zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In which year did Mussolini seize power in Italy and the Irish Free State become established?
Answer: 1922
Question: Which is the first Old Testament Book named after a person?
Answer: JOSHUA
Question: Which perfume house produces the perfume 'Red Door'?
Answer: ELIZABETH ARDEN
Question: From which western film starring John Wayne does the line "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"?
Answer: THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
Question: If you flew due east from Brisbane which country would you reach first?
Answer: Chile
Question: What name is given to the distance between the two rails of a railway track?
Answer: Gauge
Question: Alfred Hitchcock made two films of the same name and virtually the same story in 1934 and 1956, the second starring Doris Day and James Stewart. Name the film. The Man Who Knew
Answer: Too Much
Question: In which atmospheric city was the Daphne du Maurier short story 'Don't Look Now' set? It was later filmed in 1973.
Answer: Venice
Question: What is the state capital of North Carolina?
Answer: Raleigh
Question: In which year were the Gordon Riots?
Answer: 1780
Question: At the 2008 European Football Championships Otto Rehhagel was coach of which country's team?
Answer: Greece
Question: Which South Wales town was formed in 1921 by the amalgamation of Aberavon and Margam?
Answer: Port Talbot
Question: Which comedy series, running from 1989 to 1994, starred Anton Rodgers as a solicitor who falls for a much younger woman, played first by Eve Matheson and subsequently by Lesley Dunlop?
Answer: MAY TO DECEMBER
Question: The 18th century politician John Montague was responsible for the creation of what food dish?
Answer: THE SANDWICH
Question: Which board game is based around European power politics leading up,to the First World War?
Answer: DIPLOMACY
Question: Who was World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1978 to 1985, defending his title 20 times before losing to Michael Spinks?
Answer: LARRY HOLMES
Question: In what year did Doctor Who start on television?
Answer: 1963
Question: In the 1960's, which car company, part of BMC, made models called the Kestrel and the Elf?
Answer: RILEY
Question: The flag of Venezuela is divided into three bands. Two of the colours are red and yellow. What is the third?
Answer: BLUE
Question: Ceratopsian dinosaurs are so named because they had what physical feature?
Answer: A HORN
Question: Which fellow rocker, whose biggest hit was "Be-Bop-A-Lula", survived the car crash which killed Eddie Cochrane in 1960?
Answer: Gene Vincent
Question: The wife of which former PM has written books on the soprano Joan Sutherland and the PM's country house, Chequers?
Answer: John Major
Question: Which late 1990's pop duo was made up of Karen and Shellie, the daughters of 1960's singer Brian Poole?
Answer: Alisha's Attic
Question: Which Scotland Yard detective is frequently upstaged by the crime-fighting abilities of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: Inspector Lestrade
Question: Featured more regularly on TV than in the original books, which Scotland Yard detective is regularly helped (or hindered) by the efforts of Hercule Poirot?
Answer: Chief Inspector Japp
Question: Who was the Greek God of Rain and Cupbearer to the Gods, son of King Tros of Troy?
Answer: GANYMEDE
Question: Which vegetable has varieties called Tokyo Slicer and King of the Rage?
Answer: CUCUMBER
Question: To whom is the following quotation attributed "A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke"?
Answer: RUDYARD KIPLING
Question: Name the famous American pioneer who was involved in marking out the Wilderness Trail in the west and founded the first settlement in Kentucky which was named after him?
Answer: Daniel Boone
Question: Which general defended Moscow from the Germans in 1941?
Answer: Zhukov
Question: Distances from Paris are measured from Kilometre Zero, at which building is this situated?
Answer: Notre Dame
Question: Which weekly newspaper was founded by Robert Maxwell in 1990 and folded in 1998 when owned by the Barclay brothers?
Answer: The European
Question: In which of Gilbert & Sullivan's works does the song 'The Sentry's Song' appear?
Answer: Iolanthe
Question: How many US Presidents were assassinated during the reign of Queen Victoria?
Answer: 2
Question: Which famous aircraft producer designed the synchronized machine gun to fire through propeller blades?
Answer: FOKKER
Question: Who preceded Robert the Bruce as King of Scotland?
Answer: JOHN BALLIOL
Question: b The drunken midwife Sarah Gamp appears in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT
Question: Who composed the title music for Dr Who?
Answer: RON GRAINER
Question: In a very well-known novel, who owns the house called Manderley?
Answer: MAXIM De WINTER
Question: Who wrote the medieval poem 'Piers Plowman'?
Answer: WILLIAM LANGLAND
Question: Who was the father of the Virgin Mary?
Answer: Saint JOACHIM
Question: Which organisation has the motto 'Mantiens le droit', which is included in its coat of arms?
Answer: ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE
Question: Who assassinated the Duke of Buckingham in 1628?
Answer: JOHN FELTON
Question: Which British monarch produced the most legitimate children?
Answer: EDWARD I
Question: Which modern country was called Dacia by the Romans?
Answer: ROMANIA
Question: What name was given to the regime in France from July 1940 to August 1944?
Answer: Vichy
Question: In which Shakespeare play does Sir Lancelot Gobbo appear?
Answer: Merchant of Venice
Question: Which small fish of the herring family is prized for its flavor and used in sauces and pizza toppings?
Answer: Anchovy
Question: In which European city is the criminal society called the "Camorra" based?
Answer: NAPLES
Question: What, in Buddhist theology, is the highest level of attainment?
Answer: NIRVANA
Question: In which country was Adolf Eichmann a resident, when captured by the Israelis in 1960?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: Which British Trade Union leader fought with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, and was badly wounded at the Battle of Ebro in 1938?
Answer: JACK JONES
Question: What is the name of the drunken, uncouth character, created by Barry Humphries, who is the Australian cultural attaché and minister for the arts?
Answer: SIR LES PATTERSON
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard'?
Answer: Anton Chekhov
Question: Which philosopher founded the Stoics?
Answer: Zeno
Question: Which army officer, later a Confederate General led the attack, which captured John Brown and his band of rebels at Harpers Ferry in 1859?
Answer: ROBERT E LEE
Question: Who had a U.K. hit record in 1965, with his tune, "A Walk in the Black Forest"?
Answer: HORST JANKOWSKI
Question: The first stations on the four railway lines out of which city are Saxilby, Hykeham, Metheringham and Market Rasen?
Answer: LINCOLN
Question: In which American TV series did the main character often use the phrase, "I love it when a plan comes together"?
Answer: THE A TEAM
Question: When served with an alcoholic drink, what is the Turkish word for appetisers or small dishes, equivalent to the Spanish word Tapas?
Answer: MEZE
Question: Victor Yushchenko was elected President of which country in 2005, mainly due to a series of protests known as the Orange Revolution?
Answer: UKRAINE
Question: The W.W.II campaign, known as, "The Battle of the Bulge", was fought in which area of Europe?
Answer: THE ARDENNES
Question: """If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia"", is the first line of which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: THE WINTER'S TALE
Question: Burins, bifaces and scrapers are ancient artefacts made of what?
Answer: Stone
Question: The Egyptian god Bastet had the head of which animal?
Answer: Cat
Question: The Hindu god Hanuman has the form of which animal?
Answer: Monkey
Question: Which cartoon character had friends called Velma Dinidey and Daphne Blake?
Answer: Scooby Doo
Question: A pinnate item is what shape?
Answer: Feather
Question: Saffron is obtained from which flower?
Answer: Crocus
Question: What position did Will Sommers hold at the court of Henry VIII?
Answer: Jester
Question: To within one year either way, when was the Sydney Opera House formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: 1973
Question: What name is given to the traditional type of folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers?
Answer: Barcarolle
Question: Which well-known song comes from the masque Alfred composed in 1740?
Answer: Rule Britannia
Question: What was the name of the Cargo ferry forced aground near Blackpool at the end of January 2008?
Answer: Riverdance
Question: In 1959 which British city became the first to adopt a post code system?
Answer: Norwich
Question: How is World War 2 known to the Russians?
Answer: (Great) Patriotic War
Question: Banting, Best and MacLeod are renowned for the discovery of what in 1922?
Answer: Insulin
Question: Which football league club moved from Belle Vue and played their first game at the new Keepmoat Stadium on New Year's Day 2007?
Answer: Doncaster Rovers
Question: Which famous aviator and adventurer went missing in the Nevada Desert during September 2007, when the plane he was piloting failed to return?
Answer: Steve Fossett
Question: What was invented by the Chinese, imported into Britain from Italy by Charles lst and known to the Arabs as 'sherbet'?
Answer: Ice cream
Question: Who, in 1616, announced important observations on blood circulation?
Answer: William Harvey
Question: in which 1964 Gerry and the Pacemakers film did Cilla Black appear?
Answer: Ferry Across the Mersey
Question: Which everyday kitchen device was developed in 1946 by Percy Le Baron Spencer?
Answer: Microwave
Question: Which sea lies between New Zealand and Australia?
Answer: Tasman Sea
Question: What everyday kitchen device was invented in 1922 by Arthur Leslie Large?
Answer: Electric Kettle
Question: Who did Jenny Von Westphalen marry in 1843?
Answer: Karl Marx
Question: Daniel Deronda was the last novel written by which English novelist?
Answer: GEORGE ELIOT
Question: In which 1980s TV sit-com did Brenda and Malcolm enjoy ornithology?
Answer: WATCHING
Question: In the 1970s TV sit-corn Please Sir, what was the name of the caretaker?
Answer: POTTER
Question: Which 92 year old actor has written an autobiography entitled 'I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire, I Just Want to Keep My Nuts Warm'?
Answer: Ernest Borgnine
Question: Complete the next line of the song "The blushing bride she looks divine, the bridegroom he is doing fine, I'd rather have his job than mine ....."?
Answer: When I'm Cleaning Windows
Question: What was the name of the midge-borne viral infection that affected British livestock in the late summer of 2007?
Answer: Bluetongue
Question: The pengo, subject to massive inflation, was the pre- World War 2 currency unit of which European country?
Answer: Hungary
Question: In Greek myth, what was the name of the winged horse?
Answer: Pegasus
Question: Which group/act were the first Germans to have a UK No. 1 hit with "The Model/Computer Love'?
Answer: Kraftwerk - -
Question: Which aircraft had its first flight in February 1969?
Answer: Boeing 747
Question: Which painter's last words were reputedly 'Drink to me'?
Answer: Pablo Picasso
Question: Which Shakespearian character described himself as "A man more sinned against then sinning"?
Answer: KING LEAR
Question: Which composer, who died 200 years ago in 1809, wrote a series of 'London' symphonies?
Answer: Haydn
Question: Which Scottish malt whisky, sold in a distinctive bottle, is produced by William Grant's and 'made without compromise'?
Answer: Glenfiddich
Question: In which films do the characters Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore appear?
Answer: Ghostbusters
Question: Henry Cecil Booth patented which household appliance in 1901?
Answer: Vacuum cleaner
Question: During which conflict was the battle of Blenheim fought?
Answer: War of the Spanish Succession
Question: The title of Agatha Christie's novel The Moving Finger comes from the line "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" in which poem?
Answer: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Question: Whose first solo UK number 1 single was I'm Still Waiting in August 1971?
Answer: Diana Ross
Question: Which British city has cathedrals dedicated to St Philip and St Chad?
Answer: Birmingham
Question: In Greek myth, who was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who was entombed alive by her uncle for trying to bury her brother Polyneices after the civil war in Thebes?
Answer: Antigone
Question: Who was on the English throne in 1600?
Answer: Elizabeth I
Question: In the comic-strip "Batman and Robin" what is the Boy Wonder's real name?
Answer: DICK GRAYSON
Question: Give one of the forenames of 'Lenin'?
Answer: VLADIMIR ILYICH
Question: What is the maximum number of missiles that a 'Polaris' submarine could carry?
Answer: SIXTEEN
Question: In wine making, 'botrytis' is also known as what?
Answer: NOBLE ROT
Question: Images of which east coast town have become widely known through the photographs of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941)?
Answer: Whitby
Question: Who said "I hate nobody except Hitler - and that is professional'?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: Which local group included a track called `99% Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd' on their 1985 album 'Back in the DHSS'?
Answer: Half Man Half Biscuit
Question: In the Shakespeare play, who is Othello's trusted advisor, husband of Emilia?
Answer: Iago
Question: Which animal derives its name from the native word for `no drink'?
Answer: Koala
Question: Which British author wrote the novel 'The Antiquary' in 1816?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
Question: Whose right to the English throne did Lady Jane Grey challenge in 1553?
Answer: Mary I
Question: Which Prime Minister was once the MP for Bootle from 1911 until 1918?
Answer: Andrew Bonar Law
Question: Which European capital city has districts called Alfama and Baixa?
Answer: Lisbon
Question: Which former Tory Cabinet Minister is reported to have put in an expenses claim for cleaning his moat in the recent scandal?
Answer: DOUGLAS HOGG
Question: During the 2008 Proms series of concerts one was based upon the music written by composer Murray Gold for which TV series?
Answer: DR WHO
Question: In which Ealing film comedy did Dennis Price kill off various members of the D'Ascoyne family?
Answer: Kind Hearts and Coronets
Question: Hans Wilhelm Langsdorf was captain of which German Battleship in World War 2?
Answer: Graf Spee
Question: In which of Grimm's fairy tales does the wicked witch end up in the oven?
Answer: Hansel and Gretel
Question: a Which 1750 poem begins "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day"?
Answer: Gray's Elegy
Question: Which Roman poet is most renowned for his poetry about love, seduction and adultery?
Answer: OVID
Question: Who was the allied Supreme Commander in Europe from 1944 onwards?
Answer: DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
Question: On which pipe of a set of bagpipes is the tune fingered?
Answer: THE CHANTER
Question: Which bird, seen in Britain in the summer, has varieties called Reed, Grasshopper and Willow?
Answer: WARBLER
Question: 'Kim', the 1901 novel by Rudyard Kipling, is about an Irish orphan named Kim O'Hara. Kim is short for which name?
Answer: Kimball
Question: What is the name of the traditional Scottish pudding, often eaten at Hogmanay, made with suet, currants and, sultanas and named from the cloth in which it is wrapped for cooking?
Answer: Clootie Dumpling
Question: Who wrote the major choral work 'All Night Vigil', better known as the 'Vespers' which was sung at his funeral in 1943?
Answer: Rachmaninov
Question: At the Restoration in 1660, whom did Charles II appoint as Governor of Windsor Castle?
Answer: Prince Rupert
Question: In 1707 a fleet of Navy ships was wrecked off the Scilly Islands. Who was the commander who lost his life in the disaster?
Answer: Sir Cloudesley Shovel
Question: According to the book of Revelations in the New Testament of the Bible, where were the kings of the earth gathered for battle?
Answer: Armageddon
Question: Which sea lies between Australia and New Zealand?
Answer: Tasman
Question: In 1927 the capital of Australia was established in Canberra. Where had it the previous capital been?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: Which Nottinghamshire fast bowler who died in 1995 was best known for implementing the 'Fast Leg Theory' in the Bodyline Ashes Test series in 1932/33?
Answer: Harold Larwood
Question: Which film won Oscars for Best picture, Best Director Barry Levinson and Best Actor Dustin Hoffman?
Answer: Rain Man
Question: What part was played by Patrick Newell in 'The Avengers' TV series?
Answer: MOTHER
Question: Whish gas forms bubbles in the bloodstream when someone gets the bends?
Answer: NITROGEN
Question: In which sphere of industry or commerce is the name of Arthur Maiden famous?
Answer: ADVERTISING
Question: In Welsh place names, what does the word, "Ynys" signify?
Answer: ISLAND
Question: As a teenager, Manchester United footballer, Ryan Giggs adopted his mother's maiden surname as his own. What had been his birth surname?
Answer: WILSON
Question: Who had a No 1 single, "Fight For This Love", and a No.1 album, in the UK charts in the same week, in November 2009?
Answer: CHERYL COLE
Question: Ryan Giggs father, Danny Wilson, left Rugby Union in Wales, and signed professional forms for which Rugby League club?
Answer: SWINTON
Question: In September 1950,where, in Korea, did UN troops land, prior to the recapture of Seoul?
Answer: INCHON
Question: The playwright, Harold Pinter was married to which authoress from 1980, until his death in 2008?
Answer: LADY ANTONIA FRASER
Question: 1976, Olympic Gold medallist, Alwin Schockemohle, was a top class sportsman in which sport?
Answer: EQUESTRIANISM
Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays does the title of Aldous Huxley's novel, "Brave New World" originate?
Answer: THE TEMPEST
Question: Which gas is produced when water is mixed with Calcium Carbide?
Answer: ACETYLENE
Question: Which super-group did Eric Clapton join, after the pop group, "Cream" split up?
Answer: BLIND FAITH
Question: What was the name of the horse that highwayman, Dick Turpin, was reputed to have ridden?
Answer: BLACK BESS
Question: In which western town, in South Dakota, did Jack McCall shoot and kill Wild Bill Hickok in 1876?
Answer: DEADWOOD
Question: At which sport did Theodore "Ted" Kennedy, who died aged 83 in 2009, play fourteen seasons for the Toronto Maple Leafs?
Answer: ICE HOCKEY
Question: The secret recipe for which famous sauce, marketed by Lea and Perrins, has recently come to light, after the disclosure that it was found in a skip near the factory?
Answer: WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE
Question: Which 1962 film, starring Robert Mitchum in the role of Max Cady, was remade in 1991, with the part being played by Robert de Nero?
Answer: CAPE FEAR
Question: Which long running TV series was introduced by a piece of music, entitled, "The Funeral March of a Marionette", by Gounod?
Answer: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS
Question: Which single malt Scotch whisky is handcrafted by, "The Sixteen Men of Tame?
Answer: GLENMORANGIE
Question: What was the title of the last Rolling Stones record to top the U.K. charts, doing so in July 1969?
Answer: HONKY TONK WOMEN
Question: Who is the only man to have won to have won both the world motor cycling and Fl motor racing championships?
Answer: JOHN SURTEES
Question: Who is the only man to have won the US Open singles tennis title on three different surfaces (grass, clay, and hardcourt)?
Answer: JIMMY CONNORS
Question: What sport was played by the legendary character Rudolph Wanderone, better known as Minnesota Fats?
Answer: Pool
Question: Which composer (1874 - 1951) first used the Dodecaphonic Scale in his later works?
Answer: Arnold Schoenberg
Question: What name was given to small balls used as a charge in a cannon that scattered when fired?
Answer: Grapeshot
Question: The War Department existed from 1857 to 1964:when it changed to what?
Answer: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Question: What" the name of the spoof bank that appears in the adverts for Nat West Mortgages?
Answer: A BANK
Question: Defeat at which battle caused the French to leave Vietnam in the 1960's?
Answer: DIEN BIEN PHU
Question: In which English city would you find a district called Portishead?
Answer: BRISTOL
Question: In cricket what name for a bowling delivery is taken from the Hindi-or Urdu language?
Answer: DOOSRA.
Question: In 1930, who discovered the planet Pluto, now re-designated an asteroid?
Answer: CLYDE TOMBAUGH
Question: Which South American country has borders with Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina?
Answer: PARAGUAY
Question: In Egyptian mythology, what type of animal was Apis?
Answer: Bull
Question: Which company manufactured the RAF's first operational jet fighter the Meteor?
Answer: Gloster
Question: Which Pulitzer Prize winning novel, by Alice Walker, was the subject of numerous attempts to have it banned, on the grounds of violence and racism?
Answer: The Color Purple
Question: Which English king married the sister of the "Princes in the Tower"?
Answer: Henry VII
Question: What was the title of Sir Walter Scott's first novel of 1814 which he set around the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion?
Answer: Waverley
Question: A4 paper measures 297 millimetres by 210 millimetres. But what is the basic size of paper that covers 1 square metre?
Answer: AO
Question: Which cathedral in South West England is the only one to house a 24 hour clock, the second oldest surviving clock in England?
Answer: WELLS
Question: Who wrote most of the operetta, "The Tales of Hoffman", which although unfinished at his death, was completed by Ernest Guiraud?
Answer: JACQUES OFFENBACH
Question: Eleanor of Castille was the first Queen Consort of which English monarch?
Answer: EDWARD I
Question: The name of which Biblical character means, "Father of Many"?
Answer: ABRAHAM
Question: The Jordanian capital Amman formerly had the same name as which American city?
Answer: Philadelphia
Question: What name for the Internet, the World Wide Web etc was popularised by fiction author William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer?
Answer: Cyberspace
Question: Who had world concert tours entitled 'Drowned World', 'Confessions' and 'Blond Ambition?
Answer: Madonna
Question: Which actor, (the eighth Doctor Who) played the role just once in a 1996 TV movie?
Answer: PAUL McGANN
Question: Who was the author of the best-selling novel on which the film The Exorcist was based?
Answer: WILLIAM PETER BLATTY
Question: Which European country's flag is a vertical tricolour black, yellow and red (in that order left to right)?
Answer: BELGIUM
Question: Who directed the 2004 Oscar winning film 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'?
Answer: PETER JACKSON
Question: Who is the BP Chief Executive recently quizzed by the US Congress?
Answer: TONY HAYWARD
Question: Born at Pau in France which general later became King of Sweden?
Answer: Jean Baptiste Bernadotte
Question: From which piece of literature do the following lines come? 'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way'
Answer: Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
Question: Later holding a cabinet post, who finished second to Harold Wilson in the 1963 Labour Party Leadership Election?
Answer: George Brown.
Question: Dealing with the movement of particles, to which scientific process does Graham's Law refer?
Answer: Diffusion
Question: What is the surname of the only father and son to have scored Test match centuries for England?
Answer: Broad
Question: In which country did the 'Carnation Revolution' take place in 1934?
Answer: Portugal
Question: In football, two men have each won the European Footballer of the Year Award on three occasions, Johann Cruff is one, name the other.
Answer: MICHEL PLATINI
Question: 'You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive' were the first recorded words spoken by which literary character?
Answer: SHERLOCK HOLMES
Question: What is the name of the chief island of the Seychelles?
Answer: MAHE
Question: Which movie musical with songs by Tom Watts and Crystal Gayle did Francis Ford Coppola direct?
Answer: ONE FROM THE HEART
Question: Which sporting event traces its roots to a match between Britain and the US at Gleneagles in 1921?
Answer: Ryder Cup
Question: According to Homer, what was the name of the Cyclops blinded by Odysseus?
Answer: Polyphemus