zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which city, the fourth largest in the Czech Republic, is renowned for its beer production and is the home of Skoda?
Answer: Plzen
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Middlemarch' in 1869?
Answer: George Eliot
Question: Which football league club plays its home games at the Weston Homes Community Stadium?
Answer: Colchester United
Question: What was the first Martin Scorsese film that Robert De Niro appeared in, released in 1973?
Answer: Mean Streets
Question: In which war was the Battle of the Ebro (Batalia del Ebro) fought?
Answer: Spanish Civil War
Question: How was Lev Davidovitch Bronstein better known?
Answer: Leon Trotsky
Question: Who was named European Football Player of the Century in 1999?
Answer: Johan Cruyff
Question: Who is the oldest male actor to have won the Best Actor Oscar?
Answer: Henry Fonda
Question: Which English football league team play their home games at Griffin Park?
Answer: Brentford
Question: The Impressionist movement got its name from a painting "Impression Sunrise" exhibited in 1874; who was the artist?
Answer: Claude Monet
Question: The young soldier Paul Baumer is the narrator and central character in which 1929 novel?
Answer: All Quiet on the
Question: In which series of children's books, first published in 1930, would you encounter the Blackett family and the Walker family?
Answer: Swallows and
Question: Which vegetable has varieties called Ormskirk and Spring Hero?
Answer: CABBAGE
Question: Who was on the British Throne in 1720?
Answer: GEORGE I
Question: In which English County is Fortheringay Castle?
Answer: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Question: Caroline of Ansbach, a German noblewoman, was married to which British King?
Answer: GEORGE II
Question: What was the previous occupation of the novelist George Orwell?
Answer: POLICEMAN
Question: Which actress won an Oscar for her performance in 'Two Women'?
Answer: SOPHIA LOREN
Question: In which year was the General Strike?
Answer: 1926
Question: In which year was Britain's currency decimalised?
Answer: 1971
Question: Which General took command of the French forces at Verdun at the beginning of 1916?
Answer: (Philippe) Petain
Question: Which singer had a number 1 hit album in 2008 entitled 'Home Before Dark'?
Answer: Neil Diamond
Question: Which Russian composer 1844-1908, wrote the operas 'The Snow Maiden' and 'The Golden Cockerel'?
Answer: Rimsky-Korsakov
Question: Which South American soldier and statesman was also known as 'The Liberator'?
Answer: Simon Bolivar
Question: After which legendary character is the airport at Finningley near Doncaster named?
Answer: Robin Hood
Question: Which Hollywood Producer produced the films King of Kings (1960) El Cid and 55 Days at Peking?
Answer: SAMUEL BRONSTON
Question: In which English Country did the Battle of Flodden Field take place?
Answer: NORTHUMBERLAND
Question: In which book of the bible is the story of Goliath told?
Answer: SAMUEL
Question: Hairdresser Raymond who died in 1992 owned two Grand National winners, Ayala and which other?
Answer: RAG TRADE
Question: Who was the first US President to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Question: The teacher Miss Hooley and P.C. Plum appear in which children's TV series?
Answer: BALAMORY
Question: Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Suez Crisis?
Answer: ANTHONY EDEN
Question: From whom did Castro seize power in 1959?
Answer: FULGENCIO BATISTA
Question: Who created the Detective Dangerous Davies as played on television by Peter Davison?
Answer: LESLIE THOMAS
Question: Which detective featured in the film "The Maltese Falcon"?
Answer: SAM SPADE
Question: Which bright orange star is the 'eye' of Taurus the Bull?
Answer: ALDEBARAN
Question: The artist Matisse was a member of which school of painting?
Answer: FAUVISM
Question: a What is the English name for the constellation Sagittarius?
Answer: THE ARCHER
Question: Who wrote the novels 'Resurrection Men' and 'Fleshmarket Close'?
Answer: IAN RANKIN
Question: What did the British Museum purchase for £35,000 in 1816 from the aristocrat Thomas Bruce?
Answer: The Elgin Marbles
Question: What is the rank of a British Army officer who wears a crown and two pips on his epaulettes?
Answer: Colonel
Question: Who was the daughter of Zeus and Hera, cupbearer to the gods?
Answer: Hebe
Question: Which horse won the 2008 Aintree Grand National?
Answer: Comply Or Die
Question: What was the name of the Cyclops blinded by Odysseus?
Answer: Polyphemus
Question: Synovial fluid is a lubricant for which parts of the body?
Answer: Joints
Question: What name meaning "to hide away" is given to the books that provide an appendix to the Old Testament in some versions of the Bible?
Answer: Apocrypha
Question: The atmosphere of the planet Mars consists almost entirely of which gas?
Answer: Carbon Dioxide
Question: What term describes ranks in the Royal Navy above that of Captain?
Answer: Flag Officers
Question: Which American President acquired the nickname 'The Gipper'?
Answer: Ronald REAGAN
Question: Sir Joseph Bazalgette contributed to the better health of Londoners by building what?
Answer: The SEWER SYSTEM
Question: Who died on January 5th 1922 whilst on his fourth Antarctic expedition?
Answer: Sir ERNEST SHACKLETON
Question: Since 1066, who was the oldest English monarch to ascend the throne?
Answer: WILLIAM IV
Question: Ernest Shepard was the original illustrator of which children's stories?
Answer: WINNIE the POOH
Question: Who shared the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize (the first) with Frederic Passy, for his work which inspired the creation of the Red Cross and the Geneva Convention?
Answer: HENRI DUNANT
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the legendary King of Troy?
Answer: PRIAM
Question: Who was the grandfather of Queen Victoria?
Answer: GEORGE III
Question: How is the plant Lactuca Sativa better known?
Answer: LETTUCE
Question: Who lost most Ladies Singles Finals at Wimbledon in the 1980's?
Answer: CHRIS EVERT
Question: In which Shakespeare play do we find Touchstone, a jester?
Answer: AS YOU LIKE IT
Question: Which African country takes its name from the Shona for 'house of stone'?
Answer: ZIMBABWE
Question: Which monarch was threatened by the Rye House Plot?
Answer: CHARLES II
Question: Which European city was called Vindobona by the Romans?
Answer: VIENNA
Question: Which vitamin is also called tocopherol?
Answer: VITAMIN E
Question: What poet wrote this epitaph for his own grave 'Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman pass by'?
Answer: W B YEATS
Question: Kerry McCarthy, Doug Naysmith, Dawn Primarolo and Stephen Williams are MPs representing constituencies in which city?
Answer: Bristol
Question: Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'?
Answer: Dostoyevsky
Question: What title is earned by a Moslem who learns the entire Koran?
Answer: Hafiz
Question: Who was the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, consecrated in 1533 during the reign of Henry 8th?
Answer: Thomas Cranmer
Question: Who had hit records with The Move, ELO and Wizzard?
Answer: Roy Wood
Question: Admiral Togo was a commander at which major battle of 1905?
Answer: Tsushima
Question: What was founded by the Rev. William and Catherine Booth in 1878?
Answer: SALVATION ARMY
Question: Who wrote the poems "The Soldier" and "The Old Vicarage"?
Answer: RUPERT BROOKE
Question: Paul Tortlellier and Mistislav Rostropovich are associated with which musical instrument?
Answer: THE CELLO
Question: Which music legend was the subject of Don McLean's song - "American Pie"?
Answer: BUDDY HOLLY
Question: Which British King had the longest reign?
Answer: GEORGE III
Question: The Guardian cartoonist, Steve Bell, always portrayed which politician with his Y-fronts outside his trousers?
Answer: JOHN MAJOR
Question: The White Death was an alternative name for which once common disease?
Answer: TUBERCULOSIS.
Question: Which singer once said of herself, "It takes a lot of money to look as cheap as this"?
Answer: DOLLY PARTON
Question: Which Dickens novel features the Gordon anti Catholic riots in London in 1780?
Answer: BARNABY RUDGE
Question: What name is given to the members of the religious denomination, founded in the 17th century, who are also known as The Society of Friends?
Answer: QUAKERS
Question: The West Indian island of Hispaniola consists of The Dominican Republic and which other country?
Answer: HAITI
Question: Who was the Roman god of sleep?
Answer: Somnus
Question: The Pleiades are in which constellation?
Answer: Taurus
Question: Who was the wife of Henry II?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Question: What was the name of the first space shuttle to travel in space?
Answer: Columbia
Question: In which year was the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: 1805
Question: Nollywood is the colloquial name given to the film industry of which country?
Answer: NIGERIA
Question: Who is the head of the CSI team, in the TV series of that name? The series is set in Las Vegas, and the character played by American actor, William Petersen.
Answer: GIL GRISSOM
Question: In which Commonwealth country is the low cost airline, Virgin Blue based?
Answer: AUSTRALIA
Question: What was the name of the general, and political leader, who led the Mexican forces at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836?
Answer: ANTONIO SANTA ANNA
Question: Whom did Bernard Montgomery replace as head of the Eighth Army in North Africa in 1942?
Answer: CLAUDE AUCHINLECK
Question: What name is given to the large cask which holds 54 imperial gallons of beer?
Answer: A HOGSHEAD
Question: The New Hebrides Condominium changed its name to which present title when it became independent in 1980?
Answer: VANUATU
Question: Which British city was the first in the world to have a registered football club?
Answer: Sheffield
Question: Which 20th century novel contains the characters Tom Robinson, Dill and Calpurnia?
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird
Question: In 1992, Margaret Thatcher was made Baroness Thatcher of where?
Answer: Kesteven
Question: Who was the 3ra century AD queen of Palmyra who led her people to war against Rome?
Answer: Zenobia
Question: In which town did both Jeffrey Archer and John Cleese grow up?
Answer: Weston Super Mare
Question: Which Jane Austen novel features Mr Knightley and Frank Churchill?
Answer: Emma
Question: Which historical event of 1819 is commemorated by a plaque on Manchester's Radisson hotel?
Answer: Peterloo Massacre
Question: Where would you find Moai statues?
Answer: Easter Island
Question: The azalea is a member of which genus of plants?
Answer: Rhododendron
Question: Retinol is another name for which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin A
Question: Which film star was born on 20 June 1909 in Hobart, Tasmania?
Answer: Errol Flynn
Question: What is the official language of Ethiopia?
Answer: Amharic
Question: Which year saw the culmination and end of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: 1962
Question: Lao Tse (or Lauzi) is a central figure of which religion?
Answer: Taoism
Question: Which American film actor who died in 1993 was known principally for his roles in horror films such as 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'?
Answer: Vincent Price
Question: Name Shirley MacLaine's actor brother.
Answer: Warren Beatty
Question: What is the present-day name of the Canadian city known in the early 19th century as York?
Answer: Toronto
Question: The Good Companions (1929) and Dangerous Corner (1932) were both written by whom?
Answer: J B Priestley
Question: In which town or city could you consult Mma Ramotswe of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency?
Answer: Gabarone
Question: In which county are the Mountains of Mourne?
Answer: Down
Question: The Birthday Party (1957) and The Dumb Waiter (1957) are plays written by whom?
Answer: Harold Pinter
Question: When did the Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung die?
Answer: 1976
Question: What was established by the Lateran Treaty of 1929?
Answer: Vatican City
Question: In Verdi's opera Rigoletto what is the occupation of the character Rigoletto?
Answer: Jester
Question: In the world of opera which character introduces himself as 'the general factotum'?
Answer: Barber of Seville
Question: The lights on Broadway were put out as a mark of respect following the death of which playwright in November 1950?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: In American football which team won the 2008 Superbowl?
Answer: New York Giants
Question: Who was the first Yorkist King of England?
Answer: EDWARD IV
Question: Which park in Berlin houses both the 200 and a memorial to Rosa Luxemburg?
Answer: THE TIERGARDEN
Question: Which Polish born British novelist spent 10 years sailing between Singapore and Borneo?
Answer: JOSEPH CONRAD
Question: Who was the first Vice President of the USA?
Answer: JOHN ADAMS
Question: The writers C S Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on the same day in 1963 as which world figure?
Answer: JOHN F KENNEDY
Question: Who was the first man to win Olympic Gold medals at 200 and 400 metres?
Answer: MICHAEL JOHNSON
Question: Who was the first person to sail round northern Canada through the Bering Strait in 1906?
Answer: ROALD AMUNDSEN
Question: Which famous slave led the revolt on San Domingo in 1791?
Answer: TOUSSAINT L'OVERTURE
Question: Who was the first English King to have held the title Prince of Wales?
Answer: EDWARD II
Question: Which park in Rome is situated in the palace garden of one of its most notorious families?
Answer: THE VILLA BORGHESE
Question: The American movie star Kevin Spacey has been the artistic director of which London Theatre for the past 3 years?
Answer: THE OLD VIC
Question: By what name are the biblical plays of the Middle Ages known?
Answer: MYSTERY PLAYS
Question: What is the meaning of the German word 'spätlese' as applied to wine?
Answer: Late harvest
Question: In Texas Hold 'Em poker what follows the 'flop' and the 'turn'?
Answer: The River
Question: Who led the investigations into the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinsky affair?
Answer: Kenneth Starr
Question: The law of the sea divides it into three zones, internal Waters, territorial Waters and which other?
Answer: High Seas
Question: Which engineer designed the WW2 fighter plane, the 'Hurricane'?
Answer: Sydney Camm
Question: In World War 2 what was the name of the American mass-produced prefabricated cargo ships?
Answer: Liberty Ships
Question: What is the word for the part of a solid geometric figure left after the top part has been cut off on a plane parallel to the base?
Answer: Frustum
Question: Which major city is located on the River Loire, approximately 50 kilometres from the Atlantic coast?
Answer: Nantes
Question: In which city is the tomb of Saint Ignatius Loyola?
Answer: Rome
Question: Who painted "Virgin Of The Rocks" or "Madonna Of The Rocks" between 1483 and 1506?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci
Question: What, with vinegar, is added to egg yolk to make mayonnaise?
Answer: (Olive) Oil
Question: In 1955, in which European city was the wheel-clamp first used, officially?
Answer: Paris
Question: In the Bible what was the name of Cain's first-born son?
Answer: Enoch
Question: In which novel by Charles Dickens does the character Magwitch appear?
Answer: Great Expectations
Question: In which novel by Charles Dickens does the character Dick Swiveller appear?
Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop
Question: Which French port was the Titanic's first port of call after it left Southampton?
Answer: Cherbourg
Question: For which newspaper did Superman work?
Answer: Daily Planet
Question: In 1904, which term was used to describe the unofficial alliance between France and Britain?
Answer: ENTENTE CORDIALE
Question: Valparaiso is a city and port in which South American country?
Answer: CHILE
Question: Which 1950s film features a motorcycle gang called the Black Rebels?
Answer: THE WILD ONE
Question: Which series of wars lasted from 1808 to 1814?
Answer: PENINSULAR WARS
Question: Who wrote the poem The Deserted Village?
Answer: OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Question: In which Dickens novel do Daniel and Mrs Quilp appear?
Answer: THE OLD CURIOSITY
Question: Which German philosopher wrote Critique of Pure Reason?
Answer: IMMANUEL KANT
Question: In 'The Wizard of Oz' what did Dorothy have to say to get back to Kansas?
Answer: THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Question: What disease did Robert the Bruce die of?
Answer: LEPROSY
Question: In which year was the Hungerford massacre?
Answer: 1987
Question: Who invented the ballbarrow and the `Airblade' hand-drier amongst many other things?
Answer: James Dyson
Question: What is the capital of the Italian region of Lombardy?
Answer: Milan
Question: Which aircraft was designed initially by the British Aircraft Corporation as a replacement for the Canberra but was cancelled by the Labour Government in April 1965?
Answer: TSR 2
Question: In which modem day country is the site of the Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: Germany
Question: What would be the occupation of someone who uses 'slip' and 'grog'?
Answer: Pottery
Question: From which country does the popular Christmas plant, the Poinsettia, originate?
Answer: Mexico
Question: The tune 'Johnny Todd' was the theme to which TV programme?
Answer: Z Cars
Question: In 1650 James Ussher calculated the date of the origin of the Earth, according to Biblical chronology, as 4004BC. Of where was Ussher the Archbishop?
Answer: Armagh
Question: The Giotto space probe was launched in 1986 specifically to examine what?
Answer: Halley's Comet
Question: After whose Queen is the US state Maryland named?
Answer: Charles I
Question: Who was assassinated on April 4th 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee?
Answer: Martin Luther King
Question: Born 1892, who composed the song "Miss Otis Regrets"?
Answer: Cole Porter
Question: Who wrote 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' in 2003?
Answer: Bill Bryson
Question: Which male film star's final film in 1961 was 'The Misfits'?
Answer: Clark Gable
Question: Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd, a TV star from the1960s, died in August 2009 aged 74. Who was he better known as?
Answer: Simon Dee
Question: Which British coin ceased to be legal tender in 1970?
Answer: Half Crown
Question: The Roman road Ermine Street started in London and terminated in which city?
Answer: York
Question: The Bactrian Camel is named after a region in which country?
Answer: AFGHANISTAN
Question: Henry McCarty was the real name of which wild western character?
Answer: BILLY THE KID
Question: What is the English alternative name for the Ruenzori mountain range in East Africa?
Answer: MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON
Question: Which painter used his neighbours in the village of Cookham as the subjects of many of his works?
Answer: STANLEY SPENCER
Question: From which disease did Robert the Bruce die?
Answer: LEPROSY
Question: In the film "Goldfinger" what was the name of Shirley Eaton's character, fatally painted in gold?
Answer: JILL MASTERSON
Question: Who played the Ringo Kid in the 1938 film 'Stagecoach'?
Answer: JOHN WAYNE
Question: 'Ophidian' refers to which kind of creatures?
Answer: SNAKES
Question: Michael Caine won his first Oscar for his role in which film?
Answer: HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
Question: Who wrote the novel "Les Miserables"?
Answer: VICTOR HUGO
Question: The Collegiate Church of St Peter, also known as Westminster Abbey, is an example of what type of place of worship falling under the direct jurisdiction of the British monarch?
Answer: ROYAL PECULIAR
Question: The detective Albert Campion was created by which author?
Answer: MARGERY ALLINGHAM
Question: What name do sailors give to a rope that hoists up a sail?
Answer: Halyard
Question: DS Hazel Wallace works with which TV detective?
Answer: Frost
Question: What name do sailors give to a rope that pulls a sail tight?
Answer: Sheet
Question: The 19th century movement for the unification of Italy was known by what name?
Answer: Risorgimento
Question: In ice skating, what was the maximum mark that a judge could give to a competitor (in competitions up to 2006)?
Answer: Six
Question: Which angel is reputed to have given the word of God (the Koran) to Mohammed?
Answer: Gabriel
Question: The life of 15th century French serial killer Gilles de Rais is believed to be the basis of which story by Charles Perrault?
Answer: Bluebeard
Question: What was the real name of the pirate, Blackbeard?
Answer: Edward Teach
Question: In which country did Idi Amin settle and die after his exile from Uganda?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: In the 2009 Tour de France which British cyclist won six stages?
Answer: Mark Cavendish
Question: What is the architectural term for ornamental stonework representing a scroll of paper?
Answer: Cartouche
Question: Which European country has land borders with Austria, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic?
Answer: Slovakia
Question: Which metallic element, number 77 in the periodic table, takes its name from the Latin for "rainbow"?
Answer: Iridium
Question: Which British Prime Minister was the last to have been born in the nineteenth century?
Answer: Harold Macmillan
Question: In 2008, which famous actor wowed critics in Stratford with his Hamlet, but had to pull out of the London production?
Answer: David Tennant
Question: Who was the Premier League's top goal scorer for three consecutive seasons between 1994 and 1997?
Answer: Alan Shearer
Question: Who was the Premier League's top goal scorer for three consecutive seasons between 2004 and 2006?
Answer: Thierry Henry
Question: Who wrote the music for the 1957 musical 'West Side Story'?
Answer: Leonard Bernstein
Question: Who commanded the French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805?
Answer: (Pierre) Villeneuve
Question: Who was the ferryman over the Styx?
Answer: Charon
Question: Which great battle between the Greeks and Persians took place in 490BC?
Answer: Battle of Marathon
Question: What nationality was the World War 2 military leader General Sikorski?
Answer: Polish
Question: What nationality was Che Guevara?
Answer: Argentine
Question: What was the name of the 14 year old boy whom Winnie Mandela was cleared of killing?
Answer: STOMPIE MOEKETSI
Question: Which was the first novel written by Charles Dickens?
Answer: THE PICKWICK PAPERS
Question: Which American State has the name of a Red Indian nation as its capital?
Answer: WYOMING
Question: In pre-decimal currency, what was the sum total of a tanner, a `bob', a florin and a half-a-crown?
Answer: 6/-
Question: Who is the central female character in the musical 'Cabaret'?
Answer: SALLY BOWLES
Question: The actress Laila Ward, who played Dr Who's assistant, married which of the Doctors?
Answer: TOM BAKER
Question: The original Orient Express train ran from Paris to which city?
Answer: ISTANBUL
Question: In which country was there a terrorist leader called George Grivas?
Answer: CYPRUS
Question: In the Old testament who was the mother of Samuel?
Answer: HANNAH
Question: In 1959, who led the 26th July revolutionary movement?
Answer: FIDEL CASTRO
Question: Which sportsman did tennis,player Chris Evert marry in 2008?
Answer: GREG NORMAN
Question: Landmarks such as Angel's Landing, Three Patriarchs and The Great White Throne are to be found in which American National Park? '
Answer: ZION
Question: Apart from being Groundhog Day in USA, what Christian festival is observed on.February 2nd?
Answer: CANDLEMAS
Question: Who was the landlord of 'The Spyglass Inn' at the beginning of 'Treasure Island'?
Answer: LONG JOHN SILVER
Question: The phenomenon known as Baily's Beads occurs during which event?
Answer: SOLAR ECLIPSE
Question: Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley appears in novels by whom?
Answer: ELIZABETH GEORGE
Question: What name is given to the military code of Japanese samurai?
Answer: Bushido
Question: With which art form do you associate Ansel Adams and Robert Mapplethorpe?
Answer: Photography
Question: Who supposedly bought the Grail to Britain and founded Glastonbury Abbey?
Answer: St Joseph of Arimathea
Question: In which Lincolnshire town did the BBC film Middlemarch in the early 1990s?
Answer: Stamford
Question: What was the name of the Cuban dictator overthrown by Fidel Castro?
Answer: (Fulgencio) Batista
Question: Who played General George Custer in the film They Died with Their Boots On?
Answer: Errol Flynn
Question: How many red balls are on the table at the start of a game of snooker?
Answer: Fifteen
Question: I am the egg man' is a line from which Beatles song?
Answer: I am the Walrus