TriviaQA_rand1000/test.jsonl

{"question": "The advance south into England by Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745 reached approximately as far as the Swarkstone Bridge on which major English River?", "answer": "TRENT"}
{"question": "Who succeeded Brian Epstein as manager of The Beatles?", "answer": "Allan Klein"}
{"question": "What was singer Jack Jones father Allan's theme song", "answer": "Donkey Serenade"}
{"question": "What is the first name of either of the twin brothers of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter books?", "answer": "FRED or GEORGE"}
{"question": "Aconcagua is the highest mountain in which mountain range?", "answer": "Andes"}
{"question": "Charles Lindbergh became famous by flying which aeroplane?", "answer": "The Spirit of St Louis"}
{"question": "By what first name is West Indian cricketer Sarwan known?", "answer": "RAMNARESH"}
{"question": "What colour is the liqueur Galliano?", "answer": "Yellow"}
{"question": "If two lemons are added to two apples what, in mathematical terms, is the result?", "answer": "Four pieces of fruit"}
{"question": "Genever is the old word for what alcoholic drink?", "answer": "Gin"}
{"question": "In Ian Fleming\u2019s novel \u2018Moonraker\u2019, Sir Hugo Drax is suspected of cheating at which game in the Mayfair club \u2018Blades\u2019?", "answer": "Bridge"}
{"question": "The state of a plant grown in the dark with yellow leaves and long thin stems is known as what?", "answer": "ETIOLATION"}
{"question": "What Latin word meaning equal expresses a quality standard/norm (on or below or above etc), alluding to golfing performance?", "answer": "Par"}
{"question": "238 AD is known in Roman history as the Year of the ........ (how many) Emperors?", "answer": "SIX"}
{"question": "What animal kills more Americans than any other?", "answer": "Bees"}
{"question": "What was the christian name of the daughter of William Dorrit, known as Little Dorrit in the 1857 novel of the same name by Charles Dickens?", "answer": "AMY"}
{"question": "Which Thornbridge beer, gravity 5.9%, is named after an Indian city?", "answer": "JAIPUR"}
{"question": "The King of which fictional country is drugged on the eve of his coronation in the 1894 book The Prisoner of Zenda?", "answer": "Ruritania"}
{"question": "In which country is the La Quebrada cliff and the Acapulco Bay at its foot?", "answer": "Mexico"}
{"question": "Which former Soviet republic is the largest land-locked county in the world?", "answer": "Kazakhstan"}
{"question": "Throughout the 80s and 90s Phil Collins recorded on which record label?", "answer": "Atlantic"}
{"question": "Which golf course, which has hosted the Open Championship, was bought by Donald Trump early in 2014?", "answer": "The Aeneid"}
{"question": "As what are Jeff Ement, Matt Cameron, Mike McCready and Eddie Vedder collectively known?", "answer": "Pearl Jam"}
{"question": "Which group released their third studio album X+Y in 2005?", "answer": "Coldplay"}
{"question": "In British Wrestling who was Shirley Crabtree?", "answer": "Big Daddy"}
{"question": "Who in verse sailed to the land where the bong tree grows", "answer": "The owl and the pussycat"}
{"question": "What is the name of the ship featured in the 1957 film The Yangtse Incident?", "answer": "HMS AMETHYST"}
{"question": "Which famous actor is well known for his voice over work, including the \"This is CNN\" tag and the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars film franchise?", "answer": "James Earl Jones"}
{"question": "What hill does a bill sit on before it becomes a law?", "answer": "Capitol Hill"}
{"question": "In 1998, which director's Oscar acceptance speech included the line I'm king of the world?", "answer": "James Cameron"}
{"question": "What is the surname of the father and son who rode Grand National winners, L'Escargot in 1975 and Bobbyjo in 1999?", "answer": "Carberry"}
{"question": "Which organisation uses barbed wire and a candle as its symbol?", "answer": "AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL"}
{"question": "In 1938 Orson Welles, who was 22 at the time, wrote, produced, and narrated a radio play adaptation of what work, the US broadcast of which sparked widespread upheaval and panic?", "answer": "The War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells"}
{"question": "Acousticophilia is the sexual arousal by what?", "answer": "Sounds or music"}
{"question": "\"The last words of which German philosopher and author were (in translation) \"\"More Light!\"\"?\"", "answer": "J W VON GOETHE"}
{"question": "Rathlin Island, off the Northern Ireland coast, was refuge to which Scottish King in 1306?", "answer": "Robert the Bruce"}
{"question": "In which year did both T-Rex's Marc Bolan and Elvis Presley die ?", "answer": "1977"}
{"question": "Pistol and Boo, who became internationally famous in 2015, were what?", "answer": "Yorkshire terriers"}
{"question": "Which womens squash player won the World Open four times (1985, 1987, 1990 & 1992) and the British Open eight times?", "answer": "Susan Devoy"}
{"question": "Which fruit did Nell Gwynn, mistress of King Charles II, sell in Drury Lane?", "answer": "Oranges"}
{"question": "Which European city had the world\u2019s first birth control clinic?", "answer": "Amsterdam"}
{"question": "What had Edmond Hillary worked at before taking up mountain climbing?", "answer": "Bee Keeping"}
{"question": "In which country was Saddam Hussein President 1979-2003, being deposed and then hanged in 2006?", "answer": "Iraq"}
{"question": "Shire, Arabian, Mustang, and Hackney are types of?", "answer": "Horse"}
{"question": "\"Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film \"\"Die Another Day\"\"?\"", "answer": "Madonna"}
{"question": "Which film star is the title of a 1984 hit single by Madness?", "answer": "Michael Caine"}
{"question": "Which villain, played by Richard Kiel, appeared in two James Bond movies, 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'Moonraker'?", "answer": "Jaws"}
{"question": "In the sport of curling what name is usually given to the playing surface?", "answer": "THE BED"}
{"question": "Whose girlfriend had a pet snake called Enid?", "answer": "Adolf Hitler"}
{"question": "In the fairy tale Thumbelina, what creature wants the miniature girl to marry her son ?", "answer": "TOAD"}
{"question": "What is the name of the plastic bit on the end of shoelaces?", "answer": "An aglet"}
{"question": "Kurt Russell is the long term partner of which actress?", "answer": "GOLDIE HAWN"}
{"question": "Which American state shares borders with Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania?", "answer": "OHIO"}
{"question": "At 1900 the largest fishing port in the world was?", "answer": "Grimsby"}
{"question": "The USS Langley was the country's first type of which vessel?", "answer": "AIRCRAFT CARRIER"}
{"question": "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?", "answer": "George W Bush"}
{"question": "Which shipping passage was closed from 1967 to 1975?", "answer": "Suez Canal"}
{"question": "Which American Ivy League University is situated in Ithaca, New York State?", "answer": "CORNELL UNIVERSITY"}
{"question": "The Nag's Head was the local pub in which TV comedy series?", "answer": "ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES"}
{"question": "Covering an area in excess of 30,000 square miles, in which country can you find the 'Dasht  e Kavir Desert' the largest to lie wholly in it's own country?", "answer": "IRAN"}
{"question": "Which former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland died in August", "answer": "Albert Reynolds"}
{"question": "Who supposedly chopped down a cherry tree, but couldn't lie about it?", "answer": "George Washington"}
{"question": "What is unusual about tennis professional Mianne Bagger?", "answer": "She used to be male"}
{"question": "David Stern was the commissioner of what organization?", "answer": "NBA"}
{"question": "Espiritu Santo is the largest island of which island republic?", "answer": "VANUATU"}
{"question": "By which other name is the metallic element Potassium also known, hence its chemical formula K?", "answer": "KALLIUM"}
{"question": "What colour is the square (which contains a white star) on the flag of Chile?", "answer": "BLUE"}
{"question": "Which band, formed in Salford in 1976, contained Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook?", "answer": "'JOY DIVISION'"}
{"question": "Where is the Headquarters of Boeing?", "answer": "SEATTLE"}
{"question": "Saloth Sar was the real name of which infamous dictator?", "answer": "Pol Pot"}
{"question": "\"In the novel, \"\"Nicholas Nickelby\"\", by Charles Dickens, what was the name of the school, run by Wackford Squeers?\"", "answer": "DOTHEBOYS HALL"}
{"question": "Octavian, who became Augustus, and Lepidus were two of the 'Second Triumvirate' in 43 BC. Who was the third?", "answer": "MARK ANTONY"}
{"question": "The character Sally Bowles appears in which film?", "answer": "Cabaret"}
{"question": "How many Brandenburg Concertos did Bach write?", "answer": "6"}
{"question": "The official beverage of Puerto Rico since 1978, what drink consists of rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice?", "answer": "Pina Colada"}
{"question": "Hong Xiuquan was the pivotal figure of what 19th century upheaval in China which ultimately claimed about 20 million lives?", "answer": "Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864)"}
{"question": "What name is given to a piece of land assigned as part of a clergyman's living?", "answer": "GLEBE"}
{"question": "Who, with 84 goals in 85 games is Hungary\u2019s highest international goal scorer?", "answer": "FERENC PUSK\u00c1S"}
{"question": "In which 1816 novel do we meet the characters Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth?", "answer": "Persuasion"}
{"question": "Which mythical hero wielded the magical sword 'Hrunting'?", "answer": "Beowulf"}
{"question": "\"In Ovid's poem \"\"Metamorphoses\"\" Pygmalion famously fell in love with Galatea; what was Pygmalion's relationship to her?\"", "answer": "Her sculptor"}
{"question": "Aberdeen is known as what?", "answer": "The Granite City"}
{"question": "What mountain's peak is the farthest point from Earth's centre/center?", "answer": "Chimborazo"}
{"question": "Who is featured on Puff Daddy's Can't Hold Me Down?", "answer": "Mase"}
{"question": "Which media mogul married actress Jane Fonda in 1991, the marriage ending in divorce ten years later?", "answer": "TED TURNER"}
{"question": "For a point each, name the 6 countries surrounding the Republic of Cameroon.", "answer": "Nigeria, Chad, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo"}
{"question": "An alkali turns red litmus paper what colour/color?", "answer": "Blue"}
{"question": "The capital city of Nunavut, Iqaluit lies on which large island?", "answer": "Baffin Island"}
{"question": "At the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich, who won back to back gold medals in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres, defeating American distance runner Steve Prefontaine in the former?", "answer": "Lasse Virn"}
{"question": "What is the name for mammals born incompletely developed and carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly?", "answer": "Marsupials"}
{"question": "In World War II, what were Horsas and Hamilcars?", "answer": "GLIDERS"}
{"question": "Famous as a presenter on TV-am with Anne Diamond, who is the chairman of Luton Town FC?", "answer": "NICK OWEN"}
{"question": "In the human body, what is stored in adipose tissue?", "answer": "Fat"}
{"question": "Who wrote the original novel 'The Phantom of the Opera' in 1910?", "answer": "GASTON LEROUX"}
{"question": "Political leader Mustafa Kemal is better known by what name?", "answer": "Ataturk"}
{"question": "An apartment in which building has been the official London residence of the MP for Buckingham since June 2009 ?", "answer": "PALACE of WESTMINSTER"}
{"question": "The purple grenadilla is another name for which fruit?", "answer": "Passion fruit"}
{"question": "In April 1963, Lester Bowles Pearson became Prime Minister of which country?", "answer": "Canada"}
{"question": "What documentary filmmaker gained fame, and 25lbs, when he ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days, a diet which was immortalized in the film Super Size Me?", "answer": "Morgan Spurlock"}
{"question": "In which country was Earl Spencer's acrimonious divorce settlement heard?", "answer": "South Africa"}
{"question": "Which Scottish University was established as the world's first Mechanics Institute in 1821 ?", "answer": "HERIOT-WATT"}
{"question": "\"Which American legal TV drama-comedy (2004 to 2008), a spin-off of \"\"The Practice\"\", followed the exploits of attorneys at Crane, Poole & Schmidt?\"", "answer": "Boston Legal"}
{"question": "Which knight is with Arthur at the end and throws Excalibur into the lake?", "answer": "Sir Bedevere"}
{"question": "The 53.5 km Milford Track is a long-distance walk in which country?", "answer": "NEW ZEALAND"}
{"question": "Andy Warhol factory members Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Joe Campbell and Jackie Curtis were the real people who inspired which 1972 song?", "answer": "WALK ON THE WILD SIDE"}
{"question": "Which ruler sold the Louisiana Territories to the USA in 1803?", "answer": "NAPOLEON or BONAPARTE"}
{"question": "In 2004 who became the first African actress to win an Oscar for Best Actress?", "answer": "Charlize Theron"}
{"question": "Which poet (1770-1835) was known as the Ettrick Shepherd?", "answer": "James Hogg"}
{"question": "Which English poet and dramatist was jailed for murder of the actor Gabriel Spencer after a duel in 1598?", "answer": "BEN JONSON"}
{"question": "In cockney rhyming slang what is a dog and bone", "answer": "Telephone"}
{"question": "\"What was the name of the dog in the children\u2019s TV series \"\"The Herbs\"\"?\"", "answer": "Dill"}
{"question": "What is the name of the commercial airport which opened in 2005 on the site of the former RAF Finningley?", "answer": "Robin Hood Airport"}
{"question": "Which area of London derives its name from a hunting call hum medieval times?", "answer": "SOHO"}
{"question": "The eldest son of a French King was always given which title?", "answer": "Dauphin"}
{"question": "When was the person who said \u201cNow, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.\u201d born?", "answer": "22-Apr-04"}
{"question": "Which film is set on the remote Hebridean island of Summerisle?", "answer": "The Wicker Man"}
{"question": "What country produces the most olive oil?", "answer": "Spain"}
{"question": "Before which annual sporting event is it the custom for the two club Presidents to toss a coin, an 1829 sovereign?", "answer": "OXBRIDGE BOAT RACE"}
{"question": "Vancouver is not the first Canadian city to host the winter Olympics. What city holds that honor when they hosted the 1988 games?", "answer": "Calgary, Alberta"}
{"question": "What is the title of the 2009 biopic film directed by Sam Taylor-Wood about the early life of John Lennon", "answer": "Nowhere Boy"}
{"question": "Opened in 1963, which London nightclub did Mark Birley name after his then wife?", "answer": "ANNABELS"}
{"question": "November 30, 1810 saw the birth of what U.S. inventor and business man who is credited with creating the gun that won the west?", "answer": "Oliver Winchester"}
{"question": "At the age of 86, which US actor married 40 year old make up artist Arlene Silver in 2012?", "answer": "Dick Van Dyke"}
{"question": "What was the name of the alliance of trading cities and their guilds, each with their own law system and with armies for mututal aid, that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland, from the 13th to 17th centuries?", "answer": "Hanseatic League"}
{"question": "England won the 1966 World Cup beating Germany 4-2. Hurst scored 3 of England's goals who scored the other?", "answer": "Martin Peters"}
{"question": "What is the correct name for a punt pole", "answer": "Quant"}
{"question": "The 2013-4 MacRobertson Shield international competition, hosted in New Zealand, was in what sport?", "answer": "Croquet"}
{"question": "Turkey's internet country TLD (Top Level Domain) code is?", "answer": ".tr"}
{"question": "Which four letter word beginning with T is a small mountain lake?", "answer": "Tarn"}
{"question": "Who succeeded Nelson Mandela as South African president?", "answer": "THABO MBEKI"}
{"question": "In 1969, a man was stabbed to death by a member of the Hell's Angels at a Rolling Stones concert. Where was the concert held?", "answer": "Altamont"}
{"question": "The port of Plymouth is in which English county?", "answer": "Devon"}
{"question": "Which composer did pianist Clara Wieck marry in 1840?", "answer": "ROBERT SCHUMANN"}
{"question": "Name either of Marge Simpson\u2019s twin sisters in The Simpsons.", "answer": "PATTY or SELMA"}
{"question": "The voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff, Speedy Gonzales, Elmer Fudd and hundreds of others, which American voice actor was born on May 30, 1908?", "answer": "Mel Blanc"}
{"question": "Which car was once dubbed the Reptina because of it's popularity with sales reps", "answer": "Ford Cortina"}
{"question": "What was the title of Fun Lovin\u2019 Criminals\u2019 1996 song that nearly made the Top 20?", "answer": "SCOOBY SNACKS"}
{"question": "Under what name is the American singer/songwriter Steveland Judkins better known?", "answer": "STEVIE WONDER"}
{"question": "January 18, 1778 saw Captain James Cook discover what island group, which he named the Sandwich Islands, in honor of his sponsor, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich?", "answer": "The Hawaiian Islands"}
{"question": "What is the name of a shoe that is traditionally made of wood?", "answer": "Clog"}
{"question": "Complete the name of the MLB (Baseball) team based in Arlington, Texas - 'The Texas....'?", "answer": "'..RANGERS'"}
{"question": "Which fashion editor has the nickname 'Nuclear'?", "answer": "ANNA WINTOUR"}
{"question": "\"In September 2010, why did Chen Xiaomei of the city of Xian announce that she was suing a cinema and film distributors of Chinese box office hit \"\"Aftershock\"\"?\"", "answer": "Wasting her time"}
{"question": "Who is the only person allowed to consume alcohol in the chamber of the British House of Commons and even then on only one special day of the year?", "answer": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER"}
{"question": "What is the name of the family\u2019s pet goldfish in the US television cartoon series \u2018American Dad\u2019?", "answer": "Klaus Heissler"}
{"question": "In which year did St George die?", "answer": "303"}
{"question": "In pantomime, who is Cinderella's father?", "answer": "Baron Hard-Up"}
{"question": "The Colorado beetle attacks what crop?", "answer": "Potato"}
{"question": "\"Which actress/singer starred as Doralee Rhodes in the 1980 film, \"\"Nine to Five\"\"?\"", "answer": "DOLLY PARTON"}
{"question": "Which Tennis star was Brooke Shields once married to?", "answer": "Andre Agassi"}
{"question": "In the British Army, which commissioned rank is indicated by a crown on each shoulder?", "answer": "Major"}
{"question": "Who were the American explorers who travelled from Missouri to the Oregon and back between 1804 and 1806?", "answer": "Lewis and Clark, William Clark & Meriwether Lewis."}
{"question": "The sea between Australia and New Zealand is named after an explorer of what nationality?", "answer": "DUTCH"}
{"question": "\"Who, as part of his performance in the 2015 film \"\"Revenant\"\", was realistically eviscerated by a bear on screen?\"", "answer": "Leonardo DiCaprio"}
{"question": "What are the words kayak, radar and sagas?", "answer": "Palindromes"}
{"question": "Bryan Ferry was the lead singer of which 1970\u2019s band?", "answer": "Roxy Music"}
{"question": "In which town did the Co-operative Movement begin?", "answer": "ROCHDALE"}
{"question": "The worlds largest marketer of fruit juices, what is the juice arm of the Coca Cola company?", "answer": "Minute Maid"}
{"question": "\"What was the most famous song from the movie \"\"Frozen\"\"?\"", "answer": "Let it Go"}
{"question": "In which year did John Stonehouse disappear and the Flixborough chemical plant exploded?", "answer": "1974"}
{"question": "Which Swiss firm of architects was responsible for the Allianz Arena in Munich and converting B Power Station in London into Tate Modern?", "answer": "ERZOG & DE MEURON"}
{"question": "Lead poisoning, caused by increased levels of the metal lead in the blood, that may cause irreversible neurological damage, renal disease, and reproductive toxicity, is not also known in medical circles as ?", "answer": "Gunshot wounds"}
{"question": "\"Which car company, in 1986, comissioned \"\"Cars\"\", a series of artworks to track the evolution of its designs, from Andy Warhol?\"", "answer": "Mercedes-Benz"}
{"question": "Give a year in the reign of King Stephen.", "answer": "1135-1154"}
{"question": "What type of animal is a pongo", "answer": "Ape"}
{"question": "In which year in the 20's did the General Strike occur", "answer": "1926"}
{"question": "In the human body, which bone connects the humerus with the calvicle?", "answer": "Scapula (shoulder blade)"}
{"question": "While working for an advertising agency, which famous author was part of a team that devised the advertising slogan \u201cNice One Cyril\u201d?", "answer": "Peter Mayle"}
{"question": "Colchester stands on which river? The river shares its name with a Lancashire town.", "answer": "Colne"}
{"question": "\"Jared Kass, one of the inventors of a recreational sport described it as follows. Fill in the missing word which is also the name of the sport. \"\"I just remember one time running for a pass and leaping up in the air and just feeling the Frisbee making it into my hand and feeling the perfect synchrony and the joy of the moment, and as I landed I said to myself, 'This is the ... game. This is the ... game.'\"\"\"", "answer": "Ultimate (frisbee)"}
{"question": "On 7 January 2006, Elliot John Crosby became the youngest bowler in Britain to achieve what in a sanctioned ten-pin bowling competition?", "answer": "Roll a perfect single game score of 300"}
{"question": "What are the narrow bands of strong winds called which move around the world between about six and twelve miles high?", "answer": "Jet Streams"}
{"question": "American singer Ernest Evans called himself Chubby Checker to emulate the name of which other musician?", "answer": "Fats Domino"}
{"question": "What is the name of the world's largest church, that was begun in 1450, finished in 1600 and consecrated by Pope Urban XIII in 1626?", "answer": "St Peter's, Rome"}
{"question": "In which English country is the country house Dorneywood?", "answer": "BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"}
{"question": "A pioneering method for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers in the 1840s has what significance for the digital age?", "answer": "The method, created by Ada Lovelace for Babbage's Analytical Engine, is widely credited as the world's first computer program."}
{"question": "According to TV advertising which company has the slogan, 'It's got our name on it'?", "answer": "WICKES"}
{"question": "In the British military, a bombadier is equivalent to which other rank?", "answer": "Corporal"}
{"question": "I Drove All Night in 1993 was the last solo UK chart entry for which singer?", "answer": "Roy Orbison"}
{"question": "By what name was Australia known before British colonisation?", "answer": "New Holland"}
{"question": "February 8, 1960 saw the creation of what major Los Angeles attraction which runs for 1.7 miles from North Grower Street to North La Brea Avenue, a short segment of Marshfield Way, and a section of Vine St between Yucca Street and Sunset Boulevard?", "answer": "Hollywood Walk of Fame"}
{"question": "The Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, is the leader of which political party?", "answer": "SYRIZA"}
{"question": "What is, or was, a barouche?", "answer": "A (FOUR WHEELED) CARRIAGE"}
{"question": "Vijay Singh, a US Masters champion, comes from where?", "answer": "Fiji"}
{"question": "The world became aware of the Chernobyl disaster after detectors were triggered in which country?", "answer": "SWEDEN"}
{"question": "Who composed the music for \u2018Billy Elliot, the Musical\u2019?", "answer": "Sir ELTON JOHN"}
{"question": "In what film did Oprah Winfrey make her big screen acting debut?", "answer": "The Color Purple"}
{"question": "What was journalist Richard Littlejohn\u2019s nickname for Cherie Blair?", "answer": "WICKED WITCH"}
{"question": "On what body of water did Jesus supposedly walk?", "answer": "Sea of Galilee"}
{"question": "Which nation boasts the world's longest running TV sports show, Hockey Night, first aired 1952?", "answer": "Canada"}
{"question": "What was the name of the secret society which led a revolt of the Kikuyu people of Kenya in 1952 ?", "answer": "MAU MAU"}
{"question": "Bullfighting is central to which Ernest Hemingway non-fiction book?", "answer": "Death in the Afternoon"}
{"question": "What is a form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect?", "answer": "Pun"}
{"question": "The Centigrade temperature scale is also known commonly by what name?", "answer": "Celsius"}
{"question": "\"The Jacques Brel song \"\"Le moribond\"\" (translation \"\"the dying man\"\") was a hit in English for Terry Jacks under what title?\"", "answer": "SEASONS IN THE SUN"}
{"question": "What plant do we often call the 'Busy Lizzie'?", "answer": "Impatiens"}
{"question": "A drupe is a type of what?", "answer": "Fruit"}
{"question": "Which was the only country to win two silver medals and no other medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics? (clue - both medals were won in men's sprint events)", "answer": "Trinidad and Tobago"}
{"question": "Which organization of the Catholic church whose name is Latin for 'Work of God' received world attention with the publication of The Da Vinci Code in which it is portrayed as participating in a sinister international conspiracy?", "answer": "Opus Dei"}
{"question": "A speechwriter for both Ford and Nixon, before becoming actor and comedian, who won a Emmy award as host of a game show in which you could win $5000 of his own money?", "answer": "Win Ben Steins Money"}
{"question": "In what city would you find Yale University?", "answer": "New Haven"}
{"question": "Where did Richard III \u2018imprison\u2019 his two young nephews in order to eliminate them from succession to the throne so that he could gain the crown of England?", "answer": "Tower of London"}
{"question": "What Chinese tile game was popular in the U.S.?", "answer": "Mahjong"}
{"question": "What was once the most abundant bird in North America but was driven to extinction in 1914?", "answer": "Passenger Pigeon"}
{"question": "\"Which album by Lily Allen contained the tracks \"\"The Fear\"\", \"\"Not Fair\"\" and \"\"22\"\"?\"", "answer": "It's Not Me, It's You"}
{"question": "In which US state is Harvard University?", "answer": "MASSACHUSSETTS"}
{"question": "What style of American Football founded in 2003 is a full-contact 7 a side game where uniforms consist of helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, knee pads, bras, and panties?", "answer": "Lingerie Football League"}
{"question": "By how many years to the day did OJ Simpson's conviction for robbery and kidnapping follow his acquittal of murder?", "answer": "Thirteen"}
{"question": "Which American won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002?", "answer": "JIMMY CARTER"}
{"question": "\"What was the first pop video directed by John Landis, whose directing credits include \"\"National Lampoon's Animal House\"\" and \"\"The Blues Brothers\"\"?\"", "answer": "\"Michael Jackson's \"\"Thriller\"\"\""}
{"question": "Where does Roseanne have a tattoo of a pink rose?", "answer": "Her foot"}
{"question": "In what Beijing square were democracy activists massacred in 1989?", "answer": "Tiananmen"}
{"question": "The main international cricket competitions are Test matches, ODI, and which other?", "answer": "Twenty20 Internationals"}
{"question": "Geoff Keegan was leader at which youth club on TV throughout the 1990s?", "answer": "Byker Grove"}
{"question": "Which actress was voted Miss Greenwich Village in 1942?", "answer": "Lauren Bacall"}
{"question": "Which King reigned for only 325 days?", "answer": "Edward 8th"}
{"question": "The daughter of the extravagant baronet 'Sir Walter Eliot', 'Anne Eliot is the central character in which of Jane Austen's novels?", "answer": "'PERSUASION'"}
{"question": "\"The song \"\"Have yourself a merry little Christmas\"\" comes from which musical?\"", "answer": "MEET ME IN ST LOUIS"}
{"question": "Harvey was one of Dr. Crippen\u2019s first names. What was the other?", "answer": "HAWLEY"}
{"question": "Which zodiac sign is between Libra and Sagittarius?", "answer": "SCORPIO"}
{"question": "Deficiency in which vitamin causes Beri-Beri?", "answer": "B1"}
{"question": "\u2018The Weeping Woman\u2019 is the work of which artist?", "answer": "Pablo Picasso"}
{"question": "Specifically, What is the only mammal that could be described as parasitic?", "answer": "The Vampire Bat"}
{"question": "First published in 1932, what is the official magazine of the British Film Institute?", "answer": "SIGHT & SOUND"}
{"question": "Which Rugby League team plays home games at Derwent Park?", "answer": "WORKINGTON TOWN"}
{"question": "The infectious disease roup affects which creatures?", "answer": "Poultry and pigeons"}
{"question": "Who was the author of \u0091Pygmalion'?", "answer": "George Bernard Shaw"}
{"question": "Duke D'Mond, who died aged 66 in 2009, was lead singer of which successful UK comedy pop group?", "answer": "The Barron Knights"}
{"question": "Which poet wrote \u2018The Lake Isle of Innisfree\u2019?", "answer": "William Butler Yeats"}
{"question": "In which decade of the 20th century was Anne Bancroft born?", "answer": "1930s"}
{"question": "The first stations on the four lines leaving which city by rail are Wymondham, Salhouse, Brundall Gardens and Diss?", "answer": "NORWICH"}
{"question": "\"What type of clothing is a \"\"sou-wester\"\"?\"", "answer": "Hat"}
{"question": "Which Bradford car manufacturer, up until 1954, built the Javelin and Jupiter models?", "answer": "JOWETT"}
{"question": "What is the name for the Vietnamese New Year? (Hint: three letters)", "answer": "T\u1ebft"}
{"question": "Which was the last non-capital city to host the Summer Olympic Games?", "answer": "SYDNEY"}
{"question": "Hedonophobia is the irrational fear of what?", "answer": "Pleasure"}
{"question": "Which country since the late 1900s has governed/overseen the increasing independence of the New Caledonia archipelago, east of Australia?", "answer": "France"}
{"question": "In 1947, Chuck Yeager was the first to do what in an aeroplane?", "answer": "Break the sound barrier"}
{"question": "Which precious gem is the birthstone for May?", "answer": "Emerald"}
{"question": "Antananarivo is the capital of which country?", "answer": "Madagascar"}
{"question": "Which member of the cabinet is MP for Maidenhead?", "answer": "THERESA MAY"}
{"question": "What well known alcoholic drink was originally known as 'Usquebaugh'?", "answer": "WHISKY"}
{"question": "\"The chant \"\"Boom I ay!\"\" meaning \"\"kill him\"\" was famously used to egg which sportsman in 1974?\"", "answer": "Muhammad Ali (during the Rumble in the Jungle fight)"}
{"question": "Which Dickens' novel features Mr Merdle, Edmund Sparkler and Tattycoram?", "answer": "Little Dorrit"}
{"question": "Hob and Jill are the male and female names respectively for which type of creature ?", "answer": "FERRET"}
{"question": "Trinidad lies opposite the delta of which major river?", "answer": "Orinoco"}
{"question": "What was the stage name of singer/actor Terence Nelhams?", "answer": "Adam Faith"}
{"question": "The English Football Association banned (What?) from 1921 to 1971 at its member clubs?", "answer": "Women's Football games"}
{"question": "Sir Basil Spence is associated with what activity?", "answer": "Architecture"}
{"question": "Quantrill's Raiders, a loosely organised force of Partisan rangers under the leadership of William Clarke Quantril, fought in which war?", "answer": "American Civil War"}
{"question": "Who were the victors of the Battle of Austerlitz?", "answer": "The French under Napoleon"}
{"question": "What kind of bird is a Blue Orpington", "answer": "Chicken"}
{"question": "What piece of equipment was banned from the National Gallery in 2015?", "answer": "SELFIE STICK"}
{"question": "What separates East and West Malaysia?", "answer": "South China Sea"}
{"question": "Who played Beverley Hills hairdresser George Roundy in the 1975 film \u2018Shampoo\u2019?", "answer": "Warren Beatty"}
{"question": "What speaker component is used to produce the highest audio frequencies, usually between 2,000HZ and 20,000HZ?", "answer": "Tweeter"}
{"question": "In what South American country was unrepentant asshat Che Guevara and his band of merry men captured and ultimately executed?", "answer": "Bolivia"}
{"question": "What collective noun is normally used to describe a group of finches or hummingbirds ?", "answer": "A CHARM"}
{"question": "Bjrn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson wrote most of the songs for which pop group?", "answer": "ABBA"}
{"question": "In which city was the rock star Michael Hutchence found dead in 1997 ?", "answer": "SYDNEY"}
{"question": "The Isis is the upper reach of which British river?", "answer": "River Thames"}
{"question": "Who played Rachel Green in Friends?", "answer": "Jennifer Aniston"}
{"question": "The Frenchman Jean Robert-Houdin (1805-1871) is credited with formalizing what form of entertainment?", "answer": "Magic"}
{"question": "\"What actor played the father on \"\"Little House on the Prairie\"\"?\"", "answer": "Michael Landon"}
{"question": "Who is the next in this series: John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, James J. Jeffries, Marvin Hart, ... ?", "answer": "Tommy Burns"}
{"question": "Which stretch of waterway separates Madagascar from the African mainland?", "answer": "MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL"}
{"question": "Who had a hit in 2013 with Lost Generation", "answer": "Rizzle Kicks"}
{"question": "In 1926, Irish aristocrat Violet Gibson attempted but failed to assassinate which political leader?", "answer": "Benito Mussolini"}
{"question": "\"What is \"\"Too much money chasing too few goods\"\"?\"", "answer": "Inflation"}
{"question": "What does the average person have 206 of?", "answer": "Bones"}
{"question": "The Royal Border Bridge crosses which river", "answer": "Tweed"}
{"question": "Who did Michael Gorbachev succeed as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?", "answer": "KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO"}
{"question": "'The Umbrellas' is the work of which French impressionist?", "answer": "Renoir"}
{"question": "In the middle ages, what were built in Canterbury, York, Lincoln, Salisbury, Lichfield and Winchester?", "answer": "Cathedrals"}
{"question": "Which 70s show was based on the British show Till Death Us Do Part?", "answer": "All In The Family"}
{"question": "Which Irish politician was known as 'The Liberator'?", "answer": "Daniel O'Connell"}
{"question": "What is the scientific name for the heart's pacemaker?", "answer": "Sinoatrial node"}
{"question": "Dishes prepared with spinach can be referred to as what?", "answer": "la Florentine"}
{"question": "What artist famously cut off one of his own ears?", "answer": "Vincent Van Gogh"}
{"question": "Which US comic superhero has the real name Steve Rogers?", "answer": "Captain America"}
{"question": "How long was swimmer Michelle Smith-de Bruin banned for attempting to manipulate a drugs test?", "answer": "4 years"}
{"question": "Said to refer erroneously to the temperature at which book paper catches fire, the title of Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel about a futuristic society in which reading books is illegal, is called 'Fahrenheit...' what? 972; 451; 100; or 25?", "answer": "451"}
{"question": "What survey line, completed in 1767, is typically thought to separate the slave owning South from the freedom loving North?", "answer": "Mason-Dixon line"}
{"question": "January 17, 1929 saw the pride of Chester, Il, Elzie Segar debut what iconic cartoon character in a Thimble Theater strip?", "answer": "Popeye the Sailor Man"}
{"question": "Which artist David was born in Bradford UK?", "answer": "Hockney"}
{"question": "The first Olympic flag, presented to the IOC at the 1920 Olympics by the city of Antwerp, Belgium, was lost until 1977. Where had it been?", "answer": "In the bottom of a competitors suitcase"}
{"question": "What name was given to the English Civil war in the 15th century between the rival houses of Lancaster and York?", "answer": "Wars of the Roses"}
{"question": "What famed British naturalist, born on Feb 12, 1809, wrote a book famously subtitled \"the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life\"?", "answer": "Charles Darwin"}
{"question": "What was the language of the Roman Empire?", "answer": "Latin"}
{"question": "What is the most common phobia in the United States, according to the NIMH?", "answer": "Fear of Public Speaking"}
{"question": "Which saint established a monastery and Christian community on the island of Iona in the year 563?", "answer": "ST COLUMBA"}
{"question": "What was Sophie Kinsella's best selling book of 2009?", "answer": "Confessions of a Shopaholic"}
{"question": "\"Which Latin phrase, that translates literally as \"\"under the rose\"\", means 'secretly' or 'in confidence'?\"", "answer": "SUB ROSA"}
{"question": "Who was the mother of Edward VI?", "answer": "JANE SEYMOUR"}
{"question": "John Hannah and Ken Stott have both appeared in the role of which fictional detective?", "answer": "John Rebus"}
{"question": "Which female succeeded John Prescott as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in June 2007?", "answer": "Harriet Harman"}
{"question": "What is the more correct term for the sport of archery?", "answer": "TOXOPHILY"}
{"question": "Who, more famous for his opera \u2018Faust\u2019, wrote the music used for the anthem of the Vatican City?", "answer": "CHARLES GOUNOD"}
{"question": "For which art form is Henri Cartier-Bresson best known?", "answer": "Photography"}
{"question": "Plaka is the old quarter of which European city?", "answer": "Athens"}
{"question": "Which is the most southerly country of the EU?", "answer": "Malta"}
{"question": "\"After stints backing Little Richard and the Isley Brothers, who was discovered leading \"\"Jimmy James and the Blue Flames\"\" at the Caf Wha? in New York and taken to London on 26 September 1966 to make hit records?\"", "answer": "Jimi Hendrix"}
{"question": "What was the middle name of the author William Thackeray?", "answer": "MAKEPEACE"}
{"question": "Where do you find the Bridal Veil, American, and Horseshoe Falls?", "answer": "Niagara Falls"}
{"question": "What is hopology the study of", "answer": "Weapons"}
{"question": "Oct 5, 1902 saw the birth of Ray Kroc, who started which ubiquitous food source, the most successful fast food operation in the world?", "answer": "McDonalds"}
{"question": "What section of Los Angeles was devastated by six days of rioting in August 1965, following a drunk driving arrest, which resulted in 34 deaths and over $50 million in property damage?", "answer": "Watts"}
{"question": "What is the name of the Sunday before Easter Sunday?", "answer": "PALM SUNDAY"}
{"question": "What was named after American frontiersman James Bowie?", "answer": "Knife"}
{"question": "What name is given to the declaration of aims and policies of a political party before an election?", "answer": "Manifesto"}
{"question": "Who was the executioner of Louis XVI?", "answer": "Sansom"}
{"question": "\"The \"\"phylloxera epidemic\"\" affects what?\"", "answer": "Grapevines"}
{"question": "What is the final event in a decathlon?", "answer": "1500 metres"}
{"question": "Bonham\u2019s, Christies, Forbes and Fellows are are what type of business?", "answer": "Auctioneers"}
{"question": "Which advert on TV, showed a young boy pushing a bicycle up a steep hill, to the strains of Dvorak's Ninth Symphony?", "answer": "HOVIS"}
{"question": "What weight was Cyril Smith MP when he was at his heaviest", "answer": "Twenty nine stone twelve pounds"}
{"question": "Emelius Browne, Mr Jelk and Colonel Heller are all characters in which Disney film?", "answer": "Bedknobs and Broomsticks"}
{"question": "The cup, or bowl, Jesus was said to have used at the Last Supper is known as \u2018The Holy \u2018what\u2019?", "answer": "Grail"}
{"question": "In Channel 4's 1987 adaptation of Tom Sharpe's novel 'Porterhouse Blue', who played the part of Skullion the Head Porter?", "answer": "David Jason"}
{"question": "What was the name of Shari Lewis' sassy sock puppet?", "answer": "Lamb Chop."}
{"question": "What is the name for the practice of water divining by deploying a deflecting stick?", "answer": "Dowsing/Rhabdomancy"}
{"question": "A wisp or walk is the collective noun for which group of birds? Latin name gallinago gallinago.", "answer": "Snipe"}
{"question": "\"Who was the author of \"\"Around The World In 80 Days\"\" and \"\"20,000 Leagues Under The Sea\"\"?\"", "answer": "Jules Verne"}
{"question": "Opened in May 11, 2010, Charlotte, NC is the home to the Hall of Fame for what popular outdoor sport, the second most watched sport (on TV) in the US?", "answer": "NASCAR"}
{"question": "What painter is sometimes confused with Claude Monet because their last names differ by just a single letter?", "answer": "\u00c9douard Manet"}
{"question": "Who resigned in October 1983 after a scandal over his \u2018lovechild\u2019?", "answer": "CECIL PARKINSON"}
{"question": "Which actress was born Demetria Gene Guynes in 1962?", "answer": "Demi Moore"}
{"question": "The Levant, (deriving from 15th century French, lever, 'rising', relating to the Eastern sunrise) refers to what part of the world?", "answer": "Eastern Mediterranean"}
{"question": "What is the only football league team in Britain which doesn't have any of the letters from the word football in its name?", "answer": "Dundee"}
{"question": "A Lemur is a small primate found only on which island?", "answer": "MADAGASCAR"}
{"question": "In which US city is the 1974 film Towering Inferno set?", "answer": "San Francisco"}
{"question": "\"Which Welsh actor portrays David Frost in the 2008 film, \"\"Frost/Nixon\"\"?\"", "answer": "MICHAEL SHEEN"}
{"question": "Which metal is produced by the Bessemer Process?", "answer": "STEEL"}
{"question": "Haematite is an ore of which metal?", "answer": "Iron"}
{"question": "Which river meets the sea at Fleetwood on Lancashire's Fylde coast?", "answer": "Wyre"}
{"question": "Richard Daley was mayor of which city for 21 years?", "answer": "Chicago"}
{"question": "Which ship did Drake command against the Spanish Armada?", "answer": "Revenge"}
{"question": "Which ballroom dance is Spanish for double step", "answer": "Paso doble"}
{"question": "Who wrote much of King George V's first Christmas broadcast, made in 1932?", "answer": "Rudyard Kipling"}
{"question": "\"Who wrote the story \"\"A Christmas Carol\"\"?\"", "answer": "Charles Dickens"}
{"question": "Who, in May 2006 when aged 17 years and 75 days, became the youngest footballer to play for England?", "answer": "Theo Walcott"}
{"question": "Mercosur (or Mercosul) is an economic political agreement among which six South American countries?", "answer": "Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia"}
{"question": "Benigo Aquino murdered in the Phillipines, a Korean Boeing 747 shot down over Sakhalin Island, and John McEnroe wins at Wimbledon for the second time. Which year?", "answer": "1983"}
{"question": "\"What were the last words of Romeo in Shakespeare's \"\"Romeo and Juliet\"\"?\"", "answer": "Thus with a kiss I die"}
{"question": "What's the capital of the state that the Space Needle is at?", "answer": "Olympia"}
{"question": "What Michelle Pfeiffer movie got a boost from the Coolio song Gangsta's Paradise?", "answer": "Dangerous Minds"}
{"question": "What award is given for a wound in the American forces", "answer": "Purple Heart"}
{"question": "What is either a bay in the Indian ocean or a subspecies of tiger?", "answer": "Bengal"}
{"question": "Under what name did Bernard Schwartz (1925 to 2010) find fame as a film star?", "answer": "TONY CURTIS"}
{"question": "What was the Roman name for England", "answer": "Albion"}
{"question": "An enclave nation is (What?) by another nation?", "answer": "Surrounded"}
{"question": "The Tour de France always ends in Paris. In what European city did it begin this year?", "answer": "Monaco"}
{"question": "What was Grace Darling's father's job?", "answer": "Lighthouse keeper"}
{"question": "When was the person who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born born?", "answer": "January 8, 1891"}
{"question": "When was the anime studio that made Sword Art Online founded?", "answer": "9-May-05"}
{"question": "Which movie was a biopic about the life of David Helfgott?", "answer": "Shine"}
{"question": "Which 'literary' nickname has been given to the extinct species of man, discovered in Indonesia 2003, named Homo Floresiensis?", "answer": "Hobbits"}
{"question": "What singer is by far the most famous person from the island nation of Barbados?", "answer": "Rihanna"}
{"question": "In the novel 'Treasure Island' name the pirate shot dead by Jim Hawkins in the rigging of the Hispaniola", "answer": "ISRAEL HANDS"}
{"question": "In selling and communications, what do 'open questions' generally achieve? Open questions", "answer": "gather information, improve understanding, and build rapport by encouraging the other person to talk and explain things, including how they feel about things"}
{"question": "Quitline is a system of centres to help people to quit what?", "answer": "Tobacco or alcohol"}
{"question": "What was invented in the 1940s by Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, who was building magnetrons for radar sets?", "answer": "Microwave oven"}
{"question": "What highly durable footwear is used to name a species of bat and crab, alluding respectively to nose and body shapes?", "answer": "Horseshoe"}
{"question": "\"Which Scottish actor, born in Paisley, starred in the movies \"\"300\"\", \"\"Law Abiding Citizen\"\" and \"\"P.S. I love you\"\" ?\"", "answer": "GERARD BUTLER"}
{"question": "Who wrote the 1963 novel \u2018The Spy Who Came in From the Cold\u2019?", "answer": "John Le Carre"}
{"question": "Which nonagenarian is one of the foremost exponents of dontopedalogy?", "answer": "PRINCE PHILIP"}
{"question": "In the late 60s Owen Finlay MacLaren pioneered what useful item for parents of small chldren?", "answer": "Baby Buggy"}
{"question": "What is the common name of the flowering plant Kniphofia?", "answer": "Red Hot Poker"}
{"question": "The greatest confirmed age for any living creature is for a species of quahog (pronounced ko-hog) at over 500 years old. What is the common name for this species of creature?", "answer": "Clam"}
{"question": "\"What sort of animal is Beatrix Potter's \"\"Mrs Tiggywinkle\"\"?\"", "answer": "Hedehog"}
{"question": "In what year did Torville and Dean (Jane and Christopher) win their first Olympic gold, scoring 12 perfect sixes in their free-dance routine?", "answer": "1984"}
{"question": "What name is given to the practice of arranging voting districts to favour one candidate or party above another?", "answer": "Gerrymandering"}
{"question": "In old measurement 1 rod = 1 pole = 1 perch = what fraction of 1 chain?", "answer": "A QUARTER"}
{"question": "What is the largest state in Brazil?", "answer": "AMAZONAS"}
{"question": "\"What profession requires the artist to know about \"\"F stops\"\"?\"", "answer": "Photography"}
{"question": "Gingivitis affects which part of the body", "answer": "Gums"}
{"question": "Who won the World Professional Snooker Championship six times in the 1970s?", "answer": "Ray Reardon"}
{"question": "What is the \u201ccom\u201d in the top level internet domain \u201c.com\u201d short for?", "answer": "Commercial"}
{"question": "Whose official country residence is Dorneywood, Buckinghamshire?", "answer": "Chancellor of the Exchequer"}
{"question": "Known as the 'Phoenix Park Murders', the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke in 1882 occurred in which city?", "answer": "DUBLIN"}
{"question": "What is the capital city of Saudi Arabia?", "answer": "RIYADH"}
{"question": "Beers called Budweiser are named after a city of which modern nation?", "answer": "Czech Republic"}
{"question": "According to the proverb, what should you never give a sucker?", "answer": "an even break"}
{"question": "Which King of Macedon a great military leader was reputedly never defeated in battle?", "answer": "Alexander the Great"}
{"question": "What musical term means in a majestic, stately or dignified manner?", "answer": "Maestoso"}
{"question": "Who has children called Track, Bristol, Piper, Trig and Willow?", "answer": "SARAH PALIN"}
{"question": "What might you do in Australia with a 'Durry'?", "answer": "SMOKE IT (it's a type of cigarette)"}
{"question": "What was Julian Schnabel's acclaimed 2008 film of the book written by a stroke victim's blinking eye?", "answer": "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"}
{"question": "Which Beatle was the first to release a solo album", "answer": "George Harrison"}
{"question": "In which year was the Royal British Legion founded?", "answer": "1921"}
{"question": "Which root vegetable pie was named after a Minister of Food during World War II?", "answer": "WOOLTON (Pie)"}
{"question": "The human brain is made up of between 10 billion and 100 billion nerve cells known as what?", "answer": "NEURONS"}
{"question": "Which 1962 ecological classic was written by Rachel Carson?", "answer": "Silent Spring"}
{"question": "Which charity was founded in London in 1961 following the publication of the article 'The Forgotten Prisoners' in 'The Observer'?", "answer": "Amnesty International"}
{"question": "Composers Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert were born in which country?", "answer": "Austria"}
{"question": "In which modern country is St Nicholas's birthplace and hometown?", "answer": "Turkey"}
{"question": "The key attribute of what distinctive ethnic group has one possible explanation as the low ultraviolet light levels in rainforests hindering the production of vitamin D and limiting calcium uptake for bone growth?", "answer": "Pygmies (short height)"}
{"question": "Where was the Fiddler in the musical's title?", "answer": "On the Roof"}
{"question": "Yigal Amir assassinated whom in 1995?", "answer": "Yitzhak Rabin"}
{"question": "Which Flemish Baroque painter\u2019s Antwerp home is now a museum?", "answer": "Peter Paul Rubens"}
{"question": "Which Hollywood film star (1899 -1957) had the middle name De Forest?", "answer": "Humphrey Bogart"}
{"question": "The 1999 Spike Lee film Summer of Sam focuses on the crimes of what famous serial killer?", "answer": "David Berkowitz"}
{"question": "Loosely translated, Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth are the first four letters of what alphabet?", "answer": "Hebrew"}
{"question": "What relation were Ravi Shankar and Norah Jones to each other?", "answer": "Father and daughter"}
{"question": "What is the term for nutrient enrichment of lakes?", "answer": "Eutrophication"}
{"question": "George and Mildred and Robin's Nest were spin-offs from which TV series of the 1970s?", "answer": "Man About The House"}
{"question": "Marat, Robespierre, Danton are names associated with what event at the end of the 18th century?", "answer": "The French Revolution"}
{"question": "What was founded by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile to keep Catholic orthodoxy as the major religion of their kingdoms?", "answer": "Spanish Inquisition"}
{"question": "Which TV series was won by a man named Paddy Doherty on September 8th this year?", "answer": "CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER"}
{"question": "The Hindhead Tunnel is in which English county?", "answer": "Surrey"}
{"question": "A tour by a sporting group caused major unrest in their host country,1971 in Australia and 1981 in New Zealand, leading to a state of emergency being declared during the tour. Which was the group?", "answer": "South African rugby union national team"}
{"question": "What is the more common name for the white crystalline salt called hydrated sodium pyroborate?", "answer": "Borax"}
{"question": "The fourth largest city in Germany was originally called what?", "answer": "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium"}
{"question": "What colour are the two stars on the national flag of Syria?", "answer": "Green"}
{"question": "Which racecourse, home to the King George VI steeplechase, is situated at Sunbury on Thames?", "answer": "KEMPTON PARK"}
{"question": "In which year did students first enrol in the Open University in the UK", "answer": "1971"}
{"question": "Who was born in a cross-fire hurricane and raised by a toothless bearded hag?", "answer": "Jumpin\u2019 Jack Flash"}
{"question": "To what country does the island of Leyte belong, known for the Battle of Leyte Gulf in WW2?", "answer": "The Philippines"}
{"question": "Who was the father of British King James ll?", "answer": "King Charles l"}
{"question": "The existance of which planet was mathematically", "answer": "NEPTUNE"}
{"question": "\"What is the \"\"lead\"\" in modern pencils made from?\"", "answer": "Graphite"}
{"question": "Which film finds Mike Myers deeply suspicious about his newly-married wife's skills with a meat cleaver?", "answer": "'SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER'"}
{"question": "Which famous London events which occurred between April 10th and April 12th 1981 were dealt with in the Scarman report?", "answer": "BRIXTON RIOTS"}
{"question": "Which is the only non-European country to have hosted the Winter Olympics only once?", "answer": "CANADA (1988)"}
{"question": "When sending an email you are given the option to 'Add Cc' or 'Add Bcc'. For which word is the 'B' the initial letter?", "answer": "BLIND (carbon copy)"}
{"question": "Which cigarette manufacturer used to boast of its tobacco \u2018It\u2019s Toasted\u2019?", "answer": "Lucky Strike"}
{"question": "If something is colubrine, it resembles or relates to which type of creature?", "answer": "Snake"}
{"question": "Who was European Footballer of the Year for 1973 and 1974?", "answer": "JOHANN CRUYFF"}
{"question": "In the history of the universe what term refers to immediately after the Big Bang?", "answer": "Inflation"}
{"question": "HRH Princess Anne?s Gloucestershire country home is called what?", "answer": "Gatcombe Park"}
{"question": "Who is the only black man to win a singles title at Wimbledon?", "answer": "Arthur Ashe"}
{"question": "Which US President has a statue in Parliament Square?", "answer": "KENNEDY"}
{"question": "How many 'Oscars' did the film 'Slumdog Millionaire' win?", "answer": "8"}
{"question": "You have probably all heard of the CD record but what number is CD in Roman numerals", "answer": "Four hundred"}
{"question": "What natural effect is only visible during a total eclipse of the sun?", "answer": "Baily's Beads"}
{"question": "\"According to Rudyard Kipling what were the \"\"two imposters\"\" to meet and treat the same day?\"", "answer": "Triumph and Disaster"}
{"question": "Barra island, Outer Hebrides, has at 2012 the world's only official beach-based what?", "answer": "Airport"}
{"question": "What airline, founding member of the Star Alliance, the largest airline alliance in the world, got its start as the Boeing Air Transport company in 1927?", "answer": "United"}
{"question": "Which Chilean socialist leader was deposed and killed by General Pinochet during a U.S. backed coup in 1973?", "answer": "(Salvador) Allende"}
{"question": "In which city is the Munch Museum, home to two of the versions of 'The Scream'?", "answer": "OSLO"}
{"question": "What is the Pacific terminus of the Trans Siberian Railway?", "answer": "Vladivostok"}
{"question": "What are the traditional words used to vote in the British House of Lords?", "answer": "Content / Non content"}
{"question": "What Canadian-born teen idol of the 1950s-60s wrote the lyrics to Sinatra's song My Way?", "answer": "Paul Anka"}
{"question": "Who composed the 1965 choral work Chichester Psalms?", "answer": "Leonard Bernstein"}
{"question": "Ornette Coleman, Louis Armstrong and Charles Mingus are associated with what style of music?", "answer": "Jazz"}
{"question": "Who designed the Queen's wedding dress?", "answer": "Norman Hartnell"}
{"question": "What is the nickname of Sheffield United", "answer": "The Blades"}
{"question": "Which duo created the \u201cDagenham dialogues\u201d?", "answer": "Peter Cook and Dudley Moore"}
{"question": "In which city would you find the International Court of Justice, otherwise known as The World Court?", "answer": "The Hague, Netherlands"}
{"question": "On what would you find a Cowcatcher?", "answer": "A Train"}
{"question": "What name is given to the person in a restaurant responsible for the wine and assisting customers with their choice of wine?", "answer": "Sommelier"}
{"question": "Who is the only British Olympian to have won three successive Olympic gold medals", "answer": "Steven Redgrave"}
{"question": "Why did Jason Alexander from Louisiana hit the headlines in January 2004?", "answer": "He married Britney Spears"}
{"question": "Although Steven Spielberg Directed 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark', he did not have the final cut. Who did?", "answer": "GEORGE LUCAS (Executive Producer)"}
{"question": "What year was the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, released?", "answer": "2007"}
{"question": "In which country will the 2019 Rugby Union World Cup be played?", "answer": "JAPAN"}
{"question": "\"Which is the only UK top ten single for \"\"The Doors\"\" when it wasreleased twenty years after Jim Morrison's death?\"", "answer": "Light My Fire"}
{"question": "Besides Ireland, what country is geographically closest to the United Kingdom?", "answer": "France"}
{"question": "In Rowing, who received gold medals for the Women's coxless pair?", "answer": "Helen Glover and Heather Stanning"}
{"question": "The most populous national capital city was established in what year?", "answer": "1045 BC"}
{"question": "Which British athlete won the gold medal in the Women's Javelin at the 1984 Olympic Games?", "answer": "Tessa Sanderson"}
{"question": "What type of creature is a margay ?", "answer": "(Wild) CAT"}
{"question": "In which musical would you hear the song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas?", "answer": "Meet Me In St Louis"}
{"question": "Which country shares a 530 km border with Saudi Arabia on the west, south, and southeast, a 450 km border with Oman on the southeast and northeast, and a smaller border with Qatar in the northwest?", "answer": "United Arab Emirates"}
{"question": "Born in Kingston, Texas in 1925, who is generally recognized as the most decorated American soldier of WWII, before he launched a successful film career?", "answer": "Audie Murphy"}
{"question": "Wanlockhead is the highest village in which European country?", "answer": "Scotland"}
{"question": "\"Which popular family farmhouse \u2013 styled licensed restaurant that now has over 200 Different outlets was founded in 1983 and has the advertising slogan \"\"Bring Out The Best\"\" below the words \"\"Salad And Grill\"\" ?\"", "answer": "HARVESTER"}
{"question": "What food staple is the focus of a 1980 documentary ___ Is as Good as Ten Mothers that was filmed primarily in Gilroy, California?", "answer": "Garlic"}
{"question": "In the series of films by Disney Pixar, Nemo is a clown-fish, what type of fish is his friend Dory?", "answer": "Blue Tang"}
{"question": "What are the last four words of Gone With the Wind?", "answer": "Tomorrow is another day"}
{"question": "What was the name of the Clampett\u2019s daughter in The Beverley Hillbillies", "answer": "Ellie May"}
{"question": "According to the much recorded song Memphis Tennessee how old was Marie?", "answer": "6 YEARS"}
{"question": "What 1945 film won best picture, actor, director Oscars?", "answer": "The Lost Weekend"}
{"question": "Which Czech tennis player knocked out Andy Murray in the fourth round of the Men's Singles at the French Open?", "answer": "THOMAS BERDYCH"}
{"question": "Whose personal aircraft is known as \u201aShepherd One\u201b?", "answer": "The Pope"}
{"question": "What is the name of the document issued, by law, giving information about a company to be floated on a stock exchange?", "answer": "Prospectus"}
{"question": "By what name was world champion boxer Walker Smith better known?", "answer": "Sugar Ray Robinson"}
{"question": "In medicine, if something is subcutaneous it is applied or located under which organ of the body?", "answer": "Skin"}
{"question": "Prior to Gordon Brown, who was the last British Prime Minister to represent a Scottish constituency?", "answer": "ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME"}
{"question": "The characters Denisov and Dolokhov appear in which famous novel?", "answer": "War and Peace"}
{"question": "Who became the first President of newly independent Ghanain 1957?", "answer": "KWAME NKRUMAH"}
{"question": "Who are the only two groups to have had 3 consecutive Christmas Number Ones in the UK charts?", "answer": "The Beatles and The Spice Girls"}
{"question": "Which brand of foodstuff still bears the slogan 'Original and Best'?", "answer": "KELLOGG'S CORNFLAKES"}
{"question": "A footpad was a criminal from the 16th to 19th century but what term is used to describe them today?", "answer": "MUGGER"}
{"question": "In which war was the Battle of Bunker Hill fought?", "answer": "AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE"}
{"question": "What are the first names of the two dancing instructors in the UK television series \u2018Hi De Hi\u2019?", "answer": "Barry and Yvonne"}
{"question": "In the human body, what eight letter word is used to describe the purulent inflammation of the gums and tooth sockets often leading to lossening of the teeth ?", "answer": "PYORRHEA"}
{"question": "What medical speciality is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of hormone disorders?", "answer": "ENDROCRINOLOGY"}
{"question": "What nickname was given to Ana Cumpna, also known as Anna Sage, who betrayed John Dillinger to the police when he attended the Biograph Theater in Chicago?", "answer": "Lady in Red"}
{"question": "The song \u2018Seventy Six Trombones\u2019 is from which musical show?", "answer": "The Music Man"}
{"question": "Which lengthy narrative poem by Lord Byron describes the trials and reflections of a world weary young man?", "answer": "Childe Harold's"}
{"question": "What is a common feature of komodo dragons, aphids, and whiptail lizards?", "answer": "The ability to reproduce asexually"}
{"question": "According to the Bible, who was renamed Israel because he wrestled with God?", "answer": "JACOB"}
{"question": "Who sang the theme song in 9 to 5?", "answer": "Dolly Parton"}
{"question": "Which footballer scored a record six international hat- tricks for England?", "answer": "JIMMY GREAVES"}
{"question": "Which type of lens is thicker at the centre than at the edge, as used in microscopes?", "answer": "Convex lens"}
{"question": "How many black keys are there on a standard modern piano?", "answer": "36"}
{"question": "How old would Bobby Kennedy have been had he lived to the end of the 20th century?", "answer": "74"}
{"question": "\"Give the name of the character played by James Stewart in the 1946 film \"\"It's a Wonderful Life\"\"\"", "answer": "George Bailey"}
{"question": "Which city in Georgia was burned by General Sherman during the American Civil War", "answer": "Atlanta"}
{"question": "What port city lies at the mouth of the River Seine?", "answer": "Le Havre"}
{"question": "What was the fate of Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti's opera?", "answer": "She went mad and committed suicide"}
{"question": "Who plays 'Mahmud Nasir', a Muslim who finds out he was born Jewish, in the 2010 film 'The Infidel'?", "answer": "OMID DJALILI"}
{"question": "The Black Hills are located primarily in which US state?", "answer": "South Dakota"}
{"question": "What name is given to the unnatural fear of men?", "answer": "Androphobia"}
{"question": "According to the proverb, what is the better part of valor?", "answer": "Discretion"}
{"question": "What type of animal is the star of the 2005 film Racing Stripes?", "answer": "Zebra"}
{"question": "The stone Lapis Lazuli is used to make which shade of blue pigment for artists?", "answer": "ULTRAMARINE"}
{"question": "The film 'Pushing Tin' features which occupation?", "answer": "Air Traffic Control"}
{"question": "What main category of machines 'produce continuous power from a wheel/rotor, usually with vanes, revolved by fast flowing fluid'?", "answer": "Turbine"}
{"question": "Name the popular music identification app founded in 1999 whose paid-for version is sub-titled Encore?", "answer": "Shazam"}
{"question": "What are young squirrels known as?", "answer": "Kittens"}
{"question": "Which was Disney's second animated film?", "answer": "Pinocchio"}
{"question": "Who played 'Peter Pan' in Spielberg's 'Hook'?", "answer": "Robin Williams"}
{"question": "In which Poe tale is a wife murderer exposed by an ill-treated pet?", "answer": "The Black Cat"}
{"question": "What began when Bohemia revolted against the Habsburgs in 1618?", "answer": "Thirty Years War"}
{"question": "Which country is currently ruled by the Chakri dynasty that has been in power since 1782?", "answer": "Thailand"}
{"question": "\"What was the Scopes \"\"monkey trial\"\" really about?\"", "answer": "Evolution"}
{"question": "Film musical interpretations of Romeo and Juliet and the memoir of Baroness von Trapp shared what lead character name?", "answer": "Maria"}
{"question": "Thanatology is the scientific study of what?", "answer": "Death"}
{"question": "What is the first name of Ragnor\u2019s brother in the historical drama television series \u2018Vikings\u2019?", "answer": "Rollo"}
{"question": "Who lead the enquiry into the Iraq war?", "answer": "Sir John Chilcot"}
{"question": "Who is the father of the father of modern experimental psychology?", "answer": "Maximilian Wundt"}
{"question": "Swedish director Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m who directed Chocolat and My Life as a Dog is also known for his contribution in the world of music to whom/what?", "answer": "ABBA (he directed almost all of ABBA's promotional films)"}
{"question": "What nationality was the tennis player Judy Teggart who lost to Billie Jean King in the 1968 Ladies Single Final at Wimbledon?", "answer": "AUSTRALIAN"}
{"question": "Cape Wrath is on the coast of which country?", "answer": "Scotland"}
{"question": "The traditional logo of which famous pre-ground bean coffee is a white script lower-case four-letter name on a red square background?", "answer": "illy"}
{"question": "What notorious leader had a similar style mustache to Charlie Chaplin?", "answer": "Adolf Hitler"}
{"question": "The Crossbill belongs to which bird family?", "answer": "FINCH"}
{"question": "Mrs Darrell Waters books were translated into 120 languages. What was her pen name?", "answer": "Enid Blyton"}
{"question": "Who sang behind Huey Lewis?", "answer": "The News"}
{"question": "What was the top speed in miles per hour of the first ever train?", "answer": "18,000 mph"}
{"question": "What is the surname of singer Florence of 'Florence and the Machine' ?", "answer": "WELCH"}
{"question": "Smith is the most common English surname, what's the Japanese version", "answer": "Suzuki"}
{"question": "The 'impossible' Penrose Stairs and Devil's Pitchfork are famous?", "answer": "Optical Illusions"}
{"question": "What is mixed with whisky to make a rusty nail", "answer": "Drambuie"}
{"question": "Who wrote the book His Dark Materials?", "answer": "PHILIP PULLMAN"}
{"question": "Neal Foulds, John Dunning and Mark Williams are associated with which sport?", "answer": "Snooker"}
{"question": "What 'oronymic' word is a killing and also male mirth?", "answer": "Manslaughter"}
{"question": "Which body of water was previously called the Euxine, after early colonisation of its southern coastline by Greeks, derived from their word for 'hospitable'?", "answer": "The Black Sea"}
{"question": "What is the title of Max Bygraves autobiography", "answer": "I Wanna Tell You a Story"}
{"question": "'Roquefort Cheese' is made from what sort of milk?", "answer": "Ewe's Milk"}
{"question": "Which English Rugby Union team play their home games at Adams Park?", "answer": "London Wasps"}
{"question": "Cryos, the worlds largest sperm bank, recently announced that they will no longer accept donations from guys with what physical characteristic?", "answer": "Redheaded"}
{"question": "In 2006, who was the first football player in World Cup history to win the \u2018Best Young Player Award\u2019?", "answer": "Lukas Podolski"}
{"question": "The UK's longest National Trail, what path stretches 630 miles between Minehead and Poole Harbour?", "answer": "SOUTH WEST COAST"}
{"question": "What was the surname of the French explorer who discovered the area where Montreal is now situated, on this day in 1953?", "answer": "(Jacques) CARTIER"}
{"question": "\"What is the name of the short actor who plays the main role in the BBC2 comedy series\"\"Life's too short\"\"?\"", "answer": "WARWICK DAVIS"}
{"question": "What is the flavour of the liqueur Triple-Sec?", "answer": "Orange"}
{"question": "What is the lightest metal under standard conditions?", "answer": "Lithium"}
{"question": "I n dressmaking what are featherweight, skirt weight and open ended", "answer": "Zips"}
{"question": "Who was the only female victim to be killed off in the opening credit sequence in Police Squad?", "answer": "Florence Henderson"}
{"question": "Which company currently sponsors The Grand National?", "answer": "Crabbies (Ginger beer)"}
{"question": "Which motor scooter had a name meaning \u2018wasp\u2019?", "answer": "Vespa"}
{"question": "\"The opera \"\"Duke Bluebeard's Castle\"\" and the ballet \"\"The Wooden Prince\"\" are the works of which composer?\"", "answer": "BARTOK"}
{"question": "What is the most abundant substance in the plant kingdom, which no mammal produces the enzyme to digest?", "answer": "Cellulose"}
{"question": "According to Arthurian legend, Arthur's wife Guinevere, had a little on the side with which Knight of the Round Table?", "answer": "Lancelot"}
{"question": "Which magazine is produced and sold for the benefit of homeless people?", "answer": "The Big Issue"}
{"question": "Armistice Day (or Remembrance Day) takes place during which month of the year?", "answer": "November"}
{"question": "Which French romantic artist who painted Massacre at Chios and Women of Algiers was born on this day in 1798?", "answer": "(Eugene) Delacroix"}
{"question": "The city of Leeds stands on which river?", "answer": "AIRE"}
{"question": "\"Whose autobiography \"\"Going Rogue\"\" was published in 2009?\"", "answer": "Sarah Palin"}
{"question": "With its capital at Jaipur, what is the largest state of India, by area?", "answer": "RAJASTHAN"}
{"question": "In which European country is the HQ of the food company, Nestle ?", "answer": "SWITZERLAND"}
{"question": "In humans, Duane Syndrome affects which part of the body?", "answer": "Eye"}
{"question": "Which country left the Commonwealthin 1972 and rejoined in 1989?", "answer": "PAKISTAN"}
{"question": "What name was given to areas of England under Viking control?", "answer": "Danelaw"}
{"question": "With which sport do you associate the Coventry bees?", "answer": "SPEEDWAY"}
{"question": "An American ban lasting 21 years was lifted in 2010 for what Scottish food?", "answer": "Haggis"}
{"question": "The Antarctica Treaty that is presently in force ends in which year?", "answer": "2041"}
{"question": "Who was the first person from the USA to win the Nobel prize for literature?", "answer": "Sinclair Lewis"}
{"question": "Who wrote the 1975 novel \u2018The History Man\u2019?", "answer": "Malcolm Bradbury"}
{"question": "Fremantle prison, which was closed in 1991 and is now a heritage site, is in which country?", "answer": "Australia"}
{"question": "What type of tower is the Muslim version of a steeple?", "answer": "a Minaret"}
{"question": "Titan is a satellite of which planet?", "answer": "SATURN"}
{"question": "\"In literature, what is the word for the events that follow the climax of a drama, literally \"\"the untying of the complexities of a plot\"\"?\"", "answer": "Dnouement"}
{"question": "\"Who wrote the 1993 Booker Prize winning novel \"\"Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha\"\"?\"", "answer": "Roddy Doyle"}
{"question": "In the church calendar what name is given to the three days before Ascension Day?", "answer": "Rogation Days"}
{"question": "To the nearest whole number, the diameter of the Earth is how many times that of the Moon?", "answer": "FOUR (4)"}
{"question": "What name is given to the song of a Venetian Gondolier?", "answer": "BARCAROLE"}
{"question": "Complete the name of the Church of England diocese: 'Bath and .....'?", "answer": "WELLS"}
{"question": "In \u2018Cats\u2019, who is the \u201cBrummel of cats\u201d who is \u201cputting on weight every day\u201d?", "answer": "BUSTOPHER JONES"}
{"question": "Which country music performer was portrayed by Sissy Spacek in the 1980 biographical film 'Coal Miner's Daughter'?", "answer": "LORETTA LYNN"}
{"question": "April 18, 1942 saw the first retaliation against Japan for the attack on Pearl Harbor when what famed American aviator led a flight of B25 bombers from the deck of the USS Hornet?", "answer": "James Doolittle"}
{"question": "In 1951, which European country saw the abdication of King Leopold lll in favour of his son Baudouin?", "answer": "Belgium"}
{"question": "Thomas Cromwell was executed for treason after being blamed for Henry VIII?s failed marriage to whom?", "answer": "ANNE OF CLEVES"}
{"question": "Latin 'collum' refers to which part of the human body?", "answer": "Neck"}
{"question": "Who was the husband of Rebekah Brooks from 2002 to 2009?", "answer": "Ross Kemp"}
{"question": "Which group had a number one hit in July 2010 with 'The Club Is Alive'?", "answer": "'JLS'"}
{"question": "The Sinai Peninsula is part of which country?", "answer": "Egypt"}
{"question": "Which British city is served by Eastleigh airport?", "answer": "Southampton"}
{"question": "General Augusto Pinochet was the former dictator of which South American country?", "answer": "Chile"}
{"question": "Betty Lou Oliver held a long-standing Guinness World Record for what event that occurred at 9:40 a.m. on 28 July 1945?", "answer": "The longest survived fall in an elevator"}
{"question": "On which instrument would a \u2018paradiddle\u2019 be played?", "answer": "Drums"}
{"question": "Later a 'Blue Peter' presenter, who played 'Steven Taylor', an assistant to William Hartnell's 'Doctor Who'?", "answer": "PETER PURVES"}
{"question": "\"What film, released in 2000, is the story of Gilbert and Sullivan's first production of \"\"The Mikado\"\"?\"", "answer": "Topsy Turvy"}
{"question": "Whose state in Virginia was requisitioned to build Arlington Cemetery?", "answer": "ROBERT E. LEE"}
{"question": "In which Spanish city is the Alhambra Palace located?", "answer": "Granada"}
{"question": "\"In the 1956 film \"\"The Ten Commandments\"\", who played Moses?\"", "answer": "Charlton Heston"}
{"question": "Jazzman Joe Venuti pioneered which instrument in jazz?", "answer": "The Violin"}
{"question": "The animated televisionseries 'South Park' is set in the fictional town of 'South Park' in which American state?", "answer": "COLORADO"}
{"question": "The Bridge of the Horns is a proposed construction project to build a bridge across the Bab-el-Mandeb, the strait between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. What two countries will it connect?", "answer": "Djibouti and Yemen"}
{"question": "What is the nickname of baseball star Jimmie Foxx?", "answer": "Double X"}
{"question": "The cathedral in which British city is known as \u2018The Ship of the Fens\u2019?", "answer": "Ely"}
{"question": "Who played Grandad in the UK television series \u2018Only Fools and Horses\u2019?", "answer": "Lennard Pearce"}
{"question": "In which 1996 film were there characters known as Rent Boy, Spud, Sick Boy and Franco?", "answer": "Trainspotting"}
{"question": "\"Which organisation runs the undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, that is known as \"\"The Academy\"\"?\"", "answer": "The US Navy"}
{"question": "Which Roman historian was the son-in-law of Agricola the Roman Governor of Britain?", "answer": "Tacitus"}
{"question": "The Limpopo River separates Zimbabwe and Botswana from what country?", "answer": "South Africa"}
{"question": "\"Which Bob Dylan song begins \"\"You got a lotta nerveTo say you are my friend. When I was down, You just stood there grinning\"\"?\"", "answer": "Positively 4th Street"}
{"question": "What country won 3 of the 5 Olympic gold medals awarded in baseball?", "answer": "Cuba"}
{"question": "What French word prefixes couture, cuisine and ecole meaning high quality or advanced?", "answer": "Haute"}
{"question": "Which now defunct newspaper was originally owned by Eddy Shah?", "answer": "Today"}
{"question": "\u2018The King of Barataria\u2019 is the subtitle of which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?", "answer": "The Gondoliers"}
{"question": "Which town in southeast Wales became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000?", "answer": "BLAENAVON"}
{"question": "What has a central vein called a midrib?", "answer": "Leaf"}
{"question": "Who was the star of the 1940 satirical film 'The Great Dictator'?", "answer": "Charlie Chaplin"}
{"question": "Which famous 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte features a character named Edward Rochester who resides at Thornfield Hall?", "answer": "JANE EYRE"}
{"question": "In La Cage Aux Folles, what was La Cage Aux Folles?", "answer": "Nightclub"}
{"question": "Which US group of the 1970s consisted of Dewy Bunnell, Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley and had hits including Tin Man and Sister Golden Hair?", "answer": "America"}
{"question": "\u2018The Road Back\u2019 is the sequel to which novel by Erich Maria Remarque published in 1929?", "answer": "ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT"}
{"question": "Clifford\u2019s Tower is all that remains of which city\u2019s castle?", "answer": "York"}
{"question": "What was the first name of the mother of US President Barack Obama?", "answer": "Stanley"}
{"question": "Which country was formerly known by the Greeks as Tylos?", "answer": "Bahrain"}
{"question": "Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?", "answer": "Johannes Vermeer"}
{"question": "Which month of the year came second in the Roman calendar?", "answer": "April"}
{"question": "Which British Prime Minister served the constituencies of Limehouse and Walthamstow West?", "answer": "Clement Atlee"}
{"question": "Who aged 65 became the oldest Britain to climb Mount Everest, as at 2009?", "answer": "Sir Ranulph Fiennes"}
{"question": "What sort of creature is a Pacific Sea Wasp?", "answer": "A Jellyfish"}
{"question": "Who was the main female singer with the groups Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship?", "answer": "Grace Slick"}
{"question": "The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after what?", "answer": "Dogs"}
{"question": "Name the private gardens adjoining Windsor Castle which housed the Royal Mausoleum, the burial place of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert?", "answer": "FROGMORE"}
{"question": "\"Shakespeare coined which four word phrase in the play \"\"Macbeth\"\" which has become a commonly used cliche for compassion ?\"", "answer": "MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS"}
{"question": "Which architect designed the Albert Memorial in 1875?", "answer": "George Gilbert Scott"}
{"question": "Involvement with which corrupt architect led to the resignation of Home Secretary Reginald Maudling in July 1972?", "answer": "JOHN POULSON"}
{"question": "What comes next in this sequence: Microwave, Infrared, Visible Light, \u2026", "answer": "Ultraviolet"}
{"question": "In measurement, a hand is equal to how many inches?", "answer": "Four"}
{"question": "Who wrote the poem The Dong With The Luminous Nose?", "answer": "Edward Lear"}
{"question": "Which castle near Deal in Kent has served, since 1708, as the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports?", "answer": "WALMER CASTLE"}
{"question": "What legal term, whose etymology comes from how editors traditionally indicated corrections to a written copy, means that a portion of contract is void but the other part is enforceable?", "answer": "Blue pencil doctrine"}
{"question": "Which actor played Chandler Bing in \u201cFriends\u201d ?", "answer": "Mathew Perry"}
{"question": "St Joseph\u2019s Day is celebrated during which month of the year?", "answer": "March -19th"}
{"question": "The Asian Tsunami or Boxing day tsunami that hit Thailand, Indonesia and many other countries happened in what year?", "answer": "2004"}
{"question": "Who was the 'Referee' on the TV game show 'Big Break'?", "answer": "John Virgo"}
{"question": "Which supermarket chain started selling straight croissants in its stores in February?", "answer": "TESCO"}
{"question": "Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Chad, Niger, Mali and Ethiopia are the largest nations in the world without a?", "answer": "Coastline"}
{"question": "To a thousand, what is the area of Illinois in square miles?", "answer": "55,646"}
{"question": "Which US folk singer had the words \u201cThis machine kills fascists\u201d written on his guitar?", "answer": "Woody Guthrie"}
{"question": "Which duo wrote the UK television series \u2018Dad\u2019s Army\u2019?", "answer": "Jimmy Perry and David Croft"}
{"question": "In the abbrevation SPCK - for what does the 'K' stand?", "answer": "Knowledge"}
{"question": "Hannibal Hayes and Kid Curry were the central characters in which 1970s American TV series?", "answer": "Alias Smith and Jones"}
{"question": "Who was the only judge on 'X Factor' to return for series eight in 2011?", "answer": "LOUIS WALSH"}
{"question": "What Brazilian city exports more coffee than any other port in the world?", "answer": "Santos"}
{"question": "Who are the only players in an ice hockey game allowed to be in the referee's crease?", "answer": "Captain and alternate captain"}
{"question": "According to Colossians, Ch 4 v 14, what profession was followed by St Luke?", "answer": "A PHYSICIAN"}
{"question": "Known as the Toison d'Or (French), Goldenen Vlies (Germany), and Tois\u00f3n de Oro (Spain), the historic European supreme award is The Order of the (What ancient authority symbol?)", "answer": "Golden Fleece"}
{"question": "\"Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer provided the basis for the calculus of Newton and Leibniz by applying infinitesimal calculus to \"\"the tangent line problem\"\"?\"", "answer": "Ren Descartes"}
{"question": "What type of food in the United States are Brown Bobbies", "answer": "Doughnuts"}
{"question": "Which city was visited by Prince William in March 2011 after suffering two earthquakes in the preceeding six months?", "answer": "CHRISTCHURCH"}
{"question": "To which family of animals does the okapi belong?", "answer": "GIRAFFES"}
{"question": "An Adder's Mouth is what type of plant?", "answer": "Orchid"}
{"question": "What is the title of the 1944 film starring Barbara Stanwyck as the wife who seduces an insurance salesman into killing her husband?", "answer": "Double Indemnity"}
{"question": "What band is playing music for nickels in Creedence Clearwater Revival\u2019s hit \u201cDown on the Corner\u201d?", "answer": "Willy & the Poorboys"}
{"question": "Give a year in the life of Miguel Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet and playwright?", "answer": "1547-1616"}
{"question": "River Phoenix died during the making of which movie?", "answer": "Dark Blood"}
{"question": "According to the Bible, how many stones did David pick up before he faced Goliath?", "answer": "Five"}
{"question": "In which 70\u2019s sitcom did we hear about the Tooting Popular Front", "answer": "Citizen Smith"}
{"question": "In geology, Greywacke is classed as what form of sedimentary rock?", "answer": "Deep Ocean"}
{"question": "Which principality was established in 1278 by the Treaty of Joint Suzerainty?", "answer": "ANDORRA"}
{"question": "What is zoophobia a fear of?", "answer": "Animals"}
{"question": "What is entombed in a cenotaph?", "answer": "Nothing"}
{"question": "\"Who said \"\"we're more popular than Jesus now\"\", in 1966?\"", "answer": "John Lennon"}
{"question": "What is the middle name of US actor Samuel L Jackson?", "answer": "Leroy"}
{"question": "What Caribbean nation is considered the first black-led republic in the world?", "answer": "Haiti"}
{"question": "\"Heinz' 1963 song \"\"Just Like Eddie\"\" was a tribute to whom?\"", "answer": "Eddie Cochrane"}
{"question": "Which force is nothing more than the bending of space and time?", "answer": "Gravitational force"}
{"question": "\"The musical \"\"Jersey Boys\"\" is based around the music-of-which American pop group?\"", "answer": "The Four Seasons"}
{"question": "What was the catch-cry of the Three Musketeers?", "answer": "Tous pour un, un pour tous"}
{"question": "Which French vessel was the first ocean-going liner to exceed 1,000 feet in length ?", "answer": "NORMANDIE"}
{"question": "Which firework is said to be named after an instrument of torture on which a saint is said to have been martyred?", "answer": "Catherine Wheel"}
{"question": "Amerigo Vespucci international airport serves which European city?", "answer": "FLORENCE"}
{"question": "Who were Bolton Wanderers opponents in the first Wembley F.A. Cup Final", "answer": "West Ham United"}
{"question": "What is the capital of the French region of Burgundy?", "answer": "DIJON"}
{"question": "Which river runs through Hamburg?", "answer": "Elbe"}
{"question": "How many hundredweight are in a UK ton?", "answer": "20"}
{"question": "To whom did the risen Jesus say 'Touch me not'?", "answer": "Mary Magdelene"}
{"question": "2004 is the 300th anniversary of Britain\u2019s first victory on European soil since Agincourt when Marlborough defeated the French in which battle?", "answer": "BLENHEIM"}
{"question": "Which numbers refer informally to a combination of impactful events, derived from a boxing metaphor?", "answer": "One-Two"}
{"question": "Jimi Hendrix presented the broken parts of the guitar that he destroyed on-stage at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival to whom? Not sure if the recipient named it Moon Unit.", "answer": "Frank Zappa"}
{"question": "What is Bangladesh's unit of currency?", "answer": "TAKA"}
{"question": "The Arsacid Dynasty ruled which country from 250 B.C. until 224 A.D.", "answer": "Persia"}
{"question": "Mark David Chapman was scheduled to appear before the New York State parole board next week for his 6th attempt at getting out of prison for the 1980 murder of whom?", "answer": "John Lenon"}
{"question": "Franz Liszt ended up the father-in-law to which other very famous composer?", "answer": "Richard Wagner"}
{"question": "A Nychthemeron is a period of how many consecutive hours?", "answer": "24"}
{"question": "Who wrote the novel \u2018The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie\u2019?", "answer": "Muriel Spark"}
{"question": "Which Asian country was once called Siam?", "answer": "Thailand"}
{"question": "Which Spanish philosopher and writer wrote 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'?", "answer": "George Santayana"}
{"question": "Which Scottish mathematician discovered logarithms?", "answer": "John NAPIER"}
{"question": "Who was the original base player with The Shadows?", "answer": "(Jet) HARRIS"}
{"question": "What does a querulous person do?", "answer": "Complain"}
{"question": "Which memorial trophy is awarded by the BBC for the try of the season in Rugby League", "answer": "The Eddie Waring Memorial Trophy"}
{"question": "What is the highest elevation (in meters) of the second largest island in the world?", "answer": "4,884 m"}
{"question": "In which sport is the Solheim Cup contested?", "answer": "WOMENS GOLF"}
{"question": "Which US No 1 single came from Diana Ross's platinum album Diana?", "answer": "Upside Down"}
{"question": "Which chemical element is the most abundant in the average human body, making up around 65% of actual composition?", "answer": "Oxygen"}
{"question": "Which city is generally accepted as the birthplace of Grunge, a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s?", "answer": "Seattle"}
{"question": "What is the leather finger protection used by archers called", "answer": "A tab"}
{"question": "Which US artist married Lee Krasner in 1945?", "answer": "Jackson Pollock"}
{"question": "\"What year did Jean-Francois Champollion publish the first correct translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs from the Rosetta Stone, the Roman Catholic Church take Galileo Galilei's \"\"Dialogue\"\" off their list of banned books, and Britain repeal the death penalty for over 100 crimes?\"", "answer": "1822"}
{"question": "Tessellation technically refers to which form of decoration?", "answer": "Tiling/mosaic"}
{"question": "What corporation pioneered the use of coupons in consumer marketing, beginning in 1887, so that by 1913 over eight million Americans had sampled its product for free?", "answer": "Coca-Cola"}
{"question": "Who wrote the play The Three Sisters?", "answer": "Anton Chekhov"}
{"question": "Who was the golfer who went for a paddle in the 1999 Open Golf championship", "answer": "Jean Van Der Velde"}
{"question": "Thomas the Tank Engine lives on which fictional island?", "answer": "Sodor"}
{"question": "The material out of which the Great Sphinx of Giza is made of is mainly composed of what mineral?", "answer": "calcite"}
{"question": "Which major computer language shares it's name with an Indonesian Island ?", "answer": "JAVA"}
{"question": "Lord Ruthven is the title character of what 1819 story/novella that created a genre whose legacy continues through the books of Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer?", "answer": "The Vampyre by John William Polidori"}
{"question": "What is the study of armorial bearings called", "answer": "Heraldry"}
{"question": "A creance is the name of the long fine cord used in which sport?", "answer": "Falconry"}
{"question": "For a point each, name the 4 countries surrounding Belgium.", "answer": "France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands"}
{"question": "Where on the body would a Hindu woman wear a bindi?", "answer": "Forehead"}
{"question": "What is the name of Inspector Clousseau's manservant", "answer": "Cato"}
{"question": "How many valves does a trumpet have?", "answer": "Three"}
{"question": "What name was given to the metal hoop worn by women in the 16th and 17th centuries to make their dresses stand out?", "answer": "FARTHINGALE"}
{"question": "Name the 2003 Turner Prize winning artist whose alter ego is Claire?", "answer": "GRAYSON PERRY"}
{"question": "Which Jersey-born actor played Superman in Man of Steel?", "answer": "Henry Cavill"}
{"question": "What is the Latin for wolf spider?", "answer": "Lycos"}
{"question": "What colour is the liqueur \u2018Parfait d\u2019Amour\u2019?", "answer": "Purple"}
{"question": "\"Who played the part of Hilda Ogden for many years in the TV series, \"\"Coronation St\"\"?\"", "answer": "JEAN ALEXANDER"}
{"question": "For a point each, name the 5 states surrounding New Mexico", "answer": "Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Arizona"}
{"question": "On what country did the U.S. declare war on May 11, 1846?", "answer": "Mexico"}
{"question": "Which English religious leader founded The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the 17th Century?", "answer": "George Fox"}
{"question": "The largest ice fields in the southern hemisphere outside Antarctica are located where?", "answer": "Patagonia"}
{"question": "Which former British PM was christened \u201cGrocer\u201d by Private Eye?", "answer": "Edward Heath"}
{"question": "In which city in the UK is the National Railways Museum?", "answer": "York"}
{"question": "What was the first name of the jazz trombonist Kid Ory?", "answer": "Edward"}
{"question": "Being developed from earlier keyboard instruments, what year was the piano invented?", "answer": "1709"}
{"question": "Who had an album called Physcomodo?", "answer": "Cockney Rebel"}
{"question": "In what country did the Romani ethnic group originate?", "answer": "India"}
{"question": "The plot of which Arthur Miller play takes place entirely within the mind of a new York Jewish intellectual called 'Quentin'?", "answer": "'AFTER THE FALL'"}
{"question": "Which car company produces a model called Eos?", "answer": "Volkswagen"}
{"question": "In which Middle Eastern country is the ancient city of Petra ?", "answer": "JORDAN"}
{"question": "First developed from 1531 onwards in Paris, what is Garamond?", "answer": "A family of typefaces"}
{"question": "Which architect was known as the Wizard of the Dome?", "answer": "Buckminster Fuller"}
{"question": "What is the state capital of Alabama", "answer": "Montgomery"}
{"question": "Which actor played the title role in the ITV series 'Tarzan' from 1966 to 1968?", "answer": "RON ELY"}
{"question": "In which novel by Charles Dickens does 'Miss Cornelia Blimber' appear?", "answer": "'DOMBEY & SON'"}
{"question": "Which serial killer is the subject of the films A Study In Terror, Murder By Decree and From Hell?", "answer": "Jack The Ripper"}
{"question": "Charles Sands (USA), Margaret Abbot (USA) and George Lyon (Canada) were winners in what Olympic sport at the 1900 and 1904 games?", "answer": "Golf"}
{"question": "Mount Fujiyama is on which Japanese island?", "answer": "Honshu"}
{"question": "What is the name of the seven-branched candelabra used in the Jewish religion?", "answer": "Menorah"}
{"question": "Who was the demon barber of Fleet Street?", "answer": "Sweeney Todd"}
{"question": "Carpology is the study of what?", "answer": "Fruits and seeds"}
{"question": "What is the meaning of the word crepuscular?", "answer": "AT DUSK / TWILIGHT"}
{"question": "Who composed the ballet \u2018Swan Lake\u2019?", "answer": "Pyotr Tchaikovsky"}
{"question": "What is the US state capital of Idaho?", "answer": "Boise"}
{"question": "What in the human body is the calcaneum?", "answer": "Heel bone"}
{"question": "Who in 1928 piloted the first flight between Australia and New Zealand?", "answer": "CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH"}
{"question": "\"What TV character used the catchphrase \"\"I know nothing\"\"?\"", "answer": "Sergeant Shulz"}
{"question": "What famous ancient city is on the river Tiber?", "answer": "Rome"}
{"question": "\"\"\"Andre 3000\"\" & \"\"Big Boi\"\" make up which hip hop duo?\"", "answer": "Outkast"}
{"question": "From which Daphne DuMaurier book is the opening line 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again'?", "answer": "REBECCA"}
{"question": "What is the perfect score in ten pin bowling?", "answer": "300"}
{"question": "Who is the largest aircraft carrier in the world is named after?", "answer": "Gerald R. Ford"}
{"question": "Name one of the two 'Great Lakes' that Niagara Falls lies between?", "answer": "ONTARIO or ERIE"}
{"question": "In April 1814 which King gained the French throne to begin the Bourbon Restoration?", "answer": "LOUIS XVIII"}
{"question": "What country dominated the East Indies spice trade in the 17th and 18th centuries?", "answer": "Netherlands"}
{"question": "The novels The Cuckoo\u2019s Calling and the soon to be published The Silkworm are written by a well-known author using which pseudonym?", "answer": "ROBERT GALBRAITH (really J K ROWLING)"}
{"question": "Which film starring Reese Witherspoon had the same title as a hit by Lynyrd Skynyrd?", "answer": "Sweet Home Alabama"}
{"question": "What is the world's smallest land-locked country?", "answer": "Vatican City"}
{"question": "Glint Of Gold would have won the 1981 Epsom Derby had it not been for the presence of which 'superstar'?", "answer": "SHERGAR (Glint Of Gold finished second)"}
{"question": "Who won the first ?", "answer": "Kelly Clarkson"}
{"question": "Who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Saturn?", "answer": "Kronos (Cronus)"}
{"question": "In what city was Muhammad born?", "answer": "Mecca"}
{"question": "What does an octopus spray when threatened?", "answer": "Ink"}
{"question": "What is produced when you strike steel agains flint?", "answer": "a Spark"}
{"question": "In croquet, what is used to hit the ball?", "answer": "Mallet"}
{"question": "What was the former name of the British Green Party?", "answer": "Ecology Party"}
{"question": "The invention of what in 1867, made Alfred Nobel famous?", "answer": "Dynamite"}
{"question": "Who in the Bible, became the first drunken man after planting a vineyard?", "answer": "NOAH"}
{"question": "In which city is George Eliot\u2019s novel \u2018Romola\u2019 set?", "answer": "Florence"}
{"question": "\"In which film did Bacall say to Bogart, \"\"If you want me just whistle\"\"?\"", "answer": "'TO HAVE AND TO HAVE NOT'"}
{"question": "The ESRB provides ratings for what?", "answer": "Video Games"}
{"question": "Which is the longest length below?", "answer": "Rod"}
{"question": "What is the acronym for the agency which provides co-operation between police forces worldwide?", "answer": "Interpol"}
{"question": "What is the official language of Barbados?", "answer": "English"}
{"question": "\"The song \"\"If I Ruled The World\"\" comes from which musical?\"", "answer": "PICKWICK"}
{"question": "Who invented the wind-up radio?", "answer": "TREVOR BAYLISS"}
{"question": "What two word name connects of all of the following: a brand of scotch whisky, Radio 2 DJ and a statue at the Pier Head, Liverpool?", "answer": "Johnny Walker"}
{"question": "What communal cooking method/equipment derives from French 'melted'?", "answer": "Fondue"}
{"question": "Which museum has the highest-funded art gallery?", "answer": "Getty Museum"}
{"question": "Who does Emilio Estevez play in the 1988 film \u2018Young Guns\u2019?", "answer": "Billy the Kid"}
{"question": "A group of which fish is called a Lap?", "answer": "Cod"}
{"question": "What are the only two types of mammal that can lay eggs?", "answer": "Platypus"}
{"question": "Which opera by Borodin features the Polovtsian Dances?", "answer": "PRINCE IGOR"}
{"question": "\u2018La Marcha Real\u2019 (The Royal march) is the national anthem of which country?", "answer": "Spain"}
{"question": "Which is the style of music, characterised by staccato offbeat rhythms, and owing much to the influence of mento, jazz, ska and rhythm and blues?", "answer": "Reggae"}
{"question": "What is the name for the point in the lunar orbit when the moon is nearest to the earth?", "answer": "Perigee"}
{"question": "What is a nattatorium better known as", "answer": "Swimming pool"}
{"question": "Which writer created the detective Charlie Chan?", "answer": "EARL DERR BIGGERS"}
{"question": "Which king experienced regicide at the hands of Shakespeare's Macbeth?", "answer": "King Duncan"}
{"question": "The announcement came in November 1978 that which member of the 'Royal Family' was to join the armed forces?", "answer": "PRINCE ANDREW"}
{"question": "Argentina invaded UK's Falkland Islands, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, Canada became officially independent of the UK, Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the USSR, died, all in what year?", "answer": "1982"}
{"question": "The Walker Art Gallery is in which UK city?", "answer": "Liverpool"}
{"question": "Which South American capital was founded on the banks of the Rio Mapocho by Pedro de Valdivia in 1541?", "answer": "SANTIAGO"}
{"question": "In what film would you have seen a sword fight on the Cliffs of Insanity?", "answer": "The Princess Bride"}
{"question": "What name given to an autumn full moon in the northern hemisphere alludes to the brightness of the night sky that aids the shooting of migrating birds?", "answer": "Hunter's moon"}
{"question": "What Mexican duo are famous for their high energy classical guitar music, including a version of Stairway to Heaven?", "answer": "Rodrigo y Gabriela"}
{"question": "What is the capital of the Navarre region of northern Spain", "answer": "Pamplona"}
{"question": "What are Merapi in Indonesia, Rabaul in Papua New Guinea and Ruapehu in New Zealand?", "answer": "Volcanoes"}
{"question": "The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine is used for immunisation against what?", "answer": "Tuberculosis"}
{"question": "Which foreign car manufacture has a rams head on its badge?", "answer": "DODGE"}
{"question": "What noted film director and producer, born on May 14, 1944, founded the theatre audio company THX, and the visual effects company Industrial Light and Magic, among others?", "answer": "George Lucas"}
{"question": "Which Archbishop of Canterbury led the prayers for Diana, Princess of Wales at her 1997 funeral service?", "answer": "George Carey"}
{"question": "In Greek myth, who was the beautiful youth beloved of Aphrodite, who died of a hunting wound inflicted by a wild boar?", "answer": "ADONIS"}
{"question": "Which chemical element has the symbol TI?", "answer": "THALLIUM."}
{"question": "\"Who played Luke Skywalker in the 1977 original \"\"Star Wars\"\" film?\"", "answer": "(Mark) HAMILL"}
{"question": "In the human body what is the Axilla commonly known as?", "answer": "The armpit"}
{"question": "\"In the sentence \"\"Wherever he went, he carried the scratching cat, his eyes red.\"\", what part of speech is \"\"his eyes red\"\"?\"", "answer": "Phrase"}
{"question": "In internet domain names what country is represented by the domain code '.se'?", "answer": "SWEDEN"}
{"question": "Who scored the most goals in the 2012/13 English Premier League season?", "answer": "Robin van Persie"}
{"question": "Beethoven wrote only one opera, can you name it?", "answer": "Fidelio"}
{"question": "What is the name of the long narrow island off the east coast of Russia?", "answer": "Sakhalin"}
{"question": "Which Chinese city gave its name to the forcing of men to become sailors against their will", "answer": "Shanghai"}
{"question": "What caused a 34 minute suspension of play in the 2013 Superbowl?", "answer": "Power-cut"}
{"question": "Which bird is the international symbol for happiness?", "answer": "Bluebird"}
{"question": "What type of hat does Indiana Jones wear?", "answer": "Fedora"}
{"question": "What are Coh\u00edba, Hoyo de Monterrey, Montecristo, Partag\u00e1s, Romeo y Julieta and Quintero?", "answer": "Cuban cigars"}
{"question": "In what country did Venetian blinds originate?", "answer": "Japan"}
{"question": "According to famous American architect Louis Henri Sullivan, known as the father of skyscrapers, \"form follows what\"?", "answer": "Function"}
{"question": "With a population of almost 930,000 inhabitants, what is the capital city of Nicaragua?", "answer": "MANAGUA"}
{"question": "Which serialised TV drama had a title that is a Lesbian slang term for oral sex?", "answer": "Tipping The Velvet"}
{"question": "What colour is lapis lazuli?", "answer": "Blue"}
{"question": "Which dancer has only one notable film cameo, appearing with Sean Connery in the 1979 movie The First Great Train Robbery, breaking into a guarded station office.", "answer": "Wayne Sleep"}
{"question": "Which Shaw play is set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War?", "answer": "Arms and the Man"}
{"question": "The 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles is a modern version of which Shakespeare play?", "answer": "THE TAMING OF THE SHREW"}
{"question": "What is the system of raised dots called which blind people use to read with their fingers?", "answer": "Braille"}
{"question": "Who was the only boxer to win more heavyweight title fights than Mohammed Ali?", "answer": "Joe Louis"}
{"question": "In German cuisine, what type of food is Stollen?", "answer": "Fruit Loaf"}
{"question": "In the novel by Dumas, where was the Count of Monte Cristo imprisoned for 14 years?", "answer": "Chateau d'If"}
{"question": "Who played the part of 'Alice Tinker' in 'The Vicar Of Dibley'?", "answer": "EMMA CHAMBERS"}
{"question": "Which animal completes the name of the stop-motion animated children\u2019s TV series \u201cRaa Raa the Noisy _____\u201d?", "answer": "Lion"}
{"question": "What name is given to someone who starts fires maliciously?", "answer": "Arsonist"}
{"question": "What is phobophobia the fear of?", "answer": "-\u00c2\u00a0 Fear itself"}
{"question": "According to the nursery rhyme, how many blackbirds were baked in a pie?", "answer": "24"}
{"question": "Author J.R.R. Tolkien was born in which country?", "answer": "South Africa"}
{"question": "What was the more famous two word name of American singer and ukele player who had the real name Herbert Khaury. In 1968 he released a classic version of a popular song which he sang in a high pitched voice?", "answer": "TINY TIM"}
{"question": "Why was the bougainvillea plant given that name?", "answer": "The botanist who described it was on a ship commanded by Admiral de Bougainville"}
{"question": "Used primarily to talk to the dead (and the scare the snot out of younger siblings), what is the name of the Parker Brothers game that consists of a flat board marked with letters, numbers, and other symbols, and a wooden disc known as a planchette?", "answer": "Ouija Board"}
{"question": "Which famous media son and mogul joined the board of GlaxoSmithKline as non-executive director in Feb 2009?", "answer": "James Murdoch"}
{"question": "Ur was a major city of which ancient civilization?", "answer": "SUMER"}
{"question": "Which comedian had an alter ego called Fred Scuttle?", "answer": "Benny Hill"}
{"question": "Which comic strip character was created in the early fifties by the Southport artist Frank Hampson?", "answer": "DAN DARE"}
{"question": "Which country staged the first Winter Olympic Games?", "answer": "FRANCE (Chamonix in 1924)"}
{"question": "Suger Mice was a 1987 single for which British rock band?", "answer": "Marillion"}
{"question": "'The Playboy Riots' occurred during and following the opening in 1907 of 'The Playboy Of The Western World' by J.M. Synge, at which Dublin theatre?", "answer": "ABBEY THEATRE"}
{"question": "In which pastime/game would you use the Forsyth-Edwards Notation or the GBR code?", "answer": "CHESS"}
{"question": "In the 2014 zombie comedy Life After Beth, a character takes offense when asked about zombies just because she is from what country?", "answer": "Haiti"}
{"question": "In which month of the year does pheasant shooting legally begin?", "answer": "OCTOBER"}
{"question": "What is a third divided by a half?", "answer": "Two-thirds"}
{"question": "Anchored by the star Polaris, the constellation ursa minor represents what animal?", "answer": "bear"}
{"question": "What type of food dish is a \u2018London Particular\u2019?", "answer": "Soup"}
{"question": "In a petrol engine what component mixes fuel and air?", "answer": "The carburettor"}
{"question": "The 'Yid Army' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which London club?", "answer": "TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR"}
{"question": "What instrument was originally called the trompette-saicueboute?", "answer": "Trombone"}
{"question": "From which country does paella come", "answer": "Spain"}
{"question": "Sixty year old Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is the current president of which South American country ?", "answer": "ARGENTINA"}
{"question": "What is Australia's largest island?", "answer": "Tasmania"}
{"question": "In the books by Raymond Briggs what type of creature is Fungus", "answer": "Bogeyman"}
{"question": "Where is the grave of Bing Crosby?", "answer": "Culver City, Los Angeles County, USA"}
{"question": "The result of a tryst with the wife of his bitter enemy, what legendary English ruler is the bastard son of Igraine and Uther Pendragon?", "answer": "King Arthur"}
{"question": "Which country does the airline TAAG come from?", "answer": "Angola"}
{"question": "In which part of the body might one sustain a Pott's Fracture? \\", "answer": "The ANKLE"}
{"question": "Which was the first Liverpool group to top the UK chart?", "answer": "Gerry & The Pacemakers"}
{"question": "What was the name of the second wife of Johnny Cash, who he married in 1968?", "answer": "June Carter"}
{"question": "Which TV and film character has a blood group T Negative? (the same as his father with some human elements)", "answer": "Mr.SPOCK"}
{"question": "Who wrote the words to 'Land of Hope and Glory'?", "answer": "AC Benson"}
{"question": "What Family Guy character moved from Quahog, Rhode Island to Stoolbend, Virginia to spin off his own show?", "answer": "Cleveland Brown"}
{"question": "In the name of the mountain K2, for what does the K stand?", "answer": "KARAKORAM"}
{"question": "Last month, what word was named by Oxford Dictionaries as the word of the year?", "answer": "SELFIE"}
{"question": "What is the only letter of the alphabet which does not appear in any of the names of the 50 American states?", "answer": "Q"}
{"question": "What was the name of the 'Birdman of Alcatraz'?", "answer": "ROBERT STROUD"}
{"question": "Which African country's capital is named after an American president?", "answer": "Liberia"}
{"question": "What is the maximum airspeed (in km/h) of the third fastest bird?", "answer": "320 km/h"}
{"question": "Who famously had children with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?", "answer": "Cleopatra"}
{"question": "Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera has the alternative title 'The Lass that Loved a Sailor'?", "answer": "HMS Pinafore"}
{"question": "The first Apollo moon landing?", "answer": "11"}
{"question": "In the TV series Cracker what is Fitz's christian name", "answer": "Eddie"}
{"question": "\"What is another name for \"\"mother of pearl\"\"?\"", "answer": "Nacre"}
{"question": "In the 1962 film \u2018Lolita\u2019, what is Lolita\u2019s first name?", "answer": "Dolores"}
{"question": "What is the longest time that there can be between General Elections in the UK?", "answer": "5 years"}
{"question": "Who is the detective played by Martin Shaw in a t.v. series set in North East England in the 1960's?", "answer": "'GEORGE GENTLY'"}
{"question": "Which pop singer shot himself to death in 1990 whilst suffering from depression?", "answer": "DEL SHANNON"}
{"question": "Who directed the 2013 film \u2018Twelve Years a Slave\u2019?", "answer": "STEVE McQUEEN"}
{"question": "What was the name of the 1960\u2019s rock band which comprised Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech?", "answer": "Blind Faith"}
{"question": "Which Charles Dickens novel has two title characters, both called 'Paul' and a full title that ends with the words: 'Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation'?", "answer": "'DOMBEY & SON'"}
{"question": "What is the name of the first digital library founded by Michael Hart in 1971?", "answer": "Project Gutenberg"}
{"question": "What is the name of the sidekick of cartoon superhero DangerMouse?", "answer": "Ernest Penfold"}
{"question": "In 1961, who famously scored six goals in a match but still ended up on the losing team in a FA Cup tie?", "answer": "Denis Law"}
{"question": "In what year was the first Tarzan novel published?", "answer": "1914"}
{"question": "Which author wrote \u2018I came form Des Moines. Somebody had to.\u2019 in their book \u2018The Lost Continent\u2019?", "answer": "Bill Bryson"}
{"question": "In which TV 'quiz' show was the consolation prize a chequebook and pen?", "answer": "Blankety Blank"}
{"question": "What island country lies off the southeast tip of India?", "answer": "Sri Lanka"}
{"question": "In which country is the volcano Mount Meager?", "answer": "Canada"}
{"question": "On what day is Michaelmas celebrated?", "answer": "Michaelmas Day is the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, celebrated on 29 September. (St. Michael is the patron saint of the sea and maritime lands, of ships and boatmen, of horses and horsemen. He was the Angel who hurled Lucifer (the devil) down from Heaven for his treachery.)"}
{"question": "George W Bush was given which diminutive herbaceous nickname?", "answer": "Shrub"}
{"question": "Which Dutch admiral boasted in 1667 that he had swept the British from the sea?", "answer": "Maarten Tromp"}
{"question": "What book knocked Henry Kissinger's White house Years out of first place on the best-seller list in November 1979?", "answer": "Aunt Erma's Cope Book, by Erma Bombeck"}
{"question": "Which writer and politician became Lord Tweedsmuir?", "answer": "John Buchan"}
{"question": "Where is the European Court of Human Rights?", "answer": "Strasbourg"}
{"question": "Which aperitif is named for the Paris chemist who created it in 1846?", "answer": "DuBonnet"}
{"question": "What is the name of the bay on the shore of which Rio de Janeiro sits?", "answer": "Guanabara Bay"}
{"question": "Which city was formerly known as \u201cEdo\u201d?", "answer": "Tokyo"}
{"question": "Star Trek: TOS was cancelled in 1969 after how many years on the air?", "answer": "3"}
{"question": "Which organisation was founded by the lawyer Peter Benenson in London in 1961?", "answer": "Amnesty International"}
{"question": "Who is the the voice of cartoon character Jack Kahuna Laguna in a special episode of Spongebob Squarepants?", "answer": "Johnny Depp"}
{"question": "Who wrote the songs for the musical Top Hat?", "answer": "Irving Berlin"}
{"question": "In which English county was Henry 1st born?", "answer": "Yorkshire"}
{"question": "In what year was the company that was founded as Sound of Music added to the S&P 500?", "answer": "1999"}
{"question": "As a figure of speech, what is a statement made in exaggerated terms?", "answer": "HYPERBOLE"}
{"question": "Which element has the chemical symbol Cs?", "answer": "CAESIUM"}
{"question": "What short-named body can be called the most geologically active place of the Solar System as the tidal forces of its mother planet cause its solid surface to bulge up by as much as 100 meters?", "answer": "Io (Jupiter)"}
{"question": "In the DC Comics world, he started as Dick Grayson and ended up as the leader of the Teen Titans, under the identity of Nightwing. By what name is he more famously know?", "answer": "Robin, Boy Wonder"}
{"question": "Who wrote the book of verses \u2018Now We Are Six\u2019?", "answer": "A A Milne"}
{"question": "When it was a first performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1907, which play caused rioting in the streets because of objections to the portrayal of rural Irish Catholic immorality?", "answer": "'THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD'"}
{"question": "What abolitionist raided Harpers Ferry in 1859?", "answer": "John Brown"}
{"question": "By what name was Peggy Hookham DBE better known?", "answer": "Margot Fonteyn"}
{"question": "Fidel Castro, former President of Cuba, ordered which board game to be destroyed when he took power?", "answer": "Monopoly"}
{"question": "What aid to baking was invented by Henry Jones of Bristol in 1845", "answer": "Self-raising flour"}
{"question": "Which planet has moons with Greek names meaning 'Fear' and 'Terror'?", "answer": "MARS (Phobos & Deimos)"}
{"question": "What \"moderately famous\" ship left Southampton, England, before stopping at Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland before stopping floating?", "answer": "RMS Titanic"}
{"question": "Who was the cartoon adversary of Pixie and Dixie, who would often say I hate those meeces to pieces?", "answer": "Mr Jinx"}
{"question": "Umberto ll was the last king of which European country?", "answer": "Italy"}
{"question": "The meibomian gland is found in which part of the human body?", "answer": "Eyelid"}
{"question": "What did Pickles find in 1966?", "answer": "The Jules Rimet Trophy/World Cup"}
{"question": "The Wolfe Noel Cup is awarded to the winners of the woman's challenge match the USA v Great Britain at which sport?", "answer": "Squash"}
{"question": "To the nearest two, how many tennis Grand Slam titles did Jimmy Connors win?", "answer": "10"}
{"question": "In medicine, chromotopsia is the term for abnormally coloured what?", "answer": "Vision"}
{"question": "Where was the Titanic heading for on her maiden voyage", "answer": "New York"}
{"question": "Who was on the thrones of England and Scotland at the time of the Act of Union in 1707?", "answer": "Anne"}
{"question": "Which English football league club play their home games at Gigg Lane?", "answer": "Bury"}
{"question": "Saint Fidelis Church, otherwise known as The Cathedral of the Plains, is located in which US state?", "answer": "Kansas"}
{"question": "Who (at 2008) plays Doctor Gregory House in the TV series House?", "answer": "Hugh Laurie"}
{"question": "The girth goes on which part of the horse?", "answer": "Around the ribs"}
{"question": "A Paris grocer was jailed for two years in 1978 stabbing wife what?", "answer": "A wedge of hard cheese"}
{"question": "Made in Scotland what type of beverage is Rock Rose", "answer": "Gin"}
{"question": "In team ball games such as football, a pass to a team-mate which invites an immediate hard tackle on the receiver by an opponent is called a '(What?) pass'?", "answer": "Hospital"}
{"question": "Name either of Sir Galahad\u2019s companions on his quest to find the holy grail.", "answer": "Sir Percival or Sir Bors"}
{"question": "What are fished by the crews in the freezing waters of Alaska as shown in Discovery Channel's hit series Deadliest Catch?", "answer": "Alaskan king crab and Opilio crab"}
{"question": "Who first achieved stardom as the gangster Duke Mantee in the film 'The Petrified Forest'?", "answer": "Humphrey Bogart"}
{"question": "Which English king was married to Eleanor of Castile?", "answer": "Edward the First"}
{"question": "What machine devised to move people was first demonstrated in Paris in 1900?", "answer": "Escalator"}
{"question": "What are the first names of art duo Proesch and Passmore?", "answer": "Gilbert and George"}
{"question": "Who was the American President when the Berlin Wall was constructed?", "answer": "John F Kennedy"}
{"question": "Who wrote the political autobiography Speaking For Myself?", "answer": "Cherie Blair"}
{"question": "\"A novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first published in \"\"All-Story Magazine\"\" in October 1912, was \"\"Tarzan of the ... \"\" what?\"", "answer": "Apes"}
{"question": "Narcotics were originally developed for inducing, and are named from?", "answer": "Numbness/sleep"}
{"question": "Which actor, who died in June 2014, provided the voice of Captain Scarlet?", "answer": "Francis Matthews"}
{"question": "What is the only U.S. state that borders just one other?", "answer": "Maine"}
{"question": "Who is the Vice President, and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy?", "answer": "BARONESS ASHTON"}
{"question": "On what river is the town of Colchester", "answer": "Colne"}
{"question": "What song did Wayne and Garth headbang to in the car?", "answer": "Bohemian Rhapsody"}
{"question": "Which 1983 film starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger won 5 Oscars (Academy Awards)?", "answer": "Terms of Endearment"}
{"question": "Which anti-conformist movement in 1950's fashion began in New York's West Village and was characterised by black slim trousers , thick sweaters and untucked shirts ?", "answer": "BEATNIK"}
{"question": "In music theory what is the relative minor chord of C major?", "answer": "A minor"}
{"question": "What kind of animal is a 'Suffolk Punch'?", "answer": "Horse"}
{"question": "Paul Newman's title character in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke was imprisoned for decapitating what?, where he succcessfully accepted a challenge to eat 50 what?, respectively?", "answer": "Parking meters and boiled eggs"}
{"question": "The Kremlin is situated in which city?", "answer": "Moscow"}
{"question": "What is the title of the 1996 Oscar-winning documentary about the Muhammad Ali and George Foreman 1974 \u2018Rumble in the Jungle\u2019 fight in Zaire?", "answer": "When We Were Kings"}
{"question": "15 October will mark the 600th anniversary of which famous battle?", "answer": "AGINCOURT"}
{"question": "A popular 1960s TV cowboy series, what is a cutaneous covering that has not been tanned?", "answer": "Rawhide"}
{"question": "Which British monarch founded the Yeomen of the Guard, originally as a royal bodyguard?", "answer": "Henry VII"}
{"question": "Which 2009 movie, the directorial debut of Sam Taylor-Wood, tell the story of the adolescence of John Lennon?", "answer": "Nowhere Boy"}
{"question": "Which cartoon character is mentioned in the single \u2018Life on Mars\u2019 by David Bowie?", "answer": "Mickey Mouse"}
{"question": "Which European country hosted the 1956 Winter Olympic Games?", "answer": "Italy"}
{"question": "What is next in the sequence: Lima, Quito, Bogota...?", "answer": "Caracas"}
{"question": "\"The musical \"\"Les Miserables\"\" is based on whose novel?\"", "answer": "Victor Hugo"}
{"question": "Mary Surratt was executed having been found guilty of the conspiracy to assassinate who?", "answer": "ABRAHAM LINCOLN"}
{"question": "Other than a film soundtrack, which pop album has spent most weeks in the UK Album Charts in total?", "answer": "BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER"}
{"question": "White Gem is a variety of which vegetable?", "answer": "PARSNIP"}
{"question": "Which late MP owned Saltwood Castle in Kent?", "answer": "Alan Clarke"}
{"question": "Who said that there are only three true sports, bullfighting, mountaineering and motor racing, the rest are merely games?", "answer": "Ernest Hemingway"}
{"question": "What do antique dealers call old wooden utensils such as soupspoons, bowls etc", "answer": "Treen"}
{"question": "Who is the only Spanish winner of the Ladies' Singles at Wimbledon?", "answer": "CONCHITA MARTINEZ"}
{"question": "When did the president who set the precedent of a two term limit enter office?", "answer": "April 30, 1789"}
{"question": "How is the year 1994 depicted in Roman Numerals?", "answer": "MCMXCIV"}
{"question": "Which British swimmer won Olympic Gold Medals in 2008 in the 400 and 800 m freestyle?", "answer": "Rebecca Adlington"}
{"question": "Turin lies on which river?", "answer": "Po"}
{"question": "Nick Begs was lead singer with which 80\u2019s pop band?", "answer": "Kajagoogoo"}
{"question": "Which children's TV show used cabbages as the booby prize?", "answer": "Crackerjack"}
{"question": "There are three types of rock. Sedimentary is one, give one of the others.", "answer": "IGNEOUS OR METAMORPHIC"}
{"question": "The scientific term fission means?", "answer": "Split"}
{"question": "The Corryvreckan whirlpool lies to the north of which Scottish island?", "answer": "JURA"}
{"question": "On a motorway what is the speed limit for a car towing a caravan?", "answer": "60 mph"}
{"question": "Which national team introduced \u2018Total Football\u2019 at the 1974 World Cup in Germany?", "answer": "Holland/Netherlands"}
{"question": "What is the English translation of the place name Las Vegas?", "answer": "THE MEADOWS"}
{"question": "Which Shakespeare play is set in the Forest of Arden?", "answer": "AS YOU LIKE IT"}
{"question": "What is the name of the villain Azal\u2019s gargoyle servant in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who?", "answer": "Bok"}
{"question": "What is the name of the spiritual leader of a community of Zen Buddhist monks?", "answer": "Roshi"}
{"question": "What country lies to north of the Republic of Chad?", "answer": "The State of Libya"}