zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the diameter in centimetres (a whole number) of a CD (not a mini-CD)?
Answer: 12
Question: How was the Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Yousuf formerly known?
Answer: YOUSUF YOUHANA
Question: Which country's national flag comprises two overlapping triangles?
Answer: NEPAL
Question: What colour is the mineral Lapis Lazuli?
Answer: BLUE
Question: How many masts does a 'Sloop' have?
Answer: ONE
Question: Sarah the mother of Isaac was the wife of which Biblical patriarch?
Answer: ABRAHAM
Question: On the bank of which river does the French city of Bordeaux stand?
Answer: GARONNE
Question: Who in the 1930's wrote the novel 'Cakes And Ale'?
Answer: SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Question: Charles Buckinsky was the real name of which hard man film star?
Answer: CHARLES BRONSON
Question: Jason Bradbury and Polanna Woodward are co- presenters of which t.v. series shown on Channel Five?
Answer: 'THE GADGET SHOW'
Question: Who had a number one hit in July 2000 with the song 'Spinning Around'?
Answer: KYLIE MINOGUE
Question: What is the two-word alliterative name for the tree Salix babylonica?
Answer: WEEPING WILLOW
Question: Which sitcom of the 1980s featured characters Spike Dixon, Peggy Ollerenshaw and Ted Bovis?
Answer: HI-DE-HI!
Question: Which Bristol born, Oxford educated poet was appointed Poet Laureate by George III in 1813 on the refusal by Walter Scott?
Answer: ROBERT SOUTHEY
Question: The music and lyrics for the National Anthem of India were written by the first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Who was he?
Answer: RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Question: ‘h = 6.62 × 10–27 erg.sec’ is engraved on whose tomb in Göttingen, Germany?
Answer: MAX PLANCK
Question: After singing at La Fenice in 1960, which soprano was known as ‘La Stupenda’?
Answer: JOAN SUTHERLAND
Question: The second tallest building in the EU after The Shard, the Commerzbank Tower, is in which German city?
Answer: FRANKFURT (AM MAIN)
Question: In 1948 which South African became the first person from outside the UK to hold the post of Chancellor of Cambridge University, a post he held until his death in 1950?
Answer: JAN SMUTS
Question: Deadheads are fans of which American band?
Answer: THE GRATEFUL DEAD
Question: Which area in the BBC Shipping Forecast is known in the French equivalent as Pas de Calais?
Answer: DOVER
Question: Wilberforce Claybourne were the first names of which character from the sitcom ‘Are You Being Served?’?
Answer: MR HUMPHRIES
Question: Which Victorian pub in Liverpool has rooms called Brahms and Liszt?
Answer: THE PHILHARMONIC (DINING ROOMS)
Question: How long, in cubits, was Noah’s Ark?
Answer: 300
Question: By what name is the 1931 naval mutiny at Cromarty Firth commonly known?
Answer: Invergordon Mutiny
Question: In which British city is Meadowhall railway Station?
Answer: Sheffield
Question: There were two Royal Navy mutinies in 1797, one at the Nore, where was the other?
Answer: Spithead
Question: Which US state, known as the Diamond State, or The First State, has the peach blossom as its state flower?
Answer: Delaware
Question: In mythology who was the muse of music?
Answer: Euterpe
Question: In which English town or City is Her Majesty's Prison Full Sutton?
Answer: York
Question: Which 1951 Oscar winning actor made his cinema debut in the 1930 film "A Devil with Women"?
Answer: Humphrey Bogart
Question: Name the secret society formed between 1854 and 1857 by Irish workers in the Pennsylvania mines?
Answer: Molly Maguires
Question: Which 1997 film was released with the advertising tag line "Collide With Destiny"
Answer: Titanic
Question: Can you identify the play by William Shakespeare in which the following quote appears? "The lady doth protest too much"
Answer: Hamlet
Question: The name of which company appears on the front of Everton F.C.'s jerseys?
Answer: CHANG
Question: Which 'Oscar' nominated animator helped create 'Bugs Bunny', 'Daffy Duck' and the 'Road Runner'?
Answer: CHUCK JONES
Question: Where did the biggest naval battle of the Second World War take place between the USA and Japan, from 24th to 26th October 1944?
Answer: LEYTE GULF
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Norman Conquests'?
Answer: ALAN AYCKBOURNE
Question: What was the principle woodused by Thomas Chippendale during the eighteenth century?
Answer: MAHOGANY
Question: Who played by the title role in the 2002 film comedy 'Maid In Manhattan'?
Answer: JENNIFER LOPEZ
Question: Who produced the classicwestern'The Wild Bunch'?
Answer: SAM PECKINPAH
Question: Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus were two members of the 'First Triumvirate' in 60 BC. Who was the third?
Answer: JULIUS CAESAR
Question: Which British singer was the first white woman to be signed to the 'Tamla Motown' music label?
Answer: KIKI DEE.
Question: Which city was the capital of India, until being replaced by Delhi in 1912?
Answer: CALCUTTA
Question: Who wrote the play 'Edward II'?
Answer: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Question: Which best selling American author includes 'The Piranhas' and 'Descent From Xanadu' amongst his works?
Answer: HAROLD ROBBINS
Question: Which American President used the slogan 'It's Morning Again In America' for his 1984 Presidential campaign?
Answer: RONALD REAGAN
Question: In which opera do the characters 'Annina', 'Alfredo Germont' and 'Duophol' appear?
Answer: 'LA TRAVIATA'
Question: Who was the lyricist partner of Richard Rogers prior to Oscar Hammerstein?
Answer: LORENZ HART
Question: 'Mr. Lockwood' rents 'Thrushcross Grange' and asks the housekeeper 'Nelly Dean' to tell him about the landlord and his family. This is the basis of which novel?
Answer: 'WUTHERING HEIGHTS'
Question: Which king knighted air pioneers Alcock and Brown?
Answer: GEORGE V
Question: Give the title of the Wilfred Owen poem that begins: "What passing-bells for those who die as cattle? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid fire. Can patter out their hasty orisons"?
Answer: 'ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH'
Question: Give the word that completes the fourth line of this poem: " Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye. Could frame thy fearful .........."?
Answer: """SYMMETRY"""
Question: Which composee was born in Leipzig in 1813 and died in Venice in 1883?
Answer: RICHARD WAGNER
Question: Who is the regular presenter on BBC Radio One on Monday to Friday from 10.00am to 12.45pm?
Answer: FEARNE COTTON
Question: The Aztecs called them 'azotochtli', which is Nahuatl for 'turtle-rabbit'. Which mammal has species including nine- banded, seven-banded and screaming hairy?
Answer: ARMADILLO
Question: How are 'Max Bialystock' and 'Leo Bloom' described in the title of a 1960's film ,later a stage musical?
Answer: 'THE PRODUCERS'
Question: In May 1967 who became the first sailor to circumnavigate the globe single-handed, with just one stop, in Sydney?
Answer: FRANCIS CHICHESTER
Question: Which socialist society was founded in London in January 1884?
Answer: FABIAN SOCIETY
Question: Xerxes led the Persian forces at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. His enemy was an alliance of the Greek city-states led by Leonidas. Of which city-state was he king?
Answer: SPARTA
Question: Which former Liverpool player (1969-1974) managed Wigan in 1981/82?
Answer: LARRY LLOYD
Question: In Norse mythology, who guards the Bifrost against the coming of the frost giants at Ragnarok?
Answer: HEIMDALL
Question: Corsican and Maritime are varieties of which tree?
Answer: PINE
Question: Rastafarianism is based on the ideas of which Jamaican?
Answer: MARCUS GARVEY
Question: In which British city is there an area called Headington?
Answer: OXFORD
Question: Which TV comedy series of the 1970s was actually filmed at Wooburn Grange, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire?
Answer: FAWLTY TOWERS
Question: Which horse won the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in 1984 and went on to a complete double by winning the Gold Cup there in 1986?
Answer: DAWN RUN
Question: In which British city is St. Enoch Railway Station?
Answer: GLASGOW
Question: Fanny price is the heroine of which novel by Jane Austen?
Answer: Mansfield Park
Question: Which state of the USA is known as the Hoosier state?
Answer: Indiana
Question: The fictional character Rip Van Winkle slept through which war?
Answer: American war of Independence
Question: Which oil tanker made the news headlines when it ran aground off the Shetlands in 1993?
Answer: Braer
Question: In the Bible who was the husband of Ruth?
Answer: Boaz
Question: Who was the president of America for the majority of the 1920's?
Answer: Calvin Coolidge
Question: Who had the first ever Christmas number one single in the British charts?
Answer: Al Martino
Question: Which English city has stations called Shrub Hill and Foregate Street?
Answer: Worcester
Question: Who wrote the poem "The Highwayman"?
Answer: Alfred Noyes
Question: Complete the partnership who won seven Grand Slam doubles titles from 1979 to 1984 including four at Wimbledon — Fleming and?
Answer: McEnroe
Question: What is the common name of odontalgia?
Answer: Toothache
Question: Which character played by Janet Brown appears at the end of the Bond film For Your Eyes Only?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: Pon de Replay in 2005, and SOS and Unfaithful in 2006 all reached Number Two in the UK singles chart for which singer before she had her first Number One?
Answer: Rihanna
Question: In which city did Torvill and Dean win their Olympic Gold in 1984
Answer: Sarajevo
Question: Terry Gene Bollea is the real name of which wrestler turned actor?
Answer: 'HULK HOGAN'
Question: Which French Impressionist painter, famed in later life for his portraits of nudes, was born in Limoges in 1841, and died in Cagnes in the south of France in 1919?
Answer: PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR
Question: Which film star and director called one of his children Satchell?
Answer: WOODY ALLEN
Question: Which month of the 'French Revolutionary Calandar' had a name derived from the French for fog?
Answer: BRUMAIRE
Question: Which Scottish city isserved by 'Riverside Airport'?
Answer: DUNDEE
Question: Dwayne Johnson is the real name of which wrestler turned actor?
Answer: 'THE ROCK'
Question: Which stretch of water joins the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara?
Answer: THE DARDANELLES
Question: By what name is Allen Konigsberg better known?
Answer: WOODY ALLEN
Question: In the 'Star Wars' films, who was the twin sister of 'Luke Skywalker'?
Answer: 'PRINCESS LEIA'
Question: Who wrote the 'Young Bond' series of novels, the first being 'Silver Fin'?
Answer: CHARLIE HIGSON
Question: Which sweets were advertised with the slogan '......... made to make your mouth water'?
Answer: OPAL FRUITS
Question: Which other US President died on July 4th 1826, the same day as John Adams?
Answer: THOMAS JEFFERSON
Question: In Greek myth, into what creature did Artemis transform Actaeon?
Answer: STAG
Question: Which chemical element, with the symbol 'Rb', takes its name from the Latin for 'deepest red'?
Answer: RUBIDIUM
Question: Making his debut for Sunderland last season, who is the only footballer from Benin ever to play in the Premier League?
Answer: STEPHANE SESSEGNON
Question: Located directly across the river Rhine from Wiesbaden is which city, the capital of the state of Rhineland- Palatinate?
Answer: MAINZ
Question: According to Norse mythology, what was the name of the tree located at the centre of the universe?
Answer: YGGDRASIL
Question: Who was the 11th century Anglo-Saxon rebel in England who led the resistance to the Norman Conquest from his base on the Isle of Ely?
Answer: HEREWARD THE WAKE
Question: Who was the Aboriginal Australian athlete who won the women's 400m Gold Medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000?
Answer: CATHY FREEMAN
Question: Sometimes called the 'Gurkha blade', what is the more common name given to the curved knife used as part of the regimental weaponry of Gurkha fighters?
Answer: KUKRI
Question: Which American state shares borders with Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas?
Answer: LOUISIANA
Question: SWAPO was the name of the guerrilla army that fought for independence for which African country?
Answer: NAMIBIA
Question: The 1997 film 'A Thousand Acres', directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, was a reworking of which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: 'KING LEAR'
Question: Which 1993 film was set on the fictional island of 'Isla Nubar', 120 miles off the coast of Costa Rica?
Answer: 'JURASSIC PARK'
Question: Which late 19th and early 20th century aesthetic movement would you associate with the architects Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd-Wright and the artist William Morris?
Answer: ARTS & CRAFTS (Movement)
Question: Bruce Dickinson, Blaze Bayley and Paul d'Anno have all been the lead singer of which rock group?
Answer: 'IRON MAIDEN'
Question: The teachings of which philosopher are known as 'The Analects'?
Answer: CONFUCIUS
Question: Which Rogers & Hammerstein musical is based on two short stories by the American author James Michener?
Answer: 'SOUTH PACIFIC'
Question: In the Book of Genesis, who died whilst giving birth to her son, Benjamin?
Answer: RACHEL
Question: In which English county could you visit Bolingbroke Castle?
Answer: LINCOLNSHIRE
Question: Who was the American screenwriter who created, wrote, narrated and hosted the science fiction series 'The Twilight Zone'?
Answer: ROD SERLING
Question: Which Israeli Prime Minister resigned in 1974 following the Yom Kippur War?
Answer: GOLDA MEIR
Question: Who was the Hindu god of fire, portrayed with three legs and a thousand eyes?
Answer: AGNI
Question: Which Italian city was ruled by the Visconti family between 1277 and 1477?
Answer: MILAN
Question: In which country are the headquarters of the European Court of Justice?
Answer: LUXEMBOURG
Question: In which part of the body is the 'Talus'?
Answer: THE ANKLE
Question: In Greek mythology, which Cyclops had his only eye blinded by Odysseus?
Answer: POLYPHEMUS
Question: Which European flag consists of three horizontal stripes. red at the top, white in the centre, green at the bottom?
Answer: HUNGARY
Question: Which king was on the throne at the time of 'Hereward the Wake's' resistance?
Answer: WILLIAM I, the Conqueror
Question: In the USA, the Colorado Beetle is a major pest that attacks which crop?
Answer: POTATO
Question: In Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', what is the name of the King of Norway who arrives to take the throne of Denmark after the death of the Danish royal family in the final act?
Answer: 'FORTINBRAS'
Question: The three 'Fates' of Greek mythology were 'Lachesis', 'Atropos' and which other?
Answer: 'CLOTHO'
Question: Which city was the capital of the ancient nation of Assyria?
Answer: NINEVAH
Question: Which actor played the title character in the films 'Ed Wood', 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Edward Scissorhands'?
Answer: JOHNNY DEPP
Question: 'View Of Delft' is one of the best known works of which 17th century artist?
Answer: JAN VERMEER
Question: In astronomy, what term describes the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is farthest from the Sun?
Answer: APHELION
Question: Which American invented the computer mouse whilst working at the Stamford Research Institute in 1964?
Answer: DOUGLAS ENGLEBART
Question: In 'Star Wars', what was 'Darth Vader's' name before he was seduced by the 'Dark Side of the Force'?
Answer: 'ANAKIN SKYWALKER'
Question: On which planet in our solar system would you find the Maxwell Montes mountains?
Answer: VENUS
Question: Which Spanish city in Castile-La Mancha has been renowned since the Middle Ages for its production of swords?
Answer: TOLEDO
Question: Which former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion won his first 48 fights before losing to Michael Spinks in 1985?
Answer: LARRY HOLMES
Question: With the scientific name Taurotragus oryx, which is the largest species of antelope?
Answer: ELAND
Question: During which war was the Battle of Inkerman fought?
Answer: CRIMEAN WAR
Question: Which member of the Cabinet has been MP for Rushcliffe since 1970?
Answer: KENNETH CLARKE
Question: Whose last film as a director was 'Eyes Wide Shut' in 1999?
Answer: STANLEY KUBRICK
Question: John Taylor and Roger Taylor are members of which band, which at times has also included Andy Taylor, although none of them are related?
Answer: 'DURAN DURAN'
Question: Which of the three Graces of Greek myth is also the name of one of the Muses?
Answer: THALIA
Question: In the 'Toy Story' series of animated films, which character is voiced by Don Rickles?
Answer: 'MR. POTATO HEAD'
Question: The human heart has four chambers - two auricles (or atria) and two ............ what?
Answer: VENTRICLES
Question: Which female artist recorded the album “No Angel” in 2001?
Answer: DIDO
Question: Marmande, Tiny Tim, Harbinger and Delicante are all varieties of what fruit?
Answer: TOMATO
Question: Which Dutch car /truck manufacturer was taken over in the 1970's by Volvo?
Answer: DAF
Question: In which country is there a volcano called Hecla?
Answer: ICELAND
Question: Which 18th-19th Century English artist painted 'Hannibal Crossing The Alps' and 'Dido Building Carthage'?
Answer: J M W TURNER.
Question: Which explorer sailed on the "Endurance"?
Answer: SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON
Question: Which actor has been called the French ‘de Niro’?
Answer: GERARD DEPARDIEU
Question: Who wrote the book Tarka The Otter?
Answer: Henry Williamson
Question: Which religious building gave the New Vaudeville Band a Top Five hit In 1966?
Answer: Winchester Cathedral
Question: In mythology who famously competed against Melanion?
Answer: Atalanta
Question: The Jewish festival of Purim celebrates the story of which woman in the Bible?
Answer: Esther
Question: Which song from The Beatles White Album gave Siouxsie and the Banshees a Top Five hit single in 1983?
Answer: Dear Prudence
Question: Premiered in 1947 which composer wrote the music for the opera 'Albert Herring'?
Answer: Benjamin Britten
Question: In what year was the Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: 1704
Question: Anne Hyde and Mary of Modena were the wives of which British king?
Answer: James II
Question: Where did Billy Clanton and the brothers Tom and Frank MacLaury famously die on October 26, 1881?
Answer: The O.K. Corral
Question: After receiving a late fee of $40 dollars for an overdue Apollo 13 videotape, Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded which online company in 1997?
Answer: Netflix
Question: What was the name of the fictional country in the Marx Brothers film 'Duck Soup'?
Answer: Freedonia
Question: If it's a "Yowie" in Australia and a "Sasquatch" in Canada, what is it in the USA?
Answer: Bigfoot
Question: In Meteorology, what name is given to a body of air in which the pressure is higher than the surrounding air?
Answer: Anticyclone
Question: What name was given to the religious and social rebellion against Henry VIII in 1536?
Answer: The Pilgrimage of Grace
Question: In Edwards Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat", how much did they pay the pig for his ring?
Answer: One Shilling
Question: Of which organisation was John Longworth Director General when he was suspended for suggesting Britain would be better off outside the EU (he later resigned in March 2016)?
Answer: British Chambers of Commerce
Question: Which film company's logo is a lady with a torch?
Answer: Columbia
Question: In which year was Mary, Queen of Scots executed and Sir Francis Drake 'Singed the King of Spain's Beard'?
Answer: 1587
Question: Who took over as Prime Minister of Australia in September last year?
Answer: Malcolm Turnbull
Question: What is the two-word title of the 2002 Paul Greengrass directed film set in Derry in 1972
Answer: Bloody Sunday
Question: Which book of the Old Testament consists of speeches by Moses to the Israelites shortly before they enter the Promised Land?
Answer: Deuteronomy
Question: In which city was the Independent Labour Party founded in 1893?
Answer: Bradford
Question: The 1998 Terrence Malick directed film "The Thin Red Line" is set during which war?
Answer: World War Two
Question: Who commanded the English fleet against the Spanish Armada?
Answer: Lord Howard of Effingham
Question: What is the name of the international airport with IATA code DSA built on the site of the former RAF Finningley?
Answer: Robin Hood Airport
Question: Which party did George Galloway represent as MP for Bradford West from 2012 to 2015?
Answer: Respect
Question: Two countries joined the United Nations in September 1947 - Yemen and which other, one month after its creation?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: Which African country has the Kwanza as its currency?
Answer: Angola
Question: Which actor portrayed the fictional detective Columbo on screen?
Answer: (Peter) Falk
Question: For which formula one team was Michael Schumacher driving when he first won the drivers’ championship?
Answer: Benetton
Question: Which South American country is nicknamed The Land of Grace?
Answer: Venezuela
Question: What word is given to the figure of speech in which an unpleasant or offensive term is described by another milder term?
Answer: Euphemism
Question: What is the scientific name for the study of fish?
Answer: Ichthyology
Question: How is Jordan Belfort described in the tittle of a 2013 film biopic of his turbulent life?
Answer: The Wolf of Wall Street
Question: In Greek myth who was goddess of the dawn?
Answer: Eos
Question: Dr Temperance Brennan and Sealey Boothe are the main characters in which TV crime show?
Answer: Bones
Question: Which intelligence agency was founded in 1951 by Isser Harel who served as its director until 1963?
Answer: Mossad
Question: What sport is played in the Hitchcock film "Strangers on a train"?
Answer: Tennis
Question: Which English Philosopher said "The greatest happiness of the greatest number"?
Answer: Jeremy Bentham
Question: Which French king married Mary Tudor sister of Henry VIII in 1514?
Answer: Louis XII
Question: Cydonia oblonga is the Latin of which fruit, used in preserves and originally used to make marmalade?
Answer: Quince
Question: Which medical condition prevalent in World War One was caused by standing around in cold, wet and unsanitary conditions
Answer: Trench Foot
Question: In which country were Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid supposedly killed in a shootout with soldiers in 1908?
Answer: Bolivia
Question: The words 'FLOREAT SALOPIA' appear on the crest of which English football club?
Answer: SHREWSBURY TOWN
Question: Special stamps were issued on April 5th to mark which anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare?
Answer: 400th
Question: Wearmouth Bridge and two black lions feature on the crest of which English football club?
Answer: SUNDERLAND
Question: Brothers Simon and Stephen Cornwell were two of the executive producers on the BBC TV drama "The Night Manager". Who wrote the novel on which the drama was based?
Answer: JOHN LE CARRE
Question: Reading down group 18 (noble gases) on the periodic table, the symbols for elements 10 and 18 form which word defined as 'at a time or place not far away'?
Answer: NEAR
Question: Offa was King of which Anglo-Saxon Kingdom from 757 to 796?
Answer: MERCIA
Question: Odumegwu Ojukwu was President of which state that seceded from Nigeria in 1967?
Answer: BIAFRA
Question: In which city was Ludwig van Beethoven born?
Answer: BONN
Question: Which baseball player began his career in 1914 as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox?
Answer: BABE RUTH
Question: Complete the proverb; “The devil finds work for...”?
Answer: Idle hands
Question: To date only 3 teams have won the Women’s Rugby World Cup, England, New Zealand and which other nation’s?
Answer: U.S.A.
Question: Who was executed in the Bolivian village of La Higuera on October 9th 1967?
Answer: (Che) Guevara
Question: Which comic hero was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939?
Answer: Batman
Question: Viracocha is the creator god in the mythology of which ancient people?
Answer: Incas
Question: Clun Forest, Romney and Bluefaced Leicester are all breeds of which animal?
Answer: Sheep
Question: Which eponymous Dickens character has a pet raven named Grip?
Answer: Barnaby Rudge
Question: What is given to a food additive approved for use in the European Union?
Answer: An E-Number
Question: How is Jorge Mario Bergoglio better known today?
Answer: THE POPE (Francis I)
Question: What was the first name of the hymn-writing younger brother of John Wesley?
Answer: CHARLES