zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the name of the floating mass of vegetation that often obstructs navigation in tropical rivers?
Answer: Sudd
Question: Which English snooker player is nicknamed ‘The Whirlwind’?
Answer: Jimmy White
Question: What is the title of the Band Aid charity single, released in December 1984?
Answer: Do They Know It’s Christmas
Question: What was the first name of 19th Century British explorer Stanley, who searched for David Livingstone in Africa?
Answer: Henry
Question: ‘Trelawny’ is the ‘national anthem’ of which English county?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: Who was the last boxer to fight and defeat Muhammad Ali, in December 1981?
Answer: Trevor Berbick
Question: Whiteford, Stewart and Brabham are all corners on the Formula One Grand Prix circuit in which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which French city was was the 2013 European Capital of Culture?
Answer: Marseilles
Question: What is written on the sign on the mural by graffiti artist Banksy that was cut out of a wall in Tottenham, London in July 2013?
Answer: No Ball Games
Question: In August 2013, scientists in Florence, Italy opened a tomb in order to extract DNA, hoping to identify the model for which painting?
Answer: Mona Lisa
Question: Extinct volcano Hallasan is the highest point in which Asian country?
Answer: South Korea
Question: The 1992 Summer Olympic Games were hosted by which European city?
Answer: Barcelona
Question: In the US animated television show ‘The Simpsons’ which actress voiced Maggie’s first word, which was ‘Daddy’?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor
Question: In 2012, who became the first German driver, since Hermann Lang in 1939, to win a Formula One Grand Prix in a German car?
Answer: Nico Rosberg
Question: What is the surname of brother and sister Samson and Sally in the novel ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’ by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Brass
Question: A bonxie is what type of creature?
Answer: Bird
Question: Where are the ossicones situated on the body of a giraffe?
Answer: Head
Question: Bada, Bing, Lambert and Tartarian are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Cherry
Question: In 1862, English explorer John Hanning Speke discovered the source of the Nile in which lake?
Answer: Lake Victoria
Question: What type of creature is a danio?
Answer: Fish
Question: Blue Castello cheese is made in which country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Which vegetable is Blackadder’s servant obsessed with in the UK television series ‘Blackadder II’?
Answer: Turnip
Question: What is the name of the Captain, played by Tim McInnerny, in the UK television series ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’?
Answer: Kevin Darling
Question: Singer Dan Reynolds is the frontman of US band ‘Imagine’ what’?
Answer: Dragons
Question: Mary Lennox, Colin and Dickon are all characters in which children’s novel?
Answer: The Secret Garden
Question: ‘International ‘what’ is the official colour of the paint on the Golden Gate Bridge in California?
Answer: Orange
Question: In the game of chess which move is also known as  ‘Fool’s Mate’?
Answer: Two-move checkmate
Question: What is the surname of Woody, the assistant bartender, in the US television comedy series ‘Cheers’?
Answer: Boyd
Question: In January 1997 which British yachtsman was found alive five days after his boat capsized in the Southern Ocean?
Answer: Tony Bullimore
Question: What was the first name of of American homeopathic physician and wife-murderer Dr Crippen?
Answer: Hawley
Question: In November 1994 who became the oldest heavyweight boxing champion in history by defeating Michael Moorer?
Answer: George Foreman
Question: A douroucouli is what type of animal?
Answer: Monkey
Question: The 1992 Summer Olympic Games were hosted by which European country?
Answer: Spain
Question: In medicine which lotion is traditionally used to alleviate the symptoms of chicken pox?
Answer: Calamine lotion
Question: Mwai Kibaki became President of which African country in 2002?
Answer: Kenya
Question: In 1960 which Belgian-born oceanographer and engineer made the first manned expedition to the Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the ocean?
Answer: Jacques Piccard
Question: Who wrote the 1956 novel ‘101 Dalmatians’?
Answer: Dodie Smith
Question: The 2013 film ‘Rush’ is about the rivalry between which two former Formula One racing drivers?
Answer: James Hunt and Niki Lauda
Question: A lamington is a dessert cake originating in which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Cardiophobia is the irrational fear of which organ in the body?
Answer: Heart
Question: The English city of Peterborough stands on which river?
Answer: River Nene
Question: In which English city was Guy Fawkes, of Gunpowder Plot fame, born?
Answer: York
Question: During which month of the year does the ceremony of ‘Swan Upping’ take place on the River Thames?
Answer: July
Question: Black Amish is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Apple
Question: In 2011 who became the first Manchester United FC captain from Eastern Europe?
Answer: Nemanja Vidic
Question: The Postage Stamp is the shortest hole on which Scottish golf course?
Answer: Royal Troon
Question: Famous for surfing, Fistral Beach is in which English county?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: According to The Guinness Book of World Records the village of Bernotai in which country is the geographic centre of Europe?
Answer: Lithuania
Question: Which country is bordered by Belarus in the north and Moldova in the south?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: England and Surrey cricketing twins Alec and Eric had what surname?
Answer: Bedser
Question: The Heidelberg School was a 19th Century Impressionist art movement in which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which country has a Formula One Grand Prix Circuit named ‘Gilles Villeneuve’?
Answer: Canada
Question: Athlete Germaine Mason won a silver medal in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in which event?
Answer: High jump
Question: Who wrote the 2008 novel ‘Duma Key’?
Answer: Stephen King
Question: What is the title of the 1996 film in which George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer play single parents Alex and Mae?
Answer: One Fine Day
Question: In many Spanish-speaking countries which day of the week is considered unlucky if it falls on the 13th of the month?
Answer: Tuesday
Question: What was the only UK number one hit single for rock band Foreigner?
Answer: I Want To Know What Love Is
Question: In 2013 which British politician was challenged to fulfil his claim that he could live on 53 pounds sterling a week?
Answer: Ian Duncan Smith
Question: Janet Weiss, Brad Majors and Magenta are all characters from which 1975 musical film?
Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Question: In which month in 1990 was Nelson Mandela released from prison in South Africa?
Answer: February
Question: Photographer Ansel Adams was famous for his photographs of what?
Answer: Landscapes
Question: General Benedict Arnold switched allegiance to the British side during which war?
Answer: American War of Independence
Question: The adrenal glands are situated above which organs in the human body?
Answer: Kidneys
Question: What was the first name of British Prime Minister Gladstone?
Answer: William
Question: What is the surname of Terry, played by James Bolam, in the UK 1960’s television series ‘The Likely lads’?
Answer: Collier
Question: Which Scottish city is known as the ‘Capital of the Highlands’?
Answer: Inverness
Question: Former football player Eusebio, who died in January 2014, played for which national team?
Answer: Portugal
Question: Which former Coronation Street actress was born Shirley Anne Broadbent?
Answer: Amanda Barrie
Question: Alexandra of Denmark was the wife of which British monarch?
Answer: King Edward VII
Question: ‘Satis’ is the name of the house in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: Great Expectations
Question: The first inauguration of which US President took place aboard a plane?
Answer: Lyndon B Johnson
Question: In the 1977 song by Elvis Costello, what colour shoes do the angels want to wear?
Answer: Red
Question: Amy Winehouse had a 2006 hit single with ‘Back to ‘what’?
Answer: Black
Question: Who had a 1972 hit single with ‘Song Sung Blue’?
Answer: Neil Diamond
Question: What colour eyes does the Handsome Man have in a 1957 song by Chuck Berry?
Answer: Brown
Question: In October 1992, which baseball team became the first non-USA team to win the World Series?
Answer: The Toronto Blue Jays
Question: Who is the husband of actress/clinical psychologist Pamela Stephenson?
Answer: Billy Connelly
Question: Toucher, Narrow and Bias are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: Bowls (lawn)
Question: Which English artist and poet was known to introduce himself as ‘Mr Abebika Kratoponoko Prizzikalo Kattefello Ablegorabalus Anleborinto Phashyph’?
Answer: Edward Lear
Question: The 1977 autobiography ‘Tall, Dark and Gruesome’ is by which British Actor?
Answer: Christopher Lee
Question: In November 1990 Mian Nawaz Sharif became Prime Minister of which Asian country?
Answer: Pakistan
Question: Which ‘ology’ is the search or study of animals whose existence has not been proven, such as the Yeti or Loch Ness Monster?
Answer: Cryptozoology
Question: What type of flesh does a pescatarian eat?
Answer: Fish
Question: Akane is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Apple
Question: Robert Mitchum plays Reverend Harry Powell in which 1955 film?
Answer: The Night of the Hunter
Question: Who plays Calvin J Candie in the 2012 film ‘Django Unchained’?
Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio
Question: Suva is the capital of which South Pacific island?
Answer: Fiji
Question: What are the middle names of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Alexandra Mary
Question: US author Truman Strekfus Persons is better known by what name?
Answer: Truman Capote
Question: Which English county is known as ‘The Red Rose County’?
Answer: Lancashire
Question: Adnams Brewery is based in which English county?
Answer: Suffolk
Question: The Bleinhem Cocktail was created for the 90th birthday of which British politician?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: The 1987 autobiography ‘They Made a Monkee Out of Me’ is by which member of The Monkees?
Answer: Davy Jones
Question: The 2010 memoir ‘Life’ is by which member of the Rolling Stones?
Answer: Keith Richards
Question: Bikram, Anusara, Kundalini and Iyengar are all types of which activity?
Answer: Yoga
Question: What relation was British monarch Queen Victoria to Prince Albert before their marriage?
Answer: First cousin
Question: Which Egyptian Pharoah was known as ‘The Boy King’?
Answer: Tutankhamun
Question: Winnipeg is the capital of which Canadian province?
Answer: Manitoba
Question: In the game of Bingo ‘Kelly’s Eye’ is the nickname for which number?
Answer: One
Question: In our solar system which is the 5th planet from the Sun?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: In cooking, Senf is German for which condiment?
Answer: Mustard
Question: What were the first names of the characters played by Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue in the Australian series ‘Neighbours’?
Answer: Scott and Charlene
Question: What are the first names of the parents of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge?
Answer: Carole and Michael
Question: In humans, citguatera is an illness caused by eating contaminated what?
Answer: Fish
Question: Which is the only planet in our solar system to have water in three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas?
Answer: Earth
Question: Lester and Carolyn Burnham are characters in which 1999 film?
Answer: American Beauty
Question: The majority of the Amazon Rainforest is contained within which country?
Answer: Brazil
Question: At which ‘Field’ was Richard III’s final battle?
Answer: Bosworth
Question: The moss Sphagnum produces what traditional ancient fuel?
Answer: Peat
Question: The mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, and its berry is called what?
Answer: Rowan
Question: A mouflon is a Coriscan wild species of what domesticated creature?
Answer: Sheep
Question: The removal of salt from brine to produce fresh water is commonly named what?
Answer: Desalination
Question: What orange black and white creature is Vanessa cardui?
Answer: Painted Lady (butterfly)
Question: What ancient rulers wore a double-crown symbolizing their joined upper and lower lands?
Answer: Pharoahs
Question: What type of lens bends parallel rays inwards: convex or concave?
Answer: Convex
Question: Mumps can spread, rarely, where in adult males, with permanent procreational effect?
Answer: Testicles
Question: In the greeenhouse effect ultraviolet light is reradiated and absorbed as what invisible energy?
Answer: Infrared
Question: What chemical element (Cu) is named after Cyprus?
Answer: Copper
Question: Used in church advent services, a Christingle is made using which fruit?
Answer: Orange
Question: What type of animal is a macaque?
Answer: Monkey
Question: Coulrophobia is the fear of what type of people?
Answer: Clowns
Question: Which US boxer was born Joseph Barrow?
Answer: Joe Louis
Question: Spokes, Ribs, Rim Row and Lashing are all terms used in which handicraft?
Answer: Basket weaving
Question: Ayrton Senna’s nephew is himself a famous Formula 1 driver. What is his first name?
Answer: BRUNO
Question: What is the name of the national airline of Spain?
Answer: IBERIA
Question: In the UK these books are called ‘Where’s Wally?’ What is his name in the USA?
Answer: WALDO
Question: Which mountain range is often described as “the backbone of England”?
Answer: The PENNINES
Question: Which modern musical instrument used to be called the 'sackbut'?
Answer: Trombone
Question: Which political party did Picasso join in 1944?
Answer: Communist
Question: What name is given to the negative electrode of an electrolytic cell?
Answer: Cathode
Question: Of whom did Princess Diana say ‘Yes I adored him’. ‘Yes I was in love with him’?
Answer: James Hewitt
Question: What is the name for snow overhanging the edge of a mountain ridge?
Answer: Cornice
Question: Which 60s chart-topping band were originally called The Alan Price Combo?
Answer: The Animals
Question: Which king was the target of the Popish Plot and the Rye House Plot?
Answer: Charles II
Question: What is the correct name for the lie detector?
Answer: Polygraph
Question: King Michael abdicated in 1947 from which throne?
Answer: Romania
Question: In which country are the Ribbon Falls?
Answer: USA
Question: The name of which musical instrument is German for “bell play”?
Answer: Glockenspiel
Question: Which singer was the first black person to host his own US TV series?
Answer: NAT KING COLE
Question: LS What is the name of the famous Opera House in Milan, opened in 1778?
Answer: LA SCALA
Question: AM Which fashion designer committed suicide in 2010?
Answer: ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Question: What was the top selling musical album of the 1960’s?
Answer: The Sound of Music
Question: What is the largest lake in Italy?
Answer: Lake Garda
Question: Which former Indian test batsman was nicknamed “Very Very Special”?
Answer: V. V. S. Laxman
Question: Which cyclist is nicknamed “The Manx Missile”?
Answer: Mark Cavendish
Question: What is the most commonly used alloy of copper and tin?
Answer: BRONZE
Question: Which breed of dog takes its name from the Russian word meaning “fast” or “swift”?
Answer: BORZOI
Question: Which year 2000 BBC TV reality show was set on the Scottish island of Taransay?
Answer: CASTAWAY
Question: In which county is the Prime Minister’s country retreat Chequers?
Answer: Buckinghamshire
Question: Which military force was founded by David Stirling?
Answer: The SAS
Question: Which is the country of origin of Martha and the Muffins, Crash Test Dummies and Rush?
Answer: Canada
Question: Who played bongos on the Shadows 1960 No.1 Apache?
Answer: Cliff Richard
Question: In which movie did Connery play a character called Marko Ramius?
Answer: The Hunt for Red October
Question: What have types called – continental, mountain and piedmont?
Answer: Glaciers
Question: What is the British monarch’s official Scottish residence?
Answer: Holyrood House
Question: What name is given to creatures such as earthworms which are both male and female?
Answer: Hermaphrodites
Question: In Sikhism men take the last name Singh – what name do women take?
Answer: Kaur
Question: Which element is basic to all organic chemistry?
Answer: Carbon
Question: Who invented the lightning conductor after flying a kite in a storm?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Question: In which country did the protests break out at the Pearl Roundabout?
Answer: Bahrain
Question: Hanged in 2010 Ali Hassan al-Majid had what nickname?
Answer: Chemical Ali
Question: Who played football for Argentina, Colombia and Spain?
Answer: Alfredo Di Stefano
Question: What was the first of the ten plagues of Egypt?
Answer: The Plague of Blood
Question: Who made a Golden Calf from the people’s melted down jewellery?
Answer: Aaron
Question: Which novel opens with the diary of Jonathan Harker ?
Answer: Dracula
Question: What is the official language of Mozambique ?
Answer: Portuguese
Question: What is the official language of Cambodia ?
Answer: Khmer
Question: Which President abolished racial segregation in the Armed Forces & the Civil Service ?
Answer: Harry Truman
Question: Australian Capital Territory is entirely surrounded by what state?
Answer: New South Wales
Question: Who was the Duke of Mantua’s jester?
Answer: Rigoletto
Question: Who composed the opera Pelleas et Melisande?
Answer: Debussy
Question: Which ship was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in the Mediterranean in 1985?
Answer: Achille Lauro
Question: What is the alternative name for Japanese green horseradish?
Answer: Wasabi
Question: Which TV series is based on the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ book series?
Answer: Game of Thrones
Question: In which Cypriot town will you find The Tomb of the Kings?
Answer: Paphos
Question: Which Muslim free school in Derby was slated by Ofsted inspectors?
Answer: AL-MADINAH
Question: Which P.R. first appeared in a 1902 book, in which he lost his jacket and shoes?
Answer: PETER RABBIT
Question: Which P.R. was Mitt Romney’s running mate in the 2012 Presidential election?
Answer: PAUL RYAN
Question: In which sport can you hear the terms ‘edging’, ‘christies’ and ‘traversing’?
Answer: SKIING
Question: Which famous literary character said: “I am but mad north-northwest”?
Answer: HAMLET
Question: A Cariocan is a native of which city?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro
Question: In the 1977 film Demon Seed what takes over the house in which Julie Christie is trapped?
Answer: A Computer
Question: Which twice-made movie features the villain Max Cady?
Answer: Cape Fear
Question: Kelly Hoppen and Piers Linney were the new faces in series 11 of what TV programme?
Answer: Dragons Den
Question: Which Ukip politician was in trouble for talking about ‘bongo, bongo land’ in the summer?
Answer: Godfrey Bloom
Question: The word ‘Shavian’ pertains to the work of which playwright?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: What was the original name of the Cape of Good Hope?
Answer: Cape of Storms
Question: What is the first name of Bart’s best friend?
Answer: Milhouse
Question: The famous French wine Chablis is made mainly from which grape variety?
Answer: Chardonnay
Question: Which Bond girl married a Beatle?
Answer: Barbara Bach
Question: Truva in Turkey is the site of which ancient city?
Answer: Troy
Question: Which English club has won the European Cup more times than its own League Title?
Answer: Nottingham Forest
Question: Which creature has varieties called Chinook, Chum, Coho, Sockeye and Steelhead?
Answer: Salmon
Question: Which US Trade Union boss vanished in Bloomfield, Michigan in July, 1975?
Answer: Jimmy Hoffa
Question: The Brazilian Wandering variety is the most poisonous in the world …….what?
Answer: Spider
Question: Which term describes any two colours which together produce white light?
Answer: Complementary
Question: Which US city filed for bankruptcy in July?
Answer: Detroit
Question: Rachel Verinder’s diamond gives what book its title?
Answer: The Moonstone
Question: Who is to replace Jessie J in the 2014 series of The Voice?
Answer: Kylie Minogue
Question: What name is given to a depiction of Mary holding the dead body of Christ?
Answer: Pieta
Question: Which instrument was played by jazz artist Benny Goodman?
Answer: Clarinet
Question: The falcon’s dive from a height onto its prey is known as a what?
Answer: stoop
Question: Henry Morton Stanley was born in which country?
Answer: Wales
Question: Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in which city and former Republic?
Answer: Genoa
Question: What is the real surname of Marty and Kim Wilde?
Answer: Smith
Question: Which US golfer was known as ‘Long John’ for his driving distance off the tee?
Answer: John Daly
Question: Born in 1911, whose real name was Virginia McMath?
Answer: Ginger Rogers
Question: Which sign of the zodiac immediately follows Cancer?
Answer: Leo
Question: What is the name of the dog in the Secret Seven series of books?
Answer: Scamper
Question: Which anti-hero features in the Mervyn Peake novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast?
Answer: Steerpike
Question: What is the most common type of rock formed from lava flows?
Answer: Basalt
Question: Who did Frank Bruno beat to win the WBC World Title in 1995?
Answer: Oliver McCall
Question: Which 1932 novel is the most famous work of writer Stella Gibbons?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm
Question: What is the divine nickname for the elusive Higgs boson?
Answer: The God Particle
Question: Which is the highest order of chivalry in England?
Answer: Order of the Garter
Question: Levi Stubbs was lead singer with which act?
Answer: Four Tops
Question: ‘I Predict a Riot’ (2004) and ‘Never Miss a Beat’ (2008) were Top 10 hits for whom?
Answer: KAISER CHIEFS
Question: In 1952, who was knocked down for the first time in his career by Jersey Joe Walcott?
Answer: ROCKY MARCIANO
Question: In British Bingo, which number ball has the nickname ‘Dancing Queen’?
Answer: 17
Question: What plain, woven cloth gets its name from a port in north-east India?
Answer: CALICO
Question: Peter Murrell is the husband of which politician?
Answer: NICOLA STURGEON
Question: Scurvy is caused by a deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: C
Question: Opera. Which Benjamin Britten opera is set in a fictional fishing village?
Answer: PETER GRIMES
Question: In ‘Monopoly’, what is the first non-property square after ‘Go’?
Answer: COMMUNITY CHEST
Question: Baron Bomburst is a character in which British family film?
Answer: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
Question: What was the real name of Herman, from the pop group Herman’s Hermits?
Answer: PETER NOONE
Question: ‘The Last King of Scotland’ (2006) was set in which country?
Answer: UGANDA
Question: Who preceded General Cornwallis as Governor-General of India?
Answer: WARREN HASTINGS
Question: Florence, Pegasus, Symphony and Alice are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: STRAWBERRY
Question: Stranger’s Gate is an entrance to which world-famous park?
Answer: Central Park New York
Question: What is the name of the long loose cloak worn by Arab men?
Answer: Burnoose
Question: In the human body what is the common name for the third molar teeth?
Answer: Wisdom Teeth
Question: Who is the French equivalent of our Britannia?
Answer: Marianne
Question: What is the correct name for an ant’s nest?
Answer: Formicary
Question: Mass multiplied by velocity gives what?
Answer: Momentum
Question: Which is the main island of the Greek group the Dodecanese?
Answer: Rhodes
Question: What is the ancient Hebrew ceremonial wind instrument made from a ram’s horn?
Answer: Shofar
Question: Who painted The Rokeby Venus?
Answer: Velasquez
Question: Clints and grikes are found in formations of which rock?
Answer: Limestone
Question: What colour is the mineral malachite?
Answer: Green
Question: What do we call the layer of the Earth between its crust and its core?
Answer: Mantle
Question: What instruction to a printer means ‘let the original stand’?
Answer: Stet
Question: Who was title character Sarah Woodruff?
Answer: The French Lieutenant’s
Question: The Longmuir brothers were in which teeny-bop group?
Answer: Bay City Rollers
Question: In which country was the late actor Sid James born?
Answer: South Africa
Question: Found in the body what substance is cerumen?
Answer: Ear Wax
Question: Ruth Jones played which part in 'Gavin and Stacey' on television?
Answer: Nessa Jenkins
Question: Pepsico dropped the Smith's Crisps brand in favour of which other?
Answer: Walker's