zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which tiny European nation claims itself to be the oldest recorded sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world?
Answer: San Marino
Question: 'Pha That Lung', a large gold-covered Buddhist stupa is regarded as the most important monument and national symbol in which landlocked Asian country?
Answer: Laos
Question: Distributed across the three islands of Tutuila, Ofu-Olosega, and Ta‘ū, what is the only American national park located south of the equator?
Answer: National Park of American Samoa
Question: Which Spanish city, now home to a great mosque was probably the most populated city in Europe and perhaps in the world in the later half of the 10th century?
Answer: Córdoba
Question: The Sigsbee Deep, named for the captain of the USS Maine which exploded in the harbor of Havana in 1898 is the deepest part of which body of water?
Answer: Gulf of Mexico
Question: The name of which Central Asian mountain range where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together and where the mighty rivers Irtysh, Ob and Yenisei have their sources literally means 'mountains of gold' in Turkic?
Answer: Altai
Question: The name of which vast and arid area north of the Great Australian Bight is derived from the Latin for 'no trees' and the crossing of which is a seminal experience of the Australian Outback?
Answer: Nullarbor Plain
Question: With 34.8 percent salinity, Lake Assal is considered the most saline body of water outside Antarctica. In which tiny nation in the Horn of Africa is it located?
Answer: Djibouti
Question: Easter Island in the South Pacific is well-known for its numerous moai, the stone statues located along its coastline. Which country does the island belong to?
Answer: Chile
Question: Among US states with the highest number of national parks, California and Alaska come in first with 8 each. Which state comes next with 5 of them?
Answer: Utah
Question: Upon seeing which stunning South American geographic feature did Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly say "Poor Niagara"?
Answer: Iguazu Falls
Question: Ted Sorenson, who was called by JFK as "intellectual blood bank" made his best-known contribution to the president in what capacity?
Answer: Speechwriter
Question: The Khartoum Resolution of 1967 that was organized after the Six-Day War became famous for its "Three No's" rejecting what entity?
Answer: Israel
Question: Alamut Castle, now in modern-day Iran, is remembered today as the home of what notorious group between 1090 and 1256 AD?
Answer: Assassins
Question: The phrase "two plus two equals five" ("2 + 2 = 5") popularized by George Orwell is plausibly derived from what developmental policy of the erstwhile Soviet Union?
Answer: Five Year Plans
Question: What is the common family name of the sisters Ai-ling, Chang-ling and May-ling who had a significant influence on 20th century Chinese history?
Answer: Soong sisters
Question: The founding of the Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt by Duke Leopold V in 1194 came about from the ill-gotten gains of whose kidnapping that probably yielded the highest ransom ever?
Answer: Richard the Lionheart
Question: The 1940 book To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson that traces communism refers to the arrival of Lenin at the said railway station in what city?
Answer: St. Petersburg
Question: What European ethnicity marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302) fought in Flanders as its official holiday?
Answer: Flemish
Question: Signed by three heads of states in the later part of the 20th century, what was the result of the Belavezha Accords?
Answer: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Question: Charter 77, a petition by writers and intellectuals demanding basic human rights played a big part in the anti-communist movement in what erstwhile country?
Answer: Czechoslovakia
Question: Velupillai Prabhakaran, whose death in 2009 ended a bloody civil war in Sri Lanka sought to create an independent state for the people of what ethnicity?
Answer: Tamil
Question: The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 that was fought in places like Cawnpore, Lucknow before ending in Gwalior is said to be the first war of independence in the history of which country?
Answer: India
Question: The second most-studied case of genocide (after the Holocaust) is said to have begun on April 24, 1915 when Ottoman authorities arrested 250 intellectuals of what ethnicity?
Answer: Armenian
Question: The 1889 constitution of which country recognized the divine power of its emperor deriving it from a native belief that the imperial family was the offspring of the sun goddess Amaterasu?
Answer: Japan
Question: Owain Glyndŵr (died c. 1416) who was venerated by the 19th century Cymru Fydd movement is considered the national hero of what ethnicity?
Answer: Welsh
Question: What is the 'avian' code name for the campaigns of political repression implemented in 1975 by the dictatorships of South America?
Answer: Operation Condor
Question: Which long-serving Italian prime minister of the 20th century was kidnapped and tragically killed by a group called the Red Brigades in 1978?
Answer: Aldo Moro
Question: In WWII, Germany's 6th army was destroyed in 'Operation Uranus' in 1943 after a bitter battle around which city?
Answer: Stalingrad
Question: The 15th century figure Skanderbeg who is remembered for his struggle against the Ottoman Empire is considered the national hero of which country?
Answer: Albania
Question: What political movement in first century Judaism that sought to incite people against the Roman Empire has now come to mean fanatical support for a cause?
Answer: Zealotry
Question: On 31 October 1984, the English actor Peter Ustinov was waiting to interview which Asian leader when that person was assassinated?
Answer: Indira Gandhi
Question: Kåre Kristiansen, a member of the Nobel Committee resigned in 1994 in protest at the awarding of the Peace Prize to which person, calling the awardee a terrorist?
Answer: Yasser Arafat
Question: Literally called 'The Righteous and Harmonious Society Movement', what is the more popular western name for the Chinese rebellion took place from 1899 to 1901 against foreign influence during the final years of the Manchu rule?
Answer: Boxer Rebellion
Question: The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was destroyed on July 21, 356 BC in an act of arson. Historian Plutarch remarked that the goddess was preoccupied with the birth of whom that occurred on the same day to save her temple?
Answer: Alexander the Great
Question: What 1990s theory proposed by the political scientist Samuel Huntington contends that cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world?
Answer: Clash of Civilizations
Question: Algernon Blackwood's 1907 story, called by H. P. Lovecraft as the "finest supernatural tale in English literature" is titled after what type of trees? (hint: cricket)
Answer: Willows
Question: Which prolific author created a men-only dining group called The Black Widowers for a series of mystery stories?
Answer: Isaac Asimov
Question: What is the name of the castle in Mervyn Peake's series of fantasy novels that has now come to mean any sprawling complex?
Answer: Gormenghast
Question: Misselthwaite Manor is the chief locale of what beloved children's novel that tells the coming of age story of Mary Lennox?
Answer: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Question: Similar to John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, which influential 1930s book by Edgar Snow is an account of the Communist Party of China?
Answer: Red Star Over China
Question: The English novelist Sax Rohmer is best known for creating which prototypical ethnic villain who is now associated with a distinctive mustache?
Answer: Dr. Fu Manchu
Question: What classic short story by the French writer Guy de Maupassant concerns an invisible malevolent spirit that aims to take control over the narrator?
Answer: The Horla
Question: The title of which classic set in Africa is taken from a line in Yeats' poem The Second Coming and precedes the words 'the centre cannot hold'?
Answer: Things Fall Apart (1958)
Question: Which 1899 book by Thorstein Veblen that originated the phrase 'conspicuous consumption' is considered one of the first detailed critiques of consumerism?
Answer: The Theory of the Leisure Class
Question: Which 1989 Spanish novel follows the story of young Tita who longs her entire life for Pedro but is only able to express her feelings through her cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what she feels?
Answer: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Question: Which 1944 work of Friedrich Hayek is among the most influential expositions of classical liberalism and is stated as the single book that significantly shaped the political ideologies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan?
Answer: The Road to Serfdom
Question: What term from the Spanish for 'rogue/rascal' describes a genre of fiction that depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society?
Answer: Picaresque
Question: The title of which book comes from a dialogue within where the character Atticus warns his children that, although they can "shoot all the blue jays they want," they must remember that "it's a sin to do this"?
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird
Question: Which well-known short story about time travel by Ray Bradbury is a fictional exploration of the 'butterfly effect' of Chaos theory?
Answer: A Sound of Thunder
Question: In the days of Haroun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad, a poor porter pauses to rest on a bench outside the gate of a rich merchant's house, where he complains to Allah about the injustice of a world which allows the rich to live in ease while he must toil and yet remain poor. The owner of the house hears this, and sends for the porter, and it is found they are both named ___. The rich ___ tells the poor ___ that he became wealthy, "by Fortune and Fate," the details of which he will now proceed to relate. What magnificent adventures follow?
Answer: Stories of Sindbad
Question: Whose March 31, 1994 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman resulted in the episode becoming the most censored in American network television talk-show history for obvious reasons?
Answer: Madonna
Question: The musical ensemble arrangement called 'gamelan' which often accompanies wayang puppet performances (among others) is a tradition of what Asian country?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: In 1989, rocker Ted Nugent made a multi-million dollar bid to purchase what company to shut it down as he felt it's ubiquitous sounds were representative of everything "uncool" about music?
Answer: Muzak
Question: Due to the large number of languages used in the European Union, its anthem is purely instrumental. Despite this, the German lyrics from what work of Friedrich Schiller, connected to Beethoven, are often sung when the anthem is played?
Answer: Ode to Joy
Question: Clang! The Avedis Zildjian Company is best known for producing and popularizing what musical instruments?
Answer: Cymbals
Question: Which Swedish pop group went through the names 'Kalinin Prospect', CAD (Computer-Aided Disco) and Tech-Noir before settling on their present name as nobody could remember their previous names?
Answer: Ace of Base
Question: Dit-dit-dit-dot. In his novel Howard's End, E. M. Forster refers to which Beethoven composition as "the most sublime noise that ever penetrated into the ear of man."?
Answer: The 5th Symphony
Question: Which British musician who worked on engineering projects as Paul McCartney's 'Wild Life' and Pink Floyd's' The Dark Side of the Moon' also started an eponymous progressive rock band that was active between 1975 and 1987?
Answer: Alan Parsons
Question: According to Opera America, what 'flutters' to the no.1 spot in the list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America?
Answer: Madama Butterfly
Question: What song was written and performed by Billy Joel to underscore the plight of fishermen on Long Island?
Answer: """The Downeaster Alexa"""
Question: The Flammarion engraving that can be frequently seen on book covers sought to illustrate what belief system?
Answer: Flat earth
Question: As seen in a scene inspiring Robin Williams in the movie Awakenings, the chemical L-DOPA is widely used in the treatment of what disease?
Answer: Parkinson's disease
Question: What 'continental' moon of the Solar System has become the focus of extra-terrestrial life studies because its smooth surface suggests the presence of an ocean underneath?
Answer: Europa
Question: Which American chemist who discovered covalent bond and coined the term 'photon' among other things is probably the greatest scientist to never win the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Gilbert Lewis
Question: The baryon asymmetry problem in physics deals with the anomaly of why the universe has any matter at all and why it is not filled with photons only. This is because the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of what?
Answer: Matter and antimatter
Question: In June 1696 Bernoulli addressed a letter to the mathematicians of Europe challenging them to solve two problems concerning curves. Several people including Leibniz sent solutions. Whose solution was submitted anonymously but was recognized by Bernoulli with the words "tanquam ex ungue leonem" (we know the lion by his claw)?
Answer: Isaac Newton's
Question: """It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a sheet of tissue paper and it came back to hit you."" Who is the 20th century scientist who is describing his most famous experiment in the above words?"
Answer: Ernest Rutherford
Question: In the hardware industry, what 'stirring' word describes the process of coating of iron/steel with zinc to prevent rusting?
Answer: Galvanization
Question: A hypothetical elementary particle called the Higgs boson that is the subject of studies using the Large Hadron Collider has been given what 'divine' name by the mainstream media?
Answer: God particle
Question: What controversial theory in evolutionary biology proposes that most sexually reproducing species will experience little or no evolutionary change and remain in an extended state called stasis?
Answer: Punctuated equilibrium
Question: What non-technical term is given to a condition where the thumb, when extended (as in a 'thumbs-up'), stretches backwards toward the nail and outwards?
Answer: Hitchhiker's thumb
Question: What controversial form of alternative medicine that aims to treat 'like with like' traces its origins to the late 18th century when it was founded by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann?
Answer: Homeopathy
Question: Because of his advocation for the use of direct current (DC) for electric power distribution, Thomas Edison developed a bitter rivalry with which other genius who advocated alternating current (AC)?
Answer: Nikola Tesla
Question: What nutrients required by the human body for metabolic reactions are classified as water-soluble and fat-soluble? Did you take yours today?
Answer: Vitamins
Question: Which element gets its name from the Greek for 'acid producer' because the scientist Lavoisier who named it erroneously thought that it was a constituent of all acids?
Answer: Oxygen
Question: Which land-locked European country whose teams have excelled in water polo and fencing holds the record for having won the most medals of any nation to never host the Olympics?
Answer: Hungary
Question: When legendary Finnish athlete Paavo Nurmi was asked about the reason for his success at the 1924 Olympics despite high-heat conditions, he mentioned what tradition of his country as part of his training?
Answer: Sauna
Question: In the 2014 Soccer World Cup, which country's players celebrated a victory by dancing to "Hips Don't Lie"?
Answer: Colombia
Question: In a 1914 chess tournament in St. Petersburg, what did Tsar Nicholas II call the five finalists Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Frank Marshall?
Answer: """Grandmasters"""
Question: On April 30 1993, a knife wielding Günter Parche in Hamburg had a debilitating effect on the career of whom?
Answer: Monica Seles
Question: There is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht and was first awarded to a yacht which sailed around the world in less than 80 days. Can you guess after whom the trophy is named?
Answer: jules verne
Question: The uniform of which NFL team is green because their once owner was born on St Patrick's day?
Answer: New York Jets
Question: Which chess opening named for a Spanish monk consists of the following moves? 1. e4, e5 2. Nf3, Nc6 3. Bb5
Answer: Ruy Lopez
Question: Which huntsman in Greek mythology was turned into a stag and was torn to pieces after surprising the goddess Artemis bathing?
Answer: ACTAEON
Question: Which late 19th and early 20th century art movement takes its name from the French for 'wild beasts'?
Answer: FAUVISM
Question: The name of which 20th century art movement means 'hobby-horse' in French?
Answer: DADA
Question: In which English county could you visit the 'Museum of Witchcraft', the 'Barbara Hepworth Museum' and the 'King Edward Mining Museum'?
Answer: CORNWALL
Question: Which eponymous musical based on the 1963 Profumo Affair made its debut in London last year?
Answer: STEPHEN WARD
Question: What name describes the group of chemical elements that includes Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine and Fluorine?
Answer: HALOGENS
Question: Which George Eliot novel was first published under the title, 'The Weaver Of Raveloe'?
Answer: 'SILAS MARNER'
Question: The 'Pilgrim's Way' runs in an easterly direction from Winchester in Hampshire, to which city?
Answer: CANTERBURY
Question: Which 19th century monarch had a much-publicised affair with an actress called Mrs. Robinson?
Answer: GEORGE IV
Question: First performed in 1941, which English composer's first operetta was named for the American folk hero 'Paul Bunyan'?
Answer: BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Question: Based on a 1980 filmof the same name, what is the title of the musical written by Dolly Parton that is due to open on Broadway next year (2009)?
Answer: '9 TO 5'
Question: 'Astro' owned by the animated television family 'The Jetsons', and 'Schmeichel' owned by 'Chesney' in 'Coronation Street' are both examples of which breed of dog?
Answer: GREAT DANE
Question: Which perfume house introduced a brand called 'Amarige' in 1991?
Answer: GIVENCHY
Question: In November 1943 which South American country sent 60,000 troops plus aircraft to assist allied forces in Europe?
Answer: BRAZIL
Question: What word connects a nuclear bomber with a radio call sign, and the television programme 'Z Cars'?
Answer: VICTOR
Question: Which 1988 comedy film features a jewel robbery by a team of four, including an animal lover with a stutter and a stupid idiot who resents being called that?
Answer: 'A FISH CALLED WANDA'
Question: Which bank used the slogan devised by Rod Allen, "the listening bank"?
Answer: MIDLAND
Question: On which Gulf is Cambodia?
Answer: GULF OF THAILAND
Question: Which nursery rhyme is based on the events at Mount Kenmel on the border of France and Belgium?
Answer: 'THE GRAND OLD DUKE OF YORK'
Question: Which river rises in the Massif Centrale, flows north and east to enter the Bay of Biscay at St. Nazaire?
Answer: LOIRE
Question: Which 18th century British novelist, also served as London's chief magistrate, helped found the Bow Street Runners in 1749?
Answer: HENRY FIELDING
Question: Which of Rodin's sculptures originally called The Poet, stands as the headstone for his grave in Meudon Cemetery?
Answer: THE THINKER
Question: By what name was Botswana known before 1967?
Answer: BECHUANALAND
Question: What may be described as "a leguminous plant bearing pods that ripen underground, and contain seeds used for food and oil"?
Answer: PEANUTS
Question: In which year was Benigno Aquino murdered, the USSR shoot down a Boeing 747 off Sakhalin Island, and America land troops in Grenada?
Answer: 1983
Question: What may be described as a 'primula with fragrant yellow flowers, which grow in pastures and meadows'?
Answer: COWSLIP
Question: The invention of which home recreational item is attributed to John Spilsbury in 1760?
Answer: JIGSAW PUZZLE
Question: Which American film director of Czech origin twice won the Academy Award for Best Director for his films 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Amadeus'?
Answer: MILOS FORMAN
Question: Which American film director of Greek origin has twice won the Academy Award for Best Director for his films 'Gentleman's Agreement' and 'On The Waterfront'?
Answer: ELIA KAZAN
Question: Which Manchester band formed in 1976 by Mark E Smith and three others was named after the English title of a novel by Albert Camus?
Answer: 'THE FALL'.
Question: Who did Andrew Waugh succeed as Surveyor General of India, Waugh naming Peak XV in the Himalayas after him?
Answer: GEORGE EVEREST
Question: Which religious figure lived at Auckland Castle until last year, although his office is still there?
Answer: BISHOP OF DURHAM
Question: The flag of which Republic that existed from the 7th century until 1797 contained the Lion head of Saint Mark with an open gospel?
Answer: VENICE
Question: In which 1986 film did John Cleese play a schoolteacher anxiously trying to get to Norwich?
Answer: Clockwise
Question: """An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!"" is the last line of the chorus of which of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads?"
Answer: MANDALAY
Question: """Can't Sing!"" - a musical comedy written by Harry Hill that lasted 6 weeks and 3 days in London last year, was based on which TV reality show?"
Answer: THE X FACTOR
Question: Which film director fist applied the word 'Paparazzi' to persistent newsmen?
Answer: FEDERICO FELLINI
Question: Which politician famously admitted to having smoked a joint but not having inhaled?
Answer: BILL CLINTON
Question: Starring Steven Strait and Camilla Bell, which is the highest grossing film worldwide of 2008, so far?
Answer: '10,000 B.C.'
Question: Which Australian Prime Minister went missing while swimming in 1967?
Answer: HAROLD HOLT
Question: Based on a mythological tale, which 1689 opera by Henry Purcell is considered by many to be the first English-language operatic masterpiece?
Answer: 'DIDO AND AENEAS'
Question: In 'HMS Pinafore' by Gilbert and Sullivan, the Captain wants his daughter 'Josephine' to marry 'Sir George Porter'. What position does 'Sir George' hold?
Answer: FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY.
Question: Which English county has districts called Bromsgrove, Wyre Forest and Malvern Hills?
Answer: WORCESTERSHIRE
Question: Which team won a 1960's Gillete Cup Final using bowlers Thomson, Buss, Snow, Bates and Dexter?
Answer: SUSSEX
Question: Sent as a gift to King James II of Scotland in 1457, what is the alliterative name of the medieval bombard siege gun located outside of Edinburgh Castle?
Answer: 'MONS MEG'
Question: Which American statesman and scientist almost killed himself whilst demonstrating the electrical nature of lightening by flying a kite in a thunderstorm?
Answer: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Question: In 1844, Samuel Morse used which four-word Biblical quote when he sent the world's first public telegraph message?
Answer: """WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT"""
Question: Named after a character appearing in Acts of the Apostles, what name is given is given to the act of paying for sacraments and consequently for holy offices or positions in the hierarchy of a church?
Answer: SIMONY
Question: Today a senior Police rank in both Italy and Romania, what name was given to the public official in the Roman Republic's Cursus honorum system, who supervised financial affairs?
Answer: QUAESTOR
Question: Fallopia japonica is a pernicious weed spreading through roots and tubers found in various wild places, particularly damp ones, in the UK. What is its more common name?
Answer: Japanese Knotweed
Question: Heraclium mantegazzianum is a weed thought to be the largest in western Europe. What is its common name?
Answer: Giant Hogweed
Question: In the TV series Red Dwarf, one character was called Arnold J Rimmer. For what did the “J” stand?
Answer: Judas
Question: Who was the muse who provided the inspiration for Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl”?
Answer: Christine Brinkley
Question: Which TV detective had a dog called simply “Dog”?
Answer: Columbo