zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: An unexpected event is described as being "out of the ... " what?
Answer: Blue
Question: What is Ireland's longest river?
Answer: Shannon
Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 5 points?
Answer: Blue
Question: The US Stock Market crash known as Black Thursday happened on 24 October of what year?
Answer: 1929
Question: What is the name for a raised block of the earth's crust thrown up between two faults?
Answer: Horst
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, whose lamb followed her to school?
Answer: Mary
Question: Britain's largest suspension bridge crosses which river?
Answer: Humber
Question: Who was the subject of an unsuccessful kidnapping attempt on Pall Mall, London, on 20 March 1974 by Ian Ball, who shot Inspector James Beaton (a bodyguard), Alex Callender (chauffeur), Brian McConnell (a passerby who intervened) and Police Constable Michael Hills?
Answer: Princess Anne
Question: Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, and Dr. Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, founded which international organsation in the UK in 1946?
Answer: Mensa
Question: """Easter Parade"" (1948), starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featured songs by whom?"
Answer: Irving Berlin
Question: Of the 5 Presidents of Egypt since it was declared a republic in 1953 who has served the longest?
Answer: Hosni Mubarak
Question: The volcano Vesuvius looks down on what?
Answer: Bay of Naples
Question: How many members of a netball team are allowed to shoot at goal?
Answer: 2
Question: Who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. who has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, and his social and political activism?
Answer: Michael Stipe
Question: How many planets orbit the sun between it and earth?
Answer: 2
Question: What were the first names of author D H Lawrence?
Answer: David Herbert
Question: What gas is the main component of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
Question: In the time of the British Empire, India was referred to as what?
Answer: The Jewel in the Crown
Question: Who were the Persians defeated by in the sea battle at Salamis in 480BC?
Answer: Greece
Question: Who was awarded FIFA's Ballon D'Or in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012?
Answer: Lionel Messi
Question: In which decade was the hovercraft invented?
Answer: 1950s
Question: Tony Kushner wrote the award-winning play "Angels in...?
Answer: America
Question: Who of these is most associated with Fleetwood Mac?
Answer: Stevie Nicks
Question: In American football, who stands behind the centre and calls the play?
Answer: Quarterback
Question: What sort of art work is the "Venus de Milo"?
Answer: Sculpture
Question: Darwin, Cottage, May and Parrot are varieties of what?
Answer: Tulip
Question: In rugby union, which position wears the number 2 jersey?
Answer: Hooker
Question: Which city in the Zou Department of The People's Republic of Benin was formerly the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey?
Answer: Abomey
Question: In 1768, Joshua Reynolds became the first president of what British institution?
Answer: Royal Academy
Question: What are SMS messages sent by?
Answer: Mobile phone
Question: """The Bowery"" is a street in which US city?"
Answer: New York
Question: What is the common name for Anagallis known for the opening and closing of the flowers in response to environmental conditions?
Answer: Pimpernel
Question: What compound in the human body acts as a neurotransmitter and helps to regulate temperature?
Answer: Serotonin
Question: What adjective is used to describe a golfer with a handicap of zero?
Answer: Scratch
Question: Which planet comes closest to the earth in its orbit around the sun?
Answer: Venus
Question: In which year was artist Pablo Picasso born?
Answer: 1881
Question: What was the first US Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, passed in 1890, that still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the United States federal government?
Answer: The Sherman Act
Question: In 1957 Luxembourg, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy joined together to form what?
Answer: EEC
Question: What is a soft cheese made from skimmed milk curds?
Answer: Cottage cheese
Question: What nickname is applied to the Western coast of Namibia, home to many shipwrecks?
Answer: The Skeleton Coast
Question: Who created the international competition called the Goodwill Games, that were held between 1986 and 2001?
Answer: Ted Turner
Question: In what sport is Arnold Palmer known?
Answer: Golf
Question: In snooker, what is usually the maximum that can be scored in a single break?
Answer: 147
Question: The sparkling wine called cava originated in which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: What is the name for the style of furniture made in England between 1603 and 1688?
Answer: Jacobean
Question: Which musical term means "sustained", and occasionally also implies "a slowing of tempo"?
Answer: Sostenuto
Question: Where, in 1961, did US-supported Cuban exiles invade Cuba?
Answer: Bay of Pigs
Question: Who beat Lee Westwood, then the new world golf #1, into second place at the WGC-HSBC Championship in Shanghai in November 2010?
Answer: Francesco Molinari
Question: What musical is set in Deadwood?
Answer: Calamity Jane
Question: In what field is John Galliano famous?
Answer: Fashion
Question: Why was Captain William Kidd hanged in 1701?
Answer: Piracy
Question: Who wrote the novel "Wives and Daughters"?
Answer: Elizabeth Gaskell
Question: In the 1960s, how many African countries became independent from the UK and joined the "Commonwealth of Nations"?
Answer: 13
Question: What sportsman would perform a triple salchow?
Answer: Figure skater
Question: A black widow is a type of what?
Answer: Spider
Question: Who played the title role in the 2004 film "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"?
Answer: Geoffrey Rush
Question: Where are the headquarters of the Arab League, which currently has 22 members?
Answer: Cairo
Question: What was the cause of an epidemic of 355 cases (46% fatal) between March and June 2010 in Zamfara State, Nigeria?
Answer: Lead poisoning
Question: Before becoming president of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt was vice president to whom?
Answer: William McKinley
Question: In 1965, who became the first non-American golfer to win the Masters, the US Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship?
Answer: Gary Player
Question: What jersey is awarded to the "King of the Hill", the best climber in the Tour de France?
Answer: Polka dot
Question: What is a word for a long piece of wood?
Answer: Beam
Question: Which future member of The Monkees pop group appeared on the TV series "Coronation Street"?
Answer: Davy Jones
Question: Blood Wedding (1932) by Garcia Lorca was based on elements of a true story which happened when?
Answer: 1928
Question: What English pop band, formed in Manchester in 1990 with Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen, achieved major success in the early to mid 1990s, split up in 1996, and in 2006 released the album "Beautiful World"?
Answer: Take That
Question: Who became Heavyweight world boxing champion after Riddick Bowe refused to fight him in 1992?
Answer: Lennox Lewis
Question: Which British prime minister returned from Munich to London in 1938 with an agreement signed by Hitler, Mussolini and the French Premier that promised peace in Europe?
Answer: Neville Chamberlain
Question: Greg LeMond was a champion in which type of sport?
Answer: Cycling
Question: What tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers and other garments, traditionally made from worsted wool fibre, was patented by Thomas Burberry in 1888?
Answer: Gabardine
Question: """The course of true love never did run smooth"" is a line from which play?"
Answer: Midsummer Night's Dream
Question: The English sovereigns Henry VII and Mary I were members of which Royal House?
Answer: Tudor
Question: The qualifying age to compete in World Figure Skating Championships has been '15 years old by 1 July of the previous year', since when?
Answer: 1996
Question: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes developed what online computer application?
Answer: Facebook
Question: How many players are usually involved in a present-day game of Snakes and Ladders?
Answer: 2
Question: In North American history, who was "The Flemish Bastard"?
Answer: A Mohawk chief
Question: How many degrees are there in the angle on either side of a straight line?
Answer: 180
Question: What is the duration of each half of a "rugby sevens" game in minutes, when played in the IRB Sevens World Series?
Answer: 7
Question: Capri is an island near which city?
Answer: Naples
Question: What was worn in the 19th century in the west by women to give shape to the lower back?
Answer: Bustle
Question: Where was the prophet Muhammad born?
Answer: Mecca
Question: Where was the supposedly golden land of El Dorado?
Answer: South America
Question: Francis Crick and James Watson did their research into DNA at what institution?
Answer: Cambridge, England
Question: The plot of the 1959 film "Some Like It Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, is triggered by what event?
Answer: The Saint Valentine's Day massacre
Question: In early 2013 French actor Gerard Depardieu took on Russian citizenship and was registered as permanent resident of...?
Answer: Saransk, Russia
Question: What is the name for a Muslim house of prayer?
Answer: Mosque
Question: Which bird became extinct in the 17th century?
Answer: Dodo
Question: What is the palace and fortress complex of the Moorish rulers of Granada in southern Spain constructed during the mid 14th century that occupies a hilly terrace on the southeastern border of the city of Granada, Spain?
Answer: The Alhambra
Question: The TV series "Sex and the City" was set where?
Answer: New York
Question: Who played mobster Henry Hill in the 1990 film "Goodfellas"?
Answer: Ray Liotta
Question: Where did Scottish patriot William Wallace lead soldiers to a defeat of the English in 1297?
Answer: Battle of Stirling Bridge
Question: At a banquet, the ghost of whom enters and sits in Macbeth's chair?
Answer: Banquo
Question: A hit single for Queen was "Radio ... What?"
Answer: Gaga
Question: Baja California is part of which country?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Elton John co-wrote 5 songs with Tim Rice for which Walt Disney musical?
Answer: The Lion King
Question: The Karnak Temple Complex, a conglomeration of ruined temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings, is near where?
Answer: Luxor, Egypt
Question: What was the title of Britney Spears' second album (and the single that was released from it)?
Answer: Oops!...  I Did It Again
Question: What does the Republic of Ireland call itself?
Answer: ire
Question: The orangutan is found on Sumatra and which other island?
Answer: Borneo
Question: Which family of palaeoanthropologists is most associated with work in the Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania?
Answer: Leakey
Question: The First Lady of which US president was known as Pat, though her first name was Thelma?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: According to Edward Lear, who went to sea in a sieve?
Answer: Jumblies
Question: David Ben-Gurion was the first prime minister of where?
Answer: Israel
Question: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, built by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn & Geoff Tootill that first ran on 21 June 1948, was an early form of what?
Answer: Computer
Question: Which art museum, on the eastern edge of Central Park in New York City, USA, has a permanent collection containing more than two million works of art?
Answer: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Question: In which city was the Reichstag burnt down in 1933?
Answer: Berlin
Question: Which country governs the islands called Crete, Lesbos, Rhodes, Corfu, Lemnos, Andros, Naxos and Kos?
Answer: Greece
Question: What does a tennis player score when he has no points?
Answer: Love
Question: What is the name of a measure that is equal to 42 US gallons, 158.9873 litres, or 34.9723 Imperial (UK) gallons?
Answer: Barrel
Question: Which of Queen Elizabeth II's children was married last?
Answer: Edward
Question: What Shakespearean play begins "When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning or in rain"?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: Which country owns most of the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego?
Answer: Chile
Question: Lindsay Lohan starred in a film called "Confessions of a " what?
Answer: Teenage Drama Queen
Question: Who was the first U.S. President to take residence in the White House, then known as the Executive Mansion?
Answer: John Adams
Question: Brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier were the inventors of a style of what?
Answer: Hot air balloon
Question: Who created the framework for the Virginia Plan, that structured the US Government into three branches?
Answer: James Madison
Question: Larry Hagman, the star of the TV drama that first ran from 1978 to 1991, "Dallas", is the son of which actress and singer who originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" and Maria in "The Sound of Music"?
Answer: Mary Martin
Question: According to a story originating in the 9th century, and disputed by the Catholic Church, who was the first female Pope?
Answer: Pope Joan
Question: Which song begins by describing what happens at "nine o'clock on a Saturday" (when the regular crowd shuffles in)?
Answer: """Piano Man"" by Billy Joel"
Question: """Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives"", which won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, was made where?"
Answer: Thailand
Question: Where is it believed that fireworks were invented?
Answer: China
Question: Who won the 1996 Formula One Driver's championship?
Answer: Damon Hill
Question: Who won the World Rally Championship 9 times in a row from 2004 to 2012?
Answer: Sebastian Loeb
Question: The first interracial kiss in a US TV drama series was in 1968 on what show?
Answer: Star Trek
Question: Jrgen Grbler is a famous coach in what sport?
Answer: Rowing
Question: Which American revolutionary leader wrote the influential pamphlet "Common Sense" in 1776?
Answer: Thomas Paine
Question: What is a surgical procedure to improve the function or the appearance of a human nose?
Answer: Rhinoplasty
Question: Which epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia is believed to have originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about a hero-king, which were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem much later?
Answer: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Question: Who won the golfing Open Championship 3 times between 1979 and 1988?
Answer: Seve Ballesteros
Question: What is another name for the childhood disease called laryngotracheobronchitis?
Answer: Croup
Question: What is a word for the living content of a cell that is surrounded by a plasma membrane?
Answer: Protoplasm
Question: What science features in the "Indiana Jones" film series?
Answer: Archaeology
Question: Mohandas Gandhi studied law at which English educational institution?
Answer: London University
Question: What was the first name of Dr. Watson, Sherlock Homes' assistant?
Answer: John
Question: Who had the title role in the 1996 film "The Nutty Professor"?
Answer: Eddie Murphy
Question: Claudius is the murderous uncle of which character in a Shakespearean play?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Michael J Fox played which character in the "Back to the Future" trilogy (1985-1990)?
Answer: Marty McFly
Question: The Koran was written in what language?
Answer: Arabic
Question: What 2003 film, starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, was based on a book by John Grisham?
Answer: Runaway Jury
Question: What was the name of Vincent Van Gogh's brother?
Answer: Theo
Question: The budgerigar is native to which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which area, which translates as "the land of five rivers", is on the border between India and Pakistan?
Answer: Punjab
Question: At the Battle of Bannockburn, an army led by Robert the Bruce defeated troops led by whom?
Answer: Edward II
Question: What name is given to a railway in which a cable attached to a pair of vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other?
Answer: Funicular
Question: What nationality is Marat Safin, who won his first Grand Slam tennis tournament at the US Open in 2000?
Answer: Russian
Question: Anthony Bourdain is famous in what profession?
Answer: Chef
Question: Which squash player was unbeaten for over 150 consecutive matches between 1981 and 1986?
Answer: Jahangir Khan
Question: What name was given to the conflict between Great Britain and Spain from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742?
Answer: The War of Jenkins' Ear
Question: In 1997 at the World Snooker Championship, who made the fastest-recorded maximum break of 147?
Answer: Ronnie O'Sullivan
Question: Derek Jacobi played Claudius in which BBC TV series?
Answer: I, Claudius
Question: """Shock Treatment"" was the sequel to which musical?"
Answer: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Question: The Richter scale measures the intensity of what?
Answer: Earthquakes
Question: Who is known for his law of elasticity, his book, "Micrographia", and for first applying the word "cell" to describe the basic unit of life?
Answer: Robert Hooke
Question: Prior to the coming of William the Conqueror in 1066 where was the capital of England situated?
Answer: Winchester
Question: What year did South African golfer Gary Player first win the PGA Championship?
Answer: 1962
Question: Which golfer released the song "All My Exes Wear Rolexes" in 2002?
Answer: John Daly
Question: In the first two decades of the 20th century a number of European and USA expeditions were made, eventually successfully, to where?
Answer: The North Pole
Question: Solitaire is typically for how many players?
Answer: One
Question: Tolstoy's book "War and Peace" is set when?
Answer: Napoleonic Wars
Question: G. H. Armauer Hansen discovered the cause of what disease in 1873?
Answer: Leprosy
Question: What was the occupation of Polish trade unionist and politician Lech Walesa?
Answer: Electrician
Question: The fifteen elements with atomic numbers 57 to 71, which includes Lanthanum (La), Cerium (Ce), Praseodymium (Pr), Neodymium (Nd), Promethium (Pm), Europium (Eu), Erbium (Er), Thulium (Tm), Ytterbium (Yb) and Lutetium (Lu), are known as what?
Answer: Lanthanoid series
Question: From the 17th century to the early 20th century what was the main material used for billiard balls?
Answer: Ivory
Question: Prepatellar bursitis is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Housemaid's knee
Question: The line "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind ..." is from which film?
Answer: Wall Street
Question: What is the largest island administered by the People's Republic of China, which is due east of Vietnam?
Answer: Hainan
Question: Which official knocks three times on the doors to the chamber of the House of Commons at the state opening of a British parliament?
Answer: Black Rod
Question: What was astronaut Buzz Aldrin's first name?
Answer: Edwin
Question: """Hobson-Jobson"" is the short title of a book written by Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell, first published in 1886, that contains what?"
Answer: Anglo-Indian words and terms
Question: Who had 2 hit records in his short career, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" & "Time in a Bottle"?
Answer: Jim Croce
Question: The dessert "sachertorte" contains what main ingredient?
Answer: Chocolate
Question: How many Popes were there in 1410?
Answer: 3
Question: Who wrote the line "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree"?
Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Question: Which Polynesian island nation of 4 reef islands and 5 true atolls in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, became fully independent within the Commonwealth in 1978?
Answer: Tuvalu
Question: In which sea is the island of Barbados?
Answer: Caribbean
Question: Who is the only boxer to be the WBA Heavyweight Champion four times?
Answer: Evander Holyfield
Question: The tibia and fibula are found where in the human body?
Answer: Lower leg
Question: The Gunpowder Plot, planned for 5 November 1605, was an attempt by a group of Catholics to blow up the English parliament and which monarch?
Answer: James I
Question: Sake is fermented from what?
Answer: Rice
Question: What Hindu practice involves a widow throwing herself onto her husband's funeral pyre?
Answer: Suttee
Question: John Muir is known as the father of which US national institution?
Answer: National Park service
Question: The Tour de France is traditionally held in what month of the year?
Answer: July
Question: In Christian chronology when is the 'Feast of Stephen'?
Answer: 26 December
Question: According to Greek legend, who had the task of with rolling a marble block up a hill for eternity?
Answer: Sisyphus
Question: What is the mental disorder OCD?
Answer: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Question: Who wrote the book "In His Own Write", published in March 1964, and the follow up, "A Spaniard in the Works", published in June 1965?
Answer: John Lennon
Question: What was the occupation of Willy Loman in the play written in 1949 by Arthur Miller?
Answer: Salesman
Question: The White Witch, Madagascan Sunset, Luna and Gypsy are varieties of what?
Answer: Moth
Question: What was the area now known as the Mekong Delta called in the 19th century?
Answer: Cochinchina
Question: Which country lies between Libya and Algeria?
Answer: Tunisia
Question: What was the name of the security organisation that operated in East Germany during the Cold War?
Answer: STASI
Question: Who appeared in the films "The Parent Trap" (1998), "Freaky Friday" (2003), "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" (2004), "Mean Girls" (2004), "Herbie: Fully Loaded" (2005), "Bobby" (2006) and "Machete" (2010)?
Answer: Lindsay Lohan
Question: Which of the four Gospels in the Christian New Testament is not a synoptic gospel?
Answer: John
Question: In the stories by Enid Blyton, what is the name of the best friend of Big Ears?
Answer: Noddy
Question: Who is a saxophone player from Slaton, Texas, who has performed with musicians such as Bobby Vee, Buddy Holly, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen?
Answer: Bobby Keys
Question: What have the two constellations Ursa Major and Minor given their name to?
Answer: The Arctic
Question: It was called by one government the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" and by a neighbouring government the "Wall of Shame", what was it and when was construction started?
Answer: The Berlin Wall, 1961
Question: In 2010, Iyad Allawi and Nuri Al-Maliki contested an election in which country?
Answer: Iraq
Question: The American TV miniseries "Shogun", based on the book by James Clavell, was set in which country?
Answer: Japan
Question: Who wrote the 1955 novel "The Quiet American"?
Answer: Graham Greene
Question: The English parliament met for the first time under that name in which century?
Answer: 13th
Question: Daniel Craig played Ted Hughes in what 2003 film?
Answer: Sylvia
Question: An astrolabe was used for astrology, navigation and what else?
Answer: Astronomy
Question: Colombia's shores are in the Caribbean Sea and which other body of water?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Question: Which film which stars John Hurt, Richard Burton (in his last film role) and Suzanna Hamilton is based on a book by George Orwell?
Answer: 1984
Question: Kathleen Brennan produced albums for which musician, starting with his 1983 album "Swordfishtrombones"?
Answer: Tom Waits
Question: The Fast5 World Netball Series, first contested in October 2009 under modified rules, was scheduled to be held in Manchester, England, initially but was played where in 2012?
Answer: Auckland, New Zealand
Question: What sea between Israel and Jordan is 1,385 feet (422 metres) below sea level?
Answer: Dead Sea
Question: Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain during the Edward VIII abdication crisis?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin