zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In the 18th century, Capability Brown popularised the naturalistic style of what?
Answer: Landscape gardening
Question: Before the 2008 Olympics, teams from which country caused a scandal by posing for a pre-Olympic newspaper advertisement pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes, to mimic the typical Asian?
Answer: Spain
Question: What name is given to the product of mass and velocity?
Answer: Momentum
Question: Who became King of England after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field?
Answer: Henry VII
Question: What is the deepest lake in the world, and the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume?
Answer: Lake Baikal
Question: What is the name for the use of X Rays in medicine?
Answer: Radiology
Question: Who is George Dowd better known as?
Answer: Boy George
Question: Thailand is on what continent?
Answer: Asia
Question: Emperor Quetzalcoatl ruled which ancient people in Mexico in the 10th century CE?
Answer: Toltecs
Question: Whose hit records include "I Feel Love", Love to Love You Baby", "Starting Over Again" and "On the Radio"?
Answer: Donna Summer
Question: Who was alleged to have choked pop star Rhianna until she was unconscious in a rented Lambhorgini shortly before the 2009 Grammy Awards?
Answer: Chris Brown
Question: What was the first nation to recognise the USA as an independent nation in 1777?
Answer: Morocco
Question: In 1958 the first World Championship in biathlon was held in which country?
Answer: Austria
Question: The "seven Champions of Christendom" were St George, St Andrew, St David, St Patrick, St Denys, St James and which other?
Answer: St Anthony
Question: How many teams have ever entered the Olympic La Crosse competitions?
Answer: 5
Question: What wine is named after a city in the south of Iraq?
Answer: Shiraz
Question: What is the term for a section of a building that runs at right angles to the main body, giving the shape of a "T" or a cross?
Answer: Transept
Question: Whose film career began in 1993 with "The Piano" and whose roles have included Jane Eyre, Queen Isabella II of Spain, a teenage mutant, and a human in a vampire TV series?
Answer: Anna Paquin
Question: About which conflict did Winston Churchill say "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"?
Answer: Battle of Britain
Question: By what name is the modern game that was published by Milton Bradley Company in 1943 as the pad-and-pencil game "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy"?
Answer: Battleships
Question: With what sport do you associate sponsor's trade names "Ping" and "Titleist"?
Answer: Golf
Question: Which US president was known as "Tricky Dicky"?
Answer: Nixon
Question: Coney Island, the pleasure resort off Long Island, is part of which New York borough?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: With what activity is Russian Marc Chagall associated?
Answer: Painting
Question: What is the nickname of the flag of the USA?
Answer: Old Glory
Question: From which sport do we get the expression "step up to the plate"?
Answer: Baseball
Question: Who was rumoured to be reunited with ex-husband Brad Pitt in June 2009?
Answer: Jennifer Aniston
Question: A prune is the dried fruit of which tree?
Answer: Plum
Question: Juan Antonio Samaranch was the head of which organisation from 1980 to 2001?
Answer: International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Question: What is the first line of the speech by the 3 witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth that ends "toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble"?
Answer: Double double
Question: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are the moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Whose adopted children are David Banha and Chifundo "Mercy" James?
Answer: Madonna
Question: David McTaggart co-founded which organisation?
Answer: Greenpeace
Question: What name was first applied to the group "Cream" when they formed in the early sixties?
Answer: Supergroup
Question: Which company made the Zero fighter that Japan used in World War II?
Answer: Mitsubishi
Question: A word opposite in meaning to another in the same language is called what?
Answer: Antonym
Question: What is the capital of Australia?
Answer: Canberra
Question: Who was the author of the plays "The Professor's Love Story", "Quality Street", "The Admirable Crichton" and "Peter Pan"?
Answer: J M Barrie
Question: Which author and playwright wrote "An Inspector Calls", "When We Are Married" and "Dangerous Corner"?
Answer: J B Priestley
Question: The names of how many US states begin with the letter "I"?
Answer: 4
Question: What is the world's richest horse race?
Answer: Dubai World Cup
Question: On which planet is Olympus Mons?
Answer: Mars
Question: According to Burt Bacharach's theme for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", what "keep fallin' on my head"?
Answer: Raindrops
Question: Who was an 8 year old English girl murdered on 24 August 1867 by solicitor's clerk Frederick Baker in Alton, Hampshire: the body was found in a hop field, her head and legs severed, her eyes put out, her torso emptied and her organs scattered?
Answer: Fanny Adams
Question: Who was Hugh Grant's female co-star in the film "Music and Lyrics"?
Answer: Drew Barrymore
Question: Which race, the first of which was in 1829 and held annually since 1856 (with the exception of the two world wars) is rowed each spring on the Thames in London?
Answer: The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
Question: In 1782, what was made the official bird of the USA?
Answer: Bald eagle
Question: What is always on the label of a bottle of the green liqueur "Benedictine"?
Answer: D. O. M.
Question: The Empire State Building has how many stories above ground?
Answer: 102
Question: Since 2002, the awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been broadcast from which venue?
Answer: The Kodak Theatre
Question: Andreas Thorkildsen set a new Olympic record at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing for throwing what?
Answer: Javelin
Question: What peninsula on the north coast of the Black Sea is connected to the mainland by the isthmus of Perekop?
Answer: Crimea
Question: In the USA it is called a bathrobe. What do the British call it?
Answer: Dressing gown
Question: Which London landmark was designed by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Great Fire of London?
Answer: The Monument
Question: What do members of the Gideon Society leave in hotel bedrooms?
Answer: Bibles
Question: Who is the heir to the British throne?
Answer: Prince Charles
Question: What is the base of the cocktail Margarita?
Answer: Tequila
Question: With what art form is Frenchman Paul Czanne associated?
Answer: Painting
Question: Which family includes Louis, a television journalist, his father Paul, a travel writer and novelist, his elder brother Marcel, a writer and television presenter and his cousin Justin, an American actor?
Answer: Theroux
Question: What was the Japanese name for Manchuria after they occupied it in 1931?
Answer: Manchukuo
Question: Which team was the runner-up at the 3rd American Football World Cup in Kawasaki, Japan, in 2007?
Answer: Japan
Question: Where was gold discovered by James Wilson Marshall on January 24, 1848, that led to the California Gold Rush (18481855)?
Answer: Sutter's Mill
Question: Phobos and Deimos are the moons of which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: Crampons are used in what activity?
Answer: Climbing
Question: What body of water is 86 feet (26 meters) below sea level?
Answer: Caspian Sea
Question: The Southfork Ranch featured in which TV series?
Answer: Dallas
Question: What was surname of "George and Mildred"?
Answer: Roper
Question: Traditionally, what is shouted by a town crier?
Answer: Oyez
Question: What was the popular name for the Paris prison at 232 Rue Saint-Antoine that was stormed during the French Revolution in 1789?
Answer: Bastille
Question: In botany, what is the word for the scar left on a tree or plant after a leaf falls?
Answer: Cicatrix
Question: In March 1918, the capital of Russia was moved to where?
Answer: Moscow
Question: The planet Mercury was photographed in 1974 and 1975 by which spacecraft?
Answer: Mariner 10
Question: What instrument is installed in an electrical circuit to vary the resistance?
Answer: Rheostat
Question: At Turin (2006), who became the first Canadian to win five medals in one Olympic Games?
Answer: Cindy Klassen
Question: Nelson Piquet Jnr was accused of deliberately crashing at which F1 race in 2008 that paved the way for Renault's Fernando Alonso to win?
Answer: Singapore
Question: The crosses of how many saints make up the British flag, the Union Jack?
Answer: 3
Question: Which artist is famous for his "blue period"?
Answer: Picasso
Question: In what month is Independence Day celebrated in the USA?
Answer: July
Question: The term "tessellated" refers to what type of art?
Answer: Mosaic
Question: k. d. lang is best known in what occupation?
Answer: Singer
Question: The Australian Open Tennis Championship is held in which city?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: The painter Pablo Picasso was born in which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: What Three Laws were formulated by Johannes Kepler in the early 1600s?
Answer: Planetary Motion
Question: What is the main ingredient of pilau?
Answer: Rice
Question: Which 18th century writer produced "She Stoops To Conquer" and "The Vicar Of Wakefield"?
Answer: Oliver Goldsmith
Question: Who was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement who was assassinated on 4 April 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee?
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Question: The USA purchased Alaska in 1867 from which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: The Epcot Centre is part of which tourist attraction?
Answer: Walt Disney World
Question: What is the name of the three bones that make up a human finger?
Answer: Phalanges
Question: What name is given to a 25th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Silver
Question: In which general direction would you sail from New York to London?
Answer: East
Question: Hudson Bay is a large inland sea in which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: The "pre-Raphaelite movement" was about what?
Answer: Painting
Question: Which song contains the line "You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life"?
Answer: Dancing Queen
Question: Death Valley is in which state of the USA?
Answer: California
Question: A US senator is elected for term of how many years?
Answer: 6
Question: What is the name of the small village near Calcutta where the first hollow-nosed rifle bullets were made?
Answer: Dum-dum
Question: The Giant's Causeway is a rock formation found where?
Answer: Northern Ireland
Question: What name is given to the period of British history between 1901 and 1910?
Answer: Edwardian
Question: Which international soccer team plays in shirts with blue and white vertical stripes?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Which team won the inaugural tournament for the FIFA World Cup (Soccer) in 1930?
Answer: Uruguay
Question: According to legend, what did St Patrick drive out of Ireland?
Answer: Snakes
Question: Actress Nicole Kidman married which country singer in 2006?
Answer: Keith Urban
Question: John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and LaGuardia Airport all serve which city?
Answer: New York
Question: The Galapagos Islands belong to which country?
Answer: Ecuador
Question: In 2008 there were 193 members of the United Nations. How many "nations" were represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Answer: 204
Question: What type of visual art is often called "the art of writing"?
Answer: Calligraphy
Question: What is the nationality of 2007 IndyCar Series champion George Dario Marino Franchitti?
Answer: Scottish
Question: What did Sir Robert Peel establish in London in the late 19th century?
Answer: Metropolitan Police Force
Question: Mount St Helens is in which state of the USA?
Answer: Washington
Question: Which 1980s pop group was led by Boy George?
Answer: Culture Club
Question: According to the proverb, the way to hell is paved with what?
Answer: Good intentions
Question: Liberia is a country on which continent?
Answer: Africa
Question: Joanna Lumley and David McCallum played which pair in a TV series?
Answer: Sapphire and Steel
Question: What is the name of the New Zealand national rugby team?
Answer: All Blacks
Question: Which city is "that toddlin' town" where "on State Street that great street ... They do things that they don't do on Broadway. They have the time the time of their life: I saw a man and he danced with his wife"?
Answer: Chicago
Question: Who was King of Hungary from 1000 to 1038, changed his name from Wajk on becoming Christian, and is Hungary's patron saint?
Answer: Stephen
Question: What, with the sickle, is a symbol of communism?
Answer: Hammer
Question: """The Warden"", ""Barchester Towers"", ""Dr Thorne"", Framley Parsonage"", ""The Small House of Allington"" and ""Last Chronicle of Barset"" are collectively known as what?"
Answer: The Barsetshire Novels
Question: What is another name for a ghost?
Answer: Apparition
Question: Who was the star of "High Noon", the American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann that tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself?
Answer: Gary Cooper
Question: Where did Pluto, discovered in 1930 (and designated a planet at the time), get its name?
Answer: Greek legend
Question: Where would you find the Koh-I-Noor and the Cullinan?
Answer: British crown jewels
Question: What shape are the 4 faces of a tetrahedron?
Answer: Triangles
Question: The sun is mostly made up of what material?
Answer: Gas
Question: O'Hare International Airport serves which city?
Answer: Chicago
Question: Daryl Hannah starred with Tom Hanks and John Candy as what in the 1984 film "Splash"?
Answer: Mermaid
Question: What was the setting for the 1998 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, "Sliding Doors"?
Answer: London
Question: James, son of Mary Queen of Scots (who was executed for treason during the reign of Elizabeth I) was the first to use which title?
Answer: King of Great Britain
Question: Where is the British Royal Yacht "Britannia", decommissioned in 1997, permanently moored as a visitor attraction?
Answer: Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
Question: The state of Indiana borders which Great Lake?
Answer: Michigan
Question: Who starred in the film "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987)?
Answer: Robin Williams
Question: Where did United Airlines flight 93, hijacked by terrorists on 11 September 2001, crash?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Question: What is the main intelligence service of Israel?
Answer: Mossad
Question: Suede is variety of what?
Answer: Leather
Question: What was worn by the leader of the first Tour de France?
Answer: Green armband
Question: Mastitis is a complaint affecting what?
Answer: Dairy cows
Question: What is the surname of Rebecca in the novel by Daphne du Maurier?
Answer: De Winter
Question: In which country does over half of the population live on reclaimed land?
Answer: The Netherlands
Question: What shape are the 12 faces of a dodecahedron?
Answer: Pentagons
Question: What is the name of the sand bank in the North Sea between Britain and Denmark that is famous as a fishing ground?
Answer: Dogger Bank
Question: What was the title of Graham Norton's autobiography, published in 2004?
Answer: So Me
Question: Passiflora edulis, a vine native to South America, is also called passionfruit, maracuj or maracuy in South America, lilikoi in Hawaii and by what name in South Africa?
Answer: Granadilla
Question: Who sings: "But with nothing to consider they forget my name. They call me 'Hell', They call me 'Stacey', They call me 'her', They call me 'Jane', That's not my name"?
Answer: The Ting Tings
Question: What name is given to someone who enforces racing rules and regulations at many types of race track?
Answer: Steward
Question: What is the world's second largest continent?
Answer: Africa
Question: What instrument is used to measure the specific gravity (or relative density) of liquids such as beer and wine?
Answer: Hydrometer
Question: Granite is an example of what sort of rock?
Answer: Igneous
Question: Which Bulgarian-born artist is famous for wrapping landmarks and landscapes in fabric?
Answer: Christo
Question: What colour is the dye made from woad?
Answer: Blue
Question: A cummerbund is worn on which part of the body?
Answer: Waist
Question: What is the oldest and southernmost city in Russia, with 7 miles of city wall?
Answer: Derbent
Question: Which Indian won a Nobel Prize in 1969?
Answer: Mother Teresa
Question: In rhyming slang, what is "to talk a lot"?
Answer: Rabbit
Question: What law is "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure"?
Answer: Boyle's law
Question: Composer Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713) is associated with which instrument?
Answer: Violin
Question: English is a subsidiary official language of India: what is the main official language?
Answer: Hindi
Question: Who was the last king of France?
Answer: Louis XVIII
Question: What is the name of the hall in which meetings of the Salvation Army are held?
Answer: Citadel
Question: According to the Bible, who were Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar?
Answer: Three wise men
Question: In England, what word refers to a parish constable of the Anglican Church, often charged with duties of charity?
Answer: Beadle
Question: The invention of what sport is credited to Dr. S. A. Naismith in Massachusetts, USA, in 1891?
Answer: Basketball
Question: What is a group of stars called?
Answer: Constellation
Question: Who was Mr Ed's owner in the TV series featuring a talking horse?
Answer: Wilbur
Question: Which European city is built at the mouth of the river Tagus?
Answer: Lisbon
Question: Hattie McDaniel, an American actress, was the first black performer to win an Academy Award, in 1939 for Best Supporting Actress for her role of "Mammy" in which film?
Answer: Gone with the Wind
Question: Who was the youngest First Lady of the USA?
Answer: Frances Cleveland
Question: What is the medical term for abnormally low body temperature?
Answer: Hypothermia
Question: """A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!"" is an example of what?"
Answer: Palindrome
Question: Which company, founded in 1950, was the world's first independent credit card company?
Answer: Diners Club
Question: George Heppelwhite is famous for making what in the 18th century?
Answer: Furniture
Question: What 1939 film starred Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara?
Answer: Gone With The Wind
Question: What is the name of the celebration held for a man shortly before his wedding?
Answer: Stag night
Question: What is the name of the reverse image on film, from which a photograph is printed?
Answer: Negative
Question: What is the last name of "Ellen"?
Answer: DeGeneres
Question: France's third longest border, after Spain and Switzerland, is with which country?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Sacr-Cur Basilica is in which European city?
Answer: Paris
Question: Amelia Earhart is famous for what area of activity?
Answer: Aviation
Question: What sport involves pockets, spots and rests?
Answer: Snooker
Question: What was signed to end World War I?
Answer: The Treaty of Versailles
Question: Who holds the record for having received the most Grammy awards?.
Answer: Sir Georg Solti
Question: What name did Pol Pot give to the ideology that he forced on the people of Democratic Kampuchea?
Answer: Year Zero
Question: Godtfred Kirk Christiansen is credited with inventing what?
Answer: Lego
Question: Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine are associated with what?
Answer: Fashion
Question: What is the maximum number of people that make up the supreme council of the Roman Catholic Church, the College of Cardinals?
Answer: 70
Question: Where is the Bagram air base?
Answer: Afghanistan
Question: T E Lawrence was known as Lawrence of where?
Answer: Arabia
Question: Who is the city of Charleston, the capital of South Carolina, named after?
Answer: King Charles II of England
Question: What is another name for pain in one or more nerves?
Answer: Neuralgia
Question: What is the best known work of Danish-Icelandic sculptor Edvard Eriksen, which he completed in 1913, that sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbour at Langelinie?
Answer: The Little Mermaid
Question: What word was used by poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists in English as a romantic name for Ireland, that is the name sometimes given to the female personification of Ireland?
Answer: Erin
Question: The second longest river in China, the Yellow River, is known locally as what?
Answer: Huang Ho
Question: In literature, what is the word for a person, or a group of people who oppose the main character, or the main characters (in simple terms, "the villain")?
Answer: Antagonist
Question: What is a sphygmomanometer used to measure?
Answer: Blood pressure
Question: What is dried in an oast house?
Answer: Hops
Question: With which sport is Sebastian Loeb associated?
Answer: Car rallying
Question: What is a pluviometer used to measure?
Answer: Rainfall
Question: The flag of which country, consisting of three horizontal stripes of red, white and blue (almost identical to that of the Netherlands), was first used in 1845 and officially adopted on June 23, 1972?
Answer: Luxembourg
Question: Who did Johnny Depp play in the film "Public Enemies"?
Answer: John Dillinger
Question: In which country, following Napoleon's final defeat in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo, was the monarchy re-established, ending with the Revolution of 1848?
Answer: France
Question: What does a glazier work with?
Answer: Glass
Question: Who took the role originated by Jodie Foster in films about Hannibal Lechter?
Answer: Julianne Moore
Question: In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach which area by sea?
Answer: India
Question: What is the seven-branched candlestick, based on the candelabrum that was used in the Temple in Jerusalem in ancient times, that is the national symbol of the State of Israel?
Answer: Menorah
Question: Where is a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings consisting primarily of realistic images of large animals?
Answer: Lascaux
Question: The headquarters of the United Nations is in which city?
Answer: New York
Question: In 1964, what did University of Oregon grad. student Carolyn Davidson design for $35?
Answer: The Nike "swoosh"
Question: What was the first name of the playwright Williams who wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire"?
Answer: Tennessee
Question: Archery was included in the Olympic Games in 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1920, and every time since 1972. Which country has won the most gold medals?
Answer: South Korea
Question: Which German was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF & UHF radio waves?
Answer: Heinrich Rudolph Hertz
Question: In "Kill Bill", who played the character of Black Mamba?
Answer: Uma Thurman
Question: In 2009, The Mongoose Bat was introduced into which sport, with the aim of providing 20% more power and 15% more bat speed?
Answer: Cricket
Question: Who was Sancho Panza companion to?
Answer: Don Quixote
Question: Who was Mel Gibson's co-star in the "Lethal Weapon" series of films?
Answer: Danny Glover
Question: What is the deepest known part of the world's oceans, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust?
Answer: The Mariana Trench
Question: What did Little Bo Peep lose?
Answer: Sheep
Question: The word "Honcho" comes from what language?
Answer: Japanese
Question: What is shouted by the first person to have a full card in a game of bingo?
Answer: House
Question: English couple Fred and Rosemary West were famous as what?
Answer: Serial killers
Question: What is a besom used to do?
Answer: Sweep
Question: The term "Royal Ascot" is associated with which sport?
Answer: Horse racing
Question: Lon de Lunden killed 21 of what to win his gold medal at the 1900 Olympic Games?
Answer: Pigeons
Question: Where is the Tynwald the legislative body?
Answer: Isle of Man
Question: Which play and film was adapted from a story by Christopher Isherwood and later adapted as the musical and film "Cabaret"?
Answer: I Am A Camera
Question: Who is the mother of actors Oliver and Kate Hudson?
Answer: Goldie Hawn