zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Whose career was re-ignited with the release of his album "American Recordings", which included songs writen by Tom Waits, Nick Lowe and Leonard Cohen, when it won the 1994 Contemporary Folk Album Grammy Award?
Answer: Johnny Cash
Question: What name is given to the silvery aureole enveloping the sun's chromosphere?
Answer: Corona
Question: The main characters of which play by Henrik Ibsen are Dr. Thomas Stockmann, his wife and three children, and Peter Stockmann, the Mayor, who is his elder brother?
Answer: An Enemy of the People
Question: The capital of which French island in the West Indies between Dominica and Santa Lucia, St Pierre, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902 and moved to Fort de France?
Answer: Martinique
Question: What object, which had been brought to Westminster Abbey in 1296 and placed under "St Edward's chair", was stolen and taken to Scotland in December 1950 and returned the following April?
Answer: The Coronation Stone
Question: Atlantic equatorial currents pushed westward by the Trade Winds unite in the Gulf of Mexico and then flow northward. What is the north-flowing current called?
Answer: Gulf Stream
Question: Where was the first motor race to regularly carry the name Grand Prix, the first of which took place in 1906 on a circuit roughly triangular in shape, each lap covering 105 kilometres (65 miles)?
Answer: Le Mans
Question: Who was the British nurse executed on 12 October 1915 for harbouring wounded and refugee soldiers in Brussels during the German occupation, and assisting escapes to Holland?
Answer: Edith Cavell
Question: Cayenne pepper is a condiment prepared from the dried and pounded pods of several species of what?
Answer: Capsicum
Question: What was the name that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to his package of economic programs in the mid 1930's with the goals of "the 3 R's": Relief to the unemployed & farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and Recovery of the economy?
Answer: The New Deal
Question: What is the name for 40 foot (12 meters) high round forts, designed to accommodate a small garrison with cannon, constructed on the English coast and the Channel Islands at the time of threatened invasion by Napoleon?
Answer: Martello Towers
Question: Late in July 2009, what phenomenon affected the daily lives of people in the cities of Chengdu, Chongquing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, China?
Answer: Solar eclipse
Question: What is the relationship between Ukrainians Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko, who have dominated the IBF, WBO, WBC and IBO world heavyweight championships since 1999?
Answer: Brothers
Question: Which country that achieved independence in 1962 has had leaders named Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada?
Answer: Uganda
Question: Who is the only member of the current membership of Fleetwood Mac who does not play an instrument regularly on stage?
Answer: Stevie Nicks
Question: A United Nations report published in July 2007 placed which country first in the industrialized world in marijuana use, at 14.1% of the population?
Answer: Canada
Question: Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia, Aragon, Castilla y Len, Castile-La Mancha, and Extremadura are "autonomous communities" in which nation?
Answer: Spain
Question: The Maoist organisation Sendero Luminoso is based in which country?
Answer: Peru
Question: Beat Mndli, Daniel Deusser, Markus Beerbaum and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum are world ranking competitors in which sport?
Answer: Show Jumping
Question: Which 1987 thriller film involves a spurned lover killing and boiling a pet rabbit?
Answer: Fatal Attraction
Question: Who, in 1794, patented the cotton gin, that enabled cotton fibres to be plucked from seeds mechanically?
Answer: Eli Whitney
Question: The record for the most years between winning gold medals was set by Aladar Grevich (Hungary) in 1960. His previous gold had been won in 1932. What sport did he compete in?
Answer: Fencing
Question: Which sport has been included in only one Olympic Games, in Paris in 1900, when competition was between the Devon and Somerset Wanderers (representing England) and a team from the British embassy in Paris (representing France)?
Answer: Cricket
Question: Who set a world land speed record of over 400 miles per hour at Bonneville, Utah, USA, and was killed attempting a new water speed record on Loch Ness in September 1952?
Answer: John Cobb
Question: What 19th century English draughtsman became known for illustrations of "exquisite decoration, morbidity and decadence", especially his illustrations for "The Rape of the Lock"?
Answer: Aubrey Beardsley
Question: The final of which sport at the 1900 Olympics in Paris attracted 6,000 spectators, the largest crowd at any event at that Olympics?
Answer: Rugby Union
Question: Which African country was never formally colonized, and resisted all kinds of European rule until 1920?
Answer: Somalia
Question: According to the Bible, the descendants of Noah tried to erect which construction against the will of God, who destroyed the plan by making the builders talk a variety of languages?
Answer: Tower of Babel
Question: What church, known as "the Irvingites" mainly due to the preaching of Edward Irving, was founded in Scotland in 1832?
Answer: Catholic Apostolic Church
Question: After being called various names including the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Congo-Lopoldville, what was the (now) Democratic Republic of the Congo known as?
Answer: Zaire
Question: Which alpine ski racer was World Cup champion in 1967 and 1968, won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with a sweep of the three gold medals for downhill, giant slalom and slalom at the 1968 Winter Olympics, and then retired?
Answer: Jean-Claude Killy
Question: By the 15th century, coffee was known in the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. It first arrived in Europe in the area covered by what modern day country?
Answer: Italy
Question: What was the life expectancy of someone who contracted the bubonic plague, the most commonly seen form during the Black Death that peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, which had a mortality rate of thirty to seventy-five percent?
Answer: 8 days
Question: According to Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend, who, in Silene, Libya, saved a princess from a dragon by capturing it, and led it to the king, promising to kill it if his people converted to Christianity?
Answer: Saint George
Question: Which country entered 129 archers in the first Olympic archery event in 1900, and has competed in archery at the Olympic Games the most times (12 of the 14 possible)?
Answer: France
Question: What retail chain is named after a character from Herman Melville's book Moby Dick?
Answer: Starbucks
Question: In the US presidential election, 2000, in which US state was there a controversy over requests for hand recounts of votes that went as far as the U.S. Supreme Court?
Answer: Florida
Question: The membership of which British intellectual socialist group formed in London in 1884 included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Ramsay MacDonald, Emmeline Pankhurst and Bertrand Russell?
Answer: The Fabian Society
Question: Who brought together dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan and nurtured their collaboration on 13 operas from "Trial by Jury" (1875) to "The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel" (1896)?
Answer: Richard D'Oyly Carte
Question: The Hesketh racing team, with its Union Jack Teddy Bear logo, founded by Lord Hesketh and Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley, had its greatest successes in Formula One when they employed which driver?
Answer: James Hunt
Question: Where was the first zoo in the United States, which opened on 1 July 1874 with 1,000 animals and an entry fee of 25 cents?
Answer: Philadelphia
Question: Which song by John Mayer, written for the Rob Reiner film "The Bucket List", is his highest charting single to date, and won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards in 2009?
Answer: Say
Question: Who secured the contract from the British government in 1838 to carry mail between Liverpool Halifax and Boston and formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company with 4 ships?
Answer: Samuel Cunard
Question: What USA national championship game, played on a Sunday, is the second-largest US food consumption day, after Thanksgiving Day?
Answer: Super Bowl
Question: Which holy book consists of two parts, the Mishnah and the Gemara, the latter of which differs between the Jerusalem and Babylonian versions ?
Answer: The Talmud
Question: Who first employed his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest in 1906 while a lawyer in South Africa during the Indian community's struggle for civil rights to protest against registration laws in the new state of Transvaal?
Answer: Mohandas Ghandi
Question: Where was the 9 hour amphibious operation on 19 August 1942 that led to the death and injury of 3,369 of 5,000 Canadians and the loss of the ship "Berkeley", while German casualties were less than 600?
Answer: Dieppe
Question: What is an eye defect due to the abnormal formation of the cornea or lens resulting in an inability to see horizontal and vertical objects clearly, simultaneously?
Answer: Astigmatism
Question: Which Pope was carried off into France by Bonaparte's troops in 1798?
Answer: Pius VI
Question: Which country has 6 time zones called Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern, Atlantic and Newfoundland?
Answer: Canada
Question: In November 1986, US President Ronald Reagan set up the Tower Commission to investigate what?
Answer: The Iran Contra scandal
Question: In the 1990 film "Dick Tracy", which starred Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo, who played the role of "Breathless Mahoney", an entertainer at Club Ritz who tries to steal Tracy from Tess Trueheart?
Answer: Madonna
Question: Which character in the comic strip Charlie Brown often carries a cat with her?
Answer: Frieda
Question: Which US President was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau in the Sixth Street Station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in Washington, D.C.?
Answer: James Garfield
Question: What is the stage name of Alecia Beth Moore, whose hits include "There You Go", "Stupid Girls", "Who Knew", "Funhouse"and "So What"?
Answer: Pink
Question: What kind of ship was the British ship HMS Hermes, laid down in January 1918, launched on 11 September 1919 but not commissioned until 1923, the first ship of its kind to be designed and built anywhere in the world?
Answer: Aircraft carrier
Question: Which British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet who had strong views on matters such as immigration, national identity, monetary policy, and the UK's entry into the EEC, was a Conservative Party MP 1950 to 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP 1974 to 1987?
Answer: Enoch Powell
Question: Newton Marshall, who won the 1600 km Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska in March 2010 was born where?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: Before becoming president of the USA in 1977, and after being discharged from the Navy in 1953, Jimmy Carter took over and expanded his family business in Plains, Georgia. What was the business?
Answer: Peanut farm
Question: What large, flat valley that dominates the central portion of the state of California USA and stretches approximately 800 kilometres (500 miles) has the northern half called the Sacramento Valley, and the southern half the San Joaquin Valley, which meet at the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta?
Answer: The Central Valley
Question: What method of writing, consisting of wedge-shaped and rectangular marks, was used from around 30th century BC to the 1st century AD?
Answer: Cuneiform
Question: The world's oldest emergency call service was introduced first in the London area in 1937. What telephone number was used?
Answer: 999
Question: How many Kings of England were called Henry?
Answer: 8
Question: Which cartoonist, whose caricatures of public figures were published in "Private Eye" in the 1960s and 1970s, worked for Pink Floyd on "The Wall" album (1979) and movie (1982)?
Answer: Gerald Scarfe
Question: What 1936 film sets out a future to 2036, predicting World War II from 23 December 1940, bombing raids on cities, a plague ("wandering sickness") in 1966, and a civilization based in Basra, Iraq, that renounced war and outlawed independent nation-states?
Answer: Things to Come
Question: In 1988, why did English professional jockey Lester Piggott have his OBE (which had been awarded in 1975) taken away?
Answer: Tax evasion
Question: Ahmet Ertegun, who was born in Turkey and died in 2006 aged 83 in New York City, USA, was a founder of the New York Cosmos team of the North American Soccer League and which record label?
Answer: Atlantic
Question: Which rectangular flag centred with a white square was flown by British ships as a sign that it was due to sail?
Answer: Blue Peter
Question: What comic strip is about the family of Dagwood Bumstead (who works at J.C. Dithers & Company), his wife, their 2 children (Alexander, originally referred to as "Baby Dumpling", and daughter Cookie) and Daisy, the dog?
Answer: Blondie
Question: Who was the Queen of the Iceni who led a rebellion against the Romans around 63 AD after they tried to take over her kingdom after her husband had willed his possessions to be shared equally between his daughters and Emperor Nero?
Answer: Boadicea
Question: US President Reagan appointed two Republicans and one Democrat (John Tower, Brent Scowcroft and Edmund Muskie, known as the "Tower Commission") to investigate what?
Answer: IranContra affair
Question: The "Don't Make a Wave Committee" founded in the early 1970s by Jim & Marie Bohlen, Irving & Dorothy Stowe, Paul Cote and Robert & Bobbi Hunter grew into what organisation?
Answer: Greenpeace
Question: What equipment puts an object in rotation around a fixed axis, applying a force perpendicular to the axis, and uses the sedimentation principle to cause heavier particles to move out along the radius?
Answer: Centrifuge
Question: What was the name of the Ewing ranch in the TV series "Dallas"?
Answer: Southfork
Question: In 2009, which was the most dominant women's softball team, having won three of the last four Olympic tournaments and the last six Women's ISF XI World Championships?
Answer: United States
Question: At the 1st World Rowing Championships held at Lucerne in 1962, the International Federation of Rowing Associations did not recognise countries with similar names. Selection trials from 2 countries were held the day before the championships. Which "country" was this?
Answer: Germany
Question: The World Surfing Champion title is awarded annually to the best competition surfer for the year, based on points earned for placings at which events?
Answer: ASP World Tour
Question: Which professional boxer from the USA, a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions between 1986 and 2001, was nicknamed "The Real Deal"?
Answer: Evander Holyfield
Question: Serena Williams, who had not advanced past the quarterfinals at the French Open between 2003 and 2009, lost to whom in the quarterfinals 63, 67(2), 86, in 2010?
Answer: Samantha Stosur
Question: Which city has "areas" called Burdiehouse, Clermiston, Corstorphine, Dumbiedykes, The Grange, Haymarket, Hermiston, Holyrood, Inverleith, Jock's Lodge, Leith, Meadowbank, Murrayfield, Oxgangs, Pilrig, Portobello, Riccarton, Shandon and Tynecastle?
Answer: Edinburgh
Question: A compilation of whose inspirational letters to a young jazz student named Anthony, has been published as "To a Young Jazz Musician"?
Answer: Wynton Marsalis
Question: Thomas Cranmer held what position during the reign of Henry VIII, between 3 December 1533 and 4 December 1555?
Answer: Archbishop of Canterbury
Question: What weapon used in the middle ages had the cord of a bow fixed in a notch and an iron bolt released from it by a trigger?
Answer: Crossbow
Question: What geographical feature is Bull Run, the site of the battle that was famously lost by troops commanded by General George Custer?
Answer: River
Question: Actor John Wayne is mostly associated with what type of film?
Answer: Western
Question: Who is the next in this series: Muhammad Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Muhammad Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar El Sadat, Sufi Abu Taleb, Hosni Mubarak, Atef Ebeid ... ?
Answer: Hosni Mubarak
Question: What was the name given to an insurrection (the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798) led by schoolteacher and barrister Patrick Pearse from 24 April to 30 April 1916, with the aim of establishing the Irish Republic?
Answer: The Easter Rising
Question: What was the title of Pink Floyd's 11th studio album, released in 1987, that contained the single releases "Learning to Fly" and "One Slip"?
Answer: A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Question: Olympic gold medallists Ian Thorpe, Stephanie Rice, Lisbeth Trickett, Mike Wenden and John Henricks represented which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Who became the first President of the French Republic by popular vote in 1848, became dictator after a coup in 1851, then ruled as "Emperor of the French" from 1852 to September 1870, when he was captured in the Franco-Prussian War?
Answer: Napoleon III
Question: Dutch conductor and composer Andr Rieu, best known for creating an international revival in waltz music with his "Johann Strauss Orchestra" which began in 1987, is associated with which instrument?
Answer: Violin
Question: The Sex Pistols' initial career lasted two and a half years. How many studio albums of frsh material did they issue officially in that period?
Answer: 1
Question: What is the stage name of Natalie Renee McIntyre, a US R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, record producer and actress with a distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday & Betty Davis?
Answer: Macy Gray
Question: What early 18th century English club in London with strong political and literary associations, had members which included writers William Congreve, Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison, and politicians the Duke of Marlborough and Sir Robert Walpole?
Answer: The Kit-Kat Club
Question: What country in Southeast Asia about 640 km (400 miles) northwest of Australia that occupies half of one island and two smaller ones, was colonised by Portugal in the 16th century, declared independence on 28 November 1975, was invaded by Indonesia 9 days later and became a sovereign state on 20 May 2002?
Answer: East Timor
Question: Which British laws introduced by the Importation Act of 1815 and repealed in 1846 are examples of British mercantilism, the abolition of which marked a significant step towards free trade?
Answer: The Corn Laws
Question: Former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik, appointed US homeland security chief in 2004, was imprisoned for 4 years in February 2010 for what reason?
Answer: Tax fraud
Question: The Cultural Revolution was a period of widespread social and political upheaval between 1966 and 1976, resulting in nation-wide chaos and economic disarray in which country?
Answer: The Peoples Republic of China
Question: Following the publication of a story in the "News of the World" on 2 May 2010, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association announced the immediate suspension of 3 time World Champion John Higgins. What was Higgins accused of?
Answer: Match fixing
Question: Who were the two main characters in "Bringing Up Father", a comic strip created by George McManus that ran from January 1913 to May 2000 about an Irishman who comes into wealth in the USA but wants to live much as he used to?
Answer: Jiggs and Maggie
Question: Buckey O'Neill Cabin, Kolb Studio, El Tovar Hotel, Hopi House, Verkamp's Curios, Lookout Studio, Desert View Watchtower and Bright Angel Lodge are historical buildings located at which tourist destination?
Answer: Grand Canyon
Question: Where was Expo 2010 held from 1 May to 31 October 2010, the most expensive Expo in the history of world's fairs with the largest site (5.28 square km), with more than 190 countries and over 50 international organisations participating?
Answer: Shanghai, China
Question: Which 31 minute documentary made in 1938, which asked for better housing, farm techniques and flood control and more electrical power, showed a great flood in the Mississippi River?
Answer: The River
Question: In 2008, Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton began dating Nicole Scherzinger, who made her name with which American pop/R&B; girl group and dance ensemble?
Answer: Pussycat Dolls
Question: What is a British comic strip character created by Reg Smythe, first published in August 1957, now written by Roger Mahoney (artist) and Roger Kettle (writer)?
Answer: Andy Capp
Question: The Stanley Cup Final is a best-of-seven playoff series to determine the National Hockey League champion. In the 200910 season, how many games were needed to decide the best of seven between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Chicago Blackhawks?
Answer: 6
Question: Which UK television series starred Ross Kemp as a tough SAS officer?
Answer: Ultimate Force
Question: Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey were involved with the launch of what computer application?
Answer: Twitter
Question: General Stanley Allen McChrystal, who had led all forces in Afghanistan since 15 June 2009, was relieved of his command on 23 June 2010 after he made unflattering remarks about US presidential administration officials in an article in which magazine?
Answer: Rolling Stone
Question: Which moon of Jupiter is named after a divine hero in Greek mythology whose homeland was Troy who was abducted by Zeus in the form of an eagle to serve as cupbearer to the gods and as Zeus's beloved?
Answer: Ganymede
Question: In online gaming, what is the term for a multi-user real-time virtual world described in text that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, interactive fiction, and online chat that were the forerunners of modern games like World of Warcraft, and social virtual worlds such as Second Life?
Answer: MUD
Question: The Mason-Dixon line, which came to symbolise the cultural boundary between the Northern and Southern United States, was originally surveyed to define the border between Maryland and which other state?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Question: The main aims of which society in Great Britain between 1838 and 1850 were, basically: a vote for every man 21 years of age, a secret ballot, no property qualification for Members of Parliament, payment of MPs, equal Constituencies, and annual parliaments?
Answer: Chartists
Question: In 1951 and 1952, American Jim Fuchs won 88 consecutive meetings and set four world records in what sport?
Answer: Shot put
Question: What name is given to the 4 mile (6.4 km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard which is mainly in the unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester?
Answer: The Strip
Question: What is the stage name of Roberta Joan Anderson, whose recording career began in 1968?
Answer: Joni Mitchell
Question: Which infectious disease, usually occuring in childhood, is characterised by eruptions of successive crops of vesicles?
Answer: Chickenpox
Question: Bill and Hilary Clinton and Jim and Susan McDougal were implicated in what financial scandal that was investigated by the US Justice Department in 1994?
Answer: Whitewater
Question: In 1987, competing in "Star Search", a US talent competition on which she used the name Alanis Nadine, she lost after one round. She is now better known as Alanis who?
Answer: Morissette
Question: What international yachting regatta organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, competed for between 3 boats for each national team, based at Cowes on the Isle of Wight off southern England, was a biennial event from 1957 to 1999?
Answer: The Admiral's Cup
Question: In Britain, a portcullis has been used on whose stationery since 1967?
Answer: House of Commons
Question: The Individual World Championships for which sport, the first of which was in 2005 and are held every two years, include events called "Constant Weight", "Constant Weight Without Fins", "Free Immersion", "Variable Weight", "Static", "Dynamic" and "Dynamic No Fins"?
Answer: Freediving