zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: By what traditional name was the Chinese city of Guangzhou known in Britain?
Answer: CANTON
Question: How was the American outlaw and gunfighter Harry Longabaugh better known?
Answer: 'SUNDANCE KID'
Question: Which all-girl group had a hit in 1996 with 'Say You'll Be There'?
Answer: 'SPICE GIRLS'
Question: Which spirit gives 'Sauce a la Normandie' its name?
Answer: CALVADOS
Question: If you are attending a local derby match between 'Flamengo' and 'Fluminence', in which city would you be?
Answer: RIO DE JANEIRO
Question: Which car company produces a model called the 'Sonata'?
Answer: HYUNDAI
Question: """As I walked through the wilderness of the world"" are the opening words of which classic literary work?"
Answer: 'PILGRIM'S PROGRESS'
Question: Which actor was nominated for a Best Actor 'Oscar' for the film 'Starman'?
Answer: JEFF BRIDGES
Question: In Greek mythology, whose punishment was to stand in a lake whose waters receded whenever he tried to drink?
Answer: TANTALUS
Question: Which American city is served by 'Stapleton Airport'?
Answer: DENVER
Question: Which Asian capital city is known as Krung Thep to its inhabitants and stands on the Chao Phraya River?
Answer: BANGKOK
Question: Who drove a Cooper-Climax to win five consecutive Grand Prix in the world championship of 1960?
Answer: JACK BRABHAM
Question: Who wrote the plays 'Ivanov', 'The Wood Demon' and 'The Seagull'?
Answer: ANTON CHEKOV
Question: The 'Pilgrimage of Grace' was a revolt against which English king?
Answer: HENRY VIII
Question: Who was the queen of the Amazons?
Answer: HIPPOLYTA
Question: Andrew Marr, Rosie Boycott and Simon Kelner have been editors of which daily newspaper?
Answer: The Independent
Question: What is the name of the maid of Cio-Cio San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly?
Answer: Suzuki
Question: Which Formula One driver won the 2014 British Grand Prix?
Answer: Lewis Hamilton
Question: The Minster Way is a walking path linking York and which town in the East Riding of Yorkshire?
Answer: Beverley
Question: What did a perruquier make?
Answer: Wigs
Question: Who was the performing partner of Donald Swann?
Answer: Michael Flanders
Question: In which city did Dylan Thomas die in 1953?
Answer: New York
Question: Which King died from complications after falling from his horse when it stumbled over a molehill?
Answer: William III
Question: Umbriel and Ariel are moons of which planet?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Which family has lived at Alnwick Castle since 1309?
Answer: THE PERCY FAMILY
Question: Since World War II, which United States President has been awarded a Nobel prize?
Answer: JIMMY CARTER
Question: Which British group was formed by former members of 'The Housemartins', Paul Heaton and David Hemingway?
Answer: 'THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH'
Question: In medicine, which joint is controlled by the Radial Nerve?
Answer: WRIST
Question: """A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green"" is the first line of which American novel?"
Answer: 'OF MICE AND MEN'
Question: In which county is Kenilworth Castle?
Answer: WARWICKSHIRE
Question: 'The Popish Plot' was an alleged conspiracy to murder which English monarch?
Answer: CHARLES II
Question: Which inventor of the 'Spinning-Frame' set up a large water-powered factory at Cromford in Derbyshire?
Answer: RICHARD ARKWRIGHT
Question: Which famous English physicist and chemist invented the dynamo in 1831?
Answer: MICHAEL FARADAY
Question: By what name is Diamorphine Hydrochloride more commonly known?
Answer: HEROIN
Question: The film 'Murder, She Said' is based on which Agatha Christie book in which 'Miss Marple' witnesses a passenger on a train being strangled?
Answer: '4.50 FROM PADDINGTON'
Question: Who led the forces of the British East India Company at the 1757 Battle of Plassey?
Answer: ROBERT CLIVE
Question: In which opera does the eponymous heroine love a painter 'Mario Cavaradossi'?
Answer: 'TOSCA'
Question: Which Football League club shares its home ground with non-league Kingstonian FC?
Answer: AFC WIMBLEDON
Question: In which month is Lady Day?
Answer: MARCH
Question: What is the county town of Shropshire?
Answer: SHREWSBURY
Question: Which car manufacturer produced the models, Laurel, Maxima and Scarab?
Answer: Datsun
Question: Which building society was the first to relinquish mutuality?
Answer: Abbey National
Question: What was formed as a result of the Continental Congress of 1775?
Answer: The United States of America
Question: The Greeks called her Artemis, what was the Roman name for this Goddess?
Answer: Diana
Question: Which British actor plays a zombie fighting lawman in the TV series "The Walking Dead"?
Answer: Andrew Lincoln
Question: What food was not rationed in Britain during World War 2 but was rationed after it?
Answer: Bread
Question: Rubella is the medical name for which illness?
Answer: German Measles
Question: Which Swindon pop group were 'Making Plans for Nigel' in 1979?
Answer: XTC
Question: The 1968 film '2001: A space Odyssey' was based on which story by Arthur C Clarke?
Answer: The Sentinel
Question: In which BBC T.V. Programme do families consider staying in Britain or emigrating to Australia?
Answer: Wanted Down Under
Question: Which football team from Barcelona played home matches at the 1992 Olympic Stadium until 2009 when they moved to the 'Estardi Cornella-El Prat'?
Answer: ESPANYOL
Question: In which continent was the 'Songhai Empire', one of the largest empires in history?
Answer: AFRICA
Question: Which baseball team play home games at Atlanta's 1996 Olympic Stadium that was converted and renamed 'Turner Field'?
Answer: Atlanta BRAVES
Question: Which US state has nicknames including 'The Cyclone State', 'The Land Of The Rolling Prairies' and 'The Hawkeye State'?
Answer: IOWA
Question: The line "To be, or not to be: that is the question" comes from Act 3, Scene 1 of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: 'HAMLET'
Question: Which landlocked West African country has a name which means 'Land of the upright men'?
Answer: BURKINA FASO.
Question: Off the coast of which English county is the Bronze Age monument known as 'Seahenge'?
Answer: NORFOLK
Question: Who was the American serial killer, nicknamed 'The Green River Killer', who at his trial in 2003, confessed to the murders of 48 women in Washington state?
Answer: GARY RIDGWAY
Question: Who was awarded the 100m Olympic Gold Medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 after the disqualification of Ben Johnson?
Answer: CARL LEWIS
Question: What is the name of the inn owned by the parents of 'Jim Hawkins' featured in Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island'?
Answer: ADMIRAL BENBOW
Question: In 1968, which American artist was shot and wounded by Valerie Solanis, an actress in one of his films?
Answer: ANDY WARHOL
Question: In which American city was the sit-com 'Happy Days' set?
Answer: MILWAUKEE
Question: Nutria is the name given to the sought-after fur of which rodent?
Answer: COYPU
Question: What was the signature song of Edith Piaf - she wrote the lyrics - and the title of a 207 film about her?
Answer: 'LA VIE EN ROSE'
Question: In 1969 which MP was described by Stratton Mills MP as "Fidel Castro in a miniskirt"?
Answer: BERNADETTE DEVLIN
Question: Renzo Piano is the architect of a new main building, due to open in 2015, for the Whitney Museum of American Art in the meatpacking district of which city?
Answer: NEW YORK
Question: Which horse, ridden by Brian Fletcher, won the Scottish Grand National in 1974?
Answer: 'RED RUM'
Question: Odo, the half-brother of William the Conqueror who supported him at the Battle of Hastings, was Bishop of ....., where?
Answer: BAYEUX
Question: What was the first name of the handyman played by Paul Henry in the t.v. soap 'Crossroads'?
Answer: 'BENNY'
Question: For her performance in which film did Meryl Streep win the Best Actress 'Oscar' earlier this year?
Answer: 'THE IRON LADY'
Question: In which country was Alexander Dubcek First Secretary of the Communist Party in 1968-1969?
Answer: CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Question: Which Welshman was proclaimed Prince of Wales by his supporters on September 16th 1400?
Answer: Owain Glyndwr
Question: In which German city, is the tomb of Charlemagne?
Answer: Aachen
Question: Wroxeter, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum, is in which English county?
Answer: Shropshire
Question: Which city that became famous following an incident in 1984 is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh?
Answer: Bhopal
Question: Who was the mother of Achilles in Greek mythology?
Answer: Thetis
Question: In which novel by Dickens is Stephen Blackpool a power loom weaver in Josiah Bounderby's mill?
Answer: Hard Times
Question: Who created the detective Sam Spade?
Answer: Dashiell Hammett
Question: Who was King of France from 1643 to 1715?
Answer: Louis XIV
Question: Who plays DS Ronnie Brooks in the TV series Law & Order: UK?
Answer: Bradley Walsh
Question: Which capital city is served by Keflavik International Airport
Answer: Reykjavik
Question: On which island in the Caribbean did Princess Margaret have a home?
Answer: MUSTIQUE
Question: Which is the most famous building on the Ile de la Cite in Paris?
Answer: NOTRE DAME
Question: What type of plants are 'Scandents'?
Answer: CLIMBING PLANTS
Question: Give any year in the life of architect Inigo Jones?
Answer: 1573 - 1652
Question: In which country is the mountain range, the Western Ghats?
Answer: INDIA
Question: After St. Paul's and York Minster which is the third largest cathedral in England?
Answer: LINCOLN
Question: Which stretch of water joins the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmera?
Answer: THE DARDANELLES
Question: Which Australian tennis player did Goran Ivanisevic defeat in the 2001 Wimbledon final?
Answer: PAT RAFTER
Question: What name is given to a plant that has a stem that grows horizontally below the surface of the soil?
Answer: RHIZOME
Question: The 'Cerne Abbas Giant' is a 180 foot high carved hill figure located in which county?
Answer: DORSET
Question: Which French tennis player did Pete Sampras defeat in the 1997 Wimbledon final?
Answer: CEDRIC PIOLINE
Question: Which rock group had a hit album in 1975 with 'Toys In The Attic'?
Answer: 'AEROSMITH'
Question: Published in 2009 and set in 2006-2007 complete the title of the last book in the series Adrian Mole:
Answer: The Prostrate Years
Question: Who hosted the celebrity version of Fifteen to One which had one episode last September and four in June this year?
Answer: Adam Hills
Question: In the English version of Scrabble there are 100 tiles. The letter E has most tiles. How many
Answer: 12
Question: Which spice is obtained from the plant Crocus sativus
Answer: Saffron
Question: Which salad plant has the scientific name Nasturtium officinale
Answer: Watercress
Question: Published in 2013 Mad About the Boy is the third book about which character who is then 51 and a widow with two children?
Answer: Bridget Jones
Question: Which is the only letter in an English Scrabble set which has 3 tiles
Answer: G
Question: Who was the drummer for the band Nirvana before founding the Foo Fighters?
Answer: Dave Grohl
Question: On which island is the oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the USA
Answer: Alcatraz
Question: How are the bright stars 'Alnitak', 'Alnilam' and 'Mintaka' known collectively?
Answer: 'ORION'S BELT'
Question: In which TV series did cousins 'Bo' and 'Luke' drive a car called the 'General Lee'?
Answer: 'THE DUKES OF HAZZARD'
Question: Theodore Roosevelt won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation leading to the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended which war?
Answer: RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
Question: In which 2010 film are the main characters played by Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson and Sharlto Copley?
Answer: 'THE A-TEAM'
Question: In 'The Beverley Hillbillies', what did 'Granny' call the swimming pool?
Answer: 'CEMENT POND'
Question: In 2002 'Miss Hissy' a snake, 'Tiffo' a dog, 'Bilbo' a sailor, and 'Orbie' a yellow-and-blue ball joined the original three characters in which children's TV series originally made in the 1950's?
Answer: 'ANDY PANDY'
Question: In which Russian city was actor Yul Bryner born?
Answer: VLADIVOSTOCK
Question: Which US bank filed for bankruptcy on September 15th 2008?
Answer: LEHMAN BROTHERS
Question: Which Cricket county's Twenty20 team are known as the 'Bears'?
Answer: WARWICKSHIRE
Question: Which author wrote a series of books about the private investigator 'V.I. Warshawsky'?
Answer: SARAH PARETSKY
Question: Which Cricket county's Twenty20 team are known as the 'Hawks'?
Answer: HAMPSHIRE
Question: In World War II, how was the Japanese aircraft, the Mitsubishi A6M known to the Allies?
Answer: ZERO
Question: Which horse led the 1973 Grand National field for most of the race only to be beaten by 'Red Rum'?
Answer: 'CRISP'
Question: Who designed and built the 'Labyrinth' in Crete for King Minos to house the 'Monotaur'?
Answer: DAEDALUS
Question: What was the name of the queen of Richard III?
Answer: ANNE
Question: What in Greek mythology, was designed and built by Epeius?
Answer: THE TROJAN HORSE
Question: Count Almasy is the name of which eponymous literary character?
Answer: The English Patient
Question: Which Spaniard led an expedition which reached Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital in 1519?
Answer: HERNAN CORTES
Question: What number completes the title of the last book in Arthur C. Clarke's 'Space Odyssey' series: '...... The Final Odyssey'?
Answer: '3001'
Question: Which Salford born physicist and brewer, who has an SI unit named after him, lived from 1818 to 1889?
Answer: JAMES JOULE
Question: Of which football club has John Coleman been Manager since 1999 when they were a non-league club?
Answer: ACCRINGTON STANLEY
Question: Which Roman Emperor died in Eboracum in 211 AD?
Answer: SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
Question: What was the name of the high-speed shuttle train that ran during the Olympics and Paralympics from St Pancras to Ebbsfleet via Stratford?
Answer: JAVELIN
Question: Which reporter claimed on the BBC ‘Today’ programme in 2003 that the government had ‘sexed up’ a dossier about Iraq?
Answer: ANDREW GILLIGAN
Question: In which country is the volcano Mount Rainier?
Answer: USA
Question: Which famous television and film star died on the same day as Michael Jackson?
Answer: Farrah Fawcett
Question: Which virus is responsible for causing the spectacularly fatal haemorrhagic fever?
Answer: Ebola Virus
Question: Which former England cricket captain was nicknamed Bumble?
Answer: David Lloyd
Question: Who sang the title theme song to the bond film "The spy who loved me"?
Answer: Carly Simon
Question: A monopoly is where there is only one seller of a goods or service, what word is used for only one buyer?
Answer: Monopsony
Question: Which city was founded by Samuel De Champlain in 1608?
Answer: Quebec
Question: Which assassin was the most famous member of the revolutionary group "Young Bosnia"?
Answer: Gavrilo Princip
Question: Julius Nyerere became the first leader of which African country in 1964?
Answer: Tanzania
Question: In which county is the Cerne Abbas Giant?
Answer: Dorset
Question: Which car manufacturer produces the models Ghibli and Levante?
Answer: Maserati
Question: Europe’s first female President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was President of which country from 1980 to 1996?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Who is the landlady of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: Mrs Hudson
Question: La Cenerentola is an opera by Gioachino Rossini based on which fairy story?
Answer: Cinderella
Question: In the UK the detergent industry is an example of an oligopoly, where the market is dominated by a few sellers, in this case two, Unilever and which other company?
Answer: Proctor & Gamble
Question: Who won the men’s long jump at the 1936 Olympics?
Answer: Jesse Owens
Question: Idylls of the King is a collection of Arthurian-based poems by which poet laureate?
Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Question: Mrs Bridget McCluskey was headmistress of which school on TV for most of the 1980s?
Answer: Grange Hill
Question: Who did Neil Kinnock replace as Leader of the Labour Party in 1983?
Answer: Michael Foot
Question: The aardvark is a nocturnal mammal native to which continent?
Answer: Africa
Question: In Judaism how many books make up the Torah?
Answer: Five
Question: In which battle in Yorkshire in September 1066 was Harald Hardrada killed?
Answer: Stamford Bridge
Question: The rivers Niger and Volta empty into which Gulf, part of the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: Guinea
Question: Which herb is traditionally used to flavour Lincolnshire sausages?
Answer: Sage
Question: Who was the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII?
Answer: Catherine Parr
Question: Which river flows through Sydney and into Port Jackson?
Answer: Parramatta
Question: Which rapper was born Calvin Broadus in 1971?
Answer: Snoop Dog
Question: Which biologist was known as "Darwin's Bulldog"?
Answer: Thomas Huxley
Question: Of which South American country was Alberto Fujimori the President between 1990 and 2000?
Answer: Peru
Question: Which battle took place on August 22nd 1485?
Answer: Bosworth (Field)
Question: Film-maker and screenwriter Jill Craigie was the wife of which politician?
Answer: Michael Foot
Question: Where were the Summer Olympics held in 1948
Answer: London
Question: What make of car was Mike Hawthorn driving when he won the F1 World Drivers Championship in 1958
Answer: Ferrari
Question: What was the name of the craft that made a man powered flight over the Channel in 1979
Answer: Gossamer Albatross
Question: Ex baseball player Randy Moffit has a famous sister, name her
Answer: Billy Jean King
Question: In which South African province do most of the Zulu population live
Answer: Natal
Question: In which series of films would you meet Frank Drebin
Answer: Naked Gun
Question: In Kevin Costner’s Waterworld who played Deacon, the leader of the Smokers
Answer: Dennis Hopper
Question: What is the name given to a breast X-Ray
Answer: Mammogram
Question: What was the name of the Boswell's daughter in Bread
Answer: Aveline
Question: Which English actor appeared in The Go Between, Women in Love and Shout
Answer: Alan Bates
Question: Which rays produce sun tan
Answer: Ultraviolet
Question: Which Beatles song begins with the French National Anthem
Answer: All You Need Is Love
Question: What is the state capital of Wyoming
Answer: Cheyenne
Question: In which English city was boxer Prince Naseem Hamed born
Answer: Sheffield
Question: What is the name given to magnetic iron ore
Answer: Lodestone
Question: What became BBC 2’ s longest running sitcom in 1998 when it’s tenth anniversary was celebrated by an evening of special programmes
Answer: Red Dwarf
Question: Who rode the 100 to 1 outsider Foinavon to victory in the 1967 Grand National
Answer: John Buckingham
Question: What number was the Pan-Am flight that was destroyed over Lockerbie
Answer: Flight 103
Question: Name the famous family that lived at 127 Nelson Mandela House Peckham
Answer: The Trotters
Question: What is the collective noun for beavers
Answer: Colony
Question: Up to how many points are competitive badminton matches played following a rule change in 2006
Answer: Twenty one
Question: What was the name of the first yacht to win the Americas Cup
Answer: America
Question: In which American state did Geronimo carry out most of his raiding and killing
Answer: Arizona
Question: What kind of weapon is the British Army's PIAT
Answer: Anti tank gun
Question: What was Morecambe and Wise's signature tune
Answer: Bring Me Sunshine
Question: What role does Derek Fowlds play in the series Heartbeat
Answer: Oscar Blaketon
Question: What was the name that Sir Malcolm Campbell gave to his record breaking boats and cars
Answer: Bluebird
Question: What year saw the death of Billy the Kid
Answer: 1881
Question: Who played Thelma in The Likely Lads
Answer: Brigit Forsyth
Question: What was the main cargo carried by the clipper Cutty Sark
Answer: Tea
Question: From 1814 to 1830, the French flag was what single colour
Answer: White
Question: Who was president of Uganda from 1971 until 1979
Answer: Idi Amin
Question: What would an American call the silencer on his car
Answer: Muffler
Question: With which animal is the scientist Pavlov associated
Answer: Dogs
Question: Often seen at Xmas but what is viscum album
Answer: Mistletoe
Question: Which of Queen Victoria's children was the mother of The Kaiser
Answer: Victoria
Question: Who plays the part of Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine
Answer: Peter Sallis
Question: What is the name of the pub in Ballykissangel
Answer: Fitzgerald’s Bar
Question: Who was the Russian leader at the time of the Cuban missile crisis
Answer: Kruschev
Question: Which Grand Prix did Alain Prost win 5 times in the 80’s
Answer: Brazilian
Question: Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt were which pop duo
Answer: Everything But The Girl
Question: On which West Indian island was John Barnes born
Answer: Jamaica
Question: Which country provided the back drop for the Bond film You Only Live Twice
Answer: Japan
Question: In literature who was Cedric Errol
Answer: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Question: How many teats does a nanny goat have
Answer: Two
Question: On which racecourse did Frankie Dettori ride all seven winners at one meeting
Answer: Ascot
Question: What does the Salk vaccine protect against
Answer: Polio
Question: Umpire Dickie Bird played first class cricket for Yorkshire and which other county
Answer: Leicestershire
Question: Which American car company made the Charger in the seventies
Answer: Dodge
Question: Who was the Emperor of Japan who died in 1989
Answer: Hirohito
Question: What is the most common British duck
Answer: Mallard
Question: Who was the fifth wife of Henry V111
Answer: Catherine Howard
Question: What country does Gruyere cheese come from
Answer: Switzerland
Question: What is a starter question worth in University Challenge
Answer: Five points
Question: What was the venue for the tragic Eubank v Watson fight
Answer: White Hart Lane
Question: What was the name of Johnny Kidd's backing group
Answer: The Pirates
Question: Who was the composer of the opera Hansel and Gretel
Answer: Engelbert Humperdink
Question: According to the Bible how old was Noah when he entered the Ark
Answer: Six hundred
Question: The song We May Never Love Again came from which 1974 disaster film
Answer: Towering Inferno
Question: In which sport was Nancy Lopez one of the leading female contenders
Answer: Golf
Question: From which opera does the Toreador Song come
Answer: Carmen
Question: In which country was the notorious concentration camp Auschwitz
Answer: Poland
Question: With which football team did Bobby Moore end his English league playing career
Answer: Fulham
Question: What city's police force employed Dirty Harry
Answer: San Francisco
Question: Which aircraft company made the W W 1 fighter the Camel
Answer: Sopwith
Question: In which sport would you compete for the Camanachd Cup
Answer: Shinty
Question: Where in the U.S.A were the witch trials of 1692 held
Answer: Salem
Question: Who was the first female solo singer to enter the UK charts at number one
Answer: Mariah Carey
Question: Before the rise of Hollywood what was the world's largest film distributing company
Answer: The Ford Motor Company
Question: What was the surname of the Beverley Hillbillies
Answer: Clampett
Question: In what year was the first Olympic marathon for women
Answer: 1984
Question: From which country do we get the cheese Roquefort
Answer: France
Question: What was the name of Buddy Holly's backing group
Answer: The Crickets
Question: Who had a number one album in 1986 with True Blue
Answer: Madonna
Question: Who directed the 1957 Oscar winning film Bridge on the River Kwai
Answer: David Lean
Question: Of which country was Jomo Kenyatta the president in the seventies
Answer: Kenya
Question: Announced in May 1999 for which magazine did the supermodel Naomi Campbell pose naked
Answer: Playboy
Question: Which tendon joins the calf muscle to the heel bone
Answer: Achilles
Question: Which film star was known as the million dollar mermaid
Answer: Esther Williams
Question: Who managed Scotland in the 1986 World Cup
Answer: Alex Ferguson
Question: Florence Nightingale Graham is better known to hundreds of women shoppers as who
Answer: Elizabeth Arden
Question: What is the black mineral that is the source of uranium and radium
Answer: Pitchblende