zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Turks Head, Flemish Flake and Dutch Cringle are types of what?
Answer: Knot
Question: In an Aesop fable that shows the power of persuasion over force, what element fights the sun?
Answer: Wind
Question: The etymology of what form of entertainment may come from the valley of 'Vau de Vire' in Normandy where satirical songs were common?
Answer: Vaudeville
Question: What derogatory name for the British has its origins in sailors eating something to avoid scurvy?
Answer: Limey
Question: In the US, baseball parks are often designed so that the batter is facing east, in order that the afternoon sun does not shine in his eyes. This means that left-handed pitchers are always throwing from a particular direction. What term for a left-hander originated from this practice?
Answer: Southpaw
Question: The name of what entertainment business has its origin in that Texas, in its roller-coaster history, was governed by half a dozen entities?
Answer: Six Flags
Question: Which company added a soundless digital clock to its new model in 1980 to do something about 'the clock' in its legendary selling line "At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new ___-___ comes from the electric clock"?
Answer: Rolls-Royce
Question: In 2010, which company reportedly bought the domain name of a farm bureau for $8.5 million, clearly interested in the F and the B?
Answer: Facebook
Question: If you see the name of the organization American Humane Association in the credits of a movie or a television show, what 4-word phrase are you also most likely to see?
Answer: """No Animals Were Harmed"""
Question: What 1956 film was to be called The Reno Brothers when a hit song passing the one million sales mark was noticed by the producers causing a change in the title?
Answer: Love Me Tender
Question: Called the biggest regular cultural event on the African continent, FESPACO, the largest African film festival takes place in the capital of which country? (hint: formerly Upper Volta)
Answer: Burkina Faso
Question: What runs for about 1.3 miles on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles county and is said to attract 10 million tourists every year?
Answer: Hollywood Walk of Fame
Question: Englishman Albert Howard who had publications like Manufacture of Humus by the Indore Process among others is considered a pioneer of what?
Answer: Organic agriculture
Question: The name of what meal might have originated from the belief that it was the kind eaten on mainland Europe as opposed to the kind eaten in Britain?
Answer: Continental breakfast
Question: What popular condiment in which egg yolk is the chief emulsifier originates from it being called as the 'sauce of Mahon'?
Answer: Mayonnaise
Question: 'Umami' is a Japanese word that translates as 'good flavor' and is used as a fifth category of what by those who think that the existing four basic categories are insufficient?
Answer: Taste
Question: In early 2014, Prof. Maryam Mirzakhani achieved a unique and highly meritorious distinction. What subject does she teach at Stanford University?
Answer: Mathematics
Question: Bicycle mechanic Charlie Taylor is best known for his collaboration with which two gentlemen in the early part of the 20th century?
Answer: Wright brothers
Question: What was the subject of French sociologist Émile Durkheim's 1897 work that studied Catholic and Protestant populations and that resulted in sociology getting established on its own?
Answer: Suicide
Question: What architectural term originated from the 16th century after Renaissance revived Classical construction and created a perception of past styles as a product of barbarous tribal cultures?
Answer: Gothic
Question: Who is the 1st century BC Roman architect who wrote that the figure of a man can be inscribed both in a circle and a square in his best known work De architectura?
Answer: Vitruvius
Question: You've surely heard about the Stockholm syndrome. But what is the opposite of this condition where the hostage takers become more sympathetic to the hostages? It is named after a South American city where it was observed after the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis in 1996.
Answer: Lima syndrome
Question: What paleontological hoax takes its name from a place in East Sussex, England where in 1912, discovered bone fragments were thought to be the remains of an unknown form of early man?
Answer: Piltdown Man
Question: Alexander Pope wrote this epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton: "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said 'Let Newton be' and all was light." To the above, Sir John Collings Squire added: "It did not last: the devil, shouting 'Ho. Let ___ be' restored the status quo." Whom did the devil add?
Answer: Einstein
Question: What country has the most time zones, with 12? Surprisingly, its not Russia or the US. Think of a country with far-flung territories and dependencies.
Answer: France
Question: The volcanic island of Surtsey that started forming in the 1960s attracting worldwide scientific attention is nearest to what country?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Petaloudes Valley, whose name translates to Valley of the Butterflies in Greek is a tourist attraction of what 'wondrous' Dodecanese island?
Answer: Rhodes
Question: When the pioneering English settler John Smith explored the coastline of the region north of Virginia in 1614, what did he call the area?
Answer: New England
Question: In Jan 2011, Sri Lanka decided to discard all references to what British colonial name of the country from its state institutions?
Answer: Ceylon
Question: With a total drop of 948 meters (3,110 feet) in five free-leaping falls, Tugela Falls is the world's second highest waterfall. They are located in the Drakensberg (Dragon's Mountains) range in which country?
Answer: South Africa
Question: Which South Pacific territory named for its shores' similarities to the Scottish coastline will hold a referendum on independence from France between 2014 and 2019?
Answer: New Caledonia
Question: An infamous ball in 14th century France hosted by the French King Charles VI is remembered as 'Ball of (what) Men' referring to an incident that occurred in it?
Answer: Burning
Question: Jewish American lawyer Murray C. Bernays (1894-1970) planned the legal framework and procedures for what tribunals?
Answer: Nuremberg Trials
Question: The Three Pashas of the Ottoman Empire organized what 'fledgling' political group during the early 20th century whose name has now become synonymous with any internal reform group?
Answer: Young Turks
Question: A woman named Pompeia was divorced in 62 BC in Rome after she was suspected of a crime despite there being no evidence of her wrongdoing. Whom was she married to?
Answer: Julius Caeser
Question: """I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people."" Whose words that preceded a 1973 coup in a South American country?"
Answer: Henry Kissinger
Question: The ultra left-wing group Red Army Faction associated with the names Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof was active in what country in the later part of the 20th century?
Answer: Germany
Question: If the Chinese are associated with the Long March in the 20th century, who are associated with the Great Trek in Africa in the 19th century?
Answer: Boers
Question: In 1973, Libya went to war with which country to claim control of the Aouzou strip which was claimed to be rich with uranium deposits?
Answer: Chad
Question: Whose last words before he drank poison reportedly were "Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it."?
Answer: Socrates
Question: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky a current-day husband and wife team are known for what type of contribution to literature?
Answer: Translations
Question: The award winning 2005 children's book And Tango Makes Three has been subject to much controversy as it was seen to be highlighting what behavior in the animal kingdom?
Answer: Homosexuality
Question: A controversial 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein whose premise is that genes and environment are predictors of intelligence is titled after what statistical function?
Answer: Bell curve
Question: The central character of which 1919 novel is the reporter George Willard to whom the denizens of a certain American Midwest town confide their secrets?
Answer: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Question: The text of what ancient classic is a set of oracular statements represented by 64 sets of six hexagrams, with each hexagram in turn composed of six lines of Yangs or Yins?
Answer: I Ching
Question: What is the better known nickname of Greg Heffley whose hilarious memoirs are now a hit book franchise?
Answer: Wimpy kid
Question: What is the opening sentence of the book that ends with "It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan."?
Answer: """Call me Ishmael."""
Question: The slave girl Morgiana, the protagonist's elder brother Cassim and the cobbler Baba Mustafa are three prominent characters in what 'seedy' oriental story?
Answer: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Question: Fill in the missing word in this famous quote of Jorge Luis Borges that is very appropriate coming from a writer! "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of ___."
Answer: """library"""
Question: What concocted 1903 text that asserts a Jewish plan to take over the world is sometimes cited as Hitler's justification for the Holocaust?
Answer: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Question: Karataka and Damanaka are the names of two jackals that are retainers to a lion king. Their lively adventures as well as the stories they tell one another make up nearly half of which classic ancient Sanskrit work?
Answer: The Panchatantra
Question: Composer Philip Glass's 'Portrait Trilogy' of operas consists of Einstein on the Beach, Akhnaten and Satyagraha with the last one focusing on whom?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Question: In which country did the dictator Rafael Trujillo promote the merengue style of music/dance into the country's national music?
Answer: Dominican Republic
Question: Which 1980 supergroup consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan decided to use a word with a single 'L' instead of a double 'L' in their name because the band started in America and consisted of three Americans and only two Britons?
Answer: Traveling Wilburys
Question: 1. The A is the outermost of the large, bright ones. 2. The B is the largest, brightest, and most massive. 3. The C is wide but faint and located inward of the B. 4. The D is the innermost and is also very faint. 5. The E is the second outermost and is extremely wide. 6. The F is the outermost discrete one and very active. 7. The G is very thin and faint and is halfway between the F and the E. What are we talking about?
Answer: Rings of Saturn
Question: In a Oct, 2014 interview to The Guardian, Prof. Peter Piot said the following. What's the missing word? "In 1976 I discovered ... - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy."
Answer: Ebola
Question: In a letter written in 1924, who wrote "You will be interested to hear that I have found a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda Nebula" and transformed our view of the universe forever?
Answer: Edwin Hubble
Question: If the Solvay Conferences of the early 1910s set the tone for 20th century physics, the Dartmouth Conferences of 1956 have similar importance for what field of science?
Answer: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Question: What is the name of the six-letter ore from which niobium and tantalum are extracted and whose mining is said to have fueled many modern day African conflicts?
Answer: Coltan
Question: Redshift or blueshift that help us see which stars/galaxies are approaching or receding are determined by what effect named for an Austrian physicist?
Answer: Doppler effect
Question: Which distinctive plant's genus is Dionaea (the mother of Aphrodite in Greek mythology) and species muscipula (Latin for 'mouse-catching device')?
Answer: Venus flytrap
Question: The Montreal Protocol that went into force in 1989 and which was hailed by Kofi Annan as "... the single most successful international agreement to date ..." was aimed at protecting what?
Answer: Ozone layer
Question: The terms anadromous and catadromous describe what type of living thing referring to its mode of migration? (hint: 'ana' is up and 'cata' is down in Greek)
Answer: Fish
Question: Global warming be damned. The 19th century biologist Louis Agassiz who studied Alpine glaciers was the first to propose that the Earth had been subject what phenomena in the past?
Answer: Ice ages
Question: Were he alive in 2006, the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh would have been disappointed as his discovery was 'dwarfed.' What did he discover in 1930?
Answer: Pluto
Question: What algebraic system taught in present-day schools is one of the legacies of the philosopher René Descartes to which he lent his name?
Answer: Cartesian geometry
Question: Sprint events at the Olympics are usually dominated by countries from the western hemisphere. As of 2012, Susanthika Jayasinghe is the first and only Asian to win an Olympic medal in any of 100 m, 200 m or 400 m sprint events. What country did she represent?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: British politician Norman Tebbit created controversy in 1990 commenting on the perceived lack of loyalty of South Asian and Caribbean immigrants towards the English team playing which game?
Answer: Cricket
Question: The baseball player Glenn Burke is credited with pioneering what form of now ubiquitous gesture?
Answer: High-five
Question: When its big neighbor made its debut at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, this country was asked to use a different name. It refused and thus became the only country to boycott the Winter Olympics. What is the country in question?
Answer: Taiwan
Question: Using 'games' as a clue, fill in the missing word. ___, Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian
Answer: Olympic
Question: Which Grand Slam tournament uses the distinctive serving pose of the Swedish player Stefan Edberg on its logo?
Answer: Australian Open
Question: Chuck Wepner, an obscure boxer from New Jersey who once went 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali in a fight served as the inspiration for the creation of what on-screen personality?
Answer: Rocky
Question: Called the 'Escaut' in France, which 270 mile-long river rises in the north of that country, flows across Belgium, and empties into the North Sea in Holland?
Answer: SCHELDE
Question: Sometimes used in Staff recruitment, what name is given to the Science of measuring mental capacities and processes?
Answer: PSYCHOMETRICS
Question: In which 1992 'Oscar' winning film does Clint Eastwood play aformer hired killer turned unsuccessful farmer who returns to his old ways inpursuit of a $1000 reward?
Answer: 'UNFORGIVEN'
Question: Which Greek philosopher, born in the ancient town of Elea in the 56th century BC, was described by Aristotle as 'The Inventor Of Dialect' but is best known for his paradoxes?
Answer: ZENO
Question: Deriving from the Greek for 'thick', what name is given to any class of sub-atomic particle that is composed of quarks, and is thus affected by the strong nuclear force?
Answer: HADRON
Question: In which English county could you visit the 'Fox Talbot Museum', the 'Museum of Computing', and the 'Kennet and Avon Canal Museum'?
Answer: WILTSHIRE
Question: Michael Watson won the Helen Rollason Award in 2003 for completing the London Marathon, despite being told that he would never walk again following an injury in which sport?
Answer: BOXING
Question: In the folklore of which country does 'Diedre' kill hersel after being forced to marry 'King Conchobar'?
Answer: IRELAND
Question: In which year did the Ayatollah Khomeini die, American troops remove Noriega in Panama, and Alain Prost become World Motor Racing Champion for the third time?
Answer: 1989
Question: In which year did the Bosnian Civil War begin, Steffi Graf win the Ladies Singles title at Wimbledon for the seventh time, and TWA become bankrupt?
Answer: 1992
Question: """Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws apace"" is the first line of which Shakespearian play?"
Answer: 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM'
Question: What name is given to the Parliament, those who remained after 'Pride's Purge', dismissed by Cromwell on 20th April 1653?
Answer: 'RUMP'
Question: Which river rises in the Drakensburg Mountains, flows west entering the South Atlantic Ocean in Alexander Bay?
Answer: ORANGE
Question: Which country saw the 'Orange Revolution' of 2004, in which protestors successfully challenged a Presidential run-off election that had given victory to the pro-Russian Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovych?
Answer: UKRIANE
Question: Which novelist and playwright is commemorated by the Rodin sculpture which stands in the Boulevard Raspail in Paris?
Answer: BALZAC
Question: The Whitsunday Islands lieoff the coast of which Australian state?
Answer: QUEENSLAND
Question: In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm', what is the name of the loyal but dim-witted cart-horse who carries out many of the orders handed down by 'Napoleon'?
Answer: 'BOXER'
Question: What name is given to the mass killing of Danes in England that was ordered by King Ethelred the Unready and occurred on 13th November 1002?
Answer: ST. BRICE'S DAY MASSACRE
Question: In the King James Version, which eponymous book of the Old Testament follows 'Isaiah' and precedes 'Lamentations'?
Answer: 'JEREMIAH'
Question: Named after a French author and statesman, what name is given to a thick steak, cut from a grilled fillet of beef that is regularly served with mushrooms and potatoes?
Answer: CHATEAUBRIAND
Question: Which actor, most famous for the TV series 'Spooks' was the first to play the 17-year-old 'Alan Strang' in the play 'Equus' in 1973?
Answer: PETER FIRTH
Question: What name is given to the notoriously steep railway gradient south of Birmingham between Barnt Green and Bromsgrove?
Answer: The Lickey (Incline)
Question: Meaning “cluster of eight” in the local language, what did the Ellice Islands change their name to upon gaining independence?
Answer: Tuvalu
Question: Which rugby league club has been coached by Ces Mountford, Alex Murphy and Brian Johnson?
Answer: WARRINGTON
Question: What is the name of the 'Griffin' family's witty, talkingdog in the television series 'Family Guy'?
Answer: 'BRIAN'
Question: Located beneath 'Roald Dahl Plass', what is the name given to the team's headquarters in 'Torchwood'?
Answer: 'THE HUB'
Question: Which Frank Kafka novel tells the story of a seventeen- year-old European emigrant named 'Karl Rossmann'?
Answer: 'AMERIKA'
Question: Euphorbia pulcherrima is the botanical name for the plant Poinsettia, named after Joel Poinsett. To which country was he the first United States Minister, before they had ambassadors?
Answer: MEXICO
Question: """The boy with the fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon"". Is the opening sentence of which 1954 novel?"
Answer: 'LORD OF THE FLIES'
Question: '9 Dragons' is a 2009 novel featuring LA detective ‘Hieroymous (Harry) Bosch’. Who wrote this novel, his fifteenth about this detective?
Answer: MICHAEL CONNELLY
Question: Which Liverpool born comedian, author and actor's 2010 autobiography is entitled 'Stalin Ate My Homework'?
Answer: ALEXEI SAYLE
Question: Consisting of several RNA and protein molecules arranged into two subunits, which component of cells coordinate synthesis by reading the messenger RNA copy of the DNA and assembling the appropriate amino
Answer: RIBOSOMES
Question: Which year saw Castro create the communist state of Cuba, and Makarios elected President of the newly independent Cyprus?
Answer: 1959
Question: Who wrote 'Earthly Powers', a long and ambitious first- person novel, narrated by an octogenarian homosexual?
Answer: ANTHONY BURGESS
Question: Which American car make, owned by General Motors, took its name from the Native American chief who led a rebellion against English rule in 1763?
Answer: PONTIAC
Question: For which national football team has the Fulham (& previously Middlesborough) goalie Mark Schwartzer won more than 90 caps?
Answer: AUSTRALIA
Question: The Albery Theatre in London was renamed in 2006 after which knighted playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, who was responsible for writing 'London Pride' amongst others?
Answer: NOEL COWARD
Question: What domestic appliance was invented in 1901 by Alva J. Fisher?
Answer: ELECTRIC WASHING MACHINE
Question: Which TV series evolved from a 1961 drama series called “Jacks and Knaves” by Colin Morris?
Answer: Z Cars
Question: Which American band leader who first formed a band in 1940 had the signature tune “Artistry in Rhythym” and died in 1979?
Answer: Stan Kenton
Question: In which country do the Hinter Rhine and Vorder Rhine unite to form the River Rhine?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: At the funeral of King Edward VII, which statesman in full dress uniform of a Field Marshall rode on horseback alongside chief mourner King George V?
Answer: KAISER WILHELM II
Question: In which sport would you stand on the 'Hack Stay' behind the 'Hogline', aiming for the 'Tee' at the centre of the 'House'?
Answer: CURLING
Question: This woman was chief designer with the 'Chloe' fashion house from 1997 to 2001 before taking up an appointment with 'Gucci'. She married Alasdair Willis in 2003. Who is she?
Answer: STELLA McCARTNEY
Question: In which Dickens novel do 'Lord George Gordon', 'Simon Tappertit'and 'Dolly Varden' appear?
Answer: 'BARNABY RUDGE'
Question: How are the lovers Vrechen and Sali described in the title of a 1906 opera by Frederick Delius?
Answer: A Village Romeo and Juliet
Question: On June 11th 1903, King Alexander and Queen Draga were murdered in their bedroom. Of which European country were they the reigning monarchs?
Answer: SERBIA
Question: In which sport was Graeme Obree briefly world record holder in 1993, only to lose it to another Briton shortly afterwards?
Answer: CYCLING
Question: Name the year: SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London; Ronald Reagan was elected President and Rhodesia gained independence?
Answer: 1980
Question: Known scientifically as Triflorum hybridum and white or pink in colour, what type of flower is 'Alsike'?
Answer: CLOVER
Question: Which rich sauce made fromegg yolks, butter, shallots, herbs and spices, is named after a region of south-west France?
Answer: BEARNAISE SAUCE
Question: Which American group has had hit albums in the 21st. century with 'Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia' and 'Werlcome To The Monkey House'?
Answer: 'DANDY WARHOLS'
Question: Which German composer, born in 1776, wrote the opera 'Undine'. he shares his name with an American 'Oscar' winning actor born in 1937?
Answer: HOFFMAN
Question: In 1843 stamps were issued in two more countries. Those from Switzerland were issued by the cities of Zurich and Geneva. Which country was the second to issue stamps, known as 'Bull's Eyes', which were valid throughout the entire country?
Answer: BRAZIL
Question: Name the film starring Gwynneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes about an author who gets writers' block whilst writing 'Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter'?
Answer: 'SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE'
Question: Which Middle East airline has an in-flight magazine called 'Oryx', the antelope which is on its logo?
Answer: QATAR AIRWAYS
Question: Long the richest country in the Muslim world, which country has, according to the International Monetary Fund, replaced Luxembourg as the world's richest country per head of population?
Answer: QATAR
Question: What is the name of the thick soup popular in the southern states of the USA? One of the main ingredients is Okra which gives the dish its smooth silky texture.
Answer: Gumbo
Question: Which English engineer built the Menai tubular girder bridge in the UK, opened in 1850, and the Victoria Bridge over the Hudson in Canada in 1859?
Answer: ROBERT STEPHENSON
Question: Named after two bodies of water, what name was given to the provisional border between Poland and East Germany that was agreed at the Potsdam Conference following World War II?
Answer: ODER-NEISSE LINE