zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which two British Prime Ministers had the same name?
Answer: William Pitt
Question: A stiletto heel gets its name from a type of what?
Answer: Knife
Question: What name is given to the earth's crust?
Answer: Lithosphere
Question: What name is given to a compound of carbon and hydrogen in various proportions?
Answer: Hydrocarbon
Question: Which Greek mathematician, active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I and often referred to as the "Father of Geometry", published the textbook Elements?
Answer: Euclid
Question: Hadrian's Wall, built following 122 AD, stretches for 73 miles from Solway Firth to where?
Answer: Wallsend-on-Tyne
Question: If someone is injured and the blood flow is bright red and coming out in regular spurts, where is it coming from?
Answer: Artery
Question: The Summer Olympics are held how many years apart?
Answer: 4
Question: What wood, a member of the walnut family, is often used in making tool handles, wheel spokes, drumsticks, lacrosse stick handles and skis?
Answer: Hickory
Question: Which character in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" appears frequently in drag?
Answer: Frank n Furter
Question: The only original member, Ian Paice, still plays drums for which band?
Answer: Deep Purple
Question: While most juries can only provide a verdict of "Guilty" or "Not Guilty", in which country can a jury decide "Not Proven"?
Answer: Scotland
Question: The governor of which state was removed from office by the state senate in January 2009?
Answer: Illinois
Question: What measure is used to measure the warmth of a duvet?
Answer: Tog
Question: Who wrote the "Uncle Remus" stories?
Answer: Joel Chandler Harris
Question: Tinnitus affects which part of the body?
Answer: Ears
Question: Which "Great Fire" is believed to have started at the bakery of Thomas Farriner (or Farynor) on Pudding Lane?
Answer: London
Question: New Zealander Michael Campbell is a leading player in which sport?
Answer: Golf
Question: The meat is raw in what dish?
Answer: Steak tartare
Question: What contest, held between 24 teams, was played in Dubai between 5 and 7 March 2009, and was won by Wales?
Answer: Rugby Sevens World Cup
Question: What is the cube of 100?
Answer: 1,000,000
Question: What is the name of the swampy area in Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee?
Answer: Everglades
Question: In the USA, what is special about 2 February?
Answer: Groundhog Day
Question: When did the Football Association in the UK present the FA Cup for competition?
Answer: 1871
Question: Which metal is liquid at room temperature?
Answer: Mercury
Question: What is the capital of the province of Ontario, Canada?
Answer: Toronto
Question: Who created the English aviator "Biggles"?
Answer: Captain W. E. Johns
Question: The ozone molecule is made up of three atoms of which gas?
Answer: Oxygen
Question: The samba originated in which country?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Who preceded George W Bush as president of the USA?
Answer: Bill Clinton
Question: What, if decreased, will lower the boiling point of water?
Answer: Pressure
Question: The Dominican Republic and Haiti are the two countries that occupy which island?
Answer: Hispaniola
Question: What is the deepest lake in the world?
Answer: Lake Baikal
Question: Where would you find a eustachian tube?
Answer: In the ear
Question: Islamabad is the capital of which country?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: What is the name of the revised version of the game Cluedo, with changes to board, gameplay and characters, created in 2008?
Answer: Cluedo Reinvention
Question: Which poet is buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey?
Answer: Ben Jonson
Question: Bavaria is a state of which country?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which British TV series, a contest to decide the best new pop singer in the UK based on viewer voting, debuted in October 2001 and became an international franchise?
Answer: Pop Idol
Question: Which country lies between Spain and France, in the Pyrenees?
Answer: Andorra
Question: What bands most commercially successful line-up, in 1969-73, featured Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice?
Answer: Deep Purple
Question: In France, what would you buy in a fromagerie?
Answer: Cheese
Question: What name is given to the unit of electrical power represented by a current of 1 ampere flowing through a circuit whose potential difference is 1 volt?
Answer: Watt
Question: In the British sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous", what is the name of Edina's daughter?
Answer: Saffron
Question: What are rotating stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation that can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing towards the Earth, which is called "the lighthouse effect"?
Answer: Pulsars
Question: Australian professional golfer Greg Norman is known by which nickname?
Answer: The Shark
Question: In which country is the town of Gorgonzola?
Answer: Italy
Question: Who wrote "The Water Babies"?
Answer: Charles Kingsley
Question: The trophy for the winner of the Australian Open Tennis Men's Singles is named after which champion?
Answer: Norman Brookes
Question: What is a 1 ounce gold coin minted in South Africa?
Answer: Krugerand
Question: What is the study of fishes?
Answer: Ichthyology
Question: Which automobile design has a passenger cabin with an integrated cargo space, accessed from behind by a single, top-hinged tailgate or large flip-up window, commonly with two rows of seats, with the rear seat able to fold down to increase cargo space?
Answer: Hatchback
Question: Who coined the term "Big Bang" to explain the difference between it and his theory of the expanding universe?
Answer: Sir Fred Hoyle
Question: Who discovered that an individual's fingerprints remain the same for their lifetime?
Answer: Sir Francis Galton
Question: On 4 June 2008 the International Olympic Committee announced that the finalists to host the 2016 Olympics were Chicago, Tokyo, Madrid and which other venue?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Question: Which British music chart television programme was originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006?
Answer: Top of the Pops
Question: Who first stated the three laws of planetary motion?
Answer: Johannes Kepler
Question: Which military academy was established in 1802 on the Hudson River, USA?
Answer: West Point
Question: The Gta Canal connects Gteborg, Sweden, with which body of water?
Answer: Baltic Sea
Question: Americans call it a trunk. What do the British call it?
Answer: Boot
Question: What is a name for a hand-held weapon, used to strangle someone to death?
Answer: Garotte
Question: Where are sculptures of Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis carved into the side of a mountain?
Answer: Stone Mountain, Georgia
Question: Lake Erie is connected to Lake Ontario by which river?
Answer: Niagara
Question: Who wrote the play "Oedipus Rex", "Antigone" and "Electra"?
Answer: Sophocles
Question: In the Christian calendar, what is the week before Easter, historically a time of abstinence from eating flesh, drinking wine and carrying on business?
Answer: Holy Week
Question: What instrument is used for measuring relative humidity?
Answer: Hygrometer
Question: What word best describes a triangle where one angle is greater than 90 degrees?
Answer: Obtuse
Question: Brogues are a type of what?
Answer: Shoes
Question: What artificial international language invented by Dr Zamenhof was published in 1887?
Answer: Esperanto
Question: Where is the headquarters of the International Red Cross?
Answer: Geneva
Question: Who plays Mrs. Smith opposite Brad Pitt in the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"?
Answer: Angelina Jolie
Question: What is the highest national capital city?
Answer: Quito, Ecuador
Question: Who designed the wedding dress for the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer to Charles, Prince of Wales?
Answer: David and Elizabeth Emanuel
Question: """My Heart Will Go On"" is the theme from what film?"
Answer: Titanic
Question: Which 17th century English poet is famous for "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes"?
Answer: John Milton
Question: What is the name for an alcoholic preparation of opium widely used in the 18th and 19th centuries to treat a number of different complaints?
Answer: Laudanum
Question: What Christian festival is observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter?
Answer: Whitsunday
Question: Which city would you go to to see "Grant's Tomb", a memorial to Ulysses S Grant, once President of the USA?
Answer: New York
Question: Who became the King of Norway on 17 February 1937?
Answer: King Harald V
Question: In cockney rhyming slang, what is "Trouble and Strife"?
Answer: Wife
Question: Which English novelist wrote "Decline and Fall", "Brideshead Revisited" and "Officers and Gentlemen"?
Answer: Evelyn Waugh
Question: In 1985 the Greenpeace protest ship "Rainbow Warrior" was bombed and sunk by French agents in which harbour?
Answer: Auckland, New Zealand
Question: In music, which word means "lively" or "animated"?
Answer: Vivace
Question: What defence treaty was signed by Great Britain, the USA, France, Siam, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and the Philippines in 1954?
Answer: SEATO
Question: Which canal joins the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
Answer: Panama
Question: Which English King signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, Surrey, England, in 1215?
Answer: King John
Question: In the human body, adductors and abductors are types of what?
Answer: Muscle
Question: Calista Flockhart became engaged to whom in February 2009?
Answer: Harrison Ford
Question: Ronan Keating was a member of which band?
Answer: Boyzone
Question: What position has Boris Johnson held from 4 May 2008?
Answer: Mayor of London
Question: In 2005, which championship had rounds in England, USA, France, Belgium, Turkey, Monaco, Germany, Bahrain, Australia, Malaysia, Italy, Spain, Canada, Hungary, Brazil, Japan and China?
Answer: Formula 1
Question: What 1966 Broadway musical was based on Fellini's film "Nights of Cabiria"?
Answer: Sweet Charity
Question: The crane fly is also known by what name?
Answer: Daddy Long Legs
Question: In chess, castling involves the rook and which other piece?
Answer: King
Question: What chess piece is also called a "castle"?
Answer: Rook
Question: What musical term means "at moderate pace"?
Answer: Andante
Question: What is the name of the most famous art gallery in Paris?
Answer: The Louvre
Question: Lake Louise and Fairview Mountain are tourist attractions in which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: In 330 AD, Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome, moved the capital from Rome to where?
Answer: Byzantium
Question: The French call it La Manche. What do the English call it?
Answer: English Channel
Question: How many Great Lakes, on the border between Canada and the USA, are there?
Answer: 5
Question: Who danced for King Herod and then asked for the head of John the Baptist?
Answer: Salome
Question: The borders of which country which became independent in 1971 were established with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947, when the region became the eastern wing of the newly formed Pakistan?
Answer: Bangladesh
Question: Which gas is the most common in the earth's atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen
Question: In Britain, when was the Football Association formed to draw up the rules of Association Football (soccer)?
Answer: 1863
Question: Who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference on 14 December 2008?
Answer: Muntadar al-Zeidi
Question: A Duesenberg was a make of what?
Answer: Car
Question: Who broke the world record for the pole vault at the Beijing Olympics?
Answer: Yelena Isinbayeva
Question: What 2002 novel was made into a film starring Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah 6 years later?
Answer: The Secret Life of Bees
Question: In April 2009, who was found guilty of the murder of Lana Clarkson?
Answer: Phil Spector
Question: An American TV series starring Molly Shannon and Selma Blair is based on which Australian comedy series?
Answer: Kath and Kim
Question: What name is given to an over-theatrical actor?
Answer: Ham
Question: What is the name of the mountain range that runs for 870 miles for the full length of Italy?
Answer: Apennines
Question: What word means staying in one place and electrical interference?
Answer: Static
Question: Which country would you go to in order to travel up the Amazon River?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Which colour in the visible spectrum has the longest wavelength?
Answer: Red
Question: Who has won the most Olympic Gold medals?
Answer: Michael Phelps, USA
Question: Who succeeded Lenin as the leader of the Soviet Union when he died in 1924?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: In the nursery rhyme, who was quite contrary and had an unusual garden?
Answer: Mary
Question: Where does kapok, use for stuffing mattresses and cushions, come from?
Answer: Trees
Question: What is a simple container for stirring, mixing and heating liquids commonly used in many laboratories, generally cylindrical in shape, with a flat bottom and a lip for pouring?
Answer: Beaker
Question: Who wrote children's books featuring Noddy and Big Ears, and the Famous Five?
Answer: Enid Blyton
Question: Who formally became Emperor of Japan in 1926 and became its constitutional monarch in 1946?
Answer: Hirohito
Question: What is the world's largest rodent?
Answer: Capybara
Question: Which Canadian portrait photographer of Armenian heritage photographed Winston Churchill in his studio in Ottawa on 30 December, 1941, which, it is claimed, is the most reproduced photographic portrait in history?
Answer: Yousuf Karsh
Question: What is another name for a sweater?
Answer: Pullover
Question: What colours are on the flag used to signify the finish of a Formula One motor race?
Answer: Black and white
Question: In May 2009, suspected NAZI death camp guard John Demjanjuk was deported from where to Germany?
Answer: Ohio, USA
Question: What was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833?
Answer: Slavery
Question: The Greek tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides wrote dramas dealing with which legendary woman?
Answer: Electra
Question: For what is "Halliwell's" is a reference book?
Answer: Film
Question: In March 2009, 53rd Street in New York city was renamed what?
Answer: U2 Way
Question: With what do artists working in oils wash their brushes?
Answer: Turpentine
Question: The first Winter Olympic Games were held in what year?
Answer: 1924
Question: In tennis, the annual Grand Slam season consists of the French Open, the U.S. Open, the Wimbledon Championship and which other?
Answer: Australian Open
Question: Who is the star of TV series "The F Word" and "Hell's Kitchen"?
Answer: Gordon Ramsay
Question: What is the name of the blocks that support rails for railway tracks?
Answer: Sleepers
Question: What is the largest loch in Scotland?
Answer: Lomond
Question: What is pognophobia the fear of?
Answer: Beards
Question: What city was founded on the island of Manhattan by Peter Minuit in 1626?
Answer: New Amsterdam
Question: What was patented in London by Ralph Wedgewood in 1806?
Answer: Carbon paper
Question: In a film script, what do the letters POV mean?
Answer: Point Of View
Question: The Scrabble game board is marked with what sized grid?
Answer: 15 by 15
Question: In a TV series, who lived in the town of Bedrock?
Answer: The Flintstones
Question: Which family has been awarded the most Nobel Prizes?
Answer: Curie
Question: Cotswold, Southdown, Dorset, Lonk and Lincoln are breeds of what animal?
Answer: Sheep
Question: If Guy Berryman and Will Champion are the rhythm section, what is the band?
Answer: Coldplay
Question: When was the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable service opened?
Answer: 1956
Question: Who starred in "Mogambo", "Dial M For Murder", "Rear Window" and "High Society" before giving up her film career for marriage in 1956?
Answer: Grace Kelly
Question: Where in the body is the scapula?
Answer: Shoulder
Question: The River Nile is on what continent?
Answer: Africa
Question: Eddie Murphy starred in a remake of which Jerry Lewis comedy?
Answer: The Nutty Professor
Question: What is the term for a period of isolation to prevent the spread of disease?
Answer: Quarantine
Question: The islands Santa Ysabel, Choiseul, Guadalcanal, Malaita and San Cristbal are in which group?
Answer: Solomon Islands
Question: How old was Kurt Cobain when he died?
Answer: 27
Question: What is the capital of Greece?
Answer: Athens
Question: Usain Bolt is what type of athlete?
Answer: Sprinter
Question: Who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, which he proposed in "Stenographic Soundhand" in 1837?
Answer: Isaac Pitman
Question: What medium had its first test with a recording of Richard Strauss's "Eine Alpensinfonie" by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan in 1981, and its first commercial pressing with "The Visitors" by ABBA a year later?
Answer: Compact disc
Question: """A Little Night Music"" by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler and Harold Prince, was based on which 1955 film directed by Ingmar Bergman?"
Answer: Smiles Of A Summer Night
Question: What name is given to a cocktail consisting mainly of vodka, Galliano, and orange juice?
Answer: Harvey Wallbanger
Question: Who was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: Where were tanks used for the first time in battle?
Answer: Somme, 1916
Question: In the nursery rhyme, who sat on a wall and had a great fall?
Answer: Humpty
Question: Who rests in the Hotel des Invalides, Paris?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: The Grand Canyon is in which US state?
Answer: Arizona
Question: What is the term for the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated, common examples of which include the behaviour of light, sound and water waves?
Answer: Reflection
Question: What is the longest river on the island of New Guinea?
Answer: Sepik
Question: What is the longest river in Italy?
Answer: Po
Question: Which country won the most World Polo Championships between the inaugural tournament in 1987 and 2001?
Answer: Argentina
Question: What is the name for the private office in the White House of the President of the USA?
Answer: Oval Office
Question: What was the name of the first nuclear-powered submarine, launched on 21 January 1954?
Answer: Nautilus
Question: A baby's first teeth are called what?
Answer: Milk teeth
Question: Who discovered, in 1895, that X Rays could be applied to medicine?
Answer: Rontgen
Question: What device, with a scale of 60 degrees was used in marine navigation for measuring the altitude of a celestial object above the horizon?
Answer: Sextant
Question: Sasha and Malia are the daughters of which political figure?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: Which former American football star was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and was later convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping?
Answer: O J Simpson
Question: What disaster occurred in Ireland in 1845?
Answer: Potato famine
Question: What is the term for the conversion of a solid directly into a vapour by applying heat, and vice versa?
Answer: Sublimation
Question: Whose top hat and other belongings fetched nearly half a million euros at auction in May 2009?
Answer: Marcel Marceau
Question: Which warship captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships (HMS Guerriere, HMS Java, HMS Pictou, HMS Cyane and HMS Levant) in the War of 1812 against Great Britain?
Answer: USS Constitution
Question: Which canal allows ships to travel from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean?
Answer: Suez
Question: Who was the female co-star with Elvis Presley in the film "Viva Las Vegas"?
Answer: Ann Margret
Question: What is the term for the measure of the brightness of a star as it appears on earth?
Answer: Apparent magnitude
Question: The city of Venice is on which sea?
Answer: Adriatic
Question: What word is given to the association of dissimilar organisms for mutual benefit?
Answer: Symbiosis
Question: In Greek legend, who was the son of Daedalus who fell to his death?
Answer: Icarus
Question: What is an Italianate resort village on the coast of Snowdonia in Wales, near Penrhyndeudraeth, two miles southeast of Porthmadog?
Answer: Portmeirion
Question: What is the name of a process of dyeing fabric to produce marbled colour effects using hot wax?
Answer: Batik
Question: Under the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which followed the War Of The Spanish Succession, Spain ceded Minorca and which other area to Britain?
Answer: Gibraltar
Question: With which country do you associate the didgeridoo?
Answer: Australia
Question: What machine was invented by Professor Auguste Picard for scientific exploration?
Answer: Bathyscaphe
Question: What transport artery runs for 13 miles between Brig, Switzerland and Domodossola, Italy?
Answer: Simplon Tunnel
Question: What is another name for tungsten?
Answer: Wolfram
Question: The Sunda Trench is the deepest part of which ocean?
Answer: Indian Ocean
Question: Tetanus is known by what other name?
Answer: Lockjaw
Question: What is the name for the fitting together of the masticating surfaces of the upper and lower teeth in biting?
Answer: Occlusion
Question: Which concert pianist became the first President of the Polish Republic in 1919?
Answer: Ignaz Jan Paderewski
Question: What explorer sailed on the ship "Terra Nova"?
Answer: Robert Falcon Scott
Question: What character was the child of the character played by Tom Hanks in the film "Sleepless in Seattle"?
Answer: Jonah
Question: Which one of the signs of the zodiac is inanimate?
Answer: Libra
Question: What is an alternative name for a hydrolaccolith, a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic that can reach up to 70 metres (230 ft) in height and up to 600 m (2,000 ft) in diameter?
Answer: Pingo
Question: With a time of 3:49.4, breaking the existing world record by over 1.5 seconds, who was the first to run the mile in under 3:50 minutes ?
Answer: John Walker
Question: Who became President of the USA on the death of Franklin D Roosevelt and remained in office until 1953?
Answer: Harry S Truman
Question: Barbi Benton was famous as whose girlfriend from 1969 to 1976 ?
Answer: Hugh Hefner
Question: Who wrote "Raindrops Are Fallin' On My Head", the theme from the film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"?
Answer: Burt Bacharach
Question: What is the capital of the state of California?
Answer: Sacramento
Question: Who had a hit with the song "The Rainbow Connection"?
Answer: Kermit the Frog
Question: In the English nursery rhyme, who fell down and broke his crown?
Answer: Jack
Question: The song "My Kind Of Town", written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen in 1964, was about which city?
Answer: Chicago
Question: By what name was William Frederick Cody better known?
Answer: Buffalo Bill
Question: Rimsky-Korsakov named a piece of music "The Flight of the ..." what?
Answer: Bumblebee
Question: Who was the last President of the Fourth Republic of France, and the first President of the Fifth Republic?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle
Question: Which volcano buried the Italian city of Pompeii?
Answer: Vesuvius
Question: Which musical is set in Gary, Indiana?
Answer: The Music Man
Question: Who was the great great great grand uncle of the singer/composer known as "Moby"?
Answer: Herman Melville
Question: By which name was boxer Walter Smith better known?
Answer: Sugar Ray Robinson
Question: What is the name of the model village near Birmingham, owned by a trust, that was founded for the employees of Cadbury in 1895?
Answer: Bourneville
Question: To end The War of 1812, the USA and Great Britain signed which treaty on 24 December 1814?
Answer: Treaty of Ghent
Question: Which perennial herb, crocus sativus, has purple flowers and orange coloured stigmas?
Answer: Saffron
Question: Which river runs through the city of Paris, France?
Answer: Seine
Question: Whose life was the 2004 film "Ray" about?
Answer: Ray Charles
Question: With which sport is Michael Jordan, who represented the USA at the Olympic Games in 1984 & 1992, associated?
Answer: Basketball
Question: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tr Cool are collectively known as which band?
Answer: Green Day
Question: What is Neptune's main satellite?
Answer: Triton