zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Artists William Harnett, Annibale Carracci, Abraham van Beyeren, Juan Snchez Cotn, Jean-Baptiste-Simon Chardin, Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Fernand Lger, Georges Braque, Giorgio Morandi, Paul Czanne and Pablo Picasso have all painted what style of painting?
Answer: Still life
Question: """Goggle box"" is a British term for what?"
Answer: Television
Question: Where in London was the first Globe Theatre built in 1599?
Answer: Bankside, Southwark
Question: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer's painting "Monarch of the Glen" featured what animal?
Answer: Deer
Question: The London market at Smithfield deals in what?
Answer: Meat
Question: Where was the 2008 Ryder Cup competition held?
Answer: Valhalla Golf Club
Question: In 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed when a IRA bomb exploded where?
Answer: On his boat
Question: What does the Russian word "Sputnik" mean?
Answer: Fellow traveller
Question: Who recorded the duet "Especially For You" in 1988?
Answer: Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan
Question: Which was the first of these four to be an Olympic 100 metres winner?
Answer: Harold Abrahams
Question: What describes a bathroom connected to a bedroom?
Answer: En suite
Question: According to the Bible's Book of Genesis, the Five Cities of the Plain near the Dead Sea were Adimah, Zebolim, Zour, Gomorrah and which other?
Answer: Sodom
Question: Who won the Hockey Champions Challenge for Women played in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2009?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: In 1949 the inaugural tournament of the Thomas Cup, the most important men's badminton team competition in the world, was won by competitors from which country?
Answer: Malaya
Question: Which gas is likely to be present in a light bulb?
Answer: Argon
Question: What legendary island is said to have sunk?
Answer: Atlantis
Question: When is International Women's Day?
Answer: 8 March
Question: Which Olympic Games were the first to be telecast worldwide?
Answer: Tokyo, 1964
Question: Which sewing machine company has held a patent on the mechanism that creates the blanket stitch since its introduction in 1877 (the most recent patent renewal was in 2007), and is involved in litigation with several Chinese firms who are accused of violating their intellectual property rights?
Answer: Merrow
Question: What glands produce adrenaline and cortisol?
Answer: Suprarenal
Question: What has been awarded to the winners of the Super Bowl since 1967?
Answer: Vince Lombardi Trophy
Question: What is a Mohammedan sect which reveres Ali, cousin of Muhammad, believing him to be Muhammad's rightful successor?
Answer: Shiite
Question: The greater part of Lake Maggiore is in which country?
Answer: Italy
Question: In 1978, Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found dead where?
Answer: In the boot of a car
Question: Seattle Grace Hospital is the setting for which TV series?
Answer: Gray's Anatomy
Question: Where, since 1903, has been the headquarters of British polo, where polo is no longer staged since the polo fields were compulsorily purchased to build council housing?
Answer: Hurlingham
Question: What is the name for the chemical signals that trigger a natural response in another member of the same species that affect behaviour or physiology?
Answer: Pheromones
Question: Which state of the USA has a Union Jack on its state flag?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: According to the old saying, what doesn't change its spots?
Answer: Leopard
Question: What name is given to art that depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, where sky is almost always included, and weather is usually an element of the composition?
Answer: Landscape
Question: Guitarist Brian Rankin is better known as who?
Answer: Hank Marvin
Question: As what does "vermicelli" literaly translate from the Italian?
Answer: Little worms
Question: Whose 2006 album "Back to Black" had 6 Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made her the first British singer to win 5 Grammys?
Answer: Amy Winehouse
Question: Where do the Wombles live?
Answer: Wimbledon Common
Question: What was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts and industrial design, fashion, painting, the graphic arts, and film, which was, at the time, seen to be elegant, glamorous, functional, and modern?
Answer: Art Deco
Question: What items are produced in a darkroom?
Answer: Photographs
Question: Which scientist has the following geographical features named after him: a sound in Tierra del Fuego, a mountain in the Andes, a sound in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands and an Australian state capital?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: What is the inner core of the Earth believed to consist of?
Answer: Iron-nickel alloy
Question: Yvette Williams, Mary Rand, Willye White and Kathy McMillan are all medal winners in which Olympic sport?
Answer: Long jump
Question: What does a spelunker do as a hobby?
Answer: Explore caves
Question: """I Know Him So Well"" is from what musical?"
Answer: Chess
Question: What is the term for a two week period?
Answer: Fortnight
Question: What is the common name for London's Criminal Court?
Answer: Old Bailey
Question: In which sport have Chinese players won the men's World Championship 60% of the time since 1959, and in the women's competition, all but two of the World Championships since 1971?
Answer: Table tennis
Question: Which item of footwear can be applied to starting up a computer?
Answer: Boot
Question: Which American TV series (2000 to 2004) centred on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts, had the slogan "Every day is a fight. For respect. For dignity. For sanity."?
Answer: Boston Public
Question: What name is given to raised parts of the skin when frightened or cold?
Answer: Goose bumps
Question: Who, co-founders of the Spartacist League in January 1916, were executed in Berlin in January 1919?
Answer: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
Question: What colour does red litmus paper turn when in contact with alkaline?
Answer: Blue
Question: What is a musical term for "slowing down"?
Answer: Rallentando
Question: Which sport, that involves running through an obstacle track 253.5 metres long, has major competitions held in Sonkajrvi (Finland) and in the USA in Monona and Minocqua (both in Wisconsin) and Marquette (Michigan)?
Answer: Wife carrying
Question: In August 1830, the audience were so stirred by a performance of Auber's "La Muette de Portici" at their capital's opera house, that it led to what successful fight for independence?
Answer: The Belgian Revolution
Question: The London market at Billingsgate, now situated close to Canary Wharf in Docklands, London, deals in what?
Answer: Fish
Question: """Let's Get It Started"" (2003) by the Black Eyed Peas was originally recorded with what offensive word in the title, making it unsuitable for play on some radio stations and at sports games?"
Answer: Retarded
Question: Dan Quayle was Vice President to which president of the USA?
Answer: George H Bush
Question: The Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" was stereo-typical of milliners making felt hats, who used what chemical to separate the fur from the pelt and mat it together?
Answer: Mercury
Question: The Vatican erected a statue inside the Vatican's walls of which person who was convicted by the Catholic Church of heresy in 1633 and sentenced to house arrest for life?
Answer: Galileo
Question: What is a set of table top games simulating team sports such as soccer, cricket, both rugby and hockey, and closely associated with soccer, which for many years was marketed as "the replica of Association Football"?
Answer: Subbuteo
Question: What sport is known as "the Turf"?
Answer: Horse racing
Question: Which scholar and lawyer who became Speaker of the House of Commons and Treasurer of the Exchequer was beheaded for treason in 1534 after disagreeing with Henry VIII being head of the church?
Answer: Sir Thomas More
Question: An impala is a type of what?
Answer: Antelope
Question: In the TV series "Emmerdale", how is Zak Dingle related to Chastity Dingle?
Answer: Uncle
Question: What is the name for a large gathering of boy scouts?
Answer: Jamboree
Question: What was the first year that the Show Jumping World Championships were held, in Paris?
Answer: 1953
Question: Who discovered the moons of Saturn called Rhea, Iapetus, Dione and Tethys, between 1671 and 1684?
Answer: Cassini
Question: Which photographer who emigrated to Canada in 1937 is best known for his photographs of the Ottawa region (his picture of floating logs on the Ottawa River was on the 1969-1979 series Canadian $1 bill), and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996?
Answer: Malak Karsh
Question: Which musical term means "sweetly"?
Answer: Dolce
Question: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who played Elvis Presley in the TV series "Elvis", went on to play Henry VIII in what British TV series?
Answer: The Tudors
Question: What is a term for an important person?
Answer: Big cheese
Question: What branch of mathematics was founded from a paper "On a Characteristic Property of All Real Algebraic Numbers" (1874) by Georg Cantor, who built on the work of Zeno, Bernard Bolzano & Richard Dedekind, which, in turn was followed up by Bertrand Russell, Ernst Zermelo, Abraham Fraenkel & Henri Lebesgue?
Answer: Set theory
Question: What British TV series, that aired between 1967 and 1972 starred Edward Woodward as a reluctant professional killer for a branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section', and Russell Hunter as his unwilling assistant ?
Answer: Callan
Question: According to the song, who loved Puff, the magic dragon?
Answer: Little Jackie Paper
Question: Which sisters have been romantically linked to Nick Lachey, John Mayer, Tony Romo and Pete Wentz?
Answer: Jessica and Ashlee Simpson
Question: What sport is featured in the musical "The Beautiful Game" by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton?
Answer: Soccer
Question: What is the name of the place where water comes out of the ground?
Answer: Spring
Question: In 2008, who was nicknamed "The King of Clay"?
Answer: Rafael Nadal
Question: Begun in 1897 and inspired by the success of the first modern-day marathon at the 1896 Olympics, what is the world's oldest annual marathon?
Answer: The Boston Marathon
Question: The Belgian Blue, British White, Canadian Speckle Park, Galloway, Lincoln Red, South Devon, Welsh Black and White Park are all types of what?
Answer: Cattle
Question: In October 2009 it was reported that what were being burnt as fuel at a 'bioenergy' plant in Karlskoga, in the central Sweden to provide heat for the Vrmland region?
Answer: Rabbits
Question: Abyssinian, Balinese, British Shorthair, Birman, Bombay, Burmese, California Spangled, Devon Rex, Egyptian Mau, Himalayan, Japanese Bobtail and Javanese are all breeds of what?
Answer: Cat
Question: What expression that probably comes from a description of the components of a musket means "everything"?
Answer: Lock, stock and barrel
Question: In the USA between 1852 and 1883, who were Reelfoot Williams, Tom Bell, Rattlesnake Dick and Charles Bolles (a.k.a. "Black Bart")?
Answer: Stagecoach robbers
Question: Club Atltico Boca Juniors, known simply as Boca Juniors or Boca, a sports club best known for its football team, is based in which country?
Answer: Argentina
Question: What is the next in this series: 3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, ...
Answer: 2000
Question: Which car company logo was based on the coat of arms of Free People's State of Wrttemberg of the former Weimar Germany?
Answer: Porsche
Question: Which 1987 film set during the Vietnam War was based on the career of Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio Service who was popular with the troops but infuriated his superiors?
Answer: Good Morning, Vietnam
Question: Olympic gold medallists Nedo Nadi, Enrico Fabris, Domenico Fioravanti and Alberto Tomba represented which country?
Answer: Italy
Question: Besides the relatively recent annual honorarium of 5,750, the Poet Laureate of the UK has, since the 1500s, been traditionally rewarded annually with what?
Answer: A butt of sack
Question: In which decade was Queen Elizabeth II born?
Answer: 1920s
Question: San Francisco is closest to which ocean?
Answer: Pacific
Question: What do the notes for the currency "euro" have on the back (verso)?
Answer: Bridges
Question: What is prohibited by an unusual law that has been passed in Lanjarn, Spain, in three settlements in southern France: (Cugnaux, Le Lavandou & Sarpourenx), and has been proposed for Biritiba-Mirim, Brazil?
Answer: Death
Question: The term "Nordic" means relating to what area?
Answer: Scandinavia
Question: Soccer player George Best once said that he spent 95% of his money on wine, women and song, and the other 5% he ... what?
Answer: Wasted
Question: The first Canadian province to adopt one of these officially was Nova Scotia in 1955, and now all provinces and territories (except Nunavut) and Cape Breton Island have officially adopted a ... what?
Answer: Tartan
Question: The American version of the TV series "The Office" is set in what city?
Answer: Scranton
Question: The counties of Alameda, El Dorado, Fresno, Marin, Mariposa, Nevada, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Sonoma and Ventura are in what state of the USA?
Answer: California
Question: What word describes the situation where someone has to choose between two difficulties, and to choose either would have an equally unpleasant outcome?
Answer: Dilemma
Question: The following were influential in developing which subject in China: Liu Hui, Zu Geng, Li Chunfeng, Yang Hui, Shen Kuo, Liu Xin, Zhang Heng, Liu Hui, Zu Chongzhi and Wang Xiaotong?
Answer: Mathematics
Question: Strasbourg is in which country?
Answer: France
Question: The early works of which American playwright (best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") reflect an "Americanisation" of the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugne Ionesco?
Answer: Edward Albee
Question: What was the first Asian country to hold a Formula 1 Grand Prix?
Answer: Japan
Question: Who won the 500cc Motorcycle World Championship in 1976 & 1977 and retired from racing in 1984?
Answer: Barry Sheene
Question: What is the capital of the US state of California?
Answer: Sacramento
Question: What is a meal of bread, cheese and pickle known as?
Answer: Ploughman's lunch
Question: Three Gordon Bennett Cups were established for motor racing and ballooning early in the 20th century by James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Of what business was he the millionaire owner?
Answer: New York Herald
Question: Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, which country is completely surrounded by the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, which also divides it in two?
Answer: Brunei
Question: What is the capital of Utah?
Answer: Salt Lake City
Question: Which New Zealander, known as "The White Mouse", was a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance, and became one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of World War II?
Answer: Nancy Wake
Question: In the English nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock", what ran up the clock?
Answer: Mouse
Question: What is the medical term for a jawbone?
Answer: Mandible
Question: Janet Reger is known as a designer of what?
Answer: Underwear
Question: The Spicebush Swallowtail, Small White, Common Jezebel, Karner Blue, Red Pierrot and Duke of Burgundy are varieties of what?
Answer: Butterfly
Question: In India in the 1930s, the left wing nationalist party was run by Subhas Chandra Bore, and Ghandi's followers were in the centre. What was the main right wing party?
Answer: The Muslim League
Question: What strike of 1,400 women and girls was caused by poor working conditions in the Bryant & May factory in 1888?
Answer: London matchgirls strike
Question: What is another name for zucchini?
Answer: Courgette
Question: With which sport do you associate "Flushing Meadow"?
Answer: Tennis
Question: The Tagus River runs through which capital city?
Answer: Lisbon
Question: Pingping, who died aged 21 in March 2010, was reputed to be what?
Answer: The world's shortest man
Question: What sport is featured in "The Defense", a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1930?
Answer: Chess
Question: Where is it a traditional 'sport' to stand on a beach and throw a rope with a weight at the end to catch birds when they return from foraging at sea?
Answer: Nauru
Question: Roughly how many days does it take the moon to orbit the earth?
Answer: 27
Question: Who plays Lexie Grey in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: Chyler Leigh
Question: What phenomenon was discovered by Frenchman Joseph Fourier in 1824, reliably experimented on by Irishman John Tyndall in 1858, and first reported quantitatively by Swede Svante Arrhenius in 1896?
Answer: The greenhouse effect
Question: What is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Armenia?
Answer: .am
Question: In what style of painting is small distinct dots of colour used to create the impression of a wide selection of other colors and blending, making use of the phenomenon of depicted imagery emerging from disparate points?
Answer: Pointillism
Question: In which country is the city of Lisburn?
Answer: Northern Ireland
Question: The word "Newspeak" was coined in which novel?
Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Question: What genus of about 70-75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia and North and South America are mostly shrubs 1 to 3 metres tall, though some are small trees, and others are lianas reaching up to 30m by climbing trees?
Answer: Hydrangea
Question: The Arapawa Island, California Red, Corriedale, East Friesian, Hampshire, Oxford, Romney, South Dorset, Swifter and Yemeni are all types of what?
Answer: Sheep
Question: What did Goldilocks eat when she visited the Three Bears house?
Answer: Porridge
Question: What name was popularly given to the event on 6 December 1989 when Marc Lpine killed 14 women and injured 10 women and 4 men, now commemorated annually in Canada as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women?
Answer: The cole Polytechnique Massacre
Question: The national holiday celebrated in the USA on 4 July each year is to commemorate events surrounding which war?
Answer: American War of Independence
Question: The plant soleirolia soleirolii of the nettle family has a number of common names, including baby's tears, angel's tears, mind-your-own-business, peace-in-the-home, pollyanna vine, the Corsican curse, Irish moss and which other?
Answer: Mother of thousands
Question: Croatia won their first ever Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996 in which event?
Answer: Handball
Question: The words "a" and "an" are what parts of speech?
Answer: Indefinite articles
Question: """The sum of the squares of the lengths of the four sides of a parallelogram equals the sum of the squares of the lengths of the two diagonals"" is known as what?"
Answer: Parallelogram law
Question: What is the traditional design on a convict's uniform?
Answer: Arrows
Question: What chemical is mostly used in match heads?
Answer: Phosphorous
Question: The 2010 film "The Tooth Fairy", starring Dwayne Johnson, Julie Andrews and Billy Crystal, concerns a player of which sport?
Answer: Ice hockey
Question: What is the southernmost national capital city in the world?
Answer: Wellington, New Zealand
Question: What does an horologist make?
Answer: Clocks
Question: What structural element of a building protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface, creating usable space in the roof by adding headroom and usually enabling addition of windows?
Answer: Dormer
Question: What electricity voltage is provided as mains power in Britain?
Answer: 230 Volts
Question: Which school is the setting for the 1939 film "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"?
Answer: Brookfield Public School
Question: What is the next in this series: 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude ... ?
Answer: Book of Revelation
Question: Jos Santos Zelaya, William Walker, Adolfo Daz, Emiliano Chamorro, Juan Bautista Sacasa, Anastasio Somoza Garca, Luis Somoza, Violeta Chamorro, Enrique Bolaos and Daniel Ortega are associated with the politics of which country?
Answer: Nicaragua
Question: What country, with a population of around 12,000, is the third-least-populated sovereign state in the world behind Vatican City and Nauru, and at 26 square kilometres (10 sq miles) is the fourth smallest country in the world, behind those two and Monaco?
Answer: Tuvalu
Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "caerphilly"?
Answer: Wales
Question: What chemical compound that is a colourless solid is about 3,000 times stronger than acetic acid?
Answer: Oxalic acid
Question: What name was given to an amateur archeologist's find of gold and silver treasures dating back 1400 years in England in September 2009?
Answer: The Staffordshire Hoard
Question: The Berkshire, Australian Yorkshire, Danish Landrace, Mulefoot, Wessex Saddleback and West French White are breeds of what?
Answer: Pig
Question: What were the middle names of Oscar Wilde?
Answer: Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
Question: What is another name for "denatured alcohol", i.e. ethanol with additives (such as methanol, isopropyl alcohol, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone and denatonium), used as a solvent and as fuel for spirit burners and camping stoves?
Answer: Methylated spirit
Question: Lebanon is on what continent?
Answer: Asia
Question: What nationality is supermodel Elle MacPherson?
Answer: Australian
Question: A courgette is a small variety of what?
Answer: Marrow
Question: What part of the USA is known as "Tinseltown"?
Answer: Hollywood
Question: What 2009 film by Matt Tyrnauer documents the life of a fashion designer, his empire and his long-term companion between 2005 and 2007?
Answer: Valentino: The Last Emperor
Question: Who wrote "The Rocky Horror Show", the long-running stage musical which opened in London in 1973?
Answer: Richard O'Brien
Question: What sport, the season for which is March to August, has been phased out in all states in Australia except for Victoria and South Australia, and will end in Victoria after the 2010 season?
Answer: Steeplechase
Question: According to the English nursery rhyme, who "put the kettle on"?
Answer: Polly
Question: Zhou Yang, gold medal winner at the Winter Olympics 2010, made the news again later by being chided by China's deputy sports minister Yu Zaiqing for thanking her parents, but not her country, for her win. She had won gold in what sport?
Answer: Short track speed skating
Question: About how often does our solar system orbit around the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way?
Answer: 250 million years
Question: Which car company badge includes the City of Milan's emblem and that of the Visconti family in a circular motif, bordered by a dark blue metallic ring containing inscriptions, separated by two Savoy dynasty knots to honour the Kingdom of Italy?
Answer: Alfa Romeo
Question: Which African country is the largest in area?
Answer: Algeria
Question: Who was the only Chinese track and field athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in Atlanta in 1996 (for the 5,000m)?
Answer: Wang Junxia
Question: Which 1959 film, directed by Franois Truffaut with music by Jean Constatin, was the story of a 13 year old Parisian (played by Jean-Pierre Leaud) falling into delinquency?
Answer: The 400 Blows
Question: What number do you get if you add all of the 7 Roman numerals?
Answer: 1,666
Question: Until September 2004, how many members were there in the French upper house, the Senate?
Answer: 321
Question: What is Canada's national day ("Canada Day")?
Answer: 1 July
Question: What name was popularly given to the murder of Maria Marten in Polstead, England in 1827 by her lover, which inspired 5 films and songs such as those by the Albion Country Band (1971), Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan on the album "Bone Machine" (1992), and Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman on the album "2" (2004)?
Answer: The Red Barn Murder
Question: What is the name for a badger's nest?
Answer: Sett
Question: Where is the Sea of Tranquility?
Answer: On the Moon