zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In the Latin American version of The Simpsons which character is known as Jefe Gorgory?
Answer: Chief Wiggum
Question: ASH, Action on Smoking and Health, is the anti-smoking lobby, by what acronym is the pro-smoking lobby known?
Answer: FOREST
Question: Inspector Lestrade appears in novels featuring which detective?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes
Question: In which country is the most northerly point of Africa?
Answer: Tunisia
Question: Who left this message to James Callaghan in 1964 "Good luck, old cock, sorry to leave it in such a mess"?
Answer: Reginald Maudling
Question: Inspector Japp appears in novels featuring which detective?
Answer: Hercule Poirot
Question: Which 16 century French navigator is credited with the discovery of the St Lawrence Seaway?
Answer: Jacques Cartier
Question: Which word means an interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association usually to the advantage of both?
Answer: Symbiosis
Question: Who was the commander of the British forces who stopped the German advance into Egypt in 1942?
Answer: (General) Auchinleck
Question: In the Old Testament, who was the mother of Solomon?
Answer: Bathsheba
Question: Yellowstone National Park lies mainly in Wyoming, partly in Montana and also in which other state?
Answer: Idaho
Question: Which author said "A classic is something everyone wants to have read but nobody wants to read"?
Answer: Mark Twain
Question: Which American actress said of herself "I'm as pure as the driven slush"?
Answer: Tallulah Bankhead
Question: In the Old Testament, who was the mother of Isaac?
Answer: Sarah
Question: What name is given to the passage of a solvent from a less concentrated into a more concentrated solution through a semi-permeable membrane?
Answer: Osmosis
Question: The Admiral Benbow Inn features in Stevenson's novel Treasure Island; what was the name of the other inn referred to in the book?
Answer: SPYGLASS
Question: Who was the notorious lawyer and associate of Thomas Cromwell who played a key role in the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
Answer: RICHARD RICH
Question: Which former World Heavyweight boxing champion was nicknamed the 'Cinderella Man'?
Answer: JAMES J BRADDOCK
Question: Which opera contains the famous Anvil Chorus in its second act?
Answer: IL TROVATORE
Question: In Stevenson's Treasure Island, who was the coxswain of the Hispaniola?
Answer: ISRAEL HANDS
Question: Which painter, who reputedly sold only one work in his lifetime, had an art dealer brother called Theo?
Answer: VINCENT VAN GOGH
Question: What name is given to a stone anchor and also colloquially to a Leading Seaman in the Royal Navy?
Answer: KILLICK
Question: Savernake Forest is located in which English county?
Answer: WILTSHIRE
Question: What is the lowest number greater than 1 that is both a square and a cube of two different whole numbers?
Answer: 64
Question: Who is chairing the 2009/10 Inquiry into the Iraq War?
Answer: SIR JOHN CHILCOT
Question: John Adams, 2nd President of the USA, was the delegate to the Continental Congress for which American state?
Answer: MASSACHUSETTS
Question: In Marvel Comics which God is the alter ego of Donald Blake?
Answer: THOR
Question: Which European country's flag is a horizontal tricolour red, white and green (in that order top to bottom)?
Answer: HUNGARY
Question: Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the USA, was the delegate to the Continental Congress for which American state?
Answer: VIRGINIA
Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the city of Messina, Sicily?
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing
Question: Born in Chavaniac in France which general fought alongside General Washington in the American revolutionary war of 1776 - 1783?
Answer: Marquis de Lafayette
Question: What colour is the artist's colour called vermillion?
Answer: Red
Question: In Greek mythology who is the God of Death?
Answer: Thanatos
Question: Who was the team principal of the Renault Fl team who resigned following the 'Crashgate scandal' in 2009?
Answer: Flavio Briatore
Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the Kingdom of Navarre?
Answer: Love's Labour Lost
Question: The gaur is what kind of animal?
Answer: (Wild) Cattle
Question: In Greek mythology who is the Goddess of Strife?
Answer: Eris
Question: What is the name of the UKTV digital channel based on repeats of recent BBC programmes such as Top Gear?
Answer: Dave
Question: Brad Pitt plays the part of Benjamin Button on film, who wrote the book on which the film is based?
Answer: F Scott Fitzgerald
Question: Name the US President whose niece was his First Lady.
Answer: James Buchanan
Question: Who was the first National Hunt jockey to ride more than 3000 winners?
Answer: A P McCoy
Question: The Egyptian goddess of love, Hathor, has the head of which animal?
Answer: Cow
Question: The words 'defend the children of the poor and punish the wrongdoer' are carved on the wall of which London building?
Answer: Old Bailey
Question: In the Bible, who was 'eyeless in Gaza'?
Answer: Samson
Question: Which famous director's first film was 'Sugarland Express'?
Answer: Stephen Spielberg
Question: What was the first name of the widow of Martin Luther King?
Answer: Coretta
Question: Name Frank Sinatra's Oscar winning song from the 1959 movie, `A Hole in the Head'.
Answer: HIGH HOPES
Question: Name the musician who succeeded Cherie Blair as Chancellor of the Liverpool John Moores University in 2007.
Answer: BRIAN MAY
Question: Who composed the opera `Bluebeards Castle?
Answer: BARTOK
Question: Name the lake in Ethiopia which is the source of the Blue Nile?
Answer: LAKE TANA
Question: Which actor played the role of Osric uncredited in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Hamlet?
Answer: ROBIN WILLIAMS
Question: Name the landlocked country which has borders with Kosovo, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania.
Answer: MACEDONIA
Question: Alaska, Laxton's progress and Mr Big are varieties of what?
Answer: PEAS
Question: Dick Swiveller is a character in which Dickens novel?
Answer: THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
Question: In 'The Tempest' what is the name of the monster, son of Sycorax the witch?
Answer: CALIBAN
Question: Which novel of 1889 features a dog called Montmorency?
Answer: Three Men in a Boat
Question: Written in 1830 which composer's major symphony has the alternative title Episode in the Life of an Artist?
Answer: Hector Berlioz
Question: Brideshead is the seat of which family in Evelyn Waugh's novel?
Answer: Marchmain
Question: Engineer, George Stephenson was born in a village outside which English city in 1781?
Answer: Newcastle upon Tyne
Question: Based on their geological formation, what type of mountains are the Alps?
Answer: Fold
Question: Daniel Arap Moi became president of which country in 1978 on the death of the country's first president?
Answer: Kenya
Question: Prior to the Law Resform Act (1996), the charge of murder could apply only if the victim died within what period from the time of the offence?
Answer: A year and a day
Question: At which battle of 1757 did Robert Clive defeat the Nawab of Bengal?
Answer: Plassey
Question: In which year was the General Strike in Britain?
Answer: 1926
Question: How was the London hospital 'St Mary Bethlehem' better known?
Answer: Bedlam
Question: In 1964 a song about Heloisa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto was a big hit around the world, what was its title?
Answer: The Girl From Ipanema
Question: Which jazz singer was accompanied for nearly 30 years by John Chilton's Feetwarmers?
Answer: George Melly
Question: Between 1397 and 1399, which English county became a principality under King Richard , the only English county to have been honoured in this way?
Answer: Cheshire
Question: At which battle of 1403 did Henry 'Hotspur' Percy die?
Answer: Shrewsbury
Question: Which novel, published in 1847, begins with the words "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day"?
Answer: Jane Eyre
Question: Which fashion designer received a Royal Warrant in 1940 as the Queen's dressmaker?
Answer: NORMAN HARTNELL
Question: What cake derives its name from the French word for lightning?
Answer: ECLAIR
Question: How many different political parties are there now in Parliament as a result of the General Election of May 2010?
Answer: TEN
Question: What is the real first name of the character Jack Frost, played by David Jason
Answer: WILLIAM
Question: According to the book of Revelation on what horse does Death ride?
Answer: A PALE HORSE
Question: Who directed the 2010 film version of Alice in Wonderland?
Answer: TIM BURTON
Question: Which horse won the 2010 Aintree Grand National?
Answer: Don't Push It
Question: Who launched the SkyTrain air service on 26 September 1977?
Answer: Freddie Laker
Question: What was the name of the world's first nuclear powered submarine?
Answer: Nautilus
Question: Which country's national airline is called Garuda?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: What is the French equivalent of the London Stock Exchange?
Answer: The Bourse
Question: In which country did the Velvet Revolution of November 1989 take place?
Answer: Czechoslovakia
Question: In which country did General Jaruzelski impose martial law in 1981?
Answer: Poland
Question: Who chaired the 2010 Iraq Inquiry?
Answer: Sir John Chilcot
Question: Name the unseeded tennis player who won the 2009 US Open in only her third tournament since coming out of retirement.
Answer: Kim Clijsters
Question: Who deposed Richard II in 1399, succeeding him as King of England?
Answer: Henry IV
Question: Which primates, whose name is derived from the Latin for 'spirits of the dead', are endemic to Madagascar and surrounding islands?
Answer: Lemurs
Question: Which daily newspaper is owned by the Scott Trust?
Answer: The Guardian
Question: Name the former Thailand Prime Minister (2001-6) who briefly owned Manchester City football club from 2007-8.
Answer: Thaksin Shinawatra
Question: Port Ellen is the chief town on which Scottish island, the most southern of the Inner Hebrides?
Answer: Islay
Question: Name the Swedish tennis player who in recent years has ended long unbeaten records by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
Answer: Robin Soderling
Question: Which god is the twin brother of the goddess Artemis?
Answer: Apollo
Question: The Torah and Talmud are holy books in which religion?
Answer: Judaism
Question: The film 'The Shawshank Redemption' was based on a novella by which highly successful writer?
Answer: Stephen King
Question: A league was an old unit of measurement equal to how many miles?
Answer: Three
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in 1883 and was first elected to parliament in 1922 as MP for Limehouse?
Answer: (Clement) Attlee
Question: The inscription 'Bleste be the man that spares these stones, and curst be he that moves my bones' appears on whose gravestone?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Question: In World War 2, Captain Hans Lansdorf was in command of which famous ship?
Answer: (Admiral) Graf Spee
Question: In which of the constellations of the Zodiac is the star Aldebaran found?
Answer: Taurus
Question: In which Shakespeare play does the character Antigonus "exit, pursued by a bear"?
Answer: A Winter's Tale
Question: An obituary in the sporting times in 1882 lead to the creation of which trophy?
Answer: The Ashes
Question: The Coromandel coast is washed by which part of the Indian Ocean?
Answer: Bay of Bengal
Question: In which year did the liner Queen Mary gain the blue riband on her maiden voyage?
Answer: 1936
Question: Who discovered that malaria was transmitted by mosquito?
Answer: Sir Ronald Ross
Question: What does Taliban mean in the Afghan language?
Answer: Students
Question: How many days are there in the religious period of Lent?
Answer: 40
Question: What is Europe's oldest parliament dating from 930 AD?
Answer: Althing
Question: What was the name of the first Plantagenet monarch of England?
Answer: Henry II
Question: Whose 1941 7th Symphony was called 'Leningrad'?
Answer: (Dmitri) Shostakovich
Question: Who was the first king of the House of Lancaster?
Answer: Henry IV
Question: Catherine Hogarth was the wife of which famous author?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Question: Who was the first woman to run for US Vice President in 1984?
Answer: Geraldine Ferraro
Question: In which year was the Battle of Edgehill, the first battle of the English Civil War?
Answer: 1642
Question: Which son of Sweyn Forkbeard became King of England in 1016?
Answer: Canute
Question: What is the part of the stage which projects into the auditorium called? It is located between the curtain and the orchestra.
Answer: Apron
Question: Who wrote the plays The Browning Version and Separate Tables?
Answer: Terence Rattigan
Question: In which modern day country would you have found the majority of the Hittite Empire?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus boat in 1969-70?
Answer: THOR HEYERDAHL
Question: In which year was the Easter Uprising in Ireland?
Answer: 1916
Question: When jeered during his maiden speech, which future Prime Minister said "Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me"?
Answer: BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Question: What was the nationality of racing driver Jochin Rindt?
Answer: AUSTRIAN
Question: When Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped by Israeli Agents, in which country was he found?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: Which was the capital city of the Assyrian Empire?
Answer: NINEVEH
Question: What was the name of the faith healer employed by Glenn Hoddle for the 1998 England World Cup squad?
Answer: EILEEN DREWERY
Question: Phil Silvers wrote Nancy with the Laughing Eyes about which entertainer's daughter?
Answer: FRANK SINATRA
Question: Which metal is obtained from minerals haematite and magnetite?
Answer: IRON
Question: What name. is given to a golden coloured horse with a golden mane?
Answer: PALOMINO
Question: 'Charlotte Rhodes' was the name of the ship which featured regularly in which TV series?
Answer: THE ONEDIN LINE
Question: In which present day country was the bulk of the Hittite Empire situated?
Answer: TURKEY
Question: Horatio Nelson lost his arm in an abortive attack on which island?
Answer: TENERIFE
Question: In which town in Southern England is the grave of Pocahontas?
Answer: GRAVESEND
Question: 'Sup up your beer and collect your fags' is the opening line to which 1979 Top 5 hit single?
Answer: ETON RIFLES
Question: Which board game was invented by part-time clown, Anthony E Pratt?
Answer: CLUEDO
Question: Fort Zinderneuf is the place where the hero dies in which famous book and film?
Answer: BEAU GESTE
Question: What is the condition of the eye which makes round objects appear oval?
Answer: ASTIGMATISM
Question: Before embarking on his Presidential campaign for which state did Barack Obama represent in the US Senate?
Answer: ILLINOIS
Question: Which English Monarch was the "Count de Blois"?
Answer: STEPHEN
Question: By what name has the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal been known since 1948?
Answer: KIEL CANAL
Question: In Greek Mythology who was the Goddess of the Underworld?
Answer: PERSEPHONE
Question: In 1825 Simon Bolivar was president of 3 South American countries. Columbia and Bolivia were two of the countries. What was the third?
Answer: PERU
Question: In WW2 the name Operation Plunder Varsity was given to the Allied crossing of what in March 1945?
Answer: River Rhine
Question: In which Shakespeare play do the characters Ajax, Achilles and Ulysses appear?
Answer: Troilus and Cressida
Question: In Norse mythology, who was the consort of Odin?
Answer: Freya
Question: Who was the Greek god of prophecy?
Answer: Apollo
Question: Who was the Greek god of trade?
Answer: Hermes
Question: The 6,700 ton St. Helena is one of only two vessels to still carry which designation?
Answer: Royal Mail Ship
Question: 'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents grumbled Jo,lying on lying on the rug.' Is the opening line of which famous novel?
Answer: Little Women
Question: Which company made a 1950's/60's car called the Magnette?
Answer: MG
Question: Which composer's A minor piano concerto was premiered in 1846 with his wife as soloist?
Answer: Schumann
Question: Whose words are these 'Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze Berlin?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
Question: In which year did the following events all take place; Church of England ordained its first female priests, the Channel Tunnel opened and the National Lottery started?
Answer: 1994
Question: The film 'Carrie' was based on a book by which author?
Answer: Stephen King
Question: Which novelty swing dance, derived from the Charleston, was named following Charles Lindberg's crossing of the Atlantic in 1927?
Answer: Lindy Hop
Question: Which is Britain's oldest colony, settled in 1609?
Answer: Bermuda
Question: The Lake District mountain Great Gable is connected by the pass Windy Gap to which other peak?
Answer: Green Gable
Question: Which African country is bordered by Ivory Coast to the west, Burkina Faso to the north and Togo to the east?
Answer: Ghana
Question: Who served as the 19th President of the USA from 1877 to 1881 despite receiving fewer votes than his opponent in the election?
Answer: Rutherford B Hayes
Question: In which Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta would you hear the song "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General"?
Answer: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Question: According to Ian Fleming which real-life public school did the fictional James Bond attend?
Answer: ETON
Question: Sarah was the wife of which biblical character?
Answer: ABRAHAM
Question: Alfred Hitchcock's film "The Birds" was inspired by a short novel by which authoress?
Answer: DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Question: Which Liverpool born actress is missing from the following list: Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker?
Answer: KIM CATRELL
Question: Who was the hero of several Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories first introduced in 'The Lost World'?
Answer: Professor Challenger
Question: On which play was the film Cabaret based?
Answer: I Am A Camera
Question: In the Bible who was the long lived son of Enoch mentioned in Genesis?
Answer: Methuselah
Question: In 1964 what was the Kinks' first chart success which reached Number 1?
Answer: You Really Got Me
Question: Which music hall performer was best known for his songs 'Boiled beef and carrots' and 'Any Old Iron'?
Answer: Harry Champion
Question: In cooking what is the name given to thin strips of bacon used for flavouring?
Answer: Lardons
Question: In law what name is given to a written voluntary statement given under oath?
Answer: Affidavit
Question: By what name is the lowest (or fourth) deck of a typical merchant ship known?
Answer: Orlop
Question: 'Disko Troop' is the captain of the We're Here' fishing vessel in which Rudyard Kipling novel, which was made into a film starring Spencer Tracy?
Answer: Captains Courageous
Question: Ghandi's march to Dandi in 1931 was a protest against Britain's tax on which commodity?
Answer: Salt
Question: Which 2009 movie is a biopic of Ian Dury, starring Andy Serkis in the title role and Ray Winstone as his father?
Answer: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Question: In which Charles Dickens novel do we meet the minor characters: Startop, Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick?
Answer: Great Expectations
Question: Which philosopher, who was born in Algerian in 1930, originated the deconstruction theory?
Answer: Jacques Derrida
Question: The US flag contains the most stars, having 50, but which country's flag has the second most, with 27 stars?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Billy Wilder's 1953 film "Stalag 17"?
Answer: William Holden
Question: What is the first name of the ballet dancer Nijinsky, who was unsuccessfully treated by Eugene Bleuler in Switzerland when diagnosed with schizophrenia?
Answer: Vaslav
Question: Who was President of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972, who made the decision to continue the 1972 Munich Olympic Games despite a terrorist attack?
Answer: Avery Brundage
Question: Anne Boleyn was one of the two wives of Henry 8th to be executed, who was the other?
Answer: Catherine Howard
Question: About which pastime is Oscar Wilde reputed to have said "The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable"?
Answer: Foxhunting
Question: Titan, Rhea and Hyperion are all satellites of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: As one of his twelve Labours, Heracles was sent to Mount Erymanthos to capture which animal?
Answer: A boar
Question: According to the Bible, Nebuchadnezzar was the King of which region or empire?
Answer: Babylon
Question: The Churn, the Windrush, the Cherwell and the Mole are all tributaries of which major river?
Answer: Thames
Question: The 'Arab Spring' uprising in Egypt during 2011 was inspired by the 'Jasmine Revolt' which took place in which country?
Answer: Tunisia
Question: Which British Prime Minister sewed for the shortest total time in office (119 days)?
Answer: George Canning
Question: As one of his twelve Labours, Heracles was sent to steal which animals from Diomedes?
Answer: Mares
Question: What year did the Good Friday Agreement come into effect?
Answer: 1998
Question: What year did the burning of the Reichstag take place?
Answer: 1933
Question: Which South American national team has won the Copa de America most times?
Answer: URUGUAY
Question: A quagga, now extinct, bore qresemblance to which other mammal?
Answer: ZEBRA
Question: Who played the role of the 'Riddle? in the 1960s TV series Batman?
Answer: FRANK GORSHIN
Question: How many times did Martina Navratilova win the Wimbledon woman's singles championship?
Answer: 9
Question: At which battle did the Vietminh defeat French forces in 1954?
Answer: DIEN BIEN PHU
Question: What name is given to the group of French speaking people living in areas of Southern Belgium?
Answer: Walloons
Question: How are the first ten amendments to the US Constitution collectively known?
Answer: The Bill of Rights
Question: In 1964, which English cricketer became the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets?
Answer: Fred Trueman
Question: The 'Short' and the 'Long' Parliaments were both in the reign of which monarch?
Answer: Charles 1st
Question: Which was the last space shuttle to fly, completing its last mission in July 2011?
Answer: Atlantis
Question: What was the name of the United Arab Emirates before the end of the protectorate in 1971?
Answer: Trucial States
Question: Which US composer, conductor and pianist has written the music for over 100 films, starting with "Daddy-O" in 1958, his latest is the 2012 film "Lincoln"?
Answer: John Williams
Question: What was contained in the Ark of the Covenant?
Answer: Ten Commandments
Question: What is the family name of the Earl of Harewood?
Answer: Lascelles
Question: Who preceded Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin
Question: Name the year: Chernenko dies; the Achille Lauro is hi-jacked; a Japanese Air Lines 747 crashes killing 520 people.
Answer: 1985
Question: The American TV series 'The Wire" is set in which city?
Answer: Baltimore
Question: Which German city was the target of the first 1000 bomber raid in 1942?
Answer: Cologne
Question: In contract rubber bridge, how many points are awarded for successfully making a non-vulnerable contract of four Spades?
Answer: 120
Question: Where was the specific location of the nuclear accident in the USA in 1979?
Answer: Three Mile Island
Question: In the internationally recognised educational organisation 'IBO'', for what does the letter 'B' stand?
Answer: Baccalaureate
Question: What name was given to the followers of John Wycliffe?
Answer: Lollards
Question: In which city does the majority of the Shakespeare play "The Taming of the Shrew" take place?
Answer: Padua
Question: In the Bible who was the son of Abraham and Sarah?
Answer: Isaac
Question: Travelling outward from the sun which is the first planet with a satellite?
Answer: EARTH
Question: Which medal formerly for the RAF was introduced in 1918 for bravery of officers, but now is for all ranks of the service?
Answer: D.F.C.
Question: Banjo Patterson is credited with writing which song a national favourite of its country?
Answer: WALTZING MATILDA
Question: By which treaty was Gibraltar formally ceded to Great Britain in 1713?
Answer: THE TREATY OF UTRECHT
Question: Which Beethoven Symphony was originally dedicated to Napoleon?
Answer: THE THIRD