zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The girls' name Vanessa was invented by which 18th century Anglo-Irish writer?
Answer: Jonathan Swift
Question: What is the name of Atticus Finch's daughter, the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: Scout
Question: Which author was born in 1812 in Landport, which is now part of Portsmouth?
Answer: (Charles) Dickens
Question: In the book and film The Railway Children, who was the sister of Peter and Phyllis?
Answer: Bobbie
Question: Which directing partnership remade the film True Grit in 2010?
Answer: The Coen Brothers
Question: Which band did Mick Jones form on leaving the Clash?
Answer: Big Audio Dynamite
Question: It was announced in 2010 that which American crime author was to write a new "James Bond" novel?
Answer: Jeffery Deaver
Question: Four US states border Lake Michigan - Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin are three. Which is the fourth?
Answer: Indiana
Question: Which of the noble gases has the highest atomic number (86)?
Answer: Radon
Question: In which Shakespeare play does most of the action place in the Forest of Arden?
Answer: As You Like It
Question: Which car marque produces the Tiguan model?
Answer: Volkswagen
Question: The Suez Canal has its southern terminus at Port Tawfik, Suez. Where is its northern terminus?
Answer: Port Said
Question: Specifically, on which island is the Franz Josef Glacier?
Answer: SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND
Question: What is the name of the dog in Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' books?
Answer: TIMMY
Question: On a staircase, what is the vertical part of the step called?
Answer: RISER
Question: Whose Symphony No. 1 in D Major is sometimes known as The Titan'?
Answer: Gustav MAHLER
Question: In medicine, how was a tincture of opium known?
Answer: LAUDANUM
Question: Michael Schumacher had his first F1 win in 1992, for which team was he driving?
Answer: BENETTON
Question: In 1970, who had a UK no.1 hit with An the Summertime'?
Answer: MUNGO JERRY
Question: Who is the architect of the new Turner Margate Gallery?
Answer: DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
Question: What was the name of the human powered aircraft which crossed the Channel in 1979?
Answer: GOSSAMER ALBATROSS
Question: In 1978, who created the poster 'Labour isn't working'?
Answer: SAATCHI & SAATCHI
Question: The film '1984' was the last screen appearance of which actor?
Answer: RICHARD BURTON
Question: Which horse, at 100-1, won the 2009 Grand National?
Answer: MON MOME
Question: Who wrote the story the Tailor of Gloucester?
Answer: BEATRIX POTTER
Question: Which condiments Latin name means' sour wine'?
Answer: VINEGAR
Question: In which country is Simpatico beer brewed?
Answer: MEXICO
Question: Which World War II aircraft was designed in 1937 by Sydney Camm?
Answer: HAWKER HURRICANE
Question: Who directed the film Bonnie and Clyde?
Answer: ARTHUR PENN
Question: What nickname was given to former bank chief Sir Fred Godwin?
Answer: FRED THE SHRED
Question: In which film is Cary Grant seen running into a field being pursued by a biplane?
Answer: NORTH BY NORTH WEST
Question: Which male American film star is the father of children called Willow and Jaden?
Answer: WILL SMITH
Question: Who preceded Willie Bain as MP for Glasgow North East?
Answer: Michael Martin
Question: In which modern English county did the Trinovantes live?
Answer: Essex
Question: The Gracie Fields Theatre opened in which town in 1978?
Answer: Rochdale
Question: Crusaders Rugby League Club are based in which town?
Answer: Wrexham
Question: Which is the main red grape of Chianti wine?
Answer: Sangiovese
Question: In the forecourt of which Los Angeles theatre would you see the hand and footprints of famous film stars?
Answer: Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Question: Carrie Fisher is the daughter of which actress?
Answer: Debbie Reynolds
Question: The Rub' Al-Khali Desert is found mostly in which country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question: Who directed the 2005 version of the film "King Kong"?
Answer: Peter Jackson
Question: What is the French name for the grape that the Australians call Shiraz?
Answer: Syrah
Question: From which language do we get the word 'yoga'?
Answer: Sanskrit
Question: Durres is the chief port of which country?
Answer: Albania
Question: Which species of deer was introduced to Britain at Woburn in the early 20th century?
Answer: Muntjac
Question: Which artiste had the best-selling single of 2009, with "Poker Face"?
Answer: Lady Gaga
Question: The Luddite Riots appear in which of Charlotte Bronte's novels?
Answer: Shirley
Question: Who played the part of US marshal Rooster Cogburn in the 2011 film "True Grit"?
Answer: Jeff Bridges
Question: Snails, squid, clams, scallops, mussels, etc., all belong to which phylum?
Answer: Molluscs
Question: Where is the Burj Khalifa to be found?
Answer: Dubai
Question: In 1837 who nicknamed Robespierre "The Sea-Green Incorruptible"?
Answer: Thomas Carlyle
Question: Who gave JFK a dog called Pushinka in 1961?
Answer: Nikita Krushchev
Question: Who was king of Libya when it obtained independence in 1951?
Answer: Idris
Question: Which British athlete won gold medals in both the 800m and the 1500m at the 2004 Olympics?
Answer: Kelly Holmes
Question: Which instrument features a whammy bar?
Answer: (Electric) Guitar
Question: The 1971 Grammy award winning album Tapestry was recorded by which singer/songwriter?
Answer: CAROLE KING
Question: What was the name of the Dragon in the Walt Disney film Pete's Dragon?
Answer: ELIOT
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the line "and age cannot wither" her come from?
Answer: ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA
Question: In space flight history what occurred on 16th June 1963?
Answer: FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE
Question: What was the name of the elephant that was removed from a circus and relocated in Longleat in April 2011?
Answer: ANNE
Question: What is the stage musical that tells the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons?
Answer: JERSEY BOYS
Question: Who provided the voice for Shrek in the films?
Answer: MIKE MYERS
Question: What mathematical instrument was invented by William Oughtred in 1622?
Answer: Slide Rule
Question: Paddington Bear lives with which family?
Answer: Browns
Question: Naiad and Proteus are two of the thirteen moons of which planet?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What organisation was founded by William Alexander Smith in 1883 in Glasgow?
Answer: Boys Brigade
Question: What sort of trees belong to the genus 'quercus'?
Answer: Oaks
Question: 'Wing finger' is the literal meaning of which extinct reptile?
Answer: Pterodactyl
Question: What is the name of the first opera in Wagner's four opera Ring Cycle?
Answer: Das Rheingold
Question: Which US city is nicknamed 'The Big Orange'?
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: In which wine region is the Hospice de Beaune held annually where wines are auctioned in November?
Answer: Burgundy
Question: Element 101, Md, is named after which Russian chemist?
Answer: Mendeleev
Question: Which candidate in the 2010 Labour leadership elections is MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington?
Answer: Diane Abbott
Question: 'Fish lizard' is the literal meaning of which extinct reptile's name?
Answer: Ichthyosaur
Question: Who was the predecessor of Cecil Day Lewis as Poet Laureate?
Answer: John Masefield
Question: In the film Psycho what is the name of the deranged murderer?
Answer: Norman Bates
Question: Which singer has been known as 'The Red-Headed Stranger' since his 1975 album of that name?
Answer: WILLIE NELSON
Question: In the combat sport MMA for what does the first M stand?
Answer: MIXED
Question: 'One could change the world in 140 characters' is the motto of Jack Dorsey, the founder of which website?
Answer: TWITTER
Question: Geraldine Brooks' 2005 novel 'March' is narrated by the absentee father of which classic novel?
Answer: LITTLE WOMEN
Question: What is the world's largest nation that is all in a single time zone?
Answer: CHINA
Question: The Scottish peak Ben More is the highest point on which island?
Answer: MULL
Question: The TV series `Downton Abbey' was filmed largely at which stately house?
Answer: HIGHCLERE
Question: Common in Australia the wattle is a tree of what genus?
Answer: ACACIA
Question: What prize was won in 2010 by Liu Xiaobo?
Answer: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Question: In pop music how is Vincent Furnier better known?
Answer: ALICE COOPER
Question: Who is the author of 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard'?
Answer: J K ROWLING
Question: Which car manufacturer makes the MPV model the Roomster?
Answer: SKODA
Question: The Dogon are a race of people resident in which African country?
Answer: MALI
Question: Which 19th-20th century writer's first novel was 'The Napoleon of Notting Hill', published in 1904?
Answer: G K CHESTERTON
Question: Compound and recurve are variations of which Olympic event's equipment?
Answer: ARCHERY
Question: Venta Belgarum was the Roman name for which English city?
Answer: WINCHESTER
Question: 'Lola' was a hit in 1970 for which pop group?
Answer: THE KINKS
Question: Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov from Manchester University won which Nobel Prize in 2010?
Answer: PHYSICS
Question: Which American president had a son named Kermit?
Answer: THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Question: Who has created the ITV serial 'Downton Abbey'?
Answer: JULIAN FELLOWES
Question: What was the nickname of the WW2 aircraft - Fairey Swordfish?
Answer: STRINGBAG
Question: What is measured on the Stanford-Binet scale?
Answer: INTELLIGENCE
Question: What do the Americans call what we call at bowler hat?
Answer: DERBY
Question: In the 2010 film, Eat, Pray, Love who plays the part of the book's author?
Answer: JULIA ROBERTS
Question: Cara, Estima and Desiree are types of what?
Answer: POTATO
Question: In the world of rock music, how is Paul Hewson better known?
Answer: BONO
Question: The state in some insects between the larva and the imago is known as what?
Answer: PUPA
Question: Which 2010 film is about a 1968 dispute when women machinists went on strike for equal pay?
Answer: MADE IN DAGENHAM
Question: Whose summer residence is the Castelgandalfo?
Answer: THE POPE
Question: What sort of creature is a saiga?
Answer: AN ANTELOPE
Question: By what name is the medicine consisting of a suspension of magnesium hydroxide in water called?
Answer: MILK OF MAGNESIA
Question: What was the profession of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
Answer: ARCHITECT
Question: Which American actor starred in the films Bullitt, Papillon and The Great Escape?
Answer: STEVE MCQUEEN
Question: In which country would you find Chobe National Wildlife Park?
Answer: BOTSWANA
Question: What was the real name of 'The Birdman of Alcatraz'?
Answer: ROBERT STROUD
Question: Which pop group of the 70's and 80's released albums entitled `Making Movies' and 'Communiqué'?
Answer: DIRE STRAITS
Question: Who was the last British tennis player to win the men's singles at Wimbledon?
Answer: FRED PERRY
Question: What sort of creature is a gerenuk?
Answer: AN ANTELOPE
Question: What name is given to the ninth month of the Muslim year?
Answer: RAMADAN
Question: Ellen Douglas is the heroine of which poem by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: The Lady of the Lake
Question: To which family of birds does the chiff-chaff belong?
Answer: Warbler
Question: Which musical instrument is associated with Arthur Rubinstein?
Answer: Piano
Question: In Italian cuisine-what type of meat is prosciutto?
Answer: Ham
Question: In which American state are the cities of Bethlehem, Allentown and Pittsburgh?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Question: On which lake was Sir Donald Campbell killed in 1967 while attempting to break the World water-speed record?
Answer: Coniston Water
Question: Which musical instrument was associated with Jacqueline du Pre?
Answer: Cello
Question: Who wrote the poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus" in 1842?
Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Question: What was the name of the dog which found the football World Cup, the Jules Rimet Trophy, in 1966?
Answer: Pickles
Question: In which American state are the cities of Dayton, Akron and Cincinnati?
Answer: Ohio
Question: In a French restaurant, what is "homard"?
Answer: Lobster
Question: Which Latin phrase3, meaning "under judgement", refers to a court case which is still under consideration?
Answer: Sub Judice
Question: In the Muslim religion, how many times a day does the muezzin call the faithful to prayer?
Answer: Five
Question: America, the Pacific coast: which state is between Washington and California?
Answer: Oregon
Question: Which spirit is the base for Marguerita cocktail?
Answer: Tequila
Question: Durres is the chief port of which European country?
Answer: Albania
Question: Which British playwright wrote "Stags and Hens"?
Answer: Willy Russell
Question: Which pop group comprised David van Day and Thereza Bazar?
Answer: Dollar
Question: With which instrument is jazz musician Courtney Pine mainly associated?
Answer: Saxophone
Question: Who wrote and directed the 2003 film "Love Actually"?
Answer: Richard Curtis
Question: Who beat Andy Murray in the final of the Australian Open in January 2011?
Answer: Novak Djokovic
Question: What nationality is the operatic tenor Juan Diego Flores?
Answer: Peruvian
Question: Which Scottish island is separated from the mainland by Kilbrannan Sound?
Answer: Arran
Question: In the USA, motor neurone disease is often named after which baseball player?
Answer: Lou Gehrig
Question: Which straits separate Corsica and Sardinia?
Answer: (Straits of) Bonifacio
Question: Which European capital city is on the River Tagus?
Answer: Lisbon
Question: In 1942, which American painted 'Nighthawks'?
Answer: EDWARD HOPPER
Question: In which 1953 film does the song 'Secret Love' first appear?
Answer: CALAMITY JANE
Question: Who shot PM Spencer Perceval?
Answer: JOHN BELLINGHAM
Question: In USA what is a student in a second year of study called?
Answer: SOPHOMORE
Question: The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing is also known as what?
Answer: SHAKERS
Question: In Italian sport, what name is given to the fanatical groups of supporters, particularly of the Ferrari motor racing team?
Answer: TIFOSI
Question: Glossitis affects which part of the human body?
Answer: TONGUE
Question: What is the Chinese art of placement called?
Answer: FENG SHUI
Question: In 1450, Jack Cade led a rebellion against which King?
Answer: HENRY VI
Question: The 1997 play 'Gross Indecency' by Moises Kaufman was about the three trials of which man in the late 19th century?
Answer: OSCAR WILDE
Question: Who is the current Home Secretary?
Answer: THERESA MAY
Question: If you were celebrating your pearl wedding anniversary for how many years have you been married?
Answer: 30
Question: In which year was Nelson Mandela released from prison?
Answer: 1990
Question: Which item was advertised with the slogan "Gives a Meal Man Appeal"?
Answer: OXO
Question: How many players in a women's lacrosse team?
Answer: 12
Question: Who were 'Glad All Over' in their No. 1 hit of 1965?
Answer: DAVE CLARK FIVE
Question: In 1983 Sarah Jane Hutt was the last UK winner of which title?
Answer: Miss World
Question: Which island separates the American and Canadian Falls at Niagara?
Answer: Goat Island
Question: Name the actress who left Eastenders in 2011 after 25 years in the show, she played Pat Evans (also Beale, Wicks and Butcher)?
Answer: Pam St Clement
Question: Lucha Libre is a popular form of wrestling, in which country did it originate?
Answer: Mexico
Question: The new Hepworth Gallery is in which town, the birthplace of sculptor Barbara Hepworth?
Answer: Wakefield
Question: Who hosts the new (Challenge TV) version of the TV quiz show 'Blockbusters'?
Answer: Simon Mayo
Question: Which actress appeared as a barmaid in over 2,800 episodes of 'Coronation Street' until her death in 2011?
Answer: Betty Driver
Question: What number is dialled to hear the Speaking Clock?
Answer: 123
Question: Of what is ghee a variety?
Answer: Butter
Question: Sinope and Carme are two satellites of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Germinal and Messidor are months in which calendar?
Answer: French Revolutionary Calendar
Question: Who played Michelangelo in the 1965 film 'The Agony and the Ecstasy'?
Answer: Charlton Heston
Question: What is the administrative centre of Kent?
Answer: Maidstone
Question: In UK 999 is the emergency telephone number to contact the police etc. what is the European equivalent?
Answer: 112
Question: Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of the present queen's coronation?
Answer: Geoffrey Fisher
Question: What is the appropriately named Canadian bullion coin containing one troy ounce of gold?
Answer: Maple
Question: Despina and Thalassa are two satellites of which planet?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Catford is the administrative centre for which London borough?
Answer: Lewisham
Question: Who played Mortimer Brewster in the 1942 film Arsenic and Old Lace?
Answer: Cary Grant
Question: What nickname is given to the financial district of London?
Answer: THE SQUARE MILE
Question: What is the name of the Idiot Abroad in the programme of the same name?
Answer: KARL PILKINGTON
Question: In which religion is the Baron Samedi a prominent figure?
Answer: VOODOO
Question: By what nickname is Caesar Milan better known?
Answer: THE DOG WHISPERER
Question: Which animal is the symbol of the City of Berlin?
Answer: THE BEAR
Question: The Golden Temple at Amritsar is sacred to members of which religion?
Answer: SIKH(ISM)
Question: The chemical element mercury has what chemical symbol?
Answer: Hg
Question: Yulia Tymashenko imprisoned for abuse of her office was a former Prime Minister of which European country?
Answer: UKRAINE
Question: Who plays himself in the TV sitcom 'Episodes'?
Answer: MATT LEBLANC
Question: In what year was the 50 pence piece introduced?
Answer: 1969
Question: Who, in 1642, painted 'The Night Watch', now to be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam?
Answer: REMBRANDT
Question: In which Pakistani town was Osama bin Laden captured and killed in May 2011?
Answer: ABBOTTABAD
Question: Sportsman Gerry Watson is better by which first name?
Answer: BUBBA
Question: In which US state is the city of Cincinnati?
Answer: OHIO
Question: Which 1985 film was nominated for eleven Oscars and did not win any
Answer: The Color Purple
Question: What, in the Old Testament, was 300 cubits long, and 30 cubits high?
Answer: Noah's Ark
Question: What is the capital of the Austrian province of Tyrol?
Answer: Innsbruck
Question: In Norse mythology, from what type of tree was man first created?
Answer: Ash
Question: Who was the US Marine involved in arms sales to Iran and diverting money to the Nicaraguan Contras?
Answer: Lt-Col. (Oliver) North
Question: How many links are there in a surveyor's chain?
Answer: One Hundred
Question: What, in 1985, was Madonna's first UK No. 1?
Answer: Into the Groove
Question: Whose 2010 autobiography, is called "Decision Points"?
Answer: George W Bush
Question: Who was the first British footballer to win the Europen Golden Boot, (now called the Golden Shoe)?
Answer: Ian Rush
Question: In the British Police Force, what rank is indicated by a crown on each shoulder?
Answer: Superintendent
Question: What was the nationality of the team that first conquered K2 in 1954?
Answer: Italian
Question: In the world of antiques what is majolica?
Answer: (GLAZED) POTTERY
Question: How many rooms are there in the game of Cluedo?
Answer: NINE
Question: In what county is the most northerly point in the island of Ireland?
Answer: DONEGAL
Question: What is the longest continuous footpath in the world - it is in the USA?
Answer: THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL
Question: In which play does Lady Bracknell memorably say 'A handbag'?
Answer: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Question: What is the more common name for the zygomatic bone?
Answer: CHEEKBONE
Question: Who in 1948 became the first American born poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: TS ELIOT
Question: Who composed the oratorio Carmina Burana?
Answer: CARL ORFF
Question: Which river separates Cornwall from Devon?
Answer: THE TAMAR
Question: Who played Lewis in 'Morse' and also in its spin off 'Lewis'?
Answer: KEVIN WHATELY
Question: Barbara Millicent Roberts first appeared on this planet in 1959. How is she better known?
Answer: BARBIE
Question: What is the name of the soccer team in Los Angeles for which David Beckham plays?
Answer: GALAXY
Question: Which famous British singer and songwriter, born at Smithdown Hospital in Liverpool, died on 28th January 1983?
Answer: BILLY FURY
Question: William the Conqueror built a castle in York in 1068. Rebuilt in the 13th century, by what name is the ruined keep now known?
Answer: CLIFFORD'S TOWER
Question: Who wrote: 'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea'?
Answer: THOMAS GRAY
Question: Who is the storyteller in the 'One Thousand and One Nights'?
Answer: Scheherazade
Question: The film 'The Third Man' was set in which city?
Answer: Vienna
Question: Which island is made up of three counties, Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: Which US President, in a State of the Union address, proposed four fundamental freedoms?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Question: Who composed the violin concerto 'The Four Seasons'?
Answer: Antonio Vivaldi
Question: The symbols known as the 'Five Ks' are central to which religion?
Answer: Sikhism
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Slaughterhouse Five'?
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut
Question: 'Five Points' was the setting for which 2002 Martin Scorsese film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Liam Neeson?
Answer: Gangs of New York
Question: Which Dutch artist painted 'The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things' in approximately 1500?
Answer: Hieronymus Bosch
Question: After-Eights are now made by Nestle, which company created them in 1962?
Answer: Rowntree
Question: Eight-ball is a popular version of which game?
Answer: Pool
Question: Which French wine region produces Pouilly-Fume?
Answer: LOIRE VALLEY
Question: Which scientist was the first, in 1888, to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves?
Answer: (Heinrich Rudolf) HERTZ
Question: Which bird appears of the state flag of Louisiana?
Answer: PELICAN
Question: Who, in 1923, wrote 'Toward An Architecture'?
Answer: LE CORBUSIER
Question: Which word is used to describe egg laying mammals?
Answer: MONOTREME
Question: In the TV series 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" for which company did he originally work?
Answer: SUNSHINE DESSERTS
Question: In the 2009 remake of "Reggie Perrin" who played the title role?
Answer: (Martin) CLUNES
Question: The shawm has developed into which modern musical instrument?
Answer: OBOE
Question: Which artery supplies blood to the head and brain?
Answer: CAROTID
Question: African bush and African forest are species of which animal?
Answer: ELEPHANT
Question: In the game of Scrabble how many blank files are there?
Answer: TWO
Question: What type of motor cycle did Steve McQueen ride in the film " The Great Escape"?
Answer: TRIUMPH
Question: Which religious leader won the 1989 Nobel Prize for Peace?
Answer: DALAI LAMA
Question: What is the desert that occupies the southern part of Israel?
Answer: NEGEV
Question: Which country were the first winners of FIFA's Women's World Cup?
Answer: UNITED STATES
Question: Who appeared on the first cover of "Playboy" magazine?
Answer: Marilyn MONROE
Question: Who, between 1859-1885, composed the four Mephisto Waltzes?
Answer: Franz Liszt
Question: Who, in 1887, composed the symphonic poem "Capriccio Espagnol"?
Answer: Rimsky-Korsakov
Question: Lulu Guinness and Anya Hindmarch are principally associated with which fashion accessory?
Answer: Handbags
Question: Which country will host the 2016 European Nations football finals?
Answer: France
Question: What other, non-scientific, name is given to the extinct smilodon?
Answer: Sabre-toothed Tiger
Question: Which king called the Model Parliament in 1295?
Answer: Edward the First
Question: In which constellation is the Crab Nebula?
Answer: Taurus
Question: In which city was the artist Vermeer born in 1632? It features in many of his paintings.
Answer: Delft
Question: Which state did John Kennedy represent as senator?
Answer: Massachusetts
Question: To which other element does Carbon 14 convert with time?
Answer: Nitrogen
Question: In which 1987 film did Robert De Niro portray the gangster Al Capone?
Answer: The Untouchables