zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories series of books, the Vikings are described as Vicious. Which adjective is used to describe the Tudors?
Answer: Terrible
Question: Mussorgsky’s composition ‘Night on a bare mountain’ depicts a Witches Sabbath on the eve of which saints day?
Answer: Saint John
Question: Based in Washington DCs Eccles Building, what is the American equivalent of the Bank of England in the UK?
Answer: SYSTEM
Question: Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery was named after its founding benefactor, who made his fortune in what industry?
Answer: BREWING
Question: Handbags named in honour of Alexa Chung, Lana Del Rey and Cara Delevigne are all made by what manufacturer?
Answer: MULBERRY
Question: The National Gallery of British Art was renamed the Tate Gallery in 1932, to honour a major benefactor who made his fortune with what commodity?
Answer: SUGAR
Question: Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s consecutive singles record was broken in 1996-1997 by which group?
Answer: THE SPICE GIRLS
Question: After a 118 day siege, which town was relieved by General Buller on February 28th/March 1st 1900?
Answer: Ladysmith
Question: Which coin was first introduced as a gold coin by Edward III in 1334 but then re-introduced as a silver coin in 1849, supposedly as a tentative first step towards decimalisation?
Answer: Florin
Question: Which A road that starts at Selby, North Yorkshire, runs through York and Middlesbrough and finishes just south of Jarrow?
Answer: A19
Question: Three clues lead to a one word answer: 1. Daughter of a hotel dynasty, 2 Troy, 3 Plaster.
Answer: PARIS
Question: In the Superman comics, who is the young photographer whoworks with and is friends with Clark Kent and Lois Lane?
Answer: Jimmy Olsen
Question: Pendennis Castle and St Mawes Castle lie either side of the river close to which English town?
Answer: Falmouth
Question: Ketevan 'Katie' Melua was bom in 1984 in which Soviet Socialist Republic, now an independent country?
Answer: Georgia
Question: Which carnivorous mammal, native to Africa, SW Asia and the Indian sub-continent can also be known as the Honey Badger?
Answer: Ratel
Question: In which south coast town was the Brunei-built railway line running along the sea-front badly damaged in the storms of February 2014?
Answer: Dawlish
Question: What was the name of the debonair French highwayman prolific in England in the 1660s, he was executed at Tyburn in January 1670?
Answer: Claude Du Val
Question: What is Germany"s second largest city (it's on the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula)?
Answer: Hamburg
Question: Which lake was created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam?
Answer: Lake Nasser
Question: What was the BBC TV comedy series that ran between 1962 and 1974 that included episodes called The Leadman Cometh, My Old Man's A Tory and A Cuckoo In The Nest?
Answer: Steptoe and Son
Question: The insignia of King John of Bohemia, killed at the Battle of Crecy, has now become the crest of which noble Englishman?
Answer: Prince of Wales
Question: Named after a character appearing in Acts of the Apostles, what name is given to the act of paying for sacraments and consequently for holy offices or positions in the hierarchy of a church?
Answer: Simony
Question: Whose philosophical ideal of ubermensch or superman was adopted and distorted by the Nazis?
Answer: FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Question: The flag of which African country, adopted on the fall of the government in 2011, is that used when the country was a kingdom from 1951 to 1969?
Answer: LIBYA
Question: In legal usage what name is given to laws that restrict the maximum time legal proceedings may be initiated after an event occurs?
Answer: Limitations
Question: Which office of state has been held at various times since 1992 by the constituency MPs for Blackburn, Redditch, Rushcliffe and Maidenhead?
Answer: Home Secretary
Question: Paul Staines blogs about 'parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy' under what name, that of the real name of an historically significant plotter?
Answer: Guido Fawkes
Question: Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara are respectively the second and third biggest cities in which European country?
Answer: Romania
Question: What nickname is usually given to symphony no. 101 by Joseph Haydn? The name alludes to the metronomic qualities of the opening movement.
Answer: Clock
Question: Ron Hickman invented a much used DIY aid after damaging a chair while sawing wood?
Answer: (The Black & Decker) Workmate
Question: In November 2014, which MP fell foul of Twitter when taking a photograph of a white van parked outside a Union Jack bedecked house?
Answer: Emily Thornberry
Question: Inspired by the fairy-tale "Cinderella" Gioacchino Rossini composed which opera in 1816-17?
Answer: La Cenerentola
Question: The characters James Wormold, Charles Fortnum, Holly Martins and Pinkie Brown were created by which British author, who died in Switzerland in 1991?
Answer: Graham Greene
Question: In which artistic movement, formed in 1911 and taking its name from the London district forming the subject of many of their works, was Walter Sickert a leading figure?
Answer: The Camden Town Group
Question: What form of carbon was first isolated by Dr Andire Geim and Kostya Novoselov of Manchester University - ts development earned them a Nobel Prize in 2010?
Answer: Graphene
Question: Appearing for the first time in 1946, who, l say who, was the rooster featured in a series of Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons?
Answer: Foghorn Leghorn
Question: Whose early film roles included Estella, in David Lean’s "Great Expectations” and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet"?
Answer: Jean Simmons
Question: What is the title of the 1866 operetta that Sullivan composed without Gilbert to a libretto by F C Burnand?
Answer: Cox and Box
Question: The so-called ‘Acid Bath Murdere;d was executed in 1949 in Wandsworth Prison. What was nis name
Answer: John Haigh
Question: Which American Chief was stabbed and subsequently died whilst under a flag of truce at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, in 1877?
Answer: Crazy Horse
Question: To protect it from imitation, which Swiss chocolate bar was granted a patent in 1909?
Answer: Toblerone
Question: Which seventeenth century leader reputedly told his troops to ‘put your trust in God and keep your powder dry’?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell
Question: In what year did Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar and Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov die?
Answer: 1984
Question: Supposedly spoken by Jesus and his disciples, which Semitic language formed large parts of the Book of Daniel, the Talmud and the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Answer: ARAMAIC
Question: Who directed the film Olympia premiered at Adolf Hitler?s 49th birthday celebrations?
Answer: LENI RIEFENSTAHL
Question: Which theatrical movement was initiated by Antonin Artaud in the 1930s 'to disturb audiences and strip away the veneer of civilisation'?
Answer: THE THEATRE OF CRUELTY
Question: Which jazz trumpet player, born in South Carolina in 1917, is credited with inventing 'be-bop' alongside Charley Parker?
Answer: DIZZY GILLESPIE
Question: Which double Scottish international sportsman died in a Japanese internment camp in Weifang, China, in 1945?
Answer: ERIC LIDDELL
Question: Which present day capital city was the capital of Hungary from 1536 to 1784 because of the Ottoman occupation?
Answer: BRATISLAVA
Question: Bert Weedon wrote a book entitled Play In a Day which gave advice on how to play which musical instrument?
Answer: GUITAR
Question: Which politician succeeded Anthony Eden as Foreign Secretary in April 1955, and then became Chancellor of the Exchequer in December of the same year?
Answer: Maurice Harold MACMILLAN
Question: In a one-day cricket match on January 6th 2012 against Bangladesh A the first six batsmen for England Lions, Roy, Root, Vince, Taylor, Bairstow and Buttler all have first names that begin with which letter?
Answer: J
Question: Which northern Irish singer-songwriters only UK top 20 hit was a duet with Cliff Richard, entitled "Whenever God Shines His Light"?
Answer: Van Morrison
Question: Brouilly, Morgon, Fleurie and Julienas are among the better classifications of wine from which popular wine-growing area of France?
Answer: Beaujolais
Question: In "The Prisoner of Azkaban" who was Harry Potter's godfather?
Answer: Sirius Black
Question: In the SI system of units, which prefix indicates a unit 1,000 times smaller than the basic unit?
Answer: Milli-
Question: The Limehouse Declaration, issued on 25th January 1981, effectively launched which UK political party?
Answer: SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC
Question: In John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, what is the name of the family whose journey across the USA is traced?
Answer: JOAD
Question: The Lines of Torres Vedras were lines of forts built in 1809-1810 during the Peninsular War to defend which city?
Answer: LISBON
Question: In Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev which instrument represents the cat?
Answer: CLARINET
Question: Which river runs through the Cumbrian town of Kendal?
Answer: KENT
Question: Which large land mammal features in a famous woodcut of 1515 by AIbrecht Durer?
Answer: Rhinoceros
Question: The equator crosses the east coast of Africa in which country?
Answer: SOMALIA
Question: Which chemical element, the first of the halogens, has the atomic number 9?
Answer: Fluorine '
Question: When the Venus de milo was discovered in 1930 what did the fragments along the broken statue show what had been held in the left hand?
Answer: AN APPLE
Question: What is the name of the north American Swan the heaviest living bird native to North America that became almost extinct in the 1930’s but has since recovered significantly?
Answer: TRUMPETER
Question: Who held the post of First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of the First World War and was appointed to the post again two days after the outbreak of the Second World War?
Answer: WINSTON CHURCHILL
Question: The River Rhone enters which European lake in Switzerland before exiting the same lake in France - English name needed?
Answer: GENEVA
Question: Which British poet (1914-1953) is quoted as having said “When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes”?
Answer: DYLAN THOMAS
Question: Which fictional character, in books and on TV, often spoke of dealing with the Penge Bungalow Murders as the great event of a long career?
Answer: Horace Rumpole
Question: Frogmore House, previously used as a royal residence and now largely used on ceremonial occasions only is located within which larger crown estate?
Answer: Windsor
Question: Which vitamin is also known as Retinol or Retinal?
Answer: A
Question: The Pushkar Fair, an annual event in the desert state of Rajashtan in India, witnesses sales of thousands of livestock with a focus on what?
Answer: Camels
Question: In Aboriginal myth, if Dreamtime is the era when spirit beings created the world, what are the paths they traversed?
Answer: Songlines
Question: The Roman Empire themed Caesers Palace casino in Las Vegas features an indulgent buffet that has what appropriate 'festive' name?
Answer: Bacchanal
Question: What Hindu pilgrimage that takes place every twelve years in which people participate in ritual purification in rivers (mainly the Ganges) is said to be among the largest gatherings of humanity?
Answer: Kumbh Mela
Question: In folklore, what did the 16th century raabi Judah Loew ben Bezalel create to defend the Prague ghetto from antisemitic attacks?
Answer: Golem
Question: O'zapft is! What is the better known name of the annual celebration called by the locals as 'Wiesn' referring to the grounds where it is held?
Answer: Oktoberfest
Question: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis explored in the award winning 1966 novel Babel-17 states that human thought is strongly influenced by what?
Answer: Language
Question: What invention of Mary Quant whose users were subject to raids by the moral police in the 60s was named after her favourite make of car?
Answer: Miniskirt
Question: Treskilling Yellow from Sweden, Bull's Eye from Brazil, Inverted Jenny from the United States, Basel Dove from Switzerland and Benjamin Franklin Z Grill from the United States are some of the famous specimens of what?
Answer: Postage stamps
Question: What concept of Hinduism is traditionally classified into three kinds - Sanchita (accumulated), Prarabdha (ripened) and Kriyamana (produced in the current life)?
Answer: Karma
Question: The sedia gestatoria, a portable throne that was in use till 1978 was used to carry whom?
Answer: Popes
Question: In Greek mythology, while going back from the Trojan War, whom did Menelaus successfully capture despite that person taking the form of a lion, a serpent, a leopard, a pig, and even that of water and a tree?
Answer: Proteus
Question: The annual Mount Hagen Cultural Show that began in 1961 both as a celebration of tribal culture and as a forum for friendly competition (in place of tribal war) is one of the biggest draws of which large island nation?
Answer: Papua New Guinea
Question: The notion of God having two forms and ten Sefirot mediating between them is central to the belief system of which mystical tradition?
Answer: Kabbalah
Question: In Greek mythology, a group of fierce fighters called the Myrmidons were commanded by which mighty warrior?
Answer: Achilles
Question: What classical ballet tells the story of Odette who is turned into a creature by an evil sorcerer's curse?
Answer: Swan Lake
Question: The most famous symbol of what people of North Africa is the Tagelmust, an indigo blue-colored veil that gives them the name 'People of the Veil'?
Answer: Tuareg
Question: Which major 20th century art movement is divided into two parts called Analytical and Synthetic?
Answer: Cubism
Question: Alluded to by Alexander Pope in his An Essay on Criticism, in Greek mythology it was believed that drinking from what body of water would bring you great inspiration?
Answer: Pierian spring
Question: The name of American businessman and ex-CEO of Union Carbide Warren Anderson who died in Sep, 2014 is associated with the industrial disaster of which city?
Answer: Bhopal
Question: The three stripes in the logo of what sportswear manufacturer represent mountains, as a metaphor for challenges?
Answer: Adidas
Question: An unidentified Satoshi Nakamoto is credited with what concept that has taken the financial world by storm?
Answer: Bitcoin
Question: When engineer Percy Spencer discovered that his chocolate bar became a mess when near a magnetron, it lead to the invention of what modern convenience?
Answer: Microwave
Question: The ruins of a large complex of shops near the Colosseum that have been called the world's oldest shopping mall is named for what Roman emperor?
Answer: Trajan
Question: The executive Malcolm T. Stamper is best known for leading 50,000 people in a huge plant at Everett, Washington in the 1960s for the construction of what engineering marvel?
Answer: Boeing 747
Question: What is the name of the oil rig that sank and caused the largest offshore oil spill in US history and gave BP a bad rep in 2010?
Answer: Deepwater Horizon
Question: The name of which company was initially proposed as 'Pequod' but the idea was retracted when someone said "No one's going to drink a cup of Pee-quod!"?
Answer: Starbucks
Question: Which 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen is known for the industrial production of steel and armaments and has been known as the 'Arsenal of the Reich'?
Answer: Krupp family
Question: In 1984, while filming a commercial for which company did Michael Jackson suffer second degree burns after pyrotechnics set his hair on fire?
Answer: Pepsi Cola
Question: Reginald Rose was once part of a jury that debated a manslaughter case for eight hours. This incident inspired him to create what drama that has seen multiple adaptations?
Answer: Twelve Angry Men
Question: If The Quiet American (2002) is to Vietnam, The Killing Fields (1984) is to Cambodia, then The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) is to what country?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: Editor Thelma Schoonmaker's successful collaboration with which director fetched her three Oscars in 1980, 2004 and 2006? (hint: the director won only once till date in one of these years)
Answer: Martin Scorsese
Question: The set piece of what classic 1955 one-word French film is a 30-min heist scene filmed in near silence and which has inspired real crimes around the world?
Answer: Rififi
Question: The screening of the classic satire Dr. Strangelove was originally scheduled for November 22, 1963 but was delayed until January 1964 for what particular reason?
Answer: Kennedy's assassination
Question: The 1973 Japanese film Lady Snowblood that is about a woman seeking vengeance upon her parents' killers was the inspiration behind what 2000s 2-part blockbuster?
Answer: Kill Bill
Question: The 1996 movie The Evening Star starring Shirley MacLaine who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway is a sequel to which Oscar-winning movie of the 1980s?
Answer: Terms of Endearment
Question: What word that refers to a rite of passage among aborigines is also the title of an acclaimed 1971 British film that features an urban brother and sister in the Australian outback?
Answer: Walkabout
Question: What 2004 sci-fi film starring Vin Diesel that was a sequel to Pitch Black received poor reviews from critics who called it 'riddickulous'?
Answer: The Chronicles of Riddick
Question: In 1966, which scientist was asked to contribute an interview to a proposed introduction to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey? He wasn't offered billions and billions though!
Answer: Carl Sagan
Question: The consumption of Touareg tea which is tea flavored with which herb is widely prevalent in several Arab countries?
Answer: Mint
Question: What meat dish got its name when a chef got an order for raw meat and remembered a Venetian painter whose work was dominated by reds and yellows?
Answer: Carpaccio
Question: The French Paradox is the observation that the French suffer a relatively low incidence of heart disease, despite having a diet rich in saturated fats. After a description of it aired on 60 Minutes in 1991, there was a significant spurt in the sale of what item?
Answer: Red wine
Question: What vegetable that is also called a Swedish turnip is avoided by many older Germans as they consider it 'famine food'?
Answer: Rutabaga
Question: What is the better known 'national' name of the confection called lokum that is a gel of starch and sugar with nuts usually mixed in?
Answer: Turkish delight
Question: Since doctors are meant to 'cure-all', the first line of the Hippocratic oath appropriately mentions what other goddess along with Apollo, Aesculapius, and Hygeia?
Answer: Panacea
Question: Travis Tygart was chiefly instrumental in leading the expose of whom, now a fallen hero, in 2012?
Answer: Lance Armstrong
Question: The legendary Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, also the site where an all-time great mystery novel was conceived, was built in 1892 for passengers who arrived in the city by what specific transport?
Answer: Orient Express
Question: In 1962 when minister Pat Robertson decided to prop-up a failing TV channel, he set a membership goal with each member contributing $10 a month to sustain the channel. How many people did Robertson plan on making members?
Answer: Seven hundred
Question: Imagine a society and decide on its principles for the distribution of rights, positions and resources. You must do this without knowing your position in this society. What is the term for this method of determining the morality of an issue that was first proposed by John Harsanyi and later made famous by John Rawls?
Answer: Veil of ignorance
Question: What nuclear weapon policy was first declared by China in 1964, later adopted by India and North Korea, dropped by Russia in 1993 and has been rejected repeatedly by NATO?
Answer: No first use
Question: When dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, a Chinese businessman proposed the creation of an equivalent prize to 'promote world peace from an Eastern perspective.' In whose name was the prize created? (hint: not Buddha)
Answer: Confucius
Question: Dr. Conrad Murray whose trial started in September 2011 in the US was tried for giving a fatal dose of a sedative to which talented celebrity?
Answer: Michael Jackson
Question: Named for Polish-Lithuanian-American book dealer, what 15th century book whose script, language and illustrations continue to baffle experts has been called "the world's most mysterious manuscript"?
Answer: Voynich manuscript
Question: Groote Schuur estate in South Africa was the site for the signing of a historic agreement between Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk in 1990. The estate originally belonged to which tycoon?
Answer: Cecil Rhodes
Question: The Dickin Medal that bears the words 'For Gallantry' and 'We Also Serve' was instituted in 1943 by Maria Dickin to honour the work of whom/what in war?
Answer: Animals
Question: What were found in a cave near Qumran, Jordan by Mohammed Ahmed el-Hamed in 1947 that significantly impacted the world's understanding of religion and history?
Answer: Dead Sea Scrolls
Question: In 1994, Bill Gates bought The Codex Hammer at an auction for $30.8 million, making it the most expensive book ever. Whose writings does it contain?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci's
Question: 'Janjaweed', an Arabic word that literally translates to 'devil on a horse' has achieved infamy by its association with a dubious group in which current day crisis in Sudan?
Answer: Darfur conflict
Question: Deviating from standard practice, the US patent office has a policy of refusing to grant a patent without a working model for what type of device?
Answer: Perpetual motion machine
Question: In 1991, two men in England named Doug Bower and Dave Chorley revealed that they had been making these 'Signs' using planks, rope, hats and wire and thus exposed what hitherto unexplained phenomenon as a hoax?
Answer: Crop circles
Question: What institution in New Jersey best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein and John von Neumann was established to foster research without the complications of teaching or funding or sponsorship?
Answer: Institute for Advanced Study
Question: If a list is made of people who have the most area of earth named for them, Amerigo Vesupucci wins hands down as he has two continents in his name. Which person after whom two states in a country, two islands, a desert, a strait, and a lake have been named takes the next place?
Answer: Queen Victoria
Question: The Galata bridge spans what water body that is part of the Bosphorous strait and that has been a subject of numerous works of art?
Answer: Golden Horn
Question: Geographic features called rilles that come in sinuous, arcuate and straight types are a prominent part of the landscape where?
Answer: Moon
Question: Of the twenty two members of the Arab league, only three maintain diplomatic relations with Israel. They are Egypt, Palestine and what other country?
Answer: Jordan
Question: A rock called Heel Stone that measures 16 feet above the ground and whose previous names include Friar's Heel and Sun-stone lies outside the main entrance to what monument?
Answer: Stonehenge
Question: What region of China that has a border checkpoint called Posto Fronteiriço das Portas do Cerco ('Frontier Post of the Border Gate' in Portuguese) is both the first and last European colony in that country?
Answer: Macau
Question: The visa that makes travel easy within twenty-six countries of Europe takes its name from an agreement signed in 1985 in what city of Luxembourg?
Answer: Schengen
Question: The Kagera river that became known for carrying bodies from the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 is the largest single inflow into what body of water?
Answer: Lake Victoria
Question: Among hundreds of animal paintings, the only figure of a human being appears in an engraving called Shaft of the Dead Man at what World Heritage location?
Answer: Lascaux caves
Question: What wild American feature begins at Springer Mountain in Georgia and ends at Katahdin in Maine for a total distance of 2,175 miles?
Answer: Appalachian Trail
Question: The US think tank Fund For Peace comes out with a Failed States Index every year. Which country topped the list for a fourth consecutive year in 2011?
Answer: Somalia