zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: Who wrote the 1927 poem ‘The Journey of the Magi’?
Answer: T.S. ELIOT
Question: Which of Santa’s seven reindeer comes first in the alphabet?
Answer: BLITZEN
Question: Who painted ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ (1624)?
Answer: Peter Paul RUBENS
Question: Who composed ‘A Sea Symphony’ between 1903 and 1909?
Answer: Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Question: Turdus Merula is the scientific/Latin name for which bird?
Answer: BLACKBIRD
Question: The leaves of which tree are used as a symbol for the National Trust?
Answer: OAK
Question: Which 1970s US TV comedy-drama featured two 'outlaws' trying to go straight?
Answer: ALIAS SMITH & JONES
Question: War and Remembrance was the sequel to which US TV World War 2 saga?
Answer: WINDS OF WAR
Question: With which musical instrument does one associate Julian Lloyd Webber?
Answer: CELLO
Question: In which English city will you find the National Railway Museum?
Answer: YORK
Question: Which fictional character has been played by the largest number of different actors?
Answer: Sherlock HOLMES
Question: In which European capital city is the Amalienborg Palace the main royal residence?
Answer: COPENHAGEN
Question: In which country does the Zambezi River reach the sea?
Answer: MOZAMBIQUE
Question: Which London market was moved in November to a new site at Nine Elms?
Answer: COVENT GARDEN
Question: Which city is the setting for the original crime series 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'?
Answer: LAS VEGAS
Question: Who’s the only major deity to have the same name in both Greek and Roman mythology?
Answer: APOLLO
Question: Which Russian man designed the legendary AK-47 assault rifle?
Answer: Mikhail KALASHNIKOV
Question: The story setting of which Puccini opera is Paris in the 1830s?
Answer: LA BOHEME
Question: Skagboys is a prequel to which novel by Irving Welsh?
Answer: Trainspotting
Question: What was the title of Status Quo’s first UK hit single, a tribute to L. S. Lowry?
Answer: Pictures of Matchstick Men
Question: Tiger Woods wears a shirt of which colour for the final round of each tournament?
Answer: Red
Question: Which of Shakespeare’s plays is set in Vienna?
Answer: Measure for Measure
Question: Which play contains the famous stage direction “Exit, pursued by a bear”?
Answer: A Winter’s Tale
Question: Which group recorded the early heavy-metal classic Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble?
Answer: Uriah Heep
Question: What, according to Dr Johnson, is “the triumph of hope over experience”?
Answer: Second marriage
Question: Who won an acting Oscar for a six-minute role in Shakespeare in Love?
Answer: Judy Dench
Question: Abbotsford House, on the banks of the Tweed, was the home of which author?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
Question: Which famous scientist was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: The area now rebranded as “Cardiff Bay” was formerly known by what name?
Answer: Tiger Bay
Question: Who played Hotlips in the film version of Mash?
Answer: Sally Kellerman
Question: Who wrote the 1949 play Death of a Salesman?
Answer: Arthur Miller
Question: Who partnered Flavia Cacace to win the Xmas Special?
Answer: Rufus Hound
Question: Who did Lord Peter Wimsey marry in the novel Busman’s Honeymoon?
Answer: Harriet Vane
Question: To which club did Mycroft Holmes belong?
Answer: The Diogenes Club
Question: Which fictional character tilted at windmills?
Answer: Don Quixote
Question: Erect-Crested, Little Blue (or Fairy), Humboldt and Chinstrap are species of what?
Answer: Penguin
Question: In which town was a public supply of electricity first made available in the UK?
Answer: Godalming
Question: Which WWII song is heard at the end of Dr Srangelove?
Answer: We’ll Meet Again
Question: The Doors song The End is heard at the end of which war film?
Answer: Apocalypse Now
Question: Which cartoon character is mentioned Bowie’s song Life on Mars?
Answer: Mickey Mouse
Question: Who starred as Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the US TV series?
Answer: Sarah Michelle Gellar
Question: Who directed the 1975 film Lisztomania?
Answer: Ken Russell
Question: By population what is the second city of Belgium?
Answer: Antwerp
Question: Who immediately succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President?
Answer: Andrew Johnson
Question: When she arrived in Eastenders, who was Binnie Roberts’ girlfriend?
Answer: Della Alexander
Question: To which union do the acting profession belong to ?
Answer: Equity
Question: First appearing in 1572, which country’s flag is the oldest tricolour in the world?
Answer: NETHERLANDS
Question: What very British name do we give to an alloy of Antimony, Copper and Tin?
Answer: BRITANNIA METAL
Question: Having lived in exile for three years at Chiselhurst in Kent, who died in 1873?
Answer: NAPOLEON III
Question: Which English spa town hosts an annual International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival?
Answer: BUXTON
Question: Which male star played the title role in the 2004 film 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'?
Answer: Bill MURRAY
Question: What nationality was the astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953)?
Answer: AMERICAN
Question: If you had rubella what would you have caught?
Answer: GERMAN MEASLES
Question: What is the German name for Lake Constance?
Answer: BODENSEE
Question: The Robert Gordon University is located in which Scottish city?
Answer: ABERDEEN
Question: What flower was traditionally the symbol of secrecy?
Answer: ROSE
Question: What collective description is used by most of the people we mistakenly call 'Eskimos'?
Answer: INUIT
Question: Which savage European war was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648?
Answer: THIRTY YEARS war
Question: What is the SI unit of electrical current?
Answer: AMPERE
Question: What does the Latin 'Caveat Emptor' mean?
Answer: Let the BUYER BEWARE
Question: Which N.W. club were thrown out of the FA Cup in 2006 for fielding an ineligible player?
Answer: BURY
Question: What was the gangster George Nelson's best known nickname?
Answer: BABY FACE
Question: Who wrote the music for the ballets 'The Firebird' and 'The Rite of Spring'?
Answer: Igor STRAVINSKY
Question: Which classical composer wrote the 19 'Hungarian Rhapsodies' for piano?
Answer: Franz LISZT
Question: What was invented by James Dewer in 1872?
Answer: VACUUM or THERMOS FLASK
Question: Who invented the first mass-produced toothbrush in 1780?
Answer: William ADDIS
Question: In which country did the world's first human heart transplant take place?
Answer: SOUTH AFRICA
Question: Nicknamed 'Scarlet Speedster', Barry Allen was the alter ego of which comic superhero?
Answer: THE FLASH
Question: Who, as you might expect, is the patron Saint of Boy Scouts?
Answer: SAINT GEORGE
Question: Galway is a county within which Irish province?
Answer: CONNACHT
Question: A two-pronged fitting to which one would attach a (ship's) line or rope?
Answer: CLEAT
Question: What is the name of the famous game reserve on the Serengeti Plain in Kenya?
Answer: Masai Mara
Question: What was first founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee?
Answer: Ku Klux Klan
Question: Only two elements are liquid at room temperature – mercury is one – what is the other?
Answer: Bromine
Question: At the mouth of which English river is Spurn Head?
Answer: Humber
Question: Which is Britain’s largest native butterfly?
Answer: Swallowtail
Question: Who failed three IQ tests on an LBC radio phone-in?
Answer: Boris Johnson
Question: Who is the female presenter of the UK TV programme ‘Most Haunted’?
Answer: Yvette Fielding
Question: In which sport is an attacking shot called a ‘spike’?
Answer: Volleyball
Question: The island of Zanzibar is part of which African country?
Answer: Tanzania
Question: Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here?
Answer: Jesse James
Question: Islam. What is the name of the festival which immediately follows the end of Ramadan?
Answer: Id-ul-Fitr
Question: Where in the body is the Sartorius muscle?
Answer: Leg
Question: Where is the body is the Trapezius muscle?
Answer: Neck
Question: What is a female ferret called?
Answer: Jill
Question: Where might you go to visit the big gun called Mons Meg?
Answer: Edinburgh Castle
Question: What is the one-word alternative name for the spiny anteater?
Answer: Echidna
Question: Which month traditionally sees the start of the Isle of Man TT races?
Answer: May
Question: Which long nonsense poem is subtitled: An Agony in 8 Fits?
Answer: The Hunting of the Snark
Question: Which eponymous operatic heroine leaps to her death from Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo?
Answer: Tosca
Question: What is the title of Mandela’s autobiography of his life up to his release from prison?
Answer: Long Walk to Freedom
Question: Which country’s national flag is the only one which is not rectangular (or square)?
Answer: Nepal
Question: What is the name of the coarse woollen textile used to cover snooker tables?
Answer: Baize
Question: What is the more modern name for the electrical device sometimes called a condenser?
Answer: Capacitor
Question: As what was Birmingham’s James Turner Street rechristened for a Channel 4 series?
Answer: Benefit Street
Question: Which nation slipped back into technical recession in mid-November 2014?
Answer: JAPAN
Question: In which year in the 50s was the first televised Queen’s speech?
Answer: 1957
Question: What do the letters BB represent in competitive gymnastics?
Answer: BALANCE BEAM
Question: Who served as the ninth Governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009?
Answer: SARAH PALIN
Question: What is the correct term for ‘a nose job’?
Answer: RHINOPLASTY
Question: Which Spanish city is famous for bull running during the eight-day San Fermin festival?
Answer: PAMPLONA
Question: The calcaneus is the Latin name for which part of the body?
Answer: HEEL bone
Question: Which tv soap is set in Glendarroch?
Answer: TAKE THE HIGH ROAD
Question: Gaston Leroux wrote which 1911 novel, later a famous musical?
Answer: The PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Question: In what figure of speech is understatement used to emphasize a point by denying the opposite?
Answer: LITOTES
Question: Which head of state was shot by firing squad on Christmas Day 1989?
Answer: NICOLAE CEAUSESCU
Question: Which US comedian, whose stage persona was that of a miser, died on Boxing Day 1974?
Answer: JACK BENNY
Question: Some Minions have two eyes, but many have only one. In which 2010 film did they first appear?
Answer: DESPICABLE ME
Question: Which pop group’s last UK number 1 single was entitled ‘Holler’?
Answer: SPICE GIRLS
Question: What is the name of the central family in ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’?
Answer: THE GRISWOLDS
Question: According to legend who was the son of Uther Pendragon?
Answer: King Arthur
Question: What used to be called the Trucial States?
Answer: United Arab Emirates
Question: Opened in 1921, In which US city is the Wrigley Building?
Answer: Chicago
Question: Which multi medal winning track athlete will make his London marathon debut in April?
Answer: Mo Farah
Question: What road divides Aintree and is crossed by National runners?
Answer: Melling Road
Question: Montevideo stands at the mouth of which river?
Answer: The River Plate
Question: Which US animated series features the Griffin family?
Answer: Family Guy
Question: The Household Cavalry consists of the Life Guards Regiment and which other?
Answer: Blues and Royals
Question: Apart from the Sun which is the nearest star to Earth?
Answer: Proxima Centauri
Question: What term describes the plucking of string instruments?
Answer: Pizzicato
Question: Which king founded Eton College in 1440?
Answer: Henry VI
Question: Which school has famous old boys – Jeremy Clarkson, Roald Dahl and Graeme Garden?
Answer: Repton
Question: Which is the American state of Wisconsin’s most populous city?
Answer: Milwaukee
Question: Which is the biggest Indian city by population?
Answer: Mumbai
Question: What is the clotting substance in the blood called?
Answer: Fibrin
Question: Which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta is subtitled Bunthorne’s Bride?
Answer: Patience
Question: Which TV cop has Detective Sergeant John Bacchus for his assistant?
Answer: Inspector George Gently
Question: Which of the robbers was considered the mastermind or leader?
Answer: Bruce Reynolds
Question: The Land of the Long White Cloud?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: The three basic types of rock are – igneous, metamorphic and which other?
Answer: Sedimentary
Question: An IRA car bomb in 1973 damaged which famous London building?
Answer: The Old Bailey
Question: Which common scientific term has the meaning indivisible?
Answer: Atom
Question: What is the study of medicines?
Answer: Pharmacology
Question: What is the Italian dessert of egg yolks whipped with Marsala and sugar?
Answer: Zabaglione
Question: Who did Jose Mourinho call ‘A specialist in failure’ because of an 8 year trophy drought?
Answer: Arsene Wenger
Question: What do native Cornish residents call Penwith?
Answer: Land’s End
Question: In which movie did Bond first drive an Aston Martin DB5?
Answer: Goldfinger
Question: Who plays the Duke of Dunstable in the new series of Blandings on BBC1?
Answer: Harry Enfield
Question: Which Roman God was the father of Romulus and Remus?
Answer: Mars
Question: What is the most common element in the human body after oxygen?
Answer: Carbon
Question: Which type of thermometer is used for measuring very high temperatures?
Answer: Pyrometer
Question: Which king died in 1760 and was succeeded by his grandson?
Answer: George II
Question: Which country is currently suspended from The Commonwealth?
Answer: Fiji
Question: What kind of creatures are jacamars and barbets?
Answer: Birds
Question: What is the study of the history and derivation of words?
Answer: Etymology
Question: Which world-famous song was originally entitled ‘Good Morning To All’?
Answer: Happy Birthday to You
Question: Which city is the setting for the TV crime series Scott & Bailey?
Answer: Manchester
Question: Where in the British Isles can the Laxey Wheel aka Lady Isabella be seen?
Answer: Isle of Man
Question: Which band was formed in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith?
Answer: Tears For Fears
Question: What is Rupert Murdoch’s real first name?
Answer: Keith
Question: The fishing boat Orca appeared in which film?
Answer: Jaws
Question: Which Cape is at the northernmost tip of the country in Queensland?
Answer: Cape York
Question: Peter Pears was the life-long partner of which composer?
Answer: Benjamin Britten
Question: Which flag was nicknamed The Stars and Bars?
Answer: Confederate Flag
Question: Which political retreat began as Shangri-La?
Answer: Camp David
Question: Who did William Hamilton try to assassinate in 1849?
Answer: Queen Victoria
Question: Kenny Everett’s TV show introduced which sexy dance troupe?
Answer: Hot Gossip
Question: What is the first event on Day 2 of the Decathlon?
Answer: 110 Metres Hurdles
Question: Which capital is on the river Manzanares?
Answer: Madrid
Question: Which liqueur is marked D.O.M?
Answer: Benedictine
Question: The Four Hills is a tournament in which sport?
Answer: Ski Jumping
Question: Who was the last King of Troy?
Answer: Priam
Question: Who played Dudley Moore’s love interest in the 1981 comedy Arthur?
Answer: Liza Minelli
Question: The 1992 film Hear My Song involves a search for which tenor?
Answer: Josef Locke
Question: Which Premiership football club started out as St Domingo?
Answer: Everton
Question: Which Premiership football club started out as Ardwick FC?
Answer: Manchester City
Question: Who played Oliver Barrett IV in the film Love Story?
Answer: Ryan O’Neal
Question: Hedra Carlson played by Jennifer Jason Leigh?
Answer: Single White Female
Question: In population terms, what is the largest city in China?
Answer: Shanghai
Question: What was Gulliver’s first name?
Answer: Lemuel
Question: Which state borders on four Great Lakes – all except Ontario?
Answer: Michigan
Question: ‘Frappe’ is a term meaning served on a bed of ………..what?
Answer: Ice
Question: Who replaced Michael Gove as Education Minister last summer?
Answer: Nicky Morgan
Question: Which Belgian sportsman was nicknamed ‘The Cannibal’?
Answer: Eddy Merckx
Question: What is the term for cud-chewing animals?
Answer: Ruminants
Question: The X and Y axes on a graph are called the abscissa and ………what?
Answer: Ordinate
Question: Which World cup team are known as the Albiceleste?
Answer: Argentina
Question: Who was Radio 1’s first female presenter?
Answer: Annie Nightingale
Question: Who died in 1376 before he could become king?
Answer: The Black Prince
Question: Taffeta is a variety of which material?
Answer: Silk
Question: Which body of water represents the lowest point below sea level in Europe?
Answer: Caspian Sea
Question: Which legendary Scottish town appears for just one day every 100 years?
Answer: Brigadoon
Question: Who was the minstrel in Robin Hood’s band of men?
Answer: Alan A Dale
Question: A clutter or cluster is a collection of which creepy-crawlies?
Answer: Spiders
Question: Who played Cathy in Ken Loach’s ground-breaking drama Cathy Come Home?
Answer: Carol White
Question: Which English bridge was the world’s longest suspension bridge from 1981 to 1998?
Answer: Humber Bridge
Question: Where in England could you cross the Mathematical Bridge?
Answer: Cambridge
Question: The first Garden City was established in 1903 – which was it?
Answer: Letchworth
Question: Which football team ended Glasgow Celtic’s 10-month unbeaten league run?
Answer: Aberdeen
Question: Who went ‘Beyond Breaking Point’ in a Sport Relief challenge in March?
Answer: Davina McCall
Question: Which recent ITV three-part drama was based on real-life wife killer Malcolm Webster?
Answer: The Widower
Question: The BBC satire W1A starring Hugh Bonneville is a follow-up to which show?
Answer: Twenty Twelve
Question: Who is the current Secretary of State for Transport?
Answer: Patrick McLoughlin
Question: Which English king is buried in Worcester Cathedral?
Answer: King John
Question: Steve Martin and Martin Short were two of The Three Amigos – who was the other?
Answer: Chevy Chase
Question: What do we call the lake that the Germans call Bodensee?
Answer: Lake Constance
Question: In which book did Miss Marple first appear?
Answer: Murder At The Vicarage
Question: Which Asian country has the Kip as its currency?
Answer: Laos
Question: The Riksdag is which country’s parliament?
Answer: Sweden
Question: What part of a bird might also be a term for a magistrate?
Answer: BEAK
Question: ‘Hey, Jude’ topped the charts in 1968. Who was ‘Jude’?
Answer: JULIAN LENNON
Question: In ‘The Blue Lamp’, who plays the young villain who shoots George Dixon?
Answer: DIRK BOGARDE
Question: Who famously said: “Most of our people have never had it so good”?
Answer: HAROLD MACMILLAN
Question: Who was the housekeeper in Daphne Du Maurier’s novel ‘Rebecca’?
Answer: MRS. DANVERS
Question: In 1946, what useful gadget was invented by Percy Spencer?
Answer: MICROWAVE OVEN
Question: Who was the next leader of the Soviet Union after Kruschev?
Answer: Leonid BREZHNEV
Question: Who invented the seed drill in 1701?
Answer: JETHRO TULL
Question: What was the name of the vicar in ‘Dad’s Army’?
Answer: TIMOTHY FARTHING
Question: Who was the father of James and John, and the probable husband of Salome?
Answer: ZEBEDEE
Question: What nationality was the noted astronomer Anders Celsius?
Answer: SWEDISH
Question: “There’s a row going on, down in Slough” is a line from which no. 3 hit from 1979?
Answer: ETON RIFLES
Question: In science, what adjective describes a reaction in which heat is absorbed?
Answer: ENDOTHERMIC
Question: What was the real name of the romantic hero ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’?
Answer: Sir Percy BLAKENEY
Question: Trichology is the study of what?
Answer: HAIR
Question: Roy Jenkins took the title of Lord Jenkins of … where?
Answer: HILLHEAD
Question: Which famous art collection was started by the fourth Marquess of Hartford?
Answer: WALLACE
Question: Who starred in the title role of ‘The Admirable Crichton’ in a 1957 film?
Answer: Kenneth MORE
Question: In 1978, who was assassinated by a poisoned umbrella tip on a London street?
Answer: Georgi MARKOV
Question: Which former king won a gold medal for yachting at the 1960 Olympics?
Answer: CONSTANTINE
Question: In which country is the Patagonian Desert?
Answer: ARGENTINA
Question: What was the last film directed by David Lean, cast included Peggy Ashcroft & Judy Davis?
Answer: A Passage To India
Question: What was Stanley Kubrick's last film, which starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman?
Answer: Eyes Wide Shut
Question: In which country will you find the Negev desert?
Answer: Israel
Question: Which Frenchman won the Alpine triple-crown at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Jean Claude Killy
Question: In the context of food, Eccles in Lancashire is famous for what?
Answer: Cakes
Question: Which former EastEnders actor was once married to Colleen Nolan of The Nolans?
Answer: Shane Ritchie
Question: In the UK, what is the value of the letter P in Scrabble?
Answer: 3
Question: Which 1993 Disney film starred Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker as witches?
Answer: Hocus Pocus
Question: What is the capital city of Sicily?
Answer: Palermo
Question: Joe Shlabotnik is which fictional character's favourite (and also fictional) baseball player?
Answer: Charlie Brown
Question: Who wrote the stories 'Billy Budd' and 'Moby Dick'?
Answer: Herman Melville
Question: Now at 38 St Mary Axe, London, which ‘exchange’ started in a coffee house in 1744?
Answer: Baltic Exchange
Question: By what other name is La Giaconda much better known?
Answer: Mona Lisa
Question: Which order in the class Insecta includes the butterflies, skippers, and moths?
Answer: Lepidoptera
Question: Which animal can you find in a shallow depression or flattened, grass nest called a 'form'?
Answer: Hare
Question: Which animal forms the body of the great sphinx of Giza in Egypt?
Answer: Lion
Question: Who wrote the 1924 adventure novel ‘Beau Geste’?
Answer: P.C. WREN
Question: Who wrote the poem ‘The Village Blacksmith’, in 1840?
Answer: Henry W. LONGFELLOW
Question: The Women’s Institute was founded in which country?
Answer: CANADA
Question: After the assassination of Rasputin, his body was thrown into what river?
Answer: NEVA
Question: Which bird flies the greatest distance to migrate? (Two words.)
Answer: ARCTIC TERN
Question: Which bird’s song is said to sound like “A little bit of bread and no cheese”?
Answer: YELLOWHAMMER
Question: Who directed ‘Alien 3’ (1992), ‘Fight Club’ (1999) and ‘The Social Network’ (2010)?
Answer: DAVID FINCHER
Question: What Italian dish is made with fried beaten eggs, resembling a Spanish omelette?
Answer: FRITTATA
Question: In a well-known nursery rhyme, who has “silver buckles at his knee”?
Answer: BOBBY SHAFTO
Question: What is the name of the TOWIE star who was reported missing at the end of August?
Answer: JAMES ARGENT
Question: What was the favourite food of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Answer: PIZZA
Question: In which magazine were the Sherlock Holmes stories first published?
Answer: THE STRAND
Question: Who played the part of Raquel in ‘Only Fools and Horses’?
Answer: TESSA PEAKE-JONES
Question: In which 1976 film does Laurence Olivier play dentist Dr. Christian Szell?
Answer: MARATHON MAN
Question: Which planet takes the equivalent of 11.86 Earth years to orbit the sun?
Answer: JUPITER
Question: Pat Nevin was a favourite at which London association football club in the 1980s?
Answer: CHELSEA
Question: In a 2014 Classic FM poll, which Vaughan Williams piece was voted the UK’s favourite?
Answer: The LARK ASCENDING
Question: What is the UK’s best-selling car of all time?
Answer: FORD FIESTA
Question: What word connects heather to a member of the cod family?
Answer: LING
Question: What letter is used the most often in English language and literature?
Answer: E
Question: What part did Clark Gable play in ‘Gone With The Wind’?
Answer: RHETT BUTLER
Question: A pier at which resort was badly damaged by fire on July 30th?
Answer: EASTBOURNE
Question: Who famously lived to regret saying “You can’t win anything with kids”?
Answer: ALAN HANSEN
Question: What is the chemical formula for calcium chloride?
Answer: CaCl2
Question: Greta Garbo uttered her most famous line in ‘Grand Hotel’ (1932). What was it?
Answer: I WANT TO BE ALONE
Question: With which type of foodstuff do you associate the name of Levi Roots?
Answer: REGGAE REGGAE sauce