zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which car manufacturer has a logo with two overlapping letter ‘R’s’
Answer: Rolls Royce
Question: Urtication is the use of which plant to stimulate the skin?
Answer: Nettle
Question: What type of creature is a godwit?
Answer: Bird
Question: The Grey Cup is awarded to the champions of the Football League in which country?
Answer: Canada
Question: Da Nang International Airport and Tan Son Nhat International Airport are located in which Asian country?
Answer: Vietnam
Question: In the Bible, Apollyon is the angel of the ‘what’?
Answer: Bottomless Pit
Question: What is the fiery liquid that flows from a volcano?
Answer: Lava
Question: In the children’s television series ‘Telletubbies’ what is the Nuu-Nuu?
Answer: Vacuum cleaner
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘Nicholas Nickleby’?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Question: Pernio is the Latin name for which medical complaint?
Answer: Chilblain
Question: Traditionally a ‘coven’ traditionally refers to a meeting of how many witches?
Answer: 13
Question: Robert Stephen Rintoul was the founding editor of which British magazine, first published in 1928?
Answer: The Spectator
Question: Malia and Natasha are the daughters of which US President?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: People born on April 17th have which sign of the Zodiac?
Answer: Aries
Question: Who was US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: John F Kennedy
Question: The nymph Daphne became a laurel tree escaping which Greek god?
Answer: Apollo
Question: To what colour is the human eye most sensitive?
Answer: Green
Question: What marten, Martes zibellina, was a prized fur and erroneously a fine paintbrush?
Answer: Sable
Question: Galilean, Keplerian, Newtonian and Conde are types of what instrument?
Answer: Telescope
Question: Insurgents of what nation took part in the Easter Rising of 1916?
Answer: Ireland
Question: A red giant star typically evolves when its central hydrogen has converted to what gas?
Answer: Helium
Question: Who plays Edward Cullen in the ‘Twilight’ film series?
Answer: Robert Pattinson
Question: What is the highest straight flush in a game of poker?
Answer: Royal Flush
Question: Suzy and the Red Stripes was a pseudonym used by which English band for the release of the 1977 single ‘Seaside Woman’?
Answer: Wings
Question: The cultivation of which crop was banned in France in 1748 because it was thought to cause leprosy?
Answer: Potato
Question: Which actress and former model is the mother of Melanie Griffith?
Answer: TIPPI HEDREN
Question: What was the name of the dwarf who is a chief character in ‘Lord of the Rings’?
Answer: GIMLI
Question: American E.F.Blackwood gave his name to a common tactic used in which game?
Answer: Bridge
Question: Which baronet had an eight-year affair with Princess Margaret in the 1970s?
Answer: Roddy Llewellyn
Question: What name is given to areas of land in Holland that have been reclaimed from the sea?
Answer: Polders
Question: Which creature has a variety known as the 'Bottlenosed'?
Answer: Dolphin
Question: Who famously left from Scampton?
Answer: The Dam Busters
Question: Who was the false god representing greed and wealth cited in the New Testament?
Answer: Mammon
Question: Which is the oldest Oxford college?
Answer: University College
Question: Which fictional detective married author Harriet Vane?
Answer: Lord Peter Wimsey
Question: What does an ethologist study?
Answer: Animal behaviour
Question: Which character fell asleep in The Catskills for 20 years?
Answer: RIP VAN WINKLE
Question: What constitutes the sole diet of the Osprey?
Answer: FISH
Question: To which particular order of mammals do shrews and moles belong?
Answer: INSECTIVORA
Question: Barry George spent 8 years behind bars before being cleared in a retrial of the murder of whom?
Answer: Jill Dando
Question: What is the collective name for the writers of the four gospels?
Answer: Evangelists
Question: What is the strong material found in the cell walls of plants?
Answer: Cellulose
Question: By what name did the Germans call the Polish port of Gdansk?
Answer: Danzig
Question: What was found in 1872 in the Atlantic with no-one on board but the cargo secure?
Answer: Mary Celeste
Question: Which Dickens novel features the Gordon Riots?
Answer: Barnaby Rudge
Question: Politics. At Westminster what is a ‘spad’?
Answer: Special Adviser
Question: Which 19 century Prime Minister is the only PM to have served 4 terms ?
Answer: William Gladstone
Question: Whose real name was falsely stated to be Camille Javal ?
Answer: Brigitte Bardot
Question: Who pined away until only her voice remained because of unrequited love?
Answer: Echo
Question: Which member of the German army was not so secretly in love with Rene in Allo Allo?
Answer: Lieutenant Gruber
Question: From which country did the Duffel Coat originate?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Who has written several successful novels about DS Roy Grace of the Brighton force?
Answer: Peter James
Question: Charles Moore is whose official 2013 biographer?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: John ‘Swift Nick’ Nevison found notoriety as what?
Answer: Highwayman
Question: Dying aged 28, who is considered the first great white jazz musician?
Answer: Bix Beiderbecke
Question: Which animal has species called Burchell’s and Grevy’s?
Answer: Zebra
Question: Which is the USA’s Hawkeye State?
Answer: Iowa
Question: Who was the Secretary General from 1997 to 2006?
Answer: KOFI ANNAN
Question: To within one year, in what year of this century was it badly damaged by fire?
Answer: 2007
Question: What subject does Catherine Tate’s character teach in ‘Big School’?
Answer: FRENCH
Question: Give any year in which the second, longer-lasting Boer War was fought?
Answer: 1899-1902
Question: What colour is the centre square (excluding the star)?
Answer: PINK
Question: What is the two-word name of Llandudno’s large limestone headland?
Answer: GREAT ORME
Question: What colour is the flesh of a cantaloupe melon?
Answer: Orange
Question: In the bible who was Adam and Eve’s third son?
Answer: Seth
Question: What is chased downhill in an annual race by villagers of Brockworth in Gloucester?
Answer: A Cheese
Question: Which BBC2 drama series featured the Birmingham criminal gang scene of the 1920s?
Answer: Peaky Blinders
Question: In cinema history which sport has been the subject of most films?
Answer: Boxing
Question: Fungi do not have seeds – what do they have?
Answer: Spores
Question: Which mountain range forms the backbone of Italy?
Answer: Apennines
Question: What are the invisible lines that supposedly link ancient magical sites?
Answer: Ley Lines
Question: Who announced his ‘Great Leap Forward’ in 1958?
Answer: Mao Tse Tung
Question: To within a year either way, in what year did Victoria’s husband Prince Albert die?
Answer: 1861
Question: When the ads. finished, keeper Molly Badham welcomed them back to which zoo?
Answer: Twycross
Question: What was the first name of Mark Knopfler’s brother in Dire Straits?
Answer: David
Question: Who wrote the 1946 work ‘The Winslow Boy’?
Answer: Terence Rattigan
Question: Which 2007 Rihanna song topped the charts in fifteen countries?
Answer: Umbrella
Question: What was Eva Peron’s maiden name?
Answer: Duarte
Question: What sort of creature is a ‘taipan’?
Answer: snake
Question: ‘On Stranger Tides’ is the fourth film in which series?
Answer: Pirates of the Caribbean
Question: What was the sequel to the sitcom Are You Being Served?
Answer: Grace and Favour
Question: Which title was held by Queen Victoria’s father?
Answer: Duke of Kent
Question: Under which Prime Minister were life peerages instituted?
Answer: Harold Macmillan
Question: Who wrote The Leatherstocking Tales?
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper
Question: Which anti-Catholic insurgencies took place in London in 1780?
Answer: The Gordon Riots
Question: Which deceased comedian’s real name was Maurice Cole?
Answer: Kenny Everett
Question: What is the surname of the four sisters in ‘Little Women’ (1868-9)?
Answer: MARCH
Question: In which pantomime does the character Baron Hardup appear?
Answer: CINDERELLA
Question: For religious people, the shamrock is said to be a metaphor for what?
Answer: HOLY TRINITY
Question: The uninhabited Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic is a dependency of what country?
Answer: NORWAY
Question: Liberty Island in New York harbour was formerly known as what?
Answer: Bedloe’s Island
Question: A babirusa is a wild variety of which creature?
Answer: Pig
Question: Who did Jacques Santer replace as President of the European Commission in 1995?
Answer: Jacques Delor
Question: Torre Pendente is the local name for what world-famous visitor attraction?
Answer: Leaning Tower of Pisa
Question: Which principle of physics is used in police speed traps?
Answer: Doppler Effect
Question: Which mountain range stretches from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea?
Answer: Caucasus
Question: Chaim Weizmann was the first president of which country?
Answer: Israel
Question: In wine production what is the syrah grape almost invariably called in Australia?
Answer: Shiraz
Question: Which fabric derives its name from a Syrian city?
Answer: Damask
Question: Who appeared for 30 years with the jazz outfit John Chilton’s Feetwarmers?
Answer: George Melly
Question: Which instrument consists of hanging metal bars which are struck by a hammer?
Answer: Glockenspiel
Question: What is London's largest theatre, if its name has not already given it away?
Answer: Coliseum
Question: Which Victorian Field Marshall's name has become a by-word for efficiency?
Answer: Sir Garnet Wolseley
Question: Lord Kitchener drowned when which ship hit a mine in 1916?
Answer: HMS Hampshire
Question: Alban Berg's opera 'Lulu' ends with the appearance of which murderer?
Answer: Jack The Ripper
Question: Paektu Mountain is the highest point on which Asian peninsula?
Answer: Korea
Question: In 1957 Pete Murray invited you to jive on what?
Answer: 6-5 Special
Question: Which animal is the symbol of the Rastafarian religion?
Answer: Lion
Question: What was the name of the first pilot to break the sound barrier?
Answer: Chuck Yeager
Question: Which drink was once known as ‘the green fairy’?
Answer: Absinthe
Question: Which Spanish city is the scene of the annual bull-running from July 6 to 14th?
Answer: Pamplona
Question: American Greg Louganis twice won Olympic gold at which sport?
Answer: Diving
Question: Which wind has a name meaning ‘snow eater’ in American Indian language?
Answer: Chinook
Question: Francis Walsingham was the spy-master of which monarch?
Answer: Elizabeth I
Question: Which sculptress died in an accidental fire at her Trewyn studios in 1975?
Answer: Barbara Hepworth
Question: The last pair of which extinct flightless birds were killed in 1844? (Two words.)
Answer: GREAT AUKS
Question: Tinca Tinca is the Latin name for which fish?
Answer: TENCH
Question: Premiered in 1834, Who composed Harold In Italy?
Answer: Berlioz
Question: Whose patron was Ludwig II of Bavaria?
Answer: Wagner
Question: The villain Emilio Largo features in which film?
Answer: Thunderball
Question: The condition Ketosis would result from an inadequacy of what in the diet?
Answer: Carbohydrates
Question: What was the country of birth of Pope Benedict XVI?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which material when crushed for recycling is known as “cullet”?
Answer: Glass
Question: Which Shakespeare play has the siege of Troy as its setting?
Answer: Troilus and Cressida
Question: Ultimately, which 538-strong institution votes in a new president?
Answer: The Electoral College
Question: Sax Rohmer created which notorious, fictional criminal?
Answer: Dr. FU MANCHU
Question: In The Scaffold’s ‘Lily the Pink’, which young lady “had terrible freckles”?
Answer: JENNIFER ECCLES
Question: Who wrote the poem ‘A Visit From St. Nicholas’, aka ‘The Night Before Christmas’?
Answer: CLEMENT C. MOORE
Question: The 9-inch tall pyramid at the top of the Washington Monument is made of what?
Answer: ALUMINIUM
Question: What nationality is violinist Andre Rieu?
Answer: DUTCH
Question: Strabismus is more commonly known by which one-syllable word?
Answer: SQUINT
Question: In 1901 who was first person to transmit radio signals across Atlantic?
Answer: MARCONI
Question: Which vegetable, a gourd-like squash, derives its name from the Greek for 'large melon'?
Answer: PUMPKIN
Question: What colour are the petals of the flower known as the Black-eyed Susan?
Answer: YELLOW
Question: Which 'school' has witnessed: 'Blue Murder', 'Pure Hell' and a 'Train Robbery'?
Answer: ST TRINIANS
Question: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mistress, Jane Burden, was the wife of which artist and poet?
Answer: William MORRIS
Question: Which vegetable is available in varieties such as 'Bok Choy' and 'Savoy'?
Answer: CABBAGE
Question: The three principal Uralic languages are Finnish, Estonian, and which other?
Answer: Hungarian
Question: Who was the treacherous knight of the Round Table?
Answer: Mordred
Question: Which singer had a backing group called the Pips?
Answer: Gladys Knight
Question: In which opera does Lily the Strawberry Woman appear?
Answer: Porgy and Bess
Question: Heather Mackay was British Open Champion 16 times at which sport?
Answer: Squash
Question: Marilyn Monroe played the character Sugar Kane in which film?
Answer: Some Like It Hot
Question: Alvin Stardust first found fame under what name?
Answer: Shane Fenton
Question: Who wrote The Symphony of a Thousand?
Answer: Mahler
Question: Who is the oldest man to win Olympic Gold at 100 metres?
Answer: Linford Christie
Question: What was the Northern most slave state of the US Civil War?
Answer: Delaware
Question: Who composed the 'Brandenburg Concertos'?
Answer: Johann Sebastian BACH
Question: From which country did Rwanda obtain independence in 1962?
Answer: Belgium
Question: The ancient town of Timbuktu is in which country?
Answer: Mali
Question: In maths the hexadecimal numeral system has a base of which number?
Answer: 16
Question: Which Spaniard painted the Naked Maja?
Answer: Goya
Question: Low blood sugar is known by which medical term?
Answer: Hypoglycemia
Question: Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons make up what duo?
Answer: The Chemical Brothers
Question: Living from 1672 to 1769, which card games authority is known as “the father of Whist”?
Answer: Edmond Hoyle
Question: Which musician played Nikola Tesla in the 2006 film The Prestige?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: Off the coast of which country do the volcanic Westmann Islands lie?
Answer: Iceland
Question: Abbreviated to MVP, what is the American sporting equivalent of “Man of the Match”?
Answer: Most Valuable Player
Question: Of Dvořák’s 9 symphonies, which number is subtitled, From the New World?
Answer: Symphony No. 9
Question: Which small, remote island is known to its inhabitants as Rapa Nui?
Answer: Easter Island
Question: Referring to their feeding method, ducks can be diving ducks - or what other kind?
Answer: Dabbling ducks
Question: Born in 1849, Edmund Barton became the first Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: AUSTRALIA
Question: What fortification did the Romans build from the Forth to the Clyde?
Answer: Antonine Wall
Question: What was Queen Victoria’s comment upon witnessing an impersonation of herself?
Answer: We Are Not Amused
Question: What was the nickname of American bank robber Charles Floyd?
Answer: Pretty Boy
Question: What will our Sun become in the first stage of its death?
Answer: Red Giant
Question: After the suicide of Ian Curtis his band Joy Division played on under which name?
Answer: New Order
Question: Where in Pennsylvania in the USA did a partial nuclear meltdown occur in 1979?
Answer: Three Mile Island
Question: Which Shakespearean character has a wife called Desdemona?
Answer: Othello
Question: What is the Southern equivalent of the Aurora Borealis?
Answer: Aurora Australis
Question: What term is used for the agreement of two or more persons to commit an illegal act?
Answer: Conspiracy
Question: Which country withdrew from the Commonwealth in 2003?
Answer: Zimbabwe
Question: A babirusa is wild variety of which animal?
Answer: Pig
Question: What term is used for chains of repeated groups of atoms e.g. DNA, proteins?
Answer: Polymers
Question: At Westminster what is a spad?
Answer: Special Advisor
Question: Wallachia is a region of which country?
Answer: Romania
Question: To whom did Clive Anderson say ‘Is there no beginning to your talents’?
Answer: Jeffrey Archer
Question: Which Caribbean island is only 11 kilometres off the Venezuelan coast?
Answer: Trinidad
Question: Which painter was born Jacopo Comin, later changed to Jacopo Robusti?
Answer: Tintoretto
Question: Which Rolls-Royce engine was fitted into the Spitfire fighter plane?
Answer: Merlin
Question: Band leader Glenn Miller also played which instrument?
Answer: Trombone
Question: Band leader Benny Goodman also played which instrument?
Answer: Clarinet
Question: Which is the USA’s City of Brotherly Love?
Answer: Philadelphia
Question: Which detective of novels and TV has the aristocratic title The Earl of Asherton?
Answer: Inspector Linley
Question: In which county is the Forest of Dean?
Answer: Gloucester
Question: Who is Prince Myshkin in a Dostoevsky novel?
Answer: The Idiot
Question: What building is located at 32 London Bridge Street?
Answer: The Shard
Question: BCG is an inoculation against what?
Answer: Tuberculosis
Question: Which island lies directly north of Malta?
Answer: Sicily
Question: What is the nickname of his Symphony No.41 – considered to be his greatest?
Answer: The Jupiter
Question: In ‘Coronation Street’, what was the name of Minnie Caldwell’s cat?
Answer: BOBBY
Question: What word describes an area of open water separated from the open sea by a coral reef?
Answer: LAGOON
Question: In ‘Treasure Island’, who was the captain of the Hispaniola?
Answer: Captain SMOLLETT
Question: What do Americans call the item of clothing we call ‘braces’?
Answer: SUSPENDERS
Question: After a 1952 film, who became known as ‘the million-dollar mermaid’?
Answer: Esther WILLIAMS
Question: Which blond actor who died in 2008 played Jim Bowie in the 1960 film 'The Alamo'?
Answer: Richard Widmark
Question: Whom did a jealous Athena turn into a spider?
Answer: Arachne
Question: Who was the beautiful sister of the twins Castor and Pollux and mother to Hermione?
Answer: Helen of Troy
Question: Agrippina married her uncle, later having him poisoned. Which Roman Emperor was he?
Answer: Claudius
Question: Which 17th century Dutch painter did the forger Hans van Meegeren most often copy?
Answer: Jan Vermeer
Question: He died in 1965, who has a statue in Dockwray Square, North Shields (erected in 1989)?
Answer: Stan Laurel
Question: Whom did both Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor marry?
Answer: Eddie Fisher
Question: What was the name of William Wordsworth's sister?
Answer: Dorothy
Question: For what profession did Mahatma Ghandi train?
Answer: LAWYER
Question: Which of Henry VIII’s wives had twice been widowed when they married?
Answer: KATHARINE PARR
Question: Which N. Wales town has a courthouse, built in 1614, a castle, and a disused jail?
Answer: BEAUMARIS
Question: Since 1999, which manufacturer has won Le Mans on all but two occasions?
Answer: AUDI
Question: In ‘Hamlet’, what was the name of the title character’s mother?
Answer: GERTRUDE
Question: In 1066, on which hill did Harold deploy his troops for the Battle of Hastings?
Answer: SENLAC
Question: From which country did Madagascar gain independence in 1960?
Answer: FRANCE
Question: Which retro film character frequently referred to his ‘Number One son’ in his films?
Answer: CHARLIE CHAN
Question: Whose real name is revealed to be Oscar Diggs, in a 2013 prequel to a 1939 film?
Answer: THE WIZARD OF OZ
Question: What is the name of the orphan girl raised by Miss Havisham in ‘Great Expectations’?
Answer: ESTELLA
Question: Who got to no.3 in the charts in 1972 with ‘You’re So Vain’?
Answer: CARLY SIMON
Question: Who was the serving President of the USA in 1976?
Answer: GERALD FORD
Question: Who composed ‘The Hungarian Rhapsodies’?
Answer: Franz LISZT
Question: Where did the failed US backed landing in Cuba take place in 1961?
Answer: The Bay of Pigs
Question: Which English king was married to Henrietta Maria?
Answer: Charles I
Question: Who assumed the title of Richard IV?
Answer: Perkin Warbeck
Question: What type of creature is a mugger?
Answer: Crocodile
Question: Which member of Abba is not Swedish?
Answer: Anni-frid
Question: Who played Andy McNab in the BBC dramatisation of Bravo Two Zero?
Answer: Sean Bean
Question: Aka zinc blende, and consisting largely of zinc sulphide, what is the chief ore of zinc?
Answer: SPHALERITE
Question: Near which small town in Berkshire was the Royal Military Academy founded in 1799?
Answer: SANDHURST
Question: Which English author, 1707- 1754, was also a J.P. (Justice of the Peace)?
Answer: HENRY FIELDING
Question: In which country are the Papal guards recruited?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: In which month does St Swithin's day fall?
Answer: July
Question: What is the given name of the wife of Conservative leader David Cameron?
Answer: Samantha
Question: Which American was awarded a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973?
Answer: Henry Kissinger
Question: Which 'John' directed (and had a cameo in) the film 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'?
Answer: John Huston
Question: The Kamchatka Peninsula lies within the territory of which nation?
Answer: Russia
Question: In Greek mythology who killed the gorgon Medusa?
Answer: Perseus
Question: Not often mentioned – what is Jeeves first name?
Answer: Reginald
Question: Apart from a straight flush which other hand beats a full house in poker?
Answer: Four of a Kind
Question: Which kind of water contains quinine?
Answer: Tonic Water
Question: Which tennis star was sued for palimony by Judy Nelson?
Answer: Martina Navratilova
Question: In 1956 who became the first European Footballer of the Year?
Answer: Stanley Matthews
Question: Which hero of mythology killed the Chimera?
Answer: Bellerophon
Question: Who plays Vic Reeves aka Jim Moir’s wife in the comedy Hebburn?
Answer: Gina McKee
Question: What is the common name of the carambola?
Answer: Star Fruit
Question: After World War II, what was a DP?
Answer: Displaced Person
Question: Which composer was Franz Liszt’s son-in-law?
Answer: Wagner
Question: Lamaism is which country’s form of Buddhism?
Answer: Tibet
Question: In 1948, which Vickers aircraft became the first turboprop airliner to enter active service?
Answer: Vickers Viscount
Question: Which poet was shot in the wrist by his lover, fellow poet Paul Verlaine?
Answer: Arthur Rimbaud
Question: What is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick?
Answer: Fredericton
Question: In which 1944 film does a drama critic learn that his two maiden aunts are serial killers?
Answer: Arsenic and Old Lace
Question: Who wrote the 1957 poem Not Waving but Drowning?
Answer: Stevie Smith
Question: Which BP rig sank in April 2010, causing a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Deepwater Horizon
Question: In the Loop was a film spin-off from which satirical television series?
Answer: The Thick of It
Question: The holder of which post is also the Minister for the Civil Service?
Answer: Prime Minister
Question: What is the name of the river on which Bakewell stands?
Answer: WYE
Question: All Scotch whisky must be aged in oak barrels for at least how many years?
Answer: THREE
Question: What was the first name of Don Warrington’s character in ‘Rising Damp’?
Answer: PHILLIP
Question: In Jaws what was the name of the shark-hunting captain of the boat Orca?
Answer: Quint
Question: To which secret society did Gavrilo Princip, Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassin belong?
Answer: The Black Hand
Question: Who drinks poison to save Peter Pan?
Answer: Tinkerbell
Question: In which film does Meg Ryan simulate orgasm in a crowded restaurant?
Answer: When Harry Met Sally
Question: What type of creature is a bleak?
Answer: Fish
Question: On TV and in film who are Neil, Simon, Will and Jay?
Answer: The Inbetweeners
Question: What name was given to the code of the Samurai?
Answer: Bushido
Question: What medical term is used for an extreme life-threatening allergic reaction?
Answer: Anaphylaxis
Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek Goddess Artemis?
Answer: Diana
Question: Who was the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot?
Answer: Matthias