CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who played the title role in the 2002 film, Mr Deeds?
Answer: adam sandler
Question: In which sci-fi TV series did Dirk Benedict play Lieutenant Starbuck?
Answer: battlestar galactica
Question: Which film starring Meryl Streep in 1985, won 7 Oscars?
Answer: out of africa
Question: Name the male lead in the 1946 film The Big Sleep?
Answer: humphrey bogart
Question: 20, In London, what is the 'actual name' of the street 'known as' Petticoat Lane?
Answer: middlesex street
Question: What kind of creatures are Sam, Merry and Pippin in the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Answer: hobbits
Question: How are Eddie, Lily, Herman, Grandpa and Marilyn collectively known?
Answer: munsters
Question: Who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the film Ray?
Answer: jamie foxx
Question: Which 1962 film starring Frank Sinatra was remade in 2004 starring Denzel Washington?
Answer: manchurian candidate
Question: Which film has had sequels entitled The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome?
Answer: mad max
Question: The Pebbles and Bam Bam Show is a spin-off from which animated series?
Answer: flintstones
Question: The record ?I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing? was used to advertise which soft drink?
Answer: coca cola
Question: Who played 'Gandhi' in the film of the same name?
Answer: ben kingsley
Question: Which actress played the part of Angie in EastEnders?
Answer: anita dobson
Question: Who was the 18th President of the USA from 1869 - 1877?
Answer: ulysses s grant
Question: What is the name of the canal linking Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in Canada?
Answer: welland ship canal
Question: What name is given to the sea stretching from Australia to New Zealand?
Answer: tasman sea
Question: Which British Prime Minister died whilst in office in 1865 aged 80 years?
Answer: lord palmerston
Question: Which golfer Jack was nicknamed 'The Golden Bear'?
Answer: jack nicklaus
Question: In which Scottish City would you find Sauchiehall Street?
Answer: glasgow
Question: What was discovered in Klondike, Canada, in 1896?
Answer: gold
Question: What wartime position did General Montgomery assume in 1942?
Answer: commander in chief middle east
Question: What began operating at Calder Hall in 1956?
Answer: nuclear power station
Question: What famous painting was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911?
Answer: mona lisa
Question: What nation-wide event took place in England, starting in 1642?
Answer: civil war
Question: Which treaty in 1957 led to the creation of the EEC?
Answer: treaty of rome
Question: In which city was Terry Waite taken hostage in 1987?
Answer: beirut
Question: American 'Kelly Slater' is best known for which sport?
Answer: surfing
Question: Who is depicted atop the Ryder Cup trophy (golf)?
Answer: abe mitchell
Question: Which boxer LOST the 'Thrilla in Manila'?
Answer: joe frazier
Question: By what name was the heavyweight fighter, Cassius Clay, better known?
Answer: muhammad ali
Question: In 1950 who made the allegation that 205 State Department officials were 'card carrying communists'?
Answer: joseph mccarthy
Question: Which US pop artist created ?100 Campbells Soup Cans??
Answer: andy warhol
Question: In 1961 which famous dancer sought political asylum in Paris?
Answer: rudolf nureyev
Question: Whose controversial radio broadcast of H. G. Wells The War of The Worlds (1938) caused widespread panic in the US?
Answer: orson welles
Question: Whose plays include Uncle Vanya and The Three Sisters?
Answer: anton chekhov
Question: Which writer created the character of 'Jeeves'?
Answer: p g wodehouse
Question: What is the largest known encyclopaedia, made up of 22,877 volumes in 11,095 books?
Answer: yongle dadian
Question: Who missed the penalty for France in the 2006 World Cup final?
Answer: david trezeguet
Question: In JM Barrie's Peter Pan, what school did the fictional character Captain Hook attend?
Answer: eton
Question: Who failed to receive a posthumous Nobel Prize in 1962 despite her contribution to building a model of DNA?
Answer: rosalind franklin
Question: Which author wrote a series of essays called Virginibus Puerisque?
Answer: robert louis stevenson
Question: Which 1978 movie featured two gangs called the T Birds and the Pink Ladies?
Answer: grease
Question: Who was the author who at the age of nine, wrote The Young Visiters?
Answer: daisy ashford
Question: Which actress played Mrs Overall in Acorn Antiques?
Answer: julie walters
Question: Which of the Brontë sisters wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848?
Answer: anne brontë
Question: Who starred in the title role in the 2002 film, Mr Deeds?
Answer: adam sandler
Question: Edward Gibbon was famed for which great historical work?
Answer: decline and fall of roman empire
Question: What is the first name of the character Crocodile Dundee?
Answer: mick
Question: Which former Neighbours star played soon to be Edward V111 in 'The King's Speech'?
Answer: guy pearce
Question: Who wrote the screenplay for the film 'The Exorcist'?
Answer: william peter blatty
Question: What was name of the sequel to the film Scream called?
Answer: scream 2
Question: Which famous actor in the film 'Ghostbusters' also co-wrote the film?
Answer: dan aykroyd
Question: Which Yorkshire fishing/seaside town features in the 1897 novel, Dracula?
Answer: whitby
Question: Who played 'Countess Dracula' in the 1971 film of the same name?
Answer: ingrid pitt
Question: Who played Doctor Watson in the 1959 Hammer Horror classic The Hound of The Baskervilles?
Answer: andre morell
Question: Who was burnt at the stake for witchcraft in 1431?
Answer: joan of arc
Question: Dame Maggie Smith played which character in Hogwarts?
Answer: minerva mcgonagall
Question: 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn' was a hit single for which group in 1987?
Answer: beastie boys
Question: What was the original name of Cliff Richard's backing group The Shadows before they realised there was already an American group with the same name?
Answer: drifters
Question: Who had a 1983 hit with 'Too Shy'?
Answer: kajagoogoo
Question: Which real-life Russian did Boney M sing about in 1978?
Answer: rasputin
Question: Who had a hit in 1984 with '99 Red Balloons'?
Answer: nena
Question: What is the name of Iron Maidens mascot who appears on their album covers and who has also featured in a video game?
Answer: eddie
Question: Who had a hit single with 'Werewolves Of London'?
Answer: warren zevon
Question: Who wrote the music and lyrics to the musical `Anything Goes`?
Answer: cole porter
Question: For what is Michael Eavis best known in the music world?
Answer: glastonbury festival
Question: Which composer wrote the operas Tosca, Madame Butterfly and Turandot?
Answer: puccini
Question: William Harvey the man who discovered the circulation of the blood was born in which English town?
Answer: folkestone
Question: Who became the first prime minister of India on its independence in 1947?
Answer: jawaharlal nehru
Question: Who played the lead character in the film 'The 6th Day' in 2000?
Answer: arnold schwarzenegger
Question: In the 1991 film 'Basic Instinct', who played Detective Nick Curran?
Answer: michael douglas
Question: In 1983 a British politician appeared with Tracy Ullman in a Pop Video. Who was the politician?
Answer: neil kinnock
Question: What was the nickname of 60's singer Brenda Lee?
Answer: little miss dynamite
Question: George Michael was one. Who was the other member of the duo 'Wham'?
Answer: andrew ridgely
Question: Name the character played by Harrison Ford in the 2000 film 'What Lies Beneath'?
Answer: dr norman spencer
Question: Who played John Shaft in the 2000 film version of 'Shaft'?
Answer: samuel l jackson
Question: The 1960s/70s singer 'Junior Walker' was backed by what group?
Answer: all stars
Question: He starred in and sang the theme song for 'Hi-De-Hi. Who is he?
Answer: paul shane
Question: In 1984 Tina Turner had a hit with 'Private Dancer'. Who wrote it?
Answer: mark knopfler
Question: Who played the starring role in the 1992 film 'Malcolm X'?
Answer: denzel washington
Question: What is the only UK No. 1 single for Fleetwood Mac?
Answer: albatross
Question: Who was the first US president to have been born in a Hospital?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: Who won the best actress Oscar for the 1959 film Room at the Top?
Answer: simone signoret
Question: First ad on Radio Luxemburg 1930s for Bile Beans - which are what?
Answer: laxatives
Question: Who became the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961?
Answer: john fitzgerald kennedy
Question: Who was the writer of the novel 'Jurassic Park?
Answer: michael crichton
Question: Tasting of aniseed, what is the name of this Greek drink?
Answer: ouzo
Question: The skin of a shark was once used commercially as sandpaper. True or false?
Answer: true
Question: Who was the 'Virgin' label's first recording artist?
Answer: mike oldfield
Question: The plant 'Ananas comosus provides us with which fruit?
Answer: pineapple
Question: Who was the last infamous inmate of Spandau Prison?
Answer: rudolph hess
Question: By what name is the Lent Lily better known?
Answer: daffodil
Question: Which Henry 8th warship was salvaged on 8th October 1981?
Answer: mary rose
Question: Who was the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest?
Answer: junko tabei
Question: Which Python was appointed Rector of St. Andrews University in 1971?
Answer: john cleese
Question: Jack Warner used to start what programme by saying "Evenin all"?
Answer: dixon of dock green
Question: What is the relationship of Indera Ghandi and Mahatma?
Answer: none
Question: Known throughout the world as 'Dame Edna Everage' What was the comics real name?
Answer: barry humphries
Question: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, goes the nursery rhyme. To whom does it refer?
Answer: mary queen of scots
Question: Who said "the meek shall inherit the Earth but not it's mineral rights"?
Answer: j paul getty
Question: What was the name of the infamous 'The Yorkshire Ripper'?
Answer: peter sutcliffe
Question: In what country would you find the mountain range 'The Apennines'?
Answer: italy
Question: Which 1964 film recounted the true story of the Battle of Rorke's Drift?
Answer: zulu
Question: What's the name of the character in the 'Missing in Action' films played by Chuck Norris?
Answer: colonel james braddock
Question: Who played Edith Piaf in the 2007 film 'La Vie En Rose'?
Answer: marion cotillard
Question: 'The Dambusters' is a true story about which RAF squadron?
Answer: 617 squadron
Question: Who's voice was used for Sheriff Woody in 'Toy Story'?
Answer: tom hanks
Question: What 1990 film starred Gary and Martin Kemp?
Answer: krays
Question: Which Russian boxer was beaten by Rocky in 'Rocky 4'?
Answer: ivan drago
Question: In 'Batman and Robin' what character was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: mr freeze
Question: Who played 'Judge Dredd' in the 1995 film?
Answer: sylvester stallone
Question: The song 'Eye of the Tiger' featured in which Rocky movie?
Answer: rocky 3
Question: Which character was played by Jim Carrey in 'Batman Forever'?
Answer: riddler
Question: After Rod Laver, who was the next left handed player to win the Wimbledon men's singles?
Answer: jimmy connors
Question: 'The Trotters' is the nickname for which British football club?
Answer: bolton wanderers
Question: Name the 1952 world heavyweight boxing champion who remained undefeated for his whole career?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: Who was the 1987 World Darts Champion?
Answer: john lowe
Question: Often referred to as 'Beanpole' what nationality was swimmer Michael Gross?
Answer: german
Question: Who was the infamous boxing referee that gave the decision to Joe Bugner against Henry Cooper?
Answer: harry gibbs
Question: The Ryder Cup is the professional version in golf. What version is the amateur cup?
Answer: walker cup
Question: Walter Winterbottom preceded whom as the England Football manager?
Answer: alf ramsey
Question: After being eight nil up, who did Steve Davis lose a snooker world final to?
Answer: denis taylor
Question: 'The Horse of the Year Show' is held at what venue?
Answer: wembley arena
Question: Wilfred Rhodes took 4.187 wickets in a brilliant career. For which county did he take the most?
Answer: yorkshire
Question: film Brideshead Revisited was based on who's novel penned in 1945?
Answer: evelyn waugh
Question: Who played the character 'Danny Zuko' in the film Grease?
Answer: john travolta
Question: Which character was played by Audrey Hepburn in 'My Fair Lady'?
Answer: eliza doolittle
Question: The character 'Honey Rider' appeared in which Bond film?
Answer: dr no
Question: What is the name of the character played by Johnny Depp in the 2009 film 'Public Enemies'?
Answer: john dillinger
Question: What character was played by Gene Hackman in 'The French Connection'?
Answer: popeye doyle
Question: Which of the 'Seven Dwarfs (Dwarves)' wore glasses?
Answer: doc
Question: What is the name of the international biennial yachting event coinciding with 'Cowes Week'?
Answer: admiral s cup
Question: 'Boston Crab' is a term used in which sport?
Answer: wrestling
Question: Which Australian was named as Wisden's Cricketer of the 20th Century?
Answer: don bradman
Question: Who was the first Irishman to win the Tour de France?
Answer: stephen roche
Question: In 'The Vicar of Dibley' what is the vicars name?
Answer: geraldine grainger
Question: On who's show did 'The Simpsons' first appear?
Answer: tracy ullman show
Question: Who starred alongside Adam Faith in 'Love Hurts'?
Answer: zoe wanamaker
Question: Michael and Bernard Weinstein were better known as which great double act?
Answer: mike and bernie winters
Question: Which popular daytime show was hosted by Des O'Connor and Melanie Sykes?
Answer: today with des and mel
Question: In 'Dad's Army' who played the part of Reverend Timothy Farthing?
Answer: frank williams
Question: In which quiz show would you hear the words "Is that your final answer?'?
Answer: who wants to be millionaire
Question: Who is the school bus driver in 'The Simpsons'?
Answer: otto
Question: For which taxi company did Danny DeVito work in 'Taxi'?
Answer: sunshine cab co
Question: What was the name of the family in 'The Cosby Show'?
Answer: huxtable
Question: American band 'Nirvana' released their first album in 1989. What was the title of the album?
Answer: bleach
Question: Who appeared 'As' Johnny and The Gamblers in the film Grease?
Answer: sha na na
Question: He was a 60s chart topper but who was it that played 'The Artful Dodger in the 1948 film 'Oliver Twist'?
Answer: anthony newley
Question: Who sang the theme song to 'Minder' - I could Be So Good To You?
Answer: dennis waterman
Question: Which singer, formerly part of a famous duo, starred in several films including: Moonstruck; Good Times and Chastity?
Answer: cher
Question: Who had a hit in 1965 with 'England Swings'?
Answer: roger miller
Question: Albatross was Fleetwood Mac's only No. 1 single hit. True or false?
Answer: true
Question: The two best selling singles in 1964 in the UK were by the recently deceased singer Jim Reeves. What were the titles?
Answer: i love you because and i won t forget you
Question: Gatcombe Park is the home of which member of the royal family?
Answer: princess anne
Question: 'Chim Chim Cheree' is a line from a song in which film?
Answer: mary poppins
Question: Who became the leader of the British Liberal Party in 1908?
Answer: herbert henry asquith
Question: The friendship treaty between France and England, signed in 1904, was called what?
Answer: entente cordiale
Question: How did Her Majesty the Queen describe 1992 in her Christmas speech?
Answer: annus horribilis
Question: Who was the famous artist that painted 'The Haywain'?
Answer: john constable
Question: Reef, sheepshank and granny are all types of what?
Answer: knots
Question: It's capital is Bangkok and it used to be called Siam. What is it now?
Answer: thailand
Question: What game can be played on a snooker table but only uses three balls?
Answer: billiards
Question: What is the name of 'Postman Pat's cat'?
Answer: jess
Question: What did 'Little Red Riding Hood find in grandma's bed?
Answer: wolf
Question: Who wrote the score for the 'Pink Panther' movies?
Answer: henry mancini
Question: What was 'Timon' in the 1994 Disney movie 'The Lion King'?
Answer: meerkat
Question: Who starred twice in the musical 'Anything Goes' in 1936 and again in 1956?
Answer: bing crosby
Question: What is the name of the 1978 movie starring Clint Eastwood and an orang-utan called Clyde?
Answer: every which way but loose
Question: Did 'Eli Wallach' play the 'Good'; the 'Bad; or 'the 'Ugly' in the 1966 film?
Answer: ugly
Question: Who wrote 'The ABC Murders' on which the 1965 movie 'The Alphabet Murders' was based?
Answer: agatha christie
Question: Which 1995 'Space' move starred Tom Hanks; Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon?
Answer: apollo 13
Question: Who played 'James Bond' in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill?
Answer: timothy dalton
Question: What 1976 movie was a sequel to 'All Creatures Great and Small'?
Answer: it shouldn t happen to vet
Question: Who played the US President in the 1997 film 'Air Force One'?
Answer: harrison ford
Question: What was the title of the third 'Dirty Harry' movie released in 1976?
Answer: enforcer
Question: Where can you buy a copy of Penguin News?
Answer: falkland islands
Question: Who was the hero of the old TV cop series Dragnet?
Answer: sergeant joe friday
Question: What is the name of a tremor that occurs after an earthquake?
Answer: aftershock
Question: What was the pop-up figure called in the fun house in The Man With the Golden Gun?
Answer: al
Question: What type of snake is reputed to have been used by Cleopatra when committing suicide?
Answer: asp
Question: Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the US Army produced a set of playing cards featuring its 52 most wanted Iraqis. Which card was assigned to Saddam Hussein?
Answer: ace of spades
Question: Geoffrey Howe was made a lord he is now known as Lord Howe of where?
Answer: aberavon
Question: What song did Motorhead take into the charts in 1980 and again in 1993?
Answer: ace of spades
Question: In Greek mythology which son of Telamon fought Hector in single combat?
Answer: ajax
Question: According to the poem what kind of bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?
Answer: albatross
Question: Who scored both West Ham's goals in the 1975 FA Cup Final victory against Fulham?
Answer: alan taylor
Question: What is the fossilised resin of coniferous trees called?
Answer: amber
Question: Why and when was naturalist David Bellamy jailed in Australia?
Answer: in 1983 he was jailed for blockading australian franklin river in protest against proposed dam
Question: Which former jump jockey won the prestigious 'Crime Writer's Association' award the Cartier Diamond Dagger, in 1989?
Answer: dick francis
Question: In 'The Guns of Navarone' who played the demolitions expert?
Answer: david niven
Question: In which continent would you find 'The Great Rift Valley'?
Answer: africa
Question: What is the surname of the family in the book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott?
Answer: march
Question: Which playwright wrote A Streetcar Named Desire and Night of the Iguana?
Answer: tennessee williams
Question: Which female singer had a top ten hit in 1968 with Son of A Preacher Man?
Answer: dusty springfield
Question: Which British motor cycle manufacturer's motto was "Made like a gun, goes like a bullet"?
Answer: royal enfield
Question: Who was Cassius Clay's / Muhammad Ali's manager?
Answer: angelo dundee
Question: What was the name of the horse ridden by Dick Francis that fell while leading in the 56 Grand National?
Answer: devon loch
Question: What was the first British ship lost in the Falklands War?
Answer: hms sheffield
Question: Which brand of cigarettes did former US president Ronald Reagan advertise in the fifties?
Answer: chesterfields
Question: What famous London building did John Nash rebuild in 1825?
Answer: buckingham palace
Question: Which Jane Austen novel tells the story of the Bertram family?
Answer: mansfield park
Question: Which fictional character lived at 32 Windsor Gardens, London?
Answer: paddington bear
Question: What is the longest running show staged at London's Royal Drury Lane theatre?
Answer: miss saigon
Question: Which company is famous for making the trouser presses that you find in the bedrooms of most decent hotels?
Answer: corby
Question: Which English artist painted The Blue Boy and The Hay Wagon?
Answer: thomas gainsborough
Question: For what team did Michael Schumacher drive in his first grand prix?
Answer: jordan
Question: What everyday household item was invented by O A North in 1869?
Answer: coat hook
Question: Who was the lead singer on the Sugarcubes 1992 song called Hit?
Answer: bjork
Question: What is the name of the Daily Planet's editor in the Superman series of comics and films?
Answer: perry white
Question: Which Shangri La's single had the sound of seagulls in the background?
Answer: remember walking in sand
Question: Who played Sadie King in Emmerdale?
Answer: patsy kensit
Question: The opening credits of which TV show showed Neil Kinnock falling over on his backside on Brighton Beach?
Answer: spitting image
Question: Which popular pub name comes from the title of John Manners?
Answer: marquis of granby
Question: Where was Patsy Gallant travelling to and from in her seventies hit song?
Answer: from new york to la
Question: Who hosted the first edition of Top of the Pops?
Answer: jimmy saville
Question: What was Bruce Springsteen's first number one album in the UK titled?
Answer: born in usa
Question: Mart Poom who played in goal for Portsmouth, Derby County, Sunderland and Watford won 120 caps for which country?
Answer: estonia
Question: What everyday item was invented in 1973 by Martin Cooper?
Answer: mobile phone
Question: The 400th birthday of which flower was celebrated in the Netherlands in 1994?
Answer: tulip
Question: Which female singer had a top ten hit in 1999 with Not Over You Yet?
Answer: diana ross
Question: What's the name of the river in John Constable's painting 'The Haywain'?
Answer: stour
Question: There are around 60.000 miles of veins, arteries and capillaries in the human body. True or false?
Answer: true
Question: What is the correct name for 'Petticoat Lane' in London?
Answer: middlesex street
Question: Cherylin Sarkasia LaPier is better known as who?
Answer: cher
Question: Which Beatle was the producer of the Monty Python film 'The Life of Brian'?
Answer: george harrison
Question: Which planet of the solar system has its 27 moons named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope?
Answer: uranus
Question: LSD is a synthetic derivative of which type of naturally occurring growth?
Answer: fungus
Question: On the Mohs scale of hardness, what is the second hardest mineral, after diamond?
Answer: corundum
Question: What is the SI unit of frequency (used in measuring audio and radio transmissions among many others)?
Answer: hertz
Question: What is the name of the study of the motion of the earth's crust?
Answer: plate tectonics
Question: What type of birds are Beltsville Whites, Broad Breasted Bronze and Norfolk Blacks?
Answer: turkeys
Question: Which English actress plays the part of Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: julie walters
Question: What is the name of Tony Soprano's wife in the Sopranos?
Answer: carmela
Question: What were the names of the two mascots for the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: wenlock and mandeville
Question: Who was known as the demon barber of Fleet Street?
Answer: sweeney todd
Question: What was the name of the woman in the Australian dingo baby case?
Answer: lindy chamberlain
Question: Who wrote the best seller 'When Eight Bells Toll'?
Answer: alistair maclean
Question: In which US State would you find the 'Bonneville Salt Flats'?
Answer: utah
Question: What is the name of the plain intelligent girl in glasses in Scooby Doo?
Answer: velma
Question: What flavouring is added to brandy and egg yolks to make advocaat?
Answer: vanilla
Question: Where was the wartime seat of the Petain government of France?
Answer: vichy
Question: What did Ken Dodd begin his career in entertainment as?
Answer: ventriloquist
Question: What drink is added to brandy to make a Brandy Manhattan cocktail?
Answer: vermouth