zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the Beatles' first chart single success, released in October 1962?
Answer: Love Me Do
Question: Who was the Greek God of fire?
Answer: Hephaestus
Question: Which poet wrote The Wild Swans at Coole, in 1917?
Answer: W B Yeats
Question: Which UK pop group was formed in Sheffield in 1978 by singer Jarvis Cocker?
Answer: Pulp
Question: Which ancient site was excavated by Sir Arthur Evans from 1900 to 1925?
Answer: Knossos
Question: 'Life is like a box of chocolates' is a quote from which 1994 film?
Answer: Forrest Gump
Question: In the Simpsons cartoon series what is the first name of Principal Skinner'?
Answer: Seymour
Question: In mathematics, what is a quarter of a circle called? (an area bounded by two radii at right angles to each other)
Answer: A Quadrant
Question: With more than 60,000 of them, which country is known as 'the Country of a Thousand Lakes'?
Answer: Finland
Question: In which TV 'soap' did the character Benny Hawkins appear?
Answer: Crossroads
Question: The trademark of which famous Austrian chocolate cake was registered by a Viennese hotel in the 1870's?
Answer: Sachertorte
Question: Pristina is the capital of which European state?
Answer: Kosovo
Question: In which shipyard was Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, built?
Answer: Chatham
Question: From which English football club did Rupert Lowe resign when the club was placed into administration in 2009?
Answer: SOUTHAMPTON
Question: Who assassinated Arch duke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914?
Answer: GAVRILO PRINCIP
Question: Chablis is the northernmost district of which French wine growing region?
Answer: BURGUNDY
Question: The painting "the Girl with the Pearl Earring" is by which artist?
Answer: VERMEER
Question: Who wrote the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
Answer: TRUMAN CAPOTE
Question: Who wrote the novel "The Other Boleyn Girl"?
Answer: PHILIPPA GREGORY
Question: What name is given to a number sequence in which each term is the sum of the two preceding terms?
Answer: Fibonacci
Question: Rubies and sapphires are varieties of which mineral?
Answer: Corundum
Question: Milk and sunlight are good sources of which vitamin?
Answer: D
Question: What was the name of the English logician whose name is given to diagrams of mathematical sets, the areas intersecting where they have elements in common?
Answer: (John) Venn
Question: In Greek mythology, which character carried a rod called "a caduceus"? (kad-oo-see-us)
Answer: Hermes
Question: Which British actress (and DBE) wrote an autobiography, entitled "No Turn Unstoned"?
Answer: Diana Rigg
Question: In the TV comedy "Dad's Army", what was the name of Captain Mainwaring's wife?
Answer: Elizabeth
Question: Which London station was designed by Brunel and completed in 1854?
Answer: Paddington
Question: From which country does Red Stripe lager originate?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: In which card game can one score "one for his knob"?
Answer: Cribbage
Question: Whose first symphony of 1917 is known as "The Classical Symphony"?
Answer: Sergei Prokofiev
Question: The Hoover Dam stands on which river?
Answer: Colorado
Question: Which British king, born in 1769, was known as "The Sailor King"?
Answer: William IV
Question: What is the name of the butler in "Upstairs Downstairs"?
Answer: MR HUDSON
Question: The style of singing known as Fado comes from which European country?
Answer: PORTUGAL
Question: Name the writer known as 'Denmark's most famous son', his birthplace in Odense is now a museum?
Answer: Hans Christian Anderson
Question: Between 1892 and 1954, which part of New York was the point of entry for millions of immigrants?
Answer: Ellis Island
Question: From which wine making region does Chablis come?
Answer: Burgundy
Question: Discovered in 1824, which chemical element, Atomic Number 14, has a name derived from the Latin for 'flint'?
Answer: Silicon
Question: The Hall of Arts and Sciences that was opened in 1871 is better known now as what?
Answer: The Royal Albert Hall
Question: St Enoch's station is/was in which British city?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: In which city were almost all French kings crowned?
Answer: Rheims
Question: What is the name of the London based society for conjurors and magicians, founded in 1905?
Answer: The Magic Circle
Question: The aurochs is a wild ancestor of which domesticated animal?
Answer: Cattle
Question: Mauna Loa is a volcano in which US state?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: Where was the first fossil 'Homo Erectus' found?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: Which geological period is named after the chalk laid down?
Answer: Cretaceous
Question: Who was the East German leader ousted in 1989?
Answer: Erich Honecker
Question: Daniel Arap Moi was President of which country?
Answer: Kenya
Question: In which county is Alton Towers?
Answer: Staffordshire
Question: Which part of the human eye may be removed and kept in an eye bank?
Answer: THE CORNEA
Question: Which invention brought to an end the 'Prehistoric Era'?
Answer: WRITING
Question: Which sportsman was nicknamed 'The Yankee Clipper'?
Answer: JOE DI MAGGIO
Question: In which alcoholic spirit might you find a worm in the bottle?
Answer: TEQUILA
Question: What name is given to the giant American Transport Plane the 'C5'?
Answer: THE GALAXY
Question: After Malta itself and Gozo, what is the third largest island in the country of Malta?
Answer: COMINO
Question: In July 1963, Gerald Durrell set up a Wildlife Conservationist trust on which island?
Answer: JERSEY
Question: Who, with 448 runs, was Australia's leading run scorer in the 2009 Ashes series?
Answer: MICHAEL CLARKE
Question: """The Mona Lisa of the North"" or ""The Dutch Mona Lisa"" are two soubriquets for which painting by Dutch master, Jan Vermeer?"
Answer: GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
Question: During the reign of which British monarch was the American Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: GEORGE III
Question: Whom did Robert Ford shoot dead in 1882?
Answer: Jesse James
Question: From which country does the word "Duffel", as in coat, come?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Which sport's name means "easy way"?
Answer: Judo
Question: Whom did Barack Obama defeat in the 2008 US Presidential election?
Answer: John McCain
Question: Araucaria, Shed and Paul are names connected with which pastime?
Answer: Crosswords
Question: Which Championship football league team is based at the Keepmoat Stadium?
Answer: DONCASTER ROVERS
Question: In 2009, who became only the second woman to train a Grand National winning horse?
Answer: VENETIA WILLIAMS
Question: Captain Dobbin and Amelia Sedley are characters from which 19th century novel?
Answer: VANITY FAIR
Question: In a railway carriage near which city in Northern France did the allies and the Germans sign the Armistice which ended WWI?
Answer: COMPIEGNE
Question: In 1967, the Republic of Biafra declared independence from which country?
Answer: NIGERIA
Question: Who is the only African footballer, to have won the FIFA World Player of the Year award?
Answer: GEORGE WEAH
Question: With which antique dealer did Paddington Bear have his elevenses each day?
Answer: MR GRUBER
Question: Who was the Greek God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, his Roman equivalent being Bacchus?
Answer: DIONYSUS
Question: Who eventually broke Bob Beamon's 23 year-old long jump record, in 1991?
Answer: MIKE POWELL
Question: Who was twice French Minister of the Interior? First between May 2002 and March 2004, and then between May 2005 and March 2007?
Answer: NICOLAS SARKOZY
Question: Which politician held the post of Mayor of Paris from March 1977 until May 1995?
Answer: JACQUES CHIRAC
Question: What was the first forename of the infamous, French revolutionary leader Robespierre?
Answer: MAXIMILIEN
Question: In opera 'The Marriage of Figaro' who does Figaro marry?
Answer: SUSANNA
Question: Who was the Commander of the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: GEORGE MEADE
Question: Which word appears in the name of all Japanese merchant ships?
Answer: MARU
Question: What is the name of the Swedish policeman in the series of novels by Henning Mankel?
Answer: (Kurt) WALLANDER
Question: The Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanica was better known by which nickname?
Answer: CALIGULA
Question: Woburn Abbey is the family seat of which duke?
Answer: BEDFORD
Question: In Greek myth into what was Daphne turned whilst being pursued by Apollo?
Answer: LAUREL TREE
Question: Which poet, killed in World War One, wrote the poems 'Adlestrop' and 'Celandine?
Answer: EDWARD THOMAS
Question: Callao is the main port of which country?
Answer: PERU
Question: To which English king was Anne Neville married?
Answer: RICHARD the THIRD
Question: Whose was the shortest British premiership of the twentieth century?
Answer: ANDREW BONAR LAW
Question: Which musical genre derives its name from a phrase used in 1962 in a novel by William Burroughs?
Answer: Heavy Metal
Question: What was the nationality of the scientist Robert Bunsen?
Answer: German
Question: Who presents the Radio 2 Wednesday night folk music show?
Answer: Mike Harding
Question: During the nineteenth century what name was given to Indian soldiers serving under British command?
Answer: Sepoys
Question: From 1901-1903, Edmund Barton was the first Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: The 'Road to the Isles' runs from Fort William to which port?
Answer: Mallaig
Question: In which country were the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed in 2001?
Answer: Afghanistan
Question: Nicknamed the 'King of Soho' his publications included Mayfair and Razzle magazines, he died in March 2008, by what name was he known?
Answer: Paul Raymond
Question: On which Shakespeare play is the musical 'The Boys From Syracuse' based?
Answer: Comedy of Errors
Question: What is the name for the "Code of Living" followed by the Samurai?
Answer: BUSHIDO
Question: Which man other than Billy McNeill and Martin O'Neil has managed both Aston Villa and Celtic?
Answer: DR JOSEF VENGLOS
Question: Which world famous city in Eire stands on the River Lee?
Answer: CORK
Question: Who is the only 20th century president to be carved onto Mount Rushmore?
Answer: THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Question: Nadezhda von Meck was the patron of which great composer, and to whom he dedicated his fourth symphony?
Answer: TCHAIKOVSKY
Question: The vicuna is the smallest species of which group of animals?
Answer: CAMELS
Question: Mostar and Banja Luka are the two largest cities in which country?
Answer: BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA
Question: """April is the cruellest month"" is the opening line of which poem by T S Eliot?"
Answer: THE WASTELAND-
Question: In which 1956, film musical did Gordon MacRae sing about the attributes of "My Boy Bill"?
Answer: CAROUSEL
Question: Which Impressionist artist painted a series of pictures in the 1890's, depicting haystacks?
Answer: CLAUDE MONET
Question: Pula and Rijeka are two cities in which country?
Answer: CROATIA
Question: What was the name of the first nuclear powered civilian vessel, an icebreaker?
Answer: Lenin
Question: What name was given to a Roman gladiator who fought with a weighted net, a 3-pointed trident and a dagger?
Answer: Retiarius
Question: In medicine, what name is given to inflammation of the protective membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord?
Answer: Meningitis
Question: Which day of the week is named after the Norse god of single combat and heroic glory or courage?
Answer: Tuesday
Question: In which year did Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother die?
Answer: 2002
Question: In literature, who has an enemy called Erich von Stalhein?
Answer: Biggles
Question: A photograph of which actress did Judge Roy Bean always carry in his wallet?
Answer: Lily Langtry
Question: What is the name of the structure under a balloon or airship that holds the crew and passengers?
Answer: GONDOLA
Question: Which chat-show host made his name with the 1989 series The Last Resort?
Answer: JONATHAN ROSS
Question: What was the name of the character played by Alec Guinness in the TV series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
Answer: GEORGE SMILEY
Question: Which singer had a 1970s number one hit with the song "When I Need You?
Answer: LEO SAYER
Question: Which authoress lived at Chawton House in Hampshire in the early years of the 19th century?
Answer: JANE AUSTEN
Question: The Alexandre Dumas play, "La Dame aux Camelias" was the inspiration for which Verdi opera?
Answer: LA TRAVIATA
Question: What is the surname of the twins, Raphael and Fabio, who play football for Manchester Utd?
Answer: DA SILVA
Question: In 1765, who became the first English King to be born at Buckingham Palace?
Answer: GEORGE IV
Question: Which American golfer gained his first major title, when he won the 2009 US Open?
Answer: LUCAS GLOVER
Question: Catherine of Braganza was the Queen of which British monarch?
Answer: CHARLES II
Question: Kungsholmen, Norrmalm, Sodermalm and Ostermalm are the four districts of which European city?
Answer: Stockholm
Question: Which company originally produced the 'Matchbox' series of die cast toys?
Answer: Lesney
Question: First used for test match cricket on 10 November 2000, the Bangabandhu National Stadium is in which country?
Answer: Bangladesh
Question: The Ridolfi Plot planned the assassination of which British monarch?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I
Question: Which car manufacturer's name is Latin for roll?
Answer: Volvo
Question: Which band was named after the 18th century agriculturalist credited with inventing the seed drill?
Answer: Jethro Tull
Question: Originating in the Scottish town of Forfar, which pie is made from minced beef, and sometimes onions, in shortcrust pastry folded into a semi-circular shape?
Answer: Bridie
Question: In the Disney film Peter Pan what colour is Tinkerbell's dress?
Answer: Green
Question: Which European capital city was known as Vindobona in Roman times?
Answer: Vienna
Question: In which Yorkshire town are the famous Five Rise Locks on the Leeds-Liverpool canal?
Answer: Bingley
Question: What position is no.1 in rugby league and no.15 in rugby union?
Answer: Full Back
Question: Which letter of the Greek alphabet, when written as a capital, looks like our letter P?
Answer: Rho
Question: In 1993, Arsenal won both the FA Cup and League Cup, beating which team in both finals?
Answer: Sheffield Wednesday
Question: Which letter of the Greek alphabet, when written as a capital, looks like a triangle?
Answer: Delta
Question: The line 'The course of true love never did run smooth' appears in which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Question: In 1997, which team lost in both the FA Cup and League Cup finals, to Leicester City in the League Cup and Chelsea in the FA Cup and were also relegated from the Premier League?
Answer: Middlesbrough
Question: Which Danish explorer discovered Alaska in the eighteenth century?
Answer: VITUS BERING
Question: Which star is the brightest in the constellation Taurus?
Answer: ALDEBARAN
Question: On view in London's National Gallery, the work The Supper at Emmaus is the work of which painter?
Answer: CARAVAGGIO
Question: In international tour cycling, which colour of jersey is worn by the 'Best Rider under 25'?
Answer: WHITE
Question: Leporello is a principal character in which opera?
Answer: DON GIOVANNI
Question: Led for 3 days by veteran Tom Watson, who finally won the 2009 Open Golf Championship?
Answer: STEWART CINK
Question: Who starred in the title role of the boxing movie 'The Cinderella Man'?
Answer: RUSSELL CROWE
Question: Who wrote the 2005 bestseller 'The Shadow of the Wind' set in post Spanish Civil War Barcelona?
Answer: CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
Question: The 2009 film 'Nowhere Boy' concerns the teenage years of which singer?
Answer: JOHN LENNON
Question: 'Yesterday' and 'Ticket to Ride' first appeared on which Beatles album of 1965?
Answer: HELP!
Question: Who directed the 2005 Oscar winning film 'Million Dollar Baby'?
Answer: CLINT EASTWOOD
Question: Later holding a cabinet post, who finished second to Edward Heath in the 1965 Conservative Party Leadership Election?
Answer: Reginald Maudling
Question: Which group from Abingdon has issued albums 'Hail to the thief and 'In Rainbows'?
Answer: Radiohead
Question: Three Mile Island is in which US state?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Question: Who was the US lawyer who defended John Scopes on charges of teaching evolution in 1925?
Answer: (Clarence) Darrow
Question: The winner of which particular sporting competition wins the Coupe des Mousquetaires?
Answer: French Open Tennis
Question: Which private detective last appeared in the 1959 novel `Playback'?
Answer: Philip Marlowe
Question: In which decade of the 20 century was the Sydney Harbour Bridge officially opened?
Answer: 1930's
Question: According to Christian tradition which saint was the mother of the Virgin Mary?
Answer: ANNE
Question: Which is the oldest Sunday national newspaper in the UK still in circulation?
Answer: OBSERVER
Question: In the Republic of Ireland, in which town or city are the administrative HQ for the County of Kerry?
Answer: TRALEE
Question: Glen Ford played which legendary golfer in the 1950's Hollywood biopic, 'Follow the Sun'?
Answer: BEN HOGAN
Question: Born in 1811, Chang and Eng were officially the world's first what?
Answer: SIAMESE TWINS
Question: Name the science fiction author of 'I, Robot'.
Answer: ISAAC ASIMOV
Question: Mrs Todgers is a character in which Dickens novel?
Answer: MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT
Question: By what name is the medical term epistaxis more commonly known?
Answer: NOSEBLEED
Question: The TV series The Wire was set in which US city?
Answer: Baltimore
Question: Which chemical element, atomic number 51, used to be called Stibium?
Answer: Antimony
Question: To which group of mammals does the possum belong?
Answer: Marsupials
Question: In which film of 1995 did Robert De Niro and Al Pacino appear on screen together for the first time?
Answer: Heat
Question: Which European country was the Roman province of Lusitania?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Which 19th century writer wrote a collection of stories for children which included 'The Happy Prince' and 'The Selfish Giant'?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Question: Which island is separated from the Scottish mainland by the Sound of Sleat?
Answer: Skye
Question: Elaine Page had a top ten hit in 1981 with which song from the musical 'Cats'?
Answer: Memory
Question: Name the British submarine that during the Falklands War sank the General Belgrano?
Answer: HMS Conqueror
Question: By what name was the mathematician 'Leonardo of Pisa' better known?
Answer: Fibonacci
Question: Which London institution was founded at Jonathan's Coffee House in 1773?
Answer: Stock Exchange
Question: As a result of Spain winning the Football World Cup in 2010 how many different teams have now won the World Cup?
Answer: EIGHT
Question: Which Liverpool group had a top ten hit in 1964 with the song "I Think Of You"?
Answer: MERSEYBEATS
Question: Which actress star of the film Georgy Girl died in May 2010?
Answer: LYNN REDGRAVE
Question: Who became the first Chancellor of the reunited Germany in 1990?
Answer: Helmut Kohl
Question: Which character did Julia Roberts play in the Steven Spielberg film 'Hook'?
Answer: Tinkerbell
Question: Which US company has recently taken over Cadbury's?
Answer: Kraft
Question: What was the name of the boat on which newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell was last seen alive?
Answer: Lady Ghislaine
Question: Which square is diagonally opposite 'Go' on a standard Monopoly board?
Answer: Free Parking
Question: By what name is vitamin B2 also known?
Answer: Riboflavin
Question: What is the name of the largest of Jupiter's moons?
Answer: Ganymede
Question: In which sport did Scot Graeme Obree twice become World Champion?
Answer: Cycling
Question: Which TV character is the British equivalent of Michael Scott played by Steve Carell on US television?
Answer: David Brent
Question: Who in 2002 was the youngest man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer: Adrien Brody
Question: Which parliamentary constituency does Jack Straw represent?
Answer: Blackburn
Question: Which former FA Chief Executive once played as a midfielder for Tranmere Rovers?
Answer: Mark Palios
Question: Which city will host the 2016 Olympic Games?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro
Question: In which of the constellations of the Zodiac is the bright star Antares found?
Answer: Scorpio
Question: What type of creature is a Brazilian Huntsman?
Answer: A Spider
Question: In which novel does the ship the Pequod appear?
Answer: Moby Dick
Question: Born in 1585, who was known as the red eminence?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu
Question: Which saint set up a community on the island of Iona?
Answer: St Columba
Question: Which English King immediately preceded the Tudors and was effectively the last Plantagenet monarch?
Answer: Richard III
Question: Before he became an author, what was the original profession of Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: Lawyer
Question: What is the popular name of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23?
Answer: Appassionata
Question: Which pop group was co-founded by Syd Barrett in 1965/66?
Answer: Pink Floyd
Question: Whose autobiography was Goodbye To All That?
Answer: Robert Graves
Question: What is the modern name of Dutch Guiana?
Answer: SURINAM
Question: Which disease caused the death of 43 people in Croydon in 1937?
Answer: TYPHOID
Question: In which present day country did the Etruscan civilisation exist?
Answer: ITALY
Question: Which English King was imprisoned and died in Pontefract Castle?
Answer: RICHARD II
Question: In which English county is Frankland Prison?
Answer: DURHAM_
Question: Who won the 1940 Presidential election in the Philip Roth novel 'The Plot Against America'?
Answer: CHARLES LINDBERGH
Question: The flower Dianthus barbatus is commonly known as Stinking Billy in Scotland; by what more pleasant-sounding name is it known in England?
Answer: SWEET WILLIAM
Question: Who will appear on the new £50 bank note along with his business partner James Watt?
Answer: MATTHEW BOULTON
Question: Which was the last film to win all 5 major Oscars (Best Director, picture, screenplay, actor and actress)?
Answer: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Question: Who wrote the musicals "Annie get your Gun" and "Call Me Madam"?
Answer: IRVING BERLIN
Question: In the sitcom "Some Mothers Do Have Them" what was the name of Frank & Betty Spencer's baby?
Answer: JESSICA
Question: The pop rock quartet "The Monkees" formed in 1966 featured Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and which other member?
Answer: PETER TORK
Question: Which car company has 2 Chevrons as its symbol or badge?
Answer: CITROEN
Question: In the soap opera Coronation Street what is the name of the fictitious supermarket?
Answer: FRESHCO
Question: In music what note is equal to a quarter of a minim?
Answer: QUAVER
Question: Friday is named after the goddess frig but in some parts of Europe with which Roman goddess is this day associated?
Answer: VENUS
Question: Which manmade waterway features the Gatun and Milafiores Locks?
Answer: PANAMA CANAL
Question: What kind of creature is a 'mugger'?
Answer: CROCODILE
Question: Which writer created the characters Little Isodore, Harry the Horse and Spanish John?
Answer: Damon Runyon
Question: In Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, how does Hedda die?
Answer: She shoots herself
Question: Able seaman Kate Nesbitt, a medical assistant, became the first woman in the RN to receive which award in Nov. 2009?
Answer: The Military Cross
Question: Which company made the 1950's car the Mayflower?
Answer: Triumph
Question: What was the name of John Cabot's ship in which he set off in 1497 to reach Asia, finishing up in Newfoundland?
Answer: Matthew
Question: In February 2010, who reported on an audit of MPs' expense claims?
Answer: Sir Thomas Legg
Question: Who painted 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' in 1504?
Answer: Hieronymus Bosch
Question: In the game of bingo, what number can be called as "Doctor's orders"?
Answer: 9
Question: Complete the quotation from Oscar Wilde (in Lady Windermere's Fan) "We are all in the gutter but..."?
Answer: Some of us are looking at the stars
Question: Who served as the 29th President of the USA from 1921 to 1923 with the largest popular vote in any Presidential election?
Answer: Warren Harding
Question: Who wrote the book "Stalky and Co"?
Answer: RUDYARD KIPLING
Question: In the game of backgammon with how many pieces does each player begin?
Answer: 15