zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which band has had Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in its lineup since its inception in the 70s?
Answer: STEELY DAN
Question: Which clothing retailer founded in 1975 is based in Arteixo in northern Spain?
Answer: ZARA
Question: Which musical features the songs People will say we’re in love and Oh what a beautiful mornin’?
Answer: OKLAHOMA!
Question: Who was the last British monarch to succeed to the throne before the age of 21?
Answer: VICTORIA
Question: In what year was the Suez crisis?
Answer: 1956
Question: Which French writer, born François-Marie Arouet in 1694, wrote Candide?
Answer: VOLTAIRE
Question: A plane from which budget airline crashed in the Alps in March this year?
Answer: GERMANWINGS
Question: Which Lib Dem cabinet minister lost his seat - Twickenham - in May’s general election?
Answer: VINCE CABLE
Question: In the Bible, who succeeded David as King of the Israelites?
Answer: SOLOMON
Question: Which British Prime Minister died in office in 1827?
Answer: GEORGE CANNING
Question: What is the full first name of the detective character known as Harry Bosch in American author Michael Connelly’s crime novels set in Los Angeles?
Answer: HIERONYMUS
Question: Which American poet wrote Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?
Answer: ROBERT FROST
Question: Whose 6th and final symphony is called The Pathetique?
Answer: PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Question: Jack Nicholson has won two Best Actor Oscars, but for which 1983 film did he win Best Supporting Actor?
Answer: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Question: The stars Aldebaran and Electra are in which constellation?
Answer: TAURUS
Question: Detective Jane Rizzoli and Doctor Maura Isles work for the Police Department in which city in US author Tess Gerritsen’s crime novels?
Answer: BOSTON
Question: Who in 1869 arranged the 63 known elements at that time into the first modern periodic table and correctly predicted several other elements?
Answer: DMITRI MENDELEEV
Question: In Greek mythology who was the father of Castor and Pollux?
Answer: Zeus
Question: 'Tennis Whites and Teacakes" and 'Trains and Buttered Toast" are collections of work by which writer, who died in 1984 aged 77?
Answer: Sir John Betjeman
Question: For what did the F stand in the name of US President J.F. Kennedy?
Answer: Fitzgerald
Question: In which country did Mohammed Ali fight for the World Heavyweight boxing championship with George Foreman in what was known as "The Rumble in the Jungle"?
Answer: Zaire
Question: Which former Pope was canonised alongside Pope John XXIII in April 2014?
Answer: John Paul II
Question: In heraldry which colour is known as gules?
Answer: Red
Question: Which history professor founded UKIP in September 1993?
Answer: Alan Sked
Question: Sir Hudson Lowe was whose gaoler?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: In literature, which paradox is first explained by Doc Daneeka?
Answer: Catch-22
Question: What in Wiltshire is Europe’s largest man-made mound?
Answer: Silbury Hill
Question: Which French revolutionary leader was assassinated by Charlotte Corday whilst he was having a bath?
Answer: Marat
Question: Who played Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film "Frankenstein"?
Answer: Boris Karloff
Question: What name is given to the principal unit of currency in both Malawi and Zambia?
Answer: The KWACHA
Question: In which city is "The Statue of David" by the Renaissance sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarotti, now to be found?
Answer: Florence
Question: """THX1138"" and ""American Graffiti"" were the first two feature films directed by whom?"
Answer: George Lucas
Question: Who is the only World Heavyweight Boxing champion to retire undefeated?
Answer: Rocky Marciano
Question: Which is the brightest planet to be seen in the night sky?
Answer: Venus
Question: Which cartoon character drove the "Compact Pussycat" and was menaced by the "Hooded Claw"?
Answer: Penelope Pitstop
Question: In which city where the 1956 Summer Olympic games held?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the line, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come?
Answer: King Lear
Question: Whose debut novel was the 1969 book The Edible Woman?
Answer: Margaret Atwood
Question: Which country's flag is made up of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and red?
Answer: Austria
Question: in which year was the Duke of Marlborough victorious at the Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: 1704
Question: In which constellation is Spica the brightest star?
Answer: Virgo
Question: How is the Dardanelles campaign of World War I, which took place between April' 1915 and January 1916 better known?
Answer: (battle of) Gallipoli
Question: What type of pastry is traditionally used to make baklava?
Answer: Filo
Question: Two Books of the Old Testament begin with the letter P. One is Psalms. What is the other?
Answer: PROVERBS
Question: Which actor played Sergeant Neil Howie in the 1973 film The Wicker Man?
Answer: EDWARD WOODWARD
Question: Two Books of the Old Testament begin with the letter L. One is Leviticus. What is the other?
Answer: LAMENTATIONS
Question: What was the name of the pilot of Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Answer: PAUL TIBBETS
Question: The basenji breed of hunting dog originated on which continent?
Answer: AFRICA
Question: In which Dickens novel does Daniel Quilp appear?
Answer: THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
Question: In which Dickens novel does Nathaniel Winkle appear?
Answer: THE PICKWICK PAPERS
Question: Which English painter was born in Bury St, Edmonds, Suffolk in 1727?
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough
Question: Looking like a large grapefruit, which citrus fruit was once known as a shaddock?
Answer: Pomelo
Question: The assassination of which Soviet politician in 1934 triggered Stalin's purge of the Communist Party?
Answer: Sergei Kirov
Question: In which Carry On film does Kenneth Williams play Captain Fearless and Bernard Cribbins Midshipman Albert Poopdecker?
Answer: Carry On Jack
Question: Which British general commanded the forces who defeated the French at Quebec in 1759 led by The Marquis de Montcalm?
Answer: General Wolfe
Question: In which organ of the body can the Islets of Langerhans be found?
Answer: Pancreas
Question: Under which perfume company's name are the men's aftershaves or colognes "Safari" and "Big Pony" marketed?
Answer: Ralph Lauren
Question: Which 1952 musical about the introduction of talkies, has a title song which was once parodied by Morecambe and Wise?
Answer: Singin' in the Rain
Question: The late-medieval musical instrument known as a psaltery was an early form of what later stringed instrument?
Answer: The Zither
Question: Of which Canadian Province is Winnipeg the capital city?
Answer: MANITOBA
Question: Name the oil tanker which ran aground off the Cornish Coast in 1967.
Answer: THE TORREY CANYON
Question: Of which country did Christina Kirchner become President in 2007?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: Who held the Government Post of Chancellor of the Exchequer during the 1926 General Strike?
Answer: WINSTON CHURCHILL
Question: The River Tigris rises in which country ?
Answer: TURKEY
Question: Who was the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate in the USA 2008 Elections?
Answer: SARAH PALIN
Question: What was the treaty which concluded the War of Spanish Succession in 1713?
Answer: THE TREATY OF UTRECHT
Question: Whom did Idi Amin depose in the 1971 coup in Uganda?
Answer: MILTON OBOTE
Question: Who has won Best Leading Actor Oscars for his roles in ‘Milk’ and ‘Mystic River’?
Answer: Sean Penn
Question: What is the capital of the former USSR republic of Tajikistan?
Answer: Dushanbe
Question: Hamilcar Barca was the father of which famous general, born in 247BC?
Answer: Hannibal
Question: Denis Waterman is the only original cast member still starring in which TV series about the Met’s Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad?
Answer: New Tricks
Question: Adapted by Richard Bean from a 1743 original work by Goldoni, which play became a West End hit in 2011, and on Broadway in 2012, starring James Corden?
Answer: One Man, Two Guvnors
Question: Who has won Best Leading Actress Oscars for her roles in ‘Million Dollar Baby’ and ‘Boys Don’t Cry’?
Answer: Hilary Swank
Question: Deacon Blue took their name from ‘Deacon Blues’, a song on the album ‘Aja’ by which American jazz/rock duo?
Answer: Steely Dan
Question: Which singer gave her first headline live performance in 35 years at the Hammersmith Apollo in August 2014?
Answer: Kate Bush
Question: One of two English dancers, along with Margot Fonteyn, to be recognised as a ‘prima ballerina assoluta’, who founded the English National Ballet in 1951?
Answer: Alicia Markova
Question: What is the Russian word for ‘little water’?
Answer: VODKA
Question: What is the name of the school in Croydon attended by Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, and Adele among many other performers?
Answer: THE BRIT SCHOOL
Question: Havarti cheese is made in which north European country?
Answer: DENMARK
Question: Who wrote the 17th century verse play Samson Agonistes?
Answer: JOHN MILTON
Question: FOUR, released last year is a chart-topping album by which boy band, their last with five members?
Answer: ONE DIRECTION
Question: In Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women, what is the name of the family whose story is told?
Answer: MARCH
Question: Who won the Bermondsey by-election in 1983 for the Liberal Party – he held his seat until the 2015 General Election when he lost it as a Liberal Democrat?
Answer: SIMON HUGHES
Question: On which Scottish Island would you find the Callanish Standing Stones?
Answer: LEWIS
Question: Bridgwater in Somerset lies on which river?
Answer: PARRETT
Question: Who was the Secretary of State for War killed in June 1916 when HMS Hampshire sank off the Orkneys?
Answer: HERBERT HORATIO KITCHENER
Question: Which 2013 film tells the story of P L Travers (authoress of Mary Poppins) meeting with Walt Disney?
Answer: SAVING MR BANKS
Question: What was the birth surname of the man who became to be known as Vladimir Lenin?
Answer: ULYANOV
Question: Which soft drink, formulated by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas, was first marketed nationally in 1904?
Answer: DR PEPPER
Question: The Waterloo & City Line on the London Underground links Waterloo to which other station?
Answer: BANK
Question: Which 2013 film tells the story of Martin Sixsmith’s attempts to re-unite an Irish mother with her son, taken away by nuns after his birth?
Answer: PHILOMENA
Question: Kitchener was one of the original members of the Order of Merit together with which surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery?
Answer: JOSEPH LISTER
Question: Sebastian Vettel won the Formula One championship four years running from 2010-2013 driving for which team?
Answer: RED BULL
Question: In which city did the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, known informally as The Earth Summit, take place in June 1992?
Answer: RIO DE JANEIRO
Question: Rudolf Abel was exchanged by the Americans for the return of whom?
Answer: GARY POWERS
Question: In the 2003 film Love Actually, which actor plays the part of the pop star Billy Mack who is first seen recording the song Christmas is All Around?
Answer: BILL NIGHY
Question: What is the name of the former Bolton Wanderers footballer who survived the cardiac arrest he suffered during an FA Cup tie (against Spurs) in March 2012?
Answer: FABRICE MUAMBA
Question: Within one year either way, in what year did the Channel Tunnel first open for business to fee-paying passengers?
Answer: 1994
Question: Which feminist book label was established by Carmen Callil and others in 1973?
Answer: Virago
Question: Griffin Park is the home ground of which Championship Football League team?
Answer: Brentford
Question: At which Crimean port did F D Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet for a conference in February 1945?
Answer: Yalta
Question: Who was appointed Secretary of State for Transport in David Cameron's May 2015 cabinet?
Answer: (Patrick) McLOUGHLIN
Question: Which Old Testament character was known for his poverty and patience?
Answer: JOB
Question: In the 1960-68 TV series, what was the character name of "Danger Man"?
Answer: JOHN DRAKE
Question: The name of which Old Testament prophet has come to mean a bringer of bad luck?
Answer: JONAH
Question: What was the name the British flagship during the Falklands conflict?
Answer: (HMS) HERMES
Question: Who wrote, the 2011 sequel to Pride and Prejudice, "Death Comes to Pemberley”?
Answer: P.D. JAMES
Question: Statues known as ‘Moai’ stand on which island?
Answer: Easter Island
Question: Alan Sked founded which British political party?
Answer: UKIP
Question: Which military leader had swords called ‘Tizona' and ‘Colada’?
Answer: El Cid
Question: On which river does Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, stand?
Answer: Dnieper
Question: Which mountain range spans Northern Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia?
Answer: ATLAS
Question: The character Duke Vincentio appears in which of Shakespeare’s plays?
Answer: MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Question: With which branch of the arts is Sarah Lucas particularly involved?
Answer: SCULPTURE
Question: Which beer is advertised by actor Jean-Claude Van Damme?
Answer: COORS
Question: In the play of the same name what was the name of the Merchant of Venice?
Answer: ANTONIO
Question: Which orange star forms the “eye” of Taurus, the Bull?
Answer: ALDEBARAN
Question: Fuerteventura and La Gomera are two islands in which archipelago?
Answer: CANARY ISLANDS
Question: Who rode Don’t Push It to victory in the 2010 Grand National?
Answer: A P MCCOY
Question: In which film did Gordon McRae play Billy Bigelow after Frank Sinatra dropped out?
Answer: CAROUSEL
Question: Which of the nine counties of Ulster has the shortest name?
Answer: DOWN
Question: In which American state was Edward Snowden working as a contractor to the National Security Agency when he decided to leak secrets?
Answer: HAWAII
Question: Martello Towers, the line of defensive fortifications in south-east England were based on similar designs found on which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Corsica
Question: In which country was Che Guevara executed in 1967?
Answer: Bolivia
Question: Future British Chancellor of the Exchequer Francis Dashwood founded which club in the 18th century?
Answer: Hellfire
Question: Which name is shared by the composer of the opera Norma and a cocktail?
Answer: Bellini
Question: Tom Tulliver is a character in which novel of 1860?
Answer: The Mill on the Floss
Question: Which UNESCO World Heritage Site, built mainly by Abraham Derby is found in Shropshire?
Answer: Ironbridge Gorge
Question: Which football team plays its home games at Ewood Park?
Answer: Blackburn Rovers
Question: By what name is the bird which countrymen call the "water ouzel and which has the Latin name cinclus cinclus, generally known?
Answer: Dipper
Question: Which organisation (perhaps surprisingly to some) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012?
Answer: European Union
Question: Who is the super villain in the James Bond book and film Moonraker?
Answer: (Hugo) Drax
Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek God of Love, Eros?
Answer: Cupid
Question: What name was given to the policy of reconstruction in the Soviet Union adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev?
Answer: Perestroika
Question: In The Simpsons what position is held by Joe Quimby?
Answer: Mayor
Question: Which Swiss city was the base for the early Protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli?
Answer: Zurich
Question: In 2014 Stephen Harper was the prime minister of which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: What was the name of the military nobility of medieval and early modern Japan?
Answer: Samurai
Question: Which Gilbert and Sullivan Opera has the alternative title "The Town of Titipu"?
Answer: The Mikado
Question: Lottie Dod was Wimbledon ladies singles champion five times and also represented England in which sport?
Answer: HOCKEY
Question: In which country did the 1974 Carnation Revolution take place>
Answer: PORTUGAL
Question: Which publication was launched in the U.K. in 1986 with the slogan “It is, are you”?
Answer: THE INDEPENDENT
Question: Which famous bronze statue was created by Edvard Eriksen in 1913 and stands in a European capital city?
Answer: THE LITTLE MERMAID
Question: Windlock and 2 Foot were types of which weapon used in the Middle Ages?
Answer: CROSSBOW
Question: Blencathra Mountain 2850feet high in the Lake District, because of its shape is better known by what name?
Answer: SADDLEBACK
Question: The Ford Sierra replaced which car model?
Answer: CORTINA
Question: What instrument did band leader Stan Kenton play?
Answer: PIANO
Question: In Morse code, a single dot represents which letter of the alphabet?
Answer: E
Question: Who was appointed as shadow Foreign Secretary in May 2015?
Answer: Hilary Benn
Question: Alabama 3 performed the theme song for which major American TV series?
Answer: The Sopranos
Question: What is the maximum number of horses allowed to race in the Grand National?
Answer: FORTY
Question: What word can be the title of a 1970’s/1980’s Japanese TV programme, a type of primate, or slang word for £500?
Answer: MONKEY
Question: In art, what name is given to the technique of mural painting on wet plaster?
Answer: FRESCO
Question: What name is given to the winding route through Jerusalem from the Antonia Fortress to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
Answer: VIA DOLOROSA
Question: Also in the Musée d’Orsay, who painted Bedroom in Arles in the 1880s?
Answer: VINCENT VAN GOGH
Question: Who is the famous brother of the actress Shirley MacLaine?
Answer: WARREN BEATTY
Question: What was the name of the group fronted by Lionel Riche before he went solo in 1981?
Answer: THE COMMODORES
Question: In 2015 which London museum rejected the Thatcher family’s offer to display memorabilia belonging to the former Prime Minister?
Answer: THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT
Question: Who was the Greek Queen of the Gods?
Answer: HERA
Question: In which year did Louis Bleriot become the fist man to cross the English Channel in an heavier than air craft?
Answer: 1909
Question: With which British band did singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn first come to prominence in the late 1980’s?
Answer: BLUR
Question: A brick laid lengthways in wall construction is called a stretcher, what is a brick laid crossways called?
Answer: A HEADER
Question: What was the name of the detective created by Ruth Rendell who lived in Kingsmarkham?
Answer: WEXFORD
Question: At which Battle of 1812 did the British and allied forces under Wellington defeat a French Army led by Marmont?
Answer: SALAMANCA
Question: What was the name of the Celtic fire festival, which marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter?
Answer: Samhain
Question: The brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor is also the eighth brightest in the whole night sky. What is its name?
Answer: Procyon
Question: Which team caused the first major upset in the Rugby World Cup when they beat Wales 16-13 in a pool match at Cardiff Arms Park in 1991?
Answer: Western Samoa
Question: Who was the founder of King's College, Cambridge?
Answer: Henry the Sixth
Question: Eritrea gained independence from which country in 1993?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: Under what name does US singer-songwriter Elizabeth Grant perform, her albums include 'Born to Die' and 'Honeymoon'?
Answer: Lana Del Rey
Question: Who was the father of John of Gaunt and Edward, the Black Prince?
Answer: Edward 3
Question: Which 1980's musical did Tim Rice write with ABBA members Benny Andersson and Bjorn Alvaeus?
Answer: Chess
Question: What is the first name of the Italian artist Caravaggio?
Answer: Michelangelo
Question: Which tea growing region of India has a Hindi name meaning 'Land of the Thunderbolt'?
Answer: Darjeeling
Question: Which element, atomic no. 33 derives its name from a Persian word for yellow?
Answer: Arsenic
Question: The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy, both written by Olivia Manning were made into which 1987 BBC TV series starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh?
Answer: Fortunes of War
Question: In the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, what must the Baronet Ruddigore do every day to avoid the witch's curse and die in agony?
Answer: Commit a crime
Question: Opening in London in 1984, which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical had lyrics by Richard Stilgoe and choreography by Arlene Phillips?
Answer: Starlight Express
Question: What do the books Pilgrims Progress, Don Quixote and Fanny Hill have in common?
Answer: Written in prison
Question: Which Stephen King novel features the characters John and Wendy Torrance and their son Danny?
Answer: The Shining
Question: Which debtors’ prison, in Southwark, was depicted in Charles Dickens’ book Little Dorrit?
Answer: Marshalsea
Question: Which orchestral instrument is known as fagotto in Italian?
Answer: Bassoon
Question: What two word phrase means the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction?
Answer: Critical Mass
Question: Which ancient measurement mentioned in the Bible was approximately 18 inches?
Answer: A Cubit
Question: How many hurdles must be cleared in Men’s 110m and 400m Hurdles races?
Answer: Ten
Question: Who was the first British Labour Prime Minister?
Answer: Ramsey McDonald
Question: How many Imperial gallons of beer are in a firkin?
Answer: Nine
Question: Christmas decorations commonly seen in German homes during the holiday season and which are said to be the predecessors for Christmas trees are usually in what shape?
Answer: Pyramid
Question: On the way to the Vatican Museums are the Sistine Chapel (which obviously features Michelangelo's frescoes) and a suite of rooms that features frescoes of what other great?
Answer: Raphael
Question: French artist Yves Klein created a series of works he called Anthropometry using what as paint brushes?
Answer: Humans
Question: The Marie de' Medici Cycle is a series of twenty-four paintings by which artist?
Answer: Peter Paul Rubens
Question: What is the missing word in graffiti artist Banksy's 2005 compilation ___ and Piece?
Answer: Wall
Question: The trickster god Anansi who has a prominent place in African folklore is what type of creature?
Answer: Spider
Question: Spirits known as loa are appeased by the practitioners of what belief system?
Answer: Voodoo
Question: Kamadhenu the wish-granting cow, Kaustubha the jewel, and Parijat the divine flowering tree are some of the items that emerged during what episode of Hindu mythology?
Answer: Churning of the Ocean of Milk
Question: The distinctive wooden carved and bright red colored Dala horses are associated with which country?
Answer: Sweden
Question: The artist Lee Krasner who used to cut her own paintings to create collages was married to which other artist?
Answer: Jackson Pollock
Question: In Islamic mythology, what bottled-up creatures make up the three sentient creations of Allah along with humans and angels?
Answer: Jinns
Question: What legendary place was protected by the Scaean Gates?
Answer: Troy
Question: In 1933, which Mexican artist commissioned by the Rockefeller family to create a mural caused controversy by including Lenin in it?
Answer: Diego Rivera
Question: What unique Paris theater closed down in 1962 with its director saying "We could never equal Buchenwald. Before the war, everyone felt that what was happening onstage was impossible. Now we know that these things, and worse, are possible in reality."?
Answer: Grand Guignol
Question: What is the term for the fine pattern of cracks formed on old paintings, which is sometimes used to detect forged art as it is a hard-to-forge signature of authenticity?
Answer: Craquelure
Question: What valuable commodities were called as 'sweat of the sun' and 'tears of the moon' by the Incas?
Answer: Gold and silver
Question: When this great artist was once criticized for creating unrealistic art, he asked his accuser "Can you show me some realistic art?" The man showed him a photograph of his wife. The artist observed: "So your wife is two inches tall, two-dimensional, with no arms and no legs, and no colour but only shades of gray?" Who is this artist who went through a 'Blue Period' and a 'Rose Period'?
Answer: Pablo Picasso
Question: What measures 15 feet × 29 ft and can be found in the back halls of a dining hall at the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy?
Answer: The Last Supper by Da Vinci