zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which American singer, songwriter and actress had the real name Norma Deloris Egstrom?
Answer: PEGGY LEE
Question: Apart from The Beatles, which other group topped the UK singles charts on seven consecutive occasions?
Answer: WESTLIFE
Question: What was the first name of the wife of Plantaganet Palliser in the 1974 series The Pallisers recently repeated on BBC Two?
Answer: GLENCORA
Question: Baseline, doubleton and squop are all terms in which game?
Answer: TIDDLYWINKS
Question: Who sculpted the Space Age Angel on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in 1912?
Answer: JACOB EPSTEIN
Question: What is the name of the device used to raise boats from the River Weaver in Cheshire to the canal system?
Answer: THE ANDERTON (BOAT) LIFT
Question: Which Rogers and Hammerstein musical first performed on Broadway in 1958 tells of the conflicts of a Chinese Immigrant family in San Francisco?
Answer: THE FLOWER DRUM SONG
Question: Bourbon is a county in which US State?
Answer: KENTUCKY
Question: Indonesian Kalimantan, which is divided into 4 provinces, covers the southern three quarters of which island?
Answer: BORNEO
Question: Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the Grameen Bank was founded to offer small, collateral free loans to the rural poor of which country?
Answer: BANGLADESH
Question: Which brewery won Champion Beer of Britain for the second time in 2012, with 'No 9 Barley Wine', following its success in 1998 with 'Bluebird Bitter'?
Answer: CONISTON
Question: Name either of the brothers who, according to Anglo- Saxon legend, led the Angle, Saxon, and Jutish armies that conquered the first territories of Britain in the 5th century?
Answer: Hengist and Horsa
Question: The Motion Picture Production Code, introduced in 1930 and enforced in 1934, is generally known by what name?
Answer: Hays Code
Question: Which South Wales town was formed by the amalgamation of Aberavon and Margam in 1921?
Answer: Port Talbot
Question: In 1702 William 3rd was succeeded by Queen Anne, what was her relationship to him?
Answer: Sister-in-Law
Question: The Annals and The Histories are the 2 major works of which Roman historian who lived from around 56AD to around 117AD?
Answer: Tacitus
Question: Which fruit has varieties called Smooth Cayenne, Red Spanish and Sugarloaf?
Answer: Pineapple
Question: Which fruit has varieties called Cavendish, Williams and Pisang Raja?
Answer: Banana
Question: What was Prime Minister William Gladstone's middle name?
Answer: Ewart
Question: What drink did TV Detective George Bullman call Nigerian Lager?
Answer: GUINNESS
Question: What name is given to the chimneys of volcanic waste that have been found in the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: BLACK SMOKERS
Question: What nickname was given to both the Martin Marauder B26 and the Lockheed F104 Starfighter?
Answer: FLYING COFFIN
Question: Which book by Kit Williams caused controversy when people were digging up ground in an effort to find a pendant with a golden hare on it?
Answer: MASQUERADE
Question: Named after the Maori word for ‘shark’ which Is the fastest swimmer among the sharks - it can reach speeds of over So mph?
Answer: (Shortfin) Mako
Question: To within a year either side, in which year was the congestion charge introduced in London?
Answer: 2003
Question: Mussorgsky’s composition ‘Pictures At An Exhibition’ was inspired by which painter’s works?
Answer: Viktor Hartmann -
Question: What was the name of the double agent convicted of spying for the Soviet nion in 1961, and who escaped from prison in 1966?
Answer: (George) BLAKE
Question: General Gordon, Michelangelo and Cardinal Richelieu have all been played on screen by which actor?
Answer: (Charlton) HESTON
Question: Who, in 1976, were the first Dutch group to have a UK No. 1?
Answer: PUSSYCAT
Question: Who, in 1977, were the first Spanish group to have a UK No. 1?
Answer: BACCARA
Question: What can be skinny, tapered, slim, straight, boot oat, cigarette bottom, narrow-bottom, low waist, anti-fit, flared or distressed?
Answer: Jeans
Question: Which is the smallest native British gull?
Answer: Kittiwake
Question: Vanessa Vankorn represented Thailand in a skiing event at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, under what professional name is she better known?
Answer: Vanessa-Mae
Question: Which composer, who lived from 1732-1809, wrote the music now used for the German national anthem?
Answer: (FRANZ) JOSEPH HAYDN
Question: Six islands of 10 000 km2 or greater are “divided” between two or more nations. Which country has a share of three of these six islands?
Answer: INDONESIA
Question: As well as being a Radio 2 newsreader, who provides the voiceovers for Strictly Come Dancing and, due to his work on various lottery shows, is known as “The Voice of the Balls”?
Answer: ALAN DEDICOAT
Question: Which title character in a Shakespeare play is a king of ancient Britain and has a daughter called Imogen?
Answer: CYMBELINE
Question: Currently held by John Kerry, what American governmental role is equivalent to that of Foreign Secretary in the UK?
Answer: SECRETARY OF STATE
Question: Which French region has Metz as its official capital?
Answer: LORRAINE
Question: The blessings known as the Beatitudes were part of which address by Jesus?
Answer: SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Question: During the 2 circuits of the Grand National course at Aintree how many jumps are taken by those horses completing the race?
Answer: 30
Question: In what war was the Battle of Blenheim fought?
Answer: THE WAR OF SPANISH SUCCESSION
Question: In Germany which fruit is called a birne?
Answer: PEAR
Question: Which road tunnel, the world?s longest between 1965 and 1978, links France and Italy?
Answer: MONT BLANC
Question: Which type of four-wheeled open carriage shares its name with an English county?
Answer: Surrey
Question: Which island country's flag depicts the head of Neptune's trident on its national flag?
Answer: Barbados
Question: Which country celebrates National Foundation Day on 11th February, the anniversary of the coronation of the first emperor, Jimmu, in 660BC?
Answer: Japan
Question: In Jeff Wayne's original musical version of 'War of the Worlds', which famous actor played the part of the Journalist?
Answer: Richard Burton
Question: What was former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's title when he became a peer?
Answer: (Baron Wilson of) Rievaulx
Question: Which hero of the 1956 F A Cup Final played for non-league side St. Helen's Town before joining Manchester City?
Answer: Bert Trautmann
Question: Which poet was killed a week before the end of World War I?
Answer: WILFRED OWEN
Question: Which group had a 1968 UK hit with Baby Come Back?
Answer: THE EQUALS
Question: Which Duke commanded the Government forces at the 1745 Battle of Culloden?
Answer: DUKE OF CUMBERLAND
Question: Which Yorkshire football club plays home games at New York Stadium, having played at Millmoor until 2008?
Answer: ROTHERHAM UNITED
Question: Matabeleland is part of which African country?
Answer: Zimbabwe
Question: By what name is the Battle of Aboukir Bay (1798) more commonly known?
Answer: Battle of the Nile
Question: In the New Testament, who demanded the head of John the Baptist?
Answer: Salome
Question: Which geographical feature separates Swansea Bay from Carmarthen Bay?
Answer: Gower Peninsula
Question: According to the New Testament, who was the High Priest of the Jews to whom Jesus was taken when he was first arrested?
Answer: Caiaphas
Question: Screen actresses Julie Christie and Merle Oberon were both born in which country?
Answer: India
Question: The paramilitary group Alpha 66 was formed in Florida to oppose whom?
Answer: Fidel Castro
Question: Author Henry Fielding introduced a forerunner of which modern service in the18th century?
Answer: The Police
Question: """Being and Nothingness"" was a 1946 work by which French philosopher?"
Answer: Jean Paul Sartre
Question: What is the name coined by Arthur Cayley to a group of numbers displayed in rows and columns to form a rectangular array?
Answer: A matrix
Question: Edward of Woodstock who, as Prince of Wales, died before his father and so was never King of England, is better known by which name?
Answer: The Black Prince
Question: The WH Auden poem commonly known as 'Stop All The Clocks', is more properly known by what title?
Answer: Funeral Blues
Question: From which country does the food dish tamale originate?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Who was the wife of Richard III?
Answer: Anne
Question: Becky Thatcher is a character in which novel?
Answer: (The Adventures of) Tom Sawyer
Question: In which year did all the following events occur: Tunguska explosion in Siberia, First Model T Ford produced, 2-year-old Pu Yi becomes Emperor in China and the Summer Olympics first held in London?
Answer: 1908
Question: Where Was HMS Royal Oak sunk in World War II?
Answer: SCAPA FLOW
Question: Who stole the fire from heaven?
Answer: PROMETHEUS
Question: Which Midlands city was formed when several towns joined together as a county borough in 1910, achieving city status in 1928?
Answer: Stoke-on-Trent
Question: With which traditional activity would a squire or foreman, a bagman, a fool and a beast or hobby be associated?
Answer: Morris Dancing
Question: The religious festival Mawlid al-Nabi marks whose birthday?
Answer: Mohammed
Question: How many years are there between Preston Guilds?
Answer: 20
Question: Which group did Steve Winwood leave to form Traffic?
Answer: Spencer Davis Group
Question: Which is Charles Dickens' thirteenth published novel, its characters include: Uncle Pumblechook, Bentley Drummle, John Wemmick and Biddy?
Answer: Great Expectations
Question: What model name was assigned to the classic Land Rover design after the introduction of the Discovery and Freelander models in the 1980's and 1990's?
Answer: Defender
Question: What is the most common name of the British bird Pandon Haliaetus, also known as the sea hawk, fish eagle or fish hawk?
Answer: Osprey
Question: What is the most common name of the British bird Falco Columbarius, a pigeon hawk, the males having a blue grey back?
Answer: Merlin
Question: Which classic fairy tale was first published in written form by Poet Laureate Robert Southey in 1837?
Answer: Goldilocks
Question: How was Frenchman Armand Jean du Plessis (1585-1642) known more familiarly?
Answer: CARDINAL RICHELIEU
Question: Cardinal Richelieu was Chief Minister of the French King from 1624 to 1642. Which king (name and regnal number)?
Answer: LOUIS XIII
Question: Who played Flash Harry in the St Trinians films of the 1950s and 1960s?
Answer: GEORGE COLE
Question: In law, what name is given to a civil wrong causing loss or harm, enabling legal action against the party who carried out the act?
Answer: Tort
Question: Samsung Electronics was established in 1938 in which modern day country, in which it still has its international HQ?
Answer: South Korea
Question: Miley Cyrus came to prominence playing which title role on TV as a teenager who leads a double life as a singer?
Answer: Hannah Montana
Question: Sharing its name with a city, which secret underground organisation is said to have arranged the expatriation of many former Nazis to South America including Adolf Eichmann?
Answer: ODESSA
Question: Which palatial villa, located just over a mile west of Chichester, is believed to have been the residence of king Cogidubnus, a 1st century ally of the Romans?
Answer: Fishbourne
Question: Which of Shakespeare's plays is concerned with the efforts of Baptista to find husbands for his daughters, Bianca and her sister?
Answer: The Taming Of The Shrew
Question: Which duo had a UK No.1 hit in 1987 with the song ‘Respectable'?
Answer: MEL AND KIM
Question: In Greek Mythology which boastful hunter was killed by the sting of a scorpion – both being turned into constellations?
Answer: ORION
Question: Which European country's flag displays an image of its highest peak Mount Triglav?
Answer: SLOVENIA
Question: The world number 1 ranked tennis player in March 2013, Novak Djokovic is a national of which country?
Answer: Serbia
Question: Which bird, best known for its singing, has the scientific name "luscinia megahynchos"?
Answer: Nightingale
Question: Who was King of England in the year 1400?
Answer: Henry IV
Question: Which National Trust property was once owned by the Egerton family?
Answer: Tatton Park
Question: On 1st January 2015 which Baltic state became the latest country to start using the Euro as its currency?
Answer: Lithuania
Question: Which 6 letter English word describes a gallows with a projecting arm from which criminals were suspended after execution?
Answer: A Gibbet
Question: Under what name does Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre act and sing?
Answer: Cher
Question: What is the capital of Equatorial Guinea?
Answer: Malabo
Question: In cookery what does the term farci mean?
Answer: STUFFED
Question: In what year was the CIA founded?
Answer: 1947
Question: Which European country's flag consists of horizontal halves of blue over red with a gold crown in the upper hoist?
Answer: LIECHTENSTEIN
Question: """Marcus Tullius"" are the forenames of which Roman lawyer, politician and philosopher, killed during the power-struggle after the murder of Julius Caesar?"
Answer: Cicero
Question: The Hector Berlioz opera "Les Troyens" is based on a poem written by whom?
Answer: Virgil
Question: Which multi purpose tool was first produced in 1891 by Karl Elsener, founder of the company Victorinox?
Answer: Swiss Army Knife
Question: With which long running folk-rock band have fiddlers Dave Swarbrick and Ric Sanders been associated?
Answer: Fairport Convention
Question: The word "jute", describing the fibre used in the making of canvas, gunny and similar materials, is derived from which Asian language?
Answer: Bengali
Question: In which 1986 film did Patsy Kensit star alongside Eddie O'Connell?
Answer: Absolute Beginners
Question: In mythology, the Maenads {pronounced 'my-nads') were frenzied followers of which god or goddess?
Answer: Bacchus
Question: In a tale from Apuleius's "The Golden Ass", who did Cupid fall in love with and eventually marry?
Answer: Psyche
Question: Julius was the Christian name of which Bond villain in the eponymous 1958 novel later filmed?
Answer: Dr No
Question: Which French singer/songwriter and former model is married to Nicolas Sarkozy and was romantically linked to Mick Jagger in the early 1990s?
Answer: Carla Bruni
Question: In the Washington Irving short story, for how many years did Rip van Winkle sleep in the Catskill Mountains?
Answer: Twenty
Question: In January 1984 Michael Jackson suffered 2nd degree burns whilst making a commercial for which company?
Answer: PEPSI COLA
Question: In what form did Zeus come to Danae?
Answer: A SHOWER OF GOLD
Question: At which sea battle in 1942 did the US defeat the Japanese despite their ships being outnumbered 3 to 1?
Answer: MIDWAY
Question: The Gilbert and Sullivan opera "Patience" has what alternative title?
Answer: Bunthorne’s Bride
Question: In which National Park would you find Drake Howe on Cringle Moor the highest point of the Cleveland Hills?
Answer: North York Moors
Question: Who is the MP for Sevenoaks who was Defence Secretary at the end of the coalition government in May 2015?
Answer: Michael Fallon
Question: What was the name of the holder of thee title "Earl of Essex" who was executed in 1501?
Answer: Robert Devereux
Question: Also called a ventriculus, what name is given to a muscular pouch, in a bird's alimentary canal where food is ground down?
Answer: 'Gizzard
Question: What is the official designation of the Roman building commonly known as the Coliseum?
Answer: The Flavian Amphitheatre
Question: Which musical instrument has a name which means bundle of sticks in Italian?
Answer: Bassoon
Question: Which US band still active today had hits with September and After The Love Has Gone? They were founded by Maurice White.
Answer: Earth Wind and Fire
Question: John Crome and John Sell Cotman were leading members of which school of painting, founded in 1803?
Answer: Norwich
Question: Which musician’s touring schedule has been popularly named The Never Ending Tour’-it started in June 1988?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Question: Titanic and Olympic were two of the White Star Line’s trio of Olympic-Class ocean liners. What was the third, launched in 1914 and constructed by Harland and Wolf in Belfast?
Answer: The Britannic
Question: What is the name given to the vertical posts that hold up the handrail of a staircase (sometimes simply called guards or spindles)?
Answer: Baluster
Question: The wood from which common tree was traditionally used to make tennis racquets, snooker cues and hockey sticks
Answer: Ash
Question: The Law concerning the distance and relative speeds of celestial bodies and said to confirm the Big Bang Theory is named after which American astronomer?
Answer: (Edwin) Hubble
Question: Many British hill tops have a trig point placed by the Ordnance Survey. What is the word 'trig' short for?
Answer: TRIANGULATION
Question: Which Italian noblewoman was queen of France between 1547 and 1559, and ruled as regent in the years afterwards (full name needed)?
Answer: CATHERINE DE' MEDICI
Question: The original version of the play Waiting for Godot was written in which language?
Answer: FRENCH
Question: Which city, called the Florence of the Elbe, stands 200 km from Berlin and 150 km from Prague?
Answer: DRESDEN
Question: Which African country is bordered by six countries including to the North by Libya, to the East by Sudan, to the South by The Central African Republic and to the West by Niger?
Answer: CHAD
Question: The name of which US elite military force is an acronym based on the amphibious role in which it operates?
Answer: (NAVY) SEALS
Question: Which statesman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, largely for brokering a deal to end the Russo-Japanese War in 1905?
Answer: THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Question: Who was on the English throne in 1500?
Answer: HENRY THE SEVENTH
Question: Which prominent Labour MP lost his seat of Morley and Outwood in May’s general election?
Answer: ED BALLS
Question: Which Swiss sculptor appears with his creation L’Homme Qui Marche I on the 100 Swiss Franc note?
Answer: ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
Question: Which river flows through Dewsbury and Wakefield?
Answer: CALDER
Question: What word can follow Garden, Willow and Grasshopper, to give the names of three bird-species that can be seen in the UK?
Answer: Warbler
Question: The antimalarial drug "Quinine" is derived from the bark of which tree?
Answer: Cinchona
Question: In heraldry, which colour is denoted by the term azure?
Answer: Blue
Question: Which 1972 film starring Dick Emery took its title from the catchphrase of one of his characters?
Answer: Ooh You Are Awful
Question: In a classic Ealing comedy, which area of London declares independence after the discovery of documents showing it is part of the Duchy of Burgundy?
Answer: Pimlico
Question: In which novel of 1869 does Pierre Bezuhov fight a duel in which both participants survive?
Answer: War and Peace
Question: According to the Old Testament, which place is the source of the river that divides into four other rivers - the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates?
Answer: The Garden of Eden
Question: By what name was the Amu Darya river, which forms part of Afghanistan's borders with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, known in classical times?
Answer: Oxus
Question: Zen, Slave and Orac, are the 3 computers used by the protagonists in which TV series of the 1970's and 80's?
Answer: Blake's 7
Question: Sirius otherwise known as the "Dog Star" can be found in which constellation?
Answer: Canis Major
Question: Which band had a UK number one hit in 2007 with "Ruby"?
Answer: The Kaiser Chiefs
Question: Which Pope was originally called Simon?
Answer: St Peter
Question: Which country's flag is made up of three equal vertical bands of green, white and green?
Answer: Nigeria
Question: Denis Papin is credited with inventing an early version of which kitchen device?
Answer: PRESSURE COOKER
Question: In which household item would you find a magnetron?
Answer: MICROWAVE OVEN
Question: Which former head of NKVD (The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) in USSR was executed in 1953 for treason after the death of Stalin?
Answer: Lavrentiy Beria
Question: Milwaukee is the largest city of which US state?
Answer: Wisconsin
Question: In which modern day country was the "Battle of Waterloo" fought in 1815?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Which battle of 23 June, 1757, was a major victory for the British East India Company's troops over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies?
Answer: The Battle of Plassey
Question: Damien Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", consisted of which creature preserved in formaldehyde?
Answer: A Shark
Question: Who crowned Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, in 1804?
Answer: Himself
Question: By what one-word name is the painter, born around 1260 in Siena with the surname di Buoninsegna, usually known?
Answer: Duccio
Question: ‘All American Prophet’, ‘Baptize Me’ and ‘l am Africa’ are songs from which musical, currently playing at the Prince of Wales theatre?
Answer: The Book of Mormon
Question: Widowed at 25, Martha Custis, nee Dandridge, later married which future American president?
Answer: George Washington
Question: K2 is the highest peak in which mountain range centred on the historic region of Kashmir? It is considered a sub-range of the Himalayas and one of the Greater Ranges of Asia.
Answer: Karakoram
Question: Thackeray took his novel’s title ‘ Vanity Fair’ from which author’s work The Pilgrim’s Progress’?
Answer: John Bunyan
Question: Tirich Mir is the highest peak in which mountain range of central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, which is considered a sub-range of the Himalayas and one of the Greater Ranges of Asia?
Answer: Hindu Kush
Question: Which building society, mutualised in 2000 and nationalised and part sold to Abbey National in 2008, used a bowler hats logo in its marketing?
Answer: Bradford and Bingley
Question: Although courted by his political opponent, Stephen Douglas, Mary Todd chose to marry which future American president?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: What subatomic particle was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932?
Answer: NEUTRON
Question: Francis II was the last man to hold which imperial title, abolished in 1806?
Answer: HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR
Question: Which novelist and critic, who was married to Iris Murdoch for over forty years, died earlier this year aged 89?
Answer: JOHN BAYLEY
Question: In Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend to which character does the title refer?
Answer: JOHN HARMON
Question: Benjamin Britten's last opera. Death in Venice, is based on a 1912 short story by which author?
Answer: THOMAS MANN
Question: Which novel first published in 1871 has the first line “Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress”?
Answer: MIDDLEMARCH
Question: In which decade was the 999 Emergency Calling system introduced in the United Kingdom?
Answer: 1930’s
Question: In which American state is Roswell, where it is claimed a U.F.O. crashed in 1947?
Answer: NEW MEXICO
Question: Who was appointed Secretary of State for Education in David Cameron's May 2015 cabinet?
Answer: (Nicky) MORGAN
Question: In what year did 'Terms of Endearment win the Best Picture Oscar, the Macintosh computer is released by Apple and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated?
Answer: 1984
Question: In which wars did the battles of Towton and Barnet take place?
Answer: WARS OF THE ROSES
Question: Who first sailed out of Whitby aboard the collier Freelove - his later ships include HMS Eagle, HMS Solebay, HMS Grenville and HMS Endeavour?
Answer: Captain James Cook
Question: Fought in 1827 during the Greek War of Independence, what was the last major sea battle to be fought under sail?
Answer: Navarino
Question: Under which South African based statesman were scholarships founded at Oxford University?
Answer: CECIL RHODES
Question: What code name was given to the temporary harbours towed to and anchored off the Normandy beachheads?
Answer: MULBERRY
Question: The plant genus known as ilex covers several species of shrub. They are commonly known by what name?
Answer: HOLLY
Question: Who was the famous RAF Bomber Command representative who observed the dropping of the atom bomb on Nagasaki?
Answer: LEONARD CHESHIRE