zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which Indian city, second largest in Rajasthan state behind capital Jaipur, after which styles of trousers and boots were named in the late 1800s, is known as 'Sun City' and the 'Blue City'?
Answer: Jodhpur
Question: What is Uganda's staple crop, of which each adult consumes over three-times bodyweight annually?
Answer: Bananas
Question: What 1986 disaster caused pollution across Europe by the radioactive isotope caesium-137, which at least 25 years later still required livestock to be scanned on some UK upland farms?
Answer: Chernobyl
Question: Butoh, a ritualistic emotional dance involving extreme movement and stillness is from which country?
Answer: Japan
Question: The Law of Large Numbers is a principle which seeks to explain what, commonly considered inexplicable?
Answer: Coincidences
Question: The World Heritage city of Kandy is on which Asian island, whose name means in Sanskrit 'venerable island', and whose previous colonial name is strongly associated with tea?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: What is an early sacrificial move in chess, usually of a pawn, to gain advantage, which has entered language with similar wider meaning?
Answer: Gambit
Question: Southern Distilleries Ltd, the world's most southern distillery, produces Hokonui Moonshine, named after the mountains where the illicit version of the drink first appeared, in which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Porifera, meaning 'pore bearer' is a marine life form better known by what name, now strongly associated with its traditional human use?
Answer: Sponge
Question: What is a traditional fastener which prevents a wheel from coming off its axle, and refers metaphorically to a crucial person or part?
Answer: Linchpin
Question: In relation to spiritual diety Pachamama, in 2011 Bolivia announced an new unusual Law of what?
Answer: Mother Earth
Question: In conventional chessboard layout denotion, where the white castle (rook) starts on square a1, what piece occupies e8?
Answer: Black King
Question: Heinz Baked Beans are branded with the ironically misleading byline of "(how many) Varieties"?
Answer: 57
Question: Derived from the description of a skinned herb, what old English word means a bald-headed man?
Answer: Pilgarlic
Question: The traditionally shaped sound-holes in instruments such as violins and cellos are referred to by what letter of the alphabet?
Answer: F
Question: Yandex, in 2011 probably the largest internet company flotation after Google in 2004, was founded and dominates web searching in which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: What country announced a sales ban on the yeast extract Marmite in 2011 due to its law forbidding vitamin additives?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Tamara Mellon co-founded (with the person after whom the company is named) what fashion label, sold for £500m in 2011?
Answer: Jimmy Choo
Question: What colour/color is used to describe a seared steak (of beef) - cooked very quickly and very rare, just one stage from being raw?
Answer: Blue
Question: What world renowned academy, originated in 1741, relocated to Camberley, Surrey in 1947, has the motto, "Serve to Lead"?
Answer: Sandhurst
Question: What is Julia Donaldson's hugely successful character and book, based on a Chinese folk tale of a fox that borrows the terror of a tiger?
Answer: The Gruffalo
Question: The nautical term fo'c'sle (pronounced foxel) is a common shortening of what word referring to the forward part of a ship where sailors live?
Answer: Forecastle
Question: From the Greek words for empty tomb, what sort of monument exists in many cities to commemorate lives lost, especially in the 1st and 2nd World Wars?
Answer: Cenotaph
Question: Sinhalese (or Singhalese) is the language and people originating in north India now largely populating which country?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: Name the Trinidad and Tobago cabinet minister who resigned as vice president of FIFA in 2011 amid ongoing ethics investigations?
Answer: Jack Warner
Question: The crossed-ropes acting as ladders to masts on old sailing ships are called?
Answer: Ratlines
Question: Bir, iki, uc, dort, bes (loosely westernised) are 1-5 in what language?
Answer: Turkish
Question: How many sides (different straight outer edges, excluding shadow) does each '2' have in the London 2012 Olympics logo?
Answer: Eight
Question: What is the ancient process by which materials such as metal or glass are heated and then cooled slowly to ease forces produced by shaping?
Answer: Annealing
Question: Teams competing in what famous annual July event include THC, Movistar, Leopard, BMC and Quick-Step?
Answer: Tour de France
Question: Unlike base metals and silver, gold does not dissolve in what acid, enabling testing of the metal's presence, incidentally originating the expression 'acid test'?
Answer: Nitric acid
Question: What 6-hours-per-day activity did researchers in Australia's Queensland University announce (in 2011) reduces life expectancy by five years?
Answer: Watching TV
Question: From Latin meaning border, or edge, what traditional term refers to the brain structures including the hippocampus and amygdala, which support functions of emotion, behaviour, long term memory, and smell?
Answer: Limbic system
Question: What six-letter two-word French expression was adopted into English in the mid 1700s referring to a witty remark?
Answer: Bon mot
Question: 'Via Dolorosa' is the (how many) Stations of the Cross, the Christian ritual tracing the key stages of the death of Jesus, beginning with his condemnation and ending with his being laid in the tomb?
Answer: Fourteen
Question: What is five-twelfths of seventy-two?
Answer: Thirty
Question: What mythical paradise and expression was conceived in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon?
Answer: Shangri-La
Question: The international corporate brands Slacker, Rdio and Spotify deliver primarily what services/product?
Answer: Music
Question: In physics, mass multiplied by velocity equals what, represented by the symbol P?
Answer: Momentum
Question: The Latin pectus refers to what part of the human body?
Answer: Chest
Question: What is common name of the clear flammable early anaesthetic liquid with the formula C2H5OC2H5 (or CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3)?
Answer: Ether
Question: What animal name is given to the type of investment fund which buys large distressed debts especially of war/chaos-torn countries, aiming later to demand and sue for extortionate interest payments?
Answer: Vulture
Question: What ancient Sanskrit word loosely meaning 'region' commonly now refers to people (and culture, products, etc) of Indian sub-continent origins?
Answer: Desi
Question: Which politician (as at 2011) has the second-highest average for a No6 cricket test batsman (over 61 runs) and in a competition bowled faster than Dennis Lillee and Andy Roberts?
Answer: Imran Khan
Question: What French term refers in English (contracts especially) to an unforeseeable factor preventing the fulfilment of an agreement?
Answer: Force Majeure
Question: What instrument is the basis of the occupational name for a stringed instrument maker, notably of violins and guitars?
Answer: Lute
Question: A framework beam - a fink - that supports a wide-spanning roof is also known as a '(what nationality) truss'?
Answer: French
Question: Geir Haard (who in 2012 became the first politician to face court charges for negligence in contributing to the 2008 global financial crisis) led what country?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), was better known as what hugely influential organization, notably in the colonial exploitation of Asia?
Answer: Dutch East India Company
Question: What religious code refers to 'the three poisons' (or 'unwholesome roots') of ignorance, attachment, aversion, as the roots of all suffering? Islam; Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: Which country's leader, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, announced in 2012 the effective nationalisation of local oil assets owned by Spanish corporation Repsol?
Answer: Argentina
Question: What major international leader was in 2010 officially given ranked status as a Hells Angel by his nation's 'high council' of bikers, with the name 'Abaddon'?
Answer: Vladimir Putin
Question: What economically challenged country's King (Juan Carlos) attracted criticism at home for his 2012 African elephant-hunting Safari holiday?
Answer: Spain
Question: Born George Jamieson in Liverpool 1935, name the 1960s model noted for her transgender equality campaigning?
Answer: April Ashley
Question: What unit of enormous distance has the symbol pc and equates to about 3.26 light-years or 19.2 trillion miles?
Answer: Parsec
Question: The strongly featured character Alyson/Alys in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is better known as?
Answer: The Wife of Bath
Question: Particularly related to a controversial foodstuff, the bodily intervention device/process called 'gavage' refers to what?
Answer: Force-feeding
Question: What 20th century musical entertainment machine derived its name from the West African word Gullah, meaning disorderly, or 'zigzag'?
Answer: Jukebox
Question: The 'Occam's Razor' (or Ockham's Razor) principle asserts that reliable theories and explanations tend to entail minimal?
Answer: Assumptions
Question: The preparation of what entails scoring (or slashing or docking) it with a 'lame' (pronounced 'lahm') before baking?
Answer: Bread
Question: What natural foodstuff in Alsace, France, became unnaturally blue and green in 2012, apparently due to a nearby M&Ms factory?
Answer: Honey
Question: What island nation began modernizing reforms in the early 2000s when leadership passed from brother to brother?
Answer: Cuba
Question: Former butler Paolo Gabriele was convicted in 2012 of stealing documents, and subsequently leaking secrets, of what major international leadership headquarters?
Answer: The Vatican
Question: What is the common name for the chemical process by which glue, varnish, filler, etc., hardens when polymer chains become linked following UV radiation, mixing, heat, etc?
Answer: Curing
Question: Sir Patrick Moore, world-leading expert on astronomy for six decades who died in 2012, was technically qualified at what academic level?
Answer: Amateur
Question: From Greek for gadfly/frenzy, what word refers to the recurring period of sexual receptivity in female mammals?
Answer: Oestrus
Question: The Italian food/word bruschetta refers originally and specifically to which of its characteristics?
Answer: Toasted
Question: The term 'ex libris' is traditionally found on a label-plate indicating ownership of a?
Answer: Book
Question: The historic (at 2012, three-branch-line) San Francisco cable car system comprises how many actual cables in total?
Answer: Four
Question: (Before Jurassic Park) the word raptor technically refers to what sort of carnivorous creature?
Answer: Bird
Question: How many points are on Twitter's 2012-introduced tweeting flying bird logo (wings, tail and beak)?
Answer: Six
Question: What sort of implement has a heel and toe and is characterized by variable features including kerf, gullet, fleam, rake, and points per inch?
Answer: Saw
Question: What informal rule, named after Intel Corp's co-founder, predicts the doubling of transistors on microchips every two years?
Answer: Moore's Law
Question: Name the vast global accountancy firm which effectively ceased after criminal involvement in the 2001 Enron corporate fraud?
Answer: Arthur Andersen
Question: What volatile metallic element forms the nitrate compound Sr(NO3)2 commonly used in red fireworks?
Answer: Strontium
Question: What item of apparel metaphorically (with colour prefix, usually black or white) refers informally to an internet hacker?
Answer: Hat
Question: Provenance, originally relating to an artwork, now extending widely to other created or collectible works, refers specifically to?
Answer: History
Question: What is an unrealistically optimistic person, after the title-character of Eleanor Porter's famous 1913 novel?
Answer: Pollyanna
Question: What was salvaged from HMS Lutine after it sank in 1799 and is still used on the main underwriting floor at Lloyd's of London? Compass; Captain's desk; Bell; or Globe?
Answer: Bell
Question: What interesting old English word refers typically to a person's pale complexion but in origin and other contexts may also mean dark?
Answer: Wan
Question: What word appears before tilt, flood, face, house, and length, to produce five different terms?
Answer: Full
Question: What physics term, a metaphor for meaningfulness, is the tendency of something to oscillate (with greater amplitude at some frequencies than at others)?
Answer: Resonance
Question: The moral code, 'Treat others as you like to be treated', is known as the 'Ethic of (What)' - a principle of exchange for mutual effect/benefit, and word used variously in science and mathematics?
Answer: Reciprocity
Question: Who famously became leader of the vast and powerful US Teamsters trade union in 1957, imprisoned in 1967, missing in 1975, and declared dead in 1982?
Answer: Jimmy Hoffa
Question: What name for a type of railings/fence originally referred to a defensive line of wooden stakes sharpened and angled into the ground?
Answer: Palisade
Question: Serpula lacrymans is the technical name for what affliction of wood, notably in buildings?
Answer: Dry rot
Question: What South Honshu city in Japan, associated with international climate change agreement, was its nation's capital 794-1192?
Answer: Kyoto
Question: Which famous English brewer of ale, established in 1787 next to London's Tower Bridge, has a cockerel as its emblem?
Answer: Courage
Question: The significant 18th century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-83) is noted for solving the 'Seven (What?) of Königsberg problem'?
Answer: Bridges
Question: What word prefixes the words ball, board, code, core and hearted to make five new words/terms?
Answer: Hard
Question: The expression 'sour grapes', from one of Aesop's Fables, involves which creature?
Answer: Fox
Question: What metaphor aptly refers to the marketing of US multinational US corporation Bausch and Lomb?
Answer: Focus
Question: The diacritical mark resembling a wavy hyphen (here shown above the letter ñ) is called a?
Answer: Tilde
Question: The human brain's frontal lobe, chiefly processing cognitive functions relating to reward, attention, short-term memory tasks, planning, motivation, etc., is fully mature at (very) approximately what age?
Answer: Thirty
Question: What is the traditional trade surname for a person who made or sold (typically knitted) legwear and socks?
Answer: Hosier
Question: The verb word stymie, meaning to obstruct something, originally referred to a now obsolete rule in which sport?
Answer: Golf
Question: The Bugatti car logo features which reversed capital letter in a ligature with B, standing for the founder (Bugatti's) first name?
Answer: E
Question: What herb used in alternative medicine as a tonic and aphrodisiac is named from Chinese 'man plant root' because its root resembles a human leg?
Answer: Ginseng
Question: Name the type of chemical compound which shrinks body tissues, whose properties are associated with the puckering mouth sensation from tannins and bitter berries?
Answer: Astringent
Question: The '(What number-th?) Amendment' refers to US legal or informal refusal to answer a self-incriminating/awkward question?
Answer: Fifth
Question: What profession is shared by Joseph Stiglitz, Milton Friedman, Ken Galbraith, and Janet Yellen?
Answer: Economist
Question: Bushmills, Jameson, Tullamore Dew, and Writers Tears are brands of what nation's what (two-word answer required)?
Answer: Irish Whiskey
Question: From ancient Greek 'all gods' what word refers to (a temple for) the collective dieties of a religion, and metaphorically to the leaders of a field?
Answer: Pantheon
Question: Which best-selling 2008/9 book, whose concepts were adopted by political leaders, was written by Thaler and Sunstein?
Answer: Nudge
Question: The partition of India, creating an independent India and Pakistan, was called the (Who?) Plan, after the last Viceroy of India, later assassinated by the IRA in 1979?
Answer: Mountbatten
Question: The highly regarded Mexican organization UNAM, and its popular website unam.mx, is a?
Answer: University
Question: Which nation occupied most of modern Indonesia during the 2nd World War, 1942-45, effectively ending colonial rule? Germany; China; Japan; or USA?
Answer: Japan
Question: Equating broadly to Asia Minor/Turkey what is the old term for this region, from ancient Greek meaning 'sunrise' and 'east'?
Answer: Anatolia
Question: A Turkish 'hammam', whose name derives from Arabic hamma, heat, is known in 'western' cultures alternatively as a Turkish what?
Answer: Bath
Question: Which city in Brazil has (early-2000s) the longest beach garden in the world, the busiest container port in Latin America, and Pele's football club?
Answer: Santos
Question: The Weber and Tesla (standard international) measurement units apply to?
Answer: Magnetism
Question: According to which religion did the prophets Nephi and Lehi lead people from Jerusalem across the sea to the Americas around 600BC?
Answer: Mormonism
Question: What word has noun/verb meanings for an island, a promontory, wine, organic soil, thinking, and a fabric used in bookbinding?
Answer: Mull
Question: The most popular 20th-century Indian car and famous taxi, based virtually unchanged from 1958-2014 on a 1950s Morris Oxford, is the?
Answer: Ambassador
Question: 'Anima sana in corpore sano' (Latin for 'a healthy mind in a healthy body') is significant in which 1949-founded Japanese corporation's branding?
Answer: ASICS
Question: In 2014, Illinois University research found higher casualty rates from female-named (what?) due to victims' complacency, compared to having higher perceived fear of male names?
Answer: Hurricanes
Question: The World Cup Qualifiying matches between El Salvador v Honduras in 1969 coincided with what mutual event?
Answer: War
Question: What boom caused gross exploitation of native people of Brazil and adjacent nations by European industrialists c.1879-1912?
Answer: Rubber
Question: What herb is traditionally associated, besides garlic, with the pickling of a gherkin (US pickle)?
Answer: Dill
Question: As at the early 2000s (2000-12 official figures) what country is the world's biggest wine producer?
Answer: France
Question: The UK government was criticized in 2014 for promoting the euphemistic term 'Mitochondrial transfer' to avoid controversy about genetic modification of?
Answer: Human babies
Question: What modern globally recognized symbol was created by British designer Gerald Holtom in 1958, based on the flag semaphore signals for N and D?
Answer: Nuclear Disarmament
Question: Which corporation operates the $multi-billion two-sided advertising service branded AdSense and AdWords?
Answer: Google
Question: Petite Borgeoisie is an Anglicized French term referring to what traditional notion of social demographics class?
Answer: Lower Middle Class
Question: The cobalt salts of aluminium/aluminum oxide produce what colour/color in ceramics, glass, etc., notably ancient Chinese porcelain?
Answer: Blue
Question: To what very common consumer items do the IEC codes R6 and R03 and equivalent ANSI codes AA and AAA refer?
Answer: Batteries
Question: What portmanteau term created in the 1960s is the science of copying or duplicating documents/graphics?
Answer: Reprographics
Question: Originating in the fictional 'Game of Thrones' and launched internationally in 2014 as a real training program, 'Dothraki' is a?
Answer: Language
Question: The Gannex brand, popularised by British prime minister Harold Wilson in the 1960s, was a?
Answer: Raincoat
Question: 'Anchor escapement' refers to controlled rocking mechanical energy release in?
Answer: Clocks
Question: The traditional English exclamation 'Strewth' is an 1800s abbreviated form of what older expression?
Answer: God's truth
Question: What Italian originating pasta is most popularly consumed in 'elbow' variety in US/Canada?
Answer: Macaroni
Question: Buddhist politician and businessman Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan briefly, until a military coup in 2014, acted as prime minister of which nation, once known as Siam?
Answer: Thailand
Question: Warren Buffett coined (What?) key investment term to symbolize 'competitive immunity' of a corporation?
Answer: Moat
Question: Name the controversial 'extreme' global taxi-hailing smartphone app, banned by several territories in 2014?
Answer: Uber
Question: German physicist Rudolf Mossbauer ('mossbower'), and the 'Mossbauer effect' named after him, are associated with the science of?
Answer: Radioactivity
Question: Used widely today, Irish Capt William Sankey devised his eponymous flow-(what?), for a steam engine in 1898?
Answer: Diagram
Question: Led by Ethan Allen, The Green Mountain Boys, c.1764-1776, established which US state, defeating the British provinces New York and New Hampshire?
Answer: Vermont
Question: What West African Republic, on the river of the same name, is a narrow 200 mile east-west strip within Senegal?
Answer: Gambia
Question: What is 90% of 90?
Answer: 81
Question: 'Badi Bhabhi', meaning ‘eldest brother’s wife’, refers typically to the senior female in family groups common in?
Answer: India
Question: What medieval term, whose venues are now mostly 'town' halls (UK, Netherlands, Belgium) refers to a merchant association?
Answer: Guild
Question: Englishman Eric Arthur Blair, who fought for the Spanish Workers' Party of Marxist Unification against Franco's forces in 1936 was later known by what famous pen-name?
Answer: George Orwell
Question: Popular in Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and increasingly elsewhere, which unripened brined cheese can be fried due to its high melting-point?
Answer: Halloumi
Question: Which king signed the Magna Carta and died in Newark having lost his treasure in the salt marshes of eastern England?
Answer: John
Question: In maths, the single digits within every 'product' (answer) of which single number's 'times-table' (up to 10x) helpfully also add up to the number itself?
Answer: 9
Question: Which nation acquired sovereignty of Carribean archipelago Puerto Rico in 1898, ongoing as its territory to 2010s?
Answer: USA
Question: What Anglicized French term for a comedy and food stuffing (breadcrumbs/herbs, etc), was originally an allusion to jocular material 'stuffed' into serious religious plays?
Answer: Farce
Question: The Japanese cartoon character devised in 1974 worth over $5bn as a TV/fashion franchise is 'Hello (What?)'?
Answer: Kitty
Question: The 1956 fictional movie of the discovery of rock'n'roll featuring Bill Haley and the Comets is Rock Around the (What?)?
Answer: Clock
Question: In the iconic 1962 western film, the fictional character Liberty Valance features in the story/title as the man who is?
Answer: Shot
Question: Name the 2015 Disney animated film about the workings of a child's mind, praised by psychologists/neuroscientists?
Answer: Inside Out
Question: The long-standing circular VW (Volkswagen) logo contains the V and W characters and how many gaps between the circular and letter shapes?
Answer: 6
Question: What note is produced at the 5th fret of the 5th string (ie the 2nd lowest pitched) of a conventionally tuned guitar?
Answer: D
Question: What completely non-infectious neurodegenerative disease was misreported as being 'infectious' by most mainstream UK news media in September 2015?
Answer: Alzheimer's
Question: The female former Hewlett-Packard CEO who vied to be US Rebublican Presidential candidate 2015/16 is Carly?
Answer: Fiorina
Question: What's the state capital of Mississippi USA, originally Le Fleur's Bluff, later named after a US president?
Answer: Jackson
Question: Latin 'Juglans' refers to what tree used in cabinet-making, with large two-sided nuts inside green fruit?
Answer: Walnut
Question: Spelter is an old/industrial term for what metal element, and alloys containing it, notably brass?
Answer: Zinc
Question: Which vast tech corporation opened its first 'Nest' branded intelligent home store in Palo Alto California in 2015?
Answer: Google
Question: In 2015 a new North Korean schools curriculum reportedly included that leader Kim Jong-un learnt to drive age?
Answer: 3