zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Mario Echandi Jimenez, who died last month, served as President of which Central American country between 1958 and 1962?
Answer: COSTA RICA
Question: Juan Maria Bordaberry, who died last month, served as President of which South American country between 1972 and 1976?
Answer: URUGUAY
Question: What was the name, deriving ultimately from the Berber for 'spear'. for the short spear used as a stabbing weapon by the Zulus?
Answer: ASSEGAI
Question: Following the death of Augustus in AD14, who became the second Roman Emperor?
Answer: TIBERIUS
Question: In Shakespeare's 'Othello', what was the name of the wife of 'Iago', who exposes her husband's villainy but is then murdered?
Answer: 'EMILIA'
Question: What name is given to the short bands of tough fibrous connective tissue composed mainly of long, stringy collagen fibres that connect bones to one another?
Answer: LIGAMENTS
Question: Geoffrey Rush won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a mentally handicapped piano player in which film?
Answer: 'SHINE'
Question: In which Central American country is Derian, the oldest European colony on the American continent?
Answer: PANAMA
Question: Which influential writer of the French Renaissance, who helped to popularise the essay as a literary form , is perhaps best remembered for his 'Apology For Raymond Sebond'?
Answer: MICHEL de MONTAIGNE
Question: Following the French defeat who was the Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944?
Answer: MARSHAL PHILIPPE PETAIN
Question: How was the character Subtle known in the title of a play by Ben Jonson?
Answer: The Alchemist
Question: Which character from Sir Walter Scott's novel ‘Marmion’ gave his name to a breed of dog?
Answer: Dandy Dinmont
Question: Taron Egerton portrays which famed English sportsman in a film biopic of his life released in 2016?
Answer: Eddie The Eagle (Edwards)
Question: By what more familiar avian moniker is the H-4 Hercules aircraft known?
Answer: Spruce Goose
Question: Which word, meaning to censor, abridge or expurgate is taken from the name of the man who in 1807 published an expurgated 10 volume set of the works of Shakespeare entitled ‘The Family Shakspeare’?
Answer: Bowdlerise
Question: Pastor Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr, is the founder of which American church; he died in 2014 but received no funeral, as according to his daughter Shirley “this church does not worship the dead”?
Answer: Westboro Baptist (Church)
Question: What was the codename for the planned uprising to follow the failed) assassination of Hitler in July 1944?
Answer: Valkyrie
Question: In which South American country did the "Dina" secret police operate in the 1970's?
Answer: Chile
Question: What word can be a hairstyle, a wing of the New Zealand parliament buildings, and a nickname of the state of Utah?
Answer: Beehive
Question: What is the collective name for the stories by Kipling that includes "How the Camel Got His Hump" and "How the Leopard Got His Spots"?
Answer: Just So Stories
Question: A bust of which architect and gardener by William Woodington is in Crystal Palace Park in London?
Answer: Joseph Paxton
Question: Denver Broncos won the Super Bowl in February. This was the first time that the tradition of naming each game using Roman numerals was not used. So this game was Super Bowl what number?
Answer: 50
Question: On this day in 1865, which murderous actor was shot dead by Boston Corbett, a Union soldier in Port Royal, Virginia U.S.A.?
Answer: John Wilkes Boothe
Question: On the cover of the album Abbey Road by The Beatles, which company manufactured the white car parked on the footpath to the left of the picture?
Answer: VOLKSWAGEN (BEETLE)
Question: Which river flows through Hobart in Tasmania - there are English rivers of the same name in Cumbria, Derbyshire and Yorkshire?
Answer: DERWENT
Question: Which river is formed at Launceston in Tasmania by the merging of the North Esk and South Esk rivers - a river of the same name forms much of the boundary between Devon and Cornwall?
Answer: TAMAR
Question: Creighton-Ward is the surname of which character in a TV puppet series set between 2065 and 2067?
Answer: LADY PENELOPE
Question: What is the title of the painting by William Holman Hunt which features an animal with a red cloth wrapped around its horns on the Day of Atonement?
Answer: THE SCAPEGOAT
Question: Which Belfast born comedian, resident in Blackpool for many years, had a catchphrase ‘It’s the way I tell ‘em’?
Answer: FRANK CARSON
Question: The last episode of which long running T.V. series was entitled Goodbye, Farewell and Amen?
Answer: M.A.S.H.
Question: Which Scottish woman, profoundly deaf from the age of 12, has become due to her 'sensing* the vibration of music, a noted solo percussionist? She studied at the London Royal Academy and appeared at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games?
Answer: (Dame Evelyn) Glennie
Question: Together the holders of the posts of President of France and Bishop of Urgel become the co-princes of where?
Answer: Andorra
Question: Name the year: Lawrence of Arabia wins Oscar for best picture; Harold Wilson becomes Leader of the Labour Party and writer C.S. Lewis dies?
Answer: 1963
Question: What is the family name of the father and son who trained and rode the winners of the Derby in both 2012 and 2014?
Answer: O’Brien
Question: The lines on the Lisbon Metro are identified by colours. What colour is Linha Amarela?
Answer: Yellow
Question: How did the world better know actor Carlo Pedersoli who sadly died last week, he is best known for the 16 films he appeared in with Mario Girotti, who used the name Terence Hill?
Answer: Bud Spencer
Question: Who was the 7th century Anglo-Saxon bishop, who whilst living on the Farne Islands off Northumberland, instituted special laws to protect the Eider ducks nesting there?
Answer: ST. CUTHBERT
Question: Which distinct, topaz-coloured wine is mentioned in the National Anthem of Hungary?
Answer: TOKAY
Question: In Arthurian legend, what name is given to the sunken land believed to lie off the Isles of Scilly?
Answer: 'LYONESSE'
Question: Which opera has 'Escamillo' as one of the central characters?
Answer: 'CARMEN'
Question: Which country has moved its capital to the planned city of Putrajaya, about 25km from the previous capital?
Answer: MALAYSIA
Question: Harry, Tom, Dougie and Danny are collectively known as who in the pop world?
Answer: 'McFLY'
Question: Named after the Californian who accidentally created it in 1871, what is a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry called?
Answer: Loganberry
Question: The island of Jura is separated from the mainland by the _____ of Jura and from the island of Islay by the _____ of Islay. Which word for a strait is missing from these descriptions?
Answer: Sound
Question: In which German city did lens maker Carl Zeiss start making microscopes full-time in 1847?
Answer: Jena
Question: At 524 feet, the highest cathedral spire ever constructed in England was blown down in 1584. Which cathedral was this spire part of?
Answer: LINCOLN
Question: What name was given to the Spanish invaders of South America?
Answer: 'CONQUISTADORS'
Question: In which city are the HQ of the West Mercia Constabulary?
Answer: WORCESTER
Question: Who did the first Duke of Northumberland employ to landscape the parkland adjoining Alnwick Castle, in order to create Alnwick Garden?
Answer: LANCELOT 'CAPABILITY' BROWN
Question: Which artistic movement was founded around 1920 in Russia and was associated with Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner?
Answer: Constructivism
Question: In which battle of 1709 did the allied English army under Marlborough defeat a French force led by Marshal Villars?
Answer: MALPLAQUET
Question: In which short-lived soap set on a North Sea ferry did Kate O'Mara play Catherine Laker?
Answer: Triangle
Question: After which battle did King Charles the Second famously take refuge in an Oak tree?
Answer: Worcester
Question: Before being replaced with the 118 numbers, what three digit number was used for Directory Enquiries for domestic numbers?
Answer: 192
Question: Which 1968 film, starring Meryl Streep, told the true story of Lindy Chamberlain, a mother, convicted of killing her baby, who maintained that a Dingo had killed it?
Answer: 'A CRY IN THE DARK'
Question: Which mountain in the Sequoia National Park is the highest peak in the contiguous states of the USA (ie. excluding Alaska & Hawaii)?
Answer: MOUNT WHITNEY
Question: Which Spanish poet and playwright, who was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, wrote 'Blood Wedding' and 'The Curse Of The Butterflies'?
Answer: FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Question: In which classic 'western' does 'Marshal Will Kane' marry 'Amy Fowler' and turn in his badge, only for events to change on the arrival of a train?
Answer: 'HIGH NOON'
Question: Which opera, set in 1930 Seville, opens in a factory where workers make cigarettes all day?
Answer: 'CARMEN'
Question: Which 1936 novel tells the story of 20-year old Mary Yellan who was brought up on a farm but has to and live with her Aunt Patience in Cornwall after her mother dies?
Answer: Jamaica Inn
Question: Nicknamed the Snow Leopard, for which country was Kwame Nkrumah- Acheampong the first representative in the Winter Olympics? (He finished 53rd in the slalom in 2010)
Answer: Ghana
Question: Dr. Buck Ruxton, who distributed the body parts of his murdered victims throughout Scotland, practiced in which city?
Answer: LANCASTER
Question: Following the Battle of the River Plate, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles blockaded the estuary of the river. Which Royal Navy warship subsequently joined them?
Answer: H.M.S. CUMBERLAND
Question: Which of the Romantic poets wrote the epic semi- autobiographical poem 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'?
Answer: LORD BYRON
Question: Which German writer completed his magisterial final novel 'Austerlitz' just weeks prior to his death in a car crash in 2001?
Answer: W.G. SEBALD
Question: The album So Long, See You Tomorrow, based on the novel of the same name by William Maxwell, was a number one earlier this year for which band? Their name sounds like they could be a sports group from India.
Answer: Bombay Bicycle Club
Question: Which Bridge in Central London, completed in 1945, is often referred to as 'The Ladies' Bridge'
Answer: Waterloo
Question: Who am I, I was born in 1936 in Czechoslovakia, was a playwright and became a politician being the last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003)?
Answer: VACLAV HAVEL
Question: Of which bird did Wordsworth write "While I am lying on the grass, thy two-fold shout I hear"?
Answer: CUCKOO
Question: What is the town called in which 'Clark Kent' grew up?
Answer: 'SMALLVILLE'
Question: The 'Seaburn Casuals' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which North East club?
Answer: SUNDERLAND
Question: What now common device was proposed by Townes in 1958 and built by Maiman in 1960? (Townes got the Nobel Prize and Maiman filed the patent)
Answer: Laser
Question: Which French mathematician and physicist, who has an SI unit named after him, lived from 1623 to 1662?
Answer: BLAISE PASCAL
Question: Which entertainment venue in North London, later the site of early TV transmissions, was destroyed by fire in June 1873 a few days after it opened?
Answer: ALEXANDRA PALACE
Question: The most popular name for girls in 2011 and 2012 according to the ONS was Amelia, but which was the second most popular in both years having topped the list in the three previous years?
Answer: OLIVIA
Question: The sucre was the official unit of currency of Ecuador until March 2000. What is now the official currency?
Answer: US Dollar
Question: """The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended"", is the first line of which 1968 novel and film?"
Answer: 2001 A Space Odyssey
Question: What was the name of the concealed tracks through Eastern Laos that was used as a supply route during the Vietnam War?
Answer: The Ho Chi Minh Trail
Question: Poldark Pride and Kernow Imperial Stout are recent beers from Coastal Brewery in which county?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: Yorkshire Bank is a division of Clydesdale Bank which itself is owned by NAB. For what does the A stand in the bank NAB?
Answer: (National) Australia (Bank)
Question: Born Armand Du Plessis in Chinon France in 1585, by what more familiar name do we know this Statesman?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu
Question: Name the year - An earthquake in Haiti kills over 300,000 people, A P McCoy wins the Grand National on "Don't push it" and Deepwater Horizon rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: 2010
Question: The flag of Ethiopia from 1897 to 1975 featured which animal, with the crown removed in 1974?
Answer: Lion
Question: Whose first novel published in 1985 was Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Answer: Jeanette Winterson
Question: What is the official language of Nigeria
Answer: English
Question: A 'triskelion', is a symbol consisting of three bent human legs is featured on the flag of which British crown dependency
Answer: Isle of Man
Question: Complete the proverb, Don't make a mountain out of
Answer: A mole hill
Question: According to the proverb what is too much for one enough for two but not enough for three
Answer: A secret
Question: What were solicitors in the U.K. allowed to do for the first time in 1984
Answer: Advertise
Question: What word is spoken twice at the beginning of the radio 4 programme Today in Parliament
Answer: Order
Question: What is the minimum age at which someone may fly an aircraft legally
Answer: Seventeen
Question: Which English composer composed the ballet Death in Venice and the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Answer: Benjamin Britten
Question: What word describes the rate of change of a body's velocity
Answer: Acceleration
Question: Which one hit wonder took Tongue Tied to number 17 in 1993
Answer: Cat
Question: Who gave birth to her seventh child in 1853 under chloroform ensuring the acceptance of it as an anaesthetic
Answer: Victoria
Question: What could be a hole making tool, a mixed beverage or a blow
Answer: Punch
Question: Who was the commander of the French army at the Battle of Borodino
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
Question: 25What disease is also known as wool sorter's disease
Answer: Anthrax
Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays are the title character's last words 'the rest is silence'
Answer: Hamlet
Question: What is the capital of Uzbekistan
Answer: Tashkent
Question: What was the first name of the philosopher Heidegger
Answer: Martin
Question: In Australian slang what are snags
Answer: Sausages
Question: Which author and poet described golf as an expensive way to play marbles
Answer: G.K. Chesterton
Question: In what part of the body would you suffer from Nystagmus
Answer: Eye
Question: England crushed Australia in the 2015 4th Ashes test. Who had bowling figures of 8 for 15 in the 1st innings
Answer: Stuart Broad
Question: What word prefixes the following to make five different words: habit, jury, sect, stance, tense
Answer: In
Question: Which underworld character's autobiography was entitled Odd Man Out
Answer: Ronnie Biggs
Question: At which three day eventing course would you find Tom Smith's Wall and The Quarry
Answer: Badminton
Question: Which British cabinet position did George Brown occupy from 1966 to 1968
Answer: Foreign Secretary
Question: What is the closely curled wool of the Persian lamb known as
Answer: Astrakhan
Question: What is the name given to a written statement sworn on oath in the presence of a lawyer
Answer: Affadavit
Question: Which word links these four, glow, noon, thought, birth
Answer: After
Question: Yiddish is a compound of Hebrew and which other language
Answer: German
Question: Of whom did Mountbatten say you have no idea how much it costs to keep that man in poverty
Answer: Mahatma Ghandi
Question: Which organisation claims to be the fourth emergency service
Answer: The A.A.
Question: Which soup takes it's name from the Urdu word for pepper water
Answer: Mulligatawny
Question: The traditional Queen of Puddings dessert typically comprises a bread/egg/jam base topped with what
Answer: Meringue
Question: Which singer/actresso played Karen Silkwood's lesbian lodger in the film Silkwood
Answer: Cher
Question: Who took 'The Tears Of A Clown' to the UK No.1 spot in August 1970?
Answer: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Question: Which Renaissance artist's life was fictionalised in the book 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' subsequently made into a film?
Answer: Michelangelo
Question: to which group of Scottish islands do 'Auskerry, Burray and Cava' belong?
Answer: Orkney Islands
Question: Bernhard Jr. Prince of Netherlands?
Answer: 1969
Question: Who said If a lie is told in the Whitehouse Nixon gets royalty?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: What year were all these people born: David Hassellhoff, Michael Barrymore and Mister T?
Answer: 1952
Question: What year were all these people born: American actress Michelle Pfeiffer, British comedian Dawn French and British musician Billy Bragg?
Answer: 1957
Question: What year: The Magnificent Seven was out at the movies, The Shadows were Britain?s biggest selling band of the year and Carol Vorderman was born?
Answer: 1960
Question: What year: 'Summer Holiday' starring Cliff Richard was out at the movies, Ringo Starr joined The Beatles and MC Hammer was born?
Answer: 1962
Question: What was Billy Cotton's famous catch phrase?
Answer: Wakey Wakey
Question: In the book 'Lost Horizon' by James Hilton, what was the name of the imaginary paradise created in the book?
Answer: Shangri-La
Question: Siam is now called what?
Answer: Thailand
Question: Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with which letter?
Answer: E
Question: Which city used to be called Constantinople?
Answer: Istanbul
Question: If eating Cambridge No 5s,Wellands or Bedford Winter Harvests what would you be eating?
Answer: Brussels Sprouts
Question: Who failed to receive a posthumous Nobel Prize in 1962 despite her contribution to building a model of DNA?
Answer: Rosalind Franklin
Question: Who wrote Republic and Phaedo?
Answer: Plato.
Question: If you were eating fragrant meat in Hong Kong what is it?
Answer: Dog
Question: Which singer, formerly part of a famous duo, starred in several films including: Moonstruck; Good Times and Chastity?
Answer: Cher
Question: It's capital is Bangkok and it used to be called Siam. What is it now?
Answer: Thailand
Question: Caruso put what in Nellie Melbas hand when singing and her tiny hand frozen?
Answer: Hot Sausage
Question: Which former jump jockey won the prestigious 'Crime Writer's Association' award the Cartier Diamond Dagger, in 1989?
Answer: Dick Francis
Question: London's first railway terminus opened on 20th July 1837. What was it called?
Answer: Euston
Question: 'Question or Nominate' was a phrase commonly heard on which UK TV quiz show?
Answer: Fifteen-to-one
Question: A day of perpetual mourning, January 6, 1919 saw the death of what former US President, the 26th, whom the BSA gave the title of Chief Scout Citizen, the only such person to hold that honor, shortly before his death?
Answer: Teddy Roosevelt
Question: January 2nd, saw the enactment of a bill mandating the lowering of the national speed limit to 55 mph, in an attempt to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. Who was the president that signed the bill?
Answer: Richard M. Nixon
Question: Blood and Fire is the motto of what international movement, quasi-military in structure, that focuses on evangelical, social and charitable work?
Answer: The Salvation Army
Question: First formulated in 1959 (6 years before being offered on NASA flights) what was the original flavor of Tang?
Answer: Orange
Question: Oh my God, they killed Kenny! You bastards! is frequently heard on what tv classic?
Answer: South Park
Question: Newspaper editor Britt Reid, along with his sidekick Kato and their well appointed car Black Beauty, dons a mask and fights crime under what name?
Answer: The Green Hornet
Question: Who achieved a certain level of international celebrity when his wife Lorena severed half his penis, tossing said member into a field, which was later surgically reattached?
Answer: John Bobbit
Question: Mixing yellow and blue paint produces what color?
Answer: Green
Question: We all knew him as Radar, but was the actual first name of the pride of Ottumwa, Iowa, Corporal O'Reilly on the TV series MASH?
Answer: Walter
Question: January 18, 1778 saw explorer Captain James Cook make landfall at the islands he dubbed The Sandwich Islands. By what name do we know them today?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: January 16 saw the passing of Glen Bell, at the age of 86, founder of what major fast food chain?
Answer: Taco Bell
Question: Still in operation 7 years later, January 25, 2004 saw the Opportunity Rover land on what planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, died on Jan 24, 1986, but is best known developing the self-help system called Dianetics, and for founding what religion?
Answer: Scientology
Question: January 24, AD 41, saw the death, at the hands of his Praetorian Guard, of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. By what name is he more commonly known?
Answer: Caligula
Question: “Oh my God, they killed Kenny! …You bastards!” is frequently heard on what TV classic?
Answer: South Park
Question: The longest serving and first flying space shuttle, which vehicle was lost on re-entry Feb 1, 2003, resulting in the loss of 7 astronauts?
Answer: Columbia
Question: The magic practice of scrying, which involves seeing things physically in a medium, usually relies on the use of what spherical object?
Answer: Crystal Ball
Question: Isaac Stern, Nicolai Paganini, Itzhak Pearlman, and Yehudi Menuhin were all famous for playing which instrument?
Answer: Violin
Question: George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. invented what engineering marvel for the 1893 exposition in Chicago in the hopes of creating something as impressive as the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: Ferris Wheel
Question: All the News That's Fit to Print first appeared as the motto of what newspaper, known as The Paper of Record or The Gray Lady, in 1897?
Answer: The New York Times
Question: The Voyage of the Beagle was the 1839 book by what British naturalist, detailing his 5 year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: Who's missing: Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, John Holliday
Answer: Morgan Earp
Question: For which paper was reporter Clark Kent/Superman employed?
Answer: The Daily Planet
Question: Deadliest Catch boat captain Phil Harris died yesterday, after suffering a major stroke on January 29th. What Seattle based boat was he the captain of?
Answer: Cornelia Marie
Question: By I(nternational) A(stronomical) U(nion) definition, what is the final classification of Pluto? Planet, Dwarf Planet, or Small Solar System Body?
Answer: Dwarf Planet
Question: Which English monarch, who ruled from April 1509 to January 1547, is remembered for having married Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth Blount, and Mary Boleyn?
Answer: King Henry VIII
Question: Feb 13, 2000 saw the last original installment of what comic strip, following the death of its creator, Charles Shultz?
Answer: Peanuts
Question: What French mathematician and philosopher, devised roulette while trying to attain perpetual motion, and also invented the hydraulic press and the syringe?
Answer: Blaise Pascal
Question: Which American cartoonist is responsible for creating the comic strips Hi and Lois and Beetle Bailey, both of which are still in production by their creator?
Answer: Mort Walker
Question: Nov 10, 1975 saw the sinking of what ship, for 13 years the largest to sail the Great Lakes, which was later to inspire Gordon Lightfoot to pen his second top 10 hit?
Answer: Edmund Fitzgerald
Question: Although primary made from phenolic resin these days, billiard balls were primarily made from what material from the early 1600s until the early 20th century?
Answer: Ivory
Question: With the failure of his prime time show and his return to host the Tonight Show, whom is Jay Leno booting from behind the desk?
Answer: Conan O'Brien