zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which 12th century Cistercian Abbey’s remains stand just outside Ripon?
Answer: Fountains Abbey
Question: The Peasants Revolt took place during the reign of which English King?
Answer: Richard II
Question: Which work by Charles Dickens opens with the line “Now, what I want is facts”?
Answer: Hard Times
Question: Which famous fair held annually for 700 years was first held at Smithfield in 1133?
Answer: Bartholomew Fair
Question: Which king’s four sons together with their mother rebelled against him in France in 1173?
Answer: Henry II
Question: What was won by Louisa Johnson in December 2015?
Answer: The X Factor
Question: Which street is Dublin’s main shopping centre?
Answer: O’Connell St
Question: Who was Hitler’s Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda?
Answer: Joseph Goebbels
Question: Purple Granadilla is another name for which fruit?
Answer: Passion Fruit
Question: What common name was given to the Arab/Israeli clash of 1973?
Answer: Yom Kippur War
Question: Which major British newspaper closed down for nearly a year in 1978?
Answer: The Times
Question: The band Carl and the Passions changed its name to what?
Answer: The Beachboys
Question: What was the signature tune of Duke Ellington’s band?
Answer: Take The A Train
Question: Which star constellation is ‘the herdsman’?
Answer: Bootes
Question: What was the first name of John Lennon’s first wife, who died last April?
Answer: CYNTHIA
Question: What name is given to Toyota’s luxury vehicle division?
Answer: LEXUS
Question: Who won the 1995 Best Actress Oscar for her part in ‘Dead Man Walking’?
Answer: SUSAN SARANDON
Question: What was ‘the speckled band’, in the short story of that name?
Answer: A SNAKE
Question: Who was the virtual dictator who ruled Portugal for 36 years, from 1932 to 1968?
Answer: Antonio SALAZAR
Question: RHB. The Coast-to-Coast walk finishes at which coastal village?
Answer: ROBIN HOOD’S BAY
Question: ‘Monopoly’. A player currently on Mayfair throws a five – taking him/her to where?
Answer: WHITECHAPEL ROAD
Question: What was the name of the little people in ‘The Wizard of Oz’?
Answer: MUNCHKINS
Question: The HX-20 is generally regarded as the world’s first laptop computer. Who made it?
Answer: EPSON
Question: What major thoroughfare was known as Tyburn Road until the 18th century?
Answer: OXFORD STREET
Question: At which battle did the bloody action of “Pickett’s Charge” take place?
Answer: Gettysburg
Question: On a standard European roulette wheel what colour is the zero?
Answer: Green
Question: Which pair of time travellers declared Joan of Arc was the wife of Noah?
Answer: Bill and Ted
Question: Madagascar declared its independence from which country in 1960?
Answer: France
Question: In which pantomime do the broker’s men traditionally appear?
Answer: Cinderella
Question: Which traditional pantomime is based on a work first published in 1719?
Answer: Robinson Crusoe
Question: In which pantomime does Robin Hood normally appear?
Answer: Babes in the Wood
Question: Which boat made a famous crossing from Peru to Polynesia in 1947?
Answer: Kon Tiki
Question: Geronimo was a leader of which Native American tribe?
Answer: Apache
Question: What did bluesman B.B. King name his first guitar?
Answer: Lucille
Question: Which Shakespeare play has the subtitle ‘What you will’?
Answer: Twelfth Night
Question: What information did members of the Waffen S.S. have tattooed on their arms?
Answer: Blood group
Question: Who wrote the Savoy Operas?
Answer: Gilbert and Sullivan
Question: Who was the first U.S. President to wear a full beard in office?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: Under what name was nitric acid known to alchemists?
Answer: Aqua Fortis
Question: Which was the first film directed by Tim Burton to star Johnny Depp?
Answer: Edward Scissorhands
Question: The ancient ritual of bull-leaping took place on which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Crete
Question: On what TV series was Virgil the pilot of two and Alan the pilot of three?
Answer: Thunderbirds
Question: Which town stands at the confluence of the rivers Thames and Kennet?
Answer: Reading
Question: Which aristocratic title derives its name from the Anglo-Saxon term for ‘warrior’?
Answer: Earl
Question: Which of his Peter’s relatives is represented by the bassoon?
Answer: Grandfather
Question: On which Scottish island group is the Ring of Brogar stone circle?
Answer: Orkneys
Question: What was the name of the oil tanker wrecked off the Isles of Scilly in 1967?
Answer: Torrey Canyon
Question: What was the name of the ‘Lucky Rabbit’ in an early Disney animated film?
Answer: Oswald
Question: In which series did Jeff Stewart play the character Reg Hollis for over 24 years?
Answer: The Bill
Question: Who, at Dettingen in 1743, became the last King of England to lead his troops in battle?
Answer: George II
Question: Which card game, Spanish for basket, was devised in Uruguay in 1939?
Answer: Canasta
Question: In a 1965 to 1975 sitcom, which actress’s character was mocked as a Silly Moo?
Answer: Dandy Nichols
Question: What is the term for the strong magnetism associated with cobalt, nickel and iron?
Answer: Ferromagnetism
Question: Which region’s name is Persian for Five Waters, alluding to five tributaries of the Indus?
Answer: Punjab
Question: Which real-life baseball manager and former player was the central character of the 2011 film Moneyball?
Answer: Billy Beane
Question: In which field was Marie Stopes (1880-1958) a pioneer?
Answer: BIRTH CONTROL
Question: Who wrote the 1969 novel ‘The Godfather’?
Answer: MARIO PUZO
Question: What colour are viagra tablets (apparently)?
Answer: BLUE
Question: The coypu, or nutria, was originally native to which continent?
Answer: SOUTH AMERICA
Question: Sometimes called a beaver dam, what is the more customary name for a beaver’s home?
Answer: LODGE
Question: Born in 1955, who wrote ‘The Firm’, ‘The Client’ and ‘The Chamber’?
Answer: JOHN GRISHAM
Question: What was the name of Sonny Crockett’s pet alligator in Miami Vice?
Answer: Elvis
Question: Which Greek philosopher lived in a tub?
Answer: Diogenes
Question: Torch was the final code name for the 1942 Allied landings ……..where?
Answer: North Africa
Question: In which conflict did the Battle of Pork Chop Hill take place?
Answer: Korean War
Question: The Gegs are an ethnic group from which European country?
Answer: Albania
Question: What is the name of the dragon that guards the treasure in The Hobbit?
Answer: Smaug
Question: What was Elvis Presley’s first film – the only one in which he did not get top billing?
Answer: Love Me Tender
Question: Which form of strangulation was for years the official method of execution in Spain?
Answer: The Garotte
Question: In the USA unidentified women are usually assigned which name?
Answer: Jane Doe
Question: Athlete Florence Griffith was given which nickname after her marriage in 1987?
Answer: Flo-Jo
Question: In 1932 which record breaker was the second person to fly the Atlantic solo?
Answer: Amelia Earhart
Question: Which dictator moved into the Casa Rosada in June 1946?
Answer: Juan Peron
Question: The Gregorian Calendar replaced which earlier calendar in western Europe?
Answer: Julian
Question: The Sequoia trees of the Sierra Nevada are better known as what?
Answer: Redwoods
Question: Christians pilgrims to which Spanish city returned wearing a scallop shell in their hat bands?
Answer: Santiago de Compostela
Question: In 1886 Franz von Soxhlet suggested that which wine process could be applied to milk?
Answer: Pasteurisation
Question: In 2006 TV host Victoria Coren won half a million pounds playing which card game?
Answer: Poker
Question: What nationality was author Gabriel García Márquez, who died on 17th April?
Answer: Colombian
Question: Which island is known to the French as Aurigny?
Answer: Alderney
Question: Spoken by Gloucester, what are the first seven words of Shakespeare’s Richard III?
Answer: Now is the winter of our
Question: A statue of which poet can be found at Hull Paragon Interchange railway station?
Answer: Philip Larkin
Question: Which cautionary, three word motto is used by House Stark of Winterfell?
Answer: Winter is coming
Question: Which of the Greek muses had a name that can be translated as "delight in dancing"?
Answer: Terpsichore
Question: What is the given name of the daughter born to Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise?
Answer: Suri
Question: Its name means ‘Main Province’, which island makes up 60% of Japan’s total land area?
Answer: Honshu
Question: Which bone in the human forearm is slightly thicker than its pair?
Answer: Radius
Question: Barium chlorate is used as an oxidiser in fireworks to produce which colour?
Answer: Green
Question: Which was the second country to adopt postage stamps?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What structures appear on the reverse sides of all Euro banknotes?
Answer: Bridges
Question: According to the Old Testament, who invented wine?
Answer: Noah
Question: The character Katniss Everdeen is a protagonist in which series of films?
Answer: Hunger Games
Question: Which hero of legend lived at Joyous Guard?
Answer: Sir Lancelot
Question: Who was the last Norman king of England?
Answer: Stephen
Question: Which type of geographical feature can be block, chute, plunge, funnel, horsetail or fan?
Answer: Waterfall
Question: Which stage musical is based on two characters taken from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
Answer: Wicked
Question: Which large plateau occupies most of the land area of Southern India?
Answer: Deccan Plateau
Question: Into which body of water does the river Euphrates flow?
Answer: PERSIAN GULF
Question: Which Welsh castle was the last stronghold of Owain Glyndwr?
Answer: HARLECH
Question: Name the alleged I.R.A. bomber who escaped from Brixton prison in December
Answer: GERARD TUITE
Question: Which Welsh castle was taken by Owain Glyndwr's men while the English garrison were at church
Answer: CONWAY
Question: According to 'The Sermon on the Mount' who shall inherit the Earth?
Answer: THE MEEK
Question: On 21st November 1970 what British currency ceased to be legal tender?
Answer: TEN SHILLING NOTE
Question: In which US city was the 192 metre tall Gateway Arch built on the west bank of the Mississippi river in the mid-1960s?
Answer: ST LOUIS
Question: The Bruce Highway, the longest in Queensland, runs for 1,700km from Brisbane to which other city?
Answer: CAIRNS
Question: Where Everybody Knows Your Name was the title of the theme music of which long-running US sitcom?
Answer: CHEERS
Question: Which former winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Mastermind and Brain of Britain became the seventh member of the Eggheads quiz team in 2009?
Answer: PAT GIBSON
Question: Which eponymous Shakespearean character was King of Scotland from 1040 until his death in 1057?
Answer: MACBETH
Question: Since 1895 the Wooden Spoon for finishing bottom of cricket's County Championship has been won most often (15 times) by which county?
Answer: DERBYSHIRE
Question: Which species of python is the longest snake in the world and gets its name from the Latin for "net-like" because of the patterns on its skin?
Answer: RETICULATED
Question: Which member of the woodwind family of musical instruments, a sort of half-sized flute, gets its name from the Italian for small?
Answer: PICCOLO
Question: What was the real christian name of the comedian Grougho Marx, born on this day in 1890?
Answer: JULIUS
Question: Born on this day in 1951, how is the pop singer Gordon Sumner better known?
Answer: STING
Question: Bigwig, Fiver and Hazel are the main characters in which 1972 novel?
Answer: WATERSHIP DOWN
Question: Who was the youngest of King Lear's three daughters?
Answer: CORDELIA
Question: Which well-known fictional character, who first appeared in print in the 90's, has the rare ability to speak Parseltongue, the language of snakes?
Answer: HARRY POTTER
Question: Who is the elder sister of Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire?
Answer: BLANCHE DUBOIS
Question: What was the name of the circuit on which the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix was held from 1948 until its last running in 1985 ?
Answer: ZANDVOORT
Question: At which football ground did Frank Bruno defeat Joe Bugner in October 1987 ?
Answer: WHITE HART LANE
Question: After which famous American tennis player is the stadium at Flushing Meadow named, where the final of the US Open has been held each year since 1997 ?
Answer: ARTHUR ASHE
Question: Lady Day or, more properly, the Feast of the Anunciation of the Blessed Virgin, is celebrated on the 25th of which month?
Answer: MARCH
Question: Sri Lanka has two official languages - Sinhala or Singhalese is one, what is the other?
Answer: TAMIL
Question: Which oscar-winning film director directed the 1960's classic movie 'Doctor Strangelove'?
Answer: STANLEY KUBRICK
Question: Which oscar-winning film director directed the 1960's classic movie 'Doctor Zhivago'?
Answer: DAVID LEAN
Question: What is the name given to the chicken dish in which the boned and flattened chicken breast, flavoured with garlic butter and chives, is dipped in egg and breadcrumbs and is fried or baked?
Answer: CHICKEN KIEV
Question: In the animated film classic "Toy Story", which film star voiced the character of Woody?
Answer: TOM HANKS
Question: John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, became the effective ruler of England during the reign of Richard II in the 14th century. Later the father of Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV, what was John of Gaunt's official title?
Answer: DUKE OF LANCASTER
Question: Which nut has a poisonous shell?
Answer: CASHEW
Question: What was the name of the Italian cruise liner which sank in January 2012 with substantial loss of life?
Answer: COSTA CONCORDIA
Question: In which famous film love story did the lovers meet in a railway station?
Answer: BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Question: Which American city has the nickname "Beantown"?
Answer: BOSTON
Question: On this day, 31st January , in 1943, the German army surrendered to the Russians. who was the Commander-in-Chief of the German forces who offerred the surrender?
Answer: FIELD MARSHALL PAULUS
Question: What title is used in Scotland for the chief magistrate or convener of a burgh council, the equivalent of a mayor in other parts of the English speaking world?
Answer: PROVOST
Question: The northern extremity of Offa's Dyke is in which Welsh town?
Answer: PRESTATYN
Question: What nationality was the artist Frida Khalo?
Answer: MEXICAN
Question: What name is given to the flat, oven-baked Italian bread, related to, but different from Pizza? It is usually seasoned with olive oil, salt and sometimes herbs.
Answer: FOCACCIA
Question: """Rank is but the guinea's stamp, the man's the gold for all of that"" is a famous quote written by whom?"
Answer: ROBERT BURNS
Question: Which country is the top grape-producing country in the world producing almost 9 million tons of grapes each year?
Answer: ITALY
Question: Which American president is credited with the quote :- "Never before have we had so little time to do so much"?
Answer: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Question: The album "Good Girl Gone Bad" was the number 1 selling album in the UK in 2009 with sales of 1.5 million. Who was the singer?
Answer: RIHANNA
Question: Which British actor plays the lead part of George Smiley in the new film version of John Le Carre's "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy"?
Answer: GARY OLDMAN
Question: Measurement - conversion from imperial to metric - How many metres are equivalent to one furlong, to the nearest unit? (will accept + or - 1)
Answer: 201
Question: Which British actor played the lead part in the film of one of John Le Carre's more recent novels "The Constant Gardener"?
Answer: RALPH FIENNES
Question: Which British monarch had the most children?
Answer: QUEEN ANNE
Question: Who is the founder of Facebook, doing so at the age of 20? He was named by Time magazine as "Person of the Year" in 2010. His personal fortune is estimated at over 17 billion dollars.
Answer: MARK ZUCKERBERG
Question: Insomnia Cafe was the original working title of which famous American comedy series?
Answer: FRIENDS
Question: Who wrote the poem "Snake". He is better known as a classic novelist?
Answer: D.H.LAWRENCE
Question: The opera "The Cunning Little Vixen" and the song cycle "The diary of one who has vanished" are the works of which composer?
Answer: JANACEK
Question: Amoebas and some parasites, including those which cause malaria and sleeping- sickness are different forms of which microscopic single-celled organisms?
Answer: PROTOZOA
Question: Mythology - Prosperina was the Roman goddess of the underworld. Who was the Greek equivalent?
Answer: PERSEPHONE
Question: Who was the leader of the early Christian church in Crete addressed by a letter from St Paul in the New Testament?
Answer: TITUS
Question: In golf, the 5 iron club was originally known by which old Scottish name?
Answer: MASHIE
Question: In the famous American TV series "The Sopranos", which actor played Tony Soprano?
Answer: JAMES GANDOLFINI
Question: In 1994, the legendary Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna was killed when competing in which Grand Prix?
Answer: SAN MARINO
Question: What was the name of the man who invented Shredded Wheat in 1893 ? Was it Charles E Pinky or Henry D Perky?
Answer: PERKY
Question: Which was Charles Dickens' first published novel, serialised in 20 monthly parts from April 1836 ?
Answer: PICKWICK PAPERS
Question: Glyndwr University's state-of-the-art conference and perfomance centre, opened in 2009, is named after which Welsh harpist?
Answer: CATRIN FINCH
Question: """Call me Ishmael"" are the opening words of which famous 19th century novel?"
Answer: MOBY DICK
Question: Cricket - which Yorkshireman scored a then Test record 364 runs against Australia at the Oval in 1938 ?
Answer: LEN HUTTON
Question: At which Grand Prix was Ayrton Senna killed in 1994 ?
Answer: SAN MARINO
Question: What is the name of the 28 acre recreational lake in hyde Park, London, created by George II's royal gardener in 1730 ?
Answer: The SERPENTINE
Question: Who was the leader of the forces defeated in the Battle of Watling Street in 61 AD?
Answer: BOUDICCA
Question: The brother of Zeus and Hades and married to Amphitrite, which of the twelve Olympian Gods had both the horse and bull as symbols and was beleived to cause earthquakes?
Answer: POSEIDON
Question: The 1981 film "Chariots of Fire" featured the achievements of Harold Abrahams and which Scottish missionary who refused to run in the 100m heats on a Sunday and instead won the 400m Gold Medal in the 1924 Olympics?
Answer: ERIC LIDDLE
Question: In which card game is the 5th card often called the River?
Answer: POKER
Question: The song "Ol' Man River" from the 1927 musical "Showboat" was sung most famously by Paul Robeson. To which river does it refer?
Answer: MISSISSIPPI
Question: Which English author, who died in 1998, published Katie Hannigan in 1950 and The Bill Bailey Trilogy between 1986 and 1997?
Answer: CATHERINE COOKSON
Question: What is the correct title of the Simon and Garfunkel song that is often called Feelin' Groovy?
Answer: 59th STREET BRIDGE SONG
Question: Which James Bond film featured the main female villain Helga Brandt?
Answer: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
Question: Which James Bond film featured the main female villain called Irma Bunt?
Answer: ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
Question: What name links a Welsh resort town and the surname of a current Premiership footballer who made his football league debut on May 8th 1998?
Answer: BARRY
Question: Whcih planet in our solar system is situated approximately 777 km from the Sun?
Answer: JUPITER
Question: What is the name of the toy daschund with a metal body, who speaks with a southern accent, in the film Toy Story?
Answer: SLINKY
Question: In which year was the battle of the Alamo?
Answer: 1836
Question: In English history, who was the legendary wife of King Leofric, Earl of Mercia?
Answer: LADY GODIVA
Question: Which scientist and inventor became known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park"?
Answer: THOMAS EDISON
Question: Sarah Woodruffe is the eponymous heroine of which classic 20th century novel?
Answer: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
Question: In Morse code, which letter of the alphabet is designated by a single dash?
Answer: T
Question: Aboard which U.S. ship was the Japanese surrender signed in 1945?
Answer: (USS) MISSOURI
Question: The Card Players and The Boy in the Red Vestare are works by which 19th century French artist?
Answer: Paul CEZANNE
Question: Which drug can be found in tonic water?
Answer: QUININE
Question: From which flower is the spice saffron obtained?
Answer: CROCUS
Question: Feste is a jester in which of Shakespeare's comedies?
Answer: TWELFTH NIGHT
Question: In which year did Steve Davis win his first World Professional Snooker championship title?
Answer: 1981
Question: Which composer wrote the scores for the Hitchcock thrillers Psycho and Vertigo?
Answer: Bernard HERMANN
Question: Who famously stole the 'Mona Lisa' in 1911?
Answer: Vincenzo PERUGGIA
Question: Which substance, found in many fruits, makes jam and jellies set?
Answer: PECTIN
Question: Flourine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine and Astatine comprise which group of chemical elements?
Answer: HALOGENS
Question: What French term describes the large excursion boats on which sightseers travel up and down the Seine in Paris?
Answer: BATEAUX MOUCHES
Question: In which spoof science fiction film are the invading aliens repelled by Slim Whitman's recording of The Indian Love Call?
Answer: MARS ATTACKS
Question: Which ancient city in the Middle East did poet John William Burgon describe as 'a rose-red city half as old as time'?
Answer: PETRA
Question: Also known as Bismark, what name is usually given to a mixture of stout and champagne?
Answer: BLACK VELVET
Question: By what name was the B-24, the most numerous allied heavy bomber of World War II, better known?
Answer: THE LIBERATOR
Question: Which organ that develops in pregnant women provides the unborn baby with nourishment and oxygen?
Answer: PLACENTA
Question: What was the more common name for the German World War II dive bomber the Junkers Ju 87?
Answer: STUKA
Question: Which North West football club have won the FA Cup on two occasions, the years in question being 1889 and 1938?
Answer: PRESTON NORTH END
Question: Which Irish airport has the three letter code SNN?
Answer: SHANNON
Question: Which English author who died in 1870 had the middle names John Huffam?
Answer: CHARLES DICKENS
Question: Which influential American painter, born in 1912, died at the age of 44 in 1956 in an alcohol related car accident along with a passengger, Edith Metzger?
Answer: JACKSON POLLOCK
Question: What is the Christian name of the title character in the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens?
Answer: SAMUEL
Question: Which Australian actor, born in 1979, died at the age of 28 in 2008 after being found unconscious by his housekeeper Teresa Solomon?
Answer: HEATH LEDGER
Question: Which plated dinosaur takes its name from the phrase 'Roof Lizard'?
Answer: STEGOSAURUS
Question: Which word that entered the English langauge in the late 19th century takes its name from the Swahili for 'long journey'?
Answer: SAFARI
Question: Which word that loosely means a catastrophe takes its name from the Italian for 'flask'?
Answer: FIASCO
Question: If you are tuning in to Freeview Channel 12 what is the historic sounding name of the channel that you would be watching?
Answer: YESTERDAY
Question: Who is the principal actor who plays a character Albert Naracott in the 2011 film "War Horse"?
Answer: JEREMY IRVIN
Question: In the film Avatar, what is the name of the paradise-like planet on which most of the action takes place?
Answer: PANDORA
Question: What was the name of the spacecraft in the 1979 film Alien directed by Ridley Scott?
Answer: NOSTROMO
Question: Which is the only radioactive element which occurs naturally as a gas?
Answer: RADON
Question: What type of professional person did Mark Twain describe , but wants it back again when it starts to rain"?
Answer: BANKER
Question: In which ballet is Clara taken to the Kingdom of Sweets after she helps to defeat the evil Mouse King?
Answer: THE NUTCRACKER
Question: Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger is said to have been the last book read by whose assassin around the time of his murder?
Answer: JOHN LENNON