zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which revolutionary general had the real name Jose Doroteo Arango (Francisco) Arambula?
Answer: Pancho Villa
Question: What is the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus?
Answer: DENEB
Question: What is the brightest star in the constellation Leo?
Answer: REGULUS
Question: What did Watson, Crick and Wilson discover in 1953, and for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962?
Answer: (Structure of) DNA
Question: What did Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain invent in 1947, and for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956?
Answer: TRANSISTOR
Question: What sport was developed in the mid 19th century at Harrow School?
Answer: SQUASH
Question: During which war did the Battle of the Ebro take place?
Answer: SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Question: Robber, Fiddler and Edible are all types of which creature?
Answer: Crab
Question: Which Scottish group had UK top 20 hits with Real Gone Kid and Dignity?
Answer: Deacon Blue
Question: England’s largest nature reserve is at Holkham, in which county?
Answer: Norfolk
Question: Which is the only Hitchcock film to win a Best Picture Oscar (in 1940)?
Answer: Rebecca
Question: The Count di Luna, and his brother Manrico, vie for the love of Leonora in which Verdi opera, first performed in 1853?
Answer: IL TROVATORE
Question: Helleborus niger is the scientific name for what evergreen flowering plant?
Answer: CHRISTMAS ROSE
Question: Who won the 2015 Formula 1 British Grand Prix?
Answer: LEWIS HAMILTON
Question: In what type of aircraft did Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic crossing?
Answer: VICKERS VIMY
Question: In which game show would you get a cheque book and pen as a consolation prize?
Answer: BLANKETY BLANK
Question: Which actress appeared in the film Calendar Girls and the remake of Brighton Rock?
Answer: HELEN MIRREN
Question: Who provided the voice of Master Po in the film King Fu Panda?
Answer: DUSTIN HOFFMAN
Question: Which car model had the same name as a ship used by pirates or privateers?
Answer: CORSAIR
Question: From which country does the singer Bjork come?
Answer: ICELAND
Question: In the Asterix stories, what is the name of the portly chief?
Answer: Vitalstatistix
Question: Prior to forming the rock group Humble Pie, Peter Frampton had top ten 1960s hits with which group?
Answer: The Herd
Question: Mufasa, Nala and Pumbaa are characters in which Disney film?
Answer: The Lion King
Question: Name the probe launched from Rosetta which landed on the comet 67P/C-G in November 2014.
Answer: Philae
Question: In a standard game of draughts with how many playing pieces does each player start the game?
Answer: 12
Question: Who wrote the 1989 novel A Clear and Present Danger?
Answer: Tom Clancy
Question: What is the straight line called which joins two points on the circumference of a circle but does not pass not through the centre?
Answer: CHORD
Question: Who was commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain?
Answer: SIR HUGH DOWDING
Question: If a dish is a la forestiere with what is it served?
Answer: MUSHROOM
Question: Bom in Brighton in 1894 Thomas Henry Sargent was a stand-up comedian - by what name was he better known?
Answer: MAX MILLER
Question: Which group had a 1970 UK hit with Woodstock?
Answer: MATTHEWS SOUTHERN COMFORT
Question: Saint Mary's Hall, founded by the Jesuits, is the preparatory department for which Lancashire Independent school?
Answer: STONYHURST
Question: In the Arab Spring which country's uprising was called the Jasmine Revolution?
Answer: TUNISIA
Question: Which letter in the Morse code is represented by a single dot?
Answer: E
Question: Which Scottish king was killed in the Battle of Flooded Field?
Answer: JAMES IV
Question: Of the fortyeight contiguous states in the USA, which contains the most northerly point?
Answer: MINNESOTA
Question: How was Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, bom in Jersey in 1853, better known?
Answer: LILLIE LANGTRY
Question: Who joined The Who as drummer in 1964 before they recorded their first single?
Answer: KEITH MOON
Question: Which famous singer's real first names were Harry Lillis?
Answer: Bing Crosby
Question: Which book is divided into 114 chapters called Suras??
Answer: Koran
Question: Running from Exeter to Lincoln, which was the longest Roman road in Britain?
Answer: Fosse Way
Question: Who partnered Andy Murray to win the 2012 Olympic tennis mixed doubles silver medal?
Answer: Laura Robson
Question: Which government agency has its headquarters at Explorer House, Southampton?
Answer: Ordnance Survey
Question: a Give either of the forenames of the author of Mary Poppins, PL Travers?
Answer: Pamela Lyndon
Question: Which nut is obtained from the tree Juglans Regia??
Answer: Walnut
Question: The Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash crosses which river?
Answer: Tamar
Question: Nicknamed Old Grog, which Admiral ordered the watering down of rum rations in 1738?
Answer: (Edward) Vernon
Question: In the song by Merle Haggard the singer was proud to be a what from Muskogee?
Answer: Okie
Question: In 1867 who became the first Prime Minister of Canada?
Answer: John A Macdonald
Question: British Honduras is now known by what name?
Answer: Belize
Question: In which year did the Queen marry the Duke of Edinburgh?
Answer: 1947
Question: The word poodle for the breed of dog originated from which language?
Answer: German
Question: The Waltz of the Flowers and The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy are from which 19th century ballet?
Answer: THE NUTCRACKER
Question: In which famous novel does the HMS Compass Rose sink?
Answer: The Cruel Sea
Question: Which children's writer created the characters The Saucepan Man, Dame Washalot and Moonface?
Answer: Enid Blyton
Question: At 14.17 miles long, which is the longest circuit ever used for a Formula 1 motor race?
Answer: Nurburgring
Question: In the Bible to where was the Good Samaritan traveling?
Answer: Jericho
Question: In which Sherlock Holmes story do the 'Baker Street Irregulars' first appear?
Answer: A Study in Scarlet
Question: Which Commission was set up to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy?
Answer: Warren Commission
Question: Who writes the Elvis Cole crime novels?
Answer: Robert Crais
Question: In which decade were the first oil fields discovered in Saudi Arabia?
Answer: 1930's
Question: The phrase from pillar to post originated with which medieval game?
Answer: Real Tennis
Question: Which golf club can be referred to as a 'Texas wedge'?
Answer: Putter
Question: A 1954 expedition funded by the Daily Mail set out to find what?
Answer: Yeti
Question: Which name is shared by the governor of the Bank of England from 2003-2013 and a current top British Darts player born in Ipswich?
Answer: Mervyn King
Question: What is the more familiar name of Samuel Peyton Jones, a character in an animated series for children?
Answer: Fireman Sam
Question: Where in the British Isles would you find Trinity Manor, Longueville Manor and Rosel Manor?
Answer: Jersey
Question: A cholecystectomy is an operation to remove which organ?
Answer: Gall Bladder
Question: Harris Biggs-Wither proposed to which writer in 1793?
Answer: JANE AUSTEN
Question: Who presented Meet the Romans on TV?
Answer: MARY BEARD
Question: Bumble is the nickname of which sports commentator?
Answer: DAVID LLOYD
Question: Near which Lincolnshire village did the apple fall on Newton?s head?
Answer: WOOLSTHORPE
Question: During the 2012 London Olympic Games, which venue was known as the North Greenwich Arena?
Answer: 02
Question: Who arranged an outing for temperance campaigners from Leicester to Loughborough on July 1841, the first organized holiday excursion?
Answer: Thomas Cook
Question: Who is the lowest ranked man to win the men?s singles title at Wimbledon, he was 125th when he won in 2001?
Answer: Goran Ivanisevic
Question: Which small mammal, native to Central and South America, may also be called the Honey Bear or Potto?
Answer: Kinkajou
Question: Who said of Katherine Hepburn She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B?
Answer: Dorothy Parker
Question: Who was the 18th century underworld figure known as the Thief-taker general who was executed at Tyburn in 1725?
Answer: Jonathan Wild
Question: Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol and Richard Thompson were three of the founder members in 1967 of which British folk-rock group?
Answer: Fairport Convention
Question: Which Mediterranean island features a single Saracen's head on its flag?
Answer: Corsica
Question: The Beatles recorded only one song from a Broadway musical Till There Was You, from which musical did it come?
Answer: The Music Man
Question: John Renboum, Bert Jansch and Danny Thompson were three of the founder members in 1967 of which British folk-rock group?
Answer: Pentangle
Question: Nicolai Petrovich Poliakov became better known as who?
Answer: Coco the Clown
Question: Where in Germany is Europe's largest Gothic church?
Answer: Cologne
Question: Which former US President's real name is William Jefferson Blythe III?
Answer: Bill Clinton
Question: Which late actor said: The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind?
Answer: Humphrey Bogart
Question: Leigh Francis is the real name of which TV entertainer, the character first appeared in ?Whatever I Want? then ?Bo Selecta??
Answer: Keith Lemon
Question: The single shortest term as Prime Minister was a period of 22 days in 1834, who was in office?
Answer: Duke of Wellington
Question: Miles Standish was the captain of which famous ship?
Answer: Mayflower
Question: Ann Cleves wrote the novel Red Bones, which BBC TV drama, screened in 2013 and 2014, was based on it?
Answer: Shetland
Question: Who is the English film director of The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93 and Captain Phillips?
Answer: Paul Greengrass
Question: Which is Charles Dickens' third published novel, its characters include: Madame Mantalini, Newman Noggs and Vincent Crummles?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby
Question: Which racehorse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2007 and 2009, the first to win in non-consecutive years and the King George VI Chase five times?
Answer: Kauto Star
Question: Named for a Shakespearean queen, which is the largest of the moons of Uranus?
Answer: Titania
Question: Where do littoral creatures live?
Answer: Shoreline
Question: Zayn Malik left which boy band in March 2015?
Answer: ONE DIRECTION
Question: What is the name of Captain Ahab’s ship in Moby Dick?
Answer: PEQUOD
Question: In August 2014 Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal. For work is which discipline is the Fields Medal awarded?
Answer: MATHEMATICS
Question: An isobront is a line on a map joining points where what type of weather occurs simultaneously?
Answer: THUNDERSTORM
Question: Who wrote the Palliser series of novels?
Answer: ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Question: Psychology Professor Daniel Kahneman, author of the 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow jointly won which Nobel Prize in 2002?
Answer: ECONOMICS
Question: Near which city is the only museum devoted to American life and arts from the 17th to 19th century in Britain?
Answer: BATH
Question: Striker Samuel Eto'o who signed for Everton in 2014 has represented which country in the FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Cameroon
Question: The title of TV show Strictly Come Dancing is based upon the name of a previous BBC show and which 1993 Baz Luhrman film?
Answer: Strictly Ballroom
Question: The name of which Australian city is a word that means meeting place in aboriginal?
Answer: Canberra
Question: Of which band was Lionel Richie a member until 1982?
Answer: THE COMMODORES
Question: Which American President was in office 1869-1877?
Answer: ULYSSES S GRANT
Question: Which Manchester pop group had a 1978 Noel single hit with "Dreadlock Holiday'?
Answer: 10cc
Question: Which group of medical workers became Time Magazine Person of the Year 2014?
Answer: The Ebola Fighters
Question: The film Mulholland Drive is located in which city?
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: Depicting a father and daughter, who painted the picture American Gothic in 1930?
Answer: Grant Wood
Question: If you were involved the craft of tatting what would you be making?
Answer: Lace
Question: Upminster and Ealing Broadway are respectively the eastern and western termini or which London Underground line?
Answer: The District Line
Question: Nephrolithiasis is the medical name for which condition?
Answer: Kidney Stones
Question: Which Nick Hornby book concerned his being a fan of Arsenal?
Answer: Fever Pitch
Question: in what year where the Summer Olympic Games hosted in Montreal?
Answer: 1976
Question: In what year where the Summer Olympic Games hosted in Melbourne?
Answer: 1956
Question: Michaelmas day is in which month?
Answer: September
Question: Which New York Stadium was home to the New York Mets from 1964-2008, and was demolished in 2009?
Answer: Shea Stadium
Question: Which state did John F Kennedy represent when a senator?
Answer: Massachusetts
Question: In Peter Pan what is the name of the Red Indian Princess rescued by Peter?
Answer: Tiger Lily
Question: The song ‘Happy’ by Pharrel Williams first appeared on the soundtrack of which computer animated film of 2013?
Answer: Despicable Me 2)
Question: What is the essential vegetable ingredient of a dish cooked ‘a la florentine’?
Answer: Spinach
Question: Which well-known actor did the actress and theatre director Sophie Hunter marry in 2015?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch
Question: Which European city is served by Marignane Airport?
Answer: Marseilles
Question: Catherine of Braganza was married to which English king?
Answer: Charles II
Question: What is the capital of Kosovo?
Answer: PRISTINA
Question: Who, in 1929, became the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the UK?
Answer: Margaret) BONDFIELD
Question: Which motor-cycle company has three tuning forks as its badge?
Answer: YAMAHA
Question: Pierre Omidyar founded which internet company?
Answer: EBAY
Question: Who commanded the Union forces during the 1864 March to the Sea?
Answer: (William) SHERMAN
Question: Name the only city situated on the River Wye.
Answer: HEREFORD
Question: According to the title of the book what was served at the Whistle Stop Cafe?
Answer: FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
Question: Taking its name from a Portuguese dish of meat, garlic and wine, which hot curry originated in Goa?
Answer: Vindaloo
Question: John Adams and which other American president died on the Fourth of July 1826?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Question: Saint Bruno founded which order of Monks?
Answer: Carthusian
Question: The Hector Beriioz opera "Beatrice et Benedict" is based on which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing
Question: Who did Francois Hollande succeed as French President in 2012?
Answer: Nicolas Sarkozy
Question: What was US tennis player Billie Jean King’s maiden name?
Answer: Moffitt
Question: Who was the leader and pianist of the group ‘Brasil 66’?
Answer: Sergio Mendes
Question: Leon Frank Czolgosz assassinated which US president in 1901?
Answer: William McKinley
Question: Buckminster-Fullerene, made up of spheres of 60 atoms is an allotrope of which element?
Answer: Carbon
Question: Which Rolling Stones 1964 No.1 hit was a cover of a 1956 blues recording made by Howlin’ Wolf?
Answer: Little Red Rooster
Question: What was Australian tennis player Margaret Court’s maiden name?
Answer: Smith
Question: What kind of animal was W. A. Rey’s Curious George?
Answer: MONKEY
Question: Which group in 1994 released the live Album “Hell Freezes Over”?
Answer: THE EAGLES
Question: Who first spoke the words known as The Magnificat”?
Answer: MARY
Question: Which Booker prize winning writer wrote the slogan “That’ll do nicely” for American Express?
Answer: SALMAN RUSHDIE
Question: Who was the owner of Manchester’s Hacienda Club and Factory Records?
Answer: TONY WILSON
Question: Which British King was the last to personally lead an army into battle ?
Answer: GEORGE II
Question: In which French region are the cities of Nancy and Metz located?
Answer: Lorraine
Question: Who was the King of France at the time of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre?
Answer: Charles IX
Question: Which fictional reporter made his debut in "Land of the Soviets" in 1929?
Answer: Tintin
Question: What was the nationality of the 2000 Olympic swimmer nicknamed Eric the Eel?
Answer: Equatorial Guinea
Question: Whose book "We Need to Talk about Kevin" was made into a film starring Tilda Swinton?
Answer: Lionel Shriver
Question: Whose 1984 novel "Neuromancer", was one of the first cyberpunk novels?
Answer: William Gibson
Question: Who was the director of the Oscar winning film "The Artist"?
Answer: Michel Hazanavicius
Question: Concerning a governess, what was the debut novel of Anne Bronte?
Answer: Agnes Grey
Question: As at January 2015 who is the only person to have held all the major offices of State in the UK – Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary
Answer: James Callaghan
Question: Who plays the part of Walter Keane in the Tim Burton film 'Big Eyes'. He has won two Oscars for best supporting actor?
Answer: Christoph Waltz
Question: What was the pseudonym of the mathematician Leonardo Bonacci (1170-1240)?
Answer: Fibonacci
Question: In which English county is Shepherd Neame brewery?
Answer: Kent
Question: Which British actor plays the part of Martin Luther King in the 2014 film 'Selma'?
Answer: David Oyelowo
Question: What is considered to be the most likely cause of "The madness of King George"?
Answer: Porphyria
Question: To within 2 years either way, in what year were MOT tests first introduced for cars?
Answer: 1960
Question: Henry VIII described which teenage wife as his ‘Rose without a thorn’?
Answer: Catherine Howard
Question: Which British writer married Harold Pinter in 1980?
Answer: (Lady) Antonia Fraser
Question: Which 1982 film is based on the 1968 sci-fi novel by Philip K Dick “Do androids dream of electric sheep’?
Answer: Blade Runner
Question: What kind of pastry is used to make chocolate eclairs?
Answer: Choux
Question: In which African country is the city of Port Harcourt?
Answer: Nigeria
Question: What is the name of the RAF air rescue station on Anglesey?
Answer: Valley
Question: Sam Wheat and Molly Jensen are the central characters in which 1990’s romantic film?
Answer: Ghost
Question: What was the name of Alfred the Great’s kingdom?
Answer: Wessex
Question: Fulgencio Batista was the leader of which country between 1952 and 1959?
Answer: Cuba
Question: Which single family of birds, not native to Europe, comprises the order Spenisciformes?
Answer: Penguins
Question: Rock musician William George Perks is better known as who?
Answer: Bill Wyman
Question: Give a year in the life of Peter The Great.
Answer: 1672 -1725
Question: The Battle of Brandywine took place during which war?
Answer: American War of Independence
Question: Which actor played the third Dr Who on television?
Answer: Jon Pertwee
Question: in which battle of 1403 was Harry Hotspur killed?
Answer: Shrewsbury
Question: Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, was known by what name when it was part of Yugoslavia?
Answer: Titograd
Question: Which US city was ravaged by a Great Fire in 1871 that left thousands homeless?
Answer: CHICAGO
Question: Which constituency returned Douglas Carswell as the first UKIP MP in October 2014?
Answer: CLACTON
Question: Which British Prime Minister said, on first taking office, 'My mission is to pacify Ireland'?
Answer: WILLIAM GLADSTONE
Question: What was the name until 1975 of the country now called Benin?
Answer: DAHOMEY
Question: Who did Australia beat in the final of the 2015 ICC World Cup?
Answer: NEW ZEALAND
Question: Who was the Canadian jazz pianist (1925-2007), winner of eight Grammy Awards who released over 200 recordings?
Answer: OSCAR PETERSON
Question: What was the name of the computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Answer: HAL
Question: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first in which trilogy of novels?
Answer: MILLENNIUM
Question: In the American Civil War General Sherman led the so-called 'March to the Sea' through which US state?
Answer: GEORGIA
Question: What was the name of the Sheffield sports stadium built for the 1991 World Student Games ? it was demolished in 2014?
Answer: DON VALLEY
Question: What form of theatre has preserved the style of drama being performed in 14th century Japan?
Answer: NOH THEATRE
Question: Benny, Agnetha, Anni-Frid and ________ who made up ABBA?
Answer: BJÖRN
Question: In the Bible, who succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelites?
Answer: JOSHUA
Question: Muscadet is a white wine from which French wine region?
Answer: LOIRE
Question: Which radioactive element, atomic number 89, is the first alphabetically in a list of naturally occurring elements?
Answer: ACTINIUM
Question: Who was Prime Minister of the UK in 1980?
Answer: MARGARET THATCHER
Question: For what does the I stand in the organisation FBI?
Answer: (FEDERAL BUREAU OF) INVESTIGATION
Question: Who played the character Andy Dufresne, a banker wrongly convicted of murdering his wife in the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption?
Answer: TIM ROBBINS
Question: In 2002 Johnny Vegas sold his wedding pictures to which comic magazine for £1?
Answer: VIZ
Question: Which Bulgarian beat Andy Murray in the 2014 Wimbledon quarter-final?
Answer: GRIGOR DIMITROV
Question: Which British Prime Minister died in office in 1865?
Answer: VISCOUNT PALMERSTON
Question: Of which Italian region is Genoa the capital?
Answer: Liguria
Question: Who designed the then Princess Elizabeth's wedding dress in 1947?
Answer: Norman Hartnell
Question: In what year where the Summer Olympic Games hosted in Munich?
Answer: 1972
Question: What did the USA purchase from Russia for $7,200,000 in 1857?
Answer: Alaska
Question: Which band teamed up with Run DMC on the hit single "Walk This Way"?
Answer: Aerosmith
Question: Dave Vanian, Brian James, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies were the original members of which punk band?
Answer: The Damned
Question: Which 'cake' is a small, circular black sweet made of liquorice?
Answer: Pontefract Cake
Question: Which operatic heroine is the daughter of Amonasro, King of Ethiopia?
Answer: Aida
Question: Which theatre critic devised and produced the erotic revue ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ in 1969?
Answer: Kenneth Tynan
Question: Who skippered an all-woman crew in the 1989 Whitbread round-the-world yacht race in a yacht called Maiden?
Answer: Tracy Edwards
Question: Whose only novel won the Pulitzer Booker Prize in 1937?
Answer: Margaret Mitchell
Question: In 1975, ‘Curtain’ was the last novel starring which character?
Answer: Hercule Poirot
Question: Gerald Durrell was a director of which zoo?
Answer: Jersey
Question: Under what pseudonym did writer Edith Pargeter create the detective Brother Cadfael?
Answer: Ellis Peters
Question: To whom did Sonny Liston lose the World Heavyweight Boxingchampionship in 1964?
Answer: Cassius Clay
Question: Which revolutionary leader was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov?
Answer: Lenin
Question: The Cavallino Rampante is the logo of which sports car manufacturer?
Answer: Ferrari
Question: The orang utan means "person of the forest" in which language?
Answer: Malay
Question: Which type of cognac is aged for at least six years and comes between VSOP and XO in aging styles?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: In which constellation is Aldebaran the brightest star?
Answer: Taurus
Question: Which car manufacturer produces the models Sandero and Duster?
Answer: Dacia
Question: Lactuca Sativa is the Latin name for which vegetable, which has varieties including Summercrisp, Butterhead and Romaine?
Answer: Lettuce
Question: In which US state is Milwaukee the most populous city?
Answer: Wisconsin
Question: For which 1967 film, based on a novel by Charles Webb, did Mike Nichols win the Oscar for Best Director?
Answer: The Graduate
Question: As at January 2015, which Rugby Union player has scored the most points in the Rugby World Cup final stages, with 277 between 1999 and 2011?
Answer: Jonny Wilkinson
Question: Which country in Central America has the highest population?
Answer: GUATEMALA
Question: The zygomatic bone is the medical name for which bone of the human body?
Answer: CHEEK BONE
Question: Joe Orton, Sue Townsend and the Elephant Man were all born in which English city?
Answer: Leicester
Question: In World War II, what was the allies' code name for the Anzio Landings?
Answer: Operation Shingle