zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In May 1909, Oscar Slater was sentenced to death for murder and released in 1928 with 6,000 compensation. People who campaigned for his release included William Roughead (who published his "Trial of Oscar Slater" in 1910), William Park (who published his "The Truth about Oscar Slater" in 1927) and by which other author who published "The Case of Oscar Slater" in 1912?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Question: It was a highly popular music hall song in 1910, a signature tune of Harry Champion, and was revived and popularised by Joe Brown and by Herman's Hermits, and is...?
Answer: I'm Henery the Eighth, I am
Question: What substance in the human body causes blood vessels to dilate when released as part of an allergic reaction?
Answer: Histamine
Question: Which London station does the "Eurostar" leave from?
Answer: St Pancras
Question: What is the monetary unit of Thailand?
Answer: Baht
Question: Which Saint's Day is 17 March?
Answer: St Patrick
Question: The Tarantula is named after a town in which country?
Answer: Italy
Question: What was the nickname of snooker player Ray Riordan?
Answer: Dracula
Question: The Mohs scale measures what?
Answer: Hardness of minerals
Question: Who was the first US Secretary of the Treasury?
Answer: Alexander Hamilton
Question: Which English MP, Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King Charles II and King James II, kept a detailed private diary during 16601669 which contained personal revelations and eyewitness accounts of great events and, after publication in the 19th century, became a primary source for study of the English Restoration period?
Answer: Samuel Pepys
Question: The following people died from what cause: Eva Braun, Wallace Carothers, Odilo Globocnik, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Gring, Heinrich Himmler, Gnther von Kluge, Erwin Rommel, Alan Turing and the residents of Jonestown?
Answer: Cyanide poisoning
Question: Which country held the most gold medals in the Men's European Volleyball Championship from 1948 to 1999?
Answer: USSR
Question: The Crucible, a 1953 play by Arthur Miller, was set in what city?
Answer: Salem
Question: Who was the first person to win "The Big Four" Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year & Best New Artist) in one year?
Answer: Christopher Cross
Question: """Catriona""is a sequel to which novel?"
Answer: Kidnapped
Question: Who was the third wife of King Henry VIII who died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her son, who briefly reigned as Edward VI?
Answer: Jane Seymour
Question: The Bill of Rights was passed by the Parliament of England in which century?
Answer: 17th century
Question: What is the name of the Jamaican netball team?
Answer: The Sunshine Girls
Question: Possession of what was made illegal in California, the first part of the USA to do so, on 6 October 1966?
Answer: LSD
Question: What is one expected to do in a dormitory?
Answer: Sleep
Question: Which fictional character in a popular book published in 1876 was born in St Petersburg?
Answer: Tom Sawyer
Question: In falconry what is a tiercel?
Answer: A male hawk or falcon
Question: Where is the United Kingdom's National Space Centre?
Answer: Leicester
Question: What 1973 film starring Al Pacino, John Randolph and Tony Roberts is based on the true story of New York City policeman who went undercover to expose the corruption of his fellow officers?
Answer: Serpico
Question: What was the capital of Yugoslavia from 1918-2006?
Answer: Belgrade
Question: According to the English nursery rhyme, who "called for his pipe and called for his bowl and called for his fiddlers three"?
Answer: King Cole
Question: What is the name for the open areas of country in South Africa?
Answer: Veldt
Question: What influential and at times highly controversial book was published in November 1859?
Answer: """On the Origin of Species"" by Charles Darwin"
Question: When was the last major volcanic activity at Mount St Helens, Washington USA?
Answer: 2008
Question: Where is the "Day of Skulls" celebrated on 8 November?
Answer: Bolivia
Question: What were the first names of comedians Abbott and Costello?
Answer: Bud and Lou
Question: When was canoeing accepted as an Olympic sport?
Answer: 1936
Question: At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards Show in February 2013 New Zealand singer Kimbra won two Grammies for her part in an album with Gotye. What were they?
Answer: Record of the Year, and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Question: Which is the largest of the salt lakes of Salt Lake City?
Answer: The Great Salt Lake
Question: Morten Harket was the lead singer for which band?
Answer: a-ha
Question: Someone who is frightened of blood is suffering from what?
Answer: Haemophobia
Question: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, the official mistress of Louis XV of France from 1745 to 1750, lent her titled name to what hairstyle?
Answer: Pompadour
Question: Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. Who did the plant get its name from?
Answer: Jean Nicot de Villemain
Question: Patrick Cox is known as a designer of what?
Answer: Shoes, leather goods and accessories
Question: What is the nationality of the actor wsho played Rumpelstiltskin in the TV series Once Upon a Time?
Answer: Scottish
Question: Who said "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back"?
Answer: Zsa Zsa Gabor
Question: Who released the album "Tissues and Issues" in 2005?
Answer: Charlotte Church
Question: When were the first world championships in alpine skiing held?
Answer: 1931
Question: The flag of which country is sometimes nicknamed the "auriverde"?
Answer: Brazil
Question: In surnames, e.g. Fitzwilliam, FitzGerald, Fitzherbert & Fitzhenry, what does "Fitz-" mean?
Answer: Son of ...
Question: What indicates the legal limit to which a ship may be loaded?
Answer: Plimsoll line
Question: Which is the highest military decoration awarded by the USA?
Answer: Medal of Honour
Question: What is a method of preserving and sterilizing food, in which a product is processed under very high pressure, leading to the inactivation of certain microorganisms and enzymes in it?
Answer: Pascalisation
Question: Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel "On the Road" was written in what style?
Answer: Stream of consciousness
Question: Approximately how long is the traditional Scottish caber?
Answer: 20 feet
Question: What is the profession of Damien Hirst?
Answer: Visual artist
Question: Spaniards Vicente Yez Pinzn, Francisco de Orellana and Lope de Aguirre, Portuguese Pedro Teixeira and Antnio Raposo Tavares o Velho, and Frenchman Charles Marie de La Condamine were involved in the exploration of what area?
Answer: Amazon
Question: Where is the palace called Istana Nurul Iman?
Answer: Brunei
Question: What is another name for a barrel organ?
Answer: Hurdy Gurdy
Question: Who is credited with writing the software for Skype?
Answer: Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn
Question: Where in Paris would you find the Arc de Triomphe?
Answer: The Place Charles de Gaulle
Question: The North German Federation together with Bavaria and other southern German states fought which other country in 1870 in what war?
Answer: France in the Franco-Prussian War
Question: Who was the governor of California from 1967 to 1975?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: What does the Mohs scale measure?
Answer: The hardness of minerals
Question: Phil Mickelson is a professional in what sport?
Answer: Golf
Question: What is the world's largest inland body of water?
Answer: Caspian Sea
Question: By what name have Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sometimes been known since 1974?
Answer: The Glimmer Twins
Question: Which play by Alan Bennett, set in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield, in the early 1980s that follows a group of pupils preparing for examinations, premired in London in 2004?
Answer: The History Boys
Question: What is the nickname of opera singer Lesley Garrett?
Answer: The Doncaster Diva
Question: When King George II of Great Britain and Ireland died in 1760, who succeeded him?
Answer: His grandson
Question: What colour does blue litmus paper turn when in contact with acid?
Answer: Red
Question: The New Spitalfields Market in Leyton, East London, deals in what?
Answer: Fruit, vegetables and flowers
Question: What is the southern-most Australian state capital?
Answer: Hobart
Question: Where did King Charles II hide himself after the Battle of Worcester in 1651?
Answer: In an oak tree
Question: """The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven"" is spoken by which Shakespearean character?"
Answer: Portia in "The Merchant of Venice"
Question: Who, in 1982, while wearing his future wife's dress because she had hidden his clothes, was arrrested for drunkenly urinating on a cenotaph erected in honor of those who died at the Alamo in Texas, across the street from the actual building?
Answer: Ozzy Osbourne
Question: What year did seven Manchester United footballers die in an air disaster at Munich airport, was Canadian Football League officially established in its current form, and the International Ptanque Federation founded in Marseille?
Answer: 1958
Question: What does a weathervane measure?
Answer: Wind direction
Question: What was known as the place of "bearded ones" to early Portuguese and/or Spanish explorers?
Answer: Barbados
Question: What is a "devil's coach horse"?
Answer: Beetle
Question: In 1960 Prince Andrew was the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch since when?
Answer: 1857
Question: Where would one find a famous example of a campanile that is not properly vertical?
Answer: Pisa
Question: What is a group of rooks called?
Answer: Parliament
Question: What is a "billet doux"?
Answer: Love letter
Question: Where did the cartoon character "Casper" first appear?
Answer: A film, "The Friendly Ghost"
Question: Who sued Hootie and the Blowfish for plagiarism in their song "Only Wanna Be With You" in 1995, reaching an out-of-court settlement?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Question: Which is another name for the game variously called taca taca, kicker, baby-foot, langirt and futillo?
Answer: Foosball
Question: What acronym is used to acknowledge a debt?
Answer: IOU
Question: What is the word for a literary work that imitates another style or artist?
Answer: Pastiche
Question: Who are most likey to perform a "pas de deux"?
Answer: Ballet dancers
Question: What name is given to a brightly coloured and very wide tie?
Answer: Kipper tie
Question: What is a synonym for "irritable"?
Answer: Crotchety
Question: Someone who is miserable is said to be "down in the ... " what?
Answer: Mouth
Question: The islands of Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes are in which sea?
Answer: Aegean
Question: Who wrote the books "Stark", "Gridlock", "This Other Eden", "Popcorn", "Blast from the Past", "Inconceivable", "Dead Famous", "High Society", "Past Mortem" and "The First Casualty"?
Answer: Ben Elton
Question: The Cullinan, a 3106.75 carat diamond, was mined where in 1905?
Answer: Pretoria
Question: What do the interior angles of a triangle add up to?
Answer: 180 degrees
Question: An archipelago is a collection of what?
Answer: Islands
Question: What was the name of the paranoid android in the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams?
Answer: Marvin
Question: A hexagon has how many angles?
Answer: 6
Question: The rank insignia of Swiss generals has representations of what flower instead of stars?
Answer: Edelweiss
Question: In which form of fencing contest do the competitors wear a sleeveless lam?
Answer: Foil
Question: What is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and by some to be the largest naval battle in history, and the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carried out organized kamikaze attacks?
Answer: The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Question: What country has the largest area?
Answer: Russia
Question: The Gaelic name for which sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, is Uamh-Binn, meaning "cave of melody"?
Answer: Fingal's Cave
Question: Which orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician composed the film scores for "Brazil", "Highlander", "X-Men", "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", "Licence to Kill", the "Lethal Weapon" series, the first three "Die Hard"s and "Mr. Holland's Opus"?
Answer: Michael Kamen
Question: The Boxer Rebellion China officially waged 1900-1901 was against what?
Answer: Foreign imperialism and Christianity
Question: What message did Benito Mussolini famously send to the Italian soccer team before the 1938 World Cup?
Answer: Win, or die
Question: What is an abacus-like finger counting method used to perform basic mathematical operations, by which it is possible to display all numbers from 0 to 99 with both hands?
Answer: Chisanbop
Question: A 19th century French physicist, chemist, botanist and teacher is particularly well-known for his seminal work in establishing entomology. What was his name?
Answer: Jean-Henri Fabre
Question: What kind of event is the Welsh word Eisteddfod applied to?
Answer: An arts festival
Question: Who created and hosts the TV series "America's Next Top Model"?
Answer: Tyra Banks
Question: What is the dish called "Picalilli"?
Answer: A relish of chopped pickled vegetables and spice
Question: Where was the area known as "The Spanish Main?
Answer: Caribbean Sea
Question: What is a state of stability, in which all forces are equal and opposing, cancelling each other out?
Answer: Stasis
Question: What surface is tennis played on at The Australian Open at Melbourne Park?
Answer: Hard court
Question: The internal angles of a pentagon add up to how many degrees?
Answer: 540
Question: What is another name for caustic soda?
Answer: Sodium hydroxide
Question: Which instrument originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian interpretation of a small guitar-like instrument taken there by Portuguese immigrants?
Answer: Ukulele
Question: What major sporting event was held, also in London, shortly after the London 2012 Summer Olympics?
Answer: 2012 Summer Paralympics
Question: What tourist destination is near Owicim, Poland?
Answer: Auschwitz concentration camp
Question: Which 2004 film, directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Natalie Portman concerns two obsessive couples whose intimacy pushes them further apart?
Answer: Closer
Question: What is the order of which Anders Behring Breivik claims to be a justiciar?
Answer: Knights Templar Europe
Question: Which musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on a book by Wilkie Collins?
Answer: The Woman in White
Question: In the TV series "Extras", Stephen Merchant played what role?
Answer: The agent, Darren Lamb
Question: In 1984 Anne Wood founded a company to produce children's shows for TV, the early shows from which included Pob's Programme, Playbox and Teletubbies. What was it called?
Answer: Ragdoll Productions
Question: Who is to be Australia's first Catholic saint?
Answer: Mary McKillop
Question: The line "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse" is from which play?
Answer: Richard III
Question: Who was the first left handed golfer to win one of the four majors?
Answer: Bob Charles
Question: Which country is known as "The Land of 1,000 Lakes"?
Answer: Finland
Question: Which country has the largest coal reserves in Latin America and produces most of the world's emeralds?
Answer: Colombia
Question: What was the name of the TV doctor played by Richard Chamberlain in a US TV series in the 1960s?
Answer: Kildare
Question: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan border what area?
Answer: The Red Sea
Question: Who play the two lead characters in the UK TV 2010 series Sherlock?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman
Question: What unusual item is used as an instrument in the chorus of Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore"?
Answer: Anvil
Question: Who was England's goalkeeper when they won the soccer World Cup Final in 1966?
Answer: Gordon Banks
Question: Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the start of World War I?
Answer: Herbert Asquith
Question: In communication over two-way radios, in use by the military, police and fire despatching systems, and CB radio, what does "over" mean?
Answer: I have finished talking and I am listening
Question: The Anemone hupehensis (commonly known as the Japanese anemone, Japanese thimbleweed, or Japanese windflower) was originally native to where?
Answer: Central China
Question: What is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, and perennial plants commonly known as the cranesbills?
Answer: Geranium
Question: Who composed the jazz / swing theme music for the television series Jeeves and Wooster?
Answer: Anne Dudley
Question: When was the company, the Tabulating Machine Company which later joined with three others to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, first launched?
Answer: 1896
Question: Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian naturalist and explorer explorer of what area between 1842 and 1848?
Answer: Northern and central Australia
Question: In anatomy, what word refers to a difference in coloration, usually of the iris but also of hair or skin?
Answer: Heterochromia
Question: What mountain range separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau?
Answer: Himalayas
Question: What is the surname of the actors Henry and Peter, who are father and son?
Answer: Fonda
Question: What is the word for an oblique-angled parallelogram with 4 equal sides?
Answer: Rhombus
Question: Which English author and model, the grand-daughter of author Roald Dahl, actress Patricia Neal and actor Stanley Holloway, married singer and pianist Jamie Cullum in 2010?
Answer: Sophie Dahl
Question: Which country is divided into thirteen administrative districts (Lautm, Baucau, Viqueque, Manatuto, Dili, Aileu, Manufahi, Liqui, Ermera, Ainaro, Bobonaro, Cova Lima and Oecusse Ambeno), one of which is separated from the rest by part of Indonesia?
Answer: East Timor
Question: What ballroom dance, recognised by the World Dance Council in the category of "International Latin", comes from Brazil?
Answer: Samba
Question: The plot of which play by William Shakespeare, whereby the King of Sicilia becomes convinced that his wife and his childhood friend have committed adultery and borne a daughter, was taken from Robert Greene's "Pandosto" (1588), but given a happy ending?
Answer: The Winter's Tale
Question: The International Skating Union (ISU) was formed in Scheveningen in the Netherlands in 1892 to govern speed skating and figure skating, and hosted its first Championship in Saint Petersburg in 1896. How many skaters competed?
Answer: 4
Question: """Aegrotocatellus jaggeri"" an extinct marine arthropod which disappeared about 250 million years ago, is named after whom?"
Answer: Mick Jagger
Question: In a 1996 film John Travolta played what character ?
Answer: Angel
Question: In which game would you use a wooden ball called a cochonnet?
Answer: Boules
Question: What term describes a deep ravine with sloping sides that is often dry in summer?
Answer: Coulee
Question: What element is named after the sons of the Earth Goddess in Greek mythology?
Answer: Titanium
Question: A piece for cornet, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, was composed and used as theme music for which TV show?
Answer: Coronation Street
Question: A magnetron is in which common household appliance?
Answer: Television
Question: What is the name of the counter-terrorism specialist who is the lead character in the TV series "24"?
Answer: Jack Bauer
Question: A filibuster is typically found where?
Answer: A decision-making body
Question: How many pieces are on a chessboard at the start of a game?
Answer: 32
Question: What ballroom dance is inspired by the bullfight?
Answer: Pasa doble
Question: Where is the "Scenic Railway", built in 1911, the oldest continually-operating roller coaster in the world, and one of only two in existence that require a brakeman to stand in the middle of the train?
Answer: Luna Park, Melbourne, Australia
Question: Khalid Al Qassimi, Daniel Sorda, Sebastien Ogier, Franois Duval & Jar-Matti Latvala regularly competed in 2010 in which championship?
Answer: World Rally Championship
Question: When was the first Great Reno Balloon Race held?
Answer: 1982
Question: What term is applied to the selective breeding of people?
Answer: Eugenics
Question: What electricity voltage is provided as mains power in Japan?
Answer: 100 Volts
Question: In Japan, what is the Shinkansen?
Answer: High speed rail line
Question: Who would use an orange stick?
Answer: Manicurist
Question: What is the simple past tense of the verb "swim"?
Answer: Swam
Question: What is the world's largest cat?
Answer: Tiger
Question: Which country between the Andes mountain range and the Atlantic Ocean has borders with Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Who played the title role in the 1998 film "Blade"?
Answer: Wesley Snipes
Question: What do the French call "crme anglais"?
Answer: Custard
Question: What element has the symbol "P"?
Answer: Phosphorus
Question: Which autonomous region within the Kingdom of the Netherlands is a 33-kilometre (21 mile) long island with a land area of 193 km2 (75 sq miles) in the southern Caribbean Sea?
Answer: Aruba
Question: In classical music, what is the deepest female singing voice?
Answer: Contralto
Question: What does FRCP after someone's name mean?
Answer: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
Question: In which sport do participants compete for "the Auld Mug"?
Answer: Yachting
Question: What nationality is Richard O'Brien, the writer of the stage musical "The Rocky Horror Show"?
Answer: New Zealander
Question: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Op. 125) is known as what?
Answer: Choral
Question: What Hawaiian word is informally used for "an important person"?
Answer: Kahuna
Question: How many legs do most crabs have?
Answer: 8
Question: What was the subject of the referendum held in Australia 1999?
Answer: To become a republic
Question: """The Grand Old Duke Of York"" was whose son?"
Answer: George III
Question: Polocrosse is a sport combining polo and what else?
Answer: Lacrosse
Question: Thomas Hughes wrote about the schooldays of which of the Browns?
Answer: Tom
Question: The left and right ventricles and the left and right atriums are found where in the human body?
Answer: Heart
Question: When was camogie established as a sport?
Answer: 1903
Question: What was the first standardised system of measurement established in Mesopotamia?
Answer: Royal gur-cube
Question: What is a jury said to do when it leaves the courtroom to consider a verdict?
Answer: Retire
Question: What robe is part of Japanese traditional costume?
Answer: Kimono
Question: Titicaca, which contains one of the highest freshwater lakes in the world, has a population who live exclusively on the Uros. What is that?
Answer: A group of 44 or so artificial islands made of floating reeds
Question: Where is the second regional gallery in the Tate Gallery network, that was opened in 1993?
Answer: St Ives, Cornwall
Question: What instrument is traditionally played by the leader of an orchestra?
Answer: Violin
Question: If Andrew ran 72 miles in 16 hours, on average how many miles did he run per hour?
Answer: 4.5
Question: In the Alfred Hitchcock film "Psycho", where did the murder take place?
Answer: In the shower
Question: What is the last US federal holiday in a calendar year?
Answer: Christmas Day
Question: What do the notes for the "euro" have on the front (recto)?
Answer: Windows or gateways
Question: The island of Madagascar is off the coast of which African mainland country?
Answer: Mozambique
Question: Who created and performed the most soundtracks for the film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps?
Answer: David Byrne and Brian Eno
Question: Corcovado mountain overlooks which city?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro
Question: Which film, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, concerns a man from Vermont who tries to share his inheritance?
Answer: Mr Deeds Goes To Town