zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the medical condition in which a person has an extreme tendency to fall asleep at inappropriate times?
Answer: Narcolepsy
Question: Who wrote the novel The Murders in the Rue Morgue?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
Question: What was the title of the first Christmas TV special Peanuts cartoon?
Answer: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Question: American cartoonist Thomas Nast is credited with creating the traditional image of which popular Christmas character?
Answer: Santa Claus
Question: Who is the central businessman character in the film It's a Wonderful Life?
Answer: George Bailey
Question: Kiritimati, the first inhabited place to experience each New Year, is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Christmas Island
Question: In which city was the Salvation Army founded?
Answer: London
Question: Which US President banned Christmas trees from the White House?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
Question: How many courses are there traditionally in a Ukrainian Christmas Eve supper?
Answer: Twelve
Question: In the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, how many pipers are there?
Answer: Eleven
Question: Where on the human head would you find an epicanthic fold?
Answer: Eyelid
Question: Which British prime minister resigned in 1940?
Answer: Neville Chamberlain
Question: Dulse is an edible type of what?
Answer: Seaweed
Question: What brand of raincoat was famously worn by British prime minister Harold Wilson?
Answer: Gannex
Question: Who was William Shakespeare's wife (other than Mrs Shakespeare)?
Answer: Anne Hathaway
Question: What are the first names of writer J R R Tolkien?
Answer: John Ronald Reuel
Question: Deoxyribonucleic acid is commonly known as what?
Answer: DNA
Question: A Dagwood is what type of snack, named after cartoon character Dagwood Bumstead?
Answer: Sandwich
Question: Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 became the first Latino or Hispanic person to be selected for which US institution?
Answer: The Supreme Court
Question: What newspaper first exposed the UK parliamentary expenses scandal?
Answer: Daily Telegraph
Question: American doctor George Tiller was shot dead in Kansas in June 2009 by an activist protesting against what?
Answer: Abortion
Question: Sir Edward and Lady Joan Downes made the headlines in July 2009 for their joint what?
Answer: Suicide
Question: Jacob Zuma led the ANC party to election victory in which country's 2009 election?
Answer: South Africa
Question: In what country was the Black Thursday of Action in January 2009?
Answer: France
Question: Ferenc Gyurcsany resigned as prime minister of which country in March 2009?
Answer: Hungary
Question: Actor Laurence Payne who died in February 2009, aged 89, played which fictional detective on TV?
Answer: Sexton Blake
Question: Iftikhar Chaudrey was reinstated as Minister of Justice of which country after massive protests?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: Which banker drew strong negative publicity relating to his failed leadership of RBS and substantial pension arrangements?
Answer: Sir Fred Goodwin
Question: Swiss insurance company SUVA launched a campaign in January 2009 urging slower what?
Answer: Skiing
Question: Who in 2009 ended Rafael Nadal's 4 year run of 31 wins in the French Open Championship?
Answer: Robin Soderling
Question: As Corpus Christi captain in the University Challenge quiz show who made the news for her remarkable points-scoring?
Answer: Gail Trimble
Question: Who brought a legal suit against Michael Jackson in early 2009 claiming a share of profits from the Thriller video?
Answer: John Landis
Question: Which Welsh town had its first public showing of the film Life of Brian in March 2009 afer a 30 year ban?
Answer: Aberystwyth
Question: Which comic strip footballer was re-published in a classic collection in April 2009?
Answer: Roy of the Rovers
Question: In what sport did Miyabiyama defeat Chiyotaikai in Osaka in March 2009?
Answer: Sumo wrestling
Question: What horse won the 2009 Grand National?
Answer: Mon Mome
Question: For her performance in what film did Kate Winslet win her 2009 best actress Oscar?
Answer: The Reader
Question: Who was arrested in Zurich on a 31 year old US warrant?
Answer: Roman Polanski
Question: The painting La Bella Principessa was attributed to which artist and inventor using fingerprint evidence?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Question: What Tory MP was found to have claimed unsuccessfully on his parliamentary expenses for a floating duck island?
Answer: Sir Peter Viggers
Question: What is big particle accelerator on the French-Swiss border, restarted in 2009 after extensive repairs?
Answer: The Large Hadron Collider
Question: From whom did Susan Sarandon announce a split after a long partnership?
Answer: Tim Robbins
Question: What was Dan Brown's 2009 bestselling and Christmas number one book?
Answer: The Lost Symbol
Question: What note is the second (second highest) string on a guitar when tuned to standard concert pitch?
Answer: B
Question: Called Coleoptera, meaning sheathed wing, what commonly known order of creatures contains more species than any other?
Answer: Beetles
Question: Which playwright wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
Answer: Tennessee Williams
Question: What breed of dog is known as the Carriage Dog (because they were trained to run with horse-drawn carriages as guard dogs)?
Answer: Dalmatian
Question: What is the title of Thomas Hardy's last novel?
Answer: Jude the Obscure
Question: Which actor was the puppet character from TV's Stingray said to have been modelled on?
Answer: James Garner
Question: In physics what single word term normally represents 'rate of change of position'?
Answer: Velocity
Question: The Order of the British Empire was founded by which monarch?
Answer: George the Fifth
Question: Who wrote the classic two-part 19th century German play Faust?
Answer: Goethe
Question: What term describes the now generally illegal practice requiring people to be members of a trade union before being employed by an organization?
Answer: Closed shop
Question: Pedagogy is the art or profession of what?
Answer: Teaching
Question: What is the name of one full point in a Judo contest?
Answer: Ippon
Question: Balliol College is part of which British University?
Answer: Oxford
Question: The Babbington Plot was devised to kill which English monarch?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth the First
Question: Which 1950s-60s sex symbol is reputed to have said, "I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one"?
Answer: Brigitte Bardot
Question: Owain Gwynedd of Wales defeated which English King in battle?
Answer: Henry the second
Question: What is the largest castle in Wales?
Answer: Caerphilly
Question: What was Jodie Foster's character in the 1991 film Silence of the Lambs?
Answer: Clarice Starling
Question: In which country are the Ajanta Caves?
Answer: India
Question: Tolo TV is which country's leading independent TV company (as at 2010)?
Answer: Afghanistan
Question: The UK's Inns of Court is made up of how many legal societies?
Answer: Four
Question: Domenikos Theotokopoulos is the real name of which painter and sculptor?
Answer: El Greco
Question: What ceremony is performed beneath a chuppah?
Answer: Marriage
Question: Who was the only female character to appear in every series of UK TV's 'Auf Wiedersehn, Pet'?
Answer: Brenda
Question: The word logo is thought ultimately to derive from the Greek word lógos; what does lógos mean?
Answer: Word
Question: What is the Urdu-based western name for the tobacco water-pipe known in Arabic as a shisha and in Turkish as a nargile?
Answer: Hookah
Question: English novelist Mary Anne Evans is better known by what name?
Answer: George Eliot
Question: In what ocean are the Pitcairn Islands, where the Bounty mutineers settled?
Answer: Pacific
Question: What stage character is based on a real life medieval merchant, politician and Mayor of London?
Answer: Dick Whittington
Question: What is the full name of the leading scientific and technological research university referred to as MIT?
Answer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Question: Winnipeg is the capital city of which Canadian province?
Answer: Manitoba
Question: In Rugby Union what position does the number 15 play?
Answer: Full-back
Question: What unusual and distinctive item of apparel does the Bazooka Joe bubblegum character wear?
Answer: Eye patch
Question: The Davis Strait lies between Baffin Island and which country (also considered a dependency)?
Answer: Greenland
Question: Selhurst Park is the home ground of which English football club?
Answer: Crystal Palace
Question: What memorable song line from American Pie by Don McLean refers to the day a plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper?
Answer: The Day the Music Died
Question: The Shore Durometer devised by Albert Shore in the 1920s measures what quality of materials such as rubber and plastics?
Answer: Hardness
Question: St James's Palace in London was commissioned by which British monarch?
Answer: Henry the Eighth
Question: Technically a berry or fruit, brinjal is the Indian name for which 'vegetable'?
Answer: Aubergine
Question: Born Betty Joan Perske, which actress starred in The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not?
Answer: Lauren Bacall
Question: Budapest lies on which river?
Answer: Danube
Question: Who was the 20th US president, the second to be assassinated, and the second shortest serving?
Answer: James Garfield
Question: A Gibus or Chapeau Claque is what sort of top hat, originally popular at the opera?
Answer: Collapsible
Question: In 1725 King George the First created what British chivalric honour, whose original ceremony entailed bodily cleansing?
Answer: Order of Bath
Question: In astrology the constellation Leo represents the Lion slain by whom?
Answer: Hercules
Question: Whom did Pat Cash defeat in the 1987 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?
Answer: Ivan Lendl
Question: The 'Reign of Terror', 1793-94, was a particularly violent political period in which country?
Answer: France
Question: An expanded and renamed Schonefeld airport is a replacement for Tegel airport in which European city?
Answer: Berlin
Question: Whom did Maragaret Thatcher describe as "...The man who paints those dreadful pictures..."?
Answer: Francis Bacon
Question: Which actor was born Issur Danielovitch?
Answer: Kirk Douglas
Question: Au Poivre describes a dish involving what spice in its cooking or sauce?
Answer: Pepper
Question: A mohel is a Jewish man trained in the practice of what?
Answer: Circumcision
Question: What creature is a pismire?
Answer: Ant
Question: Nicholas Briggs is the long-time voice of which TV evil force?
Answer: The Daleks
Question: Chladni patterns are formed when a surface covered in what is made to vibrate?
Answer: Sand
Question: What is the most common natural pollinator of the pineapple?
Answer: Hummingbirds
Question: Name the Green Party leader and its first parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in the UK May 2010 general election?
Answer: Caroline Lucas
Question: In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read?
Answer: Louis Braille
Question: Whose state funeral was on 15 December 1840, nineteen years after his death and burial in an unmarked grave?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
Question: What ball is worth three points in snooker?
Answer: Green
Question: Name Francis Drake's ship, in which he circumnavigated the globe, 1577-80?
Answer: Golden Hind
Question: What is the dabbling duck whose Common 'eye-patched' variety is the smallest of all dabblers?
Answer: Teal
Question: During which war was the Battle of Anzio?
Answer: The Second World War
Question: Which painter is known as The Father of Impressionism?
Answer: Claude Monet
Question: Name the exotic dancer who performed with the band Hawkwind in the 1970s?
Answer: Stacia
Question: In the 1991 film Reservoir Dogs, Michael Madson played which character? Mr Blonde; Mr Orange; or Mr Brown?
Answer: Mr Blonde
Question: Russian musician Maxim Vengerov is famous for playing which instrument?
Answer: Violin
Question: Chicago's St Valentine's Day Massacre (of seven Bugs Moran gang members by those of Al Capone) was in which year?
Answer: 1929
Question: A flittermouse is an old term for which type of creature?
Answer: Bat
Question: What is the plug of tobacco ash left in a pipe after it has been smoked?
Answer: Dottle
Question: How many cards are dealt to each player at the start of a game of Blackjack or Pontoon?
Answer: Two
Question: In Greek mythology, who did Leander fall in love with and swim every night across the Hellespont to be with?
Answer: Hero
Question: Which British politician was formerly known as 2nd Viscount Stansgate?
Answer: Tony Benn
Question: What was the family name of the rulers of Russia from 1613 to 1917?
Answer: Romanoff
Question: Which word means to move a camera, lighting effect or sound effect vertically?
Answer: Tilt
Question: To what did the light-heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay change his name?
Answer: Muhammad Ali
Question: Syd Barrett was a founding member of which band?
Answer: Pink Floyd
Question: Which Liverpudlian was Prime Minister of Great Britain four times in the 19th century?
Answer: William Gladstone
Question: With what activity is the name Boris Spassky associated?
Answer: Chess
Question: What make of car was founded in 1963 in a tractor factory in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, and is now a subsidiary of Volkswagen?
Answer: Lamborghini
Question: Who is the King of Thailand?
Answer: Bhumibol Adulyadej
Question: Which war ended as a result of peace negotiations at Panmunjon, completed on 27 July 1953?
Answer: Korean War
Question: Which king of England was nicknamed Rufus?
Answer: William II
Question: Who organised a congress in Paris, on June 23, 1894 to establish the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and choose the host city for the 1896 Olympic Games?
Answer: Baron de Coubertin
Question: After the Rolling Stones released their first LP, who was the first person to leave the band?
Answer: Brian Jones
Question: What is the name of the stadium in The Bronx in New York City which was the home baseball park of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 2008?
Answer: Yankee Stadium
Question: The skull can be divided into two parts: the cranium and what other part?
Answer: The mandible
Question: The names of how many US states begin with "New"?
Answer: 4
Question: What 2003 mystery-detective novel by Dan Brown has been denounced as an attack on the Catholic Church and criticised for historical and scientific inaccuracy?
Answer: The Da Vinci Code
Question: Who was largely responsible for the development of the jet engine, seeing the first application of his engine installed in a Gloster aircraft in 1941?
Answer: Frank Whittle
Question: Who commanded No. 11 Group RAF, responsible for the fighter defence of London and southeast England, which took the brunt of the German air attacks in the Battle of Britain?
Answer: Keith Park
Question: Which law enforcement agency was established in 1908 as a branch of the U S Department of Justice?
Answer: F B I
Question: Which group of people took control of Carthage in 439 AD?
Answer: Vandals
Question: In 1952, Jonas Salk invented a vaccine to prevent the spread of which disease?
Answer: Polio
Question: Who had a positive drug test for excessive levels of testosterone after initially being declared the winner of the 2006 Tour de France?
Answer: Floyd Landis
Question: Spain's war in 1898 with which power resulted in its loss of sovereignty over Cuba and the Philippine Islands?
Answer: U S A
Question: Who was the 15th century woman who led a French army to relieve the siege of Orleans by the English army?
Answer: Joan of Arc
Question: Which forces were defeated by Ho Chi Minh's forces at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam in May 1954?
Answer: French
Question: Who was Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers during the occupation of Japan immediately following World War II?
Answer: Douglas MacArthur
Question: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier became better known as who?
Answer: Jackie Kennedy
Question: Before Ron Howard became a film director, and before he starred in "Happy Days", he appeared in a long-running US TV series set in Mayberry. What was the name of the show?
Answer: The Andy Griffith Show
Question: In standard tuning for a 6 string guitar, two strings are tuned to the same note, two octaves apart. What is the note?
Answer: E
Question: In which city did General Jodl, the German Chief of Staff, sign the surrender document on 7 May 1945, ending World War II in Europe?
Answer: Rheims
Question: In which city did Popes officially reside from 1309 to 1378?
Answer: Avignon
Question: The Kalahari Desert is on which continent?
Answer: Africa
Question: Who was the king of England who succeeded James I?
Answer: Charles I
Question: In which country is the town of Passchendaele?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Which American blues artist died on 21 June 2001?
Answer: John Lee Hooker
Question: What is the inherited condition that causes the body to retain copper, which can lead to brain and liver damage?
Answer: Wilson's disease
Question: What is the name of the area immediately surrounding a golf hole?
Answer: Green
Question: The design specification for the Ford GT40, which won the Le Mans 24 Hour race four years in a row, specified that car be a maximum of ?
Answer: 40 inches high
Question: What component of tonic water is used to prevent or alleviate the effects of malaria?
Answer: Quinine
Question: The capital of the U S A, Washington, DC, is bordered by Maryland and which other state?
Answer: Virginia
Question: Which of the Marx Brothers appeared in their vaudeville act, but not in any of their films?
Answer: Gummo
Question: Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1919 and 1935?
Answer: New York Yankees
Question: Who was the president of the Confederate States of America following its formation in 1861?
Answer: Jefferson Davis
Question: Who were the USA fighting a war against in 1812 when the successful American defence of Fort McHenry in September 1814 inspired the lyrics of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford
Question: In Greek legend, a woodland deity, half man, half goat, is called a ?
Answer: Satyr
Question: The Three Gorges Dam is in which country?
Answer: China
Question: Who was President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 and was depicted in the film "The Last King Of Scotland"?
Answer: Idi Amin
Question: According to Roman legend, which son of Ceres was turned into a river in Tartarus which supplied the Titans with water in their battle with the gods?
Answer: Acheron
Question: What word refers to a note whose pitch is not a member of the scale indicated by the key signature?
Answer: Accidental
Question: Which US horse race for three year-old thoroughbred horses is held on the first Saturday in May, over one and a quarter miles (2 km) at Churchill Downs?
Answer: The Kentucky Derby
Question: Which impresario, music manager and record producer has been involved with The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Graham Gouldman, Godley and Creme, (later 10cc), Soft Machine, and Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity?
Answer: Giorgio Gomelsky
Question: A vestry is a feature of what sort of building?
Answer: Church
Question: In 2008, who was the President of Palestine and Fatah leader?
Answer: Mahmoud Abbas
Question: Which river flows from north to south through eastern New York State, USA, and forms the border between Pennsylvania and New Jersey before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: Hudson
Question: What is the next number in the series 1, 16, 81, 256, 625?
Answer: 1296
Question: Who set the record for winning the World Snooker Championship the most times (7) in 1999?
Answer: Stephen Hendry
Question: Which US TV show's theme song, by Judy Hart Angelo & Gary Portnoy, performed by Portnoy, contained the line "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"?
Answer: Cheers
Question: From which sport do we get the expression "Bowled a googly"?
Answer: Cricket
Question: Which one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus is the only one found in the New World (i.e. Mexico, across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina)?
Answer: Jaguar
Question: From which game do we get the expression "On a roll"?
Answer: Craps
Question: Who wrote the plays "Waiting For Godot", "Endgame", "Play", "Happy Days" and "Krapp's Last Tape"?
Answer: Samuel Beckett
Question: Which wars, from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860, were due to Britain smuggling goods from India into China in defiance of China's laws?
Answer: The Opium Wars
Question: What is the alternative name for Pluto, the Greek God of the underworld, that has come to mean Hell?
Answer: Hades
Question: What is the word for the minimum number of people necessary to formally constitute a meeting?
Answer: Quorum
Question: What international movement has a pink triangle as its symbol?
Answer: Gay rights
Question: Who was born in Cowley, Oxfordshire, and in Oxford built and sold bicycles, motorcycles and, in 1912, his first car, the Morris Oxford?
Answer: Lord Nuffield
Question: What film, in production between 2007 and 2009, is directed by James Cameron ("Titanic")?
Answer: Avatar
Question: Who was the first Chancellor of West Germany from 19491963, who retired at age 87?
Answer: Konrad Adenauer
Question: Who is Warren Beatty's actress sister?
Answer: Shirley MacLaine
Question: What is the name in England for the mystery crime fiction board game devised by Anthony E. Pratt and originally published in 1949?
Answer: Cluedo
Question: In what sport is the object to get one's balls as close to the "jack" as possible?
Answer: Bowls
Question: Which American screenwriter, producer, director, actor, author and editor, most productive in the 1950's, made "Plan 9 From Outer Space", "Glen or Glenda" and "Bride Of The Monster"?
Answer: Ed Wood
Question: What is the name for the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, from which Muslims date their era?
Answer: Hejira
Question: What name is given to the "house" constructed by beavers?
Answer: Lodge
Question: What team water sport involves two teams of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes?
Answer: Water polo
Question: Which winner of an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and a Pulitzer, wrote musicals with Hart, Hammerstein and Sondheim?
Answer: Richard Rodgers
Question: What is the name for what is commonly known as aspirin?
Answer: Acetyl-salicylic acid
Question: Which Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under a parabola, and provided formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and a system for expressing very large numbers?
Answer: Archimedes
Question: What is the second longest named river in the USA, which runs from Lake Hasca, Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Mississippi
Question: In 1898, an agreement was made between Britain and China for a 99 year lease for part of which colony?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: Which science fiction writer developed "The Three Laws of Robotics"?
Answer: Isaac Asimov
Question: What weapon, used by some African tribes, is a light throwing spear, tipped with iron?
Answer: Assegai
Question: What name for an army unit composed of New Zealand and Australian troops was applied to them in World War I?
Answer: ANZACs
Question: When "The Titanic" set out on her maiden voyage, she had enough lifeboats for what percentage of the passengers and crew that were on board?
Answer: 50
Question: Which board game depends on each competitor drawing destination cards, railway car cards and locomotive cards?
Answer: Ticket To Ride
Question: The Great Falls of the Potomac River are located upstream (to the northwest) of which US city?
Answer: Washington
Question: What is the name given to the retreat from Chiang Kai-sheks forces by the Chinese communists from Jiangxi to Shaanxi, a 9,600 km (5,965 mile), year-long journey that began in October 1934?
Answer: The Long March
Question: Christopher Reeve had the title role in the first of which series of films?
Answer: Superman
Question: Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1914 and 1919?
Answer: Boston Red Sox