zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What singer/songwriter's backup band is known as the Heartbreakers?
Answer: Tom Petty
Question: On August 2 and 4, 1964, the US destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy (currently on display in Bremerton), reported coming under attack in teh Gulf of Tonkin, sparking America's entry into what?
Answer: The War in Vietnam
Question: Hosted by The Late Late Shows Craig Ferguson, what week is it?
Answer: Shark week
Question: Which property management group, the largest real estate investment group in the US, owns and operates the Northgate Mall?
Answer: Simon Property Group
Question: And how much of your hard earned money is protected by the FDIC?
Answer: $250,000
Question: “From the Halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli; We fight our country’s battles” promises which branch of the US military?
Answer: Marines
Question: Who’s resignation speech included the lines “Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, “whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.””
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: What can be a rock band, a card game, and an organ?
Answer: Heart
Question: What famed nurse, dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp", revolutionized nursing from the lessons she learned tending wounded soldiers during the Crimean War?
Answer: Florence Nightingale
Question: What company exhorts “don’t leave home without it”?
Answer: American Express
Question: On August 9, 1944, The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring what iconic character for the first time?
Answer: Smokey the Bear
Question: Sharing a name with the first successful model designed by Robert Fulton in 1800, what was the name of the submarine captained by Prince Armitage Ranjit Dakkar, or Captain Nemo, in Jules Verne's books 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island?
Answer: Nautilus
Question: How many days in a fortnight?
Answer: 14
Question: Name the book and the author:' These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket. Their names are Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine.'
Answer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Question: If Lady is a pedigree American Cocker Spaniel, what is the name of the mongrel?
Answer: Tramp
Question: August 10th, 1846, saw the chartering of which major and most popular US museum?
Answer: Smithsonian Institute
Question: For a point each, name the vaudeville and movie stars known as the Marx brothers
Answer: Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo
Question: Ratified on January 29, 1919, the 18th amendment to the US Constitution regulates the sale of what?
Answer: Alcohol
Question: In 1876, Brigadier General Henry Martyn Robert, he of San Juan Island fortifications during the Pig War fame, published what classic tome, still published today?
Answer: Roberts Rules of Order
Question: What name is given to the person authorized to vote on behalf of someone else?
Answer: Proxy
Question: The highest scoring tiles, what two letters are worth 10 points each in a game of Scrabble?
Answer: Q and Z
Question: What is the main food ingredient of a frittata?
Answer: Eggs
Question: What is the more common name for the US Navy's aerial demonstration team?
Answer: The Blue Angels
Question: What can be a tree, a fictional TV character, and a defective car?
Answer: Lemon
Question: According to the tv and radio ads, "Uh oh, better get" who?
Answer: Maaco
Question: Name the 1980 movie from the plot summary: “An emotionally self-destructive boxer’s journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.”
Answer: Raging Bull
Question: Although actually born in what was then the semi-autonomous region known as The State of Franklin, whom did Fess Parker claim was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee?
Answer: Davy Crockett
Question: The Recording Industry Association of America awards what certification for an album that sells 500,000 copies?
Answer: Gold
Question: What hair style, often ridiculed as lowbrow and unappealing, was famously described as "business in the front party in the back"?
Answer: Mullet
Question: With an atomic number of 79, what elements symbol Au comes from the Latin aurum?
Answer: Gold
Question: What can be a soft drink, a food portion, or backspin?
Answer: Slice
Question: With a 2008 Census population estimate of 173,000 residents, what is the capital of Mississippi?
Answer: Jackson
Question: What was the last name of “movie star” Ginger on TV’s Gilligan’s Island?
Answer: Grant
Question: Demographics is the study of what?
Answer: Human population
Question: The title character of what TV series regularly ran a newspaper ad that read: "Got a problem, need help, odds against you?"
Answer: The Equalizer
Question: During World War II, U.S. soldiers used the first commercial aerosol cans to hold what?
Answer: Insecticide
Question: The Earth is approximately how many miles away from the Sun?
Answer: 93 million
Question: Which insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term "computer bug"?
Answer: Moth
Question: Who did artist Grant Wood use as the model for the farmer in his classic painting American Gothic?
Answer: His dentist
Question: Name the year: NAFTA is ratified, Nancy Kerrigan gets clubbed, Kurt Cobain eats his shotgun, OJ Simpson offs his ex wife and her friend.
Answer: 1994
Question: With a metropolotian population of almost 19 million people, what is the most populous city in South America?
Answer: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Question: What does the internet acronym FTFY mean?
Answer: Fixed that for you
Question: Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik, and Christian Louboutin are all makers of what?
Answer: Women's shoes
Question: Jiminy Jillickers! Ultimately played by Milhouse, what is the name of Radioactive Man's sidekick?
Answer: Fallout Boy
Question: True or False: A duck’s quack doesn’t echo?
Answer: False
Question: What are the names of Popeye's nephews?
Answer: Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye, Peepeye
Question: What does a xenophobe fear?
Answer: Foreigners
Question: The PayDay candy bar is composed of peanuts and what other confection?
Answer: Caramel
Question: The first of the "cardio-boxing" fitness programs to gain commercial success, what was the name of the aeroboic exercise routine created by Billy Blanks?
Answer: Tae Bo
Question: Born on Sept 1, 1950, what is the surname of TV's Doctor Phil, who originally made his fame by appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show?
Answer: McGraw
Question: In the horrible names that celebrities saddle their kids with category, after naming his daughters Sonnet, True, and Autumn, with what wet name did Forrest Whitaker tab his only son?
Answer: Ocean
Question: Ben and Jerry's recently announced that they were changing the name of their Chubby Hubby ice cream to what new name for the month of September?
Answer: Hubby Hubby
Question: Of Beavis and Butt-head, which one wore the AC/DC t-shirt?
Answer: Butt-head
Question: Name the book and the author: 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.'
Answer: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Question: What is the name of the owl who told us “Give a hoot – don’t pollute” in a series of Public Service Announcements?
Answer: Woodsy
Question: Prized by collectors, the “Inverted Jenny” is a famous what?
Answer: Postage Stamp
Question: How many horizontal lines are used in a musical stave (or staff)?
Answer: 5
Question: The 2012 Democratic National Convention kicked off this week in what US city?
Answer: Charlotte, NC
Question: What can be a young mammal, a human muscle, and a chunk of sea ice?
Answer: Calf
Question: Sept 4, 1950 saw the introduction of what daily comic strip featuring a goldbricking US Army private, stationed at Campy Swampy, who is always at odds with Sgt Snorkel?
Answer: Beetle Bailey
Question: What SNL self-help parody, portrayed by Al Franken, is known for phrases such as “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.” and “I learned what love is from my parents. Which is that you find that one-special person who was placed on the planet just for you, and then you put them through forty years of living hell.”?
Answer: Stuart Smalley
Question: In boxing, there are 4 primary punches. For a point each, name them.
Answer: jab, cross, hook, and uppercut
Question: Sept 7, 1963 saw the opening of what professional Hall of Fame, when 17 individuals, including “Slinging” Sammy Baugh, Harold “Red” Grange, George Halas, Don Hutson, Earl “Curly” Lambeau, and Bronco Nagurski were inaugurated?
Answer: Pro Football
Question: The Pro Football Hall of Fame opened its doors on Sept 7, 1963, in what Midwestern city?
Answer: Canton, OH
Question: From what animal does the delicious meat mutton come from?
Answer: Sheep
Question: The world is a poorer place with the passing last week of what TV legend, who hosted the Star Hustler/Star Gazer series, which had been in production since September 1976?
Answer: Jack Horkheimer
Question: There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's what?
Answer: Mastercard
Question: What popular science fiction character, later to be the subject of a 1980s television series starring Gil Gerrard, was first introduced in the August, 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, which tells the tale of how he was put into a coma until the 25th century, when he awakens to rid the world of evil warlords and "Mongol" hordes?
Answer: Buck Rogers
Question: If a female deer is known as a doe, what is the male known as?
Answer: Buck
Question: In the crappy celebrity kids names category, what Irish rocker, fomer head of the Boomtown Rats, named his kids Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, and Little Pixie?
Answer: Bob Geldof
Question: What Brandeis University professor attained instant fame by accusing Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his 1991 confirmation hearings?
Answer: Anita Hill
Question: In the Barry Manilow song “Copacabana”, who was the show girl?
Answer: Lola
Question: Translating as Fox from the Spanish, what is the more common name for the fictional character known as Don Diego del la Vega?
Answer: Zorro
Question: What famous house, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is perched over a river in Stewart Township, Pennsylvania?
Answer: Fallingwater
Question: A week ago, Canadian officials announced that thieves had somehow made off with a quarter of Quebec's strategic reserve of what, valued at over $30 million?
Answer: Maple Syrup
Question: What brand of rum, named for a privateer, advertises itself with the slogan "To Life, Love, and Loot"?
Answer: Captain Morgan
Question: What can be an official stamp of quality on a precious metal, a greeting card company, and a cable TV channel?
Answer: Hallmark
Question: What singer, born Richard Hall on Sept 11, 1965, took his stage name for supposedly having Herman Melville as his great-great-great-granduncle?
Answer: Moby
Question: In ‘The Wizard of Oz’ books, what is the name of the Good Witch?
Answer: Glinda the Good Witch of the South
Question: For a point each, name the 2 countries that share a physical border with Costa Rica.
Answer: Nicaragua and Panama
Question: According to Greek mythology, what son of Daedalus donned wings of feathers and wax, and promptly flew too close to the son, causing the wax to melt and his ultimate drowning, having fallen from the sky into the sea?
Answer: Icarus
Question: If you were afflicted with hypotension, what are you suffering from?
Answer: Low blood pressure
Question: Featuring the exploits of the cybernetically enhanced supersoldier known as Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, the final installment of what wildly popular video game series launched yesterday morning?
Answer: Halo
Question: From the French for "some more", what name is given to the additional pieces played at the end of a concert to satisfy audience demand?
Answer: Encore
Question: Notable for frequently standing on one leg, what bird, usually born grey, obtains its distinctive pink hue from the beta carotene in their food supply?
Answer: Flamingo
Question: Which English children's author, who would have celebrated his 94th birthday on Monday, wrote such classics as The BFG, The Twits, James and the Giant Peach, and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, among dozens of others?
Answer: Roald Dahl
Question: According to Kermit the Frog, it's not easy what?
Answer: Bein' Green
Question: The 23rd Amendment to the US Constitution allows Washington DC to appoint what?
Answer: Presidential Electors
Question: Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest person, died earlier this week. How old was she?
Answer: 115 years
Question: How many pints in a quart?
Answer: 2
Question: What is the tallest building in downtown Seattle?
Answer: Columbia Tower
Question: Which celebrity has been named as the replacement for Paula Abduhl on American Idol?
Answer: Ellen DeGeneris
Question: A gosling is the young of what animal?
Answer: Goose
Question: Someone described as mendacious has a habit of what?
Answer: Lying
Question: The act of prestidigitation is also known as what?
Answer: Sleight of hand
Question: In what card game does a player ask his opponent for one of his or her cards of a particular rank, drawing a card from the pool if the opponent has none?
Answer: Go Fish
Question: Name the 2009 animated movie from the IMDB plot summary: “The most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children’s book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain.”
Answer: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Question: Sometimes called a competitive balance tax, what is the name for the financial penalty that large market baseball/basketball teams such as the Yankees or the Knicks must pay for spending more than a particular threshold?
Answer: Luxury Tax
Question: According to The Drifter’s 1964 hit, where will we be “out of the sun, having fun, people walking above, We’ll be making love”?
Answer: Under the Boardwalk
Question: If you are DOA, medically speaking, what are you?
Answer: Dead on Arrival
Question: How many squares are there on a US bingo card?
Answer: 25
Question: Played by George Takei, who was the helmsman on the USS Enterprise for the duration of the series?
Answer: Hikaru Sulu
Question: Different from the flags used by the officials, what color flag is used by NFL football coaches to challenge the ruling on the field?
Answer: Red
Question: What perennially happy artist spent 12 years hosting the PBS staple The Joy of Painting, before his untimely death in 1985?
Answer: Bob Ross
Question: What corporation owns the Seattle Marines?
Answer: Nintendo of America
Question: What entertainment business magnate and talk show host created the TV staples Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune?
Answer: Merv Griffin
Question: What nursery rhyme character kept his wife in a pumpkin shell?
Answer: Peter, Peter pumpkin eater
Question: The Beaverton, Or sporting goods company Nike takes their name from a Greek Goddess. What was Nike the Goddess of?
Answer: Victory
Question: September 19th is International what Day?
Answer: Talk Like a Pirate Day
Question: The Emmy awards, as hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, aired on Sunday. In what year was the award first given?
Answer: 1949
Question: Sept 20, 1973 saw the Battle of the Sexes, the tennis match that had which two players facing off against each other?
Answer: Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
Question: Which TV comedy is set in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company?
Answer: The Office
Question: In which state would you find the gold depository at Fort Knox?
Answer: Kentucky
Question: Jermajesty was the son of which member of The Jackson 5?
Answer: Jermaine
Question: What can be a condiment, a gas, or a Colonel?
Answer: Mustard
Question: Established on September 25, 1890, Sequoia National Park is in what state?
Answer: California
Question: Fanilows are fans of what singer/songwriter/performer?
Answer: Barry Manilow
Question: Folk, Rain, and Lap are all types of what?
Answer: Dance
Question: Which president survived two assassination attempts, both by women, in a 17 day period?
Answer: Gerald Ford
Question: Lady Gaga raised the ire of PETA earlier this month when she wore what tot he VMAs?
Answer: A meat dress
Question: Cursed, tormented and damned ghostly sailors aboard the Flying Dutchmen are forever forced to sail the waters around what South African headland, still a major navigation point (and commonly thought to be the southern most point in Africa)?
Answer: Cape of Good Hope
Question: Which country has more coastline than any other?
Answer: Canada
Question: Oct 6, 1969 saw the introduction of what BBC show, featuring the talents of Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, and Terry Gillam, among others?
Answer: Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Question: Oct 6, 1969 saw the introduction of what BBC show, generally regarded as one of the funniest tv series ever?
Answer: Monty Python's Flying Circus
Question: Dig 'Em Frog is the mascot for what brand of cereal?
Answer: Honey Smacks
Question: Ken Burn's latest documentary debuted last Sunday on PBS. What subject matter does it cover?
Answer: Prohibition
Question: What's missing: Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Epcot, Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach
Answer: Magic Kingdom
Question: What company described its products as Finger Lickin' Good?
Answer: Kentucky Fried Chicken
Question: The Family Stone backed up what San Francisco funk and soul singer?
Answer: Sly Stone
Question: Commonly believed to have been started by a frisky bovine owned by Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, what city was devastated by a fire that start on Oct 8, 1871 and lasted for 2 days?
Answer: Chicago
Question: According to Shakespeare, brevity is the soul of what?
Answer: Wit
Question: If you were going to examine a horse to determine its age, at what body part would you look?
Answer: Teeth
Question: Oct 7, 2001 saw the start of the war in Afghanistan, which is known as what?
Answer: Operation Enduring Freedom
Question: Serving since 1993, who is the senior Senator from the great State of Washington?
Answer: Patty Murray
Question: How many yards wide is a professional football field?
Answer: 53.3 yards
Question: Tomorrow marks the 38th anniversary of the start of what long running TV staple, created by Lorne Michaels with the incomparable Don Pardo as the narrator?
Answer: Saturday Night Live
Question: Daimler, Siemens, and chemical company BASF are all based in what country?
Answer: Germany
Question: What is the name of the anti-slavery novel written by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852?
Answer: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Question: Made from red clay, what is the name of the talking horse companion of Gumby?
Answer: Pokey
Question: In mathematics, what name is given to the results of a division problem?
Answer: Quotient
Question: Name the 1986 cult classic movie from the IMDB plot summary: "An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown."
Answer: Big Trouble in Little China
Question: For a point each, name the 6 countries that share a physical border with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
Answer: Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and China
Question: What can be a piniped, a means of royal authentication, and a British soul singer?
Answer: Seal
Question: If bovine describes a cow, canine a dog, and feline a cat, what does vulpine define?
Answer: A fox
Question: Now considered one of the top legal minds on the court, the confirmation hearing for what current associate Supreme Court justice was marred by accusations of sexual harassment from attorney Anita Hill?
Answer: Clarence Thomas
Question: Encouraged to commit suicide for his part in the attempt to assassinate head asshat Adolph Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel earned what nickname for his prowess on the WWII battlefields of North Africa?
Answer: The Desert Fox
Question: What can be garden tools, a card game, or a type of drill bit?
Answer: Spade
Question: "You are Now Free to Move About the Country" is the advertising slogan for what transportation company?
Answer: Southwest Airlines
Question: October 14, 1912 saw certified asshat John Schrank take a shot at what former president, and all around bad-ass, who was currently campaigning for another trip to the White House at the head of the Bull Moose party?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
Question: October 11, 1950 saw the birth of what US politician, known as "a mom in tennis shoes", who is currently facing off against Dino Rossi?
Answer: Patty Murray
Question: What English comedian, who celebrates a birthday today, is known for characters such as Ali G, Borat, and Bruno, and will be starring as Freddie Mercury in an upcoming Queen movie?
Answer: Sacha Baron Cohen
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who went “wee, wee, wee all the way home”?
Answer: This Little Piggy
Question: According to the National Park Service, which National Park is the most visited in the United States, with about 10 million visitors per year?
Answer: Great Smoky Mountains
Question: What percent of the world's ice does Antarctica contain?
Answer: 90%
Question: Which actress, who played Julie Horvath on the TV sitcom One Day at a Time, recently revealed she had a 10+ year consensual relationship with her father?
Answer: Mackenzie Phillips
Question: Oct 14, 1926 saw the introduction of what favorite childhood character, known for his love of hunny?
Answer: Winnie-the-Pooh
Question: In what year was the first Nobel Peace Prize actually awarded, ostensibly to someone who earned it?
Answer: 1901
Question: Which entertainment icon, with a 20 year career on television, is poised to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine next month?
Answer: Marge Simpson
Question: Located in North Africa, Libya is the only country with a one color flag. What color is it?
Answer: Green
Question: That staple of kids daytime tv (and probably really great when you're drunk), the Teletubbies consist of Tinky Winky, LaLa, Dipsy, and who?
Answer: Po
Question: A dry goods shop specializes in selling what product?
Answer: Textiles
Question: Hammering Man, that iconic working stiff in front of the Seattle Arm Museum, is on a break through the end of the year. How many times per minute does he swing that hammer, when he's actually swinging that hammer?
Answer: 4
Question: The taxing of what item caused rioting and attacks in Western Pennsylvania in 1794, enough that militia troops were dispatched to squelch it?
Answer: Whiskey
Question: Citizen (of watch fame), JVC, and Olympus are all companies based in what country?
Answer: Japan
Question: Knitting uses needles. What tool does crocheting use?
Answer: Hooks
Question: The application of what rule, which, according to their tweets, even Major League Baseball doesn't understand, played a pivotal role in the 2012 National League Wild Card Playoff game?
Answer: Infield Fly Rule
Question: Snidely Whiplash was the arch-enemy of Dudley Do-Right, while Simon Bar Sinister faced off against Underdog. Who is the arch-enemy of Mighty Mouse?
Answer: Oil Can Harry
Question: With 6 local locations, what is the name of the clearance store operated by local upscale retailer Nordstroms?
Answer: Nordstrom Rack
Question: Played by Paul Marcarelli, the Verizon test man would end each advertisement by picking up a phone and asking what question?
Answer: Can you hear me now?
Question: Spelunking is the recreational pastime of exploring what?
Answer: Caves
Question: What is the nickname for the sports teams from Western Washington University, the pride of Bellingham?
Answer: Vikings
Question: The leading agricultural machinery manufacture in the world, which company uses a distinctive shade of bright green paint with yellow trim for its' products?
Answer: John Deere