zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera was originally going to be called The Tower of London?
Answer: THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD
Question: Which company owns the Waitrose chain of supermarkets?
Answer: JOHN LEWIS
Question: In which TV series does Anthony Head play Uther Pendragon?
Answer: MERLIN
Question: Which is the only country in the world that bans women from driving?
Answer: SAUDI ARABIA
Question: Which district of New York City is situated north of 96th street in Manhattan?
Answer: HARLEM
Question: Born in Alabama in 1904, what was the nickname of the blues pianist Clarence Smith?
Answer: PINETOP
Question: The Twingo, the Fluence and the Latitude are all models of car that are made by which company?
Answer: RENAULT
Question: The Kalahari desert covers approximately 70% of which country?
Answer: BOTSWANA
Question: Which jockey rode 50/1 outsider "Last Suspect" to victory in the 1985 Grand National?
Answer: HYWEL DAVIES
Question: Oberon is a moon of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: URANUS
Question: Which city will host the 2014 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: GLASGOW
Question: Which shade of brownish purple takes its name from the Spanish for flea?
Answer: PUCE
Question: Which lavender-like colour takes its name from the French for mallow?
Answer: MAUVE
Question: Which island, famous for its monastery lies off the coast of South Wales just south of Tenby?
Answer: CALDEY
Question: Which famous politician is married to Miriam Gonzales Valladold and has three sons?
Answer: NICK CLEGG
Question: In which war did the Battle of Cabin Creek take place?
Answer: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Question: Who, in 1989 sang the theme song to the James Bond film "Licence to Kill"?
Answer: GLADYS KNIGHT
Question: Which darts player won the BDO title in 2008 beating Simon Whitlock of Australia in the final?
Answer: MARK WEBSTER
Question: What is the national currency of Brazil?
Answer: REAL
Question: Which product was advertised on TV as "it spreads straight from the fridge"?
Answer: BLUE BAND
Question: In the New Testament, which book follows Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
Answer: ACTS
Question: What is the national currency of Indonesia?
Answer: RUPIAH
Question: Which actress played the role of Lily Munster in the TV series "The Munsters"?
Answer: YVONNE DE CARLO
Question: What is the name of the Italian dessert that can vary with ingredients but mainly consists of coffee-soaked biscuit layered with sweetened cream?
Answer: TIRAMISU
Question: Taking office on May 4th 1979, who was Margaret Thatcher's first Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: GEOFFREY HOWE
Question: Taking office on May 27th 1993, who was margaret Thatcher's last Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: KENNETH CLARK
Question: How many years of marriage are celebrated by a 'Lace' annivesary?
Answer: 13
Question: Which specific creatures are collectively called an 'unkindness'?
Answer: RAVENS
Question: Which motorway in England, just over 11 miles in length connects the seaside resort of Blackpool to the M6 near Preston?
Answer: M55
Question: Which specific creatures are collectively known as a 'Parliament'?
Answer: OWLS
Question: Now the national dish of Switzerland, what type of food is Cervelat?
Answer: SAUSAGE
Question: Now the national dish of Georgia, what type of food is Khachapuri?
Answer: BREAD
Question: Which jockey rode L'Escargot to victory in the 1975 Grand National?
Answer: TOMMY CARBERRY
Question: In which English county are the towns of Kidderminster and Evesham?
Answer: WORCESTER
Question: In which English county are the towns of Bridgewater and Glastonbury?
Answer: SOMERSET
Question: Herbert Pocket and Bentley Drummle are characters that appear in which book by Charles Dickens?
Answer: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Question: James Steerforth and Wilkins Macawber are characters from which book by Charles Dickens?
Answer: DAVID COPPERFIELD
Question: Which golfer won the British Open Championship in 1975, 1977, 1980, 1982 and 1983?
Answer: TOM WATSON
Question: Helena is the captal of which US state?
Answer: MONTANA
Question: Which is the second most highly populated town on the Isle of Man, Douglas being the first?
Answer: RAMSAY
Question: What ten letter word do Americans use to call what we British call a torch?
Answer: FLASHLIGHT
Question: The musical play 'Over the Rainbow' first shown in 2003 is a celebration of the life and music of which singer who died in 1996?
Answer: EVA CASSIDY
Question: The annual Three Choirs Festival alternates between Gloucester, Worcester and which other cathedral?
Answer: HEREFORD
Question: Which British inventor was responsible for the introduction of the rubber band in 1845?
Answer: STEPHEN PERRY
Question: Which actress played the jilted Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the film The Sound Of Music?
Answer: ELEANOR PARKER
Question: Kampala is the capital of which country?
Answer: UGANDA
Question: In jazz music, what instrument was Dizzie Gillespie famous for playing?
Answer: TRUMPET
Question: Isca Dumnoniorum is the Roman name for which southern city in England?
Answer: EXETER
Question: Ex Prime Minister Tony Blair was a member of Parliament for which constituency from 1983 to 2007?
Answer: SEDGEFIELD
Question: Which film starring Robert De Niro won the Best Picture Oscar for 1978?
Answer: THE DEERHUNTER
Question: Which comedy series, shown on Channel 4 in 2008 features four main characters called Will, Simon, Jay and Neil?
Answer: THE INBETWEENERS
Question: Which is the most heavily populated city in China?
Answer: SHANGHAI
Question: Which two words complete the old proverb, "A mackerel sky is never ......?
Answer: LONG DRY
Question: Which general introduced martial law in Poland in 1981?
Answer: JARUZELSKI
Question: Which group had number 1 hits in the 1980's with "It's a sin", "Heart" and " Always on my mind"?
Answer: PET SHOP BOYS
Question: Which food item is named after the Tamil word for "pepper water"?
Answer: MULLIGATAWNY
Question: The tombs of almost all British monarchs are located within the UK. One of the few exceptions is William I (The Conqueror). Near which French town or city is his burial place?
Answer: CAEN
Question: Which is the largest landlocked country in the world with an area of over a million square miles?
Answer: KAZAKHSTAN
Question: Which is the world's deepest lake?
Answer: LAKE BAIKAL
Question: Numbers - how many lines are in a limerick ?
Answer: 5
Question: Numbers - how many lines are in a sonnet ?
Answer: 14
Question: What was the Roman name for Scotland ?
Answer: CALEDONIA
Question: At the recent Cheltenham festival, the horse "Hurricane Fly" won the Champion hurdle. Who trains this horse ?
Answer: WILLIE MULLINS
Question: Which country produces 70 % of all European olive oil ?
Answer: GREECE
Question: In the electromagnetic spectrum, which type of wavelength has the longest wavelength. It's main uses are in communication.
Answer: RADIO WAVES
Question: What type of animal is a GAVIAL ?
Answer: CROCODILE
Question: The chrysanthemum is the national symbol for which country ?
Answer: JAPAN
Question: Who played Wanda in the film "A fish called Wanda" ?
Answer: JAMIE LEE CURTIS
Question: From which of Shakespeare's plays does this quotation come :- We happy few, we band of brothers ?
Answer: HENRY V
Question: Which female singer had a number 1 hit record with "I Feel Love" which topped the charts in July 1977 ?
Answer: DONNA SUMMER
Question: Which is the most Northerly, and largest, island of the Phillipines, on which stands the capital, Manila ?
Answer: LUZON
Question: On the "Sunday Times" rich list for 2013, who will again top the list in the "under 30" music rich list with a personal fortune of £30 million ?
Answer: ADELE
Question: Zabaglione is an Italian dessert made from eggs, sugar and which fortified wine ?
Answer: MARSALA
Question: Now among the most praised and honoured people in the film industry, who made his screen acting debut in "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" in 1971 ?
Answer: DANIEL DAY LEWIS
Question: What is the world's largest island ?
Answer: GREENLAND
Question: In which county of England would you find BERKELEY CASTLE ?
Answer: GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Question: On this day, Novenber 6th, 1860 who was elected as American President?
Answer: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Question: On which river does Limerick stand?
Answer: SHANNON
Question: Formula 1 - On which racetrack was the World Champion Jim Clark killed?
Answer: HOCKENHEIM
Question: Who is the Chairman of the "BBC Trust", the overseeing body of the BBC?
Answer: CHRIS PATTEN
Question: Which Cole Porter musical was based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew?
Answer: KISS ME KATE
Question: How many American states begin with the letter A ?
Answer: 4
Question: How many american states begin with the letter W ?
Answer: 4
Question: Which French artist painted "Cotton-brokers Office", "L'Absinthe" and "Dancer at the bar"?
Answer: DEGAS
Question: The element of the Periodic Table HAFNIUM has its name derived from the Latin name for the city in which it was discovered. Which city?
Answer: COPENHAGEN
Question: The element of the Periodic Table LUTETIUM has its name derived from the Latin name for the city in which is was discovered. Which city?
Answer: PARIS
Question: Who created several children's shows for TV, including Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog?
Answer: OLIVER POSTGATE
Question: Who developed the first suvvessful vaccine for Smallpox ?
Answer: Edward JENNER
Question: Who developed the first successful vaccine for Polio ?
Answer: Jonas SALK
Question: Which planet in the Solar System is closest to earth in size and mass ?
Answer: VENUS
Question: What is the second biggest city in Libya ?
Answer: BENGHAZI
Question: In French, what bird is known as Aloutte ?
Answer: LARK
Question: Which author created the fictional character "Allan Quartermain" ?
Answer: RIDER HAGGARD
Question: Vaughan Williams's symphony number 7 has the name of which continent ?
Answer: ANTARCTICA
Question: The name of which chemical element of the Periodic Table ends with the letters ALT ?
Answer: COBALT
Question: In 1940 a film called 'The Philadelphia Story' was released starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart. Based on a Philip Barry play it was later remade, in 1956, as what musical ?
Answer: HIGH SOCIETY
Question: Which is the only Shakespeare play with a British place name in the title ?
Answer: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Question: The capital of Morocco is Rabat. What was its former capital ?
Answer: MARRAKESH
Question: Which fashion house markets the perfume "Addict" ?
Answer: CHRISTIAN DIOR
Question: Above which number on a computer keyboard is the Pound sign ?
Answer: 3
Question: Above which number on a computer keyboard is the Percentage sign ?
Answer: 5
Question: T.V. Sitcoms - What was the name of "The Vicar of Dibley", played by Dawn French ?
Answer: GERALDINE GRAINGER
Question: In baseball, how many players are in a team ?
Answer: 9
Question: In baseball, how many innings are in a match ?
Answer: 9
Question: In which city would you find Frederic Chopin airport ?
Answer: WARSAW
Question: What is the world's highest capital city, at a height of 11,942 feet ?
Answer: LA PAZ
Question: Which playwright was born on this day on 1564 and died also on this day, on his 52nd birthday, in 1616 ?
Answer: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Question: Which instrument did Larry Mullen Jr play in the band U2 ?
Answer: DRUMS
Question: Henry Charles Albert David are the christian names of which famous 28 year old ?
Answer: PRINCE HARRY
Question: Cristina Kirchner is currently the President of which South American country?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: Which former Yugoslav state will become the 28th member of the European Union on July 1st this year ?
Answer: CROATIA
Question: At 1,038 km long and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon, which is the longest river on the Iberian peninsula ?
Answer: TAGUS
Question: In which century did William Wallace live most of his life ?
Answer: 13th
Question: """Blue Harbour"" is a range of fashion wear for men in which High Street chain ?"
Answer: MARKS AND SPENCERS
Question: Who played Scrooge in the Muppets' Christmas Carol ?
Answer: MICHAEL CAINE
Question: Published in 1995, the book The Sport of Queens is an autobiography of which famous author?
Answer: DICK FRANCIS
Question: In which country can you find Moonee Valley Horse Racing Course?
Answer: AUSTRALIA
Question: In which country can you find the cities of Salta, Corrientes and Rosario?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: What 9 letter word is used to describe someone watches or clocks?
Answer: HOROLOGIST
Question: What is the second Christian name of sarah, Duchess of York?
Answer: MARGARET
Question: Wooley Edge and Markfield are service stations situated on which British motorway?
Answer: M1
Question: What are salmon usually called during the first two years of their life?
Answer: PARR
Question: What were first used in the UK at the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket in 1965?
Answer: STARTING STALLS
Question: Which breakfast food is named after the Roman goddess of corn and agriculture?
Answer: CEREAL
Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'?
Answer: STIEG LARSON
Question: What's the third book in the Fifty Shades trilogy by E.L.James/
Answer: FIFTY SHADES FREED
Question: Americans call them scallions; what do we call them?
Answer: SPRING ONIONS
Question: What role was played by Doreen Mantle in TV's One Foot In The Grave?
Answer: MRS WARBOYS
Question: What is the name of the strait which divides the city of Istanbul?
Answer: BOSPOROUS
Question: In which film did the Frankenstein monster sing 'Puttin on the Ritz'?
Answer: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Question: According to research carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit, which country will be the best to be born into in 2013?
Answer: SWITZERLAND
Question: Who composed Night on a Bare Mountain?
Answer: MUSSORGSKY
Question: What was the work of a 'dhobi wallah'?
Answer: LAUNDRY
Question: At which place in Devon will you find the Britannia Royal Naval College?
Answer: DARTMOUTH
Question: Which pre-Euro German coin was one hundreth of a mark?
Answer: PFENNIG
Question: Which singer, along with Buddy Holly and 'The Big Bopper' was killed in a plane crash in 1959?
Answer: RITCHIE VALENS
Question: What is depicted in a stretched out form at the bottom of Holbein's painting The Ambassadors?
Answer: A SKULL
Question: Which is the only African capital city to have an underground railway system?
Answer: CAIRO
Question: Which poet wrote the 1817 poem 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving'?
Answer: BYRON
Question: Who composed the tone poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Answer: DUKAS
Question: What, in anatomy, is the hardest part of the body ?
Answer: ENAMEL
Question: In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , what is the job of the ' rude mechanical ' Bottom ?
Answer: WEAVER
Question: Who is to succeed Hilary Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State ?
Answer: JOHN KERRY
Question: Which Welsh Rugby Union team plays its home games at the Gnoll ?
Answer: NEATH
Question: Which magician was the first TV partner of Basil Brush ?
Answer: DAVID NIXON
Question: Which island is the source of the fortified wine , Marsala ?
Answer: SICILY
Question: What is the principal product of the Douro Valley of Portugal ?
Answer: PORT
Question: Give the title of the second U.K. No. 1 hit single for the Spice Girls.
Answer: SAY YOU'LL BE THERE
Question: Who was the messenger of the Greek gods ?
Answer: HERMES
Question: What type of English dessert is made from mixing whipped cream, sugar and pureed fruit, often gooseberry ?
Answer: FOOL
Question: Which fruit traditionally forms part of the dessert known as Eton Mess ?
Answer: STRAWBERRIES
Question: Which creatures are affected by Isle of Wight disease ?
Answer: BEES
Question: Whose first two hit albums were No Parlez and The Secret of Association ?
Answer: PAUL YOUNG
Question: Which six-a-side game was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan ?
Answer: VOLLEYBALL
Question: Which retail guru presented the TV series Mary Queen of Shops ?
Answer: MARY PORTAS
Question: Who played the title role in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man ?
Answer: ANDREW GARFIELD
Question: What , in the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the code word for M ?
Answer: MIKE
Question: Who wrote the music of the light opera Orpheus in the Underworld ?
Answer: OFFENBACH
Question: What type of dog is Beethoven in the film franchise of that name ?
Answer: ST BERNARD
Question: In the children's show Trumpton, what was the profession of Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub ?
Answer: FIREMEN
Question: In the British and American armies, what rank is between a General and a Major-General ?
Answer: LIEUTENANT-GENERAL
Question: Clara Petacci was the mistress of which dictator ?
Answer: MUSSOLINI
Question: Which famous U.S. highway originally ran from Chicago to Los Angeles, covering 2,448 miles ?
Answer: ROUTE 66
Question: Who is the hero of George Orwell's novel 1984 ?
Answer: WINSTON SMITH
Question: What rank in the British Army was abolished in 1904 ?
Answer: COMMANDER IN CHIEF
Question: Who was the mother of King Henry VI of England ?
Answer: CATHERINE OF VALOIS
Question: Which group's first UK hit was ' Virginia Plain ' in 1972 ?
Answer: ROXY MUSIC
Question: Which traditional Valencian dish is named after the Spanish word for pan?
Answer: PAELLA
Question: Which actress became known as ' The Sweater Girl ' ?
Answer: LANA TURNER
Question: Which brand of sweets were promoted with the slogan "What a lot I Got" ?
Answer: SMARTIES
Question: Westminster Abbey is dedicated to which saint ?
Answer: SAINT PETER
Question: In Horseracing , at which racecourse are all five of the Irish Classics held ?
Answer: CURRAGH
Question: Who has painted the first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge, unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in 2013 ?
Answer: PAUL EMSLEY
Question: What does J.I.T. mean , applied to production scheduling ?
Answer: JUST IN TIME
Question: Which great ship was originally known as the ' Leviathan ' when launched in 1858 ?
Answer: THE GREAT EASTERN
Question: Which President of the USA has twin daughters named Jenna and Barbara ?
Answer: GEORGE W BUSH
Question: What was the name of Captain Ahab's ship in the book Moby Dick?
Answer: THE PEQUOD
Question: In which county of Northern Ireland is the Giant's Causeway situated?
Answer: ANTRIM
Question: In which council area of Scotland is the famous village of Gretna Green situated ?
Answer: DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Question: Which year saw the SAS storm the Iranian Embassy in London ?
Answer: 1980
Question: In which 1960s and 70s TV sitcom did Brian Wilde play a character called 'Bloody Delilah' ?
Answer: THE DUSTBINMEN
Question: In which US state can you find the popular Daytona Beach ?
Answer: FLORIDA
Question: Which five letter astronomical word is derived from the Greek for 'long tailed'?
Answer: COMET
Question: Which children's TV series, first shown in 1960, featured a town sheriff named Tex Tucker ?
Answer: FOUR FEATHER FALLS
Question: Which supermarket chain which currently had its headquarters in Deeside was founded in 1970 when businessmen Malcolm Walker and Peter Hinchcliffe opened the store in Oswestry ?
Answer: ICELAND
Question: Adelaide is the capital of which Australian state ?
Answer: SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Question: What was the name of the building that was unveiled in 2005 that was designed by Thomas Heatherwick. Now dismantled, it stood 56 metres tall and had 180 hollow tapered steel columns or spikes radiating from a central core ? It was located next to the City of Manchester Stadium.
Answer: B OF THE BANG
Question: What was the name of the horse that was first past the post in the 1993 Grand National ? It was a win that never stood due to the race being a false start.
Answer: ESHA NESS
Question: Which snooker player recently won the Haiko World Open in China ?
Answer: MARK ALLEN
Question: Robert Langdon is the main character of which famous novel published in 2003 ?
Answer: DA VINCI CODE
Question: In relation to money, what is the national currency of Romania ?
Answer: LEU
Question: By the Sleepy Lagoon is the title tune to which famous radio programme?
Answer: DESERT ISLAND DISCS
Question: Which actor played the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson in the 1960's TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?
Answer: RICHARD BASEHART
Question: The city of Melbourne, in Australia, lies on which river?
Answer: YARRA
Question: Published in 1952, who was the subject of the book Diary of a Young Girl?
Answer: ANNE FRANK
Question: Published in 1924, who was the author of the adventure book The Land That Time Forgot?
Answer: EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Question: The city of Warsaw in Poland stands on which river?
Answer: VISTULA
Question: On a mobile phone keyboard the letters JKL are on which number button?
Answer: 5
Question: Which American author wrote the book The Catcher In The Rye in 1951 ?
Answer: J D SALINGER
Question: There are eight states of the USA whose names begin with the letter 'N'. Which one comes last alphabetically?
Answer: NORTH DAKOTA
Question: Which poem by Alexander Pope contains the famous line 'Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread'?
Answer: AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM
Question: In Chinese cooking, what type of meat is the main ingredient in the dish Char Siu?
Answer: PORK
Question: What is the seven letter name of the hat traditionally worn by a Town Crier?
Answer: TRICORN
Question: What is the nine letter name of the small, silk skullcap that is worn by certain Roman Catholic clerics, they vary in colour according to rank?
Answer: ZUCCHETTO
Question: Which famous poet, born in 1888, had the middle name 'Stearns'?
Answer: T S ELLIOT
Question: Which famous actor, born in 1893, had the middle name 'Goldenberg'?
Answer: EDWARD G ROBINSON
Question: """Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming"" are the opening words to which famous song?"
Answer: STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Question: What nationality was artist Alphonse Mucha who lived from 1869 to 1939 ?
Answer: CZECH
Question: Launched in January 1993, which Ford model car won the award for European Car of the Year in 1994?
Answer: MONDEO
Question: Launched in Autumn 1995, which Renault model car won the award for European Car of the Year in 2003 ?
Answer: MEGANE
Question: 'The Town of Titipu' is the alternative name for which Gilbert and Sullivan opera?
Answer: THE MIKADO
Question: What type of creatures in Britain have types called Whooper and Berwick?
Answer: SWANS
Question: Found in Chile, what is the name of the world's driest desert?
Answer: ATACAMA
Question: A 'Lady's Slipper' is a variety of which type of flower?
Answer: ORCHID
Question: Which river. approximately 28 miles in length, flows into Morecambe Bay through Fleetwood?
Answer: THE WYRE
Question: Who succeeded Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who?
Answer: TOM BAKER
Question: The Bio-Bio Valley is a wine producing region in which country?
Answer: CHILE
Question: What type of engine powered the first generation of Spitfire fighters in the 1930's ?
Answer: ROLLS-ROYCE MERLIN
Question: Who played the title role in the long-running detective series Bergerac?
Answer: JOHN NETTLES
Question: In which year were One Pound coins introduced?
Answer: 1983
Question: Which European country hasn't been at war since 1814?
Answer: SWEDEN
Question: Which Roman goddess was the equivalent of the Greek goddess Nike?
Answer: VICTORIA
Question: What is the term for a triangle with three angles of 60 degrees?
Answer: EQUILATERAL
Question: Which actress last year won an EMMY award for her role as Mildred Pierce?
Answer: KATE WINSLET
Question: Which of the territories of Canada has the city of Yellowknife as its capital?
Answer: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
Question: Which actress said in the film All About Eve, "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night"?
Answer: BETTE DAVIS
Question: Who wrote the melody of the song 'Smoke Gets In your Eyes"?
Answer: JEROME KERN
Question: Dis and Orcus are alternative names for which Roman god of the Underworld?
Answer: PLUTO
Question: In which US state is the town of Springfield which Simpson's creator Matt Groening has revealed was the inspiration for his fictional Springfield?
Answer: OREGON
Question: What is the English name of the dog belonging to cartoon character TinTin?
Answer: SNOWY