zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Directly leading up to WW I (1914-18) were two other major European conflicts in 1912 and 1913, usually called the First and Second what?
Answer: Balkan War
Question: Which book of the Christian Bible's new testament comprises a letter from St Paul to members of a church that he had founded at Macedonia?
Answer: Philippians
Question: What is the former name of the area that is now called Belize?
Answer: The British Honduras
Question: On 15 July 2004, which country imposed diplomatic sanctions against Israel after two Israeli citizens, Uriel Zosha Kelman and Eli Cara, suspected of being Mossad agents, were convicted of attempting to obtain local passports fraudulently?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What country would you get to first if you went due West from the port of Bari, Italy?
Answer: Albania
Question: What computer operating system that can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware (including mobile phones, smartphones, wristwatches, mainframes & supercomputers) is an example of free and open source software collaboration?
Answer: Linux
Question: What name did Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe perform under?
Answer: Jelly Roll Morton
Question: The Broads, a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes, are mainly in which English county?
Answer: Norfolk
Question: Countries which in the 19th century permanently abolished the death penalty were the Roman Republic (1849), Venezuela (1854), San Marino (1865), and which other?
Answer: Portugal
Question: The first successful public operation under which anaesthetic was carried out at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846 by William Morton?
Answer: Ether
Question: The standard negative pulldown for 35 mm motion picture film is four perforations per frame along both edges, which makes for exactly how many frames per foot?
Answer: 16
Question: In which conflict between 1455 and 1485 were there battles at St Albans, Northampton, Wakefield, Towton, Barnet, Tewksebury and Bosworth?
Answer: The Wars of the Roses
Question: Who wrote the music forthe 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance patter song "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"?
Answer: Sir Arthur Sullivan
Question: What is an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight, distorted body image and an obsessive fear of gaining weight which has an incidence of between 8 and 13 cases per 100,000 persons per year, and largely affects young adolescent women?
Answer: Anorexia nervosa
Question: What Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor was granted a peerage in 1917, was the first Minister of Information responsible for allied propaganda in allied and neutral countries in 1918 and, during World War II, was Minister of Aircraft Production and Minister of Supply?
Answer: Lord Beaverbrook
Question: In a 1956 interview with the American journalist Anna Louise Strong, Mao Zedong described the USA as a paper what?
Answer: Tiger
Question: Who provides the service called "Street View", that enables computer users to take virtual walks of residential areas?
Answer: Google
Question: Which English soccer player, whose career playing first class soccer ran from 1956 to 1973, was England's most capped player (106) when he retired from the England team in 1970?
Answer: Bobby Charlton
Question: How many volumes are there in Spike Milligan's autobiography, the last volume of which was entitled "PeaceWork"?
Answer: 6
Question: In 1284, Prince Edward (later King Edward II of England), the first son born to Edward I of England, was the first English-born what?
Answer: Prince of Wales
Question: Who had her first major movie role in "Crossroads" (2002), a comedy-drama film that also starred Dan Aykroyd and Kim Cattrall?
Answer: Britney Spears
Question: Who is the only US president to have served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as both the 22nd and 24th president?
Answer: Grover Cleveland
Question: What worldwide movement describing itself as "a fellowship of men and women" was co-founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio?
Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous
Question: Where is the most easterly point in South America?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Who played the first doctor in the UK TV series "Dr Who"?
Answer: William Hartnell
Question: What is the more common name for Chopin's "Waltz in D Flat Major"?
Answer: The Minute Waltz
Question: Which Noble Order of Knighthood, whose motto is "honi soit qui mal y pense" was founded in 1348 in England by King Edward III?
Answer: Order of the Garter
Question: What band released the albums "Wild Life", "Red Rose Speedway", "At the Speed of Sound", "London Town" and Back to the Egg" between 1971 and 1979?
Answer: Wings
Question: The libretto for Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" was based on a play written by the playwright Victorien Sardou for performance by which actress?
Answer: Sarah Bernhardt
Question: In May 2001, Christopher Bailey was appointed creative director of which British luxury fashion house that manufactures clothing, fragrances and fashion accessories?
Answer: Burberry
Question: Who was said to have interceded to save the life of Captain John Smith, was later taken hostage and held at Jamestown, married John Rolfe, came to England and died at Gravesend in 1617?
Answer: Pocahontas
Question: What process concerns the passage of food through the human body?
Answer: Peristalsis
Question: What name was given to both of the Acts that united the parliaments of England and Scotand in 1707, and those of Britain and Ireland in 1800?
Answer: Act of Union
Question: By what name is the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who lived near Coventry in the 11th century, better known?
Answer: Lady Godiva
Question: Which American serial killer raped and murdered at least 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978, burying many in the crawl space underneath his home, who became known as "Killer Clown" for entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup as "Pogo the Clown"?
Answer: John Wayne Gacy, Jr
Question: A sabre is what type of weapon?
Answer: Sword
Question: Which space telescope was carried into orbit by the space shuttle in April 1990?
Answer: Hubble
Question: The long-running murder mystery play, "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie, was developed from an earlier radio play by the same author called what?
Answer: Three Blind Mice
Question: The Beach Soccer World Championship began in 1995 and became the Beach Soccer World Cup in 2005. Which country has won the contest most often since 1995?
Answer: Brazil
Question: The phrase "wardrobe malfunction" entered pop music vocabulary following a performance at the Super Bowl XXXVIII between Janet Jackson and which other singer?
Answer: Justin Timberlake
Question: Which car maker has marketed models called Jazz, Accord, Civic and Legend?
Answer: Honda
Question: Talk-show host Jack Paar once welcomed which actress to The Tonight Show by saying, "Here they are, ... ", that became the title of her biography by Raymond Strait
Answer: Jayne Mansfield
Question: According to Ovid, a giant called Argus had his hundred what preserved forever in a peacock's tail, by the goddess Hera?
Answer: Eyes
Question: What do Viva la Vida, No Line on the Horizon, Spore and the Sirocco have in common?
Answer: Brian Eno
Question: Which two countries between them have won every Netball World Championship since its inception in 1963?
Answer: Australia and New Zealand
Question: Where was the first FIFA Club World Championship, a football competition contested between the world's champion clubs, held in 2000?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What is the name of the large seat covered with red cloth, being the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of the UK Parliament?
Answer: The Woolsack
Question: Who wrote the lyrics to Burt Bacharach's music for the songs including "The Look of Love", "Walk on By", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "This Guy's in Love with You" and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"?
Answer: Hal David
Question: Charles II was the sovereign during which period of British history?
Answer: Restoration
Question: Otto Lilienthal was an inventor whose designs and practice led to the first practical what in the 1890s?
Answer: Hang glider
Question: Two of the characters in the US TV sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" are fans of work by whom, the source for their respective names?
Answer: Sheldon Leonard
Question: The ports of Astrakhan and Baku are on which body of water?
Answer: Caspian Sea
Question: Which poet's middle name is Bysshe?
Answer: Shelley
Question: What is a symbol of food and abundance dating back to the 5th century BC, which is classically depicted as a goat's horn filled with fruits and flowers?
Answer: Cornucopia
Question: In 2009 three women - an Australian, a Norwegian and a Venezuelan - created a record for the Venezuelan at Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, doing what?
Answer: BASE jumping
Question: Africa is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and which other major body of water?
Answer: The Red Sea
Question: In their raiding, exploring, trading and settling in the 9th century Scandinavian Vikings took which city, and grew it into the capital of what became known as the Land of the Rus?
Answer: Kiev
Question: If you went directly south from France, which sea would you meet first?
Answer: Mediterannean
Question: Who is the main character in "Blondie", a comic strip which appeared around 1933, who was originally heir to a fortune but was disowned when he married a flapper, Blondie Boopadoop?
Answer: Dagwood Bumstead
Question: Which country, after Sultan Hussein Shah signed a treaty with the British East India Company on 6 February 1819, officially became a British colony on 2 August 1824 by a new treaty with the Sultan and the Temmenggong?
Answer: Singapore
Question: What play is seldom referred to in theatre by its own name but called instead "the Scottish play"?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: Which British actor debuted on the West End stage in 1956 in "Look Back in Anger", a role he had originated at the Royal Court which made him a star, and made his film debut in 1960 in "The Entertainer" opposite Laurence Olivier?
Answer: Alan Bates
Question: Which African kingdom, founded by Osei Tutu in the 1670s, was increased until 1701, fought 4 wars against Britain between 1823 and 1896 until, in 1900, it was incorporated into the Gold Coast colony as a protectorate?
Answer: Ashanti
Question: What term is given to an infection when it is maintained in a human population without external inputs?
Answer: Endemic
Question: What is the name for the outer covering of the shell of a coconut which is made into yarn used to make matting and brushes?
Answer: Coir
Question: Which British fashion designer spent his working life from 1934 to 1979 at 26 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London, and designed for the Royal family, notably the wedding dress of Princess Elizabeth in 1947 for her marriage to Prince Philip, the 1953 Coronation Dress of Queen Elizabeth II and those of all the major royal ladies, including the wedding dress of HRH Princess Margaret in 1960?
Answer: Norman Hartnell
Question: In the 1967 film "Belle de Jour", based on a 1928 novel by Joseph Kessel and directed by Luis Buuel, what part-time work is carried out by the main character played by Catherine Deneuve?
Answer: Prostitute
Question: What field is Albert Einstein best known for working in?
Answer: Physics
Question: The marshmallow was first created as a medicinal substance when extracts from what part of the marsh mallow plant were used as a remedy for sore throats?
Answer: Root
Question: Father and son walk to do some fishing while the theme tune is whistled in the opening credits of which popular TV series first broadcast from 1960 to 1968?
Answer: The Andy Griffith Show
Question: Wargaming in one form or another has gone through surges of use and popularity but one form is both ancient and still greatly popular; which is it?
Answer: Chess
Question: Which political figure's assassination was among the events which precipitated World War I?
Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Question: When did the USSR and Japan sign a Joint Declaration to end the state of war that existed during World War II and provided for the restoration of normal diplomatic relations?
Answer: 1956
Question: Az, buky, vd and glagoli and dobro are the first 5 letters of which alphabet?
Answer: Glagolitic
Question: What was the author Tolstoy's first name?
Answer: Leo
Question: Who is the next in this series: Rajiv Gandhi, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Chandra Shekhar Singh, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ... ?
Answer: H. D. Deve Gowda
Question: What name was given to a series of treaties between Scotland and France, aimed specifically against England, that began in 1295 and lasted until 1560?
Answer: The Auld Alliance
Question: Which prophetess, the daughter of Priam, King of Troy, was killed following the fall of Troy by Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra?
Answer: Cassandra
Question: What is the guillotine most popularly associated with?
Answer: French Revolution
Question: What is often thought of as the medieval forerunner of chemistry, especially seeking to turn base metals into gold or silver?
Answer: Alchemy
Question: Which guitarist collaborated with David Bowie on his music projects from 1988 to 1999?
Answer: Reeves Gabrels
Question: Born in Australia in 1898, Walter Lindrum was one of the greatest practitoners of what sport?
Answer: Billiards
Question: Thiamine, niacine and riboflavin belong to which vitamin group?
Answer: B
Question: Which South American country stretches over 3,000 miles from north to south and less than 300 miles from east to west?
Answer: Chile
Question: Which country does not currently have a sultan as its political and/or religious head of state?
Answer: Morocco
Question: Bushido, developed between the 9th and 20th centuries relates to which culture?
Answer: Japanese
Question: Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park With George" was inspired by a painting by whom?
Answer: Seurat
Question: What replaced the Cyclops computer system, that helps to determine whether a serve is in or out, at the US Open in 2006 and the Wimbledon Championships in 2007?
Answer: Hawk-Eye
Question: Where is the boat "The Maid of the Mist", originally designed to ply between USA and Canada and now a tourist facility for a world attraction?
Answer: Niagara Falls
Question: What country, including land from subtropical plains to sub-alpine peaks of over 7,000m (23,000 ft), and currently a monarchy, was rated in 2006 as the eighth happiest country in the world?
Answer: Bhutan
Question: The Treaty of Brussels, the precursor to NATO and a basis for WEU, was signed on 17 March 1948 by Belgium, France, the UK, the Netherlands and which other nation?
Answer: Luxembourg
Question: In which country did the USA provide information to a 1963 coup, against General Abd al-Karim Qasim the then Prime Minister of the country?
Answer: Iraq
Question: Which stringed instrument is named for its ability to convey a range of volume?
Answer: Piano
Question: Which poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742, was so popular in London literary circles that Gray was forced to publish the work on 15 February 1751 to pre-empt a magazine publisher from printing an unlicensed copy?
Answer: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Question: Who was instrumental in defeating the Mahdi at Omdurman in 1898, and was British Secretary for War from 1914 until he died on the cruiser "Hampshire" when it struck a mine on 5 June 1916?
Answer: Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Question: Richard, Duke of York, the father of the English kings Edward IV and Richard II, was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in which ongoing campaign?
Answer: Wars of the Roses
Question: Sylvie Simmons, Jann Wenner, Lester Bangs and Jon Landau are all known as what?
Answer: Music journalists
Question: What film concerns the life story of 18 year old Jamal Malik, a former street child from the Juhu slums in Mumbai?
Answer: Slumdog Millionaire
Question: A Canadian-American adventure and military scifi TV series which first screened in 1997 was one of the longest lasting. What was it called?
Answer: Stargate SG-1
Question: To which part of the world are the Zulu people native?
Answer: Southern Africa
Question: What does the Water Festival mark in Burma/Myanmar?
Answer: Burmese New Year
Question: What is the word for a textual expression representing the face of a writer's mood or facial expression, such as :-), :-(, and :-D, used in e-mails and text messages?
Answer: Emoticon
Question: Paraplegic New Zealand sportswoman Neroli Fairhall won Paralympics and Commonwealth Games golds and held medals and titles in international and World Championship contests for what discipline?
Answer: Archery
Question: From 1801 to 1812 Lord Elgin, under a controversial permit from the Ottoman Empire, removed many marble sculptures from a famous building in which country, and brought them to the UK?
Answer: Greece
Question: In 1992, aged 56, Woody Allen became romantically involved with 21 year old Soon-Yi Previn, who was the adopted daughter of whom?
Answer: Mia Farrow
Question: The Crusaders from western Europe during their fourth crusade destroyed what major Orthodox Christian city in 1204?
Answer: Constantinople
Question: Inspector Morse of the TV series (1987-2000) of the same name was very reticent about his first name; the name eventually revealed then became the title of a current prequel, but what was it?
Answer: Endeavour
Question: The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago at its nearest point lies how far from the coast of the South American continent?
Answer: 11 km
Question: Who, in the 19th century, was commissioned by King Ludwig II of Bavaria to complete his "Ring Cycle"?
Answer: Richard Wagner
Question: What is used in paper or textile making, and to form a protective coating on a canvas or other surface to be used for some art techniques?
Answer: Size
Question: Renowned sportsman Michael Phelps decided in 2014 to come out of retirement and compete in what sport?
Answer: Swimming
Question: When Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was brought down by hostile fire over East Ukraine on 17 July 2014 what was the death toll of passengers and crew?
Answer: 298
Question: After what or who is the continent to the north of Africa named?
Answer: Europa
Question: When Britain fought the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the forces it opposed were from France and which other country?
Answer: Spain
Question: A genus of colourful flowering plants, whose name means "daughter of the wind" is called what?
Answer: Anemone
Question: A famous round-robin chess tournament, one of the first super tournaments, was conducted in Hastings in England from August 5 to September 2 of what year?
Answer: 1895
Question: The National Gallery of British Art, built on the site of Millbank Prison and opened in 1897, became commonly known as the Tate Gallery. What was it officially renamed in 2000, and now displays only historical and contemporary British art?
Answer: Tate Britain
Question: Ted Sorensen was an advisor, lawyer and writer, best known as special counsel and adviser, speechwriter and alter ego to which US president, whom he called his intellectual blood bank?
Answer: John F. Kennedy
Question: What area became an independent country from Australia in 1975?
Answer: Papua New Guinea
Question: Who is the king of the title of "The Return of the King"?
Answer: Aragorn
Question: Which British comic strip character who appeared from September 1954 as a feature in "Tiger" magazine, had his own weekly comic from September 1976, which ran for 853 issues until March 1993?
Answer: Roy of the Rovers
Question: In 1979 Briton Anthony Blunt was exposed as a Soviet spy. What was his area of interest?
Answer: Art
Question: What name was given to teenage boys who wore drainpipe trousers and liked rock and roll in 1950s Britain?
Answer: Teddy boys
Question: After Mao Zedong's death his wife, together with others of the Gang of Four, was put on trial and sentenced to death; when did she die?
Answer: 1991
Question: Which American country music singer-songwriter, born in 1934, won two Grammy Awards of 2005, (Best Country Album and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals) for her album "Van Lear Rose", which was produced by Jack White of the White Stripes?
Answer: Loretta Lynn
Question: The first Sovereign to reign over England, Scotland, and Ireland simultaneously was James who ruled in Scotland as James VI from the age of 18 months, and in England and Ireland as James I from 1603. He was the first King of England of which Royal House?
Answer: Stuart
Question: When was the spacecraft Rosetta launched to make contact with comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko (67P)?
Answer: March 2004
Question: Limes became part of the British Royal Navy's diet in an attempt to prevent what?
Answer: Scurvy
Question: Where is the city of Medellin?
Answer: Colombia
Question: In 1905-6 the New Zealand representative rugby team toured the British Isles, France and North America, winning all matches apart from a loss to Wales, and are now known as what?
Answer: The Originals
Question: What do the names Charles, Orville, Jean, Wilbur and Laika suggest?
Answer: Powered flight
Question: What is a common factor in the careers of Giacomo Puccini, Paul McCartney, and Arthur Sullivan?
Answer: Opera
Question: What is the word for a moving camera platform?
Answer: Dolly
Question: Characteristics of gothic church architecture include tall designs, flying buttresses, vaulted ceilings, light and air, gargoyles, decorative and ornate finishes, and what else?
Answer: Pointed arches
Question: Which film actress was born in Germany in 1904, went to America after appearing in the film "Blue Angel", and became an American citizen in 1937?
Answer: Marlene Dietrich
Question: What British motor car manufacturer, founded in 1909 by H.F.S. Morgan and run by him until 1959 when his son Peter Morgan took over until 1999, is currently run by Peter's son, Charles Morgan?
Answer: The Morgan Motor Company
Question: A drink dating from the 15th century and particularly popular in the 18th, was regarded as a health-giving drink and good for hangovers. It contained milk, spices and ale or other alcohol; what was it called?
Answer: Posset
Question: Who was one of the first female movie stars, called "The First Lady of the Silent Screen", who was the only star from the silent era to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, and who received a Special Academy Award in 1971?
Answer: Lillian Gish
Question: Often celebrated as the first, and great, detective novel in English literature was "The Moonstone" by whom?
Answer: Wilkie Collins
Question: What is the official language in Guyana, on the South America mainland and on the southern limits of the Caribbean?
Answer: English
Question: The UK TV channel BBC developed a crime drama series, featuring Kenneth Branagh as the lead detective; what was the series called?
Answer: Wallander
Question: With whom did CM Punk hold the World Tag Team Championships?
Answer: Kofi Kingston
Question: On 24 June 2010 Julia Gillard was elected to the leadership of her party and therefore became Prime Minister of Australia. Who was the previous Prime Minister?
Answer: Kevin Rudd
Question: Vidkun Quisling, infamous in Europe, allied himself and his country for a time with what other European figure?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Question: """Fanny and Alexander"", a Swedish/French/German co-production classic about a Swedish family in Uppsala released in 1982, was directed by whom?"
Answer: Ingmar Bergman
Question: In which area is part or all of the Dakar Rally run since 2008?
Answer: South America
Question: Which English king was removed from the throne in 1399?
Answer: Richard II
Question: Which was the person credited with saying "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits"?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: Around the upper Coppename River a nature reserve in what South American country has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its unspoiled forests and biodiversity?
Answer: Suriname