zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which ballerina, born in Ireland, was the founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet?
Answer: NINETTE DE VALOIS
Question: Which common sal\d ingredient is a member of the same family as 'Deadly Nightshade'?
Answer: TOMATO
Question: Of which group of Greek islands is Naxos the largest?
Answer: CYCLADES
Question: Who was the firstwife of US President Ronald Reagan?
Answer: JANE WYMAN
Question: Which astronomer is credited with discovering that the Universe is expanding?
Answer: EDWIN HUBBLE
Question: Which London Underground line has a terminus at West Ruislip?
Answer: CENTRAL
Question: Which economic doctrine, popular in the 1980's, was propounded by Milton Friedman?
Answer: MONETARISM
Question: Which is the largest species of the turtle family?
Answer: LEATHERBACK TURTLE
Question: Where in the body would you find the 'Canal of Schlemm'?
Answer: IN THE EYE
Question: Grenada, St. Vincent, St.Lucia, Martinique, and Dominica, are all part of which West Indian island group?
Answer: WINDWARD ISLANDS
Question: In the USA, FD Roosevelt's 'New Deal' was based on the views of which economist?
Answer: MAYNARD KEYNES
Question: In 1960, Kwame Nkruma became the first President of which African country?
Answer: GHANA
Question: In 1966, Seretse Khama became the first President of which African country?
Answer: BOTSWANA
Question: With 41 tries from 109 caps, who is the leading try scorer for the Irish national Rugby Union team?
Answer: BRIAN O'DRISCOLL
Question: Which Latvian-born artist painted 'The Seagram Murals'?
Answer: MARK ROTHKO
Question: The 'running of the bulls' is part of the San Fermin Festival held in which Spanish city?
Answer: PAMPLONA
Question: What was the name of the US Space Shuttle that exploded upon take-off in 1986, killing all seven crew members?
Answer: CHALLENGER
Question: Which French village is known for its exceptionally dense collection of megalithic standing stones that were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany?
Answer: CARNAC
Question: Located near the Austrian border, what is the name of Germany's highest mountain?
Answer: ZUGSPITZE
Question: The architect Louis Kahn designed which Asian capital's Government Assembly complex in 1962?
Answer: DHAKA
Question: The films 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' and 'Double Indemnity' were both based on novels written by which author of hardboiled school of American crime fiction?
Answer: JAMES M. CAIN
Question: What was the name of the Greek shipping tycoon, sometimes known as 'The Golden Greek', who built the first supertankers capable of transporting large quantities of oil?
Answer: STAVROS NIARCHOS
Question: In the Book of Genesis, what is described as 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high?
Answer: NOAH'S ARK
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the mother of the Cretan king, Minos?
Answer: EUROPA
Question: Julius Caesar claimed descent from which mythical hero?
Answer: AENEAS
Question: Which North Sea oil production platform was destroyed by fire after an explosion in July 1988?
Answer: PIPER ALPHA
Question: According to the Bible, on which mountain did Moses receive 'The Ten Commandments'?
Answer: MOUNT SINAI
Question: Which author used the pseudonym Richard Bachman when writing such books as 'Rage', 'The Running Man' and 'Thinner'?
Answer: STEPHEN KING
Question: Who won the 1954 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film 'Country Girl'?
Answer: GRACE KELLY
Question: Which novel did Charles Dickens leave unfinished upon his death in 1870?
Answer: 'THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD'
Question: Who in the Bible was the mother in Law of Ruth?
Answer: NAOMI
Question: At which 1403 battle was Sir Henry Percy, commonly known as Hotspur, killed?
Answer: BATTLE OF SHREWSBURY
Question: What was the name of the rollercoaster involved in the accident at Alton Towers in June 2015?
Answer: The Smiler
Question: In "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan, what is the name of the Mikado's son who is disguised as a wandering minstrel?
Answer: Nanki-poo
Question: What is the name of the Space Probe launched in 2006 to study Pluto?
Answer: New Horizons
Question: Which English city has districts called 'Manningham', 'Great Horton'and 'Heaton'?
Answer: BRADFORD
Question: Although humans feature in several Beatrix Potter tales, which is the only one to have a human as the title character?
Answer: 'THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER'
Question: Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree were members of which pop group?
Answer: 'BLUR'
Question: In which county are Corfe Castle and the Isle of Purbeck?
Answer: DORSET
Question: To which native American tribe did the great war leader Geronimo, belong?
Answer: APACHE
Question: Which film producer reputedly said, "Include me, out"?
Answer: SAMUEL GOLDWYN
Question: Which DJ spoke the first words on Radio Caroline?
Answer: SIMON DEE
Question: Which artist had a 'Blue Period' from 1901 to 1904 and a 'Rose Period' from 1904 to 1906?
Answer: PICASSO
Question: From which position did Wendy Alexander resign on June 28th.2008?
Answer: LEADER OF THE SCOTTISH LABOUR PARTY
Question: Esau sold his birthright for a 'mess of pottage'. What is the main ingredient of this dish?
Answer: LENTILS
Question: Released this year (2009), what is the full name of the sequel to the 2007 film 'Transformers'?
Answer: 'TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN'
Question: Who is the only British Prime Minister whose mother tongue was not English?
Answer: DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
Question: What name is given to the elementary particle that carries the electromagnetic force?
Answer: PHOTON
Question: The theme tune of which TV series was arranged by Fritz Spiegl from the traditional folk-song 'Johnny Todd'?
Answer: 'Z CARS'
Question: Which artist painted 'The Seagram Murals'?
Answer: MARK ROTHKO
Question: In the 'Harry Potter' books, players in the game of 'Quidditch' can be a 'Seeker', 'Chaser', 'Keeper' or.... Which other position?
Answer: 'BEATER'
Question: For which firm did 'Reggie Perrin' work in 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin'?
Answer: 'SUNSHINE DESSERTS'
Question: From 1960 to 1966 who was the first President of independent Ghana?
Answer: KWAME NKRUMAH
Question: Which organisation, based in Maidenhead, campaigns to save and restore unusual buildings threatened with demolition?
Answer: THE LANDMARK TRUST
Question: 'Baron Hardup' is a character in which pantomime?
Answer: 'CINDERELLA'
Question: What is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh?
Answer: BHOPAL
Question: Where in the human body would you find the bone called the 'Calcaneus'?
Answer: HEEL
Question: Who became British Prime Minister on the 22nd. January 1924?
Answer: RAMSAY MACDONALD
Question: The Marina Bay Circuit used in Formula One for the first time in 2008, is the venue for which Grand Prix?
Answer: SINGAPORE
Question: In which English county is the town of Saltash?
Answer: CORNWALL
Question: In which year did Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop trans- Atlantic flight?
Answer: 1919
Question: Who played the title role in the 1939 film ‘Young Mr Lincoln’?
Answer: HENRY FONDA
Question: The author of the 1942 report ‘Social Insurance and Allied Services’, who was the first Director of the London School of Economics, in office from 1919 to 1937?
Answer: WILLIAM BEVERIDGE
Question: Part of the East Coast Main Line, which river is crossed by the Royal Border Bridge?
Answer: TWEED
Question: Peter Coates is the owner and Chairman of which football club in the Premier League?
Answer: STOKE CITY
Question: What is the two-word alliterative name for the tree Ulmus procera?
Answer: ENGLISH ELM
Question: The Thylacine, thought to be extinct, was a wolf living on which island?
Answer: Tasmania
Question: Which great composer's only ballets were 'The Creatures of Prometheus" and “Ritterballet”?
Answer: Beethoven
Question: Which 2000 mile-long river enters the sea at the top of the Gulf of California?
Answer: The Colorado
Question: Betelgeuse is the brightest star in which constellation
Answer: Orion
Question: Who was Prime Minister of Malta from 1955 to 1962 and again from 1971 to 1984?
Answer: Dom Mintoff
Question: Which king of the UK had the nickname The First Gentleman of Europe"?
Answer: George Iv
Question: Who was the 1st Premier of the Union of South Africa in 1910?
Answer: Louis Botha
Question: From which region of France does claret come?
Answer: BORDEAUX
Question: Two other countries joined the 'Common Market' at the same time as the UK, Ireland and who?
Answer: DENMARK
Question: 'Juno And The Paycock'is a play written by who?
Answer: SEAN O'CASEY
Question: Who published a report after a Public Enquiry into racial disturbances in South East London in April 1981?
Answer: LORD SCARMAN
Question: According to Arthurian Legend, who as well as Arthur, loved Guinevere?
Answer: LANCELOT
Question: Which film studio produced the 'Tom and Jerry' cartoons?
Answer: METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER (MGM)
Question: In which 'James Bond' film did Michelle Yeoh play the part of 'Bond girl - Wai Lin'?
Answer: 'TOMORROW NEVER DIES'
Question: With what instrument would you associate the classical performer Murray Parahia?
Answer: PIANO
Question: What is the alternative name for the bird Philomel?
Answer: NIGHTINGALE
Question: Marsala is a fortified wine from which island?
Answer: SICILY
Question: In which 'James Bond' film did the character 'Honey Ryder' appear?
Answer: 'DR. NO'
Question: By what name is the English entertainer and Disc Jockey James Wilson Vincent better known?
Answer: JIMMY SAVILE
Question: Who was the Roman goddess of the youth?
Answer: JUVENTAS
Question: Which is the next number in the Fibronacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, .....?
Answer: 21
Question: Which US rock band comprises brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill with their cousin Matthew?
Answer: 'KINGS OF LEON'
Question: Who is the regular presenter on BBC Radio Two on Monday to Friday from 5.00pm to 7.00pm?
Answer: SIMON MAYO
Question: Which river forms most of the boundary between the US states of Oregon and Washington?
Answer: COLUMBIA
Question: The capital city of which European country lies on the River Ljubljanica?
Answer: SLOVENIA
Question: In Greek myth who was the leader of the Titans, who overthrew his father Uranus and was then overthrown by his son Zeus?
Answer: CRONUS
Question: Who was the son of Darius and King of Persia from 486 to 465 BC?
Answer: XERXES
Question: In Greek myth who was the Titan of memory and remembrance, and mother of the nine Muses?
Answer: MNEMOSYNE
Question: What star sign comes immediately before Aquarius?
Answer: CAPRICORN
Question: Which pop group recorded the 1996 album "High on the Hog"?
Answer: THE BAND
Question: What was the real name of the murderer known as the 'Boston Strangler'?
Answer: ALBERT DE SALVO
Question: The animal welfare charity The National Canine Defence League changed its name to what?
Answer: Dogs’ Trust
Question: Which Hollywood star's last film was "Cuban Rebel Girls" in 1959
Answer: Errol Flynn
Question: What was the name of the "major" at the centre of the 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" controversy?
Answer: Charles Ingram
Question: Vega is the brightest star of which zodiacal constellation?
Answer: Lyra
Question: Urquhart castle in Scotland overlooks which famous stretch of water?
Answer: Loch Ness
Question: The opera The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten is based on whose novella
Answer: Henry James
Question: Who was the only English player to score in the 2015 FA Cup Final?
Answer: Theo Walcott
Question: The predominant cause of rickets is a deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: D
Question: Which of the five dwarf planets is in the asteroid belt?
Answer: Ceres
Question: In which BBC crime series did the characters 'Ray Carling', 'Chris Skelton' and 'Alex Drake' appear?
Answer: 'ASHES TO ASHES'
Question: What was the name of the daily train service that ran between London and Paris until 1972?
Answer: THE GOLDEN ARROW
Question: How is Galanthus nivalis better known?
Answer: SNOWDROP
Question: Which company has supplied all of the balls for FIFA World Cup Finals since 1970?
Answer: ADIDAS
Question: Derived from the Greek for 'work', what is the CGS unit of energy?
Answer: ERG
Question: What is the title of the novel by Ian McEwan set in February 2003 on the day of the demonstration against the invasion of Iraq?
Answer: 'SATURDAY'
Question: Lexus is the luxury vehicle division of which manufacturer?
Answer: TOYOTA
Question: Making his debut for Sunderland the season before last, who is the only footballer from Albania ever to play in the Premier League?
Answer: LORIK CANA
Question: Which pop group, that had hits in the 1990's with 'Glory Box' and 'All Mine', are named after a small town in Somerset?
Answer: 'PORTISHEAD'
Question: In the poem by William Blake which animal was "Burning bright in the forests of the night"?
Answer: 'THE TYGER'
Question: On which British island in the South Atlantic would you find Wideawake Airfield?
Answer: ASCENSION ISLAND
Question: The 'Coxa' is the medical name for which bone in the human body?
Answer: HIPBONE
Question: What is the value of pi to two decimal places?
Answer: 3.14
Question: Historically, French kings were crowned at the famous cathedral in which French city?
Answer: RHEIMS
Question: Launched by the Soviet Union in April 1971, what was the name of the first space station?
Answer: SALYUT 1
Question: Which Italian football club did Sven-Goran Eriksson leave in order to take over as manager of England?
Answer: LAZIO
Question: In which Dickens novel do the characters 'Gaffer Hexam', 'John Harmon', and 'Bradley Headstone'?
Answer: 'OUR MUTUAL FRIEND'
Question: Which 20th century British Prime Minister lived the longest?
Answer: JAMES CALLAGHAN
Question: In which Italian town was the World G8 Conference held in 2009?
Answer: L'AQUILA
Question: Which city was the capital of the Inca Empire?
Answer: CUSCO
Question: The 'RMS Titanic' was built at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, in which city?
Answer: BELFAST
Question: Which actor played the title character in the films 'Johnny Suede', 'Meet Joe Black' and 'The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button'?
Answer: BRAD PITT
Question: Which English explorer was responsible for establishing the first English colony in the 'New World', in 1584 at Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina?
Answer: WALTER RALEIGH
Question: Which 17th century Italian scientist is best remembered for inventing the Mercury Barometer?
Answer: EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI
Question: Which English navigator, who dies in 1596, was buried at sea in a lead coffin off the coast of Panama?
Answer: FRANCIS DRAKE
Question: Which Belgian city is known as the 'diamond cutting capital of the world'?
Answer: ANTWERP
Question: Who was the wife of the Greek hero Agamemnon who murdered him on his return from Troy?
Answer: CLYTEMNESTRA
Question: 'Tom and Maggie Tulliver' are the central characters in which of George Eliot's novels?
Answer: 'THE MILL ON THE FLOSS'
Question: What was the name of the fictional paper company whose offices provide the setting for the British sit-com 'The Office'?
Answer: 'WERNHAM HOGG'
Question: In which city is the Uffizi Gallery to be found?
Answer: FLORENCE
Question: Which mammal has three species - 'Mountain', 'Plains' and 'Grevy's'?
Answer: ZEBRA
Question: Which jockey won the 2010 Aintree Grand National on 'Don't Push It', at his fifteenth attempt?
Answer: TONY MCCOY
Question: Three British athletes have been nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year - Paula Radcliffe (3 times), Kelly Holmes (who won in 2005) and which Heptathlete in 2011?
Answer: JESSICA ENNIS
Question: Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons make up which musical duo?
Answer: 'THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS'
Question: Which European country consists of a peninsula and many islands including Funen and Zealand?
Answer: DENMARK
Question: In which play by George Bernard Shaw is the daughter of 'Lady Britomart Undershaft' an Officer of the Salvation Army?
Answer: 'MAJOR BARBARA'
Question: Whose only 'Oscar' for Best Director was for 'Annie Hall' in 1978?
Answer: WOODY ALLEN
Question: There are fifteen Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire. Only one is not represented by a Labour MP. Who is he?
Answer: NICK CLEGG
Question: Israel has two official languages. One is Hebrew. What is the other?
Answer: ARABIC
Question: Miracle, Kelvedon Wonder, and Meteor are all types of which vegetable?
Answer: PEA
Question: Frederico Franco became President of which South American country in 2012?
Answer: PARAGUAY
Question: In which African capital city are the headquarters of the Organisation of African Unity?
Answer: ADDIS ABABA
Question: Finland has two official languages. Finnish is one. What is the other?
Answer: SWEDISH
Question: On a French menu what are rognons?
Answer: Kidneys
Question: Which coastal Scottish Football League team are known as The Honest Men'?
Answer: Ayr United
Question: The treaty known at The Peace of Westphalia formally ended which seventeenth-century contact?
Answer: Thirty Years Wars
Question: Sorbus is the generic name given to which trees?
Answer: Rowan
Question: Which maligned Biblical figure was the father of Enoch?
Answer: Cain
Question: What name is given to the Japanese verse form arranged in three lines of five, seven and five syllables?
Answer: Haiku
Question: Which comedy figure opened a London nightclub called The Establishment' in 1961?
Answer: Peter Cook
Question: Who sang the theme for the Jams Bond film ‘Octopussy’?
Answer: Rita Coolidge
Question: ‘The Endless River' due for release in October 2014 is the latest album by which veteran rock band?
Answer: Pink Floyd
Question: Raratonga is the most populous island of which group?
Answer: Cook Islands
Question: Which Greek deity, the daughter of Zeus and Hera was goddess of youth?
Answer: Hebe
Question: Which artist’s works include 32 Campbell’s soup cans?
Answer: (Andy) Warhol
Question: Which plant widely cultivated for its seeds and oil has the Latin name Helianthus Annus?
Answer: Sunflower
Question: Hastings Banda was the first President of which African country?
Answer: Malawi
Question: What did British mathematician Andrew Wiles prove in 1993?
Answer: Fermat's Last Theorem
Question: What is the brightest star in Ursa Minor?
Answer: Polaris
Question: We call the fruit an Avocado, what do the American's call it?
Answer: Alligator Pear
Question: Which bank, the fourth largest investment bank in the USA, filed for bankruptcy on September 15th 2008?
Answer: Lehman Brothers
Question: Robin's Nest, owned by Robin Masters, is a beach front estate in which US crime drama of the 1980s?
Answer: Magnum (PI)
Question: The Hassan II Mosque, opened in 1993, with the world's tallest minaret, is in which country?
Answer: Morocco
Question: Which Hanoverian King was married to Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen?
Answer: William IV
Question: Adam Clayton, The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr are three members of which band formed in 1976?
Answer: U2
Question: Who assassinated Martin Luther King Junior?
Answer: James Earl Ray
Question: In Greek Mythology who was the ferryman who carried the dead to the underworld across the River Styx?
Answer: Charon
Question: The Riau Islands are a province of which country?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: In which Shakespeare play does Feste the clown say "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"?
Answer: Twelfth Night
Question: Who wrote "Mrs Dalloway" and "Orlando"?
Answer: Virginia Woolf
Question: What was the family name of Frank and his six children in the Channel 4 TV series Shameless?
Answer: GALLAGHER
Question: By what name was Barbara Gordon known in DC Comics from 1967 to the mid-1980s?
Answer: BATGIRL
Question: Who defeated Wladimir Klitschko to win the world heavyweight boxing title last November?
Answer: TYSON FURY
Question: The date October 21st 2015 played a significant part in which 1989 film?
Answer: BACK TO THE FUTURE
Question: Which variety of solo card game patience takes its name from a gold rush location in the Yukon Territory?
Answer: Klondike
Question: The Scottish port of Stranraer stands on which sea loch, which acts a natural harbour for shipping?
Answer: Loch Ryan
Question: Which organ of the human body produces insulin?
Answer: Pancreas
Question: Which fictional Frenchman was prisoner 24601?
Answer: (Jean) Valjean
Question: Who played the Penguin in the 1992 film Batman Returns?
Answer: Danny Devito
Question: Which word completes the title of the 1926 D H Lawrence novel - The ______ Serpent?
Answer: PLUMED
Question: Which medical instrument was invented by René Laennec at the Necker Hospital in Paris in 1816?
Answer: STETHOSCOPE
Question: Only two grounds have hosted England football internationals, an England test match and an FA Cup Final replay. One is the Oval. Which ground is the other?
Answer: BRAMALL LANE
Question: What name is shared by a Ford car produced from 1939 to 1967 and an ITV company established in 1959?
Answer: ANGLIA
Question: Which song title links a 1957 single release by Carl Perkins and a 1963 single by the Dave Clark Five?
Answer: Glad All Over
Question: In 1830 which US president signed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized the forced removal of Native Americans from land?
Answer: (Andrew) Jackson
Question: In the Bible, who was the first wife of Jacob and had twelve sons?
Answer: Leah
Question: Graham Hick played cricket for England and which other country?
Answer: Zimbabwe
Question: Which driver won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, the youngest ever winner of a Grand Prix?
Answer: Max Verstappen
Question: Moon River and Days of Wine and Roses won Grammy Awards as Record of the Year in the early 1960s for which composer?
Answer: Henry Mancini
Question: Which is the only one of the English Classic horse races for which the Queen has not owned the winner?
Answer: The Derby
Question: Whose painting “Samson and Delilah”, from about 1609, is in the National Gallery in London?
Answer: Peter Paul Rubens
Question: Eight year old Bailey Matthews who has cerebral palsy won an award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2015 ‘for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity’ named after which late female Sports presenter?
Answer: Helen Rollason
Question: Who is the god of mischief and destruction in Norse myth?
Answer: Loki
Question: Fray Bentos is a seaport and capital of the Río Negro Department of which country of South America?
Answer: Uruguay
Question: In the nursery rhyme Who Killed Cock Robin, which animal dug the grave?
Answer: The owl
Question: Polaris or the north star, is the brightest star in which constellation?
Answer: Ursa Minor
Question: In which year of the 1930’s did Fred Perry first win the Wimbledon men’s singles title?
Answer: 1934
Question: Which French Post-Impressionist painter produced the works "Surprised!", "In a Tropical Forest", "Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo" and "The Football Players"?
Answer: (Henri) Rousseau
Question: In which sport could you win the Val Barker Trophy?
Answer: Boxing
Question: 'The Weaver Of Raveloe' is the subtitle of which famous 19th century novel?
Answer: 'SILAS MARNER'
Question: In which river was the Russian monk Rasputin drowned?
Answer: NEVA
Question: Who became English football's most expensive player when he moved from Norwich City to Blackburn Rovers for £5 million in July 1994?
Answer: CHRIS SUTTON
Question: Which two word term is used to describe the gravitational boundary enclosing a 'Black Hole', from which nothing can escape?
Answer: EVENT HORIZON
Question: The giant bird Dinornis robustus, found in New Zealand, was unique in the bird kingdom in having no wings. It stood at up to 10 feet tall and was hunted to extinction around 1500 AD. By what name is this bird commonly known?
Answer: MOA
Question: In horse racing, at which racecourse are all five of the Irish Classics held?
Answer: CURRAGH
Question: Who was the 19th century English essayist who wrote 'The Spirit Of The Age' and 'On The Pleasure Of Hating'?
Answer: WILLIAM HAZLITT
Question: Which singer has had a 2010 UK number one album with 'Aphrodite'?
Answer: KYLIE MINOGUE
Question: In the Christian calendar, what name is given to the Sunday immediately prior to Palm Sunday?
Answer: PASSION SUNDAY
Question: Which 1980 Olivia Newton-John and ELO song is the only UK number one single to begin with the letter 'X'?
Answer: 'XANADU'