zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: According to the New Testament, which criminal was released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus?
Answer: Barabbas
Question: Which creatures live in a formicary?
Answer: Ants
Question: Where did the witches Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart and Sukie Rougemont live according to the title of a John Updike novel?
Answer: EASTWICK
Question: What was the name of Hitler's personal secretary who disappeared at the end of the War?
Answer: MARTIN BORMANN
Question: Which composer was born in Leipzig in 1813 and died in Venice in 1883?
Answer: RICHARD WAGNER
Question: Where in North Carolina did the Wright brothers make their pioneering first flight in 1903?
Answer: KITTY HAWK
Question: Built in 1961, the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh was the first sports stadium in the world to feature what?
Answer: RETRACTABLE ROOF
Question: Made in green and yellow varieties, which liqueur comes from the monastery which is the home of a monastic order founded by St Bruno?
Answer: CHARTREUSE
Question: Which writer, mother of a British politician, wrote Testament of Youth?
Answer: VERA BRITTAIN
Question: How is the woman born Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst in Stettin in 1729 more commonly known to history?
Answer: CATHERINE THE GREAT
Question: Who became Roman Emperor after Tiberius in 37AD?
Answer: CALIGULA
Question: Alexander the Great died in which ancient city?
Answer: BABYLON
Question: What was the name of the actress who appeared in most Monty Python shows?
Answer: CAROL CLEVELAND
Question: Who is the mother of Aphrodite in Greek mythology?
Answer: DIONE
Question: Sturnus Vulgaris is more commonly known as what bird?
Answer: STARLING
Question: The Battle of Culloden in 1746 was fought near which Scottish city?
Answer: INVERNESS
Question: The bird genus corvidae consists mainly of what commonly known bird?
Answer: CROW
Question: Who in the Bible was the mother of Jacob and Esau?
Answer: REBECCA
Question: Who played the title character in the 2012 film 'Lincoln'?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis
Question: Which World War 2 event of May 1943 was called Operation Chastise?
Answer: Dambusters Raid
Question: About whom did Eric Clayton write Layla?
Answer: Patti Boyd
Question: Which aircraft company produced models called the Bearcat and the Wildcat?
Answer: Grumman
Question: Which Glasgow born architect designed the Glasgow School of Art, built between 1897 and 1909?
Answer: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Question: Who was the Australian no 11 batsman who scored 98 on his Test debut against England during 2013?
Answer: Ashton Agar
Question: What is the present name of the country formerly known as Upper Volta?
Answer: Burkina Faso
Question: Which pop group was originally called Angel and the Snakes?
Answer: Blondie
Question: Across which European river do the Cat and Mouse castles face each other?
Answer: Rhine
Question: Which silent film won the 2011 Oscar for Best Film?
Answer: The Artist
Question: Who in April 1500 discovered Brazil for Portugal?
Answer: Pedro Alvares Cabral
Question: In legend, Vanderveken and his ship The Flying Dutchman are condemned to sail until the Day of Judgement off which headland?
Answer: Cape of Good Hope
Question: By what name is the pre-historic animal the smilodon better known?
Answer: Sabre Tooth Tiger
Question: The Rye House Plot was a plot against which king of England?
Answer: Charles 2
Question: What is the present name of the country formerly known as Kampuchea?
Answer: Cambodia
Question: Which group was originally called the Pendletones and made one album as Carl and the Passions?
Answer: Beach Boys
Question: Who, in 1988, led the 1st European expedition to cross Greenlandfrom east to west?
Answer: Fridtjof Nansen
Question: Which US poet wrote a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855?
Answer: Walt Whitman
Question: During World War 2 in which country was the Gothic defensive line?
Answer: Italy
Question: In the US children's TV show, 1968-1970, as what were Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky known?
Answer: The Banana Splits
Question: Portree is the largest town of which island?
Answer: Skye
Question: Which car manufacturer made the models 'Imp' and 'Husky'?
Answer: Hillman
Question: What office did Stephen Langton hold at the time of the Magna Carta?
Answer: Archbishop of Canterbury
Question: In which sea is the island of Martinique?
Answer: Caribbean
Question: In which 1957 film did Alec Guinness play the character Lt.-Col. Nicholson?
Answer: Bridge on the River Kwai
Question: Who provided the voice of cartoon character Bugs Bunny, from 1940 until his death in 1989?
Answer: Mel Blanc
Question: James Stewart was the real name of an English actor who was on stage from 1935. He was an officer in the British Army in WWII. His first starring film role was in The Man in Grey in 1943. What was his professional name?
Answer: STEWART GRANGER
Question: In which castle was Charles I imprisoned from 1647 to 1648?
Answer: CARISBROOKE
Question: Which Briton, in the London Olympics, won the first ever women's boxing gold medal?
Answer: NICOLA ADAMS
Question: What city or town is known in its own country's language as Lefkosia?
Answer: NICOSIA
Question: Which Danish TV drama, shown on BBC4 in 2012, took its title from the popular name for its country's parliament?
Answer: BORGEN
Question: Her real name was Virginia Katherine McMath, but this famous actress and dancing star of many films, which included Gold Diggers of 1933, was better known by what name?
Answer: GINGER ROGERS
Question: The name of which boy band is a play on the last letter of the first name of the original members?
Answer: 'N SYNC
Question: Which King was killed at the battle of Bosworth?
Answer: Richard III
Question: Which food was known as 'Liberty Cabbage' in the USA during World War 1?
Answer: Sauerkraut
Question: In which Canadian city are the Oilers ice hockey team based?
Answer: Edmonton
Question: The poet Byron was the sixth Baron Byron of which northern town?
Answer: Rochdale
Question: Who was the only President of the Confederate States of America?
Answer: Jefferson Davis
Question: Which England cricketer, who died in 2011, was nicknamed 'The Barnacle' because he was so difficult to get out?
Answer: Trevor Bailey
Question: Which Dickens character wore "a little straw hat trimmed with cherry-coloured ribbons"?
Answer: Dolly Varden
Question: What trade did St Paul follow during his 18 month stay in Corinth?
Answer: Tentmaker
Question: All of the five Irish classic horse races are staged at which race course?
Answer: The Curragh
Question: Which Asian country has Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the east?
Answer: (Republic of) Yemen
Question: Who wrote "Colonel Sun", a James Bond continuation?
Answer: Kingsley Amis
Question: Which French term, literally translating as 'bottom of the bag', is commonly used in English?
Answer: Cul-de-Sac
Question: Which American car is named after the founder of Detroit?
Answer: Cadillac
Question: Richard Roundtree played the part of which detective in three films in the 1970s?
Answer: Shaft
Question: In which novel does the character Hannibal Lecter first appear?
Answer: Red Dragon
Question: What was the name of the cattle route from Texas to the rail head in Kansas?
Answer: Chisholm Trail
Question: In 1907, who became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Question: In which country did Sandinista rebels overthrow the government in 1979?
Answer: Nicaragua
Question: Which Dickens' novel features Captain Cuttle, Mr Toots and Carker?
Answer: Dombey & Son
Question: General Cornwallis was defeated at which battle, the final battle of the American War of Independence?
Answer: Yorktown
Question: In a book and film, which title character taught at the 'Marcia Blane School for Girls'?
Answer: Miss Jean Brodie
Question: Who was defeated at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 and later captured and executed in 1305?
Answer: William Wallace
Question: 'Elinor and Marianne' was the original title of which novel?
Answer: Sense and Sensibility
Question: In Greek Mythology which god was the brother of Artemis?
Answer: Apollo
Question: Which operatic heroine dies at the hands of the soldier Don Jose?
Answer: CARMEN
Question: Who lived under the name of Sebastian Melmoth at the Hotel d'Alsace?
Answer: OSCAR WILDE
Question: In what sport would participants perform a vertical suplex?
Answer: WRESTLING
Question: Under what name is the American singer/songwriter Barry Alan Pincus better known?
Answer: BARRY MANILOW
Question: What was the title of J. K. Rowling's first novel for adults, - following the Harry Potter series?
Answer: THE CASUAL VACANCY
Question: The Poet's Percy Shelley and John Keats are both buried in which European capital's Protestant cemetery?
Answer: ROME
Question: What was the surname of the US Medical Corp Army Captain nicknamed Hawkeye in the TV Series MASH?
Answer: PIERCE
Question: Who has been Israel's only female Prime Minister?
Answer: GOLDA MEIR
Question: Who lived under the name of Private Thomas Shaw at Clouds Hill, Dorset, where he eventually died following a motorcycle accident in 1935?
Answer: T. E. LAWRENCE
Question: The World Bank has its HQ in which city?
Answer: WASHINGTON DC
Question: Which fashion designer created the uniforms for the 2012 Olympic Team GB?
Answer: Stella McCartney
Question: In what year of WW2 was the German battleship 'Bismarck' sunk?
Answer: 1941
Question: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Belle are among the children of which Hollywood actor, formerly married to Demi Moore?
Answer: Bruce Willis
Question: What type of animal is Hobbes in the syndicated cartoon strip "Calvin and Hobbes"?
Answer: Tiger
Question: At the beginning of the 2013-14 season, which former international player is manager of Championship side Watford FC?
Answer: Gianfranco Zola
Question: Who was elected to replace Hosni Mubarak as President of Egypt in 2012, but was later deposed in July 2013?
Answer: Mohammed Mursi
Question: What was the title of the debut single by the Rolling Stones. It reached No. 21 in the UK pop charts in 1963?
Answer: Come On
Question: Who won the 1960 Best Actress Oscar for her part in the film "Two Women"?
Answer: Sophia Loren
Question: What is denoted on a weather map by a line with a row of solid semi circles attached?
Answer: Warm Front
Question: Composed in 1831, what was Rossini's last opera?
Answer: William Tell
Question: To which family of birds does the kookaburra belong?
Answer: Kingfisher
Question: Rickets is a disease associated with a deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin D
Question: Who wrote the science fiction novel 'Stranger In A Strange Land'?
Answer: Robert Heinlein
Question: Which Australian city was originally called Port Jackson?
Answer: Sydney
Question: Who would wear a chasuble?
Answer: Priest
Question: Which north-west venue is considered to be the spiritual home of Northern Soul music from 1973 until its closure in 1981?
Answer: Wigan Casino
Question: What name is given to the condition where a captive begins to sympathise with their captors?
Answer: Stockholm Syndrome
Question: Which Benedictine monk wrote 'Chronica Majora', a history of the world from the creation to 1959?
Answer: MATTHEW PARIS
Question: Who wrote 'The Hunting of the Snark'?
Answer: LEWIS CARROLL
Question: What was the first battle in the American Revolution?
Answer: BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
Question: Which Greek village was the principal sanctuary and oracle of Apollo?
Answer: DELPHI
Question: Which US President pursued a programme of social reform called the 'Fair Deal'?
Answer: HARRY S TRUMAN
Question: Which Argentinean motor-racing driver was World Champion a record five times during the 1950's?
Answer: JUAN MANUEL FANGIO
Question: Which avant-garde US composer wrote the piece 4'33"?
Answer: JOHN CAGE
Question: Which king of England married Isabella of France?
Answer: EDWARD II
Question: Which actress starred in the films Cabaret and Arthur?
Answer: LIZA MINNELLI
Question: Which British novelist wrote 'Brideshead Revisited'?
Answer: EVELYN WAUGH
Question: How many hydrogen atoms make up a methane molecule?
Answer: Four
Question: The last Pope prior to Benedict 16th to resign did so in 1415, what was his name? (name only required)
Answer: Gregory
Question: Who wrote the novel 'The White Queen', on which the BBC TV series is based?
Answer: Philippa Gregory
Question: What was the name of the boat that included Ben Ainslie in its crew that came from 8-1 down to win the America's Cup 9-8?
Answer: Oracle
Question: What is the name of the Greenpeace ship involved in protests at the Gazprom oilrig in the Pechora Sea in September 2013?
Answer: Arctic Sunrise
Question: Who invented the pneumatic tyre in 1887?
Answer: Dunlop
Question: Name the author of the Jack Ryan series of books who died in 2013?
Answer: Tom Clancy
Question: Which author, whose books included 'A Song of Stone', 'Espedair Street' and 'Whit', died in 2013?
Answer: Iain Banks
Question: Which organisation won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Question: The Danube flows through 4 capital European capital cities: Budapest, Vienna, Belgrade and which other?
Answer: Bratislava
Question: In 2012, Octavia Spenser won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as a domestic servant in which film?
Answer: The Help
Question: Which series of 2011/12, set in the 1950's is centred around a weekly BBC TV current affairs programme?
Answer: The Hour
Question: Which politician did Violet Gibson shoot and wound in Rome in 1926?
Answer: Mussolini
Question: In which country does the House of Bourbon provide the current monarch?
Answer: Spain
Question: ln 1972, Laslo Toth damaged which sculpture of 1499, by Michelangelo in St Peter's, Rome?
Answer: The Pieta
Question: Who in the Old Testament is the sister of Moses?
Answer: MIRIAM
Question: Which Hollywood director made his debut in 1941 with 'The Maltese Falcon'?
Answer: JOHN HUSTON
Question: By which Christian name is the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart usually known?
Answer: LEOPOLD
Question: On which ship did the Japanese sign surrender terms in Tokyo Harbour in September 1945?
Answer: USS MISSOURI
Question: Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands and West Germany were five of the original members of the European Economic Community. Name the sixth.
Answer: LUXEMBOURG
Question: Which part of the body is affected by the disease trachoma?
Answer: THE EYE
Question: How many Tour de France titles did Lance Armstrong "win" only to be stripped of them again in August 2012?
Answer: SEVEN
Question: Born Jack Hoggan in Fife in 1951, what is the professional name of the self-taught artist, prints of whose works outsell Dali, Monet, and Van Gogh?
Answer: JACK VETTRIANO
Question: What is the name of the American former stockbroker and financial advisor who created a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, considered to be the largest financial fraud in US history?
Answer: BERNIE MADOFF
Question: What was the name of the British art forger who claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by over 100 different artists? He died in 1984.
Answer: TOM KEATING
Question: What was the name of the single issue political party founded by Sir James Goldsmith to fight the 1997 General Election?
Answer: THE REFERENDUM PARTY
Question: In the Jewish religion what is the Day of Atonement called?
Answer: Yom Kippur
Question: Who is the author of a series of 21 historical novels featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin?
Answer: Patrick O'Brian
Question: The Marina Bay Street Circuit, used in Formula 1 for the first time in 2008, is the venue for which Grand Prix?
Answer: Singapore
Question: Which Labour Party shadow cabinet member is married to trade union activist Jack Dromey?
Answer: Harriet Harman
Question: Which Labour Party shadow cabinet member is married to fellow MP Ed Balls?
Answer: Yvette Cooper
Question: Orchestral conductor Leopold Stokowski was born in 1882 in which capital city?
Answer: LONDON
Question: dim. is the abbreviated form of which musical term?
Answer: DIMINUENDO
Question: Kate Winslet won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in which 2008 film?
Answer: THE READER
Question: What is the surname of Tommy and Tuppence - the married sleuths, who appear in several novels and short stories by Agatha Christie?
Answer: BERESFORD
Question: Who is alleged to have said in his writing 'A little learning is a dangerous thing'?
Answer: ALEXANDER POPE
Question: In the pre-nationalisation period which railway company is missing from the 'Big Four' - GWR, LMS, LNER and.?
Answer: SOUTHERN
Question: In which year were both the Queen and Marilyn Monroe born?
Answer: 1926
Question: Margarita Cansino was the original name of which film star?
Answer: RITA HAYWORTH
Question: Who composed a symphony with a sudden fortissimo chord at the end of the opening which gives it the nickname Surprise Symphony?
Answer: JOSEPH HAYDN
Question: Which Dallas actor also appeared in the MGM musicals Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate?
Answer: HOWARD KEEL
Question: Which post-impressionist painted The Card Players in 1892?
Answer: PAUL CEZANNE
Question: The works of which composer, born in Hamburg in 1833, include a series of 21 Hungarian Dances?
Answer: JOHANNES BRAHMS
Question: Therevada and Mahayana are the two main branches of which religion?
Answer: BUDDHISM
Question: Which play by Robert Bolt was made into a film starring Paul Scofield in the lead role?
Answer: A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Question: Tom Hanks won Oscars for Best Actor in consecutive years for Forrest Gump in 1994 and which other film in 1993?
Answer: PHILADELPHIA
Question: For which 1989 film did Daniel Day-Lewis win his first Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer: MY LEFT FOOT
Question: Which album by Madonna was the best-selling album of 1986?
Answer: TRUE BLUE
Question: Which British queen was married to Prince George of Denmark?
Answer: QUEEN ANNE
Question: A shot glass of which German liqueur is dropped into a glass of Red Bull to make a '.bomb'?
Answer: Jagermeister
Question: In which book of the Bible do the Ten Commandments appear?
Answer: Exodus
Question: Which personality of the American West is buried next to her partner Frank Butler?
Answer: Annie Oakley
Question: In which country did the Mau Mau revolt against British rule?
Answer: Kenya
Question: Who published the fairy story of Snow White?
Answer: The Brothers Grimm
Question: In the Old Testament, who is the sister of Moses and Aaron?
Answer: Miriam
Question: In which part of the body might the Bundle of Kent be found?
Answer: The Heart
Question: In the play 'Hamlet' what was the name of the Norwegian prince?
Answer: Fortinbras
Question: In which country did the Tonton Macoute revolt against French rule?
Answer: Haiti
Question: Which tennis player won six consecutive majors in 1983-84 but did not achieve a calendar Grand Slam in doing so?
Answer: Martina Navratilova
Question: The Battle of Borodino took place during the Napoleonic Wars, in which country is Borodino?
Answer: Russia
Question: In which city was Terry Wogan born?
Answer: LIMERICK
Question: On which river does the city of Worcester stand?
Answer: RIVER SEVERN
Question: What is the scientific name for short-sightedness?-
Answer: MYOPIA
Question: Which 1991 film won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress?
Answer: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Question: Which band returned to the top of the charts in 1999 with 'Maria', more than 18 years after their previous chart-topper, 'The Tide is High'?
Answer: BLONDIE
Question: What is the official name of the award for bravery given by the charity PDSA and popularly known as the animals' Victoria Cross?
Answer: THE DICKIN MEDAL
Question: Which hero of several Arthur Conan Doyle stories was first introduced in the novel 'The Lost World' in 1912?
Answer: Professor Challenger
Question: The kakapo or owl parrot is a near extinct bird living in which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: In the game of Poker what is a run of five cards in sequence, irrespective of suit, called?
Answer: A Straight
Question: Which architect designed the present Royal Pavilion in Brighton, built between 1815 and 1820?
Answer: John Nash
Question: A dish cooked "a la Crecy" would be garnished or prepared with which ingredient?
Answer: Carrots
Question: Who wrote the 1948 play 'The Browning Version'?
Answer: Terence Rattigan
Question: In the game of poker what is a hand consisting of three cards of one value and a pair of another value called?
Answer: A Full House
Question: What style of jazz which began and was developed in the mid 1940s was pioneered by jazz musicians Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie?
Answer: Be-bop
Question: Which architect designed Tom Tower and The Sheldonian Theatre, both in Oxford?
Answer: Christopher Wren
Question: What is Sean Connery's first Christian name?
Answer: Thomas
Question: Who played Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street?
Answer: Julie Hesmondhalgh
Question: In what year was the first Battle of St. Albans?
Answer: 1455
Question: Who directed the 1973 film American Graffiti?
Answer: George Lucas
Question: Which country's flag consists of 3 horizontal bands of red, white and red?
Answer: Austria
Question: Who wrote The Client (1993) and Sycamore Row(2013)?
Answer: John Grisham
Question: In which African country is the Okavango Delta?
Answer: Botswana
Question: Who was king of England in 1505?
Answer: Henry VII
Question: Which member of the cabinet is MP for Twickenham?
Answer: Vince Cable
Question: In what year was Queen Elizabeth II born?
Answer: 1926
Question: On a weather map, what name is given to a line joining points having equal hours of sunshine?
Answer: Isohel
Question: Which 1980s US TV police show featured the characters Frank Furillo, Andy Renko and Mick Belker?
Answer: Hill Street Blues
Question: In Norse mythology what is the name of the group of women whose name means 'chooser of the slain'?
Answer: Valkyries
Question: Which name connects a town in the north of England, a prehistoric burial chamber and an American gangster?
Answer: Barrow
Question: Which 1980s and 90s US TV legal drama featured the company McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzack?
Answer: LA Law
Question: Amy Williams and Lizzy Yarnold of Great Britain have won the Winter Olympic Gold Medal at the last two games in which event?
Answer: Skeleton
Question: In Norse mythology what is the name of the hall to which the Valkyrie take their chosen warriors?
Answer: Valhalla
Question: The Northern League is a far-right political party in which EU country?
Answer: Italy
Question: Which Wiltshire hill is the largest artificial hill in Europe?
Answer: Silbury Hill
Question: Which hill, located above the village of Batheaston in Somerset was made more famous in a song by Peter Gabriel?
Answer: Solsbury Hill
Question: Between 1958 and 1972 all Cliff Richard single records were released on which record label?
Answer: COLUMBIA
Question: What is the main currency of Croatia?
Answer: KUNA
Question: Which U.S. Poet was known as the Nun of Amherst?
Answer: EMILY DICKINSON
Question: Between 1959 and 1966 all of Billy Fury's singles were released on which record label?
Answer: DECCA
Question: What number Apollo was the last one to land a man on the moon?
Answer: APOLLO 17
Question: Which 1595 play by Shakespeare is his shortest?
Answer: A Comedy of Errors
Question: In which 1953 book by Ian Fleming did James Bond first appear?
Answer: Casino Royale
Question: Who wrote the 1990 novel 'Jurassic Park'?
Answer: Michael Crichton
Question: Which architect (1752-1835) was responsible for the design of the present Royal Pavilion in Brighton?
Answer: John Nash
Question: Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine are what type of element?
Answer: Halogens
Question: Which small rodent, often kept as a pet, is also known as a jird or sand rat?
Answer: Gerbil
Question: In the pantomime, who is Aladdin's mother?
Answer: Widow Twankey
Question: Which motorway would you take travelling between Cardiff and Swansea?
Answer: M4
Question: The need to fund which king's wars led to the foundation of the Bank of England?
Answer: William III
Question: In which film, winner of the Best Animated Feature Oscar for 2011, is the central character a chameleon, voiced by Johnny Depp?
Answer: Rango
Question: Which river forms most of the border between Suffolk and Essex?
Answer: Stour