zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the subject of Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon?
Answer: Bull Fighting
Question: Who was the compere for the first National Lottery draw in 1994?
Answer: Noel Edmunds
Question: What kind of bird is a marabou?
Answer: Stork
Question: What name do Salvation Army members give to their places of worship?
Answer: Citadels
Question: Graz is the second-largest city in which country?
Answer: Austria
Question: Ian Gillan, Graham Bonnet and David Coverdale sang for which band?
Answer: Deep Purple
Question: Who compared television to a ‘penny Punch and Judy show’?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: Which part of New York was named after the Dutch word for rabbit?
Answer: Coney Island
Question: With what is Cornish Yarg cheese usually wrapped?
Answer: Nettles
Question: What are the women’s trousers cut to look like a skirt?
Answer: Culottes
Question: Which famous brewery is situated in Banbury, Oxfordshire?
Answer: Hook Norton
Question: What was the name of the bear in Rainbow?
Answer: Bungle
Question: Which creature has a symbiotic relationship with the Egyptian plover?
Answer: Crocodile
Question: In Othello what did the bard mean by ‘the beast with two backs’?
Answer: Sexual Intercourse
Question: What was the only World War II battle fought in South America?
Answer: Battle of the River Plate
Question: Common and pygmy are the only species of which large mammal?
Answer: Hippopotamus
Question: We have motorways, the Germans have autobahns, what does Italy have?
Answer: Autostrade
Question: The song Don’t Rain On My Parade features in which musical?
Answer: Funny Girl
Question: The Ivy League university Princeton is in which US state?
Answer: New Jersey
Question: The song How To Handle A Woman features in which musical?
Answer: Camelot
Question: A traditional gift for a 20th wedding anniversary should be made of what?
Answer: CHINA
Question: V is the symbol for which chemical element?
Answer: VANADIUM
Question: What was the surname of the Chris who topped the charts with ‘Out of Time’ in 1966?
Answer: FARLOWE
Question: ‘Let’s Dance’ and ‘The More I See You’ were top five hits for which Chris?
Answer: MONTEZ
Question: What genus of flowering plants in the carnation family is also known as ‘baby’s breath’?
Answer: GYPSOPHILA
Question: What motorway links the M1 at Rotherham to the M62 near Goole?
Answer: M18
Question: Object, Nature, Random, Person, Action and World are terms used in what game?
Answer: ARTICULATE!
Question: What can be a drink in Britain, a vegetable in the USA, and a leisure activity in both?
Answer: SQUASH
Question: What chemical term describes a compound that has had the water removed?
Answer: ANHYDRIDE
Question: Which Asian city shares its name with a river on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: MEDINA
Question: Which 74-year-old veteran actor received a knighthood in the New Year Honours?
Answer: JOHN HURT
Question: In ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’, what was desired by the knights who say ‘Ni’?
Answer: A SHRUBBERY
Question: By what name is hydrated magnesium sulphate better known?
Answer: EPSOM SALTS
Question: What do the letters T.T. represent, in the Isle of Man T.T. Race?
Answer: TOURIST TROPHY
Question: What was the surname of the central family in the tv series ‘Bread’?
Answer: BOSWELL
Question: Who won the 2014 Men’s US Open Golf Championship?
Answer: MARTIN KAYMER
Question: Where is the Happy Valley racecourse?
Answer: HONG KONG
Question: Which French statesman (1758-1794) was nicknamed ‘The Incorruptible’?
Answer: Maximilien ROBESPIERRE
Question: Which detective was in charge of the hunt for the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs?
Answer: Jack Slipper
Question: Which ballet is sub-titled the Girl with the Enamel Eyes?
Answer: Coppelia
Question: Who played Professor Fate’s assistant, Max, in the Great Escape?
Answer: Peter Falk
Question: By population which is the largest island on Earth?
Answer: Java
Question: By population which is the largest island outside Asia?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: By population which is the largest island in the Americas?
Answer: Hispaniola
Question: Which is Britain’s bestselling brand of bread?
Answer: Warburtons
Question: Alphabetically which is the last element in the periodic table?
Answer: Zirconium
Question: Which vegetable is present in a DuBarry soup?
Answer: Cauliflower
Question: Which type of bats generally do not use echolocation to find food?
Answer: Fruit bats
Question: In 1783 John Austin was the last highwayman to be hung where?
Answer: Tyburn
Question: Members of which family won five Nobel prizes?
Answer: Curie
Question: Which organisation were the sworn enemies of G.I.Joe/Action Man?
Answer: Cobra
Question: Which girl did Hot Chocolate take to No.3 in the UK charts in 1973?
Answer: Emma
Question: What nationality is the US Open 2013 winner Martin Kaymer?
Answer: German
Question: Which city was previously called Leopoldville?
Answer: Kinshasa
Question: An annual festival in Bayreuth in Germany celebrates which composer?
Answer: Wagner
Question: Which birds are classed as strigiformes?
Answer: Owls
Question: “Make me” is the twentieth bestselling book in which series?
Answer: Jack Reacher
Question: Which Formula 1 circuit takes place on the Yas Marina circuit?
Answer: Abu Dhabi
Question: Who wrote the play “Racing Demon”?
Answer: David Hare
Question: In 2015, who replaced Dara Ó Briain as the presenter of The Apprentice: You’re Fired?
Answer: Jack Dee
Question: The theme music to which 1960s TV series was based on the folk song Johnny Todd?
Answer: Z-Cars
Question: Which nerve is the longest and widest in the human body?
Answer: Sciatic nerve
Question: Where in the human body is the anatomical snuffbox?
Answer: Hand
Question: Who is the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football?
Answer: R. E. Foster
Question: ‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’ is the opening line of which poem?
Answer: Anthem for Doomed Youth
Question: Asparagus Island lies off the coast of which English county?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: The ‘two-minute hate’ is featured in which novel of the twentieth century?
Answer: 1984
Question: Which is the only minor key signature that has no sharps or flats?
Answer: A minor
Question: Who played consultant surgeon Mr Gordon Thorpe in Only When I Laugh?
Answer: Richard Wilson
Question: Which 1985 treaty led to the abolition of border controls in much of Europe?
Answer: Schengen Agreement
Question: Guaranteeing $50 million, whose basic contract is the most lucrative in Formula 1?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel
Question: Which religious group calls its places of worship Kingdom Hall?
Answer: Jehovah’s Witnesses
Question: What is the memorable common name for the flower myosotis?
Answer: Forget-me-not
Question: Who voiced Lady Penelope in the original Thunderbirds series?
Answer: Sylvia Anderson
Question: What is the specific term for a female ruf?
Answer: Reeve
Question: Which Yorkshire stately home was the main location for Brideshead Revisited?
Answer: Castle Howard
Question: Which African capital has a name meaning ‘New Flower’?
Answer: Addis Ababa
Question: Which is the only stretch of coastline to be designated a British National Park?
Answer: Pembrokeshire Coast
Question: From what illness did King George VI die?
Answer: Lung Cancer
Question: Which condiment is made from reduced trebbiano grape juice?
Answer: Balsamic Vinegar
Question: In which adventure story does the magistrate Dr Livesey feature?
Answer: Treasure Island
Question: In New York the Verrazano Narrows Bridge links Staten Island with which other borough?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: On a weather map ‘isohyets’ link places of equal ………what?
Answer: Rainfall
Question: The first major battle of the English Civil War ended in stalemate in 1642 – what was it?
Answer: Edge Hill
Question: Which film sees the brothers Marcus Et Spencius slave trading company?
Answer: Carry On Cleo
Question: Which intra-continental ridge system runs right through Kenya from north to south?
Answer: Great Rift Valley
Question: What physical feature do all pinnipeds have?
Answer: Flippers
Question: The international car number plate GBY represents where?
Answer: Malta
Question: Bingo slang ‘dancing queen’ represents which number?
Answer: 17
Question: The international car number plate GBZ represents where?
Answer: Gibraltar
Question: Bingo slang ‘droopy drawers’ represents which number?
Answer: 44
Question: Which US city is nicknamed ‘Lost Wages’?
Answer: Las Vegas
Question: DJ Kenny Everett allegedly gave the BBC which nickname?
Answer: The Beeb
Question: The Sentinel serves which Midlands city?
Answer: Stoke-on-Trent
Question: What name is given to the area of large country houses around Worksop?
Answer: The Dukeries
Question: Fused glass powder is called what?
Answer: Enamel
Question: A popular cookery program of the 1990's took its name from the bingo call for which number?
Answer: 88
Question: Garfield Sobers first captained the West Indies against England in which year?
Answer: 0011
Question: James Bond, 007, had four colleagues: 006, 008, 009 and which other?
Answer: 0011
Question: Christopher Marlowe was murdered 'while playing at tables'. What is 'tables' now called?
Answer: Backgammon
Question: A castrated chicken is called what?
Answer: Capon
Question: Which brand of whisky shares its name with a ship and a Scottish shirt?
Answer: Cuty Sark
Question: In which 1980 film does Ted Striker describe his wartime experiences in Drambuie and Daiquiri?
Answer: Airplane!
Question: Manchester Trousers are made of Manchester cloth, which is another name for what?
Answer: Corduroy
Question: Which Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced old age pensions and national insurance?
Answer: Lloyd George
Question: Which country adopted an all green flag in November 1977?
Answer: Libya
Question: Who was the first Englishman to win the Formula One Drivers Championship?
Answer: Mike Hawthorn
Question: Which Chinese philosophical system translates into English as ‘Wind – Water’?
Answer: Feng Shui
Question: Who played Ian Dury in Sex and Drugs and Rock n’ Roll?
Answer: Andy Serkis
Question: What was the name of Jodie Foster’s character in Bugsy Malone?
Answer: Tallulah
Question: In Ancient Rome what was a ‘Lustrum?
Answer: Period of Five Years
Question: Which football club’s ground is closest to the river Mersey?
Answer: Stockport County
Question: Which is the largest city within the Arctic Circle?
Answer: Murmansk
Question: What nationality was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
Answer: Japanese
Question: Which instrument has a name that is Italian for ‘small’?
Answer: Piccolo
Question: To which section of the orchestra does the saxophone belong?
Answer: Woodwind
Question: What is the largest port city in Japan?
Answer: Yokohama
Question: In film and TV the term ‘gaffer’ is used for the chief …….what?
Answer: Electrician
Question: Whose portrait appeared on the back of the last one pound note?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Question: In The Trouble With Harry – what was Harry?
Answer: A Corpse
Question: In which country are the Cameron Highlands?
Answer: Malaysia
Question: ‘This is a local shop, for local people’ – which TV programme?
Answer: The League of Gentlemen
Question: What kind of food is Bel Paese?
Answer: Cheese
Question: What do the firms Redwood, Wormwood and Gunn and Moore aii make?
Answer: Cricket bats
Question: Which name was shared by 11 Pharoahs?
Answer: Rameses
Question: Which was the second “Carry on” film?
Answer: Carry on Nurse
Question: Who became known as the boy General in the American Civil War?
Answer: Custer
Question: In the words of a music hall song what couldn’t you trust a special like?
Answer: An Old Time Copper
Question: Elephant’s ear, leather, cabbage and Worm Brain are all types of what?
Answer: Coral
Question: Which two continents are separated by the Drake Passage?
Answer: South America, Antarctica
Question: Which spa town outside Derbyshire has an annual well dressing weekend?
Answer: Malvern
Question: Which is Europe’s smallest state?
Answer: Vatican state
Question: Who won the Wimbledon’s Men’s singles in 1987?
Answer: Pat Cash
Question: Who won the second series of Strictly Come Dancing?
Answer: Jill Halfpenny
Question: “Who were you with In the moonlight” was a hit for which duo?
Answer: Dollar
Question: What was the original UK name of the chocolate bar which de-anglicised its name in 2006?
Answer: Dime
Question: Which is the northernmost English county town?
Answer: Morpeth
Question: Which English county town comes last alphabetically?
Answer: Worcester
Question: Who lived at Three Chimneys in Derbyshire?
Answer: The Railway Children
Question: What is Canada’s newest biggest territory?
Answer: Nunavut
Question: Who was the last driver to die during a Formula 1 championship race?
Answer: Ayrton Senna
Question: Traditionally what sort of gifts should be given on a 20th. Anniversary?
Answer: China
Question: What is the name of the purple dinosaur on American children’s TV?
Answer: Barney
Question: Perentophobia is an abnormal fear of which family member?
Answer: Mother-in-law
Question: Which is England’s deepest lake?
Answer: Wastwater
Question: Which Shipping Forecast area contains the Shetland and Orkney archipelagos?
Answer: Fair Isle
Question: Which guitarist had a 1968 hit with the self-penned instrumental Classical Gas?
Answer: Mason Williams
Question: What is the Spanish word for ‘navy’?
Answer: Armada
Question: What would be removed in a pogonotomy?
Answer: A Beard
Question: What colour is iodine vapour?
Answer: Violet or Purple
Question: Who created the character ‘Mr Pastry’?
Answer: Richard Hearne
Question: Who played the title role the ITV series Ivanhoe, first broadcast in 1958?
Answer: Roger Moore
Question: Soccer. Who became manager of West Ham in June 2015?
Answer: Slaven BILIC
Question: Judaism. If Rosh Hashanah celebrates the Jewish New Year, what is Rosh Chodesh?
Answer: A NEW MONTH
Question: What is the first name of the Mr. Campbell who is a Crystal Palace striker?
Answer: FRAIZER
Question: In which sport is the Swaythling Cup a major trophy?
Answer: TABLE TENNIS
Question: The peace treaty was signed at Versailles, but where in France was the armistice signed?
Answer: COMPIEGNE
Question: What traditional name for a badger comes originally from an Irish Gaelic word?
Answer: BROCK
Question: The three largest towns in ‘The English Riviera’ are Torquay, Paignton, and … what?
Answer: BRIXHAM
Question: General Motors, commonly known as GM, is based in which Michigan city?
Answer: DETROIT
Question: What is the surname of the pop twins known as ‘Jedward’?
Answer: GRIMES
Question: What sort of creature is a turnstone?
Answer: BIRD
Question: What is the capital of Papua New Guinea?
Answer: PORT MORESBY
Question: What colour are laburnum flowers?
Answer: YELLOW
Question: Which bird is known as the windhover in certain parts of the UK?
Answer: KESTREL
Question: Someone born today would have which sign of the zodiac?
Answer: PISCES
Question: What denomination of British bank note depicts twenty prisoners crammed into one cell?
Answer: £5
Question: Who connects the BBC news, ‘Crimewatch’, and ‘Antiques Roadshow’?
Answer: FIONA BRUCE
Question: What was the name of the family who lived at no.42 in a post-2000 tv series?
Answer: The KUMARS
Question: Minnie is the title character in which Puccini opera?
Answer: The GIRL OF THE WEST
Question: To within two years either way, when did Rupert Bear first appear in the Daily Express?
Answer: 1920
Question: What is the correct term for a period of play in polo?
Answer: CHUKKA
Question: When washing clothes, what does a triangle with a cross through it represent?
Answer: DO NOT BLEACH
Question: Launched in 2000, which website announced on Jan. 20th 2016 that it was soon to close?
Answer: FRIENDS REUNITED
Question: Born in 1964, which model is nicknamed The Body?
Answer: ELLE MACPHERSON
Question: Who is credited with commercializing jigsaw puzzles around 1760?
Answer: John SPILSBURY
Question: What is the name of Tintin’s fox terrier dog?
Answer: SNOWY
Question: Meles Meles is the Latin name for which European mammal?
Answer: BADGER
Question: What part did Bill Travers play in ‘Born Free’ (1966)?
Answer: GEORGE ADAMSON
Question: What is the title of Damien Hurst’s 1994 work featuring a cow and calf in formaldehyde?
Answer: Mother and Child Divided
Question: Which birds gather in ‘Screaming Parties’ on summer evenings?
Answer: Swifts
Question: What is the poetic name for the song thrush?
Answer: Mavis
Question: What type of fish is used in an Arbroath Smokie?
Answer: Haddock
Question: Which county finished bottom of division one with a record low points total?
Answer: Northamptonshire
Question: Fougasse, associated with Provence, is what type of food?
Answer: Bread
Question: What name is shared by a crustacean and a goose of the genus Branta?
Answer: Barnacle
Question: In September 2001, who had a UK number one single with Mambo number 5?
Answer: Bob the Builder
Question: Which US fashion retailers have the forenames David and Ezra?
Answer: Abercrombie and Fitch
Question: Charlotte Beyser Bartholdi was the model for which statue?
Answer: Statue of Liberty
Question: Which Sparkhill Community leader drives a yellow Mercedes?
Answer: Citizen Khan
Question: Which sculptor produced the 1934/35 work, Ecce Homo?
Answer: Jacob Epstein
Question: Which nautical measurement is 240 yards?
Answer: Cable
Question: Shagreen is leather made from the skin of which creatures?
Answer: Sharks
Question: What is known as India’s teardrop?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: Which kind of entertainer often makes his entrance to Julius Fucik’s Opus 68 March?
Answer: A Clown
Question: A Gibson cocktail is gin and dry Vermouth garnished with …..what?
Answer: An Onion
Question: Which inert gas is used to fill modern incandescent light bulbs?
Answer: Argon
Question: From which mineral is radium obtained?
Answer: Pitchblende
Question: What is a baby cod called?
Answer: Codling
Question: What word is used for the final unwinding of a complicated plot?
Answer: Denouement
Question: Which sport do the French call ‘ball-trap’?
Answer: Clay Pigeon Shooting
Question: The adjective lupine refers to which animal?
Answer: Wolf
Question: Which board game is set at Tudor Close?
Answer: Cluedo
Question: Bambi, Cash, Sick and Summer Holiday were episodes of which comedy series?
Answer: The Young Ones
Question: Mexico and which country are separated by the Yucatan Channel?
Answer: Cuba
Question: Another Suitcase In Another Hall is a song from which musical?
Answer: Evita
Question: With which brand name do you associate the synthetic substance polytetrafluoroethylene?
Answer: TEFLON
Question: What does scotopic vision help one to do?
Answer: SEE BETTER IN THE DARK
Question: In December, which politician apologised for racist remarks he made in the 80s?
Answer: OLIVER LETWIN
Question: In ‘Bleak House’, what is the surname of both parties in the never-ending legal case?
Answer: JARNDYCE
Question: Which group had two sets of parentheses either side of ‘Fight for Your Right’ in 1987?
Answer: BEASTIE BOYS
Question: Who had a 2007 Top 20 hit with ‘You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)’?
Answer: WHITE STRIPES
Question: In the paso doble, the female role is generally meant to represent what?
Answer: MATADOR’S CAPE
Question: The first what was drilled by a group of Monks in a certain French province in 1126?
Answer: ARTESIAN WELL
Question: What is the symbol for the chemical element Californium?
Answer: Cf
Question: Cpt. Sweatpants is an occasional minor character in which US sitcom?
Answer: The BIG BANG THEORY
Question: The 1934 film ‘Wild Boy’ was based on whose life story?
Answer: MICK THE MILLER
Question: What simple, but useful, device did Walter Hunt invent in 1849?
Answer: SAFETY PIN
Question: What is the county town of Essex?
Answer: CHELMSFORD
Question: Which thoroughfare connects with Broadway at Times Square in New York?
Answer: 42nd Street
Question: Abyssinian, British Longhair and German Rex are all breeds of what?
Answer: Cats
Question: In which gambling game is double six known as boxcars?
Answer: Craps
Question: In which capital city are Luxembourg gardens?
Answer: Paris
Question: In which state is the geographical centre of the USA?
Answer: South Dakota
Question: Which group from Liverpool had a hit single with “Hello Little Girl”?
Answer: The Fourmost
Question: What did Richard Sharpe capture at the battle of Talavera?
Answer: French Eagle
Question: In which conflict are the Starbuck novels set?
Answer: American Civil War
Question: “Harlequin” is the first book in a series about a quest for which item?
Answer: Holy Grail
Question: Which car company currently sponsors the Kennington Oval?
Answer: Kia
Question: Which TV series was about a quartet of students at Scumbag college?
Answer: The Young Ones
Question: What was the original name of Leicester City F.C.?
Answer: Leicester Fosse
Question: In “Open All hours” which actress delivered the milk?
Answer: Barbara Flynn
Question: In “Porridge” which warder was played by Brian Wilde?
Answer: Mr. Barraclough
Question: In 1957 who took “Last train to San Fernando” into the UK charts?
Answer: Johnny Duncan
Question: What is the correct term for a female bear?
Answer: Sow
Question: Who played the title role in “the Black Pirate”?
Answer: Douglas Fairbanks
Question: The Stamp Act of the 18th. Century imposed taxes on which area under British rule?
Answer: Americas
Question: Which acts affected the ownership of almost 11,000 square miles of common land?
Answer: Enclosure Acts
Question: Which was the first film directed by Alfred Hitchcock to star James Stewart?
Answer: Rope
Question: Which Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale features 20 mattresses?
Answer: Princess and the Pea
Question: Ringed, Golden and Kentish are all species of which bird?
Answer: Plover
Question: What is the occupation of famous Hawaii resident ‘Dog’ Chapman and his wife Beth?
Answer: Bounty Hunters
Question: What is the surname of the character who sings ‘Boy For Sale’ in the musical ‘Oliver!’?
Answer: Bumble
Question: Which musical instrument represents the duck?
Answer: Oboe
Question: Which ancient organisation controls the grazing rights in the New Forest?
Answer: Court of Verderers
Question: Which capital city was previously known as Edo or Yedo?
Answer: Tokyo
Question: Which 1746 battle was the last fought on British soil?
Answer: Culloden
Question: Which Venetian cocktail of peach purée and prosecco is named after a local artist?
Answer: Bellini
Question: Which Italian dish, translating roughly as fried, resembles an omelette or crustless quiche?
Answer: Frittata
Question: In which city is the Pitt Rivers Museum?
Answer: Oxford
Question: Which James Bond title began life as an advertising slogan?
Answer: Diamonds are Forever
Question: What post does Welshman Mark Sampson hold in English football?
Answer: England Women’s
Question: Which Northern English city incorporates five river valleys and by tradition seven hills?
Answer: Sheffield
Question: What name specifically describes an inhabitant of Galway?
Answer: Galwegian
Question: What is the maximum number of players in a rounders team?
Answer: NINE
Question: In card games such as Whist and Bridge, what word is used for just one card in a suit?
Answer: SINGLETON
Question: ‘Please, Sir’ (1968-72) was set in which fictional school?
Answer: FENN STREET
Question: Which English Premiership rugby club play home games at The Twickenham Stoop?
Answer: HARLEQUINS
Question: Which ten-letter word means ‘cave dweller’?
Answer: TROGLODYTE
Question: Music. In which country is the song ‘Dominick the Donkey’ set?
Answer: ITALY
Question: In which decade of the 20th C. did the first Oscar ceremonies take place?
Answer: 1920s
Question: What is the capital of Malawi?
Answer: LILONGWE
Question: The drink known as ‘Ice pick’ consists of cold tea, lemon juice, and which spirit?
Answer: VODKA
Question: Blueberry Jelly Beans were created for which US president?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: What is the name of the Creole stew made with okra, rice, shellfish or pork?
Answer: Gumbo
Question: Who left little Nancy in the toilets at the Plough Inn?
Answer: David Cameron
Question: What is the popular name for Mozart’s Divertimento in G for Strings?
Answer: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik