zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Ryan Tubridy took over which Irish (and world's longest running) TV chat show?
Answer: The Late Late Show
Question: A large statue of Apollo was discovered at a Unesco Heritage site in which country?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Ten paintings by which US artist were stolen from the private collection of Richard Wiseman in Los Angeles?
Answer: Andy Warhol
Question: Arthur's Day celebrated the 250th anniversary of the signing of the lease for which brewery?
Answer: Guinness
Question: Whose 2009 tour titled The Red Piano was partly cancelled due to ill health?
Answer: Elton John
Question: Which US actor and film director was made a Commander of the Legion d'Honneur in 2009?
Answer: Clint Eastwood
Question: The US marijuana cafe opened in which state?
Answer: Oregon
Question: The Netherlands won the 2009 junior version of which international entertainment competition?
Answer: Eurovision Song Contest
Question: A Ryanair jet slid off the runway at which Scottish airport?
Answer: Prestwick
Question: Which English town became the first to be twinned with Walt Disney World in Florida?
Answer: Swindon
Question: The body of which country's former president was stolen from its grave a day before the anniversary of his death?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: Which city hosted the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference?
Answer: Copenhagen
Question: Part of which iconic leader's palace was discovered by archaeologists in the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: Cleopatra
Question: What TV artist who helped popularise the Morph animated character died in 2009?
Answer: Tony Hart
Question: Which Premier League football club was subject to a winding up petition by HM Revenue and Customs at the end of 2009?
Answer: Portsmouth FC
Question: A heptathlon is an athletic contest of how many separate events?
Answer: Seven
Question: Palamino is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Grape
Question: What character normally appears with the % (percentage) symbol on its key of a QWERTY keyboard?
Answer: 5
Question: What is the fourth root of 81?
Answer: 3
Question: The plant Nicotiana tabacum is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Tobacco
Question: Uxoricide is the killing of one's what?
Answer: Wife
Question: What type of food is taleggio?
Answer: Cheese
Question: Which organisation retains copyright ownership of the laws of cricket?
Answer: MCC
Question: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in which city in 1780?
Answer: Boston
Question: In astronomy and metaphorical language what is the opposite of zenith?
Answer: Nadir
Question: Diabolism is the worship of what?
Answer: The Devil
Question: What is the name of the blue rose unveiled by Japanese company Suntory in October 2009?
Answer: Applause
Question: In the human body what is the common name for hemicrania?
Answer: Migrane
Question: Elsanta is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Strawberry
Question: Who captained the 2009 England women's cricket team?
Answer: Charlotte Edwards
Question: What term did former Yahoo! vice-president and author Seth Godin originate whereby potential customers 'opt-in' to receive advertising?
Answer: Permission marketing
Question: Used by ancient Greeks and Romans what is a pelta?
Answer: Shield
Question: In which German city is the Brandhorst museum?
Answer: Munich
Question: Who was the first prime minister of Canada?
Answer: Sir John MacDonald
Question: Carol Ann Duffy became the first woman what?
Answer: British Poet Laureate
Question: The Swiss Re Tower in London is commonly known by what name?
Answer: The Gherkin
Question: What is the profession of Peter Kingdom in the UK TV series 'Kingdom'?
Answer: Solicitor
Question: What type of food is linguine?
Answer: Pasta
Question: Who released a 1995 album called Stanley Road?
Answer: Paul Weller
Question: In which decade did Queen Victoria's husband die?
Answer: 1860s
Question: Carceral relates to what type of building?
Answer: Prison
Question: A Black or White what? refers to a company mounting respectively a hostile or a helpful takeover bid?
Answer: Knight
Question: What is the term for a virtual barrier between two corporate departments, which often for legal reasons, must not share information? - Spanish fence; Chinese wall; Boston Barricade; or Bouquet of barbed wire.
Answer: Chinese wall
Question: What does a carminative drug relieve?
Answer: Flatulence
Question: What dairy term is used to describe turnover or loss of customers, usually expressed as an annual percentage? - butter; churn; cream; or cheese.
Answer: Churn
Question: What Greek word is commonly given to the public test launch of a software version or website?
Answer: Beta
Question: A logrunner is what type of creature?
Answer: Bird
Question: What is the name of the triangle which has two equal sides and two equal angles?
Answer: Isosceles
Question: What is a squirrel's nest called?
Answer: Drey
Question: Who founded the Amazon website?
Answer: Jeff Bezos
Question: A grimoire is a book of what?
Answer: Magic spells
Question: Lollo Rosso is a variety of which vegetable?
Answer: Lettuce
Question: In which London park is the Albert Memorial?
Answer: Hyde Park
Question: The city of Akron is in which US state?
Answer: Ohio
Question: Who won the 2009 German Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: Mark Webber
Question: Omophagy is the eating of what?
Answer: Raw meat
Question: In squash or racquetball what is the shot played into a side or back wall before hitting the front wall?
Answer: Boast
Question: What traditional term from the late 1800s refers to the difference between a price paid for a company or business, and the actual (lower) 'book value' of its assets?
Answer: Goodwill
Question: What warlike term refers to a person or agency operating in the field of executive search?
Answer: Headhunter
Question: What past US president's autobiography is called Where's the Rest of Me?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: What is the Irish game played with a stick having a broad oval blade and a ball called a sliothar (or sliotar)?
Answer: Hurling
Question: The Curzon Line was the demarcation line between which two countries?
Answer: Russia and Poland
Question: What crowd-pleasing song and album title did British folk act Show of Hands derive from a 'reverse acronym' of the collapsed bank AIG?
Answer: Arrogance Ignorance and Greed
Question: The words 'domo arigato' mean 'thank you' in what language?
Answer: Japanese
Question: What year is represented by the Roman numerals MCMXCIX?
Answer: 1999
Question: A square hectare of land would have sides of how many metres each?
Answer: One hundred
Question: A monorchid has one what?
Answer: Testicle
Question: A logomachy is a dispute over what?
Answer: Words
Question: Suggestions from the 'politically correct' community occasionally call for what creative group process to be renamed 'Thought Showers'?
Answer: Brainstorming
Question: What one of these is a metallic chemical element? Brass, Barium, Steel, Sterling Silver, Pewter?
Answer: Barium
Question: What flower is the national emblem of Wales?
Answer: Daffodil
Question: Sunningdale golf club is in which county of the UK?
Answer: Berkshire
Question: What is the website address of the United Nations?
Answer: www.un.org
Question: What health-related metaphor refers to a form of internet marketing which spreads from user to user on a wide scale?
Answer: Viral
Question: Pisciculture is the breeding and rearing of what?
Answer: Fish
Question: Who was the first driver to be knighted for his services to motor sport?
Answer: Jack Brabham
Question: Dresden china originated in which country?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which is the only city to lie in two continents?
Answer: Istanbul
Question: Which US state is known as the Sunflower State?
Answer: Kansas
Question: What Latin term is used to mean 'word for word', or 'exactly the same words'?
Answer: Verbatim
Question: Offaly, Westmeath, Carlow and Cavan are counties of which country?
Answer: Ireland
Question: A heptahedron is a solid figure with how many plane sides?
Answer: Seven
Question: What country has the largest forested area?
Answer: Russia
Question: The cephalothorax and the opisthosoma are body sections of what?
Answer: Arachnids
Question: US Aviator Lawrence Burst Sperry (1892-1923) has attracted suggestions of being the founder of the 'Mile High Club' due to his invention of which flight aid?
Answer: Autopilot
Question: How many grams are in a hectogram?
Answer: One hundred
Question: Copoclephily is the collecting of what?
Answer: Keyrings
Question: What same three words are in the titles of biographical books about Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Ben Hogan, Benjamin Franklin, Condoleeza Rice and Dr Spock?
Answer: An American Life
Question: Ergophobia is the irrational fear or what?
Answer: Working
Question: The cauliflower was first cultivated on or in the region of what island?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: The original Greek meaning of the word Hippodrome was what?
Answer: Horse race
Question: What does a cruciverbalist make?
Answer: Crossword puzzles
Question: In which large gland of the human body where are the Islets of Langerhans?
Answer: Pancreas
Question: Who carried the British flag at the closing ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: Kelly Holmes
Question: Keflavik International Airport is in which country?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Who wrote the lines, "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night..." ?
Answer: William Blake
Question: Before 'Poppy Appeal' what words appeared on the central black buttons of poppies sold in Poppy Appeal in the UK every year?
Answer: Haig Fund
Question: A 'Coney Island whitefish' is slang for a what?
Answer: A discarded condom
Question: What word for a wild or half-tamed horse derives from the Spanish word for rough wood and specifically a knot in wood?
Answer: Bronco
Question: What event attracted the highest UK TV audience of the 1990s?
Answer: Princess Diana's Funeral
Question: Which of the Brontë sisters wrote the novel 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'?
Answer: Anne Brontë
Question: A clowder is a collective term for which creatures?
Answer: Cats
Question: Which British football team is nicknamed the Blades?
Answer: Sheffield United
Question: The colour of the moon's sky, seen from the moon, is always the same, what is it?
Answer: Black
Question: The Manzanares river runs through which city?
Answer: Madrid
Question: In which European city is The Council of Europe?
Answer: Strasbourg
Question: If something is coriaceous, what does it resemble or have the texture of?
Answer: Leather
Question: In 1997 the Royal Academy of Art controversially exhibited a 1995 portrait of which convicted murderer, made from children's handprints, by Marcus Harvey?
Answer: Myra Hindley
Question: What geographic term for a bay derives originally from the Greek word kolpos meaning bosom?
Answer: Gulf
Question: In which city is the Galileo Galilei airport?
Answer: Pisa
Question: Who is the only woman, up until 2010, ever to have run for leadership of the British Labour Party?
Answer: Margaret Beckett
Question: What word, orginally meaning female slave in Greek, refers to a woman who gives support and help to a pregnant woman before, during and after childbirth?
Answer: Doula
Question: What is a car marque, a software company and the national flower of Egypt?
Answer: Lotus
Question: If this were a cryptic crossword clue it could be 'Poetic Irish county'?
Answer: Limerick
Question: What is a tone of photography which results from or gives the effect of age?
Answer: Sepia
Question: What semi-precious stone decorated Tutankhamun's burial mask, and is the colour of the American Robin's eggs?
Answer: Turquoise
Question: Caroline Lucas is head of what UK organization?
Answer: The Green Party
Question: Who was English King from 1650-1702?
Answer: William of Orange
Question: What college in New Cross is part of the University of London?
Answer: Goldsmiths
Question: Name the low-cost private domestic airline based in Gurgaon, Haryana, India?
Answer: IndiGo Airlines
Question: The Whirlwind is which snooker player's nickname?
Answer: Jimmy White
Question: What is shade of brown derives from the Latin name for the European Mole, and is (according to Wikipedia) the most popular colour of leather sofas?
Answer: Taupe
Question: What controversial artist designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo?
Answer: Salvador Dali
Question: The port of Drammen is in which European country?
Answer: Norway
Question: Which singer and actor's epitaph is 'The Best is Yet to Come'?
Answer: Frank Sinatra
Question: In which year was the Euro, the single European currency, introduced into the world financial markets?
Answer: 1999
Question: The UK Advertising Standards Authority announced what bus poster advert had attracted the highest number of complaints in 2009?
Answer: The Christian Party 'There definitely is a God'
Question: How many Grand Slam doubles (including mixed doubles) titles did Martina Navratilova win?
Answer: 41
Question: Leoprine relates to which animals?
Answer: Hares
Question: Notaphily is the collecting of what?
Answer: Banknotes
Question: In botany, if a plant is monocarpic what does it do only once?
Answer: Bear fruit
Question: What is the call-sign name of the US presidential helicopter?
Answer: Marine One
Question: """A floating object displaces its own weight in fluid"" is essentially what principle?"
Answer: The Archimedes Principle
Question: The term perciforme, representing the largest order of vertebrates, refers to which backboned creatures?
Answer: Fish
Question: The label on a Jack Daniel's whiskey bottle refers to "Old No. 'what number' Brand"?
Answer: 7
Question: Which UK TV series featured the fictional relocation of the Middlesborough Transporter Bridge to Arizona, prompting worried phone calls to the local council and forcing the broadcaster to clarify that the storyline was not real?
Answer: Auf Wiedersehen Pet
Question: Speleology is the study of what?
Answer: Caves
Question: What is the chemical compound C6H12O6 better known as?
Answer: Glucose
Question: In 1962, who starred in the first of the longest-running series of films with the same main character?
Answer: Sean Connery
Question: What is the capital city of New York state in the USA?
Answer: Albany
Question: In which Australian city can be found the suburbs of Indooroopilly, Jamboree Heights, Jindalee and Kangaroo Point?
Answer: Brisbane
Question: Which New Zealand-born and New York-based artist, known for his kinetic sculpture produced between 1950 and 1980, also made films, applying dyes, stencils, air-brushes and other objects directly to celluloid?
Answer: Len Lye
Question: Whose discovery, that there were other galaxies in existence besides the Milky Way, was announced in 1925?
Answer: Edwin Hubble
Question: What is the maximum number of players that can be on a polo field at any one time during a game?
Answer: 8
Question: Chicago, Illinois, U S A, is on the shores of what body of water?
Answer: Lake Michigan
Question: The first verse of which song begins "So you think youve lost your love? Well I saw her yesterday"?
Answer: She Loves You
Question: What French phrase means "sea-sickness"?
Answer: Mal de mer
Question: Until Lewis Hamilton's win at Spain in 2007, who held the record for being the youngest driver to lead the Formula One Championship?
Answer: Bruce McLaren
Question: Which one of these planets was not represented in the musical work by Gustav Holst called The Planets?
Answer: Earth
Question: What perennial herb with sweet pine and citrus flavours was known to the Greeks and Romans as a sign of happiness?
Answer: Marjoram
Question: Which US state borders another country, and no other US state?
Answer: Alaska
Question: What game is set in a mansion where players attempt to solve a murder, the solution requiring the components of "Suspect", "Weapon", and "Room"?
Answer: Cluedo
Question: In Billy Wilder's film "Sunset Boulevard", in which Gloria Swanson often said the line, "All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up", who played Cecil B DeMille?
Answer: Cecil B DeMille
Question: The Taj Mahal is nearest to which city?
Answer: Agra
Question: What was the cause of the disqualification of Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at Mexico City in 1968, the first as a result of failing a doping test at an Olympic Games?
Answer: Beer
Question: Who wrote the play "Bent"?
Answer: Martin Sherman
Question: Which Scotsman took out a patent in 1876 that was the nucleus of the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Bell
Question: Charlie Chaplin wore his tramp costume for the first time in 1914 in which film?
Answer: Kid Auto Races in Venice
Question: What is the capital of the province of Alberta, Canada?
Answer: Edmonton
Question: What was believed to be a hemisphere above the ground, carrying the fixed stars and surrounding the seven spheres of the planets, through which the Sun and Moon moved in and out through a series of openings?
Answer: Firmament
Question: Making a U-turn results in a change of direction of how many degrees?
Answer: 180
Question: A necromancer is a type of what?
Answer: Sorcerer
Question: At which Olympic Games were females allowed to compete at track & field athletics for the first time?
Answer: 1928, Amsterdam
Question: Portree is the principal town on which island?
Answer: Skye
Question: In the 1960s, who had a hit record with Bob Dylans Blowin in the Wind?
Answer: Peter, Paul and Mary
Question: What is the scientific symbol for calcium?
Answer: Ca
Question: What is the only country not to identify itself on its postage stamps?
Answer: United Kingdom
Question: In England, Dick Turpin (1706-39), Claude Duval (1643-70) and John Nevison (1639-84) were well known as what?
Answer: Highwaymen
Question: What are the Christian names of J K Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter?
Answer: Joanne Kathleen
Question: Where were the FIBA (Basketball) World Championships held in 2006?
Answer: Japan
Question: What is the next in the series: Calgary, Canada; Albertville, France; Lillehammer, Norway; Nagano, Japan?
Answer: Salt Lake City, United States
Question: What is the next number in the series 1, 8, 27, 64, 125?
Answer: 216
Question: Who collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber to create the musical "The Beautiful Game"?
Answer: Ben Elton
Question: In 2004 it was announced that what new fixture was planned for Wimbledons Centre Court, to be completed in 2009?
Answer: A retractable roof
Question: Time On Our Hands, which held the record for the highest UK audience for a sitcom episode from 1996 for over ten years, is from which TV series?
Answer: Only Fools and Horses
Question: Which Irish step dancer, flautist and choreographer, born 16 July 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, became internationally known through the musical "Riverdance"?
Answer: Michael Flatley
Question: What 3-D puzzle was invented in 1974 by a Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture?
Answer: Rubik's Cube
Question: In sheep's stomach put finely minced heart, lungs & liver of sheep, 2 chopped onions, 1lb suet, juice of 1 lemon, 1/2pt oatmeal, 2tsp salt, 1tsp pepper, 1/2 grated nutmeg, 1/2pt gravy; boil 3 hrs is a recipe for what?
Answer: Haggis
Question: Which US state capital is on the banks of the Cumberland River?
Answer: Nashville, Tennessee
Question: What is the largest island of Denmark, that includes the cities of Copenhagen and Helsingr?
Answer: Zealand
Question: Which theatre in Dublin, built in 1904 where George Bernard Shaw, W B Yeats, Padraic Colum, and Sean O'Casey premiered many of their plays, was severely damaged by fire in 1951?
Answer: Abbey Theatre
Question: What appeared in the Netherlands in 1608, developed by Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen and Jacob Metius, and improved by Galileo in 1609?
Answer: Refracting telescope
Question: Which Olympic Games were the first where all continents were represented, with all athletes competing in one stadium?
Answer: 1912, Stockholm
Question: Which large, non-venomous snake found in South America and on Trinidad grows to around 23 feet (7.0 m) long, and is olive green with black blotches with orange-yellow striping on either side of the head?
Answer: Anaconda
Question: What term is familiarly applied to the university where one received one's education?
Answer: Alma Mater
Question: At which event is milk, not champagne, the celebration drink?
Answer: Indianapolis 500
Question: Theo van Doesberg, Piet Mondriaan, Vilmos Huizar and Bart van der Leck are identified with what art movement?
Answer: Neoplasticism
Question: From 2008 Ferrari provided cars (a modification of the F1 Ferrari F2004 chassis) with a V8 engine for which 'single make' motor racing series?
Answer: A1 Grand Prix
Question: What was the occupation of Vaslav Nijinsky from 1908?
Answer: Dancer and choreographer
Question: What was the first combat aircraft to provide cabin pressurisation for the crew?
Answer: B29 Bomber
Question: What is the name of the English law that prevents anyone building so as to completely cut out light from a window that had provided light for at least 20 years?
Answer: Ancient Lights
Question: The aim of which board game, which is based on one created in India around 500 BC, is to move pawns from the "nest" to "home"?
Answer: Parcheesi
Question: Who live in a seraglio?
Answer: Wives and concubines
Question: Which is the gerund in the sentence "we listened to the whispering"?
Answer: whispering
Question: Which author, who wrote "Portrait Of A Lady", "The American" and "Roderick Hudson", was born in New York in 1843 and became a naturalised Englishman in 1915?
Answer: Henry James
Question: What does the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom relate directly to?
Answer: Its atomic number
Question: What is the next in the series: Waterloo, Blackfriars, Blackfriars Railway, Millennium ?
Answer: Southwark
Question: Which song begins with this lyric "There she was just a-walkin' down the street"?
Answer: Doo Wah Diddy Diddy
Question: Where in New York city are the New York Zoo and the New York Botanical Gardens?
Answer: Bronx Park
Question: Which film ended with the two main characters driving a car off a cliff?
Answer: Thelma and Louise
Question: What type of design was used for London's Millennium Footbridge across the Thames, that opened on 10 June 2000?
Answer: Steel suspension bridge
Question: Which medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal, native to Africa, is the sole representative of the mammalian order Tubulidentata?
Answer: Aardvark
Question: What was the name of the meeting that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787?
Answer: The Philadelphia Convention
Question: How long was the Hundred Years War, fought between England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries?
Answer: 116 years
Question: What film starring Denis Quaid and Tyrese Gibson released in 2004 is a remake of one released in 1965 starring James Stewart and Richard Attenborough?
Answer: Flight of the Phoenix
Question: If Christmas Day falls on a Tuesday, on what day will New Year's Day fall?
Answer: Tuesday
Question: Who is the youngest actor to receive an Oscar for the Best Actor in a Leading Role?
Answer: Adrien Brody
Question: What is the next in the series: Williamsburg Bridge, Rutgers Street Tunnel, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge?
Answer: Cranberry Street Tunnel
Question: What was the original name of the board game invented by Elliot Rudell, similar to Scrabble, whereby letters can be stacked on top of others to create new words?
Answer: Upwords
Question: Who, after making a living painting porcelain and sun blinds, became well known due to such paintings as "Portrait of William Sisley" and "Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne"?
Answer: Renoir
Question: What is the name for an expert on reptiles?
Answer: Herpetologist
Question: What game involves throwing rings to get them on or near a pin?
Answer: Quoits
Question: Trivial Pursuit was invented in which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: What is the name for the 7 kingdoms into which England was supposedly divided in the early Middle Ages?
Answer: Heptarchy
Question: Which film, that opens at the annual presentation of the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement, focusses on the personality clash of two stage actresses played by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter?
Answer: All About Eve
Question: What is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport?
Answer: Water polo
Question: Which one of these characters is from the TV series "ER"?
Answer: Dr Elizabeth Corday