zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Andinia plan, Fugu plan, Uganda proposal, and Madagascar plan are some of the attempts for the establishment of what entity in history?
Answer: Jewish state
Question: During the US presidential elections of 1936, the magazine The Literary Digest conducted an opinion poll using millions of people but still ended up being wrong. Who bested the magazine with his scientific technique using only a small percentage of what the magazine had used?
Answer: George Gallup
Question: What historic scandal had its roots in security guard Frank Wills discovering a taped latch of a basement door of an office complex?
Answer: Watergate
Question: Talking about which country did the writer V. S. Naipaul write "No civilization was so little equipped to cope with the outside world; no country was so easily raided and plundered, and learned so little from its disasters"?
Answer: India
Question: The magnificent Ishtar Gate constructed around 575 BC served as one of the entrances to what ancient city?
Answer: Babylon
Question: What major 1915 campaign of the First World War is also called as the Battle of Çanakkale and is credited with shaping the consciousness of more than one country?
Answer: Gallipoli campaign
Question: What were the military units made up of volunteers from different countries who traveled to defend the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) called?
Answer: International Brigades
Question: Which Asian mountain pass of significant historical importance has been called "a sword cut through the mountains" by Kipling?
Answer: Khyber Pass
Question: What term refers to the stage of the journey that saw the forcible passage of Africans to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade?
Answer: Middle Passage
Question: As numerous countries gained their independence in that year, which year in the second half of the 20th century is known as the 'Year of Africa'?
Answer: 1960
Question: What foreign policy theory promoted by the US government during the Cold War speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, the surrounding countries would follow?
Answer: Domino theory
Question: What 'fruity' term for a small and unstable country dependent on agriculture was first used by O. Henry in reference to Honduras?
Answer: Banana republic
Question: If you have to associate one person with the 'Kuomintang Party' between 1929 and 1948, who would it be?
Answer: Chiang Kai-shek
Question: What sporty term popularized by Rudyard Kipling in Kim was used to describe the rivalry between the British Empire and the Russian Empire in their quest for supremacy in Central Asia in the 19th century?
Answer: """Great game"""
Question: In 1954, which country suggested that it should join NATO to preserve peace in Europe but this proposal was rejected as the other countries felt that it would weaken the alliance?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: A motto of which lethal 20th century regime was 'To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss' referring to civilian Cambodians?
Answer: Khmer Rouge
Question: The Battle of Austerlitz, one of Napoleon's greatest victories is also known by what name that references Emperor Francis and the Russian Czar along with Napoleon himself?
Answer: Battle of the Three Emperors
Question: According to a 1864 adventure novel, Saknussemm's Corridor in an extinct volcano in Iceland is the place to start if you seek to go where?
Answer: Center of the earth
Question: A 1978 contemplative travel book of Peter Matthiessen concerned him tracking what elusive creature of the Himalayas?
Answer: Snow leopard
Question: Which writer wrote the introduction for Robert Frank's influential photography book The Americans (1958) that contained images from Frank's travels across the US?
Answer: Jack Kerouac
Question: What 300 BC book from ancient Greece that was essential reading for students for centuries was said to be second only to the Bible in the number of editions published?
Answer: Euclid's Elements
Question: The global think tank that attracted considerable attention with its 1972 publication of The Limits of Growth is called 'The Club of' what European city?
Answer: Rome
Question: Who wrote the 1942 short story Runaround that lists three laws one of which is stated below? 'A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm'
Answer: Isaac Asimov
Question: Which 1853 narrative poem of Matthew Arnold set in the orient tells the story of two feuding warrior-generals who, unknown to both, happen to be father and son?
Answer: Sohrab and Rustum
Question: William Golding's Lord of the Flies was written as a response to which 1857 adventure novel by R. M. Ballantyne because Golding disagreed with the views that the book held?
Answer: The Coral Island
Question: The 1987 nonfiction book And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts chronicles the discovery and spread of what modern horror?
Answer: HIV/AIDS
Question: The title of which 1959 play is the phrase that follows the lines 'What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like ...' in a Langston Hughes poem?
Answer: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Question: 'The duke and the king' are characters that accompany the runaway lead pair in which classic American novel?
Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Question: Can you fill-in the first line of the poem whose next lines are: "................................................ Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."?
Answer: """A thing of beauty is a joy forever:"""
Question: Which notorious real-life terrorist figures prominently in Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy?
Answer: Carlos the Jackal
Question: A mysterious figure paid an annual tribute on Jan 19th during the period of 1949 to 2009 to which American author by visiting the author's original grave marker in Baltimore?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
Question: Which influential 19th century work on military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz is prescribed at various military academies to this day?
Answer: On War
Question: Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India spoke with Khrushchev and was partly instrumental in preventing the expulsion of which writer from the Soviet Union after that person won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Boris Pasternak
Question: If Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence fictionalizes the life of Paul Gauguin, his novel Cakes and Ale contains characterizations of which English author who never lived in Wessex?
Answer: Thomas Hardy
Question: The 2000 film Finding Forrester in which Sean Connery plays a reclusive author was loosely based on the life of which person who passed away in 2010?
Answer: J. D. Salinger
Question: Which classic Middle Eastern story of star-crossed lovers is based on the real story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mullawah and has achieved legendary status in the Islamic world?
Answer: Layla and Majnun
Question: Which 1903 book by Erskine Childers that is still enjoyed for its accurate portrayal of inland sailing was credited by Winston Churchill as a major reason for the establishment of naval bases in the UK?
Answer: The Riddle of the Sands
Question: In Dante's Divine Comedy, if Hell is divided into 9 circles and Paradise into 9 spheres, what is divided into 7 terraces?
Answer: Purgatory
Question: During what landmark 1969 event was a 'freak out tent' established for those suffering from the ill-effects of drugs?
Answer: Woodstock
Question: What song by The Doors that has a strong reference to the Oedipus complex got them fired from the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in West Hollywood?
Answer: """The End"""
Question: What musical instrument that takes its name from a muse was used in riverboats and in circuses because of its loudness?
Answer: Calliope
Question: What is the term given to a musical that uses previously released popular songs as its musical score, examples of which are Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys?
Answer: Jukebox musical
Question: Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac avoided black clothing to distance herself from the dark arts associations surrounding her as a result of which of the band's hit song?
Answer: """Rhiannon"""
Question: The Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi who is acclaimed as one of the most beloved opera singers of all time was known for her rivalry with which other legendary soprano?
Answer: Maria Callas
Question: Which American song that remains a fundamental part of a jazz musicians' repertoire has been called 'the jazzman's Hamlet' and has also been used as an NHL team name?
Answer: """St. Louis Blues"""
Question: Which collection of orchestral movements were composed by George Frideric Handel in 1717 at the request of King George I? These are also his best known work.
Answer: """Water Music"""
Question: The first album by the rock group Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) was named after a chapter in which children's classic?
Answer: The Wind in the Willows
Question: Which set of 30 keyboard techniques were written by Johann Sebastian Bach to reportedly cure insomnia?
Answer: """The Goldberg Variations"" published in 1741"
Question: A famous remark often attributed to Brian Eno is that while only a few thousand people bought a record of this band, almost every single one of the purchasers was inspired to start their own band. Which influential rock band was Eno referring to?
Answer: Velvet Underground
Question: British physicist David Deutsch is regarded as the father of what field of science which is certain to see more interest as the scale of the world's need for data processing increases?
Answer: Quantum computing
Question: The 1610 book Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) that contained several sketches of the moon was published by whom?
Answer: Galileo
Question: What famous theorem proposed in 1964 clearly delineated the areas of classical mechanics and quantum mechanics?
Answer: Bell's theorem
Question: Usually named for the places where they are found, what are traditionally classified into three types as stony, iron and stony-iron?
Answer: Meteorites
Question: The Oscillating Universe Theory combines Big Bang and what other event to make-up a cycle?
Answer: Big Crunch
Question: The synthetic drug clomifene that comes in white 50 mg doses is prescribed to overcome what condition?
Answer: Infertility
Question: James Herrick is credited with the description of a genetic disease in which red-blood cells are in what shape instead of the normal disc shape?
Answer: Sickle
Question: A 15 meter long mechanical arm called the Canadarm was used to maneuver payloads through the 1980s to 2011 on what type of vehicles?
Answer: Space shuttles
Question: Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania with its high levels of diversity that includes chimpanzee populations is best associated with which person?
Answer: Jane Goodall
Question: Fill in the missing word in this sentence written by Arthur Eddington in The Nature of the Physical World (1927). The law that ___ always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature.
Answer: Entropy
Question: In biology, what 3-letter word derived from the Swedish for 'play' is a gathering of males of certain bird species for the purposes of mating display?
Answer: Lek
Question: In biology, the theory that states that an animal's development from embryo to adult resembles the stages in the evolution of its ancestors is commonly expressed as what three word phrase?
Answer: """Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"""
Question: Literally meaning 'on the kidney', what hormone that participates in the 'fight or flight' response of the body is produced by the adrenal glands?
Answer: Epinephrine
Question: In medicine, what is said to occur when an object migrates from one part of the body through circulation and causes a blockage of a blood vessel in another part of the body?
Answer: Embolism
Question: What is the common name of the Adansonia species of tree native to Africa and Australia that is noted for its capacity to store enormous quantity of water?
Answer: Boabab
Question: What organic compound is the primary structural component of green plants and also makes-up their primary cell wall?
Answer: Cellulose
Question: What was discovered by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911 when he was studying the resistance of solid mercury at cryogenic temperatures?
Answer: Superconductivity
Question: What rare form of headache whose name refers to its tendency to occur periodically has been called by some experts as the most painful condition known to medical science?
Answer: Cluster headache
Question: Which phrase, also the title of a 2004 Ashton Kutcher movie, encapsulates the notion of 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions' of Chaos theory?
Answer: Butterfly effect
Question: How many operational space shuttles were built by NASA?
Answer: Five
Question: What scale measures cola at 2.5, orange juice at 3.5, beer at 4.5, coffee at 5.0, tea at 5.5, milk at 6.5 and blood at nearly 7.4?
Answer: pH scale
Question: What appropriately named spacecraft launched in 1972 has become the first artificial object to leave the Solar System?
Answer: Pioneer 10
Question: Think outside Scandinavia. What is the only country that won a gold medal at every Winter Olympics?
Answer: USA
Question: Bonspiel is a tournament of what Olympic sport that many people may not even consider a sport, at first glance?
Answer: Curling
Question: What word completes this unique and 'grand' list? Plexicushion, Clay, ___, Decoturf
Answer: Grass
Question: The policy of banning weapons enforced in Okinawa in medieval Japan influenced the development of what combat technique from Ryukyu Islands?
Answer: Karate
Question: In sailing, if tacking is the maneuver by which the vessel turns its bow (front side) so that the direction from which the wind blows changes sides, what is the term for doing so by turning the stern (rear)?
Answer: Jibing
Question: In 1924, what did Grantland Rice collectively call Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden, the name now a part of American sports lore?
Answer: Four Horsemen
Question: In which Olympic sport do participants wear an electrically conductive jacket called a lamé to define the scoring areas?
Answer: Fencing
Question: Which French word that means 'to rescue' is a practice that allows participants to continue to the next round in a competition if they failed to meet qualifying standards only by a small margin?
Answer: Repechage
Question: Which iconic sportsperson refers to his ethnicity as 'Cablinasian'?
Answer: Tiger Woods
Question: Which Italian form of bowling that starts when a ball called 'pallino' is thrown has been played since Roman times?
Answer: Bocce
Question: In 1999, which tennis player ranked No.3 became the highest ranked player ever to announce retirement from the sport at that time? This record was broken by No.1 Justine Henin in 2008.
Answer: Steffi Graf
Question: Which Swede is the only man in tennis history to have won at least two Grand Slam singles titles on each of the three surfaces of grass, clay and hardcourt?
Answer: Mats Wilander
Question: Who was the British Foreign Secretary who cleared Kim Philby of being the 'Third Man' in the 1955 Commons debate?
Answer: HAROLD MACMILLAN
Question: What was the brand name of the unsuccessful Ford car that was named after Henry Ford's son?
Answer: EDSEL
Question: From which country did former Formula One driver Denny Hulme originate?
Answer: NEW ZEALAND
Question: Which battle began on 1st. July 1916?
Answer: THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME
Question: What was Elvis Presley's first feature film?
Answer: 'LOVE ME TENDER'
Question: To which organ of the body does the adjective Pulmonary refer?
Answer: LUNGS
Question: The plot of which animated sit-com revolves around the employees of the 'Planet Express' delivery company?
Answer: 'FUTURAMA'
Question: The plot of which animated sit-com revolves around a Methodist family from the small Texan town of Arlen?
Answer: 'KING OF THE HILL'
Question: Deriving from the French for 'long coat', what name is given to the close-fitting, ankle length robe worn by Christian clergymen?
Answer: CASSOCK
Question: Named after the German for 'whirlpool', what name is given to the dessert that consists of a baked roll of thin pastry with a fruit filling?
Answer: STRUDEL
Question: Which Shakespearean character dies with the words, "A plague o'both your houses ! They have made worms of me..."?
Answer: 'MERCUTIO'
Question: Who was the semi-legendary Anglo-Saxon ruler of Kent of the 5th century, who along with his brother Horsa, was hired by the British warlord Vortigern to fight against the Picts?
Answer: HENGEST
Question: Which of Marilyn Monroe's husband's is mentioned by name in the song 'Mrs. Robinson'?
Answer: JOE DiMAGGIO
Question: His older brother is a former MP. His father a former MEP. His sister Rachel is a journalist. Who is the Conservative MP for Orpington, first elected at the 2010 General Election?
Answer: JO JOHNSON
Question: Indian Virender Sehwag with 175 made the highest score in the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Which English player with 158 made the second highest score?
Answer: ANDREW STRAUSS
Question: 'Count Fosco', 'Sergeant Richard Cuff' and 'Anne Catherick' are characters created by which author?
Answer: WILKIE COLLINS
Question: Which word completes the name of the clothing retailer 'Abercrombie and .....'?
Answer: 'FITCH'
Question: Which South American country which has had currencies the Cruzeiro and the Cruzado, now uses the Real?
Answer: BRAZIL
Question: Which US space project came between 'Mercury' and 'Apollo'?
Answer: 'GEMINI'
Question: Which Prime Minister was MP for two Birmingham constituencies - Ladywood from 1918 to 1929, then Edgebaston from 1929 to 1940?
Answer: NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
Question: An image of which building designed by Sir Basil Spence appeared on a stamp issued in February?
Answer: COVENTRY CATHEDRAL
Question: In which 1932 novel set in the year '632 AF' (After Ford) is 'Lenina Crowe' a vaccination worker at the 'Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre'?
Answer: 'BRAVE NEW WORLD'
Question: Whose album ‘13’ issued last year was their first studio album since ‘Forbidden’ in 1995?
Answer: BLACK SABBATH
Question: According to the Gospel of John, in which village did Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead?
Answer: BETHANY
Question: ‘Houses of the Holy’ in 1973 was the fifth album released by which band, the first three contained the name of the band and the fourth was untitled?
Answer: LED ZEPPELIN
Question: Abraham Lincoln served one two-year term in the House of Representatives for a district in which state?
Answer: ILLINOIS
Question: Which band of the 1980s often referred to themselves as ‘the fourth best band in Hull’?
Answer: THE HOUSEMARTINS
Question: According to Muslin belief, who dictated the Koran to Mohammed?
Answer: Gabriel
Question: Which group had a No 1 hit in 1982 with My camera never lies?
Answer: Buck's Fizz
Question: Which English city has districts called Inglemire, Marfleet and Gipsyville?
Answer: Hull
Question: Who had a No1 hit in 1993 with Young at Heart?
Answer: Bluebells
Question: Which bird can be green, black, three-toed or lesser spotted?
Answer: Woodpecker
Question: In heraldry, if an animal is depicted as "passant", what is it doing?
Answer: WALKING
Question: Who once caused outrage by telling British students in China, "if you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty- eyed"?
Answer: PRINCE PHILIP
Question: In 1974, who said "I don't want to be leader of the party. I'm happy to be in the top dozen"?
Answer: MARGARET THATCHER
Question: What name is given to the hot, dry, dusty wind that blows from the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast?
Answer: SIROCCO
Question: May 21st. 1471, witnessed the murder by stabbing of which king in the Tower of London?
Answer: HENRY VI
Question: Which distinctive wild flower, a member of the 'Campion' family, is sometimes known as the 'Cuckoo Flower'?
Answer: 'RAGGED ROBIN'
Question: 'Maverick', 'Ice','Viper', 'Goose', 'Jester' and 'Cougar' were names used by various characters in which film?
Answer: 'TOP GUN'
Question: Who was the Dutch portrait painter who became Court Painter to Charles II, and subsequently received a knighthood?
Answer: SIR PETER LELY
Question: What was the name of the 1999 television series created by Russell T. Davies that chronicled the lives of three men in Manchester's gay village?
Answer: 'QUEER AS FOLK'
Question: The name of which colour was first used in the English poem 'Beowulf' to describe a shield made of wood from a Yew tree?
Answer: YELLOW
Question: Nicknamed 'Tom Thumb of The Americas', which former Spanish colony is the smallest country in continental America?
Answer: EL SALVADOR
Question: Which murderous goblin of British folklore takes its namefrom its supposed habit of dying its hat with the blood of its victims?
Answer: 'RED CAP'
Question: 'Prelude', 'Minuet', 'Claire de Lune' and 'Passé pied' are all parts of which piano suite by Debussy?
Answer: SUITE BERGAMASQUE
Question: Who had a number one hit for six weeks in 1973 with 'Blockbuster'?
Answer: 'SWEET'
Question: In which 1986 film does John Cleese play 'Brian Stimpson', the head teacher of 'Thomas Tompian School'?
Answer: 'CLOCKWISE'
Question: In the film 'Fantasia' which conductor 'shakes hands' with 'Mickey Mouse' at the end of 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'?
Answer: LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
Question: Which nursery rhyme was originally a satire on the political instability during the reign of Charles II?
Answer: 'ROCK-A-BYE BABY'
Question: Which work ends with the line "They have a world to win, working men of all countries unite !"?
Answer: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
Question: 'The Headhunters' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which London club?
Answer: CHELSEA
Question: With which 17th century plot was Francis Tresham associated?
Answer: THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
Question: The film which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1942 also featured an Academy Award winning performance from Greer Garson. What was its title?
Answer: MRS MINIVER
Question: What is the name of the highest caste in Hindu society?
Answer: BRAHMIN
Question: Four Irishmen have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, three are Shaw, Becket, Heaney who is the forth?
Answer: YEATS
Question: Which Irish group had hits in the 1980s with the theme songs from the television programmes ‘Harry’s Game’ and ‘Robin of Sherwood’?
Answer: CLANNAD
Question: In which alphabet would you find letters called daleth, zayin and teth
Answer: Hebrew
Question: In which German city is there a suburb called Wedding?
Answer: Berlin
Question: By what name is the film star Tula Elsie Finklea is better known?
Answer: Cyd Charisse
Question: Which German aircraft company invented the 'ejector seat' in 1942?
Answer: HEINKEL
Question: In what year did Freddie Starr's horse 'Minnehoma' win the Grand national?
Answer: 1994
Question: 'Sunburst', 'May Duke', 'Merchant', and 'Merton Glory' are all varieties of which fruit grown outdoors in the UK?
Answer: CHERRY
Question: She and her alto egofirst appeared in 1941 in 'All Star Comics', the creation of Chester Gould. Who is she?
Answer: 'WONDER WOMAN'
Question: In heraldry, if a creature is said to be 'Salient', what is said to be its characteristic?
Answer: SPRINGING
Question: In which city did the assassination of Martin Luther King?
Answer: MEMPHIS, Tennessee
Question: What name links the Apollo 15 space ship with that of seafarer Captain Cook?
Answer: ENDEAVOUR
Question: Which famous battle of 1645 took place when the Parliamentary Army led by Fairfax defeated the Royalist Army led by Prince Rupert?
Answer: NASEBY
Question: With a 'Beaufort Scale' number of 11, and a wind speed of 64 -72 mph.How is this wind force described?
Answer: STORM
Question: Which pop group have had UK number one hits with 'Bring It Back', 'Never Had A Dream Come True', 'Don't Stop Movin'', and 'Have You Ever'?
Answer: S CLUB 7
Question: In which European city was Audrey Hepburn born?
Answer: BRUSSELS
Question: Which is the only merchant ship to sink an enemy warship, it sank a U-boat whilst acting as a troop carrier in 1918?
Answer: R.M.S. OLYMPIC