zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: If you travelled downstream from the Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, which country would you be in when you reached the ocean?
Answer: Mozambique
Question: What famous picture was stolen from its frame in the Louvre in 1911, was recovered in Florence and returned in 1913?
Answer: Mona Lisa
Question: Who was Madonna's first husband?
Answer: Sean Penn
Question: In 1978, after escaping from Iran, where was the Ayatollah Khomeini granted political asylum?
Answer: France
Question: Which islands mostly belong to the USA, since they were purchased from Denmark in 1917?
Answer: Virgin Islands
Question: The last time that anyone spoke to Adolf Hitler, he was in what city?
Answer: Berlin
Question: What is another name for the second magnitude star "Alpha" in the Little Bear Constellation which is the nearest conspicuous star to the north celestial pole?
Answer: Pole star
Question: Which Ohio-born woman joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and was known as "the greatest woman marksman of all time"?
Answer: Annie Oakley
Question: Before 1945, what was the city of Gdansk called?
Answer: Danzig
Question: Which Sultan of Egypt ruled an expanding empire that included Syria, Mesopotamia, and most of Asia Minor until stopped in 1192 by Richard I in the first Crusade?
Answer: Saladin
Question: What was invented by Elias Howe in 1846 and improved by Isaac Merritt Singer?
Answer: Sewing machine
Question: What painting medium consists of pigment suspended in water?
Answer: Gouache
Question: Rheumatism affects what part of the body?
Answer: Joints
Question: Which section of the British forces made a famous charge against Russian forces at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War?
Answer: The Light Brigade
Question: In 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in the USA for spying for which country?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: What is the name given to river crossing suitable for vehicles?
Answer: Ford
Question: What sort of animals were "Lady and The Tramp", the main roles in a Walt Disney cartoon released in 1955?
Answer: Dogs
Question: Irish is one of the official languages of the Republic of Ireland. What is the other?
Answer: English
Question: The theatres for which war included North Africa, the Philippines, Italy, Germany and Crete?
Answer: World War II
Question: Mount Etna and the Plain of Catania are on which island?
Answer: Sicily
Question: Michael Keaton starred in which film as a spirit who makes a living from scaring people?
Answer: Beetlejuice
Question: What is the musical term for playing each note separated from the rest?
Answer: Staccato
Question: Louis XIV of France was known as what?
Answer: The Sun King
Question: What was the name given to the group of people in the English Midlands who destroyed machinery in 1811 - 1812, believing it to be the cause of their unemployment?
Answer: Luddites
Question: Who designed the white chiffon one-shoulder gown worn by Michelle Obama at the series of 10 balls celebrating Barack Obama's inauguration?
Answer: Jason Wu
Question: Which ballet, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky under impresario Serge Diaghilev, caused a riot at its 1913 premire in Paris by The Ballets Russes because the music and choreography were considered barbaric and sexual?
Answer: The Rite of Spring
Question: Which Italian island in the Mediterranean is to the south of Corsica?
Answer: Sardinia
Question: How many metatarsal bones are in each human foot?
Answer: 5
Question: A five block area of which city was permanently closed to traffic in May 2009 in an attempt to make the city "more liveable"?
Answer: New York
Question: What does a series of dots above musical notes mean?
Answer: Staccato
Question: What is the most prestigious event at the Henley Royal Regatta, for a cup which has been awarded since the regatta was first staged?
Answer: The Grand Challenge Cup for Men's Eights
Question: The US state of Virginia was named after which queen?
Answer: Elizabeth I
Question: Who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins
Question: What are the Yeoman Warders, who have guarded the Tower of London since 1485, commonly called?
Answer: Beefeaters
Question: Who was the previous King of Spain before King Juan Carlos I succeeded on 22 November 1975?
Answer: Alfonso XIII
Question: In which century was the Panama Canal opened?
Answer: 20th
Question: Which British sculptor and artist of the 20th century, whose work was said to exemplify Modernism, was made a Dame in 1965 and died aged 72 in a fire in her studio at St Ives, Cornwall, in 1975?
Answer: Barbara Hepworth
Question: What was the name of eleven rulers of the 19th and 20th Egyptian dynasties?
Answer: Rameses
Question: Who directed the films Cocoon, Willow, Parenthood, Backdraft and Apollo 13 between 1985 and 1995?
Answer: Ron Howard
Question: An expression that means to leave things as they are when there is no immediate problem is "let sleeping dogs ..." what?
Answer: Lie
Question: The Union of South Africa was formed in 1910: which area did not join the Union until 1919?
Answer: South West Africa
Question: Which country has borders with Brazil, Paraguay and Peru?
Answer: Bolivia
Question: In which country was there a civil war between 1861 and 1865, which was lost by the Confederate forces?
Answer: USA
Question: Six Korfball World Championships were held last century, the first in 1978. Which country won them the most times?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: What is the collective name for eight elite universities in the North Eastern USA?
Answer: Ivy League
Question: What film, sub-titled "The Story of Christy Brown", is a 1989 drama directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Julie Hale, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee and Cyril Cusack, that tells the true story of an Irishman born with cerebral palsy?
Answer: My Left Foot
Question: What waterway was opened to shipping on 15 August 1914 but not officially opened until 12 June 1920?
Answer: Panama Canal
Question: Which President of the USA was involved in a scandal concerning Monica Lewinsky?
Answer: Bill Clinton
Question: Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and Paul Klee are classified in what school of painting?
Answer: Surrealist
Question: What event applies to Charles II of England in 1660 and the Bourbons in 1814 and 1815?
Answer: Restoration
Question: The leaf of what tree appears on the Canadian national flag?
Answer: Maple
Question: Which entertainer uses various names, including "Puff Daddy", "P. Diddy" and "Diddy"?
Answer: Sean Combs
Question: Which band, which at the time comprised Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Michael MacNeil, Mel Gaynor and John Giblin, had hit records with "Alive & Kicking", "Sanctify Yourself", "Ghostdancing" and "All the Things She Said"?
Answer: Simple Minds
Question: The idea of an Olympic Flame burning throughout the Games was reintroduced during which Games, when an employee of the local Electric Utility lit the flame in the Marathon Tower of the Olympic Stadium?
Answer: Amsterdam, 1928
Question: The city previously known as Byzantium and Constantinople is in what modern day country?
Answer: Turkey
Question: With the history of which country is Davy Crockett associated?
Answer: USA
Question: The White House, Washington D.C., USA, has how many storeys above ground?
Answer: 4
Question: Which of the Gibb brothers is the oldest?
Answer: Barry
Question: Where does linseed oil come from?
Answer: Flax
Question: The board for which game has 121 indentations arranged to form a six-pointed star, with ten indentations in each triangular star-point of the hexagram, and 61 within its hexagon?
Answer: Chinese Checkers
Question: The Exxon Valdez oil spill, considered one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters ever to occur at sea, happened on 24 March 1989 in the Prince William Sound, in which state of the USA?
Answer: Alaska
Question: What is the title of the BBC sitcom starring Mathew Horne and Joanna Page, written by and co-starring Ruth Jones and James Corden?
Answer: Gavin & Stacey
Question: What modern-day country was ruled between 1902 and 1964 by Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud and his son, Emir Saud?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: Who began as a Broadway actor, made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and had lead roles in "The Grapes of Wrath", "The Ox-Bow Incident", "Mister Roberts" and "12 Angry Men"?
Answer: Henry Fonda
Question: When he took office on 9 May 2009, the President of which country was pictured with three women who were said to be his wives: Sizakele Khumalo, Nompumelelo and Thobeka Mabhija?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What instrument consisting basically of a telescope that can be rotated vertically and horizontally on graduated scales was designed for use in land surveying for measuring by triangulation ?
Answer: Theodolite
Question: The pineapple is native to which part of the world?
Answer: South America
Question: Which Chief of Staff of the US Army retired in 1937 but returned to lead the defence of the Philippines in WWII, and to direct both the occupation of Japan and the allied effort early in the Korean War?
Answer: Douglas MacArthur
Question: According to the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, how many "stations" are there in "The Stations of the Cross"?
Answer: 14
Question: What is the name for the massacre of the French ruling class while in church by local people at Palermo in 1282 that started a revolution that spread to other parts of the country?
Answer: Sicilian Vespers
Question: George Fox is associated with the founding of which religion?
Answer: The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Question: What creatures in Scandinavian folklore have evil powers and malevolent dispositions?
Answer: Trolls
Question: What is the lining membrane of the cavity of the eyeball connected to the optic nerve which forms the receptor surface for light rays?
Answer: Retina
Question: What was the acronym for the organisation that was set up in 1950 to co-ordinate the armed forces of NATO?
Answer: SHAPE
Question: What object, containing 14 lines of hieroglyphs, 32 of demotic and 54 of Greek, was a key to deciphering writing from ancient Egypt?
Answer: Rosetta Stone
Question: What chain of islands stretches from the Netherlands to Denmark?
Answer: Frisian Islands
Question: Which American abolitionist was one of a group who seized the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry in October 1859, was wounded, captured and, in December, hanged at Charleston?
Answer: John Brown
Question: Who held the record for the number of Grand Slam tennis tournaments before it was beaten by Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2009?
Answer: Pete Sampras
Question: What name was given to the loyal refugees that settled in Ontario after the American War of Independence?
Answer: United Empire Loyalists
Question: Which white metal that burns in air forms more of the earth's crust than carbon, sulphur, copper or lead?
Answer: Titanium
Question: The Royal Yacht Squadron of Cowes, based on the Isle of Wight, started a competition in 1851 now known by what name?
Answer: America's Cup
Question: Which Greek philosopher and mathematician, born on Samos around 582BC, established a school at Crotana?
Answer: Pythagoras
Question: Which pair of films directed by Quentin Tarantino were originally conceived as one film?
Answer: Kill Bill
Question: Who provided the voice of "Charlie" for Charlie's Angels in the original TV series and the films made in 2000 and 2003?
Answer: John Forsythe
Question: What is the common name for Chorea, a disease characterised by irregular involuntary movements, commonly found in children?
Answer: St Vitus's Dance
Question: Donald Campbell, the car and motorboat racer who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 60s, was born in which country?
Answer: England
Question: By what name is Iosif Vissarionovich Izhugashvili better known?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: Which Belgian novelist wrote the "Maigret" stories between 1930 and 1935?
Answer: Georges Simenon
Question: Which political party won victories in the Canadian governments of Alberta in 1935 and British Columbia in 1952?
Answer: Social Credit Party
Question: What phrase appeared on screen at the end of Warner Brothers cartoons?
Answer: That's All, Folks
Question: Where was the decisive battle on 24 June 1314 where Robert Bruce defeated Edward II's army and secured the independence of Scotland at that time?
Answer: Bannockburn
Question: In June 2009, who was found dead in his room at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel in Bangkok, where he had gone to begin work on his role in the film "Stretch"?
Answer: David Carradine
Question: Which city is built on both sides of the Tigris, 200 miles from the Persian Gulf?
Answer: Baghdad
Question: What is the text of an opera called?
Answer: Libretto
Question: Who was the first president of the Turkish Republic after the overthrow of the Sultan in 1922?
Answer: Mustapha Kemal Ataturk
Question: Historically, what is the name of an official having authority for fiscal and other purposes within a defined area of England, typically a borough, port or shire?
Answer: Reeve
Question: In baseball, which base is most frequently stolen by the runners?
Answer: Second
Question: Who discovered the moons of Saturn called Mimas and Enceladus between 1781 and 1789?
Answer: Herschel
Question: Who was an American gangster, the leader of a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era, whose criminal career ended in 1931 when he was convicted for income-tax evasion?
Answer: Al Capone
Question: Lake Winnipeg is in which Canadian province?
Answer: Manitoba
Question: Who, at the age of 50, had become the world's richest man through the activities of the Standard Oil Company?
Answer: John Davison Rockefeller
Question: Who constructed railway lines between Stockton and Darlington (in 1821) and Manchester and Liverpool (in 1829), and designed and built railway engines, including "The Rocket".
Answer: George Stephenson
Question: The Battle of the River Plate was between the "Ajax", the "Achilles", the "Exeter" and which other ship?
Answer: Admiral Graf Spee
Question: Anton Geesink represented which country in Judo between 1951 and 1967, winning 21 European titles, was World Champion in 1961 in the open class, and won gold in the open weight division at the 1964 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: Who became the youngest actor to have 6 Oscar nominations with her Best Actress nomination for "The Reader" (which was her first win!)?
Answer: Kate Winslett
Question: Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last Emperor of which country, ruling from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which team broke Germanys decade-long stranglehold on the Rowing World Cup in 2007?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: What name is given to the eastern part of a Christian church, sometimes known as the choir, which is usually separated from the nave by a screen or railing?
Answer: Chancel
Question: What ancient people, whose major cities were Tyre and Sidon, founded Carthage?
Answer: Phoenicians
Question: Which series of films were numbered 11, 12 & 13, without any "episodes" numbered 10 or below?
Answer: Oceans
Question: What is the name of the rose coloured gaseous envelope outside the incandescent surface of the sun?
Answer: Chromosphere
Question: What is the name for the phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere?
Answer: Rainbow
Question: What was the nickname of the Chevalier Raoul, a character in a tale by Perrault in 1697, who murdered successive wives?
Answer: Bluebeard
Question: The highest temperature at which a liquid can have a stable existence is known as what?
Answer: Boiling point
Question: What instrument for measuring radiant heat was devised by Langley, an American physicist, in 1881?
Answer: Bolometer
Question: The winner of the second Formula One World Championship in 1951 also won the title in 1954, 1955, 1956 & 1957, a record of five World Championship titles which stood until 2003. Who was he?
Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio
Question: The first goal in Football World Cup history was scored on 18 July 1930 by Lucien Laurent of France. France won 41. Who were they playing against?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Which area was ruled by Kamehaha I and Kamehaha II between 1810 and 1824?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: It is believed that which building stands on the site of temples built successively by Micah, Zerubbabel and Herod in Jerusalem?
Answer: The Mosque of Omar
Question: Buster Keaton's film "The Three Ages" included the invention of Stone Age baseball and modern traffic problems in classical Rome. What is this an example of?
Answer: Anachronism
Question: Which Serbian-Australian female professional tennis player reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 in 2002, but after several family-related difficulties (mostly involving her father), she slowly slipped down the rankings in 2006?
Answer: Jelena Dokic
Question: What word describes a vertical window in a projection from a steeply sloping roof of a building?
Answer: Dormer
Question: In "The Hobbit", what type of creature was Smaug?
Answer: Dragon
Question: Who led the first expedition to successfully circumnavigate the earth between 1519 and 1522, and was killed during the voyage?
Answer: Magellan
Question: What is the name of the group of 140 islands 25 miles south west of Lands End, Cornwall, England?
Answer: Scilly Isles
Question: Which outdoor game played by 2 to 4 persons with balls and mallets was introduced to England from France in the 1850s?
Answer: Croquet
Question: What is the English name for the red wines of Bordeaux, especially from vineyards in the Medoc district of the Gironde?
Answer: Claret
Question: Portuguese rule of which country ended in 1975, with the appointment of Samora Machel as its first president?
Answer: Mozambique
Question: What name was given to Australian bandits who raided its remoter settlements until the late 19th century?
Answer: Bushrangers
Question: Which river runs through the cities of St. Louis, Saint Charles, Jefferson City and Kansas City?
Answer: Missouri
Question: Which cricket commentator, who began his broadcasting career at the BBC in 1960 and commentated in Britain to 2005 and Australia from 1964, announced his 2010 retirement on 18 February 2009?
Answer: Richie Benaud
Question: Who sang while Ray Manzarek, Robbie Kreiger and John Densmore played?
Answer: Jim Morrison
Question: Which English classic horse race for 3 year olds held at Doncaster every September began in 1776?
Answer: St Leger Stakes
Question: Who became Roman emperor after the murder of Caligula, and, after the death of his wife, married his niece Agrippina, who poisoned him?
Answer: Claudius
Question: Which river runs through the city of London, England?
Answer: Thames
Question: A New Zealand squash player who dominated the sport in the late 1980s and early 1990s, winning the World Open 4 times, is Susan who?
Answer: Devoy
Question: Who, in 1949, became Premier and Foreign Minister of the first all-China Communist government?
Answer: Zhou En-Lai
Question: What changed its name as a result of the Treaty of Maastricht in 1991?
Answer: European Community
Question: The object of which card game is to make, for example, pairs, sequences, and 15 and 31 points, where scores are marked by means of pegs in a board?
Answer: Cribbage
Question: What is the name for the circle that describes the most northerly point at which the sun appears directly overhead at noon?
Answer: Tropic of Cancer
Question: What type of battle was the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: Sea battle
Question: Who was elected president of the southern states of the USA when they seceded from the Union in 1861?
Answer: Jefferson Davis
Question: Who was the Philistine warrior, famous for his battle with David, the future king of Israel, as described in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament and, more briefly, in the Quran?
Answer: Goliath
Question: What statistical term is used in government, marketing or opinion research to denote the characteristics of a population?
Answer: Demographic
Question: All of the gold medals at the 2009 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were won by Evgenia Kanaeva, who was representing which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: When Robert Falcon Scott reached the south pole in June 1912, he discovered that who had reached it before him?
Answer: Roald Amundsen
Question: Porfirio Diaz resigned from the presidency of which country in May 1911?
Answer: Mexico
Question: To whom was David Rizzio the secretary, when he was stabbed to death by her husband, Lord Darnley in 1566 at Holyrood House, Edinburgh?
Answer: Mary Queen of Scots
Question: Who was the Puritan leader and first governor of the Pilgrim Fathers, who organised the voyage of the Mayflower to Plymouth, New Hampshire?
Answer: John Carver
Question: Which religion has about 119 million known adherents in Japan?
Answer: Shinto
Question: Who are the two main characters in the TV series "The Big Bang Theory"?
Answer: Sheldon and Leonard
Question: Where did Pope Benedict XVI make his first visit as Pope?
Answer: Germany
Question: If you travelled down the Yarra River in Australia, which city would you be in when you reached the ocean?
Answer: Melbourne, Australia
Question: Which TV series followed the exploits of Father Ted Crilly, Father Dougal McGuire and the retired Father Jack Hackett, who preside over a parish on Craggy Island?
Answer: Father Ted
Question: Where was a nuclear reactor accident that resulted in a severe release of radioactivity following a massive power excursion which destroyed the reactor on 26 April 1986 at 01:23:45 a.m.?
Answer: Chernobyl
Question: In 1389, Queen Margaret ruled over Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Iceland and which other country?
Answer: Finland
Question: Who did Venus Williams defeat in 2001 to win her second consecutive US Open tennis title?
Answer: Serena Williams
Question: Dayaks are native to what area?
Answer: Borneo
Question: What name was given to the accidental destruction caused to British trawlers and fishermen by ships from the Russian navy on 21 October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War?
Answer: Dogger Bank Incident
Question: Which make of car has won the most 24 Hour races at Le Mans?
Answer: Porsche
Question: What festival is known as Yom Kippur?
Answer: Day of Atonement
Question: Until and including the birth of her twins in July 2008, how many children, including adopted children, did Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have?
Answer: 6
Question: What colour is pure sulphur?
Answer: Yellow
Question: Film actor Mel Gibson was born in which country?
Answer: USA
Question: The Boer War was fought in which country?
Answer: South Africa
Question: Cleopatra is reputed to have killed herself because of the death of whom?
Answer: Mark Antony
Question: Who holds the record for being the world heavyweight boxing champion at 11 years 8 months and 9 days?.
Answer: Joe Louis
Question: What TV programme opens with the words "In the criminal justice system the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups"?
Answer: Law & Order
Question: Of the 37 venues used to host events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, how many new ones were constructed for use at the Games?
Answer: 12
Question: The Czechoslovakian composer Anton Dvork was most proficient in which instrument?
Answer: Violin
Question: Who, at the end of her Olympic career in 1964, held the record for winning the most Olympic medals at 18 and the record for most individual medals (14 outside of team events) in Olympic history?
Answer: Larissa Latynina
Question: A 1999 James Bond film was entitled "The World is not ... " what?
Answer: Enough
Question: Who was the British engineer who designed the first television system suitable for broadcast transmission in 1939?
Answer: John Logie Baird
Question: On 29 March 1971, Lieutenant William Calley was found guilty by a court martial for murdering 20 civilians in 1968 - where?
Answer: My Lai, Vietnam
Question: What is the family name of the rulers of Monaco?
Answer: Grimaldi