billhdzhao/TriviaQA-3000 huggingface dataset:
Question: The 2000-yr old Banaue rice terraces built largely by hand in the Ifugao mountains that cover 4000 square miles are in which country?
Answer: philippine
Question: Who is the oldest man to go into space?
Answer: john herschel glenn jr
Question: Which American author is mentioned in the Beatles song l am the Walrus?
Answer: poe
Question: Ellis Achong’s style of left-arm wrist spin gave rise to what term in the cricket vocabulary?
Answer: chinamen
Question: Eddie Valiant, Judge Doom and Dolores are all characters in which Disney film?
Answer: roger rabbit
Question: Out of all the animals which make up the Chinese horoscope, which comes first alphabetically?
Answer: dogs
Question: In which village in north-eastern France was Joan of Arc born?
Answer: domremy
Question: A madeleine, originating in France, is a type of what?
Answer: cakes
Question: What were Bertha, Cristobel and Dolly on 20 July 2008?
Answer: storm
Question: The old Anglicized-French occupational word 'colporteur' was a distributor of?
Answer: bible
Question: Founded in New York in 1853, Steinway & Sons manufactures what type of musical instrument?
Answer: upright piano
Question: Which Scottish city is known as the ‘Capital of the Highlands’?
Answer: city of inverness
Question: Born in 1902, which Briton composed ‘Façade’ and ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’?
Answer: william walton
Question: What type of liquor is also known as "white lightning"?
Answer: moonshining
Question: What name is given to Toyota’s luxury vehicle division?
Answer: lexus personalized settings
Question: What World War II figure was known as Old Blood and Guts?
Answer: patton
Question: In the Australian TV series, what type of animal was `Skippy`?
Answer: kangaroos
Question: Which American president had a sign on his desk saying 'The buck stops here'?
Answer: president truman
Question: Who chaired South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 – 1998?
Answer: desmond tutu
Question: What is the title of the song that Nick Berry took to No. 1 in 1986?
Answer: every loser wins
Question: The novels, 'On the Beach' and 'A Town Like Alice' were written by whom?
Answer: nevil shute norway
Question: Charles Guiteau assassinated which US President in 1881?
Answer: president garfield
Question: Anchor, Honeycomb, Satin and Faggot are all what?
Answer: embroidery stitches
Question: The 1992 romantic comedy film "The Cutting Edge" portrayed which sport?
Answer: figure skating
Question: Who was the commander of the Luftwaffe during World War II and died by taking poison after being condemned to death at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946?
Answer: goering
Question: What do Americans call the item of clothing we call ‘braces’?
Answer: suspenders
Question: Which Olympian, was the first person to carry the Olympic torch when it came to the UK in May 2012
Answer: ben ainslie
Question: The Crocodile Hunter was a nickname given to what Australian naturalist, who was killed by a slightly irritated sting ray in 2006?
Answer: death of steve irwin
Question: ‘The Telephone Song’ and ‘Last Night of the World’ are songs from which musical?
Answer: miss saigon
Question: Francis Drake captained the ship "Revenge" during naval engagements concerning what?
Answer: invincible armada
Question: The Soviets invaded which Baltic country in November 1939?
Answer: finnland
Question: In which city will you find the Jacques Cartier Bridge?
Answer: montréal
Question: Sometimes known as 'kasha' which flour is used in North America and Eastern Europe for making pancakes?
Answer: fagopyrum esculentum
Question: Who wrote the poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'?
Answer: lord tennyson
Question: Who did David succeed as King of Judah, and later the whole of Israel?
Answer: king saul
Question: Which character has been played on TV by Phil Silvers and on film by Steve Martin?
Answer: phil silvers show
Question: In the Book of Genesis, what is described as 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high?
Answer: noahs ark
Question: When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain
Answer: macbeth
Question: The English novelist Sax Rohmer is best known for creating which prototypical ethnic villain who is now associated with a distinctive mustache?
Answer: fu manchu
Question: Mother Teresa received the Order of Merit from whose hands in 1983?
Answer: queen
Question: Which gland produces a hormone that increases heart rate and blood pressure in times of stress?
Answer: adrenal glands
Question: What information did members of the Waffen S.S. have tattooed on their arms?
Answer: blood group
Question: Which supermodel was discovered at the age of 17 in a Dusseldorf night club?
Answer: claudia schiffer
Question: Which QC chaired an enquiry into MPs expenses in 2009?
Answer: sir thomas legg
Question: Who, on 17m October 2008, became the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in Test cricket?
Answer: tendulkar
Question: Who is the only British prime minister born outside the British Isles?
Answer: bonar law
Question: Who played the title role in the 1998 film ‘Stepmom’?
Answer: julia robert
Question: What was the pseudonym of the Far Eastern despot Saloth Sar?
Answer: saloth sar
Question: Which is the only city in the Irish province of Connacht?
Answer: galway city
Question: In the 1920s Japanese and Austrian physicians Kyusaku Ogino and Hermann Knaus devised the contraceptive method called popularly?
Answer: rhythms
Question: Which member of the royal family is patron of the Scottish Rugby Union?
Answer: princess anne
Question: Which animals have types named Black, White and Sumatran?
Answer: rhinos
Question: To turn a Welsh rarebit into a buck rarebit what is placed on top?
Answer: poached egg
Question: Currently, the oldest flying space shuttle in the fleet, which shuttle was launched last week on mission STS-133 to the International Space Station?
Answer: diſcovery
Question: Which famous artist and ornithologist is the son of an Antarctic explorer and adventurer?
Answer: peter scott
Question: Arranged alphabetically, which would the last book of the Old Testament?
Answer: zephaniah
Question: Which English comic actor do you associate with the line "Infamy, Infamy, They've all got it in for me"?
Answer: kenneth williams
Question: Which US President was assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz at the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York?
Answer: president mckinley
Question: Actress Audrey Hepburn sang ‘Moon River’ in which 1961 film?
Answer: breakfast at tiffany
Question: In which island nation were president Marc Ravalomanama's offices stormed by his own country's army in March 2009?
Answer: madagascar
Question: Who was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 ?
Answer: anna eleanor roosevelt
Question: Which TV family lived at 518 Crestview Drive Beverley Hills
Answer: beverly hillbillies
Question: Which overture written by Felix Mendelssohn was inspired by the echoes of a Scottish sea cave that he visited in 1829 and was named for it?
Answer: hebrides overture
Question: Which episode of Star Wars is being filmed 2014-15?
Answer: 7
Question: Charlotte Dod was a fine skater, an international hockey player, the best woman archer in England, and a champion golfer; all after she gave up her first game for lack of effective opposition. What game was that?
Answer: lawn tennis
Question: Which musician, who died in 1987, famously had a candelabra on his piano?
Answer: wladziu valentino liberace
Question: Which is the smallest, most westerly and most southerly of the Canary Islands?
Answer: el hierro island
Question: Whose guitar fetched £198,000 at auction in 1990
Answer: jimi hendrix
Question: What farmyard animal is used to search for Truffles?
Answer: pigs
Question: The 'Rid Vega' and 'Sama Veda' are sacred texts of which religion?
Answer: hindu religion
Question: Whernside is the highest peak in which National Park?
Answer: yorkshire dales national park authority
Question: Who was said to have ridden naked through the streets of Coventry in the 11th Century?
Answer: godiva
Question: The word ‘durst’ is the past tense of which English word?
Answer: dare
Question: Which 'Oscar' winning actress was, in 1986, the first African-American entrant in the 'Miss World' contest?
Answer: halle berry
Question: Which boat, launched in I960, was the Royal Navy’s first nuclear submarine?
Answer: hms dreadnought
Question: The glass-walled railway bridge, known locally as Hielanman’s Umbrella, is located in which British city?
Answer: glasgow
Question: Which means of transportation was invented by the American Jonathon Scobie in 1836
Answer: rickshaw
Question: Published in 1826 whose song, a rendition of 'Ave Maria', is classified as Opus 52 no 6?
Answer: franz schubert
Question: What writer was expelled from West Point for showing up for a public parade wearing only a white belt and gloves?
Answer: poe
Question: William Shatner is the spokesperson for what online discount travel sight?
Answer: priceline negotiator
Question: Which famous race takes place annually between Putney and Mortlake?
Answer: boat race
Question: The film actor Norma Jean Mortenson is better known by what name?
Answer: norma jeane
Question: A hazzan, or chazzan, leads the congregation in songful prayer in which religion?
Answer: jews
Question: What name is given to a triangle which contains no equal sides or equal angles?
Answer: scalene
Question: What was the nationality of Adolphus Sachs, the inventor of the Saxophone?
Answer: belgium
Question: Which former Liverpool player (1967-1979) managed Rotherham in 1981/82?
Answer: emlyn hughes
Question: When did Channel Four and the Welsh language channel SC4 first broadcast in the UK?
Answer: 1982
Question: One of the Seven Wonders of the World was at Alexandria. What type of structure was it?
Answer: lighthouse
Question: Which Mozart opera has a title that can be translated into English as 'Thus Do All Women'?
Answer: così fan tutte
Question: Where would you find a pauldron and a vambrace?
Answer: plate armor
Question: What nickname was given to German Chancellor Otto Van Bismarck?
Answer: von bismarck
Question: Which spirit gives 'Sauce a la Normandie' its name?
Answer: calvados
Question: Who discovered, in 1895, that X Rays could be applied to medicine?
Answer: rontgen
Question: From the roots of which plant is Tapioca made?
Answer: tapioca plant
Question: Which Caribbean country, consisting of two main islands, is the smallest nation in the Western hemisphere?
Answer: federation of saint kitts and nevis
Question: The RAF flew 1 million Euros from the UK to which country in March 2013, as a contingency measure ‘to provide military personnel with loans’?
Answer: cyprus
Question: Doctor Herman Tarnower was responsible for which well known diet
Answer: scarsdale medical diet
Question: What word means "to drink" and is a homophone of the word coif?
Answer: quaff
Question: What is the system of sending messages by holding the arms, or two flags, in certain positions according to an alphabetic code?
Answer: semaphore
Question: What name is given to the full moon after a Harvest Moon?
Answer: sap moon
Question: What is the correct name for the "Clock" in a taxi cab
Answer: taximeter
Question: Who discovered that an individual's fingerprints remain the same for their lifetime?
Answer: francis galton
Question: What name was given to the conflict between Great Britain and Spain from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742?
Answer: war of jenkins
Question: What is a common factor in the careers of Giacomo Puccini, Paul McCartney, and Arthur Sullivan?
Answer: operas
Question: Which notable Englishman was murdered on 29th December 1170?
Answer: thomas becket
Question: Prunus persica is the scientific name of which fruit?
Answer: prunus persica
Question: The five species of which mammal are the Black, White, Indian, Javan and Sumatran?
Answer: rhinos
Question: Becky Thatcher is a character in which novel?
Answer: adventures of tom sawyer
Question: What was the name of the midge-borne viral infection that affected British livestock in the late summer of 2007?
Answer: bluetongue
Question: One of the most effective and efficient forms of marketing is abbreviated to the initials WOM; what is it?
Answer: word of mouth
Question: Name the fantasy flat world on which the 2015 posthumously published novel The Shepherd's Crown is set?
Answer: discworld series
Question: Jimmy Porter and his wife Alison were the central characters in which classic play and later film?
Answer: look back in anger
Question: In which novel of 1869 does Pierre Bezuhov fight a duel in which both participants survive?
Answer: andrey bolkonsky
Question: What was the name of the ship in the radio programme The Navy Lark
Answer: navy lark
Question: Who did Gerald R. Ford famously pardon in 1974?
Answer: nixon
Question: Mérida and Cancún are located on what peninsula?
Answer: yucatán
Question: Which country voted in November 2012 to work to become the 51st state of the USA?
Answer: puerto rican
Question: In 1982, who became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously?
Answer: victoria lucas
Question: What group was Roger Bannister representing when he broke the 4 minute mile at 3 minutes 59.4 seconds on 6 May 1954?
Answer: amateur athletic association
Question: Joe Shlabotnik is which fictional character's favourite (and also fictional) baseball player?
Answer: charlie brown
Question: What was the first name of Italian statesman and writer Machiavelli?
Answer: niccolò
Question: What sea are you in if you sail east through the Pillars of Hercules?
Answer: mediterranean
Question: Who did Bill Shankly succeed as manager of Liverpool FC?
Answer: phil taylor
Question: The Apple watch launched Apr 2015 is called the?
Answer: apple watch sport
Question: Which make of car has the advertising slogan ‘Zoom, Zoom’?
Answer: mazda
Question: The John Bunn Lifetime Achievement is an annual prize given in which sport?
Answer: basketball team
Question: What was the old English silver coin worth four pre-decimal pennies?
Answer: groat
Question: Disarrono is a prominent brand of which alcoholic- drink?
Answer: amaretto sour
Question: The 'Stableford Scoring System' is used in which sport?
Answer: golfer
Question: ‘Martes’ is Spanish for which day of the week?
Answer: tuesday
Question: Who did William Hamilton try to assassinate in 1849?
Answer: alexandrina victoria
Question: Which play contains the famous stage direction “Exit, pursued by a bear”?
Answer: coast of bohemia
Question: Who was the Canadian jazz pianist (1925-2007), winner of eight Grammy Awards who released over 200 recordings?
Answer: oscar emmanuel peterson
Question: Who is the third wife of Rod Stewart, they married in 2007?
Answer: penny lancaster
Question: Fuggles and goldings are varieties of which edible plant?
Answer: hops
Question: In film and TV the term ‘gaffer’ is used for the chief …….what?
Answer: electricians
Question: If you went directly south from France, which sea would you meet first?
Answer: mediterranean
Question: What name is given to the large cask which holds 54 imperial gallons of beer?
Answer: hogsheads
Question: Spokes, Ribs, Rim Row and Lashing are all terms used in which handicraft?
Answer: basket making
Question: The kings of which country have alternatively been called Christian or Frederick since 1513?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which fictional character arrived in Whitby on board the Demeter?
Answer: dracula
Question: What is the principal ingredient of the Northumbrian dish 'pan haggerty'?
Answer: tattie
Question: Who discovered the chemical elements Potassium, Sodium and Calcium?
Answer: humphry davy
Question: What is the name of the type of curve traced by a point on a rolling wheel?
Answer: cycloid
Question: Which US state is known as The Land of Enchantment?
Answer: 47th state
Question: Who was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection?
Answer: charles robert darwin
Question: Duncan Zowie Jones, director of sci-fi films 'Moon' and 'Source Code', is the son of which musician?
Answer: david bowie
Question: Which comic once called Prince Charles a ‘grovelling little bastard’ on live TV?
Answer: spike milligan
Question: Who played in the Men’s Singles Finals at Wimbledon in 1980?
Answer: bjorn borg and john mcenroe
Question: The one-act comic opera ‘Bastien und Bastienne’ was the first by which composer aged 12?
Answer: wolfgang amadeus mozart
Question: Which Chinese philosophical system translates into English as ‘Wind – Water’?
Answer: fengshui
Question: What is the name of an African country or a former British coin worth 21 shillings?
Answer: guinean
Question: Living from 1911 to 1995, what is the more famous name of american born Virginia Katherine McMath?
Answer: ginger rogers
Question: Which TV programme always ended with the words, "Head 'em up, Move 'em out"?
Answer: rawhide
Question: Droids was a animated TV series that was a spin off of which movie franchise?
Answer: prequel trilogy
Question: What significant law relating to literary and artistic works was first introduced in 1709?
Answer: copyright law
Question: The 'R-value' used in the building and construction industry is a measure of what quality of a materials?
Answer: thermal resistivity
Question: Leicester City FC's 1950s-70s players Gordon Banks and Peter Shilton are considered among the world's best ever?
Answer: goalkeeper
Question: Which composer (1822-1890) wrote a symphony in D and a symphonic poem called Le Chasseur Maudit (The Accursed Huntsman)?
Answer: césar franck
Question: What German kingdom was ruled by Ludwig II, builder of the famous Neuschwanstein castle?
Answer: state of bavaria
Question: What is the name of a construction toy made of interlocking plastic blocks?
Answer: play well
Question: Who, in 1799, wrote the poem Lamia?
Answer: keats
Question: What is the name of the author of the Sherlock Holmes books?
Answer: arthur conan doyle
Question: Following this year's reshuffle, who is the current Minister of State for International Development?
Answer: justine greening
Question: Human Rights Watch announced in October 2008 that what country is the world's most ignored tragedy?
Answer: somalia
Question: Who wrote the musical ‘Oliver’, which was based on Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist?
Answer: lionel bart
Question: Which group was voted 'Best British Group' at the 2007 Brit Awards?
Answer: arctic monkeys
Question: Goose bumps (also called goose flesh or goose pimples), which may involuntarily develop when a person experiences cold or strong emotions is known as what?
Answer: goose bumps
Question: In the world of transport what is a VLCC?
Answer: supertanker
Question: The famous armless statue of Venus, or Aphrodite, was first discovered in CE times (in 1820 CE) in what ancient city ruins?
Answer: melos
Question: Raki, Pernod and Ouzo contain what aromatic herb?
Answer: anise
Question: What Italian car company owns the most successful Formula One team of all time?
Answer: ferrari spa
Question: Which Welsh singer was invited to sing at the White House on Millennium Eve?
Answer: tom jones
Question: What is the name of the small sponge cake soaked in Rum and syrup said to have been invented by King Stanislaus of Poland?
Answer: baba au rhum
Question: Cockney rhyming slang 'bottle' traditionally means?
Answer: courage
Question: What do we know from childhood goes "twinkle twinkle", "up above the sky so high like a diamond in the sky"?
Answer: little star
Question: Which actress was born with the real name Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra?
Answer: margaret mary emily anne hyra
Question: Which heavyweight boxer retired in 1956 with a record of 49 wins from 49 fights?
Answer: rocco francis marchegiano
Question: Which Swedish tennis player won the men's singles title at Wimbledon from 1988 to 1990?
Answer: edberg
Question: Which famous soprano is married to the conductor Richard Bonynge?
Answer: la stupenda
Question: Which bird (Turdus viscivorus) has the alternate name the Stormcock?
Answer: missel thrush
Question: Which English Protestant produced the first English translation of the Bible in 1535?
Answer: myles coverdale
Question: The Gaelic translation of 'Valley of the Deer' gives its name to which Scotch single malt whisky?
Answer: glenfiddich distillery
Question: In rhyming slang, what is "to talk a lot"?
Answer: rabbit
Question: Actor Roy Harold Scherer was better known by what name?
Answer: roy harold scherer
Question: Luge and skeleton racing were developed in the late 19th century in which country?
Answer: swiss
Question: Similar to thread count, mommes are units of weight traditionally used to measure the density of what?
Answer: chinese silk
Question: Situated on the north coast of Scotland, the UK's first fast-breeder nuclear reactor is situated where?
Answer: dounreay
Question: What name links a Welsh resort town and the surname of a current Premiership footballer who made his football league debut on May 8th 1998?
Answer: barry
Question: What are the irregularly-shaped, colourless bodies present in blood whose sticky surface lets them, along with other substances, form clots to stop bleeding when exposed to air?
Answer: platelets
Question: Which fruit has varieties called Blue Tit, Czar and Early Laxton?
Answer: plums
Question: What figure-shaping garment was sometimes made with whale bones?
Answer: corset
Question: In which capital city is the Tivoli amusement park?
Answer: københavn
Question: Who presents the TV series 'Extreme Fishing'?
Answer: robson green
Question: Who painted his grandson in the famous work, `Bubbles'?
Answer: john millais
Question: In England, celebrating the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, on which date was Oak Apple Day celebrated?
Answer: 29 may
Question: What family name is shared by approximately 40% of Vietnamese people?
Answer: nguyen
Question: What does the Latin phrase 'Vox populi' (shortened often in media to vox pop) translate to in English?
Answer: vox pop
Question: Which British music chart television programme was originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006?
Answer: totp
Question: Idries Shah who achieved prominence as an authority on Sufism is credited with popularizing the stories of which 13th folk figure of Turkey known for his wit and humor?
Answer: mulla nasruddin
Question: The independentist forces led by Antonio Jose de Sucre, which country's independence was won at the 1824 'Battle of Ayacucho '?
Answer: peruvian
Question: Which island republic off the coast of West Africa gained independence from Portugal in 1975?
Answer: cape verdes
Question: 'Cerberus' in the 2004 film 'Man About Dog', and 'Santa's Little Helper' in 'The Simpsons' are both examples of which breed of dog?
Answer: greyhounds
Question: The ‘Fashoda Incident’ of 1898 was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between the Britain and France in which country?
Answer: eastern africa
Question: A pontil is a metal rod used in the process of what?
Answer: pontil
Question: Which name links that of a cricket commentator with a Bond villain?
Answer: blofeld
Question: In the TV series, "Enterprise", first aired in 2001, what was the name of the ship's captain, played by actor Scott Bakula?
Answer: captain jonathan archer
Question: The number equating to 1 followed by 100 zeroes is known as a what?
Answer: googol
Question: """The splendour falls on castle walls/And snowy summits old story"" is the beginning of a poem by whom?"
Answer: tennyson
Question: In which alcoholic spirit might you find a worm in the bottle?
Answer: tequila
Question: Why would a motorist use ethylene glycol in his car
Answer: as antifreeze
Question: Which nickname for Haydn's Symphony Number 94 comes from a sudden loud chord at the end of a quiet opening theme of the second movement?
Answer: mit dem paukenschlag
Question: Which US magazine produces an annual '500' list of biggest US companies based on gross revenue?
Answer: fortune
Question: Which city was called Leninakan until 1990?
Answer: gyumri
Question: Where was "the Maccabiah bridge collapse", the failure of a pedestrian bridge over the Yarkon River on 14 July 1997 which killed 4 and injured 60?
Answer: tel aviv