zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What Oscar nominated film was adapted from Noel Coward?s play Still Life?
Answer: BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Question: Tom Brady has been the starting quarterback for which NFL team since 2000?
Answer: NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
Question: In old measures how many chains made a furlong?
Answer: 10
Question: Who was President of the USA between 1923 and 1929?
Answer: CALVIN COOLIDGE
Question: The river Lee enters the sea at which Irish port?
Answer: CORK
Question: Michael Jordan played for which NBA team from 1984 to 1998, except for a season of retirement in 1993-94?
Answer: CHICAGO BULLS
Question: In which film did Noel Coward play Captain E V Kinross and Celia Johnson his wife Alix?
Answer: IN WHICH WE SERVE
Question: Vientiane is the capital of which Asian country?
Answer: LAOS
Question: In mediaeval York, if streets were called Gates, what were gates called?
Answer: BARS
Question: Which town or city is at the mouth of the Yangtze River?
Answer: Shanghai
Question: In 1993 two British boxers fought each other for the World Heavyweight title, Lennox Lewis won, who was the loser?
Answer: Frank Bruno
Question: The mineral stibnite is a source of which metallic element?
Answer: Antimony
Question: In the Thomas the Tank Engine series of books, what is the name of the Fat Controller?
Answer: Sir Topham Hat
Question: Which German battleship was sunk by Lancaster bombers in a Norwegian fjord in November 1944?
Answer: Tirpitz
Question: The Battles of Alma and Inker man took place during which war?
Answer: Crimean
Question: The prefix thio- refers to the presence of which element in a chemical compound?
Answer: Sulphur
Question: Which country was known to the Romans as Mauretania Tingitana?
Answer: Morocco
Question: Blaise Pascal introduced which public service to Paris in the 17th century?
Answer: Public transport
Question: In 1901 who became the first Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: Edmund Barton
Question: Upper Volta is the former name of which country?
Answer: Burkina Fasso
Question: """The Concept of Irony"" was a 1820s philosophical work by which Dane?"
Answer: Soren Kirkegaard
Question: Which great Assyrian city is named in the opening line of the poem Cargoes by John Masefield?
Answer: Nineveh
Question: Regan and Goneril are two of King Lear's daughters, who is the third?
Answer: Cordelia
Question: In which year did Mrs Bandaranaike become Prime Minister of Ceylon?
Answer: 1960
Question: Who was the last British King to rule over Ireland?
Answer: GEORGE VI
Question: The various varieties of chilli pepper belong to which genus of plants?
Answer: CAPSICUM
Question: Which TV series of the 1960s regularly features a white Volvo P1800?
Answer: THE SAINT
Question: MP Sidney Silverman put forward a Private Members bill in 1965. To what did this ultimately lead?
Answer: THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
Question: Which green vegetable belongs to the Brassica Oleracea Italica group of plants?
Answer: BROCCOLI
Question: What was the nationality of the playwright August Strindberg?
Answer: Swedish
Question: The flag of which country has twelve colours, more than any other national flag?
Answer: Costa Rica
Question: The 1919 Prohibition Act was named after which politician?
Answer: (Andrew) Volstead
Question: The Red River forms the boundary between Texas and which other US State?
Answer: Oklahoma
Question: What is the male voice range immediately above bass?
Answer: Bass baritone
Question: In the West Indies, which fruit is known as a penguin?
Answer: Pineapple
Question: Where were the 1968 Winter Olympic Games held?
Answer: Grenoble
Question: In which Shakespeare play does the clown, Feste appear?
Answer: Twelfth Night
Question: Who played the adult Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?
Answer: Ralph Fiennes
Question: Which country won the William Webb Ellis Rugby Union Cup in 1995?
Answer: South Africa
Question: Which UK actress gave an acclaimed performance as a ballet teacher in the film Billy Elliott?
Answer: Julie Walters
Question: Mercutio and Tybalt appear in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Question: From which language do we get the word palaver?
Answer: Portuguese
Question: Who had a hit albums in 1970s with Teaser and the Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman?
Answer: Cat Stevens
Question: What was the name of the devastating hurricane that hit New York and the North Eastern USA in October 2012?
Answer: Sandy
Question: To within a year either way, how old was Mickey Rooney when he died in April 2014?
Answer: 93
Question: An oophorectomy is an operation to remove which part of the body?
Answer: Ovary
Question: Which Australian city is served by Tullamarine Airport?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: In which British Overseas Territory does a Ceremony of the Keys take place every year?
Answer: Gibraltar
Question: Which actor starred in both The Magnificent Seven and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly films?
Answer: Eli Wallach
Question: During the Wars of the Roses, Richard Duke of York (father of Richard III) was killed at which battle of 1460?
Answer: Wakefield
Question: Singer Alecia Beth Moore, who has had 3 UK number one hits, records under what name?
Answer: Pink
Question: Which fruit has varieties called Medjool and Deglet Nour?
Answer: Dates
Question: Which metal, atomic number 22, is used in the construction of parts for high speed planes, spacecraft and missiles?
Answer: Titanium
Question: To within one year either way how old was Joan Rivers when she died in September 2014?
Answer: 81
Question: Who are better known as Gog and Cokke in Denmark and Dick and Doof in Germany?
Answer: LAUREL AND HARDY
Question: In which Scottish town was David Livingstone born?
Answer: BLANTYRE
Question: Where did Captain Cook meet his end in 1779?
Answer: HAWAII
Question: What did Banting and Best discover in 1921?
Answer: INSULIN
Question: The German nation anthem is set to whose music?
Answer: JOSEPH HAYDN
Question: In which Hitchcock film did James Stewart and Doris Day play Dr Ben and Jo McKenna?
Answer: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Question: The disease epidemic parotitis is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Mumps
Question: Ojos del Salado is one of the world's highest volcanoes, in which country is its peak?
Answer: Chile
Question: Which British daily newspaper was first published in March 1986 and ceased publication in November 1995?
Answer: Today
Question: Which British daily newspaper was not published between December 1978 and November 1979?
Answer: Times
Question: Morocco leather is made from the skin of which animals?
Answer: Goat
Question: The River Ganges empties into what body of water?
Answer: Bay of Bengal
Question: Which geologic period is between Triassic and Cretaceous?
Answer: Jurassic
Question: What is France's second largest city (it's in the Rhone-Alpes region)?
Answer: Lyon
Question: What was first introduced in 1799, abolished in 1816, re-introduced in 1842 and is still with us today?
Answer: Income Tax
Question: Author lain Banks died in 2013, what initial did he add to his name for his science fiction books?
Answer: M
Question: What name is given to a phase of the moon when the moon's disc as seen from the earth is larger than a semi-circle (but not full)?
Answer: Gibbous
Question: By winning the best supporting actor Oscar in 2007, who became Spain?s first winner of an Academy Award? He played a Bond villain in ?Skyfall?.
Answer: Javier Bardem
Question: Pelleas and Melisande is the only opera by which composer?
Answer: Debussy
Question: What was the name of the photographer in the film La Dolce Vita?
Answer: Paparazzo
Question: Who was the Emperor of Rome at the time of the invasion of Britain in 43 AD?
Answer: Claudius
Question: According to the words of a poem, who lived by the shores of Gitche Gurnee?
Answer: Hiawatha
Question: According to tradition, The Pied Piper of Hamelin drowned the town?s rats in which river?
Answer: Weser
Question: Which Football League club moved into its new home in 2011 at the Falmer Stadium, now known as the Amex Stadium for sponsorship purposes?
Answer: Brighton & Hove Albion
Question: The German national anthem Der Deutschlandlied with words by Hoffman, has a tune by which composer?
Answer: Haydn
Question: According to the New Testament, shortly after the resurrection Jesus appeared to two disciples and took supper with them at which town north of Jerusalem?
Answer: Emmaus
Question: What is the alternative name of The First Battle of Manassas fought on 21st July 1861, the first major land battle in the US Civil War?
Answer: Bull Run
Question: Which Football League club moved into its new home in 2007 at the New Meadow, now known as the Greenhous Meadow for sponsorship purposes?
Answer: Shrewsbury Town
Question: Under what name does author Daniel Handler write children's fiction?
Answer: Lemony Snicket
Question: Which first lady of the USA was born in Missouri in 1885 and died there in 1982? She became the longest-lived first lady.
Answer: Bess Truman
Question: The flag of South Africa has six colours. Red, white and blue are on the old South African flag. Green, yellow and black are the colours of which South African political organisation?
Answer: African National Congress
Question: Which station was the southern terminal of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, and the only underground?
Answer: Dingle
Question: Bela Fleck, Earl Scruggs, Barney MacKenna of The Dubliners and Pete Seeger are all noted exponents of what musical instrument?
Answer: Banjo
Question: In 1500, Vicente Yanez Pinzon, became the first European to explore what river?
Answer: Amazon
Question: To which university did Elias Ashmole donate his ‘cabinet of curiosities’ in 1677?
Answer: OXFORD
Question: What is the name of Monaco’s ruling family?
Answer: GRIMALDI
Question: Which Earldom was common to to Simon de Montfort and Robert Dudley, the favourite of Elizabeth I?
Answer: LEICESTER
Question: What nationality was the philosopher and religious thinker Soren Kierkegaard?
Answer: DANISH
Question: Which film ends with the line “All right Mr De Mille, I’m ready for my close-up”?
Answer: SUNSET BOULEVARD
Question: The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was set during which war?
Answer: SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Question: Which jockey has ridden the winner of the Eclipse Stakes the most times, seven between 1951 and 1977?
Answer: LESTER PIGGOTT
Question: Who plays Dr Evil the nemesis of Austin Powers in the Austin Powers series of films?
Answer: MIKE MYERS
Question: Which mountain range stretches for 1600 miles and has Mount Toubkal as its highest point at 13,671 feet?
Answer: Atlas
Question: Wasps rugby union club relocated in December 2014 from Wycombe Wanderers to share which other Football League club's ground?
Answer: Coventry City
Question: In which Irish institution is the Book of Kells normally exhibited?
Answer: Trinity College
Question: Writer and film director Kathryn Bigelow was married between 1989-91 to which film director, a winner of the Oscar for Best Director?
Answer: James Cameron
Question: Nuclear-powered, named after a famous Frenchman and launched in 1994, which is the French navy's only aircraft carrier?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle
Question: Catherine of Braganza was the wife of which English king?
Answer: CHARLES II
Question: Which town, located 50 miles to the northwest, serves as the modern day port for Rome?
Answer: CIVITAVECCHIA
Question: What was Somerset Maugham's first Christian name?
Answer: WILLIAM
Question: Name the constellation in the Northern hemisphere that contains the very bright star Vega, a part of the summer triangle?
Answer: LYRA
Question: Who directed the 2009 World War 2 film "lnglourious Bastards"?
Answer: QUENTIN TARANTINO
Question: in the autumn sky of the Northern hemisphere, which constellation is shaped like a W or an inverted M?
Answer: CASSIOPEIA
Question: Which Roman Emperor who ruled from 300-377 AD was the first to be converted to Christianity?
Answer: CONSTANTINE
Question: Discovered by the Curies in 1898, what is the chemical symbol of the element polonium?
Answer: Po
Question: Terry Gene Bollea is the real name of which actor and professional wrestler?
Answer: HULK HOGAN
Question: In 43AD which Roman Emperor personally took part in the invasion of Britain?
Answer: CLAUDIUS
Question: Which Asian capital city stands on the Bagmati river?
Answer: KATHMANDU
Question: In 2014 Cate Blanchett won an acting Oscar for which film?
Answer: Blue Jasmine
Question: Which forename is the writer JM Barrie credited with having invented?
Answer: Wendy
Question: Which constellation is named after the mother of the legendary Greek princess Andromeda?
Answer: Cassiopeia
Question: Which fruit has varieties called "Thompson's", "Bristol Cross" and "Packham's Triumph"?
Answer: Pear
Question: Under the 1996 Treasure Act, found property which might be classed as Treasure Trove must be reported to whom?
Answer: The Coroner
Question: In Greek legend what creature did Theseus kill in the labyrinth?
Answer: The Minotaur
Question: Winchester was the capital of which Anglo Saxon kingdom?
Answer: Wessex
Question: Who created the fictional detective Albert Campion?
Answer: Margery Allingham
Question: In which month is Martinmas?
Answer: November
Question: Who is the author of ‘‘The Uncie Remus" stories?
Answer: Joel Chandler Harris
Question: Which singer's albums have included Aerial (2005) and Red Shoes (1993)?
Answer: Kate Bush
Question: In the UK, other than white, what colour is shown on a 5-amp use?
Answer: Black
Question: Which battle cruiser was sunk by the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen on May 24, 1941?
Answer: HMS Hood
Question: Which country won the African Cup of Nations Trophy in 2015 beating Sudan on penalties in the final?
Answer: Cote d'Ivoire
Question: Which soul singer's backing group were cailed The Famous Flames?
Answer: James Brown
Question: Lou Reed was the lead singer with which group?
Answer: VELVET UNDERGROUND
Question: Who, in the Old Testament, sold his birthright for a piece of bread and a potage of lentils?
Answer: ESAU
Question: Which artist painted 'Three Dancers (1925) and "Weeping Woman" (1937)?
Answer: (Pablo) PICASSO
Question: In which year were Nobel Prizes first awarded
Answer: 1901
Question: b In which film did Pierce Brosnanfirst play James Bond?
Answer: GOLDENEYE
Question: Which European country's flag consists of horizontal halves of white over light blue, sometimes with the State Arms in the centre?
Answer: SAN MARINO
Question: Which country won the Africa Cup of Nations in February 2015?
Answer: IVORY COAST
Question: From which Rogers and Hammerstein musical, filmed in 1956, do the songs "If I loved you" and "June is bustin' out all over" come?
Answer: Carousel
Question: The device shaped like a human foot, which cobblers use to make and repair shoes is called what?
Answer: Last
Question: Completed in 1973 and made into a World Heritage site in 2007, which building was designed by Jorn Utzon on Bennelong Point?
Answer: Sydney Opera House
Question: Which motor-manufacturer produces a model called the Scenic?
Answer: Renault
Question: Which battle, the first major engagement of the Crimean War took place on 20th September 1854?
Answer: The Battle of the Alma
Question: The songs 'Too darn hot" and "True love" come from which Cole Porter musical which was filmed in 1956 starring Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly?
Answer: High Society
Question: What medical term is used for convulsions which arise from severe toxaemia during or shortly after childbirth?
Answer: Eclampsia
Question: Which actor was born David McDonald in Scotland in 1971, taking his stage name from a member of the Pet Shop Boys?
Answer: David Tennant
Question: More famous for a series of crime stories, who wrote the 1891 adventure story ‘The White Company’?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Question: In 1981, which was the first Space Shuttle to be launched into orbit?
Answer: Columbia
Question: Graham Moffatt played Albert alongside which comedian in a series of films in the 1930s?
Answer: Will Hay
Question: What is the name of the eponymous hunch-backed court jester in Verdi’s opera of 1851?
Answer: Rigoletto
Question: The late James Avery played Uncle Phil in which 1990s US TV series?
Answer: The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Question: In which US city is the Alamo, the site of the 1836 battle and siege located?
Answer: San Antonio
Question: According to Shakespeare which king rode a horse called ‘White Surrey’?
Answer: Richard III
Question: What was the Christian name of the Bond villain Goldfinger?
Answer: Auric
Question: Henri IV was the first French king of which House in 1589?
Answer: Bourbon
Question: What was B.B. Kings real first name?
Answer: RILEY
Question: Into what was Daphne changed as a means of avoiding the advances of the God Apollo?
Answer: A LAUREL TREE
Question: The sea arch known as Durdle Door Ties on the coast of which county?
Answer: DORSET
Question: Of which country did Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy became monarchs?
Answer: NARNIA
Question: What was the name of the kind hearted orphan created in two books by Eleanor H Porter?
Answer: Pollyanna
Question: In which American city are the Bruins Ice Hockey team and the Celtics Basketball team based?
Answer: Boston
Question: The cocktail called a Negroni has three alcoholic ingredients, gin and sweet vermouth are two of them: what is the third?
Answer: Campari
Question: What colour jersey is worn by the leading young rider (under 26 years old) in the Tour de France?
Answer: White
Question: The holder of which bishopric is the third most senior person in the Church of England?
Answer: Bishop of London
Question: Which American Football team has a pirate ship at one end of the stadium, which fires a cannon each time it scores?
Answer: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Question: What was the title of "Star Wars Episode III”?
Answer: Revenge of the Sith
Question: What was the name of the holder of the title "Earl of Essex" who was executed in 1540?
Answer: Thomas Cromwell
Question: In which Woody Allen film does a character walk off the screen and into the real world?
Answer: The Purple Rose of Cairo
Question: Which gland in the human body secretes the hormone responsible for the body's growth?
Answer: Pituitary
Question: What is the title of JG Ballard's autobiographical novel, set in Japanese occupied Shanghai in the second world war?
Answer: Empire of the Sun
Question: Who wrote the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Answer: Edward Albee
Question: Who plays the part of John Cairncross in the film The Imitation Game' about the life of Alan Turing. He has appeared regularly in 'Downton Abbey'?
Answer: Allen Leech
Question: In which year did General Franco die?
Answer: 1975
Question: Who in the 1970's issued the albums 'Gorilla' and 'Mudslide Slim land the Biue Horizon'?
Answer: James Taylor
Question: Which author of children's books had the real name Theodore Geisel?
Answer: Dr Seuss
Question: Which European capital city lies at the confluence of the rivers Danube and Sava?
Answer: Belgrade
Question: Which English king was deposed by his first cousin who became Henry the fourth?
Answer: Richard II
Question: In which decade did both Fridtjof Nansen and Frank Kellogg win the Nobel Peace prize
Answer: 1920s
Question: How many US presidents have there been during the reign of Elizabeth the second?
Answer: Twelve
Question: Which US Army General said, in a speech in May 1944. “Americans love a winner who will not tolerate a loser”?
Answer: George Patton
Question: Which event of 1962 is the subject of the 2000 film Thirteen Days’, starring Kevin Costner?
Answer: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Question: Leopold Bloom is the leading character in which 20th century novel?
Answer: Ulysses
Question: Which US crime drama TV series ran from 2008-2013 and starred Bryan Cranston in the leading role?
Answer: Breaking Bad
Question: In which city was opera singer Maria Callas born in 1923?
Answer: New York
Question: Which incident lasted 30 seconds on the 26th October 1881 in the United States inspired a 1957 film directed by John Sturges?
Answer: The Gunfight at the OK Corral
Question: What was the final destination of the first westward delivery by the Missouri- based Pony Express, which started in St Joseph in 1860?
Answer: Sacramento
Question: Which country produces Constantia and Paarl wines?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What kind of creature is a Shrek?
Answer: Ogre
Question: What kind of room are you about to enter if its door has the chemical symbol for tungsten carbide written on it?
Answer: Toilet
Question: In the Bible, whose first husband was Uriah the Hittite?
Answer: Bathsheba
Question: What was the name of the world’s first teletext information service started by the BBC in 1974 and ceasing in October 2012?
Answer: Ceefax
Question: Enver Hoxha was the leader of which country between 1944 and 1985?
Answer: Albania
Question: Give the surname of the British father and son who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915?
Answer: Bragg
Question: Who was the commander of the Roman legions during the invasion of Britain in 43 AD and the first governor of the new province from 43 to 47?
Answer: Aulus Plautius
Question: Henry 4th is the only King of England to be buried in which cathedral?
Answer: Canterbury
Question: Sarah Lancashire plays Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood and Steve Pemberton plays accountant Kevin Weatherill in which BBC TV drama about a kidnapping in West Yorkshire?
Answer: Happy Valley
Question: Who led the resistance to the Roman invasion of Britain and was captured in 51 AD, sentenced to death but spared by Emperor Claudius?
Answer: Cara(c)tacus
Question: """It matters not how a man dies but how he lives"" and ""patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"" are quotes attributed to whom?"
Answer: Samuel Johnson
Question: To the nearest 5000, what is the crowd capacity of the new Wembley Stadium?
Answer: 90,000
Question: What did Edward Budding invent in 1832?
Answer: Lawn Mower
Question: In which English town was Wilfred Owen born?
Answer: Oswestry
Question: Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc were prominent members of which German Expressionist Art movement based in Berlin?
Answer: The Blue Rider
Question: Name the Confederate warship built at Birkenhead and sunk off Cherbourg.
Answer: CSS Alabama
Question: If a dish is described as "A La Lyonaisse" what must it contain?
Answer: Onions
Question: In the poem by Tennyson, the line "I am here at the gate alone" is addressed to whom?
Answer: Maud
Question: What is the name of the Gulf separating the coast of northern Vietnam from China and into which the Red River flows?
Answer: Tonkin
Question: What character did Harrison Ford play in the Star Wars films?
Answer: HAN SOLO
Question: Who was the personal architect of Hitler and Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during the Second World War?
Answer: ALBERT SPEER
Question: Who directed the film The Piano released in 1993?
Answer: JANE CAMPION
Question: In a line from the song ?Anything Goes? by Cole Porter, what sort of words are now used by authors 'who once knew better words'?
Answer: FOUR-LETTER WORDS
Question: According to Shakespeare, to who does the line 'Banish plump Jack and banish all the world' refer?
Answer: SIR JOHN FALSTAFF
Question: In 1835, a French mathematician suggested an explanation for the prevailing air movements observed north and south of the equator. What was his name?
Answer: GUSTAVE CORIOLIS
Question: Who wrote the play A Chorus of Disapproval?
Answer: ALAN AYCKBOURN
Question: Rock musician Bruce Springsteen and the TV crime family The Sopranos hail from which US state?
Answer: NEW JERSEY
Question: Which team won the FA Cup in 2015?
Answer: ARSENAL
Question: Which jockey won the Derby at Epsom in 2015 for the second time?
Answer: FRANKIE DETTORI
Question: Which instrument appears in a Mexican Mariachi band, alongside guitars and violins?
Answer: TRUMPET(S)
Question: In which fictional city in Rhode Island does the Griffin family live in the Family Guy TV cartoon series?
Answer: QUAHOG
Question: Who played Bond villain Max Zorin in A View to a Kill?
Answer: CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
Question: Which car company made the Interceptor, ceasing production in 1976?
Answer: JENSEN
Question: Who was the losing presidential candidate to Lyndon B Johnson in 1964?
Answer: BARRY GOLDWATER