zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What motto, coined by Thomas J. Watson while managing the sales and advertising departments at the National Cash Register Company became a motto for IBM?
Answer: Think
Question: On the Christian calendar, what name is given to the first Sunday after Easter?
Answer: Low Sunday
Question: Where in London is Nelson's column?
Answer: Trafalgar Square
Question: What is hopping from site to site on the internet called?
Answer: Surfing
Question: Where did the car manufacturer Saab originate?
Answer: Sweden
Question: In 2009, Michael Perham, at the age of 17 years and 164 days, became the youngest person to do what?
Answer: Sail solo around the world
Question: """Coronation Street"" is set in what suburb?"
Answer: Weatherfield
Question: What is the dividend of 22 divided by 7?
Answer: 22
Question: Niagara Falls is between the state of New York, USA, and which province of Canada?
Answer: Ontario
Question: Where is The Rialto bridge?
Answer: Venice
Question: Which company ran a promotion entitled "When the US Wins, You Win" during the 1984 Olympic Games, where customers scratched off a ticket, and if the US won that event, they would be given a free item from the menu?
Answer: McDonald's
Question: The land of Azeroth features in which video game?
Answer: Warcraft
Question: A "steamer", that covers the torso and the full length of the arms and legs, is a type of what?
Answer: Wetsuit
Question: Prints of which 1927 silent German expressionist science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang were discovered in Australia, the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the National Film Archive of New Zealand, to become the basis for a restoration project for a DVD/BD?
Answer: Metropolis
Question: Which state of the USA is divided into 64 parishes in the same way that 48 of the other states are divided into counties?
Answer: Louisiana
Question: By what name is actor William Pratt better known?
Answer: Boris Karloff
Question: What organisation was founded in London in July 1961 by English labour lawyer Peter Benenson?
Answer: Amnesty International
Question: What does a milliner make?
Answer: Hats
Question: Who was the second person to orbit the earth?
Answer: Gherman Titov
Question: What was the nickname of ski jumper Michael Edwards, who first represented Great Britain at the 1987 World Championships and, as the sole British applicant, qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics where he finished last in both the 70m and 90m events?
Answer: Eddie the Eagle
Question: The Dunnart, Bandicoot, Cuscus and Potoroo are native to which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Croutons are made with what?
Answer: Bread
Question: What is the name for the numerous tiny flowers that comprise a flower head of, for example, a daisy or sunflower?
Answer: Florets
Question: Where was the Boer War fought?
Answer: Southern Africa
Question: Which department store headquartered in Piccadilly, London was founded as a grocery store in 1707?
Answer: Fortnum & Mason
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Licence To ... "?
Answer: Kill
Question: Who is the next in this series: Adolf von Baeyer (1905), Henri Moissan (1906), Eduard Buchner (1907), Ernest Rutherford (1908), Wilhelm Ostwald (1909), Otto Wallach (1910) ... ?
Answer: Marie Curie
Question: Which musical term denotes a vocal slide between two pitches?
Answer: Portamento
Question: What is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet?
Answer: Alef
Question: Who was the lead singer of the band "Joy Division" who committed suicide in 1980 aged 23?
Answer: Ian Curtis
Question: Which actress has a tattoo showing the co-ordinates of the birthplaces of her children?
Answer: Angelina Jolie
Question: Where are St Lawrence Island and St Matthew Island?
Answer: Bering Sea
Question: What is the highest peak in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres?
Answer: Cerro Aconcagua
Question: What is Hilary Clinton's maiden name?
Answer: Rodham
Question: What is obtained from a sturgeon?
Answer: Caviar
Question: Which lake, the largest in Central Europe, is sometimes referred to as the "Hungarian Sea"?
Answer: Balaton
Question: These are the first lines from what song: "I was a humdrum person, leading a life apart, when love flew in through my window wide, and quickened my humdrum heart"?
Answer: What Is This Thing Called Love
Question: Where is the tendon known as the hamstring?
Answer: Behind the knee
Question: The Wright Brothers' first powered flight, in 1903, took place where?
Answer: Kitty Hawk
Question: What was the title of Kylie Minogue's tenth album, released in 2007?
Answer: X
Question: Which river runs through the cities of Shanghai, Chongqing, Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Nantong?
Answer: Yangtze
Question: """The Iliad"" was originally written in what language?"
Answer: Greek
Question: What DVD region covers Australia and New Zealand?
Answer: 4
Question: What name was given to a group of racing drivers that included Woolf Barnato, Glen Kidston, Henry Birkin, Bernard Rubin, Dudley Benjafield & Sammy Davis, who were responsible for four consecutive victories at the Le Mans 24 hours from 1927 to 1930?
Answer: The Bentley Boys
Question: What was the title of Susan Boyle's hit record at the end of 2009?
Answer: I Dreamed a Dream
Question: Which river forms part of the border between the USA and Canada?
Answer: St Lawrence
Question: The Russian city of Volgograd that was called Tsaritsyn from 1589 to 1925, changed its name in 1961 from what?
Answer: Stalingrad
Question: The nutmeg tree is important for two spices derived from the fruit: nutmeg and which other?
Answer: Mace
Question: Who is the last person to die on stage in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer: Juliet
Question: What is English cricketer Ian Botham's nickname?
Answer: Beefy
Question: Which landlocked country in Southeast Asia is bordered by Burma, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand?
Answer: Laos
Question: Miss Worlds 1999 and 2000 both represented which country?
Answer: India
Question: The first of what games was played in 1967, when the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35 to 10?
Answer: Super Bowl
Question: What colour is the jacket that has been awarded to the winner of the US Masters Golf Tournament since 1949?
Answer: Green
Question: What is the only country in Central America which is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and has English as its official language?
Answer: Belize
Question: What was Geri Halliwell's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: Ginger
Question: The single largest collection of whose works (181 paintings) is at the Barnes Foundation, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Answer: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Question: Bikram Choudhury is associated with what activity?
Answer: Yoga
Question: What is the highest number of stars that the Michelin Guide awards to restaurants?
Answer: Three stars
Question: In the second US series of "The Office", the boss says that New York is so great that they named it twice. What did he say was the other name?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons "?
Answer: The Skins
Question: Ilyushin is a make of Russian what?
Answer: Aeroplane
Question: What scale measures the hotness or piquancy of a chili pepper, as defined by the amount of capsaicin it contains?
Answer: Scoville scale
Question: In the film "Basic Instinct" (1992) Detective Nick Curran and Catherine Tramell were played by which actors?
Answer: Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone
Question: Which music magazine edited by Geoff Barton, first published in 1981 as a one-off supplement to "Sounds" newspaper, was devoted to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of other hard rock acts such as AC/DC, who appeared on its first cover?
Answer: Kerrang!
Question: What sport will be played at Horse Guard's Parade when London hosts the 2012 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: Beach volleyball
Question: If someone is dismissed from employment, what are they said to have been?
Answer: Fired
Question: Where in Britain is "The Millennium Stadium"?
Answer: Cardiff
Question: Burning methane in the presence of oxygen produces water and what gas?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
Question: Who painted two versions of "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" in 1890?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh
Question: Which sportsman appeared in the James Bond film "Octopussy" with Roger Moore?
Answer: Vijay Amritraj
Question: What scale, developed by Terence Meaden as an extension of the Beaufort scale, measures tornado intensity between T0 and T11?
Answer: TORRO scale
Question: What was the name given to Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's ex-wife), Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen, Chinese Communist Party officials who were prominent during the Cultural Revolution and were arrested in 1976, charged with treason?
Answer: The Gang of Four
Question: Who, an ironmonger by trade, created the first practical steam engine to pump water from mineshafts?
Answer: Thomas Newcomen
Question: What did Ellen MacArthur achieve with "B&Q;/Castorama" on 7 February 2005?
Answer: Broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe
Question: What becomes less dense as it soldifies?
Answer: Water
Question: In England, what are Lloyds, Barclays, Westminster, Midland and National Provincial?
Answer: Banks
Question: Robert and James Adam are associated with which field?
Answer: Architecture
Question: What was the middle name of Nol Coward?
Answer: Peirce
Question: Which legendary couple are said to be buried at Glastonbury, Somerset, England?
Answer: Arthur and Guinevere
Question: The main religion in Nepal is a style of what?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, what did little Jack Horner pull out of his Christmas pie?
Answer: Plum
Question: King George III signed The Instrument of Foundation on 10 December 1768 for (and made large grants from his private funds to) which independent, privately funded institution?
Answer: The Royal Academy of Arts
Question: What is the difference between the sum of the prime numbers between 0 and 10 and the product of those numbers?
Answer: 193
Question: George H Bush became widely known for not liking what food item?
Answer: Broccoli
Question: Marie Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911), was born where?
Answer: Warsaw, Poland
Question: The British version of the TV series "The Office", is set where?
Answer: Slough
Question: A play by Eugene O'Neill is "A Long ... what .... Journey into Night"?
Answer: Day's
Question: What electricity voltage is provided as mains power in the USA?
Answer: 120 Volts
Question: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a cartel of 12 countries: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and which other?
Answer: Libya
Question: Helen Clark, who was appointed Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in 2009, is from which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What is the name of the strip of land between a golf tee and the green?
Answer: Fairway
Question: In 2010, Neil Robertson became the second Australian to win the World Snooker Championship title. Who was the first, who won the 1952 championship?
Answer: Horace Lindrum
Question: People from Brittany in France are known as what?
Answer: Breton
Question: What phrase refers to an archaic method of excommunication for one who had committed a particularly grievous sin?
Answer: Bell, book and candle
Question: Where are gaiters usually worn?
Answer: Legs
Question: What embroidery technique is to gather fabric so that it can stretch, and was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable before elastic?
Answer: Smocking
Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)"?
Answer: The Cherry Pickers
Question: Simon Baker, the star of the TV series "The Mentalist", was born where?
Answer: Australia
Question: Between 1960 and 1987, Maurice Yamogo, Lt. Col. Sangoul Lamizana, Col. Saye Zerbo, Maj. Dr. Jean-Baptiste Oudraogo, Capt. Thomas Sankara and Capt. Blaise Compaor were involved in the politics of which country?
Answer: Burkina Faso
Question: Which mountain range extends over Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela?
Answer: Andes
Question: What does an angler try to catch?
Answer: Fish
Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of Lyric poetry?
Answer: Erato
Question: According to a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, what is the full name of Barbie, the doll manufactured by Mattel, Inc. launched in March 1959?
Answer: Barbara Millicent Roberts
Question: Which singer-songwriter, who won 2 BRIT Awards and 2 Ivor Novello Awards and was nominated for 5 Grammy Awards in 2006, was an officer in a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and served under NATO in Kosovo in 1999?
Answer: James Blunt
Question: The city of Leningrad, Russia, is now known as what?
Answer: St Petersburg
Question: Sheep are aged by their teeth and are referred to by the number of permanent incisors that have erupted. About how old is a "four-tooth"?
Answer: 1.5 to 2 years
Question: The Victoria Falls is on which river?
Answer: Zambezi
Question: What was Emma Bunton's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: Baby
Question: Which American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins (water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane)?
Answer: Peter Agre
Question: Ronald Ross won a Nobel prize in medicine for his work on what subject?
Answer: Malaria
Question: The word "nebula" derives from the latin word for what?
Answer: Cloud
Question: Peter The Hermit is known for leading what group in 1095?
Answer: The First Crusade
Question: What word, originally applied to a large, flawless diamond, is now used to denote a model of excellence or perfection of any kind?
Answer: Paragon
Question: In many countries, the Second Sunday of May is dedicated to which group?
Answer: Mothers
Question: What part of the body removes old red blood cells, holds a reserve of blood in case of haemorrhagic shock and recycles iron?
Answer: Spleen
Question: In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who laughed to see such fun?
Answer: Dog
Question: What is the only major US City (which was founded in 1701 by Frenchman Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac), that looks south to Canada?
Answer: Detroit
Question: What is the chemical symbol for Helium?
Answer: He
Question: In 2007, who set a record by being the only soccer player to play on three World Cup-winning teams?
Answer: Pel
Question: What science features in the TV series "House"?
Answer: Medicine
Question: The River Volga runs through which capital city?
Answer: Moscow
Question: Who was the first female, the first Californian and the first Italian-American to hold the post of Speaker of the US House of Representatives?
Answer: Nancy Pelosi
Question: In which country is the city of Dundee ?
Answer: Scotland
Question: The Owl and the Pussycat sailed away to the land where what grows?
Answer: The bong tree
Question: Which movement was begun in 1909 by Richard Schirrmann, a German schoolteacher, and Wilhelm Mnker, a conservationist?
Answer: Youth Hostels
Question: What Hindi song composed by A. R. Rahman & Gulzar won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Song for a Motion Picture in 2008?
Answer: Jai Ho
Question: Whose first novel, "The Lovers", after being rejected by 26 publishers, won a Hugo Award in 1953?
Answer: Philip Jose Farmer
Question: What was the occupation of Edmund Hilary, the first man (with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay) to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1953?
Answer: Beekeeper
Question: Who won his fourth Olympic gold medal with Paul MacDonald in 1988?
Answer: Ian Ferguson
Question: The Academy Award-winning song "Mona Lisa", written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the film "Captain Carey, U.S.A", was a 1950 hit for which artist?
Answer: Nat King Cole
Question: A famous opera by Rossini is about the barber of where?
Answer: Seville
Question: In most countries of the world, the third Sunday in June is dedicated to which group?
Answer: Fathers
Question: Which American rock, folk, and alt-country singer/songwriter, a three-time Grammy Award winner, was named Americas best songwriter by TIME magazine in 2002?
Answer: Lucinda Williams
Question: Which is the largest of Britain's Channel Islands?
Answer: Jersey
Question: Sheep, which are aged by their teeth, are referred to by the number of permanent incisors that have erupted. About how old is a "six-tooth"?
Answer: 2 to 3 years
Question: Which Soviet gymnast won the most Olympic medals in her career, and the most gold of any female?
Answer: Larissa Latynina
Question: Which country became independent from the United Kingdom on 14 August 1947, and became a republic in 1956?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: Who were Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty?
Answer: The Spice Girls
Question: The Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (Op. 55) by Ludwig van Beethoven is known as what?
Answer: The Eroica
Question: What is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message?
Answer: Steganography
Question: Peter Phillips, the only son of The Princess Anne, The Princess Royal and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, and the eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, married Autumn Kelly in 2008. Where did they meet?
Answer: Montreal, Quebec
Question: What is a French word meaning false or fake?
Answer: Faux
Question: What is the name for a site serving as the final resting place of human skeletal remains, which is frequently used where burial space is scarce?
Answer: Ossuary
Question: In Olympic archery, the outer 2 circles on the target (called 1 ring and 2 ring) are what colour?
Answer: White
Question: What is the northernmost point in all U.S. territory?
Answer: Point Barrow, Alaska
Question: Which wonder of the ancient world was at Babylon?
Answer: Hanging gardens
Question: Whose works include "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) and a parody of the "Mona Lisa" (1919) which shows a moustache and goatee attached to a cheap reproduction of the painting?
Answer: Marcel Duchamp
Question: On what continent is The Gambia?
Answer: Africa
Question: What is the largest city in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada?
Answer: Saskatoon
Question: What is the holy book of Shintoism?
Answer: Kojiki
Question: Where is the world's largest cave system with 345 km of mapped passageways?
Answer: Kentucky, USA
Question: What causes the sting caused by a nettle or an ant?
Answer: Formic acid
Question: What airline, with a fleet of 55 aircraft, the flag carrier of Poland, was established in 1929, and is one of the world's oldest airlines still in operation?
Answer: Polskie Linie Lotnicze
Question: Where is the Flavian Amphitheatre?
Answer: Rome
Question: Who stars in the TV series "Californication"?
Answer: David Duchovny
Question: What day was proclaimed in 1945 as "VE Day"?
Answer: 8 May
Question: Barack Obama is the first US president born outside the contiguous states of the USA. Where was he born?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: The international body called "FIFA" administers which sport?
Answer: Football
Question: Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in what year?
Answer: 1961
Question: Who is the boss of the fictional Inspector Clouseau of the French Sret in the "Pink Panther" series of films?
Answer: Chief Inspector Dreyfus
Question: New York businessman and gambler Arnold Rothstein was believed to have been behind baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which the 1919 World Series was fixed, giving the series to which team?
Answer: Cincinnati Reds
Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of Dance?
Answer: Terpsichore
Question: Cramp affects what part of the body?
Answer: Muscles
Question: The village of Zermatt is close to what geographical feature?
Answer: The Matterhorn
Question: What is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies, consisting mainly of psalms, said around 3 p.m.?
Answer: None
Question: What ship, formerly called USS "Phoenix" which saw action in World War II, became the first to be sunk by a nuclear-powered submarine, in 1982?
Answer: The Argentine cruiser "General Belgrano"
Question: What was the occupation of William Kidd, who was hanged for it in 1701?
Answer: Pirate
Question: What people traditionally dance a hornpipe?
Answer: Sailors
Question: The first recorded fatality of a car accident in the USA was Henry Bliss, on 13 September 1899. Where was it?
Answer: New York City
Question: The internal angles of a rectangle add up to how many degrees?
Answer: 360
Question: Which famous American bodybuilder had the advertising slogan "You too can have a body like mine"?
Answer: Charles Atlas
Question: What scale is used for rating tornado intensity, based on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation?
Answer: The Fujita scale
Question: On which island is the port of Messina?
Answer: Sicily
Question: Who is the patron saint of Wales?
Answer: St David
Question: Who played eventual winners Chelsea in the FA Cup final in May 2010?
Answer: Portsmouth
Question: Which album by the Arctic Monkeys was the fastest selling album in UK chart history?
Answer: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Question: Which Stoke City, Blackpool and England player was the first European Footballer of the Year in 1956?
Answer: Stanley Matthews
Question: Who sang on a record released in November 2010, "Boom boom boom, even brighter than the moon moon moon"?
Answer: Katy Perry
Question: The Sabine River forms the border of Texas with what other area?
Answer: Louisiana
Question: What was the name given to people who went to California to join in the goldrush in the mid 19th century?
Answer: 49ers
Question: Which mythical figure carries a scythe?
Answer: The Grim Reaper
Question: Who played Neil, the hippie, clinically depressed, pacifist, vegetarian and environmentalist who is victimised by other housemates in the UK TV series "The Young Ones"?
Answer: Nigel Planer
Question: In Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", what was Mr Darcy's first name?
Answer: Fitzwilliam
Question: In the James Bond film "From Russia with Love" who played Bond girl Tatiana Romanova?
Answer: Daniela Bianchi
Question: Who won the Super Bowl in 2006?
Answer: Pittsburgh Steelers
Question: What is the closest city to the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator?
Answer: Geneva, Switzerland
Question: What was the name of Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee?
Answer: Bubbles
Question: What film about racial prejudice in the USA by Clarence Brown, from a novel by William Faulkner, involved a black boy, a white boy and an old woman assisting a black man accused of murder?
Answer: Intruder In The Dust
Question: The term "Hispanic" means relating to what country?
Answer: Spain
Question: Who invented the ferris wheel?
Answer: George Washington Ferris
Question: In 1970, who began to popularise a style of journalism known as "Gonzo journalism"?
Answer: Hunter S. Thompson
Question: Who created the statue of "David", which is held in Florence's Academia Gallery?
Answer: Michelangelo
Question: According to the Guinness Book of Records, what film became, in 1995, the biggest box office failure?
Answer: Cutthroat Island
Question: What is the nickname of the Australia national rugby league team?
Answer: Kangaroos
Question: Which Caribbean country, consisting of two main islands, is the smallest nation in the Western hemisphere?
Answer: St Kitts and Nevis
Question: What is the term for a wine with harsh and pronounced flavours?
Answer: Aggressive
Question: From 1956 to 1968 Al Oerter won gold medals in every Olympics in what sport?
Answer: Discus
Question: What was the only painting that Vincent van Gogh sold while he was alive?
Answer: Red Vineyard
Question: What are the young of a frog called?
Answer: Tadpole