zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What characterised the Neolithic age?
Answer: Stone tools
Question: What 'z' is the activity where person is rolled down a hill inside a large plastic transparent ball?
Answer: Zorbing
Question: What number is neutral on the pH acid/alkali scale?
Answer: 7
Question: In which country is Lake Banyoles, site of the 1992 Olympic rowing events?
Answer: Spain
Question: Which character is the science officer of the starship Enterprise (in the original TV series)?
Answer: Spock
Question: What was Brad Pitt's initialised character name in the film 'Thelma and Louise'?
Answer: J D
Question: Laconia is a southern region of which European country?
Answer: Greece
Question: Car exhaust fumes contain mainly what poisonous gas?
Answer: Carbon monoxide
Question: What are the basic three 'alter ego' states (of a person) identified and used within Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis theory?
Answer: Parent Adult Child
Question: Who wrote the novel, Treasure Island?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
Question: In which country was ex-England cricket captain Tony Greig born?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What was Tom Jones' first UK number one single?
Answer: It's Not Unusual
Question: Which singer was known as the 'Forces' Sweetheart'?
Answer: Vera Lynn
Question: In which UK cathedral is the Whispering Gallery?
Answer: St Pauls
Question: In which UK county is Hever Castle?
Answer: Kent
Question: What was the name of the bottled water launched by Coca-Cola and then withdrawn?
Answer: Dasani
Question: What word represents the letter K in radio communications?
Answer: Kilo
Question: Which mountain was known as Peak XV until 1865?
Answer: Mount Everest
Question: In May 1941, who parachuted into Scotland from Germany claiming to be on a peace mission?
Answer: Rudolph Hess
Question: In October 1973, who resigned as Vice President of the US, and then pleaded no contest to the charges of income tax evasion in a federal court in Baltimore?
Answer: Spiro T Agnew
Question: The Treaty of where established the European Economic Community in March 1957?
Answer: Rome
Question: What was the name of the Coca-Cola Company's first diet drink, launched in 1963?
Answer: TaB
Question: Who became Prime Minister of Britain in April 1955?
Answer: Anthony Eden
Question: What is the colouring agent E102 also known as?
Answer: Tartrazine
Question: A lachrymator is a substance that irritates which part of the body?
Answer: Eyes
Question: In needlework, what is the technique in which pieces of fabric are attached to another piece of material for decoration?
Answer: Applique
Question: Greenland is a self-governing territory of which country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: In government figures released in 2010, how many terrorism arrests resulted from the 101,248 stop-and-searches under UK counter-terrorism powers in 2009?
Answer: None
Question: What African country, south of Libya, west of Sudan, and east of Niger, has the capital N'Djamena?
Answer: Chad
Question: The city of Astrakhan lies on which river?
Answer: River Volga
Question: What is the name of the small arrangement of flowers worn on the bodice of a dress or on the wrist?
Answer: Corsage
Question: The Dettifoss Waterfalls are in which country?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Valletta is the capital of which European country?
Answer: Malta
Question: In the game of Scrabble, how many points is a 'V' tile worth?
Answer: Four
Question: What is the inner and larger of the two bones in the human forearm?
Answer: Ulna
Question: What is the final and longest section of the human small intestine?
Answer: Ileum
Question: What is a word made from the initials of other words in a phrase or sequence?
Answer: Acronym
Question: Which Cuban dictator was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959?
Answer: Batista
Question: Which fruit is used in the flavouring of the cognac-based liqueur Grand Marnier?
Answer: Orange
Question: What colour is the cross on the national flag of Finland?
Answer: Blue
Question: Medoc is a wine region in which country?
Answer: France
Question: Marnie Geneva Doud was the wife of which US president, the country's 34th?
Answer: Dwight D Eisenhower
Question: Which artist's studio was known as The Factory?
Answer: Andy Warhol
Question: Who wrote the 1899 poem/song lyrics 'The Absented-Minded Beggar', set to music and used to raise money for British Boer War soldiers?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Question: Which strait separates Wales form the island of Anglesey?
Answer: Menai Strait
Question: Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is a territory of which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: 'Three Kings Day' is known by what numerical name (that's 'name', not 'date') in Britain?
Answer: Twelfth Night
Question: The North Pole, said to be Santa's home, is located in which ocean?
Answer: Arctic Ocean
Question: Which Christmas slogan was introduced by Clarissa Baldwin of Dogs Trust in 1978?
Answer: A Dog Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas
Question: What is the surname of the family in the 1989 film 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'?
Answer: Griswold
Question: Very loosely related to Christmas, the predatory animal 'uncia uncia' is better known by what name?
Answer: Snow Leopard
Question: In which country does Santa have his own personal postcode HOH OHO?
Answer: Canada
Question: 'Nadolig Llawen' means Merry Christmas in which western European language?
Answer: Welsh
Question: What state in Mexico was hit by a devastating mudslide in September 2010?
Answer: Oaxaca
Question: What island nation was hit by an earthquake and tsunami disaster in October 2010?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: What capital city was devastated by the 2010 Haiti earthquake?
Answer: Port au Prince
Question: Who in 2010 won Great Britain's first individual Winter Olympics female gold medal since 1952?
Answer: Amy Williams
Question: Born Hermine Santruschitz in Vienna, adopted as Miep Gies in Amsterdam, who died age 100 in 2010, helped protect which famous writer?
Answer: Anne Frank
Question: Patricia Neal, winner of best actress Oscar for her role in the film Hud with Paul Newman, and who died in 2010 age 84, was married to which famous author?
Answer: Roald Dahl
Question: Andy Serkis starred in the film Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll as what singer?
Answer: Ian Dury
Question: Internet hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army interrupted service of which Chinese search engine in January 2010?
Answer: Baidu
Question: Who was appointed official wedding photographer to Prince William and Kate Middleton?
Answer: Mario Testino
Question: Which European country is known as 'The Cockpit of Europe'?
Answer: Belgium
Question: What degree angle are the corners of a regular tetrahedron?
Answer: 60
Question: Name the Google phone and software system which, according to some news reports in 2010, ended Nokia's 10 years' of market dominance?
Answer: Android
Question: Which Scottish castle did Queen Victoria and husband Prince Albert buy in 1852?
Answer: Balmoral
Question: Which bird, which lays the largest egg in proportion to its body size of all birds, is an apteryx?
Answer: Kiwi
Question: How many minutes are there in a degree of an angle?
Answer: 60
Question: Also a comic book character, what is an orderly assigned to serve a British Military Officer?
Answer: Batman
Question: What at the end of 2010 was Amazon's biggest ever selling product?
Answer: Kindle
Question: Which famous composer is on the back of the UK £20 banknote withdrawn in 2010?
Answer: Edward Elgar
Question: 24 Sussex Drive is the official residence of the Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: Which English poet is associated with Dove Cottage in Grasmere?
Answer: William Wordsworth
Question: Which country is referred to as 'The Land of the Long White Cloud'?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: The Capuchin Catacombs are on which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Sicily
Question: Which artist painted the 'Man in a Red Turban'?
Answer: Jan van Eyck
Question: Which musical note has the same value as half a semibreve or two crochets?
Answer: Minim
Question: Which sportswear company was founded as 'Blue Ribbon Sports' by Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight in 1964?
Answer: Nike
Question: What type of insect is a devil's coach horse?
Answer: Beetle
Question: What is the term for a word formed from the initial letters of other words, such as NATO?
Answer: Acronym
Question: In England, celebrating the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, on which date was Oak Apple Day celebrated?
Answer: 29th May
Question: In Norse mythology, from which type of tree was the first man created?
Answer: Ash
Question: What is the name of the Japanese plant, used as a condiment in cooking, with a thick green root which tastes like strong horseradish?
Answer: Wasabi
Question: In Greek mythology, Algaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne are the three what?
Answer: Graces
Question: Jutland is part of which European country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: In heraldry, what is a wyvern?
Answer: Dragon
Question: Which UK football team is nicknamed 'The Posh'?
Answer: Peterborough United
Question: The 'Hogarth' or 'S Shape' is an arrangement of what?
Answer: Flowers
Question: What is the longest side of a right-angled triangle called?
Answer: Hypotenuse
Question: Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of what?
Answer: Fungi
Question: In his 2011 memoir, Known and Unknown, which US ex-politician deflected blame onto others including Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice for Iraq War mistakes?
Answer: Donald Rumsfeld
Question: An English folk name for the green woodpecker, based on an aspect of its behaviour is a?
Answer: Yaffle
Question: What number is topaz on the Mohs scale of hardness?
Answer: Eight
Question: Actress Maria Schneider who died in 2011 age 58 was famous for her role in what iconic sexually explicit film?
Answer: Last Tango in Paris
Question: What type of animal inspired the creation of Bugs Bunny, Brer Rabbit, and the Easter Bunny?
Answer: Hare
Question: What type of creature is a prairie dog?
Answer: Rodent
Question: What colour is the black box on a plane?
Answer: Orange
Question: In what country was Canadian Club whiskey first distilled?
Answer: USA
Question: What are toy marbles made from?
Answer: Glass
Question: What type of creature is a horned toad?
Answer: Lizard
Question: What is the liquid inside a coconut?
Answer: Coconut water
Question: Where does a busboy or busgirl work?
Answer: Restaurant
Question: What type of insect is a Spanish fly?
Answer: Beetle
Question: Arabic numerals originated in which country?
Answer: India
Question: A geography term from French and Arabic, what is an erg made of?
Answer: Sand
Question: Which Formula One racing driver was injured in a high-speed rally accident in Italy in February 2011?
Answer: Robert Kubica
Question: Who wrote the play Man and Superman?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: In Arthurian and Welsh Romance legendary stories, who was the faithful wife of Geraint/Gereint?
Answer: Enid
Question: How many stars are on the national flag of The Cook Islands?
Answer: Fifteen
Question: What is an angle called which is larger than 180 degrees and smaller than 360 degrees?
Answer: Reflex angle
Question: Which fashion house sacked designer John Galliano in 2011, after his racist rant at fellow customers in a Paris cafe?
Answer: Christian Dior
Question: Which hollywood sex symbol, star of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, died in 2011, aged 89?
Answer: Jane Russell
Question: The Hallé Orchestra, named after its Anglo-German founder (born Karl Halle) is based in which city?
Answer: Manchester
Question: The Scoville Scale is used to measure the heat of what?
Answer: Chili peppers
Question: Which is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas?
Answer: Brazil
Question: The huge American springtime festival of film, music and technology SXSW is held where?
Answer: Austin, Texas
Question: Name the UK's greatest Paralympic medal winner (as at 2011)?
Answer: Tanni Grey-Thompson
Question: In what 'royal' village was Princess Diana born?
Answer: Sandringham
Question: What city, named after a month of the year, claims in recent tradition to host the largest street carnival in the world?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro
Question: Roman Emperor Claudius was said to have been poisoned by a dish of what?
Answer: Mushrooms
Question: Europe's largest solar power plant is at Sanlucar la Mayor in which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: Which professional undertaking begins with the words "I swear by Apollo..."?
Answer: Hippocratic Oath
Question: Which Tropic divides Mexico into temperate and tropical zones?
Answer: Tropic of Cancer
Question: Which month was named after the Roman god of war?
Answer: March
Question: Cryptozoology is the study of which type of creatures?
Answer: Mythical
Question: Which playing card is known as the 'Beer Card?
Answer: Seven of Diamonds
Question: Which vegetable has the Latin name Allium Cepa?
Answer: Onion
Question: Croquembouche is a dessert tower made of what?
Answer: Profiteroles
Question: What African capital city is regarded as the largest French-speaking city after Paris?
Answer: Kinshasa
Question: Conkers are the fruit of which tree?
Answer: Horse chestnut
Question: Winnie Madikizela are the first names of the ex-wife of which iconic leader?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
Question: What is the only country in the world not required to have its name on its postage stamps?
Answer: United Kingdom
Question: Which chemical element, not found as a free element on Earth, has the atomic number 9 and the symbol F?
Answer: Fluorine
Question: What is the gamekeeper's name in D H Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover?
Answer: Mellors
Question: In geology, particles of what range from 0.0625mm to 2mm?
Answer: Sand
Question: Which metallic element is refined from Cassiterite, SnO2?
Answer: Tin
Question: In Western Christianity what is the first day of Lent?
Answer: Ash Wednesday
Question: What, mainly, is the 'lava' in a conventional lava lamp?
Answer: Wax
Question: A threat to air travel in 2011, Grimsvotn is a?
Answer: Icelandic volcano
Question: Campione d'Italia, is an Italian enclave in which European country?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Norwegian politican, Trygve Lie, was the first Secretary General of which organisation?
Answer: The United Nations
Question: What controlled recreational drug has the chemical formula C20H26N2O?
Answer: LSD
Question: Light travels at its fastest in what medium?
Answer: Vacuum
Question: A limited company (e.g., in the UK 'Ltd', US 'LLC', Germany 'GmbH') has limited what?
Answer: Liabilities
Question: What is the chess playing robot called in TV's Thunderbirds?
Answer: Braman
Question: 'Core' is a brand of which computer technology company?
Answer: Intel Corporation
Question: Sibilance is what sort of sound?
Answer: Hissing
Question: Scuppernong, named after a N Carolina USA river, is a variety of what?
Answer: Grape
Question: Omnia Omnibus Ubique. (All Things, For All People, Everywhere.)
Answer: Harrods
Question: Citius, Altius, Fortius. (Faster, Higher, Stronger.)
Answer: Olympic Games
Question: Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation.
Answer: BBC
Question: What is the compound, NH4NO3, commonly used in fertilizers and improvised bombs?
Answer: Ammonium nitrate
Question: The stone, flint, is a form of what near-to-pure compound, formula SiO2?
Answer: Silica
Question: Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Firefox are among the most globally popular what (in early 2000s)?
Answer: Internet browsers
Question: Talaq is a form of what under Islamic (sharia) law?
Answer: Divorce
Question: What corporation acquired the major UK-based online retailer, The Book Depository, in 2011?
Answer: Amazon
Question: What country controversially won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Qatar
Question: The mineral, diamond, is naturally what crystal shape?
Answer: Cubic
Question: What is two-thirds of three-quarters?
Answer: A half
Question: Flipkart was founded and became a major online retailer, notably of books, in which country?
Answer: India
Question: What German pharmaceuticals corporation developed the first Aspirin medication in 1897, and retains the trademark in much of the world today?
Answer: Bayer
Question: Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi are sub-groups of what ethnoreligious people?
Answer: Jews
Question: What weed is named from the French 'lion's tooth'?
Answer: Dandelion
Question: On what island did tycoon Richard Branson's holiday retreat burn down in August 2011?
Answer: Necker Island
Question: What is seven-eighths of sixteen?
Answer: Fourteen
Question: A pneumatic motor converts potential energy in the form of what into mechanical work?
Answer: Compressed air
Question: What marketing term, a portmanteau word, refers to a news or information article which also carries publicity or promotion for the organization which provided it?
Answer: Advertorial
Question: How many dots are on a (standard 1-6) die?
Answer: Twenty-one
Question: Traditionally what number of years anniversary is symbolized by silver?
Answer: 25
Question: The expression 'On cloud (what)' refers to being blissfully happy?
Answer: Nine
Question: Each player begins with (how many) pieces in a game of chess?
Answer: Sixteen
Question: What is the state capital and largest city of Victoria, Australia?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: How many degrees are in a right-angle?
Answer: Ninety
Question: What number is Jamie Oliver's charity restaurant concept?
Answer: Fifteen
Question: Yvonne, a runaway cow, evaded capture for three months during 2011 in which country?
Answer: Germany
Question: What Brazilian originating dance and music in Portuguese means loosely 'new trend'?
Answer: Bossa Nova
Question: What sort of bird is a coot?
Answer: Aquatic
Question: What in Spanish what does the song-title, 'Que Sera, Sera,' mean (loosely, not grammatically correctly)?
Answer: Whatever Will Be, Will Be
Question: What is the currency of Brazil?
Answer: Real
Question: The world wide web domain .tv belongs to which Pacific island nation?
Answer: Tuvalu
Question: The venue for the 2012 Olympic archery events is considered the home of what sport?
Answer: Cricket
Question: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Answer: C S Lewis
Question: The Catcher in the Rye?
Answer: J D Salinger
Question: The Wind in the Willows?
Answer: Kenneth Grahame
Question: Technically the Earth's moon is a?
Answer: Satellite
Question: The New Zealand All Blacks rugby union team badge emblem is a silver?
Answer: Fern
Question: Lumia is a product brand of which phone company?
Answer: Nokia
Question: Name the Glasgow-born guitar virtuoso and 1960s founder of the band Pentangle who died age 67 in 2011?
Answer: Bert Jansch
Question: The Easterlin Paradox concerns the relationship between?
Answer: Wealth and Happiness
Question: What famous UK 304-mile protest march took place in October 1936?
Answer: Jarrow Crusade
Question: The natural basic form of the spice ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a?
Answer: Rhizome
Question: Canadian professor of management and psychology, Victor Vroom, established '(What?) Theory'?
Answer: Expectancy Theory
Question: Vitreous enamel, used to decorate and protect pottery, metals, etc., is?
Answer: Glass
Question: What German word refers to the highest or premier league of any sport in Germany or Austria?
Answer: Bundesliga
Question: A diaspora is a dispersion of?
Answer: People
Question: In Native American ceremonial custom what is a calumet?
Answer: Peace pipe
Question: What is the common name for the round skullcap worn by Jewish males?
Answer: Kippa
Question: A rising or resurgence of the hydrosphere is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Spring
Question: White marking on horse's lower leg?
Answer: Stocking
Question: ... may be willing, but flesh weak?
Answer: Spirit
Question: Alternative name for the plant Sweet Cicely, from its Latin name?
Answer: Myrrh
Question: A side in a contract or dispute?
Answer: Party
Question: Marketing/technology term for the busiest day each year for online shopping?
Answer: Cyber Monday
Question: ... Anise, used for aniseed flavouring typically in Asian cooking?
Answer: Star
Question: From Latin, 'a spark', showy?
Answer: Tinsel
Question: Originally Old English 'haligdaeg', meaning 'holy day'?
Answer: Holiday
Question: Beast of burden, Equus asinus?
Answer: Donkey
Question: Pre-digital video or TV screen 'noise' due to no/poor signal?
Answer: Snow
Question: What soft gray alkaline earth metal is the fifth most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust?
Answer: Calcium
Question: The Hindustani Indian instrument the dilruba, meaning 'robber of the heart', is used by a?
Answer: Musician
Question: Biblical hairshirt worn with ashes?
Answer: Sackcloth
Question: Sound, hearing, and non-electric musical instruments from the Greeks?
Answer: Acoustic
Question: Stephen King's rabid eponymous St Bernard?
Answer: Cujo
Question: US Army WWI most decorated war dog, and highest ranking?
Answer: Sergeant Stubby
Question: HMV (His Master's Voice) early logo?
Answer: Nipper
Question: Milo's dog, The Phantom Tollbooth's 'watchdog'?
Answer: Tock
Question: Which Australian city is considered to have the largest Greek population outside of Greece?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: Forbidden, unmentionable - from Tongan?
Answer: Taboo
Question: Joy in the misfortune of others - from German?
Answer: Schadenfreude
Question: Who wrote The Stepford Wives, Rosemary's Baby, and The Boys from Brazil?
Answer: Ira Levin
Question: What mixed drink takes its name from the Spanish for 'bleeding'?
Answer: Sangria
Question: 'Liquor amnii' is normally found in?
Answer: Pregnant women
Question: As at 2012 what country is the world's largest democracy?
Answer: India
Question: Emil Boc resigned as prime minister of which European country in Feb 2012?
Answer: Romania
Question: In Feb 2012 British cruise ships Adonia and Star Princess were refused entry to Ushuaia port in the southern tip of which country?
Answer: Argentina
Question: From Greek meaning within, what sort of gland secretes hormones, etc., directly into the blood?
Answer: Endocrine
Question: As at 2012 what nationality is the Brewery corporation Carlsberg?
Answer: Danish
Question: Who in the 1970s was the first big sports superstar endorsee of the Fila brand?
Answer: Björn Borg
Question: 72 year-old Nepali Chandra Bahadur Dangi was certified in 2012 by the Guinness Book of World Records as the shortest human ever at how many inches?
Answer: 21.5 inches
Question: Modern DNA studies show that the first migrants to the North American continent were?
Answer: Asians
Question: Where did the modern common potato originate?
Answer: South America
Question: Which artist/inventor's famous lost 1504 painting, The Battle of Anghiari, was found in 2012 hidden in Florence Town Hall, behind a later fresco?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Question: St Tropez, Sienna X, and Fake Bake are popular brands of what product/service type?
Answer: Spray tanning
Question: Who succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Sovient Union?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
Question: Lye is an old English word for?
Answer: Caustic soda
Question: Greek 'skhizo' and 'skhizein' basically mean what?
Answer: Split
Question: Pissouri, Paphos, and Protarus are seaside resorts in which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: What is the only internal human organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue?
Answer: Liver
Question: SNCF is the state railway group of which country?
Answer: France
Question: To which country did Amazon move its European HQ in 2006?
Answer: Luxembourg
Question: As at 2012 which newspaper has the most popular website?
Answer: New York Times
Question: Erected in 1989, what large geometric glass structure serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris?
Answer: Pyramid
Question: Roots of the dandelion plant can be used to make a drink very like?
Answer: Coffee
Question: In classical painting a putto (plural putti) is a baby what?
Answer: Angel
Question: The Beau Sancy, sold at a Geneva auction in 2012 for £5.3m, is a?
Answer: Diamond
Question: Bacteria, fungi, and algae are among a broad classification of life called?
Answer: Microorganisms
Question: Which film originated the obsession/jealousy term 'bunny boiler'?
Answer: Fatal Attraction
Question: What country first legislated for plain packaging of tobacco products?
Answer: Australia
Question: In a circuit diagram what usually is a capital letter M in a circle?
Answer: Motor