zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the name of the clerical detective created by G.K. Chesterton?
Answer: Father Brown
Question: Which city connects the headquarters of OPEC, the burial place of Beethoven, and Rigsby's cat in Rising Damp?
Answer: Vienna
Question: Which skier spectacularly summersaulted through 2 barriers, landing on his head, in the downhill race at the winter Olympics in Nagano. Then went on to win 2 gold medals a few days later?
Answer: Hermann Maier
Question: Which book was made into a 26 minute animated TV special in 1982, and had David Bowie as the narrator in the US version?
Answer: The Snowman
Question: A famous guitarist, or an young attendant upon a person of rank?
Answer: Page
Question: Which British mathematician created a basic computer in 1835?
Answer: Charles Babbage
Question: Which Oscar nominated film of 2014 chronicles Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march?
Answer: Selma
Question: What was the title of Maria McKee’s only UK number 1, due to it’s use in the film Days Of Thunder?
Answer: Show Me Heaven
Question: Which of Henry Vlll’s wives was known as the Flanders Mare?
Answer: Anne of Cleves
Question: Jah, Afrocentrism, Ital, Zion and Cannabis use are the main doctrines of which religious movement?
Answer: Rastafari
Question: In 1991, a spoof Nobel Prize, called The Ig Nobel Prize, for achievements that cannot or should not be repeated was  instigated by which US university?
Answer: Harvard
Question: When a young squire was knighted for his deeds of valour in battle, he was said to have won his what?
Answer: Spurs
Question: Which of his books did British author Jeffrey Archer re-write in 2009, 30 years after it’s first publication?
Answer: Kane and Abel
Question: What is a straight line passing from side to side through the centre of a circle called?
Answer: Diameter
Question: Which film director’s epitaph reads ‘I’m in on a plot’?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
Question: Which cartoon character is depicted on the welcome sign in Crystal City, Texas, ‘the spinach capital of the world’?
Answer: Popeye
Question: British companies, Wagtail, Kelham Island and Revolution are all what types of which industry?
Answer: Breweries
Question: A ‘Cockle’ is English slang for what amount of money?
Answer: 10
Question: In the UK tv series ‘Rising Damp’, what was the first name of Rigsby’s estranged wife?
Answer: Veronica
Question: Which former US airline, founded in 1927, ceased to operate in 1991?
Answer: Pan American
Question: The ‘Vichy Regime’ described the government of which European country during World War II?
Answer: France
Question: French artist, Fernande Olivier, was known primarily for being the model of which painter/artist, who painted over 60 portraits of her?
Answer: Pablo Picasso
Question: The Vistula Lagoon is a freshwater lagoon on which sea?
Answer: Baltic Sea
Question: In the game of bridge, what is the term for bidding and winning a contract of thirteen tricks?
Answer: Grand Slam
Question: What is the name of the scarlet and gold banner of St Denis, which was given to early French kings on setting out for war?
Answer: Oriflamme
Question: The radio adaptation of which H G Wells novel, narrated by Orson Welles caused panic in parts of the USA in October 1938?
Answer: The War of the Worlds
Question: What is the name of Captain Hook’s boat in the children’s novel ‘Peter Pan’?
Answer: Jolly Roger
Question: What is the name of the small light ball of woven flax swung rhythmically at the end of a string in Maori songs and dances?
Answer: Poi
Question: In science, a pascal is a measure of what?
Answer: Pressure
Question: Domingo Liotta MD, of Argentina, designed and developed the first artificial what, which was successfully implanted in a human in 1969?
Answer: Heart
Question: What was the name of the ship in which Captain Robert Scott set sail for the Antarctic in 1901?
Answer: The Discovery
Question: Who did Franklin D. Roosevelt defeat in the 1944 US Presidential elections?
Answer: Thomas E. Dewey
Question: In mythology, which Roman goddess often assumed the form of a cat in order to mate with her brother Lucifer?
Answer: Diana
Question: Budo is a Japanese term that describes what?
Answer: Martial arts
Question: Which ex-Playboy Bunny sang in a band called ‘Wind in the Willows’ before becoming the singer in one of the most famous bands of the 1970’s and 80’s?
Answer: Debbie Harry
Question: In the human body, which vitamin helps the blood to clot?
Answer: Vitamin K
Question: The ‘Harvester Judgement’ was a benchmark legal case for ensuring workers in which country were paid a fair basic wage?
Answer: Australia
Question: In the UK, which item of furniture in the House of Commons at Westminster was originally designed by Augustus Welby Pugin in the 19th Century?
Answer: Speaker’s Chair
Question: Which cabinet position did British MP Andrew Bonar Law hold between 1916 and 1919?
Answer: Chancellor of the Exchequer
Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘ab initio’ translate to in English?
Answer: From the beginning
Question: The former gold-mining region of Cariboo is in which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: Julia and Alfred were the names of parents of which member of British pop band The Beatles?
Answer: John Lennon
Question: What disability did the wife and mother of inventor Alexander Graham Bell both suffer?
Answer: Deafness
Question: ‘Shazam’ is the favourite word of which comic book hero?
Answer: Captain Marvel
Question: Actor/comedian Maxwell George Lorimer is better known by what name?
Answer: Max Wall
Question: Sevastopol, in the Crimea, lies on the shore of which body of water?
Answer: Black Sea
Question: Glassine, Azure Laid and Chromo are all types of what?
Answer: Paper
Question: In a cycle race, what colour jersey is worn each day by the rider accumulating the highest number of points?
Answer: Green
Question: In Greek mythology, how many fates are there?
Answer: Three
Question: What was a tenth of a Roman Legion called?
Answer: Cohort
Question: How many commandments does the Jewish Torah contain?
Answer: 613
Question: Who was the father of English monarch Edward VI?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question: In 1785, the first crossing of which body of water was made by Francois Blanchard and John Jeffries using a hot air balloon?
Answer: English Channel
Question: Chopin Airport is in which European city?
Answer: Warsaw
Question: Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was written for actress Gertrude Lawrence, who died a year later halfway through the show’s run?
Answer: The King and I
Question: The port of Watchet is in which English county?
Answer: Somerset
Question: In the 18th Century, the British Royal Navy ordered limes and lemons to be carried on board ships as a remedy for which disease?
Answer: Scurvy
Question: Which American playwright wrote the play ‘All God’s Chillun Got Wings’?
Answer: Eugene O’Neill
Question: On a standard dartboard, which number lies between 9 and 11?
Answer: 14
Question: Mr Kitty is the pet cat of which character in the US animated tv series ‘South Park’?
Answer: Eric Cartman
Question: Which band released an 1974 album entitled ‘Crime of the Century’?
Answer: Supertramp
Question: Which trio made their last feature film appearance in the 1949 film ‘Love Happy’?
Answer: The Marx Brothers
Question: Actress Phyllis Diller said ‘His favourite exercise is climbing tall people’, about which Hollywood actor?
Answer: Mickey Rooney
Question: Which 18th Century scientist and politician published the literary work ‘Poor Richard’s Almanack’?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Question: Which English singer-songwriter’s pet spaniel was a special guest at his civil partnership ceremony?
Answer: Elton John
Question: What is the name of the German origin biscuit baked in a looped knot and often glazed with salt.
Answer: Pretzel
Question: Mar Chiquita (Cordoba) is the largest natural salt lake in which South American country?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Which African country is regarded as the spiritual home of the Rastafari religious movement?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: In August 2011 NASA announced that photographic evidence had been captured of possible liquid water of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Mars
Question: The restored tomb of which dramatist was unveiled in Paris in November 2011, after being ruined by lipstick smears left by thousands of kisses?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Question: Which British newspaper closed down in July 2011 after several allegations of phone-hacking by journalists?
Answer: The News of the World
Question: On 7th July 2011, the world’s first artificial organ transplant was achieved, using which artificial part of the body coated with stem cells?
Answer: Windpipe
Question: British actress Susannah York, who died in January 2011, was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of Alice LeBlanc in which 1969 film?
Answer: They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
Question: Which late actress played Elsie Tanner in the UK tv soap ‘Coronation Street’?
Answer: Patricia Phoenix
Question: What was the name of the British submarine which collided with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames estuary in 1950, killing over 60 people?
Answer: HMS Truculent
Question: In humans, dipsosis is an excessive what?
Answer: Thirst
Question: Beamer, Flipper and Rabbit are terms used in which sport?
Answer: Cricket
Question: Maslak is the commercial district of which European city?
Answer: Istanbul
Question: Effie Crockett was said to have composed which lullaby in 1886?
Answer: Rock-a-bye-baby
Question: On a standard dartboard, what number lies opposite 17?
Answer: Five
Question: Which World War II battle was officially known as ‘The Ardennes Offensive’?
Answer: The Battle of the Bulge
Question: In which country in the UK did it used to be considered unlucky to be born on a Leap Day?
Answer: Scotland
Question: which 18th Century scientist said ‘Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do’?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Question: Which British poet had a relationship with Fanny Brawne?
Answer: John Keats
Question: According to the Bible, which fruit was Moses told by God must be worn on the hem of the robes for ministering service?
Answer: Pomegranates
Question: Which champion racehorse, who died in 1932, was sometimes referred to as ‘Australia’s Wonder Horse’?
Answer: Phar Lap
Question: In which 1974 and 2003 films does the character ‘Leatherface’ appear?
Answer: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Question: Who led the 1381 Peasants Revolt in the UK, with Jack Straw, John Ball and others, and was stabbed to death by the Lord Mayor of London?
Answer: Wat Tyler
Question: A hangover cure, made traditionally with raw, egg, Worcestershire Sauce and seasoning, is known as a ‘Prairie….what’?
Answer: Oyster
Question: What is the first part of the Jewish Bible called, which refers to the first five books of Moses?
Answer: The Torah
Question: What name is given to an ornamental, usually coloured, design made of small pieces of hard material such as stone, tile or glass?
Answer: Mosaic
Question: Which French king was known as ‘The Quarrelsome’ (Le Hutin)?
Answer: Louis X
Question: Misr is the local name for which North African country?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Who is the Greek God of wine?
Answer: Dionysus
Question: On which side of the road do motorists drive in Japan?
Answer: Left
Question: How many numbered boxes are there at the beginning of a game of UK tv’s ‘Deal or No Deal’?
Answer: 22
Question: Red Connors is the sidekick of which fictional Wild West hero?
Answer: Hopalong Cassidy
Question: Myelitis is the inflammation of which part of the human body?
Answer: Spinal cord
Question: In Greek mythology, what is the name of the nymph who was pursued by Apollo and transformed by the gods into a laurel bush?
Answer: Daphne
Question: In 1958, who became the youngest footballer, at age 17, to play in a World Cup?
Answer: Pele
Question: ‘Pap’ is the town’s vagrant drunkard father of which fictional character created by Mark Twain?
Answer: Huckleberry Finn
Question: Which British Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced a Supertax (or Surtax) for the very rich?
Answer: David Lloyd George
Question: William the Conqueror was Duke of which region of France from 1035 until his death?
Answer: Normandy
Question: In the game of darts, what is the maximum score that can be achieved in one throw of three darts?
Answer: 180
Question: In the Bible, what are the first three words of Genesis?
Answer: In the beginning
Question: The book entitled ‘The Fake’s Progress’ is about which infamous English art forger?
Answer: Tom Keating
Question: Which sea creature has been adopted as the symbol of the Parramatta Rugby League Club in Sydney, Australia?
Answer: Eel
Question: Which US artist died in a car crash in August 1956, aged 44?
Answer: Jackson Pollock
Question: What is the extreme sport called in which a person hurls themselves down a hill inside a large hollow ball?
Answer: Zorbing
Question: In the 1971 film ‘Willard’, the title character has a strange affinity for which creatures?
Answer: Rats
Question: Jason Vorhees is a fictional character, who uses a machete on his victims, in which series of films?
Answer: Friday the 13th
Question: Who plays the politician who becomes the boyfriend of Jennifer Lopez in the 2003 film ‘Maid in Manhattan’?
Answer: Ralph Fiennes
Question: The 11th Century nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar was better known by what name?
Answer: El Cid
Question: Which scientist wrote a letter in 1704 in which he predicted the end of the world in 2060 after studying Biblical texts?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton
Question: What was the name of the river by which Julius Caesar stood when he reputedly said ‘The die has been cast’?
Answer: The Rubicon River
Question: Retinol is a form of which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin A
Question: A ‘Ruby-tailed’ is what type of creature?
Answer: Wasp
Question: In 1407, Dick Whittington was simultaneously Lord Mayor of London and Mayor of which French town?
Answer: Calais
Question: Which French port did RMS Titanic call at after leaving Southampton in April 1912?
Answer: Cherbourg
Question: Joe Frazier said ‘He’s phoney, using his blackness to get his way’, about which other boxer?
Answer: Muhammed Ali
Question: Which Polynesian island was originally called Rapa Nui before it was discovered by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeeven in 1722?
Answer: Easter Island
Question: Which German composer wrote the oratorios ‘Elijah’ and ‘St Paul’?
Answer: Mendelssohn
Question: Agrava, Cephlon and Virn are all fictional planets in which BBC science fiction television series?
Answer: Blake’s 7
Question: The Oswaldo Cruz Institute and the Butantan Institute are in which South American country?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Originally built as a research lab off the coast of Puerto Rico, the world’s first underwater hotel, the Jules Undersea Lodge, is now situated in which US state?
Answer: Florida
Question: Created by cartoonist Robert Lips, cartoon character ‘Globi’ originated in which European country?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: According to the proverb ‘People in glass houses shouldn’t do what’?
Answer: Throw stones
Question: Boss, Flex, Vane and Nock are terms used in which sport?
Answer: Archery
Question: William Pitt the Elder and William Pitt the Younger were British Prime Ministers during the reign of which monarch?
Answer: King George III
Question: In Greek mythology, what is the name of the many-headed monster slain by Heracles?
Answer: Hydra
Question: How many chances in each round do high-jumpers get to clear the bar?
Answer: Three
Question: In ancient Olympic Games, some men wore a ‘kynodesme’ to restrain which part of their body?
Answer: Penis
Question: A Pratincole is what type of creature?
Answer: Bird
Question: Which 18th Century artist painted a portrait of actress Sarah Siddons entitled ‘Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse’?
Answer: Joshua Reynolds
Question: Which US President was given the nickname ‘The Great Emancipator’?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: Who wrote the 18th Century play ‘The Rivals’?
Answer: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Question: What was the name of the space shuttle in which Alan Shepard went into space in 1961?
Answer: Freedom 7
Question: Hibernia was the Roman name for which European country?
Answer: Ireland
Question: Darius Danesh (Campbell) became the youngest actor to play the role of Billy Flynn in which Broadway musical since it opened in 1975?
Answer: Chicago
Question: Otology is the study of which part of the body?
Answer: Ear
Question: In September 1968, Marcelo Caetano became Prime Minister of which European country?
Answer: Portugal
Question: In Greek mythology, who was awarded the armour of the dead Achilles, after competing for it with Ajax?
Answer: Odysseus
Question: On the human body, the axilla is better known as what?
Answer: Armpit
Question: Mrs Grose and Miss Jessel appear in which novella by Henry James?
Answer: The Turn of the Screw
Question: Ann Davison became the first woman to single-handedly sail which body of water in 1952?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Question: In Greek mythology Eurystheus imposed twelve labours on which of his cousins?
Answer: Hercules (Heracles)
Question: The EEC (European Economic Community) was created by the 1957 ‘Treaty of….’where’?.
Answer: Rome
Question: A simcha is a private party or celebration in which religion?
Answer: Judaism
Question: According to the proverb, ‘Too many cooks spoil the….’what’?
Answer: Broth
Question: Which band had a 1994 Christmas number one single in the UK with ‘Stay Another Day’?
Answer: East 17
Question: Which boxer wont the WBA and IBF World Heavyweight Championships in 1994, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in history?
Answer: George Foreman
Question: Which English fruit merchant and amateur sailor returned to Portsmouth, England, on 4th July 1968, after sailing round the world in 354 days?
Answer: Alec Rose
Question: The Batavian Republic is now known by what modern-day name?
Answer: The Netherlands
Question: The then fictional ‘Sarah Siddons Award’, now a real award, is first referred to in the opening scene of which film starring Bette Davis?
Answer: All About Eve
Question: According to the proverb, ‘A bird in the…..’what’…is worth two in the bush’?
Answer: Hand
Question: On a standard dartboard, which number lies between 10 and 13?
Answer: 6
Question: Which British city has areas called Anfield and Toxteth?
Answer: Liverpool
Question: Iva Toguri D’Aquino, a US citizen who participated in propaganda broadcasts to allied soldiers during World War II, was better known by what name?
Answer: Tokyo Rose
Question: In January 1994, US President Bill Clinton and which Russian President signed a series of treaties known as the ‘Kremlin Accords’?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin
Question: Which 1965 pop song by The Toys is based on ‘Minuet in G Major’ by J S Bach?
Answer: A Lover’s Concerto
Question: Footballer David Beckham, born 2nd May 1975, played for which English football club between 1993 and 2003?
Answer: Manchester United
Question: Which world championship darts player walks onto the stage to the tune of ‘Rabbit’ by Chas and Dave?
Answer: Eric Bristow
Question: The 1968 MCC tour of South Africa was cancelled when the South Africans refused to accept the presence of which England cricket player?
Answer: Basil D’Oliveira
Question: Which actor became the 38th Governor of California, USA in 2003?
Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Question: How many vowels are in the English alphabet?
Answer: Five
Question: On which fictional planet was Superman born?
Answer: Krypton
Question: What colour ‘Cadillac’ did Bruce Springsteen sing about in 1984?
Answer: Pink
Question: Myology is the scientific study of which part of the human body?
Answer: Muscles
Question: What is the name of the bridge, a world famous tourist site designed by Richard Lee, which connects Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario?
Answer: Rainbow Bridge
Question: How many countries border Turkey?
Answer: Eight
Question: In 1970, Russia’s (USSR) Venera 7 became the first manmade spacecraft to land successfully on which planet, and transmit data back to Earth?
Answer: Venus
Question: The unification of the crowns of Aragon and Castile laid the basis of which modern-day European country?
Answer: Spain
Question: Neville Chamberlain was British Prime Minister during the reign of which monarch?
Answer: King George VI
Question: In which US state did singer Elvis Presley perform his last concert?
Answer: Indiana
Question: In Greek mythology, who was condemned to hold the ‘world’ on his shoulders for all eternity as punishment for warring against Zeus?
Answer: Atlas
Question: On a standard dartboard, which number lies opposite 20?
Answer: 3
Question: In the Star Wars series of films what is described as ‘An energy field created by all living things that surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together’?
Answer: The ‘Force’
Question: In the Star Wars series of films what is the name of the short, stocky, friendly hunter-gatherers that inhabit the forest moon of Endor?
Answer: Ewoks
Question: In the Star Wars series of films what is the name of the fictional weapon, consisting of a polished hilt which projects a  blade of plasma, used by the Jedi and the Sith?
Answer: Lightsaber
Question: Which British title did Frederick and William Temple hold on separate occasions?
Answer: Archbishop of Canterbury
Question: English statesman John of Gaunt was regent to which future king of England while he was too young to take the throne?
Answer: Richard II
Question: The French resort of Biarritz lies on which body of water?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Question: In the television series ‘The Simpsons’, what is the name of the ‘evil genius’ who has sworn to take revenge on Bart?
Answer: Sideshow Bob
Question: Nepotal pertains to which family member?
Answer: Nephew
Question: The Liberty Bell (March) by John Philip Sousa is the theme tune to which UK television comedy series starring John Cleese?
Answer: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Question: In the Disney film ‘The Lion King’, what is the name of Simba’s wicked uncle?
Answer: Scar
Question: The Trafford Shopping Centre is in which English city?
Answer: Manchester
Question: During which year did the UK television series ‘Emmerdale Farm’ change its title to ‘Emmerdale’?
Answer: 1989
Question: What was poet Percy Shelley’s middle name?
Answer: Bysshe
Question: The islands of Jura, Sanday, Shapinsay and Balta belong to which European country?
Answer: Scotland
Question: What type of creature is Snowball in the 1945 novel ‘Animal Farm’?
Answer: Pig
Question: Which US city is known as The Windy City?
Answer: Chicago
Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘Caeci caecos ducentes’ translate to in English?
Answer: Blind are led by the blind
Question: The first purpose-built bobsleigh (or bobsled) track was opened in which European resort town in the early 20th Century?
Answer: St Moritz
Question: Which four letter word beginning with I is the person who leads prayers in a Mosque?
Answer: Imam
Question: Which four letter word beginning with X is an Arctic fork-tailed gull?
Answer: Xeme
Question: A jewelled copy of which famous book of poems was amongst the cargo lost on the Titanic?
Answer: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Question: The ‘Rodney Riots’ took place on which Caribbean island in October 1968?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: According to the folklore of which European country, Santa Claus has a brother called Bells Nichols?
Answer: France
Question: What colour ‘Christmas’ did Elvis Presley sing about in 1964?
Answer: Blue
Question: In an episode of the television show ‘The Simpsons’, who does Lisa give a Valentine card to with a picture of a train saying ‘I Choo Choo Choose You’?
Answer: Ralph
Question: What must a referee count to when a professional wrestler is pinned?
Answer: Three
Question: What was the first name of US army officer Custer, who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876?
Answer: George
Question: What was the first name of British Field Marshall Kitchener, who played a central role in the early part of the First World War?
Answer: Horatio
Question: Which US band played their legendary concert at the Fillmore East in Manhattan in March 1971?
Answer: The Allman Brothers Band
Question: What is the name for the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another?
Answer: Refraction