zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In astronomy what name is given to a star that flares up to many times its normal brilliance then fades back to obscurity?
Answer: NOVA
Question: In WWII in Germany there was the Siegreid Line; in France the Maginot Line, in Finland the Mannerheim Line, but in which other European Country was the Gustav Line?
Answer: ITALY
Question: What is the name of the artist who painted the picture of the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies as featured in TV series Allo Allo?
Answer: VAN KLOMP
Question: What word derived from Greek and also a religious feast means a sudden realization of the larger meaning or essence of something?
Answer: EPIPHANY
Question: What is the heraldic term for right?
Answer: Dexter
Question: What were invented by English chemist John Walker in 1826, and cost one shilling per hundred?
Answer: (Friction) Matches
Question: What is the unrhymed iambic pentameter style used by Milton in `Paradise Lost' and 'Wordsworth in 'The Prelude' better known?
Answer: BLANK VERSE
Question: Which poet, the sister of a famous English painter, wrote: 'Morning and evening, Maids heard the goblins cry: Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy'?
Answer: CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Question: Which golfer, the first to complete a career Grand Slam - winning the four Majors at some time during his career, achieved a hole-in-one in the 1973 Open at Troon at the age of 71?
Answer: Gene Sarazen
Question: How is the number 2 written when expressed as a binary number?
Answer: 10
Question: 'Seven Tears' by The Goombay Dance Band reached no.1 in 1982, becoming only the second act from which European country to top the UK charts?
Answer: Germany
Question: Who was 'King's Painter' to Henry 8th who died, possibly from plague, in 1543?
Answer: Hans Holbein
Question: A dish described as "a la Du Barry" contains which vegetable?
Answer: CAULIFLOWER
Question: An ARP detachment leader called Thomas Alderson was the first recipient of which award?
Answer: George Cross
Question: Which state did Bill Clinton represent as senator?
Answer: Arkansas
Question: Terry Deary and Peter Hepplewhite write which series of entertaining and educational books for youngsters?
Answer: Horrible Histories
Question: Which early US President said "if you want something that you've never had, you must be willing to do something that you've never done"?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Question: What is the common name of the butterfly 'Apatura Iris', the male is the most beautiful found in the British Isles. It has black/brown wings with white bands and a coloured sheen that gives it its name?
Answer: Purple Emperor
Question: Who was stripped of his Saudi Arabian nationality in 1994, being considered a threat to the ruling House of Saud?
Answer: Osama Bin Laden
Question: Who said after losing a libel case against Robert Maxwell, 'I've just given a fat cheque to a fat Czech'?
Answer: IAN HISLOP
Question: What word for a straw or wicker basket was used as a unit of measurement, and in the north for a coal-scuttle or a beehive?
Answer: SKEP
Question: The Greenwich meridian crosses the Mediterranean coast of which African country?
Answer: ALGERIA
Question: Who published a paper with the Geological Society of London on January 4th 1837 showing that the South American land mass was gradually rising?
Answer: CHARLES DARWIN
Question: To within 1 year either side - in which year did the sixpence cease to be legal tender in the UK?
Answer: 1980
Question: Which city is served by Carrasco airport and was the last port of call for the German battleship Graf Spee?
Answer: Montevideo
Question: Which country moved from east to west on the international date line in 2011 to align its time zone better with its main trading partners?
Answer: Samoa
Question: The museum at Avebury Stone Circle was established by an archaeologist who was the heir to which marmalade company (the original commercial brand of marmalade)?
Answer: Keiller
Question: The "boob tube" is an item of clothing in the UK; but to what did the term refer when it was originally coined in the USA?
Answer: Television
Question: In the history of the British army, what were the Baker, the Brunswick and the Ferguson?
Answer: Rifles
Question: """Arise, children of the Fatherland, the day of glory is here"" are the first words of which country's national anthem?"
Answer: France
Question: Under what name does Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha play Premiership football?
Answer: Nani
Question: The 72-hole British Open Golf scoring record is 267 posted in 1993 at Royal St George's. Who holds that record?
Answer: Greg Norman
Question: Born in Geneva in 1936, Karim Al-Husayn Shah holds which hereditary title?
Answer: Aga Khan
Question: Who coined the phrase 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male'?
Answer: RUDYARD KIPLING
Question: Name the year; first nuclear power station opened at Calder Hall, Nasser elected President of Egypt, Devon Loch falls at the end of the Grand National?
Answer: 1956
Question: Which rock, formed by the solidification of thin layers of molten lava, comprises much of the surfaces-of Mercury, Venus, Mars and the Moon?
Answer: BASALT
Question: Which popular song did Stravinsky incorporate into 'Greetings Prelude' in 1955 unaware that he was in breach of copyright?
Answer: HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Question: Of which country was President Sukarno the first president? He became president on 18 August 1945?
Answer: INDONESIA
Question: What name, referring to a fluid or membrane, is given to joints that are freely movable?
Answer: SYNOVIAL
Question: Steve Delaney created and plays the role of which former variety star who makes malapropisms and has delusions of grandeur?
Answer: COUNT ARTHUR STRONG
Question: 2009 saw the death of Omar Bongo, Africa's longest serving leader. Of which oil rich nation had he been President for over four decades?
Answer: GABON
Question: Which former national leader held the following titles 'Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea', 'Conqueror of the British Empire' and the 'Last King of Scotland'?
Answer: IDI AMIN
Question: Situated on the River Wyre, what Lancashire town became the world's first Fairtrade town in 2000?
Answer: GARSTANG
Question: Which King of England was the son of a Matilda, had a daughter called Matilda, married Matilda, or Edith, of Scotland and later Adelicia of Louvain?
Answer: HENRY I
Question: Which King of England's mother and first wife were both called Eleanor? He subsequently married Margaret of France.
Answer: EDWARD I
Question: Which company, best-known as a manufacturer of luxury cars, also made buses, such as the Freeline and Fleetline models?
Answer: Daimler
Question: King Edward III founded this premier order in about 1349, what is it called?
Answer: THE ORDER OF THE GARTER
Question: A story about the audience fortunately avoiding a falling chandelier during its premiere in 1791 originated which nickname of Haydn's Symphony Number 96?
Answer: Miracle Symphony
Question: Which book opens with the line 'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen'?
Answer: 1984
Question: Australian Heather McKay was undefeated for a period of almost 20 years until her retirement in 1981, in which sport?
Answer: Squash
Question: The name of which Italian city was corrupted to give its name to various British coins since the 14th century?
Answer: Florence
Question: A Canadian-born former Lord Privy Seal, he represented Ashton-Under-Lyne in parliament. He founded a Sunday newspaper and served in the governments of both Lloyd-George and Churchill, by what title was he known?
Answer: Lord Beaverbrook
Question: What term for the left-hand side was replaced by `pore in the Royal Navy in 1844?
Answer: LARBOARD
Question: Also the names of races at the local racecourse, Woodditton and Cheveley Park are villages close to which English town or city?
Answer: NEWMARKET
Question: In semaphore what letter is represented by one arm held vertically upwards?
Answer: D
Question: Where, in 1977, did a KLM 747 collide with a Pan Am 747 resulting in nearly six hundred fatalities?
Answer: TENERIFE
Question: Sharing its name with a European capital, with which ship did the Italian liner Andrea Doria collide in 1956 with the loss of forty six lives?
Answer: STOCKHOLM
Question: Who captained HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's voyage, and is remembered in the name of a shipping forecast area?
Answer: (Robert) FITZROY
Question: What was the first name of the boy who had an unfortunate encounter with Panthera Leo in a famous monologue of 1930?
Answer: Albert
Question: Guaqui and Puno are ports on the world's highest navigable waterway. What is it?
Answer: Lake Titicaca
Question: What specially adapted item was used to deliver a lethal injection to the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in 1978?
Answer: Umbrella
Question: Brooke Magnante wrote a blog and book entitled 'Diary of a Call Girl' under which pseudonym?
Answer: Belle de Jour
Question: In September 2012, which Nobel prizewinner seriously proposed that Tony Blair and George W Bush should be tried in the International Court of Justice for their role in the Iraq war?
Answer: Desmond Tutu
Question: What is the grape distillate, lower in alcohol than cognac, which is traditionally made in the Gers region in Gascony?
Answer: ARMAGNAC
Question: Thirty years after he painted the Sistine chapel's ceiling, what is the title of the fresco painted by Michelangelo, also in the chapel?
Answer: THE LAST JUDGEMENT
Question: Fanny Sunesson was the regular and highly successful caddie for which major golfer between 1990 and 1999?
Answer: Nick Faldo
Question: What is the four letter prefix added to patronymic surnames of Anglo-Norman origin to mean 'son of'?
Answer: Fitz
Question: Which is the fifth book of the Old Testament, following Numbers?
Answer: Deuteronomy
Question: Which Italian patriot put down the Two Sicilies rebellion in the south of the country prior to the unification of Italy in 1861?
Answer: Giuseppe Garibaldi
Question: In which year did Saigon fall to end the Vietnam War, Margaret Thatcher become leader of the Conservative Party and General Franco die?
Answer: 1975
Question: Which naturalist conceived a theory of natural selection at about the same time that Charles Darwin did so and co-published a paper on the subject with Darwin in 1858?
Answer: Alfred Russel Wallace
Question: Whistler painted 'Arrangement in Grey and Black', version no.1 was of his mother, which philosopher and historian was the subject of version no.2?
Answer: Thomas Carlyle
Question: What word is used for the lowest number of members of a committee etc, the presence of whom, is necessary before business can start?
Answer: QUORUM
Question: Steven Isserlis and Julian Lloyd Webber are leading British classical musicians, which instrument do they both play?
Answer: Cello
Question: Which actor, who died in July 2012, made his film debut playing Fatso Judson who beat Frank Sinatra's character to death in 'From Here to Eternity'?
Answer: Ernest Borgnine
Question: The mythical kingdom of Shambhala represents Paradise in which religion?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: Motu is a German liqueur made from vodka, lime juice and a very high proportion (66%) of which fruit?
Answer: Strawberry
Question: Within one year either way, in which year did the composer Rachmaninov and the actor Leslie Howard die?
Answer: 1943
Question: 'The Knowledge' that London taxi drivers need to learn is an intimate knowledge of all streets within a 6 mile radius of which London mainline station?
Answer: CHARING CROSS
Question: Dusty Springfield's biggest success in the US was to reach number 1 in the dance charts in 1987 when she featureed on 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?' with which duo?
Answer: PET SHOP BOYS
Question: Which former World War II pilot land Head of the CIA did Ronald Reagan choose as his Vice President?
Answer: GEORGE BUSH
Question: Which major political figure won, the Nobe1Prize for Literature for his 'History of the English Speaking Peoples'?
Answer: WINSTON CHURCHILL
Question: In literature Carl Peterson is one of several aliases used by the enemy of which pre WWII British hero?
Answer: Bulldog Drummond
Question: What name is given to a small triangular or swallow-tailed flag or pennant; also a kind of small coal for furnaces?
Answer: Burgee
Question: Name the year: The Wall Street Crash; Italy and the Vatican signed the Lateran Treaty; Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president of America
Answer: 1929
Question: Friendship with unofficial advisor Adam Werrity led to the resignation of which Cabinet Minister in October 2011?
Answer: LIAM FOX
Question: Only two out of twelve countries in South America fail to share a land border with Brazil. Chile is one, what is the other?
Answer: ECUADOR
Question: Which Greek philosopher left Athens for the island of Euboea after the death of his pupil Alexander the Great, in fear of anti-Macedonian feeling?
Answer: Aristotle
Question: Which US TV series, originally broadcast in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was set in the offices of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak?
Answer: LA Law
Question: Which US TV show, originally broadcast in the late 1990s and early 2000s, was set in the offices of Boston law firm Cage and Fish?
Answer: Ally McBeal
Question: Cardinal Richelieu was known as the Red Eminence - by what name was his right hand man, Francois Leclerc du Tremblay known?
Answer: The Grey Eminence
Question: After whom is the oyster dish, invented in New Orleans in 1899, named because of the intense richness of the sauce?
Answer: (Oysters) Rockefeller
Question: What kind of arcade machine might have flippers, bumpers and stand-up targets and be stopped by a 'tilt'?
Answer: Pinball machine
Question: What is the most southerly state capital in the USA?
Answer: Honolulu
Question: In ballet which position has the whole of the body supported on one leg, and the other leg and arms extended outwards?
Answer: Arabesque
Question: What is the name of the monster killed by Beowolf in the Anglo Saxon poem?
Answer: Grendel
Question: Which girl group took 'Robert de Niro's Waiting' to Number 3 in the UK pop charts of 1984?
Answer: Bananarama
Question: Sharleen Spiteri was the lead singer with which group, whose debut single in 1989 was entitled "I Don't Want a Lover"?
Answer: Texas
Question: Jean Claude Juncker resigned as prime minister of which country in July 2013, being at that point the longest currently elected serving Prime Minister in the world?
Answer: Luxembourg
Question: Ashton Agar scored a record number of runs in a test match innings as a number 11 batsman whilst playing against England in 2013. Which West Indian's record did he beat?
Answer: Tino Best
Question: The Quango, the CQC, reviews and audits hospitals and nursing homes in the UK. For what does the "Q" in CQC stand?
Answer: Quality
Question: Which British beetle is recognised by its large mandibles?
Answer: THE STAG BEETLE
Question: In May 2013 the BBC decided to ditch the DMI. For what does the M in DMI stand?
Answer: Media
Question: American military slang for the time of half past midnight is part of the title of which 2013 Oscar nominated film?
Answer: Zero Dark Thirty
Question: Which French cigarette brand, whose name translates as 'Gypsy Woman', has a logo featuring such a woman playing a tambourine?
Answer: Gitane
Question: Whose 2009 album 'Together through Life' made No.1 in the UK/US album charts, 39 years after his previous No.1 album in 1970?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Question: Who succeeded Peter as Bishop of Rome, so becoming the second Pope?
Answer: Linus
Question: Which TV policeman worked for the `Bureau des Etrangers'?
Answer: Bergerac
Question: What goods or produce did a mercer deal in?
Answer: Cloth
Question: According to von Clausewitz, War is the continuation of what, by other means?
Answer: POLITICS
Question: Which essential part of ballet training, still in use, was devised by Pierre Beauchamp in the late 17th century?
Answer: (The five) Positions of the feet
Question: Englishmen Jonny Wilkinson and Delon Amiitage between them scored all of their team's points in winning the 2013 Heineken Cup with which team?
Answer: Toulon
Question: What title was bestowed upon Harold Wilson's Secretary, Marcia Williams, in 1974?
Answer: BARONESS FALKENDER
Question: Under whose leadership did the RMT become one of Britain's fastest growing Trade Unions between 2002 and 2008?
Answer: BOB CROW
Question: Which mixed drink, popular at parties, takes its name from the Hindi or Sanskrit word for 'five'?
Answer: PUNCH
Question: 'Whoever controls the Ohio and Mississippi rivers controls the continent' which American Civil War general said this?
Answer: WILLIAM T SHERMAN
Question: What does the Welsh word "Aber" mean in place names such as Aberystwyth and Aberdaron?
Answer: RIVER MOUTH
Question: In Robert Louis Stevenson's novel 'Treasure Island', which of the pirates is trampled to death by a horse?
Answer: BLIND PEW
Question: Which whales are nicknamed 'sea canaries' because of their birdlike sound?
Answer: BELUGA
Question: Which city, a national capital until 1922, is the only major city to span two continents?
Answer: Istanbul
Question: In nautical terms what is a donkey's breakfast?
Answer: A MATTRESS
Question: The uncle of a pop star, scored a goal and broke his leg in the 1959 F.A. Cup Final, what is the uncle's name?
Answer: ROY DWIGHT
Question: Which planet was originally called Georgium Sidus by its discoverer before it was renamed by German astronomer Johann Bode to ensure that its name conformed with other planetary names?
Answer: URANUS
Question: 'Man Pointing' is a characteristically thin figure produced by which Swiss sculptor?
Answer: (ALBERTO) GIACOMETTI
Question: Which London theatre, that famously 'never closed', did finally close in 1964 before subsequently reopening as a cinema and a strip club?
Answer: The Windmill
Question: Which Premiership football club's kit was designed by Bruce Oldfield in 1997?
Answer: Norwich City
Question: Which actress was the first person to achieve ten Academy Award nominations for acting and, along with Greer Carson, is the only actress to have been nominated for Best Actress five years in a row?
Answer: BETTE DAVIS
Question: Shane Meadows' documentary film about which band received its world premiere at Trafford Park last month and was also simultaneously broadcast live in many cinemas across the UK?
Answer: STONE ROSES
Question: In the novel 1984 what was the surname of Winston Smith's interrogator?
Answer: O'BRIEN
Question: In which Dickens' novel does Mrs Jarley's Waxworks appear?
Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop
Question: In the comic books, what is Batman's real identity?
Answer: Bruce Wayne
Question: Name the contemporary English composer who after writing avant garde works such as The Whale and Celtic Requiem, turned to more mystical, Byzantine works such as The Protecting Veil.
Answer: JOHN TAVENER
Question: What is the name of the puzzle that uses a 9x9 square grid divided into nine 3x3 grids, the object is to have all the numbers from 1 to 9 appear in each row, column and 3x3 grid?
Answer: Sudoku
Question: Which poet and author served in Oliver Cromwell's Government for Foreign tongues?
Answer: JOHN MILTON
Question: Name the pop song from this opening line; "As the snow flies on a cold and grey Chicago morn, and a poor little baby child is born"?
Answer: In The Ghetto
Question: Who, between 1032 and 1048, became the only man to become Pope more than once and also the only one to sell the papacy? (name only required)
Answer: Benedict
Question: Found near Avebury, Wiltshire, what, at 40 metres is Europe's highest pre-historic mound?
Answer: Silbury Hill
Question: In March 2013, which former MP was found guilty of perverting the course of justice by having his then wife take speeding points on his behalf ten years earlier?
Answer: CHRIS HUHNE
Question: In addition to the pelican and the puffin, which other bird gives its name to a formal pedestrian crossing in the UK?
Answer: TOUCAN
Question: What is the name of the American composer whose work includes the film scores for 'Jaws", "E.T.' and the first three in the 'Harry Potter' series?
Answer: JOHN WILLIAMS
Question: In which county is Greenham Common, scene of the peace camp from 1981 to 2001?
Answer: BERKSHIRE
Question: What collective name is applied to the biblical characters Eliphas, Bildad and Zophor?
Answer: JOB'S COMFORTERS
Question: What is the name of the 170 metre high observation tower beside Portsmouth Harbour, opened in 2005?
Answer: SPINNAKER TOWER
Question: Against which county did Russia wage war in 1904/05?
Answer: JAPAN
Question: Which company produces the perfume Opium?
Answer: Yves St Laurent
Question: Who wrote the lyrical drama 'Prometheus Unbound' in 1820?
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Question: Income tax was introduced in Gt. Britain to pay for Britain's war with whom?
Answer: The French
Question: Complete the proverb 'Better pay the butcher than the .......'?
Answer: Doctor
Question: Becoming an independent state in 1946, which country's flag features a seven-pointed star representing the first seven verses of the Koran?
Answer: Jordan
Question: Ken Livingstone was runner-up to Boris Johnson in both of the last two elections for Mayor of London, who is the former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Liberal Democrat candidate who finished third and fourth?
Answer: Brian Paddick
Question: What name is given to the yellow fluid that surrounds and lubricates cartilages in joints?
Answer: Synovial Fluid
Question: The railway nicknamed the 'Watercress Line' got the name because it carried the crop to London from which county?
Answer: Hampshire
Question: Name the year Russia shoots down U2 spy plane; France becomes the world's 4th nuclear power and Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Israelis in Buenos Aires.
Answer: 1960
Question: Makassar (the source of hair oil) is an alternative name of the port Ujung Pandang, in which country is it?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: Genesis Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9 are devoted to what story?
Answer: Noah's Flood
Question: Which Dickens character was the illegitimate child of Edwin Leeford and Agnes Fleming?
Answer: OLIVER TWIST
Question: What is the common name of Vitamin B9, which is given to pregnant women?
Answer: FOLIC ACID
Question: During his time of Hogwart's to which house did the villain Voldemort belong?
Answer: SLYTHERIN
Question: -When George Formby sang the lines "It may be sticky, but I never complain; It's nice to have a nibble at it now and again", to what was he referring?
Answer: LITTLE STICK OF BLACKPOOL ROCK
Question: By what name is the heritage Mid-Hants Railway known, taken from the salad plant that used to be transported on it to London?
Answer: WATERCRESS LINE
Question: With which English band did Graham Nash make his name, before going on to greater success with Crosby, Stills and Nash?
Answer: THE HOLLIES
Question: What part of the human body is known to doctors as the hallux?
Answer: THE BIG TOE
Question: Which British monarch put the 'Regis' into Bognor?
Answer: KING GEORGE V
Question: Brackley, Old Sarum, Dunwich and Ansmither were examples of what that lost their status in 1832 (in the 1832 reform act)?
Answer: ROTTEN BOROUGHS
Question: Which famous Netherlands writer and philosopher came to lecture at Oxford in 1498?
Answer: ERASMUS
Question: Who was the fifteenth century jail bird who wrote 'Le Morte D'Arthur' - a classic romance of knighthood?
Answer: SIR THOMAS MALORY
Question: Who supposedly brought about the downfall of Barings Bank in 1995 after suffering losses of $827 million?
Answer: NICK LEESON
Question: In May 1977 Rod Stewart's 'The First Cut is the Deepest' topped (by the charts but which banned song was widely believed to have outsold it?
Answer: GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Question: The USA has had Presidents Adams, Johnson, Roosevelt and Bush, which other surname features twice?
Answer: Harrison
Question: Which singer has had hits with the groups, NERD, The Neptunes and Daft Punk as well as solo hits and accompanying Robin Thicke on 'Blurred Lines'?
Answer: Pharrell Williams
Question: In the cartoon series Calvin and Hobbes, Hobbes is a stuffed toy creature of what type?
Answer: Tiger
Question: What is the name of the aboriginal spear thrower that also gave its name to a missile testing site?
Answer: WOOMERA