zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who was the father of the apostles James and John who were sometimes known as the sons of thunder
Answer: Zebedee
Question: How many VC's were awarded in the Falkland's war
Answer: Two
Question: Who wrote the poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Answer: Robert Browning
Question: What is the name of the award given for crossing the Atlantic by sea in the fastest time
Answer: The Blue Riband
Question: Who was Norway's first female prime minister
Answer: Gro Harlem Bruntland
Question: What country imports river sand from Scotland for construction and camels from North Africa
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: If you carry a white stick with red lines on it what is your disability
Answer: Blind and deaf
Question: What was discovered at Rum Jungle in Australia in 1952
Answer: Uranium
Question: Which British group had a top ten hit in 1966 with No Milk Today
Answer: Herman's Hermits
Question: Who writes the books about the Swedish Policeman Kurt Wallander
Answer: Henning Mankell
Question: What is black gold and Texas tea
Answer: Oil
Question: Which football team has won the European Cup more times than it has won its own country's top league
Answer: Nottingham Forest
Question: Which was the main Indian tribe who defeated Custer at the battle of the Little Bighorn
Answer: Sioux
Question: One of which country's banknotes showed the composer Sibelius
Answer: Finland
Question: What was the Arab Israeli war of 1967 known as
Answer: The Six Day War
Question: What was the third country to put a spacecraft into orbit and then recover it
Answer: China
Question: What did "loose lips" do, according to a popular rhyming WW2 slogan
Answer: Sink Ships
Question: What word links these: detector, polish, scrap
Answer: Metal
Question: What was the name of the political party founded by Sir James Goldsmith in 1996
Answer: The Referendum Party
Question: Bright, Burley, and Oriental are leaves used for making what
Answer: Cigarettes
Question: Which king of England was the bastard son of a tanner's daughter
Answer: William the Conqueror
Question: Leofric the husband of Lady Godiva was the Earl of where
Answer: Mercia
Question: What is the most often earned Boy Scout merit badge
Answer: First Aid
Question: Which American state is nicknamed the Buckeye state
Answer: Ohio
Question: In cockney rhyming slang what are Chalfonts
Answer: Piles
Question: Which American aircraft company made the F15 Strike Eagle
Answer: McDonnell Douglas
Question: What is the name of the peninsula divided among Mexico, Guatemala and Belize
Answer: Yucatan
Question: What was the last studio album that Brian Jones played on
Answer: Beggars Banquet
Question: Grace Jones had a hit with which Edith Piaf song in 1986
Answer: La Vie En Rose
Question: What did Daniel Jones and Darren Hayes call themselves when they got into the charts
Answer: Savage Garden
Question: Dr Tom Parry Jones, who died in January 2013, developed and marketed which 'road safety' device in 1967
Answer: Electronic Breathalyser
Question: Oscar winning Welsh actor born Reginald Truscott Jones became famous using which stage name
Answer: Ray Milland
Question: What position was held by Sir Francis Graham Smith 1982-1990
Answer: Astronomer Royal
Question: Harold J Smith became much more famous when he changed his name to what
Answer: Jay Silverheels
Question: Which bargain retail chain of shops was started in 1990 by David Dodd and Stephen Smith
Answer: Poundland
Question: Who succeeded Joseph Smith as the leader of the Mormons
Answer: Brigham Young
Question: In which town did Gordon Brown call Gillian Duffy a bigoted woman
Answer: Rochdale
Question: How did the famous American abolitionist John Brown die on December 2, 1859
Answer: Hanged
Question: What is the name of Charlie Brown's dog in the Peanuts cartoon strip
Answer: Snoopy
Question: In Which Irish county did Alcock and Brown land in 1919 after completing the first transatlantic flight
Answer: County Galway
Question: Matthew Henson in 1909 became the first coloured man to go where
Answer: North POLE
Question: Which ministry was run by Jim Hacker before he became Prime Minister in the TV sitcom Yes Prime Minister
Answer: Administrative Affairs
Question: What was the fate of poachers in the time of Richard 1
Answer: Castration
Question: Which cricket commentator, who mistakenly called Monty Panesar 'Monty Python', was awarded an OBE in 2003
Answer: Henry Blofeld
Question: Live Aid raised money for which country
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: With which Dutch football club did Johan Cruyff spend most of his career
Answer: Ajax
Question: What was the surname of Albert the physicist who developed the Theory of Relativity
Answer: Einstein
Question: What is a young ferret called
Answer: A kit
Question: Who had a U.K. No 1 in the 70's with Ring My Bell
Answer: Anita Ward
Question: Dilithium crystals power which mode of transport
Answer: The Starship Enterprise
Question: Which animal is faster than a horse can go longer without water than a camel and can see backwards without moving it's head
Answer: Giraffe
Question: What was the scandal called that caused President Nixon to resign
Answer: Watergate
Question: On which river would you find the city of Sunderland
Answer: Wear
Question: What is polemology the study of
Answer: Wars
Question: What was the capital of England before London
Answer: Winchester
Question: In which English city did the Battle of Peterloo take place
Answer: Manchester
Question: With which bird is Lundy Island traditionally associated
Answer: Puffin
Question: What is the largest castle in Wales
Answer: Caerphilly
Question: In which range of hills is the Cheddar Gorge
Answer: The Mendips
Question: What colour are the flags awarded to beaches of a certain pollution free quality
Answer: Blue
Question: What was the name of Captain Beefheart's backing band
Answer: The Magic Band
Question: What was Mr Punch’s advice to young men about to get married
Answer: Don’t
Question: In Coronation Street what was Audrey’s occupation before she married Alf Roberts
Answer: Hairdresser
Question: Which British army regiment are known as Sappers
Answer: Royal Engineers
Question: In which American state is the town of Laramie
Answer: Wyoming
Question: Which motor cycle company built the late lamented Bantam
Answer: B.S.A.
Question: Which Scottish League football team used to be called the Diamonds (they folded and a new club was formed)
Answer: Airdrieonians
Question: Which French city was the seat of the popes in the fourteenth century
Answer: Avignon
Question: What make of car did John Steed drive in The Avengers
Answer: Bentley
Question: Before disbanding in 1996 how many number ones did Take That have
Answer: Eight
Question: Who sang with Gene Pitney on the 1989 hit Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart
Answer: Marc Almond
Question: Who played the butler in Remains of the Day
Answer: Anthony Hopkins
Question: In World War 11 what was the American equivalent to the commandos
Answer: The Rangers
Question: Who played The Riddler in the film Batman Forever
Answer: Jim Carrey
Question: How many laps constitute a race in British speedway
Answer: Four
Question: Which car company manufactures the Tipo
Answer: Fiat
Question: What does Mac in front of a surname mean
Answer: Son of
Question: If you saw the sign Rauchen Verboten in Germany what is not allowed
Answer: Smoking
Question: Which World War 2 battle may be said to have been fought by slimmers
Answer: The Battle of the Bulge
Question: Who was the original lead singer with The Moody Blues
Answer: Denny Laine
Question: In the horror film Them what type of creatures were Them
Answer: Ants
Question: What was the earliest known antibiotic
Answer: Penicillin
Question: What was the most successful film released in the seventies
Answer: Star Wars
Question: By what name did we know Paul O'Grady on Television (Prior to 'The Paul O'Grady Show')
Answer: Lily Savage
Question: Which children's T.V. characters were created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport
Answer: The Teletubbies
Question: In what area of London did Jack the Ripper kill his victims
Answer: Whitechapel
Question: What is the only chess piece that cannot be taken
Answer: The king
Question: Which pop group took it’s name from an unemployment benefit card
Answer: UB 40
Question: Where on the human body is the skin the thinnest
Answer: Eyelids
Question: What is the name of Postman Pat's cat
Answer: Jess
Question: Which English city is served by Speke Airport
Answer: Liverpool
Question: In which year did John Logie Baird demonstrate television in Glasgow
Answer: 1927
Question: What is the first name of Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame
Answer: Harland
Question: What was the name of the Canadian First WW1 flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, the highest number for a British Empire pilot
Answer: Billy Bishop
Question: Who was the longest serving British prime minister last century
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: With which band was Lonnie Donegan before he went solo
Answer: Chris Barber
Question: Which Austrian city was the setting for The Sound of Music
Answer: Salzburg
Question: What word can be linked with hob thumb and toe
Answer: Nail
Question: In which American sitcom did the character Dan Conner appear
Answer: Roseanne
Question: What is the home ground of Preston North End
Answer: Deepdale
Question: Which Biblical character demanded the head of John the Baptist
Answer: Salome
Question: What word links a TV quiz show and a space launch
Answer: Countdown
Question: According to the Bible who was the father of the Jews
Answer: Abraham
Question: Which Bronte sister wrote as Ellis Bell
Answer: Emily
Question: Which Norwegian leader's name has become a by-word for treachery
Answer: Vidkun Quisling
Question: Which capital city stands on the Potomac river
Answer: Washington
Question: In the adverts what was just enough to give your kids a treat
Answer: Cadbury's fudge
Question: In America it is called an eggplant what is it called in England
Answer: An aubergine
Question: Which car manufacturer made the Jetta
Answer: Volkswagen
Question: Which country lies between Zimbabwe and the sea
Answer: Mozambique
Question: Which president of America is the only one never to have won a presidential election
Answer: Gerald Ford
Question: Who was the first Lord Protector of England
Answer: Oliver Cromwell
Question: Which country was the first to use playing cards
Answer: China
Question: What nationality is singer Kiri-Te Kanawa
Answer: New Zealander
Question: On which island was Napoleon born
Answer: Corsica
Question: Which British aircraft manufacturer built the World War Two bomber the Wellington
Answer: Vickers
Question: What is the largest citrus fruit
Answer: Grapefruit
Question: In which city did gangster Al Capone operate
Answer: Chicago
Question: The 'Leaf' is the first mass-produced electric car for sale from which major manufacture
Answer: Nissan
Question: In which city was the SALT 11 treaty signed
Answer: Vienna
Question: Which United States separatist movement was founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
Answer: Black Panthers
Question: Which New York thoroughfare is sometimes called The Great White Way
Answer: Broadway
Question: In 1978 who became the first man in history to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of Test Match Cricket
Answer: Ian Botham
Question: Al Gore was a senator in which state before he became Vice President
Answer: Tennessee
Question: For which West Indian team did Clive Lloyd play Shell Shield matches
Answer: Guyana
Question: Which actress played opposite William Powell in the thirties and forties series of films about the Thin Man
Answer: Myrna Loy
Question: Which football league side was once known as Newton Heath
Answer: Manchester United
Question: Which British female vocalist was known as The Forces Sweetheart
Answer: Vera Lynn
Question: From which plant do we get the spice saffron
Answer: Crocus
Question: What flavour does the herb fennel have
Answer: Aniseed
Question: What is the herb that is used mostly in Swedish cookery
Answer: Dill
Question: Which spice is a common flavouring for many kinds of rye bread
Answer: Caraway seed
Question: What is considered the "king of herbs" by many cookery authors
Answer: Basil
Question: Which herb whose leaves and blue flowers are both edible, is used in drinks such as 'Pimms'
Answer: Borage
Question: What was the nature of the event at which Jesus turned water into wine
Answer: Wedding
Question: From which film does the following quote come: I love the smell of napalm in the morning
Answer: Apocalypse Now
Question: In Greek mythology what was Hebe the goddess of
Answer: Youth
Question: Pooler Jones, Lazy Plate, Jayne Hill, Buckthorn
Answer: Barbed Wire
Question: In the Bible who put Daniel in the lions den?
Answer: King Darius
Question: If you suffer from Diplopia what have you got?
Answer: Double vision
Question: What did composer Berlioz originally study?
Answer: Medicine
Question: Aconite the poison is obtained from what plant?
Answer: Wolf's-bane
Question: Which sign of the zodiac is represented by the Fishes ?
Answer: Pisces
Question: What was the first Pink Floyd album?
Answer: Piper at the gates of dawn
Question: John Huston scored a hit with his first film - what?
Answer: Maltese falcon
Question: Stan laurel, Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner what in common?
Answer: 8 marriages
Question: Whose music featured in The Clockwork Orange?
Answer: Beethoven
Question: Which record did Scott McKenzie take to UK No.1 in July 1967?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: The star constellation Lepus has what English name?
Answer: The Hare
Question: Who was born in Chicago 5th December 1901 died 1966?
Answer: Walt Disney
Question: Caer-Lud was the former name of what capitol city?
Answer: London
Question: In Athletics, what distance was Miruts Yifter undefeated between 1972 and 1981?
Answer: 10,000m
Question: Who took his only Wimbledon Singles title in 1975?
Answer: Arthur Ashe
Question: What was the name of the Spice Girls first No 1 single?
Answer: Wannabe
Question: What word is used to describe the fear of open spaces?
Answer: Agoraphobia
Question: What is the opening song called in the film 'The Graduate'?
Answer: Sounds of Silence
Question: What is the name of the US river which flows between St. Paul and Minneapolis?
Answer: Mississippi
Question: What religion was Adolph Hitler?
Answer: Roman Catholic
Question: Which artist and illustrator painted a portrait of John F. Kennedy in 1960 that was later published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post after his assassination?
Answer: Norman Rockwell
Question: Emanuel Radinsky was born in Philadelphia in 1890 and died in Paris in 1976. He was a surrealist painter and photographer. By which name is he better known?
Answer: Man Ray
Question: The 1960 Summer Olympic Games were held in which city?
Answer: Rome
Question: Who was Elizabeth the first's mother?
Answer: Anne Boleyn
Question: Which county's flag is the only square flag in the world?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Who compiled the first complete version of the Bible to be printed in English in 1535?
Answer: Myles Coverdale
Question: General Elections are traditionally held on which day of the week in Britain?
Answer: Thursday
Question: Who was the author of the novel 'Doctor Zhivago'?
Answer: Boris Pasternak
Question: Which New Zealand city is known as the windy city?
Answer: Wellington
Question: In which sport could a competitor perform a 'Hiplock' or a 'Flying Mare'?
Answer: Wrestling
Question: In what year did Indira Gandhi become Prime Minister of India?
Answer: 1966
Question: What instrument is sometimes called the clown of the orchestra?
Answer: Bassoon
Question: The sackbut developed into which modern instrument?
Answer: Trombone
Question: Who preceded Gerald Ford as US President?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: Who was the first Suffragette martyr?
Answer: Emily Davison
Question: Which part of the body is known as the thorax?
Answer: Chest
Question: Which insect has a lifespan of only 1 day and cannot eat because it does not have a mouth or a stomach?
Answer: MAYFLY
Question: What name was given to the poet musicians of 12th and 13th century in Provence and Southern France?
Answer: TROUBADORS
Question: What was the full maiden name of the mother of US President Barack Obama?
Answer: Stanley Ann Dunham
Question: In which US state was the Battle of the Little Bighorn fought?
Answer: Montana
Question: In February of what year did an 8.8 earthquake strike Chile?
Answer: 2010
Question: What year did Dennis Tito become the first space tourist, paying $19 million to board the International Space Station?
Answer: 2001
Question: Gout is caused by a build-up of which acid around the joints?
Answer: Uric
Question: Which team in 1974 became the first German side to win football's European Cup?
Answer: Bayern Munich
Question: Which African country has the capital of Gaborone?
Answer: Botswana
Question: By what name is the disease VARICELLA more known?
Answer: Chickenpox
Question: What is the American name for a shorthand typist?
Answer: stenographer
Question: In which year was the Falklands War?
Answer: 1982
Question: Which is the world’s smallest and oldest republic?
Answer: San Morino
Question: Which African country has the shilling as it's currency?
Answer: Kenya
Question: Which animal is associated with the beginning of an MGM film?
Answer: A lion
Question: In the Australian TV series, what type of animal was `Skippy`?
Answer: Kangaroo
Question: What is the name of the poker hand containing three of a kind and a pair?
Answer: Full house
Question: What is the normal colour of the gem sapphire? Red, Green or Blue?
Answer: Blue
Question: What was Mrs Fawlty's Christian name in the TV series Fawlty Towers ?
Answer: Sybil
Question: What is the name of Cluedo's colonel ?
Answer: Mustard
Question: Who did Monica marry in the TV series Friends ?
Answer: Chandler Muriel Bing
Question: What colour is the centre stripe on the German flag, Red, Black or Gold ?
Answer: Red
Question: What month did Osama bin Laden die?
Answer: May
Question: The latest major earthquake to hit Christchurch, New Zealand happened in which month?
Answer: February
Question: January 2011 England beat Australia winning the Ashes once again. Where did they play the final test?
Answer: Sydney
Question: In France who are nicknamed the Kepis blancs?
Answer: Foreign Legion
Question: Britain France and who fought the battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: Spain
Question: Whose original back up group were The Blue Moon Boys?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question: What's capital of The Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen?
Answer: Aden
Question: William Herschel astronomer was a musician what instrument?
Answer: Organ
Question: What did Aristotle claim as the most delicate of table meats?
Answer: Camel
Question: Of what did the poet John Milton die?
Answer: Gout
Question: Airman T E Shaw in WW2 was better known as who?
Answer: T E Laurence of Arabia
Question: What does an armadillo taste like?
Answer: Pork
Question: In the fairy tale 'Snow White...', how many dwarfs were there?
Answer: 7
Question: Abebe Bikila was the only athlete to win the Olympic marathon twice and in successive Olympic games. What country did he represent?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: An Ostrich can live up to 75 years. True or false?
Answer: True
Question: In 1934 a police posse shot down the lovers on the run?
Answer: Bonnie and Clyde
Question: The 'Society of Friends' are more commonly known as what?
Answer: The Quakers
Question: A film star/director who won an Oscar for 'Reds' - Who is he?
Answer: Warren Beatty
Question: During which year did the BBC 'Panorama' series first hit our screens?
Answer: 1958
Question: Who succeeded Giscard D'Estaing in the French Presidential election of 1981?
Answer: Francois Mitterand
Question: For which well known 60s pop group did Reg Presley sing?
Answer: The Troggs
Question: In what town was the Royal Navy College founded in 1903?
Answer: Dartmouth
Question: Who played 'Doyle' in the TV series The Professionals?
Answer: Martin Shaw
Question: In golf, if you get an eagle on a par-5 hole, how many shots did you take?
Answer: 3
Question: On a golf course, what is normally the only place you would be allowed to mark, lift and clean your ball?
Answer: On the putting green
Question: Which London football club installed an artificial pitch, which was later banned, in the 1980s?
Answer: Queens Park Rangers
Question: How old was footballer 'Pele' when he scored two goals in the final of the 1958 World Cup giving Brazil victory over hosts Sweden?
Answer: 17
Question: Who was the US swimmer who won 7 gold medals and created a new world record for each event at the Munich Olympics in 1972?
Answer: Mark Spitz
Question: On which horse did David Broome win the 1966 King George V Gold Cup?
Answer: Mister Softee
Question: What was the full name of the infamous German 'SS'?
Answer: Schutz-Staffel
Question: Which playwright did Marilyn Monroe marry?
Answer: Arthur Miller
Question: In which country will you find the Churchill; Pearce; Nelson and Mackenzie rivers?
Answer: Canada
Question: Who was Bristol born Archibald Leach better known as?
Answer: Cary Grant
Question: In what year was the first sub-surface atomic bomb detonated at Bikini Atoll?
Answer: 1946
Question: In what year did US singer Del Shannon die?
Answer: 1990
Question: Which 11 year old British actress had a part in the 1943 film 'Lassie Come Home'?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor
Question: Who was the 28th president of the USA?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson
Question: George Stubbs, 1724 - 1806, famous English artist, is remembered mainly for painting what?
Answer: Horses
Question: Born Farrokh Bulsara on 24th of September 1946 and died in November 1991. Who do we remember him as?
Answer: Freddie Mercury
Question: For whom did King Edward VIII give up the throne to marry?
Answer: Wallace Simpson
Question: What is the name of the passage of water between North and South Island, New Zealand?
Answer: Cook Strait
Question: A 'plant' in snooker involves a minimum of how many balls?
Answer: Three
Question: In the movie 'The Longest Day' who played the part of General Norman Cota?
Answer: Robert Mitchum
Question: Born Erik Weisz in Budapest Hungary. By what name did he become famous?
Answer: Harry Houdini
Question: Who was Stan Laurels partner?
Answer: Oliver Hardy
Question: St Peter was the first Pope - Who was second?
Answer: St Linus
Question: In which country was Mel Gibson born?
Answer: America
Question: In which 1969 film did Michael Caine play Charlie Croker?
Answer: The Italian Job
Question: What was David Jason's character called in 'Porridge'?
Answer: Blanco
Question: Which planet is called both the morning and evening star?
Answer: Venus
Question: What is the capital of Nova Scotia (East Canada)?
Answer: Halifax
Question: Best selling author, Mary Westmacott, is better known as whom?
Answer: Agatha Christie
Question: Which football competition awards the Henri Delaunay trophy to the winner?
Answer: The UEFA European Football Championship
Question: Who played the part of Cathy Gale in the Avengers?
Answer: Honor Blackman
Question: Who did Rocky Marciano beat in his last World Heavyweight title fight?
Answer: Archie Moore
Question: What colour is Spock's blood?
Answer: Green
Question: Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans?
Answer: Judas Escariot
Question: Who played 'Marty McFly in the film 'Back to the Future'?
Answer: Michael J Fox
Question: Nancy Davis and Jane Wyman were the wives of which late actor?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: What are bactrians and dromedaries?
Answer: Camels
Question: Can you name the singer of the title track for '1981 - For Your Eyes Only'?
Answer: Sheena Easton
Question: During which decade did the BBC start radio broadcasts?
Answer: 1920s
Question: What year: Barry White was born, so was Sylvester Stallone, and so was Roger Daltrey out of The Who?
Answer: 1944
Question: What year: Coronation Street was on TV for the first time, Spartacus was out at the movies (starring Kirk Douglas) and Bono out of U2 was born?
Answer: 1960
Question: Can you name the London theatre named after Queen Victoria's husband?
Answer: The Royal Albert Hall
Question: In what year (or century) was Michelangelo born?
Answer: 1475
Question: Zeus is the king of the Gods in which mythology?
Answer: Greek