zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The group of 48 of the United States that are between Canada and Mexico is referred to as the continental or what United States?
Answer: Contiguous
Question: What infectious disease, occurring commonly in epidemics and caused by a virus, is characterised by blotchy rash preceded by a running nose and eyes, with a rise in temperature and lassitude?
Answer: Measles
Question: What name was applied to legislation regarding the sale of liquor in the U S A between 1919 to 1933?
Answer: Prohibition
Question: Which tennis tournament runs for 14 days from late June to early July, ending with the men's singles final on a Sunday?
Answer: Wimbledon
Question: What ship, less than a month after her maiden voyage in 1907, had the record for crossing the Atlantic eastbound, and in 1909 had a record time for the westbound crossing that stood for 20 years?
Answer: Mauretania
Question: Who was the Anglo-Irish scientist who, in the 17th century, discovered that "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure"?
Answer: Robert Boyle
Question: What is a 'single make' open-wheel auto racing series wherein competitors represent their nation as opposed to themselves or a team?
Answer: A1 Grand Prix
Question: Which jazz musician has a memorial, created by sculptor Robert Graham and unveiled in 1997, in Central Park New York, near the intersection of 5th Avenue and 100th Street?
Answer: Duke Ellington
Question: Which chief laid siege to Fort Detroit in 1763, an action that led to widespread rebellion against colonists in the area around Ohio and Illinois?
Answer: Pontiac
Question: What virtual cricketing prize began in 1882 when Australia beat England by 7 runs?
Answer: The Ashes
Question: What American Indian word was used to describe the first international Boy Scout rally held at Olympia, London, in 1920?
Answer: Jamboree
Question: What phrase used by the US during the Cold War to justify American intervention around the world, suggested that if any country came under the influence of communism, the surrounding countries would follow?
Answer: Domino Theory
Question: Who made the first, in western countries, practical successful and widely usable vaccinations in 1796 against smallpox?
Answer: Edward Jenner
Question: Which English actor, the majority of whose film work was between 1944 ("Waterloo Road") and 1960 ("Tunes of Glory"), won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "Ryan's Daughter" (1970)?
Answer: John Mills
Question: Which Greek mathematician, from the 1st century BC, is best known for the theorem which bears his name and for leading a group who discovered square numbers and proposed that the earth was round, planets have an axis, and they travel around the sun?
Answer: Pythagoras
Question: Which city was settled by the French in 1718, ceded to Spain in 1763, fell to France in 1800, and was bought by the USA in 1803?
Answer: New Orleans
Question: What is an aramaic word meaning "father" that is used as a title of respect to bishops and patriarchs in Coptic, Syrian and Abyssinian churches?
Answer: Abba
Question: What light display in Antarctica is caused by atomic bombardment from the sun on the earth's magnetic field?
Answer: Aurora Australis
Question: Members of which family were, at various times, Kings or Emperors of Germany, Austria, Rome, Hungary, Spain and Bohemia between 1273 and 1918?
Answer: Hapsburg
Question: Swiss physician and psychologist Carl Jung was initially a disciple of whom, until he disagreed with his theories regarding the Libido etc?
Answer: Sigmund Freud
Question: What event led to a US grand jury indicting E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy for conspiracy, burglary and violation of federal wiretapping laws?
Answer: Watergate
Question: Who became King of Belgium on 9 August 1993?
Answer: King Albert II
Question: As at 2006 elections which Sunni Islamist paramilitary organisation and political party holds a majority of seats in the legislative council of the State of Palestine, the name since 2012 of the Palestinian National Authority?
Answer: Hamas
Question: What name is given to the activities of the specially constituted group of British, American, Russian and French judges that tried NAZI Party leaders and German military commanders after World War II?
Answer: Nuremberg Trials
Question: Which territory has abandoned its capital city of Plymouth and has Brades as a de facto capital?
Answer: Montserrat
Question: Which birds from around Papua New Guinea and brought to Europe were believed never to land and to be kept aloft by their plumes, because native traders had removed the wings and feet from the specimens?
Answer: Bird of Paradise
Question: For which painting was Edouard Manet condemned as incompetent and subversive by critics, which damaged his reputation for years?
Answer: Olympia
Question: What is the name for the masses of lymphoid tissue between the nose and throat that are sometimes removed by an operation in cases where enlargement is having a detrimental effect on health?
Answer: Adenoids
Question: Who was the Greek goddess of victory daughter of Pallas represented as a winged figure wreathed or palm bearing sometimes guiding victors' horses?
Answer: Nike
Question: Which 1973 British horror film, directed by Robin Hardy starring Edward Woodward and set on a remote Scottish island, was remade in 2006, directed by Neil LaBute and starring Nicolas Cage, set on an island in Puget Sound, Washington?
Answer: The Wicker Man
Question: In which nursery rhyme were horses, not unexpectedly, unable to mend an egg?
Answer: Humpty Dumpty ..
Question: What is an affliction of nose, throat, upper air passages and eyes caused by over-sensitivity to proteins of pollen in certain plants?
Answer: Hay fever
Question: What is the Scottish name for All Saints Day, a Christian ceremony grafted onto an ancient pagan ceremony?
Answer: Hallowe'en
Question: What treaty was signed in Paris in 1815 after the overthrow of Napoleon, whereby Alexander I of Russia, Francis II of Austria and Frederick William II of Prussia agreed to apply Christian principles to the government of their countries?
Answer: Holy Alliance
Question: if someone is said to "have green fingers", we expect them to be successful as what?
Answer: Gardener
Question: The invention of what game, needing only pencil and paper, is attributed to Clifford von Winkler in the early 1900s?
Answer: Battleships
Question: According to The Bible, who was the older brother of Moses, who set up a golden calf on Mt Sinai for people to worship?
Answer: Aaron
Question: Which Beatle invested heavily in Handmade Films, the production company that made "Life Of Brian", "Monty Python In Search Of The Holy Grail" and "A Fish Called Wanda"?
Answer: George Harrison
Question: Who was the son of King John and Isabella of Angoulme who became King of England when 9 years old?
Answer: Henry III
Question: Which country, once part of the Republic of Colombia under Simon Bolivar, became independent in 1830 and annexed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?
Answer: Ecuador
Question: Which country was proclaimed an independent republic under the leadership of Bernardo O'Higgins on 12 February 1818 after an army led by him and Jos de San Martn defeated the royalists?
Answer: Chile
Question: Who established a precision tool making business in Manchester in 1883, and perfected a system of standard measurements and gauges?
Answer: Joseph Whitworth
Question: Which calendar, introduced in 46 BC, had a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, and a leap day added to February every four years?
Answer: Julian calendar
Question: Who was physician to James I and Charles I, and whose chief discovery was to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart, which he published in 1628?
Answer: William Harvey
Question: What were first established by St Bel at Lyons, France, in 1762, and at London in 1790?
Answer: Veterinary colleges
Question: Which sport, originated by native Americans and introduced to England in 1867, is played with a stick with a net on one end by 12 players per side on a field around 100 to 150 yards long?
Answer: Lacrosse
Question: What is the Australian English word that means a small lake, such as is formed when the path of a creek or river changes, leaving a dead end?
Answer: Billabong
Question: In 1434, Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes made a major breakthrough to obtain a reliable trade route to Western and Eastern Africa and India by finding a route around which cape?
Answer: Cape Bojador
Question: At the end of The War of 1812, the USA held Canadian territory near Detroit, and the British held parts of which Eastern state?
Answer: Maine
Question: Who painted mostly in egg tempera, is best known for "Christina's World", and whose common subject was Helga Testorf?
Answer: Andrew Wyeth
Question: Which country, after its Act of Union agreement expired, held a four-day plebiscite in 1944 and became an independent republic on 17 June 1944, with Sveinn Bjrnsson as the first President?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Who, in the 16th century, was a member of the court of Ivan The Terrible and became Tsar on the death of Ivan's son, Feodor/Theodore?
Answer: Boris Godunov
Question: What is the name of a pipe originating in India and Persia where smoke passes from a bowl to a water bottle and thence by a tube to the mouth?
Answer: Hookah
Question: After twelve men met in his bedroom in 1844, what was founded by Sir George Williams?
Answer: YMCA
Question: In rugby union, what is the name of the set play whereby eight members of each team pack together and attempt to heel the ball backwards?
Answer: Scrum
Question: Which British organisation, started in 1939 under Basil Dean and disbanded in 1946, represented the mobilisation of the entertainment industry?
Answer: ENSA
Question: What fictional Cincinnati radio station was the setting for a US TV sitcom starring Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman, Gordon Jump, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid, Jan Smithers, Richard Sanders and Frank Bonner in 19781982?
Answer: WKRP
Question: What is a slight fluctuation in pitch caused by the player of a stringed instrument shaking a finger while stopping a string?
Answer: Vibrato
Question: At an auction in New York in March 2009, Vijay Mallya made international news by buying personal items belonging to whom?
Answer: Mahatma Ghandi
Question: Which Greek physician born in 460 BC to a family of priests and doctors lived most of his life on Cos and Cnidus and is generally considered to be the father of modern medicine?
Answer: Hippocrates
Question: Which English composer, whose work was influenced by folk song and the music of the 16th century, wrote "London Symphony", "Pilgrim's Progress" and "Sinfonia Antarctica"?
Answer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Question: After a plague in 1633, in which German town did the villagers vow to present a living representation of Christ's Passion every tenth year?
Answer: Oberammergau
Question: The engines used in Formula One between 1960 and 1990 by Motor Racing Developments Ltd (known as Brabham) were Coventry-Climax, Cosworth DFV, Alfa Romeo, BMW, Yamaha, Judd and which other?
Answer: Repco
Question: The lesser rosary, a string of beads used by Roman Catholics as an aid to memory during devotional exercises, has 55 beads. How many beads are there in the greater rosary?
Answer: 165
Question: Who is the New Zealand-born physicist whose discoveries include most of the great advances in physics between 1899 and 1930?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford
Question: In Great Britain, painted strips on the road to show where pedestrians should cross is named after which animal?
Answer: Zebra
Question: Who was the proprietor of "New York World" who made a bequest to award 12 prizes annually to American authors and composers?
Answer: Joseph Pulitzer
Question: What religious sect that uses dancing as a form of worship was founded by Ann Lee, who migrated with her followers from England to New York in 1772?
Answer: Shakers
Question: In World War I, the troops of New Zealand and what other country were formed into a single Army Corps called ANZACs?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which doctor first explained the circulation of the blood in 1628?
Answer: Harvey
Question: What is the name for the area of the Atlantic Ocean south east of Bermuda distinguished by the mass of brown seaweed that floats there?
Answer: Sargasso Sea
Question: Which US TV show, where the star appeared as a fictionalised version of himself with his friends George Costanza, Elaine Benes and Cosmo Kramer, ran for 9 seasons?
Answer: Seinfeld
Question: For which novel, a study of provincial life published in 1856, was the author, Gustave Flaubert, and his publisher prosecuted for "an offence against morals"?
Answer: Madame Bovary
Question: In what year was the German Empire, including all the German states except Austria, with the King of Prussia as emperor, founded?
Answer: 1871
Question: What standard distance was selected because it was expected to be "one ten millionth of the quadrant of the earth's meridian"
Answer: Metre
Question: FINA announced in November 2008 that the cities that had expressed interest in hosting the 2013 World Aquatics Championships were Belgrade (Serbia), Budapest and Balatonfred (Hungary), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Hamburg (Germany), Hong Kong (China), Madrid (Spain), and which other?
Answer: Moscow (Russia)
Question: What nationality is sailor Russell Coutts, MBE, winner of numerous international match races, World Championships victories and America's Cups?
Answer: New Zealander
Question: Matt Damon played which role in a trilogy of films about an amnesiac who also suffers from PTSD who is attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA to track him down and arrest or kill him?
Answer: Jason Bourne
Question: What is the name for a poem of 14 lines that first appeared when written by Giacomo da Lentini in 1220, for which various rhyme schemes were developed?
Answer: Sonnet
Question: Which American singer who starred in "The New Mickey Mouse Club" from 1993 to 1994 and released her debut album "...Baby One More Time" in 1999 was ranked by Forbes in 2009 as the 13th most powerful celebrity and the 2nd biggest-earning young musician?
Answer: Britney Spears
Question: What term is used to describe Western European architectural style for the period from the late 10th to the 12th century which was identifiably Medieval and prefigured the Gothic, yet maintained the rounded Roman arch?
Answer: Romanesque
Question: The publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852 aroused much public feeling about what issue in the USA?
Answer: Slavery
Question: In which British sitcom does a draughtsman give up his job to live a self-sufficient lifestyle, planting fruit and vegetables, and running chickens, pigs and a goat in the garden, to the horror of their next-door neighbours?
Answer: The Good Life
Question: The chief rivers of which country are the Ebro, Jucar, Guadalquivir, Tagus, Douru and Minho?
Answer: Spain
Question: Which country, governed by the Danish government as its colony, was made an equal part of the Danish Kingdom in 1953?
Answer: Greenland
Question: The half-length portrait of Lisa di Anton Maria di Noldo Gherardini is better known by what name?
Answer: Mona Lisa
Question: Which primary colour is mixed with white to produce pink?
Answer: Red
Question: The film "Bright Star", directed by Jane Campion, released in May 2009 and starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, is a period drama about Fanny Brawne's romance with whom?
Answer: Keats
Question: What apple-like fruit containing pulp covered seeds with a golden-red rind is formed from (usually scarlet) flowers?
Answer: Pomegranate
Question: Whose film career from 1932 to 1966 included starring roles in films such as "To Catch A Thief", "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "North By North West"?
Answer: Cary Grant
Question: What sort of animal was "Bambi", the main role in a Walt Disney cartoon released in 1942?
Answer: Deer
Question: From 1922 to 1937, what name was given to the area of Ireland that was more independent than the rest of the island ?
Answer: The Irish Free State
Question: Which Irish philanthropist founded houses for destitute children in Stepney in 1870?
Answer: Thomas Barnardo
Question: Anton Gregorovitch Rubinstein, the 19th century musician who founded a conservatoire of music in St Petersburg, is associated with which instrument?
Answer: Piano
Question: Which area was declared a "free territory" in 1947 and administered by the US, UK and Yugoslavia until 1954 when it was partitioned between Italy and Yugoslavia?
Answer: Trieste
Question: Which fictional characters appear in plays by Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard and W S Gilbert?
Answer: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Question: George Harrison was deported from which city where the early Beatles had long term engagements, because of his youth?
Answer: Hamburg
Question: Which war between Austria, France and Russia versus England and Prussia ended with the ceding of Silesia to Prussia by Austria and the ceding of French territory in Canada to Britain?
Answer: Seven Years War
Question: From the 15th century onward, which country took control of Ceuta (North Africa), Madeira, the Azores, Goa (India), Brazil, Ormuz (in the Persian Strait), Malacca (now part of Malaysia) and Macau (China)?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Which highly contagious disease, characterised by the sudden onset of rigor, headache, delirium and fever, followed by a rash, is caused by a virus conveyed by lice?
Answer: Typhus
Question: Sacha Baron Cohen created which character which first appeared on "The Eleven O'Clock Show" on Channel 4 in Great Britain on 8 September 1998?
Answer: Ali G
Question: Which major contemporary art exhibition, held every two years, began in 1895 mainly for decorative arts, showed increasing interest in innovation in modern art from 1907, and added Festivals of Music in 1930, International Film in 1932, Theatre in 1934, and Contemporary Dance in 1999?
Answer: The Venice Biennale
Question: Who, though he died at 35, wrote over 600 works including 23 string quartets, 5 string quintets, 21 piano concertos and 19 operas?
Answer: Mozart
Question: What is the traditional name for a Spanish white wine made near Cadiz, popular varieties of which are Manzanilla, Amontillado, Vino Fino, Olorosa and Montilla?
Answer: Sherry
Question: What is the name of the approach to music education that was devised by mile Jaques-Dalcroze in 1865 and is still being used?
Answer: Eurhythmics
Question: What artificial stretch of water in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens London was made by order of Queen Caroline in 1730?
Answer: The Serpentine
Question: The Russo Japanese War of 1904-1905 ended when the Russian Fleet under Rozhdestvensky was defeated at the Battle of Tsushima by a fleet led by whom?
Answer: Admiral Togo Heihachir
Question: Which city was hit by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake about 5 kilometers below its centre at 12:29 a.m. 23 December 1972, killing around 5,000 of the 400,000 population, injuring 20,000 and leaving over 250,000 homeless?
Answer: Managua, Nicaragua
Question: What was first brought to Europe by Francisco Fernandes, and sent as a treat by Jean Nicot to Catherine de Medici?
Answer: Tobacco
Question: The members of which Christian organisation do not take the oath in a court of law, oppose military service, and believe that individuals can have a personal relationship with the divine without the need for intermediaries, such as priests, rituals or sacraments?
Answer: Quakers
Question: Which cold, low-salinity ocean current flows north-westward along the west coast of South America from the southern tip of Chile to northern Peru and can extend 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) offshore?
Answer: Humboldt Current
Question: What architectural term was applied by the Romans to any public building built in a rectangle twice as long as it was broad with an internal 2 storied colonnade?
Answer: Basilica
Question: Which English duo had hits between 1984 and 1987 that included West End Girls", "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", "Love Comes Quickly", "Suburbia", "It's a Sin", "What Have I Done to Deserve This?", "Rent" and "Always on My Mind"?
Answer: Pet Shop Boys
Question: Which father and son, 17th and 18th century composers, between them lived in Rome, Naples, Florence and Madrid and composed over 120 operas, 600 chamber cantatas, and 500 harpsichord sonatas?
Answer: Scarlatti
Question: According to legend, what did Alexander the Great cut with his sword after an oracle said that the person who released it would be master of Asia?
Answer: Gordian knot
Question: Wilberforce, Clarkson, Zachary, Macauley and Brougham were instrumental in ending what practice in the British Empire from 1807?
Answer: The slave trade
Question: What style of architecture is distinguished by extravagant ornamentation, and applies particularly to the decadent style that flourished in Italy in the 16th to 18th centuries?
Answer: Baroque
Question: Which city was founded in 763, ravaged by the Mongols in 1258, taken by the Turks in 1636, and occupied by the British from 1917 to 1932?
Answer: Baghdad
Question: Who had his first prize fight in 1914, became world heavyweight champion at Toledo in 1919 and was champion until defeated in 1926?
Answer: Jack Dempsey
Question: What name was given to the statues dating from 210 BC, which include warriors, chariots, horses, officials, acrobats, strongmen, and musicians belonging to Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China, that were discovered in 1974 by some local farmers near Xi'an, Shaanxi province?
Answer: The Terracotta Army
Question: The southern border of which country is with the continental USA?
Answer: Canada
Question: Which 1972 film, set in the 1930s, involved American Sally Bowles dreaming of becoming a movie star while working at "The Kit Kat" in Berlin?
Answer: Cabaret
Question: Which establishment owes much to the offer by Sir Hans Sloane in 1758 for England to purchase his collections?
Answer: British Museum
Question: What card game, played usually between 2 players or teams who try to build up collections of cards of the same value, uses 2 packs with 2 additional jokers?
Answer: Canasta
Question: Which country, the capital of which is Asmara, had the King of Ethiopia as its king from 1952?
Answer: Eritrea
Question: At which battle, which began on 4 May 1942, were Japanese losses at least 7 warships, with over 20 others damaged, and USA losses included the aircraft carrier "Lexington" and two other ships?
Answer: The Battle of the Coral Sea
Question: Which legendary character is the subject of musical settings of his adventures, notably by Purcell, Glck and Mozart?
Answer: Don Juan
Question: Which 19th century French physicist erected a pendulum 200 feet high in the Pantheon in Paris to demonstrate the earth's rotation?
Answer: Jean Foucault
Question: The 520 men and 197 women who arrived in 11 ships at Botany Bay, Australia, on 26 January 1788, were mostly what?
Answer: Convicts
Question: For which sport, now banned in Britain by the Hunting Act 2004, was the "Waterloo Cup" 3 day event run annually at Great Altcar in Lancashire, England from 1836 to 2005?
Answer: Hare coursing
Question: Which film that won an Oscar for Best Picture, explores prejudice against Jews and Afro-Americans over the period 1948 to 1973?
Answer: Driving Miss Daisy
Question: What island was occupied by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Goths, Saracens, Normans, and the Angevin, Hapsburg and Bourbon dynasties until it became part of United Italy in 1861?
Answer: Sicily
Question: In which country, which was neutral in World War II, was there a revolution which deposed the monarchy in 1910, then a military coup d'tat in 1926, followed by a right-wing dictatorship?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Who, we are led to believe, is Dr. Gregory Houses only true friend?
Answer: Dr. James Wilson
Question: Which 72 year old Oscar-winning drector married his long-term German partner, 51, in Hamburg in July 2009?
Answer: Robert Redford
Question: According to the proverb, people who sup with whom should use a long spoon?
Answer: The devil