zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: From the 10th to the 14th centuries Scandinavian and, later, Anglo Saxon warriors formed the guard for Byzantine emperors under what name?
Answer: Varangian Guard
Question: Neo, Morpheus and the city of Zion feature in what 1999 film?
Answer: The Matrix
Question: Which American novelist, poet and painter, a major figure of the Beat Generation who affected popular culture as well as literature, shot his wife in Mexico in 1951?
Answer: William Burroughs
Question: What nationality were the first European settlers in Brooklyn, New York City?
Answer: Dutch
Question: The anxiety treatment drug Diazepam was originally marketed under what name?
Answer: Valium
Question: Who, having been a Lieutenant General with three stars on his epaulettes, was posthumously appointed "General of the Armies of the United States" by a congressional joint resolution in 1976, with an effective appointment date of 4 July 1976?
Answer: George Washington
Question: An easel is most likely to be used by ...?
Answer: A watercolourist
Question: In the course of what did the captain of the Australian cricket team Michael Clarke resign in 2015?
Answer: The Ashes
Question: What role did John Flamsteed (1646 1719) fill in Great Britain?
Answer: Astronomer Royal
Question: What country would you travel through in going from Honduras to Costa Rica?
Answer: Nicaragua
Question: Who, aged 54, married 18 year old Oona O'Neill, the daughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, in June 1943?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin
Question: """Ted"" Kaczynski, an American anarchist and mathematical prodigy, became known as what?"
Answer: Unabomber
Question: Who created the character of Harold C. "Rabbit" Angstrom who appears in the stories "Rabbit, Run", "Rabbit Redux", "Rabbit Is Rich", "Rabbit at Rest" and "Rabbit Remembered"?
Answer: John Updike
Question: What year were the films "Eyes Wide Shut", "Sixth Sense", "Toy Story 2", and "Fight Club" released?
Answer: 1999
Question: What is the title of the unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson?
Answer: The Weir of Hermiston
Question: What usually completes the phrase "to spoil the ship for a ha'porth of ..."?
Answer: Tar
Question: """Jessica"", the theme tune of the TV programme ""Top Gear"", was originally recorded by whom?"
Answer: The Allman Brothers Band
Question: A bodhrn, tabor, pandeiro and bongo are types of what?
Answer: Drum
Question: In 1971 Alan Shepard fired two balls in which sporting code?
Answer: Golf
Question: Who created the fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey?
Answer: Dorothy L Sayers
Question: Who became vice-president and then president of the USA without having been voted into either office?
Answer: Gerald Ford
Question: When Kobe Bryant of the Lakers played the farewell game of his 20 year NBA career in 2016 what was his score as part of his side's 101-96 win?
Answer: 60
Question: Who was the last Empress of All the Russias?
Answer: Alexandra
Question: In July caribou migrate in large numbers south across which continent?
Answer: North America
Question: On Christmas Day 1914 during World War I, there was an unofficial truce between British and German troops at various places along the lines. In sub-zero temperatures in no-man's land near Armentieres, France, the soldiers played what game?
Answer: Football
Question: What city built the first underground train network?
Answer: London
Question: What country was briefly led by Emperor Maximilian - a puppet of France?
Answer: Mexico
Question: What service used horses to carry mail across the American west?
Answer: Pony Express
Question: What country was unified under King Victor Emmanuel II?
Answer: Italy
Question: What mountain on the Swiss / Italian border was climbed for the first time?
Answer: The Matterhorn
Question: What South American country lost 60% of its population in a devastating war?
Answer: Paraguay
Question: Who invented the practical light bulb?
Answer: Thomas Edison
Question: What period of history in the American South came to an end?
Answer: Reconstruction
Question: What Apache leader finally surrended after 30 years of fighting?
Answer: Geronimo
Question: In what country did "bushranger" Ned Kelly meet his end?
Answer: Australia
Question: What type of baskets were originally used in basketball?
Answer: Peach Baskets
Question: What future President led a group of soldiers called the Rough Riders?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
Question: To what Pacific island did Paul Gauguin move?
Answer: Tahiti
Question: What tire company created a restaurant guide in an effort to promote driving?
Answer: Michelin
Question: What destination was almost reached by explorer Robert Peary?
Answer: The North Pole
Question: What theory of spacetime was formulated by Albert Einstein?
Answer: Special Relativity
Question: Who was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz?
Answer: William McKinley
Question: What city was devastated by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
Answer: Naples
Question: In what modern-day country was the Second Boer War fought?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What epidemic killed more than 3% of the world's population?
Answer: Spanish Flu
Question: What group of people were the victims of genocide in the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: Armenians
Question: What British adventurer fought in the Arab Revolt?
Answer: T.E. Lawrence
Question: What group of women wore short skirts, had bobbed hair, drank booze, and listened to jazz?
Answer: Flappers
Question: What trumpeter was known as "Satchmo"?
Answer: Louis Armstrong
Question: Who wrote "Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises"?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
Question: What miracle drug was discovered by Alexander Fleming?
Answer: Penicillin
Question: What communist led his forces on the Long March?
Answer: Mao Zedong
Question: What new country was led by David Ben-Gurion?
Answer: Israel
Question: To what island did Chiang Kai-shek flee?
Answer: Taiwan
Question: What was Norma Jeane Mortenson better known as?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe
Question: For what disease did Jonas Salk create a vaccine?
Answer: Polio
Question: What singer was managed by Colonel Tom Parker?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question: What type of "miracle" did West Germany have?
Answer: Economic Miracle
Question: In what (modern-day) country did The Mau Mau Uprising occur?
Answer: Kenya
Question: Who was assassinated in Memphis?
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Question: What pesticide was criticized by the book "Silent Spring"?
Answer: DDT
Question: Who was Jackie Kennedy's second husband?
Answer: Aristotle Onassis
Question: On what holiday did North Vietnam launch a major offensive?
Answer: Tet
Question: What Eastern European city had a "spring" that was crushed by Soviet tanks?
Answer: Prague
Question: What country had massive student and worker protests in May of 1968?
Answer: France
Question: What city had a Summer of Love?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: What British actor did Elizabeth Taylor marry?
Answer: Richard Burton
Question: What musical had a notorious nude scene?
Answer: Hair
Question: On what magazine's cover did Alfred E. Neuman frequently appear?
Answer: Mad
Question: What country replaced a shah with an ayatollah?
Answer: Iran
Question: What brutal dictator seized power in Cambodia?
Answer: Pol Pot
Question: In what country did Augusto Pinochet seize power?
Answer: Chile
Question: At what Presidential retreat did Israel and Egypt sign a peace accord?
Answer: Camp David
Question: Who wrote "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"?
Answer: Hunter S. Thompson
Question: In what city were democracy protestors massacred?
Answer: Beijing
Question: What blundering politician was "no Jack Kennedy" according to Lloyd Bentsen?
Answer: Dan Quayle
Question: In what country did the Solidarity movement happen?
Answer: Poland
Question: Terrorists from what country blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland?
Answer: Libya
Question: What 6'4" drag queen gain notoriety?
Answer: RuPaul
Question: What policy allowed closeted gays to serve in the U.S. military?
Answer: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Question: What ADHD drug became heavily prescribed?
Answer: Ritalin
Question: What video game ended with a "Fatality", or rarely "Friendship"?
Answer: Mortal Kombat
Question: What hurricane struck New Orleans in 2005?
Answer: Hurricane Katrina
Question: On what website could you watch lonelygirl15?
Answer: YouTube
Question: Whose birth certificate became an obsession for conspiracy theorists?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: What was the first social networking site to have 1 million members?
Answer: Friendster
Question: What type of animal has adult males known as "silverbacks"?
Answer: Gorillas
Question: What philosopher is credited with the phrase "I think therefore I am"?
Answer: René Descartes
Question: What famous bluesman has a guitar named Lucille?
Answer: B.B. King
Question: What is the name of the Islamic month of fasting?
Answer: Ramadan
Question: What real-life person was the subject of the movie "The Theory of Everything"?
Answer: Stephen Hawking
Question: In what modern-day country did the Anglo-Zulu war take place?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What celebration was outlawed by Puritans in the English Parliament in 1647?
Answer: Christmas
Question: What was the surname of the rapper Tupac?
Answer: Shakur
Question: According to Franklin D. Roosevelt, what is the only thing we have to fear?
Answer: Fear Itself
Question: During which sea battle was Horatio Nelson killed?
Answer: Battle of Trafalgar
Question: What tropical island chain was famously visited by Charles Darwin?
Answer: Galápagos Islands
Question: To which city do Muslims face when they pray?
Answer: Mecca
Question: What is the colloquial name for a myocardial infarction?
Answer: Heart Attack
Question: What city-state did Rome battle during the Punic Wars?
Answer: Carthage
Question: In chess, what results when a player is not in check but cannot make a legal move?
Answer: Stalemate
Question: What make of car did James Bond drive in the movie "Goldfinger"?
Answer: Aston Martin
Question: What in the common name for ascorbic acid?
Answer: Vitamin C
Question: Who is Bolivia named after?
Answer: Simon Bolivar
Question: What type of animal is Timon from the Lion King?
Answer: Meerkat
Question: On which city did the Enola Gay drop "Little Boy"?
Answer: Hiroshima
Question: What is either the longest river in Italy or the main character in "Kung-Fu Panda"?
Answer: Po
Question: What salty sea does the River Jordan flow into?
Answer: Dead Sea
Question: What country did Ingólfr Arnarson become the first person to settle in the year 874?
Answer: Iceland
Question: What disease is also known as "consumption"?
Answer: Tuberculosis
Question: What stimulant does Red Bull get its name from?
Answer: Taurine
Question: What vestigial organ caused the death of Harry Houdini?
Answer: Appendix
Question: Other than the Vatican, what micronation is entirely surrounding by Italy?
Answer: San Marino
Question: What is the nearest major city to the tourist attraction of Pompei?
Answer: Naples
Question: What sea is located on the eastern end of the Bosphorus?
Answer: Black Sea
Question: What mountain range, starting wth C, occupies much of the country of Romania?
Answer: Carpathians
Question: What is the English name of the city of København?
Answer: Copenhagen
Question: What's the capital of the Philippines?
Answer: Manila
Question: Who was John Lennon's 2nd wife?
Answer: Yoko Ono
Question: What kind of hat do the Shriners often wear?
Answer: Fez
Question: Whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt?
Answer: Lot's
Question: Whose embalmed body has been on display near Red Square since 1924?
Answer: Vladimir Lenin
Question: What empire was ruled by Nebuchadnezzar?
Answer: Babylon
Question: What country became independent from Pakistan in 1971?
Answer: Bangladesh
Question: What is the official name of the city of Derry, in Northern Ireland?
Answer: Londonderry
Question: What "supercontinent" contained nearly all the world's land during the age of the dinosaurs?
Answer: Pangea
Question: What is the most widely-produced assault rifle of all time?
Answer: AK-47
Question: What was the name of the comic strip that featured Charlie Brown and Snoopy?
Answer: Peanuts
Question: What body part was Achilles's only vulnerability?
Answer: Heel
Question: What devilish creature of European lore can be described as an "anti Santa Claus"?
Answer: Krampus
Question: What country has territorial disputes with 11 other countries?
Answer: China
Question: In what country did the Tamil Tigers wage a civil war?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: What was J.S. Bach's middle name?
Answer: Sebastian
Question: What was the last name of literary sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne?
Answer: Brontë
Question: What is the typical method of execution in Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Beheading
Question: What type of snake is known for spitting?
Answer: Cobra
Question: Which Greek god could supposedly be reached by the Oracle of Delphi?
Answer: Apollo
Question: Who once attended a tea party with a hatter and a hare?
Answer: Alice
Question: On what island did the term "Mafia" originate?
Answer: Sicily
Question: What country is made up mostly of Jutland and Zealand?
Answer: Denmark
Question: What genre of music was played by Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters?
Answer: Blues
Question: Who is the leader of the Decepticons (usually)?
Answer: Megatron
Question: What is NaCl better known as?
Answer: Salt
Question: Who did Ringo Starr replace as drummer for The Beatles?
Answer: Pete Best
Question: What type of tree has been decimated by a "Dutch" disease?
Answer: Elm
Question: What Washington D.C. landmark is shaped like an obelisk?
Answer: Washington Monument
Question: What product do Trappist monks in Belgium and the Netherlands famously sell?
Answer: Beer
Question: What type of crystal is used to keep time in most modern clocks and watches?
Answer: Quartz
Question: What was Scrooge's first name?
Answer: Ebenezer
Question: What type of liquor is also known as "white lightning"?
Answer: Moonshine
Question: What mythological figure emerged from sea foam?
Answer: Aphrodite
Question: What is the most popular religion in India?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: What company dominates the diamond industry?
Answer: De Beers
Question: Jacob, Edward, and Bella are characters from what series?
Answer: Twilight
Question: Tiger Uppercuts and Hadoukens are moves from what video game?
Answer: Street Fighter
Question: What movie featured a clique called the "Plastics" who always wore pink on Wednesday?
Answer: Mean Girls
Question: In what city did Mother Teresa work?
Answer: Kolkata
Question: According to Winston Churchill, what organization's traditions were "rum, sodomy, and the lash"?
Answer: The Royal Navy
Question: What is the female version of a bar mitzvah?
Answer: Bat Mitzvah
Question: In the Bible, Jesus raised three people from the dead. Who was the only one that had a name?
Answer: Lazarus
Question: Which Protestant denomination has the most members in the U.S.?
Answer: Southern Baptist
Question: Who wrote "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"?
Answer: Victor Hugo
Question: What controversial biofuel constitutes 8% of the U.S. gasoline supply (as of 2009)?
Answer: Ethanol
Question: What did Pablo Escobar get rich from selling?
Answer: Cocaine
Question: What is Ted Kaczynski better known as?
Answer: The Unabomber
Question: Which "Sesame Street" character is an addict?
Answer: The Cookie Monster
Question: What type of gasoline, blamed for lowering IQs, was banned in the U.S. in 1996?
Answer: Leaded
Question: What Basque sport is sometimes called "the fastest sport in the world" because its ball can reach a speed of 300 km/h?
Answer: Jai alai
Question: What legendary character turned everything he touched to gold?
Answer: Midas
Question: In what country did Sandinistas battle Contras in the 1980's?
Answer: Nicaragua
Question: What city was once called "The Paris of the Middle East" before a civil war began in 1975?
Answer: Beirut
Question: What animal's scientific name is Ursus Maritimus?
Answer: Polar Bear
Question: Who is Linus Van Pelt's sister?
Answer: Lucy
Question: What chemical element makes the surface of Mars appear red?
Answer: Iron
Question: What city's "Hanging Gardens" were a Wonder of the World? (although they may have never existed)
Answer: Babylon
Question: What early car model came in any color you could want, as long as it's black?
Answer: Ford Model T
Question: What annoying religious group was famous for selling flowers at airports?
Answer: Hare Krishna
Question: What well-know dinosaur is a close relative of the apatosaurus?
Answer: Brontosaurus
Question: Who wrote "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
Question: The Grand Banks can be found off the coast of what country?
Answer: Canada
Question: What female sleuth sometimes works with the Hardy Boys?
Answer: Nancy Drew
Question: What country did the U.S. support in its war against Iran in the 1980's?
Answer: Iraq
Question: What is the name of Elvis's former home?
Answer: Graceland
Question: What war was fought in the years 1950-1953?
Answer: Korean War
Question: What animal is the "most dangerous game"?
Answer: Man
Question: What zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only?
Answer: The White Zone
Question: Whose fairy tale "The Snow Queen" was the inspiration for the movie "Frozen"?
Answer: Hans Christian Andersen
Question: What is the term for person who doesn't believe in God but also doesn't deny his existence?
Answer: Agnostic
Question: What is Adderall used to treat?
Answer: ADHD
Question: What, besides water and barley, was the only ingredient that was allowed in Bavarian beer?
Answer: Hops
Question: What dynasty did King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I belong to?
Answer: The Tudors
Question: What type of bread is served on Jewish holidays?
Answer: Challah
Question: What 19th century tycoon donated enough money to build over 2,500 libraries?
Answer: Andrew Carnegie
Question: Who is the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom?
Answer: Princess Peach
Question: What car company was founded by Elon Musk?
Answer: Tesla
Question: What common Latin phrase could be translated as "you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours"?
Answer: Quid Pro Quo
Question: What would a person turn into if they gazed into Medusa's eyes?
Answer: Stone
Question: Who rules in a plutocracy?
Answer: The Wealthy
Question: What was the profession of Pablo Neruda and William Carlos Williams?
Answer: Poet
Question: What other knighted actor has appeared in many viral photographs with Sir Ian McKellen?
Answer: Sir Patrick Stewart
Question: What part of the body produces Vitamin D?
Answer: Skin
Question: What ethnic group was the victim of genocide in Rwanda?
Answer: The Tutsis
Question: Who did King Oedipus marry?
Answer: His Mother
Question: What part of the body is affected by cirrhosis?
Answer: The Liver
Question: The Inverted Jenny depicts an upside down plane and is worth almost a million dollars. What is it?
Answer: a Stamp
Question: What was the name of the nine Greek goddesses who personified literature, science, and the arts?
Answer: The Muses
Question: Who had a child with Kurt Cobain?
Answer: Courtney Love
Question: What character is the villain in the movie ?
Answer: Scar
Question: What career did Adolf Hitler pursue before getting into politics?
Answer: Painting
Question: What book's characters included two pigs named Napoleon and Snowball?
Answer: Animal Farm
Question: What breed of dog does Queen Elizabeth II famously own?
Answer: Corgis
Question: What commodity represents over 40% of the tonnage shipped on American freight trains?
Answer: Coal
Question: During which Catholic service would one receive a wafer?
Answer: Eucharist
Question: What country suffered 100,000 earthquake-related deaths in 2010?
Answer: Haiti
Question: What rapper had 12 studio albums - 6 of them posthumous?
Answer: Tupac Shakur
Question: What country had a "Golden Age" in the later half of the 1600's?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: In 1727, Janet Horne became the last British person to be executed for what crime?
Answer: Witchcraft
Question: What band's members included Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson?
Answer: The Beach Boys
Question: In what game might you hit, stand, split, or double down?
Answer: Blackjack
Question: What is the name for a creature that is half man, half horse?
Answer: Centaur
Question: Who did Jack Ruby assassinate in 1963 in Dallas?
Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald
Question: What material can be "vulcanized"?
Answer: Rubber
Question: In the show Doctor Who, what does the Doctor's time machine look like from the outside?
Answer: Police Box
Question: What type of creature was Gimli?
Answer: Dwarf
Question: A tendon connects a muscle to a bone. What similar tissue connects two bones?
Answer: Ligament
Question: What Shakespeare play featured a fairy named Oberon?
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Question: In terms of nuclear energy, what might be considered the opposite of fusion?
Answer: Fission
Question: Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?
Answer: Jane Austen
Question: Whose Fortress of Solitude can be found near the North Pole?
Answer: Superman's
Question: Who founded cities in Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkey, and several other countries?
Answer: Alexander the Great
Question: What type of animal is a shell-less gastropod?
Answer: Slug
Question: What drug did the British grow in India and sell in China?
Answer: Opium
Question: In what activity might one attempt a "Sicilian Defense"?
Answer: Chess
Question: What city was home to the largest library in the ancient world?
Answer: Alexandria
Question: What ancient Greek sculpture has famously lost her arms?
Answer: Venus de Milo
Question: What type of bird resembles a large crow?
Answer: Raven
Question: Who piloted the "Spirit of St. Louis"?
Answer: Charles Lindbergh
Question: According to the Bible, what town was Jesus born in?
Answer: Bethlehem
Question: Matzo is traditionally eaten during what holiday?
Answer: Passover
Question: What is the name of the mathematical series than begins 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13?
Answer: Fibonacci Series
Question: Who is Arkham Asylum's most famous resident?
Answer: The Joker
Question: What is the name for water that has been blessed by a priest?
Answer: Holy Water
Question: What country was occupied by Spain, the United States, and Japan before becoming independent?
Answer: Philippines
Question: What aquatic flower is sacred to Buddhism and Hinduism?
Answer: Lotus
Question: Who directed the movies "Vertigo" and "The Birds"?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
Question: What anatomical feature did velociraptors have in real life, but not in "Jurassic Park"?
Answer: Feathers
Question: Who became, in 1999, the oldest female singer to have a #1 hit in the U.S.? (Hint: the song was "Believe")
Answer: Cher
Question: Who made a cameo appearance in 39 movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
Question: What type of musical instrument is used in calypso music and was formerly made from used oil barrels?
Answer: Steelpan
Question: What city has the most skyscrapers over 150 meters in height?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: Genghis Khan had thousands of grandsons. Which one is the best known?
Answer: Kublai Khan
Question: What is black sausage made from?
Answer: Blood
Question: What country does Häagen-Dazs ice cream come from?
Answer: United States
Question: What word means "fancy party" in English and "evening" in French?
Answer: Soirée
Question: What would you find in an ossuary?
Answer: Bones
Question: What fictional character frequently went into telephone booths to change outfits?
Answer: Superman
Question: Who played Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise?
Answer: Johnny Depp
Question: What weapon is traditionally used as a musical instrument during performances of the 1812 Overture?
Answer: Cannon
Question: What word refers to a species that no longer exists?
Answer: Extinct
Question: Who was married to both Joe Dimaggio and Arthur Miller?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe
Question: What Chinese dam, completed in 2008, generates more electricity than any other?
Answer: Three Gorges Dam
Question: """Big Brother is Watching You"" comes from what novel?"
Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Question: What type of weapon is carried by Thor?
Answer: Hammer
Question: What person is currently second in line to the British throne?
Answer: Prince William
Question: Which U.S. state did Bill Clinton govern?
Answer: Arkansas