zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Bogot is the capital of which country?
Answer: Colombia
Question: As at 2015, after he was runner-up in the Australian Open, what is Scotsman Andy Murray's world ranking in tennis?
Answer: 5
Question: Who wrote the line "No man is an island entire of itself"?
Answer: John Donne
Question: The podcast which grew out of "This American Life", and first aired in 2014, is called...?
Answer: Serial
Question: Java, Borneo, Bali, and Sulawesi are what?
Answer: Islands
Question: According to the children's tale, what was the name of the Three Billy Goats?
Answer: Gruff
Question: Who is singer and actor Miley Cyrus's godmother?
Answer: Dolly Parton
Question: English poet John Keats composed five odes in 1819: The "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode to Psyche" and which other?
Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn
Question: The shallow Java Sea is between the islands of Java and what?
Answer: Borneo
Question: What is the principal ingredient of slivovitz brandy?
Answer: Plum
Question: Which comic character was introduced in More Fun Comics #73 in November 1941?
Answer: Aquaman
Question: Glenn Miller, famous as a band leader in the 1930s & 1940s, played which instrument?
Answer: Trombone
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "You Only Live ... "
Answer: Twice
Question: Table Mountain in South Africa overlooks which city?
Answer: Cape Town
Question: What is the southernmost point of the African continent?
Answer: Cape Agulhas
Question: Jimmy Somerville fronted which 1980s band?
Answer: Bronski Beat
Question: One of the stars from each of the film "The Hobbit" and the TV film "Van Gogh: Painted with Words" front the UK detective series called what?
Answer: Sherlock
Question: """Elia"" was the pseudonym of which author?"
Answer: Charles Lamb
Question: What 2002 film starred Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Myers?
Answer: Bend It Like Beckham
Question: All snowflakes are geometric figures with how many sides?
Answer: 6
Question: What is the next in this series: Millie, Ranger, Buddy, Spot "Spotty" Fletcher, Barney, Miss Beazley ... ?
Answer: Bo
Question: Which UK television series features a character called Mrs Bucket?
Answer: Keeping Up Appearances
Question: What is the clarified butter used in Indian cooking?
Answer: Ghee
Question: What is the name of the recording studio and record label established by Ray and Dave Davies, members of the British group "The Kinks"?
Answer: Konk
Question: Where do the Tungusic peoples live?
Answer: Eastern Siberia
Question: The Venus Rosewater Dish is awarded to the winners of which tennis event?
Answer: Wimbledon
Question: English artist, writer and musician Holly Johnson is best known as the lead vocalist of which 1980s band?
Answer: Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Question: """The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" was originally written in what language?"
Answer: French
Question: FEI, established 1921, is the international body governing what kind of sports?
Answer: Equestrian
Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury was captured by Viking raiders in 1011 and killed by them the following year after refusing to allow himself to be ransomed?
Answer: lfheah
Question: The Waterbury children are from which film?
Answer: The Railway Children
Question: Who was the first serving U.S. President to survive being shot in an assassination attempt?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: Shirley Conran's book "Superwoman", published in 1975, was about what?
Answer: Household management
Question: Who joined the Five Nations Rugby Union Tournament to make it the Six Nations in 2000?
Answer: Italy
Question: What sort of creature is a lurcher?
Answer: Dog
Question: Where did Harold of England fight William of Normandy in 1066?
Answer: Hastings
Question: Where is the 250km (150 miles) long Offa's Dyke?
Answer: Wales
Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1990 with "Opposites Attract"?
Answer: Paula Abdul
Question: What word refers to theatre that is made up on the spot?
Answer: Improv
Question: Who created the character of Doctor Finlay in the British TV series (1962-1971) "Dr Finlay's Casebook"?
Answer: A J Cronin
Question: Pointillism is found in what field?
Answer: Painting
Question: Who wrote "The Sheep Pig", that was made into the film "Babe"?
Answer: Dick King-Smith
Question: What were the titles of the first two novels by Donna Tartt?
Answer: """The Secret History"" and ""The Little Friend"""
Question: Fairy rock chimneys are a feature of Colorado and the Badlands in North America, the south of France, Taiwan, and Serbia and also, with houses carved from the formations, where?
Answer: Cappadocia, Turkey
Question: According to Greek legend, who was the muse of history?
Answer: Clio
Question: Who is the most recent actor, up to 2015, to play the part of James Bond in films?
Answer: Daniel Craig
Question: Charles Lindberg's first transatlantic flight was between which two cities?
Answer: New York and Paris
Question: Haricot beans are commonly used in what common canned product?
Answer: Baked beans
Question: Wild Bill Hickok is a character in which musical?
Answer: Calamity Jane
Question: Kenneth Cobonpue from the Philippines is world famous in what?
Answer: Furniture design
Question: Where is the "Caprivi Strip"?
Answer: Namibia
Question: Which comic character first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 in August 1962?
Answer: Spiderman
Question: Who won the 1975 Wimbledon men's singles title?
Answer: Arthur Ashe
Question: The Walt Disney animated 1949 feature "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" is based on "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame and which other work?
Answer: """The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" by Washington Irving"
Question: The highlights of which British General's career include the Battle of Dettingen and the Battle of Lauffeld during the War of Austrian Succession, the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden during the Jacobite uprising, and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec during the Seven Years War?
Answer: James Wolfe
Question: Who hit the top spot in 2002 with "U Got it Bad"?
Answer: Usher
Question: Who wrote "Banished Misfortune", "Fighting With Shadows" and "A Goat's Song"?
Answer: Dermot Healy
Question: Where was film actor James Mason born?
Answer: England
Question: Who, as president of Argentina, ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982?
Answer: General Leopoldo Galtieri
Question: What was the title of Martin Scorsese's 2008 documentary about the Rolling Stones?
Answer: Shine a Light
Question: Gothic, romanesque, and rococo are terms found in what?
Answer: Architecture
Question: Where was the first Women's World Cup, at that time called Women's World Championship, held?
Answer: China
Question: Conchiglie is a type of what?
Answer: Pasta
Question: The TV series "Peaky Blinders", aired first in 2013, is based on late 19th and early 20th century urban youth gangs in what city?
Answer: Birmingham, UK
Question: Prince William left St Andrews University in 2005 with a degree in what subject?
Answer: Geography
Question: Ambergris, once commonly used as a fixative in perfumery, is produced in the digestive system of what?
Answer: Sperm whale
Question: What is Britain's richest horse race in 2015?
Answer: Epsom Derby
Question: What Is the title of Somerset Maugham's book that is based on the life of Paul Gauguin?
Answer: The Moon and Sixpence
Question: Who was the other half of the Bouquet household, played by actor Clive Swift, in the UK TV comedy series "Keeping Up Appearances"?
Answer: Richard
Question: Leo Zulueta is a notable artist in what field?
Answer: Tattoo art
Question: Which is the preposition in the tongue twister "She sells sea shells by the sea shore"?
Answer: By
Question: Who wrote "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van"?
Answer: Roddy Doyle
Question: Who created the English schoolboy hero "Jennings"?
Answer: Anthony Buckeridge
Question: The liqueur Grand Marnier contains the distilled essence of what fruit?
Answer: Bitter orange
Question: What was the sporting fixture called Baku 2015?
Answer: The inaugural European Games
Question: Who was killed when a helicopter crashed in dense fog on 27 August 1990 in East Troy, Wisconsin?
Answer: Stevie Ray Vaughan
Question: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, served in what service in World War II?
Answer: Navy
Question: Who wrote "Quentins", "Nights of Rain and Stars", "Whitethorn Woods" and "Heart and Soul"?
Answer: Maeve Binchy
Question: French sculptor Frdric Bartholdi (1834-1904) is best known for what work?
Answer: Liberty Enlightening the World
Question: When hair rises in reaction to cold or shock, the appearance of the skin is sometimes described as what?
Answer: Goose flesh
Question: When Gerald Ford was president of the USA, who was his vice president?
Answer: Nelson A Rockefeller
Question: Which group from New York City released an eponymous album in 1973 with the personnel of David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, Arthur "Killer" Kane, Jerry Nolan and Johnny Thunders?
Answer: The New York Dolls
Question: What was the name of Han Solo's spacecraft in the first "Star Wars" film to be released?
Answer: Millenium Falcon
Question: Where was Chiang Kai-Shek leader until 1949?
Answer: China
Question: In WCF, an international body formed in 1986 which is associated among other things with the MacRobertson Shield, what does the "C" stand?
Answer: Croquet
Question: The Armagnac region of France lies between the Adour and Garonne rivers and near which other feature?
Answer: The Pyrenees
Question: What is the official language of the principality of Andorra?
Answer: Catalan
Question: Where are the Paralympics Games 2016?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Question: What animals travel in groups led by the "Old Man" or "Boomer"?
Answer: Kangaroos
Question: On 2 February 2015 who became the youngest person to be ranked No 1 in professional golf?
Answer: Lydia Ko
Question: Which musical with book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot opened in October 1967 at Joseph Papp's Public Theater?
Answer: Hair
Question: What nut is used in making marzipan, nougat, and amaretti?
Answer: Almond
Question: In George Orwell's book "Animal Farm", "Boxer" was what kind of animal?
Answer: Horse
Question: Torvill and Dean are famous in which winter activity?
Answer: Figure skating
Question: What organisation was initially behind the first Geneva Convention signed in 1864?
Answer: International Committee for Relief to the Wounded
Question: A 1951 film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Kasey Rogers and Patricia Hitchcock was called "Strangers on a ... what"?
Answer: Train
Question: What was the subtitle of the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood"?
Answer: This bird has flown
Question: What term is not used to describe the fruit of the coffee tree?
Answer: Beans
Question: Ouzo is flavoured with what?
Answer: Aniseed
Question: What nationality is the tennis player Marcos Baghdatis?
Answer: Cypriot
Question: When was the last death penalty carried out, by guillotine, in France?
Answer: September 1977
Question: Who is an Australian convicted murderer, currently serving 35 life sentences for murdering 35 people and injuring 21 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a shooting spree in Tasmania in 1996?
Answer: Martin John Bryant
Question: What is a violet variety of quartz used in jewellery, that the ancient Greeks and Romans believed protected its owner from drunkenness?
Answer: Amethyst
Question: Which Dickens character was visited by the ghost of Bob Marley?
Answer: Scrooge
Question: The Man Booker prize is awarded for what?
Answer: Literature
Question: In 2005 Karina Hollekim performed what, the first woman to do so?
Answer: A ski-BASE
Question: Irish-born Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is known in what field?
Answer: Painting
Question: Modern versions of which appliance (commonplace by the 1970s in domestic residences in the USA) are descended from the 1886 invention of Josephine Cochrane which she unveiled at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
Answer: Dishwasher
Question: Agatha Christie is famous for writing what type of book?
Answer: Detective fiction
Question: The capital cities of two neighbouring countries in the southern hemisphere are located on the opposite sides of the mouth of which river?
Answer: Rio de la Plata
Question: Demi Moore shaved her head for the title role in which 1997 film?
Answer: GI Jane
Question: Where was the starting point for the 2015 Tour de France?
Answer: Utrecht, Netherlands
Question: In April 2010, the engagement of a princess from which country was called off after allegations of her fianc's affair?
Answer: Sweden
Question: Who wrote "The Shape Of Things To Come"?
Answer: H G Wells
Question: Who wrote "Desperate Remedies" (1871) and "Under The Greenwood Tree" (1872)?
Answer: Thomas Hardy
Question: British artists William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, and Thomas Gainsborough were working in what century?
Answer: 18th
Question: Whose first book, published in 1920, was "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"?
Answer: Agatha Christie
Question: Bannock, brioche, pita, focaccia and roti are varieties of what?
Answer: Bread
Question: A cassowary is a type of what?
Answer: Bird
Question: Who was the second author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice?
Answer: Peter Carey
Question: The Kalandula Falls, one of the largest waterfalls by volume in Africa, are in which country?
Answer: Angola
Question: What instrument is played by blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite and Junior Wells?
Answer: Harmonica
Question: What is the closest description of the interior of South Africa?
Answer: Plateau
Question: Whose theme song was "Thanks For The Memory"?
Answer: Bob Hope
Question: Which US president was re-elected with the slogan "Don't change horses in mid-stream"?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: Which bandleader was at the top of the Billboard "Best Sellers in Stores" chart from 29 November 1941 to 2 May 1942 (except for one week) with four different tunes?
Answer: Glenn Miller
Question: Which book about a castaway was written by Daniel Defoe?
Answer: Robinson Crusoe
Question: Where is the White Desert National Park situated?
Answer: Farafra, Egypt
Question: Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won which major prize in 2010?
Answer: Nobel Prize for Literature
Question: Which city is in the Chao Phraya River delta?
Answer: Bangkok, Thailand
Question: Who was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: Which four-time Grammy Award-winning artist's hit singles included "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason", "The Promise" and "Telling Stories"?
Answer: Tracy Chapman
Question: Thom Yorke is the lead singer for which band?
Answer: Radiohead
Question: What system was the spacecraft Rosetta launched on?
Answer: Ariane
Question: In 1995, what band was the first artist to receive as many as 4 BRIT (British Record Industry Trust) awards in the same year?
Answer: Blur
Question: In 2011 the capture and killing of Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi changed the political landscape in which country?
Answer: Libya
Question: Who launched a career with the book "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly"?
Answer: Anthony Bourdain
Question: The celebrated 18th century Englishman, Lancelot Brown, was better known by what name?
Answer: Capability
Question: Which film featured the voices of Hugh Grant in his animated feature film debut, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, and David Tennant?
Answer: The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Question: From 2011 to 2019 who are the holders of the William Webb Ellis Cup?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: How many sons of Philip IV of France became King?
Answer: 3
Question: In Star Wars, what is the name of Han Solo's spacecraft?
Answer: Millenium Falcon
Question: Artists Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Zhong Acheng, Ai Weiwei and Qu Leilei are associated with which avant-garde art group?
Answer: Stars
Question: J Rock, Flawless, Cherise and Nasia were members of which group?
Answer: Big Brovaz
Question: What is 7 in binary?
Answer: 111
Question: What is Sarah Fergusson's character called "Budgie"?
Answer: Helicopter
Question: Which Austrian performed the winning song, "Rise Like a Phoenix", at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014?
Answer: Conchita Wurst
Question: What is used to remove creases from clothing?
Answer: Iron
Question: The film "Revenant" (2015) was inspired by the experiences of what frontiersman?
Answer: Hugh Glass
Question: What is the word for an itinerant tinsmith who mends household utensils?
Answer: Tinker
Question: Gumboot Day held since 1985, celebrating the gumboot and including gumboot throwing contest, takes place where?
Answer: Taihape, New Zealand
Question: Which new French wine is released annually on the third Thursday in November?
Answer: Beaujolais
Question: Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986 when he was Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Sweden
Question: Who wrote "Treasure Island", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "Kidnapped" and "The Master of Ballantrae"?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
Question: In what country did the Boxer War, or Boxer Rebellion, happen?
Answer: China
Question: Who composed the music for the 1979 musical "Sweeney Todd"?
Answer: Stephen Sondheim
Question: What is the first sentence of the book "Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell?
Answer: It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen
Question: Which famous Ramone was never one of "The Ramones"?
Answer: Phil
Question: Robert Drewe's book "Our Sunshine" was made into what film in 2003?
Answer: Ned Kelly
Question: The melody of the song "Happy Birthday to You" dates from when?
Answer: 1893
Question: Which fictional character in the land of Oz, created by L. Frank Baum, is sometimes named "Locasta" or "Tattypoo"?
Answer: The Good Witch of the North
Question: In 146BCE Rome sacked Carthage and what other major city?
Answer: Corinth
Question: Of these which is North Korea's nearest neighbour?
Answer: People's Republic of China
Question: In which country is the Nubian Desert?
Answer: Sudan
Question: In 1989 Carlo Petrini founded what?
Answer: The Slow Food Movement
Question: Who, with more than 70 million records sold worldwide during a career in seven decades, is the most successful British female solo recording artist according to the Guinness Book of World Records?
Answer: Petula Clark
Question: Which is People's Republic of China's southernmost province?
Answer: Hainan
Question: In parts of the UK what does "tethera" mean?
Answer: Three
Question: Which actor won the 2012 Golden Raspberry Award for both the worst actor and the worst actress in a 2011 film?
Answer: Adam Sandler
Question: The lights were turned off in the Empire State Building for 15 minutes in August 2004 to mark the death of whom?
Answer: Fay Wray
Question: A two-wheeled self-powered and self-balancing vehilce unveiled in 2001 is called what?
Answer: Segway
Question: Who was the first person to win a Tony Award, an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year, and the only person to have won all 3 awards in the category of "Best Director"?
Answer: Bob Fosse
Question: Which naval battle took place in December 1939, the second naval battle in the events for the Second World War?
Answer: Battle of the River Plate
Question: Which is the last major military engagement of the American Civil War?
Answer: Battle of Five Forks
Question: What was the occupation of the character played by Maggie Smith in "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie"?
Answer: Teacher
Question: Which blood vessel supplies blood to the brain?
Answer: Internal carotid artery
Question: Jean-Claude Van Damme plays both of the twins, separated after the death of their parents, in which 1991 film?
Answer: Double Impact
Question: A painting discovered in France in 2016 of Judith beheading Holofernes has been attributed to what artist?
Answer: Caravaggio
Question: A washboard scraped with a thimble features as an instrument in what kind of music?
Answer: Skiffle
Question: What is the etymology of "malaria"?
Answer: Bad air
Question: Wenceslas Square is in which capital city?
Answer: Prague
Question: What derogatory term applied to Yankees who moved to the South for business reasons?
Answer: Carpetbagger
Question: What was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War?
Answer: Battle of Gettysburg
Question: What sound-playing device was invented by the same person?
Answer: Phonograph
Question: What became the world's first national park?
Answer: Yellowstone
Question: What artist lost an ear?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh
Question: In what city was the world's first skycraper built?
Answer: Chicago
Question: What character made his first appearance in the story "A Study in Scarlet"?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes
Question: What Indonesian volcano erupted - killing thousands and lowering temperatures worldwide?
Answer: Krakatoa
Question: What was invented by Karl Benz?
Answer: Automobile
Question: What character was created by Bram Stoker?
Answer: Dracula
Question: What woman was accused of killing her parents with an axe?
Answer: Lizzie Borden
Question: What famous hotel in Paris opened? ( The only reason not to stay there was if you couldn't afford it )
Answer: Hôtel Ritz
Question: What composer wrote his most famous march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" ?
Answer: John Philip Sousa
Question: What crime was Alfred Dreyfus accused of committing?
Answer: Espionage
Question: What style of variety show was popular?
Answer: Vaudeville
Question: Who wrote the novel "Kim"?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Question: What oil baron became the first billionaire?
Answer: John D. Rockefeller
Question: Who was Chicago's most notorious gangster?
Answer: Al Capone
Question: Which ancient Egyptian pharaoh was dug up?
Answer: Tutankhamun
Question: What invention of 1928 was the greatest thing since ... ever?
Answer: Sliced Bread
Question: What economic downturn lasted through most of the decade?
Answer: The Great Depression
Question: What country was invaded to start WWII?
Answer: Poland
Question: What building became the world's tallest in 1931?
Answer: Empire State Building
Question: In what city did Anne Frank hide?
Answer: Amsterdam
Question: Who said "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat"?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: What rebel without a cause died in a car crash?
Answer: James Dean
Question: What became the 50th U.S. state?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: What type of hat was famously worn by Che Guevara?
Answer: Beret
Question: Who won the 1966 World Cup?
Answer: England
Question: What artist's studio was called "The Factory"?
Answer: Andy Warhol
Question: What, according to the media, did feminists burn?
Answer: Their Bras
Question: Who was the first person to go into space?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin
Question: What event did Bob Beamon win at the 1968 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Long Jump
Question: What dance was popularized by Chubby Checker?
Answer: The Twist
Question: What doll was introduced as Barbie's boyfriend?
Answer: Ken
Question: Who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Answer: Harper Lee
Question: Who was the only black member of the Rat Pack?
Answer: Sammy Davis Jr.
Question: What did Nikita Khrushchev bang against his desk at a meeting of the United Nations?
Answer: His Shoe
Question: What was hosted by Seattle in 1962, New York City in 1964, and Montreal in 1967?
Answer: The World's Fair
Question: What Asian city hosted a "thriller" between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier?
Answer: Manila
Question: What paddle-based game was the first commercially successful video game?
Answer: Pong
Question: What became the world's tallest building in 1973?
Answer: Sears Tower
Question: What city fell to the Communists on April 30, 1975?
Answer: Saigon
Question: What city hosted the Summer Olympics in 1972?
Answer: Munich
Question: What city was divided by a wall until 1989?
Answer: Berlin
Question: What world leader had a prominent birthmark on his head?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
Question: Who scored "The Goal of the Century" in the 1986 World Cup?
Answer: Diego Maradona
Question: What did Pac-Man eat to make the ghosts turn blue?
Answer: Power Pellet
Question: What video tape technology was defeated by VHS?
Answer: Betamax