zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who composed the operas Oedipus Rex and The Rake’s Progress?
Answer: IGOR STRAVINSKY
Question: Who pained the Grand Canal Venice and Moonlight at Millbank?
Answer: J.M.W.TURNER
Question: Which actress played a woman whose timeline gets split into parallel paths in the 1998 film Sliding Doors?
Answer: GWYNETH PALTROW
Question: Who is the leader of the Liberal Democrats?
Answer: TIM FARRON
Question: The BBC documentary “Out Of Their League” details 5 former Manchester United players first seasons as owners of which non-league club?
Answer: SALFORD CITY FC
Question: Which was the first year the World Cup was televised in colour?
Answer: 1970
Question: Who is the only member of Winston Churchill’s Government (a Parliamentary Secretary of Agriculture) who is still alive (95 years)?
Answer: LORD CARRINGTON
Question: What is the more popular name for the plant impatiens?
Answer: BUSY LIZZIE
Question: In which English county is Bletchley Park?
Answer: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Question: What is the name of P & O’s new cruise ship launched in 2015 which is the largest in their fleet?
Answer: BRITANNIA
Question: The first V.C.’s of the First World War were awarded for actions at which 1914 battle?
Answer: MONS
Question: What is the symbol of the British Standards Institution?
Answer: KITEMARK
Question: Who is the Shadow Secretary for Defence?
Answer: EMILY THORNBERRY
Question: Which major UK sporting event was broadcast live on television for the first time in 1960?
Answer: THE GRAND NATIONAL
Question: Which English actor/singer played the role of P.T. Barnum in the musical Barnum when it opened on Broadway in 1980?
Answer: JIM DALE
Question: What type of creature is the Simurgh from Persian mythology?
Answer: BIRD
Question: Which 1847 book tells the story of the four orphaned Beverley children who are saved by gamekeeper Jacob Armitage?
Answer: CHILDREN OF THE NEW FOREST
Question: Jonny and Colin Greenwood are members of which alternative rock band?
Answer: RADIOHEAD
Question: At the 2016 Oscars a film about which singer won the Oscar for best documentary?
Answer: AMY WHITEHOUSE
Question: From which country does Fynbo cheese come?
Answer: DENMARK
Question: Who was the thunder god in Celtic mythology?
Answer: Taranis
Question: Mendoza and La Rioja are wine regions in which country?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Who was the heavily-moustached, gun-toting cowboy who sometimes pitted his wits against Bugs Bunny in Warner Brother's cartoons?
Answer: Yosemite Sam
Question: What word do the Americans use to describe a tap?
Answer: Faucet
Question: Which fruit, with the botanical name Rubus idaeus, has varieties called “Lloyd George”, "Hailsham” and "Malling Jewel"?
Answer: The Raspberry
Question: The Guarani is the principal unit of currency of which country?
Answer: Paraguay
Question: What is the name of the fruit which has varieties called "Royal George", "Rochester" and "Peregrine" and the botanical name Prunus persica?
Answer: The Peach
Question: In Guatemala, what is the principal unit of currency called?
Answer: The Quetzal
Question: Columbine is an adjective pertaining to which bird?
Answer: Dove or Pigeon
Question: Alex Turner is the lead singer with which Yorkshire based band?
Answer: The Arctic Monkeys
Question: Roy in 'The Old Guys" and Richard Bucket pronounced "Bouquet") in "Keeping Up Appearances" were major TV roles for which Liverpool-born actor?
Answer: Clive Swift
Question: Who played Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil, the titular G.l. Jane in the 1997 film?
Answer: Demi Moore
Question: """Mary Poppins"", ""Peter Pan"" and ""Soho Cinders"" are among the musicals of which composer, in association with lyricist Anthony Drewe, a partnership formed at Exeter University?"
Answer: George Stiles
Question: Who was the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal at a track and field event?
Answer: Mary Rand
Question: Which long-distance walk usually starts on top of Mt. Snowden and finishes at the O.S. trig point on Foel Fras some 24 miles later?
Answer: The Welsh 3000
Question: Appointed in May 2012, as qf January 2016, who is the Secretary of State for Health?
Answer: Jeremy Hunt
Question: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker, which won the Booker Prize in 1995, is the third volume in which trilogy?
Answer: Regeneration Trilogy
Question: With which other cricketer does James Anderson hold the England record for the most successful bowler/wicket keeper combination with 68 wickets?
Answer: Matt Prior
Question: What is added to a croque monsieur to make a croquet madame?
Answer: A fried egg
Question: J K Simmons won the 2015 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor playing Terence Fletcher in which film?
Answer: Whiplash
Question: PH Newby was the first winner in 1969 of which award?
Answer: Booker Prize
Question: Which government post is held by Jeremy Wright, MP for Kenilworth & Southam?
Answer: Attorney General
Question: Whose second studio album in 2014 was ‘X’ (pronounced Multiply)?
Answer: Ed Sheeran
Question: Tokophobia is fear of what?
Answer: Pregnancy or Childbirth
Question: What type of cake derives its name from the French word for lightning?
Answer: Eclair
Question: In which English county is Longleat House and Safari Park?
Answer: Wiltshire
Question: Which South American country uses the Nuevo Sol as its currency?
Answer: Peru
Question: In what year did the United Kingdom National Lottery begin?
Answer: 1994
Question: What is the English name for the Japanese Parliament?
Answer: Diet
Question: In which country is the port of Fray Bentos?
Answer: Uruguay
Question: Apart from coins and banknotes-what else can a numismatist collect?
Answer: Medals
Question: According to the British Horseracing Authority, what is the shortest distance over which horses race?
Answer: 5 Furlongs
Question: Which 1927 musical features the song ‘Old Man River’?
Answer: Show Boat
Question: Which is Scotland’s longest river?
Answer: Tay
Question: Which Briton won an ice-skating Gold at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics?
Answer: Robin Cousins
Question: At any one time how many holders are there of the Order of Merit?
Answer: 24
Question: According to the video trailer promoting a 2014 spiritual movie, Autobiography of a Yogi was the only book on the iPad of which person who died on Oct 5, 2011?
Answer: Steve Jobs
Question: François Coty’s Chypre, Paul Parquet’s Fougère Royale, and Aimé Guerlain's Jicky are three of the many representations at an archive in Versailles, France that was founded in 1990 to preserve what?
Answer: Scents
Question: What name was given to the group of hedonistic British and Irish aristocrats who lived in an area overlapping Kenya and Uganda between the 1920s and the 1940s?
Answer: Happy Valley set
Question: Who is the person of religious history whose pardon was the subject of a 1950 novel by Pär Lagerkvist as well as a 1961 portrayal by Anthony Quinn?
Answer: Barabbas
Question: What controversial objects of the world of culture are by far the biggest attraction in the purpose built Duveen Gallery of the British Museum?
Answer: Elgin Marbles
Question: Which legendary queen is said to have claimed an area of North Africa by using thin strips of oxhide?
Answer: Dido, Queen of Carthage
Question: America's oldest and still-running wooden roller coaster that can be found at Coney Island has what 'stormy' name?
Answer: Cyclone
Question: An ankle length overcoat and a bird-like beak mask filled with lavender were prominently worn by what group of professionals in the days past?
Answer: Plague doctors
Question: Two punsters who call themselves Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy designated September 19 as the annual what day? Arrrrrrrrrrr!
Answer: Talk like a pirate day
Question: Lapot in Romania, Ubasute in Japan and Ättestupa in the Nordic world are all terms for what custom in difficult times that is commonly associated with the Inuit?
Answer: Senicide
Question: If Lisa Gherardini the wife of Francesco del Giocondo is the subject of Da Vinci's masterpiece (Mona Lisa), who is the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer who was the subject of Klimt's record setting 1907 painting?
Answer: Adele
Question: In Greek mythology, if ambrosia is the food of the gods and nectar their drink, what is 'ichor'?
Answer: Blood
Question: What is the main feature of Chinese artist Liu Bolin's work?
Answer: Camouflage
Question: Suzanne Collins said that the main theme in The Hunger Games was derived from a Greek myth in which King Minos has Athens send seven youths and seven maidens to what monster?
Answer: Minotaur
Question: What phrase that means 'to discard, or dispose of' originates from the practice of burial at sea that requires a minimum depth of water to be carried out?
Answer: """To deep six"""
Question: In Arthurian legend, the castle Corbenic that is the location of the Holy Grail is the domain of whom?
Answer: Fisher King (or) Wounded King
Question: What type of porcelain developed by Josiah Spode originated in a factory that was proximate to slaughterhouses (and thus had access to animal byproducts)?
Answer: Bone china
Question: The 500 peso note issued by the Bank of Mexico in 2010 contains the image of the artist Diego Rivera on the obverse side. Whose image is on the reverse side?
Answer: Frida Kahlo's
Question: The Kiswa, a 658 sq. m. silk cloth embroidered with gold threads drapes what religious object?
Answer: Kaaba in Mecca
Question: In 18th/19th century England, mercury was used in the production of felt, which was used in the manufacturing of hats. Some workers in these factories developed dementia because of mercury poisoning. What expression for insanity has this etymological origin?
Answer: Mad as a hatter
Question: The Nine Worthies were personalities established in the Middle Ages who were said to represent the ideals of chivalry. Which 'tamer of horses' and heroic defender from Greek mythology is missing in the Pagans section? Pagans: ___, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar Old Testament Jews: Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus Chivalric Christian Heroes: King Arthur, Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon
Answer: Hector
Question: What is the better known name of the Mawlawi followers of Sufism who are known for their 'rotating' motion during a ceremony called Seema?
Answer: Whirling Dervishes
Question: During the Falklands War, because a British aircraft lacked a conventional 'chaff' dispensing mechanism (used as a radar countermeasure), engineers designed one using welding rods, split pins and string.This eccentric make do was given the name of which cartoonist?
Answer: Heath Robinson
Question: First used in the context of folklore in 1885, what term describes a god/spirit/animal who disobeys normal rules and tries to survive the dangers of the world using deceit?
Answer: Trickster
Question: What word that means 'cheap' or 'gaudy' is derived from the practice of trinkets sold at St. Audrey's fair in England?
Answer: Tawdry
Question: What Russian term for a functionary of the Communist Party is now derogatorily used to describe people appointed to positions on the basis of political loyalty rather than competence?
Answer: Apparatchik
Question: Toru Iwatani, the creator of which popular video game admitted in a 1996 interview that the story of a pizza missing a slice being the inspiration of the game's main character was only half true?
Answer: Pac-Man
Question: What satanic name was used to describe an apprentice who performed a number of tasks such as mixing tubs of ink in a printing establishment?
Answer: Printer's devil
Question: The term 'Urbi et Orbi' ('to the City and to the World'), a standard opening of Roman proclamations is now used to denote whose address?
Answer: Pope's
Question: Done with the will of an owner, what type of emancipating act is a 'manumission'?
Answer: Freeing of slaves
Question: The name of what mythical medieval land of plenty where the harshness of peasant life does not exist is commonplace in medieval Goliard verse?
Answer: Cockaigne
Question: What is the name of the ritual practiced by some Bedouin tribes for the purpose of lie detection in which the accused is asked to lick a hot object?
Answer: Bishaa
Question: Until the 80s, visitors to Disneyland would purchase books of coupons that were in different alphabetical denominations with the highest one being the most expensive and reserved for the most popular rides. What expression for a thrilling situation originates from this practice?
Answer: E ticket ride
Question: Made famous by the movie Midnight Express, what is the punishment of 'falaka' or 'bastinado'?
Answer: Soles of the feet
Question: In a slogan that became popular in Costa Rica, it is claimed that which advertising character prefers that country's coffee implying his preference over Colombian coffee?
Answer: Juan Valdez
Question: In his 1999 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, in what came to be known as the Golden Arches theory, Thomas L. Friedman wrote that no two nations with a McDonald's franchise had ever gone to war. He upgraded this theory in The World is Flat taking the name of what technology company to further underscore the link between strong economic ties and peace?
Answer: Dell
Question: From 1983-93, what was 'positively' the defacto national car of Malaysia?
Answer: Proton
Question: What famous 3-word ad line of an apparel company was coined by Dan Wieden who got it from the final words of executed murderer Gary Gilmore?
Answer: """Just Do It"" (Nike)"
Question: US Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson is known for saying that what's good for which company is also good for his country?
Answer: General Motors
Question: The 2012 BBC list of world's largest employers (which includes public, private, and government entities) is topped by what?
Answer: United States Department of Defense
Question: In the year 1636 during the Dutch Golden Age, what unlikely item became the fourth leading export after gin, herring and cheese causing a journalist to write a book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds?
Answer: Tulip bulb
Question: When 'National No-Bra Day' was observed in the United States in 2011, which company tweeted that it was in denial?
Answer: Victoria's Secret
Question: What giant that operates as Asda in the United Kingdom, Seiyu in Japan and Best Price in India is also the biggest private employer in the world?
Answer: Walmart
Question: The discovery of Metallica's song "I Disappear" on a file sharing network in 2000 started a chain of events that led to the demise of the original incarnation of what company?
Answer: Napster
Question: Arthur's Day refers to events first organised in 2009 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of what brewing company, the name Arthur being the first name of the founder?
Answer: Guinness
Question: Which American tycoon and publisher of a magazine was known for his lavish life-style that included a collection of special shape hot air balloons?
Answer: Malcolm Forbes
Question: Which dot-com company that had its heyday in the 90s is credited with the development of the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol for secure online communication as well as with JavaScript?
Answer: Netscape
Question: Which company/product connected with transportation is associated with the immensely successful 'Think Small' ad campaign?
Answer: Volkswagen
Question: Which 20th century industrialist known as the father of modern American shipbuilding is also known for organizing a 'permanente' health care system for his workers and their families?
Answer: Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967)
Question: Red Barn, now a historic site in the US, was the original manufacturing site of which company?
Answer: Boeing
Question: After a Korean Air Lines flight was shot down after straying into the USSR's prohibited airspace in 1983, President Reagan issued a directive making what technology available for civilian use?
Answer: GPS (Global Positioning System)
Question: Appropriately, which company's NYSE symbol is 'BID'?
Answer: Sotheby's
Question: What is the largest single-site employer in the US with more than 66,000 employees, a manifold increase from the 5,500 it employed when it opened in 1971?
Answer: Walt Disney World Resort
Question: The children's literature section of the publisher Penguin Books works under what name?
Answer: Puffin Books
Question: By repute, where is the largest gold repository in the world? (hint: not Fort Knox!)
Answer: Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Manhattan
Question: The design of Nike's Air Jordan basketball shoe was reportedly inspired by which deadly African slithering creature?
Answer: Black mamba
Question: The success of what shoe brand has resulted from the aerobics fitness craze of the 80s?
Answer: Reebok
Question: Which online business was named for a word from Gulliver's Travels that meant 'rude, unsophisticated, uncouth'?
Answer: Yahoo!
Question: Composer Frode Fjellheim was praised by Norway's president in a New Year's speech for his contribution to what 2013 hit film that amply features elements of the country's native culture?
Answer: Frozen
Question: Performers called benshi in Japan provided what service to film-goers particularly in the days of silent cinema?
Answer: Live narration
Question: The Sapphire Affair of 1962 connected with the Cuban Missile Crisis was the basis of what similarly titled 1969 Hitchcock thriller?
Answer: Topaz
Question: In what film does General George Marshall read the Bixby letter, a real-life missive sent by Abraham Lincoln to a bereaved mother of five sons, before flagging off the titular mission?
Answer: Saving Private Ryan
Question: Introducing what eventual Best Picture winner at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony in 2004 did host Billy Crystal quip that it received eleven nominations, one for each ending?
Answer: Return of the King
Question: What 3-word term is given to the genre of kitschy Italian films of the mid 20th century that sought to emulate the historic epics of Hollywood like Spartacus?
Answer: Sword-and-sandal
Question: In 2013, in a gruesome incident in Italy, a mob boss was fed to pigs by a rival while he was still alive. Several newspapers reported this while evoking a scene from what 2001 movie?
Answer: Hannibal
Question: In Caddyshack, Bill Murray as Carl Spackler fantasizes winning the Masters golf tournament while comparing himself to which character in his monologue?
Answer: Cinderella
Question: In The Motorcycle Diaries, at what location does Che Guevera muse how a civilization capable of creating such beauty could be destroyed by the creators of the urban decay of a nearby city?
Answer: Machu Picchu
Question: A 1999 movie starring Peter O'Toole as Father Damien had the name of what island of the Hawaiian archipelago as its title?
Answer: Molokai
Question: What phrase used by Jack London in John Barleycorn to describe alcoholism was later referenced in Dumbo when the elephant hallucinates after drinking water spiked with champagne?
Answer: Seeing pink elephants
Question: Talking about what hit 2004 film did its writer say, "The dad is always expected in the family to be strong ... moms are always pulled in a million different directions ... teenage girls, are insecure and defensive, ... ten-year-old boys are hyperactive energy balls ..."?
Answer: The Incredibles
Question: In 1995, two Stanford researchers came up with a selected list of film clips able to elicit a single emotion. What 1989 film's scene that takes place in Katz's Delicatessen was the top-rated clip for amusement? (hint: what was she really having?)
Answer: When Harry Met Sally
Question: What is the only movie on IMDB.com that is rated out of 11 stars instead of the standard 10?
Answer: This Is Spinal Tap
Question: Pintel and Ragetti are a recurring comedy pair in a 2000s adventure film franchise set on high seas. What possession of Ragetti that is repeatedly hit by a fork is he usually seen to be searching for?
Answer: Wooden eye
Question: The producer of what 1970s film wanted to call it The Sidewalk Vigilante as he felt the title (which stayed) was too morbid?
Answer: Death Wish
Question: The 2-word title of what 2005 documentary about the moon landings comes from how Buzz Aldrin described the moonscape while conversing with Neil Armstrong?
Answer: Magnificent Desolation
Question: Rick Baker won the inaugural Oscar award for make-up for his showcasing of beastly transformation in which 1981 John Landis' cult classic?
Answer: An American Werewolf in London
Question: After the duet "Sull'aria...che soave zeffiretto" from The Marriage of Figaro plays on loudspeakers in a film, a voice-over goes: "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. [...] I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. [...] It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in ___ felt free." What is the missing word?
Answer: """Shawshank"""
Question: In 1978 following a public campaign to restore it, the following nine gave $27,777 for each of its components: Terrence Donnelly, Giovanni Mazza (Italian movie producer), Les Kelley, Gene Autry, Hugh Hefner, Andy Williams, Warner Bros. Records, Alice Cooper and Thomas Pooley. It was a campaign to preserve what nine letter symbol?
Answer: Hollywood sign
Question: In 1954 the British genius Alan Turing was found dead with a half-eaten apple next to his body. Although the apple was not tested for cyanide, the cause of his death was established as cyanide poisoning. It was suggested that Turing was re-enacting a scene from which 1937 film that was based on his favorite (and universally loved) fairy tale?
Answer: Snow White
Question: According to imdb.com, the title of what Michael Douglas 1984 hit that is set in South America refers to a step in the preparation of a gem for use in jewelry?
Answer: Romancing the Stone
Question: The 1998 Canadian movie The Red Violin that traces the story of a mysterious violin across Vienna, Oxford, Shanghai, and Montreal starts off in what Italian location?
Answer: Cremona
Question: What video-distribution company known for standardizing features like letterbox ratio, bonus features, and special editions started in 1984 with the releases of Citizen Kane and King Kong?
Answer: Criterion Collection
Question: What 1920 horror classic from Germany that tells the story of a doctor and his sidekick Cesare in the village of Holstenwall is said to have introduced the concept of twist ending in cinema?
Answer: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question: Paul Brickhill, an Australian pilot during WWII was shot down over Tunisia and became a POW in Germany; his experiences at the camp, which not every Tom, Dick or Harry could have had were dramatized in what 1963 'break-out' drama?
Answer: The Great Escape
Question: Which 1979 Russian movie that tells the story of three women who come to the titular city was watched by Ronald Reagan prior to his meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev in order for him to gain a better understanding of the 'Russian soul'?
Answer: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Question: The title of what classic 1959 French film that details the life of a troubled adolescent named Antoine Doinel refers to an expression 'faire les quatre cents coups' which means 'to raise hell'?
Answer: The 400 Blows
Question: Directed by Baz Luhrmann, the three films Strictly Ballroom (1992), William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! are called as what type of trilogy referring to their theatrical motifs?
Answer: Red Curtain trilogy
Question: With 11 wins and 34 nominations, which country holds the record for most honors in the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars (as of 2009)?
Answer: France
Question: Nobody puts this movie in a corner. A survey by Britain's Sky Movies in 2007 listed which 1987 movie as number one on 'Women's most-watched films' above the Star Wars Trilogy, Grease, The Sound of Music, and Pretty Woman?
Answer: Dirty Dancing
Question: It's not just the title, even the profits were corpulent. What ethnic 2002 romantic comedy is the highest-grossing film to never have been number one on the weekly North American box-office charts?
Answer: My Big Fat Greek Wedding