zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What type of clamp would an engineer use to hold an object with radial symmetry?
Answer: Chuck
Question: Professor Otto Lidenbrock followed Arne Saknussemm where?
Answer: Centre of the Earth
Question: In 1995 the Labour Party abandoned which part of its constitution?
Answer: Clause IV
Question: Rolo, Aero, Kit Kat, and Roses were all introduced in which decade?
Answer: 1930s
Question: The title First Level Nurse replaced Registered General Nurse, which replaced what?
Answer: State Registered Nurse
Question: In 1917, which Queen received the first Damehood, the female equivalent of a knighthood?
Answer: Mary
Question: In 1963 President Kennedy was shot in which square in Dallas?
Answer: Dealey Plaza
Question: Who were Bobby 'Boris' Pickett's backing group on his hit 'Monster Mash'?
Answer: Crypt-Kickers
Question: Joe E Ross and Fred Gwynne starred in which comedy police series on TV?
Answer: Car 54
Question: In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein what is Frankenstein’s first name?
Answer: Victor
Question: Atoms that have either gained or lost electrons are called what?
Answer: Ions
Question: What is the name of the Barlow’s border terrier in Coronation Street?
Answer: Eccles
Question: In which month of the year does Lammas Day fall?
Answer: August
Question: What do we call a bell-tower not attached to a church?
Answer: Campanile
Question: Whose body was preserved in a barrel of brandy for the sea journey home?
Answer: Lord Nelson
Question: Which 20 century artist was famous for his ‘drip’ style of painting?
Answer: Jackson Pollack
Question: The Society of Harmonious Fists was responsible for which rebellion?
Answer: Boxer Rebellion
Question: Boris Rankov was on the winning side six times in which famous event?
Answer: University Boat Race
Question: Whose first venture into ‘talkies’ was Anna Christie?
Answer: Greta Garbo
Question: Who did Jacqueline Kennedy marry on Skorpios in 1968?
Answer: Aristotle Onassis
Question: Which show jumper achieved success on Mister Softee?
Answer: David Broome
Question: In 1969, who became Israel’s first woman Prime Minister?
Answer: GOLDA MEIR
Question: In which cycling event did Victoria Pendleton win gold at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: KEIRIN
Question: Zelda was the wife of which writer, born in Minnesota in 1896?
Answer: F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Question: What was the name of Sigourney Weaver’s character in the ‘Alien’ films?
Answer: Ellen RIPLEY
Question: In the USA, Martin Luther King Day is observed on the 3rd Monday of which month?
Answer: JANUARY
Question: Who wrote the play ‘Waiting For Godot’, which premiered in 1953?
Answer: Samuel BECKETT
Question: Edward Bear is the alternative name for which character from children’s literature?
Answer: WINNIE THE POOH
Question: What term of endearment do Andy and Flo Capp use, when not arguing?
Answer: PET
Question: Which five-star luxury hotel on Park Lane has 250 rooms and 49 suites?
Answer: DORCHESTER
Question: Which STD is colloquially known as ‘the clap’?
Answer: GONORRHEA
Question: What is the name of the professor of phonetics in G.B. Shaw’s play ‘Pygmalion’?
Answer: HENRY HIGGINS
Question: How old was Nelson Mandela, when he passed away on the 5th?
Answer: 95
Question: Which date in March is generally the first day of Aries, and the zodiacal year?
Answer: 21st
Question: What was the name of the girl that Tom Sawyer loved?
Answer: BECKY THATCHER
Question: Whom did Colin Firth play when he won the Best Actor Oscar in 2011?
Answer: King GEORGE VI
Question: ‘Everybody’s Talkin’ featured prominently in the music for which 1969 film?
Answer: MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Question: The extinct Moa was the largest ever what …. to live on Earth?
Answer: Bird
Question: Which Kathryn Bigelow directed film, centred on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden?
Answer: Zero Dark Thirty
Question: What artistic term was given to the music of Debussy, Ravel and Delius?
Answer: Impressionist
Question: The third day of the Hindu festival of Diwali honours which Goddess of Fortune?
Answer: Lakshmi
Question: In which month does Rio’s Mardi Gras nearly always take place?
Answer: February
Question: Which gland produces the hormones that control the body’s metabolism?
Answer: Thyroid
Question: In which US state are the Sonoma and Nappa Valley wine growing areas?
Answer: California
Question: Amarone is one of the great wines of which country?
Answer: Italy
Question: In Robin Hood the title character was portrayed as which animal?
Answer: Fox
Question: Which creature is the emblem of St Agnes?
Answer: Lamb
Question: Which hairdresser created the ‘wash n‘ wear bob’ in 1965?
Answer: Vidal Sassoon
Question: Which condition was known as ‘The King’s Evil’?
Answer: Scrofula
Question: At Cambridge the ‘Senior Wrangler’ is the top performer at what?
Answer: Mathematics
Question: Which construction was officially titled the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart?
Answer: Berlin Wall
Question: In which film did Clint Eastwood play Will Munny?
Answer: Unforgiven
Question: What name was given by the Sioux Indians to John J Dunbar?
Answer: Dances With Wolves
Question: Who had a secretary called Joan Greengross?
Answer: Reginald Perrin
Question: Which state did JFK represent as a senator?
Answer: Massachusetts
Question: Which Blackadder cast member was knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours List?
Answer: Sir Tony Robinson
Question: Which seaside resort extends either side of the Great Orme headland?
Answer: Llandudno
Question: Which football club does Robbie Williams make much of supporting?
Answer: Port Vale
Question: Which is the only county in the Republic of Ireland whose name begins with a vowel?
Answer: County Offaly
Question: Who was the first monarch to style himself “King of the English” and “King of All Britain”?
Answer: Æthelstan
Question: Also the name of the local dialect, what is the term for an inhabitant of Monaco?
Answer: Monegasque
Question: Which poet laureate wrote “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks”?
Answer: Nahum Tate
Question: Which five words from a nursery rhyme were the first Edison recorded on a phonograph?
Answer: Mary had a little lamb
Question: Which chemical acid makes up around 0.5% of what is called gastric acid?
Answer: HYDROCHLORIC
Question: Who was President of the USA in 1976?
Answer: GERALD FORD
Question: Angela Merkel is the leader of which political party in Germany?
Answer: CDU
Question: In which country is the cake known as ‘stollen’ traditionally eaten at Christmas?
Answer: GERMANY
Question: Which statesman, Egypt’s third President, was born on 25/12/1918?
Answer: ANWAR El SADAT
Question: ‘Hollyoaks’ is set in which English town or city?
Answer: CHESTER
Question: In 1967, who became the first recipient of a human heart transplant?
Answer: LOUIS WASHKANSKY
Question: The Bible. What is the fifth book of the Old Testament?
Answer: DEUTERONOMY
Question: Which London park lies between Horse Guards Parade and Buckingham Palace?
Answer: ST JAMES`S Park
Question: In the Winnie the Poo stories, what is Kanga's baby called?
Answer: ROO
Question: Which temple is depicted on the flag of Cambodia?
Answer: ANGKOR WAT
Question: Chennai is the capital and chief city of which Indian state?
Answer: TAMIL NADU
Question: In Hindu myth, which creature is associated with the god Hanuman?
Answer: MONKEY
Question: What does an omophagic creature eat?
Answer: MEAT
Question: Awarded by Congress; which is the highest military decoration given in the U.S.A.?
Answer: MEDAL OF HONOR
Question: In which country was the world's first international Air show held in 1909?
Answer: FRANCE
Question: Which classic French sauce is made by whisking clarified butter into warm egg yolks?
Answer: Hollandaise
Question: The so-called “Curse of the Bambino” afflicted which team between 1918 and 2004?
Answer: Boston Red Sox
Question: Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem was the resident band on which TV show?
Answer: The Muppets
Question: In 1961, where did a CIA-sponsored group make an unsuccessful attempt to invade Cuba?
Answer: Bay of Pigs
Question: Who wrote the short-story collection The Dubliners, published in 1914?
Answer: James Joyce
Question: In Australia, what sort of creature is a goanna?
Answer: Monitor lizard
Question: What relation was William III to Charles I?
Answer: Grandson
Question: Which country owns the Queen Elizabeth islands?
Answer: Canada
Question: What type of creature is a Turnstone?
Answer: A Bird
Question: In 20,000 leagues Under the Sea, what was the name Captain Nemo’s submarine?
Answer: The Nautilus
Question: Which French Monarch was known as the Citizen King?
Answer: Louis-Philippe
Question: In which Australian state is the city of Newcastle?
Answer: New South Wales
Question: For which king was the Palace at Versailles built?
Answer: Louis XIV
Question: Born 384 BCE, which philosopher was a tutor to Alexander the Great?
Answer: Aristotle
Question: Whose preserved head can be seen in a large glass case at University College London?
Answer: Jeremy Bentham
Question: In which Australian state did a gold rush begin in July 1851?
Answer: Victoria
Question: What was Charles Dickens final completed novel?
Answer: Our Mutual Friend
Question: According to the children’s rhyme, What is Tuesday’s Child?
Answer: Full of Grace
Question: Which North African dish consists of semolina granules cooked by steaming?
Answer: Couscous
Question: Whales can be divided into two types Toothed and what?
Answer: Baleen
Question: Which whale has the largest brain of any creature on Earth?
Answer: The Sperm Whale
Question: Which actress provided the love interest in the film High Noon ?
Answer: Grace Kelly
Question: What nationality is tennis legend Roger Federer?
Answer: SWISS
Question: Inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell died and was buried in which country?
Answer: CANADA
Question: Mt Elbrus, Europe's highest, is in which country?
Answer: RUSSIA
Question: Kigali is the capital of which African country?
Answer: RWANDA
Question: Who was the female lead in John Wayne's last film, 'The Shootist'?
Answer: Lauren BACALL
Question: If, as is almost impossible now, you had variola, which disease would you have?
Answer: SMALLPOX
Question: In Western tradition, Emerald is a birth stone for which month?
Answer: MAY
Question: Which drama featured Michael Pallin, Robert Lindsay, & Julie Walters as Lindsay's mum?
Answer: GBH
Question: In which Winter Olympics city did John Curry win gold in 1976?
Answer: INNSBRUCK
Question: Which American owned a yacht called 'Honey Fitz'?
Answer: John F KENNEDY
Question: Which god in Greek myth, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, is messenger of the sea?
Answer: TRITON
Question: Which American state produces the most potatoes?
Answer: IDAHO
Question: In 1871, Whitcome Judson created what - originally used for fastening shoes?
Answer: ZIPPER
Question: Which European country introduced the world's first diesel locomotive in 1912?
Answer: GERMANY
Question: Which future Prime Minister was appointed UK chancellor of the exchequer in 1924?
Answer: Winston CHURCHILL
Question: Which former home of the Earl of Shrewsbury is now an amusement park?
Answer: Alton Towers
Question: Which style of acting was founded by Konstantin Stanislavsky?
Answer: The Method
Question: Which country star wrote the Patsy Cline hit Crazy?
Answer: Willie Nelson
Question: Who is the only son of Prince Rainier of Monaco?
Answer: Prince Albert
Question: According to Einstein what is the Fourth Dimension?
Answer: Time
Question: Which record label turned down the Beatles after an audition in 1962?
Answer: Decca
Question: Which general burned Atlanta in the American Civil War?
Answer: Sherman
Question: With which part of the body does a stomatologist specialise?
Answer: The Mouth
Question: Who is the second-most senior judge in England and Wales after the Lord Chief Justice?
Answer: Master of the Rolls
Question: What does an American call a frying pan?
Answer: Skillet
Question: Here lies one whose name was writ in water?
Answer: John Keats
Question: Which animal was once thought to sweat blood?
Answer: Hippopotamus
Question: What is the nickname of Richard Rogers’ new Leadenhall building in London?
Answer: The Cheesegrater
Question: Mount Toubkal is the highest peak in which range of mountains?
Answer: Atlas
Question: Off which country is the Gulf of Carpenteria?
Answer: Australia
Question: What do we call a number that divides exactly into another?
Answer: Factor
Question: Who composed The Harmonious Blacksmith?
Answer: Handel
Question: Who was the Roman counterpart of the Greek goddess Demeter?
Answer: Ceres
Question: Who was the only driver to win a F1 World Championship in a car of his own design?
Answer: Jack Brabham
Question: For achievement in what field is the Fields Medal awarded?
Answer: Mathematics
Question: In which Irish county is the extensive area of limestone pavement known as The Burren?
Answer: County Clare
Question: Which composer’s “Minute Waltz” is used as theme music for ”Just a Minute”?
Answer: Frédéric Chopin
Question: Who is the medical examiner central to the crime novels of Patricia Cornwell?
Answer: Kay Scarpetta
Question: At which school was squash first played?
Answer: Harrow
Question: Which river flows the length of the Grand Canyon?
Answer: Colorado
Question: Which fruit is often carved onto gateposts as a symbol of hospitality?
Answer: Pineapple
Question: In The Archers, which river flows through Ambridge?
Answer: Am
Question: Which US composer wrote the 1976 opera, Einstein on the Beach?
Answer: Philip Glass
Question: Which make and model of aeroplane makes up Ryanair’s entire fleet?
Answer: Boeing 737-800
Question: Mel Brooks’ spoof of the Robin Hood films was called ‘Robin Hood, …’ .. what?
Answer: MEN IN TIGHTS
Question: The winner of ‘X Factor’ topped the Xmas charts in 2010 with ‘When We Collide’. What is his name?
Answer: MATT CARDLE
Question: Golfers have used terms such as twitches, staggers, jitters and jerks to describe what?
Answer: The YIPS
Question: The outer whorl of a flower is called a calyx . What is the plural form of the word?
Answer: CALYCES
Question: Who played the title role in ‘Hamish Macbeth’?
Answer: ROBERT CARLYLE
Question: Who played Violet Kray, the mother, in the 1990 film ‘The Krays’?
Answer: BILLIE WHITELAW
Question: In 1985, the remaining members of which pop band changed their name to Starship?
Answer: JEFFERSON STARSHIP
Question: What word refers to a verb form which functions as a noun, ending in –ing?
Answer: GERUND
Question: D.C.J. What part did Denise Richards play in ‘The World is not Enough’ (1999)?
Answer: DR. CHRISTMAS JONES
Question: Six teenagers are aged 13, 13, 14, 16, 18, and 19. What is the median of their ages?
Answer: FIFTEEN
Question: Who was the last Whig Prime Minister of the UK?
Answer: Lord John RUSSELL
Question: What real bird was later replaced by a fake one in traditional ‘hunts’ on Boxing Day?
Answer: WREN
Question: Which publication used to call itself The London Charivari?
Answer: Punch Magazine
Question: Which creature fought the lion in Alice Through the Looking Glass?
Answer: Unicorn
Question: Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is the title character in which famous novel?
Answer: The Idiot
Question: Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA fame collaborated with Tim Rice on which hit musical?
Answer: Chess
Question: Which acid occurs naturally in the human stomach?
Answer: Hydrochloric
Question: What bird did sailors call Mother Carey’s Chicken?
Answer: Stormy Petrel
Question: What is the name for the centre player in the front row of a rugby scrum?
Answer: Hooker
Question: Who plays Martha Costello QC in the BBC’s legal drama Silk?
Answer: Maxine Peake
Question: Who was manager of Melchester Rovers when Roy Race joined the club?
Answer: Ben Galloway
Question: The Sovereign Base Areas are on which island?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: Which dictator called himself ‘Brother Number One’?
Answer: Pol Pot
Question: Between 1922 and 1927 Orwell lived in Burma – what was his job there?
Answer: Policeman
Question: Which pungent spice is called ‘jeera’ in Indian cooking?
Answer: Cumin
Question: Which ruthless dictator was nicknamed ‘Dada’?
Answer: Idi Amin
Question: Which eponymous classical heroine goes to Lowood School?
Answer: Jane Eyre
Question: From which prison did Ronnie Biggs escape after serving only 19 months of his sentence?
Answer: Wandsworth
Question: What do we call the sweetmeat Rahat Lokum?
Answer: Turkish Delight
Question: In which American sitcom did English actress Jane Leeves play a major character?
Answer: Frasier
Question: Which peninsula lies to the east of the Suez Canal?
Answer: Sinai Peninsula
Question: Which club sacked its manager after only 75 days in the job?
Answer: Fulham
Question: On a Monopoly board what makes up the set with Coventry Street and Leicester Square?
Answer: Piccadilly
Question: Where is the ‘benthic zone’?
Answer: Sea Bed
Question: Who did Squeaky Fromme try to assassinate?
Answer: Gerald Ford
Question: Who wrote The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy?
Answer: Brendan Behan
Question: What is the name of the dog in Jerome K Jerome’s novel Three Men In A Boat?
Answer: Montmorency
Question: What kind of creatures are loggerheads and hawksbills?
Answer: Turtles
Question: Coprolite is the name given by archaeologists to fossilized ………..what?
Answer: Faeces
Question: Which town on the Isle of Mull was also the name of a Womble?
Answer: Tobermory
Question: Which war ended with the treaty of Panmunjom?
Answer: Korean War
Question: Which cabinet member is heir to a wallpaper fortune?
Answer: George Osborne
Question: Who was the target of Operation Neptune Spear?
Answer: Osama Bin Laden
Question: Who founded and conducted The London Symphony Orchestra?
Answer: Sir Thomas Beecham
Question: Which action painter was Jack the Dripper?
Answer: Jackson Pollock
Question: A mutated MC1R gene causes what physical trait?
Answer: Red Hair
Question: Which Turkish town was the birthplace of St Paul?
Answer: Tarsus
Question: What kind of rock is formed as a result of heat or pressure?
Answer: Metamorphic Rock
Question: In which ocean is the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya?
Answer: Arctic
Question: The Goddess of Protection and daughter of Ra, Bastet had the head of which creature?
Answer: Cat
Question: Which luxury train which linked London and Paris was withdrawn in 1972?
Answer: The Golden Arrow
Question: What word do citizen’s band radio enthusiasts use for the police?
Answer: Bears
Question: In which comedy does Frances de la Tour play a secret drinking headmistress?
Answer: Big School
Question: What is the name of the Jewish candlestick with special religious meaning?
Answer: Menorah
Question: Which tradesman performed most of the runaway marriages in Gretna Green?
Answer: Blacksmith
Question: Which TV programme saw Assumpta electrocuted in the cellar?
Answer: Ballykissangel
Question: Which Australian service was founded by the Rev. John Flynn?
Answer: Flying Doctor Service
Question: The droppings of which British mammal are called ‘spraints’?
Answer: Otter
Question: Leatherback and loggerhead are varieties of which creature?
Answer: Turtle
Question: When women were first given the vote in 1918 how old did they have to be to receive it?
Answer: 30
Question: Which catastrophe was caused by phytophtora infestans?
Answer: Potato Famine
Question: The Gambia is entirely surrounded by which other African country?
Answer: Senegal
Question: Who had a 1985 UK hit with West End Girls?
Answer: Pet Shop Boys
Question: Who played Thelma in the movie Thelma and Louise?
Answer: Gina Davis
Question: In which novel has Britain been re-named Airstrip One?
Answer: 1984
Question: Some children suffer from ADD – what is this?
Answer: Attention Deficit Disorder
Question: Which is the only New York borough on the US mainland?
Answer: The Bronx
Question: In Lancashire someone is ‘skrikin’ – what are they doing?
Answer: Crying
Question: Gertrude Ederle in August 1926 was the first woman to do what?
Answer: Swim the Channel
Question: Mariachi bands originated in which country?
Answer: Mexico
Question: USAF Boeing VC-25 is also known as what when Barack Obama is on board?
Answer: Air Force One
Question: In alchemy what was Aqua Fortis?
Answer: Nitric Acid
Question: A Shot In The Dark was the follow-up to which successful 1963 comedy?
Answer: The Pink Panther
Question: The Folketing is which country’s parliament?
Answer: Denmark
Question: In which book did Hercule Poirot first appear?
Answer: The Mysterious Affair At Styles
Question: Who dedicated his Kreutzer Sonata to a violinist who refused to play it?
Answer: Beethoven
Question: ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is the most famous work of which of the metaphysical poets?
Answer: ANDREW MARVELL
Question: Which 1930 film instantly catapulted Marlene Dietrich to international stardom?
Answer: The BLUE ANGEL
Question: What word refers to liquid absorption, as by plants through their roots?
Answer: OSMOSIS
Question: Who was British Chancellor of the Exchequer at the start of this century?
Answer: GORDON BROWN
Question: In the strip cartoon ‘Peanuts’, Schroeder prefers to play the work of which composer?
Answer: BEETHOVEN
Question: Who got to no. 5 in the UK singles chart with ‘Hungry Like the Wolf’ in 1982?
Answer: DURAN DURAN
Question: Anatomy. What is the more scientific name for the breastbone?
Answer: STERNUM
Question: Who was admitted to Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, as ‘Patient 24740, white male’?
Answer: JOHN F. KENNEDY
Question: Before going solo, Belinda Carlisle was lead singer with which all-girl group?
Answer: GO-GOS
Question: In which 1917 film does a tramp become a policeman and tame the local bully?
Answer: EASY STREET
Question: Who composed the opera ‘Peter Grimes’?
Answer: Benjamin BRITTEN
Question: Who is the mother of Kate Hudson?
Answer: Goldie HAWN
Question: Which country was once known as Portuguese West Africa?
Answer: ANGOLA
Question: 'Go ahead, make my day' is a catchphrase from which 1983 film?
Answer: Sudden Impact
Question: Which ace nicknamed ‘Dogsbody’ was a prisoner in Colditz as WW2 came to an end?
Answer: Douglas Bader
Question: Which German Ace gave his name to two classic flying manoeuvres, involving ‘turns’?
Answer: Max Immelmann
Question: In which county are Hailes Abbey, Sudeley Castle and Berkeley Castle?
Answer: Gloucestershire
Question: Which popular, free computer operating system owes its existence to Linus Torvalds?
Answer: Linux
Question: Whose music looms large in the novel (and its film version) 'A Clockwork Orange'?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Question: In 1643 Evangalista Torichelli invented the world's first what?
Answer: Barometer
Question: Who invented the first safety razor in 1895?
Answer: King Camp Gillette
Question: In 1934, who wrote 'The Thin Man'?
Answer: Dashiell Hammett
Question: Who was the author of 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Answer: Jonathon Swift
Question: Which poker variant features cards referred to as 'the flop' or 'the river'?
Answer: Texas Hold Em
Question: Which psychological response is seen in the way some hostages react to their captors?
Answer: Stockholm Syndrome
Question: At the Kennington Oval in 1872, who did Wanderers beat in the very first FA Cup final?
Answer: Royal Engineers
Question: Built in 1776, which T was the name of the first submarine used for military purposes?
Answer: Turtle
Question: Who sang the theme for the James Bond film ‘Thunderball’?
Answer: TOM JONES
Question: What is the minimum number of smaller cubes required to make a larger cube?
Answer: EIGHT
Question: What was the four-word title of Katrina and the Waves’ winning entry in 1997?
Answer: LOVE SHINE A LIGHT
Question: Flight-lieutenant Jerry Rawlings ruled which African country from 1981-2001?
Answer: GHANA
Question: What is the name of Pip’s brother-in-law in ‘Great Expectations’?
Answer: JOE GARGERY
Question: Who got to no.2 in the charts in 2002 with ‘Cry Me a River’?
Answer: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Question: In which city were the 1988 summer Olympics held?
Answer: SEOUL
Question: Who stars as the suicidal alcoholic in the 1995 film, ‘Leaving Las Vegas’?
Answer: NICOLAS CAGE
Question: What sort of creature is the water moccasin?
Answer: SNAKE
Question: What was the name of the British family who adopted Paddington Bear?
Answer: BROWN
Question: A deciduous tree of the genus Betula is more commonly known as what?
Answer: BIRCH
Question: Where on the human body would you locate the carpal bones?
Answer: WRIST