xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: Who commissioned the biodiversity research paper?
Sentence: An explicit definition consistent with this interpretation was first given in a paper by Bruce A. Wilcox commissioned by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) for the 1982 World National Parks Conference.
Question: What type of glass products can be used for sending information?
Sentence: Some objects historically were so commonly made of silicate glass that they are simply called by the name of the material, such as drinking glasses and reading glasses.
Question: in the interstellar medium, what state is hydrogen in?
Sentence: Hydrogen is found in the neutral atomic state in the interstellar medium.
Question: In what field did Montini obtain a doctorate in?
Sentence: In 1925 he helped found the publishing house Morcelliana in Brescia, focused on promoting a 'Christian inspired culture'.
Question: What document did this group create once it was convened ?
Sentence: The report "Mary: Faith and Hope in Christ", by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, concluded that the teaching about Mary in the two definitions of the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception can be said to be consonant with the teaching of the Scriptures and the ancient common traditions.
Question: In what year did TCM receive a Peabody Award?
Sentence: In April 2010, Turner Classic Movies held the first TCM Classic Film Festival, an event – now held annually – at the Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.
Question: Who was the first confederate soldier to be killed in the civil war?
Sentence: At Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April 1865, the 75th North Carolina Regiment, a cavalry unit, fired the last shots of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War.
Question: Since when can most computers boot from USB mass storage devices?
Sentence: However, USB has one important advantage, in that it is possible to install and remove devices without rebooting the computer (hot-swapping), making it useful for mobile peripherals, including drives of various kinds (given SATA or SCSI devices may or may not support hot-swapping).
Question: What are visitors of Norfolk Island recommended to purchase?
Sentence: All visitors to Norfolk Island, including Australians, are recommended to purchase travel insurance.
Question: Which technique was once used to boot an alternate operating system than Mac OS?
Sentence: The most common workaround, is to boot into Mac OS and then to hand over control to a Mac OS-based bootloader application.
Question: Insects have what kind of skeleton?
Sentence: Insects (from Latin insectum, a calque of Greek ἔντομον [éntomon], "cut into sections") are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae.
Question: How much more did Spectre earn compared with Skyfall in the Indian market?
Sentence: In India, it opened at No. 1 with $4.8 million which is 4% above the opening of Skyfall.
Question: Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello formed what successful trio?
Sentence: Sweden knew a prominence of snare-less "Swedish progressive house" with the emergence of Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, Steve Angello
Question: In which year did Mercury begin 3 channel stereo recording?
Sentence: In 1961, Mercury enhanced this technique with three-microphone stereo recordings using 35 mm magnetic film instead of half-inch tape for recording.
Question: what was the name of the company that traded with East Indies?
Sentence: For a period of fifteen years the charter awarded the newly formed company a monopoly on trade with all countries east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan.
Question: What was the time span of the Mauryan Empire?
Sentence: At its greatest extent, the Mauryan Empire stretched to the north up to the natural boundaries of the Himalayas and to the east into what is now Assam.
Question: What rank did Bloomberg name Namibia's economy?
Sentence: The data came from Bloomberg's own financial-market statistics, IMF forecasts and the World Bank.
Question: What had Oklahoma's WNBA team been?
Sentence: The Oklahoma Defenders replaced the Talons as Tulsa's only professional arena football team, playing the CPIFL.
Question: Who was made a cardinal by Paul VI on June 27 1977?
Sentence: His immediate successor, Albino Luciani, who took the name John Paul I, was created a cardinal in the consistory of 5 March 1973.
Question: What is Silver Samurai's weapon?
Sentence: Not only does the Silver Samurai make over 350 comic book appearances, the character is playable in several video games, such as Marvel Vs.
Question: Which type of birds are among the most intelligent animals?
Sentence: Some birds, especially corvids and parrots, are among the most intelligent animals; several bird species make and use tools, and many social species pass on knowledge across generations, which is considered a form of culture.
Question: Where do dunlin Calidris alpina migrate to?
Sentence: Many species, such as dunlin Calidris alpina and western sandpiper Calidris mauri, undertake long movements from their Arctic breeding grounds to warmer locations in the same hemisphere, but others such as semipalmated sandpiper C. pusilla travel longer distances to the tropics in the Southern Hemisphere.
Question: Who tried to revive the Delphic oracle?
Sentence: Julian the Apostate (359 - 61) tried to revive the Delphic oracle, but failed."
Question: What do death penalty opponents argue that capital punishment isn't effective at doing?
Sentence: Opponents argue that the death penalty is not an effective means of deterring crime, risks the execution of the innocent, is unnecessarily barbaric in nature, cheapens human life, and puts a government on the same base moral level as those criminals involved in murder.
Question: What category of race do Italian Americans normally fall under?
Sentence: Italian Americans are usually considered white in the US and would not be covered under affirmative action policies, but the professors believed they were underrepresented.
Question: What is the schedule of time called when it is not daylight savings time?
Sentence: However, they will have one less hour of daylight at the start of each day, making the policy less practical during winter.
Question: Where were Chopin and Fontana students together?
Sentence: Two Polish friends in Paris were also to play important roles in Chopin's life there.
Question: What has recently become a growing industry in Tibet?
Sentence: Tibetan Buddhism is a primary influence on the art, music, and festivals of the region.
Question: With Madonna's new video, Like A Prayer, the blasphemy that she portrayed in the video led to what consequences?
Sentence: The corresponding music video featured many Catholic symbols such as stigmata and cross burning, and a dream of making love to a saint, leading the Vatican to condemn the video.
Question: What story was written by Child in 1842?
Sentence: The first character of this type was the heroine of Lydia Maria Child's "The Quadroons" (1842), a short story.
Question: What other event supposedly took place that shook people?
Sentence: Christian traveller and historian Sextus Julius Africanus and Christian theologian Origen refer to Greek historian Phlegon, who lived in the 2nd century AD, as having written "with regard to the eclipse in the time of Tiberius Caesar, in whose reign Jesus appears to have been crucified, and the great earthquakes which then took place"
Question: Which Primate can be found in the national park?
Sentence: The parks have been seriously affected by the activities of poachers, particularly those from Sudan, over the past two decades.[citation needed]
Question: The demise of what left considerable confusion as to what was to be meant by "Near East"
Sentence: There is, in short, no universally understood fixed inventory of nations, languages or historical assets defined to be in it.
Question: What was the initial difference between majuscule and minuscule letters?
Sentence: Both majuscule and minuscule letters existed, but the difference between the two variants was initially stylistic rather than orthographic and the writing system was still basically unicameral: a given handwritten document could use either one style or the other but these were not mixed.
Question: In what organisms is oxygen used as eelectron acceptor?
Sentence: In anaerobic organisms other inorganic compounds, such as nitrate, sulfate or carbon dioxide are used as electron acceptors.
Question: What are the two national Islamic holidays?
Sentence: A great majority of Muslims fast during Ramadan, although only about one third in the countryside and 10% in the cities observe daily prayer and dietary restrictions.
Question: What is a brief description of Calvinism?
Sentence: Broadly speaking, Calvinism stresses the sovereignty or rule of God in all things — in salvation but also in all of life.
Question: What happened to many of the structures developed for the World Fairs?
Sentence: Both expositions were held in Balboa Park, and many of the Spanish/Baroque-style buildings that were built for those expositions remain to this day as central features of the park.
Question: What is the name of the LLC sister company of Eon Productions?
Sentence: With the acquisition of the film rights and the organisation's re-introduction to the series' continuity, the SPECTRE acronym was discarded and the organisation reimagined as "Spectre".
Question: Where did the language of Min and Wu dialects originate?
Sentence: Quite a few words from the variety of Old Chinese spoken in the state of Wu (where the ancestral language of Min and Wu dialect families originated and which was likely influenced by the Chinese spoken in the state of Chu which itself was not founded by Chinese speakers),[citation needed] and later words from Middle Chinese as well, have retained the original meanings in Hokkien, while many of their counterparts in Mandarin Chinese have either fallen out of daily use, have been substituted with other words (some of which are borrowed from other languages while others are new developments), or have developed newer meanings.
Question: What aircraft carrier received maintenance at Devonport Dockyard?
Sentence: The army had substantially left the city by 1971, with barracks pulled down in the 1960s, however the city remains home to the 42 Commando of the Royal Marines.
Question: Which unit is a part of the Co-Curricular Studies that offers master's degrees?
Sentence: The Centre For Co-Curricular Studies provides elective subjects and language courses outside the field of science for students in the other faculties and departments.
Question: What is the capacity for Gibson Ampitheatre?
Sentence: The finale for season two took place at the Gibson Amphitheatre, which has an audience capacity of over 6,000.
Question: When did the Suntrust Indy Challenge stop being run at RIR?
Sentence: RIR also hosted IndyCar's Suntrust Indy Challenge from 2001 − 2009.
Question: How often are elections held for the City Parliament?
Sentence: The City Parliament decrees regulations and by-laws that are executed by the City Council and the administration.
Question: Which Tennessee city contains the headquarters of the Church of God and The Church of God of Prophecy?
Sentence: Tennessee is home to several Protestant denominations, such as the National Baptist Convention (headquartered in Nashville); the Church of God in Christ and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (both headquartered in Memphis); the Church of God and The Church of God of Prophecy (both headquartered in Cleveland).
Question: A 4.7 magnitude earthquake that affected New Delhi occurred on what date?
Sentence: New Delhi lies on several fault lines and thus experiences frequent earthquakes, most of them of mild intensity.
Question: What does a "strong" promoter sequence do?
Sentence: A gene can have more than one promoter, resulting in messenger RNAs (mRNA) that differ in how far they extend in the 5' end.
Question: Which three names did MCA use for LaserDisc technology during its development?
Sentence: During its development, MCA, which co-owned the technology, referred to it as the Optical Videodisc System, "Reflective Optical Videodisc" or "Laser Optical Videodisc", depending on the document; changing the name once in 1969 to Disco-Vision and then again in 1978 to DiscoVision (without the hyphen), which became the official spelling.
Question: What legislative body confirms FBI directors?
Sentence: FBI Directors are appointed by the President of the United States.
Question: What animal was greatly hunted during the 18th and 19th centuries?
Sentence: Antarctic krill, which congregate in large schools, is the keystone species of the ecosystem of the Southern Ocean, and is an important food organism for whales, seals, leopard seals, fur seals, squid, icefish, penguins, albatrosses and many other birds.
Question: What does Microsoft Windows use internally for its real-time clock?
Sentence: This approach is a problem even in Windows-only systems: there is no support for per-user timezone settings, only a single system-wide setting.
Question: About how many of Gregory's letters were concerned with Constantinople or Italy?
Sentence: The only part of Western Europe where the papacy had influence was Britain, where Gregory had sent the Gregorian mission in 597 to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity.
Question: How many years may the isolation of the peoples in Beringia lasted?
Sentence: Indigenous genetic studies suggest that the first inhabitants of the Americas share a single ancestral population, one that developed in isolation, conjectured to be Beringia.
Question: What is the A38 called inside the city of Plymouth?
Sentence: Within the city it is designated as 'The Parkway' and represents the boundary between the urban parts of the city and the generally more recent suburban areas.
Question: How many people ride the Mexico city subway system each day?
Sentence: Today it has over 201 km (125 mi) of track and carries over 5 million people every day.
Question: What two formats pioneered the Christmas music tradition in the 1960s?
Sentence: The roots of this tradition can be traced back to the beautiful music and easy listening stations of the 1960s and 1970s.
Question: Who are modern mandolinists and composers?
Sentence: Prominent modern mandolinists and composers for mandolin in the classical music tradition include Samuel Firstman, Howard Fry, Rudy Cipolla, Dave Apollon, Neil Gladd, Evan Marshall, Marilynn Mair and Mark Davis (the Mair-Davis Duo), Brian Israel, David Evans, Emanuil Shynkman, Radim Zenkl, David Del Tredici and Ernst Krenek.
Question: When did the role of dogs change to be more than guardians or walking companions?
Sentence: In the 1950s and 1960s, dogs were kept outside more often than they tend to be today (using the expression "in the doghouse" to describe exclusion from the group signifies the distance between the doghouse and the home) and were still primarily functional, acting as a guard, children's playmate, or walking companion.
Question: How much farther is Neptune from the Sun than Uranus?
Sentence: Although Neptune lies over 50% further from the Sun than Uranus, and receives only 40% its amount of sunlight, the two planets' surface temperatures are roughly equal.
Question: How many different ways can a species be added to the endangered list?
Sentence: A "species" under the act can be a true taxonomic species, a subspecies, or in the case of vertebrates, a "distinct population segment.
Question: When was IBM's system released?
Sentence: The first version was ready in 1974/5, and work then started on multi-table systems in which the data could be split so that all of the data for a record (some of which is optional) did not have to be stored in a single large "chunk".
Question: When was brass first used?
Sentence: Zinc metal was not produced on a large scale until the 12th century in India and was unknown to Europe until the end of the 16th century.
Question: What is Neptune's planet center temperature?
Sentence: Because of its great distance from the Sun, Neptune's outer atmosphere is one of the coldest places in the Solar System, with temperatures at its cloud tops approaching 55 K (−218 °C).
Question: Which Referendum allowed Indigenous Australians to be counted in the Census?
Sentence: Holt's government introduced the Migration Act 1966, which effectively dismantled the White Australia Policy and increased access to non-European migrants, including refugees fleeing the Vietnam War.
Question: What is the difficulty with expanding the gem business in Burma ?
Sentence: Many US and European jewellery companies, including Bulgari, Tiffany, and Cartier, refuse to import these stones based on reports of deplorable working conditions in the mines.
Question: How many bits of control flags did USB 2.0 add?
Sentence: Rather than tie up the high-bandwidth USB bus sending data to a slower USB device, the nearest high-bandwidth capable hub receives a SPLIT token followed by one or two USB packets at high bandwidth, performs the data transfer at full or low bandwidth, and provides the response at high bandwidth when prompted by a second SPLIT token.
Question: Why may older adults quit doing activities the love?
Sentence: The older adult may refrain from reporting pain because they are afraid they will have to have surgery or will be put on a drug they might become addicted to.
Question: What two subjects of Avicenna's have been reprinted extensively?
Sentence: The Logic and Metaphysics have been extensively reprinted, the latter, e.g., at Venice in 1493, 1495, and 1546.
Question: What did ancient Romans use to gild their armor?
Sentence: The ancient Romans often used mercury-tin amalgams for gilding their armor.
Question: What are teeth made out of?
Sentence: Teeth are not made of bone, but rather of tissues of varying density and hardness, such as enamel, dentine and cementum.
Question: What was the nobilities commonwealth?
Sentence: Despite having a king, Poland was called the nobility's Commonwealth because the king was elected by all interested members of hereditary nobility and Poland was considered to be the property of this class, not of the king or the ruling dynasty.
Question: When were the aftershocks recorded?
Sentence: Between 64 and 104 major aftershocks, ranging in magnitude from 4.0 to 6.1, were recorded within 72 hours of the main quake.
Question: What country produced 5.5% of the world's concentrated uranium oxide in 2005?
Sentence: The find was the largest of its kind, with industry experts estimating the deposits at over 25% of the world's then known uranium reserves of 800,000 tons.
Question: When was Yitzhak Rabin assassinated?
Sentence: In 1992, Yitzhak Rabin became Prime Minister following an election in which his party called for compromise with Israel's neighbors.
Question: What tiny object's source plays a role in determining wood density?
Sentence: Within an individual tree, the variation in wood density is often as great as or even greater than that between different trees (Timell 1986).
Question: What are the QF-4 aircraft being replaced by the US Air Force?
Sentence: The F-16 is currently used by the USAF Air Demonstration squadron, the Thunderbirds, while a small number of both man-rated and non-man-rated F-4 Phantom II are retained as QF-4 aircraft for use as Full Scale Aerial Targets (FSAT) or as part of the USAF Heritage Flight program.
Question: What do the Monroeville townspeople call tourists to their town?
Sentence: Local residents call them "Mockingbird groupies", and although Lee was not reclusive, she refused publicity and interviews with an emphatic "Hell, no!"
Question: How many people worldwide were associated with Russell's movement by 1910?
Sentence: He identified the religious movement as "Bible Students," and more formally as the International Bible Students Association.
Question: What did Russell combine at the headquarters?
Sentence: Russell moved the Watch Tower Society's headquarters to Brooklyn, New York, in 1909, combining printing and corporate offices with a house of worship; volunteers were housed in a nearby residence he named Bethel.
Question: What noted religious building was destroyed in the Great Fire?
Sentence: Shortly after the British occupation began, the Great Fire of New York occurred, a large conflagration on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, which destroyed about a quarter of the buildings in the city, including Trinity Church.
Question: What nation lies to the west of the Marshall Islands?
Sentence: The islands are located about halfway between Hawaii and Australia, north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island, to which it lays claim.
Question: Along with Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, who was a founding member of the Arab Maghreb Union?
Sentence: Many African states opposed the UN sanctions, with Mandela criticising them on a visit to Gaddafi in October 1997, when he praised Libya for its work in fighting apartheid and awarded Gaddafi the Order of Good Hope.
Question: Which group members of The High Llamas are from Cork?
Sentence: Singer songwriter Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan of The High Llamas also hail from Cork.
Question: What does 'soo and maal' mean in English?
Sentence: Another plausible etymology proposes that the term Somali is derived from the Arabic for "wealthy" (dhawamaal), again referring to Somali riches in livestock.
Question: Carranza met with his opposition at a meeting called what?
Sentence: Even though Villa's forces were badly depleted by his loss at Celaya, he continued his fight against the Carranza government.
Question: Approximately how many troops were in the army Napoleon led into Damascus?
Sentence: Bonaparte led these 13,000 French soldiers in the conquest of the coastal towns of Arish, Gaza, Jaffa, and Haifa.
Question: On what island is the capital of the Marshall Islands?
Sentence: About 27,797 of the islanders (at the 2011 Census) live on Majuro, which contains the capital.
Question: What was Samuel Crompton's invention of 1775?
Sentence: Later, the invention of the James Hargreaves' spinning jenny in 1764, Richard Arkwright's spinning frame in 1769 and Samuel Crompton's spinning mule in 1775 enabled British spinners to produce cotton yarn at much higher rates.
Question: Tufts- new England medical Center was renamed what?
Sentence: Boston Medical Center, located in the South End neighborhood, is the primary teaching facility for the Boston University School of Medicine as well as the largest trauma center in the Boston area; it was formed by the merger of Boston University Hospital and Boston City Hospital, which was the first municipal hospital in the United States.
Question: What mistake led to the Dust Bowl?
Sentence: Over a twenty-year period ending in 1950, the state saw its only historical decline in population, dropping 6.9 percent as impoverished families migrated out of the state after the Dust Bowl.
Question: Which publication did Tucker work for?
Sentence: Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly considered that "As TV, American Idol is crazily entertaining; as music, it's dust-mote inconsequential".
Question: What are the practices of Buddhism based on?
Sentence: Buddhists believe that this is accomplished through the direct understanding and perception of dependent origination and the Four Noble Truths.
Question: Out of the precipitation that falls, how much of it is snow?
Sentence: Temperatures reach 100 °F (38 °C) on 10.4 days of the year, 90 °F (32 °C) on nearly 70 days, and fail to rise above freezing on 8.3 days.
Question: When did Windows 8 surpass Windows Vistas market share?
Sentence: However, intake of Windows 8 still lags behind that of Windows Vista and Windows 7 at the same point in their release cycles.
Question: What gemstone comes from the CAR?
Sentence: For most Central Africans, the informal economy of the CAR is more important than the formal economy.[citation needed]