zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who developed the 'Equity Theory' of job motivation in the 1960's?
Answer: J Stacey Adams
Question: What does the accounting acronym FIFO mean?
Answer: First In First Out
Question: What is the management technique that is commonly and informally abbreviated to MBWA?
Answer: Management By Walking About
Question: What visionary management thinker wrote The Age Of Unreason and The Empty Raincoat?
Answer: Charles Handy
Question: Who was appointed new England soccer manager in December 2007?
Answer: Fabio Capello
Question: What city hosted the 2007 World Athletics Championships?
Answer: Osaka
Question: Which former politician and convicted perjurer was appointed in November 2007 to lead a prison reform task force for the Conservative Party?
Answer: Jonathan Aitken
Question: On which Indonesian island was the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in December 2007?
Answer: Bali
Question: The two CDs lost by the UK department HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) contained personal details of 20m people relating to claims of what?
Answer: Child Benefit
Question: Who resigned as England cricket coach after the 2007 Ashes series 5-0 defeat?
Answer: Duncan Fletcher
Question: In May 2007 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced the biggest what in history to date?
Answer: Charitable donation
Question: In what significant UK location was the August 2007 Climate Change Camp sited?
Answer: Heathrow Airport
Question: Which organization announced euphemistically it would 'transition' its modestly performing '360' social networking website?
Answer: Yahoo
Question: Which American rock'n'roll star caused controversy when he married a young teenager?
Answer: Jerry Lee Lewis
Question: Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen's 1962 hit was called March of the ... what?
Answer: Siamese Children
Question: Who sang the hit theme song Rawhide?
Answer: Frankie Laine
Question: What famous 'two-fingered' jazz guitarist died in 1953?
Answer: Django Reinhardt (Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt)
Question: Whose nickname was a derived from the term satchel-mouth?
Answer: Louis Armstrong (Satchmo)
Question: The Isley Brothers' hit was called Behind a ... what?
Answer: Painted Smile
Question: What was the 1962 space-age instrumental hit by the Tornados?
Answer: Telstar
Question: Who sang the title song of the film The Girl Can't Help It?
Answer: Little Richard
Question: What long-running BBC Radio chart show began on the Light Programme in 1955, and later becoming hugely popular when presented by Alan Freeman?
Answer: Pick of the Pops
Question: Who had a 1960s hit with Step Inside Love?
Answer: Cilla Black
Question: The Copacabana nightclub was in which city?
Answer: New York
Question: Who made the hit comedy version of the Banana Boat Song, and other similar spoofs including versions of Presley's Heartbreak Hotel and Johnnie Ray's Cry?
Answer: Stan Freberg
Question: What number gives its name to the cultish 'club' celebrating rock stars who died at that age?
Answer: 27 (The 27 Club)
Question: Ailurophobia is a fear of what?
Answer: Cats
Question: Who painted The Rake's Progress?
Answer: William Hogarth
Question: What water birds and their cries are associated with madness?
Answer: Loons
Question: The wood sorrel plant is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Shamrock
Question: On UK roads the triangular warning sign for ice shows what symbol?
Answer: Snowflake
Question: What is a word puzzle comprising a picture or symbol plus individual letter or letters - and also the name of a UK TV detective?
Answer: Rebus
Question: In which century did Cleopatra VII (lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony) rule Egypt?
Answer: First century BC
Question: What metallic element typically makes up between 10% and 25% of stainless steel?
Answer: Chromium
Question: What Cape is Great Britain's most North Westerly point?
Answer: Cape Wrath
Question: Who became president of Egypt following the assassination of Anwar El Sadat in 1981?
Answer: Hosni Mubarak
Question: How many farthings were in a British guinea?
Answer: 1,008
Question: Who was the first artist to appear at the new Wembley Stadium?
Answer: George Michael
Question: What is the technical term for a solid figure with five plane (flat) faces?
Answer: Pentahedron
Question: What is grandpa's name in the TV show The Munsters?
Answer: Sam Dracula
Question: Chiromancy is the technical name for what pseudoscience (claimed but not proven to be scientific)?
Answer: Palmistry
Question: As at 2008 what is the most popularly attended concert venue in the world (highest audience numbers per year)?
Answer: The O2, London
Question: The ghost of great Dane dog Kabur, said to haunt Los Angeles Pet Cemetery, belonged to which 1920s screen idol?
Answer: Rudolph Valentino
Question: What country hosts the World Wife-Carrying Championships?
Answer: Finland
Question: What vital mechanism did Elisha Otis invent in 1852?
Answer: The elevator brake
Question: What word, extended from a more popular term, refers to a fictional book of between 20,000 and 50,000 words?
Answer: Novella
Question: In bookmaking how many times would an quarto sheet be folded?
Answer: Twice
Question: Who wrote the seminal 1936 self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People?
Answer: Dale Carnegie
Question: Which short-lived dramatist is regarded as the first great exponent of blank verse?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
Question: What is the Old English heroic poem, surviving in a single copy dated around the year 1000, featuring its eponymous 6th century warrior from Geatland in Sweden?
Answer: Beowulf
Question: What 16th century establishment in London's Bread Street was a notable writers' haunt?
Answer: The Mermaid Tavern
Question: What is the main dog character called in Norton Juster's 1961 popular children's/adult-crossover book The Phantom Tollbooth?
Answer: Tock
Question: What is the female term equating to a phallic symbol?
Answer: Yonic symbol
Question: What Japanese term (meaning 'fold' and 'book') refers to a book construction made using concertina fold, with writing/printing on one side of the paper?
Answer: Orihon
Question: What word, which in Greek means 'with' or 'after', prefixes many literary and language terms to denote something in a different position?
Answer: Meta
Question: What is the pen-name of novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-80)?
Answer: George Eliot
Question: Which Russian writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970?
Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Question: In the early 1900s a thriller was instead more commonly referred to as what sort of book?
Answer: Shocker
Question: In what decade were ISBN numbers introduced to the UK?
Answer: 1960s
Question: In 1969, P H Newby's book Something to Answer For was the first winner of what prize?
Answer: Booker Prize
Question: The word 'book' is suggested by some etymologists to derive from the ancient practice of writing on tablets made of what wood?
Answer: Beech
Question: Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, printed in Bruges around 1475 is regarded as the first book to have been what?
Answer: Printed in the English language
Question: In what city does Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace begin?
Answer: Saint Petersburg
Question: Who was the first prime minister of Israel?
Answer: David Ben-Gurion
Question: Who was the first man to appear on the cover of the American Vogue?
Answer: Richard Gere
Question: What is the US state capital of Washington?
Answer: Olympia
Question: The Butut is the monetary unit of which country?
Answer: Gambia
Question: Who won the 1987 British Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: Nigel Mansell
Question: The first chamber of commerce in Britain was founded in which city in 1783?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: Who painted The Monarch of the Glen?
Answer: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
Question: The Royal Mint is in which country of the UK?
Answer: Wales
Question: Human Rights Watch announced in October 2008 that what country is the world's most ignored tragedy?
Answer: Somalia
Question: Architect Rafael Viñoly designed what notable Leicester building which opened in 2008?
Answer: The Curve Theatre
Question: Which country won the most medals in total at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Answer: USA
Question: What was Abdel Kechiche's 2008 film about France's North African community?
Answer: Couscous
Question: Who released the album Do You Like Rock Music?
Answer: British Sea Power
Question: Who threw his shoes at George W Bush in December 2008?
Answer: Muntadhar al Zeidi
Question: Who won 3 gold medals for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and was named 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
Answer: Chris Hoy
Question: From January 2008 people seeking a visa to visit the UK were required to provide what additional form of identity?
Answer: Fingerprints
Question: The Detroit Redwings beat the Pittsburgh Penguins to win the 2008 Stanley Cup in which sport?
Answer: Ice hockey
Question: Which club won the 2008 Australian Football League Grand Final?
Answer: Hawthorn
Question: Who did Tiger Woods beat in a play-off for the 2008 US Open Championship?
Answer: Rocco Mediate
Question: Vodka, Galliano and orange juice are used to make which classic cocktail?
Answer: HARVEY WALLBANGER
Question: Which American state is nearest to the former Soviet Union?
Answer: ALASKA
Question: Consecrated in 1962, where is the Cathedral Church of St Michael?
Answer: COVENTRY
Question: Which children's classic book was written by Anna Sewell?
Answer: BLACK BEAUTY
Question: Which Briton won an ice-skating Gold at the Lake Placid Olympics?
Answer: ROBIN COUSINS
Question: In what year was Prince Andrew born?
Answer: 1960
Question: What is the national game of the Basques?
Answer: PELOTA
Question: If cats are feline, what are sheep?
Answer: OVINE
Question: What is the policeman's name in Noddy stories?
Answer: PC PLOD
Question: Which TV programme's theme tune was called Hit and Miss?
Answer: JUKE BOX JURY
Question: The Shatt-el-Arab (River of Arabia) is the confluence of which two other rivers?
Answer: TIGRIS and EUPHRATES
Question: What in Cornwall is the most southerly point of mainland Britain?
Answer: LIZARD POINT
Question: Which Cornish village claims to be the birthplace of King Arthur?
Answer: TINTAGEL
Question: What is an otter's home called?
Answer: HOLT
Question: What is the other name for Wildebeest?
Answer: GNU
Question: Which is the smallest member of the flute family?
Answer: PICCOLO
Question: Which hills divide England from Scotland?
Answer: CHEVIOTS
Question: Which musical featured the song They Called The Wind Mariah?
Answer: PAINT YOUR WAGON
Question: The headquarters of Greenpeace is in which European city?
Answer: Amsterdam
Question: Which was the first European country to give all women the vote?
Answer: Finland
Question: Which Alex Graham cartoon appears in the Daily Mail newspaper?
Answer: Fred Basset
Question: Who discovered the smallpox vaccination?
Answer: Edward Jenner
Question: What did Harry Beck design in 1931 and is still used in London today?
Answer: The map of the London Tube system
Question: Who plays Lynette Scavo in the TV series Desperate Housewives?
Answer: Felicity Huffman
Question: Swansea is situated on which river?
Answer: The Tawe
Question: What type of game is Faro?
Answer: A card game
Question: Which US state is named on the label of a Jack Daniels bottle?
Answer: Tennessee
Question: Nariyal is the Indian term for which nut?
Answer: Coconut
Question: In which county of the UK is Bramber Castle?
Answer: West Sussex
Question: The song Luck be a Lady features in which musical?
Answer: Guys and Dolls
Question: Kodiak Island is in which US state?
Answer: Alaska
Question: In the human body what is the hallux?
Answer: Big toe
Question: In which year were premium bonds first issued in Britain?
Answer: 1956
Question: Which UK supermaket chain launched a controversial carrier bag with the maxim 'Take an Old Bag Shopping'?
Answer: Sainsbury's
Question: Which British comedian features in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV?
Answer: Ricky Gervais
Question: A veronique dish is garnished with which fruit?
Answer: Grapes
Question: Who captained the West Indies cricket team from 1974-85?
Answer: Clive Lloyd
Question: Loyola University is in which US city?
Answer: Chicago
Question: Which US singer's real name is Ernest Evans?
Answer: Chubby Checker
Question: Saarland is an area of which European country?
Answer: Germany
Question: What were the first names of English novelist H E Bates?
Answer: Herbert Ernest
Question: The Ashmolean Museum is in which British city?
Answer: Oxford
Question: Whose autobiography is entitled Steps in Time?
Answer: Fred Astaire
Question: Which UK Chancellor of the Exchequer said, "The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."?
Answer: Denis Healey
Question: Who was the first black man to appear on the cover of American Vogue?
Answer: LeBron James
Question: Which English county cricket team play at the Rose Bowl?
Answer: Hampshire
Question: What is the science of accurate time measurement called?
Answer: Chronometry
Question: Duma is a legislative body in the ruling asesembly of which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: Pyaemia is the poisoning of what?
Answer: Blood
Question: Which British liner was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915?
Answer: Lusitania
Question: The Petrified Forest National Park is in which US state?
Answer: Arizona
Question: Passat, the Volkswagen car model, is German for a type of what?
Answer: Wind
Question: Who was the first woman Speaker of the UK House of Commons?
Answer: Betty Boothroyd
Question: What are auctioned at Tattersalls?
Answer: Horses
Question: P is the symbol for which chemical element?
Answer: Phosphorus
Question: Idiot Box is a derogatory term for what?
Answer: A television
Question: What country forms the Easterly edge of the Horn of Africa?
Answer: Somalia
Question: Who illustrated Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass?
Answer: John Tenniel
Question: What famous battle began with the English on Senlac Hill?
Answer: Battle of Hastings
Question: Vodka, Cointrea (or Triple Sec), cranberry juice and lime-juice make up which cocktail?
Answer: Cosmopolitan
Question: What is the Mexican in the 2001 film called The Mexican?
Answer: An antique pistol
Question: In children's TV what is the name of Fireman Sam's fire truck?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which British golfer won the 1969 British Open and 1970 US Open Championships?
Answer: Tony Jacklin
Question: Geophagy is the eating of what?
Answer: Earth
Question: What type of animal is a Quokka?
Answer: Wallaby
Question: ENT is what department in a hospital?
Answer: Ear, Nose and Throat
Question: What is the velvet fabric with a pattern formed by burning the pile away with acid?
Answer: Devoré
Question: Which US sportsman was nicknamed the Sultan of Swat?
Answer: Babe Ruth
Question: What is the birthstone for January?
Answer: Garnet
Question: What colour is LaLa of Teletubbies?
Answer: Yellow
Question: What was the basic monetary unit of Greece before the Euro?
Answer: Drachma
Question: Who wrote the 2009 novel, The Princess and the President, criticized for hinting at an unlikely affair between Diana Princess of Wales and the President of France?
Answer: Giscard d'Estaing
Question: Who famously said in the witness box, "Well, he would, wouldn't he?" when told that Viscount Astor denied having an affair with her (in relation to the 1963 Profumo scandal)?
Answer: Mandy Rice-Davies
Question: What language is 'Jeg elsker dig' ?
Answer: Danish
Question: Dendrophilia is the tendency to be aroused by what?
Answer: Trees
Question: What word, meaning in Greek 'many' and 'man', refers to a woman having more than one husband at the same time?
Answer: Polyandry
Question: Brigitte Bardot originally duetted on and prevented the release of what 1960s song, which later became a hit when she was replaced by Jane Birkin?
Answer: Je T'Aime
Question: Whose controversial activities were based at 32 Ambleside Avenue, Streatham, South London?
Answer: Cynthia Payne
Question: What word represents the letter J in the UK Police radio communications?
Answer: Juliet
Question: What date of the year is Burns Night?
Answer: 25th of January
Question: What is the second book of the Bible's Old Testament?
Answer: Exodus
Question: What is the name of the photographer famous for taking pictures of crowds of naked people?
Answer: Spencer Tunick
Question: Who was appointed the first woman cabinet minister in the UK?
Answer: Margaret Bondfield
Question: Who wrote the novel Bonfire of the Vanities?
Answer: Tom Wolfe
Question: In which year was TV's Channel 4 launched?
Answer: 1982
Question: Which country has the longest coastline?
Answer: Canada
Question: Munich is on which river?
Answer: Isar
Question: What does a hygrometer measure?
Answer: Humidity
Question: Leslie Poles were the first names of which writer, whose works included The Go-Between?
Answer: L P Hartley
Question: What is the basic monetary unit of Morocco?
Answer: Dirham
Question: Who played the title role in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinnie?
Answer: Joe Pesci
Question: The Reverse Frankensteiner is a move in what performance art form?
Answer: Professional Wrestling
Question: What is a mazurka - a Polish folk dance; an Italian picnic table; a Chinese fighting snail; or a puppy or kitten born with only three legs?
Answer: Polish folk dance
Question: In which English county is Windsor Castle?
Answer: Berkshire
Question: La Brabanconne is the national anthem of which European country?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Which city hosted the 1964 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: Tokyo
Question: GBJ is the international vehicle registration for where?
Answer: Jersey
Question: What would a silkworm grow to become if permitted to do so?
Answer: Silkmoth
Question: The Domesday Book was made by order of which English monarch?
Answer: William the First
Question: What is the standard duration of a chukka in the sport of field polo?
Answer: Seven minutes
Question: What is the title of the first James Bond film?
Answer: Dr No
Question: What is the chemical formula of snow?
Answer: H2O
Question: Which famous comedy double-act partner made the first ever UK mobile phone call, New Year's Day, 1985?
Answer: Ernie Wise
Question: Who is the narrator in the 2000 film The Grinch Who Stole Christmas?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins
Question: What celebratory receptacle is falsely claimed to have been modeled on the breast of Marie Antoinette?
Answer: Champage coupe
Question: What was Queen's 1984 Christmas single called?
Answer: Thank God it's Christmas
Question: What is a baby Turkey more correctly called, other than a chick?
Answer: Poult
Question: What is the name of the seat used for riding on the back of an elephant?
Answer: Howdah
Question: What is the basic monetary unit in Vietnam?
Answer: Dong
Question: Who was named England's first Poet Laureate?
Answer: Ben Johnson
Question: What is the longest nerve in the human body?
Answer: Sciatic nerve
Question: The Bay of Plenty is on the coast of which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: WWII General Joseph Stilwell's nickname was also the name of what 1970s rock act fronted by Elkie Brooks?
Answer: Vinegar Joe
Question: The introduction of what vegetable coincided with the coronation of the British monarch in 1902?
Answer: King Edward potato
Question: The Book of Kells is in which city?
Answer: Dublin
Question: The Prorsum collection is made by which fashion label?
Answer: Burberry
Question: In two minutes, Amanda Dutta Tumuly achieved a new Guinness world record by eating fifty-one what in two minutes, each rated over one million on the Scoville Scale?
Answer: Chillies
Question: Which computer game invented by Alexi Pajitnov celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009?
Answer: Tetris
Question: According to a ruling in 2009 by the UK Advertising Standards Authority what could women be shown to do in TV adverts before 11pm?
Answer: Orgasm
Question: Who won the 2009 BBC Sports Personality Award?
Answer: Ryan Giggs
Question: Corcoram State Prison California released a new photo of which 74 year old cult-leading mass murderer?
Answer: Charles Manson
Question: Which previous Governor of the Bank of England died in April 2009?
Answer: Eddie George
Question: in 2009 campaigners in Barcelona heightened demands to clean up what famous avenue?
Answer: Las Ramblas
Question: What famous sportsman starred in the 2009 film Looking for Eric?
Answer: Eric Cantona
Question: What iconic American mode of transport was introduced to the UK in August 2009?
Answer: Greyhound Bus
Question: Caster Semenya was subjected to a badly handled inquiry into what?
Answer: Her gender
Question: Who beat Tom Watson in the 2009 British Open Golf Championship play-off?
Answer: Stuart Cink
Question: What band won best international album and group awards at the 2009 Brits?
Answer: Kings of Leon
Question: Who topped the Forbes' list of the world's most powerful women in 2009?
Answer: Angela Merkel
Question: John Towers, Nick Stephenson, John Edwards, and Peter Beale (the Phoenix Four) were criticised in a 2009 UK Government report for making vast personal gain while presiding over the collapse of which company?
Answer: MG Rover
Question: What London attraction features on the 2009 commemorative British 50p coin?
Answer: Kew Gardens
Question: Which team lost the 2009 Superbowl to the Pittsburgh Steelers?
Answer: Arizona Cardinals
Question: Which boxer won a £1.8m claim against promotor Frank Warren in March 2009?
Answer: Joe Calzaghe
Question: Which celebrity fronted the successful campaign to grant UK residency rights to Gurkha soldiers?
Answer: Joanna Lumley
Question: The tragic videoed killing of Neda Agha-Soltan became iconic following what city's demonstrations?
Answer: Tehran
Question: Which country won the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: Norway
Question: What country was judged in 2009 by the Economist Intelligence Unit to be the safest in the world?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Andy Murray became the first British man to win what tennis tournament since Bunny Austin in 1938?
Answer: Queen's
Question: UK 2009 summer weather conditions prompted fears of a plague of harlequins - what insects are these?
Answer: Ladybirds
Question: What was the first predominantly muslim country visited by Barak Obama after becoming US president?
Answer: Turkey
Question: John Lydon (Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) fronted which dairy product ad campaign?
Answer: Country Life
Question: US Jazz guitarist Huey Long who died aged 105 was a member of which famous 1940s male vocal group?
Answer: The Inkspots
Question: England's humiliating defeat in their first game of the cricket World Twenty20 Championship was by whom?
Answer: Holland
Question: Which actor returned to ER in 2009 to huge acclaim?
Answer: George Clooney
Question: The phrase 'HDTV is worth every cent' became featured in which TV show's opening sequence?
Answer: The Simpsons
Question: Which film won the 2009 Bafta for best special visual effects?
Answer: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Question: Who came third in the UK X-Factor 2009?
Answer: Stacey Solomon
Question: Which car's 50th anniversary was featured on a Royal Mint 2009 commemorative coin?
Answer: The Mini
Question: Who bought the bankrupt Woolworths company in February 2009?
Answer: David and Frederick Barclay
Question: Which bankrupt UK construction firm was scrutinised in 2009 for having an £11m ruby on its balance sheet?
Answer: Wrekin
Question: Which fast bowler took five wickets for eleven runs in England's 51 all out against the West Indies?
Answer: Jerome Taylor
Question: What new biodegradable product launched in the UK under the Chicza Rainforest brand?
Answer: Chewing gum
Question: Which UK 'doorstep' loan company collapsed in 2009 with £2.4bn debts?
Answer: Cattles
Question: Which singer made the news for objecting to her songs being sold on a compilation CD by the British National Party?
Answer: Dame Vera Lynn
Question: What did Russian cargo ship Sinegorsk lose 1,500 tones of in the English Channel?
Answer: Timber
Question: What TV show became the first cartoon series nominated for an Emmy since the Flintstones?
Answer: Family Guy
Question: Which club did Thierry Henri play for in the 2008-9 European Champions League?
Answer: Barcelona