xiangpku/GLUE huggingface dataset:
Question: How many beer houses existed throughout Britain eight years after the passage of the Beer Act?
Sentence: Because it was so easy to obtain permission and the profits could be huge compared to the low cost of gaining permission, the number of beer houses was continuing to rise and in some towns nearly every other house in a street could be a beer house.
Question: What are some shows that Attenborough created with the BBC Natural History Unit?
Sentence: This unit is now famed throughout the world for producing high quality programmes with Attenborough such as Life on Earth, The Private Life of Plants, The Blue Planet, The Life of Mammals, Planet Earth and Frozen Planet.
Question: Which article stipulates that the structure of each Federal State's government must "conform to the principles of republican, democratic, and social government, based on the rule of law"?
Sentence: The states are parliamentary republics and the relationship between their legislative and executive branches mirrors that of the federal system: the legislatures are popularly elected for four or five years (depending on the state), and the Minister-President is then chosen by a majority vote among the Landtag's members.
Question: What does rhythmic gymastics combine together?
Sentence: According to FIG rules, only women compete in rhythmic gymnastics.
Question: What was Izvestiya?
Sentence: Several months later, on 3 November 2011 the Russian newspaper Izvestiya reported that the naval building plan now included (first) the construction of a new shipyard capable of building large hull ships, after which Moscow will build two (80,000 tons full load each) nuclear-powered aircraft carriers by 2027.
Question: What type of climate did Antarctica have in the Cretaceous period?
Sentence: In the Eocene epoch, about 40 Ma Australia-New Guinea separated from Antarctica, so that latitudinal currents could isolate Antarctica from Australia, and the first ice began to appear.
Question: Are printed editions immune to variation?
Sentence: In contrast to this approach, some textual critics prefer to identify the single best surviving text, and not to combine readings from multiple sources.
Question: What organization's rating system promotes sustainability?
Sentence: The U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
Question: What did the studies show there was a lack of understanding of by the population?
Sentence: These statistics point to the complexities surrounding the lack of health/nutrition literacy and reveal the degree to which they are embedded in the social structure and interconnected with other problems.
Question: What did the 2008 OECD report show the average tourist expenditure while in Greece was?
Sentence: The same survey showed that the average tourist expenditure while in Greece was $1,073, ranking Greece 10th in the world.
Question: When did Pitatus offer his solution to the leap year problem?
Sentence: Thus Pitatus' solution would have commended itself to the astronomers.
Question: Who was Michael Mak Kwok-fung?
Sentence: Hong Kong legislator Michael Mak Kwok-fung and activist Chan Cheong, both members of the League of Social Democrats, were not allowed to enter Macau.
Question: Which countries did most Estonians desire to flee to?
Sentence: In the face of the country being re-occupied by the Red Army, tens of thousands of Estonians (including a majority of the education, culture, science, political and social specialists) chose to either retreat with the Germans or flee to Finland or Sweden where they sought refuge in other western countries, often by refugee ships such as the SS Walnut.
Question: Who was Charles Babbage's son?
Sentence: Nevertheless, his son, Henry Babbage, completed a simplified version of the analytical engine's computing unit (the mill) in 1888.
Question: Which equipment was used for the Doomsday Project?
Sentence: The Domesday Project systems also included a genlock, allowing video frames, clips and audio to be mixed with graphics originated from the BBC Master; this was used to great effect for displaying high resolution photographs and maps, which could then be zoomed into.
Question: What was the name of the original Digimon character?
Sentence: As such, many of the early Digimon—including Tyrannomon, the first one ever created—were based on dinosaurs.
Question: What century produced the first Russian univeristy, library, theatre, public museum, and independent press?
Sentence: This era produced the first Russian university, library, theatre, public museum, and independent press.
Question: What other pigment was Turkey red compared to?
Sentence: Turkey red used madder as the colorant, but the process was longer and more complicated, involving multiple soaking of the fabrics in lye, olive oil, sheep's dung, and other ingredients.
Question: In what way did von Neumann make spectacular contributions to measure theory?
Sentence: In a series of famous papers, von Neumann made spectacular contributions to measure theory.
Question: Who commissioned the Navicella mosaic?
Sentence: The great Navicella mosaic (1305–1313) in the atrium of the Old St. Peter's is attributed to Giotto di Bondone.
Question: Who are Kautilya and Vishnugupta usually grouped with?
Sentence: An ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy by Kautilya and Viṣhṇugupta, who are traditionally identified with Chāṇakya (c. 350–-283 BCE).
Question: Is Egypt able to sustain just from its own energy production?
Sentence: In 2013, the Egyptian General Petroleum Co (EGPC) said the country will cut exports of natural gas and tell major industries to slow output this summer to avoid an energy crisis and stave off political unrest, Reuters has reported.
Question: How much of the Latino population did Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans make up in 1991?
Sentence: In 1991, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans made up 80% of the Latino population in the United States.
Question: What did Plato study?
Sentence: Similarly, Aristotle built upon Plato's analysis to include historical empirical evidence in his analysis.
Question: Which tributary is located on the southern border?
Sentence: Furthermore, some small parts on the southern border are drained by tributaries of the Main (a tributary of the Rhine).
Question: How many blacks served in the Ottoman Army during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18?
Sentence: The Ottoman Army also deployed an estimated 30,000 Black African troops and cavalrymen to its expedition in Hungary during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18.
Question: Where is the location of the original Olympic events?
Sentence: Following the recent unrest in Tibet, three members of Reporters Without Borders, including Robert Ménard, breached security and attempted to disrupt a speech by Liu Qi, the head of Beijing's Olympic organising committee during the torch lighting ceremony in Olympia, Greece.
Question: Many Carnival traditions form an integral part of whose calendar?
Sentence: Italian Carnival is sometimes thought to be derived from the ancient Roman festivals of Saturnalia and Bacchanalia.
Question: Where can the public view items from 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: The exhibit inaugurated by the Dalai Lama opened when?
Sentence: It also houses temporary exhibits; one on Tibet was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in September 2011.
Question: Who posited the existence of God?
Sentence: For example, God's omniscience may seem to imply that God knows how free agents will choose to act.
Question: What group was considered at the top of the Strict Class Society?
Sentence: The daimyo, or lords, were at the top, followed by the warrior-caste of samurai, with the farmers, artisans, and traders ranking below.
Question: What does a passive infrared sensor react to?
Sentence: Passive infrared sensors react to changes in heat, such as the pattern created by a moving person.
Question: Who was the Liberal Party of Australia's longest-serving leader?
Sentence: The party's founder and longest-serving leader Robert Menzies envisaged that Australia's middle class would form its main constituency.
Question: When was Victoria's Golden Jubilee?
Sentence: In 1887, the British Empire celebrated Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
Question: The city's bus system is being over hauled to work with what other program?
Sentence: Other environmentally focused initiatives include curbside recycling, curbside composting bins (in addition to trash, yard-waste, and recycle bins), farmers' markets, community gardens, garden-share, an urban forest initiative, a hazardous materials home-collection service, green business certification, and a municipal bus system which is currently being revamped to integrate with the soon-to-open Expo Line.
Question: Who invented the first tide-predicting machine in 1872?
Sentence: It used a system of pulleys and wires to automatically calculate predicted tide levels for a set period at a particular location.
Question: For what purpose are cottonseed hulls used in feed?
Sentence: Cottonseed hulls can be added to dairy cattle rations for roughage.
Question: Who runs Yale College?
Sentence: While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs.
Question: In what district of London was the Punch Bowl located?
Sentence: The Coleherne public house in Earls Court was a well-known gay pub from the 1950s.
Question: The Blood of Saint John was made from an insect, which one?
Sentence: For those with even more money there was Polish Cochineal; also known as Kermes vermilio or "Blood of Saint John", which was made from a related insect, the Margodes polonicus.
Question: What reason did Sony give for taking out OtherOS?
Sentence: The 'OtherOS' functionality was not present in the updated PS Slim models, and the feature was subsequently removed from previous versions of the PS3 as part of the machine's firmware update version 3.21 which was released on April 1, 2010; Sony cited security concerns as the rationale.
Question: Charities of which nation benefit from the IBM partnership with Pennies?
Sentence: Customers donate just a few pence (1p-99p) a time and every donation goes to UK charities.
Question: Who did a documentary on Motown?
Sentence: The Andantes and The Funk Brothers, the Motown house band that was featured in Paul Justman's 2002 documentary film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, based on Allan Slutsky's book of the same name.
Question: What effect does cloud coverage have on the amount of solar energy available?
Sentence: This limits the amount of energy that solar panels can absorb in one day.
Question: Who did Nasser enlist to plan the Free Officer's coup?
Sentence: In May, Nasser received word that Farouk knew the names of the Free Officers and intended to arrest them; he immediately entrusted Free Officer Zakaria Mohieddin with the task of planning the government takeover by army units loyal to the association.
Question: What major river is located in Paris?
Sentence: Paris is located in northern central France.
Question: What declined from the 5th to the 13th centuries
Sentence: Emperor Harsha of Kannauj succeeded in reuniting northern India during his reign in the 7th century, after the collapse of the Gupta dynasty.
Question: Who first referenced the Armenians?
Sentence: He relates that the people spoke a language that to his ear sounded like the language of the Persians.
Question: What is encoded about a subject in verbs in Czech?
Sentence: As a pro-drop language, in Czech an intransitive sentence can consist of only a verb; information about its subject is encoded in the verb.
Question: Towards the end of what century did it become important for more people in Dutch colonies to speak Dutch?
Sentence: In the last quarter of the 19th century, however, a local elite gained proficiency in Dutch so as to meet the needs of expanding bureaucracy and business.
Question: What did they fear would happen?
Sentence: They refused to be put into just one category.
Question: Who made the second reference to the word Christian in the Bible?
Sentence: The second mention of the term follows in Acts 26:28, where Herod Agrippa II replied to Paul the Apostle, "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
Question: Charleston Harbor is an inlet of what ocean?
Sentence: Charleston is the oldest and second-largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Question: On the ten point scale what would an asexual person be considered as?
Sentence: A heterosexual individual may be A0, B5; a homosexual individual may be A5, B0; an asexual would be A0, B0; and someone with an intense attraction to both sexes would be A9, B9.
Question: How many secondary school students attend comprehensive schools in England?
Sentence: About 90% of British secondary school pupils now attend comprehensive schools.
Question: To what is the organic matter in asphalt similar?
Sentence: Asphalt/bitumen is similar to the organic matter in carbonaceous meteorites.
Question: Which team member has his own fan following?
Sentence: One of the torch attendants, dubbed "Second Right Brother," has developed a significant online fan-base, particularly among China's female netizens.
Question: How were the Ghaznavids different from the original Turkics that migrated into Iran?
Sentence: These Turks had been Persianized and had adopted Persian models of administration and rulership.
Question: Where did Roger Williams establish a Baptist church?
Sentence: In 1639, Williams established a Baptist church in Providence, Rhode Island, and Clarke began a Baptist church in Newport, Rhode Island.
Question: What year was an underwater telegraph line made that connected Montevideo with Buenos Aires?
Sentence: In 1866, an underwater telegraph line connected the city with Buenos Aires.
Question: What did retroactively applying the ESA95 methodology result in raising the budget deficit to?
Sentence: However, it was the retroactive application of ESA95 methodology (applied since 2000) by Eurostat, that finally raised the reference year (1999) budget deficit to 3.38% of GDP, thus exceeding the 3% limit.
Question: What is Darwin's belief about the accumulation of adaptive variations?
Sentence: He knew that his readers were already familiar with the concept of transmutation of species from Vestiges, and his introduction ridicules that work as failing to provide a viable mechanism.
Question: Besides the County Cricket Ground, at what other cricket ground did the Hampshire County Cricket Club used to play?
Sentence: There is also the Southampton Evening Cricket League.
Question: The New Delhi town plan was influenced by what type of architecture?
Sentence: All other decisions were subordinate to this, and it was this framework that dictated the choice and application of symbology and influences from both Hindu and Islamic architecture.
Question: Who was in charge of the ship named Florida?
Sentence: On September 21, 1529, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón commanded the Spanish ship Florida, on his second attempt to recross the Pacific from the Maluku Islands.
Question: What concern did Hills raise about police models?
Sentence: Police development-aid to weak, failed or failing states is another form of transnational policing that has garnered attention.
Question: What type of art is shown in The Museo Carrillo Gil?
Sentence: The Museo Tamayo was opened in the mid-1980s to house the collection of international contemporary art donated by famed Mexican (born in the state of Oaxaca) painter Rufino Tamayo.
Question: What did the pamphlet that Asa Gray published defend?
Sentence: Eventually it was realised that supernatural intervention could not be a scientific explanation, and naturalistic mechanisms such as neo-Lamarckism were favoured over natural selection as being more compatible with purpose.
Question: At what company were Meucci's prototypes supposedly lost?
Sentence: Meucci's evidence in this case was disputed due to a lack of material evidence for his inventions as his working models were purportedly lost at the laboratory of American District Telegraph (ADT) of New York, which was later incorporated as a subsidiary of Western Union in 1901.
Question: what year did the EIC have 26,000 troops in their employ
Sentence: In its first century and half, the EIC used a few hundred soldiers as guards.
Question: What type of window is often found above the main portal at cathedrals in France such as the Reims Cathedral?
Sentence: Above the main portal there is generally a large window, like that at York Minster, or a group of windows such as those at Ripon Cathedral.
Question: When was his nomination as apostolic visitor made official?
Sentence: His nomination as apostolic visitor was made official on 19 March.
Question: What did India declare Hyderabad om 2012?
Sentence: After the 1908 flooding of the Musi River, the city was expanded and civic monuments constructed, particularly during the rule of Mir Osman Ali Khan (the VIIth Nizam), whose patronage of architecture led to him being referred to as the maker of modern Hyderabad.
Question: When did Manchu ethnicity become important again in the Eight Banners?
Sentence: It was in Qianlong's reign that the Qianlong Emperor, concerned about maintaining Manchu identity, re-emphasized Manchu ethnicity, ancestry, language, and culture in the Eight Banners and started a mass discharge of Han Bannermen from the Eight Banners, either asking them to voluntarily resign from the Banner rolls or striking their names off.
Question: When did Queen + Adam Lambert perform at the iHeartRadio Music Festival?
Sentence: On 20 September 2013, Queen + Adam Lambert performed at the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Question: What person suggested a landing spot for helicopters near the epicenter?
Sentence: For example, the official news agency Xinhua set up an online rescue request center in order to find the blind spots of disaster recovery.
Question: What was he also known as?
Sentence: He was known affectionately as "Good Pope John".
Question: Who constructed the Bitumont oil separation plant?
Sentence: Other roads in Alberta were paved with oil sands, but it was generally not economic.
Question: How many bus lines does the Optile Consortium manage?
Sentence: The syndicate coordinates public transport and contracts it out to the RATP (operating 347 bus lines, the Métro, eight tramway lines, and sections of the RER), the SNCF (operating suburban rails, one tramway line and the other sections of the RER) and the Optile consortium of private operators managing 1,176 bus lines.
Question: What is the primary use of Compact Disc + Graphics?
Sentence: The disc can be played on a regular audio CD player, but when played on a special CD+G player, it can output a graphics signal (typically, the CD+G player is hooked up to a television set or a computer monitor); these graphics are almost exclusively used to display lyrics on a television set for karaoke performers to sing along with.
Question: Spectre passed which movie to have the largest per screen opening average?
Sentence: The film also broke the record for the best per-screen opening average with $110,000, a record previously held by The Dark Knight with $100,200.
Question: Digital physicists consider what to be more important than matter?
Sentence: Their objections were also shared by some founders of quantum theory, such as Max Planck, who wrote:
Question: What 2 techniques did Von Neumann use to exclude sets in his doctoral thesis in 1925?
Sentence: In his doctoral thesis of 1925, von Neumann demonstrated two techniques to exclude such sets—the axiom of foundation and the notion of class.
Question: Which pope declared that cardinals would be from Rome?
Sentence: In cities other than Rome, the name cardinal began to be applied to certain church men as a mark of honour.
Question: In some countries there is no formal deal but what that makes prosecuting bribes difficult?
Sentence: Furthermore, such a dissociation makes the prosecution of bribery offences easier since it can be very difficult to prove that two parties (the bribe-giver and the bribe-taker) have formally agreed upon a corrupt deal.
Question: When were plans for Twilight Princess HD revealed?
Sentence: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, is being developed by Tantalus Media for the Wii U. Officially announced during a Nintendo Direct presentation on November 12, 2015, it features enhanced graphics and Amiibo functionality.
Question: What can pathogenes cause?
Sentence: Pathogenic bacteria are a major cause of human death and disease and cause infections such as tetanus, typhoid fever, diphtheria, syphilis, cholera, foodborne illness, leprosy and tuberculosis.
Question: In what year did Pfizer's patent over Lipitor expire?
Sentence: The top ten best-selling drugs of 2013 totaled $75.6 billion in sales, with the anti-inflammatory drug Humira being the best-selling drug worldwide at $10.7 billion in sales.
Question: Which film had Robbie Williams performing a cover of Queen's We Are the Champions?
Sentence: In 2006, Brittany Murphy also recorded a cover of the same song for the 2006 film Happy Feet.
Question: How many days of the year does San Diego typically experience temperatures above 70 degrees Fahrenheit ?
Sentence: The city has a mild climate year-round, with an average of 201 days above 70 °F (21 °C) and low rainfall (9–13 inches
Question: What was the result of the War of Independence?
Sentence: The creation of modern-day Eritrea is a result of the incorporation of independent, distinct kingdoms and sultanates (for example, Medri Bahri and the Sultanate of Aussa) eventually resulting in the formation of Italian Eritrea.
Question: In the early 2000s, what type bubble did some economists believe the Fed needed to create to replace the Nasdaq bubble?
Sentence: As early as 2002 it was apparent that credit was fueling housing instead of business investment as some economists went so far as to advocate that the Fed "needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble".
Question: A party's consent to a treaty is invalid if it had been given by an agent or body without power to do so under what?
Sentence: States are reluctant to inquire into the internal affairs and processes of other states, and so a "manifest violation" is required such that it would be "objectively evident to any State dealing with the matter".
Question: What school was Trubetzkoy a member of?
Sentence: An influential school of phonology in the interwar period was the Prague school.
Question: Who was the brother of Hassan ibn 'Ali?
Sentence: They support their discussion by citing Genesis 17:19–20 and Sunni hadith:Sahih Muslim, Hadith number 4478, English translation by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui.[original research?]
Question: What team did the owner of the Detroit Drive buy that led him to sell the Drive?
Sentence: One of the league's early success stories was the Detroit Drive.
Question: Who established the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia?
Sentence: Throughout its history, the kingdom of Armenia enjoyed both periods of independence and periods of autonomy subject to contemporary empires.
Question: At what conventions did Microsoft announce IPTV support through the 360?
Sentence: At the 2007, 2008, and 2009 Consumer Electronics Shows, Microsoft had announced that IPTV services would soon be made available to use through the Xbox 360.
Question: What is Oklahoma's nickname?
Sentence: The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning "red people".
Question: Many deaths occurred before World War II due to what?
Sentence: Compared to arsphenamine, the sulfonamides had a broader spectrum of activity and were far less toxic, rendering them useful for infections caused by pathogens such as streptococci.