zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In general what is the maximum time applied to competitive eating contests, where the aim is to eat the most of some food in a set time?
Answer: 15 minutes
Question: US TV personality Jerry Springer was once mayor of which city?
Answer: Cincinatti
Question: By what name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento better known to his fans?
Answer: Pel
Question: Vulgaria is what in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Answer: Land
Question: Which cartoon character is the adoptive father of Swee'Pea, an infant foundling left on his doorstep?
Answer: Popeye
Question: Which singer invested in the Ampex company in 1947 (which developed North America's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder), was the first to pre-record his radio shows and to master his commercial recordings on magnetic tape?
Answer: Bing Crosby
Question: What character has been played by Howard Marion Crawford, Jude Law, Nigel Bruce and, in 2012, Martin Freeman
Answer: Dr Watson
Question: Aspartame is a chemical used as what?
Answer: Sweetener
Question: Shakespeare's "King Lear" is set in which country?
Answer: England
Question: Which French singer and actress has been in a relationship with American actor Johnny Depp since 1998, with whom she has a daughter and a son?
Answer: Vanessa Paradis
Question: What British TV series was set at Maplins Holiday Camp?
Answer: Hi De Hi
Question: What was the name of the German fighter pilot known as the "Red Baron", officially credited with 80 confirmed air combat victories, who died in 1918, from wounds sustained in combat?
Answer: Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen
Question: The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed on July 21, 356 BC in an act of arson committed by whom?
Answer: Herostratus
Question: What is an essential ingredient of Bouillabaisse?
Answer: Fish
Question: """Operation Market Garden"" took place in the Netherlands and Germany during which war?"
Answer: World War II
Question: What religious organisation was founded in England by William Booth in 1877?
Answer: Salvation Army
Question: Edison Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pel, retired in 1977 from what sport?
Answer: Football
Question: What figure in Greek mythology was killed by a wild boar?
Answer: Adonis
Question: On the Christian calendar, what name is given to the 40 days before Easter?
Answer: Lent
Question: The Basques are native people of France and which other neighbouring country?
Answer: Spain
Question: After she beat Francesca Schiavone at the Sony Ericsson Tennis Championships in Doha, who was ranked World No. 1 on the WTA Tour?
Answer: Caroline Wozniacki
Question: It was formed in 1885 by members of the Theosophical Society, was a major force in the Indian independence movement and is still a potent political party in India. What is it called?
Answer: Indian National Congress
Question: Which band's seventh album "In Rainbows" was released through their website on 10 October 2007 as a download for which customers could make whatever payment that they wanted, even nothing?
Answer: Radiohead
Question: Where, on 24 June 1314, did Robert Bruce defeat Edward II's army?
Answer: Bannockburn
Question: Hamlet figures in which play?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Who was thrown into the Tiber by his uncle, was suckled by a wolf, co-founded Rome and was killed by his brother?
Answer: Remus
Question: A team from which country won the World Elephant Polo Association world championship in 2004 and 2005?
Answer: Scotland
Question: The river which carved out the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, is thought to have begun in its present course about how long ago?
Answer: 17 million years
Question: Food prepared under the dietary laws of Judaism is called what?
Answer: Kosher
Question: Who succeeded Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, after he was shot and killed on 27 June 1844?
Answer: Brigham Young
Question: In 2001, who began a relationship with director Tim Burton with whom she has two children: Billy (born 2003) and Nell (born 2007)?
Answer: Helena Bonham Carter
Question: Which Queen of Sweden came to the throne in 1632 around the age of 6 and abdicated in 1654?
Answer: Christina
Question: Who commanded the Roman army that invaded Britain in 55BC?
Answer: Julius Caesar
Question: The TT on the Isle of Man, first run in 1905, is for what?
Answer: Motorcycles
Question: How many "tribes of Israel" were there that descended from Jacob/Israel?
Answer: 12
Question: In 1822 Brazil declared its independence from what European power?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Who was the first person (and only person, except for "Sergeant Pepper") other than The Beatles themselves, to have their image on the front cover of a Beatles LP?
Answer: Klaus Voorman
Question: Who became the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, as the result of a by-election in 1919?
Answer: Nancy Astor
Question: Which cartoon series relied on the voices of Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Gerry Johnson, Don Messick, Harvey Korman & John Stephenson?
Answer: The Flinstones
Question: What is the formal title of Guernsey, the British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy?
Answer: Bailiwick of Guernsey
Question: From 1894 to 1960, all of the Mosquito Coast was part of which country?
Answer: Nicaragua
Question: The unit of electrical resistance was named after whom?
Answer: Georg Simon Ohm
Question: The American TV serial "Twin Peaks" was set in what state of the USA?
Answer: Washington
Question: What colour is the medal presented for winning an event at the Olympic Games from 1904 onwards?
Answer: Gold
Question: In the British army, how many chevrons does a sergeant wear on his arm?
Answer: 3
Question: What series of toys, aimed at little girls, was released by Hasbro in 1983?
Answer: My Little Pony
Question: What strait is between the Russian island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaid?
Answer: La Perouse Strait
Question: What type of instrument is a lute?
Answer: String
Question: In 1779 Captain James Cook, having surveyed the West Coast of the continent of North America, was killed at which islands?
Answer: Hawaiian Islands
Question: Circe transformed Odysseus' companions into what?
Answer: Swine
Question: What was the real name of the fictional character Jason Bourne, the main character in 3 films based on stories by Robert Ludlam?
Answer: David Webb
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the multi-headed dog, encircled by a serpent, that guarded the portal to the underworld?
Answer: Cerberus
Question: Which country on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal is bordered by China, Laos, Thailand, Bangladesh and Nepal?
Answer: Burma
Question: What is Andrew Stanton most associated with?
Answer: Pixar Animation Studios
Question: What body of water between Israel and Jordan fed by the Jordan River has no outlet stream?
Answer: Dead Sea
Question: Which 19th century American writer is best known for his "Tales of Mystery and Suspense", "Tales of the Arabesque and the Grotesque", and his poems "The Raven", "The Bells" and "Annabel Lee"?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
Question: What was the first name of the poet Coleridge?
Answer: Samuel
Question: Waterford Crystal was manufactured in Waterford City, Ireland, from 1783 until the factory was shut down after the receivership of Waterford Wedgwood plc in what year?
Answer: 2009
Question: In 1642, Cardinal Mazarin succeeded whom as Chief Minister of France?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu
Question: In 1936, prototypes of a car called "strength through joy", with a round shape and air-cooled, flat-four, rear-mounted engine, appeared and was developed to become which car that is still recognisable?
Answer: Volkswagen Beetle
Question: What is a dish that originated in 19th-century Russia, of sauted pieces of beef served in a sauce with sour cream?
Answer: Beef Stroganoff
Question: In the American War of 1812 against Great Britain the ship now known as Old Ironsides defeated five British warships (HMS Guerriere, HMS Java, HMS Pictou, HMS Cyane and HMS Levant). She is still afloat. What name was she commissioned under?
Answer: USS Constitution
Question: What is the name of the killer rat that features in the 1973 film "Willard"?
Answer: Ben
Question: In Greek mythology, what was left in Pandora's box after the evils, ills, diseases, and burdensome labour had escaped?
Answer: Hope
Question: What real person did Martin Landau portray when he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the 1994 film "Ed Wood"?
Answer: Bela Lugosi
Question: David Palmer, Amr Shabana, Thierry Lincou and Ramy Ashour have been World Open Champions in which sport in this century?
Answer: Squash
Question: Who was in all of these films: "Alfie", "The Man Who Would Be King", "Educating Rita", "Little Voice", "Batman Begins", "The Dark Knight", "Last Orders" and "The Quiet American"?
Answer: Michael Caine
Question: The main religion in Tibet is a style of what?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: Who was made Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, introduced 2 prayer books under Edward VI, and was executed for heresy under Mary I?
Answer: Thomas Cranmer
Question: The secretary bird is native to which continent?
Answer: Africa
Question: What is the name of the Goddess that personifies retribution?
Answer: Nemesis
Question: In Greek legend, what were Stheno, Euryale and Medusa, winged female monsters with snakes for hair who turned mortals to stone if they looked directly at them?
Answer: Gorgons
Question: Playwright Athol Fugard, multi-award-winning honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is best-known for what theme in his works?
Answer: Opposing the South African system of apartheid
Question: Lake Chad, the second largest wetland in Africa, is shared by the Republic of Chad, the Republic of Cameroon, Nigeria and which other country?
Answer: The Republic of Niger
Question: Which South American country extends the furthest east?
Answer: Brazil
Question: How many different people were Prime Minister of Australia in the first 100 years after it became a Dominion in 1901?
Answer: 25
Question: What is a mythological "xana"?
Answer: Fairy
Question: Who wrote the poem "Paradise Lost"?
Answer: John Milton
Question: What style of French painting, influenced by Flemish and Dutch Baroque and Italian styles, with schools developed around Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens, was practised by Georges de la Tour, Simon Vouet, and the Le Nain brothers?
Answer: Louis XIII
Question: Who commited suicide after she was abandoned by Aeneas?
Answer: Dido
Question: Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play US Marshalls investigating the disappearance of a psychiatric patient in the 1950s in which 2010 film directed by Martin Scorsese?
Answer: Shutter Island
Question: In what kind of establishment was the TV series Fawlty Towers set?
Answer: Hotel
Question: What is a means for storing movies and so on, on a disc?
Answer: DVD
Question: Awarded since 1955, what is the name of the highest prize for competing films at the Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: The Palme d'Or
Question: Whose visit to Vietnam in November 2000 was the first by a U.S. President since the end of the Vietnam War?
Answer: Bill Clinton
Question: Where would one go to see Moai?
Answer: Easter Island
Question: Swaying and dancing with hoops, like the modern hula hoop, has distant ancestors as well as current cousins, but not including...?
Answer: Hoop-la
Question: Hamlet's thought: "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of ..."?
Answer: The king
Question: Who did George W. Bush beat for the US presidency in 2000?
Answer: Al Gore
Question: When was the first message transmitted between UK and the USA by submarine telegraph cable?
Answer: 1858
Question: She was known during her training and work as Nora Baker, and was posthumously awarded a British George Cross, appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire and awarded a French Croix de Guerre with Gold Star. What was her real name?
Answer: Noor Inayat Khan
Question: Who was a session musician from Harlesden, North London, England who played for leading UK independent producers Shel Talmy and Mickie Most and performed on albums and singles by The Kinks, The Move, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Donovan, Jeff Beck, Jefferson Airplane, and the Steve Miller Band?
Answer: Nicky Hopkins
Question: Where would you find the Caves of Altamira, famous for prehistoric paintings on the rock?
Answer: Spain
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "The World Is Not ... "
Answer: Enough
Question: Which TV series concentrated on the death of Laura Palmer?
Answer: Twin Peaks
Question: Who ordered the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Answer: Khufu
Question: What is the city where the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria meets the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia?
Answer: Khartoum
Question: Platelets fulfil what function in human blood?
Answer: Clotting
Question: When was Vatican City, the smallest independent sovereign state in the world, established?
Answer: 1929
Question: What was the "Lord of the Rings" character Gollum originally?
Answer: Hobbit
Question: A modified version of which type of weapon was designed by US frontiersman Jim Bowie?
Answer: Knife
Question: Which country voted in November 2012 to work to become the 51st state of the USA?
Answer: Puerto Rico
Question: What name is given to the area above the stage into which scenery can be raised?
Answer: Flies
Question: Which conductor of the Worcester Glee Club from 1879 to 1889, went on to write "The Enigma Variations" and "The Dream of Gerontius"?
Answer: Edward Elgar
Question: Rameses the Great presided over what empire?
Answer: Egyptian
Question: """Campbell's Soup Cans"", produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol, consists of a number of canvases, each 20 inches by 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm), each with a painting of a can. How many canvases are there?"
Answer: 32
Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1964 to 1965 and the first Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979?
Answer: Ian Smith
Question: Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I of England?
Answer: Anne Boleyn
Question: Who developed the live attenuated polio vaccine which has led to hopes of global eradication of the virus?
Answer: Albert Sabin
Question: The peace treaty, the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I, was signed between the Allied Powers and which nation?
Answer: Germany
Question: Music which consists of at least two independent lines sounding at the same time is most usually called what?
Answer: Polyphony
Question: Zonker, Boopsie and Roland Hedley appear in which comic strip?
Answer: Doonesbury
Question: Military signals are given on which musical instrument?
Answer: Bugle
Question: How many countries in South America have land which lies south of the equator?
Answer: 8
Question: What is the name for the lowest point of a sound wave?
Answer: Trough
Question: The condition whereby hostages and their captors form sympathetic bonds is known as what?
Answer: Stockholm syndrome
Question: What was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, first isolated on 19 October 1943 by Albert Schatz, a graduate student, in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University?
Answer: Streptomycin
Question: In the film "Home Alone", what is the name of the character who is left alone at Christmas, played by Macaulay Culkin?
Answer: Kevin
Question: Between 2000 and 2010, how many times had Venus and Serena Williams met in a Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Final?
Answer: 4
Question: It premiered at the Olivier Theatre in the Royal National Theatre in London, UK, using life-size, non-human puppets. What was the play?
Answer: War Horse
Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess of nature and mother of the earth, Demeter?
Answer: Ceres
Question: Who, known primarily for dreamy, other-worldly scenes, painted his first album cover in 1968 for "Gun", in 1971 began a partnership with the progressive rock band "Yes" and created covers for "Budgie", "Uriah Heep" & "Gentle Giant"?
Answer: Roger Dean
Question: Who was found guilty by the High Court of Admiralty, London, on five counts of piracy and for the murder of William Moore, was hanged on May 23, 1701, at 'Execution Dock', Wapping, London?
Answer: William Kidd
Question: The US version of the Indian game pachisi, Parcheesi, was trademarked by US firm E. G. Selchow & Co in what year?
Answer: 1874
Question: Who wrote "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" between 1772 and 1787 (published from 1776 to 1789) in 6 volumes?
Answer: Edward Gibbon
Question: When was the first train run on the route known as the Orient Express?
Answer: 1883
Question: The Trans-Siberian Railway is the third longest continuous rail service and spans how many time zones?
Answer: 7
Question: Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood's clothing shop in Chelsea, London was called "Let It Rock" when it opened. The name was changed to "Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die" 1972, and was next called what?
Answer: Sex
Question: What branch of the British military wear red caps?
Answer: Military police
Question: Antonia Robinson and Anna Valentine, London designers who work under the name Robinson Valentine, designed a cream-coloured dress and coat worn by whom at her wedding to Prince Charles on 9 April 2005?
Answer: Camilla Parker Bowles
Question: Obsidian, caused naturally when lava cools very quickly, is what type of substance?
Answer: Glass
Question: Which Greek city was also known as Lacedaemon?
Answer: Sparta
Question: The Colorado beetle destroys what kind of crop?
Answer: Potato
Question: Which is the strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania?
Answer: Bass Strait
Question: Adriano De Souza, Joel Parkinson, Adam Robertson, Bobby Martinez, Kelly Slater, Damien Hobgood, Mick Fanning, Dane Reynolds, Bede Durbidge, Chris Davidson & Taj Burrow are international competitors in what sport?
Answer: Surfing
Question: Austro-Hungarian Theodore Herzl was the first leader of what international movement?
Answer: Zionism
Question: Forty hours before he committed suicide in 1945 Adolf Hitler married whom?
Answer: Eva Braun
Question: When were Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria formally amalgamated?
Answer: 1914
Question: How many cards are used for a game of canasta?
Answer: 108
Question: During the late 1960s and early 1970s, "Easy Rider", "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Graduate" helped to begin what film-making phase?
Answer: New Hollywood
Question: Max is a little boy who appears in which children's story by Maurice Sendak?
Answer: Where the Wild Things Are
Question: The Colorado Beetle destroys which crop?
Answer: Potatoes
Question: Who was the first British monarch to be named "Empress of India"?
Answer: Victoria
Question: Which country's dissolution in 1993 was known as the Velvet Divorce?
Answer: Czechoslovakia
Question: In which country, on June 1, 2001, was there a massacre in the royal palace when King Birendra, Queen Aiswarya, Crown Prince Dipendra and 7 other members of the royal family were killed?
Answer: Nepal
Question: """The Leader of the Pack"" was a #1 hit record world-wide between 1972 and 1976 for which group?"
Answer: The Shangri-Las
Question: What Roman road ran from London to Weymouth, via Silchester, Old Sarum and Dorchester?
Answer: The Portway
Question: What is the name for the increase in size of tissue or an organ due to physiological change from old age, or lack of use, nutrition or nerve supply?
Answer: Atrophy
Question: What is the name of Thomas Gray's most famous poem?
Answer: Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
Question: What is the common name for trypanosomiasis?
Answer: Sleeping sickness
Question: Until the Simpsons came along, what was the most successful TV cartoon series?
Answer: The Flintstones
Question: The US War of Independence was in which century?
Answer: 18th
Question: Who led English barons in an attempt to influence Henry III, called a parliament in 1265 and was defeated at the Battle of Evesham?
Answer: Simon de Montfort
Question: Which pantomime is about a boy who discovers a magic lamp?
Answer: Aladdin
Question: Who led the Dutch colony of New Netherlands in America until surrendering it to the British in 1664?
Answer: Peter Stuyvesant
Question: Where did British mill engineer Joseph Jagger famously "break the bank" at a gaming establishment in 1873?
Answer: Monte Carlo
Question: Tehran is situated at the southern end of which body of water?
Answer: Caspian Sea
Question: The Gulfs of Tonkin and Thailand both lead to which body of water?
Answer: South China Sea
Question: The film 1953 Calamity Jane produced which hit for Doris Day that reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1954?
Answer: Secret Love
Question: Whom do Sikhs venerate as the founder of their religion?
Answer: Guru Nanak
Question: Wordsworth was inspired to write "Earth has not anything to show more fair" by the view from which London bridge?
Answer: Westminster
Question: In the 14th century, what name was given to Edward, eldest son of Edward III and father of Richard II?
Answer: Black Prince
Question: In which country were constitutional reforms initiated in 1954, resulting in a new constitution when Britain granted self-government in 1964?
Answer: British Honduras
Question: Who was the leader of the Peasant's Revolt in England in 1381?
Answer: Wat Tyler
Question: On a state visit to Britain in 2003, US President Bush was welcomed by a salute of how many guns?
Answer: 41
Question: Who retained his title as the World Chess Champion after a challenge from Veselin Topalov in 2010?
Answer: Viswanathan Anand
Question: Who was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 882 to 887 AD?
Answer: Charles the Fat
Question: A study of bacterial DNA through the 1960s and 1970s isolated and identified a new branch of the tree of life many of whose members live in places extremely hostile to other forms of life. What is it called?
Answer: Archaea
Question: The ostrich, emu, rhea, kiwi and the extinct "elephant bird" of Madagascar and moa are all types of what diverse group of large, flightless birds?
Answer: Ratite
Question: Who, styling himself "Witch-Finder General" conducted witch-hunts mainly in the counties of Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk and occasionally in other eastern counties of England during the English Civil War?
Answer: Matthew Hopkins
Question: A popular myth which has been debunked by sports historians is that Abner Doubleday, a Union officer in the American Civil War, invented which sport?
Answer: Baseball
Question: Which is recognised as the most massive bacterium so far discovered, reaching up to .75mm in length and large enough to be visible to the naked eye?
Answer: Thiomargarita namibiensis
Question: When SARS was discovered in 2003 it was only the third human coronavirus known, but by the end of 2012 a further three have been identified the last now known as MERS; what coronavirus is MERS most closely related to?
Answer: Bat
Question: A typical harvest from Spain and Greece is thought of as what?
Answer: Olives
Question: What do the initials in the UK TV show "QI" represent?
Answer: Quite Interesting
Question: Which British prime minister resigned as a result of the Suez Crisis?
Answer: Anthony Eden
Question: Which newspaper, established in 1917, expressed the official views of the Soviet government and continued after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Izvestia
Question: In which continent is the country of Gabon found?
Answer: Africa
Question: Charlotte was the queen of which British king?
Answer: George III
Question: Who was instrumental in 1996 in bringing world attention to Dunblane Primary School?
Answer: Thomas Hamilton
Question: In 1961 an entire American sports team was lost in a plane crash when travelling to the World Championships in its sport; which sport was it?
Answer: Figure skating
Question: What was the first finished product to roll off Henry Ford's moving assembly line established in 1913?
Answer: Car
Question: What saline basin in Central Asia, once the world's fourth largest lake with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,000 sq miles), has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s when the rivers feeding it were diverted by irrigation projects?
Answer: The Aral Sea