xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What is difficult to confirm about the bucket in the absence of anything else in the universe?
Sentence: But in the absence of anything else in the universe, it would be difficult to confirm that the bucket was indeed spinning.
Question: Where did the French build Fort Duquesne?
Sentence: The most important French fort planned was intended to occupy a position at "the Forks" where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio River (present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).
Question: What are the main attractions in Cork?
Sentence: Cork's underground scene is supported by Plugd Records.[citation needed]
Question: What kind of parents did Bell state were more prone to having deaf children?
Sentence: In his lecture Memoir upon the formation of a deaf variety of the human race presented to the National Academy of Sciences on November 13, 1883 he noted that congenitally deaf parents were more likely to produce deaf children and tentatively suggested that couples where both parties were deaf should not marry.
Question: Where did Hou Xian and Zhi Guang travel through on their way to the Karmapa?
Sentence: In order to seek out the Karmapa, the Yongle Emperor dispatched his eunuch Hou Xian and the Buddhist monk Zhi Guang (d. 1435) to Tibet.
Question: What has led to many tragic instances of events like slavery and genocide?
Sentence: Socioeconomic factors, in combination with early but enduring views of race, have led to considerable suffering within disadvantaged racial groups.
Question: When did the rebels regain the south-east of England?
Sentence: Louis and the rebel barons advanced west and John retreated, spending the summer reorganising his defences across the rest of the kingdom.
Question: How old was Truman in 1948?
Sentence: Eisenhower was the only general to serve as President in the 20th century and the most recent President to have never held elected office prior to the Presidency (The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover).
Question: What did technology make feasible when it came to trees?
Sentence: Intentional burning of vegetation was used to mimic the effects of natural fires that tended to clear forest understories.
Question: Why did the third siege attempt fail?
Sentence: The third siege attempt was made 19–31 August 1855, but the city was already fortified and the squadron could not approach close enough for landing operations.
Question: Why type of anthropology is the study of social organization a central focus of?
Sentence: The study of kinship and social organization is a central focus of sociocultural anthropology, as kinship is a human universal.
Question: Ibn Sina left Rey and moved southwards to what city?
Sentence: After a brief sojourn at Qazvin he passed southwards to Hamadãn where Shams al-Daula, another Buwayhid emir, had established himself.
Question: How many Chinese troops and medics were involved in the relief efforts?
Sentence: Xinhua reported 135,000 Chinese troops and medics were involved in the rescue effort across 58 counties and cities.
Question: When was the beta version of Windows 8 made available to the public?
Sentence: On February 29, 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8 Consumer Preview, the beta version of Windows 8, build 8250.
Question: Who wrote the poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon?
Sentence: In 1902, Spalding, who by this time had revamped the roster to boast what would soon be one of the best teams of the early century, sold the club to Jim Hart.
Question: Ancient Greece was the birthplace of what?
Sentence: In their pursuit of order and proportion, the Greeks created an ideal of beauty that strongly influenced Western art.
Question: When does San Diego receive most of its precipitation?
Sentence: San Diego's climate is characterized by warm, dry summers and mild winters with most of the annual precipitation falling between December and March.
Question: In what year did Bandai post information about a reboot on his website?
Sentence: Once the countdown was finished, it revealed a reboot of the Digimon World series titled Digimon World Re:Digitize.
Question: What concerns arise when the lifting cylinder leaks fluid into the ground?
Sentence: They are less energy efficient as the pump works against gravity to push the car and its passengers upwards; this energy is lost when the car descends on its own weight.
Question: What quality made LDs a consideration for videogames in the 1980s and 1990s?
Sentence: The format's instant-access capability made it possible for a new breed of LaserDisc-based video arcade games and several companies saw potential in using LaserDiscs for video games in the 1980s and 1990s, beginning in 1983 with Sega's Astron Belt.
Question: From which group did amniotes descendents of?
Sentence: They descended from earlier reptiliomorph amphibious tetrapods, which lived on land that was already inhabited by insects and other invertebrates as well as by ferns, mosses and other plants.
Question: In what year was the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica published?
Sentence: In Germany, practical reference works intended for the uneducated majority became popular in the 18th century.
Question: What did Swiss voters agree to join on June 5, 2005?
Sentence: On 5 June 2005, Swiss voters agreed by a 55% majority to join the Schengen treaty, a result that was regarded by EU commentators as a sign of support by Switzerland, a country that is traditionally perceived as independent and reluctant to enter supranational bodies.
Question: What can be added to steel to enhance is corrosion resistance?
Sentence: Due to its very-high strength and toughness (which is much higher than pure iron), and its ability to be greatly altered by heat treatment, steel is one of the most common alloys in modern use.
Question: What was the percentage of labels youtube had signed contracts with prior to the planned launch date?
Sentence: In a statement to the Financial Times in June 2014, Robert Kyncl confirmed that YouTube would block the content of labels who do not negotiate deals to be included in the paid service "to ensure that all content on the platform is governed by its new contractual terms."
Question: Where is Dalcom Somalia currently building a 1000 square mile data center?
Sentence: Dalkom Somalia reached a similar agreement with the West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) Ltd, which it holds shares in.
Question: Who is Windows division president?
Sentence: Windows division president Steven Sinofsky demonstrated an early build of the port on prototype devices, while Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the company's goal for Windows to be "everywhere on every kind of device without compromise.
Question: In Estonia how many people speak Estonian as their native language
Sentence: Estonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsti ˈkeːl] ( listen)) is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various migrant communities.
Question: What city became the capital of North Carolina in 1766?
Sentence: During colonial times, Edenton served as the state capital beginning in 1722, and New Bern was selected as the capital in 1766.
Question: How did Life Magazine recognize Spielberg?
Sentence: In 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry.
Question: Who is a director at the Pew Charitable Trusts?
Sentence: According to Allan Coukell, senior director for health programs at The Pew Charitable Trusts, "By allowing drug developers to rely on smaller datasets, and clarifying FDA's authority to tolerate a higher level of uncertainty for these drugs when making a risk/benefit calculation, ADAPT would make the clinical trials more feasible."
Question: What did the National Academy of Science's study discover?
Sentence: An FDA - National Academy of Sciences collaborative study showed that nearly 40 percent of these products were not effective.
Question: Jonathon Israel rejects the notion that the revolutionary ideas were by products of what transformations?
Sentence: Israel argues that until the 1650s Western civilization "was based on a largely shared core of faith, tradition and authority".
Question: Which well known gas did Jan Baptist van Helmont discover?
Sentence: He was followed by piercing thought amalgamated with the era's mysticism and religion sometimes fueled by the mechanics of Newton and Galileo.
Question: What chemical element is often present in the bath used to sensitive exposed film after it's been imaged?
Sentence: In the full additive process the bare laminate is covered with a photosensitive film which is imaged (exposed to light through a mask and then developed which removes the unexposed film).
Question: What sets a contagious disease after from a standard infectious disease?
Sentence: Infectious diseases are sometimes called contagious disease when they are easily transmitted by contact with an ill person or their secretions (e.g., influenza).
Question: Who ruled the Liao dynasty?
Sentence: The Song were far more concerned with countering northern enemy states of the Khitan-ruled Liao dynasty (907–1125) and Jurchen-ruled Jin dynasty (1115–1234).
Question: What is the physiological response of a sense organ called?
Sentence: One example is the butterfly Phengaris arion which uses chemical signals as a form of mimicry to aid in predation.
Question: How did the timing of the declaration of war compare to the conflicts in North America between Britain and France?
Sentence: The British Prime Minister, the Duke of Newcastle, was optimistic that the new series of alliances could prevent war from breaking out in Europe.
Question: What Act was the result of a meeting of Swiss politicians organized by Napolean?
Sentence: The result was the Act of Mediation which largely restored Swiss autonomy and introduced a Confederation of 19 cantons.
Question: About how many performances are there in the Spoleto Festival USA?
Sentence: The annual Piccolo Spoleto festival takes place at the same time and features local performers and artists, with hundreds of performances throughout the city.
Question: Who did Johan Cruyff name his son after?
Sentence: He further endeared himself when he named his son Jordi, after the local Catalan Saint George.
Question: What percent of the Staten Island population has a high school diploma, as of 2000?
Sentence: These percentages were lower than those for New York's other boroughs, which ranged from 68.8% (Brooklyn) to 82.6% (Staten Island) for high school graduates over 24, and from 21.8% (Brooklyn) to 49.4% (Manhattan) for college graduates.
Question: What did early humans use to make clothing?
Sentence: Most clothing appears to have been made of animal skins, as indicated by finds of large numbers of bone and antler pins which are ideal for fastening leather.
Question: What are Germans trying to forget?
Sentence: In the midst of the European sovereign-debt crisis, Radek Sikorski, Poland's Foreign Minister, stated in November 2011, "I will probably be the first Polish foreign minister in history to say so, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear German inactivity.
Question: What was the name of Tito's son born to him and Haas?
Sentence: His next relationship was with Herta Haas, whom he married in 1940.
Question: How long did the AC system last in northern Italy?
Sentence: Three-phase AC railway electrification was used in Italy, Switzerland and the United States in the early twentieth century.
Question: Who was the head of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007?
Sentence: So let's see minimum space standards for all new homes," said RIBA president Jack Pringle.
Question: What group heads up the Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis?
Sentence: The World Health Organization declared TB a "global health emergency" in 1993, and in 2006, the Stop TB Partnership developed a Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis that aims to save 14 million lives between its launch and 2015.
Question: Who executed the apartheid?
Sentence: According to Ayittey, "In Sudan... the Arabs monopolized power and excluded blacks – Arab apartheid.
Question: What was the name of the first satellite launched for the system?
Sentence: The successful launch of BeiDou-1C also meant the establishment of the BeiDou-1 navigation system.
Question: What does Link transform into when he enters the Twilight Realm?
Sentence: However, "Wolf Link" gains several key advantages in return—he moves faster than he does as a human (though riding Epona is still faster) and digs holes to create new passages and uncover buried items, and has improved senses, including the ability to follow scent trails.[i]
Question: What is the northern edge of Tucson's downtown?
Sentence: Downtown is generally regarded as the area bordered by 17th Street to the south, I-10 to the west, and 6th Street to the north, and Toole Avenue and the Union Pacific (formerly Southern Pacific) railroad tracks, site of the historic train depot and "Locomotive #1673", built in 1900.
Question: At what harbor did a Russian fleet attacked a Ottoman force?
Sentence: The clash came on 30 November 1853 when a Russian fleet attacked an Ottoman force in the harbour at Sinop, and destroyed it at the Battle of Sinop.
Question: Shmuel Yosef Agnon shared the Nobel Prize with who in 1966?
Sentence: In 1966, Shmuel Yosef Agnon shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with German Jewish author Nelly Sachs.
Question: The number of territories was greatly reduced during what?
Sentence: The number of territories was greatly reduced during the Napoleonic Wars (1796–1814).
Question: When was Christian attendance at Parentalia become forbidden by the Christians?
Sentence: Christians attended Parentalia and its accompanying Feralia and Caristia in sufficient numbers for the Council of Tours to forbid them in AD 567.
Question: What's the main focus of a Technische Universität?
Sentence: Technische Universität (abbreviation: TU) are the common terms for universities of technology or technical university.
Question: Who was formally deposed by the Yugoslav Constitutent Assembly on November 29, 1945?
Sentence: On 7 March 1945, the provisional government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (Demokratska Federativna Jugoslavija, DFY) was assembled in Belgrade by Josip Broz Tito, while the provisional name allowed for either a republic or monarchy.
Question: Which sultan ordered a Greek scholar to do translations of work by Ptolemy?
Sentence: Another example is Ali Qushji -an astronomer, mathematician and physicist originally from Samarkand- who became a professor in two madrasas, and influenced Ottoman circles as a result of his writings and the activities of his students, even though he only spent two or three years before his death in Istanbul.
Question: What pro team has FC Ararat beaten?
Sentence: During Soviet rule, Armenian athletes rose to prominence winning plenty of medals and helping the USSR win the medal standings at the Olympics on numerous occasions.
Question: What disease nearly took the Prince of Wales life?
Sentence: As the tenth anniversary of her husband's death approached, her son's condition grew no better, and Victoria's distress continued.
Question: What is the thalamus a part of?
Sentence: Bard found that sensory, motor, and physiological information all had to pass through the diencephalon (particularly the thalamus), before being subjected to any further processing.
Question: How long can it take to create a DBMS?
Sentence: A DBMS has evolved into a complex software system and its development typically requires thousands of human years of development effort.[a]
Question: What do auxins do?
Sentence: Darwin experimented on the movements of plant shoots and roots towards light and gravity, and concluded "It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle . .
Question: What flew by Neptune in 1989?
Sentence: Neptune was visited by Voyager 2, when it flew by the planet on 25 August 1989.
Question: The Liberian constitution restricts citizenship of whom?
Sentence: The Liberian constitution restricts citizenship to people of Black African descent.
Question: Along with interferon-y release essays, what other tests aren't useful in TB diagnosis in developing countries?
Sentence: Interferon-γ release assays and tuberculin skin tests are of little use in the developing world.
Question: What company used to make radios with additive boards in the mid-20th century?
Sentence: Semi-additive is the most common process: The unpatterned board has a thin layer of copper already on it.
Question: Who was the first documented coronation?
Sentence: A week later he was buried in the church, and nine years later his wife Edith was buried alongside him.
Question: How many viewers watched on average this season?
Sentence: The loss of viewers continued into season 12, which saw the show hitting a number of series low in the 18-49 demo.
Question: What visiting king died in China in 1408?
Sentence: The Tomb of the King of Boni, with a spirit way and a tortoise stele, was discovered in Yuhuatai District (south of the walled city) in 1958, and has been restored.
Question: How many total CDs has Kanye West released in his career so far?
Sentence: He went on to explore a variety of different musical styles on subsequent albums that included the baroque-inflected Late Registration (2005), the arena-inspired Graduation (2007), and the starkly polarizing 808s & Heartbreak (2008).
Question: During his search for enlightenment, Gautama combined what teachings?
Sentence: Gautama thus invented a new kind of human, one without egotism.[dubious – discuss]
Question: When did Yugoslavia change its name to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?
Sentence: On 7 April 1963, the country changed its official name to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Question: Who won the Franco-Prussian War?
Sentence: It created the German Empire in 1871 as a German nation-state, effectively excluding the multi-ethnic Austrian Habsburg monarchy and Liechtenstein.
Question: What is the final of the three steps of Freemasonry?
Sentence: The degrees are those of Entered apprentice, Fellowcraft and Master Mason.
Question: What is kampong
Sentence: Utrecht is also home to the baseball and Sofball club:
Question: Why was Plymouth targeted the most?
Sentence: Plymouth in particular, because of its vulnerable position on the south coast and close proximity to German air bases, was subjected to the heaviest attacks.
Question: Of what nationality were most of the ministers of the Church of Tuvalu?
Sentence: In 1865 the Rev. A. W. Murray of the LMS – a Protestant congregationalist missionary society – arrived as the first European missionary where he too proselytised among the inhabitants of Tuvalu.
Question: Can states grant rights to citizens that are not defined by the constitution?
Sentence: Federal law and treaties, so long as they are in accordance with the Constitution, preempt conflicting state and territorial laws in the 50 U.S. states and in the territories.
Question: What year did the First Opium War end?
Sentence: It had been visited by the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors a number of times on their tours of the southern provinces.
Question: How is cognitive autonomy defined?
Sentence: Cognitive autonomy describes the capacity for an adolescent to partake in processes of independent reasoning and decision-making without excessive reliance on social validation.
Question: What phrase had replaced daylight saving time by 1911 as Willett's proposal evolved into draft legislation?
Sentence: Continental Europe uses similar phrases, such as Sommerzeit in Germany, zomertijd in Dutch-speaking regions, kesäaika in Finland, horario de verano or hora de verano in Spain and heure d'été in France, whereas in Italy the term is ora legale, that is, legal time (legally enforced time) as opposed to "ora solare", solar time, in winter.
Question: How many living East Slavic languages are there?
Sentence: Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of the three living members of the East Slavic languages.
Question: What is the term used in spain for prime minister?
Sentence: In the Russian constitution the prime minister is actually titled Chairman of the government while the Irish prime minister is called the Taoiseach (which is rendered into English as prime minister), and in Israel he is Rosh HaMemshalah meaning "head of the government".
Question: What is the use of a transistor?
Sentence: A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power.
Question: What is the Irish term for prime minister?
Sentence: In the Russian constitution the prime minister is actually titled Chairman of the government while the Irish prime minister is called the Taoiseach (which is rendered into English as prime minister), and in Israel he is Rosh HaMemshalah meaning "head of the government".
Question: Where was the start point for the relay?
Sentence: By the end of the relay, Chinese students became violent, and it was reported in Korean media that they were "lynching" everyone who was disagreeing with them.
Question: People called the raids very blitzy like they were talking about what?
Sentence: People referred to raids as if they were weather, stating that a day was "very blitzy".:75,261
Question: Who won at Balakot?
Sentence: In December 1826 Sayyid Ahmad and his followers clashed with Sikh troops at Akora Khattak, but with no decisive result.
Question: What do Westerners believe it means to belong to the Greek heritage ?
Sentence: Byzantine Greeks called themselves Romioi and considered themselves the political heirs of Rome, but at least by the 12th century a growing number of those educated, deemed themselves the heirs of ancient Greece as well, although for most of the Greek speakers, "Hellene" still meant pagan.
Question: When was Phase II of the Miami Center Station supposed to enter service?
Sentence: Phase I of Miami Central Station is scheduled to begin service in the spring of 2012, and Phase II in 2013.
Question: To what can the dissent among Catholics be attributed to during Paul VI's papacy?
Sentence: The new theological freedoms which he fostered resulted in a pluralism of opinions and uncertainties among the faithful.
Question: What area in Hyderabad contains the Hyderabad Airport?
Sentence: The "Cyberabad" area in the southwest and west of the city has grown rapidly since the 1990s.
Question: What did Monsanto and Illumina say they would do with the research?
Sentence: They announced that they would donate their raw reads to the public.
Question: When was 808s & Heartbreaks released?
Sentence: While it was criticized prior to release, 808s & Heartbreak had a significant effect on hip-hop music, encouraging other rappers to take more creative risks with their productions.
Question: Which interstate highway running north-south passes through Memphis?
Sentence: Interstate 65 crosses the state through Nashville, while Interstate 75 serves Chattanooga and Knoxville and Interstate 55 serves Memphis.
Question: The first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was named what?
Sentence: During the next couple of years, she led Lee from one draft to the next until the book finally achieved its finished form and was retitled To Kill a Mockingbird.
Question: Which coast is Miami located on?
Sentence: Miami (/maɪˈæmi/; Spanish pronunciation: [maiˈami]) is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County.
Question: What new use was found for Roman temples?
Sentence: Although there had been Jewish communities in many Roman cities, the Jews suffered periods of persecution after the conversion of the empire to Christianity.
Question: What is Richmond's southwestern suburb?
Sentence: Surrounded by Henrico and Chesterfield counties, the city is located at the intersections of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288.