zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is Jamie Oliver's middle name?
Answer: Trevor
Question: In which county is the newest Irish National Park at Ballycroy?
Answer: Mayo
Question: Who was the husband of Lady Jane Grey, the 9 days queen?
Answer: Lord Guildford
Question: Give a year in the life of the Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist, David Hume.
Answer: 1711 - 1776
Question: Which English publishing company, founded in 1986 owes much of its success to the popularity of the Harry Potter books?
Answer: Bloomsbury
Question: What name is shared by a former England rugby union player and a TV chef?
Answer: Phil Vickery
Question: As what is the medical condition Haemotoma Auris better known?
Answer: Cauliflower Ear
Question: In which county is the smallest Irish National Park, The Burren?
Answer: Clare
Question: Which stately home near Woodstock is a UNESCO World Heritage site?
Answer: Blenheim Palace
Question: How many sides are there on the new £1 coin to be introduced in 2017?
Answer: 12 sides
Question: Who was the oldest person to be appointed Prime Minister of the UK?
Answer: Gladstone
Question: Who was Chancellor for the 1925 budget which revived the 'gold standard'?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: What is the American equivalent of a UK charity shop?
Answer: Thrift Store
Question: A Crystal wedding anniversary is celebrated after how many years?
Answer: 15 years
Question: Name the first commoner, i.e. non-Royal, to appear on a UK postage stamp.
Answer: William Shakespeare
Question: Which bird is also known as the Stormcock?
Answer: Mistle Thrush
Question: Name the most northerly motorway in Britain.
Answer: M90
Question: Name the dramatist, 1664-1726, who designed Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.
Answer: Sir John Vanbrugh
Question: In the field of technology, what is meant by the acronym CAD?
Answer: Computer Aided Design
Question: The Daily Slate,The Daily Slab and the Daily Granite are newspapers featured in which TV cartoon series?
Answer: The Flintstones
Question: Who presents the TV travel series `An Idiot Abroad'?
Answer: Karl Pilkington
Question: Who was the main female presenter of BBC N's 'Country File' from 2004-2014?
Answer: Julia Bradbury
Question: Which BBC TV sitcom of 2003 was set in the Grapes public house in Manchester?
Answer: Early Doors
Question: Who presents the Channel 4 property programme 'Grand Designs'?
Answer: Kevin McCloud
Question: In Greek mythology - who was the muse of history and lyre playing?
Answer: Clio
Question: Which English County is known as 'Robin Hood's County'?
Answer: NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Question: Who was the author of the book 'A Bridge Too Far'?
Answer: CORNELIUS RYAN
Question: Saint Olof is the Patron Saint of which country?
Answer: NORWAY
Question: What is Australia's internet prefix?
Answer: AU
Question: In which U.S. State is the area called The Hampton found?
Answer: NEW YORK STATE
Question: In the James Bond film what was the full title of Q?
Answer: QUARTERMASTER
Question: Who is the voice and face for the Bet 365 adverts?
Answer: RAY WINSTONE
Question: Which county is known as Shakespeare's County?
Answer: WARWICKSHIRE
Question: What stretch of water was used as practice by the Dambusters in preparation for the attack on the Ruhr?
Answer: DERWENT WATER
Question: What was the name of Amy Johnson's husband?
Answer: JIM MOLLISON
Question: What's the trick of riding on a hand rail using skates or a skateboard called?
Answer: GRINDING
Question: When the car carrier Hoegh Osaka capsized between Southampton and the I.O.W. which hazard was it trying to avoid?
Answer: BRAMBLE BANK
Question: Give a year in the life of Pieter Bruegel the elder?
Answer: 1525-1569
Question: What was J.F.K. airport originally called?
Answer: IDLEWILD
Question: What nom de plume was adopted by the writer Joel Chandler Harris?
Answer: UNCLE REMUS
Question: How many seats do the SNP have in Parliament?
Answer: 56
Question: Which comic strip was created by Mary Tourtel?
Answer: RUPERT THE BEAR
Question: In which Scottish county is the famous St. Andrews Golf Club?
Answer: FIFE
Question: Maidstone stands on which river?
Answer: MEDWAY
Question: Who wrote the book Saturday and Sunday Morning?
Answer: ALAN SILLITOE
Question: Theakstons brewery is based in which Yorkshire town ?
Answer: MASHAM
Question: What was the original name of Manchester Airport?
Answer: RINGWAY
Question: In which country was the fashion designer Yves St Laurent brn?
Answer: ALGERIA
Question: In which southern French city is the Malson Carree, one of the best preserved temples from the Roman era?
Answer: NIMES
Question: Which of the Wombles was named after a European Country?
Answer: GREAT UNCLE BULGARIA
Question: Who, after the 2015 General Election is the 'Father of the House’?
Answer: Gerald Kaufman
Question: What make and model of car was named European Car of the Year 2015?
Answer: Volkswagen Passat
Question: Who wrote the 1902 children’s story ‘5 Children and It’?
Answer: E. Nesbitt
Question: Which modern children’s author, a former Children’s Laureate, wrote ‘4 Children and It’ in 2012?
Answer: Jacqueline Wilson
Question: ‘Life Thru a Lens’ was the first No. 1 album by which singer in 1997?
Answer: Robbie Williams
Question: In Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories series of books, the Vikings are described as Vicious. Which adjective is used to describe the Stuarts?
Answer: Slimy
Question: In which US state is Northeastern University based?
Answer: Massachusetts Boston)
Question: Oscitation is a more scientific term for which common activity?
Answer: Yawning
Question: Who won the 2015 final of BBC TV series Masterchef?
Answer: Simon Wood
Question: What name is given to the former administrative areas of the Isle of Man?
Answer: Sheadings
Question: What name, is given to the 2 administrative divisions of the Channel Islands?
Answer: Bailiwicks
Question: Who is the presenter of the BBC TV quiz ‘Two Tribes’?
Answer: Richard Osman
Question: Who is the presenter of the BBC TV quiz ‘The Link’?
Answer: Mark Williams
Question: Who composed the 1912 tone poem 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Sping’?
Answer: (Frederick) DELIUS
Question: Which US state is nicknamed the 'Hawkeye State’?
Answer: IOWA
Question: What name is given to the identification of God with the universe?
Answer: PANTHEISM
Question: In the BBC sitcom, according to the sign on their van Trotters Independent Traders have branches in New York, Peckham and where else?
Answer: PARIS
Question: Who composed the 1933 'Knightsbridge March'?
Answer: (Eric) COATES
Question: Who painted 'Man in a Golden Helmet', in 1550 and 'Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer' in 1653?
Answer: REMBRANDT
Question: What is the forename of the shoe designer Loubertin?
Answer: CHRISTIAN
Question: After what event did Churchill say 'the worst disaster and largest capitulationin British history'?
Answer: FALL of SINGAPORE
Question: Miu Miu is a brand of which fashion house?
Answer: PRADA
Question: What species of willow is much used in basketwork?
Answer: OSIER
Question: Who wrote 1892 farce 'Charley's Aunt'?
Answer: (Brandon) THOMAS
Question: In the acronym ASBO, for what does the B stand?
Answer: Behaviour
Question: Which Italian city features in the original film version of The Italian Job?
Answer: Turin
Question: Give a year in the life of Joan of Arc.
Answer: 1412-1431
Question: Which bird has only two toes on each foot?
Answer: Ostrich
Question: During 2014, 74 year old Alexander Chancellor became the editor of which magazine?
Answer: The Oldie
Question: Which TV personality and singer now has the surname Fernandez-Versini?
Answer: Cheryl Cole
Question: What in ancient Rome was the Cloaca Maxima?
Answer: The main sewer
Question: Which London hospital, the oldest in the country, is the only place in London with a statue of Henry 8th and in fiction was the first meeting place of Holmes and Watson?
Answer: St Bart’s
Question: Which language is the only form of Arabic written in the Roman alphabet?
Answer: Maltese
Question: Who plays Christian Grey in the 2015 film Fifty Shades of Grey?
Answer: JAMIE DORNAN
Question: According to the Women’s Institute, what flavour jam should be used in a Victoria sponge?
Answer: RASPBERRY
Question: What city is the northern terminus of the Suez Canal?
Answer: PORT SAID
Question: Which leader was born in present-day Hungary in about 406AD, murdered his co-ruler and brother, Bleda, in 445 and died on his wedding night in 453AD?
Answer: ATTILA
Question: Cn is the symbol for which element?
Answer: COPERNICIUM
Question: Which French shoe designer once said; “red is more than a colour”?
Answer: CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
Question: Who is captain of the England Women’s cricket team?
Answer: CHARLOTTE EDWARDS
Question: Which Italian TV chef was jailed for two years in the 1990s for burgling singer Paul Young’s house?
Answer: GINO D’ACAMPO
Question: With its capital at Dusseldorf and its largest city of Cologne, what is the most populous state of Germany?
Answer: NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA
Question: What is the English translation of the Italian opera La Gazza Ladra?
Answer: THE THIEVING MAGPIE
Question: Matt (surname Pritchett) provides a front-page cartoon in which daily newspaper?
Answer: DAILY TELEGRAPH
Question: Which female painter was noted for her heavy black eyebrows?
Answer: FRIDA KAHLO
Question: Who plays the part of Penny in The Big Bang Theory?
Answer: KALEY CUOCO
Question: Who had a top ten hit in 1962 with Right Said Fred?
Answer: BERNARD CRIBBINS
Question: In which musical would you find the song Cell Block Tango?
Answer: CHICAGO
Question: What is the middle name of Australian cricketer John Hastings who played for Durham in 2014? He is nicknamed The Duke.
Answer: WAYNE
Question: FC Barcelona 83 Real Madrid 81 was the score in the clinching game of the playoffs in which sport in 2014?
Answer: BASKETBALL
Question: What word describes a young bird which has just learned to fly?
Answer: FLEDGLING
Question: Which was the first jet aircraft to cross the Atlantic non-stop?
Answer: CANBERRA
Question: Which member of the cabinet is MP for South West Surrey?
Answer: JEREMY HUNT
Question: What sport is the Bledisloe Cup awarded annually?
Answer: RUGBY UNION
Question: Kidney beans, runner beans and garden peas fall into which vegetable group?
Answer: PULSES
Question: Where would you fine The Happy Valley Racecourse?
Answer: HONG KONG
Question: British Leyland and Seat have both produce a model of car with which name?
Answer: TOLEDO
Question: During the 2012 Olympics where did the white water event take place?
Answer: LEE VALLEY PARK
Question: In which Italian town do the team Atalanta play?
Answer: BERGAMO
Question: Who played David Vincent in the TV series The Invaders?
Answer: ROY THINNES
Question: Which is the missing name from this list Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams?
Answer: BILL RODGERS
Question: Who wrote The Sharpe Series of novels?
Answer: BERNARD CORNWELL
Question: Which prototype drink recipe was formulated at Pemberton's Eagle Drug and Chemical House?
Answer: COCA COLA
Question: In which country are the headquarters of Amazon.com?
Answer: AMERICA
Question: In which year was Breakfast TV first broadcast on the BBC?
Answer: 1983
Question: Who was the original presenter of Mastermind?
Answer: MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
Question: Who wrote and starred in the TV series Q7 and Q8?
Answer: SPIKE MILLIGAN
Question: Name either of the original stars of the western series Alias Smith and Jones?
Answer: PETE DUEL AND BEN MURPHY
Question: The California Institute of Technology (Cal-tech) features in which TV comedy series?
Answer: The Big Bang Theory
Question: Garden, Display, Professional and Indoor are the four categories given to what?
Answer: Fireworks
Question: In which Midlands town will the National Civil War Centre open in Spring 2015?
Answer: Newark
Question: The name of which Spanish region means ?very hard??
Answer: Extremadura
Question: Who played the lead role of Dr Gabriel Monroe in the TV series Monroe?
Answer: James Nesbitt
Question: What was former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's hereditary title?
Answer: (Earl of) Beaconsfield
Question: The first woman to win Time Magazine's Man of the Year was in 1936, she was an American who became much better known in the UK, who was she?
Answer: Wallis Simpson
Question: In which English county is the town of Marlborough?
Answer: Wiltshire
Question: Who played Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth on TV?
Answer: Robert Carlyle
Question: Who was the Vice President to US President John F Kennedy?
Answer: L B Johnson
Question: Tony Abbott was elected to which office in 2013?
Answer: Prime Minister of Australia
Question: In the musical and T S Eliot's book Cats, which was the railway cat?
Answer: Skimbleshanks
Question: The name of which element is derived from the Latin for lime?
Answer: Calcium
Question: As of January 2014, what post is held by Sir Nicholas Hytner?
Answer: Artistic Director of the National Theatre
Question: Name the last British winner, who was also the oldest winner, of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Doris Lessing
Question: Published in 2013, Saints of the Shadow Bible is the latest novel to feature which detective?
Answer: John Rebus
Question: Which town is the administrative centre of Buckinghamshire?
Answer: Aylesbury
Question: Which then twice a season cricket fixture was last contested in Scarborough in September 1962?
Answer: Gentlemen v Players
Question: Name the German manufacturer of the Smart Automobile?
Answer: Daimler AG
Question: In the 2014 English Counties Twenty/20 cricket competition, which is the only side named after a city rather than a county?
Answer: Birmingham Bears
Question: The Grade 1 listed Pulteney Bridge spans which river?
Answer: Avon
Question: Who presents the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme?
Answer: Sheila Dillon
Question: Which singer played the lead in the 1972 film, The Harder they Come?
Answer: Jimmy Cliff
Question: In which country was politician Peter Hain born?
Answer: Kenya
Question: The National Gallery paid £1 lmillion in 1997 to buy a painting of the Marquess of Rockingham's racehorse Whistlejacket. Who was the artist?
Answer: GEORGE STUBBS
Question: Where are the headquarters of Essex County Cricket Club?
Answer: CHELMSFORD
Question: What was the name of the pub in Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: THE NAGS HEAD
Question: To turn a Welsh rarebit into a buck rarebit what is placed on top?
Answer: (POACHED) EGG
Question: Which state of Germany borders Denmark?
Answer: SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN
Question: Which sportsman?s recent autobiography is called Staying Power: A Year in My Life?
Answer: PHIL TAYLOR
Question: Which word completes the title of the trade union BECTU - Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union?
Answer: BROADCASTING
Question: In scientific classification if Taraxacum Officinale is a species what is Taraxacum?
Answer: GENUS
Question: Who wrote The ipcress File?
Answer: LEN DEIGHTON
Question: The Germans call it the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal. What do we call it?
Answer: KIEL CANAL
Question: Whose recent autobiography is called The Corridor or Certainty: My Life Beyond Cricket?
Answer: GEOFFREY BOYCOTT
Question: Workers in which industry belong to NACODS?
Answer: COAL
Question: A chord divides a circle into two what?
Answer: SEGMENTS
Question: On a map, an isohaline is a line joining points of equal what?
Answer: SALINITY
Question: The Common Noctule is the largest type in Britain of what creature?
Answer: BAT
Question: What was the former name, until 1976, of Ho Chi Minh City?
Answer: SAIGON
Question: Who plays Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: MAGGIE SMITH
Question: How many chapters or sutras are there in the Koran?
Answer: 114
Question: KOH is the formula for which chemical compound?
Answer: POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE
Question: What is the name of four of the five cats owned by the family in The Simpsons?
Answer: SNOWBALL
Question: Who was the author of the poem Home Thoughts From Abroad?
Answer: ROBERT BROWNING
Question: What male condition is classified on the Hamilton-Norwood scale?
Answer: (male-pattern) Baldness
Question: On which river does Warsaw stand?
Answer: Vistula
Question: Of which book is John Ridd the main male character?
Answer: Lorna Doone
Question: What is the name of the bell that hangs in Lloyd's of London;s HQ in Lime Street, London?
Answer: Lutine Bell
Question: Which tree is sometimes known as the false plane?
Answer: Sycamore
Question: Who was the oldest British monarch at the time of ascending the throne?
Answer: William IV
Question: Whose novel, set in 1745, is considered to be the first historical novel?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
Question: Prior to 1905, when Cardiff became one, which was the only city in Wales?
Answer: Bangor
Question: In literature, who sailed across the Atlantic to Liverpool in the SS Henrietta?
Answer: Phileas Fogg
Question: According to a song by Al Martino who was "as friendly as any man could be, but you never saw a man outdraw the man" from where?
Answer: Laramie
Question: Which bird referred to in literature is the state bird of Arkansas, Florida and Mississippi?
Answer: The Mockingbird
Question: Adam Afriyie is the conservative MP for which Berkshire constituency?
Answer: Windsor
Question: Lionel was the first name of which trade union leader of the 1970s?
Answer: Len Murray
Question: Give a year in the life of German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Answer: 1749 -1832
Question: The song "I Could Have Danced All Night" comes from which musical?
Answer: My Fair Lady
Question: Who plays Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory"?
Answer: Jim Parsons
Question: The poem ?Funeral Blue? begins with the words "Stop all the clocks..". Who wrote it?
Answer: W H AUDEN
Question: Which metallic element has the atomic number 26?
Answer: IRON
Question: What is the county town of the Scottish county of Angus?
Answer: FORFAR
Question: Name either of the "Two Gentlemen of Verona".
Answer: VALENTINE OR PROTEUS
Question: Which British football player was the most expensive transfer of 2013 going for second highest transfer fee in history?
Answer: GARETH BALE
Question: Who wrote the poem which starts 'What passing bell for those who die as cattle'?
Answer: WILFRED OWEN
Question: Which national organisation has its HQ at Sandy, Bedfordshire?
Answer: THE RSPB
Question: Which is the largest town on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: RYDE
Question: Which City was UK City of Culture in 2013?
Answer: DERRY-LONDONDERRY
Question: In early children?s television who appeared regularly with Muffin the Mule?
Answer: ANNETTE MILLS
Question: Which was the first service station to be opened on a British motorway?
Answer: WATFORD GAP
Question: Who became Anglican Bishop of Liverpool in 2014, replacing Bishop James Jones?
Answer: RT REV PAUL BAYES
Question: Who was the real-life sailor on whom Robinson Crusoe is allegedly based?
Answer: ALEXANDER SELKIRK
Question: What is the common name of the tree and shrub Salix?
Answer: Willow
Question: 'Grace and Favour' was the follow-up to which BBCTV sitcom?
Answer: Are You Being Served
Question: Who was Prime Minister of the UK at the end of World War 2?
Answer: Clement Attlee
Question: On which musical instrument would you find pedals, a resonator and a pillar?
Answer: Harp
Question: Which 2007 treaty amended the Maastricht Treaty and Treaty of Rome?
Answer: Lisbon
Question: Who was the first American to go into space twice?
Answer: Gus Grissom
Question: How many acres are there in one square mile?
Answer: 640
Question: Which is the largest of Greece's Ionian Islands?
Answer: Kefalonia
Question: VVhich Pulitzer prize winning author and journalist was present at both the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris?
Answer: Norman Mailer
Question: Which Impressionist artist painted The Card Players circa 1892-4?
Answer: Paul Cezanne
Question: What is the more common name for the South African mammal the ratel?
Answer: Honey badger
Question: By what collective name are the North Sea islands of Hauptinsel and Dune better known?
Answer: Heligoland
Question: Stella Rimington was the first female Director General of MI5, but who was the 2nd woman to head MI5 from 2002 until 2007?
Answer: Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller
Question: What are Islamic saints or hermits called?
Answer: Marabouts
Question: In botany, what name is given to a plant that grows on another plant non-parasitically?
Answer: An Epiphyte
Question: What is featured in the centre of the flag of Uganda?
Answer: A Bird
Question: What is the more familiar name of Patrick Clifton, a character in an animated series for children?
Answer: Postman Pat
Question: What was Britain's first designated New Town, established by the New Towns Act 1945?
Answer: Stevenage
Question: Who is the only man to win both a Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question: My Animals and Other Family is a 2013 autobiography by which TV and Radio presenter?
Answer: Clare Balding
Question: Which racecourse stages the Midlands Grand National?
Answer: Uttoxeter
Question: Who was the architect of the Gherkin Building at 30 St Mary Axe, London?
Answer: Norman Foster
Question: In the children?s TV series Dora the Explorer what is the name of the monkey who is Dora's best friend?
Answer: Boots
Question: Which Canadian is served by Pierre Trudeau International Airport?
Answer: Montreal
Question: Which of Shakespeare's plays opens with the line Now is the winter of our discontent?
Answer: King Richard III
Question: Arctic King and Saladin are varieties of which vegetable?
Answer: Lettuce
Question: Who captained the England Women's cricket team in the 2014 T20 World Cup?
Answer: Charlotte Edwards
Question: What is a group of kittens called?
Answer: A KINDLE
Question: Which American President was inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame?
Answer: LINCOLN
Question: 'O for amuse of fire that would ascend. The brightest heaven of invention' are the opening lines of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: HENRY V
Question: Who is the Agony Uncle of the Daily Telegraph?
Answer: GRAHAM NORTON
Question: Longitude by Dava Sobel concerns the invention of what?
Answer: (MARINE) CHRONOMETER
Question: What does the name Volkswagen mean?
Answer: PEOPLES CAR
Question: Where in the UK is Bains Field?
Answer: NORTH SEA
Question: In what year were the cave paintings at Lascaux discovered?
Answer: 1940
Question: Ir is the chemical symbol for which element?
Answer: IRIDIUM
Question: Who is known as The Father of Television?
Answer: JOHN LOGIE BAIRD
Question: Which famous man was born in Litchfield 1709?
Answer: DR JOHNSON
Question: Which hotel was the first in London to be lit by electricity?
Answer: SAVOY
Question: Who commissioned the Royal Observatory?
Answer: CHARLES II
Question: Which annual London event began in 1896?
Answer: BRIGHTON RUN
Question: In which country would you find the Test Cricket Ground of Sabina Park?
Answer: JAMAICA
Question: What is known in the theatre as the iron?
Answer: SAFETY CURTAIN
Question: Asked 'Can you see anything'? who replied 'Yes, wonderful things'?
Answer: HOWARD CARTER
Question: Which author created Private Eye Kate Brannigan?
Answer: VAL MCDERMID
Question: Complete the World War 2 slogan Be like Dad......... ?
Answer: Keep mum
Question: Who was the last German to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon?
Answer: Michael Stich
Question: What do we call what the Germans call a handy?
Answer: Mobile phone
Question: Who has been Shadow Leader of the House of Commons since October 2011?
Answer: (Angela) Eagle
Question: In which city is the HQ of the car company Mercedes?
Answer: Stuttgart
Question: Which TV series was about a pop group called The Majestics featuring Robbie Coltrane and Emma Thompson?
Answer: Tutti Frutti
Question: Which river forms part of the border between Germany and Poland?
Answer: Oder
Question: In which English town or city are the Piece Hall and the Eureka Museum?
Answer: Halifax
Question: The F1 Circuit of the Americas (CoTA) is in which US State?
Answer: Texas
Question: What is the metric race distance of all Olympic rowing events?
Answer: 2,000 metres
Question: What is the collective name for a group of tigers?
Answer: Ambush
Question: Holby City was a spin-off from which BBC medical drama?
Answer: Casualty
Question: Which Scottish pop band, formed 1985, released albums including Raintown, Fellow Hoodlums, Walking Back Home?
Answer: Deacon Blue