zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which rugby union team in 2009 was responsible for a fake blood injury during a Heineken Cup match?
Answer: HARLEQUINS
Question: From which Cabinet post did Liam Fox resign last year?
Answer: DEFENCE SECRETARY
Question: Who had the 1965 instrumental hit 'Spanish Flea'?
Answer: HERB ALPERT AND THE TIJUANA BRASS
Question: Which American won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007?
Answer: AL GORE
Question: What was the name given to shantytowns built in the US by the unemployed during the Great Depression?
Answer: HOOVERVILLE
Question: The Lena River, the Ob River and the Yenisei River in Russia flow into which large body of water?
Answer: THE ARCTIC OCEAN
Question: How many 'syllables' should a Japanese Haiku poem contain?
Answer: 17
Question: The 'Ventura' is a cruise liner operated by which company?
Answer: P & O
Question: Which poet wrote a sonnet 'On first looking into Chapman's Homer'?
Answer: JOHN KEATS
Question: Who, with Steve Jobs, founded Apple Computers?
Answer: STEVE WOZNIAK
Question: 7377 of which Avro bomber were manufactured during the course of World War 2?
Answer: LANCASTER
Question: Who made the phrase 'Famous for fifteen minutes' famous?
Answer: ANDY WARHOL
Question: Who is the only MP of the Green Party, representing Brighton Pavilion?
Answer: CAROLINE LUCAS
Question: In the news in January 2011 for the murder of 37 people in a bombing incident, in which country is Domodedovo Airport?
Answer: RUSSIA
Question: Which US vice-president once said "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment but the impurities in the air and water"?
Answer: Dan Quayle
Question: What is the surname of the brothers Joe, Kevin and Nick - the three members of a US pop group?
Answer: Jonas
Question: Emperor, Adelie and King are types of which bird?
Answer: Penguin
Question: Who played both Eddie Shoestring and Peter Boyd on TV?
Answer: Trevor Eve
Question: Which cricketer was nicknamed 'Big Bird'?
Answer: Joel Garner
Question: Which comedian used to end his show with the words "Goodnight and may your God go with you"?
Answer: Dave Allen
Question: Which dice board game originated as a Hindu journey of enlightenment?
Answer: Snakes and Ladders
Question: Hammurabi was a king of which people in about 1750BC?
Answer: Babylon
Question: In classical literature, whose home was Thomfield Hall?
Answer: Mr Rochester
Question: Who, in 1960, founded the Hospice movement in Britain?
Answer: Cicely Saunders
Question: Taraxacum officinale is the Latin name of which common flowering plant?
Answer: Dandelion
Question: What is the maximum possible score in a game of ten pin bowling?
Answer: 300
Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the Forest of Arden?
Answer: As You Like It
Question: Who presents the Million Pound Drop on television?
Answer: Davina McCall
Question: Which composer is best known for his works Requiem in D minor and Pavane in F sharp minor?
Answer: Gabriel Fauré
Question: The WW2 allied invasion of where was titled Operation Dragoon?
Answer: Southern France
Question: At what weight did Jim Watt win his boxing world title in 1979?
Answer: Lightweight
Question: Who originally played the title role in the Phantom of the Opera on the London stage?
Answer: Michael Crawford
Question: Ormolu was orginally the gilding of which metal in its nitrate form to copper, brass or bronze?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Christmas Disease is another name for one of the forms of which hereditary genetic disorder?
Answer: Haemophilia
Question: Who wrote the poem The Rape of the Lock?
Answer: Alexander Pope
Question: Who is the current chairman of the radio 4 panel game 'I'm sorry I haven't a clue'?
Answer: Jack Dee
Question: What is the brightest star in the northern hemisphere of the sky?
Answer: SIRIUS
Question: The Democratic Republic of the Congo was previously known as what?
Answer: ZAIRE
Question: The Architect Clough Williams-Ellis designed which Welsh village?
Answer: PORTMEIRION
Question: The Preraphaelite artist John Collier painted which famous naked person?
Answer: LADY GODIVA
Question: In which film did Mae West say 'Why don't you come up sometime, see me"?
Answer: SHE DONE HIM WRONG
Question: From which opera does the aria "O Caro Nome" come?
Answer: RIGOLETTO
Question: In which film did Greta Garbo say "I want to be alone"?
Answer: GRAND HOTEL
Question: In which mountain range were monkey puzzle trees first discovered by Europeans?
Answer: ANDES
Question: What is the salary paid to a Church of England clergyman called?
Answer: STIPEND
Question: Which jazz pianist and composer composed "Ain't Misbehavin"' and "Honeysuckle Rose"?
Answer: (Fats) WALLER
Question: Who, in a poem, wrote "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty"?
Answer: (John) KEATS
Question: Who was king of Wessex from 871 to 899?
Answer: ALFRED the GREAT
Question: According to 1 Kings, which birds fed Elijah by the brook Crerith?
Answer: RAVENS
Question: Which English king was shot by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest in 1100?
Answer: William II
Question: What is the medical name for German measles?
Answer: Rubella
Question: In horse riding, what comes between a trot and a gallop?
Answer: Canter
Question: Name one of the French twin saints who are the patron saints of shoemakers.
Answer: St Crispin
Question: Who adopted the song 'Thanks for the Memory' as a signature tune'?
Answer: Bob Hope
Question: Which is the smallest by area of the Great Lakes of North America?
Answer: Ontario
Question: Europa and Ganymede are moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: In 1960 Kwame Nkrumah became the first President of which African country?
Answer: Ghana
Question: Which English king was born in Pembroke Castle in Wales in 1457?
Answer: Henry VII
Question: Stella Artois originates from which Belgian city, the name being shown on its bottles and cans?
Answer: Leuven
Question: Which city, home to the tallest and largest Gothic cathedral in France is the capital of Picardy region and the Somme department?
Answer: Amiens
Question: Of what is graphology the study?
Answer: Handwriting
Question: Who wrote the 2006 novel The Road?
Answer: Cormac McCarthy
Question: In which European city is Las Ramblas?
Answer: Barcelona
Question: The Crab Nebula is in which constellation?
Answer: Taurus
Question: Appointed in 2012, who is the President of the Fifth French Republic?
Answer: Francois Hollande
Question: Who did Ramon Mercador kill in 1940?
Answer: Leon Trotsky
Question: Who directed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: Danny Boyle
Question: For which event did Greg Rutherford win gold for GB in 2012?
Answer: Long jump
Question: In which body of water did John the Baptist baptise Jesus?
Answer: River Jordan
Question: In which city is the Kabaa?
Answer: Mecca
Question: The book 'Red Bones' by Anne Cleeves was dramatised by the BBC, on which islands is it set?
Answer: Shetlands
Question: What name is given to the first Sunday of the Christian year?
Answer: Advent
Question: What is the name of the police officer in the TV comedy series 'Allo 'Allo?
Answer: Crabtree
Question: What was discovered at Qumran in 1947?
Answer: Dead Sea Scrolls
Question: Which classic song was the only UK No. 1 hit single for Simon and Garfunkel?
Answer: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Question: Which TV programme's 'experts' include Philip Munn and Christopher Payne?
Answer: Antiques Roadshow
Question: Name the French artist (1798-1863) whose painting 'Liberty Leading The People' is in the Louvre?
Answer: Eugène Delacroix
Question: Benjamin Briggs was captain of which famous ship?
Answer: Mary Celeste
Question: Maipo Valley is a wine-growing region in which country?
Answer: CHILE
Question: Give one year when the actor David Garrick was alive.
Answer: 1717 - 1779
Question: The 2007 film 'Cinderella Man' is a biopic of which boxer?
Answer: JAMES J BRADDOCK
Question: The island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea belongs to which country?
Answer: YEMEN
Question: Beira is the second largest city in which African country?
Answer: MOZAMBIQUE
Question: Who directed the 2012 film 'Django Unchained'?
Answer: QUENTIN TARANTINO
Question: The 2004 film 'The Aviator' starring Leonardo DiCaprio is a biopic of whom?
Answer: HOWARD HUGHES
Question: Which author wrote using the pen name Mary Westmacott?
Answer: AGATHA CHRISTIE
Question: Who had number one hits with 'Genie in a Bottle' in 1999 and 'Lady Marmalade' in 2001?
Answer: CHRISTINA AGUILERA
Question: Who plays the title character in the TV series 'Mrs Brown's Boys'?
Answer: BRENDAN O'CARROLL
Question: Which chemical element takes its name from the Greek for 'stranger'?
Answer: XENON
Question: Which Football League Division One club's ground is the Matchroom Stadium?
Answer: LEYTON ORIENT
Question: Which nineteenth century novelist wrote 'Mary Barton, A Tale of Manchester Life'?
Answer: ELIZABETH GASKELL
Question: In which English city is the Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Chad?
Answer: BIRMINGHAM
Question: Writer of films such as 'Love Actually' and 'Notting Hill', which long-term partner of Emma Freud co-founded Comic Relief with Lenny Henry?
Answer: RICHARD CURTIS
Question: Robert Shaw played primary baddie Donald 'Red' Grant in which James Bond film?
Answer: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Question: Named after their 2004 number one album, what is the name of the stage musical based on the works of Green Day?
Answer: AMERICAN IDIOT
Question: Adolfo Celi played primary baddie Emilio Largo in which James Bond film?
Answer: THUNDERBALL
Question: Responsible for such films as 'Pulp Fiction' and 'The Crying Game', which film Production Company was founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 1979?
Answer: MIRAMAX
Question: The highest circulation newspaper in the USA, what New York-based paper is known as the WSJ?
Answer: WALL STREET JOURNAL
Question: The global edition of the New York Times, what Paris-based newspaper is known as the IHT?
Answer: INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Question: A wisent is one of the two living species of what animal?
Answer: BISON
Question: Which animals have types named Plains, Mountain and Grevy's?
Answer: Zebra
Question: Which animals have types named Black, White and Sumatran?
Answer: Rhinoceros
Question: Name the English female referee involved in the 'sexism' controversy in January 2011 which resulted n Andy Gray and Richard Keys leaving Sky Sports network?
Answer: Sian Massey
Question: Willy Loman is the central character in which 1949 play?
Answer: Death of a Salesman
Question: In the Bible, who was the father of Jacob?
Answer: Isaac
Question: 'The Witch's Curse' is the subtitle of which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?
Answer: Ruddigore
Question: Which Roman Emperor was the son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder?
Answer: Caligula
Question: Lack of which vitamin causes scurvy?
Answer: C
Question: Hamelin is on which river?
Answer: Weser
Question: In which county is the town of Royal Wootton Bassett?
Answer: Wiltshire
Question: What do we call what was known to the Romans as Mare Nostrum?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
Question: Which clothing fabric is named after a town in southern France?
Answer: Denim
Question: Tahrir Square is in which city?
Answer: Cairo
Question: Which process is used to extract shale gas from the ground?
Answer: Fracking
Question: Who wrote 'Jurassic Park' and created the TV series ER?
Answer: Michael Crichton
Question: Which city is served by Rhine-Ruhr airport, the third largest airport in Germany?
Answer: Dusseldorf
Question: Van Morrison was a member of which 60s group?
Answer: Them
Question: What colour are the stars on the flag of the European Community?
Answer: Yellow
Question: Which breed of sheep did Beatrix Potter breed at Hilltop Farm and help to save from extinction?
Answer: HERDWICK
Question: After the moon, what was the second body in the solar system visited by a spacecraft from earth?
Answer: VENUS
Question: Known as their Oscars, the Carl Allen Awards are given in which field?
Answer: DANCE
Question: Cusco was the capital city of what civilisation?
Answer: INCA
Question: Who created the "New Look" in 1947?
Answer: (Christian) DIOR
Question: Which Football League team plays its home games at Huish Park?
Answer: YEOVIL TOWN
Question: Who composed, in 1909, "A Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis"?
Answer: (Ralph) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Question: Inspector Bucket is a policeman in which Charles Dicken's novel?
Answer: BLEAK HOUSE
Question: Who is the Roman goddess of flowers?
Answer: FLORA
Question: Who is the mother of Finty Williams, the actress who provides the voice of the cartoon character 'Angelina Ballerina'?
Answer: Judi Dench
Question: Which Hindu deity has the head of an elephant?
Answer: Ganesha
Question: Comic schoolboy Billy Bunter was a pupil at which school?
Answer: Greyfriars
Question: Which American soul singer had a backing group called the Famous Flames?
Answer: James Brown
Question: Who is the mother of Samuel West, the actor whose film roles include Leonard Bast in Howard's End?
Answer: Prunella Scales
Question: 32 cards are used in Euchre, Skat and which other popular card game?
Answer: Piquet
Question: Who is the principal host of the BBC TV quiz 'Pointless'?
Answer: Alexander Armstrong
Question: Teddy Pendergrass was the lead singer of which soul group?
Answer: (Harold Melvin and the) Bluenotes
Question: John Travolta's character in 'Grease' had the surname Zuko but what was his first name?
Answer: Danny
Question: What was the up-market fast-food chain started in 1986 by Sinclair Beecham and Julian Metcalfe?
Answer: PRET A MANGER
Question: Who was sacked as a judge on 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2009 in favour of a younger panellist?
Answer: ARLENE PHILLIPS
Question: David Walliams is to appear in a TV adaptation of which of his books, playing the Prime Minister?
Answer: MR STINK
Question: The War of Jenkins' Ear occurred during the reign of which English King?
Answer: GEORGE THE SECOND
Question: Where did the equestrian events take place during the 2012 London Olympics?
Answer: GREENWICH PARK
Question: Honey Lambert was the drummer with which 1960s pop group?
Answer: The Honeycombs
Question: What was the job of Chesley B Sullenberger III that made him famous on 15 January 2009?
Answer: Airline pilot
Question: Which King of England married Catherine of Valois?
Answer: Henry 5th
Question: Which famous sea battle was fought in 1571 in the Gulf of Corinth although the Gulf had a different name at that time?
Answer: Lepanto
Question: Which 1993 treaty established the European Union under its current name?
Answer: Maastricht
Question: Which river forms most of the county boundary between Essex and Suffolk and flows in to the North Sea at Harwich?
Answer: Stour
Question: Which German mathematician developed calculus at about the same time that Isaac Newton did so?
Answer: Gottfried Leibniz
Question: Which artist painted 'The Singing Butler' in 1992?
Answer: Jack Vettriano
Question: Guy Montag is the protagonist in which 1953 Ray Bradbury novel?
Answer: Fahrenheit 451
Question: Urania is the muse of which discipline?
Answer: Astronomy
Question: Whose Holy Relics 'toured' the UK in 2009?
Answer: St. Therese
Question: By what name is Ted Kaczynski better known?
Answer: The Unabomber
Question: Which 2003 Sofia Coppola film is set in the Park Hyatt Hotel, Tokyo?
Answer: Lost in Translation
Question: Which is the only country to feature the image of a Kalashnikov rifle on its national flag?
Answer: Mozambique
Question: What was the first name of jazz musician Duke Ellington?
Answer: Edward
Question: Brothers O'Kelly, Rudolph, Ernie, and Marvin were founder members of which US group?
Answer: The Isley Brothers
Question: Which company, opened in 1971, shares its name with a Moby Dick character?
Answer: Starbucks
Question: Where was the first Butlin's holiday camp opened in 1936?
Answer: Skegness
Question: Which artist's real name may be Robin Gunningham?
Answer: Banksy
Question: In literature, which Dickens characters were the owners of a shipping company?
Answer: Dombey and Son
Question: In literature, where did Gustav von Aschenbach die?
Answer: Venice
Question: Which explorer discovered the Victoria falls on the River Zambezi?
Answer: David Livingstone
Question: Who became President of Egypt in June 2012?
Answer: (Mohammed) Morsi
Question: The first commercial Concorde flight from Paris to Rio de Janeiro took place in which year?
Answer: 1976
Question: Who was the son of Daedalus?
Answer: Icarus
Question: Which explorer discovered Lake Victoria and the source of the Nile?
Answer: John Speke
Question: Who was the youngest son of Jacob and Rachel?
Answer: Benjamin
Question: Which car company makes the Twingo?
Answer: Renault
Question: Who wrote the novels 'Lord Jim' (1900) and 'The Secret Agent' (1907)?
Answer: JOSEPH CONRAD
Question: Originally built on another site in 1850-51, which building burned down at Sydenham Hill in 1936?
Answer: CRYSTAL PALACE
Question: Who recorded the 1995 LP 'History - 'Past, Present and Future, Book 1'?
Answer: MICHAEL JACKSON
Question: According to folklore, which plant shrieks when pulled from the ground?
Answer: MANDRAKE
Question: Nicknamed "Little Mo" who was the first player to win the Grand Slam in women's tennis?
Answer: MAUREEN CONNOLLY
Question: Who played Henry Higgins in the 1964 film 'My Fair Lady'?
Answer: REX HARRISON
Question: Which actor died in a car crash near Paso Robles, California, on 30 September 1955?
Answer: JAMES DEAN
Question: What is the name of the cartoon cat created by Jim Davis?
Answer: GARFIELD
Question: Which comedian and comic actor played both 'the Gaffer' and 'Selwyn Froggitt' in TV series?
Answer: Bill Maynard
Question: Which river forms part of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland?
Answer: River Foyle
Question: Which politician has used the pseudonyms Michael Green and Sebastian Fox in his business life?
Answer: Grant Shapps
Question: What is the medical name for the large intestine of the human body?
Answer: Colon
Question: The area once known as Armorica is in which country?
Answer: France
Question: Discovered in 1988, the remains of what ancient structure lie beneath the Guildhall in London?
Answer: AMPHITHEATRE
Question: The strait of Magellan separates which island from South America?
Answer: TIERRA DEL FUEGO
Question: Who is the choirmaster of the 'Military Wives'?
Answer: GARETH MALONE
Question: Which World Heritage site is 3 miles north east of Bushmills in Northern Ireland?
Answer: THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY
Question: Which restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, was at the centre of a novovirus scare in 2009?
Answer: THE FAT DUCK
Question: What is the largest of the Orkney Islands known as?
Answer: MAINLAND
Question: What type of particle has 'flavours' known as top (or truth), bottom (or beauty), up, down, strange and charm?
Answer: QUARK
Question: Who won the Man Booker prize for The Finkler Question?
Answer: HOWARD JACOBSON
Question: What is the title of the novel by Julian Barnes that won the Man Booker prize in 2011?
Answer: THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
Question: Within one year either way, in what year was the Girl Guides Association formed?
Answer: 1910
Question: In Norse mythology, which event, preceded by Fimbulvetr, is the final battle between the gods and the Frost Giants?
Answer: RAGNAROK
Question: Which cyclist won GB's first Gold medal of the 2012 Paralympics, the first of her four?
Answer: SARAH STOREY
Question: A note from what instrument is used by an orchestra to tune up?
Answer: OBOE
Question: The Red Sea is a submerged section of what 4000 mile long geographical feature?
Answer: GREAT RIFT VALLEY
Question: What tool has a horn, a table, a face, a hardie hole, a heel, a waist and a foot?
Answer: AN ANVIL
Question: Pupils of which school are known as Carthusians?
Answer: CHARTERHOUSE
Question: T E Lawrence was riding which make of motorcycle in the accident that led to his death in 1935?
Answer: BROUGH
Question: What is the name of the Pakistani cricket captain jailed for his part in a betting fix during a match against England in 2010?
Answer: SALMAN BUTT
Question: Who is the only player to have captained the British Lions Rugby Union team on two tours?
Answer: MARTIN JOHNSON
Question: What was the name of the oil tanker that ran aground in PrinceWilliam Sound off the Alaskan coast in 1989?
Answer: EXXON VALDEZ
Question: Which British city has a railway station named after a series of novels written by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: EDINBURGH
Question: Which national park is named after the Maasai term for 'endless plains'?
Answer: SERENGETI
Question: Which South African cricketer was banned for life after being found guilty of match fixing?
Answer: HANSIE CRONJE
Question: Which former Portuguese African Colony joined the British Commonwealth in 1995?
Answer: MOZAMBIQUE
Question: Whose final live concert took place on 29th August 1969 Candlestick Park in San Francisco?
Answer: THE BEATLES
Question: Who had number 1 hits in 1959 with 'Dream Lover' and 'Mack the Knife'?
Answer: BOBBY DARIN
Question: Which physicist's principle asserts that no two electrons can occupy the same energy state simultaneously?
Answer: WOLFGANG PAULI
Question: Who played the part of Thomas Crown in the 90's remake of the film 'The Thomas Crown Affair'?
Answer: PIERCE BROSNAN
Question: Hrvatska on postage stamps indicates that they are from which country?
Answer: CROATIA
Question: Who played the parts of the twins in the 1998 remake of the film 'The Parent Trap'?
Answer: LINDSAY LOHAN
Question: In which decade of his life was Jackson Pollock when he died?
Answer: 40s
Question: The platypus and four species of which mammal are the only surviving monotremes?
Answer: ECHIDNA
Question: Regulus is the brightest star in which zodiacal constellation?
Answer: Leo
Question: Who wrote the "Beggars Opera" in 1728?
Answer: John Gay
Question: Which actress played the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's film "To Catch a Thief"?
Answer: Grace Kelly
Question: Which mammal closely related to the zebra died out in the 1880s?
Answer: Quagga
Question: John Sebastian was a member of which 1960s folk rock group?
Answer: Lovin' Spoonful
Question: St Boniface Down is the highest point of which British island?
Answer: Isle of Wight
Question: Which sibling trio had top ten hits in 1984 with "Automatic" and "Jump"?
Answer: Pointer Sisters
Question: Which well known author was born David John Cornwell in 1931?
Answer: John le Carre
Question: Who directed the film "Burn After Reading"?
Answer: Coen Brothers
Question: Which Shakespeare play is set during the Trojan War?
Answer: Troilus and Cressida
Question: Who created the literary character Violet Elizabeth Bott?
Answer: Richmal Crompton
Question: In which Australian state is Lake Eyre?
Answer: South Australia
Question: Who succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader in 1985?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
Question: Who wrote the 1921 opera The Love for Three Oranges'?
Answer: Prokofiev
Question: Which unit of the Territorial Army and Volunteer Reserve is abbreviated to HAC?
Answer: Honourable Artillery Company
Question: On which West Indian island is the volcano Mount Pelee situated?
Answer: Martinique
Question: What are the chemically identical species of atom with the same atomic number but different mass numbers called?
Answer: Isotopes
Question: Who released the 1995 hit album "Jagged Little Pill"?
Answer: Alanis Morrisette
Question: Who directed the 1939 film "Gone With The Wind"?
Answer: Victor Fleming
Question: The culinary term 'en brochette' means what?
Answer: Cooked on a skewer
Question: Which Greek dramatist wrote the three Theban Plays?
Answer: Sophocles
Question: Eleanor of Aquitaine was married to which English king?
Answer: Henry the Second
Question: Which fruit is a hybrid between a raspberry and a blackberry?
Answer: Loganberry
Question: What speeds up a chemical reaction, but is itself left unchanged?
Answer: A catalyst
Question: Which Greek dramatist wrote "The Birds", "The Frogs", "The Wasps", etc?
Answer: Aristophanes
Question: What is the unusual feature of the Canadian sphynx cat?
Answer: Hairless
Question: The entertainment company, Cirque de Soleil, has its HQ in which city?
Answer: Montreal
Question: Who directed the 1995 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'?
Answer: Milos Forman