zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The Kruger National Park is located in which country?
Answer: South Africa
Question: In the children’s story by the Brothers Grimm, the rooster, cat, dog and donkey are known as the Town Musicians of where?
Answer: Bremen
Question: Who wrote the 1942 song ‘White Christmas’?
Answer: Irving Berlin
Question: Svengali is the hypnotic musician in which George du Maurier novel?
Answer: Trilby
Question: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow named her first child after which fruit?
Answer: Apple
Question: Which fictional character went ‘Around the World in 80 Days’?
Answer: Phileas Fogg
Question: Which vitamin is known to prevent night-blindness?
Answer: Vitamin A
Question: How many states make up Germany?
Answer: 16
Question: Seal point is a dark brown marking on the fur of which animal?
Answer: Cat
Question: Which British industrialist was the maternal grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin?
Answer: Josiah Wedgewood
Question: In Britain, who is traditionally first to make a speech at a wedding?
Answer: Bride’s father
Question: Doge’s Palace is in which European city?
Answer: Venice
Question: What is the name of the cat of cartoon character Minnie Mouse?
Answer: Figaro
Question: Which drink originated from the Arabic word ‘qahwa’?
Answer: Coffee
Question: In the fashion industry, what does ‘Pret-a-porter’ mean?
Answer: Ready to wear
Question: Who wrote the 1984 novel ‘The Witches of Eastwick’?
Answer: John Updike
Question: The Joad family are characters in which 1939 novel by John Steinbeck?
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath
Question: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin was born in which City?
Answer: New York
Question: Black Sigatoka is a leaf spot disease of which fruit plant?
Answer: Banana
Question: Which US singer married Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens?
Answer: Eddie Fisher
Question: Which author created James Bond?
Answer: Ian Fleming
Question: What is the title of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel?
Answer: Casino Royale
Question: In the James Bond series of films, what is the name of ‘M’s’ personal secretary?
Answer: Miss Moneypenny
Question: What make and model car did James Bond drive in the 1962 film ‘Dr No’?
Answer: Sunbeam Alpine
Question: In which film does James Bond go to Paris and climb the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: A View to a Kill
Question: Who played ‘M’ , the head of MI6, in the 1995 James Bond film ‘Goldeneye’?
Answer: Judi Dench
Question: Hamida Djandoubi was the last person in France to be executed by what method, in September 1977?
Answer: Guillotine
Question: Which two cities did the Orient Express originally travel between?
Answer: Paris and Istanbul
Question: How many contestants are at the start of the UK television quiz show ‘The Chase’?
Answer: Four
Question: Anna Leonowens is a character in which 1956 film?
Answer: The King and I
Question: British comedians Jo, Katy and Russell all share which surname?
Answer: Brand
Question: Musician and composer Ravi Shankar was associated with which musical instrument?
Answer: Sitar
Question: What was the name of British singer Lulu’s 1960’s backing group?
Answer: The Luvvers
Question: During which month of the year is Hogmanay celebrated?
Answer: December
Question: Which sign of the Zodiac is represented by the fish?
Answer: Pisces
Question: How many toes does a cat have on each front paw?
Answer: Five
Question: The ‘Aurora Australis’ is also known by what name?
Answer: Southern Lights
Question: The disease rickets is caused by the lack of which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin D
Question: What is the capital of Ecuador?
Answer: Quito
Question: What is the official language of Liberia?
Answer: English
Question: In 1966, which African-American revolutionary socialist organization was founded in California by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale?
Answer: Black Panther Party
Question: In the UK, who was hanged in April 1962 for the A6 murder of scientist Michael Gregston?
Answer: James Hanratty
Question: A romaine is what variety of foodstuff?
Answer: Lettuce
Question: Which Charles Dickens followed ‘Nicholas Nickleby’?
Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop
Question: Who does a pediatric doctor specialise in treating?
Answer: Children
Question: Which ancient Greek is known as ‘The Father of Medicine’?
Answer: Hippocrates
Question: If a bone is navicular, it is shaped like what?
Answer: A boat
Question: In cooking, what is calamares?
Answer: Squid
Question: What colour light indicates the starboard side of a boat?
Answer: Green
Question: Which 2006 film, starring Channing Tatum, was inspired by Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’?
Answer: She’s the Man
Question: In medicine, dysuria is pain or difficulty in doing what?
Answer: Urinating
Question: The Cochiti Dam is in which US state?
Answer: New Mexico
Question: Which island lies at the toe of Italy?
Answer: Sicily
Question: ‘What a Night for a Knight’ was the first episode of which US animated television series, first broadcast in September 1969?
Answer: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You
Question: Which English actress was born Dora Broadbent?
Answer: Dora Bryan
Question: How many points are scored for a try in Rugby league?
Answer: Four
Question: Who played Vince Everett in the 1957 film ‘Jailhouse Rock’?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question: Michael Parkinson, James Coburn, Clement Freud and Christopher Lee all appear on which 1973 album cover?
Answer: Band on the Run
Question: Which Pink Floyd album was released in March 1973?
Answer: Dark Side of the Moon
Question: Which four letter word beginning with A is the name of a  god depicted as a bull, symbolising fertility and strength in war?
Answer: Apis
Question: The Morganza Spillway (or Morganza Control Structure) is on the western bank of which US river?
Answer: Mississippi River
Question: Lindum Colonia was the Roman name for which English city?
Answer: Lincoln
Question: Burgenland, Tyrol and Vorarlberg are all states in which European country?
Answer: Austria
Question: What type of animal is a kudu?
Answer: Antelope
Question: In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, what is the name of the headmaster of Lowood Institution?
Answer: Mr Brocklehurst
Question: The 1950 FIFA World Cup was held in which country?
Answer: Brazil
Question: 1962 saw the first trans-Atlantic satellite broadcast via which satellite?
Answer: Telstar
Question: The US Statue of Liberty is the work of which French sculptor?
Answer: Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
Question: Professor Caractacus Pott appears in which children’s novel by Ian Fleming?
Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Question: How many events make up a Triathlon?
Answer: Three
Question: British monarchs are traditionally crowned in which London building?
Answer: Westminster Abbey
Question: What value points is the black ball in the game of snooker?
Answer: Seven
Question: Which substance makes bread rise?
Answer: Yeast
Question: What is the traditional colour of a wedding dress in China?
Answer: Red
Question: How many children did Queen Victoria and Prince Albert have?
Answer: Nine
Question: Who was said to have laid his cloak over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth I?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh
Question: The phrase ‘Sweets to the sweet’ is from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: On which date is St Valentine’s Day traditionally celebrated?
Answer: 14th February
Question: How many double letter squares are on a standard Scrabble board?
Answer: 24
Question: Which English Romantic Poet had a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain?
Answer: Lord Byron
Question: Which professional American bodybuilder, born in 1938, was known by the nickname ‘The Legend’?
Answer: Larry Scott
Question: What do the French ‘Appellation d’Origine Controlee’ laws regulate?
Answer: Wine
Question: John Alderton played teacher Bernard Hedges in which UK television series?
Answer: Please Sir!
Question: Who wrote and recorded the 1966 song ‘Mellow Yellow’?
Answer: Donovan
Question: Which English football club play their home games at White Hart Lane?
Answer: Tottenham Hotspur
Question: Boxer Primo Carnera was known as the ‘Ambling ‘what’?
Answer: Alp
Question: Who directed the 1955 film ‘To Catch a Thief’?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
Question: The medical condition Ichthyosis affects which part of the body?
Answer: Skin
Question: What type of musical instrument is a Burns Bison?
Answer: Guitar
Question: Donatello’s Bronze Statue of David shows David’s foot on whose severed head?
Answer: Goliath’s
Question: The Rufiyaa is the currency of which island group?
Answer: Maldives
Question: How many hurdles are in a 100 metre women’s hurdle race?
Answer: 10
Question: Thomas Derbyshire and Robert Harper are the real names of which British comedy duo?
Answer: Cannon and Ball
Question: The seaport of Dar-es Salaam is in which African country?
Answer: Tanzania
Question: The bouzouki is the traditional musical instrument of which European country?
Answer: Greece
Question: In the game of snooker, which colour ball should be pocketed after all the reds?
Answer: Yellow
Question: What is the name of the coffee bean, the most expensive in the world, which is eaten and excreted by the civet?
Answer: Kopi Luwak
Question: Larry Lurex was the original stage name of which late singer?
Answer: Freddie Mercury
Question: Formerly called ‘Scrabulous’, what is the name of the online word game based on Scrabble?
Answer: Lexulous
Question: What is the title of the 2004 film which stars Imelda Staunton as a back-street abortionist?
Answer: Vera Drake
Question: Which author wrote the 1886 novel ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
Question: Which singer released a 1993 album entitled ‘Music Box’?
Answer: Mariah Carey
Question: George Burns and Walter Matthau starred in which 1975 film about two ageing vaudevillains?
Answer: The Sunshine Boys
Question: St Patrick’s Day falls during which month of the year?
Answer: March
Question: Pyongyang is the capital of which country?
Answer: North Korea
Question: What is the title of the 1995 film in which Robin Williams is trapped in a board game for 26 years?
Answer: Jumanji
Question: What is phonetics the study of?
Answer: Speech sounds
Question: In medicine, dysphagia is difficulty in doing what?
Answer: Swallowing
Question: The town of Crotch Lake is in which Canadian province?
Answer: Ontario
Question: What was the name of the first human spaceflight in which Yuri Gugarin was sent into space in April 1961?
Answer: Vostok 1
Question: What is the name of the pathway in the human body along which food enters and and solid wastes are expelled?
Answer: Alimentary canal
Question: Who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr
Question: The cast of which US television show had a 2009 hit with ‘Don’t Stop Believin’?
Answer: Glee
Question: What is a Jewish place of worship called?
Answer: Synagogue
Question: Which French king was the husband of Marie Antoinette?
Answer: King Louis XVI
Question: Which British actor/comedian is the voice of  Dr Nefario in the 2010 animated film ‘Despicable Me’?
Answer: Russell Brand
Question: Phengophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Daylight
Question: What was the title of British actor Oliver Reed’s last film?
Answer: Gladiator
Question: Which US city did Scott McKenzie sing about in 1967?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: During which month of 1971 did Britain change its currency to decimal?
Answer: February
Question: At which English castle in Northamptonshire was King Richard III born?
Answer: Fotheringhay Castle
Question: Which UK retail chain sells the ‘Tu’ range of clothing?
Answer: Sainsburys
Question: A ‘Nelipot’ is someone who is said to walk without what?
Answer: Shoes
Question: What was the name of the first US space station, launched in 1973?
Answer: Skylab
Question: In medicine, dysphonia is difficulty in doing what?
Answer: Speaking
Question: What type of animal is a chital?
Answer: Deer
Question: Which British monarch died in October 1760?
Answer: King George II
Question: In nature, what are Spring and Neap?
Answer: Tides
Question: In which year was the maximum speed limit of 70 mph introduced in the UK?
Answer: 1965
Question: What was the name of the speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr in Washington DC in August 1963?
Answer: I Have a Dream
Question: In which US city was Senator Robert F Kennedy assassinated in June 1968?
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: The wine Retsina is native to which European country?
Answer: Greece
Question: A sheepshead is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish
Question: The tune to which pop song is used in the UK television advert ‘Confused.com’?
Answer: YMCA
Question: Juliana was the queen of which European country between 1948 and 1980?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: ‘The curfew tolls the knell of parting day’ is the first line of which poem?
Answer: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Question: A seismograph is an instrument which measures and records details of what?
Answer: Earthquakes
Question: Who played Sir James bond in the 1967 comedy spy film ‘Casino Royale’?
Answer: David Niven
Question: What is the young of a giraffe called?
Answer: Calf
Question: Which planet has 687 Earth days to one year?
Answer: Mars
Question: Mieszko I was the first historically documented ruler of which modern-day European country?
Answer: Poland
Question: In the Bible, what is the surname of Judas, who kissed Jesus in the garden of Gethsemene?
Answer: Iscariot
Question: Dermatophobia is the irrational fear of disease of which part of the body?
Answer: Skin
Question: The Diamantina Trench lies in which ocean?
Answer: Indian ocean
Question: Which US psychologist and writer popularised the carchphrase ‘Turn on, tune in, drop out’?
Answer: Timothy Leary
Question: Brothers Tom and Ben Youngs joined which English rugby union club in 2006?
Answer: Leicester Tigers
Question: Known as ‘The Liberator of South America’, political leader Simon Bolivar became President of which country in 1813?
Answer: Venezuela
Question: Which 1968 film is partially based on the novel ‘Sentinel’ by Arthur C Clarke?
Answer: 2001:A Space Odyssey
Question: What was the pen-name of British writer Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch?
Answer: Q
Question: Remy, Colette Tatou and Anton Ego are all characters in which 2007 Disney film?
Answer: Ratatouille
Question: What is the ‘Fifth Pillar of Islam’?
Answer: The Hajj
Question: Which English television presenter served as the High Sheriff of The Isle of Wight between 2008 and 2009?
Answer: Alan Titchmarsh
Question: Which famous London building was destroyed by fire in November 1936?
Answer: The Crystal Palace
Question: Who wrote the 1921 book ‘Scaramouche’?
Answer: Rafael Sabatini
Question: Which queen was the last British monarch to veto an Act of Parliament?
Answer: Queen Anne
Question: What was the name of the horse ridden by jockey Frankie Dettori in the 2007 Epsom Derby?
Answer: Authorized
Question: What is the Zodiac sign of someone born on 31st May?
Answer: Gemini
Question: Which character begins play in a standard game of Cluedo?
Answer: Miss Scarlett
Question: Which animals are the subject of the novel ‘Watership Down’?
Answer: Rabbits
Question: In humans, Polyphagia is an excessive desire to do what?
Answer: Eat
Question: The ‘Delta Works’ is a series of construction projects in which European country, to protect large areas of land from the sea?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: James and Elizabeth are the children of which former British Prime Minister?
Answer: John Major
Question: Which UK retail chain sells the ‘Florence and Fred’ range of clothing?
Answer: Tesco
Question: Baldwin I was crowned first king of where in 1100?
Answer: Jerusalem
Question: Situated in Piccadilly, what is the name of London’s oldest bookshop?
Answer: Hatchards
Question: Who was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover?
Answer: Queen Victoria
Question: Protanopia is colour blindness resulting in insensitivity to which colour light?
Answer: Red
Question: In music, what is the name of a whole note which has the time value of two minims or four crotchets?
Answer: Semibreve
Question: How many letters are in the Hebrew alphabet?
Answer: 22
Question: British athlete Dai Green competes in which track event?
Answer: Hurdles
Question: What is the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: Palm d’Or
Question: Who played James Bond in the 1977 film ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’?
Answer: Roger Moore
Question: The Cowal Highland Gathering (the Cowal Games) are held every August in which Scottish town?
Answer: Dunoon
Question: How many emirates make up the Untied Arab Emirates?
Answer: Seven
Question: ‘The Adventure Home’ is the sequel to which 1993 film?
Answer: Free Willy
Question: Attributed to Julius Caesar, what does the phrase ‘Alea iacta est’ translate to in English?
Answer: The die has been cast
Question: Who wrote the 1939 novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’?
Answer: John Steinbeck
Question: In 1963, in which country did operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti make his first appearance outside Italy?
Answer: Ireland
Question: In June 1988, which British jockey was stripped of his OBE after he was jailed for tax evasion?
Answer: Lester Piggott
Question: In November 1986, who won their first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas?
Answer: Mike Tyson
Question: Which is the longest river in New Mexico, and runs through the entire length of the state?
Answer: The Rio Grande
Question: The Philippines were named after which king of Spain?
Answer: King Philip II
Question: US singer/songwriter Richard Wayne Penniman is better known by what name?
Answer: Little Richard
Question: Which actress played ‘Bond girl’ Honey Ryder?
Answer: Ursula Andress
Question: Sam Walton founded which famous US retail chain in 1962?
Answer: Walmart
Question: The liqueur creme de cassis is made with which fruit?
Answer: Blackcurrants
Question: Which English author wrote the 1928 novel ‘Orlando: A Biography’?
Answer: Virginia Woolf
Question: In which year was the Oxford English Dictionary first published in ten volumes?
Answer: 1928
Question: Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney play brothers Seth and Richard Gecko in which 1996 film?
Answer: From Dusk Till Dawn
Question: King John of England was the youngest son of which English monarch?
Answer: King Henry II
Question: In humans, pericarditis affects which part of the body?
Answer: Heart
Question: Which word can go before Pot, Cup and Spoon to make three other words?
Answer: Tea
Question: Which word can go before Power, Hole and Date to make three other words?
Answer: Man
Question: Which word can go before Star, Axe and Cat to make three other words?
Answer: Pole
Question: Which word can go before Ache, Mug and Pick to make three other words?
Answer: Tooth
Question: In 1773, who became the first known person to cross the Antarctic Circle?
Answer: Captain James Cook
Question: Which French football team won the 1993 European Cup?
Answer: Marseille
Question: If a creature is lapidicolous it lives under what?
Answer: Stones
Question: The medical condition ‘Gingivitis’ affects which part of the body?
Answer: Gums
Question: Jentacular relates to which meal of the day?
Answer: Breakfast
Question: In August 1960, The Beatles began a residency in the Indra Club in which European city?
Answer: Hamburg
Question: In medicine, what is the rare syndrome in children, characterised by physical symptoms suggestive of premature old age?
Answer: Progeria
Question: What is the English name of the American game of checkers?
Answer: Draughts
Question: In the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, what word represents the letter ‘U’?
Answer: Uniform
Question: The second full moon occurring within a calendar month is known as a ‘what’ Moon?
Answer: Blue Moon
Question: Which explorer took the three ships, Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria on his journey to the New World?
Answer: Christopher Columbus
Question: In humans, what is the name of the front cutting teeth?
Answer: Incisors
Question: What is the longest river in North America?
Answer: Missouri River
Question: Which writer said ‘Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same’?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Question: In which novel does fictional private eye Philip Marlowe first appear?
Answer: The Big Sleep
Question: A sauger is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish
Question: What is the official language of Iran?
Answer: Persian
Question: An ‘Agelast’ is a person who never does what?
Answer: Laugh
Question: What was the name of the first human spaceflight to land on the moon, in July 1969?
Answer: Apollo 11
Question: What is the largest internal human organ?
Answer: Liver
Question: The first passenger fare-paying railway service was established in which European country in 1807?
Answer: Wales
Question: The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was formed in which century?
Answer: 18th Century
Question: Which country’s football team did Germany beat in the 2002 FIFA World Cup semi-final?
Answer: South Korea
Question: Kwame Nkrumah became the first President of which country in 1960?
Answer: Ghana
Question: What is the middle name of cartoon character Daffy Duck?
Answer: Dumas
Question: Arthur Upmore, Ernie Bragg and Major Leafe are all characters in which ‘Carry On’ film?
Answer: Carry On Behind
Question: US actor Ed Harris directed and starred in which 2000 film about an American artist?
Answer: Pollock
Question: Who directed the 1960 film ‘Spartacus’?
Answer: Stanley Kubrick
Question: A gastrectomy is the removal of which part of the human body?
Answer: Stomach
Question: Which US cartoon series first appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show in April 1987?
Answer: The Simpsons
Question: The Abu Simbel temples are in which African country?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Which month of the year was the ninth month of the Roman calendar?
Answer: November
Question: How many red stripes are there on the national flag of Thailand?
Answer: Two
Question: Which was the first major battle of the English Civil War, that took place in October 1642?
Answer: Battle of Edge Hill
Question: Who was the first person to report seeing craters on the moon using a telescope?
Answer: Galileo
Question: In which year did British monarch Queen Victoria celebrate her Diamond Jubilee?
Answer: 1897
Question: What is the title of the Millais painting used to advertise Pears Soap?
Answer: Bubbles
Question: Which US film director and actor said he wanted to ‘Achieve immortality through not dying’?
Answer: Woody Allen
Question: Scottish playwright Sharman Macdonald is the mother of which famous English actress?
Answer: Keira Knightly
Question: Who plays alcoholic John Hancock in the 2008 film ‘Hancock’?
Answer: Will Smith
Question: ‘The Valley of the ‘what’ is a 1966 novel by US author Jacqueline Susann?
Answer: Dolls
Question: The ‘Wolf Moon’ is the name of the full moon which occurs during which month of the year?
Answer: January
Question: Who wrote the 1932 novel ‘Tobacco Road’?
Answer: Erskine Caldwell
Question: What was the name of the backing group of British singer Gerry Marsden?
Answer: The Pacemakers
Question: Which bird lays the largest eggs?
Answer: Ostrich
Question: Who wrote the 1817 novel ‘Northanger Abbey’?
Answer: Jane austen
Question: Banjul is the capital of which African country?
Answer: Gambia
Question: Sheppey and Canvey are islands in which English river estuary?
Answer: River Thames
Question: Celine Dion won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest for which country?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: The 1914 poem ‘The Soldier’ was written by which English poet?
Answer: Rupert Brooke
Question: In humans, Ritter disease affects which part of the body?
Answer: Skin
Question: The United Arab Republic, which began in 1958 and ended in 1961, was a union of which two nations?
Answer: Egypt and Syria
Question: In which country was late actor and comedian Sid James born?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What is the name of the eagle in the children’s television show ‘The Muppets’?
Answer: Sam
Question: British actress Alison Steadman married which film director/writer in 1973?
Answer: Mike Leigh
Question: In January 1987, who became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Answer: Aretha Franklin
Question: Which US stadium was nicknamed the ‘House that Ruth Built’?
Answer: Yankee Stadium
Question: Albion is the oldest known name for which nation?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: How many stations are on the Glasgow subway rail system?
Answer: 15