zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the previous name of Taiwan, the island off the southeast coast of mainland China?
Answer: Formosa
Question: What is the commonly used term for the subtle form of advertising by which brands are featured in films and TV programmes?
Answer: Product placement
Question: What 1790 poem by Robert Burns inspired the naming of a hat, and also indirectly the tea clipper Cutty Sark?
Answer: Tam o'Shanter
Question: Which planet in our solar system is almost twice as far away from the Sun as Jupiter?
Answer: Saturn
Question: In which European city are the headquarters of the European Central Bank?
Answer: Frankfurt
Question: Who wrote the opera Aida?
Answer: Giuseppe Verdi
Question: Mixing blue, red, and green light produces what colour/color?
Answer: White
Question: Nate Dogg who died age 41 in 2011 found fame in what performance genre?
Answer: Rap
Question: What nation ended conscription to its Bundeswehr in 2011?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which strait, named after a famous Portuguese-Spanish explorer, separates Chile and Tierra del Fuego?
Answer: Strait of Magellan
Question: The Narcissus plant is otherwise known by which popular name?
Answer: Daffodil
Question: Ganymede is the largest moon of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: What type of creature is a Storm-petrel?
Answer: Bird
Question: The Bodleian Library is part of which highly regarded universtity?
Answer: Oxford
Question: Alt, Bock, Dunkel and Helles are German varieties of what?
Answer: Beer
Question: Which river flows over the Victoria Falls?
Answer: Zambezi
Question: Traditionally, oysters should be eaten when which letter of the alphabet is in the month?
Answer: R
Question: Charmeuse, Noil and Shantung are all types of which fabric?
Answer: Silk
Question: Abidjan is the former capital and a major battleground of what civil-war-torn nation in 2011?
Answer: Ivory Coast
Question: What is the surname of the famous German brother fairy tale writers, Jacob and Wilhelm?
Answer: Grimm
Question: A solution of magnesium hydroxide in water is better known by what name?
Answer: Milk of Magnesia
Question: Latrodectism is a clinical syndrome caused by the bite of which creature?
Answer: Spider
Question: The classic 1892 comedy novel written by George and Weedon Grossmith is 'Diary of a 'what'?
Answer: Nobody
Question: What is the chemical formula for laughing gas (nitrous oxide)?
Answer: N2O
Question: In a standard deck of playing cards, which is normally the only king without a moustache?
Answer: King of Hearts
Question: The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually in which European city?
Answer: Oslo
Question: What political first lady appeared in Woody Allen's 2011 film Midnight in Paris?
Answer: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
Question: The LEAF Award (as at 2011, fully the Emirates Glass LEAF Award) is a prize awarded for what?
Answer: Architecture
Question: Madison Avenue is an American term for what industry?
Answer: Advertising
Question: Stephen Covey's first hugely popular guide to business and life is called The Seven 'what' of Highly Successful People?
Answer: Habits
Question: The fourth film in what movie series is subtitled 'On Stranger Tides'?
Answer: Pirates of the Caribbean
Question: Name the UK state owned bookmaker, set up by Winston Churchill when Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1928?
Answer: The Tote
Question: In 2006, Romania banned sturgeon fishing in which river?
Answer: Danube
Question: As at 2011 who is the world's youngest self-made billionaire?
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg
Question: What large dangerous short-snouted variety of creature, from India, is a mugger?
Answer: Crocodile
Question: The Royal House of Chakri has (at 2011) ruled which country since 1782?
Answer: Thailand
Question: 'The Persistence of Memory', featuring images of a melting pocket-watch, is a work by which artist?
Answer: Salvador Dali
Question: Republic of the Union of Myanmar is better known as what country?
Answer: Burma
Question: What popular sci-fi creations were described by Dr Who's executive producer in 2011 as "...the most reliably defeatable enemies in the universe..." ?
Answer: The Daleks
Question: In what video game brand does the Lara Croft character most famously feature?
Answer: Tomb Raider
Question: In maths (also meaning womb, and a popular movie series) what is a rectangular series of quantities in rows and columns?
Answer: Matrix
Question: What small Scottish border town is famously associated with marriages of English runaway couples?
Answer: Gretna Green
Question: Teutonic/Teutons refers mostly and typically to what ancient race of people?
Answer: Germanic
Question: What is the fastest animal alive?
Answer: Peregrine falcon
Question: In pathology what is the common term for a displacement and protrusion of part of an organ through its cavity wall?
Answer: Hernia
Question: What is the cube root of 1728?
Answer: 12
Question: Refraction is the change of direction of a wave such as light due to change of its what when passing from one medium to another?
Answer: Speed
Question: The becquerel (Bq) is a unit of measurement of what?
Answer: Radioactivity
Question: The Grimaldi family has ruled which principality since 1297?
Answer: Monaco
Question: Erratum is a list of what at the end of a publication?
Answer: Errors
Question: An integer is what sort of number?
Answer: Whole
Question: What colourless/colorless, odourless/odorless, poisonous polluting gas is chiefly emitted by small engines typically used in lawn-mowers and chainsaws, etc?
Answer: Carbon monoxide
Question: Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulphur/sulfur hexafluoride are widely referred to by what collective metaphorical term?
Answer: Greenhouse Gases
Question: Of these sedimentary rocks, which one is not organic, being instead 'clastic'?
Answer: Shale
Question: Which former US presidential First Lady founded a famous drug rehabilitation clinic?
Answer: Betty Ford
Question: Regicide refers to killing a?
Answer: King
Question: A cruciferous plant has how many petals?
Answer: Four
Question: What is the Latin term for a reigning queen, often shown after first name as a formal title?
Answer: Regina
Question: Dame Evelyn Glennie, who is profoundly deaf, is a world-renowned what?
Answer: Percussionist
Question: How many new states were created when the USSR collapsed in 1991?
Answer: Fifteen
Question: Under the ABO blood group system, what blood type can donate for blood transfusions safely to all other groups?
Answer: O
Question: What is the fuller name of the road surfacing material, tarmac?
Answer: Tarmacadam
Question: Aside from an extra 385 yards, how many miles is a marathon race?
Answer: 26
Question: What number turned on its side (rotated 90 degrees) is the symbol for infinity?
Answer: 8
Question: Greek deka, and Latin decem, are what number?
Answer: Ten
Question: How many legs (or arms) are most usually on a starfish?
Answer: Five
Question: The remains of what late-1800s Australian folk hero were identified by DNA in 2011?
Answer: Ned Kelly
Question: What large corporation's annual conference is called 'f8'?
Answer: Facebook
Question: The English word Parliament derives from what foreign word-meaning?
Answer: Speak
Question: La Sombra del Viento (The Shadow of the Wind)?
Answer: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Question: And Then There Were None?
Answer: Agatha Christie
Question: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care?
Answer: Dr Benjamin Spock
Question: Racip Erdogan is a leader (at 2011) of what nation?
Answer: Turkey
Question: What was the population of the world at 31 Oct 2011 according to the United Nations?
Answer: 7 billion
Question: What national population is projected (as at 2011) to overtake China in 2020 as the largest in the world?
Answer: India
Question: Cristina Kirchner was re-elected president of which country in October 2011?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Horology is the study of the measurement of what?
Answer: Time
Question: Yulia Tymoshenko, controversially jailed for seven years in 2011 for exceeding her authority in signing a Russian gas deal, was prime minister of which country?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: Actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in prison after appearing in an Australian film critical of what country, her homeland?
Answer: Iran
Question: The Omega Speedmaster is claimed (at 2011) to be the only watch worn on the?
Answer: Moon
Question: The Grand Bazaar, said to be the world's largest covered market, is in which city?
Answer: Instanbul
Question: What is Alexander Pope's (1688-1744) famous line from his poem An Essay on Criticism, written 1709, much used in books, film and music?
Answer: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Question: IBM's innovative 'Selectric' typewriter of the 1960s-80s was popularly called a?
Answer: Golfball
Question: What is the colourful nickname of the International Business Machines (IBM) corporation?
Answer: Big Blue
Question: Powdered wool or cloth in certain wallpapers?
Answer: Flock
Question: Conducted mission of preaching and healing, with reported miracles, in Palestine, c.28-30AD?
Answer: Jesus Christ
Question: What is the singular term for one piece of data?
Answer: Datum
Question: Mythological Norse 'hall of the slain'?
Answer: Valhalla
Question: South Asia Muslim ruler's title, variously distorted?
Answer: Nawab
Question: Paul McCartney, and supposedly inspiration for a Beatles song/song title?
Answer: Martha
Question: The Showa period of Japan coincided with what Emperor's reign?
Answer: Hirohito
Question: Hot steam bath - from Finnish?
Answer: Sauna
Question: A Pelton wheel converts what power into usable energy?
Answer: Water
Question: In 2012 Josefina Vazquez Mota became a presidential candidate for the ruling National Action Party (PAN) in which country?
Answer: Mexico
Question: What nationality (at 2012, and at founding) are the corporations Samsung, Hyundai and LG?
Answer: South Korean
Question: What weekday is traditionally called 'Super...' in the election of US presidential candidates?
Answer: Tuesday
Question: Who was the last head of state of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
Question: Shakespeare's play of Greek/Trojan war, love and betrayal is Troilus and (who)?
Answer: Cressida
Question: Name the Sony Playstation new handheld gaming model launched in Europe in 2012?
Answer: Vita
Question: What material was used in making the 2,000 year-old dome of the Pantheon in Rome?
Answer: Concrete
Question: An exoplanet is a planet which does what to a sun (outside of our own solar system)?
Answer: Orbits
Question: Which country has (at 2012) the longest national highway in the world?
Answer: Australia
Question: What is the only country whose homeland spans Africa and Asia?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Chicken Pox is mainly contracted from contact with?
Answer: Children
Question: Tian Tian and Yang Guang are?
Answer: Pandas
Question: What spring 2012 Formula 1 Grand Prix was held amongst violent civil unrest?
Answer: Bahrain
Question: Bratwurst is a greatly varying German food made mainly of?
Answer: Meat
Question: The Russian Sukhoi Company is famous for making what?
Answer: Aircraft
Question: What Latin term refers (literally) to a writer or composer's 'great work'?
Answer: Magnum Opus
Question: Anthropomorphism refers to giving or attributing what qualities to something?
Answer: Human
Question: With what offence was Rebekah Brooks, former editor of The Sun and News of the World newspapers, charged in spring 2012?
Answer: Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice
Question: What common boy's name (English language Christian or first name) is derived from the Latin and Greek words for rock?
Answer: Peter
Question: What, from Latin 'to milk', is the technical name for a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally unblendable?
Answer: Emulsion
Question: Bees, Woozles, Jagulars, and the Backson are minor characters in which author's famous stories?
Answer: A A Milne
Question: What human hormone causes certain body cells to take up glucose from the blood and store it as glycogen?
Answer: Insulin
Question: The Latin term meaning 'among other things' is?
Answer: Inter alia
Question: Where in the human body is the sacrum bone?
Answer: Pelvis
Question: A myringotomy is an incision in what part of the human body?
Answer: Eardrum
Question: What artist uses a cake of rosin?
Answer: Violinist
Question: The term 'brogued' technically refers to a shoe with?
Answer: Perforations
Question: Colostrum, informally called beestings/bisnings, is a form of?
Answer: Milk
Question: In the musical story Brigadoon, the eponymous Scottish village appears one day every how many years?
Answer: Hundred
Question: With the symbol Sv what is the unit of ionizing radiation?
Answer: Sievert
Question: Coulomb is a unit of measurement of electrical?
Answer: Charge
Question: What sort of creature is a killdeer?
Answer: Bird
Question: What member of the Murdoch media family said in 2012, "Profit without purpose is a recipe for disaster"?
Answer: Elisabeth
Question: Labanotation is a system for coding/recording/analyzing what movement?
Answer: Human
Question: Which country gave diplomatic asylum/refuge to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in 2012?
Answer: Ecuador
Question: Karanga is a ritual welcome chant of what people?
Answer: Maori
Question: Name the Spanish coastal region containing the city of Málaga, and towns including Torremolinos, Benalmádena, Fuengirola, and Marbella?
Answer: Costa del Sol
Question: From what country does the word 'chutney' derive?
Answer: India
Question: A cicatrix on the skin is more commonly called a what?
Answer: Scar
Question: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City have since 2006 hosted five annual championship 'majors' of what sporting event?
Answer: Marathon
Question: What SI unit (International System of Units) of measurement is defined as "The amount of substance that contains an equal number of elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012kg of the isotope carbon-12"?
Answer: Mole
Question: Via Appia is regarded as the first modern what?
Answer: Road
Question: The attempted assassination of 15 year old Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban, in response to her championing the right of girls to education, took place in what (her home) country?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: Who is the famous husband of the also famous Chinese singer Peng Liyuan?
Answer: Xi Jinping
Question: The 21st century's second and last solar transit (across the Sun) of what planet happened in 2012?
Answer: Venus
Question: What organization won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: The European Union
Question: Lady Gaga cancelled her 2012 tour to which country after threats of chaos from protestors?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: Name the French president who began his term in 2012?
Answer: Francois Hollande
Question: Which famous hairdresser who died in 2012 created the wedge-bob?
Answer: Vidal Sassoon
Question: What nationality is Carlos Slim, the richest person in the world according to Forbes 2012?
Answer: Mexican
Question: In 2012 fossils of 1.9m years-old Homo rudolfensis were discovered in?
Answer: Kenya
Question: Who famously accused Tony Abbott of sexism and misogyny in 2012?
Answer: Julia Gillard
Question: The American Football Super Bowl final in 2012 is branded by what Roman numerals?
Answer: XLVI
Question: Which American singer, actress and model, said by Guinness World Records to be the most awarded ever, died in Los Angeles in 2012?
Answer: Whitney Houston
Question: Who was appointed US Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States Jan 2012?
Answer: Paul Ryan
Question: What nationality is Felix Baumgartner, who skydived through the sound barrier in 2012?
Answer: Austrian
Question: The effective discovery of what particle was announced by CERN at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012?
Answer: Higgs boson
Question: Enrique Pena Nieto became president of which country in 2012?
Answer: Mexico
Question: What medical Latin term, literally means 'stiffness of death'?
Answer: Rigor Mortis
Question: Optics is a branch of physics specifically concerning?
Answer: Light
Question: Hyperemesis gravidarum is an extreme form of what commonly named medical condition?
Answer: Morning sickness
Question: Thraex, murmillo, and hoplomachus are types of?
Answer: Roman gladiators
Question: What word for 'the end of the world' referred originally to a revelation?
Answer: Apocalypse
Question: 'Motion Pictures Experts Group Format I (or II), Audio Layer III' is better known as what three-characters?
Answer: MP3
Question: Glock pistols are made by which country?
Answer: Austria
Question: Name the Utah USA salt flats famous for land-speed records and a Triumph motorbike model?
Answer: Bonneville
Question: White chocolate consists of sugar, milk solids, salt, and specifically what other main ingredient?
Answer: Cocoa butter
Question: What is the modern-day name of the once colonial nation French Sudan?
Answer: Mali
Question: Jumpy, Deafy, Dizzey, Hickey, Wheezy, Baldy, Gabby, Nifty, Sniffy, Swift, Lazy, Puffy, Stuffy, Tubby, Shorty and Burpy were shortlisted to be what in the early 1930s?
Answer: Dwarfs
Question: Where in the human body is the glottis?
Answer: Larynx
Question: Which notable leader won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: The Chicxulub crater is a prehistoric impact crater buried underneath the Yucatan Peninsula in what country?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Italian Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is regarded as the inventor of?
Answer: Opera
Question: Charles Stent practised what surgery, for which he invented his eponymous technique?
Answer: Dental
Question: Béchamel, Espagnole, Velouté, Hollandaise, Tomate are the five 'mother (what?)' of classical French cuisine?
Answer: Sauces
Question: In which human sensory organ is Bruch's membrane?
Answer: Eye
Question: The prefix 'neo' (neocon, Neolithic, neo-Nazi, neonatal, etc) means?
Answer: New
Question: Founded in 1769, name the specialist British publisher of guides to aristocracy, etiquette, and correct forms of address?
Answer: Debrett's
Question: In 1998 who was the first 'First Lady' to appear on the cover of Vogue?
Answer: Hilary Clinton
Question: Wampum refers to decorative/monetary shell-beads in which culture?
Answer: Native American Indian
Question: Ashtanga Vinyasa, Bikram, and Hatha Vidya are styles of what?
Answer: Yoga
Question: Bob, bowl, bun, chignon, and tonsure are types of what?
Answer: Hairstyle
Question: Clio, typically holding a scroll, is the ancient Greek muse of?
Answer: History
Question: The main purpose of a bowline knot is to produce a?
Answer: Loop
Question: The Arab food falafal is commonly made from?
Answer: Chickpeas
Question: Apples, plums, cherries, apricots, raspberries and strawberries all belong to which plant family?
Answer: Rose
Question: The Japanese food word sushi referred originally to?
Answer: Rice
Question: In 1908 psychologist Alfred Adler cited which leader in proposing an inferiority complex in short people, which became known as the ('What leader?) Syndrome'?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: As at 2013 what country boasted the four most profitable banks in the world?
Answer: China
Question: A plantar wart is more commonly known as a what?
Answer: Verruca
Question: Which nation developed and makes the Uzi sub-machine gun?
Answer: Israel
Question: The term Phrygian Cap refers to?
Answer: Headwear
Question: In which part of the human body do red blood cells develop?
Answer: Bone marrow
Question: What traditionally provides the flavour/flavor in a frangipane cake filling?
Answer: Almond
Question: The Rod of Asclepius, a serpent and rod symbol from Greek mythology, is a widely used logo icon in?
Answer: Medicine
Question: The informal term nomophobia refers to anxiety from being without one's?
Answer: Mobile-phone
Question: What army rank (English/US/etc) equates to the naval Lieutenant Commander?
Answer: Major
Question: The Cadbury Report of 1992 established the first major code for what regulatory aspect of business/economics?
Answer: Corporate Governance
Question: Which corporation acquired Nokia in 2013?
Answer: Microsoft
Question: Obsidian is a form of?
Answer: Rock
Question: The German surname Müller refers to what occupation?
Answer: Miller
Question: Copra is the dried white meat or flesh of what?
Answer: Coconut
Question: What was abolished in the British Empire in 1833, the French Colonies in 1848, and the USA in 1865?
Answer: Slavery
Question: What is a PC's Alt key traditionally called on a MacIntosh computer?
Answer: Option
Question: What is the correct representation of the burger chain brand?
Answer: McDonald's
Question: A dosimeter measures human absorption of?
Answer: Ionizing Radiation
Question: The medical term sclerosis refers to the abnormal (what?) of body tissue?
Answer: Hardening
Question: Into which body of water does the river Nile empty?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
Question: The word 'Aloha', a friendly greeting, is originally from what Island's language?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: Amygdaloid refers to the shape of what nut?
Answer: Almond
Question: What is the connection between the £ sterling sign and astrology?
Answer: Libra
Question: The term 'ignition' derives from which archaic 'element'?
Answer: Fire
Question: The ancient Greek term/goddess 'Sophrosyne' represents?
Answer: Moderation
Question: Which Christmas carol includes the lyrics '...To save us all from Satan's power, when we were gone astray..'?
Answer: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Question: What is New Year's Eve called in Scotland?
Answer: Hogmanay
Question: Name the Indian corporation joint-venture partner in India's Virgin Mobile and Starbucks businesses?
Answer: Tata
Question: Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha are the two what of India?
Answer: Houses of Parliament
Question: The Indian city of Amritsar (also called Rāmdāspur and Ambarsar) is a main border crossing point to which other nation?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: Waheguru is the common term for God in which Indian religion?
Answer: Sikhism
Question: The Harmandir Sahib, the Sikh spiritual/cultural centre, is known popularly in western media as what?
Answer: Golden Temple
Question: Bonny light, Forcados, Qua Ibo, and Brass River are types of what major Nigerian export commodity?
Answer: Crude oil
Question: What 'dragon' is the world's largest lizard, named after its unique Indonesian island habitat?
Answer: Komodo
Question: What is modern Turkey's capital city?
Answer: Ankara
Question: Titicaca is the largest lake in?
Answer: South America
Question: Gharara and kameez are a common combination of (What?) in the Indian sub-continent?
Answer: Clothing
Question: The creamy cherimoya/chirimoya fruit with a soft cactus-like skin is also known as the '(what?) apple'?
Answer: Custard
Question: Agulhas, Kuroshio, Benguela, Canary and Humboldt are?
Answer: Ocean currents
Question: Crepuscular creatures are mainly active in?
Answer: Twilight
Question: In chemistry a hypothetical substance whose molecules occupy negligible space and have no interactions is called a?
Answer: Ideal Gas
Question: What is the recurring number when two-thirds is expressed as a decimal?
Answer: 6
Question: Soccer rules award what after an 'own goal' directly from a throw-in?
Answer: Corner
Question: Who has made the World Cup footballs since 1970?
Answer: Adidas
Question: Waterloo, the location of Napoleon's 1815 defeat, is in modern-day?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Comprising 100 centavos, what is the currency of Brazil?
Answer: Real
Question: Slang for an eccentric person, what bicycle part converts reciprocal leg-power into circular wheel motion?
Answer: Crank
Question: Who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in October 2012 due to doping?
Answer: Lance Armstrong
Question: Sitka wood, named after the Alaskan town, is a type of?
Answer: Spruce
Question: The 1st World War Armistice was signed in 'Compagnie Internationale des Wagons Lits 2419', a?
Answer: Railway carriage
Question: The brands Daiwa, Drennan, Hardy, and Berkley famously involve?
Answer: Fishing
Question: The 'Acts' book of the Bible is fully titled 'Acts of The (What?)'?
Answer: Apostles
Question: The speed of sound in a vacuum is?
Answer: Zero
Question: The Ebola disease is named after an African?
Answer: River
Question: Acetylsalicylic Acid is better known by what Bayer trademark?
Answer: Aspirin
Question: Ragú refers originally in Italian to a?
Answer: Meat-based sauce