zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Dragonflies have the sharpest vision of any insect, each compound eye having how many lenses?
Answer: 30,000
Question: Human urine passes from each kidney via the ureter to (What?) next?
Answer: Bladder
Question: A rock containing a mineral that can be viably extracted for use is called an?
Answer: Ore
Question: When moving a cat to a new home, it is popularly and mythically believed that rubbing (What?) on its paws will stop it wandering away?
Answer: Butter
Question: The Ancient Egyptian mummy/afterlife figure Anubis is typically half-man and half-?
Answer: Dog
Question: Founded in 1966, the US company Vans originally and most famously makes?
Answer: Footwear
Question: Tundra regions of the world are typically defined as having no?
Answer: Trees
Question: Who controversially interviewed the on-the-run Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman for Rolling Stone Magazine just before his 2015 capture?
Answer: Sean Penn
Question: What sort of sea creatures are fulmars and petrels?
Answer: Birds
Question: What creature's name is from Greek 'river horse'?
Answer: Hippopotamus
Question: The modern confection originally from Ancient Egypt and the Malva plant which gave the French word mauve is?
Answer: Marshmallow
Question: Philadelphia, Cheddar, Feta, and Paneer are all?
Answer: Cheeses
Question: Zika disease, identified 1947 and epidemic in S America commencing 2015, is mainly transmitted by infected?
Answer: Mosquitoes
Question: Barbara Millicent Roberts (1959 - present) from Willows Wisconsin is better known as what iconic figure?
Answer: Barbie
Question: According to DC Comics history, 'Nightwing' when younger was?
Answer: Robin
Question: Which one of these cheeses is not from and named after a Dutch city/place?
Answer: Emmental
Question: Name the controversial detention camp established in 2002 by the USA in Cuba?
Answer: Guantanamo Bay
Question: What were the eldest sons of the Kings of France called?
Answer: Dauphin
Question: What is the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain more popularly known as?
Answer: Eros
Question: During which war was the Battle of Marne?
Answer: First World War
Question: In the human body what is Varicella commonly known as?
Answer: Chicken Pox
Question: Who is the Roman Goddess of the hunt?
Answer: Diana
Question: What every-day item was named after Mrs Gamp in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit?
Answer: Umbrella
Question: In what year did the USA adopt the Stars and Stripes flag?
Answer: 1777
Question: The character Roger 'Race' Bannon appeared as a boy's bodyguard in which cartoon series?
Answer: Jonny Quest
Question: Who was Britain's first Labour prime minister?
Answer: Ramsey MacDonald
Question: Abraham Maslow's original 'Hierarchy of Needs' theory comprises how many stages?
Answer: Five
Question: Paper thickness is generally measured/shown as GSM (e.g., 80, 90, etc), standing for what?
Answer: Grams per Square Metre
Question: Shakespeare's romantic tragedy written c1598 is called 'Much Ado about (What?)'?
Answer: Nothing
Question: The web 'error' code 404 means?
Answer: Not found
Question: An oubliette, which has a top opening for access, is a?
Answer: Dungeon
Question: According to the rainbow/light spectrum mnemonic (memory aid), Richard Of York Gave (What?) In Vain?
Answer: Battle
Question: Sepals and Tepals are decorative protective elements of many old?
Answer: Flowers
Question: Haemophilia is the human tendency for prolonged?
Answer: Bleeding
Question: The Soviet Union dissolution of 1991 created how many independent states?
Answer: 15
Question: Pitcairn Islands, home to several 1790 'Mutiny on the Bounty' mutineers, are in the Southern?
Answer: Pacific
Question: The most common material used in lightning protection is (What?) and its alloys?
Answer: Copper
Question: Body language is also known as (What?), derived from Greek, meaning motion?
Answer: Kinesics
Question: Within body language the physical space/closeness between people is significant and called?
Answer: Proxemics
Question: Who wrote 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals' in 1872, considered the start of body language science?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: Related to body language, Kinaesthetics (or Kinesthetics) is the study of?
Answer: Learning Styles
Question: According to research, the perception and interpretation of body language is generally strongest in?
Answer: Women
Question: When a person moves his/her eyes right, this generally indicates what sort of thinking/communication?
Answer: Creative
Question: Carrageen is an edible variety of what?
Answer: Seaweed
Question: Sounding like a placename, what is the traditional pronged spear used for catching Salmon called?
Answer: Leister
Question: The Cockney rhyming slang 'Bread', meaning money, is fully 'Bread and...' what?
Answer: Honey
Question: De La Rue is a famous international maker of?
Answer: Banknotes
Question: The UK billionaire called for Parliamentary questioning (2016) about his governance of the collapsed BHS company is Sir Philip?
Answer: Green
Question: What Anglicized German word originally from 'harm-joy' refers to pleasure derived from misfortunes of others?
Answer: Schadenfreude
Question: Name the Leicester City FC striker who in 2016 broke the record for scoring in consecutive Premiership games?
Answer: Jamie Vardy
Question: In 2016 President Justin Trudeau welcomed the introduction of legal euthanasia to his nation?
Answer: Canada
Question: Prior to his criminal infamy, OJ Simpson was originally a famous American?
Answer: Footballer
Question: The famous quantum mechanics thought experiment demonstrating that something can exist in two states (in this case alive or dead) until observed is called Schrödinger's?
Answer: Cat
Question: The creation of what famous and anthemic song is officially attributed to Banjo Paterson and Christina Macpherson?
Answer: Waltzing Matilda
Question: In Greek mythology what is the name of the river whose water when drunk caused complete forgetfulness and made the souls of the dead forget their life on earth?
Answer: Lethe
Question: What are the padded high-waisted trousers with shoulder straps worn for skiiing called?
Answer: Salopettes
Question: In numerology a tern is a set of how many?
Answer: Three
Question: On what date is St Martin's Day - or Martinmas - celebrated in Europe?
Answer: 11 November
Question: Who made the famous statement, 'I think, therefore I am' ?
Answer: Rene Descartes
Question: The city of Bulawayo is in which African country?
Answer: Zimbabwe
Question: The person holding what office sits on the Woolsack in the House of Lords?
Answer: The Lord Speaker
Question: First performed in 1938, and commonly considered one of the saddest of all classical works, who composed Adagio for Strings (it was used in the 1986 film Platoon)?
Answer: Samuel Barber
Question: How many pockets does a billiard table normally have?
Answer: Six
Question: The fashionable island Martha's Vineyard is in which US state?
Answer: Massachusetts
Question: What is the Latin term used in referencing which means 'in the same place' ?
Answer: Ib.
Question: Who was the famous wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia?
Answer: Lady Godiva
Question: For which film did Henry Fonda win his best actor Oscar?
Answer: On Golden Pond
Question: Which early Charles Dickens novel features the characters Wackford and Fanny Squeers, Smike, Newman Noggs and the Cheeryble brothers?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby
Question: Who won 'The Battle of the Sexes' tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in 1973?
Answer: Billie Jean King
Question: The King and Queen of which European country narrowly escaped assassination on their wedding day in 1906?
Answer: Spain
Question: Marsh Fever is another term for which ailment?
Answer: Malaria
Question: What is the offspring of a male lion and a tigress called (apart from very dangerous)?
Answer: Liger
Question: What number of equal size circles (or coins) fit exactly around another of the same size so that all are touching?
Answer: Six
Question: Which British boxer and past world middleweight champion committed suicide in his flat in Leamington Spa in 1966?
Answer: Randolph Turpin
Question: On which date is Epiphany celebrated in the traditional Western calendar?
Answer: 6th January
Question: According to the UK National Meteorological Office what year (prior to 2007) was the last White Christmas in Britain?
Answer: 2004
Question: During the US 1920s prohibition what was the name given to an illegal drinking place?
Answer: Speakeasy
Question: The Ansoff matrix correlates what two aspects of business development from the 'new' and 'existing' perspectives?
Answer: Products and Markets
Question: What are the four metaphorical terms used to describe products/services in Boston Matrix model according to market share and market maturity?
Answer: Dog, Cash Cow, Problem Child and Star (or Rising Star)
Question: What three important things should be confirmed and understood before conducting a brainstorming ideas session?
Answer: The purpose or aim of the exercise; a time limit; the fact that all ideas are welcome and to be respected (ie., sometimes the craziest-sounding ideas are the best ones).
Question: With what was the Kyoto Summit concerned?
Answer: Global climate change
Question: What is the '1st Law of Cybernetics' (aka the 'Law of Requisite Variety')?
Answer: """The unit within the system with the most behavioural responses available to it controls the system."""
Question: Since October 2004, UK employers must follow a minimum process of three-stages for handling disputes with employees, including disciplinary and grievance matters; what are the basic minimum three stages required?
Answer: 1. Write a letter to the employee explaining the issue; 2. Have a meeting with the employee to discuss the issue; 3. Hold or offer an appeal meeting with the employee if required.
Question: Douglas McGregor defined two main styles of management; what did he call them and how are each of the two styles typified?
Answer: X-Theory
Question: In Chinese astrology, 2007 was the year of the what animal?
Answer: Pig
Question: Which psychiatrist and host of BBC Radio 4's In the Psychiatrist's Chair died in October 2007?
Answer: Anthony Clare
Question: The iPhone was launched by which company?
Answer: Apple
Question: The fifth Harry Potter film released in July 2007 is called what?
Answer: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Question: Which country's victory at Wembley in November 2007 put the home nation out of the European Cup?
Answer: Croatia
Question: Who made the highly critical documentry film Sicko, about the US healthcare system?
Answer: Michael Moore
Question: Which company was found officially responsible for the Suffolk Bird Flu outbreak in February 2007?
Answer: Bernard Matthews
Question: In what US city did Barack Obama announce his presidential candidacy in February 2007?
Answer: Springfield
Question: Which Bollywood actor was at the centre of the 2007 Big Brother TV Show racism uproar?
Answer: Shilpa Shetty
Question: At the end of 2007 how many England Premiership football (soccer) clubs were foreign owned?
Answer: Nine
Question: Which famous aviator and adventurer went missing over the Nevada Desert in September 2007?
Answer: Steve Fosset
Question: Which Formula One racing team was expelled from the 2007 Constructors Championship for spying on a competitor?
Answer: McLaren
Question: Which former newspaper owner and business mogul was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment for fraud in December 2007?
Answer: Conrad Black
Question: Which major city switched off its lights for an hour on the evening of 31 March 2007 as a political statement about climate change?
Answer: Sydney
Question: What Richard Dawkins' book attracted huge popularity and controversy throughout 2007?
Answer: The God Delusion
Question: Who were the famous backing singers on most of Elvis Presley's early hits?
Answer: The Jordanaires
Question: What was Smokey Robinson's most famous band called?
Answer: The Miracles
Question: What Eastenders star sang on the novelty hit Come Outside?
Answer: Wendy Richard
Question: Which later-to-be-famous solo singer and guitarist toured as a member of the Beach Boys in the mid 60s?
Answer: Glen Campbell
Question: Who managed the Beatles' prior to his early death in 1967?
Answer: Brian Epstein
Question: Which American singer and entertainer was nicknamed Schnozzola, because of his large nose?
Answer: Jimmy Durante
Question: What ridiculously titled song was a hit in 1954 for Max Bygraves in the UK and the Four Lads in the USA?
Answer: Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea
Question: What was Emile Ford and the Checkmates' 1959 hit, supposedly the longest ever question in a UK No1 song title?
Answer: What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?
Question: Which Rolling Stones guitarist died in a swimming pool in 1969?
Answer: Brian Jones
Question: Who founded the Tamla Motown record label?
Answer: Berry Gordy
Question: What folksy British singer-songwriting guitarist was famous also for his whistling?
Answer: Roger Whittaker
Question: What was Hugo Montenegro's instrumental hit, composed by Ennio Morricone for the film of the same name?
Answer: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Question: Tom Parker managed which huge star?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question: Who was the famous rock guitarist in the group Love Sculpture, notably featuring on their breakneck hit version of Khachaturian's classical piece Sabre Dance?
Answer: Dave Edmunds
Question: Rolf Harris endorsed what new musical instrument, which supposedly features on David Bowie's hit Space Oddity?
Answer: Stylophone
Question: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Junior were among several entertainers given what collective nickname?
Answer: The Rat Pack
Question: Which gravel-voiced English singer was previously a gas-fitter from Sheffield?
Answer: Joe Cocker
Question: What Eddie Cochran song, covered by the Who, told of frustrations with his boss and his congressman?
Answer: Summertime Blues
Question: Which comedian's recordings featured hilarious telephone routines about King Kong and the introduction of Tobacco?
Answer: Bob Newhart
Question: Who discovered the Victoria Falls in 1855?
Answer: David Livingstone
Question: Who wrote the novel The Cider House Rules?
Answer: John Irving
Question: In which year was British Summertime first introduced?
Answer: 1916
Question: What connects Elizabeth Fry, Sir John Houblon, Adam Smith, George Stephenson, and Sir Edward Elgar?
Answer: Appeared on Bank of England banknotes
Question: What is the prehistoric fish considered extinct until found living off the African coast in the 20th century?
Answer: Coelocanth
Question: What is the word for maze taken from Greek legend?
Answer: Labyrinth
Question: In the Bible who was Noah's grandfather?
Answer: Methuselah
Question: Who was the leader of the Trojans in the Trojan war?
Answer: Hector
Question: In which US state were the Salem witch trials held?
Answer: Massachusetts
Question: Which cricket commentator, who mistakenly called Monty Panesar 'Monty Python', was awarded an OBE in 2003?
Answer: Henry Blofeld
Question: Apia is the capital of which independent island nation in the South Pacific?
Answer: Samoa
Question: Which American female soul singer made the 1996 hit song Un-break My Heart?
Answer: Toni Braxton
Question: Of which 19th century movement were William Lovett and Feargus O'Connor leading figures?
Answer: Chartism
Question: Who played female agent Cinnamon Carter in the 1960s TV series Mission Impossible?
Answer: Barbara Bain
Question: In which country was Greenpeace founded?
Answer: Canada
Question: Who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
Answer: Robert Pirsig
Question: What term originally meaning 'storehouse' referred, and still refers, to a periodical of various content and imaginative writing?
Answer: Magazine
Question: Who wrote the 1845 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Answer: Robert Browning
Question: What significant law relating to literary and artistic works was first introduced in 1709?
Answer: Copyright
Question: What word, meaning 'measure' in Greek, refers to the rhythm of a line of verse?
Answer: Metre
Question: Stanley Kubrick successfully requested the UK ban of his own film based on what Anthony Burgess book?
Answer: A Clockwork Orange
Question: By what name is the writer François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) better known?
Answer: Voltaire
Question: According to Matthew 27 in the Bible what prisoner was released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus?
Answer: Barabbas
Question: Around 100AD what type of book construction began to replace scrolls?
Answer: Codex
Question: What name for a lyrical work, typically 50-200 lines long, which from the Greek word for song?
Answer: Ode
Question: In bookmaking, a sheet folded three times is called by what name?
Answer: Octavo
Question: Who is the second oldest of the Pevensie children in C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Answer: Susan
Question: """In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice which I've been turning over in my mind ever since,"" is the start of which novel?"
Answer: The Great Gatsby
Question: Which American philosopher, and often-quoted advocate of individualism, published essays on Self-Reliance, Love, Heroism, Character and Manners in his Collections of 1841 and 1844?
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Question: """Make then laugh; make them cry; make them wait..."" was a personal maxim of which novelist?"
Answer: Charles Dickens
Question: Salpingitis is the medical term for the inflammation of which part of the body?
Answer: Fallopian Tubes
Question: Which novelist wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Bell?
Answer: Emily Bronte
Question: Which chain announced the closure of 600 US branches in July 2008?
Answer: Starbucks
Question: Which original and long lost member of the Manic Street Preachers was declared dead on 24 November 2008?
Answer: Richey Edwards
Question: What hip-hop artist was controversially chosen to headline the 2008 Glastonbury Festival?
Answer: Jay-Z
Question: Who won the UK 2008 Apprentice TV show and the resulting job with Sir Alan Sugar?
Answer: Lee McQueen
Question: What successful 2008 film starring Angelina Jolie did Clint Eastwood direct?
Answer: Changeling
Question: In what city did Barack Obama formally accept the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election?
Answer: Denver, Colorado
Question: What were Bertha, Cristobel and Dolly on 20 July 2008?
Answer: Storms
Question: In March 2008 the Shin Bet secret service of what country launched a blog written by four of its agents?
Answer: Israel
Question: Which UK member of parliament resigned in June 2008 to fight the Haltemprice and Howden election on a civil liberties platform?
Answer: David Davis
Question: What candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2008 US election withdrew from the contest on 10 January 2008?
Answer: Bill Richardson
Question: The sales and reputation of what cheese were affected when toxins were believed to have contaminated buffalo milk?
Answer: Mozzarella
Question: Which is the financial centre and main city of Switzerland?
Answer: ZURICH
Question: What liqueur bearing the letters D.O.M. on the bottle label was developed at Fecamp, France, in the 16th century?
Answer: BENEDICTINE
Question: Who won six consecutive Wimbledon singles titles in the 1980s?
Answer: MARTINA NAVRATILOVA
Question: In which 1979 film was the spaceship called Nostromo?
Answer: ALIEN
Question: Which Latin term, usually applied to legal evidence, means 'at first sight'?
Answer: PRIMA FACIE
Question: What is the alternative common name for a Black Leopard?
Answer: PANTHER
Question: Which actor appeared in Papillion and The Great Escape and died in 1980?
Answer: STEVE MCQUEEN
Question: KAR120C was the registration of a yellow Lotus 7, in which 1960s cult UK TV series?
Answer: THE PRISONER
Question: In Roman mythology, Neptune is the equivalent to which Greek god?
Answer: POSEIDON
Question: Robin Hood & Friar Tuck appear in which well-known novel, by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: IVANHOE
Question: Which sign of the Zodiac are people born on 30th October?
Answer: Scorpio
Question: Which British organisation was founded by Octavia Hill in 1895?
Answer: The National Trust
Question: Who was president of Vietnam from 1945-54?
Answer: Ho Chi Min
Question: Which vitamin is also known as pantothenic acid?
Answer: B5
Question: Who wrote the book Catch-22?
Answer: Joseph Heller
Question: In which 1953 film did Marilyn Monroe play gold-digger Lorelei Lee?
Answer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Question: In which decade was third class rail travel re-designated second class on British railways?
Answer: 1950s
Question: The Salk vaccine was developed in 1954 to be used against which disease?
Answer: Polio
Question: The Battle of Balaclava was fought during which war?
Answer: The Crimean War
Question: In which European city is the San Vittore women's prison?
Answer: Milan
Question: A Dobro is what type of musical instrument?
Answer: Guitar
Question: Which singer's epitaph is 'True To His Own Spirit'?
Answer: Jim Morrison
Question: Maurice Cole was the real name of which popular funny UK Radio and TV personality?
Answer: Kenny Everett
Question: In a game of English draughts how many pieces does each player normally begin with?
Answer: Twelve
Question: In which century was the Bank of England founded?
Answer: 17th
Question: In which century was divorce legalised (by Act of Parliament) in England?
Answer: 19th
Question: A nap hand is a series of how many winning points or victories in a game or sport?
Answer: Five
Question: Which London tube station was called Gillespie Road before adopting the name of a nearby football club in 1932?
Answer: Arsenal
Question: In Greek mythology what was the name of the old man who ferried the souls of the dead across the River Styx to Hades?
Answer: Charon
Question: What is the grammatical term for words such as at, in, of, to, by, under, and with?
Answer: Preposition
Question: What metal, safely used in food colouring, has the E-Number 175?
Answer: Gold
Question: The Biobio River is in which South American country?
Answer: Chile
Question: What computer game invented by Alexi Pajtnov celebrated its 25th anniversary in June 2009?
Answer: Tetris
Question: Vladimir Ulyanov was better known as which political activist and leader?
Answer: Lenin
Question: Bessie Wallis Warfield became better known as whom?
Answer: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
Question: Oliver Barrett IV was the male lead character in what famous 1970 film?
Answer: Love Story
Question: Linda Lovelace starred in what 1972 film, whose title inspired the nickname for the Watergate informant?
Answer: Deep Throat
Question: Which sixteenth century German astronomer was reputed to have sold his soul to the devil?
Answer: Johann Faust
Question: Which rock band released an album Beggars Banquet?
Answer: The Rolling Stones
Question: What are musophobics afraid of?
Answer: Mice
Question: Mount Vinson Massif is the highest peak in which continent?
Answer: Antarctica
Question: What are kept in an apiary?
Answer: Bees
Question: What 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood was titled after the legend of a 17th century highwaywoman?
Answer: The Wicked Lady
Question: Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) founded what religious order?
Answer: The Society of Jesus
Question: Sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials, which former chief of the Luftwaffe took cyanide the night before his scheduled hanging?
Answer: Hermann Goring
Question: Palermo is the capital of which island?
Answer: Sicily
Question: What car maker announced in early 2009 plans to reintroduce the iconic DS marque?
Answer: Citroen
Question: What colour is the flesh of a lychee?
Answer: White
Question: The Stasi were the secret police of which country?
Answer: East Germany
Question: Which Shakespeare play features in the Cole Porter musical 'Kiss Me, Kate'?
Answer: Taming of the Shrew
Question: Who was wife to Henry II and mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Question: Which Native American leader's real name was Goyathlay?
Answer: Geronimo
Question: Which Guns 'n' Roses song is based on a short story by Del James called Without You?
Answer: November Rain
Question: In a theatre what is the job of a visagiste?
Answer: Make-up artist