xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: Which string instrument often played the basso continuo parts?
Sentence: Keyboard instruments included the clavichord, tangent piano, the fortepiano (an early version of the piano), the harpsichord and the pipe organ.
Question: What year was the M1 version approved?
Sentence: During the 1920s there was some work on a 4.7-inch which lapsed, but revived in 1937, leading to a new gun in 1944.
Question: Which organization did Beyonce's spokespeople confirm her donations to?
Sentence: Later that year she became the first solo female artist to headline the main Pyramid stage at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival in over twenty years, and was named the highest-paid performer in the world per minute.
Question: What did Frege say about math?
Sentence: This gave rise to what they saw as metaphysical pseudoproblems and other conceptual confusions.
Question: After the battle of Sinop, what steamship approached the Port of Sevastopol to show support for Turkey?
Sentence: To show support for Turkey after the battle of Sinop, on the 22th of December 1853, the Anglo-French squadron entered the Black Sea and the steamship HMS Retribution approached the Port of Sevastopol, the commander of which received an ultimatum not to allow any ships in the Black Sea.
Question: Which film had a wider release in the UK, Skyfall or Spectre?
Sentence: In the UK it received a wider release than Skyfall, with a minimum of 647 cinemas including 40 IMAX screens, compared to Skyfall's 587 locations and 21 IMAX screens.
Question: In what year did Diocletian begin his reign?
Sentence: The Emperor Diocletian (r. 284–305) split the empire into separately administered eastern and western halves in 286; the empire was not considered divided by its inhabitants or rulers, as legal and administrative promulgations in one division were considered valid in the other.[C]
Question: In what year did the king demand ale-sellers post signage on pain of forfeiture?
Sentence: In 1393 King Richard II compelled landlords to erect signs outside their premises.
Question: What label did ABC sell in 1979?
Sentence: ABC had sold its record division to MCA Records in 1979, and in 1986, NBC's parent company RCA was sold to General Electric, who then sold off all other RCA units, including the record division (which was bought by Ariola Records, later known as BMG).
Question: When was John's decision to marry Isabella?
Sentence: The new peace would only last for two years; war recommenced in the aftermath of John's decision in August 1200 to marry Isabella of Angoulême.
Question: Who is the present Minister of Foreign Affairs?
Sentence: The current minister is Nikos Kotzias.
Question: What was Japan's publicised war goal?
Sentence: Japanese officials integrated what they called the Japan–China Incident (日支事変, Nisshi Jihen?) into the Greater East Asia War.
Question: Where did Miami rank among cities around the world in regard to finance?
Sentence: According to a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest city in the United States, and the world's fifth-richest city in terms of purchasing power.
Question: How many theater companies does Seattle have in residence?
Sentence: The 5th Avenue Theatre, built in 1926, stages Broadway-style musical shows featuring both local talent and international stars.
Question: How much money did Beyonce's tour make in 2007?
Sentence: Beyoncé conducted pre-concert food donation drives during six major stops in conjunction with her pastor at St. John's and America's Second Harvest.
Question: Which former president of Def Jam called Beyonce the greatest entertainer alive?
Sentence: According to Barbara Ellen of The Guardian Beyoncé is the most in-charge female artist she's seen onstage, while Alice Jones of The Independent wrote she "takes her role as entertainer so seriously she's almost too good."
Question: Who helped Beyoncé earn a Grammy award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group at the 46th annual Grammy Awards?
Sentence: The album earned Beyoncé a then record-tying five awards at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards; Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Dangerously in Love 2", Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Crazy in Love", and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "The Closer I Get to You" with Luther Vandross.
Question: How do gases prevent evaporation of the filament?
Sentence: The role of the gas is to prevent evaporation of the filament, without introducing significant heat losses.
Question: What does the typical definition of a gene categorize genes by?
Sentence: A broad operational definition is sometimes used to encompass the complexity of these diverse phenomena, where a gene is defined as a union of genomic sequences encoding a coherent set of potentially overlapping functional products.
Question: When had the Slavs settled the Eastern Alps?
Sentence: By the end of the 6th century, Slavs had settled the Eastern Alps regions.
Question: What percentage of Elvis Presley's single sales were of 78s?
Sentence: By the end of 1957, RCA Victor announced that 78s accounted for less than 10% of Presley's singles sales, essentially announcing the death throes of the 78 rpm format.
Question: How popular are Spanish language classes in the U.S,?
Sentence: Spanish is currently the most widely taught non-English language in American secondary schools and of higher education.
Question: What are three of the most typical type of tress that can be found in Ireland?
Sentence: Despite this, Britain retained its primeval forests longer than most of Europe due to a small population and later development of trade and industry, and wood shortages were not a problem until the 17th century.
Question: Who has spread the teachings of the Baptists to each continent?
Sentence: Baptist practice spread to England, where the General Baptists considered Christ's atonement to extend to all people, while the Particular Baptists believed that it extended only to the elect.
Question: What happens to the current when a battery has been attached to a capacitor for an adequate amount of time?
Sentence: If a battery has been attached to a capacitor for a sufficient amount of time, no current can flow through the capacitor.
Question: What is the name of the fruit related festival held annually in Delhi?
Sentence: Other events such as Kite Flying Festival, International Mango Festival and Vasant Panchami (the Spring Festival) are held every year in Delhi.
Question: For most Ashkenazi Jews, Yiddish was replaced with what language?
Sentence: Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews, although many Hasidic and Hareidi groups continue to use Yiddish in daily life.
Question: Was there an energy efficiency improvement in the period 1974 through 1980?
Sentence: Thus the overall efficiency of electric traction as compared to diesel more than doubled between 1950 and the mid-1970s in the Soviet Union.
Question: What gender of musician has historically made up a large amount of professional orchestras?
Sentence: Some of the earliest cases of women being hired in professional orchestras was in the position of harpist.
Question: Who declared the mourning period?
Sentence: It was the first time that a national mourning period had been declared for something other than the death of a state leader, and many have called it the biggest display of mourning since the death of Mao Zedong.
Question: How many independent labels did the Merlin Network represent?
Sentence: The Financial Times later reported that YouTube had reached an aggregate deal with Merlin Network—a trade group representing over 20,000 independent labels, for their inclusion in the service.
Question: What loophole did the ruling give rise to?
Sentence: The ruling gave rise to what became known as the "LaMacchia Loophole," wherein criminal charges of fraud or copyright infringement would be dismissed under current legal standards, so long as there was no profit motive involved.
Question: Who won the election in June 2009?
Sentence: It was won by Malam Bacai Sanhá.
Question: The crew could be order to drop the bomb by what?
Sentence: Direction-finding checks also enabled the controller to keep the crew on an exact course.
Question: How many books were said to have been written by Ibn Sina?
Sentence: The Persian scholar Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980–1037) had more than 450 books attributed to him.
Question: In what year were the Australian Democrats founded?
Sentence: Throughout their history, the Liberals have been in electoral terms largely the party of the middle class (whom Menzies, in the era of the party's formation called "The forgotten people"), though such class-based voting patterns are no longer as clear as they once were.
Question: What does it mean to read the word LORD in all capitals in the Bible?
Sentence: In many translations of the Bible, when the word LORD is in all capitals, it signifies that the word represents the tetragrammaton.
Question: Who designated the first boundary of Rome?
Sentence: Rome itself was an intrinsically sacred space; its ancient boundary (pomerium) had been marked by Romulus himself with oxen and plough; what lay within was the earthly home and protectorate of the gods of the state.
Question: Humoral immunology theorized that the origin of the immune system lay in what?
Sentence: In contrast, the humoral theory of immunity, held by Robert Koch and Emil von Behring, among others, stated that the active immune agents were soluble components (molecules) found in the organism’s “humors” rather than its cells.
Question: New research has clarified that Federalism has how many distinct forms?
Sentence: This clarified definition opens the way to identifying two distinct federal forms, where before only one was known, based upon whether sovereignty resides in the whole (in one people) or in the parts (in many peoples): the federal state (or federation) and the federal union of states (or federal union), respectively.
Question: How would you say "good" in Dutch?
Sentence: For example, goede ("good") is /ˈɣudə/
Question: Chinese children have been known to make electronics, toys and what else?
Sentence: China has enacted regulations to prevent child labour; still, the practice of child labour is reported to be a persistent problem within China, generally in agriculture and low-skill service sectors as well as small workshops and manufacturing enterprises.
Question: In 1914 what portion of the Empire weren't Muslims?
Sentence: By 1914, only 19.1% of the empire's population was non-Muslim, mostly made up of Christian Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians, and Jews.
Question: Where were Matare and Welker working when inventing the point-contact transistor?
Sentence: Realizing that Bell Labs' scientists had already invented the transistor before them, the company rushed to get its "transistron" into production for amplified use in France's telephone network.
Question: In 1833 with whom with Chopin work to get his music published?
Sentence: Chopin's music soon found success with publishers, and in 1833 he contracted with Maurice Schlesinger, who arranged for it to be published not only in France but, through his family connections, also in Germany and England.
Question: When did the mail stagecoaches stop running?
Sentence: Tucson became a part of the United States of America, although the American military did not formally take over control until March 1856.
Question: TAFE Tasmania started a three-year restructuring in what year?
Sentence: In Tasmania in 2009 the old college system and TAFE Tasmania have started a 3-year restructure to become the Tasmanian Polytechnic
Question: What idea did positivism provide?
Sentence: It helped to install natural history as a separate field, gave base for ecology and was based on the role model of scientist, naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
Question: Which movement is considered to be a dividing line between ancient thought and classical physics?
Sentence: Galileo ("Father of Modern Physics") also made use of experiments to validate physical theories, a key element of the scientific method.
Question: What can the Estonian parliament do in regards to treaties?
Sentence: At the same time the parliament has the right to present statements, declarations and appeals to the people of Estonia, ratify and denounce international treaties with other states and international organisations and decide on the Government loans.
Question: In 1770, who reported that Medri Bahri was a distinct political entity from Abyssinia?
Sentence: That 16th century also marked the arrival of the Ottomans, who began making inroads in the Red Sea area.
Question: What happened to the Public schoolboys in these sports?
Sentence: Bermuda's role as the primary Royal Navy base in the Western Hemisphere, with an army garrison to match, ensured that the naval and military officers quickly introduced the newly formalised sports to Bermuda, including cricket, football, Rugby football, and even tennis and rowing (rowing did not adapt well from British rivers to the stormy Atlantic.
Question: Why did Microsoft decrease the required resoultion for tablets?
Sentence: On March 12, 2013, Microsoft amended its certification requirements to only require that screens on tablets have a minimum resolution of 1024×768 (down from the previous 1366×768).
Question: What is benefical work for children?
Sentence: The term child labour can be misleading when it confuses harmful work with employment that may be beneficial to children.
Question: For what NFL team did Lynn Swann play?
Sentence: Even though they were returning teams, the Bossier–Shreveport Battle Wings moved to New Orleans as the Voodoo, the identity formerly owned by New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson.
Question: What is the main goal aside from reducing the amount of data required to store the audio?
Sentence: The use of lossy compression is designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent the audio recording and still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio for most listeners.
Question: What is the definition of CND?
Sentence: This is the passive, active, and dynamic employment of capabilities to respond to imminent or on-going actions against Air Force or Air Force-protected networks, the Air Force's portion of the Global Information Grid, or expeditionary communications assigned to the Air Force.
Question: Who gave students a test to determine their preferences?
Sentence: Berger said the students seem to prefer the 'sizzle' sounds that MP3s bring to music.
Question: The doctrine of pratityasumatupada is a important part of what type of metaphysics?
Sentence: It states that phenomena arise together in a mutually interdependent web of cause and effect.
Question: In what year was reinforced concrete invented?
Sentence: The firm made use of reinforced concrete, a new building material invented by Jean-Louis Lambot in 1848 (Joseph Monier received the patent in 1867).
Question: What is the name of the big rowing races?
Sentence: Boathouse Row is a symbol of Philadelphia's rich rowing history, and each Big Five member has its own boathouse.
Question: Who produced most of the Hispano-Moresque pottery?
Sentence: All over Europe secular art continued to increase in quantity and quality, and in the 15th century the mercantile classes of Italy and Flanders became important patrons, commissioning small portraits of themselves in oils as well as a growing range of luxury items such as jewellery, ivory caskets, cassone chests, and maiolica pottery.
Question: after the DEUS INDICAT what type of sea animals were pictured?
Sentence: The supporters were two sea lions (lions with fishes' tails) and the motto was DEO DUCENTE NIL NOCET
Question: In the case of a chemical explosion, what is transformed to kinetic energy and thermal energy in a short time?
Sentence: Similarly, in the case of a chemical explosion, chemical potential energy is transformed to kinetic energy and thermal energy in a very short time.
Question: What nation lost the Battle of Yarmouk?
Sentence: However many early history books like the Islamic Conquest of Syria Fatuhusham by al-Imam al-Waqidi state that after the conversion to Islam Muawiyah's father Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and his brothers Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan were appointed as commanders in the Muslim armies by Muhammad.
Question: How many of RIBA Enterprises' staff are located at the Newcastle office?
Sentence: It employs over 250 staff, approximately 180 of whom are based in Newcastle.
Question: Who designed the Parc de l'Orangerie?
Sentence: The Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg (botanical garden) was created under the German administration next to the Observatory of Strasbourg, built in 1881, and still owns some greenhouses of those times.
Question: In what manner are sheets normally cut?
Sentence: Sheets are usually cut "long-grain", i.e. with the grain parallel to the longer dimension of the sheet.
Question: What is the Judaeo-German language developed by Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Central Europe?
Sentence: Yiddish is the Judæo-German language developed by Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Central Europe.
Question: Who stopped Maclean after he shot the Queen?
Sentence: Two schoolboys from Eton College struck him with their umbrellas, until he was hustled away by a policeman.
Question: Who was Disraeli's rival?
Sentence: Victoria found Gladstone's demeanour far less appealing; he spoke to her, she is thought to have complained, as though she were "a public meeting rather than a woman".
Question: Which country was ahead of the United Kingdom in the teaching of chemistry?
Sentence: As a result of a movement earlier in the decade, many politicians donated funds to establish the college, including Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone and Robert Peel.
Question: During which war did the British navy defeat Eight Banners forces at Ningbo and Dinghai?
Sentence: Under the terms of the Treaty of Nanking, signed in 1843, Ningbo became one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened to virtually unrestricted foreign trade.
Question: What is increased in male dogs with neutering?
Sentence: Neutering reduces problems caused by hypersexuality, especially in male dogs.
Question: When was the tenth printing of the French translation of 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'?
Sentence: The French translation ran to ten printings by June 1791.
Question: When did the first Indiana Jones movie come out?
Sentence: It became the biggest film at the box office in 1981, and the recipient of numerous Oscar nominations including Best Director (Spielberg's second nomination) and Best Picture (the second Spielberg film to be nominated for Best Picture).
Question: What tax was in force throughout the United Kingdom during this time?
Sentence: Before this the internal plan and function of the rooms can generally not be deduced from the outside.
Question: What did Khubilai claim for a while?
Sentence: Though he had, by the early 1260s, become closely identified with China, he still, for a time, claimed universal rule", and yet "despite his successes in China and Korea, Khubilai was unable to have himself accepted as the Great Khan".
Question: What was also pushed for by result of sarmatism?
Sentence: This belief system became an important part of szlachta culture and affected all aspects of their lives.
Question: When was multi-party governance established?
Sentence: In the past, the government had been highly centralized.
Question: What is the population of the island?
Sentence: The island has a population of 267 as of January 2016.
Question: Season four was the first full season to be aired in what?
Sentence: The number of those attending the auditions by now had increased to over 100,000 from the 10,000 of the first season.
Question: What event prompted the United States to adopt the printed circuit to make proximity fuses?
Sentence: Printed circuits did not become commonplace in consumer electronics until the mid-1950s, after the Auto-Sembly process was developed by the United States Army.
Question: What was Operation Serval's goal?
Sentence: The Malian government had a hard time maintaining full control over their country.
Question: To what language did Catalan display similarities?
Sentence: In the 11th century, documents written in macaronic Latin begin to show Catalan elements, with texts written almost completely in Romance appearing by 1080.
Question: what were veterans in need of after World War I?
Sentence: Many veterans who had been gassed in World War I and were in need of respiratory therapy began coming to Tucson after the war, due to the clean dry air.
Question: What is the official Cubs team mascot?
Sentence: The bear cub itself was used in the clubs since the early 1900s and was the inspiration of the Chicago Staleys changing their team's name to the Chicago Bears, due to the Cubs allowing the football team to play at Wrigley Field in the 1930s.
Question: Queen and Adam Lambert played two shows where in July 2012?
Sentence: On 25 and 26 April, May and Taylor appeared on the eleventh series of American Idol at the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, performing a Queen medley with the six finalists on the first show, and the following day performed "Somebody to Love" with the 'Queen Extravaganza' band.
Question: Santa Monica plans on water independence by what year?
Sentence: An urban runoff facility (SMURFF), the first of its kind in the US, catches and treats 3.5 million US gallons (13,000 m3) of water each week that would otherwise flow into the bay via storm-drains and sells it back to end-users within the city for reuse as gray-water, while bio-swales throughout the city allow rainwater to percolate into and replenish the groundwater supply.
Question: What year was the last census before the Census 2000?
Sentence: Race was asked differently in the Census 2000 in several other ways than previously.
Question: What is Harper Lee's hometown?
Sentence: Since 1990, a play based on the novel has been performed annually in Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.
Question: When did Emperor Huan's reign begin?
Sentence: In addition to tributary relations with the Kushans, the Han Empire received gifts from the Parthian Empire, from a king in modern Burma, from a ruler in Japan, and initiated an unsuccessful mission to Daqin (Rome) in AD 97 with Gan Ying as emissary.
Question: What was the most notable naval victory EIC  had?
Sentence: At the Battle of Pulo Aura, which was probably the company's most notable naval victory, Nathaniel Dance, Commodore of a convoy of Indiamen and sailing aboard the Warley, led several Indiamen in a skirmish with a French squadron, driving them off.
Question: What does Gunlick remark that the German System of  dual federalism requires strong Länder to have other than the capacity to implement legislation?
Sentence: A new delimitation of the federal territory keeps being debated in Germany, though "Some scholars note that there are significant differences among the American states and regional governments in other federations without serious calls for territorial changes ...", as political scientist Arthur B. Gunlicks remarks.
Question: When did Yale issue the first Ph.D in the United States?
Sentence: In the 19th century the school incorporated graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887.
Question: He was accused of selling grain for what reason?
Sentence: Classical scholar Timothy Barnes relates contemporary allegations against Athanasius: from defiling an altar, to selling Church grain that had been meant to feed the poor for his own personal gain, and even violence and murder to suppress dissent.
Question: What was Apple's highest quarterly profit as of Q1 2008?
Sentence: On January 22, 2008, Apple reported the best quarter revenue and earnings in Apple's history so far.
Question: What does the crowd sing during the 7th inning to honor Caray's memory?
Sentence: "Take me out to the ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch to honor Caray's memory.
Question: How far do penguins travel when they migrate?
Sentence: Bird migration is not limited to birds that can fly.