zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The human body has 5 basic types of taste: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter and Umami. From what language do we borrow the word Umami from?
Answer: Japanese
Question: The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio was set up on October 16 1923 by Walt Disney and his brother, what was his brothers' first name?
Answer: Roy
Question: Which 1940 film was the first commercial film to be shown in stereophonic sound?
Answer: Fantasia
Question: What name is given to unsolicited or undesired electronic messages?
Answer: Spam
Question: In Arthurian legend for what was 'The Fisher King' responsible?
Answer: Holy Grail
Question: The creation of the county of Cumbria saw the disappearance of which two former counties?
Answer: CUMBERLAND and Westmorland.
Question: In the Christian Eucharist, which two items represent the body and blood of Jesus Christ?
Answer: BREAD and wine.
Question: Trinity was the code name for the first testing of what?
Answer: Atom bomb.
Question: Which car manufacturer has produced the Taunus, Laser & Thunderbird models
Answer: Ford
Question: On which island was the now extinct Elephant bird found?
Answer: Madagascar.
Question: What is the last book of the Old Testament?
Answer: Malachi.
Question: In which Dickens novel does Miss Havisham appear?
Answer: Great Expectations.
Question: Which Greek hero set off on a quest to find the golden fleece?
Answer: Jason
Question: Which Greek warrior and hero killedthe monster called the Chimera?
Answer: Bellerophon
Question: Which song, released by Elton John as a single in 1975, was a tribute to tennis player Billie Jean King?
Answer: Philadelphia Freedom
Question: Name the Ancient Greek Muse of Dance?
Answer: Terpsichore
Question: In science fiction, who formulated the Three Laws of Robotics?
Answer: Isaac Asimov
Question: Which U.S. Serial Killer was nicknamed The Killer Clown?
Answer: John Wayne Gacy
Question: What is the name of the dog in Punch and Judy?
Answer: Toby.
Question: The Rovers Return is now a free house but is still supplied by which brewery?
Answer: Newton & Ridley
Question: What was the name of the local in Only Fools And Horses?
Answer: Nag's head
Question: What is the second planet from the sun?
Answer: Venus
Question: In legend, vampires are unable to cross a threshold without being invited.  What other natural barrier are they unable to cross?
Answer: Running water
Question: Which famous horror movie star was buried in his Dracula costume?
Answer: Bela Lugosi
Question: Which Hungarian Countess is reputed to have killed over 600 women in order to bathe in their blood?
Answer: Countess Elizabeth Bathory
Question: What was the first name of Bond Villan Mr Scaramanga from 'The Man With The Golden Gun'?
Answer: Francisco
Question: Which character has been played among others by Jack Lord, Cec Linder, David Hedison and Jeffrey Wright?
Answer: Felix Leiter
Question: Which singer had a cameo as a fencing instructor in 'Die Another Day'?
Answer: Madonna
Question: Sean Connery returned as 007 in 'Never Say Never Again' but on which of Ian Fleming's books was the film based?
Answer: Thunderball
Question: Which X-Men character has the real name of Ororo Munroe?
Answer: STORM
Question: In what film would you find bookstore owner William Thacker and Hollywood superstar Anna Scott?
Answer: Notting Hill
Question: What 1997 film was the highest grossing film of the 90's decade?
Answer: Titanic
Question: What was Roger Moore's first film as James Bond?
Answer: Live and Let Die
Question: What was the name for the Zimbabwean Capital 'Harare' before 1982?
Answer: Salisbury
Question: What was the surname of the lead character in the 'Dirty Harry' series of movies?
Answer: Harry Callahan
Question: What is the name of the pig in Animal Farm?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: What was David Bowie's real name?
Answer: David Jones
Question: Which 70s band that has recently been reformed by lead singer Les McKeown?
Answer: Bay City Rollers
Question: There have been 12 prime ministers during the queen's reign. How many of them were Conservative?
Answer: 8
Question: Where did the Ossis and the Wessis meet for the first time in 28 years, in 1989?
Answer: The Berlin Wall
Question: Sue Johnston and Ricky Tomlinson play Jim and Barbara Royle in the Royle Family, but which other well known married couple did they play in the 80's?
Answer: Bobby and Sheila Grant
Question: Which 1981 song contains the lyrics " And I've lost my light. For I toss and turn, I can't sleep at night"?
Answer: Tainted Love
Question: Winterfell is the house of what family in Game of Thrones?
Answer: Stark
Question: What cocktail's original recipe contains the spirits tequila, vodka, light rum, triple sec, and gin, and has an alcohol content of 22%?
Answer: Long Island Ice Tea
Question: How many flakes of snow have to fall in the 24 hours of the 25th December anywhere in the UK to be classified as a White christmas?
Answer: One
Question: What was Coronation Street originally to be called?
Answer: Florizel Street
Question: What name was given to privateers, authorized to conduct raids on shipping of a nation at war with France, on behalf of the French crown?
Answer: Corsairs
Question: In 2002, who filed for divorce from his wife Lisa Marie Presley after being married for just three months?
Answer: Nicolas Cage
Question: Which area of London is believed to derive its name from a former hunting cry?
Answer: Soho
Question: In the Harry Potter books, what type of mythical creature is 'Fawkes'?
Answer: Phoenix
Question: Pierre Basile fired the crossbow that caused the death of which English king?
Answer: Richard I
Question: The Path Of The Righteous Man quote from the film Pulp Fiction comes from which Book of the Bible?
Answer: Ezekiel
Question: Which film contains the line I'm going to cut your heart out with a spoon!
Answer: Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves
Question: How many roles did Alec Guinness play in Kind Hearts And Coronets?
Answer: 8
Question: The band Heaven 17 took their name from which Stanley Kubrick film?
Answer: A Clockwork Orange
Question: What is the name of Inspector Gadget’s dog in the children’s tv cartoon series ‘Inspector Gadget’?
Answer: Brain
Question: In the human body, the hallux is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Big toe
Question: Lester B. Pearson became Prime Minister of which country in April 1963?
Answer: Canada
Question: In which year was singer Elvis Presley born?
Answer: 1935
Question: Who was the last British monarch to sack a British Prime Minister?
Answer: William IV
Question: In the British tv series ‘Rising Damp’, what is Rigsby’s first name?
Answer: Rupert
Question: Uranium deposit Rum Jungle is in which Australian state?
Answer: Northern Territory
Question: In the Bible, what is the Decalogue more commonly known as?
Answer: The Ten Commandments
Question: Which ‘A’ is a bright blue colour, often associated with a clear, unclouded sky?
Answer: Azure
Question: Which Greek god was the twin brother of Artemis?
Answer: Apollo
Question: British sportswoman Charlotte Cooper, born in 1870, was famous in which sport?
Answer: Tennis
Question: Which US state is known as the ‘Beef State’?
Answer: Nebraska
Question: Anime is film animation originating in which country?
Answer: Japan
Question: How many finger holes does a penny whistle have?
Answer: Six
Question: What was the middle name of actor Laurence Olivier?
Answer: Kerr
Question: In the human body, which cavity at the upper end of the trachea contains the vocal cords?
Answer: Larynx
Question: Shakespeare was said to have coined the phrase ‘One fell swoop’ in which of his plays?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: What is the parasitic insect with the Latin name Pediculus humanus capitas better known as?
Answer: Head louse
Question: Which British Prime Minister said ‘A week is a long time in politics’?
Answer: Harold Wilson
Question: Which historical figure called the English ‘A nation of shopkeepers’?
Answer: Napoleon I
Question: Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Kenya border which landlocked African country?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: At which university did British spies Burgess, Blunt, Maclean and Philby meet?
Answer: Cambridge
Question: Which US outlaw married his cousin, Zerelda ‘Zee’ Mimms, in 1874?
Answer: Jesse James
Question: From which country do Blue Mountain coffee beans come?
Answer: Jamaica
Question: Vincent Crummles appears in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby
Question: A muskellunge is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish
Question: Which planet in our solar system has a year which lasts around 84 Earth years?
Answer: Uranus
Question: Who was Britain’s Prime Minister before Winston Churchill’s first term in office?
Answer: Neville Chamberlain
Question: In the 1988 film ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’, what is the name of the town in which Roger Rabbit lives?
Answer: Toontown
Question: What is the name of retired gunslinger, played by Clint Eastwood, in the 1992 film ‘Unforgiven’?
Answer: William Munny
Question: Russia was defeated by which country in the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which district in London is famous for its Royal Hospital for old soldiers?
Answer: Chelsea
Question: The novels ‘The Shipmaster, ‘The Iron Ships’ and ‘The Trade Winds’ by Cyril Abraham, are based on which 1970’s British tv series?
Answer: The Onedin Line
Question: The Anatolian Peninsula comprises most of which modern day country?
Answer: Turkey
Question: Which US soap opera, which started on radio and moved to tv in 1952, ran for 72 years before ending in 2009?
Answer: Guiding Light
Question: What were the first names of writer C.S.Lewis?
Answer: Clive Staples
Question: In which year was the death penalty for treason formally abolished on the mainland UK?
Answer: 1998
Question: In 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence decreed that how many American colonies, which were at war with Britain, were no longer part of the British Empire?
Answer: Thirteen
Question: What is the flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant women which nourishes the foetus through the umbilical cord?
Answer: Placenta
Question: What type of plant is an opuntia?
Answer: Cactus
Question: What name is given to atoms with the same atomic number but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei?
Answer: Isotopes
Question: Seppuku, part of the code of Samurai warriors, is better known by what name?
Answer: Hari-Kari
Question: Henrietta Maria was the wife of which British monarch?
Answer: King Charles I
Question: What was the native language of Jesus Christ?
Answer: Aramaic
Question: Which Greek goddess is the muse of erotic poetry?
Answer: Erato
Question: A lucky clover is supposed to have how many leaves?
Answer: Four
Question: Which US disc jockey is credited with coining the phrase ‘Rock and Roll’ during the 1950’s?
Answer: Alan Freed
Question: On which part of the body would a ghillie normally be worn?
Answer: Foot
Question: ‘The First Lord of the Treasury’ is inscribed on the letterbox of which address in London?
Answer: 10, Downing Street
Question: How many wives did ‘Coronation Street’s ‘ Mike Baldwin have?
Answer: Four
Question: Which playing card is known as ‘The Death Card’?
Answer: Ace of Spades
Question: Emerald and aquamarine are varieties of which gemstone?
Answer: Beryl
Question: Which World War ll criminal died of suicide by asphyxiation in Spandau Prison in 1987?
Answer: Rudolph Hess
Question: Navigator Fred Noonan disappeared with who, after taking off in their plane from New Guinea?
Answer: Amelia Earhart
Question: What type of flower is a cattleya?
Answer: Orchid
Question: What is the name of the two-handled, narrow-necked jar, used by ancient Greeks and Romans for holding oil or wine?
Answer: Amphora
Question: Borachio is a villain in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing
Question: The Rosetta stone was used to decipher the hieroglyphics in which country?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Which English chemist and physicist invented the rubber balloon in 1824, to use in his experiments?
Answer: Michael Faraday
Question: ‘Roligans’ are well-mannered football fans from which European country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: The seven psalms – 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130 and 143 are known collectively as what?
Answer: Penitential Psalms
Question: Sabena Airlines was the national airline of which European country 1923 – 2001?
Answer: Belguim
Question: The first stock market in which city was established in 1792 with 24 stock brokers meeting at the Tontine Coffee House?
Answer: New York
Question: Which country is known as the George Cross Island?
Answer: Malta
Question: In UK politics, what position did Labour politician Manny Shinwell hold from 1950-51?
Answer: Minister of Defence
Question: Lethologica is the temporary forgetfulness of what?
Answer: Words
Question: The word ‘durst’ is the past tense of which English word?
Answer: Dare
Question: Great Aunt Ada Doom is a character in which novel by Stella Gibbons?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm
Question: Which was the first country to stage football’s European Championship final twice?
Answer: Italy
Question: The term ‘Cathay’ refers to which modern day country?
Answer: China
Question: Which scientist was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952 by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: Which part of Peter Pan was kept in a drawer in the Darling household?
Answer: His shadow
Question: Who was the first US President to speak in Westminster Hall in London?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: What number shirt did footballer Bobby Moore wear when he played for West Ham?
Answer: 6
Question: What was known as the ‘National Razor’ during the French Revolution?
Answer: The Guillotine
Question: What was the name of  the consort of Britain’s Queen Victoria?
Answer: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Question: The city of Belgrade lies at the confluence of the River Sava and which other river?
Answer: Danube
Question: Japanese baseball player, Ichiro Suzuki, joined which US baseball team in 2001?
Answer: Seattle Mariners
Question: Which Hollywood actor died in 1955 when his car collided with another car near Cholane, California?
Answer: James Dean
Question: Lee Brilleaux was the vocalist in which 1970’s band?
Answer: Dr. Feelgood
Question: The Curtis Cup is a challenge trophy contested by women in which sport?
Answer: Golf
Question: ANZAC Day, Australia’s annual holiday to remember its war dead, is held during which month of the year?
Answer: April
Question: ‘The Virgin on the Rocks’ is the work of which artist?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci
Question: Who was murdered with an ice pick in 1940 by Ramon Mercader?
Answer: Leon Trotsky
Question: In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the letter ‘Z’ is represented by which word?
Answer: Zulu
Question: ‘Connubial’ relates to which type of relationship?
Answer: Marriage
Question: What is the highest range of the male singing voice?
Answer: Countertenor
Question: What is the name of the spiked metal plate fixed to a boot for climbing on ice or rock?
Answer: Crampon
Question: Which US President ordered the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to Russia (USSR) detonating its first atomic bomb?
Answer: Harry S. Truman
Question: ‘The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there’, are the opening words to which novel?
Answer: ‘The Go Between’
Question: Haddonfield, Illinois is the setting for which 1978 horror film?
Answer: Halloween
Question: Which British luxury liner made her maiden voyage from Southampton in May 1936?
Answer: RMS Queen Mary
Question: In Greek mythology, who tore his eyes out when he discovered that he had married his mother?
Answer: Oedipus
Question: Lord Gnome is purported to be the proprietor of which fortnightly British publication?
Answer: Private Eye
Question: In February 1906, which type of British battleship was launched for the first time?
Answer: Dreadnought
Question: What was the name of the daughter of the Native American chief of the Powhatan Confederacy who married English settler John Rolfe in 1613?
Answer: Pocahontas
Question: In Australia, on which side of the road do motorists drive?
Answer: Left
Question: What is the acidic juice called of crab apples or other sour fruit, such as grapes?
Answer: Verjuice
Question: According to the Bible, Jesus was baptised in which river?
Answer: River Jordan
Question: Which famous singer died of a heart attack on a Spanish golf course in October 1977?
Answer: Bing Crosby
Question: According to the bible, what was the name of the murderer who was released by Pontius Pilate in preference to Jesus?
Answer: Barabbas
Question: What is the name of a community of ants?
Answer: Colony
Question: Theravada is a branch of which religion?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: The Fynbos, an area of grassland and thicket, lies in which African country?
Answer: South Africa
Question: John Dryden became the first official British what during the reign of King Charles ll?
Answer: Poet Laureate
Question: Which British female singer released a double A-side, featuring ‘Footprints in the Sand’ and ‘Better in Time’, in aid of Sport Relief?
Answer: Leona Lewis
Question: Universal Product Codes are more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Bar codes
Question: Which English King was known as ‘The Hammer of the Scots’?
Answer: Edward l
Question: If a person is born on 10th January, what zodiac sign do they have?
Answer: Capricorn
Question: A lumpectomy is the surgical removal of a lump from which part of the body?
Answer: Breast
Question: In June 1938, Action Comics #1 was published, featuring which comic book hero for the first time?
Answer: Superman
Question: In the children’s story ‘Peter Pan, what is Captain Hook’s first name?
Answer: James
Question: Hellen was the mythological patriarch of which European country?
Answer: Greece
Question: What is the only number in the English language which is spelt using the same number of letters as the number itself?
Answer: Four
Question: Canadian jockey John ‘Red’ Pollard was famous for riding which well known racehorse?
Answer: Seabiscuit
Question: In British royalty, what title did Camilla Parker Bowles take on marrying the Prince of Wales in 2005?
Answer: The Duchess of Cornwall
Question: Which actor offered Demi Moore $1 million to sleep with him in the 1993 film ‘Indecent Proposal’?
Answer: Robert Redford
Question: In December 1935, Anthony Eden took up which government post in Britain?
Answer: Foreign Secretary
Question: The European city of Vienna lies on which river?
Answer: Danube
Question: Which English artist’s first names were Joseph Mallord William?
Answer: Turner
Question: According to the Bible, what was the first bird to be sent out of the Ark by Noah?
Answer: Raven
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘Brideshead Revisited’?
Answer: Evelyn Waugh
Question: In November 2002, which member of the British royal family was convicted and fined for violating the Dangerous Dogs Act?
Answer: Princess Anne
Question: Chiswick Eyot is a small island in which body of water in England?
Answer: River Thames
Question: At which English racecourse was the Derby run during World War II?
Answer: Newmarket
Question: Murder on the Calais Coach’ was the US title of which novel?
Answer: Murder on the Orient Express
Question: Which US state is the setting for the 1971 film ‘The Last Picture Show’?
Answer: Texas
Question: Grace Cathedral is in which US city?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: What was the name of the convict ship which set sail from Britain in 1789 with the first cargo of female prisoners for a penal colony in Australia?
Answer: Lady Juliana
Question: How many times does the word ‘eternity’ appear in the King James version of the Bible?
Answer: Once
Question: The village of Blenheim, the scene of a 1704 battle, is in which mainland European country?
Answer: Germany
Question: The Vedas are ancient texts relating to which religion?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: The Xingu River is in which South American country?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Who was the British Prime Minister during the 1956 Suez Crisis?
Answer: Anthony Eden
Question: Which screenwriter and novelist created the Daleks for the tv series Doctor Who?
Answer: Terry Nation
Question: What type of fish is included in the ingredients of Worcestershire Sauce?
Answer: Anchovies
Question: Who wrote ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole’?
Answer: Sue Townsend
Question: Which legendary Greek hero killed the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne?
Answer: Theseus
Question: Which famous US outlaw shot the cashier of a savings bank in Gallatin Missouri in 1869?
Answer: Jesse James
Question: How many books make up the New Testament of the Bible?
Answer: 27
Question: Which writer created the fictional detective Charlie Chan?
Answer: Earl Biggers
Question: Which Palestinian paramilitary group seized eleven Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games?
Answer: Black September
Question: In January 1953 over 70% of all TV sets in the USA were tuned in to watch the star of which show go to hospital to give birth to her son?
Answer: I Love Lucy
Question: Silent film star Charlie Chaplin was born in which European city?
Answer: London
Question: ‘Tanach’ describes the whole of the scriptures of which religion?
Answer: Judaism
Question: The East Siberian Sea lies in which body of water?
Answer: Arctic Ocean
Question: The paint calcamine (or kalsomine) is better known by what name?
Answer: Whitewash
Question: Who was US actor Mickey Rooney’s first wife?
Answer: Ava Gardner
Question: In which US state were the 1692 Witch Trials held?
Answer: Massachusetts
Question: In the Harry Potter series of books, what is the name of Hermoine Granger’s cat?
Answer: Crookshanks
Question: Which UK comedy series featured the characters Eccles, Bloodnok and Bluebottle?
Answer: The Goon Show
Question: Curtly Ambrose played for which national cricket team?
Answer: West Indies
Question: Donald Pleasance, Telly Savalas and Charles Gray have all played the role of which James Bond villain?
Answer: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Question: Which country was defeated by the French during the Battle of Friedland in the Napoleonic Wars?
Answer: Russia
Question: What is the name given to the fluid surrounding a foetus in the womb?
Answer: Amniotic Fluid
Question: In James Bond novels and films, what is the codename for the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service?
Answer: Q
Question: Italian mountaineers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni became the first people to successfully reach the summit of which Himalayan peak, via the Abruzzi Ridge?
Answer: K2
Question: Which songwriter and rapper’s real name is Timothy Z Mosley?
Answer: Timbaland
Question: What was US singer and actor Dean Martin’s only UK number one hit single?
Answer: Memories Are Made of This
Question: Amnesty International was founded in which year?
Answer: 1961
Question: In the novel ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ what is Gulliver’s first name?
Answer: Lemuel
Question: In 1816, which famous English dandy fled to France to escape debtor’s prison?
Answer: Beau Brummell
Question: John Sentamu was given which English title in May 2005?
Answer: Archbishop of York
Question: In religion, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel, Chamuel, Jophiel and Zadkiel are all what?
Answer: Archangels
Question: The Scottish city of Perth lies on which river?
Answer: River Tay
Question: What is the first name of comic-hero Superman’s natural mother?
Answer: Lara
Question: Surrealist painter Rene Magritte was born in which country?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Philip IV became King of which European country in 1621?
Answer: Spain
Question: What type of bird is a conure?
Answer: Parrot
Question: Dendrophobia is the irrational fear of which natural items?
Answer: Trees
Question: Which US President said ‘I don’t know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be’?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: Which member of the Beatles was also known as Nelson Wilbury?
Answer: George Harrison
Question: In British currency slang, how much is a ‘Pony’ worth?
Answer: 25
Question: Manuka, Tupelo and Firewood are all types of which foodstuff?
Answer: Honey
Question: The Sopot International Song Festival is held annually in which European country?
Answer: Poland
Question: What is the title of the only ‘Carry On’ film in which US actor Phil Silvers appeared?
Answer: Follow That Camel
Question: In which continent is the Beardmore Glacier?
Answer: Antarctica