zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which American Formula One motor racing driver, heir to part of the vast family fortune made in the cosmetics industry, won the British Grand Prix in 1973, but was killed during the South African Grand Prix, in 1974?
Answer: PETER REVSON
Question: A person who writes the music for an opera is called a composer. What name is given to the person who writes the words?
Answer: A LIBRETTIST
Question: What is the name of the Australian actor/comedian who created the character Dame Edna Everage?
Answer: BARRY HUMPHRIES
Question: In which country was the British Formula One racing driver Jim Clark killed in 1967?
Answer: GERMANY
Question: Made in 1961, what was the last film of both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable?
Answer: THE MISFITS
Question: Which famous American jazz singer was born Eleanora Fagan in Baltimore in 1915?
Answer: BILLIE HOLIDAY
Question: Who composed the opera Aida?
Answer: Verdi
Question: Who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914?
Answer: Gavrillo Princip
Question: In which year was the Battle of Agincourt?
Answer: 1415
Question: Which airline, founded as Jersey European Airways in 1979, has its largest base at Southampton Airport?
Answer: FLYBE
Question: The first stations on the three railway lines out of which Scottish city are Beauly, Carrbridge and Nairn?
Answer: INVERNESS
Question: King Gama and King Hildebrand are monarchs in which Gilbert and Sullivan opera?
Answer: PRINCESS IDA
Question: Which colloquial name is given to the Pakistani film industry, after the city where it is based?
Answer: LOLLYWOOD
Question: Standing on the shores of Loch Linnhe, which Scottish town lies at the southern end of the Great Glen?
Answer: FORT WILLIAM
Question: In which position does England Rugby Union international Lee Mears play?
Answer: HOOKER
Question: At which North West University is the Robert Powell theatre, in the city of his birth?
Answer: SALFORD
Question: In which soap opera did Summer Strallen appear, before playing Maria in "The Sound of Music" in the West End?
Answer: HOLLYOAKS
Question: Which members of the aristocracy reside at Arundel Castle in Sussex?
Answer: DUKE OF NORFOLK
Question: Which Italian region is the setting for the Inspector Montalban novels by Andrea Camilleri?
Answer: SICILY
Question: To which political party does Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd belong?
Answer: THE LABOUR PARTY
Question: In 2007, Lee Mead won a BBC reality contest to play which role?
Answer: JOSEPH
Question: In which country are the archaeological sites of Sipan and Ollantaytambo?
Answer: Peru
Question: Who was the first signatory of the American declaration of Independence?
Answer: John Hancock
Question: Which type of bird can be Lappet-faced, White-headed, Hooded or Egyptian?
Answer: Vulture
Question: Who was the queen of the Brigantes who handed Caractacus over to the Romans?
Answer: Cartimandua
Question: On which Hebridean island was the BBC programme 'Castaway 2000' set?
Answer: Taransay
Question: By what name is Margaretha Geertruida Macleod (nee Zelle) better known?
Answer: Mata Hari
Question: Which horse won the 2007 Grand National?
Answer: Silver Birch
Question: For which Rolling Stones hit did David Bowie sing the backing vocal chorus "I like it"?
Answer: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Question: Which motor cycle company made a model called the Electra Glide?
Answer: Harley Davidson
Question: What is the name of the teacher imprisoned in the Sudan for calling a teddy bear Mohammed?
Answer: Gillian Gibbons
Question: What do Australian aborigines call Ayers Rock?
Answer: Uluru
Question: What is the name of the French rogue trader who lost £3.6billion on the stock market?
Answer: Jerome Kerviel
Question: Algophobia is an irrational fear of what?
Answer: Pain
Question: What annual sporting event first took place at the Kennington Oval in 1872?
Answer: FA Cup Final
Question: What is the world's most widely read magazine?
Answer: Reader's Digest
Question: Which South American country's national airline is called Varig?
Answer: Brazil
Question: For what offence was Al Capone jailed?
Answer: Tax evasion
Question: What was the name of the bank that rogue trader Nick Leeson worked for?
Answer: Barings
Question: What is the largest species of tree, in terms of height and trunk girth?
Answer: Giant Sequoia
Question: The Kookaburra belongs to which family of birds?
Answer: Kingfisher
Question: What were the American militiamen called during the War of Independence?
Answer: Minutemen
Question: Which American state has the nickname the Green Mountain state?
Answer: Vermont
Question: Who wrote the poetic drama 'Murder in the Cathedral' in 1939?
Answer: T S Eliot
Question: Which country owns the Aland Islands?
Answer: Finland
Question: In which New York borough is Greenwich Village?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: In which country was Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law born?
Answer: Canada
Question: King George V changed the surname of the British Royal family to Windsor; what had it been previously?
Answer: Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Question: Saddam Hussein was born in which town?
Answer: Tikrit
Question: All My Sons (1947) and The Misfits (1961) are both plays written by whom?
Answer: Arthur Miller
Question: During World War II what was the German plan to flood Britain with forged currency called?
Answer: Operation Bernhard
Question: The Real Inspector. Hound (1968) and Jumpers (1972) are plays written by whom?
Answer: Tom Stoppard
Question: The disease hydrophobia is better known as what?
Answer: Rabies
Question: Slimbridge Wildlife Reserve was founded by whom?
Answer: Peter Scott
Question: Which US Marine explorer discovered the wreck of the Titanic?
Answer: Robert Ballard
Question: Which strait separates Italy and Sicily?
Answer: Strait of Messina
Question: In WW2 which company manufactured the Mosquito fighter-bomber?
Answer: De Havilland
Question: Which actor starred in the 1940 pirate film 'The Sea Hawk'?
Answer: ERROL FLYNN
Question: The hot and spicy dish Spaghetti Alla Puttanesca is named after what group of workers in Naples?
Answer: PROSTITUTES
Question: What beverage did Dr John Pemberton of Atlanta, Georgia invent in 1886?
Answer: COCA COLA
Question: The plot of which musical concerned a strike at the Sleep-Tite Factory in Iowa?
Answer: THE PYJAMA GAME
Question: In which country are the world's deepest industrial mines?
Answer: SOUTH AFRICA
Question: Which modern capital is built on the site of ancient Carthage?
Answer: TUNIS
Question: Which recording company turned down the Beatles but signed the Rolling Stones?
Answer: DECCA
Question: Who was the first to reach Asia by sailing all the way around the Cape of Good Hope?
Answer: VASCO DA GAMA
Question: Catfish Row, Charleston is the setting of which opera?
Answer: PORGY AND BESS
Question: Who wrote TV scripts under the nom-de-plume 'Gerald Wiley'?
Answer: Ronnie Barker
Question: Who is the only man to have won both a motorcycling world championship and the Formula 1 World Championship?
Answer: John Surtees
Question: Which car company is named after the founder of Detroit?
Answer: Cadillac
Question: The Oresund Bridge links Copenhagen to which city?
Answer: Malmo
Question: Ian Kilminster, better known as `Lemmy', is singer with which group?
Answer: Motorhead
Question: What is the familiar name of the garden flower lathyrus odorata?
Answer: Sweet Pea
Question: Which pretender to the English throne styled himself as Richard 4th?
Answer: Perkin Warbeck
Question: What is the name of the cyclist from the Isle of Man who won six stages in the 2009 Tour de France?
Answer: Mark Cavendish
Question: Which theatre was Abraham Lincoln attending when he was assassinated?
Answer: Ford
Question: Which delicacy are pigs often used to locate?
Answer: Truffles
Question: In 1990, which was the first UK city to be a European City of Culture?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: Who is the Patron Saint of The Orkneys? It is also the name of the cathedral in Kirkwall.
Answer: St Magnus
Question: Which dessert is obtained from the starch of a palm-tree?
Answer: Sago
Question: Who was the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic circle?
Answer: Captain James Cook
Question: Which Wolverhampton Wanderers player scored on his England debut against Scotland at Hampden Park in 1989?
Answer: Steve Bull
Question: Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mountain in which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which London tube station has the longest escalator?
Answer: Angel
Question: What is the non-medical name given to people who suffer from kyphosis?
Answer: Hunchback
Question: What is the name of Jupiter's largest moon?
Answer: Ganymede
Question: Who in May 2009 was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson?
Answer: Phil Spector
Question: How many operas comprise the Ring Cycle?
Answer: Four
Question: What type of headgear is named after a hatmaker born in New Jersey in 1830?
Answer: Stetson
Question: What is the name of the planet discovered in 1781 by William Herschel?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Who was the Greek goddess of the harvest?
Answer: DEMETER
Question: In which English county is Chipping Norton?
Answer: OXFORDSHIRE
Question: Whom did Malcolm Williamson succeed as master of the Queens Music?
Answer: SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Question: I In which year was the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster?
Answer: 1988
Question: In 1893, which was the first country to impose driving tests and issue driving licences?
Answer: France
Question: Which famous jazz club is in Frith Street, London?
Answer: Ronnie Scott's
Question: Who played the part of 'Budgie' in the 1971/72 ITV drama series?
Answer: Adam Faith
Question: In which Cumbrian town is the annual crab fair held, famous for its gurning competition?
Answer: Egremont
Question: Which famous singer was once married to Renate Blauel?
Answer: Elton John
Question: What do the lachrymal glands produce?
Answer: Tears
Question: Apart from Anne Boleyn, which other wife of Henry 8th was executed?
Answer: Catherine Howard
Question: Citrus Paradisi is the Latin name for which fruit?
Answer: Grapefruit
Question: Who presents BBC Radio Two's "Good Morning Sunday" (7 am to 9 am)?
Answer: Aled Jones
Question: Which supermarket chain instituted 'Computers for Schools' in 1992?
Answer: Tesco
Question: What was the name of "RMS Titanic's" older sister ship?
Answer: RMS Olympic
Question: Which radioactive metallic element has the symbol Pu, atomic number 94?
Answer: Plutonium
Question: Give a year in the reign of King Henry the Fourth of England/
Answer: 1399-1413
Question: """New York Mining Disaster 1941"" was the first US release for which group?"
Answer: The Bee Gees
Question: Which actor played the role of John McClane in the "Die Hard" films?
Answer: Bruce Willis
Question: Alligator Alley (on Interstate 75) in which US state?
Answer: Florida
Question: In Morse Code, which letter of the alphabet is dot dash?
Answer: The letter A
Question: Which American (1886-1956) founded the modern frozen food industry?
Answer: Clarence Birdseye
Question: What was the first name of Stretford-born artist L. S. Lowry?
Answer: Laurence
Question: Which Welsh county is known as 'Little England beyond Wales'?
Answer: Pembrokeshire
Question: Gerry Goffin was the husband of which singer?
Answer: Carole King
Question: Which German battleship is being salvaged from the River Plate?
Answer: Admiral Graf Spee
Question: In which year was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated?
Answer: 1948
Question: How many natural noble gases are there?
Answer: 6
Question: Which planet is the densest in the Solar System?
Answer: Earth
Question: Which planet is thought to be the hottest in the Solar System?
Answer: Venus
Question: What is the date of All Souls Day?
Answer: 2nd November
Question: Which actress has the real name Illiana Lydia Petrovna Mironova?
Answer: Helen Mirren
Question: What is the name of the casing in which a ship's compass is kept?
Answer: Binnacle
Question: What is the most popular hymn written by Henry Francis Lyte, in 1844?
Answer: Abide With Me
Question: King Michael abdicated which country's throne in 1947?
Answer: Romania
Question: Who captained the England cricket team to victory in the 2009 Ashes series?
Answer: Andrew Strauss
Question: Who won an Oscar for the music for Chariots of Fire in 1981?
Answer: Vangelis
Question: Of what was the Vulgate a version?
Answer: The Bible
Question: From which disease did Oliver Cromwell die?
Answer: MALARIA
Question: What is the capital city of Chechnya?
Answer: GROZNY
Question: Which Pre-Raphaelite artist painted "The Death of Ophelia"?
Answer: JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS
Question: Who composed the incidental music to Ibsen's play 'Peer Gynt'?
Answer: EDWARD GRIEG
Question: John Galliano is the principal couturier for which fashion house?
Answer: DIOR
Question: In which overseas territory is the launch site for Ariane probes?
Answer: GUYANE
Question: A protuberant lower lip was a general characteristic of which European dynasty?
Answer: HAPSBURGS
Question: At the 2009 Academy Awards who won the Oscar for Best Director for his film 'Slumdog Millionaire'?
Answer: Danny Boyle
Question: Ebbsfleet in Kent will be the site of a giant sculpture by Mark Wallinger, what form will the sculpture take?
Answer: (Giant) Horse
Question: Which Scottish malt whisky is produced by 'the sixteen men of Tain'?
Answer: Glenmorangie
Question: In show-jumping, how many faults does a competitor get for a refusal?
Answer: Three
Question: In which month is Martin Luther King Day celebrated in the USA?
Answer: January
Question: Which sea lies between Saudi Arabia and the Sudan?
Answer: Red Sea
Question: The angel Moroni appears in which religious book?
Answer: Book of Mormon
Question: According to Arthurian legend, which knight returned Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake?
Answer: Sir Bedivere
Question: Who created the character 'Sam Spade'?
Answer: Dashiell Hammett
Question: Which spirit is found in a daiquiri cocktail?
Answer: Rum
Question: In Greek mythology who killed Achilles?
Answer: Paris
Question: The film Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey, is based on the book of the same name by which modern British writer?
Answer: Danny Wallace
Question: Which fruit has varieties called Concorde, Packham and Cornice?
Answer: Pear
Question: What specific part of the body is affected by blepharitis?
Answer: Eyelid
Question: In the Beatles film Yellow Submarine what is the name of the land taken over by the Blue Meanies?
Answer: Pepperland
Question: In cricket, which English county one-day side is known as the Phantoms?
Answer: Derbyshire
Question: Which artistic movement was led by Henri Matisse and André Derain?
Answer: Fauvism
Question: Which fruit has varieties called Blue Tit, Czar and Early Laxton?
Answer: Plum
Question: Who hosts the new version of ITV's The Krypton Factor?
Answer: Ben Shephard
Question: Which artistic movement was led by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso?
Answer: Cubism
Question: In which Paris square would you find an obelisk from the temple of Rameses II at Thebes?
Answer: Place de la Concorde
Question: What is the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba?
Answer: Winnipeg
Question: Who captained the USA to victory in the Ryder Cup in 2008?
Answer: Paul Azinger
Question: Which actress holds the record for the most Oscar nominations?
Answer: Meryl Streep
Question: In which book does Michael Henchard auction his wife and child?
Answer: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Question: Which Shakespeare play features Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: To which saint is the Cathedral in Red Square dedicated?
Answer: St Basil
Question: Who wrote the operetta 'Orpheus in the Underworld'?
Answer: Offenbach
Question: What popular name is given to the Infernal Galop from Act 2 of 'Orpheus in the Underworld'?
Answer: The Can Can
Question: After the Latin name for which modern European capital is the element Hafnium named?
Answer: Copenhagen
Question: For which king was Handel's Water Music composed?
Answer: George I
Question: In which port did The Herald of Free Enterprise capsize in 1987?
Answer: Zeebrugge
Question: What was the name of the VLCC tanker that split in two off the coast of Brittany in 1978?
Answer: Amoco Cadiz
Question: Shirley Temple Black became US Ambassador to which African Country in 1974?
Answer: GHANA
Question: What kind of creature's largest species is called a 'Goliath'?
Answer: FROG
Question: Who is the ex-actress wife of disgraced former war minister John Profumo?
Answer: VALERIE HOBSON
Question: Which is the largest seaport in Africa?
Answer: DURBAN
Question: Pedro Ximenes is a grape usually used in the production of which drink?
Answer: SHERRY .
Question: In the grounds of which building is the cannon called 'Mons 'Meg'?
Answer: EDINBURGH CASTLE
Question: Which sportsman married Elin Nordgren in 2004?
Answer: TIGER WOODS
Question: Which defence structures, originally against Napoleon, were inspired by the Corsican original?
Answer: MARTELLO TOWERS
Question: In the folk song 'All Around My Hat' what will the singer have arranged round the hat?
Answer: The GREEN WILLOW
Question: How is Laura Hollins better known in the world of modelling?
Answer: AGYNESS DEYN
Question: Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan appears in the novels of which crime-writer?
Answer: KATHY REICHS
Question: In USA, what do they call the silencer of a car?
Answer: MUFFLER
Question: Which group won the Mercury Prize in 2008 for their album 'The Seldom Seen Kid'?
Answer: ELBOW
Question: Which Summer Olympics host nation failed to win a gold medal?
Answer: CANADA
Question: How many syllables are there in a traditional Japanese 'haiku?
Answer: Seventeen
Question: Which part did Honor Blackman play in the film Goldfinger?
Answer: Pussy Galore
Question: In which Irish park was Lord Cavendish assassinated in 1882?
Answer: Phoenix
Question: What, according to popular saying, is 'the thief of time?
Answer: Procrastination
Question: Who famously said in 1916 "History is more or less bunk"?
Answer: Henry Ford
Question: In the human body what name is given collectively to the five long bones of the foot?
Answer: Metatarsus
Question: Tommy Lee, who was formerly married to Pamela Anderson, was the drummer in which successful 1980s heavy metal band?
Answer: Motley Crue
Question: In Roman mythology who was the god of gates, doors and entrances?
Answer: Janu
Question: Who wrote the novel "Madame Bovary"?
Answer: Gustave Flaubert
Question: What Spanish name is given to a spicy pork sausage seasoned with garlic?
Answer: Chorizo
Question: Which American actor starred in the film 'The Magnificent Seven' and on TV in 'The Man From Uncle'?
Answer: Robert Vaughn
Question: Who was the first person to be officially called British Prime Minister, 5 days after he took office in 1905?
Answer: Henry Campbell Bannerman
Question: Who directed the 1954 film 'On the Waterfront'?
Answer: Elia Kazan
Question: Adjutant birds are members of which family of birds?
Answer: Storks
Question: Who was the first presenter of 'Ready Steady Go', in August 1963?
Answer: Keith Fordyce
Question: Which singer married Bobby Brown in 1992?
Answer: Whitney Houston
Question: What was the name of the squire in Treasure Island?
Answer: Trelawney
Question: In which country is Cape Matapan?
Answer: Greece
Question: In a suit of armour which part of the body was protected by the rerebrace?
Answer: (The upper) Arm
Question: What is the name of the Welsh captain in Henry V?
Answer: Fluellen
Question: In which British city would you find Barlinnie prison?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: Which English king founded the Order of the Garter in 1348?
Answer: Edward III
Question: Which gas is produced by the action of water on Calcium Carbide?
Answer: Acetylene
Question: What word meaning doorway in Punjabi is the name of a Sikh place of worship?
Answer: Gurdwara
Question: Easter Island (Rapa Nui) belongs to which country?
Answer: Chile
Question: Macaroni, Chinstrap and Rockhopper are all species of which bird?
Answer: Penguins
Question: In the Simpsons cartoon series what is the name of Police Chief Wiggum's son?
Answer: Ralph
Question: Which team won the 2009 Superbowl?
Answer: Pittsburgh Steelers
Question: What did the Romans call the River Severn?
Answer: Sabrina
Question: Which city has sports teams known as the 'Maple Leafs' and the 'Blue Jays'?
Answer: Toronto
Question: The fortified wine 'Marsala' is produced on which island?
Answer: Sicily
Question: The name Malmsey is now used almost exclusively for a sweet variety of wine from the Malvasia grape produced on which island?
Answer: Madeira
Question: In 2005, two different designs were used on the reverse of the 50p coin to commemorate the 150 anniversary of the introduction of what?
Answer: Victoria Cross
Question: The Costa Smeralda is on the northeast coast of which island?
Answer: Sardinia
Question: The company 'Bloodaxe' publishes what sort of books?
Answer: Poetry
Question: Which Russian composer was also a naval officer?
Answer: Rimsky-Korsakov
Question: Name the singer who, along with Vince Clarke, made up the pop group Erasure?
Answer: Andy Bell
Question: What was the name of Gene Autry's famous horse?
Answer: Champion
Question: Asmara is the capital of which African country?
Answer: Eritrea
Question: Who played the male lead in the film 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'?
Answer: George Peppard
Question: Who won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the structure of DNA along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins?
Answer: FRANCIS CRICK
Question: What is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?
Answer: CHENNAI
Question: What was the forename of F Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby"?
Answer: JAY
Question: What was the nickname of Queen Joan the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain?
Answer: MAD
Question: Who wrote the novel "The Wide Sargasso Sea" inspired by the novel Jane Eyre?
Answer: JEAN RHYS
Question: Which British newspaper was mainly responsible for exposing the MP's expenses scandal in 2009?
Answer: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Question: Of which African mountain range is Jbel Toubkal the highest peak?
Answer: THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
Question: With which musical instrument is Theolonius Monk best associated?
Answer: PIANO
Question: Which English king was married to Charlotte of Mecklenberg?
Answer: GEORGE III
Question: In which group of islands are Stronsay, Hoy and South Ronaldsay?
Answer: Orkneys
Question: Horse racing trainers Evan, Ian, Stuart and Nick, share which surname with jockeys Darren and Christian?
Answer: Williams
Question: The Brooklyn Bridge crosses which river?
Answer: The East River
Question: In which group of islands are St Mary's, St Agnes and Bryher?
Answer: Scillies
Question: The Alabama Three performed 'Woke Up This Morning', the title song to which very popular crime series?
Answer: The Sopranos
Question: Which 20th century British Prime Minister was born in Broadstairs, Kent?
Answer: Edward Heath
Question: Who was Les Dennis's partner on 'The Laughter Show' before his early death in 1986?
Answer: Dustin Gee
Question: In which daily newspaper does the political cartoon 'Nature Notes' appear?
Answer: Times
Question: Which Blue Peter presenter was a Chief Scout?
Answer: Peter Duncan
Question: Which Ealing comedy featured Alec Guinness, Alfie Bass, Sid James and Stanley Holloway as a gang of crooks?
Answer: The Lavender Hill Mob
Question: Who, in the Bible, was the twin brother of Jacob?
Answer: Esau
Question: Which metal is mainly derived from the ore "haematite"?
Answer: Iron
Question: Which car manufacturer makes a model called the Sportage?
Answer: Kia
Question: Hunker Munker and Tom Thumb are a married couple of mice created by which author?
Answer: Beatrix Potter
Question: Which artist painted the portrait of French revolutionary Marat being murdered in his bath ?
Answer: David
Question: On which London thoroughfare would you find the Savoy Hotel, Charing Cross Station and the Adelphi Theatre?
Answer: The Strand
Question: Lancelot Gobbo is a servant of which major Shakespearean character?
Answer: Shylock
Question: Dayron Robles of Cuba broke which athletic world record in 2008?
Answer: 110m Hurdles
Question: What decimal number is represented by the binary 101 (read as one zero one)?
Answer: Five
Question: Which Roman road ran from London to York via Lincoln?
Answer: Ermine Street
Question: Who wrote the novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" in 1891?
Answer: Thomas Hardy
Question: Which Indian city was devastated by a toxic gas escape in 1984?
Answer: Bhopal