zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the first forename of the German composer Herr Orff?
Answer: CARL
Question: In 1978, who released her debut album ‘The Kick Inside’?
Answer: KATE BUSH
Question: How old was River Phoenix when he died?
Answer: 23
Question: In which sport did Greg and Johnny Searle win a gold medal at Barcelona in 1992?
Answer: ROWING
Question: What was the name of the skunk in Disney’s version of Bambi?
Answer: FLOWER
Question: Who married Amal Alamuddin on September 29th 2014?
Answer: GEORGE CLOONEY
Question: In a nursery rhyme, who “came down too soon, and asked his way to Norwich”?
Answer: The MAN IN THE MOON
Question: Which English town or city lies on the rivers, Eden, Caldew, and Petteril?
Answer: CARLISLE
Question: Which country were runners-up to Germany in the association football World Cup?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman co-starred in which 1995 film?
Answer: SEVEN
Question: In Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘The Mikado’, with whom is Nanki-Poo in love?
Answer: YUM YUM
Question: A type of cancer arising from the melanocyte cells of the skin is known as what?
Answer: MALIGNANT MELANOMA
Question: Which noted French writer lived in exile in the Channel Islands from 1855-1870?
Answer: VICTOR HUGO
Question: Which Canadian/US actress declined the challenge because of ALS’s testing on animals?
Answer: PAMELA ANDERSON
Question: Which British general captured Quebec in 1759, but lost his life in the battle?
Answer: WOLFE
Question: What is the name of the biological study of fungi in all its forms?
Answer: MYCOLOGY
Question: What is the fourth planet from the sun, in our solar system?
Answer: MARS
Question: Who wrote the book A Farewell to Arms?
Answer: Ernest Hemmingway
Question: What was the first fully computer generated film?
Answer: Toy Story
Question: The Phantom Punch or The Punch That Never Was cost who his title?
Answer: Sonny Liston
Question: Born 1923, which Champion had the shortest reach?
Answer: Rocky Marciano
Question: What is the state capital of Mississippi?
Answer: Jackson
Question: Who was the first Mayor of Casterbridge in the Thomas Hardy novel?
Answer: Michael Henchard
Question: Who currently coaches England’s women team?
Answer: Mark Sampson
Question: If you ate the fruit of a Malus tree what would you be eating?
Answer: An Apple
Question: What sort of creature is a hoopoe?
Answer: BIRD
Question: What emblem was adopted in 1991 as a symbol of AIDS awareness? (2 word answer)
Answer: Red Ribbon
Question: In which country can you see the world famous Alhambra Palace?
Answer: Spain
Question: Rila at 2,925 m is the highest mountain range in the Balkans. It stands in which country?
Answer: Bulgaria
Question: Who immediately succeeded Augustus as Emperor of Rome?
Answer: Tiberius
Question: Who was named the new host of Channel 4's Countdown?
Answer: Des O'Connor
Question: Which former Italian Prime Minister was kidnapped and murdered in 1978?
Answer: Aldo Moro
Question: He famously ignored his orders, who was Nelson's superior at Copenhagen?
Answer: Sir Hyde Parker
Question: In telescopes and microscopes, what is the alternative name for the ocular lens?
Answer: Eyepiece
Question: What name is given to molten rock located beneath the surface of the Earth?
Answer: Magma
Question: What was the title of the first single released by The Beatles in October 1962?
Answer: Love Me Do
Question: By what alternative name is the Mariinsky theatre of St Petersburg much better known?
Answer: Kirov Ballet
Question: What would a 'galactophagist' (say "Galacto-Fay-Gist") consume a lot of?
Answer: Milk
Question: Which Cabinet minister fathered Flora Keays by his secretary?
Answer: Cecil PARKINSON
Question: Is the mountain range in Ireland in which the river Liffey rises?
Answer: Wicklow Mountains
Question: In a greyhound race where does a dog finish if it makes ‘a show’?
Answer: Third
Question: Which European city is nicknamed the Athens of the North?
Answer: Edinburgh
Question: The vessel had two sister ships the Olympic and which other?
Answer: Britannic
Question: Who were the first ever winners of the English Football League in 1889?
Answer: Preston North End
Question: Who plays Miranda Hart’s mother in her comedy series Miranda?
Answer: Patricia Hodge
Question: Which fictional sleuth made his debut in Pietr The Latvian?
Answer: Maigret
Question: Jason Voorhees features in which film series?
Answer: Friday The 13th
Question: Chiroptera is the scientific name for what creatures?
Answer: Bats
Question: Which Channel Four game show was remade in the USA under the title Junkyard Wars?
Answer: Scrapheap Challenge
Question: Which moorland plateau is the highest point in Derbyshire?
Answer: Kinder Scout
Question: Who released the critically acclaimed albums Blue and Court and Spark?
Answer: Joni Mitchell
Question: Who was the principal female figure in the scandal that became known as ‘Zippergate’?
Answer: Monica Lewinsky
Question: What is the minimum period for which scotch whisky can be aged?
Answer: Three Years
Question: Who designed the PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles on which the match was played?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus
Question: The St. Leger and the Lincoln Handicap are both run at which racecourse?
Answer: DONCASTER
Question: Who became the first Earl of Chatham in 1766?
Answer: William PITT THE ELDER
Question: In which village in north-eastern France was Joan of Arc born?
Answer: DOMREMY
Question: Who topped the charts with ‘He’s Not Heavy, He’s My Brother’ in 1969?
Answer: THE HOLLIES
Question: What was the name of the prostitute in the 1986/7 Jeffrey Archer scandal?
Answer: MONICA COGHLAN
Question: Which of Shakespeare’s plays features a herald named Mountjoy?
Answer: HENRY V
Question: Just before WWI, which S. Wales town was the largest coal-exporting port in the world?
Answer: BARRY
Question: Who painted ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’, 1880-1?
Answer: Pierre-Auguste RENOIR
Question: A simple quadrilateral whose sides are all of the same length is known as a what?
Answer: RHOMBUS
Question: What is the scientific name for brown coal?
Answer: Lignite
Question: Which is the only city on the river Wye, which follows the England/Wales border?
Answer: Hereford
Question: St Michael’s Mount is situated three miles east of which Cornish town?
Answer: Penzance
Question: What did Usain Bolt supposedly describe as ‘a bit shit’?
Answer: The Commonwealth Games
Question: In which layer of the atmosphere does the ‘ozone layer’ occur?
Answer: Stratosphere
Question: The mastodon was an early relative of which modern creature?
Answer: Elephant
Question: Crohn’s Disease affects which part of the body?
Answer: Intestines
Question: A rat called Splinter trained which quartet?
Answer: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Question: Which year was renowned as ‘The Year of Revolutions’?
Answer: 1848
Question: Which famous building was burned down by British forces in 1812?
Answer: The Whitehouse
Question: What is a hen party called in the USA?
Answer: Bachelorette Party
Question: In Scottish courts three verdicts are allowed – guilty, not guilty and which other?
Answer: Not Proven
Question: What shape is rigatoni pasta?
Answer: Tubes
Question: Which musical has characters Columbia, Magenta and Dr Everett Scott?
Answer: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Question: What was the maiden name of tennis player Billy Jean King?
Answer: Moffitt
Question: The Trial and The Castle are works by which Czech author?
Answer: Franz Kafka
Question: What nationality is Richard Flanagan, winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction?
Answer: Australian
Question: Which poem by Philip Larkin describes a train journey on a hot bank-holiday Saturday?
Answer: The Whitsun Weddings
Question: Which amendment to the Constitution mandated prohibition in the USA?
Answer: Eighteenth Amendment
Question: What was Queen Victoria’s first name at birth, in May 1819?
Answer: Alexandrina
Question: By what name are the Society of London Theatre’s annual awards known?
Answer: Olivier Awards
Question: Which all-Pullman train ran between London and Brighton from 1931 to 1972?
Answer: The Brighton Belle
Question: 18 June will mark the 200th anniversary of which famous battle?
Answer: WATERLOO
Question: In the Christian festival of Christingle, which fruit is used to represent the world?
Answer: ORANGE
Question: Which vegetable is used to layer a traditional Greek moussaka?
Answer: AUBERGINE
Question: Whose greatest work was laying out the plan for the city of New Delhi, India?
Answer: Edwin LUTYENS
Question: Who was the author of the 1992 novel ‘Jurassic Park’?
Answer: Michael CRICHTON
Question: Who wrote the 1987 novel 'The Bonfire of the Vanities'?
Answer: Tom WOLFE
Question: Who wrote the picaresque American novel 'A Confederacy of Dunces'?
Answer: John Kennedy TOOLE
Question: Served with a steak, which sauce is made with butter, egg yolks, white wine vinegar, and tarragon?
Answer: BÉARNAISE
Question: What colour gloves does Sonic the hedgehog wear?
Answer: WHITE
Question: A former ‘Bond Girl’, which UK actress is nominated for her leading role in 'Gone Girl'?
Answer: Rosamund PIKE
Question: Which Best Picture nominated movie tells the story of US soldier, 'Chris' Kyle?
Answer: AMERICAN SNIPER
Question: What was nominated for its song, 'Everything Is Awesome', but not in the best animation category?
Answer: The LEGO MOVIE
Question: Which company made The Comet, the world’s first passenger jet airliner?
Answer: DE HAVILAND
Question: Which 80s sitcom starred Penelope Wilton as Ann Bryce and Peter Egan as Paul Ryman?
Answer: EVER DECREASING CIRCLES
Question: The Frasch process is used to extract what chemical element from underground deposits?
Answer: SULPHUR
Question: In the 90s, who starred in the tv series ‘The Manageress’ and several Kenco adverts? (She
Answer: CHERIE LUNGHI
Question: Whose painting, ‘Benefits Supervisor Resting’, sold for £35.8million at auction?
Answer: LUCIAN FREUD
Question: The Fitzroy shipping area, named after him, was previously known as what?
Answer: FINISTERRE
Question: Who wrote the play ‘Barefoot in the Park’, which premiered on Broadway in 1963?
Answer: NEIL SIMON
Question: One of John Lennon’s sons is named Julian. What is the other son’s name?
Answer: SEAN
Question: In what decade were driving tests first introduced into Britain?
Answer: 1930s
Question: Who became the deputy leader of the Labour party in September 2015?
Answer: TOM WATSON
Question: In the news in Somerset in April, what is a Hudsonian Godwit?
Answer: A BIRD
Question: American. What word is used to describe a large, co-operatively owned house?
Answer: CONDOMINIUM
Question: Jazz. With what instrument do you associate Art Tatum, 1909-1956?
Answer: PIANO
Question: ‘Dead Belgians Don’t Count’ was the original working title of which 90s sitcom?
Answer: DROP THE DEAD DONKEY
Question: Which WWII leader’s son, Romano, became a noted jazz pianist?
Answer: Benito MUSSOLINI
Question: The French word for which colour is jaune?
Answer: YELLOW
Question: With which country does Paraguay have its longest land border?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: 'Leigh Toaster' is a variety of which crumbly English cheese?
Answer: LANCASHIRE
Question: Who shaved her head to play the character Lt Ellen Ripley in the 1992 film ‘Alien3’?
Answer: Sigourney WEAVER
Question: He died aged 79 in 2005; who was the legendary host of US TV’s ‘The Tonight Show’?
Answer: Johnny CARSON
Question: Which Shipping Forecast Area was formerly known as Heligoland?
Answer: GERMAN BIGHT
Question: Mariano Rajoy became Prime Minister of which EU country in 2011?
Answer: SPAIN
Question: Former probation officer Leanne Wood was elected leader of which party in March 2012?
Answer: PLAID CYMRU
Question: Nicknamed the 'The Pearl of the Danube', which capital is overlooked by János Hill?
Answer: BUDAPEST
Question: Nicknamed 'The Pearl of the Orient', which capital is bisected by the Pasig River?
Answer: MANILA
Question: A son, his dad is Dwight Yorke; what is the first name of Katy Price's eldest child?
Answer: HARVEY
Question: In 1998, whose widow became Nelson Mandela's third wife?
Answer: Samora MACHEL
Question: Whose face appeared with the word “Hope” on a poster created by Shepard Fairey?
Answer: Barack OBAMA
Question: Which glassy, dark volcanic rock was used by some to make edged tools and arrowheads?
Answer: OBSIDIAN
Question: Which solid can be generated by rotating an isosceles triangle about its line of symmetry?
Answer: CONE
Question: Which New Zealand born actress and model was the second wife of Rod Stewart?
Answer: Rachel HUNTER
Question: Which American actress and former model was the first wife of singer Rod Stewart?
Answer: Alana HAMILTON
Question: What was the name of the artist who died in French Polynesia in 1903, aged 54?
Answer: Paul GAUGUIN
Question: Fingermouse’s head, ears and whiskers were made of what?
Answer: PAPER
Question: Who played Stephen Hawking in the 2014 film, ‘The Theory of Everything’?
Answer: EDDIE REDMAYNE
Question: With what invention do you associate the name of Mr. Whitcomb Judson?
Answer: ZIP fastener
Question: In ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’, who “told his tale”?
Answer: The MILLER
Question: In skiing, what colour diamond denotes an expert trail on signs and trail maps?
Answer: BLACK
Question: Who played the male lead in the Bond film ‘Never Say Never Again’?
Answer: SEAN CONNERY
Question: Which TV family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace?
Answer: The Simpsons
Question: Where did Fats Domino find his thrill in 1956?
Answer: Blueberry Hill
Question: Kingsford Smith airport serves which major city?
Answer: Sydney
Question: Which heavenly body was Giotto sent to photograph in 1986?`
Answer: Halley’s Comet
Question: What allegedly crashed at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947?
Answer: A UFO
Question: Who committed what became known as the West Port murders in Edinburgh in 1828?
Answer: Burke & Hare
Question: For which organisation did the camp Jason King work?
Answer: Department S
Question: By what name was the architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret better known?
Answer: Le Corbusier
Question: Who plays Alfred Hitchcock’s wife Alma in the movie Hitchcock?
Answer: Helen Mirren
Question: Which US Trade Union was led by the notorious Jimmy Hoffa?
Answer: Teamsters
Question: Which part of a flower is responsible for the production of pollen grains?
Answer: Anther
Question: What are formed by the process of ‘orogeny’?
Answer: Mountains
Question: What do we call the elongated hill in the shape of a half-buried egg formed by glacial ice?
Answer: Drumlin
Question: What is the capital of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region of France?
Answer: Marseilles
Question: Which inlet of the Irish Sea separates Cumbria from Dumfries & Galloway?
Answer: Solway Firth
Question: The Talmud was written in Hebrew and which other language?
Answer: Aramaic
Question: Barry Fairbrother collapsed and died in the first episode of which recent BBC drama?
Answer: The Casual Vacancy
Question: Brazil has one of the world’s largest soccer stadia – what is it called?
Answer: Maracana
Question: Which Monarch was his great, great grandfather?
Answer: HENRY VII
Question: Which poet wrote about the charms of Miss Joan Hunter Dunn?
Answer: John BETJEMAN
Question: In Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’, what was the title character’s first name?
Answer: ANTONIO
Question: The Adam’s Apple helps to protect the walls and the front section of what bodily part?
Answer: LARYNX
Question: ‘The Manassa Mauler’ was the nickname of which heavyweight boxing champion?
Answer: Jack DEMPSEY
Question: What word describes the property of a metal that allows it to be drawn out into wire?
Answer: DUCTILITY
Question: Whose law states that “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”?
Answer: PARKINSON
Question: Who has been the tallest British Prime Minister since WWI?
Answer: James CALLAGHAN
Question: What sort of holiday was the subject of ‘Three Men on the Bummel’ (1900)?
Answer: CYCLING tour
Question: What was the first name of the Ms. Loos who wrote ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’?
Answer: ANITA
Question: Around which city did Charles I make his H.Q. during the Civil War?
Answer: Oxford
Question: What became the world’s tallest building in 1311 A.D.?
Answer: Lincoln Cathedral
Question: Odette is the central character of which ballet?
Answer: Swan Lake
Question: In the Universal films what was the name of Frankenstein’s hunchback?
Answer: Igor
Question: Frank Beard is the only clean shaven member of which group?
Answer: Z.Z.Top
Question: What pulse is used in an Indian dish Dhansak?
Answer: Lentils
Question: In 1941 Josef Jakobs was the last spy to be executed where?
Answer: Tower of London
Question: Who had their twelfth UK No. 1 single with their cover of Mandy?
Answer: Westlife
Question: On whose radio show did Kenneth Williams play Rambling Sid Rumpo?
Answer: Kenneth Horne
Question: Which is the fastest running British bird?
Answer: Pheasant
Question: What colour overalls are worn by caddies during the US Masters golf tournament?
Answer: White
Question: The sweet-tasting root of which plant is sometimes known as ‘Spanish’?
Answer: Liquorice
Question: Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, was the mother of which king of England?
Answer: Richard II
Question: Which Australian hard-rock band was formed by Angus and Malcolm Young?
Answer: AC/DC
Question: Who was the nemesis of farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean?
Answer: Fantastic Mr Fox
Question: On which of London’s tube lines do trains reach the greatest speeds?
Answer: Metropolitan
Question: Which saint lived on a small platform at the top of a pillar in Aleppo for 37 years?
Answer: St Simeon Stylites
Question: Part of the Pope’s regalia, what is the more common name for the Piscatory Ring?
Answer: Fisherman’s Ring
Question: From which S.E. London open space do participants start the London Marathon?
Answer: Blackheath
Question: Which five word title is engraved on the letter box at 10 Downing Street?
Answer: First Lord of the Treasury
Question: Who led the ill-fated expedition which set sail in 1845 in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror?
Answer: Sir John Franklin
Question: In triathlon, what is the term for the transfer between disciplines?
Answer: Transition
Question: In which EU country did havarti cheese originate?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Which number do bingo callers link with “The Brighton Line”?
Answer: 59
Question: Which UK Prime Minister wrote 19 novels including Coningsby, Sybil and Endymion?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli
Question: Which wading bird has varieties called ‘whooping’ and ‘demoiselle’?
Answer: Crane
Question: ‘He’s all England needs – another queen who can’t dress’ by Joan Rivers?
Answer: Boy George
Question: Who rode from Boston to Lexington to warn US forces of a British Approach?
Answer: Paul Revere
Question: What name is given to the interference caused to wave patterns by an object or gap?
Answer: Diffraction
Question: Which Scottish loch is deepest at the maximum depth?
Answer: Loch Ness
Question: In which French city does the Pont Saint-Benezet only partly span the river Rhone?
Answer: Avignon
Question: The five ‘K’s feature in which religion?
Answer: Sikhism
Question: Which kind of animals are associated with the word ‘lapine’?
Answer: Rabbits
Question: In which capital of the British Isles would you find the Royal Canal?
Answer: Dublin
Question: The Royal Military Canal separates which area from the rest of England?
Answer: Romney Marsh
Question: The Arabic phrase 'As-salamu alaykum' is abbreviated to which word?
Answer: Salaam
Question: Which region of France was renamed after the apple brandy distilled there?
Answer: Calvados
Question: Which peninsula marks the southern end of the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Yucatan
Question: In which Japanese form of Buddhism is meditation most important?
Answer: Zen
Question: The word 'stannary' refers to which metal?
Answer: Tin
Question: There are four types of wetland: swamp, marsh, bog and what?
Answer: Fen
Question: Burke and Wills crossed which continent in an 1860 expedition?
Answer: Australia
Question: Diplopodology is the study of which many-legged arthropods?
Answer: Millipede
Question: Who delivers the black spot to Billy Bones in Treasure Island?
Answer: Blind Pew
Question: Which King novel was set at the Overlook Hotel?
Answer: The Shining
Question: Under which other name did King write novels in the 1970s?
Answer: Bachman
Question: Lake Eyre is the lowest point of which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Chicory Tip’s release Son of My Father was the first UK No.1 to feature which instrument?
Answer: Synthesizer
Question: Which small marine creatures make up the genus hippocampus?
Answer: Sea Horses
Question: Which mammal has the alternative names of carcajou, Glutton or skunk bear?
Answer: Wolverine
Question: Which future king landed at Torbay in 1688?
Answer: William III
Question: Which canal connects Antwerp with Liege?
Answer: Albert Canal
Question: ‘It’s Toasted’ was the advertising slogan for which cigarette brand?
Answer: Lucky Strike
Question: Malia and Natasha are the daughters of which famous man?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: Which desert runs along the border between India and Pakistan?
Answer: Thar Desert
Question: Which country is bordered by Laos, Vietnam and Thailand?
Answer: Cambodia
Question: What is the most notable invention of Hippolyte Mege-Mouries?
Answer: Margarine
Question: Which gas is the principal gas in the atmosphere of Venus?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
Question: For what purpose were Mesopotamian ziggurats built?
Answer: Temples
Question: The Megalodon is the largest ever known type of which sea creature?
Answer: Shark
Question: Who lived in a home called the Burrow in Harry Potter?
Answer: Weasleys
Question: In which US state would you find the Great Salt Lake?
Answer: Utah
Question: Which is the largest and most muscular of the four chambers of the human heart?
Answer: Left ventricle
Question: Which song was a UK number one for Harry Belafonte in 1957 and for Boney M in 1978?
Answer: Mary’s Boy Child
Question: Which type of cloth cap is named after the hero of a poem by Robert Burns?
Answer: Tam-O’-Shanter
Question: Which trunk road in Lancashire is known as the ‘Devil’s Highway’?
Answer: A666
Question: Who composed the opera ‘Carmen’ (1875)?
Answer: Georges BIZET
Question: What is the first name of Mr. Maldonado, the Venezuelan Formula 1 driver?
Answer: PASTOR
Question: In the tv programme ‘Dad’s Army’, what is Private Pike’s first name?
Answer: FRANK
Question: In the Noddy stories, what is the name of Big Ears’ brother?
Answer: LITTLE EARS
Question: The test of the UK’s first atomic device in October 1952 was known as Operation what?
Answer: HURRICANE
Question: Also known as winter depression, what is the full form of S.A.D.?
Answer: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE
Question: A.S.M. was which Coen brothers film?
Answer: A SERIOUS MAN
Question: What is the capital city of Cyprus?
Answer: NICOSIA
Question: Born in 1963, whose real name is Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou?
Answer: GEORGE MICHAEL
Question: George Ford is a player and dad Mike Ford is the coach at which English rugby club?
Answer: BATH
Question: What surname is shared by the Formula 1 champions in 1962, 1968, and 1996?
Answer: HILL
Question: What river flows through the Welsh city of Newport?
Answer: USK
Question: After the Nile, what is the next-longest river in Africa?
Answer: CONGO
Question: Born in 1921, who connects ‘Are You Being Served?’ with ‘Last of the Summer Wine’?
Answer: FRANK THORNTON
Question: With the formula C6H12O6, what is also known as grape sugar?
Answer: DEXTROSE
Question: What word in our language comes from the French for ‘sour wine’?
Answer: VINEGAR
Question: The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech is known as what?
Answer: HYPERBOLE
Question: What is the first name of Andy Murray’s elder brother?
Answer: JAMIE
Question: Physics. What is the SI unit for amount of substance?
Answer: Mole
Question: In August 1969, what notable event took place on Max Yasgur’s farm?
Answer: Woodstock festival
Question: On which date is All Saints day celebrated in the Western Church?
Answer: November 1st
Question: In Hinduism what name is given to the festival of Colour or Colours?
Answer: Holi
Question: Which is the only freshwater member of the Cod family?
Answer: Burbot
Question: Who is Jessica’s father in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice?
Answer: Shylock