zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who became chief editor of Cosmopolitan magazine in 1965?
Answer: Helen Gurley Brown
Question: Which poet wrote The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Answer: Robert Browning
Question: Which planet in the solar system is closest in size to Earth?
Answer: VENUS
Question: 1970’s TV. What was the forename of Reggie Perrin’s incompetent brother-in-law?
Answer: JIMMY
Question: In which African country can you find Timbuktu?
Answer: MALI
Question: In what year in the sixties did it take place?
Answer: 1969
Question: She was built in 1869 to carry what cargo?
Answer: TEA
Question: Who wrote the 1924 poem ‘Leda and the Swan’?
Answer: W. B. YEATS
Question: Which socialist, federal republic existed from 1943 until 1992?
Answer: YUGOSLAVIA
Question: By what more familiar name is the company of Asquith and Dairies better known?
Answer: ASDA
Question: The village of Anatevka appears in which musical?
Answer: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Question: Whose madness presumably came about as the result of inhaling mercury fumes?
Answer: The MAD HATTER
Question: What state is governed by the Bishop of Urgell and the President of France?
Answer: Andorra
Question: Hughie Jones, Cliff Hall, Mick Groves and Tony Davis comprised which top folk line up?
Answer: The Spinners
Question: Which poet and playwright’s mother wrote under the pen-name Speranza?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Question: Which Persian king invaded Greece to punish Athens?
Answer: Darius
Question: By what name was the notorious organisation run by the Kray twins known?
Answer: The Firm
Question: The Hungarian national dish goulash is chiefly flavoured with which spice?
Answer: Paprika
Question: Which country declared war on Britain in 1812?
Answer: U S A
Question: Which new film is considered by many critics to be Woody Allen’s best for 20 years?
Answer: Blue Jasmine
Question: If you were using a pull-through what would you be cleaning?
Answer: A Rifle
Question: Which of Beethoven’s symphonies was nicknamed ‘The Eroica’?
Answer: Third
Question: Which James Bond villain owns the island of Crab Key?
Answer: Dr. No
Question: In which fictional county is ‘The Archers’ set?
Answer: Borsetshire
Question: Which British dramatist wrote the 1945 play ‘An Inspector Calls’?
Answer: J. B. Priestley
Question: It is generally agreed that the term ‘hat-trick’ was first used in 1858, in which sport?
Answer: cricket
Question: In the Sherlock Holmes story, what was ‘The Speckled Band’?
Answer: snake
Question: What one word is the Latin for ‘for all’?
Answer: omnibus
Question: What Latin phrase refers to a vital condition, something absolutely necessary?
Answer: sine qua non
Question: What is the more common name given to the illness parotitis?
Answer: mumps
Question: Including the positives and negatives, there are eight blood groups. Which is the rarest?
Answer: AB negative
Question: John Gilbert, Charles Buchel, Maurycy Gottlieb and others have all painted whom?
Answer: Shylock
Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1997 for his part in ‘Shine’?
Answer: Geoffrey Rush
Question: Who wanted a lever that was long enough, in order to move the world?
Answer: Archimedes
Question: In geometry, what word is used for a line that touches a circle but does not cut it?
Answer: tangent
Question: Dr Evil is the arch-enemy of which spoof film title character hero?
Answer: Austin Powers
Question: Sir John Oldcastle is said to be the model for which Shakespeare character?
Answer: Falstaff
Question: The tarboosh is another name for which hat?
Answer: Fez
Question: What term is used for the appliance of gold or silver to a surface in a fine pattern?
Answer: Filigree
Question: Who did Zeus have chained to a rock for giving fire to the human race?
Answer: Prometheus
Question: Who composed The Resurrection Symphony and The Symphony of a Thousand?
Answer: Mahler
Question: Which county was absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974?
Answer: Huntingdonshire
Question: Which German word means low-brow, cheesy, mass-produced art in poor taste?
Answer: Kitsch
Question: Which dynastic honour group is restricted to 24 members at any given time?
Answer: Order of Merit
Question: Which institution was abolished as ‘useless and dangerous’ in 1649?
Answer: House of Lords
Question: In Greek myth who won the beauty contest judged by Paris?
Answer: Aphrodite
Question: In which cult 1960s TV series did villagers read the Tally Ho newspaper?
Answer: The Prisoner
Question: The pagan festival Samhain is now better known as what?
Answer: Halloween
Question: Which economic law says ‘Bad money drives out good’?
Answer: Gresham’s Law
Question: What word can precede ‘beer’, ‘bread’, and ‘nut’ to make well-known terms?
Answer: GINGER
Question: Who wrote the original poem in the second half of the 19th century?
Answer: WALT WHITMAN
Question: In 1979, which seaside town became the first in Britain to set up a nudist beach?
Answer: BRIGHTON
Question: Who wrote the 1900 novel ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’?
Answer: FRANK L. BAUM
Question: Who is the long-time judo sparring partner of Arkady Rotenberg?
Answer: Vladimir PUTIN
Question: Which saint is frequently depicted as being killed by arrows?
Answer: SEBASTIAN
Question: On which 2014 Richard Linklater film did production begin in 2002, but not end until 2014?
Answer: BOYHOOD
Question: What was the birth name of the woman who married Laurence Olivier in 1961?
Answer: JOAN PLOWRIGHT
Question: In rugby union, the hooker wears no.2. What number is worn in rugby league?
Answer: NINE
Question: What is rugby union’s equivalent of a ‘fair catch’ in American football?
Answer: A MARK
Question: What method of demise is known medically as exsanguination?
Answer: Bleeding to Death
Question: Which form of Buddhism is prevalent in Japan?
Answer: Zen
Question: What word is used by Christians for the suffering and death of Jesus?
Answer: Passion
Question: To where was Archbishop Makarios exiled by the British in the mid 50s?
Answer: The Seychelles
Question: What unofficial title was given to George Hudson MP in 1844?
Answer: The Railway King
Question: What was the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band split up?
Answer: Abbey Road
Question: In which city were all but six French kings crowned?
Answer: Rheims
Question: What was Casanova’s occupation at the time of is death?
Answer: Librarian
Question: Which global company owes everything to an invention by Dr John S Pemberton?
Answer: Coca Cola
Question: Shelley’s Adonias is an elegy on the death of which poet?
Answer: Keats
Question: What word is used for the tail of a rabbit, hare or deer?
Answer: Scut
Question: Which capital was burned by the British in 1814?
Answer: Washington
Question: Which of the Greek islands is closest to the Albanian coast?
Answer: Corfu
Question: What do the Germans call Donau?
Answer: The River Danube
Question: Which title character does John Ridd fall head over heels for?
Answer: Lorna Doone
Question: Oscar Hammerstein mentored which librettist, who wrote the lyrics to 'West Side Story'?
Answer: Stephen Sondheim
Question: Which Royal Naval vessel was the subject of the Yangtze Incident in 1949?
Answer: HMS Amethyst
Question: In 1960 the first laser used which crystal as its lens, perhaps after 40 years of trying?
Answer: Ruby
Question: In 1901 who became the last non-league winners of the FA Cup?
Answer: Tottenham Hotspur
Question: Crombie overcoats and Harrington jackets clad which youth movement?
Answer: Skinheads
Question: What is the total if you add the regnal numbers of our last three kings?
Answer: 19
Question: Which amendment to the US constitution protects against self-incrimination?
Answer: Fifth
Question: In 1700 Solomon de Medina was the first from which religion to receive a knighthood?
Answer: Judaism
Question: 'Elizabethan Serenade' was a pop hit for Boris Gardiner under what title?
Answer: Elizabethan Reggae
Question: The word 'refugee' first described which protestants fleeing from France to England?
Answer: Huguenots
Question: Which entrepreneur launched Skytrain in 1977 but went bankrupt in 1982?
Answer: Freddy Laker
Question: What is the name of Donald Duck’s girlfriend?
Answer: Daisy
Question: In which Asian state do the Karen people make up 7% of the population?
Answer: Burma
Question: Who was President of the Screen Actor’s Guild in the 40s and 50s?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: What was the title of cult film hero James Dean’s last film?
Answer: Giant
Question: If you cut off a cockroach’s head from what would it be likely to die?
Answer: Starvation
Question: Who was the last reigning Stuart monarch?
Answer: Queen Anne
Question: According to the old advert which beer ‘refreshes the parts other beers can’t reach’?
Answer: Heineken
Question: Which game show presenter was deputy headmaster of Caton School near Lancaster?
Answer: Jim Bowen
Question: Fanny Brawne was engaged to which noted British poet?
Answer: John KEATS
Question: What was the exact date in 1944 in which they took place?
Answer: 6th JUNE
Question: Whose book, ‘Dreams From My Father’, was published in 1995?
Answer: BARACK OBAMA
Question: The Egyptian god Anubis had the head of which animal?
Answer: JACKAL
Question: Who painted the portrait of Anne of Cleves that so impressed Henry VIII?
Answer: HANS HOLBEIN
Question: What were the first two names of ‘Scott of the Antarctic’?
Answer: ROBERT FALCON
Question: The Jagger-Richard song ‘As Tears Go By’ was the first hit for whom?
Answer: MARIANNE FAITHFULL
Question: Which failed venture was led by the Duke of Medina Sidonia?
Answer: Spanish Armada
Question: Who made a cameo appearance in Die Another Day as Verity a fencing instructor?
Answer: Madonna
Question: In heraldry what is the name for the colour black?
Answer: Sable
Question: In French cuisine what is the term for a baby chicken?
Answer: Poussin
Question: The badge of which cricket county features three pears?
Answer: Worcester
Question: Used in brewing what is Humulus Lupulus?
Answer: The Hop Plant
Question: Which adventurer lived at 7 Savile Row?
Answer: Phileas Fogg
Question: The Schlieffen Plan was enacted during which conflict?
Answer: World War I
Question: Which English town did the Romans call Camulodonum?
Answer: Colchester
Question: Which city does Islam regard as the next most holy after Mecca?
Answer: Medina
Question: For which London football club did Rod Stewart have an unsuccessful trial?
Answer: Brentford
Question: What is the name of the Teletubbies’ vacuum cleaner-like housekeeper and guardian?
Answer: Noo-noo
Question: Which EU country’s national anthem, “The Royal March”, has no official words?
Answer: Spain
Question: Mercenary soldiers from which country were described as “Wild Geese”?
Answer: Ireland
Question: Which major US city’s metropolitan area is clustered around Puget Sound?
Answer: Seattle
Question: Which country’s burgeoning film industry is nicknamed “Nollywood”?
Answer: Nigeria
Question: Which epic poem, attributed to Homer, tells a history of the Trojan Wars?
Answer: The Iliad
Question: What term can be both a piece of cartilage in certain joints and a feature of a liquid?
Answer: Meniscus
Question: Who was the first of the regular cast of ‘Dad’s Army’ to die?
Answer: JAMES BECK
Question: What Islamic religious title was given to General Gordon’s nemesis?
Answer: MAHDI
Question: Who were the runners up in the men’s rugby union 2012-13 Six Nations competition?
Answer: ENGLAND
Question: Which sport was played at Wimbledon prior to lawn tennis?
Answer: CROQUET
Question: Whose radio show can be heard on Radio 1 Mondays to Thursdays, 7-00 to 9-00 pm?
Answer: Zane LOWE
Question: In what year did King Edward VIII’s abdication crisis occur?
Answer: 1936
Question: Who is the patron saint of physicians and surgeons?
Answer: Saint LUKE
Question: In the film 'Psycho', what was Norman Bates' hobby?
Answer: TAXIDERMY
Question: What was the title of the first feature film made in Cinemascope?
Answer: THE ROBE
Question: Attributed to Saint Piran, the flag of which English county is a white cross on a black field?
Answer: CORNWALL
Question: Which TV celebrity chef's Jack Russell Terrier, Chalky, died aged 17 in January 2007?
Answer: Rick STEIN
Question: Who had a UK Top 10 chart hit in 1976 with 'Devil Woman'?
Answer: Cliff RICHARD
Question: Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were born in what would become which US state?
Answer: SOUTH DAKOTA
Question: What type of creature is a Coalmouse?
Answer: BIRD
Question: Which creature produces the epicurean delicacy known as 'green fat'?
Answer: TURTLE
Question: Which young woman fatally stabbed Jean Paul Marat while he was in his bath?
Answer: Charlotte CORDAY
Question: In which city were the crime series 'Homicide: Life on the Street' and 'The Wire' both set?
Answer: BALTIMORE
Question: A deficiency in which trace element is a major cause of the condition called goitre?
Answer: IODINE
Question: In which country are the headquarters of the high-street clothing retailers H&M?
Answer: Sweden
Question: Which building did Clive James describe as a “portable typewriter full of oyster shells”?
Answer: Sydney Opera House
Question: In which board game might you hit a blot?
Answer: Backgammon
Question: What musical instrument forms one of the playing pieces in Buckaroo?
Answer: Guitar
Question: An island purchased by Isaac Bedlow in 1667 is the site of which US National Monument?
Answer: The Statue of Liberty
Question: Which canal forms a navigable link between New York and the Great Lakes?
Answer: Erie Canal
Question: Rimini Miramare airport has been renamed in honour of which noted film director?
Answer: Federico Fellini
Question: Ride of the Valkyries is the official quick march of which branch of the British Army?
Answer: Parachute Regiment
Question: Which tube station forms the southern terminus of the Bakerloo line?
Answer: Elephant and Castle
Question: What sort of creature is an Alewife?
Answer: A Fish
Question: Who co-produced the album Thriller with Michael Jackson?
Answer: Quincy Jones
Question: In 1918, who wrote the song God Bless America?
Answer: Irving Berlin
Question: Leonard Alfred Schneider is best remembered by what stage name?
Answer: Lenny Bruce
Question: Under whose reign did England lose its last possession on mainland France?
Answer: Mary I
Question: In which book do the Ten Commandments first appear?
Answer: Exodus
Question: Which drink did J.S. Bach like so much that he wrote a cantata for it?
Answer: Coffee
Question: Who was the first to put steam engines in ships and build the first practical submarine?
Answer: Robert Fulton
Question: What was Thomas Hardy s last completed novel?
Answer: Jude the Obscure
Question: WWII, in which year did the Battle of Kursk occur ?
Answer: 1943
Question: Gorbachev became Soviet Premier in which year ?
Answer: 1985
Question: WWII, in which year did the Battle of Stalingrad take place ?
Answer: 1943
Question: In the TV series 'Lost', who played a rock musician from Manchester called Charlie Pace?
Answer: Dominic MONAGHAN
Question: Which place did Freddy Mercury & Montserrat Caballë sing about in 1987?
Answer: BARCELONA
Question: Which was the first country to establish a permanent airport on Antarctica?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: Which Muppet shares his name with members (male & female) of the Roosevelt clan?
Answer: KERMIT
Question: Besides Uranium, which extremely radioactive element is extracted from Pitchblende?
Answer: RADIUM
Question: What term is given to a buyer of new shares expecting the market will push the price up?
Answer: STAG
Question: Which legendary race horse was the subject of a major feature film in 2003?
Answer: SEABISCUIT
Question: On which Island did many of the mutineers from HMS Bounty famously settle?
Answer: PITCAIRN
Question: Which country contains provinces called Bihar and Kerela?
Answer: INDIA
Question: Which country was formerly called Northern Rhodesia?
Answer: ZAMBIA
Question: What name is given to the outward force on a rotating body?
Answer: Centrifugal
Question: Which Scottish author died in Samoa?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
Question: What reached England from Europe in 1348?
Answer: The Black Death
Question: Which writer’s name means ‘jackdaw’ in Czech?
Answer: Kafka
Question: Which country withdrew from the Warsaw Pact in 1968?
Answer: Albania
Question: What is the highest caste in Hinduism?
Answer: Brahman
Question: In French cuisine, of what are lardons small pieces?
Answer: Bacon
Question: Who, with his colleague Picasso, was credited with originating Cubism?
Answer: Georges Braque
Question: Which fleet was famously defeated and scattered at the Battle of Gravelines?
Answer: Spanish Armada
Question: In which British city did gangs in the 1980s fight a turf war dubbed the “Ice Cream Wars”?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: Limestone is essentially made up of which chemical compound?
Answer: Calcium carbonate
Question: Under what pen name does novelist David Cornwell write?
Answer: John le Carré
Question: Of what breed was Schnorbitz, with whom Bernie Winters appeared in his later career?
Answer: St Bernard
Question: Which classic novel begins, “Call me Ishmael”?
Answer: Moby Dick
Question: What is the two-letter prefix used in numbering the highest grade of Spanish motorway?
Answer: AP
Question: Which species of wild goose, Anser anser, is the ancestor of all European domestic geese?
Answer: Greylag Goose
Question: Of what species is Yggdrasil, the immense tree at the heart of Norse mythology?
Answer: Ash
Question: Which breakfast cereal’s manufacturing process did Henry Perky patent in 1895?
Answer: Shredded Wheat
Question: What is the one-word name of the artificial sweetener sold as Candarel and NutraSweet?
Answer: Aspartame
Question: Which “Tom” gave simultaneous 1958 hits to Lonnie Donegan and the Kingston Trio?
Answer: Tom Dooley
Question: Which aliens in Doctor Who originate from Earth’s twin planet, Mondas?
Answer: Cybermen
Question: Which character in ‘Oliver Twist’ is later revealed to be Oliver’s great uncle?
Answer: MR. BROWNLOW
Question: In Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, what M is the name of Prospero’s daughter?
Answer: MIRANDA
Question: What fine translucent cotton muslin is usually stiffened and used for women's clothing?
Answer: ORGANDY
Question: What was the first name of Henry VIII’s elder sister, who married James IV of Scotland?
Answer: MARGARET
Question: ‘The knight of the doleful countenance’ refers to what literary figure?
Answer: DON QUIXOTE
Question: Who was Emperor of Rome when the invasion of Britain was completed?
Answer: Claudius
Question: In which state of the USA was Elvis Presley born?
Answer: Mississippi
Question: Gordon Comstock is the chief protagonist in which Orwell novel?
Answer: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Question: On which Scottish island did he write 1984 between 1946 and 1948?
Answer: Jura
Question: Which acid is produced by the Gay-Lussac process?
Answer: Sulphuric
Question: What was the first forename of the Russian composer Stravinsky?
Answer: Igor
Question: In which country is the holiday resort of Sousse?
Answer: Tunisia
Question: Which North African country has Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines?
Answer: Morocco
Question: On which river does the city of Leeds stand?
Answer: Aire
Question: Where in the body is the pineal gland?
Answer: Brain
Question: Who played Bond Girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again?
Answer: Kim Basinger
Question: Bryher is part of which island group?
Answer: Scillies
Question: By what name is Aragorn first known to the hobbits when they meet him in Bree?
Answer: Strider
Question: Which Italian violinist was believed to be in league with the devil?
Answer: Paganini
Question: Who rode a horse called Binky in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels?
Answer: Death
Question: Which prophet rode a horse called Al Borak?
Answer: Mohammed
Question: Which island calls itself Kerkyra?
Answer: Corfu
Question: Which scientific principle is used in a police speed trap?
Answer: The Doppler Effect
Question: What is Dorothy’s surname in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: Gale
Question: What is the capital of the North Atlantic island of Bermuda?
Answer: Hamilton
Question: What is the name of the Scottish river spirit usually appearing as a horse?
Answer: Kelpie
Question: What was Lester Piggott’s first Derby winner?
Answer: Never Say Die
Question: Goodluck Jonathan is president of which African country?
Answer: Nigeria
Question: At which Grand prix circuit was Ayrton Senna killed in 1994?
Answer: Imola
Question: Which famous Scotsman died aged 37 in 1796?
Answer: Robbie Burns
Question: In the USA an FBI agent is often called a G-Man – for what does the G stand?
Answer: Government
Question: Which country had a parliament called the Duma?
Answer: Russia
Question: Who are the base and deformed humanoids he meets in the land of the Houyhnhnms?
Answer: Yahoos
Question: Who wrote the feminist work Fear of Flying?
Answer: Erica Jong
Question: Which rock legend was born on the island of Zanzibar?
Answer: Freddy Mercury
Question: Who said ‘a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic’?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: Which future king was created Prince of Wales in 1301?
Answer: Edward II
Question: Which maker of fashionable outdoor wear was founded in Basingstoke in 1865?
Answer: Burberry
Question: Who was the father of the apostles James and John?
Answer: Zebedee
Question: Which ‘Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures’ turned out to be the ‘fourth man’?
Answer: Anthony Blunt
Question: Which relatively common affliction is known formally as ‘hemicrania’?
Answer: Migraine
Question: Which creature is considered to be the natural host of the Ebola virus?
Answer: Fruit Bat
Question: Which English town/city did the Romans call Camulodonum?
Answer: Colchester
Question: What kind of creature is a monitor?
Answer: Lizard
Question: Which common flavouring is obtained primarily from a Mexican variety of orchid?
Answer: Vanilla
Question: In the expression ‘By Jove’ – who is Jove?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Who produced the V12 powered Miura – the fastest production car around in the 1970s?
Answer: Lamborghini
Question: In which North American river are the Thousand Islands?
Answer: St Lawrence
Question: At which city do the Blue and White Niles meet?
Answer: Khartoum
Question: What region did Khrushchev gift to Ukraine in 1954?
Answer: Crimea
Question: St Mungo’s Cathedral is situated in which British city?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: Ninevah was the capital of which ancient empire?
Answer: Assyrian
Question: Who defeated the Spartans and their allies at Thermopylae in 480 BC?
Answer: Persians
Question: What type of cat can be Classic, Mackerel, Spotted or Ticked?
Answer: Tabby Cat
Question: Which chemical element takes its name from the Greek for a shade of green?
Answer: CHLORINE
Question: The President of the USA fired General MacArthur in April. Who was the President?
Answer: Harry TRUMAN
Question: In December, which former Italian colony declared independence in Africa?
Answer: LIBYA
Question: In which river was Jesus baptized by John the Baptist?
Answer: JORDAN
Question: Which activity is sometimes called sailboarding or boardsailing?
Answer: WINDSURFING
Question: What name is given to the Irish dish of potato and cabbage, sometimes served as a stew?
Answer: COLCANNON
Question: France signed the Treaty of Luneville with which continental European Power?
Answer: Austria
Question: Which was King Arthur’s last battle, where he either died or was fatally wounded?
Answer: Camlann
Question: Also known as Annonaria; in Roman mythology, who was the personification of luck?
Answer: Fortuna
Question: Which hot drink did J S Bach enjoy so much he wrote a cantata for it?
Answer: Coffee
Question: Jocasta was the wife of Laius and the mother of which other famous individual?
Answer: Oedipus
Question: The title of whose best-known book translates into English as 'My Struggle'?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Question: According to his business card, the gangster Al Capone dealt in what?
Answer: Used Furniture
Question: Who famously set James Thomson's poem, 'Rule, Britannia' to music?
Answer: Thomas Arne
Question: Whose estranged wife Ingrid was granted a 'quickie divorce' at London's High Court?
Answer: Chris Tarrant
Question: Which Indian 'Celebrity' thanked Tony Blair for his support during her torrid time on TV?
Answer: Shilpa Shetty
Question: At the beginning of a game of chess, which pieces are found on b1, b8, g1 and g8?
Answer: Knights