zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The Magna Carta, signed in London, and inspiring constitutional rights globally thereafter, was how many years old in 2015?
Answer: 800
Question: What spooky TV series was originally titled 'Too Much', and had a nicknamed character whose fictional 'real name' was Norville Rogers?
Answer: Scooby-Doo
Question: Chinese Emperor Jing Di's 141BC tomb revealed in 2015 the early use of?
Answer: Tea leaves
Question: The German surname and name-suffix Baum referred to living near or resembling a?
Answer: Tree
Question: What popular orange-coloured citrus fruit is surprisingly a hybrid of the pomelo (25%) and mandarin (75%)?
Answer: Orange
Question: Mixing yellow and blue paint produces?
Answer: Green
Question: Which newspaper remains shunned in Liverpool UK due to its grossly false reporting of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster?
Answer: The Sun
Question: What Leicestershire village is famous for its historic fox hunt and the name origin for a popular meat substitute food?
Answer: Quorn
Question: A pollywog or porwigle in England is more generally known as a?
Answer: Tadpole
Question: The Tahitian/Tongan/Samoan word and tradition 'ta-tau' became what in English?
Answer: Tattoo
Question: The premature same-age deaths of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse prompted the popular '(What number?) Club' theory?
Answer: 27
Question: What is the capital of Queensland, Australia?
Answer: Brisbane
Question: Which playwright was once secretary to James Joyce, 1969 Nobel prizewinner for literature, and wrote his most famous play originally in French, titled En Attendant Godot?
Answer: Samuel Beckett
Question: What is a two-dimensional geometric shape with five equal straight sides and five equal angles called?
Answer: Pentagon
Question: What was the village and laboratory site name connected with the August 2007 foot-and-mouth desease outbreak near Guildford in Surrey?
Answer: Pirbright
Question: Which harmonica-paying frontman of Manfred Man sang on their early hits and later became a successful radio presenter?
Answer: Paul Jones
Question: What international standard paper size (denoted by the letter A plus a number) has the dimensions of 297 x 420mm?
Answer: A3
Question: Libraries, schools, writing, the wheel, the aqueduct and alcoholic beer are inventions generally credited to which country?
Answer: Iraq
Question: What country temporarily renamed its currency Bolivar Fuerte (meaning strong Bolivar) while phasing out the use of the previous Bolivar alongside it?
Answer: Venezuela
Question: Derived from Greek meaning summit or finishing touch, what word refers to the publisher's logo and historically the publisher's details at the end of the book?
Answer: Colophon
Question: What simple term, alternatively called Anglo-Saxon, refers to the English language which was used from the 5th century Germanic invasions, until (loosely) its fusion with Norman-French around 12-13th centuries?
Answer: Old English
Question: Who resigned as Ireland's Taoiseach (pronounced 'teeshock' - it is the head of government) in May 2008 after more than ten years in the position?
Answer: Bertie Ahern
Question: In what city did its kingdom's first women-only hotel and spa, called the Luthan, open in March 2008?
Answer: Riyadh
Question: Which Indian city organised 'No Honking Day' to mark World Health Day, 7 April 2008, emphasising noise pollution as a significant health issue.
Answer: Mumbai
Question: During Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Commons in December 2008 Gordon Brown amusingly and accidentally claimed his government had saved what? (instead of the banking system)
Answer: The World
Question: What was the name of the mythical sculptor who fell in love with the statue of a woman he carved, as told by Roman poet Ovid, and inspiring George Bernard Shaw's play of the same name?
Answer: Pygmalion
Question: Real name Alecia Moore, which colourful US diva sold out three London O2 dates in May 2009?
Answer: Pink
Question: What in January 2009 did David Miliband significantly denounce as a 'mistaken concept'?
Answer: The War on Terror
Question: Tycoon Allen Stanford, whose business empire collapsed in 2009, was chiefly associated with which sport?
Answer: Cricket
Question: Becky Simmon of Guernsey and Lisa Cummings of Ireland were first from their islands to swim what stretch of water respectively once and both ways?
Answer: The English Channel
Question: The Red Book, first published in 2009, largely unseen for 70 years, was written by what notable Swiss Psychiatrist?
Answer: Carl Jung
Question: Who apologised for his handball foul which helped eliminate Ireland from the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals?
Answer: Thierry Henri
Question: Which country saw court battles surrounding gay marriage and specifically the ceremony for Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Bello?
Answer: Argentina
Question: A hugely valuable little sculpted guitar recently recovered by police in Italy was made by which cubist artist for his daughter Paloma?
Answer: Pablo Picasso
Question: The Greek word Xero (pronounced zero) in xerography and related terminology means what?
Answer: Dry
Question: What word for a waterway refers to the distribution route by which a product or service reaches its customers?
Answer: Channel
Question: The Evzones (meaning 'well-girded', a word apparently first recorded by Homer) are an elite ceremonial infantry unit in which European country?
Answer: Greece
Question: Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas are traditional English (and Welsh) seasonal names in what?
Answer: Law courts
Question: What Munich festival, claimed to be world's largest Volksfest (People's Fair), attracts over six million visitors each year?
Answer: Oktoberfest
Question: The Chapman Root Glass Company was responsible for what 1915 iconic design nicknamed the 'hobble skirt' and 'Mae West'?
Answer: Coca-Cola bottle
Question: What is the state capital of Victoria, Australia?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: Name the Rochdale pensioner whom Gordon Brown was heard to call 'a sort of bigoted woman' after meeting her on a pre-election walkabout?
Answer: Gillian Duffy
Question: A symbol comprising three dots, which if joined form an upright equilateral triangle, represents what word?
Answer: Therefore
Question: Which Caribbean island, especially capital city Plymouth, suffered long term devastation after the previously dormant Soufriere Hills Volcano began erupting in 1995?
Answer: Montserrat
Question: David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Ludovic Kennedy and David Dimbleby are among the past members of which exclusive and hedonistic Oxford club?
Answer: The Bullingdon Club
Question: With varieties including Gutedel in Germany, and Pierre Galet in Switzerland, Chasselas is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Grape
Question: Which chemical element was once used (with hindsight, irresponsibly and dangerously) in luminous markings on watches, clocks and instrument dials?
Answer: Radium
Question: In which country is the spectacular 1650 stone-built 23-arch Khaju Bridge?
Answer: Iran
Question: In draughts, what is a counter called when it reaches the opposite end of the board and another piece is put on top?
Answer: King
Question: What was the name of the group that invaded the Olympic village at Munich in 1972, killing 2 Israelis and holding 9 others hostage, resulting in a firefight killing 15 people, including all the athletes and 5 terrorists?
Answer: Black September
Question: In 1956, British and French forces invaded a country in North Africa due to a dispute over which engineering work?
Answer: Suez Canal
Question: In which year did George Bush succeed Ronald Reagan as US President, the US ratified the Berne convention on copyright, Time Inc and Warner Communications merged to form Time-Warner, and the Exxon Valdez spilled oil in Alaska?
Answer: 1989
Question: Who described "unified field theory", an attempt to unify and simplify the fundamental laws of physics, in a paper titled "On The Generalised Theory of Gravitation" in 1950?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: What miners' oil lamp, invented in 1815, had a wire cylinder to enclose the flame, preventing the explosion of coal-gas?
Answer: Davy Lamp
Question: In Britain, rationing ended, the London gold market reopened, Roger Bannister was first to run a mile in under 4 minutes, and the Queen returned from a tour of the Commonwealth in which year?
Answer: 1954
Question: What scale initially related wind conditions to their effects on the sails of a man of war, from "sufficient for steerage" to "which canvas sails couldn't withstand."
Answer: Beaufort scale
Question: Which mountain range crosses North Africa for over 1500 miles from Cape Nun on the Atlantic Coast to Cape Bon on the Mediterranean?
Answer: Atlas
Question: What word best describes a political situation common to England in 1647, France in 1789, Spain in 1936 and Jamaica in 1720?
Answer: Anarchy
Question: Which Scottish architect, buried in Westminster Abbey, is famous for staircases, fireplaces, chimney pieces, and furniture built in residences in the 18th century?
Answer: Robert Adam
Question: Which German scientist published "The Natural History of Creation" in 1876 (to prove that man was descended from apes) and "The Riddle of the Universe" in 1899 (to prove that it was created by natural causes)?
Answer: Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
Question: What sea creature living in the Arctic has a tapering tusk, spirally grooved, 2 to 3 metres (7 to 10 feet) long?
Answer: Narwhal
Question: Which soprano, who had a highly successful opera career between 1968 and 2004, sang Handel's "Let the Bright Seraphim" at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer?
Answer: Kiri Te Kanawa
Question: Three members of which family, between 1781 and 1850, discovered Uranus, compiled a star catalogue, mapped all the stars in the Northern hemisphere and founded an observatory to map those in the Southern?
Answer: Herschel
Question: Which author disappeared on a walk along the River Ouse near Monk's House, Rodmell, Sussex, England, in March 1941, leaving letters for her husband Leonard and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell?
Answer: Virginia Woolf
Question: Which railway, covering 4,607 miles from Chelyabinsk to Vladivostok, was completed in July 1904?
Answer: Trans-Siberian
Question: Which US holiday commemorates either a celebration by Spaniards on 8 September 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida, the arrival of 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred on 4 December 1619, or the Pilgrims activities in Plymouth in 1621?
Answer: Thanksgiving
Question: Which 20th century painter claimed to have invented a new technique called "action painting" and was called by the contemporary press "Jack The Dripper"?
Answer: Jackson Pollock
Question: Who founded "Answers" in 1888, and later founded Amalgamated Press in the UK which, at various times, owned "The Evening News", "The Daily Mail", "The Daily Mirror", "The Observer" and "The Times"?
Answer: Lord Northcliffe
Question: The Australian city of Hobart is on which river?
Answer: Derwent
Question: Producer Alex Korda engaged Anton Karas to score which entire film, after it had been edited together, using only one instrument?
Answer: The Third Man
Question: In 1874 the Teddington Cricket Club began to draw up rules that were formally published by the Wimbledon club in 1883, for which game?
Answer: Hockey
Question: It is generally believed that which Ancient Roman festival, an archaic rite connected to fertility observed from 13 to 15 February, was converted by the Roman Catholic Church to honor the Virgin Mary which in turn became St Valentine's day?
Answer: Lupercalia
Question: Which film starring The Beatles concerned the theft of a ring from Ringo Starr by a religious organisation?
Answer: Help
Question: Which soprano, who had a highly successful opera career between 1968 and 2004, starred as Maria in the "operatic version" of Leonard Bernsteins "West Side Story"?
Answer: Kiri Te Kanawa
Question: Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer invented the notation which uses superscripts to show powers or exponents (e.g. the 2 used in x to indicate squaring)?
Answer: Ren Descartes
Question: Where was the Congress held in 1814-15, chiefly between Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia, that adjusted frontiers after the fall of Napoleon?
Answer: Vienna
Question: What is the name for an intermittent hot spring, characterised by violent explosive eruptions of steam and boiling water, alternating with quiet periods?
Answer: Geyser
Question: Which German composer was assistant to Wagner at Bayreuth 1880-1, taught at Barcelona, Frankfurt and Berlin, and is best known for his opera "Hansel and Gretel"?
Answer: Englebert Humperdinck
Question: Which American situation comedy TV series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993 had a core cast made up at various times of Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Kirstie Alley, Nicholas Colasanto, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Gramm
Answer: Cheers
Question: What name was given to a group of painters who first exhibited in Paris in 1906, including Matisse, Bracque, Derain, van Dongen and Dufy, who presented bold forms, brilliant colours and clearly defined patterns?
Answer: Les Fauves
Question: Who was the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and heir to the throne, who renounced his childrens right to succession in order to make a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek and was assassinated with her in Bosnia in 1914?
Answer: Franz Ferdinand
Question: Which US TV show, for which the cast list included Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander, was set predominantly in an apartment block on New York City's Upper West Side (but shot mostly in Los Angeles, California)?
Answer: Seinfeld
Question: Which city, previously the Roman town of Vindobona, became the capital of the Duchy of Austria in 1156 and the capital of Hapsburg power base in the 13th century?
Answer: Vienna
Question: What was the name of the river, 200 m north of Rome, where returning generals disbanded their armies when returning from campaigns to keep order in or expand the Roman Empire?
Answer: Rubicon
Question: Who served in the Crimean War (1854 - 56), was responsible for suppressing the Taiping rebellion in China in 1860, was governor of the Sudan 1877 - 79, and died there?
Answer: General Charles Gordon
Question: What building, built between 1754 and 1790 as a church to St Genevieve, was set aside as a mausoleum for famous Frenchmen in 1792?
Answer: The Pantheon
Question: What is the name of the Temple built to Pallas Athene around 480 BC, from which marble friezes and statues were removed by Lord Elgin in 1812?
Answer: Parthenon
Question: The theatres for which war included Odessa, Yevpatoriya, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Kinburn?
Answer: Crimean War
Question: What is the affectionate Spanish language diminutive that Mara Eva Duarte de Pern, the second wife of President Juan Domingo Pern of Argentina, was known by?
Answer: Evita
Question: Ignis fatuus, a faintly luminous flame which hovers over marshy places is known as a Jack O' Lantern or what?
Answer: Will o' the wisp
Question: What secret organisation of Irishmen in the Scranton Anthracite Mining district of Pennsylvania 1865 - 1875, was in violent conflict with the mine owners?
Answer: Molly Maguires
Question: Which German is responsible for driving the Russians out of Germany at the Battle of Tannenburg in 1914, became head of all German armies in 1916, and was elected President of the Republic in 1925?
Answer: von Hindenburg
Question: What was the dolphin that accompanied vessels near French Pass, a channel used by ships sailing between Wellington and Nelson, New Zealand between 1888 and 1912?
Answer: Pelorus Jack
Question: According to Virgil's Latin epic poem "The Aeneid", who, during the Trojan War, made a wooden horse and filled it with soldiers that the Trojans took through the gates of Troy?
Answer: Greeks
Question: In which country did the USA enter a war by sending military advisors in 1950, escalating their involvement until finally combat units played an active part between 1965 and 1975?
Answer: Vietnam
Question: The Australian city of Adelaide is on which river?
Answer: Torrens
Question: The legend of Robin Hood, which dates from the 14th century and includes tales of Friar Tuck, Little John and Alan Adale, is centred on which forest?
Answer: Sherwood
Question: Which country became a separate state in 1890 after having been, since 1443, part of Burgundy, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands?
Answer: Luxembourg
Question: What organisation, set up to encourage scientific research, was founded in 1648 and obtained a charter from King Charles II in 1660?
Answer: Royal Society
Question: Who fell out of favour with Queen Elizabeth I over his intrigue with Elizabeth Throgmorton, was imprisoned and eventually beheaded?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh
Question: The origins of which country can be traced to the forming of a defensive league by Uri, Schwyz and Lower Unterwalden in 1521?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Which civilisation left clearly identifiable traces dating from 2600 BCE, with cities on what are now the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Honduras and Southern Mexico and still survives in language today?
Answer: Maya
Question: On the table for which gambling game would you see the words Passe, Pair, Manque, Impair and pictures of black and red diamonds?
Answer: Roulette
Question: Ed Moses (United States) and Martina Moravcov (Slovakia) won World Cups for which sport in 2001/2002 and 2003/2004?
Answer: Swimming
Question: The 2003 film "What A Girl Wants", with Amanda Bynes as the illegitimate daughter of a British politician played by Colin Firth, was a remake of which 1958 film starring Rex Harrison and Sandra Dee?
Answer: The Reluctant Debutante
Question: Peter Snell, who set 5 individual world running records, was part of a team that set a new four by 1 mile relay record and won 2 Olympic golds for 800 metres (1960 Rome & 1964 Tokyo) and a gold for 1500 metres (1964 Tokyo), represented which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What term is applied to the fusion of Roman, Greek and Persian cultures that reached its peak after the 4th century AD during the reign of Justinian, and is seen in mosaics, frescoes, metal work, ivory carving and silk weaving?
Answer: Byzantine
Question: One of Hannibal's most famous achievements was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy with the intention of attacking Rome. What city was he from?
Answer: Carthage
Question: Which country's national zoo quarantined its only pig for two months in case it spread swine flu?
Answer: Afghanistan
Question: Whose career, from 1922 to 1946, included World Billiards Champion 4 times and World Snooker Champion 20 times?
Answer: Joe Davis
Question: Which country was under the influence of the USSR immediately following World War II until 1990, when Wojciech Jaruzelski resigned as president and was succeeded by Lech Wasa?
Answer: Poland
Question: Who was exiled to Siberia three times, was active in the plot that overthrew Kerensky in 1917, and became Secretary of the Russian Communist Party?
Answer: Stalin
Question: What was the capital of the Inca Empire from 1438 to 1532 which, at its peak, dominated a territory that included (from north to south) Ecuador, part of Colombia, the northern half of Chile, and the north-west part of Argentina, and (from west to east) from Bolivia to the Amazonian forests and Peru?
Answer: Cuzco
Question: Which English botanist became famous for his research during expeditions to the east coast of Canada in 1766, the Pacific in 1769 and Iceland in 1772?
Answer: Joseph Banks
Question: Swiss legendary hero William Tell was instrumental in rescuing his land from the tyranny of which country in 1307?
Answer: Austria
Question: What relish originating in the Far East, is prepared from sweet fruits, to which acidulous flavours, hot seasoning, peppers and spices are added?
Answer: Chutney
Question: What is the name for a method of enamel decoration where the design is outlined with soldered metal fillets which are filled with enamel paste or powder, which is vitrified and ground smooth?
Answer: Cloisonn
Question: Which country is made up of 176 islands, 36 of them inhabited, in 3 groups (called Vava'u, Ha'apai, and Tongatapu) which stretch north-south for 800 kilometers (500 miles)?
Answer: Tonga
Question: In what year was the first demonstration of a helicopter lifting itself organised by Louis Breguet and Professor Richet?
Answer: 1907
Question: Which long-running British TV series which began as a one-off drama entitled "Woodentop" revolves around the lives of policemen stationed at Sun Hill?
Answer: The Bill
Question: What name is given to a section of the Alps located mostly in the province of Belluno, and extending into the provinces of Bolzano-Bozen and Trento?
Answer: The Dolomites
Question: How many nouns are there in the following sentence: "Andrew gave his son a toy to play with"?
Answer: 3
Question: What was organised by Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother, France, to crush the Huguenots in August 1572 at the wedding of Henry of Navarre to Marguerite, sister of Charles IX, that resulted in the death of around 30,000 people?
Answer: Massacre of St Bartholomew
Question: Who printed his own translations of a French romance "The Recwyell of the Historyes of Troy" and "The Game and Plays of the Chesse" in Bruges in 1474?
Answer: William Caxton
Question: A test developed in 1924 by R.L. Smith & G.E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method, is used to measure what?
Answer: The hardness of materials
Question: The first time that Roger Bannister ran under 4 minutes for a mile at an international meeting was at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, B.C. Which country was he representing?
Answer: England
Question: What was the name of the literary coterie that met regularly around 1750 that included Mrs Vesey, Mrs Ord, Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, Mrs Hester Chapone and Benjamin Stillingfleet?
Answer: Blue stockings
Question: Whose 4 sons were an astronomer, a botanist, an army engineer who went on scientific explorations, and the head of a scientific instrument manufacturing company?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: Where is the International Gemological Institute and the World Diamond Centre, which play an important role in setting standards, regulating professional ethics, training and promoting the interests of the city as a centre of the diamond industry?
Answer: Antwerp
Question: How many adjectives are there in the following sentence: "The tall old man in a smart black suit hit the little green car with a long red stick"?
Answer: 8
Question: The Clipper ship "Dunedin" caused excitement when it arrived in London after a 98 day voyage in 1882. Where had it come from?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Which village, now a suburb of Dublin, was famed for an annual rowdy fair that was held between 1204 and 1855?
Answer: Donnybrook
Question: Bondi Beach is near which city?
Answer: Sydney
Question: The British Royal Mint that was established in the Tower of London in 1279 and moved to an adjacent site on Tower Hill in 1809 is now situated where?
Answer: Llantrisant, South Wales
Question: In the 1950s, which country on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal was bordered by Pakistan, India, Tibet, China, French Indo China and Siam?
Answer: Burma
Question: In which country was "The Tunguska Event" on 30 June 1908, believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment of 510 kilometres (36 miles) above the Earth's surface?
Answer: Russia
Question: What is the unit of force which, acting upon a mass of 1 gramme, will produce acceleration of 1 centimetre per second per second?
Answer: Dyne
Question: Whose hit records include "Gold Digger" (feat. Jamie Foxx) "Stronger" and "Heartless"?
Answer: Kanye West
Question: Which English sculptor's famous works in London are the lions at the British Museum, "Peter Pan" in Kensington Gardens and "Edith Cavell Memorial" outside the National Portrait Gallery?
Answer: Sir George Frampton