zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What term for a fungal mold derives from an old mistaken idea that it distilled from the air?
Answer: Mildew
Question: Erich Kästner's famous 1929 children's novel set in Berlin is called 'Emil and the (What?')?
Answer: Detectives
Question: According to majority scholarly opinion, what was Jesus Christ's main spoken language?
Answer: Aramaic
Question: Which country, the world's fifth-largest, is named after its first export?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Pales, Fesses, Canton, and Saltire are types of designs of what?
Answer: Flags
Question: Quark, clabber, twaróg, and viili are international variations of a food made from?
Answer: Milk
Question: The biological mating theory that males seek novelty and females seek familiarity is known as the '(What US President?) Effect'?
Answer: Coolidge
Question: What country was first to experience the Renaissance period in Europe?
Answer: Italy
Question: Which one of these refers to a summary rather than a verbatim quote? Abstract, Excerpt, Extract?
Answer: Abstract
Question: What vegetable's thinner lighter variant has an established alternative name 'Tenderstem'?
Answer: Broccoli
Question: Before 1967 BBC Radio 2 was called the '(What?) Programme'?
Answer: Light
Question: What/who was Yahweh, (expanded from Hebrew YHWH), in the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah?
Answer: God
Question: What highly symbolic term refers to a meteor typically defined as "a meteor brighter than any of the planets"?
Answer: Fireball
Question: What dental term refers to the appearance of new teeth in the mouth?
Answer: Eruption
Question: What public service ceased in India in July 2013, having declined from a peak of 45,000 service points in the 1980s?
Answer: Telegram
Question: What resin is secreted by India's female Kerria lacca insect, used in old 78rpm records and a cosmetic nail treatment?
Answer: Shellac
Question: In music the term descant (or discant) normally refers to a melody or instrument in what range?
Answer: High
Question: What tool has a grind, spine, fuller and ricasso?
Answer: Knife
Question: The music genre 'Musique d'Ameublement' originated by Erik Satie in 1917 is commonly called '(What?) music' in English?
Answer: Furniture
Question: The word 'idea' derives from Greek meaning the sense to?
Answer: See
Question: From Latin meaning 'stake', what is the hinged or pivoted catch preventing reverse motion of a ratchet wheel?
Answer: Pawl
Question: What term refers to a traditional alternative to electronic or digital technology, and separately to something which corresponds to another?
Answer: Analogue
Question: The devastating water-borne disease Schistosomiasis, or Snail Fever, is more commonly called what?
Answer: Bilharzia
Question: What French term refers to the standing on 'tip-toes' position in ballet?
Answer: Pointe
Question: What does the 'Waffen' mean in the World War II German 'Waffen SS'?
Answer: Armed
Question: According to the popular metaphorical expression, "Revenge is a dish best served (what?)"?
Answer: Cold
Question: The (International Standards Organization) ISO 4217, within which TRY refers to Turkey, provides designations for international?
Answer: Currencies
Question: Established in 1802 the 'Legion of Honour' (UK-English translation) is the highest civil or military award given in which nation?
Answer: France
Question: How many full years elapsed between the start of the year 17BC, and the start of the year 17AD?
Answer: 33
Question: The 'Turing test' assesses whether a computer possesses what characteristic?
Answer: Human
Question: What major group of organisms possess bodily features called operculum, caudal peduncle, and photophores?
Answer: Fish
Question: What mammalian hormone is associated with birthing, milk ejection, and the refractory period?
Answer: Oxytocin
Question: What is the name of the cake traditionally eaten in Italy at Christmas?
Answer: Panettone
Question: Based in Mumbai, abbreviated to RBI, what is India's central banking institution and guardian of the currency?
Answer: Reserve Bank of India
Question: The oldest Sanskrit literature and Hindu scriptures are called what, meaning 'knowledge' in Sanskrit?
Answer: Vedas
Question: The first prime minister of India, regarded as architect of the modern Indian state, was Jawaharlal (Who?)
Answer: Nehru
Question: What commercial organization governed India from 1612-1858 before it became a British colony?
Answer: British East India Company
Question: The vast geographical feature called 'Chad' which forms a border between Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger, is a?
Answer: Lake
Question: At 12,000 years old, the Nok of Nigeria is West Africa's oldest known?
Answer: Civilization
Question: Nigeria is a major (until 1934 the world's largest) producer of what commodity from the Elaeis guineensis plant, used in foods, cooking and soap products?
Answer: Palm oil
Question: Nigeria's governmental constitution is chiefly based on that of the?
Answer: USA
Question: The dominant 14-18th century Oyo Empire of Nigeria was noted for the organizational abilities of the Yoruba people and what feature of its powerful army?
Answer: Cavalry
Question: Alejandro Amaya, Carlos Arruza, Jaime Bravo and Carmelo Torres are famous Mexican?
Answer: Bullfighters
Question: The Mexican War of Independence 1810-1821 ended colonial rule by which nation, since 1521?
Answer: Spain
Question: Comprising 100 centavos, and derived from 'gold/silver weights' what is the currency of Mexico?
Answer: Peso
Question: What disease, introduced by invading forces, killed millions of indigenous Mexican people in the early 1500s?
Answer: Smallpox
Question: What two-word name given to Mexico's mountain ranges means 'Mother Mountains'?
Answer: Sierra Madre
Question: Indonesia's governing constitution since independence is a?
Answer: Presidential Democracy
Question: Home to most of Indonesia's Hindu minority, what tourist haven is Indonesia's smallest province?
Answer: Bali
Question: The vast majority of Indonesian people adhere to what religion?
Answer: Islam
Question: Representing about 100 million people and 40% of the population, which is the largest ethnic group of Indonesia?
Answer: Javanese
Question: 'Magnificent Century' is among what hugely popular Turkish export to Arab and Balkan regions in the 2000s?
Answer: TV Drama
Question: Comprising 100 Kuruş, what is Turkey's currency, first minted in the early 1400s as Ottoman money?
Answer: Lira
Question: To celebrate extravagantly (usually loudly and drunkenly) in town/city bars, clubs, etc., is called to 'Paint the town (What?)'?
Answer: Red
Question: Which nationality combines with 'auction', 'courage' and 'uncle' in referring to alternative/artificial versions?
Answer: Dutch
Question: What AA Milne children's book character is used as a metaphor in referring to someone who is pessimistic and gloomy?
Answer: Eeyore
Question: Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), fictionalized by Tracey, Spacey, and Fonda among others, was a famous American libertarian and?
Answer: Lawyer
Question: The word dessert, a sweet pudding, derives from French (desservir) meaning to?
Answer: Clear the table
Question: The term pannier (e.g., motorbike side-box) derives from what sort of basket?
Answer: Bread
Question: In psychology the (positive) 'Pygmalion effect' and opposite (negative) 'Golem effect' influence people by?
Answer: Expectation
Question: The society-persuasion theory adopted by US and UK governments based on the 2008 Thaler & Sunstein book of the same name is called?
Answer: Nudge
Question: A codicil is a supplementary text which alters what sort of legal document?
Answer: Will
Question: German physician Franz Mesmer's (1734-1815) 'animal magnetism' theory is considered foundational in the development of?
Answer: Hypnosis
Question: Derived from ecclesiastical Latin, the term genuflexion/genuflection refers to bending which part of the body?
Answer: Knee
Question: Name the controversial arm-gesture associated with French-Cameroonian comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala?
Answer: Quenelle
Question: Tarja Halonen, Martti Ahtisaari, and Mauno Koivisto have been presidents of Suomi - known in western language as?
Answer: Finland
Question: DNA analysis of a 7,000 year-old cave-dwelling human skeleton from north Spain revealed what surprising genetic feature?
Answer: Blue eyes
Question: Anaximander (c.600-550BC), Tabula Rogeriana (1154), Waldseemüller (1507) and Mercator (1569) are notable?
Answer: World maps
Question: In which competitive activity did the WBF strip its 2013 Bali World Championship from two German doctors for coded coughing?
Answer: Bridge
Question: Pravachol, Lipitor, Mevacor, Altocor, and Zocor are brands of what $multi-billion cholesterol controlling drug, ultimately named after Greek meaning 'causing to stand'?
Answer: Statin
Question: What human liquid is 99.5% water, and 0.5% electrolytes, mucus, glycoproteins, enzymes, and antibacterial compounds such as IgA and lysozyme? Blood; Sweat; Tears; or Saliva?
Answer: Saliva
Question: When testing his sound equipment inventions, including the first ever recording (on phonograph cylinder in 1878), Thomas Edison often recited?
Answer: Mary Had A Little Lamb
Question: What city/club football rules, which spread widely in the late 1800s, introduced heading, corners, throw-ins, changing ends, and the goal crossbar?
Answer: Sheffield
Question: What word, derived from Latin meaning to 'pay against the evil of something' refers to expressing disapproval?
Answer: Deprecate
Question: Which inspirational genius created the landmark film 'Modern Times' and its theme song, 'Smile', released in 1936?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin
Question: The traditional generic name of the 1880s bike design which improved the penny-farthing (high-wheel) and basically endures today is the '(What?) bicycle'?
Answer: Safety
Question: What French railway term refers to the bicycle gear system for shifting the chain between sprockets?
Answer: Derailleur
Question: What French word commonly refers to a bunch or pack of cyclists?
Answer: Peloton
Question: 'Pinyin', the original and common other Chinese/Japanese name for the tile game Mahjong means?
Answer: Sparrow
Question: What famous French 1970s-designed anti-ship missile means 'flying fish'?
Answer: Exocet
Question: The eminent British economist Richard Layard is noted for pioneering work on?
Answer: Happiness
Question: The US-originating slang 'wallwart' is used in which connection?
Answer: Electrical
Question: The word scourge - 'a cause of suffering' - is metaphorically derived from what instrument of punishment?
Answer: Whip
Question: What literally connects Vikramshila Setu, Rajendra Setu, Mahatma Gandhi Setu and Farakka Barrage?
Answer: The Ganges
Question: Built for the 1980 Summer Olympics, which city boasts the The Izmailovo Hotel (at 2014 the world's largest, comprising 7,500 rooms)?
Answer: Moscow
Question: The Afrikaans word 'pronk' refers to the distinctive arch-backed stiff-legged leap of a?
Answer: Springbok
Question: Brahmanism is an ancient formative religion of?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: In 1849 US mechanic Walter Hunt patented what multi-billion-selling and punk rock device?
Answer: Safety pin
Question: What refers to social service focused on an individual's situation/background, and also to certain furniture, especially ornate cabinets?
Answer: Casework
Question: Name the record-breaking $0.5bn development-cost computer game launched to massive publicity in 2014?
Answer: Destiny
Question: What silver-grey/gray metallic element used in high strength steels has the symbol Mo?
Answer: Molybdenum
Question: What term refers to a style of fatalistic or menacing cinema, coined first by French critics in describing US thrillers of the 1940s?
Answer: Film Noir
Question: The Hawaiian Islands are closest longitudinally to whose territory?
Answer: USA
Question: What sparking wine from Catalonia is traditionally and incorrectly referred to as Spanish Champagne?
Answer: Cava
Question: What vocal musical term means literally 'in the style of the church/chapel'?
Answer: A Cappella
Question: The architectural term colonnade refers to a series of what features?
Answer: Columns
Question: Canon law is rules/regulations according to the authority of the?
Answer: Church
Question: Which whole number is the cube root of 2197?
Answer: 13
Question: What was Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft made from, which he sailed from S America to Polynesia in 1947, to demonstrate early Polynesian immigration?
Answer: Balsa
Question: What onomatopoeic term refers to a 'modern jazz' form popularized in the 1940s by Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and others?
Answer: Bebop
Question: Graffitied and repainted often since 1980, and obliterated in 2014 except from the ironic statement "Wall is over", the 'Freedom Wall' in Prague celebrates whose memory?
Answer: John Lennon
Question: Charity executives Justin Forsyth and Jonathan Powell attracted 'crony' jibes when their organization gave a controversial 'global legacy award' to whom, their previous boss?
Answer: Tony Blair
Question: Wedding plans were announced in 2014 for a 26 year-old Illinois woman and which 80 year-old incarcerated mass murderer?
Answer: Charles Manson
Question: The dinosaur Archaeopteryx or (German) 'Urvogel' is considered a main ancestor of modern?
Answer: Birds
Question: A square grid of square cells, with five cells in each of its longest diagonals, contains how many cells in total?
Answer: 25
Question: In maths/logic, the process of using one or more statements/facts to achieve a logical conclusion is known as?
Answer: Deduction
Question: Who wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867)?
Answer: Karl Marx
Question: The original meaning of capital (financial/money) referred to 'caput', head, specifically head of?
Answer: Cattle
Question: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are collectively known as (What?) religions, referring to their founding biblical character?
Answer: Abrahamic
Question: Author Malcolm Gladwell popularized the notion (2000s) that to become truly expert at something a minimum of how many hours practice is required?
Answer: 10,000
Question: The Italian term 'Intermezzo' refers to a piece of (What?) between two larger related creations?
Answer: Music
Question: Oxbridge General Hospital featured in what famous UK TV medical series, 1957-67, regarded as a seminal soap opera?
Answer: Emergency Ward 10
Question: The 'river herring' fish, or genus Alosa, which lives in sea and spawns in rivers, is popularly known as a?
Answer: Shad
Question: Which famous pottery city is a (1910) merger of its original town and the adjacent Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Fenton and Longton?
Answer: Stoke-on-Trent
Question: Who, more known for detective stories, popularized the term 'The Lost World' in his 1912 book of that name?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
Question: State the recall aim of the mathematical mnemonic "How I wish I could recollect (what?) easily today" ?
Answer: Pi
Question: What marketing term derives from the centuries-old practice of burning an owner's mark on a beast?
Answer: Brand
Question: The Greek word praxis refers to what, contrasting with theory?
Answer: Practice
Question: What technical term, prefixed with 'extraordinary/irregular', refers euphemistically to the abduction/transfer of a person by one nation to another?
Answer: Rendition
Question: In the conventional game of darts, 'madhouse' is the name given to a 'Double-(What?)' finish?
Answer: One
Question: Michelin star chef Kevin Lowe moved from Heston Blumenthal's organization in 2015 to?
Answer: Lidl
Question: The typical unit measure of 3.6MJ (mega joules) by which electric power is typically sold is more commonly called one?
Answer: Kilowatt/hour
Question: US president Theodore Roosevelt's quote (from which a style of state foreign policy is named), is "Speak softly and carry a big..."?
Answer: Stick
Question: Which popular BBC children's TV characters ate 'blue string pudding', The... ?
Answer: Clangers
Question: What dance/music/style name is thought derived from the Spanish word ('with the colour of flame') for the wading bird Phoenicopterus?
Answer: Flamenco
Question: A cairn, a traditional trail marker for walkers/explorers, of simple or grand design, is basically a?
Answer: Pile of stones
Question: Contralto refers to a singing voice/range equating to?
Answer: Lowest Female
Question: The ball-shaped roots of a more popular salad vegetable, Bergers White Ball, Ibis, Kojak, and Snow White are what?
Answer: Celeriac
Question: The traditional Turkish jelick or yelek, the derivation of an Anglicized French garment name is a?
Answer: Waistcoat
Question: Pat Pending, Rufus Ruffcut, the Slag Brothers and Sergeant Blast are lesser known characters in what popular 1960s TV franchise?
Answer: Wacky Races
Question: US mathematician Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow referred to a seagull, which he subsequently changed to (What creature?), representing his chaos theory observation?
Answer: Butterfly
Question: What process improvement method, pioneered by Motorola Corp in the 1980s, is named after a number and the Greek letter 's'?
Answer: Six Sigma
Question: What controversial politician sought to sell AC Milan in 2015 to finance his quest for rehabiliation and power?
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi
Question: Name the mountains across north-western Africa ranging c.1,600miles through Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia?
Answer: Atlas Mountains
Question: The occupational surname Fuller, referred to a worker (who used 'Fuller's Earth') of?
Answer: Wool
Question: Relevé refers in ballet to standing while raising?
Answer: Heels
Question: From Sanskrit for a 'drop/dot' what Hindi word is a South Asian forehead decoration?
Answer: Bindi
Question: Which automobile brand was officially adopted in 1900 after the Spanish name of racing entrepreneur Emil Jellinek's daughter?
Answer: Mercedes
Question: Swiss investigation and US prosecution mid-2015 for mismanagement/corruption was directed at?
Answer: FIFA
Question: Launched 1999, Co-op owned, claimed to be the first ever full-service internet bank was?
Answer: Smile
Question: Which controversial US icon's three versions are The.. 'Stars and Bars', 'Stainless Banner' and 'Blood-Stained Banner'?
Answer: Confederate Flag
Question: A sudden unofficial walkout or industrial action by workers is called informally a (What?) strike?
Answer: Wildcat
Question: Breathe-Relax-Aim-Sight-Squeeze refers to the essential process for effective?
Answer: Rifle-shooting
Question: What expression meaning 'ok' or 'all well', and a David Bowie album, derives partly from Dutch 'honk' for home or base?
Answer: Hunky-dory
Question: Shi Go Roko ('she go rocko') is 'four five six' in?
Answer: Japanese
Question: Tyson Fury, Wladimir Klitschko, and Dereck Chisora are notable 21st Century?
Answer: Heavyweight boxers
Question: Russian billionaire industrialist Roman Abramovich's investment corporation is called '(What?) Capital'?
Answer: Millhouse
Question: When drawing the musical the treble (G) clef symbol, the line crosses itself how many times?
Answer: Three
Question: Which Czech-born Swiss won two Wimbledon championships in 2015, 17 years after her previous Championship victory?
Answer: Martina Hingis
Question: What Native American Apache Indian chief's name became an exclamation of exhilaration?
Answer: Geronimo
Question: Le Coq Sportif is a famous French corporation/brand for?
Answer: Sportswear/goods
Question: The literary/dramatic description 'redivivus' (emphasis on the 'div') refers to someone who comes back?
Answer: To life
Question: The 1920s-originating US expression, hootenanny, is traditionally a gathering of people for?
Answer: Folk music
Question: A patisserie is an Anglicized French word for a shop that sells?
Answer: Cakes/pastries
Question: What black and white creature exists across Europe, Africa, Asia and N America with variants including the 'Asiatic stink (What?)'?
Answer: Badger
Question: What quick punctuation mark has two versions known technically as 'en rule' and 'em rule'?
Answer: Dash
Question: The Anglicized Italian word cognoscenti refers to people in relation to a subject who are?
Answer: Well-informed/aware
Question: The ancient Thracian peltasts and Greek hoplites were large units of infantrymen mainly armed with?
Answer: Spears
Question: In August 2015 Hamas claimed to have intercepted an Israeli (What?) equipped for spying and armed attack?
Answer: Dolphin
Question: Which modern nation was home to the Aztec people, notably 14-16th centuries?
Answer: Mexico
Question: A 2015 study by China's Dalian University found that owls fly silently because their feathers convert a biproduct of mechanical energy into (What?) instead of noise?
Answer: Heat
Question: Renaissance is an Anglicized-French word meaning?
Answer: Rebirth/revival
Question: The element Silcon is vaguely yet generally categorized as?
Answer: Non-metal/metalloid
Question: Monsanto is a globally dominant corporation in the sector of?
Answer: Agriculture
Question: What icon dominated the 2015 shortlisted designs for a potentially new national flag of New Zealand?
Answer: Fern
Question: Technically known as 'the vernacular', an old term for the day-to-day native language of a people/region is The ?
Answer: Vulgar Tongue
Question: Which vast technology corporation brand has used (c.1977-modern day) the typefaces Motter Tektura, Garamond, Myriad, Helvetica and San Francisco?
Answer: Apple
Question: What prefix makes respectively a place, a cheese, a cement, a part; and a case or set with the following?
Answer: Port
Question: What colour of a single rainbow is on the inside of the rainbow's arc, given the generally defined seven-colour rainbow?
Answer: Violet
Question: What is the childlike name given to the significant weather activity linked to sea temperature rise in the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: El Nino
Question: What is the 'ology' term for the study or science of the weather (that's short-term weather systems and effects, not long-term climatology)?
Answer: Meteorology
Question: In 2015, to reduce road traffic accidents, Dartmoor Cornwall UK authorities tested reflective paint on?
Answer: Ponies
Question: What organization was revealed in Sep 2015 to have exposed itself to $billions in fines by cheating tests for nitrogen oxide emissions?
Answer: VW
Question: A standard guitar commonly has fretboard markers for the octave (ie half string length) at what fret?
Answer: 12th
Question: Technically called the masseter, what is the common name of the human muscle able to exert the most force?
Answer: Jaw
Question: Obelix and Dogmatix are companions of which eponymous Frenco-Belgian comic book character?
Answer: Asterix
Question: What element was removed from soft solders used to join metal parts/electrical connections, since c.2006?
Answer: Lead
Question: What restored Rome feature appeared in movie La Docle Vita and receives c.3,000 Euro coins every day?
Answer: The Trevi Fountain
Question: Brahmanism, or Vedism, is a religion emerging around 900BC in?
Answer: India
Question: The 1927 animated character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is considered the precurser to which more famous icon?
Answer: Micky Mouse
Question: India's 'Mountain of Light' group of prominent people sued Queen Elizabeth II in 2015 for the repatriation to India of the?
Answer: Koh-i-Noor diamond
Question: Named after its town of origin, Marsala fortified wine originated on which island, the largest of its surrounding sea?
Answer: Sicily
Question: The human Frenulum Linguae is webbed tissue between?
Answer: Tongue/Mouth-floor
Question: In Shakespeare's Richard III, King Richard's horse (killed prior to Richard's plea 'My kingdom for a horse') is called?
Answer: Surrey
Question: A prebiotic induces growth in humans (and other living hosts) of beneficial?
Answer: Fungi/bacteria
Question: What famous French endurance motor racing track/city is named after the early inhabiting Cenomani Celtic people?
Answer: Le Mans
Question: Horace Walpole created a popular term for unexpected lucky events/discovery in his 1754 fairy story 'The Three Princes of (Where?)'?
Answer: Serendip
Question: A term for a dark shape against a brighter background is named after 18th century French author/politician Etienne de (Who?) ?
Answer: Silhouette