zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and New Orleans, Louisiana, what is the name for the day called Shrove Tuesday in Ireland and the UK where it is celebrated with pancakes?
Answer: Mardi Gras
Question: What is the number of the beast, according to the Book of Revelation?
Answer: 666
Question: What is the name given to a class of coal that contains a high percentage of fired carbon and burns smokelessly with intense heat?
Answer: Anthracite
Question: What was the name of the temporary harbours that were towed to the French coast to facilitate D Day landings on 5 and 6 June 1944?
Answer: Mulberry
Question: How many signs of the Zodiac are neither inanimate nor human?
Answer: 7
Question: Woody Guthrie, tired of radio overplaying Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", wrote a song in 1940 now known as what?
Answer: This Land Is Your Land
Question: When bidding in Auction Bridge, what suit has the highest value below "No trumps"?
Answer: Spades
Question: Over 99.9% of an atom's mass is concentrated in what part of the atom?
Answer: Nucleus
Question: Who was the Greek god of medicine who brought dead people back to life, angering Zeus who killed him with a thunderbolt?
Answer: Aesculapius
Question: Antoni Gaudi is responsible for the architecture of which building which is still being constructed to his original plans and drawings, 90 years after his death?
Answer: Sagrada Familia
Question: Which French city near the Mediterranean Sea, was an embarcation point for the 7th and 8th Crusades, and is now a tourist destination because of its well-preserved city walls?
Answer: Aigues-Mortes
Question: What British sitcom features Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone, immature, prosperous, preposterous, substance-abusing fashion obsessed Londoners who value fame and style over substance?
Answer: Absolutely Fabulous
Question: Which British sitcom featured Captain Mainwaring's catch phrase "You stupid boy!"
Answer: Dads Army
Question: Who played Jemima in the then new musical Cats in 1981, and later starred in more of Lloyd Webber's work, with two roles written for her: in the mass Requiem, and Christine Daa in The Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: Sarah Brightman
Question: Which animal character, who first appeared on film in 1933, was conceived by Merian C Cooper and created by Willis O'Brien?
Answer: King Kong
Question: In 2003, which team broke Australia's winning streak of the World Netball Tournaments since 1971?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What measure of land area was defined in medieval England as the size of a field that could be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in one day?
Answer: Acre
Question: Which number is exactly opposite 12 through the centre of a dart board?
Answer: 2
Question: Following the Battle of Borodino, fire raged for four days, destroying an estimated three-quarters of which city?
Answer: Moscow
Question: What is the common name for decompression sickness?
Answer: Bends
Question: What is the name of the geochemical component that has no known terrestrial counterpart which was discovered in The Genesis Rock retrieved during the Apollo 15 mission?
Answer: KREEP
Question: Who was the driver of the car in which co-driver Michel Perin broke his arm when they crashed during the Dakar Rally in January 2009?
Answer: Carlos Sainz
Question: Which branch of astronomy studies radiation with wavelengths greater than approximately one millimetre?
Answer: Radio astronomy
Question: Which German-born composer became a naturalised Englishman, wrote 30 operas in the 18th century, and is more famous now for his oratorios such as "The Messiah"?
Answer: George Handel
Question: Which German Nazi leader flew solo from Ausberg in 1941 and landed by parachute near Glasgow on a private peace mission?
Answer: Hess
Question: Who was the daughter of Mahomet and his first wife Kadijah?
Answer: Fatima
Question: Which country, whose chief port is La Guaira, became a republic after seceding from the Republic of Colombia in 1830?
Answer: Venezuela
Question: The "Entente Cordiale", signed on 8 April 1904, was a pact to resolve all outstanding issues that were outstanding between France and which other country?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: Where did Colonel James Bowie and Davy Crockett die fighting Mexican forces?
Answer: Alamo
Question: The Boston Tea Party, where tea was tipped into the harbour to protest taxation, precipitated what historical event?
Answer: American Revolution
Question: Giuseppe Rossi, who was born and raised in Clifton, New Jersey, USA, was the top scorer with 4 goals in the men's association football tournament at the 2008 Olympics. Which team did he play for?
Answer: Italy
Question: Who referred to her quarter final match against Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 2009 Australian Open as "an out of body experience"?
Answer: Serena Williams
Question: From 1781 until the adoption of the Constitution on 17 September 1787, the US government operated in terms of what document?
Answer: Articles of Confederation
Question: To where, between June 1948 and May 1949, was over 1 million tons (up to 13,000 tons per day) of food, coal and other supplies transported by the aircraft of the USA, UK and France?
Answer: Berlin
Question: Symptoms of what disease include fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anaemia, hemoglobinuria, retinal damage, and convulsions, with cyclical occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigour, fever and sweating?
Answer: Malaria
Question: Which card game involves 2 teams of 2 players aiming to reach 7 points, with each trick taken above 6 counting as 1 point, using 52 cards, all dealt except the last, which is turned up as trumps?
Answer: Whist
Question: Which Greek poet (1200 - 850 BC) is famous for the poems popularly attributed to him about the siege of Troy and the wanderings of Ulysses?
Answer: Homer
Question: Which weightlifting lift was discontinued at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal due to difficulties in judging proper form?
Answer: Clean and press
Question: What is the national park in Wyoming covering 3350 square miles that was opened in 1872?
Answer: Yellowstone National Park
Question: Which town in Lincolnshire, UK, is the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher, and has connections with Isaac Newton, Nicholas Parsons and Richard Todd?
Answer: Grantham
Question: Who ordered the execution of Catherine Howard in 1542?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question: Where did Sherlock Holmes lose his struggle with Moriarty but did not die after all?
Answer: Reichenbach Falls
Question: What is the maximum number of individual players for Ludo?
Answer: 4
Question: Who, about to leave the Animals as bassist, brought Jimi Hendrix to London, signed him to a management and production contract and helped him form The Jimi Hendrix Experience?
Answer: Chas Chandler
Question: Broadcasting from Germany to England in English in 1940, by what name was William Joyce better known?
Answer: Lord Haw Haw
Question: Which painter, designer of stained glass and engraver born in Ausburg, Germany, became painter to the court of Henry VIII and died of the plague in 1543?
Answer: Hans Holbein
Question: What infectious disease, caused by a virus, is characterised by the eruption of successive crops of blisters?
Answer: Chickenpox
Question: In September 1905 the government of New South Wales, Australia, voted to buy 1,000 miles of netting in attempt to control what?
Answer: Rabbits
Question: """Chateau Snavely"", ""Amanda's"", and ""Payne"" were three attempts to remake which UK TV series for the US market ?"
Answer: Fawlty Towers
Question: Which 1940 film, a story of corruption in politics written and directed by Preston Sturges, is told in flashback by a bartender about his rise to, and fall from, being a state Governor?
Answer: The Great McGinty
Question: Around 2,000 of which type of rocket-propelled pilotless bomb was launched on London from 8 September 1944 to March 1945?
Answer: V2
Question: Which empire, established in and around Cappadocia, was powerful in Asia Minor from 1400 to 1200 BC?
Answer: Hittite
Question: In which 1940 film did the characters Adenoid Hynkel, Benzino Napolini, Garbitsch and Herring appear?
Answer: The Great Dictator
Question: Which 1955 film was withdrawn from the Venice Film Festival when the US Ambassador to Italy, Clare Booth Luce, refused to attend because the film gave too alarming an impression of conditions in US schools?
Answer: The Blackboard Jungle
Question: What name was given to the architectural style adopted in Britain from 1714 to 1820 largely due to the influence of Sir Christopher Wren?
Answer: Georgian
Question: What game is played in 4 quarters between two teams of 18 outdoors on a large oval grass field with two goal posts and two behind posts at each end, where the primary aim of the game is to score by kicking a ball between the posts of the opposing goal?
Answer: Australian football
Question: At which Olympic Games were there new events including BMX (men and women), swimming marathon (10 km), and for the first time, women competed in the steeplechase and some team fencing events?
Answer: 2008, Beijing
Question: Which tree native to Mexico, South America and Central America, part of a family of flowering plants, produces a fruit (technically a large berry) that contains a pit which may be egg-shaped or spherical?
Answer: Avocado
Question: In which 20th century conflict did the "Tet offensive" take place?
Answer: Vietnam War
Question: According to Christian legend, who, as Jesus was bearing the cross to Golgotha, offered him her veil to wipe his brow?
Answer: Veronica
Question: Who first mentioned an "Iron Curtain" when discussing Soviet activities immediately after World War II?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: Which organisation, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, was established as an agency of the League of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and became a specialized agency of the United Nations after the demise of the League in 1946?
Answer: ILO
Question: What ancient Sumerian city stood on the banks of the Euphrates River between 3200 and 2300 BC?
Answer: Ur
Question: Which two American track and field athletes, who finished first and third in the 200 metres, were sent home from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City after they performed the Black Power salute on the victory stand?
Answer: Tommie Smith and John Carlos
Question: Who started "Poor Richard's Almanac" in 1732, helped draw up the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and invented the lightning conductor?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Question: Who had a morning show from June to October 1980 and a late night show from 1982 to 1993 weeknights at 12:30 a.m. at NBC in New York, then moved to CBS where the show screens at 11:30 p.m.?
Answer: David Letterman
Question: Which constellation is just below the feet of The Great Bear?
Answer: Leo
Question: Which English writer wrote "Goodbye To All That", "I, Claudius", "Claudius The God" and "King Jesus"?
Answer: Robert Graves
Question: What do ethnologists call people occupying most of North Africa, after one of Noah's sons who is, according to legend, their ancestor?
Answer: Hamites
Question: To whom did a crowd ouside the White House chant "Na, na, na, na - hey, hey - goodbye" in January 2009?
Answer: George W Bush
Question: Gibbons are native to which continent?
Answer: Asia
Question: Which book by Sir Thomas More, his view of an ideal society with community ownership, was written in Latin in 1516 and translated into English in 1551?
Answer: Utopia
Question: Who was the commander of the Luftwaffe during World War II and died by taking poison after being condemned to death at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946?
Answer: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Question: In the southern USA, what is the name for an embankment that allows the water to flow at a higher level than the surrounding land?
Answer: Levee
Question: The foundations for which science were laid by Adam Smith in 1776 and followed up by people such as John Stuart Mill and David Ricardo?
Answer: Economics
Question: The rest is silence are the dying words of which Shakespearean character?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Which strong man appears in the Bible in the Book of Judges?
Answer: Samson
Question: Which sculptor is famous for "Bronze Age" (1877), "Burgesses of Calais" (1889), "The Kiss" (1898), and is best known in England for "Le Penseur"?
Answer: Auguste Rodin
Question: What name was given to groups of runaway slaves in Jamaica and Guiana in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Answer: Maroons
Question: Which group of over 7000 islands has main islands called Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, Negros, Palawan, Panay, Mindora, Leyte, Cebu, Bohol and Masbate?
Answer: Philippines
Question: The Soviet Union did not participate in the Olympics until 1952, and from 1928 organised an alternative international sports event. What were these games called?
Answer: Spartakiads
Question: In the 19th century, Edward Gibbon Wakefield set up which organisation to colonise New Zealand?
Answer: The New Zealand Company
Question: What was the name for a form of stencil duplicator used for making numerous copies of a document?
Answer: Mimeograph
Question: What was the name of the group formed in London in February 1944 to plan the invasion of Europe under General Dwight D Eisenhower?
Answer: SHAEF
Question: Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer has been called the "Father of Modern Philosophy," through his books "Passions of the Soul", "Principles of Philosophy", "Discourse on the Method", and "Meditations on First Philosophy"?
Answer: Ren Descartes
Question: What is the name for the inherent property of matter to retain its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by external forces?
Answer: Inertia
Question: The revolver, with a single barrel and a number of chambers for cartridges fired by a one-lock mechanism, was patented in 1835 by whom?
Answer: Samuel Colt
Question: Who, according to the Sumerian king list, was the fifth king of Uruk around 2700 BC, and became the central character in one of the best known works of early literature, where he was described as two-thirds god?
Answer: Gilgamesh
Question: Which sport holds its World Cup, its largest tournament event, including over 3,000 athletes and held each October at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Kissimmee, Florida?
Answer: Paintball
Question: Hernn Corts de Monroy y Pizarro, known as Cortes, conquered which empire in the Americas?
Answer: Aztec
Question: Romulus, co-founder of Rome, was deified after his death and worshipped as which God?
Answer: Quirinus
Question: What is a form of cricket, originally introduced in the United Kingdom for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2003, that involves two teams, each of which has one innings?
Answer: Twenty20
Question: What was the name given to rocks in the Straits of Messina opposite the whirlpool of Charybdis?
Answer: Scylla
Question: Who was the Greek Goddess of health, who was usually represented by a serpent on a staff?
Answer: Hygieia
Question: What was the name of the man and his adopted son who were Roman military leaders between 216 BC (the invasion of Italy by Hannibal) and 147 BC ( the destruction of Carthage)?
Answer: Scipio
Question: According to Greek legend, the Sirens threw themselves into the sea and turned into rocks due to the beautiful singing of whom?
Answer: Orpheus
Question: In May 2009, publicist Raymone Bain announced that she was suing who for US$44 million for five years' work?
Answer: Michael Jackson
Question: If someone is referred to as "feline", what animal are they being compared to?
Answer: Cat
Question: Which Jewish sect whose revolt against Roman Emperor Justinian in 529AD was put down so severely that tens of thousands died or were enslaved?
Answer: Samaritans
Question: Which structure of cantilever design, designed by Sir W. M. Arrol, was begun in 1883 and opened in 1890?
Answer: Forth Railway Bridge
Question: What name was given to the political scandal in the USA 1970s that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, President of the United States, on August 9, 1974 and the indictment and conviction of several of his officials?
Answer: Watergate
Question: What function must be applied to the numbers 10 and 5 to provide 50 as the result?
Answer: Multiplication
Question: What was the popular name for Bethlem (or Bethlehem) Hospital, the first home for the insane in Britain established in 1403?
Answer: Bedlam
Question: Which book of the Bible contains the story of the visit of the Queen of Sheba to the court of King Solomon?
Answer: 1 Kings
Question: The term "musket" strictly refers to a firearm with what?
Answer: A smooth bore
Question: What is the name of the result of the complete census of England carried out under the instructions of William I in 1086?
Answer: Domesday Book
Question: The last line of which 1939 film, spoken by Judy Garland, is "If I ever again go looking for my heart's desire, I won't go looking any further than my own backyard"?
Answer: The Wizard Of Oz
Question: Where, 25 miles West of Knoxville, Tennessee, was an Atomic Bomb Research Station set up in 1942?
Answer: Oak Ridge
Question: Near the end of August 2009, Australia lost to England by 197 runs in what sport?
Answer: Cricket
Question: According to a fragment of "The Achilleid", written by Statius in the first century AD, when Achilles the mythological Greek hero was born, his mother tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx. Where was he left vulnerable?
Answer: Heel
Question: The last edition of which British music chart television programme was broadcast on 30 July 2006 after running for 41 1/2 years?
Answer: Top of the Pops
Question: Idris el Senussi, Emir or Cyrenu, was made the first king of what "United Kingdom" on 24 December 1951?
Answer: Libya
Question: What town 16 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, dominated by the Puritans in the 17th century, was famous for its witchcraft trials?
Answer: Salem
Question: What device found on ships from the 18th century, consists of a telescope, a graduated arc and two mirrors, one of which is attached to a moveable arm?
Answer: Sextant
Question: What preparation, consisting mainly of citron, orange, bergamot, neroli and rosemary, was first prepared by Johann Maria Farina soon after 1700?
Answer: Eau de Cologne
Question: If a steam locomotive is described as a 2-4-0, how many driving wheels does it have?
Answer: 4
Question: What is the smallest interval in European music, of which 12 make an octave?
Answer: Semitone
Question: Where was a battle fought between General Robert E Lee and General Meade from 1 to 3 July 1863, which is generally accepted as the turning point of the American Civil War?
Answer: Gettysburg
Question: Who was the American poet who worked for Mussolini to broadcast propaganda to the USA, was tried for treason in 1945 and was judged to be insane?
Answer: Ezra Pound
Question: Which sport, a version of which had been a medal sport in 1924, and a demonstration sport in 1928, 1936 and 1948, became an official Winter Olympic sport in 1960?
Answer: Biathlon
Question: What is the name given to the silent electrical discharge between the atmosphere and, for example, trees, ships' masts, steeples and flagpoles?
Answer: St Elmo's Fire
Question: The Belgian Revolution, that began after a performance at the Brussels opera in 1830, led to the secession of the Southern provinces of which kingdom to establish an independent Kingdom of Belgium?
Answer: United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Question: What was the capital city of Russia from 1712 to 1918?
Answer: Saint Petersburg
Question: Who unknowingly slew his father and married his mother, and, when he discovered his true identity, blinded himself when his mother hanged herself?
Answer: Oedipus
Question: Which island group between the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean was discovered in 1521 by Magellan, was taken by Spain, ceded to the USA in 1898 and became an independent republic in 1946?
Answer: Philippines
Question: In the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove ... ", the doctor, working as national security consultant to the president, was a sinister character with a heavy Germanic accent and darkly Teutonic attitudes. Who had the nickname "Dr Strangelove" when in public office in the 1970s?
Answer: Henry Kissinger
Question: From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, what was considered to be the Solar System's ninth planet?
Answer: Pluto
Question: Che Guevara was among the revolutionaries who invaded which country with the intention of overthrowing its US-backed dictator in December 1956?
Answer: Cuba
Question: Billy Piper played the travelling companion to the lead role in which TV series that played in Great Britain in 2005?
Answer: Dr Who
Question: Who claimed to be a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and worked to achieve the independence of Abyssinia?
Answer: Menelek II
Question: What is the name of the bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, which forms the first part of their Constitution Act, 1982?
Answer: Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Question: What needs to be added to the sum of the first three prime numbers to equal the fifth?
Answer: 1
Question: What is the English chalk plain crossed by the Avon that includes the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Amesbury?
Answer: Salisbury Plain
Question: Who had a team of Dr. Eric Foreman, Dr. Robert Chase, and Dr. Allison Cameron and replaced them with Dr. Eric Foreman, Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley, Dr. Chris Taub and Dr. Lawrence Kutner?
Answer: Dr. Gregory House
Question: What Irish dramatist, whose first produced play was "Widowers' Houses" in 1892, won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: What palace / monastery covering 10 acres (4.05 hectares), in the shape of a grid iron as a monument to St Lawrence, was built 20 miles (32 kilometres) south of Madrid by Philip II?
Answer: El Escorial
Question: Which group was the subject of the Microsoft Xbox 360 games Rock Band that premired in June 2009 which is intended to be "a revolutionary tour" of their music and career?
Answer: The Beatles
Question: Who was the Cornish inventor who is famous for building a high pressure non-condensing steam engine for general industrial use in 1880, and in 1801 for building a steam car that carried passengers?
Answer: Richard Trevithick
Question: According to the Bible, which Moabitess married Boaz in Jerusalem and had two sons, Jesse and David?
Answer: Ruth
Question: What singing game show that premiered on Fox in July 2007 and was confirmed as cancelled in August 2009 where contestants competed to win one million dollars by correctly recalling song lyrics from a variety of genres was hosted by Wayne Brady?
Answer: Don't Forget the Lyrics!
Question: What sport is played with mallets with handles 52 in long, on a field measuring 300 x 160 yards?
Answer: Polo
Question: Four year old Exodus, who died due to an accident with a treadmill in May 2009, was the daughter of whom?
Answer: Mike Tyson
Question: The musical "Oliver!" is associated with which geographical area?
Answer: London
Question: What is the British group of islands in the South Atlantic that consists of two main islands, together with 776 smaller ones?
Answer: Falkland Islands
Question: An aircraft flying at 40,000 feet can be heard to break the sound barrier when it achieves a speed of how many miles per hour?
Answer: 600
Question: Which Greek philosopher was accused by the Sophists of corrupting the youth of Athens and was condemned to death by drinking hemlock?
Answer: Socrates
Question: What gambling game involves dealing 2 cards each to the player and the dealer, with the object of getting 9 or more points, counting their face value (except 10s and court cards, which count nothing)?
Answer: Baccarat
Question: Which 20th century playwright wrote "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night",
Answer: Eugene O'Neill
Question: Who is a mythological lumberjack who appears in tall tales of American folklore, usually believed to be a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, who was first documented in the work of American journalist James MacGillivray?
Answer: Paul Bunyan
Question: The first case of AIDS was discovered in 1981 in which city?
Answer: Los Angeles