zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which actress played both Estella and Miss Havisham in 1946 and 1985 respectively?
Answer: JEAN SIMMONS
Question: The 'Battle of Marengo' was fought between Napoleon's army and which European Country?
Answer: AUSTRIA
Question: Which city in Switzerland is a European heritage site?
Answer: BERNE
Question: Which town in the Cotswolds is known as the 'Little Venice of the Cotswolds"?
Answer: BOURTON ON THE WATER
Question: At which battle of 1403 was Henry Percy (Hotspur) killed?
Answer: SHREWSBURY
Question: Making its final flight in July 2011, what was the name of the last space shuttle?
Answer: ATLANTIS
Question: In Greek myth, what was the name of the infinite space existing before creation?
Answer: CHAOS
Question: In which battle of 1898 did Kitchener defeat the Mahdi?
Answer: OMDURMAN
Question: Who, in a play, wrote 'The truth is rarely pure, and never simple"?
Answer: (Oscar) WILDE
Question: Which artist described some of his paintings as nocturnes and symphonies?
Answer: (JAMES) WHISTLER
Question: Which European country's flag consists of three horizontal bands of red, white and red?
Answer: AUSTRIA
Question: According to Exodus, which migrating flocks of birds supplied food for the lsraelites in the wilderness?
Answer: QUAILS
Question: Which African country's flag consists of three vertical stripes, green, white and green?
Answer: NIGERIA
Question: Which Premiership football club has an area called "The Holte End"?
Answer: Aston Villa
Question: Which crime writer created the private detective Philip Marlowe?
Answer: Raymond Chandler
Question: Which biscuit is named after an Italian patriot who died in 1882?
Answer: Garibaldi
Question: Which barbarian king was known as "the Scourge of God"?
Answer: Attila the Hun
Question: In World War II RAF slang, what name was given to the rear gunner?
Answer: Tail-End Charlie
Question: According to the advertising slogan-which product "does exactly what it says on the tin"?
Answer: Ronseal
Question: Which actress was particularly associated with the catchphrase "I want to be alone"?
Answer: Greta Garbo
Question: In UK greyhound racing, what colour is worn by the dog in Trap Two?
Answer: Blue
Question: Who led his followers on a 'Long March' in 1934?
Answer: Mao Tse Tung
Question: Which Premiership football club's ground has an area called The Gallowgate End'?
Answer: Newcastle United
Question: In what year did Concorde commence commercial service?
Answer: 1976
Question: Which SI unit is named after a scientist born in Belfast in 1824?
Answer: Kelvin
Question: Give a year in the life of the Italian artist Canaletto.
Answer: 1697-1768
Question: Which city, home to the oldest working opera house in France, is the capital of the Lorraine region and the Moselle department?
Answer: Metz
Question: Which country has top tier football league teams called FC Thon and FC Sion?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Which part of the body is removed during a glossectomy?
Answer: Tongue
Question: Of which South American country has Juan Manuel Santos been president since 2010?
Answer: Colombia
Question: Obesity hypoventilation syndrome is also known by a name that refers to which Charles Dickens novel in which the 'fat boy' Joe exhibits the symptoms?
Answer: The Pickwick Papers
Question: In heraldry what shape is a mullet?
Answer: Star
Question: Which work by Tchaikovsky includes a sequence called The Rose Adagio'?
Answer: The Sleeping Beauty
Question: Which country's top tier soccer league has teams called Helsingborgs IF and Kalmar FF?
Answer: Sweden
Question: Who composed The Trout Quintet?
Answer: Schubert
Question: What was the name of the wife of Edward II?
Answer: Isabella
Question: For what is Mho a unit of measurement?
Answer: Electrical
Question: Who wrote the 1947 novel The Plague?
Answer: Albert Camus
Question: Who played The Prisoner on TV in the 1960s?
Answer: Patrick McGoohan
Question: Who is the patron saint of shoemakers?
Answer: St Crispin
Question: Who, in 1799, wrote the poem Lamia?
Answer: John Keats
Question: What name is now given to the area of Paris where the guillotine used to execute Louis 16th was situated?
Answer: Place de la Concorde
Question: Which of Beethoven's symphonies is named the Eroica?
Answer: 3rd
Question: What is the British name given to German white wines originally from the Rhine area?
Answer: Hock
Question: Which Football League club share the John Smith's Stadium with the town's rugby league club?
Answer: Huddersfield Town
Question: The largest state or territory by area in Canada is Northwest Territories, which is second?
Answer: Quebec
Question: Which Tuscan wine was traditionally packaged in a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco?
Answer: Chianti
Question: Corazon Aquino succeeded which President in the Philippines in 1986?
Answer: FERDINAND MARCOS
Question: The Order of the White Lion is an honour bestowed in which East European country?
Answer: CZECH REPUBLIC
Question: What is the common name for the garden flower whose botanical name is hemerocallis?
Answer: DAYLILY
Question: In shipping weather forecasts what adjective is used for an event due to occur in less than six hours?
Answer: IMMINENT
Question: 'Relight my Fire' was a number one in 1993 for Take That with which female singer?
Answer: LULU
Question: Eleanor of Provence was the queen of which English monarch?
Answer: HENRY THE THIRD
Question: What Italian word refers to a painting technique where paint is laid onto the canvas so thickly that the brush or knife strokes are visible?
Answer: IMPASTO
Question: Joey is the name of the main protagonist in which 1982 Michael Morpurgo book, made into a hit movie in 2011?
Answer: WAR HORSE
Question: Derived from old French for 'bread basket', what name is given to a basket or similar attached to a bicycle?
Answer: PANNIER
Question: As studied by both David Cameron and Ed Miliband, for what does the E in the university degree course PPE stand?
Answer: ECONOMICS
Question: The colour black is given what name in heraldry?
Answer: SABLE
Question: Which traditional English county was historically divided into 'Rapes'?
Answer: SUSSEX
Question: In police slang, who or what are `Darbies'?
Answer: HANDCUFFS
Question: In police slang, who or what is a 'brass'?
Answer: PROSTITUTE
Question: Thomas DeCarlo Callaway, half of group Gnarls Barkley, got to number one with 'Forget You' in 2010 under what stage name?
Answer: CEE-LO GREEN
Question: In the Bible, who was the brother of Martha and Mary?
Answer: Lazarus
Question: Who was President of the United States in the year 1800?
Answer: John Adams
Question: Who was President of the United States in the year 1900?
Answer: William McKinley
Question: In the First World War, what other name is given to the third battle of Ypres of June 1917?
Answer: Passchendaele
Question: What is the main spirit in a Margarita?
Answer: Tequila
Question: In his orchestral suite, which planet did Gustav Hoist call 'the Mystic'?
Answer: Neptune
Question: To reoulate which disease is insulin used?
Answer: Diabetes
Question: In Arthurian legend, of which region was King Mark the King?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: In the Bible, who was the first King of Israel?
Answer: Saul
Question: In heraldry, what shape is a lozenge?
Answer: Diamond
Question: The Royal family of which country is named Bernadotte?
Answer: Sweden
Question: American Theodore Geisel wrote children's books under what name?
Answer: Dr Seuss
Question: What is the name of the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, constructed in 1813/14 by William Hedley for use at Wylam Colliery, Newcastle-on-Tyne?
Answer: Puffing Billy
Question: Which river flows through Northwich before joining the Mersey west of Runcorn?
Answer: Weaver
Question: By what name do we call the herb known as cilantro by the Americans?
Answer: Coriander
Question: The Battle of Solferino, which led to the formation of the International Red Cross, was fought in 1859 in which country?
Answer: Italy
Question: Which letter is at the right hand end of the middle row of a computer or typewriter keyboard?
Answer: L
Question: 'Does Anything Eat Wasps?', 'Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?' and 'How to Fossilise Your Hamster' are books based on articles from which magazine?
Answer: New Scientist
Question: What shadow cabinet post did David Cameron hold immediately prior to becoming leader of the Conservative party?
Answer: EDUCATION
Question: What, according to the alchemists, was capable of turning base metal into gold?
Answer: PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
Question: Which rugby union club play their home games at Adams Park?
Answer: (London) WASPS
Question: Which vitamin is also known as Calciferol?
Answer: Vitamin D
Question: Tony Manero was the lead character in which 1977 musical/ film?
Answer: Saturday Night Fever
Question: In what animal form is the Hindu god Hanuman normally depicted?
Answer: Monkey
Question: Which vitamin is also known as Retinol?
Answer: Vitamin A
Question: Who was the wife of William the Conqueror?
Answer: Matilda
Question: 'Into the Woods' is a musical with music and lyrics by which composer?
Answer: STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Question: Which Football League Two club play home games at the Pirelli Stadium?
Answer: BURTON ALBION
Question: What is the name of the 'rover' that landed on Mars in August 2012?
Answer: CURIOSITY
Question: According to Greek myth, whose eyes were placed in the peacock's tail?
Answer: ARGUS
Question: What more common name is given to the famous uprising of the Righteous Harmony Society Movement?
Answer: THE BOXER REBELLION
Question: What name is usually given to the giant red star Alpha Orion?
Answer: BETELGEUSE
Question: Who was Tony Blair's first Foreign Secretary?
Answer: ROBIN COOK
Question: What collective name is given to the stars Dubhe and Merak in Ursa Major?
Answer: THE POINTERS
Question: In which year did Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada?
Answer: 1588
Question: In which year did China resume sovereignty over Hong Kong, Princess Diana die and Tony Blair become Prime Minister?
Answer: 1997
Question: Which 20th century soldier and adventurer lived at Clouds Hill, Dorset?
Answer: T. E. Lawrence
Question: Which largely autobiographical 1957 novel is narrated by the character Sal Paradise?
Answer: On The Road
Question: Whose last literary work was the TV play "Karaoke and Cold Lazarus"?
Answer: Dennis Potter
Question: The BWV catalogue lists the works of which 17/18th century composer?
Answer: J. S. Bach
Question: The 1998 Eurovision Song Contest was held in which English city?
Answer: Birmingham
Question: The Kuiper Belt is in the orbit of which planet?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Which World War 2 operation (later known as Operation Jubilee) took place on 19th August 1942?
Answer: Raid on Dieppe
Question: Which Persian king released the Hebrews from Babylon?
Answer: Cyrus
Question: What nickname was given to Margaret Thatcher during her time as Prime Minister?
Answer: Iron Lady
Question: Since leaving his radio show, Chris Moyles has taken on which part in the musical 'Jesus Christ Superstar'?
Answer: King Herod
Question: Which creature arose from the blood of the slain Medusa?
Answer: PEGASUS
Question: What nationality was the detective story writer Ngaio Marsh?
Answer: NEW ZEALANDER
Question: Who presided over the 'Bloody Assizes' of 1685?
Answer: JUDGE JEFFRIES
Question: In which Dodie Smith novel, twice filmed, does Cruella de Vil appear?
Answer: ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS
Question: Who gave his first public demonstration of television in London on 27 January 1926?
Answer: JOHN LOGIE BAIRD
Question: In which of Dickens's novels do Pip Pirrip and Miss Havisham appear?
Answer: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Question: What was Judas' reward for betraying Christ?
Answer: 30 PIECES OF SILVER
Question: Into which city's subway system was the poison nerve gas sarin released on 20 March 1995?
Answer: TOKYO
Question: According to the title of the 1964 hit by The Shangri-La's, who did the girl meet at the candy store?
Answer: THE LEADER OF THE PACK
Question: Which metal is extracted from the ore mined in a stannery?
Answer: TIN
Question: What is the name of the ancient Highway which ran from Rome to Brindisi in Southern Italy?
Answer: APPIAN WAY
Question: Galia and Cantaloupe are types of which fruit?
Answer: Melon
Question: Fort Sumter, scene of the opening shots of the US Civil War, is in which state?
Answer: South Carolina
Question: Ernest Borgnine won one Best Actor Oscar, in 1955 for which film?
Answer: Marty
Question: 'Complete and Unbelievable: The . Dictionary of Soul', whose name is missing from the title of his last solo studio album?
Answer: Otis Redding
Question: The Little Bighorn battlefield, scene of Custer's 1876 defeat, is in which US state?
Answer: Montana
Question: Who created the works The Third of May 1808 and The Disasters of War?
Answer: FRANCISCO GOYA
Question: Alpha particle radiation is equivalent to fast moving nuclei of which element?
Answer: HELIUM
Question: The followers of John Wycliffe were called what?
Answer: LOLLARDS
Question: Who wrote the 'Trout Quintet'?
Answer: FRANZ SCHUBERT
Question: In Greek myth who is the muse of dance?
Answer: TERPSICHORE
Question: Which family live at Dorlcote Mill in a work by George Eliot?
Answer: TULLIVER
Question: George Frideric Handel produced a piece of music for the coronation of George II and it has been used in each coronation since. What is its title?
Answer: ZADOK THE PRIEST
Question: Which biblical character was known for his patience?
Answer: JOB
Question: Launched in 1981, what was the name of the first operational space shuttle?
Answer: COLUMBIA
Question: In which 1975 film directed by Milos Forman did Jack Nicholson play the lead character Randall McMurphy?
Answer: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Question: Whose 2nd Symphony is known as The Resurrection?
Answer: MAHLER
Question: What species of rodent has the Latin name cavia porcellus?
Answer: GUINEA PIG
Question: Which major political figure won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1957book "Profiles in Courage?
Answer: JOHN F KENNEDY
Question: Which English King was also crowned King of France in 1431?
Answer: HENRY VI
Question: Under what pseudonym did Dr Brooke Magnanti publish her notorious "Diary of a Call-Girl"?
Answer: BELLE DE JOUR
Question: Natives of which British overseas territory call themselves Llanitos?
Answer: GIBRALTAR
Question: In which 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese did Robert De Niro play the head character Travis Bickell?
Answer: TAXI DRIVER
Question: Whose 7th symphony is known as the Leningrad?
Answer: SHOSTAKOVICH
Question: Which future Nobel Prize winner did Bill Clinton choose as his Vice President?
Answer: AL GORE
Question: What is the only surname to be shared by an American President and a British Prime Minister?
Answer: WILSON
Question: Marilyn Monroe was born and died in the same American City which one?
Answer: LOS ANGELES
Question: How many players are on court in a handball team?
Answer: 7
Question: What is the Christian name of Sherlock Holmes' brother?
Answer: MYCROFT
Question: On which United States ship did the Japanese sign surrender terms in Tokyo Bay?
Answer: USS MISSOURI
Question: In the 2012 Grand National, who became the first woman jockey to finish in the first three, riding the joint favourite Seabass?
Answer: KATIE WALSH
Question: Which classic 1945 British film was turned into an opera by Andre Previn which premiered in 2009?
Answer: BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Question: What was the name of the double-decker bus designed by Douglas Scott and introduced into London Transport in the 1950s?
Answer: ROUTEMASTER
Question: Which French overseas department east of Madagascar has its capital at Saint-Denis?
Answer: Reunion island
Question: In which Dickens novel does Newman Noggs appear?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby
Question: In which sport did Britain's Peter Wilson win a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: Shooting
Question: Which National Trust property in the north east of England was once owned by Lord William Armstrong?
Answer: Cragside
Question: In which city was Dr Samuel Johnson born, in 1709?
Answer: Lichfield
Question: What is the maximum score for one stroke in billiards?
Answer: 10
Question: In the Bible who became leader of the Israelites after the death of Moses?
Answer: Joshua
Question: Walter Sickert was a leading figure in which group of London based painters?
Answer: Camden Town
Question: Which US state is known as the Hoosier State?
Answer: Indiana
Question: Which part of a castle derives its name from the old French words for 'sliding door'?
Answer: Portcullis
Question: Which US space shuttle exploded shortly after take-off in January 1986?
Answer: Challenger
Question: Who was UN chief weapons inspector in Iraq from January 2000-June 2003?
Answer: Hans Blix
Question: Who, in 1642, constructed a mechanical calculating machine?
Answer: Blaise Pascal
Question: Who directed the 1943 film "Casablanca"?
Answer: Michael Curtiz
Question: """Miss You Nights"" was a No. 3 hit single for which Irish group?"
Answer: Westlife
Question: Which Yorkshire born track and field athlete is the current Olympic heptathlon champion. She was awarded the CBE in 2013?
Answer: Jessica Ennis
Question: Which mammal of the order Pholidota is the only one to have keratin scales on its skin?
Answer: Pangolin
Question: What was the maiden name of six famous sisters: Diana, Jessica, Unity, Nancy, Deborah, and Pamela?
Answer: MITFORD
Question: In the story of the creation in the Bible, what did God create first?
Answer: LIGHT
Question: Which meat is normally used in the dish osso buco?
Answer: VEAL
Question: In 1983 Jenny Pitman became the first woman to train the winner of the Grand National. What was the name of the horse?
Answer: CORBIERE
Question: Riyadh is the capital of which country?
Answer: SAUDI ARABIA
Question: The West Highland Highway runs from Milngavie, just outside Glasgow, to which town in the Highlands?
Answer: Fort William
Question: Ralph M. Steinman won the 2011 Nobel Prize, despite having died before the prize was announced. In which Nobel field did he win?
Answer: Medicine
Question: According to Greek myth, which king was condemned by Zeus to be tied to an ever-spinning flaming wheel in Hades?
Answer: Ixion
Question: Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, was the mother of two 15th c. Kings of England. Name either
Answer: Edward IV and Richard III
Question: Malawi is bordered by Zambia, Mozambique, and which other country?
Answer: Tanzania
Question: What is the surname of the father and son English cricketers who have both played for Nottinghamshire and in successful Ashes series?
Answer: Broad
Question: Which of Mahler's symphonies is entitled 'The Resurrection'?
Answer: Second
Question: In Shakespeare's Macbeth, King Duncan has two sons, one is Malcolm, name the other.
Answer: Donalbain
Question: Who was the captain of the Wales rugby union team who was sent off in the semi-final of the 2011 World Cup?
Answer: Sam Warburton
Question: In the Bible, which king of Israel was the husband of Jezebel?
Answer: Ahab
Question: On board a ship what is the name given to the rope used to pull a sail tight?
Answer: Sheet
Question: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes won an Oscar for best screenplay for which film?
Answer: Gosford Park
Question: What is the name of the so called "God Particle", evidence for the existence of which is being sought at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland?
Answer: Higgs Boson
Question: Who was the professor of radio astronomy at Manchester University who founded the Jodrell Bank Observatory and after whom the telescope he built has been renamed?
Answer: Sir Bernard Lovell
Question: 'Who was appointed Secretary of State for Work and Pensions after the 2010 General Election?
Answer: Iain Duncan Smith
Question: What name for a female servant is taken from the wife of Nabal in the Old Testament, after whose death she married David?
Answer: Abigail
Question: Which actor, who played a Bond villain, was a first cousin of Ian Fleming?
Answer: Christopher Lee
Question: The Lusitania was sunk, with much loss of life, on May 7th of which year?
Answer: 1915
Question: For what commodity is Alkmaar in Holland famous?
Answer: Cheese
Question: Michael Phelps has won 22 Olympic medals, more than any other person, how many of these were Gold?
Answer: 18
Question: Which US singer has had albums called 'Daydream', 'Butterfly', 'Rainbow' and 'Glitter'?
Answer: Mariah Carey
Question: Who wrote the poetry collection 'The Whitsun Weddings'?
Answer: Philip Larkin
Question: Ye Olde Fighting Cocks appears in the Guinness Book of Records as England's oldest pub, in which town or city is it?
Answer: St Albans
Question: In architecture what name is given to pillars carved to resemble female figures?
Answer: Caryatids
Question: Sephardic Jews were exiled from which country (Sepharad is the Hebrew name for that country)?
Answer: Spain
Question: Who was the first man to drive a car at over 200mph; he set his final land speed record in Golden Arrow in 1929. He died on Lake Windermere in 1930 in an attempt to break the water speed record?
Answer: Sir Henry Segrave
Question: What is the name of the Lagoon that lies between Chesil Beach and the mainland?
Answer: Fleet Lagoon
Question: Name the only boxer to have held world titles in eight different weight divisions?
Answer: Manny Pacquiao
Question: Who wrote the play 'Private Lives'?
Answer: Noel Coward
Question: What is the title of Hilary Mantel's book that won her a second Man Booker Prize?
Answer: Bring up the Bodies
Question: What is the real name of Doris Day?
Answer: DORIS KAPPELHOFF
Question: What is the English title of the Stravinsky ballet 'Le Sacre du Printemps'?
Answer: THE RITE OF SPRING
Question: In which war did the battle of Coronel take place?
Answer: WORLD WAR I
Question: Under what name were the cloth dolls designed in 1976 by Xavier Roberts as 'Little People' marketed?
Answer: CABBAGE PATCH KIDS
Question: Gainsborough and Stamford are towns in which English county?
Answer: LINCOLNSHIRE
Question: In musical terminology, which word describes bouncing the bow lightly on the strings?
Answer: SPICCATO
Question: Whom did George Entwistle succeed as Director General of the BBC in 2012?
Answer: MARK THOMPSON
Question: Approximately 95% of the atmosphere of Mars consists of which gas?
Answer: CARBON DIOXIDE
Question: In mythology what was the name of the girl who wove so beautifully that the jealous goddess Athene turned her into a spider?
Answer: ARACHNE
Question: Which spice gives curry its traditional yellow colour?
Answer: TURMERIC
Question: Which British comedian had a top 40 novelty hit in 1961 with 'Don't Jump off the Roof Dad'?
Answer: TOMMY COOPER
Question: Which Shakespearean character said 'Screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail'?
Answer: LADY MACBETH
Question: To which order of monks do Trappists belong?
Answer: Cistercians
Question: In Greek mythology who was the husband of Helen?
Answer: Menelaus
Question: Which is the first book of the Bible named after a man?
Answer: Joshua
Question: Capuchins belong to which larger religious order of monks?
Answer: Franciscans
Question: What was the name of the dog in the children,s TV show The Herbs?
Answer: Dill
Question: Which wine producing region of France is famous for its Medoc and St Emilion wines?
Answer: Bordeaux
Question: Which composer wrote The Manfred Symphony in 1885?
Answer: Tchaikovsky
Question: A smooth and continuous bending of the knees from a standing position in ballet is called what?
Answer: Plie
Question: Whom did Peter Fleming partner when they won the Wimbledon men's doubles title in 1979, 1981, 1983 and 1984?
Answer: John McEnroe
Question: Which branch of philosophy, derived from the Greek word for a porch was founded by Zeno of Citium?
Answer: Stoicism
Question: Glenda Jackson won two Best Actress Oscars, one was for 'Women in Love' but which 1973 film earned her a second Oscar?
Answer: A Touch of Class
Question: Whom did Pam Shriver partner when they won the Wimbledon ladies doubles title in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1986?
Answer: Martina Navratilova
Question: In the Harry Potter stories what kind of creature is Aragog?
Answer: Spider
Question: What musical term means to glide from one pitch to another?
Answer: Glissando
Question: In which of the United States is the Iditarod Trail?
Answer: Alaska