zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: A landmark legislation in the 1930s in the US that is designed to protect a child actor's earnings by depositing some of them in trust funds was named after which 'kid'?
Answer: Jackie Coogan
Question: What 2005 movie starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn that deals with African politics has been banned by President Mugabe of Zimbabwe?
Answer: The Interpreter
Question: Spoiler alert. Skip this question if you haven't seen The Shawshank Redemption. In the climax of that movie, which bombshell's poster does warden Norton rip to reveal the secret behind the escape of Andy Dufresne?
Answer: Raquel Welch
Question: A 2002 book subtitled The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva is a detailed account of the craze for what libation that overtook 18th century England?
Answer: Gin
Question: What concept of the food industry involves cooking sealed food at lower temperatures but for a long time?
Answer: Sous-vide
Question: Just like Americans like to call a full-course meal 'from soup to nuts', citizens of the Roman empire used the expression 'from the egg to the ___' what?
Answer: Apple
Question: In 2011, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion upended the Naga Bhut Jolokia for what culinary distinction?
Answer: World's hottest chili pepper
Question: If 'single malt' describes a whisky made at one distillery, what is the word for a wine that is made from a single grape type?
Answer: Varietal
Question: Pule cheese, said to be the world's most expensive was in the news in Dec 2012 when Novak Djokovic bought the world's supply for his restaurant chain. It is made from the milk of what animal?
Answer: Donkey
Question: Edmond Albius, a 19th century slave working on the island of Réunion is known for inventing the pollination technique for the cultivation of what flavoring delight?
Answer: Vanilla
Question: Yamadanishiki, Gohyakumangoku, Miyamanishiki and Omachi are the popular varieties of rice used for making what?
Answer: Sake
Question: During WWI when patriotic Americans participated in voluntary food rationing, if Mondays were Meatless, what were Wednesdays?
Answer: Wheat-less
Question: The name of what dessert made with sweetened milk and rennet (the digestive enzyme which curdles milk) can also mean a pleasure trip usually taken on others expense?
Answer: Junket
Question: According to the book The History of Science and Technology, the origin of what snack can be traced to the shape of folded arms of children in prayer?
Answer: Pretzels
Question: What Chinese dipping sauce that is common in Cantonese cuisine derives its name from a word meaning 'seafood' (though it contains none)?
Answer: Hoisin
Question: Which hazelnut liqueur comes in a bottle with a knotted white cord around its waist that is meant to mimic the religious garments of a friar?
Answer: Frangelico
Question: What term used by California wineries denotes red and white Bordeaux-style wines and is intended to not infringe on the 'heritage' of Bordeaux's legally protected designation of origin?
Answer: Meritage
Question: Which potent potable acquired the nickname 'Nelson's Blood' as Lord Nelson's body was purportedly placed in it for preservation after the Battle of Trafalgar (1805)?
Answer: Rum
Question: Who created the comic strip called Dykes to Watch Out For which featured in 1985 a character who watches a movie only if it has two women who talk to each other about something besides a man?
Answer: (Alison) Bechdel
Question: What one word connects the following? 1. In a certain comics universe, the dimension in which criminals are held in a state of suspended animation. 2. Lee Falk's popular creation with the nickname The Ghost Who Walks. 3. Erik, who haunts the Paris Opera House.
Answer: Phantom
Question: The Montreal Convention signed by several countries in 1999 concerns rules surrounding the compensation for the victims of what? (hint: likely to be in focus till an object missing since 8th March 2014 is found)
Answer: Air disasters
Question: Try your 'fortune' and take a guess. What is the name of the Maltese dog owned by celebrity Wendy Diamond that holds a Guinness record for posing with celebrities?
Answer: Lucky
Question: A memorable phrase in the annals of American polity, who was called a 'bloviating ignoramus' by columnist George Will in 2012?
Answer: Donald Trump
Question: A 2012 research study in Australia determined that the most perceived trustworthiness in a particular profession was of someone wearing what instrument as compared to a reflex hammer, surgical scrubs, otoscope, or a pen?
Answer: Stethoscope
Question: Can you connect the Dalai Lama with Curious George with a colorful 2-word term?
Answer: 'Yellow Hat'
Question: Bishop's Mark introduced by the Englishman Henry Bishop in 1661 to prevent delays was the world's first what?
Answer: Postmark
Question: If traditional Chinese women practiced foot binding, what anatomical feature did the Padaung/Kayan women of Burma seek to highlight? Easy, this is a family site!
Answer: Necks
Question: According to its chief architect Adrian Smith, the triple lobed footprint of what iconic new millennium construction was inspired by the flower Hymenocallis?
Answer: Burj Khalifa in Dubai
Question: What ubiquitous feature of television sitcoms was invented by sound engineer Charley Douglass who noticed that live audiences were unreliable for providing something?
Answer: Laugh track
Question: Attention megalomaniacs! What theory popularized in the 1840s by Thomas Carlyle states that history can be explained by the impact of just a few?
Answer: Great Man theory
Question: Loop, bight, elbow, standing end and working end are the components of what, the varieties of which are the subject of a 1944 encyclopedic work The Ashley Book of ___?
Answer: Knots
Question: What substance is the most used man-made material in the world?
Answer: Concrete
Question: Which tradition, whose first pick was Charles Lindbergh, began in 1927 with some magazine editors contemplating newsworthy stories during a slow week?
Answer: Time Person of the Year
Question: Which anthropomorphic cartoon character whose parsimony typifies the stereotype of miserly Scotsmen was possibly modeled after the Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie?
Answer: Scrooge McDuck
Question: In December 2010, which country unveiled a new passport design with a picture of a nude Aphrodite on it that raised many eyebrows? (hint: where was Aphrodite born?)
Answer: Cyprus
Question: Which web application on Yahoo! that translates text between different languages is named after a fictional animal used for a similar purpose in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Answer: Babel Fish
Question: Usually associated with monarchical and aristocratic titles, what is the term for a widow who holds a title or property derived from her deceased husband?
Answer: Dowager
Question: Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989), who was born George William Jorgensen was famous for having been the first wordly-known individual to have undergone what procedure?
Answer: Sex change surgery
Question: What is the claim to fame of the US millionaire Dennis Tito who soared high and achieved a first of sorts on April 28, 2001?
Answer: First space tourist
Question: During the 1970s, what name was given to the illegal immigrants/asylum seekers from Vietnam referring to their mode of transport?
Answer: Boat people
Question: Don't swear if you get this wrong. According to an experiment conducted in 2002 by psychologists at a UK university, what animal attracts the most humor and silliness in all cultures?
Answer: Duck
Question: Presaged by a 1784 letter of Ben Franklin, what concept saw its first widespread use in 1916 as a wartime measure aimed at conserving coal?
Answer: Daylight saving time
Question: What agency of the US government is the operator of the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world?
Answer: United States Postal Service (USPS)
Question: The name of what versatile product was coined by US soldiers as they couldn't pronounce its original name, 'Offiziersmesser'?
Answer: Swiss Army Knife
Question: Just as The Lord of the Rings franchise gave a major fillip to New Zealand's tourism, the HBO hit Game of Thrones (predominantly) had a similar effect on what part of the world?
Answer: Northern Ireland
Question: Because it switched possession several times between Britain and France over multiple wars, the Caribbean nation of Saint Lucia has been compared to what beautiful person of myth with the sobriquet '... of the West'?
Answer: Helen
Question: What are Herengracht, Prinsengracht, and Keizersgracht that are of significance to a certain European city?
Answer: Main canals of Amsterdam
Question: The town of Shibam in the Middle-East is known for its tower brick homes all of which have a minimum height. What country is it located in?
Answer: Yemen
Question: In the world of geography, Scotland's Corryvreckan and Japan's Naruto are two of the noted ones and Old Sow is the largest of all in the Western Hemisphere. What are they?
Answer: Whirlpools
Question: Tafilalt in Morocco, Chebika in Tunisia and Huacachina in Peru are some of what? You are sure to quench your thirst at these locales!
Answer: Oases
Question: St. Pauli in Hamburg, Soi Cowboy in Bangkok, De Wallen in Amsterdam and Sonagachi in Kolkata, all of which I've only read about and never visited, are famous as what?
Answer: Red-light districts
Question: Hawaii, Easter Island and New Zealand are the three vertices of a hypothetical triangle used to designate what geographic region/area?
Answer: Polynesia
Question: What waterway of South America that has the name of a robust wine is the largest tributary of Amazon?
Answer: Madeira river
Question: What is the only U.S. state flag to feature the Union Jack?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: The northern component of what enchanting geographic term is accepted as the Rock of Gibraltar but the southern component disputed and at various times claimed as Monte Hacho (in Ceuta) or Jebel Musa (in Morocco)?
Answer: Pillars of Hercules
Question: Name 2 of the 3 countries that had the most victims due to the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
Answer: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and India
Question: Fans of the band The Clash should know that what word meaning 'citadel' in Arabic refers to any walled enclosure but is mostly used for a specific area of Algiers?
Answer: Casbah
Question: In the list of 25 countries ordered by the highest number of Spanish speakers, what is the only name that is not from the western hemisphere?
Answer: The Philippines
Question: What is the longest country in the world as measured in the north-south direction?
Answer: Chile
Question: Marangu, Rongai, Lemosho, Shira, Umbwe and Machame are the six official trekking routes for what 'uplifting' activity?
Answer: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
Question: What Bolivian city lies beneath a mountain dubbed the Cerro Rico ('rich mountain') named so for its famed mines that were a major source of silver for the Spanish Empire of the New World?
Answer: Potosí
Question: What second-most populous nation in Africa is also the most populous landlocked nation in the world?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: Which city's site was said to have been chosen by monks following the principles of feng shui for King Taejo, founder of the Joseon/Choson dynasty in 1394?
Answer: Seoul
Question: What NATO country with a unique geographic position is the only one with no standing army? No navy either!
Answer: Iceland
Question: With an average ground level of 1.5 meters above sea level, what Asian island nation is the lowest country in the world? (hint: it is also the smallest Asian country in both population and land area)
Answer: Maldives
Question: Primorsky Stairs, a stairway of 192 steps immortalized in film lore, is a formal entrance from the direction of the Black Sea into which European city?
Answer: Odessa
Question: If the coastline paradox is ignored, which country in the world has the longest coastline?
Answer: Canada
Question: Landseer's Lions, a set of four sculptures of lions surround which London monument?
Answer: Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square
Question: Which French city is home to the Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes) where several popes and antipopes lived from the early 14th to early 15th centuries?
Answer: Avignon
Question: Located on the Atlantic coast, what is the largest city of the Maghreb (the 5 countries constituting North Africa)?
Answer: Casablanca
Question: Which country has the longest coastline in Africa?
Answer: Somalia
Question: If you love resorts, you must have been to the Côte d'Azur. How do we know it better in English?
Answer: French Riviera
Question: What is the largest and most populous country in the world situated only on islands?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: Due to its location in a time zone to the east of Europe, which French island in the Indian Ocean was the first region in the world where the euro became legal tender?
Answer: Réunion
Question: What is the exclave of Russia that is surrounded by Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic Sea?
Answer: Kaliningrad Oblast
Question: Which renowned 20th century physicist was so fascinated by the current day Russian republic of Tuva (because of its obscurity) that he even wrote a book called Tuva or Bust! which chronicles his attempts to travel there?
Answer: Richard Feynman
Question: Deluded by a legend, Francisco Orellana and Gonzalo Pizarro departed from Ecuador in 1541 in a disastrous expedition towards the Amazon Basin; they did not find any gold or lost cities but Orellana became the first person to navigate the entire Amazon River. What were they seeking?
Answer: El Dorado
Question: What is the largest country located entirely in Europe?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: What is the largest desert in the North and South Americas?
Answer: Patagonian desert
Question: As of 2010, the ten highest active volcanoes are located in which continent?
Answer: South America
Question: A system of government called 'confessionalism' which distributes power proportionally among religious communities is currently prevelant in which tiny Middle-Eastern nation?
Answer: Lebanon
Question: What is the collective name given to the 16 volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as being worthy of particular study in light of their history of destructive eruptions and proximity to populated areas?
Answer: Decade Volcanoes
Question: What are the only two South American countries that do not border Brazil?
Answer: Ecuador and Chile
Question: What is the largest landmass that lies entirely in the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: New Guinea, the second largest island in the world
Question: What is the only nation state of the Commonwealth of Nations on the mainland of South America?
Answer: Guyana
Question: The melting Furtwängler Glacier, sometimes used as an example of global warming is near which African geographic feature?
Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro
Question: Which national capital is the only city entirely built in the 20th century to be considered a World Heritage Site by UNESCO?
Answer: Brasilia
Question: After the five oceans, what is the largest sea body in the world?
Answer: South China Sea
Question: The Bridge of Sighs was given its name by Lord Byron from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of which beautiful city out of its window before being taken to their cells?
Answer: Venice
Question: All the largest islands in the world are in oceans/seas and hence are surrounded by sea-water. Marajo, which has the distinction of being the largest island completely surrounded by fresh water is in which water body?
Answer: Amazon
Question: The Italian liqueur Galliano takes its name from a war hero who perished in the Battle of Adwa which not only secured what nation's sovereignty but is also one of the very few instances in which an African country defeated a European power?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: Alba gu bràth! The 15th century poet Blind Harry is best-known for his account eulogizing which person?
Answer: William Wallace
Question: The Khalistan movement that was active in the later part of the 20th century sought to create an independent state for what religious group in a territory mostly in the North-West region of India?
Answer: Sikhism
Question: It was the last major incident of a conflict and Bockscar was used to carry it out. What are we talking about?
Answer: Bombing of Nagasaki
Question: As seen in the movie The Longest Day, paratrooper John Steele saw action during the D-Day invasion of WWII while dangling from where?
Answer: Church tower
Question: The Cassette Scandal of recent times has proved to be pivotal in shaping the political landscape of what country?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: A group of fifteen ships called the Yellow Fleet was trapped in what part of the world from 1967 to 1975, a fall-out of a noted war?
Answer: Suez Canal
Question: The Guayaquil Conference of July 22, 1822 saw the meeting of which two people regarded as the primary liberators of South America from Spain?
Answer: José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar
Question: Kniefall von Warschau (German for 'Warsaw Genuflection') is a 1970 incident involving which European statesman who paid homage to WWII's Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during his visit to the city?
Answer: Willy Brandt
Question: The brave Sophie Scholl who was beheaded in Nazi Germany for distributing pamphlets deriding the regime was part of what 'floral' non-violent movement?
Answer: White Rose movement
Question: What was the code name of the war game that NATO conducted in Belgium in 1983 the events surrounding which led to the closest brush to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: Able Archer 83
Question: Convoy SC-7 consisting of 35 merchant ships was the first major casuality of a tactic termed Rudeltaktik ('tactics of a pack') notably practiced by what entities during WWII?
Answer: German U-boats
Question: Katharina von Bora, a nun who escaped convent life in 1523 by fleeing to Wittenberg hiding among fish barrels was married to which key figure of world history?
Answer: Martin Luther
Question: The Chaco War (1932-35) that was fought for a region (incorrectly) thought to be oil-rich is South America's bloodiest 20th century conflict. Which two land-locked countries were the participants?
Answer: Bolivia and Paraguay
Question: If Heinrich Schliemann is to Troy, the British archaeologist Leonard Woolley is to what ancient city?
Answer: Ur in Mesopotamia
Question: Sengbe Pieh (1813–ca.1879), later known as Joseph Cinqué was a West African man and the most prominent defendant in which 1841 case in American history named for a ship?
Answer: Amistad case
Question: Which 1942 WWII Asian battle was termed as "Britain's greatest defeat" by Churchill?
Answer: Battle of Singapore
Question: What medieval Islamic dynasty was founded in 1250 in Egypt and Syria by slave soldiers who deposed the Ayyubids?
Answer: Mamluk dynasty
Question: Mimar Sinan (1489-1588) is considered the greatest architect of the classical period and was responsible for the Suleiman mosque in Istanbul and many other magnificent constructions. Which political entity benefited from his genius?
Answer: Ottomon empire
Question: In ancient Greece, the bematists who accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns were trained to measure what?
Answer: Distances (by counting their steps)
Question: Ephialtes of Trachis was the traitor who showed the Persian forces a trail around the allied Greek position at the pass of Thermopylae, which helped them win the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. He was portrayed as a severely deformed man in which blood-soaked 2007 movie?
Answer: 300
Question: Waitangi Day held each year on February 6 is the national day of New Zealand as a treaty instrumental in the country's history was signed at that place in 1840. The name 'Waitangi' means 'weeping waters' in which language?
Answer: Māori
Question: The usage of the what derogatory phrase referring to the Ottoman Empire is attributed to Tsar Nicholas I of Russia?
Answer: """Sick man of Europe"""
Question: What 1945 classic satire was rejected for publication by T. S. Eliot as "We have no conviction ... that this is the right point of view from which to criticise the political situation at the present time..."?
Answer: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Question: The Pulitzer-nominated 1979 book The Madwoman in the Attic which examines Victorian literature from a feminist perspective takes its title from a plot point of what 1847 novel?
Answer: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Question: American poet Dixon Lanier Merritt's well-known limerick is about what bird?
Answer: Pelican
Question: In which Somerset Maugham's short-story does missionary Alfred Davidson try to reform a prostitute but ultimately succumbs to her charm?
Answer: Rain
Question: The name of what literary swashbuckler is the answer to the final question in the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire?
Answer: Aramis
Question: A 1986 book on the pivotal role of six Cold War diplomats including Dean Acheson and George Kennan had what title evoking a certain Biblical trio?
Answer: The Wise Men
Question: Just as Edward Bulwer-Lytton is associated with bombastic writing, what is the similarly famous poem of William McGonagall?
Answer: The Tay Bridge Disaster
Question: What French novel is said to based on an epidemic that hit the Algerian city of Oran in 1849?
Answer: The Plague by Camus
Question: Whose interview in Life magazine is said to have led to an upsurge in the sales of James Bond books? After a private screening of Dr. No, he also reportedly said "I wish I had had James Bond on my staff."
Answer: JFK
Question: In technical terms, the unforgettable Jeeves of P. G. Wodehouse is a valet and not a butler. Why?
Answer: He serves a man and not a household
Question: What sonnet of Irish poet Seamus Heaney, a tribute to a long-running bulletin from BBC, starts as "Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea"?
Answer: The Shipping Forecast
Question: Chekov's play Three Sisters is said to have been inspired by which real life siblings?
Answer: Brontë sisters
Question: The year 1819 is significant for lovers of English poetry because of the publication of six famous odes by whom?
Answer: John Keats (1795-1821)
Question: In Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola, the children's tale of magic gone awry, a town in Italy is buried in an avalanche of what?
Answer: Pasta
Question: What 1904 story by M. R. James in which the protagonist finds an antique artifact with undesirable consequences gets its ominously inviting title from a 1793 Robert Burns poem/song?
Answer: Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad
Question: During the Siege of Sarajevo in the 90s, Susan Sontag directed what play in a candlelit theater symbolizing the city's absurd anticipation of western intervention?
Answer: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Question: If 221B Baker Street is to Sherlock Holmes, 9 Bywater Street, Chelsea is to whom?
Answer: George Smiley
Question: London to Suez = a; Suez to Bombay = b; Bombay to Calcutta = c; Calcutta to Hong Kong = d; Hong Kong to Yokohoma = e; Yokohama to San Francisco = f; San Francisco to New York City = g; New York to London = h. In terms of 19th century adventure time, a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h = ?
Answer: 80 days
Question: Pay your dues. According to a theory, the title figure of what classic tale is said to be based on Nicholas of Cologne who supposedly lured away children for the Children's Crusade?
Answer: The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Question: The 5th Wave cartoons by Rich Tennant are interspersed throughout the books of what reference series?
Answer: For Dummies
Question: The French commune of Illiers adopted the name Illiers-Combray in homage to which author whose vivid recreation of the town (through recollection) opens his vast magnum opus?
Answer: Marcel Proust
Question: No sleuthing allowed. What struggling doctor wrote The Narrative of John Smith that was published in 2011 about 130 years after it was first written?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
Question: Which 17th century literary classic ends with the title character stipulating in his will that his niece will be disinherited if she marries anyone who reads about chivalry?
Answer: Don Quixote