zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: In which team sport did Imran Sherwani and Sean Kerly win Olympic Gold for Great Britain in 1988?
Answer: HOCKEY
Question: The shawm was a predecessor of which modem musical instrument?
Answer: OBOE
Question: Who was the first singer to win the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland?
Answer: DANA
Question: Which American President had the forenames James Earl?
Answer: CARTER
Question: In which city was the first public performance of Handel's 'Messiah'?
Answer: DUBLIN
Question: Which Polish leader was killed in a plane crash in Gibraltar in 1943?
Answer: GENERAL SIKORSKI
Question: Which brothers were linked with the resignation of Peter Mandelson in 2001?
Answer: HINDUJA
Question: Swimming, show jumping, pistol shooting and cross-country running are four of the sports which make up the Modern Pentathlon. Name the other.
Answer: FENCING
Question: Who directed the 1985 film 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' and the 2011 film 'Midnight in Paris'?
Answer: WOODY ALLEN
Question: To what did the insurance company Norwich Union change its name in 2009?
Answer: AVIVA
Question: In 2005, who became the youngest person ever to be made a Dame of the British Empire?
Answer: ELLEN MACARTHUR
Question: What is the modern name of the island group which were known to the ancient Romans as 'The Fortune Islands'?
Answer: THE CANARY ISLANDS
Question: What is the maximum score possible in a game of ten pin bowling?
Answer: 300
Question: Which fictional detective made a first appearance in the 1916 novel 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles'?
Answer: HERCULE POIROT
Question: Who invented the hovercraft in 1959?
Answer: Christopher Cockerell.
Question: How many strings are there on a normal sized ukulele?
Answer: 4
Question: Masala wine is produced on which European island?
Answer: Sicily
Question: Shinto is the main religion in which country?
Answer: Japan
Question: The Yas Marina circuit used in Formula 1 for the first time in 2009, is the venue for which Grand Prix?
Answer: Abu Dhabi
Question: ln Greek myth who is the muse of love poetry?
Answer: Erato
Question: Who invented Meccano in 1900?
Answer: Frank Hornby
Question: How many strings are there on a balalaika?
Answer: 3
Question: Electrum is an alloy of gold and which other element?
Answer: Silver
Question: Of what is emetophobia a fear?
Answer: VOMITING
Question: What word completes the title of the 2012 film 'Cockneys vs (versus) '?
Answer: ZOMBIES
Question: Complete the title of the debut novel by Marina Lewycka 'A Short History of.in Ukrainian'.
Answer: TRACTORS
Question: Rhea and Iapetus are the second and third largest moons of which planet?
Answer: SATURN
Question: Bernie Brewer, Billy the Marlin and the Phillie Phanatic are team mascots in which US sport?
Answer: BASEBALL
Question: What was the first name of the Nobel Prize winning scientist (1901-1954)Fermi?
Answer: ENRICO
Question: Who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter around 1610?
Answer: GALILEO
Question: Which British composer died in 1983 on the island of Ischia?
Answer: SIR WILLIAM WALTON
Question: In 1841 who was the first US Vice President to take office as President after his predecessor died in office?
Answer: JOHN TYLER
Question: The site of Carthage is close to which modern city?
Answer: TUNIS
Question: Who plays CIA Officer Carrie Mathison in 'Homeland'?
Answer: CLAIRE DANES
Question: The Battle of Dettingen in which George II led the British troops occurred during which War?
Answer: WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION
Question: The Great Bear Lake and the Great Slave Lake are in which country?
Answer: CANADA
Question: Who is the only man to have trained the winner of the Grand National in 3 consecutive years?
Answer: VINCENT O'BRIEN
Question: Which is the largest island in Japan?
Answer: HONSHU
Question: Which American Oscar-winning actress had the original name Caryn Johnson?
Answer: WHOOPI GOLDBERG
Question: Who became the youngest player to score a hat-trick for England versus Croatia in September 2008?
Answer: THEO WALCOTT
Question: Who created the fictional detectives Dalziel and Pascoe?
Answer: REGINALD HILL
Question: Fynbo cheese is named after the island of Fyn in which European country?
Answer: DENMARK
Question: Which World Heavyweight Champion boxer won the gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1952 Olympics?
Answer: FLOYD PATTERSON
Question: What is the principal ingredient of the Northumbrian dish 'pan haggerty'?
Answer: Potatoes
Question: Who was George W Bush's opponent in the 2004 US Presidential election?
Answer: John Kerry
Question: Bruce Dickinson is singer with which 'heavy metal' group founded in 1975?
Answer: Iron Maiden
Question: Written in 1962, 'Dead Cert' was whose first novel?
Answer: Dick Francis
Question: If two sides of a right-angled triangle are 3cm and 4cm long, what is the length of the hypotenuse?
Answer: 5 cm
Question: Which is the largest borough of New York?
Answer: Queens
Question: Which city, by the River Rhine is the capital of the German federal state of North-Rhine Westphalia?
Answer: Düsseldorf
Question: Which singer created the alter egos Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane?
Answer: DAVID BOWIE
Question: What is the better known trade name of the drug fluoxetine?
Answer: PROZAC
Question: Who is the only British Prime Minister to serve under 3 monarchs?
Answer: STANLEY BALDWIN
Question: In which novel is the world divided into Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia?
Answer: 1984
Question: Nicknamed the City of Pearls, what is the capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh?
Answer: HYDERABAD
Question: Which TV sitcom about a branch line station took its name from a former chairman of British Railways?
Answer: OH, DOCTOR BEECHING!
Question: Bartolomeo Cristofori is regarded as the inventor of which musical instrument?
Answer: PIANO
Question: Who captained England when they won the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup?
Answer: MARTIN JOHNSON
Question: On which London thoroughfare are the Lyric, Apollo, Gielgud and Queen's theatres?
Answer: SHAFTESBURY AVENUE
Question: On which Beatles album in the UK does the song 'Doctor Robert' appear?
Answer: REVOLVER
Question: Sphalerite is an ore of which metal?
Answer: ZINC
Question: In which city was Kenneth Branagh born?
Answer: BELFAST
Question: Who had a 1974 UK/US hit record with 'Midnight at the Oasis'?
Answer: Maria Muldaur
Question: In the Bible whose wife was Zipporah?
Answer: Moses
Question: What is the name of the play within a play in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?
Answer: Pyramus and Thisbe
Question: The Thylacine, thought to be extinct, was a carnivorous marsupial last sighted on which island?
Answer: Tasmania
Question: Who is the actress daughter of Tippi Hedren?
Answer: Melanie Griffith
Question: In which English county is Stokesay Castle?
Answer: Shropshire
Question: In which African country is Lake Turkana, formerly Lake Rudolf?
Answer: Kenya
Question: What is the common name of Taxus Baccata?
Answer: Yew
Question: What does a colour TV licence cost?
Answer: £145.50
Question: Who, in 1931, designed the map of the London Underground?
Answer: Harry Beck
Question: Who painted Olympia and The Luncheon on the Grass both in 1863?
Answer: Edouard Manet
Question: Who, in 79AD, succeeded Vespasian as Emperor of Rome?
Answer: Titus
Question: Of what are deers antler's made?
Answer: Bone
Question: Who wrote the 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway?
Answer: Virginia Woolf
Question: What is the common name of the tree genus Fagus?
Answer: Beech
Question: What instrument did the jazz musician Wes Montgomery play?
Answer: Guitar
Question: Lampwick and Stromboli are characters in which 1940 Disney film?
Answer: Pinocchio
Question: Which bone in the human body is formed by the manubrium, the body (or gladiolus) and the xiphoid process?
Answer: Sternum
Question: The Birth of Venus by Botticelli hangs in an art gallery in which city?
Answer: Florence
Question: Cemetery Ridge was a feature of which battlefield?
Answer: Gettysburg
Question: Who plays the part of JMW Turner in the 2014 film 'Mr Turner'?
Answer: Timothy Spall
Question: The painting 'Venus at her Mirror' hangs in the National Gallery in London, who painted it?
Answer: Velasquez
Question: Who played Doctor Ben Casey on T.V.?
Answer: VINCE EDWARDS
Question: In which City does Spanish Football Club Espanyol play?
Answer: BARCELONA
Question: Vince Furnier is better known as which rock star?
Answer: ALICE COOPER
Question: Who were Uruguay's opponents in the first World Cup final in 1930?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: What was the former name of Cambodia?
Answer: KAMPUCHEA
Question: What is the national airline of Portugal?
Answer: TAP
Question: Who was assassinated by her own bodyguards on 31st October 1984?
Answer: Indira Gandhi
Question: Which TV chef's 2007 autobiography is entitled 'Humble Pie'?
Answer: Gordon Ramsay
Question: Which London building was adapted to become the Tate Modem which opened in 2000?
Answer: Bankside
Question: Which rock band opened the Live Aid concert at Wembley in July 1985?
Answer: Status Quo
Question: Which soul singer was shot and killed by his own father on 1 April 1984 in Los Angeles?
Answer: Marvin Gaye
Question: The Nuevo Sol has been the currency of which country since 1991?
Answer: Peru
Question: Which country will host the EUFA European Football Championships in 2016?
Answer: France
Question: Who did Michelle LaVaughn Robinson marry in October 1992?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: Which car manufacturer makes the Kuga model?
Answer: Ford
Question: In the TV cartoon series, what is the name of Captain Pugwash's ship?
Answer: The Black Pig
Question: Designed by Howard Hughes, the Hughes H-4 Hercules aircraft, only of which was produced, in 1947, was known by what nickname?
Answer: The Spruce Goose
Question: Which title was held by the father of Queen Victoria?
Answer: Duke of Kent
Question: Who was the last American tennis player to win the men's singles title at the US Open?
Answer: Andy Roddick
Question: From which country does pinotage wine come?
Answer: South Africa
Question: Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII was the niece of which Duke?
Answer: Norfolk
Question: Which European football club did Jose Mourinho manage before returning to manage Chelsea in 2013?
Answer: Real Madrid
Question: Who replaced William Hague as Foreign Secretary in July 2014?
Answer: Philip Hammond
Question: What appear on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
Answer: Stars
Question: A deficiency of which vitamin is the predominant cause of rickets?
Answer: D
Question: Which salad dressing is named after an archipelago in the St Lawrence seaway?
Answer: Thousand Island
Question: Who introduced the character of ex-SAS soldier Nick Stone in his novel 'Remote Control'?
Answer: Andy McNab
Question: Who was the chairman of the Banco Ambrosiano, found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, London in 1982?
Answer: Roberto Calvi
Question: Alexandra, the Queen of Edward VII, was the daughter of the king of which country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Mt Baker, the snowiest place on Earth, is in which mountain range?
Answer: The Cascades
Question: In which book would you find this line; 'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'?
Answer: 1984
Question: Richard Neville (Warwick the Kingmaker) died at which battle of 1471?
Answer: Barnet
Question: Of what is 'gingko' an example?
Answer: A Tree
Question: Menieres syndrome affects which part of the body?
Answer: Ears
Question: In 2012, Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in jail for war crimes, of which country had he been president?
Answer: Liberia
Question: Who wrote the operas Salome and Elektra?
Answer: Richard Strauss
Question: Which US President coined the phrase "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?
Answer: F D Roosevelt
Question: Which Greek philosopher was appointed as tutor to Alexander the Great?
Answer: Aristotle
Question: Who won the Oscar for best actress for her role in the film Boys Don't Cry in 1999?
Answer: Hilary Swank
Question: The painters Henri Matisse and Andre Derain were leaders of which early 20th century art movement?
Answer: Fauvism
Question: Abkhazia, recognised as independent by Russia, is a breakaway region from which former Soviet republic?
Answer: Georgia
Question: Who was the South African cricket captain who was banned for life in 2000 for his part in a match-fixing scandal?
Answer: Hansie Cronje
Question: Which highway, also known as the Will Rogers Highway, was part of the original US Highways System and ran from Chicago Illinois to Los Angeles, California?
Answer: Route 66
Question: Who played the title role in the modern day pirate film 'Captain Philips'?
Answer: Tom Hanks
Question: Who usually flies in an aircraft with the call-sign 'Shepherd One'?
Answer: The Pope
Question: The first album to be at No 1 in the UK chart (in 1956) was `Songs For Swingin' Lovers', who recorded it?
Answer: Frank Sinatra
Question: How is the bird Erithacus rubecula more commonly known?
Answer: Robin
Question: Who has presented the BBC Radio 2 programme Sounds of the Sixties for over 20 years?
Answer: Brian Matthew
Question: VVhich author created the character Dr Tony Hill in the 1995 novel The Mermaids Singing?
Answer: Val McDermid
Question: In which month does the USA celebrate Labour Day?
Answer: September
Question: Which premiership football club has a badge showing a halo, a football, a scarf, a tree and a white flower?
Answer: Southampton
Question: A particle of alpha radiation is a nucleus of an atom of which element?
Answer: Helium
Question: The rivers Tame, Dove, Derwent and Soar are tributaries of which English river?
Answer: Trent
Question: Which country music star, writer of the song Your Cheatin' Heart, died on New Year's Day 1953?
Answer: Hank Williams
Question: Which race run at Chantilly in June is often referred to as the French Derby?
Answer: Prix du Jockey Club
Question: The bodies of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman from Soham were discovered in which year?
Answer: 2002
Question: Which instrument did Lionel Hampton introduce to jazz?
Answer: Vibraphone
Question: Which popular singer is the daughter of former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis?
Answer: Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Question: Which modern global electronics corporation started in 1938, selling dried Korean fish, vegetables and fruit to China?
Answer: Samsung
Question: According to their advertising slogan who are: "The world's local bank."?
Answer: HSBC
Question: Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was executed in October 1917, by what name is she better known?
Answer: Mata Hari
Question: Which stand-up comedian ran 43 marathons in 52 days in 2009 in order to raise money for Sport Relief?
Answer: Eddie Izzard
Question: Which composer wrote the 1944 oratorio "A Child of our Time"?
Answer: Michael Tippet
Question: What title did Sophie Rhys-Jones receive after her marriage to Prince Edward?
Answer: Countess of Wessex
Question: Who overthrew the regime of King Idris of Libya in 1969?
Answer: Muammar Gaddafi
Question: In the novel 'Wuthering Heights', in which city is the waif Heathcliff found and adopted by Mr Earnshaw?
Answer: Liverpool
Question: In Greek Mythology, which son of Demeter was the god of wealth and riches?
Answer: Plutus
Question: Which horse was first past the post in the 1993 Grand National which was declared void due to a starting mix-up?
Answer: Esha Ness
Question: What is the most widely accepted gemstone for January?
Answer: Garnet
Question: Complete the name of the cigarette company W.D. & H.O ?
Answer: Wills
Question: The Stratosphere Tower is the highest building in which US city?
Answer: Las Vegas
Question: How was Alf Tupper known in the boy's comic 'Victor'?
Answer: The Tough of the Track
Question: Whose autobiography 'Margrave of the Marshes' was finished by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft?
Answer: John Peel
Question: What was 'Hot, Cool, Yours' in early 2014?
Answer: Sochi Winter Olympics
Question: In 2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf defeated ex-footballer George Weah to become the first female president of which African country?
Answer: Liberia
Question: Carmen Polo was the wife of which 20th century dictator?
Answer: Franco
Question: Which independent Commonwealth state is the smallest republic in the world?
Answer: Nauru
Question: Who is the only person to refuse a Nobel Peace prize (in 1973)?
Answer: Le Duc Tho
Question: Which group were one hit wonders with the 1983 hit 'It's Raining Men'?
Answer: The Weather Girls
Question: Richard Parker is a major character in the book and film 'Life of Pi', what is he?
Answer: A Tiger
Question: On which river in Germany does Heidelberg stand?
Answer: NECKAR
Question: Which boxer's image appeared on the cover of the Band on the Run album?
Answer: JOHN CONTEH
Question: Whose image was depicted on the first U.S. postage stamp?
Answer: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Question: Martha Dandridge was the 1st lady of which American President?
Answer: GEORGE WASHINGTON
Question: Which B.B.C. children's television programme featured the dolls Hamble and Jemima?
Answer: PLAYSCHOOL
Question: Who, in 1907, was the first woman to become a member of the Order of Merit?
Answer: Florence Nightingale
Question: Who is the only English footballer to have won league titles in four countries?
Answer: David Beckham
Question: Richard Addinsell's most famous piece of music was used in the 1941 film 'Dangerous Moonlight', what is its title?
Answer: Warsaw Concerto
Question: In physics, which letter is used to represent Planck's Constant?
Answer: H
Question: In 2013 who became the first Englishman since Tony Jacklin in 1970, to win The US Open Golf Championship?
Answer: Justin Rose
Question: Which Poet Laureate became a member of the Order of Merit in 1998 but died only two months later?
Answer: Ted Hughes
Question: Richard Chamberlain played which composer in a 1970 film?
Answer: Tchaikovsky
Question: Which former British colony stands on the delta of the Pearl River?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: The new £5 note due to be issued in 2016 will feature whose portrait (other than the monarch)?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: Who wrote the 1914 poem Tor The Fallen'?
Answer: Laurence Binyon
Question: In 1818, the Austrian Franz Gruber composed his only published work, the music to a poem by the curate of his church; by what name do we know this Christmas carol?
Answer: Silent Night
Question: Tom Hanks co-stars with Emma Thompson in Saving Mr Banks, what part does he play?
Answer: Walt Disney
Question: Who recorded the 1968 album 'Astral Weeks'?
Answer: Van Morrison
Question: Who was the singer who had big hits with 'In The Midnight Hour' and 'Mustang Sally'?
Answer: Wilson Pickett
Question: Which American State has, as a nickname, 'The First State'?
Answer: DELAWARE
Question: Which poet wrote novels using the pseudonym Nicholas Blake?
Answer: CECIL DAY LEWIS
Question: Which boxer was nicknamed 'The Ambling Alp'?
Answer: PRIMO CARNERA
Question: With which group did Melanie Blatt achieve fame?
Answer: ALL SAINTS
Question: Which is the largest desert in the World?
Answer: SAHARA
Question: Which_famons writer also wrote novels using the name Mary Westmacott?
Answer: AGATHA CHRISTIE
Question: Which is the lightest naturally occurring element?
Answer: HYDROGEN
Question: Who, together with Howard Greenfield, co-wrote the song 'Is this the way to Amarillo'?
Answer: NEIL SEDAKA
Question: In which language was the Communist Manifesto by Marx/Engels first published, in 1848?
Answer: German
Question: Which surrealist artist, 1898-1967, featured bowler hats in many of his paintings?
Answer: Rene Magritte
Question: According to the 1975 hit Paul Simon song, how many different ways are there to leave your lover?
Answer: 50
Question: A word meaning "sea battler", what is the most common surname in Ireland?
Answer: Murphy
Question: In terms of both population and area, which is the largest of the Canary Islands?
Answer: Tenerife
Question: """Neither a borrower nor a lender be' is a line from which of Shakespeare's plays?"
Answer: Hamlet
Question: An athlete wearing the initials KSA on his vest is representing which country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: A second full moon in a single calendar month is now commonly given what name?
Answer: Blue Moon
Question: Ayers Rock (Uluru) in Australia is made of what type of rock?
Answer: Sandstone
Question: What structure connects the Trent & Mersey Canal with the river Weaver?
Answer: ANDERTON BOAT LIFT
Question: What type of Rolls Royce engine was used to power the later makes of Spitfire?
Answer: GRIFFON
Question: Who was president of South Korea during the Korean War?
Answer: SYNGMAN RHEE
Question: Grenadine is a syrup made from which fruit?
Answer: POMEGRANATE
Question: In which film starring Humphrey Bogart did Peter Lorre play Joel Cairo and Sydney Greenstreet play Kasper Gutman?
Answer: THE MALTESE FALCON
Question: Winch Australian state capital is on the River Torrens?
Answer: ADELAIDE
Question: Hero is a heroine in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Question: Who in 1965 became the first man to walk in space?
Answer: ALEXEY LEONOV
Question: Which architect designed the 87-storey Shard Building in London?
Answer: RENZO PIANO
Question: Which singer was the first artist to have a posthumous UK number one single?
Answer: BUDDY HOLLY
Question: Which American actress was named after a city in Minnesota?
Answer: WINONA RYDER
Question: What was the Christian name of Italian conductor Toscanini?
Answer: ARTURO
Question: What is the name of the footballer whose heart stopped during a match between Bolton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur in March 2012?
Answer: FABRICE MUAMBA
Question: What is the official motto of the USA?
Answer: IN GOD WE TRUST
Question: What name, derived from the Greek word for chalk, is given to hydrated calcium sulphate?
Answer: GYPSUM
Question: Which BAFTA award-winning scriptwriter created the TV series The Street, Accused, The Lakes and Cracker?
Answer: JIMMY MCGOVERN
Question: Which BAFTA-nominated television writer has created the series Scott & Bailey. At Home with the Braithwaites for ITV and Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley for the BBC?
Answer: SALLY WAINWRIGHT
Question: Which Democrat did George Bush defeat in order to become President in 1988?
Answer: MICHAEL DUKAKIS
Question: In which building is the Duke of Wellington buried?
Answer: ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
Question: Which of the four houses in Hogwarts has a badger as mascot?
Answer: HUFFLEPUFF
Question: Born in 1897, who was the only future Dad's Army cast member to serve in the Home Guard.?
Answer: JOHN LAURIE
Question: The constellation Pavo represents which bird?
Answer: PEACOCK
Question: Archibald Ormsby-Gore was the teddy bear of which author?
Answer: JOHN BETJEMAN
Question: How many dots are used to make up each letter in the Braille system?
Answer: 6
Question: Peak Forest, Macclesfield and Bridgewater are some of the canals that make up what network?
Answer: THE CHESHIRE RING
Question: Who has managed Leicester City, Blackpool and Crystal Palace football clubs since 2007?
Answer: IAN HOLLOWAY
Question: Which British explorer discovered the source of the River Nile in 1862?
Answer: JOHN HANNING SPEKE
Question: What was the first name of Labour politician James Callaghan?
Answer: LEONARD
Question: Which 2004 film was released with the advertising tag line 'A romantic comedy with zombies'?
Answer: SHAUN OF THE DEAD
Question: In which war film would you hear the line 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning'?
Answer: APOCALYPSE NOW
Question: Where in the human body are the Kupffer Cells to be found?
Answer: LIVER
Question: Who is the famous mother of actress Rachael Stirling?
Answer: DIANA RIGG
Question: Who was the voice of Scar in the film The Lion King?
Answer: JEREMY IRONS
Question: Which British explorer was in 1796 the first European to discover and travel the course of the Niger river?
Answer: MUNGO PARK
Question: Which well known manufacturer had to re-brand one of its best selling cars before marketing it in South America because the cars name means, 'doesn't go' in Spanish?
Answer: GENERAL MOTORS
Question: Who was the Roman prefect of Judea from about 26-36 AD?
Answer: PONTIUS PILATE
Question: In 2014 who was accused of killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in South Africa?
Answer: OSCAR PISTORIUS
Question: Which Liverpool film maker made 'Of Time And The City' and 'Deep Blue Sea'?
Answer: TERENCE DAVIES