zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who wrote the opera 'Boris Godunov' in 1874?
Answer: (Modest) Mussorgsky
Question: Who was editor of Private Eye before Ian Hislop?
Answer: Richard Ingrams
Question: Who wrote the book 'Trainspotting'?
Answer: Irvine Welsh
Question: The illustrator Donald McGill is most famous for which type of 'art' work?
Answer: Seaside postcards
Question: Which sport did William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, describe as 'organised loafing'?
Answer: Cricket
Question: Which is England's largest castle?
Answer: Windsor Castle
Question: What form of poem can be Petrarchan or Elizabethan depending on its structure?
Answer: Sonnet
Question: Which South American country will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Brazil
Question: In Egyptian mythology who was the god of embalming who also watched over the dead?
Answer: Anubis
Question: Professor Robert Langdon is the hero in which best-selling novel?
Answer: Da Vinci Code
Question: In fiction who was Don Diego de la Vega?
Answer: Zorro
Question: Which was the first X-rated film to win an Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Midnight Cowboy
Question: What was the last silent film in which Chaplin's little tramp appeared?
Answer: Modern Times
Question: How many people take part in the dance of a quadrille?
Answer: 8
Question: Hepatitis is the inflammation of which organ?
Answer: Liver
Question: How many stars are on the European Union Flag?
Answer: 12
Question: The TV series 'Angel' is-a spin off from which other
Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Question: Which leading politician is the MP for Witney?
Answer: David Cameron
Question: What links the English towns of Barton and Hessle?
Answer: The Humber Bridge
Question: In which country can the world's largest deposit of nickel be found?
Answer: Russia
Question: Who was the mother of Helen of Troy?
Answer: Leda
Question: Which male singer, in 2008, topped the UK/USA album charts with album 'Home before Dark'?
Answer: Neil Diamond
Question: On television who live at 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield?
Answer: The Simpsons
Question: Which female singer, in 2008, topped the UK and US album charts with the album 'Spirit'?
Answer: Leona Lewis
Question: Lindholme Prison is situated dose to which English town or city?
Answer: Doncaster
Question: Which Mexican plant is sometimes called the Flower of the Holy Night or Mexican Flame Leaf?
Answer: Poinsettia
Question: Who was the last man to have set foot on the moon?
Answer: Eugene Cernan
Question: In which city is the HQ of Unesco?
Answer: Paris
Question: Which astronaut hit a golf ball on the moon in February 1971?
Answer: Alan Shepard
Question: Who played Boromir in the film version of The Lord of the Rings directed by Peter Jackson?
Answer: Sean Bean
Question: Who was known as the Acid Bath Murderer?
Answer: John George Haigh
Question: At which film festival is the Golden Bear awarded?
Answer: Berlin
Question: What was the name of the gentleman thief created by E.W.Hornung?
Answer: Raffles
Question: In which religion is the Tibetan Book of the Dead a revered text?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: Who succeeded Christopher Eccleston as the new Dr Who?
Answer: David Tennant
Question: Who is the main male character of the musical Carousel?
Answer: Billy Bigelow
Question: What nationality are the pop group Rush?
Answer: Canadian
Question: What was the given name of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson?
Answer: Mary
Question: What was the given name of the wife of Prime Minister James Callaghan?
Answer: Audrey
Question: In the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons', which bells sing 'When I am rich'?
Answer: Shoreditch
Question: Georgetown is the capital of which Caribbean country?
Answer: Guyana
Question: Members of the Welsh Assembly have which two letters after their name?
Answer: AM
Question: The Barry Burn is on which famous Scottish golf course?
Answer: Carnoustie
Question: George Wigram, Benjamin Wills Newton and John Nelson Darby were three of the founders of which religious sect founded in south-west England in 1831?
Answer: Plymouth Brethren
Question: In the Bible who was the father of the disciples James and John?
Answer: Zebedee
Question: Where in the human body are the deltoid muscles?
Answer: Shoulder
Question: Which canal connects Inverness and Fort William?
Answer: Caledonian Canal
Question: What is the anatomical name for the armpit?
Answer: Axilla
Question: Cinnabar is the chief ore of which metallic element?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which poet wrote 'The Lady of Shalott' in 1833?
Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Question: Who was the singer who gave up his seat on the plane that crashed, killing Buddy Holly?
Answer: Waylon Jennings
Question: Of which band was guitarist Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs a founder member?
Answer: Oasis
Question: In which American state is the United States military academy at West Point?
Answer: New York
Question: In the comedy series 'Rising Damp', what was the Christian name of Miss Jones?
Answer: Ruth
Question: What was the Christian name of the founder of the Birdseye frozen food company?
Answer: Clarence
Question: On which Greek island are the ruins of Knossos?
Answer: Crete
Question: The Swilkin Bridge is a famous feature of which Scottish golf course?
Answer: ST ANDREWS
Question: Licence plates from which U.S. state, include the phrase, "Great Faces, Great Places"?
Answer: SOUTH DAKOTA
Question: Which 18th century English artist and engraver painted "The Shrimp Girl", held in The National Gallery in London?
Answer: WILLIAM HOGARTH
Question: Britain, France and which other country were the main opponents of Russia in the Crimean War?
Answer: TURKEY
Question: Simmenthal cattle were originally bred in which country?
Answer: SWITZERLAND
Question: Which actress played the title role in the 1945 film, "Mildred Pierce"?
Answer: JOAN CRAWFORD
Question: Which Bulgarian dissident was poisoned on Waterloo Bridge in 1978, with an umbrella into which had been inserted a pellet containing ricin?
Answer: GEORGI MARKOV
Question: The Appian Way began in Rome and ends in which other Italian city?
Answer: Brindisi
Question: Who was the founding father of the US state of Texas?
Answer: Stephen F. Austin
Question: Which animal has species called Grevy's, Cape Mountain and Plains, amongst others?
Answer: Zebra
Question: Europa Point is the southern tip of which British territory?
Answer: Gibraltar
Question: Which Olympic city had the animal mascot called Amik the Beaver?
Answer: Montreal
Question: What is the name of the current Downing Street cat?
Answer: Sybil
Question: In cricket who was known as 'Whispering Death'?
Answer: Michael Holding
Question: What kind of animal; is a 'sambar'?
Answer: Deer
Question: Primrose Day on 19Ih April celebrates which 19th Century statesman?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli
Question: Prior to Zinedine Zidane being sent off in the world cup final of 2006 which other French player was also sent off in a World Cup Final (1998)?
Answer: Marcel Desailly
Question: In which country now within the EU was the fictional Hannibal Lector born?
Answer: Lithuania
Question: What starts in Chepstow and ends in Prestatyn?
Answer: Offa's Dyke
Question: Which opera is set in Catfish Row?
Answer: Porgy and Bess
Question: Who composed 'The Firebird' and 'The Rite of Spring'?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky
Question: What is the name of Saddam Hussein's home town?
Answer: Tikrit
Question: What kind of animal is a 'Bichon Frise'?
Answer: Dog
Question: Before he became Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams was bishop of which see between 1991 and 2002?
Answer: Monmouth
Question: What is the first name of Commander Dalgliesh, the character created by author PD James?
Answer: Adam
Question: In the Bible who called for the head of John the Baptist?
Answer: Salome
Question: How many public companies comprise the Dow Jones Index?
Answer: 30
Question: Who became Prince of Wales in 1504?
Answer: Henry 8th
Question: Who composed a set of 30 variations for the harpsichord which he named the "Goldberg Variations"?
Answer: J.S. BACH
Question: Who has been horse racing's National Hunt champion jockey every season since 1995-96?
Answer: TONY McCOY
Question: Which actress, who played the part of Candice Stowe in "Coronation St.", joined the cast of "Heartbeat" in 2008, where she plays the part of Dawn Bellamy?
Answer: NIKKI SANDERSON
Question: Which famous personality married Swedish model, Min Nordegren, in October 2004?
Answer: TIGER WOODS
Question: Which common expression comes from the act in 1887, of Lord Salisbury promoting his nephew, A J Balfour, to the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland?
Answer: BOB'S YOUR UNCLE
Question: Who was elected President of Cuba in February 2008?
Answer: RAUL CASTRO
Question: Born in Hungary in 1912, which pianist and conductor was music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1961-71, and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969-91?
Answer: GEORG SOLTI
Question: Which is the longest mountain range in the world?
Answer: ANDES
Question: What is the first name of the wife of French president Nikolas Sarkozy?
Answer: Carla
Question: Malachite is the main ore of which metal?
Answer: Copper
Question: Who was the first Poet Laureate appointed in 1668?
Answer: John Dryden
Question: In which Jane Austin novel are the characters Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth?
Answer: Persuasion
Question: Of what are you afraid if you suffer from hydrophobia?
Answer: Water
Question: Who played Tony Soprano on TV?
Answer: James Gandolfini
Question: The Ali/Frazier fight, billed as "The Thriller in Manila" took place in which city?
Answer: QUEZON CITY
Question: On TV what was the name of Tonto's horse?
Answer: SCOUT
Question: Which perfume house manufactures the perfume Alliage?
Answer: ESTEE LAUDER
Question: Who was King of England at the Battle of Bannockburn?
Answer: EDWARD II
Question: Which famous boxer had the nickname the 'Brockton Blockbuster'?
Answer: ROCKY MARCIANO
Question: In Western films what was the name of Hopalong Cassidy's horse?
Answer: TOPPER
Question: Which musician made the quotation "What you said hurt me, I cried all the way to the bank"?
Answer: LIBERACE
Question: On which National Radio Station would you listen to Shelagh Foggerty, Anita Anand and Richard Bacon?
Answer: RADIO 5 LIVE
Question: The city of Split lies on the coast of which country?
Answer: CROATIA
Question: In which US State did the Battle of Wounded Knee take place?
Answer: SOUTH DAKOTA
Question: Which Gloucestershire town sits on the confluence of the Severn and Warwickshire Avon?
Answer: TEWKESBURY
Question: What relation to King Herod was Salome?
Answer: STEP-DAUGHTER
Question: Which musical is based on the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder?
Answer: HELLO DOLLY
Question: In the Bible who was the father of David?
Answer: JESSE
Question: Who plays Chief Inspector George Gently on television?
Answer: MARTIN SHAW
Question: Temple Meads Railway Station is in which English city?
Answer: Bristol
Question: Which plant has the Latin name allium sativum?
Answer: Garlic
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Alchemist' in 1610?
Answer: Ben Jonson
Question: What is the better known name for the confectionary Rahat Lokum?
Answer: Turkish Delight
Question: Which musical instrument provides the leader of an orchestra with the concert pitch of the note 'A'?
Answer: The Oboe
Question: In which Scottish town, north of Stirling, was tennis player Jamie Murray born?
Answer: Dunblane
Question: Which composer, born in 1732, wrote the oratorios 'The Creation' and 'The Seasons'?
Answer: (Franz Josef) Haydn
Question: In which county would you find the stone circle known as 'Long Meg and her daughters'?
Answer: Cumbria
Question: Which bank acquired the Woolwich Building Society in 2000?
Answer: Barclays
Question: What specific product is associated with the town of Lynchburg Tennessee?
Answer: Jack Daniel's
Question: The main mouth of the Amazon lies in which country?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Who wrote the novel The Turn of the Screw?
Answer: Henry James
Question: The Australian town of Newcastle is in which state?
Answer: New South Wales
Question: Two of the earth signs are Taurus and Capricorn what is the third?
Answer: Virgo
Question: What was the name given to the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki in 1945?
Answer: Fat Man
Question: What is the capital of Mauritius?
Answer: Port Louis
Question: In which year was the Peterloo Massacre?
Answer: 1819
Question: Easter Island is a territory of its nearest mainland neighbour, which country is that?
Answer: Chile
Question: What was the name of the first communications satellite, launched in 1962?
Answer: Telstar
Question: Which US President was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize after his term in office?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Question: Mujibur Rahman was the first president of which country?
Answer: Bangladesh
Question: Prasutagus was the husband of which famous woman?
Answer: Boudicca
Question: In which city is the book 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon set?
Answer: Barcelona
Question: Which Australian state capital was named after the man who was Governor of New South Wales 1821-25?
Answer: Brisbane
Question: What is the name of the RSPB reserve just to the north of Flamborough, famous for its nesting seabirds?
Answer: Bempton Cliffs
Question: Which economist wrote 'The Great Crash, 1929'?
Answer: JK Galbraith
Question: Which Shakespearean character was the daughter of Brabantio?
Answer: Desdemona
Question: Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald after his arrest for the assassination of John F Kennedy?
Answer: JACK RUBY
Question: Where in London can statues of George IV, Sir Henry Havelock and Sir Charles Napier be found?
Answer: TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Question: Which 1973 film used The Entertainer as its theme music?
Answer: THE STING
Question: What is the full name of the youngest of the Spice Girls?
Answer: EMMA BUNTON
Question: Which composer has won Academy Awards for Best Original Score for Born Free, Out of Africa, and Dance with Wolves?
Answer: JOHN BARRY
Question: Who starred as Paul Kersey in the five Death Wish films?
Answer: CHARLES BRONSON
Question: John Goodman played Dan Connor, in which American TV comedy series?
Answer: ROSEANNE
Question: Who was the Democratic candidate who lost to George Bush in the US Presidential election in 1988?
Answer: MICHAEL DUKAKIS
Question: Which film had the tagline 'just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water'?
Answer: JAWS II
Question: Gannymede is the largest moon, orbiting which of the planets?
Answer: JUPITER
Question: Who, in 2006, became the first man to be sent off in a UEFA Champions league final?
Answer: JENS LEHMANN
Question: The M606 motorway connects the M62 to which English town or city?
Answer: BRADFORD
Question: Who is currently the Prime Minister of Eire?
Answer: BRIAN COWEN
Question: Which American big band leader had as his theme song, the tune, "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"?
Answer: TOMMY DORSEY
Question: Which Italian coastal resort is served by Federico Fellini Airport?
Answer: RIMINI.
Question: Who is the leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party, and currently, the First Minister of Scotland?
Answer: ALEX SALMOND
Question: According to the bible, Zaccariah was the father of which New Testament figure?
Answer: JOHN THE BAPTIST
Question: In 1936, which was the last country ever to host the Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which model was married to singer Billy Joel for 9 years, from 1985?
Answer: Christie Brinkley
Question: What is the common name for the part of the human bone with the comparatively unprotected ulnar nerve?
Answer: Funny Bone
Question: Which former US First Lady founded, in 1982, a well-known drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre?
Answer: Betty Ford
Question: Who was the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor posthumously?
Answer: Peter Finch
Question: Directed by John Lasseter, what was, in 1995, the first film to be entirely computer-generated?
Answer: Toy Story
Question: Which snooker player has scored a record 709 centuries in professional tournaments?
Answer: Stephen Hendry
Question: Who composed the scores for the Alfred Hitchcock movies "North By Northwest" and "Psycho"?
Answer: Bernard Herrmann
Question: In 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II was exiled to which country?
Answer: The Netherlands
Question: Which sunken ship lies on the floor of Pearl Harbour as a memorial to those killed in the attack of 7 December 1941?
Answer: USS Arizona
Question: Which gas makes up 95% of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
Answer: Carbon Dioxide
Question: What brand name was registered by the Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Company in 1961?
Answer: Hush Puppies
Question: Ashkabat is the capital of which country?
Answer: Turkmenistan
Question: Who played the character Gene Hunt in the UK TV series 'Life on Mars' and 'Ashes to Ashes'?
Answer: Phillip Glenister
Question: Hindu god Brahma emerged from which part of the body of Vishnu?
Answer: The navel
Question: Which famous cricketer had the nickname Big Bird?
Answer: JOEL GARNER
Question: In which year did the Boston Tea Party take place?
Answer: 1773
Question: In which TV drama/soap would you find the actress Deena Payne?
Answer: EMMERDALE
Question: In which English County is Huntingdon Castle?
Answer: CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Question: Which famous golfer had the nickname Super Mex?
Answer: LEE TREVINO
Question: In which sport is there a hog line?
Answer: CURLING
Question: Who wrote the French Lieutenant's Woman?
Answer: JOHN FOWLES
Question: Who wrote the TV series 'Bread' and 'Butterflies'?
Answer: Carla Lane
Question: Who was Walter Mondale's female running mate in the 1984 US Presidential election?
Answer: (Geraldine) Ferraro
Question: Which female candidate was beaten by Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 French Presidential election?
Answer: (Segolene) Royale
Question: The Swan-Hunter Shipyard is/was on which river?
Answer: Tyne
Question: Which Danish born physicist won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922 and devised an atomic model?
Answer: Niels Bohr
Question: What name is given to a university department that offers a particular area of study?
Answer: Faculty
Question: In the game of darts, what is the line called behind which a thrower must stand?
Answer: Oche
Question: What is the name of the first child born to a ruling British Monarch last century?
Answer: (PRINCE) ANDREW
Question: What was the name of the 1970 number one hit record by Matthews Southern Comfort which was their only hit?
Answer: WOODSTOCK
Question: Which comic book hero made his debut in issue 27 of Detective in 1939?
Answer: BATMAN
Question: Which sport uses the terms serve, dig and spike?
Answer: VOLLEYBALL
Question: Which American comic book hero was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appeared in Marvel Comics in 1962?
Answer: SPIDERMAN
Question: What was Khruschev's first name?
Answer: NIKITA
Question: Sheriff John T Chance appears in which classic Western?
Answer: RIO BRAVO
Question: In which country are the Appenines?
Answer: ITALY
Question: Lorena. Ochoa, the world's number one woman golfer, is from which country?
Answer: MEXICO
Question: There are three snakes native to Britain, the adder, the grass snake and which other?
Answer: THE SMOOTH SNAKE
Question: Which Romantic artist painted "Liberty Leading the People"?
Answer: EUGENE DELACROIX
Question: As what is the game of 'petanque' better known?
Answer: BOULES
Question: What is the name of the Roman Road which runs from London to York via Lincoln?
Answer: ERMINE STREET
Question: In which country does the River Danube enter the Black Sea?
Answer: ROMANIA
Question: a By what name is the fruit carambola better known?
Answer: THE STAR FRUIT
Question: In Norse mythology who killed Baldur with a spear made from mistletoe?
Answer: LOKI
Question: In which small Middle Eastern Country were women only granted the right to vote in 2006?
Answer: KUWAIT
Question: What series of children's books is written by Eoin Colfer?
Answer: THE 'ARTEMIS FOWL' BOOKS
Question: Which British women achieved gold in the 400 metres at the 2007 World Athletics Championships?
Answer: CHRISTINE OHURUOGU
Question: What is the SI unit of energy?
Answer: Joule
Question: Who composed the opera 'Albert Herring' in 1947?
Answer: Benjamin Britten
Question: In which constellation is the star Rigel?
Answer: Orion
Question: Which musical features the songs 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare' and 'From This Moment On'?
Answer: Kiss Me Kate
Question: Which British monarch was murdered at Berkeley Castle in September 1327?
Answer: Edward II
Question: The title character of which British TV detective series has not put in an appearance for nearly 14 years?
Answer: Taggart
Question: In Greek mythology who was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter who became the wife of Hades and Queen of the Underworld?
Answer: Persephone
Question: Libreville is the capital of which West African country?
Answer: Gabon
Question: What acid is found in rhubarb leaves?
Answer: OXALIC ACID
Question: Which 'Bond girl' was married to a Beatle? Give either the name of the actress or the name of the character.
Answer: BARBARA BACH
Question: In a Dickens novel, who lived at Satis House?
Answer: MISS HAVISHAM
Question: Which famous London club was founded by Italian Francesco Bianco?
Answer: WHITE'S
Question: Architect Frank Matcham (1854-1920) specialized in designing which kind of building?
Answer: THEATRES
Question: Which number when squared equals half of it cube?
Answer: TWO
Question: In the 2008 film 'W, directed by Oliver Stone, who played George W. Bush?
Answer: JOSH BROLIN
Question: Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker prize for 2008 - what was the title of the book?
Answer: The WHITE TIGER
Question: Mount Marmolada is the highest peak in which European mountain range?
Answer: DOLOMITES
Question: Who founded the Ballet Russe?
Answer: SERGEI DIAGHILEV
Question: John Crome (1768-1821) founded which School of Painting?
Answer: NORWICH SCHOOL
Question: Who directed the film Picnic at flanging Rock?
Answer: PETER WEIR
Question: What was the first name of notorious murderer Doctor Crippen?
Answer: HAWLEY
Question: Alex Waugh, brother of Evelyn, wrote a first novel about life at a public school, what was it?
Answer: THE LOOM OF YOUTH
Question: Which Canadian/American novelist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976?
Answer: SAUL BELLOW
Question: Who won the Best Director Oscar for the film 'Out of Africa'?
Answer: SYDNEY POLLACK
Question: Which South African writer won the Novel Prize for Literature in 1991?
Answer: NADINE GORDIMER
Question: What title is earned by a Moslem who makes a pilgrimage to Mecca?
Answer: Hajj
Question: Which is the principal town on the Isle of Skye?
Answer: Portree
Question: What is the largest number on a standard backgammon doubling dice?
Answer: 64
Question: Which best-selling author wrote the novel 'A Painted House'?
Answer: John Grisham
Question: To which family of fish does the minnow belong?
Answer: Carp
Question: Which religion believes in the Four Noble Truths?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: What is/was a seller of Papal indulgences called?
Answer: A PARDONER
Question: Which Italian wrote the opera "La Boheme"?
Answer: PUCCINI
Question: By what name was singer Terence Nelhams better known?
Answer: ADAM FAITH
Question: In mythology, which winged horse did Bellerophon ride?
Answer: PEGASUS
Question: In children's literature, which car did Commander Caractacus Potts drive?
Answer: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
Question: Who played Jim Morrisson in Oliver Stone's film "The Doors"?
Answer: VAL KILMER
Question: What is produced in a Bessemer Converter?
Answer: STEEL
Question: Whose ghost was at the dinner table in "Macbeth"?
Answer: BANQUO'S
Question: What is the capital city of the American state of Wyoming?
Answer: CHEYENNE
Question: What is the only non-fictional country visited by Gulliver in his travels?
Answer: JAPAN
Question: What was the first Elvis Presley single to reach number one in the UK?
Answer: ALL SHOOK UP
Question: Which English romantic poet, (1795-1821), wrote the poem, "The Eve of St Agnes"?
Answer: JOHN KEATS
Question: Who played Esmeralda, to Charles Laughton's Quasimodo, in the 1939 version of the film, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"?
Answer: MAUREEN O'HARA