zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who is a former Mayor of Cincinnati, host of a trashy TV show, and the subject of an opera?
Answer: Jerry Springer
Question: What is the best-selling band whose name is a U.S. state?
Answer: Alabama
Question: What TV show was created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker?
Answer: South Park
Question: What dialect did the Oakland school district once propose teaching classes in?
Answer: Ebonics
Question: What round comes after Double Jeopardy?
Answer: Final Jeopardy
Question: What river connects New York City and Albany?
Answer: Hudson River
Question: What composer's "Hoe-down" might you also remember from the commercial "Beef, it's what's for dinner"?
Answer: Aaron Copland
Question: What politician had great hair - and served as John Kerry's running mate in 2004?
Answer: John Edwards
Question: What city is Delta Airlines headquartered in?
Answer: Atlanta
Question: Whose trial featured the quote "If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit"?
Answer: O.J. Simpson's
Question: What 2008 Presidential candidate was not born in a U.S. state?
Answer: John McCain
Question: In what city is NASA's mission control center located?
Answer: Houston
Question: What type of animal was the subject of the movie "Blackfish"?
Answer: Killer Whale
Question: In the show "The A-Team", what was the only thing that B.A. Baracus was afraid of?
Answer: Flying
Question: What city's Presidio was at one time a Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. fort - and is now a park?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: What type of animal is depicted on California's flag?
Answer: Grizzly Bear
Question: What canal connects the cities of Buffalo and Albany?
Answer: Erie Canal
Question: On what island are "The Hamptons" located?
Answer: Long Island
Question: What activity makes Aspen, Vail, and Breckenridge famous?
Answer: Skiing
Question: What historical highway connected Chicago to Santa Monica?
Answer: Route 66
Question: Other than corn, what is most commonly grown crop in the United States?
Answer: Soybeans
Question: What famous cracked bell can be found in Philadelphia?
Answer: Liberty Bell
Question: Part of the Rootes group, which car company produced a model called the Chamois in the 1960's?
Answer: SINGER
Question: Which TV series featured the characters, Tinker, Eric Catchpole and Lady Jane Felsham?
Answer: LOVEJOY
Question: What is the name of the enzyme in the human body, which breaks down fats?
Answer: LIPASE
Question: Part of British Leyland, which car company produced a model called the Ital in the 1980's
Answer: MORRIS
Question: During which astronomical phenomenon, would a person see Baily's Beads?
Answer: A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
Question: Caroline of Ansbach was the wife of which British King?
Answer: GEORGE II
Question: Which French wine region, North of Lyons, produces Chiroubles and Saint Amour red wines?
Answer: BEAUJOLAIS
Question: In the bible, which prophet was taken up to Heaven in a fiery chariot?
Answer: ELIJAH
Question: What is the Latin name for the element Sodium, giving rise to its chemical formula Na?
Answer: NATRIUM
Question: In the TV series, "Enterprise", first aired in 2001, what was the name of the ship's captain, played by actor Scott Bakula?
Answer: JONATHAN ARCHER
Question: During World War II, which of the German leaders was head of the SS?
Answer: HEINRICH HIMMLER
Question: Which British musician had U.K. No 1 hits with his instrumental versions of the tunes, "Oh Mein Papa" in 1954, and in 1955 with, "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"?
Answer: EDDIE CALVERT
Question: Which award winning play, written by Alan Bennett, later made into a film, is set in the fictional Cutler's Grammar School in Sheffield?
Answer: THE HISTORY BOYS
Question: The temple of which of their gods was destroyed by Samson, as his last act of war against the Philistines?
Answer: DAGON
Question: Thojib Suharto was President and dictator of which Asian country from 1968 to 1998?
Answer: INDONESIA
Question: Which firm owned the factory in Bhopal in India, devastated by a poison gas leak in 1984?
Answer: UNION CARBIDE
Question: What is the name of the famous Neolithic passage tomb, situated just east of Navan town, in County Meath, Ireland?
Answer: NEWGRANGE
Question: Riding both Papillon in 2000, and Hedgehunter in 2005, which is the only jockey to ride two Aintree Grand National winners in the 21st century?
Answer: RUBY WALSH
Question: Which Hollywood legend directed The Godfather trilogy of films and the Vietnam War film, "Apocalypse Now"?
Answer: FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Question: In 1994, the Hutu and the Tutsi tribes waged a war of mass genocide in which African country?
Answer: RWANDA
Question: Which famous explorer was killed by natives in the Philippines in 1521?
Answer: FERDINAND MAGELLAN
Question: The Olduvai Gorge, famous for its archaeological finds, is in which African country?
Answer: TANZANIA
Question: Which Shakespeare play contains the line, "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania"?
Answer: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Question: Darfur, scene of mass genocide over the last few years, is part of which African country?
Answer: SUDAN
Question: Which Lancashire born actor was convicted of conspiracy to intimidate, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1972, after his involvement in a building workers dispute in Shrewsbury?
Answer: RICKY TOMLINSON
Question: In the novel by Edgar Allan Poe, who solved the "Murders in the Rue Morgue"?
Answer: C AUGUSTE DUPIN
Question: What product is obtained form the tree 'Hevea Braziliensis'?
Answer: LATEX
Question: Who played 'First Voice' in the original BBC radio production of 'Under Milk Wood' (and also in the film version)?
Answer: RICHARD BURTON
Question: What collective name is given to Jews dispersed around the world?
Answer: The DIASPORA
Question: In art, Lisa Gherardini became better known as whom?
Answer: MONA LISA
Question: On what Saint's day was the Battle of Agincourt fought in 1415?
Answer: St.CRISPIN
Question: What is name of the piece of leather on which a barber sharpens a cut-throat razor?
Answer: STROP
Question: In which Shakespeare play is the heroine called Rosalind?
Answer: AS YOU LIKE IT
Question: What is another name for the bird usually called the shrike?
Answer: BUTCHER BIRD
Question: Whom did St.Paul describe as 'his beloved physician'?
Answer: St. LUKE
Question: What is the second brightest star in the constellation Orion?
Answer: BETELGEUSE
Question: Who is the Muse of love poetry?
Answer: ERATO
Question: What was the name of William Wordsworth's sister, who was also a poet and pianist?
Answer: Dorothy
Question: Which part of the body is affected by Meniere's Disease?
Answer: Ear
Question: Who composed the Christmas Oratorio in 1734?
Answer: J S Bach
Question: Which UK female singer who died in 2008 had hits with 'How much is that doggie in the window' and 'Jimmy Unknown'?
Answer: Lita Roza
Question: In what year did The Great Train Robbery take place?
Answer: 1963
Question: 'It's Oh So Quiet' and Venus as a Boy' were hit singles for which female artist?
Answer: Bjork
Question: What name was given to the type of art particularly associated with Jackson Pollock?
Answer: (Abstract) Expressionism
Question: From whom did Henry Cooper first win the British heavyweight title in 1959?
Answer: Brian London
Question: Which former US world heavyweight champion knocked out Henry Cooper in four rounds in 1966?
Answer: Floyd Patterson
Question: Which US oceanographer led the teams which discovered the wrecks of the Titanic in 1985 and the Bismarck in 1989?
Answer: Robert Ballard
Question: Which Midlands club did Sam Allardyce manage, before he took up the position of manager at Bolton Wanderers in 1999?
Answer: NOTTS COUNTY
Question: The Wurzels No 1 hit record, "Combine Harvester", was a parody on which song, a No 1 hit for the singer Melanie in 1971?
Answer: BRAND NEW KEY
Question: Which comedian actor played the part of Ron Glum in the radio programme 'Take It From Here'?
Answer: DICK BENTLEY
Question: Which artist, a member of the modern school of art, and noted for his paintings of violinists, was born in Russia in 1887, and died in Paris aged 97?
Answer: MARC CHAGALL
Question: The Annapurna range of peaks stand in which Asian country?
Answer: NEPAL
Question: Which daily newspaper was a colour tabloid that was launched in March 1986 and ceased publication in November 1995?
Answer: Today
Question: In which TV series did the brothers Hoss, Adam and Little Joe appear?
Answer: Bonanza
Question: Benjamin Disraeli became the first Earl of . . . where?
Answer: Beaconsfield
Question: Who created the character 'Rip Van Winkle'?
Answer: Washington Irving
Question: What was the name of the state that seceded from Nigeria in 1967 and lasted until 1970?
Answer: Biafra
Question: The PFA footballer and young footballer of the year 1982 were Kevin Keegan and Steve Moran; they were both playing for which club at the time?
Answer: Southampton
Question: Helen of Troy was originally the Queen of which Greek state?
Answer: Sparta
Question: Which Russian port was the scene of the Potemkin Mutiny in 1905?
Answer: Odessa
Question: Which gangster was killed in a police ambush outside the Biograph Theatre, Chicago on July 22nd 1934?
Answer: John Dillinger
Question: Which inanimate flying object has a bridle and a tail?
Answer: A Kite
Question: What was the name of the province, led by Moise Tshombe, that seceded from the Congo Republic in 1960?
Answer: Katanga
Question: What name is given to the figure of rhetoric by which an unpleasant or offensive thing is designated by a milder term?
Answer: Euphemism
Question: Which 1960s TV programme was based on a book by Grace Metalious?
Answer: Peyton Place
Question: The British and Commonwealth beaches on D-Day were code-named Juno, Gold and what other name?
Answer: Sword
Question: Which series of children's books (and TV programme) is set on the island of Sodor?
Answer: Thomas the Tank Engine
Question: What name is given to a song or poem of lament, especially for the dead?
Answer: Elegy
Question: The third largest cities in Spain and Venezuela share which name?
Answer: Valencia
Question: The first line of which nineteenth century novel is 'Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress'?
Answer: Middlemarch
Question: Which British car manufacturer produced the Gazelle, Vogue and Chamois models?
Answer: Singer
Question: Which official is responsible for security in the House of Commons?
Answer: Sergeant-at-Arms
Question: Which Cheshire town has the motto 'Sal est Vita' (salt is life) on its coat of arms?
Answer: Northwich
Question: Who was in the films "Zelig", "Stardust Memories", and "Broadway Danny Rose"?
Answer: Woody Allen
Question: Melissa Joan Hart plays which TV character (the same as the Roman name for the River Severn)?
Answer: Sabrina
Question: Which Verdi opera opens with a banquet in the palace of the Duke of Mantua?
Answer: Rigoletto
Question: Scurvy is a disease resulting from deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin C
Question: Who, in the OT of the Bible, was the sister of Moses and Aaron?
Answer: Miriam
Question: The group 'Abba' was formed in which European capital city in 1971?
Answer: Stockholm
Question: John Reid holds which Government post as at October 2006?
Answer: Home Secretary
Question: Which British woman, in 2007, became he oldest person ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: DORIS LESSING
Question: The Hill of Tara, where once Irish kings were crowned, is in which Irish county?
Answer: MEATH
Question: In which John Steinbeck novel does a man named Adam, have two sons, Cal and Aaron?
Answer: EAST OF EDEN
Question: """Vissi d'Arte, Vissi d'Amore"", ""E Lucevan le Stelle"" and ""Recondita Armonia"" are all arias from which Puccini opera?"
Answer: TOSCA
Question: Which city in Southern France, contains a Roman amphitheatre? Nearby stands the famous Pont du Gard, a Roman built aqueduct?
Answer: NIMES
Question: In which 18th century ballad opera do the characters MacHeath, Jenny Diver and Sukey Tawdrey appear?
Answer: THE BEGGARS OPERA
Question: What nationality was the writer Oliver Goldsmith?
Answer: IRISH
Question: What is the more common name of the fruit of the shrub, vaccinum myrtillus, sometimes known as the whortleberry?
Answer: THE BILBERRY
Question: Which King of England was the father of both The Black Prince and John of Gaunt?
Answer: EDWARD III
Question: Which German City, close to the border with Luxembourg was the birthplace of Karl Marx, and contains the Porta Nigra, a well-preserved Roman city gate?
Answer: TRIER
Question: Elizabeth Ann Bloomer was the maiden name of which US First Lady?
Answer: Betty Ford
Question: The world's most crossed international land border connects Tijuana to which major Californian city?
Answer: San Diego
Question: In which year did King John grant Liverpool its charter?
Answer: 1207
Question: Who plays Dr House in the US TV medical series 'House'?
Answer: Hugh Laurie
Question: Brownsea Island is in which body of water?
Answer: Poole Harbour
Question: Which now famous film actor came to prominence playing Dr Doug Ross in the TV series ER?
Answer: George Clooney
Question: Ascorbic acid is a vital part of the diet, how is it commonly known?
Answer: Vitamin C
Question: William Frawley and Vivian Vance played Fred and Ethel Mertz in which popular 1950's American TV comedy show?
Answer: I LOVE LUCY
Question: The title of Frederick Forsyth's novel, "The Dogs of War" is taken from a line in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: JULIUS CAESAR
Question: Name of the character, played by Clint Eastwood, in the 1960's TV series, "Rawhide"?
Answer: ROWDY YATES
Question: Which King of England, from 1399-1413, was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincoln shire in 1366?
Answer: HENRY IV
Question: For which county did Harold Larwood play cricket from 1924-38?
Answer: NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Question: Born in Rouen in France in 1442, who was King of England from 1461 to 1483?
Answer: EDWARD IV
Question: Who played the part of Major Seth Adams in the 1950's TV series, "Wagon Train"?
Answer: WARD BOND
Question: Who won the Oscar for best actress in 1977, for her title role in the film, "Annie Hall"?
Answer: DIANE KEATON.
Question: Who was the actress wife of Clark Gable, killed in an air crash in 1942?
Answer: CAROLE LOMBARD
Question: What name is given to the underwater plateaus, which lie off the South East coast of Newfoundland, and which form a fishing area of major importance?
Answer: THE GRAND BANKS
Question: What was the name of the repressive militia employed by the Duvaliers in Haiti?
Answer: TONTON MACOUTE
Question: Who succeeded David Lloyd George as British Prime Minister in 1922?
Answer: ANDREW BONAR LAW
Question: Which is the only miracle mentioned in all four gospels?
Answer: FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND
Question: In Greek myth which was the sacred mountain of Apollo, and home to the muses?
Answer: Parnassus
Question: Who was the brother of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: Mycroft
Question: What was the maiden name of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor?
Answer: Warfield
Question: Botswana was until 1966 known as what?
Answer: Bechuanaland
Question: What are the Friendly Islands in the Pacific now known as?
Answer: Tonga
Question: Which was the first colour film to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Gone With the Wind
Question: Which is the densest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Earth
Question: What is the more common name for a polygraph?
Answer: Lie Detector
Question: Which British Cathedral has the highest spire?
Answer: Salisbury
Question: To which school of art did the painters Derain, Viamink and the young Matisse belong?
Answer: The Fauves
Question: Who wrote 'The Birds' in 1952, a short story on which Hitchcock based his film?
Answer: Daphne du Maurier
Question: Which Labour Party leader was described as 'a desiccated adding machine' by Aneurin Bevan?
Answer: Hugh Gaitskell
Question: Which car company produced the Elf and Kestrel models?
Answer: Riley
Question: Which company produced the WW1 aircraft the 'Camel'?
Answer: Sopwith
Question: Mrs Fitzherbert was the mistress of which English king?
Answer: George IV
Question: Which German novelist, a Nobel prize winner in 1999, wrote 'A Wide Field' and 'The Tin Drum'?
Answer: GUNTHER GRASS
Question: What common name is given to the lowest temperature at which a material gives off enough flammable vapour for it to ignite?
Answer: FLASH POINT
Question: In which children's TV programme did you see Mrs Goggins and Tom Pottage?
Answer: POSTMAN PAT
Question: Whose wedding was the main event of the last episode of Dad's Army?
Answer: CORPORAL JONES
Question: Who in the Bible was the mother of Isaac?
Answer: SARAH
Question: What, in the world of computing, did Larry Page and Sergey Brin found?
Answer: GOOGLE
Question: In 1947, a research physicist Chester Carlson set up which company to sell his invention, an office machine?
Answer: XEROX
Question: Which word is defined as 'an Arctic plain of permanently frozen subsoil, with dwarfed vegetation'?
Answer: TUNDRA
Question: Which Shakespeare tragedy takes place in both Venice and Cyprus?
Answer: Othello
Question: Who composed the oratorio "A German Requiem", also a quintet for clarinet and strings, etc?
Answer: Johannes Brahms
Question: A boxer between 155-160 lb. (72.6 kg) is classed in which weight?
Answer: Middleweight
Question: The WW2 Guadalcanal Campaign was on which of the Pacific islands?
Answer: Solomon Islands
Question: Which English author wrote a trilogy of fantasy novels entitled "His Dark Materials"?
Answer: Philip Pullman
Question: In the New Testament, who is father of John the Baptist?
Answer: Zacharias
Question: Which late actress (real first names Ruth Elizabeth), said: "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night"?
Answer: Bette Davies
Question: Ergatocracy is a type of government by whom?
Answer: Workers
Question: Titan and Rhea are major satellites of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: What was the surname of the brothers who developed a paper-thin, malt flavoured toasted flake of maize?
Answer: Kellogg
Question: Who wrote symphonies nicknamed 'Paris' and 'Prague'?
Answer: Mozart
Question: In cookery, what name is given to a cooked mixture of equal parts of butter and flour?
Answer: Roux
Question: Belgian Kriek beer is flavoured with which fruit?
Answer: Cherry
Question: A dish described as la Bretonne' is garnished with which vegetable?
Answer: Beans
Question: Which physicist proposed the Quantum theory?
Answer: Max Planck
Question: Which English King married Henrietta Maria, the daughter of Henry 4th of France?
Answer: Charles 1st
Question: Name the ancient civilised region bordered by the two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates?
Answer: Mesopotamia
Question: Prior to Virginia Wade in 1977, who was the previous British winner of a Grand Slam tennis singles tournament?
Answer: Sue Barker
Question: Lion's Mane, Moon and Compass are types of which creature?
Answer: Jellyfish
Question: Which band of the 1960s and 1970s had the following line-up: Graeme Edge, Mike Pinder, John Lodge, Ray Thomas and Justin Hayward?
Answer: Moody Blues
Question: Name either of the two main protagonists of the Seven Weeks War of 1866?
Answer: Austria and Prussia
Question: The King of Navarre and the Princess of France appear as characters in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Love's Labours Lost
Question: Which nymph kept Odysseus on an island for seven years?
Answer: Calypso
Question: What was the title of the Ronnie Barker sitcom in which he played a Welsh photographer?
Answer: The Magnificent Evans
Question: What part of the body is affected by Meniere's Syndrome?
Answer: (Inner) ear
Question: Invented by Alexander Parkes in about 1856 and originally called Parkesine, what was the first thermo-plastic?
Answer: Celluloid
Question: What name is given to the science or study of drugs?
Answer: Pharmacology
Question: In which European country is the resort of Antibes known for Roman remains?
Answer: FRANCE
Question: Which breed of dog, bred for hare coursing and racing, can reach speeds of over 40mph?
Answer: GREYHOUND
Question: Who starred as unconventional English teacher John Keating in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society?
Answer: ROBIN WILLIAMS
Question: Who anointed Saul as the first King of Israel?
Answer: SAMUEL
Question: Which British poet wrote the verse satire Don Juan?
Answer: LORD BYRON
Question: Which is the third book of the Old Testament?
Answer: LEVITICUS
Question: Mae West's immortal line "Come up and see me sometime" was spoken to which Hollywood actor?
Answer: CARY GRANT
Question: Where, in the novel "The Count of Monte Christo, by Alexandre Dumas, does the Abbe Faria befriend Edmond Dantes during his time in prison?
Answer: THE CHATEAU D'IF
Question: The Battle of Culloden, in 1746, was fought close to which Scottish city?
Answer: INVERNESS
Question: Which war was ended in 1648 with signing of the Treaty of Westphalia?
Answer: THE THIRTY YEARS WAR
Question: Which legendary film cowboy rode a horse named Topper?
Answer: HOPALONG CASSIDY
Question: What was the name of the horse ridden by the famous cowboy actor, Gene Autry?
Answer: CHAMPION
Question: Which African country was known, from 1960 until 1971 as the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Answer: ZAIRE
Question: The liqueur, Chartreuse, is named after the monastery situated near which city in S.E France?
Answer: GRENOBLE
Question: In which part of the British Isles is Scapa Flow, where the UK 's chief naval base was situated during the two World Wars?
Answer: THE ORKNEYS
Question: What was the name of King Harold of England's brother who fought against him at the Battle of Stamford Bridge?
Answer: Tostig
Question: In the TV sitcom 'Friends' what is the name of Phoebe's twin sister?
Answer: Ursula
Question: In the Old Testament who led the Israelites into the Promised Land?
Answer: Joshua
Question: One of the most frequent symptoms presented to medics, what is cephalalgia?
Answer: Headache
Question: Which US singer was born Alecia Moore in 1979, her hits include 'Get the Party Started', 'Family Portrait', 'Stupid Girls' and 'Who Knew'?
Answer: Pink
Question: The writing form known as Linear B was a graphic representation of which specific ancient language?
Answer: Mycenaean
Question: Guinea-Bissau was until 1973 a colony of which country?
Answer: Portugal
Question: What river rises in Russia and flows through Belarus before reaching the sea in the Ukraine?
Answer: Dneiper
Question: The eldest of her family, who was first seen in 1959, has a sister named Skipper, twin siblings, Stacie and Todd and in 1992 a baby sister Kelly?
Answer: Barbie
Question: In which year did Louis Bleriot make the first powered flight across the English Channel?
Answer: 1909
Question: Which now defunct car company manufactured the models Horizon, Samba and Solara?
Answer: Talbot
Question: Only one man since Donald Budge has won the tennis Grand Slam, achieving this feat twice, who is he?
Answer: Rod Laver
Question: At whose feast did the 'writing on the wall' appear?
Answer: Belshazzar
Question: Which was Scotland's first university, founded in 1411?
Answer: St Andrews
Question: In which sport would you find a rover, a peg and a baulk line?
Answer: CROQUET
Question: Which sea, an arm of the Indian Ocean, lies to the North and West of Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territories?
Answer: THE TIMOR SEA
Question: Which English King was married to Edith Swan-Neck, also known as Edith the Fair?
Answer: HAROLD II
Question: Who, in 1872, composed the opera, "Boris Godunov", based on the drama by Aleksandr Pushkin?
Answer: MODESTE MUSSORGSKI
Question: Who scored a spectacular goal in extra time in the 1971 F.A. Cup Final to win the trophy for Arsenal?
Answer: CHARLIE GEORGE
Question: Who was the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, commonly believed to have murdered her second husband, Lord Darnley?
Answer: EARL OF BOTHWELL
Question: The dessert zabaglione is traditionally prepared by whipping together a mixture of sugar, egg yolks and which alcoholic drink?
Answer: MARSALA
Question: By what name was the pop star Mark Feld better known?
Answer: MARC BOLAN
Question: Who wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?
Answer: JOHN ARDEN
Question: In which year did Fidel Castro come to power in Cuba?
Answer: 1959
Question: In which 1950 film, did Howard Keel and Betty Hutton sing the duet, "Anything you can do"?
Answer: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN