zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking in 1953?
Answer: Norman Vincent Peale
Question: """Reader, I married him,"" appears in the conclusion of what novel?"
Answer: Jane Eyre
Question: What influential American philosopher and author wrote the book 'Walden, or Life in the Woods'?
Answer: Henry David Thoreau
Question: What technical word is given usually to the left-side even-numbered page of a book?
Answer: Verso
Question: French writer Sully Prudhomme was the first winner of what prize in 1901?
Answer: Nobel Prize for Literature
Question: Who wrote Naked Lunch, (also titled The Naked Lunch)?
Answer: William Burroughs
Question: Which novel begins "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife..."?
Answer: Pride and Prejudice
Question: What was the original title of the book on which the film Schindler's List was based?
Answer: Schindler's Ark
Question: In astronomy what is the outermost region of a planet's atmosphere called?
Answer: Exosphere
Question: A costard is what type of fruit?
Answer: Apple
Question: In which year was Britain's first adhesive postage stamp the Penny Black issued?
Answer: 1840
Question: George Tupou V was crowned monarch of which country in August 2008?
Answer: Tonga
Question: In which city did the Newseum museum of news and journalism re-open in April 2008?
Answer: Washington DC
Question: What is the name of Google's web browser, launched in September 2008?
Answer: Google Chrome
Question: What 2008 film set in 1880s America starred and was directed by Ed Harris?
Answer: Appaloosa
Question: Which city hosted in 2008 the 65th anniversary of the oldest film festival in the world?
Answer: Venice
Question: Who resigned as Prime Minister of Pakistan on 18 August 2008?
Answer: Pervez Musharraf
Question: Which country won the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations (the African international soccer championship)?
Answer: Egypt
Question: In which country did the world's largest ferris wheel (as at 2008) open for rides in March 2008?
Answer: Singapore
Question: Quentin Bryce became the first woman to hold what office in September 2008?
Answer: Governor-General of Australia
Question: Which country did cyclone Nargis devastate on 2 May 2008?
Answer: Burma
Question: Who led Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change opposition against Robert Mugabe in 2008?
Answer: Morgan Tsvangirai
Question: At which battle of 1314 did Robert The Bruce defeat the English forces?
Answer: BANNOCKBURN
Question: On TV, who did the character Lurch work for?
Answer: ADDAMS FAMILY
Question: What is converted into alcohol during brewing?
Answer: SUGAR
Question: Who is the only man (at 2009) to have won motorbike and F1 car World Championships?
Answer: JOHN SURTEES
Question: In which county is the UK prime minister's official country residence Chequers?
Answer: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Question: In which country did the Mau Mau uprising (1952-60) occur?
Answer: KENYA
Question: What does a numismatist study or collect?
Answer: COINS
Question: Who captained Jules Verne's submarine Nautilus?
Answer: CAPTAIN NEMO
Question: What was the character name of TV's 'The Saint'?
Answer: SIMON TEMPLAR
Question: In literature, who was the best known pupil of Greyfriar's School?
Answer: BILLY BUNTER
Question: What do the British call the vegetables that Americans call zucchini?
Answer: COURGETTES
Question: Which TV character said, 'Live long and prosper'?
Answer: MR SPOCK
Question: Who hosted UK TV's 'Family Fortunes' after Bob Monkhouse and before Les Dennis?
Answer: MAX BYGRAVES
Question: What type of creature is a Garibaldi?
Answer: Fish
Question: Which pub in Nottingham claims to be the oldest in Britain?
Answer: The Trip To Jerusalem
Question: What is the chemical symbol for the element Potassium?
Answer: K
Question: Which tennis player was stabbed by a Steffi Graf fan while playing in Hamburg 1993?
Answer: Monica Seles
Question: In what year did Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister?
Answer: 1979
Question: What is the person called who leads prayers in a mosque?
Answer: The Imam
Question: A phlebotomist extracts what from the human body?
Answer: Blood
Question: Who was the eldest of the Marx Brothers?
Answer: Chico
Question: In which year did Henry VIII become King of England?
Answer: 1509
Question: Which country is known as the Pearl of Africa?
Answer: Uganda
Question: What is the theme tune of the US basketball team, the Harlem Globetrotters?
Answer: Sweet Georgia Brown
Question: Who was the first British Prime Minister not to have been privately educated?
Answer: David Lloyd George
Question: What is the oldest trophy in international sport?
Answer: The Americas Cup
Question: In the human body what is the innominate bone more commonly known as?
Answer: Hip bone
Question: What nationality was guitarist Django Reinhardt?
Answer: Belgian
Question: In the UK children's TV series Playschool, what was the name of the black doll which replaced Hamble in the 1980s?
Answer: Poppy
Question: What type of plastic was made from phenol and formaldehyde?
Answer: Bakelite
Question: In which country is the city of Stavanger?
Answer: Norway
Question: What is the food okra commonly known as?
Answer: Ladies fingers
Question: What is Thailand's biggest island?
Answer: Phuket
Question: What ice-cream dish is named after an Australian opera singer?
Answer: Peach Melba
Question: What was Barbara Windsor's first Carry On film?
Answer: Carry On Spying
Question: How many Oscars did the 1959 film Ben Hur win?
Answer: Eleven
Question: Who was Henry the Eighth's fifth wife?
Answer: Catherine Howard
Question: What is the title of a British nobleman ranking above an earl and below a duke?
Answer: Marquess
Question: Which city is the setting of 1950s musical Kismet?
Answer: Baghdad
Question: Natasha Khan is better known by what name?
Answer: Bat for Lashes
Question: In which 1963 film is Maureen O'Hara spanked by John Wayne?
Answer: McLintock
Question: The Copenhagen Criteria define eligibility for national membership of what organisation?
Answer: The European Union
Question: Acrophobia is a fear of what?
Answer: Heights
Question: William Rufus was the nickname of which English monarch?
Answer: William the Second
Question: What is the Christian festival, meaning 'fiftieth day', celebrated on Whit Sunday?
Answer: Pentecost
Question: What is Edward Hopper's famous night-time painting of customers in an American diner?
Answer: Nighthawks
Question: What is the surname of Eddie played by Adrian Edmondson in the UK TV series Bottom?
Answer: Hitler
Question: Which English artist was the subject of the 1974 film A Bigger Splash?
Answer: David Hockney
Question: Which King of England defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt?
Answer: Henry the Fifth
Question: What type of weather condition is a harmattan?
Answer: Wind
Question: The logo of the Yamaha corporation comprises three interlocking what?
Answer: Tuning forks
Question: Who starred as Trampas the 1960-70s TV series The Virginian?
Answer: Doug McClure
Question: Who was the youngest player (as at 2009) to win the Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?
Answer: Boris Becker
Question: What is the chemical symbol for diamond?
Answer: C
Question: Which controversial footballer was the first to play for (and later to captain) England who was born after England won the 1966 World Cup?
Answer: Tony Adams
Question: Holy Island off the English coast is also known by what name?
Answer: Lindisfarne
Question: Who produced the 1983 hit record Relax, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
Answer: Trevor Horn
Question: What in 1972 was the first animated film to receive an X-rating in the USA?
Answer: Fritz the Cat
Question: During the siege of which African city did General Gordon die?
Answer: Khartoum
Question: What type of creature is a gadwall?
Answer: A duck
Question: Which member of England's 2003 Rugby World Cup winning team has an uncle in the 1966 England Soccer World Cup winning team?
Answer: Ben Cohen
Question: Who was Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper?
Answer: Mrs Hudson
Question: Who was the first person to cross the English Channel in a plane?
Answer: Louis Bleriot
Question: What nationality was the artist Edvard Munch?
Answer: Norwegian
Question: Who composed the Funeral March sonata?
Answer: Frederic Chopin
Question: A human-being has how many pairs of chromosomes?
Answer: Twenty-three
Question: In Greek Mythology which King was condemned to stand near fruit and water which moved away when he reached for them?
Answer: Tantalus
Question: In 2005 Yulia Tymoshenko became the first female Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: The Irish city of Limerick is on which river?
Answer: Shannon
Question: Who was the only guest vocalist to feature on a Led Zeppelin album?
Answer: Sandy Denny
Question: Which music hall singer was famed for her rude songs, including 'I Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas'?
Answer: Marie Lloyd
Question: What was the Italian cruise liner hijacked by terrorists in October 1985?
Answer: Achille Lauro
Question: What can sufferers of prosopagnosia not recognize?
Answer: Faces
Question: Who was the first socialist President of France?
Answer: Francois Mitterrand
Question: Which English county is known locally as Kernow?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: In which year was the Wall Street Crash?
Answer: 1929
Question: What is the fruit of the blackthorn (prunus spinosa)?
Answer: Sloe
Question: Which retail chain changed their corporate font in 2009 from Futura to Verdana?
Answer: IKEA
Question: Pine needles are said to be a good source of which vitamin?
Answer: C
Question: What is the birth sign of people born on 25 December?
Answer: Capricorn
Question: Which hugely popular actor was born on Christmas day 1899?
Answer: Humphrey Bogart
Question: What British spacecraft was lost on Mars at Christmas 2003?
Answer: Beagle 2
Question: La Befana is the legendary character who delivers Christmas presents to children in which country?
Answer: Italy
Question: What Christmas-time song did James Pierpont compose in 1857?
Answer: Jingle Bells
Question: What drink advert launched the slogan 'The Right One' in 1970?
Answer: Martini
Question: Who wrote the songs for the 1954 film White Christmas?
Answer: Irving Berlin
Question: Lake Inari, within the Arctic Circle, is which European country?
Answer: Finland
Question: Which of the Marx brother's original name was Adolph?
Answer: Harpo
Question: Which famous poet and author, born in India in 1865, wrote the poem 'The Female of the Species is More Deadly than the Male'?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Question: Zagazig is a city in which North African country?
Answer: Egypt
Question: What was the old English silver coin worth four pre-decimal pennies?
Answer: Groat
Question: Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy played the title roles in which UK 1970s TV sitcom?
Answer: George and Mildred
Question: Which British cyclist crashed out of the 1998 Tour de France while wearing the Yellow Jersey?
Answer: Chris Boardman
Question: Which monarch's 500th anniversary of accession was featured on a 2009 commemorative £5 coin?
Answer: Henry the Eighth
Question: Mir Hossein Mousavi was the beaten opponent in which country's presidential election?
Answer: Iran
Question: Who beat seven foot tall boxer Nikolay Valuev to become the new WBA heavyweight champion?
Answer: David Haye
Question: Who fought extradition to the US for allegedly hacking into Pentagon and NASA computers while investigating UFOs?
Answer: Gary McKinnon
Question: Which government minister agreed to pay £13,332 in capital gains tax owed from the sale of a second home, whose avoidance was revealed during the parliamentary expenses scandal?
Answer: Hazel Blears
Question: Which UK TV presenter called Gordon Brown a 'one-eyed Scottish idiot' ?
Answer: Jeremy Clarkson
Question: Which medieval city was the centre of the Italian earthquake of April 2009?
Answer: L'Aquila
Question: Daniel Patrick Carroll, who died in May 2009 was an entertainer better known as whom?
Answer: Danny La Rue
Question: Which famous music manager of the Beatles and Rolling Stones died in 2009?
Answer: Allen Klein
Question: Who won the 2009 Australian men's tennis Open Championship?
Answer: Rafael Nadal
Question: Which comedian received a Special Achievement Award at the 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year event?
Answer: Eddie Izzard
Question: Dorothy Hughes and Winifred Phillips became at 85 years old the first what?
Answer: Chelsea Pensioners
Question: Utegate was a political scandal involving a car dealer and the prime minister of which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Legal action by 30,000 Ivory Coast people was brought against which company for the allged dumping of toxic waste?
Answer: Trafigura
Question: Which country won the 2009 rugby Six Nations Grand Slam?
Answer: Ireland
Question: Which controversial politician resigned as Governor of Alaska in July 2009?
Answer: Sarah Palin
Question: Which Sussex town hosted the G20 Summit in March 2009?
Answer: Horsham
Question: Name the convicted Lockerbie bomber released in August 2009?
Answer: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Question: In Killarney, Ireland, Mark Davis became the the first 'Six-Red' world champion in which sport?
Answer: Snooker
Question: Australian novelist Harry Nicholaides was jailed in January 2009 for insulting the monarchy in which country?
Answer: Thailand
Question: What was the name of the British submarine which collided with the French submarine Le Triomphant in February 2009?
Answer: HMS Vanguard
Question: Who replaced BBC Radio 1's daily morning show DJ Jo Wiley in 2009?
Answer: Fearne Cotton
Question: Carol Ann Duffy became the UK's first female what?
Answer: Poet Laureate
Question: Who lost 2-1 to Chelsea in the 2009 FA Cup?
Answer: Everton
Question: Which UK government minister claimed parliamentary expenses for an 88p bath plug and porn movies?
Answer: Jacqui Smith
Question: Farah Fawcett, who died in 2009, played which character in TV's Charlie's Angels?
Answer: Jill Munroe
Question: Who was the first female president of the Philipines, who died in August 2009?
Answer: Corazon 'Cory' Aquino
Question: The European Union banned the manufacture of which wattage incandescent light-bulb in 2009?
Answer: 100 watt
Question: Which African country replaced most of its senior police officers after they were blamed for post-election violence?
Answer: Kenya
Question: What was the name of the typhoon which hit the Philippines in October 2009?
Answer: Parma
Question: A new ring was discovered around which planet in 2009?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which country qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1982 after beating Bahrain in a play-off?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Oasis of the Seas became the world's largest what, when completed in 2009?
Answer: Cruise Ship
Question: Two fingers and a tooth belonging to what famous father of science were rediscovered after being missing for over 100 Years?
Answer: Galileo Galilei
Question: A 2009 referendum in which country banned the construction of new Islamic minarets?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Which band claimed the UK Christmas number one after an internet campaign against Simon Cowell's X-Factor?
Answer: Rage Against the Machine
Question: Michale Schumacher announced his Formula One 2010 comeback would be with what team?
Answer: Mercedes
Question: What was the destination city of the plane carrying Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 'underpants bomber'?
Answer: Detroit
Question: What irreverent publication founded by Chris Donald celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009?
Answer: Viz
Question: What is cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants' starfish friend called?
Answer: Patrick Star
Question: The Japanese company Ajinomoto (meaning 'essence of taste') was formed in 1909 to market which popular food ingredient?
Answer: Monosodium glutamate
Question: What city has the busiest European underground railway system?
Answer: Moscow
Question: Who was burned at the stake, age 19, in Rouen in 1431?
Answer: Joan of Arc
Question: What type of dangerous creature is a massasauga?
Answer: Snake
Question: Which English rock band were originally called the Spectres?
Answer: Status Quo
Question: Approximately how many kilometres does light travel in an hour?
Answer: A billion
Question: Donald Tusk became the prime minister of which country in November 2007?
Answer: Poland
Question: Which singer/musician was born Steveland Judkins?
Answer: Stevie Wonder
Question: In which country was the painter Ford Madox Brown born?
Answer: France
Question: Alpha, Nevada and Snow Crown are types of which vegetable?
Answer: Cauliflower
Question: In which country is Timbuktu?
Answer: Mali
Question: In which year were car tax discs launched in the UK?
Answer: 1921
Question: Who was the prime minister of Rhodesia from 1965-79?
Answer: Ian Smith
Question: The Buddy Holly song That'll Be the Day is said to have been inspired by what John Wayne film?
Answer: The Searchers
Question: Which British politician became MP for Finchley in 1959?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: What animal is a Bichon Frise?
Answer: Dog
Question: What is the craft of cutting and polishing stones or gems?
Answer: Lapidary
Question: Who wrote The Joy of Sex, published in 1972?
Answer: Alex Comfort
Question: By which name was American artist Anna Mary Roberston Moses, who began painting in her 70s, better known?
Answer: Grandma Moses
Question: Which rapper's real name is Curtis Jackson III?
Answer: 50 Cent
Question: Anna Kournikova, Michelangelo, ILOVEYOU, and Melissa were examples of what?
Answer: Computer virus
Question: The Palace of Knossos is on which Greek island?
Answer: Crete
Question: In which African country is Lake Turkana?
Answer: Kenya
Question: What colour are the flowers of the various plants known as Celandines?
Answer: Yellow
Question: How many vertebrae bones does a human usually have?
Answer: Thirty-three
Question: In which UK city was artist L S Lowry born?
Answer: Manchester
Question: Chitterlings are the small intestines of which animal?
Answer: Pig
Question: Whose enormous yacht Eclipse launched in June 2009?
Answer: Roman Abramovich
Question: Columbus Day commemorating the discovery of America is celebrated in which month?
Answer: October
Question: In which year did US athlete Jesse Owens win four Olympic gold medals?
Answer: 1936
Question: What was the Ed Sullivan Show originally called?
Answer: Toast of the Town
Question: In 1791 George Hammond was appointed the first British envoy to which country?
Answer: USA
Question: Pianist and composer Frederic Chopin was born in which country?
Answer: Poland
Question: Ophidiophobia is an abnormal fear of what creatures?
Answer: Snakes
Question: Who wrote the novel Ivanhoe?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
Question: St Petersburg in Russia lies on which river?
Answer: Neva
Question: In which country was the inventor Alexander Graham Bell born?
Answer: Scotland
Question: In which country is the city Invercargill?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What wind instrument has a variety known as a sweet potato?
Answer: Ocarina
Question: Stonehenge is in which UK county?
Answer: Wiltshire
Question: The Followill brothers and cousin, known by their middle names Nathan, Caleb, Jared and Matthew, are members of which rock band?
Answer: Kings of Leon
Question: What organization famously distributes bibles to hotel rooms?
Answer: The Gideons
Question: What is the longest line of latitude on the Earth?
Answer: Equator
Question: Brothers Harry, Samuel, Albert and Jack established which film company in 1923?
Answer: Warner Brothers
Question: What is the name of the shallow circular transparent dish with a flat lid, used for the culture of micro-organisms?
Answer: Petri dish
Question: Who was the next president of the USA after Gerald Ford?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Question: What element has the highest melting point of any metal - symbol W, otherwise known as wolfram?
Answer: Tungsten
Question: In which European city is the Charles Bridge?
Answer: Prague
Question: Otoplasty is the surgical alteration of what external body parts?
Answer: Ears
Question: The Great Train Robbery of 1963 was close to what Buckinghamshire county town, which later hosted its criminal trial?
Answer: Aylesbury
Question: On 1st April 1980 a 25-day riot and siege began at what UK prison?
Answer: Strangeways
Question: Which musician called his children Moon Unit and Dweezil?
Answer: Frank Zappa
Question: The Holy See is the highest earthly authority of what religion?
Answer: Roman Catholic
Question: What car maker's name means 'roll' in Latin?
Answer: Volvo
Question: Brian Mulroney was the prime minister of which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: What is the two-handled curved blade used for mincing herbs and vegetables, which in Italian means 'half-moon'?
Answer: Mezzaluna
Question: Who first published and popularised the stories Snow White, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood?
Answer: The Brothers Grimm
Question: In what European city is the historic port of Piraeus?
Answer: Athens
Question: In which US state is the annual Burning Man Festival held?
Answer: Nevada
Question: USA athletes refused their silver medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in which men's sport?
Answer: Basketball
Question: A diptych is a painting or altarpiece of how many panels, commonly hinged together?
Answer: Two
Question: What Maryland presidential retreat, previously called Shangri-la, was renamed by Dwight D Eisenhower after his grandson?
Answer: Camp David
Question: In the 1983 horror film 'Christine', what was Christine?
Answer: A car
Question: Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what?
Answer: Books
Question: What skin and eye colouring is associated with jaundice?
Answer: Yellow
Question: What comes from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree?
Answer: Chocolate
Question: What colour is Tyrian, a dye highly prized by the Romans?
Answer: Purple
Question: Which Formula One Grand Prix Circuit includes Maggotts Corner, Wellington Straight, and Farm Curve?
Answer: Silverstone
Question: What colour is the mineral rock malachite?
Answer: Green
Question: Which US president is depicted on the Purple Heart medal?
Answer: George Washington
Question: Cryptozoology refers to the study of creatures which are?
Answer: Mythical
Question: Who wrote the play, Look Back In Anger?
Answer: John Osborne
Question: Myosis affects which part of the human body?
Answer: Eye
Question: Hangi is a traditional New Zealand Maori method of cooking using a?
Answer: Pit
Question: 2009 was the Chinese Year of the what?
Answer: Ox
Question: Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of which country in 1877?
Answer: India
Question: Which Cornish castle is said to be the birth place of King Arthur?
Answer: Tintagel
Question: What is the name of Long John Silver's parrot in the novel Treasure Island?
Answer: Captain Flint
Question: What, in 1961, was the first animated cartoon TV show to be nominated for an Emmy?
Answer: The Flintstones
Question: Shah Jahan of India had what built as his wife's tomb?
Answer: The Taj Mahal
Question: Robert Hawke was the prime minister of which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: What does a charcutier sell?
Answer: Meat
Question: Used in cause-and-effect analysis, due to its structure the Ishikawa diagram is more commonly called a 'what' diagram?
Answer: Fishbone
Question: In which year was the Suez Canal opened?
Answer: 1869
Question: Miss Rosa Dartle is a character in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: David Copperfield
Question: What is the name of the outer plasma atmosphere of the sun, visible with the naked eye during an eclipse?
Answer: Corona
Question: What number is between 9 and 11 on a regulation dartboard?
Answer: 14
Question: Who was killed when his private plane crashed in Monterey Bay, California in 1997?
Answer: John Denver
Question: Who won the FIFA World Cup for Association Football in Germany in 2006?
Answer: Italy
Question: Queen Salote Tubou ruled over which country from 1918 to 1965?
Answer: Tonga
Question: In Greek legend, Ulysses sailed safely between what?
Answer: Scylla and Charybdis
Question: Which German-born political scientist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration?
Answer: Henry Kissinger