xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What could the US do that would please the foreign cotton industry concerning cotton subsidies?
Sentence: The four introduced a "Sectoral Initiative in Favour of Cotton", presented by Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré during the Trade Negotiations Committee on 10 June 2003.
Question: What did the vibrations cause to change?
Sentence: Vibration of the diaphragm caused a needle to vibrate in the water, varying the electrical resistance in the circuit.
Question: What was the location of Bismarck and Favre's meeting?
Sentence: Bismarck met Favre on 18 September at the Château de Ferrières and demanded a frontier immune to a French war of revenge, which included Strasbourg, Alsace and most the Moselle department in Lorraine of which Metz was the capital.
Question: The lack of assimilation of Jews in central and eastern Europe lies in part to the fact that they lived almost exclusively in what?
Sentence: Furthermore, Jews lived almost exclusively in shtetls, maintained a strong system of education for males, heeded rabbinic leadership, and scorned the life-style of their neighbors; and all of these tendencies increased with every outbreak of antisemitism.
Question: Where was Chopin invited to in late summer?
Sentence: In late October 1848, while staying at 10 Warriston Crescent in Edinburgh with the Polish physician Adam Łyszczyński, he wrote out his last will and testament—"a kind of disposition to be made of my stuff in the future, if I should drop dead somewhere", he wrote to Grzymała.
Question: If the effects are valid, for RK = n/e2, what is the measurement of KJ2RK equal to?
Sentence: If the theoretical treatments of the Josephson effect and the quantum Hall effect are valid, and in particular assuming that RK = h/e2, the measurement of KJ2RK is a direct determination of the Planck constant.
Question: What type of palette was found in Tutankhamun's tomb?
Sentence: Red ochre was widely used as a pigment for wall paintings, particularly as the skin color of men.
Question: Who accepted the Japanese surrender?
Sentence: The surrender was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, with representatives of several Allied nations, from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu and Yoshijiro Umezu.
Question: Like what creature did Burke say Hastings was 'devouring the dead'?
Sentence: Burke's indictment, fuelled by emotional indignation, branded Hastings a 'captain-general of iniquity'; who never dined without 'creating a famine'; whose heart was 'gangrened to the core', and who resembled both a 'spider of Hell' and a 'ravenous vulture devouring the carcasses of the dead'.
Question: Where are the Deccan Traps?
Sentence: The Cretaceous is justly famous for its chalk; indeed, more chalk formed in the Cretaceous than in any other period in the Phanerozoic.
Question: What is Norfolk Island's Internet country code top-level domain?
Sentence: There is one locally based radio station (Radio Norfolk 89.9FM), broadcasting on both AM and FM frequencies.
Question: What did the Puritans want the Church of England to emulate?
Sentence: The desire was for the Church of England to resemble more closely the Protestant churches of Europe, especially Geneva.
Question: What kind of oversight does the separation of powers help to promote?
Sentence: This United States form of separation of powers is associated with a system of checks and balances.
Question: When was most of the urbanization completed?
Sentence: Many Spanish Colonial style buildings were destroyed, replaced by new much larger Porfirian institutions and many outlying rural zones were transformed into urban or industrialized districts with most having electrical, gas and sewage utilities by 1908.
Question: What is the English translation of Medri Bahri?
Sentence: During the Middle Ages, the Eritrea region was known as Medri Bahri ("sea-land").
Question: What does Neptune have more of compared to Uranus?
Sentence: Unlike Uranus, Neptune's composition has a higher volume of ocean, whereas Uranus has a smaller mantle.
Question: Who was appointed as the third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1942?
Sentence: Nathan Knorr was appointed as third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1942.
Question: What type of technology related to water was to be developed under the Ecoimagination program?
Sentence: The announcement prompted an op-ed piece in The New York Times to observe that, "while General Electric's increased emphasis on clean technology will probably result in improved products and benefit its bottom line, Mr. Immelt's credibility as a spokesman on national environmental policy is fatally flawed because of his company's intransigence in cleaning up its own toxic legacy."
Question: Who reworked the Royal Institute's medal desgin in 1931?
Sentence: The design of the Institute's Mycenean lions medal and the motto ‘Usui civium, decori urbium' has been attributed to Thomas Leverton Donaldson, who had been honorary secretary until 1839.
Question: From what century were men's knee breeches worn at Buckingham designed in?
Sentence: Most men invited to Buckingham Palace in the daytime choose to wear service uniform or lounge suits; a minority wear morning coats, and in the evening, depending on the formality of the occasion, black tie or white tie.
Question: What two instruments did Frédéric's father play during this time?
Sentence: The father played the flute and violin; the mother played the piano and gave lessons to boys in the boarding house that the Chopins kept.
Question: What did Avicenna learn from the Sunni scholar Ismail al-Zahid?
Sentence: Abu Abdullah Nateli, who claimed philosophizing.
Question: When was Build 7959 divulged?
Sentence: Build 7959, with minor changes but the first 64-bit version, was leaked on May 1, 2011.
Question: What type of connection does Tri-Band 3G offer its customers?
Sentence: In December 2012, Hormuud Telecom launched its Tri-Band 3G service for internet and mobile clients.
Question: Who was the first to discover deuterium?
Sentence: Heavy water, which consists of deuterium in the place of regular hydrogen, was discovered by Urey's group in 1932.
Question: When were late Paleolithic communities established along the lake shores?
Sentence: Evidence of human habitation has been found in caves near Vercors, close to Grenoble; in Austria the Mondsee culture shows evidence of houses built on piles to keep them dry.
Question: When did Peter Lombard die?
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: Who was Keir Hardie's opponent?
Sentence: One of the first acts of the new Liberal Government was to reverse the Taff Vale judgement.
Question: What standards were the ANSI developed from?
Sentence: Originally, ASA values were frequently referred to as American standard speed numbers or ASA exposure-index numbers.
Question: What law regulates drug marketing in the US?
Sentence: Marketing of prescription drugs in the US is regulated by the federal Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987.
Question: What was the result of the fury of Europe?
Sentence: The only significant Austrian success was the partial occupation of Silesia.
Question: What animal declined across Botswana?
Sentence: In contrast, Botswana has recently been forced to ban trophy hunting following a precipitous wildlife decline.
Question: Of what does the NTSB want to find a means of doing?
Sentence: Due to the work nature of airline pilots, who often cross several timezones and regions of sunlight and darkness in one day, and spend many hours awake both day and night, they are often unable to maintain sleep patterns that correspond to the natural human circadian rhythm; this situation can easily lead to fatigue.
Question: What was the name of the fisherman in lore that saw a vision of Saint Peter near the Abbey?
Sentence: This seems to be quoted to justify the gifts of salmon from Thames fishermen that the abbey received in later years.
Question: What year was this treaty signed?
Sentence: The formalization of the division between small powers and great powers came about with the signing of the Treaty of Chaumont in 1814.
Question: Who was the architect for St. Elmo?
Sentence: Kenneth M. Murchison, 1912, designs inspired by Elizabethan manor.
Question: Who succeeded Antimachus II?
Sentence: In about 155 (or 165) BC he seems to have been succeeded by the most successful of the Indo-Greek kings, Menander I. Menander converted to Buddhism, and seems to have been a great patron of the religion; he is remembered in some Buddhist texts as 'Milinda'.
Question: What is to be used to guarantee the debtors repayment, by the banks assuming their debt?
Sentence: This alternative requires that the tax revenues and credit of the wealthy member countries be used to refinance the previous borrowing of the weaker member countries, and is politically controversial.
Question: What is the range of average temperature in the Sichuan Basin?
Sentence: Average elevation ranges from 2,000 to 3,500 meters; average temperatures range from 0 to 15 °C.
Question: When does Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem claim to have been founded?
Sentence: It has a claimed date of 1189, based on the fact it is constructed on the site of the Nottingham Castle brewhouse; the present building dates from around 1650.
Question: What date saw the surrender of Nazi Germany?
Sentence: The Soviet Red Army captured Berlin in a very large-scale bloody battle, and the Germans finally surrendered on May 7, 1945.
Question: What was the Scientific Revolution?
Sentence: The thesis of Copernicus' book was that the Earth moved around the Sun.
Question: Which composer played at Buckingham on three occasions?
Sentence: The composer Felix Mendelssohn is known to have played there on three occasions.
Question: When was INS v Chadha tried before the Supreme Court?
Sentence: I, § 1—requiring all legislative powers to be vested in a Congress consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives—and § 7—requiring every bill passed by the House and Senate, before becoming law, to be presented to the president, and, if he disapproves, to be repassed by two-thirds of the Senate and House—represents the Framers' decision that the legislative power of the Federal Government be exercised in accord with a single, finely wrought and exhaustively considered procedure.
Question: Why was Christ in majesty protected from the iconoclastic destruction?
Sentence: Among the rare examples are the 6th-century Christ in majesty (or Ezekiel's Vision) mosaic in the apse of the Church of Hosios David in Thessaloniki that was hidden behind mortar during those dangerous times.
Question: When did the Nanking Massacre occur?
Sentence: The Japanese continued to push the Chinese forces back, capturing the capital Nanking in December 1937 and committed which was known as Nanking Massacre.
Question: Is a tradeoff between efficiency and cost possible?
Sentence: A tradeoff between cost and efficiency is possible.[citation needed]
Question: What system of government was constitution based on?
Sentence: Continued instability due to remaining British influence and increasing political involvement by the king led to the dissolution of the parliament in a military coup d'état known as the 1952 Revolution.
Question: How did Marie-Antoinette react to Burke's writing about her?
Sentence: Philip Francis wrote to Burke saying that what he wrote of Marie-Antoinette was "pure foppery".
Question: Selling influence can involve third-parties and this is called what type of relation?
Sentence: From a legal point of view, the role of the third party (who is the target of the influence) does not really matter although he/she can be an accessory in some instances.
Question: When did Murcia become Spanish speaking?
Sentence: The language also reached Murcia, which became Spanish-speaking in the 15th century.
Question: Why were sports important in these schools?
Sentence: Many sports popular today were formalised by British Public schools and universities in the 19th century.
Question: What was the main problem with applying early electric motors to industry?
Sentence: Several inventors followed Sturgeon in the development of DC motors but all encountered the same battery power cost issues.
Question: When was the exact hundredth anniversary of Oklahoma's statehood?
Sentence: Annual ethnic festivals and events take place throughout the state such as Native American powwows and ceremonial events, and include festivals (as examples) in Scottish, Irish, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Czech, Jewish, Arab, Mexican and African-American communities depicting cultural heritage or traditions.
Question: What was the name of the economic system that organized peasants into villages owing labor and rent to nobles?
Sentence: Manorialism, the organisation of peasants into villages that owed rent and labour services to the nobles, and feudalism, the political structure whereby knights and lower-status nobles owed military service to their overlords in return for the right to rent from lands and manors, were two of the ways society was organised in the High Middle Ages.
Question: How was he able to see bacteria?
Sentence: Bacteria were first observed by the Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1676, using a single-lens microscope of his own design.
Question: What conflict caused Britain to blockade trade?
Sentence: With Britain locked in a major war with Napoleon's France, its policy was to block American shipments to France.
Question: What formed an important part of European colonization?
Sentence: In most cases these treaties were in extremely disadvantageous terms to the native people, who often did not appreciate the implications of what they were signing.
Question: What was the vacancy rate for Bern in 2010?
Sentence: The average rate for a one-room apartment was 619.82 CHF (US$500,
Question: What year was the Queen shot?
Sentence: Victoria was outraged when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, but was so pleased by the many expressions of loyalty after the attack that she said it was "worth being shot at—to see how much one is loved".
Question: Does child labour exist in the 21st century?
Sentence: Two out of three child workers work alongside their parents, in unpaid family work situations.
Question: Where is the NBS located?
Sentence: RIBA Bookshops, which operates online and at 66 Portland Place, is also part of RIBA Enterprises.
Question: What was the primary concern of other nations who objected to including political groups in the definition of genocide?
Sentence: Other nations feared that including political groups in the definition would invite international intervention in domestic politics.
Question: What was the name for "the double-axe men?"
Sentence: In historical times, the priests of Delphi were called Labryaden, "the double-axe men", which indicates Minoan origin.
Question: Despite its imperfection, what are now considered valuable achievements of Principia Mathematica?
Sentence: In this way, Principia Mathematica's legacy might be described as its key role in disproving the possibility of achieving its own stated goals.
Question: Who is venerated in the Roman Catholic practice of dulia?
Sentence: In Roman Catholic theology, the term hyperdulia is reserved for Marian veneration, latria for the worship of God, and dulia for the veneration of other saints and angels.
Question: What is blocking using only a shoulder movement called?
Sentence: The gymnast is allowed to choose where they start on the runway.
Question: What year did Dell rank 2nd for product greenness?
Sentence: In November 2011, Dell ranked 2nd out of 15 listed electronics makers (increasing its score to 5.1 from 4.9, which it gained in the previous ranking from October 2010).
Question: Who issued a document called "Human rights and intellectual property"?
Sentence: In 2001 the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issued a document called "Human rights and intellectual property" that argued that intellectual property tends to be governed by economic goals when it should be viewed primarily as a social product; in order to serve human well-being, intellectual property systems must respect and conform to human rights laws.
Question: What term did Capote use to describe Lee and himself?
Sentence: She and Capote made up and acted out stories they wrote on an old Underwood typewriter Lee's father gave them.
Question: What is it called when pesticides are caught in the wind and carried to unintended areas?
Sentence: Pesticide drift occurs when pesticides suspended in the air as particles are carried by wind to other areas, potentially contaminating them.
Question: On what date was Abdirashid Ali Shermarke assassinated?
Sentence: His assassination was quickly followed by a military coup d'état on 21 October 1969 (the day after his funeral), in which the Somali Army seized power without encountering armed opposition — essentially a bloodless takeover.
Question: What did Rome make the myriad various cults?
Sentence: Rome offers no native creation myth, and little mythography to explain the character of its deities, their mutual relationships or their interactions with the human world, but Roman theology acknowledged that di immortales (immortal gods) ruled all realms of the heavens and earth.
Question: What party was outlawed in Yugoslavia in 1920?
Sentence: As the Communist Party was outlawed in Yugoslavia starting on 30 December 1920, Josip Broz took on many assumed names during his activity within the Party, including "Rudi", "Walter", and "Tito."
Question: What are other forms of studying migration?
Sentence: Bird migration routes have been studied by a variety of techniques including the oldest, marking.
Question: What percentage of the country does it make up?
Sentence: The area is landlocked by the states of Sonora to the west, Sinaloa to the south-west, Durango to the south, and Coahuila to the east, and by the U.S. states of Texas to the northeast and New Mexico to the north.
Question: Goddard collected mainly what type of Buddhist scripture?
Sentence: Dwight Goddard collected a sample of Buddhist scriptures, with the emphasis on Zen, along with other classics of Eastern philosophy, such as the Tao Te Ching, into his 'Buddhist Bible' in the 1920s.
Question: What is one of the subjects of a treatise by Ibn Sina?
Sentence: Ibn Sīnā's commentaries on Aristotle often criticized the philosopher,[citation needed] encouraging a lively debate in the spirit of ijtihad.
Question: When did people become able to vote for representation?
Sentence: After years of demanding greater political autonomy, residents were given the right to directly elect a Head of Government and the representatives of the unicameral Legislative Assembly by popular vote in 1997.
Question: What did the United States pass in 2004?
Sentence: In 2004, the United States passed an amendment to the Fair Labour Standards Act of 1938.
Question: Which parent was the deciding factor for how interracial persons were recorded in this census?
Sentence: In all situations in which a person had White and some other racial ancestry, he was to be reported as that other race.
Question: What did many of the societies practice a mix of?
Sentence: Although some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering.
Question: The broad meaning of classical music stretches back from today to what era?
Sentence: The term "classical music" has two meanings: the broader meaning includes all Western art music from the Medieval era to today, and the specific meaning refers to the music from the 1750s to the early 1830s—the era of Mozart and Haydn.
Question: Daylighting has been proven to have negative effects on people?
Sentence: Daylighting has also been proven to have positive effects on patients in hospitals as well as work and school performance.
Question: How did Zugibe try to prove his theories?
Sentence: In his book The Crucifixion of Jesus, physician and forensic pathologist Frederick Zugibe studied the likely circumstances of the death of Jesus in great detail.
Question: How many women are believed to have been sexual slaves for the Japenese Army?
Sentence: Some 35 Dutch comfort women brought a successful case before the Batavia Military Tribunal in 1948.
Question: Which explorer did Cabot make a mistake similar to?
Sentence: Cabot led another voyage to the Americas the following year but nothing was heard of his ships again.
Question: How much of Estonia speaks Russian?
Sentence: For example, if 53% of ethnic Estonians between 15 and 19 claim to speak some Russian, then among the 10- to 14-year-old group, command of Russian has fallen to 19% (which is about one-third the percentage of those who claim to have command of English in the same age group).
Question: In what state was Gary Gilmore executed?
Sentence: The first use of lethal injection was on December 7, 1982, when Charles Brooks, Jr., was executed in Texas.
Question: How many eras are the Shahis divided into?
Sentence: The kingdom was known as the Kabul Shahan or Ratbelshahan from 565-670, when the capitals were located in Kapisa and Kabul, and later Udabhandapura, also known as Hund for its new capital.
Question: The FDNY employs about how many paramedics and EMTs?
Sentence: The FDNY employs approximately 11,080 uniformed firefighters and over 3,300 uniformed EMTs and paramedics.
Question: What did Beyoncé open at the Brooklyn Phoenix House in 2010?
Sentence: Following the death of Osama bin Laden, Beyoncé released her cover of the Lee Greenwood song "God Bless the USA", as a charity single to help raise funds for the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund.
Question: The first American to orbit around the planet was whom?
Sentence: His Mercury-Atlas 6 mission completed three orbits in the Friendship 7 spacecraft, and splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, after a tense reentry, due to what falsely appeared from the telemetry data to be a loose heat-shield.
Question: What sect lays special emphasis on conservation of particular species?
Sentence: However, the Chief Wildlife Warden may, if satisfied that any wild animal from a specified list has become dangerous to human life, or is so disabled or diseased as to be beyond recovery, permit any person to hunt such an animal.
Question: What do most Venezuelans have?
Sentence: Most Venezuelans have some indigenous heritage, but the indigenous population make up only around 2% of the total population.
Question: What was the rule in the 1800s called?
Sentence: Some courts called it "the traceable amount rule."
Question: What was the name of the human chain?
Sentence: In 1989, during the "Singing Revolution", in a landmark demonstration for more independence, more than two million people formed a human chain stretching through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, called the Baltic Way.
Question: Longhorn beetles look similar to what other insect?
Sentence: In Müllerian mimicry, inedible species, usually within a taxonomic order, find it advantageous to resemble each other so as to reduce the sampling rate by predators who need to learn about the insects' inedibility.
Question: When were the staple foods in the Roman republic typically eaten at?
Sentence: The staple foods were generally consumed around 11 o'clock, and consisted of bread, lettuce, cheese, fruits, nuts, and cold meat left over from the dinner the night before.[citation needed]
Question: Who was the United States Secretary of State who visited Myanmar in 2014?
Sentence: As of July 2013, about 100 political prisoners remain imprisoned, while conflict between the Burmese Army and local insurgent groups continues.
Question: North Carolina did not vote to join the confederacy until they were ordered to invade what state?
Sentence: The state did not vote to join the Confederacy until President Abraham Lincoln called on it to invade its sister state, South Carolina, becoming the last or second-to-last state to officially join the Confederacy.