zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The large wrinkled leaves of which plant provide digitalin, used in the treatment of heart conditions?
Answer: Foxglove
Question: Which company bought the Daimler, Lanchester, Jaguar and Land Rover brand names in March 2008?
Answer: Tata Motors, India
Question: Which city hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2002?
Answer: Manchester
Question: Who published his method of heating food to kill micro-organisms and sealing the container, in 1810?
Answer: Nicolas Appert
Question: Which early 20th century American novelist wrote "The Crisis", "Crossing", "Coniston", "Mr Crewe's Career" and "Far Country"?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: What was the name of the first British jet bomber built in 1949 by English Electric?
Answer: Canberra
Question: Which country ended the USA's 132 year hold on the America's Cup?
Answer: Australia
Question: An outbreak of what in Nigeria affected 5,323 people and killed 333 in the first 3 months of 2009?
Answer: Meningitis
Question: What voting system for General Elections was first implemented in the Australian colony of Tasmania on 7 February 1856 and introduced to Britain in 1872 by the Ballot Act?
Answer: Secret ballot
Question: The Pyrenees mountain range is on which continent?
Answer: Europe
Question: In 1996, who joined Paavo Nurmi, Larysa Latynina and Mark Spitz, tied for the record numer of Olympic gold medals (9) ever?
Answer: Carl Lewis
Question: Which cross has the upright longer than the transverse piece, and has a circle around the head / join?
Answer: Celtic cross
Question: On 17 September 1862, where was The Battle of Antietam, the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil and the bloodiest single-day battle in American history (with about 23,000 casualties)?
Answer: Near Sharpsburg, Maryland
Question: Who was jailed for 150 years in June 2009 for investor fraud after being reported to federal authorities by his sons?
Answer: Bernie Madoff
Question: In the film Spiderman 2 (2004), which New York newspaper does Spiderman's alter ego take photographs for?
Answer: The Daily Bugle
Question: Queen Elizabeth I of England was from which Royal House?
Answer: Tudor
Question: What is a "bichon frise"?
Answer: Dog
Question: What range of hills runs 50 miles from the Worcestershire border through Gloucestershire to the Avon?
Answer: Cotswolds
Question: What is the term used to describe the collection of flowers in species that have more than one flower on an axis (sometimes called "composite flowers"?
Answer: Inflorescence
Question: What figure of Apollo stood from around 280 BC until destroyed by an earthquake around 224 BC?
Answer: Colossus of Rhodes
Question: 17 year old Zac Sunderland made the world's news in July 2009 for doing what?
Answer: Sailing around the world solo
Question: The longest winning streak by any nation at an event in the Olympic Games was set by the USA, between 1896 and 1968. What was the event?
Answer: Pole vault
Question: """Tiramisu"" is a type of what?"
Answer: Cake
Question: Who, in 2004, was nominated for two academy awards: Best Supporting Actor in "Collateral"and Best Actor in "Ray" (which he won)?
Answer: Jamie Foxx
Question: In the human body, the adrenal glands are directly above which organ?
Answer: Kidney
Question: What Greek mythological female monster has the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the rear of a dragon?
Answer: Chimaera
Question: At which cricket ground, in 1953, did England win the Ashes for the first time since 1933?
Answer: The Oval
Question: Which sport is played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of ice, whereby teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones towards the "house" while two sweepers with brooms accompany each one to help direct them to their resting place?
Answer: Curling
Question: Between 1955 and 1970, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Angela Davis were significant people in which movement in the USA?
Answer: Civil Rights Movement
Question: What is the name for the order of insects with 2 membranous, usually transparent, wings such as mosquitoes, house flies and gnats?
Answer: Diptera
Question: What was the surname of the US president known as JFK?
Answer: Kennedy
Question: What is the number of points required to win a game of Canasta?
Answer: 5,000
Question: Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County are all in the north west of which US state?
Answer: Oklahoma
Question: The refugee camps Shatila and Shabra, the scenes of a massacre in 1982, were in which country?
Answer: Lebanon
Question: Pepys, Wesley, Evelyn and Greville have what famous items in common?
Answer: Diaries
Question: Which film was banned for 8 years in the Republic of Ireland and for a year in Norway, and was marketed in Sweden as '"The film so funny that it was banned in Norway"?
Answer: Monty Python's Life of Brian
Question: ABBA named a song after which battle?
Answer: Waterloo
Question: Which country gained its independence from Australia on 16 September 1975?
Answer: Papua New Guinea
Question: Which country launched an attack against the US naval base at Pearl Harbour in 1941?
Answer: Japan
Question: In which country did student protest leader Steve Biko die while in police custody in 1977?
Answer: South Africa
Question: The rules for which sport were originally drawn up by the Knickerbocker Club in New York in 1843?
Answer: Baseball
Question: What Royal residence in London, originally part of St James's Palace, was used as the London residence of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1952?
Answer: Clarence House
Question: Among the works of which English landscape painter are "The Fighting Temeraire" and "The Sun of Venice Going to Sea"?
Answer: Turner
Question: During the American Civil War, what city was the capital of the Confederacy?
Answer: Richmond, Virginia
Question: Which brass musical instrument has a slide mechanism that enables the sounding length of the tube to be adjusted?
Answer: Trombone
Question: After public outrage over a painting by Goya of a nude woman ("the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art"), he refused to paint clothes on her, and created a new painting of the same woman in the same pose, clothed. The paintings are known as "The Nude ... " what and "The Clothed ..." what?
Answer: Maja
Question: John Williams said to Steven Spielberg, "You need a better composer than I am for this film" and got the reply "I know. But they're all dead!" What was the film?
Answer: Schindler's List
Question: The technology industry centre known as "Silicon Valley" is in which state of the USA?
Answer: California
Question: Octavian and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42BC near which city in East Macedonia?
Answer: Philippi
Question: Which country has hosted the greatest number of world curling championships (of any kind: men's, women's and mixed championships) between 1959 and 2015?
Answer: Canada
Question: What is another name for "lateral epicondylitis"?
Answer: Tennis elbow
Question: In 1828 Casparus van Houten Sr. patented a hydraulic press that revolutionised the production of what?
Answer: Chocolate
Question: Who carried out his early experiments at Villa Grifone, Bologna, Italy, with his brother Alfonso?
Answer: Guglielmo Marconi
Question: What is the real first name of the pop star Madonna?
Answer: Madonna
Question: Historian Richard B. Morris, in his book "Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny" (1973), identified Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton as the key what?
Answer: Founding Fathers
Question: Which item of clothing was named after an American women's rights and temperance advocate?
Answer: Bloomers
Question: The islands of Skye and Mull are in which island group?
Answer: Hebrides
Question: What is the last in the series that begins: St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Gallup (New Mexico), Flagstaff (Arizona)?
Answer: San Bernardino
Question: Olympic gold medallists Gaetan Boucher, Donovan Bailey and Alex Baumann represented which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: Of the 12 Winter Olympics between 1924 and 1976 inclusive, how many were held outside of Europe?
Answer: 3
Question: Cricketer W G Grace, a first-class cricketer from 1865 to 1908, was a member of what profession?
Answer: Doctor
Question: Who released the album "Rockferry" in 2008, that contained the singles "Mercy", "Warwick Avenue" and "Rain on Your Parade"?
Answer: Duffy
Question: Which city, rebuilt in the Art Deco style after being largely razed by an earthquake in 1931, has become recognized as architecturally unique, and in 2007 was nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site status?
Answer: Napier, New Zealand
Question: What was the main form of transport used by the Japanese army in their invasion of Singapore in World War II?
Answer: Bicycles
Question: Which British journalist has written biographies of Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky, David and Victoria Beckham, Madonna, and Tom Cruise?
Answer: Andrew Morton
Question: Presidents of the USA Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover had what religious upbringing?
Answer: Quaker
Question: Frank Langella and Anthony Hopkins have both played which historical character?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: What is the Spanish word for "house"?
Answer: Casa
Question: Who adopted Ziggy Stardust as an on-stage identity?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: What is the name for the study of the advent and evolution of biological systems in the universe, with particular emphasis on the possibility of non-terrestrial life?
Answer: Astrobiology
Question: Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is the collective name for a number of activities to search for extra-terrestrial life using scientific methods to search for what, specifically?
Answer: Electromagnetic transmissions
Question: According the Bible, who was the cousin of Mordecai?
Answer: Esther
Question: In 1980, Nikolai Andrianov (USSR/RUS) broke the record for being awarded the most Olympic medals (15) ever. What was his sport?
Answer: Gymnastics
Question: In international flag signalling code, what is a rectangular flag centred with a white square?
Answer: The letter "P"
Question: In June 2009 it was announced that the rats on Rat Island had finally been eradicated, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck caused an infestation. Where is Rat Island?
Answer: Alaska
Question: What was heavyweight boxer Joe Louis' nickname?
Answer: The Brown Bomber
Question: The Society for the Prevention of an Unwholesome Diet was a 19th century activist group dedicated to keeping what out of Britain?
Answer: Potatoes
Question: Where did Adolf Hitler spend his last days in Berlin?
Answer: Bunker
Question: What is the sum of the digits of the product of any number between 1 & 9 multiplied by 9?
Answer: 9
Question: Which 20th century Irish playwright wrote "Juno and the Paycock", "The Plough and the Stars", "Silver Tassie" and "Within the Gates"?
Answer: Sean O'Casey
Question: Rugby union was included in 4 Olympic Games between 1900 and 1924. Which team won the most gold medals for it in that period?
Answer: USA
Question: What is Tiger Woods' first name, really?
Answer: Eldrick
Question: Who organised an Arab revolt against the Turks and wrote "The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom" about his experiences?
Answer: T E Lawrence
Question: Normally called a wolverine in North America, what is the largest carniverous mammal in the weasel family, which, it is said, has a habit of hiding articles which are no use to it?
Answer: Glutton
Question: What 2003 film was about a murdered Irish journalist played by Kate Blanchett?
Answer: Veronica Guerin
Question: In medicine, which suffix denotes "inflammation of"?
Answer: -itis
Question: What is a terrifying and disturbing dream?
Answer: Nightmare
Question: What invention in the 17th century revolutionized mathematics by providing the first systematic link between Euclidean geometry and algebra, describing geometric shapes as algebraic equations involving the coordinates of the points lying on it?
Answer: Cartesian coordinates
Question: Which Frenchman was the first to navigate the St Lawrence River in Canada in 1535?
Answer: Jacques Cartier
Question: James Boswell is best known for his biography of whom?
Answer: Samuel Johnson
Question: What name is given to lung-breathing aquatic mammals such as whales, porpoises and dolphins?
Answer: Cetacea
Question: According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had "a long grey beard and a glittering eye"?
Answer: The ancient mariner
Question: Which company was founded and named after the inventor of vulcanised rubber in 1898, almost 4 decades after his death, by Frank Seiberling?
Answer: Goodyear
Question: Traditionally, Presidential elections are held in the USA in which month?
Answer: November
Question: Geologically speaking, where would you go to stand on land at the southernmost point of the North American continental plate?
Answer: Guatemala
Question: Bill Bryson called his 2006 autobiography "The Life and Times of .. " who?
Answer: The Thunderbolt Kid
Question: Who was the youngest player to appear in a major league game in the modern era, pitching 2/3 of an inning for the Cincinnati Reds against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1944 when not quite 16 years old?
Answer: Joe Nuxhall
Question: Nicholas II was the last Emperor of which country until he abdicated following the February Revolution of 1917?
Answer: Russia
Question: The stars Betelgeuse, Rigel, Bellatrix, Mintaka, Alnilam, Mintaka, Alnitak, Alnitak and Saiph are found in which constellation?
Answer: Orion
Question: What US policy introduced in 1823, that efforts by European governments to colonise land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed by the USA as acts of aggression requiring US intervention, became one of the longest-standing tenets of US foreign policy?
Answer: The Monroe Doctrine
Question: What did Bayer name its new over the counter drug in 1898, developed and advertised as a morphine substitute and cough suppressant that did not have its addictive side-effects?
Answer: Heroin
Question: In which field is Auguste Escoffier famous?
Answer: Cookery
Question: What system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances from the point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines?
Answer: A Cartesian coordinate system
Question: Which country was ruled between 1971 and 1986 by Idi Amin, Milton Obote, General Tito Okello and Yoweri Museveni?
Answer: Uganda
Question: Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the Deutsche Mark as its basic currency unit?
Answer: Germany
Question: The matched grip, Moeller method, Open, Rudiment and Traditional grip are terms used in playing what instrument?
Answer: Drums
Question: Which Scottish ballerina made her international debut in 1941, married Ludovic Kennedy in 1950, appeared in films from 1948 to 1960, and died in 2006?
Answer: Moira Shearer
Question: Where did Malcolm Campbell set a water speed record of 141.74 m.p.h. in 1938?
Answer: Coniston Water
Question: Who was the first president of the USA?
Answer: Washington
Question: Which city is at the Eastern end of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
Answer: Vladivostok
Question: What coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, near the River Ouse, has the highest generating capacity of any power station in the UK and Western Europe?
Answer: Drax
Question: What specially built city has been the capital of Nigeria since 1991, when it was moved from Lagos?
Answer: Abuja
Question: What was the name of the house where William Wordsworth and his sister lived in Grasmere in the Lake District?
Answer: Dove Cottage
Question: Mary Baker Eddy founded which religion?
Answer: Christian Science
Question: Who was an American-born Greek soprano opera singer who had a public love affair with Aristotle Onassis?
Answer: Maria Callas
Question: Which ancient country to the south west of the Caspian Sea had rulers called Deioces, Phraortes, Cyaxares and Astyages?
Answer: Media
Question: In 1588 Francis Drake led the English navy against the Spanish what?
Answer: Armada
Question: Triathlon has been an Olympic sport since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Which country has won the most medals in the men's event in the first 3 Olympiads to 2008?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "8th King's Royal Irish Hussars"?
Answer: The Crossbelts
Question: In the 20th century, how many Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles?
Answer: 2
Question: The ship "The Beagle" became famous for carrying which scientist on a voyage of discovery?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: In which Canadian province is French the only official language?
Answer: Quebec
Question: How did John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., the elder son of US President John F. Kennedy, die in 1999?
Answer: Plane crash
Question: The chemical messenger that transports signals from one cell to another, called phytohormones in plants, are called what in animals?
Answer: Hormone
Question: Who, in 1970, became the first woman during the open era and the second woman ever to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same calendar year and became a Pentecostal minister in 1991?
Answer: Margaret Court
Question: What gives mead its sweet taste?
Answer: Honey
Question: What was the last of these Star Wars films to be released?
Answer: Revenge of the Sith
Question: In statistics, what term is applied to techniques for modeling and analysing several variables to understand how the typical value of the dependent variable changes when one of the independent variables is varied, and the other variables are fixed?
Answer: Regression analysis
Question: A popular vote in Switzerland in November 2009 approved banning the building of what in the country?
Answer: Minarets
Question: What is the only state flag in the USA that incorporates the Battle Flag of the Confederacy (also called the "rebel", "Southern Cross, or "Dixie" flag)?
Answer: Mississippi
Question: The US Masters golf tournament started in 1934. How many left handers won in the first 70 tournaments?
Answer: 2
Question: Which province of Canada has the longest border with the USA?
Answer: Ontario
Question: What was used instead of paper in ancient Egypt?
Answer: Papyrus
Question: In the final of the Basketball competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the last 3 seconds of the game were ordered to be played again, which resulted in which team being awarded the gold medal?
Answer: USSR
Question: Who won Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Awards in 2006 and 2008 for abridged audiobook versions of his books "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope"?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: What name was given to the night when Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues in November 1938?
Answer: Crystal Night
Question: What US federal agency that was founded on 3 March 1915 was dissolved on 1 October 1958?
Answer: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
Question: What is the thick watery substance filling the space between the lens and the cornea of the eye?
Answer: Aqueous humour
Question: Emilio Lavazza, who died in February 2010, ran a company which was associated with what product?
Answer: Coffee
Question: What is the name of the water sports that originated in Australia in the early 20th century, that has become popular in New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and the USA?
Answer: Surf lifesaving
Question: What sporting event is 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards)?
Answer: Marathon
Question: What autism spectrum disorder was first identified in 1944 due to a study of children who lacked nonverbal communication skills, demonstrated limited empathy with their peers, and were physically clumsy?
Answer: Asperger syndrome
Question: What is the nationality of former US Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali?
Answer: Egyptian
Question: What is the connection between the computer programming language ADA, developed in 1980, and the daughter of poet Lord Byron?
Answer: Charles Babbage's "analytical engine"
Question: Rembrandt painted a number of paintings of himself, all containing what title?
Answer: Self portrait
Question: In Greek legend, who was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter?
Answer: Persephone
Question: Who is the father of actress Lucy Davis, who played receptionist Dawn Tinsley in the UK TV series "The Office" (2001), junior writer Lucy Kenwright in the US TV series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and Dianne in the film "Shaun of the Dead" (2004)?
Answer: Jasper Carrott
Question: The white ball in snooker is called the what ball?
Answer: Cue
Question: Which scientist married his cousin from the Wedgewood family, famous for their pottery manufacturing business, following his father's example, who had originally married into the Wedgewood family?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: In 1990, who became the first son and father to play on the same Major League Baseball team at the same time (the Seattle Mariners), and the only father and son pair to hit back to back home runs?
Answer: Ken Griffey
Question: On May 21, 2009, Apa Sherpa set a new record for the most ascents of Mt Everest. How many times had he reached the top?
Answer: 19
Question: Between 1973 and 1979, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Nur Mohammad Taraki, Hafizullah Amin and Babrak Karmal were presidents of which country?
Answer: Afghanistan
Question: What word is used in linguistics and science to describe distinct concepts?
Answer: Paradigm
Question: What term was coined by Alfred Maury for the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep?
Answer: Hypnagogia
Question: There is a myth that that all the clocks in "Pulp Fiction" are set to which time that it is slang for smoking marijuana?
Answer: 4:20
Question: Which comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks that first appeared in 1897 in the "American Humorist", the Sunday supplement of the New York Journal, is still distributed, making it the oldest comic strip still in syndication?
Answer: The Katzenjammer Kids
Question: Who caused a scandal when, on 2 February 1950, she gave birth to the son of Italian film director Roberto Rossellini while married to neurosurgeon Peter Lindstrom?
Answer: Ingrid Bergman
Question: The documentary film "This Is It" centred around the backstage preparations for a tour by which pop star?
Answer: Michael Jackson
Question: South Africa, Australia and New Zealand were designated "Dominions" in the early part of which century?
Answer: 20th
Question: What device emits light (electromagnetic radiation), which is usually spatially coherent, through a process called stimulated emission?
Answer: Laser
Question: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Motherwell, Peter Voulkos & Jackson Pollock painted in what style?
Answer: Abstract expressionism
Question: The eleventh studio album by Irish rock band U2, released in November 2004, was called How to Dismantle ..." what?
Answer: An Atomic Bomb
Question: What subregion of Oceania includes Fiji, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Norfolk Island, the Solomon Islands, the Torres Strait Islands and Vanuatu?
Answer: Melanesia
Question: What headwear is traditionally worn at Harrow, the English public school?
Answer: Straw boater
Question: What are Gliese 876 d, OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, COROT-Exo-7b, Gliese 581 d and Gliese 581 c?
Answer: Planets
Question: David Mamet's plays "American Buffalo" (1975) and "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1982) are set in what city?
Answer: Chicago
Question: Orchard Road, that had a $40 million revamp in 2009, is the retail and entertainment centre of which city?
Answer: Singapore
Question: Who began a collaboration with Walt Disney in 1945 to make the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon, "Destino", that was released in 2003, after his death in 1989?
Answer: Salvador Dali
Question: Which 1929 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock is considered to be the first all-talkie feature British film?
Answer: Blackmail
Question: Who, when he retired as heavyweight boxing world champion in April 1956, was the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career?
Answer: Rocky Marciano