zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What two word name was given to the British civilian organisation created during the first and second world wars that involved women working in agriculture, replacing men who had been called up to the military?
Answer: LAND ARMY
Question: What surname links a 16th century Queen Consort of England and the name of a current Premiership football ground?
Answer: BOLEYN
Question: In which city was Martin Luther King assassinated in 1968 ?
Answer: MEMPHIS
Question: 'Erinaceus Europaeus' is the latin name for which common creature?
Answer: HEDGEHOG
Question: Sharing its name with a native American tribe, which hairstyle sees both sides of the head shaven leaving a noticeably longer length of hair in the centre?
Answer: MOHICAN
Question: Which cricket county finished runners-up in Division Two to Derbyshire this year, despite the fact that they never lost a match all season?
Answer: YORKSHIRE
Question: What H was the Christian name of Mr Royce, founder of the car company Rolls Royce?
Answer: HENRY
Question: What is the name of the now 46 year old British man whose extradition to the USA, for breaking into American computer systems, was recently blocked by Home Secretary Theresa May?
Answer: Gary McKINNON
Question: Which famous company, founded in Los Angeles in 1923 is Bob Iger the Chairman and Chief Executive of?
Answer: DISNEY
Question: Which Australian Prime Minister famously disappeared whilst swimming off the coast of Victoria on December 17th 1967?
Answer: Harold HOLT
Question: What is the well known two word name for the remote , higher reaches of the A57 road where it crosses the Peak District between Manchester and Sheffield?
Answer: SNAKE PASS
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born at 54 Albion Road, Broadstairs, Kent on July 9th 1916 ?
Answer: EDWARD HEATH
Question: In a standard game of poker, which hand comes immediately lower than a straight flush?
Answer: FOUR OF A KIND
Question: In a standard game of poker, which hand comes immediately lower than a straight?
Answer: THREE OF A KIND
Question: Which Scottish football team share their name with the Christian name of a famous American criminal who died in 1934 ?
Answer: CLYDE
Question: Which famous term adopted in 1968 was a brief patriotic campaign to boost the British economy which started when five secretaries volunteered to work an extra half hour each day in order to boost productivity and urged others to do the same?
Answer: I'M BACKING BRITAIN
Question: What 'M' was the name of the farm in the George Orwell book 'Animal Farm'?
Answer: MANOR
Question: Whic male member i missing from the following list of the group 'The Osmonds' - Donny, Jimmy, Alan, wayne and Jay?
Answer: MERRILL
Question: Living from 1891 to 1958 which Dane is credited with being the inventor of the toy Lego?
Answer: Ole Kirk CHRISTIANSEN
Question: The frequent absences of King George I from England and Parliament led directly to the creation of which position in government?
Answer: PRIME-MINISTER
Question: The German cities of Dresden and Hamburg stand on which river ?
Answer: ELBE
Question: In the traditional game table skittles , what name is usually given to the ball or disc or ' lump ' cast at the pins ?
Answer: THE CHEESE
Question: What term describes the point at which a celestial object in orbit around the Earth , such as the Moon , makes its closest approach to Earth ?
Answer: PERIGEE
Question: In which century were the Royal Marines founded ?
Answer: 17th
Question: Which sister ship of the Titanic never entered commercial service and was sunk by a mine while serving as a hospital ship in 1916 ?
Answer: BRITANNIC
Question: Which is the only Australian state capital not named after a person?
Answer: PERTH
Question: The lack of which vitamin caused scurvy in the early days of the navy?
Answer: VITAMIN C
Question: Which was the major battle of the Franco-Prissian war?
Answer: SEDAN
Question: First used in America, what name is given to a pub or restaurant that combines seafood and meat, such as steak and scampi?
Answer: SURF 'n' TURF
Question: In which English county is Barnstaple?
Answer: DEVON
Question: Which six letter word links the nickname of a now obsolete British coin and the surname of a tennis player who lost to Bjorn Borg in a men’s singles final at Wimbledon ?
Answer: TANNER
Question: 23 out of the first 24 highest peaks in England lie in the Lake District with Scafell Pike being the highest. Which is the peak that does not lie in the Lake District, it is the 11th highest in England at 893 metres in height and is situated in the North Pennines ?
Answer: CROSS FELL
Question: Which Asian country’s flag consists of a large red disc on a green background ?
Answer: BANGLADESH
Question: Introduced in 2007 what six letter name is given to the device described as being an e – book reader or a software and hardware platform designed by Amazon for the rendering of e – books and other digital media., they are often able to download over 1,000 books ?
Answer: KINDLE
Question: Which county won the Cricket County Championship on six occasions during the 1960’s Including three consecutive titles in 1966, 1967 and 1968 ?
Answer: YORKSHIRE
Question: Clara Petacci, who lived from 1912 – 1945 was the mistress of which famous politician who lived from 1883 – 1945 ?
Answer: Benito MUSSOLINI
Question: Which famous novel, published in 1939 features the main family who are named Joad, a poor family of tenant farmers during the Great Depression ?
Answer: THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Question: Which famous novel, published in 1922 is the main character and protagonist named Leopold Bloom and follows his encounters in Dublin ?
Answer: ULYSSES
Question: The English stately home created for the Earl of Carlisle in 1699 is still owned by his descendents, and still known by the family name. Which stately home is it?
Answer: CASTLE HOWARD
Question: Ustinov, Van Mildert, and St Cuthbert's Society, are among the colleges which are constituent parts of which British university ?
Answer: DURHAM
Question: Which Austrian composer's works are given K numbers according to the 19th century Kochel catalogue ?
Answer: MOZART
Question: The film simply known as Star Wars on its first release in 1977 became Episode 4 in the eventual sequence of six films, and acquired a subtitle. What was the subtitle ?
Answer: A NEW HOPE
Question: The Jewish language Yiddish is based on which other language ?
Answer: GERMAN
Question: The death of which world leader in April 1945 prompted Goebbels to exclaim: "Bring out our best champagne!" ?
Answer: FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
Question: Where in Mississippi was Elvis Presley born ?
Answer: TUPELO
Question: Which building in Moscow started life as an insurance office and later became the headquarters of the KGB ?
Answer: THE LUBYANKA
Question: Which London landmark gave its name to a now disused station situated after Tottenham Court Road on the Central Line ?
Answer: BRITISH MUSEUM
Question: The astronauts Dallas, Ripley, Kane, Lambert, Brett and Parker, are characters in which 1979 science fiction film ?
Answer: ALIEN
Question: Who is the only Nobel laureate to have an entry in Wisden Cricketers' Almanac?
Answer: SAMUEL BECKET
Question: Which London satirical venue was co-founded by Peter Cook and Nicholas Luard ?
Answer: THE ESTABLISHMENT
Question: By what name is the explosion that occurred in Siberia on 30th June 1908, possibly caused by a comet or asteroid, generally known ?
Answer: THE TUNGUSKA
Question: What was the name of 'The Little Mermaid' in the Disney film of the same name?
Answer: ARIEL
Question: What seven letter name is given to the light vehicle with three wheels and pedals used In South East Asia to carry usually two passengers ?
Answer: TRISHAW
Question: What eight letter word is given to delicate and intricate ornamental work made from gold Silver or other fine, twisted wire ?
Answer: FILIGREE
Question: Apart from England, which European country was a chief setting for the James Bond film Goldfinger ?
Answer: SWITZERLAND
Question: What was the famous two word title that was given to Henry Stewart who was King Consort Of Scotland between 1565 and 1567 and was married to Mary Queen Of Scots ?
Answer: LORD DARNLEY
Question: What was the famous four word nickname that was given to Edward I of England also known as Edward Longshanks ?
Answer: HAMMER OF THE SCOTS
Question: What is the name of the former cabinet minister who, in March 2013 was jailed, along With his ex wife Vicky Price after she agreed to take his speeding points to avoid him losing his licence ?
Answer: Chris HUHNE
Question: Which American TV director and producer who died in 1991 was responsible for 1960's TV shows such as "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea", "Lost In Space" and "Land Of The Giants" ?
Answer: IRWIN ALLEN
Question: Which now 85 year old American author wrote the 1971 book The Exorcist ?
Answer: WILLIAM PETER BLATTY
Question: Born in Armagh on April 6th 1928, what is the more famous name of the politician and former church minister who is also known as Baron Bannside ?
Answer: IAN PAISLEY
Question: Having a name meaning ‘Winged Finger‘ which dinosaur was described as being a long slender, powerful creature with long narrow jaws, sharp teeth and a wingspan of approximately 3 feet 3 inches ?
Answer: PTERODACTYL
Question: What was the Christian name of the father of William Shakespeare ?
Answer: JOHN
Question: Which Welsh writer's last words are said to have been " I've had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record. " ?
Answer: DYLAN THOMAS
Question: Which European capital owes much of its layout to Baron Haussmann ?
Answer: PARIS
Question: How many bells signify the end of a nautical watch ?
Answer: EIGHT
Question: Before entering government, Neville Chamberlain was lord mayor of which city ?
Answer: BIRMINGHAM
Question: What drink, a type of fortified wine, was a favourite tipple of Shakespeare's Falstaff ?
Answer: SACK
Question: Which historic event took place on July 31st 1910 in Quebec harbour as the SS Montrose docked ?
Answer: DR CRIPPEN WAS ARRESTED
Question: Which American guitar-maker, who died in 1991, introduced models known as the Telecaster, and the Stratocaster, favoured by many rock guitarists since the 1950s ?
Answer: (LEO) FENDER
Question: What new name was given to the Chinese Gooseberry by farmers from New Zealand when they started exporting it to the USA in the 1960's ?
Answer: KIWI FRUIT
Question: The main square in Venice is named after which saint ?
Answer: ST MARK
Question: Which character in the Old Testament killed one quarter of the world's population ?
Answer: CAIN
Question: Which Oxford college was founded in 1899 to provide education specifically for working people ?
Answer: RUSKIN
Question: On which US navy vessel did Japanese forces make their official surrender in 1945 ?
Answer: MISSOURI
Question: Which town in Northern Spain, once the seat of the Basque Parliament, was bombed bt German planes in 1937a and immortalised by a famous Picasso painting ?
Answer: GUERNICA
Question: What is the German name for the Polish city of Gdansk ?
Answer: DANZIG
Question: What primarily causes an ice-skate to melt ice, creating lubricated contact helpful for skating?
Answer: Pressure
Question: Which castle is sometimes referred to as 'The Key to England'?
Answer: Dover Castle
Question: UK politicians David Owen, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers, known as The Gang of Four, defected from the Labour Party in 1981 to form which party?
Answer: Social Democratic Party
Question: Israel Zangwill wrote the 1892 novel 'Children of the ...' what, depicting Jewish life in London?
Answer: Ghetto
Question: In Greek mythology, what did Prometheus steal from Zeus and give to mankind?
Answer: Fire
Question: The song 'San Quentin', about the California state prison, was written, and subsequently performed there, by which artist, recorded on a live album and British TV documentary?
Answer: Johnny Cash
Question: How many separate terms did William Gladstone serves as Prime Minister of Britain?
Answer: Four
Question: Which religion emerged from the Bible Student movement, founded in 1872 by Charles Taze Russell?
Answer: Jehovah's Witness
Question: In a summer 2010 market trial, UK pub-chain Brakspear's launched free in-pub what?
Answer: Dogs' dinners
Question: Catalonia, the Spanish Autonomous Community region comprising provinces Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona, banned what in 2010 with effect from 2012?
Answer: Bullfighting
Question: How many presidents of France had there been as at 2010? 7; 12; 23; or 35?
Answer: 23
Question: Chennai, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, was known by what name until 1968?
Answer: Madras
Question: Eighteen year-old Eri Yoshida, known as the Knuckleball Princess, in 2010 became the first Japanese woman to play in the US professional (generally all-male) league of which sport?
Answer: Baseball
Question: The Boeing Superfortress B-'what'-type of American aircraft that dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945?
Answer: 29
Question: What is the musical term for 'To be repeated from the beginning'?
Answer: Da Capo
Question: Which European leader publicly welcomed a new female MP to parliament by reminding her of a 'rule' called 'jus primae noctis' ('law of the first night' - a medieval right of the Lord of the manor to deflower new brides) ? Silvio Berlusconi; Winston Churchill; Nicolas Sarkozy; or Helmut Kohl?
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi
Question: What colour is the pigment lycopene?
Answer: Red
Question: What historic region of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, gave its name to a dog breed with a striking appearance?
Answer: Dalmatia
Question: Appropriately, a giant what was put temporarily onto the fourth plinth at London's Trafalgar Square in May 2010?
Answer: Ship in a bottle
Question: Derived from the French word meaning to brood or hatch, what term refers to a male phantom or sympathetic pregnancy syndrome in response to a wife or partner's real pregnancy?
Answer: Couvade
Question: Name the 1890-founded Scottish manufacturer of much-loved traditional caramel wafers, teacakes and snowball cakes, which experienced a staff pay dispute in Autumn 2010?
Answer: Tunnock's
Question: In the UK snow of January 2010 a Thames Valley policeman was reprimanded for sledging on duty down a slope on his what?
Answer: Riot shield
Question: What name (in English) was given to the capsule which brought the 33 Chilean miners to the surface in the San Jose rescue on 13 October 2010?
Answer: Phoenix
Question: What type of wartime field gun took its name originally from the old Czech word (loosely 'houfnice') meaning catapault?
Answer: Howitzer
Question: Permanent software programmed into a read-only memory is generally called what ' ...ware'?
Answer: Firmware
Question: Which aspiring US politician was criticized in Oct 2010 for her technically illegal act of autographing an American flag?
Answer: Sarah Palin
Question: What is the large dog breed named after a town in south-west Germany, with St Bernard, Newfoundland and Pyrenean Mountain Dog ancestry?
Answer: Leonberger
Question: David Low created what pompous British cartoon officer character, first appearing in London's Evening standard in the 1930s?
Answer: Colonel Blimp
Question: 20-year old criminology undergraduate Marisol Valles Garcia became police chief of drug-war-torn town Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero in what country?
Answer: Mexico
Question: In February 1967, Ronald Ryan became the last man to be hanged in which country, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in 1965?
Answer: Australia
Question: In March 1951, which comic strip by Hank Ketcham appeared in newspapers accross the US for the first time?
Answer: Dennis the Menace
Question: What high-tech manufacturing corporation agreed to buy the security software company McAfee for $7.7bn in summer 2010?
Answer: Intel
Question: What music and dance style takes its name from an elegant bird and the healthy colour and provocative appearance of the early gypsy artists who popularised it.
Answer: Flamenco
Question: What is/was the Emperor of Exmoor, subject of much debate and news coverage about being the largest beast living wild in the UK, and whether it had actually been shot dead or not in late 2010?
Answer: Stag
Question: In tennis, what is the term for an untouchable and unreturnable legal point-scoring serve?
Answer: Ace
Question: What is the device in a car which mixes petrol with air in correct proportions before it enters the engine?
Answer: Carburettor
Question: In the Bible's Old Testament Book of Proverbs, what is stated to be more precious than rubies, better than silver and gold, and "...all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her..."?
Answer: Wisdom
Question: Which American-born English poet, having first names Thomas Stearns, wrote the poem The Cultivation Of Christmas Trees?
Answer: T S Eliot
Question: In the UK it is traditionally believed that eating a what each day of the twelve days of Christmas brings happiness the following year?
Answer: Mince pie
Question: In which country, the largest of its continent, is it said that finding a spider web on Christmas morning brings good luck, and so Christmas trees are decorated with artificial spider webs?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: Under which Puritan leader did the English parliament pass a law banning Christmas in 1647?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell
Question: In which European country is it said that malicious goblins called Kallikantzoroi (or Kallikantzari - singular Kallikantzoros) play troublesome pranks at Christmas?
Answer: Greece
Question: Name the pin-up celebrity who appeared on a provocative poster for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in 2010, with her body marked as if for cuts of meat?
Answer: Pamela Anderson
Question: What iconic London institution was sold to the Qatar Investment Authority (Qatar's sovereign wealth fund) in May 2010?
Answer: Harrods
Question: What secret service organization was accused of forging British passports for its agents allegedly responsible for an assassination in Dubai?
Answer: Mossad
Question: Which notable doctor and ex-politician dueted on piano with Aretha Franklin at a Philadelphia fund-raising concert?
Answer: Condoleeza Rice
Question: Hospitalised in Saudi Arabia towards the end of his life, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was president of where, from 2007 until his death in 2010?
Answer: Nigeria
Question: A 2010 study published in the Lancet suggested what medicine, recently found to reduce cancer development, aside from giving protection against strokes and heart attacks, is "...the most amazing drug in the world..."?
Answer: Aspirin
Question: Named after its inventor, what is the signal lamp used to transmit Morse Code, devised in the late 1800s and still used today on naval ships?
Answer: Aldis Lamp
Question: The largest sex discrimination lawsuit in US history, which began in 2001 and by 2010 involved 1.5m female workers was filed against which employer?
Answer: Walmart
Question: What, alluding to a piece of broken glass, became London's tallest building when under construction during 2010?
Answer: The Shard
Question: What British coin, whose nickname strangely alludes to the leather industry, ceased to be legal tender in June 1980?
Answer: Sixpence
Question: In what form does keratin, the substance human fingernails and hair are made from, sell for more than gold, and endanger a species?
Answer: Rhino horn
Question: What important river in south-west France and north-west Spain gives access to Bordeaux, and links the Mediterranean Sea to the Bay of Biscay?
Answer: Garonne
Question: What is iron pyrites (iron disulfide, FeS2) commonly called, because it resembles a precious metal?
Answer: Fool's Gold
Question: On a chessboard what square (using modern letter and number reference) would the white king pawn occupy if its first move was two squares forward?
Answer: E4
Question: What is the ancient axe-like hand tool used for shaping wood, especially in boat-building, with a curved blade at right angles to the line of the handle (unlike a conventional axe whose blade is in line with the handle)?
Answer: Adze
Question: The Pictish language was spoken in which nation in early medieval times?
Answer: Scotland
Question: What flowers prompted William Wordsworth write (and title) a poem about after seeing them at Lake Ullswater in 1802?
Answer: Daffodils
Question: What was poet Lord Byron's first name?
Answer: George
Question: What farming disease was reported in 2011 to have virtually disappeared, 25 years after its emergence and scary projection?
Answer: BSE
Question: In certain species of birds, what is the name of the pouch used for temporarily storing food?
Answer: Crop
Question: Buried in Highgate in London and subsequently immortalised in economic and social theory, who wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848?
Answer: Karl Marx
Question: In 1869, Frenchman Eugene Meyer invented a wheel for which mode of transport, and became regarded as a father of the 'high' version of the machine?
Answer: Bicycle
Question: What Swiss Alpine town hosts the annual World Economic Forum gathering of international leaders, financiers and business chiefs?
Answer: Davos
Question: Which football club broke the British transfer record in January 2011 by paying Liverpool F C £50million for Fernando Torres?
Answer: Chelsea
Question: English 17th century 'Hearth Money' was a tax on which part of a house?
Answer: Chimney
Question: Which prolific 18th century German-British composer created Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks and the opera Serse?
Answer: George Frideric Handel
Question: In the story of Cinderella (the French medieval version, which gave us the modern Western version) what were Cinderella's slippers made from?
Answer: Squirrel fur
Question: Who first devised the central relativity principle within Einstein's Theory of Relativity?
Answer: Galileo
Question: Ex-US president George W Bush cancelled a trip to which European country in February 2011 due to fears that he could be arrested for ordering the torture of prisoners?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: What family of tectosilicate minerals, named from the German for 'field', is the most abundant in the Earth's crust?
Answer: Feldspars
Question: What English monarch was born in 1533?
Answer: Elizabeth I
Question: The world's largest working waterwheel, the Lady Isabella (also known as the Laxey Wheel), is on which island, known in its national language as Ellan Vannin?
Answer: Isle of Man
Question: Englishman John Wycliffe's 14th century Lollardy movement addressed reform of what?
Answer: Religion
Question: In the British honours system where a man is made a Knight (i.e., becomes 'Sir...') what is the female equivalent?
Answer: Dame
Question: Born in 1678, which Italian composer of choral works, over forty operas, and notably The Four Seasons violin concertos, was known as The Red Priest because of his auburn hair?
Answer: Antonio Vivaldi
Question: What does the Latin phrase 'Vox populi' (shortened often in media to vox pop) translate to in English?
Answer: Voice of the people
Question: Aviator and explorer, Richard Byrd, is said to have been the first person to reach where by air, in 1929?
Answer: The South Pole
Question: Which online music service announced in March 2011 achieving one million paying subscribers across Europe, of a total exceeding 10 million users?
Answer: Spotify
Question: What is the substance made from petroleum used for road surfacing, whose name derives from Greek meaning 'of foreign origin'?
Answer: Asphalt
Question: Name the US soldier arrested and imprisoned in 2010 in relation to Wikileaks' publication of thousands of secret US Defense documents, and subject to humanitarian protests about his treatment?
Answer: Bradley Manning
Question: Recep Tayyip Erdogan took office in 2003 (2011 serves still) as prime minister of which country, connecting Europe and Asia?
Answer: Turkey
Question: The Hubbard Medal, whose past winners include Sir Ernest Shackleton, Charles Lindbergh, and the Apollo 11 crew, is awarded by which society?
Answer: National Geographic Society
Question: Which publishing firm did Carmen Callil found in 1973, whose name means a domineering woman?
Answer: Virago