zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who sang the theme song to Dad's Army?
Answer: Bud Flanagan
Question: Which is Britain's largest national park?
Answer: Cairngorms
Question: Alex Polizzi is known as the Hotel Inspector on Channel 4, how is she known in a series on BBC2?
Answer: The Fixer
Question: Which country in the Middle East has Doha as its capital?
Answer: QATAR
Question: David Beckham retired in 2013 after playing 10 games for which French club?
Answer: PARIS SAINT- GERMAIN
Question: The 2010 film Money Never Sleeps is the sequel to which 1987 film?
Answer: WALL STREET
Question: Which American author wrote The Witches of Eastwick?
Answer: JOHN UPDIKE
Question: Now in the Musée d’Orsay, who painted Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe in the 1860s?
Answer: ÉDOUARD MANET
Question: Writing’s on the Wall is the theme song to which Bond film?
Answer: SPECTRE
Question: In which city is the Potala Palace, the traditional home of the Dalai Lama?
Answer: LHASA
Question: Which motor manufacturer produces the Duster model?
Answer: DACIA
Question: Which European city stands on fourteen islands at the mouth of Lake Mälaren?
Answer: STOCKHOLM
Question: Which King of England is buried in Worcester Cathedral?
Answer: JOHN
Question: To which actress was Groucho Marx referring when he reportedly said “I knew her before she was a virgin”?
Answer: DORIS DAY
Question: What is the name of Sebastian Flyte’s teddy bear in Brideshead Revisited?
Answer: ALOYSIUS
Question: What nationality is racing driver Felipe Massa?
Answer: BRAZILIAN
Question: The garden flower Kniphofia sometimes known as the ‘Torch Lily’ is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: RED HOT POKER
Question: Which African country has Dodoma as its capital?
Answer: TANZANIA
Question: Which American author wrote The Caine Mutiny?
Answer: HERMAN WOUK
Question: In which month is the Lord Mayor’s Show held in London?
Answer: NOVEMBER
Question: Lady Helen Taylor is the daughter of which Royal Duke?
Answer: DUKE OF KENT
Question: Which 1989 Andrew Lloyd Weber musical is based on a 1955 novella by David Garnett?
Answer: ASPECTS OF LOVE
Question: In which US City is William B. Hartsfield Airport?
Answer: ATLANTA
Question: At the 2016 Oscars which film won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?
Answer: INSIDE OUT
Question: Which actress played the title role in the 1976 film Carrie?
Answer: SISSY SPACEK
Question: In which city will the 2017 World Athletics Championships take place?
Answer: LONDON
Question: The three largest cruise ships in the world are own by which cruise line?
Answer: ROYAL CARIBBEAN
Question: Which actor played Pierre in the 1970’s TV series of War and Peace?
Answer: ANTHONY HOPKINS
Question: In which European city is Marco Polo Airport?
Answer: VENICE
Question: What do the Americans call the vegetable known in the UK as a courgette?
Answer: Zucchini
Question: Which opera singer was known as the "Swedish Nightingale"?
Answer: Jenny Lind
Question: King Albert II abdicated as monarch of which country on July 21st 2013 in favour of his son Crown Prince Phillipe?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Which airline used to promote itself as "The world's favourite airline"?
Answer: British Airways
Question: Anthony Trollope's character, Plantagenet Palliser, sits in the House of Lords under what title?
Answer: Duke of Omnium
Question: Which artist sang the soundtrack to the Bond film "Spectre"?
Answer: Sam Smith
Question: Which department store chain claims to be "never knowingly undersold"?
Answer: John Lewis
Question: Which German-born, French composer, wrote "Orpheus in the Underworld1' and "The Tales of Hoffmann”?
Answer: Jacques Offenbach
Question: What was the name of the lasagne loving cat created by Jim Davis?
Answer: Garfield
Question: Who starred in the role of The Mariner in the 1995 film "Waterworld"?
Answer: Kevin Costner
Question: Patricia Arquette won the 2015 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress playing Olivia Evans in which film?
Answer: Boyhood
Question: Amner Hall, home to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is located within which larger crown estate?
Answer: Sandringham
Question: In the British Commonwealth, Canada is the largest country by area. Which Commonwealth country is the 2nd largest by area?
Answer: Australia
Question: Bile is produced in which organ of the human body?
Answer: Liver
Question: The 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger is based on which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: The Taming of the Shrew
Question: Who composed the 1928 symphonic poem An American in Paris?
Answer: George Gershwin
Question: For what purpose was the typeface Charles Wright 2001 designed?
Answer: Vehicle registration plates
Question: Who was the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales?
Answer: Owain Glendower
Question: What is the capital of the Yukon, Canada?
Answer: Whitehorse
Question: The 1995 film Clueless starring Alicia Silverstone is based on which novel by Jane Austen?
Answer: Emma
Question: What was the aim of the World War 2 allied operation Market Garden?
Answer: To cross the Rhine
Question: What is the first name of the Czech composer Janacek?
Answer: Leos
Question: The name of which variety of rice derives from the Hindi for 'Queen of Fragrance?
Answer: Basmati
Question: Who became MP for Uxbridge South & Ruislip at the 2015 General Election?
Answer: Boris Johnson
Question: For his role in the film The Theory of Everything’, which actor won the Best Film Actor BAFTA in 2015?
Answer: Eddie Redmayne
Question: Mintonette was the original name given to which sport?
Answer: Volleyball
Question: How many stars are there on the EU flag?
Answer: 12
Question: Which country's parliament is called the Folketing?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Nancy Sinatra sang the theme tune for which 1967 James Bond film?
Answer: You Only Live Twice
Question: In terms of area which is the second largest lake in Africa after Lake Victoria?
Answer: Lake Tanganyika
Question: What type of animal is a mulefoot?
Answer: Pig
Question: Koniophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Dust
Question: As played by William Shatner in the TV series Star Trek what is Captain Kirk’s middle name?
Answer: Tiberius
Question: Which is the only racecourse in Staffordshire?
Answer: Uttoxeter
Question: In terms of area, what is the largest island in Asia?
Answer: Borneo
Question: Which desert covers much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa?
Answer: The Kalahari
Question: The word for which discipline is derived from the Sanskrit word for ‘to unite’ or ‘to join’?
Answer: Yoga
Question: The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is in which American state?
Answer: South Dakota
Question: Who sang the theme tune to Rawhide, the TV series which ran from 1959-1966?
Answer: Frankie Laine
Question: Which god was said to be the father of Romulus and Remus the legendary founders of Rome?
Answer: Mars
Question: In which English county would you find Stonehenge?
Answer: Wiltshire
Question: In which small North Yorkshire market town is the Black Sheep Brewery based?
Answer: Masham
Question: What was the first pitched battle of the English civil War?
Answer: Edgehill
Question: If a Chinese friend brings you a cheongsam or a changshan, what would you do with it?
Answer: Wear it
Question: The myths contained in the texts Kojiki and Nihan Shoki are the inspiration behind the practices of what belief system?
Answer: Shintoism
Question: A corroboree is a ceremonial meeting of what group of people?
Answer: Australian Aborigines
Question: In Greek mythology, what river flowed around the cave of Hypnos in the Underworld and caused forgetfulness in all those who drank from it?
Answer: Lethe
Question: The 1633 painting The Storm on the Sea of Galilee that depicts the miracle of Jesus calming the waves was stolen in 1990 from a Boston museum in what is considered to be the biggest art theft in history. This painting is the only known seascape of which great artist?
Answer: Rembrandt
Question: When is a riderless or caparisoned horse with boots reversed in the stirrups most commonly seen?
Answer: Funeral procession
Question: The Scarlet Sails celebration is the culmination of what annual festival that takes place during the season of the midnight sun in St. Petersburg?
Answer: White Nights Festival
Question: During the canonization process of the Roman Catholic Church, what was the lawyer who argued against the canonization of a candidate called?
Answer: Devil's advocate
Question: The fountain ink pen introduced by Parker in 1941 that achieved legendary status has what number in its name?
Answer: 51
Question: Unimate which worked in a General Motors assembly line in 1961 has what distinction in the world of business?
Answer: First industrial robot
Question: Structures called yakhchals in Persia may be called the ancient versions of what modern contraption?
Answer: Refrigerator
Question: The logo of what company has recently been named after the NBA legend Larry Bird? The answer is less than 140 characters!
Answer: Twitter
Question: What is the all time bestselling car in the world?
Answer: Toyota Corolla
Question: In the 1983 thriller WarGames, the protagonists prevent nuclear war by directing a computer to play what game against itself?
Answer: Tic-tac-toe
Question: In which 2008 movie of Clint Eastwood are the Hmong people prominently featured?
Answer: Gran Torino
Question: The executive producer of what 2004 biopic stated that the main character in the movie "is more akin to Jack Kerouac or Neal Cassady than Marx or Lenin"?
Answer: The Motorcycle Diaries
Question: Cheoah Dam in North Carolina was the real-life location of the 'dive scene' in what 1993 movie in which the protagonist is wrongly accused of murder?
Answer: The Fugitive
Question: For an American Express ad, Tiger Woods once donned the role of Carl Spackler, a character from what 1980 comedy set at the Bushwood Country Club?
Answer: Caddyshack
Question: The authentic Nazi submarine used in Raiders of the Lost Ark was rented from the production of what 1981 epic war film that tells the fictional story of the crew of U-boat U-96?
Answer: Das Boot
Question: If you are given the words - City Slickers and push-ups, can you name the person?
Answer: Jack Palance
Question: In the 1984 adventure film Romancing the Stone set in Columbia, what type of precious mineral is the stone?
Answer: Emerald
Question: On which 1953 film poster are Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr sharing a passionate kiss on a beach?
Answer: From Here to Eternity
Question: Tataouine in Tunisia was the setting for many scenes in the movies of which blockbuster franchise?
Answer: Star Wars franchise
Question: What 2000 film tells the fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for the Rolling Stone magazine while covering the rock band Stillwater?
Answer: Almost Famous
Question: Devil's Tower National Monument in Wyoming, USA features prominently in which landmark 1977 science fiction film?
Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Question: The Roundtable is the buffet restaurant at what Las Vegas casino?
Answer: Excalibur
Question: Water-bath and pressure are two types of techniques for food preservation in what process?
Answer: Canning
Question: The name of what distinctive Nordic dish translates as 'buried salmon'?
Answer: Gravlax
Question: What fried street food popular with vegetarians is claimed by the Copts of Egypt as their invention to be a replacement for meat during Lent?
Answer: Falafel
Question: The four main types of what luxury delicacy are Beluga, Sterlet, Ossetra, and Sevruga?
Answer: Caviar
Question: Because they spoil at high temperatures, what were once assumed to be safe for eating only in the months with the letter 'r' in their English/French names?
Answer: Oysters
Question: Kryptos is a 1990 sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn that is famous for its four encrypted messages, three of which have been solved. Where is it located?
Answer: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia
Question: In 2007, which celebrity started a charitable organization called SixDegrees.org?
Answer: Kevin Bacon
Question: """Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique."" This statement made in 1929 is the core of which Indian philosopher's teaching?"
Answer: Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
Question: In 1821, who was inspired by the night writing invention of a former French Army captain that enabled soldiers to share top-secret information on the battlefield without having to speak?
Answer: Louis Braille
Question: What is the correct term for the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest?
Answer: Gleaning
Question: Located at 1651-1653 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., what is the official state guest house for the President of the United States?
Answer: Blair House
Question: What type of work is 99 Cent II Diptychon by Andreas Gursky which was sold for USD 3.3 million in 2007 and holds the record for the highest price paid for an artifact in that field?
Answer: Photograph
Question: Awarded to applicants annually since 1902, the Rhodes Scholarships are for study at what institution?
Answer: University of Oxford
Question: George Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923) was an English aristocrat best known as the financier for the excavation of what?
Answer: King Tut's tomb
Question: What word that is synonymous with African tourism is from the Swahili for 'journey'?
Answer: Safari
Question: UNESCO's World Heritage List originated in the effort to preserve historic sites that were being affected by the construction of what structure in the 1950s?
Answer: Aswan dam
Question: The 2000-yr old Banaue rice terraces built largely by hand in the Ifugao mountains that cover 4000 square miles are in which country?
Answer: The Philippines
Question: If all the languages of the world are listed by the highest number of speakers, what is the first name that is not an official language of the UN?
Answer: Hindi
Question: The Propylaea, which has now come to mean any gateway, was originally an entrance to what magnificent ancient construction?
Answer: Acropolis in Athens
Question: The Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya is contiguous with what famed national park of Tanzania?
Answer: Serengeti
Question: The Wagah border often called the 'Berlin wall of Asia' is the only road border crossing between what two countries?
Answer: India and Pakistan
Question: Because of changes in the political geography of Africa in 2011, what is now the largest country in that continent?
Answer: Algeria
Question: Which scale that is used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake (not Richter!) quantifies its effects on humans, objects of nature, and man-made structures on a scale of I through XII with XII denoting total destruction?
Answer: Mercalli intensity scale
Question: Which prominent mountain has three volcanic cones called Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira?
Answer: Kilimanjaro
Question: Taking its name from a Manchu word meaning 'the boundary between two countries', the Yalu river forms the border between what two countries?
Answer: China and North Korea
Question: Which island, the third largest in the world, is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei?
Answer: Borneo
Question: What is the longest river in the world that flows entirely in one country?
Answer: Yangtze
Question: What is the beautiful onion-domed church situated in Red Square, Moscow that is often confused with the Kremlin?
Answer: Saint Basil's Cathedral
Question: Which tiny landlocked European country, also the smallest German-speaking country in the world, has bordering countries that are also landlocked?
Answer: Liechtenstein
Question: Which group of islands in the Caribbean Sea are divided as? Greater ___: Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico Lesser ___: Leeward Islands, Windward Islands and Leeward ___
Answer: Antilles
Question: What is also known as Qomolangma or Sagarmatha or Chomolungma in the native tongues of the people around it?
Answer: Mount Everest
Question: The Shatt al-Arab waterway constitutes a part of the border between which countries?
Answer: Iran and Iraq
Question: What gorge in the Ngorongoro area of Tanzania is considered the seat of humanity after the discovery of the earliest known specimens of modern man?
Answer: Olduvai Gorge
Question: What is the only one of the Seven Wonders that was destroyed with deliberate intent?
Answer: The Temple of Artemis
Question: 700 private boats sailed from Ramsgate in England to what place in France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo?
Answer: Dunkirk
Question: What name was given by pilots of the US Air Force to the area of North Korea considered the birthplace of jet fighter combat as it saw numerous dog fights during the Korean War?
Answer: Mig Alley
Question: What diplomatic crisis ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in January, 1981?
Answer: Iran hostage crisis
Question: What groups of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th-century Italy get their name from the Italian for 'charcoal burners'?
Answer: Carbonari
Question: What is the name of the Polish trade union founded in September 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard that was originally led by Lech Wałęsa?
Answer: Solidarity
Question: What two countries formed in 1993 as a result of what is known as the 'Velvet Divorce'?
Answer: Czech Republic and Slovakia
Question: Which 1975 book by the Australian philosopher Peter Singer is considered to be the founding philosophical statement of the animal rights movement?
Answer: Animal Liberation
Question: What genre of literature is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto?
Answer: Gothic fiction
Question: What is observed annually on June 16 in Dublin to celebrate the life of James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses?
Answer: Bloomsday
Question: In the Indiana Jones series of novels, Indiana loses his virginity to which real life spy?
Answer: Mata Hari
Question: Ships of what cruise line use the tune of "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinnochio as the melody of their horns?
Answer: Disney Cruise
Question: India's national anthem is written in what language that is also the national language of one of its neighbors?
Answer: Bengali
Question: Which 1974 song made famous by the girl group 'Labelle' is most famous for its sexually suggestive chorus of 'voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)?' that translates as 'Do you want to sleep with me (tonight)?'?
Answer: """Lady Marmalade"""
Question: 'The Jordanaires' are an American singing group formed in 1948 best known for backing many of whose recordings?
Answer: Elvis Presley's
Question: Which musical instrument named after its Russian inventor is unique in that it is designed to be played without being touched?
Answer: Theremin
Question: Can you connect the singer Bobby McFerrin with the mystic Meher Baba?
Answer: """Don't Worry, Be Happy"""
Question: Awarded to people in the medical field, what American awards are considered the country's equivalent of the Nobel Prize in that area?
Answer: The Lasker Awards
Question: According to Guinness Book, the greatest concentration of animals ever speculatively guessed concerned what scourge of crops?
Answer: (Rocky mountain) locust
Question: If Jupiter has the Great Red Spot, which planet has the Great Dark Spot?
Answer: Neptune
Question: A project by a group of scientists in New South Wales to revive an extinct Australian frog was named after what biblical figure?
Answer: Lazarus
Question: The development of the immuno-suppressant drug ciclosporin in the 1980s gave a fillip to what type of surgeries?
Answer: Organ transplants
Question: What's the missing word in this paraphrase of Stephen Hawking's statement that the universe has not existed forever? "It's true because if it were not, all things would be the same ___."
Answer: """temperature"""
Question: What substance registered in 1870 and widely used as a replacement for ivory is regarded as the first synthetic plastic?
Answer: Celluloid
Question: What is a type of chemical mixture where one substance is dispersed evenly throughout another?
Answer: Colloid
Question: Meaning 'indicator' in Greek, what is the part of a sundial that casts the shadow called?
Answer: Gnomon
Question: What are the four Galilean moons of Jupiter that are named after the lovers of Zeus in Greek myth?
Answer: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto
Question: In mathematics, what is a statement that appears likely to be true but has not been formally proven to be true under the rules of mathematical logic?
Answer: Conjecture
Question: Found in suitable habitat throughout Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, what is largest of all living reptiles?
Answer: Saltwater or estuarine crocodile
Question: In 1949, what process developed by Willard Libby revolutionized archaeology?
Answer: Radiocarbon dating
Question: During WWII, troops stationed in New Guinea were warned to steer clear of what bird that was also listed by the 2007 edition of the Guinness Book as the world's most dangerous?
Answer: Cassowary
Question: Olympus Mons is the tallest known volcano and mountain in our Solar System. Where is it located?
Answer: Mars
Question: What neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning is named after a Japanese city where it was first discovered?
Answer: Minamata disease
Question: Who along with Mel Hausner, Lloyd S. Shapley and Martin Shubik invented a board game called "So Long Sucker" in 1950 which involves game theory strategies?
Answer: John Forbes Nash
Question: Achieving a score of 147 is equivalent to perfection in what sport?
Answer: Snooker
Question: The Connecticut-based indie rock band The Zambonis write and sing exclusively about what?
Answer: (Ice) hockey
Question: A one-hole course at Camp Bonifas that is surrounded by minefields prompting Sports Illustrated to call it 'the most dangerous hole in golf' is at what Asian location?
Answer: Korean Demilitarized Zone
Question: The national football team of which country is also known as 'The Eagles of Carthage'?
Answer: Tunisia
Question: The oche, a line that is 2.369 meters from the target is a term from what sport?
Answer: Darts
Question: Dhyan Chand of India is regarded as the greatest player of all time in which Olympic sport?
Answer: Hockey
Question: What is the only country to have won at least one gold at every Summer Olympics?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: The 'Aussie Round' is considered by many to be the ultimate test of skills in this field where an object should cross a 50 metre circle and come right back to the centre. What is the object in question?
Answer: Boomerang
Question: Which land area near Wendover, Utah that is marked out for motor sports is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed records?
Answer: Bonneville Speedway
Question: In US college sports, what is the most common nickname/school mascot?
Answer: Eagles
Question: What nickname was given to the New York Yankees baseball team of the late 1920s, in particular to the first six hitters in the 1927 team lineup?
Answer: Murderer's Row
Question: Which Australian river forms most of the boundary between New South Wales and Victoria?
Answer: THE MURRAY
Question: What was the forename of William Shakespeare's son?
Answer: HAMNET
Question: On which island did 'James Bond' confront actress Ursula Andress and villain 'Dr. No'?
Answer: 'CRAB KEY'
Question: The Ebro is the second largest river in which country?
Answer: SPAIN.
Question: In the Bible, who demanded the head of 'John the Baptist'?
Answer: SALOME
Question: From which fruit is the drink Kirsch made?
Answer: CHERRIES
Question: In which sport is the 'Giro D'Italia'?
Answer: CYCLING
Question: Who commanded the RAF "Fighter Command" during the 'Battle of Britain'?
Answer: SIR HUGH DOWDING.
Question: What is the medical name for Rabies?
Answer: HYDROPHOBIA
Question: What was Elvis Presley's first UK hit?
Answer: 'HEARTBREAK HOTEL'
Question: What nationality is runner Paul Kergat?
Answer: KENYAN
Question: Which poet does Linus Roache play in the 2000 film 'Pandemonium'?
Answer: SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE