zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: A little appreciated, very common human characteristic is the spilt or separated (technically 'accessory')?
Answer: Fifth toenail
Question: Bammy (Jamaica), Bannock (Scotland), Blaa (Ireland), Bublik (Poland), and Boule (France) are types of?
Answer: Bread
Question: What word for fearful wonderment oddly loses its 'e' when prefixing 'ful' but keeps it when prefixing 'some' and 'struck'?
Answer: Awe
Question: Research (Newcastle University 2015) suggests that Type-2 diabetes is reversible by a very small reduction of fat in the human?
Answer: Pancreas
Question: What affectionate word is a Blackadder TV character and famous English sea rescue heroine?
Answer: Darling
Question: What discipline contains 'asanas' including names such as Half boat, Full boat, Tree, and Happy Baby?
Answer: Yoga
Question: French lawyer Jules Rimet (1873-1956) became the longest serving president (1921-54) of?
Answer: FIFA
Question: In 2015 Kuala Lumpar Airport advertised unclaimed property (requiring collection in 14 days to avoid disposal) of three?
Answer: Jumbo Jets
Question: What legendary ruler visited King Solomon in the Bible, and became a metaphoric/ironic term for a female with delusions of grandeur?
Answer: The Queen of Sheba
Question: Whose family received $7.4m royalties from Pharrell Williams/Robin Thicke after a legal claim in 2015 for illicit use of the song Got to Give it Up?
Answer: Marvin Gaye
Question: The word deltiologist, derived from the Greek 'deltos' meaning writing-tablet, refers to a collector of what?
Answer: Postcards
Question: American Linus Pauling, 1954 Nobel Prizewinner, conceived a helical structure fundamental to?
Answer: DNA
Question: Who created the 1970s persona Thin White Duke, and subsequent brands Glass Spider and Tin Machine?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: What ancient Greek's name is given to the professional/ethical oath of medical doctors?
Answer: Hippocrates
Question: What orange spice/colouring comes from the crocus plant, often associated with rice?
Answer: Saffron
Question: What word is a flat-bottom boat, a football kick, a glassmaking tool, and a dented base of a wine bottle?
Answer: Punt
Question: Rochambo/Rochambeau is better known as (What?), typically used to decide a tie, or determine an order between competitors?
Answer: Rock paper scissors
Question: The fitness corporations Fitbit and Fitbug, subject of legal actions 2013-16, pioneered?
Answer: Wearable technology
Question: Which one of these is not among the three most common gases of the Earth's atmosphere, instead being the most abundant chemical in the Universe?
Answer: Hydrogen
Question: Often suggested as an English national anthem, William Blake's 1804 poem set to Hubert Parry's music is?
Answer: Jerusalem
Question: The character Shylock appears in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Merchant Of Venice
Question: What was Radar's surname in MASH?
Answer: O'Reilly
Question: What of these sports bodies was founded first, the AAA, FA, MCC or IOC?
Answer: MCC
Question: Approximately how much Francium (the rarest metal on the planet) exists on Earth?
Answer: Less than an ounce
Question: Italian clothier Emilio Ceccato redesigned/provided the traditional striped shirts in 2016 for?
Answer: Venice's gondoliers
Question: What once world-leading social networking website was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for $580m in 2005, and sold to Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake for $35m in 2011?
Answer: Myspace
Question: The inventor/first trapeze artist (Paris 1859) who also originated the eponymously named clothing was Jules?
Answer: Leotard
Question: Ostler is an old occupational name for someone who looks after?
Answer: Horses
Question: Teutonic generally historically refers to people of which characteristic?
Answer: Germanic
Question: The first most popular book of seven from CS Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56) is The Lion, The Witch and the?
Answer: Wardrobe
Question: The central financial City of London is known as the (What?) Mile?
Answer: Square
Question: Related to body language, the communications/psychology concept NLP is called fully?
Answer: Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Question: When a person touches his/her nose with finger(s) while talking, this generally indicates?
Answer: Fabrication
Question: Which famous Mormon church leader and educational pioneer died in Salt Lake City in 1877?
Answer: Brigham Young
Question: Mariolatry is the idolatrous worship of whom?
Answer: The Virgin Mary
Question: What is Zurich's main river?
Answer: Limmat
Question: The large 14-35inch elastic plastic exercise ball developed in 1963 by Aquilino Cosani, is called a (What?) ball?
Answer: Swiss
Question: An increasing human/animal health hazard in Europe is the 'Oak Processionary (What?)'?
Answer: Caterpillar
Question: A linen 'stola' is the female equivalent of the Roman man's woollen?
Answer: Toga
Question: In Europe which dangerous natural phenomenon exists only in Portugal, Norway, Iceland, Italy and the Canary Islands?
Answer: Volcanoes
Question: Name the English 'Queen of nine days' (1553), born and raised at Bradgate House at Newtown Linford in Leicestershire?
Answer: Lady Jane Grey
Question: What internationally popular Leicester-formed rock band played at Leicester City FC's Premiership celebrations in May 2016?
Answer: Kasabian
Question: Name the Leicester-born world-class goalscorer for Leicester City FC and England who became a hugely successful TV presenter?
Answer: Gary Lineker
Question: What is the popular Tex-Mex and Mexican dish known in Spanish as 'frijoles refritos'?
Answer: Refried beans
Question: In the original Ebay company logo 1995-2012, which letter was capitalized?
Answer: Y
Question: Haiku, traditionally comprising 17 'morae' and a juxta-position, is a short form of Japanese?
Answer: Poetry
Question: Reflexology therapy primarily involves touching a patient's?
Answer: Feet
Question: John Adair, Hersey & Blanchard, Tannenbaum & Schmidt, and Kurt Lewin are famous theorists in?
Answer: Leadership
Question: What range of hills between Northumberland and the Scottish borders gave their name to a farm breed?
Answer: Cheviot
Question: In 1992 which scientist and philosopher was absolved of heresy by the Vatican?
Answer: Galileo
Question: James Earl Ray was arrested at Heathrow airport in 1968 and subsequently convicted of whose assassination?
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Question: What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin set sail on his voyage around the world in 1831?
Answer: HMS Beagle
Question: The billionnaire Barclay twins' long-running disputes about their private island Brecqhou (or Brechou) are with which Channel Island?
Answer: Sark
Question: Child star Jimmy Boyd sang which hugely popular 1950's Christmas song, which was initially banned by the Catholic Church in Boston because it supposedly mixed sex and Christmas?
Answer: I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
Question: Which diarist noted on 25th December 1662, "(Christmas Day). Had a pleasant walk to White Hall, where I intended to have received the communion with the family, but I have come too late..."
Answer: Samuel Pepys
Question: What is a bicycle called with seats and pedals for two riders, one behind the other?
Answer: Tandem
Question: Which 2007 convicted celebrity drunkard is nicknamed Lilo?
Answer: Lindsay Lohan
Question: Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, previous founders of Kazaa and Skype, launched their new video and TV show distribution website in October 2007 called what?
Answer: Joost.com
Question: Intensive British forces operations in Afghanistan through 2007 were centred in which province?
Answer: Helmand
Question: Following an Ofcom investigation which TV company was judged in September 2007 to be the worst offending in the premium line phone-in scandals?
Answer: GMTV
Question: Blake Fielder-Civil achieved notoriety as whose errant husband?
Answer: Amy Winehouse
Question: What name was given to the 1950-60s mainstream country music style of artists including Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Jim Reeves, and Charlie Rich?
Answer: Nashville Sound
Question: What fruity four-letter acronym is used to identify the traditional main foreign (non-English) languages of the European market?
Answer: FIGS
Question: What relatively modern school of philosophy, popular in literature since the mid 1900s, broadly embodies the notion of individual freedom of choice within a disorded and inexplicable universe?
Answer: Existentialism
Question: Who wrote the significant scientific book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Question: James Carker is a villain in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: Dombey and Son
Question: What was the 1920s arts group centred around Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the district of London which provided the group's name?
Answer: The Bloomsbury Group
Question: Philosopher and writer Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832, is associated with what school of thought?
Answer: Utilitarianism
Question: Who wrote the plays Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard?
Answer: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Question: With which troubled son are parents Laius and Jocasta associated?
Answer: Oedipus
Question: Who established Britain's first printing press in 1476?
Answer: William Caxton
Question: In 2008 billionaire financier Carl Icahn joined the board of what large internet corporation in a deal which saw him cease his fight to oust its leaders?
Answer: Yahoo
Question: For which national team did the cricketer play who was alleged to have called an Australian opponent a monkey, resulting in the suspension of the Australian tour of that country?
Answer: India
Question: In October 2008 which country was first to follow Ireland in announcing it would guarantee all bank deposits, in the wake of the global financial crisis?
Answer: Greece
Question: Which American entertainer famously parodied Sarah Palin during the 2008 US presidential elections?
Answer: Tina Fey
Question: Which country ended its combat role in Iraq on 1 June 2008 with the withdrawal of its 500 troops from Nasiriyah?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which driver did Louis Hamilton overtake in the final seconds of the Brazilian Grand Prix to clinch fifth place and thereby win the 2008 F1 Championship?
Answer: Timo Glock
Question: In March 2008 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation announced a photographic competition to mark the International Year of the what?
Answer: Potato
Question: Which jazz musician and presenter of BBC Radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue died on 25 April 2008?
Answer: Humphrey Lyttelton
Question: A court in which country was reported in March 2008 to have convicted a bear for stealing honey from a beekeeper?
Answer: Macedonia
Question: Which Dickens' character was always 'expecting something to turn up'?
Answer: MR MICAWBER
Question: What was the nuclear power station Sellafield previously known as?
Answer: Windscale
Question: Who shot Martin Luther King in 1968?
Answer: James Earl Ray
Question: Port Said is in which North African country?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Black Dog and Blind Pew are characters in which novel?
Answer: Treasure Island
Question: What was singer Tony Bennett's only No1 UK hit single (as at 2009)?
Answer: Stranger in Paradise
Question: Under the British Coal Mines Act of 1911 what age did a pit pony have to be before going underground?
Answer: Four
Question: An eyas is what young creature taken from the wild for training?
Answer: Hawk
Question: Bertrand Russell was a founder member of which British peace-movement organisation, established in 1957?
Answer: CND
Question: On which island did Noel Coward spend the last 23 years of his life?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: A Hoosier is a native of which American state?
Answer: Indiana
Question: What three-letter Latin term used commonly in English translated literally as 'road' or 'way'?
Answer: Via
Question: Helvetia is the female personification of which country, appearing on its coins and stamps, etc?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: What alcoholic drink is distilled from the agave plant?
Answer: Tequila
Question: Name the fraudulent chairman of Polly Peck who jumped bail and fled to Cyprus in 1993?
Answer: Asil Nadir
Question: What word meaning vanity derives from the fallen Greek god who perished while transfixed by his reflection in a pool of water?
Answer: Narcissism
Question: A delusional jealous belief that a partner is unfaithful is known in psychiatry as what syndrome, after a Shakespeare character?
Answer: Othello syndrome
Question: Whose tale in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales tells of a knight sent away by his queen to discover what women want above all else?
Answer: The Wife of Bath
Question: Alicante, Golden Boy and Piranto are types of what?
Answer: Tomato
Question: In Greek mythology what is a nymph called who inhabits a wood or a tree?
Answer: Dryad
Question: In cricket what is a batsman's score of nought commonly called?
Answer: A duck
Question: What red-blooming Christmas plant came originally from Mexico?
Answer: Poinsettia
Question: Choirboy Peter Auty sang the film version of which song later recorded as a hit record by Aled Jones?
Answer: Walking in the Air
Question: What is the name of Dorothy Gale's dog in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: Toto
Question: Born Christmas day 1908, by what name was gay icon author of The Naked Civil Servant popularly known?
Answer: Quentin Crisp
Question: In technical astronomical terms what is the duration of the winter solstice; an instant, a day, three months, or six months?
Answer: An instant
Question: Metachrosis is the ability of some animals to do what?
Answer: Change colour
Question: From what island destination was HMS Bounty returning when its famous mutiny occurred?
Answer: Tahiti
Question: What pub paraphernalia does a tegestologist collect?
Answer: Beermats
Question: Cartoonist and screenwriter Millard Kaufman, who died in March 2009, created which short-sighted character?
Answer: Mr Magoo
Question: In 2009 the Tamil Tigers conceded defeat as a rebel force in which country's civil war?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: What successful Broadway musical written by Mel Brooks opened controversially in Berlin?
Answer: The Producers
Question: In which island nation were president Marc Ravalomanama's offices stormed by his own country's army in March 2009?
Answer: Madagascar
Question: Name the British mercenary given a presidential pardon from his 34 year jail term for his part in a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea?
Answer: Simon Mann
Question: In what country did President Hugo Chavez disagree with Coca-Cola about land for housing?
Answer: Venezuela
Question: What international organization did Albania and Croatia join on 1st April 2009?
Answer: NATO
Question: Which band performed a massive controversial concert at the Brandenberg Gate celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Answer: U2
Question: Nashville based Mac McAnally was named for the second consecutive year Musician of the Year at which 2009 awards event?
Answer: CMA Awards
Question: What was serial killer John Christie's London address, and the title of the 1970 film about him starring Richard Attenborough?
Answer: 10 Rillington Place
Question: Joseph Addison and Richard Steele founded (in 1711), and Boris Johnson edited, which British magazine?
Answer: The Spectator
Question: What formal two-word term refers to the investigation before completing a business investment or acquisition?
Answer: Due diligence
Question: People born between about 1960-1980 are often referred to as Generation what?
Answer: X
Question: What word, meaning something left in a will, refers to an old and incompatible organisational computing system?
Answer: Legacy
Question: Former FBI director W Mark Felt revealed himself in 2005 to be what codenamed whistleblower?
Answer: Deep Throat
Question: Which Beatle was first to become a grandfather?
Answer: Ringo Starr
Question: To whom are the words 'Veni Vidi Vici' attributed, after he defeated Pharnaces the Second of Pontus?
Answer: Julius Caesar
Question: What official reporting statement shows a company's financial situation, notably assets, at a point in time?
Answer: Balance sheet
Question: What Latin warning phrase attempts to transfer risk to users or customers, meaning 'Buyer Beware'?
Answer: Caveat Emptor
Question: In Greek mythology what is the name of the youth loved and accidentally killed by Apollo, and from whose blood Apollo caused a flower to grow?
Answer: Hyacinth
Question: What hit song by the Crash Test Dummies comprised four three-letter words all containing the same letter?
Answer: Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Question: What country was previously called Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: In golf what slang refers to a free extra stroke sometimes allowed informally after a poor shot, typically off the first tee?
Answer: Mulligan
Question: At a 2010 Cheltenham festival Katie Walsh received a four day ban for excessive use of what?
Answer: The whip
Question: The 6th century book attributed to Sun Tzu often appied to leadership is called The Art of... what?
Answer: War
Question: ISO 9000 and its series of international quality management system standards used in industry and commerce, effectively superseded what British Standard number?
Answer: BS5750
Question: What country comprises the peninsula of Jutland and over 400 islands including Zealand and Funen?
Answer: Denmark
Question: What long-necked instrument, now usually with four pairs of strings, originated in Greece and is still popularly associated with Greek music?
Answer: Bouzouki
Question: The city of Breda is in which European country?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: The suffix 'stan' in a country's name such as Afghanistan derives from what early Indo-European meaning?
Answer: Stand
Question: Credited with popularising the girl's name Wendy in a famous children's book, who also wrote the stage play The Admirable Crichton?
Answer: J M Barrie
Question: Which animal represents the Chinese year 2010?
Answer: Tiger
Question: The Gaudi designed Sagrada Familia church, whose construction began in 1882 and is unlikely to finish before 2026, is in which European city?
Answer: Barcelona
Question: In Japan the word Mikado originally referred to what?
Answer: The emperor
Question: What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai?
Answer: Bombay
Question: Name the London borough and Royal Observatory site which marks international time?
Answer: Greenwich
Question: What pigment especially associated with oil painting, derives its name from heat treatment and a Tuscany city?
Answer: Burnt Sienna
Question: The TV presenter and journalist born Kim Taylor in November 1960 is better known by what name?
Answer: Magenta Devine
Question: What is the famous eastern seaboard of Nicaragua and south Honduras, named after its Native American Indian people, and more commonly known in its westernized misunderstood form?
Answer: The Miskito Coast
Question: Which 19th century poet and novelist, when age twenty-six, married his thirteen year old cousin?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
Question: In male nobility what title is conventionally regarded to be the next level below that of Emperor?
Answer: King
Question: Al Maghrib - a common shortening of al-Mamlaka al-Magribiyya ('The Western Kingdom') - is the local name for which country?
Answer: Morocco
Question: Which word best meets the definition "The incline of the stage floor (or the theatre floor) away from the horizontal (lower at the downstage end)"?
Answer: Rake
Question: What game is also known as "Literati", "Alfapet", "Funworder", "Skip-A-Cross", "Spelofun", "Palabras Cruzadas" and "Word for Word"?.
Answer: Scrabble
Question: Which British band, a four-piece when it formed in the early 1960's, is still touring although only the singer and guitarist/composer, are still alive?
Answer: The Who
Question: Which film, Alfred Hitchcock's first as producer as well as director, starred Cary Grant, working with Hitchcock for the first time, and Joan Fontaine, who won Best Actress Oscar for it?
Answer: Suspicion
Question: What fraction, having 10 or a multiple thereof as the denominator, is represented by a full stop?
Answer: Decimal
Question: What is the baseball term coined by Henry Chadwick to collectively call the pitcher and the catcher?
Answer: The battery
Question: In which 1988 Academy Award-winning film did Dustin Hoffman play a character with special mental powers called Raymond Babbitt?
Answer: Rain Man
Question: What is the name for two collections of lymphoid tissues, one on either side of the throat, level with the base of the tongue?
Answer: Tonsils
Question: What Pope took office on 21 June 1963?
Answer: Paul VI
Question: What were first introduced in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in May 1, 1840, promoted by Rowland Hill?
Answer: Postage stamps
Question: What theory, developed by Franz Joseph Gall, in which personality traits were determined by "reading" bumps and fissures in the skull, was once considered a science?
Answer: Phrenology
Question: Both opposing generals, the British general Wolfe, and the French general Montcalm, were killed in a battle for which city in 1759?
Answer: Quebec
Question: In the 1960's, record players were manufactured to revolve at 78, 45 and 33 revolutions per minute, and what other speed?
Answer: 16 rpm
Question: What Italian film, released in 1999, told the story of a Jewish family sent to a concentration camp in World War II?
Answer: Life is Beautiful
Question: Who, in 1948 at London, equalled the record of winning 4 gold medals at one Olympics, set at the previous Games by Jesse Owens?
Answer: Fanny Blankers-Koen
Question: Of whom, when told he intended to return to private life and retire to his plantation, did King George III say, "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world"?
Answer: George Washington
Question: Who, in 1831, first demonstrated that the motion of a conductor in a magnetic field generates an electric current?
Answer: Michael Faraday
Question: What Indian people drove out the Toltecs and were conquered by Spain in the 16th century?
Answer: Aztecs
Question: What was the title of Stephen Kings first novel, in which a telekinetic woman exacts deadly revenge on her high school classmates?
Answer: Carrie
Question: Which scientist allegedly used mirrors to focus the sun's rays to burn Roman ships during the Siege of Syracuse around 214212 BC?
Answer: Archimedes
Question: Where was the battle fought between the Royalist forces under Prince Rupert and Oliver Cromwell's men in June 1645 that was the key to the final downfall of Royalist forces a year later?
Answer: Naseby
Question: Who received a replacement gold medal at the 1996 Olympics for the one he allegedly threw away after being refused service in a whites-only restaurant in his home town?
Answer: Cassius Clay
Question: What is the name given to the hypotheses, now superseded, that the movement of continents and the appearance of new crustal material at mid-ocean ridges is because the Earth's volume is increasing?
Answer: Expanding Earth
Question: Mahatma Gandhi led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with what 400 km (249 mile) journey in 1930?
Answer: Dandi Salt March
Question: Which building was attacked at the start of the French Revolution on 14 July 1789 because it was symbolic of injustice?
Answer: The Bastille
Question: During World War II, where was the HQ of the English code cracking unit that was set up to decipher the output from the "Enigma" machine?
Answer: Bletchley Park
Question: Who, in the 16th century, published "Orbium Coelestium", the theory that underlies our current understanding of the relationship of the earth to the sun and the planets?
Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus
Question: According to Greek legend, whose fate was to stand near the garden of the Hesperides and support the universe on his shoulders?
Answer: Atlas
Question: Nelson beat Napoleon's fleet, which lost 13 of 17 ships, in which battle in Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1793?
Answer: Battle of the Nile
Question: Launched on 4 March 2001 as the largest ship operated by the U S Navy, this aircraft carrier is named after which past U S president?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: In Britain, what was the name given to the M4 Medium Tank that was produced by the US from World War II until the end of the Korean War?
Answer: Sherman