zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In geometry, which unit is defined as being equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc equal in length to the radius ?
Answer: RADIAN
Question: Which unit of length is equal to 1.8288 metres ?
Answer: FATHOM
Question: Bill Hoskyns, who died in August, was the first Briton to compete at six Olympic Games - 1956 to 1976 inclusive. He won the team bronze in Rome and an individual silver in Tokyo, in which sport ?
Answer: FENCING
Question: The highest partnership for England in a test match for any wicket is 411 at Edgbaston against the West Indies in 1957. Name either of the batsmen involved.
Answer: COLIN COWDREY and PETER MAY
Question: Which Aviva Premiership Rugby Union side play their home games at Adams Park, High Wycombe ?
Answer: (LONDON) WASPS
Question: Which swimmer, who never won an Olympic medal in his career, carried the flag for the United Kingdom at the opening ceremony at Beijing in 2008 ?
Answer: MARK FOSTER
Question: Edward VII's first Christian name wasn't Edward, What was it ?
Answer: ALBERT
Question: What name has been given to the new intitution created by the merger of Deeside College and Wrexham's Yale College earlier this year ?
Answer: (COLEG) CAMBRIA
Question: Which designer (brand) created the Kelly bag?
Answer: Hermes
Question: Who succeeded Sir Clive Woodward as England's rugby union coach?
Answer: Andy Robinson
Question: What is the largest flat fish species?
Answer: Halibut
Question: Which singer's original name was Elaine Bookbinder?
Answer: Elkie Brooks
Question: Launched in 1960, what was the name of the first US communications satellite?
Answer: Echo 1
Question: Which actress appears with Jarvis Cocker in Pulp's video, Common People?
Answer: Sadie Frost
Question: What date is Trafalgar Day?
Answer: 21 October
Question: What is the birthstone for April?
Answer: Diamond
Question: In which year (or decade) were luncheon vouchers introduced in the UK?
Answer: 1955
Question: At which railway station was the film Brief Encounter made?
Answer: Carnforth
Question: Who was the first British person to walk in space?
Answer: Michael Foale
Question: Bafana Bafana, the South African nickname for its national football team means?
Answer: The Boys
Question: Which British artist painted The Pond?
Answer: L S Lowry
Question: The Battle of Antietam was fought during which war?
Answer: American Civil War
Question: Amy Winehouse and the brand of which famous 1930s sportsman announced a joint collection in 2010?
Answer: Fred Perry
Question: What Dutch Brewery arranged an 'ambush marketing' appearance of 36 orange-clad dancing women in the Denmark v Netherlands 2010 World Cup game audience, attracting complaints from FIFA, and massive publicity?
Answer: Bavaria
Question: Name the Danish maritime explorer who served with the Russian fleet and gave his name to a Strait, a Sea, an Island, a Glacier and Land Bridge?
Answer: Vitus Bering
Question: In chemistry and physics, volatility is the tendency of a substance to what?
Answer: Vaporize
Question: Sir Joseph Paxton designed which notable 1851 Hyde Park building, re-located in 1854, where its name persists since accidental destruction in 1936?
Answer: The Crystal Palace
Question: What is the name of the sister of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire?
Answer: Stella Kowalski
Question: A handwritten transcript of a coroner's inquest in 1881 that was rediscovered in Bisbee, Arizona, USA in 2010, revealed additional notes about what dramatic incident?
Answer: Gunfight at the OK Corral
Question: What Portuguese island suffered severe storm floods in February 2010?
Answer: Madeira
Question: The structural integrity of the Howrah Bridge in Kolkata (Calcutta) India, which daily carries 60,000 vehicles and 50,000 pedestrians, was reported (2010) to be under corrosive attack from what?
Answer: Human spitting
Question: What placename derives from the twelfth and last of the Eleanor Crosses, erected 1291-1294 by Edward I in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castille?
Answer: Charing Cross
Question: Which instrument was American bandleader Glenn Miller famous for playing?
Answer: Trombone
Question: Milou is the French name of which cartoon character's dog?
Answer: Tintin
Question: Wiki means what in Hawaiian?
Answer: Quick
Question: What word for a monstrously large creature or organization derives from the original Egyptian meaning of 'water-ox', and more specifically, probably the hippopotamus?
Answer: Behemoth
Question: What is the vivid blue semi-percious stone, historically mined in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province and prized by the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Greeks and Romans?
Answer: Lapis lazuli
Question: A 'bible bump' is an old colloquial term for what medical condition?
Answer: A ganglion cyst
Question: What is the main stock market index of Hong Kong?
Answer: Hang Seng Index
Question: What board game name is the Latin word meaning 'I play' ?
Answer: Ludo
Question: For what is www.letour.fr the official website?
Answer: Tour de France
Question: A nanosecond equates to what fraction of a second?
Answer: Billionth
Question: In July 2010 Amazon announced that their quarterly volume sales of digital books (ebooks) had exceeded their sales of what in the US for the first time?
Answer: Hardback books
Question: Which type of clay takes its name from the Italian for 'baked earth'?
Answer: Terracotta
Question: Who captained the England cricket team during the 1986-87 Ashes series?
Answer: Mike Gatting
Question: Ligneous relates to which natural substance?
Answer: Wood
Question: Who was the US Secretary of State 1973-1977?
Answer: Henry Kissinger
Question: The Edgbaston Test Cricket Ground is in which English city?
Answer: Birmingham
Question: Irish born missionary Saint Aidan founded a monastery in 653 on which English island, which is also the name of a 1970s UK folk-rock band?
Answer: Lindisfarne
Question: In cycling, what colour jersey is worn by the leader of the Tour of Italy?
Answer: Pink
Question: In which secure London building was Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess briefly imprisoned in May 1941 after he fled Germany to Scotland?
Answer: The Tower of London
Question: What is the method of dyeing fabric in which the parts not to be dyed are covered with removeable wax?
Answer: Batik
Question: Manchester United's 2010 Spanish signing nicknamed Chicharito means what in Spanish?
Answer: Little Pea
Question: In 1994, the USA lifted a nineteen year trade ban for which country?
Answer: Vietnam
Question: By what name did the 1932-33 England-Australia cricket series become known, after the visiting English team, notably fast bowler Harold Larwood, employed controversial tactics of bowling at batsmen's heads and chests, rather than the wicket?
Answer: Bodyline
Question: In which ocean is the island of Madeira?
Answer: Atlantic
Question: What was Alexander the Great's famous horse, whose Greek name translates to mean 'ox-head'?
Answer: Bucephalus
Question: Samite is a type of what?
Answer: Fabric
Question: A caparison is an ornamental cloth used to cover a what?
Answer: Horse
Question: Something annular is in the shape of a what?
Answer: Ring
Question: A nide is a brood or nest of which type of birds?
Answer: Pheasants
Question: How many pieces are on the board at the start of a game of chess?
Answer: 32
Question: How many times (as at 2010) has Roger Federer won the Wimbledon Men's Singles final? 4; 5; 6; or 7?
Answer: 6
Question: In the Imperial Measurement system how many pounds are in a stone?
Answer: 14
Question: What number Pennsylvania Avenue is the Whitehouse?
Answer: 1600
Question: Raines Law of 1896 related to the sale of what in New York State?
Answer: Liquor
Question: On which part of the body would a tarboosh be worn?
Answer: Head
Question: Sapphire is the birthstone relating to which month of the year?
Answer: September
Question: What is a Smythson Daphne?
Answer: Handbag
Question: What is half a sphere called?
Answer: Hemisphere
Question: Diez, Tio, Zehn, and Zece (in Spanish, Swedish, German and Romanian)?
Answer: 10
Question: Gametophobia is an informal term for the irrational fear of?
Answer: Marriage
Question: In June 1937, which US state became the first, and only, to celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Question: Madrilene is what type of food dish?
Answer: Soup
Question: The Watergate Complex is in which area of Washington DC?
Answer: Foggy Bottom
Question: The Janka hardness test is used for which substance?
Answer: Wood
Question: What is the third angle in a triangle if the other two are each 60 degrees?
Answer: 60 degrees
Question: What did US southerners call a northerner who moved to the south in the 1860-70s to exploit opportunities in the Reconstruction era, and which word today refers to an opportunitistic investor, especially where a mutual society might convert into a public commerial company?
Answer: Carpetbagger
Question: Composed in 1907, The Soldier's Song (that's the English translation of the title) was formally adopted in 1926 as the national anthem of which European country?
Answer: Ireland
Question: The Pacific Ocean covers approximately what percentage of the Earth's surface?
Answer: 30%
Question: What is Spanish for heart?
Answer: Corazón
Question: Sir Robert Mark, who died age 93 in Sep 2010, performed what role in England from 1967-77?
Answer: Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Question: Saint Pega is said to be England's first female?
Answer: Hermit
Question: What is the name of the mount on which the Hollywood sign sits in California?
Answer: Mount Lee
Question: Which gemstone is associated (traditional UK/US) with a 45th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Sapphire
Question: Name the French bank controversially exonerated (judged free of any responsibility/liability) in the 2010 trial of its employee rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, who was imprisoned for, and fined, the 4.9bn euros he lost in 2008 futures trading?
Answer: Soc Gen
Question: In the TV series Thunderbirds, what is Parker's first name?
Answer: Aloysius
Question: What is the name of the hook which forms on the lower jaw of the male salmon during the breeding season?
Answer: Kype
Question: Which monarch was the first Supreme Governor of the Church of England?
Answer: Elizabeth I
Question: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in which US city?
Answer: Boston
Question: Mock Turtle Soup is traditionally made from the head of a?
Answer: Calf
Question: A deuteragonist is second in importance in a?
Answer: Greek tragedy
Question: The lempira is the basic monetary unit of which Central American country?
Answer: Honduras
Question: The resort of St Tropez is in which department of France?
Answer: Var
Question: According to Forbes magazine's 2010 listings, who was the highest earning dead celebrity?
Answer: Yves Saint Laurent
Question: 'Five-finger discount' is US slang for what crime?
Answer: Shoplifting
Question: How many microns are in a metre?
Answer: One million
Question: What four words appear on the rectangual logo molded into most plastic CD cases?
Answer: Compact Disc Digital Audio
Question: What type of animal is a markhor, the national animal of Pakistan?
Answer: Goat
Question: A traditional weapon of the Sicilian mafia, what is a lupara?
Answer: Shotgun
Question: In human anatomy, in which part of the body is the buccinator muscle?
Answer: Cheek
Question: Name the Panama military dictator imprisoned from 1992-2007 in the USA for drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering, and subsequently extradited to France for money laundering, and imprisoned again in 2010?
Answer: General Manuel Noriega
Question: A muumuu is a brightly coloured dress traditionally worn by women on which island?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: What flavour is the liqueur cassis?
Answer: Blackcurrant
Question: What product was the first to appear in a UK TV commercial (in 1955)?
Answer: Toothpaste
Question: Which artist is famous for painting a portrait of his mother?
Answer: James Whistler
Question: What does a lepidopterist collect?
Answer: Butterflies
Question: What was Genevieve in the 1953 film of the same name?
Answer: A classic car
Question: What is a village without a church called?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: In which sport do Great Britain and the USA compete for the Westchester Cup?
Answer: Polo
Question: What is the US state capital of Arizona?
Answer: Phoenix
Question: Which side of a coin is obverse, heads or tails?
Answer: Heads
Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Britain at the start of the First World War?
Answer: Herbert Asquith
Question: What are the two ingredients of a screwdriver cocktail?
Answer: Vodka and orange juice
Question: What was the small British militant group responsible for a series of letter bomb attacks between 1970 and 1972, whose targets included banks, embassies and the homes of Conservative MPs?
Answer: The Angry Brigade
Question: Norman Rockwell's illustration of which US iconic World War II heroine appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in May 1943?
Answer: Rosie the Riveter
Question: What was Thornton Wilder's play performed for the first time ever in 1938 in Princeton, New Jersey?
Answer: Our Town
Question: What became the name of the crime in which eleven thieves stole more than $2 million in a heist in Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1950?
Answer: Great Brinks Robbery
Question: Women compete for the Corbillon Cup in which sport?
Answer: Table Tennis
Question: David Balfour is the hero of which Robert Louis Stevenson novel?
Answer: Kidnapped
Question: The Maskelyne Award is associated with which branch of entertainment?
Answer: Magic
Question: Malpensa Airport serves which European city?
Answer: Milan
Question: How many square yards in a UK acre?
Answer: 4,840
Question: A caryatid is a supporting column or pillar of a building carved in the shape of what?
Answer: Woman
Question: Forbes Magazine reported in 2010 the most expensive (real estate) US zip code to be 91008 Duarte, in which US state?
Answer: California
Question: Sony announced in 2010 what iconic device would cease to be made after April 2011?
Answer: The Walkman
Question: What musical instrument is financier and mogul Warren Buffett associated with, notably because of his performances to shareholders?
Answer: Ukulele
Question: The Cathedral of Saint Mary, at one time the largest church in the world, and burial place of Christopher Columbus, is in which city, by whose name it is better known?
Answer: Seville
Question: What US state has the longest coastline?
Answer: Alaska
Question: What type of creature is a noctule?
Answer: Bat
Question: The laxative Gregory's Powder was made from which leafy plant?
Answer: Rhubarb
Question: The bummalo fish is better known by what name?
Answer: Bombay Duck
Question: What is the basic monetary unit of Australia?
Answer: Australian Dollar
Question: What is the edible sea snail of the genus Haliotis, which has an ear-shaped shell with a pearly interior?
Answer: Abalone
Question: What is the capital of Ghana?
Answer: Accra
Question: What is the Roman numeral LXXXVIII?
Answer: Eighty-eight
Question: What is the code of silence which prohibits speaking about, or divulging information about, criminal activities, used by the Mafia?
Answer: Omerta
Question: What is the flat round cake made from flaky pastry and filled with currants, named after a town in Greater Manchester, England?
Answer: Eccles
Question: What is a dish sprinkled with breadcrumbs or grated cheese and browned?
Answer: Au Gratin
Question: Before the Euro, what was the basic monetary unit of Portugal?
Answer: Escudo
Question: What is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Omicron
Question: What is the lair of a fox?
Answer: Earth
Question: After nearly 40 years of TV advertising, what Kimberly-Clark brand replaced a real animal with a CGI (computer generated imagery) in late 2010?
Answer: Andrex
Question: What is the name of the fabric used to cover billiard tables and card tables?
Answer: Baize
Question: In what country, the world's seventh largest by geographical area, is Christmas known as Bada Din (the big day)?
Answer: India
Question: What day of the week was Christmas day in the year 2000 (in the conventional western calendar)?
Answer: Monday
Question: In the song 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas', how many swans were a-swimming?
Answer: Seven
Question: The first singing radio commercial, which aired in the US on Christmas Eve 1926, was for which brand?
Answer: Wheaties
Question: Driving Home For Christmas was a 1988 hit single for which singer?
Answer: Chris Rea
Question: In 2004, the post office of which country (international dialling code 49) gave away twenty million free scented stickers, to make Christmas cards smell like fir trees, cinammon, gingerbread or honey wax?
Answer: Germany
Question: 'Olive the Other... (what?)', is a Christmas book by Vivian Walsh and J Otto Seibold?
Answer: Reindeer
Question: Who won golf's 2010 Masters Championship?
Answer: Phil Mickelson
Question: Who bought Channel 5 TV in the UK, resisting objections that his pornography interests made him unsuitable?
Answer: Richard Desmond
Question: Food writer and critic Egon Ronay, who died in 2010, was born in what country, which offers a food related pun?
Answer: Hungary
Question: Name the gymnastic group which won the 2010 Britain's Got Talent TV show?
Answer: Spellbound
Question: Giant George, at 7'3" from nose to tail, and 43" shoulder high, was announced the world's tallest what in 2010 by Guinness World Records?
Answer: Dog
Question: Name the popular writer, who died in 2010, and who rode the Queen Mother's horse Devon Loch when it inexplicably belly-flopped out of contention in the 1956 Grand National?
Answer: Dick Francis
Question: Which environmental campaigner, whose band's 2010 European tour required 120 lorries to transport it, pulled out of the 2010 Glastonbury headline spot due to a back injury?
Answer: Bono
Question: Peter O'Donnell, who died in 2010, created what globally syndicated newspaper comic strip heroine, later featuring in books and movies, whose name equates to 'understated fire'?
Answer: Modesty Blaise
Question: Over-zealous council officials in Bristol UK, patrolling local countryside, instructed a picnicking family against the use of what, because it was in breach of local byelaws?
Answer: Windbreak
Question: Which England football player was sent off on his 2010/11 season debut for Liverpool?
Answer: Joe Cole
Question: A war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, coinvicted chief jailer Kaing Guek Eav (also called Kang Kek Iew or Kaing Kek Iev) of what regime, responsible for the 1.7m deaths in the 1970s 'Killing Fields' genocide?
Answer: Khmer Rouge
Question: Name the journalist and writer and leader of the influential Work Foundation research organization, bought by Lancaster University in 2010?
Answer: Will Hutton
Question: An adaptation of which classic 1905 story by E Nesbit received rave reviews when it was performed with dramatic real effects at London's Waterloo Station in Summer 2010?
Answer: The Railway Children
Question: In 2010 India announced the reintroduction of which animal, sixty years after being hunted to extinction in the wild?
Answer: Cheetah
Question: Welsh rugby union flanker Andy Powell was banned from driving after celebrating his team's Six nations win over Scotland by driving what vehicle on the M4 motorway while drunk?
Answer: Golf buggy
Question: Sir Robert Mark, who died in 2010 age 93, held what notable UK post from 1967-77?
Answer: Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Question: What Big European bank's name replaced those of Abbey, and Bradford & Bingley, in an extensive 2010 rebranding of its acquired branches?
Answer: Santander
Question: English and French scientists argued publicly in 2010 over the existence of what, originally identified and named after German gynaecologist Ernst Grafenberg?
Answer: The G-Spot
Question: What popular cereal brand has for decades featured a kilted athlete on its box?
Answer: Scott's Porage Oats
Question: What type of food is Sapsago, also called Sap Sago and Schabziger?
Answer: Cheese
Question: What is the full name of the football organization usually abbreviated to UEFA?
Answer: Union of European Football Associations
Question: Who - UK cabinet minister for culture - had his name unspeakably 'spoonerised' live on air by BBC Radio 4 journalist James Naughtie (pronounced 'Nockty') in December 2010?
Answer: Jeremy Hunt
Question: South-West is how many degrees on a compass?
Answer: 225
Question: 'Cucumber Time' is the quiet season in which trade?
Answer: Tailoring
Question: The Shatt-al-Arab River is formed by the confluence of which two rivers, at Al-Qurnah, Iraq near Basra?
Answer: Tigris and Euphrates
Question: 9.9498744 (to the nearest seven decimal places) is the square root of which whole number?
Answer: 99
Question: Which Australian city is nicknamed The Big Smoke?
Answer: Sydney
Question: The term Paraskavedekatriaphobia informally refers to an irrational fear of what time-related concern?
Answer: Friday 13th
Question: The Attan, a Pashtun ethnic dance, is the national dance of which country?
Answer: Afghanistan
Question: What degrees temperature is the same in Centigrade/Celsius as it is in Fahrenheit?
Answer: -40
Question: What symbol commonly used in print, and titles especially, derives from a combination of the letters E and T?
Answer: Ampersand
Question: Name the Scottish singer-songwriter (notably of Baker Street and as co-writer of Stuck in the Middle with You) who died early in 2011 age 63?
Answer: Gerry Rafferty
Question: What German word refers to a 'double' of a living person, often an evil version?
Answer: Doppelganger
Question: How many zeros are represented by the metric multiple prefix 'tera'?
Answer: Twelve
Question: What is measured in Hertz?
Answer: Frequency
Question: Glyptogography, or glyptics, is the art of carving or engraving on what?
Answer: Gemstones
Question: Aside from being a 'nuisance' if one gets into your garden, what is an animal called that feeds only on plants?
Answer: Herbivore
Question: Lee Hsien Loong was reportedly the highest paid what, globally, in 2010?
Answer: National leader
Question: Apron, Borrow and Line are terms associated with which sport?
Answer: Golf
Question: What is the basic monetary unit of Iceland?
Answer: Krona
Question: 'Dancer' was the American Secret Service code name for the wife of which US president?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Question: Name the only G8 nation whose law, subject to challenge in 2011, requires a married couple to adopt only one surname?
Answer: Japan
Question: How many vertices (corners) has a regular dodecahedron (a dodecahedon is a 3D form with 12 faces)?
Answer: 20
Question: Skiving, beading and perforating are terms used in which industry?
Answer: Shoemaking
Question: Famille-rose porcelain originated in which country?
Answer: China
Question: What is the top-level internet domain suffix for the country of Turkey?
Answer: tr
Question: What mineral is an Alaskan diamond?
Answer: Quartz
Question: The Portuguese Man o' War (a sea-dwelling jellyfish-like invertebrate) alludes to a warship design devised in which country?
Answer: England
Question: From what type of creature is Bombay duck made?
Answer: Fish
Question: What colour is orange blossom?
Answer: White
Question: What type of building is a picture palace?
Answer: Cinema
Question: What is the main fruit ingredient of the traditional (orange) Jaffa Cake biscuit?
Answer: Apricot
Question: How long was the 100 Years War?
Answer: 116 years
Question: What colour are white grapes?
Answer: Green
Question: In what country was the game Chinese Checkers (or Chinese Chequers) invented?
Answer: Germany
Question: What sort of fruit is a Chinese gooseberry?
Answer: Kiwifruit
Question: What are sticks of blackboard chalk made from?
Answer: Gypsum
Question: Clas Ohlson is a hugely popular DIY store chain based in which country?
Answer: Sweden
Question: Who won the American NFL Super Bowl in February 2011?
Answer: The Green Bay Packers
Question: If a leaf is obcordate, what shape is it?
Answer: Heart-shaped
Question: In UK politics, what flower is the emblem of the Labour Party?
Answer: Rose
Question: Which island group is known by the French as Iles Normande?
Answer: The Channel Islands