zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What name is shared by the chairs of the UK House of Commons and the US House of Representatives?
Answer: Speaker
Question: Of what electoral system are "single transferable vote" and "party list" forms?
Answer: Proportional representation
Question: Which prime minister took Britain into the European Community in 1973?
Answer: Edward Heath
Question: In which country did Pol Pot lead the feared Khmer Rouge?
Answer: Cambodia
Question: How often are American presidential elections held?
Answer: Every four years
Question: Whose book Sexual Politics was a landmark in feminist thinking?
Answer: Kate Millett
Question: Which British company was effectively the ruler of much of India until the India Act of 1858?
Answer: East India Company
Question: Which are the two main political parties in the USA?
Answer: Democrats and Republicans
Question: Which British prime minister fell from office because of his repeal of the Corn Laws?
Answer: Robert Peel
Question: What was the racial segregation policy practiced by South Africa's National Party until 1994?
Answer: Apartheid
Question: What is the term used when a sitting MP is removed as the candidate for a forthcoming election?
Answer: Deselection
Question: Who was the last foreign secretary to serve in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet, an MP who also contested the leadership after her resignation?
Answer: Douglas Hurd
Question: Which publication documents all proceedings of the British parliament?
Answer: Hansard
Question: Who was "Britain's first ever Labour prime minister in 1924?
Answer: James Ramsey MacDonald
Question: Which US president introduced the New Deal in 1933 to counter the depression?
Answer: Franklin Roosevelt
Question: Which author had the real name Charles Dodgson?
Answer: Lewis Carroll
Question: Which battle of 1876 was Custer's last stand?
Answer: Little Bighorn
Question: What was the first name of the politician Gladstone, the composer Walton, and the reformer Wilberforce?
Answer: William
Question: Who was the most famous of English lexicographers?
Answer: Samuel Johnson
Question: In which of the arts has Richard Avedon distinguished himself?
Answer: Photography
Question: Which 18th-century dictionary compiler defined himself as a "harmless drudge"?
Answer: Samuel Johnson
Question: Who was president of the USSR from 1985-91?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
Question: What was the name of the Thracian slave who led an ultimately unsuccessful gladiator revolt against Rome in 73 BC?
Answer: Spartacus
Question: Whose circus did General Tom Thumb join at the age of five in 1843?
Answer: P T Barnum
Question: What is the strong inelastic material found in a human tendon?
Answer: Collagen
Question: What material forms the hard outermost layer of a human tooth?
Answer: Enamel
Question: Ascorbic acid is which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin C
Question: Whose research on X-ray diffraction of ?DNA crystals helped Crick and Watson during the race to discover the structure of DNA?
Answer: Rosalind Franklin
Question: What is described as an ionized gas with approximately equal numbers of positive and negative charges?
Answer: Plasma
Question: What was the name of the unit of heat now replaced by the joule?
Answer: Calorie
Question: What is the SI unit of magnetic flux density, named after a Croatian electrical engineer?
Answer: Tesla
Question: What grow as parasites and saprotrophs, contain no chlorophyll, and reproduce by means of spores?
Answer: Fungi
Question: Which sub-division of plants is named after their practice of forming 'naked seeds'?
Answer: Gymnosperms
Question: What kind of an organism causes a 'rust' attack on plants?
Answer: Fungus
Question: What is the name of the lustrous substance that forms pearl and mother-of-pearl?
Answer: Nacre
Question: What is the name of the so-called 'first-bird'?
Answer: Archaeopteryx
Question: What is the name of the evolutionary theory suggesting that evolution has an uneven pace?
Answer: Punctuated equilibrium
Question: Which part of the brain regulates physiological stability in the body?
Answer: Hypothalamus
Question: Which is the most acidic part of the digestive system?
Answer: Stomach
Question: What is the term fro a series of uncontrollable intakes of air caused by sudden spasms of the diaphragm?
Answer: Hiccups
Question: What is the more common name for the tympanic membrane?
Answer: Ear drum
Question: What is the name of the large muscle just beneath the lungs?
Answer: Diaphragm
Question: What name is given to the small bones which form the spinal column?
Answer: Vertebrae
Question: What are the chemicals produced by the endocrine glands to control body functions?
Answer: Hormones
Question: Which tissue secretes progesterone during the second half of the menstrual cycle?
Answer: Corpus luteum
Question: Which protein forms hair and nails?
Answer: Keratin
Question: What is the term given to the study of the weather?
Answer: Meteorology
Question: What is the term for the energy obtained from hot, underground rocks?
Answer: Geothermal
Question: What name is given to the rocks swallowed by dinosaurs to assist their digestion?
Answer: Gastroliths
Question: Which chemical, commonly used to increase crop yield, sometimes contaminates drinking water?
Answer: Nitrate
Question: Which Indian state is at the eastern end of the Himalayas?
Answer: Assam
Question: What once covered 14% of the Earth's land area, but by 1991 over half had been destroyed?
Answer: Rainforest
Question: The damaged Chernobyl nuclear power station is situated in which country?
Answer: Ukraine
Question: What is the collective term for substances such as coal, oil and natural gas, the burning of which produces carbon dioxide?
Answer: Fossil fuel
Question: What is the name given to the study of earthquakes?
Answer: Seismology
Question: CITES is an international agreement on which environmental problem?
Answer: The trade in endangered species
Question: Which quarry in the Italian region of Tuscany is renowned for the quality of its marble?
Answer: Carrara
Question: Which planet has a day which lasts eight months?
Answer: Venus
Question: Which planet id named after the sky-god who was father of the Titans?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Which country built the Saturn V rocket?
Answer: USA
Question: Scientists study the red shift to investigate which aspect of cosmology?
Answer: The expansion of the universe
Question: Which is the second largest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Saturn
Question: In the general theory of relativity what causes space-time to be modified?
Answer: Mass
Question: How many counters does each player have at the start of a game of backgammon?
Answer: 15
Question: What country had the Roman name Hibernia?
Answer: Ireland
Question: Which film about Vietnam won the best picture at the 1978 Oscars?
Answer: The Deer Hunter
Question: What rock did Graham Greene write about?
Answer: Brighton Rock
Question: What were the surnames of Bonnie and Clyde?
Answer: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
Question: How many funnels did the Titanic have?
Answer: Four
Question: On the set of what film did Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman fall in love and then got married later in the same year?
Answer: Days Of Thunder
Question: Chemically pure gold contains how many carats?
Answer: 24
Question: In what year was Albert Einstein born?
Answer: 1879
Question: The body of the Egyptian Sphinx was based on which animal?
Answer: A lion
Question: The Chihauhau dog derives it's name from a town in which country?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Who managed the first English side to win the European Cup?
Answer: Matt Busby
Question: Which comedy duo had a number one hit in the UK with The Stonk in 1991?
Answer: Hale And Pace
Question: Which American president gave the order to withdraw from the Vietnam War?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: What is the maximum no of match points that can be held at one time in a tennis match at Wimbledon?
Answer: 6
Question: To what animal was Robert Burns referring in his poem with the lines Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie?
Answer: A mouse
Question: What is the only gemstone to be composed of one single element?
Answer: Diamond
Question: Who first argued that the world was not flat?
Answer: Aristotle
Question: What was the first film that Alfred Hitchcock made in Hollywood and the only one that won a Best Picture Oscar?
Answer: Rebecca
Question: When Walt Disney's seven dwarfs went off to work in the mines, what were they looking for?
Answer: Diamonds
Question: Who was the lead singer of the 1960s Irish group, Them?
Answer: Van Morrison
Question: Which band member is missing from the line-up of Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore?
Answer: Jim Morrison
Question: In folklore, who is the king of the elves and fairies?
Answer: Oberon
Question: Which Roman God is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day?
Answer: Cupid
Question: When Marilyn Monroe died, who asked for a fresh rose to be placed on her grave, every week, forever?
Answer: Joe Dimaggio
Question: Who played Lord Melchett in the TV comedy series Blackadder II?
Answer: Stephen Fry
Question: What type of sweet did Mars and Murrie develop in 1941?
Answer: M & Ms
Question: Which geographical location was the first word spoken on the moon?
Answer: Houston
Question: In which American state is Cape Canaveral, a launching site for space travel?
Answer: Florida
Question: I am so fragile that when you say my name you break me. What am I?
Answer: Silence
Question: According to the Bible on what day did God create the beasts of the Earth?
Answer: 5th
Question: Which Thomas Harris novel was the top selling adult fiction novel of the year 2000 in the UK?
Answer: Hannibal
Question: After the 1994/95 Premiership season, which Tottenham Hotspur player became the first foreigner to win the footballer of the year award?
Answer: Jurgen Klinsmann
Question: Who were the first team to field an all foreign starting line up in the English Premiership?
Answer: Chelsea
Question: Who ran a store selling items for left-handed people called 'The Leftorium'?
Answer: Ned Flanders
Question: What name is given to a bet with four selections and comprising six doubles, four trebles and one four-fold?
Answer: Yankee
Question: Which Elvis Presley film has the word love in the title and is the only one in which his character dies?
Answer: Love Me Tender
Question: What was Alfred Hitchcock's first colour movie?
Answer: Rope
Question: Yperite, first used by the German army in September 1917, is better known as what type of gas?
Answer: Mustard Gas
Question: How many different ways are there to make change of a dollar? 111, 293 or 487?
Answer: 293
Question: Which actor won the 1995 Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the 1999 Best Actor Oscar, currently the only two times he has been nominated?
Answer: Kevin Spacey
Question: Who won a Best Supporting Actress Award in 1998 for a performance of less than 8 minutes of screen time?
Answer: Judi Dench
Question: Which Dutch footballer scored 90 goals in 135 games for A. C. Milan in the late 1980s and early 1990s?
Answer: Marco Van Basten
Question: In which year was actor Sean Connery born?
Answer: 1930
Question: In which city did gangster Al Capone operate?
Answer: Chicago
Question: Which superhero takes pictures of himself in action and sells them to the Daily Bugle?
Answer: Spiderman
Question: Which West Midlands comedian was born Chris Collins in 1957 and sang on a number one hit single in 1996?
Answer: Frank Skinner
Question: Which British city has an underground railway system which is nicknamed The Clockwork Orange?
Answer: Glasgow
Question: The book The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie caused controversy after it was claimed it was blasphemous against which religion?
Answer: Islam
Question: What was Muhammed Ali's name before he changed it?
Answer: Cassius Clay
Question: Which two-letter word can go after tan and con to produce two new words?
Answer: Go
Question: Which four letter word can go before beat or fall or after come or melt to produce four new words?
Answer: Down
Question: What is the Latin name for the constellation that is commonly known as the Great Bear?
Answer: Ursa Major
Question: Which English Cathedral has the highest spire?
Answer: Salisbury
Question: Created by Tim Smit in Cornwall, what is the name of the ecological botanical gardens sometimes dubbed the eighth wonder of the world?
Answer: The Eden Project
Question: Which pop star played Beth in Neighbours between 1991 and 1993?
Answer: Natalie Imbruglia
Question: As at 2004, which actor is the only member of the original Coronation Street cast who is still in the show?
Answer: William Roache
Question: In which year did Emmerdale Farm become Emmerdale? 1989, 1992 or 1995?
Answer: 1989
Question: What is Frodo's second name?
Answer: Baggins
Question: Who played Saruman in Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings films?
Answer: Christopher Lee
Question: Who did Bill Clinton famously admit to having an affair with during his time as President of the USA?
Answer: Monica Lewinsky
Question: Which European football team play there home matches at the Delle Alpi?
Answer: Juventus
Question: Cable-stayed, Pontoon and Suspension are all types of what?
Answer: Bridges
Question: As at September 2004, which footballer is the all time top scorer in the English Premiership who doesn't normally play as a striker?
Answer: Ryan Giggs
Question: Which TV series featured Brett Butler playing the main character called Grace Kelly?
Answer: Grace Under Fire
Question: What was Guy Fawkes real first name? Guido, Gundry or John?
Answer: Guido
Question: In The Twelve Days Of Christmas, how many ladies dancing were there?
Answer: 9
Question: Who famously sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas in the film Meet Me In St Louis?
Answer: Judy Garland
Question: For which 1990 invention was Tim Berners-Lee awarded the first Millenium Technology Prize in April 2004?
Answer: The World Wide Web
Question: Which G is the name of the Italian astronomer who improved the telescope so much as to discover that there were craters on the moon?
Answer: Galileo
Question: In which sport do the rules specify that the ball used must not weigh less than 45.93 grams and must have a diameter of at least 42.67 millimetres?
Answer: Golf
Question: Which came first - Rugby League or Rugby Union?
Answer: Rugby Union
Question: What was the name of the robot dog that became a regular companion for Doctor Who?
Answer: K-9
Question: What sign did God give to Noah to show that the Earth would not be flooded again?
Answer: A Rainbow
Question: What is the name of the statue by Antony Gormley that stands near the A1 motorway in Gateshead?
Answer: The Angel Of The North
Question: Which of Batman's villains did Burgess Meridith play in the sixties TV series?
Answer: The Penguin
Question: Which singer was born in London with the name Steven Georgiou and is now called Yusuf Islam?
Answer: Cat Stevens
Question: In 1968, the first inter-racial kiss on American TV took place in which long running series?
Answer: Star Trek
Question: In The Wizard Of Oz, what was the Tin Man looking for?
Answer: A Heart
Question: Which African American civil rights activist was assassinated in 1968 by escaped convict James Earl Ray?
Answer: Martin Luther King
Question: Who was the first Beatle to get married?
Answer: John Lennon
Question: The actor Johnny Depp had a tattoo on his arm surgically altered after the break up of his relationship with which actress?
Answer: Winona Ryder
Question: Who was the first monarch in Britain to make a Christmas Day broadcast?
Answer: King George V
Question: During which TV game show were the contestants invited to go wild in the aisles?
Answer: Supermarket Sweep
Question: With which re-released song did The Bluebells have a number one hit in 1993?
Answer: Young At Heart
Question: At which athletics event did American Mike Powell break the world record in 1991, a record which had stood for almost 33 years?
Answer: Long Jump
Question: Alicante, Cardinal, Cassidy, Niagara and Palamino are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Grape
Question: As it 2006, who is the most nominated male actor in Oscar history?
Answer: Jack Nicholson
Question: True or False: Great Britain is one of the top ten largest islands in the world?
Answer: True
Question: What is the longest motorway in Great Britain?
Answer: M6
Question: In Britain, which University has more students than any other?
Answer: The Open University
Question: Before he left The Beatles, which instrument did Stuart Sutcliffe play in the band?
Answer: Bass
Question: What nationality was Robert Bunsen, of whom the Bunsen burner was named after?
Answer: German
Question: The film The Madness Of King George tells the story of which King of the United Kingdom?
Answer: George III
Question: In 1978, which country became the first to receive nul points overall, with their entry Mil Etter Mil?
Answer: Norway
Question: Who is the chubbiest out of all of Snow White's seven dwarfs?
Answer: Happy
Question: In which city did every match from the 1930 World Cup take place?
Answer: Montevideo
Question: What was the nickname of Jimmy Nail's character in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet?
Answer: Oz
Question: What is the name of the fictional borough in which Eastenders is set?
Answer: Walford
Question: In a game of snooker, what colour ball is worth 3 points?
Answer: Green
Question: Which actress famously stripped off her bikini top in slow motion in the 1982 film Fast Times At Ridgemont High?
Answer: Phoebe Cates
Question: Which female tennis player won the French Open and U.S. Open in both 1991 and 1992, but didn't compete in either of these events in 1993 or 1994?
Answer: Monica Seles
Question: What C is a name given to someone who makes or sells candles?
Answer: Chandler
Question: From which island nation does the lager Red Stripe originate?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: On a darts board, what number is diagonally opposite 19?
Answer: 1
Question: In Greek legend, what is the name given to the creature that is half man and half bull?
Answer: Minotaur
Question: According to Roman mythology, which twins founded Rome?
Answer: Romulus and Remus
Question: According to legend, who rode through the streets of Coventry naked and was seen by someone called Tom, leading to the phrase Peeping Tom?
Answer: Lady Godiva
Question: In Greek mythology who died when he flew too close to the sun and the wax holding together his artificial wings melted?
Answer: Icarus
Question: What was the name of the 1963 Disney film that featured the legendary characters of Merlin and King Arthur?
Answer: The Sword In The Stone
Question: Sharing her name with a brand of margarine, who was the Roman goddess of flowers and the season of spring?
Answer: Flora
Question: Who wrote the lyrics to the songs in The Sound Of Music? Rogers or Hammerstein?
Answer: Hammerstein
Question: Who wrote the book on which the musical Les Miserables is based?
Answer: Victor Hugo
Question: Which song from Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat gave Jason Donovan a number one hit single in 1991?
Answer: Any Dream Will Do
Question: Miss Saigon premiered in Drury Lane, London in 1989, but how many performances were put on there before it closed?
Answer: 4,264
Question: Which political party changed it's name from the Ecology Party in 1985?
Answer: The Green Party
Question: Which four letter word can go before match and drive and after screen and personality to form four well known phrases?
Answer: Test
Question: Father Ted Crilly and Father Dougal McGuire lived on Craggy Island with which other priest?
Answer: Father Jack Hackett
Question: Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.  According to Exodus what comes next?
Answer: Hand for hand, foot for foot
Question: In which full-length cartoon are the main characters called Pongo and Perdita?
Answer: 101 Dalmatians
Question: Which pop group named themselves after a fictional band from the novel A Clockwork Orange?
Answer: Heaven 17
Question: What is the singer Prince's real first name?
Answer: Prince
Question: Directed by Joss Whedon, which 2005 science fiction movie was based on a short-lived TV show that was cancelled after only eleven of its episodes were broadcast?
Answer: Serenity
Question: The Mauretania, launched in 1906, was the largest and fastest ship in the world at that time. What was the name of her sister ship that was launched in the same year, but sunk by a German U-boat in 1915?
Answer: Lusitania
Question: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in 1969, but who was the third astronaut on Apollo 11, who remained in the orbitter?
Answer: Micheal Collins
Question: Which video game series is sometimes referred to as GTA?
Answer: Grand Theft Auto
Question: What is made of minerals and tiny pieces of rock that have come from the erosion and weathering of rocks?
Answer: Sand
Question: Developed by Nintendo in the 1980s, what is currently the biggest selling video game of all time?
Answer: Super Mario Bros.
Question: Born 1931 in Swindon she became a 'blonde bombshell'?
Answer: Diana Dors
Question: Who received $3.7 million for two weeks work for his part in the 1978 film Superman?
Answer: Marlon Brando
Question: Pirate Edward Teach was better known by what nickname?
Answer: Blackbeard
Question: US outlaw Henry McCarty was better known by what nickname?
Answer: Billy the Kid
Question: What was the maiden name of Jane Austen's heroine Emma?
Answer: Woodhouse
Question: What motorcycle has a stylised' propeller as its tank badge?
Answer: B.M.W.
Question: The Pogues lead singer Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas Day in 1957.  Which female singer featured on their 1987 Christmas single?
Answer: Kirsty MacColl
Question: Former communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, was executed on Christmas Day in 1989.  Which country did he once control?
Answer: Romania
Question: The American comedian and actor William Claude Dukenfield, died on Christmas Day in 1946.  How was he better known?
Answer: W C Fields
Question: What is the river Ganga called in Bangladesh?
Answer: Padma
Question: Who was murdered by Fitzurse, de Tracy, de Morville and Le Breton ?
Answer: Thomas Becket
Question: Who has presented City Hospital, Departure Lounge and Last Choir Standing?
Answer: Nick Knowles
Question: What answer did Major Charles Ingram give to his £1m question?
Answer: Googol
Question: What is the name of the home planet of the Transformers?
Answer: Cybertron
Question: Which sci-fi author wrote the three laws of robotics?
Answer: Issac Asimov
Question: Droids was a animated TV series that was a spin off of which movie franchise?
Answer: Star Wars
Question: Brent Spiner played which character in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Answer: Lieutenant Commander Data
Question: A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France is frequently known as a what?
Answer: Claret
Question: What was the Joker's real name in Batman?
Answer: Jack Napier
Question: What was the first film to win a Best Actor Oscar for Jack Nicholson?
Answer: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Question: Noah had 3 sons, Ham and Shem were 2, who was the other?
Answer: Japheth
Question: Who recorded 3 albums in the 1970s, which became known as the Berlin Trilogy?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: What is the name for the revolving spikey wheel on the end of a cowboy's spurs called?
Answer: A rowel
Question: If you are a Greek man and wear a fustenella what kind of garment would you be wearing?
Answer: Skirt
Question: Who is the Greek God of the Sea?
Answer: Poseidon
Question: Standing on the Arabian Sea what is the principal seaport of Pakistan?
Answer: Karachi
Question: Dr Smith was the cowardly troublemaker in "Lost in Space". What was his first name?
Answer: Zachary
Question: BBC 2 started its programming on 20 April, in which year? 1954, 1959 or 1964?
Answer: 1964
Question: How many number one singles did Queen have while Freddie Mercury was alive?
Answer: Three
Question: Which sport or pastime would you be playing if you tried to sell a dummy to a hooker?
Answer: Rugby
Question: In which book would one find the trog like human species named Morlocks?
Answer: The Time Machine
Question: Which English Monarch succeeded William III of Orange?
Answer: Anne
Question: Which English cricket county did W. G. Grace represent?
Answer: Gloucestershire
Question: Which actress, who died in 1962, starred in the films Some Like It Hot and Bus Stop?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe