zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The successful and regionally dominant people called Goths in medieval times were?
Answer: East-Germanic
Question: The strongest known biological material was identified by scientists (2015) in the teeth of a?
Answer: Limpet
Question: What hyphenated surname was adopted for members of British Queen Elizabeth II's family?
Answer: Mountbatten-Windsor
Question: Which dog breed was popularized in the Oscar winning 2012 silent film The Artist?
Answer: Jack Russell
Question: Amazon's next-day delivery service censured for breaching UK advertising standards is?
Answer: Prime
Question: Sabatier, Victorinox and Füritechnics are leading makers of Kitchen?
Answer: Knives
Question: What medieaval English word for 'expensive food' (due to a famine), came to mean 'a scarcity' (of anything)?
Answer: Dearth
Question: The word marmalade is from Portuguese 'marmelo', meaning?
Answer: Quince
Question: Commonly used in batteries, what is the lightest metal and least dense solid element?
Answer: Lithium
Question: Name the fantasy flat world on which the 2015 posthumously published novel The Shepherd's Crown is set?
Answer: Discworld
Question: In 1964, the first commoner featured on a British postage stamp was?
Answer: William Shakepeare
Question: Name the artist-owned music streaming service launched in 2015 by rapper Jay-Z?
Answer: Tidal
Question: MIPS means what in computing speed?
Answer: Million Instructions Per Second
Question: European Union production quotas, established in 1984, were abolished in 2015 for?
Answer: Milk
Question: What's Peppa Pig's teddy bear called?
Answer: Teddy
Question: The Leffe beer company was founded and is headquartered in?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Sterlet, Ossetra, Sevruga and Beluga are main types of what?
Answer: Caviar
Question: What vast Japanese corporation, with a red initial logo, was founded in Hamamatsu in 1909?
Answer: Suzuki
Question: Hardpad disease, affecting dogs and other species, is more commonly known by what other name?
Answer: Distemper
Question: The Harlem Globetrotters, founded 1920s, perform in which field?
Answer: Basketball
Question: The Up! and Eos and CC are models of which car brand?
Answer: Volkswagen
Question: The subtitle of the 2015 Mad Max film is?
Answer: Fury Road
Question: Cannes Film Festival 2015 (Gala Screenings) banned women wearing?
Answer: Flat shoes
Question: What is a seed-eating songbird family and festive decoration?
Answer: Bunting
Question: Terroir refers to the complete environment in which what is produced?
Answer: Wine
Question: Name the iconic Bond girl character introduced by Ian Fleming in 1959?
Answer: Pussy Galore
Question: Mae West said of sex and bridge "If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good (What?)
Answer: Hand
Question: Wagner, Verdi, Bellini and Rossini are famous composers of particularly what type of music?
Answer: Opera
Question: American jazz musician Chet Baker was a virtuoso player of the?
Answer: Trumpet
Question: Who painted 'Women of Algiers', sold at auction for a record $160m in 2015?
Answer: Picasso
Question: On which Mediterranean island is the famous nightlife holiday resort of Magaluf?
Answer: Majorca
Question: What are metal rope-fixings on a boat and cyclist's shoes?
Answer: Cleats
Question: What activity would you find at Philippe Chatrier, Roland Garros?
Answer: Tennis
Question: The sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, 'stolen' before its release in 2015, is titled?
Answer: Grey
Question: Queen's Club Championship tennis tournament is held annually on grass courts in?
Answer: London
Question: The rhea is a large South American species of?
Answer: Flightless bird
Question: The Defender is a longstanding model of which automotive company? Landrover; Lotus; Toyota; or Bentley?
Answer: Landrover
Question: What was the location of London's famous 17th century 'Frost Fairs'?
Answer: The River Thames
Question: Mnemosyne (pronounced 'nemmoseeny') is the Greek goddess Mother of the Muses and also goddess of?
Answer: Memory
Question: What informal term for a common type of pet derives from the name Margaret?
Answer: Moggie
Question: In what 1986 Neil Jordan film is Bob Hoskins a driver for Cathy Tyson's prostitute?
Answer: Mona Lisa
Question: Built 1406-1420 as a political HQ/palace, The Forbidden City is in?
Answer: Beijing
Question: Abbey Road in North London is the famous metonymic location of what entity?
Answer: Recording studios
Question: In 2015, 21st Century Fox company launched what Simpson's show fictional beer brand in S America?
Answer: Duff
Question: In physics, the motions of particles within matter is understood by (What?) theory?
Answer: Kinetic
Question: Utrecht is a province and provincial capital city in central?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: What chemical element, symbol Cr, is named due its colourful/colorful compound effect?
Answer: Chromium
Question: Botanically a banana is a?
Answer: Berry
Question: The American Mastodon is an ancient long-extinct relative of the?
Answer: Elephant
Question: Xinhau is China's official state?
Answer: News agency
Question: Tahini paste, for example used in houmous, is made from which seeds?
Answer: Sesame
Question: The arctic mountain 'ptarmigan' which changes to white in winter, is a?
Answer: Bird
Question: """Spokoynoy nochi, malyshi!"" (""Good Night, Little Ones"") is a long-running (since 1964) famous children's TV program in?"
Answer: Russia
Question: Kenkojuku, Shotokan, Chito-ryu, and Wado-ryu are styles/types of Japanese?
Answer: Karate
Question: SUV and SAV cars are characterized by what additional capability?
Answer: Off-road
Question: Araneus diadematus is the widely-found European garden?
Answer: Spider
Question: Matzo(h) or matza(h) is an unleavened bread traditionally eaten by which people?
Answer: Jews
Question: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska standard and Hawaii-Aleutian standard are the six official USA?
Answer: Time zones
Question: The radioactive chemical element made for the first time in the 1940s, named after the place of its discovery is?
Answer: Americium
Question: What is the line on a weather chart which joins points of equal pressure?
Answer: Isobar
Question: What shipping forecast area lies immediately South of Forties off the British Isles?
Answer: Dogger
Question: What cloud term means 'sheet' or 'sheetlike' or 'layer'?
Answer: Stratus
Question: In 2014, age 17, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest winner of?
Answer: A Nobel Prize
Question: Narendra Modi is a 21stC Prime Minister of?
Answer: India
Question: Caroline/Gothic, Humanist, Round, and Bastarda, are styles, called 'hands', in medieval?
Answer: Calligraphy
Question: The never-used internet top-level domain '.dd' was for which nation?
Answer: East Germany
Question: ZrO2 is the formula for what diamond substitute?
Answer: Zirconia
Question: What currency is abbreviated to SAR, and contains 100 Halalas and 20 Qirsh?
Answer: Saudi Riyal
Question: Chlorophyll/chlorophyl, critical for photosynthesis enabling plants to absorb energy from light, is a pigment of?
Answer: Green
Question: Braeburn, Jazz, Gala, and Fuji are varieties of what?
Answer: Apple
Question: London's black taxi-cab training is called 'The (What?)'?
Answer: Knowledge
Question: Since Ancient Rome, lime mortar (masonry cement) includes for reinforcement/moisture flexibility?
Answer: Horse hair
Question: A cezve is typically used for heating/processing?
Answer: Turkish coffee
Question: 101325 Pa (Pascal) or 1.01325 bar is the regulation standard/unit for?
Answer: Atmospheric pressure
Question: The 'twi' in the word twilight meant originally?
Answer: Two
Question: The Cuban/Puerto Rican music/dance 'Salsa' means what in Spanish?
Answer: Sauce
Question: In China in 2015 the record for the longest mating session between two giant pandas was broken at?
Answer: 18 minutes
Question: Ford claimed to launch the first 'e-(What?)' at the 2015 Mobile World Congress Show?
Answer: Bike
Question: A 2015 intensive listening study discovered that giraffes actually?
Answer: Hum
Question: Jay Z and Beyonce launched a music streaming service in 2015 called?
Answer: Tidal
Question: At auction in 2015, $1.2m was paid for Don McLean's original handrwitten lyrics for which 1971 big hit song?
Answer: American Pie
Question: Who stepped down as chief of 21st Century Fox in 2015?
Answer: Rupert Murdoch
Question: What company launched the S6 Edge smartphone?
Answer: Samsung
Question: Lars Lokke led his centre-right party to 2015 government election victory in?
Answer: Denmark
Question: In 2015 which Arsenal footballer became the first ever to score hat-tricks in the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A?
Answer: Alexis Sanchez
Question: Who unexpectedly beat Vlamdir Klitchscko in 2015?
Answer: Tyson Fury
Question: Jon Snow was killed off in what series in 2015, adapted from GRR Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'?
Answer: Game of Thrones
Question: Who was announced in 2015 as Jeremy Clarkson's replacement on BBC's popular TV show Top Gear?
Answer: Chris Evans
Question: How many years old was the McDonalds fast food company in 2015?
Answer: 60
Question: The space transport company launched in 2015 by Jeff Bezos is called?
Answer: Blue Origin
Question: The shortest ever entry in the history of what competition came from Finland in 2015?
Answer: Eurovision Song Contest
Question: Whose 2015 album is 'Purpose'?
Answer: Justin Bieber
Question: The 2015 Tour de France began in?
Answer: The Netherlands
Question: What dating app caused problems for itself in 2015 when increasing its charges?
Answer: Tinder
Question: In 2015 the first ever colour/color photographs were obtained of which celestial body?
Answer: Pluto
Question: Kim Campbell was the first woman prime minister of which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: What shape is farfalle pasta?
Answer: Bow tie
Question: British Landrace, Pietrain and Tamworth are what sort of animals?
Answer: Pigs
Question: Lee Kuan Yew became the first officially elected prime minister of which country in 1959?
Answer: Singapore
Question: Of Albanian descent, by what name is 1979 Nobel Prizewinner Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
Answer: Mother Teresa
Question: Mjosa (more precisely Mjøsa) is the largest lake of which country?
Answer: Norway
Question: What is the highest volcano in Africa?
Answer: Kilimanjaro
Question: 'Atoms for Peace', formed in 1957, is now known as what?
Answer: The International Atomic Energy Agency
Question: The traditional biathlon most commonly (for example at the Olympics) consists of which two sports?
Answer: Skiing and shooting
Question: What instant messaging service was acquired in 2014 for $16bn by Facebook?
Answer: Whatsapp
Question: The fictional character Norville Rogers is better known by the nickname?
Answer: Shaggy
Question: In the USA a reindeer is also known as a?
Answer: Caribou
Question: The brunch dish of poached eggs, muffins, bacon/ham and hollandaise sauce, popularized in New York City is 'Eggs...?
Answer: Benedict
Question: What is a ninth divided by a third?
Answer: A third
Question: What was the Russian city of Stalingrad renamed in 1961, after Europe's longest river?
Answer: Volgograd
Question: The famous Ancient Roman marble statue 'Venus Callipyge' or 'Callipygian Venus' literally and artistically represents "Venus/Aphrodite of the beautiful..."?
Answer: Buttocks
Question: Theseus, Hyppolyta, Nick Bottom, and Oberon the King of the Fairies are in Shakespeare's play?
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Question: The human gastrocolic reflex typically prompts someone to visit the?
Answer: Toilet
Question: Turkish Van, Chartreux, Scottish Fold and Ragdoll are types of?
Answer: Cats
Question: Undiscovered for 100 years and published 2016, 'The Tale of Kitty-In-Boots' was written by?
Answer: Beatrix Potter
Question: At 2015 the biggest cause of death among UK men under 50 is?
Answer: Suicide
Question: A slot/fruit machine was originally known as a One-Armed?
Answer: Bandit
Question: From Latin 'sapo', saponification is a process of producing?
Answer: Soap
Question: IHOP refers to which N American-based fast-food chain?
Answer: International House of Pancakes
Question: Isaac Asimov, Robert A Heinlein, and Arthur C Clarke are famous writers of?
Answer: Science-Fiction
Question: Mach 1 refers to the speed of?
Answer: Sound
Question: Martini, Rossini, Mojito, and Sazerac are?
Answer: Cocktails
Question: Popocatepetl, Pico de Orizaba, and Iztaccihuatl are?
Answer: Mexican volcanoes
Question: Who was the founder of the Body Shop company?
Answer: Anita Roddick
Question: Who wrote the novel Dracula?
Answer: Bram Stoker
Question: What is the name of Don Quixote's horse?
Answer: Rosinante
Question: Which football club did Alan Sugar own?
Answer: Tottenham Hotspur
Question: What is the metal or plastic end of a shoelace called?
Answer: Aglet
Question: At which ski resort would you see the Cresta Run?
Answer: St Moritz
Question: White Lion pubs are named after which English King's heraldic symbol?
Answer: Edward the Fourth
Question: What is the mouthpiece of a recorder called?
Answer: Fipple
Question: The Aconcagua is the highest peak in which mountain range?
Answer: Andes
Question: The Phoenix Park murders of 1882 took place in which city?
Answer: Dublin
Question: Who designed the famous Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona?
Answer: Gaudi
Question: Who was Henry VIII's third wife?
Answer: Jane Seymour
Question: The Kariba Dam is on which river?
Answer: Zambezi
Question: In Greek mythology who was Apollo's twin sister?
Answer: Artemis
Question: By what name was Dutch dancer Margarethe Zelle better known?
Answer: Mata Hari
Question: What was the name of the cruise ship seized by hijackers in the Mediterranean in 1985?
Answer: Achille Lauro
Question: In 1968 which US artist and film maker was shot and wounded by actress Valerie Solanas?
Answer: Andy Warhol
Question: What is the capital of Croatia?
Answer: Zagreb
Question: The original 'Wendy house' was built for which fictional character?
Answer: Wendy Darling
Question: Which is the lightest element?
Answer: Hydrogen
Question: Who painted The Blue Boy in 1779?
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough
Question: Which one of these does not appear in Maslow's 'Belongingness and Love' category of needs?
Answer: Punishment
Question: The highest-order need added/interpreted/implied within Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs' is?
Answer: Transcendence
Question: Mocha is coffee with added?
Answer: Chocolate
Question: The area of a circle with a radius of 56.5cms is approximately how many square metres?
Answer: 1
Question: Volvic, Evian, Perrier and San Pellegrino are famous brands of?
Answer: Bottled water
Question: The Arabic word 'al' (AL) roughly translates in English to mean?
Answer: The
Question: The photocopying technology called Xerography is named from Greek 'xero' meaning?
Answer: Dry
Question: The unstressed vowel sound 'uh' usually represented by 'a' or 'e' (in 'ago', and 'a cat' or 'open') is called a?
Answer: Schwa
Question: The Fountain of Neptune, Bologna, Italy, inspired which famous sports car logo?
Answer: Maserati
Question: A popular old English idiom refers to a suspicious or dubious situation being?
Answer: Fishy
Question: The iconic symbol of Kathmandu is in Nepal; Iraq; France; or the Lord of the Rings?
Answer: Nepal
Question: In the Russian alphabet and Cyrillic script the 'English' 3 symbol equates to?
Answer: Z
Question: Where are found the Seas of Tranquility, Cleverness, Nectar, and Moisture?
Answer: The Moon
Question: Zephyr, Sirocco, Mistral, and Chinook are names of?
Answer: Winds
Question: Under normal Earth sea-level conditions water boils at how many degrees centigrade?
Answer: 100
Question: Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), author of 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'Green Eggs and Ham', is most famous in what literary genre?
Answer: Children's
Question: From Latin meaning 'small room' what are the 'building blocks of life' and smallest units able to replicate independently?
Answer: Cell
Question: The Gaelic-originating surname prefix Mac or Mc meant originally?
Answer: Son
Question: In which European town is the Menin Gate Memorial to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers?
Answer: Ypres
Question: Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire, England, is famous for which annual event?
Answer: Cheese Rolling
Question: The Laughing Cavalier is a work by which painter?
Answer: Frans Hals
Question: What type of rock is carbonado?
Answer: Diamond
Question: In which US city was the 2006 Super Bowl held?
Answer: Detroit
Question: In which country was fashion designer Rifat Ozbek born?
Answer: Turkey
Question: In which city is the United Nations headquarters?
Answer: New York
Question: W Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence is based on the life of which painter?
Answer: Paul Gaugin
Question: In which body of water are the Balearic Islands?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
Question: Who said in a radio broadcast in 1939, "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia" ?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: The 1950s Looney Tunes cartoon Mexican mouse and term for someone acting very quickly is?
Answer: Gonzalez
Question: The legal validation of a will is called?
Answer: Probate
Question: Czech Emil Zatopek (1922-2000) is a famously brilliant?
Answer: Distance runner
Question: What is the 2015-originating portmanteau term referring to the UK leaving the EU?
Answer: Brexit
Question: The human hormone Ghrelin (also called Lenomorelin) is known as the '(What?) hormone'?
Answer: Hunger
Question: Professor Pat Pending, the Arkansas Chuggabug, and the Ant Hill Mob feature in which popular 1968-69 17-episode TV cartoon series?
Answer: Wacky Races
Question: The logo on the famous Victorinox Swiss Army pocket knife is a (What?) in a shield?
Answer: Cross
Question: A traditional Moroccan house with central atrium courtyard/garden is called a?
Answer: Riad
Question: Richard Adams' 1972 anthropomorphic novel Watership Down is about a colony of?
Answer: Rabbits
Question: The Battle of Jutland was the only (What?) battle of the 1st World War?
Answer: Naval
Question: Baklava, a food in Turkish/Central-West Asian cuisine, is a type of?
Answer: Pastry
Question: Which English King was found in a Leicester car park in 2012, and reburied in Leicester Cathedral in 2015?
Answer: Richard III
Question: Leicester City FC's 2015-16 Premier League winning coach Claudio Ranieri is?
Answer: Italian
Question: Wes Morgan's role for Leicester City FC's 2015-16 Premier League winning team was?
Answer: Captain
Question: In 1485 the last English monarch to be (What?) occurred at Bosworth Field in Leicestershire?
Answer: Killed in battle
Question: What French word refers to a terracotta dish and a pâté typically made in one?
Answer: Terrine
Question: North America's 'Boeing Apache' is a?
Answer: Military helicopter
Question: By public vote In 2012 Shinzo Abe became Japan's new national?
Answer: Prime Minister
Question: In 2016 where did Winston Churchill replace Elizabeth Fry?
Answer: £5 note
Question: Cilantro or Chinese parsley is better known as?
Answer: Coriander
Question: In which London building was the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales held in 1997?
Answer: Westminster Abbey
Question: Which Argentine leader was deposed in 1982?
Answer: General Galtieri
Question: Which actor's real name was William Henry Pratt?
Answer: Boris Karloff
Question: Who played Daisy Duke in the 2005 film The Dukes of Hazzard?
Answer: Jessica Simpson
Question: What type of natural substance is caoutchouc (pronounced kachook)?
Answer: Rubber
Question: The World Trade Organization was founded in 1995 in which European city?
Answer: Geneva
Question: Pekoe is a type of which drink?
Answer: Tea
Question: The Welland Ship Canal is in which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: Where on a woman's body would you see a bindi?
Answer: Forehead
Question: Henry Darnley was the husband of which British monarch?
Answer: Mary Queen of Scots
Question: Who composed Maple Leaf Rag?
Answer: Scott Joplin
Question: How old was Tony Blair when he became British prime minister in 1997?
Answer: Forty-three
Question: What is the flap which covers the human windpipe when swallowing?
Answer: Epiglotis
Question: Cedi is the basic monetary unit of which African country?
Answer: Ghana
Question: What is the name of the largest island of Japan?
Answer: Honshu
Question: Harry Longbaugh was better known by what name?
Answer: The Sundance Kid
Question: With what is a 'carpetbag steak' stuffed?
Answer: Oysters
Question: How many stars are on the flag of the European Union?
Answer: Twelve
Question: Who was the president of Yugoslavia, 1953-80?
Answer: Tito
Question: James Mason played Sir Randolph Nettleby which 1984 film?
Answer: The Shooting Party
Question: Which popular Welsh entertainer wrote the First World War song Keep the Home Fires Burning?
Answer: Ivor Novello
Question: What is the largest island in the Mediterranean?
Answer: Sicily
Question: Who became the chairman of Watford Football Club in 1977?
Answer: Elton John
Question: What is the fourth book of the Bible's Old Testament?
Answer: Numbers
Question: A Pearmain is what type of fruit?
Answer: Apple
Question: What is the main ingredient of the dish Borscht?
Answer: Beetroot
Question: What is the US state capital of Virginia?
Answer: Richmond
Question: If something is bicephalous it has two what?
Answer: Heads
Question: Who wrote the ballet The Firebird?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky
Question: Who banned Christmas in England between 1647 and 1660?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell
Question: Which US state in 1907 was the last to declare Christmas a legal holiday?
Answer: Oklahoma
Question: The words "Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume breathes of life, of gathering gloom..." come from which Christmas carol?
Answer: We Three Kings of Orient Are
Question: John Callcott Horsley designed what first commercial Christmas item in 1843?
Answer: Christmas card
Question: Which token vegetable is often included in the ingredients of a Christmas pudding?
Answer: Carrot
Question: Who is sixth in line to the British throne (as at December 2007)?
Answer: Princess Eugenie
Question: Chinese gooseberry is another name for which fruit?
Answer: Kiwifruit
Question: What is a maker of casks and barrels called?
Answer: Cooper
Question: Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains divides learning development into three main aspects?
Answer: Knowledge, Attitude, Skills
Question: Whose experiential learning theory comprises the learning styles named?
Answer: David Kolb
Question: Daniel Goleman was responsible for popularising and defining what management and behavioural concept in his eponymously titled (ie., the title is also the subject) 1995 book?
Answer: Emotional Intelligence
Question: Bruce Tuckman's theory about team development uses what four sequential rhyming words to describe the four stages of a group's progression?
Answer: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
Question: What month in 2007 was the smoking ban in England introduced?
Answer: July
Question: Who was the heroic baggage handler at the attempted Glasgow airport car-bombing?
Answer: John Smeaton
Question: Who suggested that Gordon Brown had transformed from Stalin to Mr Bean?
Answer: Vince Cable
Question: Which country won the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: Serbia
Question: What month in 2007 did Tony Blair depart as UK prime minister?
Answer: June
Question: Adam Applegarth presided over what controversial corporation?
Answer: Northern Rock
Question: Monks featured strongly in the September protests in which country?
Answer: Burma
Question: Shinzo Abe resigned in September 2007 as prime minister of which country?
Answer: Japan
Question: Which corporation bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240m?
Answer: Microsoft
Question: Which movie star left the much publicized 'rude pig' phone message for his twelve year old daughter?
Answer: Alec Baldwin
Question: What was the name of the Space Shuttle which launched on June 8th 2007?
Answer: Atlantis
Question: Who was charged with fraud when he reappeared five years after going missing in a canoe off the Cleveland coast?
Answer: John Darwin
Question: The live album Beauty and the Beat featured pianist George Shearring and which singer?
Answer: Peggy Lee
Question: Which comedy actor had a novelty hit with My Boomerang Won't Come Back?
Answer: Charlie Drake
Question: Colin Blunstone fronted which 1960s group?
Answer: The Zombies
Question: Who wrote Patsy Cline's hit Crazy?
Answer: Willie Nelson