xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What Empire neighbored and had a rivalry with Safavid Iran?
Sentence: Following a gradual decline in the late 1600s and early 1700s, which was caused by the internal conflicts, the continuous wars with the Ottomans, and the foreign interference (most notably the Russian interference), the Safavid rule was ended by the Pashtun rebels who besieged Isfahan and defeated Soltan Hosein in 1722.
Question: What is Miami's world rank in terms of how impressive its skyline is?
Sentence: Miami's skyline is ranked third-most impressive in the U.S., behind New York City and Chicago, and 19th in the world according to the Almanac of Architecture and Design.
Question: How many types are Nepali works of art typically divided into?
Sentence: Kathmandu is a center for art in Nepal, displaying the work of contemporary artists in the country and also collections of historical artists.
Question: Justify My Love reached which number in the US charts?
Sentence: Madonna responded to the banning: "Why is it that people are willing to go and watch a movie about someone getting blown to bits for no reason at all, and nobody wants to see two girls kissing and two men snuggling?"
Question: What dynasty ruled the Sultanate of Ifat?
Sentence: The Sultanate of Ifat, led by the Walashma dynasty with its capital at Zeila, ruled over parts of what is now eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti, and northern Somalia.
Question: What was the designation of Nanjing?
Sentence: Even today, some of them still remain which are open to tourists.
Question: In which year was the Arms and Ammunitions (Amemndment) Bill adopted?
Sentence: Members of the opposition denounced the bill and asked the King to veto it, which he did in December.
Question: In addition to agriculture, what industry historically supported Samoa's local economy?
Sentence: In modern times, development aid, private family remittances from overseas, and agricultural exports have become key factors in the nation's economy.
Question: In an argument by Avicenna, the soul is without what?
Sentence: These were known in Latin under the title De Anima (treatises "on the soul").[dubious – discuss]
Question: What are the four categories for the most prolific dialects used in Burma ?
Sentence: Sino-Tibetan, Tai–Kadai, Austro-Asiatic, and Indo-European.
Question: What provides Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power?
Sentence: The Alps provide lowland Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power.
Question: What did the Qur'an permit?
Sentence: The men interpreted the Qur'an to permit sexual relations between a male master and his female slave outside of marriage (see Ma malakat aymanukum and sex), leading to many mixed-race children.
Question: What team did Nwankwo Kanu go on to play on?
Sentence: The nation's cadet team from Japan '93 produced some international players notably Nwankwo Kanu, a two-time African Footballer of the year who won the European Champions League with Ajax Amsterdam and later played with Inter Milan, Arsenal, West Bromwich Albion and Portsmouth.
Question: What was the most common type of brick used to construct London's older buildings?
Sentence: The Monument in the City of London provides views of the surrounding area while commemorating the Great Fire of London, which originated nearby.
Question: What is used to identify the begining of a valid frame of an MP3 header?
Sentence: This is followed by a bit indicating that this is the MPEG standard and two bits that indicate that layer 3 is used; hence MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 or MP3.
Question: What have pieces published after 1857 been given rather than opus numbers?
Sentence: The present standard musicological reference for Chopin's works is the Kobylańska Catalogue (usually represented by the initials 'KK'), named for its compiler, the Polish musicologist Krystyna Kobylańska.
Question: What did Alumnus Eero Saarinen use for inspiration for Ingalls Rink at Yale?
Sentence: These latter were modelled after the medieval Italian hilltown of San Gimignano – a prototype chosen for the town's pedestrian-friendly milieu and fortress-like stone towers.
Question: During what years was Theodor Hesburgh president of Notre Dame?
Sentence: The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., (1917–2015) served as president for 35 years (1952–87) of dramatic transformations.
Question: Who, along with ordinary citizens, makes up the Citizens for Democratic Rights in Eritrea?
Sentence: Additionally, a new movement called Citizens for Democratic Rights in Eritrea aimed at bringing about dialogue between the government and opposition was formed in early 2009.
Question: What language is Hokkien distantly related to?
Sentence: Besides Hokkien, there are also other Min and Hakka dialects in Fujian province, most of which are not mutually intelligible with Hokkien.
Question: Who wrote the only book length- biography of Harper Lee?
Sentence: Charles Shields, who has written the only book-length biography of Harper Lee to date, offers the reason for the novel's enduring popularity and impact is that "its lessons of human dignity and respect for others remain fundamental and universal".
Question: What causes warping in vinyl records?
Sentence: Vinyl records can be warped by heat, improper storage, exposure to sunlight, or manufacturing defects such as excessively tight plastic shrinkwrap on the album cover.
Question: Who wrote 'The BFG'?
Sentence: Spielberg has filmed and is currently in post-production on an adaptation of Roald Dahl's celebrated children's story The BFG.
Question: Who are some of the most renowned football managers in Portugal?
Sentence: Football is the most popular sport in Portugal.
Question: What was Tony's occupation?
Sentence: Tony worked as an engineer designer for Chrysler and General Motors.
Question: What interstate highways cross the Grand Division in Tennessee?
Sentence: East Tennessee has several important transportation links with Middle and West Tennessee, as well as the rest of the nation and the world, including several major airports and interstates.
Question: Who can individuals can not derive precedence from?
Sentence: As a general rule, individuals can derive precedence from their fathers or husbands, but not from their mothers or wives (see order of precedence in England and Wales for the exact positions).
Question: What did Carnivore monitor?
Sentence: Carnivore was an electronic eavesdropping software system implemented by the FBI during the Clinton administration; it was designed to monitor email and electronic communications.
Question: Which Spielberg films has Tom Cruise been in?
Sentence: Spielberg has collaborated with Tom Cruise twice on Minority Report and War of the Worlds, and cast Shia LaBeouf in five films: Transformers, Eagle Eye, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Question: In the 23 October 1955 Saar Statute referendum, what percentage opposed the formation of the Saarland?
Sentence: The rejection of the plan by the Saarlanders was interpreted as support for the Saar to join the Federal Republic of Germany.
Question: Which type of reptile is most common in the desert?
Sentence: The most observed reptiles in the desert include: Mohave rattlesnake Crotalus scutulatus, twin-spotted rattlesnake Crotalus pricei, prairie rattlesnake Crotalus viridis, ridge-nosed rattlesnake Crotalus willardi, whip snake Masticophis flagellum, New Mexico whiptail Cnemidophorus neomexicanus, and red-spotted toad Bufo punctatus.
Question: What is St. Christopher the patron saint of?
Sentence: Discussing his faith, Kerry said, "I thought of being a priest.
Question: What was "Operation Detachment"?
Sentence: General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the commander of the island's defense, knew that he could not win the battle, but he hoped to make the Americans suffer far more than they could endure.
Question: What convent was close to the area where troops lived?
Sentence: Valencia had to become accustomed to being an occupied city, living with the presence of troops quartered in the Citadel near the convent of Santo Domingo and in other buildings such as the Lonja, which served as a barracks until 1762.
Question: Which desert is encroaching into northeastern Nigeria?
Sentence: In the Sahel region, rain is less than 500 millimetres (20 in) per year and the Sahara Desert is encroaching.
Question: What country did Eisenhower believe communists would conquer if they took over Guatemala?
Sentence: He believed that if the communists were allowed to prevail in Vietnam, this would cause a succession of countries to fall to communism, from Laos through Malaysia and Indonesia ultimately to India.
Question: Along with fatty acids, what kind of acids are in the extractives in wood?
Sentence: Aside from the lignocellulose, wood consists of a variety of low molecular weight organic compounds, called extractives.
Question: What does the country experience from December through April?
Sentence: The average rainfall for Bissau is 2,024 millimetres (79.7 in) although this is almost entirely accounted for during the rainy season which falls between June and September/October.
Question: Along with chronicles and records, what indigenous sources are used in Somali Studies?
Sentence: The field draws from old Somali chronicles, records and oral literature, in addition to written accounts and traditions about Somalis from explorers and geographers in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.
Question: What percentage of New Delhi's population is Muslim?
Sentence: Hinduism is the religion of 79.8% of New Delhi's population.
Question: How many books are housed at the Theodore Hesburgh Library?
Sentence: Many academic building were added together with a system of libraries, the most prominent of which is the Theodore Hesburgh Library, built in 1963 and today containing almost 4 million books.
Question: Who was the influential New Haven general that hoped to avoid conflict with the British Parliament as the American Revolution loomed closer?
Sentence: For over a century, New Haven citizens had fought in the colonial militia alongside regular British forces, as in the French and Indian War.
Question: What are groups other than blacks considered to be?
Sentence: It is often suggested that the key reason for this is that the physical differences between these other groups and whites are less pronounced than the physical differences between African blacks and whites, and therefore are less threatening to whites. ...
Question: New Haven County makes up the outer limits of what major metropolitan area?
Sentence: It is the second-largest city in Connecticut (after Bridgeport), with a population of 129,779 people as of the 2010 United States Census.
Question: Britain competed with which country to fill the Asian power vacuum in the 19th century?
Sentence: During the 19th century, Britain and the Russian Empire vied to fill the power vacuums that had been left by the declining Ottoman Empire, Qajar dynasty and Qing Dynasty.
Question: Without using an external box, cable-ready TVs can display what?
Sentence: Additionally, cable-ready TV sets can display HD content without using an external box.
Question: What year was the O'neill tunnel put in place?
Sentence: Downtown Boston's streets grew organically, so they do not form a planned grid, unlike those in later-developed Back Bay, East Boston, the South End, and South Boston.
Question: What was the value of the loan that Dell received from Microsoft?
Sentence: After several weeks of rumors, which started around January 11, 2013, Dell announced on February 5, 2013 that it had struck a $24.4 billion leveraged buyout deal, that would have delisted its shares from the NASDAQ and Hong Kong Stock Exchange and taken it private.
Question: Who played Billy Cub?
Sentence: Billy Cub, who is played by fan John Paul Weier, had unsuccessfully petitioned the team to become the official mascot.
Question: When did it get its modern spelling?
Sentence: The name evolved during the Middle Ages from Gallaecia, sometimes written Galletia, to Gallicia.
Question: What changed the Prussian relationship with Sweden?
Sentence: At the same time, his Brunswick allies captured the key town of Göttingen and compounded this by taking Cassel.
Question: Who was Jim Foster's employer prior to his founding the Arena Football League?
Sentence: Jim Foster, a promotions manager with the National Football League, conceived of indoor football while watching an indoor soccer match at Madison Square Garden in 1981.
Question: What can be economically competetive but may still require deployment support?
Sentence: However, the industry has remained relatively stagnant over the decade to 2007, even though demand for biomass (mostly wood) continues to grow in many developing countries.
Question: What is able to prevent AA from being released from membranes?
Sentence: Moreover, the conversion (desaturation) of DGLA to AA is controlled by the enzyme delta-5-desaturase, which in turn is controlled by hormones such as insulin (up-regulation) and glucagon (down-regulation).
Question: What two bodies of water influene the climate in Western Alaska?
Sentence: The climate of Western Alaska is determined in large part by the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska.
Question: Which church in the United States is associated with the Angican Communion?
Sentence: The multiple churches that form the Anglican Communion and the Continuing Anglican movement have different views on Marian doctrines and venerative practices given that there is no single church with universal authority within the Communion and that the mother church (the Church of England) understands itself to be both "catholic" and "Reformed".
Question: When did Roosevelt sign the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act?
Sentence: On 16 March 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act, which requires an annual stamp purchase by all hunters over the age of sixteen.
Question: What forms are mutually intelligible?
Sentence: The various forms of Catalan and Valencian are mutually intelligible (ranging from 90% to 95%)
Question: In which battle did the Dreyse needle gun gain its fame?
Sentence: The army was still equipped with the Dreyse needle gun of Battle of Königgrätz fame, which was by this time showing the age of its 25-year-old design.
Question: The College's restricted equity holdings would be considered a part of which portion of the portfolio?
Sentence: The College's endowment is sub-divided into three distinct portfolios: (i)
Question: What direct benefit did NARA itself gain from the partnership with Fold3?
Sentence: On January 10, 2007, the National Archives and Fold3.com (formerly Footnote) launched a pilot project to digitize historic documents from the National Archives holdings.
Question: Which Dell committee handles accounting issues?
Sentence: The board of directors usually sets up five committees having oversight over specific matters.
Question: What did Tuvalu call for from other nations concerning reduction of carbon emissions?
Sentence: Their chief negotiator stated, "Tuvalu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change and our future rests on the outcome of this meeting."
Question: What are the kings portrayed as hunting?
Sentence: Taboos are often related to hunting, and mythological association of prey species with a divinity could be reflected in hunting restrictions such as a reserve surrounding a temple.
Question: What was the original name of the Beechen Cliff School
Sentence: Several schools can trace their origins back many years, such as The Blue School in Wells and Richard Huish College in Taunton.
Question: Who said that Napoleon's presence on the battlefield was worth 40,000 soldiers?
Sentence: Wellington said his presence on the battlefield was worth 40,000 soldiers, for he inspired confidence from privates to field marshals.
Question: When did Thomas à Kempis die?
Sentence: The papacy further refined the practice in the Mass in the Late Middle Ages, holding that the clergy alone was allowed to partake of the wine in the Eucharist.
Question: In 2007 what happened to developerWorks?
Sentence: In 2007, developerWorks was inducted into the Jolt Hall of Fame.
Question: What hobby champions the use of Old English?
Sentence: A number of websites devoted to Neo-Paganism and Historical re-enactment offer reference material and forums promoting the active use of Old English.
Question: In the middle of the eighteenth century, how many Swedes could read and write?
Sentence: By the middle of the eighteenth century, the literacy rate in England was about 60 per cent, in Scotland 65 per cent, and in Sweden eight of ten men and women were able to read and to write.
Question: Which type of glacier is above or at freezing at it's interface and is able to slide?
Sentence: A warm-based glacier is above or at freezing at the interface, and is able to slide at this contact.
Question: Who made up the crew of the Soyuz 11?
Sentence: The Soyuz 11 crew of Vladislav Volkov, Georgi Dobrovolski and Viktor Patsayev successfully docked on June 7, and completed a record 22-day stay.
Question: What caused ancient texts to be rediscovered by Byzantine scholars?
Sentence: New ideas also helped to influence the development of European science at this point: not least the introduction of Algebra.
Question: In what did Houston pass New York City in 2013?
Sentence: The Houston Ship Channel is also a large part of Houston's economic base.
Question: Where did Louis XVI and his family live?
Sentence: In 1793, as the revolution turned more and more radical, the king, queen, and the mayor were guillotined, along with more than 16,000 others (throughout France), during the Reign of Terror.
Question: Which company is Alaska's only professional opera?
Sentence: The Anchorage Opera is currently the state's only professional opera company, though there are several volunteer and semi-professional organizations in the state as well.
Question: What area exceeded 1 million people in 2015?
Sentence: The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 980,263.
Question: In what two major conflicts did Portugal engage in during the 20th century?
Sentence: Portugal also conducted several independent unilateral military operations abroad, as were the cases of the interventions of the Portuguese Armed Forces in Angola in 1992 and in Guinea-Bissau in 1998 with the main objectives of protecting and withdrawing of Portuguese and foreign citizens threatened by local civil conflicts.
Question: Why have Jehovah's Witnesses sometimes been imprisoned?
Sentence: Their doctrine of political neutrality and their refusal to serve in the military has led to imprisonment of members who refused conscription during World War II and at other times where national service has been compulsory.
Question: What was the previous name of the United Church of Christ?
Sentence: Major religious groups in the Republic of the Marshall Islands include the United Church of Christ (formerly Congregational), with 51.5% of the population; the Assemblies of God, 24.2%; the Roman Catholic Church, 8.4%; and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), 8.3%; Also represented are Bukot Nan Jesus (also known as Assembly of God Part Two), 2.2%; Baptist, 1.0%; Seventh-day Adventists, 0.9%; Full Gospel, 0.7%; and the Baha'i Faith, 0.6%; Persons without any religious affiliation account for a very small percentage of the population.
Question: Who established the Tibetan law code?
Sentence: Yet Van Praag describes the distinct and long-lasting Tibetan law code established by the Phagmodru ruler Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen as one of many reforms to revive old Imperial Tibetan traditions.
Question: Molecules that are released from ingested foods are done so through which process?
Sentence: Unabsorbed matter, along with some waste products of metabolism, is eliminated from the body in the feces.
Question: What do vending machines commonly only accept?
Sentence: As most vending machines are incapable of making change in banknotes, they commonly accept only $1 bills, though a few will give change in dollar coins.
Question: Who did King Louis XV want on the Polish throne?
Sentence: Louis’s goals for le Secret du roi included an attempt to win the Polish crown for his kinsman Louis François de Bourbon, prince de Conti, and the maintenance of Poland, Sweden, and Turkey as French client states in opposition to Russian and Austrian interests.
Question: Which contestant did the band Fuel ask to be their new lead singer?
Sentence: Chris Daughtry's performance of Fuel's "Hemorrhage (
Question: Who approved the improvement project for the Houston ship channel?
Sentence: In 1900, after Galveston was struck by a devastating hurricane, efforts to make Houston into a viable deep-water port were accelerated.
Question: Who gave Camillo di Cavour the orders to send soldiers to aid the French and British forces?
Sentence: The deployment of Italian troops to the Crimea, and the gallantry shown by them in the Battle of the Chernaya (16 August 1855) and in the siege of Sevastopol, allowed the Kingdom of Sardinia to be among the participants at the peace conference at the end of the war, where it could address the issue of the Risorgimento to other European powers.
Question: in what century was a school of polyphony established at Notre Dame?
Sentence: In the late 12th-century, a school of polyphony was established at the Notre-Dame.
Question: How many people can Nanjing Olympic Sports Center's natatorium hold?
Sentence: Its gymnasium has capacity of 13,000, and natatorium of capacity 3,000.
Question: In what year did the Ottoman Empire end?
Sentence: By the time the Ottoman Empire came to an end in 1922, half of the urban population of Turkey was descended from Muslim refugees from Russia.
Question: What belief is the emphasis of the Plymouth Brethren?
Sentence: Although the group refused for many years to take any denominational name to itself—a stance that some of them still maintain—the title The Brethren, is one that many of their number are comfortable with in that the Bible designates all believers as brethren.
Question: What is the profession of Reginald DesRoches?
Sentence: Reginald DesRoches, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech, pointed out that the massive damage of properties and houses in the earthquake area was because China did not create an adequate seismic design code until after the devastating 1976 Tangshan earthquake.
Question: Which village had fallen into decay?
Sentence: By then, the old village of Eye Cross had long since fallen into decay, and the area was mostly wasteland.
Question: What instrument fell out of use after the 1760s?
Sentence: While the harpsichord was still used in basso continuo accompaniment in the 1750s and 1760s, it fell out of use in the end of the century.
Question: Who would the FAA administrator report to?
Sentence: New programs and budget requests would have to be approved by DOT, which would then include these requests in the overall budget and submit it to the president.
Question: What was the name of the Briton colony formed in Northern Galicia?
Sentence: During this period a Briton colony and bishopric (see Mailoc) was established in Northern Galicia (Britonia), probably as foederati and allies of the Suebi.
Question: How many slaves were at San Miguel de Gualdape at its inception?
Sentence: In June of that year, Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon established a Spanish colony near the mouth of the Pee Dee River in what is now eastern South Carolina.
Question: The electrical properties of neurons are controlled by what?
Sentence: The electrical properties of neurons are controlled by a wide variety of biochemical and metabolic processes, most notably the interactions between neurotransmitters and receptors that take place at synapses.
Question: How many mourners attended Nasser's funeral?
Sentence: Following Egypt's defeat by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, Nasser resigned, but he returned to office after popular demonstrations called for his reinstatement.