zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: He was a founding member, songwriter, and guitarist with the rock band Magic Alex, made his professional acting debut in 1992 in UK TV, and in TV has starred alongside Robbie Coltrane, Philip Glenister, David Tennant and Jim Broadbent. Who is he?
Answer: John Simm
Question: A single flame gas burner frequently used in student science laboratories is named after whom?
Answer: Robert Bunsen
Question: In Victorian cookery, what was one of the main ingredients of mock turtle soup?
Answer: Head of a calf
Question: """Something wicked this way hops"" was the tagline for which film released in 2005?"
Answer: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Question: What is the regulation size ratio for a pocket billiards table?
Answer: 2:1
Question: What was the name of the TV producer who started what became a long and outstanding career by establishing the UK TV series "Dr Who" in 1963?
Answer: Verity Lambert
Question: When was the last Act of amnesty passed in Great Britain?
Answer: 1747
Question: What language does the word "orienteering" come from?
Answer: Swedish
Question: What element has the symbol Cu?
Answer: Copper
Question: When was the gambling casino, Monte Carlo, first opened in Monaco?
Answer: 1856
Question: What sport is played at an international level by ngel Cabrera, Jim Furyk, Retief Goosen, Stewart Cink, Pdraig Harrington, Sergio Garca, Henrik Stenson & Fred Funk?
Answer: Golf
Question: Herodotus, one of the earliest writers now to be called a historian, lived when?
Answer: 5th century BCE
Question: What is the title of the officer in charge of supply in the British army?
Answer: Quartermaster
Question: Covering 75,000 square km, what is the world's largest river delta?
Answer: Ganges-Brahmaputra
Question: The world's first passenger railway operated between which two stations?
Answer: Stockton & Darlington
Question: Who works in "The Oval Office"?
Answer: US President
Question: What is produced from milk curds, and is drained, not pressed, so some whey remains and the individual curds remain loose?
Answer: Cottage cheese
Question: Bela Lugosi's most famous role was as who?
Answer: Dracula
Question: Conventionally, Lent, the period of the Christian calendar leading up to Easter is how long?
Answer: 40 days
Question: Henry Croft, an orphan street sweeper who collected money for charity, is associated with what organised charitable tradition of working class culture in London, England?
Answer: Pearly Kings and Queens
Question: Jarlsberg cheese comes from which country?
Answer: Norway
Question: What is the study of the production of very low temperature and the behaviour of materials at those temperatures?
Answer: Cryogenics
Question: Which World Championship inaugurated in 1963 has been dominated primarily by the Australian and New Zealand national teams?
Answer: Netball
Question: The "Big Day Out" is what?
Answer: A music festival
Question: What free trade area that came into effect on 1 January 2010 is the largest free trade area in terms of population and third largest in terms of volume?
Answer: ACFTA
Question: What is the world's largest invertebrate?
Answer: Colossal squid
Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "edam"?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: Which phrase that first came to public attention as a U.S. television commercial for the Wendy's chain of hamburger restaurants in 1984 became associated with the 1984 U.S. presidential election when Walter Mondale ridiculed Gary Hart's candidacy?
Answer: Where's the beef?
Question: The FAI awards the Leonardo da Vinci Diploma annually in what discipline?
Answer: Parachuting
Question: What cemetery near Sturgis, South Dakota, is associated with a gold rush, land wars, and a famous 19th century last stand?
Answer: Black Hills National Cemetery
Question: What international sporting body is based in Dublin, Ireland?
Answer: International Rugby Board
Question: With what would one play a kazoo?
Answer: Mouth
Question: Who was the writer of the books on which the UK comedy TV series "Doctor in the House" (1969-70) were based?
Answer: Richard Gordon
Question: A relatively modern religion laying claim to roots in an ancient belief system is...?
Answer: Wiccan
Question: When was Credit Anstalt, the first bank in Vienna, founded?
Answer: 1820
Question: Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa & Andrea Dovizioso compete in what sport?
Answer: Motorcycling
Question: Who plays Gail Platt in the British TV soap opera "Coronation Street"?
Answer: Helen Worth
Question: What does the Latin phrase "ad infinitum" mean?
Answer: Forever
Question: The largest river in China and among the largest in the world, it is variously known over its length as Ulan Moron, Dangqu, Tongtian, Jinsha, Sichuan, Jing and Dajiang, and has been called the Kiang and the Blue River. By what name is it now most often known outside China?
Answer: Yangtze
Question: What is the name for the home for a pet rabbit?
Answer: Hutch
Question: What is the name of the chemical that naturally occurs in sheep's wool?
Answer: Lanolin
Question: Emilio Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Vicente Fernndez, Gilberto Gil and Carlos Santana were the first 5 recipients of which award from 2000 to 2004?
Answer: The Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year
Question: What are Argon, Helium, Nitrogen, Neon and Xenon?
Answer: Inert gases
Question: The smallest internationally recognised country on mainland Africa is completely surrounded by what other country?
Answer: Senegal
Question: Who is credited with overseeing the development of the computer mouse?
Answer: Douglas Engelbart
Question: The Little Red Book was required reading by whom?
Answer: Mao Zedong
Question: Classical Greek theatre, and several current theatre spaces, such as La Boite in Australia, The Globe in Canada, Blue Orange Theatre in the UK, L'Europen in France and Theatre '47 in the USA, specialise in what style of performance?
Answer: Theatre in the round
Question: David Furnish, Canadian filmmaker and former advertising executive is the husband of which performer?
Answer: Elton John
Question: The USA purchased Alaska in 1867; when did it become one of the states in the United States?
Answer: 1959
Question: Where is the island of Montserrat?
Answer: Caribbean Sea
Question: The Angus, Australian Lowline, Blue Albion, Florida Cracker, Hereford, Romagnola, Tasmanian Grey and Whitebred Shorthorn are all types of what?
Answer: Cattle
Question: Which point on the African coast stands most closely to the point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: Cape Spartel
Question: What are the first names of comedians French and Saunders?
Answer: Dawn and Jennifer
Question: Who was the subject of the film "I'm Not There", and did not appear in it?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Question: Sigmund Freud coined the term Oedipus complex to describe the tendency for a male to want to kill his father and marry his mother. What did he call the female equivalent (of a female being attached to her father and wishing to replace her mother)?
Answer: Electra complex
Question: When was the FAI, the Fdration Aronautique Internationale which governs air sports, aeronautics and astronautics world records, founded?
Answer: 1905
Question: What links French dramatist Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) and actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008)?
Answer: El Cid
Question: Who plays Gabrielle Solis in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives"?
Answer: Eva Longoria Parker
Question: What is the next city in the series Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro ...?
Answer: Tokyo
Question: Who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"?
Answer: John Keats
Question: What is an ornamental string of feathers?
Answer: Boa
Question: She has figured in plays by John Lyly, Sir W.S. Gilbert, Lawrence Aronovitch, and George Bernard Shaw as well as in novels, opera, painting, and a video game as well as in place and ship names. Who is she?
Answer: Galatea
Question: What is "La Sorbonne" in Paris?
Answer: University
Question: At the 1925 Wimbledon Championships, the finals of the Men's Singles were contested by Ren Lacoste who defeated Jean Borotra and the finals of the Women's Singles by Suzanne Lenglen who defeated Joan Fry Lakeman. Three of these players were French: what nationality was the other?
Answer: English
Question: What is the principal ore of aluminium?
Answer: Bauxite
Question: What has been the longest-running comedy in US TV history?
Answer: The Simpsons
Question: What note does an orchestra tune to?
Answer: A above middle C
Question: What is the street term for the drug Gamma-Hydroxibutyric acid (GHB)?
Answer: Fantasy
Question: What religiously affiliated people are associated with Salt Lake City?
Answer: Mormons
Question: Which US president occupied 2 executive mansions in New York City [at 3 Cherry Street (April 1789 February 1790) & 3941 Broadway (February August 1790)], and 1 in Philadelphia at 190 High Street (November 1790 to March 1797)?
Answer: George Washington
Question: Who is the only cricketer, as at 2014, to have scored 400 runs in a single test match?
Answer: Brian Lara
Question: What is one description of a lunar eclipse?
Answer: Red moon
Question: What is the Greek name for the Roman god known as Cupid?
Answer: Eros
Question: What was the title of a 2005 film biography of Johnny Cash, starring Joaquin Phoenix?
Answer: Walk the Line
Question: In November 2010, who was widely quoted as saying it's "better to love beautiful girls than gays"?
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi
Question: What does the term "baroque" mean?
Answer: """Misshapen pearl"""
Question: What is the name of the strait which links the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea?
Answer: Bab-el-Mandeb
Question: St George's Channel separates mainland Britain from where?
Answer: Ireland
Question: For what activity is Jasper Conran famous?
Answer: Fashion design
Question: Marlborough and Hawke Bay are wine producing regions of what area?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What are the official languages of the Kingdom of Morocco?
Answer: Arabic and Berber
Question: In what direction does a luge rider travel?
Answer: Feet first
Question: Latvia has a maritime border to the west with what country?
Answer: Sweden
Question: What language does the word "chutney" come from?
Answer: Hindi
Question: The endocrine glands secrete their products directly into what rather than through a duct?
Answer: Blood stream
Question: Which name is associated with the IT developments which grew into Apple?
Answer: Jobs
Question: In what region do the Sahel droughts occur?
Answer: West and central Africa
Question: When the Badminton World Federation was first formed in 1934 (initially as the International Badminton Federation) where was it located?
Answer: Cheltenham, UK
Question: Africa is considered to have been part of which early landmass?
Answer: Gondwana
Question: What is a group of owls called?
Answer: Parliament
Question: What usually causes the bone disease called rickets?
Answer: A deficiency of vitamin D
Question: A hit song of 1960 by Brian Hyland concerned an itsy bitsy teenie weenie polka dot bikini of what colour?
Answer: Yellow
Question: What device removes a pilot from an aircraft in an emergency?
Answer: Ejector seat
Question: What was the original prize for winning golf's Open Championship (the British Open)?
Answer: Belt
Question: """Boz"" was the pseudonym of which author?"
Answer: Charles Dickens
Question: What is the technical term for 4 bits of digital data?
Answer: Nybble
Question: The sign language used in some stock exchanges to buy and sell is called what?
Answer: Arb
Question: In 2003, Britain's first what was opened just north of Birmingham?
Answer: Toll motorway
Question: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Catalonia and Navarre are all autonomous communities of which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: Why was the Olympic flag raised upside down at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia?
Answer: Mistake
Question: Where is Dan Brown's book "Angels and Demons" mainly set?
Answer: The Vatican
Question: Ding Junhui is a rising star in which sport?
Answer: Snooker
Question: Memphis, Tennessee, lies in the river valley of which river?
Answer: Mississippi
Question: Who was declared president by both houses of the US Congress because there was no precedent or clear constitutional rule for a vice president to assume the office of president upon the death of his predecessor?
Answer: John Tyler
Question: What mythical creature is a symbol of Wales?
Answer: Dragon
Question: What is another name for the jawbone?
Answer: Mandible
Question: The autobiography of which "Bond girl" was called "Golden Girl"?
Answer: Shirley Eaton
Question: What part of Ecuador is completely surrounded by ocean?
Answer: Galapagos Islands
Question: The word "horror" comes from a Latin word meaning what?
Answer: Bristle
Question: In American football how far is the longest ever successful field kick in yards?
Answer: 64
Question: The BBC began sending experimental TV images to the British nation in what year?
Answer: 1929
Question: Gloss is usually applied to what part of the body to provide a sheen?
Answer: Lips
Question: What word is used to describe an illegal hunt of game or fish?
Answer: Poach
Question: In the far past it has been a very large lake but is currently a brackish lagoon, the neck leading to the sea being bridged by the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge and carrying the second-largest city in its country. What is it called?
Answer: Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela
Question: What is taphophobia the fear of?
Answer: Graves
Question: What is the name of the leather ring that a scout uses to hold his scarf together?
Answer: Woggle
Question: What is one of the main ingredients of marzipan, besides egg whites and sugar?
Answer: Ground almonds
Question: At 9.00 a.m. on 27 August 1896, after Khalid bin Bargash ignored a British ultimatum to leave the Beit al Hukum Palace, Royal Navy ships opened fire. Khalid's troops returned fire. A cease fire was declared at 9.45 a.m., giving the bombardment the title of "The Shortest War in History". Where was this?
Answer: Zanzibar
Question: Issei is a Japanese term used by Japanese in countries in North America, South America and Australia to describe what?
Answer: Japanese people who were first to immigrate
Question: What series of comic strips first appeared in French in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtime Sicle on 10 January 1929?
Answer: The Adventures of Tintin
Question: Who is a cartoonist, best known for his appearances in "The New Yorker" since 3 January 1977, which published 819 of his cartoons, many of which involved animals?
Answer: Leo Cullum
Question: Gynophobia is an abnormal fear of what?
Answer: Women
Question: It is traditionally distilled from malted barley, grain, potatoes or whey and is one of the strongest alcoholic beverages in the world. What is it?
Answer: Poitin
Question: What was the name of Paddington Bear's aunt, who sent him from Peru to London?
Answer: Lucy
Question: What does the River Tyne empty into?
Answer: North Sea
Question: In the 1950s, what was Jersey Joe Walcott known for?
Answer: Boxing
Question: What name is given to the individual leaves of grass, gladioli and irises?
Answer: Blades
Question: What was the name of Amy Johnson's plane in which she flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930?
Answer: Jason
Question: Which letter is unique to the Icelandic alphabet?
Answer: (thorn)
Question: Who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Desmond Tutu
Question: Sine the mid 1990s the USA has banned what in hunting water fowl?
Answer: The use of lead shot
Question: What is the main unit of currency in Turkey?
Answer: Lira
Question: A Star of David can be seen in the stained glass of the cathedral of which Mexican city?
Answer: Mazatlan
Question: What performer, a spokeswoman for Autism Speaks and the American Heart Association, named her children Denham and Diesel?
Answer: Toni Braxton
Question: The first uses of what on a large scale in civil engineering were the construction of the Canal du Midi in France (1681), the Erie canal in New York (1825), the Box Tunnel on the railway line between London and Bristol, England (1841), and the Mont Cenis Tunnel between France and Italy (1870)?
Answer: Gunpowder
Question: Life on Mars, the popular UK TV series from BBC Wales 2006-7, with UK sequel and spin-offs in the USA, Spain and Russia, was earlier declined by the BBC for what reason?
Answer: """It's going to be silly"""
Question: When was the Sret, initially the criminal investigative bureau of the Paris police, founded?
Answer: 1812
Question: Which French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th century France and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition wrote the comedy "Les Plaideurs" and the tragedies "Alexandre le Grand", "Andromaque", "Athalie", "Bajazet", "Brnice", "Britannicus", "Esther", "Iphignie", "La Thbade", "Mithridate" and "Phdre"?
Answer: Jean Racine
Question: Ramn Emeterio Betances, Segundo Ruiz Belvis and Francisco Ramrez Medina were revolutionaries who attempted to free Puerto Rico from rule by which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: What product was commercially introduced to Britain in 1930?
Answer: Sliced bread
Question: What are the mathematical odds of the perfect deal in a bridge hand (i.e. 13 cards all of one suit)
Answer: 158,753,389,899 to 1
Question: What is the modern process used to make steel?
Answer: Linz-Donawitz
Question: A British comedy, first staged in London's West End in 1971 that ran for nearly a decade to packed audiences though unanimously panned by critics, was "No Sex, Please, We're " what?
Answer: British
Question: Who was Formula One Champion driver for 2013?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel
Question: Where does the dance called the "tarantella" have its roots?
Answer: Greece
Question: The Book of Mormon, central book of the Mormon faith developed in the 1820s, was published in Palmyra, New York, on what date?
Answer: March 26 1830
Question: Who is one of the stars of the film "Frost/Nixon" (2008)?
Answer: Michael Sheen
Question: """Things to do before you die"" was the subject of which 2007 film?"
Answer: The Bucket List
Question: What sort of pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan"?
Answer: Veal and ham
Question: In a lonely hearts advertisement, what does "GSOH" mean?
Answer: Good sense of humour
Question: The three mascots for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were a polar bear, a snow leopard and what other animal?
Answer: Snow hare
Question: The Jordan, Bear and Weber Rivers empty into which major lake in central USA?
Answer: Great Salt Lake
Question: What is a form of asexual reproduction found in females, where growth and development of embryos occurs without fertilisation by a male?
Answer: Parthenogenesis
Question: The Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch painted his works in which centuries AD?
Answer: 15th and 16th
Question: The name of the science, mathematics, derives from an ancient Greek word meaning what?
Answer: That which is learnt
Question: The name of which cheese describes its method of manufacture, of being "cooked again"?
Answer: Ricotta
Question: If you are holding a musical instrument with F-holes what are you likely to be holding?
Answer: A bowed string instrument
Question: A quote from Samuel Johnson is that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of ..." what?
Answer: Life
Question: If a Greek person calls "Eureka" what are they saying?
Answer: I have found it
Question: In 2014 where is artist Ai Weiwei based?
Answer: China
Question: Who sang with Barbra Streisand on "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"?
Answer: Donna Summer
Question: What is the name of a cross between broccoli and cauliflower?
Answer: Broccoflower
Question: What is an important Jewish religious site located in the Old City of Jerusalem which dates from the end of the Second Temple period, being constructed around 19 BCE by Herod the Great?
Answer: The Wailing Wall
Question: Where in the UK is the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, a statue of James Cook as a boy by Nicholas Dimbleby, and a granite obelisk that marks the original site of the Cook family home?
Answer: Great Ayton, North Yorkshire
Question: Who was the first person to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: Who is popularly recognised as being the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
Answer: Roger Bannister
Question: What YouTuber made a song called "Cookie Dance" in 2013 under the name ChipChocolate?
Answer: Jesse Wellens
Question: Who wrote "I Write the Songs", a 1976 chart-topping song by Barry Manilow?
Answer: Bruce Johnston
Question: REM is a term sometimes applied to what?
Answer: A stage of sleep
Question: Whose painting of "The Last Supper" represents Jesus as transparent to sun light, and incorporates a modernistic window through which islands can be seen, surmounted by the chest arms and neck of a nude male figure?
Answer: Salvador Dali
Question: What English folk singer, songwriter, and musician whose primary musical instruments are the violin, the tenor guitar, the banjo and the viola, was brought up in the village of Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, produced 4 solo studio albums ("The Punch Bowl", "Kitty Jay", "Freedom Fields" & "Poor Mans Heaven") between 2002 and 2008, and in February 2007 won Singer of the Year and Best Album awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards?
Answer: Seth Lakeman
Question: """Pomp and Circumstance"" is the title of 5 marches by which composer?"
Answer: Edward Elgar
Question: In the fantasy novel series, The Throne of Fire, the characters must play what ancient Egyptian game?
Answer: Senet
Question: What is a mainly instrumental piece of music by Elton John, the closing track of his 1978 album, "A Single Man"?
Answer: Song for Guy
Question: What is the common name for the seeds of horse-chestnut trees?
Answer: Conkers
Question: Which 20th century English author wrote "Ruined City", "A Town Like Alice" and "On The Beach"?
Answer: Nevil Shute
Question: The "Libro de los Juegos", completed in Castilian in 1278 AD, contained texts, illustrations and miniatures describing and discussing the games of chess, dice and which other game?
Answer: Backgammon
Question: Who is a British fashion designer, known for her work on pop art in fashion, opened a clothes shop called Bazaar on London's Kings Road with her husband, Alexander Plunkett-Greene, and a former solicitor, Archie Mcnair, in November 1955?
Answer: Mary Quant
Question: Birds, reptiles, amphibians and egg-laying mammals share a common feature, which is what?
Answer: Cloaca
Question: Which organisation was formed in 1976 by Fred Hemmings to put together an annual tour of 12 events around the world with a points system for event placings to decide a champion?
Answer: International Professional Surfing (IPS) organisation
Question: What sea or ocean borders the country of Niger?
Answer: None
Question: On 3 June 2010, an episode of which British soap opera, which featured a hostage situation involving guns, was postponed after it was due to air on the same day as a a man shot 12 people dead and injured several more in Cumbria, England?
Answer: Coronation Street
Question: If, in expressing the past tense of sinking, the word "have" is not used as part of the verb, what is the correct form?
Answer: Sank
Question: What computer term is given to a finite set of one or more actions that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered easily by the user?
Answer: Hotkeys
Question: In traditional English cuisine, what goes with roast pork?
Answer: Apple sauce
Question: A Rntgen is a measure of what?
Answer: Radiation exposure
Question: When British navigator James Cook arrived at what are now called Cook Islands what did he name them?
Answer: Hervey Islands
Question: Bodyboarding is recorded among Hawaiians when?
Answer: 1778
Question: What does the acronym "DOA" mean?
Answer: Dead on arrival
Question: What does the expression "e and oe" mean?
Answer: Errors and omissions excepted
Question: On what is one most likely to find the French words "par avion" written?
Answer: Envelope
Question: In which sport can you catch a crab?
Answer: Rowing
Question: Paediatrics is concerned with what?
Answer: Infants, children, and adolescents
Question: Cherries produce fruit in which season of the year?
Answer: Summer