zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The UK Millennium Cohort Study of 10,000 babies born 2000-01 found a clear correlation between positive childhood behaviour/behavior and what?
Answer: Breastfeeding
Question: Where are the Carnac Stones, the largest megalithic site of its kind anywhere, containing over 3,000 huge rocks erected by pre-Celtic people c.4,000-3,300BC?
Answer: Brittany
Question: What is the Japanese maker of soy sauce whose name means loosely 'ten thousand tortoise shells'?
Answer: Kikkoman
Question: Name the Ebay-owned online payment processing corporation which sued Google in 2011 for poaching its staff?
Answer: Paypal
Question: What multinational high street vendor's logo was developed from an old Norse woodcut of a twin-tailed siren or mermaid with flowing hair and crown?
Answer: Starbucks
Question: What childplay and teaching-aid modelling product did William Harbutt devise and produce in 1900, in an old flour mill near Bath, UK?
Answer: Plasticine
Question: For what ethnic group are Misnah and Gemara the two main parts of Talmud law?
Answer: Jews
Question: What technical term, also slang for street, refers to the forces resisting the forward movement of an aircraft?
Answer: Drag
Question: Lachryma Christi, an old Italian sweet red wine translates to mean 'whose what'?
Answer: Christ's Tear
Question: According to a global study of wind power in 2005 what extent of the world's total energy usage could be satisfied if all viable wind power locations were exploited?
Answer: Five times
Question: What highly toxic element was traditionally used in thermometers, posing a substantial safety and disposal risk?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Somalia is in the region known as the what of Africa?
Answer: Horn
Question: Derived from French pantomime, what is a clown with a white face, white garments, and pointed hat?
Answer: Pierrot
Question: What metallic element element is named after an asteroid discovered in 1802, itself named after (an alternate name of) the Greek goddess Athene?
Answer: Palladium
Question: Name the German tribe which settled in Britain during the 5-6th centuries, whose name persists in a region of Denmark?
Answer: Jutes
Question: On a conventionally tuned guitar, what chord is made by fretting just the fifth (A) string on its 2nd fret?
Answer: Em7
Question: What Warner Brothers Mexican mouse cartoon character became a term for someone working or moving unusually quickly?
Answer: Speedy Gonzalez
Question: What is the English translation of the ironically-named Ratón, a fearsome bull who killed three men in Spanish festivals?
Answer: Mouse
Question: What number is the French coded slang 'vingt-deux!', which warns that police are coming?
Answer: 22
Question: Stately home Cliveden, now a hotel, was a pool party venue for characters involved in what famous political scandal, named after the Secretary of State for War at its centre?
Answer: Profumo
Question: As at 2011 how many countries of the world criminalize homosexuality?
Answer: 82
Question: Australian foreign minister Kevin Rudd complained that what homeland foodstuff was confiscated from his luggage on entering the USA in 2011?
Answer: Vegemite
Question: What pressure group, led by Kumi Naidoo, with three million members, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2011?
Answer: Greenpeace
Question: In 2011 Australia launched passports offering a third-gender option for intersex people (whose anatomy fits neither male/female convention) indicated by what letter symbol?
Answer: X
Question: Kevlar, the high-strength fibre material, used in armour and sports equipment, is a product/brand of which international chemicals corporation?
Answer: DuPont
Question: What country features centrally and ironically in a map of Europe on the reverse face of Euro coins?
Answer: UK
Question: From Greek for gadfly, what is the sex hormonal substance which maintains/develops human female body characteristics?
Answer: Oestrogen
Question: The famous geological/geographical feature Chesil Beach in Dorset, England, is a natural coastal barrier made of?
Answer: Pebbles
Question: What common scientific suffix (referring to having a productive quality) is from the French/Greek word loosely meaning 'born of a specific kind'?
Answer: Gen
Question: What Canadian technology service suffered a major internet outage in October 2011, angering millions of its customers unable to use its email and popular 'messenger' services, and prompting calls for its owners to sell up and exit?
Answer: BlackBerry
Question: What hugely popular annual celebration takes its name from the Sanskrit for 'row of lamps'?
Answer: Diwali
Question: Said to be the most natural unit of time what is typically defined as the period of rotation of the Earth relative to any selected heavenly body?
Answer: Day
Question: A gilet (pronounced loosely 'jee-lay' - it's French) is a jacket or blouse without?
Answer: Sleeves
Question: What seasonal name is most commonly given to the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, which began in Tunisia, December 2010?
Answer: Arab Spring
Question: In Cable Street East London, 1936, thousands of ordinary people famously stopped a march by what uniformly nicknamed organization?
Answer: The Blackshirts
Question: In his seminally optimistic 1734 poem, An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope wrote the famous line, "Hope springs eternal in the (what)"?
Answer: Human breast
Question: Widely used title of high authority, in English was orginally 'hlafweard', meaning bread-keeper?
Answer: Lord
Question: Originally, in English, a student residence, preserved in Gray's and Lincoln's?
Answer: Inn
Question: Eiswein is wine made from grapes that have been what on the vine? Frozen; Sun-dried; Salted; or Pressed?
Answer: Frozen
Question: Which country experienced the Velvet Revolution in Nov-Dec 1989?
Answer: Czechoslovakia
Question: According to the UK General Teaching Council how many of the 28,000 newly qualified teachers in 2010 had a computer-related degree?
Answer: 3
Question: What, according to Forbes magazine in 2011 "...achieved in 7 years what the CIA could not in 60, i.e., knowing what 800million people think, read and listen to..." ?
Answer: Facebook
Question: The fashionable Belstaff clothing label was founded in Staffordshire UK in 1924 initially to produce protective waterprooof clothing for?
Answer: Motorcyclists
Question: What 'white-tail' species grew in such numbers in US Washington DC parklands as to prompt radical control measures in 2012?
Answer: Deer
Question: King Rama and Queen Sirikit rule which country (at 2012), bordered by Burma, Laos, and Cambodia?
Answer: Thailand
Question: The 'doppelsigrune' or 'sig runes' was the symbol of what secretive and powerful organization? The
Answer: SS
Question: Press-ups and squat-thrusts were reportedly introduced in 2012 as staff punishments at what major retailer's Milan branch?
Answer: Abercrombie and Fitch
Question: Carthage is a 3,000 year old urban settlement now part of what North African capital city?
Answer: Tunis
Question: What modern-day publishing corporation, owner of Penguin books, built the Blackwall Tunnel (under the River Thames in London)?
Answer: Pearson
Question: What deceptive old name is given to a pudding of stewed fruit blended with custard/cream/similar?
Answer: Fool
Question: Earl Scruggs (1924-2012) pioneered and was master of the three-fingered technique for playing what?
Answer: Banjo
Question: The Chinese (translated) 'Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists' which once instigated a famous rebellion against colonial and imperial presence in Peking (now Beijing) China, were better known by what name?
Answer: Boxers
Question: Rib, stretcher, runner, ferrule, crook-handle and tube are parts of which common protective device?
Answer: Umbrella
Question: Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne (1910-70) founded which psychotherapeutic/psychological methodology?
Answer: Transactional Analysis
Question: Loss of temper or sudden uncontrollable rage is called metaphorically as 'the (what colour) mist'?
Answer: Red
Question: In what sport did Swede Oscar Swahn become the oldest gold medallist at 64 years (1912), and the oldest medallist, at 72 (silver, 1920)?
Answer: Shooting
Question: American physician Dr Henry Jay Heimlich is famously credited with developing a procedure to counter what threat to life?
Answer: Choking
Question: What American word, from French meaning lift, refers to an embankment preventing overflow of a river or other body of water?
Answer: Levee
Question: What conifer shrub is known traditionally and offensively as 'bastard killer', because its berries were used to procure abortion?
Answer: Juniper
Question: According to Encyclopedia Britannica 2012, a skyscraper is very loosely defined as having at least how many storeys/stories?
Answer: 40
Question: What country's 1931 flood is considered to be the most fatal of all 1900s natural disasters?
Answer: China
Question: What creatures are T S Eliot's characters Mr Mistoffelees, Mungojerrie, Rumpelteazer, and Bustopher Jones, and what musical was inspired by the poem book in which they feature?
Answer: Cats
Question: Name the female alter-ego featured in the life and vase artworks of English transvestite artist Grayson Perry?
Answer: Claire
Question: With blue, yellow, green and orange lines, which nation's busiest metro has stations including Rosemont, Snowdon, Saint-Michel, Monk, and McGill?
Answer: Canada
Question: What single vowel letter symbol generally refers in science to 'any element'?
Answer: E
Question: What thickening agent found in gummy confectionery etc., defined as a food and produced from animal by-products, has the E Number 441?
Answer: Gelatin
Question: What common substance is technically defined as "...an organic natural composite material of cellulose fibers/fibres, strong in tension, embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression..."
Answer: Wood
Question: What nation has 27 states, most of which exceed the area of an entire moderately-sized country, and include Acre, Minas Gerais, Sergipe, and Amazonas?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What originally American familial (that's familial, not familiar) term refers to a small shop or business run by a married couple?
Answer: Mom-and-Pop
Question: What word, equating to check, is given to the amplified sound system for performers at a concert venue?
Answer: Monitor
Question: A study published in 2012 (by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) found that prolonged use of what tended to produce chronic ongoing tension headaches in sufferers?
Answer: Painkillers
Question: What famous toys and games brand (founded London 1760) did French corporation Groupe Ludendo buy for £60m in 2012?
Answer: Hamleys
Question: What word/symbol appears at the 12 o'clock position on the traditional ipod click wheel?
Answer: MENU
Question: The astronomical term 'quasi-stellar radio source' is more commonly expressed as what abbreviated word?
Answer: Quasar
Question: The expression 'up to scratch', meaning fit for purpose, derives from a technical rule in what discipline?
Answer: Boxing
Question: What term refers to the (typically prehistoric) method of attaching a sharp stone or bone, etc., to a stick or strap to make a tool or weapon?
Answer: Hafting
Question: Name the autonomous region of NE Spain which periodically is subject to strong independence lobbying?
Answer: Catalonia
Question: In 1515 the Court of Aldermen of the City of London established what trade as top (based on economic/political power) of an enduring list of livery companies?
Answer: Mercers
Question: What country experienced the world's biggest electricity power-cut in July 2012?
Answer: India
Question: Among Time magazine's 2012 100 Most Influential Persons in the World, Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller was elected leader for the second time of what Caribbean island?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: Name the retired software pioneer and 2012 fugitive from a murder inquiry who fled Belize and surfaced in Guatemala?
Answer: John McAfee
Question: Davy Jones (1945-2012) fronted what popular 1960s pop group?
Answer: The Monkees
Question: In 2012 who offered $5m to charity in return for Barack Obama's college and passport application records?
Answer: Donald Trump
Question: What internet/computing term derives from Old Norse hlekkr, related to Old German gelenk, meaning joint?
Answer: Link
Question: In 2012 Shinzo Abe became which nation's eighth prime ministerial appointment in six years, 2006-12?
Answer: Japan
Question: Name the famous guitarist whose collaboration with the Gibson company produced their first and eponymous solid electric guitar in 1952?
Answer: Les Paul
Question: 'Il Duce' - subject of revivalist support in Italy in the 2000s - is better known by what name?
Answer: Benito Mussolini
Question: The Latin term 'per capita' means 'for... The entire population; Each person; Paying customers; or Registered voters?
Answer: Each person
Question: Name the UK seaside town famous for jet stone, and whose St Mary's Church featured in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Answer: Whitby
Question: What single iconic name is associated with a fried sandwich of peanut butter, banana and bacon?
Answer: Elvis
Question: Cape, Katanga, Masai, Barbary and Asiatic are generally considered sub-species of what 'apex' predator?
Answer: Lion
Question: What metaphorical torture chamber reference derives from George Orwell's 1949 book Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Answer: Room 101
Question: The Innocent smoothie drinks business was wholly acquired by which more famous drinks corporation in 2013?
Answer: Coca Cola
Question: Originating in art around 500BC, what is the more common modern name for a nimbus, aureole, glory, or gloriole?
Answer: Halo
Question: What weapon's dangerous part is defined in two sections, namely the forte and the foible?
Answer: Sword
Question: What religion takes its name from the Greek for 'universal', from the root words meaning 'in respect of [the] whole'?
Answer: Catholicism
Question: The word 'haram' refers to both a sanctuary and a forbidden act in which religion?
Answer: Islam
Question: Named after US economist Arthur Laffer, his eponymous Curve refers graphically to notional/optimal government revenues according to levels of?
Answer: Taxation
Question: What word follows either 'stone' or 'Chinese' in referring to deliberate obstruction?
Answer: Wall
Question: The American 1893 Nix v Hedden court case determined (and still), for US customs taxation purposes, based on conventional usage, what to be a vegetable and not a fruit?
Answer: Tomato
Question: What time-related term was given to the American Patriot 'rapid response' militia forces assembled before and active during the American Revolutionary War of 1775-83?
Answer: Minutemen
Question: What river in SW Europe rises in the Swiss Alps and flows over 500 miles through Lake Geneva, Lyons, to the Mediterranean west of Marseilles?
Answer: Rhône
Question: Previously called Ezo/Yezo/Yeso/Yesso, what is Japan's north and second-largest island?
Answer: Hokkaido
Question: A traditional light-bulb containing a glowing filament is technically called what, from the Latin 'glow white'?
Answer: Incandescent
Question: What are the fatty compounds/derivatives which store energy, signal, and provide structure in the cells of living things?
Answer: Lipids
Question: From the Latin for 'godlike' what is the traditional word for the academic study of religion and its ministry?
Answer: Divinity
Question: The term 'mondegreen' refers to?
Answer: Misheard lyrics
Question: What note is produced at the twelfth fret of the top (highest pitched) string on a conventionally tuned guitar?
Answer: E
Question: What intangible communication aid did Dr Ludwig Zamenhof create c.1880, 'to foster harmony between people of different nations'?
Answer: Esperanto
Question: What number features most prevalently internationally in toll-free or 'freefone' telephony?
Answer: 800
Question: Name the CIA employee who famously became a whistleblower in 2013, revealing details of US/UK mass public surveillance?
Answer: Edward Snowden
Question: Name the famous maker of soy sauce whose logo/name represent '10,000 tortoises'?
Answer: Kikkoman
Question: What is the famous weaponry invention of Israeli army officer Uziel Gal (1923-2002)?
Answer: Uzi submachine gun
Question: The construction term 'soffit' refers to what aspect of an arch or overhang?
Answer: Underside
Question: The early 2000s brands Heat, Fantasy, Pink Friday, Fame, and Lovely, are examples of celebrity product diversification into?
Answer: Perfumes
Question: An insect of the order Diptera is more commonly called a what?
Answer: Fly
Question: What comet is responsible for the Perseid meteor shower, through which Earth passes every July/August?
Answer: Swift-Tuttle
Question: The terms/concepts of kaitiaki and kaitiakitanga referring to guardianship of sky, sea and land originated in which indigenous culture?
Answer: Maori
Question: The site/name of which Napoleonic victory gave its name to a chicken/veal dish served with tomato, egg and crayfish?
Answer: Marengo
Question: A season in which woodland trees produce extraordinarily big volumes of fruit/nuts/seeds is called a '(What?) Year'?
Answer: Mast
Question: In the early 2010s which country was judged to have the world's biggest oil reserves given the viability of the Orinoco River Belt heavy crude deposits?
Answer: Venezuela
Question: What analytical field is traditionally called 'the dismal science'?
Answer: Economics
Question: The 'Tube' in the website name YouTube also refers informally to what traditional display technology, abbreviated to CRT?
Answer: Cathode Ray Tube
Question: The development of what sort of pumping engine in 1785 gave rise to the description 'draught/draft' for its pumped product?
Answer: Beer
Question: The popular UK 2010s acronymic 'Towie' fashion/lifestyle derives from what?
Answer: The Only Way Is Essex
Question: Which country is officially named Bharat (and many similar cultural variations), eponymously based its ancient legendary emperor?
Answer: India
Question: The Coca-Cola corporation launched its Sprite drink in 1961 to compete with which similarly famous earlier product?
Answer: 7 Up
Question: In 2013 which nation became the first in Europe to recognize indeterminate gender (neither male nor female) in official registration/records?
Answer: Germany
Question: The highest paved road in the world, the 1,300km Karakoram Highway, connects which two nations?
Answer: China-Pakistan
Question: 'Nollywood', Nigeria's movie industry, is ranked what position globally (by number of productions, at the 2010s)?
Answer: 2nd
Question: In terms of public footfall, Benito Juárez in Mexico City is Latin America's 2nd busiest?
Answer: Airport
Question: Name the Mexican founder of the vast corporation Grupo Carso, and the world's richest man 2010-13?
Answer: Carlos Slim
Question: The traditional popular Mexican event/skill Jaripeo involves what creature?
Answer: Bull
Question: Meaning 'conquerors' what name was given to the 16th century soldiers and pioneers who invaded Mexico?
Answer: Conquistadors
Question: Kelut and Merapi are among famous Indonesian (what?) in the 'Circum-Pacific Belt' or 'Ring of Fire'?
Answer: Volcanoes
Question: An eccentric or crazy person is informally referred to as having '(What?) in the belfry'?
Answer: Bats
Question: Which US office equipment corporation renamed itself (1961) after its branded photocopying technology, from Greek meaning 'dry'?
Answer: Xerox
Question: How many 'states' (variations) are possible in a single 7-segment electronic/digital numeral display (as used in calculators, etc)?
Answer: 128
Question: What Terry Nation concept was produced by scientist Davros from the indigenous Kaleds of the planet Skaro?
Answer: Daleks
Question: Which occupation traditionally used 'walla' (in the US), 'rhubarb' (UK), and 'gaya' (Japan)?
Answer: Actor
Question: The medical vasodilatory compound and recreational drug C5H11ONO is more commonly known as?
Answer: Amyl Nitrite
Question: What high quality gravity/capillary-fed implement was traditionally ruby-tipped gold, and is nowadays usually iridium-tipped stainless-steel?
Answer: Fountain pen
Question: The first almanacs, made in Babylon/Iraq c.750BC, originally listed?
Answer: Planetary movements
Question: What invention of the Greenland Inuit is also derogatory slang for an outdoor hobbyist who observes or collects things?
Answer: Anorak
Question: The 2010s global TV phenomenon 'Game of Thrones' is based on George Martin's novel series called 'A Song of (What?)'?
Answer: Ice and Fire
Question: What famous newspaper displays the motto "All the News That's Fit to Print", and is known as The Gray Lady because of its traditional dominance of copy (words) compared to graphics?
Answer: The New York Times
Question: What highly stigmatized human disease is alternatively named after Norwegian physicist GH Armauer Hansen, who in 1873 discovered its causal bacterium?
Answer: Leprosy
Question: Which famous sports-sponsoring organization has a winged hourglass logo, the oldest registered mark of its industry?
Answer: Longines
Question: FIFA's 2014 World Cup Finals/Qualifying rules dictate a match squad of how many players?
Answer: 23
Question: In 2013 Dutch cyclist Sebastiaan Bowier set a world speed record for a bicycle (unassisted, human powered vehicle) of what mph? 49; 57; 72 or 83?
Answer: 83
Question: The French medieval term 'jongleur' refers to the trade of?
Answer: Entertainer
Question: Technically 'flash point' refers to the triggering of what aspect of a volatile substance?
Answer: Vaporization
Question: 'Interlocution' refers to a person's involvement in?
Answer: Discussion
Question: The adjacent African nations Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin have coastlines facing?
Answer: South
Question: What technical term refers to documents/money held by a third party while agreement/conditions are fulfilled between two others?
Answer: Escrow
Question: Trypanosomiasis technically refers to what sort of sickness?
Answer: Sleeping
Question: Which multi-award-winning 1982s movie is considered to have included the biggest ever crowd of extras?
Answer: Gandhi
Question: What community-support focused branch of Christianity grew from the work of brothers John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield?
Answer: Methodism
Question: A nuclear reactor which produces more 'fissile' material (i.e., which sustains a chain reaction) than it consumes in fuel is known by what sexual term?
Answer: Breeder
Question: In rugby union, how many yards position is a team penalized for arguing with a referee's decision?
Answer: 10
Question: In 2010 which famous pedestrian 'zebra' crossing was the first to be given UK Heritage listed status, normally only given to buildings and monuments?
Answer: Abbey Road
Question: Gurning is a (sometimes competitive) activity involving distortion of?
Answer: One's face
Question: What famous headwear and safety harness brand was devised from the original raw materials silk, angora and wool?
Answer: Kangol
Question: Which once war-torn Balkan capital city has a world-leading human DNA analysis laboratory?
Answer: Sarajevo
Question: Which statesman used the Russian maxim 'doveryai, no proveryai' ('trust, but verify') to ease US/USSR negotiations at the end of the cold war?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: Pāramitā, pāramī, or the Ten Perfections, are an aspirational model of which belief system?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: Sound reflected back within c.50 milliseconds is technically called what, commonly abbreviated as a sound production effect?
Answer: Reverberation
Question: What controversial process uses a 'proppant' with 'slickwater' or gel/foam including additives such as hydrochloric acid, guar gum, radioactive tracers?
Answer: Fracking
Question: The official European hazard symbol of a bold black X in a yellow/orange square indicates that a substance is harmful and?
Answer: Irritant
Question: 'Picaboo' was the 2011 launch name of what popular online application, whose logo is based on Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan?
Answer: Snapchat
Question: The simplest alcohol (CH3OH), 'wood spirits', first produced by burning pine, is technically known as?
Answer: Methanol
Question: The Coca Cola corporation launched 'Fairlife' in 2014, a 'premiumized' version of?
Answer: Milk