zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Toronto is located on the shores of what lake?
Answer: Lake Ontario
Question: What French city is closest to Great Britain?
Answer: Calais
Question: Near what major American city is Lake Pontchartrain located?
Answer: New Orleans
Question: What city was supposedly founded by Romulus and Remus?
Answer: Rome
Question: What canal terminates at Buffalo?
Answer: Erie Canal
Question: What ancient empire was led by Xerxes, Cyrus, and Darius?
Answer: Persia
Question: What empire had its capital at Tenochtitlan?
Answer: Aztec Empire
Question: What country was personally owned (and abused) by King Leopold of Belgium?
Answer: Congo
Question: What industrialist became the world's first billionaire - thanks to his monopoly on the US oil industry?
Answer: John D. Rockefeller
Question: What Mexican general redistributed land to the poor and raided the U.S.?
Answer: Pancho Villa
Question: What country imported an estimated four million slaves before finally banning slavery in 1888?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What island chain did Captain Cook discover before being killed by the people who already lived there?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: What was the first name of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first lady?
Answer: Eleanor
Question: Who is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov better know as?
Answer: Vladimir Lenin
Question: Thebes and Memphis were once capitals of what empire?
Answer: Egypt
Question: What secret society traces its origins to Medieval stone workers?
Answer: Freemasons
Question: Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during WWII?
Answer: Dwight Eisenhower
Question: Whose advisors included Sir Thomas More, Cardinal Wolsey, and Thomas Cromwell?
Answer: King Henry VIII
Question: What nation was led by Ho Chi Minh?
Answer: North Vietnam
Question: What entertainer hosted the Oscars 14 times, entertained troops, and lived to age 100?
Answer: Bob Hope
Question: What French feminist wrote "The Second Sex"?
Answer: Simone de Beauvoir
Question: What was the name of Dorothy's dog in "The Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: Toto
Question: Who is the only person to have won 3 Oscars for Best Actor? (His first was for "My Left Foot")
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis
Question: What 1985 song featured dozens of famous artists and raised $100 million for charity in Africa?
Answer: We are the World
Question: What singer is the third-best-selling musical act of all time in the UK - but is largely unknown in the United States?
Answer: Sir Cliff Richard
Question: What is either a popular heavy metal band or a Medieval torture device?
Answer: Iron Maiden
Question: What Christmas ballet was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
Answer: The Nutcracker
Question: Who wrote music for a "Well-Tempered Clavier"?
Answer: J.S. Bach
Question: What stringed instrument did King David play?
Answer: Lyre
Question: According to Islamic law, what can a man have no more than four of at any one time?
Answer: Wives
Question: Who was the Egyptian sun god? (Hint: his name is only two letters long)
Answer: Ra
Question: What city is the burial place of Mohammed?
Answer: Medina
Question: What is the Islamic equivalent to the Bible?
Answer: Quran
Question: What is the top caste in Hindu society?
Answer: Brahmins
Question: What country once worshipped a sun god named Ra?
Answer: Egypt
Question: In what country is Vodou commonly practiced?
Answer: Haiti
Question: What position in the U.S. government has been held by Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell, and Henry Kissinger?
Answer: Secretary of State
Question: Who is the U.S. interstate highway system named for?
Answer: Dwight Eisenhower
Question: Who once lost an election by 537 votes, 5 votes, 1 vote, or negative 543,895 votes, depending on one's perspective?
Answer: Al Gore
Question: In the "Peanuts" comic strip, what Halloween spirit does Linus believe in?
Answer: The Great Pumpkin
Question: What TV character said "I am the one who knocks"?
Answer: Walter White
Question: What language did the Pennsylvania Dutch speak?
Answer: German
Question: What major University bans profanity, alcohol, caffeine, premarital sex, and even beards?
Answer: Brigham Young
Question: What city in Rhode Island is famous for its many mansions built during the late 1800's?
Answer: Newport
Question: What name is given to the naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, often used in bygone days in the manufacture of coins?
Answer: ELECTRUM
Question: Adam's Peak, (also called Buddha's or Siva's Peak), stands in which island country?
Answer: SRI LANKA
Question: Who were Manchester Utd's opponents in January 1948, when the highest ever attendance at a Football League match was recorded?
Answer: ARSENAL
Question: Which British playwright sprang to fame in 1936 with his comedy, "French Without Tears"?
Answer: TERENCE RATTIGAN
Question: Joseph Goebbels was the head of which Nazi ministry from 1933 until 1945?
Answer: PROPAGANDA
Question: The Recreation Cricket Ground in St John's, on the island of Antigua, is also known by the name of which famous West Indian cricketer?
Answer: SIR VIVIAN RICHARDS
Question: In Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet", what is the name of Hamlet's uncle, who usurps the throne, marries Hamlet's mother and becomes King of Denmark"?
Answer: CLAUDIUS
Question: In the 1950's and 60's, which jazz pianist wrote the pieces, "Misterioso", "Ruby My Dear" and "Round Midnight"?
Answer: THELONIUS MONK
Question: Which stretch of water, off the S.E. coast of Italy, separates the Adriatic and Ionian Seas?
Answer: STRAITS OF OTRANTO
Question: Which American actress, who committed suicide in Paris in 1979, played the leading female role in the film, "Paint Your Wagon"?
Answer: JEAN SEBERG
Question: What name is given to the rectangular piece of cloth wrapped round the waist and legs, knotted at the waist, and worn by Hindus in India?
Answer: A DHOTI
Question: Which actress, who played the part of Rocky Balboa's wife, alongside Sylvester Stallone, in the "Rocky" films of the 1980's, is the sister of Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola?
Answer: TALIA SHIRE
Question: Who was the only English King to be crowned on the field of battle?
Answer: HENRY VII
Question: Who was World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1978-1985, defending his title 20 times before losing to Michael Spinks?
Answer: LARRY HOLMES
Question: The dialect of which Semitic language was spoken by Jesus Christ?
Answer: ARAMAIC
Question: In a children's' book, if Elphaba is the wicked witch of the west, who is the good witch of the South?
Answer: GLINDA
Question: Who is reputed to have said, 'Today, I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon'?; after discoveries at Mycenae?
Answer: Heinrich SCHLIEMANN
Question: Which American football team are known as the Vikings?
Answer: Minnesota
Question: Which dramatist and poet was murdered by Ingram Frazer in Deptford in 1593?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
Question: In what year did the Aberfan disaster take place?
Answer: 1966
Question: What was the Christian name of Lord Byron?
Answer: George
Question: What was the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog to whom she famously addressed a poem?
Answer: Flush
Question: When the Marie Celeste left New York on her ill-fated voyage, which Italian port was her destination?
Answer: GENOA
Question: Which south coast resort has its own symphony orchestra, founded in 1893 and now based in Poole Arts Centre?
Answer: BOURNEMOUTH
Question: Which British composer, together with the tenor Peter Pears, founded the annual music festival at Aldeburgh?
Answer: BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Question: Who was the mother of the Roman emperor, Nero, who was murdered on nis orders in A.D. 59?
Answer: AGRIPPINA
Question: Who was the third wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, noted for her cruelty and debauchery?
Answer: (VALERIA) MESSALINA
Question: Creator, Nat Hiken gave which original title to the "Phil Silvers Show", it being changed after a couple of months?
Answer: YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH
Question: In which book does the character Melanie Wilkes appear?
Answer: Gone With The Wind
Question: A major rival to Hornby train sets were those produced by the Marklin company, from which country did Marklin trains come?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which girl won Britain's first ever gymnastic gold medal in 2006, for her performance on the asymmetric (or uneven) bars at the World Championships?
Answer: Beth Tweddle
Question: Which group had a 1978 UK No. 1 hit with "Three Times a Lady"?
Answer: The Commodores
Question: What is the Scottish name for a semicircular hollow on a hillside, formedby a glacier?
Answer: Corrie
Question: What colour in the intense pigment in cadmium sulphide?
Answer: Yellow
Question: Which English sculptor is famous for large abstract figures, and reclining figures, such as the one outside Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge?
Answer: HENRY MOORE
Question: At which narrow pass did Leonidas and 300 Spartans fight to the death, in order to slow down the Persian army?
Answer: THERMOPYLAE
Question: In which modern day African country is the town of Ujiji, where Livingstone & Stanley famously met in 1871?
Answer: TANZANIA
Question: Which garden plant, with small, white bell shaped flowers, has the Latin name Convallaria Majalis?
Answer: LILY OF THE VALLEY
Question: Which Cypriot born, Greek general led the guerrilla organisation, EOKA, in Cyprus, during the 1950's?
Answer: GEORGE GRIVAS
Question: Which gas, which constitutes a danger in mines, is also known as Firedamp or Marsh Gas?
Answer: METHANE
Question: Which famous sportsman, whose real Christian names were George Herman, was nicknamed, "The Sultan of Swat"?
Answer: BABE RUTH
Question: In which New England State are the HQ of Ben and Jerry's ice cream; also well known for maple syrup and cheese and dairy products?
Answer: Vermont
Question: The late Jean Muir founded what type of store in London in 1966?
Answer: Fashion house
Question: With which musical instrument is Charlie Parker most closely associated?
Answer: Saxophone
Question: Which 4 time Prime Minister of France (twice in the Vichy government) was executed by firing squad in 1945?
Answer: Pierre Laval
Question: What was the name of the Nottinghamshire fast bowler, who, together with Harold Larwood, took part in the infamous Bodyline tour in Australia, in 1932-33?
Answer: BILL VOCE
Question: The Ministry for State Security of Communist East Germany was more commonly known by which abbreviated name?
Answer: STASI
Question: Gymnasium instructors often use a machine to determine a person's BMI reading. For what does the letter B stand?
Answer: BODY
Question: The Bloody Assizes under Judge Jeffries occurred during the reign of which English King?
Answer: JAMES II
Question: Black Puddings differ in colour from White or Mealy Puddings because they contain which additional ingredient?
Answer: BLOOD
Question: Which musician, 1890-1967, was known as 'The King of Jazz'?
Answer: Paul Whiteman
Question: In which country did Che Guevara die?
Answer: Bolivia
Question: The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) founded in 1942 was a precursor to which security organisation?
Answer: CIA
Question: Apart from the USA, Canada and British possessions, which other country from the Americas actively took part in WW2, declaring war on the Axis countries in 1942?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Which unit of measurement was originally defined as one minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth?
Answer: Nautical Mile
Question: Which famous.cricket player was born on 7th March 1952 in St Johns, Antigua?
Answer: Sir Viv Richards
Question: Which Saint was the father of the Virgin Mary?
Answer: ST JOACHIM
Question: Which philosopher wrote the 'The Critique of Pure Reason'?
Answer: IMMANUEL KANT
Question: Who originated the philosophy of 'Utilitarianism'?
Answer: JEREMY BENTHAM
Question: Which now retired English football referee booked Croatian Josip Simunic three times (playing against Australia) in the 2006 World Cup?
Answer: Graham Poll
Question: Who composed the oratorio "Elijah" and an "Italian Symphony"?
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn
Question: Thomas the Tank Engine lives at a big station on which island?
Answer: Sodor
Question: Jacques Cousteau's famous boat shares its name with which form of West Indian music?
Answer: Calypso
Question: Travelling west along the M4 motorway, which county would you enter as you left Berkshire?
Answer: Wiltshire
Question: What word is painted on the road surface in Ireland to mean the same as 'Give Way' in Britain?
Answer: Yield
Question: Who was King of Scotland between Duncan and Malcolm Canmore?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: What was the code name for the German invasion of Russia in World War 2?
Answer: Barbarossa
Question: What name is commonly given to the theatre produced by the playwrights Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter and others?
Answer: Theatre of the Absurd
Question: Bruce Banner is the secret identity of which comic book character?
Answer: The Incredible Hulk
Question: Which 2002 Martin Scorsese film, set in the Five Points district, is loosely based on a 1928 novel by Herbert Asbury?
Answer: Gangs of New York
Question: Which 1951 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis became even more controversial when Martin Scorsese's film of the book was released in 1988?
Answer: The Last Temptation of Christ
Question: The Thirty Years War was a conflict between France, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands on one side against Austria, who were supported by which other country?
Answer: Spain
Question: Named after the Belgian-born chemist who invented it in about 1907, what was the first commercial plastic (made from formaldehyde and phenol)?
Answer: Bakelite
Question: Who won her first Best Actress Oscar in 1934 and her last in 1982?
Answer: Katherine Hepburn
Question: Of which king was Eleanor of Castile queen?
Answer: EDWARD I
Question: Which Italian town, at the foot of a hill containing a Benedictine Monastery was destroyed during heavy fighting in 1944?
Answer: CASSINO
Question: In what year did the Falkands War take place?
Answer: 1982
Question: Which word, Italian for air, is used to describe a solo song with instrumental accompaniment in opera?
Answer: ARIA
Question: Which fungal disease of trees was first described in the Netherlands?
Answer: DUTCH ELM DISEASE
Question: Which former MP wrote The Four Feathers and stories featuring Inspector Hanaud?
Answer: A E W MASON
Question: Tommy Steele went to No 1 in the UK charts in 1956 with his cover version of the song "Singing the Blues". Which American singer also reached No 1 in the U.K. with his version of the same song?
Answer: GUY MITCHELL
Question: In March 2005, 25 year old Johnson Beharry became the first new owner of which item for nearly 25 years?
Answer: A VICTORIA CROSS
Question: In which year did all of the following occur: QE2 arrives in New York on her maiden voyage, the Kray twins were jailed for life and Boeing 747 makes its first test flight?
Answer: 1969
Question: The son of Hannah, his name meaning 'Name of God' who was the last of the Old Testament Hebrew judges?
Answer: Samuel
Question: France, Holland and which other country fought on the American side in the US War of Independence?
Answer: Spain
Question: In Egyptian mythology, the brother of Horus and Isis, who was the god of storms, and often represented as a hippopotamus?
Answer: Set
Question: What treaty signed in March 1918 between Russia and Germany ended Russia's participation in World War 1 and the loss of its Baltic and Ottoman territories?
Answer: Brest-Litovsk
Question: In the TV sitcom 'Frasier' what is the forename of Frasier's producer played by Peri Gilpin?
Answer: Roz
Question: Which Grade 1 listed attraction in the north-west was opened in 1894, having been built by Heenan and Froude?
Answer: Blackpool Tower
Question: Which famous singer was a member of 'Bluesology' in the early 1960s, leaving in 1967 and changing his name to one that was a combination of the names of two members of the group?
Answer: Elton John
Question: The Saffir-Simpson Scale estimates the damage done by what phenomenon?
Answer: Hurricanes
Question: Which American TV producer created the series. "The Invaders" and "Cannon"?
Answer: QUINN MARTIN
Question: What was the name of William the Conqueror's eldest son, who, on his father's death, became Duke of Normandy?
Answer: ROBERT
Question: What is the name of the character, consisting of two dots, placed over a vowel, especially in German, which changes the sound of that vowel in pronunciation?
Answer: UMLAUT
Question: On November 1st 1914, which naval battle took place in the South Atlantic, in which a squadron of British ships were routed by the Germans, under Maximilian von Spee?
Answer: CORONEL
Question: In which classic novel, published in 1848, does the character Mr Rawden Crawley appear?
Answer: VANITY FAIR
Question: Which group had a UK No I hit in 1967 with their song, "Massachusetts"?
Answer: THE BEE GEES
Question: Which country in S. E. Asia consists of 17,508 islands, one of the larger ones being Sulawesi?
Answer: INDONESIA
Question: A portrait of the Duke of Wellington, by which artist, was stolen from the National Gallery in London in 1961, and recovered four years later?
Answer: FRANCISCO GOYA
Question: Horntail, Common Green Swedish Short Snout and Chinese Fireball are all types of which fictional creature?
Answer: DRAGONS
Question: Which American folk singer / songwriter, wrote the classic songs, "Where have all the flowers gone", and "Turn, Turn, Turn"?
Answer: PETE SEEGER
Question: Peggy Seeger, half sister to the American folk singer Pete Seeger, was the third wife of which British poet, playwright and folk singer?
Answer: EWAN MacCOLL
Question: The Ford Cortina and Ford Taunus were predecessors of which model?
Answer: Ford Sierra
Question: Which British writer, of Bangladeshi origin, wrote "Brick Lane", and "Alentejo Blue"?
Answer: Monica Ali
Question: Which English city links Cary Grant and W. G. Grace?
Answer: Bristol
Question: Although the island of Corfu is part of Greece, its north eastern tip lies just off the coast of which other country?
Answer: ALBANIA
Question: In 1926, which American bandleader, the self-dubbed, "King of Jazz", hired, and thus helped launch the career of singer Bing Crosby?
Answer: PAUL WHITEMAN
Question: Although the Dodecanese Islands are part of Greece, they lie just a few miles off the coast of which other country?
Answer: TURKEY
Question: What name is given to the series of narrative poems by Lord Tennyson, which retells the legend of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table?
Answer: IDYLLS OF THE KING
Question: Which film star did Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie, marry in August 2002? He filed for divorce just 108 days later.
Answer: NICHOLAS CAGE
Question: In heraldry, which word describes the right hand side of the shield?
Answer: Dexter
Question: Bungay Castle is in which English county?
Answer: Suffolk
Question: Besides China and Cambodia, which other country has a border with Vietnam?
Answer: Laos
Question: In 1994, which successful sportswoman wrote the novel Total Zone?
Answer: Martina Navratilova
Question: Which Prime Minister twice succeeded J Ramsay Macdonald?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin
Question: What was being advertised by Lorraine Chase when she used the words "Nah, Luton Airport"
Answer: Campari
Question: Many betting odds have nicknames e.g. 5/1 is a 'handful', what odds are known as 'cockle'?
Answer: 10/1
Question: Who is the only British monarch to have had an Epsom Derbywinner during his/her reign?
Answer: EDWARD VII
Question: In the Aintree Grand National, how many fences are jumped before one reached "Beecher's Brook" for the first time?
Answer: FIVE
Question: In which Mississippi town was Elvis Presley born?
Answer: Tupelo
Question: 2007 was the 75th anniversary of the mass trespass on which Peak District hill, an action that led to the formation of the Rambler's Association?
Answer: Kinder Scout
Question: Name the composer born in Russia in 1882, he became a French citizen in 1934, and an American citizen in 1945, he died in New York City in 1971?
Answer: Stravinsky
Question: Who was described by Winston Churchill as "a sheep in sheep's clothing"?
Answer: Clement Attlee
Question: Which widely known song was composed by one-time docker Jim Connell in 1889 on a No 28 London bus?
Answer: The Red Flag
Question: In which country was Trivial Pursuit invented?
Answer: Canada
Question: Who won a Best Actor Oscar in 1993 for Scent of a Woman, after four previous nominations in the same category?
Answer: Al Pacino
Question: In which year did the following happen - Microsoft was registered as a trade name, Brotherhood of Man won Eurovision and Mao Zedong died?
Answer: 1976
Question: Marita was the codename given to the German invasion of Yugoslavia and which other country?
Answer: Greece
Question: Whose famous last words were allegedly 'I am just going outside and may be some time'?
Answer: (Captain Lawrence) Oates
Question: Which Caribbean island of the Leeward Islands is divided equally between France and Holland?
Answer: St Martin
Question: Which perfume house produces Obsession and Eternity?
Answer: Calvin Klein
Question: Which perfume house produces Opium and Rive Gauche?
Answer: Yves St Laurent
Question: In what year was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Answer: 1876
Question: Who was the mountaineer who in 1970, together with Don Whillans, was the first person to scale the south face of Annapurna?
Answer: Dougal Haston
Question: 'While we were marching through Georgia' is a song of the American Civil War. Which union general led the march through Georgia in 1864?
Answer: Sherman
Question: The post-modern arts complex, built in Paris in 1977, is named after which French president?
Answer: (Georges) Pompidou
Question: 'The Million Dollar Quartet' was an impromptu jam session in December 1956. Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis were three taking part. Who was the fourth?
Answer: Johnny Cash
Question: Katherina Minola features in the title of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Taming of the Shrew
Question: In 1896, a short extension was built on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, from Herculaneum Dock to which final destination on the line?
Answer: DINGLE
Question: Which supermarket owner coined the phrase, "Pile 'em high, Sell 'an cheap"?
Answer: JACK COHEN
Question: Shortly after World War I, the Kennel Club gave which new name to the "Deutsche Schaferhund", after a region, which had been taken from Germany?
Answer: THE ALSATIAN
Question: Who opened the bowling alongside Wes Hall for the West Indies on the 1963 and 1966 test tours to England?
Answer: CHARLIE GRIFFITH
Question: Which city in Scotland styles itself as the City of Discovery?
Answer: Dundee
Question: Operation Husky was the code name for Allied landing where?
Answer: Sicily
Question: Who follows 'the eight fold path'?
Answer: Buddhists
Question: In Dickens who was jilted by Compeyson?
Answer: Miss Havisham
Question: Name the leader of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission who spent time in Iraq looking for 'weapons of mass destruction' prior to the invasion of Iraq?
Answer: Hans Blix
Question: Name the soldier, with whom Anna Karenina falls in love, their affair ending tragically in her death?
Answer: COUNT VRONSKY
Question: Which pop singer, tragically killed in a car accident in 1960, sang the song, "Twenty Flight Rock" in the 1956 film, "The Girl Can't Help It"?
Answer: EDDIE COCHRAN
Question: Who has been nominated for the Oscar awards of best actress or supporting actress a record fourteen times, between 1979 and 2006, winning each award just once?
Answer: MERYL STREEP
Question: Born in Argentina in 1942, which pianist and conductor has been has been music director of the Berlin State Opera since 1992, and was music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 2006?
Answer: DANIEL BARENBOIM
Question: In the bible, who was the son of King Saul, who befriended David, and saved him from being killed by the King?
Answer: JONATHAN
Question: Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical had the theme of romantic problems among immigrants in San Francisco's Chinatown?
Answer: FLOWER DRUM SONG
Question: Which character in Shakespeare's Hamlet says "Beware of entrance to a quarrel but being in, bear't that the opposed may be aware of thee"?
Answer: Polonius
Question: Who plays DCI Tom Barnaby on TV?
Answer: John Nettles