xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What does evidence suggest hunting may have been a factor in the extinction of?
Sentence: Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores.
Question: What does LIFE project stand for?
Sentence: In 1993, the newly formed government of Namibia received funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Living in a Finite Environment (LIFE) Project.
Question: Advances in what construction trade helped to increase global navigation?
Sentence: The introduction of gunpowder to the field of battle affected not only military organisation, but helped advance the nation state.
Question: Who were the scientists that worked on the early research for Laserdiscs?
Sentence: Several of the scientists responsible for the early research (Richard Wilkinson, Ray Dakin and John Winslow) founded Optical Disc Corporation (now ODC Nimbus).
Question: What are the most used labels in America to describe homosexuals?
Sentence: Many cultures use identity labels to describe people who express these attractions.
Question: Which al-Qaeda cell were the 9/11 hijackers members of?
Sentence: On the morning of 11 September 2001, 19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners all bound for California.
Question: What type of drugs did many young children not have access to in 2008?
Sentence: In 2008, fewer than half of children younger than five slept under antimalaria nets or had access to antimalarial drugs.
Question: What economic activity in the Horn of Africa did the ancient Somalis connect to the rest of the world?
Sentence: In antiquity, the ancestors of the Somali people were an important link in the Horn of Africa connecting the region's commerce with the rest of the ancient world.
Question: For what action was government assistance necessary after the Tuvalu cyclone??
Sentence: The Tuvalu Government carried out assessments of the damage caused by Cyclone Pam to the islands and has provided medical aid, food as well as assistance for the cleaning-up of storm debris.
Question: What is it called when someone intentionally breaks encryption on a movie or game?
Sentence: Title I of the U.S. DMCA, the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act has provisions that prevent persons from "circumvent[ing] a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work".
Question: Is poultry available in various forms?
Sentence: Poultry is available fresh or frozen, as whole birds or as joints (cuts), bone-in or deboned, seasoned in various ways, raw or ready cooked.
Question: How were slaves listed in the 1850 US census?
Sentence: The 1850 census saw a dramatic shift in the way information about residents was collected.
Question: What date did the torch relay event take place?
Sentence: It was the first time that the Olympic torch has traveled to North Korea.
Question: Besides improved tactics and training, what did Wenger add to the Arsenal team?
Sentence: In addition, the club reached the final of the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup (losing on penalties to Galatasaray), were victorious in the 2003 and 2005 FA Cups, and won the Premier League in 2003–04 without losing a single match, an achievement which earned the side the nickname "The Invincibles".
Question: What is the main language of most Muslims from Hyderabad?
Sentence: Hadhrami Arabs, African Arabs, Armenians, Abyssinians, Iranians, Pathans and Turkish people are also present; these communities, of which the Hadhrami are the largest, declined after Hyderabad State became part of the Indian Union, as they lost the patronage of the Nizams.
Question: What is one of the most important aging factors in capacitors?
Sentence: In contrast with ceramic capacitors, this occurs towards the end of life of the component.
Question: In the United States, what are operators of lodgings sometimes called?
Sentence: In North America, the lodging aspect of the word "inn" lives on in hotel brand names like Holiday Inn, and in some state laws that refer to lodging operators as innkeepers.
Question: How many Local Authorities are there in England?
Sentence: The city is ranked 96th most deprived out of all 354 Local Authorities in England.
Question: Where can you obtain information about the Sunshine Act?
Sentence: Data are made public in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website.
Question: What is one of the effects of diarrhea?
Sentence: It often lasts for a few days and can result in dehydration due to fluid loss.
Question: What two compounds is zinc more reactive than?
Sentence: This protection lasts even after the zinc layer is scratched but degrades through time as the zinc corrodes away.
Question: What did Darwin speculate might be how inheritable variations might come about in a species?
Sentence: However, one thing was clear: whatever the exact nature and causes of new variations, Darwin knew from observation and experiment that breeders were able to select such variations and produce huge differences in many generations of selection.
Question: Who used Codd's paper at Berkeley to improve a geographical database?
Sentence: Codd's paper was picked up by two people at Berkeley, Eugene Wong and Michael Stonebraker.
Question: When does language learning primarily occur most intensively?
Sentence: Language learning normally occurs most intensively during human childhood.
Question: How did Sidney Sheinberg feel about the film "Amblin'"
Sentence: He was later given the opportunity to make a short film for theatrical release, the 26-minute, 35mm, Amblin', which he wrote and directed.
Question: What are Nigeria's 3 biggest ethnic groups?
Sentence: Nigeria's three largest ethnic groups (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) have maintained historical preeminence in Nigerian politics; competition amongst these three groups has fuelled corruption and graft.
Question: What did John suffer from?
Sentence: Modern historians remain divided as to whether John suffered from a case of "royal schizophrenia" in his approach to government, or if his actions merely reflected the complex model of Angevin kingship in the early 13th century.
Question: When did Hayek begin presenting his ideas on the limits of human knowledge?
Sentence: Hayek argued that his ideal individualistic, free-market polity would be self-regulating to such a degree that it would be 'a society which does not depend for its functioning on our finding good men for running it'.
Question: When did the Israeli Air Force destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria?
Sentence: On 6 September 2007, the Israeli Air Force destroyed a nuclear reactor in Syria.
Question: Who was the leader of the Rockingham Whigs?
Sentence: As opposed to the instability of the earlier factions, which were often tied to a particular leader and could disintegrate if removed from power, the party was centred around a set of core principles and remained out of power as a united opposition to government.
Question: What medal did Faisal Jeylani Aweys win in the 2013 Open World Taekwondo Challenge Cup?
Sentence: The Somali National Olympic committee has devised a special support program to ensure continued success in future tournaments.
Question: How is the latin small letter e represented in Unicode?
Sentence: Thus, in many cases, users have multiple ways of encoding the same character.
Question: Where do pipes correspond?
Sentence: Because pipes correspond 1-to-1 to endpoints, the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
Question: Who wrote the music used in the game's trailer and demo?
Sentence: The game's score was composed by Toru Minegishi and Asuka Ohta, with series regular Koji Kondo serving as the sound supervisor.
Question: Which branch of government promulgates state regulations?
Sentence: They retain plenary power to make laws covering anything not preempted by the federal Constitution, federal statutes, or international treaties ratified by the federal Senate.
Question: What type of films did Joe Pasternak produce in Germany?
Sentence: Meanwhile, producer Joe Pasternak, who had been successfully producing light musicals with young sopranos for Universal's German subsidiary, repeated his formula in America.
Question: What are students taught to memorize?
Sentence: When learning how to write hanja, students are taught to memorize the native Korean pronunciation for the hanja's meaning and the Sino-Korean pronunciations (the pronunciation based on the Chinese pronunciation of the characters) for each hanja respectively so that students know what the syllable and meaning is for a particular hanja.
Question: What is the largest denomination church in Vanuatu?
Sentence: Vanuatu is the only country in the South Pacific with a significant Presbyterian heritage and membership.
Question: How many people came to the Tucson Festival of Books in 2010?
Sentence: By 2010 it had become the fourth largest book festival in the United States, with 450 authors and 80,000 attendees.
Question: What friend of Claridge's was helpful in introducing asphalt for use in pavements?
Sentence: Then on 25 November 1837, Richard Tappin Claridge patented the use of Seyssel asphalt (patent #7849), for use in asphalte pavement, having seen it employed in France and Belgium when visiting with Frederick Walter Simms, who worked with him on the introduction of asphalt to Britain.
Question: Miami is located in which Florida county?
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 is the largest bank in Uruguay?
Sentence: The largest bank in Uruguay is Banco Republica (BROU), based in Montevideo.
Question: In Denmark, wind power accounts for what percentage of electricity generated?
Sentence: Wind power's share of worldwide electricity usage at the end of 2014 was 3.1%.
Question: Relative to other countries of world how do Egypts's water tariffs compare?
Sentence: Another challenge is low cost recovery due to water tariffs that are among the lowest in the world.
Question: Who wanted to name Elizabeth Princess of Wales?
Sentence: Welsh politicians suggested that she be made Princess of Wales on her 18th birthday.
Question: What is a passing score on the US Air Force Fitness Test?
Sentence: A passing score is 75 points.
Question: How many legal jurisdictions are Swiss citizens subject to?
Sentence: Swiss citizens are subject to three legal jurisdictions: the commune, canton and federal levels.
Question: When was overhead wires system being used for the first time in UK?
Sentence: In the UK, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway pioneered overhead electrification of its suburban lines in London, London Bridge to Victoria being opened to traffic on 1 December 1909.
Question: Where in Oklahoma does the semi-arid zone begin?
Sentence: The humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa) of central, southern and eastern Oklahoma is influenced heavily by southerly winds bringing moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.
Question: When was John's decision to marry Isabella?
Sentence: It remains unclear why John chose to marry Isabella of Angoulême.
Question: What color tint is Longquan greenware characterized by?
Sentence: Longquan greenware is characterized by a thick unctuous glaze of a particular bluish-green tint over an otherwise undecorated light-grey porcellaneous body that is delicately potted.
Question: What was the purpose of the Third Crusade?
Sentence: By 1291 all the crusader states had been captured or forced from the mainland, although a titular Kingdom of Jerusalem survived on the island of Cyprus for several years afterwards.
Question: What caused many intellectual Catholics to leave europe in the 1930s?
Sentence: The rise of Hitler and other dictators in the 1930s forced numerous Catholic intellectuals to flee Europe; president John O'Hara brought many to Notre Dame.
Question: Who introduced the Somali alphabet?
Sentence: The script was developed by the Somali linguist Shire Jama Ahmed specifically for the Somali language, and uses all letters of the English Latin alphabet except p, v and z. Besides Ahmed's Latin script, other orthographies that have been used for centuries for writing Somali include the long-established Arabic script and Wadaad's writing.
Question: How many works of art currently reside in the National Museum?
Sentence: On 15 August 1949, the National Museum was formally inaugurated and currently has 200,000 works of art, both of Indian and foreign origin, covering over 5,000 years.
Question: What type of enviornment is poultry most commonly raised in?
Sentence: Poultry is the second most widely eaten type of meat in the world, accounting for about 30% of total meat production worldwide compared to pork at 38%.
Question: What is the cause of lock grooves on vinyl records?
Sentence: Dust and scratches cause audio clicks and pops.
Question: What is a narrow ridge formed by two cirques eroding back to back called?
Sentence: At the start of a classic valley glacier is a bowl-shaped cirque, which has escarped walls on three sides but is open on the side that descends into the valley.
Question: What Ukrainian political group was involved in the defeat of the German Empire?
Sentence: After conquering the rest of Ukraine from the Whites, Ukraine joined the USSR and was enlarged (gaining Crimea and then Eastern Galicia), whence a process of Ukrainization was begun, with encouragement from Moscow.
Question: In what years was the Royal Institute issued supplemental charters?
Sentence: Supplemental Charters of 1887, 1909 and 1925 were replaced by a single Charter in 1971, and there have been minor amendments since then.
Question: What ethnicity was Broz's mother?
Sentence: His father, Franjo Broz (26 November 1860 – 16 December 1936), was a Croat, while his mother Marija (25 March 1864 – 14 January 1918), was a Slovene.
Question: Which group of scientists began to support evolutionary ideas?
Sentence: There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and the general public, but during the first half of the 19th century the English scientific establishment was closely tied to the Church of England, while science was part of natural theology.
Question: Queen's Greatest Hits II has sold how many copies worldwide?
Sentence: The band's second greatest hits compilation, Greatest Hits II, followed in October 1991, which is the eighth best-selling album of all time in the UK and has sold 16 million copies worldwide.
Question: In what classification is a person who gives up the chance for a true self and adopts social perceptions of him or herself?
Sentence: The pastiche personality abandons all aspirations toward a true or "essential" identity, instead viewing social interactions as opportunities to play out, and hence become, the roles they play.
Question: What are the two major city-states?
Sentence: Since today's Germany was formed from an earlier collection of several states, it has a federal constitution, and the constituent states retain a measure of sovereignty.
Question: How did senators attempt to gain the favor of the tribunes?
Sentence: To win over the tribunes, the senators gave the tribunes a great deal of power and the tribunes began to feel obligated to the senate.
Question: What did the muzzle flashes of the firearms used by the infantry reveal?
Sentence: Although the firearms used by the infantry, particularly machine guns, can be used to engage low altitude air targets, on occasion with notable success, their effectiveness is generally limited and the muzzle flashes reveal infantry positions.
Question: In how many places does the Qur'an give detailed accounts of Mary?
Sentence: The Qur'an relates detailed narrative accounts of Maryam (Mary) in two places, Qur'an 3:35–47 and 19:16–34.
Question: What is the average annual snowfall in Tibet?
Sentence: Northern Tibet is subject to high temperatures in the summer and intense cold in the winter.
Question: Some historians were critical of what exclusion in the definition of victims of genocide?
Sentence: " While there are various definitions of the term, Adam Jones states that the majority of genocide scholars consider that "intent to destroy" is a requirement for any act to be labelled genocide, and that there is growing agreement on the inclusion of the physical destruction criterion.
Question: Why did families send their girls to Diego's monastery?
Sentence: Prior Diego sanctioned the building of a monastery for girls whose parents had sent them to the care of the Albigensians because their families were too poor to fulfill their basic needs.
Question: How much can a wheel of cheese from the Emmental weigh?
Sentence: A wheel of cheese from the Emmental in Switzerland can weigh up to 45 kg (100 lb), and the Beaufort in Savoy can weight up to 70 kilograms (150 lb).
Question: What are the main orthodox systems of Hindu philosophy called?
Sentence: These are also called the Astika (orthodox) philosophical traditions and are those that accept the Vedas as authoritative, important source of knowledge.[note 1][note 2]
Question: What type of fans is Hangzhou known for?
Sentence: Hangzhou is also renowned for its silk umbrellas and hand fans.
Question: Who had formed the club that contained much of the colonial administration?
Sentence: Much of the colonial administration belonged to this club, which had been formed by the Duke of Wellington.
Question: Did the Whigs support or oppose the Catholic king?
Sentence: As well as championing constitutional monarchy with strict limits on the monarch's power, the Whigs adamantly opposed a Catholic king as a threat to liberty, and believed in extending toleration to nonconformist Protestants, or dissenters.
Question: In what year did the "Revolution within a Revolution" begin?
Sentence: Restrictions were placed on the activities of the Revolutionary Committees; in March 1988, their role was narrowed by the newly created Ministry for Mass Mobilization and Revolutionary Leadership to restrict their violence and judicial role, while in August 1988 Gaddafi publicly criticised them, asserting that "they deviated, harmed, tortured" and that "the true revolutionary does not practise repression."
Question: What did Neolithic people use mud-brick to build?
Sentence: Neolithic peoples in the Levant, Anatolia, Syria, northern Mesopotamia and Central Asia were also accomplished builders, utilizing mud-brick to construct houses and villages.
Question: How much energy was the Solar Two able to store using salts?
Sentence: The Solar Two used this method of energy storage, allowing it to store 1.44 terajoules (400,000 kWh) in its 68 cubic metres storage tank with an annual storage efficiency of about 99%.
Question: What was the name of the school of thought that combined theology and philosophy?
Sentence: This movement tried to employ a systemic approach to truth and reason and culminated in the thought of Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274), who wrote the Summa Theologica, or Summary of Theology.
Question: In which Canadian province were the oldest woody plants found?
Sentence: A 2011 discovery in the Canadian province of New Brunswick uncovered the earliest known plants to have grown wood, approximately 395 to 400 million years ago.
Question: During which period did humans first inhabit Galicia?
Sentence: During the Middle Ages, the kingdom of Galicia was occasionally ruled by its own kings, but most of the time it was leagued to the kingdom of Leon and later to that of Castile, while maintaining its own legal and customary practices and personality.
Question: What is the size of New York City in square miles?
Sentence: With a census-estimated 2014 population of 8,491,079 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2)
Question: What kinds of beer did the Sumerians brew?
Sentence: Beer brewing was very important to the Sumerians.
Question: Who created the rasonator mandolin?
Sentence: Luthiers created the resonator mandolin, the flatback mandolin, the carved-top or arched-top mandolin, the mandolin-banjo and the electric mandolin.
Question: Who beat Arsenal for the 2011 League Cup>
Sentence: Arsenal reached the final of the 2007 and 2011 League Cups, losing 2–1 to Chelsea and Birmingham City respectively.
Question: What are some animals in the Arthropoda group?
Sentence: Two smaller phyla, the Onychophora and Tardigrada, are close relatives of the arthropods and share these traits.
Question: Which three locations in Morocco were used in filming?
Sentence: An explosion filmed in Morocco holds a Guinness World Record for the "Largest film stunt explosion" in cinematic history, with the record credited to production designer Chris Corbould.
Question: Which country did Cyprus demarcate its maritime border in 2010?
Sentence: Cyprus demarcated its maritime border with Egypt in 2003, and with Lebanon in 2007.
Question: Who did Darwin write his ideas to in 1842?
Sentence: He tentatively wrote of his ideas to Lyell in January 1842; then in June he roughed out a 35-page "Pencil Sketch" of his theory.
Question: Where can Adobe Flash now be used?
Sentence: Initially, Adobe Flash would only work on sites included on a "Compatibility View" whitelist; however, after feedback from users and additional compatibility tests, an update in March 2013 changed this behavior to use a smaller blacklist of sites with known compatibility issues instead, allowing Flash to be used on most sites by default.
Question: What does Firefox's version for Windows 8 do?
Sentence: The developers of both Chrome and Firefox committed to developing Metro-style versions of their browsers; while Chrome's "Windows 8 mode" uses a full-screen version of the existing desktop interface, Firefox's version (which was first made available on the "Aurora" release channel in September 2013) uses a touch-optimized interface inspired by the Android version of Firefox.
Question: Which movie featured a cover of Queen's The Show Must Go On?
Sentence: In 2001, a version of "The Show Must Go On" was performed by Jim Broadbent and Nicole Kidman in the film musical Moulin Rouge!.
Question: What apparitions reportedly took place in 1917?
Sentence: Lisbon is the 16th European city which attracts the most tourists (with seven million tourists occupying the city's hotels in 2006, a number that grew 11.8% compared to previous year).
Question: Where did the two princesses live for most of the war?
Sentence: We know, every one of us, that in the end all will be well."
Question: Does hinduism only believe in a single god?
Sentence: The dharmic religions differ in their view of the divine: views of God in Hinduism vary by region, sect, and caste, ranging from monotheistic to polytheistic to atheistic.
Question: What is a form of communication observed within plants?
Sentence: Communication is observed within the plant organism, i.e. within plant cells and between plant cells, between plants of the same or related species, and between plants and non-plant organisms, especially in the root zone.
Question: What version of PS3 contained Photo Gallery?
Sentence: Photo Gallery is an optional application to view, create and group photos from PS3, which is installed separately from the system software at 105 MB.
Question: Seditious material distributed by Napoleon's followers often displayed the tricolor, and what other design?
Sentence: Widespread rumors of Napoleon's return from St. Helena and Napoleon as an inspiration for patriotism, individual and collective liberties, and political mobilization manifested themselves in seditious materials, displaying the tricolor and rosettes.
Question: What plant did Mendel use to demonstrate inheritance?
Sentence: What Mendel learned from studying plants has had far reaching benefits outside of botany.
Question: What type of country is Greece?
Sentence: Greece is a developed country with an economy based on the service (82.8%) and industrial sectors (13.3%).
Question: What do female birds have that allow sperm from males to remain viable long after copulation?
Sentence: Female birds have sperm storage mechanisms that allow sperm from males to remain viable long after copulation, a hundred days in some species.