zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: London's Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is traditionally given by which country?
Answer: Norway
Question: What Christmas item was invented by London baker and wedding-cake specialist Tom Smith in 1847?
Answer: Christmas cracker
Question: India mines/produces 60% of the world's (what mineral?), used in hi-tech industries for its properties of insulation, transparency, and machining tolerance?
Answer: Mica
Question: Dainik Jagran is (at 2014) India's, and perhaps the world's, most popular?
Answer: Newspaper
Question: What is India's country internet TLD (top level domain)?
Answer: .in
Question: Sandeep Singh is a famously successful player and ex-national team captain in which sport, in which India traditionally excels?
Answer: Hockey
Question: Prasar Bharati (at 2014) is India's major?
Answer: Public service broadcaster
Question: What is India's international telephone dialling code?
Answer: 91
Question: The Punch, Thisday, and Nigerian Tribune are long-standing popular Nigerian what?
Answer: Newspapers
Question: Nigeria's international telephone country code is?
Answer: 234
Question: Name the independent state which warred unsuccessfully for independence within and against Nigeria (1967-1970), resulting in vast-scale casualties and famine?
Answer: Biafra
Question: Mexico is dissected by the?
Answer: Tropic of Cancer
Question: Bolsa Mexicana de Valores is the Mexican?
Answer: Stock exchange
Question: Pumas, Tigres, Jaguares, Xolos, and Chivas are popular Mexican what?
Answer: Football clubs
Question: The official national sport of Mexico, the charreada (or charrería), involves?
Answer: Horse-riding
Question: Garuda Indonesia is the country's official national?
Answer: Airline
Question: Indonesia is dissected by the?
Answer: Equator
Question: Indonesia has the world's largest area of what vegetation?
Answer: Mangrove
Question: Indonesia's international telephone country code is?
Answer: 62
Question: Goreng, Bakar, Tumis, Rebus, and Kukus are major Indonesian?
Answer: Cooking styles
Question: Bandung, Tangerang, Palembang, Semarang and Serang are popular Indonesian?
Answer: Cities
Question: Kemalism, modern Turkey's foundational six-principled socio-political philosophy, is also called the Six?
Answer: Arrows
Question: Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş and Trabzonspor are famous Turkish?
Answer: Football clubs
Question: Turkey's international telephone calling code is?
Answer: 90
Question: A sudden life-changing revelation, derived from St Paul's (Saul's) biblical mid-journey vision of God, is called the Road to (Where?)?
Answer: Damascus
Question: A 46-year-old British woman made the news in 2014 when in Croatia she was married to her?
Answer: Dog
Question: An enligtening paradoxical anecdote with no solution, used in Zen Buddhism, illustrating shortcomings of logical reasoning is a?
Answer: Koan
Question: Which modern popular low-shedding canine portmanteau crossbreed was popularized in the late 1980s for its low-allergen qualities by Australia's Royal Guide Dog Association?
Answer: Labradoodle
Question: Which modern-day item of clothing was worn at and named after the 1853-56 Crimean War battle/town, part of Sevastopol since 1957?
Answer: Balaclava
Question: The word gladiator derives from the Latin/Roman word for?
Answer: Sword
Question: According to a study of international Wikipedia articles who did Massachusetts Institute of Technology judge the most famous person of all time (at 2014)?
Answer: Aristotle
Question: A sequin originally (in Arabic, sikka, and later Italian zecca) referred to the production of?
Answer: Coins
Question: A Fathometer is an old genericized trademark for an instrument which measures?
Answer: Water depth
Question: The silk thread of a silkworm cocoon can be up to how many meteres long?
Answer: 900
Question: Which real music-related town has according to legend hosted King Arthur and Guinevere in death, Lancelot in penance, the Holy Grail in hiding?
Answer: Glastonbury
Question: What is the the sum of ten consecutive prime numbers starting with 13?
Answer: 300
Question: Yahrzeit is a (what?) in Jewish culture?
Answer: Anniversary
Question: The highest recorded bird strike by an aircraft is a?
Answer: Vulture
Question: The old English words 'erst' and 'erstwhile' mean?
Answer: Past
Question: The Sola plant (Aeschynomene aspera) from India/S Asia is used to make what famous headwear?
Answer: Pith helmet
Question: Popular in Indian subcontinental cuisine, gram flour is made from?
Answer: Chickpeas
Question: The official logos for organic product certification in the EU, Japan, Australia and Canada all feature a?
Answer: Leaf
Question: What original Mrs Beeton sandwich filling did the Royal Society of Chemistry propose in 2014 as the most economically enjoyable?
Answer: Toast
Question: 'The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street' is a nickname for?
Answer: The Bank of England
Question: What form of breadcrumbed fried food, often containing mashed potato, is named from French 'to crunch'?
Answer: Croquette
Question: Where in 2014 became the last European territory to decriminalize sex between men?
Answer: Northern Cyprus
Question: Chinese technology entrepreneur Jack Ma founded which vast internet corporation, which (in the 2010s) handles c.80% of China's online shopping?
Answer: Alibaba
Question: The ancient Greek portmanteau word 'necropolis' refers to?
Answer: Cemetery
Question: Which major African institution has the website www.cbn.gov.ng?
Answer: Central Bank of Nigeria
Question: Everlast, Winning, and Grant are famous equipment brands for?
Answer: Boxing
Question: Technically the avocado ('fruit' of the avocado tree) is a?
Answer: Berry
Question: From the Greek root word for a pointed pillar, what is the technical term for the division sign ( ÷ ) ?
Answer: Obelus
Question: What common mineral's name (technically silica or SiO2) derives from old Polish-German 'kwardy', meaning 'hard'?
Answer: Quartz
Question: AgustaWestland, Bell, Oboronprom and Sikorsky are notable makers of?
Answer: Helicopters
Question: Baroque (a dramatic heavily detailed style of art form) began in?
Answer: 1600s Rome
Question: The human body's axilla or oxter is more commonly called the Elbow; Armpit; Upper jaw; or Eyelid?
Answer: Armpit
Question: The Nazi exclamation 'Sieg heil' means?
Answer: Hail victory
Question: What tree and its resin, whose name derives from Greek meaning 'chew', inspired the development of of chewing gum and various industrial sealants?
Answer: Mastic
Question: What is a fifth of a half?
Answer: A tenth
Question: 'The Four Humours' ancient concept of personality asserted what 'mood' is produced by phlegm in the body?
Answer: Calmness
Question: What's a half plus a third?
Answer: Five-sixths
Question: What famous suncream is named after a mountain in Switzerland?
Answer: Piz Buin
Question: What is five-eighths of sixteen?
Answer: Ten
Question: To which major biblical event did the 'burning bush' direct Moses? The Sermon on the Mount; The Ten Commandments; Jesus' birth; or Noah's Ark?
Answer: The Ten Commandments
Question: What two-word slang is an open quarry, secondary glassblowing furnace, dam/reservoir spillway, and a small opening in a wall for anonymous sexual cooperation either side?
Answer: Glory hole
Question: Originating in Turkish cuisine terminology the 'shish' in a shish kebab refers to? Lamb; Skewer; Spice; or the 'Sizzle' sound?
Answer: Skewer
Question: What word is punningly used to describe serious campers?
Answer: Intense
Question: What is not required by the rules of soccer?
Answer: Goal net
Question: The headquarters of FIFA are in Brussels; London; Zurich, or Oslo?
Answer: Zurich
Question: The centre circle of a soccer pitch is used only at kick-offs/re-starts, and in which other game feature?
Answer: Penalty shoot-outs
Question: Name the core specialism of notable Anglo-Danish industrialist Sir Ove Nyquist Arup (1895-1988) and the global (Arup Group) corporation he created?
Answer: Structural engineering
Question: Derived from Latin for 'place', what anglicized French word commonly means 'instead' in formal communications?
Answer: Lieu
Question: A modern 'balance bicycle' is purpose-designed for?
Answer: Children
Question: The green jersey is worn by the Tour de France's?
Answer: Best sprinter
Question: Developed, named (c.1950) and hugely popular in Japan for gambling, what Olympic track cycling event requires riders to follow a motorized bike until the last few hundred metres of free sprint?
Answer: Keirin
Question: Created by marine biologist/animator Stephen Hillenburg, Nickelodeon's $8bn grossing and most distributed media property of MTV networks (at mid-2010s)?
Answer: Spongebob Squarepants
Question: Gargoyles on buildings traditionally support?
Answer: Guttering
Question: After international electronic surveillance revelations in 2014, German government officials reportedly reverted to using?
Answer: Typewriters
Question: Generally what metalwork process extracts a metal from its ore?
Answer: Smelting
Question: Hinnomaki Red, Invicta, Pax and Hairy Amber are types of which Ribes genus fruit?
Answer: Gooseberry
Question: Jam, Wing, Acorn, T, and Hex are types of what?
Answer: Nut
Question: Suchen, Buscar, Rechercher and Zoeken appear commonly on German, Spanish, French and Dutch language websites, all meaning what?
Answer: Search
Question: Traditional 'western' breadmaking generally requires flour defined as?
Answer: Strong
Question: 'Lager' beer is named from German meaning?
Answer: Storehouse
Question: In biochemistry the suffix '-ose' usually denotes what common sort of substance?
Answer: Sugar
Question: A 'night glow' features in which sort of festival?
Answer: Hot air balloons
Question: Which 1947-originated DeBeers slogan is according to Advertising Age magazine the best advertising slogan of the 20th century (perhaps aided by a 1956 Fleming creation)?
Answer: """A Diamond Is Forever"""
Question: The European supermarket corporation Netto was founded and remains (at 2014) headquartered in?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Whose logo features two pulling horses and the words 'original riveted'?
Answer: Levi's
Question: The technical term 'Wearing Course' is used in?
Answer: Road surfacing
Question: The word dinosaur is from Greek 'deinos saurus' meaning?
Answer: Terrible lizard
Question: What is a 3D crystal structure in physics and a criss-cross pastry pie top?
Answer: Lattice
Question: Al Jazeera means 'The (What?)'?
Answer: Island
Question: What was a originally an ancient Greek post-banquet drinking party, and nowadays refers to a researchers/academic conference?
Answer: Symposium
Question: Which punningly alliteratively named professor drove the No3 Convert-a-Car in Wacky Races?
Answer: Pat Pending
Question: Burlap is an old material traditionally used in making?
Answer: Sacks
Question: The fin whale, second largest animal after the blue whale, excretes approximately how many litres per day?
Answer: 1,000
Question: In Australian slang, someone called a 'mollydooker' is a?
Answer: Left-handed
Question: Bosintang/Boshintang (or Gaejangguk) is a Korean soup of declining popularity made chiefly of what meat?
Answer: Dog
Question: What medieval term for a knights' equestrian tournament is also a fairground ride and an airport mechanism?
Answer: Carousel
Question: Which German rye bread is named, according to many reliable sources, from the original meaning 'Devil's fart'?
Answer: Pumpernickel
Question: Dart, mushroom, grain, notions, and piping are terms used in what handicraft?
Answer: Sewing
Question: What typically pluralized instrument is named from Spanish 'chestnut'?
Answer: Castanets
Question: A solenoid, featured in electromagnetic valves and switches of that name, is a?
Answer: Helix
Question: A full moon which coincides with its closest proximity to Earth is called a '(What?) moon'?
Answer: Harvest
Question: The prefix 'meso' usually means?
Answer: Middle
Question: The 1997 BS and 2005 EN No1836 safety standard applies to?
Answer: Sunglasses
Question: The sulphate/sulfate used as a contrast agent for gastro-intenstinal x-rays contains which metallic element?
Answer: Barium
Question: Shellshock, in Bash, was in 2014 described as the most dangerous (what?) since Heartbleed?
Answer: Computer bug
Question: In what discipline was Alex Jesaulenko's 'Mark of the Century'?
Answer: Australian Rules Football
Question: Name IBM's artificial intelligence computer, which answers 'knowledge' questions with startling effectiveness, named after the company's first CEO/chairman (coincidentally the name of a doctor/narrator noted for asking questions of a famous detective)?
Answer: Watson
Question: What famous corporation, having a flying crane logo, is named from Germany's late-medieval defensive commercial federation the Hanseatic League, and word for 'air'?
Answer: Lufthansa
Question: Which famous online brand is a green circle containing three stacked arcs?
Answer: Spotify
Question: What is a remark, act, or chess move seeking advantage, from Italian for trip-up, and leg?
Answer: Gambit
Question: Which fictional family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, California?
Answer: The Munsters
Question: Pioneering collaborative UK/Poland surgery to repair human spinal cord was demonstrated in 2014 using what uniquely regenerating human nerve cells?
Answer: Olfactory
Question: Equating to Roman goddess Diana, name Apollo's huntress chaste twin sister, also ironically a 600-customer Berlin brothel?
Answer: Artemis
Question: The parts that enable a guitar to be tuned are called?
Answer: Machines
Question: What slightly eponymously US discount store brand/corporation was founded by Farmer's son Sebastian Kresge c.1900?
Answer: K-Mart
Question: The Japanese term Ekiden refers to a long race characterized by?
Answer: Relay
Question: Atomic weight is expressed/measured to a standard based on the common isotope (12) of which element?
Answer: Carbon
Question: Common in Middle East and North Africa, a souq (also souk, shuk, suk, sooq, suq, etc) is a?
Answer: Marketplace
Question: What popular office product/brand did Bette Nesmith Graham (mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith) invent and later sell to Gillette for nearly $50m in 1979?
Answer: Liquid Paper
Question: Ido is the relatively unpopular improved version of what, first devised by Polish physician Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917)?
Answer: Esperanto
Question: Yildiz Holding, one of the world's largest confectionery corporations and acquirer of United Biscuits in 2014, is what 'MINT' nationality?
Answer: Turkish
Question: Name the largest pre-Columbian/Hispanic city of South America, in Peru, and also the name of a popular song from Cuba?
Answer: Chan Chan
Question: Glycyrrhizin, from the Glycyrrhiza glabra plant, used in medicine, is more generally known for the distinctive sweet characteristic of what confection, famously produced (among other varieties/sources) in Pontefract, W Yorkshire?
Answer: Liquorice
Question: Name Bette Midler's early-career pianist and co-producer of The Divine Miss M debut album, who became a major star in his own right?
Answer: Barry Manilow
Question: What is the number 333 in Roman numerals?
Answer: CCCXXXIII
Question: The Soma Cube is a classic 3D puzzle comprising how many angular shapes, being all possible combinations of 3 or 4 wholly-joined cube-parts?
Answer: 7
Question: Name Finnish writer Tove Jansson's Hippo-like children's character franchise, originally in Swedish books 1945-93, TV/film and the popular '(What?) World' theme park in Naantali, Finland?
Answer: Moomin
Question: The term 'grandee', a high-ranking person, referred originally to noblemen of?
Answer: Iberia
Question: Under standard conditions, the lightest and least dense of all metallic elements is?
Answer: Lithium
Question: Which fictional small people, in a famous 1939 film and prior LF Baum book series, became in 2007 the largest group represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Answer: The Munchkins
Question: What was Miley Cyrus's award-winning record-breaking 2014 video/hit song, being the thing on which she controversially swung nude?
Answer: Wrecking Ball
Question: In May 2014 the World Health Organization declared an international emergency due to major outbreaks of what nearly-eradicated disease?
Answer: Polio
Question: The heavily hyped end-November shopping day of mass brawling for bargains in UK stores in 2014 is called?
Answer: Black Friday
Question: What was the first day of the week in 2014?
Answer: Wednesday
Question: According to 2014 Twitter statistics, how many million tweets are sent every day?
Answer: 500
Question: What kitchen-related term refers to a major music publishing/retailing street, notably Manhattan's West 28th Street and London's Denmark Street?
Answer: Tin Pan Alley
Question: London's Claridge's hotel restaurant attracted pavement demonstrations in 2014 after objecting to a customer's?
Answer: Breastfeeding a baby
Question: What's the only major traditional British pantomime based on a real life person?
Answer: Dick Whittington
Question: Anser is the genus name for which family of creatures whose fat is traditional in cooking?
Answer: Goose
Question: The notable drinks brands/makers Warninks, De Kuyper and Bols all originated in what country?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: In the Christian calendar the 1st of January is traditionally a feast celebrating Christ's what?
Answer: Circumcision
Question: The Indian wind instrument, the pungi (also been or bin), is associated with what street activity?
Answer: Snake charming
Question: The emblem of the Rainforest Alliance, which promotes and certifies sustainable rainforest business globally, is a green?
Answer: Frog
Question: FAST is the very apt acronym for recognizing and reacting to what sort of medical emergency?
Answer: Stroke
Question: What word meaning official procedure derives ultimately from Greek root words for first and glue?
Answer: Protocol
Question: 15 June 2015 is the 8th centenary of what seminal governance and human rights instrument?
Answer: Magna Carta
Question: The main filling of a Scotch pie, (or shell pie) is traditionally?
Answer: Mutton
Question: The famous Hallé symphony orchestra was founded and is based in which city?
Answer: Manchester
Question: Marron glacé is a confection of glazed sugar-coated what?
Answer: Chestnuts
Question: Name the debatably categorized celestial body that NASA's New Horizons probe targeted in 2015 after 9 years and 3bn miles?
Answer: Pluto
Question: The inclusion of 'C/O' or 'C O' in a postal address means what?
Answer: Care Of
Question: The word 'fabulous' originally referred to something?
Answer: Mythical
Question: What common product is named from Greek 'rock oil'?
Answer: Petroleum
Question: Which famous vehicle has used licence plates SCV 00919 and SCV 1 (through to SCV 9)?
Answer: The Popemobile
Question: The world's bitterest chemical Denatonium, branded 'Bitrex' and 'Aversion', is used in?
Answer: Shampoo
Question: The famous song Una Paloma Blanca means in Spanish a white?
Answer: Dove
Question: Which city has the most moving bridges in the world?
Answer: Chicago
Question: In music what note is a tone above B?
Answer: C#
Question: What informal term for illicit or counterfeit product derives from smuggling liquor in footwear?
Answer: Bootleg
Question: The flags of China, Japan, Argentina, Uruguay, Greenland and Bangladesh share what common feature?
Answer: Sun
Question: What mathematical term for a part derives from ecclesiastical Latin for 'breaking bread'?
Answer: Fraction
Question: What's the cube root of 125,000?
Answer: 50
Question: The byssal threads of a water-dwelling mussel which attach to a surface are commonly called its?
Answer: Beard
Question: What seed-eating bird, genus fringilla, native to Europe/Asia/N Africa, is named after cereal crop waste from which it forages?
Answer: Chaffinch
Question: Noted for his humilty and rejection of personal wealth/benefits Jose Mujica was the former guerrilla fighter and popular president of which South American country 2010-15?
Answer: Uruguay
Question: Michael Ibsen, descendent and 2012 DNA match-proof for English King Richard III, was also (What?) at Richard III's reinterment in 2015?
Answer: Casket-maker
Question: Approximately how many litres of water is required to produce a kilo of grain-fed beef?
Answer: 15,000
Question: """I wandered lonely as a cloud"" is William Wordsworth's poem about?"
Answer: Daffodils
Question: Name Warren Buffett's investment corporation, which he bought in 1964, ostensibly to sack its boss who had made him angry?
Answer: Berkshire Hathaway
Question: The Italian word 'scuderia' typically referring to a motor racing team, eg Scuderia Ferrari, means?
Answer: Stable
Question: The eponymous cannabis brand launched in 2015 by a famous country music singer is?
Answer: Willie's Reserve
Question: What is the area of an isosceles right-angled triangle whose short sides are 2 metres each?
Answer: 2 square metres
Question: The position of the Arctic Circle was/is determined by?
Answer: Sun visibility
Question: Australia's Liberal National, USA's Democratic, and Israel's Likud political parties are all traditionally branded what colour/color?
Answer: Blue
Question: The 1957 'Synchrocyclotron' near Geneva was the forerunner for what world's biggest machine, 'LHC' built 1998-2008?
Answer: Large Hadron Collider
Question: What is the fourth root of 16?
Answer: 2
Question: What sort of sports shoe is the Adidas Stan Smith?
Answer: Tennis
Question: What concept, originated by the Duke of Wellington for military study, was named in 1959 in referring to Palo Alto's Center for Behavioral Sciences?
Answer: Think Tank
Question: The 1880-founded Northamptonshire UK company Loake Brothers, whose products unusually comprise up to 75 parts, is famed for making high quality?
Answer: Shoes
Question: US billionaire publisher and 3-term New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly targeted which role for 2016?
Answer: London Mayor
Question: Maltese physician Edward de Bono is noted for his pioneering work on?
Answer: Lateral Thinking
Question: What takes roughly 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds?
Answer: Earth's rotation
Question: New York housewife Jean Nidetch (1923-2015) founded which global organization, sold to Heinz in 1978 for $71m?
Answer: Weight Watchers
Question: The American pika, closely related to rabbits and hares, is commonly called a?
Answer: Coney
Question: What is Australia's national bird?
Answer: Emu
Question: What does the 'Real' mean in the names of Real Madrid and Real Sociedad Spanish footbal clubs?
Answer: Royal
Question: According to legend, the sheltering of a Spanish ship in Dundee, late-1700s, prompted James and Janet Keiller to buy its cargo of (What?), thus founding a major new product/business?
Answer: Oranges
Question: Which 12-15C royal household was named after French Geoffrey d'Anjou's association with the broom shrub, medieval Latin 'planta genista'?
Answer: Plantagenet
Question: What is the biggest country by area in Africa?
Answer: Algeria
Question: The Latin 'Tabula Rasa' (a term covering various philosophical concepts, e.g., humans minds are 'empty' at birth) translates literally to mean what?
Answer: Blank Slate
Question: What weapon is named from the French word meaning scratch or graze?
Answer: Rifle
Question: A car moving at 30 miles per hour will travel how far in 10 minutes?
Answer: 5 miles
Question: 'God be with you' is the full original form of which common word?
Answer: Goodbye
Question: The Virginia Native American, Matoaka, aka Amonute, captured by the English 1613, becoming Rebecca Rolfe (c1595-1617), is better known by what name (also a 1995 Disney film)?
Answer: Pocahontas
Question: The Cunard organization's Elizabeth, Victoria, and Mary 2 are?
Answer: Cruise ships
Question: In 2015 Norway unveiled the world's tallest statue (10m) of a what, 30cm higher than Canada's?
Answer: Elk
Question: The process of becoming a (What?) begins with Aspirancy, then Postulancy and Novitiate?
Answer: Nun
Question: 'Pas de deux' in dressage and ballet equates to a what?
Answer: Duet
Question: Anna Wintour is globally famous in?
Answer: Fashion
Question: The Swiss-founded Hublot corporation famously provides certain major sports events?
Answer: Timekeeping