zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: "Plane Crazy" was the first cartoon to introduce what now iconic cartoon character, when it debuted on May 15, 1928?
Answer: Mickey Mouse
Question: Which hypocritical, ignorant Sarah Palin spawn recently shot their mouth off, claiming "We know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home."?
Answer: Bristol
Question: What is the name for a large, slow moving, persistent body of ice that forms when the accumulation of snow exceeds its' rate of melting?
Answer: Glacier
Question: On May 14, 1804, the Corp of Discovery, led by whom, departed Camp Dubois to start their journey by heading down the Missouri River?
Answer: Lewis and Clark
Question: Killing 57 people and causing over $3 billion in property damage, the eruption o f Mount St. Helens occurred on May 18 of what year?
Answer: 1980
Question: First appearing in color in 1935's The Band Concert, what color pants does Mickey Mouse wear?
Answer: Red
Question: Consisting of taurine, glucuronolactone, caffeine, B vitamins, sucrose, and glucose, what beverage gives you wiiings?
Answer: Red Bull
Question: Now a prominent part of the advertising world, what color M&Ms were removed from circulation for 9 years during the 1970s, due to a health scare concerning food dye?
Answer: Red
Question: May 18, 1980 saw the eruption of what, causing the death of 57 people and over $3 billion in damages?
Answer: Mount St. Helens
Question: What is the common name of the warning police officers give to arrestees that include phrases such as “You have the right to remain silent” and “You have the right to have an attorney present during questioning”?
Answer: Miranda warning
Question: Of the 4 states making up the Pacific Northwest, which one leads with an unemployment rate of 12%?
Answer: Oregon
Question: What can be a tool, an abstract geometric surface, and a means of transportation?
Answer: Plane
Question: Now a term describing those opposed to industrialization, computerization, or new technologies in general, what was the name for 19th century workers who protested the industrial revolution, often by destroying mechanized equipment?
Answer: Luddites
Question: Notorious bank robbing duo Bonnie and Clyde were eventually ambushed by law enforcement agents in what U.S. state?
Answer: Louisiana
Question: Which actor, born in Winterset, Iowa on May 26th, 1907, holds the record as the actor with the most leading parts 142.
Answer: John Wayne
Question: What English novelist, a purveyor of romantic fiction, is responsible for such works as Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Emma, among others?
Answer: Jane Austen
Question: May 25, 1803 saw the birth, in Boston, MA, of what lecturer, essayist, and poet, who, along with Henry David Thoreau, was a founding force behind Transcendentalism?
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Question: Known as The Magnolia State or The Hospitality State, what was the 20th state to join the union on Dec 10, 1817?
Answer: Mississippi
Question: What American, founder of the Standard Oil company, was the first American to amass $1 billion, and is generally thought to have been the richest man in history?
Answer: John D. Rockefeller
Question: What U.S. president claimed that he was once attacked by a mysterious swamp rabbit while on a fishing trip?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Question: What cocktail, consisting of rum, curacao, and lime juice, did bar owner Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr., better known as Trader Vic, claim to invent?
Answer: Mai Tai
Question: Drawing an estimated 235,000 visitors, what is the name of the annual festival of ethnic, folk, and traditional art, crafts, and music that took place at Seattle Center this last weekend?
Answer: Northwest Folklife
Question: On June 2, 1997, major asshat Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his part in what heinous act?
Answer: Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
Question: June 2, 1886 saw which US President, the 22nd (and 24th), marry Frances Folsom in the White House, the only president who actually got married at the White House?
Answer: Grover Cleveland
Question: June 5, 1968 saw which US presidential candidate shot at the Ambassador Hotel (since razed), by radical Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan?
Answer: Robert F. Kennedy
Question: July 4, 1919 saw Congress pass the 19th amendment (although it wasn't officially ratified until Aug 20, 1920), which gave the vote to which previously disenfranchised group?
Answer: Women
Question: In the classic L. Frank Baum story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which of Dorothy's traveling companion was searching for a heart?
Answer: Tin Woodman
Question: Nicknamed Dr. Death, what famed American assisted suicide activist, who passed on this last week, spent 8 years in prison on a second degree murder charge?
Answer: Jack Kevorkian
Question: Formerly known as Sky Dome, Rogers Centre is home to what American League baseball team, the only MLB team located outside the United States?
Answer: Toronto Blue Jays
Question: What sailor suit wearing, short tempered cartoon character made his first appearance on June 9, 1934 in the Silly Symphonies cartoon The Wise Little Hen?
Answer: Donald Duck
Question: June 8, 1949 saw London publishers Secker and Warburg which book which features a perpetual war between Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia?
Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Question: By the power of Greyskull, who, alongside Teela and Man-At-Arms, battled Skeletor to defend Eternia?
Answer: HeMan
Question: Inked by Dean Young, the travails of the Bumstead family are depicted in what comic strip created in 1930?
Answer: Blondie
Question: Now that Pluto's been demoted, what's the smallest planet of the solar system, with a radius only 0.3892 that of Earth?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Outside of what New Mexico town was a supposed crashed UFO discovered on June 14, 1947, which the Gov't swears was a weather balloon?
Answer: Roswell
Question: Saturday is also known as Bloomsday, so called because it's the day in which what author set the events of his novel Ulysses?
Answer: James Joyce
Question: The trial on campaign finance violations of what former Presidential candidate and North Carolina senator ended in a mistrial last week?
Answer: John Edwards
Question: Esther Lederer spent 47 years writing a newspaper advice column under what pseudonym, competing with her twin sister Abigail Van Buren?
Answer: Ann Landers
Question: Butters Stoch, Pip Pirrip, Token Black, and Wendy Testaburger are school characters in what long running animated TV series?
Answer: South Park
Question: June 17, 1994 saw a low speed chase up Interstate 405 as OJ Simpson was pursued by some of Los Angeles finest for a good 6 hours. What former teammate of OJs was driving his white Ford Bronco?
Answer: Al Cowlings
Question: What porcine inspired name is given to amateur radio operators?
Answer: Ham
Question: Used primarly to measure the distance between stars, what unit of length is defined as 9,460,730,472,580.8 km?
Answer: Lightyear
Question: On June 25, 1953, "photo-journalist" Jacqueline Bouvier announced her engagement to whom?
Answer: John F Kennedy
Question: June 25, 1876 saw George Custer meet his Waterloo at the Battle of Little Big Horn, which happened in what present state?
Answer: Montana
Question: Born Eric Arthur Blair in India, on June 25, 1903, what British author penned such books as Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and Washington, and Homage to Catalonia?
Answer: George Orwell
Question: What Latin phrase, which translates as 'by deed', is taken to mean common in practice, but not established by law?
Answer: De facto
Question: June 25, 1876 saw which Lakota Sioux holy man defeat Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Answer: Sitting Bull
Question: Mountainous Sherpas and bad-assed Ghurkas are native to which country?
Answer: Nepal
Question: What can be a power source, an organized group of artillery pieces, and contact with another in a manner likely to cause bodily harm?
Answer: Battery
Question: What liquor, the primary ingredient in the original Martini and the Singapore Sling, gets its flavor from the juniper berry?
Answer: Gin
Question: July 2, 1961 saw Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway commit suicide at his farm in Ketchum in what state?
Answer: Idaho
Question: What conference, which is now held in Europe, Asia, as well as the US, hosts a series of talks of 18 minute maximum length, devoted to "ideas worth spreading"?
Answer: TED talks
Question: Surrounded by the usual group of asshat protestors, the G20 economic summit concluded earlier this week after 2 days of meeting in what city?
Answer: Toronto
Question: What daily comic strip, introduced by Brian Basset in 2001, tells a story about a young boy, who's actual name is Russell, and his dog?
Answer: Red and Rover
Question: Who's missing: Lois Lane, Perry White, Jimmy Olsenm, Steve Lombard?
Answer: Clark Kent
Question: Born on June 27, 1880, who was the deaf and blind author, who wrote such works as The Story of my Life, The World I Live In, and the Socialist tract Out of the Dark?
Answer: Helen Keller
Question: Today marks the birthday of Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, born Lhamo Dondrub, the 14th Spiritual leader of Tibet who fled to India in 1959, better known as whom?
Answer: The Dali Lama
Question: Lasting 9 seasons, from July 1989 to May 1998, what NBC show described itself as “a show about nothing”?
Answer: Seinfeld
Question: Although it has been around since 1901, which baseball league is known as the Junior Circuit?
Answer: American League
Question: What car company was forced to recall over 2.3 million vehicles earlier this year over reports of stuck accelerator pedals in 9 different models?
Answer: Toyota
Question: July 8, 1958 was the birth of what American actor, who, due to his prolific career, can supposedly be linked to another actor in as little as 6 steps?
Answer: Kevin Bacon
Question: What single panel comic strip, running daily from 1980 to 1995, featured the surreal humor of WSU alum Gary Larson?
Answer: The Far Side
Question: When a jeweler refers to a diamond’s “cut,” he is describing what aspect of the gem?
Answer: Shape
Question: What does the giant ape use as weapons against Jumpman in the original, 1981 Donkey Kong game?
Answer: Barrels
Question: July 16, 1917 saw the death of what leader, Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland, and his children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei?
Answer: Tsar Nicholas II
Question: The nuclear age was born on July 16, 1945 when the first atomic bomb was tested at White Sands Proving Grounds outside Socorro in what Southwestern state?
Answer: New Mexico
Question: Including such tasks as slaying the Nemean lion, cleaning the Augean stables in a single day, and obtaining the Girdle of the Amazon Queen, how many labors was Hercules supposed to perform?
Answer: 12
Question: Which US President, born Leslie Lynch King on July 14, 1913, was the longest lived US President at 93 years, 165 days?
Answer: Gerald Ford
Question: The Trinity test site, outside of Alamogordo, NM, saw the first test of the atomic bomb on July 16, 1945. Headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, what was the name of the project that developed the bomb?
Answer: Manhattan project
Question: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 was awarded to Ernest Hemingway for "his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in what novella, featuring as a main character a tired gentleman named Santiago, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style".
Answer: The Old Man and the Sea
Question: The detonation of the first atomic bomb, Trinity, ushered in the Atomic Age, when the bomb was tested outside of Alamogordo in what US state on July 16, 1945?
Answer: New Mexico
Question: In theater terminology, which part of a stage is closest to the audience: upstage or downstage?
Answer: Downstage
Question: Whose Wild West show, which ran from 1883 until 1908, featured such performers as Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull, and Frank Butler, among many others?
Answer: Buffalo Bill
Question: Born Lee Jun-fan in San Francisco, what famed martial artist, who died on Jul 20, 1973, founded the martial art known as Jeet Kune Do?
Answer: Bruce Lee
Question: What sport features a scrum, in which three rows of opposing players lock together and compete for a ball placed on the ground?
Answer: Rugby
Question: What jazz legend was commonly known as Satchmo, short for satchelmouth, and has the New Orleans airport named for him?
Answer: Louis Armstrong
Question: July 20, 1919, was the birth of what New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist, who made sherpa Tenzing Norgay an international celebrity?
Answer: Sir Edmund Hillary
Question: The Crocodile Hunter was a nickname given to what Australian naturalist, who was killed by a slightly irritated sting ray in 2006?
Answer: Steve Irwin.
Question: According to the proverb, a what in your hand is worth two in your bush?
Answer: bird
Question: A parent company of on of the worlds largest consumer products brands Unilever, What product did Lever Brothers manufacture when they first opened shop in 1885?
Answer: Soap
Question: Poetess Emma Lazarus was born on July 22, 1849 in New York City, and is best known for her poem The New Colossus, which is prominently displayed where?
Answer: The base of the Statue of Liberty
Question: What southern state, home of the 17th President of the United States, and site of many Union victories, was the first to be readmitted to the Union on July 24, 1866?
Answer: Tennessee
Question: John Diaz serves what role in His Asshat Greg Nickles government?
Answer: Chief of Police
Question: Johnny Cash sang, “I hear the train a comin’. It’s rolling round the bend. And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when.” What was he singing about?
Answer: Folsom Prison
Question: What Latin phrase, which translates into English as “my fault”, is taken to mean “my fault”?
Answer: Mea Culpa
Question: Melvin Purvis and Samuel P. Cowley led the FBI team that confronted, and ultimately killed, what noted gangster outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago on July 22, 1934?
Answer: John Dillinger
Question: The father of the modern assembly line, what American industrialist, born on July 30, 1863, was a prolific inventor with 161 patents to his name?
Answer: Henry Ford
Question: With a motto of "For the Benefit of All", what executive branch agency had is founding on July 29, 1958, and has been responsible for programs as diverse as Mariner and New Horizon?
Answer: NASA
Question: July 27, 1789 saw George Washington sign the bill that created the first ever Federal Agency under the US constitution, the Department of Foreign Affairs. By what name is the department currently known?
Answer: Department of State
Question: Who is captain of the Black Pearl in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise?
Answer: Captain Jack Sparrow
Question: Although never actually used in the books, the phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson." is commonly attributed to whom?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes
Question: What car company, with a 10 year lifespan, was created from the purchase of American Motors by Chrysler in 1988?
Answer: Eagle
Question: Which Lewis Carroll character was known for its enormous grin?
Answer: Cheshire Cat
Question: Sounding more like an FAA employee, what did Jason Lee and Beth Reifsgraf name their son?
Answer: Pilot Inspektor
Question: Serial killer David Berkowitz, who terrorized New York City from 1975 to 1976, was known in the press by what name?
Answer: Son of Sam
Question: What is the name for the conical textile tube hung from a pole at airports used to indicate wind direction and relative speed?
Answer: Windsock
Question: Multi-billionaire industrialist Tony Stark is the secret identity behind what Marvel super hero?
Answer: Iron Man
Question: What type of internal combustion engine uses the heat of compression to initiate fuel ignition as opposed to requiring an external spark source?
Answer: Diesel
Question: Which vehicle, according to the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, is most likely to be stolen, a position of honor it's held for 6 of the last 7 years?
Answer: Cadillac Escalade
Question: Currently on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space museum, what type of US bomber is the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb?
Answer: Boeing B-29
Question: In geology, what is the process by which organic material is turned to stone by naturally impregnating it with silica or iron and sulfur?
Answer: Petrification
Question: Epitomized by Vernon Wormer, what name is given to individuals that run universities or colleges?
Answer: Dean
Question: August 16, 1977 saw the passing of what singing legend, found on the floor of his bathroom?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question: Colonel Tom Parker, the Colonel being an honorary title only, made his mark managing what entertainer?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question: What 80’s New Wave band thought “We Had the Beat” before then went on “Vacation”, although “Our Lips are Sealed”, so you may not know about being “Head Over Heals”?
Answer: The Go-Gos
Question: The US led all countries in the top two medal categories at this years Olympics. How many gold medals did they earn?
Answer: 46
Question: Characterized by dark, often reflective lenses having an area two or three times the area of the eye socket, and metal frames with bayonet earpieces, aviator sunglasses are sold by what company?
Answer: Ray-Ban
Question: Consisting of rotors, a lampboard, a keyboard, and a plugboard, what is the name of the electro-mechanical cipher machine deployed by the Germans during WWII?
Answer: Enigma
Question: What famed science fiction writer, who celebrates an august birthday, is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles?
Answer: Ray Bradbury
Question: Invented by General Foods in 1957, what powdered fruit-flavored breakfast drink was included in the Mercury and Gemini space flights, forever linking it with the space program?
Answer: Tang
Question: In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin, what did the title creature promise to do for the miller's daughter, in exchange for her first born?
Answer: Spin straw into gold
Question: What singer was found unresponsive on his bathroom floor on August 16, 1977, before being declared dead at 3:30 that afternoon?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question: In physics, what unit of force is defined as the amount of force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of one meter per second per second?
Answer: Newton
Question: Pioneer of party-plan marketing, Earl Tupper invented what during his stay at DuPont?
Answer: Tupperware
Question: True or false: an adult centipede has exactly 100 legs?
Answer: False
Question: On Aug 23, 1939, Germany signed a non-aggression pact with what other country, paving the way for the Nazi invasion of Poland?
Answer: USSR
Question: What salad dressing (containing mayonnaise, anchovies, chives and sour cream) was named after a 1921 play?
Answer: Green Goddess
Question: Known for his love of Ludwig van, what is the name of the piano playing character in the Peanuts comic strip?
Answer: Schroeder
Question: If I'm on vehicles named Ganges Gertie, Irrawaddy Irma, Orinoco Ida, or Zambesi Zelda, what Disney World Magic Kingdom attraction am I on?
Answer: Jungle Cruise
Question: What can be a defunct Ford model, an NBA player, and a TV western?
Answer: Maverick
Question: What category 3 hurricane devastated the east coast last week, resulting in at least 54 deaths?
Answer: Irene
Question: In the early 1990s, Nike ran a series of Bo Knows TV commercial featuring what athlete, the first in the modern era to play both professional football and baseball in the same year, trying his hand at various sports, including basketball (with Michael Jordan) and Tennis (with John McEnroe)?
Answer: Bo Jackson
Question: Anchored by the star Sirius, what animal does the constellation Canis Major represent?
Answer: A dog
Question: In what outdoor sport, sanctioned by the NHPA, scores 3 points for a ringer, 2 for a leaner, and the closet scores a point?
Answer: Horseshoes
Question: Born on August 31, 12 AD, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, emperor of Rome from 37 AD to 41AD and later to be played Malcolm McDowell, was commonly known as whom?
Answer: Caligula
Question: On Sept 4, 1998, Google is founded by fellow students Sergey Brin and Larry Page. At what university were they classmates?
Answer: Stanford
Question: According to the fairy tale Cinderella, what vegetable gets turned into the carriage?
Answer: A pumpkin
Question: What relationship was shared by actors Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger in their 1988 film, directed by Ivan Reitman?
Answer: Twins
Question: On September 8, 1974, Gerald Ford issued Proclamation 4311 granting a pardon, for crimes that may have been committed, to whom?
Answer: Richard M. Nixon
Question: Sept 5, 1774 saw the first sitting of what important body, which met in Philadelphia's Carpenter's Hall?
Answer: First Continental Congress
Question: For a point each, name the countries that share a physical border with the Kingdom of Lesotho
Answer: South Africa
Question: Introduced by the Raytheon Corporation in 1947, what ubiquitous modern day convenience was originally sold under the name Radarange, based on its use of the magnetron, a major component of radar systems?
Answer: Microwave Oven
Question: This year was the first in its 45 year history that Jerry Lewis did not host the annual labor day telethon, which raises money for which charity (2.45 billion to date)?
Answer: Muscular Dystrophy Association
Question: On September 7, 1927, what American inventor demonstrated the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices?
Answer: Philo T. Farnsworth
Question: Whose labors include such tasks as slaying the Nemean lion, cleaning the Augean stables in a single day, and obtaining the Girdle of the Amazon Queen?
Answer: Hercules
Question: Who was Captain America's sidekick during World War II?
Answer: Bucky
Question: In what two-player Milton Bradley board game, introduced in 1961, do players try to capture the other player's flag on a 10Ă10 board?
Answer: Stratego
Question: "Oh where oh where has my Underdog gone," whines what anthropomorphic dog reporter, the love interest of Underdog, whenever she gets in trouble?
Answer: Sweet Polly Purebred
Question: One of the largest book publisher, what company took it's name from the founders desire to publish a few arbitrary books on the side?
Answer: Random House
Question: What musical instrument is often crafted with two parallel pipes, one known as a chanter and the other known as a drone?
Answer: Bagpipe
Question: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier got married on Sept 11, 1963 married what then US Representative in Newport, RI?
Answer: John F. Kennedy
Question: Something described as 'tactile' relates to which of the five senses?
Answer: Touch
Question: The Mushroom Kingdom is the setting for what Nintendo video game series, first introduced on Sept 13, 1985
Answer: Super Mario Brothers
Question: What noted magician, escapologist, stunt performer, actor, film producer and noted skeptic, died of peritonitis, secondary to a ruptured appendix, in 1926?
Answer: Harry Houdini
Question: Famous for their little blue boxes, what NY based jewelry and silverware company first opened their doors on Sept 17, 1837?
Answer: Tiffany
Question: Sept 17, 1976 saw the unveiling of which NASA space shuttle, which while it was not destined to boldly go where no man had gone before, was a valuable test bed?
Answer: Enterprise
Question: Which crooner, a favorite of Judge Harry Stone on Night Court, was known as The Velvet Fog?
Answer: Mel Torme
Question: What legendary tribe of fierce female warriors reportedly amputated a breast in order to better wield a bow?
Answer: Amazon
Question: Newspaper editor Horace Greeley famously advised young men to do what "and grow up with the country" in an 1865 editorial?
Answer: Go West
Question: Which nautical term is used to describe the width of a vessel at its widest point?
Answer: Beam