zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In the Gospel of Nicodemus, what were the names of the two people were crucified alongside Jesus?
Answer: Dismas and Gestas
Question: Where was the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting held in the year 2000?
Answer: Brunei
Question: In Turkey, what is "Galatasaray Spor Kulb"?
Answer: A soccer club
Question: The Cyclops computer system, conceived by British inventor Bill Carlton, was first used in international competition in 1980 for which sport?
Answer: Tennis
Question: What is the name for the study of light and the principles underlying light and vision?
Answer: Optics
Question: The UK TV series "Doctor in the House", based on books by Richard Gordon, was set in which hospital?
Answer: St Swithin's
Question: The standard tuning of which instrument is one octave higher than a cello?
Answer: Viola
Question: Formula One world champions James Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button are all from which country?
Answer: United Kingdom
Question: Which US TV programme is broadcast regularly from the Ed Sullivan Theatre?
Answer: The Late Show with David Letterman
Question: In what year was the Married Womens Property Act passed into British law, that recognised husband and wife as separate legal entities, and gave married women the legal right to sue and be sued, be liable for their own debts, hold stock in their own names and to own, buy and sell separate property?
Answer: 1882
Question: Who was elected Mayor of New York City in 2001?
Answer: Michael Bloomberg
Question: What is the name for the area where tyres are changed, petrol is provided and minor repairs are carried out during a motor race?
Answer: Pits
Question: What was the sequel to the John Travolta film "Get Shorty"?
Answer: Be Cool
Question: In which US city is the National Air and Space Museum?
Answer: Washington
Question: Which state of the USA has the longest border with Canada?
Answer: Alaska
Question: What is Berlin's "Unter Den Linden"?
Answer: Boulevard
Question: Ochlophobia is a fear of what?
Answer: Crowds
Question: Which cartoonist, famous for his work for the British newspaper the "Daily Express", used a cartoon family (including Grandma, the enigmatic matriarch, and Chalkie, the tyrannical school teacher), to comment on current affairs?
Answer: Giles
Question: Who is the next in this series: Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, George H. W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Al Gore ... ?
Answer: Dick Cheney
Question: What is the capital of Texas?
Answer: Austin
Question: How did Helen Sharman make history in 1991?
Answer: First British person in space
Question: Which band put out a single in 1996 called "Tonight Tonight"?
Answer: Smashing Pumpkins
Question: Doggles, invented by Ken and Roni di Lullo, are a type of what?
Answer: Sunglasses
Question: What is the name of the line separating the numerator and denominator of a fraction if it is written as a horizontal line?
Answer: Vinculum
Question: The cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, Scranton, Bethlehem, Altoona and Harrisburg are in which US state?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Question: What was the official date of the formation of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland"?
Answer: 1 January 1801
Question: What is the common name of the endangered Techmarscincus jigurru, usually found above 1400 m on the slopes of Queensland's highest mountains, which was discovered in 1981?
Answer: The Bartle Frere skink
Question: On 21 May 2004, Pemba Dorjie set a new record for climbing to the top of Mt Everest from Basecamp in the fastest time. What was the new record?
Answer: 8 hours and 10 minutes
Question: A teaching technique invented by Sarah Ann Glover (who adapted it from a number of earlier systems) and popularised by John Curwen in the 19th century is associated with what activity?
Answer: Singing
Question: English actress Lily Langtry was the mistress of whom?
Answer: Edward VII
Question: An oenophile is a lover of what?
Answer: Wine
Question: What is the legal tender (face) value of the "American Buffalo", a 24-karat gold bullion coin first offered for sale by the US Mint on 22 June 2006?
Answer: US$50
Question: What is the next in this series: 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians ... ?
Answer: Colossians
Question: What device is designed to measure a gravitational field and changes to it?
Answer: Gravimeter
Question: What name was applied to lightly-armed Russian horsemen?
Answer: Cossacks
Question: In May 2010, at the age of 13, Jordan Romero became the youngest person to do what?
Answer: Climb Mt. Everest
Question: About how long does it take for the moon to make one orbit of the Earth?
Answer: 27 days
Question: In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who jumped over the moon?
Answer: Cow
Question: What event, devised by Jennifer McCreight, took place on 26 April 2010 in response to reports that Hojatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi, Friday Prayer Leader for Tehran in Iran, had blamed earthquakes on women who dress immodestly?
Answer: Boobquake
Question: Who is the next in this series: Jersey Joe Walcott, Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson, Ingemar Johansson, Floyd Patterson, ...?
Answer: Sonny Liston
Question: What is the unconventional use of TLDs in domain names (such as using .tv, .fm and .am to denote television or radio stations) known as?
Answer: Domain hacks
Question: The American Landrace, Australian Yorkshire, British Landrace, Bulgarian White, Gascon, Hereford, Krskopolje, Mangalitsa, Moody Woody, Red Wattle, Tamworth and Wuzishan are all types of what?
Answer: Pigs
Question: Which of his children did Michael Jackson famously hang over a hotel balcony?
Answer: Blanket
Question: John McEnroe ended whose long term role as Wimbledon Champion?
Answer: Bjorn Borg
Question: In 2008 at Beijing, Laura Kay Berg became one of 4 women to have won 4 Olympic medals in what sport, having won 3 golds and 1 silver?
Answer: Softball
Question: Which long running British police procedural television series that originated as a one-off drama, entitled "Woodentop" in August 1983 was first broadcast in 1984?
Answer: The Bill
Question: What word describes the surface of the palms on the human body?
Answer: Volar
Question: If you were watching a game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers, what sport would they be playing?
Answer: Ice hockey
Question: What thin, circular structure in the eye controls the diameter and size of the pupils and the amount of light reaching the pupil?
Answer: Iris
Question: The word "the" is what part of speech?
Answer: Definite article
Question: This is an extract from the lyrics of which song written by Lily Allen and Gregory Kurstin: It's sad but it's true how society says her life is already over, There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say, 'Til the man of her dreams comes along, Picks her up and puts her over his shoulder, It seems so unlikely in this day and age?
Answer: 22
Question: The Red Ensign, a flag that originated in the early 17th century as a British ensign flown by the Royal Navy, is currently specifically used by which group?
Answer: British merchant navy
Question: What is a sultan's wife called?
Answer: Sultana
Question: The US state of Alabama is known as what?
Answer: The Yellowhammer State
Question: In which country is the city of Aberdeen?
Answer: Scotland
Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by a goat?
Answer: Capricorn
Question: Which film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni showed the nature and emotions of the characters when Claudia (played by Monica Vitti) searched with her lover Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti) for her sister Anna (Lea Massar)?
Answer: L'avventura (The Adventure)
Question: What relation were Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole to each other?
Answer: Father and daughter
Question: In the USA and Canada, what does "MLS" signify?
Answer: A professional soccer league
Question: Who is the next in this series: Annette Kaye, Frada Miller, Alene Akins, Mickey Sutphin, Alene Akins, Sharon Lepore, Julie Alexander, ... ?
Answer: Shawn Southwick
Question: What country surrounds the self declared "Principality of Hutt River" (founded in April 1970 by His Royal Highness Prince Leonard who rules with his family including his wife Princess Shirley and their son, Crown Prince Ian), which issues its own car registrations and currency and pays no taxes?
Answer: Australia
Question: What was the first US city to host an Olympic Games?
Answer: St Louis
Question: The "promession" technique, announced in May 2010, was proposed to be used for what?
Answer: Burial
Question: The first 3 winners of which road bicycle race were Emile Rogiers (BEL) in 1948, Gerrit Schulte (NED) in 1949 and Henk Lakeman (NED) in 1950?
Answer: Ronde van Nederland
Question: Who provided the voice of "Charlotte" in the 2007 film "Charlotte's Web"?
Answer: Julia Roberts
Question: A song from the musical "Evita" is "Don't cry for me ... " where?
Answer: Argentina
Question: What is the name for the longest side of a right angled triangle?
Answer: Hypotenuse
Question: Who founded the London Symphony Orchestra Summer Pops in 1985 and served as Pops Musical Director of the San Francisco Symphony and Rochester (NY) Philharmonic in the USA?
Answer: John Dankworth
Question: To what does the term "radiology" refer?
Answer: X Rays
Question: What was the last battle where a British monarch led troops into battle?
Answer: Dettingen, 1743
Question: Who originated the "Mr Men" series of books?
Answer: Roger Hargreaves
Question: Where was the 1997 film "The Full Monty" based?
Answer: Sheffield
Question: What city is divided into 20 administrative areas which include Louvre, Temple, Htel-de-Ville, Panthon, Luxembourg, Elyse, Opra, Popincourt, Gobelins, Observatoire and Mnilmontant?
Answer: Paris
Question: What is the tallest known volcano and mountain in the Solar System?
Answer: Olympus Mons, on Mars
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Quantum of ... "
Answer: Solace
Question: A substance that attracts water molecules from the environment through either absorption or adsorption is called what?
Answer: Hygroscopic
Question: Which rock musical includes the songs "Skid Row (Downtown)", "Somewhere That's Green", and "Suddenly, Seymour"?
Answer: Little Shop of Horrors
Question: What is the most abundant element in the earth's crust?
Answer: Silicon
Question: What marks a 40th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Ruby
Question: Who was the first person to be recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations as running the 1500 metres in under 3 minutes 30 seconds?
Answer: Steve Cram
Question: The "New Model Army" was formed to fight in which war?
Answer: English Civil War
Question: Where are the islands called Amherst, Bayfield, Greene, Simcoe, High Bluff, Nicholson, Waupoos and Wolfe?
Answer: Lake Ontario
Question: The Rocky Mountains stretch over 3,000 miles from New Mexico to where?
Answer: British Columbia
Question: What is the stage name of Victoria Hesketh, an English electropop musician who sings and plays the keyboard, piano, stylophone and the Tenori-on?
Answer: Little Boots
Question: Women's judo and what other sport debuted in the Olympic Games programme in 1992?
Answer: Badminton
Question: Herpetophobia is a fear of what?
Answer: Snakes
Question: Who plays Preston Burke in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: Isaiah Washington
Question: Which school is the setting for the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle"?
Answer: North Manual High School
Question: How many US states lie north of the Tropic of Cancer?
Answer: 49
Question: Susan Brown was the first woman to take part in what event, in 1981?
Answer: The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
Question: In the words of the old song, "My old man said 'Follow the van, and don't ... what ... On the way' "?
Answer: Dilly dally
Question: What is a word for a computer user's representation of themselves, usually in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games?
Answer: Avatar
Question: Marti Pellow was the lead singer of which band?
Answer: Wet Wet Wet
Question: What temperature is the equivalent of 0 degrees Kelvin?
Answer: -273.15 degrees Celsius
Question: What annual three day event held near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, was first organised by the 6th Marquess of Exeter in 1961?
Answer: Burghley Horse Trials
Question: On which island is the port of Heraklion?
Answer: Crete
Question: Which city's bid to hold the 2012 Olympics came second to London's?
Answer: Paris
Question: David Seaman and David Beckham are connected with which sport?
Answer: Soccer
Question: How many members are there in the US upper house, the Senate?
Answer: 100
Question: What is a small ceramic dish used for baking an individual portion?
Answer: Ramekin
Question: An arctophile is a lover of what?
Answer: Teddy bears
Question: What is a type of jukebox featuring 16 mm film, for which films were made between 1958 [notably for songs by the Kessler Sisters ("Quando Quando"), The Tornados ("Telstar"), Neil Sedaka ("Calendar Girl"), Procol Harum ("A Whiter Shade of Pale"), Dionne Warwick ("Walk On By") and Nancy Sinatra ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'")] until 1978?
Answer: Scopitone
Question: Which 1945 Italian film about the Italian Resistance Movement, made on location during the war to a script by Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Amidei and Frederico Fellini, was virtually unnoticed in Italy but caused a stir when smuggled to New York and London?
Answer: Rome, Open City
Question: Who became world Middleweight boxing champion by beating Sugar Ray Robinson in London on 10 July 1951 and lost the title to Robinson in New York on 12 September 1951?
Answer: Randy Turpin
Question: What animal makes its home in a "drey"?
Answer: Squirrel
Question: For what was Thomas Bewick renowned in the 18th century?
Answer: Wood engraving
Question: Which old London market for cloth goods, founded by a charter from Henry I in 1133 and held annually at Smithfield and then Islington, was abolished in 1855 due to the disorderly rabble?
Answer: Bartholomew Fair
Question: An ombrophobe or ombrophobous plant cannot withstand much what?
Answer: Rain
Question: Who headed up the "Rolling Thunder Revue", a US concert tour consisting of a travelling caravan of musicians including Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Kinky Friedman & Bob Neuwirth, that took place in late 1975 / early 1976?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Question: What word would you expect to find "Lobster" described as on a French menu?
Answer: Langouste
Question: In September 2003, who was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open wicker basket beneath a hot air balloon?
Answer: David Hempleman-Adams
Question: Dodge Morgan, who became famous in 1986 at age 54 when he sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days (breaking the record of 292 days), had become a millionaire by operating a company that manufactured what from 1971 to 1983?
Answer: Radar detectors
Question: Which film, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, John Carradine and Claire Trevor, was indirectly based on Guy de Maupassant's story "Boule de Suif"?
Answer: Stagecoach
Question: Until the year 2000, how many US presidents had previously served as vice president?
Answer: 14
Question: What are the first names of Torville and Dean, who were the highest ever scoring figure skaters for a single programme at the 1984 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Jayne and Christopher
Question: """Dae Jang Geum"" (2003), an internationally telecast TV series from South Korean TV channel MBC (entitled ""Jewel in the Palace"" in English-speaking countries) and loosely based on the Annals of Joseon Dynasty of Korea, focuses on a character with what occupation?"
Answer: Physician
Question: In geometry, there is a name for convex polyhedrons that are regular, of which there are 5 types. Generically, what kind of solid are they called?
Answer: Platonic
Question: What is a synonym for "plethora"?
Answer: Abundance
Question: What is the capital of the US state of Alaska?
Answer: Juneau
Question: What book was published by Florence Nightingale in 1860?
Answer: Notes on Nursing
Question: Who "ran through the town, upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown"?
Answer: Wee Willie Winkie
Question: Gee Jon. a member of the Hip Sing Tong criminal society from San Francisco, California, sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly member from another gang in Nevada, was the first person in the US to do what?
Answer: Be executed by lethal gas
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "On Her Majesty's ... "
Answer: Secret Service
Question: Which European country has a flag that is not oblong?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: The House of Representatives of which country unanimously voted to become a secular and inclusive democratic republic on 28 May 2008, giving the King 15 days to vacate the palace, to re-open it as a public museum?
Answer: Nepal
Question: Ball, fork and sheet are all types of what?
Answer: Lightning
Question: What is the title given to the widow of the holder of a title which has been passed on to another?
Answer: Dowager
Question: Olympic gold medallists Vilhelm Carlberg, Gunde Svan, Agneta Andersson, Sixten Jernberg, Tomas Gustafson, Thomas Wassberg, Ingemar Stenmark, Gert Fredriksson, Henri Saint Cyr, Alfred Swahn, Eric Lemming and Oscar Swahn represented which country?
Answer: Sweden
Question: What river runs through Phoenix, Arizona, USA?
Answer: Salt River
Question: Who said "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl"?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin
Question: The song "I Whistle A Happy Tune" is from which musical?
Answer: The King and I
Question: What is the name of a famous concerto by Vivaldi?
Answer: The Four Seasons
Question: In the phoenetic alphabet, what is represented by the letter "J"?
Answer: Juliet
Question: Which compound on the surface of Mars makes it appear red?
Answer: Iron oxide
Question: What dish would you expect if you asked for "funghi" in an Italian restaurant?
Answer: Mushrooms
Question: US baseball player Pete Rose was accused in 1989 of (and he confessed in 2004 to) what, that has made him ineligible to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Answer: Betting on baseball
Question: Who plays Meredith Grey in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: Ellen Pompeo
Question: What award is the equivalent of the Oscars for the music industry?
Answer: Grammys
Question: What river runs through Memphis, Tennessee, USA?
Answer: Mississippi
Question: What TV sitcom was originally intended to be called "The Fighting Tigers"?
Answer: Dad's Army
Question: Who appeared in the films "Gigli", "Jersey Girl", "El Cantante" and "The Back-Up Plan"?
Answer: Jennifer Lopez
Question: What is the word for a piece of material that is used to mend a hole in an item of clothing?
Answer: Patch
Question: The Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, the Uffizi, the Pitti Palace, the Fontana del Nettuno and the Boboli Gardens are in what city?
Answer: Florence
Question: What is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the islands of Tuvalu?
Answer: .tv
Question: Who composed "The Radetzky March"?
Answer: Johann Strauss the Elder
Question: Over 40% of the population of the US state of Alaska live in which city?
Answer: Anchorage
Question: What is the nickname of the Australian national basketball team?
Answer: Boomers
Question: On a Monopoly board, what is the symbol for the electric company?
Answer: Light bulb
Question: Elk Island National Park, Wood Buffalo National Park, and the Columbia Icefield are in which Canadian province?
Answer: Alberta
Question: How many coronations had been held at Westminster Abbey before that of Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: 37
Question: Where is the Sea of Serenity?
Answer: On the Moon
Question: In which 2001 film is the death of Sir William McCordle, Bt (played by Sir Michael Gambon) investigated by Inspector Thomson (Stephen Fry) and Constable Dexter (Ron Webster)?
Answer: Gosford Park
Question: What is the first line of the hymn "Jerusalem"?
Answer: And did those feet in ancient time
Question: What was the nickname for the German L14 Howitzer, used in World War I?
Answer: Big Bertha
Question: Who created the character of Dame Edna Everage?
Answer: Barry Humphries
Question: What is the national anthem of the UK?
Answer: God Save the Queen
Question: A live episode of which TV soap opera was broadcast on BBC One on 19 February 2010, to celebrate 25 years since the broadcast of the first episode?
Answer: EastEnders
Question: Alberto Vargas specialised in painting what subjects?
Answer: Pin up girls
Question: In what decade was the Korean War?
Answer: 1950s
Question: What colour is Bob the Builder's hat?
Answer: Yellow
Question: A "bench press" is used in what activity?
Answer: Body building
Question: Who was the youngest person to be elected president of the USA?
Answer: John Kennedy
Question: For which site have there have been several proposals to create a channel to the Mediterranean Sea or the Nile so that water can flow into a series of hydro-electric penstocks, which would release the water 90m below sea level where it would evaporate?
Answer: The Qattara Depression
Question: Mickey Hargitay, the second husband of leading blonde sex symbol of the 1950s Jayne Mansfield, was famous for winning what in 1955?
Answer: Mr. Universe
Question: Mercury and Venus are known as the two what?
Answer: Inferior planets
Question: Who was the first British monarch to visit the United States of America?
Answer: King George VI
Question: Which country has the largest area and population in South America?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Bags, Burrino, Casareccio di Gorreto, Crema, Double Gloucester, Gioda, Lancashire, Pierino, Sakura and Tabor are all types of what?
Answer: Cheese
Question: What is the nickname of the Australian national netball team?
Answer: Diamonds
Question: Frank Dekum, a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon, contributed money to import what to Oregon?
Answer: German song birds
Question: A "pass" is the way that the ball is put into play in which game?
Answer: Hockey
Question: What is the popular name for Beethoven's piano sonata in C Sharp Minor?
Answer: Moonlight Sonata
Question: What musical instrument is used to indicate that someone has "cooked the books"?
Answer: Fiddle
Question: Which actress received an Oscar nomination for her role in the film "Trans America"?
Answer: Felicity Huffman
Question: Lladro porcelain comes from what country?
Answer: Spain
Question: Where was Eric "Butterbean" Esch's mixed martial arts bout with Mariusz Pudzianowski on 18 September 2010, where an incomplete rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner", with wrong and incomplete words, made news around the world?
Answer: Lodz, Poland
Question: Which US city has the same name as the state that it is in?
Answer: New York
Question: What is the word for the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the point where an earthquake or underground explosion originates?
Answer: Epicentre
Question: In the UK, General Elections are usually held on what day of the week?
Answer: Thursdays
Question: In which country is the city of Wells?
Answer: England
Question: Ophanin, piscivorin, ablomin, latisemin and triflin, cysteine-rich secretory proteins that can reduce muscle contractions, are naturally found where?
Answer: Snake venom
Question: What holds the records as the world's longest-running science fiction television show?
Answer: Dr Who
Question: A "monitor" is a type of what?
Answer: Lizard
Question: What is the name for money obtained from illegal activities?
Answer: Ill gotten gains
Question: Hawaii is in which ocean?
Answer: Pacific
Question: Which Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Mdaille de la Rsistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation as part of the French resistance in World War II?
Answer: Samuel Beckett
Question: Who introduced the term "horsepower" in a scientific context?
Answer: James Watt
Question: What do cygnets grow up to be?
Answer: Swans
Question: What territory was sold by Russia under Tsar Alexander II in 1867, for about 1.9 per acre ($4.74/km2), a total of US$7.2 million?
Answer: Alaska
Question: Which city hosted the 1972 Olympics?
Answer: Munich
Question: Where is the only population of wild apes in Europe?
Answer: Gibraltar