zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the last word of the fourth line of the hymn Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – the last word of the third line is ‘mild’?
Answer: RECONCILED
Question: Which boy band, active from 2008 to 2013, included Marvin Humes and Aston Merrygold?
Answer: JLS
Question: What name is given to the sequence of numbers that begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13?
Answer: FIBONACCI (NUMBERS)
Question: Who is the Greek Muse of epic poetry?
Answer: Calliope
Question: Dave Vanian, Brian James and Rat Scabies were three of the original four members of which punk band?
Answer: The Damned
Question: Who directed this year's Cannes Palme D'or winning film "I, Daniel Blake"?
Answer: (Ken)Loach
Question: Which composer wrote the opera Falstaff which premiered in 1893 just before their 70th birthday?
Answer: (Giuseppe) Verdi
Question: Theravada and Malayana are the 2 main schools of which religion?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: The mythological Cyclops Polyphemus was blinded by which hero?
Answer: Odysseus
Question: On which Premier League football clubs badge would you find Prince Rupert's Tower?
Answer: Everton
Question: Elliott Gould and James Brolin have both been married to which singer and actress?
Answer: Barbara Streisand
Question: Which Premier League football team has a colliery wheel on its badge?
Answer: Sunderland
Question: Which horse won the 2016 Grand National?
Answer: Rule the World
Question: Name the year: Rosa Parks takes a seat at the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Hugh Gaitskell becomes leader of the Labour Party and Albert Einstein dies?
Answer: 1955
Question: What name is given to the Fourth (4th) movement in Beethoven's / Ninth (9th) Symphony?
Answer: Ode to Joy
Question: Which Motor cycle company made "The Manx" and "Commando" models?
Answer: Norton
Question: In World War Two, operation Husky was the codename for the invasion of which country?
Answer: Italy
Question: On which Pacific island did Captain James Cook see the Transit of Venus in 1769?
Answer: Tahiti
Question: Who had the best selling single in the UK in 1999 with ...Baby One More Time?
Answer: Britney Spears
Question: Who was Chief Minister to Louis XIII from 1624 until his death in 1642?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu
Question: Roberta Flack was the first artist to win the Grammy for Record of the Year in consecutive years. Which group were the second, for Beautiful Day in 2001 and Walk On in 2002?
Answer: U2
Question: Compositions by Mozart are given K numbers after which musicologist and composer who catalogued them?
Answer: Ludwig Ritter Von Köchel
Question: In the 1964 film Mary Poppins, what was the occupation of George Banks, Mary’s employer?
Answer: Banker
Question: The last print edition of which national newspaper was on March 26th this year?
Answer: The Independent
Question: Which Canadian city was called Bytown until 1854?
Answer: Ottawa
Question: Edith Cavell, who was executed in 1915 by German firing squad after aiding the escape of allied prisoners from Belgium, was a member of which profession?
Answer: Nurse
Question: Gaston the Ladybird, Nanny Plum, and King Thistle are all characters appearing in which pre-school animated children’s TV show?
Answer: Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom
Question: Who wrote the books "In the Night Kitchen", "Outside Over There" & "Seven Little Monsters"?
Answer: (Maurice) Sendak
Question: Detective Richard Poole until his death, and following that detective Humphrey Goodman, have both been the main protagonists in which BBC drama series?
Answer: Death in Paradise
Question: Which principality has been ruled by the Grimaldi dynasty since 1419ad?
Answer: Monaco
Question: """An Agony in Eight Fits"" is the subtitle of which literary work, first published in 1876, it was written by Lewis Carroll?"
Answer: Hunting of the Snark
Question: What is the better known name of the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories?
Answer: Jodrell Bank (Observatory)
Question: By what name was the American serial killer David Berkowitz, who confessed to the murder of six people in New York City in the late 1970's, better known?
Answer: 'SON OF SAM'
Question: The name of which chemical element, with the symbol 'TI', is derived from the Greek for 'budding twig'?
Answer: THALLIUM
Question: Which 13th century philosopher and theologian was known as 'Doctor Angelicus'?
Answer: THOMAS AQUINUS
Question: Which year saw Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space and the erection of the 'Berlin Wall'?
Answer: 1961
Question: By what name is the Italian painter Jacopo Robusti, born the son of a silk dyer in 1518, better known?
Answer: TINTORETTO
Question: What was the pseudonym used by the English essayist Charles Lamb when contributing to the 'London Magazine'?
Answer: 'ELIA'
Question: Which German composer wrote the 'Rheinish Symphony'?
Answer: ROBERT SCHUMANN
Question: According to the Bible, from which wood was the 'Ark Of The Covenant' built?
Answer: ACACIA WOOD
Question: In which city in Arizona did 'The Gunfight At The OK Corral' take place in 1881?
Answer: TOMBSTONE
Question: In 2007, Forrest Whittaker won the 'Oscar' for Best Actor for his role in which film?
Answer: 'THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND'
Question: Complete the title of this famous play by Luigi Pirandello: 'Six Characters In Search Of An ....'?
Answer: '.. AUTHOR'
Question: What name is given to the Scottish woollen cap, worn by Highlanders, with straight sides and a crease down the crown?
Answer: GLENGARRY
Question: What was the name of the IRA hunger striker who died in 1981 after refusing to eat for 66 days?
Answer: BOBBY SANDS
Question: What was the name of the British nurse who was shot by a German firing squad during World War I after being court-martialled for helping Allied troops escape from a military hospital in Belgium?
Answer: EDITH CAVELL
Question: Which famous nude painting in the National Gallery was attacked with an axe, by a militant suffragette in 1914?
Answer: 'THE ROKEBY VENUS'
Question: Which European country was ruled by the 'House of Vasa' from 1523-1818?
Answer: SWEDEN
Question: Which striking building in the Manchester area has been designed by architect Daniel Liberskind?
Answer: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM NORTH
Question: Which battle near Moscow turned the tide against Napoleon in 1812?
Answer: BORODINO
Question: In which English town would you find the 18th century Assembly Rooms and Royal Crescent?
Answer: BATH
Question: Which artist’s final works in the early 1950s were gouaches découpées or paper cut-outs such as “La Négresse” and “he Blue Nudes”?
Answer: Henri Matisse
Question: In which industry did a Saggar Maker’s Bottom Knocker work?
Answer: Pottery
Question: Who was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs three times, from 1935 to 1938, 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955?
Answer: Anthony Eden
Question: With which club does Coventry City FC currently share a ground?
Answer: Northampton Town
Question: Who commanded the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916?
Answer: Sir John Jellicoe
Question: The 1798 Battle of the Nile is also known as the Battle of which Bay?
Answer: Aboukir
Question: Torquay United and which other team were promoted from the Conference to the Football League Division Two at the end of the 2008/9 season?
Answer: BURTON ALBION
Question: Who played the part of 'Constance Colby' in 'The Colbys'?
Answer: BARBARA STANWICK
Question: Which composer, born in Grenoble in 1803, married an Irish actress. His first opera was 'Benvenuto Cellini'?
Answer: HECTOR BERLIOZ
Question: Other than Margaret Thatcher, which Prime Minister, in the last 100 years, has spent the longest term in office?
Answer: TONY BLAIR
Question: """If you want to find Cherry Tree Lane, all you have to do is ask a policeman at the crossroads"", is the first line of which children's novel?"
Answer: 'MARY POPPINS'
Question: In which year did Franco capture Madrid and win the Spanish Civil War?
Answer: 1939
Question: Who drowned during a storm in 1822 while sailing the 'Don Juan'?
Answer: PERCY BYSHE SHELLEY
Question: Which public school had Russell Harty as a teacher, and Richard Whiteley as a pupil?
Answer: GIGGLESWICK
Question: 'Simon Legree' is a character in which book?
Answer: 'UNCLE TOM'S CABIN'
Question: The best selling video game, TV and trading card series 'Pokemon' is hugely popular in Japan and the rest of the world. What does 'Pokemon' mean?
Answer: 'POCKET MONSTER'
Question: In 'Dad's Army' what was the first name of 'Private Walker'?
Answer: 'JOE'.
Question: Yersinia pestis is the bacterium that causes which disease?
Answer: BUBONIC PLAGUE
Question: Rastafarianism is based on the ideas of which former Jamaican?
Answer: MARCUS GARVEY
Question: 'Terrible Tudors' and 'Awesome Egyptians' were the first two titles in which series of illustrated books?
Answer: 'HORRIBLE HISTORIES'
Question: In which city did General Wolfe die in 1759?
Answer: QUEBEC
Question: Which national newspaper has been edited by William Rees-Mogg, Charles Douglas-Home and Peter Stoddard?
Answer: THE TIMES
Question: Who wrote the book, now a successful play, 'War Horse'?
Answer: MICHAEL MORPURGO
Question: In chemistry organic compounds contain which element?
Answer: CARBON
Question: Which badly behaved children's character was created by Francesca Simon, hates his brother 'Perfect Peter' and has an arch enemy 'Moody Margaret'?
Answer: 'HORRID HENRY'
Question: How many questions must be answered correct to win £1 million on 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'?
Answer: 12
Question: Which Dickens novel is set in 'Coketown'?
Answer: 'HARD TIMES'
Question: Which artistic movement was founded in 1911 by Walter Sickert?
Answer: Camden Town Group
Question: Which pre-decimal coin, never minted after decimalisation, was still legal tender until 1980?
Answer: Sixpence
Question: In which year was the battle of Aboukir Bay (The Nile)?
Answer: 1798
Question: Which building society has kept its mutual status despite the being three votes on the subject (the last in 1998)?
Answer: NATIONWIDE
Question: The Greeks called her Athena, what was the Roman name for this Goddess?
Answer: Minerva
Question: Who is the leader of the Bash Street Kids?
Answer: Danny
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Ben Hur'?
Answer: Lew Wallace
Question: Which rodent is known as The Nutria Rat?
Answer: Coypu
Question: How many Victoria Crosses were won at Rorke's Drift in 1879?
Answer: Eleven
Question: Which unit merged with the Royal Flying Corps to form the R.A.F in 1918?
Answer: Royal Naval Air Service
Question: Whose law states that 'Supply Creates Demand'?
Answer: Say's Law
Question: Who played the Doctor Who companion Rose Tyler?
Answer: Billie Piper
Question: Which famous Jewish fortress was besieged and captured by the Roman 6th Legion in 73 AD?
Answer: Masada
Question: In terms of population, Tripoli is the second largest city in which middle-eastern country?
Answer: LEBANON
Question: Disregarding Australia as it's a continental land mass, which is the largest island crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn?
Answer: MADAGASCAR
Question: 'Fox River State Penitentiary' and the 'Federal Penitentiary of Sona' in Panama feature in which American serial drama television series?
Answer: 'PRISON BREAK'
Question: Which study in magic and religion by James George Frazer took its name from an incident in 'The Aeneid'?
Answer: 'THE GOLDEN BOUGH'
Question: In which continent was the 'Kushan Empire' one of the largest empires in history?
Answer: ASIA
Question: From which grape variety are almost all Chablis wines made?
Answer: CHARDONNAY
Question: Paper is one of the 'Four Great Inventions' of which country?
Answer: CHINA
Question: For which book published in 1981, did Salman Rushdie win Britain's oldest literary award, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as the Booker Prize?
Answer: 'MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN'
Question: Which female Mexican painter was responsible for 'Tree Of Hope', 'Henry Ford Hospital' and 'The Dream'?
Answer: FRIDA KAHLO
Question: Historically known as 'Spirit of Amber', which acid is procured from Amber by pulverising and distilling it?
Answer: SUCCINIC ACID
Question: In 1919, which French artist created his own version of the 'Mona Lisa', on which he drew a goatee and a moustache?
Answer: MARCEL DUCHAMP
Question: According to folklore, what was the name of the monster slain by 'Beowulf'?
Answer: 'GRENDEL'
Question: In 1969, the 'Football War' was fought between Honduras and which neighbouring country?
Answer: EL SALVADOR
Question: In the poem 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe, which word is repeatedly spoken by the titular bird?
Answer: """NEVERMORE"""
Question: What was the name of the ferry that capsized in Zeebrugge harbour in 1987, killing 186 people?
Answer: HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE
Question: Reaching a height of 8ft 11.1inches, which American, who died in 1940, is the tallest person ever to have lived, for which there is medical evidence?
Answer: ROBERT PERSHING WADLOW
Question: Which Roman Emperor was married to Livia Drusilla for 51 years?
Answer: AUGUSTUS
Question: On which instrument was Django Reinhardt considered a virtuoso performer?
Answer: GUITAR
Question: What was the name of the secret police force run by former Haitian President Papa Doc Duvalier?
Answer: TONTON MACOUTES
Question: Which Frenchman was Formula One World Champion three times in the 1980's?
Answer: ALAIN PROST
Question: In which month of 1066 was the Battle of Hastings?
Answer: OCTOBER
Question: Which constellation is named after the daughter of Cassiopeia who was chained to a rock to be eaten by the sea monster Cetus?
Answer: ANDROMEDA
Question: Great Victoria Street railway station serves the centre of which UK city?
Answer: BELFAST
Question: Which small people from an isolated Atlantic island does 'Willy Wonka' invite to work in his chocolate factory?
Answer: 'OOMPA-LOOMPAS'
Question: Which P.G. Wodehouse character has a surname that begins with a 'silent P'?
Answer: 'PSMITH'
Question: Which colour completes the title of the 1970 number one by 'Christie', '.......... River'?
Answer: YELLOW
Question: Which musical instrument completes the title of the 1968 top ten hit by the 'Lemon Pipers', 'Green ........'?
Answer: TAMBOURINE
Question: What is the full name of the disease in pigs SVD?
Answer: Swine Vesicular Disease
Question: In which sport did Southport-born Francesca Halsall win three gold and two bronze medals for Great Britain in the 2014 European Championships?
Answer: Swimming
Question: What is the common name for the laryngeal prominence in the body?
Answer: Adam’s Apple
Question: Which photographer has had four wives including Catherine Deneuve and Marie Helvin
Answer: David Bailey
Question: Which Massachusetts delegate was President of the Second Continental Congress and his large signature on the 1776 Declaration of Independence?
Answer: John Hancock
Question: In which sport have Ted Copeland, Hope Powell and currently Mark Sampson managed England Women?
Answer: Football
Question: The Great Pretender is an album released in the USA in 1992 to mark the first anniversary of the death of which musician?
Answer: Freddie Mercury
Question: Which film starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson is about a lawyer defending two Marines on a charge of murder?
Answer: 'A FEW GOOD MEN'
Question: Who created the 'Daleks' in 'Dr. Who' as well as the science fiction series 'Blakes's Seven'? He died in 1997.
Answer: TERRY NATION
Question: Which saint, whose feast day is on October 25th., was made even more famous in a speech by Shakespeare's king 'Henry V'?
Answer: ST. CRISPIN
Question: In total, how many toes do most cats have?
Answer: 18
Question: What was the name of the second 'Harry Potter' film?
Answer: 'HARRY POTTER & THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS'
Question: What courtesy title is given to the sons and daughters of the peerage?
Answer: HONOURABLE
Question: What sort of creature is a 'Gadwall'?
Answer: A DUCK
Question: In which country is Tampere?
Answer: FINLAND
Question: Who composed the music for the opera 'Parsifal'?
Answer: WAGNER
Question: Which American city is home to the Baseball side 'The Orioles'?
Answer: BALTIMORE
Question: What was the real first name of comedian Bud Flanagan?
Answer: WILLIAM
Question: Who directed the 1997 film 'Titanic'?
Answer: JAMES CAMERON
Question: 'Launcelot Gobbo', the clown, features in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: 'THE MERCHANT OF VENICE'
Question: Anatolijs Gorbunovs became the first President of which former Soviet state in 1990?
Answer: LATVIA
Question: The day in 1896 that he was executed is now a national holiday. Jose Rizal was a nationalist and polymath and a national hero of which country?
Answer: PHILIPPINES
Question: Following this year's reshuffle, who is the current Minister of State for International Development?
Answer: JUSTINE GREENING
Question: Which Californian blues-influenced boogie rock band of the 1960's took their name from the title of a Tommy Johnson blues hit of 1928 that told the story of an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking cooking fuel?
Answer: 'CANNED HEAT'
Question: Released posthumously in 2004, '2666' was the bestselling final novel by which Chilean author?
Answer: ROBERTO BOLANO
Question: Teddy Roosevelt was climbing this mountain when William McKinley died (and had therefore become President). Which mountain is both the highest in the Adirondacks and the highest in New York State?
Answer: MOUNT MARCY
Question: What was the name of the rock group formed by former 'Nirvana' drummer Dave Grohl that had hits with 'This Is A Call', 'Learn To Fly' and 'The Pretender'?
Answer: 'FOO FIGHTERS'
Question: Which 'Oscar'-nominated actress is the mother of Carrie Fisher?
Answer: DEBBIE REYNOLDS
Question: Which legendary winged monster of Greek mythology, who perched on a high rock near Thebes, had the body of a lion and the head and breasts of a woman?
Answer: SPHINX
Question: Which city lies at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile?
Answer: Khartoum
Question: Who was the Democratic candidate in the 1984 US Presidential Election?
Answer: Walter Mondale
Question: Clarissa is the eponymous protagonist of which Virginia Woolf novel set on one day in post World War One London?
Answer: Mrs Dalloway
Question: The six elements including Beryllium and Magnesium are described in the periodic table as 'alkaline (what) metals'?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which post was held by Reginald Pole from 1556 to 1558
Answer: Archbishop Of Canterbury
Question: In which century did the plague known as 'The Black Death' occur?
Answer: 14th
Question: Who was the French Prime Minister at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 which led to the Treaty of Versailles?
Answer: GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
Question: Which sport did Larry Bird, Wilt Chamberlain and 'Magic' Johnson play?
Answer: BASKETBALL
Question: The logo of Cancer Research UK has a pattern of dots in the shape of a triangle. How many dots are there?
Answer: 10
Question: The city of Kolkata lies on which river?
Answer: HOOGHLY
Question: Which sport did Ian Taylor, Martyn Grimley and Sean Kerly play?
Answer: HOCKEY
Question: One of the logos of which former Building Society was an arrangement of bowler hats?
Answer: BRADFORD & BINGLEY
Question: At which major battle in 216 BC did the army of Carthage under Hannibal defeat the Romans under the command of consuls Varro and Paullus?
Answer: CANNAE
Question: Which Spanish naval base was subjected to a siege by the French from February 1810 to August 1812?
Answer: CADIZ
Question: Under what name did English actor James Stewart, born 1913, become famous?
Answer: STEWART GRANGER
Question: Who directed the 1978 film 'Halloween'?
Answer: JOHN CARPENTER
Question: Of whom did Bette Midler say, "She is a woman who has pulled herself up by her bra straps"?
Answer: MADONNA
Question: Who was the Egyptian god of evil, who murdered Osiris?
Answer: SETH
Question: Who was the chief architect in the creation of New Delhi by the British, commencing in 1911?
Answer: SIR EDWIN LUTYENS
Question: What was the forename of Mr. Royce founder of the famous car company?
Answer: HENRY
Question: Robert Menzies was Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: AUSTRALIA
Question: What would a Cockney want to drink, if he ordered a 'Vera' in a pub?
Answer: GIN (Vera Lynn)
Question: The Treaty of Westphalia ended which European war?
Answer: THE THIRTY YEAR WAR
Question: Who in 1830 founded the Mormon religion in the USA?
Answer: JOSEPH SMITH
Question: Who is credited with inventing the Sewing Machine in 1846?
Answer: ELIAS HOWE
Question: What was 'Don Diego De La Vega's' secret identity?
Answer: 'ZORRO'
Question: Under what name did Scottish born actor David McDonald achieve fame?
Answer: DAVID TENNANT
Question: Which Australian group had a top 40 hit in Britain in 2006 with "Truly Madly Deeply"?
Answer: Savage Garden
Question: What was the first name of Tory Prime Minister Harold McMillan?
Answer: Maurice
Question: What was seen and recognised for the first time by Johann Galle in 1846?
Answer: Neptune.
Question: Chapter titles of which classic novel include 'Nantucket', 'Ambergris' and 'Ahab's Leg'?
Answer: 'MOBY DICK'
Question: Which period in the Mesozoic era came between the Triassic and the Cretaceous?
Answer: JURASSIC
Question: Who is the lead writer for 'Doctor Who', succeeding Russell T. Davies?
Answer: STEVEN MOFFAT
Question: Which policeman is the main character in the Blake Edwards directed 1964 film 'A Shot In The Dark'?
Answer: 'CHIEF INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU'
Question: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall made an appearance on the 60th anniversary of which programme earlier this year?
Answer: 'THE ARCHERS'
Question: Which children's character lives in 'Bikini Bottom'?
Answer: 'SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS'
Question: Which Pink Floyd album cover shows a prism reflecting a beam of light?
Answer: THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Question: Which African country is divided into nine provinces including Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng?
Answer: SOUTH AFRICA
Question: Who was the father of Zeus in Greek myth?
Answer: CRONUS
Question: For which 2001 film did Julian Fellowes win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay?
Answer: GOSFORD PARK
Question: Who created the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete?
Answer: DAEDALUS
Question: The cover of which album by Paul McCartney and Wings features celebrities including Clement Freud, Michael Parkinson and John Conteh?
Answer: BAND ON THE RUN
Question: Appointed in 1907 who was the first female member of the Order of Merit?
Answer: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Question: In which country was Mo Farah born in 1983?
Answer: SOMALIA
Question: According to the proverb whose wife must be above suspicion?
Answer: CAESAR
Question: Which former international full back was manager of Leeds United when they reached the European Cup Final in 1974-75, before working as a football summariser on BBC radio for over 30 years?
Answer: JIMMY ARMFIELD
Question: In which city is Taksim Square, scene of recent protests?
Answer: ISTANBUL
Question: Tarom, established in 1920, is the national airline of which European country?
Answer: Romania
Question: Tachophobia is the morbid fear of what?
Answer: Speed
Question: What is the Egyptian hawk headed god of light called?
Answer: Horus
Question: On a standard typewriter keyboard which letter appears between the letters Q and E?
Answer: W
Question: By what name is musician David Robert Hayward-Jones better known?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: Which Roman Emperor wrote "meditations'1 in the 2nd century AD?
Answer: Marcus Aurelius
Question: How many UN Secretaries Generals have there been?
Answer: 8
Question: What is the more common name of the flowering plant Myosotis?
Answer: Forget-Me-Not
Question: With which instrument is Jazz musician Miles Davis most associated with?
Answer: Trumpet
Question: In the Bible who was the father of Jacob and Esau?
Answer: Isaac
Question: England has been runner-up in the ICC World Cup three times, to West Indies in 1979, to Australia in 1987 and to which country in 1992?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: England has twice been runner-up in the Rugby Union World Cup, to Australia in 1991 and to which country in 2007?
Answer: South Africa
Question: Which part of the body is affected by nephritis?
Answer: Kidneys
Question: Which 1993 film is based on the story of the Guildford Four, wrongly accused of a 1974 pub bombing?
Answer: In The Name Of The Father
Question: Uptown Girl and Queen of My Heart were Number Ones for which boy band in 2001?
Answer: Westlife