zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The Wars of the Diadochi were a series of conflicts fought for the control of an empire after whose death?
Answer: Alexander the Great
Question: Traudl Junge, who wrote the book Until the Final Hour that was the basis for the 2004 film Downfall was the personal secretary of which historical figure?
Answer: Hitler
Question: What 1943 WWII battle between Germany and the Soviet Union remains to this day the largest series of armored clashes ever?
Answer: Battle of Kursk
Question: During World War I, which Belgian city that was the centre of intense battles was nicknamed 'wipers'?
Answer: Ypres
Question: What are 'Potemkin villages' which were purportedly erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Potemkin to impress Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787?
Answer: Fake settlements
Question: What was the name of the notorious biological research unit of the Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and WWII?
Answer: Unit 731
Question: Who was executed by hanging at Ramla prison in 1962 and remains the only person to have been executed by an Israeli civilian court?
Answer: Adolf Eichmann
Question: What was the famous one-word reply of General McAuliffe of the US to a German demand for surrender during the Battle of the Bulge in WWII?
Answer: """Nuts!"""
Question: What burning-liquid weapon was used by the Byzantine Greeks to great effect as it could continue burning even on water?
Answer: Greek fire
Question: Who is the popular author who served as Chancellor of Moratuwa University in Sri Lanka from 1979 to 2002?
Answer: Arthur C. Clarke
Question: In March 1989, Britain and Iran broke diplomatic relations over what reason related to literature?
Answer: Fatwa on Salman Rushdie
Question: What ambiguous 1898 ghost story ends with the governess of Bly House holding the body of a dead child in her hands?
Answer: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Question: Which poetic drama that was first performed in 1935 draws on the writing of Edward Grim, a clerk who was a witness to a killing in 1170?
Answer: Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
Question: Which 1961 non-fiction book by US journalist John Howard Griffin describes his six-week experience travelling on buses through racially segregated states while passing as a black man?
Answer: Black Like Me
Question: The Other Side of Me is the autobiography of which popular American author and creator of the TV series I Dream of Jeannie?
Answer: Sidney Sheldon
Question: Which 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre?
Answer: Wide Sargasso Sea
Question: What album of Sting takes its title from a sonnet he quoted in response to a drunk's query, "How beautiful is the moon?"?
Answer: ...Nothing Like the Sun
Question: If the Julliard School is to New York, the Berklee College of Music is to which city?
Answer: Boston
Question: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, which song usually sung to congratulate a person is the second-most popular song following "Happy Birthday to You" in the English language?
Answer: """For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"""
Question: Which song written by the Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress in 1933 was marketed as 'Hungarian suicide song' as it was mistakenly believed to have inspired hundreds of suicides?
Answer: """Gloomy Sunday"""
Question: Which famous Irish traditional song about a highwayman (usually in the Cork and Kerry mountains) was given a rock veneer by the rock band Thin Lizzy?
Answer: """Whiskey in the Jar"""
Question: German engineer Arthur Scherbius invented the first of what machines extensively used during WWII?
Answer: Enigma machines
Question: English physician John Snow successfully traced the outbreak of what disease to a water pump?
Answer: Cholera
Question: The sieve of Eratosthenes is an ancient method used to find what in mathematics?
Answer: Prime numbers
Question: What type of creature was Lonesome George, who died in 2012 and who gained fame as the rarest creature in the world? (hint: he was aged perhaps more than 100 years)
Answer: (Pinta Island) tortoise
Question: What systems are classified based on their visual appearance by the Hubble sequence?
Answer: Galaxies
Question: What was the subject of astronomer Fred Whipple's 'Dirty Snowball' hypothesis?
Answer: Comets
Question: On 25 December 1990 while working at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between a HTTP client and server via the Internet. In less than 10 years, Time named him as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century. Who?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
Question: Which lady physicist was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission for which her colleague Otto Hahn won the Nobel and is often mentioned as the most glaring example of womens scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee?
Answer: Lise Meitner
Question: Taking its name from the Latin word for magpie, what medical disorder is characterized by an appetite for non-nutritive substances (e.g., clay)?
Answer: Pica
Question: The common name of what African tree comes from the mistaken belief of early settlers who thought that malaria was contracted from being around them?
Answer: Fever tree
Question: What term is given to the biological phenomenon where the size of animals isolated on an island increases dramatically over generations?
Answer: Island gigantism
Question: When all their individual contributions are added up, what insects may constitute up to 15 to 25% of the total terrestrial animal biomass?
Answer: Ants
Question: Which element is added to rubber in the vulcanization process?
Answer: Sulphur
Question: What type of viper named for an African country has the highest venom yield of any snake?
Answer: Gaboon viper
Question: What is the largest living sub-species of the tiger?
Answer: Siberian tiger
Question: It is common knowledge that hurricanes in the US are rated on a scale of 1 to 5. But what is the name of the scale?
Answer: Saffir-Simpson scale
Question: What is the only sports team in the Big Four leagues of the US from the most religiously homogeneous state? You get one, you get the other!
Answer: Utah Jazz
Question: """You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world."" ""Thanks, King."" Which athlete?"
Answer: Jim Thorpe
Question: What 'intoxicating' practice of the sporting world was started in 1967 by 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Dan Gurney?
Answer: Spraying champagne
Question: Which European soccer club is named after the goddess of youth in Roman mythology whose Greek equivalent name is Hebe?
Answer: Juventus
Question: What equestrian category that combines dressage, cross-country, and show jumping is called the triathlon of that sport?
Answer: Eventing
Question: Duke Kahanamoku, an Olympic swimming champion during the years of 1912 and 1924 is credited with popularizing which sport?
Answer: Surfing
Question: The tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis was a colorful character. After finally beating Jimmy Connors after 16 straight losses, what did he quip?
Answer: """Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row."""
Question: Who in the 'thunderbirds' puppet series, is the 'Space Monitor'?
Answer: JOHN TRACY
Question: In the Bible, who's wife was turned into a pillar of salt?
Answer: LOT'S
Question: Who was the composer of the Oratorio, "The Dream Of Gerontius"?
Answer: SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Question: Which crime writer wrote the novel 'Pagan Babies'?
Answer: ELMORE LEONARD
Question: In literature, whose ghost haunted 'Macbeth'?
Answer: BANQUO'S
Question: By what name is Antonin Dvoraks ninth symphony known?
Answer: 'FROM THE NEW WORLD'
Question: With which "boyband" did singer Stephen Gateley achieve fame?
Answer: BOYZONE
Question: During World War II, the German 'Operation Hercules' was a plan to invade which island?
Answer: MALTA
Question: During World War II, the Allies 'Operation Olympic', was a plan to invade which country?
Answer: JAPAN
Question: Name the Tory Party chairman who lost his Bath seat at the 1992General Election?
Answer: CHRIS PATTEN
Question: In February 1984, which ex-PM was awarded an earldom on his 90th birthday?
Answer: HAROLD MACMILLAN
Question: Who created the cartoon character 'Blondie'?
Answer: CHIC YOUNG
Question: In the Bible, what was the name of Cain's first born son?
Answer: ENOCH
Question: Whose voice was used for the character 'Musafa' in the film 'The Lion King'?
Answer: JAMES EARL JONES
Question: Point Barrow is the most northerly point of which country?
Answer: U.S.A
Question: How many banks of oars did an ancient 'Quinquereme' have?
Answer: FIVE
Question: Africa's most westerly point Cape Verde, is in which country?
Answer: SENEGAL
Question: Which painting by Van Gogh was sold at auction by Christie's of London for £24,750,000 in 1987?
Answer: 'SUNFLOWERS'
Question: Of which Middle Eastern country is Manama the capital?
Answer: BAHRAIN
Question: Give the pseudonym of J.P. Richardson, a pop singer , who dies in a plane crash in 1959?
Answer: 'THE BIG BOPPER'
Question: Which British composer wrote 'A Child Of Our Time' incorporating Negro spirituals, in 1941?
Answer: MICHAEL TIPPETT
Question: In Greek mythology, what form did Zeus take so he could make love to Danae?
Answer: A SHOWER OF GOLD
Question: 'An American Dream' and 'Last Night Of The World' are two songs from which musical?
Answer: 'MISS SAIGON'
Question: Which American medical drama series is set in the 'Seattle Grace Hospital'?
Answer: 'GREY'S ANATOMY'
Question: Which term, meaning 'light-dark' in Italian, is used to describe the use of strongly contrasting light and shade in a painting?
Answer: CHIAROSCURO
Question: The Noble gases are Helium, Neon, Krypton, Xenon, Radon and which other element?
Answer: ARGON
Question: In 1966, Seretse Khama became the first President of which country?
Answer: BOTSWANA
Question: The 'Baiji' that became extinct in 2006, was a species of which mammal?
Answer: DOLPHIN
Question: Prior to the introduction of the Euro, which coin was equal to one-hundredth of a French Franc?
Answer: CENTIME
Question: Which kitchen appliance was invented by Percy Spencer in 1945?
Answer: MICROWAVE OVEN
Question: In March 2009, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the President of which African country?
Answer: SUDAN
Question: Which batsman holds the record for the most runs in a Test career?
Answer: SACHIN TENDULKAR
Question: Which artist painted the ceiling of the Palais Garnier Opera House in Paris in 1964?
Answer: MARC CHAGALL
Question: In which town would you find the World War I memorial, the Menin Gate?
Answer: YPRES
Question: Which breed of dog was originally bred in Germany by a tax collector who needed a guard dog for protection?
Answer: DOBERMANN
Question: After Mexico and Spain, which country has the third largest Spanish-speaking population?
Answer: COLUMBIA
Question: Which Shakespearean character dies with the words, "The rest is silence"?
Answer: 'HAMLET'
Question: Bergamo, Brescia and Cremona are three of the largest cities in which Italian region?
Answer: LOMBARDY
Question: Making his debut for Newcastle United in 1995, who was the first Colombian to play in the Premier League?
Answer: FAUSTINO ASPRILLA
Question: Which river forms much of the boundary between Norfolk and Suffolk?
Answer: WAVENEY
Question: In which Spanish city was Pablo Picasso born?
Answer: MALAGA
Question: Which Scottish football team plays its home games at Tynecastle?
Answer: HEARTS
Question: What was the middle name of the decorative artist Louis Tiffany?
Answer: COMFORT
Question: On a menu, what would you be eating if served 'Calamari'?
Answer: SQUID
Question: Which recent BBC drama starring Hermione Norris and Liam Cunningham was set on the planet Carpathia?
Answer: 'OUTCASTS'
Question: Who played the title role in the 1938 film 'The Adventures Of Robin Hood'?
Answer: ERROL FLYNN
Question: At which ground in Rome do Italy play home games in the Six Nations Rugby Union tournament?
Answer: STADIO FLAMINIO
Question: What does a 'Galanthophile' collect?
Answer: SNOWDROPS
Question: The last letter of the Greek alphabet is Omega. Which other letter, the 15th, also begins with the letter 'O'?
Answer: OMICRON
Question: In the Bible, which king threw Daniel into the lion's den?
Answer: DARIUS
Question: On a French menu, what are 'Moules'?
Answer: MUSSELS
Question: Which recent BBC drama starred Maxine Peake and Rupert Penry-Jones as barristers who are aiming to become QC's?
Answer: 'SILK'
Question: Burgess, Philby, Maclean...... . Who was known as the 'Fourth Man'?
Answer: ANTHONY BLUNT
Question: Which king was married to Mary of Teck?
Answer: GEORGE V
Question: On the sleeve of the 'Beatles' album 'Abbey Road', who has a cigarette in his right hand?
Answer: PAUL McCARTNEY
Question: To which former model is singer Jamie Cullum married?
Answer: SOPHIE DAHL
Question: The 'Numbat' is a small mammal native to which country?
Answer: AUSTRALIA
Question: Who played 'Tim the Enchanter' in the film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'?
Answer: JOHN CLEESE
Question: Cassini-Huygens is a spacecraft mission to which planet and its satellites?
Answer: SATURN
Question: On the show for over twelve years, who is the longest serving 'Blue Peter' presenter?
Answer: JOHN NOAKES
Question: Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to do what on August 6th 1926?
Answer: SWIM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
Question: Which element is named after the Greek for ‘moon’?
Answer: SELENIUM
Question: Which future England football manager played in the team beaten 6 - 3 by Hungary at Wembley in 1953?
Answer: ALF RAMSEY
Question: Which musical by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone made its London debut last year?
Answer: THE BOOK OF MORMON
Question: Who played Nurse Mildred Ratched in the 1975 film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’?
Answer: LOUISE FLETCHER
Question: Uniqlo is a casualwear company based in which country?
Answer: JAPAN
Question: Who became the first American woman in space on June 18th 1983?
Answer: SALLY RIDE
Question: Which literary character's home was Thornfield Hall?
Answer: Mr (Edward) Rochester
Question: Who wrote the opera's A Village Romeo and Juliet and The Magic Fountain?
Answer: Frederick Delius
Question: Just do it is the slogan of which company?
Answer: Nike
Question: What term is used for the distance from the earth to the sun?
Answer: Astronomical Unit
Question: In medicine, for what would you take a Mantoux Test?
Answer: Tuberculosis
Question: When Great Britain beat the USA in the Davis Cup in March 2015, who was the other British singles player besides Andy Murray?
Answer: James Ward
Question: Adrak is the Indian name for which spice?
Answer: Ginger
Question: Antares is the largest star in which constellation?
Answer: Scorpio
Question: In which island group would you find Rarotonga, Palmerston and Aitutaki?
Answer: Cook Islands
Question: Virginia Hensley was the real name of which 50's and 60's singer?
Answer: Patsy Cline
Question: If you were born on St David's day, what would your star sign be?
Answer: Pisces
Question: In 1973, which club became the first Second Division side to win the FA Cup since the war?
Answer: SUNDERLAND
Question: Which king was murdered at Berkley Castle in September 1327?
Answer: EDWARD II
Question: Which city of the USA is known as "The Athens of America"?
Answer: BOSTON
Question: The Sonoran Desert, one of the world's largest, is situated in which country?
Answer: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Question: Who won Wimbledon mixed doubles titles with Paul McNamee, Mark Woodforde and Jonathan Stark?
Answer: MARTINA NAVRATILOVA
Question: what is the name of the 1994 'Star Trek' film that introduced Patrick Stewart to William Shatner?
Answer: 'GENERATIONS'
Question: Which retailer advertises itself as 'Never Knowingly Undersold'?
Answer: JOHN LEWIS
Question: Which unseeded player won this year's Ladies Australian Open Tennis Championship?
Answer: SERENA WILLIAMS
Question: In the Bible, who named all living beasts?
Answer: ADAM
Question: Released in March 2008, the film 'Horton Hears A Who !',starring Jim Carrey, was based on a book of the same name by which author?
Answer: DR. SEUSS
Question: Which 1991 film, starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, and written and directed by Gus van Sant, was loosely based on Shakespeare's 'Henry IV, Part I'?
Answer: 'MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO'
Question: Easter Island, famous for its stone statues, is administered by which country?
Answer: CHILE
Question: What is the main ingredient of the Italian dish 'Frito Misto'?
Answer: SEAFOOD
Question: How many points are there on a Maltese Cross?
Answer: EIGHT
Question: A 'Rafter' is the collective noun for which group of creatures?
Answer: TURKEYS
Question: Who wrote the novels 'The Planet Of The Apes' and 'Bridge On The River Kwai'?
Answer: PIERRE BOULLE
Question: In American Football, how many points does a touchdown score?
Answer: SIX
Question: Julia Wells is better known as whom?
Answer: JULIE ANDREWS
Question: In which country was the world G7 Conference held in 2008?
Answer: U.S.A
Question: How many permanent members are there on the Security Council of the United Nations?
Answer: FIVE
Question: On which Gulf is Cameroon?
Answer: GULF OF GUINEA
Question: The NFL team in which city, has a name which is a reference to a poem?
Answer: BALTIMORE (Ravens)
Question: What was the first name of Dickens' 'Mr. Micawber'?
Answer: 'WILKINS'
Question: Who composed 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'?
Answer: PAUL DUKAS
Question: Which chemical element is named after the planet discovered in 1781 by William Herschel?
Answer: URANIUM
Question: In which constellation do the five main stars form a 'W' shape?
Answer: CASSIOPEIA
Question: Who played 'Jim Phelps', the lead agent, in the TV series 'Mission: Impossible'?
Answer: PETER GRAVES
Question: On which celebrity quiz are the scores kept by 'George Dawes'?
Answer: 'SHOOTING STARS'
Question: Which pop group recorded the hit album 'Back In Black' in 1980?
Answer: AC/DC
Question: By what title was the British Prime Minister William Lamb better known?
Answer: VISCOUNT MELBOURNE
Question: Which high street company has a logo featuring a two- tailed mermaid?
Answer: STARBUCKS
Question: Who plays 'George Smiley' in the 2011 film adaptation of 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'?
Answer: GARY OLDMAN
Question: Which of Henry VIII's wives is said to haunt Hampton Court?
Answer: CATHERINE HOWARD
Question: Which brewery, established in Manchester in 1863 makes 'Owd Oak' Mild?
Answer: HYDES
Question: Who composed the oratorio 'Judas Maccabeus'?
Answer: GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL
Question: The character 'James Bond' was created by Ian Fleming, but who wrote the book 'License Renewed' featuring 'James Bond'?
Answer: JOHN GARDNER
Question: Georgetown is the capital of which group of islands in the British West Indies?
Answer: CAYMAN ISLANDS
Question: Which US Secretary of State resigned from Jimmy Carter's administration in 1980 over the failed attempt to rescue the US hostages in Iran?
Answer: CYRUS VANCE
Question: Which of Henry VIII wives haunts Hever Castle?
Answer: ANNE BOLEYN
Question: Barry Pinkus achieved showbusiness fame under which name?
Answer: BARRY MANILOW
Question: Eden Park staged some of the 2011 Rugby World Cup matches, in which city can it be found?
Answer: AUCKLAND
Question: After the overthrow of the Manchu emperors in 1911, who became China’s first President?
Answer: SUN YAT SEN
Question: Which Shiite honorific title means ‘miraculous son of God’?
Answer: AYATOLLAH
Question: What was the name of Josiah Wedgwood's factory near Hanley?
Answer: ETRURIA
Question: Who became the first prime minister of Israel in 1948?
Answer: DAVID BEN-GURION
Question: Who composed the Manfred overture?
Answer: ROBERT SCHUMANN
Question: Which Jewish female demon was reputedly the first wife of Adam?
Answer: LILITH
Question: Who designed St Pancras Station?
Answer: (George Gilbert) SCOTT
Question: The 2001 Hindu festival of Kumbha Mela was held in which Indian city?
Answer: ALLAHABAD
Question: Where was the British Empire Exhibition held in 1924?
Answer: WEMBLEY, LONDON
Question: In which American state would you find the Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Answer: New Mexico
Question: What was the RAF's first jet powered bomber?
Answer: (English Electric) Canberra
Question: In Alfred Hitchcock's film 'North By Northwest', which actress was Cary Grant saving from James Mason?
Answer: EVA MARIE SAINT
Question: In the comedy series 'Rising Damp', what was 'Rigsby's' christian name?
Answer: RUPERT
Question: 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blood On The Tracks' were both albums released by which popular singer?
Answer: BOB DYLAN
Question: Which American President represented his country at the 'Yalta Summit' at the end of World War II?
Answer: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Question: In what year was Monica Seles stabbed in the back during a tennis tournament in Hamburg?
Answer: 1993
Question: In 1993 which football team lost in both the FA Cup Final and League Cup Final?
Answer: SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY
Question: Which 18th century painter's works include 'The Ladies Waldegrave'?
Answer: SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
Question: in which novel does 'Rawdon Crawley' marry 'Becky Sharpe'?
Answer: 'VANITY FAIR'
Question: Who painted 'The Honourable Mrs. Graham'?
Answer: THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH
Question: Which rock star and actor was born Marvin Lee Aday?
Answer: MEATLOAF
Question: Which English king was known as 'Lackland'?
Answer: KING JOHN
Question: Who played the part of Steve Biko in the film 'Cry Freedom'?
Answer: DENZIL WASHINGTON
Question: In which organ of the body are the 'Islets of Langerhans'?
Answer: THE PANCREAS
Question: In which part of the body is the 'Hypothalamus'?
Answer: THE BRAIN
Question: Which British airport has the code LGW?
Answer: LONDON GATWICK
Question: Who so far, has been the only bachelor President of the U.S.A.?
Answer: JAMES BUCHANAN
Question: """The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last fewfeet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon"", is the first line of which novel?"
Answer: 'LORD OF THE FLIES'
Question: The 'Greek Orders' are the three original classic orders of architecture, namely 'Doric', 'Ionic' and which other?
Answer: CORINTHIAN
Question: The A23 connects London to which other town or city?
Answer: BRIGHTON
Question: Which bluish-white metallic element has the atomic number 30?
Answer: ZINC
Question: In World War II, the US Marine Corps used members of which native American tribe as code senders?
Answer: NAVAJO
Question: In which US National Park is the geyser known as 'Old Faithful'?
Answer: YELLOWSTONE
Question: What type of insect is a Lampyris noctiluca?
Answer: GLOW WORM
Question: Which US state is called the 'Centennial State'?
Answer: COLORADO
Question: The Zodiac sign Pisces belongs to which element?
Answer: WATER
Question: In which country would you find the Oland Island Bridge?
Answer: SWEDEN
Question: Which brewery produced an Indian Pale Ale called 'Bengal Lancer' in 2010?
Answer: FULLERS
Question: In Norse mythology, of what was 'Aegir' the god?
Answer: THE SEA
Question: Which is the largest cathedral in England?
Answer: LIVERPOOL ANGLICAN
Question: Which of the noble gases takes its name from the Greek for 'hidden'?
Answer: KRYPTON
Question: Which of the noble gases takes its name from the Greek for 'stranger'?
Answer: XENON
Question: The novels 'The Gulag Archipelago' and 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich' are two of the best known works of which Russian author?
Answer: ALEXSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Question: After Seville, which tourist resort on the Costa Del Sol is the next largest city in the Spanish autonomous region of Andalusia?
Answer: MALAGA
Question: Which god of embalming in Egyptian mythology is usually portrayed with the head of a Jackal?
Answer: ANUBIS
Question: Which English king was born in Bordeaux in 1367?
Answer: RICHARD II
Question: Which South African golfer won this month's US Masters tournament with a score of 14 under par?
Answer: CHARL SCHWARTZEL
Question: Which Rolf Harris song was the last UK number one hit of the 1960's?
Answer: 'TWO LITTLE BOYS'
Question: Sold for $106.5 million in 2010, 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' is which artist's most expensive painting?
Answer: PABLO PICASSO