zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Of which longer mountain range do the Transylvanian Alps form the southern arm?
Answer: Carpathians
Question: Which African country was known as South-West Africa, prior to 1968?
Answer: NAMIBIA
Question: What name is given to an adult, Red Deer stag aged six years or older?
Answer: HART
Question: Angela Ahrendts is CEO of which UK outfitter and clothing manufacturer loved by 'Chavs'?
Answer: BURBERRY
Question: Which 2 surnames are linked to a ‘60s terrorist group that became the Red Army Faction?
Answer: BAADER-MEINHOF
Question: Which ancient religion is followed by Parsees or Parsi?
Answer: Zoroastrianism
Question: Inhabitants of which UK city are often called “Loiners”?
Answer: Leeds
Question: Who has ‘terrible tusks and terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws’?
Answer: The Gruffalo
Question: What were the V-1 rockets nicknamed by the man in the street during the Blitz?
Answer: Doodle-Bugs
Question: Kept in many schools, in which landlocked Asian country did the Gerbil originate?
Answer: Mongolia
Question: Which festival in the Western Church gave its name to a bay and city of S.W. Texas?
Answer: Corpus Christi
Question: In the metric system, the unit prefix ‘mega’ denotes a factor of what?
Answer: A MILLION
Question: On which pop hit classic did Bob Holness famously not play the sax solo?
Answer: BAKER STREET
Question: In WW II, in what year did these battles take place: Luzon, Halbe, Trieste and Okinawa?
Answer: 1945
Question: Which car company has featured in the name of cricket's 'Kennington Oval' since 2011?
Answer: Kia Oval
Question: Ellis Achong’s style of left-arm wrist spin gave rise to what term in the cricket vocabulary?
Answer: Chinaman
Question: Born in 1942, what is the forename of Welsh snooker player Mr. Mountjoy?
Answer: DOUG
Question: To which minor character does Hamlet refer as a ‘waterfly’?
Answer: OSRIC
Question: When used as an artists’ pigment, the oxide of which metal is known as Chinese white?
Answer: Zinc
Question: Above which castle did Charles I raise his Standard in 1642, effecting declaring war on parliament?
Answer: NOTTINGHAM
Question: Spoken by J.K. Simmons, "not quite my tempo" is a noted line from which jazz-themed movie?
Answer: WHIPLASH
Question: Three Scottish kings, three Russian tsars and eight popes have all shared what name?
Answer: ALEXANDER
Question: In nuclear science, what word used to follow ‘half-life’, before the term was shortened in the early 1950s?
Answer: PERIOD
Question: In 1599, in which market town was Oliver Cromwell born?
Answer: HUNTINGDON
Question: Who did Nick Clegg narrowly defeat in the LibDem leadership contest in 2007?
Answer: Chris HUHNE
Question: Which two words usually appear vertically within parallel lines on modern cheques?
Answer: ACCOUNT PAYEE
Question: Six states of the USA have mountains whose names include what animal?
Answer: BEAR
Question: Which shell-fish soup originated in the north-east of America?
Answer: Chowder
Question: In which film is the murder of Miriam Haines seen reflected in her (dropped) spectacles?
Answer: Strangers On A Train
Question: Which Italian had Beethoven, Liszt and Schubert as pupils?
Answer: Salieri
Question: Which ancient measurement ran from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger?
Answer: Cubit
Question: Which pop group had a 1984 UK top ten hit record entitled ‘Master and Servant’?
Answer: Depeche Mode
Question: Tory MP Nadine Dorries upset Party bosses by appearing on which TV show in 2012?
Answer: I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of
Question: Which country’s largest cities (by population) include Klagenfurt (no.6) and Villach (no.7)?
Answer: AUSTRIA
Question: AKA Beestings, the first milk secreted by a mammal, usually just before giving birth, is known as what?
Answer: COLOSTRUM
Question: In which English county is Buckfast Abbey, famed for its tonic wine?
Answer: Devon
Question: What term describes a sheepdog trial event in which each competitor controls two dogs?
Answer: Brace
Question: In what field did Ernö Goldfinger, inspiration for the title Goldfinger, achieve eminence?
Answer: Architecture
Question: In which European country does/did the late Norman Wisdom have a huge cult status?
Answer: ALBANIA
Question: In the late 70s, which Cockney played the male lead in the tv programme ‘Yus, My Dear’?
Answer: ARTHUR MULLARD
Question: Which American author created Tarzan Of The Apes?
Answer: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Question: The taste of which Chinese beer reminds you that its city of origin was a German concession?
Answer: Tsingtao
Question: Admiral Américo Tomás became president of which NATO-member nation in 1958?
Answer: Portugal
Question: In science, what symbol is normally used for the speed of light?
Answer: c
Question: In a code the word LOOK is written ORRN. In the same code how would the word STOP be written?
Answer: VWRS
Question: Which Pacific Island group changed to driving on the left in 2009 and also moved to the west of the International Dateline in 2011, thereby losing a day?
Answer: SAMOA
Question: Operation Typhoon, launched on this day in 1941, was a German strategic offensive designed to capture which capital city?
Answer: MOSCOW
Question: Who led the Muslim forces who captured Jerusalem on this day in 1187, thus ending 88 years of crusader rule of the city?
Answer: SALADIN
Question: Which Marvel Comic's super-hero, a member of The Avengers group, is the alter ego of an originally frail young man called Steve Rogers?
Answer: CAPTAIN AMERICA
Question: Which famous fictional character retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 and took up the hobby of bee-keeping as his main occupation?
Answer: SHERLOCK HOLMES
Question: The name's the same - A small Norfolk town near the Suffolk border and a verb used by teenagers meaning "to show a lack of respect"?
Answer: DISS
Question: Religous reformers - which 16th century Oxford scholar was the first to translate the Bible into English from the original Greek texts? He was charged with heresy, strangled and burned at the stake in 1535 by the Roman Catholic Church.
Answer: WILLIAM TYNDALE
Question: Who was the Iranian religous leader who returned to Iran from exile in 1979 to establish a fundamentalist Islamic republic? He supported the seizing of the US embassy and the Iran-Iraq war.
Answer: AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI
Question: Which recording artist, originally a folk singer, had top ten hits in the early 1970's with "There but for fortune" and "The night they drove old Dixie down"?
Answer: JOAN BAEZ
Question: Medicine: What is a patient suffering from based on the following description - a spread of infection into the blood, which thereby carries the infecting agent throughout the body?
Answer: SEPTICAEMIA
Question: Which actor, who died in 2011, became famous when referred to as the best actor in the world by Steven Spielberg? He starred in a succession of movies including "The Usual Suspects", "Brassed Off", "Last of the Mohicans" and "The Constant Gardener"?
Answer: PETE POSTLETHWAITE
Question: Paul McCartney had a record commonly known as "The Frog Chorus" in the top ten for 13 weeks in 1984. What was the formal title of this record?
Answer: WE ALL STAND TOGETHER
Question: What name is given to the sweet French bread, enriched with a high egg and butter content? It is commonly eaten with breakfast or as a snack, and has numerous uses in cuisine.
Answer: BRIOCHE
Question: Controversy at the Oscars - Which film director created a stir at the 2003 Oscar ceremony? There was a loud and prolonged booing after he won the award for best documentary for his film "Bowling for Columbine", because in his acceptance speech he had delivered a tirade of abuse against George Bush.
Answer: MICHEAL MOORE
Question: Which traditional Scottish soup is made with the principal ingredients of leek, onions and chicken stew, and sometimes also with prunes?
Answer: COCK-A-LEEKIE
Question: In which year did the novelists George Bernard Shaw and George Orwell die? (Will accept plus or minus one year)
Answer: 1950
Question: Which novelist, with a three letter surname, wrote the novels 'The Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum'?
Answer: UMBERTO ECO
Question: 'A Kiss Before Dying', 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'The Stepford Wives' were hugely successful films in the 1960's and 70's. Who wrote the novels on which these films were based?
Answer: IRA LEVIN
Question: Which 77 year old German-born missionary won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Question: Which town on the North Devon coast was devastated by a flash flood in August 1952 ?
Answer: LYNMOUTH
Question: Which American colony became a self-governing commonwealth and an unincorporated territory of the USA in July 1952 ?
Answer: PUERTO RICO
Question: Which record producer and band leader, who died in 1979, was responsible for 27 number ones in the UK for various artists including Cliff Richard and Frank Ifield?
Answer: NORRIE PARAMOUR
Question: Stretching from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east which is England's newest National Park, established in April, 2011 ?
Answer: SOUTH DOWNS
Question: Which other 230 mile pre-Roman road crosses Watling Street at a point called High Cross in Warwickshire?
Answer: FOSSE WAY
Question: In 1980 the Olympics were boycotted by countries led by the USA protesting against the Afghan war. In 1984 they were boycotted by countries led by the USSR protesting about America's attitude towards them. Only one country, which underwent a revolution in 1979 boycotted both years. Which country was this?
Answer: IRAN
Question: Opened in 1969, in which city can you find the 344 metre tall John Hancock Centre?
Answer: CHICAGO
Question: The three letter name of which creature can be spelt out using the first letter of the capitakl cities of Mali, Kazakhstan and Bhutan in that order?
Answer: BAT
Question: According to his creator, which famous fictional character, in 1941, lied about his age in order to enter the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during World war II from which he emerges as a commander?
Answer: JAMES BOND
Question: Sharing his surname with a type of building, which footballer scored the deciding goal in the 1966 F.A. Cup Final?
Answer: DEREK TEMPLE
Question: Often referred to by trainers in gyms, for what do the letters BMI stand in regard to physical fitness?
Answer: BODY MASS INDEX
Question: Which English novelist who lived from 1883 to 1959 is probably best remembered for the creation of master criminal Fu Manchu?
Answer: Sax ROHMER
Question: Which famous figure married 36 year old Daniel Chatto on July 14th 1994?
Answer: SARAH ARMSTRONG JONES
Question: Which heavyweight boxing champion of 1951 shares the same surname as a current Arsenal footballer who has the squad number 14?
Answer: WALCOTT
Question: Now named Apatosaurus, which huge dinosaur, known more famously by its previous name, took its name from the phrase 'Thunder Lizard'?
Answer: BRONTOSAURUS
Question: Formed in the 1980s and having the leader Hassan Nasrallah, which radical Shi-ite Muslim organisation in Lebanon has, for years, been involved in guerilla warfare against Israel?
Answer: HEZBOLLAH
Question: Which English novelist who lived from 1825 to 1890 is probably best remembered for the novel "Lorna Doone" in 1869?
Answer: R D BLACKMORE
Question: What name links the nickname of a teacher in TV's Grange Hill and the name of Roy Rogers' dog?
Answer: BULLET
Question: Which of H G Wells's novels ends with the hero settled down with 'The Fat Woman at the Potwell Inn'?
Answer: THE HISTORY OF MR POLLY
Question: Which multi-coloured hairstyle is one of the most recognisable attributes of Rastafarian men?
Answer: DREADLOCKS
Question: Which country are the reigning Olympic Rugby Union champions, the sport last being part of the official programme in 1924?
Answer: USA
Question: Which magazine, founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in 1991, has been promoted with the slogan "Helping the homeless help themselves"?
Answer: THE BIG ISSUE
Question: What role on film has been played by Lon Chaney, Claude Raines and Herbert Lom, amongst others?
Answer: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Question: Meaning 'Huntsman' in French, what name is given to a sauce made from mushrooms, shallots, tomatoes and white wine?
Answer: CHASSEUR
Question: It's name deriving from the Gaelic for 'large sword', which two-edged sword was traditionally used by Scottish highlanders?
Answer: CLAYMORE
Question: Which word refers to a retired professor who retains his title by way of an honour?
Answer: EMERITUS
Question: With which 1960's group do you mainly associate the name of Justin Hayward?
Answer: THE MOODY BLUES
Question: Complete the line from Kipling's poem A Smugglers Song, "Five and twenty ponies, trotting through the dark, Brandy for the Parson .........."
Answer: BACCY FOR THE CLERK
Question: Popular among East Europeans, which beetroot soup can be served either hot or cold?
Answer: BORSCH
Question: Which former London prison, established in the 12th century by The Bishop of Winchester, gave its name to a generic term for imprisonment?
Answer: THE CLINK
Question: Taking place on March 7th 1814, The Battle of Craonne took place in which country?
Answer: FRANCE
Question: Mozart symphony number 38 was named after which European capital city, also the venue for the world premiere of his Don Giovanni?
Answer: PRAGUE
Question: Lawrence Boythorne, Sir Leicester Dedlock and Mr William Guppy are all characters that appear in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: BLEAK HOUSE
Question: In the House of Lords, which seven letter word is used by members supporting a motion vote?
Answer: CONTENT
Question: Which veteran performer in rock music began his hit-making career in the mid 1960's with the Belfast quartet named 'Them'?
Answer: VAN MORRISON
Question: Which annual cricket fixture which began in 1806 was last played in 1962?
Answer: GENTLEMEN V PLAYERS
Question: Which country's London embassy was seized by hostage-takers in 1980?
Answer: IRAN
Question: When Argentinians landed on South Georgia in 1982, an event which led to the Falklands conflict, what had they supposedly come to collect?
Answer: SCRAP METAL
Question: What is the name of the sparkling wines of Germany, made from imported grape juice or, if made from German grapes, is preceded by the word Deutscher' ?
Answer: SEKT
Question: Which popular Doctor Who villains, it was revealed in 2011, are to be given 'a rest' by scriptwriters?
Answer: THE DALEKS
Question: Much in evidence in the 2010 World Cup, what is the name of the horns providing a noisy background drone?
Answer: VUVUZELA
Question: Which Dutch astronomer and physicist, who discovered the rings of Saturn in the mid 1650's, is creditied with building the first pendulum clock?
Answer: CHRISTIAAN HUYGENS
Question: Which of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, when first presented at the Savoy Theatre in 1887, was billed as 'A New and Original Supernatural Opera in Two Acts'?
Answer: RUDDIGORE
Question: Which six letter name can be the name of a famous actor, a shoe shop and the christian name of an American soul singer who died on September 26th 1999 aged 57?
Answer: CURTIS
Question: Which British author, born in Torquay on September 15th 1890 married her first husband Archibald who she divorced in 1928? She married her second husband Max Mallowan in 1930, a partnership that was to last for 46 years.
Answer: AGATHA CHRISTIE
Question: Hanged at Bedford prison in 1962, which British criminal was responsible for the murder of scientist Michael Gregston in a lay-by in Bedfordshire? He claimed an alibi saying he had been in Rhyl on the night of the murder.
Answer: JAMES HANRATTY
Question: Which Welsh vocalist who lived from 1915 to 1998 married Roger Moore in 1953, a marriage that lasted until 1961 when Moore left her and moved in with Italian actress Luisa Mattioli?
Answer: DOROTHY SQUIRES
Question: With a population of over 170,000 inhabitants, Szeged is the third most highly populated city of which European country?
Answer: HUNGARY
Question: What was the name of the boy in the book "The Railway Children" who was brother to Roberta and Phillys?
Answer: PETER
Question: The song "Leaving on a jet plane" was a number 1 hit for "Peter, Paul and Mary" in 1970. Which successful recording artist wrote this song?
Answer: JOHN DENVER
Question: Which coniferous species of tree now found in Britain, introduced from other countries, is unique in that it sheds its yellow needles in Autumn, making it Britain's only deciduous conifer?
Answer: LARCH
Question: In the Beijing Olympics Britain did particularly well in swimming and cycling but in other sports less well. Louis Smith won a Bronze medal, but was our only medal winner in which sport?
Answer: GYMNASTICS
Question: The tombs of almost all Britih monarchs are located within the UK. One of the few exceptions is George I. Near which German town or city is his burial place?
Answer: HANOVER
Question: In "Les Miserables", what is the name of the policeman who continually tracks down the hero Jean Valjean ?
Answer: JAVERT
Question: In which T.V. Detective series did "Charlie Hungerford" appear ?
Answer: BERGERAC
Question: Of the months of the year, which would score highest on plain squares as a word in the game of scrabble ?
Answer: JANUARY
Question: In 1314, Robert the Bruce and a small Scottish army inflicted a massive defeat on a huge English army at Bannockburn. Who was the leader of the English forces ?
Answer: EDWARD II
Question: Who was the German painter and sculptor who was a founder of the surrealist movement ? Among his works are "The Elephant Celebes" and " Le Grand Amoreux".
Answer: MAX ERNST
Question: Which predatory insect, with two pairs of large transparent wings, that are spread while resting, can fly the fastest ? The Australian variety can reach a speed of 36 mph ?
Answer: DRAGONFLY
Question: Millionaire businessman Alan Sugar hosts the BBC's popular reality show "The Apprentice". This show was adapted from the original U.S. Show, where it was hosted by which millionaire businessman ?
Answer: DONALD TRUMP
Question: An Ipsos MORI survey carried out this year showed politicians to have the lowest level of trust of any occupation in the U.K. What percentage of people trusted politicians in general to tell the truth. ( accept within + or - 5 % ) ?
Answer: 18%
Question: Who was the winner of the U.K.'s 2010 "Apprentice" series, who recently lost a claim of constructive dismissal against Alan Sugar, after resigning and saying she had been treated like an "overpaid lackey" ?
Answer: STELLA ENGLISH
Question: In which classic T.V. crime series did Chief Superintendant Lockhart appear ?
Answer: NO HIDING PLACE
Question: What songwriting partnership, wrote more than 20 hit records, with several of their songs becoming number 1 hits on both sides of the Atlantic, including "Hound Dog" , "Jailhouse Rock" and Stand by Me ?
Answer: LIEBER AND STOLLER
Question: What songwriting partnership, wrote more than 20 hit records, with several of their songs becoming number 1 hits on both sides of the Atlantic, including "Take good care of my Baby", "Will you love me Tomorrow" and "The Loco-motion" ?
Answer: GOFFIN AND KING
Question: The following lines are from a famous poem by W.H.Auden :- "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos with muffled drum" What is the title of the poem ?
Answer: FUNERAL BLUES
Question: Name the composer, born in Moravia in 1854, whose works include :- The rhapsody "Taras Bulba" and the opera "The Beginning of a romance"?
Answer: JANACEK
Question: Which 1972 movie, Oscar nominated for best picture, was advertised by the tag-line "Four men ride a wild river, a weekend turns into a nightmare"?
Answer: DELIVERANCE
Question: Which helicopter, manufactured by Sikorsky has been commonly used by US forces in combat areas over the last thirty years?
Answer: BLACK HAWK
Question: What was the name of the German terrorist gang of the 1970s and 80s? With a Marxist ideology they committed over thirty murders and around 300 bomb attacks.
Answer: BAADER MEINHOF
Question: What was the name of the Italian terrorist gang of the 1970s and 80s? With a Marxist ideology they committed many crimes and murders, including that of Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
Answer: RED BRIGADE
Question: Which French scientist (1736 -1806) is best known for his law of electrostatic force and gives his name to the unit of electric charge ?
Answer: COULOMB
Question: What spice is obtained from grated hard aromatic seeds, sharing its name with the evergreen tree from which the seeds are obtained ?
Answer: NUTMEG
Question: Which general, famous for his military exploits against the French in the Napoleonic Wars, was born in St Petersburg in 1745 and died in Russia in 1813 ?
Answer: Mikhail KUTUZOV
Question: In 2012, who was elected as "General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party" and will serve as the leader of China until 2022, arguably becoming the most powerful man in the world ?
Answer: XI JINPING
Question: On this day, February 19th.in 1897, Mrs. Hoodless of Ontario, Canada founded which well - known organisation ?
Answer: THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
Question: London landmarks - What was built to stage the British Empire Exhibition held in London in 1925 ?
Answer: WEMBLEY STADIUM
Question: The Swiss have completed construction of which underground rail tunnel which is over 35 miles long ? This tunnel will provide a railway link through the Alps and will become operational in 2017.
Answer: GOTTHARD Tunnel
Question: Which American pop group, who did not reach the number 1 spot in the U.K., had a number 1 hit in America with "Sweet Child O' Mine" in 1988 ?
Answer: GUNS 'N' ROSES
Question: Much in the news at budget time,exactly what body is known by the acronym OBR ?
Answer: OFFICE for BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY
Question: Much in the news at budget time,exactly what body is known by the acronym IFS ?
Answer: INSTITUTE for FISCAL STUDIES
Question: On this day in 1993, in a UN backed referendum, Eritreans voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence from which country ?
Answer: ETHIOPIA
Question: How old is former Mid-Ulster MP Bernadette Devlin today ? Is she 60, 62 or 66 ?
Answer: 66
Question: What is the first name of the mother of Jemima Khan and widow of Sir James Goldsmith, after whom one of London's most exclusive night clubs was named?
Answer: ANNABEL
Question: Which celebrity chef is the owner of the three Michelin-starred restaurant, The Fat Duck, in Bray, Berkshire, which has been voted the Best Restaurant in the UK for the past six yearsby The Good Food Guide ?
Answer: HESTON BLUMENTHAL
Question: In which country is Raciborz, which emtereed a twinning agreement with Wrexham County Borough Council in 2002 ?
Answer: POLAND
Question: Which mountain range forms an arc that stretches from the Czech Republic inj the northwest to the border of Romania and Serbia in the south ?
Answer: CARPATHIANS
Question: A white cross on a black background is the symbol and PRO UTILITATE HOMINUM is the motto of which organisation founded in 1877 and present at most large events held in Britain each year ?
Answer: ST JOHN'S AMBULANCE BRIGADE
Question: The road from Paris to Montpellier passes over the highest bridge in the world, completed in 2004. Which river valley does it span ?
Answer: TARN
Question: Originally based on the Roman fable The Rape of the Sabine Women which 1954 musical contains the songs "Bless Your Beautiful Hide" and "Spring, Spring, Spring" ?
Answer: SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
Question: Which liquid gas is used by Heston Bloomental to make ice cream ? It recently destroyed part of the stomach of a young lady when consumed in a cocktail.
Answer: NITROGEN
Question: Sharing a name with a main character in Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd and originally the wife of Uriah the Hittite, who, in the Bible, was the mother of King Solomon ?
Answer: BATHSHEBA
Question: Which historical 17th century event was recorded by diarists samuel Pepys and John Evelyn who reecorded the events and their own reactions day by day?
Answer: GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
Question: Which Scottish novelist is probably best remembered for his 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows?
Answer: KENNETH GRAHAME