xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: Videophone calls are different from videoconferencing in what way?
Sentence: Videophone calls (also: videocalls, video chat as well as Skype and Skyping in verb form), differ from videoconferencing in that they expect to serve individuals, not groups.
Question: In how many square miles of ocean around the world are sharks protected?
Sentence: This is the world's largest shark sanctuary, extending the worldwide ocean area in which sharks are protected from 2,700,000 to 4,600,000 square kilometres (1,042,000 to 1,776,000 sq mi).
Question: What stunned neutral observers about the end of the war?
Sentence: The strategic advantages possessed by the Germans were not appreciated outside Germany until after hostilities had ceased.
Question: What country did Kerry discuss with Parolin?
Sentence: First of all, we talked at great length about Syria, and I was particularly appreciative for the Archbishop’s raising this issue, and equally grateful for the Holy Father’s comments – the Pope's comments yesterday regarding his support for the Geneva II process.
Question: The churches of which desert decorated their monasteries with mosaics?
Sentence: The most important work of art here is the intact geometric mosaic floor of the refectory although the severely damaged church floor was similarly rich.
Question: There are two hockey teams located in NYC. What are they?
Sentence: Also within the metropolitan area are the New Jersey Devils, who play in nearby Newark, New Jersey.
Question: What sorts of ships were based in Davenport?
Sentence: During the First World War, Plymouth was the port of entry for many troops from around the Empire and also developed as a facility for the manufacture of munitions.
Question: Do bantams lay regular sized eggs ?
Sentence: Bantams may be a quarter to a third of the size of standard birds and lay similarly small eggs.
Question: What religion was spread to China through Sanskrit translations?
Sentence: Buddhism was spread to China by Mahayana missionaries sent by Ashoka, mostly through translations of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit.
Question: In what year was the measles vaccine made?
Sentence: The first 20 years of licensed measles vaccination in the U.S. prevented an estimated 52 million cases of the disease, 17,400 cases of mental retardation, and 5,200 deaths.
Question: Is there an official language of the United States?
Sentence: Although the United States has no de jure official language, English is the dominant language of business, education, government, religion, media, culture, civil society, and the public sphere.
Question: Who was the first monarch to reside at Buckingham Palace?
Sentence: Buckingham Palace finally became the principal royal residence in 1837, on the accession of Queen Victoria, who was the first monarch to reside there; her predecessor William IV had died before its completion.
Question: What are two examples of groups that allow you to make copies of protected works?
Sentence: Copyright infringement disputes are usually resolved through direct negotiation, a notice and take down process, or litigation in civil court.
Question: Plitical strife, popularity decline, instability of era and fewer students caused Chopin to what?
Sentence: Chopin's public popularity as a virtuoso began to wane, as did the number of his pupils, and this, together with the political strife and instability of the time, caused him to struggle financially.
Question: Avoiding drugs and using condoms are other forms of what?
Sentence: Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another.
Question: Modern Baptist churches trace their history to what movement?
Sentence: Modern Baptist churches trace their history to the English Separatist movement in the century after the rise of the original Protestant denominations.
Question: At what time are drivers in New York most likely to experience traffic jams?
Sentence: Because these highways serve millions of outer borough and suburban residents who commute into Manhattan, it is quite common for motorists to be stranded for hours in traffic jams that are a daily occurrence, particularly during rush hour.
Question: Whom did Braque and Picasso aim their works at?
Sentence: Aimed at a large public, these works stressed the use of multiple perspective and complex planar faceting for expressive effect while preserving the eloquence of subjects endowed with literary and philosophical connotations.
Question: Where does London rank in terms of the world's largest cities?
Sentence: In terms of population, London is the 19th largest city and the 18th largest metropolitan region in the world.
Question: What is different about the use of Greek language today as opposed to the language of the past ?
Sentence: Yevanic is the language of the Romaniotes, and survives in small communities in Greece, New York and Israel.
Question: When did Torii Mototada die?
Sentence: Torii Mototada (1539–1600) was a feudal lord in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Question: The Slavs were asked to accept the suzerainty of whom?
Sentence: The Avars asked the Slavs to accept the suzerainty of the Avars, he however declined and is reported as saying: "Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs –
Question: When did John die?
Sentence: John's illness grew worse and by the time he reached Newark Castle he was unable to travel any farther; John died on the night of 18 October.
Question: What style is Gothic?
Sentence: The major architectural undertakings were the buildings of abbeys and cathedrals.
Question: How many millions of tonnes are uranium are regarded as mineral resources?
Sentence: It is estimated that 5.5 million tonnes of uranium exists in ore reserves that are economically viable at US$59 per lb of uranium, while 35 million tonnes are classed as mineral resources (reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction).
Question: What is the term for the center hole in a CD?
Sentence: Once opened, the disc substrate is removed from the mold by a robotic arm, and a 15 mm diameter center hole (called a stacking ring) is created.
Question: The custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names meant that Spain was referred to as what?
Sentence: Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France and Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to both the Jews of medieval Germany and France.
Question: In 1849 where did Chopin live?
Sentence: During the summer of 1849, his friends found him an apartment in Chaillot, out of the centre of the city, for which the rent was secretly subsidised by an admirer, Princess Obreskoff.
Question: What birth date is now considered correct for Chopin?
Sentence: However, the composer and his family used the birthdate 1 March,[n 2] which is now generally accepted as the correct date.
Question: New Haven has a large immigrant population, what seems to be one of the main cause of it throughout the last century?
Sentence: The city's demography is shifting rapidly: New Haven has always been a city of immigrants and currently the Latino population is growing rapidly.
Question: President Bonaparte was declared what in France?
Sentence: The following year, President Bonaparte was declared Emperor Napoleon III, by which time Russell's administration had been replaced by a short-lived minority government led by Lord Derby.
Question: What companies finished much of the sequencing of the D genome?
Sentence: Once the D genome is assembled from all of this raw material, it will undoubtedly assist in the assembly of the AD genomes of cultivated varieties of cotton, but a lot of hard work remains.
Question: What what was the name of the subsidiary working in Germany during World War 2?
Sentence: In 1937, IBM's tabulating equipment enabled organizations to process unprecedented amounts of data, its clients including the U.S. Government, during its first effort to maintain the employment records for 26 million people pursuant to the Social Security Act, and the Third Reich, largely through the German subsidiary Dehomag.
Question: What is one consequence of modifying radicals?
Sentence: In modern usage, there is a graphic distinction between tā (她 "she") with the "woman radical", tā (牠 "it") with the "animal radical", tā (它 "it") with the "roof radical", and tā (祂 "He") with the "deity radical", One consequence of modifying radicals is the fossilization of rare and obscure variant logographs, some of which are not even used in Classical Chinese.
Question: What term is interchangeable with "active" when talking about tuberculosis infection?
Sentence: The cascade of person-to-person spread can be circumvented by segregating those with active ("overt") TB and putting them on anti-TB drug regimens.
Question: What transforms nuclear potential energy to other forms of energy?
Sentence: Our Sun transforms nuclear potential energy to other forms of energy; its total mass does not decrease due to that in itself (since it still contains the same total energy even if in different forms), but its mass does decrease when the energy escapes out to its surroundings, largely as radiant energy.
Question: For freshman enrolling in the class of 2019, what was the interquartile range on the SAT for math?
Sentence: There were 35,099 applications for the undergraduate class of 2020 (entering 2016), and 3,751 (10.7%) were admitted, making Northwestern one of the most selective schools in the United States.
Question: How many small states covered the Ganges Plain of India?
Sentence: sixteen monarchies and "republics" known as the Mahajanapadas
Question: What are some of the local jargon used in Greek speaking?
Sentence: Modern Greek has, in addition to Standard Modern Greek or Dimotiki, a wide variety of dialects of varying levels of mutual intelligibility, including Cypriot, Pontic, Cappadocian, Griko and Tsakonian (the only surviving representative of ancient Doric Greek).
Question: Who commented on New York that "culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather"?
Sentence: A book containing a series of essays titled New York, culture capital of the world, 1940–1965 has also been published as showcased by the National Library of Australia.
Question: What new agency did Bush create after 9/11?
Sentence: In addition to military efforts abroad, in the aftermath of 9/11 the Bush Administration increased domestic efforts to prevent future attacks.
Question: Who is usually responsible for early stages of drug discovery?
Sentence: Drug discovery is the process by which potential drugs are discovered or designed.
Question: What events of significance to human development occurred during the Bronze Age ?
Sentence: The Bronze Age arrived circa 1500 BC when people in the region were turning copper into bronze, growing rice and domesticating poultry and pigs; they were among the first people in the world to do so.
Question: Who ruled the southern parts of Estonia?
Sentence: The southern parts of the country were conquered by Livonian Brothers of the Sword who joined the Teutonic Order in 1237 and became its branch known as the Livonian Order.
Question: What was the literacy rate of Rajasthan in 1991?
Sentence: In 1991, the state's literacy rate was only 38.55% (54.99% male and 20.44% female).
Question: Where has a celebration recently gained acclaim?
Sentence: In Azogues and the Southern Andes in general, Taita Carnival is always an indigenous Cañari.
Question: k
Sentence: Nanjing ( listen; Chinese: 南京, "Southern Capital") is the city situated in the heartland of lower Yangtze River region in China, which has long been a major centre of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism.
Question: What does the Unicode Roadmap Commmittee do?
Sentence: For some scripts on the Roadmap, such as Jurchen, Nü Shu, and Tangut, encoding proposals have been made and they are working their way through the approval process.
Question: For which company did C. Robert Fine work for?
Sentence: Under the direction of recording engineer C. Robert Fine, Mercury Records initiated a minimalist single microphone monaural recording technique in 1951.
Question: What would you describe the shape of the football?
Sentence: Each team is led by a captain who has only one official responsibility as mandated by the Laws of the Game: to be involved in the coin toss prior to kick-off or penalty kicks.
Question: Compared to hickory and ash, what adjective might be used for a maple baseball bat?
Sentence: The baseball bats which are legal for use in Major League Baseball are frequently made of ash wood or hickory, and in recent years have been constructed from maple even though that wood is somewhat more fragile.
Question: Who carries floral arrangements of penis-like veggies?
Sentence: For the King's funeral, people dress in elaborate mourning costume, many of them cross-dressing men who carry bouquets of phallic vegetables.
Question: What company produced nylon and acrylic in the 1930s and 1940s?
Sentence: Nylon, the first fiber synthesized entirely from petrochemicals, was introduced as a sewing thread by DuPont in 1936, followed by DuPont's acrylic in 1944.
Question: How many restaurants is New York home to?
Sentence: The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene assigns letter grades to the city's 24,000 restaurants based upon their inspection results.
Question: Which commissioner reads the formal closing statement to the assention ceremony?
Sentence: When granting assent by commission, the sovereign authorises three or more (normally five) lords who are Privy Counsellors to grant assent in his or her name.
Question: Where did Kerry's paternal grandparents immigrate from?
Sentence: His maternal ancestors were of Scottish and English descent, and his maternal grandfather James Grant Forbes II was a member of the Forbes family, while his maternal grandmother Margaret Tyndal Winthrop was a member of the Dudley–Winthrop family.
Question: How many times did Barcelona win the Copa del Rey?
Sentence: A historic 2–6 victory against Real Madrid followed three days later and ensured that Barcelona became La Liga champions for the 2008–09 season.
Question: Who was taken prisoner at the Battle of Manzikert?
Sentence: In 1071, the Turkish army defeated the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert and captured the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV (r. 1068–71).
Question: What caused a temporary exodus from Nueva Vizcaya?
Sentence: a epidemic caused a temporary exodus of the small population in the territory of Nueva Vizcaya.
Question: Along with "The Action Track," what is a nickname of Southside Speedway?
Sentence: Auto racing is also popular in the area.
Question: What is the name of the 1991 book by Paul Davies and John Gribbins?
Sentence: In 1991, Gribbin and Davies released their book The Matter Myth, the first chapter of which, "The Death of Materialism", contained the following passage:
Question: What didn't Dobrovský think Czech had a chance of returning as?
Sentence: Changes during this time included spelling reform (notably, í in place of the former j and j in place of g), the use of t (rather than ti) to end infinitive verbs and the non-capitalization of nouns (which had been a late borrowing from German).
Question: When were the Roman cardinals perceived as a privleged class among the Roman clergy?
Sentence: By the 8th century the Roman cardinals constituted a privileged class among the Roman clergy.
Question: Who were the beats Kanye made in the 90's originally intended for?
Sentence: His first official production credits came at the age of nineteen when he produced eight tracks on Down to Earth, the 1996 debut album of a Chicago rapper named Grav.
Question: Which explorer did Cabot make a mistake similar to?
Sentence: Cabot sailed in 1497, five years after the European discovery of America, and although he successfully made landfall on the coast of Newfoundland (mistakenly believing, like Christopher Columbus, that he had reached Asia), there was no attempt to found a colony.
Question: What has a different significance in various languages?
Sentence: It is either allophonic or phonemic, and may be analyzed as an underlying consonant cluster.
Question: What mountain range is north of Tucson?
Sentence: The highest point in the area is Mount Wrightson, found in the Santa Rita Mountains at 9,453 ft (2,881 m) above sea level.
Question: When was the Cochinchina Campaign?
Sentence: After that the Chinese declared war on the French.
Question: What was the percentage of Greeks in the Cyprus population?
Sentence: The UK retained the two Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, while government posts and public offices were allocated by ethnic quotas, giving the minority Turkish Cypriots a permanent veto, 30% in parliament and administration, and granting the three mother-states guarantor rights.
Question: When does the passion of Jesus fall?
Sentence: Sextus Julius Africanus further refers to the writings of historian Thallus: "This darkness Thallus, in the third book of his History, calls, as appears to me without reason, an eclipse of the sun.
Question: Who first developed consumer HD television with a 5:3 aspect ratio?
Sentence: The system, known as Hi-Vision or MUSE after its Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding for encoding the signal, required about twice the bandwidth of the existing NTSC system but provided about four times the resolution (1080i/1125 lines).
Question: In the chronology of academic institutions, where are Christian cathedral schools compared to universities?
Sentence: European higher education took place for hundreds of years in Christian cathedral schools or monastic schools (scholae monasticae), in which monks and nuns taught classes; evidence of these immediate forerunners of the later university at many places dates back to the 6th century.
Question: Christians are the majority in how many countries and territories in the world today?
Sentence: About half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, while more than a third are Protestant (37%).
Question: Who wrote an essay in 1945 that proposed a "new approach?"
Sentence: Interpretations of Magna Carta and the role of the rebel barons in 1215 have been significantly revised: although the charter's symbolic, constitutional value for later generations is unquestionable, in the context of John's reign most historians now consider it a failed peace agreement between "partisan" factions.
Question: The first Permanent Colony in Florida is Now known as
Sentence: This would be the first permanent English-speaking population in what is now Duval County, Baker County, St. Johns County and Nassau County.
Question: Why are there so few surviving mosaics from the Komnenian period?
Sentence: The lack of Komnenian mosaics outside the capital is even more apparent.
Question: What is Galicia's surface area in sq/km?
Sentence: Galicia has a surface area of 29,574 square kilometres (11,419 sq mi).
Question: To what does Matorell's work show a transition?
Sentence: Martorell's outstanding novel of chivalry Tirant lo Blanc (1490) shows a transition from Medieval to Renaissance values, something that can also be seen in Metge's work.
Question: Bismarck desired an early piece but lacked what in the negotiation process?
Sentence: Bismarck wanted an early peace but had difficulty in finding a legitimate French authority with which to negotiate.
Question: Christians make up what percentage of the population of Norfolk Island?
Sentence: Some unhappiness with G. H. Nobbs, the more organised and formal ritual of the Church of England service arising from the influence of the Melanesian Mission, decline in spirituality, the influence of visiting American whalers, literature sent by Christians overseas impressed by the Pitcairn story, and the adoption of Seventh-day Adventism by the descendants of the mutineers still on Pitcairn, all contributed to these developments.
Question: What specific fact do Christians believe about death?
Sentence: Christians believe that Jesus’ death was instrumental in restoring humankind to relationship with God.
Question: In what part of the world is daytime shorter in winter and longer in summer?
Sentence: North and south of the tropics daylight lasts longer in summer and shorter in winter, the effect becoming greater as one moves away from the tropics.
Question: Although "Superstorm Sandy" left minimal damage to any of the tourist areas it did cause what two other things to occur?
Sentence: The source of the misinformation was a widely circulated photograph of a damaged section of the Boardwalk that was slated for repairs, prior to the storm, and incorrect news reports at the time of the disaster.
Question: This season, the winner won a recording contract with what company?
Sentence: Changes this season include only airing one episode a week during the final ten.
Question: Write operations to typical Hi-Speed hard drives can what?
Sentence: They are defined in the referenced document as part of the electrical test description for the high-speed (HS) mode at 480 Mbit/s.
Question: By how much were Franc Zone currencies devalued in January of 1994?
Sentence: January 12, 1994 devaluation of Franc Zone currencies by 50% resulted in inflation of 46% in 1994, but inflation has subsided since.
Question: Where were the Mongols trying to raise?
Sentence: Norbu states that the Ming dynasty, preoccupied with the Mongol threat to the north, could not spare additional armed forces to enforce or back up their claim of sovereignty over Tibet; instead, they relied on "Confucian instruments of tribute relations" of heaping unlimited number of titles and gifts on Tibetan lamas through acts of diplomacy.
Question: In what regions concepts was the Ottoman economic system based on?
Sentence: The Ottoman economic mind was closely related to the basic concepts of state and society in the Middle East in which the ultimate goal of a state was consolidation and extension of the ruler's power, and the way to reach it
Question: The final product of reconstruction is known as what?
Sentence: "If we succeed in establishing the text of [the archetype], the constitutio (reconstruction of the original) is considerably advanced.
Question: Besides avoiding government controls, what other reason could they have?
Sentence: In the Brazilian rainforest, those groups that recently did, or even continue to, rely on hunting and gathering techniques seem to have adopted this lifestyle, abandoning most agriculture, as a way to escape colonial control and as a result of the introduction of European diseases reducing their populations to levels where agriculture became difficult.[citation needed][dubious – discuss]
Question: What was the private issuance of CDOs in 2009?
Sentence: Economist Mark Zandi testified to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in January 2010: "The securitization markets also remain impaired, as investors anticipate more loan losses.
Question: Along with animals, what is depicted on the rock paintings of Laas Geel?
Sentence: In other places, such as the northern Dhambalin region, a depiction of a man on a horse is postulated as being one of the earliest known examples of a mounted huntsman.
Question: How did styles disseminate before Georgian architecture?
Sentence: But most buildings were still designed by builders and landlords together, and the wide spread of Georgian architecture, and the Georgian styles of design more generally, came from dissemination through pattern books and inexpensive suites of engravings.
Question: Who did Atari attempt to force ceasing production of games for its system?
Sentence: Nintendo's near monopoly on the home video game market left it with a degree of influence over the industry.
Question: When did Canada get its first police?
Sentence: Initially the Dominion Police provided security for parliament, but its responsibilities quickly grew.
Question: What at the main Hokkioen urban centers?
Sentence: The term Hokkien (福建; hɔk˥˥kɪɛn˨˩) is itself a term not used in Chinese to refer to the dialect, as it simply means Fujian province.
Question: Who did Kangxi fight?
Sentence: Galdan was eventually killed in the Dzungar–Qing War.