xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: Along with uranium monocarbide and uranium dicarbide, what is a notable carbide of uranium?
Sentence: Uranium carbides and uranium nitrides are both relatively inert semimetallic compounds that are minimally soluble in acids, react with water, and can ignite in air to form U_3O_8.
Question: On what date did French troops begin to cross the Rhine?
Sentence: On 25 September, after great secrecy and feverish marching, 200,000 French troops began to cross the Rhine on a front of 260 km (160 mi).
Question: What do government agencies view the animals as?
Sentence: Government agencies view the animals as pests due to their effects on the natural environment and on agricultural production, but hunters view them as a resource.
Question: What year did the Chicago Cubs' name become official?
Sentence: Officially, the Cubs are tied for the distinction of being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club, along with the Atlanta Braves, which also began play in the NL in 1876 as the Boston Red Stockings (Major League Baseball does not officially recognize the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players as a major league.)
Question: What year did Jodocus Hondius make his world map?
Sentence: By the time of John Seller's Atlas Maritima of 1670, "India Beyond the Ganges" had become "the East Indies" including China, Korea, southeast Asia and the islands of the Pacific in a map that was every bit as distorted as Ptolemy's, despite the lapse of approximately 1500 years.
Question: In what year did the network end American programming?
Sentence: Until 1998, the network carried a variety of American programs in addition to its core Canadian programming, directly competing with private Canadian broadcasters such as CTV and Global.
Question: Why were women eventually allowed to serve at sea in the CAF?
Sentence: The roles of women in the CAF began to expand in 1971, after the Department reviewed the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, at which time it lifted the ceiling of 1,500 women personnel, and gradually expanded employment opportunities into the non-traditional areas—vehicle drivers and mechanics, aircraft mechanics, air-traffic controllers, military police, and firefighters.
Question: What Xbox apps were bundled together?
Sentence: Bundled multimedia apps are provided under the Xbox brand, including Xbox Music, Xbox Video, and the Xbox SmartGlass companion for use with an Xbox 360 console.
Question: What state was the Dell plant that received $280 million in incentives in?
Sentence: The plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina received $280 million USD in incentives from the state and opened in 2005, but ceased operations in November 2010, and Dell's contract with the state requires them to repay the incentives for failing to meet the conditions.
Question: What year did the Island's flax mills close?
Sentence: During this period, the island enjoyed increased revenues through the sale of flax, with prices peaking in 1951.
Question: Who started producing comic strips and theories about them in 1827?
Sentence: The success of Zig et Puce in 1925 popularized the use of speech balloons in European comics, after which Franco-Belgian comics began to dominate.
Question: In a study performed with 17 subjects, what relationship did healthy changes and brain efficiency have?
Sentence: After 14 days, they showed greater word fluency (not memory) compared to their baseline performance.
Question: How are words ordered in Estonian canonically?
Sentence: The canonical word order is SVO (subject–verb–object).
Question: Since what date has asphalt been used for road paving in the US?
Sentence: Roads in the US have been paved with materials that include asphalt/bitumen since at least 1870, when a street in front of the Newark, NJ City Hall was paved.
Question: What collapsed during the tornado
Sentence: In 1674, only two years after the French left, the centre of Utrecht was struck by a tornado.
Question: What do critics usually call these lawyers?
Sentence: When this outsourced litigator appears to have no intention of taking any copyright infringement cases to trial, but rather only takes them just far enough through the legal system to identify and exact settlements from suspected infringers, critics commonly refer to the party as a "copyright troll.
Question: How did George W. Bush describe Kanye's controversial statement?
Sentence: Bush stated in an interview that the comment was "one of the most disgusting moments" of his presidency.
Question: What capabilities were cut to the entire Sichuan area?
Sentence: Immediately after the earthquake event, mobile and terrestrial telecommunications were cut to the affected and surrounding area, with all internet capabilities cut to the Sichuan area too.
Question: The Dominican Order in England was controlled by who?
Sentence: The English Province was a component of the international order from which it obtained its laws, direction, and instructions.
Question: What is the name of the standard related to the materials used in solar water heaters?
Sentence: For example, ISO 9050 relates to glass in building while ISO 10217 relates to the materials used in solar water heaters.
Question: What type of devotee was Pope Paul VI?
Sentence: Paul VI was a Marian devotee, speaking repeatedly to Marian congresses and mariological meetings, visiting Marian shrines and issuing three Marian encyclicals.
Question: What does he call the merging of economic, political and technological forces that drove the music industry?
Sentence: He argues that the industry at the time was undergoing artificial expansion, what he describes as a "'perfect bubble'—a confluence of economic, political, and technological forces that drove the aggregate value of music sales to unprecedented heights at the end of the twentieth century".
Question: What significantly increased the magnates wealth?
Sentence: Often, those gifts were only temporary leases, which the magnates never returned (in the 16th century, the anti-magnate opposition among szlachta was known as the ruch egzekucji praw—movement for execution of the laws—which demanded that all such possessions are returned to their proper owner, the king).
Question: What lab association did Bell and Tainter both eventually join?
Sentence: Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter jointly invented a wireless telephone, named a photophone, which allowed for the transmission of both sounds and normal human conversations on a beam of light.
Question: WHat does NSTEMI stand for?
Sentence: Nitroglycerin or opioids may be used to help with chest pain; however, they do not improve overall outcomes.
Question: Which contestant was surprisingly eliminated during the week of the top four?
Sentence: He was eliminated at the top four in a shocking result.
Question: In which year did Hungary attempt to leave the Warsaw Pact?
Sentence: Soviet forces crushed the nationwide revolt, leading to the death of an estimated 2,500 Hungarian citizens.
Question: When did Madonna and Beatty's relationship end?
Sentence: In response, Madonna said, "The tour in no way hurts anybody's sentiments.
Question: In October 2010, who was the Nobel laureate that explained how the U.S. Federal Reserve was creating currency to combat the liquidity trap?
Sentence: In October 2010, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz explained how the U.S. Federal Reserve was implementing another monetary policy —creating currency— as a method to combat the liquidity trap.
Question: Which region of Iraq do the Shi'a live in?
Sentence: Following the ceasefire agreement that suspended hostilities (but not officially ended) in the 1991 Gulf War, the United States and its allies instituted and began patrolling Iraqi no-fly zones, to protect Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'a Arab population—both of which suffered attacks from the Hussein regime before and after the Gulf War—in Iraq's northern and southern regions, respectively.
Question: What is the study of the chemicals that plants produce?
Sentence: Phytochemistry is a branch of plant biochemistry primarily concerned with the chemical substances produced by plants during secondary metabolism.
Question: Which government awards the Legion of Honour and the National Order of Merit?
Sentence: 21 decorations were from Yugoslavia itself, 18 having been awarded once, and the Order of the National Hero on three occasions.
Question: What percentage of people executed in the United States since 1976 have been African American?
Sentence: (They have made up 34 percent of those actually executed since 1976.)
Question: Who filled the judges spot vacated by Paula Abdul on season nine of American Idol?
Sentence: Ellen DeGeneres joined as a judge to replace Paula Abdul at the start of Hollywood Week.
Question: Which green food coloring is known to cause hyperactivity, asthma, urticaria, and insomnia?
Sentence: Green S (E142) is prohibited in many countries, for it is known to cause hyperactivity, asthma, urticaria, and insomnia.
Question: What man was Gladstone blamed for after his death at Khartoum?
Sentence: She thought his government was "the worst I have ever had", and blamed him for the death of General Gordon at Khartoum.
Question: What department stores merged to form Macy's?
Sentence: Boston is an intellectual, technological, and political center but has lost some important regional institutions, including the acquisition of The Boston Globe by The New York Times, and the loss to mergers and acquisitions of local financial institutions such as FleetBoston Financial, which was acquired by Charlotte-based Bank of America in 2004.
Question: What dynasty ruled Neustria?
Sentence: The Frankish kingdom in northern Gaul split into kingdoms called Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy during the 6th and 7th centuries, all of them ruled by the Merovingian dynasty, who were descended from Clovis.
Question: What is the population of the city?
Sentence: It is also one of the fastest-growing cities in the country.
Question: Who was the ruler of Ghazni?
Sentence: After the Battle of Peshawar, he committed suicide because his subjects thought he had brought disaster and disgrace to the Shahi dynasty.
Question: What person was the Director of the Science Museum at Notre Dame in the late 19th century?
Sentence: Father Joseph Carrier, C.S.C. was Director of the Science Museum and the Library and Professor of Chemistry and Physics until 1874.
Question: What year did the Haddon House open?
Sentence: By this time, they were under the same ownership and merged into the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel, becoming the city's largest hotel with nearly 1,000 rooms.
Question: What shifted depending on the locus investigated?
Sentence: Hammer et al. found that the degree of genetic similarity among Jews shifted depending on the locus investigated, and suggested that this was the result of natural selection acting on particular loci.
Question: What did the United States of Venezuela incorporate?
Sentence: In this Federation, each State had a "President" of its own that controlled almost every issue, even the creation of "State Armies," while the Federal Army was required to obtain presidential permission to enter any given state.
Question: How have many historians described Napoleon's foreign policy ambitions?
Sentence: Many historians have concluded that he had grandiose foreign policy ambitions.
Question: What were non-Muslims also known as in the Islamic Ottoman State?
Sentence: Also, as the largest group of non-Muslim subjects (or zimmi) of the Islamic Ottoman state, the Orthodox millet was granted a number of special privileges in the fields of politics and commerce, and had to pay higher taxes than Muslim subjects.
Question: What influence does Egypt have?
Sentence: Later elections saw the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was ousted by the army a year later amid mass protests.
Question: Reservations are generally permitted so long as they are not what?
Sentence: While some treaties still expressly forbid any reservations, they are now generally permitted to the extent that they are not inconsistent with the goals and purposes of the treaty.
Question: Who designed the house for the Duke of Buckingham?
Sentence: Sheffield's leasehold on the mulberry garden site, the freehold of which was still owned by the royal family, was due to expire in 1774.
Question: Which century was the first writing from?
Sentence: Davies identifies Paine's The Age of Reason as "the link between the two major narratives of what Jean-François Lyotard calls the narrative of legitimation": the rationalism of the 18th-century Philosophes and the radical, historically based German 19th-century Biblical criticism of the Hegelians David Friedrich Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach.
Question: Where does RAdio Gaalkacyo operate from?
Sentence: Additionally, the Somaliland region in the northwest has one government-operated radio station.
Question: In what year did Kanye West's mother pass away?
Sentence: West's life took a different direction when his mother, Donda West, died of complications from cosmetic surgery involving abdominoplasty and breast reduction in November 2007.
Question: The book's availablity increased through inclusion in what book service?
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: Chopin's polonaise often have what kind of rhythm in their melodies?
Sentence: As with the traditional polonaise, Chopin's works are in triple time and typically display a martial rhythm in their melodies, accompaniments and cadences.
Question: Lee's notes to whom help disclaim this rumor?
Sentence: Extensive notes between Lee and her editor at Lippincott also refute the rumor of Capote's authorship.
Question: What does midho mean in English?
Sentence: Somali songs are usually the product of collaboration between lyricists (midho), songwriters (lahan) and singers ('odka or "voice").
Question: What USB version is Windows 8 compatible with?
Sentence: Windows 8 added support for USB 3.0, Advanced Format hard drives, near field communications, and cloud computing.
Question: Who executed a massive offensive and succeeded in breaking through German lines?
Sentence: On 12 September 1944, King Peter II called on all Yugoslavs to come together under Tito's leadership and stated that those who did not were "traitors", by which time Tito was recognized by all Allied authorities (including the government-in-exile) as the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, in addition to commander-in-chief of the Yugoslav forces.
Question: Who manufactured Nigeria's second satellite?
Sentence: NigeriaSat-2, Nigeria's second satellite, was built as a high-resolution earth satellite by Surrey Space Technology Limited, a United Kingdom-based satellite technology company.
Question: What book specifically for the use of priests was printed in Estonian?
Sentence: An Estonian grammar book to be used by priests was printed in German in 1637.
Question: When did anthropologists stop looking for cultures far away and instead began to "look across the tracks"?
Sentence: For example, the classic of urban anthropology, Ulf Hannerz in the introduction to his seminal Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology mentions that the "Third World" had habitually received most of attention; anthropologists who traditionally specialized in "other cultures" looked for them far away and started to look "across the tracks" only in late 1960s.
Question: From what country did Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben come from?
Sentence: A number of European soldiers came on their own to help, such as Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who taught the army Prussian tactics and organizational skills.
Question: When did Bernard of Clairvaux die?
Sentence: These new orders were formed in response to the feeling of the laity that Benedictine monasticism no longer met the needs of the laymen, who along with those wishing to enter the religious life wanted a return to the simpler hermetical monasticism of early Christianity, or to live an Apostolic life.
Question: Why couldn't each moment of each person's life be given a different proper name?
Sentence: After all, each moment of each person's life can hardly be given a different proper name, and it is easy and convenient to think of people and objects as remaining fundamentally the same things, rather than constantly keeping in mind that each thing is a different thing from what it was a moment ago.
Question: Which parts of a plant do systemic pesticides generally attack?
Sentence: A systemic pesticide moves inside a plant following absorption by the plant.
Question: What are ogives?
Sentence: Ogives are alternating wave crests and valleys that appear as dark and light bands of ice on glacier surfaces.
Question: Which station is ran by Bay City Television?
Sentence: Due to the ratio of U.S. and Mexican-licensed stations, San Diego is the largest media market in the United States that is legally unable to support a television station duopoly between two full-power stations under FCC regulations, which disallow duopolies in metropolitan areas with fewer than nine full-power television stations and require that there must be eight unique station owners that remain once a duopoly is formed (there are only seven full-power stations on the California side of the San Diego-Tijuana market).[citation needed]
Question: When did Austria and Prussia go to war?
Sentence: In 1866, the feud between Austria and Prussia finally came to a head.
Question: How long was Lord Sailsbury Prime Minister?
Sentence: Salisbury remained prime minister for the remainder of Victoria's reign.
Question: Who dominated politics after 1435?
Sentence: The minister family Rinpungpa, based in Tsang (West Central Tibet), dominated politics after 1435.
Question: What does 'everted' mean?
Sentence: Many polychaetes have a muscular pharynx that can be everted (turned inside out to extend it).
Question: What year is considered to be the beginning of the Scientific Revolution?
Sentence: The Scientific Revolution is traditionally held by most historians to have begun in 1543, when the books De humani corporis fabrica (On the Workings of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius, and also De Revolutionibus, by the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, were first printed.
Question: How many rooms were in the merged Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel?
Sentence: By this time, they were under the same ownership and merged into the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel, becoming the city's largest hotel with nearly 1,000 rooms.
Question: What is the average snowfall in Oklahoma near the Colorado border?
Sentence: Snowfall ranges from an average of less than 4 inches (10 cm) in the south to just over 20 inches (51 cm) on the border of Colorado in the panhandle.
Question: How much money did the US loan to Britain after WW2?
Sentence: Britain was left essentially bankrupt, with insolvency only averted in 1946 after the negotiation of a $US 4.33 billion loan (US$56 billion in 2012) from the United States, the last instalment of which was repaid in 2006.
Question: When was the Pashupatinath Temple built?
Sentence: The Pashupatinath Temple is a famous 5th century Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva (Pashupati).
Question: How much had Spectre made in its first month in China?
Sentence: It grossed a total of $84.7 million there after four weekends.
Question: What denomination of Christianity is common in the western part of southern Europe?
Sentence: Due to the historical break of the Christian Church into the western half based in Rome and the eastern half based in Constantinople, different branches of Christianity are prodominent in different parts of Europe.
Question: What is the old royal sports hall now called?
Sentence: Nearby is the old royal sports hall, now called the Ballhof theatre.
Question: When was Kerry's appointment confirmed?
Sentence: The committee unanimously voted to approve him on January 29, 2013, and the same day the full Senate confirmed him on a vote of 94–3.
Question: Who is the chief vote counter for party?
Sentence: The Chief Deputy Whip is the primary assistant to the whip, who is the chief vote counter for his or her party.
Question: Which of Apple's programming languages allowed users to ceatively manipulate LaserDiscs?
Sentence: Apple's HyperCard scripting language provided Macintosh computer users with a means to design databases of slides, animation, video and sounds from LaserDiscs and then to create interfaces for users to play specific content from the disc through software called LaserStacks.
Question: What Spartan mercenary helped reform Carthage's military?
Sentence: After their defeat in the first Punic war, Carthage hired a Spartan mercenary captain, Xanthippus of Carthage to reform their military forces.
Question: In what ceremonial county is Southampton located?
Sentence: Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest.
Question: What happens when the site attachment is made?
Sentence: Once the site attachment is made they show high site-fidelity, visiting the same wintering sites year after year.
Question: How many enumeration areas are there in Namibia?
Sentence: For enumeration purposes the country is demarcated into 4,042 enumeration areas.
Question: What is La Encantada?
Sentence: La Encantada, an upscale outdoor shopping mall, is also in the Foothills.
Question: What caused Victoria's rheumatism?
Sentence: On 17 March 1883, she fell down some stairs at Windsor, which left her lame until July; she never fully recovered and was plagued with rheumatism thereafter.
Question: What Richmond street art gathering has brought mural artists to the city?
Sentence: Both festivals are expected to continue this year with artists such as Ron English slated to produce work.
Question: What year saw the death of Gundobad?
Sentence: When the line of western emperors ceased, many of the kings who replaced them were from the same background.
Question: What type financial instruments are off-balance sheet securitization and derivatives?
Sentence: These instruments also made it virtually impossible to reorganize financial institutions in bankruptcy, and contributed to the need for government bailouts.
Question: What kind of sound did students seem to prefer?
Sentence: Berger said the students seem to prefer the 'sizzle' sounds that MP3s bring to music.
Question: What made digimon different from similar digital pets?
Sentence: Digimon started out as digital pets called "Digital Monsters", similar in style and concept to the Tamagotchi.
Question: How do burrowing marine annelids help ocean ecosystems?
Sentence: The burrowing of marine polychaetes, which may constitute up to a third of all species in near-shore environments, encourages the development of ecosystems by enabling water and oxygen to penetrate the sea floor.
Question: What nations are sometimes included in the scope of southern Europe?
Sentence: Some definitions of southern Europe, also known as Mediterranean Europe, include the countries of the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal), the Italian peninsula, southern France and Greece.
Question: Are public displays allowed for the celebration of religion in Myanmar ?
Sentence: Festivals can be held on a grand scale.
Question: What is the name of the kingdom that became dominant along the coastline of Myanmar?
Sentence: In the west, a politically fragmented Arakan was under competing influences of its stronger neighbours until the Kingdom of Mrauk U unified the Arakan coastline for the first time in 1437.
Question: Which singer did Beyoncé portray in Cadillac Records?
Sentence: She played Sharon Charles, a mother and wife who learns of a woman's obsessive behavior over her husband.
Question: Which city in Sichuan is known for its metallurgical industries?
Sentence: Deyang, Panzhihua, and Yibin are the production centers for machinery, metallurgical industries, and wine, respectively.
Question: What groups are called Vlachs?
Sentence: Members of these groups ethnically identify as Greeks and are today all at least bilingual in Greek.
Question: What is the IrDA?
Sentence: IR does not penetrate walls and so does not interfere with other devices in adjoining rooms.