zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who invented the spa bath?
Answer: Candido Jacuzzi
Question: Fort Worth is closest to which other Texas city?
Answer: Dallas
Question: What is the next in the series 4, 16, 64, 256
Answer: 1024
Question: What name is given to poetry written in lines of 12 syllables in 6 metrical feet?
Answer: Alexandrine
Question: What was the first ballet written by Tchaikovsky?
Answer: Swan Lake
Question: Who was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London for aiding the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie after the Battle of Culloden to Portree, Skye and thence to Glam on the island of Raasay?
Answer: Flora MacDonald
Question: Renee Zellweger played which author in a 2007 film?
Answer: Beatrix Potter
Question: What is the biological term for T H Huxley's theory that all living cells and organisms orginate from pre-existing living matter, not as the result of spontaneous generation?
Answer: Biogenesis
Question: Which team won the Hockey World Cup the most times in the first 30 years of competition, which has been held every 2 to 3 years since 1971?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: Who performed "Sex Crimes", the theme song from the film "1984"?
Answer: Eurythmics
Question: Who is the wife of golfer Greg Norman?
Answer: Tennis star Chris Evert
Question: What structure was designed by John A Roebling, who supervised construction until his death when the project was taken over by his son, Washington?
Answer: Brooklyn Bridge, New York
Question: Which game uses six sets of coloured pieces, ten of each colour, whereby a piece moves either to an adjacent spot or, by a jump over another piece?
Answer: Chinese Checkers
Question: Most of the Ozark Plateau is in which two US states?
Answer: Missouri and Arkansas
Question: Which is the only regatta cancelled because it rained and there was water in the river, as happened in 1993 when it was cancelled due to flooding?
Answer: The Henley-on-Todd Regatta
Question: What is the next name in this series: Ross Kemp, Ben Stiller, Kate Winslet, Samuel L. Jackson, Les Dennis ?
Answer: Patrick Stewart
Question: What was the name of the character played by Bill Cosby in "The Bill Cosby Show"?
Answer: Cliff Huxtable
Question: What is the name for a device that measures the rate of rotation of a revolving shaft?
Answer: Tachometer
Question: Traditionally, what can women do on 29 February that they cannot do on any other date?
Answer: Propose marriage
Question: Which 2002 play by Neil LaBute that takes place around 11 September 2001 concerns an extra-marital affair between a man (Sam) and his boss (Abby) who worked in the World Trade Centre?
Answer: The Mercy Seat
Question: What does the Japanese word "Kamikaze" mean?
Answer: Divine wind
Question: Corsica is surrounded by which sea?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
Question: Who announced his engagement to New Zealand cellist Jiaxin Cheng, to be his fourth wife, in June 2009?
Answer: Julian Lloyd Webber
Question: The yellow, brown and red pigments known as ochres are oxides of which metal?
Answer: Iron
Question: What is a marriage called where one of the parties does not enjoy the privileges of rank of the other, nor inherit the possessions of the partner?
Answer: Morganatic marriage
Question: H2SO4 is the chemical symbol for what?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid
Question: Where are the Crown Jewels for Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain stored?
Answer: Tower of London
Question: Where was the World Netball Series held in October 2009?
Answer: Manchester, England
Question: What is the capital of Serbia?
Answer: Belgrade
Question: What trophy, designed by the Italian designer Silvio Gazzaniga, is 36 cm (14.2 in) high, made of solid 18 carat (75%) gold and weighs 6.175 kg (13.6 lb), with a base containing two layers of semi-precious malachite?
Answer: FIFA World Cup Trophy
Question: Atlantic City is in which US state?
Answer: New Jersey
Question: What is the conifer native to the west coast of North America that grows to over 300 feet high?
Answer: Sequoia
Question: Since women's water polo was introduced for the 2000 Olympics, which country has won more gold medals than the next two highest countries combined?
Answer: Hungary
Question: The Yucatan Channel is between which two countries?
Answer: Mexico and Cuba
Question: Who, the highest paid of any performer in music hall in the early 20th century and knighted in 1919, wrote "I Love A Lassie", "Stop Yer Ticklin' Jock" and "Roamin' in the Gloamin'"?
Answer: Harry Lauder
Question: Who played Paris in the film "Troy", released in 2004?
Answer: Orlando Bloom
Question: Where will the longest railway tunnel be, when it is opened in 2017?
Answer: Swiss Alps
Question: What is the character "George" from the UK TV series "Rainbow"?
Answer: Hippopotamus
Question: What is the symbol for a 60th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Diamond
Question: The mnemonic Roy G. Biv is an aid to remembering what?
Answer: The colours of the rainbow
Question: Where is the island of Tristan da Cunha?
Answer: South Atlantic Ocean
Question: With which sport is Florence Griffith-Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo, associated?
Answer: Sprinting
Question: Where is the classic English horse race, the One Thousand Guineas for 3 year old fillies, run?
Answer: Newmarket
Question: In 1695, John Trevor was forced to stand down as Speaker of the British House of Commons. Who was the next Speaker to be ousted?
Answer: Michael Martin
Question: The convention of moving the Olympic flame via a relay system from Olympia to the Olympic venue began with which Olympic Games?
Answer: Berlin, 1936
Question: What is the term for the greenish oxide formed on copper?
Answer: Verdigris
Question: For administrative purposes, Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, formerly termed vilayet, which are now called what?
Answer: Iller
Question: Who won a (then) record seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich?
Answer: Mark Spitz
Question: Suspension, hump and cantilever are all types of what?
Answer: Bridges
Question: What is the capital city of Turkey?
Answer: Ankara
Question: Who asked the question "Are We Human or Are We Dancers?"?
Answer: The Killers
Question: What is the highest point in Wales?
Answer: Snowdon
Question: Which team won the Hockey World Cup the most times between 2000 and 2010?
Answer: Germany
Question: What is a textile fabric, usually of linen or cotton with simple geometric or conventional pattern uniformly repeated?
Answer: Diaper
Question: A tongue and groove joint is used when working with what material?
Answer: Wood
Question: What is the name for the dome or arched roof at the top of a building that is a distinctive part of Byzantine architecture and characteristic of mosques?
Answer: Cupola
Question: What is Malay for "man of the woods"?
Answer: Orang Utan
Question: What caused it to snow in New England at least once every month during 1816?
Answer: The eruption of Tambora
Question: Who is associated with the Lotus car manufacturing company?
Answer: Colin Chapman
Question: What are the names of the late Michael Jackson's parents?
Answer: Joseph and Katherine
Question: What is the highest point in the 48 contiguous states of the USA?
Answer: Mount Whitney, California
Question: The first women's Olympic competition for gymnastics, at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, involved only which type of activity?
Answer: Synchronized calisthenics
Question: French aviator Louis Bleriot was the first to do what in an aeroplane on 25 July 1909?
Answer: Cross the English Channel
Question: A billion in short scale is 1 followed by 9 zeroes. What is it in long scale?
Answer: 1 followed by 12 zeroes
Question: What is the silt-formed delta of the River Rhone?
Answer: Camargue
Question: What was the favourite horse of Alexander the Great?
Answer: Bucephalus
Question: Mt Rushmore is near which US city?
Answer: Keystone, South Dakota
Question: Cannes is a resort in which country?
Answer: France
Question: Who was Oliver's mentor, appointed by Fagan?
Answer: The Artful Dodger
Question: French intelligence service (DGSE) agents Captain Dominique Prieur and Commander Alain Mafart were convicted of the manslaughter of photographer Fernando Pereira and sinking a ship, Greenpeace's the "Rainbow Warrior", in 1985, in which harbour?
Answer: Auckland, New Zealand
Question: In Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and among Persian-speaking populations of Central Asia, what is the sport called that involves two teams of horse riders, a dead goat and few rules?
Answer: Buzkashi
Question: What is the motto of the Boy Scout movement?
Answer: Be Prepared
Question: What method of engraving involves cutting lines cut into copper by means of a pointed steel tool?
Answer: Dry point
Question: Who married Timothy Laurence in 1992?
Answer: Princess Anne
Question: The "galop" from Offenbach's "Orphe aux Enfers" is generally associated with what?
Answer: Can can
Question: What is the next in this series: Sarajevo, Calgary, Albertville ...
Answer: Lillehammer
Question: What part of mainland Europe was English territory for 200 years from the mid 14th century?
Answer: Calais
Question: What is the southernmost point in all U.S. territory?
Answer: Rose Atoll, American Samoa
Question: Which female impersonator, Daniel Carroll, whose career began in 1945 and whose most famous role was in the lead of a major production of "Hello Dolly!", died in June 2009?
Answer: Danny La Rue
Question: Where is the lowest point in the USA?
Answer: Death Valley
Question: What kind of object is "tansy"?
Answer: Plant
Question: """The Blockheads"" released a new album in 2009 after nine years' silence. Who used to be their frontman?"
Answer: Ian Drury
Question: What is the symbol for a 35th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Coral
Question: Which singer and songwriter of the 1970s and 1980s was the first to have three consecutive double albums hit #1 on the Billboard charts, and was the first female artist to have four number-one singles in a thirteen-month period?
Answer: Donna Summer
Question: According to the saying, what "never boils"?
Answer: Watched pot
Question: When Edward the Confessor ruled over England, royal petitions became so frequent that they were referred to the Chancellor. Which special court was set up to hear them?
Answer: Chancery
Question: Which Welsh mountain system runs from the Black Mountains to Snowdon?
Answer: Cambrian
Question: The first series of which BBC sitcom series, set in Billericay, Essex and Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, chronicled the developing romance of the two leads and ended with their becoming Mr. and Mrs. Shipman?
Answer: Gavin & Stacey
Question: Where in London would you find "Rotten Row"?
Answer: Hyde Park
Question: Who was a co-founder of The Undertones in 1976 (which had hits with "Here Comes The Summer", "My Perfect Cousin", "Wednesday Week" and "It's Going To Happen") and then went solo, releasing the singles "Listen To Your Father", "A Good Heart" (1985), "You Little Thief" (1986) and in the early 1990s moved into the business side of the music industry?
Answer: Feargal Sharkey
Question: With which sport is Brett Favre associated?
Answer: American football
Question: Which Saint's Day is 30 November?
Answer: St Andrew
Question: Who was separated from her husband in June 2009 to film "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" in Australia?
Answer: Katie Holmes
Question: What does "pro forma" mean?
Answer: In a set manner
Question: What was the name of the unofficial mascot of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which has a statue as part of an official Olympic memorial outside the Sydney Olympic Stadium?
Answer: Fatso
Question: The Keil Canal links which 2 seas?
Answer: North and Baltic
Question: In Belgium, what are "polders"?
Answer: Reclaimed land
Question: Seas and oceans make up roughly what proportion of the earth's surface?
Answer: 70%
Question: What is the driest region of the USA?
Answer: Death Valley
Question: Where was film actor Errol Flynn born in 1909?
Answer: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Question: In London, where are the trials of the pyx held?
Answer: Hall of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
Question: In the 2009 FA Cup Chelsea v Everton which player received a record 5th winner's medal?
Answer: Ashley Cole
Question: The third atomic bomb to be dropped from an aeroplane was where?
Answer: The Marshall Islands
Question: What is the name of the index of average daily prices on the New York Stock Exchange?
Answer: Dow Jones
Question: What has been the motto of the Prince of Wales since the 14th century?
Answer: Ich dien
Question: What is the shortest book of the Old Testament?
Answer: Obadiah
Question: What is the term for light created by means of heat?
Answer: Incandescence
Question: What is the next in the series: Chamonix, France; St. Moritz, Switzerland; Lake Placid, United States; Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany?
Answer: St. Moritz, Switzerland
Question: What is the name of an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theatre and comedy that was created by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois?
Answer: Harlem Globetrotters
Question: What is the name of the dot on a lower case "i" and "j"?
Answer: Tittle
Question: What is measured in quires?
Answer: Paper
Question: What sent back the first pictures of the moon's surface by video?
Answer: Ranger 7
Question: The Lndler is a traditional dance from where?
Answer: Austria
Question: How many sides does a trapezoid have?
Answer: 4
Question: Where does Harry Potter have a scar in the shape of a bolt of lightning?
Answer: On his forehead
Question: Since the late 1930s, what date has been reserved for the inauguration of a President of the USA?
Answer: 20 January
Question: In which year was the longest Tour de France held?
Answer: 1926
Question: Which 19th century French artist is best known for his illustrations for the "Bible", "Paradise Lost", Dante's "Inferno", "Don Quixote" and the works of Rabelais and Balzac?
Answer: Gustave Dor
Question: What was a negative term US Southerners gave to Northerner speculators in the South soon after the Civil War?
Answer: Carpetbaggers
Question: Which African city has the largest population?
Answer: Lagos
Question: Most of Yellowstone National Park is in which state?
Answer: Wyoming
Question: The Superclsico is contested between Boca Juniors and River Plate in Buenos Aires, in what sport?
Answer: Soccer
Question: Who wrote the tale "The Princess and the Pea"?
Answer: Hans Christian Andersen
Question: Which Saint's Day is 1 March?
Answer: St David
Question: A peace camp was established at which RAF base in Berkshire, England from 1981 to 2000 to protest at nuclear weapons being sited there?
Answer: Greenham Common
Question: What is used to find the pitch of a note?
Answer: Tuning fork
Question: """The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."" This is known as what?"
Answer: The Olympic Creed
Question: The Drake Equation calculates the potential number of what?
Answer: Extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way
Question: Jacqueline du Pr was famous for playing what instrument?
Answer: Cello
Question: What word is used in the UK for chicken less than 28 days old at slaughter and usually weighing 400-450 grammes and in the USA for the Rock Cornish game hen, which is twice as old and twice as large?
Answer: Poussin
Question: Which currently reigning royal family is from the House of Orange?
Answer: Dutch
Question: Who discovered the moon of Saturn called Titan in 1655?
Answer: Huygens
Question: Singer Avril Levigne was born in which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: In music, what does "pp" mean?
Answer: Very soft
Question: What form of singing involves an extended note which rapidly repeatedly changes in pitch from the chest register to falsetto, making a high-low-high-low sound?
Answer: Yodeling
Question: What does MIX in Roman numerals mean?
Answer: 1009
Question: George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards were well known in the British American colonies in the mid 18th century for being what?
Answer: Methodist preachers
Question: One US gallon is equal to how many pints?
Answer: 8
Question: The Napa Valley wine producing region is in which country?
Answer: USA
Question: Who were Mr and Mrs Munster in the 1960s TV series?
Answer: Lily and Herman
Question: What is the only joint rule in the history of England?
Answer: William III and Mary II
Question: What is an area of garden that contains flowers?
Answer: Bed
Question: Who was the world snooker champion in 1998, 2007 and 2009?
Answer: John Higgins
Question: What name was given to the one eyed giants in Greek fables?
Answer: Cyclopes
Question: Which sport, played by 2 teams of 8 who use a rope, is marked with a "centre line" and two markings four metres either side of the centre line?
Answer: Tug-of-War
Question: What is the accounting term for a liability that may arise if a future event does not happen?
Answer: Contingent liability
Question: What is the name used in the USA for the board game that the English call "draughts"?
Answer: Checkers
Question: Which word means "to refuse to take part"?
Answer: Boycott
Question: An annual World Cup for which sport, which ran from 1979 to 1990, featured teams of three players representing their country against other such teams, but with individual 1st, 2nd, etc., places?
Answer: Snooker
Question: Where is the Hedingley Cricket Ground?
Answer: Leeds
Question: What military strategy involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while passing through an area, first used by the Scythians against King Darius the Great of Persia around 500 BC., and best known for its use by both sides when Germany attacked and then retreated from the USSR in World War II?
Answer: Scorched earth
Question: In economics, what is TWI?
Answer: Trade Weighted Index
Question: If someone is referred to as a "liverpudlian", which city do they come from?
Answer: Liverpool
Question: Which Olympic sport was contested in only 1900 and 1908, by teams from only 3 countries (Canada, USA and Germany) altogether?
Answer: Lacrosse
Question: What is the collective name for the islands with a land area of 4,167 squ km (1,622 squ miles) over 2,500,000 squ km (965,255 squ miles) of ocean, made up of several groups of islands, including the Austral Islands, the Marquesas, the Society Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago?
Answer: French Polynesia
Question: Which element, with a melting point of 3,370 degrees C was discovered in 1783 by Jos and Fausto Elhuyar?
Answer: Tungsten
Question: What was the title of the novelty single released by the Israeli duo Esther and Abi Ofarim, number one for 3 weeks in the UK in 1968, that features yodelling and 1920s-style lyrics and music?
Answer: Cinderella Rockefeller
Question: By what name was Eric Weiss better known?
Answer: Harry Houdini
Question: In 1959, the Soviet space probe "Luna Two" became the first man-made object to do what?
Answer: Reach the moon
Question: Which TV series had the slogan "The Truth Is Out There"?
Answer: The X Files
Question: Trinity College, London, issues which diplomas?
Answer: LTCL
Question: The song "Shall We Dance" is from which musical?
Answer: The King And I
Question: What was the name of the plane that Amy Johnson flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930?
Answer: Jason
Question: An opthalmologist treats disorders of what part of the body?
Answer: Eyes
Question: """Choo choo"" is a child's name for what?"
Answer: Railway engine
Question: What word means the energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time?
Answer: Stamina
Question: What is meant by "persona non grata"?
Answer: An unwelcome person
Question: With which sport is Michael Schumacher associated?
Answer: Motor racing
Question: Kingston is the capital of which country?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: What is the name for the animals found in a region?
Answer: Fauna
Question: What is the name of the former island in the East End of London that is bounded on three sides by one of the largest meanders in the River Thames, with the West India Docks to the north?
Answer: Isle of Dogs
Question: Traditionally, what is the topping for a shepherd's pie?
Answer: Potato
Question: What is meant by "vox populi"?
Answer: The voice of the people
Question: Who would use a creel?
Answer: Fisherman
Question: Who used the pseudonym "Bab"?
Answer: W S Gilbert
Question: What is changed at Buckingham Palace regularly, that is a tourist attraction?
Answer: The guard
Question: In what sport is "touch" said to signify that an opponent has scored a hit?
Answer: Fencing
Question: How many different Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were there between 1840 and 1900?
Answer: None
Question: What word means the type of movement by normally walking on the soles of the feet?
Answer: Plantigrade
Question: In what year did competition for the Davis Cup begin?
Answer: 1900
Question: On the Isle of Man, the "House of Keys" is concerned with what?
Answer: Government
Question: What does "bona fides" mean?
Answer: Good faith
Question: Most elite high jumpers used the Straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off or Scissors-Jump until the development of which technique, when its inventor's gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics brought it to the world's attention?
Answer: The Fosbury flop
Question: What weather condition can cause a "whiteout"?
Answer: Blizzard
Question: What is the capital of Sri Lanka?
Answer: Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte
Question: Which British musical, based on a TV show and noted for its profanity, irreverent treatment of Judeo-Christian themes and surreal images such as tap-dancing Ku Klux Klan members, ran for 609 performances in London to February 2005 winning 4 Laurence Olivier Awards, and made its New York City debut in January 2008 at Carnegie Hall, starring Harvey Keitel?
Answer: Jerry Springer: The Opera
Question: In which country is the region of Aragon?
Answer: Spain
Question: What amorphous form of graphite or pure carbon is used mainly as a lubricant for machinery?
Answer: Blacklead
Question: In athletics, what name is used for the preliminary races that precede quarter-finals or semi-finals?
Answer: Heats
Question: Which of the five Great Lakes of North America is the only one that does not border the US state of Michigan?
Answer: Ontario
Question: Which of earth's oceans holds the most water?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean
Question: Which city was hit by a 7.5 Mw earthquake about 160 km northeast of it, centred in the Motagua Fault, on 4 February 1976 at 3.01 am, local time, killing 23,000 and injuring 76,000?
Answer: Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Question: Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone caused controversy in July 2009 by praising whom because he "got things done"?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Question: Which part of the body is made up of a series of vertebra?
Answer: Backbone
Question: In the 1908 Olympics, Jay Gould from the USA won a gold medal for competing in which sport?
Answer: Jeu de Paume
Question: What was the name of the bottlenose dolphin who became famous in 1955-56 for playing with the children of the small town of Opononi, New Zealand, and performing with beach balls and bottles?
Answer: Opo
Question: In 1885, who was the first person to attach a petrol fuelled internal combustion engine to a bicycle at Bad Cannstadt near the River Neckar?
Answer: Gottlieb Daimler
Question: Which state of the USA, initially called New Connecticut, declared independence in 1777, issued its own coinage 1785-1788, exchanged ambassadors with France, the Netherlands and the USA, and in 1791 joined the US Federal union as the 14th state?
Answer: Vermont
Question: Who uses a petri dish?
Answer: Scientist
Question: What is the name of the raised bumps that cover the striking area of a table tennis bat?
Answer: Pimples
Question: The River Don flows 1,325 miles from near Tula, Russia, to which sea?
Answer: Sea of Azov
Question: What was a Roman name for France?
Answer: Gallia
Question: What is the name of cities in Argentina and Spain that are both capitals of provinces of the same name?
Answer: Cordoba
Question: Because of the speed at which the earth and the moon move relative to the sun, a total solar eclipse can never last more than how long?
Answer: 7 minutes 31 seconds