zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which Shakespearean play is the basis for films directed by Orson Welles in 1948, Roman Polanski (1971), Geoffrey Wright (2006), Akira Kurosawa (1958), Billy Morrissette (2001), and Vishal Bharadwaj (2004)?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: Louis Farrakhan, the National Representative of the Nation of Islam and an advocate for black interests, is an activist in which country?
Answer: USA
Question: An athlete who in 2013 famously became the first active professional in one of the four major US team sports to declare he is homosexual, has a twin brother who was a professional in what sport?
Answer: Basketball
Question: The major geologic exposures in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, range in age from the 2 billion year old Vishnu Schist layers at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 230 million year old layer on the Rim which is called what?
Answer: Kaibab Limestone
Question: The group "Smile", formed in 1968 by Roger Taylor, Tim Staffel and Brian May, changed their name to what after Tim Staffel was replaced as vocalist?
Answer: Queen
Question: When Johnny Weissmuller left a championship career in sport to star in "Tarzan" films, what sport did he leave?
Answer: Swimming
Question: Which mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer is credited with introducing the technology of the screw in the 3rd century BCE?
Answer: Archimedes
Question: Which was the youngest of these four solo acts to reach number one on Billboard magazine's weekly pop singles chart?
Answer: Donny Osmond
Question: What particular type of cheese is made from the milk of water buffalo raised in designated areas of Lazio and Campania on the west coast of Italy?
Answer: Mozzarella
Question: In popular tales what bowler famously caught the eye of Elizabeth I of England when the Spanish Armada was sighted off the British coast?
Answer: Sir Francis Drake
Question: The city of Irkutsk, Russia, lies at the southern tip of which body of water?
Answer: Lake Baikal
Question: Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were better known as what when they hit #1 in 1984 in the UK, Canada and the USA?
Answer: Pet Shop Boys
Question: The first recording sighting of the Australian mainland and landfall by a European, was in 1606 by whom?
Answer: Willem Janszoon
Question: Who investigated Bill Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater Land Transactions and his role in the Monica Lewinsky affair?
Answer: Kenneth Starr
Question: The night of 9 March 1945 saw, according to historians, the most devastating World War II bombing raid on what city?
Answer: Tokyo, Japan
Question: Who played Johnny Fontane in the film "The Godfather" and was previously known as a singer of hits such as "Here In My Heart", "Spanish Eyes", "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Volare"?
Answer: Al Martino
Question: Jessye Norman, Jos Carreras and Giuseppe Verdi are associated with what style of music?
Answer: Opera
Question: The fraction of the total incident solar radiation reflected by a planet back to space would be measured as its what?
Answer: Bond albedo
Question: An organisation formed in 1890 to promote cooperation across the countries of Latin America and the U.S was established under what name?
Answer: International Union of American Republics
Question: What was the name of the uprising in Rhode Island that attempted to extend voting rights because, by 1829, only landowners could vote, and thus 60% of the state's free white men could not (as well as non-whites and women)?
Answer: Dorr Rebellion
Question: Gamma-coniceine and coniine are the two principles which contribute most to the poisonous effect of what plant?
Answer: Hemlock
Question: The term, "soccer", coined first in the 1880s in the UK to distinguish types of football comes from what?
Answer: An abbreviation of "association football"
Question: Which UNESCO World Heritage Site in India covers the greatest land area, and is considered one of the "hottest hotspots" of biological diversity ?
Answer: The Western Ghats
Question: A 1982 film directed by Ingmar Bergman, initially prepared for television as a 4 part serial, was what?
Answer: Fanny and Alexander
Question: Niccol Machiavelli, Thomas Carlyle, and Thomas Macaulay share a scholarly interest in what?
Answer: History
Question: In 1906 which country became the second in the world since the 18th century to grant full suffrage to all adult citizens, and the first country in the world to grant all women full political rights?
Answer: Finland
Question: The name of a 19th century Warden of New College, Oxford, UK, is given to which play on words, deliberate or not, in which corresponding sounds are switched between words?
Answer: Spoonerism
Question: What was the first feature film under its new persona by the studio formed from The Graphics Group of Lucasfilm?
Answer: Toy Story
Question: Which one of these flightless birds would be most likely to be tall enough to be able to walk over the others?
Answer: Ostrich
Question: Which scandal involving an oil well on public land occurred during the presidency of Warren Harding?
Answer: The tea pot dome scandal
Question: The Everglades are a subtropical wetland in which U.S. state?
Answer: Florida
Question: In the 20th and 21st century what is the third component in "The Order of Bards, Ovates and ..."?
Answer: Druids
Question: The mediaeval wind instrument called a shawm typically had a cover over its keys called what?
Answer: Fontanelle
Question: What does the Gdel solution, proposed to Einstein's equations, imply as a technical possibility?
Answer: Time travel
Question: Which club drug, particularly popular, and fatal, in some areas, was originally developed as an anaesthetic and painkiller and used mainly by veterinary surgeons?
Answer: Ketamine
Question: Whose last compositions, composed in 1948 when the composer was 84, were called "Four Last Songs"?
Answer: Richard Strauss
Question: On 12 July 1856, US citizen William Walker declared himself president of where?
Answer: Nicaragua
Question: Which American swing and jazz guitarist's single string technique combined with amplification, while with Benny Goodman's bands between 1939 and 1941, helped bring the guitar out of the rhythm section and into the forefront as a solo instrument?
Answer: Charlie Christian
Question: Where is the volcano Mount Sinabung, which on 29 August 2010 produced its first volcanic eruption since 1600, causing 30,000 villagers to be evacuated?
Answer: On the island of Sumatra
Question: The royal wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling on 19 June 2010, described as "Europe's biggest royal wedding since the Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer", took place in which country?
Answer: Sweden
Question: Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the prize for, among others, determining the chemical structure of what, which she published in 1949?
Answer: Penicillin
Question: Raymond Briggs, English graphic novelist, artist, illustrator and cartoonist, first found enduring popularity with what work?
Answer: The Snowman
Question: What was the musical work by Mike Oldfield released as an album, containing only one track on each side, in 1973?
Answer: Tubular Bells
Question: In 2015 palaeontologists from Edinburgh and Beijing announced the discovery of the fossil of an almost complete feathered and winged, although almost certainly flightless, theropod which is an ancestor of what?
Answer: Velociraptor
Question: How did Shakespeare in his play "Cymbeline" end the line, "Golden lads and girls all must as chimneysweepers come to..."?
Answer: Dust
Question: Who wrote "Farewell To Arms" (published 1929), "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (1940), and received a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature for "The Old Man And The Sea" (1952)?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
Question: What 2002 film, an adaptation of stage musical that explores the themes of 'celebrity' and 'scandal', starred Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rene Zellweger, and Richard Gere?
Answer: Chicago
Question: What name is given to a man's cotton or silk cloak buttoned down the front, with full sleeves, reaching to the ankles and worn with a sash?
Answer: Kaftan
Question: The coastal city of Chittagong is in which country?
Answer: Bangladesh
Question: Which book attributed to Thomas Cranmer and published around 1549 is still in print?
Answer: The Book of Common Prayer
Question: 19th century English theatrical manager and producer Richard D'Oyly Carte was responsible for the building of which London theatre?
Answer: Savoy
Question: Which children's book character was named after the London railway station where he was first met?
Answer: Paddington
Question: Which musical, based on characters created for single-panel cartoons in "The New Yorker" beginning 1938, opened on Broadway in April 2010 after a tryout in Chicago?
Answer: The Addams Family
Question: The book (and later a 1981 film) called "Mommie Dearest" published in 1978 was about which actress who appeared in films and on television from 1925 to 1975?
Answer: Joan Crawford
Question: """Four Quartets"", a set of four poems (""Burnt Norton"", ""East Coker"", ""The Dry Salvages"" and ""Little Gidding"") published between 1936 and 1942, were written by whom?"
Answer: T. S. Eliot
Question: The main character in the film "Memento" (2000) suffered from what mental condition?
Answer: Anterograde amnesia
Question: The most successful tennis player to date, with 8 singles titles and 12 doubles titles, in the WTA Tour Championships was originally a citizen of which country?
Answer: Czechoslovakia
Question: BCG is a vaccine, the only one currently recognised by the World Health Organisation, for what disease?
Answer: Tuberculosis
Question: Boris Godunov ruled, first as de facto regent and then as ruler, in which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: At the end of the 8th century the Emperor of Japan moved his capital to which city?
Answer: Kyoto
Question: What is the name of the measure, by law or usage established in most of the United States, which is contained in a cylindrical vessel eighteen and a half inches in diameter and eight inches deep inside?
Answer: Winchester bushel
Question: The "Hyksos" was the name given to a people who assumed rule in which country in the second millennium BCE?
Answer: Egypt
Question: A 2015 US TV series centred on high school guidance counsellor Madison Clark, her boyfriend and family is a prequel to what 2010 series?
Answer: The Walking Dead
Question: A placenta in which the umbilical cord is attached at the placental margin is called what?
Answer: Battledore placenta
Question: The last four nations to join the United Nations 193 members are Switzerland (2002), Timor-Leste (2002), Montenegro (2006) and which other nation?
Answer: South Sudan
Question: Who, in the 6th century BCE, was the last king of Lydia, Solon, who made war on Cyrus, King of Persia, and was defeated?
Answer: Croesus
Question: Throughout his early years in Indonesia, who was known to his playmates and at school as "Barry Soetoro"?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: The rights to which book, begun in 1768 by William Smellie and completed in 1771 and continually revised, were bought by Sears, Roebuck of Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1920?
Answer: Encyclopaedia Brittanica
Question: Who formed the band called "The Tin Machine", that ran from 1988 to 1992, primarily to play for the "Glass Spider" world tour?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: Which African American athlete's career included causing particular annoyance to Adolf Hitler?
Answer: Jesse Owens
Question: """It was a dark and stormy night"", the ""standard"" for hackneyed writing, was the opening line of a novel by whom?"
Answer: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Question: What is the name of the simplified Roman alphabet-based phonetic system of Chinese script adopted in 1958 at the Fifth Session of the 1st National People's Congress in mainland China?
Answer: Hanyu Pinyin
Question: What Scottish patriotic song, used frequently at special occasions and sporting events, was written by a member of the folk group The Corries in 1967?
Answer: Flower of Scotland
Question: In 2001 at least how many films released in the USA were sequels, prequels, or the start of a series?
Answer: 12
Question: What is the peptide hormone produced in all vertebrates and some others to promote the absorption of glucose from the blood to muscles and fat tissue?
Answer: Insulin
Question: What city was briefly ruled by a socialist "commune" of the people?
Answer: Paris
Question: What kingdom, led by Otto von Bismarck, united Germany under its leadership?
Answer: Prussia
Question: In what U.S. state would you find the city of Tombstone?
Answer: Arizona
Question: What movie by D.W. Griffith glorified the Ku Klux Klan?
Answer: The Birth of a Nation
Question: What book by John Steinbeck was about poor Okies looking for work in California?
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath
Question: What brutal leader was called "Uncle Joe" in an attempt to soften his image?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: What gang provided security for the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Free Concert?
Answer: The Hells Angels
Question: What tribe committed genocide against the Tutsis?
Answer: The Hutus
Question: Who became, in 1999, the most muscular governor in Minnesota history?
Answer: Jesse Ventura
Question: What dialect did the Oakland School Board propose teaching classes in?
Answer: Ebonics
Question: What American city was struck by a serial sniper in 2002?
Answer: Washington D.C.
Question: Which Cluedo character was originally named Colonel Yellow?
Answer: Colonel Mustard
Question: What percussion instrument did Blue Öyster Cult need more of in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch?
Answer: Cowbell
Question: What is the real name of rapper P. Diddy?
Answer: Sean Combs
Question: What is the capital of Romania?
Answer: Bucharest
Question: What is the name of Simba's uncle in "The Lion King"
Answer: Scar
Question: What word, starting with R, means "bird of prey"?
Answer: Raptor
Question: What capital city lies just 55 km west of Bratislava?
Answer: Vienna
Question: What country is found on Bulgaria's northern border?
Answer: Romania
Question: It's the second biggest city in Northern Ireland. Some people call it Derry. What do others call it?
Answer: Londonderry
Question: What region, starting with T, includes parts of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey?
Answer: Thrace
Question: What are the biggest cities in Europe whose names end in "burg"?
Answer: Saint Petersburg
Question: Until the 1960's, Catholic mass was almost always delivered in what language?
Answer: Latin
Question: Who is the leader of the evil Decepticons?
Answer: Megatron
Question: Ulan Bator is the capital of which country?
Answer: Mongolia
Question: If I drive from Toulouse to Zaragoza, what mountain range will I likely cross?
Answer: Pyrenees
Question: What country gets nearly 75% of its electricity from nuclear power?
Answer: France
Question: What was the profession of W. B. Yeats?
Answer: Poet
Question: What word can refer either to trash or a type of Chinese ship?
Answer: Junk
Question: If someone is "Cornish", what English peninsula do they hail from?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: What dangerous type of horse race involves jumping over various fences and ditches?
Answer: Steeplechase
Question: What is the common English translation of Descartes' famous statement "Cogito Ergo Sum"?
Answer: I think, therefore I am
Question: What series of video games takes place in the mythical land of Hyrule?
Answer: The Legend of Zelda
Question: What city has Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Armenian Quarters?
Answer: Jerusalem
Question: What celestial object was mathematically predicted before being observed in 1846?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What TV host has popularized the pseudoscience of Deepak Chopra and Dr. Oz?
Answer: Oprah Winfrey
Question: What brand of perfume by Calvin Klein attracts jaguars and other large cats?
Answer: Obsession
Question: What city were Cato, Scipio, and Crassus from?
Answer: Rome
Question: What was the former name of Istanbul?
Answer: Constantinople
Question: What species did Jane Goodall observe?
Answer: Chimpanzees
Question: What wife of an Asian dictator famously owned more than 1,000 pairs of shoes?
Answer: Imelda Marcos
Question: Who was nearly 7 feet tall, weighed 500 pounds, and could drink 100 beers in a sitting?
Answer: André the Giant
Question: What city is known as Praha in its own language?
Answer: Prague
Question: In what country was "The Book of the Dead" written?
Answer: Egypt
Question: What country was Nubia's northern neighbor?
Answer: Egypt
Question: What type of bombshell were Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: Blonde Bombshell
Question: What's the more common term for a National Socialist?
Answer: Nazi
Question: What is the closest relative of the damselfly?
Answer: Dragonfly
Question: What British political party is also known as the Tories?
Answer: The Conservative Party
Question: What beings come from the planet Cybertron?
Answer: Transformers
Question: Through what European city do 84% of the world's diamonds pass?
Answer: Antwerp
Question: What girl group had eight #1 hits in the UK between 1996 and 1998?
Answer: The Spice Girls
Question: What is Zeno known for creating?
Answer: Paradoxes
Question: What is the name for a system of law based on Islamic texts?
Answer: Sharia
Question: On what TV show would you see Daleks saying "exterminate"?
Answer: Doctor Who
Question: What movie would have been more accurately titled "Cretaceous Park"?
Answer: Jurassic Park
Question: What is either a chess piece or a religious leader?
Answer: Bishop
Question: What country is geographically closest to Australia?
Answer: Papua New Guinea
Question: What country was the #1 source of refugees in the year 2015?
Answer: Syria
Question: Who is credited with ridding Ireland of snakes, despite there being no record of snakes ever existing there?
Answer: Saint Patrick
Question: Who was the subject of two recent biographical movies, one starring Ashton Kutcher and the other starring Michael Fassbender?
Answer: Steve Jobs
Question: What city's Dharavi slum has a population of about 700,000 in less than one square mile?
Answer: Mumbai
Question: What country's army was commonly called the Red Army?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: What has been called "the worst form of government, except for all the others"?
Answer: Democracy
Question: What syndrome causes motor tics, and in 10% of cases, can cause compulsive cursing?
Answer: Tourette Syndrome
Question: What French fashion company sells its Birken Bag over $10,000, but makes it nearly impossible to purchase in order to create the illusion of scarcity?
Answer: Hermès
Question: What country's highest recorded temperature is just 87 °F (30.5 °C), the lowest of any country?
Answer: Iceland
Question: What fictional barbarian was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: Conan
Question: Whose "uncertainty" principle states that it is impossible to know both the exact position and the exact momentum of a particle?
Answer: Werner Heisenberg
Question: In what country did the Tamil Tigers fight a civil war?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: What TV show famously said "Submitted for your approval"?
Answer: The Twilight Zone
Question: What country is strongly associated with windmills?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: What group of people had their capital at Tenochtitlan?
Answer: The Aztecs
Question: Aragon and Castile joined to form which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: Who wrote a book called "Dreams from my Father"?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: What is Captain Picard's first name?
Answer: Jean-Luc
Question: Which ninja turtle uses nunchucks?
Answer: Michelangelo
Question: In the Bible, who were Gabriel and Michael?
Answer: Angels
Question: What Italian city was once led by a doge?
Answer: Venice
Question: More than a dozen US Presidents belonged to what “secret” society?
Answer: Free Masons
Question: What alien race does Lieutenant Worf belong to?
Answer: Klingon
Question: What is the name of a receptacle designed to be spat into by tobacco chewers?
Answer: Spittoon
Question: What type of animal appeared on King Richard's coat of arms?
Answer: Lion
Question: What is Superman's home planet?
Answer: Krypton
Question: Most of Patagonia lies within which country?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Which President was the likely father of Sally Heming's children?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Question: What sea are you in if you sail east through the Pillars of Hercules?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
Question: In "Back to the Future Part II", what future year did Marty McFly travel to?
Answer: 2015
Question: Sumatra is part of which country?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: Cartman is a character on what TV show?
Answer: South Park
Question: What smelly element is also referred to as brimstone?
Answer: Sulfur
Question: What festival is held in Black Rock City, Nevada?
Answer: Burning Man
Question: What was John Wayne's nickname?
Answer: The Duke
Question: Which U.S. President is thought to have had polio?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Question: Hamlet was a prince of what country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Besides lions, what animal appears on the coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Unicorn
Question: What fictional family has a gigantic, ominous butler named Lurch?
Answer: The Addams Family
Question: Mongolia borders China and which other country?
Answer: Russia
Question: What religion believes that Xenu brought aliens to Earth 75 million years ago and killed them with atom bombs?
Answer: Scientology
Question: In what European city are Prada headquarters located?
Answer: Milan
Question: What Greek titan was said to hold the Earth on his shoulders?
Answer: Atlas
Question: What Irish's writer's last words were supposedly "either those curtains go or I do"?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Question: What is Cartman's first name?
Answer: Eric
Question: What is either a type of fragrance or a city in Germany?
Answer: Cologne
Question: What newspaper does Clark Kent work for?
Answer: The Daily Planet
Question: What city was the first to be run as a democracy?
Answer: Athens
Question: What mythological figure inspires romantic love with his bow and arrow?
Answer: Cupid
Question: In the "Peanuts" comic strip, who is Linus's sister?
Answer: Lucy
Question: Who started the Protestant Reformation?
Answer: Martin Luther
Question: What endangered bird is the largest bird in North America?
Answer: California Condor
Question: What Jewish mystical teachings are followed by Madonna?
Answer: Kabbalah
Question: What city is connected to its northern neighbors by the Golden Gate Bridge?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: What activity do the terms "pointe" and "grand jeté" come from?
Answer: Ballet
Question: What nautical unit of measurement is equal to six feet?
Answer: Fathom
Question: On what type of building would you be most likely to find a "flying buttress"?
Answer: Church
Question: What ancient people had priests known as druids?
Answer: Celts
Question: During what holiday is it customary to eat unleavened bread?
Answer: Passover
Question: What plant is used to make opium?
Answer: Poppy
Question: In what sport might you experience a "sticky wicket" or a "wicked googly"?
Answer: Cricket
Question: What Greek titan was chained to a rock as punishment for giving fire to mankind?
Answer: Prometheus
Question: Which one of Dorothy's companions needed a brain?
Answer: Scarecrow
Question: What disease is characterized by the body's inability to produce or respond to insulin?
Answer: Diabetes
Question: What "magic words" did Ali Baba use to enter the den of the forty thieves?
Answer: Open Sesame
Question: What insecticide caused a major reduction in bald eagle populations until 1972?
Answer: DDT
Question: On what would you find a field, motto, crest, and escutcheon?
Answer: Coat of Arms
Question: What "line" divides the northern and southern U.S. states?
Answer: Mason–Dixon line
Question: What Italian region has its capital in Florence?
Answer: Tuscany
Question: What country is often described as being shaped like a boot?
Answer: Italy
Question: What was the name of the highest caste in Indian society?
Answer: Brahmin
Question: What city was capital of Russia until 1918?
Answer: St. Petersburg
Question: In the Gulf War, what gulf is being referred to?
Answer: Persian Gulf
Question: What group of islands are controlled by the United Kingdom, but claimed by Argentina?
Answer: Falkland Islands