zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who composed the musical work "Pictures at an Exhibition"?
Answer: Modest Mussorgsky
Question: """Prelude a I'apres-midi d'un faune"" and ""La Mer"" are amongst the works of which impressionist composer?"
Answer: Claude Debussy
Question: Which Marx Brothers film was set in the fictional country of "Freedonia"?
Answer: Duck Soup
Question: Which religion runs the Brigham Young university in the USA?
Answer: Mormons
Question: In British Horse racing the Triple Crown is regarded of being the 2,000 Guineas, Derby and which other race?
Answer: St Leger
Question: Who played chemistry teacher Waiter White in the American TV series "Breaking Bad"?
Answer: Bryan Cranston
Question: George Fox was the founder of which religious grouping?
Answer: Quakers
Question: In which constellation, visible from the UK, is the bright star Regulus to be found?
Answer: Leo
Question: What is the nickname of snooker player Jimmy White?
Answer: Whirlwind
Question: By what name is a collector of postcards known?
Answer: Deltiologist
Question: Albert Einstein is known to have played which musical instrument?
Answer: Violin
Question: Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Question: Nucky Thompson was the central character in which US TV drama series?
Answer: Boardwalk Empire
Question: Which South American country has a first division side called Everton?
Answer: Chile
Question: Who directed the films Mississippi Burning, Evita and Angela's Ashes?
Answer: Alan Parker
Question: Which was the first place to host the Winter Olympics, twice?
Answer: St. Moritz
Question: Derived from the name of a Chinese village and hill, what is the alternative name for China Clay?
Answer: Kaolin
Question: Which artist did Chariton Heston play in the 1965 film ‘the Agony and the Ecstasy?
Answer: Michelangelo
Question: In which county is the town and fishing port of Padstow?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: On which racing circuit would you find Ginger Hall and Kate’s Cottage?
Answer: Isle of Man TT
Question: Which English Football League club play their home games at Highbury Stadium?
Answer: Fleetwood Town FC
Question: Which mountain range extends through Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, with its highest peak at Mount Jebel Toubkal?
Answer: Atlas Mountains
Question: In the children’s animated TV series, of which ship was Captain Pugwash the captain?
Answer: The Black Pig
Question: What is the SI derived unit of inductance?
Answer: HENRY
Question: Which car company has the six brightest stars of the constellation Pleiades as its badge?
Answer: SUBARU
Question: Who created the private investigator Kinsey Millhone?
Answer: (Sue) GRAFTON
Question: How was the entertainer Nicolai Poliakoff better known?
Answer: COCO THE CLOWN
Question: Who commanded the Confederate forces at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: (Robert E.) LEE
Question: In the cartoon show "The Wacky Races" who drove the Mean Machine?
Answer: Dick DASTARDLY
Question: What is another, non scientific, name for the white whale?
Answer: BELUGA
Question: What type of product was the failed brand Dasani?
Answer: (Bottled) WATER
Question: The Chinese Year commencing in February 2016 is the year of which creature?
Answer: MONKEY
Question: Jane Seymour played the character "Solitaire" in which Bond Film?
Answer: Live and Let Die
Question: Which order of friars is also known as the "Black Friars"?
Answer: Dominicans
Question: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in which theatre in April 1865?
Answer: Ford's
Question: Of what does someone suffering from brontophobia have an irrational fear?
Answer: Thunder
Question: To which family of birds do the Razorbill and the Guillemot belong?
Answer: Auks
Question: Ellen Terry was painted by Lady Macbeth in a celebrated work by which artist?
Answer: John Singer Sargent
Question: Which actor has appeared in the most "Carry On" films making a total of 26 appearances?
Answer: Kenneth Williams
Question: Who wrote the novel "Barchester Towers"?
Answer: Anthony Trollope
Question: Which philosopher was a tutor to Alexander the Great?
Answer: Aristotle
Question: Charles Guiteau assassinated which US President in 1881?
Answer: James A Garfield
Question: Which French author wrote the 1850 adventure story The Black Tulip ?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas
Question: In the Bible who was “comforted” by Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar?
Answer: Job
Question: What was the last Space Shuttle to orbit the Earth, doing so on the 21st July 2011?
Answer: Atlantis
Question: Who was voted PFA Young Player of the year 2015?
Answer: HARRY KANE
Question: David Frost was once married to which of Peter Sellers four wives?
Answer: LYNN FREDERICK
Question: Go Set a Watchman is a sequel to which famous book?
Answer: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Question: The Canary Islands lie due west of which African Country?
Answer: MOROCCO
Question: Which composer founded the institution now known as the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig in 1843?
Answer: MENDELSSOHN
Question: The territorial area of Canberra is completely surrounded by which Australian State?
Answer: NEW SOUTH WALES
Question: Who chaired South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 – 1998?
Answer: ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU
Question: At which racecourse did Tony McCoy have his last professional race on a horse called Box Office in April 2015?
Answer: SANDOWN
Question: Which insect does Isle of Wight Disease affect?
Answer: BEE
Question: The half penny coin which went out of circulation in 1969 featured an image of which ship on the reverse?
Answer: GOLDEN HIND
Question: Which time travelling character did Nicholas Lyndhurst portray in the sitcom "Goodnight Sweetheart"
Answer: Gary Sparrow
Question: Which motor manufacturer produces the 7-seater MPV known as the Orlando?
Answer: Chevrolet
Question: The SUV model known as the Terios was introduced by which motor manufacturer?
Answer: Daihatsu
Question: With which other tool firm did Stanley Works merge in 2010?
Answer: Black & Decker
Question: In which book does the malevolent housekeeper Mrs Danvers appear?
Answer: Rebecca
Question: Julius Nyerere was the first president of which African country?
Answer: Tanzania
Question: Which popular folk band is led by John Boden?
Answer: Bellowhead
Question: Which author who died in 1998 wrote the thrillers 'The Mask of Dimitrios' and 'Journey into Fear'?
Answer: Eric Ambler
Question: What was the first name of Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army?
Answer: George
Question: Which Australian state capital lies on the River Swan?
Answer: Perth
Question: Which medical condition would be treated with drugs such as ramiprii and enalapril?
Answer: Hypertension
Question: As at January 2015 who is the leader of the Green Party in the UK?
Answer: Natalie Bennett
Question: Which British film and TV actor is the son of actress Wanda Ventham?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch
Question: Which legal term is Latin for ‘elsewhere’?
Answer: Alibi
Question: In which city was Picasso born?
Answer: Malaga
Question: Nelson Rockefeller served as Vice President under which President?
Answer: Gerald Ford
Question: Which 1813 battle was also known as the Battle of the Nations?
Answer: Leipzig
Question: Which French writer refused the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Jean Paul Sartre
Question: Which civil engineer (1819-1891) was responsible for the creation of a sewer network for central London after Parliament passed an Enabling Act in 1858?
Answer: Sir Joseph Bazalgette
Question: What was Ike and Tina Turner’s last UK Top 20 single, reaching No.4 in 1973?
Answer: Nutbush City Limits
Question: What do the Americans call a chimney?
Answer: Smokestack
Question: Vivian Ward and Edward Lewis are the central characters in which 1990’s romantic film comedy?
Answer: Pretty Woman
Question: In which British city was the pharmacy chain Boots established in 1849?
Answer: Nottingham
Question: In the 1976 sci-fi film “Logan’s Run”, at what age are people killed off to prevent over population?
Answer: 30
Question: What did Baedeker describe, in 1860, as the finest hotel in London?
Answer: Claridges
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who said ‘What a good boy am I’?
Answer: Little Jack Horner
Question: Which musical concerns a strike at the Sleep-Tite factory in Iowa?
Answer: The Pyjama Game
Question: Who was the tallest President of the USA in the 20th century?
Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson
Question: John Constable’s ‘Haywain’ depicts a scene on which river?
Answer: Stour
Question: Which real life western character had the Christian names James Butler?
Answer: Wild Bill Hickock
Question: In which film did the Minions first appear?
Answer: Despicable Me
Question: What was the name of Sony’s first game console?
Answer: Play Station
Question: At the 2014 FIFA World Cup which German player became the top scorer, with a total of 16 goals?
Answer: Miroslav Klose
Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1975 with ‘I’m Not In Love’?
Answer: 10cc
Question: Which Buckinghamshire farm was used as a hideout by the Great Train robbers?
Answer: Leatherslade
Question: Which comedian has written several children’s books including Gangsta Granny?
Answer: David Walliams
Question: Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, Howard and Penny are characters in which US sitcom?
Answer: Big Bang Theory
Question: Bronze is an alloy of copper and which other metal?
Answer: Tin
Question: With which instrument do you associate the jazz musician Kid Ory?
Answer: Trombone
Question: Which French Romantic artist painted "Liberty Leading The People" in 1830?
Answer: Eugene Delacroix
Question: """The Daughter of Time"" a novel by Josephine Tey, features an investigation into which real life historical mystery?"
Answer: Princes In the Tower
Question: English TV and film actor John Elton Halliday, 1912 —1983, is better known as whom?
Answer: John Le Mesurier
Question: In which battle of 1265 was Simon de Montfort killed?
Answer: Evesham
Question: What was the name of Ghana before it gained independence?
Answer: Gold Coast
Question: What was the title of the Sex Pistol's first UK single?
Answer: Anarchy in the UK
Question: What is the family name of an England 1966 football world cup winner and his nephew, an England 2003 rugby union world cup winner?
Answer: COHEN
Question: Who wrote the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?
Answer: TOM STOPPARD
Question: Which chemical element comes next in order of atomic number: hydrogen, helium, lithium, ............?
Answer: BERYLLIUM
Question: What nationality was composer Alexander Borodin?
Answer: RUSSIAN
Question: Which Missionaries of Charity founder was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979?
Answer: MOTHER TERESA
Question: In the early 1960s, US meteorologist Edward Lorenz worked on computer models of weather systems. What term did he use to describe the variations found?
Answer: BUTTERFLY EFFECT
Question: At which site did Vita Sackville-West create her 'White Garden'?
Answer: SISSINGHURST
Question: Mary Jane is a popular figure in song lyrics, often being taken to the movies or a dance. For what is 'Mary Jane' a coded name?
Answer: MARIJUANA
Question: Which Manchester band had Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke as members?
Answer: THE SMITHS
Question: In 1864, the Dale Dyke Dam burst while being filled, leading to the death of 240 people in which British city?
Answer: SHEFFIELD
Question: What nationality was composer Frédéric Chopin?
Answer: POLISH
Question: Where did former first-class cricketer John Thayer die on April 15th, 1912?
Answer: ON THE TITANIC
Question: Who is the central character of Hilary Mantel?s Booker Prize winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies?
Answer: THOMAS CROMWELL
Question: How many threepenny bits were in a pound?
Answer: 80
Question: Which Italian designer was famous for his leather garments and leather trimmed knitwear in the 1980s?
Answer: GIANNI VERSACE
Question: Who was the last British monarch to succeed to the throne unmarried?
Answer: EDWARD VIII
Question: In what year was the Cuban missile crisis?
Answer: 1962
Question: Gérard Biard is editor-in-chief of which Parisian satirical weekly magazine?
Answer: CHARLIE HEBDO
Question: Who composed a Sea Symphony, a London Symphony and a Pastoral Symphony?
Answer: RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Question: On what date is Candlemas Day?
Answer: FEBRUARY 2
Question: In which city did Oscar Wilde die?
Answer: PARIS
Question: Who played Henry VIII in BBC’s recent adaptation of Wolf Hall?
Answer: DAMIAN LEWIS
Question: Which French artist painted several views of Rouen Cathedral in the 1890s?
Answer: CLAUDE MONET
Question: Which transition metallic element, atomic number 40, is the last alphabetically in a list of naturally occurring elements?
Answer: ZIRCONIUM
Question: What is the capital of the French region of Aquitaine?
Answer: BORDEAUX
Question: Which river runs through Shrewsbury?
Answer: SEVERN
Question: Who in 1807 & 1808 was the first to discover and isolate the metals sodium, potassium and calcium?
Answer: SIR HUMPHREY DAVY
Question: Who led the British forces at the Battle of Assaye in 1803 in the 2nd Anglo-Maratha War in India?
Answer: MAJOR GENERAL ARTHUR WELLESLEY
Question: Which opera by Rossini has the alternative title The Useless Precaution?
Answer: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
Question: The stars Rigel and Bellatrix are in which constellation?
Answer: ORION
Question: Who led the British East India Company forces against the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies at the Battle of Plassey in 1757?
Answer: COLONEL ROBERT CLIVE
Question: Aneto is the highest mountain in which European mountain range?
Answer: PYRENEES
Question: Dick Dudgeon and Reverend Anthony Anderson are characters in which play by George Bernard Shaw?
Answer: THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE
Question: Which of Mozart’s operas has the alternative title The Rake Punished?
Answer: DON GIOVANNI
Question: Whom did Nicolas Sarkozy succeed as President of France in 2007?
Answer: JACQUES CHIRAC
Question: Which British born actor who lived from 1913 to 1993 had the real name James Lablache Stewart?
Answer: STEWART GRANGER
Question: Which French blue cheese, ripened in the caves of Mount Combalou is made from ewe's milk?
Answer: Roquefort
Question: The site of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, is situated in which modern day country?
Answer: Turkey
Question: In which Shakespeare play does Banquo's ghost appear?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: In which century did El Cid fight against the Moors in Spain?
Answer: Eleventh
Question: Perugia is the capital of which Italian region?
Answer: Umbria
Question: In which country is Sochi, the host of the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Russia
Question: Which British physicist won the Nobel prize in 2013, sharing the prize with Francois Englert?
Answer: Peter Higgs
Question: Whose debut album "Rockferry" was the bestselling UK album of 2008?
Answer: Duffy
Question: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, would have been situated in which modern day country?
Answer: Iraq
Question: Who wrote the 1842 poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Answer: Robert Browning
Question: Who played the time travelling Gary Sparrow in the sitcom "Goodnight Sweetheart"?
Answer: Nicholas Lyndhurst
Question: What unit of measurement, the equivalent to four inches, is used in the measurement of horses?
Answer: Hand
Question: Which Michael Frayn play is based around a 1941 meeting between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr?
Answer: Copenhagen
Question: Which musical was an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin"?
Answer: Cabaret
Question: Which actor was born Archibald Leech in Bristol in 1904?
Answer: Cary Grant
Question: Which country split into two in the velvet divorce of 1993?
Answer: Czechoslovakia
Question: Which was the debut novel of Frederick Forsyth later made into a film?
Answer: The Day of the Jackal
Question: Located in the Orkney Islands, which sea stack is the third tallest in Britain?
Answer: Old Man of Hoy
Question: Which building’s proposed extension did Prince Charles describe as a great carbuncle?
Answer: The National Gallery
Question: In geology what is the layer below the earth’s crust?
Answer: The Mantle
Question: Goodluck Jonathan was defeated in an election in 2015 ending his term as president of which country?
Answer: Nigeria
Question: How is Jordan Belfort described in a 2014 film title?
Answer: The Wolf of Wall Street
Question: Which Lord was commissioned to report into the 1981 Brixton Riots?
Answer: Scarman
Question: In which specific TV series is there an Episode entitled "A Fistful of Data's"?
Answer: Star Trek. The Next Generation
Question: Which Beatrix Potter female character was rescued from a fox by Kep the collie?
Answer: Jemima Puddle-Duck
Question: Who produced and created "Allo Allo" and "Are you being Served" with David-Croft?
Answer: Jeremy Lloyd
Question: Which film actress of the 1920's was known as the "It" Girl"?
Answer: Clara Bow
Question: Which philosopher wrote the satirical 1759 novel "Candide"?
Answer: Voltaire
Question: Who was the creator of the sitcoms "Last of the Summer Wine" and "Open all Hours”?
Answer: Roy Clarke
Question: The cartoon character Garfield the Cat was created by which cartoonist?
Answer: Jim Davis
Question: Which Rugby League team won the Kingstone Press Championship in 2014?
Answer: Leigh Centurions
Question: Prior to his elevation to the papacy in 2013 as Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was archbishop of which city?
Answer: Buenos Aires
Question: What is the seat of the Duke of Norfolk?
Answer: Arundel Castle
Question: Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the contiguous USA, is in which range?
Answer: Sierra Nevada
Question: Which series of novels by L M Montgomery is set on and around Prince Edward Island?
Answer: Anne of Green Gables
Question: Who starred in the title role of Clint Eastwood's 2011 film J Edgar?
Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio
Question: Who starred in the title role of Mike Leigh's 2014 film Mr Turner?
Answer: Timothy Spall
Question: What name was given to the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki?
Answer: FAT MAN
Question: Which group had a hit in 1960 with Apache?
Answer: THE SHADOWS
Question: Which group had a hit in 1962 with Telstar?
Answer: THE TORNADOS
Question: Leighton Buzzard and Biggleswade are towns in which English county?
Answer: BEDFORDSHIRE
Question: Which lake was formed by the construction of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado river?
Answer: LAKE MEAD
Question: Which town, later a city, was created to house the workers of the Hoover Dam project?
Answer: BOULDER CITY
Question: Which ITV crime drama series stars Brenda Blethyn as a Detective Chief Inspector in the fictional Northumberland and City Police?
Answer: VERA
Question: In which country did the 1989 Velvet Revolution take place?
Answer: CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Question: In which country did the Orange Revolution take place in 2004-2005?
Answer: UKRAINE
Question: What is the nationality of singer Rihanna?
Answer: BARBADIAN
Question: John Bacchus played by Lee Ingleby is the sergeant to which TV police inspector?
Answer: GEORGE GENTLY
Question: The Dandie Dinmont is a dog breed named after a character from which novel by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: Guy Mannering
Question: In which Dickens' novel do the characters Aunt Rose, Charley Bates and Toby Crackit appear?
Answer: Oliver Twist
Question: In which film of the 1930's did child star Shirley Temple sing On the Good Ship Lollipop?
Answer: Bright Eyes
Question: Who is the actress mother of Melanie Griffith?
Answer: Tippi Hedren
Question: In November 2014, a European Space consortium succeeded in landing a vehicle on a comet after a 10 year journey. What was the name of the mission?
Answer: Rosetta
Question: Kendal stands on a river that shares its name with which English county?
Answer: Kent
Question: Which English painter was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk in 1776?
Answer: John Constable
Question: Who was the chief harpooner on Captain Ahab's whaleship?
Answer: Queequeg
Question: In which of her films did Shirley Temple sing Animal Crackers in my Soup?
Answer: Curly Top
Question: Stephen Hendry was the World Snooker Champion every year between 1990 and 1996 except for 1991. Who won the title in 1991?
Answer: John Parrott
Question: Who directed Robert De Niro in the film "Taxi Driver"?
Answer: Martin Scorsese
Question: In Greco-Roman mythology, who is the Muse of Tragic Poetry?
Answer: Melpomene
Question: Which 1978 film starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson was an African - American adaptation of a 1939 film starring Judy Garland?
Answer: The Wiz
Question: In the novel of the same name, the car "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", was built and driven by whom?
Answer: Caractacus Potts
Question: In which constellation, visible from the UK is the bright star Algol to be found?
Answer: Perseus
Question: Which is the main river flowing through the Portuguese capital of Lisbon?
Answer: Tagus
Question: In which constellation is Arcturus, the fifth brightest star in the night sky, located?
Answer: Bootes
Question: On which river do Basle, Strasbourg and Cologne stand?
Answer: The River Rhine
Question: Prince Orlofsky, the maid Rosalinde, Dr Falke and the jailer Frosch, are all characters in which operetta, first performed in 1874?
Answer: Die Fledermaus
Question: Who wrote the book on which Tchaikovsky based his opera, "Eugene Onegin"?
Answer: Alexander Pushkin
Question: Despite its name how many bytes are actually in a kilobyte?
Answer: 1024
Question: Who wrote the 1902 poem Sea Fever?
Answer: JOHN MASEFIELD
Question: Who was the first Chancellor of the re-united Germany in 1990?
Answer: HELMUT KOHL
Question: Which premiership Football team have the nickname “The Cherries”?
Answer: BOURNEMOUTH
Question: The Forest of Arden is the setting for which Shakespeare Play?
Answer: AS YOU LIKE IT
Question: Andy Street is the Managing Director of which major retailer?
Answer: JOHN LEWIS
Question: Which metal is produced from the ore cinnabar?
Answer: MERCURY
Question: Which driver won the Formula One World Championship in 1964?\
Answer: JOHN SURTEES
Question: Which goddess in Greek Mythology did the Romans identify with Diana?
Answer: ARTEMIS
Question: Which pop group did Zayn Malik leave in March 2015?
Answer: ONE DIRECTION
Question: In which UK county is Corfe Castle?
Answer: DORSET
Question: Which Irish-born ballerina, who died aged 102 in 2001, founded the Royal Ballet and the Birmingham Royal Ballet?
Answer: Ninette de Valois
Question: How many strings are there on a standard violin?
Answer: Four
Question: In which city can you see the original statue of Michelangelo’s David?
Answer: Florence
Question: Who wrote the 1848 novel 'Vanity Fair’?
Answer: William Makepeace Thackeray
Question: The album ‘1989’ which became the biggest selling album in the USA in 2014 and produced 5 top ten singles is by which Brit award-winning singer/songwriter?
Answer: Taylor Swift
Question: Whose book The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ won the Man Booker Prize of 2014?
Answer: Richard Flanagan
Question: Which son of Eric the Red is considered to be the first European to land in North America?
Answer: Leif Erikson
Question: On which Scottish Island would you find Rothesay Castle?
Answer: BUTE
Question: The name of which European country appears on its stamps as EESTI?
Answer: ESTONIA
Question: The Skeleton Coast is to be found in which African country?
Answer: NAMIBIA
Question: + (pronounced plus) and x (pronounced multiply) are chart- topping albums by which singer?
Answer: ED SHEERAN
Question: Which British politician lived at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, now in the care of the National Trust?
Answer: BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Question: Which apple brandy is named after a district in Normandy?
Answer: CALVADOS
Question: Which Swiss tennis player won three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in 2015 with her Indian partner Leander Paes?
Answer: MARTINA HINGIS
Question: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a territory of which country?
Answer: INDIA
Question: Matteo Renzi became the youngest ever Prime Minister of which country in March last year?
Answer: ITALY
Question: In which US state is the Bonneville Salt Flats?
Answer: UTAH
Question: Guy Garvey is a singer with which band?
Answer: ELBOW
Question: a Which river runs through Wensleydale in North Yorkshire?
Answer: URE
Question: Which Swedish crime writer and dramatist died in October 2015 aged 67?
Answer: HENNING MANKELL