zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The House of Braganza once ruled which European country?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Which sport is sometimes known as “the sweet science”?
Answer: Boxing
Question: Which king was the first English Prince of Wales?
Answer: Edward II
Question: Who was known as the Scourge of God?
Answer: Attila the Hun
Question: The characters Captain Cuttle and Mrs MacStinger appear in which Dickins novel?
Answer: Dombey & Son
Question: In which city are the districts of Didsbury and Moston?
Answer: MANCHESTER
Question: Ultimately, which Middle Eastern country was the origin of all the UK’s Golden Hamsters?
Answer: SYRIA
Question: The 1898 'Battle of Santiago' on the island of Cuba brought an end to which war?
Answer: SPANISH-AMERICAN War
Question: Ending humiliatingly for Italy, which country did Mussolini try to invade in October 1940?
Answer: GREECE
Question: Which world famous beer originated in the Philippines - not Spain as you might expect?
Answer: SAN MIGUEL
Question: Which often embattled city is the supposed resting place of OT patriarch Abraham?
Answer: HEBRON
Question: Who upset Elizabeth I by secretly marrying Elizabeth Throckmorton?
Answer: Walter Raleigh
Question: The Tripitaka are scriptures central to which faith?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: Who translated the Bible in 1380?
Answer: John Wycliff
Question: Of which mollusc are the acorn and goose the two varieties found on British shorelines?
Answer: Barnacle
Question: Which Renaissance artist fled Rome after a fatal brawl, possibly over a game of tennis?
Answer: Caravaggio
Question: As what is the barely navigable sea route from Baffin Bay to the Beaufort Sea known?
Answer: North-West Passage
Question: Under what stage name did rock’n’roller Richard Penniman perform?
Answer: Little Richard
Question: Which life-saving natural hormone was first extracted by Banting and Best in 1921?
Answer: Insulin
Question: Which Cumbrian town’s boundaries incorporate the 11-mile-long Walney Island?
Answer: Barrow-in-Furness
Question: Which Welsh town’s Esplanade Hotel was for 75 years The Barbarians’ headquarters?
Answer: Penarth
Question: Of whose “pilgrimage” did Lord Byron write a long narrative poem?
Answer: Childe Harold
Question: Which 17th century scientist, also Irish-born, was the 14th son of the 1st Earl of Cork?
Answer: Robert Boyle
Question: Which composer of classical music is sometimes referred to as ‘Joe Green’?
Answer: GUISEPPE VERDI
Question: Band Aid II topped the Xmas charts in 1989, but who had the top spot in ’88 and ’90?
Answer: CLIFF RICHARD
Question: In 1830, the world’s first railway suspension bridge was opened over what British river?
Answer: TEES
Question: The building known as the Atomium can be found in which European city?
Answer: BRUSSELS
Question: What was the alter ego of Music Hall comedian Arthur Lucan in the inter-war years?
Answer: Old Mother Riley
Question: What is the term for the background of a heraldic shield?
Answer: Field
Question: Which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta is subtitled The Merryman and his Maid?
Answer: The Yeoman of the Guard
Question: Which Middle-Eastern country calls itself The Hashemite Kingdom?
Answer: Jordan
Question: What is a writ directed at an individual requiring him or her to attend and give evidence?
Answer: Subpoena
Question: Which light spongy dish has a name stemming from the French meaning ‘blown’?
Answer: Souffle
Question: In heraldry what colour is argent?
Answer: Silver
Question: What was Napoleon’s horse that he named after one of his victories?
Answer: Marengo
Question: Which artist did Gore Vidal describe as ‘The only genius with an I.Q. of 60’?
Answer: Andy Warhol
Question: Iodine is necessary for the functioning of which gland?
Answer: Thyroid
Question: Which French painter fractured both thigh bones in his teens leaving him deformed?
Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec
Question: Which state on the Pacific seaboard lies between California and Washington?
Answer: Oregon
Question: When Perseus slew the Medusa what sprang up out of her blood?
Answer: Pegasus
Question: On which Japanese island did the Americans take control of vital Pacific airfields in 1945?
Answer: Iwo Jima
Question: What is next in this series of Fibonacci numbers – 3, 7, 10, 17, 27, 44, 71 ……?
Answer: 115
Question: Who had a 1985 UK hit with I’m Your Man?
Answer: Wham!
Question: Which long-running soap was originally intended to be titled Midland Road?
Answer: Crossroads
Question: Vanessa Redgrave plays a sexually repressed nun who causes big trouble for a priest?
Answer: The Devils
Question: Which of the nine rooms in ‘Cluedo’ contains the fewest letters in its name?
Answer: The HALL
Question: What is the heraldic word for red?
Answer: GULES
Question: In 1994 who became only the second actor to win successive Best Actor ‘Oscars’?
Answer: Tom Hanks
Question: In which war film is John Wayne's character killed by a Japanese sniper?
Answer: Sands Of Iwo Jima
Question: As leader of the Teen Titans, ‘Robin’ aka Dick Grayson took on which other identity?
Answer: Nightwing
Question: Which 1980 historical novel is narrated by a young Benedictine monk, Adso of Melk?
Answer: The Name Of The Rose
Question: Who has been praised for his portrayal of the gay Barton Scully in ‘Masters of Sex’?
Answer: BEAU BRIDGES
Question: What two letters can be added to the end of ‘loch’ to make a term for a small, inland lake?
Answer: -AN
Question: Which state of the USA lies between South Carolina and Florida?
Answer: GEORGIA
Question: In the 1970s, ‘I Can’t Let Maggie Go’ was the soundtrack for an ad for which product?
Answer: NIMBLE bread
Question: Chess Champion Bobby Fischer ended his days exiled on which island?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Appointed Feb 1942, Who was Minister for War Production and Armaments?
Answer: Albert Speer
Question: Which Admiral was responsible for restoring the German navy between 1939 and 1943?
Answer: Admiral Raeder
Question: What type of fruit was involved in his Twelve Labours?
Answer: APPLES
Question: What were the first names of the hugely wealthy J.P. Getty, 1932-2003?
Answer: JOHN PAUL
Question: Its driver Jules Bianchi still in intensive care; which F1 team went bust on 7th Nov 2014?
Answer: Marussia
Question: Who did God order to preach at Nineveh, but he ran away, with scary consequences?
Answer: Jonah
Question: The Assyrian Empire was mostly located in which modern day, middle-east country?
Answer: Iraq
Question: What is the nickname of Bertie Wooster’s friend Richard Little?
Answer: Bingo
Question: Which 1960’s art vogue was based on optical illusion?
Answer: Op Art
Question: What was the collective name of the children of Uranus and Gaea?
Answer: Titans
Question: Which Biblical story provides the basic theme for Masonic allegorical rituals?
Answer: Building of Solomon’s Temple
Question: In cricket parlance, what are ‘buzzers’?
Answer: Overthrows
Question: Which English chemist published the first scientific study on colour blindness?
Answer: John Dalton
Question: What type of soup is a consommé or broth garnished with long thin strips of vegetables?
Answer: JULIENNE
Question: Which King was killed by Neoptolemus at the fall of Troy?
Answer: PRIAM
Question: Francis II 1792-1835 was the last person to hold which 1000-year-old title?
Answer: Holy Roman Emperor
Question: Which creature was used as a symbol of Christianity in the early days of persecution?
Answer: Fish
Question: In which Spielberg film does an FBI agent pursue a highly talented fraudster?
Answer: Catch Me If You Can
Question: What Latin phrase is used for one’s old school or university?
Answer: Alma Mater
Question: Which castle is known as ‘The Key of England’?
Answer: Dover Castle
Question: We call it grilling – what do Americans call it?
Answer: Broiling
Question: Which radioactive isotope is used to date archaeological samples?
Answer: Carbon 14
Question: In bridge what jargon word is used for the condition of holding no trumps?
Answer: Chicane
Question: Trinidad sits only 6.8 miles from the coast of which South American country?
Answer: Venezuela
Question: Which motorcycle manufacturer made the Trident and Bonneville models?
Answer: Triumph
Question: Edmund II, son of Æthelred the Unready, was known by what appellation?
Answer: Ironside
Question: At which celebrated German art school did the painters Kandinsky, Klee and Albers all lecture?
Answer: BAUHAUS
Question: Joab slew him as he was fleeing a battle, who was the rebellious third son of King David?
Answer: ABSALOM
Question: To be precise, which musical term of Italian origin translates into English as "pinched"?
Answer: PIZZICATO
Question: In 1975, which British band became the first to receive royalties for record sales in the USSR?
Answer: ROLLING STONES
Question: An island group in the Pacific; which country administers the Chonos Archipelago?
Answer: CHILE
Question: A smooth hill shaped by moving ice made up of glacial drift is known as a what?
Answer: DRUMLIN
Question: With what type of transport would you associate the term ‘bow collector’?
Answer: TRAMS
Question: What was the original, slightly controversial title of the Monkees’ hit ‘Alternate Title’?
Answer: RANDY SCOUSE GIT
Question: Since 1886, Great Britain and USA have contested the Westchester Cup in which sport?
Answer: POLO
Question: What is separated from the Essex mainland by Benfleet Creek and Easthaven Creek?
Answer: CANVEY ISLAND
Question: Ramses Station is the main railway station in which capital city?
Answer: CAIRO
Question: At which weight did both Randolph Turpin and Nigel Benn win boxing world titles?
Answer: MIDDLEWEIGHT
Question: What mythical object did Sir Bedivere return to ‘The Lady of Avalon’?
Answer: EXCALIBUR
Question: Which Greek god gives his name to a company famous for making handbags?
Answer: HERMES
Question: AKA pharyngeal tonsils, what are located in the passage linking throat and nasal cavity?
Answer: ADENOIDS
Question: Who did Queen Victoria immediately succeed as British sovereign?
Answer: WILLIAM IV
Question: What is the proper name of the 'stub' left in a chequebook once a cheque is detached?
Answer: COUNTERFOIL
Question: What name is given to the events of 30 January 1972 in Londonderry?
Answer: BLOODY SUNDAY
Question: Ashanti, referring to both a region and its peoples, is found in which African country?
Answer: GHANA
Question: Which pioneering Swiss psychologist proposed the theory of the collective unconscious?
Answer: Carl JUNG
Question: Katherina is the headstrong leading female character in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The TAMING OF THE SHREW
Question: What ‘B’ was Daisy’s surname in ‘The Great Gatsby’?
Answer: BUCHANAN
Question: Which boy band took its name from a character in the film Back To The Future?
Answer: McFly
Question: Which fish, Tinca tinca, do anglers call the ‘doctor fish’?
Answer: Tench
Question: With 19 so far who is by far the most Oscar nominated actress in history?
Answer: Meryl Streep
Question: Which iconic gangster film begins with a Tony Bennett rendition of Rags To Riches?
Answer: Goodfellas
Question: Where did Gabriel Byrne pretend to execute John Turturro?
Answer: Miller’s Crossing
Question: Who said ‘If only I had known, I should have become a watch maker’?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: Which city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway?
Answer: Vladivostok
Question: According to Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’, what can also be called ‘herb of grace’?
Answer: RUE
Question: Where might you expect to meet “a pretty nurse … selling poppies from a tray”?
Answer: PENNY LANE
Question: In season 2014/15 whose 48 goals won him the European Golden shoe?
Answer: Ronaldo
Question: In 1802 which President of the Royal Society produced a crude electric light?
Answer: Davy
Question: Which country was once called Upper Peru?
Answer: Bolivia
Question: What name is given to a tall thin glass intended for champagne?
Answer: Flute
Question: Which cartoon gunfighter was so fast he could outdraw his shadow?
Answer: Lucky Luke
Question: In Germanic mythology what sort of monster was Fafnir?
Answer: Dragon
Question: Which secret establishment was known ‘Station X’ during the Second World War?
Answer: Bletchley Park
Question: Echoing its Scottish equivalent, what new name did English Heritage adopt in April 2015?
Answer: Historic England
Question: With eight active distilleries, which is the Hebrides’ most prolific whisky-producing island?
Answer: Islay
Question: Which tube station locates and describes someone “eight stops short of Upminster”?
Answer: Barking
Question: What is the collective term for freemasons?
Answer: A Lodge
Question: Dr Tertius Lydgate is always plagued by financial troubles in which classic novel?
Answer: Middlemarch
Question: Parsees are followers of which religion?
Answer: Zoroastrianism
Question: In military slang what are ‘Ack Emma’ and ‘Pip Emma’?
Answer: AM and PM
Question: Which wartime nickname was shared by the 7th Armoured Division and the 8th Army?
Answer: Desert Rats
Question: The Soviets invaded which Baltic country in November 1939?
Answer: Finland
Question: Which country gave Idi Amin sanctuary from 1980 until his death in 2003?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: In the Sermon on the Mount who did Christ say ‘shall be called the children of God’?
Answer: The Peacemakers
Question: By which name were the Dardanelles originally known?
Answer: Hellespont
Question: In Blackadder II what alias was used by his fiancée when they met?
Answer: Bob
Question: At which railway station did Edward Thomas’s train unexpectedly stop in late June, 1917?
Answer: Adlestrop
Question: Sally Ann Howes was 38-years-old when she played the female lead in which family film?
Answer: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
Question: Which English magician and tv host was born on this day in 1938?
Answer: PAUL DANIELS
Question: In heraldry, the colour green is known as what?
Answer: VERT
Question: In what year did the Suez Crisis, also known as the Tripartite Aggression, take place?
Answer: 1956
Question: According to the proverb, what ‘makes a muckle’?
Answer: MANY A MICKLE
Question: Benny Hill’s real first name was Alfred. What was his middle name?
Answer: HAWTHORN
Question: Which capital city was supposedly founded by Yuri the log armed?
Answer: Moscow
Question: What was the name of the farmyard cock in the story of Reynard the Fox?
Answer: Chanticleer
Question: Of which Roman poet was Maro the family name?
Answer: Virgil
Question: Sand gropers traditionally hail from which Australian state?
Answer: Western Australia
Question: Which body of water is nicknamed ‘The Blue Eye Of Siberia’?
Answer: Lake Baikal
Question: What is the common English name of Mozart’s Serenade for Strings in d major?
Answer: A Little Night Music
Question: Devadatta repeatedly tried to kill which religious leader?
Answer: Buddha
Question: Which artistic term is used for the balance of light and shade?
Answer: Chiaroscuro
Question: With what catchphrase would you associate the village of Llanddewi Brefi?
Answer: I’M THE ONLY GAY IN THE VILLAGE
Question: In a nursery rhyme, who was chastised for sitting among the cinders?
Answer: Little POLLY FLINDERS
Question: Who was the sporting superstar who was married to Tatum O’Neal from 1986 to 1994?
Answer: JOHN McENROE
Question: According to mythology which ship rolled off its timbers killing Jason?
Answer: Argo
Question: Who became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1912?
Answer: Gandhi
Question: Which military legend died in Germany in December 1945 as the result of a car crash?
Answer: Patton
Question: In the legends of Robin Hood what was the profession of Mutch’s father?
Answer: Miller
Question: Which summer visitor to Britain has varieties including Marsh, Grasshopper and Willow?
Answer: Warbler
Question: In Yorkshire dialect, which animal is known as an attercop?
Answer: Spider
Question: Which 12 century Cistercian abbey stood just outside Ripon?
Answer: Fountains Abbey
Question: In 1972 John Hicks became the first Briton to win which of the Nobel Prizes?
Answer: Economics
Question: After which famous Venetian is Venice’s international airport named?
Answer: Marco Polo
Question: To which US state is the Green Mountains section of the Appalachians confined?
Answer: Vermont
Question: Which character in The Archers kept a Staffordshire bull terrier called Captain?
Answer: Jack Woolley
Question: Which King of England died after falling from his horse, Sorrel?
Answer: William III
Question: In ecology, which Q is a rectangular frame laid on the ground to define an area for study?
Answer: Quadrat
Question: Which metallic element is the essential additive to steel when making stainless steel?
Answer: Chromium
Question: In the name of the unpleasant bacterium c. difficile, what does the ‘C’ represent?
Answer: CLOSTRIDIUM
Question: Somaliland and Eritrea were both colonized by which European nation?
Answer: ITALY
Question: To within one year either way, when was the last judicial hanging in Great Britain?
Answer: 1964
Question: The Yiddish word ‘schmuck’ meaning a contemptible person, literally means what?
Answer: Penis
Question: Which African country is regarded as the spiritual home of Rastafarianism?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: Adrian IV, the first English Pope, was educated in which city named after the first English martyr?
Answer: St Albans
Question: Which part of the body is named after the goddess of the rainbow?
Answer: Iris
Question: Named after Mrs Gamp, a character in a Dickens' novel, what is a Gamp?
Answer: Umbrella
Question: Played by Patrick Newell, who was John Steed and Tara King's boss in The Avengers?
Answer: Mother
Question: What is the Kiwi Fruit commonly called in New Zealand?
Answer: Chinese Gooseberry
Question: Any direct route from New York state to Wisconsin transects which Canadian province?
Answer: Ontario
Question: What title is currently held by Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger?
Answer: Pope Emeritus
Question: The name of which electrical safeguard is abbreviated “RCD”?
Answer: Residual Current Device
Question: In which year did the USSR bring the dogs Belka and Strelka home safe from space?
Answer: 1960
Question: Which regal title does Daenerys Targaryen acquire by marrying a Dothraki horse lord?
Answer: Khaleesi
Question: Who allegedly killed his pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina, by kicking her in the stomach?
Answer: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Question: In Greek myth what was the name of Orpheus's wife trapped in Hades?
Answer: Eurydice
Question: What 'rank' is used to denote the iconic video game hero featured in the Halo series?
Answer: Master Chief Petty Officer
Question: Jim Peters was favourite for the 1952 Olympic Marathon when he dropped out through cramp whilst in the lead. Which famous runner went on to win?
Answer: EMIL ZATOPEK
Question: Name the ex-dentist who aided the Earp brothers in the OK corral gunfight
Answer: DOC HOLLIDAY
Question: Which famous artist painted such worls as 'A girl in the window', 'The man with the golden helmet' and 'Nightwatch'?
Answer: REMBRANDT
Question: In which year was the TUC formed at a meeting in Manchester? Was it 1868, 1889 or 1901?
Answer: 1868
Question: The Llanelli riots of August 1911, which left six men dead, were caused by a strike in which industry?
Answer: RAILWAYS
Question: Who reigned over England for more than half of the 13th century?
Answer: HENRY III
Question: Leader of the Virginia colony in Jamestown in the early 17th century and a post-war leader of the Labour Party.
Answer: JOHN SMITH
Question: Talisker distillery, which has produced a single malt whisly of the same name since 1820, is the only distillery on which Scottish island?
Answer: ISLE OF SKYE
Question: Which island in the Indian Ocean has the highest population of any French island and sends five deputies to the National Assembly in Paris?
Answer: REUNION
Question: Which chemical element is named after the island of Cyprus where it was extensively mined in the Roman era?
Answer: COPPER
Question: The first episode of which sitcom sequel was broadcast on BBC2 on January 9th 1986 (NB This answer contains the connection)?
Answer: YES, PRIME MINISTER
Question: Which cartoon strip by Charles M Schulz first appeared in the Washington Post and New York Times on this day in 1950?
Answer: PEANUTS
Question: Which US President suffered a massive stroke on this day in 1919 which severely incapacitated him for the remainder of his Presidency?
Answer: WOODROW WILSON
Question: The Olympic Stadium in which city was completed in 1938 and has hosted two World Athletic Championships, three Europeans and one Olympics, but not the one it was built for?
Answer: HELSINKI
Question: Religous reformers - which 14th century Oxford scholar, initially famous for translating the Bible from Latin into English, later criticised the wealth and power of the church, questioning the scriptural basis of the papacy? His followers were known as Lollards.
Answer: JOHN WYCLIFFE
Question: At the 2012 Cheltenham Festival of National Hunt racing , who was the top trainer? His total of 7 winners this year enabled him to become the most winning trainer in Cheltenham history.
Answer: NICKY HENDERSON
Question: Simon de Montfort led the Barons Revolt against King Henry III and became the effective ruler of England in the 13th century. Later defeated and killed at the Battle of Evesham what was Simon de Montfort's official title?
Answer: EARL OF LEICESTER
Question: Which recording artist, originally a folk singer had top ten hits in the early 1970's with "Amazing Grace" and "Send in the Clowns"?
Answer: JUDY COLLINS
Question: What was singing legend Elvis Presley's middle name?
Answer: AARON
Question: Medicine: What is a patient suffering from, based on the following description - Partial or complete blockage of a blood vessel by a blood clot?
Answer: THROMBOSIS
Question: """Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"" is a famous quote written by whom?"
Answer: SAMUEL JOHNSON
Question: What name is given to the branch of Christianity followed by Jews in Israel and the U.S.A.?
Answer: MESSIANIC
Question: What name is given to the branch of Christianity followed in Egypt?
Answer: COPTIC
Question: In our solar system, which planet is the hottest, with a mean surface temperature of 457 degrees centigrade?
Answer: VENUS
Question: Who wrote the poem "The Darkling Thrush"? He is better known as a classic novelist?
Answer: THOMAS HARDY
Question: In our solar system, which planet is the coldest, with a mean surface temperature of minus two hundred degrees centigrade?
Answer: NEPTUNE
Question: On this day, 8th November, which famous poet who was blind in his later years, died in his home in London in 1647?
Answer: JOHN MILTON
Question: On this day, 8th November, which famous mathematician and astronomer was born in 1656? He was the first to realise that comets do not appear randomly.
Answer: EDMOND HALLEY
Question: Who was the leader of the early christian church in Ephesus addressed by a letter from St Paul in the New Testament?
Answer: TIMOTHY
Question: Which German river flows 1159 kilometres from the Czech Republic flowing into the North Sea just north of Hamburg?
Answer: ELBE
Question: In March 1952 General Fulgencio Batista re-took control of which Caribbean country after a military coup?
Answer: CUBA
Question: What was the surname of the Scottish mathematician who discovered logarithms in 1613 ?
Answer: (John) NAPIER
Question: Britain's first stretch of motorway, opened in December 1958, bypassed which town (now officially a city) ?
Answer: PRESTON
Question: What is the three word collective name given to the first ten ammendments to the United States Constitution drafted in 1789 ?
Answer: BILL OF RIGHTS
Question: Which Spanish conquistador successfully crossed Panama in 1513, thus becoming the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the New World?
Answer: BALBOA
Question: There are just two towns in Rutland - Oakham, the county town and which other, best known for its 428 year old public school ?
Answer: UPPINGHAM
Question: What is the name of the so called God Particle that the Hadron Collider scientists claim to have found evidence of in December 2011?
Answer: HIGGS BOSON
Question: What name connects the 1971 Christmas No 1 record, which is the story of a love triangle involving Sue, Ted and the hero of the song, with a number machine first used on 1st June 1957 that has made over 100 million people happy?
Answer: ERNIE