xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What helped the Germans dominate trade?
Sentence: The Hanseatic League was not exclusively German in any ethnic sense: many towns who joined the league were outside the Holy Roman Empire and a number of them may only loosely be characterized as German.
Question: Gray color is often called what when referring to dogs?
Sentence: It is common for most breeds to shed this coat.
Question: Almost all of the asset-backed issuance in 2009 was supported by what Federal Reserve program?
Sentence: In 2009, private issuance was less than $150 billion, and almost all of it was asset-backed issuance supported by the Federal Reserve's TALF program to aid credit card, auto and small-business lenders.
Question: At what time was Secunderabad an important sport center?
Sentence: During British rule, Secunderabad became a well-known sporting centre and many race courses, parade grounds and polo fields were built.:18 Many elite clubs formed by the Nizams and the British such as the Secunderabad Club, the Nizam Club and the Hyderabad Race Club, which is known for its horse racing especially the annual Deccan derby, still exist.
Question: How many acres is the Narayanhity Palace?
Sentence: The palace area covers (30 hectares (74 acres)) and is fully secured with gates on all sides.
Question: What does the suffix -stan mean?
Sentence: The suffix "-stan" (Persian: ـستان‎‎ -stān) is Persian for "place of" or "country" and Tajik is, most likely, the name of a pre-Islamic (before the seventh century A.D.) tribe.
Question: What sort of idealist did Hegel define himself as?
Sentence: Absolute idealism is G. W. F. Hegel's account of how existence is comprehensible as an all-inclusive whole.
Question: What was Canada's date for the switch between analog and digital transmission?
Sentence: Incidentally, that was also the date for analogue to digital transition in Canada.
Question: Starting in Manhattan, the George Washington Bridge terminates in what New Jersey county?
Sentence: The Brooklyn Bridge is an icon of the city itself.
Question: Whose effigy was placed on a ship on wheels?
Sentence: Also there are some indications that the effigy of Nerthus or Freyr was placed on a ship with wheels and accompanied by a procession of people in animal disguise and men in women's clothes.
Question: Henry Hudson worked for which company in the 1600s?
Sentence: In 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson re-discovered the region when he sailed his ship the Halve Maen ("Half Moon" in Dutch) into New York Harbor while searching for the Northwest Passage to the Orient for his employer, the Dutch East India Company.
Question: What is added for sizing purposes?
Sentence: Additives for sizing purposes may be mixed with it and/or applied to the paper web later in the manufacturing process; the purpose of such sizing is to establish the correct level of surface absorbency to suit ink or paint.
Question: Who is the mayor of Oklahoma City?
Sentence: The City of Oklahoma City has operated under a council-manager form of city government since 1927.
Question: Who was the core staffer to the legislation that worked for the EPA and continued to work in the Office of Endangered Species?
Sentence: Dr. Train was assisted by a core group of staffers, including Dr. Earl Baysinger at EPA (currently Assistant Chief, Office of Endangered Species and International.
Question: What encoding does Charis SIL use?
Sentence: Characters with diacritical marks can generally be represented either as a single precomposed character or as a decomposed sequence of a base letter plus one or more non-spacing marks.
Question: What terms are often linked to people who illegally use or distribute content that is not their own?
Sentence: The original meaning of piracy is "robbery or illegal violence at sea", but the term has been in use for centuries as a synonym for acts of copyright infringement.
Question: How many districts does the federal government control in 1970?
Sentence: In 1970 Mexico City was split into four different delegaciones: Cuauhtémoc, Miguel Hidalgo, Venustiano Carranza and Benito Juárez, increasing the number of delegaciones to sixteen.
Question: Who was one of the English aristocrats who supported the Lollard movement?
Sentence: In spite of influential supporters among the English aristocracy, such as John of Gaunt, the movement was not allowed to survive.
Question: What is Oklahoma's rank among states producing crude oil?
Sentence: While the state ranked eighth for installed wind energy capacity in 2011, it is at the bottom of states in usage of renewable energy, with 94 percent of its electricity being generated by non-renewable sources in 2009, including 25 percent from coal and 46 percent from natural gas.
Question: What percent of Finns speak Russian?
Sentence: There are 33,400 Russian-speaking Finns, amounting to 0.6% of the population.
Question: Which river touches the major shopping district near 181st Street?
Sentence: West of Fort Washington Avenue, 181st Street is largely residential, bordering Hudson Heights and having a few shops to serve the local residents.
Question: Where did princess Victoria move to after she was married?
Sentence: Victoria felt "sick at heart" to see her daughter leave England for Germany; "It really makes me shudder", she wrote to Princess Victoria in one of her frequent letters, "when I look round to all your sweet, happy, unconscious sisters, and think I must give them up too – one by one."
Question: What was one noble thing the poor szlachta did?
Sentence: As some szlachta were poorer than some non-noble gentry, some particularly impoverished szlachta were forced to become tenants of the wealthier gentry.
Question: What is an example of the multiracial identity movement at work?
Sentence: Loving Day).
Question: Which American Enlightenment sympathiser was known for his political activism and advances in physics?
Sentence: Several Americans, especially Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, played a major role in bringing Enlightenment ideas to the New World and in influencing British and French thinkers.
Question: Who is the mayor of Houston since the last election?
Sentence: The current mayor of Houston is Sylvester Turner, a Democrat elected on a nonpartisan ballot.
Question: What endospore-forming bacteria can cause tetanus disease?
Sentence: Endospore-forming bacteria can also cause disease: for example, anthrax can be contracted by the inhalation of Bacillus anthracis endospores, and contamination of deep puncture wounds with Clostridium tetani endospores causes tetanus.
Question: What was the name of the Proclamation?
Sentence: During the Napoleonic Occupation of Spain, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest of progressive ideas, declared Mexican independence in the small town of Dolores, Guanajuato on September 16, 1810 with a proclamation known as the "Grito de Dolores".
Question: When did the Iconodules  change the cross in the Hagia Sophia?
Sentence: There were similar crosses in the apses of the Hagia Sophia Church in Thessaloniki and in the Church of the Dormition in Nicaea.
Question: Storyboards are not considered what?
Sentence: These storyboards are not intended as an end product and are rarely seen by the public.
Question: How much money has been invested in Detroit in 2013-2014?
Sentence: Since 2006, $9 billion has been invested in downtown and surrounding neighborhoods; $5.2 billion of that in has come in 2013 and 2014.
Question: In degrees Fahrenheit, what is the normal range of high temperatures in Miami?
Sentence: Highs generally range between 70–77 °F (21–25 °C).
Question: The Faculties of Life Sciences and Physical Sciences merged in 2005 to become which faculty?
Sentence: In November 2005 the Faculties of Life Sciences and Physical Sciences merged to become the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
Question: Where does transcription occur in eukaryotes?
Sentence: In eukaryotes, transcription occurs in the nucleus, where the cell's DNA is stored.
Question: Who was considered to be the last king of the Roman Kingdom?
Sentence: The last king of the Roman Kingdom, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, was overthrown in 509 BC by a group of noblemen led by Lucius Junius Brutus.
Question: Which river flooded in 1908, preceding the expansion of Hyderabad?
Sentence: After the 1908 flooding of the Musi River, the city was expanded and civic monuments constructed, particularly during the rule of Mir Osman Ali Khan (the VIIth Nizam), whose patronage of architecture led to him being referred to as the maker of modern Hyderabad.
Question: What year did American Idol first air on FOX?
Sentence: However, Rupert Murdoch, head of Fox's parent company, was persuaded to buy the show by his daughter Elisabeth, who was a fan of the British show.
Question: How much did Schwarzenegger spend to convert a Hummer to run on hydrogen?
Sentence: The conversion was reported to have cost about US$21,000.
Question: What kind of tourism attracts tourists yearly?
Sentence: Being a city on the Ill and close to the Rhine, Strasbourg has always been an important centre of fluvial navigation, as is attested by archeological findings.
Question: Who could the ex serfs sell their land to?
Sentence: The ex serfs could only sell land to other peasants, not szlachta.
Question: What does the Castro culture's name mean?
Sentence: It is usually considered a local evolution of the Atlantic Bronze Age, with later developments and influences and overlapping into the Roman era.
Question: How big is SouthPark Mall?
Sentence: North Carolina has a variety of shopping choices.
Question: What was updated on the gunsight as a target moved?
Sentence: In this method when the sights were on the target, the barrel was pointed at the target's future position.
Question: Which British territory received independence in 1961?
Sentence: Most of the UK's Caribbean territories achieved independence after the departure in 1961 and 1962 of Jamaica and Trinidad from the West Indies Federation, established in 1958 in an attempt to unite the British Caribbean colonies under one government, but which collapsed following the loss of its two largest members.
Question: Why was the Royal College of Chemistry founded?
Sentence: As a result of a movement earlier in the decade, many politicians donated funds to establish the college, including Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone and Robert Peel.
Question: What historical event illustrated that dividing sovereignty was not possible?
Sentence: The descent of the United States into Civil War in the mid-nineteenth century, over disputes about unallocated competences concerning slavery and ultimately the right of secession, showed this.
Question: What did the Power Mac G4 have trouble overcoming after they dropped their price and upgraded their hardware?
Sentence: A price drop and hardware upgrades could not offset the earlier perception of the Cube's reduced value compared to the iMac and Power Mac G4 lineup, and it was discontinued in July 2001.
Question: What are two companies that make iPod accessories?
Sentence: The dock connector also allowed the iPod to connect to accessories, which often supplement the iPod's music, video, and photo playback.
Question: In 2001, what organization accused UNFPA of sharing office space with Chinese family planning officials?
Sentence: "We located the family planning offices, and in that family planning office, we located the UNFPA office, and we confirmed from family planning officials there that there is no distinction between what the UNFPA does and what the Chinese Family Planning Office does," said Scott Weinberg, a spokesman for PRI.
Question: How many square miles is Boston?
Sentence: Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 8.1 million people, making it the sixth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.
Question: What Eurpoean university practices are considered to be adapted from madaris?
Sentence: Nevertheless, Makdisi has asserted that the European university borrowed many of its features from the Islamic madrasa, including the concepts of a degree and doctorate.
Question: Aside from die casting, what are alloys of zinc mixed with copper, aluminium and magnesium used for?
Sentence: Alloys of primarily zinc with small amounts of copper, aluminium, and magnesium are useful in die casting as well as spin casting, especially in the automotive, electrical, and hardware industries.
Question: Who replaced Lord Rosebery the year following his appointment?
Sentence: His government was weak, and the following year Lord Salisbury replaced him.
Question: Who can become ordained to the Catholic priesthood after a period of study?
Sentence: Therefore, Protestants desiring full communion with the Catholic Church are not re-baptized (although they are confirmed) and Protestant ministers who become Catholics may be ordained to the priesthood after a period of study.
Question: What are estuaries called in Galicia?
Sentence: These are called rías and are divided into the smaller Rías Altas ("High Rías"), and the larger Rías Baixas ("Low Rías").
Question: Which pope affirmed Paul VI Humanae Vitae?
Sentence: Pope John Paul II later reaffirmed and expanded upon Humanae vitae with the encyclical Evangelium vitae.
Question: What did racial bias generally mean for Chinese people?
Sentence: In the South, some Chinese married into the black and mulatto communities, as generally discrimination meant they did not take white spouses.
Question: For what part of a motion picture projector did the Motion Picture Trust hold a patent?
Sentence: For Laemmle and other such entrepreneurs, the creation in 1908 of the Edison-backed Motion Picture Trust meant that exhibitors were expected to pay fees for Trust-produced films they showed.
Question: How many smaller cities did Mexico City make up at its height?
Sentence: By that time, the total number of municipalities within the Federal District was twenty-two.
Question: When was the King David Hotel bombing?
Sentence: Escalating violence culminated with the 1946 King David Hotel bombing which Bruce Hoffman characterized as one of the "most lethal terrorist incidents of the twentieth century".
Question: Which Island is geographically considered a part of Southeast Asia?
Sentence: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India are geographically considered part of Southeast Asia.
Question: How much debt was the AFL reported to have as of July 20, 2009?
Sentence: In early August 2009, numerous media outlets began reporting that the AFL was folding permanently and would file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Question: How do Afro-multiracials identify in the 21st century?
Sentence: He claims that black-looking Arabs, much like black-looking Latin Americans, consider themselves white because they have some distant white ancestry.
Question: What is the aim of new research institutes?
Sentence: Cairo University is ranked as 401-500 according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking) and 551-600 according to QS World University Rankings.
Question: What league are the Toronto Bluejays in?
Sentence: Several MLB teams used to play regular exhibition games during the year against nearby teams in the other major league, but regular-season interleague play has made such games unnecessary.
Question: What English Archbishop was a member of the Freemasons?
Sentence: Since the founding of Freemasonry, many Bishops of the Church of England have been Freemasons, such as Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher.
Question: Where do Canadian Forces members go for training?
Sentence: Both officers and non-commissioned members receive their basic training at the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
Question: Who founded Australia's liberal party?
Sentence: The party's founder and longest-serving leader Robert Menzies envisaged that Australia's middle class would form its main constituency.
Question: What exemption was removed from Windows 8.1?
Sentence: With the retail release returning to full version software for Windows 8.1, the "Personal Use License" exemption was removed from the OEM SKU, meaning that end users building their own PCs for personal use must use the full retail version in order to satisfy the Windows 8.1 licensing requirements.
Question: What is the name of the western river in the city of New Haven?
Sentence: The city is drained by three rivers; the West, Mill, and Quinnipiac, named in order from west to east.
Question: When was the Gadsden Purchase?
Sentence: Tucson became a part of the United States of America, although the American military did not formally take over control until March 1856.
Question: Dog minds have been shaped by thousands of years of contact with what species?
Sentence: As a result of this physical and social evolution, dogs, more than any other species, have acquired the ability to understand and communicate with humans and they are uniquely attuned to our behaviors.
Question: What was the population of San Diego at the time of the 2010 census?
Sentence: The city had a population of 1,307,402 according to the 2010 census, distributed over a land area of 372.1 square miles (963.7 km2).
Question: In what year did the Senate declare the Bacchus subversive?
Sentence: The mystery cult to Bacchus followed; it was suppressed as subversive and unruly by decree of the Senate in 186 BC.
Question: What is the larger count for numbers of dogs considered to populate the planet?
Sentence: all dog population estimates are based on regional human population densities and land uses.
Question: How can botany be applied to the construction industry?
Sentence: Modern botany is a broad, multidisciplinary subject with inputs from most other areas of science and technology.
Question: Where is the UNESCO World Heritage Site located?
Sentence: In 1983 the historic old town in the centre of Bern became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Question: On which date was it announced that BT was awarded a broadcasting contract?
Sentence: On 13 June 2012, the Premier League announced that BT had been awarded 38 games a season for the 2013–14 through 2015–16 seasons at £246 million-a-year.
Question: What is the basic characteristis of Muhammad and the prophets?
Sentence: Otherwise others are nobler than Muhammad's offspring and they are to be followed and obeyed; and the offspring of Muhammad are obedient and subject to the offspring of Muhammad’s enemies such as Abi Jahl or Ibn Abi Ma’eet.[original research?]
Question: What did the March 2013 agreement decide?
Sentence: In return for a €10 billion bailout from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, often referred to as the "troika", the Cypriot government was required to impose a significant haircut on uninsured deposits, a large proportion of which were held by wealthy Russians who used Cyprus as a tax haven.
Question: When did the Mapuche surrender to the Chilean army?
Sentence: During the Occupation of Araucanía the Mapuche surrendered to the country's army in the 1880s.
Question: To what controversial organization did a Miami chief of police belong?
Sentence: Miami's chief of police, H. Leslie Quigg, did not hide the fact that he, like many other white Miami police officers, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Question: Who was the chieftain of the Xiongnu?
Sentence: After negotiations, the heqin agreement in 198 BC nominally held the leaders of the Xiongnu and the Han as equal partners in a royal marriage alliance, but the Han were forced to send large amounts of tribute items such as silk clothes, food, and wine to the Xiongnu.
Question: Which part of the brain has led to many distortions among different species?
Sentence: These distortions can make it difficult to match brain components from one species with those of another species.
Question: In what year was the Formosa Resolution passed?
Sentence: He gave strong financial support to the new nation of South Vietnam.
Question: How many Iraqi insurgents were killed from 2003-2011?
Sentence: 23,813 insurgents were killed in Iraq between 2003–2011.
Question: What surrounds the Sichuan basin to the west?
Sentence: The Sichuan basin is surrounded by the Himalayas to the west, the Qin Mountains to the north, and mountainous areas of Yunnan to the south.
Question: On what day was Alaska officially named a state?
Sentence: Statehood for Alaska was an important cause of James Wickersham early in his tenure as a congressional delegate.
Question: How many Oscars did Close Encounters get nominated for, besides Best Director?
Sentence: Rejecting offers to direct Jaws 2, King Kong and Superman, Spielberg and actor Richard Dreyfuss re-convened to work on a film about UFOs, which became Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
Question: Where did the reserve team for the main Hanover team used to play?
Sentence: Arminia Hannover is another very traditional soccer team in Hanover that has played in the first league for years and plays now in the Niedersachsen-West Liga (Lower Saxony League West).
Question: How many concillors sit on Southampton's City Council?
Sentence: Council elections are held in early May for one third of the seats (one councillor for each ward), elected for a four-year term, so there are elections three years out of four.
Question: What do government agencies view the animals as?
Sentence: However, once Europeans arrived, game animals were introduced by acclimatisation societies to provide New Zealanders with sport and a hunting resource.
Question: What is the floor exercise events performed on now?
Sentence: Today, the floor event occurs on a carpeted 12m × 12m square, usually consisting of hard foam over a layer of plywood, which is supported by springs or foam blocks generally called a "spring" floor.
Question: In what year did Tito travel to the U.S. to visit Washington D.C., amist protest by anti-communist Croat, Serb and Albanian groups?
Sentence: During the visit strict security was imposed in Washington, D.C. owing to protests by anti-communist Croat, Serb and Albanian groups.
Question: What month and day was the death of Prince Albert?
Sentence: His birthday (14 December 1895) was the 34th anniversary of the death of his great-grandfather, Prince Albert, the Prince Consort.
Question: Along with distribution and studio operations, what part of Universal was retained by Carl Laemmle, Jr. during bankruptcy?
Sentence: The theater chain was scrapped, but Carl, Jr. held fast to distribution, studio and production operations.
Question: How many endemic species of fungi have been found?
Sentence: St Helena's biodiversity, however, also includes marine vertebrates, invertebrates (freshwater, terrestrial and marine), fungi (including lichen-forming species), non-vascular plants, seaweeds and other biological groups.
Question: Why were houses built on piles?
Sentence: The rock drawings in Valcamonica are more than 5000 years old; more than 200,000 drawings and etchings have been identified at the site.
Question: It was the first year of Tribeca featuring a showcase of producers who do what?
Sentence: The statement occurred during the third year that the festival used the Internet to present its content, while it was the first year that it featured a showcase of content producers who work exclusively online.
Question: The safety and efficacy of new drugs must be approved by what organization in the US?
Sentence: The FDA review the data and if the product is seen as having a positive benefit-risk assessment, approval to market the product in the US is granted.
Question: What is required of hunting migratory waterfowl?
Sentence: In cases where there are more prospective hunters than the quota for that species, tags are usually assigned by lottery.
Question: What are Parskahay?
Sentence: For example, Armenians who originate from Iran are referred to as Parskahay (Պարսկահայ), while Armenians from Lebanon are usually referred to as Lipananahay (Լիբանանահայ).
Question: What country is listed as a republic?
Sentence: Guinea-Bissau is a republic.
Question: In what countries was the hunting for trophies frowned upon, back in the day and in modern times?
Sentence: In the 19th century, southern and central European sport hunters often pursued game only for a trophy, usually the head or pelt of an animal, which was then displayed as a sign of prowess.