xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What pact contained many Russian-speaking countries?
Sentence: According to the Eurobarometer 2005 survey, though, fluency in Russian remains fairly high (20–40%) in some countries, in particular those where the people speak a Slavic language and thereby have an edge in learning Russian (namely, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria).
Question: When did John create a new tax on income and movable goods?
Sentence: John created a new tax on income and movable goods in 1207 – effectively a version of a modern income tax – that produced £60,000; he created a new set of import and export duties payable directly to the crown.
Question: What new country did the Lancaster House Agreement recognize?
Sentence: Kenyan independence was preceded by the eight-year Mau Mau Uprising.
Question: What was the focus of English Dominican mysticism?
Sentence: English Dominican mysticism in the late medieval period differed from European strands of it in that, whereas European Dominican mysticism tended to concentrate on ecstatic experiences of union with the divine, English Dominican mysticism's ultimate focus was on a crucial dynamic in one's personal relationship with God.
Question: What European nation owned the Marshall Islands in 1874?
Sentence: In World War I the Empire of Japan occupied the Marshall Islands, which in 1919 the League of Nations combined with other former German territories to form the South Pacific Mandate.
Question: What 12th century poet once wrote "Ale it is called among men, but among the gods, beer."?
Sentence: On the currency of two words for the same thing in the Germanic languages, the 12th-century Old Icelandic poem Alvíssmál says, "Ale it is called among men, but among the gods, beer."
Question: How much did Zocor reduce the chance of dying from a heart attack?
Sentence: For his "pioneering research into a new class of molecules" for "lowering cholesterol,"[sentence fragment]
Question: The ideas of which Cubo Futurist influenced the avant-garde in architecture?
Sentence: The Cubo-Futurist ideas of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti influenced attitudes in avant-garde architecture.
Question: How did the attackers kill themselves?
Sentence: Seven of the attackers killed themselves and others by setting off their explosive vests.
Question: When did China join the Galileo project?
Sentence: However, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported in January 2008 that China was unsatisfied with its role in the Galileo project and was to compete with Galileo in the Asian market.
Question: How many employees worked at Dell's Texas headquarters?
Sentence: Dell previously had its headquarters in the Arboretum complex in northern Austin, Texas.
Question: What is contemporary humanism optimistic about?
Sentence: Contemporary humanism entails a qualified optimism about the capacity of people, but it does not involve believing that human nature is purely good or that all people can live up to the Humanist ideals without help.
Question: What organization was created to combat the 419 scams?
Sentence: In 2003, the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (or EFCC) was created, ostensibly to combat this and other forms of organised financial crime.
Question: How many UEFA Champions League titles has Barcelona won?
Sentence: The club has a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid; matches between the two teams are referred to as El Clásico.
Question: When did the 5th Dalai Lama gain political control over Tibet?
Sentence: " To further cement the Mongol-Tibetan alliance, the great-grandson of Altan Khan—the 4th Dalai Lama (1589–1616)—was made the fourth Dalai Lama.
Question: Who was the German translator that Darwin welcomed for On the Origin of Species?
Sentence: He welcomed the distinguished elderly naturalist and geologist Heinrich Georg Bronn, but the German translation published in 1860 imposed Bronn's own ideas, adding controversial themes that Darwin had deliberately omitted.
Question: Where did the Carnival gestate out of the purview of rules?
Sentence: The Carnival continued its evolution in small/unimportant towns out of view of the rulers.
Question: How many Protestants live in Greece?
Sentence: Greek citizens who are Roman Catholic are estimated to be at around 50,000 with the Roman Catholic immigrant community in the country approximately 200,000.
Question: What has some responsibility for offering variety in what we eat?
Sentence: Interspecific crop diversity is, in part, responsible for offering variety in what we eat.
Question: What are FBI special agents issued if they fail their first qualification?
Sentence: If they fail their first qualification, they are issued either a Glock 17 or Glock 19, to aid in their next qualification.
Question: What monarch bestowed the first Lord Mayor on Plymouth?
Sentence: It is traditional that the position of the Lord Mayor alternates between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party annually and that the Lord Mayor chooses the Deputy Lord Mayor.
Question: Which college in Newham does Eton College co-sponsor?
Sentence: Eton now co-sponsors a state sixth-form college in Newham, a deprived area of East London, called the London Academy of Excellence, opened in 2012, which is free of charge and aims to get all its students into higher education.
Question: Neoptera can be divided into what kind of "based" group?
Sentence: Neoptera can further be divided into incomplete metamorphosis-based (Polyneoptera and Paraneoptera) and complete metamorphosis-based groups.
Question: Where is zinc pyrithion used?
Sentence: Zinc chloride is often added to lumber as a fire retardant and can be used as a wood preservative.
Question: What are the physics of quantum mechanics?
Sentence: For example, the uncertainty principle, according to which the determination of the position of a particle prevents the determination of its momentum and vice versa, is translated into the non-commutativity of the two corresponding operators.
Question: What were eight diseases examined for?
Sentence: The report concluded that "it appears that the use of antibiotics, early diagnosis, and other factors have limited the epidemic spread and thus the number of these diseases which have occurred".
Question: Which country's government wanted Samoa to grow bananas for them?
Sentence: When the value of natural rubber fell drastically, about the end of the Great War (World War I), the New Zealand government encouraged the production of bananas, for which there is a large market in New Zealand.[citation needed]
Question: The centrality of intent broadens what definition, beyond the 1948 one?
Sentence: Highlighting the potential for state and non-state actors to commit genocide in the 21st century, for example, in failed states or as non-state actors acquire weapons of mass destruction, Adrian Gallagher defined genocide as 'When a source of collective power (usually a state) intentionally uses its power base to implement a process of destruction in order to destroy a group (as defined by the perpetrator), in whole or in substantial part, dependent upon relative group size'.
Question: What did Amer do without Nasser's approval?
Sentence: Nasser still felt that the US would restrain Israel from attacking due to assurances that he received from the US and Soviet Union.
Question: What award did the Tucson Festival of Books give to R. L. Stine?
Sentence: In 2011, the Festival began presenting a Founder's Award; recipients include Elmore Leonard and R.L. Stine.
Question: 13th Street is divided into how many parts?
Sentence: 13th Street is in three parts.
Question: What is an example of co-coperation between predators of different species?
Sentence: Extreme specialization of roles is evident in some hunting that requires co-operation between predators of very different species: humans with the aid of falcons or dogs, or fishing with cormorants.
Question: What did Bower's say about Greg's method?
Sentence: Bowers stated similarly that the editor's task is to "approximate as nearly as possible an inferential authorial fair copy.
Question: Which bishop didn't realize the satirical nature of Burke's book?
Sentence: Some reviewers failed to notice the ironic nature of the book, which led to Burke stating in the preface to the second edition (1757) that it was a satire.
Question: Who established the AVL?
Sentence: The AVL, created by the Valencian parliament, is in charge of dictating the official rules governing the use of Valencian, and its standard is based on the Norms of Castelló (Normes de Castelló).
Question: Where were the Limen Slavs located before Kievan Rus?
Sentence: In the northern region around Novgorod were the Ilmen Slavs and neighboring Krivichi, who occupied territories surrounding the headwaters of the West Dvina, Dnieper, and Volga Rivers.
Question: Who won the Chess Cup in 2009?
Sentence: Israeli grandmaster Boris Gelfand won the Chess World Cup in 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament for the right to challenge the world champion.
Question: What group is Mali's sole legislative party?
Sentence: The unicameral National Assembly is Mali's sole legislative body, consisting of deputies elected to five-year terms.
Question: Russians are generally similar to populations in what region?
Sentence: Postulated to originate from southeast Asia, it is found at high rates in Uralic peoples.
Question: How many Greenpeace activists boarded Fennica and Nordica in March 2012?
Sentence: On 16 March 2012, 52 Greenpeace activists from five different countries boarded Fennica and Nordica, multipurpose icebreakers chartered to support Shell's drilling rigs near Alaska.
Question: How tall is Mount Damavand?
Sentence: It is one of the world's most mountainous countries, its landscape dominated by rugged mountain ranges that separate various basins or plateaux from one another.
Question: Give three examples of target organisms of pesticides.
Sentence: Plant-derived pesticides, or "botanicals", have been developing quickly.
Question: How many battleships were in Kurita's "Center Force"?
Sentence: Kurita's "Center Force" consisted of five battleships, 12 cruisers and 13 destroyers.
Question: When were the best biographies of Queen Victoria written?
Sentence: The biographies written by Elizabeth Longford and Cecil Woodham-Smith, in 1964 and 1972 respectively, are still widely admired.
Question: Where did the 2013 Open World Taekwondo Challenge Cup take place?
Sentence: In the martial arts, Faisal Jeylani Aweys and Mohamed Deq Abdulle also took home a silver medal and fourth place, respectively, at the 2013 Open World Taekwondo Challenge Cup in Tongeren.
Question: What was established for bringing Apple's design work in-house?
Sentence: Apple instead brought the design work in-house by establishing the Apple Industrial Design Group, becoming responsible for crafting a new look for all Apple products.
Question: How was the first listing limited in what species were listed?
Sentence: It included only vertebrates because the Department of Interior's definition of "fish and wildlife" was limited to vertebrates.
Question: When did the British and Russian empires begin encroaching on Tibet?
Sentence: However, in the 19th century the situation of foreigners in Tibet grew more tenuous.
Question: Reader's Digest included To Kill a Mockingbird in what program of theirs?
Sentence: Despite her editors' warnings that the book might not sell well, it quickly became a sensation, bringing acclaim to Lee in literary circles, in her hometown of Monroeville, and throughout Alabama.
Question: What is the topic of the fifth goal?
Sentence: UNFPA is working with governments, partners and other UN agencies to directly tackle many of these goals - in particular Goal 3 on health, Goal 4 on education and Goal 5 on gender equality - and contributes in a variety of ways to achieving many of the rest.
Question: On what date did Montini become the archbishop of Milan?
Sentence: Montini, after a period of preparation, liked his new tasks as archbishop, connecting to all groups of faithful in Milan.
Question: What did Herman Goldstone write about von NEumann?
Sentence: Herman Goldstine wrote: "One of his remarkable abilities was his power of absolute recall.
Question: How many of the big four banks are headquartered in Melbourne?
Sentence: It is the Australian base for a number of significant manufacturers including Boeing, truck-makers Kenworth and Iveco, Cadbury as well as Bombardier Transportation and Jayco, among many others.
Question: How many nurses are provided to the outer islands?
Sentence: The Department of Health also employs nine or ten nurses on the outer islands to provide general nursing and midwifery services.
Question: Where does Hamp say the Pontic Indo-European languages originate?
Sentence: In Hamp's view the homeland of this subgroup is the northeast coast of the Black Sea and its hinterlands.
Question: What do unawakend people experience?
Sentence: According to Buddhist traditions a Buddha is a fully awakened being who has completely purified his mind of the three poisons of desire, aversion and ignorance.
Question: What was the FleetCenter built to replace?
Sentence: The Boston Celtics were founding members of the Basketball Association of America, one of the two leagues that merged to form the NBA.
Question: How long did the inflationary pressure continue?
Sentence: This inflationary pressure was to continue for the rest of the 13th century and had long-term economic consequences for England.
Question: When did Demetrius seize the Macedonian throne?
Sentence: After Cassander's death in 298 BCE, however, Demetrius, who still maintained a sizable loyal army and fleet, invaded Macedon, seized the Macedonian throne (294) and conquered Thessaly and most of central Greece (293-291).
Question: Who did Dominic pray for?
Sentence: Dominic practiced self-scourging and would mortify himself as he prayed alone in the chapel at night for 'poor sinners.'
Question: According to the formalist approach, how much notoriety must a law have?
Sentence: Formalists hold that the law must be prospective, well-known, and have characteristics of generality, equality, and certainty.
Question: In what years did Mali restructure public enterprises?
Sentence: During 1988 to 1996, Mali's government largely reformed public enterprises.
Question: Which Swiss sailing team was the 1st to win America's Cup in 2003?
Sentence: The largest, Lake Geneva, is the home of the sailing team Alinghi which was the first European team to win the America's Cup in 2003 and which successfully defended the title in 2007.
Question: What political ideology did Gaddafi want to push his country to?
Sentence: Ruling by decree, he implemented measures to remove what he viewed as foreign imperialist influence from Libya, and strengthened ties to Arab nationalist governments.
Question: What is celebrated in the Catholic calendar the 8 of December?
Sentence: He opened the final session of the council, concelebrating with bishops from countries where the Church was persecuted.
Question: Greece's economy is what size?
Sentence: With an economy larger than all the Balkan economies combined, Greece is the largest economy in the Balkans, and an important regional investor.
Question: What battle took place in 1683?
Sentence: But in spite of these difficulties, the Empire remained a major expansionist power until the Battle of Vienna in 1683, which marked the end of Ottoman expansion into Europe.
Question: What was the filename extension?
Sentence: The filename extension .mp3 was chosen by the Fraunhofer team on 14 July 1995 (previously, the files had been named .bit).
Question: Who gets to interview and question prospective board members?
Sentence: The European Parliament also gets to question and then issue its opinion on candidates to the executive board.
Question: Who was the governor of Florida in 2011?
Sentence: The first phase was planned to connect Orlando and Tampa and was offered federal funding, but it was turned down by Governor Rick Scott in 2011.
Question: How many people were crucified with Jesus?
Sentence: Apart from these women, the three Synoptic Gospels speak of the presence of others: "the chief priests, with the scribes and elders"; two robbers crucified, one on Jesus' right and one on his left, whom the Gospel of Luke presents as the penitent thief and the impenitent thief; "the soldiers", "the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus"; passers-by; "bystanders", "the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle"; and "his acquaintances"
Question: What is the annual precipitation?
Sentence: Heavy snowstorms may occur any time from September through May, though most snow falls from November to March.
Question: Why don't Jehovah Witnesses celebrate the usual holidays and customs?
Sentence: They do not observe Christmas, Easter, birthdays or other holidays and customs they consider to have pagan origins incompatible with Christianity.
Question: What company did Dell acquire in 2009?
Sentence: The company is well known for its innovations in supply chain management and electronic commerce, particularly its direct-sales model and its "build-to-order" or "configure to order" approach to manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications.
Question: What's the English type equivalent for the Dutch word order that is an interrogative pronoun/expression, then a verb followed by a subject?
Sentence: In the Dutch equivalent of a wh-question the word order is: interrogative pronoun (or expression) + conjugated verb + subject; other verbs in final position: "Waarom kun jij je pen niet vinden?"
Question: What Arabic book is Ibn Tufail noted for writing?
Sentence: Ibn Tufail (Abubacer) and Ibn al-Nafis were pioneers of the philosophical novel.
Question: What is the Marvel and Disney line of comics called?
Sentence: On January 3, 2014, fellow Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm Limited, LLC announced that as of 2015, Star Wars comics would once again be published by Marvel.
Question: What does WMD stand for?
Sentence: The Bush administration then turned its attention to Iraq, and argued the need to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq had become urgent.
Question: What was played at Chopin's graveside?
Sentence: At the graveside, the Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 was played, in Reber's instrumentation.
Question: rather than emigrate African Americans wanted to do what?
Sentence: Slaveholders wanted to get free people of color out of the South, where they were thought to threaten the stability of the slave societies.
Question: What type of anthropology involves the relatively new area of internet search?
Sentence: This is in addition to many classic ethnographic contexts, where media such as radio, the press, new media and television have started to make their presences felt since the early 1990s.
Question: What is the name of the slightly less luxurious staterooms located underneath the State Apartments?
Sentence: At the centre of this suite is the Bow Room, through which thousands of guests pass annually to the Queen's Garden Parties in the Gardens.
Question: What idea did Blumenschine propose?
Sentence: Robert Blumenschine proposed the idea of confrontational scavenging, which involves challenging and scaring off other predators after they have made a kill, which he suggests could have been the leading method of obtaining protein-rich meat by early humans.
Question: When did the International Congress of Somali Studies begin?
Sentence: Since 1980, prominent Somalist scholars from around the world have also gathered annually to hold the International Congress of Somali Studies.
Question: What type of costumes play a central role in the Queen elections?
Sentence: Music and flamboyant costumes play a central role, from the Queen elections to the Grand Parade.
Question: What do you call a dark beer that is brewed with roasted malts or barley?
Sentence: Stout and porter are dark beers made using roasted malts or roast barley, and typically brewed with slow fermenting yeast.
Question: What troops were uniquely successful in English service?
Sentence: One of the major developments in the military sphere during the Late Middle Ages was the increased use of infantry and light cavalry.
Question: What are the obstacles he claims are to ending child labor?
Sentence: So, while the struggle to end child labour is necessary, getting there often requires taking different routes—and, sadly, there are many political obstacles.
Question: What are Jehovah Witnesses discouraged from doing?
Sentence: Witnesses are told that spontaneous giving at other times can help their children to not feel deprived of birthdays or other celebrations.
Question: How strong was the powerful earthquake that hit Mexico City in 1985?
Sentence: Although this earthquake was not as deadly or destructive as many similar events in Asia and other parts of Latin America, it proved to be a disaster politically for the one-party government.
Question: When was Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality published?
Sentence: Other landmark publications were the Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary, 1764) and Letters on the English (1733) written by Voltaire; Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1754) and The Social Contract (1762); and Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748).
Question: Who was the father of American football?
Sentence: Among the best-known are U.S. Presidents William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; royals Crown Princess Victoria Bernadotte, Prince Rostislav Romanov and Prince Akiiki Hosea Nyabongo; heads of state, including Italian prime minister Mario Monti, Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller, Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo, German president Karl Carstens, and Philippines president José Paciano Laurel; U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas; U.S. Secretaries of State John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Cyrus Vance, and Dean Acheson; authors Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benét, and Tom Wolfe; lexicographer Noah Webster; inventors Samuel F. B. Morse and Eli Whitney; patriot and "first spy" Nathan Hale; theologian Jonathan Edwards; actors, directors and producers Paul Newman, Henry Winkler, Vincent Price, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Patricia Clarkson, Courtney Vance, Frances McDormand, Elia Kazan, George Roy Hill, Edward Norton, Lupita Nyong'o, Allison Williams, Oliver Stone, Sam Waterston, and Michael Cimino; "Father of American football" Walter Camp, James Franco, "The perfect oarsman" Rusty Wailes; baseball players Ron Darling, Bill Hutchinson, and Craig Breslow; basketball player Chris Dudley; football players Gary Fencik, and Calvin Hill; hockey players Chris Higgins and Mike Richter; figure skater Sarah Hughes; swimmer Don Schollander; skier Ryan Max Riley; runner Frank Shorter; composers Charles Ives, Douglas Moore and Cole Porter; Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver; child psychologist Benjamin Spock; architects Eero Saarinen and Norman Foster; sculptor Richard Serra; film critic Gene Siskel; television commentators Dick Cavett and Anderson Cooper; New York Times journalist David Gonzalez; pundits William F. Buckley, Jr., and Fareed Zakaria; economists Irving Fischer, Mahbub ul Haq, and Paul Krugman; cyclotron inventor and Nobel laureate in Physics, Ernest Lawrence; Human Genome Project director Francis S. Collins; mathematician and chemist Josiah Willard Gibbs; and businesspeople, including Time Magazine co-founder Henry Luce, Morgan Stanley founder Harold Stanley, Boeing CEO James McNerney, FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith, Time Warner president Jeffrey Bewkes, Electronic Arts co-founder Bing Gordon, and investor/philanthropist Sir John Templeton; pioneer in electrical applications Austin Cornelius Dunham.
Question: What scale is used by most Somali songs?
Sentence: Most Somali songs are pentatonic.
Question: What did Nicholas Leonard say united post-punk?
Sentence: Until recently, in most critical writing the post-punk era was "often dismissed as an awkward period in which punk's gleeful ructions petered out into the vacuity of the Eighties".