zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who wrote "Futility" (1898) about an enormous "unsinkable" British passenger liner called the Titan, which hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of nearly all on board?
Answer: Morgan Robertson
Question: What is Spiderman's secret identity?
Answer: Peter Parker
Question: Which American trumpeter and composer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1997, the first time it had been awarded for a jazz recording?
Answer: Wynton Marsalis
Question: Which song, in the best known translation, contains the words "Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, And he shows them pearly white, Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear, And he keeps it out of sight"?
Answer: Mack the Knife
Question: When Winston Churchill wrote "Before this, we had no victory and after it we had no defeats", which event was he talking about?
Answer: The Second Battle of El Alamein
Question: On which continent would you find the mountain chains called Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental?
Answer: South America
Question: Which English all-female pop trio based in London, consisting of Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen, was formed in 1998 by original members Siobhn Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan?
Answer: Sugababes
Question: Who won a Best Actor Oscar for the 1996 film "Shine"?
Answer: Geoffrey Rush
Question: Early in 2010 which telescope was used to discover 5 new planets and 2 objects circling stars that were too hot to be planets and too small to be stars?
Answer: Kepler Telescope
Question: In the TV series, what was Blackadder's first name?
Answer: Edmund
Question: In golf, what is the term for "one stroke over par"?
Answer: Bogey
Question: Who was the last English king to be executed?
Answer: Charles I
Question: What private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, was founded as a women's college in 1861, and became coeducational in 1969?
Answer: Vassar
Question: Who is the next in this series: Julie Stevens, Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson ... ?
Answer: Joanna Lumley
Question: Badfinger, Black Dyke Band, Elephant's Memory, Grapefruit, Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax, Modern Jazz Quartet, Radha Krsna Temple, Ravi Shankar, Ronnie Spector, James Taylor and White Trash have all recorded for what label?
Answer: Apple
Question: John Boyd Dunlop was associated with the development of what item?
Answer: Pneumatic tyre
Question: The period of the French Revolution when the Girondists were guillotined, which ended with the guillotining of Robespierre, was known as what?
Answer: Reign of Terror
Question: Which pole vaulter won 6 consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympic gold, broke the world record 35 times (17 outdoor and 18 indoor records), was the first to clear both 6.0 metres and 6.10 metres (20 ft)?
Answer: Sergey Bubka
Question: According to the Bible, who was told by God to build an ark to escape the Great Flood?
Answer: Noah
Question: Jugular veins carry blood away from which part of the body?
Answer: Head
Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" and "Peter and the Wolf" (a children's tale for narrator and orchestra)?
Answer: Prokofiev
Question: Who succeeded Sir William Howe as Commander in Chief of the British forces in 1778 during the American War of Independence?
Answer: Sir Henry Clinton
Question: Which English king asked the Pope to annul his marriage as he had married his brother's widow?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question: What unit of work represents the work done to overcome a force of 1 dyne through a distance of 1 centimetre?
Answer: Erg
Question: What is the wine-tasting term for the aroma, smell or bouquet of a wine?
Answer: Nose
Question: What was the name of the country in west Africa which, in 1975, was re-named "The People's Republic of Benin"?
Answer: Dahomey
Question: What is the name for the act of murdering of one's own brother?
Answer: Fratricide
Question: Where are the Kasubi Tombs, also known as the Ssekabaka's Tombs, the burial grounds for four kings, which were badly damaged by fire on 16 March 2010?
Answer: Kampala, Uganda
Question: The screenplay for which 2000 film, set against the UK miners' strike in County Durham in 1984 & 1985, was inspired in part by A. J. Cronin's novel "The Stars Look Down"?
Answer: Billy Elliot
Question: What were the weapons used mainly by infantrymen in the American Civil War?
Answer: Rifles
Question: Olympic gold medallists Ian Fergusson and Danyon Loader represented which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Who stands off-stage and reminds actors of forgotten lines during a performance?
Answer: Prompter
Question: The Plum Judy, Painted Lady, Monarch, Speckled Wood, Mallow Skipper, and Zabulon Skipper are varieties of what?
Answer: Butterfly
Question: The term "Gallic" means relating to what country?
Answer: France
Question: Which fruit is used to make cider?
Answer: Apples
Question: Which cartoon character was born at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm?
Answer: Snoopy
Question: Which island was a major exporter of phosphate from 1907 until deposits ran out in the 1980s, and had the highest per-capita income of any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
Answer: Nauru
Question: What rating system for talk shows, defined as the ratio of interrupted sentences versus all sentences within a typical program, expressed as a percentage, was invented by author Stephen Euin Cobb?
Answer: Ignorance index
Question: Who supposedly wrote the fictional diaries written by Sue Townsend?
Answer: Adrian Mole
Question: Which instrument, with a range of around 3 -4 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to C 2 octaves below middle C, and the others tuned in fifths?
Answer: Cello
Question: These are the first lines from what song: "They asked me how I knew, My true love was true. Oh, I of course replied, Something here inside cannot be denied"?
Answer: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Question: What was the middle name of writer G B Shaw?
Answer: Bernard
Question: What was the main activity of a group founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, and Ulrike Meinhof?
Answer: Terrorism
Question: What is the setting for the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Answer: Middle Earth
Question: Motorcycle speedway riders compete over how many anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit?
Answer: 4
Question: Florida produces 74 percent of which citrus fruit grown in the USA, 95% of which is processed, mostly for the official state beverage?
Answer: Oranges
Question: What island nation in the South Pacific Ocean was, from 1906, jointly managed by France and the UK as the New Hebrides, and became a Republic in 1980?
Answer: Vanuatu
Question: Minamata disease, a neurological syndrome with symptoms including ataxia, numbness, general weakness, narrowing of vision and damage to hearing and speech, and even insanity, paralysis, coma and death within weeks, is caused by severe poisoning by what?
Answer: Mercury
Question: What is the next in this series: "Lucky Town", "The Ghost of Tom Joad", "The Rising", "Devils & Dust", "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions", "Magic" ... ?
Answer: Working on a Dream
Question: The national flag of which country differs from the Italian tricolor only because it contains the national coat of arms?
Answer: Mexico
Question: When did homosexuality between consenting adults cease to be illegal in all of the United Kingdom?
Answer: 1982
Question: What was the original name of the singer known as Annie Lennox, who was born on Christmas Day, 1954 in Torry, Aberdeen?
Answer: Ann Lennox
Question: In the 1970 UK general election, who was elected MP for North Antrim, became the longest serving MP from Northern Ireland, and led the Democratic Unionist Party from 1971 to 2008?
Answer: Ian Paisley
Question: How long is each round in a boxing match at the Olympic Games?
Answer: 3 minutes
Question: What was the name of the evil wizard that appeared in the TV series "The Smurfs"?
Answer: Gargamel
Question: The first name of the First Lady of which US president was Elizabeth, known as "Betty"?
Answer: Gerald Ford
Question: What nation's boat "Black Magic I" won five races to nil in the America's Cup in 1995?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Who, in 2010, became the first person from outside the British Isles to win the World Snooker Championship title since Cliff Thorburn in 1980, and the first non British player to win the title since Ken Doherty in 1997?
Answer: Neil Robertson
Question: Who was president of the USA when the first shots were fired in the American Civil War at First Sumter?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: A relic that is claimed to be Jesus Christ's burial sheet is associated with which city?
Answer: Turin
Question: Which band had a hit record in 1980 with "Smells Like Teen Spirit"?
Answer: Nirvana
Question: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index that shows how stocks of large, publicly-owned companies based in the USA have traded during a standard stock market trading session. How many company's stocks does it track?
Answer: 30
Question: What subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean, includes Guam, the Northern Marianas, Wake Island, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Kiribati?
Answer: Micronesia
Question: What is the name for the branch of astronomy that relates to precise measurements and explanations of the positions and movements of celestial bodies?
Answer: Astrometry
Question: What was the name of the live-in cook for Ben, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe Cartwright in a long running TV series?
Answer: Hop Sing
Question: Of the 6 Winter Olympics held between 1988 and 2006, how many were outside of Europe?
Answer: 3
Question: Which fermented liquid condiment used for flavouring, especially of grilled meats (and also used as an ingredient in cocktails and drinks) was first made by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins?
Answer: Worcestershire sauce
Question: When did homosexuality between consenting adults cease to be illegal in England and Wales?
Answer: 1967
Question: What ship is commanded by the fictional pirate Jack Sparrow?
Answer: Black Pearl
Question: What English football club lost 8 players and 3 officials in the Munich air disaster of 1958?
Answer: Manchester United
Question: In what sport is a "triple salchow" performed?
Answer: Figure skating
Question: The lands of Castile, which came to prominence in Europe in the 13th century, make up much of which modern country?
Answer: Spain
Question: What was the name given to actions by Timothy McVeigh on 19 April 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
Answer: The Oklahoma City bombing
Question: What is the name for a period that occurs about every 11 years when the sun's magnetic field lines are the most distorted?
Answer: Solar maximum
Question: Beginning in the late 15th century, expeditions mainly from Britain and which other country explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast of Canada?
Answer: France
Question: What native language would Jesus Christ have spoken?
Answer: Aramaic
Question: Louis Goldenberg and Alva J. Fisher have been credited with the invention of what device?
Answer: Electric washing machine
Question: What is a "marksman" good at?
Answer: Shooting
Question: When did the USA officially enter World War II?
Answer: 1941
Question: According to the Bible, Ham, Shem and Japheth were whose sons?
Answer: Noah
Question: What gas is a component of common table salt?
Answer: Chlorine
Question: First released in 1928, which animated cartoon was the first to feature Mickey & Minnie Mouse?
Answer: Plane Crazy
Question: Who is the lead singer of the American rock / ska-pop / reggae band "No Doubt", winners of 2 Grammy Awards, which was formed in Anaheim, California, in 1986?
Answer: Gwen Stefani
Question: The viola is tuned one fifth below the violin and therefore they have three strings tuned in common: G, D, and which other?
Answer: A
Question: What highly flammable metal, easy to ignite when powdered, producing a brilliant white light, and difficult to extinguish, being able to burn in both nitrogen and carbon dioxide, was used in incendiary weapons for firebombing cities in World War II and as a source of illumination in the early days of photography?
Answer: Magnesium
Question: Who was best known for his role as Dracula, a role he first took on in film in 1931?
Answer: Bela Lugosi
Question: In 1956, a major uprising in Hungary was put down by forces from where?
Answer: USSR
Question: How many countries border Brazil?
Answer: 10
Question: What sport is played in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup Final, that has been held since 1914?
Answer: Soccer
Question: Where do Walloons come from?
Answer: Belgium
Question: """Silly mid on"" and ""gully"" are positions in which sport?"
Answer: Cricket
Question: It is believed that the first of what type of business was opened in 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas by Noah Brannen?
Answer: Washateria
Question: In Greek mythology, which winged horse sprang from the body of Medusa after her death?
Answer: Pegasus
Question: A state of Australia, one of the world's biggest waterfalls, a London railway station, Africa's largest lake and a large public park in Hong Kong are all named after whom?
Answer: Queen Victoria
Question: What is the next number in the sequence 1, 7, 10, 13, 19, 23, 28, 31, 32, 44, 49, 68, 70, 79, 82, 86, 91, 94, 97, 100, 103, 109, 129, 130 ... ?
Answer: 133
Question: What area was claimed as a colony by the German Empire in the late 19th century, became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand and the UK after World War I, was occupied by Japanese troops during World War II, and became a trusteeship until it was declared independent in 1968?
Answer: Nauru
Question: Raymond Blanc, Rick Stein and Graham Kerr are all associated with what activity?
Answer: Cooking
Question: Which abolitionist was hung in 1859 for his role in the Harper's Ferry Raid and played a major role in starting the Civil War?
Answer: John Brown
Question: Who played Dorothy in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: Judy Garland
Question: In which country do these laws apply: the 1975 State Protection Act (Article 10 b), which grants the government the power to imprison persons for up to five years without a trial, and the Law to Safeguard the State Against the Dangers of Those Desiring to Cause Subversive Acts (Article 10 a)?
Answer: Myanmar
Question: Opened in 1890, with 6 stations over 3.2 miles (5.1 km) and running in a pair of tunnels between the City of London and Stockwell passing under the River Thames, what was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction?
Answer: The City and South London Railway
Question: What is the only US state that touches both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: New York
Question: How many defensive players are on a baseball field at any one time?
Answer: 9
Question: After the mutiny on the "Bounty", Fletcher Christian and his men took women from where to colonise Pitcairn Island?
Answer: Tahiti
Question: Who holds the records as the youngest and oldest winner in the Men's singles at the Australian Open tennis tournament?
Answer: Ken Rosewall
Question: On 14 November 1910, Eugene Burton Ely was the first to do what in an aeroplane?
Answer: Take off from a ship
Question: Where was the Maguindanao massacre on 23 November 2009, when 58 victims, including a politician's wife, his two sisters, journalists, lawyers, aides, and motorists who were witnesses, were kidnapped and brutally killed?
Answer: Philippines
Question: What constellation is sometimes called "the Chained Lady", "the Chained Woman" "Perseus's wife" or "Cepheus's daughter"?
Answer: Andromeda
Question: Ansel Adams and Terence Donovan were prominent in what field?
Answer: Photography
Question: What was the name of the last of the six space shuttles that was built?
Answer: Endeavour
Question: Which car maker has marketed models called Passat and Golf?
Answer: Volkswagen
Question: Which religion features the Five Duties or the Five Pillars?
Answer: Islam
Question: Larry Page and Sergey Brin started what computer application?
Answer: Google
Question: World War I flying ace Baron von Richtofen, the Red Baron, was credited with how many "kills" before he himself was killed?
Answer: 80
Question: Which constellation, that lies between Cancer and Virgo, contains the stars called Regulus, Denebola, Regulus, Wolf 359, Gliese 436, and Algieba?
Answer: Leo
Question: What is the evening prayer service in the Western Catholic, Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches?
Answer: Vespers
Question: In cartography, the method by which a spherical shape is represented as a rectangle was invented by whom?
Answer: Gerardus Mercator
Question: Who has played (on film) Queen Elizabeth I twice, Galadriel three times, Katharine Hepburn and Veronica Guerin?
Answer: Cate Blanchett
Question: Who was the Princess of Tyre who, after her brother Pygmalion killed her husband Sichaeus, fled to Africa where she founded Carthage?
Answer: Dido
Question: By what name does history better know 11th-century Castilian military leader Rodrigo Daz de Vivar?
Answer: El Cid
Question: The Tyrol is a region in which mountain range?
Answer: Alps
Question: What was the name of the 1571 sea battle when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Spain (including Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), the Republic of Venice, the Papacy, the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller and others, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: The Battle of Lepanto
Question: What is the setting for the Steven Spielberg film "Jaws"?
Answer: Amity Island
Question: What part of the body is affected by dermatitis?
Answer: Skin
Question: According to the Islamic calendar, during which month were the first verses of the Qur'an revealed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad?
Answer: Ramadan
Question: What is the official language of New Caledonia
Answer: French
Question: What is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel whereby tightly folded balloons are passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size using water pressures some 75 to 500 times normal blood pressure (6 to 20 atmospheres)?
Answer: Angioplasty
Question: Felipe Caldern became President of which country on 1 December 2006?
Answer: Mexico
Question: What is the name of the British rugby international touring team?
Answer: Lions
Question: Where was the astronomer Copernicus born?
Answer: Poland
Question: The followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th century were known as what?
Answer: Lollards
Question: In 2001, which actor was re-elected president of the USA's National Rifle Association for a fourth term?
Answer: Charlton Heston
Question: Archimedes' name is still used today to describe what type of mechanical device?
Answer: Screw
Question: Built in 1765, what is the oldest commissioned warship in the world, still manned by the British Royal Navy?
Answer: Victory
Question: What, in ancient Rome, was a "sudatorium"?
Answer: Sauna
Question: What term is used to describe a wine with noticeable acidity that is balanced with enough fruit structure so as not to taste overly acidic?
Answer: Zippy
Question: The wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton is the 10th royal wedding to be held at Westminster Abbey. The first was that of Princess Patricia of Connaught to the Hon. Alexander Ramsay, which was in what year?
Answer: 1919
Question: Who became president of Iraq in May 2005?
Answer: Jalal Talabani
Question: Which boxer bit both of Evander Holyfield's ears in a fight for the WBA World Heavyweight Championship on 28 June 1997?
Answer: Mike Tyson
Question: Which English novelist was arranged to be released from prison in 1703 by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, and was employed by him as a spy?
Answer: Daniel Defoe
Question: Which National Basketball Association team, whose colours are purple, gold and white, use purple uniforms for road games and gold uniforms for home games, with white jerseys for Sunday and holiday home games?
Answer: Los Angeles Lakers
Question: What nickname was given to Mary Mallon, who infected a known 53 people working as a cook in New York and, in 1907, was the first healthy typhoid carrier to be identified?
Answer: Typhoid Mary
Question: Which amendment to the US constitution provides freedom of religion, assembly, speech and the press?
Answer: First
Question: The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November with the removal of which Australian Labor Party Prime Minister by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, and the appointment of the Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser, as caretaker Prime Minister?
Answer: Gough Whitlam
Question: In which US state did the siege of the Alamo take place?
Answer: Texas
Question: Roger Bannister ran what distance in the record-breaking time of under 4 minutes at Oxford in 1954 over what distance?
Answer: Mile
Question: Who was "the fourth man" in the Cambridge spy ring, whose name was not publicly known until 1979?
Answer: Anthony Blunt
Question: What 1963 political scandal in the UK involved the Secretary of State for War, after he had a brief relationship with the mistress of a Russian spy (a showgirl named Christine Keeler), and lied to the House of Commons about it?
Answer: The Profumo Affair
Question: What nickname was given to German Chancellor Otto Van Bismarck?
Answer: The Iron Chancellor
Question: The single "Sara" was from Fleetwood Mac's 12th studio album (that followed the album "Rumours"), released in 1979. What was the album?
Answer: Tusk
Question: Which chapel in the Apostolic Palace (the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City), famous for its architecture and decoration, has been frescoed by the Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and Sandro Botticelli?
Answer: Sistine Chapel
Question: According to a Time - Pew Research Centre poll published on 29 November 2010, the percentage of married people in the USA has changed from 75% (of those over 18) in 1960 to what in 2008?
Answer: 50%
Question: Who wore size 9 shoes in a song, the chorus of which begins "Oh My Darling, Oh My Darling, Oh My Darling ..."?
Answer: Clementine
Question: What is a traditional form of whitework embroidery which involves the tufting or knotting of the yarn, on top of a muslin fabric to create patterns?
Answer: Candlewick
Question: In which country, in 1984, did the Prime Minister bar nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from using its ports or entering waters?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What beverage was introduced to England from China by the Dutch in 1645?
Answer: Tea
Question: In the middle ages, what infection was called "the king's evil", and, it was rumoured, could be cured by the touch of a king?
Answer: Scrofula
Question: What name was given to the number 10 to the power of 100 (i.e. 1 followed by one hundred zeros) by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner?
Answer: Googol
Question: Between 1979 and 1990, the Sandinistas and the Contras were participants in a Civil War in which country?
Answer: Nicaragua
Question: Military signals are usually played on which instrument?
Answer: Bugle
Question: What did Captain James Cook take on his sea voyages, as experience had taught him that it was an effective preventative of scurvy (containing vitamin C and lactobacilli)?
Answer: Sauerkraut
Question: Pilgrims visit the city of Santiago de Compostela because it is supposedly the site of the bones of which saint?
Answer: St James
Question: Which jazz bandleader disappeared in December 1944 while flying over the English Channel?
Answer: Glenn Miller
Question: What is the name of the cathedral in Krakow where Poland's kings and heroes are buried?
Answer: Wawel
Question: Which vehicle maker has marketed models called Transit, KA, Focus, Fiesta, Laser and Falcon?
Answer: Ford
Question: Jason Lee Scott, Zack Taylor, Billy Cranston, Trini Kwan and Kimberly Hart were the orignal members of which group?
Answer: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Question: Olympic gold medallists Paavo Nurmi, Ville Ritola, Clas Thunberg and Lasse Virn represented which country?
Answer: Finland