zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The Battle of Rain, or Lech, on April 15th 1632 in which the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus beat the forces of the Holy Roman Empire was part of which war?
Answer: THIRTY YEARS’ WAR
Question: In ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ what is the surname of the character with given names Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau, known as Patsy?
Answer: STONE
Question: Which of The Canterbury Tales, the first, features cousins Arcite and Palamon and their pursuit of Emily?
Answer: THE KNIGHT’S TALE
Question: Now only used in the Isle of Man, a "deemster" is an old name for what?
Answer: A JUDGE
Question: Spoken in 1883, "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough" were the final words of which philosopher?
Answer: KARL MARX
Question: Which male film star was charged in New York with assault in June 2005, having thrown a telephone at a member of hotel staff?
Answer: RUSSELL CROWE
Question: The novelist Emile Zola,was the boyhood cpmpanion of which famous French artist in their home town of Aix en Provence?
Answer: PAUL CEZANNE
Question: Which former MI5 secret service agent wrote the controversial book 'Spycatcher'?
Answer: PETER WRIGHT
Question: Mentioned in the title of a famous song written by Neil Sedaka and performed by Tony Christie, in which American state could you visit Amarillo?
Answer: TEXAS
Question: What now common devise was proposed by Townes in 1958 and built by Maiman in 1960? Townes got the Nobel Prize and Maiman filed the patent?
Answer: LASER
Question: For which Middle Eastern national football team has the Wigan (& previously Bolton) goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi won at least 70 caps?
Answer: OMAN
Question: What creature is the trademark of Terence Cuneo, appearing in many of his pictures?
Answer: Mouse
Question: In nature, 'Reeves', 'Lady Amherst's', 'Hume's bar-tailed' and 'Cheer', are all varieties of which bird?
Answer: PHEASANT
Question: Which British commanding officer in his final message to his troops from Luneberg Heath, in May 1945 concluded with the words "We have won the German war, let us win the peace"?
Answer: BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY
Question: Which European country's flag is a dark blue rectangle on which is mounted an inverted gold right angled triangle and a line of nine white stars?
Answer: BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
Question: Politics. Who in his speech to the House of Commons on the 4th April 1940 said, "Hitler has missed the bus"?
Answer: NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
Question: What occupation is shared by Beverley Copella and Trevor Sorbie?
Answer: HAIRDRESSING
Question: After six years of military occupation following World War II, which country regained self-government in 1951?
Answer: JAPAN
Question: Which team was reinstated to the FA Cup in the 2008/9 season after the team that knocked them out of the second round were eliminated for fielding an ineligible player?
Answer: CHESTERFIELD
Question: Four Irishmen have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yeats, Shaw and Becket are three, name the other?
Answer: HEANEY
Question: Which British writer's epitaph ends, "Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill"?
Answer: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Question: Which river rises on the Tibetan Plateau, flows northwest and then south and southwest to enter the Arabian Gulf in the Seven Rivers area south of Karachi?
Answer: INDUS
Question: What name is given to a large semi-circular or polygonal recess in a church, arched or with a domed roof and situated typically at the church's eastern end?
Answer: APSE
Question: In which city are the headquarters of West Mercia Police?
Answer: Worcester
Question: A costermonger sells fruit and vegetables, usually from a barrow. Which particular item did a costermonger originally sell?
Answer: Apples
Question: The domed folly known as the Ashton Memorial overlooks which English city?
Answer: Lancaster
Question: Once punningly depicted on a British coin, the sea pink is an alternative name for which flower?
Answer: Thrift
Question: Orange Peko and Dust are grades of which consumable commodity?
Answer: Tea
Question: Which bird takes its name from the erectile feathers seen around its neck in courtship?
Answer: Ruff
Question: Which terrorist organisation was responsible for the hijacking of the cruise ship 'Achille Lauro'?
Answer: THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION FRONT
Question: According to Tobias Smollet, who was "the great cham (ruler) of literature"?
Answer: DR. JOHNSON
Question: Which operetta, first performed in 1874, features the character 'Gabriel von Eisenstein', who is given a prison sentence for insulting an official, and is then conspired against by, amongst others, a notary called 'Dr. Falke'?
Answer: 'DIE FLEDERMAUS'
Question: Which one word can mean the following: a winning margin in a race, a part of a bottle or other container near the mouth, or a slang term to kiss and caress amorously?
Answer: NECK
Question: Trevor Eve played 'Eddie Shoestring' on TV, which British actor a former TV soldier played the boss of the radio station he worked for?
Answer: MICHAEL MEDWIN
Question: Who left BBC TV to become ITV's chief political editor, replacing Michael Brunson?
Answer: JOHN SERGEANT
Question: John Crome and John Sell Cotman were associated with which provincial art movement founded in 1803?
Answer: NORWICH SCHOOL
Question: Sid Weighell, Jimmy Knapp and Ray Buckton were trade union officials in which industry in the 1970's and 1980's?
Answer: RAILWAYS
Question: Excerpts from The Nutcracker Suite are included in Disney’s Fantasia. Which work by Paul Dukas features Mickey Mouse attempting magic tricks?
Answer: THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE
Question: Which Australian animal gets its name from a native word meaning “No drink”?
Answer: Koala
Question: """I am not in the least afraid to die"" are the last words attributed to which famous naturalist?"
Answer: CHARLES DARWIN
Question: Which intermittent wars between 1793 and 1815 included the battles of 'Aspern' and 'Austerlitz'?
Answer: NAPOLEONIC WARS
Question: In which present day Asian country are the Shan and Karen peoples to be found?
Answer: MYANMAR
Question: The 1993 novel 'Mrs. de Winter' by Susan Hill was a sequel towhich classic 20th century novel?
Answer: 'REBECCA'
Question: In which year did John Charles, Princess Juliana, Peter Ustinov and Yasser Arafat die?
Answer: 2004
Question: Who commanded the Royal Navy taskforce which destroyed much of the Italian fleet off Cape Matapan in 1941?
Answer: CUNNINGHAM
Question: What name was given to the 57 constituencies with very small electorates, such as Old Sarum with two MP's for 11 electors, which were abolished by the 1832 Reform Act?
Answer: 'ROTTEN BOROUGHS'
Question: In which sport did Dave Prowse ('Darth Vader') represent England at the 1962 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: WEIGHTLIFTING
Question: Which mathematician, whose ideas were important to the development of modern computer circuits, wrote the 1854 work 'Laws Of Thought'?
Answer: GEORGE BOOLE
Question: What was the name of the Greenpeace trawler that was sunk off the coast of New Zealand by French secret intelligence officers in July 1985?
Answer: RAINBOW WARRIOR
Question: Specific areas of Britain, e.g. the Broads, are designated as ESA's. For what does the S stand?
Answer: Environmentally) SENSITIVE (Areas)
Question: Which national radio station broadcasts on either 693 or 909 kHz Medium Wave?
Answer: RADIO 5 LIVE
Question: Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine were amongst the leading exponents of which 1950's / 60's style of painting?
Answer: POP ART
Question: Parr, Smolt Sprog, Skegger, Samlet, Mort, Grilse and Fingerling are all names used for the young of which fish?
Answer: SALMON
Question: Which former Egyptian army camp was besieged by the Mahdists forten months, then occupied for 13 years before recapture by the British in 1898?
Answer: KHARTOUM
Question: In which novel by Thackeray does the character 'Blanche Amory' appear?
Answer: 'THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS'
Question: Which car manufacturer hasproduced models called 'Almiera' and 'Primera'?
Answer: NISSAN
Question: Who wrote 'The Good Soldier' in 1915?
Answer: FORD MADOX FORD
Question: Which British city has thoroughfares called Saltmarket, Candleriggs, and Trongate?
Answer: GLASGOW
Question: Who am I? I first entered Parliament as MP for Oldham in 1900 and retired in 1964 when I was MP for Woodford (Essex)?
Answer: WINSTON CHURCHILL
Question: What is the name of the small sponge cake soaked in Rum and syrup said to have been invented by King Stanislaus of Poland?
Answer: 'RUM BABA'
Question: Ferenc Madi, who died in May 2011, served as President of which country between 2000 and 2005?
Answer: HUNGARY
Question: Which resort is the site of the art deco Midland Hotel and Happy Mount Park, the venue for the short-lived 'The World of Crinkley Bottom'?
Answer: MORECAMBE
Question: Which military force, formed in 1485 to guard Henry VII, was the title of an opera that premiered i London on October 3rd. 1888?
Answer: THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD
Question: Albert Christian Edward as the three other forenames of which member of the Royal family?
Answer: Prince Andrew
Question: To emphasise its links to the sea, which country depicts the top of Neptune’s trident on its national flag?
Answer: Barbados
Question: In the USA during World War I, any reference to things German was considered unpatriotic, in order to avoid this problem which common foodstuff was called a 'Salisbury Steak'?
Answer: HAMBURGER
Question: """There never was a good war nor a bad peace""is a quote attributed to which American statesman?"
Answer: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Question: Which English king died from Dysentery reputedly caused by poisoned ale and a surfeit of Peaches?
Answer: JOHN
Question: Which 2009 film stars Nicholas Cage as a professor of astrophysics who discovers that he can predict future catastrophes?
Answer: 'KNOWING'
Question: Which French physicist gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as his namesake cycle, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics?
Answer: SADI CARNOT
Question: Housed in the Louvre in Paris, which enormous oil on canvas painted by Paolo Veronese depicts the moment when Jesus turned the water into wine?
Answer: 'THE WEDDING AT CANA'
Question: Which year saw the end of the Korean War, the death of Josef Stalin and the first televised Academy Awards Ceremony?
Answer: 1953
Question: Killikrates and Iktinos were the architects of which building completed on the 5th century BC?
Answer: PARTHENON
Question: Kieran Gaffney finished 3rd. in this year's 'Britain's Got Talent' final, playing which instrument?
Answer: DRUMS
Question: What was the middle name of the character 'Arnold Rimmer' from the t.v. series 'Red Dwarf'?
Answer: 'JUDAS'
Question: The 'Gremlins' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which North East club?
Answer: NEWCASTLE UTD
Question: The 'Naughty Forty' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which Midlands club?
Answer: STOKE CITY
Question: In which Dickens novel does the action start with the Dover mail coach being stopped on Shooters Hill with a message for a passenger - lawyer 'Jarvis Lorry'?
Answer: 'TALE OF TWO CITIES'
Question: What links the ship Dr Crippen was caught on in 1910 and a coastal resort town in Scotland?
Answer: Montrose
Question: In 1969 troops from the Parachute Regiment invaded which West Indian island after it declared its independence from St. Kitts - Nevis?
Answer: ANGUILLA
Question: in the version of the Morse Code used in Great Britain, what letter of the alphabetis represented by a single dash?
Answer: T
Question: 'Red Lion' was for may years accepted as the most popular pubname in Great Britain. What pub name has now succeeded this?
Answer: 'THE CROWN'
Question: Which eel-like fish has a sucker mouth with horny teeth, and a rough tongue, but no scales, paired fins, or jaws?
Answer: LAMPREY
Question: What nationality was Vitus Bering, after whom the strait separating Alaska and Russia was named?
Answer: DANISH
Question: In which Northamptonshire battle, fought on June 14th 1645, did the Parliamentarians under Fairfax, defeat Prince Rupert's Royalists?
Answer: NASEBY
Question: Which Union leader of the American Civil War gave his name to a tree in California's 'Sequoia National Park'?
Answer: GENERAL SHERMAN
Question: In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island', what is the name of the sinister blind pirate?
Answer: 'PEW'
Question: What is the name of 'Long John Silver's' parrot in the children's classic novel, 'Treasure Island'?
Answer: CAPTAIN FLINT
Question: If a solution of common salt is electrolysed, chlorine gas is released at one electrode but which metal accumulates at the other?
Answer: SODIUM
Question: Which poem in five sections, first published in 1922, was described by the poet as "..just a piece of rhythmic grumbling"?
Answer: THE WASTELAND
Question: Sometimes known as the 'White Whale', Delphinapterus Leucas belongs to the bottle-nosed family of whales, how is it more generally known?
Answer: BELUGA
Question: In which town or city is 'Arkells Brewery' based?
Answer: SWINDON
Question: What was the 'Asahi Shimbun', first produced 24th, September 1980, and advertised as "untouched by human hand"?
Answer: A NEWSPAPER
Question: Which creature may be described as a lizard, with adhesive toes allowing it to walk up walls and across ceilings?
Answer: GECKO
Question: In which religious denomination does 'Aldersgate Day' celebrate the day (24/05/1738) when John Wesley experienced his conversion in a meeting room in Aldersgate Street, London?
Answer: METHODISM
Question: From which Bob Dylan song does the following come: "I aint sayin' you treated me unkind, you could have done better but I don't mind, you just kind of wasted my precious time"?
Answer: 'DON'T THINK TWICE, ITS ALL RIGHT'
Question: Whose epitaph opens with: "Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman"?
Answer: CAPTAIN OATES
Question: The badge of West Bromwich Albion FC contains a bird together with the fruit and leaves of which shrub or small tree?
Answer: Hawthorn
Question: According to Irish mythology, which great warrior was responsible for the building of the 'Giant's Causeway' to link the shores of Scotland and Ireland?
Answer: FINN McCOOL
Question: 'Thumbelina', a tiny girl not half as big as a thumb, was grown from a beggar's gift to a peasant woman. What was the gift?
Answer: A BARLEY CORN
Question: What was the name of the 'Space-shuttle' from which the record breaking five hour "space walk" took place in 1993?
Answer: ENDEAVOR
Question: In Norse mythology, what type of creatures were 'Toothgrinder' and 'Toothgnasher', who drew Thor's flying chariot?
Answer: GOATS
Question: Which British Prime Minister later became the Earl of Stockton?
Answer: HAROLD MACMILLAN
Question: Which cartoon character first appeared on screen in 'The Wise Little Hen' in 1934 and later in the 'Oscar' winning cartoon 'Der Fuhrer's Face' in 1942?
Answer: 'DONALD DUCK'
Question: Which philosopher propounded the idea of 'Utilitarianism', later taken up by John Stuart Mill?
Answer: JEREMY BENTHAM
Question: Which small wildcat, found in South and Central America and Mexico, is also known as the 'Dwarf Leopard' as its fur is said to resemble that of the larger cat?
Answer: OCELOT
Question: Fought in the Pyrenees Mountains on the border between Spain and France, at which battle of 778 AD did the Basques defeat the forces of Roland, commander of the rear guard of Charlemagne's army?
Answer: BATTLE OF RONCEVAUX PASS
Question: 'Phantom Planet's' song 'California' was the theme tune to which American teen-drama series that ran from 2003 to 2007?
Answer: 'THE O.C.'
Question: Almost always consisting of roast meat or dried seafood, served on baguette-like New Orleans French bread, what name is given to a traditional submarine sandwich from Louisiana?
Answer: PO'BOY
Question: Which High King of Ireland conquered Munster, Leinster and Connacht in 976 AD?
Answer: BRIAN BORU
Question: What is the name of the wooden pavement which is a feature of Atlantic City, USA?
Answer: BOARDWALK
Question: Errol Brown who died last month was best known as a member of which band?
Answer: HOT CHOCOLATE
Question: In which sea is the Gulf of Genoa?
Answer: LIGURIAN SEA
Question: 'The Fellowship Of The Ring' opens with the news that someone in the Shire is planning a birthday party. Who?
Answer: BILBO BAGGINS
Question: 'Devil's Apron', 'Purple Laver' and 'Thong Weed' are all types of what?
Answer: SEA WEED
Question: UNITA was founded in 1966 by Joseph Savimbi, its original aim being the independence of which country?
Answer: ANGOLA
Question: Which gas, composed of carbon and hydrogen, burns with an intensely brilliant flame, and is used extensively in welding?
Answer: ACETYLENE
Question: Which is the most easterly state in mainland USA?
Answer: MAINE
Question: 'Teardrop', by the British hip-hop duo 'Massive Attack', is the theme tune to which American drama series?
Answer: 'HOUSE'
Question: In the English translations of the 'Asterix' comics, what is the name of the village bard who jumps up at any chance to sing and play his lyre?
Answer: 'CACOFONIX'
Question: The Haber Processis a reaction to nitrogen and hydrogen in order to produce which gas?
Answer: AMMONIA
Question: Which Eugene O'Neill play takes place from around 8:30 am to midnight in August 1912 at the seaside Connecticut home of the 'Tyrone' family?
Answer: 'LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT'
Question: What is the family name of the mother of the former Tennis players Emilio Sanchez and his sister Aranxta?
Answer: VICARIO
Question: What is the occupation of Oliver Smallbridge, played by Windsor Davies, and Simon Peel, played by Donald Sinden in the long running sitcom Never the Twain?
Answer: ANTIQUE DEALERS
Question: The name of which railway company is contained in the full title of the Turner painting Rain, Steam and Speed?
Answer: GREAT WESTERN
Question: In which Dickens novel did the principal villain, 'John Carker', meet his end by falling under a train?
Answer: 'DOMBEY AND SON'
Question: In 1884, Lewis Waterman was responsible for the invention of what literary aid?
Answer: FOUNTAIN PEN
Question: Which town near Antwerp has given its name to a thick coarse woollen cloth and in particular to a bag made from this material?
Answer: DUFFEL
Question: According to Tobias Smollet, who was "the great cham(ruler) of literature"?
Answer: Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON
Question: Which American rock star was killed whilst touring the UK when his taxi hit a lampost in Chippenham in April 1960?
Answer: EDDIE COCHRAN
Question: Which tax, levied 1695, abolished 1851, reached its highest level in 1808 when the rate on certain houses was 8/- a year?
Answer: WINDOW TAX
Question: The 'Urchins' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which North West club?
Answer: LIVERPOOL
Question: Which bird was extinct in Scotland at the end of the 18th century but was re-introduced at Taymouth in 1837?
Answer: CAPERCAILLIE
Question: Although better known by his surname, what was the first name of the t.v. detective 'Monk'?
Answer: 'ADRIAN'
Question: Which British regiment were originally known as Monks Regimen of Foot when they were formed in the mid-17th century?
Answer: Coldstream Guards
Question: Which paper size measures 210 mm by 297 mm?
Answer: A4
Question: Which 'French Impressionist' painter, famed for his portrait, 'The Bar At The Folies Bergere', was born in Paris in 1832, and died of a gangrenous leg in 1883?
Answer: EDOUARD MANET
Question: Which rock star, who died in 1971 aged 36, survived the car crash in which Eddie Cochran died in 1962?
Answer: GENE VINCENT
Question: Which is the most easterly state of the USA?
Answer: MAINE
Question: Sharing it with the surname of a well known football pundit, what is the SI unit of absorbed dose?
Answer: GRAY
Question: Lawrence Atkinson and David Bomberg are associated with which artistic movement founded by Wyndam Lewis in the early 20th century?
Answer: VORTICISM
Question: Which American Nobel Laureate wrote 'The Sound And The Fury' and 'As I Lay Dying'?
Answer: WILLIAM FAULKNER
Question: Which Italian city was rules by the Visconti family between 1277 and 1477?
Answer: MILAN
Question: Based on an idea by Steven Spielberg and created by Diablo Cody, which American TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 2009, stars Toni Collete as a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder?
Answer: 'UNITED STATES OF TARA'
Question: The Japanese capital of Tokyo is located in which of the five regions of Honshu? This region gives its name to an earthquake of 1923.
Answer: KANTO
Question: The Pura Cup, formerly known as the Sheffield Shield, is a Cricket tournament contested annually in which country?
Answer: AUSTRALIA
Question: George J Tenet was the head of which US government department from 1997 to 2004?
Answer: THE CIA
Question: In which E M Forster novel does Adela Quested travel abroad to marry magistrate Ronny Heaslip?
Answer: A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Question: Which city was the capital of the Republic of Vietnam, which governed the southern half of Vietnam until 1975 – the name at the time is needed?
Answer: SAIGON
Question: Name the year; Uproar at the Premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in Paris, Robert Bridges becomes Poet Laureate and Suffragette Emily Davison is killed when she runs under the king's horse at the Derby?
Answer: 1913
Question: Born Adeline Stephen in 1882, which writer lived at Monks House in Sussex until her death in 1941?
Answer: Virginia Woolf
Question: In rowing, what is the action of turning the oar blade flatto reduce wind resistance called?
Answer: FEATHERING
Question: In which television programme did the character 'Detective Saperstein' appear?
Answer: 'KOJAK'
Question: Which British plant may be described as 'aromatic bushy plant with feathery leaves, and white daisy-likeflowers'. It is used in the treatment of migraines and headaches?
Answer: FEVERFEW
Question: What was the name given to a tame monkey or ape, but is now used as a derisory term for a conceited or impudent person?
Answer: JACKANAPES
Question: The 'Executive Crew' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which Midland club?
Answer: NOTTINGHAM FOREST
Question: Which sport is played by the Reading Thwackers and the Swindon Mallets in the Jasper Fforde book ‘Something Rotten’?
Answer: CROQUET
Question: Where in the human body would you find the Calcaneus?
Answer: The Heel
Question: In which Irish town is an International Oyster Festival held each year?
Answer: Galway
Question: In heraldry, what name is given to a diamond shape?
Answer: Lozenge
Question: """It will be the greatest show on earth"", is attributed to which American showman after his merger with another show?"
Answer: P.T. BARNUM
Question: In which year was the voting age in Britain reduced from 21 to 18?
Answer: 1969
Question: Which British rock band comprises Romeo Stodart and his sister Michelle, together with Angela Gannon and her brother Sean?
Answer: 'THE MAGIC NUMBERS'
Question: Which is the smallest, and most southerly, 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty' in England, with an area of just over six square miles?
Answer: ISLES OF SCILLY
Question: Which Irish village became a centre of pilgrimage following the reported sighting of the virgin Mary in 1879?
Answer: Knock
Question: Give either Christian name of the novelist GK Chesterton.
Answer: Gilbert Keith
Question: In world war two who was successfully targeted by the allies in operation Anthropoid?
Answer: Reinhardt Heydrich
Question: Bearing the legs and wings what name is given to the intermediate division of an insect?
Answer: Thorax
Question: Which ITV soap that ran from 1964 to 1988 made a comeback in 2001 (lasting until 2003)?
Answer: Crossroads
Question: In Greek myth Prometheus was punished by an eagle eating which part of his body every day, which then grew back every night?
Answer: LIVER
Question: Which ITV series, set in Africa, stars Hayley Mills and in 2009 also featured her sister Juliet?
Answer: 'WILD AT HEART'
Question: August 24th is St. Bartholomew's Day in Western Christianity. In which year did the 'St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre' take place in France?
Answer: 1572
Question: What is the surname of David, who famously designed hats for his mother Gertrude to wear at Royal Ascot?
Answer: SHILLING