zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Iron Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are associated with what style of music?
Answer: Heavy metal
Question: The miners affected by the 2012 strike and massacre in Marikana, South Africa, were workers from what type of mine?
Answer: Platinum
Question: What dye used in cooking for crimson tints is made from the body of a female insect inhabiting Peru and Mexico?
Answer: Cochineal
Question: Who were the majority of the people to feature in the death toll from the violent riots in Gujarat, India, in 2002?
Answer: Muslim
Question: What is the art of decorating materials with marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object?
Answer: Pyrography
Question: Where was the playwright August Strindberg born?
Answer: Sweden
Question: What name was given by Rudyard Kipling in one of his stories to a mongoose?
Answer: Rikki Tikki Tavi
Question: in tuning a snare drum, the resonant head is generally tunes more loosely than what?
Answer: The batter head
Question: The absent-minded Professor Calculus was a colleague of which fictional character?
Answer: Tin Tin
Question: Sherry was first associated with which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: Where was the first officially recorded baseball game held in the USA?
Answer: Hoboken, New Jersey
Question: Who is the only NBA player to score 100 points?
Answer: Wilt Chamberlain
Question: An "elegant, organic, and rigorously logical" game of strategy developed in China more than 2,500 years ago is called...?
Answer: Go
Question: Who wrote "Devil May Care", a James Bond novel, at the request of the trustees of the estate of original 007 author Ian Fleming?
Answer: Sebastian Faulks
Question: Which golfer won the US Open for two years in a row, in 1988 and 1989, and in 1988 became the first man to win a million dollars in official money on the PGA Tour in a season?
Answer: Curtis Strange
Question: What was the surname of Marie, double Nobel laureate, and Pierre, also Nobel laureate?
Answer: Curie
Question: Which name is associated with the IT developments which grew into Microsoft?
Answer: Gates
Question: What appears on the usual logo for the musical "West Side Story" and is the setting for Maria and Tony's duet, "Tonight"?
Answer: Fire escape
Question: In 800AD, who became the first Holy Roman Emperor?
Answer: Charlemagne
Question: Who was made an honorary citizen of Haslach, Austria, in 1938, an honour withdrawn in 2004?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Question: Who was the London-based Australian music impresario who managed John Leyton, Cream, Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees?
Answer: Robert Stigwood
Question: A number written without any fractions is technically known as what?
Answer: Integer
Question: What is the name of the main character, a senior bank clerk, in Franz Kafka's unfinished novel "The Trial"?
Answer: Josef K
Question: Who was the director of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The African Queen"?
Answer: John Huston
Question: In 2008, Keira Knightley played the title role in which film?
Answer: The Duchess
Question: The De Beers company is an important company in the trading of what commodity world-wide?
Answer: Diamonds
Question: Where is the 337,000 km2 Taklamakan Desert?
Answer: China
Question: From Hainan in the north to and including Singapore in the south, and including the Gulf of Thailand, how many countries have coasts on the South China Sea?
Answer: 9
Question: Gouache, pointillism, and sable are terms which can be found in what discipline?
Answer: Painting
Question: Which country became independent from imperial China in 938 AD in the Battle of Bch ng River?
Answer: Vietnam
Question: Harry Webb, who performs under the name of Cliff Richard, was born where?
Answer: India
Question: Who is the only 20th century US president carved into Mount Rushmore?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
Question: What would audiences watching the play "The Comedy of Errors" by William Shakespeare expect their main response to be?
Answer: Laughter
Question: What play does the character Blanche Dubois appear in?
Answer: A Streetcar Named Desire
Question: When was the Company of Scottish Archers, thought to be one of the oldest sporting bodies in the world, formed?
Answer: 1676
Question: December 31 1960 was the last day for which coin, first minted in England in the 13th century, to be legal tender in the United Kingdom?
Answer: Farthing
Question: Who did Rock Hudson play opposite in a series of romantic comedy films in the 1960s?
Answer: Doris Day
Question: What is the city, founded in the 8th century AD and for more than 400 years a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual centre for the Islamic world until it was destroyed by the Mongols in 1258?
Answer: Baghdad, Iraq
Question: Who won an Oscar for her portrayal in a 1985 film of a woman who goes back to the town of her childhood?
Answer: Geraldine Page
Question: Palinka, made from various kinds of fruit, most commonly plums, pears, apricot, or peaches, is a traditional type of what?
Answer: Brandy
Question: John Mills won an Oscar in 1970 for his role in which film?
Answer: Ryan's Daughter
Question: When was the last year in which the Summer and Winter Olympics were held in the same country and in the same year?
Answer: 1936
Question: Since the start of the present ice age about 2.5 million years ago at least how many severe glacial periods have there been?
Answer: 17
Question: Who was the guitarist for David Bowie's recording and performing band from 1970 to 1974?
Answer: Mick Ronson
Question: What word is used to describe the repetition of vowel sounds in words?
Answer: Assonance
Question: What was the most famous work of writer L. Frank Baum, who wrote from 1897 to 1912?
Answer: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Question: What is the name for a type of man-made well where the water is raised by natural pressure rather than pumping?
Answer: Artesian
Question: What breed of dog was the film star "Lassie"?
Answer: Collie
Question: Who wrote the 6 "Brandenburg Concertos"?
Answer: Bach
Question: What was the flight number of the aircraft which disappeared in 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and as at the end of 2014 has still not been traced?
Answer: MH370
Question: Who first demonstrated his safety mechanism for elevator operation at the 1853 New York World's Fair?
Answer: Elisha Otis
Question: In 1854, John Snow proved that what was transmitted by infected water?
Answer: Cholera
Question: Whose novel "Wives and Daughters", about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a doctor in a provincial English town in the 1830s, was completed by Frederick Greenwood when the author died suddenly in 1865?
Answer: Elizabeth Gaskell
Question: Which 20th century musical is based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer: West Side Story
Question: Where in the UK is the only remaining Hanseatic warehouse, built to house the trade which operated out of that harbour under the Hanseatic League?
Answer: King's Lynn
Question: What is the name for a fictional murder mystery?
Answer: Whodunnit
Question: Who created the "Piet" in St Peter's Basilica, the "Doni Tondo" in the Uffizi Gallery, and the sequence of poems written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri?
Answer: Michelangelo Buonarotti
Question: What type of land constitutes most of the country of Gabon on the west coast of Africa?
Answer: Rainforest
Question: Who hosted the Oscar ceremony in 2014?
Answer: Ellen de Generes
Question: With what film company did Tom and Jerry make their first appearance in animated film cartoons?
Answer: MGM
Question: In which field would the term "chiaroscuro" usually be applied?
Answer: Painting
Question: Hamlet in the play of the same name was a Prince of which country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: What is Pablo Picasso's 1967 work known as the "Chicago Picasso"?
Answer: Sculpture
Question: Which of Henry VIII's wives was the mother of Mary I?
Answer: Catherine of Aragon
Question: In which continent does the Mekong River rise?
Answer: Asia
Question: Who was re-elected President of the Republic of Germany in 1932 defeating Adolf Hitler?
Answer: von Hindenburg
Question: Crimea, over which multiple wars have been fought, was annexed from Ukraine in 2014 by which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: What weapon is associated with Darth Vader?
Answer: Light sabre
Question: Who created the character of Dracula?
Answer: Bram Stoker
Question: Who was twice the prime minister of Jamaica between 1972 and 1992?
Answer: Michael Manley
Question: The shores of the African continent are variously on the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and which other body of water?
Answer: The Red Sea
Question: The Five Eyes security intelligence gathering group is an alliance between USA, New Zealand, Australia, UK and what other country?
Answer: Canada
Question: What was the middle name of Franklin D Roosevelt?
Answer: Delano
Question: Who directed the film "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"?
Answer: Peter Jackson
Question: Prolonged deep-sea diving was first made possible in Europe by the invention of a diving bell in what century?
Answer: 16th
Question: What was the first name of Doctor Barnardo?
Answer: Thomas
Question: Where was the film "Angel At My Table" (1990), starring New Zealander Kerry Fox, directed by New Zealander Jane Campion, and based on books by New Zealand writer Janet Frame, made?
Answer: Australia
Question: For which artistic medium was Albrecht Drer first known, and is still well-known?
Answer: Woodcuts
Question: The ancient city of Carthage is in which modern day country ?
Answer: Tunisia
Question: In Japan's feudal era, from 1185 onwards, a dominant warrior class emerged called what?
Answer: Samurai
Question: Where did the Spring of Nations, or the Year of Revolutions, happen in 1848?
Answer: Europe
Question: Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler are known for their work in what area?
Answer: Detective fiction
Question: Giovanni Boccaccio, who is best known for his work "Decameron" was involved in what type of activity?
Answer: Poetry
Question: From which country do the professional boxers, the Klitschko brothers originate?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: What type of being is a cicada?
Answer: Insect
Question: What is an epic poem from Ancient Iraq, originally titled "He who Saw the Deep" or "Surpassing All Other Kings", of which the most complete version exists on 12 clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BCE Assyrian king Ashurbanipal?
Answer: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Question: What fully-fledged fictional language, which has a number of typologically uncommon features, was deliberately designed to be "non-human" by Marc Okrand?
Answer: Klingon
Question: What in the UK is referred to as "grilling" is called what in the USA?
Answer: Broiling
Question: Peter Bogdanovich is well known for which activity?
Answer: Film director
Question: The 2002 FIFA World Cup was held in two countries simultaneously, the first time, being South Korea and which other?
Answer: Japan
Question: Gotye, an Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter famous for award winning singles 2011 to 2013, including Grammy awards and Record of the Year, was born where?
Answer: Belgium
Question: The book "I know why the caged bird sings" was the first volume of the autobiography of an African-American poet, author, activist, academic, who died in May 2014 at the age of 86; who was it?
Answer: Maya Angelou
Question: Which town on the Isle of Wight has hosted an annual Regatta since 1851?
Answer: Cowes
Question: What is the name for a defect of vision caused by deviation of eyes from parallel courses, giving the impression that the person is looking in two directions at once and meaning that the eyes cannot focus on a single point?
Answer: Strabismus
Question: The Abigar, Brown Swiss, Groningen, and Holstein are all types of what?
Answer: Cattle
Question: Which German composer wrote 16 operas including "Salome", "Electra" and "Der Rosenkavalier"?
Answer: Richard Strauss
Question: Where was the 251km Marathon des Sables run in 2015?
Answer: Sahara Desert
Question: The first electric tramway in the former Russian Empire was established in 1892 where?
Answer: Kiev
Question: Teal, mallard, muscovy and mandarin are all types of what?
Answer: Duck
Question: Which Australian composer became particularly well-known for his theme, and incidental, music for the UK television series "Inspector Morse"?
Answer: Barrington Pheloung
Question: Which of the core cast of the TV series "Friends" also appeared in the 2000 film "The Whole Nine Yards" with Bruce Willis?
Answer: Matthew Perry
Question: The US television serials "The Good Wife", "Canterbury's Law" and "ER" all have or have had which actor as one of the leads?
Answer: Julianna Margulies
Question: When was the Melbourne Cup first officially raced?
Answer: 1861
Question: Who includes in his repertoire since 2009 films as different as "Fantastic Mr Fox", "The Men Who Stare At Goats", "The Ides of March", and "Gravity"?
Answer: George Clooney
Question: What is the setting for the John Carpenter film "Halloween"?
Answer: Haddonfield, Illinois
Question: What is the minimum age for a horse to race in the Melbourne Cup?
Answer: 3
Question: Who wrote an autobiography called "Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights"?
Answer: Burt Ward
Question: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch and Giotto were based in what city in the first half of the 14th century?
Answer: Florence
Question: Who founded the Prince's Trust in 1976 to give special help to Britain's youth, especially those who are unemployed?
Answer: Prince Charles
Question: What book includes the characters Dill, "Boo" Radley, Scout Finch, her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus?
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird
Question: The first English prince to bear the title "Prince of Wales" eventually became which King?
Answer: Edward II
Question: Barabas is the central character in what 16th century play?
Answer: The Jew of Malta
Question: What is the title of Mike Leigh's 2014 film, featuring Timothy Spall in the title role in a biopic of a celebrated British painter?
Answer: Mr Turner
Question: An oil used in cosmetics is produced in the seed of which shrub?
Answer: Jojoba
Question: The Columbia Pictures logo in 1924 was a female figure, as now, but with a shield in her left hand and what in her right hand?
Answer: Stick of wheat
Question: What is the name of the cat that appeared in Warner Brothers cartoons?
Answer: Sylvester
Question: Who was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed by his wife Isabella in 1327 and made to abdicate in favour of his son?
Answer: Edward II
Question: Who directed the films "Clerks", "Mallrats" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back "?
Answer: Kevin Smith
Question: Where was Kylie Minogue born?
Answer: Australia
Question: In which 1973 thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg was there an explicit sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie?
Answer: Don't Look Now
Question: What is a document that sets out the disposal of assets after death?
Answer: Will
Question: Who is the director for "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens"?
Answer: J.J.Abrams
Question: What word is applied to the cutting down of trees in, e.g., the Amazon basin?
Answer: Deforestation
Question: What is the name for the phenomenon that occurs, e.g., in magnetic and ferromagnetic materials and in the elastic, electric, and magnetic behaviour of materials, in which a lag occurs between the application or the removal of a force or field and its subsequent effect?
Answer: Hysteresis
Question: Some parts of the Amazon rainforest are being devastated by activities, including deposits of mercury, as part of what?
Answer: Gold mining
Question: T S Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (1939) formed the basis for which long-running musical show?
Answer: Cats
Question: Telly Savalas played Theo Kojak in a TV series that first aired from 1973 to 1978. What confectionery is associated with the character?
Answer: Lollipop
Question: This was used first as a spice by the Chinese, throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe, and was still popular in the 18th century as an ingredient in hot chocolate; what was it?
Answer: Ambergris
Question: In what country was Johnny Depp, at least until May 2015, filming the 5th chapter in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series?
Answer: Australia
Question: Maurice Cole, under his stage name, was the creator of a number of anarchic irreverent radio and TV shows, the most well-known of which was called what?
Answer: The Kenny Everett Television Show
Question: What was the name of the group of friends that Ken Kesey, the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", took on a trip from California to New York in a school bus nicknamed "Furthur"?
Answer: The Merry Pranksters
Question: Where is the volcanic Tibesti mountain range?
Answer: Sahara
Question: Who lived with his father (Howard), his mother (Marion), and his sister Joanie and had friends called Potsie Weber, Ralph Malph and Arthur Fonzarelli?
Answer: Richie Cunningham
Question: Which Hollywood star married baseball hero Joe DiMaggio?
Answer: Marilyn Munroe
Question: Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and what other country feature in this order as the least corrupt countries in Transparency International's 2014 Corruptions Index?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: In 2007, the largest known specimen of what, weighing 495 kg (1,091 lb) and measuring 4.2 m (14 ft) in length, was caught in the Ross Sea?
Answer: Colossal Squid
Question: Papagena is a character in which opera?
Answer: The Magic Flute
Question: What island group may be described as a triangle with its corners at Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island, including the island groups Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Niue?
Answer: Polynesia
Question: The music soundscape of three out of the four "Dirty Harry" films is associated with what Argentine pianist, composer, arranger and conductor?
Answer: Lalo Schifrin
Question: What would munition normally be?
Answer: Defence
Question: In what TV series was the family butler called Lurch?
Answer: The Addams Family
Question: The caffeine-rich infused drink, mate, is prepared from a species of South American holly called what?
Answer: Yerba
Question: Cyrus the Great of Persia, for his religious tolerance, power and skill the only non-Jew to be acclaimed as the Messiah, founded the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE which stretched how far?
Answer: Asia Minor in the west to the northwestern areas of India in the east
Question: He is a playwright, screenwriter, film director and essayist with a Pulitzer Prize (1984) and Tony and Oscar award nominations; he is married to singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon; what is his name?
Answer: David Mamet
Question: In mediaeval years what would the regular occupants of a charterhouse be?
Answer: Monks
Question: Who was elected Governor of Texas in 1994?
Answer: George W Bush
Question: In 1956 who wrote and introduced the song, ranked by the magazine Rolling Stone as #97 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, "Roll Over, Beethoven"?
Answer: Chuck Berry
Question: Who had the lead roles in the TV series "Callan" and "The Equaliser"?
Answer: Edward Woodward
Question: Dean Martin starred in 4 films as which fictional US government counter-agent, created by Donald Hamilton?
Answer: Matt Helm
Question: Over its thousands of islands Indonesia officially recognises the religions of Christianity (Protestantism and Catholicism), Confucianism, Islam, Hinduism and what other?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: The Royal Residence of George III of England and before him his father was at Kew Gardens, falling into disrepair in the early 19th century, and was known as what?
Answer: The White House
Question: The island of Runion, Mauritius, is closest to which other country to its west?
Answer: Madagascar
Question: The Tasman Sea flows between which two countries?
Answer: Australia and New Zealand
Question: The Rance Barrage is the first example of what?
Answer: Tidal power station
Question: What is the title of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Slater's sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera"?
Answer: Love Never Dies
Question: First used in western medicine in the 17th century what was the drug developed from the bark of the cinchona tree used to treat?
Answer: Malaria
Question: In 1980, at 14 years old who was the youngest person to appear on the cover of "Vogue" magazine?
Answer: Brooke Shields
Question: According to the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who raised Tarzan after he was orphaned?
Answer: Apes
Question: In the final Test match of his career, international cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan became the first bowler to take 800 Test wickets. What nation did he represent?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: How many rounds did it take for Lennox Lewis to beat Mike Tyson in 2002?
Answer: 8
Question: What musical has the characters Christian, Satine, Harold Zidler, The Duke of Monroth, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Narcoleptic Argentinean, The Doctor, China Doll, Audrey, Nini Legs-in-the-Air and La Petite Princesse?
Answer: Moulin Rouge!
Question: Which Roman poet wrote "The Aeneid" and "The Eclogues"?
Answer: Virgil
Question: Which Irish-born novelist wrote the satire "Gulliver's Travels"?
Answer: Jonathan Swift
Question: Who wrote the music for the song "Smile", a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954 that was recorded by Michael Jackson for his 1995 double album "HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I"?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin
Question: Mozart wrote an opera about what kind of flute?
Answer: Magic
Question: What is likely to be found in the Pantanal?
Answer: The giant river otter
Question: What is the name of the official list of books prohibited to be read by the Catholic Church?
Answer: Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Question: Who wrote "A History of Richard III" and "Utopia"?
Answer: Sir Thomas More
Question: Who wrote "The Coming of the Fairies" (1921) which shows he was apparently convinced of the veracity of photographs of fairies, in which he theorised about the nature and existence of fairies and spirits?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Question: The seventh film in what series was released in December 2015 to audience and critical acclaim and a record box office take in the first month?
Answer: Star Wars
Question: What do the matches played under the auspices of the FIDE take place on?
Answer: A board
Question: The Port of Hambantota, for which construction began in January 2008 to provide bunkering, ship repair, ship building and crew change facilities, is in which country?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: Where would barn doors, fresnels and gobos be found together?
Answer: In a theatre
Question: Which artist collaborated with architects Herzog & de Meuron as consultant in building the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics?
Answer: Ai Weiwei
Question: How many different countries does the 4,370 km (2,715 mi) Congo River run through or border?
Answer: 10
Question: What name is primarily used in British English for red wine from the Bordeaux region of France?
Answer: Claret
Question: What is one of the fictional languages spoken by the Elves in the fantasy works of J R R Tolkien?
Answer: Quenya
Question: Britain's second-longest-running TV serial has been running, as at the end of 2015, for how many years?
Answer: 43
Question: Which European country overthrew its monarchy and underwent a revolution 1789 to 1799?
Answer: France
Question: The 2010 release "Plundered My Soul" was an extra track on a re-released album by which artist(s)?
Answer: Rolling Stones
Question: John Wayne played the lead role of whom in the 1958 film "The Conqueror"?
Answer: Genghis Khan
Question: In 2003, Rebecca Wade became the first female editor of which British newspaper?
Answer: Sun
Question: What was the fist name of Mr. Micawber, who appeared in Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield"?
Answer: Wilkins
Question: Shi'ite and Sunni are beliefs within what religion?
Answer: Islam
Question: Michael Douglas starred in what TV series, set in California, which ran on US TV from 1972 and 1980?
Answer: The Streets of San Francisco
Question: Who wrote "It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us", a book published in 1996 that focuses on the impact individuals and groups outside the family have on a child's well-being?
Answer: Hillary Rodham Clinton