zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What led to Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, South Africa, Japan, New Zealand and Australia controlling the Cameroons, Togoland, Ruanda-Urundi, the Kionga Triangle, South West Africa, the Marshall Islands, the Carolines, the Marianas, the Palau Islands, Kiautschou, Western Samoa, part of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Nauru?
Answer: The end of World War I
Question: """The Unsinkable Seven"" is a nickname given to the only competitors to finish what rally, in both 1963 and 1968?"
Answer: East African Safari Rally
Question: What is the world's smallest (25 square miles / 60 square km) and oldest republic, that is in the Apennine Mountains, entirely surrounded by Italy?
Answer: San Marino
Question: What term is used to describe a wine with bold, brash and audacious flavours?
Answer: Sassy
Question: In an operation headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid (a cousin of then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein), Iraq used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against what minority in 1987 and 1988?
Answer: Kurds
Question: The symptoms for which poisoning include violent stomach pains, retching, excessive saliva production, vomiting, a sense of dryness and tightness in the throat, thirst, hoarseness, difficulty of speech, diarrhea, clammy sweats and delirium?
Answer: Arsenic
Question: The "numbered treaties", a series of eleven treaties signed between the aboriginal peoples and the reigning Monarch (Victoria, Edward VII or George V) from 1871 to 1921, apply in which counry?
Answer: Canada
Question: What is the correct title for the country known as San Marino?
Answer: The Most Serene Republic of San Marino
Question: Of the 8 Summer Olympics between 1896 and 1952 inclusive, how many were held outside of Europe?
Answer: 2
Question: After Sir William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 while in the garden of his house in Bath, England, he reported it as a what?
Answer: Comet
Question: What was the name of NASA spacecraft that were metallised balloon satellites acting as a passive reflector of microwave signals, the first successful launch of which was on 12 August 1960?
Answer: Echo
Question: In 1937 the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson were married in which country?
Answer: France
Question: What term is used to describe the layers of smells and aromas perceived in an aged wine?
Answer: Bouquet
Question: Which instrument, with a range of around 4 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to G below middle C, with the others tuned in fifths?
Answer: Violin
Question: What is the most populous city in Canada, the provincial capital of Ontario, which is on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario?
Answer: Toronto
Question: Which TV series featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay that debuted in 2004 shows him visiting a failing restaurant and try to improve it in one week?
Answer: Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
Question: What branch of biology, dating from the discovery of blood corpuscles by Marcello Malpighi in 1661, classifies and descibes the development of the forms of living organisms?
Answer: Histology
Question: Which country became a self-governing state within the British Empire on 3 June 1959, with Lee Kuan Yew was sworn in as the first prime minister 2 days later?
Answer: Singapore
Question: What is the popular name for the ancient Egyptian works generally inscribed on papyrus and placed in coffins of nobility and royalty?
Answer: Book of the Dead
Question: In 1949, when the part of Ireland that was more independent than the rest was declared a sovereign independent state outside the British Commonwealth, what name was given to it?
Answer: Republic Of Ireland
Question: How many different people were Prime Minister of Canada in the first 100 years after the first was appointed in 1867?
Answer: 14
Question: In Greek and Roman mythology, who is the son (with a twin sister, Artemis) of Zeus and Leto, who has been worshipped as a god of a number of responsibilities, including light, the sun, truth, prophecy, archery, medicine, healing, music, poetry and the arts?
Answer: Apollo
Question: Toward the end of 2000, in which sport was the diameter of the ball increased by 2mm to make it easier to be seen on television and thus make it more viable as a televised spectator sport?
Answer: Table tennis
Question: Where is the region known as Transylvania?
Answer: Romania
Question: What historical period is commonly dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the rise of nation-states and the beginnings of European overseas expansion?
Answer: The Middle Ages
Question: What name was given to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France from the 16th to the 18th centuries, many of whom emigrated in the late 17th century, who were inspired by the writings of John Calvin in the 1530s?
Answer: Huguenots
Question: During a speech in January 1992, then-president George H. W. Bush mentioned that he wanted to "make American families a lot more like ... which family? ... and a lot less like the Simpsons".
Answer: The Waltons
Question: What nationality is Justine Henin, winner of 7 Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal, who retired from professional tennis in 2008 when ranked World No. 1 and returned in 2010?
Answer: Belgian
Question: What was the name of the British India "Special Force", the brainchild of British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, that operated behind Japanese lines in Burma & India in 1943/1944 during World War II?
Answer: The Chindits
Question: What French political scandal involved the sentencing of an artillery officer to life imprisonment for treason in 1894, who was exonerated and reinstated to the French Army in 1906 after the discovery that the French government had fabricated evidence?
Answer: The Dreyfus Affair
Question: Who is quoted as saying "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Question: What is the name given to a randomly derived change to the nucleotide sequence of the genetic material of an organism?
Answer: Mutation
Question: What was the name given to regulations governing import tariffs designed to protect the prices of cereal crops prices in Britain against competition from less expensive foreign imports between 1815 and 1846?
Answer: The Corn Laws
Question: In 1904 the Russian cruiser "Rossia" used what, the first time it was used by a warship on the high seas during a time of war?
Answer: Observation balloon
Question: On 9 October 2009, who was elected for an 8 year period to membership of the International Olympic Committee, replacing former Danish member Kaj Holm?
Answer: Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
Question: Which English actor, director and producer, a descendant of the Terry acting family, was acclaimed for his youthful "Hamlet" which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937, and is one of the few to have won an Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award?
Answer: John Gielgud
Question: Which New York Yankees baseball identity is credited with coining the phrase "It's deja vu all over again"?
Answer: Yogi Berra
Question: Busby Berkeley was famous for his contribution to elaborately staged extravagant scenes in film musicals, mainly between the 1920s to 1940s, as what?
Answer: Choreographer
Question: What are formed from linear chains of amino acids?
Answer: Proteins
Question: Of the 6 Summer Olympics held between 1988 and 2008 inclusive, how many were in Europe?
Answer: 2
Question: """Rock 'n' Roll"", a play by Tom Stoppard that premiered in 2006, takes place in Cambridge, England and what other city?"
Answer: Prague
Question: Which pope was elected in 1414, ending the situation where there were multiple Popes?
Answer: Martin V
Question: Which country occupies the islands called Luzon, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Mindanao, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi?
Answer: Philippines
Question: About 90% of the world's extractable material, used for the manufacture of ornamental objects and jewellery, is in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia on the Baltic Sea. What type of material is this?
Answer: Amber
Question: Which American became a professional golfer in 2005 at 16 years of age after, in 2000 aged 10, being the youngest player to qualify for the Women's US Amateur Public Links Championship, and, in 2002, the youngest player to qualify for a LPGA tour event ?
Answer: Michelle Wie
Question: What men's golf tournament was held on The Hills Golf Course, a privately owned golf course in an area known as Arrowtown, in 2007, 2009 and 2010?
Answer: New Zealand Open
Question: Which of Britain's Labour Prime Ministers was in office for the longest continuous term and the longest time overall?
Answer: Tony Blair
Question: What is the relationship between Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist Christy Moore and Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter Luka Bloom?
Answer: Brothers
Question: Olympic gold medallists Chris Hoy, Rebecca Adlington, Bradley Wiggins and Kelly Holmes represented which country?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: Which athlete was criticised for whistling during his national anthem at the ceremony where he was awarded a gold medal in 1984 at Los Angeles?
Answer: Daley Thompson
Question: What country was forced to withdraw from the British Commonwealth in 1961 and was reinstated in 1994?
Answer: South Africa
Question: In the Republican calendar, introduced after the French Revolution, how many days were there in a week?
Answer: 10
Question: What is the name for an area of land, of which there are about 310 in the USA, managed by a Native American tribe under the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Answer: Indian reservation
Question: Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast and Jean Grey were the original members of which group of fictional characters?
Answer: X-Men
Question: Which musical term denotes a repetitive oscillation about a single pitch that occurs in rapid cycles?
Answer: Vibrato
Question: Which story by Hans Christian Andersen involves Kai, Gerda and a splintered mirror?
Answer: The Snow Queen
Question: Karol Jzef Wojtya reached the high point of his career on 16 October 1978 as what?
Answer: Pope
Question: Who invented infinitesimal calculus independently of Newton (and his notation has been in general use since then), invented the binary system, and promoted his philosophy of "optimism", that the universe is the best possible that God could have made?
Answer: Gottfried Leibniz
Question: What is the title of a 2001 award winning documentary film directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews trying to reconcile their sexuality with their faith?
Answer: Trembling Before G-d
Question: Who has been married to actress Patricia Arquette (1995 to 2001), singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Elvis Presley, 2002 to 2004) and is now married to former waitress Alice Kim, with whom he has a son, Kal-El?
Answer: Nicholas Cage
Question: In 2003, which planet passed 55.76 million km from earth, the closest since the Stone Age?
Answer: Mars
Question: Cassius Chaerea led the assassination of which Roman emperor during the Palatine games in January 41AD?
Answer: Caligula
Question: What is a starched, open-weave fabric, much like cheese cloth, that is used to wipe the ink off a plate during the intaglio inking process?
Answer: Tarlatan
Question: Which president of the USA faced impeachment proceedings over his activities with Monica Lewinsky?
Answer: Bill Clinton
Question: What is an annual holiday in some parts of the world, celebrated on 31 October, that has its roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints?
Answer: Halloween
Question: Which construction, designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947, that stands 630 feet (192 m) tall and is 630 feet (192 m) wide at its base, is called "the tallest monument in the USA"?
Answer: The Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, Missouri,
Question: What was the name of the ship used by Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the east coast of the American colonies from 1717 to 1718?
Answer: Queen Anne's Revenge
Question: According to Greek legend, Leander was visited nightly by whom, who swam across the Hellespont?
Answer: Hero
Question: The counties of Clinton, Delaware, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Nassau, Ontario, Orange, Orleans, Saratoga, Seneca, Ulster, Washington, Westchester and Wyoming are in what state of the USA?
Answer: New York
Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of epic poetry?
Answer: Calliope
Question: These are the last lines of which play: H: Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his shame away. E: He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him.
Answer: """The Crucible"" by Arthur Miller"
Question: In a general election in 1990, the National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 80% of the seats in Parliament, but did not get into power. Which country was this?
Answer: Myanmar
Question: The US Civil War was fought between the Union Army and which other?
Answer: Confederate
Question: What name is given to the list of all the accounts contained in the ledger of a business and their values, from which most financial reports are produced?
Answer: Trial balance
Question: Which claimant to the Kingdoms of England and Ireland was de facto monarch of England after the death of Edward VI for just over a week in July 1553, and was executed in 1554?
Answer: Lady Jane Grey
Question: Mstislav Rostropovich is most associated with which musical instrument?
Answer: Cello
Question: Which vehicle maker has marketed models called Corolla, Corona, Celica and Camry?
Answer: Toyota
Question: The islands of Alderney, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and Sark are administered directly by a government based where?
Answer: The island of Guernsey
Question: In which war did the British army first deploy tanks?
Answer: World War I
Question: Who was Attorney General of the USA from 1961 to 1964, US Senator for New York from 1965 to 1968, and was assassinated while running for president in 1968?
Answer: Robert Kennedy
Question: What was the occupation of Samuel Ryder, after whom The Ryder Cup is named?
Answer: Seed merchant
Question: Which virus, which interferes with the endothelial cells lining the interior surface of blood vessels and coagulation causing hypovolemic shock, first emerged in 1976 in Zaire and came to international attention in 1989 after a widely publicized outbreak in Virginia, USA?
Answer: Ebola
Question: Marcel Duchamp, whose work was associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, abandoned his successful career as an artist in the later part of his life to do what?
Answer: Play chess
Question: The American War of Independence began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and how many British colonies in North America?
Answer: 13
Question: Helen of Troy was abducted from where?
Answer: Sparta
Question: According to the Brothers Grimm, what was the name of the dwarfish creature who appeared to a young woman shut in a tower to spin straw into gold?
Answer: Rumpelstiltskin
Question: Which comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, first run from 1985 to 1995, follows the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger?
Answer: Calvin and Hobbes
Question: In 1692, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Rebecca Nurse, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., George Burroughs, John Willard, John Procter and others were executed in connection with what?
Answer: Witchcraft
Question: What was the name of the result of a nationwide census of virtually everything in Britain that was ordered by William I in 1085?
Answer: The Domesday Book
Question: In September 2010 Lady Gaga attracted attention by posing in a bikini for the cover of Japan's Hommes Vogue magazine and appearing on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards wearing a dress made of what?
Answer: Meat
Question: What name is given to the unnatural fear of death?
Answer: Thanatophobia
Question: According to the Bible, who visited Solomon?
Answer: The Queen of Sheba
Question: In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" from the first ball they face?
Answer: Golden duck
Question: What 4 part UK television series frequently contained the line "You might very well think that: I couldn't possibly comment"?
Answer: House of Cards
Question: John Scopes was put on trial in 1925 in the USA for teaching the theories of which scientist?
Answer: Darwin
Question: Series I to V of which video game takes place on the planet of Enroth and its southern continent, Antagarich, and other worlds, Axeoth and Ashan?
Answer: Heroes of Might and Magic
Question: In 1979, a World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of which human infectious disease, the first (and only) one to be completely eradicated from nature?
Answer: Smallpox
Question: The Supermarine Spitfires that were used by Britain in World War II were powered by engines from which manufacturer?
Answer: Rolls Royce
Question: Which English-born conductor worked with orchestras in Cincinatti, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Hollywood, New York and Houston, and collaborated with Walt Disney to produce the film "Fantasia"?
Answer: Leopold Stokowski
Question: What artistic movement was brought to international attention at the World's Fair in Paris in 1925?
Answer: Art deco
Question: At what time of day does the church service called vespers take place?
Answer: Evening
Question: Which medal, originally called the Badge of Military Merit, was established by George Washington in 1782, awarded to only 3 Revolutionary War soldiers, and not proposed again officially until after World War I?
Answer: Purple Heart
Question: J.P.R. Williams played rugby union for which country between 1969 and 1981?
Answer: Wales
Question: The Elgin Marbles, currently in the British Museum, came from which building?
Answer: Parthenon
Question: In 2010, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization announced that it expected to make a formal declaration in 2011 of the global eradication of "Rinderpest". What does Rinderpest attack, mostly?
Answer: Cattle
Question: Bruce Dickinson, the vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 1981 to 1993, represented England at what sport?
Answer: Fencing
Question: Who worked at Betchley Park in World War II as one of the Enigma codebreakers and became known as "the father of modern computer science"?
Answer: Alan Turing
Question: What was the name given to the line of German defences that ran across Italy from east to west, through the Apennine Mountains via the mountains behind the town of Cassino, to the mouth of the Sangro River in the east?
Answer: Gustav Line
Question: Whose relationships have been the subject of speculation in the celebrity press, and has been romantically linked with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Heidi Klum, Jessica Simpson, Minka Kelly and Jennifer Aniston?
Answer: John Mayer
Question: What was the bowling technique developed by English cricketer Harold Larwood?
Answer: Bodyline
Question: Five of Canada's fourteen UNESCO World heritage sites (Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Wood Buffalo National Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump) are in which Canadian province?
Answer: Alberta
Question: What title, meaning "general", was held by Japan's military commanders from 1192 to 1867?
Answer: Shogun
Question: Which British sprinter returned to competition in 2006 after a 2 year absence due to doping offences?
Answer: Dwain Chambers
Question: What weapon is traditionally held in a scabbard?
Answer: Sword
Question: Which army besieged Paris from 18 September 1870 for 4 months?
Answer: Prussian
Question: Who made the statue "Alison Lapper Pregnant" that was erected in Trafalgar Square, London, between September 2005 and October 2007?
Answer: Marc Quinn
Question: On 10 May 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame and looted Fort Ticonderoga, a small British garrison, and took away cannons and other armaments to fortify which city that was under siege?
Answer: Boston
Question: Camelot was the legendary court of whom?
Answer: King Arthur
Question: How many #1 hit singles has Bob Dylan had in the USA?
Answer: 0
Question: David Gest, a concert promoter, was the fourth husband of whom from March 2002 until their divorce in April 2007?
Answer: Liza Minnelli
Question: Cobol, Basic and Fortran are types of what?
Answer: Computer languages
Question: What Latin phrase means means "my fault", literally "my blow"?
Answer: Mea culpa
Question: How old was Tiger Woods when he won the US Masters in 1997?
Answer: 21
Question: According to the Bible, who was freed by Pontius Pilate, thus condemning Jesus Christ to crucifixion?
Answer: Barabbas
Question: What liner was destroyed in Hong Kong harbour while undergoing renovations in 1972?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth
Question: Over several weeks after the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to give up its monopoly of power on February 7, 1990, the constituent republics of the USSR held their first competitive elections. How many republics were there?
Answer: 15
Question: What medieval coin, first minted around 1140 by Roger II of Sicily, was adopted by Florence in 1252 and Venice in 1283, and was in use in Austria-Hungary until 1914?
Answer: Ducat
Question: Who, it is said, did similar deals with Dr Faustus, Robert Johnson and Niccol Paganini?
Answer: The devil
Question: What astronomical instrument was used in Classical Antiquity and through the medieval Islamic world, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by astronomers, navigators, and astrologers to locate and predict the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars, determine local time or latitude, for surveying and to cast horoscopes?
Answer: Astrolabe
Question: On 1 November 2010, the San Francisco Giants won the baseball World Series 41, their first World Series since 1954. Who did they defeat?
Answer: The Texas Rangers
Question: In Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting For Godot", which 2 characters appear together, briefly, once in each act?
Answer: Pozzo and Lucky
Question: On 11 May 2010 David Cameron was asked by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government and, as Prime Minister of the UK, announced that he wished to lead a formal coalition of the Conservative Party and which other party?
Answer: Liberal Democrats
Question: Pirates operating off the coast of which country took over $100 million in ransom payments between 2007 and 2009?
Answer: Somalia
Question: Which British TV soap opera ran from 2 November 1964 to 4 April 1988 with minor changes of name, was revived on 5 March 2001, went into hiatus from August 2002 to January 2003, with the final episode broadcast on 30 May 2003?
Answer: Crossroads
Question: In 1932 the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd unified with the principal regions of Al-Hasa and Qatif to form which country?
Answer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Question: Who wrote, often with Howard Greenfield, the songs "Oh! Carol" (1959), "Calendar Girl" (1960), "Little Devil" (1961), "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (1961), "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1962) and "Next Door to an Angel" (1962)?
Answer: Neil Sedaka
Question: What term applies to an engine comprising two banks of four cylinders inclined towards each other, with a common crankshaft?
Answer: V8
Question: What city, founded around 1048 by King Harald III, was largely destroyed by fire and rebuilt from 1624 by King Christian IV and named Christiania, and reverted to its original name in 1925?
Answer: Oslo
Question: For what activity would one use a bunsen burner?
Answer: Chemistry
Question: The metropolitan area of Ottawa is in Quebec and which other Canadian province?
Answer: Ontario
Question: The Safari Rally, a round of the World Rally Championship from 1973 to 2002 held in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, was first run as a commemorative event, in what year?
Answer: 1953
Question: Which Jewish festival, celebrated on the 14th and 15th of March, is to commemorate the preservation of the Jews in Persia from the destruction threatened by Haman?
Answer: Purim