zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who or what ran away with spoon?
Answer: The dish
Question: What kind of gemstone is the "Star of India"?
Answer: (Blue Star) Sapphire
Question: Who was brought to trial in 1962 and convicted of being the A6 murderer?
Answer: James Hanratty
Question: From which opera by Mascagni does the famous Easter Hymn come?
Answer: Cavalleria Rusticana
Question: Which fish belong to the family anguillidae?
Answer: Eels
Question: Naples is the capital of which Italian region?
Answer: CAMPANIA
Question: Sandringham House, the private residence of the monarch, is in which English county?
Answer: NORFOLK
Question: Which Greek mathematician claimed that the earth was a sphere, revolving on its own axis?
Answer: PYTHAGORAS
Question: Into which body of water does the River Ganges flow?
Answer: THE BAY OF BENGAL
Question: In the drug type known as NSAID for what does the S stand?
Answer: STEROIDAL
Question: How many years of marriage does a crystal anniversary represent?
Answer: FIFTEEN
Question: Which English King was born at Caenarvon Castle in 1284?
Answer: EDWARD II
Question: In boxing what weight comes above Light Heavyweight?
Answer: CRUISERWEIGHT
Question: Who in 1938 invented the game of Scrabble (although he called it Criss-Crosswords)?
Answer: ALFRED BUTTS
Question: Who, in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was the first British swimmer to win 2 gold medals since 1908?
Answer: REBECCA ADLINGTON
Question: What hardly ever happens in "Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire"?
Answer: HURRICANES
Question: Who wrote "Mr Midshipman Easy"?
Answer: FREDERICK MARRYAT
Question: Which tree has the Latin name Salix?
Answer: Willow
Question: In which year was the suffix letter first used on British car registration plates?
Answer: 1963
Question: On which river is the Kariba Dam?
Answer: Zambezi
Question: Who has hosted a 'Comedy Roadshow' on BBC TV during 2009?
Answer: Michael McIntyre
Question: Which car company make a model called the 'Yeti'?
Answer: Skoda
Question: Which state surrounds the Australian Capital territory including the capital Canberra?
Answer: New South Wales
Question: Who played the part of Michael Douglas's wife in the film 'Fatal Attraction'?
Answer: Anne Archer
Question: Who, in a Shakespeare play, said "The evil that men do lives after them"?
Answer: Mark Antony
Question: Which alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold, is named after a London clockmaker?
Answer: Pinchbeck
Question: Which well known liqueur, usually served in a distinctive manner, is flavoured with elderberry and liquorice?
Answer: Sambuca
Question: In which town is St Magnus' Cathedral, the most northerly in Britain?
Answer: Kirkwall
Question: Red Stripe lager was originally brewed in which country?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: Who, in a Shakespeare play, gives his son the advice "Neither a lender or a borrower be"?
Answer: Polonius
Question: On which Aegean island is the lively resort of Faliraki?
Answer: Rhodes
Question: Chrometophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Money
Question: In which Shakespeare play does the character Mercutio appear?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Question: Who was The Times correspondent who reported on location from the Crimean War?
Answer: William Russell
Question: The inhabitants of which Asian city call their city Krung Thep, "the City of Angels"?
Answer: Bangkok
Question: Who directed the film Ryan's Daughter (1970)?
Answer: David Lean
Question: In 1939 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was called "the most dangerous woman in Europe". By whom?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Question: Who wrote the opera The Queen of Spades?
Answer: Tchaikovsky
Question: On which river is St Petersburg situated?
Answer: Neva
Question: In a symphony orchestra, which is the smallest woodwind instrument?
Answer: Piccolo
Question: What nationality is the model Gisele Bundchen?
Answer: Brazilian
Question: Which supermodel was discovered at the age of 17 in a Dusseldorf night club?
Answer: Claudia Schiffer
Question: Which English Prime Minister left school in 1959 with 3 'O' levels?
Answer: John Major
Question: Gisbome, Hawkes Bay and Marlborough are wine producing districts in which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: In 1706, the Duke of Marlborough won the Battle of Ramillies. In which modem country is it?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Protons and neutrons are made up of what smaller objects?
Answer: Quarks
Question: How many quarks make a proton?
Answer: 3
Question: Mount St Helens is a volcano in which US state?
Answer: Washington
Question: How many legs has a flea?
Answer: 6
Question: What is the minimum age of the President of the USA?
Answer: 35
Question: How many legs has a lobster?
Answer: 10
Question: What is the name of the colourless plum brandy which is made in several Balkan and Eastern European countries?
Answer: Slivovitz
Question: The endangered kakapo of New Zealand is the world's largest member of which bird family?
Answer: Parrot
Question: Which Slovak was elected Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in January 1968?
Answer: Alexander Dubcek
Question: About which bird did Wordsworth write "Is it a bird, or but a wandering voice?
Answer: CUCKOO
Question: What is the name of the tar-like substance produced from petroleum?
Answer: BITUMEN
Question: Who played the part of Mildred Roper on television?
Answer: YOOTHA JOYCE
Question: What name is given to a division of a 'Hells Angels' club?
Answer: CHAPTER
Question: Who painted 'The Persistence of Memory'?
Answer: SALVADOR DALI
Question: Who was the Prime Minister of WW2 Japan?
Answer: TOJO
Question: What is the national sport of Cuba?
Answer: BASEBALL
Question: Who plays 'Auntie Wainwright' in Last of the Summer Wine?
Answer: JEAN ALEXANDER
Question: Which part of the human eye controls the size of the pupils?
Answer: THE IRIS
Question: Where was the venue for the hare-coursing 'Waterloo Cup'?
Answer: ALTCAR
Question: What is the name of the Buckinghamshire Estate where the German 'Enigma' codes were cracked during WW2?
Answer: BLETCHLEY PARK
Question: What was the brand name of the 'Cross your Heart' bra?
Answer: PLAYTEX
Question: Which English composer gave the Italian title "Sinfonia Antartica" to his seventh symphony?
Answer: RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Question: Which European country contains five of the world's ten highest waterfalls?
Answer: NORWAY
Question: Stomatitis is an inflammation of which part of the human body?
Answer: THE MOUTH
Question: In which European city is Shakespeare's play, "Measure for Measure" set?
Answer: VIENNA
Question: What is the surname of the rap artist who goes by the pseudonym Eminem?
Answer: MATHERS
Question: What name is given to the small plastic, or metal sheath found at each end of a shoelace?
Answer: AN AGLET
Question: After Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza, what is the fourth largest of the Balearic Islands?
Answer: FORMENTERA
Question: In the radio series, "Hancock's Half Hour", in which street did Hancock live?
Answer: RAILWAY CUTTINGS
Question: What is the main ingredient of the French soup, "Bouillabaisse"?
Answer: FISH
Question: Who is the subject of the one-man show, "Hurricane", performed by Richard Dormer?
Answer: ALEX HIGGINS
Question: Which French monarch was known as the Sun King?
Answer: Louis XIV
Question: In a 1965 film, by what name is Eric Stoner better known?
Answer: The Cincinnati Kid
Question: Who wrote novels featuring Inspector Lynley?
Answer: Elizabeth George
Question: What is the capital of New Brunswick?
Answer: Fredericton
Question: Which famous baseball player had the forenames George Herman?
Answer: """Babe"" Ruth"
Question: In which Shakespeare play does Orsino, Duke of Illyria, appear?
Answer: Twelfth Night
Question: In which Shakespeare play does Prospero, Duke of Milan, appear?
Answer: The Tempest
Question: In which jail was Oscar Wilde imprisoned?
Answer: Reading
Question: Who was the mother of Achilles, who dipped him into the River Styx?
Answer: Thetis
Question: Daisy Hawkins was a working title of which Beatles song?
Answer: Eleanor Rigby
Question: Who currently plays Inspector George Gently on TV?
Answer: Martin Shaw
Question: Which planet was discovered by Wiliam Herschel?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Who was Obama's running mate in the 2008 US Presidential election?
Answer: Joe Biden
Question: Which is the largest living mammal?
Answer: Blue Whale
Question: Who was replaced in 2008 by Rachel Riley?
Answer: Carol Vorderman
Question: Which Poet Laureate lived at Dove Cottage?
Answer: William Wordsworth
Question: Which American vocal group was made up of Tim Hauser, Laurel Masse, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel?
Answer: MANHATTAN TRANSFER
Question: John Bercow, speaker of the House of Commons is MP for which constituency?
Answer: BUCKINGHAM
Question: Which product was advertised with the slogan, "Forces grey out, forces white in"?
Answer: FAIRY SNOW
Question: The classical musician, Anne-Sophie Mutter plays which instrument?
Answer: VIOLIN
Question: Walvis Bay is the chief port of which African country?
Answer: NAMIBIA
Question: Which British group was formed in the late 1980's by ex-members of The Housemartins, Paul Heaton and David Hemingway?
Answer: THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH
Question: In Gustav Holst's work "The Planets Suite" which planet is termed "The Mystic"?
Answer: NEPTUNE
Question: Who is the male star of the 2009 film, "The Invention of Lying"?
Answer: RICKY GERVAIS
Question: Leith Hill is the highest point in which county in Southern England?
Answer: SURREY
Question: The characters, General Woundwart and Hazel , appear in which 20th century literary work?
Answer: WATERSHIP DOWN
Question: Which French neoclassical artist painted "The Death of Marat" in 1793?
Answer: JACQUES LOUIS DAVID
Question: Who, in 1882 shot and killed Jesse James in St Joseph, Missouri?
Answer: ROBERT FORD
Question: Vouvray and Sancerre wines come from which wine region of France?
Answer: LOIRE VALLEY
Question: In Gustav Hoist's work, "The Planet Suite", which planet is known as "The Magician"?
Answer: URANUS
Question: """Mama, just killed a man"", is the opening line of which hit song by Queen?"
Answer: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Question: Who is the writer and star of the BBC TV comedy series, "Not Going Out"?
Answer: LEE MACK
Question: Which former college of the University of London became independent in July 2007?
Answer: IMPERIAL COLLEGE
Question: What is the better known name of St Sylvester's Day?
Answer: NEW YEAR'S EVE
Question: Who became the first English swimmer for 100 years to win two Olympic gold medals, when she won both the 400m and 800m freestyle events in Beijing?
Answer: REBECCA ADLINGTON
Question: What is the name of the convict in Charles Dickens novel, "Great Expectations"?
Answer: MAGWITCH
Question: In which town is the Devonshire Royal Hospital, now the Devonshire campus of the University of Derby?
Answer: BUXTON
Question: Which musician and actor played the part of Wayne Norris in the TV series, "Auf Wiedersehen Pet"?
Answer: GARY HOLTON
Question: In which English county is the town of Chipping Norton?
Answer: OXFORDSHIRE
Question: Which Canadian singer was born, Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943?
Answer: JONI MITCHELL
Question: Who chaired the convention, which was established by the European Council in December 2001, to produce a draft Constitution for the European Union?
Answer: VALERY GISCARD D'ESTAING
Question: The name of which metallic, chemical, element is derived from the German word for goblin?
Answer: COBALT
Question: Which title was given to the series of books by Roger Hargreaves, which featured the female counterparts of the Mr Men?
Answer: LITTLE MISS BOOKS
Question: Who was the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, who died in suspicious circumstances in Snowdonia in 2008?
Answer: MIKE TODD
Question: Which is the lowest prime number greater than 50?
Answer: 53
Question: The title of which Verdi opera translates as, "The Fallen Woman"?
Answer: LA TRAVIATA
Question: The explorer and navigator, Christopher Columbus, was born around 1451, in which city?
Answer: GENOA
Question: Derived from the Greek word, "xanthos, which colour does the prefix xantho describe?
Answer: YELLOW
Question: Which agreement, signed by ten members of the European Community, removed border controls between them?
Answer: THE SCHENGEN AGREEMENT
Question: Who beat Walter Mondale in the U.S. Presidential election in 1984?
Answer: RONALD REAGAN
Question: Ilex aquifolium is the botanical name for which tree?
Answer: (Common) HOLLY
Question: Which organ of the body produces bile?
Answer: LIVER
Question: What is the main ingredient of the soup borsch?
Answer: BEETROOT
Question: What is the capital of Montenegro?
Answer: PODGORICA
Question: In which year was the M1 Motorway opened?
Answer: 1959
Question: Which is Britain's smallest bird?
Answer: GOLDCREST
Question: Which of the United States is known as the Wolverine State'?
Answer: MICHIGAN
Question: Inverary Castle is the family seat of which duke?
Answer: ARGYLL
Question: Who was the original quizmaster of the TV series 'A Question of Sport'?
Answer: DAVID VINE
Question: Which of the United States is known as the 'Badger State'?
Answer: WISCONSIN
Question: In which English cathedral are the Five Sisters windows?
Answer: YORK
Question: Which planet when discovered was originally called the Georgian planet?
Answer: URANUS
Question: What name is given to the part of a flag nearest the flag pole?
Answer: Hoist
Question: What was the name of the record label founded by Frank Sinatra in 1960?
Answer: Reprise
Question: Who was acting leader of the Lib Dems after the resignation of Sir Menzies Campbell?
Answer: Vince Cable
Question: Who wrote the Jimi Hendrix hit 'All Along the Watchtower'?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Question: Who was the father of King Henry 3rd?
Answer: King John
Question: In which battle did the 'Thin Red Line' feature?
Answer: Balaclava
Question: Who composed the 1912 ballet 'Daphnis et Chloe'?
Answer: Ravel
Question: Flores and Corvo are islands in which group?
Answer: Azores
Question: What is the name of the organic food company founded by Prince Charles?
Answer: Duchy Originals
Question: Sisters Kate and Bianca appear in which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: Taming of the Shrew
Question: What is the nickname of TV presenter Richard Hammond?
Answer: HAMSTER
Question: What is the Iditarod which takes place in Alaska?
Answer: DOG SLED RACE
Question: Who made his last film appearance in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets?
Answer: RICHARD HARRIS
Question: What is the nickname of TV presenter James May?
Answer: CAPTAIN SLOW
Question: Which car manufacturer has a badge with one large star and five small stars in a circle?
Answer: SUBARU
Question: In the Dickens novel, "The Pickwick Papers", who sued Mr Pickwick for breach of promise?
Answer: MRS BARDELL
Question: Which city, in 1985, was the first to be designated European City of Culture, now renamed European Capital of Culture?
Answer: ATHENS
Question: Who conducted the famous Panorama interview with Princess Diana in 1995?
Answer: MARTIN BASHIR
Question: In the Dickens novel, "The Pickwick Papers", who is Mr Pickwick's manservant?
Answer: SAM WELLER
Question: Agadir is a major city in which African country?
Answer: MOROCCO
Question: Which Hungarian airline, (IATA code W6), flies from Liverpool to Gdansk, Katowice, Prague and Warsaw?
Answer: WIZZ
Question: Who hosts the TV comedy panel show, "Argumental"?
Answer: JOHN SERGEANT
Question: In which region of Israel, is the village of Cana, where Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine?
Answer: GALILEE
Question: Which John Masefield poem begins, "Quinquereme of Nineveh, from distant Ophir"?
Answer: CARGOES
Question: In football, what is the Italian equivalent to the English Premier League?
Answer: SERIE A
Question: Where in Arizona is London Bridge located?
Answer: Lake Havasu
Question: Presbyopia is a degeneration in vision as a result of what?
Answer: Ageing
Question: In Norse mythology, what type of creature was Fenrir?
Answer: Wolf
Question: Who had a UK No. 1 hit in 1970 with "Yellow River"?
Answer: Christie
Question: What was the forename of the Czechoslovakian composer Smetana?
Answer: Bedrich
Question: What name is given in English law to a minor legally placed under the care of a guardian?
Answer: Ward
Question: The main ingredients of the Irish dish colcannon are potato and which other vegetable?
Answer: Cabbage
Question: Who played Malcolm X in the 1992 film of the same name?
Answer: Denzel Washington
Question: What was the name of Freddie Laker's cheap trans-Atlantic airline from 1977 to 1983?
Answer: Sky Train
Question: In heraldry, what is a Talbot?
Answer: A (hunting) dog
Question: Which Glen Miller recording of 1941 was the first record ever to be awarded a gold disc?
Answer: Chattanooga Choo Choo
Question: In Norse mythology, who was the goddess of the underworld?
Answer: Hel
Question: Lizard, Gloucester and Border are varieties of which bird?
Answer: Canary
Question: Which car company's logo features a prancing black horse?
Answer: Ferrari
Question: """Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"" is a line written by which poet?"
Answer: Thomas Gray
Question: How many years are there in a US President's term of office?
Answer: FOUR
Question: Which author created the CIA agent Jack Ryan?
Answer: TOM CLANCY
Question: Which Scottish soup's name derives from its main ingredients, chicken and leeks?
Answer: COCKALEEKIE
Question: What American state's capital is Montgomery?
Answer: ALABAMA
Question: In France, a charcuterie is a shop specialising in which meat?
Answer: PORK
Question: In the TV series 'Upstairs Downstairs' what was the name of the butler played by Gordon Jackson?
Answer: HUDSON
Question: Which chain of clothes shops was founded in the 1960s by Barbara Hulaniki?
Answer: BIBA
Question: The athletic event the triathlon consists of running, swimming and what other event?
Answer: CYCLING
Question: Who was US president immediately before Ronald Reagan?
Answer: JIMMY CARTER
Question: """The Ladies of the Vale"" is the popular name for the three spires of which cathedral in central England?"
Answer: LICHFIELD
Question: In which English town or city is the Meadowhall shopping centre located?
Answer: SHEFFIELD
Question: In the children's TV programme, "The Magic Roundabout", what was the name of the snail?
Answer: BRIAN
Question: Which herb is an essential ingredient in the Swedish salmon dish, Gravlax?
Answer: DILL
Question: In art, what name is given to a statue or painting of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead Christ?
Answer: A PIETA
Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays is Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, one of the main characters?
Answer: TWELFTH NIGHT
Question: The statue of Eros, in Piccadilly in London, was the work of which sculptor?
Answer: SIR ALFRED GILBERT
Question: Liverpool FC co-owner, George Gillett, also owns which Canadian National Hockey League team?
Answer: MONTREAL CANADIANS
Question: Which herb is a distinctive ingredient in Bearnaise sauce?
Answer: TARRAGON
Question: What is the name of the US financier jailed for 150 years for fraud in June 2009?
Answer: BERNARD MADOFF
Question: Which chef was the winner of the 2009 show, "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here"?
Answer: GINO d'ACAMPO
Question: The Cato Street Conspiracy was a plot to kill which British Prime Minister?
Answer: Lord Liverpool
Question: On TV who played the detective Frank Cannon?
Answer: William Conrad
Question: Traditionally made for agricultural workers, which elongated suet crust dumpling has a meat filling at one end and a jam one at the other?
Answer: Bedfordshire Clanger
Question: Meles meles is the Latin name for which British mammal?
Answer: Badger
Question: From which children's book did Pink Floyd take the title of their 1967 album 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn'?
Answer: Wind in the Willows
Question: Which company was founded by David Quayle and Richard Block in Southampton in 1969?
Answer: B & Q
Question: Meccano produced which range of die cast toys?
Answer: Dinky
Question: Which medical device, used for auscultation was invented by Rene Laennec in 1816?
Answer: Stethoscope
Question: Which song was a hit for Eddie Floyd in 1967 and for Amii Stewart in 1979?
Answer: Knock on Wood
Question: In which country is the most easterly point of Africa?
Answer: Somalia
Question: Who played `Wolfie' Smith in the TV comedy series Citizen Smith?
Answer: Robert Lindsay
Question: In 2010 who left the message "Dear Chief Secretary, I'm afraid there is no money. Kind regards - and good luck"?
Answer: Liam Byrne
Question: In which month does the Scottish quarter day Candlemas fall?
Answer: February
Question: What is the official language of Andorra?
Answer: Catalan
Question: Which crop is processed in a `ginnery'?
Answer: Cotton
Question: Ramshaw Rocks and Hen Cloud are in which National Park?
Answer: Peak District
Question: In which state is the waterfront in the film On the Waterfront?
Answer: New Jersey
Question: Which animal appears on the coat of arms and flag of Berlin?
Answer: Bear
Question: Which town in Northamptonshire houses the Alfred East Art Gallery?
Answer: KETTERING
Question: Give a year in the life of the scientist Galileo Galilei.
Answer: 1564-1642
Question: What was the given Christian name of the fashion designer 'Coco' Chanel?
Answer: GABRIELLE
Question: Which city is the capital of the Central American Republic of Belize?
Answer: BELMOPAN
Question: Who managed Scotland in the 1986 World Cup campaign?
Answer: ALEX FERGUSON
Question: Which South American goffer won the 2009 US Masters?
Answer: ANGEL CABRERA
Question: Which central American city is the capital of the Republic of Honduras?
Answer: TEGUCIGALPA
Question: Who is the patron saint of dancers and comedians?
Answer: St. VITUS
Question: In which Dickens novel do the characters Thomas Traddles and James Steerforth appear?
Answer: DAVID COPPERFIELD
Question: Which well known film and TV actress was born Joyce Frankenberg in 1951?
Answer: JANE SEYMOUR
Question: Of what is gymnophobia a fear?
Answer: NUDITY
Question: In the Tour de France, which jersey is worn by the leader of the 'King of the Mountains' category?
Answer: POLKA DOT
Question: Who after Real Madrid have won the European Cup/Champions League Trophy the most times?
Answer: AC MILAN
Question: Which was the last country to join the G8 in 1997 (changing the G7 to G8)?
Answer: RUSSIA
Question: Which actress is married to Taylor Hackford?
Answer: HELEN MIRREN
Question: Which species of bird can be Reed, Corn or Cirl?
Answer: BUNTING
Question: In Edinburgh what name is given to the streets that link the Castle with Holyrood Palace?
Answer: ROYAL MILE
Question: In which country will the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup be held?
Answer: NEW ZEALAND
Question: Which famous singer said 'I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to'?
Answer: ELVIS PRESLEY
Question: The 2009 film `Inglourious Basterds' is set during which conflict?
Answer: WORLD WAR II
Question: By population, what is the second largest city in Belgium?
Answer: ANTWERP
Question: Hobgoblin, Fidler's Elbow and Goliath are brewed by which brewer based at Witney in Oxfordshire?
Answer: Wychwood Brewery
Question: What name is given to the handiwork made from the byproducts of harvesting marine mammals?
Answer: Scrimshaw
Question: Whose symphony no3 is subtitled 'Scottish'?
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn
Question: The dhole is what kind of animal?
Answer: Dog
Question: In which city is Da Vinci's Last Supper on display?
Answer: Milan
Question: Which chemical element, No 36, is named for the Greek for 'hidden one'?
Answer: Krypton
Question: The French Football Ligue 1 team Marseille have which other name in their title?
Answer: Olympique
Question: Bitter and Twisted, Old Engine Oil and Schiehallion are brewed by which brewer based at Alva in Clackmannanshire?
Answer: Harviestoun Brewery
Question: Who is the patron saint of Sweden?
Answer: St. Brigit
Question: Rumex spp is the Latin name for which genus of common wild garden plant?
Answer: Dock
Question: Whernside is the highest peak in which National Park?
Answer: Yorkshire Dales
Question: Who painted 'Liberty Leading the People' on display in the Louvre?
Answer: Eugene Delacroix
Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in Vienna?
Answer: Measure for Measure
Question: Who.wrote the series of books that include "I Can Make You Skip", "I Can Make You Thin" and "I Can Make You Rich"?
Answer: Paul McKenna