zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Considered one of the best examples of Roman ruins in North Africa and particularly noted for its Triumphal Arch, which archaeological site in Morocco is situated near to Meknes?
Answer: VOLUBILIS
Question: Who was the 18th century Swiss mathematician and physicist, who published more papers than any other mathematician in history and pioneered the theory of trigometric and logarithmic functions?
Answer: LEONARD EULER
Question: Who was the legendary herald of the Greek forces during the Trojan War who was said to be able to shout as loudly as fifty normal men?
Answer: STENTOR
Question: Saddam Hussein was born, in 1937, in the village of Al Awja, on the outskirts of which large Iraqi town northwest of Baghdad on the River Tigris?
Answer: TIKRIT
Question: In May 1521, Pope Leo X presided over which assembly at which Martin Luther was summoned to renounce the views expressed in his 95 theses?
Answer: DIET OF WORMS
Question: Edith of East Anglia was the wife of which pre-Norman English king, born in c. 993 AD?
Answer: EDMUND IRONSIDE
Question: Edith of Wessex was the wife of which pre-Norman English king, born c. 1003 AD?
Answer: EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
Question: Which river forms a natural border between New York and New Jersey?
Answer: HUDSON RIVER
Question: In the TV sit-com 'Red Dwarf', what was the name of the ship's mechanoid who befriended 'Dave Lister'?
Answer: 'KRYTON'
Question: The name of which legendary race of warrior-women that supposedly lived in Asia Minor means 'without breasts'?
Answer: AMAZONS
Question: Which once popular ballroom dance was named in 1914 after the comedian and vaudeville actor who invented it?
Answer: FOXTROT
Question: Taking the role of the baritone, what is the name of the professional bird catcher in Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute'?
Answer: 'PAPAGENO'
Question: Which English city lies between the mouths of the rivers Test and Itchen?
Answer: SOUTHAMPTON
Question: A bottle of wine originating from the Mondavi coastal vineyard is produced in which country?
Answer: USA
Question: In which Classic book and film does the character the Michael Henchard appear?
Answer: THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
Question: In which German town did Napoleon decisively defeat the Prussian army in 1806, and Carl Zeiss open an optical workshop in 1846?
Answer: JENA
Question: Which city, a former capital of its country, is served by Jinnah International Airport?
Answer: KARACHI
Question: Dupond et Dupont, Professeur Tryphon Tournesol and Milou assist which character in the French version of his adventures?
Answer: TINTIN
Question: How many older brothers and sisters did architect Decimus Burton have?
Answer: NINE
Question: Named after a bird which scenic railway line runs from Norwich to Cromer and then onto Sheringham?
Answer: The Bittern Line
Question: An Act of Parliament instigated by artist William Hogarth,established which commercial principle?
Answer: COPYRIGHT
Question: In which country are Leeds Castle and the Isle of Sheppey?
Answer: KENT
Question: Which US World War II General commanded the US forces in China and Burma?
Answer: JOSEPH STILWELL
Question: In rowing, what name is given to the race in which losing crewsin the heats have a second chance to qualify for the next round?
Answer: REPECHAGE
Question: What name is given to ashield or emblem within a flag?
Answer: CHARGE
Question: In which American city do the 'Supersonics' play their home basketball games?
Answer: SEATTLE
Question: What, in the Jewish religion, is the 'Scroll of Mosaic Law'called?
Answer: THE TORAH
Question: Who succeeded Woodrow Wilson as President of the USA in 1921,his administration being marred by political corruption on a large scale?
Answer: WARREN HARDING
Question: Associated with a famous incident of 1789, which Pacific island has Adamstown as its main settlement?
Answer: PITCAIRN
Question: Who achieved fame for his ,'Confessions Of An English Opium Eater'?
Answer: THOMAS DE QUINCEY
Question: What was the name of the Archangel referred to in the Book of Daniel as "the guardian of Israel"?
Answer: MICHAEL
Question: What may be described as 'a tropical tree or shrub that grows in swamps and shore mud, having many tangled roots above ground'?
Answer: MANGROVE
Question: By what name is JS Bach's cantata 'Schweigt Stille, Plaudert Nicht' better known as a result of the drink to which one of the characters is addicted?
Answer: 'COFFEE CANTATA'
Question: Who had a number one hit in July 2009 with 'Evacuate The Dancefloor'?
Answer: CASCADA
Question: Hibernation is the name given to a period of dormancy experienced by an animal during the Winter months. What name is given to a similar period of dormancy experienced by an animal during the Summer months?
Answer: AESTIVATION
Question: What name is given to the elementary particle that carries the strong nuclear force?
Answer: GLUON
Question: Who had overall command of the US Pacific Fleet at the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and later signed the Japanese surrender document in 1945?
Answer: Admiral CHESTER NIMITZ
Question: Which African country has land borders with Algeria and Libya?
Answer: TUNISIA
Question: Under whose command did the 'ever-victorious army' play a part in putting down the 'Taiping Rebellion' in 1864?
Answer: GENERAL GORDON
Question: At which inn did Chaucer's pilgrims meet to begin their journey?
Answer: 'THE TABARD INN'
Question: On the bank of which river does the French city of Nantes stand?
Answer: LOIRE
Question: The band The Fall took their name from a 1956 novel by which French-Algerian author?
Answer: ALBERT CAMUS
Question: Who was Secretary of State for War from June 1914 until his death in June 1916?
Answer: HERBERT KITCHENER (1ST EARL KITCHENER)
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in 1897 and first entered Parliament in 1923 as MP for Warwick & Leamington?
Answer: Anthony Eden
Question: Which famous scientist was offered the position of first President of Israel, but turned it down saying that he had no head for problems?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: Which Roman emperor's last words were reputedly "What an artist the world is losing in me"?
Answer: Nero
Question: Which 1973 Oscar winning actor made his cinema debut in the 1953 film "It Should Happen to You"?
Answer: Jack Lemmon
Question: Which Roman emperor's last words were reputedly "I suppose I am now becoming a god"?
Answer: Vespasian
Question: By what more familiar name do we know American 'Blues' singer Eleanora Fagan?
Answer: BILLIE HOLIDAY
Question: What is the name of the Irish frame drum played with adouble ended drum stick?
Answer: A BODHRAN
Question: During WWII, 'Operation Chastise' was undertaken by the RAF, by what more familiar name is this operation now known?
Answer: 'DAMBUSTERS RAID'
Question: Postage stamps of which country bear the name 'Suomi'?
Answer: FINLAND
Question: The name of which James Thurber character has passed into language as a daydreaming fantasist?
Answer: 'WALTER MITTY'
Question: Which actress took the lead role in the films 'Kitty Foyle' (1940), 'Roxie Hart' (1942), and 'Magnificent Doll' (1946)?
Answer: GINGER ROGERS
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Duchess Of Malfi'?
Answer: JOHN WEBSTER
Question: For what does the second 'M' stand in the Manchester based University known as 'MMU'?
Answer: METROPOLITAN
Question: How are 'Oscar Madison' and 'Felix Ungar' described in the title of a 1960's play, later a film and TV series?
Answer: 'THE ODD COUPLE'
Question: Who was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1925 to 1945?
Answer: J.R.R. TOLKEIN
Question: Which country in 1930 became the fifth to play Test Cricket, not winning their first match until they beat the West Indies in 1956?
Answer: NEW ZEALAND
Question: In which country is Rosario, a port on the River Parana?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: Which comic book hero, with an alter ego of Steve Rogers, did Joe Simon and Jack Kirby create in 1940?
Answer: CAPTAIN AMERICA
Question: The old codgers were a fictional pair who answered readers' letters for 54 years in which newspaper?
Answer: Daily Mirror
Question: Retinol is one of the animal forms of which vitamin?
Answer: A
Question: The titles of whose later symphonies (1778-1791) include Paris, Linz and Prague?
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Question: Chasing Pavements in 2008 and Rolling in the Deep in 2010 both reached Number Two in the UK singles chart for which singer before she had her first Number One?
Answer: Adele
Question: Which novelist (1879-1980) wrote the libretto for the Benjamin Britten opera Billy Budd with Eric Crozier?
Answer: EM Forster
Question: Which company whose name means "I roll", started life in 1915 as a subsidiary of a ball-bearing factory?
Answer: VOLVO
Question: To where was Saul heading when he had a vision from God, thus becoming St. Paul?
Answer: DAMASCUS
Question: 'Stephen Blackpool', a mill worker, is a character in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: 'HARD TIMES'
Question: Which future President was the inaugural Ambassador to the UK, called at the time, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James?
Answer: JOHN ADAMS
Question: 'Mud', Mark Morrison, 'Seal' and 'Eternal' have all had hit songs with which title?
Answer: 'CRAZY'
Question: Which Nazi leader avoided execution after being sentenced to death at the 'Nuremburg Trials' by committing suicide hours before he was due to hang?
Answer: HERMANN GOERING
Question: Perhaps best known for her role in 'The Devil Wears Prada', which actress provided the voice for 'Juliet' in 'Gnomeo and Juliet'?
Answer: EMILY BLUNT
Question: In which European country was the Estado Novo Regime overthrown in 1974 after the 'Carnation Revolution'?
Answer: PORTUGAL
Question: Which 16th century astronomer lost part of his nose in a duel as a student and had a metal replacement made which he wore for the rest of his life?
Answer: TYCHO BRAHE
Question: The 'Iron Guard' was a fascist movement and political party operating in which European country during the 1930's?
Answer: ROMANIA
Question: Which former American President was nominated for re- election by the Bull Moose Party?
Answer: THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Question: Which French painter, who with his wife Sonia Terk, pioneered the art movement known as Orphism, is best known for his series of paintings of Paris and, in particular, of the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: ROBERT DELAUNAY
Question: An ally of Germany, of which country was Boris king until his murder in August 1943?
Answer: BULGARIA
Question: Similarly, which two word Italian phrase used in cookery, means 'firm and bitter'?
Answer: AL DENTE
Question: Which word of the phonetic alphabet is also a type of submarine?
Answer: KILO
Question: In which Indian city in 1984 was a toxic cloud of methyl isocynate accidentally released from a pesticide plant killing a least 15,000 people?
Answer: BHOPAL
Question: Which island group in the North Pacific was known as the Catherine Archipelago prior to 1867?
Answer: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Question: Which 20th century novel is subtitled 'The Sacred And Profound Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder'?
Answer: 'BRIDESHEAD REVISITED'
Question: What name is given to the cord of strong fibrous tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone?
Answer: TENDON
Question: At which stadium did Derby County play their home games prior to moving to Pride Park?
Answer: BASEBALL GROUND
Question: In C.S. Lewis' 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', what is the name of the faun who befriends 'Lucy' when she first enters 'Narnia'?
Answer: 'MR. TUMNUS'
Question: According to Greek mythology, who was the woman who fell in love with Theseus and supplied him with the ball of thread by which he found his way out of the Labyrinth?
Answer: ARIADNE
Question: Which philosopher was Dean of Notre Dame in Paris in 1115 but became a monk after a scandal that led to his castration?
Answer: PETER ABELARD
Question: Who was the Iranian Ayatollah who sentenced Salman Rushdie to death in absentia after the publication of the novelist's 'Satanic Verses'?
Answer: AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI
Question: In which US city doe the American Football team known as the 'Raiders' play their home games?
Answer: OAKLAND
Question: What was the name of the American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1994 debut album 'Grace', who drowned whilst swimming in a tributary of the Mississippi River in 1997?
Answer: JEFF BUCKLEY
Question: In which 20th century novel do many of the central characters speak a teenage slang called 'Nadsat'?
Answer: 'A CLOCKWORK ORANGE'
Question: Who was the UK Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, resigning following the Argentinean invasion of the Falklands?
Answer: LORD CARRINGTON
Question: How are the TS Eliot poems 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Giddings' known collectively?
Answer: FOUR QUARTETS
Question: Which fictional hero was created by Alex Raymond and widely syndicated in 1934?
Answer: FLASH GORDON.
Question: Which new state was proclaimed at the Gate of Heavenly Peace on 1st October 1949?
Answer: THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Question: The T.V. documentary series 'Scrappers ' centres around a scrap-yard in which north-west town?
Answer: Bolton
Question: Kernow is the name for which area of the U.K., when spoken in the local language?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: In which English county is Wincanton racecourse?
Answer: Somerset
Question: Based in Hexam Northumberland, the publishing company Bloodaxe Books specialises in what kind of literature?
Answer: Poetry
Question: Which High Street electrical chain collapsed into administration in November 2012?
Answer: Comet
Question: Arthur Sugarman founded which clothing company in 1963 initially becoming fashionable for the mods?
Answer: Ben Sherman
Question: Bill Shankly played for Carlisle United from 1932 to 1933. Which club did he play for from 1933 to 1949?
Answer: Preston North End
Question: What type of creature is a Hanuman?
Answer: A Monkey
Question: Who was the father of Edward the Elder, the Anglo-Saxon King from 899 to 924?
Answer: ALFRED THE GREAT
Question: Moise Tshombe was President of which province when it declared independence from the Congo in 1960?
Answer: KATANGA
Question: Nicknamed “King of the Kippax”, Colin Bell made 394 appearances and scored 117 goals for which English football club between 1966 and 1979?
Answer: Manchester City
Question: Power lifter Micky Yule became Britain’s first gold medal winner at which games last week?
Answer: Invictus Games
Question: The villages of Soultz-les-Bains, Eguisheim, Riquewihr & Soulzmatt are all located at the heart of which French wine region?
Answer: Alsace
Question: How are the members of The Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers now more commonly known, this name arose from a court case heard in 1797?
Answer: Tolpuddle Martyrs
Question: Two battleships of the Bismarck class were built for the German Navy. The first was Bismarck. What was the name of the second?
Answer: TIRPITZ
Question: The Bulgarian born artist Christo is associated with wrapping buildings including the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995 and which Paris bridge in 1985?
Answer: PONT-NEUF
Question: Tirpitz was sunk on November 1944 during Operation Catechism by bombers from Number 9 Squadron and which other numbered squadron, well known from Operation Chastise the previous year?
Answer: 617
Question: Which word completes the full title of the novel by Henry Fielding - The History of Tom Jones, a ______?
Answer: FOUNDLING
Question: Sadly veteran actor Burt Kwouk OBE left us last month at the age of 85, what was the name of the character he played in Last of the Summer Wine?
Answer: Entwistle
Question: Who wrote Nausea, Troubled Sleep and The Age of Reason?
Answer: (Jean-Paul) Sartre
Question: American architect Walter Burley Griffin won a completion in 1912 to build which Capitol City?
Answer: Canberra
Question: Usually on metal or wood, what term is used for the ageing process on an Antique?
Answer: Patina
Question: You’re Driving Me Crazy by the Temperance Seven was, in May 1961, the first Number One single for which record producer?
Answer: George Martin
Question: HMY Victoria and Albert, the third of that name, served four sovereigns between 1901 and 1939. For what word does the Y stand?
Answer: Yacht
Question: The state of Qatar has a land border with only one other country. Which one?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: Which post was held by Lord Denning from 1962 to 1982 and Lord Donaldson from 1982 to 1992?
Answer: Master Of The Rolls
Question: Whose name is missing from the first line of the Book of Proverbs in the Authorized Version of the Bible – ‘The proverbs of ________ the son of David, the King of Israel’?
Answer: Solomon
Question: In the Hindu religion Mohini, Krishna and Rama are all incarnations of which god?
Answer: Vishnu
Question: """Appassionata"" is a name given to Piano Concerto number 23 by which composer?"
Answer: Beethoven
Question: The Flamengo Vs Fluminense football derby, also known as the Fla–Flu is contested between two teams based in which city?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro
Question: Which year saw the death of Josef Stalin and the first televised Academy Awards Ceremony?
Answer: 1953
Question: 'The Modern Prometheus' was the subtitle of which 19th century novel?
Answer: 'FRANKENSTEIN'
Question: Which group had a UK number one hit in July 2009 with 'Beat Again'?
Answer: JLS
Question: Which BAFTA nominated British detective drama series is set in Hastings during World War Two?
Answer: 'FOYLE'S WAR'
Question: What was the name of the British battleship that was sunk by the German ship Bismark at the Battle of the Denmark Strait?
Answer: H.M.S. HOOD
Question: Deriving from the Latin for 'thunderbolt', what name is given to the natural hollow glass tubes formed in sand or soil by lightening strikes?
Answer: FULGURITES
Question: Which internationally recognised non-SI unit of pressure is equal to 101,325 Pascals?
Answer: ATMOSPHERE
Question: 'Operation Avalanche' was the codename given to the Allied invasion of which country during World War II?
Answer: ITALY
Question: Which horse won the 1967 Grand National at odds of 100/1 after a melee at the 23rd. fence caused most of the field to pull up?
Answer: FOINAVON
Question: What name is given to the cooler areas of the Sun's surface that are visible as dark patches?
Answer: SUNSPOTS
Question: Which 2001 'Westlife' song is the only UK number one single to begin with the letter 'Q'?
Answer: 'QUEEN OF MY HEART'
Question: What name is given to a volcanic opening that gives out gas and steam?
Answer: FUMAROLE
Question: After which battle of June 1800 in northern Italy was Napoleon's future secured?
Answer: MARENGO
Question: Which country's flag incorporates a wheel in the centre?
Answer: INDIA
Question: In mythology, who was forced to dine luxuriously beneath a sword, suspended by a single hair?
Answer: DAMOCLES
Question: Which radio station would one listen to on 1089 KHz on Medium Wave?
Answer: TALK SPORT
Question: Which BBC service would one listen to on 909 KHz Medium Wave?
Answer: RADIO FIVE LIVE
Question: The lands once rules by the Queen of Sheba now form part of which modern country?
Answer: YEMEN
Question: Which King supposedly died due to eating a surfeit of lampreys?
Answer: Henry I
Question: What is the seven letter common name of the mammal Suricata suricatta which is native to southern Africa (but not Russia)?
Answer: Meerkat
Question: Which river, that gives the trail its name, is followed by the walking and cycle path that leads from Brecon to Cardiff Bay?
Answer: Taff (Trail)
Question: Which composer was born in Italy in 1792, but is buried in Paris. He had the nickname 'Monsieur Crescendo'?
Answer: ROSSINI
Question: In which film did Sidney Poitier play a disruptive pupil, and Glenn Ford a harassed teacher?
Answer: 'THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE'
Question: In 1998 David Trimble and which other Northern Ireland politician jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the 'Good Friday Agreement'?
Answer: JOHN HUME
Question: Which New York park lies in the south-west of Manhattan Island, and faces the Hudson River?
Answer: BATTERY PARK
Question: Although he used several aliases, what was the better known name of Henry McCarty?
Answer: BILLIE THE KID
Question: In which country is the village of Ytterby, after which four chemical elements are named?
Answer: SWEDEN
Question: Who played 'Edward Beddoes', the victim's valet in the 1974 film 'Murder On The Orient Express'?
Answer: JOHN GIELGUD
Question: Stirling Moss also won the next British Grand prix held at Aintree, in 1957, to give which British team its first Grand Prix victory?
Answer: VANWALL
Question: In which month is Battle of Britain Day?
Answer: SEPTEMBER
Question: Said by John Peel to be the best pop song ever written, which group had a Top Forty hit in 1978 with 'Teenage Kicks'?
Answer: The Undertones
Question: What was the codename given to the British Commando raid on St Nazaire in March 1942?
Answer: Operation Chariot
Question: 'The Fensman' was a regular train service from East Anglia to which London Mainline rail terminus?
Answer: Liverpool Street
Question: Traditionally how many bells are sounded on board ship to herald in the New Year?
Answer: Sixteen
Question: Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced a death sentence in 1989 on Salman Rushdie as a result of what book, published the previous year?
Answer: 'THE SATANIC VERSES'
Question: From which Greek word for a plant cultivated in the Nile delta does the word 'paper' derive?
Answer: PAPYRUS
Question: Elected in 2007, the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament has what name, almost identical to that of a famous football manager?
Answer: ALEX FERGUSSON
Question: Which English king was married to both Isabel of Gloucester and Isabella of Angouleme?
Answer: JOHN
Question: 'Chrome' featured on whose number one hit single 'Holiday' in August 2009?
Answer: 'DIZZEE RASCAL'
Question: Which body of water separates East Malaysia from West Malaysia?
Answer: SOUTH CHINA SEA
Question: What name is given to the apparent change of frequency in a soundwave perceived by an observer as the source as the sound passes?
Answer: DOPPLER EFFECT
Question: What was the name of the 6/7th century Welsh-language poet who wrote 'The Gododdin'?
Answer: ANEIRIN
Question: Although it had been absent from the Western Hemisphere for seventy years, there was a major outbreak of which disease in Peru in 1991?
Answer: CHOLERA
Question: What was the name used by the aircraft hijacker who, in 1971, leapt from the back of a Boeing 727 over the American Pacific Northwest, after collecting a $200,000 ransom, and was never seen again?
Answer: D.B. COOPER
Question: The original Route 66 highway ran from Los Angeles to which city?
Answer: CHICAGO
Question: In Roman Catholicism, what name is given to the transportation of the Virgin Mary's body and soul to heaven?
Answer: ASSUMPTION
Question: Which title, deriving from the Latin word for 'leader', was given to the elected chief of state in the historical city- states of Venice and Genoa between the eighth and eighteenth centuries?
Answer: DOGE
Question: What type of creature was Amaltheia, who suckled the infant Zeus in a cave on Crete?
Answer: GOAT
Question: What sort of animal is 'Pumbaa' in 'The Lion King' film and stage show?
Answer: WARTHOG
Question: In which classic film is businessman 'George Bailey' on the brink of suicide when 'Clarence Oldbody' shows him what the world would have been like without him?
Answer: 'IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE'
Question: Which novel by Dickens features Mr Wackford Squeers' Academy in the village of Dotheboys near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby
Question: What is the four-letter name of the island, the second largest in Wales, that lies just off the west coast of Anglesey?
Answer: Holy Island
Question: Also known as the glutton, what is the most commonly used name for the largest land-dwelling species of the weasel family?
Answer: A Wolverine
Question: """I will put my pyjamas in the drawer marked pyjamas, I will take my balsam which is good for me"", is a line from which play?"
Answer: 'UNDER MILK WOOD'
Question: Who had a number one hit 2001 with 'Queen Of My Heart'?
Answer: 'WESTLIFE'
Question: Brezhnev and Kosygin take over from Kruschev, Southern Rhodesia becomes Zambia, Roger Emerson wins the Men's Singles at Wimbledon. Which year?
Answer: 1964