zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Australia Day is celebrated during which month of the year?
Answer: January
Question: In May 1973, which male tennis player challenged and defeated Margaret Court, the world’s number one women’s player in their ‘Mother’s Day’ Match?
Answer: Bobby Riggs
Question: The world’s first vacuum bottling factory was opened in which European country in 1804?
Answer: France
Question: Mungo National Park is in which Australian state?
Answer: New South Wales
Question: What is the name of a ghost or other supernatural being which is supposedly responsible for physical disturbances, such as creating disorder and noises?
Answer: Poltergeist
Question: The plot of Robert Greene’s prose romance ‘Pandosto: The Triumph of Time’ is said to be the inspiration for which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Winter’s Tale
Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, what is the name of the race horse owned by Tony Soprano and Ralph Cifarreto?
Answer: Pie O My
Question: What colour sash does Alan Tracy wear in the children’s television series ‘Thunderbirds’?
Answer: White
Question: During 1897, the World’s first radio station was set up by Marconi at the Needles Battery at the western tip of which European island?
Answer: Isle of Wight
Question: In 1991, who made 101 curtain calls and set a world record of one hour 20 minutes for applause for his role in Verdi’s ‘Otello’?
Answer: Placido Domingo
Question: Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical made its television debut when CBS broadcast the 1955 film version as a three-hour Thanksgiving special in 1970?
Answer: Oklahoma
Question: Madaraka Day is celebrated in June to commemorate the attaining of self-rule of which African country in 1963?
Answer: Kenya
Question: On a standard dartboard, which number lies opposite 15?
Answer: 9
Question: ‘I’ll eat my ‘what’ is a favourite expression of Mr Grimwig in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Head
Question: Melbourne, Australia stands on which river?
Answer: Yarra
Question: Born in Bolton in 1982, Jenny Ryan is the latest person to join which ITV programme?
Answer: THE CHASE
Question: Both Hairy Bikers have tattoos on their right arms depicting which iconic figure?
Answer: Che Guevara
Question: Rudolphe Raspe is best known for writing about whom?
Answer: Baron Munchausen
Question: Formerly based in Ilkeston, which Newark brewery produces Christmas Cake Walk?
Answer: FUNFAIR
Question: Which Florentine painter who died in 1337 had the oft overlooked surname, di Bondone?
Answer: Giotto
Question: In 'Allo 'Allo', what was the surname of the British soldier who dressed as a Gendarme?
Answer: Crabtree
Question: Born in 1898, which important figure did M.E. Clifton James closely resemble?
Answer: Field Marshall MONTGOMERY
Question: Which African antelope has species called Coke’s, Lelwel, Western, Swayne’s and Tora?
Answer: HARTEBEEST
Question: What was the 40 metre trawler ‘Sir William Hardy’ famously renamed in 1978?
Answer: RAINBOW WARRIOR
Question: Who refuses Mr St John Rivers’ offer of marriage?
Answer: Jane Eyre
Question: Chris Andrews got to no.3 in ’65 with a title whose initials were YM. What was it?
Answer: YESTERDAY MAN
Question: Who played Raquel’s former husband, ex-policeman Roy Slater in Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: Jim Broadbent
Question: Whiff-Whaff and Gossima lost out as brand names to which rival, according to Boris Johnson?
Answer: Ping-Pong
Question: In which Australian state can you find the Derwent river?
Answer: Tasmania
Question: In song, what must a child do to get a ‘fishie in a little dishie’?
Answer: Dance to your Daddie
Question: Which phrase meaning ‘very drunk’ has its origins in nautical terminology?
Answer: THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND
Question: Until recent times Muslim men returned from the Haj wearing turbans of which colour?
Answer: Green
Question: Which country's TV market is the largest in Western Europe, with 34m connected homes?
Answer: Germany
Question: Guy Lombardo and Oscar Peterson were the first inductees into which nation's newly instituted Music Hall of Fame in 1978 ?
Answer: CANADA
Question: Which word, beginning with S and originally German, has now been adopted into English with a meaning of "pleasure in another's misfortune"?
Answer: SCHADENFREUDE
Question: 'Where Eagles Dare', 'The Guns of Navaronne' and 'Ice Station Zebra' were hugely successful films in the 1960's and 70's. Who wrote the novels on which these films were based?
Answer: ALISTAIR MACLEAN
Question: Which English painter, the co-founder and first president of the Royal Academy, was the principal court painter to George III ?
Answer: SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
Question: Russian Alexei Leonov was the first man to do what (albeit for just ten minutes) on 18th March 1965 ?
Answer: WALK IN SPACE
Question: Which Liverpool art gallery, opened in 1877, was named after the local brewer and former Lord Mayor who financed it ?
Answer: WALKER
Question: In 1851 a club team led by John Cox Stevens won the world's oldest active sporting trophy. It was not until 1983 that an Australian team won the trophy thus ending a 132 year winning streak. What was the sport?
Answer: YACHTING
Question: Literally meaning three planks, what is the six letter name of the flat bottom boats, generally about four metres long, used in Asia for inshore transport and fishing?
Answer: SAMPAN
Question: What is the name of the Derby based firm which recently won a £180 million contract to build rail carriages for Southern Rail after losing out on a larger contract earlier in the year to build carriages for Thames line?
Answer: BOMBARDIER
Question: James Dougherty, born on April 12th 1921 was an American police officer who rose to fame for being the first husband of which famous woman?
Answer: MARILYN MONROE
Question: According to his creator, which famous fictional character retired to take up bee-keeping on the Sussex Downs in the early years of the 20th century?
Answer: SHERLOCK HOLMES
Question: Which famous hymn begins with the words'Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness, sowing in the noontide with the dewy eye'?
Answer: BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES
Question: In which English county is Borstal, which gave its name to young offenders' institutions?
Answer: KENT
Question: Which heavyweight boxing champion of 1915 shares the same surname as a current Manchester City player who has the squad number 11?
Answer: JOHNSON
Question: Which hotel group, founded in 1919, became famous between March 25th and March 31st 1969 when, at it's Amsterdam branch, John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their first "bed-in for peace" protest in room 902. This hotel has now become a popular tourist destination.
Answer: HILTON
Question: For how many matches was Liverpool's Luis Suarez banned after a trubunal concluded that he racially abused Manchester United's Patrice Evra?
Answer: 8
Question: Which town on the Tweed has a ruined Cistercian abbey that is supposedly the burial place of the heart, though not the rest of the remains, of Robert the Bruce?
Answer: MELROSE
Question: Which brother of Sherlock Holmes - supposedly even smarter - was first introduced in the story entitled The Greek Interpreter ?
Answer: MYCROFT
Question: During which crisis did the then American Secretary of State Dean Rusk make the comment "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked"?
Answer: THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Question: In heraldry, what term describes figures standing on either side of a shield as if upholding it and guarding it?
Answer: SUPPORTERS
Question: What name links a former US President, an actor who starred in the film 'The Dirty Dozen' and a Liverpool footballer who first played for the club in 1974?
Answer: KENNEDY
Question: What's the most common English name for the bird with the taxonomical name Crex crex, also known as the Land Rail?
Answer: CORNCRAKE
Question: The flat, rectangular, hand-held tool used by a plasterer to hold his mortar as he works is usually known by the name of what type of bird?
Answer: A HAWK
Question: The TV cartoon "Scooby Doo, Where Are You" featured the adventures of Scooby Doo and his three human friends Daphne, Velma and Shaggy and which other character, famous for his strikingly blond hair?
Answer: FREDDIE
Question: Translated as "cluster of eight" and situated in the Pacific Ocean what name did the Ellice Islands adopt on gaining independence in 1978?
Answer: TUVALU
Question: Designed in the USA and first created by knife maker James Black, which large knife, 6 to 24 inches in length frist became famous in an 1827 brawl that was entitled "The Sandbar Fight"?
Answer: BOWIE KNIFE
Question: Deriving its name from an Icelandic word meaning erupt, what name is given to a natural hot spring that intermittently ejects a column of water and steam into the air?
Answer: GEYSER
Question: First performed at the La Scala opera house in Milan in 1817, which peice of music by Rossini translates as La Gazza Ladra?
Answer: THIEVING MAGPIE
Question: What was the surname of the East London gangsters, whose christian names were Charles and Eddie, who in the 1960's ran their own scrapyard business and were seen as the main rivals to the Kray twins?
Answer: RICHARDSON
Question: Which famous four part opera by Puccini ends with Musetta praying, Mimi dies, Schaunard discovers Mimi lifeless, Rodolfo cries Mimi's name in anguish and weeps helplessly?
Answer: LA BOHEME
Question: Which ex heavyweight boxing champion's last ever fight took place on June 11th 2006 and ended in a defeat by Ireland's Kevin McBride in Washington DC?
Answer: MIKE TYSON
Question: Timothy McVeigh was executed in the United States in 2001 for a bombing atrocity in which 168 people were killed and over 800 injured. In which state capital city did the atrocity take place?
Answer: OKLAHOMA CITY
Question: Columbine high school was the setting in 199 for another mass murder. The elementary school in Newtown, Conneticut will be equally infamous. What is the name of the school ?
Answer: SANDY HOOK
Question: Horse racing - which jockey, in the top 10 "flat racing" jockeys of 2012 in Britain, with 72 winners, is unique in that he swiched from being a "jump jockey". In national hunt racing , he had won most of the top races, including the Grand National in 2004 on "Amberleigh House ?
Answer: GRAHAM LEE
Question: Which Italian composer who lived from 1792 to 1868 was nicknamed "Monsieur Crescendo" ? He was a gourmet and had a famous meat dish named after him.
Answer: ROSSINI
Question: What was the name of the son of Ethelred the Unready who was crowned King of England on this day in 1016, but died in November the same year, shortly after being defeated in battle by hios successor, Canute ?
Answer: EDMUND
Question: Which soft drink manufacturer launched a new formula version of its most popular product in 1985, but withdrew it three months later after a massively negative reaction from the public ?
Answer: COCA COLA
Question: Named after the 16/17th century fancy collar that made a fortune for Robert Baker, which London street starts at Hyde Park Corner and ends at a famous statue ? It is the 6th most expensive property in Monopoly.
Answer: PICADILLY
Question: The southwest coastal footpath starts at Poole in Dorset. Going around Devon and Cornwall, at which West Somerset resort, famous for its Butlin's holiday camp, does it end 630 miles later ?
Answer: MINEHEAD
Question: Which letter is given to the irrational number 2.71828 ? It is widely used in population growth calculations, economics and structural engineering.
Answer: e
Question: Which Cornish engineer demonstrated one of the first steam locomotives called "Catch Me If You Can" giving rides on a circular track near Bloomsbury in 1808 ?
Answer: RICHARD TREVITHICK
Question: What surname did actor Charles Buchinsky adopt in the Fifties before finding fame and success in films ?
Answer: CHARLES BRONSON
Question: Whose Law states that galaxies are moving apart at a rate that increases with their distance ? A telescope was named after him ?
Answer: HUBBLE
Question: In the traditional story of Sinbad the Sailor, what is the name of the giant bird that carries him off to safety following a shipwreck?
Answer: THE ROC
Question: Along with the Clwyd, which river burst its banks in November 2012 causing devastation to the town of St Asaph ?
Answer: THE ELWY
Question: Which poisonous chemical compund was named after the Greek for blue, having been first identified during the production of the dye 'Prussian Blue' in the early 18th century ?
Answer: CYANIDE
Question: Which British Prime Minister, born in Chelsea in February 1894, died on December 29th 1986 aged 92 ?
Answer: Harold MACMILLAN
Question: Which American author wrote many books in his writing career including The Dream Merchants in 1949, A Stone For Danny Fisher in 1952 and The Carperbaggers in 1961 ?
Answer: HAROLD ROBBINS
Question: In the Harry Potter books, what is the name of the character described as a slim, blond haired pale boy who is arrogant about his skill at Quidditch ? He was played by actor Tom Felton in all the Harry Potter films.
Answer: Draco MALFOY
Question: What two word term is used to describe the music craze of the 1970s that contained many different acts that included amongst others T Rex, The Sweet, David Bowie abd Roxy Music ?
Answer: GLAM ROCK
Question: Which soft drink, described as having a unique flavour, was first nationally marketed in the USA in 1904 and has had many advertising slogans including 'what's the worst that can happen' in 2008?
Answer: DR PEPPER
Question: On April 5th 2006, the discovery of which type of bird in Scotland having Avian Influenza sparked a major UK Bird Flu alert?
Answer: SWAN
Question: Which eight letter word from medics takes its name from the Greek word meaning 'to smother'?
Answer: ASPHYXIA
Question: Chad Varah, a British Anglican priest who lived from 1911 to 2007 is probably best remembered for being the founder of which charity organisation in 1953 ?
Answer: SAMARITANS
Question: Which famous science fiction novel of 1898 is famous for its ending which states "After all that mankind had tried, the Earth was saved by the littlest things that God, in his wisdom, had put on this Earth?
Answer: WAR OF THE WORLDS
Question: Which US President was assassinated on September 6th 1901 shortly after spending a morning visiting Niagara Falls with his wife?
Answer: William McKINLEY
Question: What's the common name for the curved knife or dagger traditionally used by the Gurkhas, with its sharp edge on the concave side?
Answer: KUKRI
Question: The carbonated soft drink generally known in the US as cream soda is flavoured with pods from plants of which genus?
Answer: VANILLA
Question: The sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped takes its title from the girl the hero David Balfour falls in love with. What is its title ?
Answer: CATRIONA
Question: Which stand-up comedian has played football at semi-professional level and once worked full-time as a pharmaceuticals sales director?
Answer: JOHN BISHOP
Question: Introduced in 2006, What two word term was given to the optical disc storing medium, designed to be the successor to DVD, offering a much larger capacity and picture quality ?
Answer: BLURAY
Question: Which term was coined to denote the followers of the 14th-century churchman John Wycliffe ?
Answer: LOLLARDS
Question: Which stately home in Derbyshire formed the backdrop to the famous historical romance between Dorothy Vernon and Sir John Manners ?
Answer: HADDON HALL
Question: Which book opens with the words: "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's .... " ?
Answer: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Question: Written about in the Bible, what eleven letter word is used to describe the area of land That covers the region of South West Asia and lies nearly the full length of the Iran/Iraq border It declined in importance after Mongol invaders destroyed it’s extensive irrigation system In A D 1258 ?
Answer: MESOPOTAMIA
Question: What seven letter name is given to the cold, dry Northerly wind that blows on the Mediterranean Coast of France, particularly concentrated on the Rhone Valley ?
Answer: MISTRAL
Question: What eight letter name is given to the ringing, hissing or booming sensation in one or Both ears, usually caused by infection of the middle or inner ear ?
Answer: TINNITUS
Question: Which famous film director was born on December 5th 1901 at Tripp Avenue in Chicago and died on December15th 1966 in Burbank, California?
Answer: WALT DISNEY
Question: Which 1972 novel by Frederick Forsyth tells the story of a Peter Miller, a young German crime reporter who is attempting to find an SS concentration camp commander who had Killed his father ?
Answer: THE ODESSA FILE
Question: Which British poet who died in 1850 created works such as "An Evening Walk" in 1793, "Upon Westminster Bridge" in 1802 and "The Waggoner" in 1818 ?
Answer: William WORDSWORTH
Question: Which prominent English architect now aged 74 was responsible for designing The Eden Project and the National Space Centre in Leicester ?
Answer: Nicholas GRIMSHAW
Question: Which material that is used for insulation is described as being two incombustible, chemical resistant fibrous mineral forms of impure magnesium silicate, used mainly for fireproofing, electrical insulation, building materials, brake linings and chemical filters ?
Answer: ASBESTOS
Question: Which material, invented by Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes and used to protect damage Was originally used as a textured wallpaper and celebrated 50 years of popular use in 2010 ?
Answer: BUBBLEWRAP
Question: Which theatre, situated in Manchester shares it's name with the name of a Greek God who was the son of Zeus and Leto and twin brother of Artemis ?
Answer: APOLLO
Question: Covering an area in excess of 130,000 square miles, in which country can you find the 'Taklamakan Desert' the largest to lie wholly in it's own country ?
Answer: CHINA
Question: In which calendar year did the following events all take place: Alfred Hitchcock died, Ronald Reagan was elected as President of the USA, and the Summer Olympic Games were held in Moscow ?
Answer: 1980
Question: What item of his apparel was made of liquorice and eaten by Charlie Chaplin in the film 'The Gold Rush'?
Answer: Boot
Question: Which region and river in the north of South America, now part of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, gave its name to a sweetener produced from local crops?
Answer: Demerara
Question: Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002) was more commonly known as whom?
Answer: The Queen Mother
Question: A philtre (in US-English, philter) - pronounced 'filter' - is a potion for what?
Answer: Love
Question: A 2010 publicity-driven competition called the Carbuncle Cup focused on unpopular British what?
Answer: Architecture
Question: In summer 2010 Ofcom (regulatory/complaints body for UK communications industries) found that broadband service providers were on average giving customers what percentage of the connection speeds they had contracted to receive?
Answer: 46%
Question: A peculiar frequency of roughly how many years saw US presidents dying in office (either assassinated or otherwise) from the 1840s to the 1960s?
Answer: 20
Question: Castor (or castoreum) is an oily substance secreted by which animal, and historically used in medicine and perfume?
Answer: Beaver
Question: In ancient Greek legend, soldier Pheidippedes collapsed and died after running over twenty-five miles to Athens to give news of which battle?
Answer: Marathon
Question: Named by writer Jerry B Harvey after a west Texas city and metropolitan area, a group decision that no individual in the group wants is described as the 'what?' Paradox?
Answer: Abilene Paradox
Question: Who invented roll camera film, thereby popularizing photography, and founded the Kodak company, whose full title also bears his name?
Answer: George Eastman
Question: The Mills bomb, developed in Birmingham in 1915, and produced in numbers exceeding 70 million since then, is more commonly known by what term?
Answer: Hand grenade
Question: What is the Italian word, meaning 'head', for the clamp-like gadget used on guitars and other fretted stringed instruments to change key and tuning?
Answer: Capo
Question: American mathematician Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964, coined what scientific term concerning complex systems, and helped define its modern understanding?
Answer: Cybernetics
Question: Sir Thomas Sopwith designed what famous British biplane fighter aircraft, whose name combined his own name with an animal?
Answer: Sopwith Camel
Question: What colour/color normally follows orange moving up the scale, low to high, in judo belts?
Answer: Green
Question: Opened in 1998, accessible usually only by air, and continually in permafrost, the EKATI Diamond Mine is in which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: Its name shared by a species of goose, what are the marine crustaceans which live attached to submerged surfaces, such as the bottoms of boats?
Answer: Barnacles
Question: What island nation suffered a serious cholera outbreak in late 2010, partly as a consequence of a major earthquake in January the same year?
Answer: Haiti
Question: The UK Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs reported in November 2010 that what was the most dangerous drug (based on a complex study across nine categories of harmful effects)?
Answer: Alcohol
Question: Referring to a mountain range, derived from the Spanish word for saw, what word represents the letter 'S' in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
Answer: Sierra
Question: What is a bottomless pit or chasm, a very deep gorge, or a reference to something unfathomable and usually threatening or chaotic, such as hell?
Answer: Abyss
Question: In June 1935, which well-known but discreet support organization was founded by William G Wilson and Dr Robert Smith in Akron, Ohio?
Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous
Question: Which British monarch (born 1865, died 1936) introduced the custom of giving thousands of Christmas puddings to staff?
Answer: King George V
Question: What material invented by Marc Chavannes and Al Fielding originally as a textured wallpaper celebrated 50 years of quite different and popular use in 2010?
Answer: Bubblewrap
Question: Which far-eastern city saw fatal riots in May 2010 involving red-shirted protestors opposed to the national government?
Answer: Bangkok
Question: Abraham Maslow's fundamentally meaningful theory of motivation, popularly shown as a pyramid of motivational factors in a person's life, is known widely as Maslow's what?
Answer: Hierarchy of Needs
Question: Which English king, who lived from about 988-993 to 1016, was nicknamed Ironside?
Answer: Edmund II
Question: In January 2011 British government sports minister Hugh Roberts asserted what to be the "...worst governed sport in the country.."?
Answer: Football
Question: Eric Schmidt announced in 2011 stepping down from CEO to Executive Chairman of what corporation, whose vast growth in the 2000s he oversaw?
Answer: Google
Question: Which European country found itself without a government from June 2010 into 2011 because of failed coalition talks between its seven political parties?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Which species of animal at an East German zoo had a hip replacement operation in January 2011?
Answer: Tiger
Question: First made in 18th century France, a bergere (correctly bergère, confusingly meaning shepherdess), is what type of furniture?
Answer: Chair
Question: Which World War II leader was captured in April 1945 trying to flee to Switzerland with gold and looted Ethiopian sovereigns which became known as The Treasure of Dongo?
Answer: Mussolini
Question: Basrelief, cameo, restrike, and anaglyph and technical terms within what art form?
Answer: Sculpture
Question: Catgut (for old musical instrument strings and tennis rackets, etc) was usually made from the intestines of which animal?
Answer: Sheep
Question: How many squares are in the grid of a Sudoku number puzzle (this is not a trick question - individual squares - not including other 'squares' which could be formed from blocks of individual squares)?
Answer: 81