zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who, in 1916, was the first woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives, the first female member of the Congress, and the only woman to be elected to Congress from Montana?
Answer: Jeannette Rankin
Question: Which country won the most gold medals for the Olympic Marathon, the first 25 times that it was run (1894 - 2004)?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: Where is "The Royal Tennis Court", a "real tennis" court built for Henry VIII of England who played there from 1528, that is still home to an active "real tennis" club?
Answer: Hampton Court
Question: Which 1956 film, filmed in an early version of modern widescreen, starred David Niven and Cantinflas, with guest appearances by Noel Coward, Frank Sinatra, John Gielgud, Buster Keaton and Marlene Deitrich?
Answer: Around The World In 80 Days
Question: What is the proper term for the # symbol, often referred to as a "number sign", "hash" or "pound sign"?
Answer: Octothorpe
Question: What is the nationality of playwright Henrik Ibsen?
Answer: Norwegian
Question: Which 1962 film, directed by Tony Richardson from a script by Alan Sillitoe, is about a boy (played by Tom Courtenay) in Borstal and his defiance of the accepted norms of British society?
Answer: The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
Question: What game requires 6 hoops and 2 posts set up on a ground around 35 yards by 28 yards?
Answer: Croquet
Question: In September 2009, where was it proposed to castrate paedophiles?
Answer: Poland
Question: Which team won the inaugural tournament of the Rugby World Cup in 1987, which was hosted by both Australia and New Zealand?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What was the name of The Beatles' manager who died from a drug overdose in 1967?
Answer: Brian Epstein
Question: What shape are the 20 faces of a icosahedron?
Answer: Triangles
Question: Ex-US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice plays which musical instrument?
Answer: Piano
Question: Leopold of Saxe-Coburg was invited to be the first king of what country in 1831 after it gained independence from the Dutch?
Answer: Belgium
Question: What is the longest river in Ireland?
Answer: Shannon
Question: Where was ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair born?
Answer: Scotland
Question: What annual event, held on a Monday for children and their parents, that was started in 1814 by First Lady Dolley Madison in the grounds of the Capitol, Washington DC, USA, is now held on the White House lawn?
Answer: The Easter Egg Roll
Question: Alberta is one of two Canadian provinces that is land-locked. What is the other?
Answer: Saskatchewan
Question: What is the word for the apparent change in frequency of a vibration due to the relative change in position of the observer?
Answer: Doppler effect
Question: Carl Lewis won 9 Olympic gold medals. He won his first in what year?
Answer: 1984
Question: What system, available on the internet, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes?
Answer: Facebook
Question: Which 2001 musical film based on the Orphean myth and on Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" stars Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman?
Answer: Moulin Rouge!
Question: What device, a tool for studying astronomical phenomena, uses the fact that when a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material?
Answer: Spectroscope
Question: Who in history is the only divorced wife of someone who later became president of the USA?
Answer: Jane Wyman
Question: What kind of gemstones are the Cullinane and the Hope?
Answer: Diamond
Question: Which hormone controls the female reproductive cycle?
Answer: Oestrogen
Question: With what type of music is Scott Joplin associated?
Answer: Ragtime
Question: What did American hero Davy Crockett call his musket?
Answer: Old Betsy
Question: Who is M's secretary in the James Bond series?
Answer: Miss Moneypenny
Question: Which of the Great Lakes is the only one located entirely within the USA?
Answer: Lake Michigan
Question: Elizabeth Ashton, Fritz Ligges, Josef Neckermann, Bridget Parker, Mark Phillips and Harvey Smith competed in what sports at the 1972 Olympic Ganes?
Answer: Equestrian
Question: The first Telstar satellite, that relayed the first television pictures, telephone calls and fax images through space, was designed to provide satellite communications over what area?
Answer: The Atlantic Ocean
Question: In England, at which venue are the Oaks and the Derby run?
Answer: Epsom
Question: What is the stage name of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, who was born on 28 March 1971?
Answer: Lady Ga Ga
Question: What book was to have been called, in translation, "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"?
Answer: Mein Kampf
Question: Which river runs through the cities of Cincinnati and Pittsburgh?
Answer: Ohio
Question: What science features in "The Man In The White Suit", a 1951 film starring Alec Guinness?
Answer: Chemistry
Question: The Golden Raspberry Awards have been running since 1980. Who had won the award for Worst Supporting Actress the most times until 2005?
Answer: Madonna
Question: Which small island in the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb at the south end of the Red Sea was administered as part of Aden during British occupation until 1967, when it was given to the Democratic People's Republic of Yemen?
Answer: Perim
Question: Which venomous snake is able to dilate its neck into a hood?
Answer: Cobra
Question: What long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow to connect the scapula and the lower arm consists of 3 sections?
Answer: Humerus
Question: What instrument is associated with Pablo Cassals?
Answer: Cello
Question: Which American blues, soul, R&B;, rock & roll and jazz singer/songwriter has won 4 Grammys, 17 Blues Foundation Music Awards, and been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1993), the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame (2001) and the Grammy Hall of Fame (both 1999 & 2008)?
Answer: Etta James
Question: A "bodice ripper" is a type of what?
Answer: Historical romance novel
Question: Who is the only All Black (New Zealand rugby) captain to have been inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame?
Answer: Wilson Whineray
Question: Which group had a 1989 hit with "The Living Years"?
Answer: Mike and the Mechanics
Question: What is another name for the Southern Boobook owl, also called the Mopoke or Ruru?
Answer: Morepork
Question: Which pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, one of the "little princes in the Tower" who, legend has it, was executed by Richard III?
Answer: Perkin Warbeck
Question: In the James Bond film "Die Another Day" who played Bond girl Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson?
Answer: Halle Berry
Question: What number do the numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to?
Answer: 7
Question: Between 2002 and 2008, where were Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul the judges?
Answer: American Idol
Question: What was the last foreign invasion of Britain?
Answer: French invasion of Wales, 1797
Question: In musical notation, what word means "lower in pitch by a semitone"?
Answer: Flat
Question: In what country is the port town of Xai-xai, near the mouth of the Limpopo River?
Answer: Mozambique
Question: What piece of music was used by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean when they won Olympic gold medals at Sarajevo in 1984?
Answer: Ravel's "Bolero"
Question: Which wonder of the ancient world was on the island of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt?
Answer: Lighthouse
Question: Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from bunions?
Answer: Feet
Question: """Runaway Jury"" (2003), a film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, is an adaption of the book by which author?"
Answer: John Grisham
Question: What was the first French settlement in North America?
Answer: Port Royal
Question: On 12 June 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president of which country?
Answer: Iran
Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by a crab?
Answer: Cancer
Question: In medicine, which suffix denotes the surgical removal of something, usually from inside the body?
Answer: -ectomy
Question: What 1918 Act of the US Congress forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the US government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the US government or its institutions with contempt, and allowed the Postmaster General to refuse to deliver mail that met those criteria?
Answer: The Sedition Act
Question: What weapon is traditionally held in a quiver?
Answer: Arrow
Question: What word is used to describe a grotesque stone carving with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building?
Answer: Gargoyle
Question: What was a Roman road from York to Scotland near the Firth of Forth?
Answer: Dere Street
Question: Who played eventual winners Atltico Madrid in the final of the 2010 UEFA Europa League soccer competition?
Answer: Fulham
Question: Where did the car manufacturer Fiat originate?
Answer: Italy
Question: In what year did Canada win a gold medal for the first time at an Olympic Games that they hosted?
Answer: 2010
Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "Monterey Jack"?
Answer: USA
Question: Artists Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Frederic Edwin Church, Jane Frank and Thomas Cole painted in what style?
Answer: Landscape
Question: Which wonder of the ancient world was at Olympia?
Answer: Statue of Zeus
Question: What type of event is the London Marathon?
Answer: Running
Question: What was Melanie Brown's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: Scary
Question: What does "HM" mean, when referring to Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Her Majesty
Question: Where is the "Day of the Dead" celebrated on 2 November?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Who, in 1842, became the first US President's wife to die in the White House?
Answer: Letitia Tyler
Question: Winston Churchill started his first term as British Prime Minister during which event?
Answer: World War II
Question: How were Plcido Domingo, Jos Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti known collectively?
Answer: Three tenors
Question: David Attenborough is best known for narrating what kind of TV programme?
Answer: Natural History
Question: What name is given to a young lion?
Answer: Cub
Question: What is the name for the lump in a human throat?
Answer: Adam's Apple
Question: In the original Star Trek TV series that aired from 1966 to 1969, who played Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy?
Answer: DeForest Kelley
Question: Gene Kelly played Tommy Allbright in which 1954 film musical?
Answer: Brigadoon
Question: The International Pageant of Pulchritude, held from 1926 to 1932, was the forerunner of what modern event?
Answer: Miss Universe
Question: A book by D H Lawrence that caused controversy in the 1960s is "Lady Chatterley's ..." what?
Answer: Lover
Question: What was the cause of a state of emergency in Kenya from October 1952 to December 1959?
Answer: Mau Mau rebellion
Question: Who is the bulldog who appears in "Tom and Jerry" cartoons?
Answer: Spike
Question: What is the name of the main tournament course at St Andrews Golf Club?
Answer: The Old Course
Question: What was the name of the Liverpool club where the Beatles played in the early 1960s?
Answer: Cavern
Question: Which US state produces the most maple syrup?
Answer: Vermont
Question: What Roman road, which began to be constructed in 312 BC, connected Rome to Brindisi in southeast Italy?
Answer: Appian Way
Question: The Macrocarpa tree is native to what continent?
Answer: North America
Question: A binnacle is the name for the surround of what item found on a ship?
Answer: Compass
Question: Which American actress became known for her role in the television series "Ally McBeal" and has appeared in several films, including "Charlie's Angels", "Kill Bill" and "Kung Fu Panda"?
Answer: Lucy Liu
Question: Which British TV series about cars that began in 1977 is presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, and features a test driver known as The Stig?
Answer: Top Gear
Question: What was the first of the World Trade Centre buildings to be rebuilt after 9/11?
Answer: 7 World Trade Center
Question: What is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, the month of fasting, in which Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and so on from dawn to sunset?
Answer: Ramadan
Question: When was the first Super Bowl for American football held?
Answer: 1967
Question: The Easter Rising, an insurrection staged during Easter Week 1916 with the aim of ending British rule, was where?
Answer: Ireland
Question: """The Mystery of Edwin Drood"" is the unfinished novel by which author?"
Answer: Charles Dickens
Question: What tree is mentioned in the Christmas song 'Twelve Days of Christmas'?
Answer: Pear Tree
Question: Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, represented which country?
Answer: USA
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, where did Peter Peter pumpkin eater keep his wife?
Answer: Pumpkin shell
Question: Since 1965, where has the headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) been located?
Answer: Vienna, Austria
Question: Ralph Nader's 1965 book "Unsafe at Any Speed" targeted which car?
Answer: Chevrolet Corvair
Question: In which country was actor Sam Neill born?
Answer: Northern Ireland
Question: What position represents the head of government in Germany?
Answer: Chancellor
Question: George Gershwin wrote a piece of music called "Rhapsody in ..." what?
Answer: Blue
Question: After the World Cup in 1962, the government of Brazil declared which player an "official national treasure" to prevent him from being transferred out of the country when wealthy European clubs tried to sign him?
Answer: Pel
Question: In 1867, William George Beers, a Canadian dentist, codified which sport (shortening the game and reducing the number of players to 12 per team), with the first game played under these rules at Upper Canada College between Upper Canada College and the Toronto Cricket Club?
Answer: Lacrosse
Question: From 1925 to 1935, what did the letters "MG" on a make of English sports car signify?
Answer: Morris Garages
Question: Banff National Park and Jasper National Park, which are connected by the Icefields Parkway, are in which Canadian province?
Answer: Alberta
Question: On 25 June 1991, Slovenia and Croatia became the first republics to declare independence from which country?
Answer: Yugoslavia
Question: Who did Uma Thurman marry in 1990?
Answer: Gary Oldman
Question: Rubbing a balloon on one's hair and then sticking it to a wall is an example of what type of electricity?
Answer: Static
Question: Penfold is the sidekick of which British animated super hero / secret agent?
Answer: DangerMouse
Question: How many points can you get in Pontoon without going bust?
Answer: 21
Question: A 1969 American western film that tells the story of two bank robbers is "Butch Cassidy and the ... what ... Kid"?
Answer: Sundance
Question: Vellum, a type of parchment, was originally made from the skin of which animal?
Answer: Calf
Question: In about 1,000 AD, it is believed that explorer Leif Ericson discovered North America and named it what?
Answer: Vinland
Question: The Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League, was first played as part of a merger agreement between the NFL and its rival, the American Football League, in what year?
Answer: 1967
Question: Which folk band formed by Randy Sparks in 1961 had several Top 40 hits, including "This Land Is Your Land", "Green, Green", "Today" and "Ramblin'"?
Answer: The New Christy Minstrels
Question: What became the world's largest passenger ship by gross tonnage when it was delivered in October 2009?
Answer: Oasis of the Seas
Question: What is the chemical symbol for Nickel?
Answer: Ni
Question: In January 2006, what space probe was sent to investigate Pluto?
Answer: New Horizon
Question: Which country left the British Commonwealth in 1949?
Answer: Ireland
Question: Ceramic items are made from what material?
Answer: China
Question: Ernest Lawrence of the University of California, Berkeley, is credited with the development in 1929 of what type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage in a perpendicular magnetic field, causing them to spiral and encounter the accelerating voltage many times?
Answer: Cyclotron
Question: What was the stage name of American jazz singer and songwriter Eleanora Fagan?
Answer: Billie Holiday
Question: Where was the annual G8 leaders summit held in the year 2000?
Answer: Japan
Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by a set of scales?
Answer: Libra
Question: In the James Bond film "Thunderball" who played Bond girl Domino Derval?
Answer: Claudine Auger
Question: Which jazz musician was known for his voluminous cheeks and "bent" trumpet?
Answer: Dizzy Gillespie
Question: The islands of Zanzibar and Madagascar are in which ocean?
Answer: Indian
Question: The cities of Ciudad Jurez, El Paso, Laredo and Brownsville are on the banks of which river?
Answer: Rio Grande
Question: What series of books would you go to to read about Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus and Thomson and Thompson?
Answer: The Adventures of Tintin
Question: In 1964, who became the first male to appear on the cover of "Playboy" magazine?
Answer: Peter Sellers
Question: Barry Bonds is an all-time great in what sport?
Answer: Baseball
Question: What is the name for the hair that surrounds a lion's neck?
Answer: Mane
Question: Oberon is a moon of which planet?
Answer: Uranus
Question: In the human body, what does melanin determine?
Answer: Skin colour
Question: The Volstead Act, that became law in the USA on 28 October 1919, concerned what?
Answer: Prohibition of alcohol
Question: What film character was created by Paul Hogan?
Answer: Crocodile Dundee
Question: What is the technical term for double vision?
Answer: Diplopia
Question: The Wimbledon tennis tournament that takes place annually in late June and early July runs for how long?
Answer: Two weeks
Question: What sport is featured in the film "Field of Dreams" starring Kevin Costner?
Answer: Baseball
Question: Who played "Sandy" in the 1975 film "Grease"?
Answer: Olivia Newton-John
Question: Which dog appears in comics with Shaggy, Fred, Velma & Daphne?
Answer: Scooby-Doo
Question: Who created the comic strip "The Far Side"?
Answer: Gary Larson
Question: What name is given to the group of elements that includes fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine?
Answer: Halogens
Question: In what year did Germany officially reunify?
Answer: 1990
Question: Who played gangster Don Logan in the 2000 film "Sexy Beast"?
Answer: Ben Kingsley
Question: Which character in European folklore murdered his wives?
Answer: Bluebeard
Question: Something tense and exciting is what "biting"?
Answer: Nail
Question: Auguste Escoffier was famous for what activity?
Answer: Cookery
Question: What area of Tokyo is one of the most luxurious shopping districts in the world?
Answer: Ginza
Question: Where was the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Frances Spencer on 29 July 1981, held?
Answer: St Paul's Cathedral
Question: What was "the worlds first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses," that went online in 1957?
Answer: Shippingport
Question: What was the Watergate building that was the subject of a US political scandal that began in 1972?
Answer: Office building
Question: The game of Sudoku involves filling in squares with what numbers?
Answer: 1 to 9
Question: In 1999, who became Britain's first undisputed boxing heavyweight world champion?
Answer: Lennox Lewis
Question: In 1971, on which island was the largest underground test of nuclear weapons ever conducted by the USA?
Answer: Amchitka
Question: What transparent, biconvex structure changes shape to change the focal distance of the eye so that it can focus on objects at different distances?
Answer: Lens
Question: What city has more than one hundred kilometres of canals (the main ones called Herengracht, Prinsengracht, and Keizersgracht), which were dug in the 17th century to form concentric belts around the city, known as the grachtengordel?
Answer: Amsterdam
Question: In his autobiography "Life", what does Keith Richards say is his nickname for Mick Jagger?
Answer: Brenda
Question: What is the name for a net of fine lines or fibers in the eyepiece of a sighting device, such as a telescope, a telescopic sight, a microscope, or the screen of an oscilloscope?
Answer: Reticle
Question: Pete Wentz is best known for being the bassist for which American rock band?
Answer: Fall Out Boy
Question: According to a musical by Gilbert and Sullivan, whose "lot is not a happy one"?
Answer: Policeman's
Question: Who is the only person to receive 2 Oscars for the same role?
Answer: Harold Russell
Question: Ratatouille is native to which country?
Answer: France
Question: The home of the drink called "bourbon" is Bourbon County. What state of the USA is it in?
Answer: Kentucky
Question: According to Greek mythology, "Hope" was the only thing left in what container after it had been opened?
Answer: Pandora's box
Question: Florence is the capital of what Italian region?
Answer: Tuscany
Question: """Poison arrow"" or ""poison dart"" is what type of creature?"
Answer: Frog
Question: What is old Delhi's military fort, built by Shah Jahan, known as?
Answer: The Red Fort
Question: What do Americans call what the English call "chips"?
Answer: French fries
Question: Who was Christopher Robin's favourite bear?
Answer: Winnie the Pooh
Question: What was the surname of the family who looked after Paddington Bear?
Answer: Brown
Question: Who was the subject of a 4 week inquiry by the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1954 into his background, actions and associations, due to suspicions that he was a member of the Communist Party and might have spied for the Soviet Union, which resulted in his top secret security clearance being revoked?
Answer: J. Robert Oppenheimer
Question: Where did the car manufacturer Audi originate?
Answer: Germany
Question: What animal is involved in "dressage"?
Answer: Horse
Question: What gives the flamingo the colour of its plumage?
Answer: Diet
Question: British engineers Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson built their most impressive structures and locomotives in which century?
Answer: 19th
Question: Who has won the Women's Singles title at Australia's premier tennis tournament, with 10 wins?
Answer: Margaret Court
Question: On which continent is Suriname?
Answer: South America
Question: The Colossus, one of the seven wonders of the world, was built where?
Answer: Rhodes
Question: Built in 1607, Pont Neuf spans what river?
Answer: Seine
Question: What name is given to a style of journalism that is written subjectively, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative?
Answer: Gonzo
Question: The city of Canton in China is now known as what?
Answer: Guangzhou
Question: Where was the original Globe Theatre located?
Answer: London
Question: Leslie Neilsen starred in which series of 3 ? 19 ?? Films?
Answer: The Naked Gun
Question: Who wrote the book "Das Kapital"?
Answer: Karl Marx
Question: Lalophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Speaking
Question: What is the technical term for a nose bleed?
Answer: Epistaxis
Question: How many members are there in the US lower house, the House of Representatives?
Answer: 435
Question: What nationality was astronomer Tycho Brahe?
Answer: Danish
Question: What is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world?
Answer: Angel Falls
Question: According to Shakespeare who kills Macbeth?
Answer: Macduff
Question: What was the nickname for the Boeing B-17 long-range bomber used in World War II?
Answer: Flying Fortress
Question: Canaletto is famous for his 18th century paintings of which city?
Answer: Venice
Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 6points?
Answer: Pink
Question: What name is given to the programme of baseball and softball competitions organised for people aged 5 to 18 in the USA?
Answer: Little League