zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: At which castle created by P G Wodehouse is Sebastian Beach a butler?
Answer: Blandings
Question: Smeaton’s Tower now stands on Plymouth Hoe. It was originally built as the third structure of which famous lighthouse?
Answer: Eddystone
Question: By what one-word name is the more famous older sister of singer Solange Knowles known?
Answer: Beyoncé
Question: In the Bible who was the elder sister of Moses and Aaron?
Answer: Miriam
Question: Who launched the Skytrain as part of his low-budget airline in the 1970s?
Answer: Freddie Laker
Question: What is the capital city of Bermuda?
Answer: Hamilton
Question: In which battle on Palm Sunday 1461 in Yorkshire did the Yorkists beat the Lancastrians with over 28000 killed?
Answer: Towton
Question: Which two words complete the names of these financial institutions Furness, Principality and Skipton?
Answer: Building Society
Question: Who was inaugurated as US President on March 4th 1861?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: Which composer was born on this day in Prague in 1841 – his Symphony number 9 in E minor From the New World is one of his most famous works?
Answer: Antonín Dvořák
Question: Michael Caine won a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role as Professor Frank Bryant in which 1983 film?
Answer: Educating Rita
Question: Which division of Spain completes the title of the work by George Orwell published in 1938 – Homage to _________?
Answer: Catalonia
Question: In which novel does a Martian invasion begin in Woking?
Answer: The War Of The Worlds
Question: What is the name for large-scale musical works such as Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s The Creation?
Answer: Oratorio
Question: From which language do we get the words caramel, marmalade and tapioca?
Answer: Portugese
Question: Which literary movement is associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau?
Answer: The Transcendentalists
Question: Madeleine, Thompson's Seedless and Waltham Cross are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Grapes
Question: Which is the smallest of the four inhabited Balearic Islands?
Answer: Formentera
Question: In WW2 Operation Yellow was the codename for the German invasion of which country?
Answer: France
Question: Variola is the medical name for which disease?
Answer: Smallpox
Question: Robert Jordan, Maria and Pilar are characters from which 1940 novel?
Answer: For whom the bells tolls
Question: The Bear Inn in Oxford with a collection of over 4500 is a haven for cravatologists. What do they collect?
Answer: Ties
Question: In which 1958 film did Virginia McKenna play SOE agent Violette Szabo?
Answer: Carve Her Name With Pride
Question: Dennis Waterman, the final member of the original cast of BBC TV show New Tricks left after episode 2 of the current, and final, series to be replaced by which actor playing retired detective Ted Case?
Answer: Larry Lamb
Question: An anti-emetic is a drug that is effective against what?
Answer: Vomiting
Question: In which 1963 film does Richard Attenborough play Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett, known as Big X?
Answer: The Great Escape
Question: On the shores of which of the Great Lakes is Whistling Straits, the course that staged the 2015 US PGA Championship?
Answer: Michigan
Question: Which word is missing from these lyrics? "Thanks for the memory, Of candlelight and wine, ______ on the Rhine, The Parthenon and moments on the Hudson River Line, How lovely it was!"
Answer: Castles
Question: Which battle that took place on December 2nd 1805 is also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors?
Answer: Austerlitz
Question: Who appeared in the Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith and Traffic
Answer: Stevie Winwood
Question: Who did Nathunan Godse assassinate in 1948
Answer: Gandhi
Question: Which oil tanker ran aground on Seven Stones Reef in 1967 (Pollard Rock)
Answer: Torrey Canyon
Question: For which role did John Cleese win a BAFTA in 1979
Answer: Basil Fawlty
Question: With which group did Stevie Nicks sing in the seventies
Answer: Fleetwood Mac
Question: Which Hebrew prophet ascended to heaven in a fiery chariot
Answer: Elijah
Question: Who ruled England until Richard 11 came of age
Answer: John of Gaunt
Question: Who had a No 1 in the 70's with Annie's Song
Answer: John Denver
Question: Which country does tennis star Marcelo Rios represent
Answer: Chile
Question: Which Scottish leader was finally beaten at Culloden
Answer: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Question: In which country in 1808 was there a rum rebellion
Answer: Australia
Question: Who was the famous 11th century wife of Leofric the Earl of Chester (you have all heard of her)
Answer: Lady Godiva
Question: In the TV series Butterflies what type of car did Rhea drive
Answer: Mini
Question: What is the fossilised resin of coniferous trees called
Answer: Amber
Question: Who took the lead vocals in the pop group Blur
Answer: Damon Albarn
Question: Who did Michael Foot succeed as leader of The Labour Party
Answer: Jim Callaghan
Question: Which British motor cycle manufacturer made the Baby, the Trophy and the Tiger
Answer: Triumph
Question: What is the highest fence in the Grand National
Answer: The Chair
Question: How many Wimbledon singles championships did John McEnroe win
Answer: Three
Question: Which motor manufacturer make the Grand Vitara
Answer: Suzuki
Question: On which New York island is Wall Street
Answer: Manhattan
Question: In which American state would you find The Painted Desert
Answer: Arizona
Question: Which American city has areas called Hyde Park and Southend
Answer: Boston
Question: Who was the American equivalent to Alf Garnett
Answer: Archie Bunker
Question: Which group had a top ten hit in 1972 with All The Young Dudes
Answer: Mott The Hoople
Question: Which Elite League speedway team ride their home matches at Foxhall Heath
Answer: Ipswich
Question: What term is given to three consecutive strikes in ten pin bowling
Answer: A turkey
Question: Whose guitar fetched £198,000 at auction in 1990
Answer: Jimi Hendrix
Question: Dampers, hammers and strings can all be found in or on which musical instrument
Answer: Piano
Question: Who in the Bible was ordered to sacrifice his son as a burnt offering
Answer: Abraham
Question: Which country do people known as Letts come from
Answer: Latvia
Question: Who are Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant
Answer: Pet Shop Boys
Question: On which river did Jerome K Jerome send his three men in a boat
Answer: Thames
Question: In which country was the bridge over the river Kwai
Answer: Thailand
Question: Who was the leader of a cult who murdered Sharon Tate amongst others
Answer: Charles Manson
Question: Who appeared in the TV series Callan, Target and Special Branch
Answer: Patrick Mower
Question: In British peerage what comes between an earl and a baron
Answer: A viscount
Question: What nationality did Hannah Mandlikova take when she left Czechoslovakia
Answer: Australian
Question: In which capital city is the street called the Ginza which is full of department stores and night-clubs
Answer: Tokyo
Question: What is the correct term for a bunch of bananas
Answer: A hand
Question: In heraldry what colour is azure
Answer: Blue
Question: What was the most famous TV role of actor Jay Silverheels
Answer: Tonto
Question: Which Vietnam village was the scene of an horrific massacre in 1968
Answer: My Lai
Question: What was the soldier called in a cavalry division who only carried light weapons
Answer: A hussar
Question: How old was Elvis Presley when he died
Answer: Forty two
Question: Which Elvis Presley hit record contains spoken lines from Shakespeare
Answer: Are You Lonesome Tonight
Question: In the days of sailing ships which crew member usually doubled up as the ship’s doctor
Answer: The cook
Question: The alleged remains of which ship were found on the Turkish Iranian border in 1994
Answer: Noah’s Ark
Question: Who was the well known father of the author Lady Antonia Frazer
Answer: Lord Longford
Question: What type of bird would be found in a squab pie
Answer: Pigeon
Question: What is the home ground of Sheffield United
Answer: Bramall Lane
Question: What is the more common name of the tympanic membrane
Answer: Eardrum
Question: Which European country has the oldest Parliament
Answer: Iceland
Question: Which berries are used to flavour gin
Answer: Juniper
Question: Which member of the great train robbers was shot dead on the Costa del Sol in 1990
Answer: Charles Wilson
Question: In Arthurian legend what was the name of Sir Lancelot's castle
Answer: Joyous Gard
Question: Who had a U.K. No 1 in the 70's with She
Answer: Charles Aznavour
Question: What is added to Windsor red cheese to give it it’s distinctive colour
Answer: Red wine
Question: What type of bird is a Jonathan Livingstone
Answer: Seagull
Question: In botany to which family do the two species of rape belong
Answer: Mustard
Question: Which British battleship was sank by a submarine while in Scapa Flow
Answer: The Royal Oak
Question: Which wars began with the Battle of St. Albans and finished with the Battle of Bosworth
Answer: The Wars of the Roses
Question: What top-selling UK newspaper was produced on Sundays for the first time in 2012
Answer: The Sun
Question: Which circus did Coco the Clown star in for over thirty years
Answer: Bertram Mills
Question: Who recorded Nobody Does It Better for one of the Bond films
Answer: Carly Simon
Question: What was the first European country to import tobacco
Answer: France
Question: Who played opposite Meryl Streep in the film Ironweed
Answer: Jack Nicholson
Question: Who was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover
Answer: Queen Victoria
Question: What boating aid has a fluke, a stock and a shank
Answer: An anchor
Question: Where was the wartime seat of the Petain government of France
Answer: Vichy
Question: In which country was the World War 11 quick firing anti aircraft gun the Oerlikon first manufactured
Answer: Switzerland
Question: The House of Bernadotte is the Royal House of which country
Answer: Sweden
Question: Which planet is fourth from the sun
Answer: Mars
Question: The theme from which TV drama gave Jimmy Nail a hit single
Answer: Crocodile Shoes
Question: Which character did Harrison Ford play in Star Wars
Answer: Han Solo
Question: Where are the annual British Showjumping Championship held
Answer: Hickstead
Question: Into which channel does the River Severn discharge
Answer: Bristol Channel
Question: The Granta is another name for which English river
Answer: The Cam
Question: Who was President of The U.S.A. during the American Civil War
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: Who performed the themes for the Ghostbusters series of films
Answer: Ray Parker Junior
Question: Which state was Bill Clinton governor of before he became President of the U.S.A.
Answer: Arkansas
Question: What is the cold dry northerly wind called that comes down the Rhone Valley to the Mediterranean
Answer: The Mistral
Question: Which British prime minister resigned over the Suez crisis
Answer: Anthony Eden
Question: Who was known as the Elephant Man
Answer: John Merrick
Question: What was the codename for the allied attack in Arnhem in World War Two
Answer: Operation Market Garden
Question: What were the short barrelled rifles formerly used by cavalry called
Answer: Carbines
Question: In which U.S. state was the gas chamber first used
Answer: Nevada
Question: According to popular songs which bird flew over the rainbow and the white cliffs of Dover
Answer: Bluebirds
Question: Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler formed which group in 1990
Answer: Suede
Question: Which part of a garment can be describes as leg of mutton or batwing
Answer: Sleeves
Question: Which state does Bob Dylan come from
Answer: Minnesota
Question: In which country would you be if you were trudging over the Atacama Desert
Answer: Chile
Question: In which country is the Simpson Desert
Answer: Australia
Question: In which country is the town of Kandahar
Answer: Afghanistan
Question: In which country did the volcano Loki erupt in 1996
Answer: Iceland
Question: In what year in Association Football did it become legal to be able to score direct from a corner
Answer: 1924
Question: How many inches are there in a hand
Answer: Four
Question: Which sweets were advertised as the too good to hurry mints
Answer: Murray Mints
Question: In which city could you visit The Louvre
Answer: Paris
Question: Where does Homer Simpson work
Answer: Nuclear power plant
Question: Which garden plants are also known as cranebills
Answer: Geraniums
Question: What modern innovation was began by Tim Berners Lee
Answer: The World Wide Web
Question: On which ship did Fletcher Christian lead a mutiny in 1787
Answer: Bounty
Question: Which Scottish comedian had his World Tour of Australia shown on TV
Answer: Billy Connolly
Question: In which film did Harrison Ford come from the future to destroy an android played by Rutger Hauer
Answer: Blade Runner
Question: On which radio programme did the dreaded batter pudding hurler of Bexhill on sea appear
Answer: The Goon Show
Question: Who would do his work in an atelier and use a mahlstick
Answer: An artist
Question: In what year did Harold Wilson retire
Answer: 1976
Question: Which newspaper was instrumental in getting Zola Budd to compete for England
Answer: Daily Mail
Question: Name Cliff Richard's first five number one hits in the correct order
Answer: Living Doll,
Question: What are people from Hamburg called
Answer: Hamburgers
Question: In 1974 into which newly born county was Middlesbrough included
Answer: Cleveland
Question: What colour are tea leaves when they are picked
Answer: Green
Question: Who was the father of Richard 11
Answer: Edward the Black Prince
Question: Which Outer Hebridean island gives its name to a famous tweeds
Answer: Harris
Question: To which battle was Churchill referring when he said we never won a battle before and never lost one after it
Answer: El Alamein
Question: Mozambique was once a colony of which European country
Answer: Portugal
Question: What do we call the refraction, reflection and dispersal of the sun's rays caused by raindrops in the sky
Answer: Rainbow
Question: Apart from card games in which sport would you hear the term jack high
Answer: Bowls
Question: In the University boatrace how many people are in each boat
Answer: Nine
Question: What does a bar sinister denote on someone's coat of arms
Answer: Illegitimacy
Question: Which American company used the advertising symbol known as the golden arches, reputedly better known than the Christian cross
Answer: Macdonald's
Question: Who wrote an Evening With Gary Lineker
Answer: Arthur Smith
Question: What are the fibrous bands called that connects muscles to bones
Answer: Tendons
Question: What was the name of Julius Caesar's only known daughter
Answer: Julia
Question: Which group accompanied Skinner and Baddeil on the Euro 96 hit Three Lions
Answer: The Lightning Seeds
Question: What was the first symphony to include trombones
Answer: Beethoven's Fifth
Question: In which British castle would you find the huge field gun Mons Meg
Answer: Edinburgh
Question: What is or was the name of Georgie Fame's backing group
Answer: The Blue Flames
Question: In which long running BBC series did Bonnie Langford play the part of Melanie
Answer: Dr. Who
Question: How many of William the Conqueror's sons became king of England
Answer: Two
Question: Which eastern capital is served by Queen Alia airport
Answer: Amman
Question: Which American state capital is served by William B Hartsfield airport
Answer: Atlanta
Question: What is the original nationality of Arnold Schwartzenegger
Answer: Austrian
Question: What was the name of the angel in the film It's A Wonderful Life
Answer: Clarence
Question: In cricket what name is given to a left handed googly
Answer: Chinaman
Question: In Greek mythology there were nine muses which one was the muse of epic poetry
Answer: Calliope
Question: In which city is the American series about a bar called Cheers set
Answer: Boston
Question: Which South American country offers degrees from Moron University
Answer: Argentina
Question: What unusual item of furniture did King Menelik of Abyssinia have for a throne
Answer: An electric chair
Question: What was the title of Wings first hit which the B.B.C. would neither play or name on air
Answer: Ireland
Question: Which battle in 1066 took place eight miles outside of York
Answer: Stamford
Question: What is the name of Scunthorpe United's former ground
Answer: The Old Showground
Question: What was the first Elton John album to top the British charts
Answer: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
Question: What is or was the name of Tom Petty's backing group
Answer: The Heartbreakers
Question: What did the Indians call a railway engine
Answer: An iron horse
Question: What was the name of Matt Dillon's limping deputy in Gunsmoke
Answer: Chester
Question: In the Bible who was the son of Abraham and Hagar
Answer: Ishmael
Question: Which country was the first to produce cigarettes commercially
Answer: France
Question: In which European country did the last legal execution of a witch take place
Answer: Switzerland
Question: What is the home ground of Chelsea FC
Answer: Stamford Bridge
Question: Who won an Oscar by playing the male lead in the 1999 film American Beauty
Answer: Kevin Spacey
Question: Which British surgeon is generally recognised as the founder of antiseptic surgery
Answer: Joseph Lister
Question: What is the piece in tiddly-winks called that is flicked into the cup
Answer: The wink
Question: Who was the first British woman to record for Tamla Motown
Answer: Kiki Dee
Question: Which single was Motown's first American chart topper (It was by The Marvelettes)
Answer: Please Mr Postman
Question: Where did Motown relocate to in 1971
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: What is the name of the thoroughfare that runs past the front entrance of Old Trafford football ground
Answer: Sir Matt Busby Way
Question: Which David Bowie number one came from the album Scary Monsters
Answer: Ashes to Ashes
Question: By what name is the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratory better known
Answer: Jodrell Bank
Question: In which country was the battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879
Answer: South Africa
Question: What was the name of the Channel 5 adventure game show presented by Melinda Messenger and Leslie Grantham
Answer: Fort Boyard
Question: Who helped Theseus to escape from the Labyrinth by giving him a large ball of string
Answer: Ariadne
Question: In which country was the 1985 Heysel Stadium soccer tragedy
Answer: Belgium
Question: In which country were the settlers called Voortrekkers
Answer: South Africa
Question: Which cartoon show was turned into a film called Bigger, Longer and Uncut in 1999
Answer: South Park
Question: Which tanker caused the world's greatest ever oil spillage in 1989 in the Gulf of Alaska
Answer: The Exxon Valdez
Question: Which female singer now deceased sang the theme from the Six Million Dollar Man
Answer: Dusty Springfield
Question: What type of fruit is a Duncan
Answer: Grapefruit
Question: What colour is Bradenham ham
Answer: Black
Question: On which Grand Prix race track would you find Gasometer Kurve
Answer: Monaco
Question: Who designed the World War 2 fighter the Hurricane
Answer: Sydney Camm
Question: Which car manufacturing company has the oldest emblem
Answer: Mercedes
Question: What is the only Arab country without a desert
Answer: Lebanon
Question: Who flew the last Concorde on a scheduled flight
Answer: Mike Bannister
Question: Who directed the spaghetti Dollar westerns
Answer: Sergio Leone
Question: Which TV western character carried a derringer behind his belt buckle
Answer: Paladin
Question: Bougainville is the largest of which group of islands
Answer: The Solomons
Question: Which European capital was the first city to begin numbering the houses
Answer: Paris
Question: Consumption was the old name for which disease
Answer: Tuberculosis
Question: What is cockney rhyming slang for feet
Answer: Plates of meat
Question: Luce is another name for which river fish
Answer: Pike
Question: What is a white ant better known as
Answer: Termite
Question: Which club has won the French football league title but is not actually in French territory
Answer: AS Monaco
Question: What is the hardest gemstone after diamond
Answer: Sapphire
Question: Who played the President of the United States in the film Dr. Strangelove
Answer: Peter Sellers
Question: Who was the first Jamaican to top the UK charts
Answer: Desmond Dekker
Question: Discounting Australia which is the largest island in the world (Geographers insist on calling it a continental land mass to me it is still an island)
Answer: Greenland
Question: How many successive strikes does it take to score 300 at ten pin bowling
Answer: Twelve
Question: What is the ring made of in sumo wrestling
Answer: Clay
Question: The currents of which ocean produce the El Nino effect
Answer: Pacific
Question: What was Commonwealth Day called prior to 1958
Answer: Empire Day
Question: How many contestants are there at the beginning of the UK TV quiz show The Chase
Answer: Four
Question: Which action painter was often referred to as Jack The Dripper
Answer: Jackson Pollock
Question: Which motor manufacturer make the Qashqai
Answer: Nissan
Question: What is the oldest known alloy
Answer: Bronze
Question: What is Russian billionaire industrialist Roman Abramovich's investment corporation called
Answer: Millhouse Capital
Question: How is the England island of Kerkira better known to holiday makers
Answer: Corfu
Question: Who was the first person to win a posthumous Oscar in the Best Supporting Actor category
Answer: Heath Ledger
Question: What US politician's 1996 autobiography was called 'Dreams From my Father'
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: What is the Scottish word for a rough cottage or a hut where farm workers lived
Answer: Bothy
Question: The American contract Killer Richard Leonard Kulinski was known by what cold sounding name
Answer: The Iceman
Question: Which fictional TV family lived at 704 Hauser Street, Queen's, New York
Answer: The Bunkers
Question: What was the original name of seventies group Hawkwind
Answer: Group X
Question: What were the names of the first two monkeys to return from space
Answer: Able and Baker
Question: In place names such as Coatbridge what does coat mean
Answer: Cottage
Question: What is the debris deposited by a glacier called
Answer: Moraine
Question: What is the geographical term for a ring-shaped coral island
Answer: Atoll
Question: What is a narrow piece of land called that joins together two larger bodies of land
Answer: Isthmus
Question: How many of Shakespeare's signatures are known to exist
Answer: Six
Question: Seen on the credits of TV and films what is the function of a Foley Artist
Answer: Sound effects
Question: What score are the players in baccarat trying to get
Answer: Nine
Question: What is the popular nickname of the Yeomen of the Guard
Answer: Beefeaters
Question: Lewis Carroll the author of the Alice stories was an Oxford don, what was his subject
Answer: Mathematics
Question: What has become a custom from armoured knights raising their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king
Answer: Salute
Question: What letter do the motorways in France begin with
Answer: A
Question: Who is the Roman equivalent to the Greek god Hypnos
Answer: Somnus
Question: Which American president was so fat that he got jammed in his bath
Answer: William Taft
Question: What redhead failed Weight Watchers at age 19, only to become its spokesperson 19 years later
Answer: Sarah Ferguson
Question: Who was Bonnie Parker's murderous accomplice in the nineteen thirties
Answer: Clyde Barrow
Question: Which American state is nicknamed the Hoosier State
Answer: Indiana
Question: Which bones were used in the manufacture of the farthingale which were worn under ladies dresses
Answer: Whalebone
Question: How many litres of water will a standard European condom hold before it bursts
Answer: Eighteen
Question: What is the name of Johnny Depp's character in Pirates of the Caribbean
Answer: Jack Sparrow
Question: Baroness Marie Christine Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz is better known as whom
Answer: Princess Michael of Kent
Question: In 1967, which airline became the first all-jet airline
Answer: TWA
Question: Actor Neil Burgess plays Barry Scott in the UK television commercial for which cleaning product
Answer: Cillit Bang