zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the name of the whaleship in Melville's novel Moby Dick?
Answer: Pequod
Question: Chablis is a white wine from which wine growing region of France?
Answer: Burgundy
Question: The American state of Georgia is known by what official nickname?
Answer: The Peach State
Question: What was the name of the character played by Jodie Foster in the 1991 film “Silence of the Lambs”?
Answer: CLARICE STARLING
Question: In which City is the Musical “The Flower Drum Song” set ?
Answer: SANFRANCISCO
Question: In Greek Mythology who was the son of Thetis?
Answer: ACHILLES.
Question: Jay McGuiness who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015 was a member of which Pop Group that took a “hiatus” in 2014?
Answer: THE WANTED
Question: Who was the first female President of the Irish Republic in 1990?
Answer: MARY ROBINSON
Question: Major Walter Wingfield is associated with which sport?
Answer: LAWN TENNIS
Question: Which cruise liner capsized off the island of Giglio in 2012?
Answer: COSTA CONCORDIA
Question: Who became the first King of a unified Italy in 1861?
Answer: VICTOR EMMANUEL
Question: Whose accession to the throne of England created the Union of the Scottish/English Crowns in 1603?
Answer: James VI and I
Question: What is the capital of former USSR republic of Kyrgystan?
Answer: Bishkek
Question: Who was the President of the USA at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries'?
Answer: William McKinley
Question: The memoirs of Jennifer Worth form the basis of which BBC TV drama series?
Answer: CALL THE MIDWIFE
Question: What name is given to metals such as gold and silver which are unreactive and not readily subject to corrosion?
Answer: NOBLE METALS
Question: Which 1984 film relates the experiences of photographer Dith Pran?
Answer: THE KILLING FIELDS
Question: Who was Abraham Lincoln’s vice president when he was assassinated?
Answer: ANDREW JOHNSON
Question: What is the title of the novel published this year that was originally the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: GO SET A WATCHMAN
Question: In which TV show did the character Frasier Crane first appear?
Answer: CHEERS
Question: According to the Bible’s New Testament, who replaced Judas Iscariot as one of Jesus’ twelve disciples?
Answer: MATTHIAS
Question: The song La donna e mobile comes from which Verdi opera?
Answer: RIGOLETTO
Question: What is the name of the heroine in The Hunger Games?
Answer: KATNISS EVERDEEN
Question: Leonora is the heroine of which opera premiered in 1805?
Answer: FIDELIO
Question: Easter Island is a territory belonging to which country?
Answer: CHILE
Question: The CERN laboratory is in the suburbs of which city?
Answer: GENEVA
Question: In which country would you find the ruined city of Machu Pichu?
Answer: PERU
Question: Which poet wrote the lines: “Theirs is not to question why, Theirs is but to do and die”?
Answer: Alfred Lord TENNYSON
Question: Within one year either way, in what year were Concorde planes retired from service?
Answer: 2003
Question: Which mountain range stretches from Morocco, through Algeria and into Tunisia?
Answer: THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
Question: Roger Allam plays Detective Inspector Thursday in which TV series?
Answer: ENDEAVOUR
Question: Who won a best supporting actor Oscar for his performance as Little Bill Daggett in the 1992 film “Unforgiven”?
Answer: GENE HACKMAN
Question: Which Democrat did George W Bush defeat in the 2000 US Presidential Election?
Answer: Al Gore
Question: Who rules in a Gynarchy or Gynocracy?
Answer: Women
Question: In mythology, in which country is Benzaiten the Goddess of Love and Luck?
Answer: Japan
Question: Black, White, Sumatran and Javan are varieties of which endangered species of animal?
Answer: Rhinoceros
Question: A competitor in the 2000 Sydney Olympics - by what nickname was Equatorial Guinean swimmer Eric Moussambani known?
Answer: Eric the Eel
Question: Who plays Father Brown in the 2013 BBC TV series of the same name?
Answer: Mark Williams
Question: Which chemical element, atomic number 35, takes its name from the Greek word for ‘stench’?
Answer: Bromine
Question: Which Irish poet and dramatist was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature in 1923?
Answer: W B Yeats
Question: Under what pseudonym did Edith Pargeter create the detective Brother Cadfael?
Answer: Ellis Peters
Question: Which British Prime Minister did John Bellingham assassinate in 1812?
Answer: Spencer Perceval
Question: Fountains Abbey is situated three miles SW of which Yorkshire city?
Answer: RIPON
Question: Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as President of France in 1969?
Answer: Georges Pompidou
Question: Who, in fiction, arrived in Whitby aboard the schooner Demeter?
Answer: Dracula
Question: In The Jungle Book, Colonel Hathi was the leader of which animals?
Answer: Elephants
Question: Who, in 1947, was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound?
Answer: Chuck Yeager
Question: Which car manufacturer produced the small car called the Lacetti?
Answer: CHEVROLET
Question: What is the Japanese word for a martial arts training area?
Answer: DOJO
Question: Which of the biblical judges selected his army by how they drank from a stream?
Answer: GIDEON
Question: The island of Guadalcanal belongs to which island nation?
Answer: THE SOLOMON ISLANDS
Question: Who composed The Goldberg Variations'?
Answer: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Question: Who partners Neil Tennant in the Pet Shop Boys?
Answer: CHRIS LOWE
Question: Over which country did RAF Bomber Command make food drops, codenamed ‘Operation Manna’, in April 1945?
Answer: THE NETHERLANDS
Question: Which Italian renaissance painter (1485-1576) had the surname Vecellio?
Answer: TITIAN
Question: Who is the author of a series of short stories, published in 2014, under the collective title The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher?
Answer: HILARY MANTEL
Question: What is the name of the 15-minute news programme on BBC Radio 1 broadcast at 12 45 and 1745 on weekdays?
Answer: NEWSBEAT
Question: What was the nickname of the East End murder victim Jack McVitie?
Answer: THE HAT
Question: Who did Tim Farron beat for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats this year?
Answer: NORMAN LAMB
Question: What name is shared by the magician Steven Frayne and several different football teams?
Answer: Dynamo
Question: The Victoria Falls stand on which river?
Answer: Zambezi
Question: Which English cathedral was the world's tallest building between 1311 and 1549?
Answer: Lincoln
Question: Which flower and girl’s name is the equivalent of the French name Marguerite?
Answer: Daisy
Question: Polaris, also called the North Star or the Pole Star, is located in which constellation?
Answer: Ursa Minor
Question: What name is given to a savoury jelly made with meat stock, used as a mould for meat, seafood or eggs?
Answer: Aspic
Question: Which series of books is set on the island of Sodor?
Answer: Thomas the Tank Engine
Question: Who was the Greek goddess of Retribution?
Answer: Nemesis
Question: Chartreuse liqueur can be found in two colours. Yellow is one what is the other?
Answer: Green
Question: In a nursery rhyme, where did Dr Foster step into a puddle right up to his middle?
Answer: Gloucester
Question: Which cathedra! city of northern England has railway stations called "Westgate" and "Kirkgate"?
Answer: Wakefield
Question: Which flowers form the majority of the genus Helianthus?
Answer: Sunflowers
Question: The flavouring vanilla comes from a species of which plant?
Answer: Orchid
Question: In which British City is the Squinty Bridge?
Answer: GLASGOW
Question: Which fictional RAF Station gave its name to a post war radio comedy starring Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne?
Answer: MUCH BINDING IN THE MARSH
Question: Against which side did Wayne Rooney score a penalty to beat Bobby Charlton’s England goal scoring record?
Answer: SWITZERLAND
Question: Who played the title role in the 2015 film Mr Holmes?
Answer: IAN McKELLEN
Question: Which character sings the song “I don’t know how to love him” in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar?
Answer: MARY MAGDELENE
Question: Who did England play in the opening game of the 2015 Rugby World Cup?
Answer: FIJI
Question: Which cathedral houses the bones of the Venerable Bede?
Answer: DURHAM
Question: What nationality was the painter Hieronymus Bosch?
Answer: DUTCH
Question: What name is given to a medicinal extract in a solution of alcohol?
Answer: Tincture
Question: Who was the Greek goddess of the hunt, the equivalent of the Roman goddess Diana?
Answer: Artemis
Question: Band leader Glenn Miller was an accomplished player of which musical instrument?
Answer: Trombone
Question: In Morse code, which letter of the alphabet is represented by a single dash?
Answer: T
Question: Which horse won the Aintree Grand National in 2015?
Answer: Many Clouds
Question: Which book opens with the words “When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow”?
Answer: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Question: In the build-up to World War One, what was the Dual Monarchy?
Answer: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Question: Which American General later President won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?
Answer: ANDREW JACKSON
Question: What is the pollen producing organ of a flower?
Answer: STAMEN
Question: From which country did Angola gain independence in 1975?
Answer: PORTUGAL
Question: Who wrote the 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time”?
Answer: Anthony Powell
Question: Which waterway was developed by Ferdinand de Lesseps and opened in 1869?
Answer: The Suez Canal
Question: Which fortified wine is produced in the Italian island of Sicily?
Answer: Marsala
Question: The Gulf of Aqaba is an inlet of which sea?
Answer: The Red Sea
Question: As what is a bowler hat known as in the USA?
Answer: Derby
Question: Which country on the West African coast lies between The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Namibia?
Answer: Angola
Question: Which famous showman styled himself the "Prince of Humbugs"?
Answer: Phineas T Barnum
Question: In which book of the bible is the story of the ten plagues of Egypt?
Answer: Exodus
Question: The Epsom Derby and The 2,000 Guineas Stakes are 2 of the 3 races that make up British racing's Triple Crown. Name the third.
Answer: St. Leger
Question: What was the aim of the World War 2 allied operation Dynamo?
Answer: Evacuation from Dunkirk
Question: Commonly used in the textile industry, which unit of thermal resistance is used to measure the thickness of duvets?
Answer: Tog
Question: India is the most populous country in the British Commonwealth. Which country has the 2nd largest population in the Commonwealth?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: With the county town of Lifford, which is the most northerly of the counties of the Irish Republic?
Answer: Donegal
Question: To date, no full member of the E.U. has ever left, but which autonomous country within the union voted to leave in 1982, leaving in 1985?
Answer: Greenland
Question: During World War 2 Operation Chastise was the code name for which event of 1943?
Answer: Dambusters Raid
Question: In terms of area, which is the second largest lake in North America after Lake Superior?
Answer: Lake Huron
Question: What is the most common name for the drug Sildenafil Citrate?
Answer: Viagra
Question: In which year did the Channel Tunnel open?
Answer: 1994
Question: Where on the human body is the lunula?
Answer: Fingernail
Question: Which is the latest country to join the EU, doing so in July 2013?
Answer: Croatia
Question: Timothy, Bermuda and Kangaroo are all types of what?
Answer: Grass
Question: Which internet company was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995?
Answer: eBay
Question: What was the name of the Queen Mother’s official residence in London until 2002? It is now the official residence of Prince Charles.
Answer: Clarence House
Question: ‘He who can does, he who cannot teaches’ is a quotation by which writer?
Answer: G B Shaw
Question: What alternative name was given to the American Civil War battles at Manassa in 1861?
Answer: Bull Run
Question: Which animals are termed ovine?
Answer: Sheep
Question: What was the name of Sir Francis Drake’s ship at the start of his circumnavigation of the world in 1577?
Answer: The Pelican
Question: Which organisation founded in Pulaski Tennessee in December 1865 by 6 former members of the Confederate Army?
Answer: Ku Klux Klan
Question: A Japanese painting in the simplistic style of haiga is also likely to contain what?
Answer: Haiku poem
Question: Which legendary king, the stories of whom were popular in Europe in the middle ages was said to have ruled over a Christian nation lost amidst the pagans in the orient?
Answer: Prester John (also Presbyter John)
Question: What is the illustrated manuscript produced by Celtic monks around 800 AD that has been described as the zenith of Western calligraphy and illumination?
Answer: The Book of Kells
Question: In Irish, Icelandic, and Scottish mythologies, selkies are creatures that are capable of taking what form apart from human?
Answer: The form of a seal
Question: Created by a Canadian Nobel laureate, a Vickrey auction is one where bidders submit secret written bids and in which the highest bidder wins, but the price paid is that of what?
Answer: Second-highest bid
Question: What product that makes unpacking fun was invented by sealing two shower curtains together by two engineers who intended it as wallpaper?
Answer: Bubble Wrap
Question: The town of Bretton Woods in the US was the site of the UN Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944 that led to the establishment of which two seminal world institutions in the subsequent year?
Answer: World Bank and IMF
Question: From the Arabic for 'to make known', what is the correct term for a duty imposed on foreign goods?
Answer: Tariff
Question: What is the title of the landmark television commercial that launched the Apple Macintosh in the US in January 1984?
Answer: 1984
Question: The name of which company is supposedly derived from the transcandental god of Zoraastrianism?
Answer: Mazda
Question: What principle states that 'in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence'?
Answer: Peter principle
Question: In the 2010 movie Devil, a group of people each with their own secret are trapped in what location?
Answer: Elevator
Question: The 2009 biographical film The Last Station starring Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren is about the last year in the life of which literary figure who died in 1910 at Astapovo train station?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
Question: The landmark 1960s films I Am Curious (Yellow) and I Am Curious (Blue) were named after the colors of the flag of which country?
Answer: Sweden
Question: Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of the Charles de Gaulle Airport from 1988 until 2006 may have been the inspiration behind what 2004 movie?
Answer: The Terminal
Question: Strange, love. Who became the first man to be put on the cover of Playboy when he appeared on the April, 1964 issue?
Answer: Peter Sellers
Question: Anthropologist Lévi-Strauss proposed that two animals achieved mythic status in Native American cultures as they are the mediators between life and death. Can you name one of the two?
Answer: Coyote (or) raven
Question: Hibakusha is an Asian language term for the people effected by either of what violent incidents?
Answer: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Question: Similar to thread count, mommes are units of weight traditionally used to measure the density of what?
Answer: Silk
Question: Biograph Theater in Chicago is notable as the site of the killing of which notorious personality in 1934?
Answer: John Dillinger
Question: When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under 'C H' Rules, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. Can you expand 'C H'?
Answer: Chatham House
Question: What does the Japanese word 'karoshi' translate to, which workaholics must be aware of?
Answer: Death from overwork
Question: The Ryugyong Hotel, a partially constructed concrete skyscraper that was intended to be a hotel was called 'The Worst Building in the History of Mankind' by Esquire in 2008. Where is it located?
Answer: Pyongyang, North Korea
Question: Literally 'Practice of the Wheel of Law' in Chinese, what system of mind and body cultivation has been the focus of international attention since the Chinese government began a crackdown on it?
Answer: Falun Gong (or) Falun Dafa
Question: Rarotonga is the most-populated of the group of Pacific Islands named for which explorer?
Answer: James Cook
Question: Mashair Railway that opened in 2010 connecting the sites of Mina, Muzdalifah and Mount Arafat serves the visitors of what city?
Answer: Mecca (metro)
Question: Juba is the capital of what autonomous African region that became an independent country on 9th July, 2011?
Answer: South Sudan
Question: Which land-locked country has the most official languages in the world at 34 including Spanish, Aymara and Quechua?
Answer: Bolivia
Question: Which Chilean city whose name comes from the Spanish for 'sandy point' is sometimes considered the southernmost city in the world?
Answer: Punta Arenas
Question: Scania, Zealand and Jutland have historically been the three lands of which country/kingdom?
Answer: Denmark
Question: As of April 2010, apart from Western Sahara, Tokelau is the only other non-self governing territory in the world that is not administered by the UK, US or France. Which country administers it?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Which feature that is 6380 kms long has traditionally been considered a dividing line between North and South China?
Answer: Yangtze river
Question: What is particularly common to King Charles II of England and the state of Connecticut's Royal Charter?
Answer: Oak tree
Question: Historians speculate that China attacked India in 1962 as world attention was focused on what other episode?
Answer: Cuban Missile Crisis
Question: Women groups that could not participate in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion of China organized themselves under what colorful name? Raise the ...
Answer: Red Lanterns
Question: The Cry of Dolores is regarded as the first event in the fight for independence in the history of what country?
Answer: Mexico
Question: How do we better know a list compiled in ancient times by Antipater of Sidon and by an observer identified as Philo of Byzantium?
Answer: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Question: What word, also linked to President Kennedy's liking for a Broadway musical, was used for the first time in a 1963 Life magazine article to describe a 60's era?
Answer: 'Camelot'
Question: Who is the only person in the history of the two major political parties in the US to have been his party's nominee for both President and Vice-President, but who was never elected to either office?
Answer: Bob Dole
Question: What is the name of the fictional woman who is depicted as the national emblem of the French Republic?
Answer: Marianne
Question: In 1948, which Latin American country became the first in the world to constitutionally abolish its army?
Answer: Costa Rica
Question: What South African island was used as a gaol for political prisoners while the country was under the policy of apartheid?
Answer: Robben Island
Question: What weapon do many historians call 'the machine gun of the Middle Ages'?
Answer: Longbow
Question: Idries Shah who achieved prominence as an authority on Sufism is credited with popularizing the stories of which 13th folk figure of Turkey known for his wit and humor?
Answer: Nasreddin Hodja
Question: Polynesia the parrot teaches animal language to what literary character?
Answer: Doctor Doolittle
Question: Which loathsome character of English literature is thought to be partially based on a 19th century Jewish criminal named Ikey Solomon, who was once interviewed by Dickens?
Answer: Fagin from Oliver Twist
Question: An aversion therapy called the 'Ludovico technique' from the 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange features which composer's music? Kudos if you can name the piece too.
Answer: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Question: The Queen song "Radio Ga Ga" is said to be the main inspiration behind the name of what current day hit singer?
Answer: Lady Gaga
Question: Which much-covered New Orleans song tells of a parade collision between two 'tribes' of Mardi Gras Indians was written under the original title "Jock-A-Mo" in 1954?
Answer: """Iko Iko"""
Question: What is the musical term for a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of an instrument?
Answer: Pizzicato
Question: Which controversial 1992 song by the punk band Body Count was co-written by the group's vocalist Ice-T and provoked a national debate about freedom of speech in the US?
Answer: """Cop Killer"""
Question: In Astronomy, what is the term for a minor celestial body that shares an orbit with a larger body?
Answer: Trojan
Question: Because all species of the manatee use fresh water in varying ways, what is the only strictly marine herbivorous mammal?
Answer: Dugong
Question: What wishing program has become the traditional first program that people see when starting to learn a new programming language?
Answer: """Hello world"""
Question: What is the only major planet of the Solar System that takes its English name from Greek mythology?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Named for a scientist who discovered it in 1961, what is the term for the number of times a normal cell population will divide before it stops?
Answer: Hayflick limit
Question: What potent toxin is extracted from the castor bean?
Answer: Ricin
Question: What is the term given to uranium that has its isotope uranium-235 removed?
Answer: Depleted uranium
Question: Due to its use by the ruling class to murder one another and for its potency and discreetness, which element has been called the 'Poison of Kings'?
Answer: Arsenic
Question: What is the largest species of the salmon family that also shares its name with an Indian tribe?
Answer: Chinook
Question: What is the term for the time that it takes an object to make one full orbit around the Sun, relative to the stars?
Answer: Sidereal period
Question: A 1993 spectator sport popularity study that was called the largest of its kind ranked what sport as the 2nd most popular in the US, just behind NFL?
Answer: Ladies' figure skating
Question: Literally meaning 'seven boards of skill', which Chinese puzzle game's objective is to create a shape using seven non-overlapping flat pieces?
Answer: Tangram
Question: In which year did Burges and Maclean defect?
Answer: 1951
Question: Who wrote the 1944 play, 'The Man Who Had All The Luck'?
Answer: ARTHUR MILLER
Question: If you suffered from Apnoea, what would you be unable to do?
Answer: BREATHE
Question: What part of the body is affected by Blepharitis?
Answer: EYELIDS.
Question: In 1932, Edward Elgar recorded his violin concerto, who was the sixteen year old soloist?
Answer: YEHUDI MENUHIN
Question: Who wrote the folk music classic, 'Streets Of London'?
Answer: RALPH McTELL
Question: Which male Tennis player won eight 'Grand Slam' singles titles between 1985 and 1990, but never won Wimbledon?
Answer: IVAN LENDL
Question: Who won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: V.S. NAIPAUL
Question: Who was European Footballer of the Year for 1983, 1984, and 1985?
Answer: MICHEL PLATINI
Question: On a three-masted sailing ship, what name is given to aftermost mast?
Answer: THE MIZZEN MAST
Question: In World War II, haw was the Japanese aircraft, the Mitsubishi A6M known to the Allies?
Answer: ZERO
Question: Henry Cooper controversially lost his British Heavyweight title in 1971, to which boxer?
Answer: JOE BUGNER
Question: Which pre-Socratic philosopher, born in the city of Miletus in the 7th century BC, is regarded as 'The Father of Science' and the first modern western philosopher?
Answer: THALES
Question: In 1960, Kwame Nkrumah became the first President of which country?
Answer: GHANA
Question: Reaching number 7 in the charts in 1993, 'Creep' was the first UK top ten hit for which group?
Answer: RADIOHEAD
Question: Which fashion designer founded the Kings Road clothes shop Bazaar in 1955?
Answer: MARY QUANT
Question: In 2009, Sean Penn won the 'Oscar' for Best Actor for his role in which film?
Answer: 'MILK'
Question: Which is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo?
Answer: SPICA