xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: Who did the Neo-Confucian establishment have animosity towards?
Sentence: Evelyn S. Rawski, a professor in the Department of History of the University of Pittsburgh, writes that the Ming's unique relationship with Tibetan prelates essentially ended with Jiajing's reign while Ming influence in the Amdo region was supplanted by the Mongols.
Question: When did more madaris begin to form more rapidly?
Sentence: In central and eastern Islamic lands, the view that the madrasa, as a charitable endowment, will remain under the control of the donor (and their descendent), resulted in a "spurt" of establishment of madaris in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Question: How did hunters obliterate the advantage bestowed upon the oryx by evolution?
Sentence: The use of automobiles and high-powered rifles destroyed their only advantage: speed, and they became extinct in the wild exclusively due to sport hunting in 1972.
Question: What locations does the Rainbow Times serve?
Sentence: Various LGBT publications serve the city's large LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community such as The Rainbow Times, the only minority and lesbian-owned LGBT newsmagazine.
Question: How was Victoria dressed for burial?
Sentence: In 1897, Victoria had written instructions for her funeral, which was to be military as befitting a soldier's daughter and the head of the army, and white instead of black.
Question: In 2010, what percentage of Anglicans were said to be in Africa?
Sentence: By 2010, 59% of Anglicans were found in Africa.
Question: Were Roman soldiers expected to purchase their own equipment?
Sentence: During this period, Roman soldiers seem to have been modelled after those of the Etruscans to the north, who themselves seem to have copied their style of warfare from the Greeks.
Question: How did Tom Robinson die in the novel?
Sentence: Although Tom is spared from being lynched, he is killed with excessive violence during an attempted escape from prison, shot seventeen times.
Question: According to Daniel Elazar at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, at the end of the 11th century, what percentage of the world's Jewry was Ashkenazi?
Sentence: In an essay on Sephardi Jewry, Daniel Elazar at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs summarized the demographic history of Ashkenazi Jews in the last thousand years, noting that at the end of the 11th century, 97% of world Jewry was Sephardic and 3% Ashkenazi; by the end of XVI century, the: 'Treaty on the redemption of captives', by Gracian of the God's Mother, Mercy Priest, who was imprisoned by Turks, cites a Tunisian Hebrew, made captive when arriving to Gaeta, who aided others with money, named: 'Simon Escanasi', in the mid-17th century, "Sephardim still outnumbered Ashkenazim three to two", but by the end of the 18th century, "Ashkenazim outnumbered Sephardim three to two, the result of improved living conditions in Christian Europe versus the Ottoman Muslim world."
Question: What language family did Thracian and Balto-Slavic belong to?
Sentence: It was situated precisely in the western part of Central Asia that borders present-day Russia (and present-day Kazakhstan).
Question: What medium has seen the biggest fall in sales as of late?
Sentence: Sales of other mediums including individual digital tracks, digital albums and compact discs have fallen, the latter having the greatest drop-in-sales rate.
Question: What substance does fluorescent lamps contain?
Sentence: While LEDs have the advantage over fluorescent lamps that they do not contain mercury, they may contain other hazardous metals such as lead and arsenic.
Question: What is Michigan's first urban park?
Sentence: The riverfront includes Tri-Centennial State Park and Harbor, Michigan's first urban state park.
Question: Who group of Christians rose up against Muawiyah?
Sentence: After their failure, and faced with a large-scale Christian uprising in the form of the Mardaites, Muawiyah concluded a peace with Byzantium.
Question: In which season did iTunes begin a partnership with American Idol?
Sentence: iTunes sponsored the show since season seven.
Question: Comcast also told the Browns they would do what to correct the situation with the name change?
Sentence: Comcast refused to correct the name on their bill after bringing it to the attention of numerous customer service outlets for the company by explaining that Ricardo is the legal name of the customer, so the Browns turned to consumer advocate Christopher Elliott.
Question: What was one of the main factors that caused the dissolve of the Holy Roman Empire?
Sentence: The Napoleonic Wars were the cause of the final dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, and ultimately the cause for the quest for a German nation state in 19th-century German nationalism.
Question: Which group of Quran copyists produced the most in-demand manuscripts?
Sentence: In terms of productivity, the Ottoman copyists provide the best example.
Question: How many people lived at Castel Gofolfo during the war?
Sentence: Some 15,000 persons lived in Castel Gandolfo alone, supported by the Pontificia Commissione di Assistenza.
Question: Which newspaper overtook The Sun as largest Saturday UK newspaper?
Sentence: Regional editions of the newspaper for Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are published in Glasgow (The Scottish Sun), Belfast (The Sun) and Dublin (The Irish Sun) respectively.
Question: What happeded between 1927-1934?
Sentence: Between 1927 and 1934, collectivization of agriculture and a rapid expansion of cotton production took place, especially in the southern region.
Question: Which US presidents since the Vietnam War have studied at Yale?
Sentence: The Boston Globe wrote that "if there's one school that can lay claim to educating the nation's top national leaders over the past three decades, it's Yale."
Question: Where do most presbyterian churches trace their history back to?
Sentence: Many Presbyterian denominations have found ways of working together with other Reformed denominations and Christians of other traditions, especially in the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
Question: What is an example of a simple definition of time?
Sentence: Some simple definitions of time include "time is what clocks measure", which is a problematically vague and self-referential definition that utilizes the device used to measure the subject as the definition of the subject, and "time is what keeps everything from happening at once", which is without substantive meaning in the absence of the definition of simultaneity in the context of the limitations of human sensation, observation of events, and the perception of such events.
Question: What was the name of the charity event on season six of American Idol?
Sentence: No contestant was eliminated that week, but two (Phil Stacey and Chris Richardson) were eliminated the next.
Question: Other than being cheaper, what is another main draw of processed foods?
Sentence: Because processed foods are often cheaper, more convenient (in both purchasing, storage, and preparation), and more available, the consumption of nutritionally inferior foods has been increasing throughout the world along with many nutrition-related health complications.
Question: What is the name of the largest Hindu temple in Europe?
Sentence: There are Sikh communities in East and West London, particularly in Southall, home to one of the largest Sikh populations and the largest Sikh temple outside India.
Question: Who did Sprague work for early in his career?
Sentence: Sprague's motor and related inventions led to an explosion of interest and use in electric motors for industry, while almost simultaneously another great inventor was developing its primary competitor, which would become much more widespread.
Question: Who did Athanasius succeed?
Sentence: Athanasius's episcopate began on 9 May 328 as the Alexandrian Council elected Athanasius to succeed the aged Alexander.
Question: who co-wrote the hit song "on and on" in 1984?
Sentence: The hypnotic electronic dance song "On and On", produced in 1984 by Chicago DJ Jesse Saunders and co-written by Vince Lawrence, had elements that became staples of the early house sound, such as the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer and minimal vocals as well as a Roland (specifically TR-808) drum machine and Korg (specifically Poly-61) synthesizer.
Question: Who was Cabinet Minister in 1998?
Sentence: Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson was "outed" by Matthew Parris (a former Sun columnist) on BBC TV's Newsnight in November 1998.
Question: Were the elections held in an unbiased manner Burma in 2010 ?
Sentence: One criticism of the election was that only government sanctioned political parties were allowed to contest in it and the popular National League for Democracy was declared illegal.
Question: For which song, did Destiny's Child take home the grammy award for best R&B performance?
Sentence: Say My Name" won the Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and the Best R&B Song at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards.
Question: What was Syria like under Sarraj?
Sentence: By moving the latter two, who were Ba'athists, to Cairo, he neutralized important political figures who had their own ideas about how Syria should be run.
Question: In what year did Greece's women's water polo team win the World Championship?
Sentence: The Greece men's national water polo team became the third best water polo team in the world in 2005, after their win against Croatia in the bronze medal game at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Canada.
Question: About what temperature is asphalt shipped?
Sentence: Asphalt/bitumen is typically stored and transported at temperatures around 150 °C (302 °F).
Question: What did the incompleteness theorem of 1931 indicate regarding Principia Mathematica?
Sentence: It is generally accepted that Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931 definitively demonstrated that for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be deduced from them, and hence that Principia Mathematica could never achieve its aims.
Question: What author was declared a heretic and had a bounty placed on his head by the government of Iran?
Sentence: One example is the 1989 fatwa issued by the government of Iran, offering a substantial bounty for anyone who succeeds in the assassination of author Salman Rushdie, whose writings were declared as heretical.
Question: What treaty ended the Thirty Years' War?
Sentence: After the Eighty Years' War in the Low Countries and the French Wars of Religion, the confessional division of the states of the Holy Roman Empire eventually erupted in the Thirty Years' War between 1618 and 1648.
Question: Who initially protested the adoption?
Sentence: Mercy's father was still adamant saying that he could not support the adoption since he was alive.
Question: Horace de Saussure built the first box cooker in what year?
Sentence: The simplest solar cooker is the box cooker first built by Horace de Saussure in 1767.
Question: At what date did the name Seattle first appear on official papers?
Sentence: The corporate seal of the City of Seattle carries the date "1869" and a likeness of Chief Sealth in left profile.
Question: What rank did Montevideo hold in Latin America during 2013?
Sentence: Described as a "vibrant, eclectic place with a rich cultural life", and "a thriving tech center and entrepreneurial culture", Montevideo ranks 8th in Latin America on the 2013 MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index.
Question: Where was Apollo's first temple at Rome established?
Sentence: On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the "Apollinare".
Question: What famous theatre is located in Georgs Palace?
Sentence: im Großen Garten (Little Festival in the Great Garden) which is the most successful Cabaret Festival in Germany.
Question: The suprachiasmatic nucleus is a small part of what part of the brain?
Sentence: A key component of the arousal system is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a tiny part of the hypothalamus located directly above the point at which the optic nerves from the two eyes cross.
Question: When was Brasilia founded?
Sentence: Brasília and its metro (encompassing the whole of the Federal District) had a population of 2,556,149 in 2011, making it the 4th most populous city in Brazil.
Question: What is one of the foundational methods of social anthropology?
Sentence: Inquiry in sociocultural anthropology is guided in part by cultural relativism, the attempt to understand other societies in terms of their own cultural symbols and values.
Question: Who bought Tesla's patents?
Sentence: However, he claimed that Tesla's motor was not practical because of two-phase pulsations, which prompted him to persist in his three-phase work.
Question: What form is excepted by most speakers?
Sentence: Standard Catalan, virtually accepted by all speakers, is mostly based on Eastern Catalan, which is the most widely used dialect.
Question: What was Eisenhower's title in the Operations Division?
Sentence: Next, he was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff in charge of the new Operations Division (which replaced WPD) under Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, who spotted talent and promoted accordingly.
Question: What allows a computer to perform repetitive tasks without human intervening?
Sentence: This is called the flow of control within the program and it is what allows the computer to perform tasks repeatedly without human intervention.
Question: What destinations did sport hunting see elaborate travel to in the pursuit of trophies?
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.
Question: Which UN Resolution called for Eritrea and Ethiopia to be linked via a loose federal structure under sovereignty of the Emperor?
Sentence: The resolution called for Eritrea and Ethiopia to be linked through a loose federal structure under the sovereignty of the Emperor.
Question: What was the name of Kanye West's high school?
Sentence: West was raised in a middle-class background, attending Polaris High School in suburban Oak Lawn, Illinois after living in Chicago.
Question: Halo 3 was released in what year?
Sentence: Five other games sold over a million copies in the console's first year on the market:
Question: What geographical barriers to land birds try to avoid?
Sentence: For most land-birds, such barriers could consist in seas, large water bodies or high mountain ranges, because of the lack of stopover or feeding sites, or the lack of thermal columns for broad-winged birds.
Question: Who is credited for first introducing elements of Jazz into a cappella?
Sentence: The King's Singers are credited with promoting interest in small-group a cappella performances in the 1960s.
Question: When dd the Russo-Japanese war take place?
Sentence: The Manchurian Campaign of the Russian Empire was fought against the Japanese over Manchuria and Korea.
Question: What percentage of Americans fell below the basics of health literacy?
Sentence: On a scale of below basic, basic, intermediate and proficient, NAAL found 13 percent of adult Americans have proficient health literacy, 44% have intermediate literacy, 29 percent have basic literacy and 14 percent have below basic health literacy.
Question: What is a Polistes versicolor?
Sentence: The yellow paper wasp (Polistes versicolor) is known for its wagging movements as a form of communication within the colony; it can waggle with a frequency of 10.6±2.1 Hz (n=190).
Question: When did the Chinese invade northern Burma?
Sentence: In the middle of 1944 the Chinese Expeditionary Force invaded northern Burma from Yunnan province.
Question: When do contestants start singing two songs?
Sentence: Initially the contestants sing one song each week, but this is increased to two songs from top four or five onwards, then three songs for the top two or three.
Question: What is Beyonce's full name?
Sentence: Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (/biːˈjɒnseɪ/ bee-YON-say) (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress.
Question: What declined from the 5th to the 13th centuries
Sentence: From the fifth century to the thirteenth, Śrauta sacrifices declined, and initiatory traditions of Buddhism, Jainism or more commonly Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism expanded in royal courts.
Question: What percentage of Norfolk Island voters were against the changes brought by Australia?
Sentence: An agreement was finally signed in Canberra on 12 March 2015 to replace self-government with a local council but against the wishes of the Norfolk Island government.
Question: Flowers that allow only one type of pollinator is called what?
Sentence: Because insects usually receive benefit for the pollination in the form of energy rich nectar it is a grand example of mutualism.
Question: How many people were in the Dominions' armies?
Sentence: The contributions of Australian and New Zealand troops during the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign against the Ottoman Empire had a great impact on the national consciousness at home, and marked a watershed in the transition of Australia and New Zealand from colonies to nations in their own right.
Question: When did Imperial College make its first public announcement of Stefan Grimm's death?
Sentence: The College has announced an internal inquiry into Stefan Grimm's death.
Question: What did Lamb and Murdoch believe to be the best indicator of newspaper quality?
Sentence: Murdoch found he had such a rapport with Larry Lamb over lunch that other potential recruits as editor were not interviewed and Lamb was appointed as the first editor of the new Sun.
Question: Where can one find the most sage scrub in San Diego?
Sentence: Like most of southern California, the majority of San Diego's current area was originally occupied by chaparral, a plant community made up mostly of drought-resistant shrubs.
Question: Britain believe German bombers would be unable to reach and identify what?
Sentence: There was also a mentality in all air forces that, if they could carry out effective operations by day, night missions and their disadvantages could be avoided.
Question: What two entities was the foundation split into in october 2016
Sentence: In October 2006, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was split into two entities: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, which manages the endowment assets and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which "... conducts all operations and grantmaking work, and it is the entity from which all grants are made".
Question: Where can the public view the Royal Collection?
Sentence: Many of the contents from Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace, and St James's Palace are part of the Royal Collection, held in trust by the Sovereign; they can, on occasion, be viewed by the public at the Queen's Gallery, near the Royal Mews.
Question: In the old PCB design method, what was used to connect component pin pads?
Sentence: Initially PCBs were designed manually by creating a photomask on a clear mylar sheet, usually at two or four times the true size.
Question: Chromosomes that are packed within the nucleus in complex with histones are called what?
Sentence: The chromosomes are packed within the nucleus in complex with storage proteins called histones to form a unit called a nucleosome.
Question: What physical activity plays a major part in Estonian society?
Sentence: Estonia has had very good success at the Olympic games given the country's small population.
Question: Why was the Unicode 2.0 codespace increased?
Sentence: This increased the Unicode codespace to over a million code points, which allowed for the encoding of many historic scripts (e.g., Egyptian Hieroglyphs) and thousands of rarely used or obsolete characters that had not been anticipated as needing encoding.
Question: How large was the hard drive on the original iPod?
Sentence: Jobs announced it as a Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put "1,000 songs in your pocket."
Question: What is the basic difference between the dialects?
Sentence: They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation.
Question: Who did Jugurtha have to bribe in order for them to accept him as the new leader of Numidia?
Sentence: Following Jugurtha's usurpation of the throne of Numidia, a loyal ally of Rome since the Punic Wars, Rome felt compelled to intervene.
Question: If you live in Australia and want affordable PlayStation 3 games, what range would you shop for?
Sentence: Cry 4, Army of Two, Battlefield: Bad Company and Midnight Club: Los Angeles have also joined the list.
Question: What was standard for transferring data to and from the earlier type of smartphones?
Sentence: The mini-B USB connector was standard for transferring data to and from the early smartphones and PDAs.
Question: If one wished to take an antenna to different locations, which type would be best?
Sentence: For non directional portable use, a short vertical antenna or small loop antenna works well, with the main design challenge being that of impedance matching.
Question: What kind of glass are containers made from?
Sentence: Of the many silica-based glasses that exist, ordinary glazing and container glass is formed from a specific type called soda-lime glass, composed of approximately 75% silicon dioxide (SiO2), sodium oxide (Na2O) from sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), calcium oxide, also called lime (CaO), and several minor additives.
Question: What are risks called that generate severe adverse consequences with small probability but generous compensation the rest of the time?
Sentence: Rajan argued that financial sector managers were encouraged to "take risks that generate severe adverse consequences with small probability but, in return, offer generous compensation the rest of the time.
Question: What did Wilhelm Wien discover?
Sentence: It still was not clear why the spectrum of a hot object had the form that it has (see diagram).
Question: What is the most prevalent natural isotope of uranium?
Sentence: The concentration and amount of uranium-235 needed to achieve this is called a 'critical mass'.
Question: What political party Dominated NC after the confederacy?
Sentence: In the first half of the 20th century, many African Americans left the state to go North for better opportunities, in the Great Migration.
Question: How many components does the Belgian political landscape include?
Sentence: On one hand, this means that the Belgian political landscape, generally speaking, consists of only two components: the Dutch-speaking population represented by Dutch-language political parties, and the majority populations of Wallonia and Brussels, represented by their French-speaking parties.
Question: What was Raytheon previously called?
Sentence: Raytheon Missile Systems (formerly Hughes Aircraft Co.), Texas Instruments, IBM, Intuit Inc., Universal Avionics, Honeywell Aerospace, Sunquest Information Systems, Sanofi-Aventis, Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., and Bombardier Aerospace all have a significant presence in Tucson.
Question: Who received the most profit from the sale of CDs?
Sentence: The most expensive part of a CD is the jewel case.
Question: Who adopted this practice from Multics?
Sentence: Unix and Unix-like systems, and Amiga systems, adopted this convention from Multics.
Question: What effect did Mac's decision to brand the Mac OS8 have on companies such as Motorola?
Sentence: The decision caused significant financial losses for companies like Motorola, who produced the StarMax; Umax, who produced the SuperMac; and Power Computing, who offered several lines of Mac clones, including the PowerWave, PowerTower, and PowerTower Pro.
Question: Who was known as being a founder of humanism thought in China?
Sentence: In China, Yellow Emperor is regarded as the humanistic primogenitor.[citation needed]
Question: Through Molecular studies, what was used to suggest new relationships among mammal families?
Sentence: Molecular studies based on DNA analysis have suggested new relationships among mammal families over the last few years.