zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: At what battle was the Mexican general Santa Anna defeated by Sam Houston in 1836?
Answer: San Jacinto
Question: Declan MacManus is the real name of which rock star?
Answer: Elvis Costello
Question: In cricket what is a ball called that is bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg?
Answer: A Chinaman
Question: Who provided the voice for the Genie of the Lamp in the 1992 Disney film 'Aladdin'?
Answer: Robin Williams
Question: What type of creature is a skink?
Answer: A lizard
Question: Rafael Trujillo was dictator of which state for nearly 20 years?
Answer: Dominican Republic
Question: Of which country is Helen Clark Prime Minister?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: In which Dickens novel would you find the Barnacle family?
Answer: Little Dorrit
Question: Who directed the first two Batman films that starred Michael Keaton?
Answer: Tim Burton
Question: For which film did Oliver Stone win his second Best Director Oscar in 1989?
Answer: Born on the Fourth of July
Question: Which British author wrote under the pseudonym Peter Porcupine?
Answer: William Cobbett
Question: In which Dickens novel would you find Dick Swiveller?
Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop
Question: Natal is a city in which South American country?
Answer: Brazil
Question: The Galapagos Islands are a province of which South American country?
Answer: Ecuador
Question: For which 2004 film did Clint Eastwood win his second Best Director Oscar?
Answer: Million Dollar Baby
Question: Whose right to the English throne did the Duke of Monmouth challenge in 1685?
Answer: James II
Question: In the book 'Tom Brown's Schooldays', what is the name of the bully?
Answer: Flashman
Question: In Greek mythology, what sort of creature was Polyphemus?
Answer: Cyclops
Question: The merger of British Steel and its Dutch equivalent formed which company?
Answer: Corus
Question: Throughout his political career Enoch Powell held only one ministerial post, which was it?
Answer: Minister of Health
Question: Which Greek heroine was hatched from an egg?
Answer: Helen of Troy
Question: Who was the commander of the British Battle Cruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland?
Answer: (Admiral) Beatty
Question: I Who commanded the German fleet at the Battle of Jutland?
Answer: (Admiral) Scheer
Question: Which philosopher wrote 'The Flies' and 'Being and Nothingness' in 1943?
Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre
Question: Who was Home Secretary at the time of the Sidney Street Siege?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: Mary Lennox is the central character of which 1911 Frances Hodgson Burnett novel?
Answer: THE SECRET GARDEN
Question: In Greek Mythology who was the messenger of the gods?
Answer: HERMES
Question: In the Old Testament which son of Isaac is also known as Israel?
Answer: JACOB
Question: Alfred Sisley was an exponent of which school of painting?
Answer: IMPRESSIONISM
Question: The "Generalife" is a villa with gardens in the grounds of which famous tourist attraction in Spain?
Answer: THE ALHAMBRA
Question: The first Olympic Games in three decades without a boycott of some sort was held in 1992 in which city?
Answer: BARCELONA
Question: Who composed "The Karelia Suite"?
Answer: SIBELIUS
Question: As at March 2009 who is Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: KEVIN RUDD
Question: To which religious group did the victims of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre belong?
Answer: HUGUENOTS
Question: Carrots are rich in which vitamin?
Answer: A
Question: Name either of the other two goddesses who were beaten by Aphrodite in the 'Judgement of Paris'?
Answer: Hera, Athena
Question: In which year was the 20p coin introduced and the word 'new' dropped from all newly minted coins in Britain?
Answer: 1982
Question: In meteorology what name is given to the technique of using substances such as silver iodide to increase precipitation?
Answer: Cloud Seeding
Question: What name is given to the mark placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to show that each is pronounced separately?
Answer: Diaeresis
Question: In the Bible, who was the third son of Noah along with Ham and Shem?
Answer: Japheth
Question: The Battle of Blenheim (1704) took place in which war?
Answer: Spanish Succession
Question: Which group has reformed after 25 years but without founder member, songwriter and keyboard player Jerry Dammers?
Answer: The Specials
Question: When Gracie Fields sang the words: `...you're more than the whole world to me', to whom was she referring?
Answer: Sally
Question: Emerald and aquamarine are varieties of which mineral?
Answer: Beryl
Question: Which Swedish tennis player never won the men's singles title at Wimbledon, but during the 1980s won the US Open once, the French Open twice and the Australian Open three times?
Answer: Mats Wilander
Question: Graham McPherson was lead singer of a famous 1980s pop group, by what name is he usually known?
Answer: Suggs
Question: Which famous British establishment was founded in 1694 by William Patterson?
Answer: Bank of England
Question: In which US state did "The Battle of the Little Big Horn" take place?
Answer: Montana
Question: Which car manufacturer makes a model called the "Tiguan"?
Answer: Volkswagen
Question: """Unreliable Memoirs"" is part of an autobiography of which well known writer and broadcaster?"
Answer: Clive James
Question: In Greek mythology which king was the father of Ariadne?
Answer: Minos
Question: Rosa Parkes' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger caused a riot in which US city in 1955?
Answer: Montgomery
Question: In 2008, Kobi Bryant was voted "Most Valuable Player" in which US sport?
Answer: Basketball
Question: On which London thoroughfare would you find the Royal Academy, Apsley House and Fortnum and Masons?
Answer: Piccadilly
Question: In 1915 which Dutch engineer perfected the interrupter, which allowed a machine gun to fire safely through the propellers of an aircraft?
Answer: Fokker
Question: Which specific instrument did US jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke play?
Answer: Cornet
Question: Which internationally known jazz singer and anti-apartheid campaigner died in November 2008?
Answer: Miriam Makeba
Question: Where is the largest Gothic cathedral in England?
Answer: York
Question: Which American terrorist group of the early 1970s took its name from a line in a bob Dylan song?
Answer: The Weathermen
Question: In a film of the 1950s, what was the name of the car in which Kenneth Moore and Dinah Sheridan travelled from London to Brighton?
Answer: Genevieve
Question: The city of Cleveland in the USA stands on which of the Great Lakes?
Answer: Lake Erie
Question: Which common fish belongs to the family gadidae?
Answer: Cod
Question: What is the name of the new British steam locomotive No. 60163 built in Darlington and the first mainline locomotive built in the UK since 'Evening Star'?
Answer: Tornado
Question: Who was the Greek goddess of Peace?
Answer: Irene
Question: Which football league club play home games at Griffin Park?
Answer: Brentford FC
Question: Which English king was known as "Longshanks" or "The Hammer of the Scots"?
Answer: Edward I
Question: In the soap opera, The Colbys, which Hollywood legend played Jason Colby?
Answer: Charlton Heston
Question: Which Israeli seaport lies below Mount Carmel?
Answer: Haifa
Question: What was the name of the sea nymph who imprisoned Odysseus on her island for 7 years?
Answer: CALYPSO
Question: In Norse mythology what name is given to the rainbow bridge that leads from the mortal realm to Asgard?
Answer: BIFROST
Question: Which WW2 general was known as "Blood and Guts"?
Answer: GENERAL PATTON
Question: Who was the first of the Lancastrian Kings?
Answer: HENRY IV
Question: In which year of the 1960s did Sandie Shaw have a number one hit with 'Puppet on a String' and Procol Harum with 'Whiter Shade of Pale'?
Answer: 1967
Question: Matter is thought to contain two classes of particles, Hadrons and which other?
Answer: LEPTONS
Question: Which war was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia?
Answer: THE THIRTY YEAR WAR
Question: In Greek mythology who was the Muse of Tragedy?
Answer: MELPOMENE
Question: Who, in legend, commanded the Greeks during the Trojan War?
Answer: AGAMEMNON
Question: In which Canadian province is the nation's capital Ottawa?
Answer: Ontario
Question: Britannia Metal is composed mainly (93%) of which element?
Answer: Tin
Question: What was the surname of the Danish father and son who both won Nobel Prizes for Physics, in 1922 and 1975?
Answer: Bohr
Question: French world cup winning footballer Zinedane Zidane is the son of an immigrant from which country?
Answer: Algeria
Question: In Greek mythology, Thanatos represented Death who was his twin brother who represented Sleep?
Answer: Hypnos
Question: In which Shakespeare play does the character Goneril appear?
Answer: King Lear
Question: In which year did the Berlin Wall come down?
Answer: 1989
Question: Which present-day US state was known officially in the 19th century as Indian territory?
Answer: Oklahoma
Question: Who wrote the opera Peter Grimes?
Answer: Benjamin Britten
Question: According to the Old Testament of the Bible, who consulted the witch of Endor?
Answer: Saul
Question: In which British county are the rivers Taw, Torridge and Teign?
Answer: Devon
Question: The village of Borstal that gave its name to institutions for juvenile criminals is in which British county?
Answer: Kent
Question: The state of Malta consists of several islands - which is second in size to Malta itself?
Answer: Gozo
Question: According to the New Testament of the Bible, where is referred to as the town of David?
Answer: Bethlehem
Question: Glen Shee, Glencoe and Glen Ample are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Raspberry
Question: Which former African leader once declared himself 'The Last King of Scotland'?
Answer: Idi Amin
Question: Which of the four teenage mutant Ninja turtles would come first alphabetically?
Answer: Donatello
Question: What is the nickname of the local mafia boss voiced by Joe Mantegna in 'The Simpsons'?
Answer: Fat Tony
Question: In the Harry Potter books, which house at Hogwarts has a serpent as its emblem?
Answer: Slytherin
Question: The tarpan is a wild ancestor of which domesticated animal?
Answer: Horse
Question: Which dramatist wrote 'The Alchemist in 1610?
Answer: Ben Jonson
Question: Which geological period is popularly named the 'Coal Age'?
Answer: Carboniferous
Question: The Pula is the monetary unit of which African country?
Answer: Botswana
Question: On a standard typewriter keyboard which is the only vowel not on the top line?
Answer: A
Question: Which European make of car's logo is a stylized diamond shape?
Answer: RENAULT
Question: What word is given to the limit of distance at which a sound can be heard?
Answer: EARSHOT
Question: What name was given to the 17th Century chair with shafts, borne by two servants?
Answer: A SEDAN
Question: When 'Titanic' left Southampton in April 1912, where was her first port of call?
Answer: CHERBOURG
Question: Who or what is the subject of an iconic 1960 photograph by Alberto Korda?
Answer: CHE GUEVARA
Question: In Greek Mythology, Pasiphae gave birth to which creature?
Answer: THE MINOTAUR
Question: What name is given to the study of living things in their environment?
Answer: ECOLOGY
Question: Who, in Greek myth, after being slain gave birth to the winged horse 'Pegasus'?
Answer: MEDUSA
Question: Which chemical element emits a greenish glow in the air, and unless kept in water, burns of its own accord?
Answer: PHOSPHORUS
Question: Which single word connects Beethoven, 'Terry's of York and Glenn Miller?
Answer: MOONLIGHT
Question: Which classic British car company of the 1940's/50's now produces armoured vehicles for the British Army?
Answer: ALVIS
Question: What would be stored in a 'humidor'?
Answer: CIGARS
Question: Who, with 18 dismissals, was England's leading wicket taker in the 2009 Ashes series versus Australia?
Answer: STUART BROAD
Question: Who was the first wife of the Lawn Tennis player, John McEnroe?
Answer: TATUM O'NEAL
Question: During the reign of which British King did Columbus discover the New World?
Answer: HENRY VII
Question: Before becoming President, of which US state was Barack Obama a senator?
Answer: ILLINOIS
Question: In 1883, which French impressionist artist, painted the picture "Les Parapluies", which depicts several people carrying umbrellas?
Answer: PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
Question: On a standard typewriter keyboard, over which number on the top row, is a circumflex positioned?
Answer: 6
Question: Which was the first bird released from Noah's Ark?
Answer: Raven
Question: In which jail did John Bunyan write Pilgrim's Progress?
Answer: Bedford
Question: Which group had former names the Detours and the High Numbers?
Answer: The Who
Question: Which superhero had the identity Linda Lee Dawson?
Answer: Supergirl
Question: The Bay of Fundy lies off the eastern coast of which country?
Answer: CANADA
Question: The family seat of which English Duke is at Bradley House in Wiltshire, with a secondary estate at Berry Pomeroy in Totnes?
Answer: DUKE OF SOMERSET
Question: In Japanese cooking, what kind of food is Nori?
Answer: SEAWEED
Question: Which book of the Bible recounts Paul's missionary travels?
Answer: ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
Question: In hich constellation can the star Antares be found?
Answer: SCORPIUS
Question: Tavel and Hermitage wines are produced in which French wine growing area?
Answer: RHONE VALLEY
Question: Which big band leader used, as his signature tune, "One O'clock Jump"?
Answer: COUNT BASIE
Question: In which city, then in Poland, but now in Belarus, did Germany and Russia sign a peace treaty in 1918?
Answer: BREST LITOVSK
Question: Under the recent vehicle registration plate nomenclature, cars beginning with the letter C come from which area of the UK?
Answer: WALES
Question: Colonel Nicholson is one of the main characters in which famous 1957 war film?
Answer: BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Question: Which actress and singer is known as J Lo?
Answer: JENNIFER LOPEZ
Question: Which composer, born in Pesaro, in Italy, in 1792, was known by the nickname, Monsieur Crescendo?
Answer: ROSSINI
Question: In the hit record "Bohemian Rhapsody", by Queen, who is asked to do the fandango?
Answer: SCARAMOUCHE
Question: In the poem, "The Owl and the Pussycat", by Edward Lear, how much was paid to the pig for the ring at the end of its nose?
Answer: ONE SHILLING
Question: What was the family name of the Italian artist, Michelangelo?
Answer: BUONAROTTI
Question: Who was Lord Admiral of the English Fleet at the time of the Spanish Armada, Sir Francis Drake being his second in command?
Answer: LORD HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM
Question: According to the opening line of the poem by W.B. Yeats, "I will arise now and go to" ....where?
Answer: INNISFREE
Question: Who became the first President of the newly formed Republic of Tanzania in 1964, a position he held until his retirement in 1985?
Answer: JULIUS NYERERE
Question: In classical mythology, of what was Plutus, (not to be confused with Pluto), the God?
Answer: WEALTH
Question: Domenico Gaetano were the Christian name of which 19th century composer?
Answer: DONIZETTI
Question: To travel from Manhattan to new Jersey, one may ride the PATH train. For what does the H in PATH stand?
Answer: HUDSON
Question: FRELIMO was a political organisation that fought for independence from European rule in which African country?
Answer: MOZAMBIQUE
Question: What is the name of the main thoroughfare in Barcelona, which runs from the Placa de Catalunya to the sea?
Answer: LAS RAMBLAS
Question: In the Bible, where did Jesus perform his miracle of turning water into wine?
Answer: CANA
Question: Who, in 1935, said, "The Pope! How many divisions has he"?
Answer: JOSEPH STALIN
Question: Which is the largest province, by area, in Afghanistan?
Answer: HELMAND PROVINCE
Question: Which city is the capital of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan?
Answer: PESHAWAR
Question: Who, in 1936, said, "Guns will make us powerful. Butter will only make us fat"?
Answer: HERMANN GOERING
Question: Which actor played the roles of Lord Nelson in the 1941 film, "That Hamilton Woman", and Heathcliff in the 1939 version of "Wuthering Heights"?
Answer: LAURENCE OLIVIER
Question: Hedley Verity was an international star in which sport, during the 1930's?
Answer: CRICKET
Question: In the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", what was the Blue Carbuncle?
Answer: A PRECIOUS STONE
Question: In the TV series, "Rumpole of the Bailey", what was the name of Rumpole's wife?
Answer: HILDA
Question: In the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Speckled Band", what is the speckled band?
Answer: A SNAKE
Question: Which actress plays the role of Christine Collins, the unfortunate mother in the 2008 film, "Changeling"?
Answer: ANGELINA JOLIE
Question: Goitre, or enlarged thyroid gland, is caused by a deficiency of which trace element in the human body?
Answer: IODINE
Question: Who, in the Old Testament, was born at Gath one of the 'five cities of the plains'?
Answer: GOLIATH
Question: What are produced by the lachrymal glands?
Answer: TEARS
Question: Which British territory was captured by the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941?
Answer: HONG KONG
Question: To which English king was Elizabeth Woodville married?
Answer: EDWARD the FOURTH
Question: Who was the last Prime Minister of the Great Britain to sit as Prime Minister in the House of Lords?
Answer: (Marquess of) SALISBURY
Question: In Greek myth who was the beautiful youth, loved by Aphrodite and killed by a boar?
Answer: ADONIS
Question: What was the former name of Manchester Airport?
Answer: RINGWAY
Question: Throughout the Old Testament there are references to the 'Great Sea', by what name is that sea now known?
Answer: Mediterranean
Question: What was the name of the Cartwright's ranch in the TV western `Bonanza'?
Answer: The Ponderosa
Question: Which old British coin was known as a 'tester'?
Answer: Sixpence
Question: What is the fruit of the plant ananas comosus?
Answer: Pineapple
Question: Who was England's most married queen? She had four husbands.
Answer: Catherine Parr
Question: How many points make 'game' in rubber bridge?
Answer: 100
Question: The Nazi regime was Germany's Third Reich, which was the First Reich?
Answer: Holy Roman Empire
Question: Which Impressionist painted 'The Card Players'?
Answer: Cezanne
Question: From 1956 until his death in 2008 in which country did Arthur C Clarke live?
Answer: SRI LANKA
Question: Which film saw Sean Connery's last portrayal of James Bond?
Answer: NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
Question: Which famous mountain is known as the Six Grandfathers to the Lakota Sioux Indians?
Answer: MOUNT RUSHMORE
Question: Which ancient structure ran from Old Kirkpatrick, Dumbartonshire to Bo'ness Falkirk?
Answer: ANTONINE WALL
Question: In 1979, Trevor Francis became the first footballer to be transferred for a fee of £1 million, when he moved from Birmingham City to which club?
Answer: NOTTINGHAM FOREST
Question: Who owned the famous racehorse Shergar?
Answer: THE AGA KHAN
Question: Which English Renaissance dramatist and poet wrote the 17th century play, "Volpone"?
Answer: BEN JONSON
Question: Which American W.W.II general was nicknamed Vinegar Joe?
Answer: JOSEPH STILWELL
Question: In which modern day country is the site of the 1704 Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: GERMANY
Question: With which part of the body is the medicinal science of orthodontics concerned?
Answer: TEETH
Question: For refusing to obey the unjust laws of which King, was Daniel thrown into the lion's den?
Answer: DARIUS
Question: Yerba Buena, was the original Spanish name of which Major American City?
Answer: SAN FRANCISCO
Question: Which battle of the American Civil war took place in Tennessee on the 6th/7th April 1862?
Answer: Shiloh
Question: Which "battle" took place in South Dakota on 29th December 1890?
Answer: Wounded Knee
Question: From what did Robert the Bruce die in 1329?
Answer: Leprosy
Question: What was the name of the first nuclear powered merchant cargo ship?
Answer: Savannah
Question: From what did Oliver Cromwell die in 1658?
Answer: Malaria
Question: In the Old Testament, to which the twelve tribes of Israel did Saul, David, and the prophesied Messiah belong?
Answer: Judah
Question: Which musical of 1927, with music by Jerome Kern, was based on an Edna Ferber novel of the same name?
Answer: Showboat
Question: What name is given to the arc of bright spots seen during a solar eclipse, and caused by the uneven surface of the moon?
Answer: Baily's Beads
Question: In which musical do the characters Rusty, Dinah, and Poppa appear?
Answer: Starlight Express
Question: What role was played by Arthur Cook in the General Strike of 1926?
Answer: Miners' leader
Question: Which British cyclist won four stages of the 2008 Tour de France?
Answer: Mark Cavendish
Question: Which George Bernard Shaw play is subtitled 'A Metabiological Pentateuch'?
Answer: Back to Methuselah
Question: For which professional rugby league club did athlete Dwain Chambers play one match in 2008?
Answer: Castleford
Question: Which is Spain's third most populated city after Madrid and Barcelona?
Answer: Valencia
Question: Which planet has the densest atmosphere consisting mostly of carbon dioxide?
Answer: Venus
Question: What year did the Queen describe as her "annus horribilis"?
Answer: 1992
Question: In which magazine can Billie the Fish, Roger Mellie and Sid the Sexist appear?
Answer: VIZ
Question: Give any year the Boer Wars was fought?
Answer: 1899-1902
Question: On which island was the world's fourth atomic bomb detonated?
Answer: BIKINI
Question: Specifically, from the derivation of the name, what item did a chandler sell?
Answer: CANDLES
Question: To which religious group did the chocolate manufacturing families Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree all belong?
Answer: QUAKERS
Question: Which airship crashed, killing most of its passengers and crew, just outside of Beauvais in France on 5 October 1930?
Answer: R 101
Question: Which Worcester-based firm is the main manufacturer of Worcester Sauce?
Answer: LEA & PERRIN
Question: Which Russian jeweller of French decent is famous for his intricate Easter Eggs of gold and diamonds, which he made for the Russian Tsars?
Answer: PETER FABERGE
Question: In the Church of England, which office is below that of a bishop, but is the head of the chapter of a cathedral?
Answer: DEAN
Question: Which actor played Al Jolson in The Jolson Story and it sequel?
Answer: LARRY PARKS
Question: What did Letchworth become in 1963 and Welwyn in 1969?
Answer: GARDEN CITIES
Question: What is the term in French cookery meaning to fry lightly and quickly in little or no oil?
Answer: SAUTÉ
Question: Which 1960s TV series featured the spymaster Alexander Waverley, played by Leo G Carroll?
Answer: THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
Question: According to myth, which monster eventually killed by Theseus, inhabited and guarded the labyrinth of King Minos at Knossos?
Answer: MINOTAUR
Question: What is the better known name of the medical condition, Tinea Pedes? (the clue is in the Latin)
Answer: ATHLETE'S FOOT
Question: Which spice, of Asiatic origin, is commonly used as a cheaper substitute for saffron?
Answer: TURMERIC
Question: What was the name of Dan Dare's co-pilot, in the comic strip adventures in the Eagle comic?
Answer: DIGBY
Question: Which famous author lived at Bateman's, a Jacobean house in East Sussex, in the first half of the 20th century?
Answer: RUDYARD KIPLING
Question: Curtis Jackson, alias 50 Cent, is an American exponent of which type of music?
Answer: RAP MUSIC
Question: Which was the only U.S. aircraft carrier sunk as a result of the Battle of Midway in 1942?
Answer: USS YORKTOWN
Question: Which actress, nominated for her role in the 2008 film, "Rachel's Getting Married", shares her name with a famous historical wife?
Answer: ANNE HATHAWAY
Question: Born in 1457, who was the last English King to be born in Wales?
Answer: HENRY VII
Question: Which car manufacturer's name is taken from a divinity exalted by Zororaster?
Answer: Mazda
Question: Which band's name was inspired by a novel by Herman Hesse?
Answer: Steppenwolf
Question: Frenchman Henri Mouhot rediscovered which Cambodian religious monument in 1860?
Answer: Angkor Wat
Question: What name is shared by a leader of the Peasants' Revolt in the 1300's and a Labour politician born in 1946?
Answer: Jack Straw