zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which artist born in what is now Belgium (c. 1380-1441) painted the Ghent Altarpiece?
Answer: Jan van Eyck
Question: Katanga is a province in which African country?
Answer: Democratic Republic of Congo
Question: William Cavendish-Bentinck served twice as Prime Minister, briefly in 1783 and from 1807 to 1809: by what title is he better known?
Answer: Duke of Portland
Question: The star "Bellatrix", whose name comes from a Latin word meaning "warrior", can be found in which constellation?
Answer: Orion
Question: The Hector Berlioz opera "Les Troyens" is based on which of Virgil's poems?
Answer: The Aeneid
Question: Which international organisation was founded in Cairo on 22nd March 1945?
Answer: THE ARAB LEAGUE
Question: What word refers to free roaming horses in the United States descended from stock introduced by the Spanish?
Answer: MUSTANGS
Question: What name was given to the heir apparent to the throne of France from 1350 - 1791 and then from 1824-1830?
Answer: DAUPHIN
Question: Which Greek heroine refused to many a man unless he could beat her in a footrace?
Answer: ATLANTA
Question: Named after the city where they signed the pact in 1955 where did eight eastern European states agree to form a political alliance?
Answer: WARSAW
Question: In architecture, what name is given to a structure of wood, stone or brick, built against a wall, to strengthen or support it?
Answer: Buttress
Question: What word can be used to describe a quarter of an acre of land, an old measurement of length between 16½ feet and 24 feet or a large cross above the central axis of a church?
Answer: ROOD
Question: In art, which Italian term literally translating as ‘light-dark’ refers to the use of strong contrasts?
Answer: CHIAROSCURO
Question: Which book opens with the words “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s”?
Answer: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Question: Which South African politician is the only person to sign both peace treaties for the 1st and 2nd World Wars?
Answer: JAN SMUTS
Question: Chris Gittins played which character in BBC Radio's "The Archers" for thirty five-years between 1953 and 1988?
Answer: Walter Gabriel
Question: The Harrow and Halifax bomber-aircraft, which saw service with the R.A.F. during the Second World War, were built by which company?
Answer: Handley-Page
Question: Which Avro delta wing bomber entered service in the RAF in 1956 and was retired in 1984?
Answer: Vulcan
Question: Peter Benson appeared in over two hundred episodes of TV's "Heartbeat" between 1995 and 2010, playing which role?
Answer: Bernie Scripps
Question: Bacharach and David composed the music for a 1973 musical remake of which 1937 Frank Capra film?
Answer: Lost Horizon
Question: Which film starring Michael Keaton and Amy Ryan won the Best Picture Oscar in 2015?
Answer: Birdman
Question: Who was assassinated on 6th October 1981 by troops when he was inspecting at a victory parade?
Answer: Anwar Sadat
Question: What name was given to one of the ten divisions of a legion?
Answer: A Cohort
Question: By what name is Acetylsalicylic Acid better known?
Answer: Aspirin
Question: Who wrote the 1932 novel ‘Brave New World’?
Answer: Aldous Huxley
Question: Tony Stark is the real name of which super-hero featured in Marvel comics and later films?
Answer: Iron Man
Question: In English Common Law, what is the minimum number of people that can constitute a riot?
Answer: Three
Question: Because of the flexibility of its branches and growing characteristic, what tree species is most popularly used for bonsai? (hint: gin!)
Answer: Juniper
Question: The Spoonmaker's Diamond is a major attraction of a museum at what location that used to be the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for 400 years?
Answer: Topkapi palace
Question: The planet Dagobah is the site of exile of which wise master voiced by Frank Oz throughout a seminal series?
Answer: Yoda
Question: Mohini the enchantress is the only female manifestation of which male deity of the Hindu pantheon known for his avatars?
Answer: Vishnu
Question: What is traditionally broken at the funeral of a magician, the practice starting from Harry Houdin's funeral in 1926?
Answer: Wand
Question: In Greek myth, the constellation Leo represents what beast best known from a list of dozen?
Answer: Nemean lion
Question: A 1480s painting by Albertus Pictor in Täby Church located north of Stockholm that inspired a film director depicts a man playing chess with whom?
Answer: Death
Question: In response to a request by Gypsy Rose Lee, what term for a striptease performer was coined by the H. L. Mencken after he channeled his inner Greek and thought of invertebrate molting?
Answer: Ecdysiast
Question: The most important text of what popular practice, varieties of which include hatha, mantra and raja is attributed to Patañjali?
Answer: Yoga
Question: If Deucalion is to Greek mythology and Utnapishtim is to Mesopotamian mythology, who is the equivalent figure in Christianity? (hint: all saved themselves in a particular way)
Answer: Noah
Question: In times gone by, shepherds used to place a bell around the neck of a castrated ram that was leading a flock of sheep so that the movement of the flock could be noted. What was another term for the castrated ram?
Answer: Wether
Question: K Street in Washington D.C. that is appropriately not far from government is home to several offices of what 'influential' industry?
Answer: Lobbying
Question: Although never part of international maritime law, which phrase was popularised by its usage on the RMS Titanic as a consequence of which 74% of the women and 52% of the children were saved but only 20% of the men?
Answer: """Women and children first"""
Question: Which French painter is most closely associated with scenes of Parisian night-life and portraits of popular cabaret entertainers?
Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Question: What present-day tradition that is a favorite among the working class originated in the U.S. Navy in the 1920s where it was a slang for a scheduled entertainment period?
Answer: Happy hour
Question: What cultural symbol of Mexico is said to represent both the Virgin Mary and the Aztec goddess Tonantzin?
Answer: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Question: The firm Sterling Cooper featured in the hit TV series Mad Men is located in what part of New York?
Answer: Madison Avenue
Question: The automobile SEAT 600 made from 1957 to 1973 is associated with the economic boom of what country?
Answer: Spain
Question: The idea for what company originated when Reed Hastings paid $40 in fine for returning Apollo 13 well past its due date?
Answer: Netflix
Question: What giant corporation headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland was listed as the world's most profitable in 2011 by Fortune?
Answer: Nestlé
Question: Which legal term describes a brand name that has become synonymous with a particular class of products and whose examples include Scotch Tape, Frisbee, Xerox and Band-Aid?
Answer: Generic trademark
Question: The American inventor Douglas Engelbart is best known for inventing which ubiquitous 'clicking' device?
Answer: Computer mouse
Question: Which company was responsible for the Bhopal disaster in 1984 that is frequently cited as the world's worst industrial disaster?
Answer: Union Carbide
Question: Marshall McLuhan was named as the 'patron saint' of which magazine that had his quote on its masthead for the first ten years of its publication?
Answer: Wired
Question: What 'nuclear' nickname was given to Jack Welch in the 1980s for eliminating employees while leaving the office buildings intact?
Answer: Neutron Jack
Question: The 1952 movie Bwana Devil that had on its poster the lines "A lion is in your lap!" and "A lover is in your arms!" is known for sparking what craze?
Answer: 3-D
Question: What connects Martin Scorsese to the names The Dead Rabbits, The Daybreak Boys, and The Whyos (among others)?
Answer: Gangs of New York
Question: What 1968 film during whose filming the music composer wore a gorilla mask for inspiration is said to hold the record for the highest make-up budget (when adjusted for inflation)?
Answer: The Planet of the Apes
Question: What invention of Garrett Brown that 'smoothens' movie viewing experience saw its debut in Bound for Glory and subsequently in the chase scenes of Marathon Man?
Answer: Steadicam
Question: What frightening sci-fi film character, also called a xenomorph, was designed by H. R. Giger from a lithograph titled Necronom IV?
Answer: Alien
Question: In June 2011, FBI arrested Boston mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger near Los Angeles after a 16 year manhunt. He was the inspiration behind the character of Frank Costello in which Oscar-winning film?
Answer: The Departed
Question: The title of what poignant 1971 drama film set in Anarene, Texas refers to the fact of the town's only cinema closing forever?
Answer: The Last Picture Show
Question: Which 1992 romantic-thriller that had two Oscar nominated songs in "I Have Nothing" and "Run to You" has spawned the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time?
Answer: The Bodyguard
Question: What Oscar nominated 2010 movie was adapted from the book The Accidental Billionaires and advertised with the tagline "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"?
Answer: The Social Network
Question: What 1997 science fiction drama that deals with eugenics takes its title from a combination of the initial letters of the four DNA bases of Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine?
Answer: Gattaca
Question: Which 2001 film is based on the story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss that deals with the age of machines where child creation is controlled?
Answer: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Question: Which French comedian is best known for his portrayal of an irascible Italian village priest at war with the town's Communist mayor in the Don Camillo series of motion pictures?
Answer: Fernandel
Question: David Chase, the creator of which super-hit TV series called the movie Goodfellas his inspiration?
Answer: The Sopranos
Question: According to the British tabloid The Sun, which much-loved 1965 musical was selected by BBC executives as one to be broadcast after a nuclear strike to improve the morale of survivors?
Answer: The Sound of Music
Question: The title of which 2003 movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall who sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed it upon death?
Answer: 21 Grams
Question: In The Matrix films, the hovercraft of Morpheus is named after which ancient ruler of Babylon?
Answer: Nebuchadnezzar
Question: While shooting a movie in 1981, Warren Beatty lectured his extras on the capitalist exploitation of labour, attempting to inspire them. A magazine called it the 4th dumbest decision in movie history because the extras went on strike, demanding higher wages! What film was Beatty making?
Answer: Reds
Question: Which 1975 cult movie has taken in over $139 million since its release making it the highest grossing movie to have never played in more than 1,000 theatres at the same time?
Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Question: Referring to a character in which film did Malcolm X say "When Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug"?
Answer: Gone with the Wind
Question: In the movie Rain Man, what airline does Raymond insist on flying as it has a perfect safety record?
Answer: Qantas
Question: Which 1985 film starring Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, and John Candy has a cult following among many generations of Peace Corps personnel?
Answer: Volunteers
Question: When he won an Oscar for Philadelphia, Tom Hanks gave a speech thanking two people and inspired the 1997 comedy In and Out. What is the missing word in the following excerpt from the speech? "... two of the finest ___ Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with ..."
Answer: """gay"""
Question: Burkittsville in Maryland, USA gained notoriety in 1999 after the release of which 'fake real' film that supposedly took place there?
Answer: The Blair Witch Project
Question: Compiled in the late 4th or early 5th century AD and sure to delight gourmets, what is Apicius?
Answer: Collection of Roman cookery recipes
Question: A favorite measure of dieters in the present times, what index indicates how quickly blood sugar levels rise after eating a particular type of food?
Answer: Glycemic index
Question: The Cypriot dish ambelopoulia that is the subject of much controversy in the country is made from what?
Answer: Songbirds
Question: In 1981, in a move that met with considerable controversy, the Agriculture Department in the US proposed classifying pickle relish and what other condiment as vegetables in order to save money on school lunch programs?
Answer: Ketchup
Question: According to The Wall Street Journal, in March 2011 which drink overtook Pepsi to become the No. 2 carbonated soft drink in the US, perhaps reflecting weight consciousness?
Answer: Diet Coke
Question: Two Belgian Malinois dogs called Hurricane and Jordan were in the news in 2014 for tackling an intruder at what location?
Answer: White House
Question: A Blue Flag certification is given by the Foundation for Environmental Education as an endorsement of cleanliness to what type of places?
Answer: Beaches
Question: A group of people in Cairo, Egypt who are collectively called the Zabbaleen are known for their association with what material?
Answer: Garbage
Question: What organization that operates with the slogan "The Opinion and The Other Opinion" started in 1996 with a loan of 500 million Qatari riyals?
Answer: Al Jazeera
Question: Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan is known for his role in establishing what seminal institution in Great Britain?
Answer: National Health Service
Question: Photographer Walter Iooss who also shoots swimsuit models among others is known for his contributions to which magazine?
Answer: Sports Illustrated
Question: The words burcad badeed mean "ocean robber" in what African language?
Answer: Somali
Question: The Berne Convention of 1886 was an international agreement that established rules governing what?
Answer: Copyright
Question: The names of the command module and lunar module of Apollo 10 were named for the characters of what story that was told in nearly 18,000 strips?
Answer: Peanuts
Question: Who is the icon of linguistics who composed the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" to demonstrate the difference between structure and meaning?
Answer: Noam Chomsky
Question: Which entity headquartered in Lyon, France is the second largest intergovernmental organization after the UN by member states count (190)?
Answer: Interpol
Question: What type of relationship first explored in Symposium by a famous philosopher was described as 'Christian apology' of Greek love?
Answer: Platonic love
Question: The German word ahnentafel is a term for a numbering system used in what particular field? (hint: using it eliminates the need to draw a tree)
Answer: Genealogy
Question: Although it is erroneously believed that it was built as a teaching tool for students to understand 3D objects, its real purpose was solving the problem of moving its parts independently without the mechanism falling apart. What is this object in question that was invented at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest in the 1970s?
Answer: Rubik's Cube
Question: What popular assessment that is based on the theories of Carl Jung was created during WWII to help women identify the type of war-time jobs where they would be 'most comfortable and effective'?
Answer: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Question: A 2003 book by Gian J. Quasar subtitled Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery focuses on a region with vertices at Florida, Puerto Rico and what other island?
Answer: Bermuda
Question: Following a famous crime, the United States Congress adopted a statute in 1932 that was dubbed the Lindbergh Law. The legislation made what act a federal offense?
Answer: Kidnapping
Question: In maritime law, what chaste term denotes the passage of a vessel through the territorial waters of another state subject to certain restrictions?
Answer: Innocent passage
Question: In 2008, Islamabad International Airport was renamed as a tribute to which person who passed away in 2007?
Answer: Benazir Bhutto
Question: In a 2005 vote, Father Damien, Jacques Brel, Mercator and Peter Paul Rubens all finished in the top-10 list of the greatest people of what country?
Answer: Belgium
Question: The JIM suit, which is designed to maintain a pressure of one atmosphere regardless of external conditions is used by members of which profession?
Answer: Diving
Question: Joseph Rotblat, the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project on moral grounds co-founded what Nobel Peace Prize winning organization that is named for a Canadian village?
Answer: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Question: What comic book character who is particularly appealing to teens was created by its producer who hoped to attract fans of the Andy Hardy movies starring Mickey Rooney?
Answer: Archie
Question: What building whose construction started in 1792 was once described by one of its residents as "... big enough for two emperors, one pope and the grand lama ..."?
Answer: White House
Question: What is the name of the photograph taken by Voyager 1 of the Earth against the vastness of space which lent itself to the title of a 1994 book by Carl Sagan?
Answer: Pale Blue Dot
Question: The German pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel who recognized that children have unique needs and capabilities introduced what concept of modern education?
Answer: Kindergarten
Question: While recovering from wounds received in World War I, Dewitt Wallace had the idea to gather a sampling of articles from various publications; this resulted in the birth of what popular magazine?
Answer: Reader's Digest
Question: Which great philosopher corresponded with Queen Christina of Sweden in his final years and died in 1650 in Stockholm where he had been invited as a teacher for her?
Answer: René Descartes
Question: Apart from writing Tom Jones, the English author Henry Fielding also founded which the organization the Bow Street Runners which is seen as the first attempt at creating what unit of London?
Answer: Police force
Question: What is the American English term for a voting system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference, most commonly in single-winner elections?
Answer: Instant runoff voting (IRV)
Question: If you were at the home of Joseph Barbara in Apalachin, New York on November 14, 1957, I'd be very wary of you. Who met there?
Answer: American mafia
Question: The Thomas Jefferson Building, The John Adams Building and The James Madison Memorial Building in Washington DC together make up what seminal institution?
Answer: Library of Congress
Question: Who once described Tarzan as a major influence on her childhood and said that she would be a much better spouse for him than his fictional wife, Jane? Naturally, she spent time around apes like him!
Answer: Jane Goodall
Question: Sharbat Gula, an Afghan woman of Pashtun ethnicity achieved world wide fame when her photograph was featured on the cover of which magazine in 1985?
Answer: National Geographic
Question: Which US agency has primary jurisdiction over the protection of the President, Vice President and other high ranking government officials?
Answer: Secret Service
Question: """There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics."" Which 20th century philosopher-mathematician wrote this in his autobiography?"
Answer: Bertrand Russell
Question: The BAM railway (...-Amur Mainline) in remote Russia is named for the Amur river and what other geographic feature?
Answer: Lake Baikal
Question: Not surprisingly, the name for what feature of geography means 'almost an island' in Latin?
Answer: Peninsula
Question: The fictional Radiator Springs in Pixar's hit Cars is said to be based on several places the crew visited along what iconic American road?
Answer: Route 66
Question: Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park in Zambia is adjacent with what other park that is also named for a famed attraction?
Answer: Victoria Falls
Question: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a prominent pathway in an American national park named for what geographical feature?
Answer: Glacier
Question: A custom known as the kula exchange or kula ring where great risks are taken to exchange gifts is prevalent in what part of the world?
Answer: Papua New Guinea
Question: A mine in the town of Wieliczka in southern Poland that attracts millions of visitors is known for having produced what for centuries?
Answer: Salt
Question: Aguada, Varca, Vagator, Colva, Calangute, and Anjuna are some of the beaches in what state of India known for its Portuguese influence and for its spicy vindaloo?
Answer: Goa
Question: What city that is home to Africa's tallest building (the Carlton Centre) is the largest city in the world not on a lake, navigable river or by the coast?
Answer: Johannesburg
Question: The name of what able-bodied ethnic group from the mountain regions of Nepal means 'people of the east' in Tibetan?
Answer: Sherpa
Question: The design of what magnificent 12th century complex, the largest of its kind in the world, represents the home of the Gods in Hindu mythology?
Answer: Angkor Wat
Question: Francophonie is an international organization of 56 member states where there is a notable affiliation with the French language. What is the largest country in this group?
Answer: Canada
Question: A funnel cloud is nothing but condensed water droplets associated with a rotating column of wind which extends from the base of a cloud without touching the ground. If it touches the ground, what is it called?
Answer: Tornado
Question: Which magnificent Tibetan landmark escaped damage during the Cultural Revolution of China in 1966 through the personal intervention of Zhou Enlai?
Answer: Potala Palace
Question: The Merlion, an imaginary creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish, is used as the mascot of which tiny Asian island nation?
Answer: Singapore
Question: The largest impact over land in Earth's recent history, how is the explosion that occurred in 1908 near the namesake river in Siberia commonly known?
Answer: Tunguska event
Question: Located in northeast Caribbean, what is the smallest inhabited sea island that is divided between two nations?
Answer: Saint Martin
Question: Though it was the dream of many historical rulers including Nero, the Corinth Canal was completed only in 1893. It separates the Greek mainland from which other landmass?
Answer: Peloponnesian peninsula
Question: Completely bordered by France on three sides, what is the world's most densely populated sovereign country as well as the smallest French-speaking country?
Answer: Monaco
Question: Meaning 'place of sunset' or 'western' in Arabic, which word is generally applied to the geographic area of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia together?
Answer: Maghreb
Question: A trans-boundary river is a river that crosses at least one political border (either a border within a nation or an international boundary). Which country has the greatest number of such rivers, including 58 that enter from India or Burma?
Answer: Bangladesh
Question: Which famous bay in Sydney, Australia was the site of a landing by Captain James Cook and sparked Britian's interest in Australia?
Answer: Botany Bay
Question: Two monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into a cliff and infamously destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 were located in which part of central Afghanistan?
Answer: Bamyan valley
Question: Flemish Cap, an area of shallow waters in the north Atlantic east of Newfoundland and Labrador is featured in which 2000 film as the final fishing grounds for Billy Tyne (George Clooney) and his crew?
Answer: The Perfect Storm
Question: What war that did not see a change in the borders or reparations even after nearly eight years of fighting but saw over a million deaths is said to be 20th century's longest conventional war?
Answer: Iran-Iraq War