zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Music of the Night is a song from which stage musical?
Answer: Phantom of the Opera
Question: Who was Britain’s Defence Secretary at the time of the Falklands War?
Answer: John Nott
Question: Cerulean is a shade of which colour?
Answer: Blue
Question: Which crooner’s only UK No.1 was Memories Are Made Of This in 1956?
Answer: Dean Martin
Question: Which Caribbean island group has a reptilian name?
Answer: Cayman Islands
Question: Someone feigning unconsciousness or death is said to be playing which animal?
Answer: Possum
Question: Who has taken over from Sandi Toksvig as presenter of The News Quiz?
Answer: Miles Jupp
Question: Before adopting the Euro which country’s currency was the markka?
Answer: Finland
Question: What was the name of his American mother?
Answer: Jenny Jerome
Question: Upon which war did he report as a foreign correspondent for the Morning Post?
Answer: Boer War
Question: What is added to Scotch to make a Whisky Mac?
Answer: Ginger Wine
Question: In olden-day police parlance what were ‘darbies’?
Answer: Handcuffs
Question: What is the collective noun for kangaroos?
Answer: Mob
Question: In which European capital is Bromma Airport?
Answer: Stockholm
Question: What is the collective noun for frogs?
Answer: Army
Question: Who was the second woman elected to the House of Commons?
Answer: Nancy Astor
Question: Which disease, now known to be a virus, was first identified in Germany in 1814?
Answer: Rubella
Question: Who played Catherine of Aragon in 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII' AND Queen Victoria in 'Edward VII'?
Answer: Annette Crosby
Question: What does the Morrison's supermarket chain call its delicatessen counters?
Answer: Market Street
Question: Which French port has namesakes in both Derby and Nottingham?
Answer: Dunkirk
Question: In Urbana Illinois on the 12th January 1992 Mr Langley taught a HAL 9000 computer which song?
Answer: Daisy
Question: Which liqueur keeps Aunt Mary awake?
Answer: Tia Maria
Question: Which brand of cream cheese should spread brotherly love?
Answer: Philadelphia
Question: Buddy Holly died in which month of 1959?
Answer: February
Question: Who published a regular newspaper column from 1936 onwards?
Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt
Question: FIFA's annual award for most beautiful goal is named after which Real Madrid player?
Answer: Ferenc Puskas
Question: His 1965 recording of 'A Hard Day's Night' was a parody of which actor?
Answer: Laurence Olivier
Question: Sellers described which London suburb as 'the gateway to the south'?
Answer: Balham
Question: What type of port can be found at Pegwell Bay in Kent and at Ryde on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: Hoverport
Question: Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell in Yorkshire are the three corners of which triangle?
Answer: Rhubarb
Question: Winston Smith spends most of 1984 trying to learn the lines to which song?
Answer: Oranges and Lemons
Question: If you walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht, what colour was your scarf?
Answer: Apricot
Question: Which TV series was set in a telephone exchange in Derby?
Answer: The Hello Girls
Question: Which TV series about a women's football team was filmed in Ilkeston?
Answer: Playing The Field
Question: Which Derbyshire railway station has the three-letter code CMF?
Answer: Cromford
Question: The Vasco da Gama Bridge, the longest in Europe, spans which river?
Answer: Tagus
Question: Which is the most southerly city to have hosted the Winter Olympics?
Answer: Nagano
Question: Which is the most southerly of the Met Office’s shipping forecast areas?
Answer: Trafalgar
Question: The song Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend comes from which musical?
Answer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Question: Which fictional division of the Jersey police employed the services of Jim Bergerac?
Answer: Le Bureau des Étrangers
Question: Which 1988 film was subtitled From the Files of Police Squad?
Answer: The Naked Gun
Question: Which two former popes were canonised on 27th April 2014?
Answer: John Paul II and John XXIII
Question: In which national park does the annual Green Man festival take place?
Answer: Brecon Beacons
Question: If California is “The Golden State”, what is New York state?
Answer: The Empire State
Question: By area, which is largest landlocked state in the USA?
Answer: Montana
Question: In which city did women's basketball teams first contest full Olympic medals?
Answer: Montreal
Question: In which US State do teams play baseball in the Cactus League?
Answer: Arizona
Question: Honiara is the capital city of which nation?
Answer: Solomon Islands
Question: What is removed in a procedure called an oophorectomy?
Answer: Ovary or Ovaries
Question: The EU's student exchange programme is named for which Dutch, Renaissance figure?
Answer: Erasmus of Rotterdam
Question: In 1984, which Cosmonaut became the first woman to perform a spacewalk?
Answer: Svetlana Savitskaya
Question: Which TV detective is the 8th Earl of Asherton?
Answer: Inspector Lynley
Question: In which English city is the Don Valley Stadium?
Answer: Sheffield
Question: What is the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago?
Answer: Port of Spain
Question: Which English cathedral has an octagonal tower?
Answer: Ely
Question: Which number in Pennsylvania Avenue is The White House?
Answer: 1600
Question: “Wish You Were Here” are a tribute band for which group?
Answer: Pink Floyd
Question: The Ohm are a tribute band to which group?
Answer: The Who
Question: “Your name will also go on the list; what is it?”
Answer: Don’t tell him Pike.
Question: What is the name of the device from which cards are dealt in a casino?
Answer: Shoe
Question: Which model was described as the ‘Face of ‘66’?
Answer: Twiggy
Question: ‘Hit and Miss’ was the theme tune to which TV pop show?
Answer: Juke Box Jury
Question: Relative density is the density of a substance relative to what?
Answer: Water
Question: Which king of Corinth is a byword for fruitless toil?
Answer: Sisyphus
Question: Scoop, Muck, Roley and Lofty are whose vehicles?
Answer: Bob the Builder
Question: What is The Devil’s Appendix in Cwm Idwal, Snowdonia?
Answer: Waterfall
Question: Okta is a unit measurement of what?
Answer: Cloud Cover
Question: Wind speed is measured in which unit?
Answer: Knot
Question: Which musical is based on the Puccini opera Madame Butterfly?
Answer: Miss Saigon
Question: What word was used for the costume or outfit of a Court Jester?
Answer: Motley
Question: Who was voted King of Hollywood in 1937 by a New York Daily News poll?
Answer: Clark Gable
Question: What sitcom title character is the TV alter ego of Adil Ray?
Answer: Citizen Khan
Question: What was the title of the latest David Attenborough offering on BBC1?
Answer: Life Story
Question: What is Europe’s smallest game bird?
Answer: Quail
Question: Which English footballer has won the FA Cup seven times?
Answer: Ashley Cole
Question: What is the name of the central female character in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”?
Answer: Truly Scrumptious
Question: Lydia the Tattooed Lady was a theme tune of which comedian?
Answer: Groucho Marx
Question: In which sport does the 40/20 rule apply?
Answer: Rugby League
Question: Which island group was once known as The Sandwich Islands?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: Who was the original base guitarist of the Kinks?
Answer: Peter Quaife
Question: Which is the most highly populated state in India?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
Question: Which city is served by O'Hare airport?
Answer: CHICAGO
Question: Name the man killed in 1967 whilst attempting to exceed 300 m.p.h. on water
Answer: DONALD CAMPBELL
Question: Which city is served by Dulles airport?
Answer: WASHINGTON
Question: How many miles are there in a league?
Answer: 3
Question: The song 'Younger than springtime' was featured in which musical?
Answer: SOUTH PACIFIC
Question: Only one actor has played the part of Sherlock Holmes in every field of entertainment, that is stage, screen, radio, TV and records. What is his name?
Answer: BASIL RATHBONE
Question: Murophobia is the abnormal fear of what?
Answer: MICE
Question: By what name is Mrs Blaise Edwards better known?
Answer: JULIE ANDREWS
Question: Who has a current top ten hit with the record 'In the air tonight'?
Answer: PHIL COLLINS
Question: What is the equivalent Royal Air Force rank to an Army Major?
Answer: SQUADRON LEADER
Question: What do 'Grandshire', Plain Bob', 'Stedman' and Treble Bob' have in common?
Answer: BELL RINGING
Question: Which 7th century daughter of a Mercian king is the patron saint of Chester?
Answer: ST WERBURH
Question: Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper, Jay Carwright and Nile Sutherland are the main characters in which C4 comedy first shown in 2008?
Answer: THE INBETWEENERS
Question: Who was the only Crossroads character to appear in both the first and last episodes of the original series (1964-88)?
Answer: JILL
Question: The character played by Steve Carell in the US version of The Office and the current Vice Chancellor of Glyndwr University.
Answer: MICHAEL SCOTT
Question: Australian classical guitarist born in 1941 and American composer who has won 5 Oscars and 7 BAFTAs.
Answer: JOHN WILLIAMS
Question: 67-year-old US comedian who was an original cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live and an old English ballad which tells the story of the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.
Answer: CHEVY CHASE
Question: At which ground in Auckland will the final of the Rugby Union World Cup be played on the 23rd of this month?
Answer: EDEN PARK
Question: In which Asian city were the 14th swimming World Championships held in July this year?
Answer: SHANGHAI
Question: What shape is the central tower of the Palace of Westminster and also the Central Lobby which is situated beneath it?
Answer: OCTAGONAL
Question: Which comes first in an alphabetical list of the plays of William Shakespeare?
Answer: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Question: Baltra, Floreanna, San Crystobal and Santa Cruz are the five inhabited islands in which Pacific group?
Answer: GALAPAGOS
Question: What was the surname of the title character in H.G.Wells; novel The Invisible Man?
Answer: GRIFFIN
Question: Green politician Samantha Weinberg wrote a trilogy of novels under the alias Kate Westbrook in the noughties, based on the fictional diaries of which Ian Fleming character?
Answer: MISS MONEYPENNY
Question: Which wrexham company was formed in 1931 by the merger of Soames Brewery, Island Green Brewery and the Oswestry firm of Dorsett Owen?
Answer: BORDER BREWERIES
Question: In the phonetic alphabet what word represents the letter I ?
Answer: INDIA
Question: In the phonetic alphabet what word represents the letter U ?
Answer: UNIFORM
Question: For what television series was the theme tune "I could be so good for you"?
Answer: MINDER
Question: Rugby Union - Franklins Gardens is the home of which club?
Answer: NORTHAMPTON
Question: Pop music - which one hit wonder group had a number one hit with 'Something in the Air' in 1969?
Answer: THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN
Question: Which Englishman, born in 1791, is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer , that eventually led to more complicated designs?
Answer: CHARLES BABBAGE
Question: From which animal do we get catgut?
Answer: SHEEP or HORSES
Question: From the fur of which animal is a camel's hair brush made?
Answer: SQUIRREL
Question: Rugby Union - Kingsholm is the home of which club?
Answer: GLOUCESTER
Question: The novelty hit record "The Birdie Song" was in the top twenty for 23 weeks in 1981. Who recorded this record?
Answer: THE TWEETS
Question: The song "Nobody Does it Better" by Carly Simon provided the theme for which James Bond film?
Answer: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
Question: Mary Anne Evans was the real name of which famous novelist?
Answer: GEORGE ELIOT
Question: Which 1st World War battle of 1914 occured as opposing German and allied armies raced each other to gain access to the North Sea? Later the British had to hold out against German sieges.
Answer: BATTLE OF YPRES
Question: What is the biggest city by population in the US state of Wisconsin?
Answer: MILWAUKEE
Question: If both teams get the above tie break then on which date of that year was Rome founded?
Answer: 21st APRIL
Question: What is the name of the only British M.P. to be a member of the Green Party?
Answer: CAROLINE LUCAS
Question: In which famous film love story did the lovers meet in a book shop?
Answer: NOTTING HILL
Question: Which Irish comedian had the catchphrase "and there's more"?
Answer: JIMMY CRICKET
Question: Which British artist painted "The Grand Canal, Venice" and "The Shipwreck"?
Answer: TURNER
Question: Who composed the music for the ballet "Spartacus"?
Answer: KHACHATURIAN
Question: On which racecourse does the Irish Grand National take place?
Answer: FAIRYHOUSE
Question: Which sculptor created the classical marble statue "The Threee Graces"? He carved two separate versions, one stands in the Hermitage Museum and the other is jointly shown by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Gallery of Scotland.
Answer: CANOVA
Question: What is the longest running programme on television first broadcast in 1953?
Answer: PANORAMA
Question: To which family of birds does the Siskin belong?
Answer: FINCH
Question: According to archive figures (and quoted by Wikipedia), how many casualties were suffered by the "Red Army" (excluding civilians) in The Battle of Stalingrad? Casualties comprise soldiers who were killed, wounded or captured.
Answer: 1,130,000
Question: What title is used in Scotland for a public prosecutor who investigates sudden and suspicious deaths and conducts fatal accident enquiries, the equivalent of a coroner in other legal systems?
Answer: PROCURATOR FISCAL
Question: In 20-20 cricket what is the name of the Lancasshire team?
Answer: LANCASHIRE LIGHTNING
Question: Which cabinet minister made the following apology in 2011? "I simply wanted to make sure that the pieces of paper were not weighing me down. I have to apologise because on reflection I shouldn't have disposed of them in that way"
Answer: OLIVER LETWIN
Question: In the cartoon series "Asterix the Gaul", what is the name of the oldest man in Asterix's Gaulish village who still has an eye for the ladies?
Answer: GERIATRIX
Question: """I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky"" was a line written by the poet John Masefield. What was the title of the poem?"
Answer: SEA FEVER
Question: Controversy at the Oscars - Which film director created a stir at the 2003 Oscars ceremony? There was a loud and prolonged booing when he won the award for best director for his film "The Pianist", becasue the director was a convicted rapist.
Answer: ROMAN POLANSKI
Question: Which tree, noteed for the richness of the colour of its leaves, has the Latin name "Fagus Purpurea"?
Answer: COPPER BEECH
Question: Old television quiz shows - who was the original presenter of the TV quiz show "Going for Gold"?
Answer: HENRY KELLY
Question: Which capital city sits on the river Sumida?
Answer: TOKYO
Question: Which capital city sits on the river Manzaneres?
Answer: MADRID
Question: Who is the founder of Wikipedia, the on-line non-profit encyclopaedia? He was named as one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine in 2006 and was recognised by the prestigious Swiss Gottlieb award in 2011.
Answer: JIMMY WALES
Question: The title of which classic TV comedy series comes from a Shakespeare sonnet?
Answer: DARLING BUDS OF MAY
Question: What is the name of Rupert Murdoch's worldwide media company?
Answer: NEWS INTERNATIONAL
Question: A party called RESPECT stood for seats in the 2005 General Election. Who was the Chairman of that party?
Answer: GEORGE GALLOWAY
Question: What is the traditional name for a 30th wedding anniversary?
Answer: PEARL
Question: What was the name of the Chief Commissioner of the London Metropolitan police force who resigned in 2008?
Answer: IAN BLAIR
Question: To what RAF base are the bodies of servicemen killed in the war in Afghanistan now transported?
Answer: BRIZE NORTON
Question: What is the longest river in Asia?
Answer: YANGTSE
Question: Television adverts - which actor provides the voice in the adverts for British Gas?
Answer: TIMOTHY SPALL
Question: Andy Murray is the number one British male tennis player. Who is the British number two who first came to prominence by reaching the semi-final of this year's Queen's Club Tournament?
Answer: JAMES WARD
Question: In which English city would you find the district of Holgate?
Answer: YORK
Question: Which gulf is an arm of the South China Sea, bounded by the coasts of China and Vietnam?
Answer: GULF OF TONKIN
Question: Sport - which cricket player has the nickname "BOOM-BOOM"?
Answer: SHAHID AFRIDI
Question: The group 'Bananarama' made a record which got to number 3 in the pop charts in 1984. The title of the record contained the name of what film star?
Answer: ROBERT DE NIRO
Question: Which composer wrote the opera 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' based on Shakespeare's play?
Answer: (Benjamin) BRITTEN
Question: Which playwright, with a three letter surname, wrote the plays The Lady's not for Burning and Venus Observed?
Answer: CHRISTOPHER FRY
Question: The song 'If ever I would leave you' came from which musical?
Answer: CAMELOT
Question: In which year did the novelists Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy die? (will accept plus or minus one year)
Answer: 1910
Question: In the children's programme 'Paddington Bear' shown on television in the 1970's, who was the narrator?
Answer: MICHAEL HORDEN
Question: The song "If I ruled the world" came from which musical?
Answer: PICKWICK
Question: Sixties pop music - Who recorded the 1964 hit record "Juliet"?
Answer: FOUR PENNIES
Question: Which German river flows 292 kilometres from Lower Saxony, flowing into the North Sea just north of Bremen?
Answer: WESER
Question: Washington DC stands on which river?
Answer: POTOMAC
Question: Which famous composer, though better known for other works, wrote the music for several films including 'Bitter Springs' and 'Scott of the Antarctic'?
Answer: RALPH VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS
Question: Yale University took its anme from Elihu Yale because, as a very wealthy man he became its chief benefactor. Yale accumulated his substantial wealth while working for around 30 years for which organisation?
Answer: EAST INDIA COMPANY
Question: Which European capital city hosted the 1952 Summer Olympics?
Answer: HELSINKI
Question: Another Place, a piece of modern sculpture consisting of 100 cast-iron figures facing out to sea on Crosby beach near Liverpool, is by which artist?
Answer: ANTONY GORMLEY
Question: Who wrote the novels Riders (1984), Rivals (1988) and Polo (1981) ?
Answer: JILLY COOPER
Question: Red: My Autobiography, published in 2011, was written by which former England footballer?
Answer: GARY NEVILLE
Question: How were Shirley, Keith, Laurie, Danny, Christopher and Tracy known collectively in the charts in the early 70s ?
Answer: PARTRIDGE FAMILY
Question: Billy don't be a Hero in 1974 was which group's only UK No 1?
Answer: PAPER LACE
Question: Soccer - which is the only English club to have reached a EUFA Europa League Final ?
Answer: FULHAM
Question: Which animals feature on the Royal Arms of England?
Answer: (Three) LIONS
Question: What is the two digit country calling code for England from abroad?
Answer: 44
Question: Which is the most easterly of the five boroughs that make up the metropolitan county of Merseyside?
Answer: ST HELENS
Question: In which decade was the telephone invented?
Answer: 1870's
Question: Lesley Griffiths, Wrexham's Assembly Member, holds which Welsh Cabinet post?
Answer: HEALTH
Question: Standing side by side in Stony Stratford on Watling Street are two ancient coaching inns. In the 18th century travellers tales became embellished as they passed between the two establishments, and the emanating tales began to be called after them, a pracitce continued to this day. What are the two inns called?
Answer: COCK and BULL
Question: In the 70's Robert Lindsay played Citizen Wolfie Smith, the leader of the Tooting Popular Front. What was his four word catchphrase shouted out defiantly at the start of each programme?
Answer: POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Question: The Libyan flag had been green under Colonel Gadaffis rule. A flag of which three colours was first flown by the rebels and has now been adopted by the nation?
Answer: RED BLACK GREEN
Question: Which colour was the title of Coldplay's first top 5 hit in 2000 and the flag used in Formula 1 racing to indicate a hazard, slow down and not overtake?
Answer: YELLOW
Question: The title of Adam Ant's 3rd and last No 1 hit in 1982 and the title of John Newbery's children's story published in 1765 contain the same three words. It is now used as a derisory term about an excessively virtous or conformist person. What is it?
Answer: GOODY TWO SHOES
Question: At 26 miles 385 yards, the marathon is the longest Olympic running race. What is its distance to the nearest kilometre?
Answer: 42km
Question: The cyclepath/footpath in Devon which follows the Rivers Taw and Torridge is named after which eponymous persecuted animal in the 1926 book by Henry Williamson, made into a film in 1979?
Answer: TARKA THE OTTER
Question: Which controversial supermodel born in 1974 celebrated 10 years as the face of Rimmel last September? Her career revival, after police dropped charges against her through lack of evidence, has been viewed as a sign of moral and cultural decline by critics such as Peter Hitchens.
Answer: KATE MOSS
Question: Which sauce is traditionally served with roast pork?
Answer: APPLE SAUCE
Question: Which sauce is traditionally served with roast lamb?
Answer: MINT SAUCE
Question: Which small insect-eating marsupial takes its name from the Telugu word for Pig-Rat?
Answer: BANDICOOT
Question: Which English author who died in 1991 published novels such as A Gun For Sale in 1936 and The Ministry Of Fear in 1943?
Answer: GRAHAM GREENE
Question: What nationality was tennis player Gottfried Von Cramme who lost in three successive Men's Singles Finals at Wimbledon in 1935, 1936 and 1937 - two of them to Britain's Fred Perry?
Answer: GERMAN
Question: Painted in 1881, the painting Luncheon Of The Boating Party was a famous painting by which famous artist who died in 1919?
Answer: Pierre Auguste RENOIR
Question: What was the name of the only female member of The Beano's Bash Street Kids; her outfit consisted of a black and blue hooped top and black skirt?
Answer: TOOTS
Question: What was the name of the twin brother of the only female member of The Beano's Bash Street Kids; his outfit consisted of a black and blue hooped top and black shorts?
Answer: SIDNEY
Question: Usually made of plastic, which transparent instrument, in the shape of an arc or semi-circle, is used to measure angles on paper?
Answer: PROTRACTOR
Question: Opened in 1981, in which city can you find the 309 metre tall AMP Centrepoint tower?
Answer: SYDNEY
Question: Which controversial ITV comedy series of 1969 saw Spike Milligan as an Asian immigrant called Kevin O'Grady who works at a factory called Lilicrap Ltd?
Answer: CURRY AND CHIPS
Question: Originally screened in 1960 and a spin-off from The Army Gane, which ITV comedy series starred Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser in the main roles of Montague and Claude who frequent The Imperial Club?
Answer: BOOTSIE AND SNUDGE
Question: In terms of land area, which is the largest country to be situated wholly in Europe?
Answer: UKRAINE
Question: In Morse Code which letter is represented by dash, dash, dot, dot?
Answer: Z
Question: Which actor in 2005 played the title role in the TV remake of Kojak?
Answer: VING RHAMES
Question: Unveiled on May 11th 2007, a bronze statue of which famous figure now stands outside Wembley Stadium? It features the character with arms folded and one foot resting on a ball.
Answer: BOBBY MOORE
Question: Which U.S. state has borders with Oklahoma,Colorado, Nebraska and Missouri?
Answer: KANSAS
Question: Which breakfast cereal, sold by Kellogs for many years, featured a character called Henry's Cat on the box until replaced by an astronaut called Colonel Rik in the 1980's?
Answer: RICICLES
Question: Which film duo met The Invisble Man, The Mummy and Frankenstein?
Answer: ABBOT AND COSTELLO
Question: The group Sweet had only one UK No 1 hit. What was it?
Answer: BLOCKBUSTER
Question: Who was the original performer of the song The Locomotion?
Answer: LITTLE EVA