zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: According to legend, what was the Pied Piper asked to drive out of Hamelin?
Answer: Rats
Question: What was the name given to a controversy about vivisection in England from 1903 to 1910 that involved the infiltration of University of London medical lectures by Swedish women activists, street battles between medical students and suffragettes, trade unionists and the police, police protection for the statue of a dog in Battersea Park, its removal by the authorities in 1910 (and its replacement in 1985), a libel trial and the establishment of a Royal Commission?
Answer: The Brown Dog affair
Question: Avalon was the name of the island where, according to legend, which King was buried?
Answer: King Arthur
Question: Christian Bale was born in what country?
Answer: Wales
Question: All or part of Eritrea, Somaliland, Tientsin, Libya, the Dodecanese Islands, Ethiopia and Albania were ruled by what country in 1942?
Answer: Italy
Question: A mellotron is what kind of musical instrument?
Answer: Keyboard
Question: What title was held by Edward VIII after his abdication?
Answer: Duke of Windsor
Question: What are people employed in a theatre to interface with the audience called?
Answer: Front of House staff
Question: What apparatus is used to artificially hatch eggs?
Answer: Incubator
Question: Who famously flew a kite in a thunderstorm in 1752 to demonstrate the effects of lightning?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Question: Who had the title role in the 2003 film 'Sylvia"?
Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow
Question: John F Kennedy's father Joe was US ambassador to which country?
Answer: Britain
Question: Idi Amin, dictator in Uganda from 1951 to 1960, was a champion in his country in what sport?
Answer: Boxing
Question: Who broke the NFL record for the most points in a single season, with 176 points, in 1960?
Answer: Paul Hornung
Question: Court Philippe Chatrier, which has stands named after Jacques "Toto" Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, and Ren Lacoste, is the main court of an international tennis venue in which city?
Answer: Paris
Question: What are traditionally kept in a humidor?
Answer: Cigars
Question: In medicine, what does "GP" mean?
Answer: General practitioner
Question: What card game uses a scoreboard with holes and pegs?
Answer: Cribbage
Question: In mathematics, what is the name for the following sequence of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765 ...
Answer: Fibonacci numbers
Question: What are Halley's, Hale-Bopp, Kohoutek, West, Hyakutake and McNaught?
Answer: Comets
Question: Sir Mortimer Wheeler was famous in which field?
Answer: Archaeology
Question: The Mason-Dixon line, originally surveyed to define the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, is along which longitude?
Answer: 40th parallel
Question: The first European landfall was made on the continent of Australia by Willem Janszoon in what year?
Answer: 1606
Question: What was the original title of "The Goon Show"?
Answer: Crazy People
Question: There were two events called "The Siege of Sevastopol". One of them took place in which war?
Answer: Crimean War
Question: What country would you be in if you were where the Yukon River empties into the Bering Sea?
Answer: USA
Question: Harrison Ford was working as what before his first big break as a film actor?
Answer: Carpenter
Question: What animal is native to Russia, the USA (especially Alaska), Canada, the Carpathian region (especially Romania), and Finland, where it is the national animal?
Answer: Brown bear
Question: Prague is known to its residents as what?
Answer: Praha
Question: The first European scientific observation of a transit of Venus (when Venus passes between the Sun and Earth, and can be seen as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun) was made by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree in England in what year?
Answer: 1639
Question: """House music"" originated in clubs in which city?"
Answer: Chicago
Question: What brand of beer is popular in the "Simpsons"?
Answer: Duff
Question: What car manufacturer was the first to design a car using a wind tunnel, the first to sell a car with a monocoque chassis, the first to offer a 5 speed gearbox as an option and the first to sell a car fitted with a V6 engine?
Answer: Lancia
Question: Who plays Dalton Russell, who tells why he is in a cell, in the 2006 film "Inside Man"?
Answer: Clive Owen
Question: Carageen, used in cosmetics and foods is a type of what?
Answer: Seaweed
Question: Which toy was named after a US president?
Answer: Teddy Bear
Question: The game of Roulette was created by which mathematician, physicist, and Catholic philosopher in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine?
Answer: Blaise Pascal
Question: Which co-presenter of a programme for car enthusiasts has also presented "Braniac: Science Abuse", "The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding the Legend", "Blast Lab" and "Invisible Worlds"?
Answer: Richard Hammond
Question: What is the name for the rocks deposited by a glacier after it has passed by?
Answer: Moraine
Question: Which president of the USA was assassinated in 1865?
Answer: Lincoln
Question: In England, what is commonly known as "The Old Bailey"?
Answer: The Central Criminal Court
Question: The wreck of which warship, one of the largest in the English navy of King Henry VIII in the first half of the 16th century, was rediscovered in 1971 and salvaged in October 1982?
Answer: Mary Rose
Question: What is the name of the coffee shop that was a regular set for the US TV series "Friends"?
Answer: Central Perk
Question: Sherpas and Gurkhas are native to which country?
Answer: Nepal
Question: Which German brothers published fairy tales in the 19th century?
Answer: Grimm
Question: In 1988, 290 people were killed when an Iranian airliner was shot down by a ship belonging to what navy?
Answer: USA
Question: What British television programme starring Stephen Fry, based in a small Norfolk town (where the local pub is called the "Startled Duck"), was cancelled after 3 series?
Answer: Kingdom
Question: Which King was less than a year old when he became King of England?
Answer: Henry VI
Question: The "Pangboche Hand" is used as proof of the existence of what?
Answer: Yeti
Question: Who took the official photographs on 25 November, relating to the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton, which were released in December 2010?
Answer: Mario Testino
Question: The British and the French fought a battle on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. In which country did it take place?
Answer: Canada
Question: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, was executed for his anti-puritan views during what period of British history?
Answer: English Civil War
Question: Which country invaded Afghanistan on 24 December, 1979?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: What is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of the body, the most common form of which is a result of trauma to or infection of the joint, or age?
Answer: Arthritis
Question: In the comic strip "Peanuts", whose father is a barber?
Answer: Charlie Brown
Question: The common choko is what colour when ripe?
Answer: Green
Question: Who became chairman of the Watford Football Club for the second time in 1997?
Answer: Elton John
Question: Jeeves is butler to which fictional character created by P G Wodehouse?
Answer: Bertie Wooster
Question: What part of New York City is named for Catherine of Braganza?
Answer: Queens
Question: London's Shaftesbury Avenue is known for what type of establishment?
Answer: Theatres
Question: Who was the merchant sea-captain who made the first American circumnavigation of the world in 1790, and is known for trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the fur trade in that region?
Answer: Robert Gray
Question: """Spondulicks"" is another word for what?"
Answer: Money
Question: What is the name for about 70 species of insect native to New Zealand that can grow as long as 100 mm (4 in) not including the legs and antennae, and weigh about 20-30 g (1 to 3/4 of an ounce)?
Answer: Weta
Question: The constitution of which country is the world's oldest still in effect?
Answer: San Marino
Question: What "moon" traditionally follows a wedding?
Answer: Honey
Question: A "triple peel" is a manoeuvre that is common in what sport?
Answer: Croquet
Question: What is written under the Indian national emblem that was adopted as the National Emblem of India on 26 January 1950 when India became a republic, of 4 lions (one hidden from view) that symbolise power, courage, pride and confidence?
Answer: The truth alone triumphs
Question: A guava is a type of what?
Answer: Fruit
Question: Who directed the allied forces at the second Battle of El Alamein?
Answer: Montgomery
Question: Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the guilder as its basic currency unit?
Answer: The Netherlands
Question: Grounation Day (April 21) and Coronation Day (November 2) are important holy days in which religion?
Answer: Rastafarian
Question: What is the technical term for heart burn?
Answer: Pyrosis
Question: In the "Back to the Future" series of films, the past was 1955, and the future was 2015. When was "now"?
Answer: 1985
Question: In cricket, what fielding position is on the boundary behind the wicket keeper, on the off side?
Answer: Third man
Question: What was the largest empire in history, that began with maritime exploration in the 15th century, and by 1921 governed about 458 million people and covered about 36.6 million km (14.2 million square miles), about a quarter of the world's population and of the Earth's area?
Answer: British
Question: Besides Meredith Vieira, who has been the host of the US version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" since it began airing in 1999?
Answer: Regis Philbin
Question: Which religion is based on the teachings of Siddartha Gautama?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: The numbers 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888 and 999 are all multiples of what number?
Answer: 37
Question: When Winston Churchill said "Now this is not the end, nor is it even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning", which event was he talking about?
Answer: The Second Battle of El Alamein
Question: Scott Robinson, Ritchie Neville, J Brown, Abs Breen and Sean Conlon were the founder members of which boy band?
Answer: 5ive
Question: The flag of which country is a horizontal tricolour of "deep saffron" at the top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom with, in the centre, a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes?
Answer: India
Question: The "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" signed into law in the US state of Arizona on 23 April 2010 to take effect on 28 July 2010, concerns what?
Answer: Illegal immigration
Question: Which body of water borders the state of Washington, USA?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Question: How many Mexican states share a land border with the USA?
Answer: 6
Question: In 1314, who led the Scottish forces at the Battle of Bannockburn?
Answer: Robert the Bruce
Question: Salvador Dali was a principal figure in what artistic movement?
Answer: Surrealism
Question: Who defeated the British army in 1879 at the Battle of Isandlwana?
Answer: Zulus
Question: What name was used for two forests in J. R. R. Tolkien's "Hobbit"/ "Lord of the Rings" saga, the first under Morgoth's control, and the second under the influence of Sauron?
Answer: Mirkwood
Question: In which TV programme is it usual for a house resident to be evicted every week?
Answer: Big Brother
Question: Which country occupies the islands called Palawan, Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate, Batanes, Bohol, Leyte and Samar?
Answer: Philippines
Question: In which sport is a contest called honbasho or basho?
Answer: Sumo wrestling
Question: Who was on the throne of England when Francis Drake fought the Spanish Armada in 1588?
Answer: Elizabeth I
Question: Cautley Spout, Gocta, Hannoki, ShirAbad, and Shoshone are the names of what?
Answer: Waterfalls
Question: What 2005 science fiction-thriller film starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea and John Hurt, is an adaptation of a comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd?
Answer: V for Vendetta
Question: The sausage tree, Kigelia or Worsboom is native to which continent?
Answer: Africa
Question: What fictional island off the coast of Sumatra that first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" is the home of King Kong and other creatures?
Answer: Skull Island
Question: Italy controlled which country from 1911 to 1943?
Answer: Libya
Question: """A pitch"" is the way that the ball is put into play in which game?"
Answer: Baseball
Question: What items are in lots of 52 as standard, each with a unique combination of numbers and symbols?
Answer: Playing cards
Question: The seven brightest stars of which constellation form the asterism known as the Big Dipper in the United States and Canada, or the Plough in the United Kingdom and Ireland?
Answer: Ursa Major
Question: From 14 November 1994 when services began until 14 November 2007, from where did "Eurostar" trains leave London for Paris?
Answer: Waterloo
Question: The Forest of Arden appears in which Shakespearean play?
Answer: As You Like It
Question: What was the setting for the British TV series "Taggart"?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: In February 2010, Joseph Stack, a 53 year old software engineer, crashed his light plane into Internal Revenue Service offices in which city?
Answer: Austin, Texas
Question: Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland?
Answer: Anne Boleyn
Question: Who married Ethan Hawke in 1998?
Answer: Uma Thurman
Question: Which of North America's Great Lakes has the same name as a province of Canada?
Answer: Ontario
Question: Who was tried for treason on 17 November 1603 for trying to remove James I from the Engish throne?
Answer: Walter Raleigh
Question: Longacre Square, a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets, has been known as what since April 1904?
Answer: Times Square
Question: In snooker, what colour ball is spotted on the centre of the table?
Answer: Blue
Question: What temperature scale is referenced to absolute zero (i.e. where there is the theoretical absence of all thermal energy)?
Answer: Kelvin
Question: A synapse is a space where a nerve impulse travels between what?
Answer: Neurons
Question: Who was the Roman god of the underworld?
Answer: Pluto
Question: The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 due to its occupation by troops from what country?
Answer: China
Question: What type of music is Handel's "Messiah"?
Answer: Oratorio
Question: Which country was proclaimed a People's Republic on 1 October 1949, following the defeat of forces led by Chiang Kai-shek?
Answer: China
Question: What country is due north of Hawaii?
Answer: USA
Question: What was the only single by ABBA to reach number 1 on the US "Billboard" charts?
Answer: Dancing Queen
Question: Which character in the comic strip Charlie Brown plays the piano?
Answer: Schroeder
Question: The US Civil War was in which century?
Answer: 19th
Question: What was the first black and white short cartoon film produced by Walt Disney?
Answer: Steamboat Willie
Question: What was the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by Germany in World War II?
Answer: Channel Islands
Question: What name was given to the political and social movement that united the states of the Italian peninsula into the single country of Italy in the 19th century?
Answer: Il Risorgimento
Question: In Greek mythology, who were the children of Uranus and Galatea?
Answer: Titans
Question: What name was given to a narrative poem typically sung by trouvres (medieval minstrels)?
Answer: Lay
Question: In Greek mythology, Zeus disguised himself as a swan to seduce whom?
Answer: Leda
Question: What was name of the last English monarch from the House of Hanover?
Answer: Victoria
Question: Who was Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government and Prime Minister of Russia from 21 July 1917 (following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II) to 8 November 1917 (the Bolshevik revolution), who is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery, London?
Answer: Alexander Kerensky
Question: According to the Bible, "money is the root of all ..." what?
Answer: Evil
Question: What is the title of a detective crime novel by Robert B. Parker, written as an authorised sequel to "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler?
Answer: Perchance to Dream
Question: Which suit is the most powerful, i.e. apart from no trumps, in Contract Bridge?
Answer: Spades
Question: Which group in a TV series were on the run for "a crime they didn't commit"?
Answer: The A Team
Question: What contest takes place when two teams pull at opposite ends of a rope?
Answer: Tug o War
Question: In 300 BC, the country now known as Spain was part of which empire?
Answer: Roman
Question: What was the name of the character played by George Clooney in the "Oceans" film series released from 19 to 19?
Answer: Danny
Question: The Romanov Dynasty (Peter I, Catherine I, Peter II, Anna, Ivan VI, Elizabeth, Peter III, Catherine II the Great, Paul I, Alexander I, Constantine I, Nicholas I, Alexander II , Alexander III and Nicholas II) ruled which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: Where was the Battle of Hastings, which took place on 14 October 1066 between the Norman army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army of King Harold II?
Answer: Senlac Hill
Question: What murderer lived at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London?
Answer: John Christie
Question: With what activity was Isadora Duncan associated?
Answer: Dance
Question: """The Gorbals"" is an area in which city?"
Answer: Glasgow
Question: What name is given to the disease whereby parasites can change the behaviour of rats and mice, making them drawn to rather than fearful of the scent of cats?
Answer: Toxoplasmosis
Question: World War I took place mostly on what continent between 1914 and 1918?
Answer: Europe
Question: What bird is nicknamed "man of war" because it steals food from other birds in the air?
Answer: Frigate bird
Question: How many different people were Prime Minister of New Zealand in the first 100 years after it became a Dominion in 1907?
Answer: 21
Question: In 2009, what name was proposed for the bridge connecting roads for a new route across the Colorado River for U.S. Route 93, known as the Hoover Dam Bypass?
Answer: Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge
Question: What part of the body is affected by a stye?
Answer: Eye
Question: According to Greek mythology, who spent eternity in the underworld with food and drink just out of reach?
Answer: Tantalus
Question: Until Tony Blair, which of Britain's Labour Prime Ministers was in office for the longest overall time?
Answer: Harold Wilson
Question: Which English King died of dysentery while campaigning in France?
Answer: Henry V
Question: Which 2003 drama film, named after a painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and directed by Peter Webber, stars Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson & Cillian Murphy?
Answer: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Question: Asperger's syndrome is believed to a form of what?
Answer: Autism
Question: Michael Jordan was with which team when they won 6 National Basketball Association titles?
Answer: Chicago Bulls
Question: What is the early morning or night prayer service in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox churches, used in some Protestant denominations to describe morning services?
Answer: Matins
Question: Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of World War II?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Question: What role is played by Elizabeth Hurley in the 2000 film "Bedazzled"?
Answer: The Devil
Question: What is the standard measure used in the oil production industry?
Answer: Barrel
Question: Who is Joseph Alois Ratzinger?
Answer: Pope Benedict XVI
Question: What was the capital of West Germany from 1945 to 1999?
Answer: Bonn
Question: Urticaria affects what part of the body?
Answer: Skin
Question: What is the largest city in the province of British Columbia, Canada?
Answer: Vancouver
Question: The now-extinct Elephant Bird, believed to have been 3 metres tall and weigh 500 kg, was believed to have inhabited what area?
Answer: Madagascar
Question: What is the stringy substance used to clean between the teeth?
Answer: Floss
Question: In jazz, what kind of singing is vocal improvisation with nonsense syllables or without words at all, whereby singers have the ability to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice?
Answer: Scat
Question: What musical instrument is Woody Allen known for playing?
Answer: Clarinet
Question: Who was the first to be quoted as saying "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics"?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli
Question: What book introduced "the Thought Police"?
Answer: 1984
Question: Gregory Peck played attorney Sam Bowden in what 1962 film?
Answer: Cape Fear
Question: Which religion is most associated with kosher food?
Answer: Judaism
Question: What religion is the Dalai Lama?
Answer: Buddhist
Question: On 3 July 1844, which bird became extinct when the last two were killed by hunters?
Answer: Great Auk
Question: In the 1989 film "Batman", the Joker revealed his real name, which was ?
Answer: Jack Napier
Question: """Wild geese"" was the name given to soldiers who fought as mercenaries in continental armies in the 16th to 18th centuries who were from which country?"
Answer: Ireland
Question: In 1954, in a television adaptation of a book by Ian Fleming, Barry Nelson was the first person to appear on a screen as which fictional character?
Answer: James Bond
Question: In 1469, the crowns of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were united by the marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand. This was an important event in the history of which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: What does the SI unit "Newton" measure?
Answer: Force
Question: Who is the author of the fiction books "Lace" (published in 1982), "Lace 2" (1985), "Savages" (1987), "Crimson" (1992), "Tiger Eyes" (1994), "Revenge of Mimi Quinn" (1998) and "The Amazing Umbrella Shop" (1990)?
Answer: Shirley Conran
Question: The minting of which English gold coin began in 1663, and ceased in 1817?
Answer: Guinea
Question: The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. in 1949 by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, UK, US, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Canada and which other country?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Marie Curie named which element in homage to her homeland?
Answer: Polonium
Question: The Abominable Snowman, a mythological ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet, is also known as what?
Answer: Yeti
Question: Who worked on the film scripts for "Barbarella", "Dr Strangelove ", "Easy Rider", "Candy" and "The Magic Christian"?
Answer: Terry Southern
Question: What was Merlin's position at the court of King Arthur?
Answer: Wizard
Question: Who of these is supposedly buried in the town of Santiago de Compostela, in North Western Spain?
Answer: St James
Question: Which member of the trio ZZ Top does not have a chest-length beard, only a trimmed mustache?
Answer: Frank Beard (drums and percussion)
Question: Who won the Tour de France every year from 1991 to 1995?
Answer: Miguel Indurain
Question: Macadamia is a type of what?
Answer: Nut
Question: Who, after a distinguished cricketing career, in his last ever test match innings was bowled out for a duck by Eric Hollies?
Answer: Don Bradman
Question: In which famous piece of music by Tchaikovsky does the French national anthem appear?
Answer: 1812 Overture
Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet "Swan Lake"?
Answer: Tchaikovsky
Question: The early kings of Scotland are buried on which island?
Answer: Iona
Question: Kerkyra is what the locals call what island?
Answer: Corfu
Question: Who was sent by the African Association in 1795 to find the source of the River Niger?
Answer: Mungo Park
Question: The French and what other nation sent colonists to New Zealand in the 1830s?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: How many US states do not border another US state?
Answer: 2
Question: Danny and Sandy are the main characters in which musical?
Answer: Grease