San Francisco-based ships Glencoe and Sea Nymph were attacked and everyone aboard except for one crew member were killed.
Question: What radio station format is soft AC often contrasted with?
Sentence: Soft AC includes a larger amount of older music, especially classic R&B, soul, and 1960s and 1970s music, than hot AC.
Question: From the late 1990s to mid 2000s, was drug use in teens on the rise or decline?
Sentence: The heightened usage of ecstasy most likely ties in at least to some degree with the rising popularity of rave culture.
Question: According to the Buddhist doctrine of impermanence, how does life express impermanence?
Sentence: The doctrine asserts that because things are impermanent, attachment to them is futile and leads to suffering (dukkha).
Question: What is the main principle of lectio brevior?
Sentence: The second, lectio difficilior potior (the harder reading is stronger), recognizes the tendency for harmonization—resolving apparent inconsistencies in the text.
Question: In what year was Royal Prussia annexed?
Sentence: In the 1772 First Partition of Poland, the Prussian king Frederick the Great annexed neighboring Royal Prussia, i.e. the Polish voivodeships of Pomerania (Gdańsk Pomerania or Pomerelia), Malbork, Chełmno and the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia, thereby bridging the "Polish Corridor" between his Prussian and Farther Pomeranian lands and cutting remaining Poland off the Baltic Coast.
Question: What is Palermo's climate classification?
Sentence: Snow is usually a rare occurrence, but it does occur occasionally if there is a cold front, as the Apennines are too distant to protect the island from cold winds blowing from the Balkans, and the mountains surrounding the city facilite the formation of snow accumulation in Palermo, especially at night.
Question: What sits on top of the Main Building at Notre Dame?
Sentence: Next to the Main Building is the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Question: What was the Truman administration concerned about that was preventing them from getting involved in the Korean conflict?
Sentence: A major consideration was the possible Soviet reaction in the event that the US intervened.
Question: Who was elected in 1924?
Sentence: Saad Zaghlul was popularly elected as Prime Minister of Egypt in 1924.
Question: What type of educational institutions are in the area, that Nanjing can brag about?
Sentence: Nanjing has been the educational centre in southern China for more than 1700 years.
Question: Comcast owns what movie studio?
Sentence: Under the terms of the agreement Comcast was to acquire 100% of Time Warner Cable.
Question: What did Armenia declare a cease-fire to in 1994?
Sentence: Armenia has had strong economic growth since 1995, building on the turnaround that began the previous year, and inflation has been negligible for the past several years.
Question: Who recreated the measles vaccine?
Sentence: Other notable new vaccines of the period include those for measles (1962, John Franklin Enders of Children's Medical Center Boston, later refined by Maurice Hilleman at Merck), Rubella (1969, Hilleman, Merck) and mumps (1967, Hilleman, Merck)
Question: Colonization reduced the power of what groups in the Congo River basin?
Sentence: The Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão reached the mouth of the Congo in 1484.
Question: What happens to the voltage when an inductive circuit is opened?
Sentence: A snubber capacitor across the newly opened circuit creates a path for this impulse to bypass the contact points, thereby preserving their life; these were commonly found in contact breaker ignition systems, for instance.
Question: What were Protestant Christians fleeing from?
Sentence: They included nonconformists like the Puritans, who were Protestant Christians fleeing religious persecution from the Anglican King of England.
Question: Who was the Grand Secretary under Jiajing?
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: Who did John marry Joan to?
Sentence: John's invasion, striking into the Welsh heartlands, was a military success.
Question: When did Aribau write Ode to the Homeland?
Sentence: This period starts with Aribau's Ode to the Homeland (1833); followed in the second half of the 19th century, and the early 20th by the work of Verdaguer (poetry), Oller (realist novel), and Guimerà (drama).
Question: When did BYU first open its doors to students?
Sentence: The school broke off from the University of Deseret and became Brigham Young Academy, with classes commencing on January 3, 1876.
Question: When was the Taika Reform?
Sentence: One of the most important was that of the Taika Reform, issued by Prince Naka
Question: In what year did Arsenal move to Holloway?
Sentence: In 1913, the club crossed the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury.
Question: After what war did the English receive New Amsterdam?
Sentence: At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the English gained New Amsterdam (New York) in North America in exchange for Dutch control of Run, an Indonesian island.
Question: When did Congress secure an absolute majority?
Sentence: In the assembly elections held in November 2012, the Congress secured an absolute majority.
Question: Between what years did Portugal establish a colonial and commercial empire?
Sentence: In the 15th and 16th centuries, the language spread worldwide as Portugal established a colonial and commercial empire between 1415 and 1999.
Question: Where was Charleston's first location?
Sentence: By 1690, Charles Town was the fifth-largest city in North America, and it remained among the 10 largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census.
Question: Spiderman's fictional city is based off what real American location?
Sentence: Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities.
Question: How did Alexis de Tocqueville describe the French Revolution?
Sentence: De Tocqueville "clearly designates ... the cultural effects of transformation in the forms of the exercise of power".
Question: By 2011, how many people were affected by asthma?
Sentence: As of 2011, 235–330 million people worldwide are affected by asthma, and approximately 250,000–345,000 people die per year from the disease.
Question: What city did Hadik occupy?
Sentence: When Frederick heard about this humiliating occupation, he immediately sent a larger force to free the city.
Question: How did Life Magazine recognize Spielberg?
Sentence: At the end of the 20th century, Life named him the most influential person of his generation.
Question: Who had admiration for the ancient Estonian culture?
Sentence: Writings in Estonian became significant only in the 19th century with the spread of the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, during the Estophile Enlightenment Period (1750–1840).
Question: What is the Italian equivalent to the French term Lumieres?
Sentence: The term "Enlightenment" emerged in English in the later part of the 19th century, with particular reference to French philosophy, as the equivalent of the French term 'Lumières' (used first by Dubos in 1733 and already well established by 1751).
Question: In what year was thalidomide banned in Germany?
Sentence: Though the drug was never approved in the USA, the firm distributed Kevadon to over 1,000 physicians there under the guise of investigational use.
Question: Which colors lay outside of the nor for those of Greek descent ?
Sentence: In conclusion the hair colour of young Greeks are mostly brown, ranging from light to dark brown.
Question: What is used to set the dining table for formal dinners?
Sentence: On these occasions, for up to 170 guests in formal "white tie and decorations", including tiaras, the dining table is laid with the Grand Service, a collection of silver-gilt plate made in 1811 for the Prince of Wales, later George IV.
Question: Which government supported the US's war Afghanistan and Iraq?
Sentence: The Howard Government invoked the ANZUS treaty in response to the attacks and supported America's campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Question: Who did Chandrahrasa belong to?
Sentence: The city was designed in the shape of Chandrahrasa, the sword of Manjushri.
Question: What is the name of the insulator in all capacitors that can store energy by becoming polarized?
Sentence: Instead, a capacitor stores energy in the form of an electrostatic field between its plates.
Question: The Chichimeca are the ancestors of what people?
Sentence: The Chichimeca are the ancestors of the Tepehuan people.
Question: What type of numbers under addition form a monoid?
Sentence: For example, if the requirement that every element has an inverse is eliminated, the resulting algebraic structure is called a monoid.
Question: The state's economy ranks in what place in the country Mexico
Sentence: The state has the 12th-largest state economy in Mexico, accounting for 2.7% of the country’s GDP.
Question: When did Russia experience territorial growth?
Sentence: Russia experienced territorial growth through the 17th century, which was the age of Cossacks.
Question: What big cat is said to inhabit the mountains of the Gash-Barka Region?
Sentence: There is also a small population of elephants that roam in some parts of the country.
Question: The PAL and SECAM were color systems where?
Sentence: European standards did not follow until the 1960s, when the PAL and SECAM color systems were added to the monochrome 625 line broadcasts.
Question: What burrough was Feynman's high school in?
Sentence: Feynman attended Far Rockaway High School, a school in Far Rockaway, Queens also attended by fellow Nobel laureates Burton Richter and Baruch Samuel Blumberg.
Question: What was the crown tribunal supposed to do?
Sentence: This placed much of the monarch's juridical power in the hands of the elected szlachta deputies, further strengthening the nobility class.
Question: What does the first of the Four Noble Truths explain?
Sentence: Dukkha is commonly translated as "suffering", "anxiety", "unsatisfactoriness", "unease", etc., and it is said to have the following three aspects:
Question: What is Melbourne's main metropolitan train terminus called?
Sentence: The main passenger airport serving the metropolis and the state is Melbourne Airport (also called Tullamarine Airport), which is the second busiest in Australia, and
Question: Sanskrit is a standardized dialect of which language?
Sentence: It is a standardised dialect of Old Indo-Aryan, originating as Vedic Sanskrit and tracing its linguistic ancestry back to Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European.
Question: What have some of Czech's characters been used for by phonologists to denote?
Sentence: As a result, some of its characters have been used by phonologists to denote corresponding sounds in other languages.
Question: How many miles of sewers are in the city?
Sentence: In 2012, the EPA's readings discovered that the city had the highest readings of I-131 in the nation.
Question: What details did Modernists' do away with?
Sentence: The approach of the Modernist architects was to reduce buildings to pure forms, removing historical references and ornament in favor of functionalist details.
Question: What is the Charles de Gaulle the flagship of?
Sentence: It is a CATOBAR-type carrier that uses two 75 m C13‑3 steam catapults of a shorter version of the catapult system installed on the U.S. Nimitz-class carriers, one catapult at the bow and one across the front of the landing area.
Question: What does the bacteria give the worm?
Sentence: The worm has no digestive tract and is wholly reliant on its internal symbionts for nutrition.
Question: What are 2 major cultural influences of Cork?
Sentence: Cork has been culturally diverse for many years, from Huguenot communities in the 17th century, through to Eastern European communities and a smaller numbers from African and Asian nations in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Question: When did Queen release The Miracle?
Sentence: After working on various solo projects during 1988 (including Mercury's collaboration with Montserrat Caballé, Barcelona), the band released The Miracle in 1989.
Question: What are the first two letters of nearly all CBC stations?
Sentence: All CBC O&O stations have a standard call letter naming convention, in that the first two letters are "CB" (an ITU prefix allocated not to Canada, but to Chile) and the last letter is "T".
Question: In March 2007, what percentage of Southampton residents claimed job seeker's allowance?
Sentence: This compares with an average of 2.5 per cent for England as a whole.
Question: What would be problematic for a multilingual character set or font to provide?
Sentence: In other words, while the shapes of letters like A, B, E, H, K, M, O, P, T, X, Y and so on are shared between the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets (and small differences in their canonical forms may be considered to be of a merely typographical nature), it would still be problematic for a multilingual character set or a font to provide only a single codepoint for, say, uppercase letter B, as this would make it quite difficult for a wordprocessor to change that single uppercase letter to one of the three different choices for the lower-case letter, b (Latin), β (Greek), or в (Cyrillic).
Question: What word was added to the Endangered Species Act in 1982?
Sentence: The House committee's statement was "that economic considerations have no relevance to determinations regarding the status of species."
Question: What species of hardwood are hickory and mulberry trees?
Sentence: The rest of the ring, produced in summer, is made up of smaller vessels and a much greater proportion of wood fibers.
Question: When did Lord North leave office?
Sentence: The administration of Lord North (1770–1782) tried to defeat the colonist rebellion by military force.
Question: Who was the labor leader of the Teamsters?
Sentence: The labor activism during those years increased influence of union leaders in the city such as Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters and Walter Reuther of the Autoworkers.
Question: During what span of time did the Pala Empire thrive?
Sentence: The Pala Empire can be considered as the golden era of Bengal in many ways.
Question: How did the Institute of International Education rank BYU in 2009 compared with U.S. universities that offer study abroad opportunities?
Sentence: In 2001, the Institute of International Education ranked BYU as the number one university in the U.S. to offer students study abroad opportunities.
Question: Who again issued the same type of challenge centuries later
Sentence: Terence, an African and a former slave, was well placed to preach the message of universalism, of the essential unity of the human race, that had come down in philosophical form from the Greeks, but needed the pragmatic muscles of Rome in order to become a practical reality.
Question: What was Peter Stuyvesant's title?
Sentence: In 1664, Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of the colony of New Netherland, surrendered New Amsterdam to the English without bloodshed.
Question: What branch of the US government established the National Archives?
Sentence: The first Archivist, R.D.W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established by Congress.
Question: Investigations of what brought questions of space into questions about time?
Sentence: Investigations of a single continuum called spacetime bring questions about space into questions about time, questions that have their roots in the works of early students of natural philosophy.
Question: Whose theory claimed that species were unchanging and designed by God?
Sentence: John Ray developed an influential natural theology of rational order; in his taxonomy, species were static and fixed, their adaptation and complexity designed by God, and varieties showed minor differences caused by local conditions.
Question: Who uses the Latin alphabet?
Sentence: There is also a Latin script to write in Belarusian, called the Lacinka alphabet.
Question: What famous panda was killed under the rubble?
Sentence: Nine-year-old Mao Mao, a mother of five at the breeding center, was discovered on Monday, her body crushed by a wall in her enclosure.
Question: After the water purification plant at the Croton Watershed is built, how much more water will be added to the city's supply each day?
Sentence: The Croton Watershed north of the city is undergoing construction of a US$3.2 billion water purification plant to augment New York City's water supply by an estimated 290 million gallons daily, representing a greater than 20% addition to the city's current availability of water.
Question: How many votes were cast in the American Idol finale in season eight?
Sentence: It was claimed, later retracted, that 38 million of the 100 million votes cast on the night came from Allen's home state of Arkansas alone, and that AT&T employees unfairly influenced the votes by giving lessons on power-texting at viewing parties in Arkansas.
Question: What was a notable film that Turner colorized?
Sentence: Before the creation of Turner Classic Movies, films from Turner's library of movies aired on the Turner Broadcasting System's advertiser-supported cable network TNT – along with colorized versions of black-and-white classics such as The Maltese Falcon.
Question: What do insulating cards prevent between interconnection layers?
Sentence: Perforations or holes in the cards allowed component leads to project through to the next interconnection layer.
Question: What is the largest of the cemeteries created in the 20th centuries?
Sentence: New suburban cemeteries were created in the early 20th century: The largest of these are the Cimetière parisien de Saint-Ouen, the Cimetière parisien de Pantin (also known as Cimetière parisien de Pantin-Bobigny, the Cimetière parisien d'Ivry, and the Cimetière parisien de Bagneux).[citation needed]
Question: When was Take Me Out to a Cubs game released?
Sentence: It is a collection of 17 songs and other recordings related to the team, including Harry Caray's final performance of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on September 21, 1997, the Steve Goodman song mentioned above, and a newly recorded rendition of "Talkin' Baseball" (subtitled "Baseball and the Cubs") by Terry Cashman.
Question: The Mach argument is called what?
Sentence: Mach argued that the momentum of an object, whether angular or linear, exists as a result of the sum of the effects of other objects in the universe (Mach's Principle).
Question: What was Berkeley's ethnicity?
Sentence: Proponents include Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, an Anglo-Irish philosopher who advanced a theory he called immaterialism, later referred to as "subjective idealism", contending that individuals can only know sensations and ideas of objects directly, not abstractions such as "matter", and that ideas also depend upon being perceived for their very existence - esse est percipi; "to be is to be perceived".
Question: Prior to 1997, where were racial categories declared for the U.S. Census?
Sentence: In September 1997, during the process of revision of racial categories previously declared by OMB directive no. 15, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) recommended that OMB combine the "race" and "ethnicity" categories into one question to appear as "race/ethnicity" for the 2000 US Census.
Question: What year did the Cape Times (South Africa) start?
Sentence: The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India (founded in 1838), The Straits Times (Singapore) (1845), The New York Times (1851), The Irish Times (1859), Le Temps (France) (1861-1942), the Cape Times (South Africa) (1872), the Los Angeles Times (1881), The Seattle Times (1891), The Manila Times (1898), The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900), El Tiempo (Colombia) (1911), The Canberra Times (1926), and The Times (Malta) (1935).
Question: Which film project did Madonna leave because of differences with the director?
Sentence: She recorded the single "Beautiful Stranger" for the 1999 film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Question: In the winter of 1947, the National Museum started with a display of Indian art in what location?
Sentence: On 15 August 1949, the National Museum was formally inaugurated and currently has 200,000 works of art, both of Indian and foreign origin, covering over 5,000 years.
Question: How many locks are contained in Suez Canal?
Sentence: The canal is a single lane with passing places in the "Ballah By-Pass" and the Great Bitter Lake.
Question: How many barrels of crude were upgraders making per day by 2015?
Sentence: This synthetic substance is fluid enough to be transferred through conventional oil pipelines and can be fed into conventional oil refineries without any further treatment.
Question: What is the most common example of a machine vision system?
Sentence: Optical computer mice are an example of LEDs in machine vision, as it is used to provide an even light source on the surface for the miniature camera within the mouse.
Question: The lacquer doors in the Centre Room were brought from Brighton in which year?
Sentence: The Chinese Luncheon Room and Yellow Drawing Room are situated at each end of this gallery, with the Centre Room obviously placed in the centre.
Question: Who was ultimately able to claim victoy in Port Said?
Sentence: It was at Port Said that Nasser saw a confrontation with the invading forces as being the strategic and psychological focal point of Egypt's defense.
Question: In Australia, what percent of passerine species are partially migratory?
Sentence: Partial migration is very common in the southern continents; in Australia, 44% of non-passerine birds and 32% of passerine species are partially migratory.