zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era had a mysterious and untimely death?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
Question: The first railway line across the U S A, from the East Coast to San Franisco via Chicago, Omaha and Salt Lake City, was completed in what year?
Answer: 1869
Question: Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Eric Faulkner, Stuart "Woody" Wood and Les McKeown were collectively known as what band from 1974 to 1976?
Answer: The Bay City Rollers
Question: Which female jazz singer died in December 2008?
Answer: Eartha Kitt
Question: Who wrote the music for what he described as "an American folk opera", which was set on Catfish Row?
Answer: George Gershwin
Question: Which calendar was different from its predecessor because leap years did not fall on years divisible by 100 unless they were also divisible by 400?
Answer: Gregorian calendar
Question: Which band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, had the original members of Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Hilton Valentine, John Steel, and "Chas" Chandler?
Answer: The Animals
Question: What was the name of the band that Louis Armstrong put together with his wife Lil, Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds and Johnny St. Cyr around 1925 in Chicago?
Answer: Hot Five
Question: The film actor Norma Jean Mortenson is better known by what name?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe
Question: How many US presidents were named Franklin?
Answer: 2
Question: An axolotl is the larva or early form of what?
Answer: Salamander
Question: Which Delta blues musician, according to legend, met the Devil at a crossroad and received mastery of the guitar in return for his soul?
Answer: Robert Johnson
Question: The United States deployed combat units in 1965 into which war to prevent a communist takeover of Southeast Asia, part of a wider strategy called containment?
Answer: The Vietnam War
Question: Which chemist and physicist established the basis for the magnetic field concept, discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, laws of electrolysis, and benzene, invented devices that are the basis of electric motor technology, and popularised words such as anode, cathode, electrode, and ion?
Answer: Michael Faraday
Question: Which German-American structural engineer and designer was Chief Engineer for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco?
Answer: Joseph Strauss
Question: Who created the characters of Willy Loman, Joe Keller and Eddie Carbone?
Answer: Arthur Miller
Question: What range of mountains separates Europe from Asia and runs from the Arctic to the Caspian Seas?
Answer: Ural Mountains
Question: Which English composer wrote "The Planets", "Somerset Rhapsody" and the ballet "The Perfect Fool"?
Answer: Gustav Holst
Question: Around 1910, the White Star Line was building three sister ships: The Titanic, The Gigantic (later named the Britannic) and which other?
Answer: The Olympic
Question: The story of which 1944 film starring Elizabeth Taylor involved a horse called "The Pie"?
Answer: National Velvet
Question: Which country won the most races in the A1GP championship in its first 3 years (2005-06, 2006-07 & 2007-08)?
Answer: France
Question: What is the capital of Mongolia, on the Tuul River?
Answer: Ulan Bator
Question: Which Tennessee city has the same name as the ancient Egyptian city named after King Menes?
Answer: Memphis
Question: What is the more common name of the disease called consumption?
Answer: Tuberculosis
Question: What type of aircraft powerplant uses a gas turbine to drive a propeller?
Answer: Turbo prop
Question: What is the name for radiations of a wavelength longer than and immediately next to the visible spectrum?
Answer: Infra red
Question: The heel of the forward foot must contact the ground before the toe of the rear foot leaves it is a rule of which sport?
Answer: Walking
Question: The musical "West Side Story" is associated with which geographical area?
Answer: New York
Question: What is the branch of the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and the Balkans, with ports such as Bari, Venice, and Trieste?
Answer: Adriatic Sea
Question: Who perfected a process in 1880 for making sensitive gelatine dry plates for photography, and patented photographic roll film in 1884?
Answer: George Eastman
Question: What infectious disease is characterised by catarrh of the respiratory tract and paroxysms of coughing?
Answer: Whooping cough
Question: In darts, what is the next in the sequence 7, 16, 8, 11, 14?
Answer: 9
Question: As whom did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi become better known?
Answer: Shah of Iran
Question: Benjamin Franklin once wrote that nothing was certain in this world except death and what?
Answer: Taxes
Question: According to Greek legend, who ferried the souls of the dead across the river that divided the world of the living from that of the dead?
Answer: Charon
Question: The band currently touring as "Eric Burdon & The Animals" has which of the original Animals as one of Eric Burdons backing musicians?
Answer: Hilton Valentine
Question: How many signs of the Zodiac are human?
Answer: 3
Question: Which German mathematician and scientist, sometimes called the "Prince of Mathematicians", completed "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae", in 1798 at the age of 21?
Answer: Carl Friedrich Gauss
Question: Vanilla is obtained from what part of the plant?
Answer: Pod
Question: What was the first film made especially as a musical comedy, which included the songs "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" and "You Were Made For Me", by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed?
Answer: The Broadway Melody
Question: Who died in 1972, which led to the accession of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark?
Answer: King Frederik IX
Question: Complete Joseph Stalin's famous quotation "One death is a tragedy, one million deaths is a "
Answer: Statistic
Question: The symbol of the Olympic Games is made up of 5 interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and what other colour?
Answer: Red
Question: In which British sitcom does recently-widowed Audrey fforbes-Hamilton have to sell her manor house, which is bought by Richard DeVere, a nouveau riche millionaire supermarket owner?
Answer: To the Manor Born
Question: What tree and its fruit is also known as the butter pear and alligator pear?
Answer: Avocado
Question: By 1922 Fred Astaire and his sister Adele were so popular that George and Ira Gershwin wrote "Funny Face" and what other show especially for them?
Answer: Lady Be Good
Question: Which painter, born in Delft, produced works including "The Woman With A Water Jug", "The Pianist" and "The Lacemaker"?
Answer: Jan Vermeer
Question: What is the English borough and market town on the River Otter in Devonshire, famous for lace making?
Answer: Honiton
Question: After the signing of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, Mubarak Al-Sabah was recognised by the Ottomans and British as the ruler of the autonomous caza of which city and its hinterlands?
Answer: Kuwait
Question: City Of Dreams was the second casino owned by James Packer to open in which European ex colony?
Answer: Macau, China
Question: Which overweight knight from three Shakespearean plays was the subject of an opera by Verdi?
Answer: Sir John Falstaff
Question: In which film starring Edward G Robinson are the main character's dying words "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico"?
Answer: Little Caesar
Question: What is a feud where the relatives of a murdered man take vengeance on the family of those who killed him, for generations?
Answer: Vendetta
Question: Which sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia, bounded on the west by Novaya Zemlya and to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya?
Answer: Kara Sea
Question: On what does the cast of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical "Starlight Express" perform?
Answer: Roller skates
Question: The first of which make of car came off the assembly line at Fisherman's Bend in September 1948?
Answer: Holden
Question: What 1939 film, set during the American Civil War, starring Clark Gable and Vivienne Leigh, was based on a book by Margaret Mitchell?
Answer: Gone With The Wind
Question: Which political organisation was founded by Jos Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1933, during the Second Spanish Republic?
Answer: Falange
Question: What British sitcom, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders and co-starring Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks, was first broadcast by the BBC in 1992?
Answer: Absolutely Fabulous
Question: What did Shakespeare compare "Katharina" to?
Answer: Shrew
Question: What is the name of the system of lakes, canals and rivers that enables shipping to get from the Atlantic to as far as Duluth, Minnesota, on Lake Superior?
Answer: St Lawrence Seaway
Question: What is the coastal region of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Israel known as?
Answer: The Levant
Question: What were the people who were part of Elvis Presley's entourage known as?
Answer: Memphis Mafia
Question: What appeared in a newspaper for the first time on 22 March 1904 in the USA's "Daily Illustrated Mirror"?
Answer: Colour photographs
Question: Which Latin poet wrote "Satires", "Epodes", "Epistles" and "Carmen Seculare"?
Answer: Horace
Question: What name is given to an ambassador to Great Britain who is representing a country that is a member of the British Commonwealth?
Answer: High Commissioner
Question: Which species of llama from Peru and Chile is known for its soft, fine hair?
Answer: Vicuna
Question: In the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, who did Gandalf fight at the Bridge of Khazad-dum before he fell into the abyss?
Answer: The Balrog
Question: Who designed the yellow sheath dress with matching coat worn by Michelle Obama at Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009?
Answer: Isabel Toledo
Question: Who, according to legend, discovered the principles of buoyancy while having a bath?
Answer: Archimedes
Question: What was the title of the spin off TV show from "Friends", starring Matt le Blanc?
Answer: Joey
Question: What is a word for giddiness, often associated with a disease of the inner ear?
Answer: Vertigo
Question: Which award winning building was built directly underneath Waterloo Bridge, London, in the 1980s and has stalagtites (from water leaking through the Bridge) growing in it?
Answer: Museum of the Moving Image
Question: What conflict in 1935 resulted in Mussolini annexing a large African territory for Italy, withdrawing in 1941?
Answer: Abyssinian War
Question: In 2008, the game of Cluedo was updated as Cluedo Reinvention" with some new weapons. Which one of these was in the original game?
Answer: Lead pipe
Question: Who was elected Vice-Chancellor by the Swiss Federal Assembly in August 2005 and became Federal Chancellor of Switzerland in December 2007?
Answer: Corina Casanova
Question: """Wisden"" is a reference book on which subject?"
Answer: Cricket
Question: Who wrote "Other people see things and say: why? - but I dream things that never were and say: why not?"
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: Which English lawyer wrote "Dulcamara", "Pygmalion and Galatea", and "The Wicked World" before he became a librettist and lyricist for comic operas?
Answer: W S Gilbert
Question: Which 19th century scientist first stated the laws of thermodynamics and was made a Baron in 1892?
Answer: William Kelvin
Question: Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is famous for leading resistance to the invasion of Britain by whom?
Answer: Romans
Question: Who led the mutiny on HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789?
Answer: Fletcher Christian
Question: The Great Lakes are called Superior, Erie, Ontario and which other?
Answer: Michigan
Question: Which film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland, was about four days in the life of a chronic drunkard?
Answer: The Lost Weekend
Question: In 1996, it was rumoured that which company had influenced the International Olympic Committee to hold the Olympics in Atlanta?
Answer: Coca-Cola
Question: Whose wife, Elin, gave birth to his son, Charlie, early in 2009?
Answer: Tiger Woods
Question: Which 18th century painter and engraver is famous for his works "The Rake's Progress" and "Marriage la Mode"?
Answer: William Hogarth
Question: At which Olympic Games did a water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union end as a pitched battle between the teams?
Answer: 1956, Melbourne
Question: Which castle, when used as a prison for prisoners of war in World War II, was known as Oflag VII C?
Answer: Colditz
Question: Which movie star was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on 5 August 1962?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe
Question: In which city was the Sri Lankan cricket team attacked with a bomb, grenade launcher and rifles in March 2009?
Answer: Lahore
Question: Which of Shakepeare's plays was made into a film in 1953 starring Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern, John Gielgud, Deborah Kerr and Greer Garson?
Answer: Julius Caesar
Question: The musical "Kiss Me Kate" is based on which Shakespearean play?
Answer: The Taming Of The Shrew
Question: In what year did the airship Graf Zeppelin complete the first round-the-world flight in September, and inaugurate the first commercial transatlantic service in October?
Answer: 1929
Question: Who emerged as the top Chinese Communist leader during the "Long March" in 1934?
Answer: Mao Zedong
Question: Who was the English prison reformer from 1817 to 1840 whose husband was a big name in the cocoa business?
Answer: Elizabeth Fry
Question: Henry Ford II's grandfather was Henry Ford. Who was Henry Ford II's father?
Answer: Edsel Ford
Question: What was created by the Lateran Treaty signed by Italy in 1929?
Answer: Vatican City
Question: Which boxer was filmed striking a gong, that was used as an introduction to films from the J Arthur Rank studios?
Answer: Bombardier Billy Wells
Question: Which Formula One team, founded in 1963 by a New Zealander, were the first to design a car using a carbon fibre monocoque?
Answer: McLaren
Question: Which pen manufacturer was founded in 1891 in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA?
Answer: Parker
Question: When did the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), formerly the governing body of cricket in England and across the world, pass most of its global functions to the International Cricket Council (ICC)?
Answer: 1993
Question: What were T S Eliot's first names?
Answer: Thomas Stearns
Question: At which racecourse would you find Beecher's Brook and Canal Turn?
Answer: Aintree
Question: Who tried to win back the America's Cup from the New York Yacht Club 5 times between 1899 and 1930 in boats called "Shamrock"?
Answer: Sir Thomas Lipton
Question: Who had hit records with "Eh Eh", "Let's Dance" and "Poker Face"?
Answer: Lady Ga Ga
Question: David Ben-Gurion became Prime Minister of the provisional government of which newly created country on 15 May 1948?
Answer: Israel
Question: Who created the character of Hercule Poirot?
Answer: Agatha Christie
Question: The military action popularly known as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" took place in which war?
Answer: Crimean War
Question: Who became famous through three films made in 1955 and 1956, and died at the wheel of a Porsche in 1956?
Answer: James Dean
Question: The song "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'" from the film "High Noon" was a big hit for Frankie Laine in the early 1950s. Who sang it on the film soundtrack?
Answer: Tex Ritter
Question: Where did the Greek god Helios go home to sleep at night, where he lived with his brother, Eos?
Answer: In the sea
Question: Sepoys, native soldiers, served under British command in which country?
Answer: India
Question: Which Austrian, a pioneer in psycho-analysis, died in London in 1939, a refugee from Nazi persecution?
Answer: Sigmund Freud
Question: Which instrument, with a range of around 3 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to C below middle C, with the others to G, D and A?
Answer: Viola
Question: Which film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat, begins and ends with public performances by The Memory Man in a London music hall?
Answer: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Question: The "Zapruder film" is famous for being a colour film of which event?
Answer: Assassination of John F Kennedy
Question: Who invented a system of cartography whereby lines of latitude and longitude are drawn at right angles?
Answer: Gerardus Mercator
Question: What best selling novel begins "The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail"?
Answer: Jaws
Question: In what board game do players compete to acquire wealth through buying, renting, and trading properties, with the object of bankrupting the other players?
Answer: Monopoly
Question: William Crapo Durant merged Oldsmobile and what other car company to form General Motors?
Answer: Buick
Question: In which country was the Althing, a legislative and judiciary parliament, founded in 930?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Which film from 1942 contains the lines "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine" and "Here's looking at you, kid"?
Answer: Casablanca
Question: Which US film actress married and divorced both Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan?
Answer: Rita Hayworth
Question: When Lieut Thomas E Selfridge became the first death in a crash of a powered airplane in 1908, who was the pilot?
Answer: Orville Wright
Question: Who was the sister of film actress Joan Fontaine?
Answer: Olivia De Havilland
Question: From which sport do we get the expression "Thrown a curve ball"?
Answer: Baseball
Question: As of 2009, who is the only winner of a Formula One Drivers' championship to do so in a car bearing his own name?
Answer: Jack Brabham
Question: The Union Jack, the British flag, was first used in its present form in what year?
Answer: 1801
Question: Which 1952 film, directed by Vittorio de Sica, was about a penniless old man (played by Carlo Battisti) and his dog, Flick?
Answer: Umberto D
Question: In architecture, what is the name for an ornamental vertical groove in a column?
Answer: Flute
Question: Where was the war that began in 1998 and sometimes referred to as the "African World War", that has been called the world's deadliest conflict since World War II, with 5.4 million people killed?
Answer: Congo
Question: In badminton, how many times may the shuttlecock be struck by each side before it passes over the net?
Answer: Once
Question: What was reported as being from ancient Greece by authors Lynn and Gray Poole in their "History of the Ancient Games", after they saw it carved on a stone when visiting Delphi In the 1950s?
Answer: The Olympic rings
Question: Which painter, born in Antwerp, was invited by Charles I to be the court painter, and was knighted in 1632?
Answer: Anthony van Dyck
Question: Which organisation founded by Lord Baden Powell and his sister Agnes was incorporated by Charter in 1915?
Answer: Girl Guides
Question: Which American is famous for her photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken the day of Lennon's death, Demi Moore nude when 7 months pregnant, and, later, nude with a suit painted on her body?
Answer: Annie Liebowitz
Question: Which orange-seller became an actress, then mistress of King Charles II, died in 1687 aged 37, and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields?
Answer: Nell Gwynn
Question: Where did the "Mayflower", carrying the Pilgrim Fathers, early settlers to Massachusetts, America, sail from in 1620?
Answer: Plymouth
Question: Who has played the role of Indiana Jones most often in films?
Answer: Harrison Ford
Question: Which country has the longest straight stretch of railway line?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which islands in the South Pacific between New Guinea and South America were annexed by France in 1842?
Answer: Marquesas
Question: Which inert gas with a density 2.8 that of air was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1895?
Answer: Krypton
Question: Who was shot at with poisoned bullets by Fanny Kepler in August 1918?
Answer: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Question: Whose life was the 1980 film "Raging Bull" about?
Answer: Jake LaMotta
Question: What is the popular name for Sirius, which is 9 light years from Earth?
Answer: The Dog Star
Question: Under what name did Helen Porter Mitchell perform opera?
Answer: Dame Nellie Melba
Question: What Indian word was used by the Portuguese for army servants and became applied by British to Asiatic seamen?
Answer: Lascars
Question: What is the name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in late 1888?
Answer: Jack the Ripper
Question: What is the name for an inflammation of the larynx characterised by coughing, harshness (or loss) of voice, choking sensation and difficulty in breathing?
Answer: Laryngitis
Question: The first modern Olympic games as we currently know them were held in which century?
Answer: 19th
Question: Which US state was the first to secede from the Union, in 1860, leading to the American Civil War?
Answer: South Carolina
Question: The airliner built in 1931 and capable of carrying 40 passengers, the Hannibal, was made by which company?
Answer: Handley Page
Question: What reddish-brown bean-shaped organs lies in the abdomen just under the diaphragm, one on each side of the backbone?
Answer: Kidneys
Question: The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, which became a popular name for the dividing line between the slave and free states, is the boundary between which two states of the USA?
Answer: Pennsylvania and Maryland
Question: Whose lifetime total of 714 home runs was a record in Major League Baseball for 39 years, until 1974?
Answer: Babe Ruth
Question: Which planet has a year of 687 days, a day of 24 hours 37 minutes, a diameter twice that of the moon and a mass one tenth of the earth?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which Formula One team, based in Woking, Surrey, UK, and founded in 1963 by a New Zealander, has won over 160 races, 12 Drivers' Championships and 8 Constructors' Championships?
Answer: McLaren
Question: Rose and Jack were the lead characters in which film?
Answer: Titanic
Question: What type of tree is the coolabah, found in Australia?
Answer: Eucalyptus
Question: Which Beatle wrote the music for the film "The Family Way", starring Hayley Mills and Hywell Bennett, released in 1967?
Answer: Paul McCartney
Question: Which river runs through the town where Shakespeare was born?
Answer: Avon
Question: Which ship, the largest and fastest in the world, with steam turbine propulsion, then a revolutionary development in ocean liner design, was launched on 20 September 1906?
Answer: Mauretania
Question: Which trophy, damaged by Benjamin Peri Nathan with a sledgehammer in March 1997, was restored to its original condition, free of charge, by London silversmiths Garrard & Co., who had made it in 1848?
Answer: The Americas Cup
Question: King Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 when an arrow went into what part of his body?
Answer: Eye
Question: Which UK TV series, set in Peckham, London, over 7 years chronicled the attempts of an ambitious market trader and his younger brother to get rich?
Answer: Only Fools and Horses
Question: Who was the star of "8 Mile" (2002) a hip-hop drama film which was a fictionalized account of his growing up in Detroit and early career in rap?
Answer: Eminem
Question: Which band had a hit record in 1980 with "London Calling"?
Answer: The Clash
Question: What are the 26 areas called that make up The Swiss Confederation?
Answer: Cantons
Question: In which country was there a civil war between 1936 and 1939, which was won by General Franco's forces?
Answer: Spain
Question: In the 7th to 9th century, which kingdom of England was between the Thames and the Trent?
Answer: Mercia
Question: What is the name for a straight line drawn from the centre of a circle to the circumference?
Answer: Radius
Question: What name is given to the rocks that orbit the sun mainly between Mars and Jupiter?
Answer: Asteroids
Question: Which propagandist broadcaster during World War II was jailed for 10 years in October 1949?
Answer: Tokyo Rose
Question: At the medal ceremonies for events at the Olympics, national anthems are played for those who have which placing(s)?
Answer: First place
Question: Which band, comprising David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth, had hit records including "Burning Down the House" and "Psycho Killer"?
Answer: Talking Heads
Question: What ocean borders the US state of Georgia?
Answer: Atlantic