zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: To which family of birds does the Robin belong?
Answer: THRUSH
Question: In which Yorkshire town is the Captain Cook Memorial Museum?
Answer: WHITBY
Question: The name of which feature of a volcano comes from the Spanish for 'cooking pot'?
Answer: CALDERA
Question: In astrology, which sign of the zodiac is known as The Maiden?
Answer: VIRGO
Question: What is the name of the family in the TV series Outnumbered?
Answer: BROCKMAN
Question: What is Mock Turtle soup made from?
Answer: CALF'S HEAD
Question: Which of Dennis Potter's plays for television was about a group of 7 year old children playing in the woods, all of whom were played by adults?
Answer: BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS
Question: As played by Bob Hoskins, what was the name of the sheet music salesman in the TV series Pennies from Heaven scripted by Dennis Potter?
Answer: (Arthur) PARKER
Question: In Heraldry, how is a 'lion couard' depicted?
Answer: WITH ITS TAIL BETWEEN ITS LEGS
Question: Which system of physical fitness that increases the strength and flexibility of the body was originally known by the term 'contrology'?
Answer: PILATES
Question: Which British zoo took delivery of two giant pandas from China last year?
Answer: EDINBURGH
Question: What is the international vehicle registration code for Switzerland?
Answer: CH
Question: Which slang word for prison comes from the name of an old jail in south London?
Answer: CLINK
Question: Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion are the band mates of which lead vocalist?
Answer: CHRIS MARTIN
Question: Which Irish airport has the three letter code KIR?
Answer: KERRY
Question: On which English motorway can you find services called Baldock, Wetherby and Washington?
Answer: M1
Question: Joseph Jagger, born in 1830 earned himself which long nickname when, in 1873, he hired six clerks to record the outcomes of six roulette wheels at a casino called The Beaux Arts? He discovered that one of the wheels showed a clear bias in that nine of the numbers occured more frequently than others and then went on to win over £65,000 over the next three days.
Answer: THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO
Question: Which famous figure married 30 year old Autumn Kelly on May 17th 2008?
Answer: PETER PHILIPS
Question: As well as the traditional tokens, a token in the shape of which creature is included in the Australian version of Monopoly?
Answer: KOALA BEAR
Question: On which Wrexham Street could you once have visited a popular shop named Walter Roberts?
Answer: HOPE STREET
Question: A Carrick Bend is a type of what?
Answer: KNOT
Question: Who, from 1977 to 1981, was Vice President of the USA to Jimmy Carter?
Answer: Walter MONDALE
Question: Which English artist, who lived from 1874 to 1948 is probably best remembered for the creation of Rupert Bear in 1920?
Answer: Mary TOURTEL
Question: Literally meaning 'a beating', which Brazilian dance was introduced to the British Pop Charts in 1989 by the group Kaoma?
Answer: LAMBADA
Question: First produced by W M Santus and Co in Wigan in 1898, what was the family sounding name of the mint balls that are described as keeping you all aglow? They carry a mascot featuring a smiling man wearing a top hat, on the tin.
Answer: UNCLE JOE'S
Question: Which radio programme, released as a direct replacement for Mrs Dale's Diary in 1969, was set in a fictional cul-de-sac between Hampstead village and Belsize Park in North London and began with three young women in their early twenties flat sharing in a large Victorian house in the area?
Answer: WAGGONER'S WALK
Question: Apart from York which is North Yorkshire's only other city?
Answer: RIPON
Question: Apart from Stoke on Trent which is Staffordshire's only other city?
Answer: LICHFIELD
Question: Which book of the Old Testament contains the story of Joseph and his coat of many colours?
Answer: GENESIS
Question: Which pop band, formed in Edinburgh and who had many chart hits in the 1970s took their name by randomly throwing a dart at a map of the USA - it landed in a city in the state of Michigan?
Answer: BAY CITY ROLLERS
Question: What nickname links the surname of a teacher in TV's Grangehill and the alterego of a British criminal who has the real name Michael Gordon Peterson?
Answer: BRONSON
Question: Who, since 2003, has been the Governor of the Bank of England?
Answer: MERVYN KING
Question: Who, since 2010, has been Secretary of State for Foreighn and Commonwealth Affairs?
Answer: WILLIAM HAGUE
Question: First published in 1936 in the Sunday Post, which Scottish comicstrip young boy character is famous for having spiky hair and dungarees - his friends include Fat Boab, Wee Eck and Soapy Soutar?
Answer: OOR WULLIE
Question: Founded in 1920 by Hans Riegel in Bonn and whose name translates as "makes children happy and adults just as well", which global confectionery company is known particularly for its range of gummy and jelly sweets?
Answer: HARIBO
Question: Which river flows through the city of Lincoln
Answer: WITHAM
Question: Which fruit is the principal ingredient of the traditional pudding 'Brown Betty'?
Answer: APPLE
Question: Who was the original presenter of TV's Question Time?
Answer: ROBIN DAY
Question: What chain of restaurants was founded in Guiseley, Yorkshire, in the 1920s?
Answer: HARRY RAMSDEN'S
Question: By what name in literature is Delores Hayes better known?
Answer: LOLITA
Question: Charlie is the logo of which roadside restaurant chain?
Answer: LITTLE CHEF
Question: In the Anglicised versions of the Asterix cartoons, what's the name of the village druid whose speciality lies in preparing magic potions?
Answer: GETAFIX
Question: Which village claims that the medieval cross on its village green marks the centre of England?
Answer: MERIDEN
Question: In which film was Marilyn Monroe's skirt seen billowing in the air over a subway vent?
Answer: THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
Question: In the Lake District, which pass joins Windemere to Ullswater?
Answer: KIRKSTONE PASS
Question: What soluble form of Aspirin was invented during World War II?
Answer: DISPRIN
Question: Which political leader, who came to a sticky end last year, set out his 'Third Universal Theory of Governing' in his so-called 'Little Green Book'?
Answer: (Colonel) GADAFFI
Question: The City of London Police are the reigning Olympic Champions in which sport, although the sport hasn't been held at the games since 1920?
Answer: TUG-OF-WAR
Question: Which famous trademark can be seen on one of the bottles featured in Manet's canvas The Bar at the Folies-Bergere?
Answer: BASS RED TRIANGLE
Question: The addition of what turns a Welsh Rarebit into a Buck Rarebit?
Answer: (Poached) EGG
Question: How many hectares are there in a square kilometre?
Answer: ONE HUNDRED
Question: During which song from the show 'Me and My Girl' is it customary to shout "Oi !" at the appropriate point?
Answer: THE LAMBETH WALK
Question: What is the title of the presiding judge in the United States Supreme Court?
Answer: CHIEF JUSTICE
Question: On clothing care symbols what is meant by a crossed-out triangle?
Answer: DO NOT BLEACH
Question: Who plays the aged waitress in Victoria Wood's classic 'Two Soups' sketch?
Answer: JULIE WALTERS
Question: Which controversial footballer recently did a naked film shoot for The Big Issue to promote his new column in the magazine?
Answer: JOEY BARTON
Question: What is the highest mountain in New Zealand?
Answer: MOUNT COOK
Question: Who on radio had the catchphrase 'Right Monkey'?
Answer: AL READ
Question: Which supposed Chinese dish, whose name means 'odds and ends', is said to have been invented in San Francisco in the 19th century?
Answer: CHOP SUEY
Question: How frequently does the photograph on your driving licence need to be renewed?
Answer: EVERY 10 YEARS
Question: In what decade of the 20th century did Howard Carter excavate the tomb of Tutankhamun?
Answer: 1920s
Question: Which U.S. actor has recently criticised Britain for it's 'colonial' ownership of the Falkland Islands?
Answer: SEAN PENN
Question: If a capstan is a winding machine on a vertical axis, what is the equivalent on a horizontal axis?
Answer: WINDLASS
Question: If an animal uses thanatosis as self-protection, what does it do?
Answer: FEIGN DEATH
Question: Huby's Tower is a feature of which ruined abbey?
Answer: FOUNTAINS ABBEY
Question: 'Sweet Caroline' and 'Forever in Blue Jeans' are among the compositions of which American singer and songwriter?
Answer: NEIL DIAMOND
Question: What to a North American is a calumet?
Answer: PEACE PIPE
Question: What, in American English, is the meaning of 'sophomore'?
Answer: SECOND
Question: Who wrote the scripts for the TV series 'One Foot in the Grave'?
Answer: DAVID RENWICK
Question: Who hosted this year's Golden Globes award ceremony for the third year in a row?
Answer: RICKY GERVAIS
Question: What award was won by a Lhaso Apso in 2012 ?
Answer: BEST IN SHOW AT CRUFTS
Question: Which American-born businessman tried but failed to have Bond Street tube station renamed after his department store?
Answer: (Gordon) SELFRIDGE
Question: Which U.S. state is abbreviated to NE ?
Answer: NEBRASKA
Question: What character in radio's ITMA used to say "can i do you now sir" ?
Answer: MRS MOP
Question: In the manufacture of cloth, what is the name for the absorbent clay-like substance containing hydrated aluminium silicates that is used to cleanse the material?
Answer: FULLER'S EARTH
Question: Which popular prison-themed TV series that began in 1999 featured an evil prison officer named Jim Fenner, played by actor Jack Ellis?
Answer: BAD GIRLS
Question: Famous for being the birthplace of actor William Roach, in which English county is the town of Ilkeston?
Answer: DERBYSHIRE
Question: Introduced by American John Augustus Larson which invention, not very popular on the Jeremy Kyle show, was first seen in 1921?
Answer: LIE DETECTOR
Question: Appointed on February 4th 2011, who is the current manager of Sheffield Wednesday FC?
Answer: GARY MEGSON
Question: Listed at number 69 on the Periodic Table, which chemical element has the symbol Tm?
Answer: THULIUM
Question: In the House of Commons, which word of three letters is used by members supporting a motion vote?
Answer: AYE
Question: OVER SHREWD FAT is an anagram of which Welsh town?
Answer: HAVERFORDWEST
Question: Name the year - The Manchester Metrolink officially opens, Windsor Castle is badly damaged by fire, Gary Lineker is voted Football Writers Player of the Year and 'Stay' by Shakespeare's Sister reaches number one in the British pop charts.
Answer: 1992
Question: Which TV series was won by a man named Tom Pellerau on July 17th this year?
Answer: THE APPRENTICE
Question: Which tennis player reached the fonal of the men's singles at Wimbledon three times between 1990 and 1995, losing onevery occasion?
Answer: BORIS BECKER
Question: What is the name of the national currency of Thailand?
Answer: BAHT
Question: What is the name of the national currency of Malaysia?
Answer: RINGGIT
Question: From which musical does the song On The Street Where You live come?
Answer: MY FAIR LADY
Question: Which animal in the world comes second alphabetically?
Answer: AARDWOLF
Question: Which pub group owns the Toby Carvery chain?
Answer: MITCHELLS AND BUTLERS
Question: Which French tennis player defeated Serena Williams at this year's Wimbledon Championships?
Answer: MARION BARTOLI
Question: In music, the short-lived skiffle group known as Johnny and the Moondogs went on to become more famous under what name?
Answer: THE BEATLES
Question: 'Sparrow Grass' is an alternatve name for which plant?
Answer: ASPARAGUS
Question: In what is a food baked if it is 'en croute'?
Answer: PASTRY
Question: What is the usual collective noun for a group of toads?
Answer: KNOT
Question: Whose report in December 1942 led to the setting up of the N.H.S.?
Answer: WILLIAM BEVERIDGE
Question: Which rank in the Royal Navy is equivalent to that of brigadier in the Army?
Answer: COMMODORE
Question: In the 'Noggin the Nog' children's stories and cartoons what is the name of Noggin's wicked uncle?
Answer: NOGBAD
Question: What name is popularly applied to the church tower of St Botolph's in Boston, Lincolnshire?
Answer: THE BOSTON STUMP
Question: In the books of Michael Bond, Paddington Bear hails from which country?
Answer: PERU
Question: Described by Elizabeth I as 'the fairest and godliest church in England', in which city is the church of St Mary Redcliffe?
Answer: BRISTOL
Question: Who was Minister of Education when the 1944 Education Act was passed?
Answer: R.A.BUTLER
Question: What is the motto of the Salvation Army?
Answer: BLOOD AND FIRE
Question: What name is given to that part of Antarctica governed by New Zealand?
Answer: THE ROSS DEPENDENCY
Question: The village on Anglesey which boasts the longest placename in Britain (Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.. etc.) is notable for another reason: it was the location of the first ever meeting, in 1915, of a now nationwide organisation originally founded in Canada. Name the organisaton.
Answer: THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
Question: If something osifies, what does it turn into?
Answer: BONE
Question: Which ex tennis player who was born on November 22nd 1867 had the nickname 'boom boom'?
Answer: BORIS BECKER
Question: Which British comedian, now aged 53, played the role of a headmaster named Ian George in a BBC1 series called "Hope and Glory" in 1999 and 2000?
Answer: LENNY HENRY
Question: The Linea, the Sedici and the Stilo are all models of car that are made by which company?
Answer: FIAT
Question: Who was the main actor who played the murderous character Bob Rusk in the 1972 Hitchcock film "Frenzy"?
Answer: BARRY FOSTER
Question: Which bank had the advertising slogan 'The bank that likes to say yes'?
Answer: TSB
Question: If all the elements in the Periodic Table were placed in alphabetical order, which would be the last listed that is represented by a single letter symbol?
Answer: YTTRIUM
Question: Which organisation, formed in 1824, has the motto "Train one, save many"?
Answer: RNLI
Question: In a game of scrabble, the letter V is worth how many points?
Answer: FOUR
Question: Which six letter word is used to describe a person whose occupation is to drive a dog sled?
Answer: MUSHER
Question: Which eleven letter word is used to describe a person who performs on a tightrope?
Answer: FUNAMBULIST
Question: The flag of Tunisia consists of which two colours?
Answer: RED AND WHITE
Question: Which nine letter word, taken from the Aboriginal language is used by Australians for an oxbow lake or stagnant pond?
Answer: BILLABONG
Question: In which northern British city can you find Waverley Railway Station?
Answer: EDINBURGH
Question: Which British businessman and Liberal party politician and fraudster was at the centre of an 1892 scandal when the Liberator Building Society which he had set up failed, leaving thousands of investors penniless? He later fled to Argentina before being extradited, tried and imprisoned for 14 years.
Answer: Jabez BALFOUR
Question: Which actress played the role of Morticia Addams in the TV series "The Addams Family"?
Answer: CAROLYN JONES
Question: Which band in June 1985 reached number one in the UK charts with the record "Frankie"?
Answer: SISTER SLEDGE
Question: Sb is the chemical symbol for which element?
Answer: ANTIMONY
Question: Which 1948 Hitchcock film shares its name with a weapon in Cluedo?
Answer: ROPE
Question: Which motorway in England, just over 30 miles in length, runs just south of Preston through the major junction of the M6 and M61 motorways, past Darwin, Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley and ends at Colne?
Answer: M65
Question: Which actor who had starred in a previous show called "Department S" went on to have his own series in 1971 called "Jason King"?
Answer: PETER WYNGARDE
Question: Who sang the theme song to the 1966 film 'Alfie', starring Michael Caine?
Answer: CILLA BLACK
Question: Which music festival that has been annually contested since 1994 and named after its main sponsor was originally held at Strathclyde Park in Scotland but since 1997 has used a disused airfield in Balado near Kincross in Perth and Kincross?
Answer: T IN THE PARK
Question: Containing the name of a US state capital, which female sang the very first record on 'Top of the Pops' back in 1964?
Answer: DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
Question: Which ex Eastenders star won the award for the annually contested female 'Rear of the Year' in 1987?
Answer: ANITA DOBSON
Question: In which Midlands town can you find a large shopping centre called Westfield Merry Hill?
Answer: DUDLEY
Question: Which ex Coronation Street star won the award for the annually contested female 'Rear of the Year' award in 1996?
Answer: TRACY SHAW
Question: Which chemical element, listed as number 77 in the periodic table takes its name from the Latin for the rainbow?
Answer: IRIDIUM
Question: Which brand of soap was advertised on TV as giving you 'that schoolgirl complexion'?
Answer: PALMOLIVE
Question: Who was the creator of the character Bob the Builder?
Answer: KEITH CHAPMAN
Question: What ten letter word is given to the fish of the Goby family which frequently leave the water to jump on land using their adapted front fins to do so?
Answer: MUDSKIPPER
Question: What two word name is commonly given to the heavy, slow moving lizard that grows up to two feet in length and along with the Mexican Beaded Lizard is the only venomous lizard that lives in North America?
Answer: GILA MONSTER
Question: Hanged at Wandsworth prison in 1949 for killing six people, which British criminal was known as 'The Acid Bath Murderer'?
Answer: John HAIG
Question: Which famous animated character, first seen in 1953 in a feature called 'Cat Tails for Two' was usually wearing an over-sized sombrero, white shirt and trousers and red kerchief?
Answer: SPEEDY GONZALES
Question: Which venue in London hosts the annual Ideal Home Show?
Answer: EARL'S COURT
Question: In which English town can you find a series of five roundabouts arranged in a circle known as The Magic Roundabout? In a 2009 poll by Britannica Rescue it was voted the 4th scariest junction in Britain.
Answer: SWINDON
Question: The name of which Spanish newspaper translates as The Country?
Answer: EL PAIS
Question: Which American film actress, born in 1947, had a 14 year relationship with Clint Eastwood, starring with him in several films before splitting up in 1989?
Answer: SONDRA LOCKE
Question: Which American pop group reached number one in the UK charts for the only time in their career with the record 'When Will I See You Again'?
Answer: THREE DEGREES
Question: What nationality was Marie Tussaud who founded the famous wax museum?
Answer: SWISS
Question: Who won the Oscar for Best Film Director in 1986 for the film 'Out of Africa'?
Answer: SIDNEY POLLACK
Question: What is the name of the National Lottery draw where players pick five numbers from a range of 1 to 39 and one number from a range of 1 to 14?
Answer: THUNDERBALL
Question: What type of kitchen utensil is a ladle?
Answer: SPOON
Question: Ex Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher now holds the position of Baroness of where?
Answer: KESTEVEN
Question: Which Scottish criminal, born in 1944 in Glasgow's Gorbals, was one of the city's leading gangland figures during the 1960's. In 1967 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for murder. His autobiography and a TV show based on his life were entitles "A Sense of Freedom"?
Answer: JIMMY BOYLE
Question: What was the name of the Irish intruder who in 1982 managed to gain access to the Queen's bedroom?
Answer: MICHAEL FAGAN
Question: What is the name of the traditional throwing game, popular in fairgrounds, that features the head of an old woman with a clay pipe in her mouth?
Answer: AUNT SALLY
Question: In the book "Tom Brown's Schooldays" what was the name of the school bully that Tom and his friend Harry eventually defeat in a fight after enduring several months of bullying?
Answer: FLASHMAN
Question: What French word for a month of the year is the same as the English word for a planet?
Answer: MARS
Question: Royal Chantenay is a variety of what fruit or vegetable?
Answer: CARROT
Question: Which author created the crime solving character Jane Tennyson?
Answer: LYNDA LA PLANTE
Question: Which is the most heavily populated city in Brazil?
Answer: SAO PAULO
Question: There are only three coniferous trees native to the British Isles. The Scots Pine and the Yew are two native species, what is the third?
Answer: JUNIPER
Question: The House Sparrow was also found to be the most commonly seen bird in Wales and in Wrexham. The second most commonly seen bird to be seen in Wales and in Wrexham was not the Starling, whay was it?
Answer: BLUE TIT
Question: Near which local village does the river Gwenfro rise?
Answer: BWLCHGWYN
Question: Born in Holland, who is regarded as the finest woodworker to have worked in England. Noted for his Baroque garlands of still life framing mirrors and doorways, examples of his workmanship are seen in many buildings including St Paul's, Hampton Court and Bleheim palaces.
Answer: GRINLING GIBBONS
Question: ANAGRAMS - Which country is an anagram of the female film star famous mostly for her roles in "When Harry met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle"?
Answer: GERMANY
Question: In the chemical Periodic Table how many chemical elements are included in the group reffered to as the Halogens?
Answer: 5
Question: Which Italian composer who wrote church music, string quartets and symphonies, ws noted mainly for his many operas, among which were "Anne Boleyn" and "Lucretia Borgia"? He was born in Bergamo and joined the Austrian army at the end of the Napoleonic era.
Answer: DONIZETTI
Question: On this day, April 17th, in 1961, which infamous conflict took place in the Caribbean with major immediate political repercussions?
Answer: BAY OF PIGS
Question: What is the largest landlocked state in the USA with an area of just under 150,000 square miles?
Answer: MONTANA
Question: Which politician was the first rail fatality, killed under the wheels of Stephenson's "Rocket" in 1830?
Answer: WILLIAM HUSKISSON
Question: Which was the first newspaper to have a crossword?
Answer: DAILY EXPRESS
Question: Which world famous hotel shares its' name with a type of cabbage ?
Answer: SAVOY
Question: Which world famous hotel shares its' name with a biscuit ?
Answer: RITZ
Question: In cooking, to what ingredient is AGAR AGAR a vegetarian alternative ?
Answer: GELATIN
Question: Which is the southernmost city in Australia ?
Answer: HOBART
Question: Of the numbers from 1 to 12, which would score highest on plain squares as a word in the game of scrabble ?
Answer: TWELVE
Question: Which country produces more than 50 % of all Europe's rice ?
Answer: ITALY
Question: In the electromagnetic spectrum, which type of wavelength has shortest wavelength. Its main uses are in medical diagnosis.
Answer: GAMMA WAVES
Question: Who is the President of Argentina ?
Answer: CRISTINA KIRCHNER
Question: Horse racing - Welsh trainer Evan Williams trained which horse to come second in the 2013 Grand National ?
Answer: CAPPA BLEU
Question: Which British king, famous for his string of mistresses, had an arranged marriage to Caroline of Brunswick ? His first words to her were "I am not well, pray get me a glass of Brandy". He did not accede to the throne until he was 57, when he was described as a "bloated ruin".
Answer: GEORGE IV
Question: Which surname is shared by an American Jazz Singer and an American author ? ( It was also the middle name of an American president.)
Answer: FITZGERALD
Question: In what novel would you find the Dashwood family ?
Answer: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Question: Who was the British Prime Minister who reluctantly involved his country in the Crimean War and was subsequently blamed for its mismanagement and obliged to resign?
Answer: LORD ABERDEEN
Question: Which French artist painted "Haystacks", "Rouen Cathedral" and "Sunrise"?
Answer: MONET
Question: The pop group "Madness" had over 20 hit records in the top twenty. What was their only Number One?
Answer: HOUSE OF FUN
Question: The pop group "The Small Faces" had 11 top twenty records in the 60s and 70s but only one number one hit - what was it ?
Answer: ALL OR NOTHING
Question: In what year was the first Eurovision Song Contest held ?
Answer: 1956
Question: Which car manufacturer, based in Asia, was named as "Best Car Manufacturer" of 2012 ?
Answer: KIA