zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In the UK, ‘An Act for the better securing the Liberty of the Subject, and for the Prevention of Imprisonment beyond the seas’ is commonly known by what name?
Answer: The Habeas Corpus Act
Question: Tony Lumpkin, Constance Neville and George Hastings are all characters in which play by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith?
Answer: She Stoops to Conquer
Question: Which record label famously rejected a Beatles audition tape in 1962, saying that guitar bands were on the way out?
Answer: Decca
Question: Classic Judaism teaches that there will be no prophet greater than who?
Answer: Moses
Question: Which English entertainer was born Thomas William Hicks in December 1936?
Answer: Tommy Steele
Question: Who was the mother of King Richard III of England?
Answer: Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
Question: What is the name of the battlefield where, traditionally, King Richard III of England died?
Answer: Bosworth Field
Question: Who succeeded Richard III to the English throne?
Answer: King Henry VII
Question: Who wrote the 1976 novel ‘Roots: The Saga of an American Family’?
Answer: Alex Haley
Question: Which 1961 film, set in New York, is based on Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’?
Answer: West Side Story
Question: A ‘prie-dieu’ is a narrow desk-like bench on which to kneel and do what?
Answer: Pray
Question: Serial and Parallel are ports found in what?
Answer: A computer
Question: Who was the last Tudor monarch of England?
Answer: Elizabeth I
Question: Vectis was the Roman name for which island off the coast of Britain?
Answer: Isle of Wight
Question: Who wrote the 1930 novel ‘The Maltese Falcon’?
Answer: Dashiel Hammett
Question: Whose 1988 autobiography is entitled ‘Moonwalk’?
Answer: Michael Jackson
Question: Gephyrophobia is the irrational fear of crossing what?
Answer: Bridges
Question: Blunging, Fettling, Saggar and Wedging are all terms used in which craft?
Answer: Pottery
Question: Which British comedian suffered a heart attack on live television, and soon after died, in April 1984?
Answer: Tommy Cooper
Question: American criminal Albert Henry DeSalvo was better  known by what nickname in the 1960’s?
Answer: The Boston Strangler
Question: English statesman Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, was executed during the reign of which English monarch?
Answer: King Henry VIII
Question: In 1987, which airline was said to have made a saving of 40,000 dollars by omitting an olive from each salad served in first class?
Answer: American Airlines
Question: Which word can go before Out, Age and Man to make three other words?
Answer: Line
Question: Which word can go before Plant, Guest and Boat to make three other words?
Answer: House
Question: Which word can go after Door, Side and Dub to make three other words?
Answer: Step
Question: Which month in 1985 saw the Live Aid concert, organised by Bob Geldof?
Answer: July
Question: Who became British Prime Minister in June 1935?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin
Question: What type of creature is a capelin?
Answer: Fish
Question: Gotham City is associated with which fictional superhero?
Answer: Batman
Question: Bouche is French for which part of the body?
Answer: Mouth
Question: Raleigh is the capital of which American state?
Answer: North Carolina
Question: What is the title of the first number one hit released by the Tamla Motown record label?
Answer: Please Mr Postman
Question: In 2003, who became the oldest woman to win FHM’s ‘Sexiest Woman in the World ‘ award?
Answer: Halle Berry
Question: Cheveux is French for which part of the body?
Answer: Hair
Question: A splat is a single thin, flat piece of wood, often ornamental, which forms part of which piece of furniture?
Answer: Chair
Question: On a standard dartboard, what number lies between 8 and 14?
Answer: 11
Question: Conglomerations of frozen ice crystals which fall through the Earth’s atmosphere are commonly known as what?
Answer: Snowflakes
Question: Which planet in our solar system has a white cloud pattern in its atmosphere nicknamed ‘Scooter’?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What is the title of the fourth ‘Dirty Harry’ film, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood?
Answer: Sudden Impact
Question: Which political leader married Austrian Archduchess Marie-Louise in 1810?
Answer: Napoleon I
Question: Mescaline, a hallucinogenic compound, occurs naturally in several species of which plant?
Answer: Cactus
Question: In the final Harry Potter novel, who becomes headmaster of Hogwarts School?
Answer: Severus Snape
Question: Which US bus company was founded in Minnesota in 1914?
Answer: Greyhound (Lines Inc)
Question: Wootten and Belpaire are types of ‘what’ found in steam locomotives?
Answer: Firebox
Question: Who was the first British monarch to travel by train?
Answer: Queen Victoria
Question: Which religious movement, developed from ideas of political activist Marcus Garvey, who wanted to improve the status of fellow black people, and which proclaims Garvey as a prophet?
Answer: Rastafari
Question: In native American folklore, what is ‘The beast that walks like a man’?
Answer: Bear
Question: Which 1975 novel by Larry McMurty was adapted for a 1983 film starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger as mother and daughter?
Answer: Terms of Endearment
Question: Provolone is what type of foodstuff?
Answer: Cheese
Question: In which year did the British government decriminalise homosexuality?
Answer: 1967
Question: Yeux is French for which part of the body?
Answer: Eyes
Question: A fewterer is a keeper of which animals?
Answer: Dogs
Question: Which scientist wrote a letter to a friend in 1704 in which he predicted the end of the world in 2060?
Answer: Sir Isaac newton
Question: Which 1990 film was the first western to win Best Picture Oscar for 60 years?
Answer: Dances With Wolves
Question: What is a castrated man (or castrati) called who is placed in charge of a harem?
Answer: Eunuch
Question: The ‘Shining Path’ is another name for the Communist Party of which South American country?
Answer: Peru
Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, what is Salvatore Bonpensiero’s nickname?
Answer: Big Pussy
Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, what did Janice Soprano change her name to after joining an ashram in Los Angeles?
Answer: Parvati Wasatch
Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, what is the name of the club in Long Beach, New Jersey, in which Christopher set Adriana up as manager?
Answer: Crazy Horse
Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, what is the nickname of Paulie Gualtieri?
Answer: Walnuts
Question: Psittacosis is a contagious disease that affects which type of birds?
Answer: Parrots
Question: Fotheringhay Castle is in which English county?
Answer: Northamptonshire
Question: Smiriti is a religious text containing traditional teaching in which religion?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: Which artist co-wrote and appeared in the 1927 Luis Bunuel film ‘Un Chien Andalou’?
Answer: Salvador Dali
Question: Remus and Castrol Edge are corners on the  Formula One Grand Prix race track in which country?
Answer: Austria
Question: On a regular clock face, which number lies opposite 10?
Answer: 4
Question: ‘Fraulein…..have my children by any chance been climbing trees today’? Is a line from which musical film?
Answer: The Sound of Music
Question: What is the name of the four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs, with small heads and a double row of large bony plates along the back?
Answer: Stegosaurus
Question: What is the Latin phrase ‘ad lib’ short for?
Answer: Ad libitum
Question: What was the name of the children’s television show, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, which followed the adventures of Father Stanley Unwin?
Answer: The Secret Service
Question: Doctor Beaker, Zarin, Mitch the Monkey and Professor Popkiss are all characters from which children’s television series created by Gerry Anderson?
Answer: Supercar
Question: Gingerbread men were first attributed to which English monarch, who allegedly served them to foreign dignitaries?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I
Question: In Christianity, ‘Holy Wednesday’ is also known as ‘what’ Wednesday?
Answer: Spy Wednesday
Question: Which letter of the English alphabet is in the title of a series of television shows starring Spike Milligan?
Answer: Q
Question: In the 1876 novel ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ by Mark Twain, what is the name of Tom’s half brother who lives with Tom and his aunt Polly?
Answer: Sid
Question: Which English author said ‘Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’?
Answer: George Orwell
Question: In the 1964 film ‘Goldfinger’, what is the name of the team of Goldfinger’s all-female pilots?
Answer: Flying Circus
Question: Taurophobia is the abnormal fear of which animal?
Answer: Bull
Question: In medicine, a spirometer is an instrument for measuring the air capacity of which part of the body?
Answer: Lungs
Question: The painting entitled ‘The View if Tinherir’ is a work by which British Prime Minister?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: In the children’s novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll, which birds are used as croquet mallets?
Answer: Flamingoes
Question: Which animal is known as River Horse?
Answer: Hippopotamus
Question: Which animal represented the year 2010 in the Chinese calendar?
Answer: Tiger
Question: Unicum, Fusilier, Black Parrot and Zurel are all varieties of which garden flower?
Answer: Tulip
Question: Who was British Poet Laureate 1850 to 1892, the longest tenure of any British laureate?
Answer: Alfred Tennyson
Question: Carving, Herringbone, Runout and Tail are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: Skiing
Question: The Five Sisters of ‘where’ appear in a story told in the novel ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ by Charles Dickens?
Answer: York
Question: What was the family name of the famous British aristocratic sisters Unity, Jessica, Nancy, Diana, Pamela and Deborah?
Answer: Mitford
Question: What is the title of the 1999 film, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, which was adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel?
Answer: Fight Club
Question: The plot to which 2001 film opens in the year 1900, as a depressed writer named Christian sits at his desk and begins to type to the song ‘Nature Boy’?
Answer: Moulin Rouge
Question: What is the name of Thomas Anderson’s (played by Keanu Reeves) alter ego in the 1999 film ‘The Matrix’?
Answer: Neo
Question: In which 1973 film did Jack Nicholson and Otis Young play two US naval petty officers who are assigned the task of accompanying a young sailor, played by Randy Quaid, to a naval prison?
Answer: The Last Detail
Question: A ‘what’ Republic is a politically unstable country that is economically dependent on a single export commodity, and is usually governed by a dictator or the armed forces?
Answer: Banana
Question: In the human body, what is the slight projection at the front of the throat, formed by the largest cartilage of the larynx, commonly known as?
Answer: Adam’s apple
Question: ‘Squaddie’ is an informal term for which rank in the British Army?
Answer: Private
Question: Which French field marshall and Emperor was known as ‘The Little Corporal’?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
Question: Which European country is known as ‘The Boot’?
Answer: Italy
Question: US actors Adam West and James Woods guest star as themselves in various episodes of which US animated television series?
Answer: Family Guy
Question: What is the title of the four-episode special of ‘Doctor Who’, made for the Red Nose Day telethon in the UK, broadcast in March 1999?
Answer: Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Question: What is the name of the aliens who invaded planet Earth in the 2005 60-minute special television episode of Doctor Who’ entitled ‘The Christmas Invasion’?
Answer: Sycorax
Question: In the UK television series ‘Doctor Who’, the Doctor defeated villain Fenric by challenging him to solve what?
Answer: A chess puzzle
Question: The One-Eyed Bagman is a story -teller in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: The Pickwick Papers
Question: Which colour represents Line 5 of the Paris Metro rail system?
Answer: Orange
Question: What is the name of the dragon in the 1937 novel ‘The Hobbit’?
Answer: Smaug
Question: Which Genesis song features Ethel, Jacob, Mr Lewis, Mr Farmer and Miss Mort?
Answer: I Know What I Like
Question: Napoleon Bonaparte was given sovereignty of which island in 1814?
Answer: Elba
Question: What was the name of the online peer-to-peer audio file sharing service which operated between June 1999 and July 2001?
Answer: Napster
Question: In Greek mythology, which hero of the Trojan war committed suicide after the armour of the dead Achilles was awarded to Odysseus and not him?
Answer: Ajax
Question: What is the title of late actor Charlie Chaplin’s last completed film, launched in the UK in 1967?
Answer: A Countess From Hong Kong
Question: Chenjeh, Kakora, Beyti and Shami are all types of which food dish?
Answer: Kebab
Question: What was the middle name of former British Prime Minister William Gladstone?
Answer: Ewart
Question: On a standard dartboard, what number lies opposite 10?
Answer: 14
Question: Manchuria is a historical name for a large region of which continent?
Answer: Asia
Question: IN the UK during World War I female workers at munitions factories formed teams known as ‘Munitionettes’ who played against each other in which sport?
Answer: Football
Question: In 1776, patriots and soldiers in New York pulled down a statue of which British monarch in celebration of the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: King George III
Question: In astronomy, a spectroheliograph is an instrument used for photographing or recording the image of what?
Answer: The sun
Question: On a standard dartboard, which number lies opposite 1?
Answer: 19
Question: English monarch King Henry VIII was given which Palace when ‘owner’ Cardinal Thomas Wolsey fell out of favour with the king?
Answer: Hampton Court Palace
Question: Which UK television presenter made his first tv appearance in an advertisement for Sure deodorant, featuring his ascent of Mount Everest?
Answer: Bear Grylls
Question: Catherine of Braganza, wife of English monarch Charles II, was said to have introduced which cutlery item to the dining tables of England?
Answer: Fork
Question: Which actor, who played Tony Soprano on the US television series ‘The Sopranos’, died in June 2013?
Answer: James Gandolfini
Question: Which playing card is known as ‘The Devil’s Bedpost’?
Answer: Four of Clubs
Question: Rosy, Goose Foot and Northern are all types of which marine creature?
Answer: Starfish
Question: What is the name of Blackadder’s servant in the UK television show ‘Blackadder’?
Answer: Baldrick
Question: What is the name of the ‘highwayman’ played by Miranda Richardson in the UK television series ‘Blackadder the Third’?
Answer: The Shadow
Question: How does Baldrick describe his ‘plans’ in the UK television series ‘Blackadder’?
Answer: Cunning
Question: Who owns the coffee shop in the UK television series ‘Blackadder the Third’?
Answer: Mrs Miggins
Question: Which English county was represented by the ‘Nine children of honour’ at the coronation of King Henry VIII?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: What was the first name of former US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt?
Answer: Anna
Question: In March 2013, an English Heritage Blue Plaque was unveiled to commemorate which iconic design by Harry Beck on the 80th anniversary of its first public appearance?
Answer: London Underground Map
Question: Ewart was the middle name of which British Prime Minister?
Answer: William Gladstone
Question: Which US President had a cloakroom converted into a movie theatre in the White House?
Answer: Franklin D Roosevelt
Question: Before he became pope, which Pope wrote a play called ‘The Jeweller’s Shop’?
Answer: Pope John Paul II
Question: Which is the third planet from the Sun?
Answer: Earth
Question: According to the Bible, which part of Goliath’s body did David cut off?
Answer: Head
Question: Which British cartoon strip character is known as Willi Wacker in Germany?
Answer: Andy Capp
Question: Bad Finger, King Krule and the Dave Matthews Band all released a song about which colour Baby?
Answer: Blue
Question: What is the title of a 1968 hit single by The Scaffold which is a modernisation of an older folk song called The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham’?
Answer: Lily the Pink
Question: In a 1964 single by The Rolling Stones what type of bird was Little and Red?
Answer: Rooster
Question: In 1932, who was the only Premier of an Australian state (New South Wales) to have been dismissed from his post by the state governor?
Answer: Jack Lang
Question: What type of creature did Daisy Morris, a nine year old from the Isle of Wight, have named after her in 2013?
Answer: A dinosaur
Question: What is the name of a triangular piece of material that is inserted in a garment to make it flared or for ornamentation?
Answer: Godet
Question: After the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ Captain Bligh and several of his crew were set afloat in a small boat in which they journeyed to which island?
Answer: Timor
Question: In the first Harry Potter novel who is the headmaster of Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Answer: Professor Albus Dumbledore
Question: In nature, Greco, Ostro, Libeccio and Sirocco are all types of what?
Answer: Winds
Question: Mr and Mrs Spoon, Tina Teaspoon and Eggbert are all characters in which UK children’s television series?
Answer: Button Moon
Question: Zuniga, Escamillo and Frasquita are characters from which opera?
Answer: Carmen
Question: Which year in the 1970’s saw three popes?
Answer: 1978
Question: British actress Audrey Kathleen Ruston was better known by what name?
Answer: Audrey Hepburn
Question: The Golden Cage is an annual award given to the best goalkeeper in football in which European country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Which Chinese dish is traditionally used in a St Paul Sandwich, which originated in a Chinese restaurant in Missouri?
Answer: Egg foo yung
Question: Rene Descartes’ quote ‘Cogito ergo sum’ means what in English?
Answer: I think therefore I am
Question: The arbalest/arblast is a medieval more powerful developed version of which weapon?
Answer: Crossbow
Question: The Cyclades are an eastern island group of which nation?
Answer: Greece
Question: The resort island of Boracay forms part of which country?
Answer: Philippines
Question: Born 1899, died 1947 (cardiac arrest). Indicted for tax evasion in 1931. Who was he?
Answer: AL CAPONE
Question: A Shavian is a big fan and aficionado of which famous playwright?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: What term is used for the vast plains of Northern Asia?
Answer: Steppes
Question: In World War Two Operation Avalanche was the Allied Invasion of which country?
Answer: Italy
Question: Which scientific endeavour is frequently abbreviated as SETI*?
Answer: Search for Extra-terrestrial
Question: Which 1993 film saw Sly Stallone battle against John Lythgoe?
Answer: CLIFFHANGER
Question: Which major domestic trophy eluded Brian Clough as both player and manager?
Answer: FA Cup
Question: Germans called it the Earth Berry, what do we call it?
Answer: Strawberry
Question: In which castle did Edward II receive his final and fatal treatment?
Answer: Berkley Castle
Question: Sable is the correct name for which ‘colour’ in heraldry?
Answer: BLACK
Question: Which Shakespeare play was set in Ephesus probably 14century?
Answer: The Comedy of Errors
Question: MASH, the character Frank Burns was replaced by which rather smug character ?
Answer: Charles Winchester
Question: Which important person’s arrival at events is announced by playing Hail to the Chief?
Answer: President of the USA
Question: From 1978 to 1984, who were coached by a lady called Betty Callaway?
Answer: Torvill & Dean
Question: In which stretch of water was HMS Amethyst fired on and detained in 1949?
Answer: Yangtze River
Question: Mount Narodnaya is the highest peak in which mountain range?
Answer: URALS
Question: Born in 1942, who had her greatest chart successes when a member of Blue Mink?
Answer: MADELINE BELL
Question: Which South American rodent yields what is said to be the most expensive fur?
Answer: Chinchilla
Question: Which mythical hero had a horse called Xanthus?
Answer: Achilles
Question: In Heraldry what term describes a figure walking?
Answer: Passant
Question: Who fell in love with Heloise the beautiful 17-year-old daughter of Canon Fulbert?
Answer: Peter Abelard
Question: On which island is Adam’s Peak?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: What collective name is given to the children of Gaia and Uranus?
Answer: The Titans
Question: Craig and Charlie Reid got together to form which band in 1983?
Answer: The Proclaimers
Question: In the heroic poem ‘The Song of Roland’, which ‘O’ is Roland’s best friend?
Answer: Oliver
Question: In 1797 what occurred at The Nore and Spithead?
Answer: Naval Mutinies
Question: What herb, mentioned by Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’, is often used to flavour roast lamb?
Answer: ROSEMARY
Question: Which famous literary character does governess Mary Morstan marry in 1889? (She is
Answer: DR. WATSON
Question: Born in 1882, which famous Irishman left Sinn Fein in 1926, and founded Fianna Fail?
Answer: Eamon DE VALERA
Question: What word is used for the divination of dreams?
Answer: Oneiromancy
Question: Wordsworth, Coleridge – who was the third of the Lake Poets?
Answer: Southey
Question: Which British commander was killed at Corunna in 1808?
Answer: Sir John Moore
Question: What is the missing first word in the title of Rose Macauley's novel '… By An Idiot'?
Answer: Told
Question: A poker player throwing in his cards says what?
Answer: Fold
Question: Who began her show-business career playing Sophie Tuckshop in ITMA on the wireless?
Answer: Hattie Jacques
Question: The actor David Garrick was mentored by which schoolmaster from Lichfield?
Answer: Samuel Johnson
Question: Which city would have been renamed 'Germania' if the Nazis had won World War 2?
Answer: Berlin
Question: Selim Shah found favour with Mrs Thatcher when he launched which tabloid in 1986?
Answer: Today
Question: Who died in Antarctica only 30 miles from the finish of his heroic charity effort?
Answer: Henry Worsley
Question: Which philosopher’s body was stuffed and placed in a case at University College, London?
Answer: Jeremy Bentham
Question: Who was given asses’ ears by an angry Apollo?
Answer: Midas
Question: Which author created the primitive, barely human race the Yahoos?
Answer: Jonathan Swift
Question: At which establishment, famous in literature, was Benjamin a very sceptical donkey?
Answer: Animal Farm
Question: James Brindley is chiefly remembered for building what?
Answer: Canals
Question: What visible features of a concert harp have the same function as a piano’s black keys?
Answer: Pedals
Question: Of which modern country does the former kingdom of Bohemia form a major part?
Answer: Czech Republic
Question: At which indoor sport was TV presenter Matt Baker talented in his younger days?
Answer: GYMNASTICS
Question: In ‘Pickwick Papers’, where did Mr. Pickwick and friends have a fine time at Christmas?
Answer: DINGLEY DELL
Question: What was the name of Scrooge’s late partner? (Both names needed.)
Answer: JACOB MARLEY
Question: On Sept. 20th 2013 , who were runners-up to Nottinghamshire in the YB40 final at Lords?
Answer: GLAMORGAN
Question: The European prince Henry the Navigator was born in 1394 in which country?
Answer: PORTUGAL
Question: Which king of England had the nickname ‘Beauclerc’?
Answer: HENRY I
Question: Which Elton John hit of 1972 contains the line: "I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife"?
Answer: ROCKET MAN
Question: Hold Me Close and Gonna Make You a Star were UK No1 singles for which singer?
Answer: David ESSEX
Question: Born 1780 in Norwich, Which Englishwoman famously campaigned for prison reform?
Answer: Elizabeth FRY
Question: What is the name of the evil wizard who is always trying to catch the Smurfs?
Answer: GARGAMEL
Question: Which country was formerly nicknamed 'The Cockpit of Europe'?
Answer: BELGIUM
Question: Which European country has often been referred to as the 'Playground Of Europe'?
Answer: SWITZERLAND
Question: Which Edinburgh landmark did Bill Bryson describe as looking like a “Gothic rocket ship”?
Answer: The Scott Memorial
Question: Fictional character Selena Kyle is better known by what name?
Answer: Catwoman