zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: King George VI had two daughters: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary and which other?
Answer: Margaret Rose
Question: The main ingredients of gunpowder are saltpetre, charcoal and what else?
Answer: Sulphur
Question: What did the Romans call Ireland?
Answer: Hibernia
Question: What is the name of the major Greek stadium in Athens that was the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, athletics events and the football (soccer) final at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
Answer: The Olympic Stadium
Question: The Night of the Long Knives is associated with which political figure?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Question: Who "made some tarts, all on a summer's day"?
Answer: Queen of Hearts
Question: What is the name for the change of direction when a ray of light passes from one medium (e.g. water) to another (e.g. air)?
Answer: Refraction
Question: Larry Mullins and Adam Clayton are the rhythm section for which band?
Answer: U2
Question: The last words of which book of the Bible are "all is vanity"?
Answer: Ecclesiastes
Question: Who was the Teutonic legendary hero who slew Fafnir the dragon?
Answer: Siegfried
Question: Feta cheese sold in Europe must contain 70% of milk from what animal?
Answer: Sheep
Question: Bing Crosby died playing which sport?
Answer: Golf
Question: The Banks children are characters in which film?
Answer: Mary Poppins
Question: Who wrote the plays "The Seagull", "The Cherry Orchard", "The Three Sisters" and "Uncle Vanya"?
Answer: Chekhov
Question: Macular degeneration affects what part of the body?
Answer: Eyes
Question: What was the composer Wolfgang Mozart's middle name?
Answer: Amadeus
Question: The northern border of which country is with the continental USA?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Which long-running show spawned several television series, including "Laverne & Shirley", "Mork & Mindy", and "Joanie Loves Chachi"?
Answer: Happy Days
Question: Which Scottish sailor was rescued four years after being put ashore by William Dampier at Juan Fernandez in 1703, for insubordination?
Answer: Alexander Selkirk
Question: A painting by Sandro Botticelli that depicts a goddess, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore on a sea shell is called "The Birth of ... " who?
Answer: Venus
Question: What was the first name of "Rumpole of the Bailey"?
Answer: Horace
Question: Sun Myung Moon is known as the founder of what movement?
Answer: Unification Church
Question: The Neckar, Main and Ruhr are tributaries of which river?
Answer: Rhine
Question: In chess, what piece is allowed to jump over other pieces?
Answer: Knight
Question: What was ordered by Pope Paul IV in 1555 to be set up on the left bank of the Tiber?
Answer: Ghetto
Question: The Koran is the sacred book of which religion?
Answer: Islam
Question: Who made the first solo non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in 1927?
Answer: Charles Lindbergh
Question: What is the capital of the province of Quebec, Canada?
Answer: Quebec
Question: What is the name of the multi-sport event for athletes with physical and visual disabilities, including athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy, that are held every 4 years, following the Olympic Games?
Answer: The Paralympic Games
Question: In which century was the Suez Canal opened?
Answer: 19th
Question: Who invented an early form of fragmentation shell that was first used by the British army in 1803?
Answer: Henry Shrapnel
Question: What name was given to Nepalese soldiers recruited into the Indian army?
Answer: Gurkhas
Question: Who devised a practical system for classifying fingerprints?
Answer: Sir Edward Henry
Question: What is the capital of the archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean called The Falkland Islands?
Answer: Stanley
Question: The "Saucy Jacky" postcard, received by Scotland Yard in 1888, was claimed to have been written by whom?
Answer: Jack the Ripper
Question: The excavation of what city, destroyed in 79AD, was begun in 1748?
Answer: Pompeii
Question: Joseph Smith is known as the founder of what movement?
Answer: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Question: Which avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906, revolutionized European painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music and literature?
Answer: Cubism
Question: At the 2008 Olympics, South Korea protested that for Norways winning goal in the semifinals, the ball had failed fully to cross the goal line prior to time expiring and requested that the game continue into overtime. What sport was this?
Answer: Handball
Question: What federation of free cities who had developed trade with foreign countries, formed in the 14th century, had its headquarters in Lbeck?
Answer: Hanseatic League
Question: What is the name given to the planet Venus when it appears in the West after sunset?
Answer: Evening Star
Question: In the 2003 film "What A Girl Wants", Amanda Bynes played the illegitimate daughter of a British politician played by whom?
Answer: Colin Firth
Question: What has been a state religion in Japan?
Answer: Shintoism
Question: What legendary land was between the Scilly Isles and Cornwall before it was overwhelmed by the sea?
Answer: Lyonesse
Question: Loch Ness is part of which canal?
Answer: Caledonian
Question: What is the common name for Herpes Zoster?
Answer: Shingles
Question: Roswell, the "UFO crash site", is in which US state?
Answer: New Mexico
Question: The Hong Kong Sevens, a competition for seven-a-side rugby, has been held at what venue since 1994?
Answer: Hong Kong Stadium
Question: How many players from each team usually make up a rugby sevens scrum?
Answer: 3
Question: What was the name given to wandering players in 12th and 13th century France, England and Germany who recited poems of love and wine?
Answer: Goliards
Question: In chess, what piece can only move diagonally?
Answer: Bishop
Question: What is the name of Morocco's capital, which is 60 miles north of Casablanca?
Answer: Rabat
Question: Which word was coined by Karel Capek in his play "R. U. R." in 1929?
Answer: Robot
Question: Which English playwright ("The Conscious Lovers") founded the "Tatler", the "Spectator" and the "Guardian"?
Answer: Sir Richard Steele
Question: A phrase meaning "there must be some truth in the rumour" is "where there is [what] there is fire"?
Answer: Smoke
Question: Where was the British ship Royal Oak sunk by German submarine U47 in October 1939?
Answer: Scapa Flow
Question: For administrative purposes, Germany consists of sixteen areas which they call what?
Answer: States
Question: In the finals of the 3000 metre track event 1984 Summer Olympics, who was accused of colliding with Mary Decker, who was unable to complete the race?
Answer: Zola Budd
Question: On what date on the Christian calendar is the day of the Annunciation or Lady Day?
Answer: 25 March
Question: According to Greek mythology, who accompanied Jason on his journey to find the Golden Fleece?
Answer: Argonauts
Question: The Mississippi River is on what continent?
Answer: North America
Question: Which newspaper, originally called "The Daily Universal Register" was founded by John Walter in 1785?
Answer: The Times
Question: The two main branches of the River Nile are known as what?
Answer: White and Blue
Question: American Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino, who was convicted for treason in 1949 and pardoned by US President Gerald Ford in 1977, was popularly known as whom?
Answer: Tokyo Rose
Question: What name is applied to the general stiffening of the muscles caused by a coagulation of the muscle-plasma?
Answer: Rigor mortis
Question: A century covers how many years?
Answer: 100
Question: What genus of grass is also known as kaffir corn, dhurra, Guinea corn and Indian millet?
Answer: Sorghum
Question: On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb student and member of Young Bosnia, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which led to the start of which war?
Answer: World War I
Question: What is the name for the individual leaves of the calyx or outer whorl of a flower?
Answer: Sepal
Question: Which movement was founded by Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell?
Answer: Boy scouts
Question: Someone who tells lies is what sort of person?
Answer: Mendacious
Question: Which country has Nukualofa, on the island of Tonjatabu, as its capital?
Answer: Tonga
Question: What nationality is tennis player Roger Federer?
Answer: Swiss
Question: With which country do you associate the sitar?
Answer: India
Question: The clove hitch, the reef and the granny are types of what?
Answer: Knot
Question: Where is the highest point in the British Isles?
Answer: Ben Nevis
Question: In which book of the Christian Bible is the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead?
Answer: John
Question: With the history of which country is Ghandi associated?
Answer: India
Question: Who was the Iranian-US citizen who was jailed early in 2009 in Evin Prison, Teheran with an 8 year sentence for alleged spying?
Answer: Roxana Saberi
Question: In what year was the Irish parliament abolished and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland come into being?
Answer: 1800
Question: Which model was engaged to Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music before she married Mick Jagger?
Answer: Jerry Hall
Question: How many players from each team usually make up a rugby union scrum?
Answer: 8
Question: What is a device that allows electric current to pass through it in one direction only, used for converting AC to DC?
Answer: Rectifier
Question: In England, which fish, when caught in a river, traditionally belongs to the Sovereign?
Answer: Sturgeon
Question: What group was Roger Bannister representing when he broke the 4 minute mile at 3 minutes 59.4 seconds on 6 May 1954?
Answer: Amateur Athletic Association
Question: Who, with husband Chris Martin, called their child Moses when he was born in 2006?
Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow
Question: In 1915, Rev Philip (Tubby) Clayton founded which organisation as a club and church for returned soldiers?
Answer: Toc H
Question: In which city was US president John F Kennedy assassinated on 22 November 1963?
Answer: Dallas, Texas
Question: In musical notation, what is the name for the short lines drawn for notes that are too high or too low to fit on the stave?
Answer: Ledger lines
Question: In probability theory and statistics, what is a measure of the variability or dispersion of a population, a data set, or a probability distribution?
Answer: Standard deviation
Question: In which TV series did the characters Crockett and Tubbs appear?
Answer: Miami Vice
Question: What is the name of the prehistoric figure, of a man holding a club, that is carved into the chalk near Dorchester, England?
Answer: Cerne Giant
Question: Who played the title role in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992)?
Answer: Gary Oldman
Question: What name was given to the force raised by the British Government in 1920 from World War I veterans, withdrawn in 1932, to put down disorder in Ireland?
Answer: Black and tans
Question: What is the term given to the tilt of an aeroplane about its longitudinal axis?
Answer: Bank
Question: What occurs when a ray of light meets an obstacle such as a fine wire?
Answer: Diffraction
Question: What was the title of John Wayne's last movie, made in 1976?
Answer: The Shootist
Question: The experimental new village of Poundbury in England, much of which has been built to traditional lines, is built on land belonging to whom?
Answer: Prince Charles
Question: In Greek mythology, Croesus was known for what?
Answer: Wealth
Question: Who led the first expedition that reached the South Pole?
Answer: Roald Amundsen
Question: What is an alternative name for Belladonna?
Answer: Deadly Nightshade
Question: The episodes of which TV series ended with the family saying goodnight to each other?
Answer: The Waltons
Question: Which infectious disease is characterised by ulceration and inflammation of the bowel with generalised toxaemia and "wasting", usually caused via infection of food contaminated by flies?
Answer: Typhoid fever
Question: Which heavenly body was discovered by astronomer Clyde W Tombaugh on 18 February 1930?
Answer: Pluto
Question: In which series are FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) the investigators of cases involving paranormal phenomena?
Answer: The X-Files
Question: Which London street runs from St Paul's churchyard almost to the Bank of England?
Answer: Cheapside
Question: The Wimbledon tennis championships are held in which city?
Answer: London
Question: In the words of a song by Simon and Garfunkel, whose words were written on the subway wall?
Answer: The prophet
Question: According to the old song, when will I "be waiting at the k-k-kitchen door" for "K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy"?
Answer: The m-m-moon shines over the cowshed
Question: According to the legend, Peeping Tom was looking at whom?
Answer: Lady Godiva
Question: In the 2009 British Open golf tournament, Stewart Cink and Tom Watson had to play how many extra holes to decide the winner?
Answer: 4
Question: What is the name of the pet dog in the 1962 cartoon TV series "The Jetsons"?
Answer: Astro
Question: What made the first voyage around the world by air in 1929?
Answer: Graf Zeppelin
Question: Miso soup originated in which country?
Answer: Japan
Question: Who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen"?
Answer: Helen Mirren
Question: What is the closest relation that your father's sister's sister in law can be to you?
Answer: Mother
Question: What was the stage name of Jean Franois Gravelet, a French acrobat who crossed Niagara Falls in 1859 on a tightrope 160 feet above the water?
Answer: Charles Blondin
Question: What is the common name for a lepidoptera pupa and its silky cocoon?
Answer: Chrysalis
Question: Which animal appears in the opening credits of the British TV series "Coronation Street"?
Answer: Cat
Question: Which Swiss theologian, philosopher, author, organist and medical missionary won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1952?
Answer: Albert Schweitzer
Question: What is the first name of the British fashion designer Westwood?
Answer: Vivienne
Question: What is the basis for a pina colada?
Answer: Rum
Question: The word "vascular" is associated with what?
Answer: Blood vessels
Question: Where was nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale ("the lady with the lamp") born?
Answer: Florence, Italy
Question: Who was the heroine who rescued 9 people from the wreck of the "Forfarshire", taking them to the lighthouse on the Longstone, one of the Farne Islands, on 7 September 1838?
Answer: Grace Darling
Question: What popular name was given to the British 8th Army in World War II?
Answer: Desert Rats
Question: Who was the British general who took Charleston, South Carolina, 1779 during the American War of Independence?
Answer: Sir Henry Clinton
Question: Which British monarch was the first to celebrate a diamond jubilee?
Answer: Victoria
Question: The best known works of which sculptor who aroused hostility over the depiction of sexuality, are 18 large nude sculptures in 1908 for the British Medical Association building on The Strand, the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris, "Rush of Green" in Hyde Park, London, and "St Michael's Victory over the Devil" in Coventry Cathedral?
Answer: Jacob Epstein
Question: Where would you find the mosques of El Hakim, Amru, Hason, El Maayyad and El Sunkur?
Answer: Cairo
Question: Who was defence counsel at the Oz conspiracy trial in 1971 and defended the Sex Pistols in a 1977 obscenity trial over the title of their album "Never Mind The Bollocks"?
Answer: John Mortimer
Question: Dermatitis affects what part of the body?
Answer: Skin
Question: According to the tagline for a film musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, what "is the word"?
Answer: Grease
Question: What word means the spread of a cancer from one organ or part to another non-adjacent organ or part?
Answer: Metastasis
Question: Theoretically, what is the minimum number of strokes with which a tennis player can win a set?
Answer: 12
Question: Who was behind the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to overthrow the government?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Question: What book published in 1864 by William Wallace Mitchell, a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, became the basis of the rules of a modern game?
Answer: """Manual of Bowls Playing"""
Question: What is on the northern border of South Dakota?
Answer: North Dakota
Question: General Victoriano Huerta, Emiliano Zapata and "Pancho" Villa feature in the history of which country?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Which country came first second and third in the golf teams event at the 1904 Olympic Games at St Louis?
Answer: USA
Question: What central London street is famous for containing the main government offices?
Answer: Whitehall
Question: Which TV series follows Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation in Sacramento, California, who solves serious crimes by using his skills of observation?
Answer: The Mentalist
Question: What are the sculptures at the foot of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, London?
Answer: Lions
Question: What example of a clipper ship built in 1869 is preserved in a dry dock at Greenwich, London?
Answer: Cutty Sark
Question: Which cup was originally known as the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup, the RYS Cup for One Hundred Sovereigns, the One Hundred Guinea(s) Cup and the Queens Cup?
Answer: The Americas Cup
Question: In her "Adventures in Wonderland", where did Alice first meet the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse?
Answer: A tea party
Question: The panama hat originated in which country?
Answer: Ecuador
Question: Which French playwright, writing in the 20th century, produced "Les Parents Terribles", "Les Monstres Sacrs" and "Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde"?
Answer: Jean Cocteau
Question: What is the name for playing the notes of a chord in sequence rather than all together?
Answer: Arpeggio
Question: What is the "national" and "first official" language of The Republic of Ireland?
Answer: Irish
Question: Who was the spouse of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark when she ascended to the throne on 14 January 1972?
Answer: Prince Henrik
Question: If the numbers from 1 to 10 are mutiplied by each other, what is the last number of the result?
Answer: 0
Question: What is the capital of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada?
Answer: St John's
Question: Where is the world's oldest surviving bowling green, with the first recorded use being in 1299?
Answer: Southampton, England
Question: Carlos Menem was the president of which country from 8 July 1989 to 10 December 1999?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury when women were first ordained as priests into the Church of England?
Answer: George Carey
Question: Who, from 1940 to 1949 was Jane Wyman's third husband?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: Geoff Hunt, Jahangir Khan and Ross Norman were the only World Open Champions in the first ten years that the Championships were held, in which sport?
Answer: Squash
Question: Leonardo di Caprio played multi-millionaire Howard Hughes in which film?
Answer: The Aviator
Question: Who has been engaged to US tennis player Jimmy Connors and married to British tennis player John Lloyd, Olympic downhill skier Andy Mill and Australian golfer Greg Norman?
Answer: Chris Evert
Question: Which film about figure skaters starred Jon Heder and Will Ferrell?
Answer: Blades of Glory
Question: Who was Ron Hextall playing for when, on 8 December 1987, in a game against the Boston Bruins, he became the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal by actually shooting the puck into an open net?
Answer: Philadelphia Flyers
Question: What is the name of Joseph Heller's best known novel?
Answer: Catch 22
Question: Who has been quoted as saying People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly?
Answer: Banksy
Question: Mount Fujiyama is in what country?
Answer: Japan
Question: Which dictator was known as "Il Duce"?
Answer: Mussolini
Question: According to legend, who was the sweetheart of Robin Hood?
Answer: Maid Marian
Question: Who was crowned King of Scotland in 1306 and defeated the forces of Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314?
Answer: Robert Bruce
Question: Prior to its independence in 1964, the Mediterranean island of Malta belonged to which country?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis starred as Madeline "Maddie" Hayes and David Addison in which TV series (1985 to 1989) that revolved around cases investigated by Blue Moon Detective Agency?
Answer: Moonlighting
Question: What, according to John Lennon, "is just what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans"?
Answer: Life
Question: Persia is the former name of which country?
Answer: Iran
Question: How much treacle was there in the nursery rhyme "Pop! Goes the Weasel"?
Answer: Half a pound
Question: Which British awards for songwriting and composing, a solid bronze sculpture of Euterpe, the Muse of lyric poetry, are named after a Cardiff-born entertainer?
Answer: Ivor Novello Awards
Question: Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of World War I?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson
Question: Over one third of which state of the USA is in the Arctic Circle?
Answer: Alaska
Question: Meerkats are native to which continent?
Answer: Africa
Question: The phrase "Mountain Standard Time Zone" refers to which mountains?
Answer: Rockies
Question: What name is given to a young goat?
Answer: Kid
Question: Who did Jon Venables and Robert Thompson kidnap from a shopping centre in Bootle, Liverpool on 12 February 1993?
Answer: James Bulger
Question: As a first step to manufacturing steel, iron is extracted from ore by removing oxygen and combining it with what element?
Answer: Carbon
Question: In astronomy, what is the word applied to the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line?
Answer: Syzygy
Question: Which British sitcom about the Home Guard in World War II was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast between 1968 and 1977, running for 80 episodes?
Answer: Dads Army
Question: The Caesars ruled which ancient empire?
Answer: Roman
Question: Which state of the USA calls itself the "Lone Star State"?
Answer: Texas
Question: Duffel coats were named after a town in which country?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Which military decoration is awarded to recognize people "being wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States or as a result of an act of any such enemy or opposing armed forces"?
Answer: Purple Heart
Question: Which country was established in 1822 by the American Colonization Society (A.C.S.)?
Answer: Liberia
Question: Who was the only President to have two women attempt to assassinate him - and in the same month?
Answer: Gerald Ford
Question: Alveoli are found in which part of the body?
Answer: Lungs
Question: What chemical compound of 1 carbon and 4 hydrogen atoms is the simplest alkane, and the principal component of natural gas?
Answer: Methane
Question: What causes a screeching sound when a live microphone is put too close to a speaker?
Answer: Feedback
Question: In both Greek and Roman mythology, who was the twin of Castor?
Answer: Pollux
Question: Which fictional rock band was previously called "The Originals", "The New Originals", "The Originals" again, and the "The Thamesmen"?
Answer: Spinal Tap
Question: Which song from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" was recorded in 1963 by Gerry & The Pacemakers and became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club?
Answer: You'll Never Walk Alone
Question: The name of what product, also known as paraffin, a combustible hydrocarbon liquid, was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854?
Answer: Kerosene
Question: The first concrete-steel composite arch bridge in the USA that links the states of Nevada and Arizona by spanning the Colorado River is near which other man-made construction?
Answer: Hoover Dam
Question: The first act of organised opposition to British rule after the declaration of independence by the Indian National Congress was The Satyagraha, a campaign of nonviolent protest which began with a March to Dandi in March 1930, to protest about tax on what?
Answer: Salt