zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The 2013 book An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris is a fictional account of real life events. Whose life is it based on?
Answer: Alfred Dreyfus
Question: In which year did the UK first win the Eurovision Song Contest with Sandi Shaw's Puppet on a String?
Answer: 1967
Question: How many houses are there in Downing Street?
Answer: 3
Question: Of what is 'fescue' an example?
Answer: Grass
Question: Affecting approximately 1 in 25 children, how is the optical condition amblyopia commonly known?
Answer: Lazy Eye
Question: Complete the proverb 'Children are poor men's .......'?
Answer: Riches
Question: Who was on the throne of England in 1200?
Answer: John
Question: The painters Filippo Marinetti and Umberto Boccioni were leading figures of which early 20th century art movement?
Answer: Futurism
Question: Rhode Island in the USA borders two states, Massachusetts and which other?
Answer: Connecticut
Question: Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol were founder members of which English folk-rock group?
Answer: Fairport Convention
Question: What is the title of Stephen Ambrose's book which followed the .exploits of Easy Company following the D Day landings in 1944?
Answer: Band of Brothers
Question: Who hosts Radio 4's News Quiz?
Answer: Sandi Toksvig
Question: In Greek mythology who was abducted and raped by Zeus when he was disguised as a bull?
Answer: Europa
Question: How many nobles were there in £1?
Answer: 3
Question: The Autoroute du Soleil is the name given to the A6 from Paris to Lyon, it continues from there as the A7, to which city?
Answer: Marseilles
Question: Which famous English painter (1727-1788) was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk?
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough
Question: In English law, what name is given to a written statement of fact voluntarily made by a person under oath or affirmation?
Answer: Affidavit
Question: Which young singer/songwriter was born near Halifax in 1991 but was raised in Suffolk, he has released two albums, + (plus) and x (multiply)?
Answer: Ed Sheeran
Question: In English law, what name is given to the defence whereby an accused alleges that he or she was unlawfully pressured to perform the act in question?
Answer: Duress
Question: Who became Leader of the Opposition when the coalition government was formed in May 2010?
Answer: Harriet Harman
Question: Which premiership football club has a badge showing gold lion rampant above the motto "prepared"?
Answer: Aston Villa
Question: In which year was Facebook launched, George Bush defeated John Kerry in the US Presidential Election and Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon?
Answer: 2004
Question: Which soul singer, writer of the song Papa's Got a Brand New Bag died on Christmas Day 2006?
Answer: James Brown
Question: What is the name of Australia's premier thoroughbred horse race, run on the first Tuesday in November?
Answer: Melbourne Cup
Question: Who was the first king of the House of York?
Answer: Edward IV
Question: Name Status Quo's only UK No.1 hit.
Answer: Down Down
Question: In which English county would you find the towns of Saffron Walden, Great Dunmow and Waltham Abbey?
Answer: Essex
Question: Which Dan Brown novel was the best selling fiction book in the UK in 2013, selling over 228,000 copies in its 1st week of publication?
Answer: Inferno
Question: In which city were 62 people killed in a terrorist attack on a shopping mall on 21st September 2013?
Answer: Nairobi
Question: Which poet wrote the 1937 poem which begins "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, It isn't fit for humans now"?
Answer: John Betjeman
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the brother of both Zeus and Poseidon and was God of the Underworld?
Answer: Hades
Question: Who is the only professional heavyweight boxer to have retired undefeated?
Answer: Rocky Marciano
Question: Which English football team began playing their home matches at Gresty Road in 1898 and are nicknamed 'The Railway Men'?
Answer: Crewe Alexandra
Question: By what name was William Joyce better known in the 1940's?
Answer: Lord Haw-Haw
Question: Thomas Harris's 1988 novel 'The Silence of the Lambs' was actually a sequel - what was the name of the first book in the series?
Answer: Red Dragon
Question: Which woman's first name was invented by the author Jonathan Swift?
Answer: Vanessa
Question: Who was the Roman Goddess of the hunt and wild animals? She later took over from Luna as the Goddess of the moon.
Answer: Diana
Question: In which opera does the character Scarpia appear?
Answer: Tosca
Question: b Who was the country music singer who gave up his seat to the Big Bopper on the plane that crashed, killing Buddy Holly in 1959?
Answer: Waylon Jennings
Question: What French name is given to the showjumping competition where the main object is jumping higher and higher obstacles, over 5 rounds?
Answer: Puissance
Question: For which film did Jack Lemmon receive the Best Actor Oscar in 1973?
Answer: Save the Tiger
Question: General Suharto was the 2nd president of which country from 1967 to 1998?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: In Greek mythology, which King of Lydia (560-547BC) was noted for his fabulous wealth?
Answer: Croesus
Question: Which battle of 1805 is also known as "The Battle of the Three Emperors"?
Answer: Austerlitz
Question: In 2003 the National Trust opened a house called 'Mendips' to the public. Which famous person grew up there?
Answer: John Lennon
Question: As mentioned in the title of an Arthur Miller 1949 play, what was Willie Loman's occupation?
Answer: Salesman
Question: Who was the first man to win a Best Actor Oscar, in 1929?
Answer: Emil Jannings
Question: What was the name of the queen consort to King William IV?
Answer: Adelaide
Question: What sort of creature is a lammergeyer?
Answer: Bird
Question: Who succeeded Hitler in April 1945 as Head of State and President of Germany?
Answer: Karl Doenitz
Question: In which state is Fort Sumter, the battle for which marked the start of the American Civil War in April 1861?
Answer: South Carolina
Question: Antonio Salazar was the virtual dictator of which country from 1932 to 1968?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Who (1620-1647) claimed to have been given the title Witch Finder General?
Answer: Matthew Hopkins
Question: Who came to power as Prime Minister of Italy in 1922?
Answer: Mussolini
Question: Connie Fisher won a TV competition to find the lead for Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of which musical?
Answer: The Sound of Music
Question: If a president is elected in a presidential election, what name is given to an election to choose a governor?
Answer: Gubernatorial
Question: Which Prime Minister died in 10 Downing Street in 1908?
Answer: Henry Campbell Bannerman
Question: Which football manager, now at Monaco, was known as 'the Tinkerer' or 'Tinkerman' during his time in England?
Answer: Claudio Ranieri
Question: Who was the CBS News anchor-man known as 'the man Americans most trust'?
Answer: Walter Cronkite
Question: Which children's character is a fry cook at the Krusty Krab restaurant?
Answer: SpongeBob Squarepants
Question: The fashion for wearing silicone gel wristbands started in 2004 with a yellow 'anti-cancer' band, whose charity launched it?
Answer: Lance Armstrong
Question: In which country do the majority (over 1 million) of Dromedary camels live in the wild, having been introduced there in the 1840s?
Answer: Australia
Question: Amy Whitehouse had two albums, 'Back to Black' and her first which had which male name as its title?
Answer: Frank
Question: Who is the only person to win an Oscar playing an Oscar winning actress?
Answer: Cate Blanchett
Question: Mozambique was the first country with no historical ties to Britain to be accepted into the Commonwealth, which was the second?
Answer: Rwanda
Question: Which is 'Queen of the Sciences'?
Answer: Mathematics
Question: Who in 1588, commanded the English fleet that confronted the Spanish Armada?
Answer: LORD HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM
Question: Who played the role of U.S. Vaudeville artist Eddie Foy in the 1955 biographical movie "The Seven Little Foys"?
Answer: BOB HOPE
Question: In Britain, what name is given to a trader who deals in buttons, thread, ribbon and other small articles used in the making of clothes?
Answer: HABERDASHER
Question: Which group sharing its name with a military aircraft had hits with 'Rock Lobster and 'The Love Shack'?
Answer: THE B52's
Question: In the Bible, Daniel was thrown to the lions for refusing to worship which king?
Answer: DARIUS
Question: Which U.S. city saw the foundation in 1903 of the Harley-Davidson motor cycle manufacturer?
Answer: MILWAUKEE
Question: What is the shortest name in the Bible?
Answer: UZ
Question: Talisker whisky is produced on which island?
Answer: Skye
Question: Inspector Japp is found in some novels featuring which detective?
Answer: Hercule Poirot
Question: The words 'I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading' are to appear on a new £10 note, who wrote them?
Answer: Jane Austen
Question: Kronos (or Cronus) was the Greek equivalent of which Roman god?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which US President was a former World War 2 supreme commander?
Answer: Dwight D Eisenhower
Question: Which South Korean car company was bought by General Motors in 2001, its cars then being produced under the Chevrolet badge?
Answer: Daewoo
Question: Tony Stark is the alter ego of which comic book (and film) superhero?
Answer: Iron Man
Question: Selina Kyle is the alter ego of which comic book (and film) super heroine?
Answer: Catwoman
Question: In which zodiacal constellation is the bright star Aldebaran?
Answer: Taurus
Question: Who directed the film Dr. Strangelove?
Answer: STANLEY KUBRICK
Question: In which constellation is the star Sirius?
Answer: CANIS MAJOR
Question: With which band did Ray Manzarek play keyboards?
Answer: THE DOORS
Question: Which politician did John Bellingham assassinate?
Answer: SPENCER PERCEVAL
Question: Who wrote 'The Selfish Gene'?
Answer: RICHARD DAWKINS
Question: Cricket. Who was the batsman when Shane Warne bowled the so-called "ball of the century" on 4th June 1993?
Answer: Mike Gatting
Question: Popular with young British people, on which Mediterranean island is the resort of Faliraki located?
Answer: Rhodes
Question: Which TV cartoon character had the catchphrase "Drat and double drat"?
Answer: Dick Dastardly
Question: Which classic 1941 film features the characters Joel Cairo, Kasper Gutman and Brigid O'Shaughnessy?
Answer: The Maltese Falcon
Question: Which country's national anthem has verses sung{ in five different languages?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What metal is mined in a stannary?
Answer: Tin
Question: Popular with young British. people, on. which. Mediterranean island is the. resort of Malia located?
Answer: Crete
Question: In which language did Samuel Beckett originally write and publish the play 'Waiting for Godot'?
Answer: French
Question: Which is the most northerly town in Britain directly connected to the national rail network?
Answer: Thurso
Question: Which city links Haydn's symphony number 104 and Vaughan Williams' symphony number 2?
Answer: London
Question: Which house did Harry Potter belong to in Hogwarts School?
Answer: GRYFFINDOR
Question: In football, Emlyn Hughes joined Liverpool and Alan Ball joined Everton from which club?
Answer: BLACKPOOL
Question: Only two horses beat Red Rum in the Grand National - L'Escargot and which other?
Answer: RAG TRADE
Question: In which year was the Aberfan Disaster?
Answer: 1966
Question: Four US states border Lake Michigan - Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and which other?
Answer: INDIANA
Question: Whose written works include "Strange Interlude" and "Mourning Becomes Electra?
Answer: EUGENE O'NEIL
Question: In Desperate Housewives, who played Susan Mayer?
Answer: TERI HATCHER
Question: """The knife came down, missing him by inches and he took off', is the closing line from which novel, later made into a 1970 film?"
Answer: CATCH 22
Question: Which country in the Pacific was also known as The Friendly Islands?
Answer: TONGA
Question: The title of Poet Laureate as a royal office was first conferred on which poet in 1670?
Answer: JOHN DRYDEN
Question: How many players are there in each team in a game of Gaelic Football?
Answer: FIFTEEN
Question: Made law by the Senate in 1919, the National Prohibition Act is informally named after which Congressman who is considered to be its author?
Answer: ANDREW VOLSTEAD
Question: What is known as 'lättöl' in Scandinavia and `pivo' in most of the Balkan countries?
Answer: BEER
Question: If a dish is cooked a la soubise, the sauce primarily contains which vegetable?
Answer: ONION
Question: The constellation Carina is supposed to represent the keel of which mythical ship?
Answer: ARGO
Question: In 1984 which Bruce Springsteen song was the first to win a Grammy for him? (He has won 20 in all)
Answer: DANCING IN THE DARK
Question: Which Wagnerian hero was the son of Parsifal?
Answer: LOHENGRIN
Question: What was the name of the gang's van in the Scooby-Doo TV series?
Answer: MYSTERY MACHINE
Question: Where in the human body are the 'Billroth Cords'?
Answer: SPLEEN
Question: In World War II what was the British Operation 'Chastise' which took place in May 1943?
Answer: THE DAMBUSTERS
Question: Who starred in the TV series `Nice Guy Eddie' as a Liverpool Private Investigator?
Answer: RICKY TOMLINSON
Question: Between 1795 and 1799, which English navigator surveyed the coast of Australia?
Answer: MATTHEW FLINDERS
Question: In which comedy film of the 1960's would you hear the line `Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room?
Answer: DR STRANGELOVE
Question: What name is given to the smallest species of hummingbird, it is named after the insect it is closest in size to?
Answer: BEE HUMMINGBIRD
Question: Who was the first Plantagenet monarch?
Answer: HENRY II
Question: What song about the Highland Clearances was performed by the Proclaimers in 1987?
Answer: LETTER FROM AMERICA
Question: The Costa Prize winning book 'Pure' by Andrew Miller was set in the ancient cemeteries of which city?
Answer: PARIS
Question: Which country defeated Great Britain in the Davis Cup in April 2014 to prevent Britain from reaching the semi-finals for the first time since 1981?
Answer: ITALY
Question: With a height of 25 kilometres and a volume 100 times greater than its rival on Earth, what is the solar system's tallest known volcano?
Answer: OLYMPUS MONS
Question: 'An Unearthly Child' was the first episode of which TV series?
Answer: Dr Who
Question: What was the name of the rebellion incited by Captain Bligh when he was Governor of New South Wales?
Answer: The Rum Rebellion
Question: What is the name of the rocky island group off Northumberland, associated with St Cuthbert and Grace Darling?
Answer: Farne Islands
Question: In the Bible who was the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth?
Answer: Noah
Question: What name is given to the underground stem base of plants such as crocus and gladiolus?
Answer: Corm
Question: What name is given to the phenomenon when light bends as it passes from one medium to another e.g. from air to water?
Answer: Refraction
Question: Which explorer's flagship was the Trinidad? Neither he nor his flagship survived his most famous voyage.
Answer: Magellan
Question: What building stands at 32, London Bridge Street on the site of the Southwark Towers office block which was demolished in 2008?
Answer: The Shard
Question: In the book 'Call For The Dead', who is described as a 'short, fat man with a quiet disposition'?
Answer: George Smiley
Question: Which war of 1870 was precipitated by the 'Ems Telegram'?
Answer: Franco-Prussian.
Question: Common, Short Beaked and Spinner are all species of which mammal?
Answer: Dolphin
Question: In which Asian country are the car manufacturers Proton and Perodua based?
Answer: Malaysia
Question: Who was best man at the inventor Marconi's wedding in 1927?
Answer: Benito Mussolini
Question: Which Roman writer, best known for his Natural History (Naturalis Historic), died during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD?
Answer: Pliny
Question: Ceres is the Roman counterpart of which Greek goddess?
Answer: Demeter
Question: Which two words immediately follow "if music be the food of love...." in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night?
Answer: """Play On"""
Question: Stolen on Bastille Day 1999, who was the artist of the painting titled 'L'enfant a la bulle de savon' which was recovered in March 2014?
Answer: Rembrandt
Question: What would be your birth sign if you were born on le October?
Answer: Libra
Question: 'Boris Godunov' was the only completed opera of which composer?
Answer: (Modest) Mussorgsky
Question: Who was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain and crops?
Answer: Ceres
Question: Name the last period of the Palaeozoic era.
Answer: Permian
Question: Who was Israel's Prime Minister at the time of the Yom Kippur War of 1973?
Answer: Golda Meir
Question: Which motor company's first electric car is called the Leaf?
Answer: NISSAN
Question: According to L Frank Baum what was the name of the Good Witch of the South?
Answer: GLINDA
Question: What was the name of the man who led the Religious Sect Branch Davidian at the Waco Massacre?
Answer: DAVID KORESH
Question: Which reconnaissance aircraft shared its name with the bird with the Latin name Terdus Merula?
Answer: BLACKBIRD
Question: Which character was portrayed on film by Gregory Peck and on TV by loan Gruffudd?
Answer: HORATIO HORNBLOWER
Question: Capoeira is a non contact combat sport from which country?
Answer: BRAZIL
Question: Sana’a is the constitutionally stated capital of which country?
Answer: YEMEN
Question: Which major sportswear manufacturer was found in 1964 and has its headquarters in Oregon USA?
Answer: NIKE
Question: In the books by W.E. Johns what is the full surname of the character known as Biggles?
Answer: BIGGLESWORTH
Question: From which country did drug baron Pablo Escobar come?
Answer: COLOMBIA
Question: Rachel Verinder and Gabriel Betteredge are characters in which novel of 1868?
Answer: The Moonstone
Question: Disc brakes were invented in 1902 by which British car manufacturer?
Answer: Frederick Lanchester
Question: In which Midwestern US state is Northwestern University based?
Answer: Illinois
Question: In which country was the first Women's Institute founded in 1897?
Answer: Canada
Question: Which Nobel Prize winner for Literature was born in Bone, Algeria in November 1913?
Answer: Albert Camus
Question: Which British politician described a fanatic as 'one who can't change his mind and won’t change the subject’?
Answer: (Winston) CHURCHILL
Question: Oscar Schindler, Michael Collins and Alfred Kinsey have all been played on screen by which actor?
Answer: (Liam) NEESON
Question: Which British member of the grouse family turns white as a winter camouflage?
Answer: PTARMIGAN
Question: Where in the human body is the tectum?
Answer: BRAIN
Question: Which film and comic ‘superhero’ has a ‘day-job’ as photographer with the Daily Bugle?
Answer: Spiderman
Question: Cape Hatteras in North Carolina is the nearest land to which UK overseas territory?
Answer: Bermuda
Question: Which Swedish warship sank on her maiden voyage on 10th August 1628?
Answer: Vasa
Question: Where in the body would you find Glisson’s capsule and Kupffer cells?
Answer: Liver
Question: What was the first single released by Frankie Goes To Hollywood not to reach number 1 in the UK, although the album of the same name did?
Answer: WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME
Question: Roger Mellie ‘The Man on the Telly’ appears in which comic magazine?
Answer: VIZ
Question: In the title of a Shakespeare play, of which city in the Levant was Pericles the prince?
Answer: TYRE
Question: Which former Labour cabinet minister headed the Better Together group campaigning for a No vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum?
Answer: ALISTAIR DARLING
Question: How many digits make up a bank’s sort code?
Answer: 6
Question: Which player won the Gentlemen’s Singles at Wimbledon four times in the 1960s?
Answer: ROD LAVER
Question: Which former Prime Minister held the title “Father of the House” (of Commons) between 1929 and 1945?
Answer: DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
Question: Which football club has been managed in 2014 by Paul Ince, Barry Ferguson, Jose Riga and Lee Clark?
Answer: BLACKPOOL
Question: In the final part of which 1990s game show did contestants collect tokens blown around by six fans inside a dome?
Answer: THE CRYSTAL MAZE
Question: The Lancre Coven is the main group of witches in which series of novels?
Answer: DISCWORLD
Question: Which European country's flag consists of 3 horizontal bands top to bottom white, green and red?
Answer: BULGARIA
Question: Which car company manufactures the Adam model?
Answer: VAUXHALL
Question: According to the Acts of the Apostles what peak was the location for the ascension of Jesus?
Answer: THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
Question: Ynys Mon is the Welsh name for which part of the Principality?
Answer: ANGLESEY
Question: Which country contains the greatest number of cable stay bridges?
Answer: CHINA
Question: Which is the most famous collection of games produced by Rovio Entertainment Limits?
Answer: ANGRY BIRDS
Question: Which African Nations football team are nicknames The Elephants?
Answer: IVORY COAST
Question: The Wilhelm Gustloft which sank in the Baltic in 1945 was compared to which other ship because of the loss of lives?
Answer: TITANIC
Question: In which year were the Liberal Democrats formed?
Answer: 1988
Question: Which order of monks inhabited Bolton Priory?
Answer: AUGUSTINIAN
Question: Which former Royal Navy ship, launched in 1938, is now moored in London and is a now a museum ship operated by the Imperial War Museum?
Answer: HMS Belfast
Question: What is the lowest possible bid in bridge?
Answer: One Club
Question: Which city was the first to supply both finalists in a European Cup or Champions League Final?
Answer: Madrid
Question: Which country's national flag features the Sun of May in a white canton (not in the centre of the flag)?
Answer: Uruguay
Question: Who was the commander of the besieged British troops at the Siege of Mafeking in May 1900?
Answer: Baden-Powell
Question: In which town did the Gunfight at the OK Corral take place?
Answer: Tombstone, Arizona
Question: In the activity known as BASE jumping, for what does the E stand?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which eponymous Dickens character married Madeline Bray?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby
Question: Which US state is known as ?The Constitution State? as it was first to have a constitution in 1638-39?
Answer: Connecticut
Question: Which eponymous Dickens character married Mary Graham?
Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit
Question: In a standard game of backgammon with how many playing pieces does each player start the game?
Answer: 15
Question: Which county cricket limited over side is nick-named The Steelbacks?
Answer: Northamptonshire
Question: Which character is played by Peter Capaldi in The Thick of It?
Answer: Malcolm Tucker
Question: Which German fashion house, still trading today, allegedly supplied uniforms for the Hitler Youth and the National Socialist Party from 1928 until 1939?
Answer: Hugo Boss
Question: After featuring in the Wallace and Gromit film The Curse of the Were Rabbit the sales of which cheese increased by 500%?
Answer: Stinking Bishop
Question: In Irish legend, what name is given to the Otherworld or Land of Promise, inhabited by fairies?
Answer: Tir Na Nog
Question: Who was the US Attorney General to J F Kennedy?
Answer: Robert Kennedy
Question: In 1969, who took over from Dick Hills and Sid Green as a script?writer for Morecambe and Wise?
Answer: Eddie Braben
Question: The Mersey ferries Iris and Daffodil were both given Royal status after which World War I action?
Answer: The raid on Zeebrugge
Question: Who captained the English XI on the 1987 rebel cricket tour of South Africa?
Answer: Graham Gooch
Question: Who was the President of France immediately before Jacques Chirac?
Answer: Francois Mitterand
Question: What was the name of the pub in Ballykissangel?
Answer: FITZGERALD'S
Question: What is the name of the son of Cain born in the Land of Nod, after whom Cain named a city?
Answer: ENOCH
Question: If the chemical elements with a single letter symbol were arranged alphabetically which letter would come next - B, C, ...?
Answer: F
Question: Curtain, a book published in 1975, featured the death of which detective?
Answer: POIROT