xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What type of musicians were artists such as Diana Ross, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Carole King and Janis Ian?
Sentence: Much of the music recorded by singer-songwriters such as Diana Ross, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Carole King and Janis Ian got as much, if not more, airplay on this format than on Top 40 stations.
Question: What is the center of North Carolina called?
Sentence: The Piedmont Triad, or center of the state, is home to Krispy Kreme, Mayberry, Texas Pete, the Lexington Barbecue Festival, and Moravian cookies.
Question: What dynasty came before the Han dynasty?
Sentence: It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han, and briefly interrupted by the Xin dynasty (9–23 AD) of the former regent Wang Mang.
Question: What other countries have successful democracies?
Sentence: A common language between lawyers of common law and civil law countries as well as between legal communities of developed and developing countries is critically important for research of links between the rule of law and real economy.
Question: In which period did North and South america join?
Sentence: South and North America remained separated by equatorial seas (they joined during the Neogene); the components of the former southern supercontinent Gondwana continued to split apart, with Africa, South America, Antarctica and Australia pulling away from each other.
Question: Rather than political, what was Victoria's monarchy seen as?
Sentence: The concept of the "family monarchy", with which the burgeoning middle classes could identify, was solidified.
Question: What was the average per-game attendance in 2007?
Sentence: From the start of the 2004 season until the final season of the original league in 2008, average attendance was above 12,000, with 12,392 in 2007.
Question: What association founded the Avery Normal Institute?
Sentence: General William T. Sherman lent his support to the conversion of the United States Arsenal into the Porter Military Academy, an educational facility for former soldiers and boys left orphaned or destitute by the war.
Question: What was distinctly made by Nintendo, Konami, and Acclaim?
Sentence: For promotion of DuckTales: Remastered, Capcom sent 150 limited-edition gold NES cartridges with the original game, featuring the Remastered art as the sticker, to different gaming news agencies.
Question: What fossil evidence is lacking when it comes to flowers?
Sentence: Several groups of extinct gymnosperms, in particular seed ferns, have been proposed as the ancestors of flowering plants, but there is no continuous fossil evidence showing exactly how flowers evolved.
Question: What is the most famous pharmaceutical company in Cork?
Sentence: Its main area of industry is pharmaceuticals, with Pfizer Inc. and Swiss company Novartis being big employers in the region.
Question: What is the name of the ballet that included Chopin's work?
Sentence: Sergei Diaghilev commissioned additional orchestrations—from Stravinsky, Anatoly Lyadov, Sergei Taneyev and Nikolai Tcherepnin—for later productions, which used the title Les Sylphides.
Question: Who helped to further the movement away from Scholasticism of the time?
Sentence: Thus, the stage was set for the adoption of an approach to natural philosophy, based on empirical observations and experimentation of the physical universe, making possible the advent of the age of scientific inquiry that followed the Renaissance.
Question: What is Detroit's charter called?
Sentence: Since voters approved the city's charter in 1974, Detroit has had a "strong mayoral" system, with the mayor approving departmental appointments.
Question: What other non-functional dimensions can cause software to underperform and cause other problems?
Sentence: This means that the number of defects in a software product can be very large and defects that occur infrequently are difficult to find in testing.
Question: What Swiss holiday is celebrated on August 1st every year?
Sentence: The establishment of the Swiss Confederation is traditionally dated to 1 August 1291, which is celebrated annually as the Swiss National Day.
Question: Who invaded Tibet?
Sentence: However, when they ceased to pay tribute after Genghis Khan's death, his successor Ögedei Khan (r. 1229–1241) launched an invasion into Tibet.
Question: To what city did the Tulsa Talons relocate?
Sentence: The Tulsa Talons moved to San Antonio, Texas and Jeffrey Vinik became owner of the Tampa Bay Storm.
Question: When was a new sarcophagus made for him?
Sentence: A new sarcophagus with an effigy was made for him in 1232, in which his remains now rest.
Question: Both telephone and internet services are subject to what?
Sentence: Since all international telephone and internet communications are relying on this single satellite link both internet and telephone service are subject to sun outages.
Question: Aside from being defined as a meeting hall, what other definition does falekaupule have?
Sentence: Another important building is the falekaupule or maneapa the traditional island meeting hall, where important matters are discussed and which is also used for wedding celebrations and community activities such as a fatele involving music, singing and dancing.
Question: When was the Luria-Delbruck experiment?
Sentence: The emergence of resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is a common phenomenon.
Question: When was the General Post Office built?
Sentence: Wilkins and Robert Smirke went on to build some of the most important buildings of the era, including the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (1808–09), the General Post Office (1824–29) and the British Museum (1823–48), Wilkins University College London (1826–30) and the National Gallery (1832–38).
Question: What are teeth made out of?
Sentence: This is the ability of sensation when chewing, for example if we were to bite into something too hard for our teeth, such as a chipped plate mixed in food, our teeth send a message to our brain and we realise that it cannot be chewed, so we stop trying.
Question: What are some factors to consider in calculating operating costs of lighting?
Sentence: A comparison of incandescent lamp operating cost with other light sources must include illumination requirements, cost of the lamp and labor cost to replace lamps (taking into account effective lamp lifetime), cost of electricity used, effect of lamp operation on heating and air conditioning systems.
Question: When did the Cremyll-Stonehouse ferry first operate?
Sentence: There is a passenger ferry between Stonehouse and the Cornish hamlet of Cremyll, which is believed to have operated continuously since 1204.
Question: Which agency regulates safety of pesticides in the US?
Sentence: Each use of a pesticide carries some associated risk.
Question: Who first suggested daylight saving?
Sentence: New Zealander George Hudson proposed the modern idea of daylight saving in 1895.
Question: What almost killed Gautama in his pursuit?
Sentence: He next attempted an extreme asceticism, which was a religious pursuit common among the śramaṇas, a religious culture distinct from the Vedic one.
Question: How much did Spectre make in its opening in South Korea?
Sentence: It topped the German-speaking Switzerland box office for four weeks and in the Netherlands, it has held the No. 1 spot for seven weeks straight where it has topped Minions to become the top movie of the year.
Question: The nation of Ghana shortens university to what?
Sentence: In Ghana, New Zealand and in South Africa it is sometimes called "varsity" (although this has become uncommon in New Zealand in recent years).
Question: What operation began in January 1991?
Sentence: In January 1991 Operation Desert Storm commenced, a U.S.-led coalition which deployed over 500,000 troops, the bulk of them from U.S. Army formations, to drive out Iraqi forces.
Question: Who has spread the teachings of the Baptists to each continent?
Sentence: Baptist missionaries have spread their church to every continent.
Question: What are cladding layers?
Sentence: Aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) of varying Al/Ga fraction can be used to manufacture the cladding and quantum
Question: Who investigated the agreement between the Premier League and Sky in 2002?
Sentence: An investigation by the Office of Fair Trading in 2002 found BSkyB to be dominant within the pay TV sports market, but concluded that there were insufficient grounds for the claim that BSkyB had abused its dominant position.
Question: Who did Rolpe Dorje send as envoys to court in Nanjing?
Sentence: The Hongwu Emperor also entrusted his guru Zongluo, one of many Buddhist monks at court, to head a religious mission into Tibet in 1378–1382 in order to obtain Buddhist texts.
Question: What is another name for Ninth Avenue?
Sentence: west from the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue (Tenth Avenue) and terminates at the intersection of Riverside Drive.
Question: What kind of poetry inspired Ottoman Divan Poetry?
Sentence: Ottoman Divan poetry was a highly ritualized and symbolic art form.
Question: Where did Elihu Yale grow up?
Sentence: In 1718, at the behest of either Rector Samuel Andrew or the colony's Governor Gurdon Saltonstall, Cotton Mather contacted a successful businessman named Elihu Yale, who lived in Wales but had been born in Boston and whose father, David, had been one of the original settlers in New Haven, to ask him for financial help in constructing a new building for the college.
Question: Which government was in power before the Soviet regime?
Sentence: The Soviet regime first came to power on November 7, 1917, immediately after the Russian Provisional Government, which governed the Russian Republic, was overthrown in the October Revolution.
Question: What famous Roman figure visited Greece in 66 AD?
Sentence: The Roman Emperor Nero visited Greece in AD 66, and performed at the Ancient Olympic Games, despite the rules against non-Greek participation.
Question: When was the Battle of Ipsus?
Sentence: Seleucus arrived in time to save Lysimachus and utterly crushed Antigonus at the Battle of Ipsus in 301 BCE.
Question: How does one become a Freemason?
Sentence: The process varies between jurisdictions, but the candidate will typically have been introduced by a friend at a Lodge social function, or at some form of open evening in the Lodge.
Question: What topics of emphasis are contained in the Brown School Library collection?
Sentence: The Brown School Library collects materials on many topics, with specific emphasis on: children, youth, and families; gerontology; health; mental health; social and economic development; family therapy; and management.
Question: From what state did the proposed council come from?
Sentence: It was announced on 19 March 2015 that self-governance for the island would be revoked by the Commonwealth and replaced by a local council with the state of New South Wales providing services to the island.
Question: How many groups are FETs split into?
Sentence: Also, both devices operate in the depletion mode, they both have a high input impedance, and they both conduct current under the control of an input voltage.
Question: In the same study, how much more likely was someone from Kentucky to tune into the show?
Sentence: Data from Nielsen SoundScan, a music-sales tracking service, showed that of the 47 million CDs sold by Idol contestants through January 2010, 85 percent were by contestants with ties to the American South.
Question: Where is Emosson located?
Sentence: In Emosson in Valais, Switzerland, dinosaur tracks were found in the 1970s, dating probably from the Triassic Period.
Question: Who would improvise musical ornaments in the Baroque era?
Sentence: In the Baroque era, organ performers would improvise preludes, keyboard performers playing harpsichord would improvise chords from the figured bass symbols beneath the bass notes of the basso continuo part and both vocal and instrumental performers would improvise musical ornaments.
Question: What attributes make universal motors desireable for consumer applications like hair dryers?
Sentence: This makes them useful for appliances such as blenders, vacuum cleaners, and hair dryers where high speed and light weight are desirable.
Question: In what year was Hugh Capet elected as king?
Sentence: In 987 Hugh Capet, Count of Paris (comte de Paris), Duke of the Franks (duc des Francs) was elected King of the Franks (roi des Franks).
Question: When did Seattle have hurricane type winds and heavy rains?
Sentence: Lack of adaptation to the heavy rain contributed to five deaths and widespread flooding and damage.
Question: What competition sparked the rivalry with Manchester?
Sentence: Arsenal's longest-running and deepest rivalry is with their nearest major neighbours, Tottenham Hotspur; matches between the two are referred to as North London derbies.
Question: What acts are included in communication between parties?
Sentence: These acts may take many forms, in one of the various manners of communication.
Question: What caused population growth to decline  in the 1980s?
Sentence: In the late 1980s, the city's economy suffered from the nationwide recession.
Question: Illegally killing, capturing or trapping an hunted species is called what?
Sentence: Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so.
Question: What was one reason for the large amounts of immigration of religious refugees from other parts of Europe?
Sentence: The extent to which different religions or denominations were persecuted depended much on the time period and regional or city leaders.
Question: Along with the ancient Phoenicians, Egyptians and Babylonians, what ancient people regarded myrrh as a luxury?
Sentence: In antiquity, the ancestors of the Somali people were an important link in the Horn of Africa connecting the region's commerce with the rest of the ancient world.
Question: How many people marched on January 11 against terrorism?
Sentence: On 11 January an estimated 1.5 million people marched in Paris–along with international political leaders–to show solidarity against terrorism and in defence of freedom of speech.
Question: How many people did the Plymouth unitary authority gain between 2001 and 2011?
Sentence: From the 2011 Census, the Office for National Statistics published that Plymouth's unitary authority area population was 256,384; 15,664 more people than that of the last census from 2001, which indicated that Plymouth had a population of 240,720.
Question: What percentage increase in passenger traffic did Richmond International experience between 2005 and 2006?
Sentence: Richmond International is now served by nine airlines with over 200 daily flights providing non-stop service to major destination markets and connecting flights to destinations worldwide.
Question: What was the concept for 'Interstellar'?
Sentence: The screenwriter suggested the addition of a "time element" to the treatment's basic idea, which was welcomed by Obst and Thorne.
Question: How long did it take to finish the wall?
Sentence: The present-day City Wall of Nanjing was mainly built during that time and today it remains in good condition and has been well preserved.
Question: Why did the construction of the Fine Arts Palace take so long?
Sentence: Its construction began during the presidency of Porfirio Díaz and ended in 1934, after being interrupted by the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s.
Question: What has pleased western historians?
Sentence: The borders did expand and contract but they were always dynamic and always in "question" right from the beginning.
Question: Who amassed in large scale against protesters?
Sentence: In San Francisco, the number of supporters were much more than the number of protesters, and in Australia, Japan, South Korea, the counter-protesters overwhelmed the protesters.
Question: What do the topics of the shows put on at the tablados typically relate to?
Sentence: Traditionally formed by men and now starting to be open to women, the different Carnival groups (Murgas, Lubolos or Parodistas) perform a kind of popular opera at the tablados, singing and dancing songs that generally relate to the social and political situation.
Question: What year was Bern founded?
Sentence: According to 14th century historiography (Cronica de Berno, 1309), Bern was founded in 1191 by Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen.
Question: What helps pilots find the direction to the airport?
Sentence: In poor weather, pilots will use an instrument landing system (ILS) to find the runway and fly the correct approach, even if they cannot see the ground.
Question: When did the government of Aragon  degree the establishment of a language regulator?
Sentence: In 2011, the Aragonese government passed a decree for the establishment of a new language regulator of Catalan in La Franja (the so-called Catalan-speaking areas of Aragon).
Question: What two neighborhoods are the centers of the quartiers sensibles?
Sentence: These areas, quartiers sensibles ("sensitive quarters"), are in northern and eastern Paris, namely around its Goutte d'Or and Belleville neighbourhoods.
Question: What is the average property price per square meter in Berlin as of April 2014?
Sentence: This is higher than the property prices in other G8 European capital cities; Berlin €3,306, Rome €6,188 and Paris €11,229.
Question: Placing red and green next to each other causes their color to be what?
Sentence: I just try to find a color which corresponds to my feelings."
Question: How about many Spanish speakers are there in the state?
Sentence: The United States Department of Education estimated in 2009 that 5,274 students in Montana spoke a language at home other than English.
Question: Which house impeached Hastings?
Sentence: The House of Commons eventually impeached Hastings, but subsequently, the House of Lords acquitted him of all charges.
Question: How is the public made aware of ITP applications?
Sentence: A notice of the permit application action is published in the Federal Register and a public comment period of 30 to 90 days begins.
Question: Valens issued a decree banishing the bishops that were deposed by who?
Sentence: He issued a decree banishing the bishops who had been deposed by Constantius, but who had been permitted by Jovian to return to their sees.
Question: What fruit juice is a major Samoan export?
Sentence: Agriculture employs two-thirds of the labour force, and furnishes 90% of exports, featuring coconut cream, coconut oil, noni (juice of the nonu fruit, as it is known in Samoan), and copra.
Question: What happened to British Isles area when the ice melted after the last ice age?
Sentence: From 14,000 to 10,000 years ago, as the ice melted, sea levels rose separating Ireland from Great Britain and also creating the Isle of Man.
Question: When did regular testing of Hi-Vision start?
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: So when was the firs national broadcast?
Sentence: When ITV was formed in 1955 they shared final coverage with the BBC in one of the only club matches shown live on television, during the 1970s and 1980s coverage became more elaborate with BBC and ITV trying to steal viewers from the others by starting coverage earlier and earlier some starting as early as 9 a.m. which was six hours before kick off.
Question: What was the degree of Frédéric's association with political insurrection?
Sentence: In his native Poland, in France, where he composed most of his works, and beyond, Chopin's music, his status as one of music's earliest superstars, his association (if only indirect) with political insurrection, his love life and his early death have made him, in the public consciousness, a leading symbol of the Romantic era.
Question: What were stronghold called?
Sentence: The tribes were ruled by clans (ród) consisting of people related by blood or marriage and theoretically descending from a common ancestor, giving the ród/clan a highly developed sense of solidarity.
Question: How many passengers does the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport serve each year?
Sentence: Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, opened in 1920 and has been in continuous commercial service since.
Question: What was the name of the song played during the opening credits?
Sentence: Smith said the song came together in one session and that he and Napes wrote it in under half an hour before recording a demo.
Question: What started about 4000 years after copper smelting was discovered?
Sentence: It was known to the Greeks, but became a significant supplement to bronze during the Roman Empire.
Question: The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge crosses what river?
Sentence: They were considered two of the more dangerous bridges in America and were demolished after the Ravenel Bridge opened.
Question: When was the first slow-scan video systems researched?
Sentence: The greater 1 MHz bandwidth and 6 Mbit/s bit rate of the Picturephone in the 1970s also did not achieve commercial success, mostly due to its high cost, but also due to a lack of network effect —with only a few hundred Picturephones in the world, users had extremely few contacts they could actually call to, and interoperability with other videophone systems would not exist for decades.
Question: What cyclone badly damaged Funafuti?
Sentence: Funafuti's Tepuka Vili Vili islet was devastated by Cyclone Meli in 1979, with all its vegetation and most of its sand swept away during the cyclone.
Question: What initiative provided censors with the abillity to appoint new senators?
Sentence: It also required the censor to appoint any newly elected magistrate to the senate.
Question: What did the percentage fall to?
Sentence: From the outset, it was clearly a well-received change, as Labour's 14-point lead in the November 1990 "Poll of Polls" was replaced by an 8% Tory lead a month later.
Question: How many people in Kazakhstan speak Russian actively?
Sentence: Large Russian-speaking communities still exist in northern Kazakhstan, and ethnic Russians comprise 25.6% of Kazakhstan's population.
Question: What percentage of households earned less than 977 per month?
Sentence: In 2012, 14 percent of households in the city earned less than €977 per month, the official poverty line.
Question: Where was Julia Tuttle born?
Sentence: Miami is noted as "the only major city in the United States conceived by a woman, Julia Tuttle", a local citrus grower and a wealthy Cleveland native.
Question: What was the code name of the overthrow of the Iranian government?
Sentence: With Eisenhower's leadership and Dulles' direction, CIA activities increased under the pretense of resisting the spread of communism in poorer countries; the CIA in part deposed the leaders of Iran in Operation Ajax, of Guatemala through Operation Pbsuccess, and possibly the newly independent Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
Question: What was Admiral Flota Sovetskovo Soyuza Kuznetsov renamed?
Sentence: Without catapults she can launch and recover lightly fueled naval fighters for air defense or anti-ship missions but not heavy conventional bombing strikes.[citation needed] Officially designated an aircraft carrying cruiser, she is unique in carrying a heavy cruiser's complement of defensive weapons and large P-700 Granit offensive missiles.
Question: What can be done to a metal to enhance its properties?
Sentence: The physical properties, such as density, reactivity, Young's modulus of an alloy may not differ greatly from those of its elements, but engineering properties such as tensile strength and shear strength may be substantially different from those of the constituent materials.
Question: What can we judge in wood just by looking at it?
Sentence: One can judge comparative density, and therefore to some extent strength, by visual inspection.
Question: When did groups from South Korea, Japan, and others arrive in China?
Sentence: On May 16, rescue groups from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Russia and Taiwan arrived to join the rescue effort.