zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: John James Audubon became famous for painting ….what?
Answer: Birds
Question: Which Biblical city’s walls fell to the blast of trumpets?
Answer: Jericho
Question: What French term is used for a novel based on real people but under disguised names?
Answer: Roman a Clef
Question: In which country is the resort of Marmaris?
Answer: Turkey
Question: The Egyptian species of which small mammal is also called the ichneumon?
Answer: Mongoose
Question: The guanaco belongs to which animal family?
Answer: Camel
Question: The babirusa is a wild variety of which domesticated animal?
Answer: Pig
Question: Which European capital stands on the river Aar?
Answer: Berne
Question: Which infamous club was founded in San Bernardino, California in 1948?
Answer: Hell’s Angels
Question: What are the legislative assemblies of Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney called?
Answer: The States
Question: Which star constellation is ‘the charioteer’?
Answer: Auriga
Question: Pearl Harbour is in which present-day US state?
Answer: HAWAII
Question: Which US actor played him in the 2011 film, ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’?
Answer: ROBERT DOWNEY JUNIOR
Question: YM. ‘Life of Pi’ won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2002. Who is the author?
Answer: YANN MARTEL
Question: What is the young of a kangaroo called?
Answer: a JOEY
Question: Which book by Gaston Leroux tells the story of a young composer named Eric?
Answer: Phantom of the Opera
Question: Who led the charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba in 1898?
Answer: Teddy Roosevelt
Question: What is the highest value of a hand in baccarat?
Answer: Nine
Question: Which title character was again involved in time travel last year after beginning in 1984?
Answer: The Terminator
Question: What are the smallest blood vessels of a body called?
Answer: Capillary
Question: What term is usually used for a small English village without a church?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Which general was nicknamed Old Blood and Guts?
Answer: Patton
Question: In which novel does the valet Passerpartout appear?
Answer: Around the World in 80 days
Question: What was the name of the dog in Hart to Hart?
Answer: Freeway
Question: Due to the number of its population which country is known as the “Giant of Africa”?
Answer: Nigeria
Question: What is the European term of a golf score known in the USA as a double eagle?
Answer: Albatross
Question: Which is the largest type of kangaroo?
Answer: Red Kangaroo
Question: The Cape of Storms was the original name of which cape?
Answer: Cape of Good Hope
Question: “Lovers of the stinking Rose” have a fondness for which food?
Answer: Garlic
Question: The SYRIZA party won the general election in which European country?
Answer: Greece
Question: What astronomical feature is sometimes called ‘The Way of St John’?
Answer: Milky Way
Question: On a French restaurant menu, what part of an animal is ‘cervelle’?
Answer: Brain
Question: Who was the mother of the English kings Richard I and John?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Question: Whose sayings are collected in the hypothetical Q document or Q source?
Answer: Jesus
Question: Which country is bordered by Italy, Austria, Croatia and Hungary?
Answer: Slovenia
Question: Which was the first European country to be led by a president?
Answer: France
Question: Which musical takes place in the Kit Kat Club?
Answer: Cabaret
Question: Homo naledi, an early form of human life, was discovered in which African country?
Answer: South Africa
Question: Which UK TV series starring Olivia Colman was remade as Gracepoint in the USA?
Answer: Broadchurch
Question: Horse Racing. Traditionally the flat racing season begins and ends at which racecourse?
Answer: Doncaster
Question: The Bible, Which psalm begins “The Lord is my shepherd …”?
Answer: 23
Question: Which village do Rupert Bear and his companions inhabit?
Answer: Nutwood
Question: Of which aluminium oxide mineral are ruby and sapphire among the coloured varieties?
Answer: Corundum
Question: Who discovered electromagnetic induction, so facilitating the transformer and dynamo?
Answer: Michael Faraday
Question: To which proverbially ruthless figure, then still a child, does Richard III compare himself?
Answer: Niccolò Machiavelli
Question: What is the extramarital dating website whose subscription list was hacked in July 2015?
Answer: Ashley Madison
Question: In cricket, if a batsman had been victim to a Mankad, as what would his dismissal be recorded?
Answer: Run out
Question: What do the Argentinians call what we call the Falkland Islands?
Answer: Las MALVINAS
Question: What is the most common alternative name for the gnu?
Answer: WILDEBEESTE
Question: Both of Art Garfunkel’s no. 1 UK hits contained which word in the title?
Answer: EYES
Question: What word was common to three of the titles of the Beatles’ first six Top 20 hits?
Answer: LOVE
Question: Who directed the 1942 film, ‘Casablanca’?
Answer: MICHAEL CURTIZ
Question: What is the third sign of the zodiac?
Answer: GEMINI
Question: In 1979, where in Pennsylvania was there a partial nuclear meltdown accident?
Answer: THREE MILE ISLAND
Question: In which year was the Maastricht treaty signed? (It came into force a year later.)
Answer: 1992
Question: Who starred as Vera Drake on TV, and as Professor Umbridge in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: IMELDA STAUNTON
Question: What was Harry Hill’s occupation before he moved into comedy?
Answer: DOCTOR
Question: What is the German bratwurst?
Answer: Sausage
Question: What was the nickname of Stephen Lewis’s character in Last of the Summer Wine?
Answer: Smiler
Question: The tune Duelling Banjos features in which 1972 film?
Answer: Deliverance
Question: Where did German teenager Matthias Rust land his small plane in 1987?
Answer: Red Square
Question: In Indian cuisine what is ‘murgh’?
Answer: Chicken
Question: Who became the Royal Ballet’s youngest principle dancer in 1989 at the age of 20?
Answer: Darcey Bussell
Question: The RENFE is the railway system of which country?
Answer: Spain
Question: What is the capital of Azerbaijan?
Answer: Baku
Question: Which international football team are known as ‘The Albiceleste’?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Dr Claw is the arch-enemy of which children’s cartoon title character?
Answer: Inspector Gadget
Question: Benvolio is the cousin and friend of which Shakespearian hero?
Answer: Romeo
Question: Which cry always opened the Billy Cotton Band Show?
Answer: Wakey Wakey
Question: Who played the Chief Petty Officer in The Navy Lark?
Answer: Jon Pertwee
Question: Which is the nearest town to Ben Nevis?
Answer: Fort William
Question: Which hormone is called epinephrine in the USA?
Answer: Adrenalin
Question: Which T Rex hit was called 'Bang A Gong' when it was released in the USA?
Answer: Get It On
Question: Mary of Modena was the second wife of which of our monarchs?
Answer: James II
Question: Pope Gregory XI was the last Pope to live in which French city?
Answer: Avignon
Question: Which meal is regarded as the Spanish national dish, although it is more specific to Valencia?
Answer: Paella
Question: Elizabeth Taylor, Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Ladd all advertised which brand of shampoo?
Answer: Wella
Question: When explaining the Doppler Effect which suffix follows the words 'Red' and 'Blue'?
Answer: Shif
Question: What is the oldest railway station in Liverpool?
Answer: Lime Street
Question: Deborah, Diana, Jessica and Pamela were some of the members of which family?
Answer: Mitford
Question: Hadfield near Glossop became the fictional town of Royston Vasey in which TV series?
Answer: League of Gentlemen
Question: Which sporting knight made an appearance on The Archers as part of Sport Relief 2014?
Answer: Sir Bradley Wiggins
Question: Disney’s recent animated film Frozen is based on which tale by Hans Christian Andersen?
Answer: The Snow Queen
Question: Who was Joseph Stalin’s immediate successor as Premier of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Georgy Malenkov
Question: Which restored castle in West Sussex is the seat of the Duke of Norfolk?
Answer: Arundel Castle
Question: The Brooklyn Bridge connects Brooklyn to which other New York borough?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: What is the name of the fictional island that provides the setting for Death in Paradise?
Answer: Saint Marie
Question: Which island is the birthplace of Cristiano Ronaldo?
Answer: Madeira
Question: What name is given to natives of the second-largest island of the Maltese archipelago?
Answer: Gozitans
Question: Which guest chose a stuffed Michael Palin as his luxury to take to the Island?
Answer: John Cleese
Question: Which bodily fluid is secreted by the parotid glands?
Answer: Saliva
Question: What trade name did Bayer give to the analgesic drug diamorphine?
Answer: Heroin
Question: Which city stages the annual Celtic Connections festival?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: Used as launch mascots for BBC2 in 1964, what were Hullaballoo and Custard?
Answer: Kangaroos
Question: Which Scandinavian (1546-1601) made observations of stellar and planetary positions?
Answer: Tycho Brahe
Question: What is the traditional form of address when first meeting the Queen?
Answer: Your Majesty
Question: Who is unique in being named Billboard's ‘Woman of the Year’ twice, in 2011 & 2014?
Answer: Taylor Swift
Question: Who played the character Roy Batty in the 1982 movie 'Blade Runner'?
Answer: Rutger Hauer
Question: In the classic movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', who appeared as the Wicked Witch of the West?
Answer: Margaret Hamilton
Question: Which country applied to the UK courts for the extradition of Julian Assange?
Answer: Sweden
Question: In population terms, which is the world's largest Muslim country?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: Who completes this Old Testament group of friends; Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and…?
Answer: Abednego
Question: Under what Phoenician name does musician Rollo Armstrong’s sister record?
Answer: Dido
Question: Which former Playboy model was the subject of an opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage?
Answer: Anna Nicole Smith
Question: Which Christian Socialist politician became chancellor of Austria in 1932?
Answer: Engelbert Dollfuss
Question: Which moon of Jupiter is roughly three-quarters of the size of Mars?
Answer: Ganymede
Question: What do we call the paint type traditionally mixed with water, honey and gum Arabic?
Answer: Gouache
Question: Which mathematician and inventor conceived the first automatic digital computer?
Answer: Charles Babbage
Question: Who coined the term 'Big Bang' for a cosmic theory with which he did not himself agree?
Answer: Sir Fred Hoyle
Question: By what name was a member of the serf underclass known in Ancient Sparta?
Answer: Helot
Question: What technical term describes the science, production, and study of grapes?
Answer: Viticulture
Question: Which TV series initially concerned passengers from Oceanic Flight 815?
Answer: Lost
Question: Which country is the world’s top producer of orange juice?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Which Greek god was the twin sister of Apollo?
Answer: Artemis
Question: Who is the famous father of the film director Duncan Jones?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: Who played Private Joe Walker in Dad’s Army?
Answer: James Beck
Question: Rain was the B-side of which Beatles single?
Answer: Paperback Writer
Question: Which 2008 presidential biopic was directed by Oliver Stone?
Answer: W
Question: In which city was the first Disney theme park opened in 1955?
Answer: Anaheim
Question: Plovdiv is the second city of which European country?
Answer: Bulgaria
Question: On which day are American Presidential elections always held?
Answer: Tuesday
Question: Which British fabric has an ‘Orb’ trade mark?
Answer: Harris Tweed
Question: Born 1917, which Australian painter is well known for his portraits of outlaw Ned Kelly?
Answer: Sidney Nolan
Question: In The Mikado who does Nanki-Poo love and eventually marry?
Answer: Yum Yum
Question: Which German canal links the North Sea with the Baltic?
Answer: Kiel Canal
Question: What was the nickname of the American gangster and bank robber Charles Floyd?
Answer: Pretty Boy
Question: In a James Bond film what was Operation Grand Slam intended to rob?
Answer: Fort Knox
Question: The macaroni is a breed of which bird?
Answer: Penguin
Question: Which poisonous plant has a name meaning ‘beautiful woman’ in Italian?
Answer: Bella Donna
Question: What was the name of the robot played by Ian Holm in Alien?
Answer: Ash
Question: Born 1801, who led the Mormons into Utah and co-founded Salt Lake City?
Answer: Brigham Young
Question: Francis Walsingham was the spymaster for which monarch?
Answer: Elizabeth I
Question: What do Americans call what we call a ‘hen party’?
Answer: Bachelorette Party
Question: What term do stamp collectors give to the printers colour markings in the margin of a block of stamps?
Answer: TRAFFIC LIGHTS
Question: Into which body of water does the river Zambezi flow?
Answer: INDIAN OCEAN
Question: Name the manufactureers of the American World war II bomber the Flying Fortress
Answer: BOEING
Question: What is obtained from the seeds of the flax plant?
Answer: LINSEED OIL
Question: What is the name of the fat substance used in ointments and cosmetics that is obtained from wool?
Answer: LANOLIN
Question: Named after the Queen Consort of George III, which is the largest city in North Carolina?
Answer: CHARLOTTE
Question: Who played oil baron Clayton Farlow in the 80's soap Dallas?
Answer: HOWARD KEEL
Question: In 1468 Orkney was ceded to Scotland in lieu of an unpaid dowry by the king of which country?
Answer: NORWAY
Question: Which chemical compound is sometimes called baking soda or bread soda?
Answer: SODIUM BICARBONATE
Question: People travel to Goat Island in New York State, USA, to get spectacular views of which natural phenomenon?
Answer: NIAGARA FALLS
Question: The Torres Strait lies between Australia and which island?
Answer: NEW GUINEA
Question: Which motor racing circuit was used for the cycling raod races at the 2012 London Paralympic Games?
Answer: BRANDS HATCH
Question: Which US Football team moved from the Three Rovers Stadium to the newly built Heinz Field in 2001 ?
Answer: PITTSBURGH STEELERS
Question: In which Swiss resort is the famous bobsleigh track, the Cresta Run?
Answer: ST MORITZ
Question: In the poetic form, the limerick, how many lines are there?
Answer: 5
Question: Which American president is credited with the quote:- "Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate?
Answer: JOHN F KENNEDY
Question: A Capybara belongs to which order or class of animals?
Answer: RODENTS
Question: In the animated film classic "Shrek" which film star voiced the character of Donkey?
Answer: EDDIE MURPHY
Question: In what film did the character Vincent Vega played by John Travolta appear?
Answer: PULP FICTION
Question: The Ashmolean Museum is Britain's oldest public museum. In which city is it located?
Answer: OXFORD
Question: Who is the chairman of Newcastle United who also owns the chain of sports shops known as Sports Direct?
Answer: MIKE ASHLEY
Question: Which American city has the nickname "Alamo City"?
Answer: SAN ANTONIO
Question: In which classic novel is Maggie Tulliver the heroine?
Answer: MILL ON THE FLOSS
Question: Which cathedral is the tallest in the UK with a spire height of 123 metres or 404 feet?
Answer: SALISBURY
Question: Sam Stosur won the American Open Ladies Tennis Championship in 2011. What nationality is she?
Answer: AUSTRALIAN
Question: Which sculptor created the famous statue "St Michael and the Devil" which is shown on the facade of Coventry Cathedral?
Answer: EPSTEIN
Question: Sheila Hancock was the wife of which deceased actor?
Answer: JOHN THAW
Question: What was the first book to be written by Charles Dickens, completed in 1837?
Answer: PICKWICK PAPERS
Question: What is the name of the American student who was convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher, along with her Italian boyfriend and released in 2011 after an appeal?
Answer: AMANDA KNOX
Question: Which chemical element, a gas, derives its name from the Greek for "sun"?
Answer: HELIUM
Question: The southern extremity of Offa's Dyke is in which Welsh town?
Answer: CHEPSTOW
Question: Which cabinet minister made the following apology in 2011? "I have always believed that all rape is extremely serious and must be treated as such. I am sorry if my comments gave you any other impression or upset you".
Answer: KENNETH CLARKE
Question: Old television quiz shows - who was the original presenter of the TV quiz show "Blockbusters"?
Answer: BOB HOLNESS
Question: Which tree noted for the beauty of its form, has the Latin name Salix Babylonica?
Answer: WEEPING WILLOW
Question: """Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack butting through the channel in the mad March days"" were lines written by John Masefield, from what poem?"
Answer: CARGOES
Question: Measurement - conversion from imperial to metric - How many kilograms to the nearest unit are equivalent to 1 hundredweight? (will accept + or - 1)
Answer: 51
Question: What is the name of the curved upper surface of a liquid in a tube?
Answer: MENISCUS
Question: In which city would you find the Spanish Steps?
Answer: ROME
Question: In the original Beatles line-up, who was the bass guitarist?
Answer: STUART SUTCLIFFE
Question: Brookfield public boarding school for boys is the setting for what famous novel, which also became a famous film?
Answer: GOODBYE MR CHIPS
Question: Florizel Street was the original working title of which famous British television soap?
Answer: CORONATION STREET
Question: In Indian cuisine, what vegetable is indicated by the word SAG?
Answer: SPINACH
Question: What was the name of the Chief Commissioner of the London Metropolitan police force who resigned in 2011?
Answer: PAUL STEPHENSON
Question: Words - what adjective is used to describe a person who is fox-like in appearance or manner?
Answer: VULPINE
Question: Words - what adjective is used to describe a person who is wolf-like in appearance or manner?
Answer: LUPINE
Question: What, exactly, is an S.U.V.?
Answer: SPORTS UTILITY VEHICLE
Question: In our solar system which is the largest planet?
Answer: JUPITER
Question: Which traditional Scottish soup is made with the principal ingredients of haddock and potatoes, served in fish stock and sometimes milk with onion added and garnished with parsley?
Answer: CULLEN SKINK
Question: Which composer wrote the opera 'Falstaff', based on the Shakespeare play 'The Merry wives of Windsor'?
Answer: (Guiseppe) VERDI
Question: The group 'Gorillaz' made a record which got to number 4 in the pop charts in 2001. The title of the record was the name of which film star?
Answer: CLINT EASTWOOD
Question: Sport - which tennis player has the nickname "BOOM-BOOM"?
Answer: BORIS BECKER
Question: In the children's programme 'The Magic Roundabout', shown on television in the 1960's , who was the narrator?
Answer: ERIC THOMPSON
Question: Turpentine was originally obtained predominantly from which tree?
Answer: PINE
Question: In golf, the 9 iron club was originally known by what old Scottish name?
Answer: NIBLICK
Question: Which horse, trained by the father of the jockey Ruby Walsh, won the 2000 Grand National?
Answer: PAPILLON
Question: What was the poet W.H.Auden's first name?
Answer: WYSTAN
Question: Who was the lead giutarist with Led Zeppelin?
Answer: JIMMY PAGE
Question: The most famous horse race in the USA, the Kentucky Derby, is traditionally run on the first Saturday of which month ?
Answer: MAY
Question: Which river, which flows into the Irish Sea between Lytham St Annes and Southport, marked the northernmost extent of the ancient kingdom of Mercia?
Answer: RIBBLE
Question: Cleeve Hill, at 330m, is the highest point in which range of hills in south-western and west central England ?
Answer: COTSWOLDS
Question: In 2002, which Secretary of Defence explained about "known knowns", "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns" in a speech referring to terrorism?
Answer: DONALD RUMSFELD
Question: Painted in 1905, the painting Garcon a la Pipe was a famous painting by which famous artist who died in 1973?
Answer: Pablo PICASSO
Question: Which carnivorous marsupial, the size of a small dog, now found in the wild mainly in one Australian state, is now the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the Thylacine in 1936?
Answer: TASMANIAN DEVIL
Question: Which planet in our solar syatem is situated approximately 228 million km from the Sun?
Answer: MARS
Question: Which poisonous compound was used by a religous cult in deadly attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995?
Answer: SARIN
Question: The name of which type of pasta comes from the Italian for 'little tongues'?
Answer: LINGUINE
Question: Which was the first of the 'Road' films starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour?
Answer: ROAD TO SINGAPORE
Question: Which city is served by Marco Polo airport?
Answer: VENICE
Question: Which Greek mathematician is known as the Father of Geometry?
Answer: EUCLID
Question: On which place in Paris is the Arc de Triumphe from which several thoroughfares radiate?
Answer: PLACE CHARLES DE GAULLE
Question: Dale Arden was the girlfriend of which science fiction hero?
Answer: FLASH GORDON
Question: What is the name of Superman's biological father?
Answer: JOR-EL
Question: According to the Chinese, 2012 will be the year of which mythical creature?
Answer: DRAGON
Question: A food dish dubbed 'chasseur' contains which vegetable?
Answer: MUSHROOMS
Question: Which of Beethoven's symphonies is also known as the Pastoral Symphony?
Answer: SYMPHONY NO 6
Question: The adult male of which animal is known as a silverback?
Answer: GORILLA
Question: What species of animal was 4 year old Knut, who died in Berlin zoo last year?
Answer: POLAR BEAR
Question: Which British media personality, now aged 48, is probably best remembered for his interview with Princess Diana on the TV show Panorama in 1995?
Answer: Martin BASHIR
Question: In relation to phobias, which word describes the fear of heights?
Answer: ACROPHOBIA
Question: What is the name of the British former teacher who, in December 2007 turned up at a West End police station five years after he was thought to have died following a canoeing accident?
Answer: JOHN DARWIN
Question: Which famous British actor, now deceased, was once given a nickname by his wife as being the Frank Sinatra of Shakespeare?
Answer: RICHARD BURTON
Question: Which famous product was advertised on TV with the words "it won't let you down"?
Answer: SURE
Question: Who were the first team to beat Manchester City in a Premeirship league match in the present season?
Answer: CHELSEA
Question: After the Conquest who was the fist Welshman to occupy the English throne?
Answer: HENRY VII
Question: What style of jazz was pioneered by 'Dizzie' Gillespie and Thelonius Monk?
Answer: BEBOP
Question: 26 year old adrian Lewis has claimed a second successive world title in which sport?
Answer: DARTS
Question: Who was known as the 'King of Swing'?
Answer: BENNY GOODMAN
Question: Who is traditionally credited with writing most of the Psalms found in the Bible?
Answer: (KING) DAVID
Question: Which engineer first used the term Horsepower?
Answer: (James) WATT
Question: In Italian cooking, what kind of food is spiced to make Pancetta?
Answer: PORK
Question: Which was the only track from Michael Jackson's Thriller album to top the UK singles charts?
Answer: BILLIE JEAN
Question: In the Christian Calendar what name is given to the Sunday which follows Whit Sunday?
Answer: TRINITY SUNDAY
Question: Which ballet caused a riot when first staged in Paris in 1913?
Answer: THE RITE OF SPRING
Question: The name of which moist Welsh Bread literally means "speckled bread" referring to the fruit it contains?
Answer: BARA BRITH
Question: In modern technology SatNavs use the GPS system. For what do the letters GPS stand?
Answer: GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
Question: In transport terms what is the British equivalent of the American 'Divided Highway'?
Answer: DUAL-CARRIAGEWAY
Question: By what name do the British know First World War battle that became known as the "Victory of the Skaggerrak"?
Answer: BATTLE OF JUTLAND
Question: From which 1945 novel does the quote "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" come?
Answer: ANIMAL FARM
Question: """It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..."" are the opening words of which novel by Charles Dickens?"
Answer: A TALE OF TWO CITIES