zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which group had a hit in 1982 with "Pass the Dutchie"?
Answer: MUSICAL YOUTH
Question: Which island lies midway between the Orkney islands and the Shetlands?
Answer: FAIR ISLE
Question: Which was the only No. 1 hit for Pink Floyd?
Answer: ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
Question: Which English king was married to Isabella of Angouleme?
Answer: KING JOHN
Question: John Harmon is the main protagonist in which Dickens novel?
Answer: OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
Question: Which American actress said of marriage "It's a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet"?
Answer: MAE WEST
Question: Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck were pretenders to the English throne during the reign of which King?
Answer: HENRY VII
Question: In the Bible, in the book of Kings, who was the evil wife of King Ahab?
Answer: Jezebel
Question: How many lines of poetry are in a sonnet?
Answer: 14
Question: For which London constituency was Winston Churchill MP between 1945-1964?
Answer: Woodford
Question: What type of cake kicked off Proust's reminiscences in "Remembrance of Things Past"?
Answer: Madeleine
Question: Which bird was the subject of an ode by John Keats?
Answer: Nightingale
Question: Which female wit is reputed to have said "Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you"?
Answer: Mae West
Question: In which British town or city is the National Media Museum?
Answer: Bradford
Question: The satellites of which planet are nearly all named after Shakespearean characters?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Pearl Roundabout has been a scene of political protests, in which city is it?
Answer: Manama
Question: Which company manufactured the World War 2 'A6M Zero' fighter aircraft?
Answer: Mitsubishi
Question: What dynastic family name of Cleopatra?
Answer: PTOLEMY
Question: Who wrote the play "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf'?
Answer: EDWARD ALBEE
Question: Which artist headlined final day of Glastonbury festival 2011?
Answer: BEYONCE
Question: What is the name of the French underground resistance who fought against Germany in WWII?
Answer: MAQUIS
Question: In the Bible who was the wife of Ahab?
Answer: JEZEBEL
Question: Give a year in the life of composer Puccini.
Answer: 1858-1924
Question: In Greek mythology who drowned while swimming the Hellespont?
Answer: LEANDER
Question: Lusitania was the Roman name for which country?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Which battle took place on 21st October 1805?
Answer: Trafalgar
Question: Who, in 1811, postulated that 'when at the same temperature and pressure, equal volumes of gases contain equal numbers of molecules'?
Answer: Avogadro
Question: Which nut or seed is used in the Italian sauce pesto?
Answer: Pine
Question: Which Edinburgh physicist has given his name to a sub-atomic particle which has not yet been observed?
Answer: (Peter) Higgs
Question: Who introduces the weekly folk music show on Radio 2 every Wednesday evening at 7 00pm?
Answer: Mike Harding
Question: Which US President made the first phone call to the moon?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: Which aircraft is the largest passenger airliner currently in service?
Answer: Airbus 380
Question: Which Austrian scientist was the founder of genetics?
Answer: (Gregor Johann) Mendel
Question: Name the Greek goddess of divine retribution.
Answer: Nemesis
Question: Name the Greek goddess of peace.
Answer: Irene
Question: Narita international airport serves which city?
Answer: Tokyo
Question: Philippa of Hainault was the wife of which English king?
Answer: Edward the Third
Question: Central America's Panama seceded from which country in 1903?
Answer: Columbia
Question: Give the name of the character played by Oscar winning actor Edmund Gwenn in the 1947 film "Miracle on 34th Street".
Answer: Kris Kringle
Question: In which year did Mozart die?
Answer: 1791
Question: What is the most northerly county of the Irish Republic?
Answer: Co. Donegal
Question: Which Scottish author wrote "A Good Man in Africa", "The New Confessions", and his most recent novel "Ordinary Thunderstorms"?
Answer: William Boyd
Question: The American Bill Viola is associated with which art form?
Answer: Video
Question: Which writer had a cat called Hodge?
Answer: Dr Johnson
Question: Near which city did Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" take place?
Answer: Athens
Question: In Greek mythology who was the wife of Odysseus?
Answer: Penelope
Question: In the Bible who was the father of Joseph and Benjamin?
Answer: Jacob
Question: In which constellation is the star Regulus?
Answer: Leo
Question: Which actress caused a sensation by appearing naked in the 1933 film "Ecstasy"?
Answer: Hedy Lamarr
Question: Who was Poet Laureate for the longest period (42 years 1850-1892)?
Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Question: Which Scotsman invented the vacuum flask in 1892?
Answer: James Dewar
Question: Elizabeth Woodville was the wife of which English King?
Answer: EDWARD IV
Question: What is the highest peak in Germany?
Answer: THE ZUGSPITZE
Question: Which Shakespeare character dies saying 'the rest is silence'?
Answer: HAMLET
Question: What is the only Scrabble tile with a value not shared by any others?
Answer: K
Question: Who sculpted "The Gates of Hell" depicting a scene from Dante's Inferno from 1880 until his death in 1917?
Answer: Auguste Rodin
Question: The Battle of Inchon took place during which war?
Answer: Korean
Question: In which Shakespeare play will you find the jester "Touchstone"?
Answer: As You Like It
Question: Which team were the last winners of football's First Division before the formation of the Premier League?
Answer: Leeds United
Question: What single number is considered to be lucky in China?
Answer: Eight
Question: What is the name of the theme tune for "Monty Python's Flying Circus"?
Answer: Liberty Bell
Question: Who painted "The Rokeby Venus", to be found in the National Gallery?
Answer: Diego Velazquez
Question: Which US state is bordered by Massachussetts, Rhode Island and New York?
Answer: Connecticut
Question: In Shakespeare's 'As you like It', what name does Rosalind take when she poses as a boy?
Answer: GANYMEDE
Question: Belvoir Castle is the home of which dukedom?
Answer: RUTLAND
Question: In 'Dads Army' what did Hodges call Captain Mainwaring?
Answer: NAPOLEON
Question: Where was the armistice which halted the Korean War signed in 1953?
Answer: PANMUNJON
Question: Founded in 1999 by BBC4 TV, for what is the Samuel Johnson Prize awarded?
Answer: NON-FICTION
Question: What nationality is Petra Kvitova the 2011 Ladies Singles winner at Wimbledon?
Answer: CZECH
Question: Which poet wrote the line 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know'?
Answer: JOHN KEATS
Question: Which religious faith was founded in the 19th century, in what is now Iran and has its headquarters in Haifa(Israel)?
Answer: BAHA'I
Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar in both 1993 and 1994?
Answer: Tom Hanks
Question: Traditionally, what kind of meat is used in the dish Osso Bucco?
Answer: Veal
Question: Which country used to be called South West Africa?
Answer: Namibia
Question: What period of time did Eire describe as 'the emergency'?
Answer: World War Two
Question: Which animals have 42 teeth in adulthood?
Answer: Dogs
Question: The Battle of Palmito Ranch (Hill) was the last major clash of which 19th century war?
Answer: American Civil War
Question: Which species of bird has Andean and Californian varieties?
Answer: Condor
Question: Which alcoholic spirit is made from the blue agave plant?
Answer: Tequila
Question: Dili is the capital of which state that became independent on 20 May 2002?
Answer: East Timor
Question: What are female ferrets and polecats called?
Answer: Jill
Question: What was the name of the 1990s TV series starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as flatmates Eddie and Richie?
Answer: Bottom
Question: Which American playwright wrote The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night?
Answer: (Eugene) O'Neill
Question: Occurring on 21 July 1861, on what was the first major land battle of the American Civil War?
Answer: First Bull Run
Question: Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in May 1980, was the vocalist with which group?
Answer: Joy Division
Question: Which Israeli leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978?
Answer: Menachem Begin
Question: In Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons, what was the name of the amorous French skunk?
Answer: Pepe Le Pew
Question: Which poem by Keats opens with the words "O what can all thee, knight-at-arms, alone and palely loitering"?
Answer: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Question: In Australian Rules football, how many points are awarded for a field goal?
Answer: Six
Question: In which country was architect Frank Gehry born?
Answer: Canada
Question: Who is the Bishop of London, in office since 1995?
Answer: Richard Chartres
Question: For what does the G stand in G. K. Chesterton?
Answer: Gilbert
Question: What was the code name given to the Dam Busters raids of May 1943?
Answer: (Operation) Chastise
Question: Who is Pip's secret benefactor in 'Great Expectations'?
Answer: MAGWITCH
Question: By winning the 2009 PGA Championship who became the first Asian to win a major golf tournament?
Answer: Y.E. YANG
Question: Who wrote the TV series 'The Wire'?
Answer: DAVID SIMON
Question: Who owns the world's largest private yacht 'Eclipse' and three other yachts `Pelorus', Ecstasea' and `Sussurro'?
Answer: ROMAN ABRAMOVICH
Question: The rivers Gowy, Goyt and Bollin are tributaries of which larger river?
Answer: RIVER MERSEY
Question: Whose 2010 biography was called "Elephant to Hollywood"?
Answer: MICHAEL CAINE
Question: Which predominantly American grape variety is genetically identical to the southern Italian grape Primitivo?
Answer: Zinfandel
Question: Who became chief women's wear designer at Christian Dior in October 1996?
Answer: John Galliano
Question: What kind of creature is a kakapo?
Answer: Parrot
Question: In which opera does the character Lieutenant Pinkerton appear?
Answer: Madama Butterfly
Question: What t yoe of creature is a copperhead?
Answer: Snake
Question: What is the name of the Chief Inspector featured in many RuthRendell novels e.g. Road Rage?
Answer: Reg Wexford
Question: Who, in Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of books, is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'?
Answer: Lisbeth Salander
Question: Whose autobiography entitled "The Woman I Was Born To Be" was published in 2010?
Answer: Susan Boyle
Question: What is the name of 'Take That's' 2010 album which marked the return to the band of Robbie Williams?
Answer: Progress
Question: Who described the news of the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton as 'wicked'?
Answer: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Question: In which 1873 novel is the chief character pursued by a Scotland Yard detective, called Inspector Fix?
Answer: Around the World in Eighty Days
Question: In which US state did the Battle of Yorktown take place in 1781?
Answer: Virginia
Question: From 1922-1933, with which School of Art was Wassily Kandinsky particularly associated?
Answer: Bauhaus
Question: Which 1966/1973 US TV series featured the characters Jim Phelps, Cinnamon Carter and Rollin Hand?
Answer: Mission Impossible
Question: In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female member of what in the United States?
Answer: The US Supreme Court
Question: In 1998, who, at the age of 77 became the eldest person ever to go into space?
Answer: John Glenn
Question: Which board game for two players originating in China and popular in Japan uses black/white stones on a 19x19 grid.
Answer: Go
Question: Which German mathematician developed the theory of calculus at about the same time as, but independently of, Isaac Newton?
Answer: (Gottfried) Liebnitz
Question: Guy Fawkes was born and schooled in which English city?
Answer: York
Question: Flatmates Felix Unger and Oscar Madison are the central characters in which play, film and TV series?
Answer: The Odd Couple
Question: Which large domesticated bird has the Latin name meleagris gallopavo?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Which candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2010 is MP for Leigh?
Answer: Andy Burnham
Question: Which mammal has types called Siberian and Bengal?
Answer: Tiger
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in Canada in 1858, the only one born outside the British Isles?
Answer: (Andrew) Bonar Law
Question: Which baseball star is mentioned in the lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel's hit "Mrs Robinson"?
Answer: Joe di Maggio
Question: The archaeologist SirArthur Evans is most famous for his excavations concerning which civilisation?
Answer: Minoan
Question: Which part of your car contains a 35% solution of sulphuric acid?
Answer: BATTERY
Question: Which legendary king was the father of King Arthur?
Answer: UTHER PENDRAGON
Question: In Greek myth, who led the quest to find the Chrysomallos?
Answer: JASON
Question: With UK number one hits 'Right Round' and 'Club Can't Handle Me', what is both the stage name and home US state of rapper Tramar Dillard?
Answer: FLO RIDA
Question: The second largest city in Queensland and the pre-1957 name for an African nation share what name?
Answer: GOLD COAST
Question: What hit 2008 film was based on the 2005 novel 'Q & A' by Vikas Swarup?
Answer: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Question: 'Nevermore' is the last word of the final eleven stanzas of what famous poem?
Answer: THE RAVEN
Question: What movie star was nominated for acting awards for playing Anna Christie in 1930 and Anna Karenina in 1935?
Answer: GRETA GARBO
Question: Who is the author of the novel 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?
Answer: TRACY CHEVALIER
Question: 'The Night of the Hunter' in 1955 was the only film to be directed by which actor?
Answer: CHARLES LAUGHTON
Question: Saint-Denis is the chief town on which Indian Ocean island?
Answer: REUNION
Question: Galah and Sulphur-crested are species of what kind of bird?
Answer: COCKATOO
Question: Who created and wrote the TV series `Downton Abbey'?
Answer: JULIAN FELLOWES
Question: The historic area of Gastown forms part of which Canadian city?
Answer: VANCOUVER
Question: Which Shakespearian character was stabbed when hiding behind an arras?
Answer: POLONIUS
Question: In darts, which score is called 'bed and breakfast'?
Answer: 26
Question: Who painted 'The Birth of Venus' and 'Primavera'?
Answer: BOTTICELLI
Question: Which country introduced the 'Cult of the Supreme Being' in 1794, intended to become the state religion?
Answer: FRANCE
Question: Uncia Uncia is the Latin name for which animal?
Answer: SNOW LEOPARD
Question: Which great river flows though China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to the South China Sea?
Answer: MEKONG
Question: Which British composer wrote 'The Midsummer Marriage' and `The Knot Garden'?
Answer: SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
Question: Which sailing ship, named after the witch in Burns' poem 'Tam O'Shanter', is preserved in dry dock at Greenwich?
Answer: CUTTY SARK
Question: Who was Hitler's personal secretary who was sentenced to death in absentia at Nuremberg?
Answer: MARTIN BORMANN
Question: From which plant is linseed oil derived?
Answer: FLAX
Question: Which Italian form of improvised comic drama was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries?
Answer: COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
Question: What name is given to the southern landmass formed by the splitting of a single world continent over 200 million years ago?
Answer: GONDWANALAND
Question: Polygamy is the state of having more than one wife but what word describes the state of having more than one husband?
Answer: POLYANDRY
Question: Which US inventor designed the Clermont, one of the earliest steamships?
Answer: ROBERT FULTON
Question: Which infectious viral disease of domestic poultry is also called Newcastle disease?
Answer: FOWL PEST
Question: What was the name of the dog on the HMV record labels?
Answer: Nipper
Question: Which British singer was the second wife of actor Roger Moore?
Answer: Dorothy Squires
Question: Who led the unsuccessful uprising against Henry VII in 1497? He was hanged in 1499?
Answer: Perkin Warbeck
Question: Who was the only World Heavyweight Boxing Champion to finish his career undefeated when he retired in 1956?
Answer: Rocky Marciano
Question: What name (one word only) is given to the process whereby a substance gasses from a solid state to a gas without going through a liquid stage?
Answer: Sublimation
Question: Which country is bordered by Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia?
Answer: Kenya
Question: Who painted the picture known as "The Rokeby Venus"?
Answer: Velazquez
Question: What is the name of the last passenger ship to hold the Blue Riband?
Answer: (SS) United States
Question: Snow, Bean, White-fronted, and Pink-footed are species of which bird?
Answer: Goose
Question: How is the chemical sodium thiosuiphate, used as a fixer in photography, better known?
Answer: Hypo
Question: Which human rights group appointed Sharmishta (Shami) Chakrabati as director in 2003?
Answer: Liberty
Question: Which internet service was set up by David Filo and Jerry Yang in 1994?
Answer: Yahoo
Question: Malachite is an ore of which chemical element?
Answer: Copper
Question: Which US actor, who appeared in the film "The 40 year old Virgin", also played the lead role in the US version of "The Office"?
Answer: Steve Carell
Question: What name is given to a golden horse with a white mane and tail?
Answer: PALOMINO
Question: In Greek mythology who fell from Pegasus as he attempted to fly to Mount Olympus, the realm of the gods?
Answer: BELLEROPHON
Question: Name the theatre in Scarborough associated with Alan Ayckborn.
Answer: STEPHEN JOSEPH Theatre
Question: Who bowled Don Bradman for a duck in his last Test Innings?
Answer: ERIC HOLLIES
Question: Which artist created Whaam in 1963?
Answer: ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Question: Compounds of mercury and a metal are known as what?
Answer: AMALGAM
Question: In 1911 who led the first successful expedition to reach the South Pole?
Answer: ROALD AMUNDSEN
Question: The 1940s US fighter plane the 'Bearcat' was built by which company?
Answer: GRUMMAN
Question: In the Bible who was the father of King David?
Answer: JESSE
Question: Styria and Carinthia are states in which country?
Answer: Austria
Question: According to the proverb (as in Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament) a live dog is better than what?
Answer: A dead lion
Question: Which woman was the singer with Jefferson Airplane?
Answer: Grace Slick
Question: Name either country involved in the 'Pastry War' of 1838.
Answer: France and Mexico
Question: Who writes the series of novels about Chief Inspector Alan Banks?
Answer: Peter Robinson
Question: Toussaint Louverture led a revolution in 1791 in what present day country?
Answer: Haiti
Question: What was the actual first name of Bette Davis?
Answer: Ruth
Question: Which singer is the only one to record three James Bond themes?
Answer: SHIRLEY BASSEY
Question: What is the name of the Editor in Chief of Wikileaks?
Answer: JULIAN ASSANGE
Question: In the bible what name is given to the following Michael, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jegudiel and Barachiel known as?
Answer: ARCHANGELS
Question: Apart from South Africa which other African nation played in the 2011 Rugby World Cup?
Answer: NAMIBIA
Question: On which quiz show does Richard Osman appear?
Answer: POINTLESS
Question: Who is to play Miss Havisham in the 2012 film version of Dickens' Great Expectations'?
Answer: HELENA BONHAM CARTER
Question: Which actor has appeared in the films `Se7en', 'Fight Club', 'Inglourious Basterds' and 'Oceans Eleven'?
Answer: BRAD PITT
Question: What is the English title of the first book of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy?
Answer: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Question: In which Libyan city, his birthplace, was Colonel Gaddafi captured and killed in October 2011?
Answer: SIRTE
Question: In what year did the 7/7 attacks in London take place?
Answer: 2005
Question: Who was King of England in 1400?
Answer: HENRY IV
Question: Which Celtic quarter day falls on the 1st of May?
Answer: BELTANE
Question: Who composed the music for the 1912 ballet "Daphnis et Chloe"?
Answer: (Maurice) Ravel
Question: In "The Simpson", what is the name of Bart's school principal?
Answer: (Seymour) Skinner
Question: Who, in 1856, painted the picture "The Blind Girl, now in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery?
Answer: (John Everett) Millais
Question: Which fictional detective lived at 56b Whitehaven Mansions?
Answer: Hercule Poirot
Question: Who wrote the novels 'A Passage to India' and 'A Room with a View'?
Answer: E M FORSTER
Question: In Arthurian legend, who was Sir Galahad's father?
Answer: SIR LANCELOT
Question: Who lost his world heavyweight boxing title to Gene Tunney in 1926?
Answer: JACK DEMPSEY
Question: Which Australian city is capital of the Northern Territory?
Answer: DARWIN
Question: Which of the apostles was the brother of St Peter?
Answer: ST ANDREW
Question: Kings Oak was the location for which TV soap opera?
Answer: CROSSROADS
Question: For which disease is morbilli the Latin name?
Answer: MEASLES
Question: Who painted a number of paintings of water lilies in his garden at Giverny?
Answer: CLAUDE MONET
Question: Launched in 1989 the MX-5 is a car made by which company?
Answer: MAZDA
Question: Which cinema legend died on Christmas Day 1977 at the age of 88?
Answer: CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Question: Which inlet of the Irish Sea separates Cumbria from Dumfries and Galloway?
Answer: THE SOLWAY FIRTH
Question: Kwame Nkrumah was the first President of which African country?
Answer: GHANA
Question: Christian Horner is team principal for which F1 racing team?
Answer: RED BULL RACING
Question: Whom did Queen Victoria succeed in 1837?
Answer: WILLIAM IV
Question: `Fallopia japonica' is a perennial weed, very difficult to eradicate. How is it better known?
Answer: JAPANESE KNOTWEED
Question: Historically which Rugby League Super League side were known as 'The Loiners'?
Answer: LEEDS
Question: Which Briton beat Oliver McCall to become WBC World Heavyweight champion in 1995?
Answer: FRANK BRUNO
Question: Cricketer James Pattinson made his test debut for Australia this year. What is the first name of his brother, a Nottinghamshire player who played one test for England in 2008?
Answer: DARREN
Question: Which Shakespeare play coined the phrase 'Salad Days' to describe a time of youth and inexperience?
Answer: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Question: Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson were Vice Presidents of which President of the USA?
Answer: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Question: What number completes the name of the Japanese team for which Gary Linker played, Nagoya Grampus
Answer: EIGHT
Question: Paul McNamee, Mark Woodforde, Jonathan Stark and Leander Paes were the four men who partnered which woman to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon, in 1985, 93, 95 and 2003?
Answer: Martina Navratilova
Question: No. 6 was the major character in which cult TV series?
Answer: The Prisoner
Question: The Six-Day War took place in which year?
Answer: 1967
Question: Who was the commander-in-chief of the German 6th Army when it surrendered at Stalingrad in February 1943?
Answer: Friedrich Von Paulus
Question: Complete the name of the shopping district in the Covent Garden area of London, Seven
Answer: Dials
Question: What is the popular name of Mahler's Symphony no. 8?
Answer: Symphony of a Thousand
Question: Which French wine region produces Pouilly-Fuisse?
Answer: BURGUNDY
Question: What name is given to the untanned skins of sharks and rays?
Answer: SHAGREEN
Question: What name is given to the decorative articles made from marine animal's bones, teeth or tusks?
Answer: SCRIMSHAW
Question: """Frankly my dear, I couldn't give a damn"" is a famous catchphrase spoken by which film character?"
Answer: Rhett BUTLER
Question: Which English long distance path runs from Overton Hill near Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon?
Answer: RIDGEWAY
Question: Which sport was, allegedly, invented by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York in 1839?
Answer: BASEBALL
Question: Whom did Valerie Solanas shoot in 1968?
Answer: (Andy) WARHOL
Question: What is the name of the ruling house of Sweden?
Answer: BERNADOTTE
Question: Which type of car did Steve McQueen drive in the film "Bullitt"?
Answer: MUSTANG
Question: Which character in Shakespeare "was more sinned against than sinning"?
Answer: KING LEAR
Question: With which instrument is jazz musician Earl Hines principally associated?
Answer: PIANO