zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is secreted by parotid glands?
Answer: Saliva
Question: Who played Cilla Black in the 2014 ITV drama series Cilla?
Answer: Sheridan Smith
Question: What is the dominant colour of New York’s Staten Island Ferries?
Answer: Orange
Question: Also a band, what is the vanilla-flavoured, chocolate-free equivalent of a brownie?
Answer: A Blondie
Question: Which physical quantity is calculated by multiplying a body’s mass by its velocity?
Answer: Momentum
Question: Which is the only species of penguin likely to be seen in the wild north of the Equator?
Answer: Galapagos penguin
Question: Which flesh-and-blood actor played Popeye the Sailor on film?
Answer: Robin Williams
Question: Which Hampshire stately home is the main location for Downton Abbey?
Answer: Highclere Castle
Question: In the world of computing what is an ISP?
Answer: Internet Service Provider
Question: Which Turner Prize-winning artist has an alter-ego named Claire?
Answer: Grayson Perry
Question: Which poet’s mother, sister and lover were all called Fanny?
Answer: Keats
Question: Which fashion house produces the perfume ‘Bamboo’?
Answer: Gucci
Question: Which double Oscar winner plays the villain in the latest film Spectre?
Answer: Christoph Waltz
Question: What is the plural of matrix?
Answer: Matrices
Question: What is the main ingredient of the Swiss dish Rosti?
Answer: Potatoes
Question: Which bridge was inscribed as a ‘World Heritage Site’ in July this year?
Answer: The Forth Bridge
Question: Who are the Brave Blossoms?
Answer: Japanese Rugby Team
Question: Johanna Konta is the new British female No.1 in which sport?
Answer: Tennis
Question: What is the chief ingredient of a ‘dhansak’ curry?
Answer: Lentils
Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury was beheaded as an enemy of Parliament in 1645?
Answer: Laud
Question: Risotto is usually made with which type of rice?
Answer: Arborio
Question: Which fruit is used in the preparation of Eve’s Pudding?
Answer: Apples
Question: In the West Indies which is the largest of the Leeward Islands?
Answer: Antigua
Question: In what part of the body is the deltoid muscle?
Answer: Shoulder
Question: Which television presenter is nicknamed The Hamster?
Answer: Richard Hammond
Question: Where is England's most complete workhouse to be found?
Answer: Southwell
Question: Which manager appeared on TV's Fast Show?
Answer: Ron Manager
Question: In 1962 who became Margot Fonteyn's dance partner?
Answer: Nureyev
Question: American films use which fictional area code in telephone numbers?
Answer: 555
Question: Development of which aero-engine sent Rolls-Royce into receivership in 1971?
Answer: RB211
Question: Which canal links the Grand Union Canal to the Limehouse Cut in London?
Answer: Regents
Question: Which Hawaiian word has come to mean both hello and goodbye?
Answer: Aloha
Question: Which Hebrew word is often used to mean both hello and goodbye?
Answer: Shalom
Question: Darts had their last Top Ten hit in 1979 with which song?
Answer: Duke of Earl
Question: Which model controversially wore a mini-dress to the Melbourne races in October 1965?
Answer: Jean Shrimpton
Question: Who said 'There is no finer investment than putting milk in babies'?
Answer: Churchill
Question: In which year did Apollo 8 become the first manned mission to orbit the moon?
Answer: 1968
Question: Where is Britain's National Space Centre?
Answer: Leicester
Question: Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello uses what term for sheep mating?
Answer: Tup
Question: John Wayne played which part in the 1939 film 'Stagecoach'?
Answer: The Ringo Kid
Question: In which book does a boar named Old Major inspire a revolution?
Answer: Animal Farm
Question: Blondie's hit song 'Call Me' comes from the soundtrack to which 1980 film?
Answer: American Gigolo
Question: Which nursery rhyme characters were the victims of a triple caudectomy?
Answer: Three Blind Mice
Question: What is the green number on a British roulette wheel?
Answer: Zero
Question: Who wrote The Compleat Angler?
Answer: Isaac Walton
Question: For which county was Gary Sobers playing when he hit six sixes in one over?
Answer: Nottinghamshire
Question: What do you get if you multiply volts by amperes?
Answer: Watts
Question: What on the human body are the supercilia?
Answer: Eyebrows
Question: Which English ground better known for football staged its only Test Match in 1902?
Answer: Bramall Lane
Question: Which president used Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Don’t Stop’ as his campaign song?
Answer: Clinton
Question: What did President James Buchanan not do that all other presidents did?
Answer: Marry
Question: Of what was Urania the Muse?
Answer: Astronomy
Question: Which country is the nearest neighbour of Australia?
Answer: Papua New Guinea
Question: In which language does ‘Proost’ mean ‘Cheers’?
Answer: Dutch
Question: The waterfalls Cauldron Snout and High Force lie on which major river?
Answer: Tees
Question: What was the stage-name of Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs?
Answer: Bonehead
Question: Which film was shot in Bodega Bay, California?
Answer: The Birds
Question: Which music star married Greg Allman in 1975?
Answer: Cher
Question: Who sang improvised calypsos on That Was The Week That Was?
Answer: Lance Percival
Question: The name of which fish means to struggle?
Answer: Flounder
Question: In world War II what term was used to describe a group of German U-boats?
Answer: Wolf Pack
Question: Which is the oldest university in the English speaking world?
Answer: Oxford
Question: From which country did apricots originate?
Answer: China
Question: Which theatre stands on Argyll street in London?
Answer: Palladium
Question: Malta and Gozo are two of the main three islands of Malta. What is the third?
Answer: Comino
Question: What is the nearest state, dependency or principality to the UK not in the EU?
Answer: Isle of Man
Question: Who played Rambling Sid Rumpo on radio?
Answer: Kenneth Williams
Question: Ni is the chemical symbol for which element?
Answer: Nickel
Question: What does a welsh rarebit become with an egg on top?
Answer: Buck rarebit
Question: Who played Raffles in four series on TV?
Answer: Anthony Valentine
Question: What is the county town of Anglesey?
Answer: Beaumaris
Question: Where did Bilbo Baggins live in the Shire in the Hobbit?
Answer: Bag End
Question: Which classical composer wrote “The Hungarian Dances”?
Answer: Brahms
Question: Bufophobia is an abnormal fear of which creatures?
Answer: Toads
Question: In which country fid Fado music originate?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Which brand uses the advertising slogan ‘Because I’m worth it’?
Answer: L’Oréal
Question: Car licence plates from which US state bear the slogan ‘The Last Frontier’?
Answer: Alaska
Question: Who wrote the pair of one-act plays collectively known as Separate Tables?
Answer: Terence Rattigan
Question: American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross are plays by which US playwright?
Answer: David Mamet
Question: Which mild analgesic drug is marketed under the trade name Nurofen?
Answer: Ibuprofen
Question: In Round the Horn, which pair once ran a firm of solicitors called ‘Bona Law’?
Answer: Julian and Sandy
Question: Who was the first Republican to be President of the USA?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: In which Yorkshire town are the Royal Horticultural Society’s Harlow Carr gardens?
Answer: Harrogate
Question: Martin and Anne Bryce were leading characters in which sitcom of the 1980s?
Answer: Ever Decreasing Circles
Question: In which film did Sean Connery play a character called Henry Jones?
Answer: Indiana Jones and the Last
Question: Which bakery chain uses the slogan ‘Always fresh. Always tasty’?
Answer: Greggs
Question: In 2012, who became the first South African cricketer to score a test-match triple century?
Answer: Hashim Amla
Question: In 2014, who became the first New Zealand cricketer to score a test-match triple century?
Answer: Brendon McCullum
Question: ‘The Merryman and His Maid’ is the subtitle of which Gilbert and Sullivan opera?
Answer: THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD
Question: Which Victorian author is credited with introducing the pillar box into the UK?
Answer: ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Question: Whose eyes feature in the title of a 1978 film, directed by Irvin Kershner?
Answer: LAURA MARS
Question: Which country shares its western border with Romania and its eastern border with Ukraine?
Answer: MOLDOVA
Question: Which liqueur is named after the Carthusian monastery where it was first made in 1737?
Answer: CHARTREUSE
Question: What river converges with the River Test at Southampton?
Answer: ITCHEN
Question: What is the four-word name of the 1951 play on which ‘Cabaret’ is based?
Answer: I AM A CAMERA
Question: Following the overture, what is the opening number in ‘Oliver’ (1968)?
Answer: FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD
Question: ‘Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less’ (1976) was whose debut novel?
Answer: JEFFREY ARCHER
Question: Which American newspaper commissioned Stanley to find Livingstone?
Answer: NEW YORK HERALD
Question: What is the name of the forgetful Blue Tang fish in ‘Finding Nemo’?
Answer: DORY
Question: In public schools and some old-fashioned grammar schools, what is understood by ‘prep’?
Answer: HOMEWORK
Question: G.G.R. is which 1992 Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon drama film?
Answer: GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
Question: Of which party, a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism, was Saddam Hussein a member?
Answer: BA’ATH Party
Question: In 1954, what was the last item to be no longer rationed in Britain?
Answer: MEAT
Question: Played by Idris Elba, what is the first name of tv’s DCI Luther?
Answer: JOHN
Question: People suffering from the Cotard Delusion believe what?
Answer: THAT THEY ARE DEAD
Question: After Auckland and Wellington, what is New Zealand’s third-largest city by population?
Answer: CHRISTCHURCH
Question: Who wrote ‘Tristram Shandy’ (1759 onwards) and ‘A Sentimental Journey’ (1768)?
Answer: LAURENCE STERNE
Question: What acid is responsible for the sting in nettles?
Answer: FORMIC
Question: The Lech, Enns, Ipel and Nera are all tributaries of which major river?
Answer: DANUBE
Question: What play was Abraham Lincoln watching when he was assassinated?
Answer: OUR AMERICAN COUSIN
Question: Which ‘Carry On’ actor was married to Janet Brown from 1947 until his death in 1979?
Answer: PETER BUTTERWORTH
Question: Who played the part of Captain Renault in the classic film ‘Casablanca’?
Answer: CLAUDE RAINS
Question: On May 23rd, Ireland voted in favour of what?
Answer: SAME-SEX MARRIAGES.
Question: Appointed head of OFSTED in 1994, he died on June 23rd. Who was he?
Answer: CHRIS WOODHEAD
Question: What type of rock is formed when lava or magma cools?
Answer: IGNEOUS
Question: Which popular holiday destination is the largest lake in Italy?
Answer: Lake GARDA
Question: Where in the UK can you see the giant pandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian?
Answer: EDINBURGH ZOO
Question: Which relative of the guinea pig is the largest rodent in the world?
Answer: CAPYBARA
Question: The musical term ‘toccata’ comes to us from what language?
Answer: ITALIAN
Question: On the London underground only one station contains a single vowel. Which station?
Answer: Bank
Question: Which crime writer created the detectives Jimmy Perez and Vera Stanhope?
Answer: Ann Cleeves
Question: In which month are St David’s Day and St Patrick’s Day celebrated in the UK?
Answer: March
Question: Amol Rajan is the editor of which national daily newspaper?
Answer: Independent
Question: What is the alternative six letter name for Carbolic Acid?
Answer: Phenol
Question: Which county won the second division of the county championship?
Answer: Hampshire
Question: Of which Roman poet was Flaccus the family name?
Answer: Horace
Question: In which town is the San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival held annually?
Answer: Pamplona
Question: Who was the father of Desdemona?
Answer: Brabantio
Question: South Carolina is bordered by North Carolina and which other state?
Answer: Georgia
Question: Mount Botrange at 694 metres, is the highest point of which European country?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Which city is Linked to the M4 by the M32?
Answer: Bristol
Question: In which city did the 2014 Giro D’Italia cycle race begin?
Answer: Belfast
Question: The Little (Tetrax Tetrax) and Great (Otis Tarda) are which birds?
Answer: Bustards
Question: Nicknamed Napoleon, Marcus Chamat has represented Europe in which sport?
Answer: Pool
Question: Who wrote the 1904 novel The Napoleon of Notting Hill?
Answer: G.K. Chesterton
Question: What name is given to the sensitive flesh at the base of one’s fingernails?
Answer: Quick
Question: Latin for ‘put away the flesh’, what name is given to ‘a feast’ or ‘fair’?
Answer: Carnival
Question: As in the name of the Spanish clothing retailer, for what do the initials H & M stand?
Answer: Hennes and Mauritz
Question: Mary Robinson and Frances Villiers were mistresses of which 19th century King?
Answer: George IV
Question: Dushanbe is the capital city of which former Soviet republic?
Answer: Tajikistan
Question: Which 2010 Disney movie features the villainous Mother Gothel?
Answer: Tangled
Question: Which BBC three-part drama was set in Pepys Rd, South London?
Answer: Capital
Question: Which part of the eye is the sclera?
Answer: White
Question: Which weight system is used for precious metals?
Answer: Troy
Question: Which African country is entirely surrounded by Senegal?
Answer: Gambia
Question: In which country is around 85% of the Thar desert?
Answer: India
Question: What was Glenn Miller’s Pennsylvania hotel telephone number?
Answer: 6-5000
Question: What do we call a mournful poem often lamenting death?
Answer: Elegy
Question: Rose Sayer falls for Charlie Allnut in which movie?
Answer: The African Queen
Question: Which novel by Felix Salten was made into a movie by Walt Disney in 1942?
Answer: Bambi
Question: Benidorm is on which of the Spanish Costas?
Answer: Costa Blanca
Question: What was originally called the Pluto Platter?
Answer: Frisbee
Question: The sinking of the armoured cruiser Maine in 1898 led to which conflict?
Answer: Spanish-American War
Question: What is the capital of the islands of Madeira?
Answer: Funchal
Question: Which game starts with a squidge off?
Answer: Tiddlywinks
Question: The Slag Brothers were contestants in what?
Answer: The Wacky Races
Question: What is the army equivalent of the Royal Navy’s Commodore?
Answer: Brigadier
Question: The environmental phobia ‘ombrophobia’ is an unnatural fear of what?
Answer: Rain
Question: Which metallic element is extracted from the ore calamine?
Answer: Zinc
Question: Pygmalion was the legendary king of which island?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: What is the married surname of Lady Sarah, daughter of Princess Margaret?
Answer: CHATTO
Question: In what country were the terracotta warriors discovered in 1974?
Answer: CHINA
Question: Who was born Amy Lyon near Neston in Cheshire, in May 1765?
Answer: EMMA, LADY HAMILTON
Question: The bossa nova is a type of what more generic dance?
Answer: SAMBA
Question: JM. Who became the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in September 2015?
Answer: JOHN McDONNELL
Question: What is the Latin for ‘let the buyer beware’?
Answer: CAVEAT EMPTOR
Question: Tuppence and Tommy are fictional detectives, recurring characters in whose books?
Answer: AGATHA CHRISTIE’S
Question: What is the surname of Ceri, the Welsh fly-half who plays for Exeter Chiefs?
Answer: SWEENEY
Question: Which former British athlete was married to swimmer Sharron Davies from 1994-2000?
Answer: DEREK REDMOND
Question: What is the first name of Neil Kinnock’s wife?
Answer: GLENYS
Question: Sung about by crooners such as Crosby and Sinatra, who was ‘sweet as apple cider’?
Answer: IDA
Question: During the 20th century, Wardour St. became the centre of what?
Answer: British FILM INDUSTRY
Question: Tintagel in Cornwall is considered one of the main possible sites for which court?
Answer: Camelot
Question: What was the second UK Number 1 from Gerry and the Pacemakers?
Answer: I like it
Question: Which of Brian Epstein’s recording artists was born William Howard Ashton?
Answer: Billy J. Kramer
Question: What was the name of Bernie Winters’ St. Bernard?
Answer: Schnorbitz
Question: Which Moroccan port lies on the Western entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar?
Answer: Tangier
Question: Which railroad legend died in Mississippi as the result of a train crash in 1900?
Answer: Casey Jones
Question: Bridgetown is the capital of which island?
Answer: Barbados
Question: Edinburgh university lecturer Joseph Bell was the inspiration for which character?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes
Question: What was the Monkees’ second UK hit single?
Answer: Last train to Clarksville
Question: Who was the first sportsman to be British Sports Personality of the Year twice?
Answer: Henry Cooper
Question: In which film does Will Smith play a superhero with a drink problem?
Answer: Hancock
Question: In 2014 and 2015 for which Formula 1 team did Felipe Massa drive?
Answer: Williams
Question: If travelling at 30m.p.h. in a car what is the overall stopping distance in feet?
Answer: 75
Question: What used to clean a big big carpet for less than half a crown?
Answer: 1001
Question: Which highly poisonous substance was once known as prussic acid?
Answer: Hydrogen Cyanide
Question: At which institute was Dolly the Sheep cloned?
Answer: Roslin Institute
Question: Which darts player was the first to finish a 501 leg in 9 darts live on British TV?
Answer: John Lowe
Question: The motto of which company is “Impossible is nothing”?
Answer: Adidas
Question: The Lake District is located in which English county?
Answer: Cumbria
Question: On which TV show did Claude Littner replace Nick Hewer?
Answer: The Apprentice
Question: Which state of the USA has land borders with Georgia and Alabama?
Answer: Florida
Question: Which Disney character’s sidekick was Timothy Q Mouse?
Answer: Dumbo
Question: What was the Roman name for York?
Answer: Eboracum
Question: Which musical instrument was based on the Portuguese ‘draguinha’?
Answer: Ukulele
Question: What was the title of the only UK number 1 hit single by B Bumble and the Stingers?
Answer: Nut Rocker
Question: Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disorder caused by a reaction to which substance?
Answer: Gluten
Question: Who is missing from this musical quintet: Keeble, Kemp, Norman, Kemp and…?
Answer: Hadley
Question: Which ’60s film gave Disney their first ‘Best Picture’ Oscar nomination?
Answer: Mary Poppins
Question: Which 1715 battle was the last fought on English soil?
Answer: Preston
Question: If a player ruffs in a trick-taking card game, what kind of card will have been played?
Answer: Trump
Question: In a Scotch Woodcock, scrambled egg is spread with a paste made from which fish?
Answer: Anchovy
Question: At which London Underground station is there a Blue Plaque honouring Willie Rushton?
Answer: Mornington Crescent
Question: Which confection approximates to what in Scotland is called tablet?
Answer: Fudge
Question: The title of which musical was inspired by and describes a Marc Chagall painting?
Answer: Fiddler On The Roof
Question: Which Asian island is shared between three separate sovereign states?
Answer: Borneo
Question: Which TV character referred to his wife as ’Er Indoors?
Answer: Arthur Daley
Question: Which James Bond film title derives from Non Sufficit Orbis, motto of Philip II of Spain?
Answer: The World Is Not Enough
Question: Which cathedral is known locally as “The Ship of the Fens”?
Answer: Ely
Question: Which cathedral’s spires have earned it the name, “The Ladies of the Vale”?
Answer: Lichfield
Question: What is the term in India for one who drives and keeps a working elephant?
Answer: Mahout
Question: … and in Canada for one who drives a dog sled?
Answer: Musher
Question: Which prizes does Harvard award annually for trivial achievements in scientific research?
Answer: Ig Nobel Prizes
Question: Of which 1969 film was 15-year-old Billy Casper the central character?
Answer: Kes
Question: Which language gave English the word kahuna as in “the big kahuna”?
Answer: Hawaiian
Question: The Appalachian and Hammered are two types of which traditional musical instrument?
Answer: Dulcimer
Question: “It’s the way I tell ‘em!” was one of the catchphrases of which comedian?
Answer: FRANK CARSON
Question: At which Park did Yeats feel moved to write a poem about the wild swans?
Answer: COOLE
Question: In ‘Treasure Island’, what is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot?
Answer: CAPTAIN FLINT
Question: Who plays the title character in the 2013 remake of ‘The Great Gatsby’?
Answer: LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Question: At which racecourse is the Irish Grand National run?
Answer: FAIRYHOUSE
Question: What element is third in the periodic table of the elements, after hydrogen and helium?
Answer: LITHIUM
Question: In 1973, Britain joined at the same time as Ireland and which other country?
Answer: DENMARK
Question: Who composed ‘Finlandia’ (1899) and the ‘Karelia Suite’ (c 1893)?
Answer: JEAN SIBELIUS
Question: Bedrich was the first name of which Czech composer, 1824 to 1884?
Answer: SMETANA
Question: In which month did Browning long to be in England, in ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’?
Answer: APRIL
Question: The character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based on whom?
Answer: ALEXANDER SELKIRK
Question: In the ‘Star Wars’ films, what sort of creature is Chewbacca?
Answer: WOOKIEE
Question: In 1520, what was the name given to the meeting held between Henry VIII and Francis I?
Answer: The FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF
Question: By what title was British Prime Minister Robert Banks Jenkinson otherwise known?
Answer: Earl of LIVERPOOL
Question: What is the capital city of Gambia?
Answer: BANJUL
Question: What is the name for the Parliament on the Isle of Man?
Answer: The TYNWALD
Question: Who was the first poet to be buried in Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey?
Answer: Chaucer
Question: An ossuary is a room or container in which what are kept?
Answer: Bones
Question: What word from German means ‘delighting in another’s misfortune’?
Answer: Schadenfreude
Question: Pioneer 10 in 1983 was the first man-made object to do what?
Answer: Leave the Solar System
Question: Salyut in 1971 was the first ……what?
Answer: Space Station
Question: Who bowed out with Blackstar?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: Which 1976 Derek Jarman film was dialogued entirely in Latin?
Answer: Sebastiane
Question: Who designed the Cenotaph in London?
Answer: Lutyens
Question: Who were the ascetics who lived on the top of pillars or columns?
Answer: Stylites
Question: Oneiromancy is the divination of what?
Answer: Dreams
Question: Mr Elton, a vicar, is a character in which Jane Austen novel?
Answer: Emma
Question: In which country are the Harz mountains?
Answer: Germany
Question: The three types of chemical matter are – element, mixture and which other?
Answer: Compound
Question: What is the SI Unit of Luminous Intensity?
Answer: Candela
Question: Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses?
Answer: Dorothy Parker
Question: On which peninsula are The Mumbles situated?
Answer: Gower Peninsular
Question: In which national park are the Black Mountains?
Answer: Brecon Beacons
Question: Apart from the Bolshoi which is Russia’s other famous touring ballet company?
Answer: Kirov
Question: Detective Jimmy Perez investigates in which BBC drama?
Answer: Shetland
Question: Which English painter was the first President of the Royal Academy?
Answer: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Question: The protein fibrin aids which process in the blood?
Answer: Clotting
Question: Who was the first British artist to top the US chart?
Answer: Vera Lynn
Question: Which brewery produces Director’s Bitter?
Answer: Courage
Question: Who sailed round the world in the yacht Lively Lady?
Answer: Alec Rose
Question: To which Mediterranean island were UN peacekeepers sent in 1964?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: Which late rock singer was known as ‘The Electric Poet’?
Answer: Jim Morrison
Question: Prince William adopted which title in 2011?
Answer: Duke of Cambridge
Question: Alexander Graham Bell discovered that which type of cabling cancels out electrical interference?
Answer: Twisted Pair
Question: What was Reginald Perrin's middle name?
Answer: Iolanthe
Question: What sort of sea creature is a Medusa?
Answer: Jellyfish
Question: The name of which Titan was given to a large flightless bird of South America?
Answer: Rhea