zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Paper sizes are usually designated by the prefix A - what prefix do envelope sizes have?
Answer: C
Question: In the Olympic Games those placed first to third receive medals, what is awarded to those finishing fourth to eighth?
Answer: Diplomas
Question: Which part of a bird is known formally as the furcula?
Answer: Wishbone
Question: Which creature's name is also the term given to three strikes in a row in a game of ten-pin bowling?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Whose single 'Evergreen' was the best-selling record in the UK in the decade to December 31st 2009?
Answer: Will Young
Question: What name is given to the small metal discs around the frame of a tambourine?
Answer: Jingles
Question: In which war did the Battle of Blenheim take place?
Answer: Spanish Succession
Question: Which Liverpool Group had a top ten hit in the 1963 with the song "Hello Little Girl"?
Answer: FOURMOST
Question: Distilled in the hills of Kentucky since 1795 which brand of Bourbon takes its name from the man who rebuilt the business following prohibition?
Answer: JIM BEAM
Question: Which TV animated series features the comedic antics of Peter and Louis Griffin?
Answer: FAMILY GUY
Question: What was the name of the murderer that the crowds told Pilate to free rather than Jesus?
Answer: BARABBAS
Question: In 1675 the Rev. John Flamsteed was the first person to hold which position?
Answer: ASTRONOMER ROYAL
Question: What position was John Dryden appointed to in 1668?
Answer: POET LAUREATE
Question: Which small rodent highly valued for its fine silky fur lives almost exclusively in the Andes?
Answer: CHINCHILLA
Question: Which Benjamin Britten opera was composed to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second?
Answer: Gloriana
Question: Who was the Greek god of the winds?
Answer: Aeolus
Question: Actor Gary Webster took over as an eponymous character in which TV series of the 70s and 80s?
Answer: Minder
Question: In World War 2, Admiral Gunther Lutjens was in command of which famous ship?
Answer: Bismarck
Question: What is the name of the rod on a sundial which indicates the time?
Answer: Gnomon
Question: In which band did Ringo Starr play immediately before he joined the Beatles?
Answer: Rory Storm and the Hurricanes
Question: In the shape of which animal does the Hindu God Hanuman appear?
Answer: A Monkey
Question: Under which zodiac sign was Jesus born?
Answer: CAPRICORN
Question: Whose last words were reputed to have been "I will hear in heaven"?
Answer: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Question: What is the chemical name for vitamin B2?
Answer: RIBOFLAVIN
Question: The 12000 foot high volcano Semeru is the highest peak on which South-East Asian island?
Answer: JAVA
Question: What is the name of Steven Spielberg's 1997 film telling the story of a slave ship mutiny?
Answer: AMISTAD
Question: Which fruit provides the basis for quetsch brandy?
Answer: PLUMS
Question: Isabella of Angouleme was the wife of which English King?
Answer: JOHN
Question: The ship Earl of Pembroke renamed in 1768 for its new role became famous by what name?
Answer: ENDEAVOUR
Question: At which point on the Cumbrian coast does Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk start?
Answer: ST BEES
Question: If you sailed West from Land's End and followed the same line of latitude, which country would be your first port of call?
Answer: CANADA
Question: It was founded in 1379 as St Mary's College of Winchester in Oxford, but as there was already a St Mary's College at Oxford as what has it been known ever since?
Answer: NEW COLLEGE
Question: Which comedian and panel game member wrote the 2007 book 'Silent Comedy' about Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others?
Answer: PAUL MERTON
Question: Which acid found in wood sorrel and rhubarb leaves is traditionally used in dyeing and bleaching?
Answer: OXALIC
Question: Who wrote the play `Hobson's Choice' in 1916?
Answer: HAROLD BRIGHOUSE
Question: Levi Stubbs, Abdul Fakir, Renaldo Benson and Lawrence Peyton were collectively known as which Motown group of the 60's?
Answer: THE FOUR TOPS
Question: Both St. David's and St. Patrick's Days fall under which sign of the astrological zodiac?
Answer: PISCES
Question: In WW2, what name was given to the attempted Allied liberation of the Netherlands in September 1944?
Answer: Operation Market Garden
Question: John Illsley and Pick Withers were among the founder members of which predominantly British group?
Answer: Dire Straits
Question: The Louis S. St. Laurent' and the 'John G. Diefenbaker' are specifically what kind of ships?
Answer: Icebreakers
Question: The national Needle Museum is to be found in which Worcestershire town?
Answer: Redditch
Question: All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The opening lines of which great novel?
Answer: Anna Karenina
Question: Which European capital is served by Vantaa airport?
Answer: Helsinki
Question: Danced in a style representing a bullfight, which dance takes its name from the Spanish for 'double step'?
Answer: Paso Doble
Question: In which city did Batman live as Bruce Wayne?
Answer: Gotham City
Question: What name is given to non-volatile computer memory that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed which is primarily used in memory cards, memory sticks etc?
Answer: Flash
Question: Which native American tribe were famously used as "Code Talkers" during WW2, due to the fact that so few people talked their language?
Answer: Navajo
Question: If Germany is 49 and the United Kingdom is 44, then what number is France?
Answer: 33
Question: 'Captain Hoseason' of the ship the 'Covenant' features in which Robert Louis Stevenson novel, which was made into a film starring Michael Caine?
Answer: Kidnapped
Question: What are the irregularly-shaped, colourless bodies present in blood whose sticky surface lets them, along with other substances, form clots to stop bleeding when exposed to air?
Answer: Platelet(s)
Question: On a traditional Monopoly board, Marylebone, King's Cross and Liverpool Street are three of the stations, name the fourth.
Answer: Fenchurch Street
Question: In which country is Mount Ararat (where Noah's Ark is reputed to have come to rest) the highest peak?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Who was on the throne of England in 1150?
Answer: STEPHEN
Question: Adele has had several recent album successes, in which English city was she born?
Answer: LONDON
Question: Who was on the throne of England in 1472?
Answer: EDWARD IV
Question: The title of which famous film is also the name of a North African city whose name translates as 'white house'?
Answer: Casablanca
Question: Ascorbic acid is an essential dietary requirement, how is it more commonly known?
Answer: Vitamin C
Question: What is the literary term for deliberate understatement?
Answer: Litotes
Question: Hlobane and Isandhlwana were battles in which 19th century conflict?
Answer: (Anglo-)Zulu War
Question: According to the Talmud who was the first wife of Adam?
Answer: Lilith
Question: What name is traditionally given to the hangman in a Punch and Judy Show, named after Charles 1st executioner?
Answer: JOHN KETCH
Question: Which English statesman, lawyer and scientist died after catching pneumonia from stuffing a chicken with snow?
Answer: FRANCIS BACON
Question: Who is the patron saint of the Order of the Garter?
Answer: ST GEORGE
Question: Which philosopher said "The State is not abolished it withers away"?
Answer: FRIEDRICH ENGELS
Question: Clint Reno, Vince Everett and Danny Fisher are roles played in films by whom?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question: What is the name of the diacritical mark in Spanish which is placed over a letter 'n' to soften its pronunciation, e.g. in the word 'señor'?
Answer: Tilde
Question: Who wrote the 19th century detective novel "The Moonstone"?
Answer: Wilkie Collins
Question: If a dish includes 'Du Barry' in its name what ingredient does it contain?
Answer: Cauliflower
Question: In 1805 Mungo Park was sent to trace the course of which river?
Answer: Niger
Question: In Australian cricket what are 'extras' known as?
Answer: Sundries
Question: What was the middle name of Captain James Kirk?
Answer: Tiberius
Question: Where would you apply to become a lighthouse keeper in England and Wales?
Answer: Trinity House
Question: Who was the mother of twins, Apollo and Artemis?
Answer: LETO
Question: In the Hellenistic system the weekdays were named after the 7 classical planets (Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars etc), which planet is commemorated by the day we call Friday?
Answer: VENUS
Question: How are the states of Ajman, al-Fujairah, Ras-al Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwain and two others collectively known?
Answer: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Question: Ownership of which worldwide publishing concern gave Conrad Black control of the Daily Telegraph?
Answer: HOLLINGER INTERNATION
Question: What is the name of the village in which Mrs. Goggins is the postmistress?
Answer: Greendale
Question: Which religious group publishes a magazine called "The Watchtower"?
Answer: Jehovah's Witnesses
Question: Whose first number one album in the UK was "Every Picture Tells a Story" in 1971?
Answer: Rod Stewart
Question: Which English county did Ian Botham join after leaving Somerset in 1987?
Answer: Worcestershire
Question: In which 1949 movie did James Cagney say the lines 'Made it Ma - Top of the world', before being killed?
Answer: White Heat
Question: Whose first number album in the UK was "Dead Ringer' in 1981?
Answer: Meatloaf
Question: In which country did the Carnation Revolution take place in 1974?
Answer: Portugal
Question: In which of his books does George Orwell recount his experiences in the Spanish Civil War?
Answer: Homage to Catalonia
Question: What was the name of the month in the French Revolutionary Calendar which corresponded to parts of July and August? The same word describes a lobster dish.
Answer: Thermidor
Question: John Wayne won his only Oscar for his role in which film?
Answer: True Grit
Question: Eddie Reader had a Number 1 hit in April 1988 with which group?
Answer: Fairground Attraction
Question: What nationality was the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard?
Answer: Danish
Question: In which year was the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
Answer: 1876
Question: Which Liberal Democrat MP was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury in David Cameron's Cabinet in May 2010, only to resign the same month over an expenses claim?
Answer: David Laws
Question: Which historic region of France, roughly corresponding to the Dordogne, gives its name to black truffles?
Answer: Perigord
Question: What name is given in English to a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, eg deeply superficial?
Answer: Oxymoron
Question: Developed from the instruments brought by Portuguese soldiers, with which island group is the ukulele particularly associated?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: In American football, how many points are awarded for a field goal?
Answer: Three
Question: Which character of "The Archers" died in a fall from the roof of Lower Loxley Hall in 2011, as the soap celebrated its 60th anniversary?
Answer: Nigel Pargetter
Question: According to Muslim tradition, who revealed the Qur'an to Mohammed?
Answer: The Angel Gabriel
Question: Who is the British designer responsible for the design of many iconic Apple products?
Answer: Jonathan Ive
Question: What are known as The Devil's Picture Book'?
Answer: PLAYING CARDS
Question: During which War did the Battle of Corunna take place?
Answer: THE PENINSULAR WAR
Question: Which science fiction author invented the 3 Laws of Robotics?
Answer: Isaac Asimov
Question: What name was given to Mustapha Kemal after he became Dictator of Turkey in 1935?
Answer: Ataturk
Question: Who-succeeded Claudius as Emperor of Rome in AD 54?
Answer: Nero
Question: To within 2 years each way, when did the first Crusade, launched by Urban II take place?
Answer: 1096
Question: Apart from Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, what is the only other English county allowed to produce Stilton cheese?
Answer: Derbyshire
Question: Who was the beautiful girl loved by Eros in Greek mythology? Her name means 'spirit' or 'life' in Greek.
Answer: Psyche
Question: What was the name of the BP oil drilling rig which exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010?
Answer: Deepwater Horizon
Question: Which astronomer (1473-15.43) formulated the theory which is accepted as having first placed the Sun at the centre of the solar system?
Answer: Copernicus
Question: What was the only number 1 record for Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch?
Answer: LEGEND OF XANADU
Question: In which country did the O.A.S. terrorist organisation operate in the late 1950's and early 1960's?
Answer: ALGERIA
Question: The scientific suffix -ose indicates the presence of what type of carbohydrate?
Answer: Sugar
Question: In World War I, what name was given to the vast system of defences in N E France stretching from Lens to Verdun?
Answer: Hindenburg Line
Question: What disease takes its name from the same Greek root as a type of coal, due to the black lesions it produces?
Answer: ANTHRAX
Question: What liquid flows through your lacrimal canaliculi?
Answer: TEARS
Question: What Brooklyn landmark is named after the rabbits that over-ran it in the 17th century?
Answer: CONEY ISLAND
Question: What country's economy melted down in 2008 following the collapse of banks Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupthing?
Answer: ICELAND
Question: The Roman province of Dacia is now part of which modern day country?
Answer: ROMANIA
Question: The last working gallows were housed in which of London's prisons?
Answer: WANDSWORTH
Question: Who had a No. 1 hit single in 1969 with 'Dizzy'?
Answer: TOMMY ROE
Question: Who was the mother of William 2nd and Henry 1st ?
Answer: MATILDA
Question: Flora Poste and the Starkadder family appear in which novel? (a parody of those by Mary Webb)
Answer: COLD COMFORT FARM
Question: The Bible Student Movement founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1872 is now known by which name?
Answer: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
Question: In 2006 Lord Michael Levy earned himself which nickname?
Answer: LORD CASHPOINT
Question: Which of the Gospels records the Sermon on the Mount including the Beatitudes and the Lords' Prayer?
Answer: MATTHEW
Question: Which pop group of the 60's and 70's released albums entitled `Days of Future Passed' and 'A Question of Balance'?
Answer: THE MOODY BLUES
Question: What name is given to the Northernmost belt of coniferous forest stretching from Scandinavia to Siberia?
Answer: THE TAIGA
Question: In the Christian religion, how many traditional stations of the cross are there?
Answer: Fourteen
Question: Derived from Latin, what is the name of the pole used to propel and steer a punt?
Answer: Quant
Question: In 1959, which singer had a No.1 UK hit single with "What Do You Want"?
Answer: Adam Faith
Question: In July 1946, which hotel in Jerusalem was bombed by Jewish terrorists because it was the HQ of the British administration?
Answer: King David Hotel
Question: Which British actress was married to Sir Laurence Olivier at the time of his death?
Answer: Joan Plowright
Question: In the famous Headingley test match in 1981, which English bowler took 8 wickets for 43 runs against Australia?
Answer: Bob Willis
Question: Which comedian's catchphrase was "I won't take me coat off, I'm not stopping"?
Answer: Ken Platt
Question: The Canadian province of Manitoba has a north east border with which body of water?
Answer: Hudson Bay
Question: Panji(m) is the capital of which Indian state, popular with holiday makers?
Answer: Goa
Question: Lucie Manette is the heroine of which Dickens Novel?
Answer: A TALE of TWO CITIES
Question: What is the more common name for the group of rebels who called themselves 'The Fists of Righteous Harmony' at the turn of the 20th century?
Answer: BOXERS
Question: The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration in Britain, what is the highest civilian decoration?
Answer: GEORGE CROSS
Question: Name the 1978 TV programme in which Lorne Green played Commander Adama and Dirk Benedict plays Lieutenant Starbuck?
Answer: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Question: The evil Mouse King features in which ballet?
Answer: Nutcracker
Question: Who, when aged 42 years and 103 days, is the oldest footballer to play for England?
Answer: Stanley Matthews
Question: Who, in an ancient myth, removed a thorn from a lion's paw?
Answer: Androcles
Question: In 1949 Time magazine profile erroneously gave Louis Armstrong which middle name?
Answer: Daniel
Question: Robert the Bruce's son succeeded him as King of Scotland. Who was he?
Answer: David II
Question: Charles Saatchi once bought a sculpture of a head made from which unusual substance?
Answer: BLOOD
Question: How is the mathematical series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 etc better known?
Answer: FIBONACCI
Question: What is the mathematical name for series such as 2, 6, 18, 54 etc where the next term in the sequence is obtained by multiplying the previous one by a fixed number?
Answer: GEOMETRIC
Question: In which US state is the city of Pittsburgh?
Answer: PENNSYLVANIA
Question: Who, in the Old Testament, ordered the building of the Golden Calf?
Answer: Aaron
Question: Which is the only Far Eastern country to have been a member of OPEC, being so from 1962 to 2008?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: The name of which unit of measurement is taken from the Greek meaning universal measure?
Answer: Metre
Question: In "Lady Windermere's Fan" who or what did Oscar Wilde describe as "A Man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"?
Answer: A CYNIC
Question: In which century was the printing press established in Britain?
Answer: 15th
Question: Which South American country was formerly ruled by the Imperial House of Braganza?
Answer: BRAZIL
Question: In Greek mythology, how are Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos better known?
Answer: THE FATES
Question: Which English Benedictine monk and missionary is known as the Apostle of Germany?
Answer: ST BONIFACE
Question: Which band had a hit with the song 'Brown Girl in the Ring'?
Answer: BONEY M
Question: What has been made at the Black Friars distillery in Devon since 1793 and has EU geographical protected status?
Answer: PLYMOUTH GIN
Question: Which famous American singer-songwriter and musician, born in Vernon, Texas, died on 6th December 1988?
Answer: ROY ORBISON
Question: Where did the first battle of the Wars of the Roses take place?
Answer: St Albans
Question: The flag of which county has bands of four colours, a red vertical band at the hoist and horizontal stripes of green, white and black?
Answer: United Arab Emirates
Question: Where in the human body would you find the pineal gland?
Answer: BRAIN
Question: Which English long distance path runs from Hassle to Filey?
Answer: WOLD'S WAY
Question: Which small European country's flag is two horizontal bands light blue over white with the nation's coat of arms in the centre?
Answer: SAN MARINO
Question: Which small European country's flag is divided horizontally blue over red with a yellow crown in the top left corner?
Answer: LIECHENSTEIN
Question: With which instrument is the British virtuoso Natalie Klein principally associated?
Answer: (Violin)CELLO
Question: Who had a UK No.1 album, in 2002, with "Escapology"?
Answer: (Robbie) WILLIAMS
Question: Which character in Shakespeare "loved not wisely but too well"?
Answer: OTHELLO
Question: In ancient Greece, whose wife was Xanthippe?
Answer: Socrates
Question: Whose only British No. 1 hit was "Move Closer" in 1985?
Answer: Phyllis Nelson
Question: Which surname connects a current member of the cabinet, an Open Golf Champion and a former Leeds United striker?
Answer: Clarke
Question: What 3-word Latin phrase means an indispensable condition or action?
Answer: Sine Qua Non
Question: Who became the first Chancellor of West Germany in 1949 and was a founder of The Christian Democrats?
Answer: KONRAD ADENAUER
Question: Graham Napier has hit a record 16 sixes in an innings both in a Twenty20 match in 2008 and a County Championship match in 2011, for which county does he play?
Answer: Essex
Question: In the Bible to where was Saul heading when he was blinded by the light and converted to Christianity?
Answer: Damascus
Question: Nadgett, Elijah Pogram and Tom Pinch appear in which Dickens novel?
Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit
Question: In a TV advert, Mr T (from the programme 'The A-Team') takes a tank on to a football pitch to promote which brand?
Answer: Snickers
Question: Running for 46 miles, which line of the London Underground has the longest track?
Answer: Central
Question: Who in 1711 wrote the line 'A little learning is a dangerous thing'?
Answer: Alexander Pope
Question: Which British Prime Minister wrote a novel 'Savrola' in 1898, while serving as an army officer in India?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: Named after a-Dutch astronomer; what is the name of the spherical cloud of comets, which lies about 1 light year from the sun?
Answer: The Oort Cloud
Question: Where, in literature can you find Willy Nilly, Organ Morgan and Bessie Bighead?
Answer: UNDER MILK WOOD
Question: Which other flag was raised on Mount Everest alongside the flags of Great Britain and Nepal by Hillary and Tensing in 1953?
Answer: UNITED NATIONS
Question: From 1881 Russian Jews and their property were subjected to periodic mob attacks. What were these attacks called?
Answer: POGROMS
Question: Which chief executive of News International resigned in July 2011 over the phone hacking scandal?
Answer: Rebekah Brooks
Question: A Sunday edition of which daily newspaper was launched in January 1990?
Answer: Independent on Sunday
Question: Which English king was threatened by the Rye House Plot?
Answer: Charles II
Question: A Roman Legion consisted of six units known as what?
Answer: COHORTS
Question: What was the function of an Aquilifer in the Roman Army?
Answer: STANDARD BEARER
Question: Who is reputed to have said, 'Today, I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon'? after discoveries at Mycenae?
Answer: Heinrich SCHLIEMANN
Question: Who played Aragorn in the film "Lord of the Rings"?
Answer: Viggo Mortensen
Question: In which novel does Charles Smithson fall in love with Sarah Woodruff?
Answer: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
Question: Who wrote 'The Allegory of Love' and 'Mere Christianity' in the 20th century?
Answer: C S LEWIS
Question: Cowcaddens and Hillhead are underground stations in which city?
Answer: GLASGOW
Question: What is the title of the novel about Barnsley schoolboy Billy Casper which features PE teacher Mr Sugden?
Answer: A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE
Question: According to the UN, what round figure did the world population reach on October 31st 2011?
Answer: 7 BILLION
Question: During the wars between the US Government and the Native Americans in the 1860s and 70s, Sitting Bull was one of the two great leaders of the Sioux; who was the other - victorious at the Battle of the Rose Bud and murdered whist in captivity in September 1877?
Answer: CRAZY HORSE
Question: Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954 and the Peace Prize in 1962?
Answer: LINUS PAULING
Question: Who was Commander-in-Chief of American ground forces in planning the invasion of France in 1944 and Commander of the US 1st Army on D Day?
Answer: OMAR BRADLEY
Question: Who is chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra?
Answer: VASILY PETRENKO
Question: Before petroleum was first commercialized in 1859, which oil was most commonly used for lubrication and lighting?
Answer: WHALE OIL
Question: Which novel opens with the following words 'Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery'?
Answer: THE DA VINCI CODE
Question: Hagiology is a branch of Literature dealing with the lives and stories of whom?
Answer: Saints
Question: Which is generally considered to be Shakespeare's last play, written in 1611?
Answer: The Tempest
Question: To within 1 year either side, in which year did the half crown cease to be legal tender in the U
Answer: 1970
Question: To within 1 year either side, in what year did the UK first win the Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: 1967
Question: In The Jeeves Stories by P. G. Wodehouse, one of the characters was called Mrs Spenser Gregson. What did Bertie Wooster usually call her?
Answer: AUNT AGATHA
Question: In October 2011 which militant separatist organisation declared an end to violent protest after 43 years?
Answer: ETA