zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Whose epitaph by Johnson in Westminster Abbey reads in part "Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit" ("He touched nothing without adding a lustre to it"?
Answer: Oliver Goldsmith
Question: In 1957 the inaugural Uber Cup, the most important women's badminton team competition in the world, was won by competitors from which country?
Answer: USA
Question: Tom Lehrer, an American singer-songwriter, whose work contained much black humor and risque lyrics, often parodying popular song forms, taught which subject from 1972 to 2001 at the University of California, Santa Cruz?
Answer: Mathematics
Question: What fashion in French architecture had much to do with the regency of Marie de' Medici? (The greatest architects of the style were Salomon de Brosse and Jacques Lemercier.)
Answer: Louis XIII
Question: How many adverbs are in the following sentence: "Roger told his dog not to jump on the furniture with muddy feet"?
Answer: None
Question: In October 2009 it was announced that director Sam Taylor-Wood was to marry Aaron Johnson, 23 years her junior, who were director and star respecitively of "Nowhere Boy", a film about whom?
Answer: John Lennon
Question: What Irish boyband formed in 1998 by Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Brian McFadden became the 3rd biggest selling pop band worldwide and biggest selling band of 2000-2009, with 14 number 1 singles in the UK?
Answer: Westlife
Question: At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Lee Chang-hwan of Korea broke the Olympic Record with a score of 117 points (though he didn't win a medal for it) in what sport?
Answer: Archery
Question: The killing of 58-year-old Robert Krentz and his dog, shot on 27 March 2010 on his ranch roughly 19 miles (31 km) from the Mexican border, led to increased public support for a bill to combat illegal immigration in which US State?
Answer: Arizona
Question: In which country were elections planned for 1991 were stopped by the military (leading to Civil War), were held in 1995, and, in 1999, after a series of short-term military leaders, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president?
Answer: Algeria
Question: Which poisonous compound can be a gas, solid or liquid, the most infamous application of which was use by the Nazi regime in Germany for mass murder in some gas chambers during the Holocaust?
Answer: Cyanide
Question: What fabulous creature appears in the Heraldry of Wales, Japan and China and is typical of evil in Christian lore?
Answer: Dragon
Question: Which musical term denotes a slide in pitch which moves in discrete steps, such as dragging a finger over the keys of the piano?
Answer: Glissando
Question: In the 1990s, which country briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre and from 2001 to 2008, accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing an illegal migrant detention center that held and processed asylum seekers trying to enter Australia?
Answer: Nauru
Question: In the 1960s, which instrument was associated with Mick Avory, John Steel, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Charlie Watts, Dave Clark, Richard Taylor, Viv Prince and Jim McCarty?
Answer: Drums
Question: Which colony centred at Fort Christina (now in Wilmington, Delaware) that included parts of the now US states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania was established in 1638, and in 1655 surrendered and was taken over by the Dutch?
Answer: New Sweden
Question: Which theme park in LA County, California, USA, initially created to offer tours of soundstages and sets, is one of the oldest movie studios still in use and was the first of many similar theme parks in, for example, Florida and Japan?
Answer: Universal Studios
Question: Which country had, at various times, included areas known at various times as Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Vojvodina, Kosovo, Istria and Rijeka?
Answer: Yugoslavia
Question: What country, an ideal of the "Illyrian Movement" began to become a reality after the 1918 collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, and was formally renamed as a "Kingdom" in 1929?
Answer: Yugoslavia
Question: What is the subject of the "Zhou Bi Suan Jing", one of the oldest and most famous Chinese texts dating from the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC256 BC), and added to into the Han Dynasty (202 BC 220 BC)?
Answer: Mathematics
Question: Which world welterweight boxing champion was reported in April 2010 to be standing for the Philippine Congress, for the political party called "the People's Champ Movement"?
Answer: Manny Pacquiao
Question: Where was the industrial accident on 2-3 December 1984 that caused the deaths of 3,000 to 16,000 people, for which 7 ex-employees were convicted in June 2010 and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment & a fine of about US$2,000 each?
Answer: Bhopal, India
Question: Julie Burchill, Peter Arnett, P J O'Rourke and John Pilger are associated with which activity?
Answer: Journalism
Question: Benjamin Franklin is usually credited with the creation of the first pair of what items of optical equipment in the early 1760s?
Answer: Bifocals
Question: Basel, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne and Dsseldorf are on which river?
Answer: Rhine
Question: According to a quote from William Congreve's play "The Mourning Bride" (1697), spoken by Zara in Act 3, Scene 2, "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman ... " what?
Answer: Scorned
Question: Which US state consists of two separate peninsulas, separated by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile (8 km)-wide channel?
Answer: Michigan
Question: After Mao Zedong, chairman of the Communist Party of China, launched the Cultural Revolution on 16 May 1966, he attempted to mobilise China's youth, who formed what groups around the country?
Answer: Red Guard
Question: What is the name of Sydney Harbour, NSW, Australia?
Answer: Port Jackson
Question: What name did Andy Warhol give to his original New York City studio from 1962 to 1968 in premises on the 5th floor of 231 East 47th Street, Madison Avenue?
Answer: The Factory
Question: What nest at Sandy Cape, the most northern point on Fraser Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, which is protected as part of the Great Sandy National Park?
Answer: Turtles
Question: What is the surname of twin brothers Mike and Bob, who became the world's number 1 ranked men's tennis doubles team in 2007?
Answer: Bryan
Question: Benjamin Disraeli's government was elected in the UK how many times?
Answer: 1
Question: In May 2010, David Byrne, the former lead singer of 1980s band "Talking Heads", began a lawsuit claiming $1 million in damages against Florida governor Charlie Crist over the use of which song in an election commercial?
Answer: Road to Nowhere
Question: What was the name of the German troops that were sent to assist General Franco in the Spanish Civil War?
Answer: The Condor Legion
Question: """Historia Naturalis"" was a major work by whom?"
Answer: Pliny the Elder
Question: Chip Ganassi is a prominent figure in what sport?
Answer: Motor racing
Question: Which city, originally a monastic settlement founded by Saint Finbarr in the 6th century, built on the River Lee, became a major point of Irish emigration to North America after the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s?
Answer: Cork
Question: What name is given to the concept that an animal hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare?
Answer: Infinite monkey theorem
Question: The RMS "Lancastria" was the subject of the worst single loss of life in British maritime history and the bloodiest single engagement for UK forces in World War II; she was sunk by German bombers on 17 June 1940 when taking part in an operation to evacuate 150,000 troops from where?
Answer: St Nazaire
Question: What 2007 film is an over-the-top send-up of action movies, featuring a large amount of violence (including killing by carrots), starring Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci & Paul Giamatti?
Answer: Shoot 'Em Up
Question: How many verbs are in the following sentence: "Roger told his dog not to jump on the furniture with muddy feet"?
Answer: 2
Question: In which state of Australia would you find the area known as the Katherine Region?
Answer: Northern Territory
Question: A theory of the workings of the human body adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and believed until the 19th century was that it was filled with 4 basic substances (black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood). These were collectively known as what?
Answer: Humours
Question: What was the occupation of Anna Politkovskaya, who was found dead in the elevator of her apartment in central Moscow on 7 October 2006, shot twice in the chest, once in the shoulder, and once in the head at point blank range?
Answer: Journalist
Question: In what country were measures announced on 22 April 2010 by the Prime Minister to cut consumption of power, affecting the length of the official weekend, signs, government offices, air conditioners, street markets, commercial centers, weddings and wells?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: What military slang term for members of the US Marine Corps was derived from a special collar once worn around the neck by both American and British Marines and soldiers from 1798?
Answer: Leathernecks
Question: Between 1903 and 1904, sites in the Australian townships of Albury, Tumut, Orange, Bombala and Dalgety were considered for what purpose?
Answer: The capital of Australia
Question: Which King of Macedon created one of the largest empires in ancient history between 336 and 323BC, including most of the city-states of mainland Greece and the (then) Persian-ruled Asia Minor?
Answer: Alexander The Great
Question: Andrea Jaeger of the US had a successful career in professional tennis, becoming World Ranked number 2, between the ages of 15 and 19, but it ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. What profession did she take up in 2006?
Answer: Nun
Question: In the twelve years since it began on 4 September 1998, how many contestants in the UK version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" won 1,000,000?
Answer: 5
Question: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declared himself King and was crowned in Chard and in Taunton in 1685 in an attempt to overthrow whom?
Answer: James II
Question: Which country occupies the islands called Euboea, Kefalonia, Khos, Zakynthos, Thassos, Lefkada, Karpathos and Kythira?
Answer: Greece
Question: Which set of 19 piano pieces based on folk themes were composed by Franz Liszt between 1846 and 1885 and named after his homeland?
Answer: The Hungarian Rhapsodies
Question: Which organisation was involved in a scandal in the 1980s, concerning the 1982 $3.5 billion collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, has been the subject of a US government report which accused it of funding the Solidarity Polish trade-union and the Contras, and managing US covert funds, was reported in 2009 of being investigated for money laundering transactions worth 180 million (US$ 218 million) and in September 2010 came under investigation for other money laundering charges?
Answer: The Institute for Works of Religion
Question: Francis Drake captained the ship "Revenge" during naval engagements concerning what?
Answer: The Spanish Armada
Question: What was the name of the English law court, subsequently abolished in 1641, that had a mandate from Henry VII to deal with nobles who were too powerful to be punished by ordinary courts?
Answer: Star Chamber
Question: Which country, after the collapse of its government-owned bank and via a referendum, decided in March 2010 not to pay Great Britain and the Netherlands the 3.9 billion that it owed them?
Answer: Iceland
Question: What name was commonly used for the struggle that emerged after World War II between capitalism and communism that centred around the USSR & the USA and their partners, that lasted from about 1947 to 1991?
Answer: The Cold War
Question: Which film is the story of Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) who starts with well meaning ambition to enter politics, is corrupted by power on his way to becoming a US state governor, and is assassinated?
Answer: All The King's Men
Question: What association, currently of 27 members, holds over just 7% (in 2011) of the global population and generates approximately 20% of global GDP when thought of in terms of purchasing power parity?
Answer: EU
Question: In which long-running comic series did the eponymous hero experience two dream sequences where he married each of his girlfriends, Veronica and Betty?
Answer: Archie
Question: Which golfer was continuously ranked as the world's number one golfer on "McCormack's World Golf Rankings" from its inception in 1968 to 1977?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus
Question: In the Pink Panther series of films, who is Clouseau's house boy, an expert in martial arts, who frequently unexpectedly attacks him?
Answer: Cato Fong
Question: It was released as a video game in 1994, was restructured as a subscription-based MMORPG in 2004, and in February 2012 had more than 10 million subscribers. Which is it?
Answer: Warcraft
Question: What is the stage name of Londoner Susan Janet Ballion, who fronted the group "The Banshees" between 1976 and 1996?
Answer: Siouxsie Sioux
Question: How many nouns are in the following sentence: "Roger told his dog not to jump on the furniture with muddy feet"?
Answer: 4
Question: The military aeroplanes the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the F-22 Raptor, the F-15 Eagle, the F-16 Falcon, the C-17 Globemaster III, the EA-6B Prowler, and the F-111 are powered by engines from which manufacturer?
Answer: Pratt and Whitney
Question: In May 2010, a vending machine was installed in the foyer of the prestigious Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi to dispense what?
Answer: Gold
Question: When was Nicolae Ceauescu, at the time Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and Head of State in Romania, deposed and later shot?
Answer: 1989
Question: Which band performed at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia in 2009 and in the halftime show of the Super Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida in 2010?
Answer: The Who
Question: Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 23 July 2011) an English singer and songwriter known for her deep contralto vocals and her work in a wdie range of musical genres including R&B;, soul and jazz, is recorded as dying from what cause?
Answer: Alcohol poisoning
Question: The "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests In The Atmosphere, In Outer Space And Under Water", known as the "Partial Test Ban Treaty", "Limited Test Ban Treaty" and "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty", introduced in 1963, was signed by a number of countries including the UK, the USA and which other?
Answer: USSR
Question: In 1884 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical "Humanum Genus", which denounced a number of beliefs and practices such as popular sovereignty and the separation of church and state, in relation to which group in particular?
Answer: Freemasons
Question: What play has the characters Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism and Doctor Chasuble?
Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest
Question: A QR, or quick response, barcode is a machine-readable label, and encodes virtually any type of data including the standardised modes of alphanumeric, binary, numeric and what other kind?
Answer: Kanji
Question: Who is the player who has come closest to meeting the modern definition of golf's Grand Slam by holding all four modern major championships simultaneously?
Answer: Tiger Woods
Question: Which associations of men in similar employment, started in the 12th century, were formed to assist poorer members, sometime securing charters and becoming the governing body of a town?
Answer: Guilds
Question: The national flag of which country features a map of it in a copper-yellow colour, symbolising large deposits of copper ore, with, to symbolise peace, two olive branches below on white?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: In French cuisine, what is the name for a baked dish originating in Germany that is based on a custard made from eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust, which usually is blind baked before the other ingredients are added for a secondary baking period?
Answer: Quiche
Question: Who was president of the USA when Chiang Kai-shek and his National Revolutionary Army fled to Taiwan from mainland China, during the "House Un-American Activities Committee" under Senator Joseph McCarthy, and during most of the US involvement in the Korean War?
Answer: Harry S. Truman
Question: Which group of 6 women in ancient Rome each had a term of office of 30 years (10 to be trained, 10 to work, including keeping a flame alive, and 10 to educate others)?
Answer: Vestal Virgins
Question: Which team won the inaugural Fast5 World Netball Series, first contested in October 2009, which had modified rules (and was compared to Twenty20 cricket and rugby sevens)?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: If you were to fly due east from the southernmost pont of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego what is the next land mass, bigger than the island you set out from, which you would meet?
Answer: Tierra del Fuego
Question: What philosopher, sometimes known by the honorific of "K'ung Fu-tzu" and born in BCE 551, has recently had his name given to a Peace Prize ?
Answer: Confucius
Question: Who was expelled from school, owned two failed businesses, worked for the Northampton Repertory Company and appeared in the film "Murder at Monte Carlo", where he was discovered by a Warner Brothers executive and went on to make 58 films?
Answer: Errol Flynn
Question: According to Tennyson in "The Passing of Arthur", which knight stayed with the dying King Arthur to the end and threw the sword Excalibur into the lake?
Answer: Bedivere
Question: Following the 1997 return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China to become a special administrative region, Macau was returned to become its second special administrative region. When was that?
Answer: 1999
Question: A businessman with the surname of Masterley is the subject of a comic strip. What is his first name, and the title of the strip?
Answer: Alex
Question: What 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma, scripted by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, is based on Howard Hawks's 1932 biopic of Al Capone?
Answer: Scarface
Question: Who, according to Greek legend, was forced to stand up to his neck in water which receded when he tried to drink, under fruits which were blown aside by the wind when he tried to eat?
Answer: Tantalus
Question: What type of creature can be called earth, round, flat, butt, arrow, jaw, horsehair, ribbon, velvet, horseshoe, peanut and tape?
Answer: Worm
Question: The northernmost USA state on the eastern seaboard lies partly north of its neighbouring Canadian territory. Which is the state?
Answer: Maine
Question: Which 13th century Mogol Emperor of China set up his capital in Peking?
Answer: Kublai Khan
Question: New Zealand celebrates Matariki, Maori New Year in late May or early June, marking the rising in the southern hemisphere of the seven stars of what?
Answer: Pleiades
Question: Which Tropic runs through the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Cancer
Question: In 1921 Sir Arnold Lunn organised the first British national ski championship which included, as well as jumping and cross-country, a speed version of what other style?
Answer: Slalom
Question: In April 2010 Britain announced that it would create the world's largest marine reserve (650,000 square kilometres) around the Chagos Islands. Where are they?
Answer: Indian Ocean
Question: Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Peter Mayhew are reprising some of the most famous film roles, filming 2014-5, but although they will be seen their faces will never appear. They are, respectively, C-3PO, R2-D2 and which other character?
Answer: Chewbacca
Question: Sturgis in South Dakota, USA, annually hosts an international rally for racing, stunts and similar by what vehicles?
Answer: Motorbikes
Question: What club, the first of many bars with entertainment by big name drawcards, opened at 116 E. Walton in downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA on 29 February 1960?
Answer: Playboy
Question: The fossilised remains of a member of which extinct paleolithic race with heavy brow ridges and receding forehead were discovered in 1856?
Answer: Neanderthal
Question: How could the majority of the land in Laos be described?
Answer: Mountainous
Question: Who founded the 1960s R 'n' B group "Steam Packet" with vocalist Rod Stewart and went on to form "Trinity", who Julie Driscoll sometimes sang with?
Answer: Brian Auger
Question: A "fingerplate" is a piece of metal used to deter fingermarks appearing on what?
Answer: Doors
Question: Which album by Fleetwood Mac including the single releases "Go Your Own Way", "Don't Stop", "Dreams" and "You Make Loving Fun" was #1 on album charts in Australia, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK & the USA?
Answer: Rumours
Question: Who was Governor of South Australia 1841-1845, Governor of New Zealand 1845-1854 & 1861-1868, Governor of Cape Colony 1854-1861 and Premier of New Zealand 1877-1879?
Answer: George Grey
Question: Which country's territory includes a long narrow east-west tongue separating Zambia from Botswana?
Answer: Namibia
Question: What is the overall subject of the sentence "UTC replaced GMT in most places in the world on 1 January 1972"?
Answer: Time zones
Question: Five of what animal, the first of a planned 33, were airlifted from South Africa to Tanzania's Serengeti National Reserve in May 2010?
Answer: Black rhinoceros
Question: Which country saw the closest finish in a World Rallly Championship event, when, in 2007, Marcus Gronholm beat Sebastian Loeb by 0.3 of a second?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: The father of Charlemagne, who was later to become a major force in Europe and Holy Roman Emperor, seized the Frankish throne from what dynasty in 751 CE?
Answer: Merovingian
Question: In 2009 Terry Herbert found a hoard of Saxon warrior metal artefacts on land owned by Fred Johnson, which has become known as the Staffordshire Hoard. Which ancient kingdom do the objects come from?
Answer: Mercia
Question: In 1962, retired American racing driver Carroll Shelby got a licence to import a British sports car made by AC Motors of England and installed an American Ford engine rather than its original Bristol engine. He introduced the car to the American public as what model of car?
Answer: Cobra
Question: Since the building Taipei 101 topped 500m tall at the end of 2003, how many buildings have now, in 2015, topped 600m?
Answer: 3
Question: The version of Magna Carta signed by King John of England at Runnymede was annulled shortly afterwards by Pope Innocent III; who issued the version which then survived to become the basis of much of modern Western law?
Answer: Henry III
Question: The religious movement known as the Doukhobors was oppressed and circumscribed in Russia where it first developed; when its members were eventually allowed to leave what country welcomed them?
Answer: Canada
Question: What word is used to describe an aircraft moving along an airport runway?
Answer: Taxi
Question: Oculus Story Studio, formed employing a handful of Pixar Animation Studios veterans released their first interactive Virtual Reality short at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. What was it?
Answer: Lost
Question: The Terracotta Army marched underground frozen in time from the burial of an emperor in the third century BCE until 1974 CE, where?
Answer: China
Question: A 2005 remix of the song "Axel F", music originally released in 1984 as the theme for American TV series "Beverley Hills Cops", became known as what?
Answer: The Crazy Frog song
Question: The passport of what lawyer, sportsman, singer, actor and civil rights activist was withdrawn by the US State Department in 1950 because of his alleged affiliation with the Communist Party?
Answer: Paul Robeson
Question: Which 1964 film, written by Terry Southern and Stanley Kubrik and directed by him, starred Peter Sellers (in three roles), George C Scott, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens?
Answer: Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
Question: Which creature is best qualified to serve as a model for the mythical unicorn, having its the main distinguishing characteristic?
Answer: Rhinoceros