zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In which American, science fiction TV series of the 1990's, did Jennifer Lien play the part of Kes?
Answer: STARTREK, VOYAGER
Question: For whose murder was James Hanratty hanged in 1962, a case which became known as the A6 murder?
Answer: MICHAEL GREGSTEN
Question: In Egyptian mythology, who was the God of the Sky, depicted as a man with the head of a falcon?
Answer: HORUS
Question: Although Stephen Dedalus is an important character in James Joyce's novel, "Ulysses", who is, in fact, the main character in the story?
Answer: LEOPOLD BLOOM
Question: Which is the most popular deity in Indian culture? Known as the Lord of Obstacles, this god is depicted as having the head of an elephant?
Answer: GANESH
Question: Who is the very famous, yet estranged, actress daughter of actor, Jon Voight?
Answer: ANGELINA JOLIE
Question: Which US singer/songwriter recorded the albums "The Heart of Saturday Night", "Heartattack and Vine", "Swordfishtrombones", etc?
Answer: Tom Waits
Question: Who wrote the symphonic poem "Finlandia"?
Answer: Jean Sibelius
Question: Which former Education (and Transport) Secretary is MP for Bolton West?
Answer: Ruth Kelly
Question: In Greek myth, who divested himself of his 'curse' in the River Pactolus?
Answer: King Midas
Question: Larry Page and Sergey Brin were co-founders of which Internet tool?
Answer: Google
Question: Who is the youngest actress to win a film Oscar?
Answer: Tatum O'Neal
Question: In which year did The Beatles release the film "Yellow Submarine"; Alec Rose arrives back in Portsmouth; the last steam passenger train service runs in Britain .
Answer: 1968
Question: Who was the first English goalkeeper transferred for £1 million (1989)?
Answer: Nigel Martyn
Question: Colne Valley Railway and Waltham Abbey are in which English county?
Answer: Essex
Question: Which Italian university was founded circa 1088?
Answer: Bologna
Question: Who has written a series of novels, entitled "The Dark Tower", of which the first, in 1982, was entitled, "The Gunslinger"?
Answer: STEPHEN KING
Question: Bandleaders Benny Goodman and Woody Herman both normally played which instrument?
Answer: THE CLARINET
Question: The majority of Epping Forest stands in which English county?
Answer: ESSEX
Question: The cluster of stars, known as The Pleiades, lies in which constellation?
Answer: TAURUS
Question: The only authenticated portrait of which English novelist, is by her sister Cassandra, and hangs in the National Portrait Gallery?
Answer: JANE AUSTEN
Question: Which 1970's American TV detective series, was created by film writer Abby Mann?
Answer: KOJAK
Question: Which composer, born in Pesaro in Italy in 1792, based his opera, "The Barber of Seville" on the trilogy by French playwright, Pierre de Beaumarchais?
Answer: ROSSINI
Question: The Musee d'Orsay, in Paris, which houses many great impressionist paintings, was originally designed as what sort of building?
Answer: A RAILWAY STATION
Question: The atomic number of a chemical element, is determined by the numbers of which particle, in its nucleus?
Answer: THE PROTON
Question: Which biblical city was the capital of Assyria and was sacked by the Babylonians and the Medes in 612BC?
Answer: Nineveh
Question: Who most famously had a horse name Bucephalus?
Answer: Alexander the Great
Question: Around 1503, who painted the Coronation of the Virgin, now to be found in the Vatican museum?
Answer: Raphael
Question: In the bible the book of Lamentations is ascribed to which of the prophets?
Answer: Jeremiah
Question: Which language is common to Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism?
Answer: Sanskrit
Question: What did Hubert Cecil Booth first patent in 1902?
Answer: Vacuum Cleaner
Question: Bourbon whisky is named after a county in which US state?
Answer: Kentucky
Question: Who was the British General who died at the Battle of Coruña in 1809?
Answer: Sir John Moore
Question: Who wrote the poem 'Not waving but drowning'?
Answer: Stevie Smith
Question: What was the official residence of the monarch between 1698 and 1837?
Answer: St James Palace
Question: Rosario is a principal town or city in which country?
Answer: Argentina
Question: According to mythology, who was the swift-footed huntress who lost a race when she stopped to pick up a golden apple?
Answer: Atalanta
Question: The site of the Battle of Flodden Field is in which county?
Answer: Northumberland
Question: Which rock 'n roll icon had a US and UK hit in 1956 with 'Long Tall Sally'?
Answer: Little Richard
Question: What is the fruit of the shrub/plant Rubus Idaeus?
Answer: Raspberry
Question: Which of the former eastern bloc countries, now a member of the EU is the only one to have adopted the euro as its currency?
Answer: Slovenia
Question: What type of precious stone is the "Star of India"?
Answer: A SAPPHIRE
Question: In the story of "Alice in Wonderland", what kind of creature did Alice find on top of a toadstool, smoking a hookah?
Answer: A CATERPILLAR
Question: Jezebel, was the wife of which biblical King?
Answer: AHAB
Question: Which Mayor of New York (1934/45) was honoured by having the local airport named after him?
Answer: FIORELLO LA GUARDIA
Question: What word, other than blackmail, is used to describe the criminal offence of demanding money with menaces?
Answer: EXTORTION
Question: The "Nimrod" reconnaissance aircraft is based on which former passenger aircraft?
Answer: THE COMET
Question: Which county cricket team won the championship six times in the 20th century, although their last outright success was in 1934?
Answer: Lancashire
Question: Which South American country's flag has three horizontal bands of blue, white and blue with a gold sun on the white band?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Which team beat Glasgow Rangers in the 2008 UEFA Cup Final played at the City of Manchester Stadium?
Answer: Zenit St Petersburg
Question: Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain for just seven months from October 1922 to May 1923?
Answer: Andrew Bonar Law
Question: Which county cricket team waited until 1979 before their first county championship title but won it five more times by 1992?
Answer: Essex
Question: Sir Anthony Mamo, who died in May 2008, was the first President of which European country, from 1974 to 1976?
Answer: Malta
Question: In which Texas town was Buddy Holly born?
Answer: Lubbock
Question: Which Scottish town or city is also known as 'The Fair City' or 'St John's Town'?
Answer: Perth
Question: In the theatre which colour should male actors avoid wearing as it is considered unlucky?
Answer: Yellow
Question: In the early episodes of the TV series, "To the Manor Born", what was the surname of the character, Audrey, played by Penelope Keith?
Answer: FFORBES-HAMILTON
Question: The cartoon character, Glenda Slagg, the First Lady of Fleet St., appeared in which satirical magazine?
Answer: PRIVATE EYE
Question: Which vegetable, popular in Chinese dishes, is obtained from the stem of the Bulrush?
Answer: WATER CHESTNUTS
Question: Which Australian bowler was named "Player of the Tournament", at the end of the 2007 Cricket World Cup?
Answer: GLEN McGRATH
Question: What is the name of the French style soup made with pureed leeks, onions and potatoes, chicken stock and cream and traditionally served cold?
Answer: VICHYSSOISE
Question: Who directed the films, "The Terminator" (1984) and "Titanic" (1997)?
Answer: JAMES CAMERON
Question: What was the title of the 1960's American TV series, which starred Richard Boone as a gentleman turned gunfighter named Paladin?
Answer: HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL
Question: Which popular garden flower has classes which include regular and irregular incurves, reflex, decorative and pompon?
Answer: CHRYSANTHEMUMS
Question: Wigan Rugby League player Chris Mather and management consultant, Patrick King, were both, at one time or another, married to which TV personality?
Answer: CAROL VORDERMAN
Question: In Greek mythology, who was, tragically, both the mother and wife of Oedipus?
Answer: JOCASTA
Question: Which current Broadway musical has a Japanese therapist character called Christmas Eve?
Answer: Avenue Q
Question: It is illegal in England to eat what on Christmas Day?
Answer: Mince pies
Question: What military term is derived from the youths who worked as pages to mounted knights?
Answer: Infantry
Question: What was the name of the store in "Are You Being Served?"?
Answer: Grace Brothers
Question: Which church festival is celebrated on 2nd February?
Answer: Candlemas
Question: What was the surname of Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: Trotter
Question: In 1979 which English art historian was exposed as a one-time Soviet spy?
Answer: Anthony Blunt
Question: Which Wirral plant was the first in Europe to produce enriched uranium?
Answer: Capenhurst
Question: What is the nearest football league ground to the River Thames?
Answer: Craven Cottage
Question: With Sellers, Seacombe and Milligan, who was generally thought of as 'the fourth Goon'?
Answer: Michael Bentine
Question: In which Shakespeare play does Caliban appear?
Answer: The Tempest
Question: Tom Quad is part of which Oxford college?
Answer: Christ Church
Question: Of which Verdi opera is Violetta the heroine?
Answer: La Traviata
Question: The Battle of Blenheim was fought during which war?
Answer: War of the Spanish Succession
Question: The Supper at Emmaus, painted in 1601 and now part of the National Gallery's collection, is by whom?
Answer: (Michelangelo Merisi da) Caravaggio
Question: Who said, "If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: The Rokeby Venus (c1651), now part of the National Gallery's collection, was painted by whom?
Answer: (Diego) Velazquez
Question: Politician Herbert Morrison was the grandfather of which member of Tony Blair's cabinet?
Answer: Peter Mandelson
Question: The aria "La Donna e Mobile" comes from which opera?
Answer: Rigoletto
Question: What title is given to the wife of an earl?
Answer: Countess
Question: Who was the court jester in Shakespeare's "As You Like It"?
Answer: Touchstone
Question: In which British city was Europe's first purpose-built prison opened in 1786?
Answer: Liverpool
Question: The bands R.E.M. and the B52s both come from which town in Georgia?
Answer: Athens
Question: Emil Zatopek won the Olympic gold medal in the marathon in 1952. In which event at the same games did his wife Dana also win gold?
Answer: Javelin
Question: What was the name of Honor Blackman's character in the TV series "The Avengers"
Answer: Cathy Gale
Question: What is the main ingredient of food cooked 'a la lyonnaise'?
Answer: Onions
Question: Which country's flag is a plain green rectangle?
Answer: Libya
Question: Who asked Jesus 'What is truth'?
Answer: Pontius Pilate
Question: Which Hollywood star wrote an autobiography entitled 'In the Arena'?
Answer: Charlton Heston
Question: Which country's national flag features a black two-headed eagle on a red background?
Answer: Albania
Question: In opera, how is the character Cio-Cio San better known?
Answer: Madame Butterfly
Question: Which common male Christian name derives its name from the Greek for horse lover?
Answer: Philip
Question: Which element takes its name from the Greek for pale green?
Answer: Chlorine
Question: In music what is a note if it is neither sharp nor flat?
Answer: Natural
Question: In which country did the rumba originate?
Answer: Cuba
Question: What is the name of the Italian dessert made from coffee soaked biscuit, layered with sweetened cream cheese?
Answer: Tiramisu
Question: Who was the mother of Achilles?
Answer: Thetis
Question: What do you call the art of decorating an object by gluing coloured paper cut-outs onto it?
Answer: Decoupage
Question: Who won the best actress award at the 2008 Oscar awards ceremony for her role in the film 'La Vie En Rose'?
Answer: Marion Cotillard
Question: Which actor was married to Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright?
Answer: Sir Laurence Olivier
Question: In the Batman films, how is Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot better known?
Answer: The Penguin
Question: Whose plays included 'Design for Living' and 'Present Laughter'?
Answer: Noel Coward
Question: How many counters does each player have in a game of backgammon?
Answer: 15
Question: In which city is the University of Warwick situated?
Answer: Coventry
Question: What was the name of the dog that in 1957 became the first mammal in space?
Answer: Laika
Question: Who was the father of Romulus and Remus?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which prison is guarded by the Dementors in the Harry Potter books?
Answer: Azkaban
Question: Who plays the part of Jessica Fletcher in the TV series 'Murder She Wrote'?
Answer: Angela Lansbury
Question: 'Good Wives' and 'Jo's Boys' were sequels to whose most famous novel?
Answer: Louisa May Alcott
Question: Which island in New York harbour was the processing centre for immigrants in the first half of the twentieth century?
Answer: Ellis Island
Question: Which actor played 'Old Mother Riley'?
Answer: Arthur Lucan
Question: Which SS commander died as a result of an assassination attempt in Prague in 1942?
Answer: (Reinhard) Heydrich
Question: Which motorway runs from the M5 near Bromsgrove to a junction with the A44 and A42 near Burton-on-Trent?
Answer: M42
Question: England's first road congestion charge was introduced in 2002, in which city?
Answer: Durham
Question: In 1986 which mountaineer became the first to climb all 14 peaks over 8000 metre above sea level?
Answer: Reinhold Messner
Question: Which famous comic was first issued in Britain on 14 April 1950?
Answer: Eagle
Question: The character Rick Blaine appears in which film?
Answer: Casablanca
Question: In which American state is Edwards Air Force Base?
Answer: California
Question: What was Beethoven's only opera?
Answer: Fidelio
Question: What name is given to the enclosed courtyard of a medieval castle?
Answer: Bailey
Question: Who was president of the Confederate States during the American Civil War?
Answer: Jefferson Davis
Question: In which U.S. TV series did Alison Janney play the part of C.J. Cregg, a press secretary?
Answer: THE WEST WING
Question: In which Irish county is the district of Connemara and the town of Athenry?
Answer: GALWAY
Question: Which powerful poison is extracted from the seeds of the Castor Oil plant?
Answer: RICIN
Question: Who wrote and recorded the song, "Blue Suede Shoes", later a hit record for Elvis Presley?
Answer: CARL PERKINS
Question: The "Bloody Sunday" massacre of 1972, took place in which Irish city?
Answer: (LONDON)DERRY
Question: Who presides over a Court Martial?
Answer: Judge Advocate
Question: Hoosiers are natives of which US state?
Answer: Indiana
Question: The MPLA was the independence movement of which African country?
Answer: Angola
Question: From which country did Kosovo achieve independence in 2008?
Answer: Serbia
Question: Who famously 'attacked' Russell Harty whilst being interviewed by him?
Answer: Grace Jones
Question: In the Bible who was the husband of Jezebel?
Answer: Ahab
Question: Who composed the opera 'Lohengrin'?
Answer: Richard Wagner
Question: On a suit of armour, the poleyn would protect which part of the body?
Answer: Knee
Question: Who played the part of 'Jimmy' in the 1970s TV comedy 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin', going on to further success in 'As Time Goes By'?
Answer: Geoffrey Palmer
Question: Which sport requires a round ball and 'H'- goalposts with a net across their lower half?
Answer: Gaelic Football
Question: Who was-head-of the Argentine military government at the time of the 1982 Falklands conflict?
Answer: (Leopoldo) Galtieri
Question: Which mythical character owned a sword named 'Nothung'?
Answer: Siegfried
Question: Who is Katharina's younger sister in Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew'?
Answer: Bianca
Question: Which mythical character owned a sword named 'Arondite'?
Answer: Sir Lancelot
Question: For his role in which film did Al Pacino win the Oscar for best actor in 1992?
Answer: SCENT OF A WOMAN
Question: In 2006, which planet in our solar system was re-classified as a dwarf planet and is now classified alongside Eris and Ceres?
Answer: PLUTO
Question: Who was on the English throne at the start of the Hundred Years War in 1337?
Answer: EDWARD III
Question: Which government minister was shamed in 1992, when actress Antonio de Sancha told the press about his extra marital affair with her?
Answer: DAVID MELLOR
Question: With which county did Lancashire fast bowler Dominic Cork start his career in 1990?
Answer: DERBYSHIRE
Question: In which Asian city is Orchard Rd. the main shopping street?
Answer: SINGAPORE
Question: Name the soldier, who marries Bathsheba Everdene, in Hardy's novel, "Far From the Madding Crowd", the marriage ending tragically with his murder?
Answer: SERGEANT FRANK TROY
Question: Which artist used a terrace at St Thomas' Hospital as a vantage point for his series of paintings of the Houses of Parliament?
Answer: CLAUDE MONET
Question: In the TV comedy series, "Dad's Army", which character spoke the line, "Mum won't like it Uncle Arthur"?
Answer: PRIVATE PIKE
Question: Which star of Hollywood musicals died in 1987; his straight roles included that of a con man in The Towering Inferno?
Answer: FRED ASTAIRE
Question: Which horse won the 2008 Grand National?
Answer: Comply Or Die
Question: In which George Elliot novel are the characters Tom And Maggie Tulliver?
Answer: Mill On The Floss
Question: What is the capital of Bermuda?
Answer: Hamilton
Question: In which year did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space?
Answer: 1961
Question: Who composed the opera Otello?
Answer: Verdi
Question: In which year was Gandhi assassinated and the state of Israel set up?
Answer: 1948
Question: Who was King of England at the outbreak of the Hundred Years War?
Answer: EDWARD III
Question: In which country was the comedian Eddie Izzard born?
Answer: YEMEN
Question: Which famous person (sportsman/filmstar) has the nickname `The Juice'?
Answer: O J SIMPSON
Question: Which statesman made the quotation "Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate?
Answer: J F KENNEDY
Question: In which year was the Prime Minister Spencer Percival shot on entering the House of Commons?
Answer: 1812
Question: In Roman Britain where was Vectis?
Answer: ISLE OF WIGHT
Question: On which island was the singer Freddy Mercury born?
Answer: ZANZIBAR
Question: Which vocalist and fim star is associated with the famous last words "That was a great game of golf fellers"?
Answer: BING CROSBY
Question: Catherine of Valois, French Princess was married to which English king?
Answer: HENRY THE FIFTH
Question: Which disease has the medical term variola?
Answer: SMALLPOX
Question: In Greek mythology who is the Goddess of Retribution?
Answer: NEMESIS
Question: In which war was the Battle of Crecy?
Answer: HUNDRED YEAR WAR
Question: For which film did Julia Roberts win the Best Actress Oscar in 2001?
Answer: ERIN BROCHOVICH
Question: What state does Sarah Palin represent as its governor?
Answer: ALASKA
Question: Which Cherokee Indian gave his name to a tree?
Answer: SEQUOIA
Question: In which year did 617 Squadron's Dambusters Raid take place?
Answer: 1943
Question: What US State did Barack Obama become Senator of in 2005?
Answer: ILLINOIS
Question: Craig Stirling, Sharon McCready and Richard Barrett were the central characters in which late 1960's TV series?
Answer: THE CHAMPIONS
Question: Which Hollywood star wrote the recent book "Always Looking Up" about life as a Parkinson sufferer?
Answer: MICHAEL J FOX
Question: Who composed the opera Dido and Aeneas which was the first performed in London in 1689?
Answer: PURCELL
Question: Which sporting technique was invented by the father of ITN newsreader Reginald Bosanquet?
Answer: The Googly
Question: The dance known as the lambada originates from which country?
Answer: Brazil
Question: In which Liverpool street was William E Gladstone born?
Answer: Rodney Street
Question: In which US city was Motown Records founded?
Answer: Detroit
Question: Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'Get thee to a nunnery'?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Who first said 'knowledge is power ('scientia potential est') in 1597?
Answer: Francis Bacon
Question: Which musical instrument does President Bill Clinton play? He played this instrument in the Arkansas State Band.
Answer: Saxophone
Question: On which island did the mutinous crew from the Bounty make their home?
Answer: Pitcairn
Question: What was the middle name of Diana, Princess of Wales?
Answer: Frances
Question: Adam Dalgleish is a Scotland Yard detective in whose crime novels?
Answer: P D James
Question: Who wrote the opera Hansel and Gretel?
Answer: Englebert Humperdinck
Question: The first five books of Hebrew Bible are contained in what Jewish Holy Book?
Answer: Torah
Question: What did the Ancient Greeks call the area that now contains Syria, Lebanon and Israel?
Answer: Phoenicia
Question: How is the statue by Chares of the Sun God Helios better known?
Answer: Colossus of Rhodes
Question: In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, to which Lady is Malvolio the steward?
Answer: Olivia
Question: Standing for words meaning "The Senate and people of Rome", which 4 letters appeared on standards carried by Roman soldiers?
Answer: SPQR
Question: Which TV series features the characters 'Stanley Marsh' and 'Kyle Broflovski'?
Answer: South Park
Question: The island of Trinidad lies seven miles off the coast of which South American country?
Answer: Venezuela
Question: Dawley New Town changed its name in 1968, how is it now known?
Answer: Telford
Question: Which pop group took their name from the Gaelic word for family?
Answer: Clannad
Question: At the 2008 European Football Championships Leo Beenhakker was coach of which country's team?
Answer: Poland
Question: Which English writer, best known for his detective fiction, published a fantasy novel entitled 'The Man Who Was Thursday' in 1908?
Answer: GK Chesterton
Question: In which month of 1805 was the Battle of Trafalgar fought?
Answer: October
Question: In which month of 1815 was the Battle of Waterloo fought?
Answer: June
Question: Who was appointed deputy to Ian Paisley at the Northern Ireland assembly at Stormont in May 2007?
Answer: Martin McGuiness
Question: Liesel Meminger is the name of the eponymous character in which recent best-selling novel?
Answer: The Book Thief
Question: Who was known as 'The King of Ragtime' composing such works as Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer?
Answer: SCOTT JOPLIN
Question: What computer component is Intel most associated with producing?
Answer: PROCESSORS
Question: Which river rises in the Pennines, flows through Settle and Preston before reaching the sea at Lytham St Annes?
Answer: THE RIBBLE
Question: What was the name of the otter in Henry Williamson's famous 1927 novel?
Answer: TARKA
Question: In which country did the failed Decembrist uprising take place in 1825?
Answer: RUSSIA
Question: In Greek mythology, how are the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne collectively called?
Answer: MUSES
Question: In Greek mythology, who saved Andromeda from the Kraken, a large sea monster?
Answer: PERSEUS
Question: In Greek mythology, which Queen of the Amazons was accidentally killed by her ally, Amazon Queen Penthesilea?
Answer: HIPPOLYTE
Question: Name the English pottery designer, whose "Bizarre" ware from the 1930's is still much sought after?
Answer: CLARICE CLIFF
Question: The flag of Hungary is divided into three bands. Two of the colours are red and white. What is the third?
Answer: GREEN
Question: Which former PM wrote the memoirs "The Downing Street Years" and "The Path to Power"?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: Which early 1990's pop trio was made up of Carnie, Wendy and Chynna, the daughters of members of 1960's bands The Beach Boys and The Mamas and the Papas?
Answer: Wilson Phillips
Question: Members of which London-based sporting club wear a yellow and red tie known as the "Egg & Bacon"?
Answer: MCC
Question: Journalist and writer Martha Gellhorn was the first wife of which author?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
Question: Singer Alecia Moore first hit the charts in 2000 under what one-word name?
Answer: Pink
Question: From the Arabic for "path", what is the name given to Islamic law?
Answer: Sharia
Question: How many toes are there on each foot of an ostrich?
Answer: 2