zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Competitors from which country won the most medals at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Rotterdam, Netherlands from 16 to 24 October 2010?
Answer: People's Republic of China
Question: What is the current name of the country that was ruled by the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1979?
Answer: Iran
Question: The boundaries of four states of the USA, known as the Four Corners states, meet at one point, the only such geographic point in the USA. They are Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and which other?
Answer: Utah
Question: Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward all became infamous in the UK for their part in what event in the 1960s?
Answer: The Profumo Affair
Question: What did the British nickname the V1 rocket during the London Bitz during World War II?
Answer: Doodlebug
Question: Of whom did the Greek philosopher Plutarch write "Plato admits 4 sorts of flattery, but she had 1,000"?
Answer: Cleopatra
Question: What, the largest of its type at the time, was destroyed by fire at Alexandria in the first century BC?
Answer: Library
Question: What name was given to a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005?
Answer: The Orange Revolution
Question: In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who was with a fiddle?
Answer: Cat
Question: What religious organisation was formed under the leadership of George Fox in the mid 17th century?
Answer: Quakers
Question: The "Authorised" English translation of the Bible was named after whom?
Answer: James I
Question: What is the media nickname of Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who was said to be the inspiration for Nicolas Cage's character in the 2005 film "Lord of War"?
Answer: Merchant of Death
Question: By what name were Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale collectively known when they appeared before Judge Julius Hoffman in 1969?
Answer: The Chicago Eight
Question: Who, in Formula One, between 2006 and 2010, was the youngest Formula One driver to: drive at a Grand Prix meeting, score points, lead a race, secure pole position, win a race and win the championship?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel
Question: Who directed the 2003 film starring Ewan McGregor, Billy Crudup and Albert Finney called "Big Fish"?
Answer: Tim Burton
Question: Which band played a free concert with a claimed 1.5 million attendance at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on 18 February 2006?
Answer: The Rolling Stones
Question: Where is it that Roman Catholics believe souls are held after death for purification to be made fit for heaven?
Answer: Purgatory
Question: Balsam and cottonwoods are species of what?
Answer: Poplar
Question: On 9 November 2010, what first-person shooter video game broke the 24-hour sales record, selling more than 5.6 million copies in the U.S. and U.K., breaking the record set by its predecessor, "Modern Warfare 2" by around 900,000 copies?
Answer: Call of Duty: Black Ops
Question: What multi-user adventure game was developed from 1978 by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle from 1980, students at Essex University in the UK, that revolved around gaining points till one achieved the wizard rank, giving the player immortality and certain powers over mortals?
Answer: MUD (Multi-User Dungeon)
Question: Which country held its bicentennial celebrations in 1976?
Answer: USA
Question: Who created the work "A Thousand Years", consisting of a cow's head, maggots and an insect electrocutor?
Answer: Damien Hirst
Question: The "Byzantine Empire" is the term used since the 19th century to describe the Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centred on its capital, where?
Answer: Constantinople
Question: What generic term describes food traditionally favoured by southern black Americans such as country fried chicken, chitterlings and black-eyed peas?
Answer: Soul food
Question: Since 14 November 2007, from where do "Eurostar" trains leave London for Paris? on Eurostar services in London transferred from Waterloo to the brand new St Pancras International
Answer: St Pancras
Question: Where was "the Bhopal disaster" that took place at a pesticide plant owned and operated by Union Carbide (UCIL), when the plant released methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins in December 1984, exposing over 500,000 people?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh, India
Question: What musical term means "an immediate reduction in pace"?
Answer: Ritenuto
Question: A "mufti" is a legal expert in what religion?
Answer: Islam
Question: The painting that has the words "ceci n'est pas une pipe" written on it, is by which artist?
Answer: Magritte
Question: What was the first name of the "Rambo" character created by Sylvester Stallone?
Answer: John
Question: What is the word in music for any set of different notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously?
Answer: Chord
Question: What device enables a player to use the same chord shapes on a guitar to be played a number of frets higher to raise the key uniformly?
Answer: Capo
Question: Before 1949, by what name was Thailand known?
Answer: Siam
Question: Which comic strip has the characters Violet Gray, Linus, Rerun and Lucy van Pelt, Schroeder, Marcie, Franklin and Frieda?
Answer: Charlie Brown
Question: Which playwright wrote the plays that won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 & 2002 and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, 1975 & 1994, and gained nominations for Tony Award for Best Play in 1964, 1965, 1967 & 1975, Tony Award for Best Author of a Play in 1965, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001 & 2003 and a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2005?
Answer: Edward Albee
Question: What is the next in this series: 2000, Me, XP, Vista ...
Answer: 7
Question: What word means the judgement (using analysis and evaluation) of the merits and faults of the actions or work of another individual, which now has an implication of an expression of disapproval?
Answer: Criticism
Question: What was the stage name of Brenda Mae Tarpley, an American singer of rockabilly, pop and country music who had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s (a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis) and was best known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry"?
Answer: Brenda Lee
Question: """Nimrod"" is a piece of music written by Edward Elgar as part of what larger work?"
Answer: The Enigma Variations
Question: Who painted "Red Car Crash" as a part of his 196263 "Death and Disaster" series?
Answer: Andy Warhol
Question: The early use of the new technology of the wireless telegram helped British police to capture whom on 31 July 1910?
Answer: Dr Crippen
Question: Compared to playing the string open, placing a finger behind the 12th fret on a guitar finger board raises the note by how much?
Answer: An octave
Question: Which musical includes the characters Jean Valjean, Javert, Fantine, Cosette, ponine, Thnardier, Gavroche, Enjolras, Grantaire and Marius?
Answer: Les Misrables
Question: Early in 2010, Norway's Magnus Carlsen, at 19 years old, became the youngest person to top the world ranking in what?
Answer: Chess
Question: In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" from the first ball in both innings?
Answer: King pair
Question: What is the name of the stretch of water between India and Sri Lanka?
Answer: Palk Strait
Question: During World War I, US president Woodrow Wilson raised an army through conscription and gave total command to whom?
Answer: General John J. Pershing
Question: The plot of the book and films entitled "The Day of the Jackal" concerns an attempt to kill the leader of which nation?
Answer: France
Question: What was the name of the line of fortification that ran across Italy during World War II from just north of where the Garigliano River flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, through the Apennine Mountains to the mouth of the Sangro River on the Adriatic coast in the east via Monte Cassino and Monte Cairo?
Answer: Gustav Line
Question: What chemical element with atomic number 55 is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 C (83 F), and one of only five metals that are liquid at or near room temperature?
Answer: Caesium
Question: The symptoms for which poisoning include seizures, a "sawhorse" stance, rigid extension of all four limbs and respiratory paralysis?
Answer: Strychnine
Question: In the film "Batman Forever", released in 1995, who played the villain called "The Riddler"?
Answer: Jim Carrey
Question: Whose famous painting, "The Potato Eaters", is of five peasants sitting down to dinner?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh
Question: What region covers most of the "toe" of "the boot of Italy"?
Answer: Calabria
Question: The 50.5 km Channel Tunnel, built under the English Channel or, in France, La Manche, to link the UK and France with road and rail access was finally opened in 1994. When was the first official Anglo-French protocol established to create the railway aspect of the link?
Answer: 1876
Question: The first father and son win at the Oscars was in 1948 when John Huston won the award for Directing and for Writing Adapted Screenplay and his father Walter Huston won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Which film had they worked on together to win these awards?
Answer: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Question: In Greek mythology, which horned and hoofed being was the god of shepherds, pastures, and fertility?
Answer: Pan
Question: David LaChapelle is a leading figure in what activity?
Answer: Photography
Question: Who is acknowledged as the founder of Singapore as a trading post and European settlement in 1819?
Answer: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Question: What name is given to English comedies written from 1660 to 1700 which signalled the rebirth of English drama after public stage performances had been banned for 18 years?
Answer: Restoration comedy
Question: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) installed as First Consul in France by 1800 and crowned Emperor of France 1804, was born where?
Answer: Ajaccio, Corsica
Question: Who has played, on film, John Dillinger, Sweeney Todd, J M Barrie, Jack Kerouac and Ed Wood?
Answer: Johnny Depp
Question: Aten, Ra, Amun and Ptah are what?
Answer: Egyptian gods
Question: A style of intimate singing, developed and made popular in the first half of the 20th century by, among others, Bing Crosby, is called...?
Answer: Crooning
Question: In which century did Henry VIII die?
Answer: 16th
Question: Which painter, who was born in Paris, France in 1848 and died in 1903 at Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, had lived at various times in Lima (Peru), Orlans (France), Copenhagen (Denmark), Panama, Saint Pierre (Martinique), Pont-Aven (France), Arles (France), Mataiea Village (Tahiti), Punaauia (Tahiti)?
Answer: Paul Gauguin
Question: By what name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better known?
Answer: El Cid
Question: What did Basutoland change its name to in 1966?
Answer: Lesotho
Question: Lacrosse, thought to have been played by at least 1100 AD and originally a ceremonial ritual with up to 1,000 people, currently (except in Box lacrosse) involves how many players?
Answer: 20
Question: Where would one find a kibbutz?
Answer: Israel
Question: What song was written by Bob Geldof in the aftermath of Brenda Ann Spencer's attempted massacre at an elementary school across the street from her house in San Diego, California, in 1979?
Answer: I Don't Like Mondays
Question: Who escaped to the Isle of Skye, assisted by Flora MacDonald?
Answer: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Question: From 2010 to 2012 a series of major earthquakes devastated areas in the South Island of which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: In 1846, using mathematical predictions by French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first person to observe which planet?
Answer: Neptune
Question: The Battle of Guadalcanal was between troops from the USA and what other country?
Answer: Japan
Question: Who owned the flat at No.12, 9 Curzon Place, Shepherd Market, Mayfair where both Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) died in 1974 and Keith Moon died in 1978?
Answer: Harry Nilsson
Question: What is the overall name for a branch of applied mathematics used to study behaviour in strategic situations, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others?
Answer: Game theory
Question: Three shepherd children had sightings of the Virgin Mary on the 13th day of 6 consecutive months in 1917, starting on 13 May, near a town called Fatima, which is in what country?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Whose last words have been reported to be "Kiss Me, Hardy"?
Answer: Lord Nelson
Question: What name is given to a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another animal, as though the observer were performing the action?
Answer: Mirror neuron
Question: Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson competed against each other in the 1940s in which sport?
Answer: Golf
Question: In snooker, what is the name of the shot where a ball goes into a pocket after hitting the opposite cushion?
Answer: Double
Question: During the Great, or Western, Schism from 1378, there were two or more Popes recognised in the Catholic Church. Who was elected in 1417 and eventually recognised by the majority as the single Pope?
Answer: Martin V
Question: What river rises in the Black Forest and travels 1,775 miles to empty into the Black Sea?
Answer: Danube
Question: In Roman mythology, when, on the dethronement of Saturn, Jupiter and his brothers divided his dominions, who got the realms of the dead?
Answer: Pluto
Question: What is the staple diet of the panda?
Answer: Bamboo
Question: A Russian political satirist, later exiled, who wrote the plays "Dead Souls" and "The Government Inspector" was..?
Answer: Gogol
Question: In 1968, which book by Philip K Dick was published that became the basis for the 1982 film "Blade Runner"?
Answer: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Question: Which family of 3 painters depicted the life of peasants, paintings in which devils and witches appear, and landscapes?
Answer: Brueghel
Question: Who were Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory, Orinoco, Bungo, Tomsk, Wellington and Madame Cholet?
Answer: Wombles
Question: What is the setting for the 1993 film "Alive", which stars Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano and Josh Hamiltonset and is narrated by John Malkovich?
Answer: The Andes
Question: The Peloponnesian War, fought around 430 to 405 BC, was primarily a conflict between the city state of Athens and people from where?
Answer: Sparta
Question: One of the oldest mountain ranges in the world lies along the east of the USA and Canada, and is called the...?
Answer: Appalachian Mountains
Question: The phrase "Crossing the Rubicon" is associated with which historical figure?
Answer: Julius Caesar
Question: In what is often called boxing's biggest upset ever Buster Douglas beat who in the world unified Heavyweight title fight in 1990 ?
Answer: Mike Tyson
Question: In 1935 Count Basie, composer, jazz pianist and band leader, with his newly formed band developed his signature tune, which was what?
Answer: One O'Clock Jump
Question: Opus Dei is a sect within which religious movement?
Answer: Catholicism
Question: The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) was fought between which two countries?
Answer: China and Japan
Question: After Gianni Versace died, Donatella Versace, formerly vice-president, stepped in as creative director of Versace. What relation is she to Gianni?
Answer: His sister
Question: According to the Bible's Genesis 32:28, 30 and Hosea 12:3, 5, God wrestled with whom all night?
Answer: Jacob
Question: One couple won the World Figure Skating Championships for Ice Dancing for four successive years 1981-1984. Who were they?
Answer: Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
Question: To travel by sea from the British mainland to the Channel Islands, it is necessary to travel through the territorial waters of which country?
Answer: France
Question: What reaction did Bob Dylan receive to the second night of his performances at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday 25 July 1965?
Answer: Booing
Question: How many wheels were there on each hansom cab, the horse-drawn taxis that used to operate in London in Victorian times?
Answer: 2
Question: Indycar sportsman Scott Dixon, who won his first Indy championship in 2000 and whose ratio of wins to career starts is the best of all-time regular drivers in the IRL, comes from where?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: In 1720 speculation in a company's stock on the British stock market led to financial ruin for many investors; what was the event known as?
Answer: South Sea Bubble
Question: The Jewish King Solomon was the son of whom?
Answer: David and Bathsheba
Question: What word describes a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons and ribbons, and in the USA is another term for a men's outfitter?
Answer: Haberdasher
Question: Which island was sold by Genoa to France in 1764, was ruled by Britain for two years from 1794 to 1796, and then returned to France?
Answer: Corsica
Question: Which fashion designer created Madonna's clothes for her 1990 "Blonde Ambition" tour, which included the "conical bra"?
Answer: Jean-Paul Gaultier
Question: What is the name for the range of limestone hills south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England which run east to west between Weston-super-Mare and Frome, and overlook the Somerset Levels to the south and the Avon valley to the north?
Answer: The Mendip Hills
Question: Which kingdom, established by King Wickramabahu in the 14th century, repelled invasions by the Portuguese and the Dutch in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and the British in the 19th century, until the signing of a treaty with the British in March 1815?
Answer: Kandy
Question: What was Colin Powell's role in George W Bush's government from 2001 to 2005?
Answer: Secretary of State
Question: In 1871, Otto von Bismarck became the first what?
Answer: Chancellor of the German Empire
Question: Which European country did not finally lose its territory in India until 1961?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey are the only surviving members of which pop group who had its first hit record in England in 1965?
Answer: The Who
Question: The city was founded under the rule of King Byzas around 660 BC. What name was officially adopted for the city in 1930?
Answer: Istanbul
Question: Alfonso de Albuquerque took areas of which modern day country for Portugal in the early 1500s?
Answer: India
Question: Who was the criminal released by Pilate in preference to Jesus on the demand of the Jerusalem mob?
Answer: Barabbas
Question: In 1803, part of which two Canadian provinces were bought by the USA from France with the Louisiana Purchase, and ceded to Great Britain in 1818?
Answer: Alberta and Saskatchewan
Question: Which UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mosel Valley, Germany, is known for its Roman architecture incuding the Porta Nigra, the best-preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps?
Answer: Trier
Question: The character of Mary Alice Young is heard but does not appear in which US TV series?
Answer: Desperate Housewives
Question: Playing a scenario close to the rise and assassination of real-life 1930s Louisiana Governor, Huey Long, the film won three Oscars (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Picture) and was nominated for four more. Which was it?
Answer: All the King's Men
Question: What island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean, comprising 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3,500,000 square kilometres, (1,351,000 square miles) was formerly called the Gilbert Islands?
Answer: The Republic of Kiribati
Question: Andrew Lloyd Webber stands in what relationship to Julian Lloyd Webber, the renowned cellist?
Answer: Brother
Question: Homeland, broadcast 2011-12 on US TV , concerned the activities of which law enforcement organisation?
Answer: CIA
Question: We the People, which started a new direction in the wargame movement and is very influential in current wargame design, is what kind of game?
Answer: Cards
Question: The Nazca Plate, part of the earth's lithosphere, lies under which ocean?
Answer: Pacific
Question: The IWC, an international body established in 1946, is concerned with what activity?
Answer: Whaling
Question: In which country is the Arab Spring recognised as first taking hold?
Answer: Tunisia
Question: To travel in a direct line from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine in the USA how many major mountain ranges would need to be crossed?
Answer: 2
Question: According to the Bible, who is the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth?
Answer: Noah
Question: What motive power does a yacht commonly use?
Answer: Wind
Question: ETA, an armed nationalist and separatist organization, is based in which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: Which war, which lasted for ten years, was fought between Agamemnon and Menelaus on one side and Priam on the other?
Answer: Trojan War
Question: Beachy Head overlooks what stretch of sea?
Answer: English Channel
Question: What is the basic gauge most commonly used for both still photography and motion pictures?
Answer: 35 mm
Question: Who led barons to revolt against Henry III in 1263 established England's first elected parliament and was killed at the Battle of Evesham in 1265?
Answer: Simon de Montfort
Question: The USA established marginal income tax rates of 77% in 1916 to fund the war effort in World War I. What were they reduced to by 1929, shortly before the Wall Street crash?
Answer: 24%
Question: Iran and the United Arab Emirates together with Musandam, an exclave of Oman, are on either side of which stretch of water?
Answer: Strait of Hormuz
Question: According to Greek mythology, Penelope was whose faithful wife?
Answer: Odysseus
Question: Belgian competitor Eddy Merckx, often referred to as the best of all time in his field, was involved in what sport?
Answer: Cycling
Question: Who emigrated to the USA in 1842, opened a detective agency in Chicago in 1861, and organised the US Secret Service?
Answer: Allan Pinkerton
Question: In which city would you find Victoria Peak, Victoria Harbour, Tai Mo Shan, Lantau Island, Cheung Chau, Lamma Island, Peng Chau and Tsing Yi Island?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: Where does the Guinness Book of World Records recognise the largest wave ever surfed, 78 feet (23.8 m), as having been ridden?
Answer: Portugal
Question: How many volunteer hours were estimated to have supported the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Answer: 8 million
Question: Which was the first Soviet Union republic to establish its independence when the Soviet Union was dissolving?
Answer: Lithuania
Question: Which one of these co-wrote with David Bowie, to a guitar riff written by Carlos Alomar, the song "Fame", which was released by Bowie in 1975 on his "Young Americans" album?
Answer: John Lennon
Question: Which flowers are "in the hospital", according to a 1993 hit by the Manic Street Preachers?
Answer: Roses
Question: For what activity is Sir Anthony Carrow famous?
Answer: Sculpture
Question: Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, a Renaissance man of many talents, is well-known for his writings on politics but was also a well-known politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, letter writer, playwright, poet, songwriter, and what else?
Answer: Historian
Question: Why did Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German carpenter, make international news in 1936 when he was sentenced to death and executed for what became known as "The Crime of the Century"?
Answer: The Lindbergh kidnapping
Question: A "quack" is usually defined as someone who pretends to be an expert in what field?
Answer: Medicine
Question: Which long-running TV series first aired on UK TV in 1963?
Answer: Dr Who
Question: It is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal, with currently 14 countries contesting its World Championships. What is it called?
Answer: Bandy
Question: A 2002 feature-length documentary film directed by David C. Thomas, that includes US government surveillance footage of a performance at the protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, is about which Detroit-based rock band?
Answer: MC5