zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What car, intended as a competitor to the Ford Mustang, was unveiled at a press conference by Chevrolet on 12 September 1966?
Answer: Camaro
Question: Which English-born sculptor is best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures, usually depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures, that are pierced or contain hollow spaces?
Answer: Henry Moore
Question: In Greek legend, Aphrodite turned Adonis into what?
Answer: Anemone
Question: Who was the Italian player head-butted by French captain Zinedine Zidane in the final of the football World Cup 2006?
Answer: Marco Materazzi
Question: The film actor Julia Elizabeth Wells is better known by what name?
Answer: Julie Andrews
Question: In 1838, which steamship made the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, from Bristol to New York?
Answer: The Great Western
Question: What was the title of the film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood that was about a thinly disguised episode in John Houston's life?
Answer: White Hunter, Black Heart
Question: What man-made waterway was constructed between 1859 and 1869?
Answer: Suez Canal
Question: What actor is common to the films "Ned Kelly" (1970), "Performance" (1970), "Freejack" (1992), "Bent" (1997) and "The Man From Elysian Fields" (2001)?
Answer: Mick Jagger
Question: Who was the first Prime Minister of the Repubic of India when it was created in 1947?
Answer: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Question: What was the name of the regular feature of the European motorsport calendar from 1927 to1957 that was held 24 times in Italy?
Answer: The Mille Miglia
Question: What is the name of the arts programme made for British television from 1978 that is identified with Melvyn Bragg?
Answer: The South Bank Show
Question: Titan is a moon of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: The Roman Coliseum was built under the direction of which Emperor?
Answer: Vespasian
Question: What U K TV series about a father and son, rag and bone men, was the basis for the U S TV series "Sandford and Son"?
Answer: Steptoe and Son
Question: Who was the first black woman, second African American, and the second woman to serve as U S Secretary of State?
Answer: Condoleeza Rice
Question: What wine originated in the Spanish town of Jerez de la Fontera?
Answer: Sherry
Question: In which film starring Bill Murray was each day the same as the one before?
Answer: Groundhog Day
Question: In ballet, what is the name for a dance duet in which ballet steps are performed together?
Answer: Pas de deux
Question: The Gulf Stream, a warm ocean current, flows from the North American continent to where?
Answer: British Isles
Question: Which European discovered New Zealand and Australia in 1642?
Answer: Abel Tasman
Question: On a standard dartboard, what is immediately to the right of the number 20?
Answer: 1
Question: Who wrote the plays "The Cherry Orchard", "Three Sisters", "The Seagull" and "Uncle Vanya"?
Answer: Anton Chekhov
Question: What is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and the most abundant protein in mammals, making up about 25% of the total protein content?
Answer: Collagen
Question: Who won the Formula One Championship for drivers in 2000?
Answer: Michael Schumacher
Question: At the 1968 Olympic Games held at Mexico City, what was the now-universal style introduced to the high jump?
Answer: Fosbury flop
Question: Who became World Snooker Champion for the third time in 2008?
Answer: Ronnie O'Sullivan
Question: Which piece on a chessboard can move only one space in any direction?
Answer: King
Question: Who wrote the opera "The Magic Flute"?
Answer: Mozart
Question: African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976, as a protest against a recent tour of South Africa by a rugby team from which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Freckles, brownish yellow spots usually found mostly on the face, neck and hands are also known as . ?
Answer: Lentigo
Question: Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders and Nick OMalley are collectively known as what?
Answer: Arctic Monkeys
Question: What is the name of the process by which plants obtain carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water?
Answer: Photosynthesis
Question: How many semitones are there in an octave?
Answer: 12
Question: Which light-heavyweight boxer won a gold medal when he competed at an Olympic Games for the first time in 1960 at Rome?
Answer: Cassius Clay
Question: Americans call it a hood. What do the British call it?
Answer: Bonnet
Question: What is a highly magnetized, rotating, neutron star emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation that can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing towards the Earth (known as the lighthouse effect)?
Answer: Pulsar
Question: Which country became a self-governing state within the British Empire in 1959, declared independence from Britain, joining the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, and left the federation on 9 August 1965?
Answer: Singapore
Question: By what name is Reg Dwight better known?
Answer: Elton John
Question: CRP (or CREEP) was The Committee to Re-elect which US president?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: What is produced by the cortex of supra-renal glands that stimulates the autonomic nervous system?
Answer: Adrenalin
Question: Which dancer had success on stage with his sister Adele before achieving fame in films with Ginger Rogers?
Answer: Fred Astaire
Question: The publication of which book by Salman Rushdie led to threats on his life by Ayatollah Khomeini?
Answer: The Satanic Verses
Question: Which is the largest of the Channel Islands, where the official language is French?
Answer: Jersey
Question: What is a green liqueur made from anise, hyssop, angelica and mint?
Answer: Absinthe
Question: The term "New England" covers the US states of Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and which other state?
Answer: New Hampshire
Question: Which building on the le de la Cit in Paris took 300 years to build from 1163, and was one of the first to have flying buttresses?
Answer: Notre Dame
Question: In which UK TV series did Ronnie Barker play "Arkwright" and David Jason play his nephew "Granville"?
Answer: Open All Hours
Question: Which drummer for the 1960s rock band Holy Modal Rounders (featured in the movie "Easy Rider") received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play, Buried Child?
Answer: Sam Shepard
Question: What is the name for a queen reigning in her own right, with her husband as one of her subjects?
Answer: Queen regnant
Question: In "The Lord Of The Rings", what was the name of Gandalf's horse?
Answer: Shadowfax
Question: William Randolph Hearst, Turk Murphy, Wyatt Earp and Joe DiMaggio are buried in cemeteries at Colma, where the dead outnumber the living by thousands to one. Where is Colma?
Answer: San Mateo County, California
Question: Who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" in 1789?
Answer: Robert Burns
Question: An aviary is a place to keep what?
Answer: Birds
Question: Yale University is in which state of the USA?
Answer: Connecticut
Question: What is a navigation instrument used until the 18th century to measure the angles between heavenly bodies, or between them and the horizon?
Answer: Astrolabe
Question: What type of instrument can be played "pizzicato"?
Answer: String
Question: Which Irishman wrote the novels "Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man", "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake"?
Answer: James Joyce
Question: Which of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments is played on grass courts?
Answer: Wimbledon
Question: What name is given to the death of tissue due to failure of the blood supply?
Answer: Necrosis
Question: In the Roman calendar, what was the 7th day called for the months of March, May, July and October?
Answer: Nones
Question: What is a collector of coins and medals called?
Answer: Numismatist
Question: What is the name of the seaway through the Arctic from Europe, north of Asia to the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: North East Passage
Question: How many Olympic Games have been cancelled due to World Wars?
Answer: 3
Question: What is the Chilean desert between the coast and the Andes?
Answer: Atacama
Question: Which architect died after being hit by a tram in the streets of Barcelona?
Answer: Antoni Gaudi
Question: In England, what form of punishment was abolished by the Criminal Justice Act of 1948?
Answer: Hard labour
Question: What is the name of the mythical beast that roams the Himalayan Alps?
Answer: Yeti
Question: What is the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada?
Answer: Halifax
Question: John McCain's running mate for the 2009 USA presidential election was the governor of which state?
Answer: Alaska
Question: The Houston Ship Channel connects the city of Houston, Texas, to what body of water?
Answer: Gulf Of Mexico
Question: Fondue originated in which country?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: In which state of the USA would you find the Great Salt Lake?
Answer: Utah
Question: Who received the first Nobel prize for literature to be awarded to a British writer?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Question: Quickly is what part of speech?
Answer: Adverb
Question: What is the name of the bird in the Peanuts comic strip?
Answer: Woodstock
Question: Shepherd's pie has what on top?
Answer: Mashed potato
Question: In what film did Mae West as Lady Lou (starring with Cary Grant) first say "why'n'cha come up and see me sometime?"?
Answer: She Done Him Wrong
Question: In which film does Tom Cruise play Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg?
Answer: Valkyrie
Question: The US state of Kentucky is known "the (what) Grass State"?
Answer: Blue
Question: The trophy for which event, presented since 1936, has a bas-relief sculpture of the likeness of each winning driver, along with the driver's name, date of victory and average speed?
Answer: The Indianapolis 500
Question: With whom are the islands of Elba and St Helena associated?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: What is traditionally thrown into the Trevi Fountain, Rome
Answer: Coins
Question: The most southern part of the South American continent is on which Chilean archipelago?
Answer: Tierra del Fuego
Question: Which Grand Prix, that had taken place for 31 years at the same circuit, was dropped from the 2009 Formula One Championship?
Answer: Canadian Grand Prix
Question: Where did Horatio Nelson lose his right arm?
Answer: Santa Cruz
Question: What make of car is associated with Trevor Wilkinson?
Answer: TVR
Question: Which chemical process is involved in changing ethyl chloride to ethyl alcohol?
Answer: Hydrolysis
Question: Which American photographer who lived from 1923 to 1971 was noted for her portraits of people such as transvestites, dwarfs, giants and prostitutes in unconventional poses and settings?
Answer: Diane Arbus
Question: What strait connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf Of Oman?
Answer: Hormuz
Question: What, in October 1871, was one of the biggest U.S. disasters of the 19th century, killing hundreds and destroying about four square miles of city buildings?
Answer: Great Chicago Fire
Question: Honeycomb is made of wax cells in what shape?
Answer: Hexagon
Question: Who was the first General Secretary of the International Olympic Committee and later became its President, serving until 1924?
Answer: Baron de Coubertin
Question: Which song was sung by Aretha Franklin just before Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the USA in 2009?
Answer: My Country 'Tis Of Thee
Question: Who, in 1936, was the last British man to win the singles event at Wimbledon until Andy Murray from Scotland won in 2013?
Answer: Fred Perry
Question: The Union Jack, the British flag, is a combination of flags of different saints. Where does the blue come from?
Answer: St Andrew
Question: Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team in 1936?
Answer: Boston Braves
Question: Lake Huron is connected by the Sault Ste. Marie Canal to which other lake?
Answer: Superior
Question: What is known in poker as "dead man's hand"
Answer: Aces and eights
Question: Who were the brothers of Helen of Troy?
Answer: Castor and Pollux
Question: What was the name of the hurricane that badly damaged New Orleans in 2005?
Answer: Katrina
Question: Who was the pilot of the US Airways plane that landed on the Hudson River in January 2009?
Answer: Chesley Sullenberger
Question: What name is given to the potential difference measured across a conductor of 1 ohm resistance when current of 1 ampere is flowing?
Answer: Volt
Question: What is the name of the type of curve traced by a point on a rolling wheel?
Answer: Cycloid
Question: Under English law, what was the earliest date that a woman could obtain a divorce with the sole ground of adultery?
Answer: 1923
Question: Who wrote the music for the musical Cats?
Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Question: Who led the expedition that discovered The Titanic on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: Robert Ballard
Question: What are the names of the twins born to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?
Answer: Vivienne and Knox
Question: On 15 May 2002, FIFA announced that which nation would host the Football (soccer) World Cup in 2010?
Answer: South Africa
Question: Until 1992, TASS was the official news agency for which organisation?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: In which state of the USA would you find Yosemite National Park?
Answer: California
Question: What small, oily fish, of which there are 15 species, found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Atlantic, the Baltic Sea, the North Pacific, and the Mediterranean, move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America?
Answer: Herring
Question: For administrative purposes, France is subdivided into 100 areas which are called what?
Answer: Departments
Question: Which Norwegian playwright wrote "Hedda Gabler", "The Master Builder" and "Peer Gynt"?
Answer: Henrik Ibsen
Question: """He was a lion on the field"" is an example of what?"
Answer: Metaphor
Question: What is the name of the statue that was unveiled in October 1886, on Bedloe Island?
Answer: Liberty Enlightening The World
Question: What is the only venomous lizard native to the USA?
Answer: Gila monster
Question: What is the former name of Helsinki, Finland?
Answer: Helsingfors
Question: Which island fort, built to protect the port of Charleston, South Carolina, USA, was the site of the first action in the American Civil War?
Answer: Fort Sumter
Question: The game of "racquets" developed into which sport?
Answer: Squash
Question: How many colours are there on the American flag?
Answer: 3
Question: What is the next number in this sequence: 4; 16; 256; 65,536?
Answer: 4,294,967,296
Question: Who was the illustrator for the Tintin series of books?
Answer: Herg
Question: What is disrupted when "Jet lag" occurs?
Answer: Circadian rhythms
Question: What was the capital of Italian East Africa between 1936 and 1941?
Answer: Addis Ababa
Question: Which archaeologist is famed for excavating the palace of Minos, Crete between 1900 and 1908?
Answer: Sir Arthur John Evans
Question: Juan Manuel Fangio, Mario Andretti, James Hunt and Niki Lauda were world champions in which sport?
Answer: Formula One
Question: Who was the British Prime Minister during the Falklands War of 1982?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: By what name is Marian (or Mary Ann) Evans, who wrote "Adam Bede", "The Mill On The Floss" and "Silas Marner", better known?
Answer: George Eliot
Question: Who, in 1977, was the last British woman to win the singles event at Wimbledon?
Answer: Virginia Wade
Question: The Khedive of Egypt commissioned Giuseppe Verdi to write which opera to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal?
Answer: Aida
Question: What is the most common colour of a topaz?
Answer: Yellow
Question: In Greece, what is a dish that is mainly cucumber mixed with garlic and yoghurt called?
Answer: Tzatziki
Question: By what name is Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960 in Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland) better known?
Answer: Bono
Question: The opening sequence of the film "Airplane" (also entitled "Flying High") is a parody of which film?
Answer: Jaws
Question: Which composer of musicals was knighted in 1992 and made a life peer in 1997?
Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Question: What is the name for the unit of work done by a force of 1 dyne moving through a distance of 1 centimetre?
Answer: Erg
Question: In 2009, Heath Ledger was the second person to win an Oscar posthumously. Who was the first?
Answer: Peter Finch
Question: What is the common term for "pre-patellar bursitis"?
Answer: Housemaids knee
Question: One of the earliest European explorers to reach Australia and New Zealand has which island named after him?
Answer: Tasmania
Question: What is the contraction of the German "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" in common use in English?
Answer: NAZI
Question: Which journey by James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise in 1970 almost ended in disaster?
Answer: Apollo 13
Question: The first pilgrims sailed to America from which English Port?
Answer: Plymouth
Question: At which Olympiad did the Olympic symbol of five rings officially debut?
Answer: 1920, Antwerp
Question: The volcano Mt Pinatubo is in which country?
Answer: The Philippines
Question: Apollo Creed is the enemy of whom?
Answer: Rocky
Question: Which Venezuelan river has the same name as a Womble?
Answer: Orinoco
Question: What mechanical device allows the wheels of a vehicle to turn at different speeds when cornering?
Answer: Differential
Question: L. Ron Hubbard is known as the founder of what movement?
Answer: Scientology
Question: Canis Major is also known as what?
Answer: The Dog Star
Question: In darts, what is the next in the sequence 1, 18, 4, 13, 6?
Answer: 10
Question: Which flowering plant in the pea family, cultivated as feed for cattle, horses, sheep, and goats, is known in the UK, Australia and New Zealand as lucerne, as lucerne grass in south Asia and as Kuthirai Masal in Tamil?
Answer: Alfalfa
Question: Who, in 2004, riding the prototype KTM 250-SXF four stroke, won the MX2 World Championship?
Answer: Ben Townley
Question: Which computer game takes place in Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas, which suffer from rampant crime, feuding between crime syndicates, random acts of violence from street gangs, organized thievery and murder, and corrupt city officials and police?
Answer: Grand Theft Auto
Question: Where are The Prince Edward Islands, two islands named Marion Island and Prince Edward Island, which are politically part of South Africa?
Answer: Indian Ocean
Question: By what name is the writer Alfred Maximovitch Peshkov better known?
Answer: Maxim Gorky
Question: The Kodiak bear is native to which continent?
Answer: North America
Question: What play ends "So give me your hands if we be friends and Robin shall restore amends"?
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Question: What name is given to a revolving tray that is usually placed in the middle of a dining table?
Answer: Lazy Susan
Question: What is the name for a vertical division of a window?
Answer: Mullion
Question: What is the form of sugar called "dextrose" also known as?
Answer: Glucose
Question: With what sport is Frank Bruno associated?
Answer: Boxing
Question: In Greek legend, who, the last king of Troy, was the father of Hector and Paris?
Answer: Priam
Question: Who married film star Grace Kelly in April 1956?
Answer: Prince Rainier of Monaco
Question: The 10th competition of which sport was held in Dubai, South Africa, New Zealand, USA, Australia, England and Scotland in 2008/09?
Answer: IRB Sevens World Series
Question: How many toes does a llama have?
Answer: 8
Question: In England, the monarch has the power of veto over any proposed legislation from Parliament by withholding the Royal Assent. Who last used this power?
Answer: Queen Anne in 1708
Question: In baseball, what is the name of the player who throws the ball to a batter of the opposing team?
Answer: Pitcher
Question: Who beat Roger Federer in the men's Wimbledon final in 2008?
Answer: Rafael Nadal
Question: Who had a hit in 2009 singing "Womanizer woman-womanizer youre a womanizer oh womanizer oh youre a womanizer baby you you you are you you you are womanizer womanizer womanizer"?
Answer: Britney Spears
Question: Daniel Radcliffe is best known for playing which film role?
Answer: Harry Potter
Question: A cornea is found in what part of the body?
Answer: Eye
Question: Most of Georgette Heyer's romance novels were set in which period?
Answer: Regency
Question: What is another name for a hippocampus?
Answer: Sea horse
Question: Which mountain chain runs along the border between France and Spain?
Answer: Pyrenees
Question: By what name is Saul Hudson, a Velvet Revolver guitarist and former Guns N' Roses guitarist, better known?
Answer: Slash
Question: Which part of the chilli is the hottest?
Answer: Seed
Question: What is the name for the meteorites that arrive at earth's atmosphere around mid November?
Answer: Leonids
Question: No Direction Home is a documentary about whom?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Question: What is a name for the building where monks live and work?
Answer: Monastery
Question: Mexico is on what continent?
Answer: North America
Question: For a constant sound wave, what is the time interval between successive crests per second called?
Answer: Frequency
Question: How many players from each team usually make up a rugby league scrum?
Answer: 6
Question: The initial slogan for the American War of Independence was "No taxation without " what?
Answer: Representation
Question: Who created the character of Tarzan?
Answer: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Question: The first official World Cup for which sport, that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, was held in 1986?
Answer: Orienteering
Question: Which university, in 1878, was the first in Britain to make all degrees open to women?
Answer: University of London
Question: In which country is the city of Tangier?
Answer: Morocco
Question: Samoa, Hawaii and the Tokelau Islands are part of which geographic area?
Answer: Polynesia
Question: Where are The Kerguelen Islands, a territory of France, also known as Desolation Island?
Answer: Indian Ocean
Question: Which country was represented by Hanni Wenzel, who won the women's giant slalom and slalom at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in 1980?
Answer: Liechtenstein
Question: What gambling game is based on a wheel with 37 compartments?
Answer: Roulette
Question: Which mountain range runs through the US states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico?
Answer: The Rocky Mountains
Question: Who became the King of Sweden on 15 September 1973?
Answer: King Carl XVI Gustaf
Question: Which province of Ireland comprises the counties of Clare, Kerry, Cork, Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford?
Answer: Munster
Question: To an imaginary observer above the North Pole, which way would the earth appear to rotate?
Answer: Anti-clockwise
Question: During World War II, in north Africa, who was known as "The Desert Fox"?
Answer: Erwin Rommel
Question: Which city was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles as a trading settlement in 1819?
Answer: Singapore
Question: The River Danube is on what continent?
Answer: Europe
Question: What is the name of the classic English horse race run at Epsom, two days after the Derby?
Answer: The Oaks
Question: What is the name for the centre of an atom?
Answer: Nucleus
Question: What is the name of the obelisk brought from Heliopolis, Egypt, that now stands in London?
Answer: Cleopatra's Needle
Question: How many sides does a dodecahedron have?
Answer: 12
Question: Nathan, Caleb, Matthew and Jared Followill are better known as which pop group?
Answer: The Kings of Leon
Question: Which harbour, a US naval base, was attacked by Japanese aeroplanes on 7 December 1941?
Answer: Pearl
Question: Which golfer was named as Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year in 1996?
Answer: Tiger Woods
Question: What is another name for "laughing gas"?
Answer: Nitrous oxide
Question: Who was Queen of England between 1837 and 1901?
Answer: Victoria
Question: Eamon de Valera was a politician in which country?
Answer: Republic of Ireland
Question: What is claustrophobia the fear of?
Answer: Confined spaces
Question: To what is Lake Erie connected by the Erie canal?
Answer: Hudson River
Question: Andy Warhol is associated with what sort of art?
Answer: Pop
Question: In Israel in 2009, what did they call the world outbreak of swine flu?
Answer: Mexico flu