zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What was Greta Garbo's first sound film (advertised as "Garbo speaks!"), in a filmed version of a play by Eugene O'Neill?
Answer: Anna Christie
Question: What is the next number in the series 1, 4, 9, 16, 25?
Answer: 2 hours
Question: What is the name for an instrument for sending messages using reflected light from a moveable mirror?
Answer: Heliograph
Question: Which English computer scientist and MIT professor implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet on 25 December 1990 and is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
Answer: Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
Question: Which song begins with the lyric "People try to put us down, Just because we get around"?
Answer: My Generation
Question: Humidity measures the quantity of water vapour in the air as a percentage by what?
Answer: Volume
Question: Which racquet sport game is played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball?
Answer: Squash
Question: Pi, a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is the same value as what other ratio?
Answer: A circle's area to the square of its radius
Question: What does "in vino veritas" mean?
Answer: In wine there is truth
Question: What does the Federation Internationale de Natation administer?
Answer: Aquatic sports
Question: The southernmost point of the USA is in which state?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: Which month appears last in the rhyme "30 days have September "?
Answer: February
Question: Which US President spent his term of office in a wheelchair?
Answer: Franklin D Roosevelt
Question: What is the next in this series: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, ?
Answer: Lithuania
Question: The aim of which game, normally played on hard dirt or gravel, and also on grass, while standing with the feet together in a small circle, is to throw metal balls as close as possible to a small ball called a cochonnet?
Answer: Petanque
Question: Who was the star of the 1970's TV programme "Policewoman"?
Answer: Angie Dickinson
Question: Harvard University is in which state of the USA?
Answer: Massachusetts
Question: After Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the 100 metre dash at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, why was his gold medal taken away and awarded to runner-up Carl Lewis?
Answer: He failed a drug test
Question: In the original meaning of "decimate", who is killed?
Answer: Every tenth person
Question: Which painting of five figures by Pablo Picasso in 1907 was criticised for breaking the rules of composition, perspective and truth to nature, showing dislocated shapes seen simultaneously from different angles?
Answer: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Question: Where was Skype, the software that enables telephone calls to be made via the Internet, developed?
Answer: Estonia
Question: The hero of which film starring Alec Guinness was a mousy bank clerk with steel-rimmed glasses and bowler hat who devised a plan to smuggle gold bars out of England disguised as small souvenir replicas of the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: The Lavender Hill Mob
Question: In L M Montgomery's book, where was Anne of Green Gables brought up?
Answer: Avonlea
Question: Who supplies tyres for all A1 Grand Prix cars?
Answer: Michelin
Question: Who was the first US president to travel outside the USA while in office?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
Question: What is the name for the measurement and description of navigable waters necessary for safe navigation of vessels?
Answer: Hydrography
Question: Leo Joseph Ryan Jr., the first US congressman to be killed in the line of duty, was murdered where?
Answer: Guyana
Question: Which American TV sitcom, originally aired from 1974 to 1984, presented an idealized vision of life in 1950s and early 1960s America?
Answer: Happy Days
Question: Americans call it a faucet. What do the British call it?
Answer: Tap
Question: What is the science that deals with the principles and construction of timepieces?
Answer: Horology
Question: Excluding Australia, what is the third largest island in the world?
Answer: Borneo
Question: How did Hannibal die in 183 BC?
Answer: Committed suicide
Question: Which US-born naturalised Briton wrote "Murder In The Cathedral", "The Cocktail Party" and "The Wasteland"?
Answer: T S Eliot
Question: Which manufacturer of pens had a large production plant in Birmingham, UK, during the first half of the 20th century?
Answer: Osmiroid
Question: Who was the chief deity of the Romans, the equivalent to the Greek's Zeus?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Who had their first cooking series on UK television in the 1970s?
Answer: Delia Smith
Question: What is "A" in the International Radio Alphabet?
Answer: Alpha
Question: What is the next in the series: Innsbruck, Austria; Grenoble, France; Sapporo, Japan; Innsbruck, Austria?
Answer: Lake Placid, United States
Question: What is the smallest country in land area on the South American continent?
Answer: French Guiana
Question: In cockney rhyming slang, what are "Apples and Pears"?
Answer: Stairs
Question: What name is given to a chemical compound in which water combines with other substances without alteration of the arrangement of the atoms in the water?
Answer: Hydrate
Question: In traditional English pantomime, which shrewd, witty, light-hearted character vied with Pierrot for the affection of Columbine, and was based on the Commedia Dell'Arte character Arlecchino?
Answer: Harlequin
Question: Competition for which cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, for international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation, have been held every three years since 1948-1949 and every t
Answer: The Thomas Cup
Question: Which American television sitcom that ran for 7 years from 19 September 1970 spun-off three television series: Rhoda (1974-1978), Phyllis (1975-1977) and Lou Grant (1977-1982)?
Answer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Question: Who won the 1986 World Cup Squash title, breaking another player's five year unbeaten run?
Answer: Ross Norman
Question: Who is the individual responsible for the cleaning and maintenance of the interior of a residence?
Answer: Housekeeper
Question: In 1957, there were how many states in the USA?
Answer: 48
Question: Altogether, how many strings are there on the four instruments in a traditional string quartet?
Answer: 16
Question: What town in South Australia has served a weapons-testing range since the 1950s, was the site of a detention facility for asylum seekers and refugees from 1999 to 2003, and was home to the Nurrungar satellite ground station until 1999?
Answer: Woomera
Question: Who wrote the music for the musical (and later, film) "Cabaret"?
Answer: John Kander and Fred Ebb
Question: What is the symbol for a fifth wedding anniversary?
Answer: Wood
Question: What was the name of the home of Captain Haddock, a character in the "Tintin" books?
Answer: Marlinspike
Question: What is the next in this series: Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta?
Answer: Sydney
Question: Which UK TV series based around the fictional Holby City Hospital, focuses on the staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department?
Answer: Casualty
Question: What is the name for an artificial feature creating extra turns in a roadway, used in motor racing and on city streets, to slow cars?
Answer: Chicane
Question: All Scrabble tournament (and most club) games are played with a game clock and a set time control. Typically how long does each player have in which to make all plays?
Answer: 25 minutes
Question: Where in Britain is Bishop Rock lighthouse?
Answer: Scilly Isles
Question: Who won a record six motorcycle speedway World Championships in 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977 and 1979?
Answer: Ivan Mauger
Question: She slopped her dripper is an example of what?
Answer: Spoonerism
Question: The Snake River runs through Hells Canyon on the border of which two US states?
Answer: Oregon and Idaho
Question: If Charlie Watts is playing drums, who is most likely to be singing?
Answer: Mick Jagger
Question: What is the second longest river on the island of New Guinea?
Answer: Fly
Question: The Gila Cliff Dwellings and Fort Union National Monuments are in which US State?
Answer: New Mexico
Question: How many white squares are there on a chessboard?
Answer: 32
Question: What is the ordinal of one?
Answer: First
Question: What is the name for a musical work primarily designed to develop the technique of an instrumentalist?
Answer: Etude
Question: 1.1 million square miles of land in North America were the subject of what agreement in 1803?
Answer: Louisiana Purchase
Question: What style of commercial vehicle body, incorporating an enclosed box body extended over the cab, takes its name from the town in Bedfordshire where the Bedford commercial vehicle plant was located?
Answer: Luton
Question: Who was the first English actor to be knighted?
Answer: Henry Irving
Question: How high, including about 20 cm landing mat, should a pommel horse be?
Answer: 115 cm
Question: The repeating decimal of which number equals the real number 1?
Answer: 0.999
Question: What is the meaning of the word "micturition"?
Answer: Urinating
Question: What word is used in mathematics to mean "if and only if"?
Answer: Iff
Question: In 1946, what did the USA offer to buy for $100,000,000?
Answer: Greenland
Question: The first international test cricket score to exceed 700 runs was in which year?
Answer: 2009
Question: In which computer game is the player in the role of "The Stranger", who uses a special book to travel to an island and thence to several worlds known as "Ages"?
Answer: Myst
Question: The musical "The King and I" is associated with which geographical area?
Answer: Thailand
Question: The spiny leguminous plant called furze is also known as what?
Answer: Gorse
Question: Which American was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union, the first female photojournalist for Life magazine, the first female war correspondent and the first to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II?
Answer: Margaret Bourke-White
Question: Where in Paris would you go to stand under the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: Champs de Mars
Question: Which country traditionally leads the opening parade of the Olympic Games?
Answer: Greece
Question: Of what descent was singer Bobby Darin?
Answer: Italian
Question: The United Nations Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco on which day?
Answer: 26 June 1945
Question: In a popular children's story, what is the name of the young tugboat that saves an ocean liner?
Answer: Little Toot
Question: What was the last engineering work completed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
Answer: Great Eastern steamship
Question: In 1988, what was marketed as "the game for your whole brain"?
Answer: Cranium
Question: The natural habitat of penguins is centred where?
Answer: Antarctica
Question: Which river, formed by the union of the Murad Nehri and the Karu Su, flows for 2781 km (1728 miles) through Turkey and Syria into Iraq, where it joins the Tigris to form the Shatt-el-Arab?
Answer: Euphrates
Question: Which UK TV series starred David Jason as market trader Derek "Del Boy" Trotter and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his brother Rodney?
Answer: Only Fools and Horses
Question: Gruyre is a town in which country?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: According to a survey carried out by Deloittes early in 2009, which was the world's richest soccer club at that time?
Answer: Real Madrid
Question: Who was the last king of Egypt?
Answer: Fuad II
Question: Canada is divided into how many provinces and how many territories?
Answer: 10 provinces and 3 territories
Question: The song "Hey There" is from which musical?
Answer: The Pajama Game
Question: How did the theme song for the TV show "The Monkees" begin?
Answer: Here we come
Question: Which Beatle played the role of Private Gripweed in Richard Lester's film "How I Won The War", co-starring Michael Crawford, released in 1967?
Answer: John Lennon
Question: Mr McGregor is the name of the farmer in which stories?
Answer: Peter Rabbit
Question: Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979?
Answer: Mother Teresa
Question: Which lake in Canada has the same name as a constellation?
Answer: Great Bear
Question: What term is applied to the situation when a woman has more than one husband?
Answer: Polyandry
Question: What was the name of the first of the space shuttles that was used only for testing purposes?
Answer: Enterprise
Question: Where are the British Houses of Parliament?
Answer: Westminster
Question: Where is the Ross Sea?
Answer: Antarctic Ocean
Question: Which painters aim to convey a state of mind rather than create a realistic representation, such as El Greco, Bosch, Goya, Grunewald and Munch?
Answer: Expressionist
Question: What name is given to the HQ of the USA's Department of Defence?
Answer: The Pentagon
Question: Who is associated with the Jaguar make of car?
Answer: William Lyons
Question: """Scandal"" was a film centring on the activities of which British prostitute?"
Answer: Christine Keeler
Question: Which country has the International Dialling prefix 44?
Answer: United Kingdom
Question: When was English law changed to enable a child to be made legitimate by the later marriage of its parents?
Answer: 1926
Question: If you went to Bizet's "Carmen", what would you expect to see?
Answer: Opera
Question: Which song begins with "And now the end is near and so I face the final curtain"?
Answer: My Way
Question: Who is the eponymous lead character in a British mystery series starring Alan Davies as an eccentric magician's assistant who also solves seemingly supernatural mysteries through his talent for logical deduction and knowledge of illusionism?
Answer: Jonathan Creek
Question: By what name is an Ornithorhynchus better known?
Answer: Platypus
Question: Who is Norman Cook better known as?
Answer: Fatboy Slim
Question: Lake Erie is connected to Lake Ontario by which canal?
Answer: Welland Canal
Question: Where were the World Cycling Championships held in 2009?
Answer: Poland
Question: What is the name for the large bodies of water that are along the border between Canada and the USA and in southern Canada?
Answer: The Great Lakes
Question: Who won gold for the individual pursuit at the Track Cycling World Championships in 2009?
Answer: Alison Shanks
Question: Jacques Seguela wrote "Autobiographie Non Autorise" about Carla Bruni, supermodel-singer, and her most recent lover at the time, which was who?
Answer: French president Nicolas Sarkozy
Question: From which Olympic Games were Germany and Japan excluded?
Answer: London, 1948
Question: The show "Holby City" was a spin off from which UK TV series?
Answer: Casualty
Question: A fuss about nothing is called "a storm in a ..." what?
Answer: Teacup
Question: What was the first propeller driven ship and the first iron ship to cross the Atlantic?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: What is the term for the geological feature that includes Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Augusta and Columbus?
Answer: Fall Line
Question: The Great Western Railways City of Truro was unofficially recorded as the first steam locomotive to reach a speed of 102.3 mph (164 km/h) on 9 May 1904, but the 100 mile per hour (160 km/h) record was not officially recorded until 30 November 1934, by which locomotive?
Answer: Flying Scotsman
Question: What does "Zorro" mean in Spanish?
Answer: Fox
Question: Big Ben is in which London building?
Answer: Houses of Parliament
Question: In total, how many moons do the 4 planets closest to the sun have?
Answer: 3
Question: Which Saint's Day is 24 April?
Answer: St George
Question: Who wrote the songs for the film version of "The Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: Harold Arlen and E Y Harburg
Question: What is the name of a whirlpool between two islands of the Lofoten Group north west of Norway, which is the result of opposing tidal currrents sweeping through a narrow channel?
Answer: Maelstrom
Question: At the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich, which 16-year-old Soviet gymnast won three gold medals?
Answer: Olga Korbut
Question: Which politician issued a CD of love songs that he had written and co-written, in 2003?
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi
Question: What is another name for the larkspur?
Answer: Delphinium
Question: What is the maximum number of players allowed on the field during a game of Rugby Sevens?
Answer: 14
Question: In which 1925 silent film, directed by Fred Niblo, were extras offered a prize of $100 to the winner to make a race more exciting, resulting in a horrendous crash that remains in the movie?
Answer: Ben-Hur
Question: Who won the Women's Cricket World Cup played at Sydney, Australia, in 2009?
Answer: England
Question: Pharology is the study of what?
Answer: Lighthouses and signal lights
Question: Who is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones?
Answer: Mick Jagger
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who could "eat no fat", while his wife could "eat no lean"?
Answer: Jack Spratt
Question: Where is the newspaper "The Village Voice" published?
Answer: New York
Question: Where is the House of Keys the governing body, with 24 elected members?
Answer: Isle of Man
Question: Stanley Mathews played which position for the English football team?
Answer: Inside right
Question: The English version of "The Magic Roundabout", a children's television programme created in France was broadcast from 18 October 1965 to January 1977. It was narrated by the father of which actress?
Answer: Emma Thompson
Question: What is the largest country by land area in Africa?
Answer: Algeria
Question: Who wrote the series of books about "Budgie The Helicopter"?
Answer: Sarah Ferguson
Question: What is the next in the series: Antwerp; Paris; Amsterdam; Los Angeles?
Answer: Berlin
Question: Casts of Sir George Frampton's statue of "Peter Pan" are in Kensington Gardens, London; Sefton Park, Liverpool; Camden, New Jersey, USA; Perth, Australia; Toronto, Canada; Bowring Park, St. John's, Canada and which other location?
Answer: Brussels, Belgium
Question: What is the east coast of Nicaragua, fronting the Caribbean Sea, called?
Answer: Mosquito Coast
Question: What is the symbol for a 13th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Lace
Question: What word can mean a tumble-down dwelling and a sailors' work song?
Answer: Shanty
Question: Where did an icthyosaurus live?
Answer: Sea
Question: Who has been Prime Minister of France twice and President of France once?
Answer: Jacques Chirac
Question: The lines "You are the reason that I breathe, you are the reason that I still believe, you are my destiny" is from the theme song to which film?
Answer: Slumdog Millionaire
Question: Where is the headquarters of the Surrey County Cricket Club?
Answer: The Oval
Question: Bayonet and screw are types of fitting for what?
Answer: Light bulb
Question: What card game, also known as Trente-et-Quarante, is played with 6 packs of cards, some of which are dealt in two rows?
Answer: Rouge-et-Noir
Question: How long is a year on the planet Mercury?
Answer: 88 days
Question: Which capital city is on the northern bank of the La Plata estuary?
Answer: Montevideo
Question: When the Olympic flame is about to be taken to the venue for the next Olympic Games, it is lit in which city?
Answer: Athens
Question: In international sport, what is the IPL?
Answer: Indian Premier League
Question: Laurence Olivier directed and starred in a 1944 film, which began in the Globe Theatre and then gradually shifted to a realistic evocation of the Battle of Agincourt, which was adapted from which one of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: Henry V
Question: Which river, the longest in France, empties into the Atlantic at St. Lazaire?
Answer: Loire
Question: What is the name of the square in the UK TV series "EastEnders"?
Answer: Albert Square
Question: Which famous artist and ornithologist is the son of an Antarctic explorer and adventurer?
Answer: Peter Scott
Question: International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge used to play which sport, representing Belgium?
Answer: Rugby union
Question: What is the generic name for all of the greater festivals of the Christian Church?
Answer: Sacraments
Question: Which Irish dramatist wrote "The Rivals" and "The School for Scandal"?
Answer: Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
Question: What was the name given to a type of xylophone consisting of large stones, dating from 2,500 - 4,000 BC found in China?
Answer: Lithophone
Question: Which Irish born British admiral and hydrographer created a standard scale in 1805 by which naval officers could report wind speed?
Answer: Sir Francis Beaufort
Question: What is the radius of a circle whose area is 154 square inches?
Answer: 7 inches
Question: Which team won the eighth World Polo Championship in Mexico in May 2008?
Answer: Chile
Question: Which monotheistic, Abrahamic religious movement accepts Haile Selassie I, the former and final Emperor of Ethiopia, as the incarnation of God, called Jah?
Answer: Rastafarian
Question: A litre is a measure of what?
Answer: Volume
Question: Which astronomer, born in West Yorkshire, England in 1915 and dying in 2001 in Bournemouth, England, was a science fiction writer, whose output includes the novel "The Black Cloud", a TV series "A for Andromeda" and a play "Rockets in Ursa Major"?
Answer: Sir Fred Hoyle
Question: How high should a badminton net be at the centre?
Answer: 1.524 metres (5 ft)
Question: What modern sport can trace its origin back to a Scramble that took place at Camberley, Surrey England in 1924?
Answer: Motocross
Question: Slogans such as "The Truth Is Out There", "Trust No One" and "I Want to Believe" that became part of pop culture in the 1990s were from which TV series?
Answer: The X-Files
Question: What is another name for sodium bicarbonate?
Answer: Baking soda
Question: What song was played at the end of the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb"?
Answer: We'll Meet Again
Question: In Roman numerals, what is signified by the letter V?
Answer: 5
Question: Where did Jonathan Swift set his imaginary island of Lilliput?
Answer: Indian Ocean
Question: How many fence posts are required to surround a field that is 12 metres square, if a post must be provided every metre?
Answer: 48
Question: Who is credited with the design of the small British car known as the Mini?
Answer: Alec Issigonis
Question: How old was the oldest person to win an Olympic Medal?
Answer: 72
Question: In the episode of Coronation Street that aired in Britain on 3 March 2008, who pushed Gail Platt down the stairs, leaving her hospitalised and suffering short term amnesia?
Answer: David Platt
Question: What is the common name for peristalsis?
Answer: Swallowing
Question: What number cannot be written in Roman numerals?
Answer: Zero
Question: Where is "The White House"?
Answer: Washington
Question: Where was the venue for the Commonwealth Games in 2010?
Answer: New Delhi
Question: Olympic gold medallists Fanny Blankers-Koen, Inge de Bruijn, Leontien van Moorsel, Yvonne van Gennip, Ard Schenk, Jochem Uytdehaage, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Gianni Romme, Marianne Timmer, Wim Ruska, Charles Pahud de Mortanges and Adolph van der Voort van Zijp represented which country?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: What Latin-American word means "foreigner"?
Answer: Gringo
Question: What function must be applied to the numbers 10 and 5 to provide 2 as the result?
Answer: Division
Question: Which 1943 film concerns the lynching of three suspected murderers (played by Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn and Francis Ford) by a mob (played by Frank Conroy, Marc Lawrence and Jane Darwell, among others)?
Answer: The Ox-bow Incident
Question: Which country has the same name as a state of the USA?
Answer: Georgia
Question: The Honda Formula One team was taken over by which team for the 2009 season?
Answer: Brawn
Question: What are the joints in the fingers called?
Answer: Knuckles
Question: Who was a British dog trainer, author and television personality who introduced the catch-phrases "walkies" and "sit!" in her 1980 television series?
Answer: Barbara Woodhouse
Question: A tabard is a type of what?
Answer: Short coat
Question: Who fronted the BBC 2 specials Gambling in Las Vegas, The Most Hated Family in America, Under The Knife, Behind Bars, African Hunting Holiday, Law and Disorder in Philadelphia and A Place for Paedophiles?
Answer: Louis Theroux