zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The bird group Merops Apiaster is more commonly named after what creature that it eats?
Answer: Bee
Question: Which car manufacturer produced the models Giulietta, Berlina, Brera and Spider?
Answer: Alfa Romeo
Question: What social networking website attracted regulatory attention in summer 2013 after threats to female rights campaigners?
Answer: Twitter
Question: Alma, Brown Turkey, Desert King, Italian Black, and Kadota are types of what fruit/plant?
Answer: Figs
Question: What is the old common name for Hamamelis or Winterbloom and its extract, used for skin/bruises/acne treatment (and dowsing)?
Answer: Witch Hazel
Question: In African music an mbira is a (what?) piano?
Answer: Thumb
Question: The chemical prefix glyco refers to what common desirable commodity?
Answer: Sugar
Question: In what modern country substantially were the Hittite people?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Millefiore is a highly detailed and colourful decorative art of what material?
Answer: Glass
Question: Campylobacter bacteria is commonly associated with?
Answer: Food poisoning
Question: What is the common name of the frottoir percusssion instrument (from Cajun French 'frotter', rub)?
Answer: Washboard
Question: Meccanica Verghera prefixes which famous motorcycle maker's name?
Answer: Agusta
Question: Tony Abbott became leader of which country in 2013?
Answer: Australia
Question: In the modern early 2000s Barclays Bank logo which two letters are joined?
Answer: LA
Question: Which European city failed in 2013 for the third time in succession to win its bid to host the Olympic Games?
Answer: Madrid
Question: A 'Passion Play' is a dramatic work about whose life?
Answer: Jesus Christ
Question: Name the generally synthesized music genre pioneered by Brian Eno in the 1970s?
Answer: Ambient
Question: What traditional strong ceramic material is named ultimately from a pig?
Answer: Porcelain
Question: What part of the human body contains bone-forms called Phalange, Cuneiform, Talus and Calcaneus?
Answer: Foot
Question: Which country borders Finland, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia?
Answer: Russia
Question: What is the fourth root of 625 (i.e., what number multiplied by itself four times is 625)?
Answer: 5
Question: What two-verb expression refers to a formal notification to stop an activity, prior to legal action?
Answer: Cease and Desist
Question: What became known in the 1800s as 'the gay science'?
Answer: Poetry
Question: Monandry refers to having at any one time only one?
Answer: Husband
Question: Which country borders Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile?
Answer: Peru
Question: What two-word term refers to a coastal tide of little movement, especially when turning from low to high?
Answer: Slack water
Question: What plant provides the raw material for linen?
Answer: Flax
Question: Which colour/color is generally considered between violet and green in the optical spectrum?
Answer: Blue
Question: The flower buds of the Flinders rose (Capparis spinosa), pickled for culinary seasoning/garnish, are more commonly called what?
Answer: Capers
Question: Super, Magic, Brønsted and Lewis are prefixes for chemical substance?
Answer: Acid
Question: From which country does the poinsettia plant originate?
Answer: Mexico
Question: India became independent (of British colonial rule) in?
Answer: 1947
Question: Nigeria's 14th and current (at 2014) presidential head of state is (What optimistic expression?) Jonathan?
Answer: Goodluck
Question: What has uniquely happened twice at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City (1970 and 1986)?
Answer: World Cup Final
Question: What iconic Mexican item is named from the translation of 'shade maker'?
Answer: Sombrero
Question: In Mexico how many cheek kisses are customary in greetings between women friends, or a woman and man?
Answer: One
Question: According to biblical tradition what came to rest on the Mountains of Ararat, now in eastern Turkey?
Answer: Noah's Ark
Question: The letters C and S in the Turkish alphabet feature which diacritical mark?
Answer: Cedilla
Question: Established in 1923, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, is Turkey's oldest?
Answer: Political party
Question: Invented by Haci Bekir Effendi at his Istanbul shop in 1777 what is the globally consumed 'lokum' more famously called?
Answer: Turkish delight
Question: Derived from Samuel Coleridge's 1798 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' what is someone said to carry around his/her neck as a heavy guilt or liability?
Answer: Albatross
Question: The region of Baltistan (also called Baltiyul) in the Karakoram mountains, south of K2, the world's second highest mountain, is in?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: What sort of snake is named after a huge serpent killed by Apollo?
Answer: Python
Question: Huqiu, Tianchi, Pouchong, Longjing and Songluo are Chinese?
Answer: Teas
Question: Memphis, in Tennessee, USA, was named in 1819 after the ancient capital city of which modern day nation?
Answer: Egypt
Question: The F1 function key produces what in most computer systems?
Answer: Help
Question: The 'Sandman' character in north European folklore, popularized/originated by Hans Christian Andersen, is said to help children?
Answer: Sleep
Question: What religion is represented by the 'Om' symbol (ॐ and bigger below)?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: Hawaiian, Strombolian, Peléan, Phreatomagmatic and Submarine are types of?
Answer: Volcanic eruptions
Question: A normal human eye can distinguish approximately how many different colours/colors?
Answer: 10 million
Question: What is the technical genus category of lemons, oranges, limes?
Answer: Citrus
Question: What popular East Asian food means 'bean curdled'?
Answer: Tofu
Question: What's the western name of the least densely populated country in the world, (national language 'Kalaallit Nunaat'), with capital city Nuuk?
Answer: Greenland
Question: Stadium, French's, Händlmaier, and Maille make what, commonly from the Sinapis alba and Brassica juncea plants?
Answer: Mustard
Question: A thin middle section of a wooden chair-back, particularly old and carved, is called a?
Answer: Splat
Question: What common item, which most adults would have in their pocket or bag, has a bow, blade, and bittings?
Answer: A key
Question: The hot condiment wasabi is generally from what part of the plant?
Answer: Root
Question: Who wrote 'This be the Verse', starting famously "They f*** you up, your Mum and Dad, They may not mean to, but they do..."?
Answer: Philip Larkin
Question: The UHF wireless technology developed by Eriksson in 1994 for data transfer between devices in close proximity is?
Answer: Bluetooth
Question: What is the '1c Magenta', which (at $20m) became the most expensive man-made object ever in terms of weight to value?
Answer: Postage stamp
Question: Originally a French portmanteau word combining a shoe and boot, what means 'wilfully destroy'?
Answer: Sabotage
Question: Which controversial Swiss sports head, accused of racism, sexism and corruption 1990s-2000s, was once president of the World Society of Friends of Suspenders, which advocated women should not replace stockings and suspenders with pantyhose?
Answer: Sepp Blatter
Question: Bambino is the family trust of which controversial business mogul, subject to criminal proceedings in Germany 2014?
Answer: Bernie Ecclestone
Question: What abbreviated term refers to songs/music used in film, TV, adverts, games etc?
Answer: Sync
Question: Calabria, flanked by the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, is the southern peninsular of which country?
Answer: Italy
Question: The artists Monet, Manet, Degas and Cezanne are mainly noted for what style of art?
Answer: Impressionism
Question: What country produces Flying Pigeon bicycles, at 2010 the most popular mechanical vehicle in history?
Answer: China
Question: What was a bicycle first called (and still today also any human powered wheeled vehicle), a Latin portmanteau of 'speed' and 'foot'?
Answer: Velocipede
Question: Traditionally when in colour/color, the Samsung logo is?
Answer: Blue
Question: A longhorned grasshopper or bush cricket is also known as a?
Answer: Katydid
Question: The Berlin S-Bahn is what sort of system?
Answer: Railway
Question: What parts of the human body are surrounded by protective skin called the eponychium and paronychium?
Answer: Nails
Question: A mattock (alternatively called a dibber in some countries) is used mainly for?
Answer: Digging
Question: A negotiating offer that is available for discussion is said to be 'On the (What?)'?
Answer: Table
Question: In the English language a 'perfect pangram' contains how many letters?
Answer: 26
Question: US engineer/industrialist George Pullman (1831-1897) is eponymously associated with travel by?
Answer: Rail
Question: In card gambling games such as poker, an 'ante' refers to a betting stake which is?
Answer: Compulsory
Question: Name Google's search engine for academic publishing?
Answer: Scholar
Question: Which famous archipelago comprises eight major islands including Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Molokai?
Answer: Hawaiian Islands
Question: What is the more common English/Western biblical name of Golgotha, the site of Christ's crucifixion?
Answer: Calvary
Question: Psychological tests which ask standardized questions, whose answers are assessed according to fixed measures are called?
Answer: Objective
Question: Chatsworth House gardener, engineer and greenhouse expert, Joseph Paxton, created which iconic 1851 London building?
Answer: Crystal Palace
Question: What potent plant is called technically Papaver somniferum?
Answer: Opium poppy
Question: Anopheles and Aedes, which indirectly kill millions of people every year, are what?
Answer: Mosquitos
Question: The latin term 'mutatis mutandis' is used when doing what to two basically similar things?
Answer: Comparing
Question: A nuclear component which emits radioactivity for an industrial/commercial purpose is called a?
Answer: Source
Question: A single significant obstacle is figuratively called 'The Fly in the...'?
Answer: Ointment
Question: An oophorectomy is the removal of one or both of a woman's what?
Answer: Ovaries
Question: A mollymawk is an Australian/NZ word for what creature, strongly linked with maritime superstition?
Answer: Albatross
Question: The medieval occupation and derived surname Scullion referred to a basic worker in a?
Answer: Kitchen
Question: A sepulchre is a (what?), usually made/carved from stone?
Answer: Tomb
Question: In the binary system of numbers the binary number 10 equates to which conventional number?
Answer: 2
Question: On a 20cm diameter clockface, the tip of the second-hand travels approximately how many kilometres in a year?
Answer: 330
Question: What Andalusian city gave its name to a bitter orange used especially in marmalade?
Answer: Seville
Question: Disney's Lion King movie/musical is generally said to be based on what Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Episcopal refers to what authority?
Answer: Bishop
Question: The 1850s 'open-hearth process' was used in producing?
Answer: Steel
Question: The Union of Myanmar, capital Rangoon, is traditionally (in the 'west') called what country?
Answer: Burma
Question: What type of aperitif is named from German 'wormwood', the additive in the original medicinal form?
Answer: Vermouth
Question: Food in dented cans is less safe/pure than in undented cans, true or false?
Answer: False
Question: Youku Tudou is (early 2000s) China's most popular?
Answer: Video-sharing website
Question: The ischium, related to 'sciatic', is the lower part of which human bone?
Answer: Pelvis
Question: In the longstanding Samsung logo which letter has a missing major part?
Answer: A
Question: The last Russian monarchy, ended by the 1917 revolution, was the House of?
Answer: Romanov
Question: What is the general term for the form of physics concerned with sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules, and their radiation?
Answer: Quantum
Question: Which Japanese corporation produced the first compact electronic calculator, released in 1957?
Answer: Casio
Question: The Poinsettia plant has which colour/color flowers?
Answer: Yellow
Question: Name the Sovient Union policy of governmental openness, implemented by Gorbachev from 1985?
Answer: Glasnost
Question: The central blue 'Ashoka Chakra' icon on India's national flag represents a?
Answer: Wheel
Question: The two other angles in a right-angled triangle must always add up to how many degrees? 60; 90; 120; or 180?
Answer: 90
Question: Which 'historical nationality' of Spain is directly north of Portugal?
Answer: Galicia
Question: The variable vast plasma stream of electrons and protons from the Sun is called?
Answer: The Solar Wind
Question: What word differentiates the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final from the 2014 'repeat' in which Germany beat Argentina 1-0?
Answer: West
Question: On which planet did NASA's Curiosity rover complete its first year, equal to 687 Earth days, in June 2014?
Answer: Mars
Question: Name the Rolling Stones' saxophonist and session player who died in 2014?
Answer: Bobby Keys
Question: The mysteriously lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March 2014 was bound from Kuala Lumpur to where?
Answer: Beijing
Question: Betty Joan Perske, who died in 2014, was better known as which famous film star, from the 1940s-2000s?
Answer: Lauren Bacall
Question: Which Baltic state replaced its Lats currency with Euros on 1st Jan 2014?
Answer: Latvia
Question: Lord Richard Attenborough, who died in 2014, played which serial killer in his early acting career, in 10 Rillington Place?
Answer: John Christie
Question: What disease causes the human immune system to attack healthy tissue, named/believed originally from the bite of a wolf?
Answer: Lupus
Question: Dr Dre became the highest earning musician in 2014 by selling his headphones company (What?) to Apple for c.$600m?
Answer: Beats
Question: What sort of song takes its name from old French for a circle dance?
Answer: Carol
Question: According to biblical tradition the three 'magi' (wise men or kings) came from the?
Answer: East
Question: The 'Last Adam' is an alternative name for whom or what?
Answer: Jesus Christ
Question: Named after a German physicist, what is the international (SI) unit of frequency, defined as one cycle per second?
Answer: Hertz
Question: What (at 2015) is the only major nation of the world which charges income tax on its citizens working overseas?
Answer: USA
Question: Expressed traditionally as N s, what in physics is the product of mass and velocity?
Answer: Momentum
Question: What US city is originally associated with Dixieland (jazz)?
Answer: New Orleans
Question: From Greek for wing and lizard, what name was given to a flying reptile of the Jurassic/Cretaceous periods?
Answer: Pterosaur
Question: What's the more common name for a megagram (Mg)?
Answer: Tonne
Question: The price of which metal commodity is traditionally considered an indicator of global economic buoyancy?
Answer: Copper
Question: Monsieur Rapide (French), Don Ocupado (Spanish), Meneertje Druk (Dutch), Unser Herr Schnell (German), and Bay Hýzlý (Turkish) are international versions of which character, from a children's book series?
Answer: Mr Busy
Question: ISO 9407 Mondopoint, Brannock, and Paris Point are systems for sizing?
Answer: Shoes
Question: Which vast US corporation confidentially settled a c.13year dispute in 2010 with The Smiley Company for the use of the smiley face logo?
Answer: Walmart
Question: Amitabh Bachchan is a famous Indian?
Answer: Film star
Question: Name the joint US/Europe orbiting telescope launched in 1990?
Answer: Hubble
Question: The Gini coefficient (or index or ratio), devised by Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini in 1912, is a common measure of?
Answer: Wealth inequality
Question: What fundamental physics term derives from Greek 'not cut' (a temnein)?
Answer: Atom
Question: Geococcyx, a ground cuckoo of southern US and Mexico, is the basis of which popular cartoon, its common name?
Answer: Roadrunner
Question: Pernio (or perniosis), a human medical condition caused by exposure to cold and humidity, is commonly known as what?
Answer: Chilblains
Question: What famous striped creature shares the same genus as the onager and kiang?
Answer: Zebra
Question: Oslo University claimed in 2015 that the Bubonic plague outbreaks of the middle ages were caused by flea-carrying?
Answer: Gerbils
Question: What was originally called 'wireless telegraphy'?
Answer: Radio
Question: What military term for a multiple gun discharge referred originally in Latin/Italian to being out of danger or safe?
Answer: Salvo
Question: The cemetery of which chaotic 16th century London hospital became a major archeological project in 2015?
Answer: Bedlam
Question: An enemy group within and threatening a larger entity is called a '(What?) Column'?
Answer: Fifth
Question: Which profession (western world) traditionally wears a toque blanche with a hundred folds?
Answer: Chef
Question: The 2013 Disney animation Frozen is based on what Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, in Danish 'Snedronningen'?
Answer: The Snow Queen
Question: Sugar melted to its hottest confectionery stage naturally produces?
Answer: Caramel
Question: Invented in 1656, what was the most reliable time-keeping technology until the 1930s?
Answer: Pendulum clock
Question: What discipline is practised according to Vaganova/Russian, French, and Cecchetti methods?
Answer: Ballet
Question: Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, who first appeared in Detective Comics No27 in May 1939?
Answer: Batman
Question: The Ryman Auditorium (also called the Union Gospel Tabernacle) is the home of what major music institution?
Answer: The Grand Ole Opry
Question: What ancient instrument did Orpheus play to charm creatures, rivers, and Hades in the Underworld?
Answer: Lyre
Question: Which vehicle tyre/tire corporation sold Citroen to Peugeot in 1976?
Answer: Michelin
Question: In January 2015 economist Yanis Varoufakis became a leading debt-restructuring negotiator for?
Answer: Greece
Question: What is a female outer garment, a cut of meat; and a part of a hovercraft and saddle?
Answer: Skirt
Question: Penguins increase their swimming speed by emitting (What?) from their feathers?
Answer: Air bubbles
Question: What sea creature might be punned with an expression of agreement or authorization?
Answer: Seal
Question: Which technology corporation launched major music streaming services including Beats1 radio in 2015?
Answer: Apple
Question: The onomatopoeic Greek originating borborygmi refers medically to?
Answer: Stomach rumble
Question: Name the celebrity entrepreneur who sought to be US Republican presidential candidate in 2015?
Answer: Donald Trump
Question: Inspired largely by John Calvin, the Hugeunots minorities of the 16th century were?
Answer: Protestants
Question: What is produced by asexual reproduction from mycelium?
Answer: Fungus
Question: The Ross Sea is a bay of which continent?
Answer: Antarctica
Question: Which European nation's flag has nine horizontal blue and white stripes, and top-left a white cross on a blue square?
Answer: Greece
Question: The grammatical term for a word which joins two independent clauses is a?
Answer: Conjunction
Question: Which popular (2015) online brand's logo is three parallel black arcs inside a green disc?
Answer: Spotify
Question: The 'puri/poori/puree' in the Indian dish 'prawn puri' refers to what aspect?
Answer: Bread
Question: The North American Gold Rush of 1849 brought vast immigration to?
Answer: California
Question: Ginger Baker is considered one of the greatest ever virtuoso players of the?
Answer: Drums
Question: The Fiestas de San Firmin, held every July in Spain, is famed for what risky public event?
Answer: Running of the Bulls
Question: Called the IPK, the standard (What?) is a platinum-iridium cylinder at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres France?
Answer: Kilogram
Question: Phylum porifera is the technical name for what organic cleaning device?
Answer: Sponge
Question: What is the cube root of an eighth?
Answer: A Half
Question: Copper takes its name from which country, where it was mined in Roman times?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: The medieval-originating 'patten' is a type of (What?) designed for mud? Shoe; Shovel; Bucket; or Pig?
Answer: Shoe
Question: The comic book franchise behind Spiderman, Hulk, X-Men, and Fantastic Four is?
Answer: Marvel
Question: The Anglicized Japanese word futon basically refers to a?
Answer: Mattress
Question: Which famous corporate logo changed to a flat colour/color sans serif font in its first major change since 1999?
Answer: Google
Question: A maze of what plants was built to celebrate the opening of the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, 2015?
Answer: Sunflowers
Question: In computer gaming what famous and controversial franschise does GTA represent?
Answer: Grand Theft Auto
Question: A quarter divided by a half is a?
Answer: Half
Question: In modern times a 'life celebrant' typically officiates at a humanist?
Answer: Funeral
Question: Rocna, Spade, Bulwagga, Grapnel and Admiralty/Fisherman are varieties of?
Answer: Anchor
Question: What is the original and alternative Latin title of the Catholic prayer called Hail Mary, also its first line?
Answer: Ave Maria
Question: The highest male voice type in conventional singing terminology is?
Answer: Countertenor
Question: In electronics, what is the basic function of a capacitor in relation to electrical energy?
Answer: Storing
Question: Which one of these is not typically considered a 'profit lever' in business management?
Answer: Competition
Question: What common term refers to the movement of air from a high pressure to a low pressure zone?
Answer: Wind
Question: What is the circulating Atlantic ocean current which warms Western Europe?
Answer: The Gulf Stream
Question: Towards which direction (North, East, South or West) is a rainbow normally seen in the afternoon?
Answer: East
Question: What type of cloud is normally associated with thunderstorms?
Answer: Cumulonimbus
Question: In 2015 Prague city regulated what increasing risk to pedestrians/traffic?
Answer: Segways
Question: The mountain town of Berchtesgaden is the location of whose fortified retreat?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Question: In Scotland a bothy/bothie is a?
Answer: House
Question: Zarathustra, also called Zoroaster, is a Persian?
Answer: Prophet
Question: In 2015 Nasa discovered on the surface of Mars?
Answer: Flowing water
Question: What popular 20thC movie franchise predicted life and technology at 21 Oct 2015?
Answer: Back to the Future
Question: What is the common name for the inflammatory arthritis called podagra when frequently affecting the big toe joint?
Answer: Gout
Question: Stapedius, Trapezius, Gluteus Maximus, Sartorius, and Subclavius are?
Answer: Human muscles
Question: 'Hunt-and-Peck' is a metaphorical reference to single-fingered?
Answer: Typing
Question: Kosher refers to food and food preparation laws for?
Answer: Jews
Question: In chemistry what element is always present in an amalgam?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Thermae and Balneae are Ancient Roman large and small facilities for?
Answer: Bathing
Question: Name the ride which failed catastrophically at Alton Towers in 2015?
Answer: Smiler
Question: In 2015 Fiji decided to remove what historical feature from its national flag?
Answer: The Union Jack
Question: In 2015 the Sinabug volcano erupted in?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: What nation hosted the 2015 Women's World (soccer) Cup?
Answer: Canada
Question: Due to a 2015 contamination scandal in India/Afica, which corporation destroyed 400 million packets of Maggi noodles?
Answer: Nestle
Question: Published in 2015, Go Set a Watchman, written before her only prior and enduringly popular book of 1960, was written by whom?
Answer: Harper Lee
Question: Which company suffered a major scandal in 2015 for widescale unethical 'inertia' charging for its 'Prime' service?
Answer: Amazon
Question: Who was the 'father of medicine' to whom a code of medical ethics is attributed and which bears his name?
Answer: Hippocrates
Question: From which creatures can Newcastle disease transfer to humans, causing mild conjunctivitis and flu symptoms?
Answer: Birds
Question: What household gadget did Melville R Bissell invent 1876?
Answer: Carpet sweeper
Question: The long-standing currency of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania (at early 2000s) is the?
Answer: Shilling