zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What name did the artist Michelangelo Merisi adopt ?
Answer: CARAVAGGIO
Question: Which English king was known as 'Old Rowley' ?
Answer: CHARLES II
Question: Which river, situated near the mouth of the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway, hosts over 5000 weddings each year ?
Answer: GRETNA
Question: In which 1959 film did an opera singer called Claude Heater play Jesus Christ, but was not creedited as his face was never shown ?
Answer: BEN HUR
Question: Which fairytale character did the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas voice in the Shrek sequels ?
Answer: PUSS IN BOOTS
Question: Who was crowned Queen of England at Westminister Abbey on this day in 1553 ?
Answer: MARY I
Question: On October 1st of which year did Ford put its first Model T on sale ? Was it 1898, 1908 or 1918 ?
Answer: 1908
Question: The first Japanese bullettrain ran on October 1st 1964 between Tokyo and which other city ?
Answer: OSAKA
Question: Keith Duffy, who celebrates his 39th birthday today, was a founder ember of which band in 1994 ?
Answer: BOYZONE
Question: Which geological epoch started about 12,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene, and continues to this day ?
Answer: HOLOCENE
Question: Which painful condition is caused by the deposition of urates or uric acid into the joints of the body, most commonly in the big toe ?
Answer: GOUT
Question: Who played the Ringo Kid in the original Stagecoach film?
Answer: John Wayne
Question: Yeomen Warders at the Tower of London are commonly known by what other name?
Answer: Beefeaters
Question: How many labours were performed by Hercules?
Answer: Twelve
Question: Who shot and killed Billy the Kid in 1881?
Answer: Pat Garrett
Question: Who was the first English monarch to abdicate?
Answer: Richard II
Question: Cuisses were medieval armour worn to protect which part of the body?
Answer: Thigh
Question: In 2010, Asda (owned by Walmart) bought the UK stores of which discount grocers for £778m?
Answer: Netto
Question: In an electrical circuit diagram what is denoted by a circle containing the capital letter A?
Answer: Ammeter
Question: What internationally popular competitive activity features a 'Racing Homer'?
Answer: Pigeon racing
Question: What is the process by which an insect undergoes distinct physical change from immaturity (typically larva or nymph) to adulthood?
Answer: Metamorphosis
Question: Spaniard Juan Antonio Samaranch, who died in April 2010, was head of which organization from 1980-2001?
Answer: The IOC
Question: Sir Edmund Barton became the first prime minister of which country in 1901?
Answer: Australia
Question: The lakes Van, Tuz, Uluabat, and Beysehir are among the largest in which country?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur (sulfur, US-English) are the traditional ingredients of what substance?
Answer: Gunpowder
Question: A heptad is a group or set of how many?
Answer: Seven
Question: Name the refugee camp near Calais close to the French side of the Chanel Tunnel?
Answer: Sangatte
Question: Who wrote the poem 'Jabberwocky', which originally featured in one of his novels?
Answer: Lewis Carroll
Question: The name of what ethnic celebration derives from the Aramaic and Hebrew words respectively for son and commandment?
Answer: Bar Mitzvah
Question: The inactive volcano, Mauna Kea (meaning 'white mountain' in the local native language), is in which US state?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: On which item of dress would a cockade normally be worn?
Answer: Hat
Question: What is the one-sleeved half-jacket worn under a jacket as additional protection in the sport of fencing?
Answer: Plastron
Question: A miller's thumb is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish
Question: In summer 2010 what species produced offspring in the wild in the UK for the first time in around 400 years after reintroduction to Scotland?
Answer: Beaver
Question: How many Horsemen of the Apocalypse feature in the Bible's Book of Revelation?
Answer: 4
Question: How many fences (not the number of times they are jumped) are on the Aintree Grand National race course?
Answer: 16
Question: In which year were Concorde planes retired from service?
Answer: 2003
Question: The English town name suffix 'wich' (as in Nantwich and Northwich) derives from the mining of what mineral?
Answer: Salt
Question: When Marilyn Monroe sang 'Happy Birthday' to US president John Kennedy what age was he celebrating?
Answer: Forty-five
Question: Old Chinese method of counting on one hand, up to this number, using the thumb to touch the tip and three joints of each finger?
Answer: 16
Question: A Nebuchadnezzar wine/champagne bottle equates to how many normal bottles?
Answer: 20
Question: The average age of a US combat soldier in the Vietnam war (also a 1985 Paul Hardcastle No1 hit song)?
Answer: 19
Question: Red balls on a snooker table at the start of a frame (traditional full game version)?
Answer: 15
Question: Basic parts of the Chinese Taijitu symbol (related to Taoism philosphy and popular interpretations of yin and yang)?
Answer: 2
Question: For which English county cricket team did Australian Shane Warne play between 2000 and 2007?
Answer: Hampshire
Question: The Rockall Trough is in which ocean?
Answer: Atlantic
Question: What is a bump on a ski slope called which is formed by skiers turning?
Answer: Mogul
Question: Mefloquine is used for the treatment of what?
Answer: Malaria
Question: What traditional profession specialises in the assessment of costs and tenders for materials and contracts within building and construction projects?
Answer: Quantity Surveyor
Question: The Sumida and Arakawa are two main rivers of which capital city?
Answer: Tokyo
Question: New France was the name given to French colonized lands in which continent from the 16th-18th centuries?
Answer: North America
Question: Sabena was which country's national airline?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Meaning literally 'make like' what is the full Latin word from which 'fax' derives (as in fax machine)?
Answer: Facsimile
Question: What term, common in fantasy games, also refers to the three wise men in the Bible?
Answer: Magi
Question: In which city is the new 27-storey $1bn residential property 'Antilla', home to the 4th richest person in the world, and (as at 2010) reportedly the most expensive home anywhere?
Answer: Mumbai
Question: In Gustav Holst's orchestral suite 'The Planets' what planet from the (our) Solar System is missing?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which couturiere and perfumier's first names were Gabrielle Bonheur?
Answer: Coco Chanel
Question: In geological classification what granular term is between silt and gravel?
Answer: Sand
Question: Iapetus (or Japetus) is a satellite of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: What are Blue Mountain, Caturra, and Mocca types of?
Answer: Coffee
Question: In German mythology what is the name of the siren who lived on a rock and lured boatmen to their deaths?
Answer: Lorelei
Question: Which group had three consecutive UK Christmas number ones in 1996, 97 and 98?
Answer: Spice Girls
Question: In which war was the Battle of Bosworth Field?
Answer: Wars of the Roses
Question: Who was the first Plantagenet King of England?
Answer: Henry the Second
Question: In February 1942, Antonio Oscar Carmona was re-elected as president of which European country?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Which American expatriate poet and author was arrested by American soldiers in Italy in May 1945 for treason?
Answer: Ezra Pound
Question: In June 1952, a nuclear test was held in which US desert?
Answer: Nevada Desert
Question: In April 1946, Derby County beat which football team in the first FA Cup final since the end of the war?
Answer: Charlton Athletic
Question: Who did Marilyn Monroe marry in January 1954?
Answer: Joe Dimaggio
Question: In October 1960, Dr Michael Woodruff carried out the first successful transplant of what at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the UK?
Answer: Kidney
Question: In 1974, what was the title of Stephen King's first published novel?
Answer: Carrie
Question: Who founded Tamla Motown Records in January 1959?
Answer: Berry Gordy Jr
Question: In Britain, the Education Act of March 1944 provided free what in schools to all children in the UK under the age of 18?
Answer: Milk
Question: In a Los Angeles court, in March 1969, who admitted killing presidential candidate Robert Kennedy?
Answer: Sirhan Sirhan
Question: Name the Italian-born American film producer (of Death Wish, Barbarella, and Hannibal) who died in November 2010 age 91?
Answer: Dino De Laurentis
Question: Hallus valgus is the medical term for what common condition?
Answer: Bunions
Question: Which US president, known commonly by his initials, was born in Stonewall, Texas in 1908?
Answer: Lyndon B Johnson
Question: David Beckham was shown a red card during England's game against which national team during the 1998 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Argentina
Question: What is the medieval from of chemistry concerned with attempting to change base metals into gold?
Answer: Alchemy
Question: What is the scarlet banner of Saint Dennis used by early French kings when setting out for war?
Answer: Oriflamme
Question: What means relating to or similar to bears?
Answer: Ursine
Question: The Royal Navy flagship aircraft carrier, which along with its Harrier jump jets was withdrawn from service late 2010, is HMS what?
Answer: Ark Royal
Question: What massive effect did these countries experience in the years stated?
Answer: Economic collapse
Question: A statue of which British prime minister stands outside Huddersfield railway station?
Answer: Harold Wilson
Question: If an insect is micropterous it has small or reduced what?
Answer: Wings
Question: According to the Bible, in which river did Pharaoh's daughter find the baby Moses in a basket?
Answer: River Nile
Question: Marzipan is made (conventionally in the western world) mainly from sugar and the flour or meal of which nut?
Answer: Almond
Question: What is the technical name of Mistletoe plant genus, and also Latin for glutinous?
Answer: Viscum
Question: In which country, an archipelago of 6,852 islands, is it considered inappropriate to send red Christmas cards?
Answer: Japan
Question: With which country did France agree a 50 year treaty in November 2010 entailing joint forces, and sharing an aircraft carrier and nuclear technology?
Answer: UK
Question: According to official figures released in 2010, what country originated the most refugees during the previous 30 years?
Answer: Afghanistan
Question: Name the controversial leader of the Dutch right-wing Freedom Party which won 24 seats in the Dutch elections, who was refused entry into the UK for his 'racist views'?
Answer: Geert Wilders
Question: Sacked whistleblower Cheryl Eckard was awarded $96m compensation against what pharmaceuticals corporation following malpractice at the Cidra plant in Puerto Rico?
Answer: GlaxoSmithKline
Question: Freedom of expression blogger Hossein Derakhshan was sentenced in September 2010 to nineteen years prison for 'anti-state activities' in which country?
Answer: Iran
Question: A plane crash close to Smolensk airport in western Russia killed almost half the leadership of which country?
Answer: Poland
Question: Singer Jimmy Dean, who died in 2010 age 81, sang (in a very deep voice) what hit song about about a heroic 6'6" coal miner?
Answer: Big Bad John
Question: American Shaun White performed his unique Double McTwist 1260 move in winning Olympic gold for the second time in what event?
Answer: Halfpipe Snowboard
Question: What Danish discount grocer did Walmart's Asda buy for £778m in 2010?
Answer: Netto
Question: Ex-world champion boxer Alan Rudkin, who died in September 2010, fought at what weight?
Answer: Bantamweight
Question: The captive animal Tilikum which killed a person for the third time in 2010 at Orlando USA was what species?
Answer: Killer Whale
Question: The move called 'en passant' features in what board game?
Answer: Chess
Question: In which South American country is the region and its regional capital city called Arequipa, the nation's second largest city (as at 2010)?
Answer: Peru
Question: What was secret police of East Germany?
Answer: Stasi
Question: Suomi is the local name for which European country?
Answer: Finland
Question: The nuclear disaster site at Chernobyl, to which tourist visits begin/began in 2011, is in which country?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: Which US president had the nickname 'King of Camelot'?
Answer: John F Kennedy
Question: What is generally suggested to be the fourth spatial dimension in addition to the first three (of length, area and volume)?
Answer: Time
Question: In the conventional game of pool ('eight-ball', or 'spots and stripes') what colour are the 3 and 11 balls?
Answer: Red
Question: The Crimean Peninsula is part of which European country?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: Hyperion and Rhea are two moons of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Saturn
Question: """This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries..."" is attributed to which historical figure as he was about to be executed, in 1618?"
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh
Question: What does the well known Latin phrase 'cogito, ergo sum', commonly attributed to René Descartes, translate as in English?
Answer: I think, therefore I am
Question: 'The Landlord's Game', patented in the US by Elizabeth Magie in 1904, was a form of which now popular board game?
Answer: Monopoly
Question: In which controversial novel and film does the Korova Milk Bar appear?
Answer: A Clockwork Orange
Question: Brabantio is whose father in Shakespeare's play Othello?
Answer: Desdemona
Question: Algeria became independent from which European country in 1962 after over 100 years of rule?
Answer: France
Question: The only Swiss guard still in existence serve in which European city?
Answer: Vatican City
Question: Hezbollah is a political/terrorist organization in which country?
Answer: Lebanon
Question: Relating to the sea, what are spring and neap?
Answer: Tides
Question: What is the descriptively named painting technique where tiny dots blend to form a picture?
Answer: Pointillism
Question: Jazz musician Gene Krupa was famous for playing which musical instrument?
Answer: Drums
Question: Jamaica Inn, made famous by writer Daphne du Maurier, lies on which moor?
Answer: Bodmin
Question: Wendy Deng are the first names of what famous media mogul's wife?
Answer: Rupert Murdoch
Question: Which book of the Bible features Noah's Ark?
Answer: Genesis
Question: British photographer Carl Warner's collection of landscapes went on display in London in October 2010. What did he use to create the landscapes?
Answer: Food
Question: In what country are/were violent demonstrations in 2011 against President Hosni Mubarak and his 30-year leadership?
Answer: Egypt
Question: What were the first names of retailer F W Woolworth, the second of which was a store brand?
Answer: Frank Winfield
Question: Which British high street retailer started selling DNA/paternity tests over the counter in January 2011?
Answer: Boots
Question: What meat is hamburger made from?
Answer: Beef
Question: What was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (original) middle name?
Answer: Wolfgang
Question: Which famous Belfast born guitarist, who played with Thin Lizzy for a while, died on 6th February 2011?
Answer: Gary Moore
Question: What was the codename of the Iraqi agent who admitted lying to US intelligence services about the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and providing US/UK justification for the Iraq War?
Answer: Curveball
Question: A parody of Hitler and Nazism, what was Charlie Chaplin's first talking feature film?
Answer: The Great Dictator
Question: The charter for what international organization was signed in San Francisco, in June 1945?
Answer: United Nations
Question: By what name is Siddartha Guatama better known?
Answer: Buddha
Question: According to the gospel of Luke, Zachariah and his barren wife Elizabeth were the parents of which great Biblical character?
Answer: John the Baptist
Question: What are the fertile South American lowlands covering more than 750,000 square kilometres in Argentina and most of Uruguay?
Answer: The Pampas
Question: Austrian monk and scientist Gregor Johann Mendel used which plant for the study and experiment of genetics and heredity of certain traits?
Answer: Pea
Question: Two former Argentinian military leaders went on trial in February 2011, accused of stealing what from political prisoners?
Answer: Babies
Question: A suplex is an offensive move in which professional sport?
Answer: Wrestling
Question: The mummified ancient man, thought killed by an arrow 5,300 years ago, is known as '(who?).. the Iceman' ?
Answer: Otzi
Question: Which Jewish holiday is also known as the Day of Atonement?
Answer: Yom Kippur
Question: The Tinikling, a dance using bamboo poles, is the (or a) main national dance of which 7,000-island nation?
Answer: Philippines
Question: In the 2001 official UK national census what religion did 390,000 people incredibly claim to be?
Answer: Jedi
Question: What is the main cereal component of UK flapjacks, known as Hudson Bay Bars in the USA?
Answer: Oats
Question: US traitor Iva Toguri d'Aquino was better known by what name?
Answer: Tokyo Rose
Question: What is the subtitle of Shakespeare's play 'Twelfth Night'?
Answer: What You Will
Question: Cinnabar, having the symbol HgS, and being highly toxic, is the common ore of which metal?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which vegetable, of the species Brassica Oleracea, has the varieties Nevada and Canberra?
Answer: Cauliflower
Question: A 'boxcar' is a term for rolling which number on the dice in a game of craps?
Answer: 12
Question: Thomas Seymour married the widow of which monarch in 1547, previously his brother-in-law?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question: In which country is the Vatnajokull Glacier, covering 8% of its land, and the largest ice cap by volume in Europe?
Answer: Iceland
Question: The pungent essential oil eugenol comprises about 70-90% of the oil from which spice?
Answer: Cloves
Question: Paques is the French term for which religious festival?
Answer: Easter
Question: If something is piscivorous, what does it generally feed on?
Answer: Fish
Question: 2011 is how many years' anniversary of the start of (what is conventionally referred to as) the US Civil War?
Answer: 150
Question: 'Moon starer' is a fitting anagram of what specialised profession?
Answer: Astronomer
Question: What is the more common name of the oak nut?
Answer: Acorn
Question: Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) affects which insect?
Answer: Bee
Question: Which is the only letter in the English alphabet never (as at 2011) to appear in the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements?
Answer: J
Question: What is the informal term for a bullet with a hollowed tip so as to increase spread and damage on impact?
Answer: Dumdum
Question: In the Mood and Moonlight Serenade were popular hits during the 2nd World War for which band leader's orchestra?
Answer: Glenn Miller
Question: Which compound, from the bark of the Cinchona tree, and used in tonic water, was the first effective drug used to treat malaria?
Answer: Quinine
Question: In which country was Osama bin Laden born?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: A cachalot - an old French word for tooth - is better known as what creature, the largest living toothed animal?
Answer: Sperm Whale
Question: Greek jeweller Sotirio Voulgaris founded which luxury goods brand, noted for its capitalized branding including Latin-style V for a U?
Answer: Bulgari
Question: The team sport Bandy (or Russian Hockey) is played on what surface?
Answer: Ice
Question: Traditionally the largest book publishers trade show in the world, where in Germany is the (city name) Book Fair held each October?
Answer: Frankfurt
Question: To what note is the fourth string (fourth highest in pitch) on a standard six-string guitar normally tuned?
Answer: D
Question: As at 2010, how many bicycles are in the world, compared to motor cars?
Answer: Double
Question: Christine Lagarde emerged as a candidate to succeed 'DSK' as head of what organization following his 2011 arrest on rape charges?
Answer: IMF
Question: Originating in French, from the French word for bicycle and the Greek word for course, what is a track cycling arena called?
Answer: Velodrome
Question: Female vocalist Omara Portuondo became famous in what internationally popular Cuban group of musicians?
Answer: Buena Vista Social Club
Question: Thingvalla Lake is in which country?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Once used as a currency in several parts of the world, what are cowries?
Answer: Sea shells
Question: Name the head of FIFA re-elected in 2011 amid crisis and calls for his resignation?
Answer: Sepp Blatter
Question: What motor company's badge contains a red cross and a green snake?
Answer: Alfa Romeo
Question: A blue circle with a white centre was introduced in 2006 as the international symbol for what human metabolic disease?
Answer: Diabetes
Question: Dyscalculia is less technically known as (what?)-blindness?
Answer: Number
Question: In Greek mythology, name the Gorgon monster with snakes for hair, slain by Perseus?
Answer: Medusa
Question: A dosimeter measures human absorption of what over a time period?
Answer: Ionizing radiation
Question: South Korean Ban Ki-moon was reappointed unopposed in June 2011 as head (secretary-general) of what organization?
Answer: UN
Question: What legal term equates to 'being caught red-handed' and translates as 'in blazing crime'?
Answer: In flagrante delicto
Question: Laudanum is an old medicine made from which drug?
Answer: Opium
Question: Toledo is a high quality what made in the Spanish town of that name?
Answer: Sword
Question: A photovoltaic module is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Solar panel
Question: From the Greek root words for 'house' and 'study of' what term refers to the scientific study of the relationship between living things, and their natural environment?
Answer: Ecology
Question: Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are constellations known respectively more commonly as Great and Little what?
Answer: Bear
Question: What common name is given to medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS)?
Answer: Shin Splints
Question: On the Beaufort Scale of wind force what wind name is given to number 8, which "...Breaks twigs off trees and impedes progress..."?
Answer: Gale
Question: What notable leader was born in Ranshofen, near Braunau, Austria, in 1889?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Question: Seismic refers to what natural effect?
Answer: Earthquake
Question: Gramophone records are made of, and sometimes called, what popular name for the polymer material in question?
Answer: Vinyl
Question: What originally Venetian word refers to a meeting of boats or yacht races?
Answer: Regatta
Question: What French IT company is engaged (as at 2011) by the UK government in the controversial assessment of work capability of incapacity benefit claimants?
Answer: Atos
Question: The genocide of Tutsi people by Hutu militia in 1994 was in which country?
Answer: Rwanda
Question: What Japanese word meaning 'person born before another' refers to a teacher or master of a subject, for example martial arts?
Answer: Sensei
Question: What on a bird has a calamus, rachis and barbs?
Answer: Feather
Question: The name of what baby creature is given to a stilleto heel design of two inches or less?
Answer: Kitten
Question: Who led the Muslim army to victory against the Meccans in the Battle of Badr, 624AD?
Answer: Muhammad
Question: The New Caledonia archipelago in the south Pacific is a 'special collectivity' territory of which nation?
Answer: France
Question: What is the fruit of the tree technically known as Phoenix Dactylifera?
Answer: Dates
Question: Angel, Itatinga, Cuquenan, Ormeli, and Tysse are all what?
Answer: Waterfalls
Question: The MartinSchultz scale is commonly used in physical anthropology to determine the colour/color of what in humans?
Answer: Eyes
Question: The UK concise 'daily briefing' newspaper produced by the Independent is called by what single lower-case letter?
Answer: i
Question: The nautical expression referring to capsizing is 'turning (what creature)'?
Answer: Turtle
Question: The port city of Latakia was besieged during 2011 by its own government forces, of what nation?
Answer: Syria