zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who is the Greek equivalent of Pax, the Roman Goddess of Peace?
Answer: Irene
Question: Who refused the office of Poet Laureate in 1984?
Answer: Philip Larkin
Question: Which composer wrote the musicals 'Rose Marie' and 'The Vagabond King'?
Answer: Rudolf Friml
Question: Which pop group had a hit in 1972 with the song 'Sylvia's Mother'?
Answer: Dr Hook
Question: Who presents Radio 4's programme about walking "Ramblings"?
Answer: CLARE BALDING
Question: Who directed and starred in 2011 film "The Ides of March"?
Answer: GEORGE CLOONEY
Question: Which former leader of the Labour Party is buried on Iona?
Answer: JOHN SMITH
Question: Who wrote the play "The Birthday Party"?
Answer: HAROLD PINTER
Question: Who was the captain of the French Team that won the FIFA World Cup on home soil in 1998?
Answer: DIDIER DESCHAMPS
Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury declared Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon null and void?
Answer: THOMAS CRANMER
Question: Who created the character Dirk Pitt?
Answer: CLIVE CUSSLER
Question: The High School in the TV series Glee is named, after which US President?
Answer: MCKINLEY
Question: The bunyip is a mythical creature to which group of people?
Answer: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES
Question: Who wrote the poem Ulysses?
Answer: TENNYSON
Question: Which character in the TV programme Red Dwarf is a hologram?
Answer: RIMMER
Question: The Colour of Magic, published in 1983, was the first of which series of novels?
Answer: Discworld
Question: In 1984 who became the first woman to walk in space?
Answer: Svetlana Savitskaya
Question: Who directed the Beatles films 'A Hard Day's Night' and 'Help'?
Answer: Richard Lester
Question: What name is given to the smallest bottle of Champagne, equivalent to one quarter of a bottle or 0.1875 litres?
Answer: Piccolo
Question: In which Middle Eastern city is the world's largest clock, on the clock tower of the world's tallest hotel?
Answer: Mecca
Question: Patch, fringing and barrier are types of what natural formations?
Answer: Coral reefs
Question: Located in Morocco, Mount Toubkal is the highest peak in which range?
Answer: Atlas Mountains
Question: Inishmore, Inishmaan and Inisheer make up which island group?
Answer: Aran Islands
Question: Which poet and author used the pseudonym 'Brunette Coleman' when writing some of his early work?
Answer: Philip Larkin
Question: The South African 'Handspring Puppet Company' won a special Tony award for which play?
Answer: War Horse
Question: Who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
Answer: Al Gore
Question: Name the singer who died in 2010, he had two hits in 1966, 'You Were On My Mind' and 'Pied Piper'?
Answer: Crispian St Peters
Question: In Indian cookery 'brinjal pickle' is made from which vegetable?
Answer: Aubergine
Question: Which writer created the detective Harry Hole?
Answer: JO NESBO
Question: What is the official language of Angola?
Answer: PORTUGUESE
Question: Which awards were founded by American publicist John J B Wilson on Oscar night 1981?
Answer: GOLDEN RASPBERRY AWARDS
Question: Frogs with translucent skin through which the internal viscera are visible, have what appropriate common name?
Answer: GLASS FROGS
Question: Published in 2011, 'The House of Silk' is the first new official Sherlock Holmes mystery and was written by which author who has won many awards for his children's books?
Answer: ANTHONY HOROWITZ
Question: Which Welsh town was granted city status in 2012?
Answer: St Asaph
Question: The Salish Sea separates which island from mainland North America?
Answer: Vancouver Island
Question: 'Titter ye not' was a catchphrase of which comedian?
Answer: Frankie Howerd
Question: What is the date of St Andrew's Day?
Answer: 30th November
Question: Which famous castle in Caithness belonged to the Queen Mother?
Answer: Castle of Mey
Question: Executed in 1958, Imre Nagy was Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Hungary
Question: Which house was filmed as Pemberley in the BBC TV adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Answer: Lyme Hall
Question: Which TV medical drama series was set in Elsinby?
Answer: The Royal
Question: The TV programme 'Downton Abbey' is filmed at which stately home?
Answer: Highclere Castle
Question: In a Shakespeare play, who was found "fast asleep behind the arras and snorting like a horse"?
Answer: Falstaff
Question: Whose symphony No 3 in E Flat contains a funeral march?
Answer: Beethoven
Question: Shelina Permalloo won which TV show in 2012?
Answer: MASTERCHEF
Question: Which English singer/songwriter, born in 1974, was an officer in the Life Guards regiment and served with NATO in Kosovo in 1999?
Answer: JAMES BLUNT
Question: In 2012 who became the oldest winner of an Oscar, for his role in 'Beginners'?
Answer: CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
Question: Pashtu and Dari are the official languages of which country?
Answer: AFGHANISTAN
Question: In which English City is Robert Adam's celebrated Pulteney Bridge?
Answer: BATH
Question: Which variety of tea is known as 'the champagne of tea'?
Answer: DARJEELING
Question: What is the maximum number of characters in a single SMS (text) message?
Answer: 160
Question: How-many possible moves can be chosen from to start a game of chess?
Answer: 20
Question: The internet craze of taking pictures of yourself lying face down in unusual locations is known by what name?
Answer: PLANKING
Question: Silkworms feed on the leaves of which plant?
Answer: MULBERRY
Question: Axilla is the medical name for which part of the human body?
Answer: ARMPIT
Question: Whose long-running Radio 2 programme is known as 'The Big Show'?
Answer: STEVE WRIGHT
Question: 'Well, Did You Evah!' and 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' are songs in which 1956 film musical?
Answer: HIGH SOCIETY
Question: Which Wiltshire town officially added the prefix 'Royal' to its name in October 2011?
Answer: (ROYAL) WOOTTON BASSETT
Question: Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo are cities in which Australian state?
Answer: VICTORIA
Question: The University of Warwick is situated in which city?
Answer: COVENTRY
Question: What US state was purchased by Secretary of State William H. Seward from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars?
Answer: ALASKA
Question: Which 'handyman' has hosted TV quizzes 'Secret Fortune', 'Who Dares Wins' and 'Perfection'?
Answer: NICK KNOWLES
Question: Translating as `skewer', what Greek dish consists of small pieces of pork, tomatoes, onions and tzatziki wrapped in pita bread?
Answer: SOUVLAKI
Question: The name of what woodwind instrument is also that of a quarter-bottle of champagne?
Answer: PICCOLO
Question: The 1999 film '10 Things I Hate About You', starring Heath Ledger, is based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Question: What Japanese term, translating as 'pleasant savoury taste', is one of the five basic tastes?
Answer: UMAMI
Question: Rothesay is the largest town on which Scottish island?
Answer: BUTE
Question: Which UK newspaper produces an annual Rich List of the thousand wealthiest people in the country?
Answer: SUNDAY TIMES
Question: What Greek dish consists of lamb slow-baked on the bone, having been marinated in garlic and lemon juice?
Answer: KLEFTIKO
Question: In Japan, what are Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun?
Answer: NEWSPAPERS
Question: Situated on the River Teme, what Shropshire town became the UK's first Slow Food town in 2002?
Answer: LUDLOW
Question: Anthony Hopkins and Geoffrey Howe were born in which Welsh town?
Answer: PORT TALBOT
Question: The photographer Paparazzo was a character in which 1960 film?
Answer: La Dolce Vita
Question: Which pop singer sang Lost in France in 1976?
Answer: Bonnie Tyler
Question: Which was the first country to host the football World Cup twice?
Answer: Mexico
Question: How many degrees above the equator is the Tropic of Cancer?
Answer: 23.5°
Question: In which North American city is the John Hancock Center?
Answer: Chicago
Question: In whose books would you find the Baker Street Irregulars?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
Question: Which line is marked with the letters TF, F, T, S, A and WNA?
Answer: Plimsoll Line
Question: Icelandic singer Bjork was lead singer with which group from 1986 to 1992?
Answer: THE SUGARCUBES
Question: Which river is formed by the confluence of Gayle Beck and Cam Beck?
Answer: THE RIBBLE
Question: Which musical show and film features the song 'Good Morning Baltimore'?
Answer: HAIRSPRAY
Question: Titania and Oberon are moons of which planet?
Answer: URANUS
Question: In which city is the Newlands cricket ground situated?
Answer: CAPE TOWN
Question: Which short motorway links Bradford with the M62?
Answer: M606
Question: Which Soviet leader preceded Yuri Andropov?
Answer: LEONID BREZHNEV
Question: Who plays the Dowager Countess of Grantham in the TV series 'Downton Abbey'?
Answer: DAME MAGGIE SMITH
Question: Which musical show and film features the song 'Springtime for Hitler'?
Answer: THE PRODUCERS
Question: Which British artist created the work 'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping'?
Answer: LUCIAN FREUD
Question: In which month of the year is the London Marathon normally held?
Answer: APRIL
Question: Which actor on television played Dennis in 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' and Foxy in 'Common As Muck'?
Answer: TIM HEALY
Question: Which Premier League club's home shirt is sponsored by Fx Pro?
Answer: FULHAM
Question: Who wrote the 'Sabre Dance'?
Answer: ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Question: Collectively, as what are the towns of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham known?
Answer: TORBAY
Question: Which poet composed a sonnet 'Upon Westminster Bridge'?
Answer: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Question: In which American TV series is Lilly Rush the leading character?
Answer: COLD CASE
Question: As what is a Chinese gooseberry also known?
Answer: KIWI FRUIT
Question: What is the name of Liam Fox's friend, whose friendship caused him to resign?
Answer: ADAM WERRITTY
Question: Who designed the Banqueting House in Whitehall, scene of the execution of Charles I?
Answer: INIGO JONES
Question: Complete the name of the 1960s group 'Junior Walker and the
Answer: ALL STARS
Question: What was the name of the three day rock festival held near Wigan in May 1972?
Answer: BICKERSHAW
Question: Who had hits in the 1960s with 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' and 'Mellow Yellow'?
Answer: Donovan
Question: In the Bible, which was the first miracle performed by Jesus?
Answer: Water into wine
Question: Who is the patron saint of archers?
Answer: Sebastian
Question: Queen's College, Cambridge was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou, wife of which English King?
Answer: Henry 6th
Question: St Florian is the patron saint of people working in which occupation?
Answer: Fire-fighters
Question: Who was the 'one-man band' who had hits in the 1960s with 'Rosie' and 'Blue Eyes'?
Answer: Don Partridge
Question: What name is given to a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides but not at right angles?
Answer: Rhombus
Question: The War of Jenkins' Ear was part of which bigger war?
Answer: Austrian Succession
Question: The River Neva flows into which sea?
Answer: Baltic Sea
Question: Bellis perennis is the Latin name of which common flower?
Answer: Daisy
Question: Who, in 1961, founded Amnesty International?
Answer: Peter Benenson
Question: The WW2 allied invasion of where was codenamed Operation Shingle?
Answer: Anzio Landings
Question: Who wrote, directed and played the devil in the radio 4 series 'Old Harry's Game?
Answer: Andy Hamilton
Question: What is the SI derived unit of electrical capacitance?
Answer: Farad
Question: Who is the author of novels titled Charlotte Grey and The Girl at the Lion d'Or?
Answer: Sebastian Faulks
Question: How is the Chilean Pine or auricaria known more familiarly in the UK?
Answer: Monkey Puzzle Tree
Question: In the bible who is Moses' elder Brother?
Answer: Aaron
Question: Troglodytes is a genus of small passerine birds in which bird family?
Answer: Wren
Question: Which Shakespeare play is mainly set in a forest outside Athens?
Answer: A Midsummer Night Dream
Question: Which goup released their second album 'Ceremonials' in 2011 follow up to their album Lungs?
Answer: Florence and the Machine
Question: In antiquity the power of what profession was symbolized by a bundle of sticks called a fasces?
Answer: Magistrate
Question: How is the Rowan tree also known in the UK?
Answer: Mountain Ash
Question: Give a year in the life of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor of various thermometers?
Answer: 1686 - 1736
Question: If you were in Japan eating wakame, what would you be eating?
Answer: Edible Seaweed
Question: Erythrophobia is the irrational fear of?
Answer: Blushing
Question: Passer is a genus of small passerine birds in which bird family?
Answer: Sparrow
Question: It was known as Tsaritsyn, then Stalingrad and in 1962 its name was changed to what?
Answer: VOLGOGRAD
Question: Rick Allen is the one armed drummer of which English rock band?
Answer: DEF LEPPARD ,
Question: The Lupercal is a cave at the foot of which hill in Rome?
Answer: THE PALATINE
Question: Created by John Lawson Johnston "Johnston's Fluid Beef' was renamed what?
Answer: BOVRIL
Question: Who was the only British King of the House of Saxe-Coburg?
Answer: EDWARD VII
Question: Which nation is the richest in the world per head of capita?
Answer: QATAR
Question: In which European City is the "Monument of Light" spire?
Answer: DUBLIN
Question: The sportsman Oscar Pistorius has what nickname?'
Answer: BLADE RUNNER
Question: Which state capital in USA is known as the Athens of America?
Answer: BOSTON
Question: In which sport is the Stanley Cup Contested?
Answer: ICE HOCKEY
Question: Who beat Maria Sharapova in the 2012 Australian Open Tennis?
Answer: Victoria AZARENKA
Question: Newstead Abbey is the ancestral home of which poet?
Answer: LORD BYRON
Question: Who, by winning the 1906 Peace Prize, became the first American to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: (Theodore) ROOSEVELT
Question: What type of creature is a bongo?
Answer: ANTELOPE
Question: What was the name of the United States first satellite, launched in January 1958?
Answer: EXPLORER
Question: Who, by winning the 1904 Prize for Medicine, became the first Russian to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: (Ivan) PAVLOV
Question: How many letters are used to make Roman numerals?
Answer: SEVEN
Question: What is the sequel to Robert Grave's novel "I Claudius"?
Answer: CLAUDIUS the GOD
Question: Which motor manufacturer makes the Juke and Note models?
Answer: NISSAN
Question: Which nightclub and music venue in Manchester was largely financed by the record label "Factory Records"?
Answer: THE HACIENDA
Question: Which 1957 treaty created the European Economic Community?
Answer: TREATY of ROME
Question: What is the name of the fluid that surrounds the embryo in the womb?
Answer: AMNIOTIC
Question: In which country are the Tugela Falls?
Answer: SOUTH AFRICA
Question: Which blood vessel carries blood from the heart to the lungs?
Answer: PULMONARY ARTERY
Question: Which British rider won the World Superbike championship four times in the 1990s?
Answer: (Carl) FOGARTY
Question: Nephophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: CLOUDS
Question: What is the signature tune of the Archers radio programme?
Answer: BARWICK GREEN
Question: Which actress played the part of Cassandra in 'Only Fools and Horses'?
Answer: Gwyneth Strong
Question: Who led the march on Rome in 1922?
Answer: Mussolini
Question: What is the most expensive property on a UK Monopoly board?
Answer: Mayfair
Question: Which business tycoon was born Jan Ludwig Hoch?
Answer: Robert Maxwell
Question: High Willhays is the highest point of which upland area?
Answer: Dartmoor
Question: On which motorway is the Thelwall Viaduct?
Answer: M6
Question: Which former transatlantic liner was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong in 1972?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth
Question: Sydney is the capital of which Australian state?
Answer: New South Wales
Question: In nature, what is a boomslang?
Answer: Snake
Question: Which political leader commanded the watercraft PT109 in WW2?
Answer: John F Kennedy
Question: Which dog has the alternative name the Alpine Mastiff?
Answer: St Bernard
Question: On which motorway is the Severn Bridge?
Answer: M4
Question: Which English king signed the Magna Carta?
Answer: John
Question: Which de Havilland World War II fighter-bomber had a fuselage made of wood?
Answer: Mosquito
Question: Which comedian suggested for his epitaph "I told you I was ill"?
Answer: Spike Milligan
Question: If you bit into an `Elegant Lady', what fruit would you be eating?
Answer: A Peach
Question: What is the name of the highest point in the Peak District?
Answer: Kinder Scout
Question: Which biscuit has the same name as Queen Victoria's house on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: Osborne
Question: Which London bridge built 1856-1894 is a combined bascule and suspension bridge?
Answer: Tower Bridge
Question: Who composed the music to the comic opera The Bartered Bride'?
Answer: (Bedrich) Smetana
Question: Which author won the Booker Prize in 1995 for The Ghost Road'?
Answer: Pat Barker
Question: Which English king was born in Beaumont Palace in Oxford in 1157?
Answer: Richard I
Question: In which American state is the animated TV series Family Guy set?
Answer: Rhode Island
Question: Which Beatles song opens with the lyric "Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical science in the home"?
Answer: Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Question: Which BBC local radio station with its main studios in Luton covers Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire?
Answer: BBC Three Counties
Question: Little Rock is the capital of which state of USA?
Answer: Arkansas
Question: Which species is the world's largest rodent?
Answer: Capybara
Question: Which author won the Booker Prize in 1991 for his novel 'The Famished Road'?
Answer: Ben Okri
Question: The flag of which African country contains the image of an AK-47 rifle?
Answer: Mozambique
Question: The Chelt, Frome,Teme and Vyrnwy are all tributaries of which UK river?
Answer: Severn
Question: Which SI unit is named after an engineer born in Greenock in 1736?
Answer: Watt
Question: Of which US rock band is Steven Tyler a founder member and lead singer?
Answer: Aerosmith
Question: What name is given to a triangle in which two sides are equal in length?
Answer: Isosceles
Question: Which river runs through Belfast?
Answer: Lagan
Question: What is the capital of Greenland?
Answer: Nuuk
Question: Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
Answer: John Steinbeck
Question: Which of Dvorak's symphonies is named From the New World?
Answer: 9th
Question: The largest state or territory by area in Australia is Western Australia, which is second?
Answer: Queensland
Question: Monica Rose was a hostess of which 1960s TV quiz show?
Answer: Double Your Money
Question: Which famous scientist said "A man who wastes one hour of time has not discovered the value of life"?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: The wartime code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, is in which New Town?
Answer: Milton Keynes
Question: Who wrote the book from which Sir Benjamin Britten created the opera 'Billy Budd'?
Answer: Herman Melville
Question: Jim Broadbent won an Oscar in 2001 for his portrayal of the husband of which British writer?
Answer: Iris Murdoch
Question: Who directed the 2012 film 'Zero Dark Thirty'?
Answer: KATHRYN BIGELOW
Question: Britain's Charlotte Dujardin won a 2012 Olympic gold in which individual event?
Answer: DRESSAGE
Question: The author Theodor Geisel wrote under which pen name?
Answer: DR SEUSS
Question: Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is a possession of which country?
Answer: NORWAY
Question: Gully the Seagull is the mascot for which south coast Championship football club?
Answer: BRIGHTON
Question: Which Briton won the Men's Triathlon at the 2012 London Olympics?
Answer: ALISTAIR BROWNLEE
Question: Which famous woman wrote 'Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands', published in 1868?
Answer: QUEEN VICTORIA
Question: On a German menu what kind of meat is 'huhn'?
Answer: CHICKEN
Question: The element ytterbium takes its name from a locality in which country?
Answer: SWEDEN
Question: Who was the British composer of 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'?
Answer: RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Question: In English place names what is the meaning of 'bourne' as in Sittingboume?
Answer: STREAM
Question: Which Football League Division One club is based at the New York Stadium?
Answer: ROTHERHAM UNITED
Question: In horse racing at which course is the Eclipse Stakes run?
Answer: SANDOWN
Question: In 2013 who became the first Australian to win the US Masters in golf?
Answer: ADAM SCOTT
Question: Who won the Oscar for Best Director in 2013?
Answer: ANG LEE
Question: In the 2013 Oscar awards which singer won Best Original Song?
Answer: ADELE
Question: Much used in Mediterranean cuisine, what is `aceite de oliva' on a Spanish menu?
Answer: OLIVE OIL
Question: Which river was immortalised by Rudyard Kipling as 'The Road to Mandalay'?
Answer: IRRAWADDY
Question: What is the capital of the French region of Midi-Pyrenees?
Answer: TOULOUSE
Question: What term is used in the House of Lords as a synonym for 'for' in support of a vote?
Answer: CONTENT
Question: Half of a long-term comedy double-act, who hosted an annual telethon for muscular dystrophy for over 40 years in the USA?
Answer: JERRY LEWIS
Question: According to Newton's Second Law, what does mass times acceleration equal?
Answer: FORCE
Question: What is the name of the Jack Russell who stole the show in the 2011 movie 'The Artist' in his role as Jack?
Answer: UGGIE
Question: What part of the British Isles was historically divided into 'Sheadings'?
Answer: ISLE OF MAN
Question: By population, what is the largest town in Wiltshire?
Answer: SWINDON
Question: Who is the current UN Secretary General, in office since 2007?
Answer: Ban Ki-Moon
Question: In 'the Simpsons' TV show, who is the Principal of Springfield Elementary School?
Answer: (Seymour) Skinner
Question: Who composed the 1843 opera 'The Flying Dutchman'?
Answer: Richard Wagner
Question: Who composed the 1951 opera 'The Rake's Progress'?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky
Question: Who wrote the comedy play 'Arms and the Man' in1894?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: To date, what is Stevie Wonder's only British No.1 solo single?
Answer: I just called to say I love you
Question: 'The Slave of Duty' is the subtitle of which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?
Answer: The Pirates of Penzance
Question: Messalina was the third wife of which Roman Emperor?
Answer: Claudius
Question: What is the capital city of Kentucky?
Answer: Frankfort
Question: What is the capital city of Nevada?
Answer: Carson City
Question: In which British city is the National Media Museum (formerly National Museum of Photography, Film and Television)?
Answer: Bradford
Question: Which mythical creature had the head of a man and the body of a lion?
Answer: Sphinx
Question: What did Joseph Hobson Jagger 'break' in July 1875?
Answer: The Bank at Monte Carlo
Question: The 2014 Commonwealth Games.will be held in which city?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: The turnip is a member of which vegetable family?
Answer: Brassica
Question: What is the name of the pop festival held annually over the August Bank Holiday weekend at Daresbury, Warrington?
Answer: Creamfields_
Question: Who was known as the 'King of Chefs' and the 'Chef of Kings'?
Answer: Escoffier
Question: Which mythical creature was half man and half goat?
Answer: Satyr
Question: Catherine Bigelow was the first woman to win an Oscar as Best Director, for which film did she win the award?
Answer: The Hurt Locker
Question: The airport of Arrecife serves which of the Canary Islands?
Answer: Lanzarote
Question: Which Muslim festival celebrates the end of Ramadan?
Answer: Eid
Question: How many counties make up the province of Ulster?
Answer: Nine
Question: The capital symbol for which letter of the Greek alphabet resembles the letter P in our alphabet?
Answer: Rho
Question: What name is given to a typographical ornament such as a pointing finger or an arrow?
Answer: Dingbat
Question: Which rock group was founded in Seattle in 1994 by David Grohl after the break-up of Nirvana?
Answer: Foo Fighters
Question: What is the first name of the Queen's first great grandchild?
Answer: Savannah
Question: Who wrote the 1993 novel "Trainspotting"?
Answer: Irvine WELSH
Question: Who was the drummer with the band Pink Floyd?
Answer: (Nick) MASON