xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the meaning of the Sanskrit loanword "bhāṣā?"
Sentence: Many Sanskrit loanwords are also found in Austronesian languages, such as Javanese, particularly the older form in which nearly half the vocabulary is borrowed.
Question: To which other abbey was Westminster Abbey second in wealth?
Sentence: In 1535, the abbey's annual income of £2400–2800[citation needed]
Question: What city was Van Halen originally from?
Sentence: He popularised a guitar-playing technique of two-handed hammer-ons and pull-offs called tapping, showcased on the song "Eruption" from the album Van Halen, which was highly influential in re-establishing hard rock as a popular genre after the punk and disco explosion, while also redefining and elevating the role of electric guitar.
Question: When did the war end?
Sentence: The war ended in stalemate and a tense family reconciliation in England at the end of 1184.
Question: What philosphers' writings are becoming required reading for graduate students in China?
Sentence: Cobb has attributed China's interest in process philosophy partly to Whitehead's stress on the mutual interdependence of humanity and nature, as well as his emphasis on an educational system that includes the teaching of values rather than simply bare facts.
Question: What was the name of the winning unit in the 2010 elections in Burma ?
Sentence: The elections of 2010 resulted in a victory for the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party.
Question: What Queen song was performed on a May 2012 episode of Glee?
Sentence: In May 2012, the choir performed "We Are the Champions" in the episode "Nationals", and the song features in The Graduation Album.
Question: What else can a mom do to prevent diarrhea for her baby?
Sentence: it is recommended that they continue to eat healthy food and babies continue to be breastfed.
Question: Apellon is derived from what Doric month?
Sentence: It probably is a cognate to the Doric month Apellaios (Ἀπελλαῖος), and the offerings apellaia (ἀπελλαῖα) at the initiation of the young men during the family-festival apellai (ἀπέλλαι).
Question: What is it about the approval process of executive agreements might lead a US president to prefer them over treaties?
Sentence: For example, the deal by the United States, Iran and other countries is not a Treaty.
Question: Why did Eisenhower need surgery on June 9, 1956?
Sentence: The president also suffered from Crohn's disease, chronic inflammatory condition of the intestine, which necessitated surgery for a bowel obstruction on June 9, 1956.
Question: Who was initially opposed to the idea of creating the HDI?
Sentence: Sen was worried that it was going to be difficult to capture the full complexity of human capabilities in a single index, but Haq persuaded him that only a single number would shift the immediate attention of politicians from economic to human well-being.
Question: Why would someone prefer a second edition to a first edition?
Sentence: For example, a second edition of a Shakespeare play may include an addition alluding to an event known to have happened between the two editions.
Question: How does London Academy of Excellence vary in cost from Eton College?
Sentence: Eton now co-sponsors a state sixth-form college in Newham, a deprived area of East London, called the London Academy of Excellence, opened in 2012, which is free of charge and aims to get all its students into higher education.
Question: Where has KEXP pioneered in Radio?
Sentence: Many Seattle radio stations are also available through Internet radio, with KEXP in particular being a pioneer of Internet radio.
Question: Which two Swiss cities have been ranked as having the highest quality of life in the world?
Sentence: Switzerland is one of the richest and wealthiest countries in the world.
Question: What happened in 1900?
Sentence: In 1900, the state legislature passed a new constitution, with voter registration rules that disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites.
Question: The President's father is from what country?
Sentence: They suggest that the term "African-American" should refer strictly to the descendants of African slaves and free people of color who survived the slavery era in the United States.
Question: What indicates the beginning and end of the protein coding region?
Sentence: The nucleotide sequence of a gene's DNA specifies the amino acid sequence of a protein through the genetic code.
Question: How much did the first primate weigh?
Sentence: But paleontologists object that no placental fossils have been found from before the end of the Cretaceous.
Question: What political organization was Giovanni's father a member of?
Sentence: His father Giorgio Montini was a lawyer, journalist, director of the Catholic Action and member of the Italian Parliament.
Question: What are the Somerset levels
Sentence: Drainage began with the Romans, and was restarted at various times: by the Anglo-Saxons; in the Middle Ages by the Glastonbury Abbey, from 1400–1770; and during the Second World War, with the construction of the Huntspill River.
Question: What year where three officer building bought and used for a sanitarium?
Sentence: In 1900, three of the officer buildings were purchased for use as a sanitarium.
Question: What type of performances of Baroque ear Operas require improvisation?
Sentence: A remnant of this improvisatory tradition in classical music can be heard in the cadenza, a passage found mostly in concertos and solo works, designed to allow skilled performers to exhibit their virtuoso skills on the instrument.
Question: How much rain does Houston usually get per year?
Sentence: Falls of at least one inch on both December 10, 2008 and December 4, 2009 marked the first time measurable snowfall had occurred in two consecutive years in the city's recorded history.
Question: Mali was once part of how many West African empires?
Sentence: In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan.
Question: What is the grid plan aligned with rather than the cardinal directions?
Sentence: The streets do not run exactly east–west, because the grid plan is aligned with the Hudson River rather than with the cardinal directions. "
Question: What agreement has the Southeast Asian countries signed to combat haze pollution?
Sentence: Predictions have been made that more than 40% of the animal and plant species in Southeast Asia could be wiped out in the 21st century.
Question: What caused the agreement to fail?
Sentence: However, the agreement fell apart weeks later when Syria's Ba'athists purged Nasser's supporters from the officers corps.
Question: In what year did the Battle of Nezib take place?
Sentence: In 1838 the situation was slightly the same as in 1831.
Question: What newspaper did Radio Saint Helena collaborate with?
Sentence: The station presented news, features and music in collaboration with its sister newspaper, the St Helena Herald.
Question: When did Burke leave the Whig party?
Sentence: Burke demonstrated his separation from the party on 5 June 1791 by writing to Fitzwilliam, declining money from him.
Question: What were Prussia and Austria looking to expand?
Sentence: Both sought to expand their influence and territory.
Question: Who defeated Nicholas's second counter strike at the Battle of Balaclava?
Sentence: The Russians counterattacked on 25 October in what became the Battle of Balaclava and were repulsed, but at the cost of seriously depleting the British Army forces.
Question: What legislative body confirms FBI directors?
Sentence: They must be confirmed by the United States Senate and serve a term of office of five years, with a maximum of ten years, if reappointed, unless they resign or are fired by the President before their term ends.
Question: According to the constructivists, what is an example of a learned meta-emotion?
Sentence: Historians, like other social scientists, assume that emotions, feelings and their expressions are regulated in different ways by both different cultures and different historical times, and constructivist school of history claims even that some sentiments and meta-emotions, for example Schadenfreude, are learnt and not only regulated by culture.
Question: What act did Britain use to implement the use of the Gregorian calendar?
Sentence: These two reforms were implemented by the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750.
Question: What television network in Asia shows American Idol?
Sentence: In southeast Asia, it is broadcast by STAR World every Thursday and Friday nine or ten hours after.
Question: What percent of the Bronx population has a university degree, as of 2000?
Sentence: In 2000, according to the U.S. Census, out of the nearly 800,000 people in the Bronx who were then at least 25 years old, 62.3% had graduated from high school and 14.6% held a bachelor's or higher college degree.
Question: Where was a conference held in 1884 to regulate European competition for Africa?
Sentence: With French, Belgian and Portuguese activity in the lower Congo River region undermining orderly incursion of tropical Africa, the Berlin Conference of 1884–85 was held to regulate the competition between the European powers in what was called the "Scramble for Africa" by defining "effective occupation" as the criterion for international recognition of territorial claims.
Question: What type of weather do monsoons bring?
Sentence: The Great Basin and Columbia Plateau (the Intermontane Plateaus) are arid or semiarid regions that lie in the rain shadow of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada.
Question: What eventually became a part of the grand duchy of lithuania?
Sentence: Many noble Ruthenian families intermarried with Lithuanian ones.
Question: What was the name of the United States' largest atmospheric nuclear test?
Sentence: During the early years of the Cold War from 1946 to 1958, the United States tested 67 nuclear weapons at its Pacific Proving Grounds located in the Marshall Islands, including the largest atmospheric nuclear test ever conducted by the U.S., code named Castle Bravo.
Question: What facility is the center of Southampton's public sports and outdoor activities?
Sentence: The city also has the Southampton Sports Centre which is the focal point for the public's sporting and outdoor activities and includes an Alpine Centre, theme park and athletics centre which is used by professional athletes.
Question: What is it called when someone dies from inhaling vomit?
Sentence: The effects of alcohol depend on the amount an individual has drunk, the percentage of alcohol in the beer and the timespan that the consumption took place, the amount of food eaten and whether an individual has taken other prescription, over-the-counter or street drugs, among other factors.
Question: What process can cause beer to have a 55% abv?
Sentence: The pale lagers that most consumers are familiar with fall in the range of 4–6%, with a typical abv of 5%.
Question: If a place has annual seasons, what are the growth rings on the trees there called?
Sentence: If these seasons are annual these growth rings are referred to as annual rings.
Question: What are hall churches in German cathedrals known as?
Sentence: This is expressed in the Gothic architecture of Central Europe in the huge size of the towers and spires, often projected, but not always completed.
Question: Are treaties permanently binding upon the signatory parties?
Sentence: Treaties are not necessarily permanently binding upon the signatory parties.
Question: Minority leader may appoint individuals to what government roles?
Sentence: The minority leader also has other institutional duties, such as appointing individuals to certain federal entities.
Question: What was the purpose of SEATO?
Sentence: Alliance with the U.K., France, New Zealand and Australia in defense of Vietnam against communism.
Question: Who did Napoleon become engaged to in 1795?
Sentence: In April 1795, he was assigned to the Army of the West, which was engaged in the War in the Vendée—a civil war and royalist counter-revolution in Vendée, a region in west central France on the Atlantic Ocean.
Question: In 1995, who decided to manage the girls singing group?
Sentence: In 1995 Beyoncé's father resigned from his job to manage the group.
Question: In 2008, what type collapse was feared?
Sentence: The continuing development of the crisis has prompted fears of a global economic collapse although there are now many cautiously optimistic forecasters in addition to some prominent sources who remain negative.
Question: What plummeting numbers of this species caused a decline in predator numbers?
Sentence: According to the government of Botswana, trophy hunting is at least partly to blame for this, but many other factors, such as poaching, drought and habitat loss are also to blame.
Question: Who taught and accepted the belief that biologically distinct races were isomorphic?
Sentence: A significant number of modern anthropologists and biologists in the West came to view race as an invalid genetic or biological designation.
Question: Who discovered carbon dioxide or fixed air?
Sentence: Scientific progress during the Enlightenment included the discovery of carbon dioxide (fixed air) by the chemist Joseph Black, the argument for deep time by the geologist James Hutton, and the invention of the steam engine by James Watt.
Question: Which group looks over elections in Swaziland?
Sentence: All election procedures are overseen by the elections and boundaries commission.
Question: What do Muslims think of Christianity?
Sentence: Muslims repudiate the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and divinity of Jesus, comparing it to polytheism.
Question: Where is the highest point in the alps located?
Sentence: At 2,756 m (9,042 ft), the Stelvio Pass in northern Italy is one of the highest of the Alpine passes; the road was built in the 1820s.
Question: What is the boiling point of zinc?
Sentence: Its melting point is the lowest of all the transition metals aside from mercury and cadmium.
Question: In what year did Napoleon lead his army into Damascus?
Sentence: In early 1799, he moved an army into the Ottoman province of Damascus (Syria and Galilee).
Question: Whose teachings did all samurai read?
Sentence: They were strongly emphasized by the teachings of Confucius and Mencius (ca 550 BC), which were required reading for the educated samurai class.
Question: What was the October War?
Sentence: In 1973, Egypt, along with Syria, launched the October War, a surprise attack to regain part of the Sinai territory Israel had captured 6 years earlier.
Question: What title does United Technologies Corporation hold?
Sentence: An elevator shaft was included in the design, because Cooper was confident that a safe passenger elevator would soon be invented.
Question: What are the different kinds of USB connectors?
Sentence: Therefore, in general, each of the different "sizes" requires four different connectors; USB cables have the Type-A and Type-B plugs, and the corresponding receptacles are on the computer or electronic device.
Question: How much rain does the Sahel savannah area get per year?
Sentence: In the Sahel region, rain is less than 500 millimetres (20 in) per year and the Sahara Desert is encroaching.
Question: Who had control of the Beiyang army?
Sentence: But power in Beijing already had passed to Yuan Shikai, who had effective control of the Beiyang Army, the most powerful military force in China at the time.
Question: For the first quarter of 2009, what was the annualized rate of decline in GDP in Germany?
Sentence: For the first quarter of 2009, the annualized rate of decline in GDP was 14.4% in Germany, 15.2% in Japan, 7.4% in the UK, 18% in Latvia, 9.8% in the Euro area and 21.5% for Mexico.
Question: How much did advertisers spend for a 30 second ad spot during American Idol in 2014?
Sentence: American Idol became the most expensive series on broadcast networks for advertisers starting season four, and by the next season, it had broken the record in advertising rate for a regularly scheduled prime-time network series, selling over $700,000 for a 30-seconds slot, and reaching up to $1.3 million for the finale.
Question: Why do some countries display numbers in chunks of two to four numbers?
Sentence: This method of remembering telephone numbers is far more effective than attempting to remember a string of 10 digits; this is because we are able to chunk the information into meaningful groups of numbers.
Question: How is all university landscape waste used?
Sentence: Additionally, all landscape waste at the university is composted.
Question: How are judges appointed?
Sentence: It has 90 legally trained judges elected by the voters.
Question: Attic Greek developed into what lingua franca?
Sentence: The spread of Greek culture and language throughout the Near East and Asia owed much to the development of newly founded cities and deliberate colonization policies by the successor states, which in turn was necessary for maintaining their military forces.
Question: How long of a running time did the Number 199 fuse have?
Sentence: However, the performance of both 3.7 and 4.5-in guns was limited by their standard fuse No 199, with a 30-second running time, although a new mechanical time fuse giving 43 seconds was nearing readiness.
Question: The Persian Empire was conquered by Alexander by what year?
Sentence: Although the political unity of Alexander's empire could not be maintained, it resulted in the Hellenistic civilization and spread the Greek language and Greek culture in the territories conquered by Alexander.
Question: Whose ideas were summarized by Aristotle in the work Darwin studied?
Sentence: Early Christian Church Fathers and Medieval European scholars interpreted the Genesis creation narrative allegorically rather than as a literal historical account; organisms were described by their mythological and heraldic significance as well as by their physical form.
Question: What arrived in January with an engineering crew?
Sentence: It arrived in January with a civilian engineering crew, however it was March before it was sufficiently advanced to be of any appreciable value.:439
Question: How high is Granite Peak?
Sentence: The Beartooth Plateau is the largest continuous land mass over 10,000 feet (3,000 m) high in the continental United States.
Question: What was the language of the Pipil?
Sentence: After further attacks, the Spanish also conquered the Lenca people.
Question: Western political philosophy originates in what philosophy?
Sentence: One of the first, extremely important classical works of political philosophy is Plato's Republic, which was followed by Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and Politics.
Question: Along with Galicia's, which other two province's autonomy was annulled?
Sentence: Galicia's statute of autonomy was annulled (as were those of Catalonia and the Basque provinces once those were conquered).
Question: How does filament size relate to voltage level?
Sentence: A lamp with the same rated lifetime but designed for 230 V would produce only around 12.8 lumens per watt, and a similar lamp designed for 30 volts (train lighting) would produce as much as 19.8 lumens per watt.
Question: What South Korean city did the US and ROK forces defend while building reinforcements?
Sentence: However the United Nations intervened, naming Douglas MacArthur commander of its forces, and UN-US-ROK forces held a perimeter around Pusan, gaining time for reinforcement.
Question: What characteristic of Middle Iranian civilization is shown by the number of different languages and their speakers?
Sentence: The multitude of Middle Iranian languages and peoples indicate that great linguistic diversity must have existed among the ancient speakers of Iranian languages.
Question: What does a charging port supply?
Sentence: A charging port supplies up to 500 mA at 5 V, up to the rated current at 3.6 V or more, and drops its output voltage if the portable device attempts to draw more than the rated current.
Question: When did Russian musika show up?
Sentence: Bishop Kallistos Ware says, "The service is sung, even though there may be no choir...
Question: Who dismissed the allegations?
Sentence: The European Cocoa Association dismissed these accusations as "false and excessive" and the industry said the reports were not representative of all areas.
Question: What is the atomic number for Zinc?
Sentence: In some respects zinc is chemically similar to magnesium: its ion is of similar size and its only common oxidation state is +2.
Question: What word is not specifically given meaning in the Code of the Church?
Sentence: Canonical jurisprudential theory generally follows the principles of Aristotelian-Thomistic legal philosophy.
Question: Who initiated the First Phase offensive?
Sentence: After secretly crossing the Yalu River on 19 October, the PVA 13th Army Group launched the First Phase Offensive on 25 October, attacking the advancing UN forces near the Sino-Korean border.
Question: What did Babangida set up to help pay Nigeria's national debt?
Sentence: Babangida's tenure was marked by a flurry of political activity: he instituted the International Monetary Fund's Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) to aid in the repayment of the country's crushing international debt, which most federal revenue was dedicated to servicing.
Question: Which party did Don Chipp seperate to form in 1977?
Sentence: Liberal minister, Don Chipp split off from the party to form a new social liberal party, the Australian Democrats in 1977.
Question: What was the duration of the Vedic culture?
Sentence: The Vedic period is named after the Indo-Aryan culture of north-west India, although other parts of India had a distinct cultural identity during this period.
Question: How many slaves were shipped from Africa to Brazil between 1500 and 1850?
Sentence: Scholars estimate that more than half of the Brazilian population is at least in part descended from these individuals.
Question: Time is one of how many fundamental physical quantities?
Sentence: Time is used to define other quantities—such as velocity—so defining time in terms of such quantities would result in circularity of definition.
Question: Who played guitar in The Who?
Sentence: Dave Davies of The Kinks, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend of The Who, Hendrix, Clapton and Beck all pioneered the use of new guitar effects like phasing, feedback and distortion.
Question: Who led the Union of the Right?
Sentence: On December 15, 2015, a list of candidates of the Union of the Right, a coalition of centrist and right-wing parties, led by Valérie Pécresse, narrowly won the regional election, defeating a coalition of Socialists and ecologists.
Question: What did SHAEF stand for?
Sentence: The following month, he resumed command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), serving in a dual role until the end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945.
Question: Who was a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech?
Sentence: Reginald DesRoches, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech, pointed out that the massive damage of properties and houses in the earthquake area was because China did not create an adequate seismic design code until after the devastating 1976 Tangshan earthquake.
Question: A reaction to Britain and France's actions was the emergence of what group in Egypt?
Sentence: After World War I, when Britain and France divided up the Middle East's countries, apart from Turkey, between them, pursuant to the Sykes-Picot agreement—in violation of solemn wartime promises of postwar Arab autonomy—there came an immediate reaction: the Muslim Brotherhood emerged in Egypt, the House of Saud took over the Hijaz, and regimes led by army officers came to power in Iran and Turkey. "
Question: What happens when sunlight shines on a solar balloon?
Sentence: A solar balloon is a black balloon that is filled with ordinary air.
Question: In what way was gladiatorial combat considered?
Sentence: The gladiator munus was never explicitly acknowledged as a human sacrifice, probably because death was not its inevitable outcome or purpose.