zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What took place near Brussels, celebrated and re-enacted for its 200th anniversary in June 2015?
Answer: The Battle of Waterloo
Question: Lorelei is a famous 120 rock, and its mermaid-like water spirit, on/associated with which German river?
Answer: Rhine
Question: What is 11,000 divided by 440?
Answer: 25
Question: What is the famous scenic wooded area of SW Germany which gave its name to a locally originating chocolate and cherry cake?
Answer: Black Forest
Question: A loofah (or luffa) bath sponge is previously a sort of?
Answer: Cucumber
Question: The famous tea brandname Typhoo, created c.1903 by the Sumner pharmacy/grocers in Birmingham UK, is from the Chinese word for?
Answer: Doctor
Question: The popular website Pinterest was founded basically for?
Answer: Photo-sharing
Question: Humus refers to the component in soil (earth) that is?
Answer: Decomposed organic matter
Question: The Canadian 1972-founded global Aldo corporation specialises in?
Answer: Footwear
Question: A cooked lobster changes from?
Answer: Blue to Orange
Question: 2,000 years ago Nanjing was what in China?
Answer: Capital city
Question: The Silfra fissure, in the Pingvallavatn valley, uniquely offering scuba-diving between the N American and Euroasian tectonic plates is in?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Strongly scented toilet water is named after which city of its origination?
Answer: Cologne
Question: Mandrax is a 1963 French-originating trademark for a?
Answer: Sedative drug
Question: A mythical Arctic whirlpool west of Norway, came to be what Anglicized Dutch word, meaning a violent water whirl or metaphorically extreme turmoil?
Answer: Maelstrom
Question: The founder of Wikipedia is Graham India; Jimmy Wales; Mario Brazil; or Nigel Nigeria?
Answer: Jimmy Wales
Question: The word fiscal in a financial sense generally refers to?
Answer: Governmental
Question: What is 3.6297 divided by 1?
Answer: 3.6297
Question: In ancient Rome, the 'Culina' was the?
Answer: Kitchen
Question: The Elvis Presley song Hound Dog was originally written about a?
Answer: Gigolo
Question: London's 'pedicabs', which came under new regulatory controls in 2015, are?
Answer: Cycle-rickshaws
Question: Ilya (pronounced 'eelya') Kuryakin is a?
Answer: Man from UNCLE
Question: The Cantonese/Chinese dish 'foo yong' (also 'fu young') is similar to?
Answer: Omelette
Question: The 18C legal term 'Ragman Roll', a record of crimes, originated what modern word for a long complex procedure?
Answer: Rigmarole
Question: What informal boxing term arose from Muhammad Ali's defeat of George Foreman in 1974, in which Ali covered up against the ropes, causing Foreman's exhaustion from sustained ineffectual punching?
Answer: Rope-a-dope
Question: A trug is used to hold/carry things when?
Answer: Gardening
Question: What historic UK county part-comprises East Ridings and West Ridings? Northumberland; Yokshire; Kent; or Cork?
Answer: Yorkshire
Question: Developed by Swedish company Mojang, Minecraft is a popular?
Answer: Video game
Question: Japan's NTT DoCoMo mobile phone company developed which texting icon 'pictograph' series, Japanese for 'picture' and 'character'?
Answer: Emoji
Question: British Queen Victoria (1819-1901) is what relation to Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Great Great Grandmother
Question: Coccinellidae, whose common name variants suggest a female form, are?
Answer: Beetles
Question: Deriving from 'Tagalog' Austronesian language 'bundok' (mountain) the US-English word 'boondocks' (and 'boonies') refers disrespectfully to?
Answer: A remote rural area
Question: Facebook confusingly announced in 2015 the introduction of a '(What?) button'?
Answer: Dislike
Question: The word 'impropriety' refers to actions that are?
Answer: Dishonest
Question: 'Ballroom' and 'Latin' definitions determine which one of these is not a Latin dance?
Answer: Tango
Question: Tagine, a North African meat and vegetable stew, originally/also refers (Arabic tajin) to a?
Answer: Frying pan
Question: What handicraft takes its name from the French word for hook?
Answer: Crochet
Question: What creature associated with crying is named from Greek 'worm of the stones'?
Answer: Crocodile
Question: The Austrian Nazi/SS member and engineer whose creations included the VW Beetle, Tiger/Panzer tanks, V1 flying bomb, and a car company which bears his name is Ferdinand (Who?)?
Answer: Porsche
Question: The fatty rump-end of a cooked fowl is called the 'Parson's (What?)'?
Answer: Nose
Question: The word eviscerate means to?
Answer: Disembowel
Question: What is the unit of measurement of wind speed?
Answer: Knot
Question: What number does 'storm' equate to on the Beaufort Scale of wind force?
Answer: 10
Question: What is a French street that means regret In English?
Answer: Rue
Question: In 2015 Brighton became the first UK city to introduce a voluntary tax for food/drink outlets on?
Answer: Sugar
Question: Anne Hathaway was the girlfriend of?
Answer: Shakespeare
Question: 'Isolation' is a technical term referring to independent control of a body-part in?
Answer: Dancing
Question: In Australia and New Zealand a charity shop or thrift store is also known as a (What?) shop?
Answer: Opportunity
Question: The prefix zetta denotes a quantity of 10 to the power of?
Answer: 21
Question: In 2015 Volvo developed an automatic detection/braking system for what in its Australian cars?
Answer: Kangaroos
Question: The Baden Aniline and Soda Factory is more commonly known as what world-leading brand?
Answer: BASF
Question: Name the popular 1970s Kenner Products' 15" toy body-builder figure of latex rubber filled with corn syrup, elastic to c.five feet?
Answer: Stretch Armstrong
Question: The sequence JFM - AMJ - JAS - (???) is completed by?
Answer: OND
Question: Zome, K'Nex, Erector Set, Lincoln Logs and Kre-O are/were major brands in which consumer product sector?
Answer: Construction Toys
Question: The South American 'Feve Tonka' vanilla-like spice popularized in French cuisine is a?
Answer: Bean
Question: Author/entrepreneur Cynthia Payne (1933-2015) famously provided what personal service for men of status/authority in 1980s London?
Answer: Brothel
Question: The technique known as 'Beurre manié' is used in?
Answer: Cooking
Question: A Muscovite refers to a native of where in the world?
Answer: Moscow
Question: What is a third of a half?
Answer: A sixth
Question: What eponymous brand, founded1946, re-established Paris as world-centre of women's fashion?
Answer: Dior
Question: The CAC40 is a main stock market index of?
Answer: France
Question: The cube root of 343 is?
Answer: 7
Question: Which one of these is not a member of the same Mustelidae mammal family as the others?
Answer: Fox
Question: Philae, the spaceprobe thought dead/lost until it recommunicated with controllers in 2015 is on?
Answer: Comet 67P
Question: Which 'BRIC' country launched the Astrosat space lab in 2015?
Answer: India
Question: 'Dismaland' was the temporary theme park/exhibition of which famous 'anonymous' artist?
Answer: Banksy
Question: Olav Bjortmont became 2015 world champion in?
Answer: Quizzing
Question: Blackberry's new phone for 2015 was called the?
Answer: Priv
Question: Eddie Jones was appointed head coach of which English sporting team in 2015?
Answer: Rugby Union
Question: What iconic equine-alluding company, in countless books/films/cowboy holsters, filed for bankruptcy in 2015?
Answer: Colt
Question: For its 2015 USA launch, roasted malt replaced caramel for colour in the 1927 British specification for?
Answer: Newcastle Brown Ale
Question: In the 2015 movie 'The Lady in the Van' was longstanding occupant of which English playwright's front drive?
Answer: Alan Bennett
Question: What is the year 2015 in Roman numerals?
Answer: MMXV
Question: Who won the men's World Ice Hockey Championship in 2015?
Answer: Canada
Question: Whose controversial US presidential campaigning greatly increased his popularity within his party in 2015, yet increased party fears that it would unelectable should he lead it?
Answer: Donald Trump
Question: A 2015 study found that what percentage of former American Football players had degenerative brain damage?
Answer: 96%
Question: Brazil began to nationalise its (What?) in 2015?
Answer: Rainforest
Question: Oxford University Press/Dictionaries announced what (most popularly used emoji icon) 'word of the year 2015'?
Answer: Face with Tears of Joy
Question: Lord Coe ceased working for which brand in 2015 due to conflict of interest?
Answer: Nike
Question: On what sprung mechanism did Bristolian Jack Sexty break the world record in 2015 achieving 88,047 bounces in 10hrs 21mins?
Answer: Pogo stick
Question: Which country has the shortest coastline?
Answer: Monaco
Question: What famous saying, representing a deranged and directionless group of people, has been interpreted in creative works by Hieronymus Bosch, Katherine Anne Porter, Erasure, The Grateful Dead, and Bob Seger, among others?
Answer: Ship of Fools
Question: What is the French meaning of 'Marmite'?
Answer: Cooking pot
Question: According to his memoirs, what famous Venetian adventurer was once imprisoned as a magician, a director of the Paris state lotteries, knighted in the Netherlands, a spy for Louis XV, and a librarian in Bohemia?
Answer: Casanova
Question: What is the name of the street in London famous for its tailors shops?
Answer: Savile Row
Question: A Salchow (usually pronounced 'salco' or 'salcov') is a jump in which sport?
Answer: Figure skating
Question: How would 'good day' normally be said in Japanese?
Answer: Konnichi wa
Question: The German Deutschmark was comprised of one hundred what?
Answer: Pfennig
Question: Which tragic figure of Greek mythology became the King of Thebes after solving the Sphinx's riddle to guess what walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening?
Answer: Oedipus
Question: What were Victorian English postmen called because of their uniforms?
Answer: Robins
Question: In human childbirth cervical dilation is considered complete at how many centimetres?
Answer: 10cms
Question: Numerology refers to what aspect of numbers?
Answer: Mystical
Question: The popular geeky children's TV series about an anthropomorphic aardvark whose theme song was sung by Ziggy Marley is?
Answer: Arthur
Question: Erlang (after Danish engineer Agner Erlang and/or a portmanteau of 'Ericsson Language') is used for?
Answer: Computer programming
Question: Drug corporation Reckitt Benckiser was found guilty of marketing false 'variations' and inflated pricing of what identical product? Paracetamol; Nurofen; Anadin; or Ibuprofen?
Answer: Nurofen
Question: The 2015 Star Wars sequel is subtitled 'The Force...' ?
Answer: Awakens
Question: The most poisonous fungi, which usually kills anyone eating it, is the?
Answer: Destroying Angel
Question: What is the English equivalent/interpretation of the Russian term, commonly abbreviated, 'Rochnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot'?
Answer: Rocket Propelled Grenade
Question: A postulant seeks qualification to practice in?
Answer: Religion
Question: New Year's Day (Gregorian international standard calendar) in the year 2017 is a?
Answer: Sunday
Question: The human body's energy chemical is?
Answer: Glucose
Question: What Anglicized-French word referring to prestige derives from the verb to press?
Answer: Cachet
Question: What is three-eighths divided by a half?
Answer: Three-quarters
Question: Best-selling Japanese author Marie Kondo refers to Japanese 'Tokimeku' ('spark joy' - literally palpitate) in the life-changing 'KonMari' method of?
Answer: Decluttering
Question: Besides humans, the most widely distributed mammals on Earth are?
Answer: Whales
Question: Vaquita porpoise 'maw', an illegally trafficked delicacy in Chinese cuisine, priced upwards of $10,000/kilo, is the creature's?
Answer: Swim bladder
Question: At 2015 how many people owned as much as the poorest half of the world's population (ie over 3billion people)?
Answer: 62
Question: What autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark has the Internet Top-Level Domain of .gl?
Answer: Greenland
Question: What element (Au) commonly prefixes to the following?
Answer: Gold
Question: Wikipedia's spherical logo features what symbol for Greek W, also a fatty acid name?
Answer: Omega
Question: What hugely popular cereal crop has varieties including Arborio (Italy), Ambemohar (India), Doongara (Australia), and Uruchimai (Japan)?
Answer: Rice
Question: Whose 'heroic' performance at the German Reichstag in 1987 is considered a catalyst for the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989/90?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: Considered the oldest living land animal at 183yrs in 2016, on St Helena island, Sth Atlantic, Jonathan is a Seychelles Giant?
Answer: Tortoise
Question: Which one of these is not a founding member of the European Union, nor has ever been a member (at 2016)?
Answer: Norway
Question: Hex/Allen, Slot, Cross, and Phillips are types of?
Answer: Screw-drives
Question: The classical composers Bach, Brahms, Handel, Strauss, and Schumann are all?
Answer: German
Question: Quiche Lorraine traditionally contains lardons, which are pieces of?
Answer: Pork fat
Question: Which of one these does not feature in lists of the most common UK pub names in recent times?
Answer: Princess Diana
Question: Diacritical marks are symbols for guiding/indicating?
Answer: Pronunciation
Question: A quarter multiplied by a third is a?
Answer: Twelfth
Question: Plankton (including jellyfish, algae, krill) is named from Greek 'planktos', which refers to its defining feature?
Answer: Drifter
Question: The planet Jupiter has how many known moons?
Answer: Sixty-seven
Question: Barber, Debussy, Glass and Holst are?
Answer: Composers
Question: Marfona, Charlotte, Jersey, and Desiree are?
Answer: Potato varieties
Question: A subaltern is an old word for an?
Answer: Army officer
Question: Bloodhound, Bluebird, Koenigsegg, and Thrust are?
Answer: Fast cars
Question: The word succumb means to be?
Answer: Overcome
Question: Fleckerl, Natural Turn, Chasse, and New York are?
Answer: Dance steps
Question: Chesterfield, Ottoman, Tallboy, and Cheval are?
Answer: Furniture
Question: Clipper, Brigantine, Corvette, and Schooner are?
Answer: Sailing ships
Question: If a creature is edentulous what has it not got?
Answer: Teeth
Question: What is a baby seal called?
Answer: Pup
Question: In which English county is Scotney Castle?
Answer: Kent
Question: What does an oologist collect?
Answer: Birds' eggs
Question: Leporine relates to which animal?
Answer: Hare
Question: Maris Piper is a variety of which vegetable?
Answer: Potato
Question: An epithalamium is a song or poem celebrating what?
Answer: Marriage
Question: In 1865 what significant event happened at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Question: The Latin prefix 'dino' (as in dinosaur) means?
Answer: Terrible
Question: Argan oil, chiefly from Morocco, used in cooking and cosmetics, is extracted from a?
Answer: Tree nut
Question: The largest theme park in Europe, subject to approval 2016, is planned by Paramount in?
Answer: Dartford
Question: A 'short corner' or 'penalty corner' features in?
Answer: Field hockey
Question: The saying which alludes to a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and to the intoxicating effects of a trade glue is 'Mad as a (What?)'?
Answer: Hatter
Question: The 13th century legend of Lady Godiva, riding naked on horseback in Coventry to save townsfolk from her husband's taxes, featured/originated the notion of a voyeur called 'Peeping (Who?)'?
Answer: Tom
Question: When an entity/person disposes of significant assets, perhaps unwisely, to raise money, this is called 'Selling off the family (What?)?
Answer: Silver
Question: St Andrews, Cypress Point, Augusta, and Muirfield are famous?
Answer: Golf courses
Question: Butterfly, Trudgen, Back, Side, and Breast are?
Answer: Swimming strokes
Question: A famous sports car named after Argentina's hot dusty North wind, is the?
Answer: Zonda
Question: A ship/plane's side-to-side turning movement is called?
Answer: Yaw
Question: On a QWERTY keyboard the backslash (\) shares the key with the?
Answer: Vertical bar
Question: What metal has the lowest boiling point?
Answer: Mercury
Question: The 404 telephone dialling area code belongs to?
Answer: Atlanta (Georgia USA)
Question: What is 12.5% of 8?
Answer: 1
Question: The 1940s originating term 'Latchkey child/kid' refers to a child who is often?
Answer: Home alone
Question: What is a musical note time value/symbol, a voice tremble, and a brand of cheese snacks?
Answer: Quaver
Question: The Japanese 'chūkanabe' (Chinese pot) is known popularly in Western/Chinese culture as a?
Answer: Wok
Question: A plantar wart or myrmecia is better known as a?
Answer: Veruca
Question: Flared trousers were originated in the early 1800s by?
Answer: Sailors
Question: In a church a piscina is a?
Answer: Basin
Question: What in the world is at Zero Degrees Latitude and Zero Degrees Longitude?
Answer: A weather observation buoy
Question: A spoken error, considered perhaps more truthful than the intended word(s), is called a '(What?) slip'?
Answer: Freudian
Question: The popular informal term for a circus is The Big?
Answer: Top
Question: What is the diameter of the world in kilometres?
Answer: 12,742
Question: Which English cathedral has 'The Clock with no Face'?
Answer: Salisbury
Question: Who was the first woman to walk in space?
Answer: Svetlana Savitskaya
Question: The Lowell Observatory is in which US state?
Answer: Arizona
Question: Who played the prison warden in the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz?
Answer: Patrick McGoohan
Question: What is limnophobia a fear of?
Answer: Lakes
Question: Ribes Nigrum is the Latin name for which fruit?
Answer: Blackcurrant
Question: Which famous US architect designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1916?
Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright
Question: Who became leader of the People's National Party in Jamaica in 1969?
Answer: Michael Manley
Question: What is the collective term for a group of woodpeckers?
Answer: Descent
Question: What is the name of the Cambridge University College that was originally for women only?
Answer: Girton
Question: A 'backhoe' (or rear/back actor) is normally found on?
Answer: Construction sites
Question: Pigs blood, fat, pearl barley, wheat, and oatmeal are ingredients of what recently proposed 'superfood'?
Answer: Black pudding
Question: Tera, Peta, Exa, Zetta, Yotta are?
Answer: Metric prefixes
Question: The German 'dachshund' means '(What?) dog'?
Answer: Badger
Question: The salad condiment comprising oil and vinegar, often reddened with parika and tomato, popularized/produced first in the 1950s is '(What?) dressing'?
Answer: French
Question: Junk, Trimaran, Pontoon, and Luzzu are types of?
Answer: Boats
Question: Twelve three-hundredths (12/300) expresssed as a percentage is?
Answer: 4%
Question: Sabot and saboton (from French, savate and botte) are respectively a box from which casino cards are dealt, and knight's armour, equating to a?
Answer: Shoe
Question: The traditional pudding of strawberries, meringue and whipped cream is called?
Answer: Eton Mess
Question: Clove hitch, Sheepshank, Figure eight, and Bowline are?
Answer: Knots
Question: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did what in May 1953?
Answer: First ascent of Everest
Question: What iconic British brand of matches and tobacco smoking materials is the Roman goddess of the hearth/fire?
Answer: Vesta
Question: Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), first identified in willow bark by Hippocrates c.400BC, is better known as what a genericized trademark?
Answer: Aspirin
Question: In the early 2000s Leicester became the first UK city whose majority of population is?
Answer: Ethnically diverse
Question: In how many games did Leicester City FC not concede a goal in their 2015-16 Premiership winning season?
Answer: 14
Question: Leicester City FC's colours are?
Answer: Blue and white
Question: Name the globally popular snack brand founded and based in Leicester, at the largest production plant of its type in the world?
Answer: Walkers
Question: Leicester City FC's playing kit sponsors/makers during their 2015-16 Premiership winning season were?
Answer: Puma
Question: 0.6214 mile is how many metres?
Answer: 1000
Question: The US Hillerich & Bradsby company's 'Louisville Slugger' is a?
Answer: Baseball bat
Question: Monophthongs, dyphthongs and triphthongs are types of?
Answer: Vowel sounds
Question: From the Greek god of love what term refers to a part of the human body that is especially responsive to touch/stimulation?
Answer: Erogenous
Question: Latin deus (god) and Javanese dejos became what Chinese pidgin English word for an incense stick?
Answer: Joss
Question: Machiavellian/Machiavellianism, after Renaisance philosopher/writer/political scientist Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), refers to?
Answer: Cunning
Question: Which small English Midlands county is home to the eponymous '(What?) Water' (named after the county) - the nation's largest reservoir by area?
Answer: Rutland
Question: Batman's gadget-loaded super-powered road vehicle, appearing in the very first Batman comic story 1937, is called the Bat?
Answer: Mobile
Question: In 2004, FIFA's President suggested that women footballers should wear?
Answer: Tighter shorts and low cut shirts
Question: In soccer the playing position of captain is always a midfielder - true or false?
Answer: False
Question: Mother Theresa, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, Mandela, Dalai Lama, Buddha, Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Jesus Christ are examples of a highly sophisticated modern leadership type, defined in Robert Greenleaf's 1977 book, '(What?) Leadership'?
Answer: Servant
Question: Which horse won the Epsom Derby in 1989?
Answer: Nashwan
Question: What are the little discs of waste called that are produced by a paper or card hole-punch?
Answer: Chad
Question: Who wrote the Ballad of Reading Gaol in 1898?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Question: The 1957 song Butterfly was (surprisingly) the only UK number one hit achieved by which significant recording artist?
Answer: Andy Williams
Question: In which European city is the sixteenth century limestone Bridge of Sighs?
Answer: Venice
Question: Who is the patron saint of Portugal?
Answer: St George
Question: The Faroe Islands are an autonomous province of which country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Which American celebrity claims to have a maid called Vaginica Seaman?
Answer: David Gest
Question: Which common chemical element has the atomic number 20?
Answer: Calcium
Question: How many balls, including the white cue ball, are on a snooker table (before any are potted)?
Answer: Twenty-two
Question: Who is generally credited with the invention of the hovercraft in 1955?
Answer: Christopher Cockerell
Question: What colour is the letter L in the standard Google logo?
Answer: Green
Question: The river Han flows through which capital city?
Answer: Seoul
Question: Yellowstone National Park is in which US state?
Answer: Wyoming
Question: What is the generally accepted collective term for a group of starlings?
Answer: Murmuration
Question: A 2007 film celebrated the 50th anniversary of which typeface?
Answer: Helvetica
Question: What liqueur goes into making a 'snowball' cocktail?
Answer: Advocaat
Question: Which of the Wise Men was said to have brought the gift of gold for the baby Jesus?
Answer: Melchior
Question: Traditional in Germany at Christmas, what sort of food is stollen?
Answer: Cake
Question: How many gifts are given in total in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas?
Answer: 364
Question: The USA's official National Christmas Tree is in which National Park?
Answer: King's Canyon National Park, California
Question: In Victorian England what people were popularly called robins because of their red uniforms?
Answer: Postmen
Question: Which country has the international car registration letter A?
Answer: Austria
Question: What is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Delta
Question: A book about someone's life written by someone else is called what?
Answer: Biography
Question: In which sport would you see a Boston Crab?
Answer: Wrestling
Question: What type of foodtsuff is marscarpone?
Answer: Cheese
Question: Which organisation produces the UK's ABC1C2 (etc) Social Grade Classifications Statistics?
Answer: NRS Ltd