zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Meissen and Dresden of Germany, and Spode of England made high-quality?
Answer: Porcelain
Question: What English uprising ended with the death of one its leaders Wat Tyler in June 1381?
Answer: The Peasants' Revolt
Question: What ancient seminal Palestinian city is 'house of meat' in Arabic, and 'house of bread' in Hebrew?
Answer: Bethlehem
Question: In the the expression 'whet your appetite', the old word 'whet' technically means?
Answer: Sharpen
Question: The Glycaemic Index (GI) refers to?
Answer: Food
Question: Brimstone is an old word for which chemical element?
Answer: Sulphur
Question: In a musical work the term 'coda' refers to its?
Answer: Ending
Question: Who painted The Starry Night, Sorrowing Old Man and Self-Portrait Without Beard?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh
Question: Posset is a late-medieval curdled drink of alchocol and which other liquid?
Answer: Milk
Question: Hilary Mantel's controversial 2014 fictional story is "The Assassination of (Which controversial leader?)" ?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: This historical region (1300s-1800s) of Bessarabia is in?
Answer: Eastern Europe
Question: What Swiss psychologist conceived 'extraversion' and 'introversion', and personality tendencies of intuition, sensing, feeling and thinking?
Answer: Carl Jung
Question: The Carthage civilization (814-200BC) was based around modern?
Answer: Tunis
Question: Bullace is a thorny shrub with fruit similar to small uncultivated?
Answer: Plum
Question: The mainly Australian/NZ rugby term 'five-eighth' refers to a player positioned behind his own?
Answer: Scrum-half
Question: The term and tactical use of a 'nightwatchman' arises in which sport?
Answer: Cricket
Question: Which 'BRIC' country re-elected female president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party, 2014?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Collagen, elastin, keratin, myosin, and lectin are?
Answer: Proteins
Question: Edema (or oedema, or dropsy) refers to body tissue?
Answer: Swelling
Question: What old Japanese battle cry and emperor greeting means 'ten thousand years of life (to you)'?
Answer: Banzai
Question: Planchets, flans and blanks are synonyms for pieces of metal used to make?
Answer: Coins
Question: Roald Dahl's children's novel Esio Trot features which creature?
Answer: Tortoise
Question: Leo Tolstoy's book War and Peace concerns the 1812 invasion of Russia by?
Answer: France
Question: The butternut squash/pumpkin grows directly on a?
Answer: Vine
Question: Name Captain Flint's quartermaster in the novel Treasure Island?
Answer: Long John Silver
Question: In which country is the Bay of Pigs?
Answer: Cuba
Question: Name the actor who died in 2014, star of The Rockford Files and The Great Escape?
Answer: James Garner
Question: In 2014 Belgium became the first country in the world to legalize what controversial treatment of terminally ill people?
Answer: Euthanasia
Question: Which name is shared by the two popes made saints by the Vatican in April 2014?
Answer: John
Question: Latin 'Aurum' refers to which precious commodity?
Answer: Gold
Question: The lowest pitch string on a conventionally tuned violin is?
Answer: G
Question: A pointe shoe is worn in?
Answer: Ballet
Question: In categorizing workplace skills, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) typically represents (What?) skill?
Answer: Soft
Question: The cylindrical roller in a traditional typewriter is a?
Answer: Platen
Question: Alnwick Castle, Northumberland UK, featured in a popular movie franchise as which institution?
Answer: Hogwarts school
Question: What popular food takes its name from Italian for 'twine'?
Answer: Spaghetti
Question: What's the surname of award-winning movie making brothers Joel and Ethan?
Answer: Coen
Question: Name the Soviet Russian orbiting space station, continuously occupied 1989-99 until its replacement by the International Space Station?
Answer: Mir
Question: The traditional African instrument called a djembe is a small?
Answer: Drum
Question: What's the largest capital city without a river, and also the oldest capital of its continent?
Answer: Mexico City
Question: Titan is the project codename for Apple's development?
Answer: iCar
Question: Circumvallate papilla, fungiform papilla, and foliate papilla are commonly called?
Answer: Taste buds
Question: Mate (or maté, yerba mate, or chimarrão) is a popular South American-originating?
Answer: Drink
Question: The conventional symbol for electrical current is?
Answer: i
Question: Lafarge, Holcim, and Heidelberg are among the world's leading producers of?
Answer: Cement
Question: Cryogenics is the study of materials in extreme?
Answer: Cold
Question: What anabolic steroid is the principal male sex hormone?
Answer: Testosterone
Question: In 490BC Pheidippides ran fatally from Athens to Sparta to ask for help in the Battle of 'Where'?
Answer: Marathon
Question: What pluralised food term and allusion to Hansel and Gretel refers to a website navigation feature?
Answer: Breadcrumbs
Question: Which nation has the coastal state of Tabasco?
Answer: Mexico
Question: What's the common technical term for the removal of a president from office, due to wrong-doing?
Answer: Impeachment
Question: Name the live video streaming app bought by Twitter for $100m in 2015?
Answer: Periscope
Question: Which famous political brother became president of the International Rescue Committee in 2013?
Answer: David Miliband
Question: Which iconic 'hippie' fragrance, from the Pogostemon cablin plant, did Mattel use in making the 1985 'Stinkor' Masters of the Universe toy action figure?
Answer: Patchouli
Question: The open fourth string (4th highest) note of a conventionally tuned guitar is?
Answer: D
Question: The informal term for a gangster, especially belonging to the Mafia is?
Answer: Goodfella
Question: Which pseudonymous artist's most valuable works include Kissing Coppers and Vandalised Phone Box?
Answer: Banksy
Question: Hosni Mubarak was ousted as leader in 2011 from which nation?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Which large-flowered plant is named after Paeon/Paean, Greek god of medicine and healing?
Answer: Peony
Question: Hitsville, in Detroit, is the original recording studio of which famous record label?
Answer: Motown
Question: Psilocybin (pronounced 'sillasybin') is the natural active ingredient of?
Answer: Magic Mushrooms
Question: The piddock (Pholadidae and 'angelwings') is a rock-boring?
Answer: Mollusc
Question: What travels at 299,792,458 metres per second?
Answer: Light
Question: A Gaelic sliotar/sliothar features in several field sports as a type of?
Answer: Ball
Question: Which nation's Supreme Court legalized same sex marriage in June 2015?
Answer: USA
Question: What travels at 270,000mph, is hotter than the sun, and kills over 20,000 people every year?
Answer: Lightning
Question: Choppy, Fannings, Golden Flowery, and Tippy are grades of?
Answer: Tea
Question: 6,859 is the cube of what number, (less than twenty)?
Answer: 19
Question: Go Set a Watchman is the 55-years-after sequel to what famous work?
Answer: To Kill A Mockingbird
Question: What Eurasian winged-fruit maple tree is named after the Greek words sukon (fig) and moron (mulberry)?
Answer: Sycamore
Question: Neolithic refers to which age?
Answer: Stone
Question: In 2015 the world speed record for (What?) was broken in 6.88 seconds by Australian Feliks Zemdegs?
Answer: Solving a Rubik's Cube
Question: Apple Inc's 'digital wallet' virtual banking service is called Apple?
Answer: Pay
Question: What is the historically Moorish Spanish capital of Andalusia, famous for oranges and flamenco?
Answer: Seville
Question: In Germany a gessellschaft is a?
Answer: Company
Question: The Virgin space tourism business is branded?
Answer: Galactic
Question: The chemical element cobalt is a?
Answer: Metal
Question: What mobile entertainment takes its name from the ancient Roman rounded arenas?
Answer: Circus
Question: The Vouvray district of the French Loire Valley is famous for its white?
Answer: Wine
Question: The first major supermarket chain to introduce the UK 'national living wage' (£9.35/2015) was?
Answer: Lidl
Question: Celery is a member of what commonly named plant family?
Answer: Parsley
Question: Vermiculture refers to the cultivation of?
Answer: Earthworms
Question: Who invented the mercury thermometer? Daniel Gabriel
Answer: Farenheit
Question: What common term refers to the amount of water vapour that is held in the air?
Answer: Humidity
Question: The predicted online connectivity of 50 billion smart gadgets by 2020 is called The Internet of?
Answer: Things
Question: Oyster, Portobello, Button, Chestnut and Flat are varieties of what?
Answer: Mushrooms
Question: What food means metaphorically typical/ordinary/day-to-day, especially one's work?
Answer: Bread and butter
Question: Kolkata Metro is what nation's famous first metro/underground railway network?
Answer: India
Question: The infinity symbol is a sideways number?
Answer: 8
Question: What is a kick, a cut, a horse, and uninspiring journalist?
Answer: Hack
Question: Aquae Sulis is the Roman name for what aptly renamed English spa city?
Answer: Bath
Question: The Great Wall of China generally runs?
Answer: East-to-West
Question: The Forth Road Bridge connects which major city to the 'Kingdom of Fife'?
Answer: Edinburgh
Question: The American term 'sharecropper' refers to a?
Answer: Tenant farmer
Question: Lisa Gherardini (aka Lisa del Giocondo) is better known as the?
Answer: Mona Lisa
Question: The Frey Bentos factory of which nation was given UNESCO World Heritage status July 2015?
Answer: Uruguay
Question: In 2015 what global contest ruled against the use of swimsuits for its 114 competitors, for the first time since 1951 inception?
Answer: Miss World
Question: An official investigation as to proof of the US moon landings was demanded in 2015 by?
Answer: Russia
Question: The 2015 Epsom Derby was won by Golden?
Answer: Horn
Question: In 2015 evidence of water was found on?
Answer: Mars
Question: In 2015 which footballer became the highest scorer for the England national team?
Answer: Wayne Rooney
Question: In 2015 the World Anti-Doping Agency suggested banning which nation from the 2016 Olympics?
Answer: Russia
Question: In a 2015 biography, who was accused of a bizarre initiation ceremony while a student Oxford University?
Answer: David Cameron
Question: Peter Robinson announced in 2015 he would step down as First Minister of?
Answer: Northern Ireland
Question: Which country won the 2015 Davis Cup (world team tennis)?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: The movie Toy Story was how many years old in 2015?
Answer: 20
Question: Helmut Schmidt, who died in 2015, once led which nation?
Answer: West Germany
Question: In architecture, cartouche is a decorative feature resembling what?
Answer: A scroll
Question: How many cathedrals are in mainland UK (at early 2000s)?
Answer: 42
Question: The main character in the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas is?
Answer: Jack Skellington
Question: A broiler is a chicken raised for?
Answer: Eating
Question: The most common human bloodgroup is?
Answer: O
Question: A dessicant is a hygroscopic substance used to produce (What?) in its vicinity?
Answer: Dryness
Question: What creatures were first to live on land and fly?
Answer: Insects
Question: The Solanum Pseudocapsicum plant, called winter cherry and Jerusalem cherry, is noted for being very?
Answer: Poisonous
Question: Tallow, Beeswax, Spermaceti, and Paraffin are traditionally used in making?
Answer: Candles
Question: Who released an album in 1999 called Brand New Day?
Answer: Sting
Question: Excluding Australia and continental land masses what is the largest island in the world?
Answer: Greenland
Question: In which year (or decade) were parking meters introduced in the UK?
Answer: 1958
Question: What is the name of the RAF's aerobatics team?
Answer: The Red Arrows
Question: What type of creature is an alewife?
Answer: Fish
Question: Who was given the name 'Fourth Man' when he was revealed as a spy in 1979?
Answer: Anthony Blunt
Question: How many years of marriage is celebrated on the Ivory anniversary?
Answer: Fourteen
Question: What was American silent film star 'Fatty' Arbuckle's first name?
Answer: Roscoe
Question: Guru Nanak Dev founded which religion?
Answer: Sikhism
Question: From which seeds is tahini made?
Answer: Sesame
Question: What is the human ailment epistaxis better known as?
Answer: Nosebleed
Question: What scientist and inventor was responsible for the Decibel unit of measurement?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
Question: Which city is known as Auld Reekie and also Athens of the North?
Answer: Edinburgh
Question: The French slang 'capote anglaise' meaning English hood, or English overcoat refers to what?
Answer: A condom
Question: Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs' theory is commonly represented as a?
Answer: Pyramid
Question: Abraham Maslow's seminal book introducing the 'Hierearchy of Needs' is called?
Answer: Motivation and Personality
Question: The dermis and cutis are parts of the human?
Answer: Skin
Question: Pranayama refers generally to what aspect of yoga?
Answer: Breathing
Question: Radioactive decay of naturally occurring Uranium eventually concludes as?
Answer: Lead
Question: Jana Gana Mana is, since 1950, the national anthem of?
Answer: India
Question: The Anglicized-Latin court term 'in camera' means proceedings are?
Answer: In private
Question: Aurizon, VicTrack, Brookfield and John Holland are/were major railway operators of?
Answer: Australia
Question: Pyongyang is the capital of which controversial nation?
Answer: North Korea
Question: What common typographical symbol's name is taken from Greek 'little star'?
Answer: Asterisk
Question: The term 'histrionics', referring to excessive emotion, is Latin 'histrion', meaning?
Answer: Actor
Question: Ptolemy (AD100-170), Roman/Egyptian, was a famous?
Answer: Writer
Question: Body language is also generally called, and categorized within, what well-established term?
Answer: Non-verbal communication
Question: Physiognomy, related historically to body language, interprets human characteristics from a person's?
Answer: Face
Question: The state of Nebraska was sold to the USA in 1803 by which country?
Answer: France
Question: Who succeeded Michael Foot as leader of the Labour Party in the UK?
Answer: Neil Kinnock
Question: How many international caps did English footballer Stanley Matthews (later Sir Stanley Matthews) win?
Answer: Fifty-four
Question: What is the fictional Scottish island setting of the 1973 film The Wicker Man?
Answer: Summerisle
Question: Who was King of Egypt from 1936-52?
Answer: Farouk
Question: Panama disease destroys what crop?
Answer: Bananas
Question: James Grieve, Blenheim Orange, Irish Peach, and Ashmead's Kernel are traditional varieties of?
Answer: Apples
Question: Who discovered gravity and proposed the Three Laws of Motion?
Answer: Newton
Question: The Piolet d'Or is a major award by the French magazine Montagnes for?
Answer: Mountaineering
Question: To enable accurate measuring of Moon-Earth distance the NASA lunar landings of 1969-72 left on the moon a?
Answer: Mirror
Question: How many games did Leicester City FC lose at their home ground in their winning 2015-16 season?
Answer: 1
Question: What profession historically performed blood-letting?
Answer: Barbers
Question: Mythological Greek nymphs are spirits of nature imagined as beautiful?
Answer: Young women
Question: Name the Swiss football administrator who served as the eighth president of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) from 1998 to 2015 and banned from office after an ethics investigation?
Answer: Sepp Blatter
Question: Who invented the jet engine?
Answer: Frank Whittle
Question: Marron Glacé is what, preserved and coated in sugar?
Answer: Chestnut
Question: Whose last work entitled The Transfiguration was unfinished when he died in 1520?
Answer: Rafael
Question: Which station has the longest escalator in London's Tube network?
Answer: Angel
Question: Who played Woody Allen's ex-wife in the 1979 film Manhattan?
Answer: Meryl Streep
Question: England cricketer Denis Compton played for which county club?
Answer: Middlesex
Question: Catherine de Medici was the wife of which French monarch?
Answer: Henri II
Question: In which film does Robert De Niro play the character Rupert Pupkin?
Answer: The King of Comedy
Question: Byssinosis is a disease affecting which part of the body?
Answer: Lungs
Question: Who in 1990 became the first chancellor of a united Germany?
Answer: Helmut Kohl
Question: Who was the wing commander who led the 'Dambusters' bomber raids in 1943?
Answer: Guy Gibson
Question: In Western culture what is the birthstone for the month of May?
Answer: Emerald
Question: What is the 1990's cult Japanese electronic toy which is cared for as if it were a pet?
Answer: Tamagotchi
Question: What is the number of the MASH unit in the TV series?
Answer: 4077
Question: In what year was suffragette Emily Davidson killed by King George V's horse in the Epsom Derby?
Answer: 1913
Question: What is Herman Munster's twin brother called?
Answer: Charlie
Question: The town of Fray Bentos, after which the meat products brand was named, is in what country?
Answer: Uruguay
Question: Who wrote the best selling book The Tipping Point?
Answer: Malcolm Gladwell
Question: Who was the British nurse arrested in Brussels and shot by firing squad in 1915 on suspicion of helping Allied solders to escape?
Answer: Edith Cavell
Question: Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of which African country?
Answer: Zambia
Question: Which Scottish athlete refused to run on a Sunday at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games?
Answer: Eric Liddle
Question: In which year was the Channel Tunnel (between England and France) opened?
Answer: 1994
Question: What was the name of Napoleon's horse at Waterloo?
Answer: Marengo
Question: Which famous fashion emporium was started by Barbara Hulanicki in London in 1964?
Answer: Biba
Question: Who was the first British monarch to broadcast a Christmas message to the nation?
Answer: George the Fifth
Question: What is the English title of the carol written in 1818 by Austrian priest Josef Mohr originally called Stille Nacht?
Answer: Silent Night
Question: Presepe in Italy refers to what Christmas tradition?
Answer: Nativity scene
Question: Which river did George Washington cross on Christmas night in 1776 in the American Revolutionary War?
Answer: Delaware
Question: The Christmas period of 1813-14 saw the last what in London?
Answer: Christmas Fair on a frozen River Thames
Question: Which popular poem was alternatively known as A Visit from St Nicholas?
Answer: 'Twas The Night before Christmas
Question: What is the name of the popular Japanese alcoholic drink made from rice?
Answer: Sake
Question: Who made the Gettysburg Address in 1863?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: Glaucoma affects which part of the human body?
Answer: Eyes
Question: The resort of Faliraki is on which Greek island?
Answer: Rhodes
Question: In business accounts and financial reporting, expenses which change according to scale of performance or usage or demand are known as what?
Answer: Variable Costs
Question: What is the name of Ingham and Luft's model and theory which deals with hidden and open areas of knowledge about a person?
Answer: The Johari Window
Question: Large size hand-writing generally indicates what characteristics in the personality of the writer?
Answer: Extraverted or out-going nature
Question: Who became the 2007 Formula One World Driver's Champion in October?
Answer: Kimi Raikkonen
Question: Donald Tusk replaced a twin to become prime minister of which country?
Answer: Poland
Question: Cristina Kirchner became the first elected woman president of which country?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Which England rugby player was controversially denied a try in the 2007 World Cup final against South Africa because his foot was deemed to have been in touch before grounding the ball?
Answer: Mark Cueto
Question: Which world champion 400m runner successfully overturned her Olympic Games ban for missing drug tests?
Answer: Christine Ohuruogu
Question: Which northern England city was flooded by torrential rain on on 25 June 2007?
Answer: Hull
Question: What country celebrated on August 15th 2007 its 60th anniversary of independence from British rule?
Answer: India
Question: Garments of which famous clothes label were found being made by child labour in India in October 2007?
Answer: Gap
Question: Who were Cliff Richard's backing group through the 60s?
Answer: The Shadows
Question: The Stratocaster is a model of which guitar maker?
Answer: Fender
Question: Which piano-playing singer's first hit was The Fat Man?
Answer: Fats Domino
Question: Who made the highly rated 1959 jazz album Kind of Blue?
Answer: Miles Davis
Question: Larry Adler played what instrument?
Answer: Harmonica
Question: The founding brother members of the Kinks were Ray and Dave what?
Answer: Davies
Question: John Mayall's band which helped launch Eric Clapton's career was called what?
Answer: Bluesbreakers
Question: Who had sang the hit song Little Old Wine Drinker Me?
Answer: Dean Martin
Question: What song, released to promote the film The Millionairess, featured its stars Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren?
Answer: Goodness Gracious Me
Question: American DJ Robert Weston Smith was better known by what stage name?
Answer: Wolfman Jack
Question: Which motor city was the original the base of Tamla Motown?
Answer: Detroit
Question: The Rolling Stones first record label was what?
Answer: Decca
Question: What American DJ was nicknamed Moondog?
Answer: Alan Freed
Question: Lulu sang the theme song to which 1967 film about an inner-city school, starring Sidney Poitier?
Answer: To Sir, With Love
Question: The Crickets backed which famous singer-songwriter?
Answer: Buddy Holly
Question: Dizzy Gillespie played what instrument?
Answer: Trumpet
Question: What record label did the Beatles establish?
Answer: Apple
Question: The record label and music company name HMV stood for what?
Answer: His Master's Voice
Question: Who wrote the instrumental A Swingin' Safari and led the orchestra which played the original hit version?
Answer: Bert Kaempfert
Question: Cher's partner was Sonny ... who?
Answer: Bono
Question: What type of musical instrument is a goombay?
Answer: Drum
Question: Blepharitis is the medical term for the inflamation of which part of the body?
Answer: Eyelid
Question: The 2003 film Lost in Translation is set in which city?
Answer: Tokyo
Question: Artist and musician Chris Sievey is better known as whom?
Answer: Frank Sidebottom
Question: Exodus, the second book of the Bible, recounts the departure of the Israelites from which country?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for what subject?
Answer: Literature
Question: 'Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared' equates to what health indicator?
Answer: Body mass index
Question: What is the word for the upright shadow-casting part of a sundial?
Answer: Gnomon
Question: What was the original use of the building which now houses the Tate Modern art museum in London?
Answer: Power station
Question: As at 2008 which corporation owns the brands Duracell, Braun and Gillette?
Answer: Procter & Gamble
Question: Which American singer's real name was Eunice Wayman?
Answer: Nina Simone
Question: What are the Italian cheese balls whose name translates as 'small mouthfuls?
Answer: Bocconcini
Question: What did Colonel Thomas Blood attempt to steal in 1671?
Answer: The Crown Jewels
Question: Who wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade?
Answer: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Question: Who in 1450 invented movable type, thus revolutionising printing?
Answer: Johannes Gutenberg
Question: What was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
Answer: Lewis Carroll
Question: Which American poet and humanist wrote and continually revised a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass?
Answer: Walt Whitman
Question: Who detailed his experiences before and during World War I in Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?
Answer: Siegfried Sassoon
Question: Who wrote the 1891 book Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra)?
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
Question: The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) code was increased to how many digits from 1 January 2007?
Answer: Thirteen