zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who was the most famous son of Philip of Macedon?
Answer: Alexander the Great
Question: Which European motor manufacturer's logo is a winged arrow?
Answer: Skoda
Question: What is the capital of Honduras?
Answer: Tegucigalpa
Question: The name of which chemical element means 'water-producing'?
Answer: Hydrogen
Question: What was the name of Scott's ship on his 1911 expedition to the South Pole?
Answer: Terra Nova
Question: Tom Hanks won the best actor Oscar in 1993 and 1994, who is the only other actor to win the award in successive years?
Answer: Spencer Tracy
Question: 'Let me have men about me who are fat' is a quotation from which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: Julius Caesar
Question: With which pop group is Frank Zappa associated?
Answer: Mothers of Invention
Question: Off which island is there a group of rocks known as the Needles?
Answer: Isle of Wight
Question: Roy Williamson wrote which folk song, sung as an anthem before Scotland's Rugby Union matches?
Answer: Flower of Scotland
Question: In which year did the First Battle of St Albans, the first battle of the Wars of the Roses, take place?
Answer: 1455
Question: Which car manufacturer currently produces models called Colt and Outlander?
Answer: Mitsubishi
Question: Which book of the New Testament follows the four Gospels?
Answer: Acts
Question: Which American folk singer wrote 'This Land is Your Land'?
Answer: Woody Guthrie
Question: Which duo's films included 'Towed in the Hole', 'Pardon Us' and 'Blockheads'?
Answer: Laurel and Hardy
Question: The main show court at the Australian Open Tennis Championships held in at Melboume Park is named after which male player?
Answer: Rod Laver
Question: The Earl of Warwick, known as the 'kingmaker' was killed at which battle in 1471?
Answer: Barnet
Question: Which film actor is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola?
Answer: Nicholas Cage
Question: Who captained 'The Beagle' on which Charles Darwin sailed to the Galapagos Islands?
Answer: Robert Fitzroy
Question: Whose first solo hit was Suedehead which reached No.5 in 1988?
Answer: Morrissey
Question: At which battle of 1346 did Edward III's son win his spurs?
Answer: Crecy
Question: Steve McQueen had his first starring role in which 1958 cult horror/sci-fi film?
Answer: The Blob
Question: What was the name of the house that Charles Darwin bought in 1842 and lived in for the rest of his life?
Answer: Down House
Question: Which was the first London Underground line to be built?
Answer: Metropolitan
Question: Triton and Nereid are moons of which planet?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What is the name of the Microsoft Office product that provides users with an interface to design multimedia slides to be displayed on a projection system or personal computer?
Answer: Powerpoint
Question: What is the name of the tune composed by Ronald Binge used by Radio 4 every evening before the last Shipping Forecast Bulletin?
Answer: Sailing By
Question: Which girl group took 'Manic Monday' to Number two in the UK charts in 1986?
Answer: The Bangles
Question: In Greek mythology, who killed Medusa while looking at her in a mirror-like shield?
Answer: Perseus
Question: According to the New Testament, on which Mediterranean island did St John write the Book of Revelation?
Answer: Patmos
Question: In the TV series 'Rising Damp' what was the name of Rigsby's cat?
Answer: Vienna
Question: Which musical instrument did Tommy Dorsey play?
Answer: Trombone
Question: What is the title of the signature tune, composed by Arthur Wood, of Radio 4's programme 'The Archers'?
Answer: Barwick Green
Question: For which film did Steven Spielberg win his first Oscar for Best Director?
Answer: Schindler's List
Question: According to Greek mythology who killed Achilles by shooting him in the heel with a poisoned arrow?
Answer: Paris
Question: According to Acts in the New Testament, on which Mediterranean island was St Paul shipwrecked?
Answer: Malta
Question: Who invented the 'cat's eye' road safety device in 1934?
Answer: Percy Shaw
Question: By what name is Allen Stewart Konigsberg better known?
Answer: Woody Allen
Question: In which year were both the Chernobyl and Challenger Shuttle disasters?
Answer: 1986
Question: Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution ended slavery?
Answer: 13th
Question: What is the star sign for the 1st November?
Answer: Scorpio
Question: Possessed by Thor, what was Mjolnir?
Answer: Hammer
Question: The hymn The Sorrowful Mother Stood is better known by what Latin name?
Answer: Stabat Mater
Question: Who is the only British prime minister born outside the British Isles?
Answer: Andrew Bonar Law
Question: Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished prohibition?
Answer: 21st
Question: Whch British king had ten children by his mistress, the actress, Dorothea Jordan?
Answer: William IV
Question: Hassan Rowhani, became the elected president of which country in June 2013, though ultimate power in the country is held by an unelected personage?
Answer: Iran
Question: Which playwright wrote "The Winslow Boy", which was revived at the Old Vic theatre during 2013?
Answer: Terence Rattigan
Question: Which is the only British Prime Minister to serve three monarchs?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin
Question: In which country are "Holden" cars manufactured?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which author wrote the classic novel "Brideshead Revisited" later made into a television series?
Answer: Evelyn Waugh
Question: Who was the drummer with both "Cream" and "Blind Faith"?
Answer: Ginger Baker
Question: During the Tottenham riots in 2011 which make of phone was used because of its secure messenger service?
Answer: BLACKBERRY
Question: In which former Soviet Republic is the Crimea found?
Answer: UKRAINE
Question: On which cookery programme would you hear the phase "Cooking doesn't get any tougher than this"?
Answer: MASTERCHEF
Question: Who was the Chairman of the White Star Line who was on the Titanic's Maiden Voyage?
Answer: JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
Question: Who once declared that you could have any model of his car as long as it's black?
Answer: HENRY FORD
Question: Which member of the American Mafia was called 'The Teflon Don'?
Answer: JOHN GOTTI
Question: What title is held by the Head of both the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches?
Answer: PATRIARCH
Question: On which Mediterranean Island was the Minoan Civilisation based?
Answer: CRETE
Question: What name is given to a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet at least once?
Answer: PANGRAM
Question: Studio Ghibli produce award winning animation films but from which country do they originate?
Answer: JAPAN
Question: Which constituency did George Galloway win in 2012?
Answer: BRADFORD WEST
Question: What name links Mary Shelly and the man who wrote the music for the California State song?
Answer: FRANKENSTEIN
Question: At Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands there is a memorial statue to which branch of the British armed services?
Answer: COMMANDOS
Question: Which author using the pen name Robert Markham wrote a James Bond book called 'Colonel Sun' after the death of Ian Fleming?
Answer: KINGSLEY AMIS
Question: Which famous surrender took place on 15th February 1942?
Answer: Singapore
Question: In which radio show did Sandi Toksvig take over from Simon Hoggart in 2006?
Answer: The News Quiz
Question: Which playwright wrote the plays Heartbreak House, The Devil's Disciple and Back to Methusaleh?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: Who, according to Pseudo-Apollodorus, was the only woman on the crew of the Argo?
Answer: Atalanta
Question: What links a famous Park Avenue store, Audrey Hepburn and the song 'I think we're alone now'?
Answer: Tiffany
Question: Who directed the films The Graduate, Silkwood and Primary Colours?
Answer: Mike Nichols
Question: Which ancient philosopher's works are collected in 'The Analects'?
Answer: Confucius
Question: In which European country is the site of the Battle of Marengo?
Answer: ITALY
Question: Who founded the Kelmscott Press in 1891?
Answer: WILLIAM MORRIS
Question: Scarlet Nantes, Avenger and Orlando Gold are varieties of which winter vegetable?
Answer: CARROTS
Question: Gary Numan, Cliff Richard and Crystal Gayle were all born with which surname?
Answer: Webb
Question: Which English county has the motto "Floreat Salopia"?
Answer: Shropshire
Question: Which classical composer completed 104 symphonies?
Answer: Joseph Haydn
Question: Which film star has daughters called Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret?
Answer: Nicole Kidman
Question: Which famous classical composer completed 41 symphonies?
Answer: W A Mozart
Question: 'Smokestack Lightnin' and 'Red Rooster' were originally recorded by which Chicago blues singer?
Answer: Howlin' Wolf
Question: Pope Alexander VI who died in 1503 was a member of which family?
Answer: BORGIAS
Question: Who was the Prince of Wales killed by forces of Edward 1st in 1282?
Answer: LLEWELYN
Question: What was the name of Boycie's wife in 'Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: MARLENE
Question: Annie Leibovitz and Vivienne Westwood were commissioned to create bold designs for which 1980's range of watches?
Answer: SWATCH
Question: Who composed music for many Hitchcock films including Psycho, North by North and Vertigo?
Answer: BERNARD HERMANN
Question: Sidney and Beatrice Webb founded which London educational establishment in 1895?
Answer: London School of Economics
Question: Which Egyptian goddess had the head of a cow?
Answer: Hathor
Question: Who wrote the 'Wedding March' taken from his incidental music to Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' written in 1842?
Answer: Mendelssohn
Question: Horus, the Egyptian god of the sun, war and protection had the head of which creature?
Answer: Falcon
Question: In what year did the Jarrow Crusade take place?
Answer: 1936
Question: Which King of England had two wives, Isabel and Isabella?
Answer: John
Question: Which King of England had two wives, Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois?
Answer: Richard II
Question: In which war were the battles of Blenheim and Ramillies fought?
Answer: Spanish Succession
Question: Give the surname of the criminal Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde fame.
Answer: Parker
Question: Who wrote the cult books called "Chariots of the Gods" and "Return to the Stars"?
Answer: Erich Von Daniken
Question: Who was the 1957 poem by Thom Gunn talking about when it said "he turns revolt into style"?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question: What do we call the ancient Chinese board game known as weiqi in China? it is usually played on a board of 19 x 19 squares with black and white stones?
Answer: Go
Question: In what year did Enoch Powell make his famous "rivers of blood" speech?
Answer: 1968
Question: Exegesis is the study and analysis of what?
Answer: The Bible
Question: In which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical does the character Nellie Forbush appear?
Answer: SOUTH PACIFIC
Question: Eleanor of Castile was the mother of which English monarch?
Answer: EDWARD II
Question: Which African county has its capital in Lusaka?
Answer: ZAMBIA
Question: Which American poet wrote I Haven Y Told My Garden Yet?
Answer: EMILY DICKINSON
Question: The Road Not Taken was written by which American poet?
Answer: ROBERT FROST
Question: Which was the last of Thomas Hardy's novels to be published?
Answer: JUDE THE OBSCURE
Question: Which original member of the Football League plays its home games at Deepdale?
Answer: PRESTON NORTH END
Question: What type of animal is Bagheera in 'The Jungle Book'?
Answer: PANTHER
Question: Which opera singer was known as La Stupenda?
Answer: JOAN SUTHERLAND
Question: Who won the first international Rugby Union Match in 1871?
Answer: SCOTLAND
Question: Which American President sanctioned the use of atomic weapons against Japan?
Answer: HARRY S TRUMAN
Question: What company was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998?
Answer: GOOGLE
Question: Which Russian composer moved to France in 1920 and then to the USA in 1939 where he later became a naturalised citizen?
Answer: IGOR STRAVINSKY
Question: What name is given to the moveable curved top part of a padlock?
Answer: SHACKLE
Question: Which R & B duo had 10 consecutive US Top 20 singles for the STAX label between 1965 and 1968?
Answer: SAM AND DAVE
Question: Which Queen of England was the mother of Henry III?
Answer: ISABELLA OF ANGOULEME
Question: Which former Presidential candidate was a US Navy pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and endured ill treatment and torture until his release in 1973?
Answer: JOHN MCCAIN
Question: Who were Australia's opponents in the first One Day International cricket match at the MCG in January 1971?
Answer: ENGLAND
Question: What was the activist Malcolm X's real surname?
Answer: Little
Question: In which country was the former Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman captured in 1960?
Answer: Argentina
Question: How is the Japanese Shinkansen train, better known in the UK?
Answer: Bullet Train
Question: In the TV series Friends, what is the name of Phoebe's twin sister, also played by Lisa Kudrow?
Answer: Ursula
Question: Aldebaran is the brightest star in which Zodiacal constellation?
Answer: Taurus
Question: Whose resignation prompted the Eastleigh by-election in February 2013?
Answer: Chris Huhne
Question: Which famous early steam locomotive was built by William Hedley?
Answer: Puffing Billy
Question: Who played the title role in Stephen Spielberg's film 'Lincoln'?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis
Question: The Battle of Towton is believed to be the longest and bloodiest battle on English soil, in which war did it take place?
Answer: Wars of the Roses
Question: Which very famous actor had three wives, Josephine Alicia Saenz, Esperanza Baur and Pilar Pallete?
Answer: John Wayne
Question: With which privately owned team did James hunt enter Formula 1 in 1973?
Answer: Hesketh
Question: What 1960's LA band took their name from the title of one of Aldous Huxley's books?
Answer: THE DOORS
Question: Who wrote the opera Lucia Di Lammermoor in 1834?
Answer: GAETANO DONIZETTI
Question: What was the name of the ground-breaking 'thought experiment' proposed by an Austrian Scientist in 1935?
Answer: SCHRODINGER'S CAT
Question: Which batsman with over 13,000 test match runs was nominated as one of Wisden's five cricketers of the year for the first time in 2013?
Answer: JACQUES KALLIS
Question: Who is known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the middle ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Comer of Westminster Abbey?
Answer: GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Question: Which word describes a painting or sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead Christ?
Answer: PIETA
Question: Which range of mountains in France and Switzerland gives its name to the middle period of the Mesozoic era?
Answer: JURA
Question: The President of France and the Bishop of Urgell are the joint rulers of which country?
Answer: ANDORRA
Question: Which brewery was the 2012 Champion Beer of Britain with `No. 9 Barley Wine'? They won the same award in 1998 with 'Bluebird Bitter'.
Answer: CONISTON
Question: Who was on the British throne 1100-1135?
Answer: HENRY I
Question: Who had the nickname 'The Scourge of God'?
Answer: ATTILA THE HUN
Question: The 'Notting Hill Mystery' is aometimes claimed to be what?
Answer: FIRST DETECTIVE NOVEL
Question: Who was on the British throne 1199-1216?
Answer: JOHN
Question: Who was the first British monarch to abdicate?
Answer: EDWARD VIII
Question: The Lord Temporal, The Lord Spiritual and the House of Commons are known as the 3 estates, what is the fourth?
Answer: THE PRESS
Question: Which artist painted 'The Cardplayers'?
Answer: PAUL CEZANNE
Question: In the Bible who as the 11th son of Jacob?
Answer: JOSEPH
Question: Which sea battle was the first in which aircraft carriers engaged each other and also the first in which the opposing ships never directly saw each other?
Answer: THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA
Question: Who played the young Bilbo Baggins off to adventure in the 2012 film 'The Hobbit - an Unexpected Journey'?
Answer: MARTIN FREEMAN
Question: Who was the only female judge in the Bible?
Answer: DEBORAH
Question: In Greek mythology who gave Theseus the ball of thread so he could find his way out of the Minotaur's Labyrinth?
Answer: ARIADNE
Question: What nationality is Yann Martel who won the Mann-Booker prize in 2002 for 'Life of Pi'?
Answer: CANADIAN
Question: In which English country is the Neolithic henge monument of Avebury?
Answer: WILTSHIRE
Question: The American Civil War battle known as Manassas by the Confederacy was more widely known by that other name?
Answer: BULL RUN
Question: Which American general commanded the allied forces in the first Gulf War in 1991?
Answer: NORMAN SCHWARTZKOPF
Question: Which James Bond villain was played by Joseph Wiseman?
Answer: DOCTOR NO
Question: Which is the only country in Central America that does not have a border on the Caribbean Sea?
Answer: EL SALVADOR
Question: Which is the only country in Central America that does not have a border on the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: BELIZE
Question: What is the better known or more common name of the pharmaceutical SILDENAFIL?
Answer: VIAGRA
Question: Who preceded Tennyson as Poet Laureate, being awarded the accolade in 1843 at the age of 73?
Answer: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Question: Which 1980's group took its name from a Vulcan priestess from Star Trek?
Answer: T'PAU
Question: In cricket, a batsman's score of 111 is considered to be unlucky. What is it called?
Answer: NELSON
Question: Which songwriter penned the classic songs 'A Fine Romance' and 'Smoke gets in your Eyes'?
Answer: JEROME KERN
Question: To which island paradise in Celtic mythology was King Arthur taken after his death?
Answer: AVALON
Question: In 2012, Trenton Oldfield received a custodial sentence for disrupting what?
Answer: THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE
Question: Which notorious figure in history was mother to three French kings - Francis II, Charles IX and Henri III?
Answer: CATHERINE DE' MEDICI
Question: N'Djamena is the capital of which land-locked African state?
Answer: CHAD
Question: 'Blue-ringed' is a venomous species of which sea creature?
Answer: OCTOPUS
Question: Which NFL American Football team play their home games at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome?
Answer: NEW ORLEANS SAINTS
Question: 'The Walthamstow Tapestry', measuring 15 metres by 3 metres, is a 2009 work by which Turner Prize winner?
Answer: GRAYSON PERRY
Question: Who is the only man in the 20th century to have held the offices of Chancellor, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary before becoming Prime Minister?
Answer: JAMES CALLAGHAN
Question: Which country's national anthem is known in English as 'The March of the Volunteers'?
Answer: CHINA
Question: Which Greek god is the son of Zeus and Leto and twin brother of Artemis?
Answer: Apollo
Question: The Sultanate of Brunei forms part of which island?
Answer: Borneo
Question: Who wrote and recorded the original version of the song Blue Suede Shoes which was a hit single for Elvis Presley in 1955?
Answer: Carl Perkins
Question: Which island comprises the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
Answer: Hispaniola
Question: In Arthurian legend Lancelot was the father of Galahad - but who was his mother?
Answer: Elaine
Question: Leonard Bernstein wrote the music for the musical 'West Side Story'. Who wrote the lyrics?
Answer: Stephen Sondheim
Question: In Arthurian legend who threw the sword Excalibur into the lake, at Arthur's request, after his death?
Answer: Bedivere
Question: Which cocktail allegedly gets its name from the practice of 1950's American engineers stirring vodka into their cans of orange juice with this tool?
Answer: Screwdriver
Question: Which is the smallest Canadian province in terms of area?
Answer: Prince Edward Island
Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in the 2008 film 'Milk'?
Answer: Sean Penn
Question: What name is given to a word formed from the initial letters of a series of words e.g. AIDS?
Answer: Acronym
Question: Which town, located in present day S.E. Turkey was the birthplace of St Paul?
Answer: Tarsus
Question: Name the family seat of the Dukes of Marlborough.
Answer: Blenheim Palace
Question: Which British pop star active since the 1970's has released albums called Up, So and Us?
Answer: Peter Gabriel
Question: On a human body, what are rhytides?
Answer: Wrinkles
Question: Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock are two of the leading characters in which 2001 musical that won an Olivier award?
Answer: The Producers
Question: Who wrote the narrative poem The Rape of the Lock between 1712 1717?
Answer: Alexander Pope
Question: What colour is the 'artist's colour' called cerulean?
Answer: Blue
Question: What was the last film in the western genre to win a best picture Oscar?
Answer: Unforgiven
Question: Which philosopher is famous for his wager that states though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should 'wager' as though God exists, because so living has everything to gain, and nothing to lose?
Answer: Blaise Pascal
Question: What type of primate is a sifaka?
Answer: Lemur
Question: Although a term coined many centuries after his death, which philosopher is famous for his 'razor'?
Answer: William of Ockham
Question: The 1964 film, simply called 'Film', written by Samuel Beckett, starred which actor?
Answer: BUSTER KEATON
Question: Portmeirion used as a setting for the Prisoner TV series is in which Welsh county?
Answer: GWYNEDD
Question: Captain of Manchester City and England Wimbledon Doubles Champion, Davis Cup Captain, Olympic Tennis Gold Medallist. 'All Round Genius' is the biography of which sportsman?
Answer: MAX WOOSNAM
Question: What is the name of Heston Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray?
Answer: THE FAT DUCK
Question: What was the name of the Kenyan shopping mall attacked by Somali terrorists in September 2013?
Answer: THE WESTGATE MALL
Question: Which Briton was brought in as replacement tactician and helped the USA to victory in the 2013 America's Cup?
Answer: SIR BEN AINSLIE
Question: In World War 2 which was the only part of the USA invaded by the Japanese?
Answer: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Question: In which country were the British victorious at the Battle of Plassey in 1757?
Answer: INDIA
Question: In the TV sitcom The Good Life, what was the surname of Tom and Barbara's neighbours Margo and Jerry?
Answer: LEADBETTER
Question: In which Dickens novel would you find the character Noah Claypole?
Answer: OLIVER TWIST
Question: What was the name of the stricken cruise ship on which the salvage operation began in September 2013 on the Italian coast?
Answer: COSTA CONCORDIA
Question: Who created the fictional police detective Malcolm Fox?
Answer: IAN RANKIN
Question: Which 19th century gardener, architect and MP designed the Great Conservatory, a huge glasshouse, at Chatsworth House?
Answer: JOSEPH PAXTON
Question: Which French electronic dance music duo had a UK Number Number One single in 2013 with 'Get Lucky'?
Answer: DAFT PUNK
Question: The Claude Francois song "Comme d'habitude" (translation "as usual") was a hit in English for Frank Sinatra under what title?
Answer: MY WAY
Question: Jennifer Garner's husband Ben Affleck directed the film which won the Best Picture Oscar in 2013. What was its title?
Answer: ARGO
Question: The siege of which territory between 1779 and 1783 by a Franco Spanish force ended in complete failure?
Answer: GIBRALTAR
Question: On which ship did Japan surrender to the USA in 1945?
Answer: USS MISSOURI
Question: Who was the son born to Abram (as he was then known) and Hagar in the Old Testament?
Answer: ISHMAEL
Question: Predominantly which grape is used in the manufacture of sherry?
Answer: Palomino
Question: In the Bible St Paul's conversion to Christianity takes place on the road to where?
Answer: Damascus
Question: 6 and 28 are perfect numbers. What is the next perfect number in the sequence?
Answer: 496
Question: In which constellation would you find the star cluster known as the Plough or Big Dipper?
Answer: Ursa Major
Question: In a Punch and Judy show what traditionally is the name of the dog?
Answer: Toby
Question: Who was President of America between 1929 and 1933?
Answer: Herbert Hoover
Question: In which constellation is the bright star Sirius?
Answer: Canis Major
Question: Which country did Emmelie de Forest represent in winning the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo?
Answer: Denmark