zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Aston, Digbeth and Ladywood are all areas of which British city?
Answer: Birmingham
Question: In broadcasting and music, what is ‘amp’ short for?
Answer: Amplifier
Question: What is the surname of the brothers Richard and Robert who wrote songs for Disney films?
Answer: Sherman
Question: What is the only city in the English county of Cornwall?
Answer: Truro
Question: Batting, Cornerstones, Sashing and Layer Cake are all terms used in which handicraft?
Answer: Quilting
Question: Bat and Ball is a railway station in which English county?
Answer: Kent
Question: In which year did Winston Churchill retire as British Prime Minister?
Answer: 1955
Question: In the Bible, which son of Jacob and Rachel could interpret dreams?
Answer: Joseph
Question: What was the first name of Anglo-Irish statesman and diplomat Downing, who Downing Street in London was named after?
Answer: George
Question: Holden Caulfield is the anithero in which novel by J D Salinger?
Answer: Catcher in the Rye
Question: Cronian relates to which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Saturn
Question: English highwayman Dick Turpin was executed in 1739 in which city?
Answer: York
Question: In the play by Shakespeare, what is the first name of Hamlet’s mother?
Answer: Gertrude
Question: A Spur Royal was a rare English gold coin, first issued during the reign of which monarch?
Answer: King James I
Question: Who was the leader of the Greek forces during the Trojan War?
Answer: Agamemnon
Question: French professional footballer Thierry Henry played for which English football club from 1999
Answer: Arsenal FC
Question: Which vegetable is associated with a person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down, usually watching television?
Answer: (Couch) Potato
Question: The Real Estate investments of which US President were investigated in the ‘Whitewater Scandal’?
Answer: Bill Clinton
Question: Which birds are depicted on the corners of the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building in New York?
Answer: Eagles
Question: Which fictional ‘super heroine’ is the alter-ego of Barbara Gordon?
Answer: Batgirl
Question: What is the middle name of British singer David Bowie?
Answer: Robert
Question: A caldera is a feature of which natural structure?
Answer: Volcano
Question: Which is the only bird in the Chinese Zodiac?
Answer: Rooster
Question: What is the name of the road tunnel which opened in Switzerland in September 1980, and is almost 17 kilometres long?
Answer: St Gotthard Tunnel
Question: English singer/songwriter Lynsey Monckton Rubin is better known by what name?
Answer: Lynsey De Paul
Question: Ambergris is a waxy substance used in perfumery and is believed to originate in the intestines of which creatures?
Answer: Sperm whales
Question: Which British monarch was born Albert Frederick Arthur George?
Answer: King George VI
Question: Which disease acquired its name in 1976 when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention of the American Legion in Philadelphia?
Answer: Legionnaires Disease
Question: Which opera by Richard Strauss was banned in London by the Lord Chamberlains’s Office until 1907?
Answer: Salome
Question: The first public opera house opened in 1637 in which European city?
Answer: Venice
Question: Who composed the 19th Century opera ‘La Boheme’?
Answer: Giacomo Puccini
Question: Which opera singer was born Claire Mary Teresa Rawston in 1944?
Answer: Kiri Te Kanawa
Question: Which opera by Puccini was completed after his death by Franco Alfano?
Answer: Turandot
Question: Carlos Marin, Urs Buhler, Sebastien Izambard and David Miller are members of which operatic pop vocal group?
Answer: Il Divo
Question: What is the name of the Muppet rock band which features on the children’s television show ‘The Muppet Show’?
Answer: Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
Question: Late actress Greta Garbo was born in which European country?
Answer: Sweden
Question: How many sisters did Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, have?
Answer: Four
Question: Which scientist is credited with saying ‘The one who follows the crowd will usually get further than the crowd.  Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before’?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: How many London Underground stations lie outside the M25 London Orbital motorway?
Answer: Five
Question: Captain Phoebus, Clopin and Esmeralda are all characters from which 1996 Disney film?
Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Question: In June 1975, Mozambique gained independence from which European country?
Answer: Portugal
Question: The Barbary Partridge is the national bird of which British Overseas Territory?
Answer: Gibraltar
Question: The Sylvian Fissure is found in which organ of the human body?
Answer: Brain
Question: How many birds are depicted on the logo of food and confectionery company Nestle?
Answer: Three
Question: Jeanne Louise Calment, the only person confirmed to have reached over 122 years of age, was born in which country in 1875?
Answer: France
Question: In the game of bridge, which card is known as the Beer Card?
Answer: Seven of Diamonds
Question: Neopolitan ice cream is traditionally made up of how many flavours?
Answer: Three
Question: A Sachertorte is a type of chocolate cake which originated in which country?
Answer: Austria
Question: Who wrote the 19th Century ‘The Palliser’ series of novels?
Answer: Anthony Trollope
Question: How many crowned Tudor monarchs did England have?
Answer: Five
Question: Who wrote the 19th Century book ‘Notes on Nursing. What It is and What It Is Not’?
Answer: Florence Nightingale
Question: Who played Captain Teague, Jack’s father, in the 2007 film ‘Pirates of the Caribbean:At World’s End’?
Answer: Keith Richards
Question: The 1982 film ‘The Executioner’s Song’ is about the final nine months of the life of which US convicted murderer who demanded the fulfilment of his own death sentence for two murders he committed?
Answer: Gary Gilmore
Question: Which Disney film, released in 1994, is the highest-grossing hand-drawn film in history?
Answer: The Lion King
Question: In anatomy, if something is ‘subcostal’ it is situated or performed below which part of the body?
Answer: Ribs
Question: Louis Philippe I, King of the French and last king to rule France, abdicated in 1848 and lived the rest of his life in exile in which country?
Answer: England
Question: The Wallace Line (or Wallace’s Line) is a faunal boundary line which separates the ecozones of Southeast Asia and which country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Which British Royal Naval officer was known as the ‘Hero of the Nile’?
Answer: Horatio Nelson
Question: In July 2012, singer/actor Snoop Dogg announced that he had been rechristened Snoop ‘what’ by a Rastafarian priest in Jamaica?
Answer: Lion
Question: The Nightingale Training School for Nurses was set up in 1860 at which London hospital?
Answer: St Thomas’s Hospital
Question: What is the first name of the film director/actress daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola?
Answer: Sofia
Question: Who was the first Scottish footballer to win the European Player of the Year Award?
Answer: Denis Law
Question: What are the final odds called at the time a horse race begins?
Answer: Starting price
Question: The US television series ‘Joey’ is a spin-off from which other television series?
Answer: Friends
Question: What is the world’s highest navigable lake?
Answer: Lake Titicaca
Question: Amoretti are representations of which figure in works of art?
Answer: Cupid
Question: What is the name of the pet dog of fictional superhero Supermnan?
Answer: Krypto
Question: Who played the role of J J Gittes in the 1974 film ‘Chinatown’?
Answer: Jack Nicholson
Question: In the UK television series ‘Doctor Who’, which actor played the ninth Doctor?
Answer: Christopher Eccleston
Question: The fictional television Doctor Who came from which planet?
Answer: Gallifrey
Question: What is the name of the saxophone player in the Muppet rock band, which appear on the television show ‘The Muppets’?
Answer: Zoot
Question: English singer/songwriter Paloma Faith played Andrea in which 2007 film?
Answer: St Trinian’s
Question: Which planet in our solar system has a year which is around 24 and a half Earth years?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which country was the first to have a woman elected Head of State?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: What type of creature is a Bobolink?
Answer: Bird
Question: Who plays an ordinary man mistaken for the Messiah in the 1979 film ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’?
Answer: Graham Chapman
Question: Which silent comedy star appears in the the famous clock-hanging scene in the 1923 film ‘Safety Last’?
Answer: Harold Lloyd
Question: Queen Grimhilde, Happy and Doc are all characters in which Disney film?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Question: Which Canadian singer/songwriter is mentioned in the song ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ by Lynryd Skynryd?
Answer: Neil Young
Question: In 1957, which US President announced a two-year suspension of nuclear testing?
Answer: Dwight D Eisenhower
Question: What was the name of the band formed by Paul McCartney after the break-up of The Beatles?
Answer: Wings
Question: Circumlocution is the term for using several ‘what’ when less or only one will do?
Answer: Words
Question: ‘It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen’ is the opening line of which novel?
Answer: 1984
Question: Butterfly, Deke, Kneeing and Sniper are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: Ice Hockey
Question: Which World War II US General was given the nickname ‘Dugout Doug’?
Answer: General Douglas MacArthur
Question: What is the name of the concert venue in Glasgow, completed in September 2013, becoming the largest entertainment venue in Scotland?
Answer: The SSE Hydro
Question: Which political figure was best man at the 1927 second wedding of Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi?
Answer: Benito Mussolini
Question: What is the title of director Ridley Scott’s first feature film, released in 1977?
Answer: The Duellists
Question: French explorers Pierre and Paul Mallet were the first Europeans to ‘discover’ which range of North American mountains in 1739?
Answer: Rocky Mountains
Question: In June 1970, which was the first band to perform rock music at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York?
Answer: The Who
Question: Late US jazz singer, born Eleanora Fagan, was better known by what name?
Answer: Billie Holiday
Question: Tom Verlaine, Billy Ficca, Fred Smith and Jimmy Rip are all members of which US rock band, originally formed in New York in 1973?
Answer: Television
Question: What type of lightning appears as a broad illumination of parts of a thundercloud, caused by the reflection of a lightning flash?
Answer: Sheet lightning
Question: Who did boxer Floyd Patterson defeat to regain the Heavyweight Championship in June 1960?
Answer: Ingemar Johansson
Question: What type of creature is an inca?
Answer: Bird
Question: Which country hosted the 1936 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which French philosopher and novelist wrote the novel ‘Nausea’ in 1938?
Answer: Jean-Paul Satre
Question: What is the title of The Beatles last album, released in May 1970 before they split up?
Answer: Let It Be
Question: Who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy?
Answer: Guglielmo Marconi
Question: Which revolutionary was captured and executed by the Bolivian army in 1967?
Answer: Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
Question: Polish-born Wislawa Szymborska won the 1996 Nobel Prize in what?
Answer: Literature
Question: What is the title of British singer Gary Barlow’s album, released in 2012 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Sing
Question: In humans, edentulism is the complete loss of what?
Answer: Teeth
Question: Late businessman and British politician Jan Ludvik Hoch was better known by what name?
Answer: Robert Maxwell
Question: How many players in each team enter the field at the beginning of a game of the South Asian tag sport Kho Kho?
Answer: Nine
Question: Pouhon, Kemmel Straight and  Blanchimont are all sections of the Formula One Grand Prix circuit in which country?
Answer: Belgium
Question: The destruction of the city of Sodom features in which book of the Bible?
Answer: Genesis
Question: Who became British Prime Minister in October 1951?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: In which country is Lake Ladoga?
Answer: Russia
Question: Launched from Cape Kennedy in March 1972, what was the name of the first man-made satellite to leave the solar system?
Answer: Pioneer 10
Question: What is the name of the character played by actor Neil Burgess in the television commercial for cleaning product Cillit Bang?
Answer: Barry Scott
Question: Ophthalmitis is the inflammation of which part of the body?
Answer: Eye
Question: Which planet is closest to Earth?
Answer: Venus
Question: Anthony Stark is the real name of which fictional superhero?
Answer: Iron Man
Question: James Monroe became President of which country in March 1817?
Answer: USA
Question: Doris Day plays which 1920’s and 30’s singer and actress in the 1955 film ‘Love Me or Leave Me’?
Answer: Ruth Etting
Question: The Kodkod is what type of animal?
Answer: Cat
Question: Who plays Freddie Krueger in the 1984 film ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’?
Answer: Robert Englund
Question: How many gold medals did Britain win in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: 29
Question: The RAF flew 1 million Euros from the UK to which country in March 2013, as a contingency measure ‘to provide military personnel with loans’?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: Who won the 2013 Tour de France?
Answer: Chris Froome
Question: What is the surname of Norm in the US television series ‘Cheers’?
Answer: Peterson
Question: In which US state was actress Nicole Kidman born?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: Which character is played by Miranda Richardson in the UK television series ‘Blackadder II’?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I
Question: The UK television series ‘Blackadder the Third’ is set during which historical period?
Answer: British Regency
Question: In the UK television series ‘Blackadder the Third’ who shoots the Prince Regent when he is disguised as Blackadder?
Answer: The Duke of Wellington
Question: Blinker, Fountain, Rocket and Cake are all types of what?
Answer: Fireworks
Question: Craniates are animals which have what?
Answer: Skulls
Question: What is the first name of Scrooge’s former fiancee in the novel ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Belle
Question: Which English monarch was known as ‘Brandy Nan’?
Answer: Queen Anne
Question: John Wayne played Ethan Edwards, who sets out to find his abducted niece, in which classic 1956 western film?
Answer: The Searchers
Question: A pyroclastic flow comes from which natural structure?
Answer: Volcano
Question: Who became the first socialist Prime Minister of Greece in 1981?
Answer: Andreas Papandreou
Question: What type of animal is a lechwe?
Answer: Antelope
Question: A foehn is what type of weather condition?
Answer: Wind
Question: Folgate, Grosso, Fathead and Grappenhall are all varieties of which garden plant?
Answer: Lavender
Question: In the human body what is a carotid?
Answer: Artery
Question: In December 1937 which long-running children’s comic was first published in the UK?
Answer: The Dandy
Question: Professor Henry Higgins is a character in which 1964 film?
Answer: My Fair Lady
Question: In the UK television series ‘Doctor Who’ the Sisters of Plenitude are human forms of which animal?
Answer: Cat
Question: Which artist worked for Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, as military architect and engineer?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Question: Located in Mexico, what are Popocateptl and El Chicon?
Answer: Volcanoes
Question: Which British monarch founded the Order of the Bath?
Answer: King George I
Question: Alec Guinness played Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson in which 1957 World War II film?
Answer: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Question: Argentum is Latin for which chemical element?
Answer: Silver
Question: Chwefror is Welsh for which month of the year?
Answer: February
Question: In November 1997 Mary McAleese was elected 8th President of which European country?
Answer: Ireland
Question: Which year saw the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
Answer: 1991
Question: In the novel ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens what is the name of Herbert Pocket’s fiancee, who he later marries?
Answer: Clara Barley
Question: What is the name of the race horse and the title of a 2003 film starring Jeff Bridges as the owner, and Toby Maguire as the jockey?
Answer: Seabiscuit
Question: In 2009, which UK television presenter was appointed Chief Scout, at the age of 35, by the Scout Association?
Answer: Bear Grylls
Question: In cooking, what is the term for plunging vegetables into boiling water for a short time, and then plunging them into cold water until they are cold?
Answer: Blanching
Question: The 1998 autobiography ‘The Devil Rides Out’ is by which UK comedian and television presenter?
Answer: Paul O’Grady
Question: In the Shakespeare play ‘Hamlet’ the skull of which character is held by Hamlet?
Answer: Yorick
Question: Who are Vladimir and Estragon waiting for in a 1950’s play by Samuel Beckett?
Answer: Godot
Question: In the sport of fencing, what is the name of a bladework manoeuvre intended to deflect or block an incoming attack?
Answer: Parry
Question: Mawrth is Welsh for which month of the year?
Answer: March
Question: In astronomy, Pulsar, Binary, Dwarf and Red Giant are all types of what?
Answer: Star
Question: How many dresses are in the title of a 2008 film starring Katherine Heigl?
Answer: 27
Question: Which English dramatist wrote ‘The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger’ in 1696
Answer: Sir John Vanbrugh
Question: Which model car was launched by British Leyland in October 1980?
Answer: Austin (Mini) Metro
Question: Jaffa is an ancient port in which country?
Answer: Israel
Question: ‘Waverley’ is the title of the first prose novel by which British historical novelist/poet?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
Question: Which late British actor and game show host was the voice of space navigator Brad Newman in the 1966 film ‘Thunderbirds Are Go’?
Answer: Bob Monkhouse
Question: Pineapple, Armandinho and Fluke are all types of which musical instrument?
Answer: Ukulele
Question: Which opera by Mozart is said to have revealed secrets of The Freemasons?
Answer: The Magic Flute
Question: Brilla soup is traditionally made using which meat?
Answer: Beef
Question: Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, was elected as Conservative MP for which London borough in 1959?
Answer: Finchley
Question: What is the name of Rose’s granddaughter in the 1997 film ‘Titanic’?
Answer: Lizzy Calvert
Question: What word means to rely on for support or inspiration, and containing little or no fat?
Answer: Lean
Question: Actor Jack Nicholson won his first Best Actor Oscar for which film?
Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Question: The late media proprietor Robert Maxwell became Member of Parliament for which UK constituency in 1964?
Answer: Buckingham
Question: In the ‘Harry Potter’ series of books what is the American version of the game of Quidditch?
Answer: Quodpot
Question: ‘Songs My Mother Taught Me’ is a 1995 autobiography by which US actor?
Answer: Marlon Brando
Question: A bergamot is known as what type of fruit?
Answer: Orange
Question: Which European capital city lies on the River Vistula?
Answer: Warsaw
Question: A titi is what type of animal?
Answer: Monkey
Question: A ‘classical’ guitar is popularly referred to as what nationality?
Answer: Spanish
Question: Who sang with James Taylor on hits Mockingbird and How Sweet It Is?
Answer: Carly Simon
Question: What was S Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City called before 1976?
Answer: Saigon
Question: What mineral caused the founding of S Africaâs Johannesburg in 1886?
Answer: Gold
Question: In Europe, which colour denotes the easiest ski slope for skiers?
Answer: Green
Question: What is the name of the paranoid android in the novel ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams?
Answer: Marvin
Question: US author and poet Dorothy Parker coined the phrase ‘Men seldom make passes at girls who wear ‘what’?
Answer: Glasses
Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, what is the first name of Salvatore Bonpensiero’s (Big Pussy) wife?
Answer: Angie
Question: In March 1990 who was elected as the first-ever President of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
Question: Which style or school of art did Picasso pioneer?
Answer: Cubism
Question: In which novel does William Dobbin finally win the hand of Amelia Sedley?
Answer: Vanity Fair
Question: The word ‘haptic’ relates to which of the five senses?
Answer: Touch
Question: Which member of the royal family is often referred to as ‘Princess Pushy’?
Answer: Princess Michael of Kent
Question: Which branch of medicine is concerned with providing artificial limbs for the human body?
Answer: Prosthetics
Question: In which county is there an area called The Fylde?
Answer: Lancashire
Question: Which seasonal song was written by Robbie Burns?
Answer: Auld Lang Syne
Question: Which son of King David was caught by his hair in a tree while fleeing on a mule?
Answer: Absalom
Question: Whose forthcoming musical is entitled Viva Forever?
Answer: The Spice Girls
Question: Which city state led the beaten Greek forces at the Battle of Thermopylae?
Answer: Sparta
Question: Tachophobia is an inordinate fear of what?
Answer: Speed
Question: SE Which London Institution is based at 10 Paternoster Sq.?
Answer: STOCK EXCHANGE
Question: From which mountain did Moses descend with the Ten Commandments?
Answer: SINAI
Question: In the musical “The King and I”, who is or was “I”?
Answer: Anna Leonowens
Question: Which strait separates Sicily from mainland Italy?
Answer: Straits of Messina
Question: Which mythical beast had the head of a man, body of a lion, and tail of a dragon or scorpion?
Answer: MANTICORE
Question: Which Umberto Eco adaptation won him a British Academy Award?
Answer: The Name of the Rose
Question: Which footballer gained his 100 England cap in the friendly with Sweden?
Answer: Steven Gerrard
Question: What word is used for the process of clarifying beer or wine?
Answer: Fining
Question: Who stars in the TV NHS black-comedy Getting On and has appeared on QI 29 times?
Answer: Jo Brand
Question: Which Neopagan religion is often called ‘witchcraft’ or simply ‘the craft’?
Answer: Wicca
Question: In a Roman house what activity took place in the triclinium?
Answer: Dining
Question: What was invented and first described by Dr Ludovic Zamenhof in 1887?
Answer: The language Esperanto
Question: Which organisation refers to God as ‘The Great Architect of the Universe’?
Answer: Freemasons
Question: Which term is commonly used for members of the Unification Church?
Answer: Moonies
Question: Which 1973 thriller film features a malevolent dwarf in a red coat?
Answer: Don’t Look Now
Question: In which year did the world’s first ‘expo’ the Great Exhibition in London take place?
Answer: 1851
Question: Which Cairo square was the centre of the Egyptian revolution?
Answer: Tahrir Square
Question: Which Shakespeare play was set in Navarre probably in 14 century?
Answer: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Question: Who won Best Actress Oscar for the film “The Coalminer’s Daughter “ ?
Answer: Sissy Spacek
Question: What sort of creature is a Monarch ?
Answer: Butterfly
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the phrase “Brave New World” come from ?
Answer: The Tempest
Question: What is the nickname of Oscar Pistorious?
Answer: Blade Runner
Question: Which method of strangulation was once the official method of execution in Spain?
Answer: Garotte
Question: Players shoot from a line called the ‘taw’ in what game?
Answer: Marbles
Question: Which language is said to have been the mother tongue of Jesus?
Answer: Aramaic
Question: In which film did Michael Caine say ‘not a lot of people know that’?
Answer: Educating Rita
Question: The New Zealand kea is known for attacking sheep – what kind of bird is it?
Answer: Parrot
Question: Who was the leader of the famous Creole Jazz Band, which first performed in 1922?
Answer: King Oliver
Question: What will be taking place in a town called Sochi in February?
Answer: Winter Olympics