zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What famous London building is officially called 1 Canada Square?
Answer: Canary Wharf Tower
Question: What was the name of the Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico in 1519?
Answer: Hernando Cortez
Question: What type of animal was inside Sputnik 2 when launched into orbit in 1957?
Answer: Dog
Question: Who painted The Water Lily Pool?
Answer: Claude Monet
Question: In the city of Manchester (England) the Irk and Medlock join which river?
Answer: Irwell
Question: What type of animal is a Kolinsky?
Answer: Weasel
Question: Who became president of Uganda after Idi Amin was overthrown in 1980?
Answer: Milton Obote
Question: Clayton Moore and John Hart both played which US TV character?
Answer: The Lone Ranger
Question: What is a Spanish nobleman of the highest rank called?
Answer: Grandee
Question: A detrusor is a muscle which forms a layer on the wall of which part of the human body?
Answer: Bladder
Question: The July Revolution in 1830 was in which European country?
Answer: France
Question: What is the name of the strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania?
Answer: Bass Strait
Question: Braxy is a fatal bacterial infection in which animal?
Answer: Sheep
Question: What type of creature is a canvasback?
Answer: Duck
Question: Which prehistoric period followed the Stone Age and preceded the Iron Age?
Answer: Bronze Age
Question: Coprophagia is the eating (by insects and certain animals) of what?
Answer: Dung
Question: Which city hosts the headquarters of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement?
Answer: Geneva
Question: What British term equates to the American 'quarter-note' in music?
Answer: Crotchet
Question: Almeria, Merlot, and Waltham Cross are which fruit?
Answer: Grapes
Question: What bridge connects Dawes Point to Milson's Point?
Answer: Sydney Harbour Bridge
Question: Who was president of the USA during World War I?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson
Question: Which Greek island is said to be the birthplace of the god Apollo?
Answer: Delos
Question: The late 'Father of Chicago Blues', McKinley Morganfield, is better known by what name?
Answer: Muddy Waters
Question: Who was shot dead by Jack McCall in 1876 at a poker table in Number Ten Saloon?
Answer: Wild Bill Hickok
Question: Tenzin Gyatso is more famously known by what name?
Answer: The Dalai Lama
Question: Who was the first king of Rome?
Answer: Romulus
Question: Who was the first Tudor King of England?
Answer: Henry VII
Question: What colour berets do the New York City crime-fighters the 'Guardian Angels' wear?
Answer: Red
Question: Who in Greek mythology fell in love with his own reflection?
Answer: Narcissus
Question: Which author died at Astapova railway station in 1910?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
Question: In which city is Hell Gate Bridge, said to have inspired Sydney Harbour Bridge?
Answer: New York
Question: The Bessemer process was invented in 1856 for the production of what material?
Answer: Steel
Question: Which American writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954?
Answer: Ernest Hemmingway
Question: The Tamil Tigers are a rebel force in which country?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: Which World War Two leader was nicknamed the Desert Fox?
Answer: Rommel
Question: How many players in total are bound together from both sides in forming a rugby union scrum?
Answer: Sixteen
Question: Who runs the Greendale post office in the children's TV show Postman Pat?
Answer: Mrs Goggins
Question: Who played Dr Who in the 1965 film Dr Who and the Daleks?
Answer: Peter Cushing
Question: US President Franklin Pierce introduced what to White House Christmas tradition in 1856?
Answer: Christmas tree
Question: Brandy is made from distilling what?
Answer: Wine
Question: Which poem written by Clement Moore was originally titled A Visit from Saint Nicholas?
Answer: The Night Before Christmas
Question: Which author and creator of Jekyll and Hyde, gave his birthday by formal deed to Anne Ide because she disliked her own birthday of December 25th?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
Question: With which English county cricket club did Ian Botham finish his playing career?
Answer: Durham
Question: What three-letter brand meaning 'flight' is the Polish national airline?
Answer: LOT
Question: Musician Dizzy Gillespie most famously played what instrument?
Answer: Trumpet
Question: Who was the voice of the genie in the 1992 animated Disney film Aladdin?
Answer: Robin Williams
Question: What country had the Roman name Lusitania?
Answer: Portugal
Question: What is the name of the village near Birmingham, UK, established by George and Richard Cadbury?
Answer: Bournville
Question: What cult movie spoof rock band reunited at Glastonbury 2009?
Answer: Spinal Tap
Question: Veronica Lario was much in the news as the angry wife of which womanising European leader?
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi
Question: The 2009 UK budget announced what tax rate (effective April 2010) for earners of more than £150,000 per year?
Answer: 50%
Question: What TV newsman, often voted the most trusted man in America, died in July 2009?
Answer: Walter Cronkite
Question: What street dance group won the UK 2009 Britain's Got Talent TV competition?
Answer: Diversity
Question: Which writer, whose works include Rumpole of the Bailey, died in January 2009?
Answer: John Mortimer
Question: Hans Bech who died in 2009 invented what popular toy figures?
Answer: Playmobil
Question: Manuel Zelaya was ousted by military coup as leader of what Central American country?
Answer: Honduras
Question: The town of Winnenden, where a deranged teenager massacred 15 school children, is in which country?
Answer: Germany
Question: What is Google's 'city panorama' service called, launched in the UK in March 2009?
Answer: Street View
Question: Indian coporation Tata launched a 100,000 rupee (£1,350) new what in 2009?
Answer: Car
Question: Which singer-songwriter of Baker Street was mistakenly reported missing?
Answer: Gerry Rafferty
Question: Which island nation held the world's first underwater cabinet meeting to publicize global warming?
Answer: The Maldives
Question: What was Jenson Button's championship-clinching finishing place in the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix?
Answer: Fifth
Question: The Original of Laura, an incomplete novel by which Russian author was published 32 years after his death?
Answer: Vladimir Nabokov
Question: The European Court of Justice ruled airlines must compensate passengers for delays exceeding how many hours?
Answer: Three
Question: The new Dreamliner passenger aircraft launched in 2009 is Boeing number what?
Answer: 787
Question: Who famously withdrew from his own Chevron World Challenge charity sports event?
Answer: Tiger Woods
Question: Which football club was the first to win the sextuple of all possible major competitions?
Answer: Barcelona
Question: What type of musical instrument is a tabor?
Answer: Drum
Question: What number is produced by displaying one of each of the Roman numerals, in descending order?
Answer: 1666
Question: What commonly occurring gas has the chemical formula CH4 ?
Answer: Methane
Question: Which late ostentatious US pianist's first names were Wladziu Valentino?
Answer: Liberace
Question: In Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, what is the name of Shakespeare's sister?
Answer: Judith
Question: What is a meeting hall of the Salvation Army called?
Answer: Citadel
Question: Loosehead is a position in which sport?
Answer: Rugby
Question: What was the name of the Space Shuttle which exploded after take-off in January 1986?
Answer: Challenger
Question: Which year saw the last commercial hovercraft English Channel crossing?
Answer: 2000
Question: What is the medical condition Herpes Zoster commonly called?
Answer: Shingles
Question: What inventor was nicknamed The Wizard of Menlo Park?
Answer: Thomas Edison
Question: Who produced, directed and narrated the best film Oscar winning 1952 movie The Greatest Show On Earth?
Answer: Cecil B deMille
Question: What was the submarine developed by US engineer Robert Fulton in 1803?
Answer: Nautilus
Question: In which part of the human body is the Eustachian Tube?
Answer: Ear
Question: What is the short ladder made of webbing or rope used in mountaineering?
Answer: Etrier
Question: Which writer created the fictional detective Auguste Dupin?
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe
Question: Who became leader of the British National Party in 1999?
Answer: Nick Griffin
Question: Kimchi is a traditional dish of which country?
Answer: Korea
Question: In Greek mythology how many labours did Hercules have to perform?
Answer: Twelve
Question: Peter de la Mare was first to hold what office in the House of Commons?
Answer: Speaker
Question: The volcanic mountain Chimborazo is in which South American country?
Answer: Ecuador
Question: What US state is known as the Nutmeg State?
Answer: Connecticut
Question: What is the state capital of Western Australia?
Answer: Perth
Question: On a chess board at the start of play what piece is between the queen and its closest knight?
Answer: Bishop
Question: The energy of what is measured by the Richter magnitude scale?
Answer: Earthquakes
Question: What trade union was deplored by Gordon Brown for its actions in the 2010 British Airways cabin staff dispute?
Answer: Unite
Question: Often called 'The Lost City of the Incas', the 15th century ruins of Machu Picchu are in which country?
Answer: Peru
Question: Which artist is famous for painting at the Moulin Rouge?
Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec
Question: January King, Meteor, and Salarite are varieties of which vegetable?
Answer: Cabbage
Question: Michelle Robinson is the maiden name of which famous wife?
Answer: Michelle Obama
Question: Arthur Wellesley (1769-1845) is better known by what title?
Answer: The Duke of Wellington
Question: Which painting was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911 and kept for two years by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia?
Answer: Mona Lisa
Question: Loperamide is used to treat what medical condition?
Answer: Diarrhoea
Question: What nation won the European Football Championship after first failing to qualify for the finals tournament?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Who wrote the novel The French Lieutenant's Woman?
Answer: John Fowles
Question: What spirit usually goes into the making of a mint julep?
Answer: Bourbon
Question: Yukon and Nunavut are Federal Territories of which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: What is the name of the gland in the human body attached to the base of the brain important in controlling growth?
Answer: Pituitary gland
Question: The tennis club which hosts the Wimbledon Championships was founded originally in 1868 for playing which sport?
Answer: Croquet
Question: What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village?
Answer: Canada
Question: Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor of Venice?
Answer: Othello
Question: What colour is a 'double-word' square on a Scrabble board?
Answer: Pink
Question: What instrument, named from the Italian word for small, is traditionally considered to be the highest-pitched in an orchestra?
Answer: Piccolo
Question: What nickname was given to the artificial life form created in 2010 by US biologist Craig Venter?
Answer: Synthia
Question: The Gaillard Cut is part of which canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
Answer: Panama Canal
Question: Which famous 18th century English theologian and chemist pioneered the discovery of oxygen?
Answer: Joseph Priestley
Question: What colour is the No 5 engine James, featured in the Thomas the Tank Engine stories?
Answer: Red
Question: Used in riot control, what is a lachrymator commonly known as?
Answer: Tear gas
Question: What did Irish Colonel Thomas Blood attempt to steal in May 1671?
Answer: The Crown Jewels
Question: The Red Lake Mine, said to produce the richest gold ore in the world is in which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: In which city did American colonists dump tea imported from England into a harbour in 1773?
Answer: Boston
Question: In which city did Rosa Parks refuse to obey a bus drivers order to give up her seat for a white passenger on December 1, 1955, becoming an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement?
Answer: Montgomery, Alabama
Question: In which country was Pol Pot Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979 and leader of the communist movement known as the "Khmer Rouge"?
Answer: Cambodia
Question: Backgammon is a game for how many players?
Answer: 2
Question: There is an Irish County called ?
Answer: Down
Question: Which king of Egypt abdicated in favour of his infant son in July 1952?
Answer: Farouk
Question: What was the name for a foul smell believed to carry diseases, since discredited by the discovery of infectious agents?
Answer: Miasma
Question: On 1 July 2001, who was the IBF Heavyweight Champion, WBC Heavyweight Champion, IBO Heavyweight Champion, USBA Heavyweight Champion, & IBF Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion?
Answer: Hasim Rahman
Question: The Fandango originated in which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: What was the title of Walt Disney's first full length animated feature, released in 1937?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Question: Which city was the site of the dervish rebellion and the death of the British General Gordon in 1885?
Answer: Khartoum
Question: How many of the Great Lakes form part of the border between the U S A and Canada?
Answer: 4
Question: """Trigger"" was the name of the horse belonging to which film cowboy?"
Answer: Roy Rogers
Question: What were the Penny Black and the Two Pence Blue that first went on sale in England in May 1840?
Answer: Postage stamps
Question: Who married Sir Winston Churchill?
Answer: Clementine Hozier
Question: What are Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg collectively known as?
Answer: Benelux
Question: In what word game do two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a grid, the words formed across and down in crossword fashion?
Answer: Scrabble
Question: In which country would you find the Moorish castle called the Alhambra?
Answer: Spain
Question: What is a legal defence for being somewhere other than at the scene of a crime?
Answer: Alibi
Question: What is petrology the study of?
Answer: Rocks
Question: What series of 29 British films made between 1958 and 1978 were made by a collection of actors including Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, and Kenneth Connor?
Answer: Carry On
Question: What 1980's TV programme starred Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless?
Answer: Cagney and Lacey
Question: What organisation, formed by Reverend John Flynn and based in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia, began in 1928?.
Answer: Royal Flying Doctor Service
Question: Which manufacturer of pens was established in 1884 in New York City, USA?
Answer: Waterman
Question: What is the word commonly thought to mean "a morbid fear of open spaces"?
Answer: Agoraphobia
Question: What is the familiar name for the British flag?
Answer: Union Jack
Question: What is next in the series: Katherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine?
Answer: Catherine
Question: Who married the woman who was to become Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, on 10 March 1966?
Answer: Prince Claus
Question: Which Hungarian-born actor acted in films from 1917 to his death in 1956, and is best known for playing the title role in the 1931 film "Dracula"?
Answer: Bela Lugosi
Question: Which river forms the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia?
Answer: Zambezi
Question: Five spice powder is commonly used in which ethnic cuisine?
Answer: Chinese
Question: Who wrote "Badjelly The Witch", "A Little Pot Boiler" and "Small Dreams Of A Scorpion"?
Answer: Spike Milligan
Question: The anniversary that commemorates Captain Arthur Phillip founding the British Colony of Australia in 1788, is celebrated on which day every year?
Answer: 26 January
Question: According to the Bible, which one of Eve's sons killed his brother?
Answer: Cain
Question: In curling, how do team members help to direct the "stones" towards the target?
Answer: Sweeping
Question: Burt Munro set the current land speed record for motorcycles under 1000cc in 1967 on what make of motorcycle?
Answer: Indian
Question: What is the branch of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Asia Minor which contains many Greek islands?
Answer: Aegean Sea
Question: In books by A A Milne, which of the main characters was usually depressed?
Answer: Eeyore
Question: Who is the subject of The Future Is Unwritten, a film by Julien Temple?
Answer: Joe Strummer
Question: From what does vinegar derive its sour taste ?
Answer: Acetic acid
Question: What is the name for an Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device used to increase the power of a throw?
Answer: Woomera
Question: The Battle of Bull Run was fought in which war?
Answer: American Civil War
Question: What name was given to people who believed that James II and his descendants were the rightful rulers of Britain?
Answer: Jacobites
Question: Which state donated the land occupied by the US capital city, Washington, District of Columbia?
Answer: Maryland
Question: Which film, released at the end of 2008, starred Kate Winslett and Leonardo DiCaprio?
Answer: Revolutionary Road
Question: What is the second largest organ in the human body, located under the diaphragm on the right hand side?
Answer: Liver
Question: What was the name given to the Minardi Formula One team after it was bought by Red Bull in 2005?
Answer: Scuderia Toro Rosso
Question: Which mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis, plays an important role in Homer's Iliad?
Answer: Ajax
Question: In chess, how many squares does the King move when castling?
Answer: 2
Question: The film actor Maurice Micklewhite is better known by what name?
Answer: Michael Caine
Question: What mathematical tabular system was invented in 1614 by John Napier that changes calculations of, for example, multiplication and finding square roots to addition and division respectively?
Answer: Logarithms
Question: Who directed "Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid", "Convoy", "The Wild Bunch" and "Cross of Iron"?
Answer: Sam Peckinpah
Question: Who captained the Nautilus in "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"?
Answer: Nemo
Question: In England, the Estates of the Realm are the Clergy, the Lords and the Commons. What is known as the "Fourth Estate"?
Answer: The press
Question: Which country, the capital of which is Monrovia, was founded by the American Colonisation Society in 1820 as a home for freed slaves?
Answer: Liberia
Question: What word did the Romans have for the City of London?
Answer: Londinium
Question: Which US state borders Canada and the Connecticut River, and has the Green Mountains running through its centre?
Answer: Vermont
Question: What sport is played in an area that can vary between 20 x 10 and 30 x 20 metres, with 7 players in play at any one time per side playing for around 8 minutes for each of four periods?
Answer: Water polo
Question: Which country was divided at the 17th parallel by an agreement made in 1954 in Geneva?
Answer: Vietnam
Question: The Belgian artist Georges Remi is better known by what name?
Answer: Herg
Question: The first of what event, organised by journalist Henri Desgrange in 1903, was won by Maurice Garin?
Answer: Tour de France
Question: According to the Bible, who was the son of Isaac and Rebeckah, the twin brother to Esau, the husband of Leah and Rachel, and the father of Joseph?
Answer: Jacob
Question: In baseball, what is the name of the position where the pitcher stands to throw the ball to a batter of the opposing team?
Answer: Mound
Question: In the Christian calendar, Maundy falls on which day of Holy Week?
Answer: Thursday
Question: What joint is between the femur and the tibia?
Answer: Knee
Question: How many kings of France were named Louis?
Answer: 18
Question: Who is married to the Prince of Wales?
Answer: Camilla
Question: Which film starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton was set mainly on a ship at sea?
Answer: Mutiny on the Bounty
Question: For a constant sound wave, what is the distance between successive crests called?
Answer: Wavelength
Question: By what name is Gordon Sumner better known?
Answer: Sting
Question: Which Indycar racing driver married American actress Ashley Judd in 2001 at Skibo Castle near Dornoch, Scotland?
Answer: Dario Franchitti
Question: What makes it necessary to drive through Alabama to take the shortest route from Miami, Florida to Houston, Texas?
Answer: Gulf of Mexico
Question: What is the capital of the province of British Columbia, Canada?
Answer: Victoria
Question: The city of Miami, Florida, is at the mouth of which river?
Answer: Miami River
Question: The circuit at Parc Jean-Drapeau on le Notre-Dame, a man-made island in the St. Lawrence River, is named after which winner of the Formula One World Championship for drivers?
Answer: Gilles Villeneuve
Question: Which English barrister, who wrote the play "Voyage Around My Father" and the TV series "Rumpole of the Bailey", died in January 2009?
Answer: John Mortimer
Question: Which sport is played with a goal 12 ft wide by 7ft high, with a maximum of 11 players from each team able to be on the field at any time?
Answer: Hockey
Question: Of the 16 states of Germany, 13 are termed area states (Flchenlnder). What are the other 3?
Answer: City states
Question: Motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with routines on a course consisting of multiple jumps of varying lengths and angles that generally occupy one to two acres (.4 to .8 hectares) in what sport?
Answer: Freestyle Motocross
Question: Which musician's children are named Sarah, Kimberly, Sean, Liam, Renee, Alastair and Ruby?
Answer: Rod Stewart
Question: Who is said to be "the father of history"?
Answer: Herodotus
Question: Who became the King of Spain on 22 November 1975, two days after the death of Francisco Franco?
Answer: King Juan Carlos I
Question: What TV series was set on Craggy Island?
Answer: Father Ted
Question: The Passover is part of the calendar for which religion?
Answer: Jewish
Question: """Doo lang doo land doo lang"" is the start of which hit from the 1960s?"
Answer: He's So Fine
Question: What is the common name for "lentigo"?
Answer: Freckles
Question: The Tower of Babel is mentioned in which book of the Bible?
Answer: Genesis
Question: James Frederick Ferrier introduced which word to cover the branch of philosophy conerned with "the theory of knowledge"?
Answer: Epistemology
Question: How many US Presidents have been assassinated by being shot?
Answer: 4
Question: In which country is the area called "the Algarve"?
Answer: Portugal
Question: What is added to water to make brine?
Answer: Salt
Question: In November 1903, Panama declared its independence from which country to enable a treaty to be signed with the USA?
Answer: Colombia
Question: The Rock of Gibraltar and Mt Abyla on the African coast were known as what?
Answer: The Pillars of Hercules
Question: What is the acronym developed by the European Union as the geocode standard for referencing the administrative divisions of countries for statistical purposes?
Answer: NUTS
Question: What was Lieut. C D Lucas, RN, the first to receive as a result of his involvement in the bombardment of a Russian fortress in the Baltic on 21 June 1854?
Answer: Victoria Cross
Question: Which Greek letter usually denotes the brightest star in a constellation?
Answer: Alpha
Question: Who was "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"?
Answer: Quasimodo
Question: The lyrics of which song were inspired by the successful American defence of Fort McHenry in September 1814?
Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner
Question: What is the electrical capacitance which 1 coulomb of electricity will charge to a capacity of 1 volt?
Answer: Farad
Question: What is the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat?
Answer: USS Constitution
Question: What is the name for radiations of a wavelength shorter than, and immediately next to, the visible spectrum?
Answer: Ultra violet
Question: Where is the Klondike River?
Answer: Yukon Territory, Canada
Question: Dick Francis wrote novels based in what environment?
Answer: Horse racing
Question: A campanile is built to contain what?
Answer: Bells
Question: Near what French town did Marie-Bernarde (Bernadette) Soubirous reportedly see visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858?
Answer: Lourdes
Question: Zydeco is a type of music from which country?
Answer: USA