zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: From the Greek meaning 'against', and 'a name', what is a word called which has the opposite meaning to another word?
Answer: Antonym
Question: What is the name of the ship of (1960s UK TV) cartoon pirate Captain Pugwash?
Answer: Black Pig
Question: What does the cockney rhyming slang, Butcher's, traditionally mean?
Answer: Look
Question: South African Ron Hickman, (1932-11), designer of classic Lotus cars including the Elan and Europa, also designed what multi-million-selling DIY gadget?
Answer: The Workmate
Question: What religious term originally referring to the the most educated and literate officials and leaders within the church, evolved into a workplace title nowadays positioned at the other end of an organizational hierarchy?
Answer: Clergy
Question: In which city was scientist Marie Curie born, whose residents are known as Varsovians?
Answer: Warsaw
Question: In 2011 a London ice cream parlour was in the news for selling an ice cream at £14.99 a scoop made from what?
Answer: Human breast milk
Question: 100 degrees Celsius is how many degrees Fahrenheit?
Answer: 212
Question: The liqueur sambuca originates from which European country?
Answer: Italy
Question: Name the excessively cheerful optimistic heroine created by American author Eleanor H Porter in the famous 1913 eponymously titled book, and subsequent series, which became a term for someone of such attitude?
Answer: Pollyanna
Question: The 'cardinal points' are the four main points on what?
Answer: Compass
Question: Cheese is said to combat tooth erosion because it contains what?
Answer: Alkali
Question: According to the Bible, how old was Methuselah when he fathered Lamech?
Answer: 187
Question: What was the very Greek middle name of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis?
Answer: Socrates
Question: In 1901 the artists Wassily Kandinsky, Rolf Niczky, Waldemar Hecker, and Wilhelm Hüsgen founded the progressive Phalanx art group in which country?
Answer: Germany
Question: 2 inches x 1.5 inches (52x37mm) are the dimensions of which paper size?
Answer: A9
Question: The game 'Spillikins' is commonly known by which other name?
Answer: Jackstraws
Question: What UK-based organisation is (at 2011) the world's largest insurance market?
Answer: Lloyds of London
Question: 18 year-old Fiona Butler, in an unpaid photoshoot, featured in Athena's iconic 1970's bare-bottom poster of what sport?
Answer: Tennis
Question: What is both an ancient twisted metal necklace and a force causing rotation?
Answer: Torque
Question: Dating back to 1801, what is the more common name for a circle graph, said to be the most commonly used graph in business and media?
Answer: Pie Chart
Question: Where mega means a million (106) what commonly used prefix means a millionth (10-6)?
Answer: Micro
Question: Which famous movie car was made from the chassis of two 1968 Chevrolet Impalas and a Chevy V8 engine?
Answer: Batmobile
Question: How tall is the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai (at Apr 2011 the tallest building in the world)?
Answer: 828m
Question: Dr Harry Coover and Fred Joyner accidentally discovered what popular and generically named adhesive while working for Eastman Kodak on a gunsight project in the mid-1900s?
Answer: Super Glue
Question: Infrasound - sound lower than 20Hz (Hertz, or cycles per second) and typically undetectable by human hearing - is more commonly termed what?
Answer: Subsonic
Question: Deriving from, and in part meaning small, what is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Omicron
Question: What is the international telephone dialling code for France?
Answer: 33
Question: How many centimetres are in a foot, to two decimal places?
Answer: 30.48
Question: What plant and source of starch, used in cooking and medicine, is named after the Arawak word aru-aru, meaning 'meal of meals', and also by association with its use in treating poisoned arrow wounds?
Answer: Arrowroot
Question: On which British comedian's (technically comedienne's) US TV show did The Simpsons first appear?
Answer: Tracey Ullman
Question: What is the square root of 441?
Answer: 21
Question: What area in square metres is a hectare?
Answer: 10,000
Question: What iconic Wrigley brand, launched in 1893, is considered the first product bought using a barcode scanner?
Answer: Juicy Fruit
Question: In the Bible, which of the apostles refused to believe in the resurrection until he had seen and touched Christ?
Answer: Saint Thomas
Question: Emily Watson played which famous cellist in the film 'Hilary and Jackie'?
Answer: Jaqueline du Pre
Question: Beehive, Chonmage and Hoxton Fin are types of what?
Answer: Hairstyles
Question: What is a plane figure with nine straight sides and nine angles?
Answer: Nonagon
Question: How many cubic inches are in a cubic foot?
Answer: 1,728
Question: Which motor company won the contract in May 2011 to provide the next generation of New York's yellow taxis?
Answer: Nissan
Question: What city has c.520 miles of shoreline?
Answer: New York
Question: What is the (usually somewhat aspirational) meaning of Latin term Ad Astra, often used in slogans and marketing?
Answer: To the Stars
Question: What is the collective name for a flock of geese in flight, especially in V-formation?
Answer: Skein
Question: As at 2011 what car corporation owns the Rolls Royce and Mini marques?
Answer: BMW
Question: The slang term vajazzling refers to what increasingly popular decorative jewelled fashion?
Answer: Vaginal
Question: What large computer software corporation, whose products include Acrobat and Photoshop, is named after a 2,000-year-old word meaning 'mud-brick'?
Answer: Adobe
Question: The Latin phrase 'Ecce Homo' means Behold the what?
Answer: Man
Question: Completed in 1985 what City of London banking centre became the subject of opposing demolition and architectural heritage protection efforts in 2011?
Answer: Broadgate
Question: What UK city is a person metaphorically 'sent to' when ignored or ostracized by a group?
Answer: Coventry
Question: Created by the Hoover Dam, what is the largest manmade lake/reservoir in the US?
Answer: Lake Mead
Question: In geometry and mathematics, what is an angle of less than 90 degrees?
Answer: Acute
Question: How many litres (or liters) are in a cubic metre?
Answer: 1,000
Question: The Han ethnic group of people, the largest in the world, is native to which country?
Answer: China
Question: What is Tesco's US 'neighborhood' grocery chain brand, founded in 2007 with HQ in California?
Answer: Fresh & Easy
Question: What animal normally represents the box of low market share and low market growth in the Boston Matrix (or 'BSG Matrix' or 'Growth-Share Matrix') marketing model?
Answer: Dog
Question: What chemical element has the symbol S?
Answer: Sulphur
Question: The elusive and increasingly rare omnivorous bird, tetrax tetrax, nicknamed in French 'the farting chicken', is more commonly called the Little what?
Answer: Bustard
Question: The quirky activity in the news in Australia due to its first fatality, previously called 'the lying down game', became an internet photo craze now known by what less obvious name?
Answer: Planking
Question: What 2008 internet start-up company did Twitter buy in 2011 that enables customized use of its microblogging service?
Answer: Tweetdeck
Question: In the context of financial services mis-selling, what product is abbreviated to PPI?
Answer: Payment Protection Insurance
Question: Sir Reginald Dorman Smith, former British Minister of Agriculture, instigated which campaign during World War II to encourage people to convert land for growing more fruit and vegetables?
Answer: Dig for Victory
Question: Which US state is said to be named in honour/honor of British monarch Queen Elizabeth I?
Answer: Virginia
Question: Castries is the capital of which Caribbean island?
Answer: St Lucia
Question: How many serifs are in the HONDA Motor Company logo?
Answer: 12
Question: What did Frenchman Dr Pierre Dukan devise which bears his name, and after achieving great popularity in France, began to spread internationally in the early 2000s?
Answer: Dukan Diet
Question: Which UK city hosts the Summer Sundae music festival?
Answer: Leicester
Question: Violeta Chamorro, Michelle Bachelet, Laura Chinchilla, and Dilma Rousseff share what achievement? Olympic record-holders; National leadership; Best-selling authors; Film noir stardom; or Diana Ross's Supremes?
Answer: National leadership
Question: What convicted fraudster's underpants were auctioned in 2011 for $200, with other belongings, to compensate victims of his $65m Ponzi scheme swindle?
Answer: Bernard Madoff
Question: What woman's name was given to the horrendously abusive laundry asylums for 'fallen women' run by the Catholic Church, starting in 18th century Ireland, spreading to other countries and persisting well into the 1900s?
Answer: Magdalene
Question: What modern system of a very old messaging method entails red and yellow ('Oscar') at sea, and white and blue ('Papa') on land?
Answer: Flag semaphore
Question: What is the traditional primary ingredient of coleslaw (also slaw in the US)?
Answer: Cabbage
Question: Hemostasis/haemostasis is what in relation to bloodflow?
Answer: Stoppage
Question: The organic chemical compound C12H22O11 is better known as what additive?
Answer: Sugar
Question: How many dots make up the BlackBerry symbol logo?
Answer: Seven
Question: What is a big acoustic guitar, a type of old battleship, and a thick coat cloth, which means 'fear nothing'?
Answer: Dreadnought
Question: What is the mythical conjuring trick for which Lord Northbrook failed to find claim or demonstration on offering a £10,000 prize in 1875?
Answer: Indian rope trick
Question: The word 'Torchwood' is what in relation to 'Doctor Who'?
Answer: Anagram
Question: What is the common name of aluminium/aluminum oxide crystals used in grinding?
Answer: Corundum
Question: A ploughman's lunch traditionally features what main foodstuff with bread?
Answer: Cheese
Question: In cooking what is/are dhal?
Answer: Split pulses
Question: Sulphur/sulfur dioxide and (various) nitrogen oxides are the main contributory factors in what unhelpful environmental effect?
Answer: Acid rain
Question: In excess of how many gallons of water are lost each day in the USA to leaks, equating to 14% of all 'withdrawals'?
Answer: Six billion
Question: An 'R number' identifies what sort of substance having potentially significant impact on global warming when used in heating/cooling applications?
Answer: Refrigerant
Question: The 'R-value' used in the building and construction industry is a measure of what quality of a materials?
Answer: Thermal resistance
Question: Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Answer: Amnesty International
Question: Where do you want to go today?
Answer: Microsoft
Question: Nullius in verba. (On the word of no one.)
Answer: The Royal Society
Question: A piece of what monument forms part of Ronald Reagan's statue in London's Grosvenor Square?
Answer: Berlin Wall
Question: What is the organic compound acid, chemical formula CH3COOH, and main component of vinegar?
Answer: Acetic acid
Question: What color/colour is a polar bear's skin?
Answer: Black
Question: University of Portsmouth (UK) psychologists researching the quality of juries determined what to be the optimum number of people for effective debate?
Answer: Four
Question: Chutzpah is Yiddish slang for?
Answer: Audacity
Question: Founded in 1853 by London tailor John Emary, what famous raincoat/trenchcoat brand was popularised in the mid-1900s by film stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Sophia Loren?
Answer: Aquascutum
Question: The Al Jazeera broadcasting organization is owned by and headquartered in what country?
Answer: Qatar
Question: To the nearest 1000 metres, how deep is the ocean floor at its deepest?
Answer: 11,000m
Question: From Greek, meaning generation and knowledge, what word commonly refers to the study of family history?
Answer: Genealogy
Question: The FischerSaller scale, used in anthropology and medicine, determines the colour/color shades of what?
Answer: Hair
Question: At $12.5bn, what phone corporation became Google's biggest acquisition in Aug 2011?
Answer: Motorola
Question: John Stacey Adams' 1963 motivational concept, which suggests people's motivation (and attitude) is strongly influenced by assessing effort and reward in a comparative outward sense, is called Adam's (what) Theory?
Answer: Equity
Question: What item of clothing, known as a 'topi', was popularised by Indian leaders Mahatma Gandhi, Jaraharlal Nehru, and later by anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare?
Answer: Cap
Question: What is the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey?
Answer: Hinny
Question: The 'Travel Bookshop' bookstore in North London served as a location for what successful 1999 film?
Answer: Notting Hill
Question: On a standard English 'qwerty' keyboard, which key is between Z and C?
Answer: X
Question: How many unique dominoes are in a standard 'double six' set?
Answer: Twenty-eight
Question: Japanese haiku poems loosely comprise how many syllables?
Answer: Seventeen
Question: Pure gold is (how many)-carat?
Answer: 24
Question: What widely referenced cosmetic surgery method contains the Greek word for fat?
Answer: Liposuction
Question: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics are notable corporations in what sector?
Answer: Armaments
Question: The word apogee refers to what sort of point?
Answer: Highest
Question: What compound, KClO3, commonly features in the heads of safety matches?
Answer: Potassium Chlorate
Question: According to popular medical opinion (at 2011) how much sleep on average is best per night for optimum adult health?
Answer: 6-8 hours
Question: What notorious convicted tax-evader is considered the instigator of milk date stamps in Chicago?
Answer: Al Capone
Question: What stone, still quarried in the Dorset (England) tied island which also bears its name, was used in the construction of St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace, and widely elsewhere too?
Answer: Portland stone
Question: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! ?
Answer: Sheldon B Kopp
Question: Who Moved My Cheese? ?
Answer: Spencer Johnson
Question: Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)?
Answer: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Question: Polly Toynbee is a British writer and journalist mainly on?
Answer: Politics
Question: What London landmark became the UK focus of global protests in October 2011 against corporate greed?
Answer: St Paul's Cathedral
Question: Kaun Banega Crorepati is loose Hindi translation and an Indian version of what popular TV gameshow?
Answer: Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?
Question: Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, and Audemars Piguet are all notable what?
Answer: Watchmakers
Question: Name the English 1960s playwright (of Loot and Entertaining Mister Sloane), imprisoned with (and later murdered by) boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell for defacing library books in 1962?
Answer: Joe Orton
Question: The UK's most senior civil servant has traditionally held what post?
Answer: Cabinet Secretary
Question: F = ma is a common simplification of what?
Answer: Newtons second law of motion
Question: Upon the change to British regal succession law removing gender inequality, the Princess Royal (Anne) advances how many positions closer to the Crown?
Answer: Six
Question: Apple's smartphone launched in Autumn/Fall 2011 to unprecedented demand was the iphone?
Answer: 4S
Question: The Head of State in Italy is (at 2011) a?
Answer: President
Question: Conceived in 1999 in Melbourne, Australia, the annual month-long charity effort 'Movember' raises awareness/funds for men's health issues (notably prostate and testicular cancer) involving the wearing of what?
Answer: Moustaches
Question: What musical instrument has the nickname 'the devil's box'?
Answer: Violin
Question: The Observer is the Sunday edition of which UK daily newspaper?
Answer: The Guardian
Question: From 2006-11 and ongoing, Giuliano Mignini became infamous for alleged incompetence and recklessness in what role in Italy? Soccer referee; Public prosecutor; Pizza restaurateur; or Formula 1 team manager?
Answer: Public prosecutor
Question: Rocinha favela in Brazil is said to be the biggest what in Latin America?
Answer: Slum
Question: The Russian word 'naled' (in German, 'aufeis') refers to naturally occurring thicker-than-normal layers of what?
Answer: Ice
Question: Name the focus of the UK Leveson inquiry?
Answer: Press standards
Question: ...thought, an old term for a wishbone?
Answer: Merry
Question: Wildfowl such as ducks, geese, swans, etc., have a nail on which part of the body?
Answer: Beak
Question: In medicine and biological science, what is the opposite and usual alternative to 'in vitro'?
Answer: In vivo
Question: In physics, what is the opposite of Tension?
Answer: Compression
Question: Call of the Wild (novel and movie)?
Answer: Buck
Question: Odysseus's faithful hound in Homer's Odyssey?
Answer: Argos
Question: Mrs Pumphrey's pekingese James Herriot's vet stories?
Answer: Tricki Woo
Question: Agatha Christie's novel Dumb Witness?
Answer: Bob
Question: Whom did Forbes Magazine list as the most powerful woman in the Southern Hemisphere in 2011?
Answer: Dilma Rouseff
Question: Unrelated, what is a set of slats and a museum?
Answer: Louvre
Question: Seasonal South Asia wind and accompanying rainfall - from Dutch?
Answer: Monsoon
Question: Isolation, quarantine, or secrecy - from Persian/Urdu?
Answer: Purdah
Question: The European/Asian slow worm (Anguis) is what sort of animal?
Answer: Lizard
Question: Name the UK government minister in the news in 2012 for his initiatives for schools bible distribution and a new royal yacht?
Answer: Michael Gove
Question: What colour/color is the second 'O' in the standard original Google logo?
Answer: Yellow
Question: Which country has the international telephone dialling code 27?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What length is the shortest side of a right-angled triangle whose longest sides are 4cm and 5cm?
Answer: 3cm
Question: The deeply inaccessible lakes Vostok, Whillans, and Ellsworth are in the?
Answer: South Pole
Question: Moody's, Fitch, and Standard and Poor's are leaders in what market?
Answer: Credit ratings
Question: What airport carries the most international passengers in the world (at 2012)?
Answer: Heathrow
Question: UK tabloid newspapers are commonly called?
Answer: Red-Tops
Question: What is Germany's biggest selling newspaper (at 2012)?
Answer: Bild
Question: Baselworld in Switzerland is the world's biggest annual tradeshow event for?
Answer: Watches and Jewellery
Question: What country inspired the term Banana Republic?
Answer: Honduras
Question: The acronym STEM in education refers to a set of what four technical subjects?
Answer: Science Technology Engineering Mathematics
Question: Dr Robert Atkins, (1930-2003), who died weighing 260lbs, was noted for what eponymous conception?
Answer: Atkins Diet
Question: What ingredient, used cleverly very sparingly by the Romans, largely determines durability of concrete?
Answer: Water
Question: Technically the potato is a?
Answer: Tuber
Question: As at 2012 what is the only European country to routinely apply the death penalty?
Answer: Belarus
Question: The army bugle call meaning get ready/mounted and into line/parade is traditionally called?
Answer: Boots and Saddles
Question: The word membranophone technically refers to a?
Answer: Drum
Question: What nationality is the retail group Carrefour (at 2012)?
Answer: French
Question: Zampone is an Italian dish made of stuffed pig's what?
Answer: Trotter
Question: What model pioneered personal computing in the 1980s, selling over 20 million of its (then huge) 64k memory machines?
Answer: Commodore 64
Question: Introduced in the early 1900s, the internationally used Whyte Notation (representing the number of leading/driving/trailing wheels, via a numbers and dashes system) classifies what?
Answer: Steam locomotives
Question: Name Irvine Welsh's best selling 1993 novel about heroin addiction?
Answer: Trainspotting
Question: City University London's Cass School specialises in?
Answer: Business
Question: Italian for angry, what is the pasta sauce of garlic, tomatoes, and red chili cooked in olive oil?
Answer: Arrabbiata
Question: At its nearest the Moon is roughly how many thousands of miles from Earth?
Answer: 222
Question: Up until ceasing posts in March 2012 who had become the most followed active professional footballer (soccer player) on Twitter?
Answer: Joey Barton
Question: Chittagong beach in Bangladesh is famous for?
Answer: Shipbreaking
Question: Who was the last English monarch to win the throne on the battlefield?
Answer: Henry VII
Question: Actor Tom Conti was found to descend from Napoleon Bonaparte after analysis of?
Answer: Y-Chromosome DNA
Question: What was the previous brand-name of the Nissan automotive corporation?
Answer: Datsun
Question: As at 2012 the European Union comprises how many member states?
Answer: 27
Question: What is the international dialling code for Australia?
Answer: 61
Question: What is the cube root of 343?
Answer: 7
Question: Albedoza or albedo refers to a surface's what?
Answer: Reflectivity
Question: What is the food-shaped nickname of the London 2012 Olympics velodrome stadium?
Answer: The Pringle
Question: What was the previous name of UK-founded communications technology company O2?
Answer: Cellnet
Question: What international jewellery/jewelry corporation is headquartered at 727 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, US?
Answer: Tiffany & Co
Question: Which automotive corporation uses the marketing strapline 'The Power of Dreams'?
Answer: Honda
Question: Named after its inventor and significant electricity pioneer, a protective meshed enclosure giving electrical protection is called a 'what' cage?
Answer: Farraday cage
Question: In which country did the mayor of Taranto, Ippazio Stefano, cause a fuss in 2012 after attending rallies with a pistol tucked in his trousers?
Answer: Italy
Question: Northampton is generally regarded to have the largest what in England?
Answer: Market square
Question: How wide is a regulation basketball hoop?
Answer: 18 inches
Question: In a Japanese restaurant an oshibori is a?
Answer: Hand towel
Question: What sport dominated (with 30 of the top 100) the 2012 Forbes list of highest earning athletes?
Answer: American Football
Question: What three letters did comedy writer Armando Iannucci amusingly tweet back to Tony Blair's ex-spin-doctor Alistair Campbell following Campbell's jibe about Iannucci's acceptance of his OBE award '... your wit a bit tired and blunt already. Three little letters can have more impact than you realise..' ?
Answer: WMD
Question: Andrew McDougall, whose injury decided a serious international sport championship final in 2012, was a?
Answer: Linesman
Question: Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, writer Virginia Woolf, and newspaper mogul Robert Maxwell, shared what fate?
Answer: Drowning
Question: The Millau Viaduct over the river Tarn valley near Millau in southern France holds what global bridge record (at 2012) ?
Answer: Tallest
Question: What prestigious learning institution is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US?
Answer: Harvard University
Question: Diverticulitis is a common disease of what human system?
Answer: Digestive
Question: The Henri Delaunay trophy is awarded in which sport?
Answer: Association Football
Question: The metric prefix nano means 10 to the power of?
Answer: -9
Question: Papules and pustules are types of what on the human skin?
Answer: Spots
Question: A narrative/statement/question used in testing/developing student capability in Zen Buddhism is a?
Answer: Koan
Question: Rosneftegaz and Gazprom are vast energy corporations of which nation?
Answer: Russia
Question: In a block and tackle lifting system, what is a sheave? Pulley; Rope; Hook; or Brake?
Answer: Pulley
Question: The Kabbalah wristband, in Yiddish 'roite bindele', is normally what colour/color?
Answer: Red
Question: What state territory is named in Latin, meaning 'New Scotland'?
Answer: Nova Scotia
Question: Medically, miosis/myosis normally refers to the narrowing or constriction of the what?
Answer: Pupil
Question: What is India's national motto, appearing on its emblem and currency?
Answer: Satyameva Jayate
Question: What colour/color traditionally is the Michelin Guide for hotels/restaurants?
Answer: Red