zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which noun, often used in drug testing, comes from the Latin for “I shall please”?
Answer: PLACEBO
Question: After a row over her expenses claims, who resigned as Culture Secretary in April 2014?
Answer: MARIA MILLER
Question: With which song did Pharrell Williams top the charts in ten countries in 2013?
Answer: HAPPY
Question: In 1968, in which city was Malcolm Nash hit for six sixes in an over by Gary Sobers?
Answer: SWANSEA
Question: Which Italian word meaning ‘little book’ is applied to the text of an opera?
Answer: LIBRETTO
Question: What two colours can be seen on the flag of the Islamic State, previously known as Isis?
Answer: BLACK and WHITE
Question: Which Pope was inaugurated in 1978?
Answer: JOHN PAUL II
Question: What type of fish is used in the Scottish dish ‘Cullen Skink’?
Answer: HADDOCK
Question: What was the first name of Regency fashion icon Beau Brummell?
Answer: GEORGE
Question: Genu is the Latin name for what part of the human body?
Answer: The Knee
Question: Whose followers are Timid Toad, Reckless Rat, Artful Owl and Batty Bat?
Answer: Captain Beaky
Question: What did Demi Moore remove to play the role of G.I. Jane?
Answer: Her Hair
Question: Who won the 2013 World Super Bike Championship?
Answer: Tom Sykes
Question: What does the word Islam mean?
Answer: Submission
Question: The Chinese New Year has just occurred, what is it the year of?
Answer: The Horse
Question: Who played John Christie in 1960’s film 10, Rillington Place?
Answer: Richard Attenborough
Question: Which car maker produces the Altea?
Answer: Seat
Question: The Citigo is manufactured by which car maker?
Answer: Skoda
Question: Who played the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone With The Wind?
Answer: Leslie Howard
Question: Who wrote the novel A Town Like Alice?
Answer: Nevil Shute
Question: Who wrote The Little House on the Prairie?
Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Question: In 2014 Carl Crutchlow will ride what make of Moto GP bike?
Answer: Ducati
Question: Papworth is in which county ?
Answer: Cambridgeshire
Question: Who topped the UK charts in 1977 with ‘Yes, Sir, I Can Boogie’?
Answer: BACCARA
Question: The vegetable we call chicory is known as what in the USA?
Answer: ENDIVE
Question: TV. Which TV family lives at 0001 Cemetery Lane?
Answer: The ADDAMS FAMILY
Question: In 1980, who briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to perform solo?
Answer: ENYA
Question: Who was sacked as Cardiff City manager on December 27th, 2013?
Answer: MALKY MACKAY
Question: Who played the title character in ‘Father, Dear Father’ (1968 – 1973)?
Answer: PATRICK CARGILL
Question: Trains on which line were suspended in January, after wet concrete flooded a control room?
Answer: VICTORIA
Question: Camden Town, Edgware and Burnt Oak are all on which line?
Answer: NORTHERN
Question: On Nov. 7th 2013, what landmark did A.P. McCoy reach, in terms of number of winners?
Answer: 4,000
Question: On February 7th, in which English town or city was a statue of Charles Dickens unveiled?
Answer: PORTSMOUTH
Question: Which of the presidents depicted on the Mt. Rushmore Memorial was the last to be born?
Answer: THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Question: Which beast did Hera raise to kill Hercules, but ended up being slain by him?
Answer: Lernaean HYDRA
Question: What relation was George III to George II?
Answer: GRANDSON
Question: What word describes a triangle where all three sides are of different lengths?
Answer: SCALENE
Question: What sort of animal was the invisible Harvey, in the 1950 film of that name?
Answer: RABBIT
Question: In his poem ‘If’, what does Kipling describe as ‘those two impostors’?
Answer: TRIUMPH and DISASTER
Question: Who co-starred with Eric Idle in the 1990 film ‘Nuns on the Run’?
Answer: ROBBIE COLTRANE
Question: Who tripped as she went up to receive the Best Actress Oscar last year?
Answer: JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Question: Which A.B. won the Best Picture Oscar at the 2000 ceremony?
Answer: AMERICAN BEAUTY
Question: The 25th January is the day of the year on which Scots celebrate which national hero?
Answer: Robert Burns
Question: Which European country is 'double-landlocked' (landlocked by land-locked countries)?
Answer: Liechtenstien
Question: Which lake is sometimes called Lac Leman in French?
Answer: Lake Geneva
Question: Which art gallery is located at Bankside, London SE1?
Answer: Tate Modern
Question: What is the more common name for the 'European' or 'Great' Maple?
Answer: Sycamore
Question: A name featuring that of a marine mammal, what is the US Navy's equivalent to the SAS?
Answer: Navy Seals
Question: In a medical breakthrough in 1901, who was the first to classify A, B, O blood groups?
Answer: Karl Landsteiner
Question: Which hi-tech company has its main assembly plant in Everett, Washington?
Answer: Boeing
Question: Terry Deary is the author of which series of children's books that were adapted for TV?
Answer: Horrible Histories
Question: For which film did Tom Hanks win his first Oscar?
Answer: Philadelphia
Question: A gathering of which birds can be described as an ‘unkindness’?
Answer: Ravens
Question: What is the clarified butter commonly used in Indian cuisine?
Answer: Ghee
Question: Which famous writer lived at Gads Hill in Kent?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Question: Who was commanded by God through a donkey?
Answer: Balaam
Question: In trigonometry what is calculated by the adjacent over the hypotenuse?
Answer: Cosine
Question: Which letter denotes the civil aircraft marking for a plane registered in the UK?
Answer: G
Question: In a book recto is the right-hand page – what is the left?
Answer: Verso
Question: On which instrument is a skirl played?
Answer: Bagpipes
Question: Which cooking term is used for sprinkling something with icing sugar or flour?
Answer: Dredging
Question: Snape Maltings Hall is home to which annual festival, first held in 1948?
Answer: Aldeburgh Festival
Question: Karl Elsener invented which multitool in 1894?
Answer: Swiss Army Knife
Question: Which composer attempted suicide by throwing himself into the river Rhine?
Answer: Schuman
Question: Which composer of the Baroque period had 20 children?
Answer: Bach
Question: Aves is the scientific name for which creatures?
Answer: Birds
Question: Which island group was once called the Spanish East Indies?
Answer: Philippines
Question: What is the young of a turkey called?
Answer: Poult
Question: What is the middle name of Ex-President Jimmy Carter?
Answer: Earl
Question: Who was the bass player and youngest member of the original line-up of Queen?
Answer: John Deacon
Question: Edmond Dantès is the eponymous protagonist of which novel of 1844?
Answer: The Count of Monte Cristo
Question: Voiced by Steve Carell, Gru is the supervillain in which animated film and its sequel?
Answer: Despicable Me
Question: Which city hosted the first stage of the 2014 Giro d’Italia?
Answer: Belfast
Question: Who played the title role in the recent ITV biographical drama Cilla?
Answer: Sheridan Smith
Question: Which film had the tag line ‘One dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty below zero’?
Answer: Cool Runnings
Question: In July 2014, Judith Weir became the first woman to be appointed to which post?
Answer: Master of the Queen’s Music
Question: According to Shakespeare, who was drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine?
Answer: The Duke of Clarence
Question: Who acted as coach to Jermain Jackson, the 2014 winner of The Voice UK?
Answer: Will.i.am
Question: Who wrote the 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
Answer: Truman Capote
Question: What was the B-side of Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 single Substitute?
Answer: I Will Survive
Question: Which date has been unofficially designated “Star Wars Day”?
Answer: May the Fourth
Question: Who played the U-boat commander in the ‘Don’t tell him, Pike’ scene from Dad’s Army?
Answer: Philip Madoc
Question: Who wrote the novels The Sicilian and The Last Don?
Answer: Mario Puzo
Question: Planktology, malacology and primatology are all branches of which science?
Answer: ZOOLOGY
Question: One meaning of ‘contubernal’ is ‘living in the same …’ what?
Answer: TENT
Question: Who or what died in Jean Harlow’s arms in 1932?
Answer: RIN TIN TIN
Question: In 1984, who topped the US charts, and got to no. 9 in the UK, with ‘Missing You’?
Answer: JOHN WAITE
Question: L. B. Johnson, former president of the USA – for what did the ‘B’ stand?
Answer: BAINES
Question: Born in Newquay in 1911, who is the author of ‘The Spire’ and ‘Pincher Martin’?
Answer: WILLIAM GOLDING
Question: What is the name of the only lake in the Lake District?
Answer: BASSENTHWAITE
Question: Diogenes is the name of the dog in which Dickens’ novel?
Answer: DOMBEY AND SON
Question: In 1936, who composed ‘Carmina Burana’, the first part of a trilogy?
Answer: Carl ORFF
Question: “Away, you rolling river” is one of the refrains in which traditional folk song?
Answer: SHENANDOAH
Question: In Italy what is ‘calcio’?
Answer: Football
Question: The kakapo is the world’s only flightless type of which bird?
Answer: Parrot
Question: The Stoop is the home of which Premiership club?
Answer: Harlequins
Question: What did the Romans call Mare Nostrum?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
Question: Which Czech composer wrote The Bartered Bride?
Answer: Smetana
Question: High Willhays is the highest point of which county?
Answer: Devon
Question: The 2014 UK Christmas No.1 record was Something I Need – who was the performer?
Answer: Ben Haenow
Question: Which story is about the torments endured by a prisoner during the Spanish Inquisition?
Answer: The Pit and the Pendulum
Question: Which vegetable is the chief ingredient in a Spanish Omelette?
Answer: Potato
Question: Which footwear is also a venomous snake?
Answer: Moccasin
Question: What lies roughly along 180 degrees longitude?
Answer: The International Date Line
Question: Which castle is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports?
Answer: Walmer Castle
Question: World Championships in which sport took place at Frimley Green recently?
Answer: Darts
Question: Raclette is a mild cheese – what is its country of origin?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Who painted The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Tulp?
Answer: Rembrandt
Question: Which is the only city in the county of Cornwall?
Answer: Truro
Question: What is Coronation Street’s local newspaper?
Answer: Weatherfield Gazette
Question: Madrid stands on which river?
Answer: Manzanares
Question: In which capital city is the stadium nicknamed ‘The Birds Nest’?
Answer: Beijing
Question: Which steak is cut from between the ribs?
Answer: Entrecote
Question: What did Sherlock Holmes keep in the toe of a Persian slipper?
Answer: Tobacco
Question: The original ‘Gang of Four’ was a political group in which country?
Answer: China
Question: What is the capital of Barbados?
Answer: Bridgetown
Question: We call it jam – what does an American call it?
Answer: Jelly
Question: Who traded places with Eddie Murphy in the film Trading Places?
Answer: Dan Akroyd
Question: In Indian cuisine which vegetable is ‘aloo’?
Answer: Potato
Question: Which carnivore’s liver is so packed with Vitamin A it would kill you if you ate it?
Answer: Polar Bear
Question: In 1972 Mother and Child Reunion was the first solo UK hit for which artist?
Answer: Paul Simon
Question: Softly scrambled egg spread on toast and coated in anchovy paste is called what?
Answer: Scotch Woodcock
Question: Jana Gana Mana is the National Anthem of which country?
Answer: India
Question: In which novel was Aunt Ada Doom shocked by something nasty in the woodshed?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm
Question: The Folketing is the parliament of which country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: In which musical did Michael Ball play Edna Turnblad in the West End?
Answer: Hairspray
Question: Which solid has the biggest volume for a given surface area?
Answer: Sphere
Question: Which type of rock is formed by heat or pressure?
Answer: Metamorphic
Question: Who won the Women’s Singles at the 2015 Australian Open Tennis Championships?
Answer: Serena Williams
Question: Maureen ’Mo’ Tucker was the drummer in which seminal 1960s rock band?
Answer: Velvet Underground
Question: Four of the first five Presidents of the USA came from which state?
Answer: Virginia
Question: The Black Mountains are part of which UK national park?
Answer: Brecon Beacons
Question: Star Beast was the working title for which 1979 blockbuster film?
Answer: Alien
Question: ‘Stop all the clocks’ are the opening words of which poem by W. H. Auden?
Answer: Funeral Blues
Question: Port Louis is the capital city of which island nation?
Answer: Mauritius
Question: Who designed the modern glass pyramid that sits at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris?
Answer: I. M. PEI
Question: An architect and playwright, who designed Blenheim House in Oxfordshire, England?
Answer: John VANBRUGH
Question: What was the name of the prison setting for the TV comedy ‘Porridge’?
Answer: HMP SLADE
Question: By custom, the medals for which men’s event are presented during a Games’ Closing Ceremony?
Answer: MARATHON
Question: Which film opens with Bond performing a bungee jump from a dam?
Answer: GOLDENEYE
Question: Who sang the theme for the film ‘You Only Live Twice’?
Answer: Nancy SINATRA
Question: In the painting ‘Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy’ by David Hockney, who or what is Percy?
Answer: CAT
Question: Which fruit is the title of an Estonian-Georgian nominee in the Best Foreign Language category?
Answer: TANGERINES
Question: Who became the first socialist President of France in 1981, being re-elected in 1988?
Answer: François MITTERAND
Question: Which anti-arthritis drug was withdrawn in Britain in 1982 because of its side effects?
Answer: OPREN
Question: Which pioneering British photographer famously recorded the Crimean War?
Answer: Roger FENTON
Question: Where is the largest tropical forest in Africa?
Answer: CONGO Basin
Question: Who had a 1974 UK No 1 hit with Ms Grace?
Answer: The TYMES
Question: Which US author wrote the books on which The Hunger Games series of films are based?
Answer: Suzanne COLLINS
Question: What corrosive liquid makes up about 38% of the electrolyte in a car battery?
Answer: SULPHURIC ACID
Question: What nationality is tennis star Novak Djokovic?
Answer: SERBIAN
Question: Who starred as Dan Matthews in ‘Highway Patrol’?
Answer: BRODERICK CRAWFORD
Question: Which politician was described as “a snarling, thin-skinned, obsessive man”?
Answer: NIGEL FARAGE
Question: What is the name of SpongeBob SquarePants’ (sic) pet snail?
Answer: GARY
Question: Which musical features the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons?
Answer: THE JERSEY BOYS
Question: In 1989, Hans-Adam II became the monarch and head of which European state?
Answer: LIECHTENSTEIN
Question: Who was the World’s no.1 ranked male tennis professional from 1964 to 1970?
Answer: ROD LAVER
Question: Classical. Zadok the Priest was composed in 1727 by whom?
Answer: George Frideric HANDEL
Question: Pop. ‘Tubthumping’ was a 1997 no.2 hit for which group?
Answer: CHUMBAWAMBA
Question: Which of the elements, one of the noble gases, has the atomic number 10?
Answer: NEON
Question: Which late Nobel Laureate once called for Tony Blair to be prosecuted for war crimes?
Answer: Harold PINTER
Question: Who wrote 'Notes on a Scandal' – later filmed with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett?
Answer: Zoe HELLER
Question: What is the proper name for the Japanese art of flower arranging?
Answer: IKEBANA
Question: What was the title of the 2008 sequel to 2005’s ‘Batman Begins’?
Answer: THE DARK KNIGHT
Question: US singer-songwriter Adam Levine is lead singer with which band?
Answer: MAROON 5
Question: The scene of bitter fighting in 1942-43, which is also the largest of the Solomon Islands?
Answer: GUADALCANAL
Question: Which cocktail contains tequila, orange-flavoured liqueur, and the juice of lime or lemon?
Answer: MARGARITA
Question: Which long drink cocktail linked with Venice is a mix of sparkling wine and peach puree?
Answer: BELLINI
Question: Which English County is known as The Land of The Prince Bishops?
Answer: County DURHAM
Question: Which Olympic gold medallist ran the first leg of the 8,000 strong Olympic Torch relay?
Answer: Ben AINSLIE
Question: Which often controversial global fashion brand was founded in Treviso in 1965?
Answer: BENETTON
Question: Which city hosted the opening stage of the Tour De France on 5 July 2014?
Answer: LEEDS
Question: Which muralist was married to fellow Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo?
Answer: Diego RIVERA
Question: Which German engineer gives his name to the four-stroke cycle of a petrol engine?
Answer: Nikolaus OTTO
Question: If you had queso in a Spanish restaurant, what would you be eating?
Answer: CHEESE
Question: Battleship, thimble, iron, cannon, battleship and what else were the original six tokens?
Answer: TOP HAT
Question: Who was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the USA?
Answer: Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL
Question: In honour of Bobby Moore, what shirt number was retired by West Ham in 2008?
Answer: SIX
Question: What was snooker player Cliff Thorburn’s nickname?
Answer: THE GRINDER
Question: Which prominent anti-war activist was born in Monmouthshire in 1872?
Answer: BERTRAND RUSSELL
Question: In the Royal Navy, what is the only rank higher than that of admiral?
Answer: ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
Question: Who composed the 1870 ballet ‘Coppelia’?
Answer: Leo DELIBES
Question: What is the capital and largest city of the Seychelles?
Answer: VICTORIA
Question: Which jockey won the English Derby four times between 1979 and 1994?
Answer: WILLIE CARSON
Question: What word connects a parrot with voting in an election?
Answer: POLL
Question: Selenology is the study of what?
Answer: The Moon
Question: Which fruity title from their album Islands was a 1983 top ten hit for Kajagoogoo?
Answer: Big Apple
Question: The three Provinces wholly in the Republic are Leinster, Connaught and which other?
Answer: Munster
Question: Where is the volcano Olympus Mons?
Answer: On Mars
Question: Which song from Mary Poppins won the Academy Award for Best Song?
Answer: Chim Chim Cher-ee
Question: The extinct Moa is believed to be the largest ever ………what?
Answer: Bird
Question: Nelson is a famous wine producing area in which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Which sparkling wine is made chiefly in the Penedes region near Barcelona?
Answer: Cava
Question: In which famous film was Frank Miller coming to kill Will Kane?
Answer: High Noon
Question: Who succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelites?
Answer: Joshua
Question: Tasseomancy is the reading of what, to determine a person’s future?
Answer: Tea Leaves
Question: On a graph the abscissa is paired with what?
Answer: Ordinate
Question: Helen Gurley Brown was editor of which magazine for 32 years?
Answer: Cosmopolitan
Question: Who sold his wedding photos to Viz for a pound in 2002?
Answer: Johnny Vegas
Question: Which novel tells the tragic story of displaced migrants George Milton and Lennie Small?
Answer: Of Mice and Men
Question: What kind of footwear did Jimmy Nail have in 1994?
Answer: Crocodile Shoes
Question: Which film star began life as Michel Shalhoub?
Answer: Omar Sharif
Question: Who composed the To October Symphony?
Answer: Shostakovich
Question: Which character was once played by Peter Dean in Eastenders?
Answer: Pete Beale
Question: Which character was once played by Ken Morley in Coronation Street?
Answer: Reg Holdsworth
Question: From which part of the pig are Bath Chaps made?
Answer: Cheeks
Question: What do we call lava while it is still underground?
Answer: Magma
Question: What is Ozzy Osbourne’s real first name?
Answer: John
Question: The Tay Bridge runs south from which city?
Answer: Dundee
Question: The support about which a lever pivots?
Answer: Fulcrum
Question: Who composed the opera Cavalleria Rusticana?
Answer: Mascagni
Question: Mimi is the heroine of which opera?
Answer: La Boheme
Question: Who was America’s ‘Public Enemy No.1’ in the 1920s and 30s?
Answer: John Dillinger
Question: What is carrageen or Irish Moss?
Answer: Seaweed
Question: What is the general term for a three-panelled altar piece?
Answer: Triptych
Question: Richard Ashcroft fronted which 1990’s band from Wigan?
Answer: The Verve
Question: Which pop star was depicted as Christ crucified at Marylebone parish church London?
Answer: Pete Doherty
Question: The American woodchuck is also known by what name?
Answer: Groundhog
Question: What was the age that no-one wanted to reach in Logan’s Run?
Answer: 30
Question: Which play begins ‘Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace’?
Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Question: Which 10-part Channel 4 drama starring Julie Walters depicts the 1930’s British Raj?
Answer: Indian Summers
Question: Which Prime Minister lost the North American colonies for Britain?
Answer: Lord North
Question: In which capital city were the 1928 Summer Olympic Games held?
Answer: Amsterdam
Question: The Ivy League university Yale is in which US state?
Answer: Connecticut
Question: Sometimes called golden chain, which genus of small tree is poisonous in all its parts?
Answer: LABURNUM
Question: Lewis Hamilton was born in which home counties town?
Answer: STEVENAGE
Question: What is the only word uttered by the unusual visitor, in Edgar Allen Poe’s 1845 poem?
Answer: NEVERMORE
Question: In the world of equestrian sport, what does 3DE mean?
Answer: THREE-DAY EVENTING
Question: In the Harry Potter books and films, what is the first name of Harry’s uncle?
Answer: VERNON
Question: Which 1979 film is based on Conrad’s story ‘Heart of Darkness’?
Answer: APOCALYPSE NOW
Question: Which autumn-flowering bulbous plant is sometimes known as ‘the belladonna lily’?
Answer: AMARYLLIS
Question: What part of a horse takes the strain of the collar?
Answer: WITHERS
Question: According to legend, which Greek philosopher slept in a tub?
Answer: DIOGENES
Question: What acid does the stomach use to break down food?
Answer: HYDROCHLORIC
Question: Charles Dickens was born in which English town in 1812?
Answer: PORTSMOUTH
Question: In which month in 2015 will the American Football Superbowl be played?
Answer: FEBRUARY
Question: In the dead parrot sketch, what breed was the parrot?
Answer: NORWEGIAN BLUE
Question: In 1973, who joined the EEC at the same time as Britain and Ireland?
Answer: DENMARK
Question: Who celebrated his 100th birthday on May 29th, 2003, but died two months later?
Answer: BOB HOPE
Question: What was the title of Peter Wright’s controversial 1987 book? (One word will suffice.)
Answer: SPYCATCHER
Question: What is the oldest British classic flat race?
Answer: ST. LEGER
Question: In which British city can you find the Spinnaker Tower?
Answer: Portsmouth
Question: What forced Nijinsky to retire at a comparatively young age from ballet?
Answer: Mental illness
Question: Which month of 2015 saw the 900th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta?
Answer: June
Question: In season 2014/15 whose 26 goals won him the Premiership Golden boot?
Answer: Aguero
Question: Who were the puppets from Zog who were on the Big Breakfast?
Answer: Zig and Zag
Question: To which animal does the adjective lapine apply?
Answer: Rabbit
Question: Egyptian, banded and King are all types of which snake?
Answer: Cobra
Question: Which actress has starred opposite Tom Hanks in three films?
Answer: Meg Ryan
Question: Which river flows through Rochester and Maidstone?
Answer: Medway
Question: In terms of population which is the largest city in North America?
Answer: Mexico City
Question: Which composer wrote the Hebrides Overture?
Answer: Mendelssohn
Question: “Murder she said” is based on which story by Agatha Christie?
Answer: 4.50 from Paddington
Question: What is the current name for what used to be the Indian city of Madras?
Answer: Chennai
Question: Which company made a model called the Boxer?
Answer: Ferrari
Question: What is the state capital of Louisiana?
Answer: Baton Rouge
Question: Who were the two brothers of Zeus?
Answer: Poseidon and Hades
Question: Which Asian nation was the first to make it illegal to smoke in public or to sell tobacco?
Answer: Bhutan
Question: Which brand of spirit uses a black bat in its logo?
Answer: Bacardi
Question: Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ was the 1973 debut album of which artist?
Answer: Bruce Springsteen
Question: Lieutenant Pinkerton is a character in which opera by Puccini?
Answer: Madame Butterfly
Question: Officially, what is Canada’s national summer sport?
Answer: Lacrosse