zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: ‘The Fight of the Millennium’ took place in Las Vegas in September 1999 between Felix Trinidad and which other boxer?
Answer: Oscar de la Hoya
Question: Who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War?
Answer: General Robert E Lee
Question: How many tiles are there in a standard game of Scrabble?
Answer: 100
Question: The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire was the birthplace of which 19th Century naturalist?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: Which modern-day country was known as the Khmer Republic between 1970 and 1975?
Answer: Cambodia
Question: Who became British Prime Minister in June 2007?
Answer: Gordon Brown
Question: In the novel ‘The Lord of the Rings’, who is the King of Rohan?
Answer: Theoden
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the King of Corinth, condemned to eternal punishment for deceitfulness to push a heavy rock up a steep hill which would always roll down again?
Answer: Sisyphus
Question: Composer Joseph-Maurice Ravel was born in which country?
Answer: France
Question: In football, which British goalkeeper was known as ‘The Cat’?
Answer: Peter Bonetti
Question: Turkey, Clover, Nadler and Gutter are all terms used in which game?
Answer: Ten-pin bowling
Question: The Athabasca oil sands are large deposits of heavy crude oil located in which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: Who is the Roman goddess of the dawn?
Answer: Aurora
Question: Which composer wrote the ‘Bridal Chorus’, popularly known as ‘Here Comes the Bride’?
Answer: Richard Wagner
Question: In which country is Lake Onega?
Answer: Russia
Question: In medicine, an Amsler grid is used for examining which part of the body?
Answer: Eyes
Question: ‘Wot a lot I got’ was the advertising slogan for which confectionery items?
Answer: Smarties
Question: Rapper/songwriter Eminem made his official film debut in which 2002 film?
Answer: 8 Mile
Question: Which Stephen King novel is said to have been rejected by 30 different publishers?
Answer: Carrie
Question: Who became head of the KGB in May 1967?
Answer: Yuri Andropov
Question: Which English singer has a son called Zachary Jackson Levon?
Answer: Elton John
Question: Jacob Epstein and Barbara Hepworth were famous in which branch of the arts?
Answer: Sculpture
Question: Which Peanuts cartoon character is famous for saying ‘There is no heavier burden than a great potential’?
Answer: Linus
Question: What is the title of the fourth Harry Potter film?
Answer: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Question: Laguna del Carbon (Coal Lagoon) is the lowest point in which South American country?
Answer: Argentina
Question: In the US, which state lies to the east of Arizona?
Answer: New Mexico
Question: Which is the eighth planet from the sun?
Answer: Neptune
Question: ‘Ebony and ‘what’ is the title of a 1982 hit single by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder?
Answer: Ivory
Question: The musical ‘West Side Story’ is based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Question: According to the Bible, whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt as soon as she looked back at Sodom?
Answer: Lot’s wife
Question: How many dice are used in a standard game of ‘Craps’?
Answer: Two
Question: Which US television sitcom, starring Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker, debuted in January 1971?
Answer: All In The Family
Question: The River Seine empties into which body of water?
Answer: English Channel
Question: The ‘Dinshaway Incident’ is the name given to a 1906 dispute between British military officers and the locals of which African country?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Edward Woodstock, The Black Prince, was the eldest son of which English monarch?
Answer: King Edward III
Question: What is the boy in the Dreamworks film logo holding in his hand?
Answer: Fishing rod
Question: An eighth month ban on which Dire Straits song was lifted by Canadian radio in September 2011?
Answer: Money For Nothing
Question: The medical condition glaucoma affects which part of the body?
Answer: Eye
Question: Who composed the opera ‘The Marriage of Figaro’?
Answer: Mozart
Question: In art, the Dada movement (Dadaism) originated in which European country during World War I?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Who was the first Polish Pope in history?
Answer: Pope John Paul II
Question: A sorel is which male animal in its third year?
Answer: Fallow deer
Question: In Judaism, what is the name of the period of seven days of formal mourning for the dead, which begins immediately after the funeral?
Answer: Shiva
Question: 18th Century philosopher, writer and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in which European city?
Answer: Geneva
Question: In August 1960 Chad, in Central Africa, became independent from which country?
Answer: France
Question: A pompano is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish
Question: Which country hosted the 1988 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: South Korea
Question: How many people are in a curling team?
Answer: Four
Question: The AK Parti (the Justice and Development Party) is a political party in which country?
Answer: Turkey
Question: In March 1975, which silent movie star was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin
Question: What is the name of the male character in French pantomime who usually wears a loose white costume and a pointed hat and has a sad white-painted face?
Answer: Pierrot
Question: Swedish actress Greta Gustafsson was better known by what name?
Answer: Greta Garbo
Question: Swiss National Day is celebrated during which month of the year?
Answer: August
Question: Pinkie, Cubitt and Ida Arnold are all characters in which Graham Green novel?
Answer: Brighton Rock
Question: In which country was actor Yul Brynner born?
Answer: Russia
Question: Which Looney Tunes cartoon character made their debut in April 1937?
Answer: Daffy Duck
Question: In May 1950, Celal Bayar became the third President of which European country?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Who came to the British throne in January 1936?
Answer: King Edward VIII
Question: The mounted hide of which race horse is displayed at the Melbourne Museum in Australia?
Answer: Phar Lap
Question: Which word can go after Cast, Throw and Stow to make three other words?
Answer: Away
Question: What make and model car did Steve McQueen drive in a car chase through the streets of San Francisco in the film Bullitt?
Answer: Ford Mustang
Question: Rhagfyr is Welsh for which month of the year?
Answer: December
Question: Who plays The Joker in the 2008 film ‘The Dark Knight’?
Answer: Heath Ledger
Question: Chinaman, Flipper and Leg-Break are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: Cricket
Question: Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Savarin are two of the creators of which social networking service, launched in February 2004?
Answer: Facebook
Question: Which German-based group released a 1978 album entitled ‘Nightflight to Venus’?
Answer: Boney M
Question: Who became the last state President of apartheid South Africa in August 1989?
Answer: F W de Klerk
Question: What is the name of the teletext information service started by the BBC in September 1974?
Answer: Ceefax
Question: What was the nickname of American Civil War General Thomas Jackson?
Answer: Stonewall Jackson
Question: The ‘Turbo Terrific’ is driven by which fictional character in the television cartoon series Wacky Races?
Answer: Peter Perfect
Question: Which King of England was known as ‘The Unready’?
Answer: Ethelred II
Question: Which English beer is known as ‘Newkie Brown’?
Answer: Newcastle Brown Ale
Question: Who wrote the 1856 novel ‘Madame Bovary’?
Answer: Gustave Flaubert
Question: In humans, episcleritis affects which part of the body?
Answer: Eye
Question: The Makapansgat Caves are in which African country?
Answer: South Africa
Question: In computing, what is the device which is plugged into a computer which serves as an adapter or to enable the use of certain software?
Answer: Dongle
Question: A new Holy Thorn Tree was planted in 2012 in which Somerset town, to replace the one damaged by vandals in 2010?
Answer: Glastonbury
Question: Pan American World Airlines offered the first commercially scheduled Boeing 747 service from John F Kennedy Airport to which British airport in 1970?
Answer: London Heathrow Airport
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’?
Answer: Dan Brown
Question: ‘Spondulicks’ is British slang for what?
Answer: Money
Question: Which late US singer was known as ‘The Caruso of Rock’?
Answer: Roy Orbison
Question: Before he became US President, Barack Obama was senator of which state?
Answer: Illinois
Question: The colour sepia is named after the pigment from the ink sac of which marine creature?
Answer: Cuttlefish
Question: What are the names of the leather boxes, sometimes called phylacteries, worn by orthodox Jewish men on their head and arm during weekday morning prayers?
Answer: Tefillin
Question: Lady Day (The Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin) falls in which month of the year?
Answer: March
Question: Swiss author Johanna Spyri wrote which famous children’s book about a young orphan girl in her grandfather’s care?
Answer: Heidi
Question: In which year was Scotland united with England by the Acts of Union?
Answer: 1707
Question: George Clooney, Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer have all played which fictional character on film?
Answer: Batman
Question: In the Harry Potter series of books, whose pets were named Fang and Fluffy?
Answer: Rubeus Hagrid
Question: Norwegian Omelette is another name for which dessert?
Answer: Baked Alaska
Question: In describing which city, author Tom Wolfe said ‘Culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather’?
Answer: New York
Question: The 1703 ‘Methuen Treaty’ was a military and commercial treaty between Britain and which other European country?
Answer: Portugal
Question: The ‘Avesta’ is the book of sacred writings in which religion?
Answer: Zoroastrianism
Question: Who wrote, produced and directed the 2009 film ‘Avatar’?
Answer: James Cameron
Question: Which English horse race is sometimes referred to as the ‘Blue Ribband’ of the turf?
Answer: Epsom Derby
Question: What were the first names of American novelist J D Salinger?
Answer: Jerome David
Question: Which London football club is the subject of the novel ‘Fever Pitch’ by Nick Hornby?
Answer: Arsenal FC
Question: Dorothea Jordan was the mistress of which future British monarch?
Answer: William IV
Question: Late actor Larry Hagman played which character in the US television series ‘Dallas’?
Answer: J R Ewing
Question: ‘The Rumble in the ‘what’ took place between boxers George Foreman and Muhammad Ali on 30th October 1974?
Answer: Jungle
Question: On which part of the body would a shako be worn?
Answer: Head
Question: In which year was drug testing first introduced in the Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: 1968
Question: Who became British Prime Minister on November 1990?
Answer: John Major
Question: What breed of dog is known as a ‘Sausage dog’?
Answer: Dachshund
Question: During which month of the year are the US Presidential elections held?
Answer: November
Question: What colour shirts did the Italian Fascists wear under the leadership of Benito Mussolini?
Answer: Black
Question: In which US city does Macaulay Culkin end up at Christmas time in Home Alone 2?
Answer: New York
Question: How many people ride each elephant in the game of Elephant Polo?
Answer: Two
Question: Bucket, Poison Ivy, Cincinnati and Pumpkin are all terms used in which sport/game?
Answer: Ten-pin bowling
Question: Juan Velasco Alvarado became President of the Revolutionary Government in October 1968 in which south American country?
Answer: Peru
Question: A scratchplate is a plate usually attached to which musical instrument?
Answer: Guitar
Question: Who served only 119 days as British Prime Minister in 1827, before dying of pneumonia?
Answer: George Canning
Question: What is the basic currency of Laos?
Answer: Kip
Question: Which Nazi war criminal was officially charged with war crimes in February 1983?
Answer: Klaus Barbie
Question: Who defeated Edward Heath in 1975 for the leadership of the British Conservative Party?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: What is a slow stately dance, usually for couples,  in triple time called?
Answer: Minuet
Question: Late English actor Oliver Reed played Uncle Frank in which 1975 film?
Answer: Tommy
Question: The Swiss pastry Carac is traditionally covered with which colour icing?
Answer: Green
Question: The ‘Great Flag Debate’ took place in which country in 1964?
Answer: Canada
Question: In a standard game of chess, how many queens does each player start with?
Answer: One
Question: Which British writer coined the phrase ‘Youth is wasted on the young’?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: What is the first name of fictional character ‘Smiley’, created by the author John Le Carre?
Answer: George
Question: During which month in 1666 did the Great Fire of London rage for four days?
Answer: September
Question: Who was billed as ‘Undefeated’ in a boxing match in December 2007 against Floyd Mayweather Jr?
Answer: Ricky Hatton
Question: What is the surname of Sam in the US television series ‘Cheers’?
Answer: Malone
Question: Juan Evo Morales Ayma became President of which South American country in 2006?
Answer: Bolivia
Question: Which British rock band’s original line-up was Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright?
Answer: Pink Floyd
Question: Which plant, used as a herb, is also known as barbed-wire grass?
Answer: Lemongrass
Question: What is the title of the 1984 film starring singer Prince as The Kid?
Answer: Purple Rain
Question: Which ancient European period came before the Iron Age?
Answer: Bronze Age
Question: What is the name of the unofficial accolade given to passenger liners crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed?
Answer: The Blue Riband
Question: The ‘Heliocentric Model’ is a theory that places which object as the centre of the Universe?
Answer: The Sun
Question: Great Train robber Ronald Biggs spent over 20 years in which country before returning to Britain?
Answer: Brazil
Question: The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in which US state?
Answer: Montana
Question: ‘The Stolen Generations’ were children of which country who were taken from their families to be adopted or brought up by the state?
Answer: Australia
Question: Late actress Greta Garbo was born in which country?
Answer: Sweden
Question: ‘The Long March’ took place in which country in 1934-35?
Answer: China
Question: In 1497, John ‘who’ was said to have been the first European to have landed on mainland North America?
Answer: Cabot
Question: Heteropoda davidbowie is the name given to which rare yellow creature in 2009?
Answer: Spider
Question: In 1999, who became the first female President of Switzerland?
Answer: Ruth Dreifuss
Question: Who plays the villainous Soviet agent Irina Spalko in the 2008 film ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’?
Answer: Cate Blanchett
Question: The story of the New York gang ‘The Dead Rabbits’ is told in which 2002 film?
Answer: Gangs of New York
Question: In June 1883, the ‘Orient Express’ left Paris for which other European city?
Answer: Vienna
Question: Of the four London stations on a Monopoly board, which was first to open?
Answer: Fenchurch Street Station
Question: Sir Edward Burgh was the first husband of which wife of English monarch King Henry VIII?
Answer: Catherine Parr
Question: What is the name of the island which lies in the middle of the Niagara Falls?
Answer: Goat Island
Question: According to the Bible, who did the Queen of Sheba test the wisdom of?
Answer: Solomon
Question: Who was the father of English monarch King Edward I?
Answer: King Henry III
Question: In sport, how many parries are there in the classical systems of epee and foil fencing?
Answer: Nine
Question: Who played Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson in the 1957 film ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’?
Answer: Alec Guinness
Question: Which country invaded and now controls the north of the island of Cyprus?
Answer: Turkey
Question: The Incas referred to which metal as ‘Tears of the Sun’?
Answer: Gold
Question: In 1913, New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob created which first modern item of clothing out of two silk handkerchiefs?
Answer: Brassiere
Question: Who was the first actress to win an Oscar for a performance entirely in a foreign language?
Answer: Sophia Loren
Question: ‘The Sunshine Showdown’ took place in January 1973 in Jamaica between Joe Frazier and which other boxer?
Answer: George Foreman
Question: What is the title of Alfred Hitchcock’s last completed film?
Answer: Family Plot
Question: What was the first name of the husband of English novelist Virginia Woolf?
Answer: Leonard
Question: Edward VII was the only British monarch to have been born and died at which royal residence?
Answer: Buckingham Palace
Question: Square Leg is a position in which sport?
Answer: Cricket
Question: Which Boeing airliner made its maiden flight in September 1981?
Answer: 767
Question: What is the name of the full-dress fur hat worn by hussars and footguard regiments of the British Army?
Answer: Busby
Question: In March 2012, a Florida law firm sacked 14 employees for wearing what colour shirts on a Friday, because employers thought they were making a protest?
Answer: Orange
Question: Who is Rosalind disguised as in the Shakespeare play ‘As You Like It’?
Answer: Ganymede
Question: Who wrote the majority of the books of the New Testament of the Bible?
Answer: Paul
Question: Who did late actor Humphrey Bogart marry in 1945?
Answer: Lauren Bacall
Question: In Greek mythology, one of the 12 Labours of Hercules was to defeat the man-eating Stymphalian ‘what’?
Answer: Birds
Question: British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan was the leader of which political party?
Answer: Conservative Party
Question: In Judaism, what is the collective name for the ten people required to be present in order to for a communal religious service to be conducted?
Answer: Minyan
Question: In August 1990, which late American composer and conductor had his final concert at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra?
Answer: Leonard Bernstein
Question: Who won the World Chess Championship in December 1990, holding his title?
Answer: Garry Kasparov
Question: What was the call sign of the eight-man British Army SAS patrol deployed into Iraq during the first Gulf War in January 1991?
Answer: Bravo Two Zero
Question: Edward of Woodstock, The Black Prince, was the father of which English monarch?
Answer: King Richard II
Question: Children with the medical condition hyperlexia have an advanced ability to do what?
Answer: Read
Question: Which electronics company released the world’s first all-electric compact calculator in 1957?
Answer: Casio
Question: What is the name of the poltergeist which haunts Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter series of novels?
Answer: Peeves
Question: Which British monarch was the grandfather of Queen Victoria?
Answer: King George III
Question: Bole International Airport is in which African country?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: Anthony van Dyke was court painter of which English monarch?
Answer: King Charles I
Question: Captain James Cook began his training as a seaman in the 18th Century at which English port?
Answer: Whitby
Question: Which analgesic occurs naturally in the bark of the cinchona tree?
Answer: Quinine
Question: What was the first name of PGT Beauregard, the first prominent general of the Confederate State Army in the American Civil War?
Answer: Pierre
Question: ‘The Compact Pussycat’ is driven by which character in the children’s television series ‘Wacky Races’?
Answer: Penelope Pitstop
Question: How many Deadly Sins are there?
Answer: Seven
Question: Eddie Fisher, Michael Todd and John Warner were all married to which late Hollywood actress?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor
Question: Prince Albert, husband of British monarch Queen Victoria, was born in which modern-day country?
Answer: Germany
Question: Choiseul, Guadalcanal and Malaita are all part of which island group?
Answer: Solomon Islands
Question: In Greek mythology, who went to Colchis to bring the golden Fleece back to Baeotia?
Answer: Jason
Question: Which year saw the first indoor Wimbledon Men’s Final?
Answer: 2012
Question: Who was the first European-born and trained National Hockey League captain to win the Stanley Cup?
Answer: Nicklas Lidstrom
Question: Fleeceflower, Monkey Fungus and Hancock’s Curse are all names for which invasive Asian plant?
Answer: Japanese knotweed
Question: Parker and Barrow were the surnames of which US outlaw duo?
Answer: Bonnie and Clyde
Question: Comic book artist Bob Kane created which superhero in 1939?
Answer: Batman
Question: Who plays a lounge singer who has to hide out in a convent after witnessing a gangland killing in the 1992 film ‘Sister Act’?
Answer: Whoopi Goldberg
Question: US actor Joseph Yule Jr, born September 1920, is better known by what name?
Answer: Mickey Rooney
Question: Who is the speaking voice of Esmeralda in the 1996 Disney film ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’?
Answer: Demi Moore
Question: In Greek mythology, what is the name of the son of Daedelus, for whom Dadaelus made wings from feathers and wax so he could escape Crete, but the wax melted when he flew too near to the Sun, and he fell into the sea and drowned?
Answer: Icarus
Question: What is the title of late actor Spencer Tracy’s last film?
Answer: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Question: Vientiane is the capital of which Southeast Asian country?
Answer: Laos
Question: Luna is the Roman goddess of which celestial body?
Answer: The Moon
Question: Who became British Prime Minister in October 1809?
Answer: Spencer Perceval
Question: In January 1990, who became the first modern head of government to give birth whist in office?
Answer: Benazir Bhutto
Question: What is the name of the body of water that separates the Isle of Wight and mainland England?
Answer: The Solent
Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, who shot and killed Richie Aprile?
Answer: Janice Soprano
Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, what is Uncle Junior Soprano’s first name?
Answer: Corrado
Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, what is the first name of Tony and Carmela’s daughter?
Answer: Meadow
Question: What was the name of the ship that housed pirate radio station Radio Caroline, which sank in March 1980?
Answer: MV Mi Amigo
Question: On a standard dart board, what number lies between 16 and 19?
Answer: 7
Question: Who became British Prime Minister in July 1902?
Answer: Arthur James Balfour
Question: Which British monarch was known as ‘Bertie’ to his family?
Answer: King Edward VII
Question: Which planet in our solar system has around 244 Earth days to one year?
Answer: Venus
Question: The ‘Qumran Scrolls’ are better known by what name?
Answer: Dead Sea Scrolls
Question: English writer and raconteur Denis Charles Pratt, born December 1908 was better known by what name?
Answer: Quentin Crisp
Question: In which year did golfer Tiger Woods turn professional?
Answer: 1996
Question: Musician Richey Edwards, who went missing in February 1995, was the rhythm guitarist in which band?
Answer: Manic Street Preachers
Question: Which English actress was born Julia Wells in 1935?
Answer: Julie Andrews
Question: Fiorello LaGuardia was mayor of which city from 1934 to 1945?
Answer: New York
Question: In which colour strip does the England football team traditionally play home games?
Answer: White
Question: What is the name of the wizard and Leader of the Fellowship of the Ring in Tolkein’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’?
Answer: Gandalf
Question: What is the first name of Jamaican-born retired boxer Razor Ruddock?
Answer: Donovan
Question: Ladies in White is an opposition movement, consisting of wives and female relatives of jailed dissidents, in which country?
Answer: Cuba
Question: Robinson Crusoe Island lies off the coast of which South American country?
Answer: Chile
Question: How many balls are used in a game of Association Croquet?
Answer: Four
Question: In 1991, Gerry Anderson directed the video for which Dire Straits album, which featured Thunderbirds puppets?
Answer: Calling Elvis
Question: Who wrote the 19th Century novel ‘Little Women’?
Answer: Louisa May Alcott
Question: English footballer Frank Lampard played for which club from 1995 to 2001?
Answer: West Ham United FC