zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Western Red Cedar trees are typically used by the indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America to carve what distinctive artifacts?
Answer: Totem poles
Question: What is the name of the water management system developed in ancient Persia that is used to provide a reliable supply of water in hot and arid climates?
Answer: Qanat
Question: What is the correct term for a tomb or monument erected in honor of those whose remains are elsewhere?
Answer: Cenotaph
Question: Who is the Italian statistician who published a 1912 paper on the income distribution of a nation's citizens and who has now given his name to a measurement of inequality?
Answer: (Corrado) Gini
Question: What municipality in Switzerland, also the highest city in Europe, is the annual host of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meet?
Answer: Davos
Question: What are 'Gold Panda' in China, 'Maple Leaf' in Canada, 'Philharmoniker' in Austria, 'Tower of David' in Israel, 'George the Victorious' in Russia and 'Sovereign' in UK?
Answer: Gold bullion coins
Question: Which influential author of Economics: An Introductory Analysis, the largest-selling economics textbook of all time is also the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: Paul Samuelson
Question: What is the name given to the fraudulent operation that involves paying abnormally high returns to investors out of the money paid in by subsequent investors rather than from revenues generated by any business?
Answer: Ponzi scheme
Question: Harald ___ Gromson was the king of Denmark in the 10th century and is regarded as having united Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. How is his name popular in the technological world?
Answer: Bluetooth
Question: In the 1970s, 'The Chicago Boys' were a group of 25 economists working under which South American dictator's administration to create a free market economy?
Answer: Augusto Pinochet
Question: Which nation launched the "Heart of Eurasia" campaign to counter the cultural learnings from a 2006 movie?
Answer: Kazakhstan (Borat)
Question: The 1994 book Lost Moon is the basis of what subsequent year's Hollywood hit?
Answer: Apollo 13
Question: A sword called Green Destiny occupies a prominent spot in the story of what 2000 world-wide hit movie?
Answer: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Question: According to IMDB.com, what was the first film Jimmy Carter watched during his presidential tenure? Appropriate since it showed what led to his electoral win!
Answer: All the President's Men
Question: The English actress Diana Dors once called herself "the only sex symbol Britain has produced since" which person? No peeping or you'll go blind.
Answer: Lady Godiva
Question: What Hitchcock classic is said to use the Madonna-whore complex to represent a lead figure, the same woman simultaneously representing virtue and debasement?
Answer: Vertigo (1958)
Question: The climax of what great 1952 Italian film, Ingmar Bergman's favorite, has the title character attempting suicide on a train track with his pet dog?
Answer: Umberto D.
Question: The Bengali films Pratidwandi, Seemabaddha and Jana Aranya directed by the Oscar winning Satyajit Ray are known as the trilogy of what Indian city to which he was strongly associated?
Answer: Calcutta
Question: Which Hollywood heartthrob got his first name because his pregnant mother felt his first kick while she was viewing the painting of a famous Italian artist?
Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio
Question: Which actor, the epitome of American masculinity has the appropriate distinction of being the only one on every annual list of Harris Poll's 'America's favorite film stars'?
Answer: John Wayne
Question: Hammer Film Productions, the British company which made a series films from the mid-1950s until the 1970s is best known for which genre?
Answer: Horror
Question: What series of documentary films directed by Michael Apted follow the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old?
Answer: Up Series
Question: Which epic 1960s film is unique in the sense that the only female featured in the entire film is a camel named Gladys?
Answer: Lawrence of Arabia
Question: The 18th century English nobleman John Montagu who was so fond of gambling that he played even while eating was the earl of what town in Kent?
Answer: Sandwich
Question: Claret is the name used in England for red wine from what region of France that is also the capital of Aquitaine?
Answer: Bordeaux
Question: What is the name of the mall in Kenya where terrorists attacked shoppers in 2013 and took 67 lives? (hint: sounds similar to the name of the complex that is associated with Nixon)
Answer: Westgate
Question: The writing system of Elder Futhark (that was later simplified to Younger Futhark) is the oldest form of what alphabet?
Answer: Runes
Question: The term 'flensing' is used to describe the processing of what creatures?
Answer: Whales
Question: The traje de luces that means 'suit of lights' in its native tongue is the traditional costume of whom?
Answer: Bullfighters
Question: What school of philosophy of ancient Greece associated with Aristotle takes its name from a legend that he meandered while lecturing?
Answer: Peripatetic school
Question: What was the end result of Operation Neptune Spear conducted by the CIA in 2011?
Answer: Death of Osama bin Laden
Question: What two-word term that first appeared in the play The Conquest of Granada (1672) later became associated with a sentimental 18th century notion that a human being in a natural state (away from civilization) is essentially 'good'?
Answer: 'Noble Savage'
Question: What ubiquitous font created by designer Vincent Connare was said to have been inspired by the graphic novels The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen?
Answer: Comic Sans
Question: What is the common name of the computational problem whose task, when given a list of cities and the distances between them is to find the shortest possible tour that visits each city once?
Answer: Travelling salesman problem
Question: In 1872, which British ship was discovered intact in the Atlantic unmanned and apparently abandoned with the incident often being cited as the greatest maritime mystery of all time?
Answer: The Mary Celeste
Question: Named for the fictional town in the radio series A Prairie Home Companion, what is the Lake Wobegon effect? (Hint: According to Garrison Keillor, the presenter of the show, here "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average")
Answer: Tendency to overestimate one's achievements and capabilities
Question: The Bodleian Library, one of the oldest libraries in Europe, is the main research library of which seminal institution?
Answer: University of Oxford
Question: In phonetics, what is a sound that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure above the glottis?
Answer: Vowel
Question: Which Shinto shrine located in Tokyo is dedicated to those who died fighting for the Emperor of Japan and is a source of considerable controversy?
Answer: Yasukuni shrine
Question: If screw-driven steamships generally carry the prefix 'SS' before their names, what type of steamers carry the prefix 'PS'?
Answer: Paddle steamers
Question: What paradox states that an entirely rational ass placed between two stacks of hay of equal quality will starve as it cannot make any rational decision to start eating one rather than the other?
Answer: Buridan's ass
Question: In a journal entry of the 19th century, French naturalist Henri Mouhot who explored Southeast Asia compared what site to the pyramids?
Answer: Angkor Wat
Question: In the 2014 movie Godzilla, one of the two MUTOs, the creatures that feed on nuclear radiation, is shown to emerge from what Nevada location?
Answer: Yucca mountain
Question: In the early days of Atlantic City in NJ, what was constructed to keep tourists from tracking beach sand all over town?
Answer: Boardwalk
Question: What is the largest religious denomination for any religion in the world?
Answer: Sunni Islam
Question: Which country has 12% of the world's Muslim population but has not been allowed to join the Organisation of Islamic Conference, mainly due to the efforts of another country?
Answer: India (Pakistan)
Question: Name of 2 of the 3 countries that are overlapped by the Afar triangle that has several important sites for those interested in early human studies.
Answer: Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti
Question: The Semperoper is the opera house of what European city? (hint: Slaughterhouse-Five)
Answer: Dresden
Question: The historic Charles Bridge that crosses the Vlatava river connects which city's castle to its old town?
Answer: Prague
Question: Tourists to the town of Oświęcim in Poland are most likely headed to see what?
Answer: Auschwitz
Question: What region in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the site of China's nuclear weapons tests?
Answer: Lop Nur
Question: The economic grouping acronym BRIC that referred to Brazil, Russia, India and China was changed to BRICS in 2011 to include what country?
Answer: South Africa
Question: The artificial Gatun Lake that was created between 1907 and 1913 forms a major component of what water body?
Answer: Panama Canal
Question: The plateau 'Cappadocia' with its spectacular landscapes, caves, and fairy chimneys is a popular tourist attraction of which country?
Answer: Turkey
Question: The novel as well as the movie Girl with a Pearl Earring based on painter Vermeer's work was set in which Dutch city also known for its pottery?
Answer: Delft
Question: If water bodies were left out and only land area were considered, what is the second largest country in the world after Russia?
Answer: China
Question: Located in Micronesia and covering just 21 square kilometres, what is the world's smallest island nation?
Answer: Nauru
Question: Bordered on three sides by Senegal and with a small coast on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, what is the smallest country on mainland Africa?
Answer: The Gambia
Question: During the apartheid era, what was the name for the territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) of which ten were established?
Answer: Bantustan
Question: Based on a 1995 realignment of the International Date Line, which Oceanic country with it's capital at South Tarawa is now the easternmost country in the world?
Answer: Kiribati
Question: Which major German seaport on the Baltic sea was for several centuries the capital of the Hanseatic League and was also known as 'Queen of the Hanse'?
Answer: Lübeck
Question: McMurdo Station can support only 1258 residents but is still considered as the largest community in what part of the world?
Answer: Antarctica
Question: Since all time zones converge at the South Pole, there is no reason for placing it in any particular time zone. But as a practical convenience, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station keeps the time of which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Located in Israel, what is the second-lowest lake in the world (after the Dead Sea) on whose shores much of the ministry of Jesus occurred?
Answer: Sea of Galilee
Question: The summit of which mountain in Ecuador is generally regarded as the spot that is farthest from the center of the Earth?
Answer: Chimborazo
Question: Which borough of New York City is the only one of the city's five boroughs to be situated primarily on the US mainland rather than on an island?
Answer: Bronx
Question: The city of DeKalb, Illinois is credited as the first manufacturing site of what 'restraining' invention that revolutionized ranching in the US?
Answer: Barbed wire
Question: After Russia, what is the second largest country in area amongst the former Soviet republics?
Answer: Kazakhstan
Question: Alfred Wegener was the first to publish the hypothesis that these had somehow 'moved' apart but he was unable to provide a convincing explanation for the physical processes which might have caused it. What are we talking about?
Answer: Continental drift
Question: On what day in 1683 were the conquering armies of Islam thrown back at the gates of Vienna, in what was a major defeat for the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: September 11
Question: The Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, which now has a museum, was the scene of whose assassination?
Answer: Malcolm X
Question: The Twelve Tables is usually considered the first attempt of Romans to create what?
Answer: Constitution
Question: The commander Subutai who is credited with conquering more territory than any other commander in history fought for which empire?
Answer: Mongol
Question: What political term originates from the interview of a general during the Spanish Civil War who said that as his four groups of troops approached Madrid, another group of supporters inside the city would support him?
Answer: """Fifth column"""
Question: The French military engineer Vauban (1633-1707) who advised Louis XIV on protecting his country's borders was well-known for his skill in constructing what?
Answer: Forts
Question: In 1120 the sinking of what vessel, called the Titanic of the Middle Ages, caused the death of the legitimate heir to the throne of England and led to a period known as the Anarchy?
Answer: White Ship
Question: The 1792 Battle of Valmy in which a citizen army defeated the Prussian army is significant for saving/preserving what?
Answer: French Revolution
Question: The Battle of Coral Sea in WWII in 1942 is notable for the first fleet action of what type of craft that are still in vogue?
Answer: Aircraft carriers
Question: In May 2011, Queen Elizabeth became the second-longest reigning British monarch in history overtaking which monarch?
Answer: George III
Question: The philosopher Hegel who lived from 1770 to 1831 described which contemporary personality as 'world history on horseback'?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: Andabatae, bestiarii, equites, hoplomachi, retiarii and sagittarii are some of what belligerent types?
Answer: Gladiators
Question: The Trưng Sisters who successfully rebelled against the Chinese Han-Dynasty in the 1st century AD are regarded as national heroines in which country?
Answer: Vietnam
Question: Who was executed at Akershus Fortress, Oslo in 1945 along with Albert Hagelin and Ragnar Skancke after being convicted of high treason?
Answer: Vidkun Quisling
Question: What is the famous four-letter phrase uttered by Ronald Reagan in his speech in June, 1987 at Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin?
Answer: """Tear down this wall"""
Question: When he fell in the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, who became the last English king to die in battle?
Answer: Richard III
Question: The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase what island from Spain?
Answer: Cuba
Question: A check for $7.2 million was issued on August 1, 1868 and was made payable to Edouard de Stoeckl, a Russian Minister. What was being bought?
Answer: Alaska
Question: Who is the Scottish outlaw of the 18th century who is sometimes called as the Scottish Robin Hood? (hint: also the name of a Manhattan like cocktail)
Answer: Rob Roy
Question: Because foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution, what was created by Louis Philippe, the King of France in 1831?
Answer: French Foreign Legion
Question: Meaning 'Apple orchard' in Spanish, what is the collective name of the ten concentration camps in California where thousands of Japanese Americans were imprisoned during WWII?
Answer: Manzanar
Question: What two countries fought the six-day 'Football War' or the '100-hours War' in 1969?
Answer: El Salvador and Honduras
Question: What generic term for all African American soldiers was originally applied to the members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment by the native Apache Indians?
Answer: Buffalo soldiers
Question: What is the name of the village on the border between North and South Korea where the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War was signed?
Answer: Panmunjeom
Question: Sequels featuring which character who originally appeared in a 1913 novel were published as Glad Books from 1915 onward?
Answer: Pollyanna
Question: What are the first two lines of the poem Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox whose next lines are shown below? ".................................................... ..................................................... For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own..."
Answer: Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone;
Question: Captain George Pollard, Jr., who inspired an all-time great 1851 novel, was the captain of Essex that was attacked and sunk by what?
Answer: (Sperm) whale
Question: The phrase 'motiveless malignity' was used by S. T. Coleridge to describe which diabolic villain of literature?
Answer: Iago
Question: In Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta the anarchist wears a mask of which real-life person?
Answer: Guy Fawkes
Question: Polydactyl cats (born with more than the usual number of toes) are associated with which writer who was known for his love for them?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
Question: What 1949 American work that is now a benchmark of the ecological movement is best known for the quote "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."?
Answer: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Question: What 1899 poem of Rudyard Kipling whose racist title alludes to Western aspirations to dominate the developing world was written after the American colonization of the Philippines?
Answer: The White Man's Burden
Question: A museum outside Nairobi was donated by the Danish government in 1964 to the new Kenyan government as an independence gift. It was originally a residence of which writer?
Answer: Isak Dinesen/ Karen Blixen
Question: What term that is a mechanism for the disappearance of inconvenient documents comes from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which it is a slot into which officials deposit records to be destroyed?
Answer: Memory hole
Question: Michel de Montaigne of France is best known for popularizing what kind of writing as a literary genre?
Answer: Essay
Question: In what story of Arthur C. Clarke do Tibetan monks seek to list all the names of God as they believe He will bring the Universe to an end once this is done?
Answer: The Nine Billion Names of God
Question: Which 1902 short story by W. W. Jacobs is based on the premise of three wishes coming true but with an enormous price for interfering with fate?
Answer: The Monkey's Paw
Question: The murder of landlady Alena and the angst it causes in the psyche of the perpetrator is central to the plot of which 1866 literary classic?
Answer: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Question: Which recent literary Nobel laureate wrote in one of his memoirs "Istanbul's fate is my fate"?
Answer: Orhan Pamuk
Question: """Why is that you white people developed much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?"" asked Yali.Which 1997 book is the author's attempt to answer this question?"
Answer: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Question: The 'Younger Memnon' statue of Ramesses II in the British Museum is thought to have inspired which famous poem of P. B. Shelley?
Answer: Ozymandias
Question: Which Norwegian fairy tale is about three goats who want to cross a bridge under which lurks a fearsome troll?
Answer: Three Billy Goats Gruff
Question: In the US and Canada, what appropriately titled book of Dr. Seuss is a popular gift for students graduating from high school and college?
Answer: Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Question: In 2004, the government of Equatorial Guinea accused which popular English author of being one of the financiers of a failed 2004 coup d'état attempt against it?
Answer: Jeffrey Archer
Question: When he was killed in a car crash in 1960, which existentialist became the shortest-lived of any literature Nobel laurate till date?
Answer: Albert Camus
Question: Utopia by Thomas More is largely based on which influential work of philosophy and political theory?
Answer: Plato's Republic
Question: Which 1961 book by Frantz Fanon was described by Time magazine as 'this is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the windows of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto or the Mein Kampf of the anticolonial revolution ...'?
Answer: The Wretched of the Earth
Question: Which writer, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature created the fictional cities of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota and Zenith, Winnemac?
Answer: Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
Question: What 1889 comic classic that describes a boating holiday on the Thames was initially intended to be a serious travel guide until the humorous elements took over and made the book what it now is?
Answer: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Question: After William Shakespeare, who is the most frequently quoted writer in the English language with phrases like "Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die"?
Answer: Alfred Tennyson
Question: Who is the American entertainer who shares her name with a West African Empire known for its symbol of Golden Stool?
Answer: Ashanti
Question: Whose Symphony No. 1 was called "Beethoven's Tenth" by conductor Hans von Bülow?
Answer: Brahms'
Question: What is the better known name of Violin Sonata in G minor by Giuseppe Tartini that the composer said was played to him in a dream by Satan himself?
Answer: Devil's Trill sonata
Question: Which breakthrough hit for Queen contains the phrase "Let them eat cake", a quote often attributed to Marie Antoinette?
Answer: """Killer Queen"""
Question: The short poem And did those feet in ancient time by William Blake that features the phrase 'dark satanic mills' is best known in what musical context?
Answer: The anthem Jerusalem
Question: Which overture written by Felix Mendelssohn was inspired by the echoes of a Scottish sea cave that he visited in 1829 and was named for it?
Answer: """Fingal's Cave"" overture"
Question: 'Kling Klang' is the private music studio of which highly influential electronic music band from Germany?
Answer: Kraftwerk
Question: Which enormously influential classical composer spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Hungarian aristocratic Esterházy family?
Answer: Joseph Haydn
Question: Which city in Germany is famed for hosting the annual Wagner festival?
Answer: Bayreuth
Question: In vocal jazz, what is the style in which vocal improvisation is made with random syllables or even without words?
Answer: Scat singing
Question: In the American music industry, what is the term given to the illegal practice of payment by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on music radio, in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast?
Answer: Payola
Question: The Voyager Golden Record is a phonograph record included in the two Voyager spacecraft that contains 27 selected recordings said to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. Who is the most represented artist?
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Question: The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time was a special issue of Rolling Stone published in 2003 which had Jimi Hendrix at no.1. Which American Southern Rock band was the most represented with 4 of its guitarists making the list?
Answer: Allman Brothers Band
Question: Oklo in Gabon, Africa is the only known place in the world where what reaction occurs naturally?
Answer: Nuclear fission
Question: The modern-day cattle breed of 'Heck' came about when it was attempted to bring back what extinct species?
Answer: Aurochs
Question: Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize for his studies of inheritance and pioneered the use of which tiny organism?
Answer: Fruit fly
Question: A scientific idea called Salter Sink that is essentially mixing hot and cold waters aims to prevent or reduce the effects of what?
Answer: Hurricanes
Question: Philip Zimbardo of Stanford is best known for what experiment conducted in 1971 that highlighted the behavior of people when assigned roles?
Answer: Stanford prison experiment
Question: What mathematical theorem, the first major theorem to be solved using a computer, was proven in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken with a set of 1936 maps?
Answer: Four-color map theorem