zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Near what would one find an "ingle nook"?
Answer: Fireplace
Question: Who is reflected in the name for the Philippines?
Answer: King Philip II of Spain
Question: Twins of the name of Evers-Swindell are associated with what sport?
Answer: Rowing
Question: Who released the album "The Transformed Man" in 1968?
Answer: William Shatner
Question: What is another name for a wild hyacinth?
Answer: Bluebell
Question: Where would you find the machair?
Answer: Scotland
Question: Which 1962 film directed by Roman Polanski shows the differences in economic status of an unemployed youth and a successful older man, played out as a psychological contest to possess the older man's wife?
Answer: Knife In The Water
Question: In 1291 a number of mainly alpine European communities formed a protective alliance which with the later addition of others became what is now known as what?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Thomas Telford is associated with which field?
Answer: Engineering
Question: What 1973 film, based on a novel by French ex-convict Henri Charrire, starred Steve McQueen & Dustin Hoffman?
Answer: Papillon
Question: The influential 1848 Cambridge University rules for football were drawn up with the participation of what groups?
Answer: English public schools
Question: What part of speech is the subject of the sentence "John carried some parcels for Mary"?
Answer: Proper noun
Question: In 2012 which was the city, second only to Paris, with the most populous metropolitan area in the world?
Answer: Seoul
Question: What is the word for a mat placed under a glass or cup to protect a surface?
Answer: Coaster
Question: As at 2014, when will the next Winter Olympics be held?
Answer: 2018
Question: The Richter Scale used for measuring the energy released by earthquakes, mostly replaced since 1979 by the MMS (moment magnitude scale), was developed by Charles Richter and which other scientist?
Answer: Beno Gutenberg
Question: What is the name for Government House, Canberra, the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia?
Answer: Yarralumla
Question: What is the principal language on the Galapagos Islands?
Answer: Spanish
Question: In Los Angeles, California, USA, African-American Rodney Glen King III was beaten severely by police after leading them on a high speed chase and resisting arrest, leading to massive rioting by African-Americans in the Los Angeles area when the police officers involved were acquitted. When did the beating happen?
Answer: March 3, 1991
Question: If someone is said to have "kissed the Blarney Stone" what qualities are they being described as having?
Answer: Eloquence, or skill at flattery
Question: The wife of Humphrey Verdon Roe, with whom she founded a ground-breaking clinic in Britain, was also an author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for women's rights. What was the field in which she is known for pioneering effective, widespread and consistent action?
Answer: Birth control
Question: What leaves relieve pain caused by stinging nettle?
Answer: Dock
Question: The musical "Calamity Jane" is set in which town?
Answer: Deadwood, South Dakota
Question: A kukri is a crooked knife traditionally used by which regiment in the British army?
Answer: Brigade of Gurkhas
Question: Time magazine was founded in 1923 by whom?
Answer: Henry Luce
Question: From which sport do we get the expression "Getting to first base"?
Answer: Baseball
Question: The wine "Tokay" originated where?
Answer: Hungary
Question: What is the capital of Nicaragua?
Answer: Managua
Question: What submarine feature joins mainland Ecuador to the Galapagos Islands?
Answer: Carnegie Ridge
Question: Who published almost 100 books on many subjects, including his autobiography "My Life and Times" (10 vols, 1963-1971), "The Four Winds Of Love" (6 vols, 1937-45), "Whisky Galore" (1947) and "Monarch of the Glen" (1941)?
Answer: Compton MacKenzie
Question: The children's book "Swallows and Amazons" by Arthur Ransome is set in what area of Great Britain?
Answer: Lake District
Question: Started as early as 1888, professional competitions offering trophies testing and displaying cowboy and vaquero skills are called what?
Answer: Rodeo
Question: When was the Indian National Calendar first used?
Answer: 22 March 1957
Question: The Tumuc-Humac Mountains are between Brazil and where else?
Answer: Suriname and French Guiana
Question: The 1996 Port Arthur massacre, carried out by a single gunman, took place where?
Answer: Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia
Question: What is the German equivalent of the word "mister"?
Answer: Herr
Question: The phrase to be in the "limelight" refers to burning of what as a brilliant light source in old theatre and music hall performances?
Answer: Quicklime
Question: What is an American food made from small pieces of cornmeal bread that are deep fried or baked, the ingredients of which include cornmeal, flour, eggs, salt, baking soda, milk, and water, and sometimes kernel corn, onion, spring onion and peppers?
Answer: Hushpuppies
Question: Where is the Dune of Pilat found?
Answer: West coast of France
Question: Which episode of Star Wars is being filmed 2014-15?
Answer: Seven
Question: What are the missing words in this phrase from the UK TV series starting in 1952 "Bill and Ben, the .... Men"?
Answer: Flower Pot
Question: What river falls over the Angel Falls, Venezuela, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall?
Answer: Gauja River
Question: Who wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"?
Answer: Washington Irving
Question: What was the name of the taxi company in the US TV series "Taxi"?
Answer: Sunshine Cab Company
Question: Hertz is the standard SI unit for the measurement of what?
Answer: Radio frequency
Question: What is Rachel Hunter's profession?
Answer: Supermodel
Question: Who had a hit in 1967 with "Silence is Golden"?
Answer: The Tremoloes
Question: What was the title of John Denver's song about Jacques Cousteau's boat?
Answer: Calypso
Question: This actor is the youngest of 5 children, his great-grandfather was blind and a piano tuner and music teacher, he acts frequently with his wife, he won a Primetime Emmy Awards 2014 for Outstanding Actor, and among many films and TV series starred in the film version of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"; who is he?
Answer: Martin Freeman
Question: What does the ancient name for Egypt mean in modern Greek?
Answer: Chemistry
Question: Egg and spoon races were staged as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. When was the earliest recorded reference in the Oxford English Dictionary to an egg and spoon race?
Answer: 1894
Question: """Everything's All Right"" and ""Heaven on Their Minds"" are songs from which musical?"
Answer: Jesus Christ Superstar
Question: The main ingredients of advocaat (or advokat), a rich and creamy liqueur with a smooth, custard-like flavour, are sugar, brandy and what else?
Answer: Eggs
Question: What was the subtitle of the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley?
Answer: The Modern Prometheus
Question: Approximately how many years ago is it thought that humans (of the species homo sapiens) arrived on the Australian continent?
Answer: At least 50,000
Question: The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations was licensed in 2006 as what?
Answer: National securities exchange
Question: Who is the only president of the USA to have been elected four times?
Answer: Franklin D Roosevelt
Question: What are spiracles used for?
Answer: Breathing
Question: The discovery of the process of vulcanisation is most closely associated in the modern context with whom?
Answer: Charles Goodyear
Question: By the time Warcraft III was issued in 2003 the playable races were Orcs, Humans, Night Elves and which other?
Answer: Undead
Question: Who takes care of animals on a film set?
Answer: Wrangler
Question: What sport was Thierry Sabine, who founded the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1977, most involved with at the time?
Answer: Motorcycle racing
Question: Frida Kahlo, famous for her paintings, many of them self-portraits, was married to which other artist?
Answer: Mexican painter Diego Rivera
Question: What is the basis of "pesto" sauce?
Answer: Basil
Question: What government system is in place in Lesotho, an enclave in the Republic of South Africa?
Answer: Parliamentary or constitutional monarchy
Question: Which one of these has no part to play in the ring at a bull fight?
Answer: Ecuador
Question: The early Great Wall of China built in the tears following 221 BCE, new or by reinforcing existing remains of walls, by the Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, was intended to protect the newly unified empire against whom?
Answer: The Xiongnu people from the north
Question: The 1987 record "La Bamba" was by which artist?
Answer: Los Lobos
Question: In which English city is "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend, set?
Answer: Leicester
Question: Prior to Kermit the Frog another Kermit was well-known; he accompanied his father Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the USA, on an expedition 1913-14 during which the River Kermit was named in his honour. Where was the expedition?
Answer: The Amazon Basin
Question: What member of the music and comedy duo "The Flight of the Conchords" was recently seen, under heavy disguise, as the Boris the Animal in the film "Men in Black 3"?
Answer: Jemaine Clement
Question: How is a mandolin usually played?
Answer: By plucking
Question: In 2014 what Formula One team was Lewis Hamilton driving for?
Answer: Mercedes AMG
Question: What is the name for a geometric figure with 3 sides?
Answer: Triangle
Question: What fraction of a second is a nanosecond?
Answer: One thousand millionth
Question: The first Winter Olympics was held in conjunction with 1924 Olympic Games and was originally called what?
Answer: The Week of Winter Sports
Question: What is the Silver Fissure in Iceland known for?
Answer: Diving
Question: Mrs Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913) in the USA is associated with which invention?
Answer: Mechanical dishwasher
Question: """Nicholas Blake"" was the pseudonym of which author?"
Answer: C Day Lewis
Question: Since 2006 Spencer Kelly has been presenting what TV show for the BBC?
Answer: Click
Question: What does the French word "jambon" mean in English?
Answer: Ham
Question: What are the thin leaves of conifers called?
Answer: Needles
Question: What is the Italian for the English word "air"?
Answer: Aria
Question: When did twerking arrive on the American music scene?
Answer: 1990s
Question: Who takes part in the annual Umhlanga Reed Dance in Swaziland?
Answer: Childless, unmarried girls
Question: In classical Rome the use of "Dis" referred to what?
Answer: The ruler of the Underworld
Question: The pasta called "conchiglie" is in the shape of what?
Answer: Seashells
Question: Visors, gloves and finger spikes are worn in which Olympic sport?
Answer: Luge
Question: Which former President of the USA was the father of American actress and author Patti Davis, who was called the "black sheep" of the family and had many well publicised conflicts with her parents?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: A Blue Ringtail is a type of what?
Answer: Damselfly
Question: Prediction is hazardous, especially about the future is attributed to where?
Answer: Danish proverb
Question: What office exercises executive authority over the island of St Helena?
Answer: The British monarchy
Question: Te Ika a Maui and Te Waipounamu are the two main islands of which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: The song "Why Does It Always Rain on Me" is by which band?
Answer: Travis
Question: How are the strings sounded in a spinet?
Answer: Plucked
Question: The US TV mini-series "Hatfields & McCoys" (2012) was shot in Transylvania against the backdrop of the Carpathian mountains to represent what US mountain range?
Answer: Appalachians
Question: Traditionally, mozzarella cheese is made from milk from which animal?
Answer: Buffalo
Question: Who was the youngest person, at the time, to be elected to the office of president of the USA?
Answer: John Kennedy
Question: Second only to the James Bond series of films, which is the longest continually running UK film series?
Answer: Carry On ...
Question: Where were the Commonwealth Games held in 2014?
Answer: Glasgow, Scotland
Question: Which UK TV series was screened first?
Answer: Dr Who
Question: How many books are there in the "Harry Potter" series by J K Rowling?
Answer: 7
Question: Who sang with the Animals?
Answer: Eric Burdon
Question: The US TV series "The In-Betweeners", the remake of the UK series of the same name, featured the writer of "My Name is Earl" Brad Copeland for several episodes, and director Taika Waititi from the 2004 Academy Award nominated short film called what?
Answer: Two Cars: One Night
Question: A cheroot is a type of what?
Answer: Cigar
Question: """General Sherman"" in California, USA, is the name of what?"
Answer: A tree
Question: Which sport is track designer Udo Gurgel most associated with?
Answer: Bobsleigh
Question: Which major Roman road in England linked London to the Fosse Way, passing through Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring, Aylesbury and Bicester before changing direction towards the south-west, passing Woodstock and Witney to the north before heading into Cirencester?
Answer: Akeman Street
Question: What country is the origin of the wine tokay?
Answer: Hungary
Question: Dame Barbara Hepworth is known mainly for her work in sculpture but later in her career was known for work in what other medium?
Answer: Lithography
Question: The most immediate sea to the east of Drake Passage, south of South America, is what?
Answer: Scotia Sea
Question: Where is a proscenium arch usually found?
Answer: In a theatre
Question: Who was the first soccer player to win 100 caps for England?
Answer: Billy Wright
Question: Which was the first of these Disney films to be released?
Answer: The Jungle Book
Question: In 2010, Veera Musikapong, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Khattiya Sawasdiphol, Suthep Thaugsuban, Prompong Nopparit, Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd, Natthawut Saikua and Buranaj Smutharaks were prominent in the politics of which country?
Answer: Thailand
Question: Who, in 1983, was named the top-selling author in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records?
Answer: Barbara Cartland
Question: Where would a customer find "silver service"?
Answer: Restaurant
Question: Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), revered as a great poet, also wrote which play or drama?
Answer: Boris Godunov
Question: What is a Fata Morgana?
Answer: A type of mirage
Question: What ballet company, formed in 1926 in Notting Hill Gate by a Polish woman , tours Britain annually accompanied by its own orchestra?
Answer: Ballet Rambert
Question: Who was the first British golfer to win the US Open Championship?
Answer: Harry Vardon
Question: The long-standing textbook, "Anatomy", by Henry Gray (1827-1861) owed much of its effectiveness to the illustrations which were drawn by whom?
Answer: Henry Vandyke Carter
Question: What is an another name for "Epoch Time"?
Answer: Unix Time
Question: What is the formation of vapour bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where its pressure falls below its vapour pressure?
Answer: Cavitation
Question: When were the annual All-Japan Judo Championships first held in Japan?
Answer: 1930
Question: The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands are part of what island grouping?
Answer: The Lucayan Archipelago
Question: If a lake is endorheic what can this imply?
Answer: A saline lake
Question: The famous collection of music, "Songs from the Auvergne" arranged by Joseph Canteloube, is in what language?
Answer: Occitan
Question: When Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield competed in November 1999 what did they do to compete?
Answer: Boxed
Question: The Council of Constance 1414-18 had the main purpose of ending the Three Popes Schism, and was convened by the Antipope John XXIII. John had two brothers who were sentenced to death for what?
Answer: Piracy
Question: When is the Rabbinical Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, observed?
Answer: 163 days after the first day of Passover
Question: """The Little Sparrow"" was the nickname for which singer?"
Answer: Edith Piaf
Question: Where is Parma, which is famous for its cured ham?
Answer: Northern Italy
Question: The film "La Vie en Rose" ("La Mme") in 2007 followed the life of which French artist?
Answer: Singer Edith Piaf
Question: The US television series "NCIS" (2003-now) focuses on criminal investigations involving what?
Answer: US Navy and Marine Corps
Question: The band Aqua, well-known for their chart-topping single "Barbie Girl", released three albums - Aquarium in 1997, Aquarius in 2000 and which other?
Answer: Megalomania
Question: The next in the sequence - Michael Ramsey, Donald Coggan, Robert Runcie - is...?
Answer: George Carey
Question: Which is a definition of hardwood?
Answer: Wood from dicot angiosperm trees
Question: Which fictional character was created by Robert E Howard?
Answer: Conan the Barbarian
Question: A long running television series about a division of police in the UK is ...?
Answer: The Bill
Question: Considered by many to be the saltiest lake in the world, Don Juan Pond is found where?
Answer: Victoria Land, Antarctica
Question: Who composed "Air on the G String"?
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Question: Where is the Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro designed by Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, and built in 1589?
Answer: The entrance to Havana bay in Havana, Cuba
Question: Which pop group, initially a studio only band for Tony Burrows and songwriter/record producers Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason, are best known for their 1970 record, "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"?
Answer: Edison Lighthouse
Question: United Artists, formed in 1919 as a reaction from commercial film companies of the time, was an alliance between actors Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks and who else?
Answer: Director D.W.Griffith
Question: The last episode of 13 years of what popular US TV series was broadcast in 1991?
Answer: Dallas
Question: Who was vice president to George H W Bush?
Answer: Dan Quayle
Question: The team from which country won the 2014 ICU World Cheerleading Championship?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What is the name given to a pointless, long drawn out story?
Answer: Shaggy dog
Question: Who was IBF Light Welterweight Champion from 4 March 1987 until he retired in December 1987, and was accused of being the masked gunman who shot Frank Warren, his former manager, twice in the chest in November 1989 outside the Broadway Theatre, Barking, England?
Answer: Terry Marsh
Question: Fanta Four are one of what country's top hip hop bands?
Answer: Germany
Question: In "Speed The Plough" by Thomas Morton (1798) which character never appeared, but became a symbol of public prudery and conventional morality?
Answer: Mrs Grundy
Question: What colour is closest to picallili?
Answer: Yellow
Question: What is the word for someone who arranges marriages?
Answer: Matchmaker
Question: Who is the present wife of golfer Greg Norman?
Answer: Interior decorator Kirsten Kutner
Question: A French/American/British coproduced film focussing on German and Italians in one of the Greek islands in 1943, based on the novel by Louis de Bernires, was "Captain Corelli's ..."?
Answer: Mandolin
Question: What is the name of the flower named after pop singer Duffy?
Answer: Duffydil
Question: Who wrote "In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking"?
Answer: Cole Porter
Question: Which team came third in the 2002 men's basketball world championships in Indianapolis?
Answer: Germany
Question: What date in the western Gregorian Calendar is currently the date for the Russian Orthodox Church Christian New Year?
Answer: 14 January
Question: What is a pas de bourre?
Answer: A dance step
Question: Which Russian composer wrote the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrouchka" and "the Rite of Spring"?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky
Question: What is the name of the garden created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson that is designed as a series of "rooms", each with a different character of colour and/or theme, divided by high clipped hedges and pink brick walls?
Answer: Sissinghurst
Question: The famous armless statue of Venus, or Aphrodite, was first discovered in CE times (in 1820 CE) in what ancient city ruins?
Answer: Milos
Question: Paul Galdone illustrated a series of children's books written by Eve Titus about a mouse called what?
Answer: Anatole
Question: Who wrote under the pseudonym of "Elia" and, with his sister Mary, wrote "Tales From Shakespeare"?
Answer: Charles Lamb
Question: Kelly Slater and Layne Beachley are multi world champions in which sport?
Answer: Surfing
Question: Which computer company was founded by former employees of Acer?
Answer: Asus
Question: The Meuse River rises in France and flows through which other country or countries?
Answer: Belgium and the Netherlands
Question: What narrows do you sail through to reach Scotia Sea?
Answer: Drake Passage
Question: A group of quails or snipe is usually called what?
Answer: Covey
Question: As part of a long career on stage, writing songs (recorded by Herman's Hermits, Adam Faith, Billy Fury) and musicals, and in TV and film working with Franco Zeffirelli, Bob Hoskins and Patrick Stewart, the actor Trevor Peacock stars in what UK TV series?
Answer: Vicar of Dibley
Question: Who wrote "J'accuse", an open letter to Flix Faur, President of France, accusing the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus (a French officer sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage) that was published on 13 January 1898, in the newspaper "L'Aurore"?
Answer: mile Zola
Question: Well known in the 1960s, what was the profession of Holland-Dozier-Holland?
Answer: Songwriters
Question: In the English version of the "Asterix" books, the character of Unhygienix has what occupation?
Answer: Fishmonger
Question: The Galapagos Islands are subject to continuing volcanic activity, and are situated where in relation to tectonic plates?
Answer: At the Galapagos Triple Junction
Question: Architect George Clarke fronts which TV series?
Answer: The Restoration Man
Question: What are the narrows called between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic?
Answer: Drake Passage
Question: With which sport are Rodney Eyles, Peter Nicol, Susan Devoy and Cassie Campion associated?
Answer: Squash
Question: Where is the town of Asbestos?
Answer: Canada
Question: What about an 11 stringed lute resonates with a type of mushroom?
Answer: Chanterelle
Question: Glacier-formed fjords can be found on the coasts of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, north east Siberia, the Kerguelen Islands, New Zealand, British Columbia, Nunavut, Washington and where else?
Answer: Chile
Question: The organising committee of the 1960 Winter Olympic games decided to exclude which sport due to the expense of building a track?
Answer: Bobsleigh
Question: The original terms of reference of the International Whaling Commission were to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry"; what did the Commission do in 1982?
Answer: Adopted a moratorium on commercial whaling
Question: What is toasted garlic bread drizzled with olive oil seasoned with salt and pepper and served warm, called?
Answer: Bruschetta
Question: Herodotus, Josephus, Michael King, Simon Schama and Edward Gibbon share what common focus?
Answer: History
Question: The root of the word "carotid", as used for arteries carrying blood to the head, is the Greek for what?
Answer: Stupor
Question: The Olympic Hymn at the opening ceremony at the 1992 Summer Olympics was sung in what language or languages?
Answer: Spanish and Catalan
Question: Which is the smallest sovereign country in South America?
Answer: Suriname
Question: The first editions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice ..." books were given a special flavour by illustrations by which 19th century graphic humourist and political cartoonist?
Answer: Sir John Tenniel
Question: Where would the game of ringette be played?
Answer: On ice
Question: In cooking, what French term is the equivalent of shish kebab, satay, and souvlaki?
Answer: En brochette