billhdzhao/TriviaQA-3000 huggingface dataset:
Question: Rochambo/Rochambeau is better known as (What?), typically used to decide a tie, or determine an order between competitors?
Answer: ro sham bo
Question: Which sport is featured in the 1951 film, Follow The Sun?
Answer: golfing
Question: Which type of aeroplanes were used by the Argentine Air Force to launch Exocet missiles
Answer: super etendard
Question: Who was crowned King of the Scots in 1306?
Answer: robert de brus
Question: Which classic arcade game was released in Japan on 22nd May 1980?
Answer: pacman
Question: Michael O'Hehir (pronounced O'Hair) was, for many years, a commentator for the BBC on which sporting event?
Answer: grand national steeplechase
Question: What school of philosophy of ancient Greece associated with Aristotle takes its name from a legend that he meandered while lecturing?
Answer: peripatos
Question: Chionophobia is the irrational fear of which weather condition?
Answer: snow
Question: Which gas is produced by the action of water on Calcium Carbide?
Answer: c2h2
Question: What work-related term popularly refers to loan companies which offer short-term unsecured personal loans at high interest rates?
Answer: payday
Question: The cartoon character 'Flook' appeared in which national newspaper from 1949 to 1984?
Answer: daily mail
Question: Which duo had top five hits in the 1980’s with “Torch” and “Say Hello Wave Goodbye”?
Answer: softcell
Question: The world's largest diamond at 530 carats is 'The Star of Africa'. In which of the Crown Jewels can it be found?
Answer: scepter
Question: Which BBC newsreader narrated‘Mary, Mungo and Midge’?
Answer: richard baker
Question: 'Bertram Count of Roussillon', 'Lavatch the Clown' and the 'King of France' appear in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: capilet
Question: Which presenter at the start of his talent show used the catchphrase "Thank you tremendously, friends"?
Answer: hughie green
Question: What was the aim of the World War 2 allied operation Dynamo?
Answer: dunkirk spirit
Question: Which artist co-wrote and appeared in the 1927 Luis Bunuel film ‘Un Chien Andalou’?
Answer: salvador dalí
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in Rodney Street, Liverpool?
Answer: william ewart gladstone
Question: Coulrophobia is the fear of what type of entertainers?
Answer: party clown
Question: The word ‘haptic’ relates to which of the five senses?
Answer: sense of touch
Question: Who upset Elizabeth I by secretly marrying Elizabeth Throckmorton?
Answer: sir walter raleigh
Question: Who was voted the Cricket Writers’ Club Young Cricketer of the Year in 1963?
Answer: geoffrey boycott
Question: The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank is named after which physicist and astronomer?
Answer: bernard lovell
Question: What is the name of the National Anthem of New Zealand?
Answer: god defend our free land
Question: Who succeeded Ossie Ardiles as Tottenham Hotspur manager?
Answer: gerry francis
Question: After singing at La Fenice in 1960, which soprano was known as ‘La Stupenda’?
Answer: la stupenda
Question: What word means "fancy party" in English and "evening" in French?
Answer: party
Question: Which Canadian/US actress declined the challenge because of ALS’s testing on animals?
Answer: pamela anderson
Question: In May 1521, Pope Leo X presided over which assembly at which Martin Luther was summoned to renounce the views expressed in his 95 theses?
Answer: edict of worms
Question: In 16th Century Italy, what were ‘Chopines’?
Answer: platform shoe
Question: In which landlocked country of Europe were women denied the right to vote in national elections until 1971?
Answer: swiss
Question: Although the younger of the two leagues by 25 years (and sometimes called the Junior Circuit), which league has won 62 of the 106 World Series games played since 1903? The National League? Or the American league?
Answer: junior circuit
Question: Which car manufacturer made the models 'Imp' and 'Husky'?
Answer: hillman
Question: In Indian cookery 'brinjal pickle' is made from which vegetable?
Answer: brinjals
Question: Who wrote the poems "Hyperion"and"To Autumn"?
Answer: keats
Question: What is the largest landlocked state in the USA with an area of just under 150,000 square miles?
Answer: montana
Question: Kato Kaelin was a houseguest of what celebrity?
Answer: oj simpson
Question: Which action in World War H, had the code name, "Operation Dynamo"?
Answer: evacuation at dunkirk
Question: What is a type of chemical mixture where one substance is dispersed evenly throughout another?
Answer: colloids
Question: Which gangster was killed in a police ambush outside the Biograph Theatre, Chicago on July 22nd 1934?
Answer: dillinger gang
Question: Which Russian woman defected in the 1960's, and wrote a memoir entitled "Twenty Letters to a Friend"?
Answer: svetlana alliluyeva
Question: What is the general legal term for “unlawful taking and carrying away of another’s property”?
Answer: larceny
Question: The first vice-president of the USA to be elected President, the father of a future President, assistant in drafting the Declaration of Independence and negotiating peace with Great Britain, and architect of vital government loans from the Netherlands, was who?
Answer: novanglus
Question: ‘He who can does, he who cannot teaches’ is a quotation by which writer?
Answer: george bernard shaw
Question: Which word means an interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association usually to the advantage of both?
Answer: symbioses
Question: What did The Daily Worker change it's name to in the 60's
Answer: bill benfield
Question: 'Lola' was a hit in 1970 for which pop group?
Answer: kinks
Question: Which Belgian novelist wrote the "Maigret" stories between 1930 and 1935?
Answer: simenon
Question: New France was the name given to French colonized lands in which continent from the 16th-18th centuries?
Answer: north american
Question: During World War II, U.S. soldiers used the first commercial aerosol cans to hold what?
Answer: insecticides
Question: In which religion is the Rig Veda a collection of ancient myths, hymns and poems?
Answer: hindu society
Question: Which Bulgarian-born artist is famous for wrapping landmarks and landscapes in fabric?
Answer: christo
Question: What is the study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time?
Answer: etymologist
Question: What is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacture of flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft?
Answer: aeronautical science
Question: The last element to be discovered in nature, rather than synthesized, was discovered In 1939. What was it?
Answer: actinium k
Question: In which theater did The Wizard of Oz have its New York debut?
Answer: majestic
Question: A 2015 study found that what percentage of former American Football players had degenerative brain damage?
Answer: 96
Question: Who played the character 'Danny Zuko' in the film Grease?
Answer: travolta
Question: A pier at which resort was badly damaged by fire on July 30th?
Answer: eastbourne
Question: Haiku, traditionally comprising 17 'morae' and a juxta-position, is a short form of Japanese?
Answer: poem
Question: Who plays psychiatrist Dr Buddy Rydell in the 2003 film ‘Anger Management’?
Answer: jack nicholson
Question: Which seventeenth century leader reputedly told his troops to ‘put your trust in God and keep your powder dry’?
Answer: cromwell
Question: The Vitruvian Man, a famous drawing of a nude man in two superimposed positions with arms and legs apart, inscribed in a circle within a square, was drawn by whom?
Answer: leonardo da vinci
Question: Which country’s cricket team played for the first time in the 2015 World Cricket Cup?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: Which actress received an Oscar nomination for her role in the film "Trans America"?
Answer: felicity huffman
Question: In what country would you find the world's largest stadium, Rungrado 1st of May Stadium?
Answer: north korean
Question: The Hahnenkamm mountain and ski runs are part of which European ski resort?
Answer: kitzbuhel
Question: The steps for what ballroom dance are: Basic forward, Basic backward, Rock left turn, Forward progressive, and Promenade?
Answer: foxtrot dance
Question: Bovidae Ovis is the scientific name for which animal?
Answer: domestic sheep
Question: Amoretti are representations of which figure in works of art?
Answer: cupid
Question: What type of animal supposedly buries its head in the sand when threatened?
Answer: ostriches
Question: Which bands albums include The Works, The Miracle and Made In Heaven?
Answer: queen album
Question: What global retailer is associated with the late 1990s slogan "Chuck out your chintz"?
Answer: verdanagate
Question: How are 'Zuga' and 'Nadir' better known in the title of an opera by Bizet?
Answer: les pecheurs de perles
Question: What is the name for deliberately dwarfing trees and shrubs?
Answer: bonsai
Question: What equation is considered to be remarkable for its "mathematical beauty", because 3 basic arithmetic operations occur exactly once each (addition, multiplication, and exponentiation), and it links five fundamental mathematical constants: (the numbers 0, 1, , e, and i)?
Answer: eiπ
Question: Victorinox is the major brand name of which iconic product?
Answer: swiss knife
Question: Who had a hit in 1981 with Planet Earth?
Answer: duran duran
Question: Which country was formerly known as the 'Sugar Bowl of the World'?
Answer: cuba
Question: What nation was ruled by King Nebuchadnezzar II?
Answer: ancient babylon
Question: Which structure of cantilever design, designed by Sir W. M. Arrol, was begun in 1883 and opened in 1890?
Answer: forth rail bridge
Question: Originally a symbol of St Peter and now featured on the flag of the Vatican, which emblem is often used as a pub sign in Britain?
Answer: crossed keys
Question: Kitten, Spool, Wedge and Cone are all types of what?
Answer: heels
Question: In the early stages of which Olympic sport would you hear the words "en garde"?
Answer: fencing
Question: I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing was the advertising slogan for what company?
Answer: alkaseltzer
Question: What is the UK’s best-selling car of all time?
Answer: ford fiesta
Question: The 'Lancaster' bomber of World War II was developed from which other aircraft?
Answer: avro 679 manchester
Question: Which of the retina's cells can distinguish between different wavelengths of light?
Answer: color receptors
Question: In the electromagnetic spectrum, which type of wavelength has shortest wavelength. Its main uses are in medical diagnosis.
Answer: gamma waves
Question: The Pie at Night is a recent book by which author – he describes it as a companion to his previous book Pies and Prejudice?
Answer: stuart maconie
Question: What is the name of the hero in the play Death of a Salesman?
Answer: willy loman
Question: Whose 6th and final symphony is called The Pathetique?
Answer: tchaikovsky
Question: Name the 1992 Tory Party Chairman who lost his Bath seat?
Answer: chris patten
Question: Which poet famously wrote 'Tis better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all'?
Answer: alfred tennyson
Question: In which city is the 'Basin Reserve' Cricket Test Match venue?
Answer: wellington
Question: Who composed the 1791 opera entitled ‘La Clemenza di Tito’?
Answer: mozart
Question: 100000 and 200000 are the postal codes for the two major cities of which nation?
Answer: china
Question: Which famous Jewish fortress was besieged and captured by the Roman 6th Legion in 73 AD?
Answer: masada
Question: Which British Prime Minister is buried in Spynie churchyard, Lossiemouth?
Answer: ramsay macdonald
Question: What historical character is often thought to have been short - despite being taller than average for his era?
Answer: napoleone buonaparte
Question: Which airline used to promote itself as "The world's favourite airline"?
Answer: british airways
Question: Which member of The Beatles appeared in a Japanese TV commercial for an apple drink?
Answer: ringo
Question: For the type of bet called a "Trifecta", how many horses are picked?
Answer: three
Question: Which nerve is the longest and widest in the human body?
Answer: sciatic nerve
Question: What medical symptom can be described as a yellowing of the skin?
Answer: jaundice
Question: Which motor car manufacturer introduced the 'Aero 8' model in 1998?
Answer: morgan
Question: Peter Faulk received his first Emmy for a performance on which show?
Answer: dick powell show
Question: A thick fillet steak served with a bearnaise sauce is named after which French statesman?
Answer: vicomte françois rené de chateaubriand
Question: Who created the US animated series ‘Family Guy’ in 1998?
Answer: seth macfarlane
Question: In standard poker, what name is given to a hand consisting of 3 matching cards of one rank and two matching cards of another rank?
Answer: full house
Question: What event's results were predicted by a "psychic" octopus?
Answer: 2010 world cup
Question: The National Trust property Clouds Hill in Dorset was the home of which military man and writer?
Answer: lawrence of arabia
Question: How many players are on the field at one time in an American Football team?
Answer: 11
Question: At 4132 miles long, which is regarded as the longest river in the world?
Answer: nile
Question: In the English legal system, what does a lawyer become when he "takes silk"?
Answer: taking silk
Question: Who wrote the 1973 novel ‘The Dressmaker’?
Answer: beryl bainbridge
Question: What is a green liqueur made from anise, hyssop, angelica and mint?
Answer: absinthe
Question: What cooking term is used if you are cooking just below boiling point?
Answer: simmer
Question: Englishman John Wycliffe's 14th century Lollardy movement addressed reform of what?
Answer: religious
Question: Laurence Olivier took the title Baron Olivier of which town?
Answer: brighton
Question: What is the full title of the first Austin Powers film?
Answer: international man of mystery
Question: What word's original meaning was "to remove every tenth one"?
Answer: decimate
Question: Who controversially interviewed the on-the-run Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman for Rolling Stone Magazine just before his 2015 capture?
Answer: sean penn
Question: Lester and Carolyn Burnham are characters in which 1999 film?
Answer: american beauty
Question: In 2009 which Swedish tennis player became the first to beat Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros?
Answer: soderling
Question: In the human body what is Varicella commonly known as?
Answer: chickenpox
Question: What is a Chinese-inspired meat dumpling-style snack food that normally consists of a large ball of pork or other meat, cabbage and flavourings, encased in a wrapper similar to that of a more traditional dumpling?
Answer: dim sims
Question: Which artist created 'The Lobster Telephone' in 1936 and 'Mae West Lip Sofa' in 1937?
Answer: salvador dalí
Question: G. H. Armauer Hansen discovered the cause of what disease in 1873?
Answer: leper
Question: Who was described by Winston Churchill as "a sheep in sheep's clothing"?
Answer: clement attlee
Question: Halcyon is the poetic name for which bird?
Answer: kingfishers
Question: What is the name of Morocco's capital, which is 60 miles north of Casablanca?
Answer: capital of morocco
Question: ‘Hit and Miss’ was the theme tune to which TV pop show?
Answer: juke box jury
Question: Which British city has an underground railway system which is nicknamed The Clockwork Orange?
Answer: glasgow
Question: Ann Cleves wrote the novel Red Bones, which BBC TV drama, screened in 2013 and 2014, was based on it?
Answer: shetland islands
Question: Which theatre, situated in Salford and opened in the year 2,000 is named after a British painter who lived from 1887 to 1976 ?
Answer: lowry centre
Question: Which TV personality hosted the Eurovision Song Contest when it was held in Britain in the 1960's and 70's?
Answer: katie boyle
Question: What name. is given to a golden coloured horse with a golden mane?
Answer: palomino
Question: Where did Pluto, discovered in 1930 (and designated a planet at the time), get its name?
Answer: greek mythology
Question: Which crime writer created the fictional partnership of Rizzoli and Isles?
Answer: tess gerritsen
Question: Which king of England had a mother and a son who were both beheaded?
Answer: james i of england
Question: In 'The Owl and the Pussycat' who performed the wedding?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which chemical element, atomic number 51, used to be called Stibium?
Answer: stibnium
Question: Formed in the 1980s and having the leader Hassan Nasrallah, which radical Shi-ite Muslim organisation in Lebanon has, for years, been involved in guerilla warfare against Israel?
Answer: hizbollah
Question: Who got to no.3 in the charts in 1972 with ‘You’re So Vain’?
Answer: carly simon
Question: Albert Finney turned down which role that won Peter O Toole an Oscar?
Answer: lawrence of arabia
Question: The novel written by Agatha Christie that was renamed for political correctness in 1940 as Ten Little Indians has again been renamed.  How is this story now titled?
Answer: ten little niggers
Question: Who was the first woman to win a Best Director 'Oscar'?
Answer: kathryn bigelow
Question: Where was the World Netball Series held in October 2009?
Answer: manchester
Question: What does the Russian word "Sputnik" mean?
Answer: fellow traveler
Question: By the end of the 80s, what percentage of British households had two cars?
Answer: 20
Question: Which young poet drowned off the Italian coast in 1822?
Answer: percy bysshe shelley
Question: What was the name of the robot dog that became a regular companion for Doctor Who?
Answer: k9
Question: American mathematician Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964, coined what scientific term concerning complex systems, and helped define its modern understanding?
Answer: cybernetic system
Question: An autotonsorialist is a person who cuts their own what?
Answer: hair
Question: Who assists Alexander Armstrong with the t.v. quiz 'Pointless'?
Answer: richard osman
Question: """The World Series"" has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional players of which sport in the USA and Canada since 1903?"
Answer: baseball team
Question: Who was the first woman Speaker of the UK House of Commons?
Answer: baroness boothroyd
Question: Where was Europe's biggest US air base in the 1940's and 1950's?
Answer: burtonwood
Question: Who was Ron Hextall playing for when, on 8 December 1987, in a game against the Boston Bruins, he became the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal by actually shooting the puck into an open net?
Answer: flyers
Question: Who was the star name behind the founding of Rocket Records?
Answer: sir elton
Question: Which battle is commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand?
Answer: little bighorn
Question: Active from 1973 to the present, what Bellevue based sisters front the rock band Heart?
Answer: ann and nancy wilson
Question: What was the name of the Scottish mathematician who invented Logarithms?
Answer: mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio
Question: A gathering of which birds can be described as an ‘unkindness’?
Answer: ravens
Question: What is the real name of fictional character Shaggy from the animated television series ‘Scooby Doo’?
Answer: shaggy rogers
Question: What is the closely curled wool of the Persian lamb known as
Answer: astrakhan
Question: Which fish became subject to EU fishing quota arguments in 2013 due to its significant movement into Icelandic waters?
Answer: mackerel
Question: What title is held by the heir to the Spanish throne?
Answer: princess of asturias
Question: Holly Hagan, Scott Timlin, Vicky Pattison and Daniel Thomas-Tuck have all appeared in which UK television reality show?
Answer: guarnaccio
Question: Which actress said... When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better?
Answer: mae west
Question: What is an angle called which is larger than 180 degrees and smaller than 360 degrees?
Answer: types of angles
Question: Who was the author of the 'Alan Quatermain' series and the 'Ayesha' series of novels, who was born on June 22nd. 1856?
Answer: rider haggard
Question: May 25, 1787 saw the sitting of the Constitutional Convention. In what city did the delegates meet?
Answer: philadelphia
Question: Alphabet became in 2015 the holding company of which vast tech corporation?
Answer: google
Question: The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral is in which European city?
Answer: florentine
Question: Who composed ‘Water Music’ in 1717?
Answer: georg friedrich händel
Question: By what name was Mongol leader Temujin better known?
Answer: temujin
Question: Spain's war in 1898 with which power resulted in its loss of sovereignty over Cuba and the Philippine Islands?
Answer: united states
Question: Who when elected as MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1987 became the first black woman member of the House of Commons
Answer: dianne abbott
Question: Completed in 1923, which famous steam locomotive was noted for the London to Edinburgh service?
Answer: flying scotsman
Question: In the Oscar acting categories, which actor has received the most nominations?
Answer: jack nicholson
Question: """Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me"" is a famous line from what 1964 film?"
Answer: carry on cleo
Question: Who founded the Theatre Union in 1936 and the Theatre Workshop in 1945 (both in Manchester)?
Answer: joan littlewood
Question: What is your star sign if you were born on the fourth of July
Answer: cancers
Question: In which children's TV programme would you have found the characters 'Brain', 'Spook' and 'Choo-Choo'?
Answer: top cat
Question: Who won the 2010 BRIT Award for British Male Solo Artist?
Answer: dizzee
Question: What alloy is made of 12% tin and 88% copper?
Answer: bronzes
Question: In which Shakespeare play will you find the line 'Beware the Ides of March'?
Answer: caesar
Question: Who married Taylor Hackford (the director of "White Nights", in which she appeared), her partner since 1986, on 31 December 1997?
Answer: ilyena vasilievna mironov
Question: Which Briton won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine?
Answer: robert edwards
Question: Who died in the Petersen House at 516 10th Street NW in Washington DC on April 15th 1865?
Answer: lincoln
Question: At 1309 metres high, which Scottish mountain is the second highest mountain in Great Britain?
Answer: ben macdui
Question: Which Scottish soccer club plays at Cappielow Park?
Answer: greenock morton football club
Question: A parent company of on of the worlds largest consumer products brands Unilever, What product did Lever Brothers manufacture when they first opened shop in 1885?
Answer: soaps
Question: Who painted 'Absinthe Drinker' in 1901?
Answer: pablo picasso
Question: What chemical compound of 1 carbon and 4 hydrogen atoms is the simplest alkane, and the principal component of natural gas?
Answer: ch4
Question: The IWC, an international body established in 1946, is concerned with what activity?
Answer: whaling
Question: Which infamous monk was murdered in Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1916?
Answer: rasputin
Question: Carl Stotz began an organisation in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1939 to promote what sport to youth?
Answer: baseball team
Question: The seaside resort of New Brighton is on the North eastern tip of which English peninsula?
Answer: wirral
Question: Which Glasgow born architect designed the Glasgow School of Art, built between 1897 and 1909?
Answer: rennie mackintosh
Question: Behind U.S.A. which country has the second longest road network in the world?
Answer: india
Question: What 1999 film had the tag line "Bigger, Longer and Uncut"?
Answer: south park
Question: Known as the Beaver State, what was the 33rd state to join the Union on Feb 14, 1859?
Answer: oregon state
Question: Who wrote the plays 'Ivanov', 'The Wood Demon' and 'The Seagull'?
Answer: anton chekhov
Question: What is the name of the National Lottery draw where players pick five main numbers which can be any number between 1 and 50, then the players selects two different lucky star numbers from a pool of eleven balls?
Answer: euro millions
Question: What radio station do you find at 710 on your local AM dial?
Answer: kiro
Question: Who said "Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-... That's all, folks"?
Answer: porky pig