zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which word, broadly synonymous with 'typeface', derives from French 'to melt'?
Answer: Font
Question: Static electricity is fundamentally produced by?
Answer: Friction
Question: Carborundum and Corundum are compounds/minerals traditionally used in?
Answer: Abrasives
Question: Langlauf (literally 'long-term' in German) refers to an endurance form of which sport?
Answer: Skiing
Question: What unusual shape might a rainbow adopt when seen from a plane flying above the clouds?
Answer: Ring
Question: Graminoids are more commonly known as what plant form?
Answer: Grasses
Question: What trade uses a pattress or pattress box?
Answer: Electrician
Question: (At 2013) the 230m high Heron Tower is the tallest skyscraper of which historical financial city centre district?
Answer: London
Question: What work-related term popularly refers to loan companies which offer short-term unsecured personal loans at high interest rates?
Answer: Payday
Question: Which corporation developed the Encarta encyclopedia?
Answer: Microsoft
Question: The bay leaf plant originated what term of glory or repute?
Answer: Laureate
Question: The mentha plant genus is more commonly called what?
Answer: Mint
Question: What is the fruit of the Phoenix genus of plants?
Answer: Dates
Question: What colour/color traditionally are the Smurf cartoon characters?
Answer: Blue
Question: Pinophyta trees are characterized by what reproductive fruit?
Answer: Cones
Question: What Lockheed plane model is claimed to be the longest continuously produced military aircraft in history (at 2013)?
Answer: Hercules
Question: The Gregorian Calendar, introduced in 1582, is named after Gregory, a?
Answer: Pope
Question: The medical condition Urticaria is more commonly known as?
Answer: Hives
Question: On which island is the popular Caribbean resort abbreviated to 'Mobay'?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: Who sat in the 'Loose Box' of Edward VII's coronation at Westminster Abbey, his?
Answer: Mistresses
Question: Name Google's music streaming service?
Answer: Play
Question: An oligarchy describes a leadership group comprising people who are?
Answer: Few
Question: What sort of flooring meant in French 'small enclosed space'?
Answer: Parquet
Question: Which country first bred Doberman Pinscher dogs?
Answer: Germany
Question: The Malayalam language is from, and still used by over 30 million people in?
Answer: India
Question: What must an earthly spacecraft exit for its travel to be interstellar?
Answer: The Solar System
Question: What creature appears in the coat of arms of Berlin?
Answer: Bear
Question: Which organ of the human body comprises the dermis and epidermis?
Answer: Skin
Question: Developed in 1941, the Nickel-Strunz classification scheme categorizes?
Answer: Minerals
Question: What sort of alcoholic drink is made from the blue agave plant?
Answer: Tequila
Question: German-British businessman Hans Snook founded which phone company in 1994?
Answer: Orange
Question: In Greek mythology when Pandora opened her box (actually jar), all the evil spirits escaped, and only Elpis, goddess of (what?) remained?
Answer: Hope
Question: The children's story/TV character Noddy was created in 1949 by which English author?
Answer: Enid Blyton
Question: The Latin term 'requiescat in pace' equates to what common English phrase?
Answer: Rest in peace
Question: The character Jack Skellington appears in which 1993 Tim Burton film?
Answer: The Nightmare before Christmas
Question: In the inspirational 1946 film, It's a Wonderful Life, what's the name of George Bailey's guardian angel?
Answer: Clarence
Question: The Indian endangered species Platanista gangetica gangetica is a?
Answer: River dolphin
Question: The state-owned corporation re-branded simply 'Indian' (2005-11) was a major operator in which sector?
Answer: Airline
Question: Enugu, Kano Pillars, Heartland, and Lobi Stars are famous Nigerian?
Answer: Football clubs
Question: Indonesia's bad-smelling Rafflesia Arnoldii is the world's largest (what?), and a national emblem?
Answer: Flower
Question: Gamelan is a major Indonesian style of?
Answer: Music
Question: In Turkish language/custom "teşekkür ederim" and "sağ olun" mean?
Answer: Thank you
Question: Name Turkey's major 'Istanbul (Who?) Airport' after the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey?
Answer: Atatürk
Question: Eastern Thrace refers to which part of Turkey?
Answer: European
Question: VK (VKontakte), QZone, Orkut, and XING are (at 2014) international competitors of?
Answer: Facebook
Question: The Koa tree (Acacia Koa) is native and popular in which island group?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: 24 Sussex Drive, and Harrington Lake in Gatineau Park are the official prime ministerial residences of which nation?
Answer: Canada
Question: What internet vulnerability 'bug' was announced (in April 2014) to have existed in 17% of the world's web servers since end-2011?
Answer: Heartbleed
Question: Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) and Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-73) are famous South American?
Answer: Writers
Question: Since Roman times wine barrels are most commonly made from?
Answer: Oak
Question: A foundry is specifically involved in what metal process?
Answer: Casting
Question: The Taj Mahal in India was constructed as a?
Answer: Tomb
Question: In many Asian/Eastern beliefs 'Naraka' is what?
Answer: Hell
Question: The minimum rest-period between two games for any team at the 2014 World Cup is how many hours?
Answer: 48
Question: In the 1920s Japanese and Austrian physicians Kyusaku Ogino and Hermann Knaus devised the contraceptive method called popularly?
Answer: Rhythm
Question: Drop, Randonneur, Porteur, Aero and Moustache are types of bicycle what?
Answer: Handlebars
Question: What 2001 Disney movie bockbuster is considered the first to successfully achieve CGI fur?
Answer: Monsters, Inc.
Question: A gazetteer offers indexed information mainly oriented by?
Answer: Geography
Question: Cockney rhyming slang 'bottle' traditionally means?
Answer: Bravery
Question: Likud, Yesh Atid, and Shas are political parties of which country?
Answer: Israel
Question: A 'lustrum' refers to a period of how many years?
Answer: Five
Question: During the 1900s, Olivetti, Olympia, Underwood, Smith Corona, and Remington were famous makers of?
Answer: Typewriters
Question: Macular refers to which sensory organ?
Answer: Eye
Question: 'Forage' refers to crops that are?
Answer: Animal feed
Question: What's the full name of Sherlock Holmes' companion/narrator?
Answer: Dr John H Watson
Question: The continent having the highest average elevation is?
Answer: Antartica
Question: What is the UK's most senior royal palace and official residence of the monarch?
Answer: St James's Palace
Question: An old word for a proverb or saying is a?
Answer: Saw
Question: Historically, malmsey wine came from what nation and its surrounding islands?
Answer: Greece
Question: Built 1723-25, the famous Spanish Steps are in which capital city?
Answer: Rome
Question: What means throw and vomit, is a term of endearment, and a radial clamp?
Answer: Chuck
Question: Althaea officinalis, an ancient African medicinal plant and sugar sweet ingredient, is commonly known as (What popular confection)?
Answer: Marshmallow
Question: A cogwheel icon typically represents what on many websites/apps?
Answer: Settings
Question: What is a continuous low musical note, annoying monotony, and a controversial flying machine?
Answer: Drone
Question: Which sugar confectionery adopted the slogan 'Taste the Rainbow' in 1994?
Answer: Skittles
Question: If five baskets contain respectively 7, 6, 5, 4 and 3 apples, what is the average number of apples in two baskets?
Answer: Ten
Question: The Geminids of December are a?
Answer: Meteor shower
Question: Satin is traditionally/originally made from what fibre?
Answer: Silk
Question: What is a feature of wood, sand, cereal, and also 0.0648 grams?
Answer: Grain
Question: What fruit is named from medieval Latin meaning seeded apple?
Answer: Pomegranate
Question: Menchie's is a popular US international chain founded to supply what frozen product?
Answer: Yoghurt
Question: 'Tam o' Shanter' in Scottish poet Robert Burns' 1790 poem of that name is a?
Answer: Farmer
Question: Pinchbeck, a 1700s alloy of copper and zinc, was a popular alternative for?
Answer: Gold
Question: Reggae evolved from what three-letter Jamaican music genre?
Answer: Ska
Question: Scorpion W2 (USA), Woodland Pattern (USA), Flecktarn (Germany), and Multi-Terrain Pattern (UK) are notable designs of what?
Answer: Camouflage
Question: Jean-Marie and daughter Marine Le Pen are leading figures in French extreme?
Answer: Politics
Question: Prince Charles' private letters to government ministers, made public by the UK Supreme Court in 2015, are known as the '(What?) memos', due to his handwriting style?
Answer: Black spider
Question: The areca nut (often with betel leaf), a popular stimulant in Asia, is traditionally prepared for?
Answer: Chewing
Question: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's famous 1969 personal change concept is called the Five Stages of?
Answer: Grief
Question: Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao famously oppose/opposed each other in?
Answer: Boxing
Question: The famously rebuilt Shakespeare's theatre on London's River Thames South Bank is the?
Answer: Globe
Question: Italian Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) was a composer and virtuoso player of the?
Answer: Violin
Question: Named after a Scottish village near where it was discovered in 1790, what soft metal element, symbol Sr, was used to make cathode ray TV tubes?
Answer: Strontium
Question: Winston Churchill referred to what event as the 'Miracle of Deliverance'?
Answer: Dunkirk
Question: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Martin Balsam had cameo roles in the 1991 remake of what 1962 film in which they starred?
Answer: Cape Fear
Question: Poets' Corner, which commemorates and contains remains of writers, is in which London building?
Answer: Westminster Abbey
Question: Orson Welles' iconic character in the film The Third Man is?
Answer: Harry Lime
Question: Permian, Eocene, Silurian, and Pleistocine are?
Answer: Geological periods
Question: The word Eintracht in German soccer/sports club names equates to?
Answer: United
Question: The Apple watch launched Apr 2015 is called the?
Answer: Apple Watch
Question: Funchal is the capital of which Portuguese autonomous island territory?
Answer: Madeira
Question: Which old English King is associated with having burned cakes?
Answer: Alfred
Question: An opsimath is a person who begins to do what later in life?
Answer: Study
Question: Deezer, Tidal, Onerpm, and Tunecore operate in what industrial sector?
Answer: Music
Question: What is the main component of blood besides cells and clotting/glycoprotein factors? Serum; Water; Mucus; or Sweat?
Answer: Serum
Question: The essential constituent of the Chinese culinary delicacy 'Bird's Nest Soup' is?
Answer: Saliva
Question: The band/sheet of connective tissue under the skin in human anatomy, chiefly of collagen, which stabilizes/supports organs and muscles, is?
Answer: Fascia
Question: What metallic element has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity, and reflectivity?
Answer: Silver
Question: Boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony and tellurium are commonly considered the six primary chemical element?
Answer: Metalloids
Question: What model iPhone was the most modern available in 2015?
Answer: 6
Question: What's the more exotic name of the 'Northern Lights' visible under certain conditions in the Northern Hemisphere night sky?
Answer: Aurora Borealis
Question: (Aside from a back and a front) how many sides or points does every snowflake have?
Answer: Six
Question: The rotator cuff is a tough sheath of tendons and ligaments which supports the human?
Answer: Shoulder
Question: The 'latte' coffee drink means in original Italian?
Answer: Milk
Question: Latin/anotomical 'Pes', what part of the body contains the talus and calcaneus bones?
Answer: Foot
Question: Willy Loman is the lead character in Arthur Miller's famous 1949 play 'Death of a (What?)'?
Answer: Salesman
Question: Sage, thyme, rosemary, and marjoram are members of the plant genus?
Answer: Mint
Question: Amethyst is a variety of?
Answer: Quartz
Question: Ares, equating to the Roman god Mars, is the Greek god of?
Answer: War
Question: The 'Save the Children' charity admitted in 2015 it mistakenly awarded which controversial politician a Global Legacy award?
Answer: Tony Blair
Question: Which car company launched the Avensis model in 2015?
Answer: Toyota
Question: Name the Princess born 4th in succession to the British throne in 2015, to Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge?
Answer: Charlotte
Question: What famous horror film actor - especially for playing Dracula - died age 93 in 2015?
Answer: Christopher Lee
Question: In 2015 Ronda Rousey lost to Holly Holm in what brutal sporting discipline?
Answer: UFC
Question: What city did Charles II of England sell to France in 1662 for £40,000?
Answer: Dunkirk
Question: Fish are typically referred to as being (What?)-blooded?
Answer: Cold
Question: Name the famous naval base and natural port on Oahu island, Hawaii, which featured in the US entry to World War II?
Answer: Pearl Harbor
Question: Alphabet became in 2015 the holding company of which vast tech corporation?
Answer: Google
Question: What is the fourth sign of the Zodiac?
Answer: Cancer
Question: With which country did the UK have the long-running 'Cod War' disputes over fishing rights?
Answer: Iceland
Question: How many players are there in an Australian Rules football team (on the field at the same time)?
Answer: Eighteen
Question: Who invented the elevator in 1853?
Answer: Elisha Otis
Question: In which month is St Swithin's Day?
Answer: July
Question: The Neanderthal Museum is in which country?
Answer: Germany
Question: In British history a Cavalier was a supporter of which king?
Answer: Charles I
Question: Assassinated in 1965, who was Malcolm Little better known as?
Answer: Malcolm X
Question: Which famous US lawman had brothers called Morgan and Virgil?
Answer: Wyatt Earp
Question: In 1902 the Treaty of Vereeniging brought which war to an end?
Answer: The Second Boer War
Question: Convict Robert Franklin Stroud was better known as whom?
Answer: The Birdman of Alcatraz
Question: Dame Peggy Ashcroft won an Oscar for her role in which 1984 film?
Answer: A Passage to India
Question: Who wrote the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
Answer: Thomas Gray
Question: Little Big Horn, the scene of Custer's last stand, is in which US state?
Answer: Montana
Question: Which one of these is not a main heading 'need' within the Maslow 'Hierarchy of Needs' theory?
Answer: Money
Question: Which one of these does not appear in Maslow's 'Esteem' category of needs?
Answer: Marriage
Question: Which one of these does not appear in Maslow's 'Biological & Physiological' category of needs?
Answer: Money
Question: What single digit whole number is the cube root of 64?
Answer: 4
Question: 'Pulse fishing' - an increasingly common modern alternative to deep sea beam-trawling - uses?
Answer: Electric shocks
Question: The famous bazouki instrumental dance music which speeds up is called Zorba the?
Answer: Greek
Question: Formed 1950 and dissolved 1990, the Stasi was the secret police of?
Answer: East Germany
Question: A half divided by a sixth is?
Answer: Three
Question: Blepharoplasty refers to a common cosmetic surgery on?
Answer: Eyelids
Question: The Poaceae or Gramineae family of organisms is better known as?
Answer: Grasses
Question: The name of which famous island borough, also a cocktail and Woody Allen film, derives from Lenape Native American Indian, land owners until Dutch settler acquisition, 1626?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: In the human body which gland secretes the hormone insulin?
Answer: Pancreas
Question: Who was the president of Chile from 1974-90?
Answer: Augusto Pinochet
Question: Which US actress's real name is Mary Cathleen Collins?
Answer: Bo Derek
Question: Who was hanged in Edinburgh in 1829 for multiple murder in supplying doctors with corpses for dissection?
Answer: William Burke
Question: Letter, Legal, Executive, Ledger/Tabloid are N American?
Answer: Paper sizes
Question: The poodle dog/name originated in Germany from association with?
Answer: Water
Question: 1960s Thamesmead social housing estate in SE London was the main location for the film?
Answer: A Clockwork Orange
Question: Grévy's, Grant's, Chapman's, and the extinct Quagga, are varieties of?
Answer: Zebra
Question: The Latin word via originally meant?
Answer: Road
Question: Coach Claudio Raniero spent how many years in management before winning his first top-level league championship with Leicester FC in 2016?
Answer: 28
Question: Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is famous for its European Protected designation of origin named?
Answer: Pork pie
Question: At 2016 Leicester City FC's stadium and shirt sponsor name, and owner is called '(What?) Power'?
Answer: King
Question: In 2016 Mark Selby from Leicester won for the second time the World Championship for?
Answer: Snooker
Question: Vaseline is a genericized brandname for what sort of 'Jelly'?
Answer: Petroleum
Question: Tom Hiddleston, Jamie Bell, and Idris Elba emerged as leading candidates in 2016 for the role of?
Answer: James Bond
Question: The Greek word petro/petros, as in petroleum and petrochemicals, etc, means?
Answer: Rock
Question: The female equivalent of a Sultan (Arabic/Muslim leader) is a?
Answer: Sultana
Question: In association football, Bobby Moore, Franz Beckenbauer, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Lionel Messi, are considered among the greatest (What?) besides among the greatest players of all time?
Answer: Captains
Question: Leicester City FC won the English Premier League Champions of 2015-16 with a team costing roughly what fraction of rivals Manchester City?
Answer: A tenth
Question: What is the medical condition icterus commonly called?
Answer: Jaundice
Question: Who discovered and opened Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922?
Answer: Howard Carter
Question: In which year was the Battle of Waterloo?
Answer: 1815
Question: What name is given to the uncut locks of hair worn on the sides of the head by orthodox male Jews?
Answer: Payess
Question: The first atomic bomb explosion was carried out in which US state?
Answer: New Mexico
Question: In what state was Jimmy Carter governor before becoming president?
Answer: Georgia
Question: The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing was founded in 1860 at which London institution?
Answer: St Thomas' Hospital
Question: Which American animator created Daffy Duck and Droopy Dog?
Answer: Tex Avery
Question: Which country was previously called Persia?
Answer: Iran
Question: Who is fifth in line to the British throne (as at Aug 2007)?
Answer: Princess Beatrice
Question: What is the name of the carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday?
Answer: Mardi Gras
Question: What object officially joined our solar system on 1st May 1930?
Answer: Pluto
Question: In Western ecclesiastical law a diriment impediment invalidates what?
Answer: Marriage
Question: The St Leger is run at which English racecourse?
Answer: Doncaster
Question: Who played Elliot Ness in the 1987 film The Untouchables?
Answer: Kevin Costner
Question: What was Lily Munster's maiden name?
Answer: Dracula
Question: The 1954 movie White Christmas was the first to be made using what new Paramount film format?
Answer: VistaVision
Question: A marmoset is what type of animal?
Answer: Monkey
Question: What colour are the berries from the rowan tree?
Answer: Red
Question: Who played Don Vito Corleone in the 1972 film The Godfather?
Answer: Marlon Brando
Question: Which musician, who died in 1987, famously had a candelabra on his piano?
Answer: Liberace
Question: A 'pea-souper' is which type of weather condition?
Answer: Fog
Question: One of the most effective and efficient forms of marketing is abbreviated to the initials WOM; what is it?
Answer: Word Of Mouth
Question: A lot of the traditional 20th century sales theory and training was influenced by the 1937 book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'; who wrote it?
Answer: Dale Carnegie
Question: Which past leader of Russia died in April 2007?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin
Question: In June 2007 the Millennium Dome re-opened under what name?
Answer: O2
Question: Whose band was the Tijuana Brass?
Answer: Herb Alpert
Question: What's the name of the motorbiker who dies in the Shangri-Las' hit The Leader of the Pack?
Answer: Jimmy
Question: What city hosted the Beatles as the resident band at the Kaiserkeller and Top Ten Club?
Answer: Hamburg
Question: The 1956 inaugural Eurovision Song Contest featured Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy and which other country?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Who originally fronted Herman's Hermits?
Answer: Peter Noone
Question: What was Chuck Berry's first hit record?
Answer: Maybellene
Question: In golf what is the name of a score of one stroke over par for a hole?
Answer: Bogey
Question: Which British singer's real name is Thomas Woodward?
Answer: Tom Jones
Question: Name London Zoo's Giant Panda from 1958 until her death in 1972?
Answer: Chi Chi
Question: A boomslang is what type of creature?
Answer: Snake
Question: Nanga Parbat, meaning 'naked mountain', the 9th highest in the world, is part of which mountain range?
Answer: Himalayas
Question: What is Earl's band called in the TV series My Name is Earl?
Answer: Phish Tahko
Question: In 1960 the UK publishing ban was lifted on what 1928 book?
Answer: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Question: Which Polish-born naturalised British novelist's real surname was Korzeniowski?
Answer: Joseph Conrad
Question: Cheap literature of the 16-18th centuries was known as 'what' books, based on the old word for the travelling traders who sold them?
Answer: Chapbooks
Question: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey are commonly referred to as the 'what' Poets?
Answer: Lake Poets
Question: Which great thinker collaborated with Sigmund Freud to write the 1933 book Why War?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: What term for a short, usually witty, poem or saying derives from the Greek words 'write' and 'on'?
Answer: Epigram
Question: Who was crowned King of the Scots in 1306?
Answer: Robert the Bruce
Question: The South Ossetia war was fought between Russia and which other country?
Answer: Georgia
Question: Which film director, with successes including Cold Mountain and The Talented Mr Ripley, died on 18 March 2008?
Answer: Anthony Minghella
Question: Who wrote the much covered and 2008 hit song Hallelujah?
Answer: Leonard Cohen
Question: Which Eastern guru to the Beatles died on 5 February 2008?
Answer: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Question: Which American artist noted for his large graffiti-style paintings had a major exhibition at London's Tate Modern in Summer 2008?
Answer: Cy Twombly
Question: Who did the government appoint as executive chairman of Northern Rock after its nationalisation?
Answer: Ron Sandler
Question: What political correspondent voluntarily removed himself from the UK Strictly Come Dancing celebrity talent show for fear of undersevedly winning it?
Answer: John Sergeant
Question: What stadium nicknamed 'The House That Ruth Built' closed in November 2008?
Answer: Yankee Stadium
Question: Who was the trader alleged to be responsible for the French Société Générale trading loss of nearly five billion euros in January 2008?
Answer: Jérôme Kerviel
Question: For his part in which 1953 film did Frank Sinatra receive a Best Supporting Actor Oscar?
Answer: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Question: Which guitarist is known as Slowhand?
Answer: ERIC CLAPTON
Question: Alan Minter was undisputed World boxing champion at which weight?
Answer: MIDDLEWEIGHT
Question: Which 17th century explorer was buried with a pipe and a box of tobacco?
Answer: SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Question: Which actor appeared to have a wooden leg in the 1956 film Moby Dick?
Answer: GREGORY PECK
Question: What make of car was the time-machine in the film Back To The Future?
Answer: DE LOREAN
Question: 'Mace is one of the spices obtained from the tree Myristica Fragrams - what is the other?
Answer: NUTMEG
Question: In what year did Mother Teresa of Calcutta win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: 1979
Question: How many finger holes does a tin whistle (pennywhistle) have?
Answer: Six