zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the name for what is basically an induction coil whereby the voltage of an alternating current can be increased or decreased without changing the frequency?
Answer: Transformer
Question: Which single company, based in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, England, controls a significant proportion of the trade in diamonds?
Answer: De Beers
Question: Which river, 210 miles long, whose principal tributaries are the Wye, Avon and Teme, empties into the Bristol channel?
Answer: Severn
Question: The Serbian Empire came under Turkish domination after which battle in 1389?
Answer: Battle of Kossovo
Question: Which Norse god is a giant who personifies destructive fire?
Answer: Loki
Question: What name was given to the original owner of the skull found in Sussex in 1911 that was believed at the time to be from one of the oldest human race in Europe?
Answer: Piltdown Man
Question: Which 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer showed, by using geometric construction and the law of refraction, that the angular radius of a rainbow is 42 degrees?
Answer: Ren Descartes
Question: In "Coronation Street", what did Tracey Barlow name her daughter, born in 2004?
Answer: Amy
Question: What sweet syrup is produced when sugar is refined and, when fermented, produces rum?
Answer: Molasses
Question: In which country was there a civil war which lasted several decades following independence in November 1975, when three main guerrilla groups, the FNLA, MPLA and UNITA, fought each other?
Answer: Angola
Question: Which American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994?
Answer: Friends
Question: Pol Pot became the de facto leader of which country in mid-1975, forcing city dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in "Year Zero", which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people, approximately 21% of the population?
Answer: Cambodia
Question: Who, in Greek legend, stole fire from the sun to give life to man?
Answer: Prometheus
Question: Which capital city is situated on the mainland and 13 islands at the outlet of Lake Malar on the Baltic Sea?
Answer: Stockholm
Question: What is the common name for a mixture of calcium silicates and aluminium, prepared by prolonged heating of limestone with clay, which slowly hardens when mixed with water?
Answer: Cement
Question: Songwriter Jack White (vocals, guitar and piano) and Meg White (drums and occasional vocals) make up which American rock duo who produced three Grammy Award (Best Alternative Music Album) winning albums ("Elephant", "Get Behind Me Satan" & "Icky Thump")?
Answer: The White Stripes
Question: Except for a short break from 1492 to 1512, which merchant family effectively ruled Florence from the 13th century to 1737?
Answer: Medici
Question: In 2001, Count Jacques Rogge replaced Juan Antonio Samaranch as head of what body?
Answer: International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Question: Which Russian revolutionary became Foreign Commissar, lost the battle for leadership to Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party and lived in exile thereafter?
Answer: Leon Trotsky
Question: What is the name of a slender highly tempered, sharp-pointed, edgeless weapon about 3 feet long?
Answer: Rapier
Question: What is the name for a small single-headed drum, in the rim of which are fitted pairs of small circular metal plates, called "jingles"?
Answer: Tambourine
Question: If someone is referred to as "canine", what animal are they being compared to?
Answer: Dog
Question: Which Russian composed "God Bless America"?
Answer: Irving Berlin
Question: The rivers Tewy, Taff, Tone, Taw and Torridge flow into which body of water?
Answer: Bristol Channel
Question: What song by Kings of Leon gave them their first number 1 single in the UK, charting at the top-spot on digital downloads alone, before its physical release?
Answer: Sex on Fire
Question: The main characters in James Goldman's play "The Lion in Winter" are Henry II, his sons John, Geoffrey & Richard, his mistress Alais Capet, and which other?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Question: Who assassinated Martin Luther King?
Answer: James Earl Ray
Question: Primogeniture is the method by which, for example, land passes from a farmer who dies intestate to his eldest son. What is the name of the method whereby the land is divided between all of the sons?
Answer: Gavelkind
Question: If the length of two sides of a right angled triangle measured in inches are prime numbers, and it has two adjacent sides of 12 and 13 inches long, how long must the third side be?
Answer: 5
Question: The most famous versions of what type of book were produced by Bailey in 1721, Johnson in 1755 and Oxford University from 1884?
Answer: Dictionary
Question: What is the "First Law of Robotics" devised by Isaac Asimov in his science fiction stories?
Answer: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Question: Which mystic symbol among Buddhists was adopted in reverse by the Nazi party in Germany?
Answer: Swastika
Question: What is the name for the British manufacturing district that includes Birmingham, Wolverhampton, West Bromich, Dudley, Smethwick and Walsall?
Answer: Black country
Question: What is the name for an organised body of professional applauders employed in French theatres?
Answer: Claque
Question: Who instigated the first complete translation of the Bible into English?
Answer: John Wycliffe
Question: The naval battle fought on 2 April 1801 known as the Battle of Copenhagen was fought between Denmark and a navy from where?
Answer: Britain
Question: Which 18th century German composer wrote over 40 operas including "Orfeo" and "Alceste", comic operas and instrumental music?
Answer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Question: The men travelling as whose crew were the first known humans to reach and cross the Antarctic Circle in 1773?
Answer: Captain James Cook
Question: In Britain, by an act of 1541 (repealed in 1845) artificers, labourers, apprentices and servants were forbidden to play which sport at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence, or be fined 6s. 8d?
Answer: Bowls
Question: Historically, ringing bells were the way of telling time on ships. "8 bells" was rung every how many hours?
Answer: 4
Question: Plato and Xenophon are the most famous pupils of which Greek philosopher?
Answer: Socrates
Question: Who was president of the Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), when, on 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship?
Answer: Jules Rimet
Question: Susan Mayer, Lynette Scavo, Bree Van de Kamp, Gabrielle Solis, Edie Britt, Mary Alice Young, Betty Applewhite, Katherine Mayfair and Karen McCluskey have all lived in which street?
Answer: Wisteria Lane
Question: What was the nationality of the scholar Erasmus?
Answer: Dutch
Question: Who was the sister of the Emperor Augustus and great niece of Julius Caesar who married Mark Anthony?
Answer: Octavia
Question: What is the name given to copper bars arranged in a cylinder, insulated from each other which rotates to connect each section of the armature in turn (in a motor) or to the external current (in a dynamo)?
Answer: Commutator
Question: What nationality was J Landy, who broke Roger Bannister's record for the mile of 3 minutes 59.4 seconds by recording 3 minutes 58 seconds on 21 June 1954?
Answer: Australian
Question: Making their record debut in 1989, what were Squire, Mani, Reni and Brown collectively known as?
Answer: The Stone Roses
Question: In 1818 Bernadotte became King Charles XIV of Sweden due to the influence of whom?
Answer: Napoleon I
Question: Who was president of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress in England and the author of books on sexual hygiene published between 1918 and 1935 including "Married Love", "Radiant Motherhood" and "Marriage in My Time"?
Answer: Marie Stopes
Question: Which country returned to a democratic form of government after the death of dictator Juan Vincente Gomez in 1935?
Answer: Venezuela
Question: In the southern hemisphere, the winds associated with a cyclone, a region of low pressure, blow in which direction?
Answer: Clockwise
Question: Which district of Los Angeles is the centre of the US film industry?
Answer: Hollywood
Question: What is the only Southeast Asian nation that has never been colonised, mainly because it had a long succession of able rulers in the 1800s, and was able to exploit the rivalry between the French and the British?
Answer: Thailand
Question: How many states of the USA have the words North, South, East or West in their name?
Answer: 5
Question: After leading a rebel army for 20 years, Ahmed Sukarno was elected the first president of which country after it was granted independence in 1949?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: What name was given to 6 labourers in Dorset, England, who formed a "Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers" and in 1834 were sentenced to 7 years transportation for "administering unlawful oaths"?
Answer: The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Question: What is the oldest city of European origin, established in 1565 by Pedro Menedesto, that still exists in what is now the USA?
Answer: St Augustine, Florida
Question: Chicago is known as what?
Answer: The Windy City
Question: Which country has won the most medals at the European Beach Volleyball Championship (later known as the Nestea European Championship Final) between 2000 and 2008 inclusive?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Which biblical personality was called Jekuthiel, Heber, Jered, Avi Zanoah, Avi Gedor, Avi Soco, Shemaiah ben Nethanel, Toviah, Levi, Heman, Mechoqeiq and Ehl Gav Ish?
Answer: Moses
Question: Which archipelago, formerly administered by Madagascar, includes the islands of Mayotte, Anjouan, Grande Comore and Moheli?
Answer: Comoro
Question: What title was taken by Napoleon Bonaparte on 2 December 1804?
Answer: Emperor of the French
Question: What was founded in 1560 and, except for intervals in the 17th century, became and continues to be the established church in Scotland ?
Answer: Church of Scotland
Question: Where are the Straits of Bonifacto?
Answer: Between Corsica and Sardinia
Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays did the Montague and Capulet families appear?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Question: Who, on 2 October 1925, transmitted a picture of William Taynton, an office boy from the offices on the floor below his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in Soho, London, from one room to another?
Answer: John Logie Baird
Question: Salvador Allende, General Augusto Pinochet and the "Caravan of Death" are all connected with the history of which country in the 1970s and 1980s?
Answer: Chile
Question: In a film script, what do the letters MCU mean?
Answer: Medium Close Up
Question: What is the name given to the code of Roman law that was "published" with the approval of the Roman Republic in 450 BC?
Answer: The Twelve Tables
Question: What name was given by the Greeks to cave dwellers who supposedly lived in the Caucasus or on the banks of the Red Sea?
Answer: Troglodytes
Question: Professional sidekick Dick Grayson is better known as who?
Answer: Robin
Question: What type of building is famous in Milan, Venice, Florence, Seville, Paris, Chartres, Amiens, Rheims, Cologne, Mainz and Trves?
Answer: Cathedral
Question: In bridge, the four players are referred to as what?
Answer: North, East, South and West
Question: Who was the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until 1991, and the only Soviet leader to have been born after the October Revolution of 1917?
Answer: Gorbachev
Question: Where is Ho Chi Minh City?
Answer: Vietnam
Question: Which film musical ends with "Eliza? Where are my slippers?"
Answer: My Fair Lady
Question: What is the name of the London theatre named after a mineral spring discovered in 1683 when a music house was built there?
Answer: Sadler's Wells
Question: King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the 9th king of the House of Chakri, became the longest reigning current monarch in the world during his reign of which country from 1946?
Answer: Thailand
Question: What is the official name of the spectator area at Wimbledon at the side of No. 1 Court known as Henman Hill or Murray Mound?
Answer: Aorangi Terrace
Question: Where was the landing of the main invasion force on the Italian peninsula in World War II by the allied army (comprising the U.S. Fifth Army and the British Eighth Army) on 9 September 1943?
Answer: Salerno
Question: A Shiite terrorist group founded by Masan Sabbah in 1090 dedicated to the murder of enemy leaders led to which word in the English language?
Answer: Assassin
Question: The success of which English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982 was based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey (vocals) and Johnny Marr (guitar), with the rhythm section of Andy Rourke (bass) and Mike Joyce (drums)?
Answer: The Smiths
Question: What does the Roman Catholic Church collectively call Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Penance, Ordination, Eucharist and Extreme Unction?
Answer: Sacraments
Question: In 1932 the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd unified with the regions of Al-Hasa and Qatif to form which country?
Answer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Question: What is the name given to horse racing over hedges, ditches and other obstacles set on a regular course?
Answer: Steeplechase
Question: Which 17th century composer wrote the opera "L'Orfeo"?
Answer: Claudio Monteverdi
Question: Rod Blagojevich was alleged to have solicited personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the US Senate after Barack Obama resigned because he had been elected President of the USA. He was the Governor of which US state?
Answer: Illinois
Question: The CN Tower which in 1975 became the world's tallest free-standing structure on land is part of the skyline of which city?
Answer: Toronto
Question: Which country dominated basketball at the Olympics, winning all the gold medals in the men's competition from 1936 to 1968 and, from when women's competition started in 1976, won the silver medal at the 1976 Olympics, a bronze medal in 1992, and a gold medal in all the other years?
Answer: USA
Question: Which pantomime is about the Lord Mayor of London?
Answer: Dick Whittington
Question: In August/September 2006, who replaced up to 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD Paris in 48 different UK record stores with his own cover art and remixes by Danger Mouse, with track titles such as "Why am I Famous?", "What Have I Done?" and "What Am I For?"?
Answer: Banksy
Question: What tourist facility, occupying more than 85 acres, opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955?
Answer: Disneyland
Question: Who set a water speed record of 225.6 m.p.h. at Coniston Water in September 1956?
Answer: Donald Campbell
Question: Which 1957 film directed by David Lean was the story of the construction and demolition of a civil engineering work in Burma?
Answer: The Bridge On The River Kwai
Question: In the "Harry Potter" books, students board the train to Hogwarts at Platform 9+34. Which London railway station has erected a sign at a wall between tracks 9 and 10 to commemorate this?
Answer: King's Cross
Question: Which play by John Osborne features a character called Archie Rice, a part written for Laurence Olivier, who played it on stage and in a 1960 film version?
Answer: The Entertainer
Question: What book was published by Immanuel Kant in 1781?
Answer: The Critique of Pure Reason
Question: The Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics published in 1910, 1912 and 1913, with a second edition In 1927, was co-written by Bertrand Russell and who else?
Answer: Alfred North Whitehead
Question: In 1908, the winners of the Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning set a world record of 73 hours aloft that would stand until 1995. What nationality were they?
Answer: Swiss
Question: Which country was granted its independence from colonial rule on 4 July 1946, after being controlled since 1521 by Spain, Britain, the USA, Japan, and the USA (again)?
Answer: The Philippines
Question: Small coloured dots on a squash ball indicate its "bounciness". Which colour, introduced in 2000, is the international competition standard?
Answer: Double-yellow dot
Question: Which country was controlled by Sweden from 1814 (following the Napoleonic wars) until 1905 when Sweden recognised its independence?
Answer: Norway
Question: Until 1965, it was thought that which planet was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and keeping the same face directed towards the Sun at all times, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth?
Answer: Mercury
Question: What airport was known as "Idlewild Airport" when planned in the late 1930s, was renamed "Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport" when construction began in 1943, then "New York International Airport, Anderson Field" when flights began in 1948, had another name change in 1963?
Answer: John F. Kennedy International Airport
Question: The Equitable Life Assurance Building in New York City, built in 1870, and 130 feet (40 m) high, was the first office building to be equipped with what?
Answer: Passenger elevators
Question: In 1799, who discovered nitrous oxide, that made patients insensible to pain, the first true anaesthetic?
Answer: Sir Humphrey Davy
Question: Figure skating was first contested as an Olympic sport at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. There were 5 events: Mens & Ladies singles, Special figures, Mixed pairs, and Ice Dancing. Which country won the most medals (6)?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: Who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)?
Answer: Ignatius Loyola
Question: What condition caused by spasm of arterioles and sometimes small veins, results in the formation of small raised areas that are white or red, affecting mainly fingers and toes, which later throb and itch?
Answer: Chilblains
Question: """Omnibus"" is a word for a common form of public transport taken directly from Latin. What does it mean?"
Answer: For all
Question: When part of Ireland was given a new constitution in 1937, what name was given to it?
Answer: ire
Question: Who was the first driver to complete all 1,100 racing miles (1,800 km), and finish in the top six for both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day (The Double)?
Answer: Tony Stewart
Question: What is the most southerly town in Chile, on the Straits of Magellan?
Answer: Punta Arenas
Question: What equation is considered to be remarkable for its "mathematical beauty", because 3 basic arithmetic operations occur exactly once each (addition, multiplication, and exponentiation), and it links five fundamental mathematical constants: (the numbers 0, 1, , e, and i)?
Answer: Euler's identity
Question: What is the championship game of the US National Football League, the premier association of professional American football, that was first played in 1966?
Answer: Super Bowl
Question: Which Canadian-born bandleader and violinist was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 2002 for his accomplishments in hydroplane racing, such as winning the Gold Cup in 1946 and the Ford Memorial competition in 1948?
Answer: Guy Lombardo
Question: What system of musical notation, originating in the 16th century, shows the fingering of notes on a fretted fingerboard?
Answer: Tablature
Question: Except for 1978, which team won every World Lacrosse Championship between 1967 and 2002?
Answer: USA
Question: Haile Selassie was the ruler of which country?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: According to the fairytale, Cinderella's coach was made from what?
Answer: A pumpkin
Question: What is one of the deadliest pandemics in history, believed to have first reached Europe at the trading city of Caffa in the Crimea in 1347 and peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350?
Answer: The Black Death
Question: The Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381 led by men such as John Ball, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, and the most extreme and widespread insurrection in English history, was about what?
Answer: Taxation
Question: What do we know from childhood goes "twinkle twinkle", "up above the sky so high like a diamond in the sky"?
Answer: Little star
Question: On 19 June 1975, an inquest jury named whom as the murderer of Sandra Rivett, the last time that an inquest was allowed to name the person they suspected of committing such a crime?
Answer: Lord Lucan
Question: What is the name given to 1 April, which, according to ancient custom, is still marked in many countries by carrying out hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication?
Answer: April Fools Day
Question: What complex, once the residence of the Muslim rulers of Granada that became a Christian palace, was "rediscovered" in the 19th century and now exhibits Islamic architecture, together with Christian 16th century buildings and gardens?
Answer: The Alhambra
Question: According to the Bible, which country was hit by ten plagues, including of frogs and locusts?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Whose famous books include "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex", "The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals", " The Power of Movement in Plants" and "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms"?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: 11 November is marked in many countries as Remembrance Day, Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in time of war. Why has that date been selected?
Answer: The end of World War I
Question: What country was established on 1 December 1918 by the union of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbia (which included the Kingdom of Montenegro) and lasted until it was invaded by the Axis powers in 1941?
Answer: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Question: When Russia became a communist state in 1918 with Lenin as dictator, who was his foreign secretary?
Answer: Leon Trotsky
Question: If you have played 50 games and won 30, giving a 60% success rate, how many more games would you have to play to achieve a 75% success rate, assuming that you win them all?
Answer: 30
Question: What author's non-fiction work includes "The Fate of Man", "The Future in America: A Search After Realities", "Little Wars", "The New World Order", "The Outline of History", "Russia in the Shadows" and "A Short History of the World"?
Answer: H G Wells
Question: The boundary of which territory, disputed by the USA and Canada, that had started between the Russian and British Empire in 1821, was resolved by arbitration in 1903?
Answer: Alaska
Question: Argentina became the world champions in Taekwondo at the World Championships in Argentina in 2009. Which country came second?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Which British long running (27 years) police TV drama that began in 1983 ended in 2010?
Answer: The Bill
Question: Jocky Wilson, an unemployed coal delivery man and miner, was World professional Champion in 1982 and 1989 in what sport?
Answer: Darts
Question: In 1989, there was a peaceful transfer of power to non-Communist governments in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and which other country?
Answer: Bulgaria
Question: Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves after seeing a (presumably, too) flattering portrait of her by whom?
Answer: Hans Holbein
Question: In which year did the South African government lift the ban on the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, the South African Communist Party and the United Democratic Front, and release Nelson Mandela from prison?
Answer: 1990
Question: What style of music was made popular in the early 1970s largely due to the fame of Bob Marley, who incorporated nyabinghi and Rastafarian chanting into his music, lyrics and album covers?
Answer: Reggae
Question: In June 2008, Duran Duran played as part of a fundraising effort for building restoration at a venue that had not allowed a rock concert there before. What was the venue?
Answer: The Louvre, Paris