xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: What festivals are a social tradition in many beer drinking countries?
Sentence: Beer forms part of the culture of beer-drinking nations and is associated with social traditions such as beer festivals, as well as a rich pub culture involving activities like pub crawling, and pub games such as bar billiards.
Question: What year was Arnold J toynbee becoming metaphysical about the Near East?
Sentence: Geography alone was not a sufficient explanation of the terms, he believed.
Question: What person was considered to be "Mother of the camp''?
Sentence: By the early Severan era, the military also offered cult to the Imperial divi, the current emperor's numen, genius and domus (or familia), and special cult to the Empress as "mother of the camp.
Question: Is it probable, improbable, or impossible that a sovereign would withhold assent?
Sentence: An exception is sometimes stated to be if bills are not passed in good faith, though it is difficult to make an interpretation on what this circumstance might constitute.
Question: What other types of petrels breed on Phillip Island?
Sentence: The providence petrel was hunted to local extinction by the beginning of the 19th century, but has shown signs of returning to breed on Phillip Island.
Question: What is known as a character's scalar value?
Sentence: Thus the range of code points that are available for use as characters is U+0000–U+D7FF and U+E000–U+10FFFF (1,112,064 code points).
Question: Who's photographs accompanied William Howard Russell documentation?
Sentence: Notable documentation of the war was provided by William Howard Russell (writing for The Times newspaper) and the photographs of Roger Fenton.:306–309 News from war correspondents reached all nations involved in the war and kept the public citizenry of those nations better informed of the day-to-day events of the war than had been the case in any other war to that date.
Question: Rabbi Yehuda Hachasid led a group of how many Jews into Jerusalem?
Sentence: The hopes and yearnings of Jews living in exile are an important theme of the Jewish belief system.
Question: Outside of Mexico, where else was the Spanish dollar minted?
Sentence: The first dollar coins issued by the United States Mint (founded 1792) were similar in size and composition to the Spanish dollar, minted in Mexico and Peru.
Question: The Times was founded by what publisher who also was the editor?
Sentence: The Times was founded by publisher John Walter on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, with Walter in the role of editor.
Question: What year was established as the International Day of Human Space Flight by the United Nations?
Sentence: Moscow and other cities in the USSR held mass demonstrations, the scale of which was second only to the World War II Victory Parade of 1945.
Question: Who recognized and gave Russia the special guardian role?
Sentence: Russia had previously obtained recognition from the Ottoman Empire of the Tsar's role as special guardian of the Orthodox Christians in Moldavia and Wallachia.
Question: How is Tucson replenishing its groundwater?
Sentence: The City of Tucson already provides reclaimed water to its inhabitants, but it is only used for "applications such as irrigation, dust control, and industrial uses."
Question: When was the Desert Land Act passed?
Sentence: This act brought mostly cattle and sheep ranchers into Montana, many of whom grazed their herds on the Montana prairie for three years, did little to irrigate the land and then abandoned it without paying the final fees.
Question: What was published in the IEEE Journal in 1988?
Sentence: Most, if not all, of the authors in the JSAC edition were also active in the MPEG-1 Audio committee.
Question: In what year did Melbourne set a target to reduce carbon emissions to net zero?
Sentence: Melbourne has one of the largest urban footprints in the world due to its low density housing, resulting in a vast suburban sprawl, with a high level of car dependence and minimal public transport outside of inner areas.
Question: Which dynasty ruled Tibet through a top-level administrative department?
Sentence: The Mongol Yuan dynasty, through the Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs, or Xuanzheng Yuan, ruled Tibet through a top-level administrative department.
Question: What was the tree renamed that Gautama achieved enlightenment under?
Sentence: Gautama was now determined to complete his spiritual quest.
Question: What would the grant allow the IJM to do
Sentence: In March 2006, the foundation announced a US$5 million grant for the International Justice Mission (IJM), a human rights organization based in Washington, D.C., US to work in the area of sex trafficking.
Question: What future awaited the first grandson of Queen Victoria?
Sentence: Almost exactly a year later, Princess Victoria gave birth to the Queen's first grandchild, Wilhelm, who would become the last German Kaiser.
Question: What was the extent of the Sangam period?
Sentence: The scholars of the Sangam period rose from among the common people who sought the patronage of the Tamil Kings but who mainly wrote about the common people and their concerns.
Question: What is yeovilton home to
Sentence: It has been announced twice, in 2006 and 2007, that manufacturing is to end at Thales Optics' Taunton site, but the trade unions and Taunton Deane District Council are working to reverse or mitigate these decisions.
Question: What genre was 'LA 2017'?
Sentence: This futuristic science fiction episode impressed Universal Studios and they signed him to a short contract.
Question: Who developed a device that improved on the shortcomings of Scheiner's invention?
Sentence: Still, it remained difficult for manufactures to reliably determine film speeds, often only by comparing with competing products, so that an increasing number of modified semi-Scheiner-based systems started to spread, which no longer followed Scheiner's original procedures and thereby defeated the idea of comparability.
Question: What was the overarching Prussian motive in starting a war with France?
Sentence: In Prussia, some officials considered a war against France both inevitable and necessary to arouse German nationalism in those states that would allow the unification of a great German empire.
Question: What was the most influential publication of the Enlightenment?
Sentence: The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring the French Revolution, which began in 1789.
Question: How many competition wins did Barcelona have in 2011?
Sentence: This Barcelona team, which reached a record six consecutive Champions League semi-finals and won 14 trophies in just four years under Pep Guardiola, is considered by some in the sport to be the greatest team of all time.
Question: What was one of the requirements for a new standard system in the US?
Sentence: A new standard had to be more efficient, needing less bandwidth for HDTV than the existing NTSC.
Question: What year was Bulevar Circunvalcion constructed?
Sentence: In 1878, Bulevar Circunvalación was constructed, a boulevard starting from Punta Carretas, going up to the north end of the city and then turning west to end at the beach of Capurro.
Question: Where did the US Army's 419th and 601st locate at to defend London?
Sentence: With the help of these three technologies, close to 90% of the V-1 missiles, on track to the defence zone around the port, were destroyed.
Question: How much money did it take to make Spectre?
Sentence: With a budget around $245 million, it is the most expensive Bond film and one of the most expensive films ever made.
Question: When is political change easier?
Sentence: Political change is often easier with a coalition government than in one-party or two-party dominant systems.[dubious – discuss]
Question: Ashkenazi Jews and Italians may be genetically similar due to what two factors?
Sentence: The study also found that with respect to non-Jewish European groups, the population most closely related to Ashkenazi Jews are modern-day Italians.
Question: What was Munshi lying about?
Sentence: Equerry Frederick Ponsonby (the son of Sir Henry) discovered that the Munshi had lied about his parentage, and reported to Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India, "the Munshi occupies very much the same position as John Brown used to do.
Question: In U.S. dollars, how much was the enormous loss Sony reported the month before Kutaragi's retirement announcement?
Sentence: Various news agencies, including The Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that this was due to poor sales, while SCEI maintains that Kutaragi had been planning his retirement for six months prior to the announcement.
Question: What action was not to be sought by state diviners?
Sentence: In the everyday world, many individuals sought to divine the future, influence it through magic, or seek vengeance with help from "private" diviners.
Question: Where can the public view items from the Royal Collection?
Sentence: Unlike the palace and the castle, the purpose-built gallery is open continually and displays a changing selection of items from the collection.
Question: How many vacuum tubes did the Colossus Mark I contain?
Sentence: Colossus Mark I contained 1500 thermionic valves (tubes), but Mark II with 2400 valves, was both 5 times faster and simpler to operate than Mark 1, greatly speeding the decoding process.
Question: Where does Nigeria's movie industry rank worldwide?
Sentence: The Nigerian film industry is known as Nollywood (a portmanteau of Nigeria and Hollywood) and is now the 2nd-largest producer of movies in the world.
Question: In what part of Richmond is the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts found?
Sentence: The affluent area between the Boulevard, Main Street, Broad Street, and VCU, known as the Fan, is home to Monument Avenue, an outstanding collection of Victorian architecture, and many students.
Question: What was the ordinary building material of Sumerians?
Sentence: Brick was the ordinary building material, and with it cities, forts, temples and houses were constructed.
Question: What law passed in 1940 regarding the population of the U.S. national bird?
Sentence: The Lacey Act of 1900 was the first federal law that regulated commercial animal markets.
Question: With whom did Tito's belief in self-determination cause a rift?
Sentence: Tito's strong belief in self-determination caused early rift with Stalin and consequently, the Eastern Bloc.
Question: What was the name of Kanye's ex-fiance?
Sentence: Months later, West and fiancée Alexis Phifer ended their engagement and their long-term intermittent relationship, which had begun in 2002.
Question: What type of fans is Hangzhou known for?
Sentence: Longjing tea (also called dragon well tea), originating in Hangzhou, is one of the most prestigious, if not the most prestigious Chinese tea.
Question: On what date did the first election for President of the RSFSR occur?
Sentence: On June 12, Boris Yeltsin was elected President of Russia by popular vote.
Question: What is the thalamus a part of?
Sentence: Therefore, Cannon also argued that it was not anatomically possible for sensory events to trigger a physiological response prior to triggering conscious awareness and emotional stimuli had to trigger both physiological and experiential aspects of emotion simultaneously.
Question: What made Pacinotti's motor an important advancement?
Sentence: In 1873, Gramme showed that his dynamo could be used as a motor, which he demonstrated to great effect at exhibitions in Vienna and Philadelphia by connecting two such DC motors at a distance of up to 2 km away from each other, one as a generator.
Question: What did the Allies call the Japanese convoys supplying the ground forces attacking Henderson Field?
Sentence: The convoys often faced night battles with enemy naval forces in which they expended destroyers that the IJN could ill-afford to lose.
Question: Wha was the executive producer of Pop Idol in 2001?
Sentence: Television producer Nigel Lythgoe saw it in Australia and helped bring it over to Britain.
Question: What year did this take place?
Sentence: Many[who?] expected BSkyB to make a bid to show some of the remaining FA Cup games for the remainder of the 2009–10 season which would include a semi-final and shared rights to the final.
Question: How many time has Greece participated in the Eurovision Song Contest?
Sentence: In 2005, Greece won with the song "My Number One", performed by Greek-Swedish singer Elena Paparizou.
Question: What was the vacuum created by the mercury displacement pump?
Sentence: Thereafter, research into the partial vacuum lapsed until 1850 when August Toepler invented the Toepler Pump and Heinrich Geissler invented the mercury displacement pump in 1855, achieving a partial vacuum of about 10 Pa (0.1 Torr).
Question: What date was Saint FM radio launched?
Sentence: It was launched in January 2005 and closed on 21 December 2012.
Question: What does social anthropology help develop an understanding of?
Sentence: Cultural anthropology is more related to philosophy, literature and the arts (how one's culture affects experience for self and group, contributing to more complete understanding of the people's knowledge, customs, and institutions), while social anthropology is more related to sociology and history.
Question: What else can it produce?
Sentence: This has important potential implications for a hydrogen economy, as hydrogen can be produced on-site and does not need to be transported.
Question: What measure was passed by Seattle voters in 2006?
Sentence: In 2006, voters in King County passed proposition 2 (Transit Now) which increased bus service hours on high ridership routes and paid for five bus rapid transit lines called RapidRide.
Question: When is the Mall of San Juan expected to open?
Sentence: Retailers Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue also have plans to come to the Mall of San Juan, a new high-end retail project with over 100 tenants.
Question: How many patients are served annually by HHC?
Sentence: A public benefit corporation with $6.7 billion in annual revenues, HHC is the largest municipal healthcare system in the United States serving 1.4 million patients, including more than 475,000 uninsured city residents.
Question: When was the Republic of China founded?
Sentence: However, the Qing Empire controlled large regions to the north, so revolutionaries asked Yuan Shikai to replace Sun as president in exchange for the abdication of Puyi, the Last Emperor.
Question: During which times can a perpetrator of genocide be charged?
Sentence: Despite official protests from other signatories (notably Cyprus and Norway) on the ethics and legal standing of these reservations, the immunity from prosecution they grant has been invoked from time to time, as when the United States refused to allow a charge of genocide brought against it by former Yugoslavia following the 1999 Kosovo War.
Question: In what war was Naguib wounded?
Sentence: Sirri Amer was close to King Farouk, and was nominated for the presidency of the Officer's Club—
Question: What was Jonathan Sterne's profession?
Sentence: The hacker then reverse-engineered the software, wrote a new user interface, and redistributed it for free, naming it "thank you Fraunhofer"".
Question: What dynasty was Ashot I part of?
Sentence: In the next few centuries, Djenghis Khan, Timurids, and the tribal Turkic federations of the Ak Koyunlu and the Kara Koyunlu ruled over the Armenians.
Question: Where did Baptist missionaries take an active role in the anti-slavery movement?
Sentence: Elsewhere in the Americas, in the Caribbean in particular, Baptist missionaries took an active role in the anti-slavery movement.
Question: What did Whitehead believe about an entity's relation to other entities?
Sentence: For Whitehead, creativity is the absolute principle of existence, and every entity (whether it is a human being, a tree, or an electron) has some degree of novelty in how it responds to other entities, and is not fully determined by causal or mechanistic laws.
Question: Which road runs from the Washington Bridge to the Henry Hudson Parkway?
Sentence: 181st Street is a major thoroughfare running through the Washington Heights neighborhood.
Question: In 1979, which corporation was struggling to run The Times?
Sentence: Management were left with no choice but to find a buyer who was in a position to guarantee the survival of both titles, and also one who had the resources and was committed to funding the introduction of modern printing methods.
Question: What percentage of the population was "Black other"?
Sentence: According to the Office for National Statistics, at the 2001 census there were over a million black people in the United Kingdom; 1% of the total population described themselves as "Black Caribbean", 0.8% as "Black African", and 0.2% as "Black other".
Question: Which is lines are commonly higher in density, laidlines or chainlines?
Sentence: They run perpendicular to the "chainlines", which are further apart.
Question: In what branch can books, other than scripture, be used for the purpose of oath taking?
Sentence: In Progressive continental Freemasonry, books other than scripture are permissible, a cause of rupture between Grand Lodges.
Question: What ancient writer gave later eras the idea that cotton might be a tree?
Sentence: Because Herodotus had written in his Histories, Book III, 106, that in India trees grew in the wild producing wool, it was assumed that the plant was a tree, rather than a shrub.
Question: What city had the second highest ParkScore rating?
Sentence: In its 2013 ParkScore ranking, The Trust for Public Land reported that the park system in New York City was the second best park system among the 50 most populous U.S. cities, behind the park system of Minneapolis.
Question: Where was Yeltsin during the coup?
Sentence: The organizers tried but ultimately failed to arrest Yeltsin, who rallied opposition to the coup with speech-making atop a tank.
Question: What took over Lake Paranoa's shores contrary to the plan?
Sentence: Originally the city planners envisioned extensive public areas along the shores of the artificial lake, but during early development private clubs, hotels, and upscale residences and restaurants gained footholds around the water.
Question: At what rank was IBM rated as a global brand by Interbrand?
Sentence: Globally, the company was ranked the 31st largest in terms of revenue by Forbes for 2011.
Question: What were the followers of Jan Hus called?
Sentence: Hus gained a great following in Bohemia, and in 1414, he was requested to appear at the Council of Constance to defend his cause.
Question: When did his reign end?
Sentence: Among the attempts at resistance were small leftist guerrilla groups such as those led by José Castro Veiga ("El Piloto") and Benigno Andrade ("Foucellas"), both of whom were ultimately captured and executed.
Question: To what city was Henry Brown shipped as freight?
Sentence: The resistance to the slave trade was growing by the mid-nineteenth century; in one famous case in 1848, Henry "Box" Brown made history by having himself nailed into a small box and shipped from Richmond to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, escaping slavery.
Question: What was amended to provide more office space in downtown?
Sentence: A 47-metre, 12-storey office building, which includes retail space and a parking garage, was the first building to be approved in this area.
Question: Along with rhetoric and logic, what constituted the trivium?
Sentence: The basic learning of the letters and numbers remained the province of the family or a village priest, but the secondary subjects of the trivium—grammar, rhetoric, logic—were studied in cathedral schools or in schools provided by cities.
Question: What year did Mexico City host the olympics?
Sentence: The city hosted the 1955 and 1975 Pan American Games, the last after Santiago and São Paulo withdrew.
Question: Opera was introduced in what year?
Sentence: Its Opera-mini version has an additive share, in April 2011 amounting to 1.1% of overall browser use, but focused on the fast-growing mobile phone web browser market, being preinstalled on over 40 million phones.
Question: What year was the PlayStation 3 released?
Sentence: Its successor, the PlayStation 4, was released later in November 2013.
Question: How many published reports of American volumes existed in 1910?
Sentence: But citations to English decisions gradually disappeared during the 19th century as American courts developed their own principles to resolve the legal problems of the American people.
Question: What other popular music player did Apple compare their new product to?
Sentence: Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had well-established mainstream markets, but the company found existing digital music players "big and clunky or small and useless" with user interfaces that were "unbelievably awful," so Apple decided to develop its own.
Question: What was the name of Victoria's husband?
Sentence: Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe".
Question: When did the Tacoma-Seattle rail service end?
Sentence: Rails on city streets were paved over or removed, and the opening of the Seattle trolleybus system brought the end of streetcars in Seattle in 1941.
Question: What are woodwind instrument's reeds often made out of?
Sentence: Despite their collective name, not all woodwind instruments are made entirely of wood.
Question: Who said that all of the tussles in the Premier League made it interesting, even if only four teams dominated?
Sentence: During this decade, and particularly from 2002 to 2009, they dominated the top four spots, which came with UEFA Champions League qualification, taking all top four places in 5 out of 6 seasons from 2003–04 to 2008–09 inclusive, with Arsenal going as far as winning the league without losing a single game in 2003–04, the only time it has ever happened in the Premier League.
Question: How many congregations meet on the BYU campus every Sunday?
Sentence: Over 900 rooms on BYU campus are used for the purposes of LDS Church congregations.
Question: Afonso heard Jesus promising what?
Sentence: Ecstatic, Afonso heard Jesus promising victories for the coming battles, as well as God's wish to act through Afonso, and his descendants, in order to create an empire which would carry His name to unknown lands, thus choosing the Portuguese to perform great tasks.
Question: What is the 'Early Modern period" known as in Japan?
Sentence: And in Korea, from the rising of Joseon Dynasty to the enthronement of King Gojong is referred to as the early modern period.
Question: How does Unicode encode characters?
Sentence: Unicode maintains a list of uniquely named character sequences for abstract characters that are not directly encoded in Unicode.
Question: On what date was the 12 GB version of the Super Slim released in the UK?
Sentence: In the United Kingdom, the 500 GB model was released on September 28, 2012; and the 12 GB model was released on October 12, 2012.
Question: What is a common damage to vinyl records?
Sentence: This is the origin of the phrase "like a broken record" or "like a scratched record", which is often used to describe a person or thing that continually repeats itself.
Question: what is it called when fiber-optics are used for end users?
Sentence: Using fiber-optics to end users is called Fiber To The Home or similar names.
Question: What is one of the provinces?
Sentence: The United States Geological Survey (USGS) defines the Appalachian Highlands physiographic division as consisting of thirteen provinces: the Atlantic Coast Uplands, Eastern Newfoundland Atlantic, Maritime Acadian Highlands, Maritime Plain, Notre Dame and Mégantic Mountains, Western Newfoundland Mountains, Piedmont, Blue Ridge, Valley and Ridge, Saint Lawrence Valley, Appalachian Plateaus, New England province, and the Adirondack provinces.
Question: What year did Simon Cowell announce that he was leaving American Idol?
Sentence: However both Carey and Minaj left after one season, and Randy Jackson also announced that he would depart the show after twelve seasons as a judge but would return as a mentor.