zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which group had a UK hit in August 1966 with the song 'With A Girl Like You'?
Answer: 'THE TROGGS'
Question: The independentist forces led by Antonio Jose de Sucre, which country's independence was won at the 1824 'Battle of Ayacucho '?
Answer: PERU
Question: During the eighth century, of which kingdom was Offa the king?
Answer: MERCIA
Question: Although best known for his novels and essays, Gore Vidal, who died in 2012, also co-wrote the screenplay for which extremely successful film of the 1950's?
Answer: 'BEN HUR'
Question: Cleopatra's Needle in London had stood in which Egyptian city since 12 BC
Answer: Alexandria
Question: Emile Ford and the Checkmates had a UK number one in 1959 with a song whose title included which parts of the body?
Answer: (What Do You Want To Make Those) Eyes (At Me For?)
Question: What is the name of the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico subjected to an explosion in April this year?
Answer: 'DEEPWATER HORIZON'
Question: At which Grammar School is 'Mr. Cleaves' a bizarre teacher, in the first series of 'Little Britain'?
Answer: 'KELSEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL'
Question: Located between the A580 and the Bridgewater Canal, at which former colliery now a museum, is the only surviving pit headgear and engine house in the Lancashire coalfield?
Answer: ASTLEY GREEN
Question: Who is the only Scot to be elected European Footballer of the Year?
Answer: DENIS LAW
Question: Which Nobel Prize did Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams win in 1976?
Answer: PEACE
Question: Which US stockbroker was arrested in December 2008 charged with securities fraud and later jailed for 150 years?
Answer: BERNARD MADOFF
Question: In which Shakespeare play will you find 'Dull', 'Costard' and 'Moth'?
Answer: 'LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST'
Question: Brian Huggett, the father of 'Casualty' actress Sandra Huggett is a former star at which sport?
Answer: GOLF
Question: About which of her fellow actresses did Bette Davis say "She's slept with every star in Hollywood except Lassie"?
Answer: JOAN CRAWFORD
Question: The presence of which vitamin in the body is necessary for blood to clot?
Answer: VITAMIN K
Question: Which Nintendo arcade game first introduced the character of 'Mario'?
Answer: 'DONKEY KONG'
Question: What is the one word title of the 2010 drama series, co- written by Steven Moffat, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, supported by Martin Freeman?
Answer: 'SHERLOCK'
Question: The book 'A Walk In The Woods' describes Bill Bryson's attempt to hike which trail in the eastern USA?
Answer: APPALACHIAN TRAIL
Question: The group of Buckinghamshire villages known as 'The Chalfonts' comprises Little Chalfont, Chalfont St. Peters and Chafont St... What?
Answer: GILES
Question: Which country is identified by the name 'Lietuva' on its stamps?
Answer: LITHUANIA
Question: RMS Atlantic which ran aground off Nova Scotia in April 1873 with the loss of over 500 lives was the second ship built for which shipping line?
Answer: WHITE STAR
Question: Mary, Baroness Soames is the only current female member of the Order of the Garter. Who was her father?
Answer: WINSTON CHURCHILL
Question: Which word is missing from the title of the sequel to ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ by John Updike –‘The ......... of Eastwick’ his final novel written thirty years after the original?
Answer: (THE) WIDOWS (OF EASTWICK)
Question: In which sport did Precious McKenzie win three consecutive Commonwealth Gold medals for England from 1966 to 1974, then when representing New Zealand won a fourth in 1978?
Answer: WEIGHTLIFTING
Question: This fever was first detected in West Africa in 1969. There is no known cure and it is spread by rats found only in that area. What is the Fever's name?
Answer: Lassa Fever
Question: In which range of English hills is the town of Watlington?
Answer: Chilterns
Question: """It is this day three hundred and forty eight years, six months and nineteen days that the good people of Paris were awakened by a grand pealing from all the bells"" is the first line of which novel?"
Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Question: Gander Airport was used as a refuelling stop for transatlantic flights between the 1940s and the 1960s. In which Canadian province is it?
Answer: Newfoundland (And Labrador)
Question: From the 1970s many international passengers on charter flights cleared US customs during a refuelling stop at Bangor Airport. In which state is it?
Answer: Maine
Question: Which mountain completes the title of a short story by Ernest Hemingway first published in 1936 - The Snows of ________?
Answer: Kilimanjaro
Question: What same word can be somewhere to sit, a division within a school or the home of a hare?
Answer: Form
Question: What was the real surname of Hergé who wrote The Adventures of Tintin?
Answer: Remi
Question: Which bridge across the River Thames comes next going downstream after Vauxhall and Lambeth?
Answer: Westminster
Question: What same word can be a word for theatrical scenery, a list of songs performed at a concert or a sequence of legs in darts?
Answer: Set
Question: Crucible Best and Forgemasters are recent beers produced by which brewery named after the city in which it is based?
Answer: Sheffield
Question: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn is the title of chapter 7 of which children’s book by Kenneth Grahame?
Answer: The Wind In The Willows
Question: What nickname was given to the 93rd Regiment of Foot (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) after the Battle of Balaclava in 1854?
Answer: The Thin Red Line
Question: Who was the mother of Perseus? She was seduced by Zeus in the form of a shower of gold.
Answer: Danae
Question: Born Ferinand Joseph Lamenth in 1890 in New Orleans, by what name was the Jazz musician better known?
Answer: Jelly Roll Morton
Question: Which word completes the title of the jazz song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, "Minnie the _______"?
Answer: Moocher
Question: After whom was the tower block in Peckham, the home to the Trotters, in Only Fools and Horses named?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
Question: Which future King became Lord of Ireland aged 10 years in 1177?
Answer: John
Question: Which King was born at Dunfermline Palace in November 1600?
Answer: Charles I
Question: What is vitamin B2 also known as?
Answer: Riboflavin
Question: Which product was first launched from it's factory in St. Anne’s Road Walthamstow in 1945
Answer: Toilet paper
Question: What did Sir Winston Churchill win in 1953
Answer: Nobel prize for literature
Question: Teddy Bear was featured in which Elvis Presley film
Answer: Loving You
Question: Which group said Come and Get it in 1970
Answer: Badfinger
Question: What is the part of a horse's bridle that goes into its mouth called
Answer: The bit
Question: What was the name of the sitcom which starred Samantha Janus, Denise Van Outen and Natalie Walter as Flatmates
Answer: Babes in the Wood
Question: Who shot and killed Wild Bill Hickock in 1876
Answer: Jack McCall
Question: Thiamin is the chemical name for which vitamin
Answer: B1
Question: Quebec and Montreal are both on which Canadian river
Answer: Saint Lawrence
Question: In which foreign city would you be if you were walking over the Bridge of Sighs
Answer: Venice
Question: What type of creature is a western spadefoot
Answer: A toad
Question: Which character in Alice in Wonderland never stopped sobbing
Answer: The Mock Turtle
Question: Who was the Australian who had three number one hits between Dec 88 and June 89
Answer: Jason Donovan
Question: Who had a No 1 in 1997 with Don't Speak
Answer: No Doubt
Question: Which 1998 film starred James Belushi and Tupac Shakur as a couple of policemen who rip off drug dealers before killing them
Answer: Gang Related
Question: After Britain lost the war of American Independence which part of North America did they retain
Answer: Canada
Question: Which cavalry regiment was Custer’s last command
Answer: The Seventh Cavalry
Question: Which film star and singer said your not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
Answer: Dean Martin
Question: In which conflict did these three battles occur, Memphis, Antietam and Fredericksburg
Answer: American Civil War
Question: Which Greek general invaded India in 326 B.C.
Answer: Alexander the Great
Question: What was the classic Percy Sledge hit that charted in the sixties and again in the eighties
Answer: When a Man Loves a Woman
Question: Maglev is a form of high speed surface transport what does the name maglev mean
Answer: Magnetic levitation
Question: How many contestants compete in a round of Mastermind
Answer: Four
Question: Which European country was ruled by Queens throughout the 20th Century
Answer: Holland
Question: What was said to be the drink of the Greek Gods
Answer: Nectar
Question: Who led the Branch Dravidian sect that was largely destroyed in a fire at Waco in Texas
Answer: David Koresh
Question: Who did author Gore Vidal describe in 1981 as, a triumph of the embalmer's art
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: Which cartoon character has the catch phrase what's up doc
Answer: Bugs Bunny
Question: How many milk bottles are on Fred Flintstone's step when he puts the cat out
Answer: One
Question: Which American city is the setting for Frasier
Answer: Seattle
Question: In which desert do Kalmucks and Mongols live
Answer: Gobi Desert
Question: Which drink advertised itself in the U.S.A. as 'Hits the spot, twelve full ounces, that's a lot'
Answer: Pepsi Cola
Question: How many General Elections did Harold Wilson win as leader of the Labour Party
Answer: Four
Question: What is the American word for grilling food
Answer: Broiling
Question: Which wading bird is encouraged to nest on rooftops as a symbol of fertility
Answer: Stork
Question: Which insects live in formicaries
Answer: Ants
Question: What term is used by wine buffs to describe the aroma of wine
Answer: Bouquet
Question: Which Kansas town made famous in many westerns is on the Smoky Hill river
Answer: Abilene
Question: On which of the pipes of a set of bagpipes is the tune fingered
Answer: Chanter
Question: What name is given to the style of art invented by Picasso and Braque in which the subject is reduced to basic geometric solids
Answer: Cubism
Question: Who had a No 1 in the 90's with Beetlebum
Answer: Blur
Question: Which country won most medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Answer: Australia
Question: Whose is the first death mentioned in the Bible
Answer: Abel
Question: How many strokes at the start and the turn are competitive breast strokers allowed to take while under water
Answer: One
Question: What kind of fruit or vegetable are capsicums
Answer: Peppers
Question: What could be a hasty kiss, a dry goods measure or a nip with a beak
Answer: Peck
Question: Marble Arch was designed by John Nash to commemorate whose victories in battle
Answer: Lord Nelson
Question: What name is given to the network of canals behind the colleges at Cambridge
Answer: The Backs
Question: What was the name of the principal horse in George Orwell's Animal Farm
Answer: Boxer
Question: At which battle was Custer's last stand
Answer: The Little Big Horn
Question: How many minutes are you allowed before being timed out in first class cricket (not the 20 20 competition)
Answer: Two
Question: What does the cockney rhyming slang tomfoolery mean
Answer: Jewellery
Question: The Greeks, they say, have a word for it, but what do they call their own country
Answer: Hellas
Question: What is the minimum number of people that can turn an unruly disturbance into a riot
Answer: Three
Question: What did a 1957 government report on prostitution and homosexuality become known as
Answer: The Wolfenden Report
Question: Who was Little Sure Shot according to Sitting Bull
Answer: Annie Oakley
Question: What would a person normally do with perique
Answer: Smoke it
Question: What breed of dog was traditionally used for the retrieval of game birds, particularly quail and woodcock
Answer: Cocker spaniel
Question: As at 2012 what 115-island Indian Ocean nation has the smallest population (about 86,000) of any African country
Answer: Seychelles
Question: The fictional characters William Dobbin and Rawdon Crawley appear in which novel
Answer: Vanity Fair
Question: The Maledicta Society caters for people who like to do what
Answer: Swear
Question: What is armour called that consisted of riveted metal rings or links
Answer: Chain mail
Question: What is the study of using the bumps on one's head to deduce character and intelligence called
Answer: Phrenology
Question: Name the Glasgow-born guitar virtuoso and 1960s founder of the band Pentangle who died age 67 in 2011
Answer: Bert Jansch
Question: What bluish white element is used in battery electrodes
Answer: Zinc
Question: Eaton Hall in Cheshire has been the seat of which ducal family since the 1440's
Answer: Duke of Westminster
Question: What is meant in Australia by a Gulag
Answer: Forced labour camp
Question: At which football league ground can you sit in the Geoffrey Watling Stand
Answer: Carrow Road
Question: What was the name of the disastrous musical based on the life of Johnny Cash that ended on Broadway after only a month
Answer: Ring of Fire
Question: Which major settlement was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC
Answer: Carthage
Question: What type of butter was advertised on TV using wobbly cows
Answer: Anchor
Question: In Greek mythology what were the mythical sea nymphs called that tried to lure Ulysses onto the rocks
Answer: Sirens
Question: Which type of aeroplanes were used by the Argentine Air Force to launch Exocet missiles
Answer: Super Etendards
Question: Which group had a number one album in 1978 with Rumours
Answer: Fleetwood Mac
Question: Which famous architect was born in the Wiltshire village of East Knoyle
Answer: Sir Christopher Wren
Question: If an angler caught a fully grown roach and a perch which one would be the biggest
Answer: The perch
Question: Which American group brought out their twelfth album in 2001 titled Reveal
Answer: REM
Question: Before he went bald what colour was Winston Churchill's hair
Answer: Red
Question: In which war was the Battle of Isandlwana
Answer: Zulu war
Question: Which international and somewhat secretive organization refers to God as the Great Architect of the Universe
Answer: Freemasons
Question: Who was the only woman in Edward Heath's first cabinet
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: DASHING AT HARDY (anagram of a Grammy winning song)
Answer: A Hard Day's Night
Question: In what part of the world was the terrorist organisation EOKA active in the fifties
Answer: Cyprus
Question: Which female US singer was voted Greatest Singer of all Time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2010
Answer: Aretha Franklin
Question: In 1946 which specially trained fighting body became an exclusive branch of the Royal Marines
Answer: The Commandos
Question: Which film was based on a James Jones novel set in Honolulu prior to the attack on Pearl Harbour
Answer: From Here to Eternity
Question: In the Tommy Lee Jones film The Hunted who recited the first verse of Bob Dylan's Highway 61 during the opening credits
Answer: Johnny Cash
Question: Who directed the film Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Answer: Frank Capra
Question: Which American writer and poet left an unfinished work called Cantos
Answer: Ezra POUND
Question: What Wild West figure is described on his New Mexico tombstone as "The Boy Bandit King"
Answer: Billy the Kid
Question: What feminine Christian name was coined by the author J.M. Barrie
Answer: Wendy
Question: How many volumes of The Domesday Book are there
Answer: Two
Question: Who began his singing career on the variety radio programme Welsh Rarebit
Answer: Harry Secombe
Question: Where was Brunel's mighty ship Great Britain aground for 83 years before being brought back to Bristol
Answer: Falklands Islands
Question: Who refereed the World Title fight in 1896 between Tom Sharkey and Bob Fitzsimmons and pulled a gun during it
Answer: Wyatt Earp
Question: What invention of Sir Ernest Swinton changed warfare for ever
Answer: The tank
Question: Which multi-coloured diamond pattern, frequently seen on knitted socks and sometimes on jumpers is named after a Scottish clan
Answer: Argyle
Question: Bill Wilson and Doctor Robert Smith founded which self help organisation
Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous
Question: If food is described a La Dubarry what is it garnished with
Answer: Cauliflower
Question: Which of Henry V111's wives was known as The Flanders Mare
Answer: Anne of Cleves
Question: Which country manufactures the Silkworm Missile
Answer: China
Question: What are the punched holes on the sides of postage stamps called
Answer: Perforations
Question: If a wine is described as flabby what does it lack
Answer: Acidity
Question: In 1999, a publicity stunt by FHM magazine saw a huge naked picture of which celebrity projected onto the Houses of Parliament
Answer: Gail Porter
Question: Which British aircraft company made the Sea Hawk fighter
Answer: Hawker
Question: Which Christian holiday takes its name from the Saxon goddess of spring
Answer: Easter
Question: Which country is sometimes called the battlefield of Europe
Answer: Belgium
Question: If you only have one match and you want to light a cigarette and the gas fire what do you light first
Answer: The match
Question: What is the maximum number of people that Scotty Can beam up at one time in Star Trek
Answer: Six
Question: In which city was Martin Luther King assassinated
Answer: Memphis
Question: According to tradition Bonnie Prince Charlie gave Captain McKinnon the recipe for which liqueur
Answer: Drambuie
Question: What was the name given to the German air force fighting for Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War
Answer: The Condor Legion
Question: SEE MAGIC CONTOURS (anagram of a job or profession)
Answer: A Cosmetic Surgeon
Question: According to superstition If your shoelace comes undone of its own accord, who is supposed to be thinking about you
Answer: Your lover
Question: What tribe did Goliath belong to
Answer: Philistines
Question: With over 150 varieties, which common herb is said to provide relief from an upset stomach
Answer: Mint
Question: Who was kidnapped from the Colby's by a UFO and later turned up in Dynasty
Answer: Fallon
Question: What shade of cloth was Robin Hood supposed to favour
Answer: Lincoln Green
Question: Who were Larry, Curly and Mo better known as ?
Answer: The Three Stooges
Question: 'Fire' was a UK No.1 in June 1968 for who?
Answer: Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Question: Who had a UK No.1 hit in May 1972 with 'Vincent'?
Answer: Don McLean
Question: A Comte France Landgraf Germany Conde Italy what England?
Answer: Earl
Question: In heraldry what is a vertical line dividing a shield called?
Answer: Pale
Question: In Show Jumping, how many points are lost if a horse knocks down both parts of a double fence?
Answer: 8
Question: In which sport might you come across a 'googly or a chinaman'?
Answer: Cricket
Question: How many players are there in a rounders side?
Answer: 9
Question: Beginning with a 'C', what word is used to describe 'a disease of the liver'?
Answer: Cirrhosis
Question: What is the name of Dr. Dolittles parrot?
Answer: Polynesia
Question: Which painter's trip to and later residence in California inspired him to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in Los Angeles using the comparatively new acrylic medium, rendered in a highly realistic style using vibrant colours?
Answer: David Hockney
Question: Who's famous (reputed) last words were 'I told you I was ill'?
Answer: Spike Milligan
Question: Which Scottish battle took place in 1314?
Answer: The Battle of Bannockburn.
Question: Who assassinated John F. Kennedy?
Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald
Question: In which European country will you find a town called Condom?
Answer: France
Question: Who joined forces with the Russians when they were defeated by Napoleon at the 'Battle of Austerlitz' in 1805?
Answer: Austria
Question: What was Snow White's coffin made of ?
Answer: Glass
Question: What group had their first UK hit with three times a lady ?
Answer: Commodores
Question: As well as becoming man and wife, William and Kate became Duke and Duchess of where?
Answer: Cambridge
Question: Sadly, Billy Jo Spears died on 14th December. Can you name her biggest hit, which, in 1975, became her only number one.?
Answer: """Blanket on the Ground"""
Question: What is the only Shakespeare play that mentions America?
Answer: The Comedy of Errors
Question: What was first built in the Place de Greve in 1792?
Answer: The Guillotine
Question: A tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Question: What is the German name of Hitler's book about his life?
Answer: Mein Kampf
Question: What is the Hebrew name for the 'Jewish Day of Atonement?
Answer: Yom Kippur
Question: Which team held on to the European Cup for the fifth consecutive year in 1960?
Answer: Real Madrid
Question: In which sport would you see a Redskin or a Dolphin score three points for a field goal?
Answer: American Football
Question: In the novel 'Call of the Wild' by Jack London, what was the dogs name?
Answer: Buck
Question: What was the operational name of the Battle of Iwo Jima?
Answer: Operation Detachment
Question: What is Dick Grayson better known as?
Answer: Robin
Question: What food item in French literally means twice cooked?
Answer: Biscuit
Question: What year all these guys born: Ringo Starr, Tom Jones and Pele?
Answer: 1940
Question: In what year was Elvis Presley born?
Answer: 1935
Question: Which two tribes combined to defeat General Custer's forces at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Answer: Sioux and Cheyenne
Question: Dermatitis is a disease affecting what?
Answer: The skin
Question: What six letter 'B' word means Violation of a law or contract?
Answer: Breach
Question: Who reached the top spot in the UK charts with 'Please Don't Tease' in August 1960?
Answer: Cliff Richard and the Shadows
Question: The 'Battle of Waterloo' was fought in which country?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Who played Corporal Clinger in Mash?
Answer: Jamie Farr
Question: What place is called Rapa-nui by its native inhabitants?
Answer: Easter Island
Question: In 1982 who had a No.1 UK hit with 'Land of Make Believe'?
Answer: Bucks Fizz
Question: Who wrote the poem "A Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Question: The setting agent 'Agar' is obtained from seaweed. True or false?
Answer: True
Question: Henry V111 had several wives. Who was the last one?
Answer: Catherine Parr
Question: What was Frank Sinatra's big 1966 hit, a number one in 13 countries?
Answer: Strangers in the Night
Question: Which animal is mentioned the most in the Bible?
Answer: Sheep
Question: What city is the capital of Argentina?
Answer: Buenos Aires
Question: Who was Moses elder sibling?
Answer: Aaron
Question: If you had a medal depicting three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders, what would you have?
Answer: The Nobel Peace Prize
Question: Which type of fruit could be called 'Cambridge Favourite'; Calypso' or 'Royal Sovereign'?
Answer: Strawberry
Question: The saffron flower often used in cooking is a type of which plant?
Answer: Crocus
Question: Where would you find the 'Spanish Steps'?
Answer: Rome
Question: """Coz I Luv You"" was a No.1 hit in 1971 for which group?"
Answer: Slade
Question: What nickname do boxing fans call 300 pound Eric Esch, King of the Four-Rounders?
Answer: Butter Bean
Question: Who beat Michael Moorer in a 1994 heavyweight title fight hyped as " One for the Ages"?
Answer: George Foreman
Question: Who did Joe Frazier say he wanted "like a hog wants slop"?
Answer: Muhammad Ali
Question: What boxer successfully defended his title against George Foreman and Larry Holmes?
Answer: Evander Holyfield
Question: Who was formed from the dust by God, then given the breath of life, to become the progenitor of the human race?
Answer: Adam
Question: Which was the Canaanite town whose walls fell at the blast of Joshua's trumpets?
Answer: Jericho
Question: If you were putting numbers on new changing room lockers to be numbered from 1 to 100, how many times would you use the number 9?
Answer: 20
Question: The bird 'Road Runner' always managed to avoid the murderous attempts of which other cartoon character?
Answer: Wile E Coyote