zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who is the mother of t.v. presenter Rebecca Wilcox?
Answer: ESTHER RANTZEN
Question: Who captained the England Cricket team 15 times in the early 1930's, winning 9 of the matches?
Answer: DOUGLAS JARDINE
Question: The Leigh Branch links the Leeds & Liverpool Canal with which other canal?
Answer: BRIDGEWATER CANAL
Question: Which singer recorded the 1969 hit album "Hot Buttered Soul"?
Answer: ISAAC HAYES
Question: Who won series 11 of "Strictly Come Dancing" in 2012?
Answer: LOUIS SMITH
Question: Who is the author of the 2006 novel “Shalimar the Clown”?
Answer: SALMAN RUSHDIE
Question: Which actor starred in 'High Fidelity' (2000), 'Being John Malkovich' (1999) and 'Con Air' (1997)?
Answer: JOHN CUSACK
Question: Of which Spanish province is Seville the capital city?
Answer: ANDALUCIA
Question: The 4th brightest star in the sky is also the brightest star of the Northern Hemisphere. It is contained in the constellation Bootes (the Herdsman). What is its name?
Answer: ARCTURUS
Question: Which former Liverpool player (1967-1979) managed Rotherham in 1981/82?
Answer: EMLYN HUGHES
Question: Which TV comedy series, which began in the 1990s, was filmed in the village of Turville, Buckinghamshire?
Answer: THE VICAR OF DIBLEY
Question: Which horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup five times in the 1930s?
Answer: GOLDEN MILLER
Question: What was Charlie Drake's catchphrase?
Answer: HELLO MY DARLINGS
Question: What is Force 11 (eleven) on the Beaufort Scale?
Answer: STORM
Question: On which English racecourse is the 1000 Guineas classic race run?
Answer: NEWMARKET
Question: The goatsucker is an alternative name for which bird?
Answer: Nightjar
Question: Luis Suarez was later banned from the 2014 world cup for biting which Italian defender?
Answer: Giorgio Chiellini
Question: Which Hollywood star's last film was "The Hunter" in 1980?
Answer: Steve McQueen
Question: What name is given to a triangle which contains no equal sides or equal angles?
Answer: Scalene
Question: In mythology who was the Greek equivalent of Vulcan?
Answer: Hephaistos
Question: Which tanker was in the news when it ran aground off the Pembrokeshire coast in 1996?
Answer: Sea Empress
Question: Founded in 1897, which animal welfare charity was formerly known As "Our Dumb Friends League"?
Answer: Blue Cross
Question: Catherine Norland is the central female character of which novel by Jane Austen?
Answer: Northanger Abbey
Question: Which town is the administrative centre of Wiltshire?
Answer: Trowbridge
Question: What was the name of the dog in the secret seven books by Enid Blyton?
Answer: Scamper
Question: Which breed of dog derives its name from the German for "splash"?
Answer: Poodle
Question: What was the currency of Finland between 1860 and 2002?
Answer: Markka
Question: Which of the March sisters from Little Women by Louisa M Alcott is missing - Meg, Jo, Beth and?
Answer: Amy
Question: Which legal drama starring Martin Shaw ran for six series on BBC TV from 2001?
Answer: Judge John Deed
Question: Who succeeded Trajan as Roman Emperor in 117 AD
Answer: Hadrian
Question: What is the English name for the German dessert Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte?
Answer: Black Forest Gateau
Question: Which of the five dwarf planets begins with the letter E?
Answer: Eris
Question: Who plays Brutus, a bar owner, in the recent BBC comedy Sun Trap?
Answer: Bradley Walsh
Question: Which poet played for Harrow in the first Eton v Harrow cricket match in 1805?
Answer: Lord Byron
Question: What was the family name of the first Viscount Rothermere and his brother the first Viscount Northcliffe, founders of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror?
Answer: Harmsworth
Question: The Great City Games is an athletics event in Manchester with a track laid on which thoroughfare?
Answer: Deansgate
Question: Who plays Denis Thatcher in the 2011 film The Iron Lady?
Answer: Jim Broadbent
Question: What do we call the food item known in Scandinavia as Viennese bread
Answer: Danish (Pastry)
Question: The Purple Revolution: The Year That Changed Everything is a memoir by which current politician
Answer: Nigel Farage
Question: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ended which war, known in North America as the French and Indian War
Answer: The Seven Years' War
Question: In November 1982 Eltham Little Theatre in London was renamed after which performer born in Eltham in 1903 who raised funds for the theatre?
Answer: Bob Hope
Question: Recently in the news, which is the largest of the Italian Pelagie islands in the Mediterranean Sea
Answer: Lampedusa
Question: Brittany Ferries run services from Portsmouth to Santander and which other city in Spain
Answer: Bilbao
Question: Who had a top ten hit in 1992, with the song 'Achy, Breaky Heart'?
Answer: BILLY RAY CYRUS
Question: Which terrorist group were responsible for the killing the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics?
Answer: BLACK SEPTEMBER
Question: In which town or city is Charles Wells beer brewed?
Answer: BEDFORD
Question: Murray Gold has been musical director for which TV series since it was revived in 2005?
Answer: 'DOCTOR WHO'
Question: Which Australian state capital lies on a river of the same name?
Answer: BRISBANE
Question: Which chocolate biscuit bar was advertised with the slogan "P-p-p-pick up a......"?
Answer: PENGUIN
Question: Who won the Heptathlon Gold Medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships?
Answer: JESSICA ENNIS
Question: What colour is the disc on the flag of Bangladesh?
Answer: RED
Question: In the Dewey Decimal Classification, what is the first number for books on art?
Answer: 7
Question: What is the name of the National Anthem of New Zealand?
Answer: 'GOD DEFEND NEW ZEALAND'
Question: Which is the first movement in 'The Planets Suite' by Gustav Holst?
Answer: 'MARS'
Question: In which town is the River Severn crossed by the English Bridge and the Welsh Bridge?
Answer: SHREWSBURY
Question: In which south coast resort is tennis played at Devonshire Park?
Answer: EASTBOURNE
Question: How are singers Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White and Rochelle Wiseman collectively known?
Answer: 'THE SATURDAYS'
Question: Which Tennis player lost to Pete Sampras in two Wimbledon finals?
Answer: GORAN IVANISEVIC
Question: In Norse mythology, what was the name of the rainbow bridge which connects Earth with Asgard, the realm of the gods?
Answer: BIFROST
Question: Ronald Ross won the 1902 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on which disease?
Answer: MALARIA
Question: 'Prince', 'Spandau Ballet', Beverley Knight and 'East 17' have all had hits with songs with which title?
Answer: 'GOLD'
Question: From which city does the French stew 'Bouillabaisse' originate?
Answer: MARSEILLE
Question: Robert Koch won the 1905 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on which disease?
Answer: TUBERCULOSIS
Question: Which Central American country adopted the US Dollar as its official unit of currency in 2001?
Answer: EL SALVADOR
Question: Which African capital city is the highest above sea-level?
Answer: ADDIS ABABA
Question: Who was the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected President of the USA?
Answer: WILLIAM McKINLEY
Question: Released in 2011, 'The Kings Of Limbs' is the eighth studio album from which British rock band?
Answer: 'RADIOHEAD'
Question: Released in 2011, 'Collapse Into Now' is the fifteenth studio album from which American rock band?
Answer: 'REM'
Question: Which animal is the subject of Edwin Landseer's famous painting 'Monarch Of The Glen'?
Answer: STAG
Question: Which company produced the 'Playstation' video games console?
Answer: SONY
Question: What is the name of NASA's robotic rover that landed on Mars this month?
Answer: CURIOSITY
Question: 'Princess Odette' is the central character in which of Tchaikovsky's ballet's?
Answer: 'SWAN LAKE'
Question: Which fish is traditionally used in the Anglo-Indian dish known as Kedgeree?
Answer: HADDOCK
Question: For which English county Cricket team was Brian Lara playing when he scored his world record 501 not out?
Answer: WARWICKSHIRE
Question: Which organisation introduced the first commercial credit card in 1950?
Answer: DINERS CLUB
Question: Which country's Rugby Union team is nicknamed 'The Panthers'?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: What is the capital of the Pitcairn Islands?
Answer: ADAMSTOWN
Question: In which US city do the American Football team known as the 'Chargers' play their home games?
Answer: SAN DIEGO
Question: Which group had a hit in 1974 with 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us'?
Answer: 'SPARKS'
Question: After Oxford and Cambridge, which is England's next oldest university?
Answer: DURHAM
Question: In the children's t.v. programme, who was the 'Wombles' cook?
Answer: 'MADAME CHOLET'
Question: Which engineer built the Menai Suspension Bridge and the Caledonian Canal?
Answer: THOMAS TELFORD
Question: Bismark is the capital of which US state?
Answer: NORTH DAKOTA
Question: In the Bible, whose wife was 'Zippora'?
Answer: MOSES
Question: Which element, discovered by Nicolas Vauquelin in 1797, has the atomic number 24. Its name is derived from the Greek word for colour?
Answer: CHROMIUM
Question: Which is the smallest plant of the onion family?
Answer: CHIVE
Question: Which English racecourse offers outstanding views of the Blackdown Hills?
Answer: TAUNTON
Question: The Linden Tree is also called what?
Answer: LIME
Question: Which poem by John Masefield begins with the words "I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by"?
Answer: 'SEA FEVER'
Question: Who wrote the 1980 Booker Prize winner 'Rites Of Passage'?
Answer: WILLIAM GOLDING
Question: Containing the singles 'Cigarettes And Alcohol' and 'Live Forever', what is the title of Oasis' debut album?
Answer: 'DEFINITELY MAYBE'
Question: Containing the singles 'There's No Other Way' and 'Bang', what was the title of Blur's debut album?
Answer: 'LEISURE'
Question: Located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, what is the name given to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: CHALLENGER DEEP
Question: Milwaukee Deep is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and is located in which oceanic trench?
Answer: PUERTO RICO TRENCH
Question: In which country is the Rugby League World Cup due to be held in 2013?
Answer: ENGLAND
Question: Table Mountain overlooks which city?
Answer: CAPE TOWN
Question: What is the name of the Parisian cemetery at which Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf are buried?
Answer: PERE LACHAISE
Question: Which island in the Malay archipelago is divided politically between Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei?
Answer: BORNEO
Question: What name is given to the point on the celestial sphere, directly below the observer, opposite the zenith?
Answer: NADIR
Question: The musical play 'The Mother Of All The Peoples' dramatised the life of which female Scottish missionary to Nigeria?
Answer: MARY SLESSOR
Question: Which American rock star survived the car crash that killed Eddie Cochran in April 1960?
Answer: GENE VINCENT
Question: What was the name of the real-life castaway upon whom Daniel Defoe based 'Robinson Crusoe'?
Answer: ALEXANDER SELKIRK
Question: In which country would you find the Angkor Wat temple, the world's largest religious structure?
Answer: CAMBODIA
Question: Which French Revolutionary leader was assassinated whilst taking a bath in 1793?
Answer: JEAN-PAUL MARAT
Question: Which berry is used to make the Italian liqueur Sambuca?
Answer: ELDERBERRY
Question: Which popular video game was designed and programmed by Russian computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1985?
Answer: 'TETRIS'
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Doctor's Dilema'?
Answer: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Question: Who duetted with Robbie Williams on the 2001 number one 'Somethin' Stupid'?
Answer: NICOLE KIDMAN
Question: Which computer-animated film series features the 'Kingdom of Far Far Away'?
Answer: 'SHREK'
Question: In which ITV comedy drama which ran for five series did James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale play one of three couples?
Answer: 'COLD FEET'
Question: What is the surname of the character played by Joanna Lumley in 'Absolutely Fabulous'?
Answer: 'STONE'
Question: Which jockey won the 2007 Derby at Epsom on 'Authorized', at his fifteenth attempt?
Answer: FRANKIE DETTORI
Question: Give either of the real 'first' names of 'Count' Basie?
Answer: WILLIAM JAMES
Question: Who was the last king of the Hanoverian dynasty?
Answer: WILLIAM IV
Question: Give a year in the life of Henry Purcell?
Answer: 1659 - 1695
Question: NH3 is the chemical formula for which gaseous base?
Answer: AMMONIA
Question: In which year did Jimmy Carter win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: 2002
Question: Who played the young CIA agent Matt Weston in the 2012 film "Safe House"?
Answer: RYAN REYNOLDS
Question: Of which African country is Maseru the capital?
Answer: LESOTHO
Question: What is the State Capital of Arkansas?
Answer: LITTLE ROCK
Question: In the Bible, who was the son of Elizabeth and Zacharias?
Answer: JOHN THE BAPTIST
Question: Who was the Roman goddess of the Sea?
Answer: SALACIA
Question: In 2012 womens’ rights activist Joyce Banda became the first female president of which African Country?
Answer: MALAWI
Question: Who was the famous comic book creation of Frank Hampson?
Answer: DAN DARE
Question: Famous for crabs, the seaside resort of Cromer is in which English county?
Answer: NORFOLK
Question: Which town is the birthplace of Wordsworth and the home of Jennings brewery?
Answer: COCKERMOUTH
Question: Which TV series made Jonathan Routh famous?
Answer: CANDID CAMERA
Question: What word is used in the NATO phonetic alphabet to represent the letter I?
Answer: India
Question: In which west country town is Pen Mill railway station?
Answer: Yeovil
Question: By which name was the famous Swiss clown Karl Adrien Wettach better known?
Answer: Grock
Question: Maseru is the capital of which African Country?
Answer: Lesotho
Question: How many Years of marriage does a crystal wedding anniversary celebrate?
Answer: 15
Question: Which female figure is the French equivalent of Britannia?
Answer: Marianne
Question: Which Small Faces song gave M People a top twenty hit single in 1995?
Answer: Itchycoo Park
Question: Give any year in the life of the pirate captain William Kidd.
Answer: 1645-1701
Question: Which word in relation to bones and writing means 'Wedge Shaped'?
Answer: Cuneiform
Question: Dogberry is a constable in which play by William Shakespeare?
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing
Question: How long is the term of office for a U.S. Senator?
Answer: Six Years
Question: Which T.V. sitcom starred Donald Sinden, Windsor Davies and Honor Blackman?
Answer: Never the Twain
Question: In mythology who was the muse of astronomy?
Answer: Urania
Question: What was the name of the mystic fluid which flowed through the veins of the mythological gods?
Answer: Ichor
Question: Bridgetown is the capital city of which island nation?
Answer: Barbados
Question: Which species of penguin is the only penguin that lives north of the equator in the wild?
Answer: Galapagos Penguin
Question: Which Italian theoretical and experimental physicist was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity and the discovery of transuranic elements?
Answer: (Enrico) Fermi
Question: Brie Larson won the 2016 Best Actress Oscar for her performance in which film?
Answer: The Room
Question: Which Scottish city is nicknamed ‘The Granite City’?
Answer: Aberdeen
Question: In the Harry Potter series of books and films, what is the name of Hagrid’s dog?
Answer: Fang
Question: Which musical features the songs Stranger in Paradise & the Olive Tree?
Answer: Kismet
Question: What term is often used to describe a 6-0 scoreline in a set of a Tennis match?
Answer: Bagel
Question: Who played OJ Simpson in the 2016 TV series "The People v OJ Simpson"?
Answer: Cuba Gooding Jnr
Question: In which Bond film does Charles Grey play the villain Blofeld?
Answer: Diamonds are Forever
Question: From which poem by Keats did F Scott Fitzgerald get the title of his 1934 book "Tender is the Night"?
Answer: Ode to a Nightingale
Question: Dinosaur National Park is a World Heritage Site in the Canadian Badlands, in which Province is it?
Answer: Alberta
Question: Algophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Pain
Question: Macadamia trees are indigenous to which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which annual event was first held at the Teatro Kursaal in Lugano in 1956?
Answer: The Eurovision Song Contest
Question: What fruit has the Latin name Musa sapientum?
Answer: Banana
Question: In which county are the towns of "Rothbury", "Seahouses" and "Wooler"?
Answer: Northumberland
Question: The Ashcliffe hospital for the criminally insane is the setting for which 2010 Martin Scorsese film?
Answer: Shutter Island
Question: Rapa Nui National Park is a world heritage site belonging to which country?
Answer: Chile
Question: In which country was the fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent born?
Answer: Algeria
Question: In which Cathedral is the tomb of the "Black Prince"?
Answer: Canterbury
Question: Newport on the Isle of Wight stands on which river?
Answer: The Medina
Question: Which country is the most recent to join the United Nations - in July 2011?
Answer: South Sudan
Question: Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion are three members of which band formed in 1996?
Answer: Coldplay
Question: How many faces does a tetrahedron have?
Answer: Four
Question: Who wrote the fantasy book "Puck of Pook's" Hill published in 1906?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Question: Which letter comes between rho and tau in the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Sigma
Question: Who wrote How to Cheat at Cooking published in 1971?
Answer: Delia Smith
Question: In tennis, who was the first woman to win all 4 Grand Slam tournaments in the same year?
Answer: (Maureen) Connolly
Question: The Raspberry, Blueberry and Dewberry all belong to which family of plants?
Answer: Rose
Question: Luguvalium was the Roman name for which North Western English city?
Answer: Carlisle
Question: Nutria is the name given to the fur of which semi aquatic rodent?
Answer: Coypu
Question: In which year was the world’s first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 launched?
Answer: 1957
Question: Which New Zealand Rugby player also has a professional boxing record of 7 wins 0 losses and 3 knockouts as a heavyweight professional boxer?
Answer: (Sonny-Bill) Williams
Question: Meteorologically speaking, what is a haboob?
Answer: Sandstorm
Question: In the Bible which prominent figure is the chid of Saint Anne and Saint Joachim?
Answer: The Virgin Mary
Question: Which King of England was nicknamed Softsword and Lackland?
Answer: King John
Question: What is the most southerly capital city on the mainland of South America?
Answer: Montevideo
Question: The straits of Johor separate which island from the Malay Peninsula?
Answer: Singapore
Question: Who composed the opera Lakmé?
Answer: (Leo) Delibes
Question: Impatiens walleriana is the Latin name for which flowering houseplant?
Answer: Busy Lizzie
Question: Jane Garvey and Jenni Murray present which Radio 4 Programme?
Answer: Woman’s Hour
Question: Which letter of the Greek alphabet comes between Tau and Phi?
Answer: Upsilon
Question: Which jazz singer was known as The King of Hi de Ho?
Answer: (Cab) Calloway
Question: In which US state is the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway, the longest bridge in America?
Answer: Louisiana
Question: Which French Prime Minister signed the Munich Agreement of 1938?
Answer: Edouard Deladier
Question: Who wrote the plays "Lost in Yonkers" and "The Prisoner of second avenue"?
Answer: Neil Simon
Question: Who replaced Tom Jones on the TV show the voice?
Answer: Boy George
Question: """Just now the lilac is in bloom, all before my little room"", is the first line of which poem by Rupert Brook?"
Answer: The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
Question: How many musicians are left at the end of Haydon's "Farewell Symphony"
Answer: Two
Question: What position did Will Sommers hold at the Court of Henry VIII
Answer: Jester
Question: What is the maximum number of clubs that a golfer can carry in their bag?
Answer: FOURTEEN
Question: Barbara Havers is the assistant to which Scotland Yard detective in the novels of Elizabeth George?
Answer: INSPECTOR THOMAS LYNLEY
Question: With which musical instrument is Dame Myra Hess (1890-1965) associated?
Answer: PIANO
Question: How are Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison described in the title of a play by Neil Simon?
Answer: THE ODD COUPLE
Question: Who plays Joey LaMotta, Jake's brother and manager in the 1980 film "Raging Bull"?
Answer: JOE PESCI
Question: On this day in which year was Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa?
Answer: 1994
Question: Which town in Northern Ireland lies on the stretch of river between Upper Lough Erne and Lower Lough Erne?
Answer: ENNISKILLEN
Question: The Neil Simon plays "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" and "Brighton Beach Memoirs" are set in which city?
Answer: NEW YORK
Question: According to the lyrics of the song "Fairytale of New York", what were 'the boys of the NYPD choir singing'?
Answer: GALWAY BAY
Question: Who made the cake on the cover of the album "Let It Bleed" by The Rolling Stones?
Answer: DELIA SMITH
Question: A replica of whose statue of David stands outside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence - the original is in the Galleria del Accademia?
Answer: MICHELANGELO
Question: Chinook, chum and sockeye are species of what type of fish?
Answer: SALMON
Question: Which cartoon character has a pet snail called Gary who meows?
Answer: Spongebob Squarepants
Question: Oneirology is the study of what?
Answer: Dreams
Question: How is the title character Prince Myshkin known in the title of a Dostoevsky novel?
Answer: The Idiot
Question: Which Briton was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953?
Answer: (Winston) Churchill
Question: Dave Brock has been leader of which psychedelic rock group for over 40 years?
Answer: Hawkwind
Question: Which cricketer holds the record for the highest individual score in a test innings?
Answer: (Brian) Lara
Question: George Cowling, was BBC Television’s first what? He made his debut on 11 January 1954?
Answer: Weatherman
Question: What is the name of the giraffe which features in the logo and branding of Toys R Us?
Answer: Geoffrey
Question: The Dream Warriors, The Dream Master and The Dream Child are all subtitles of instalments of which film franchise?
Answer: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Question: Which novelist wrote The Monarch of the Glen and Whisky Galore?
Answer: (Compton) Mackenzie
Question: Pierre Omidyar founded which company in 1995?
Answer: Ebay
Question: Which War was ended by the 1648 Peace of Westphalia?
Answer: THIRTY YEARS’ WAR
Question: In which 1988 film did Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito play Julius and Vincent Benedict?
Answer: TWINS
Question: Which cartoonist and illustrator who made complicated drawings of simple machines was born on this day in 1872?
Answer: WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON
Question: Which country in the Americas has the fourth largest population after U S A, Brazil and Mexico?
Answer: COLOMBIA
Question: Which negotiator who was held hostage in Beirut from 1987 to 1991 was born on this day in 1939?
Answer: TERRY WAITE
Question: At which meeting will a race renamed for 2016 as the Gold Cup in Honour of The Queen’s 90th Birthday be run on June 16th?
Answer: ROYAL ASCOT
Question: The play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard expands on two characters from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: HAMLET
Question: Manningham, Tong and Wyke are wards in which Metropolitan Borough Council?
Answer: BRADFORD
Question: The Hungarian Rhapsodies is a set of 19 piano pieces based on folk themes by which composer?
Answer: FRANZ LISZT
Question: It was announced last month that Walter Mazzarri is to take over from Quique Sanchez Flores as manager of which Premiership football team for the 2016/17 season?
Answer: Watford
Question: Who replaced Carol Vorderman as the numbers expert on Countdown in January 2009?
Answer: (Rachel) Riley
Question: Bibendum is the real name of which famous advertising mascot?
Answer: Michelin Man
Question: Which U.S. born sculptor's works include "Genesis", "The Rock Drill" and "Jacob and the Angel"?
Answer: (Jacob) Epstein
Question: Which Asian capital city stands on the Chao Phraya River?
Answer: Bangkok