zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm', what is the name of the pig who emerges as the leader of the farm following the overthrow of 'Farmer Jones'?
Answer: 'NAPOLEON'
Question: Who was the King of Persia who led the armies that triumphed over the Greeks at the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium?
Answer: XERXES
Question: Which English king was born in Le Mans in 1133?
Answer: HENRY II
Question: Chad shares the vast majority of its eastern border with which country?
Answer: SUDAN
Question: Which Caribbean island nation is thought to take its name from the Spanish for "shallow seas"?
Answer: BAHAMAS
Question: Whose resignation speech to the House of Commons in 1988 included "It is rather like sending your opening batsman to the crease, only for them to find, as the first balls are being bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain"?
Answer: GEOFFREY HOWE
Question: Following the awarding of city status to St. Asaph earlier this year, there are now six cities in Wales. Which city is first alphabetically?
Answer: BANGOR
Question: John McCain and Barry Goldwater, the defeated candidate in the 1964 US Presidential Election, were both Senators for which state?
Answer: ARIZONA
Question: Which operatic heroine dies after secretly following her lover into a vault where he was sentenced to die?
Answer: AIDA
Question: For which Bond film, in which she has a cameo role as a fencing instructor, does Madonna sing the theme?
Answer: DIE ANOTHER DAY
Question: Cosima, the younger daughter of Franz Liszt, became the second wife of which composer in 1870?
Answer: RICHARD WAGNER
Question: What is the next line of this 1926 song ‘Pack up all my cares and woe, here I go, singing low, ..........’?
Answer: BYE BYE BLACKBIRD
Question: Who created the newspaper strip cartoon “The Perishers”?
Answer: Maurice Dodd
Question: Which county cricket team won seven consecutive county championships in the 1950’s?
Answer: Surrey
Question: By what one-word name is the Lockheed SR-71 aircraft known?
Answer: BLACKBIRD
Question: Who was King of Italy from 1900 until 1946 - regnal number not required?
Answer: VICTOR EMMANUEL (III)
Question: The Allied forces at the 1704 Battle of Blenheim were led by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of where?
Answer: SAVOY
Question: What is a computer called that controls access to a network, as well as acting as a file storage device?
Answer: SERVER
Question: The 'Nimrod' used by the RAF for search and early warning purposes, was developed from which airliner?
Answer: DE HAVILLAND 'COMET'
Question: Trowbridge, Marlborough and Warminster, are three towns in which English county?
Answer: WILTSHIRE
Question: Which German city isserved by 'Schkeuditz Airport'?
Answer: LEIPZIG
Question: Where on the night of November 12th 1940, was the Italian fleet attacked and badly damaged, whilst atanchor?
Answer: TARANTO
Question: The 'Kip' is the currency of which Far Eastern country?
Answer: LAOS
Question: Which German composer's only opera was 'Fidelio'?
Answer: BEETHOVEN
Question: Which film star, upon splitting with her partner said,"At least I can wear high heels now"?
Answer: NICOLE KIDMAN
Question: Which British explorer was buried on South Georgia Island in the Atlantic Ocean upon his death in 1922?
Answer: ERNEST SHACKLETON
Question: Commonly used in the textiles industry, which unit of thermal resistance is used to measure the thickness of duvets?
Answer: TOG
Question: With 14 number ones between 1999 and 2006, which is the only non-British group to have had more than ten UKnumber one hits?
Answer: 'WESTLIFE'
Question: What is the name of the pre-Roman ancient road that runs from Wallingford in Oxfordshire to Knettishall Heath in Norfolk?
Answer: ICKNIELD WAY
Question: Who was the 17th century English poet and Member of Parliament, who is best remembered for his poem entitled 'To His Coy Mistress'?
Answer: ANDREW MARVELL
Question: 'Just For Laughs' is afamous televised comedy festival held annually in which Canadian city?
Answer: MONTREAL
Question: Which Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn novel tells the story of a group of patients in an Uzbekistani hospital?
Answer: 'CANCER WARD'
Question: What was the name of the horse ridden by PC George Scorey, who gave his name to the FA Cup's 'White Horse Final' of 1923?
Answer: 'BILLIE'
Question: Which English archaeologist held the first Chair in Archaeology in the UK and is best known for discovering the 'Merneptah Stele' in 1896?
Answer: FLINDERS PETRIE
Question: 'Down Down' was the first number one hit single for which band?
Answer: 'STATUS QUO'
Question: In which Surrey town were 'The Jam' founded in 1972?
Answer: WOKING
Question: Which composer left his Tenth Symphony unfinished on his death in 1911? It has been made into performable form most notably by Deryck Cooke in the 1960's?
Answer: GUSTAV MAHLER
Question: Which US state, formed partly from Indian Territory, was the first to achieve statehood in the 20th century?
Answer: OKLAHOMA
Question: Which club won a 1960's FA Cup Final with defenders Dowd, Book, Pardoe, Doyle, Booth and Oakes?
Answer: MANCHESTER CITY
Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Call Of The Wild'?
Answer: JACK LONDON
Question: Which 32 mile canal runs from the Bridgewater canal in Manchester to join the Aire and Calder Navigation Canal at Sowerby Bridge in Yorkshire, passing through the town that gives the canal its name?
Answer: ROCHDALE CANAL
Question: Which fictional work features the 'Seven Commandments', which are summarised by the statement "four legs good, two legs bad"?
Answer: 'ANIMAL FARM'
Question: Valencia was the venue for the 2007 and 2010 America's Cup, as the defending yacht was from which landlocked country?
Answer: SWITZERLAND
Question: Eric Coates' light orchestral serenade 'By The Sleepy Lagoon' is the appropriately titled introductory music to which long running radio show?
Answer: 'DESERT ISLAND DISCS'
Question: Which restoration dramatist was also responsible for designing Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard?
Answer: JOHN VANBRUGH
Question: What was the popular name of the prison, close in 2000, that was situated in the former Royal Air Force station of Long Kesh, on the outskirts of Lisburn?
Answer: THE MAZE
Question: Ted Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 on the refusal of which prominent poet?
Answer: PHILIP LARKIN
Question: First climbed by Chris Bonnington in 1966, what is the name of the 449ft. high sea stack off the coast of the Orkney Islands?
Answer: OLD MAN OF HOY
Question: A distant relative of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was the American boarding house owner who became the first woman executed by the United States federal government after her conviction for taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: MARY SURRAT
Question: Which Middle Eastern city is served by Queen Alia airport?
Answer: Amman (Jordan)
Question: Which South American country has borders with Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina?
Answer: PARAGUAY
Question: Which African country has land borders with Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti?
Answer: ERITREA
Question: Britain's highest waterfall, Cauldron Snout, lies on a river that rises in the north Pennines. Which river?
Answer: TEES
Question: In which year did France withdraw from NATO, and Indira Ghandi become Prime Minister of India?
Answer: 1966
Question: Whose only UK chart-topping single was called 'Don't You Want Me'?
Answer: HUMAN LEAGUE
Question: Which huge seabird of the 'Tropics' is also known as the 'man-o-war bird'?
Answer: FRIGATE BIRD
Question: The reigning Olympic 5000 metres champion is Mamo Wolde. What nationality is he?
Answer: ETHIOPIAN
Question: Much in the news during the 'Falklands Crisis', on which island is Wideawake Airfield?
Answer: SOUTH GEORGIA
Question: For his role in which 1987 film did Michael Douglas win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of 'Gordon Gecko'?
Answer: 'WALL STREET'
Question: Which SAS soldier wrote the book 'Bravo Two Zero', an account of a failed mission during the (1st) Gulf War?
Answer: ANDY McNAB
Question: For his role in which 1997 film did Jack Nicholson win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of 'Melvin Udall'?
Answer: 'AS GOOD AS IT GETS'
Question: 'Shining Path' is the name of the guerrilla organisation operating in which South American country?
Answer: PERU
Question: In which European capital city did an earthquake kill around 30,000 people on All Saint's Day in 1755?
Answer: LISBON
Question: Which BAFTA Award winning TV series stars Peter Firth as the head of MI5's counter-intelligence unit?
Answer: 'SPOOKS'
Question: Which English Civil War General later led the English forces at the 'Sieges of Limerick' and was made Lord Deputy of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell in 1650?
Answer: HENRY IRETON
Question: Which best-selling American author created the fictional American President 'Jack Ryan'?
Answer: TOM CLANCY
Question: Telling the story of a group of birds in the Brazilian jungle, which animated film, featuring voice casting by Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, is the highest grossing film worldwide of 2011 so far?
Answer: 'RIO'
Question: Last held in 1437, which Scottish earldom was bestowed upon Prince William on the day of his wedding to Catherine Middleton?
Answer: EARL OF STRATHEARN
Question: Which alliteratively-named politician served as Lyndon B. Johnson's Vice-President between 1965 and 1969?
Answer: HUBERT HUMPHREY
Question: Released in 1989, 'Orange Crush' was the first UK top 40 hit for which rock group?
Answer: 'REM'
Question: Which American car make, owned by General Motors, took its name from the French explorer who founded Detroit in 1701?
Answer: CADILLAC
Question: Running from Goa in the north to Cape Comorin on the country's southern tip, what name is given to India's southwestern coastline?
Answer: MALABAR COAST
Question: What name is given to the Jewish Day of Atonement?
Answer: YOM KIPPUR
Question: Assassinated along with several members of his family in 2001 by the heir to his throne, of which country was Birendra the king?
Answer: NEPAL
Question: Which educational grant system to Oxford University, established by bequest in 1902, finally achieved sexual equality in 1976?
Answer: RHODES SCHOLARSHIP
Question: Which company created the perfume Nu in 2001 and Paris in 1983?
Answer: Yves Saint-Laurent
Question: Which artist, described by Matisse as the father of modern painting, painted Apples and Oranges in 1899, The Bather in 1885-87 and The Card Players in 1890?
Answer: Paul Cezanne
Question: Who is New Zealand’s most capped Rugby Union player with 124 test appearences?
Answer: Richie McCaw
Question: Which new type of vessel was delivered to the Royal Navy by the Electric Boat company in 1904?
Answer: Submarine
Question: Which famous building, on the South Coast of England did John Nash design for King George IV?
Answer: Brighton Pavilion
Question: Whose voice was used for the character Mufasa in the film "The Lion King"?
Answer: James Earl Jones
Question: Which Scottish Dukedom does the monarch's eldest son always hold?
Answer: Rothesay
Question: Which aeronautics company built the advanced trainer the 'Gnat', for the RAF in 1968?
Answer: HAWKER SIDDLEY
Question: The theme tune to which TV series starring Don Johnson gave Jan Hammer his first UK chart success?
Answer: 'MIAMI VICE'
Question: Which Hungarian born US pioneer founded the company which became Paramount Pictures?
Answer: ADOLPH ZUKOR
Question: How many etchings made up Hogarth's 'A Rakes Progress'?
Answer: 8
Question: In World War II, on which of the Pacific islands was the bloodiest battle fought, resulting in the deaths of 12,000 American troops and 121,000 Japanese?
Answer: OKINAWA
Question: Which 'James Bond' film featured Louis Armstrong singing'You've Got All The Time In The World', in its opening titles?
Answer: 'ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE'
Question: In which country do the Ibo people live?
Answer: NIGERIA
Question: Which Italian dance group had a Number One hit in the UK in 1999 with 'Blue'?
Answer: 'EIFFEL 65'
Question: In 'Pinnochio', what type of creature is 'J. Worthington Fowl-Fellow'?
Answer: A FOX
Question: Whose tomb bears the inscription "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you"?
Answer: SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
Question: The characters 'Susan Meyer', 'Lynette Scavo', 'Gabrielle Solis', 'Bree Van De Camp', and 'Mike Delfino' appear in which television show?
Answer: 'DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES'
Question: Who in 2003 was expelled from the Labour Party for his extreme criticism of the Iraq War made on Dubai television?
Answer: GEORGE GALLOWAY
Question: What was Prime Minister Gladstone's middle name?
Answer: EWART
Question: Which book of the Bible recounts the death of Joshua and the life of Samson?
Answer: JUDGES
Question: Who was born in 1940, and opened the Fulham Road clothes shop in 1967. This designer is famous for creating exotic designs on chiffon and silk?
Answer: ZANDRA RHODES
Question: Which 'Oscar' winning film of 2002 starring Adrien Brody, was an autobiographical film about a Polish musician who survived World War II living in Warsaw?
Answer: 'THE PIANIST'
Question: In Greek mythology, which Trojan prince was killed by Philoctetes?
Answer: PARIS
Question: Which disease, caused by an increased level of Bilirubin in the blood, derives its name from the French for yellow?
Answer: JAUNDICE
Question: In 'South Park', what is the name of the boy's teacher who had a sex change in series 9 before deciding he was male after all in series 12?
Answer: 'MR. GARRISON'
Question: In 'South Park', which former head of state is depicted as the lover of Satan?
Answer: SADDAM HUSSEIN
Question: Popular in Mexico, what name is given to a bright container, often in the shape of a donkey, that is broken with sticks in order to collect the sweets that are held within it?
Answer: PIÑATA
Question: Which African cat, that is extensively hunted for its fur, has the longest legs of all cats relative to its body size?
Answer: SERVAL
Question: To what did the Gilbert Islands change its name after gaining independence from Britain in 1979?
Answer: KIRIBATI
Question: Which English cricketer scored a then world record 364 runs against Australia at the Oval in 1938?
Answer: LEN HUTTON
Question: Name the form of projectile consisting of cast-iron balls packed in a gun between iron plates?
Answer: GRAPESHOT
Question: What is the capital of Tuvalu?
Answer: FUNAFUTI
Question: Carole Klein achieved fame under what name?
Answer: CAROLE KING
Question: In the 1897 novel 'Dracula', at which seaport in England does the title character make landfall in a violent storm?
Answer: WHITBY
Question: Which mountain in Europe do the French call 'Mount Cervin', and the Italians 'Monte Silvio'?
Answer: MATTERHORN
Question: 'Operation Jubilee' was the World War II codename for the attack on which seaport in 1942?
Answer: DIEPPE
Question: Which Chancellor, executed in 1535, became the patron saint of politicians?
Answer: Sir Thomas More
Question: Although not necessarily wearing them, which item of clothing does a grabologist take great pleasure in collecting?
Answer: Ties
Question: In Judaism, what name is given to the ram’s horn blown in a synagogue as a call to repentance?
Answer: Shofar
Question: Mount Narodnaya is the highest point in which dividing range?
Answer: Urals
Question: The title of the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner comes from a line in the Odyssey by which Greek poet?
Answer: HOMER
Question: Which composer, born on this date in 1928, wrote the music for the songs Magic Moments and Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa?
Answer: BURT BACHARACH
Question: What is the setting for Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio'?
Answer: A PRISON
Question: Which type of tradesman is a 'gaffer', often seen in the production credits at the end of a film?
Answer: ELECTRICIAN
Question: What is the ballet term for a leap taking off from one foot and landing on the other?
Answer: JETE
Question: Which sport is played under the 'Harvard Rules'?
Answer: AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Question: On a standard typewriter keyboard, which is the only vowel that does not appear on the top row?
Answer: THE LETTER 'A'
Question: Which song was written by Arthur Sullivan in sorrow at the death of his brother?
Answer: 'THE LOST CHORD'
Question: Which Liverpool group was named after a John Wayne film?
Answer: 'THE SEARCHERS'
Question: In an opera by Wagner, which eponymous group held a song contest, the prize being the hand of 'Eva'?
Answer: 'THE MEISTERSINGERS'
Question: By what other name is the 'Battle of the Nile' (1798) known?
Answer: ABOUKIR BAY
Question: In which Irish city can one stroll along the Mardyke Wall, between the north and south channels of the River Lee?
Answer: CORK
Question: Which American poet, translator and critic born in 1885 was indicted for treason for making Fascist radio broadcasts during World War Two?
Answer: EZRA POUND
Question: Which colonial power governed Mauritius before the British?
Answer: FRANCE
Question: Which book of the Old Testament includes the Ten Commandments?
Answer: DEUTERONOMY
Question: In Greek mythology who was the son of Poseidon and God of the Wind?
Answer: AEOLUS
Question: Founded in France in 1945 and with currently 39 international editions, which monthly women's fashion magazine published its first UK edition in 1985?
Answer: ELLE
Question: What was built in Berlin in 1778, after a victory of the Prussian Army?
Answer: BRANDENBURG GATE
Question: Which European city is served by 'Malpensa Airport'?
Answer: MILAN
Question: Which legislation, passed in 1662 forced all clergy to accept the '39 articles' of the Church of England?
Answer: ACT OF UNIFORMITY
Question: In the Bible, who was the mother of Joseph and Benjamin?
Answer: RACHEL
Question: Complete the slogan used in a 1960s US Presidential Election – ‘All the Way with ___'.
Answer: LBJ
Question: Founded in 1584, which is the only Cambridge College that starts with the letter E?
Answer: EMMANUEL
Question: Ian Fletcher, played by Hugh Bonneville, formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, has taken up the position of Head of Values at the BBC in which recent BBC2 comedy series?
Answer: W1A
Question: Andrew Lincoln plays deputy sheriff Rick Grimes in which TV horror drama series?
Answer: The Walking Dead
Question: Which composer's dying words were supposedly, "I shall hear in heaven"?
Answer: BEETHOVEN
Question: Besides Sir Anthony Hopkins, which other "Tony" starred in the 1998 swashbuckler, 'The Mask Of Zorro'?
Answer: ANTONIO BANDERAS
Question: The battles of 'Grant's Hill' and 'Oswego' were conflicts of which war, that lasted from 1756 to 1763?
Answer: SEVEN YEARS WAR
Question: What is the oldest order of knighthood still in existence in Britain?
Answer: ORDER OF THE GARTER
Question: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant were part of which English art movement in the 1920's and 30's?
Answer: BLOOMSBURY GROUP
Question: To which island group does Guadalcanal belong?
Answer: SOLOMON ISLANDS
Question: Which group had number one hits in the 1970's with 'Tiger Feet' and 'Oh Boy'?
Answer: MUD
Question: Which company introduced the first waterproof watch in 1927?
Answer: ROLEX
Question: What is the full name, including its sponsor, of the Millenium Wheel, standing on the banks of the River Thames?
Answer: THE BRITISH AIRWAYS LONDON EYE
Question: According to the Book of Revelations, which city in modern-day Israel will be the site of 'Armageddon'?
Answer: MEGIDDO
Question: What movement was founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1881?
Answer: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
Question: Ray Barneveld in 2005, Jelle Klaasen in 2006, and Martin Adams in 2007 were all World Champions in which field?
Answer: DARTS
Question: Which French city held up the advance of British troops for over a month shortly after D-Day?
Answer: CAEN
Question: Which character, who first appeared in 'Detective Comics' in 1948, has been played on TV in the 1960's by Frank Gorshin and John Astin and on film in 1995 by Jim Carrey?
Answer: 'THE RIDDLER'
Question: Which novelist whose original first names were Margaret Ann before she changed them, won the 2005 Orange Prize for the book 'We Need To Talk About Kevin'?
Answer: LIONEL SHRIVER
Question: Which king gave Royal Assent to the Parliament Act which asserted the supremacy of the House of Commons, by reducing the delaying powers of the House of Lords to two years, later amended to one year in 1949?
Answer: GEORGE V
Question: With 302, cricketer Mahela Jayawardene was the leading run scorer in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20. What is his nationality?
Answer: SRI LANKAN
Question: Which Shakespeare play features 'Feste', a jester?
Answer: 'TWELFTH NIGHT'
Question: In which subject did Margaret Thatcher obtain a B.Sc. at Oxford?
Answer: CHEMISTRY
Question: Which French author wrote 'J'accuse', an open letter to the French government regarding the 'Dreyfuss Affair'?
Answer: EMILE ZOLA
Question: 'Young' was a UK number one hit in May 2012 for which singer?
Answer: 'TULISA'
Question: Yakutsk is the capital of which federal subject of Russia, that at 3,103,200 km2 (almost as big as India) is the largest subnational governing body by area?
Answer: SAKHA REPUBLIC
Question: An American mathematician, who engaged in a mail bombing campaign that spanned nearly 20 years, killing three people and injuring 23 others, by what name is Ted Kaczynski popularly known?
Answer: 'THE UNABOMBER'
Question: Found in birds, reptiles and some fish and insects, what name is given to the specialised stomach with a thick, muscular wall used for grinding up food?
Answer: GIZZARD
Question: Also going by the name of Talmadge Hayer and his chosen Islamic name, Mujahid Abdul Halim, Thomas Hagan is best known as one of the assassins of which famous person?
Answer: MALCOLM X
Question: What name is given to the main area of a church, extending from the main entrance to the chancel, usually flanked by lower aisles?
Answer: NAVE
Question: Now owned by Proton, which British car manufacturing company was formed by engineer Colin Chapman in 1952 and went on to produce models such as the 'Elise' and 'Exige'?
Answer: LOTUS
Question: Which 1971 film starring Vincent Price tells the story of a disfigured musical genius seeking to avenge the death of his wife?
Answer: 'THE ABOMINABLE Dr. PHIBES'
Question: In which English county is the small village of Burnham Thorpe, famous for being the birthplace of Admiral Nelson?
Answer: NORFOLK
Question: What was the first name of politician Enoch Powell?
Answer: John
Question: In 1917 which Frenchman was appointed chief of the General staff and commander in chief of the Allied armies?
Answer: Marshall FOCH
Question: In which city would you find 'Commissioner Gordon' and 'Chief O'Hara'?
Answer: 'GOTHAM CITY'
Question: In the sci-fi books, what was 'Dune's' principle export, making it so important to the 'Empire'?
Answer: 'SPICE'
Question: Which great composer, composed so many songs between 1815 and 1828 that the Oxford Dictionary of Music doesn't attempt to list them all?
Answer: SCHUBERT
Question: Whose epitaph is "Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice", trans. "If you want a monument, look around"?
Answer: SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
Question: Which aircraft company manufactures the 'F-14 Tomcat'?
Answer: GRUMMAN
Question: What name is given to a Medieval war engine used for catapulting stones?
Answer: MANGONEL
Question: Which traditional pudding was named after the wife of George III, she was the patron of the growers of its main ingredient?
Answer: APPLE CHARLOTTE
Question: Which unsweetened biscuit was invented by the founder of the Royal Mineral Hospital and takes its namefrom him and the city in which he invented it?
Answer: BATH OLIVER
Question: In World War I, what did the Allies call the defence linethat was known as the 'Siegfried Line' to the Germans?
Answer: 'HINDENBURG LINE'
Question: The Australianscall it a 'Glory Box', what do the British call it?
Answer: 'BOTTOM DRAWER'
Question: From which song doesthe following line come, "I may go out tomorrow if I can borrow a coat towear"
Answer: 'SIMON SMITH AND HIS AMAZING DANCING BEAR'
Question: Which year of the 19th.century was called 'The Year of Revolutions'?
Answer: 1848
Question: Which year of the 18th century was called 'The Year of Victories'?
Answer: 1759
Question: Which future Prime Minister resigned as Foreign Secretary in 1938 over the appeasement of Hitler?
Answer: ANTHONY EDEN