zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: A stonemason commonly refers to unmetamorphosed limestone as what, whose name derives from Greek 'shining stone'?
Answer: Marble
Question: What nation has the country code internet top-level domain (TLD) .se?
Answer: Sweden
Question: The title/position of Swami represents a religious teacher in?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: The controversially named nation Myanmar is also called controversially what?
Answer: Burma
Question: International dialling codes beginning with the number 2 are chiefly for which continent?
Answer: Africa
Question: What prestige car marque has a trident emblem design influenced by the Fountain of Neptune, Bologna?
Answer: Maserati
Question: What was the first internet top-level domain?
Answer: .arpa
Question: What word is used on Wikipedia referring to its pages which list and resolve "...conflicts in article titles that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic..." (as at 2012)?
Answer: Disambiguation
Question: Micturate is a medical term for expelling what from the human body?
Answer: Urine
Question: From Dutch meaning 'foolish gull', the Australian word mollymawk refers to what sort of bird?
Answer: Albatross
Question: Dom Mintoff was prime minister of which country from 1955-8 and 71-84?
Answer: Malta
Question: The major UK, US and Canada organizations abbreviated to NFU represent which industry?
Answer: Farming
Question: What notable ex-politician became the first female member of USA's Augusta golf club in 2012?
Answer: Condoleeza Rice
Question: What does a lux meter measure?
Answer: Illuminance
Question: What is Europe's largest island?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: What musical instrument generally having 17-23 strings derives its name from Persian meaning 'three strings'?
Answer: Sitar
Question: Internet corporation Yahoo profited by $4.3bn in 2012 when it sold half its 40% stake in what vast Chinese web company?
Answer: Alibaba
Question: Until London's New College of the Humanities opened in 2012, in what county town, since 1983, was the UK's only private university?
Answer: Buckingham
Question: In India a kirana is a what?
Answer: Shop
Question: In Spain, El Gordo is a?
Answer: National lottery
Question: The term 'art house' most widely refers to a genre of?
Answer: Cinema film
Question: Mount Danxia, the World Heritage Site containing spectacular red-striped sandstone landscape, including two bizarrely realistic (male and female) phallic rock formations, is in which country?
Answer: China
Question: Name the Russian feminist rock-protest group, three of whom were jailed for two years in 2012 for performing an anti-state song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour?
Answer: Pussy Riot
Question: The UK-based multinational media/advertising corporation Hibu plc was previously named and retains branding based on which colour/color?
Answer: Yellow
Question: Traditionally the number of cuff buttons on a western-style man's jacket/blazer are determined by?
Answer: Formality
Question: What global retailer is associated with the late 1990s slogan "Chuck out your chintz"?
Answer: IKEA
Question: What global brand withdrew ('rested') its old red-jacketed striding man 104 years after its first appearance in 1908?
Answer: Johnnie Walker
Question: A sophomore is typically a student in which year of university?
Answer: Second
Question: The French commune town Laguiole in south-central Midi-Pyrénées region of France is known for what eponymously named tool?
Answer: Knife
Question: What, related etymologically to the Chinese Yuan and the Japanese Yen, is the currency of North and South Korea?
Answer: Won
Question: A costermonger was/is a traditional street-seller of?
Answer: Fruit and vegetables
Question: The traditional 'proof' measure of beverage alcoholic strength derives from the maritime method of 'proving' that rum was not waterered down, by dousing what with the rum and igniting it?
Answer: Gunpowder
Question: What colour/color is the Swiss cheese Gruyère?
Answer: Yellow
Question: Approximately what is the surface temperature of the Sun, in degrees centigrade?
Answer: 5,500
Question: The Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) pioneered and made his vast fortune in which industry in late 1800s USA?
Answer: Steel
Question: What is the English translation of the German news magazine title Der Spiegel?
Answer: The Mirror
Question: What sort of musical instrument is a cabasa?
Answer: Percussion
Question: What creature is the 1940-50s TV puppet character Muffin?
Answer: Mule
Question: Lebanese-American professor/author Nassim Taleb coined the term '(What colour/color What creature?)' referring to an unpredictable random event that has a vast societal/political/economic impact?
Answer: Black Swan
Question: Research published in 2012 by the University of Rio de Janeiro identified what capability as the fundamental enabler of increased brain size in human evolution?
Answer: Cooking
Question: Named after a children's story character, what is the informal astrobiological term for the region around a star within which a planet with surface water could theoretically exist?
Answer: Goldilocks Zone
Question: A hang is what sort of musical instrument?
Answer: Percussion
Question: The Chalara Fraxinea fungal disease afflicts?
Answer: Trees
Question: Fujitsu's 2012 'Floral Kiss', controversially designed for women including 'long fingernails-friendly opening' and daily horoscopes, is what sort of product?
Answer: Laptop computer
Question: What make of aircraft is considered the first jet to fly?
Answer: Heinkel
Question: What country has the internet top level domain (TLD) suffix .za?
Answer: South Africa
Question: The beat of what aptly titled 1970s disco hit is suggested by the British Heart Foundation (and others) as an ideal CPR rhythm?
Answer: Stayin' Alive
Question: The word trek was first used in?
Answer: Africa
Question: Litmus, used in acidity testing, is extracted from?
Answer: Lichen
Question: A graviton is a term in?
Answer: Physics
Question: (Up to) what degree of Neanderthal DNA is found in modern non-African people?
Answer: 4%
Question: What is India's smallest state (by area)?
Answer: Goa
Question: Largely Indian-owned corporation ArclelorMittal (a merger/acquisition of the two names by the latter) is the world's biggest producer of?
Answer: Steel
Question: What country has the internet top level domain .sa?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: A project led by broadcaster NHK and Tobu Railway Co, which city's 'Skytree' opened as the world's tallest self-supporting tower and 2nd largest building in 2012?
Answer: Tokyo
Question: What is the year 2012 in Roman numerals?
Answer: MMXII
Question: How many Sundays are in 2012?
Answer: 53
Question: Andy William's (1927-2012) TV Show featured what animal who liked cookies?
Answer: Bear
Question: Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, the world famous performance artist who died in 2012, is better known by what name?
Answer: Ravi Shankar
Question: 2012 was the 300th anniversary of the world's first industrial steam-powered machine, which was a?
Answer: Water pump
Question: Which entertainer's gravestone was removed from a Scarborough UK cemetery in 2012?
Answer: Jimmy Savile
Question: Which 2002-founded UK budget airline ceased to operate in 2012?
Answer: Bmibaby
Question: Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends are books by which hugely popular Irish writer who died in 2012?
Answer: Maeve Binchy
Question: Which famous character from computing tweeted 'This is for everyone' in the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
Question: In 2012 what laconically-branded sport increased engine capacity from 800 cc to 1,000 cc?
Answer: MotoGP
Question: Who coached/managed both the England and Russia football teams during 2012?
Answer: Fabio Capello
Question: What rejection is shared by LS Lowry, John Lennon; Philip Larkin, Benjamin Zephaniah, and Danny Boyle? Chivalric order; US-visa; Blood donation; or Driving licence?
Answer: Chivalric order
Question: What event caused Twitter's servers to crash on 25 June 2009?
Answer: Michael Jackson's death
Question: William the Conqueror (William I of England, 1027/8-87, reigned 1066-87) was also known unflatteringly as 'William the (What)'?
Answer: Bastard
Question: Typically used in law, the Latin term 'Ipso Facto' means?
Answer: By the fact itself
Question: The US governmental budget crisis at the end of 2012 was referred to as the 'Fiscal (what geological term?)'?
Answer: Cliff
Question: What iconic historically semi-military people, recognized by Russia in 2010 as an ethinicity, are named after the old Cuman/Turkic word meaning 'free man'?
Answer: Cossacks
Question: Antipasto (plural antipasti) refers to what part of an Italian lunch/dinner?
Answer: Before the meal
Question: What was the three-letter two-number prefix code in the full name of The Haçienda nightclub in Manchester UK?
Answer: FAC51
Question: What's the world's oldest amateur rowing club (now at Henley-on Thames, UK) named after the Greek mythological lover of the priestess Hero, who drowned swimming the Hellespont to visit her?
Answer: Leander
Question: What sort of fastener has a crown, legs and teeth?
Answer: Staple
Question: Frettabladid is (early 2000s) the leading newspaper of which island nation?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Daniel Hooper, a famous British protestor, is better known by what nickname, earned during his (literally) underground resistance to the Newbury bypass in 1996? Muddy; Boggy; Swampy; or Dirty?
Answer: Swampy
Question: Which global-reaching organization was revealed in 2013 to hold property investments exceeding £½bn derived from 'recognition' payments received in 1929 from Benito Mussolini?
Answer: The Vatican
Question: The Republic of Upper Volta was renamed what (two-words) in 1984, meaning respectively 'men of integrity' and 'fatherland' in its two native languages?
Answer: Burkina Faso
Question: In terms of actions, activities, projects, etc., the word hiatus means a?
Answer: Pause
Question: Peripatetic refers to work which involves?
Answer: Travel
Question: The word nexus refers to a?
Answer: Connection
Question: What does a philogynist like?
Answer: Women
Question: The name of what workwear was derived from the Dongri area in South Mumbai India?
Answer: Dungarees
Question: What is a saury fish, a captain, and a South African long-sleeved shirt?
Answer: Skipper
Question: The Roman settlement of Arausio in SE France later became what significantly named town and subsequent principality/emblem in Dutch, English, southern African and Irish history?
Answer: Orange
Question: What Rome-founded fashion house and handbag specialist sponsored a 2m euro restoration of the Trevi Fountain in 2013?
Answer: Fendi
Question: What chocolate, biscuit and raisin confection, otherwise known as 'fridge cake', is named after an Indian-English word for a light snack?
Answer: Tiffin
Question: What is the extremely strong natural glucose-derived polymer of fungi cell walls, crustacean/insect exoskeletons, etc., also used in pharmacy and industry?
Answer: Chitin
Question: The nickname of 9th century Islamic mathematician Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa ('al-Kwarizmi' - the man of Kwarizm) is the etymological source of what computing term?
Answer: Algorithm
Question: Name the fictional suburb in Ira Levin's 1972 novel which became an expression for a wife who submissively obeys her husband?
Answer: Stepford
Question: In chemistry and physics the tendency of a substance to vaporize is termed?
Answer: Volatility
Question: The Italian fashion name Prada refers to?
Answer: The founder
Question: Nits, Blondels, Skots, Lamberts, and Footlamberts are measures of?
Answer: Luminance
Question: What uniquely specialized profession traditionally uses a Piscatory Ring?
Answer: A Pope
Question: What 2nd World War US pilot's alliterative expression for an unidentified flying object, from the 'Smoky Stover' cartoon strip, inspired the name of a rock band?
Answer: Foo Fighter
Question: The famously gruelling c.1,100mile (1,800km) Iditarod Trial Dog Sled Race is run annually each March where?
Answer: Alaska
Question: Hydromel is a very old alcoholic drink made with fermented what?
Answer: Honey
Question: San Pellegrino is an Italian?
Answer: Water
Question: What cocktail, named in Cuban Spanish, comprises white rum, lime/lemon, sugar and mint?
Answer: Mojito
Question: Badinage describes verbal communication which is?
Answer: Witty
Question: Warning symbols for radioactivity and biological hazards employ a three-part icon called a what, originally referring to a three-leaved plant?
Answer: Trefoil
Question: Which travel guide publisher was acquired by the BBC's commercial division BBC Worldwide Ltd for £130m in 2007, and sold for £51m in 2013?
Answer: Lonely Planet
Question: Where is the coastal village of Pugwash, famous for thought leadership and peace conferences?
Answer: Canada
Question: What reductive metaphor refers to a percentage subtraction from the market value of an asset, which became a description for the EU-imposed tax on Cyprus bank deposits in 2013?
Answer: Haircut
Question: What medical/industrial sterilization equipment is named from the meaning 'self-fastening'?
Answer: Autoclave
Question: What does the French-English expression "C'est la vie!" mean?
Answer: Such is life!
Question: What creature is a slang word in French for a newspaper?
Answer: Canard
Question: What are named after English Dr John Braxton Hicks (1823-97)?
Answer: Contractions in pregnancy
Question: What is commonly said in Germany to a person who has just sneezed?
Answer: Gesundheit
Question: Screeno, Keno, and Housey-Housey are name variations of what more commonly known gambling game?
Answer: Bingo
Question: With the headline 'Simply the Best' who at 73 became Vogue's oldest front cover model (April 2013 German edition)?
Answer: Tina Turner
Question: Traditionally made of paper over a wooden frame what is a Japanese 'shoji'?
Answer: Sliding door
Question: The ancient Roman silver coin called fully/originally 'denarius nummus' meant and equated to a 'Coin containing [worth] ten (what?)'?
Answer: Asses
Question: The French-English word billet-doux refers to a?
Answer: Love letter
Question: The pseudo-Latin expression 'hax pax max Deus adimax' used in conjuring from the 1600s developed into what modern term referring to 'kidology' or nonsensical explanation?
Answer: Hocus-pocus
Question: What descriptively prefixes a species of bear, cobra, and caiman (like an alligator), referring to something worn by some people?
Answer: Spectacled
Question: The 'bacronym' (a reverse acronym) 'Query Newlyn Harbour' is used as a mnemonic in what field?
Answer: Aviation
Question: Someone whose occupation is a gillie (or ghillie) works where?
Answer: Scottish Highlands
Question: ASCII (referring to computer language) means what in full?
Answer: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Question: What colour/color flag was historically first displayed to indicate sickness aboard a ship?
Answer: Yellow
Question: The green gemstone peridot is known in its mineral form by what edible coloured/colored name?
Answer: Olivine
Question: What air mattress genericized trademark is a portmanteau of its two-word description?
Answer: Lilo
Question: What is the English translation of the German carmaker's name Volkswagen?
Answer: People's car
Question: What sugar substitute, also known as glucitol, is named after the sorb fruit of the sorbus tree?
Answer: Sorbitol
Question: D'addario, Elixir, Rotosound and Ernie Ball are leading makers of what musical accessory?
Answer: Strings
Question: The AZERTY keyboard layout is standard in?
Answer: France
Question: The term 'cytoplasm' originated in?
Answer: Biology
Question: A sarcophagus traditionally contains a?
Answer: Corpse
Question: What popular Australian bird is named after an ancient stringed instrument?
Answer: Lyrebird
Question: Where is the Barbary Coast?
Answer: North Africa
Question: The base of Pimm's No1 Cup liqueur is?
Answer: Gin
Question: Pavilion, girdle, table, and culet are aspects of a what?
Answer: Gemstone
Question: What term for a structure in maths, science and human organization is from Latin 'breeding woman'?
Answer: Matrix
Question: The beef cut called brisket comes from where on the animal?
Answer: Chest
Question: Which famous current Nestlé confectionery brandname, established 1936, was named after J M Barrie's popular London stage comedy, originally unsuccessfully launched on Broadway in 1901?
Answer: Quality Street
Question: Nephrite, Ca2(Mg, Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2, is one of two minerals more commonly known as what anciently treasured green gemstone, and once considered China's 'imperial gem'?
Answer: Jade
Question: Which bit of Napoleon Boneparte was famously claimed to have been acquired in the late 1900s for several thousand dollars by US medical scientist and war paraphernalia collector John Lattimer?
Answer: Penis
Question: What joint in the body leverages the fastest human motion?
Answer: Shoulder
Question: What iconic genus of fish (technical name Hippocampus) is considered the slowest swimming of all fish, whose dwarf species achieves no more than about 1.5metres per hour?
Answer: Seahorse
Question: What term refers to the off-putting banter directed by bowlers/fielders to opposing batsmen on a cricket pitch?
Answer: Sledging
Question: Botija, udu, and ghatam are types of?
Answer: Musical instruments
Question: E20 and SW19 are codes famously associated with?
Answer: Sport
Question: US composer/artist John Cage's most famous and controversial 1952 work, called 4'33", requires the musician(s) to play for its entire three-movement 4mins 33secs duration?
Answer: Nothing
Question: The straight-legged high-kicking march used by many military forces, especially ceremonially, is popularly called the what?
Answer: Goosestep
Question: A proliferation of new Catholic saints followed the removal of which metaphorical real job role from Vatican canonization in 1983?
Answer: Devil's Advocate
Question: What is the popular old name for a dog's thumb; the obsolete inner toe on some dogs's legs; also a false hoof of deer?
Answer: Dewclaw
Question: The US Presidential official state guest house in Washington DC is called '(What?) House'?
Answer: Blair
Question: The 180th meridian (antimeridian), dividing east and west hemispheres, passes through which island nation, named after main isle Viti Levu?
Answer: Fiji
Question: The Italian bread ciabatta is named literally (actually) after what footwear?
Answer: Slipper
Question: The verb word 'proscribe' means to?
Answer: Forbid
Question: What prefix word joins with hearted, house, ship and year to produce four other words?
Answer: Light
Question: The Latin 'cochleare majus' was the common 1700s term for what kitchen/chemist measurement?
Answer: Tablespoon
Question: The South American tradename 'chiclero' refers to a worker who collects the raw material for which hugely popular confectionery product?
Answer: Gum
Question: The Fresnel lens (in which concentric steps maximise light focus and minimise lens weight), popular in the 1900s in vehicle lights, was first devised c.1820 for what application?
Answer: Lighthouses
Question: What alternative therapy aims to remove poisonous metals/calcium from the body using the same-named chemical process by which ligands (ions or molecules) bond to atoms?
Answer: Chelation
Question: What does the German word 'verboten' mean?
Answer: Forbidden
Question: On the birth of Prince George of Cambridge in 2013 who was relegated to 6th in line to the British throne?
Answer: Princess Beatrice of York
Question: What is the measurement unit for linear mass density of fibres/fibers, commonly used in grading tights/stockings?
Answer: Denier
Question: What business is the Saks Fifth Avenue chain, named after its Manhattan NYC site?
Answer: Department store
Question: The commune (township/parish) Les Baux-de-Provence in south-central France is associated with what metallic element?
Answer: Aluminium
Question: What medieval architectural feature was typically designed to the disadvantage of right-handed swordsmen?
Answer: Spiral staircase
Question: What is the traditional flavour/flavor additive in cream soda?
Answer: Vanilla
Question: Arnova, made by the French corporation Archos, is an 'entry level' brand of what?
Answer: Tablet computers
Question: What term for a sweet tasty liquid derives from Greek 'drink of the gods'?
Answer: Nectar
Question: What 'First' was French (1792-1804), Austrian (1919-34), Portuguese (1910-26) and Roman c.508BC?
Answer: Republic
Question: Satellite is a computer notebook/tablet model brand of which corporation?
Answer: Toshiba
Question: Elisabeth Beresford devised what fancifully famous litter recycling franchise in 1968?
Answer: The Wombles
Question: In 2013 Birmingham UK opened Europe's biggest?
Answer: Public library
Question: What is the trade-related pseudonym of the German-Finnish internet entrepreneur and founder of Megaupload, sought early 2000-2010s by US authorities in relation to filesharing and copyright charges?
Answer: Kim Dotcom
Question: What three-letter word prefixes these words to create four new words?
Answer: Par
Question: Gemini Force One is a 21st century extension of what secretive organization?
Answer: Thunderbirds
Question: In which city are the 11sqkm Nazi party rally grounds and buildings which hosted Hitler's vast gatherings 1933-38?
Answer: Nuremberg
Question: What shape is a sea urchin?
Answer: Sphere
Question: What is the traditional English word best describing Gnocchi in Italian cuisine?
Answer: Dumplings
Question: Telltale, Mainsheet, Crosstree, Shroud and Forestay are parts of what?
Answer: Yacht
Question: What is a rock containing a mineral/element, and is also a sub-unit of Scandinavian currencies?
Answer: Ore
Question: What sort of artworks are the Cloth of St Gereon, Hunt of the Unicorn, Apocalypse, Wawel, and New World?
Answer: Tapestries
Question: The European rebec/rebeck, Arabic rebab/rebeb, and Cretan lyra, are old instruments played with?
Answer: Bow
Question: Which sea, with ports Venice and Split, is the northernmost part of the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: Adriatic Sea
Question: Greave, Cuisset, Tasset, Paulron, and Visor are parts of what sort of workwear suits?
Answer: Armour
Question: NASA's Voyager I probe, leaving our solar system 12 billion miles from Earth in September 2013, contains a voice message from which US president, in office at its launch?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Question: What acronymic internet alternative to traditional university campus learning was substantially extended in the UK in 2013?
Answer: MOOCs
Question: What does the internet top level domain '.cat' represent?
Answer: Catalan
Question: A burgh in Scotland (as in Edinburgh) originally meant a?
Answer: Corporate entity
Question: What business model name derives from Old French 'free' and a late-Middle Ages English grant of legal immunity?
Answer: Franchise/Franchising
Question: Stereo (as in stereophonic, stereogram, etc) originally meant in Greek?
Answer: Solid
Question: Name the (founding) nationality of the 2010s women's rights group Femen, bare-breasted ambushers of Vladimir Putin and Parish Fashion Week, etc?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: The two hugely popular triangular and barrel-shaped logos of the mid 1900s UK brewery industry were which colour/color?
Answer: Red
Question: Which type of creature can reputedly uniquely disguise itself as at least fifteen different species in defensive camouflage?
Answer: Octopus
Question: What is the square root of 529?
Answer: 23
Question: Who retained a weakness where held and dipped by his mother into the river Styx to make him immortal?
Answer: Achilles
Question: In Spanish-speaking nations a hacienda is a big what?
Answer: Estate
Question: Which symbol is derived from Greek meaning 'small star'?
Answer: Asterisk
Question: What was the Twix chocolate bar called in mainland Europe pre-1991 (Scandinavia pre-2000)?
Answer: Raider
Question: What is the most heavily populated river basin in the world?
Answer: The Ganges
Question: The hurdy gurdy is what sort of instrument?
Answer: Stringed
Question: The Philippines comprises how many islands?
Answer: 7,107
Question: What was the Nintendo corporation's first main product line?
Answer: Playing cards
Question: Artichoke is a variety of?
Answer: Thistle