zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What 1967 film had the tagline "This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future."?
Answer: The Graduate
Question: At which event, in 2010, was Francesca Schiavone the first Italian woman to win a tennis Grand Slam event in singles?
Answer: French Open
Question: Who won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Al Gore
Question: Who was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
Question: How many tusks does a typical adult male walrus have?
Answer: 2
Question: In architecture, what is the space around the altar at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building?
Answer: Chancel
Question: What does a trichologist treat?
Answer: Hair
Question: In film and photography, what is the name for the distance in front of and behind the subject which appears to be in focus?
Answer: Depth of field
Question: The three countries which border the Gulf of Aden are the Yemeni Republic, the Republic of Djibouti, and...?
Answer: Somalia
Question: What is the name for the protein which is the main constituent of hair, horns, nails, claws and hooves of mammals?
Answer: Keratin
Question: Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom, war and the liberal arts?
Answer: Pallas Athene
Question: According to Christian tradition, which angel will blow his trumpet on judgement day?
Answer: Gabriel
Question: What was a nickname of 11th century British king, Edward?
Answer: The Confessor
Question: The Tuareg are the principal inhabitants of which area?
Answer: Sahara Desert
Question: Where did the borzoi dog breed originate?
Answer: Russia
Question: Who was the father of Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: George VI
Question: Where is the Great Karoo found?
Answer: South Africa
Question: The Kalahari Desert in Africa stretches across South Africa, Botswana and which other country?
Answer: Namibia
Question: One of the forms of music usually sung a capella is...?
Answer: Madrigal
Question: What name is given to ducks which feed mainly at the surface rather than by diving?
Answer: Dabbling ducks
Question: What is the name for the movement of water across a partially permeable membrane from an area of high water potential (low solute concentration) to an area of low water potential (high solute concentration)?
Answer: Osmosis
Question: What type of pasta is shaped like hollow spaghetti?
Answer: Bucatini
Question: The Atacama area on the Pacific coast of South America is best characterised as what?
Answer: Desert
Question: By what name were followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea better known?
Answer: Khmer Rouge
Question: What was the name of ten Kings of Denmark between 1448 and 1947?
Answer: Christian
Question: Who played the title role in Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall"?
Answer: Diane Keaton
Question: In which decade was Elvis Presley born?
Answer: 1930s
Question: Someone who tells lies is said to be what?
Answer: Mendacious
Question: The island Commonwealth of Dominica sits in which sea or ocean?
Answer: Caribbean
Question: The death of which dictator, closely associated with revolution and with World War II, happened in 1953 while he was in office as leader of his country?
Answer: Josef Stalin
Question: The Kuril island archipelago lies between the Pacific Ocean and which other sea?
Answer: The Sea of Okhotsk
Question: The River Irwell runs through which English city?
Answer: Manchester
Question: The Joad family appear in which novel and 1940 film directed by John Ford?
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath
Question: What stitch, also called a whip stitch (when done by machine) or a crochet stitch (when done by hand), is used to reinforce the edge of thick materials?
Answer: Blanket stitch
Question: Jim Carrey played which character in the 2004 film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"?
Answer: Joel Barish
Question: Besides being a composer, philosopher, poet, artist and printmaker, John Cage was a leading authority on what?
Answer: Mushrooms
Question: The father of which ex prime minister of the UK was a trapeze artist and a garden gnome salesman?
Answer: John Major
Question: If someone holds their breath, chokes, or in some other way suspends external breathing, the term is what?
Answer: Apnoea
Question: Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England in which century?
Answer: 11th
Question: In a 2009 film James McAvoy plays the role of private secretary to whom, played by Christopher Plummer?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
Question: Frdric Chopin is best known for his compositions for which instrument?
Answer: Piano
Question: Who, when he took on the position, was the second-youngest US president to take office, the first US president born in the 20th century and, at age 43, the youngest elected to the office?
Answer: John F Kennedy
Question: In December 2005, Amelle Berrabah became a member of which group?
Answer: Sugababes
Question: In what constellation is the multiple star Polaris found?
Answer: Ursa Minor
Question: Who wrote "The Thirty Nine Steps"?
Answer: John Buchan
Question: Who wrote "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"?
Answer: Lawrence of Arabia
Question: The Gobi Desert lies in which area?
Answer: Asia
Question: What was the original name of the ship, the Golden Hind, used by Francis Drake to circumnavigate the globe?
Answer: Pelican
Question: As at 2014 how many sports are contested in the Winter Paralympics?
Answer: 5
Question: Olympe de Gouges, a French playwright and political activist , is today best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men. How did she die?
Answer: Guillotined
Question: Who was the co-winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics, for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars, and nephew of the 1930 Nobel Prize winner in Physics?
Answer: Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
Question: Which English football team was both the last to win the FA Cup final at the old Wembley Stadium, and the first to win the FA Cup final at the New Wembley Stadium?
Answer: Chelsea
Question: Which people (besides the Rolling Stones) appeared on the cover of "Their Satanic Majesties Request", a 1967 album by The Rolling Stones?
Answer: The Beatles
Question: Which are the only strictly marine herbivorous mammals?
Answer: Dugongs
Question: Besides a back complaint, what else did John F Kennedy suffer from?
Answer: Addison's disease
Question: When is The Sundance Film Festival, that began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival, held annually?
Answer: January
Question: Which is the object in the sentence "I solve puzzles"?
Answer: """Puzzles"""
Question: The Zambezi River flows into the Indian Ocean from where?
Answer: Mozambique
Question: Who married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones in 2000?
Answer: Michael Douglas
Question: What is a species of marmot, also called a groundhog, found in parts of the USA?
Answer: Woodchuck
Question: How many sports were competed at the first Olympic Games in 8th century BCE?
Answer: 1
Question: The modern Olympic Games are named after games held originally in what country?
Answer: Greece
Question: What were the first names of the Irish poet and dramatist W B Yeats?
Answer: William Butler
Question: A major canal link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was named what?
Answer: Panama
Question: Which Nobel prize-winning British playwright died in December 2008?
Answer: Harold Pinter
Question: What light-sensitive tissue lines the inner surface of the eye?
Answer: Retina
Question: Who wrote the poem "The Love Song of J Albert Prufrock"?
Answer: T S Eliot
Question: What is the word for the minimum number of people that must be at a meeting for it to become official?
Answer: Quorum
Question: What town is the setting for the film "It's a Wonderful Life"?
Answer: Bedford Falls
Question: What programme would feature James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson as presenters?
Answer: Top Gear
Question: The Mesa Verde National Park with its ancient cliff cities is found where?
Answer: USA
Question: Which English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets, was praised because "his experimental explorations in prosody ... and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse"?
Answer: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Question: Who destroyed the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem?
Answer: Nebuchadnezzar
Question: Where is the Bayerische Staatsoper's home base?
Answer: Munich
Question: If The Beatles were listed in a 1969 telephone book, who would be the last to be listed?
Answer: Ringo
Question: A red snapper is a type of what?
Answer: Fish
Question: Who was the main character in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels "A Study In Scarlet", "The Sign of Four" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes
Question: Who played the character of Alex P. Keaton in all seven series of a 1980s sitcom?
Answer: Michael J Fox
Question: """The Miracles"" backed which singer?"
Answer: Smokey Robinson
Question: Chris O'Dowd plays the imaginary friend of a young boy in rural Ireland in which TV series?
Answer: Moone Boy
Question: In 1974 many ranks of life-size models were discovered buried in China; they are known as...?
Answer: The Terracotta Army
Question: Who did Peter Sellers marry in 1964?
Answer: Britt Eklund
Question: Eric Clapton recorded an album with whom called "Riding With the King"?
Answer: B.B. King
Question: What does the SI unit "Pascal" measure?
Answer: Pressure
Question: The peacock is an important part of which faith?
Answer: Yazidism
Question: A disaster which killed six million people in China in 1333-37 AD was ...?
Answer: Famine
Question: Who wrote the book "Angela's Ashes"?
Answer: Frank McCourt
Question: What country was the first country in Oceania, and fifteenth overall, to legalise same-sex marriage?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What was the name of spacecraft which created history on 12 November 2014 and landed a probe on a comet?
Answer: Rosetta
Question: How is a rebec usually played?
Answer: With a bow
Question: Which one of these people is most associated with heat treatment of milk?
Answer: Louis Pasteur
Question: In which continent did Allan Quatermain, the explorer in H. Ryder Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines", search for the mines?
Answer: Africa
Question: If a shawm were a member of the modern orchestra what section would it be in?
Answer: Woodwind
Question: Which 20th century novelist wrote "The Quiet American", "Stamboul Train", "Brighton Rock" and "The Power And The Glory"?
Answer: Graham Greene
Question: Who won the World Darts Championship 4 times in the 1980s?
Answer: Eric Bristow
Question: Brian Cox, who is known among other things for presenting science TV programmes in the UK, is a professor at the University of Manchester in what field?
Answer: Particle Physics
Question: Rosalind Franklin, a biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of DNA, RNA, and viruses, was what nationality?
Answer: British
Question: How many official languages does South Africa have?
Answer: 11
Question: Since 2010 what is played at the Commonwealth Games when an anthem for an English athlete is needed?
Answer: Jerusalem
Question: In the original Star Trek TV series which aired in the USA from 1966 to 1969, who played "Scotty"?
Answer: James Doohan
Question: Based on a UK political drama TV series of the same name, the US version featuring the actor Kevin Spacey is called "House..." what?
Answer: Of Cards
Question: What age (in years) does a horse have to be to run in the Epsom Derby?
Answer: Three
Question: The horse Red Rum finished second twice in the British Grand National, in 1975 and 1976; Rag Trade and which other were the horses that beat him?
Answer: L'Escargot
Question: Who hosted the travel programmes "Around the World in 80 Days" (1989), "Pole to Pole" (1992), "Full Circle" (1997), and "Hemingway Adventure" (1999)?
Answer: Michael Palin
Question: He is an alpine ski racer, who won four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (in 1998), and three World Championship titles (1999, 1999 and 2005). Who is he?
Answer: Hermann Maier
Question: The Camel Cup, first held in 1970 in the dry bed of a river, is held where?
Answer: Alice Springs, Australia
Question: What is Thailand's largest island?
Answer: Phuket
Question: Where is the Mose Project, construction work on which began in 2003, being carried out?
Answer: Venice, Italy
Question: The Visigoth army led by Alaric famously sacked what city in 410 CE?
Answer: Rome
Question: What is the main product of photosynthesis in plants?
Answer: Oxygen
Question: On whose book did Walt Disney base his 1940 feature film "Pinocchio"?
Answer: Carlo Collodi
Question: Which actor and musician, born in 1935, won a scholarship to study organ at Magdalen College, Oxford?
Answer: Dudley Moore
Question: Which American novelist wrote over 30 books, including "The Pathfinder", "The Deerslayer" and "The Last of the Mohicans"?
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper
Question: Charity and Mercy Pecksniff appear in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit
Question: Zeami, also called Kanze Motokiyo, (1363 - 1443) is considered the greatest playwright and theorist of which type of Japanese theatre in its current form?
Answer: Noh
Question: Which two Gibb brothers in the Bee Gees were twins?
Answer: Robin and Maurice
Question: Which merchant seaman wrote poems, novels, plays and critical essays and became Poet Laureate in 1930?
Answer: John Masefield
Question: Carl Stotz began an organisation in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1939 to promote what sport to youth?
Answer: Baseball
Question: Who played with the "Runaways" and the "Blackhearts"?
Answer: Joan Jett
Question: Typically what is in best supply in the Kalahari?
Answer: Sand
Question: What is the name of the mascot for the cereal Cocoa Puffs?
Answer: Sonny
Question: What was the name of the otter, the subject of a novel by Henry Williamson that was first published in 1927?
Answer: Tarka
Question: Which way is it likely that the head of the successor of Queen Elizabeth II will face on a British coin?
Answer: Left
Question: What type of engine did Felix Wankel invent?
Answer: Rotary
Question: Anaemia is better described by which term?
Answer: Hypochromic
Question: Which group, named after its keyboardist, had its first hit record when the members included Mike Hugg, Mike Vickers, Tom McGuinness and Paul Jones?
Answer: Manfred Mann
Question: Who resigned his army commission in 1858 to write music, such as the opera "Boris Godunov" and "Pictures at an Exhibition"?
Answer: Modest Mussorgsky
Question: Michael Caine appeared as which character in 5 films?
Answer: Harry Palmer
Question: Who co-starred with Kevin Costner in "Bodyguard" and released a song from the movie, "I Will Always Love You", which became a hit?
Answer: Whitney Houston
Question: In the 2015 World Rowing Championships which country was not in the top four medal winners?
Answer: USA
Question: On 1 May 1707, who became the first sovereign of the "Kingdom of Great Britain"?
Answer: Queen Anne
Question: How many "tines" does a tuning fork usually have?
Answer: Two
Question: Up until 1869 where was the city known as Edo?
Answer: Japan
Question: After the game of Australian Football was formulated in 1857 which was the first club (formed the following year)?
Answer: Melbourne Football Club
Question: In England, the "dissolution of the monasteries" occurred under the reign of which king?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question: U Thant (Myanmar), Kurt Waldheim (Austria) and Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru) successively held the same office; what was the office?
Answer: Secretary-General of the United Nations
Question: Which is a traditional topping for lasagne?
Answer: Cheese
Question: Who wrote "A Room With A View", "Howard's End" and "A Passage To India"?
Answer: E M Forster
Question: What Jewish celebration commemorates an event concerning children and lamb's blood?
Answer: Passover
Question: Despite being named for the Ebola River in Congo the virus was first isolated some distance away; where?
Answer: Yambuku
Question: Where would the phenomenon reported by locals as Naga Fireballs be found?
Answer: Mekong River
Question: In Western films, what is a "saloon"?
Answer: Bar
Question: Who is the lawyer in Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations"?
Answer: Jaggers
Question: Its capital city is Chiinu, and it is surrounded by the Ukraine and Romania; which country is it?
Answer: Moldova
Question: Which club won UEFA's inaugural European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1956?
Answer: Real Madrid
Question: The period known as "The Time of Troubles" 1598-1613 refers to which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: In Raymond Chandler's comment in the book Farewell My Lovely "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was ..." what figure of speech was he using?
Answer: Anaphora
Question: Who created the character of Horatio Hornblower?
Answer: C S Forester
Question: Where did the Eureka Rebellion happen?
Answer: Ballarat, Australia
Question: What disease caused US president Franklin D Roosevelt to use a wheelchair?
Answer: Polio
Question: In 1968, who was the first African American woman to be elected to the US Congress?
Answer: Shirley Chisholm
Question: The inaugural day-night cricket test game played at the Oval, Adelaide, Australia, in November 2015 was played between Australia and which other country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: In the 1968 feature film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, of what country is Baron Bomburst the tyrant ruler?
Answer: Vulgaria
Question: By what name was Shane Fenton better known as a performer in the 1970s and 1980s?
Answer: Alvin Stardust
Question: By what name is Theodor Geisel better known?
Answer: Dr Seuss
Question: The Tien Shan, or Tian Shan, mountains lie to the north of which?
Answer: Taklimakan Desert
Question: The film "Vera Drake" (2004) by Mike Leigh has as a central focus which field of activity in 1950s Britain?
Answer: Abortion
Question: What did Sir Francis Drake's ship, the Golden Hind, achieve from 1577 to 1580 ?
Answer: Circumnavigated the globe
Question: Which book broke the record for book sales in July 2007, selling 15 million copies in the 24 hours following its release?
Answer: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Question: Three weeks after the USSR launched the first man into space what craft did the USA launch, with its first manned space flight?
Answer: Mercury-Redstone 3
Question: Bob Fosse won a "Best Director" Oscar in 1972 for which film?
Answer: Cabaret
Question: The TV series "Broadchurch" (2013 - present) stars Olivia Colman together with what actor famous for his Dr Who persona?
Answer: David Tennant
Question: Which country held the Rugby League World Cup from 1975 to 2000 (for 6 contests)?
Answer: Australia
Question: Where was co-founder of band which became Crowded House, Tim Finn, born and raised?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Two of its cones are considered extinct while the third, Kibo, is only dormant and sports gas fumeroles. Which mountain is it?
Answer: Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Question: Who was the last British monarch to die in battle?
Answer: Richard III
Question: What fictitious national park was the setting for the 1960s TV series "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"?
Answer: Waratah
Question: Who was Grigori Rasputin popularly linked with?
Answer: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Question: A form of invasive toxic freshwater algal bloom known as blue-green is caused by what?
Answer: Cyanobacteria
Question: The mural-size canvas painted in oils, known as "Guernica", was painted by whom?
Answer: Pablo Picasso
Question: When did the style of football known as "Total Football" reach the World Cup?
Answer: 1974
Question: What did the U.S. buy from Russia for just two cents an acre?
Answer: Alaska
Question: What railroad was completed by a golden spike in Utah?
Answer: Transcontinental Railroad
Question: Who was W.S. Gilbert's songwriting partner?
Answer: Arthur Sullivan
Question: What became the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What "nerve tonic" was created by John Pemberton of Atlanta, Georgia?
Answer: Coca Cola
Question: What Christmas ballet was written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky?
Answer: The Nutcracker
Question: What was the French term for a impoverished, unconvential, artistic person?
Answer: Bohémien
Question: What gold rush happened in Canada?
Answer: Klondike Gold Rush
Question: What new invention was first tested near Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina?
Answer: Airplane
Question: What ship famously sank after hitting an iceberg?
Answer: RMS Titanic
Question: What Native American athlete won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon?
Answer: Jim Thorpe
Question: What yellow-brown chemical weapon was used?
Answer: Mustard Gas
Question: Who flew the Spirit of St. Louis?
Answer: Charles Lindbergh
Question: What was F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel?
Answer: The Great Gatsby
Question: What escape artist died after being punched in the stomach?
Answer: Harry Houdini
Question: Who wore a bowler hat, had a mustache, and often carried a cane?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin
Question: What art movement was represented by Salvador Dalí and René Magritte?
Answer: Surrealism
Question: In what sport did Gene Tunney defeat Jack Dempsey?
Answer: Boxing
Question: What character from "The Wizard of Oz" lacked a brain?
Answer: Scarecrow
Question: Who was Stan Laurel's comedic partner?
Answer: Oliver Hardy
Question: What French fashion designer and perfumer was suspected of being a Nazi spy?
Answer: Coco Chanel
Question: What disease killed actor Rock Hudson?
Answer: AIDS
Question: What brand of over-the-counter medication was tampered with, killing seven?
Answer: Tylenol
Question: What special prosecutor released prurient details about Bill Clinton's personal life?
Answer: Ken Starr
Question: What famous person died just 5 days after Princess Diana?
Answer: Mother Teresa
Question: What player was Michael Jordan's second fiddle?
Answer: Scottie Pippen
Question: On what holiday was an important Northern Ireland peace treaty signed?
Answer: Good Friday
Question: What British graffiti artist gained worldwide fame?
Answer: Banksy
Question: Who wrote "The Da Vinci Code"?
Answer: Dan Brown
Question: What Houston energy company went bankrupt due to massive accounting fraud?
Answer: Enron
Question: In the film "Cast Away", what company does Tom Hanks work for?
Answer: FedEx
Question: What famous novel invented the terms "thoughtcrime" and "doubleplusgood"?
Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Question: Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom?
Answer: Athena
Question: What Paris prison was stormed by the mob in 1789?
Answer: Bastille
Question: What is the Japanese art of miniature plant cultivation?
Answer: Bonsai
Question: What gladiator led a slave revolt against Rome starting in 73 B.C.?
Answer: Spartacus
Question: What is fossilized tree resin called?
Answer: Amber
Question: Who most famously painted "The Last Supper"?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Question: What do you call the traditional Japanese art of folding paper?
Answer: Origami
Question: Whose twelve labors included slaying a hydra and cleaning stables?
Answer: Hercules
Question: What language was invented in 1887 and has over 100,000 fluent speakers?
Answer: Esperanto
Question: In what city was John F. Kennedy assassinated?
Answer: Dallas
Question: """Some animals are more equal than others"" is a quote from what book?"
Answer: Animal Farm
Question: What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid better know as?
Answer: DNA
Question: What religion is associated with wearing dreadlocks?
Answer: Rastafari
Question: What was St. Petersburg called between 1924 and 1991?
Answer: Leningrad
Question: In what city does the movie "Robocop" take place?
Answer: Detroit
Question: On what planet did the movie "Planet of the Apes" take place?
Answer: Earth
Question: What is the English name for the group "Médecins Sans Frontières"?
Answer: Doctors Without Borders
Question: Tenerife, La Palma, and Fuerteventura are part of what Spanish island chain?
Answer: Canary Islands
Question: What fictional character has a skeleton made of adamantium?
Answer: Wolverine