zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Film actor Russell Crowe was born in which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What is American slang for a prison?
Answer: Calaboose
Question: The centre of a well-known UK TV series was a doctor, but was not a medical series. What was the name of the doctor?
Answer: Who
Question: A mastodon was an early form of what animal?
Answer: Elephant
Question: While performing on TV on "Saturday Night Live" in 1992, singer Sinead O'Connor tore up a picture of whom?
Answer: The Pope
Question: The sea which lies immediately north of Norway and Russia is known by what name?
Answer: Barents Sea
Question: Vehicles that can operate on both land and water are called what?
Answer: Amphibious
Question: In 2004, who released his long awaited album, "Smile"?
Answer: Brian Wilson
Question: Who was the magistrate in Athens who codified its laws around 600 BC?
Answer: Draco
Question: Who has been a game show host on US television for "The Neighbors" (1975), "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (from 1999), "Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire" (from 2004), "America's Got Talent" (2006) and "Million Dollar Password" (2008 to 2009)?
Answer: Regis Philbin
Question: In what year did Sachin Tendulkar formally retire from playing cricket?
Answer: 2013
Question: The seven hills which lay within ancient Rome are the Capitoline, Caelian, Aventine, Palatine, Quirinal, Esquiline and which other hill?
Answer: Viminal
Question: The title of a 1999 film was "Being John ... " who?
Answer: Malkovich
Question: The didgeridoo is an instrument from which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Anti-retroviral drugs are used to treat what disease?
Answer: HIV
Question: In which city's opera house does The Phantom lurk?
Answer: Paris
Question: A way of looking at mathematical relationships and operations using abstract symbols instead of specific numbers is called what?
Answer: Algebra
Question: Sebastian Pinera was the president of where?
Answer: Chile
Question: Who plays Dr. Addison Montgomery in the US TV series "Private Practice"?
Answer: Kate Walsh
Question: What geometrical shape most closely approximates India?
Answer: Triangle
Question: The Caspian Sea is bordered by how many countries?
Answer: 5
Question: What is the name of the calms and light baffling winds in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans?
Answer: Doldrums
Question: Who was an English record producer for The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Lulu, Nancy Sinatra, The Yardbirds, Suzi Quatro, Kim Wilde and the Jeff Beck Group?
Answer: Mickie Most
Question: What was the setting for "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", a 2008 film directed by Mark Herman starring Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, and Vera Farmiga, based on the book by John Boyne?
Answer: Concentration camp
Question: Suriname's three neighbouring countries are Guyana, French Guiana and which other?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Originally a UK TV series using string puppets it first aired in 1952 with an idiosyncratic version of English called Oddle Poddle; what was the series?
Answer: Flower Pot Men
Question: How many films have been made in the Harry Potter series?
Answer: 8
Question: Who was the British Leader of the Opposition during the Abdication Crisis?
Answer: Clement Attlee
Question: What type of show is the US/Canada TV series Stargate SG-1?
Answer: Scifi
Question: What is the small plain plastic or metal sheath on each end of a shoelace, cord or drawstring to stop the fibres from unraveling, and to make it easier to hold and feed through the guides?
Answer: Aglet
Question: What game, whose players use a squidger, aim to squop their opponents, occasionally to boondock them, and in a variant play a jeu de puces, held a Royal Match in 2008 to commemorate a 50th anniversary?
Answer: Tiddliwinks
Question: The singer Kimbra who featured on the Record of the Year for 2012 was born and grew up where?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: A 1999 film was entitled "Being John " who?
Answer: Malkovich
Question: """Monticello"" was the mansion owned by which US president?"
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Question: What was Harry Potter's pet, Hedwig?
Answer: Owl
Question: What was the name of Scrooge's clerk in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"?
Answer: Bob Cratchit
Question: Who was the first person to refuse an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer: George C. Scott
Question: A traditional music ensemble from Indonesia, featuring instruments such as xylophones, gongs, bells, bamboo flutes, and strings is known as what?
Answer: Gamelan
Question: What type of beer takes its name from the German word for "storage"?
Answer: Lager
Question: Who has the line "Is this a dagger which I see before me" in a Shakespearean play?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: How many years is Methuselah recorded as having lived?
Answer: 969
Question: In 1840 Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom married her cousin. What was his name?
Answer: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Question: What island off the coast of Iceland was formed in a volcanic eruption which began 130 m (426 ft) below sea level, reached the surface on 14 November 1963 and continued to 5 June 1967, when it measured 2.7 sq km (1 sq mile)?
Answer: Surtsey
Question: What in the human body shows the effect of melanin?
Answer: Skin
Question: In Western films, what is a bar regularly called?
Answer: Saloon
Question: Who owned the fictional plantation of Tara?
Answer: Scarlett O'Hara
Question: Lieutenant General Aman Andom, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Brigadier General Tafari Benti, Major Mengistu Haile Mariam and Major Atnafu Abate were involved in the politics of which country between 1974 and 1987?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: Bondi Beach is a suburb of which city?
Answer: Sydney, Australia
Question: What is the first name of Capt. W E Johns's fictional flying hero, Biggles?
Answer: James
Question: In what continent was freestyle swimming first developed?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which French novelist, critic and essayist is best known for his monumental " la recherche du temps perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time"; or "Remembrance of Things Past" that was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927?
Answer: Marcel Proust
Question: Which infective disease caused by toxins is characterised by the violent and prolonged contraction of skeletal muscle fibres?
Answer: Tetanus
Question: The southern US dish "chitlins" is made from the intestines of what animal?
Answer: Pig
Question: What musical instruments does a luthier work with?
Answer: Stringed
Question: What chemical materials does the process of photosynthesis depend on?
Answer: Carbon dioxide and water
Question: The explorer Abel Tasman discovered Australia and New Zealand in what year?
Answer: 1642
Question: Which resort shares both the summit of Mont Blanc and the title of highest commune in France with Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
Answer: Chamonix
Question: The escaped prisoner "Angelotti" appears in which opera?
Answer: Tosca
Question: What is a gregorian chant?
Answer: Church music
Question: When did St Francis of Assisi found the Order of the Friars Minor?
Answer: 1206
Question: In 1980 Lech Walesa co-founded what trade union in Poland?
Answer: Solidarity
Question: Artist Ai Weiwei is resident, in 2014, in what country?
Answer: People's Republic of China
Question: Who sings the theme song to the UK TV series "One Foot in the Grave"?
Answer: Eric Idle
Question: Which NASA space shuttle was lost after exploding 73 seconds after lift off in 1986?
Answer: Challenger
Question: Jill Munroe, Sabrina Duncan, Kelly Garrett, Kris Munroe, Tiffany Welles and Julie Rogers were characters in which US TV series?
Answer: Charlie's Angels
Question: A lastingly popular game released in 1991 by Psygnosis was called what?
Answer: Lemmings
Question: LeBron James has won how many Olympic medals in basketball?
Answer: 3
Question: What is the main ingredient of "tarte tatin"?
Answer: Apple
Question: Iraq lies between Syria to the west and what country to the east?
Answer: Iran
Question: If you suffered from androphobia what would you be afraid of?
Answer: Men
Question: Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko were political figures in which country?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: Who directed the pilot episode of the award-winning US TV series "Boardwalk Empire"?
Answer: Martin Scorsese
Question: With what country was the game of Senet first associated?
Answer: Egypt
Question: The Victoria Falls are on the border of Zimbabwe and which other country?
Answer: Zambia
Question: What genre best describes the 1967-72 UK TV series Callan?
Answer: Spy
Question: What name is given to the external set of floral leaves or sepals in a flower?
Answer: Calyx
Question: The 1984 Winter Olympics were the first conducted under the presidency of whom?
Answer: Juan Antonio Samaranch
Question: What name is given to the stage of a butterfly's life when it lives in a chrysalis?
Answer: Pupal
Question: Mascagni's one act opera Cavalleria Rusticana is often performed as a double bill with which other opera?
Answer: I Pagliacci
Question: In which year did the space shuttle Challenger explode 73 seconds after lift off?
Answer: 1986
Question: The Leakey family who concentrated their studies in Kenya were working in what area?
Answer: Paleoanthropology
Question: A spinoff from the BBC TV series In the Thick of It was which 2009 film, also starring Peter Capaldi?
Answer: In the Loop
Question: Who was on the British throne when Balmoral Castle was bought for their use?
Answer: Victoria
Question: Commercial extraction is being explored of an important large-scale source of natural gas, called what ?
Answer: Fire ice
Question: When is the Chinese New Year, and the Spring Festival, for 2015 as dated in the western Gregorian Calendar?
Answer: 19 February
Question: What vehicle was driven by Starsky and Hutch in the US TV programme?
Answer: Ford Torino
Question: Who was the wife of Richard I of England (the Lionheart)?
Answer: Berengaria of Navarre
Question: Who entitled his autobiography "My Wicked, Wicked Ways"?
Answer: Errol Flynn
Question: Who composed "The Ride of the Valkyrie" which premired in Munich in 1870?
Answer: Richard Wagner
Question: Which country contains the most large lakes in the world?
Answer: Canada
Question: A truant is someone who stays away from what?
Answer: School
Question: The characters of Doris Schwartz and Leroy Johnson appeared in what 1980s TV series?
Answer: Fame
Question: What type of creature is a salamander?
Answer: Amphibian
Question: In a coup in 2006, who seized power in Fiji?
Answer: Frank Bainimarama
Question: Which team beat Australia 34 - 20 in the Rugby League World Cup final in 2008?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Where was opera singer Maria Callas born?
Answer: USA
Question: Who is the latest actor to portray Alan Turing's fiance, Joan Clarke, in film?
Answer: Keira Knightley
Question: With what decade was the Dust Bowl, the period of prolonged dust storms and severe drought, in the USA and Canada mainly associated?
Answer: 1930s
Question: What name is given to the age at the end of which the extinction event happened which saw the end of the dinosaur?
Answer: Cretaceous
Question: A 2002 romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick is "My Big Fat Greek ..." what?
Answer: Wedding
Question: What is the language most commonly spoken in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan?
Answer: Urdu
Question: Which is the seat of National Parliament and the legislative capital of South Africa?
Answer: Cape Town
Question: Who wrote, in 1894: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal a loaf of bread"?
Answer: Anatole France
Question: What is the meaning of the German word "Gesundheit", said after a sneeze?
Answer: Health
Question: Which was not a medium used by British artist J.M.W.Turner to create his works?
Answer: Sculpture
Question: Epsom salts, traditionally used in bath salts and in agriculture, are what mineral compound?
Answer: Magnesium sulphate
Question: Mathematicians or code breakers from what country were the first to break the codes in the Enigma machines used by the German military from the 1920s to the 1940s?
Answer: Poland
Question: Which was the 2013 sci-fi film which scored an Oscar for Best Director and starred Sandra Bullock and George Clooney?
Answer: Gravity
Question: What was the predecessor to the computer game Riven?
Answer: Myst
Question: The husband of Mumtaz designed and built what magnificent monument in India to her when she died in 1631?
Answer: Taj Mahal
Question: Emperor Bokassa was overthrown as ruler of what country in September 1979?
Answer: Central African Republic
Question: Mills and Boon are publishers of what type of books?
Answer: Romance
Question: A "prickly pear" is a type of what?
Answer: Cactus
Question: The contents of "The Zimmermann Telegram" of 16 January 1917 revealed a German plan to offer Mexico what territory in return for a military alliance against the USA?
Answer: Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona
Question: What was the first name of Inspector Maigret, a character created by George Simenon?
Answer: Jules
Question: Shallots and scallions are types of what?
Answer: Onions
Question: Three great Siberian rivers are the Ob, Lena and which other?
Answer: Yenisei
Question: What is the next in this sequence: Madison, Monroe, Polk , Buchanan, Garfield ... ?
Answer: Carter
Question: What is the highest hereditary title in the British peerage?
Answer: Duke
Question: Josephus who lived in the 1st century AD was a military commander and scholar but is now known more for his work as what?
Answer: Historian
Question: Black Bess, the horse of Dick Turpin (1706-39), would have been used to what phrase if legend is to be believed?
Answer: """Stand and deliver"""
Question: Who hosted and won the 1995 Rugby Union World Cup?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What is another name for the gladioli?
Answer: Sword lily
Question: Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim are most usually associated with which work?
Answer: West Side Story
Question: What is the surname of the actors Lloyd and Beau, who are father and son?
Answer: Bridges
Question: """In the Land of Blood and Honey"", set in Sarajevo in the 1990s in the Bosnian war, was the directorial debut of what USA actress?"
Answer: Angelina Jolie
Question: Pol Pot was overthrown as ruler of what country in 1979?
Answer: Cambodia
Question: Barbara Vine is another writing name for which author?
Answer: Ruth Rendell
Question: Where did the 2014 Umbrella Revolution happen?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: King James VI of Scotland was also King James I of where?
Answer: England
Question: What part of the body does interstitial nephritis affect?
Answer: Kidneys
Question: The government of the Andaman Islands archipelago is divided between India and which other country?
Answer: Burma (Myanmar)
Question: Toronto, Canada, is on the northern shore of which lake?
Answer: Ontario
Question: In 1985, Barbara Dickson released "I Know Him So Well" from the musical Chess, which remains the biggest-selling record by a female duo, with what other singer?
Answer: Elaine Paige
Question: In the musical "The King and I", who was "I"?
Answer: Anna
Question: The Mocha coffee bean is named after what?
Answer: A port
Question: Which painter was particularly known for depicting the fte galantes of 18th century France?
Answer: Watteau
Question: What is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric, the name Indonesian in origin, that is made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn?
Answer: Gingham
Question: King Richard III of England died in which battle?
Answer: Bosworth Field
Question: What is 17 year old New Zealander Lydia Ko's ranking in women's world golf at the start of 2015?
Answer: 1
Question: Brian Lochore was coach to the New Zealand team in the first World Cup in 1987 for what sport?
Answer: Rugby
Question: What cooking technique involves frying quickly in a small quantity of hot grease?
Answer: Saut
Question: Which fictional detective first appeared in the book "Cover Her Face"?
Answer: Adam Dalgleish
Question: Which 1952 Hollywood musical film starring Danny Kaye includes many most famous stories such as "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid"?
Answer: Hans Christian Andersen
Question: Who was the second Stuart king on the English throne?
Answer: Charles I
Question: Who performed "I Will Always Love You", the song played at the end of the film "The Bodyguard"?
Answer: Whitney Houston
Question: In which country was the Battle of Vinegar Hill fought in 1798?
Answer: Ireland
Question: What is the interest of graphologists?
Answer: Handwriting
Question: Which actress began her professional film career aged six in "Bright Eyes" in 1934?
Answer: Shirley Temple
Question: The egg-based painting medium is known as what?
Answer: Tempera
Question: According to NASA where do the majority of meteorites found on Earth originate from?
Answer: Asteroids
Question: How is the shoe held on a racehorse's foot?
Answer: Nails
Question: What is the name of the front, slightly raised area, of a saddle?
Answer: Pommel
Question: Guru Nanak established what in India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries?
Answer: The Sikh religion
Question: How many leaders are recognised in 2014 as absolute monarchs?
Answer: 7
Question: Who had hit records with "Tragedy" and "You Win Again"?
Answer: The Bee Gees
Question: What was the first name of the 19th century Russian composer Mussorgsky?
Answer: Modest
Question: Which British politician won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: What strait separates the South Island of New Zealand from the more southerly Stewart Island?
Answer: Foveaux Strait
Question: What police drama TV programme starring William Shatner in the title role as the 15-year veteran police sergeant was first aired in the USA from March 1982 to May 1985?
Answer: TJ Hooker
Question: When were television sets with built-in closed-caption display first introduced to the US?
Answer: 1991
Question: The 12th century Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth is known for his writings on what?
Answer: History
Question: Who was nicknamed "The Sweater Girl" after she appeared in the 1937 film "They Won't Forget"?
Answer: Lana Turner
Question: Belgian Thierry Boutsen, winner of the 1989 Canadian Grand Prix and the 1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, drove for the Formula One teams of Benetton, Williams-Renault, Ligier, Jordan-Hart and what other?
Answer: Arrows
Question: Escamillo, a bullfighter, is a character in which opera?
Answer: Carmen
Question: What family name is next in the series Ivanievi, Hewitt, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, and Murray?
Answer: Djokovic
Question: The US satirical TV series is what Park?
Answer: South
Question: Wackford Squeers, headmaster of "Dotheboys Hall", appears in which book by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby
Question: Before it was moved to the purpose-built city of Brasilia, what city was Brazil's capital?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro
Question: Twitch.tv, where people can among other things watch gamers playing online, was generated by what other site?
Answer: Justin.tv
Question: What is the name for the ceremonial meal which breaks the fast each evening in Ramadan?
Answer: Iftaar
Question: Violet Carson made her last appearance as Ena Sharples in 1980 in which British TV series?
Answer: Coronation Street
Question: What professional sport is Arthur Ashe known in?
Answer: Tennis
Question: What is the variety of coffee bean grown almost exclusively world-wide?
Answer: Coffea arabica
Question: The character "Eliza Doolittle" in "My Fair Lady" was originally created by whom?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: How did Princess Grace of Monaco die in 1981?
Answer: A car crash
Question: Which comic character first appeared in Action Comics #1 in June 1938?
Answer: Superman
Question: George H. W. Bush was vice president to whom?
Answer: Reagan
Question: Who was Vice President to US President Ronald Reagan during his terms from 1981 to 1989?
Answer: George H W Bush
Question: Which king of England was called "the wisest fool in Christendom"?
Answer: James I
Question: Who wrote "Ann Veronica", a novel first published in 1909 that deals with contemporary political issues of the time, concentrating specifically on feminist issues?
Answer: H G Wells
Question: The two UK TV series "The Sweeney" (1975-78) and "Inspector Morse" (1987-2000) share which actor?
Answer: John Thaw
Question: What did the Festival International du Film become in 2002?
Answer: Festival de Cannes
Question: What was the nickname of the defending champion in the 2014 World Snooker Championship?
Answer: The Rocket
Question: Where is the village of Chibok?
Answer: Nigeria
Question: Who wrote and directed the Bafta Award winning short film "Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life" (1993)?
Answer: Peter Capaldi
Question: Who were the parents of Ricky Nelson?
Answer: Ozzie and Harriet
Question: What is the name of 100 novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, a medieval allegorical work known for its bawdy tales of love from the erotic to the tragic, which were probably written in the 1350s?
Answer: The Decameron
Question: What disco hit of 1975 by Donna Summer was banned by the BBC because of the background noises?
Answer: Love to Love You, Baby
Question: Which place, used by Russians in 1814 to bombard Paris, became a popular entertainment area in the 19th and 20th centuries, outside the city limits, free of Paris taxes (and where the local nuns made wine)?
Answer: Montmartre
Question: Who are Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and Dave?
Answer: The Chipmunks
Question: In 1999, King Abdullah II and Queen Rania became the rulers of which country?
Answer: Jordan
Question: """Vichysoisse"" is a type of what?"
Answer: Soup
Question: The dish Apple Charlotte is said to be named after whose wife?
Answer: George III
Question: """Why don't you come up sometime and see me"" was a famous line by Mae West in the 1933 film ""She Done Him Wrong"". Which actor did she say it to?"
Answer: Cary Grant
Question: On 29 May 1954, who sent a message to the aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance, saying "Thank you for the original forgery"?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II
Question: In what country is the white wine grape Pinot grigio, a clone of Pinot gris, traditionally grown?
Answer: Italy
Question: Louis Comfort Tiffany was particularly well-known for his work in what?
Answer: Stained glass
Question: King Idris I was deposed in 1969 as king of where?
Answer: Libya
Question: Mike Leigh directed what 1999 film, starring Jim Broadbent and Timothy Spall, about a famous music theatre partnership?
Answer: Topsy-Turvy
Question: Which Italian opera singer, considered to be one of the finest tenors in the recorded history of music rose to international prominence after the death of Italian tenor Enrico Caruso in 1921, and was often called "Caruso Secondo"?
Answer: Beniamino Gigli
Question: In India, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Transcaucasus, the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia, Burma and Bangladesh, what is a tandoor (also known as a tonir and a tone) used for?
Answer: Cooking
Question: On 15 December 1940, whose remains (except for his heart, intestines and viscera) were transferred from Vienna to the dome of Les Invalides in Paris as a "gift" to France by Adolf Hitler?
Answer: Napoleon II
Question: Who were the winning team at the first World Aerobatic Championships in 1960?
Answer: Czechoslovakia
Question: Who founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra?
Answer: Thomas Beecham
Question: The liver of a goose or duck, when made into food, is called what?
Answer: Foie gras
Question: Who made the longest Oscar acceptance speech, at five minutes and 30 seconds, when collecting her Oscar for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as Mrs. Miniver?
Answer: Greer Garson
Question: What device did French inventor douard-Lon Scott de Martinville patent in 1857?
Answer: Phonautograph
Question: What date was the US Transcontinental Railroad completed?
Answer: May 10, 1869
Question: The Tiger Quoll, Dibbler and Phascogale are native to which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: The uninhabited Malgas Island, or Bird Island, off the Western Cape of South Africa, is the largest breeding colony in the world of what?
Answer: Cape gannets
Question: How would a redingote usually be treated?
Answer: Worn