zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What famous Australian product did Cyril Callister devise in Melbourne, in 1922, partly in response to war-related shortages of the British version?
Answer: Vegemite
Question: The medieval profession called a 'bard' equates nowadays to a what?
Answer: Poet
Question: What iconic Louisiana Creole dish, named from a French Provencal word, is based on Spanish paella, typically of meat and vegetables, stock and rice?
Answer: Jambalaya
Question: Doggerel is a crude form of what, originating in many cultures in the late middle-ages?
Answer: Poetry
Question: Whose name was licensed in 2014 for cannabis products, anticipating a market of $10bn?
Answer: Marley
Question: Which regional territory experienced the Umbrella Revolution in autumn 2014, being a protracted protest against electoral constraints?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: Sony and Emirates Airlines withdrew their sponsorship in 2014 from which global organization after ongoing corruption scandals?
Answer: FIFA
Question: The Golden Spurtle is an annual world championship, held at Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, for?
Answer: Porridge making
Question: What commodity value is benchmarked in the USA and elsewhere according to (among more technical terms) 'Texas Light Sweet'?
Answer: Oil
Question: The coffin of which famous assassin, buried in 1963 and exhumed in 1981, was sold at auction for $87,500 in 2010?
Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald
Question: Whose December 2014 official photographs, wearing a guardsman-design knitted pullover, prompted huge sales interest in the product?
Answer: Prince George
Question: The largest ever white (What?) weighing 4.16lbs was sold at NYC Sotheby's for $61,250 in 2014?
Answer: Truffle
Question: What is an interface, a side, a logistics facility, and a geographically protected drink name?
Answer: Port
Question: What's the traditional name for a cockerel or rooster that's been castrated, to improve the quality of its meat?
Answer: Capon
Question: The German Imannuel Kant, Englishman Bertrand Russell, and American John Dewey, were notable?
Answer: Philosophers
Question: What word, from a US dietary reformist, refers to unsifted wholewheat flour?
Answer: Graham
Question: The long-standing flag of New Zealand (to 2015) has how many stars, based on Crux, the Southern Cross constellation?
Answer: Four
Question: Which 1900s time-travel movie franchise correctly predicted automatic self-tightening shoes for 2015?
Answer: Back to the Future
Question: The sepals or calyx of a plant initially surround and generally give way to the?
Answer: Petals
Question: K'ung Futse (Venerated Master Kong) is better known as which major philosopher and religious founder?
Answer: Confucius
Question: What internet mechanism is named from a popular US confection, thought originated by Chinese Californians?
Answer: Cookie
Question: Who became the fastest-selling Playmobil toy figure, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017?
Answer: Martin Luther
Question: In 1895 German company Bayer created what genericized trademark for a diacetylmorphine cough suppressant, alluding to the Greek god/goddess of bravery and self-sacrifice?
Answer: Heroin
Question: (As at early 2000s) which non-Olympic women's athletic event has a world record points total of just over 5,000 points?
Answer: Pentathlon
Question: What medieval war cry, popularised by Shakespeare with the phrase 'dogs of war', means destruction?
Answer: Havoc
Question: What metal, whose symbol is its first and third letters, is loosely called spelter?
Answer: Zinc
Question: Taisho (1st World War), and Heisei (late 1900s/early 2000 - 'the lost decade') are periods of which nation's history?
Answer: Japan
Question: Founded c1940 by art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, and still expanding, Pevsner Guides are major reference for British?
Answer: Architecture
Question: South Korea's national dish 'kimchi' (kimchee/gimchi), with variants in nearby countries, is seasoned aged pickled/fermented?
Answer: Cabbage
Question: What word commonly follows Plastic, Food, Saran, Glad and Cling in its geographical variations?
Answer: Wrap
Question: Mathematicians Leonhard Euler and Augustus Mobius pioneered 'geometria situs' ('geometry of place'), later called?
Answer: Topology
Question: What US popular culture magazine title, founded 1967 by Jann Wenner, was inspired by three so-named 1950s/60s musical sources?
Answer: Rolling Stone
Question: What is note is produced at the 10th fret for both the highest and lowest pitch strings on a conventionally-tuned standard guitar?
Answer: D
Question: Plaid Cymru (roughly pronounced 'plied cumrie') is the nationalist poltitical party of which nation?
Answer: Wales
Question: What first name name features prominently among Russian rulers from 1332-1547, ending with '(Who?) the Terrible'?
Answer: Ivan
Question: The 1974 book Helter Skelter, co-written by lawyer Vincent Bugliosi, recounts whose famous crime?
Answer: Charles Manson
Question: Which nation, international calling code +90, has a currency divided into 100 kuruş?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Which media organization successfully tested its 'mind/thought control' EEG TV/Radio remote control headset in 2015?
Answer: BBC
Question: Diegesis refers to what in a film, play, story, etc? Cast of characters; Plot; Suspense; or Laughter coefficient?
Answer: Plot
Question: Which city, mythically founded by a twin saved by a she-wolf, was built on the seven hills, east of the River Tiber called Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Viminal?
Answer: Rome
Question: What French port became an increasingly tense bottleneck/encampment for refugees seeking to reach the UK in the 2010s?
Answer: Calais
Question: What famous ship is also a reward, especially for capturing someone/something dangerous?
Answer: Bounty
Question: The seahorse (Hippocampus) is technically a Fish; Mollusc; Reptile; or Plant?
Answer: Fish
Question: The Bodleian, George Peabody, Congress, and Vatican are famous?
Answer: Libraries
Question: What human joint, in Latin 'cubitum', has a pit and bony protrusion called olecranon?
Answer: Elbow
Question: The old English tithe, was a tax taken for the church/clergy equating to a?
Answer: Tenth
Question: Olibanum is the medieval Latin alternative English word for which Biblical aromatic resin?
Answer: Frankincense
Question: Utilitarian and utilitarianism refer primarily to the major quality/effect of something being?
Answer: Useful
Question: The Anglicized French word séance, referring to contacting the spirit world, derives from the notion of?
Answer: Sitting
Question: The technical term 'lean-burn' originally refers to less polluting versions of what energy technology?
Answer: Internal combustion engine
Question: Explorers and mountaineers have for many decades eaten high-energy 'Kendal (What?) Cake'?
Answer: Mint
Question: What colour/color is produced by mixing equal amounts of red and green paint?
Answer: Brown
Question: The iconic protected scientifically studied Zimbabwean lion killed by a US recreational hunter in 2015 was?
Answer: Cecil
Question: What term was popularised by the eponymous 1979 film about a nuclear reactor meltdown hypothetically 'burning' from the US through Earth to other side?
Answer: The China Syndrome
Question: What Anglicized German Italian term for 'circulation of money' became a brand for electronic financial transfer, and UK slang for a state benefits payment?
Answer: Giro
Question: The Anglo-French court term meaning 'this action lies' gave rise to what word which means the essense of a communication/concept?
Answer: Gist
Question: The Australian wombat marsupial has what unusually adapted feature for burrow-digging?
Answer: Backwards-facing pouch
Question: The 'Dames Pipi' are traditional Parisien?
Answer: Public toilet attendants
Question: Smits and Lugs are Viking-originating (still used) painted marks and ear notches for identifying UK?
Answer: Sheep
Question: The Speyside or (locally called Strathspey) area of NE Scotland is famous for its '(What?) Trial' and longstanding traditional production of?
Answer: Whisky
Question: Samphire, variously found by sea and marsh, is a popular culinary fleshy aromatic?
Answer: Leaved plant
Question: Sphenisciformes, whose wings evolved into flippers, are an order of creatures called?
Answer: Penguins
Question: The significant ancient Egyptian diety Horus (a man with a falcon's head) features the related '(What?) of Horus' symbol of protection/good health?
Answer: Eye
Question: The 'Inter-tropical Convergence Zone', where the trade winds meet near the equator to produce a band of relatively very still air, which can strand sailing ships, is known more prosaically as what?
Answer: The Doldrums
Question: Misheard/called 'Pizza Marines' when founded in 1965 and renamed in 1968, what restaurant chain claims most outlets globally (since 2011)?
Answer: Subway
Question: Name the town in the city district of Milan which gave its name to a famously strong blue-veined cow's-milk cheese?
Answer: Gorgonzola
Question: The terms boobook, morepork and mopoke all refer onomatopoeically to a small Australasian?
Answer: Owl
Question: In 2015 a joint Turkish/Greek Cyrpiot campaign sought PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) for what national cheese?
Answer: Halloumi
Question: The old Anglicized-French occupational word 'colporteur' was a distributor of?
Answer: Bibles
Question: What word features in stonemasonry, cabinet-making and carpentry; and strategies to combat stress?
Answer: Coping
Question: The Almeria region, driest in Europe, used for filming many famous Cowboy/Western films, is in?
Answer: Spain
Question: Finance minister Yanis Yaroufakis caused comment for not wearing a tie in February 2015 when negotiating the debts for which nation?
Answer: Greece
Question: Who was rumoured to to have had his first wife Amy Robsart poisoned, in the hope of marrying Queen Elizabeth the First?
Answer: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Question: The UK state-subsidised 'e-Voke' is a hi-tech reduced risk alternative for?
Answer: Cigarettes
Question: The US 1899-founded Gideons International organization is famous for distributing to 200 countries free?
Answer: Bibles
Question: What term, originally and still associated with bread, refers to products made in sets and computer files containing several instructions?
Answer: Batch
Question: The area of a right-angled isosceles triangle whose two short sides are 4cms each is how many square cms?
Answer: 8
Question: The hook symbol joined under a letter (e.g., to the letter C, to soften the sound) is a?
Answer: Cedilla
Question: How many people (at early 2000s) have walked on the moon?
Answer: 12
Question: The famous self-styled anarchist web-hacking group founded in 2003 is called?
Answer: Anonymous
Question: What famous landmark was moulded in gold during a bullion robbery in the 1951 film The Lavender Hill Mob?
Answer: The Eiffel Tower
Question: The standard spoken English accent of the UK, abbreviated to 'RP', traditionally used by BBC newsreaders, the Royal Family and 'upper class' is fully called '(What?) Pronunciation'?
Answer: Received
Question: What is a pullover, a New US state, a UK channel island and knitted fabric first produced there?
Answer: Jersey
Question: The internationally significant UK organizations PRS and PPL which merged in 2016 operate in which sector?
Answer: Music
Question: Paramount and CBS Studios went to court in 2016 to enforce rights over what fictional language when the fan-funded Axanar company sought to produce a prequel to a popular 1966-founded franchise set originally in the 23rd century?
Answer: Klingon
Question: In 1852 American Elisha Graves Otis produced the first successful (eponymously branded) safety?
Answer: Elevator
Question: What human organ makes four new words when prefixing Head, Diver, Flint and Tight?
Answer: Skin
Question: The City of London financial district is known traditionally as The Square?
Answer: Mile
Question: Author of the 1971 book 'Body Language', which helped popularize the subject, was Julius?
Answer: Fast
Question: Due to water-saving laws, a siphon features uniquely in what UK equipment, (ie generally not in other nations)?
Answer: Flushing toilets
Question: What scientist did the Vatican officially pardon in 1992, having declared him a heretic, and forced him to recant under threat of torture, for asserting in 1632 that the Earth orbits the Sun?
Answer: Galileo
Question: Leicester City FC's 1950s-70s players Gordon Banks and Peter Shilton are considered among the world's best ever?
Answer: Goalkeepers
Question: Name the ancient Greek slave/storyteller to whom many fables are attributed in an eponymous collection?
Answer: Aesop
Question: The popular 2002 film about an Indian Sikh girl in London defying her family to achieve great success at soccer is called 'Bend It Like ...' ?
Answer: Beckham
Question: The infinitely powerful 'anyone can do it' form of leadership, requiring absolutely no authority or formal position whatsoever, abbreviated to the acronym ARK, is A Random act of?
Answer: Kindness
Question: Fotheringhay Castle, birthplace of Richard III in 1452, and site of Mary Queen of Scots trial and execution in 1587, is in which English county?
Answer: Northamptonshire
Question: Which English playwright and poet was stabbed in uncertain circumstances in 1593 age 29 (he penned the line 'Come live with me and be my love')?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
Question: Jazz musician Miles Davis, 1926-91, whose 1959 album Kind of Blue is generally regarded as the biggest selling jazz album of all time, played what instrument?
Answer: Trumpet
Question: The Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway notably) tend to celebrate Christmas chiefly on which date?
Answer: 24th December
Question: Christmas Crackers is cockney rhyming slang for which part of the male anatomy?
Answer: Testicles
Question: The financial ratio which divides a company's 'liquid assets' by 'current liabilities' is known by what popular term?
Answer: Acid Test
Question: Who resigned as World Bank President after failing to disprove allegations of his nepotism?
Answer: Paul Wolfowitz
Question: Which singing-songwriting founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers died age 26, after which his body was 'stolen' by a friend and burnt in the Joshua Tree National Park?
Answer: Gram Parsons
Question: Who was the prolific writer of theme music for 1960s TV shows including Steptoe and Son, Dr Who, The Prisoner, Dangerman and Tales of the Unexpected?
Answer: Ron Grainer
Question: In which country was Imry Nagy twice Prime Minister, executed for treason in 1958 and reburied as a hero in 1989?
Answer: Hungary
Question: The period between 1450 and 1600 in European development is known by what term, initially used by Italian scholars to express the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture?
Answer: The Renaissance
Question: Who wrote the 1513 guide to leadership (titled in English) The Prince?
Answer: Niccolo Machiavelli
Question: The ancient Greek concept of the 'three unities' advocated that a literary work should use a single plotline, single location, and what other single aspect?
Answer: Time
Question: Legal action by J K Rowling and Warner Brothers commenced in 2007 against which company for its plans to publish a Harry Potter Lexicon?
Answer: RDR Books
Question: Japanese author and playwrite Yukio Mishima committed what extreme act in 1970 while campaigning for Japan to restore its nationalistic principles?
Answer: Suicide
Question: Which British rock band leased a six-acre section of Shepperton Studios in 1977 under the name of Ramport Enterprises?
Answer: The Who
Question: On Rudy Giuliani's withdrawal from the contest for the Republican 2008 US presidential election nomination who received Giuliani's endorsement?
Answer: John McCain
Question: Which secretive artist's supposed real identity was 'outed' in 2008 as Robert Gunningham by the Mail on Sunday?
Answer: Banksy
Question: Which company did French president Sarkozy and his then girlfriend Carla Bruni sue in 2008 for unauthorised use of their images in an advert?
Answer: Ryanair
Question: G Kennedy Thompson was fired in June 2008 from which US bank and early victim of the credit crunch?
Answer: Wachovia
Question: Which reggae singing star died 11th May 1981?
Answer: BOB MARLEY
Question: In which city was Martin Luther King assassinated in 1968?
Answer: MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
Question: A palmiped's feet are more commonly called what?
Answer: WEBBED
Question: What is the female equivalent of polygyny?
Answer: Polyandry
Question: Which nation was formerly called British Honduras?
Answer: Belize
Question: Where in the human body is the radius?
Answer: Forearm
Question: Which British prime minister resigned in 1957 after his failure to handle the Suez Crisis?
Answer: Anthony Eden
Question: Whose Selected Papers on Hysteria, translated in 1909 by Abraham Brill, introduced the word libido into English?
Answer: Sigmund Freud
Question: Presenter Bill Grundy flirted with which future punk singer during the Sex Pistols' swearing on the live TV Today show in 1976?
Answer: Siouxsie Sioux
Question: In what year was the Sex Discrimination Act passed in the UK?
Answer: 1975
Question: In the first episode of the TV series Dallas which character took his new wife home to meet his family?
Answer: Bobby Ewing
Question: Jackie Wilson's re-issued song Reet Petite became the 1986 UK Christmas number one after helping to advertise what brand?
Answer: Levi's
Question: Which multi-million-selling car whose front wheels turn 360 degrees celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009?
Answer: Cozy Coupe
Question: The 'Mach' speed measurement (for example Mach 1, or Mach 2, etc) is based essentially on multiples of the speed of what?
Answer: Sound
Question: What UK government minister claimed, received and subsequently paid back parliamentary expenses of £500 for painting a summer house?
Answer: Gordon Brown
Question: What product launched in India called Sakshat ('before your eyes') with the incredible selling price of 500 rupees (about £7)?
Answer: Laptop computer
Question: Rachel Riley succeeded which long-standing UK TV gameshow celebrity in January 2009?
Answer: Carol Vorderman
Question: Which ex-leader secured a book deal with Random House in March 2009 provisionally titled Decision Points?
Answer: George W Bush
Question: The reform charity Transform reported in 2009 that the legalisation of what would save UK taxpayers between £4.6 and £13.9bn per year?
Answer: Drugs
Question: French wine makers objected to EU plans to allow the blending of which sort of wine?
Answer: Rosé
Question: The crowd crush at Birmingham's Millennium Point occurred during a performance by which pop group?
Answer: JLS
Question: Which past heavyweight world champion boxer visited his great grandfather's birthplace, Ennis, Ireland?
Answer: Muhammad Ali
Question: Which South Pacific island nation became the first in the 21st century to change its driving on the road from right to left?
Answer: Samoa
Question: What Israeli war film, named after the country of conflict featured in it, won the Golden Lion at the 2009 Venice Film Festival?
Answer: Lebanon
Question: What is Niccolo Machiavelli's famously fascinating book on the art of political leadership, published in 1532?
Answer: The Prince
Question: The Greek word for moral character is the root of which English term referring to morals in business and professional activities?
Answer: Ethics
Question: What figurative construction expression refers to an unfair barrier to career advancement, especially for females and minorities?
Answer: Glass ceiling
Question: An isohyet or isohyetal line on a map connects two points having the same what?
Answer: Rainfall
Question: What is the portmanteau word (a two-word combination) for a symbol of feeling, used in electronic messages?
Answer: Emoticon
Question: Born James Newell Osterberg, who performed Lust for Life, used notably in the Trainspotting soundtrack?
Answer: Iggy Pop
Question: What ironic term describes the practice of business executives visiting the factory floor or other front-line work, abbreviated to MBWA?
Answer: Management By Walking Around
Question: Blenny, damsel, hamlet, goby and grunt are varieties of what living things?
Answer: Fish
Question: What is the Hindi greeting and salutation also used by many Westerners engaging in Indian cultural activities and philosophies?
Answer: Namaste
Question: Nicholas Rowe's 1703 play The Fair Penitent originated what character, whose name has since referred to a seducer of women?
Answer: Lothario
Question: What York-based Quaker family created several substantial social reform trusts as a legacy of its chocolate business?
Answer: Rowntree
Question: Which politician, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1833, campaigned for more than 50 years against British slavery?
Answer: William Wilberforce
Question: What word, meaning 'crown' in Latin, refers to a visible electrical discharge and a planetary halo?
Answer: Corona
Question: What is normally green, but can be yellow too, after a French herbal liqueur, introduced by Carthusian Monks in the 1700s?
Answer: Chartreuse
Question: What measure of thermal resistance used in the textile industry is said to derive from the name of a Roman garment?
Answer: Tog
Question: English novelist William Godwin fathered which novelist daughter?
Answer: Mary Shelley
Question: Kenneth Moore portrayed which famous 2nd World War fighter pilot in the 1956 film Reach for the Sky?
Answer: Douglas Bader
Question: In bullfighting, what is the specific name of the horseman who jabs the bull with a lance, mainly to weaken it?
Answer: Picador
Question: Which war artist, and later a famous sculptor, produced a notable series of drawings depicting people sheltering in London Underground railway stations during the Blitz bombings of 1940-41?
Answer: Henry Moore
Question: Which British scientist is best known for his study of gravitation, his work on the spectrum, his statement on the laws of motion, the construction of telescopes, and his work on geometry and differential calculus?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Question: Which ragtime pianist, between 1894 and 1915, composed tunes such as "The Entertainer" that became popular in 1973 after being included in the film "The Sting"?
Answer: Scott Joplin
Question: What is a large semi-aquatic rodent native to Canada, much of the United States, and parts of northern Mexico that constructs homes out of sticks, twigs, and mud in lakes or streams?
Answer: Beaver
Question: Superman spent his adult life in which city?
Answer: Metropolis
Question: Which tuber of the nightshade family was cultivated by the Incas, was taken to Spain from Peru in the 16th century and to Ireland from Virginia in the 16th century?
Answer: Potato
Question: Which country was proclaimed a republic in 1867, following the withdrawal of the French administration and the execution of Emperor Ferdinand Maximilian?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Which animal has very low metabolic rates and a quarter of the muscle tissue of animals of similar size, and whose hair grows in a direction opposite to that of its extremities?
Answer: Sloth
Question: What word refers to a measure used in Scotland for liquids, chiefly beer, equalling 9 gallons?
Answer: Firkin
Question: In the final episode of the TV series "M*A*S*H", which of the main characters did not return to the U S A?
Answer: Corporal Klinger
Question: What was the name of the scheme approved by U S Congress in 1948 for the long term financing of the reconstruction of Europe following World War II?
Answer: Marshall Plan
Question: In which war were the sieges of Mafeking, Kimberley and Ladysmith lifted following the arrival of reinforcement British troops under the command of Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts?
Answer: Boer War
Question: Cambodia is better known in Asia as, and its official name was changed in 1975 temporarily to, what?
Answer: Kampuchea
Question: Western nations allied with the United States to intervene between warring countries and defend the border at the 38th Parallel in which country?
Answer: Korea
Question: Who was the Venetian who made a number of journeys to China and India in the 13th century and was later taken prisoner by the Genoese?
Answer: Marco Polo