zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Gambrius, legendary King of Flanders, is the unofficial patron and mythical inventor of which drink?
Answer: Beer
Question: Podagra is the technical term for which medical condition in humans, often associated with heavy drinking?
Answer: Gout
Question: A Novocastrian, is a native of which English and Australian cities?
Answer: Newcastle
Question: In the Netherlands in 1932 Adriaan Van Well founded which acronymic international grocery chain business, represented by a fir-tree logo?
Answer: SPAR
Question: Ganesh, Murugan and their father Shiva feature in which religion?
Answer: Hindu
Question: The British Assured Food Standards scheme for food and farm quality is represented in its branding and website name by a?
Answer: Red tractor
Question: The so-called 'spade hacker' - a 75 year-old Georgian woman digging for copper scrap - accidentally cut off the internet connection for five hours in April 2011 for the entire 3.2m population of which bordering nation?
Answer: Armenia
Question: Kebero, tabor, bodhran and cajon (pronounced cahon) are types of which musical instruments?
Answer: Drums
Question: When an orchestra tunes up before playing, what instrument conventionally provides the initial 'A' guide note?
Answer: Oboe
Question: On what form of transport would you find a pelorus, said to be named after Hannibal's pilot, c.200BC?
Answer: Ship
Question: Previously deemed too dangerous, what Winter Olympics event will be open to women for the first time in the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi?
Answer: Ski jumping
Question: Little Willie and Big Willie were nicknames for the first and second models of what British WWI armament?
Answer: Tank
Question: 'Roadhouse' is the ironic US Secret Service codename for what famous standard-setting luxury Art Deco hotel at 301 Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York City?
Answer: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Question: Penthesilea, Myrine and Hippolyte were queens of which legendary warrior people?
Answer: Amazons
Question: The flower-gardened residence Giverny, in Normandy, France, was home to what impressionist painter, noted for his garden pond scenes?
Answer: Claude Monet
Question: Name the long-standing much-respected British, European and Commonwealth Heavyweight Boxing Champion who died in 2011, age 76?
Answer: Henry Cooper
Question: The Imperial War Museum in London was originally based in which building at Sydenham Hill, famously destroyed by fire in 1936?
Answer: The Crystal Palace
Question: The Stanley Cup, for which various USA and Canada clubs compete and said to be the oldest sports trophy in N America, is awarded in which sport?
Answer: Ice Hockey
Question: Name the founder of psychoanalysis who wrote the The Interpretation of Dreams, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle?
Answer: Sigmund Freud
Question: Known also in the US and elswhere as President, what traditionally and descriptively is the most senior position in a company and other hierarchical organizations?
Answer: Chairman
Question: What famous 1945 book includes the first of seven commandments, "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy."?
Answer: Animal Farm
Question: Manal al-Sherif was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2011 for posting a protest video of herself doing what, which is effectively banned for women?
Answer: Driving
Question: In what Shakespeare play does the character Marcellus say, 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark' ?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Name the South African record-breaking Paralympic sprinter known as the 'Blade Runner' (referring to his carbon-fibre artificial limbs)?
Answer: Oscar Pistorius
Question: What popular rosy-cheeked animal character, launched on UK TV in 2004, was licensed to US Fisher Price Toys in 2011?
Answer: Peppa Pig
Question: Name the American 'godfather of rap' who died in May 2011, noted especially for his 1970 poem-song 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised',?
Answer: Gil Scott-Heron
Question: In the TV series Thunderbirds, what colour/colour are Brains' spectacle rims?
Answer: Blue
Question: Who is Britain's longest serving consort?
Answer: Prince Philip
Question: What mainly microscopic life-form takes its name from the Greek word plagktos, meaning wandering?
Answer: Plankton
Question: The word harem, referring to a women's part of a dwelling, and especially to its female occupants, originated in which ethnic people?
Answer: Muslim
Question: Abbrieviated to PIE, what is the ancient Eurasian reconstructed language and origin of wide-ranging modern languages including English, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Urdu and Farsi?
Answer: Proto-Indo-European
Question: Which pottery company originally developed the designs Kutani Crane, Wild Strawberry and Jasperware?
Answer: Wedgwood
Question: What voltage is the common zinc-carbon or alkaline AAA battery (also coded LR03, E92, AM4 among others)?
Answer: 1.5v
Question: What widely used solvent and compound with the symbol (CH3)2CO smells of pear-drops and is in nail polish remover?
Answer: Acetone
Question: The 1987 Montreal Protocol concerns specifically, and includes in its full title, substances that deplete what?
Answer: The Ozone Layer
Question: The DuPont trade name Freon has become an alternative name for which abbreviated compound name strongly associated with global warming?
Answer: CFC
Question: What ancient name applies to the 'days' of hot summer, derived from belief that the star Sirius caused them?
Answer: Dog Days
Question: The failed Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s preceded eventual independence from British colonial rule of what nation in 1963?
Answer: Kenya
Question: Formed after national revolution in 1917 the NKVD was the public and also ruthless secret police of which country until 1946?
Answer: Russia
Question: What Buddhist term and title of reverence (typically for a spiritual leader) derives from the Sanskrit words for 'great soul'?
Answer: Mahatma
Question: The 18th Duchess of the House of Alba, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, holder of arguably more nobility titles than anyone globally, is what nationality?
Answer: Spanish
Question: What Greek word gave us a common suffix referring to disease or illness, and a quality in something which prompts pity or sadness?
Answer: Pathos
Question: What is the medical word, from Greek meaning 'nasal mucus', for inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, typically a symptom of a head cold or hay fever?
Answer: Coryza
Question: Name the former News of the World royal correspondent whose 2007 letter, published in 2011, (allegedly) seriously implicated NOTW leadership in the phone hacking scandal and cover-up?
Answer: Clive Goodman
Question: What airline postponed adverts claiming to '...go the extra mile to make you feel special...' after a photo of (allegedly) a pilot and crew member having sex in an aircraft cockpit became public in Aug 2011?
Answer: Cathay Pacific
Question: Slate is an example of what sort of rock, whose name loosely means 'change in form'?
Answer: Metamorphic
Question: In the mid 1700s Swede Carl Linnaeus devised the modern day taxonomy (category structure) for, and was first to catalogue what?
Answer: Life on Earth
Question: Most commonly what note is the highest pitch open (unfretted) string on a standard/soprano ukulele?
Answer: A
Question: If 27 solid cubes are formed into one big 3x3x3 cube how many individual cubes, at most, are visible from any single angle?
Answer: Nineteen
Question: What number, between two hyphens, is used by journalists, etc., to mark the end of a newspaper or broadcast story?
Answer: 30
Question: 'Roaring' refers to what pluralised number in describing a 1900s decade of western world prosperity?
Answer: Twenty
Question: What is the international SPI resin/polymer identification coding system number (typically shown within a recycling triangle symbol) for polystyrene?
Answer: 6
Question: 'Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation' is better known by what modern word?
Answer: Laser
Question: In 2011 the US National Research Council suggested a clean-up of what exponentially increasing debris problem, using magnets, nets, and giant umbrellas?
Answer: Junk in space
Question: What common internet term is a loose portmanteau of two words broadly meaning internet and diary?
Answer: Blog
Question: The modern internet grew from a non-public US Defense system called?
Answer: Arpanet
Question: When bankers and brokers talk of M&A, what normally do they mean?
Answer: Mergers and Acquisitions
Question: A significant German reaction to the 2011 Fukushima crisis was to phase out what by 2022?
Answer: Nuclear power
Question: In general a horse is distinguished from a pony at/over approximately what height, in hands, to the withers?
Answer: Fourteen
Question: What name was given to a legendary substance believed to turn base metals (notably lead) into gold or silver?
Answer: The philosopher's stone
Question: The sweet variety of the plant genus Musa is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Banana
Question: What historic capital city is situated where the White Nile and Blue Nile join to form the southern start of the Nile?
Answer: Khartoum
Question: What UK newspaper's grossly wrong reporting of the 1989 Hillsborough soccer stadium disaster still causes it to be boycotted in Liverpool over 20 years later?
Answer: The Sun
Question: What French term, meaning 'high dressmaking', refers internationally to expensive designer clothing, typically of leading fashion houses?
Answer: Haute Couture
Question: What iconic Moscow theatre reopened in 2011 after major refurbishment and earlier decades of neglect?
Answer: Bolshoi
Question: At the outset of a major demonstration against capitalist greed and recklessness in London in October 2011, what group did the Rev Giles Fraser ask to leave the steps of St Paul's Cathedral?
Answer: Police
Question: What is a person called who is unappreciative or hostile towards the arts, derived from an ancient race depicted in the Bible as great enemies of Israel?
Answer: Philistine
Question: What foodstuff, meaning 'fat liver' in French, is made from the liver of a duck or goose fattened traditionally by force-feeding?
Answer: Foie gras
Question: What is the Irish handheld single-sided round drum, often played with a double-ended beater?
Answer: Bodhrán
Question: What small ex-Soviet nation between Turkey and Iran was World Team Chess Champion in 2011 and subsequently made the game compulsory in primary school education?
Answer: Armenia
Question: What feature in clothing such as trousers and skirts has variations called box, fluted, accordion, knife and honeycombe?
Answer: Pleats
Question: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) was first president and is regarded as founder of which republic?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Using conventional tunings, what is the lowest note a symphonic orchestra can produce by bowing a stringed instrument?
Answer: E
Question: What William S Burroughs 1961 book popularised the rock music term 'heavy metal', and provided the names for at least two rock bands of the 1970s?
Answer: The Soft Machine
Question: Clumsy awkward person, whose earlier root gave us also 'clot' in English - from Yiddish?
Answer: Klutz
Question: What capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh became famous for the 1984 gas poisoning disaster at Dow Chemicals' Union Carbide plant?
Answer: Bhopal
Question: Piscine Molitor Patel is better known by what highly abbreviated name, being the central character of an eponymously titled novel?
Answer: Pi
Question: The Venetian island of Murano is noted for its centuries-old traditional manufacture of what material in decorative form?
Answer: Glass
Question: 'Guerilla' street art attributed to 'Banski' became a notable feature of what capital city in 2012?
Answer: Moscow
Question: The Turbans, The Five Satins, and The Diamonds helped establish what musical style?
Answer: Doo-wop
Question: Which corporation suffered embarrassment after sponsoring and naming the weather system which caused multiple fatalities across Eastern Europe in Feb 2012?
Answer: BMW
Question: Lisa del Giocondo is better known as what famous characterization?
Answer: Mona Lisa
Question: The Aquino, Arroyo and Cojuangco families have in recent times ruled what country?
Answer: The Philippines
Question: UK road signs for tourist destinations and places of interest are normally a white icon on what colour background?
Answer: Brown
Question: The 1805 Battle of Austerlitz was a major victory for which commander?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: Moishe Shagall, born 1887 in what is now Belarus, became famous under what other name?
Answer: Marc Chagall
Question: What city opened the UK's largest city-centre water feature - the 'Mirror Pool' - in Spring 2012?
Answer: Bradford
Question: What car company was set up by Colin Chapman in 1952, subsequently succeeding in F1 racing?
Answer: Lotus
Question: What modern convenient foodstuff takes its name from the Latin meaning 'salted (and preserved meat)'?
Answer: Sausage
Question: The British pub name 'The Talbot' traditionally refers to a what?
Answer: Dog
Question: What UK government-funded company traditionally employing disabled people in manufacturing was founded in 1945 to provide work for injured soldiers?
Answer: Remploy
Question: In old English, a Yeoman was originally a man possessing/working with?
Answer: Land
Question: What airline was exposed in Spring 2012 as having leaked celebrities' flight details to a paparazzi agency?
Answer: Virgin
Question: The federation of which sport ruled in early 2012 that bikinis would not be compulsory for its competitors at the London Olympics?
Answer: Volleyball
Question: Name Shanghai's financial area and China's commercial hub, literally meaning 'east bank'?
Answer: Pudong
Question: What significant territory did President Richard Nixon call by telephone on 20 July 1969?
Answer: The Moon
Question: Jurisprudence is the theory/philosophy of what?
Answer: Law
Question: Hyponatremia/hyponatraemia is an unhelpful reduction of what element in human blood serum?
Answer: Sodium
Question: Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 classic horror novel about split personality is called what?
Answer: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Question: As at 2012 the official 'authorised version' of the Holy Bible is also known by what monarch's name?
Answer: King James
Question: Caputo '00' flour, fior di latte, and San Marzano plum tomatoes are typical authentic ingredients of what traditional food?
Answer: Pizza
Question: Online auction of a vial of which deceased US president's blood, lost from a lab after a 1981 assassination attempt, was cancelled after family protest in 2012?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: Who was the last English monarch of the Tudor dynasty?
Answer: Elizabeth I
Question: What vast (originally Spanish state monopoly) corporation owns the O2 and Movistar communications brands?
Answer: Telefónica SA
Question: What word traditionally refers to a fictional inhabitant of the planet Mars, which extends loosely to aliens from elsewhere in space?
Answer: Martian
Question: The popular TV talkshow Satyamev Jayate (Truth Alone Prevails) achieves viewing figures of 400 million in what country (as at 2012)?
Answer: India
Question: Which vast UK banking corporation suffered major computer failure during June 2012, impacting the cashflow of millions of customers and businesses, and exposing the company to tens of millions of pounds compensation liabilities?
Answer: RBS
Question: In the Christian Church of England, the title 'The Very Reverend' usually suggests what job title, also called a 'cathedral provost'?
Answer: Dean
Question: The French word 'peloton' usually refers to a bunched group of competitors in what sport?
Answer: Cycling
Question: The Latin term 'intra muros' means?
Answer: Not public
Question: In what language do the words 'beminnen', 'ja', and 'zon', mean 'love', 'yes', and 'sun'?
Answer: Dutch
Question: What is the more common name of the incendiary weapon formulated from naphthenic and palmitic acids?
Answer: Napalm
Question: Originally a physician to the gods, conceived by Greek poet Homer, what ancient word is a song of praise or triumph?
Answer: Paean
Question: From the Greek words loosely meaning 'same' and 'idea' what term refers to an expression which contains unnecessary duplication?
Answer: Tautology
Question: Formerly known as the Ellice Islands, in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia, what nation owns the commercially available internet top-level domain .tv?
Answer: Tuvalu
Question: What popular children's TV/toy character has a Mummy, Daddy, brother George, and cousins Chloé and Alexander?
Answer: Peppa Pig
Question: Which city's metro system has lines including Pinar de Chamartín to Valdecarros and Villaverde Alto to Moncloa?
Answer: Madrid
Question: What country was created in 1949 with the local abbreviated name DDR?
Answer: East Germany
Question: Kinesics is more commonly known as what form of communication?
Answer: Body language
Question: What is the common alternative abbreviated name for a Cannon plug/connector used in professional audio systems?
Answer: XLR
Question: Rumtopf is a traditional Danish/German dish comprising rum and?
Answer: Fruit
Question: Used in the beauty industry, what is the most abundant protein in mammals, mainly found in flesh and connective tissues of vertebrates?
Answer: Collagen
Question: What weapon was named by Finnish people after the Soviet foreign minister responsible for the partition of Finland during the Winter War between the two nations 1939-40?
Answer: Molotov Cocktail
Question: What large and complex nation contains varying geographical/ethnic/political regions called 'krais', 'oblasts', 'okrugs' and 'republics'?
Answer: Russia
Question: The disgraced fraudulent head of failed monster corporation Polly Peck, Asil Nadir, fled to what country in 1993?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: Name the widely referenced Hindu god and eighth incarnation of Vishnu, from Sankrit meaning 'black'?
Answer: Krishna
Question: For which art-form did Roman Vitruvius define the three principles of 'firmitas, utilitas, venustas' in the 1st century AD?
Answer: Architecture
Question: A geis (plural geasa) is a curse or taboo in which national mythology/language?
Answer: Irish
Question: Hyponatremia/hyponatraemia is a problematical reduction of what in human blood serum?
Answer: Sodium
Question: Manolete, Belmonte, Gallito and Tomas are famous names from what discipline?
Answer: Bullfighting
Question: Named from Spanish, 'Land of Fire', what archipelago is the closest land mass to the Antarctic Penninsular?
Answer: Tierra del Fuego
Question: Scientists announced in 2012 that more than 1,000 of what creatures (formica lugubris) had been fitted with tiny radio transmitters to study the species?
Answer: Ants
Question: Chinese corporation Huawei, controversially blacklisted in 2012 by the US Government Intelligence Committee, is (at 2012) the world's largest equipment manufacturer in which sector?
Answer: Telecoms
Question: Surface, Fire and Nexus are brands/models of what modern (2010s) consumer product?
Answer: Tablet
Question: What puzzle, meaning 'single number' in Japanese, requires the completion of a grid so that each column, row and 3x3 box contain the numbers 1-9?
Answer: Sudoku
Question: Accounting for c.30% of total global tax revenues, what form of tax did France introduce in 1954, W Germany 1968, UK 1973 and China 1984?
Answer: VAT
Question: What famous French film production/newsreel brand, established in 1896, was the first major movie corporation?
Answer: Pathé
Question: The famous BBC Greenwich Meantime hourly signal 'pips' are closest to which musical note (according to ISO 16)?
Answer: B
Question: The Poise (pronounced 'pwahz', it's French) is a unit of measuring?
Answer: Viscosity
Question: The Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) is otherwise defined as the empire of what modern nationality?
Answer: Turkish
Question: What branch of alternative medicine using natural oils derives its name from ancient Greek for spice?
Answer: Aromatherapy
Question: In which city did the Rolling Stones play a 2012 surprise gig at Le Trabendo club to 350 fans for £12 each?
Answer: Paris
Question: Chile experienced large and violent protests by whom in 2012, invoking comparisons with similar 2006 action called (after the protestors' uniforms) The Penguins' Revolution or The March of the Penguins?
Answer: Students
Question: In 2012 Price Nayef became the second crown prince, after Prince Sultan, to die before ascending to the throne in which country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: Who wrote the 200 year-old letter auctioned for 150,000 euros in 2012, expressing a wish to destroy the Kremlin?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
Question: The famous Castilian military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (1043-99) is better known by what name?
Answer: El Cid
Question: What, having extremes of 'thick' and 'thin', is the measure of a fluid's internal friction/resistance under stress?
Answer: Viscosity
Question: The globally widely used Wechsler Scale assesses what in children?
Answer: Intelligence
Question: What portmanteau word refers to a symbol used to convey a mood or feeling in phone/computer communications?
Answer: Emoticon
Question: What often controversial medical research/treatment term derives from the Latin 'I shall be pleasing'?
Answer: Placebo
Question: What traditional item of apparel (silk, cotton, or paper), used by hand, is named after an old French word for a head covering?
Answer: Handkerchief
Question: What word referring to an organizational disaster derives from Venetian glass-blowing?
Answer: Fiasco
Question: A burning truckload of 'brunost' - brown (what?) - caused a 5-day fire in a Norwegian road tunnel in Jan 2013?
Answer: Cheese
Question: Which fish became subject to EU fishing quota arguments in 2013 due to its significant movement into Icelandic waters?
Answer: Mackerel
Question: The six soft alkali metals (lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and francium) react with water to produce what gas?
Answer: Hydrogen
Question: The Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet broke up and impacted where, in 1994, to huge astronomical and media interest?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: The volume of (soccer) football (regulation adult 70cm circumference) is approximately how many litres?
Answer: 5.8
Question: Whose famous old Brown Ale (still made) was first brewed in Whitechapel, London, in 1902?
Answer: Mann's
Question: A gimlet tool is traditionally shaped like the letter?
Answer: T
Question: Which 1949 novel featured the ironically named Ministries of the Peace, Plenty, Love, and Truth?
Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Question: What is the common alternative US term for a (UK) 'estate agent'?
Answer: Realtor
Question: Turgescence or tumefaction, affecting parts of the human body, is more commonly called what?
Answer: Swelling
Question: The unrecognized state of Biafra existed from 1967-1970 in the south-east of which country?
Answer: Nigeria
Question: The Christian Eucharist ceremonial act is based on what event from religious scripture?
Answer: Last Supper
Question: Technically what must be specified in order for a given speed to be termed a velocity?
Answer: Direction
Question: What is the common name for the electrically excitable cells of the brain which process data via electrical and chemical signals?
Answer: Neurons
Question: What, resembling a tomato and pepper hybrid, is the edible fruit produced by Diospyros trees, source of ebony wood?
Answer: Persimmon
Question: Chordata, Echinodermata, Anthropoda, and Anelida are four phyla (subgroups) of?
Answer: Animals
Question: What two-faced Roman god of beginnings and transitions is a name for a word which has two opposite meanings, and the derivation of the first month of the year?
Answer: Janus
Question: What is the common name for the northern hemisphere tree genus Betula, having catkins, winged nuts, and bark that peels in strips?
Answer: Birch
Question: Name the prehistoric 'humanoid species' found near Lewes UK 1912 and shown to be a hoax in 1953?
Answer: Piltdown Man
Question: The Indian currency the Rupee takes its name from Hindi and Sanskrit, 'wrought (what metal)'?
Answer: Silver
Question: What pluralized term refers to a building's roof edge adjoining its wall, usually designed to prevent rainwater ingress?
Answer: Eaves