zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Fanny Brawne was betrothed to which English romantic poet?
Answer: John Keats
Question: Luke Howard proposed which type of weather nomenclature in 1802?
Answer: Cloud Types
Question: In film, which character says 'tomorrow is another day'?
Answer: Scarlett O'Hara
Question: The vibrations of which element formed the basis of the first atomic clock?
Answer: Caesium
Question: The Ashanti people, and region, are a part of which country?
Answer: Ghana
Question: Who played Richard Nixon in the 1995 film "Nixon"?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins
Question: Queen Victoria assumed which title on 1st January 1877?
Answer: Empress of India
Question: Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" was composed as incidental music to which Shakespeare play?
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Question: Near which city is Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' set?
Answer: Athens
Question: In Arthurian legend, who returns Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake?
Answer: Sir Bedivere
Question: Who composed the 1830 work `Symphonie Fantastique'?
Answer: Hector Berlioz
Question: Which female singer's surname is Adkins?
Answer: Adele
Question: What is the Estonian name for Estonia?
Answer: Eesti
Question: In 1994 who was the last Formula One driver to be killed in a racing accident on the track?
Answer: AYRTON SENNA
Question: Which Member of The SDP failed to win the 1981 Warrington By-Election?
Answer: ROY JENKINS
Question: When Sunderland won the 1973 FA Cup, under Bob Stokoe, who did they defeat in the final?
Answer: LEEDS UNITED
Question: Which was the only one of his own films that Hitchcock ever remade?
Answer: THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Question: Name the British inventor of the jet engine?
Answer: SIR FRANK WHITTLE
Question: Apart from George, who was the only other Beatle to appear at the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square?
Answer: RINGO STARR
Question: Which pop group was named after a fictional band in the film "A Clockwork Orange"?
Answer: HEAVEN 17
Question: Who played Fu Manchu in the 1960s films based on the books by Sax Rohmer?
Answer: Christopher Lee
Question: What name is given to the pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca?
Answer: Hajj
Question: Who composed the oratorio 'The Dream of Gerontius'?
Answer: Edward Elgar
Question: Who became the third wife of Paul McCartney in October 2011?
Answer: Nancy Shevell
Question: In which Disney film do the fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather appear?
Answer: Sleeping Beauty
Question: The Pyg and the Miners' tracks and the Watkin Path are routes up which mountain?
Answer: Snowdon
Question: In which town in Greater Manchester did Harold Shipman practise as a GP before murdering at least 15 of his patients?
Answer: Hyde
Question: Which son of King Agenor is the reputed founder of the city of Thebes in Ancient Greece?
Answer: Cadmus
Question: Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2010 for his role as Otis Blake in the film 'Crazy Heart'?
Answer: Jeff Bridges
Question: Which Booker Prize winner coined the advertising slogan 'Naughty by nice'?
Answer: Salman Rushdie
Question: Which British car company manufactured the Javelin and Jupiter models?
Answer: JOWETT
Question: Which Roy Orbison song featured in the 'Only Fools and Horses' episode called 'Stage Fright'?
Answer: CRYIN'
Question: In which year between the World Wars did Britain go off the Gold Standard?
Answer: 1931
Question: The artists Beardsley, Klimt, and Tiffany were leading figures in which art movement?
Answer: ART NOUVEAU
Question: Which Shakespearian character's last words were "The Rest is Silence"?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Which seaport was the former capital of Egypt?
Answer: Alexandria
Question: """Either the wallpaper goes or I do"" are the reported last words of which writer in 1900?"
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Question: The Scilly Isles are under the authority of which English county?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: What was Abba's only Number One single in the USA?
Answer: Dancing Queen
Question: Which US city, originally named Fort Duquesne, is now named after a British Prime Minister?
Answer: Pittsburgh
Question: Which Italian region produces the wine Chianti?
Answer: TUSCANY
Question: Fullerite is a man-made allotrope of which chemical element?
Answer: CARBON
Question: In which fictional land was it 'always winter but never Christmas'?
Answer: NARNIA
Question: Who was the only British King to be crowned on the field of battle?
Answer: HENRY VII
Question: What is name of the piece of leather on which a barber sharpens a cut throat razor?
Answer: STROP
Question: Which British chemist/inventor first isolated the chemical element sodium?
Answer: Humphrey Davy
Question: Tolpuddle is in which English county?
Answer: Dorset
Question: Who wrote "Elegy in a Country Churchyard?
Answer: Thomas Gray
Question: Which Italian composed the opera "La Traviata"?
Answer: Verdi
Question: In which constellation is the Great Nebula?
Answer: Orion
Question: How many players are there per side in a GAA hurling team?
Answer: Fifteen
Question: Who is the voice of Po in the Kung Fu Panda films?
Answer: JACK BLACK
Question: Which word for a non-Christian or heathen is derived from the Latin for peasant or rustic?
Answer: PAGAN
Question: How old was the Queen Mother when she died in March 2002?
Answer: 101
Question: Who wrote the poem 'Easter 1916'?
Answer: W B YEATS
Question: There are 2 letters of the alphabet which are not the initial letter of chemical elements. One is Q. Name the other.
Answer: J
Question: The Hahnenkamm mountain and ski runs are part of which European ski resort?
Answer: KITZBÜHEL
Question: At which battle of 1403 was Sir Henry Percy aka Hotspur killed?
Answer: SHREWSBURY
Question: What is the name of British Columbia's most popular ski resort, which was home to the alpine skiing events in the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Answer: WHISTLER
Question: At which battle of 1471 was Richard Neville aka Warwick the Kingmaker killed?
Answer: BARNET
Question: Of what type of bird did Darwin observe 12 different species in the Galapagos islands?
Answer: FINCH
Question: Which singer was played by Diana Ross in the 1972 film 'Lady Sings The Blues'?
Answer: BILLIE HOLLIDAY
Question: Who was Prime Minister of the UK at the time of the abdication of Edward VIII?
Answer: STANLEY BALDWIN
Question: Dustin Hoffman played the role of an autistic savant in the film 'Rain Man'. Who played the part of his younger brother Charlie?
Answer: TOM CRUISE
Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet 'Daphnis et Chloé'?
Answer: MAURICE RAVEL
Question: What substance crystallises in the gall bladder to form gall stones?
Answer: CHOLESTEROL
Question: Which literary heroine was played in a 2011 film by Mia Wasikowska?
Answer: JANE EYRE
Question: Which royal title is held by Prince Edward?
Answer: Earl of Wessex
Question: Which letter in Morse Code is represented by Dot Dash?
Answer: A
Question: Which English football club play home games at Roots Hall?
Answer: Southend United
Question: In Star Wars what alien species is Chewbacca?
Answer: A Wookiee
Question: Denmark Street in London is also known by what nickname?
Answer: Tin Pan Alley
Question: Which singer won the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland in 1988 and so launched her international career?
Answer: CELINE DION
Question: Who said on the morning of her execution "I now know that patriotism is not enough"?
Answer: EDITH CAVELL
Question: Fuggles and goldings are varieties of which edible plant?
Answer: HOPS
Question: In which Country is Graham Greene's Novel The Comedians set?
Answer: HAITI
Question: At which Washington monument, in August 1963, did Martin Luther King deliver his historic "I have a dream" speech?
Answer: THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL
Question: Ballabriggs won the 2011 Grand National. Who was his jockey?
Answer: JASON MAGUIRE
Question: What is the basic unit of Braille called?
Answer: Cell
Question: Who won the Best Actress Oscar in 1990 for her role as Annie Wilkes in the film 'Misery'?
Answer: Kathy Bates
Question: The name of which ribbon pasta can be translated as 'little ribbons' or 'little slices'?
Answer: Fettuccini
Question: Which composer won an Oscar for the music score in the film 'Bridge on the River Kwai'?
Answer: Malcolm Arnold
Question: What was the capital of the independent republic of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1975?
Answer: Saigon
Question: The Pleiades and Hyades star clusters are in which constellation?
Answer: Taurus
Question: Rigel and Betelgeuse are in which constellation?
Answer: Orion
Question: Graham McPherson achieved fame as a singer using which name?
Answer: Suggs
Question: Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Answer: 1989
Question: Who said, "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother in law"?
Answer: Martin Luther King
Question: In which town was Colonel Gaddafi killed in 2011?
Answer: Sirte
Question: Which county cricket team were the first winners of the Sunday League in 1969?
Answer: Lancashire
Question: Which European country's flag is a vertical tricolour of black, gold (yellow) and red?
Answer: Belgium
Question: In which country was the film director Roman Polanski born?
Answer: France
Question: In which Pakistan city was Osama Bin Laden killed in 2011?
Answer: Abbottabad
Question: Which UK shipping forecast area is named after the founder of the Meteorological Office?
Answer: Fitzroy
Question: Which 'major-winning' golfer has the real first names Gerry Lester?
Answer: Bubba Watson
Question: Ernst Lindemann was the captain of which World War 2 German battleship?
Answer: Bismarck
Question: In the 2010 general election, the first three constituencies to announce their results were all in which city?
Answer: Sunderland
Question: Karl Pilkington is the central character in which TV series, first broadcast in September 2010?
Answer: An Idiot Abroad
Question: Which creature has three species: plains, mountain and Grevy's?
Answer: Zebra
Question: Klaipeda is the main port sewing which EU country?
Answer: LITHUANIA
Question: Krubera, the deepest known cave at over 2000 metres deep, is in which country of south-east Europe?
Answer: GEORGIA
Question: Which Austrian composer's symphony number 104 has the title 'London'?
Answer: JOSEPH HAYDN
Question: In the cult Danish TV series 'The Killing' Sofie Grabol plays which leading character?
Answer: SARAH LUND
Question: The Rhodope Mountains lie mostly in which East European country?
Answer: BULGARIA
Question: Which Shakespeare's play does the character Petruchio appear?
Answer: TAMING OF THE SHREW
Question: What is the alternative name for the flower belladonna?
Answer: DEADLY NIGHTSHADE
Question: In which year was Marie Antoinette executed?
Answer: 1793
Question: In which year was the first bikini worn in Britain?
Answer: 1950
Question: What name is given to the road in Jerusalem said to be the path that Jesus took carrying his cross?
Answer: Via Dolorosa
Question: Which group released the album 'Zooropa' in 1993?
Answer: U2
Question: The Al Khalifa family has ruled which country since 1783?
Answer: Bahrain
Question: At which Paris airfield did Charles Lindbergh complete the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927?
Answer: Le Bourget
Question: Which chemical element gets its named from the Greek for 'bringer of light'?
Answer: Phosphorus
Question: Who was President of France immediately before Nicolas Sarkozy?
Answer: Jacques Chirac
Question: In 1962, Maurice Wilkins and two others won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of what?
Answer: Structure of DNA
Question: L'Aquila, scene of the 2009 earthquake, is the capital of which central Italian region?
Answer: Abruzzo
Question: In Greek Mythology what was the name of Odysseus's wife?
Answer: PENELOPE
Question: Which film director dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in March 2012?
Answer: JAMES CAMERON
Question: What constellation depicts a hunter with club and a shield?
Answer: ORION
Question: Who created the character Kay Scarpetta?
Answer: PATRICIA CORNWELL
Question: In which German city was Beethoven born?
Answer: BONN
Question: Who was the producer of TV series such as Charlie's Angels, Starsky & Hutch, Hart to Hart and Dynasty?
Answer: Aaron Spelling
Question: Which US state is nicknamed 'Little America' or 'America in Miniature'; it is home to John's Hopkins University?
Answer: Maryland
Question: Prince Hans-Adam II is the head of state of which country?
Answer: Liechtenstein
Question: Which character in a musical is based on the famous early 20th century gambler Titanic Thompson?
Answer: Sky Masterson
Question: What flavour is traditional satay sauce?
Answer: PEANUT
Question: `Carte Blanche' is a 2011 James Bond novel by which writer usually associated with the crime genre?
Answer: JEFFERY DEAVER
Question: Which British actress played Dylan Thomas's lover Vera Phillips in the 2008 film 'The Edge of Love'?
Answer: KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
Question: Who played Jim Hacker in the TV series 'Yes Minister'?
Answer: PAUL EDDINGTON
Question: What was the name of The Lone Ranger's horse?
Answer: SILVER
Question: Which action painter was nicknamed 'Jack the Dripper'?
Answer: JACKSON POLLOCK
Question: Which football club play home games at Pride Park?
Answer: DERBY COUNTY
Question: Miss Hannigan is a character in which musical that premiered in 1977?
Answer: ANNIE
Question: Which European capital was known to the Romans as Lutetia?
Answer: Paris
Question: Scaramanga was the villain of which Bond film?
Answer: The Man With The Golden Gun
Question: The Hashemite ruler Faisal 2nd was the last king of which country?
Answer: Iraq
Question: Which president of South Africa ordered the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990?
Answer: F.W. de Klerk
Question: Which female singer had a 2008 hit with 'Warwick Avenue'?
Answer: Duffy
Question: In which Shakespeare play does the quotation "neither a borrower nor a lender be" appear?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Which tennis player won 11 Grand Slam titles during the second half of the 20th century, but only ever won one match at the Australian Open?
Answer: Bjorn Borg
Question: Who was the last president of Czechoslovakia before its dissolution in 1993?
Answer: Vaclav Havel
Question: By what name was the artist Michaelangelo Merisi better known?
Answer: Caravaggio
Question: The 'Loop of Henle' is found in which organ of the human body?
Answer: Kidney
Question: Which book is set in the 1930s and features Pinkie as the leader of a gang?
Answer: BRIGHTON ROCK
Question: Gout is caused by the crystallisation of which acid in the, body?
Answer: URIC
Question: Which chain of volcanic islands is the westernmost part of the USA and is in the northern end of the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'?
Answer: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Question: Which long-serving Radio 1 DJ is known as 'The Big Dog'?
Answer: TIM WESTWOOD
Question: Sharing its name with one in Venice, what is the covered bridge in Cambridge's St. John's College called?
Answer: BRIDGE OF SIGHS
Question: The Dukedom of Marlborough takes its title from a town in what county?
Answer: WILTSHIRE
Question: What character was played first by John Wayne in a 1969 film, and by Jeff Bridges in a 2010 remake?
Answer: ROOSTER COGBURN
Question: Who lost the longest ever tennis match at Wimbledon (in 2010)?
Answer: Nicolas Mahut
Question: In which city is the most famous Palio run?
Answer: Siena
Question: Which knighted Leeds born 'fixer' died in October 2011?
Answer: SIR JIMMY SAVILE
Question: Who made the 1993 album 'Music Box' which sold 32 million copies?
Answer: MARIAH CAREY
Question: Which company did Alliott Verdon Roe establish in Manchester in 1910?
Answer: AVRO
Question: David Marks and Julia Barfield were the lead architects for which London landmark?
Answer: THE LONDON EYE
Question: Who holds the record for the most appearances as a track athlete in the Olympic Games? (7 appearances)
Answer: MERLENE OTTEY
Question: In the Wallace & Grommitt film, "A Close Shave", who owned the evil robot bulldog, Preston?
Answer: Wendolene
Question: Who played Ray Doyle, John Deed and George Gently on TV?
Answer: Martin Shaw
Question: By winning the Mercury Music Prize in 2011 who is the only artiste to have won this prize twice?
Answer: P J Harvey
Question: Which animated film won an Oscar in 2010 at the 82nd Academy Awards honouring films released in 2009?
Answer: Up
Question: What colour is the artist's colour called cerulean ?
Answer: Blue
Question: Who is the author of the Nursery Crime and Thursday Next series of books?
Answer: Jasper Fforde
Question: Who is Greek mythology was the goddess of the hearth?
Answer: Hestia
Question: Rigel and Betelgeuse are two stars in which constellation?
Answer: ORION
Question: Who were Liverpool playing when a red balloon scored the only goal?
Answer: SUNDERLAND
Question: The gamay grape is most notably used in the production of which French wine?
Answer: BEAUJOLAIS
Question: In which constellation is the star Sirius, also called the Dog Star, the brightest in the Northern Hemisphere?
Answer: CANIS MAJOR
Question: Little boy and fat man were names for what?
Answer: ATOMIC BOMBS
Question: In Milton's "Paradise Lost" what is the capital of Hell?
Answer: PANDEMONIUM
Question: What type of plant is a saguaro?
Answer: CACTUS
Question: Which jazz pianist and composer 1917-1982 composed "Round Midnight" and "Criss Cross"?
Answer: (Thelonius) MONK
Question: What was the name of the goldsmith, among whose works were the Imperial Russian family Easter eggs?
Answer: (Peter) FABERGE
Question: Who succeeded Nehru as the second Prime Minister of India?
Answer: (Lal) SHASTRI
Question: Which film actor's daughter is actress Angelina Jolie?
Answer: Jon Voight
Question: Which island's capital is Nuuk?
Answer: Greenland
Question: Which actress is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds?
Answer: Carrie Fisher
Question: Who was attacked in the American press in 1972 as `Hanoi Jane'?
Answer: Jane Fonda
Question: In which US state is Dodge City, the famous frontier town of the wild west?
Answer: Kansas
Question: In which American state is the animated TV series King of the Hill set?
Answer: Texas
Question: Slain by Hercules, which monster lived in the swamps near the city of Lerna?
Answer: Hydra
Question: In what year was decimal coinage introduced in the UK?
Answer: 1971
Question: In which city is the Golden Temple?
Answer: Amritsar
Question: Which American rock band is made up the three Followill brothers and one of their cousins?
Answer: Kings of Leon
Question: Who wrote the novella on which the film 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' was based?
Answer: Truman Capote
Question: What was the name of the Space Shuttle that flew the last US mission to the International Space Station in July 2011?
Answer: Atlantis
Question: What is the largest island in the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: New Guinea
Question: At which battle in 1471 did Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, die?
Answer: BARNET
Question: The TV series 'Heartbeat' was largely set in which fictitious Yorkshire village?
Answer: AIDENSFIELD
Question: In Kipling's 'The Jungle Book' what kind of creature is Akela?
Answer: A WOLF
Question: In mathematics what name is given to the portion of a circle between the centre and two points on the circumference?
Answer: A SECTOR
Question: Named after their 1998 number one single, what is the name of the stage musical based on the works of the Spice Girls?
Answer: VIVA FOREVER
Question: Former radio DJ 'diddy' David Hamilton has, in recent years, been the stadium announcer for which Premier League football club?
Answer: FULHAM
Question: In Norse mythology, what is the name of the huge ash tree that binds the earth, heaven and hell together?
Answer: Yggdrasil
Question: In October 1571, what was the last naval battle in the Mediterranean fought entirely between galleys?
Answer: Lepanto
Question: Who wrote the collection of autobiographical short stories- 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog' in 1940?
Answer: Dylan Thomas
Question: Deriving from a Turkish word for a maidservant, what French name is given to a female slave in a harem?
Answer: Odalisque
Question: In Arthurian legend, who encounters and beheads the Greene Knight?
Answer: Sir Gawain
Question: Paul Jones was succeeded by Mike D'Abo as singer with which 60s group?
Answer: Manfred Mann
Question: What name is given to the word puzzle in which a phrase, quotation or fact must be deduced from numbers and letters in the clue (eg 52 C in a P = 52 cards in a pack)?
Answer: Ditloid
Question: Now a brand of General motors what is oldest active American car make?
Answer: BUICK
Question: Which jazz musician had the forenames Leon Bismark?
Answer: Bix BEIDERBECK
Question: The serial killer David Berkowitz was given what nickname?
Answer: SON of SAM
Question: On the death of Christian Dior in 1957, who succeeded him as head of the House of Dior?
Answer: (Yves) ST. LAURENT
Question: Following the 1420 Treaty of Troyes, which king became Regent of France and successor to the French throne?
Answer: HENRY the FIFTH
Question: Who, in 1831, composed "Symphonie Fantastique"?
Answer: (Hector) BERLIOZ
Question: Which actress played the victim in the shower scene in the 1960 film "Psycho"?
Answer: (Janet) LEIGH
Question: In the Bible, who was the son of Abraham and Hagar?
Answer: Ishmael
Question: In which US city did the Beatles perform their last live concert, in August 1966?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: For which team did Roy of the Rovers play?
Answer: Melchester Rovers
Question: Senna and Ammonia were minor characters in which BBC TV comedy series?
Answer: Up Pompeii
Question: Which actor played the part of Mike Gambit in the ITV TV series, The New Avengers?
Answer: (Gareth) Hunt
Question: A radioactive form of which element was responsible for the death of the former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko in 2006?
Answer: Polonium
Question: What is the most successful literary work to date of the writer E L James?
Answer: Fifty Shades of Grey
Question: Ariel, Gillette, Duracell and Oral-B are all brands of which global giant?
Answer: PROCTOR AND GAMBLE
Question: Conrad Black, jailed in the USA in 2007 for fraud, was the former publisher of which UK daily newspaper?
Answer: DAILY TELEGRAPH
Question: In which Caribbean country did an earthquake kill thousands in January 2010?
Answer: HAITI
Question: The American Bar in which famous London hotel introduced the Cocktail to the capital?
Answer: SAVOY
Question: Which, once successful hosiery company was set up by Asil Nadir?
Answer: POLLY PECK
Question: Which of the Mitford sisters married Oswald Mosley and became a fascist?
Answer: Diana
Question: Who did Andy Murray beat in the final to win the 2012 Olympic Gold Medal?
Answer: Roger Federer
Question: What is the first name of the Dickens character Quilp?
Answer: Daniel
Question: Basil Haliward painted which notorious portrait?
Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Question: Which US hip hop group recorded the 2009 album the E.N.D., gaining three No. 1 hits?
Answer: Black Eyed Peas
Question: What collectively are Beas, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and the Sutlej?
Answer: Five rivers of the Punjab
Question: Gibbons and orang-utans are types of which creature?
Answer: Apes
Question: Which TV character had the catchphrases "Permission to speak, sir?" and "Don't panic"?
Answer: Corporal Jones
Question: Who resigned as CEO of Barclay's after the LIBOR tax rate scandal?
Answer: Bob Diamond
Question: In which country is the wine growing region, Bekaa Valley?
Answer: Lebanon
Question: Which British warship was sent up the Thames to provide security cover for the 2012 Olympic Games?
Answer: HMS Ocean
Question: Which substance forms the explosive component of dynamite?
Answer: Nitroglycerin
Question: In which country is the Swat Valley?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: Who became Shadow Chancellor after the 2010 General Election?
Answer: Alan Johnson
Question: What is the name of the tides of smallest range, occurring after the moon's first and third quarter?
Answer: NEAP TIDES
Question: Completed in 1998 and looking down on Gateshead, Anthony Gormley's giant sculpture is called what "of the North'?
Answer: ANGEL
Question: In Roman mythology who was the goddess of flowers?
Answer: FLORA
Question: Of which country was Juan Peron dictator from 1946 to 1955 and 1973 to 1974?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: Which British Resort is unique in having three piers?
Answer: BLACKPOOL
Question: Which capital city is on the banks of the Potomac River?
Answer: WASHINGTON D.C.
Question: Pink Lady and Braeburn are types of which fruit?
Answer: Apple