zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In which year of WWI did allied forces land at Gallipoli?
Answer: 1915
Question: Which Labour politician wrote a 1989 autobiography titled The Time of my Life'?
Answer: DENIS HEALEY
Question: What is the distance one eighth of a mile normally called, used especially in horse racing?
Answer: A Furlong
Question: What, in a word, are retinol, niacin, cobalamin and ascorbic acid?
Answer: Vitamins
Question: Which football team, nicknamed The Bluebirds, changed their mainly blue strip to red shirts at the beginning of the 2012/13 season?
Answer: Cardiff City
Question: A Jayhawker was a term applied to anti-slavery militant bands from a certain US state that clashed with pro-slavery factions from Missouri. Which state is this, sometimes referred to as the Jayhawk State?
Answer: Kansas
Question: According to the OED what American magazine title is also the most common noun in the English language?
Answer: Time
Question: In which English cathedral will you find St. Bede's Tomb and St Cuthbert's Shrine?
Answer: DURHAM
Question: Fanny Brawne was the muse and fiancée of which poet?
Answer: John Keats
Question: The Medici's were rulers of which region of Italy from 1569 to 1739?
Answer: TUSCANY
Question: Who was the famous Abbess of Whitby who played an important role in the conversation of Anglo Saxon England to Christianity?
Answer: HILDA
Question: In which UK City is there a district called Splott?
Answer: CARDIFF
Question: What is the name of the 30ft sculpture by Paul Day what stands as the centre piece of the refurbished St Pancras Station in London?
Answer: THE MEETING PLACE
Question: Which comedienne presents the Radio 4 panel game 'Dilemma' and co-presents 'The Great British Bake-Off'?
Answer: Sue Perkins
Question: Which boys name is also the name of a sports shoe company best remembered for sponsoring Kevin Keegan in the 1980s?
Answer: Patrick
Question: With the given names Richard Jordan who was the inventor of the first machine gun in 1863?
Answer: Gatling
Question: Which song written by Cole Porter in 1933 referred to "Fred Astaire, Mussolini, Mrs Sweeny and Camembert "?
Answer: You're The Top
Question: Who did Winston Churchill describe as "a sheep in sheep's clothing"?
Answer: Clement Attlee
Question: Who has won 7 of the last 10 all Ireland senior hurling championships?
Answer: Kilkenny
Question: Name the book written in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln that according to its authors in a court case inspired Dan Brown to write "The Da Vinci Code"?
Answer: The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail
Question: What was the name of Harry Enfield's upper class twit character who is usually being ripped off?
Answer: Tim Nice But Dim
Question: Which record by Connie Francis kept Cliff Richard from the No.1 spot with his first hit 'Move It' in 1958?
Answer: STUPID CUPID
Question: Which record by Bobby Darin kept Marty Wilde from the No. 1 spot in 1959 with 'A Teenager In Love'?
Answer: DREAM LOVER
Question: Who ruled England between 1603 and 1625?
Answer: JAMES I
Question: Who played Daphne in the TV series Frasier?
Answer: JANE LEEVES
Question: Who succeeded Edmund Ironside as King of England?
Answer: CANUTE
Question: In which of Charles Dickens' novels does Dick Swiveller appear?
Answer: THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
Question: Who is the pop lyricist, and former husband of Carole King, who has been responsible for nearly sixty US Top 40 hits?
Answer: GERRY GOFFIN
Question: Which river rises near Rivington and flows through Wigan and Parbold to the Ribble near Tarleton?
Answer: DOUGLAS
Question: Name the world's first commercially operational jet passenger plane. It first operated from London to Johannesburg in 1952.
Answer: (De Havilland) Comet
Question: To within a year either way, in which year did the Mallard reach 126mph - a record for a steam loco?
Answer: 1938
Question: By what collective name were the comedy act Moe Howard, Shemp Howard and Larry Fine known?
Answer: Three Stooges
Question: Which manufacturer returned to Formula 1 as a supplier in 1993 and a constructor in 2010 after having withdrawn from the sport in 1955?
Answer: Mercedes
Question: Which island, cormected to the mainland by the Jubilee Bridge, is the largest of the Furness Islands in the Irish Sea?
Answer: Walney
Question: Who was the only King of England to belong to the House of Blois?
Answer: Stephen
Question: Which singer had a no I hit in 1987 with a duet singing with George Michael?
Answer: Aretha Franklin
Question: The railway line between Exeter and Barnstaple is named after the title character of which Henry Williamson book?
Answer: Tarka
Question: Which French Republic ruled France between the 1870s and the 1940s?
Answer: Third Republic
Question: Which 2003 film features the appropriately named characters Bubbles, Gurgle, Bloat and Gill?
Answer: FINDING NEMO
Question: What was the first military engagement of the American Civil War?
Answer: FORT SUMTER
Question: In the legendary Monty Python sketch about philosophers playing football, which World Cup winning captain was the only real footballer on the pitch?
Answer: FRANZ BECKENBAUER
Question: Which was the only French metropolitan department never visited by the Tour de France, prior to the 100th tour in 2013?
Answer: CORSICA
Question: Which Welsh professional Rugby player, who was capped 100 times for his country, became the first openly gay rugby playerin 2009?
Answer: GARETH THOMAS
Question: Which is the only country in the world whose name does not appear on its postage stamps?
Answer: The UK
Question: The Koran contains 114 sections; by that name are these usually known?
Answer: SURAS
Question: Who was the chairman of RBS who resigned in June 2013 with a reported payoff of £L6 million?
Answer: STEPHEN HESTER
Question: Which Austrian composers 8th symphony which premiered in 1910 and was nicknamed "Symphony of a Thousand'?
Answer: GUSTAV MAHLER
Question: In Greek myth, who was the husband of Hecuba and father of fifty children?
Answer: PRIAM
Question: The operas 'La Cenerentola' by Rossini and 'Cendrillon' by Massenet are based on the fairy tale Cinderella by whom?
Answer: CHARLES PERRAULT
Question: In which US State did the Salem witch trials take place?
Answer: MASSACHUSETTS
Question: In which 1957 film did Alec Guinness win an Oscar for his portrayal of an English officer?
Answer: BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Question: In art, Saint Jerome is often shown with which animal?
Answer: LION
Question: Which King of Greece flew to Rome in exile following a 1967 military coup?
Answer: Constantine
Question: Which naturalised American electrical/mechanical engineer and inventor (1856-1943) has given his name to the SI unit of magnetic flux density?
Answer: Nikola Tesla
Question: In the Bible, which prophet is usually accepted as the author of the book of Lamentations?
Answer: Jeremiah
Question: Which European country's flag is three equal horizontal bands of blue at the top, black in the middle and white at the bottom?
Answer: Estonia
Question: Who wrote the best selling books Pillars of the Earth and World Without End?
Answer: Ken Follett
Question: Which philosopher is famous for his paradoxes, most notably Achilles and the tortoise?
Answer: Zeno
Question: The painting 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergere' c1882 displayed at the Cortauld Gallery, London is by which artist?
Answer: Edouard Manet
Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the first years of the newly established Roman Republic?
Answer: Coriolanus
Question: In Arthurian legend, what is the name of Lancelot's castle?
Answer: Joyous Gard
Question: Which British scientist formulated a set of equations that describe electricity, magnetism and optics as manifestations of the same phenomenon, namely the electromagnetic field, in 1873?
Answer: James Clark Maxwell
Question: What name is given to the region of the solar system that lies immediately beyond Neptune but inside the scattered disc region?
Answer: Kuiper Belt
Question: Which country's flag is a horizontal bicolour of red over green in a 2:1 ratio with a red ornamental pattern on a white vertical stripe at the hoist?
Answer: Belarus
Question: Who built the first cotton spinning factory in Derbyshire in 1771?
Answer: Richard Arkwright
Question: Which author has written novel series that include The Warlord Chronicles and the Grail Crest trilogy?
Answer: BERNARD CORNWELL
Question: In Hoist's 'The Planets' suite, the movement 'Saturn' is also known by what subtitle, referring to the planet's astrological character?
Answer: THE BRINGER OF OLD AGE
Question: Which great female Edwardian garden designer wrote the highly influential work 'Colour in the Flower Garden'?
Answer: GERTRUDE JEKYLL
Question: A group of girls are befriended by Laurie, the grandson of a rich old gentleman next door, in which novel of 1868?
Answer: LITTLE WOMEN
Question: How does Rene Descartes' philosophical proposition "Cogito ergo sum" translate into English?
Answer: I think therefore I am
Question: Laurence Olivier took the title Baron Olivier of which town?
Answer: Brighton
Question: Which English rock band recently achieved their first number one album in 43 years when their latest release, 13, went straight in at the top of the chart?
Answer: BLACK SABBATH
Question: Businessmen from which US city provided most of the financial backing for Charles Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight in 1927?
Answer: ST LOUIS
Question: In which African country does the radical Islamist group Boko Haram mainly operate?
Answer: NIGERIA
Question: Who was the last Tudor Monarch?
Answer: ELIZABETH I
Question: In an opera, whose lover was Cavaradossi?
Answer: Tosca
Question: Portsmouth is the UK's only island city, on which island does it stand?
Answer: Portsea
Question: Which poetic eponymous character lived by the Gitchee, Gummee River?
Answer: Hiawatha
Question: Which European country's flag consists of 3 horizontal bands of blue, black and white?
Answer: Estonia
Question: What codename was given to the Allied invasion of Sicily in WW2?
Answer: Husky
Question: Which European country's flag consists of 3 horizontal bands of yellow, green and red?
Answer: Lithuania
Question: What make of helicopter, manufactured by Boeing, is named after a wind originating in the Pacific, northwest of the United States?
Answer: Chinook
Question: What name is given to the area between the two arms of the Rhone delta, famous for its flamingos, bulls and grey horses?
Answer: Camargue
Question: Name the contemporary Scottish composer whose works include The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and Vent, Veni Emmanuel written for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie?
Answer: JAMES MACMILLAN
Question: What city or town is known in one of its country's languages as Kaapstad?
Answer: CAPE TOWN
Question: Zeus' visit as a swan to whom resulted in the birth of twins Castor and Pollux?
Answer: LEDA
Question: What was the subject of Hugh Gray's famous photograph, published in the Daily Express on 6th December 1933?
Answer: Loch Ness Monster
Question: On which river does Lisbon stand?
Answer: Tagus
Question: Which Commonwealth country is nearest to the United Kingdom?
Answer: Malta
Question: Name the year: Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck; The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show; Radio Caroline first broadcast .
Answer: 1964
Question: Which English playwright (d. 1973) wrote The Rat Trap, Sirocco, The Better Half etc?
Answer: Noel Coward
Question: In 7th century Britain, which kingdom stretched from the Welsh border across the Midlands to the North Sea?
Answer: Mercia
Question: In the Amish culture young people are allowed to leave the strict life for a time in order to decide on their faith, what is this period called?
Answer: Rumspringa
Question: Dr Wilson Greatbatch died in 2011; he was responsible for the development of which device, inserted into the human body to aid survival?
Answer: (Heart) Pacemaker
Question: W. Mark Felt was revealed in 2005 to have been which mysterious character more than 30 years earlier?
Answer: Deep Throat
Question: What name is given in electrical engineering to the opposition that is presented by a circuit to the flow of alternating current?
Answer: Impedance
Question: Which company introduced the CV2000, the first practical home video recorder in the 1960s?
Answer: Sony
Question: In June 1867 who performed the first operation under antiseptic conditions on his sister Isabella?
Answer: Joseph Lister
Question: The great all round sportsman and polymath C B Fry was once reputedly asked to, and turned down, the opportunity to be King of which country in the 1920's?
Answer: ALBANIA
Question: Only 3 sportsmen have won BBC's Sports Personality of the Year twice. Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill are two, who is the other, winning in 1967 and 1970?
Answer: HENRY COOPER
Question: Tchiakovsky's "1812 Overture" was written to commemorate which battle, fought around 60 miles west of Moscow?
Answer: Borodino
Question: Which country was the first to experience civil uprisings in 'The Arab Spring', the then existing government being overthrown in January 2011 after 23 years in power?
Answer: Tunisia
Question: Who was murdered by John Bellingham in 1812?
Answer: Spencer Percival
Question: Which ubiquitous traffic aid was invented by Charles P. Rudebaker in 1914, in New York City?
Answer: Traffic Cone
Question: Which English city has parliamentary constituencies named Moor View and Sutton & Devonport?
Answer: Plymouth
Question: Which battle, of 1836, saw the capture of General Santa Anna and marked the end of the Texan Revolt?
Answer: San Jacinto
Question: In Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' a flamingo and a hedgehog were used to play which game?
Answer: Croquet
Question: Six is the first 'Perfect Number', i.e. a number that is the sum of all of its factors (excluding itself), which is the second?
Answer: 28
Question: Who succeeded Richard Nixon as US President?
Answer: GERALD FORD
Question: Which Jewish religious movement was founded by Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov?
Answer: HASIDISM
Question: In the Sermon on the Mount, what was promised to the poor?
Answer: Kingdom of Heaven
Question: Which US state was the title of a no. 1 hit for the Bee Gees in 1967?
Answer: Massachusetts
Question: Which year saw the opening of the Thames flood barrier, the launch of the Hubble telescope and Indira Ghandi's assassination?
Answer: 1984
Question: Which 1914 battle was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force, delaying the German advance?
Answer: Mons
Question: At which venue did Civil Service FC lose an amateur league match 2-1 to Polytechnic FC early in the 2013-14 season?
Answer: Buckingham Palace
Question: Which rider won gold in both the Equestrian individual and team events? She shares her surname with the male Oscar winner for the film The Artist
Answer: Charlotte Dujardin
Question: Found near Woodbridge, Suffolk what is the name of the Anglo Saxon burial site, excavated in 1939, which contained a ship and other priceless artefacts?
Answer: Sutton Hoo
Question: Which European country includes a representation of an armillary sphere on its national flag?
Answer: PORTUGAL
Question: The university in Linz, Austria, known as JKU is named after which scientist who wrote one of his major works there?
Answer: JOHANNES KEPLER
Question: Which European country includes a representation of a black double-headed eagle on its national flag?
Answer: ALBANIA
Question: Which national newspaper has been edited by Roy Greenslade, Colin Myler and Piers Morgan?
Answer: DAILY MIRROR
Question: In 2006, who became the first Scotsman to appear on the reverse of the bank of England bank note?
Answer: ADAM SMITH
Question: Which song, which opened The Beatles first album in 1963, has the opening line 'Well, she was just seventeen - you know what I mean'?
Answer: I SAW HER STANDING THERE
Question: What was the name given to the 'Missing Link' which Charles Dawson claimed to have discovered in a gravel pit in Sussex in 1912?
Answer: PILTDOWN MAN
Question: In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus had to sail between a monster and a whirlpool. The monster was called Scylla. What was the name of the whirlpool?
Answer: CHARYBDIS
Question: Which monarch wrote A Counterblast to Tobacco?
Answer: James I
Question: Who wrote the series of 21 historical novels featuring Richard Sharpe?
Answer: Bernard Cornwell
Question: In which country did the First Taranaki War start on March 17th 1860?
Answer: NEW ZEALAND
Question: Which King of Scotland was born on March 17th 1473? He died 40 years later.
Answer: JAMES IV
Question: In the periodic table which metal follows lithium and sodium in the alkali metals (valency 1)?
Answer: POTASSIUM
Question: The Battles of Missolonghi in 1823 and 1826 occurred during which country's War of Independence?
Answer: GREECE
Question: Who won Best Actress Oscars for the years either side of Louise Rainer (for 1934 & 1937) for her roles in Dangerous and Jezebel?
Answer: BETTE DAVIS
Question: Which small island lies between the two larger islands of Malta and Gozo?
Answer: COMINO
Question: Who was on the English throne in 1150?
Answer: Stephen
Question: Water ouzel and water crake are alternative names for which British bird?
Answer: Dipper
Question: Who was Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister, holding office for just 119 days in 1827?
Answer: (George) Canning
Question: What name is given to the lateral deviation of the big toe causing pain at the joint, usually caused by ill-fitting footwear?
Answer: Bunion
Question: Which poet wrote 'The Raven'?
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe
Question: A system known as SCOOT (Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique) is used to control our travel movements in what way?
Answer: Traffic Lights
Question: In which city did Charles 1 establish his headquarters after being turned back from London in 1642?
Answer: OXFORD
Question: In the book of Kings in the Old Testament what is the name of the priest who anoints Solomon with oil?
Answer: ZADOK
Question: The Second English Civil War effectively ended on 28 August 1648 with the Royalist surrender of which town to Sir Thomas Fairfax?
Answer: COLCHESTER
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard' in 1904?
Answer: Anton Chekhov
Question: Which name connects a town in the Isle of Man, the Metropolitan Police and a huntsman in a famous folk song?
Answer: Peel
Question: Lord Deben of Windsor was known by what name when he was a minister in John Major's government?
Answer: John Selwyn Gummer
Question: In heraldry which creature is termed an 'urchin'?
Answer: Hedgehog
Question: In Greek Mythology who is the Greek god of wine?
Answer: Dionysus
Question: Which city is served by Chopin Airport?
Answer: Warsaw
Question: Name the year: The Maastricht Treaty is signed, riots in Los Angeles following the beating of Rodney King by police officers, Denmark wins the UEFA European Football Championships.
Answer: 1992
Question: What is the capital of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan?
Answer: Baku
Question: Which city has underground stations called Dinamo and Lubyanka?
Answer: Moscow
Question: Name the year: the Winter Olympics are held in Sarajevo, Space shuttle Discovery makes its maiden voyage, Fernando Torres is born.
Answer: 1984
Question: In World War 2 Operation Husky was the code name for the Allied invasion of which island?
Answer: Sicily
Question: Because of its shape the German WW2 bomber The Dornier DO-17 was known by what nick-name?
Answer: The Flying Pencil
Question: Who, in 1846, composed the oratorio Elijah?
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn
Question: With which sport are/were Liam Tancock, Gemma Spofforth and Missy Franklin associated?
Answer: Swimming
Question: Who wrote the book 'A Song of Ice and Fire', adapted for TV as 'Game of Thrones'?
Answer: George RR Martin
Question: Debrecen is the second largest city and a former capital of which European country?
Answer: Hungary
Question: Who was on the throne of England in 1400?
Answer: Henry IV
Question: Who won the Oscar for best actress for her role in The Hours in 2003?
Answer: Nicole Kidman
Question: In medieval England what name was given to an axe head on a long pole?
Answer: Halberd
Question: The A59 road runs from Liverpool to which English town or city?
Answer: York
Question: The President of the USA sometimes travels in Marine One what kind of vehicle is this?
Answer: Helicopter
Question: Napoleon Bonaparte is associated with the 'Hand-in-waistcoat' pose as he was portrayed many times like that by which famous artist?
Answer: (Jacques-Louis) David
Question: His works including 'L'Orfeo' and 'The Coronation of Poppea', who is considered to be the Father of the Opera?
Answer: Claudio Monteverdi
Question: The 1000th album to be at No 1 in the UK chart was 'Swing Both Ways' in 2013, who recorded it?
Answer: Robbie Williams
Question: Which poet wrote the 1936 poem which begins "Stop all the clocks, Cut off the telephone, Give the dog a juicy bone" ?
Answer: W H Auden
Question: In which year was Dolly the sheep born, Martina Hingis won Wimbledon, and Bill Clinton defeated Bob Dole in the US presidential election?
Answer: 1996
Question: The 'Arab Spring' uprising in Egypt during 2011 was inspired by the 'Jasmine Revolt' that had taken place in which country?
Answer: Tunisia
Question: Who writes the "Discworld" novels?
Answer: Terry Pratchett
Question: Which important battle took place in North Eastern Ireland on 12th July 1690?
Answer: Boyne
Question: Used from 1988 to 2003, complete this TV advert jingle: "And all because the lady loves . . .".
Answer: Milk Tray
Question: In Paris, Louis XV I and many others were guillotined in the Place De La Revolution? How is it now known being renamed in 1795?
Answer: Place De La Concorde
Question: 'The Million Dollar Quartet' was the name given to an impromptu jam session in December 1956, at Sun Record Studios Memphis. Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis were three taking part - who was the fourth?
Answer: Johnny Cash
Question: How was the American gangster and bank-robber Lester J Gillis, associated with John Dillinger, better known?
Answer: Baby Face Nelson
Question: Stokes' Law describes the force on objects passing through a fluid. It includes which property of the fluid usually represented by the Greek letter eta?
Answer: VISCOCITY
Question: Mary Todd became the wife of which President of the U.S.A.?
Answer: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Question: Which English monarch was on the throne at the beginning of the Hundred Years War?
Answer: EDWARD III
Question: In religion, by what name is the Decalogue better known?
Answer: TEN COMMANDMENTS
Question: Which English composer wrote the opera Dido and Aeneas, whose first public performance was in 1684?
Answer: HENRY PURCELL
Question: Who was the ruler of England when the War of the Spanish Succession began in 1701?
Answer: WILLIAM III
Question: Usually represented by lower case n, which optical property is the ratio of the velocities of light in two adjacent media?
Answer: REFRACTIVE INDEX
Question: Which of the traditional Scotch whisky producing areas is on the Kintyre peninsula although only three distilleries survive, Glen Scotia, Glengyle and Springbank?
Answer: Campbeltown
Question: Where is the H.Q. of Interpol?
Answer: LYON
Question: Who stole fire from The Gods?
Answer: PROMETHEUS
Question: Who was the ruler of Albania from 1928 to 1939?
Answer: KING ZOG
Question: What name was shared by the wives of the English kings Edward IV and Henry VII?
Answer: Elizabeth
Question: Which city's name is given to symphonies 82 to 87 inclusive by Haydn?
Answer: Paris
Question: The present building opened in 1937-which London venue was used to stage the 2012 Olympic volleyball competition?
Answer: Earls Court
Question: Which Cheshire town is thought to take its name from the fact if was considered a suitable location for crossing a river there by King Canute in 1017?
Answer: Knutsford
Question: What single word completes the title of Marie Lloyd's famous music hall song "She sits among the cabbages and . . . "?
Answer: Peas
Question: In which film of the early 1940s were the main supporting characters Ilsa Lund, Victor Laszlo and Captain Louis Renault?
Answer: CASABLANCA
Question: On which island is the mountain Adam's Peak?
Answer: SRI LANKA
Question: In a song by the Kinks, by which London station did Terry meet July at sunset?
Answer: WATERLOO