zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What projectile is fired by a crossbow?
Answer: Bolt
Question: Who painted "A Bar at the Folies-Bergre"?
Answer: Manet
Question: What type of apple was adopted by The Beatles' "Apple Records" as its symbol?
Answer: Granny Smith
Question: What is the nickname of Nike's company logo?
Answer: The "swoosh"
Question: What are Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium?
Answer: Alkali metals
Question: Which country is the biggest producer of corn?
Answer: USA
Question: What are Proxima Centauri, Sirius A, Pollux, Arcturus and Betelgeuse?
Answer: Stars
Question: What is the word for bending at least one knee to the ground, a gesture of deep respect for a superior that was introduced in 328 BC by Alexander the Great into his court, a practice then already followed in Persia?
Answer: Genuflection
Question: What type of creature is a katydid?
Answer: Insect
Question: Who was the first leader of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Lenin
Question: Raymond, Celia and Blanche were the real names of the subjects of which painting by David Hockney?
Answer: Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
Question: Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger played what unlikely pair in a 1988 film?
Answer: Twins
Question: What is the maximum score in a game of ten-pin bowling?
Answer: 300
Question: A clown fish creates a home for itself inside what?
Answer: Anemone
Question: What is the main ingredient of hummus?
Answer: Chickpeas
Question: Who was on the British throne when Balmoral Castle was purchased?
Answer: Victoria
Question: What is the average of 1, 2, 2, 5, 9 and 17?
Answer: 6
Question: First released in 2009 and based on stylised wingless fighters, the game is called what?
Answer: Angry Birds
Question: When did the European Space Agency launch its first successful rocket, Ariane I?
Answer: 1979
Question: Where is the oldest working gin distillery in England?
Answer: Plymouth
Question: Mixing the colours red and blue results in what colour?
Answer: Purple
Question: Bezique is what kind of game?
Answer: Card game
Question: Who plays Bree Van De Kamp in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives"?
Answer: Marcia Cross
Question: What colour are the stars on the US flag?
Answer: White
Question: Steel bands originated in which country?
Answer: Trinidad
Question: Brazil is the largest country on which continent?
Answer: South America
Question: L S Lowry is associated with what occupation?
Answer: Artist
Question: What genus of bulbous flowering plants, native to the eastern Mediterranean region east to Iran and Turkmenistan has 3 species: litwinowii, orientalis and transcaspicus?
Answer: Hyacinth
Question: Tony and Maureen Wheeler began publishing what travel publications in the early 1970s?
Answer: Lonely Planet
Question: The 328 metre high Sky Tower is in which city?
Answer: Auckland, New Zealand
Question: What launcher was used by the European Space Agency, the first of which was sucessfully launched in 1979?
Answer: Ariane
Question: Who created the cartoon series called "Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero", "Bruce the Barbarian", "All the King's Comrades" and "Footrot Flats"?
Answer: Murray Ball
Question: Which of the Corrs plays the violin?
Answer: Sharon
Question: Winchester was the capital of which Anglo-Saxon kingdom?
Answer: Wessex
Question: What is produced from coarse aggregate, sand, cement and water?
Answer: Concrete
Question: Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is the capital of which group of islands?
Answer: Tristan da Cunha
Question: What language does the modern English "cat" come from originally?
Answer: Unknown
Question: Six states in the USA are split between two time zones, Eastern and Central. They are Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee and which other?
Answer: Alabama
Question: What is the name of the official proceedings of the UK's House of Commons?
Answer: Hansard
Question: What is the resort area in the east of Long Island in New York state?
Answer: The Hamptons
Question: Snowflake was the name of what albino animal that died in the Barcelona Zoo in 2003?
Answer: Gorilla
Question: With what profession was Vidal Sassoon most associated?
Answer: Hairdressing
Question: Goose bumps (also called goose flesh or goose pimples), which may involuntarily develop when a person experiences cold or strong emotions is known as what?
Answer: Horripilation
Question: What is the official state religion in Nepal?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: What lies directly beneath the liver in the human body?
Answer: Gall bladder
Question: What type of ball is football (soccer) played with?
Answer: Sphere
Question: Six New Zealanders went away from the 2010 Academy Awards with Oscar statuettes, all for their work on one film; what was the film?
Answer: Avatar
Question: What was the subject of the British TV programme "The South Bank Show"?
Answer: Arts
Question: What is a word game played using a grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters?
Answer: Boggle
Question: What is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed, that flows through central Russia, and has some of the largest reservoirs in the world?
Answer: Volga
Question: Dichromacy is a form of what?
Answer: Colour blindness
Question: Where was gridiron football developed?
Answer: USA
Question: Which US president was in office at the start of the Korean War?
Answer: Truman
Question: When did Sugar Ray Leonard win his first world boxing title?
Answer: 1979
Question: What is the name of the waterway that connects the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean via Loch Ness?
Answer: Caledonian Canal
Question: What colour are salmon eggs?
Answer: Orange
Question: The films "The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games", "Clear and Present Danger" and "The Sum of All Fears" feature which character created by Tom Clancy?
Answer: Jack Ryan
Question: What is the title of Luxembourg's Head of State?
Answer: Grand Duke
Question: Who, after splitting from a long term girlfriend in 2008, briefly dated actress Kate Hudson, and in 2012 was dating Serbian tennis star Ana Ivanovic?
Answer: Adam Scott
Question: What is the common nickname for a steam-powered winch, widely used in logging, mining and maritime industries?
Answer: Donkey engine
Question: What branch of medicine deals with the cause, origin and nature of disease?
Answer: Pathology
Question: What is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases?
Answer: Dermatology
Question: Up to the first half of 2013 who has won the most men's major golf championships, also known as majors (Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, The Open Championship (British Open) and US PGA Championship)?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus
Question: The piano piece, Fr Elise, well-known to music students, was written by whom?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Question: What is Spike Milligan's first name?
Answer: Terence
Question: Which city about 200 km west of Madrid that has a university founded in 1218 (the oldest university in Spain and the 5th oldest western university) was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988?
Answer: Salamanca
Question: Sunday Rose are the names of the daughter of Nicole Kidman and whom?
Answer: Keith Urban
Question: A boar is what type of creature?
Answer: Pig
Question: Stainless steel is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5 to 11% content by mass of what element?
Answer: Chromium
Question: Who is credited with the quote, famous in US history: "I have not yet begun to fight"?
Answer: John Paul Jones
Question: What was the occupation of Alex, the character played by Jennifer Beals, in the 1983 film "Flashdance"?
Answer: Welder
Question: What Greek letter is used to denote the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?
Answer: Pi
Question: What is looked for in the blue-tinged igneous rock called "kimberlite"?
Answer: Diamonds
Question: The River Tiber runs through which capital city?
Answer: Rome
Question: The "rig veda" is a collection of scriptures sacred to which religion?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: Leif Ericson, a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America before Christopher Columbus, established a settlement at Vinland, which has been tentatively identified as being where?
Answer: Newfoundland
Question: What is the chief ore from which aluminium is obtained?
Answer: Bauxite
Question: Who is the New Zealander who directed "Shrek", "Shrek 2", "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"?
Answer: Andrew Adamson
Question: Pure gold is denoted by how many carats?
Answer: 24
Question: Block, Fan, Horsetail, Plunge, Punchbowl and Segmented are types of what?
Answer: Waterfall
Question: Which 15th century Italian painted "The Adoration of the Magi" and "The Birth of Venus"?
Answer: Sandro Botticelli
Question: What is the name for the traditional French spread made from olives, capers, anchovies and olive oil?
Answer: Tapenade
Question: In 1459, the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, England, 2 miles east of Market Drayton in Shropshire, was the first major battle of which campaign?
Answer: The Wars of the Roses
Question: Billy Bowden is an official in what sport?
Answer: Cricket
Question: How many common nouns are there in the words "Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are."?
Answer: 1
Question: Lydia Ko who took the 2012 Canadian Women's Open as a 15 year old amateur, became the youngest person to win an LPGA Tour event. What is her nationality?
Answer: New Zealander
Question: If someone stands with their hands resting on their hips, they are said to be "arms " what?
Answer: Akimbo
Question: When archery was included for the first time at the Summer Olympics, in 1900, how many nations competed?
Answer: 3
Question: Who, legend has it, led Phoenicians to found Carthage?
Answer: Dido
Question: Which planet has 67 confirmed moons?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: What is another name for the throw, or toe, line in a darts game?
Answer: Oche
Question: """You had me at 'Hello'!"" is a line from which film?"
Answer: Jerry McGuire
Question: What creature is a "red snapper"?
Answer: Fish
Question: What currency is used in China?
Answer: Yuan
Question: How often does a solar eclipse happens somewhere in the world?
Answer: Every 18 months
Question: What is an 18th-century English term for applying finely ground, high-carat gold in a mercury amalgam to an object of bronze?
Answer: Ormolu
Question: How many players are there in a men's lacrosse team?
Answer: 10
Question: What is the most likely use for a privet shrub?
Answer: Hedge
Question: In 1972, who became the youngest Formula One Champion Racing Driver at the age of 25?
Answer: Emerson Fittipaldi
Question: In 2006, which country announced that it was withdrawing from test match cricket for 12 months?
Answer: Zimbabwe
Question: What currency is used in Thailand?
Answer: Baht
Question: Stalactites and stalagmites are formed from what?
Answer: Limestone
Question: Competitors from which country won the most medals at the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: Which species of shark is the largest fish in the world?
Answer: Whale shark
Question: The hula is traditional dance from where?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: Erik the Red was convicted of killing both Thorgest (after a dispute over a shovel) and Valthjof (who had killed some of his slaves) and banished from Iceland. He led a group of approximately 500 settlers to settle in what country?
Answer: Greenland
Question: Kelly Slater is both the youngest and oldest person to hold the world title in what sport?
Answer: Surfing
Question: What part of an egg does albumen come from?
Answer: White
Question: David Marks, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton, Frank Anatole and Nic Bailey were the architects of which London landmark that was opened on 31 December 1999?
Answer: London Eye
Question: Which is not another name for allspice?
Answer: Clove
Question: The iris takes it name from the Greek word meaning what?
Answer: Rainbow
Question: Which English cricketer scored a century in his test match debut in 2006?
Answer: Alastair Cook
Question: Where is the TV series "Ally McBeal" set?
Answer: Boston
Question: The term "banana republic" was first used in 1904 by O Henry, to describe what country?
Answer: Honduras
Question: Which trophy is affectionately called the Auld Mug?
Answer: The Americas Cup
Question: Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing are members of which fictional group?
Answer: Fantastic Four
Question: Who wrote the book "The Prince and the Pauper"?
Answer: Mark Twain
Question: Where is the headquarters of the international broadcasting network CNN, "the CNN Center"?
Answer: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Question: What was the tagline for the 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"?
Answer: We are not alone
Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 muses was the muse of Tragedy?
Answer: Melpomene
Question: Which screen villain likes liver, fava beans and chianti?
Answer: Hannibal Lecter
Question: What was the composer Mahler's first name?
Answer: Gustav
Question: What is a 1938 crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart, directed by Anatole Litvak and written by John Wexley and John Huston, based on a play by Barr Lyndon?
Answer: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Question: What is the chemical symbol for hydrogen?
Answer: H
Question: Where is the Lateran palace?
Answer: Rome
Question: When did India first participate in the modern Olympic Games?
Answer: 1900
Question: The Hollywood sign, a landmark for Mount Lee in Los Angeles, California, originally said what when it was erected in 1923?
Answer: Hollywoodland
Question: What was the first name of the opera composer Verdi?
Answer: Giuseppe
Question: Who leads "The CBS Orchestra", the house band for "The Late Show with David Letterman"?
Answer: Paul Shaffer
Question: What is the highest mountain in Queensland, Australia (1622 metres), named in 1873 after a British colonial administrator who later became president of the Royal Geographical Society?
Answer: Mount Bartle Frere
Question: A tirade by Christian Bale directed at Shane Hurlbut, director of photography was on the set of which 2009 film?
Answer: Terminator Salvation
Question: Cragside House in Northumberland, England, was the first building to be lit by electricity sourced from where?
Answer: Hydroelectricity
Question: Who plays Arizona Robbins in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: Jessica Capshaw
Question: Who wrote "A Brief History Of Time" and "Black Holes and Baby Universes"?
Answer: Stephen Hawking
Question: Where will the Paralympics be held in 2020?
Answer: Tokyo
Question: Who died at 17 rue Beautrellis, Paris, on 3 July 1971?
Answer: Jim Morrison
Question: In any version of the TV series "Law & Order", the opening credits start with the actors playing what parts?
Answer: Police
Question: What is the study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time?
Answer: Etymology
Question: Rogaining, a sport of long distance cross-country navigation or orienteering, is recognised as originating where?
Answer: Australia
Question: Where is the area that France administers called Terre Adlie?
Answer: Antarctica
Question: What bridge, between Millers Point and Milsons Point, opened on 19 March 1932?
Answer: Sydney Harbour Bridge
Question: The names Corbett and Brambell are most associated with which well-known UK TV series?
Answer: Steptoe and Son
Question: Bile is made in the liver and discharged into the duodenum. Where is it stored and conentrated on this journey?
Answer: Gall bladder
Question: What is a stanza or poem consisting of four lines?
Answer: Quatrain
Question: Traditionally, what is used to coat Edam cheese?
Answer: Wax
Question: What was the Muse d'Orsay in Paris used for before it was an art gallery?
Answer: Railway station
Question: What was the occupation of the George Eliot character of Silas Marner?
Answer: Weaver
Question: In 2005, who became the youngest Formula One Champion Racing Driver at the age of 24?
Answer: Fernando Alonso
Question: In their original Greek version, what architectural style of fluted column stood directly on the flat pavement (the stylobate) of a temple without a base, topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam (entablature) that they carried?
Answer: Doric
Question: Who married British actress and producer Trudi Styler in 1992?
Answer: Sting
Question: What name is given to fluctuations in the curvature of spacetime that were predicted to exist by Albert Einstein in 1916 on the basis of his theory of general relativity?
Answer: Gravitational waves
Question: Queen Rania is queen in which country?
Answer: Jordan
Question: Who is the native American subject of a poem by Longfellow?
Answer: Hiawatha
Question: Sean Murphy became the World Champion in 2005 in what sport?
Answer: Snooker
Question: What is the name of the cross-pieces on a guitar fingerboard?
Answer: Frets
Question: Who was the Formula One racing driver's champion in 1963 and 1965?
Answer: Jim Clark
Question: Who is killed by the Shakespearean character Macduff?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: The word "pronto" comes to English from which language?
Answer: Spanish
Question: What country is the world's largest coffee grower?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What live in an artificial environment known as a formicarium?
Answer: Ants
Question: The Dalai Lama is a high lama in which religion?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: An orchestra frequently tunes to an A provided by which instrument?
Answer: Oboe
Question: In May 2010, what store was sold to Qatar Holdings by Mohammed Al Fayed for 1.5 billion?
Answer: Harrods
Question: What is the name for the shape of a proscenium in a theatre?
Answer: The proscenium arch
Question: Which cricketer scored 158 runs in 2005 to secure the ashes for England?
Answer: Kevin Pietersen
Question: Who played "Charlie" in the 2005 film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?
Answer: Freddie Highmore
Question: In which state of Australia would you find the Snowy Mountains?
Answer: New South Wales
Question: A film released in 2000 starring Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson tells the life story of which painter?
Answer: Jackson Pollock
Question: Ronnie Scott's club in London is the venue for what kind of music?
Answer: Jazz
Question: What is the name for the largest of the living primates, that are ground-dwelling and predominantly herbivorous, inhabiting the forests of central Africa?
Answer: Gorilla
Question: What is the title of Geri Halliwell's 1999 autobiography?
Answer: If Only
Question: The iron pillar of Delhi, India, a 7 meter (22 feet) high pillar that is 98% pure wrought iron, has withstood corrosion in the open air for how long?
Answer: Over 1,600 years
Question: Who recorded the theme songs for three James Bond films?
Answer: Shirley Bassey
Question: What alloy is created from copper and tin?
Answer: Bronze
Question: A courgette is a type of what?
Answer: Vegetable
Question: Golfer Vijay Singh, who was number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005, was born where?
Answer: Fiji
Question: Serengeti National Park is on what continent?
Answer: Africa
Question: Susan, Lucy, Edmund and Peter Pevensie are children who appear in what 2005 film, based on the novel by C. S. Lewis?
Answer: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Question: The island of Angelsey is in which country?
Answer: Wales
Question: What was the tagline of the 1973 film "American Graffiti"?
Answer: Where were you in '62?
Question: The colours red and blue mixed together makes what other colour?
Answer: Purple
Question: Which river flows through the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA?
Answer: Colorado
Question: What 2009 science fiction disaster film starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Woody Harrelson references Mayanism and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, depicting a series of "Doomsday" scenarios that plunge the world into chaos?
Answer: 2012
Question: What field of work is Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) best known for?
Answer: Electricity
Question: On a rifle shooting target, what is the name of the ring between the inner and the outer?
Answer: Magpie
Question: What do golf balls have on the outside?
Answer: Dimples
Question: Australian Joan Sutherland is connected with what activity?
Answer: Opera
Question: What dish would you expect if you asked for Fettuccine in an Italian restaurant?
Answer: Pasta
Question: Who directed the films "Miracle's Boys", "Inside Man", "When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts", "Miracle at St. Anna", "Passing Strange" and "Kobe Doin' Work"?
Answer: Spike Lee
Question: What is a mixture of saturated aliphatic and alicyclic C7 to C12 hydrocarbons with a maximum content of 25% of C7 to C12 alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons, which is used as an extraction, cleaning and degreasing solvent, and as a solvent in aerosols, paints, wood preservatives, lacquers, varnishes, and asphalt products?
Answer: White spirit
Question: What was the stage name of Bernard Jewry?
Answer: Alvin Stardust
Question: What legendary place is said to have sunk into the sea?
Answer: Atlantis
Question: Where was the first IOC-run Olympics held in the 21st century?
Answer: Salt Lake City, USA
Question: Which American serial drama TV series, first broadcast in 2004, follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a Pacific island after a plane crash?
Answer: Lost
Question: The Great Fire of London in 1666 happened when which King was on the British throne?
Answer: Charles II
Question: What equipment is used in a tug o war contest?
Answer: A rope
Question: What is the world's smallest island nation, covering 21 square kilometres (8.1 square miles)?
Answer: Nauru
Question: Tom Cruise played which role in the 1996 film "Jerry Maguire"?
Answer: Jerry Maguire
Question: A drake is the adult male of which bird?
Answer: Duck
Question: On which continent are the native fauna called ostrich, lion, giraffe and okapi?
Answer: Africa
Question: Which revered world figure celebrated his 95th birthday, in hospital, in July 2013?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
Question: Who made the musical sculptures called "Pythagoras", "Kepler" & "Galileo" that were installed between the tracks of Kendall Station in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1987 to 2007?
Answer: Paul Matisse
Question: When was windsurfing accepted as an Olympic sport?
Answer: 1984
Question: Which 2009 film is set in 2154?
Answer: Avatar
Question: Someone who has an abnormal fear of dogs is suffering from what?
Answer: Cynophobia
Question: What plant, a bushy herb of the mint family, has a heavy, strong scent, and has been used for centuries in perfumes?
Answer: Patchouli
Question: In mediaeval falconry, which social level was most commonly associated with a goshawk?
Answer: Yeoman
Question: Who was the (subsequently) Pulitzer-Prize-winning American playwright who wrote "The Odd Couple"?
Answer: Neil Simon
Question: On 27 April 2010, the debt rating of which country was decreased to 'junk' status by Standard & Poor's, amidst fears of default by the government?
Answer: Greece
Question: Who played "Elaine Robinson" in the 1967 film, "The Graduate"?
Answer: Katherine Ross
Question: What year did students at Oxford University organise the first university "athletic sports" meeting?
Answer: 1850
Question: Which film actor (1895-1926) is known for his films "The Four Horsemen", "The Sheik" and "Blood And Sand"?
Answer: Rudolph Valentino
Question: Curling stones are currently made of what?
Answer: Granite
Question: Who played the joker in the 2008 film "The Dark Knight"?
Answer: Heath Ledger
Question: What term for a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours, a famous example odf which is Paul Gauguin's "The Yellow Christ" (1889), was coined by critic Edouard Dujardin in 1888?
Answer: Cloisonnism
Question: Which Canadian-born bandleader and violinist formed The Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert and Victor?
Answer: Guy Lombardo
Question: Abu Simbel is in which country?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Where was Geoff Ogilvie, the 2006 US Open golf tournament winner, born?
Answer: Australia