zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: According to Greek legend, who opened the box that contained all the world's troubles?
Answer: Pandora
Question: What is Superman's achilles heel?
Answer: Kryptonite
Question: What is Indiana Jones's real first name?
Answer: Henry
Question: What country was once known as East Pakistan?
Answer: Bangladesh
Question: What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh city?
Answer: Saigon
Question: What fur-trading company, founded in 1670, once owned about 1/3rd of Canada's land?
Answer: Hudson's Bay Company
Question: What island chain did Charles Darwin famously visit, inspiring his theory of natural selection?
Answer: Galápagos Islands
Question: In what city was the Jewish temple located?
Answer: Jerusalem
Question: What religion is based on the teachings of Laozi?
Answer: Taoism
Question: What is forbidden by the Fifth Amendment, but happens on a game show hosted by Alex Trebek?
Answer: Double Jeopardy
Question: Who was the unusual duettist with Bing Crosby, on his 1977 Christmas Show, singing their version of "Little Drummer Boy"? The recording became a big hit five years later.
Answer: DAVID BOWIE
Question: In 1976, which Italian town was the scene of a toxic gas leak, containing the poison, Dioxin?
Answer: SEVESO
Question: Which famous explorer contracted malaria shortly after his arrival in Goa in 1524, and died on Christmas Eve 1524 at Cochin?
Answer: VASCO DA GAMA
Question: In Australia, what is referred to as a 'brumby'?
Answer: WILD HORSE
Question: Created in the 1990's, as a satire of James Bond, what was the name of the character in a number of films, who was originally termed, "The International Man of Mystery"?
Answer: AUSTIN POWERS
Question: One Australian term for a fool is the word "galah". What type of bird is a galah?
Answer: A COCKATOO
Question: Which style of art, which flourished briefly in the first part of the 20th century, took its name from the French for, "Wild Beasts"?
Answer: FAUVISM
Question: Jack and Kit Wright, Thomas and Robert Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood and Sir Everard Digby amongst others are all associated with which historical event?
Answer: Gunpowder Plot
Question: What name is given to the stellar explosion caused when nuclear fusion within a massive star ceases and it suffers gravitational collapse?
Answer: (Super)Nova
Question: Which Liverpool company began to produce Dinky Toys in 1931 to accompany their Hornby train sets?
Answer: Meccano
Question: By what name was the city of Jakarta known until 1942?
Answer: Batavia
Question: In which decade was the Suez Canal opened; Abrahan Lincioln elected American President; Prince Albert died of typhoid?
Answer: 1860's
Question: In the TV cartoon series, Homer Simpson shares his middle name with which colourful bird?
Answer: JAY
Question: Who sculpted Oscar Wilde's tomb, and the figures "Day and Night" on the Headquarters of London Transport?
Answer: JACOB EPSTEIN
Question: Which King of England allegedly ordered the murder of the "Princes in the Tower", although some historians refute this claim?
Answer: RICHARD III
Question: Which four-letter word can mean; an article of clothing, a field position in a sport or to lose one's footing?
Answer: Slip
Question: In the French Revolutionary calendar, what kind of weather is suggested by the name of the month Nivose?
Answer: Snow
Question: Who was Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944, he was sentenced to death for collaboration but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment?
Answer: Philippe Pétain
Question: In warfare, what name is given to a hastily constructed temporary defence or a parapet a few feet high, the name deriving from the approximate height that it is built to?
Answer: BREASTWORK
Question: In which year was the Battle of Gettysburg; David Lloyd George born; the first section of the London Underground opened?
Answer: 1863
Question: Who was the female star of the TV police series 'Cat's Eyes'?
Answer: Jill Gascoigne
Question: Peter Parker is the secret identity of which comic book character?
Answer: Spiderman
Question: In which English county is Dunkery Beacon, at 1705 foot, the highest point?
Answer: SOMERSET
Question: In the culinary world, what French name is given to a small spit or skewer?
Answer: A BROCHETTE
Question: Which 1965 Beatles song was re-released in 1989 by Bananarama in aid of Comic relief?
Answer: HELP
Question: Who was King of England exactly 1000 years ago (i.e. 1007)? His reign was marked by a defensive war against Viking invaders.
Answer: ETHELRED II
Question: Hors D'Oeuvres, usually consisting of marinated vegetables, or cured meats, are known by what name in Italy?
Answer: ANTIPASTI
Question: What name is given to a blunt large-edged needle, used to draw tape through openwork?
Answer: A BODKIN
Question: In which year did all of the following occur: Prime Minister imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland, Idi Amin expels 50,000 Asians in 3 months and St Helens win the Rugby League Challenge Cup?
Answer: 1972
Question: The fleet of which nation sailed up the Thames, and then the Medway in 1667, successfully attacking and burning English ships, laid up in Chatham naval base?
Answer: HOLLAND
Question: Who scored an equalising goal for Coventry City against Spurs in the 1987 F.A. Cup Final, with a spectacular diving header, which enabled his side to go on and win the trophy in extra time?
Answer: KEITH HOUCHEN
Question: What word is used to describe a text, written for and set to music, in an opera?
Answer: LIBRETTO
Question: There are two cathedrals in Dublin, Christ Church and St Patrick's, neither belonging to the Roman Catholic faith. To which minority faith do they belong?
Answer: THE CHURCH OF IRELAND
Question: Which 15th century English writer compiled some French and English Arthurian legends, and added work of his own, under the title of "Le Morte d'Arthur"?
Answer: SIR THOMAS MALORY
Question: In heraldry which word describes an animal with its body resting on its leg and with its head raised?
Answer: Couchant
Question: Which video game involves the main character in a search for 3 'Scions' with the final action taking place in the great pyramid of Atlantis?
Answer: Tomb Raider
Question: Who was the original owner of the beautiful yacht "Nabila" which was named after his daughter?
Answer: ADNAN KASHOGGI
Question: What physical disability is highlighted in the film "Children of a Lesser God"?
Answer: DEAFNESS
Question: Which lake was created by the building of the Aswan High Dam on the Nile in the 1960s?
Answer: LAKE NASSER
Question: Calpurnia was the third and last wife of which famous historical character?
Answer: JULIUS CAESAR
Question: Who, in Greek myth, was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sacrificed at Aulis by her father to ensure a safe passage to Troy?
Answer: Iphigenia
Question: Which day of the week features in the title of a novel by G K Chesterton?
Answer: Thursday
Question: Who said, "The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil."
Answer: John D Rockefeller
Question: Which sea area is adjacent to Sole, Plymouth and Biscay?
Answer: Fitzroy
Question: What is the name of the fancy biscuits or cakes generally eaten at the end of a meal - their name derives from the French for little oven?
Answer: Petits Fours
Question: Which radio station is transmitted on 1089 and 1053 kilohertz on the medium wave across the UK?
Answer: Talksport
Question: Which composer's first job on leaving school at the age of 15 in 1872, was in a solicitor's office before he joined his father in his music shop in Worcester?
Answer: Sir Edward Elgar
Question: In which 1960's play, revived in London in 2007, does a Parisian architect have three air-hostess fiancees?
Answer: BOEING BOEING
Question: In 1915, which Balkan nation joined W.W.I., on the side of the Central Powers (i.e. Germany), by declaring war on Serbia?
Answer: BULGARIA
Question: Formed by the merger of two government departments, what is the name of the combined organisation responsible for the collection of duty, VAT and Income Tax?
Answer: (HM) Revenue and Customs
Question: Which flower is classified into 9 categories, which include; incurve, reflex, spiders, singles, sprays?
Answer: Chrysanthemum
Question: Who was on the throne of England in 1095?
Answer: William II
Question: What is the unfortunate nickname of Portsmouth and England goalkeeper David James, thanks to his occasional errors?
Answer: CALAMITY
Question: Scotsman Ivor Robson introduces the competitors in which annual sporting event?
Answer: Open Golf Championship
Question: What name is given to the principal academic and administrative officer of a university?
Answer: Vice-Chancellor
Question: Which company produces the fragrances 'Escape' and 'Eternity'?
Answer: Calvin Klein
Question: The boundary between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire runs through which racecourse?
Answer: NEWMARKET
Question: Which large bird of prey, fairly common in Wales, and now becoming more widespread elsewhere, has the Latin name 'milvus milvus?
Answer: THE RED KITE
Question: Which poisonous element can be either grey, yellow or black and combines with sulphur as realgar?
Answer: Arsenic
Question: In Jules Veme's 'Around the World in 80 Days', Phileas Fogg starts and finishes his journey at which London club?
Answer: The REFORM Club
Question: Which literary work, completed in 1353, contains the tales of ten travellers escaping from the plague in Florence?
Answer: DECAMERON
Question: Which cricketer, who retired from first class cricket in 2008, scored 135 centuries although he had limited success at Test level?
Answer: GRAHAM HICK
Question: Cotopaxi in Ecuador and Paricutin in Mexico are examples of which geographical feature?
Answer: Volcano
Question: Vulcanisation involves heating rubber latex with which yellow, very brittle, fusible and inflammable non-metallic element?
Answer: Sulphur
Question: What metal is always present in alloys called amalgams?
Answer: MERCURY
Question: Although losing all three fights, which British boxer, between 1973 and 1975, went the distance with Joe Frazier and twice with Muhammed Ali?
Answer: JOE BUGNER
Question: The Pacific Islands nation of Tuvalu was known by which name until becoming independent in 1974?
Answer: THE ELLICE ISLANDS
Question: Precisely, which creature features on Preston North End's badge?
Answer: Lamb
Question: Which French artist abandoned the law in favour of art, and specialised in painting ballet dancers, circus folk and race horses?
Answer: EDGAR DEGAS
Question: Who had a Greek phrase which could translate as: "Why worry" carved into the pediment of his cottage at Cloudshill, Dorset?
Answer: T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia).
Question: Which 14th-century English religious reformer was often called The Morning Star of the Reformation?
Answer: John Wycliffe
Question: With which specific art form do you associate the American Alexander Calder?
Answer: Mobiles
Question: Enoch Powell was MP for which constituency between 1950 and 1974?
Answer: Wolverhampton
Question: Who released the new album 'Together through Life' and as a result has become the oldest male to have a no 1 hit album in Britain?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Question: Originating in Eastern Europe, which pressed meat is seasoned with herbs and spices, smoked, and steamed after smoking?
Answer: Pastrami
Question: Which Battle of 1813 is also called the Battle of The Nations?
Answer: LEIPZIG
Question: A new sculpture, by Spaniard Jaume Plensa, is being completed alongside the M62 in St Helens, what is it called?
Answer: Dream
Question: Which famous novelist wrote the 1948 novel 'The Heart of the Matter' and the 1957 play 'The Potting Shed'?
Answer: Graham Greene
Question: Which daily newspaper was first issued in 1900 at the price of ½d (halfpenny) and from 1914 came under the control of Lord Beaverbrook?
Answer: Daily Express
Question: Name the American TV detective played by Gene Barry who had a chauffeur-driven Rolls in a 1960s series?
Answer: AMOS BURKE
Question: Which Roman orator was slain by Mark Anthony's soldiers in 43 B.C.?
Answer: CICERO
Question: What was the last possession of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, lost to Islam in 1291?
Answer: ACRE
Question: Xavier Rolet succeeded Clara Furse to a major job in which establishment during May 2009?
Answer: LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
Question: Which city, whose name means 'Southern Capital', was the capital of China before Beijing became the capital in 1949?
Answer: NANKING
Question: Which famous playwright used the pseudonym 'Como di Bassetto' when he worked as a music critic?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: Which English king used the pseudonym Ralph Robinson when writing to gardening magazines?
Answer: George III
Question: Which European capital city has districts called Ottakring and Leopoldstadt?
Answer: Vienna
Question: Enoch Powell's political career ended in 1987 as a member of which party?
Answer: Ulster Unionist
Question: The kings of which country have alternatively been called Christian or Frederick since 1513?
Answer: DENMARK
Question: Who wrote the political treatise called "The Prince" in 1513?
Answer: NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Question: Which French World War I general later headed the pro-German Vichy Government in World War II from 1940-1944?
Answer: Henri Petain
Question: Whose 9 metre high statue of a spider was acquired by Tate Modern in 2008?
Answer: LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Question: Who wrote the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936?
Answer: John Maynard Keynes
Question: Which English King's coronation was postponed because he was suffering from appendicitis?
Answer: EDWARD VII
Question: Who, in literary fiction, were Peter, Phyllis and Roberta?
Answer: THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
Question: Which boarding school, near Tunbridge Wells, was attended by both Princess Anne, and the actress Rachel Weisz?
Answer: BENENDEN
Question: In 1967, French Somaliland became the French Territory of the Afars and Issas. To what did the country change its name on gaining independence in 1977?
Answer: DJIBOUTI
Question: In October 1870, Britain issued its smallest ever (in size), postage stamp. It is known in philatelic circles as a bantam. How much did it cost?
Answer: A HALFPENNY
Question: Which actress played the title role of Sylvia Broome on the 2005 'The Interpreter'?
Answer: NICOLE KIDMAN
Question: Which 19th century classical composer had the Christian name of Bedrich?
Answer: SMETANA
Question: Which driver won the inaugural Formula One race in Abu Dhabi in 2009, thus cementing his runners up spot in the Formula One World Drivers Championship?
Answer: SEBASTIAN VETTEL
Question: From 559 BC until 530 BC, Cyrus the Great was the leader of which ancient empire?
Answer: PERSIA
Question: In Roman times, where was the metallic element Copper chiefly mined, giving rise to its present name?
Answer: CYPRUS
Question: On 7th August 2008, which region was invaded by Georgian troops, prompting Russian retaliation?
Answer: SOUTH OSSETIA
Question: Featured on a British commemorative stamp in 2009, which woman writer and feminist philosopher, wrote, in 1792, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"?
Answer: MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Question: Gaius Octavius (Octavian) is better known as which Roman Emperor?
Answer: AUGUSTUS
Question: In naval warfare for what is a paravane used for?
Answer: MINE SWEEPING
Question: Which authoress (1890-1969), surname Lamburn, was born in Bury?
Answer: Richmal Crompton
Question: In which 1950 film musical did Howard Keel and Betty Hutton argue in song, that each of them could "Do Anything Better Than You"?
Answer: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Question: In the Old Testament, which of the twelve tribes of Israel, to which Moses and Aaron belonged, was not given territory in the Promised Land?
Answer: Levi
Question: The main ingredients of the dish vichysoisse are potato and which other vegetable?
Answer: Leek
Question: Which book, by former MI5 operative Peter Wright, was banned by the British government on the grounds of national security?
Answer: Spycatcher
Question: New York has two cathedrals. One is being refurbished following a fire in 2001, and is dediacted to St. John the Divine. To whom is the other dedicated?
Answer: St Patrick
Question: What name was given to Haydn's symphony No. 96 as a result of a chandelier falling and narrowly missing the audience at its first performance?
Answer: Miracle Symphony
Question: In 1959 which was the first city in Britain to be postcoded?
Answer: Norwich
Question: What is the name of the blue or white cheese, made from full cream milk and manufactured in the parts of Leicestershire around Melton Mowbray?
Answer: STILTON
Question: In the 18th century a thief on horseback was a highwayman, what was the name of his pedestrian counterpart?
Answer: FOOTPAD
Question: Which South Atlantic island suffered a volcanic eruption in 1963, forcing the inhabitants to be evacuated to Britain?
Answer: TRISTAN DA CUNHA
Question: Which name is common to both a type of snake and she dragon of Mount Parnassus that protected the Oracle at Delphi?
Answer: PYTHON
Question: Derived from the Greek word for "Breathless", which noun denotes temporary cessation of breathing, especially during sleep?
Answer: APNOEA
Question: Moshe Dayan, Danger Mouse and James Joyce were all noted for wearing what?
Answer: Eyepatch
Question: The majority of English Monarchs since the Norman Conquest were interred in either Westminster or Windsor, but where was King John buried?
Answer: WORCESTER CATHEDRAL
Question: In which novel by Charles Dickens do the characters Susan Nipper and Captain Cuttle appear?
Answer: DOMBEY AND SON
Question: The name of which Spanish explorer who discovered the Missisippi river in 1539, was remembered in the make of a 1950s US automobile?
Answer: HERNANDO DE SOTO
Question: Who was the valet of Prince Romiro in Rossini's opera La Cenerentola, also a well-known pantomime character?
Answer: DANDINI
Question: During August 2009, in which country was the ruling party voted out of office after 54 years of virtually unbroken rule?
Answer: Japan
Question: Which Greek philosopher founded the Stoics?
Answer: ZENO
Question: Which sauce gets its name from the Italian for "pound" or "crush"?
Answer: Pesto
Question: Five Anglican Bishops automatically sit in the House of Lords: the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Bishops of Durham and London are four, what is the title of the fifth?
Answer: Bishop of Winchester
Question: Name the police officer who commanded the operation leading to the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes and who has since been promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissioner.
Answer: Cressida Dick
Question: For what, in the world of finance, does the I stand in the acronym ISA?
Answer: Individual
Question: Which horse won his 4th consecutive King George VI Chase at Kempton in 2009, beating Desert Orchid's record of 4 wins in 5 years?
Answer: Kauto Star
Question: Which lighthouse, west of the Scilly Isles, marks the Eastern end of the North Atlantic shipping route at which the time for the Blue Riband is measured?
Answer: Bishop Rock
Question: In July 2010, USA and Russia swapped prisoners charged with spying - at which city's airport did the exchange take place?
Answer: Vienna
Question: In which US city was the first telephone exchange set up?
Answer: BOSTON
Question: Sir Humphry Repton achieved fame in the 18th century in which sphere of activity?
Answer: LANDSCAPE GARDENING
Question: Which metal has a low-grade version called spelter, often used for sculptural casting?
Answer: ZINC
Question: In which city did Superman work, disguised as Clark Kent?
Answer: Metropolis
Question: In 2002, Plantlife, a conservation charity, selected flowers or plants to represent each county. Humulus Lupulus was selected for Kent, how is it commonly known?
Answer: Hop
Question: In 2002, Plantlife, a conservation charity, selected flowers or plants to represent each county. Viscum album was selected for Herefordshire, how is it commonly known?
Answer: Mistletoe
Question: What is the nearest national capital city to Bratislava, only 35 miles away?
Answer: Vienna
Question: Which Luftwaffe bomber was withdrawn from the Battle of Britain because of heavy losses although it was used successfully elsewhere throughout the war?
Answer: Stuka
Question: In which Charles Dickens novel do we meet the minor characters: Tom Pinch, Mark Tapley and Paul Sweedlepipe?
Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit
Question: Of the exclusive London clubs which one was founded in 1824, has its address at 107, Pall Mall, SW1 and shares its name with a club in Liverpool?
Answer: The Athenaeum
Question: What was the name of Benjamin Britten's opera about a lonely, isolated fisherman?
Answer: Peter Grimes
Question: Miriam Karlin who died recently had a cameo role in which 1970's Stanley Kubrick film?
Answer: CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Question: Which English poet (1608-1674) wrote the opening line: "When I consider how my light was spent"?
Answer: (John) Milton
Question: The artists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, and Patrick Heron are primarily associated with which English seaside resort?
Answer: St. Ives
Question: Which American baseball team was formed in 1962 to replace the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants?
Answer: New York Mets
Question: According to Winston Churchill, in a speech of 1946, the Iron Curtain ran from Stettin in the Baltic to which other port?
Answer: Trieste
Question: Derived from the Etruscan calendar and persisting for around 500 years, into how many days was the Roman week divided prior to the adoption of the Julian calendar?
Answer: EIGHT
Question: In "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", what was the name of the castle housing the four thrones and from where the kings/queens of Narnia rule?
Answer: Cair Paravel
Question: What name, also given to the spacecraft used, was given to the American space program that ran from 1959 to 1963, with the aim of putting a man in earth orbit?
Answer: Mercury
Question: The subject of a 1970 Ken Russell film, which Russian composer's first symphony was nicknamed Winter Daydreams?
Answer: Tchaikovsky
Question: Which of the halogens has the lowest atomic number (9)?
Answer: Fluorine
Question: What is the name of the track cycling event, originating in Japan, in which the racers sprint for victory after having been paced for several laps?
Answer: KEIRIN
Question: What was first created in 1890 and then credited to Arthur Wynne in 1913 and is now seen everywhere?
Answer: CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Question: Which fictional schoolboy is the eponymous subject of books by Francesca Simon?
Answer: Horrid Henry
Question: Which educational establishment did Thomas Arnold describe as 'the godless institution of Gower Street'?
Answer: University College London
Question: Which English poet was drowned in a boating accident off Leghorn, Italy in 1822?
Answer: P B Shelley
Question: The title character of which TV detective series has not put in an appearance on the show for over 16 years?
Answer: Taggart
Question: Barney Gibson made history in April 2011 as the youngest individual to play in English first class cricket, for which county team did he play?
Answer: YORKSHIRE
Question: The Septuagint, Targum and Vulgate are all translations of what?
Answer: THE BIBLE
Question: What singer's backing group was named after the address of keyboardist David Sancious' mother's home in Belmar, New Jersey?
Answer: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Question: What shoulder condition, related to tennis elbow, was first diagnosed in 2007 and is one of the only words in English to contain a triple-repeated letter?
Answer: WIIITIS
Question: Whose name is missing to make up the 1950s/1960s jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks and ?
Answer: ROSS
Question: Which area of the USA is generally accepted to be north of the Ohio River, west of Lake Eyre and east of the Great Plains?
Answer: THE MIDWEST
Question: In the Spanish Civil War, what name was given to the band of volunteers from 53 nations who fought against Franco between 1936 and 1939?
Answer: International Brigade
Question: Who was the female assistant referee criticised by Andy Gray and Richard Keys, leading to both men's departure from Sky TV?
Answer: Sian Massey
Question: Name the film based on the Noel Coward play "Still Life", the theme music is Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 7 and the railway station featured in the film was Carnforth?
Answer: BRIEF ENCOUNTER