zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which 1844 novel of William Makepeace Thackeray, later adapted into a movie by Stanley Kubrick, is based on the life of an Anglo-Irish fortune-hunter called Andrew Robinson Stoney?
Answer: The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Question: 'The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.' This unforgettable opening line is from which author's A Bend in the River and lent itself to the title of that authors authorized biography The World Is What It Is by Patrick French?
Answer: V. S. Naipaul
Question: The most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death in 1985, whose best known works are the Our Ancestors trilogy and the Cosmicomics collection of short stories?
Answer: Italo Calvino
Question: What type of utensil that is frequently used in nonsense poetry first appeared in Edward Lear's best-known poem The Owl and the Pussycat?
Answer: Runcible spoon
Question: What 1908 satirical work by the Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France describes a fictitious island of great auks that exists on the northern coast of Europe?
Answer: Penguin Island
Question: The 1954 publication of the book Seduction of the Innocent which protested the harmful effects of mass media on children led to a U.S. Congressional inquiry into what genre of publishing?
Answer: Comic book industry
Question: Because A. A. Milne was critical towards him for pandering to Germans during WWII, which English author created a ridiculous character named Timothy Bobbin to parody some of Milne's poetry?
Answer: P. G. Wodehouse
Question: Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the titular character of what controversial 1928 book?
Answer: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Question: If Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day details the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and The Last Battle tells about the Battle of Berlin, which of his books tells the story of Operation Market Garden in WWII?
Answer: A Bridge Too Far (1974)
Question: The American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux's book Sir Vidia's Shadow provides a caustic portrait of which other famous author?
Answer: V. S. Naipaul
Question: Which writer of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair was once called "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language" by Gabriel García Márquez?
Answer: Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Question: Mark Twain's ridiculing of chivalry in his story A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is considered as specifically targeting whose books?
Answer: Walter Scott
Question: The name of what genre has its origin in what producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz had in their mouths when they discussed music targeting the younger crowd?
Answer: Bubblegum pop
Question: In 1934, a regulation promulgated in a certain country required that when the Horst-Wessel-Lied was sung, what gesture must be performed?
Answer: Hitler salute
Question: As its lyrics attest, what 1974 rock classic that celebrates a place was written in response to two songs of Neil Young that were derogatory of the American South?
Answer: """Sweet Home Alabama"""
Question: The phrase "it's better to burn out than to fade away" from Neil Young's classic song "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" became better known after being quoted in whose 1994 suicide note?
Answer: Nirvana's Kurt Cobain
Question: The annual music festival 'Lollapalooza' was conceived and created in 1991 by singer Perry Farrell of which band as a farewell tour for his band?
Answer: Jane's Addiction
Question: """Hail to the Chief"", the march primarily associated with the President of the US has verses derived from which narrative poem of Walter Scott?"
Answer: The Lady of the Lake
Question: Which 1982 song by the London punk rock group 'The Clash' is about Iran's outlawing of rock music, and also become the unofficial anthem for the Armed Forces during the Gulf War conflicts?
Answer: """Rock the Casbah"""
Question: By his own request, which Austrian composer was buried next to Beethoven in 1828?
Answer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Question: Which iconic opera stereotype plays in the background as helicopters swoop in to annihilate a village in one of the opening scenes of the movie Apocalypse Now?
Answer: """Ride of the Valkyries"""
Question: Which punk band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 but refused to attend the induction calling the museum a "piss stain"? Maybe they did not find any 'filthy lucre' there!
Answer: Sex Pistols
Question: The Russian scientist Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets has what pioneering connection with the periodic table of elements?
Answer: First person whose name was given to a chemical element.
Question: In the fall of 2013, The New England Journal of Medicine reported on a certain 'Mississippi Baby' whose case was thought of as a landmark event in medical history. The conclusions made about her were reversed in July 2014. She was in the news for what reason?
Answer: Cured of HIV
Question: The Nice model, named for the French city, seeks to explain the formation of what?
Answer: Solar System
Question: Which scientific great's equation is seen in the field of quantum mechanics as the equivalent of Newton's Second Law?
Answer: Erwin Schrödinger
Question: What is the only big cat species not currently protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act?
Answer: African lion (Panthera leo)
Question: Schreger lines are the unique identifiers of what valuable substance whose usage has led to the dwindling numbers of something large?
Answer: Ivory
Question: What probability riddle originally published in American Statistician in 1975 gained popular attention after it was featured in Parade in 1990?
Answer: Monty Hall problem
Question: What cell line used in research that was taken from an African-American woman who died in 1951 is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line?
Answer: HeLa cell line
Question: Renal calculus is not a branch of mathematics but a fancy name for what painful affliction?
Answer: Kidney stone
Question: The famed oil drop experiment performed by Millikan and Fletcher in 1909 helped determine what fundamental physical constant?
Answer: Charge of an electron
Question: The most recognized form of a jellyfish and a basic stage in its life cycle takes the name of what fearsome monster in mythology? (hint: stone!)
Answer: Medusa
Question: A 2000s British musical by Mat Fraser whose plot is about the love affair of a guy with phocomelia (a birth defect that causes stunted limbs) is titled after what drug?
Answer: Thalidomide
Question: The spacecraft New Horizons which is expected to be the first spacecraft to flyby Pluto (in 2015) contains on board whose ashes as a tribute?
Answer: Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto
Question: The Goldbach's conjecture, one of the oldest unsolved problems in mathematics, states that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as a sum of what?
Answer: Two prime numbers
Question: The 1957 B2FH paper, named after the initials of the scientists that wrote it, is the source of Carl Sagan's famous quote "We are all ___ stuff." What is the missing word?
Answer: """Star"""
Question: When Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discovered pulsars in 1967, they were baffled by the unnatural regularity of the radio transmissions. Jocularly suggesting that it was the work of extraterrestrials, they initially named their discovery as LGM-1 which expands to what?
Answer: 'Little Green Men 1'
Question: In 2010, Andre Geim became the first person to receive both the Nobel Prize and what other unusual prize whose ceremony closes with "If you didn't win a prize - and especially if you did - better luck next year!"?
Answer: Ig Nobel Prizes
Question: A note written in 1637 in the margin of a book says that there are no positive integers x, y and z such that xn + yn = zn, where n is an integer greater than two. This wasn't proved until 1995. Who is the author of this note?
Answer: Pierre de Fermat
Question: Dendrochronology is the method of determining age/timeline by the counting of what 'circles'? (hint: 'dendron' in Greek is?)
Answer: Tree-rings
Question: Princess Irene, Carnaval de Nice, Hollandia and Blue Parrot are some of the varieties of what spring beauties?
Answer: Tulips
Question: What namesake thought experiment intended to demonstrate the limitation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics features a malevolent creature opening doors in a chamber?
Answer: Maxwell's demon
Question: NASA's series of Great Observatories satellites are the following four powerful space-based telescopes. What is the missing word? (hint: An Indian-born American scientist known for his 'limit') 1. The Hubble Space Telescope 2. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory 3. The Spitzer Space Telescope 4. ___ X-ray Observatory
Answer: Chandra
Question: Woods Hole, Massachusetts is famous for having many institutes in what field of science?
Answer: Marine science
Question: Until it was named for a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses, what deadly disease had been called the 'French disease' in Italy and Germany, and the 'Italian disease' in France? Guess nobody wanted to associate themselves with it!
Answer: Syphilis
Question: Also the title of a 1991 Ron Howard film, what is the term for a situation which can occur when oxygen is re-introduced to a fire that is starved of it resulting in an explosive effect?
Answer: Backdraft
Question: Derived from the name of an ancient King of Pontus, what is the practice of Mithridatism?
Answer: Protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts.
Question: What is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms?
Answer: Great Barrier Reef
Question: In the general theory of relativity, what is the term for a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect the observer?
Answer: Event horizon
Question: It is considered to be the first of its kind in the world of computers and has been alternately called 'Lahore', 'Pakistani' and 'UIUC', among others. What is it?
Answer: (c)Brain, considered the first computer virus for the PC
Question: What term describes the use of the gravity of a planet to alter the path and speed of an interplanetary spacecraft?
Answer: Gravitational slingshot (or) gravity assist
Question: The use of what equipment in cricket which has come to sad attention in Nov, 2014 was pioneered into regular usage by English batsman Dennis Amiss?
Answer: Helmet
Question: What is the name of the Hungarian-born American professor whose rating system was approved at a meeting of the United States Chess Federation in St. Louis in 1960?
Answer: (Arpad) Elo
Question: Naismith's rule, not connected with basketball, is a rule of thumb that helps plan what popular activity?
Answer: Hiking
Question: Nelson Mandela once gave the South African rugby player Francois Pienaar a copy of Theodore Roosevelt's "The Man in the Arena" speech for inspiration. In a 2009 movie adaptation however, what literary work was used instead of Roosevelt's speech?
Answer: The poem Invictus
Question: Decorated swimmers Mary T. Meagher and Susie O'Neill who both specialized had what operatic nickname?
Answer: """Madam(e) Butterfly"""
Question: In the Japanese fun-game of suikawari, which is similar to a piñata, what objects are typically smashed? (hint: fans of comedian Gallagher should know)
Answer: Watermelons
Question: If the Eastbourne International serves as a warm-up event for women for Wimbledon, what is the equivalent tournament for the men?
Answer: Queen's Club
Question: Long suffering fans of what professional team trace their woes to a curse placed in 1945 by Billy Sianis when he was asked to leave the stadium because of his maladorous goat?
Answer: Chicago Cubs
Question: Used till the 2000s when it was supplanted by superior technology, what was the camera system that was used to judge service line calls in tennis which took its name from Greek myth?
Answer: Cyclops
Question: When ultra-marathoner Dean Karnazes ran across the entire United States in 2011, a blog headlined it by comparing him to what movie character?
Answer: Forrest Gump
Question: In 1992 British journalists Andrew Jennings and Vyv Simson wrote a controversial book about the International Olympic Committee chairman Juan Samaranch. Taking a cue from fantasy literature, what did they call it?
Answer: The Lord of the Rings
Question: The peloton from the French for 'little ball' is a term referring to the main group in what sport?
Answer: Road cycling
Question: The MacRobertson Shield is the premier tournament in what sport a surreal version of which was played with animals in a beloved 19th century classic?
Answer: Croquet
Question: In 2004, the Chinese government banned a Nike ad that depicted LeBron James defeating a martial-arts teacher, flying spirits and what other creature?
Answer: Dragon
Question: From 1928 until 2000, the obverse side of Olympic medals contained an image of which person seen holding a winners crown in her right hand?
Answer: Nike, the Greek goddess of victory
Question: The American showman Ely Culbertson is credited with popularising which sport/pastime?
Answer: Contract bridge
Question: Shakehand and penhold grips are used in which sport?
Answer: Tabletennis
Question: In 1956, while he was a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft (a famous builder of Indy race cars during the 1950s), Art Ingels assembled the first one of what?
Answer: Go-kart
Question: Which South Pacific island belonging to Vanuatu is known for being the spiritual birthplace of bungee jumping, originating in an age-old ritual called the naghol?
Answer: Pentecost Island
Question: You cannot be serious. According to the DVD interview of the movie Amadeus, Tom Hulce studied which tennis star's mood swings for his portrayal of Mozart's unpredictable genius?
Answer: John McEnroe
Question: In curling, what is the name given to the target area towards which teams slide polished granite stones?
Answer: House
Question: What medieval sport is the official sport of Maryland as well as the first to be made an official sport by an American state?
Answer: Ring jousting
Question: According to the proverb, what is it that pays all the debts?
Answer: DEATH
Question: On the shores of which lake does the town of Lucerne stand?
Answer: LAKE LUCERNE
Question: Which Scandanavian was the 1998 Australian Formula One Grand Prix winner?
Answer: MIKA HAKKINEN
Question: Which British driver was the winner of the 1999 Australian Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: EDDIE IRVINE
Question: Which comedy actor played 'Uriah Heap' in the 1999 BBC adaptation of "David Copperfield"?
Answer: NICHOLAS LYNDHURST
Question: Strongly associated with Shirley Bassey, the song 'Big Spender' comes from which musical?
Answer: 'SWEET CHARITY'
Question: The song 'Hello Young Lovers', comes from which musical?
Answer: 'THE KING AND I'
Question: Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera has the subtitle 'Flowers Of Progress'?
Answer: 'UTOPIA LIMITED'
Question: What is a group of Hedgehogs called?
Answer: ARRAY
Question: Charlie Chaplin won an 'Oscar' for the film 'Limelight', in which category?
Answer: MUSIC SCORE
Question: What breed of dog is 'Snoopy' in the 'Peanuts' cartoon?
Answer: BEAGLE
Question: Which is the largest man-made lake in the British Isles?
Answer: KIELDER WATER
Question: Where in Britain would you find 'The Backs' and the 'Bridge of Sighs'?
Answer: CAMBRIDGE
Question: Which Lerner and Loewe musical of 1958 features the songs 'The Night They Invented Champagne' and 'IRemember It Well'?
Answer: 'GIGI'
Question: In which state is Tulsa, as in the song '24 Hours From Tulsa'?
Answer: OKLAHOMA
Question: Which member of the House of Lords and an ex-MP, celebrated his 100th birthday in November 1984?
Answer: 'MANNY' SHINWELL
Question: In 1991, which French Prime Minister described the Japanese in the following terms,"Ants...little yellow men who sit up all night thinking how to screw us"?
Answer: EDITH CRESSON
Question: With a peculiar but agreeable taste, which course and potent liquor is made in the East Indies from a variety of sources, including fermented rice and coconut juice?
Answer: ARRACK
Question: In 1960, who became the first President of the newly independent Zaire. A Moscow University was named after him?
Answer: PATRICE LUMUMBA
Question: In which cartoon strip does a dog called 'Boot' appear?
Answer: 'THE PERISHERS'
Question: The liqueur Curacao is traditionally flavoured with sugar and which fruit?
Answer: ORANGE
Question: With which sport do you associate the 'Duckworth-Lewis System'?
Answer: CRICKET
Question: Name the Greek equivalentof the Roman god Mars?
Answer: ARES
Question: In pop music, who went for a stroll down 'Baker Street' in 1978?
Answer: GERRY RAFFERTY
Question: Who played the role of 'Dr. Edward Fitzgerald' in a highly acclaimed TV drama series?
Answer: ROBBIE COLTRANE
Question: Which motor company owns the luxury car maker, 'Lexus'?
Answer: TOYOTA
Question: Which standard item of office stationery was discovered accidentally in 1970 by US chemist Spencer Silver working for the 3M Corporation?
Answer: POST-IT NOTES
Question: 'I Dreamed A Dream' and 'Bring Him Home' are two songs from which musical?
Answer: 'LES MISERABLES'
Question: Which motor company owns the truck maker, 'Scania '?
Answer: SAAB
Question: Which New York business woman manufactured 'Aramis' for men (1943)?
Answer: ESTEE LAUDER
Question: In which town are Timothy Taylor's beers produced?
Answer: KEIGHLEY
Question: Which moon of Jupiter shares its name with the alias of a character in Shakespeare's 'As You Like It'?
Answer: GANYMEDE
Question: Which American medical drama series is set in the 'Sacred Heart Hospital'?
Answer: 'SCRUBS'
Question: In which German city are the headquarters of the car maker Mercedes-Benz?
Answer: STUTTGART
Question: Which is the highest peak in the Andes?
Answer: ACONCAGUA
Question: In 'Monopoly', which is the most expensive of the orange properties?
Answer: VINE STREET
Question: What was the name of the play known to have been written by Shakespeare as a sequel to 'Love's Labour's Lost', but for which no manuscript has ever been found?
Answer: 'LOVE'S LABOUR'S WON'
Question: In which county could you climb England's highest mountain?
Answer: CUMBRIA
Question: Also a three-times World Champion, which American skier won the gold medal in the Women's Downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Answer: LINDSEY VONN
Question: What five word name is given to the 5th century massacre of British chieftains by the Saxons, the 1934 purge of Hitler's opponents in Germany, and the 1962 dismissal of seven Cabinet ministers by Harold Macmillan?
Answer: 'NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES'
Question: The musical 'Fiddler On The Roof' was inspired by a painting by which artist?
Answer: MARC CHAGALL
Question: Making his debut for Newcastle United in 1994, who was the first Belgian to play in the Premier League?
Answer: PHILIPPE ALBERT
Question: In which of Charles Dickens' novels would you find 'Joe'. an extremely fat boy who can fall asleep in any situation at any time of day?
Answer: 'THE PICKWICK PAPERS'
Question: Which fairytale character was the subject of operas by both Rossini and Massenet?
Answer: 'CINDERELLA'
Question: Who was appointed the first permanent President of the European Council in November 2009?
Answer: HERMAN VAN ROMPUY
Question: Born in Lima in 1954, what is the profession of Mario Testino?
Answer: PHOTOGRAPHER
Question: 'Steerpike', 'Doctor Alfred Prunesquallor' and 'Fuschia Groan' are characters created by which author?
Answer: MERVYN PEAKE
Question: Roissy/Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget are two of Paris' airports. Name the third?
Answer: ORLY
Question: Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's North West Territories, lies on the shore of which lake?
Answer: GREAT SLAVE LAKE
Question: His father, a former MEP, founded his own political party and stood as an MP. His mother has a London nightclub named after her. Who is the Conservative MP for Richmond Park, first elected at the 2010 General Election?
Answer: ZAC GOLDSMITH
Question: The headquarters building of which government agency is known as 'The Doughnut' due to its shape?
Answer: G.C.H.Q
Question: In which country was the Archbishop of York born?
Answer: UGANDA
Question: How many matches are there in the 5th Round of the FA Cup?
Answer: 8
Question: Which comedian created the character 'Cosmo Smallpiece'?
Answer: LES DAWSON
Question: South African born Matt Stevens won a Gold Medal in the Choir Olympics when at school. At which sport does he play for England?
Answer: RUGBY UNION
Question: Give a year in the life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach?
Answer: 1685 - 1750
Question: Which actress is married to singer Chris Martin?
Answer: GWYNETH PALTROW
Question: Who became Prime Minister of Greece last November?
Answer: LUCAS PAPADEMOS
Question: Which is Shakespeare's longest play with 4024 lines?
Answer: 'HAMLET'
Question: Which king was married to Alexandra of Denmark?
Answer: EDWARD VII
Question: In which Yorkshire town does 'Pocktoberfest' take place?
Answer: POCKLINGTON
Question: Who won the Lance Todd Trophy in the 2013 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final?
Answer: MATTY SMITH
Question: Who wrote “The Tin Drum”, published in 1959, part of the “Danzig Trilogy”?
Answer: GÜNTER GRASS
Question: Which character from ‘The Magic Roundabout’ was illustrated on a 1st class stamp issued in January?
Answer: DOUGAL
Question: Give either of the forenames of author A S Byatt.
Answer: ANTONIA SUSAN
Question: Stella McCartney became Creative Director of which Paris Fashion House in 1997?
Answer: CHLOÉ
Question: According to the Gospel of Luke, in which village did two disciples meet Jesus after the resurrection and ate with him – a scene depicted by Titian, Caravaggio and others?
Answer: EMMAUS
Question: The Americans call this punctuation mark a period. What do we call it?
Answer: FULL STOP
Question: Who partnered John McEnroe to win 4 Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Doubles titles?
Answer: PETER FLEMING
Question: What is the collective name of the two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan set in the Beauregard Private Hotel in Bournemouth?
Answer: SEPARATE TABLES
Question: Which Conservative, the MP for Louth and Horncastle, elected in 1966, is the Father of the House of Commons?
Answer: SIR PETER TAPSELL
Question: Give either of the forenames of author H E Bates.
Answer: HERBERT ERNEST
Question: Which river is spanned by the Clifton Suspension Bridge?
Answer: RIVER AVON
Question: GEQ is the IOC code for which country?
Answer: EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Question: The Prince of Wales feathers appeared on the reverse of which coin from 1971 to 2008?
Answer: TWO PENCE
Question: Which pianist who had two Number 1 hits composed the theme tune to the 1960s sitcom ‘Meet The Wife’?
Answer: RUSS CONWAY
Question: Which river splits Norfolk from Suffolk?
Answer: Waveney
Question: Name the year Idi Amin seize power in Uganda, barriers collapsed at Ibrox stadium killing 66 people and Joe Frazier beats Muhammed Ali on points?
Answer: 1971
Question: In which city would you find the Tower of Belem?
Answer: Lisbon
Question: Who was the wife of king Priam of Troy?
Answer: Hecuba
Question: According to Monday's child rhyme, what is Friday's child?
Answer: Loving and Giving
Question: Which is the only property on a Monopoly board worth £280?
Answer: Piccadilly
Question: In the 'Batman' stories, which character was played by Pat Hindle on screen, and by Neil Hamilton on ty?
Answer: POLICE COMMISSIONER GORDON
Question: Avianca is the national airline of which South American country?
Answer: COLUMBIA
Question: Norwich South is the Parliamentary constituency of which government minister?
Answer: CHARLES CLARKE
Question: Which government minister is currently MP for Ashfield?
Answer: GEOFF HOON
Question: At this year's "Golden Globe Awards", which programme starring Albert Finney, won the award for best TV movie?
Answer: 'THE GATHERING STORM'
Question: The 'Bullet Train' of Japan runs between Tokyo and which other city?
Answer: OSAKA
Question: Who starred as 'Arthur Parker', a sheet music salesman, in the Dennis Potter TV drama, 'Pennies From Heaven'?
Answer: BOB HOSKINS
Question: Which family did Clint Eastwood deliberately pit against the 'Rojo family'. in "A Fistful Of Dollars"?
Answer: 'THE BAXTER FAMILY'
Question: 'Michaelwood Services' are located on which Motorway?
Answer: M5
Question: What was the former name of Surinam?
Answer: DUTCH GUIANA