zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What ambulance service is a common name used by a number of affiliated organisations in different countries dedicated to the teaching and practice of medical first aid and the provision of ambulance services, all of which derive their origins from an association founded in 1877 in England?
Answer: St John
Question: What is the name for the highly viscous layer of the earth that is about 2,890 km (1,800 miles) thick and makes up about 84 percent of Earth's volume?
Answer: Mantle
Question: The 38th episode of what series is infamous for using visual effects, that when transmitted in December 1997, caused seizures in 685 viewers so severe that they were taken to hospital?
Answer: Pokmon
Question: Who made two series of engravings based on two series of his paintings, called "A Rake's Progress" and "A Harlot's Progress"?
Answer: William Hogarth
Question: Who was an American serial killer active in various states between 1973 and 1978 who confessed to over 30 murders (estimates range from 26 to over 100)?
Answer: """Ted"" Bundy"
Question: Between 1821 and 1832 the Greeks fought to become free of which Empire?
Answer: Ottoman
Question: Who, when discussing the power of a lever, is reputed to have said "give me but one firm place on which to stand and I will move the earth"?
Answer: Archimedes
Question: Transits of Venus occur in a pattern, with pairs of transits 8 years apart separated by much longer gaps, that repeats every how many years?
Answer: 243
Question: How many apostrophes should be in the following sentence: "Andrews dogs licked their lips whenever Pavlovs bells rang to signal meal times"?
Answer: 2
Question: What is claimed to be the fastest bird in level flight, (though its record is in dispute from supporters of the White-throated Needletail)?
Answer: Red-breasted Merganser
Question: A Soviet film adaptation of which Shakespearean play, directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with black-and-white photography, a score by Shostakovich and a script based on a translation by Boris Pasternak, was made by Mosfilm in 1971?
Answer: King Lear
Question: In the original version of the "Donkey Kong" computer game, the hero, Mario, attempted to rescue his girlfriend. What was her name?
Answer: Pauline
Question: The longest-running speech radio show in the world (58 years) that was discontinued in March 2004, was Alistair Cooke's "Letter from ..." where?
Answer: America
Question: Reynald Temarii, president of the Oceania Football Confederation, was banned from soccer administration by FIFA because it was alleged that he had said that his vote for the election of hosts of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2022 FIFA World Cup could be influenced through the construction of a sports academy. Where was it to be built?
Answer: Tahiti
Question: What name was given to an uprising of rural workers in the south and east of England in 1830 who wanted to stop reductions in their wages and protest against the new threshing machines?
Answer: The Swing Riots
Question: What is the name collectively given to several groups of people in Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique, originally known as the Karanga?
Answer: Shona
Question: What are usually found in an aquarium?
Answer: Fish
Question: The islands of Funen, Zealand, Bornholm, Lolland, Falster, Mors and Langeland belong to which nation?
Answer: Denmark
Question: James Chadwick discovered which sub-atomic particles in 1932?
Answer: Neutrons
Question: What are found, although in small amounts, in certain seeds and stones, such as those of apple, mango, peach, and bitter almonds?
Answer: Cyanides
Question: What is a disorder of the immune system (called "type I hypersensitivity") whereby the human body reacts adversely to normally harmless environmental substances?
Answer: Allergy
Question: During the reign of which English king was there a succession crisis between his supporters and those of his cousin, the Empress Matilda?
Answer: Stephen
Question: From which continent are native tribes and ethnic groups called the Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Amhara, Somali, Fula, Shona, Zulu, Hutu, Maasai, Tutsi and Nubians?
Answer: Africa
Question: Who famously put his telescope to his blind eye to ignore the orders of his superiors at the Battle of Copenhagen?
Answer: Lord Nelson
Question: Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann was talking about what when he said "I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. ?
Answer: Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
Question: In golf, the Ryder Cup and the biennial Presidents Cup for teams representing the USA and International (non-European) players are unusual in that they use what scoring system?
Answer: Match play
Question: What name was given to the predominant type of 20th-century battleship, with an 'all-big-gun' armament & steam turbine propulsion, that was named after the first of the kind, launched by the Royal Navy in 1906?
Answer: Dreadnought
Question: Which card game, originating in Spain and introduced to England in 1861, is played between 2 persons with 2 packs of cards (with sixes and below removed) who are dealt 8 cards each?
Answer: Bezique
Question: Who, as US Secretary of State under President Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959, advocated an aggressive stance against communism, supported France in the war in Indochina, and played a major role in the CIA operations to overthrow democratic governments in Iran in 1953 and in Guatemala in 1954?
Answer: John Foster Dulles
Question: Which war pitted anarchists, socialists, and Communists supported by the Soviets and international volunteers, against conservatives, monarchists, nationalists and fascists, with the support of Portugal, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany?
Answer: The Spanish Civil War
Question: In April 2010, after riots in the capital which overthrew the government, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev left which country, leaving the way clear for the head of the new provisional government, Roza Otunbayeva?
Answer: Kyrgyzstan
Question: In England, what breed of dog is raced in an industry which, in 2007, attracted gates of around 3.2 million people at over 5,750 meetings across 26 stadiums?
Answer: Greyhounds
Question: Usually, the United Kingdom holds general elections every four years. In the 20th century, how many times did the UK hold more than one general election in one year?
Answer: 2
Question: Reed Richards, Susan "Sue" Storm (Reed's wife), Johnny Storm (Sue's younger brother), and Ben Grimm are the secret identities of which fictional group?
Answer: Fantastic Four
Question: Between 1989 and 2002, the UK's Dalton Grant was a gold medal winner in what sport?
Answer: High jump
Question: What was the name of the "state" that was never officially admitted into the Union of the USA after delegates from some North Carolina counties declared independence from North Carolina in 1784, and, in 1788, went back to being part of North Carolina?
Answer: Franklin
Question: When did a man last walk on the moon?
Answer: 1972
Question: In 1965, who became the first person to summit Mount Kennedy, at the time the highest mountain in Canada that had not yet been climbed, that had been named in honour of John F Kennedy after his assassination?
Answer: Robert Kennedy
Question: What is the generic title of a series of French comic strips that follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation by means of a magic potion brewed by their druid, which gives them superhuman strength?
Answer: The Adventures of Asterix
Question: The lyric "Then I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote, and for my 19th birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat" is from which song?
Answer: """The River"" by Bruce Springsteen"
Question: Which professional surfer who died on 2 November 2010, the only surfer to have won a title at every venue on the ASP calendar, had won 3 world titles (2002, 2003, 2004) and as recently as 3 September 2010 had won the Billabong Pro in Tahiti?
Answer: Andy Irons
Question: The first vice-president of the USA to be elected President, the father of a future President, assistant in drafting the Declaration of Independence and negotiating peace with Great Britain, and architect of vital government loans from the Netherlands, was who?
Answer: John Adams
Question: In 1961 US President John F Kennedy negotiated for the release of the 1,189 survivors out of 1,500 men directed and trained by the USA who had tried to invade which country?
Answer: Cuba
Question: A home for music and intimate performance, well-established in Europe in the 19th century, flourishing in early 20th century, and attended by a wide cross-section of society, sparked a number of films. What was the name for the venue and style?
Answer: Cabaret
Question: Who launched a perfume called "Lovely"in 2005?
Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker
Question: On the buttons of a tape, VCR or DVD player, what does the sign in the shape of a single right pointing arrow mean?
Answer: Play
Question: What programme run by the US Government since 1961 involves volunteers who work abroad for 24 months in the areas of education, business, information technology, agriculture & the environment?
Answer: The Peace Corps
Question: What German engineer led the design teams for the V2 rocket that blitzed London and the Saturn V rocket for the US space programme?
Answer: Werner von Braun
Question: What district in the south of Rio de Janeiro has a beach 4km long?
Answer: Copacabana
Question: What caused Richard I of England to be out of the country between 1190 and 1194, when his younger brother John tried to take control?
Answer: The Third Crusade
Question: What board game is played with 24 pieces on a board marked with 64 squares, where the object is to capture an enemy piece by passing over it to a vacant square behind it?
Answer: Draughts
Question: In which country did a suicide bombing take place in Taksim Square on 31 October 2010, resulting in at least 32 injuries, 15 of whom were police officers?
Answer: Istanbul
Question: The word "Droogies" was coined in which novel, made into a film directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick in 1971?
Answer: A Clockwork Orange
Question: On air, in September 2010, David Letterman asked whom during an interview for $US1 million for the use of a section of his programme in a film?
Answer: Joaquin Phoenix
Question: Vemont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire & Maine are collectively known as what?
Answer: New England
Question: What is a voluntary association of mainly former British colonies that co-operate with common values and goals that include the promotion of democracy, human rights, good governance, the rule of law, individual liberty, egalitarianism, free trade, multilateralism and world peace?
Answer: Commonwealth of Nations
Question: What land, a British colony for 155 years, and occupied by Japan briefly in WW II, was ceded to the People's Republic of China in 1997?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: On 12 November 1991, where in Dili were pro-independence student demonstrators who were protesting the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, shot at by Indonesian forces, killing at least 250?
Answer: The Santa Cruz cemetery
Question: In 1963, US President Kennedy sanctioned a coup d'tat in which country to overthrow Ngo Dinh Diem, the Roman Catholic President, by his own army generals?
Answer: South Vietnam
Question: Which Wonder of the Ancient World begun in 356 BC at Ephesus under the direction of Dinocrates took over a century to build?
Answer: Temple of Diana
Question: In a 1980 episode of the TV series "Dallas", what character was Sue Ellen's scheming sister, who shot J.R. after having an affair with him?
Answer: Kristin Shepard
Question: What is the term used in wine making for the catalyst function that turns grape juice into an alcoholic beverage when yeast interacts with sugars in the juice to create ethanol and carbon dioxide?
Answer: Fermentation
Question: Comedian Ernie Wise was the subject of a publicity campaign launched in the UK on 1 January 1985 as being the first person in the UK to use what?
Answer: Mobile phone
Question: What war was waged 1852-1856, one side being an alliance between the Ottoman Empire, UK, France, and Sardinia?
Answer: The Crimean War
Question: In English mythology, who were Galligantus and Bunderbore?
Answer: Giants
Question: What island, 1 mile from Manhattan, which has been used by the army as an isolation centre for infectious diseases (such as typhoid and TB) and as a drug rehabiltation centre, is now deserted?
Answer: North Brother Island
Question: In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" for no score in both innings of the same two-innings match?
Answer: Pair
Question: Which ancient people with a conferacy of 5 cities (Ekron, Ashdod, Gath, Askalon and Gaza) came into conflict with Israel under Samson, Samuel and David?
Answer: Philistines
Question: The newest distinct territory in Canada, Nunavut, is contiguous or very nearly with how many other Canadian provinces or territories?
Answer: 4
Question: What country, part of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years as the provinces of Shkodra, Manastir and Yanya, proclaimed its independence on 28 November 1912, with Ismail Qemali as its first Prime Minister?
Answer: Albania
Question: What links a type of footwear, the home of NATO, the best known military exploit of an early British Prime Minister, and the final days of freedom for a short Corsican commander?
Answer: Brussels
Question: In 1453, the Ottomans used a cannon called "the Great Turkish Bombard", which required an operating crew of 200 men and 70 oxen, and 10,000 men to transport it, during their siege of which city?
Answer: Constantinople
Question: Speculation about the possibility of a southern land mass has been around for at least 2,000 years. When was the first recorded sighting of the Antarctic continent?
Answer: 1820
Question: In 1848, the USA offered Spain $100 million, equivalent to around $2.45 billion in present day terms, for the purchase of which area of land?
Answer: Cuba
Question: Which sport, practised since at least the 8th century BC, is still current and was celebrated on the special 10 Greek coin minted in 2003?
Answer: Discus throwing
Question: Emperor Pedro II, Deodoro da Fonseca, Floriano Peixoto, Manuel Vitorino Pereira and Prudente de Morais are names that crop up in the politics of what country in the 19th century?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What kind of window is made of one or more movable panels that form a frame to hold panes of glass where the glazed panels are opened by sliding vertically, or horizontally?
Answer: Sash
Question: What type of highly directional microphone, commonly used on television and film sets, in stadiums, and for field recording of wildlife, was invented by Fritz Sennheiser in the 1950s?
Answer: Shotgun
Question: Between 1901 and 1909, Karl Landsteiner, Jan Jansk and William Moss worked on the classification of what?
Answer: Blood groups
Question: What did Napoleon Bonaparte I establish in 1804, a measure which has had worldwide effect?
Answer: Napoleonic Code
Question: The sinking, approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, of which steamship on 12 November 1928, with a loss of over 100 lives, particularly of women and children after it was abandoned, had a major impact on the second International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in 1929?
Answer: Vestris
Question: Where did Portuguese traders begin to settle in the 16th century, administering the area until 20 December 1999?
Answer: Macau
Question: By what name was the Castle of St Antoine that was built in Paris in 1369 as a fortress better known?
Answer: Bastille
Question: Hussars is a word applied to what type of troops?
Answer: Cavalry
Question: In which country, in June 2010, were there clashes between the two main ethnic groups, the Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, a state of emergency declared and troops deployed, inciting fears that the country could be heading towards a civil war?
Answer: Kyrgyzstan
Question: Who was the head of an international sporting body who once suggested that women players (in that sport) should wear tighter shorts and lowcut shirts to make their game more appealing?
Answer: Sepp Blatter
Question: The phrases "cry wolf" and "sour grapes" have a basis in which collection of stories?
Answer: Aesop's Fables
Question: What war, begun in 1740 when Austrian Emperor Charles VI died and his daughter Maria Theresa came to the throne, involved attacks by Prussia, Bavaria, France, Spain, Sardinia and Saxony, and ended in 1748?
Answer: The War of the Austrian Succession
Question: The initiative for what current unit of the British Army began during World War II in 1941 by David Stirling as a commando force operating behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa and Europe?
Answer: SAS
Question: In chess, what term is given to the situation where a king is under direct attack and cannot avoid being captured?
Answer: Checkmate
Question: It originated in the 5th century BCE or earlier as training for the military, could involve up to 200 a game, was fted for both men and women in Persian poetry and art. Which game is it?
Answer: Polo
Question: The nomadic Mongol tribes in Mongolia, Manchuria and Siberia united under which leader in the 1100s?
Answer: Genghis Khan
Question: A series of political protests against the government in Thailand in 2010 were organised by a group calling themselves what?
Answer: Red shirts
Question: In Scandinavian mythology, who were the maidens who rode through the sky on horses, sword in hand, to influence the outcome of battles and select the bravest fighters to live in Valhallah?
Answer: Valkyries
Question: Who married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997, divorced him in 2002, had a daughter by Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, married musician Seal in 2005, and had 3 three more children with him between 2005 and 2009?
Answer: Heidi Klum
Question: The British conquest of which country began in 1824 in response to its attempt to invade India, and from 1886 to 1937 was administered as a province of British India when it became a separate, self-governing colony?
Answer: Burma
Question: Which cricket ground was the home ground of the Manchester Cricket Club from 1856 until it became the home of the Lancashire County Cricket Club when that was founded in 1864?
Answer: Old Trafford
Question: After discovering a new planet, Herschel named it Georgium Sidus (George's Star), or the "Georgian Planet" in honour of King George III. The scientific community did not like the name, and decided to call it what?
Answer: Uranus
Question: What is the name for the indication that a group of 3 notes are to be performed in the time of 2 of equal value, which is shown by a "3" and a slur placed above or below the group?
Answer: Triplet
Question: Queen Maude Land and Mount Erebus are on which continent?
Answer: Antarctica
Question: Clusterball is a game involving aircraft, balls, magnetic ramps and a collection point, and is played on what?
Answer: A screen
Question: What is Russia's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean at the head of the Golden Horn Bay not far from Russia's border with China and North Korea, and the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet?
Answer: Vladivostok
Question: US President Bush sent 2,000 troops into which country to conduct regular military exercises and, after a US serviceman was shot by local forces in December 1989, ordered an additional 24,000 troops in to take control?
Answer: Panama
Question: On 30 September 2010, the Allahabad High Court pronounced its verdict on four title suits relating to ownership of "Ayodhya land", which had been disputed since 1853. Which country was this land in?
Answer: India
Question: According to the old saying, what "is a virtue, possess it if you can, seldom found in women and never in a man"?
Answer: Patience
Question: What was the name given to the series of trials presided over by Judge Jeffreys after the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 when hundreds were put to death or transported to the colonies?
Answer: Bloody Assizes
Question: From 1618 the Thirty Years War between Catholic and Protestant countries in the Holy Roman Empire, in 1632 became a fight between the Hapsburgs and Spain on one side against who on the other?
Answer: France
Question: In the late 1940s, a soldier named Constantin Esmont made detailed records of the various types of dog known as borzoi, concerned that the breed was degenerating. Where did the breed originate?
Answer: Russia
Question: Prior to its annexation by the USA in 1898, Hawai had been a republic for about four years. What was it immediately before that?
Answer: Monarchy
Question: What was Harry Buermeyer's club in 1878 when he became the first official amateur heavyweight boxing champion in America?
Answer: New York Athletic Club
Question: In 1917, who led a Bolshevik insurrection against the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the Bolshevik Revolution, the second phase of the overall Russian Revolution?
Answer: Vladimir Lenin
Question: Which English explorer commanded the ships "Discovery" and "Terra Nova" to explore the Antarctic?
Answer: Robert Falcon Scott
Question: On 15 April 1986, the USA launched a series of air strikes on what country because Ronald Reagan had "irrefutable proof" that it had directed a terrorist bombing in a Berlin discothque.
Answer: Libya
Question: In 1986, which country was found guilty by the International Court of Justice (World Court) of war crimes against Nicaragua?
Answer: USA
Question: Temujin (1162-1227), who made his capital in Karakorum was better known as who?
Answer: Genghis Khan
Question: in 1853 while working on the synthesis and properties of various acid anhydrides, French chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt made acetylsalicylic acid by mixing acetyl chloride with a sodium salt of salicylic acid (sodium salicylate). He called the resulting compound "salicylic-acetic anhydride". What was this preparation later marketed as?
Answer: Aspirin
Question: In 1906, Lee de Forest developed a "triode" to amplify and convert alternating current to direct current, which played a major role in the development of which invention?
Answer: Radio
Question: What clothing item made of synthetic material was first sold in Wilmington Delaware in 1939?
Answer: Nylon stockings
Question: What public disturbance early in June 1780 in London, described by Charles Dickens in "Barnaby Rudge", was put down by the military and followed by the execution of 11 people?
Answer: Gordon riots
Question: Which chemist, engineer, and armaments manufacturer invented dynamite and a detonator for it and then founded a longstanding series of world prizes for, among other things, promoting peace?
Answer: Alfred Nobel
Question: Who married actress Ta Leoni on 6 May 1997, announced their separation on 15 October 2008, and in September 2009 announced that they had reconciled?
Answer: David Duchovny
Question: Which country has borders with Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and the People's Republic of China?
Answer: Afghanistan
Question: How many theses were nailed to a church door by Martin Luther in 1517 (generally accepted to be the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, on All Saints Eve, 31 October)?
Answer: 95
Question: A scarab beetle is also known as what?
Answer: Dung beetle
Question: Glencoe, Praga, Peterloo, Waterloo Creek, and Hue are known as what?
Answer: Massacres
Question: On 17 June 1994, what vehicle was O J Simpson driving in a slow-speed chase by police at 35 miles per hour (56 km/h)?
Answer: Ford Bronco
Question: The adjectival clause in the following sentence begins with which word: "Roger told his dog, which had just come inside, not to jump with such vigour on the brand new furniture"?
Answer: Which
Question: Which snooker player, nicknamed "The Grinder", in 1980 became the first player from outside the United Kingdom to win the world snooker championship?
Answer: Cliff Thorburn
Question: Which country, a founder member of the Arab League in 1945 was suspended from the League from 1979 to 1989 after it signed a peace treaty with Israel?
Answer: Egypt