zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the name of the office of someone who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organisation such as a corporation, professional regulatory body, or a branch of government and those outside it, to represent those outside interests?
Answer: Ombudsman
Question: One of Canada's UNESCO World heritage sites is "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump", which was used for 5,500 years by which indigenous people to kill buffalo, by driving them off the 10 metre high cliff?
Answer: Blackfoot
Question: Edwin Budding invented a tool in 1827 in Thrupp, just outside Stroud in Gloucestershire in the UK which in one of its current forms is used throughout gardens, parks, and sports grounds worldwide. What was it?
Answer: Lawn mower
Question: In the first century AD, which rebellious British chieftain, of the Catuvellauni, was taken to Rome in chains?
Answer: Caratacus
Question: It has been a boy's name, is usually a girl's name, and is well known as the name of Peter Pan's friend in a J.M. Barrie play. What is it?
Answer: Wendy
Question: Between 500 and 850 AD, often referred to as the Dark Ages, the 7 kingdoms into which England was supposedly divided (the Heptarchy) were Wessex, Mercia, Kent, Essex, East Anglia, Sussex and which other?
Answer: Northumbria
Question: Which honour was conferred by James II on John Dryden in 1630?
Answer: Poet Laureate
Question: The head of state of the Isle of Man, which is a Crown dependency and not part of the United Kingdom, is Queen Elizabeth II. She rules there because she holds what title?
Answer: Lord of Mann
Question: Who was Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, was then imprisoned for over two years and burnt at the stake for heresy?
Answer: Thomas Cranmer
Question: What date is famous for four co-ordinated terrorist attacks in the USA on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the United States Capitol?
Answer: September 11 2001
Question: Four countries have observer status to the Arab League, which entitles them to express their opinion and give advice but denies them voting rights. They are Eritrea, Brazil, Venezuela and which other?
Answer: India
Question: What was the name of a set of 3 treaties signed between the USA and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho between 21 and 28 October 1867, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma?
Answer: The Medicine Lodge Treaty
Question: What is the name for the region of an astronomical object from which externally received light originates, which extends into a star's surface until the gas becomes opaque?
Answer: Photosphere
Question: When his Late String Quartets were first performed in the 1820s, listeners described them variously as "indecipherable, uncorrected horrors" and "we know there is something there, but we do not know what it is". Who was the composer?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Question: According to Malory and Tennyson who was the son of Lancelot and Elaine, raised by nuns and knighted on his arrival at Camelot?
Answer: Galahad
Question: Which standard recurring character Batman comic book character did not appear in the film "Batman" (1989) nor "Batman Returns" (1992), but was in "Batman Forever" (1995) and "Batman & Robin" (1997)?
Answer: Robin
Question: William Shakespeare wrote plays set in Italy, Denmark, Scotland, England, Greece, Troy, Egypt, Tyre and more; what was his nationality?
Answer: English
Question: What nationality was Abel Janszoon Tasman the voyager, explorer and map maker?
Answer: Dutch
Question: Whose chances of winning the 2010 PGA Chamionship were dashed when he received a two shot penalty at the last hole for grounding his club in a bunker?
Answer: Dustin Johnson
Question: Which river runs through the cities of Turin, Piacenza and Ferrara, and is connected to Milan through a network of channels?
Answer: Po
Question: The Treaty of Peace with Japan (also known as the Treaty of San Francisco and the San Francisco Peace Treaty), signed by 49 nations that officially ended World War II, came into effect in what year?
Answer: 1952
Question: In 2010, the International Cricket Council turned down a nomination for Vice President from ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard in favour of one from Alan Isaac, who was from which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What lies due east of Uruguay?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Question: A range of devices including stick-on tattoos to be a password ID or hydration sensor, and a pill which when swallowed would emit a signal to communicate with external sensors and similar, was developed by which company?
Answer: Motorola
Question: Which Scotswoman is an Oscar, Brit and Grammy award-winning pop musician and vocalist who, after 3 years as lead singer of "The Tourists", formed the duo "Eurythmics" with British musician Dave Stewart?
Answer: Annie Lennox
Question: What mythical monster In Greek mythology with the face of a woman and the body of a vulture stole food and was an agent of punishment, abducted people and tortured them?
Answer: Harpy
Question: Which country has, at various times, been known as "Kingdom of" (1918), "Democratic Federal" (1943) "Federal People's Republic of" (1946), "Socialist Federal Republic of" (1963) and "Federal Republic of" (1992 to 2003)?
Answer: Yugoslavia
Question: How many proper nouns are there in the sentence "On Saturday Ruth is going to fly in an Airbus 380 with her son Christopher and her daughter Naomi to Phoenix, Arizona to attend a family reunion."?
Answer: 7
Question: The partition of India, formalised in 1947, was characterised by religious tension and violence between Hindus and people of which other major religious group?
Answer: Muslim
Question: What is name for the holistic, global, comparative study of humans (the comprehensive study of human beings and of their interactions with each other and the environment), which has its intellectual origins in both the natural sciences and the humanities?
Answer: Anthropology
Question: Ayers, Blake's Pride, Concorde and Louise Bonne are types of what?
Answer: Pear
Question: Reginald Rose wrote a play adapted from his 1957 teleplay, and later film, script of the same name. The film became famous with Henry Fonda in the lead role as foreman of a jury. What was the play?
Answer: 12 Angry Men
Question: Lcio Costa was the principal urban planner, Oscar Niemeyer was the principal architect, and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer for which purpose-built capital city?
Answer: Brasilia, Brazil
Question: In 1961, the office of the Postmaster General of Australia introduced which emergency telephone number in major population centres and, near the end of the 1980s, extended the coverage nationwide?
Answer: 000
Question: After a military coup on 21 March 2009, in which country did Andry Rajoelina became the youngest of the current heads of state in the world and the youngest head of state in Africa?
Answer: Madagascar
Question: Who is the main character in a film whose plotline begins in 1845 in Canada, when young James Howlett kills a groundskeeper named Thomas Logan, who was John Howlett's murderer?
Answer: Wolverine
Question: What is the name of the wife of Andy Capp, a British comic strip character created by Reg Smythe, first published in August 1957?
Answer: Flo
Question: According to the Masters of Foxhounds Association of America, the first fox hounds were imported into America in 1650; what nationality was the man who imported them?
Answer: British
Question: Which book of the Christian Bible provides the details of the Apocalypse?
Answer: Revelation
Question: In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published "Futility", a short novel about an enormous British passenger liner, which, thought to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats and on a voyage in April, hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. What was the name of the ship in this story?
Answer: The Titan
Question: Which US vice presidential candidate made "The Checkers speech", an address on TV and radio on 23 September 1952, which was an early example of a politician using television to appeal directly to the electorate?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: Founded in 914 AD by the Vikings who built on the banks of the River Suir, and with Reginald's Tower as its most recognisable landmark, what is the oldest city in the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: Waterford
Question: Three racing trophies were established in the 20th century by James Gordon Bennett, Jr, for automobiles, aeroplanes and which other?
Answer: Balloons
Question: When the Chinese Nationalist Party lost the civil war to the Communist Party in 1949, it relocated to which island and established Taipei as the Republic Of China's provisional capital?
Answer: Taiwan
Question: What is the full name of the organism found in abundance in the mammalian gut, and used as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant DNA, in early commercial work the bacterium of choice for cloning and mass-producing new materials?
Answer: Escherichia coli
Question: It is considered to have been conceived in the West as an idea in 1508 and in its current highly-oxygen-permeable form 490 years later, and is..?
Answer: Contact lens
Question: In 1508-9 the British-born Venetian explorer Sebastian Cabot led one of the first European expeditions to the north of North America to find what?
Answer: North-West Passage
Question: Three immense carved images destroyed in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, by the Taleban in 2001 related to what faith?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: Miami, Florida, sits near the southernmost point of what land form?
Answer: Peninsula
Question: In 1660, John Milton's books were burned in London because of his attacks on whom?
Answer: Charles II
Question: A well-known Scottish actor, born Anthony Robert McMillan, took his stage name in honour of which jazz musician?
Answer: John Coltrane
Question: What position did Liechtenstein take during World War II?
Answer: Neutrality
Question: What pollinates the tubular, bright red flowers of the Salvia coccinea (known as Texas Sage, Scarlet Sage, or Blood Sage), a species of flowering plant native to the south of North America, the Caribbean, and the north of South America?
Answer: Hummingbirds
Question: What state, earlier known as the Bohemian Kingdom and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time of the Empire's dissolution at the end of World War I, was formed in 1918?
Answer: Czechoslovakia
Question: A madeleine, originating in France, is a type of what?
Answer: Cake
Question: Hippocrates who lived in the 5th century BCE is remembered for his work and knowledge in what area?
Answer: Medicine
Question: Which Walt Disney animated feature film bombed when it was first released in 1940, only eventually reaching profit in 1945?
Answer: Pinocchio
Question: Which American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress who made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, married him in 1993, separated in 1997, and married actor & rapper Nick Cannon in 2008?
Answer: Mariah Carey
Question: In 1990 a strip of land seceded from its then parent country and called itself Transnistria, or Trans-Dniester; what is the parent country?
Answer: Moldova
Question: Which film contained advice to the eponymous hero to "phone home", which then became the 15th best known quote in AFI list of top 100 quotes?
Answer: E.T.
Question: At the awards for "The Best of the Booker", a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary, it was noted that two authors had won the Booker twice, J.M. Coetzee and who else?
Answer: Peter Carey
Question: Whose germ theory led to his devising a means to heat-treat milk to reduce disease?
Answer: Pasteur
Question: What is the name of the style of roasting meat, whereby it is skewered on a spit and slowly rotated over a flame?
Answer: Rotisserie
Question: Which American jazz musician, clarinettist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman", in the mid-1930s led one of the most popular musical groups in America, which was also one of the first racially-integrated musical groups?
Answer: Benny Goodman
Question: Leonid Brezhnev led the Soviet Union as General Secretary then as Chairman of the Presidium, the longest term as leader since Josef Stalin; who was his immediate successor?
Answer: Yuri Andropov
Question: What kind of quality is "priapic"?
Answer: Lustful
Question: Which monarch presided in Great Britain over the time of the French Revolution, Britain's loss of its American colonies, and two decisive defeats of the French?
Answer: George III
Question: What is a species in the legume family, native to North and South America, an annual herbaceous plant growing 30 to 50 cm (1 to 1 1/2 feet) tall?
Answer: Peanut
Question: In 1815 the Congress of Vienna created United Netherlands, but in 1830 the restive south split off again to form what?
Answer: Belgium
Question: The first recorded windmills, used in Persia in the 9th century and later India and China, operated on the horizontal plane. When is the first definite record in Europe of the use of vertical windmills instead?
Answer: 12th century
Question: The saying "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" is commonly attributed to whom?
Answer: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)
Question: What was the first general-purpose electronic computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems which, though designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the US Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, was first used in calculations for the hydrogen bomb?
Answer: ENIAC
Question: What condition, first described by Reginald Fitz in 1886 and characterised by inflammation of the blind-ended tube connected to the cecum, requires an immediate operation to prevent rupture of the tube and death from (mainly) peritonitis and shock?
Answer: Appendicitis
Question: Argentina encouraged a massive wave of immigration from Europe starting in 1857; between then and 1940 people from which country formed the bulk of the influx?
Answer: Italy
Question: The House of Bourbon, a European royal house one of whose monarchs was famously guillotined in France in 1792, has descendants currently on the throne of which country or countries?
Answer: Spain and Luxembourg
Question: Which 19th century American author went to sea aged 17 in a whaler, deserted twice, was captured by cannibals and joined a man of war before writing novels such as "White Jacket" and "Billy Budd"?
Answer: Herman Melville
Question: Which popular song from 1972 told the story of the aftermath of an incident at a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention when someone fired a flare gun?
Answer: Smoke on the Water
Question: What communist military junta came to power in Ethiopia following the ousting of Haile Selassie I on 12 September 1974 and although officially coming to an end on 22 February 1987, was not formally abolished until September?
Answer: Derg
Question: Between 1985 and 1991 a number of demonstrations and protests led to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania variously taking back their independence from the USSR and (later) Russia; what overall name has characterised the revolution?
Answer: Singing Revolution
Question: Which Spanish author served as a soldier at Lepanto (where he lost the use of his left hand), was captured by pirates in 1575 and imprisoned in Algiers until 1580, and was then employed in government work in Madrid?
Answer: Miguel Cervantes
Question: Who was born in 1812 near Porstmouth, spent his childhood in Chatham and London, married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, separated from her in 1858, had much of his work published serially in journals, and died in 1870?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Question: France's largest international airport and one of the world principal aviation centres, also known as Roissy, is usually known by the name of what historical figure?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle
Question: If viewed mathematically the alphabet leads to "A plus B equals C"; what does "I plus Q" equal?
Answer: Z
Question: How does history better know Ioseb Jughashvili, who changed his surname to mean "steel"?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: First appearing in English about the time of Shakespeare, what word means foppish, or, later, fabricated or tricked out?
Answer: Fangled
Question: The mathematician, al-Khwarizmi, in the royal court of Baghdad in the 9th century CE gave his name to what procedure or formula for solving a problem?
Answer: Algorithm
Question: Pierre de Coubertin who founded the modern Olympic Games thought competing in art was an essential part of the movement; medals in various arts were awarded from 1912 until when?
Answer: 1948
Question: Its capital is Monrovia, its first settlements were founded in 1822 on land bought from local tribal leaders, it was initially a protectorate of the USA but independent from 1847; what country is it?
Answer: The Republic of Liberia
Question: Who, called the "King of Jazz", was the leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, commissioned and debuted George Gershwin's jazz-influenced "Rhapsody In Blue" in 1924?
Answer: Paul Whiteman
Question: """Immersive journalism"", of the kind presented by Nonny de la Peas ""Hunger in Los Angeles"" in 2012 uses what technique?"
Answer: Virtual reality
Question: When Michael Clarke resigned his captaincy of the Australian team in the course of a 2015 competition between Australia and the UK, to take effect when the series was finished, what sport were the teams competing in?
Answer: Cricket
Question: What international humanitarian institution was founded in Switzerland in 1863?
Answer: Red Cross
Question: Which country, after 500 years of Ottoman domination, became independent in 1912, adopted a republican form of government in 1920, became a kingdom in 1928, came under Italian control in 1939, became a Communist state after World War II, and is now a parliamentary democracy established under a constitution renewed in 1998?
Answer: Albania
Question: Paribas, formed in 1872 from two companies respectively in Paris and Amsterdam, operated in what field?
Answer: Finance
Question: Cambodia, which over the course of 1841 to 1953 was under the joint suzerainty of Thailand and Vietnam then was a monarchy under the protection of France which included an occupation by Japan, was steered to independence in 1953 by whom?
Answer: King Norodom Sihanouk
Question: Who was the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah who succeeded his father Asa, ruling for twenty-five years until 849 BC, until his son Jehoram succeeded him?
Answer: Jehoshaphat
Question: Which play, developed in the Vineyard Arts Project at Martha's Vineyard in the USA and premiering on Broadway in 2014, was based on the autobiography of Broadway writer and director Moss Hart?
Answer: Act One
Question: Which 1967 film, directed by Stuart Rosenberg starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy, was about the fate of a man sent to prison for vandalising parking meters?
Answer: Cool Hand Luke
Question: Before Washington became President in 1789 of the newly independent United States of America there had been Presidents variously of the Continental Congress of the United Colonies (formed 1774), then the United States Congress under the Articles of Confederation; how many presidencies were there?
Answer: 16
Question: Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss's publisher, wagered $50 that Seuss could not write a book using only fifty different words. Seuss won by writing which book?
Answer: Green Eggs and Ham
Question: Which coin was first minted by Henry III in 1249, and not withdrawn from circulation until 1887?
Answer: Groat
Question: In 1997 Bougainville gained autonomy within Papua New Guinea, after negotiations brokered by what country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Twenty years after the NFL began formally to review effects of injuries from repetitive play-related head blows e.g. CTE in NFL players, researchers in 2015 announced they had found CTE in what percentage of deceased NFL players examined?
Answer: 96
Question: Who, a drummer at the time, made the first known jazz recording using the vibraphone ("Memories of You") with Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra in 1930 and then concentrated on the vibraphone, joining the Benny Goodman Quintet, and later leading his own big bands?
Answer: Lionel Hampton
Question: Named for its colour, originally called Greek and prized as a paint pigment, is the mixture of compounds of what?
Answer: Copper
Question: """Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper"" is an example of what?"
Answer: Tongue twister
Question: Which is the 17th century German mathematician and astronomer (at one time assistant to Tycho Brahe) whose works, including " Epitome of Copernican Astronomy", provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation?
Answer: Johannes Kepler
Question: Where are the Sugarloaf Mountain, the Morro da Babilnia, the Morro da Urca, and Mount Corcovado (with its famous giant religious statue)?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Question: Which religion has grown from 19th century teachings, of a man born in present day Iran and who died after a 24 year imprisonment in present day Israel?
Answer: Bah
Question: On what continent are the following found: Mt Kilimanjaro, Ngorongoro Crater (the worlds largest unbroken caldera), Nile River, Okavango Delta, Red Sea Reef, Sahara Desert, and the Serengeti Migration?
Answer: Africa
Question: When Warren Hastings, returning from a term as Governor-General in 1786, was impeached (and acquitted) where had he been in office?
Answer: India
Question: The second Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjld, died in office in 1961 and became subsequently one of only four people to receive a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. How did he die?
Answer: In a plane crash
Question: Bartizan, stylobate, breastsummer are terms found in what discipline?
Answer: Architecture
Question: What German loan word means "spirit of the age"?
Answer: Zeitgeist
Question: What 13th century conqueror is thought to have more than 350 million direct descendents?
Answer: Genghis Khan
Question: What is either a place for unbaptised babies or a back-bending party game?
Answer: Limbo
Question: What is either Superman's home planet or an element starting with K?
Answer: Krypton
Question: Which country's currency was worth less than 1 trillionth of a U.S. cent when it was abandoned in 2009?
Answer: Zimbabwe
Question: What historical character is often thought to have been short - despite being taller than average for his era?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: Whose wives included Aisha, Safiyya, and Sawda?
Answer: Mohammed
Question: In what country would you find Mt. Pinatubo, whose 1991 eruption was the largest in the last hundred years?
Answer: Philippines
Question: What oft-ridiculed 1930's movie tells the story of people who become criminally insane after smoking marijuana?
Answer: Reefer Madness
Question: What two-letter mantra is often uttered at yoga studios?
Answer: Om
Question: Whose famous "last theorem" was proposed in 1637 and finally proved in 1995?
Answer: Pierre de Fermat
Question: What is term for the Indian religious belief that the soul will enter a new body after death?
Answer: Reincarnation
Question: What object have both Naomi Campbell and Russell Crowe used to assault people?
Answer: Telephone
Question: Whose quotes are known as hadiths?
Answer: Muhammad
Question: What are the first 5 digits of Pi?
Answer: 3.1415
Question: What country lies directly south of Panama?
Answer: Colombia
Question: What country was formerly known as Formosa?
Answer: Taiwan
Question: What company sells "Obsession" perfume?
Answer: Calvin Klein
Question: What revolutionary was born in Argentina, came to prominence in Cuba, and was executed in Bolivia?
Answer: Che Guevara
Question: What are the first five digits of pi?
Answer: 3.1415
Question: In what video game did you battle Glass Joe, Bald Bull, and others before finally facing Mike Tyson?
Answer: Punch-Out!!