zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who is the Greek goddess of victory?
Answer: NIKE
Question: Founded in 1760 Hamley’s is the oldest of which type of shop in the world?
Answer: TOY
Question: What is the English title of the Christmas carol originally written in Latin as Adeste Fideles?
Answer: O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL
Question: What was the code name of the World War II operation in which British children were evacuated from the cities to the countryside?
Answer: PIED PIPER
Question: Which composer wrote the tune to which Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is sung?
Answer: MOZART
Question: What was the name of the former Russian spy who died in London in November 2006 of polonium poisoning?
Answer: Alexander LITVINENKO
Question: Which 1953 novel begins with the line “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”?
Answer: THE GO-BETWEEN
Question: Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee are characters in which 1964 children’s novel?
Answer: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Question: In which Country is the town of Schengen where the 1985 treaty was signed?
Answer: LUXEMBOURG
Question: Since July 2011, who has been the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund?
Answer: CHRISTINE LAGARDE
Question: Which gangster was shot and killed outside the Biograph Cinema in Chicago in 1934?
Answer: JOHN DILLINGER
Question: Actress Dakota Johnson is the daughter of actor Don Johnson and which actress?
Answer: MELANIE GRIFFITH
Question: Phil Lynott was lead singer and bassist with which rock group from 1969 to 1983?
Answer: Thin Lizzy
Question: How many letter tiles, including the blanks, are there in a game of Scrabble?
Answer: 100
Question: Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was located at Ephesus?
Answer: The Temple of Artemis
Question: How many people are needed to dance a Quadrille?
Answer: 8
Question: ‘Blood and Fire’ is the motto of which charitable organisation?
Answer: Salvation Army
Question: Which actor provides the voice of Po the Kung Fu Panda in the two films in the series?
Answer: Jack Black
Question: Which Robert L Stevenson novel of 1883 was originally entitled ‘The Sea Cook - A Story for Boys’?
Answer: Treasure Island
Question: Which American businessman presented the original TV series ‘The Apprentice’ which premiered in 2004?
Answer: Donald Trump
Question: Which cartoon character said in a 1988 film “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way”?
Answer: Jessica Rabbit
Question: Which media executive set up the TV channel CNN in 1980?
Answer: Ted Turner
Question: The Great Star of Africa, part of the Crown Jewels, is what type of precious stone?
Answer: DIAMOND
Question: What is the common name for labialis herpes?
Answer: COLD SORE
Question: What type of bird is a goosander?
Answer: DUCK
Question: Who composed the music for the 1937 ballet "Checkmate"?
Answer: (Arthur) BLISS
Question: Which animals are mainly affected by the disease "blue tongue"?
Answer: SHEEP
Question: Prior to the introduction of the Euro which country's currency was the tolar?
Answer: SLOVENIA
Question: On which TV show did the band Electric Mayhem feature?
Answer: The Muppet Show
Question: In a famous novel, who becomes governess of Thornfield Hall ?
Answer: Jane Eyre
Question: Which acid used to be made by the lead chamber process but is now usually made by the contact process?
Answer: Sulphuric
Question: Which two word Latin phrase is used to mean the most important work of an artist or writer?
Answer: Magnum Opus
Question: Who, in 1996, became the first player from outside the British Isles to lift the FA Cup as captain?
Answer: Eric Cantona
Question: The Hahnenkamm ski-run is part of which ski resort?
Answer: Kitzbuhel
Question: Who was leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death in May 1994?
Answer: John Smith
Question: Emmet Brickowski is the lead character in which 2014 film?
Answer: The Lego movie
Question: The Meteorological Office was founded in 1854, which Vice-Admiral was its first head?
Answer: (Robert) Fitzroy
Question: A two-handled pitcher and torch is the symbol of which religious organisation?
Answer: Gideons
Question: The M32 is a short stretch of motorway leading in to which city?
Answer: Bristol
Question: Who wrote the book first published in 1933 “The Shape Things to Come”?
Answer: H.G. WELLS
Question: Which Island Nation was devastated by cyclone Pam in March 2015?
Answer: VANUATU
Question: At which racecourse does the Ebor Racing Festival take place?
Answer: YORK
Question: Who was the lead singer with Spandau Ballet ?
Answer: TONY HADLEY
Question: Which gas has the chemical formula CH4?
Answer: METHANE
Question: Who beat Andy Murray in the final of the Australian Open in 2015?
Answer: NOVAK DJOKOVIC
Question: Which British comedian and actor published his autobiography “So anyway... ”in 2014?
Answer: JOHN CLEESE
Question: In which city in 1906 was the Rotary Club Organisation founded?
Answer: CHICAGO
Question: In the Bible who was the wife of Moses?
Answer: ZIPPORAH
Question: Which US Baseball player was nicknamed The Yankee Clipper?
Answer: JOE DIMAGGIO
Question: As at June 2015 for which F1 team do Jensen Button and Fernando Alonso race?
Answer: McLAREN
Question: What was Margaret Thatcher’s constituency?
Answer: FINCHLEY
Question: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You was a number one hit for Bryan Adams in 1991. In which film of that year did it feature?
Answer: ROBIN HOOD, PRINCE OF THIEVES
Question: Who is the heroine of Jane Austin’s Persuasion?
Answer: ANNE ELLIOT
Question: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and who else made up the Gang of Four?
Answer: BILL RODGERS
Question: Who was the youngest of the Mitford sisters who died in 2014 aged 94?
Answer: DEBORAH
Question: The architects of which Liverpool building won the 2014 Stirling Prize?
Answer: EVERYMAN THEATRE
Question: Who wrote the novel Cold Comfort Farm?
Answer: STELLA GIBBONS
Question: Which Roman Catholic saint was a Polish Franciscan priest who worked in Japan and India before his death in Auschwitz in 1941, after he volunteered to take the place of a condemned young father?
Answer: Fr. Maximilian Kolbe
Question: Who portrayed the eponymous painter in the 2014 film Mr Turner?
Answer: Timothy Spall
Question: Which American state capital is the only one which cannot be accessed by road?
Answer: Juneau
Question: Who portrayed Alan Turing in the 2015 film The Imitation Game?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch
Question: Hubert Humphrey served as Vice-President to which US President?
Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson
Question: Which Pope commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine chapel?
Answer: Julius II
Question: In Greek Mythology, who was the Mother of Andromeda?
Answer: Cassiopeia
Question: Daniel Ortega at the beginning of 2015 is the president of which country?
Answer: Nicaragua
Question: Who had a UK number One hit single with "I Feel Love" in 1977?
Answer: Donna Summer
Question: Which golfer was nicknamed "Mrs Doubtfire" due to his supposed resemblance to the cinematic character?
Answer: Colin Montgomerie
Question: What was the name of the first man to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
Question: What nationality was the painter Paul Klee?
Answer: SWISS
Question: Alec, William and Daniel are 3 of the Baldwin acting family from New York who is the fourth brother?
Answer: STEPHEN
Question: Three female trainers have won the Grand National, Jenny Pitman is one name either of the other two,
Answer: VENETIA WILLIAMS
Question: In which country did the Velvet Revolution take place in 1989 ?
Answer: CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Question: The Bridge referred to locally as The Blinking Eye Bridge, or the Winking Eye Bridge spans which river?
Answer: TYNE
Question: What was the name of the Royal Navy Frigate featured in the Radio Comedy Series The Navy Lark?
Answer: HMS TROUTBRIDGE
Question: Who played the title role in the 2015 film Macbeth?
Answer: MICHAEL FASSBENDER
Question: In which decade was the book “A Brief History of Time” first published?
Answer: 1980’s
Question: Who was appointed as shadow Home Secretary in September 2015?
Answer: Andy Burnham
Question: Which horse won the 2015 Epsom Derby?
Answer: Golden Horn
Question: In physics, what is the S I unit of force?
Answer: Newton
Question: The Potala Palace is a place of interest in which Asian city?
Answer: Lhasa
Question: Band leader Benny Goodman was an accomplished player of which instrument?
Answer: Clarinet
Question: The native British tree generally known as the Mountain Ash has which alternative name?
Answer: ROWAN
Question: Which element in the periodic table has atomic number 8 - it is the lowest numbered element to begin with a vowel?
Answer: OXYGEN
Question: Which group had a number one hit in 1977 with Chanson D’amour?
Answer: MANHATTAN TRANSFER
Question: Who is the daughter of Leontes in The Winter’s Tale?
Answer: PERDITA
Question: What is the surname of the American acting brothers Alec, Stephen, Daniel and William?
Answer: BALDWIN
Question: Who was the last British Prime Minister to have a double letter in their surname (as in Pitt)?
Answer: JAMES CALLAGHAN
Question: Which jockey, with 20, has ridden in the Grand National most times?
Answer: A P MCCOY
Question: The theme song of which Bond film was composed by Paul and Linda McCartney?
Answer: LIVE AND LET DIE
Question: Who is the daughter of Prospero in The Tempest?
Answer: MIRANDA
Question: In 1983 who became the first snooker player to make a 147 break at the World Championships?
Answer: CLIFF THORBURN
Question: Which group had a number one hit in 1966 with Reach Out I'll Be There?
Answer: FOUR TOPS
Question: Which England Rugby Union international retired in 2014 after playing five seasons for Toulon?
Answer: JONNY WILKINSON
Question: For which film did Catherine Zeta-Jones win an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress?
Answer: CHICAGO
Question: What is the capital of Somalia?
Answer: MOGADISHU
Question: Which mythical Titan shares his name with the first cervical vertebrae in humans?
Answer: ATLAS
Question: Mace is made from the dried outer covering of which seed, which itself is used as a spice?
Answer: NUTMEG
Question: What is the name of the Edinburgh Detective created by Ian Rankin?
Answer: JOHN REBUS
Question: From which counry did Cameroon gain independence in 1960?
Answer: FRANCE
Question: Who painted Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, and a Bigger Splash?
Answer: DAVID HOCKNEY
Question: In which English county was RAF Greenham Common, famous for its peace camp which was closed down in 1993?
Answer: BERKSHIRE
Question: Give a year in the life of George Frederick Handel?
Answer: 1685 - 1759
Question: After Brazil which is the largest coffee producing country in the world ?
Answer: VIETNAM
Question: The Missouri Breaks National Monument is in which US State?
Answer: MONTANA
Question: Which star, the brightest in the constellation Lyra, is the fifth-brightest of all the stars visible in the night sky?
Answer: Vega
Question: Who founded the Order of the Thistle in 1687?
Answer: James II of England
Question: Which 1961 film starred Paul Newman as pool shark "Fast" Eddie Felson?
Answer: The Hustler
Question: Which novel, first published in the UK in 1921, was the first to feature Agatha Christie's detective, Hercule Poirot?
Answer: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Question: Who was the Ireland rugby coach when they achieved the Grand Slam in 2009?
Answer: Declan Kidney
Question: Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film "Thunderball"?
Answer: Tom Jones
Question: Originally commissioned by IBM in 1955, which typeface quickly became a standard throughout the typewriter industry?
Answer: Courier
Question: Which unit of weight is used to measure the fineness of nylon?
Answer: Denier
Question: With a book by Neil Simon, which song-writing team composed the 1968 musical Promises, Promises based on the Billy Wilder film The Apartment?
Answer: Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Question: What is the capital of the Northwest Territories, Canada?
Answer: Yellowknife
Question: Which car company produces a compact MPV model called the Verso?
Answer: Toyota
Question: In The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan who introduces himself as "a wandering minstrel, I"?
Answer: Nanki Poo
Question: Which well-known crime writer, who died in 2014, took the title Baroness of Holland Park in 1991?
Answer: P D James
Question: What was the currency of Greece before it adopted the Euro?
Answer: Drachma
Question: Which car company produces a convertible model called the Eos?
Answer: Volkswagen
Question: Which business woman and internet entrepreneur took the title Baroness of Soho in 2013?
Answer: Martha Lane Fox
Question: In which book of the Bible is the story of the Good Samaritan?
Answer: Luke
Question: Insulin is produced by which organ of the human body?
Answer: Pancreas
Question: Which element, atomic no. 74 derives its name from the Swedish word for heavy stone?
Answer: Tungsten
Question: In baseball, what name is given to an ambidextrous batter?
Answer: Switch hitter
Question: Which African country uses the cedi as its currency?
Answer: Ghana
Question: Which Democrat candidate did Ronald Reagan defeat in the 1984 US Presidential Election?
Answer: Walter Mondale
Question: What maritime order is also termed The Birkenhead Drill?
Answer: Women and children first
Question: Which country will host the 2019 Rugby Union World Cup?
Answer: Japan
Question: What is the most common trade name of the drug Fluoxetine?
Answer: Prozac
Question: Which game features the terms Winds, Dragons, Flowers and Seasons?
Answer: Mah-jong
Question: In a 1961 novel, which title character taught at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls?
Answer: Miss Jean Brodie
Question: In which year was the Great Train Robbery in Buckinghamshire?
Answer: 1963
Question: The French drink Kir consists of white wine and which other ingredient?
Answer: (Creme de) Cassis
Question: Which Saint founded the monastery on the island of Iona and died there in 597 AD?
Answer: Saint Columba
Question: Which battle between England and France was fought in August 1346?
Answer: Crecy
Question: In 1872, which country played England in the first ever international game of football?
Answer: Scotland
Question: Which theatre did David Garrick, the famed actor manage and run from 1747-1776?
Answer: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Question: In which city did Martin Luther King make his ‘I have a dream’ speech in August 1963?
Answer: Washington DC
Question: Triton is the largest moon of which planet?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Who was the first left-hander to win the ladies singles title at Wimbledon, doing so in 1969?
Answer: Ann Jones
Question: In which country did the 'Orange’ Revolution take place between 2004 and 2005?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: Which pirate’s ship was called Queen Anne’s Revenge?
Answer: Blackbeard
Question: Because it was worn by recently freed slaves in Ancient Rome, what cap became the symbol of liberty?
Answer: Pileus
Question: So what if he failed, he tried, didn't he? The Hellenic Air Force Academy was renamed after which mythological character in 1967?
Answer: Icarus
Question: In an episode of Mythbusters, what was speculated to have been used by sailors to adjust to light and darkness as they went above and below a ship's deck?
Answer: Eyepatch
Question: One of the most recognized pieces of Japanese art from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai that depicts a huge tidal wave is titled The Great Wave off what place?
Answer: Kanagawa
Question: The name of what toy is a portmanteau of the Japanese word for 'egg' and the English word 'watch'?
Answer: Tamagotchi
Question: What non-woven cloth that is produced by matting and pressing fibers is the oldest form of fabric known to humankind?
Answer: Felt
Question: What psychological phenomenon states that when two people live in close proximity during the first years in the life of either one, they are desensitized to sexual attraction?
Answer: Westermarck effect
Question: What is the Japanese equivalent of the Chinese art of penjing?
Answer: Bonsai
Question: What monument was described by the poet Rabindranath Tagore as "a teardrop on the cheek of time"?
Answer: Taj Mahal
Question: What breed of dog was a favored imperial pet in ancient China?
Answer: Pekingese
Question: The Temple of the Tooth which houses the only surviving relic of Buddha (a tooth) is located in the city of Kandy in which Asian country?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: What word meaning a person devoted to luxury is derived from the name of an ancient Greek city that was noted for the pleasure-seeking habits of its inhabitants?
Answer: Sybaris
Question: The Glock gun is a noted export of what country?
Answer: Austria
Question: If Manhattan is the financial hub of New York, the area of Pudong is the similar equivalent for which city?
Answer: Shanghai
Question: Since the 1960s, what advertising objects come in three models called GZ-19, GZ-20 and GZ-22?
Answer: Goodyear blimps
Question: Founded in 1946 by Georges Doriot, the firm American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) is credited with pioneering what concept in the world of business?
Answer: Venture capital (VC)
Question: As of January 2010, Amazon.com is America's largest online retailer. Which company that deals with office supplies is the runner-up?
Answer: Staples Inc.
Question: In the US, Keogh Plans are full-fledged pension plans for small businesses and what other type of people?
Answer: Self-employed
Question: The 1985 Japanese comedy Tampopo was publicized as not sphagetti, but what type of western?
Answer: Ramen
Question: The main setting in what 1994 classic is modeled after Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya where crew members of the film spent time to study on the film's setting and observe the animals?
Answer: The Lion King
Question: In what 1949 classic English comedy from Ealing Studios does Alec Guinness play 8 roles?
Answer: Kind Hearts and Coronets
Question: Which classic 1966 film by Gillo Pontecorvo was shown in the Pentagon in 2003 with the flyer reading as follows? How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film.
Answer: The Battle of Algiers
Question: Which 1972 movie musical has the distinction of winning the most Oscars (eight) without winning the Best Picture award?
Answer: Cabaret
Question: A flatbread called injera that is traditionally eaten in Ethiopia is made from the flour of what grain that is now being called as the new quinoa?
Answer: Teff
Question: What salad made from mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil is also the name of the town in Tuscany where Michelangelo was born?
Answer: Caprese
Question: What is the term for the food preparation in which an ingredient, usually in a shallow dish, is topped with a browned crust?
Answer: Gratin
Question: Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind (1949) is a critique of the notion propounded by Descartes that the mind is distinct from the body. What phrase did Ryle famously use to describe his concept?
Answer: """Ghost in the machine"""
Question: In 1922, the magazine The American Girl suggested selling what for fund-raising?
Answer: Cookies
Question: Pitman, Gregg and Teeline are all forms of what type of 'writing'?
Answer: Shorthand
Question: The policy of Songun that emphasizes the role of military guides the political and economic life in what country?
Answer: North Korea
Question: Which 20th century German theologian and doctor who established a famous hospital in Gabon was known for his philosophy called 'Reverence for Life'?
Answer: Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Question: Ahmed Yassin who was killed by an Israeli helicopter gunship in 2004 is best known as the founder of what organization?
Answer: Hamas
Question: What was the Soviet government agency that administered the country's forced labor camps which were compared to 'a chain of islands' by a Nobel Prize winning author?
Answer: Gulag
Question: A lazaretto which can be an isolated island or a ship at anchor near a harbor is used for what purpose for maritime travelers?
Answer: Quarantine station
Question: In navigation, what is the process of estimating one's current position based upon a previously determined position and advancing it using estimated speed over elapsed time, and course?
Answer: Dead reckoning
Question: What term is used in the US and Canada to describe the weight gained by students during their first year of study in a college or university?
Answer: """Freshman fifteen"""
Question: If 'mafia' is to Italy and 'triad' is to Hong Kong/China, what is to Japan?
Answer: Yakuza
Question: What Chan Buddhist monastery in the Henan province of China is best known to the world for its association with martial arts?
Answer: Shaolin
Question: What is the name of the military tactic that involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area?
Answer: Scorched earth policy
Question: A form of government called by the Greek term 'thalassocracy' refers to a state with power in what realm?
Answer: Sea
Question: In April 2014, which tiny nation became the first East Asian country to adopt Islamic sharia law?
Answer: Brunei
Question: Aokigahara forest in Japan is noted as a place where many people go for what purpose?
Answer: Commit suicide
Question: The Semien Mountains whose highest peak is Ras Dashen lie in what African country?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: The Muslim observance of Arba'een attracts millions of visitors annually to what Iraqi city?
Answer: Karbala
Question: The Hiram Bingham luxury train has what magnificent location as its destination?
Answer: Machu Picchu
Question: The script of Thuluth, a variety of Islamic calligraphy, is seen on the flag of what country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: Cape Churchill in Wapusk National Park, Canada is renowned as the best location in the world to view what?
Answer: Polar bears
Question: Located just 508 miles from the North Pole, Alert is said to be the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. In which Canadian province/territory is it located?
Answer: Nunavut
Question: According to UNESCO, which Ethiopian city is considered 'the fourth holy city' of Islam with 82 mosques, three of which date from the 10th century, and 102 shrines?
Answer: Harar
Question: The 19th century civic planner Baron Haussman is associated with the rebuilding of which city?
Answer: Paris
Question: The Lake Mungo remains consisting of two fossils known as Mungo Lady and Mungo Man are located in the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region of which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: When combined with its headstreams the 'Peace' and the 'Finlay', what becomes the second longest river in North America at 4,241 kilometres (2,635 mi)?
Answer: Mackenzie
Question: Which coast off the Atlantic Ocean of Namibia and Angola is named for the bleached whale and seal bones which covered the shore during the days of the whaling industry as well as for the shipwrecks caused by rocks?
Answer: Skeleton Coast
Question: Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America is on which archipelago that translates as 'land of fire' in Spanish?
Answer: Tierra del Fuego
Question: From the Greek for 'going downhill' and most commonly found in Antarctica and Greenland, what is the name of the wind that carries high density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity?
Answer: Katabatic wind
Question: Located in Botswana, which is the world's largest inland delta?
Answer: Okavango
Question: Which Peruvian city was the historic capital of the sun-worshipping Inca empire?
Answer: Cusco
Question: Which country became the first sovereign state of the 21st century when Indonesia relinquished control on it in May 2002?
Answer: East Timor
Question: By political definition, what is the essential difference between Great Britian and United Kingdom?
Answer: Northern Ireland
Question: The cartoon Dropping the Pilot was published when which world leader was forced to resign in 1890?
Answer: Bismarck
Question: When in 1862 did the Mexican army claim an unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla immortalizing the day in Mexican history?
Answer: 5th of May