zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which Cheshire born athlete has earned the accolades BBC Sports Personality of the Year; Laureus World Comeback of the Year etc? She was awarded the MBE in 2002.
Answer: Paula Radcliff
Question: Puffins are any of three small species of which seabird family?
Answer: Auks
Question: Which Bedford-based brewery produces Bombardier, marketed as the 'Drink of England'?
Answer: Wells
Question: Who wrote a collection of short stories about a gang of schoolboys called Stalky & Co?
Answer: RUDYARD KIPLING
Question: In the medical procedure CT scan, for what does the letter T stand?
Answer: (COMPUTERISED) TOMOGRAPHY
Question: Alexandra of Denmark was married to which English king?
Answer: EDWARD VII
Question: The National Trust property Clouds Hill in Dorset was the home of which military man and writer?
Answer: T E LAWRENCE
Question: Which National Trust property in Northumberland was the home of inventor and engineer William Armstrong?
Answer: CRAGSIDE
Question: In which classic novel does Bathsheba Everdene appear?
Answer: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Question: Apart from 1966 when was the only other year when England reached the semi-final of the FIFA world Cup?
Answer: 1990
Question: Which Turner Prize-winning sculptor designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a 22m. sculpture, for the London 2012 Olympic Park?
Answer: Anish Kapoor
Question: Who was elected President of Ireland in November 2011?
Answer: Michael D. Higgins
Question: Lester B. Pearson Airport serves which Commonwealth city?
Answer: Toronto
Question: Sarah Lund is the central character in which Danish detective series, shown on BBC Four?
Answer: The Killing
Question: Which space shuttle, it touched down in July 2011, brought NASA's shuttle programme to an end?
Answer: Atlantis
Question: Which of Beethoven's symphonies is known as 'The Choral"?
Answer: Ninth
Question: Which former party leader is MP for North East Fife?
Answer: Menzies Campbell
Question: Which London borough was granted Royal Borough status marking the Queen's Silver Jubilee?
Answer: Greenwich
Question: David Walliams swam 140 miles of the River Thames in 2011 to raise funds for which charity?
Answer: Sport Relief
Question: Kingsford Smith Airport serves which Commonwealth city?
Answer: Sydney
Question: Lucy Snow is the heroine of which Charlotte Bronte novel?
Answer: Villette
Question: The luxury Maybach car models are to be discontinued in 2013, which car company produces them?
Answer: Mercedes
Question: Fleance appears in Shakespeare's Macbeth, whose son is he?
Answer: Banquo
Question: What type of which fish is an albacore?
Answer: Tuna
Question: Who designed the wedding dress for the Duchess of Cambridge?
Answer: Sarah Burton
Question: Who won Strictly Come Dancing, 2012?
Answer: Louis Smith
Question: Which famous bridge, built in 1607, is the oldest bridge in Paris?
Answer: Pont Neuf
Question: The two black aces and the two black eights is called the 'Dead Man's Hand' in poker, who is said to have been holding it when he was shot in the back in 1876?
Answer: Wild Bill Hickok
Question: What name is given to the graduated glass tube used to measure small precise amounts of liquids during titration in chemical analysis?
Answer: Burette
Question: In which resort is the Cresta Run toboggan race run?
Answer: St Moritz
Question: The-new Boeing "Dreamliner" aircraft has which numerical designation?
Answer: 787
Question: King Abdullah became king of what country in 1999?
Answer: Jordan
Question: The name of the NRL rugby league club South Sydney is completed by what animal-related name?
Answer: Rabbitohs
Question: In the BBC's 2011 reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes, who plays housekeeper Mrs Hudson?
Answer: Una Stubbs
Question: In human anatomy, what can be cervical or thoracic, amongst others?
Answer: Vertebrae
Question: St Mungo also known as St Kentigern is patron city of which UK city?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: In which city was the Alfa Romeo car company founded in 1910?
Answer: Milan
Question: Which cut of steak is named after a man who once served as an ambassador to Napoleon Bonaparte?
Answer: Chateaubriand
Question: Who was the architect for the proposed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral begun in 1933 of which only the crypt was completed?
Answer: Edwin Lutyens
Question: The airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed on May 6th of which year?
Answer: 1937
Question: Who won an Oscar for her role as 'Mammy' in 'Gone With The Wind'?
Answer: Hattie McDaniel
Question: Who resigned from the post of Home Secretary in 1972 because of his involvement with the architect John Poulson?
Answer: Reginald Maudling
Question: Which astronomer coined the term 'Big Bang'?
Answer: Fred Hoyle
Question: Which is the largest lake wholly in Canada?
Answer: GREAT BEAR LAKE
Question: Who is credited with inventing the bifocal lens?
Answer: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Question: Where in North Carolina did the Wright Brothers first flight take place?
Answer: KITTY HAWK
Question: Which is the largest lake in Africa?
Answer: LAKE VICTORIA
Question: Which American author, born in Des Moines, Iowa, was Chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011?
Answer: BILL BRYSON
Question: Who was the British Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of World War II?
Answer: LORD HALIFAX
Question: Which Jane Austen novel begins 'The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex'?
Answer: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Question: What do Americans call a frying pan?
Answer: SKILLET
Question: Which play that premiered in 1956, featured the character Jimmy Porter?
Answer: LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Question: Who composed 'The Little Russian Symphony'?
Answer: TCHAIKOVSKY
Question: What was the former name of the African city of Harare?
Answer: SALISBURY
Question: Who wrote the 1927 novel 'To the Lighthouse'?
Answer: VIRGINIA WOOLF
Question: Droitwich and Kidderminster are towns in which English county?
Answer: WORCESTERSHIRE
Question: Who was the only US President to remain a bachelor?
Answer: JAMES BUCHANAN
Question: The song 'Memory', is a show tune from which musical?
Answer: CATS
Question: Ciampino Airport serves which European city?
Answer: ROME
Question: Which actress won the Best Actress Oscar for the 1989 film 'Driving Miss Daisy'?
Answer: JESSICA TANDY
Question: Which actor plays the Earl of Grantham in the ITV series 'Downton Abbey'?
Answer: HUGH BONNEVILLE
Question: Nathan Bedford Forrest was the original leader of which American organisation?
Answer: THE KU KLUX KLAN
Question: Paul Metcalfe is the real name of which Gerry Anderson puppet character?
Answer: CAPTAIN SCARLET
Question: Which hero of science fiction was created by Alex Raymond?
Answer: FLASH GORDON
Question: Who was the captain of the victorious West Indies cricket team which won the 2012 T20 World Cup?
Answer: DARREN SAMMY
Question: Which South African batsman scored 311 not out against England at the Oval in July 2012?
Answer: HASHIM AMLA
Question: What was the name of the parrot who taught Doctor Dolittle to talk to the animals?
Answer: POLYNESIA
Question: Who replaced Chris Moyles as presenter of the Radio One Breakfast Show in September 2012?
Answer: NICK GRIMSHAW
Question: Who is Alexander Armstrong's seated assistant on the quiz show 'Pointless'?
Answer: RICHARD OSMAN
Question: Who composed the opera 'The Cunning Little Vixen'?
Answer: LEOS JANACEK
Question: Which golfer sank the crucial putt in the 2012 Ryder Cup to ensure that Europe retained the trophy?
Answer: MARTIN KAYMER
Question: From which language does the word 'ghetto' originate?
Answer: ITALIAN
Question: What was the name of the owl in the children's BBC TV show 'he Herbs'?
Answer: Sage
Question: Stephen Blackpool is a character in which Dickens novel?
Answer: Hard Times
Question: Mahe, Praslin and Silhouette are part of which island group?
Answer: The Seychelles
Question: In which year was the Panama Canal opened?
Answer: 1914
Question: Which sea area is directly north of Rockall?
Answer: Bailey
Question: Who was the first boxer to win three successive Olympic Heavyweight titles?
Answer: Teofilo Stevenson
Question: Which Frenchman first explored the St Lawrence River from 1534-1536 and 1541-1542?
Answer: Jacques Cartier
Question: Who wrote the 1987 Booker Prize winning novel 'Moon Tiger'?
Answer: Penelope Lively
Question: Which wine producing area of France is famous for wines such as Beaune and Nuits Saint-Georges?
Answer: Burgundy
Question: What is the chemical formula for methane?
Answer: CH4
Question: Which domestic appliance was invented by H W Seeley in 1882?
Answer: Electric Iron
Question: Which duo's films included Rio Rita' and The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap'?
Answer: Abbott and Costello
Question: What is the star sign for the lst August?
Answer: Leo
Question: Which city did Rome destroy at the end of the Second Punic War?
Answer: Carthage
Question: Who commanded the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: George Meade
Question: What animal is also known as the honey-badger?
Answer: Ratel
Question: In 1834 which British prime minister presented the Tamworth Manifesto. forming the basis of the modem Conservative Party?
Answer: Robert Peel
Question: How is the harebell more commonly known in Scotland?
Answer: Bluebell
Question: Who was the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year for 2012?
Answer: Bradley Wiggins
Question: 'Frailty thy name is woman' is a quotation from which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Gangnam, made famous in the song 'Gangnam Style' by Psy, is a wealthy suburb of which city?
Answer: Seoul
Question: Which bottled sauce is made using malt vinegar, spirit vinegar, molasses, sugar, salt, anchovies, tamarind extract, onions, garlic, spice, and flavouring?
Answer: Worcestershire Sauce
Question: Juries in criminal cases in Scotland uniquely consist of how many members?
Answer: 15
Question: The largest municipal library in the UK and the largest regional library in Europe opened in 2013 in which town or city?
Answer: Birmingham
Question: 60% of which country's wine is produced in the Mendoza region?
Answer: Argentina
Question: At the 2012 London Olympics, which Welsh woman won a Taekwondo Gold medal?
Answer: Jade Jones
Question: Natalie Coleman won which TV competition in 2013?
Answer: Masterchef
Question: In which Puccini opera does Lieutenant Pinkerton appear?
Answer: Madame Butterfly
Question: Shrub Hill is a railway station in which cathedral city?
Answer: Worcester
Question: Free Jazz and The Shape of Jazz to Come are landmark albums by which innovative jazz saxophonist?
Answer: Ornette Coleman
Question: Who is the only US President never to have married?
Answer: James Buchanan
Question: Who was the second athlete to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
Answer: John Landy
Question: The Kingdom of Dahomey became which modem African republic?
Answer: Benin
Question: The main show court at the French Open Tennis Championships held at Roland Garros in Paris is named after which female player?
Answer: Suzanne Lenglen
Question: Who was the last Stuart monarch?
Answer: Anne
Question: Bond girls - what character did Jane Seymour play in the film 'Live and Let Die'?
Answer: Solitaire
Question: Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera has the alternate title 'The Peer and the Peri'?
Answer: Iolanthe
Question: In the Asterix books, what is the name of Asterix's closest friend?
Answer: Obelix
Question: The site of Pompeii is dose to which city, the capital of Italy's Campania region?
Answer: Naples
Question: Which artist created 'The Lobster Telephone' in 1936 and 'Mae West Lip Sofa' in 1937?
Answer: Salvador Dali
Question: Who wrote the novel Villette' in 1853?
Answer: Charlotte Bronte
Question: In the TV series 'Rising Damp', which actress played Miss Jones?
Answer: Frances de la Tour
Question: The line "That's not the Northern Lights, that's Manderley" is said towards the end of which 1940 film?
Answer: Rebecca
Question: What type of exhibits can be seen in the museum at Crich in Derbyshire?
Answer: Trams
Question: Who wrote the 1845 poem 'Home Thoughts from Abroad'?
Answer: Robert Browning
Question: Who was the first U.S. president to be born in the United States of America?
Answer: Martin Van Buren
Question: Which Verdi opera is based on the play Le Roi S'amuse by Victor Hugo?
Answer: Rigoletto
Question: In which city is the Potala Palace?
Answer: Lhasa
Question: In the Rugrats, who is Tommy Pickles' younger brother?
Answer: Dil
Question: The natives of which English county are known as Moonrakers?
Answer: Wiltshire
Question: Which managing director of the "International Monetary fund" was forced to resign after a sex scandal in 2011?
Answer: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Question: Who did Luis Suarez controversially bite in April 2013 costing him a 10 match suspension?
Answer: Branislav Ivanovic
Question: Which of the Tracy brothers piloted Thunderbird 4?
Answer: Scott
Question: Which Norwegian dramatist wrote the plays "A Doll's House" and "Ghosts"?
Answer: Henrik Ibsen
Question: Who was the first person to fly solo around the world?
Answer: Wiley Post
Question: What is the anatomical name for the shin bone?
Answer: Tibia
Question: Who played "The Jackal" in the 1973 film "The Day of the Jackal"?
Answer: Edward Fox
Question: Who played the title role in the 1997 film "The Jackal" a remake of "The Day of the Jackal?
Answer: Bruce Willis
Question: Who wrote the 1997 novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities"?
Answer: Tom Wolfe
Question: Which current BBC TV programme was first shown in 1977 with Angela Rippon and Tom Coyne as its original presenters?
Answer: Top Gear
Question: What name is given to the sash traditionally worn with a kimono?
Answer: Obi
Question: Which chemical company caused a chemical leak in the Indian city of Bopal?
Answer: UNION CARBIDE
Question: What nickname was given to the Beijing National Stadium?
Answer: THE BIRD'S NEST
Question: Who was the leading man in the film 'Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
Answer: GEORGE PEPPARD
Question: What is the name of the bike used to set the pace in a Keirin race in any indoor cycling race?
Answer: DERNY
Question: Who became Lord Protector of England in 1653?
Answer: OLIVER CROMWELL
Question: 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of which Jane Austen novel?
Answer: PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Question: Who in 1890, composed the music for the opera 'Ivanhoe'?
Answer: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Question: In Hindu mythology, who is the goddess of destruction and death?
Answer: KALI
Question: Alfredo di Stefano, of Real Madrid fame was born in which country?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: Every episode of which TV detective series was introduced with a message on an answering machine?
Answer: ROCKFORD FILES
Question: Whose 19th century dictionary standardised US English?
Answer: NOAH WEBSTER
Question: Who was Tsar of Russia when the serfs were emancipated?
Answer: ALEXANDER II
Question: In which year did the Space Shuttle Challenger crash?
Answer: 1986
Question: Who was Prime Minister at time of the Battle of Waterloo?
Answer: LORD LIVERPOOL
Question: What is the name of the Wiltshire house of the Marquis of Bath?
Answer: LONGLEAT
Question: According to Greek mythology how often does a Phoenix rise from the ashes of its predecessor?
Answer: 500 YEARS
Question: Alex Turner is the leader of which British group, winner of the 2006 Mercury Prize?
Answer: ARCTIC MONKEYS
Question: Who married Brooke Shields in 1997?
Answer: Andre Agassi
Question: Of what country is Mogadishu the capital?
Answer: Somalia
Question: Who won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 2013?
Answer: Marion Bartoli
Question: Which Republic of Ireland football club was the first Irish club ever to get through to the group stage of the Europa Cup?
Answer: Shamrock Rovers
Question: Whom did Ffion Jenkins many in 1997?
Answer: William Hague
Question: For what were Baffin, Frobisher and Franklin all searching?
Answer: The Northwest Passage
Question: In pop record terms, what have Snow Patrol being doing to cars, Adele to pavements and Shed Seven to rainbows?
Answer: Chasing
Question: In the 1957 film Pal Joey, who played Joey Evans?
Answer: FRANK SINATRA
Question: What is Boris Johnson's first name?
Answer: ALEXANDER
Question: What was the name of the spacecraft that took the first American woman, Sally Ride, into space?
Answer: CHALLENGER
Question: In cooking, the unpleasant smelling gas that is produced when you over-cook cabbage is a compound of which element?
Answer: SULPHUR
Question: Lobjoits, Webbs Wonderful and Winter Density are varieties of which summer vegetable?
Answer: LETTUCE
Question: In which country were the Tonton Macoute active?
Answer: HAITI
Question: Which Charles Dickens character lived in Satis House?
Answer: MISS HAVISHAM
Question: Nora Barnacle was the muse and wife of which Irish writer?
Answer: James Joyce
Question: Which US Civil War union general said "I am tired and sick of fighting, its glory is all moonshine. War is Hell"?
Answer: William Sherman
Question: Whose first studio album in a decade 'The Next Day' was released in 2013?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: For what name does the 'E' stand in Richard E Grant?
Answer: Esterhuysen
Question: Who has been appointed as successor to Mervyn King as Governor of the Bank of England?
Answer: Mark Carney
Question: In which modern country is the ancient Roman province of Asia?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Who was Fred Astaire's female leading lady in the 1948 film `Easter Parade'?
Answer: Judy Garland
Question: Who was Fred Astaire's female leading lady in the 1957 film 'Silk Stockings'?
Answer: Cyd Charisse
Question: Who painted 'The Scapegoat', 'The Hireling Shepherd' and "The Light of the World?
Answer: William Holman Hunt
Question: Which company sponsored the 2013 Epsom Derby?
Answer: Investec
Question: Asmara is the capital city of which African country?
Answer: Eritrea
Question: Who wrote the detective novel 'The Nine Tailors' in 1934?
Answer: Dorothy L Sayers
Question: With which University did a Panorama reporter travel to North Korea to make an undercover film?
Answer: LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Question: Storm Thorgerson who died in April 2013 was particularly famous for designing what?
Answer: ALBUM COVERS
Question: Who was the first snooker player to have a maximum 147 break at the World Snooker Championships?
Answer: CLIFF THORBURN
Question: Which song especially written for the film version of Les Miserables was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song?
Answer: SUDDENLY
Question: The Book 'Best Kept Secret' is the third instalment of the Clifton Chronicles saga who is the author?
Answer: JEFFREY ARCHER
Question: Apart from the oboe which other instrument in a standard orchestra has a double reed?
Answer: BASSOON
Question: The film and stage musical Hairspray is set in which US City?
Answer: BALTIMORE
Question: On which island did the Colossus stand as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Answer: RHODES
Question: Red Stripe Beer was originally brewed in which country?
Answer: JAMAICA
Question: Which fountain pen range has a distinctive white star at the top of its cap?
Answer: MT. BLANC
Question: Proton Cars were originally produced in which country?
Answer: MALAYSIA
Question: The Finch family of Maycomb, Alabama feature in which 1960 novel?
Answer: To Kill A Mockingbird
Question: Scott Quigg is a current British World Champion, at which sport?
Answer: Boxing
Question: Give an alternative name for the flowering plant 'heartsease'?
Answer: (wild) Pansy
Question: Three people have featured on the reverse of the £5 note, the two most recent are George Stephenson and Elizabeth Fry, who was the first?
Answer: Duke of Wellington
Question: In which Walt Disney film does the song 'When You Wish Upon a Star' appear?
Answer: Pinocchio
Question: In which Danish city is St Canute's Cathedral?
Answer: Odense
Question: Who presents the Radio 4 panel game 'The Unbelievable Truth' and is married to Victoria Coren?
Answer: David Mitchell
Question: Which company makes the Lumix series of cameras?
Answer: Panasonic
Question: Who won the cricket county championship in both 2008 and 2009?
Answer: Durham
Question: The Sutherland Falls, the fifth highest waterfalls in the world are in which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Who first translated the New Testament into English in 1526?
Answer: William Tyndale
Question: Who was King of Denmark during world war two? A regnal number is not needed.
Answer: Christian
Question: Which us writer wrote "On The Road" in 1958?
Answer: Jack Kerouac
Question: Kampuchea is a former name of which country?
Answer: Cambodia
Question: Who founded the 'Ballet Russes' in 1909?
Answer: SERGEI DIAGHILEV
Question: Who composed the music for the opera Idomeneo?
Answer: MOZART
Question: Which is the highest mountain in Germany?
Answer: ZUGSPITZE
Question: Which Welshman defeated Chris Eubank to win the WBO Super Middleweight World Title in 1997?
Answer: JOE CALZAGHE
Question: Which US Air Force test pilot became the first man to break the sound barrier in a Bell X-1 rocket plane in October 1947?
Answer: CHUCK YEAGER
Question: Who introduced The 'New Look' in women's fashion in February 1947?
Answer: CHRISTIAN DIOR
Question: Who played Captain Renault in the film Casablanca?
Answer: CLAUDE RAINS
Question: What was the former name of Burkina Faso?
Answer: UPPER VOLTA
Question: In which county is Hinckley Point Power Station?
Answer: SOMERSET
Question: In which American State was the first atomic bomb detonated?
Answer: NEW MEXICO
Question: Which group does Bruce Dickenson front?
Answer: IRON MAIDEN
Question: In which UK county is RAF Lakenheath?
Answer: SUFFOLK
Question: Who played Rooster Cogburn in the remake of the film 'True Grit'?
Answer: JEFF BRIDGES
Question: Who was the last Leader of the Liberal Party?
Answer: DAVID STEEL
Question: Who directed Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2011 film 'J Edgar'?
Answer: CLINT EASTWOOD
Question: Who is the third wife of Rod Stewart, they married in 2007?
Answer: PENNY LANCASTER
Question: Which science fiction film of 1956 was loosely based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
Answer: FORBIDDEN PLANET
Question: What is the surname of the Detective Sergeant, played by Lee Ingleby, in the Inspector George Gently TV series?
Answer: BACCHUS
Question: In which city was William Ewart Gladstone born?
Answer: LIVERPOOL
Question: What company was founded by Jerry Young and David Filo in 1994?
Answer: YAHOO!
Question: Which very successful Australian Director's first American film was 'Witness' in 1985, starring Harrison Ford?
Answer: PETER WEIR
Question: Who has written books under the pseudonym Barbara Vine?
Answer: Ruth Rendell
Question: The Irish town of Drogheda in Ireland is situated on which river?
Answer: River Boyne
Question: Who built the first cast iron bridge at Coalbrookdale, opened in 1780?
Answer: (Abraham) Darby
Question: What is the name of the alternative medicine involving applying pressure to the feet and hands?
Answer: Reflexology
Question: Through which European capital city does the River Tagus flow?
Answer: Lisbon
Question: Which is the home ground of FC Barcelona?
Answer: Nou Camp
Question: In the Monty Python TV sketch, what type of dead parrot did John Cleese return to the pet shop?
Answer: Norwegian Blue
Question: In which city did the original jazz club Birdland open in 1949?
Answer: New York
Question: Which prison is situated in San Francisco Bay?
Answer: Alcatraz
Question: In the cartoon series, whose girlfriend is named Olive Oyl?
Answer: Popeye
Question: What was the surname of the Haitian dictator Papa Doc?
Answer: (Francois) Duvalier
Question: Which ancient calendar predicted that the world would end on 21st December 2012?
Answer: Mayan
Question: At which lock does the Manchester Ship Canal join the River Mersey?
Answer: Eastham
Question: What was the biggest and bloodiest battle fought on American soil?
Answer: Gettysburg
Question: Which singer had a no 1 hit in 1985 with a duet singing with Barbara Dickson?
Answer: Elaine Paige
Question: Which Conservative MP resigned as Government Chief Whip after the 'Plebgate' incident?
Answer: Andrew Mitchell
Question: The Jane Austen Museum is in which Hampshire village where she spent the last eight years of her life?
Answer: Chawton
Question: Who played the title role of Jack Reacher in the 2012 film of Lee Child's novel 'One Shot?
Answer: Tom Cruise
Question: Who wrote the opera 'Girl of the Golden West' in 1910?
Answer: Puccini