zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: During World War II, Operation Sealion was the codename for the invasion of which area?
Answer: Britain
Question: Who portrays the fictional character Captain Jack Sparrow on film?
Answer: Johnny Depp
Question: The Ishtar Gate, constructed around 575BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II, was a gate to which city?
Answer: Babylon
Question: Ashkenazic and Sephardic are the two divisions of what cultire?
Answer: Jewish
Question: Which member of the UK Parliament and member of the IRA died on hunger strike while in prison at The Maze near Belfast in 1981?
Answer: Bobby Sands
Question: What is the name of a free improvisatory passage inserted near the end of a composition to create a feeling of suspense before the final cadence?
Answer: Cadenza
Question: Until 1997, the Group of Eight (G8), a forum for powerful governments, was the G7. Which country was the last to join, making it G8?
Answer: Russia
Question: Which of king of England was overthrown in the "Glorious Revolution" that occurred in Britain in 1688?
Answer: James II
Question: Who of these was a US senator for the state of New York from 2000 to 2008?
Answer: Hilary Clinton
Question: The Oregon Treaty of 1846, which divided "the Oregon Country" along the 49th parallel, gave the USA land which later became parts of Montana and Wyoming, and the states of Washington, Oregon and which other?
Answer: Idaho
Question: Tianhe-1A, the supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, China which in October 2010 became the world's fastest supercomputer, uses what operating system?
Answer: Linux
Question: What is the name of the fictional character in the land of Oz created by L. Frank Baum as "the Good Witch of the South" who, in the 1939 film version of "The Wizard of Oz" was called "the Good Witch of the North"?
Answer: Glinda
Question: In the UK in 1926 there was a General Strike that attempted to improve working conditions for which occupational group?
Answer: Coal miners
Question: The Spanish throne had been vacant since 1936, and on 22 November 1975, Juan Carlos was designated King. What event caused this?
Answer: The death of General Franco
Question: Which island is the home to a breed of tailless cat?
Answer: Isle of Man
Question: Who was in charge of the ransacking of much of northern Italy in 452 AD?
Answer: Attila the Hun
Question: Chester Gould created which comic character, which first appeared in 1931?
Answer: Dick Tracy
Question: What name is given to 7 mathematics problems stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000, for which a US$1,000,000 prize will be awarded for a correct solution to any of them?
Answer: The Millennium Prize Problems
Question: Who opened the restaurants called Petrus and Amarylis in Britain?
Answer: Gordon Ramsay
Question: With what instrument are Charlie Christian, Les Paul, Tiny Grimes, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Jimmy Raney, Tal Farlow, Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, and Jim Hall associated?
Answer: Guitar
Question: An act passed on 5 July 1900 and given Royal Assent by Queen Victoria on 9 July 1900 led to what milestone in the constitutional history of Australia?
Answer: Creation of the Commonwealth of Australia
Question: An "imam" is from which religion?
Answer: Islam
Question: Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as US president in 1865?
Answer: Andrew Johnson
Question: At the start of "Scream 2", what was the name of the film that was shown about the "Woodsboro Murders"?
Answer: Stab
Question: In the Bible's book of Genesis, which of Jacob's sons was sold into slavery by his brothers?
Answer: Joseph
Question: At the Freediving Individual World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark in September 2009, competitors from which country won two gold (in the Mens Static & Mens Dynamic events), two silver (Womens Static & Womens Dynamic) and two bronze medals (Womens Dynamic & Womens Dynamic No Fins)?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What is the name of a family of satellites launched since 1995 and operated by Eutelsat, located at 13E over the Equator (orbital position) with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East?
Answer: Hot Bird
Question: By what name is William Thomson better known?
Answer: Lord Kelvin
Question: The first band-specific game in the "Rock Band" series of music video games, where players simulate playing music using controllers shaped like musical instruments was "The Beatles: Rock Band". Who was the subject of the next one to be released?
Answer: Green Day
Question: Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from lumbago?
Answer: Back
Question: Before she was a Member of Parliament, what was Margaret Thatcher's occupation?
Answer: Barrister
Question: What arcade game, based on the concept of eating, was developed primarily by Tru Iwatani over the course of a year in 1979/80, with a nine-man team?
Answer: Pac-Man
Question: Gordon Bennett, a leading figure on the world stage in the 19th century, made his substantial fortune in what field?
Answer: Journalism
Question: What term is used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment, commonly in opera, although they also form movements of oratorios and cantatas?
Answer: Aria
Question: What award is the equivalent of the Oscars for British industries involved in film, television, video games and forms of animation?
Answer: BAFTAs
Question: What was the name of the policy making body of the USSR before it broke up?
Answer: Politburo
Question: What is a derogatory term for verse considered of little literary value?
Answer: Doggerel
Question: Who watched his daughter win her first professional boxing bout in October 1999?
Answer: Muhammad Ali
Question: In 1794 in Pennsylvania, USA, more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of tax inspector General John Neville because of an excise tax on what product?
Answer: Whiskey
Question: The "Curse of the Bambino" was thought to have struck what baseball team until they won the World Series in 2004?
Answer: Boston Red Sox
Question: For the type of bet called a "Quinella", how many horses are picked?
Answer: 2
Question: Which cable suspension road bridge, known as "Galloping Gertie", was completely destroyed due to "aeroelastic flutter" on 7 November 1940?
Answer: Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Question: In Greek mythology, what was the name for the deepest part of hell, for those who had committed really bad crimes?
Answer: Tartarus
Question: What device measures its the proper acceleration relative to freefall, and is increasingly used in portable electronic devices and video game controllers to detect the orientation of the device or provide game input?
Answer: Accelerometer
Question: If you went due east of Rio De Janeiro, what country would you get to first?
Answer: Namibia
Question: What name is given to a person or animal with a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a lack of melanin pigment in the eyes, skin and hair?
Answer: Albino
Question: What is the name of the Hobbit who carries the ring to Mordor to be destroyed?
Answer: Frodo
Question: According to Arthurian legend, who was the father of Galahad?
Answer: Lancelot
Question: The national team of the Iroquois League was admitted to the international federation for what sport in 1990 and competes internationally, the only native American/First Nations team to do so?
Answer: Lacrosse
Question: Johnny Weissmuller, the star of 12 "Tarzan" films between 1932 and 1948, won 5 Olympic gold medals in the 1920s in what sport?
Answer: Swimming
Question: The rumba was originally danced where?
Answer: Cuba
Question: In the film "Batman Forever", released in 1995, who played the villain called "Two Face"?
Answer: Tommy Lee Jones
Question: What was the first name of the political cartoonist known as Hogarth?
Answer: William
Question: Built in 1869, what type of ship is the Cutty Sark, which was put on public display in 1954 and is preserved in dry dock in Greenwich, London, UK?
Answer: Clipper
Question: In Ireland, what are "Macgillycuddy's Reeks"?
Answer: Mountains
Question: Manchuria is the historical name given to a vast geographic region that falls mostly within what country?
Answer: People's Republic of China
Question: What is a localised, blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall, which most commonly occurs in arteries at the base of the brain and in the aorta?
Answer: Aneurism
Question: In Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book", what animal was Kaa?
Answer: Snake
Question: What are the Russian steppes?
Answer: Treeless plains
Question: What was the name of his backing band for Bill Haley on the record "Rock Around the Clock" that was released in 1954?
Answer: The Comets
Question: Who became president of the Islamic Repubic of Iran in August 2005?
Answer: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Question: During which war were occupying Ottoman forces forced to withdraw from the town of Aqaba after a raid led by T. E. Lawrence and the Arab forces of Sharif Hussein?
Answer: World War I
Question: In 1991, Warner Bros was picketed by a major national organisation over the use of which cartoon character?
Answer: Porky Pig
Question: To whom does the nickname "Dubya" refer?
Answer: George W. Bush
Question: The film The Philadelphia Story was made into which musical?
Answer: High Society
Question: The musical "South Pacific" was based on the book "Hawaii" by which author?
Answer: James A Michener
Question: Between 1696 and 1851, the British government imposed a tax on what part of a house?
Answer: Number of windows
Question: Which US President was assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz at the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York?
Answer: William McKinley
Question: What was the common name of the Volkswagen Type 14, a 2+2 sold from 1955 to 1974 in coupe and convertible bodystyles, which was then the car most imported to the USA?
Answer: Karmann Ghia
Question: Where are the Bismarck and Owen Stanley ranges?
Answer: Papua-New Guinea
Question: How many nouns are in the sentence "My mother and father visited my sister in Wellington"?
Answer: 4
Question: Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the lira as its basic currency unit?
Answer: Italy
Question: Followers of which religion observe Ramadan?
Answer: Islam
Question: Loihi Seamount, an active undersea volcano, is around 35 km (22 miles) off the southeast coast of where?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner starred in what TV series, first broadcast from 1966 to 1969?
Answer: Star Trek
Question: What is the name for the movement formed by John Nelson Darby and colleagues in the 1830s?
Answer: Plymouth Brethren
Question: What type of rock is formed by the solidification of molten magma?
Answer: Igneous
Question: In the Bible, who was the apostle chosen by the remaining 11 to replace Judas Iscariot following his betrayal of Jesus and suicide?
Answer: Matthias
Question: Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north are known as what?
Answer: Ashkenazi
Question: The Gregorian calendar was named after what public figure at the time?
Answer: Pope
Question: Who reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later, the shortest reign in papal history since 1605?
Answer: John Paul I
Question: The term "Teutonic" means relating to what country?
Answer: Germany
Question: What is the literal translation of the French phrase "cul de sac"?
Answer: The bottom of the bag
Question: Who is a central figure in Homer's "Iliad"?
Answer: Achilles
Question: The Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 was decisive in which conflict?
Answer: The Wars of the Roses
Question: Before becoming US president, George W Bush was governor of which state?
Answer: Texas
Question: North, South, East and West are the way that players are designated in which game?
Answer: Bridge
Question: Who was the literary character behind the play Man of La Mancha?
Answer: Don Quixote
Question: When was the eastern part of Australia claimed by Great Britain?
Answer: 1770
Question: Who is cartoon character "The Phantom" married to?
Answer: Diana Palmer
Question: The northern mass of the continent of the Americas is bounded by the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, by the Caribbean Sea, by South America and by which other?
Answer: Bering Sea
Question: What is the next in this series: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts ... ?
Answer: Romans
Question: Football Golf has annual World and European Championships, as well as Open Tournaments in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and what other country?
Answer: Spain
Question: What was the original name of Mickey Mouse?
Answer: Mortimer
Question: In which James Bond film does he have to defeat shipping magnate Karl Stromberg?
Answer: The Spy Who Loved Me
Question: Who refused to enter the US army, saying "I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong. No Vietcong ever called me nigger"?
Answer: Muhammad Ali
Question: Piggyback, fireman's, and Estonian-style are holds in what sport with Championships in North America, Finland, and (in 2011) India?
Answer: Wife-carrying
Question: The TV series was only 17 episodes (approximately 5 months of screen time) but it quickly became a cult series and has remained one. Which series was it?
Answer: The Prisoner
Question: Which English soccer player, whose career in first class soccer ran from 1958 to 1976, was captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup and was England's most capped player (108) when he retired from the England team in 1973?
Answer: Bobby Moore
Question: Who was killed on 4 January 1967 when his jet propelled boat, Bluebird K7, somersaulted and disintegrated on Coniston Water?
Answer: Donald Campbell
Question: What is the Japanese delicacy that consists of the poisonous puffer fish with the poisonous parts (hopefully) removed?
Answer: Fugu
Question: The federal government of Australia moved to what new, purpose-built, planned, capital city in 1927?
Answer: Canberra
Question: The Vandals sacked which city in 445 AD?
Answer: Rome
Question: What is the transparent front part of the eye which, while contributing most of the eye's focusing power, has a fixed focus?
Answer: Cornea
Question: What country has an official residence called Blair House, kept for guests of the leader of the country?
Answer: USA
Question: Who appeared in her first film for 15 years, "Monster In Law", in 2005?
Answer: Jane Fonda
Question: In 2003, a congestion charge was introduced to reduce traffic volumes in which city centre?
Answer: London
Question: What system, developed for military use, was made fully available to the public from midnight 1 May 2000 on the orders of US President Bill Clinton?
Answer: GPS
Question: In the USA there is a national holiday annually on the third Monday in January, in honour of whom?
Answer: Martin Luther King
Question: What is the process of decreasing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field, a term first used by Commander Charles F. Goodeve, RCNVR, during World War II while trying to counter German mines?
Answer: Degaussing
Question: The Hanseatic League was a union of ports on which sea?
Answer: Baltic Sea
Question: What song was a UK #1 hit for Mike and the Mechanics in 1989?
Answer: The Living Years
Question: Phil Taylor (1960-now), ranked world number one in 2012 in the Professional Darts Corporation order of merit, holds a record 16 darts World Championship titles; in what year did he win his first World Championship?
Answer: 1990
Question: Which planet is closest to Neptune in size and composition?
Answer: Uranus
Question: The white fumes that form when hydrogen chloride dissolves in water consist of what?
Answer: Hydrochloric acid
Question: What was the nickname of Lawrence Peter Berra, a former Major League Baseball player and manager who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972?
Answer: Yogi
Question: Before 1972, what was Sri Lanka known as?
Answer: Ceylon
Question: Who played "One Punch Mickey" in the 2005 film "Snatch"?
Answer: Brad Pitt
Question: Starting on Christmas Day, which is the last of these astrological signs to be reached?
Answer: Leo
Question: The catastrophic disaster at a plant in Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986 is described as what kind of accident?
Answer: Nuclear
Question: The first nuclear reactor was built in 1942 in which US city?
Answer: Chicago
Question: Prithvi Narayan, Jung Bahadur Rana, King Mahendra, King Birendra, and King Gyanendra were all political leaders of which country?
Answer: Nepal
Question: The 2nd and 4th presidents of the USA had the same surname. What was it?
Answer: Adams
Question: Which film star became Governor of California?
Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Question: What was the occupation of Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003 while shopping in the ladies' department at the Nordiska Kompaniet store in Stockholm?
Answer: Politician
Question: Which long-running British TV series featured the characters Captain Peacock, Mrs. Slocombe, Mr. Humphries, Miss Brahms, Mr. Rumbold, Mr. Grainger and Mr. Lucas?
Answer: Are You Being Served?
Question: Who in 2011 won the unofficial event he hosts, the Chevron World Challenge, his first professional golf tournament win since 2009?
Answer: Tiger Woods
Question: What former First Lady of the USA said that "no-one can make you feel inferior without your consent"?
Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt
Question: Which place between York and Knaresborough in the UK was the site of a decisive battle in 1642 when Cromwell defeated Royalist forces?
Answer: Marston Moor
Question: What song by Helen Reddy was subject to much debate about what it was really about?
Answer: Angie Baby
Question: In 1886, John Pemberton claimed that a certain concoction cured diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Which was it?
Answer: Coca-Cola
Question: Snail fever is caused by organisms of which genus?
Answer: Schistosoma
Question: What mineral takes its name from the Greek word for "unquenchable" or "inextinguishable"?
Answer: Asbestos
Question: The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is a shrine for which religion?
Answer: Islam
Question: Who is credited with finding the cross used by Jesus and the remains of the Three Wise Men?
Answer: Saint Helena
Question: Which cricket team was accused of being the subject of rigging the result of an international cricket game against England at Lords in August 2010?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: Who popularised the phrase "The buck stops here"?
Answer: Harry S Truman
Question: The Fox Islands, Islands of Four Mountains, Andreanof Islands, Rat Islands, Buldir Island, Commander Islands and Near Islands are all part of which island chain?
Answer: Aleutians
Question: Who was on the throne when Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, was appointed?
Answer: George I
Question: The Sargasso Sea, where ocean water is distinctive for its deep blue color and exceptional clarity with underwater visibility of up to 200 feet, is in which ocean?
Answer: Atlantic
Question: Which autonomous grouping of islands in the Caribbean was dissolved on 10 October 2010?
Answer: Netherlands Antilles
Question: The national flag of which country consists of just a horizontal red stripe top and bottom, and a white stripe across the centre?
Answer: Austria
Question: What was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organisations, created by a decree issued on 20 December 1917 by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by Felix Dzerzhinsky?
Answer: The Cheka
Question: What word was coined by Charles Richet to denote a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorised" by physical mediums, said to be associated with formation of ghosts?
Answer: Ectoplasm
Question: Whose art exhibit "My Bed", a double bed in a dishevelled state with stained sheets, surrounded by detritus such as soiled underwear, slippers and empty drink bottles, was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize?
Answer: Tracey Emin
Question: British world champion, double Olympic gold medalist and extreme sportsman James Cracknell won his medals in what sport?
Answer: Rowing
Question: What is the word used in Greek mythology for the underworld?
Answer: Hades
Question: When did Polish codebreakers first break the code of the Enigma Machines used by German military?
Answer: 1932
Question: Despite its name it is square and contains the arena for boxing contests, what is it called?
Answer: Ring
Question: What is the name of needlework where pieces of fabric are sewn onto a fabric background?
Answer: Applique
Question: Anthony Hopkins is a supporter and fundraiser for which British national park?
Answer: Snowdonia
Question: What British town's pier was referred to in a book title by George Orwell?
Answer: Wigan
Question: The thymol derivatives concentrated in the roots of which flowering plant are used in ointments for strains, sprains, bruises, and as an anti-inflammatory?
Answer: Arnica
Question: Whose work "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine, became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s?
Answer: Damien Hirst
Question: In the 18th century John Harrison solved the problem of determining longitude at sea using what instrument?
Answer: Clock
Question: When was the repeal of the US federal law called the "Chinese Exclusion Act" (1882) which banned Chinese immigration?
Answer: 1943
Question: Who won all the Grand Slam major tennis tournaments in 1970?
Answer: Margaret Court
Question: Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at a stage performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre on Good Friday, 14 April 1865?
Answer: John Wilkes Booth
Question: The Appenines is a mountain range that runs for 870 miles in what country?
Answer: Italy
Question: What was the stage name of Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr., a singer and songwriter from 1957 until his accidental death in 1959, who is best known for his recording of "Chantilly Lace"?
Answer: Big Bopper
Question: Who wrote the plays "Uncle Vanya" and "The Cherry Orchard"?
Answer: Chekhov
Question: In the words of the song, who "spoke through tears of fifteen years how his dog and him travelled about. His dog up and died, yes he up and died, after twenty years he still grieved."?
Answer: Mr Bojangles
Question: What was the first name of Mrs Dalloway, a fictional character created by Virginia Woolf?
Answer: Clarissa
Question: By what name do we better know Mr van Rijn, who lived in Holland in the 17th century?
Answer: Rembrandt
Question: A plasma display panel contains many tiny cells between two panels of glass which hold a mixture of noble gases. The gas in the cells is electrically turned into a plasma which emits ultraviolet light which then excites what to emit visible light?
Answer: Phosphorus
Question: What is the title of George W Bush's political memoir, published in 2010?
Answer: Decision Points
Question: What name was given to 6 December 1745, after highlanders under Charles Edward Stuart reached Derby causing a financial panic in London?
Answer: Black Friday
Question: Mah Drysdale, Rebecca Scown, Juliette Haigh, Hamish Bond, Eric Murray, Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Ondrej Synek and Alan Campbell are international competitors in which sport?
Answer: Rowing
Question: What power is the main source of electricity for Baja California?
Answer: Geothermal
Question: Edward Somerset, Denis Papin, Thomas Newcomen and James Watt are known for work in relation to what?
Answer: Steam power
Question: What colour is the copper mineral called "malachite"?
Answer: Green
Question: Who died in 1658, was buried at Westminster Abbey, and was disinterred and hanged in 1660?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell
Question: What role was played by Robbie Coltrane in the 2005 film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"?
Answer: Hagrid
Question: Sofia is the capital of which country?
Answer: Bulgaria
Question: What song title has been recorded by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse, Steve Winwood, Bad Company, Reel Big Fish, and Louisiana Red?
Answer: Valerie