zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What name is given to the items collected by a woman in anticipation of marriage?
Answer: Hope chest
Question: What is the capital of Wales?
Answer: Cardiff
Question: A cor anglais is what type of instrument?
Answer: Brass
Question: Who was the 2005 European Eventing Champion?
Answer: Zara Phillips
Question: Where did the old woman who "had so many children she didn't know what to do" live?
Answer: Shoe
Question: The Garonne river passes through Toulouse and Bordeaux after rising where?
Answer: The Pyrenees
Question: Who is second in the line of US presidential succession, following the Vice President?
Answer: Speaker of the House of Representatives
Question: When was the first World Cup cricket contest held?
Answer: 1975
Question: These are the last lines of which musical: "Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers"?
Answer: My Fair Lady
Question: In which classic arcade is the object to get an amphibian across a busy road?
Answer: Frogger
Question: Since 1980, what has been the official country residence of the British Foreign Secretary?
Answer: Chevening
Question: Which company designed the "safety pin dress" worn by Liz Hurley to a 1994 Los Angeles film premiere?
Answer: Versace
Question: What sport is competed in the Giro de Italia?
Answer: Cycling
Question: What was the setting for the 1980 film "Fame"?
Answer: New York High School of Performing Arts
Question: Tony Hawk won 9 gold medals at what annual event between 1995 and 2002?
Answer: Summer X-Games
Question: What is the most popular sports competition in Australia?
Answer: AFL Football
Question: What US state borders both Kansas and Utah?
Answer: Colorado
Question: What word means a "sudden revelation"?
Answer: Epiphany
Question: What game is played on ice with large stones fitted with handles with the aim to place them as close as possible to a fixed mark called a tee?
Answer: Curling
Question: On which island is Marsamxett Harbour?
Answer: Malta
Question: What does the French word "croissant" mean?
Answer: Crescent
Question: What is the median of 1, 2, 2, 5, 9 and 17?
Answer: 3.5
Question: Sleepers are used to support what?
Answer: Railway lines
Question: After the Battle of Landriano, French monarch Franois I was forced to concede defeat in which war?
Answer: The War of the League of Cognac
Question: On the Christian calendar, what is the day before Ash Wednesday?
Answer: Shrove Tuesday
Question: In cricket, what name is given to a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play, to maintain most of the strike until the close of play and so protect other, more capable batsmen from being out cheaply in what may be a period of tiredness or in poor light?
Answer: Nightwatchman
Question: What is the next in this series: Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter ... ?
Answer: 1 John
Question: Marti Pellow was the lead vocalist of what group?
Answer: Wet Wet Wet
Question: Who became the head of the UK's Lawn Tennis Association in 2006?
Answer: Roger Draper
Question: What is the name of the supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, China, one of the few petaFLOP-level supercomputers in the world, that in October 2010 became the world's fastest supercomputer, performing at peak computing rate of 2.507 petaflops?
Answer: Tianhe-1A
Question: Where is the Palazzo Farnese (the Farnese Palace), in which, in Puccini's opera "Tosca", the heroine confronts Scarpia, the malevolent Chief of Police?
Answer: Rome
Question: The Bombay duck or bummalo is what type of creature?
Answer: Lizardfish
Question: What actress, born in Muscat, Oman, began acting on Australian television on "Paradise Beach" and "Home and Away" and is known for her roles in "Wedding Crashers" (2005), "Hot Rod" (2007), "Definitely, Maybe" (2008) and "Confessions of a Shopaholic" (2009)?
Answer: Isla Fisher
Question: What is the motto of the Hells Angels?
Answer: When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets
Question: Pedology is the study of what?
Answer: Soil
Question: What was the code name for the German invasion of Russia in World War II?
Answer: Operation Barbarossa
Question: What spoken word competition, which has been organised for many years by Gary Hallock, has been held every May since 1978 in Austin, Texas?
Answer: The O. Henry Pun-Off
Question: Who wrote the books "Fourplay" (published in 2001), "The Ex Files" (2003), "dot.homme" (2004), "Second Wives Club" (2005) and "Love @ First Site" (2005)?
Answer: Jane Moore
Question: Formaggio marcio is notable for containing what?
Answer: Live insect larvae
Question: What is an insincere expression of sorrow?
Answer: Crocodile tears
Question: Appenzeller, Bndner Bergkse. Casalina, Crava, Dorset Blue Vinney, Giglio Sardo, Labneh. Piave, Sage Derby and Strica are all types of what?
Answer: Cheese
Question: Where did the Phnom Penh stampede occur, on 22 November 2010 when 378 people died and upwards of 755 more were injured?
Answer: On a bridge
Question: In the English legal system, what does a lawyer become when he "takes silk"?
Answer: QC
Question: The Bretton Woods Agreements, signed by 44 nations in 1944, were about what?
Answer: International finance
Question: What is the British Engineerium, in Hove?
Answer: An engineering and steam power museum
Question: Jean Todt, Morrie Chandler,Graham Stoker and Brian Gibbons have been recently involved in the adminstration of which sport at an international level?
Answer: Motorsport
Question: Where are the Wahibah Sands?
Answer: Oman
Question: What nationality is tennis player Gaston Gaudio?
Answer: Argentinian
Question: Where would one find the Appleton layer?
Answer: The earth's upper atmosphere
Question: What country will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup competition?
Answer: Qatar
Question: Who is the only person to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize for lterature?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: Who "rocked in the treetops all the day long" to a chorus of "Tweet, tweet, tweedley deet"?
Answer: Rockin' Robin
Question: What is the name for an angle greater than 180 degrees and less than 360 degrees?
Answer: Reflex
Question: Since its debut in the UK in 1998, international versions of which TV programme have spawned in over a hundred countries, more than any other game show?
Answer: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Question: What is the word for a document issued by a political party before an election that sets out party policies?
Answer: Manifesto
Question: """Massacre in Korea"", a 1951 expressionistic painting by Pablo Picasso which is seen as a criticism of American intervention in the Korean war is drawn from the painting ""The Third of May 1808"", which shows Napoleon's soldiers executing Spanish civilians, by whom?"
Answer: Francisco Goya
Question: London Bridge, bought for US$2.5 million from the City of London when the bridge was replaced in 1968, crosses a 930ft (280m) long man-made canal in Lake Havasu City in which US state?
Answer: Arizona
Question: Which cricketer has scored the most first class centuries in history?
Answer: Jack Hobbs
Question: What tax was current in ancient Athens, in Jerusalem more than 2,000 years ago, in Egypt, in Europe and England from time to time (leading in 1381 to Wat Tyler's rebellion), including Charles I's, Charles II's, and Margaret Thatcher's governments, in Canada and the USA, and in NZ among others?
Answer: Poll Tax
Question: What street leads to the front of Buckingham Palace in London?
Answer: The Mall
Question: Port Said is at the entrance to which canal?
Answer: Suez
Question: Who provides the voice for Gromit in the "Wallace and Gromit" series of TV shows?
Answer: No-one
Question: What is the largest country by land area in Central America?
Answer: Nicaragua
Question: What is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city?
Answer: Ankara
Question: Where is the Gulf of Bothnia?
Answer: Baltic Sea
Question: The lead character in the TV series "Lovejoy", which was based on stories by John Grant (under the pen name Jonathan Gash), was an expert in what?
Answer: Antiques
Question: What was Victoria Beckham's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: Posh
Question: Artists Chuck Close, Henri-Edmond Cross, John Roy, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce and Vincent van Gogh painted in what style?
Answer: Pointillism
Question: Who directed the 2005 film "Munich"?
Answer: Steven Spielberg
Question: Which British boxer lost the heavyweight title in 1972?
Answer: Ken Buchanan
Question: What was the setting for the 1960s children's TV adventure series "Daktari"?
Answer: East Africa
Question: The satellite "Aryabhata", launched on 19 April 1975, to conduct experiments in X-ray astronomy, aeronomics, and solar physics, was built by which country?
Answer: India
Question: Which inn that stood on the east side of Borough High Street in Southwark accommodated pilgrims headed on annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral, and is mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"?
Answer: The Tabard
Question: The Oscar statuettes are made of gold-plated britannium. During World War II, they were made of what material?
Answer: Plaster
Question: What was Ellis Island, in New York harbour, used for from 1892 to 1954?
Answer: Processing immigrants to the USA
Question: The first playoff tiebreaker in Major League Baseball history was held on 1 & 3 October 1946, a best-of-three playoff to decide the winner of the MLB National League (NL) conference, between which 2 teams?
Answer: St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers
Question: What are Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, The Inner Temple and The Middle Temple, all in London?
Answer: Inns of Court
Question: Who plays Mark Sloan in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: Patrick Dempsey
Question: Dr Kay Scarpetta was invented by which author?
Answer: Patricia Cornwell
Question: A song written by Chuck Berry is "Roll Over ... " who?
Answer: Beethoven
Question: What is the chemical symbol for tin?
Answer: Sn
Question: What is the capital of Namibia?
Answer: Windhoek
Question: Eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat, tongue of dog, lizard's leg, owlet's wing, scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, liver of blaspheming Jew, gall of goat, slips of yew, nose of Turk and Tartar's lips were some of the ingredients for a famous preparation made by whom?
Answer: The Three Witches
Question: The term "checkmate" is based on a phrase from which language?
Answer: Persian
Question: In the SI system, what is the basic unit for the measurement of electric current?
Answer: Ampere
Question: Christiaan Huygens has been credited with inventing what in the 1650s?
Answer: Pendulum clock
Question: Who is being spoken about with the Shakespearean line "Frailty, thy name is woman"?
Answer: Hamlet's mother
Question: Spinoff TV series from "Beverly Hills, 90210" included "Melrose Place", "90210" and which other?
Answer: Models Inc
Question: """He's got this dream about buyin' some land. He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands. And then he'll settle down, there's a quiet little town, and forget about everything"" is a line from which hit song of the 1970s?"
Answer: Baker Street
Question: What is the most populous city in Africa?
Answer: Cairo
Question: What is the name of the British annual pop music awards, that are held in February each year?
Answer: The Brit Awards
Question: The word plagiarism comes from the Latin word meaning what?
Answer: Kidnapping
Question: What is the literal translation of the Russian word "Kremlin"?
Answer: Fortress
Question: Before 2012 when was the most recent time the Summer Olympics were held in London, UK?
Answer: 1948
Question: What is the name of the test cricket venue in Leeds, England?
Answer: Headingley
Question: Who is Rome's airport named after?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci
Question: Who is the nursery rhyme gardener?
Answer: Mary Mary
Question: Which of the few of the original Star Wars trilogy cast believed that the film would be a box office hit and did a deal for two percent of the gross, but later proposed to George Lucas that his character be killed off because he "just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines"?
Answer: Alec Guiness
Question: What is the main ingredient in "yellowcake"?
Answer: Uranium
Question: """Whispering"" Ted Lowe was associated with which sport?"
Answer: Snooker
Question: What is a word game where paragraphs are written in which a particular letter or group of letters is omitted?
Answer: Lipogram
Question: What was the name of the official news agency of the USSR before it broke up?
Answer: TASS
Question: Which famous English model of the 1960s was once romantically linked to '60s photographer David Bailey and actor Terence Stamp, but married photographer Michael Cox, with whom she runs a small hotel in Penzance, Cornwall?
Answer: Jean Shrimpton
Question: What is the currency used in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon?
Answer: Pound
Question: Neophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: New things
Question: """Silks"" is the name used to describe the uniform of a competitor in which sport?"
Answer: Horse racing
Question: Before it was changed to "Washington D.C." after his death, what had George Washington named Washington D.C.?
Answer: Federal City
Question: The series of numbers that is obtained by adding the previous two together is named after whom?
Answer: Fibonacci
Question: Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins and Dolly Parton are associated with what style of music?
Answer: Country
Question: The Iguazu Falls are on the border of which two countries?
Answer: Brazil & Argentina
Question: What US TV series concerned a New Jersey crime family?
Answer: The Sopranos
Question: What colour connects 29 October 1929, 19 October 1987 and 22 November 1963?
Answer: Black
Question: What word is used to describe someone who speaks many languages?
Answer: Polyglot
Question: Who was appointed captain of Great Britain's Davis Cup team in 2006?
Answer: John Lloyd
Question: When was the ICC, official base in The Hague in the Netherlands, established?
Answer: 2002
Question: Early raids by British Commando units between March 1941 and April 1943, Operations "Claymore", "Anklet", "Archery", "Musketoon" and "Checkmate", destroyed fish-oil factories, petrol dumps, sank ships, damaged factories and warehouses, resulted in permanent closure of a hydroelectric power plant and an aluminium plant, and captured German troops, encryption equipment and codebooks; where were they carried out?
Answer: Norway
Question: Leaders in a cub scout pack are named after the characters in which book?
Answer: """The Jungle Book"" by Rudyard Kipling"
Question: In motor racing, what are "slicks"?
Answer: Tyres
Question: At the 1976 Summer Olympics, who was the only female competitor not to have a sex test?
Answer: Princess Anne of the UK
Question: Which player made a comeback to international tennis in 2006 after 4 years?
Answer: Martina Hingis
Question: The Jake Gaudaur Veterans' Trophy, presented annually to the Canadian Football League player "who best demonstrates the attributes of Canada's veterans in times of war, peace and military conflict", was first awarded in 2010 to Mike McCullough who played for which team?
Answer: Saskatchewan Roughriders
Question: Elizabeth II is the Queen regnant of how many independent sovereign states known informally as the Commonwealth realms, for which she holds each crown separately and equally in a shared monarchy?
Answer: 16
Question: In basketball, what is the offence of running with the ball called?
Answer: Travelling
Question: Which British actor made his film debut in Peter Ustinov's film adaptation of "Billy Budd" (1962) and went on to make a number of films, including "The Collector" (1965), "Far From The Madding Crowd" (1967), "Poor Cow" (1967), "Wall Street" (1987), "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994), "Bowfinger" (1999), "My Boss's Daughter" (2003) and "Elektra" (2005)?
Answer: Terence Stamp
Question: Which bank, which had opened in 1762 (and was the oldest merchant bank in London) collapsed in 1995 after one of the bank's employees lost 827 million ($1.3 billion) speculating primarily on futures contracts?
Answer: Barings Bank
Question: """Black Cherry"" and ""Supernature"" are albums by which band?"
Answer: Goldfrapp
Question: When were 18 year olds allowed to vote in a General Election in the United Kingdom?
Answer: 1970
Question: In France, what is the SNCF?
Answer: Railway network
Question: Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, made his fortune from what?
Answer: Newspapers
Question: EGM is the usual term for what?
Answer: Extraordinary General Meeting
Question: The exterior of which real Boston pub was used in the TV programme "Cheers" in the 1980s?
Answer: Bull & Finch
Question: In 1635 Robert Hooke developed what?
Answer: The law of elasticity
Question: Fashion designer Ozwald Boateng specialises in what?
Answer: Suits
Question: What is a Thompson seedless?
Answer: Grape
Question: What is known most usually in the UK as "The Sport of Kings"?
Answer: Horse racing
Question: What is Mexico's largest commercial port?
Answer: Manzanillo
Question: Who are Anne Valerie Hash, Stephanie Rolland, Alexis Mabille, Rebecca Taylor, Marc Jacobs and John Galliano?
Answer: Fashion designers
Question: St James's Palace is in what street in London?
Answer: Pall Mall
Question: Charles Lindbergh's first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 was between which two cities?
Answer: New York and Paris, France
Question: The French National Assembly is housed in which building?
Answer: Palais Bourbon
Question: Quicksilver is the alternative name for what?
Answer: Mercury
Question: What are carried on a hod?
Answer: Bricks
Question: What is a nickname for Inverness?
Answer: The Capital of the Highlands
Question: Who played Mr Big in the TV series "Sex and the City" which first ran from 1998 to 2004, and the films "Sex and the City" (2008) and "Sex and the City 2" (2010)?
Answer: Chris Noth
Question: Who published their autobiography "Life is a Rollercoaster" in 2000?
Answer: Ronan Keating
Question: The Michael Phelps Foundation Golf Classic is an annual fundraiser for what?
Answer: Growing the sport of swimming and promoting healthier lifestyles
Question: The Harelle, a revolt that occurred in the French city of Rouen in 1382 followed by the Maillotins Revolt a few days later in Paris, and subsequently in Amiens, Dieppe, Falaise, Caen, Orleans, and Rheims during the Hundred Years War, was about what?
Answer: Taxation
Question: The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 was fought between which two countries?
Answer: England and France
Question: In what sport does the equipment include a spider, a hook rest and a half butt?
Answer: Snooker
Question: What alloy is made of 12% tin and 88% copper?
Answer: Bronze
Question: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major (Op. 68) is known as what?
Answer: The Pastoral Symphony
Question: Which state in the USA is equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, containing both the geographic centre of the 48 contiguous USA states and the geodetic centre of North America?
Answer: Kansas
Question: A game popular in a number of countries and known variously as Belote, Boeuf, Vida, and other names is played with what?
Answer: Cards
Question: What is the capital of San Marino?
Answer: The City of San Marino
Question: If you were at a hoedown what would you do?
Answer: Dance
Question: According to Lewis Carroll in his novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1872), what was used to kill the Jabberwock?
Answer: A vorpal sword
Question: What is the title of ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard's autobiography, published in October 2010?
Answer: Lazarus Rising
Question: In what year did Sweden change its laws to allow a woman to inherit the throne, USSR stage its first rock festival, the border officially re-open between Spain and Gibraltar, Iceland democratically elect its first woman president, and the 10.14 mile (16.32km) long St Gotthard Road Tunnel open in Switzerland?
Answer: 1980
Question: Which is the youngest of these New Zealand actresses ?
Answer: Keisha Castle-Hughes
Question: What ocean borders the US state of California?
Answer: Pacific
Question: The 2006 Open Golf Championship was played on which English course after a gap of almost 40 years?
Answer: Hoylake
Question: Designer Karl Lagerfeld is famous for carrying what as a fashion accessory?
Answer: Fan
Question: Jane Horrocks plays which role in the TV series "Absolutely Fabulous"?
Answer: Bubble
Question: London's Hatton Garden is the centre of trade in what?
Answer: Jewellery
Question: Where do arboreal animals live?
Answer: In trees
Question: """Lusail"" is a new city in which country?"
Answer: Qatar
Question: What name was given to a series of violent events on 21 May 1979 in San Francisco, USA, sparked by the lenient sentencing (for voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible) of Dan White for the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, which led to changes in the city's official attitude to gays?
Answer: White Night riots
Question: A group of what is usually called a "parliament"?
Answer: Owls
Question: In November 2010, China announced that it would have its first what in 2011?
Answer: Aircraft carrier
Question: Approximately how much of the water on earth is fresh water?
Answer: 3%
Question: What nationality is the soccer player Dennnis Bergkamp?
Answer: Dutch
Question: Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the end of World War I?
Answer: David Lloyd George
Question: In 1938, after receiving the Nobel Prize, which physicist emigrated to the USA, protesting the oppressive regime of his homeland?
Answer: Enrico Fermi
Question: What sport, when it was first played in 1902, was called immoral and "a monster that spreads its claws to all sides"?
Answer: Korfball
Question: What is the largest and least populated state of the USA?
Answer: Alaska
Question: What was the tallest man-made structure before the completion of the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: The Washington Monument
Question: Who, at 95 years of age, supposedly waved the Union flag out of the window of her house in Frederick, Maryland while Stonewall Jackson's troops were passing, and is the subject of a 1864 poem: "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said."?
Answer: Barbara Fritchie
Question: An American singer-songwriter, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, was nicknamed what (which was also the name of their last album, in 1971)?
Answer: Pearl
Question: What award is the television equivalent of the Oscars?
Answer: Emmys
Question: What is the occupation of the title character in "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce?
Answer: Hod carrier
Question: The slang words "cool", "groovy", "cat", and "chick" came from the jazz music culture in what decades'?
Answer: 1920s and 1930s
Question: When did Channel Four and the Welsh language channel SC4 first broadcast in the UK?
Answer: November 1982
Question: Who is thought to have first invented gunpowder?
Answer: Chinese alchemists
Question: A non-SI unit of radioactivity is named after ...?
Answer: Marie and Pierre Curie
Question: The formula for World Rally Championship cars changed for the 2011 championship, with engines limited to many litres?
Answer: 1.6
Question: Which Biblical temptress has inspired plays by Oscar Wilde and Nick Cave, operas by Richard Strauss and Antoine Mariotte, a ballet by Florent Schmitt, films, a sculpture by Tilman Riemenschneider and numerous paintings, including those by Sandro Botticelli, Titian, Caravaggio, Caracciolo, Gustave Dor, James Tissot, Aubrey Beardsley and Robert Henri?
Answer: Salome
Question: Clara Petacci was the mistress of whom?
Answer: Mussolini
Question: What is an Afrikaans and South African English word for a roughly circular enclosure for livestock, surrounded by fencing?
Answer: Kraal
Question: What is the name for a mixture of clay, sand and silt?
Answer: Loam
Question: In the song "How Much is that Doggy in the Window", "they say in the papers there are ... " what?
Answer: Robbers
Question: Where was the TV series Stargate-SG1 filmed?
Answer: Vancouver, Canada
Question: A 1973 James Bond film was entitled "Live and Let ... " what?
Answer: Die