zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who was the only 20th century President to get stuck in the White House bath tub as he was so big?
Answer: William Howard Taft
Question: Which Yuri was president of the USSR for two years after heading the KGB for 15 years?
Answer: Andropov
Question: Michel Aoun led which then unsettled Middle "Eastern country form 1988-1990?
Answer: Lebanon
Question: Which American city saw the premiere of Sunset Boulevard?
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: Abyssinia has become known as what?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: John Glenn became Senator for which state?
Answer: Ohio
Question: In which decade of the 20th century was Michael Keaton born?
Answer: 1950s
Question: Which Latvian was principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater in the 70s returning later as director?
Answer: Mikhail Baryshnikov
Question: Which movie won Marlon Brando his second Oscar?
Answer: The Godfather
Question: Which movement was thought to be responsible for the kidnapping of Western hostages in Lebanon in the 890s?
Answer: Hezbollah
Question: The increasing scarcity of elephants and rhinos led ot a 1989 ban on which substance?
Answer: Ivory
Question: Where is the HQ of Chrysler and General Motors?
Answer: Detroit
Question: Near which town were there reports of a space ship landing on the 4th July 1947?
Answer: Roswell, New Mexico
Question: Parker and Barrow were more usually known as what?
Answer: Bonnie and Clyde
Question: What nickname was given to the group of performers which included Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra?
Answer: The Rat Pack
Question: According to the British Bishop Mervyn Stockwood, who would "go to the Follies Bergere and look at the audience?
Answer: A psychiatrist
Question: What is London's biggest airport called?
Answer: Heathrow
Question: Which country is locked within Belgium, Germany and France?
Answer: Luxembourg
Question: Which new city in Nigeria has been shaped like a crescent, and has replaced Lagos as capital?
Answer: Abuja
Question: Is the Great Wall of China 650, 1,450 or 2,050 miles long?
Answer: 1,450
Question: Who was the Mongol ruler who conquered Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia in the 14th Century?
Answer: Tamerlane
Question: By what name was Thailand known until 1939?
Answer: Siam
Question: Who founded the modern republic of Turkey and, in 1934, took a name meaning "Father of the Turks"?
Answer: Kemal Ataturk
Question: Which country was defeated by the USSR in the Winter War of 1939?
Answer: Finland
Question: On which of the Greek islands did Bacchus find Ariadne, according to legend?
Answer: Naxos
Question: Which sultan of Egypt, who precipitated the third Crusade, subsequently made peace with Richard I?
Answer: Saladin
Question: Who was appointed successor to Hitler in 1939 but expelled from the Nazi party six years later?
Answer: Hermann Goering
Question: Which Elizabethan politician, philosopher and essayist was fined L40,000 for taking bribes?
Answer: Frances Bacon
Question: Who was Italy's Fascist lender from 1925-43?
Answer: Mussolini
Question: Which party was led by Adolf Hitler from 1921 to 1945?
Answer: Nazi Party
Question: Which MP entered Parliament as a Tory in 1833, but became Liberal prime minister in 1868?
Answer: Gladstone
Question: What became known s "the F-word" at the 1991 Maastricht summit, where Britain wanted it removed from the treaty?
Answer: Federalism
Question: Who led the Free French forces during World War II?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle
Question: What nickname was given to General Thomas Jackson because of his stern defense at the battle of Bull Run?
Answer: Stonewall
Question: What name is given to the brittle kind of iron used for making engine blocks and manhole covers?
Answer: Cast Iron
Question: What name is given to an atomic particle carrying a negative charge?
Answer: Electron
Question: Heisenberg is most associated with which branch of physics?
Answer: Quantum Mechanics
Question: What name is given to the very serious chain of events which can follow the failure of the cooling system in a nuclear reactor?
Answer: Meltdown
Question: Whose 'unified field theory' tried to explain the four fundamental forces in terms of a single, unified force?
Answer: Einstein
Question: Which tissue carries sugary sap around the plant?
Answer: Phloem
Question: Which South American vulture can have a wing span of up to 3 meters and a body weight of up to 13 kilos?
Answer: Condor
Question: Which part of the common valerian is used to make a sedative?
Answer: Root
Question: What is the Latin word for 'liquid' which we use to mean the fluid produced by the tree Ficus elastica?
Answer: Latex
Question: Which part of the eye contains about 137 million light-sensitive cells in one square inch?
Answer: Retina
Question: Where do the Graafian follicles develop?
Answer: Ovaries
Question: Which of the retina's cells can distinguish between different wavelengths of light?
Answer: Cone cells
Question: Which sea is so highly polluted that the Barcelona Convention was set up in 976 to try and clean it up?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
Question: Which inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is fast disappearing because the rivers that feed it have been diverted and dammed?
Answer: Aral Sea
Question: Which Canadian city gave its name to the 1987world agreement on protection of the ozone layer?
Answer: Montreal
Question: What name is given to the huge growths of algae sometimes seen in polluted lakes and rivers?
Answer: A bloom
Question: Which clouds only occur above 10,000 meters?
Answer: Cirrus
Question: What kind of extraterrestrial objet has been named after the 17th-century astronomer Edmond Halley?
Answer: A Comet
Question: Becky Sharp is the name of a character in which famous novel, which is also the title of a famous magazine?
Answer: Vanity Fair
Question: What major war began on 10 October, 1899?
Answer: The Boer War
Question: Which famous footballer left Tottenham in 1992 to join Japanese side Grampus Eight?
Answer: Gary Lineker
Question: Who was the first American President to resign from office?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: For how many years did Louis XIV of France reign?
Answer: 72
Question: How many players in total get down in a normal rugby union scrum?
Answer: 16
Question: In which British city was Guy Fawkes born and Dick Turpin killed?
Answer: York
Question: In what year did Sir Frederick Banting and J. J. R. MacLeod discover insulin?
Answer: 1922
Question: Which major British newspaper closed down for almost a year in 1978?
Answer: The Times
Question: Who was the biggest selling female artist in America in the 1990s?
Answer: Mariah Carey
Question: What was the challanging method of catching a fly asked of Daniel in the film The Karate Kid?
Answer: Using chopsticks to do it
Question: How many babies did Janet Walton give birth to in November, 1983?
Answer: 6
Question: Which American author created the character Rip Van Winkle?
Answer: Washington Irving
Question: The 1971 TV movie Duel was one of the first pieces of work by which Oscar winning film director?
Answer: Steven Spielberg
Question: How many UK top 40 hits did Prince have in the 1980s?
Answer: 20
Question: In which country was ice cream invented?
Answer: China
Question: Which three footballers won the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Award in the 20th century?
Answer: Bobby Moore, Paul Gasgoine and Michael Owen
Question: Which film starring Bill Murray includes the line Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic and so am I?
Answer: What About Bob
Question: In 2000, who bared all at the Gielgud Theatre replacing Kathleen Turner in the role of Mrs Robinson in the play The Graduate?
Answer: Jerry Hall
Question: What colour is Sonic the Hedgehog?
Answer: Blue
Question: Who has appeared in more Alfred Hitchock films than any one else?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
Question: Loves Rental Styles is an anagram of which famous actor?
Answer: Sylvester Stallone
Question: According to the title of a 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma, by what name was Antonio Montana better known?
Answer: Scarface
Question: Who featured on Melanie C's number one single Never Be The Same Again in 2000, and died in a car accident in 2002?
Answer: Lisa Left Eye Lopes
Question: How many seconds delay are there between each of Big Ben's strikes? 1, 3 or 5?
Answer: 5
Question: Who is the only artist to have a top 40 hit with 'Mustang Sally' in the UK when it reached number 28 in 1966?
Answer: Wilson Pickett
Question: Which company manufactured Love Hearts - packets of small round sweets each of which had a short message on?
Answer: Swizzel
Question: Originally made in a drugstore in Waco, Texas and still enjoyed today, what is America's oldest soft drink?
Answer: Dr. Pepper
Question: Which TV actor had a number one hit single in 1986 with 'Every Loser Wins'?
Answer: Nick Berry
Question: At which distance did Sally Gunnell win her gold medal for hurdling at the 1992 Olympics?
Answer: 400 metres
Question: What was the name of Gollum before he committed murder to obtain the ring?
Answer: Smeagol
Question: In which year did J. R. R. Tolkein die?
Answer: 1973
Question: Which three elements make up carbohydrates?
Answer: Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen
Question: How many barrels of gunpowder were discovered in the cellars of Westminster Hall as part of Guy Fawkes' gunpowder plot? 36, 96 or 266?
Answer: 36
Question: What does the name of the terrorist group Al-Qaida translate as in English? The Base, The Book or The Beads?
Answer: The Base
Question: In March 2004, Piers Morgan resigned as the editor of which newspaper after publishing fake photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused?
Answer: Daily Mirror
Question: Which 1997 film was a character called Rose played by two different actresses, both of whom received Oscar nominations for their parts?
Answer: Titanic
Question: Which British monarch reigned for longer than any other?
Answer: Queen Victoria
Question: As at April 2004, how many different Prime Ministers has the Queen given audience to?
Answer: 10
Question: At the time of her golden jubilee, how many ships had the Queen launched?
Answer: 17
Question: In which year did Wimpey open the first burger res'Come out to play'?
Answer: Archers
Question: According his famous poem, what had John Milton lost?
Answer: Paradise
Question: Which Disney annimation saw a young King Arthur enjoying his encounter with Merlin?
Answer: Sword In The Stone
Question: In cricket when a ball is hit for four, what is the line the ball crosses over called?
Answer: Boundary
Question: Which famous song, sung at the Last Night of the Proms begins with the line When Britain first at Heav'n's command?
Answer: Rule Britannia
Question: In which English county would you find a town called Westard Ho!, the only English town to contain an exclamation mark in its name?
Answer: Devon
Question: Lord David Sutch, who committed suicide in 1999, was famous for founding what in 1983?
Answer: The Monster Raving Loony Party
Question: Which colour features in the title of number one hits by Tom Jones and Shakin Stevens?
Answer: Green
Question: What is the capital of Vietnam? Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City or Phnom Penh?
Answer: Hanoi
Question: Which word appears in the title of a Police hit in 1981, a Queen hit in 1986 and a Take That hit in 1992?
Answer: Magic
Question: As at 2006, Which actress has had 13 Oscar nominations, more than any other actress?
Answer: Meryl Streep
Question: Which 1981 film is the only Best Picture Oscar winner to contain all of the letters of Oscar in its title?
Answer: Chariots Of Fire
Question: Zola Budd was blamed for the fall of which fellow athlete as they ran together in the 3000 metres final at the 1984 Olympic Games?
Answer: Mary Decker
Question: In The Lion King, what relation is Scar to Simba?
Answer: Uncle
Question: After the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, how many times had the United Kingdom finished second?
Answer: 15
Question: In the BBC's poll of 2002 to find the 100 Greatest Britons, which four people in the top ten were alive during the 20th century?
Answer: Winston Churchill, Princess Diana, The Queen and John Lennon
Question: Which England international footballer started his footballing career at Canadian club Calgary Foothills FC?
Answer: Owen Hargreaves
Question: Which 1999 Oscar winning film was directed by Mike Leigh and starred Jim Broadbent as Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame?
Answer: Topsy-Turvy
Question: What two word phrase is Sweeney Todd Cockney rhyming slang for?
Answer: Flying Squad
Question: What three letter word was removed from decimal coins in 1982?
Answer: New
Question: No Mean City by Maggie Bell is the theme tune to which long running TV detective show?
Answer: Taggart
Question: How many points does a Star of David have?
Answer: 6
Question: Reroute Novelist snobs is an anagram of which author?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
Question: Premiering in New York in 1967, which musical became famous for the amount of nudity involved?
Answer: Hair
Question: By what name was singer Charles Weedon Westover better known, who committed suicide in 1990 by shooting himself?
Answer: Del Shannon
Question: Who played the third incarnation of the Doctor in the TV series Doctor Who?
Answer: Jon Pertwee
Question: The Ballearics are made up of three major islands. Majorca and Minorca are two, but what is the other one?
Answer: Ibiza
Question: Who, having been an Olympic swimming champion achieved fame in a second career and was famous for his ululating yell?
Answer: Johnny Weissmuller
Question: What nickname was given to the 7th Armoured Division in 1940?
Answer: The Desert Rats
Question: What famous marque of motorcycle was Lawrence of Arabia riding when he was tragically killed in Dorset in 1936?
Answer: Brough Superior
Question: On Christmas Day 1977, Menachem Begin of Israel met with Anwar Sadat of Egypt to start peace talks.  Which one of them was celebrating their birthday that day?
Answer: Anwar Sadat
Question: Charlie Chaplin who died on Christmas Day in 1977, co founded which film studio along with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks?
Answer: United Artists
Question: What was the name of the 1927 film that was directed by Fritz Lang and featured a robot called Maria that inspired George Lucas to create the character C-3PO?
Answer: Metropolis
Question: Which two words, allegedly heard for the first time in the song Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf, describe a style of rock music?
Answer: Heavy Metal
Question: Who is the only person to be named number one box office star in the world for a five years in a row, when he acheived this every year from 1978 to 1982?
Answer: Burt Reynolds
Question: The Northwest of which country is called Thrace ?
Answer: Greece
Question: Which US state did Sir Walter Raleigh name?
Answer: Virginia
Question: Who did Rocky fight for the title in the original film?
Answer: Apollo Creed
Question: What was the nickname of Dr Leonard McCoy in the original Star Trek series?
Answer: Bones.
Question: In a Little Britain sketch for Red Nose Day in 2007, who played Vicky Pollard's sister?
Answer: Kate Moss
Question: Ben Grimm is better known by what name?
Answer: The Thing
Question: What is the name of the doctor of which the Incredible Hulk is the alter-ego?
Answer: Bruce Banner
Question: Who played Irish-American cop Jim Malone in the 1987 film The Untouchables?
Answer: Sean Connery
Question: The film Reservoir Dogs involved a botched job to steal what type of items?
Answer: Jewellery
Question: The Bottle Inn at Marshwood in Dorset has what annual eye watering and tongue numbing item on the menu?
Answer: Nettles
Question: Who wrote Principia Mathematica, published in 1687?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Question: Who was the last British monarch to have been born in Scotland?
Answer: Charles I
Question: During which century was Sir Walter Scott born?
Answer: 18th
Question: What name was given to the serial killer sought by Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs?
Answer: Buffalo Bill
Question: Which Australian rock band did not perform for a year after the death of their lead singer in 1997 by asphyxiation?
Answer: INXS
Question: The Angel tube station in London holds the European record for which piece of engineering?
Answer: Longest escalator
Question: Who reached No.1 in the UK charts in 1977 with 'Don't cry for me, Argentina ' ?
Answer: Julie Covington
Question: Who was the President of Argentina at the time of the Falklands invasion in 1982 ?
Answer: General Galtieri
Question: What nickname was given to the serial killer who killed and dismembered women in the Whitechapel area of London during the 1880s?
Answer: Jack the Ripper
Question: In what decade rom was the school leaving age raised from 15 to 16?
Answer: 1970s
Question: Teacher Gordon Sumner went on to become the lead singer of a top band and then have a successful solo recording artist under what name?
Answer: Sting
Question: If Winston Churchill was the first post war Prime Minister, Clement Atlee was second, Churchill third, and Anthony Eden fourth, who was 5th?
Answer: Harold McMillan
Question: Who killed John F Kennedy?
Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald
Question: In 1986 Jackson signed a $15 million deal with which company - it was the largest ever endorsement for product promotion?
Answer: Pepsi
Question: In the Lion King, what was the name of Simba's father?
Answer: Mufasa
Question: Which Prince featured in the title of the Chronicles Of Narnia film released in the summer of 2008?
Answer: Prince Caspian
Question: Brinsley Forde who went on to become the lead singer of Aswad starred in which children's TV series of the 1970s?
Answer: Here Come The Double Deckers
Question: What is the first book of the Bible attributed to a prophet?
Answer: Joshua
Question: Which famous Indian became known as Rebecca Rolfe and died in Gravesend in Kent?
Answer: Pocahontas
Question: How many metres are there in a mile? 1609, 1659 or 1709?
Answer: 1609
Question: The 1993 movie Free Willy was centred around what type of animal?
Answer: Killer Whale (Orca).
Question: What word can be a noun meaning an employer or supervisor, an adjective meaning first-rate or top notch and the name of a guitar effects pedal manufacturer?
Answer: Boss
Question: In the first series of the Esure Insurance TV adverts, Michael Winner's famous quote was Calm down dear, it's only a what?
Answer: Commercial
Question: Having returned from a four nation summit in Guadeloupe during the winter of January 1979, who was responsible for the Sun headline 'Crisis, what crisis?'?
Answer: James Callaghan
Question: Satchi and Satchi were responsible for the 1979 Conservative advertising campaign. The most famous poster being of a line of people queing at the job centre, with what famous strap line?
Answer: Labour isn't Working
Question: Which band had a UK number four hit in June 1972 with Little Willy?
Answer: The Sweet
Question: How many episodes of Only Fools and Horses were there? a. 65 b. 85 c. 105 d. 125
Answer: a. 65
Question: Winston Churchill's mother came from which country?
Answer: USA
Question: In which country was Joseph Stalin born?
Answer: Georgia
Question: What is the name of the Daleks home planet?
Answer: Skaro
Question: Who played the first Doctor?
Answer: William Hartnell
Question: True or False. Pope Adrian the 2nd was the last married Pope?
Answer: True
Question: When looking at a list of Popes, you will sometimes see the letters O.S.B. following a name. What does this mean?
Answer: Order of Saint Benedict.
Question: In Star Trek, by what nickname is Dr Leonard McCoy better known?
Answer: Bones
Question: In The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, what was the name of the best drink in existence?
Answer: The pan-galactic gargle blaster
Question: In cricket, if you are out without scoring, what is it called?
Answer: Duck
Question: Who became the Chief Executive of the Professional Footballers' Association in 1981, and is reputed to be the highest paid union official in the world?
Answer: Gordon Taylor
Question: Which member of Monty Python's Flying Circus was largely responsible for the animation, including the giant foot in the show's opening sequence.
Answer: Terry Gilliam
Question: Which actress has won more Best Actress Oscars than anyone else?
Answer: Katherine Hepburn
Question: Known as Wild Bill, what were J. B. Hickok's real first names?
Answer: James Butler
Question: Which London river, now flowing underground, rises at Finsbury Circus, flows through the City of London and enters the Thames by Cannon Street railway station?
Answer: River Walbrook
Question: Which WWI battle occurred on a peninsular south of Istanbul in Turkey?
Answer: Gallipoli
Question: Cricketing brothers Ian & Greg Chappell have both captained Australia. A third Chappell brother has also played for his country, what is his name.
Answer: Trevor
Question: The Bourbon dynasty began to rule which country from 1700 and still do?
Answer: Spain
Question: Which Christian name links Brown, Champagne and Aunt?
Answer: Charlie
Question: This word has seven letters, it came before god, is greater than god, more evil than the devil, poor people have it, rich people want it, if you eat it you would die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing
Question: What is the fulkl name of the Headmaster of Hogwarts who is killed in book 6?
Answer: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Question: In Arthurian legend, who fought the Green Night?
Answer: Gawain
Question: Which well known cheese is transported in cyclindrical wood-chip boxes.
Answer: Camembert
Question: In which event did Boris Onischenko compete before being disqualified for cheating at the 1976 Montreal Games?
Answer: Modern Pentathlon
Question: What was the name of the nuclear reactor that caused worldwide concern after the earthquake in Japan, 2011?
Answer: Fukushima Daiichi
Question: Name of one of the most famous warships of WWII named after a German Chancellor - ordered to be sunk by Churchill.
Answer: Bismarck
Question: What is used to flavour the Kriek beer from Belgium?
Answer: Cherries
Question: Which David Essex hit was co-written by Mike Batt & Tim Rice?
Answer: Winter's Tale
Question: What was the final film directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in the lead roles?
Answer: Eyes Wide Shut
Question: What was the name of the German Chancellor, the primary force behind the unification of Germany 1871, who also had a famous battleship named after him?
Answer: Otto von Bismarck
Question: Which author wrote the Foundation series of science fiction novels?
Answer: Isaac Asimov
Question: Which member of the Royal family divorced on April 23rd 1992 and married again 8 months later?
Answer: Princess Anne
Question: What did 15 men led by Bruce Reynolds do on August 8th, 1963 in Ledburn, Buckinghamshire?
Answer: The Great Train Robbery
Question: 'Live Aid' pop concerts are staged on July 13th 1985 in London and which other US city?
Answer: Philadelphia
Question: On 1st May 2014, renowned Michelin star chef Jason Atherton opened City Social' restaurant situated on level 24 of Tower 42 in London. Who was the previous highly rated chef to run a restaurant at this location?
Answer: Gary Rhodes
Question: Which gunfight resulted in the deaths is Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton?
Answer: The Gunfight at the O.K Corral.
Question: Which accusing Calvin Harris song reached No1 on the UK Singles Chart on 14th Sept 2014
Answer: Blame
Question: Which battle is commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand?
Answer: Little Big Horn.
Question: In Norse mythology who was the shield maiden cursed to sleep within a circle of fire?
Answer: Brunhilde
Question: Captain John Francis McIntyre is a fictional TV character, better known by what name
Answer: Trapper
Question: Which British film company produced many vampire movies in the 1960's and 70's?
Answer: Hammer
Question: Monica and Ross Geller were brother and sister in which long running American television series?
Answer: F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Question: What Netflix exclusive programme chronicles the life of Piper Chapman and her experiences in an American State Prison?
Answer: Orange is the New Black
Question: Faulty Towers ran for a total of four years, but how many episodes were produced and released?
Answer: 12
Question: According to the poet Dante, for whom were the tortures of the sixth Circle of Hell reserved?
Answer: Heretics