zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: A road system running down the west coast of the Americas, apart from a short gap across the south part of Central America, from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, is called what?
Answer: The Pan-American Highway
Question: Daisy Ridley and John Boyega achieved world-wide recognition as the two young stars in what film released December 2015?
Answer: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Question: What was the stage name of Norma Deloris Egstrom, an American jazz and popular music singer and songwriter who won 3 Grammy Awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award) and who was nominated for an Academy Award as an actress?
Answer: Peggy Lee
Question: Calicivirus, which was introduced illegally into New Zealand in 1997 to kill the exploding rabbit population, also has a form which seriously infects what other animal?
Answer: Cats
Question: Which TV series starred Richard Dean Anderson as a secret agent for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles, who is able to solve a wide range of problems with his Swiss army knife?
Answer: MacGyver
Question: In what sport could male competitors, from 1968 to 1985, be awarded the Air Canada Silver Broom trophy?
Answer: Curling
Question: According to a book by former British foreign secretary Lord Owen, which world leader collapsed while sitting on a sofa watching a football game in 2002?
Answer: George W Bush
Question: What is a style of delivery mostly used in operas, oratorios, and cantata, in which a singer adopts the rhythms of ordinary speech?
Answer: Recitative
Question: In 1949, in the last stages of the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People's Republic of China in which newly named capital of the Republic?
Answer: Beijing
Question: Which city, established in 1849 as a protective Army outpost situated on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River, is the home of a NASCAR track called The Texas Motor Speedway?
Answer: Fort Worth
Question: In what country did 20 million die after a man proclaimed himself as the brother of Jesus?
Answer: China
Question: The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of which Australian state?
Answer: Queensland
Question: What country did Alexis de Tocqueville famously write about?
Answer: United States
Question: In Greek mythology, what river divides Earth from the underworld?
Answer: Styx
Question: The prefix gastro refers to what part of the human body?
Answer: Stomach
Question: What type of animal did the crew of the USS Enterprise need to rescue in "Star Trek IV: The Journey Home"?
Answer: Humpback Whales
Question: What name refers to a priest in ancient Celtic religions?
Answer: Druid
Question: In which year did Desmond Tutu win the Nobel Peace Prize; WPC Yvonne Fletcher shot at Libyan Embassy; Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo?
Answer: 1984
Question: In which was the World Expo held in Brisbane, Queensland; Wimbledon defeat Liverpool in the FA Cup; Nelson Mandela celebrated his 70th?
Answer: 1988
Question: With what activity do you associate the names Bernard Leach and Clarice Cliff?
Answer: Pottery
Question: Which late film actress (real name Harlean Carpentier) said "Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable"?
Answer: Jean Harlow
Question: Which type of helicopter is named after the warm wind that blows down the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains?
Answer: Chinook
Question: What name is given to the character, not unlike a comma, which is placed underneath the letter C in French to denote its pronunciation as an S and not a K?
Answer: A CEDILLA
Question: Which Irish-born singer/songwriter released the albums "Astral Weeks", "What's Wrong With This Picture", "Magic Time", etc?
Answer: Van Morrison
Question: Published in 1826 whose song, a rendition of 'Ave Maria', is classified as Opus 52 no 6?
Answer: Schubert
Question: In which year did the following happen - Pope John Paul II visited Britain, compact discs went on sale to the public and Grace Kelly died?
Answer: 1982
Question: Who wrote the poem 'A Subaltern's Love Song' about Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, "Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun"?
Answer: John Betjeman
Question: Which singer/songwriter wrote the song, "Hello Mary Lou" based on a song called, "Merry, Merry, Lou", which became a big hit for Ricky Nelson in 1961?
Answer: GENE PITNEY
Question: In the opera, "Tosca", by Puccini, what is the name of the heroine's beloved, who is executed by firing squad in the final scenes?
Answer: (MARIO) CAVARADOSSI
Question: Which pop singer, who survived the car crash in which Eddie Cochran died, sang with a backing group called, "The Blue Caps"?
Answer: GENE VINCENT
Question: Which art movement was formulated as an anarchic form of expressionism in Zurich in 1916 possibly by poet Tristan Tzara?
Answer: Dada
Question: What is the name of the canal opened in 1931 that circumvents Niagara Falls by linking Lakes Erie and Ontario?
Answer: WELLAND
Question: In 1994, Sannie Carlson became the first ever non-British singer to make a chart debut at number one - under what one word name?
Answer: Whigfield
Question: Named after a service station on the M4, which chef is proprietor of "The Fat Duck" and has been "In Search of Perfection" in print and on the media?
Answer: Heston Blumenthal
Question: Which 1910 comic novel by H G Wells features the Potwell Inn in Sussex?
Answer: The History of Mr Polly
Question: A 'Tiler' is the name given to a door-keeper of which sort of institution?
Answer: Masonic Lodge
Question: Which British monarch was incarcerated in Pontefract Castle where he died of starvation in January 1400?
Answer: Richard II
Question: Sir Titus Salt, the first manufacturer of alpaca fabrics in this country, built a model village to house his employees, what name did he give to it?
Answer: Saltaire
Question: Name the year in which Freddie Mercury died, hostage Terry Waite was released and No. 10 Downing Street was mortar bombed?
Answer: 1991
Question: Paula Dobriansky, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, coined the phrase "Cedar Revolution" to describe events in 2005 in which country?
Answer: LEBANON
Question: Nelson's tomb stands in St Paul's Cathedral but for whom was it originally made although this person never occupied it?
Answer: Cardinal Wolsey
Question: What are duck, lawn and sarsanet?
Answer: Fabrics
Question: Which emperor was shot by a firing squad in 1867?
Answer: Maximilian
Question: In Greek mythology who spent 6months of every year in the underworld, a symbolic reference to the germination of seeds and their rebirth every spring?
Answer: PERSEPHONE
Question: Which daily newspaper was founded in 1855 and was the first London penny paper? It was the means of sending Henry Morgan Stanley to Africa to continue Livingstone's work.
Answer: Daily Telegraph
Question: Which office was Nicolas Breakspear the first Englishman to hold, in the twelfth century?
Answer: Pope
Question: What name is given to the physiological condition where abducted hostages bond to their captors?
Answer: Stockholm Syndrome
Question: What is the name of the "Plum Pudding" shaped island in the outer Firth of Clyde where granite is quarried to make curling stones?
Answer: AILSA CRAIG
Question: Which country refused to take part in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest on the grounds that "It was a monument to drivel" - sore losers?
Answer: FRANCE
Question: Jockeys Richard, Jimmy, Paul and Amir, share which surname with trainers Micky and John?
Answer: Quinn
Question: Which Asian country's flag consists of three vertical stripes of black, red and green with a picture of a mosque in the centre?
Answer: Afghanistan
Question: The name of which English county is part of the name of the Queen Mother's unfortunate 1957 Grand National horse?
Answer: Devon
Question: Who was the first man to circumnavigate Australia in his ship The Investigator between 1796 and 1803, the largest island in Bass Strait is named after him?
Answer: Matthew Flinders
Question: Who was the author of the literary work 'A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634' a work more commonly known as 'Comus'?
Answer: JOHN MILTON
Question: Prior to World War 2, racing cars were painted in different colours according to which country they represented, what colour were cars representing Germany?
Answer: Silver
Question: Who chaired the 2003-4 Inquiry into the suspicious death of MOD scientist. Dr David Kelly?
Answer: Lord Hutton
Question: Similarly during 2009, in order to highlight 'global warming', which country held a cabinet meeting up a mountain?
Answer: Nepal
Question: In the 20th century Henri Cartier-Bresson achieved fame in what area of activity?
Answer: PHOTOGRAPHY
Question: Although approaching his 30th birthday, in which 1953 film did Marlon Brando play the part of the teenage leader of a motorcycle gang?
Answer: THE WILD ONE
Question: In which year did the following events all take place; Ken Livingstone became the Mayor of London, England lost 1-0 to Germany in the last match at the old Wembley Stadium and Judith Keppel won the first £1,000,000 on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'?
Answer: 2000
Question: Sixte, octave and riposte are terms used in which sport?
Answer: FENCING
Question: In the TV drama GBH written by Alan Bleasdale what was the occupation of Michael Palin's character Jim Nelson?
Answer: School Teacher
Question: What is the national epic poem of Finland (usually translated as 'Land of Heroes'). Sibelius set some of its myths to music in his tone poems.
Answer: Kalevala
Question: What is the name of the Jewish mystical interpretation of Scripture, which comprises the Sepher Yezirah (Book of Creation) and the Zohar (Splendour) that has become popular with new age types?
Answer: Kabbalah
Question: What is the pre-Columbian civilisation that thrived in southern Mexico in 1400 BC, generally considered the first meso-American civilisation?
Answer: Olmec
Question: Who was the Danish philosopher (1813-1855), who was both a theologian and social critic, he is chiefly remembered today for the primary influence which he exerted upon the philosophical ideas of Existentialism?
Answer: (Soren) Kierkegaard
Question: In which TV comedy has fictional actor Andy Millman cried on "Celebrity Big Brother," his agent Darren Lamb suggested anyone other than his only client for roles and Ross Kemp tried to steal sweets off the BBC?
Answer: Extras
Question: In which year was the £1 note introduced; Burnley beat Liverpool 1-0 in the FA Cup Final; Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated?
Answer: 1914
Question: In which year was the BBC granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation; Cardiff City beat Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley; Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: 1927
Question: What decoration, a Cross, was instituted on 1st July 2009 to commemorate UK armed forces personnel who have died on operations or as a result of an act of terrorism?
Answer: ELIZABETH
Question: Which South-East Asian country has nine state royal families, each of whose head takes it in turn to be King?
Answer: Malaysia
Question: A church in Daresbury has a stained-glass window featuring a rabbit, a dodo and a lizard, because which man was born there in 1832, while his father was the parson?
Answer: LEWIS CARROLL
Question: Which 2004 Tom Hanks film centres around a stranded traveler from Krakozhia?
Answer: THE TERMINAL
Question: What is the surname of top national hunt racehorse trainer David who took over his stables from his dad Martin in 2006?
Answer: Pipe
Question: The organisation 'Mensa' takes its name from the Latin for which everyday object?
Answer: Table
Question: Which element, atomic number 82, a heavy metal, is soft and malleable, blue/white when freshly cut, but soon turns grey?
Answer: LEAD
Question: Which surname connects a current cabinet minister, a Formula 1 World Champion of the 1970s and a former Liverpool striker?
Answer: Hunt
Question: Name the TV chat show hosted by John Freeman and later by Jeremy Isaacs, which ran on BBC television 1958 to 62 and 89 to 98 with one guest each week?
Answer: FACE TO FACE
Question: In which year in the 1950'S did the UK Top 20 see hits like 'Volare' by Dean Martin, 'Stupid Cupid' by Connie Francis and 'Hello my Darlings' by Charlie Drake?
Answer: 1958
Question: Name the year; Minimum wage introduced (£3.60 for over 21s), Prince Edward married Sophie Rhys-Jones, total eclipse of the sun in Cornwall?
Answer: 1999
Question: Name the year; the Profumo Affair, first female astronaut and first limited overs cricket final at Lords.
Answer: 1963
Question: Patsy Kline, Kenny Rogers, Sea, Eternal and Gnarls Barkley all had hits with which song title?
Answer: CRAZY
Question: What colour is a twenty Euro note?
Answer: Blue
Question: Which was the first British racecourse to have an all-weather track which it opened in 1989 originally using a surface called Equitrack?
Answer: Lingfield Park
Question: In 1983 Miss Betty Trask left £400,000 for an annual award for what genre of writing?
Answer: Romantic
Question: The Analects, or Lunyu, dating back to approximately 450 BC is a collection of sayings and ideas of which philosopher?
Answer: Confucius
Question: What is the name of the solid residue left after coal has been carbonised and almost all of its constituent volatiles removed?
Answer: COKE
Question: Ismene was an incestual daughter of Oedipus & Jocasta. Who was her better known sister?
Answer: ANTIGONE
Question: During the second Sudanese war in which battle in September 1898 did General Kitchener inflict a crushing defeat on the Dervishes?
Answer: Omdurman
Question: Which 2011 BBC drama series, starring Romola Garai and Ben Wishaw, centred around a 1950's current affairs TV programme?
Answer: The Hour
Question: Melboume, Australia lies on which river?
Answer: Yarra
Question: Perth, Western Australia lies on which river?
Answer: Swan
Question: The axolotl is the tadpole form of what creature found in Mexico and the USA. It is unusual in that it attains maturity and reproduces in the tadpole, or larval, stage of amphibian metamorphosis?
Answer: Salamander
Question: In which modern day country did the battles of the Kasserine Pass occur during World War 2 between the Allied and Axis forces?
Answer: Tunisia
Question: Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633-45. As a staunch Catholic, he was beheaded in the midst of the English Civil War?
Answer: William Laud
Question: Who is this: An American President sometimes called the 'Father of the Constitution', during his term of office the Treaty of Ghent was signed ending the war between Britain and America. He was also responsible for seizing West Florida from Spain?
Answer: James Madison
Question: What did the blowing up of the Gamboa Dyke effectively open in 1913?
Answer: The Panama Canal
Question: Mary Pickford, Kim Wilde and Sugar Ray Robinson were all born with which surname?
Answer: Smith
Question: Which company's original brief to Brian Eno was to compose a piece of inspirational music to last 3.25 seconds?
Answer: MICROSOFT
Question: In 1970, Spencer Silver attempted to produce the strongest ever glue, he failed and as a result which product was born?
Answer: Post-it Note
Question: According to the iconic song, popular in world war one, called "she was poor but she was honest" it was 'the rich wot gets the gravy'. But wot did the poor get?
Answer: The Blame
Question: In which year was the Bhopal disaster at the Union Carbide India Ltd. pesticide plant, the privatisation of British Telecom and the Queen opened the Thames Flood barrier?
Answer: 1984
Question: Which American writer 1862-1910 said `if men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry'?
Answer: O'HENRY
Question: The wine-producing region of Hunter Valley is in which Australian state?
Answer: NEW SOUTH WALES
Question: What was the surname of the father and son who were joint winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for their work on crystal structures?
Answer: Bragg
Question: Whose twelfth studio album Magna Carta Holy Grail released in July has topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic7.
Answer: JAY-Z
Question: Pieter van Musschenbroek received the first recorded electric shock in 1746 whilst inventing which electrical storage device?
Answer: The Leiden Jar
Question: The characters Dame Caruthers and Jack Point appear in which Gilbert & Sullivan opera?
Answer: Yeomen of the Guard
Question: Which ancient Roman festival, which ran until the 4th century AD involved sacrifices, partying and owners serving their slaves and was partly subsumed into Christmas?
Answer: Saturnalia
Question: According to the version of the rhyme used in the vintage children's television series Magpie, what did six magpies signify?
Answer: GOLD
Question: Who composed the music for the 1935 opera Lulu?
Answer: Alban Berg
Question: In which Australian State is Fremantle?
Answer: WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Question: The equipment used by which member of a musical group (particularly pop/rock or jazz) might be broken down into 'breakables', 'shells', extensions' and 'hardware'?
Answer: Drummer
Question: Robin Williamson and Mike Heron were founder members of which influential, but commercially unsuccessful, 1960's/70's band?
Answer: The Incredible String Band
Question: In June 2013, which Asian telecommunications company unveiled the world's slimmest Smartphone, called the Ascend P6?
Answer: Huawei
Question: Which name is shared by the former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party and MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark and the Channel 5 TV cricket analyst and former Middlesex and Durham player?
Answer: Simon Hughes
Question: Which English composer produced the operas 'Artaxerxes', 'Love in a Village' and the 'Fairy Prince' in the decade 1761 to 1771?
Answer: THOMAS ARNE
Question: How are the lovers Vrechen and Sali described in the title of a 1906 opera by Delius?
Answer: A Village Romeo and Juliet
Question: Which Birmingham-based pop group had the first record played on BBC Radio One (`Flowers in the Rain') and evolved into the Electric Light Orchestra?
Answer: THE MOVE
Question: In 1936 George Nissen developed which item of sports equipment that still bears his name?
Answer: TRAMPOLINE
Question: What is the name of the thick soup popular in the southern states of the U.S.A. (One of the main ingredients is okra which gives the dish its smooth silky texture)?
Answer: GUMBO
Question: Spyglass Hill, Skeleton Island, White Rock and Haulbowline Head all feature in which literary location?
Answer: TREASURE ISLAND
Question: Of which Australian state is Launceston the second largest city?
Answer: Tasmania
Question: Under which leader bom in Caracas, did Venezuela achieve independence from Spain in 1821?
Answer: Simon Bolivar
Question: Given by the British tabloid press, what is the nickname of Mazher Mahmood, a journalist who devised various stings involving celebrities?
Answer: The Fake Sheikh
Question: James and Henry Durie and the Lady Alison are characters in which of Robert Louis Stevenson's novels?
Answer: THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE
Question: What name is given to the networking device that controls the flow of data packets between computers, peripherals and other networks?
Answer: ROUTER
Question: Name the year in which Gladiator won the Best Picture Oscar, George W Bush was sworn in as US President and Dennis Tito became the first space tourist?
Answer: 2001
Question: The cast of which Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine film also included footballers Bobby Moore, John Wark and Ossie Ardilles?
Answer: Escape to Victory
Question: Mussorgsky's composition Pictures at an Exhibition was originally written for piano. Who produced the most popular orchestral version in 1922?
Answer: MAURICE RAVEL
Question: Alexandr Borodin died before he could finish his opera Prince Igor. Who collaborated with Alexandr Glazunov to complete the work?
Answer: NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Question: Three clues lead to a one word answer: 1 T.Pau song, 2 Syndrome, 3 Porcelain.
Answer: CHINA
Question: What name is given to the covered entrance to a churchyard, intended to give shelter to the coffin and mourners before entering the church?
Answer: Lichgate
Question: Squidward is the reluctant neighbour and workmate of which children's cartoon character?
Answer: Spongebob Squarepants
Question: Name the year- The Winter Olympics staged in Grenoble, France; Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead in Memphis, Tn; The ?I?m Backing Britain? campaign endorsed by Harold Wilson.
Answer: 1968
Question: Named by Captain Cook for a Lord Commissioner of the Royal Navy, what name is given to the inlet of the Tasman Sea that forms a large natural harbour and includes Sydney Harbour and its environs?
Answer: Port Jackson
Question: In which year did the following occur: formation of the Football Association, opening of the Metropolitan Railway in London and the wedding of Edward, Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark?
Answer: 1863
Question: Which business based in Needham, Massachussets claims to be the world's largest and most popular travel community with over 100 million user-generated reviews of hotels, restaurants and attractions?
Answer: Trip Adviser
Question: In professional wrestling, an audience favourite is referred to as 'a face'', but what name, also a body part, is given to a cheating, hated performer, whose every move is usually booed?
Answer: Heel
Question: What name is usually given to symphony no. 45 by Joseph Haydn, from the musicians gradually leaving the concert platform during the final movement?
Answer: Farewell
Question: Turner Contemporary, a gallery and visual arts centre, is situated in which British town, the birthplace of Tracy Emin?
Answer: Margate
Question: Which German city is the state capital of Saxony? Its famous Frauenkirche celebrates the 10th anniversary of its restoration in 2015.
Answer: Dresden
Question: Which 2008 Pixar film is about a robot left abandoned on an uninhabited Earth to deal with the waste and rubbish that caused mankind to leave?
Answer: Wall E
Question: In England and Wales, the investigation of sudden or unexplained deaths is handled by the Coroner. Which officer performs this function in Scotland?
Answer: The Procurator Fiscal
Question: After rising near Mallerstang in the Yorkshire Dales, which river flows through Kirkby Stephen arc Appleby-in-Westmoreland on its way to the sea?
Answer: The River Eden
Question: Which company -whose factory was in North London-made the standard 303 British Army issue rifle?
Answer: Lee Enfield
Question: In which city is the baseball team ‘White Sox’l ocated? They play their home games at the US Cellular Field, formerly Comiskey Park.
Answer: Chicago
Question: Deriving their name from the Latin for ‘fat’, which cells are found in connective tissue and are specialised to synthesise large globules of fat?
Answer: Adipose
Question: In 2001 Martin Creed notoriously won the Turner Prize, for an installation consisting of an empty room, with what happening every five seconds?
Answer: Lights going on and off
Question: HDL and LDL, standing for high- and low-density lipoproteins, are popularly known as the good and bad forms of which organic molecules?
Answer: Cholesterol
Question: Which term originating in the game of poker is used to describe the most reliable, profitable companies or their stocks?
Answer: BLUE CHIP
Question: Which jockey was runner up to A P McCoy on fifteen of the twenty occasions when the latter won the National Hunt Jockeys’ championship?
Answer: RICHARD JOHNSON
Question: Which organisation’s flag includes an image of the continents of the world flanked by olive branches on a blue field?
Answer: The United Nations
Question: In what year did "Rocky" win the Best Picture Oscar, Apple II computer go on sale and Jimmy Carter was sworn in as US President?
Answer: 1977
Question: Which Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador was a tireless social reformer who spoke out against corruption and repression and was assassinated n 1980 while saying mass?
Answer: Oscar Romero
Question: Which author created, in a work of 1893, the fictitious gentlemen's club called "The Diogenes Club"?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Question: In Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf what animal does the clarinet represent?
Answer: THE CAT
Question: Who is the English logician who devised an algebraic system that has since been adopted for the analysis of digital electronic circuitry?
Answer: George Boole