zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What style of cooking is named after a province of south-western China, and is noted for its spicy taste, especially from garlic, chili peppers, peanuts, sesame, and ginger?
Answer: Szechuan
Question: Alfred Pennyworth was whose butler?
Answer: Batman
Question: What geological term refers to granular material sized between sand and clay, derived from soil or rock?
Answer: Silt
Question: The opposite to nadir, what word refers to directly overhead, or more generally the highest point?
Answer: Zenith
Question: By about 2010 what more centrally meaningful word (and technology) had replaced 'router' for the internet connection hardware unit typically installed in homes and small businesses?
Answer: Hub
Question: Jerry and Mike are the first names of what famous pairing of 1950s hit songwriters?
Answer: Leiber and Stoller
Question: The Russian 'Crimea Highway' trunk road from Moscow to the Crimea in Ukraine is the M (what)?
Answer: 2
Question: What is the larger number of the binary system?
Answer: 1
Question: What is the only number that equals twice the sum of its digits (digit means numerical symbol)?
Answer: 18
Question: Traditionally the diameter of the 45rpm gramophone record is (how many) inches?
Answer: 7
Question: What is the traditional name for a women's shoe held in place by a strap behind the ankle above the heel?
Answer: Slingback
Question: In 2011 street thieves were filmed in Chinese cities using what innovative pickpocketing tools?
Answer: Chopsticks
Question: (Supplementary question) As at 2011 how many countries which criminalize homosexuality are in the British Commonwealth?
Answer: 40
Question: (Supplementary question) In what year did the UK decriminalize homosexuality?
Answer: 1967
Question: What country has Baffin Bay to its west coast and Denmark Strait to its south-east?
Answer: Greenland
Question: What recent wine-making country produces varieties from its Maharashtra region?
Answer: India
Question: A backless usually female shoe or slipper is commonly called by what animal name?
Answer: Mule
Question: Greek god Dionysus is also known by what mythical Roman godly name, associated with revelry?
Answer: Bacchus
Question: What family-founded/named corporation owns the brands Snickers, Uncle Ben's and Dolmio (at 2011)?
Answer: Mars
Question: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Answer: Douglas Adams
Question: How many grooves are on one side of a standard 33RPM vinyl LP record?
Answer: One
Question: Name the Israeli corporal released in October 2011 by Palestinian Hamas militants, held hostage since June 2006?
Answer: Gilad Shalit
Question: On 19-20 October 1917 the largest fleet of what attempted and mostly failed to attack the UK?
Answer: Airships
Question: The Reverend Thomas A Dorsey is linked with the origins of what musical singing style?
Answer: Gospel
Question: What is the (full name of the) United Nations' agency for nuclear technology, abbreviated to IAEA?
Answer: International Atomic Energy Agency
Question: What car/vehicle maker has (at 2011) a logo of two chevrons, one above the other, both pointing upwards?
Answer: Citroën
Question: Triffis, Rudy (or Rudolph), Porpoise, Cody, and Corkscrew are moves in what sport?
Answer: Trampolining
Question: What sort of well is named after a former French province, where Carthusian monks first drilled them in the 12th century?
Answer: Artesian
Question: What is conventionally regarded to be the opposite of Utopia?
Answer: Dystopia
Question: Gum Olibanum, from the tree Boswellia sacra?
Answer: Frankincense
Question: Dwarf heather vaccinium yielding acid fruit?
Answer: Cranberry
Question: Roger 'Race' Bannon, Hadji, and a dog called Bandit are leading characters in what 1960s TV cartoon, now media franchise?
Answer: Jonny Quest
Question: The rivers Brahmaputra, Ganges, Meghna and Krishna flow into the Bay of (What)?
Answer: Bengal
Question: The 'God particle' is more technically called what, after two (English and Indian) physicists?
Answer: Higgs boson
Question: The 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran overthrew a?
Answer: Shah
Question: Name the Ukrainian/Russian American engineer who was first to viably manufacture and sell helicopters?
Answer: Igor Sikorsky
Question: Lord of the Flies is a devil?
Answer: Beelzebub
Question: What main religion celebrates festivals including Nuakhai, Yatra (or Zatra/Jatra), Pongal, Holi and Shigmo?
Answer: Hindu
Question: What fashionable Mediterranean resort hosted the G20 international economics conference at the height of the Greek Euro membership crisis?
Answer: Cannes
Question: Long wrap-around skirt meaning sheath or quiver - from Malay?
Answer: Sarong
Question: Beer brewed for storing/keeping - from German?
Answer: Lager
Question: Happiness or blissful death through elightenment (literally 'blowing out') - from Sanskrit?
Answer: Nirvana
Question: The French term ligne (equating to 'line' in English) is used by makers of watches, buttons and hats as an expression of?
Answer: Size
Question: The fuel injection system replaced what traditional device for blending air and fuel in car combustion engines?
Answer: Carburettor
Question: What psychological condition was named after Greek legend of a beautiful hunter who fell in love with his own reflection?
Answer: Narcissism
Question: Named after Hantan River, South Korea, hantaviruses typically infect humans through transfer from bites, waste, etc., of?
Answer: Rodents
Question: The Bedouin people are so named because they originated in?
Answer: Desert
Question: What English word from French meaning literally 'cold blood' refers to (a person's) composure under pressure?
Answer: Sangfroid
Question: What film won five Oscars in 2012 including Best Actor, Original Score and Costume Design?
Answer: The Artist
Question: Brent Crude is the common trading classification for oil sourced from the bed of what sea?
Answer: North Sea
Question: In what country was the sports goods company Fila first established (1911) and owned?
Answer: Italy
Question: What is the lowest note on a common traditional four-string mandolin?
Answer: G
Question: Name Norwegian Evard Munch's famous painting of human outburst?
Answer: The Scream
Question: Name the 1982 Buckingham Palace early-hours intruder who woke and spoke to Elizabeth II in her bedroom?
Answer: Michael Fagan
Question: At 2012 what mobile broadband service is/was the next major upgrade for most of Europe?
Answer: 4G
Question: Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger's 'thought experiment' theory is referred to as Schrödinger's (what animal)?
Answer: Cat
Question: The natural effect causing paint to rise up the hairs of a paintbrush, and liquid to rise up a narrow tube is called (what) action?
Answer: Capillary
Question: In what modern country did the ancient Sumer or Sumerian civilisation develop and flourish?
Answer: Iraq
Question: Coptic refers to a sect of what religious order?
Answer: Christianity
Question: Behind Wal-Mart, Carrefour, and Tesco, what corporation is the fourth largest retail group (by turnover, at 2012) in the world?
Answer: Metro
Question: A dagga (duggi or dhama) is the bass element of what Indian percussion instrument?
Answer: Tabla
Question: What vague unit of time is also the same as torque in physics, being a rotational force?
Answer: Moment
Question: Tonsure refers to removal of hair from the?
Answer: Head
Question: What African country experienced a 2012 rebellion by Tuareg fighters?
Answer: Mali
Question: Which major social networking corporation grew from a branded messaging project at podcasting site Odeo?
Answer: Twitter
Question: Name the passenger vehicle famously lost with 36 fatalities on 6 May 1937 at New Jersey US?
Answer: Hindenburg
Question: Which country has (early 2000s) the highest AIDS infection rate in the world?
Answer: Swaziland
Question: What historic bicycle company introduced the children's Chopper bike in the 1970s?
Answer: Raleigh
Question: What creature is on the mission insignia or badge of the first moon landing, Apollo 11?
Answer: Eagle
Question: What 'anachronistic' word was proposed for removal from titles in official 2012 review of the UK state honours system?
Answer: Empire
Question: The mariachi musical style/band belongs to which country?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Cape Verde was until independence a territory of which European country?
Answer: Portugal
Question: What word, from French and Portuguese etymology meaning 'raised', in different variants refers to various peoples around the world who are born locally, of foreign origin?
Answer: Creole
Question: What royal house immediately followed the reign of England's King Richard III?
Answer: Tudor
Question: Name the UK Culture Secretary accused in 2012 of bias and rule-bending in approving News Corp's 2011 takeover of BSkyB?
Answer: Jeremy Hunt
Question: The famous Mesquita Mosque, within a Roman Catholic Cathedral, is in which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: What is the common medical name for the increasingly popular recreational drug referred to as a 'horse tranquillizer'?
Answer: Ketamine
Question: In chemistry a solution is a?
Answer: Any
Question: Name the great old rival company of the Harley-Davidson motorbike corporation, whose models included the Chief and Scout?
Answer: Indian
Question: A tetrapod is an animal with how many what? (two answers required)
Answer: Four Limbs
Question: A compound which reduces liquid surface tension, or tension between two liquids or liquid and solid (as do detergents, foaming agents, and dispersants) is generally called a?
Answer: Surfactant
Question: Apitoxin is the scientific name for which sort of venom?
Answer: Bee
Question: What product, invented by accountant Walter Diemer in 1928, was and remains conventionally pink, (it is said) because pink was the only dye available to its inventor at the time?
Answer: Bubblegum
Question: Sicilian, Spanish and Ruy Lopez are types of tactical moves in what game?
Answer: Chess
Question: What possession of 'wild west' star Annie Oakley sold at a 2012 auction for $143,000?
Answer: Gun
Question: The Italian words for 'three roads' provided the name for which famous Rome monument?
Answer: Trevi Fountain
Question: Storing and processing data on a remote unspecified computer server is known as '(what weather feature) computing'?
Answer: Cloud
Question: In geometry, where every point of a shape is moved a constant distance and direction, this is called?
Answer: Translation
Question: The conium plant genus is better known as what poison?
Answer: Hemlock
Question: Tuber aestivum is better known as a type of what foodstuff delicacy?
Answer: Truffle
Question: Racerback, Balconette, Bandeau, and Shelf are types of what?
Answer: Bra
Question: What north-eastern state of India (at 2012) accounts for more than 50% of the nation's tea production, and is said to be the world's biggest tea-growing region?
Answer: Assam
Question: Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo is better known by what brand name?
Answer: SEAT
Question: The Berber ethnic people come from?
Answer: North Africa
Question: The traditional curly twisted Chinese tea (Camellia sinensis) produced by drying in the sun is called?
Answer: Oolong
Question: What note is played on a guitar at the fifth fret of the first (highest pitch) string (conventional six-string guitar with standard tuning)?
Answer: A
Question: The capital of which US state is named after prospector (and discoverer of local gold in 1880) Joseph Juneau?
Answer: Alaska
Question: Gatka, Mardani khel, Musti yuddha, and Silambam are?
Answer: Indian martial arts
Question: What single unit of measurement equates to 1.06×10-13 light-years?
Answer: One Kilometre
Question: Name the mythological Greek hero King of Salamis, son of Telamon and Periboea, and cleaning product?
Answer: Ajax
Question: The Austrian metalworking company Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen founded in 1934 is nowadays better known as a manufacturer of what?
Answer: Motorcycles
Question: Boris Godunov, The Cunning Little Vixen, Wozzeck, and The Ballad of Baby Doe are popular?
Answer: Operas
Question: What creature is a Chinese 'shishi', called a 'foo dog' in some western cultures?
Answer: Lion
Question: Name the NASA Mars mission rover which landed on the planet in 2012?
Answer: Curiosity
Question: The 'sub-kingdoms' Blastocladiomycota, Microsporidia and Dikarya belong to the kingdom of organisms commonly called what?
Answer: Fungi
Question: The characters 11 in the binary numeral system equate to what number?
Answer: Three
Question: A 3-seater tandem bicycle is called a?
Answer: Tandem
Question: Nollywood refers informally to the huge cinema industry of which nation?
Answer: Nigeria
Question: How many years is a megaannum?
Answer: One million
Question: Prior to Apple becoming the most valuable company in the world in 2012 (at $619bn) what corporation had held the record since 1999?
Answer: Microsoft
Question: What item very commonly worn by people has a hoop, shoulder, mounting and bezel?
Answer: Ring
Question: In old UK/US capacity measures how many pecks are in a bushel?
Answer: Four
Question: A 'supermassive (what?)' is generally believed to be at the centre/center of the (our) Milky Way galaxy?
Answer: Black hole
Question: Skip James, Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson and Son House are early exponents of?
Answer: Blues music
Question: Hallertauer, Saaz, Cascade, and East Kent Goldings are varieties of what alcoholic drink ingredient?
Answer: Hops
Question: Google's prior name while under development was 'Back(what?)'?
Answer: Rub
Question: Likud, meaning 'the consolidation', is the leading conservative political party (at 2012) of which country?
Answer: Israel
Question: What was ex-Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi's first criminal conviction (Oct 2012)?
Answer: Tax evasion
Question: Clawhammer is a playing style most often associated with which instrument?
Answer: Banjo
Question: The process by which cardinals meet to elect a new Pope is called the Papal (what?)?
Answer: Conclave
Question: 'The Continental Army' became what in 1784?
Answer: The United States Army
Question: The Christian Saint Christopher is most commonly depicted carrying what across a swollen river?
Answer: Jesus Christ
Question: Earliest human use of fire for cooking has been dated at how many years ago?
Answer: One million
Question: Which one of these characters is (at 2012) represented by the three tallest statues in the world?
Answer: Buddha
Question: Auger, reel, fan, sieves, stripper-beater, and cutter-bar are parts of what large piece of machinery?
Answer: Combine harvester
Question: An ushanka is a Russian what?
Answer: Hat
Question: A censor was an officer of what civilization, responsible for public census, morality, finances, etc?
Answer: Roman
Question: Name the ex-construction worker who died in 2012, whose video-taped beating by Los Angeles police and their initial subsequent acquittals sparked the 1992 Los Angeles Riots?
Answer: Rodney King
Question: In 2012 'The Orphan of Zhao' became the first play of which country to be produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company?
Answer: China
Question: Who in 2012 made the first submarine solo dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the lowest point of the oceans (subsequently to release a 3D film of the dive)?
Answer: James Cameron
Question: Who began his speech, "Where is Dave?.." at the 2012 UK Conservative Party Conference?
Answer: Boris Johnson
Question: Justin Welby was appointed to what famous old position in 2012?
Answer: Archbishop of Canterbury
Question: In which 2012 sporting event was the Chinese Ren Cancan defeated by its first ever female Olympic Gold medal winner?
Answer: Womens Boxing
Question: In which nation's London embassy did Wikileaks founder Julian Assange seek diplomatic asylum in 2012?
Answer: Ecuador
Question: Name the devastating mid/N American hurricane of Oct 2012?
Answer: Sandy
Question: What popular cartoon TV series celebrated 500 editions in 2012?
Answer: The Simpsons
Question: Which Eastern European nation saw protests against Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Jan 2012?
Answer: Hungary
Question: Name the TV/movie actor who died in 2012 and starred in 1960s fantasy sitcom I Dream of Jeannie?
Answer: Larry Hagman
Question: Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson are better known as what 2012 record-breaking unit?
Answer: One Direction
Question: 2012 is the 200th anniversary of the what European capital city's status, moved from Turku by Czar Alexander I of Russia?
Answer: Helsinki
Question: What top-selling UK newspaper was produced on Sundays for the first time in 2012?
Answer: The Sun
Question: Wayne LaPierre is known for his 20-plus-years' controversial leadership of what organization?
Answer: NRA
Question: The traditional proofreading mark of a wavy line beneath a passage of text gives instruction to change it to?
Answer: Bold
Question: In language the term ellipsis refers to missing/omitted what?
Answer: Words
Question: The Sargasso Sea is named after a?
Answer: Seaweed
Question: The Métis are a substantial group of aboriginal people of which nation?
Answer: Canada
Question: What modern digital display term is an abbreviated portmanteau word from picture and element?
Answer: Pixel
Question: Extraversion/introversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, and Openness to experience and are the 'Big Five' dimensions of what popular acronymically-named personality analysis theory?
Answer: OCEAN
Question: What model number Boeing plane is called the Dreamliner (after being renamed in 2005)?
Answer: 787
Question: Operation Serval refers to France's military intervention in which former colony's civil war?
Answer: Mali
Question: Name the form of carbon considered (early 2000s) the strongest material ever, which having a thickness of one atom has just two dimensions?
Answer: Graphene
Question: Beatrix became queen of which European nation in 1980?
Answer: The Netherlands
Question: The 1923 Great Kanto earthquake was until 2011 which nation's biggest?
Answer: Japan
Question: Which pottery pioneer produced 'creamware' and 'jasperware' in the mid-late 1700s?
Answer: Josiah Wedgwood
Question: What eponymous 1969 theory blames organizations for promoting managers to levels at which they are incompetent?
Answer: The Peter Principle
Question: The Manganese Bronze company took over production of what famous vehicle from 1973-2012, first made in 1948?
Answer: Black Taxicab
Question: What is the female equivalent of the Oedipus complex in Jungian/Freudian psychosexual theory?
Answer: Electra
Question: A metal ring or grommet in a sail or other nautical attachment, through which a rope passes is a?
Answer: Cringle
Question: A stilb is a measure of?
Answer: Luminance
Question: In ancient Greek mythology the godly personification of the sky, Uranus, had his what cut off?
Answer: Testicles
Question: From Greek words meaning 'flesh preserver' what coal-tar oil was widely used in wood treatment and medicine?
Answer: Creosote
Question: What logical common name is given to the cells which initiate cardiac contraction and so control heart rate?
Answer: Pacemaker
Question: What Italian word for 'it follows' refers to a smooth transition between two items, especially musical pieces?
Answer: Segue
Question: What is the formal (systematic) chemical name for the alcohol in intoxicating drink?
Answer: Ethanol
Question: What political speech/campaign term derives from the tradition of cutting down a tree to make a platform for the speaker?
Answer: Stump
Question: What popular food comes from the Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima plants?
Answer: Rice
Question: Tritium is a radioactive isotope of?
Answer: Hydrogen
Question: Name the illness caused by a reaction to gliadin, a gluten protein in wheat, barley, rye, etc?
Answer: Coeliac disease
Question: Bort or boart refers to waste/inferior what, used for industrial purposes?
Answer: Diamonds
Question: What was the first element discovered in space (actually at the Sun)?
Answer: Helium
Question: Devised in 1920 from Russian research into proximity sensing, what eponymous musical instrument is controlled by the player's proximity to it?
Answer: Theremin
Question: The flammable intoxicating compound Hydroxyethane (C2H6O) is better known as what chemical?
Answer: Ethanol
Question: What was a Leviathan in its original biblical references?
Answer: Sea monster
Question: What clothing decoration took its name from Italian 'zecchino' and 'zecca' (= mint), and Arabic 'sikka' (= 'a die for coining')?
Answer: Sequin
Question: A birthstone of March, the mineral heliotrope is commonly called what, due to its red inclusions?
Answer: Bloodstone
Question: Which US corporation sold its personal computer business including Thinkpad brand to the world-leading Chinese manufactuer Lenovo in 2005?
Answer: IBM
Question: What Caribbean dance shares its name with a religious concept of somewhere between heaven and hell?
Answer: Limbo
Question: Orogeny refers to the process by which what are created?
Answer: Mountains
Question: Founded as Thames Ironworks FC in 1895, which football club (later renamed) will occupy the London Olympic Stadium from 2016 (a clue is in club nickname and badge)?
Answer: West Ham United FC
Question: What is the common technical term for the contractive skin of a liquid which resists external force?
Answer: Surface tension
Question: The German Bavarian occupational name Hitler (originally Hüttler) referred to a builder of?
Answer: Huts
Question: What word prefixes business, room, case, and down to produce four other words?
Answer: Show
Question: What capital city lies at the coordinates 53 20N 6 15W?
Answer: Dublin
Question: The US city of Memphis, Tennessee, was named after the ancient (c.3000BC) Memphis city capital of which nation?
Answer: Egypt
Question: What original 1960s surfer's slang expression of thrill or delight was popularized by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles children's cartoon?
Answer: Cowabunga
Question: Which children's TV animated character, named 'Pollux' in the original French version, is based on a 'drop-eared Skye terrier'?
Answer: Dougal
Question: Central to Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is a huge what, connected to the cosmos?
Answer: Tree
Question: In which decade was Mount Everest first climbed?
Answer: 1950s
Question: Batwing, Corkscrew, Hammerhead turn, Heartline roll, Horseshoe and Immelmann are elements of what form of entertainment?
Answer: Roller-coasters
Question: The western part of the US/Mexico border runs through which desert, named after the Mexican state it adjoins?
Answer: Sonoran
Question: The 'degree' symbol ° indicates what variation of a musical chord?
Answer: Diminished
Question: A chalice - as in the expression 'poisoned chalice' - is literally a?
Answer: Goblet
Question: Which country's name, existing 1929-2003, meant 'South Slavs'?
Answer: Yugoslavia
Question: Which nation's 'national anthem' is known as 'Qaumi Tarana' and alternatively 'Pak Sarzamin' (sacred land)?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: The common vocal sound produced by blocking exhaled airflow (when voicing a vowel) by suddenly closing the vocal tract is called a '(what?) stop'?
Answer: Glottal stop
Question: What is the South African style of dried meat named originally in Dutch meaning 'rump strip'?
Answer: Biltong
Question: Cadence in music and language technically and originally referred to rhythmic or tonal effect associated with a?
Answer: End
Question: Name the vast South Korean conglomerate including car-maker which went bankrupt in 1999?
Answer: Daewoo
Question: Ingvar Kamprad founded what famous modern-day organization?
Answer: IKEA
Question: What is the main ingredient of the modern breakfast food and energy bar called granola?
Answer: Oats
Question: The term forensic refers to investigative technologies and sciences in relation to?
Answer: Law and crime
Question: The 'morna' is the national music and dance style of which central Atlantic archipelago island nation?
Answer: Cape Verde
Question: What mountain range makes moist winds rise and precipitate causing the monsoon of SW Asia?
Answer: The Himalayas
Question: What piece initially occupies H8 on a conventional chessboard diagram?
Answer: Castle
Question: What was Italian scientist Aloysius Lilius' globally significant chronological creation of 1582?
Answer: Gregorian Calendar