CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who was the English scientist who invented the light bulb independently of Thomas Edison in 1878?
Answer: joseph swan
Question: According to Greek mythology, who was punished in the underworld by being placed in a pool of water and afflicted with a raging thirst with the waters receding every time he tried to drink?
Answer: tantalus
Question: In the English translations of the 'Asterix' comics, what is the name of the village bard who jumps up at any chance to sing and play his lyre?
Answer: cacofonix
Question: Which singer had a top five hit in June 2010 with 'All The Lovers'?
Answer: kylie minogue
Question: At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in which athletics events was the men's gold medal won by the Panamanian Irving Saladino and the women's gold medal by the Brazilian Maurren Maggi?
Answer: long jump
Question: Although not the state capital, which is the largest city in Nebraska?
Answer: omaha
Question: Although not the state capital, which is the largest city in New Mexico?
Answer: albuquerque
Question: At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in which athletics events were the men's gold medal won by the Kenyan Wilfred Bungei and the women's gold medal won by the Kenyan Pamela Jelimo?
Answer: 800 metres
Question: Which 18th century clergyman is considered the founder of Methodism?
Answer: john wesley
Question: Which Robert Zemeckis film was the highest-grossing film worldwide of 1985?
Answer: back to future
Question: What was the name of the nurse who worked during the Crimean War and became known as 'The Black Florence Nightingale'?
Answer: mary seacole
Question: The Haber Processis a reaction to nitrogen and hydrogen in order to produce which gas?
Answer: ammonia
Question: Who was given the nickname 'the American Moses' after leading the Mormon Pioneers to Utah?
Answer: brigham young
Question: The name of which foodstuff, made by coagulating Soya milk, means 'bean curd' in Japanese?
Answer: tofu
Question: In which country is Potsdam, the site of the famous conference after World War II?
Answer: germany
Question: Who stars as the title character in Ridley Scott's 2010 film 'Robin Hood'?
Answer: russell crowe
Question: Who stars as the title character in Mike Newell's 2010 film 'Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time'?
Answer: jake gyllenhaal
Question: What is the name of the mother of the puppies in the Disney film 'One Hundred And One Dalmatians'?
Answer: perdita
Question: What is the more common name for the bone with the medical name Calcaneum?
Answer: heel
Question: David Platt left Aston Villa to join which Italian football club in 1991?
Answer: bari
Question: In the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, what is the name of the ship that sails to 'Treasure Island'?
Answer: hispaniola
Question: Who did Bulawayo born Charlene Wittstock marry earlier this month?
Answer: prince albert of monaco
Question: In which city can you visit the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque?
Answer: istanbul
Question: The 'Whale Shark' is the largest living fish. What is the most common name of the second largest, also a shark?
Answer: basking shark
Question: Who painted 'Going To The Match' a painting of a crowd on its way to Burnden Park, Bolton?
Answer: l s lowry
Question: Which 'Doctor Who' was assisted by 'Zoe Herriot' played by Wendy Padbury and 'Jamie McCrimmon' played by Frazer Hines?
Answer: patrick troughton
Question: A volcanic eruption in which country caused travel chaos and many cancelled flights in the southern hemisphere last month?
Answer: chile
Question: What was the first name of 'D.I. Stanhope' played by Brenda Blethyn in a recent ITV series?
Answer: vera
Question: Which war is the setting for Hemingway's novel 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'?
Answer: spanish civil war
Question: By what one word name is Portuguese footballer Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha known?
Answer: nani
Question: The four bases of DNA are usually referred to by letters. A, C and T are three. Which is the fourth letter?
Answer: g
Question: On which canal is 'Neptune's Staircase', the longest staircase lock in the UK?
Answer: caledonian canal
Question: Who voiced 'Dougal' in the 2005 film 'The Magic Roundabout'?
Answer: robbie williams
Question: Yelena Bonner who died last month was the wife of which Soviet dissident and physicist, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: andrei sakharov
Question: 'Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy?' is the most famous song recorded by Allan Smethurst. How was he known on stage?
Answer: singing postman
Question: Tripoli in Libya is often known as Western Tripoli to distinguish it from the second largest city in which other country?
Answer: lebanon
Question: In which part of the body is the 'Sural Nerve'?
Answer: leg
Question: The forces of which king won the Battle of the Boyne?
Answer: william iii
Question: 'Alfred Jingle' and 'Serjeant Buzfuz' appear in which Dickens novel?
Answer: pickwick papers
Question: Which pop group comprised John Gorman, Roger McGough and Mike McGear?
Answer: scaffold
Question: Which Scottish racing driver scored one point on his Formula One debut at the 2011 Australian Grand Prix, racing for the Force India team?
Answer: paul di resta
Question: What is the first name of the brother of the Duchess of Cambridge, who read the lesson at her wedding?
Answer: james
Question: In which Asian country is the 'Plain of Jars', the site of thousands of megalithic jars?
Answer: laos
Question: Which city, also the title of a Kipling poem, is the second largest in Myanmar (Burma)?
Answer: mandalay
Question: At which course is the 'Prix de Diane', the French 'Oaks' run?
Answer: chantilly
Question: In which Australian state is the city of Mount Isa, famous for its mineral deposits?
Answer: queensland
Question: Alexander Hamilton the first United States Secretary of the Treasury died on July 21st. 1804 after a duel with the Vice President the previous day. Who was the Vice President?
Answer: aaron burr
Question: Which former Basketball star was known as 'Wilt the Stilt'?
Answer: wilt chamberlain
Question: In RNA the base Uracil replaces which of the four bases in DNA?
Answer: thymine
Question: Which of the wives of Henry VIII died last, in 1557?
Answer: anne of cleves
Question: The epicentre of an earthquake in September last year (2010) was at Darfield, 25 miles west of which city in New Zealand?
Answer: christchurch
Question: Which girl's name completes the title of the 1976 top ten hit by 'Sutherland Brothers & Quiver'; 'Arms Of ....'?
Answer: mary
Question: In which BBC psychological crime drama series does Idris Elba play the title character?
Answer: luther
Question: Which war is the setting for 'Goodbye To All That' by Robert Graves?
Answer: world war i
Question: Which Victorian artist painted 'The Derby Day' in the 1850's?
Answer: william powell frith
Question: Which Eugene O'Neill play takes place from around 8:30 am to midnight in August 1912 at the seaside Connecticut home of the 'Tyrone' family?
Answer: long day s journey into night
Question: Who played 'Tony Wilson' in the 202 film '24 Hour Party People'?
Answer: steve coogan
Question: 'The Devil Rides Out' is the second book of autobiography of which Birkenhead born comedian and TV presenter?
Answer: paul o grady
Question: Who reached number seven in the charts in 1994 with his cover version of 'Led Zepplin's', 'Stairway To Heaven'?
Answer: rolf harris
Question: Who was the star of the 1937 film 'Oh, Mr. Porter !'?
Answer: will hay
Question: What was the middle name of the architect Edwin L. Lutyens?
Answer: landseer
Question: The line "Jennifer Eccles had terrible freckles" from the 'Scaffold's', 'Lily The Pink' refers to the single 'Jennifer Eccles' which was a hit for which group?
Answer: hollies
Question: What is the name of Liam Gallagher's new band, whose first album is 'Different Gear, Still Speeding'?
Answer: beady eye
Question: The forerunner of the Meteorological Office, who in 1854 was appointed as Meteorological Statist to the Board of Trade?
Answer: robert fitzroy
Question: In which US city is the independent broadcaster 'Peachtree TV'?
Answer: atlanta georgia
Question: Who preceded Angela Merkel as Chancellor of Germany?
Answer: gerhard schroder
Question: In which sport was Ivan Mauger (pron. Major) World Champion six times between 1968 and 1979?
Answer: speedway
Question: In which t.v. crime thriller does Emelia Fox play 'Nikki Alexander' and Tom Ward play 'Harry Cunningham'?
Answer: silent witness
Question: The fleet of which Empire lost the 1571 Battle of Lepanto?
Answer: ottoman
Question: Who had two, number two hits in 1958 with 'Return To Me' and 'Volare'?
Answer: dean martin
Question: What is the name of the black stone in Mecca, visited by pilgrims during the Hajj?
Answer: kaaba
Question: Who voices 'Chris', the Silver Track mechanic, in the cartoon series 'Roary the Racing Car' and also sings the theme tune?
Answer: peter kay
Question: The t.v. version of which 1977 play by Mike Leigh features Demis Roussos singing 'Forever And Ever'?
Answer: abigail s party
Question: What is the English name for the Rossini opera 'La Gazza Ladra'?
Answer: thieving magpie
Question: Who was the eleventh President of the USA, the first with a four letter surname?
Answer: james polk
Question: Complete the title of the poem by Rupert Brooke 'The Old Vicarage,.......'?
Answer: grantchester
Question: Who scored a maximum 147 break in this year's World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield?
Answer: stephen hendry
Question: In the 2007 film 'Transformers', who are the opponents of the 'Autobots'?
Answer: decepticons
Question: October 2nd. is International Day of Non-Violence and celebrates the birth of which man in 1869?
Answer: gandhi
Question: Of which European country was Jacques Santer the Prime Minister from 1984 to 1995?
Answer: luxembourg
Question: As what, was the Democratic Republic of Congo known until July 1997?
Answer: republic of zaire
Question: Which Nobel Prize for Literature winning Indian, first called Gandhi 'Mahatma'?
Answer: rabindranath tagore
Question: Who is the only Briton to have been President of the European Commission, holding the post from 1977 to 1981?
Answer: roy jenkins
Question: Complete the title of the poem by T.S. Eliot, 'The Love Song Of J. Alfred........'?
Answer: prufrock
Question: In football, which country won the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, their first title?
Answer: zambia
Question: In 1968, which was the first manned lunar orbiting mission?
Answer: apollo 8
Question: In the film 'Transformers', who plays 'John Keller', the US Secretary of Defence?
Answer: jon voight
Question: Muslims believe the verses of the Qu'ran were given by God to Muhammad through whom?
Answer: arch angel gabriel
Question: Peter Kay, as 'Geraldine McQueen', recorded 'I Know Him So Well' for Comic Relief last year in a duet with which singer?
Answer: susan boyle
Question: Which 1982 play by Michael Frayn shows three stages in the development of the play 'Nothing On'?
Answer: noises off
Question: What is the family name of the mother of the former Tennis players Emilio Sanchez and his sister Aranxta?
Answer: vicario
Question: What is the English name for the Wagner opera 'Gotterdammerung'?
Answer: twilight of gods
Question: What is the name of the accent used above the letter 'N' to make a separate letter in the Spanish alphabet?
Answer: tilde
Question: Who was the ninth President of the USA, the first to die in office; his grandson was the twenty-third President?
Answer: william henry harrison
Question: In which city is the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art, founded in 1992?
Answer: madrid
Question: 'Gnarls Barkley' who had worldwide success in 2006 with 'Crazy' comprised Cee Lo Green and which DJ?
Answer: danger mouse
Question: Which school is attended by the students in the t.v. series 'Glee'?
Answer: mckinley high
Question: Which work by Charles Dickens is set in 'Coketown'?
Answer: hard times
Question: Who is the earliest post-1066 king featured in the title of a Shakespeare history play?
Answer: king john
Question: Who was the World Darts Champion five times in the 1980's?
Answer: eric bristow
Question: The 1709 Battle of Malplaquet was part of which War?
Answer: war of spanish succession
Question: Which theme park was opened in Billund in 1968 as Denmark's answer to 'Disneyland'?
Answer: legoland
Question: What substance are feathers, fingernails and hair made of?
Answer: keratin
Question: Which US President played the saxophone with the band at his own inauguration dance?
Answer: bill clinton
Question: Jools Holland was a founding member of which band in 1974?
Answer: squeeze
Question: Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra appeared on a stamp issued last month in a scene from which 2002 film?
Answer: bend it like beckham
Question: Which letter of the Greek alphabet is between Kappa and Mu?
Answer: lambda
Question: What is the surname of Emma in the book by Jane Austen?
Answer: woodhouse
Question: Gerald Grosvenor has since 1979 been the 6th Duke of _____________ where?
Answer: westminster
Question: What is the surname of the former Welsh Rugby Union player usually just known by the initials J P R?
Answer: williams
Question: Which London brewery merged with Bass in 1967 to form the largest brewery in the UK?
Answer: charrington
Question: Competitors from which country won 11 Gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics, second only to Russia with 13?
Answer: norway
Question: The Aran Islands lie at the mouth of which Irish Bay?
Answer: galway
Question: In which country was Natalie Bennett, the Leader of the Green Party in England and Wales born?
Answer: australia
Question: How many oxygen atoms are there in all carbonates such as calcium carbonate (CaCO__) and potassium carbonate (K2CO__)?
Answer: three
Question: Which large brown bear is native to an island which is part of Alaska?
Answer: kodiak bear
Question: Whose cottage is on the left of the Constable painting The Hay Wain?
Answer: willy lott
Question: Which duo had the 1987 Christmas Number One Always on My Mind?
Answer: pet shop boys
Question: In the Bible who was the husband of Bathsheba when she was first seen by David?
Answer: uriah hittite
Question: Which word describes a monologue where an actor addresses an audience by speaking his thoughts aloud?
Answer: soliloquy
Question: The Aldeburgh Festival was founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier and which tenor?
Answer: peter pears
Question: George and Mildred and Robin’s Nest were spinoffs from which 1970s sitcom?
Answer: man about house
Question: The Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea are a region of which country?
Answer: finland
Question: @3choirs is the twitter username of the Festival that alternates between Hereford, Gloucester and which other city where it will be held this year?
Answer: worcester
Question: What is the occupation of Oliver Smallbridge, played by Windsor Davies, and Simon Peel, played by Donald Sinden in the long running sitcom Never the Twain?
Answer: antique dealers
Question: The island of Réunion, an overseas department of France lies in which Ocean?
Answer: indian ocean
Question: Which venue will host the Athletics events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: hampden park
Question: In December 1814 the Treaty of Ghent was signed to end which War?
Answer: war of 1812
Question: Hoy and Sanday are in which island group in the British Isles?
Answer: orkney islands
Question: Which opera singer did conductor Richard Bonynge marry in 1954?
Answer: joan sutherland
Question: What nationality is the wife of UKIP leader Nigel Farage?
Answer: german
Question: Which English novelist and travel writer wrote the book In Patagonia published in 1977?
Answer: bruce chatwin
Question: In which county were politician Dennis Skinner and artist Joseph Wright born?
Answer: derbyshire
Question: Which Cape is the northernmost point of South Island New Zealand – it has the same name as the southernmost point of Greenland?
Answer: cape farewell
Question: Sodium bicarbonate consists of sodium, carbon, oxygen and which other element?
Answer: hydrogen
Question: In which city is the football match known as Derby della Madonnina played between I Nerazzurri and I Rossoneri?
Answer: milan
Question: The name of which railway company is contained in the full title of the Turner painting Rain, Steam and Speed?
Answer: great western
Question: Who duetted with Robbie Williams on the 2001 Christmas Number One Somethin’ Stupid?
Answer: nicole kidman
Question: Which is the next letter in the Greek alphabet – omicron, pi, rho, ______?
Answer: sigma
Question: Paul Jones was vocalist with which group until going solo in 1966?
Answer: manfred mann
Question: Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste appeared on a stamp issued last month in a scene from which 1996 film?
Answer: secrets and lies
Question: Founded in 1088 in which Italian city is the University said to be the oldest in continuous operation?
Answer: bologna
Question: Former racing driver Johnny Dumfries, born at Rothesay in 1958, is the 7th Marquess of _______ where?
Answer: bute
Question: M C C were the appropriate initials of which former England cricket captain?
Answer: michael colin cowdrey
Question: Yorkshire Bank is a subsidiary of Clydesdale Bank which itself is a subsidiary of the National Bank of which country?
Answer: australia
Question: MINT is a term which refers to the economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and which other country, all members of the Next Eleven grouping?
Answer: turkey
Question: Who is the mother of French actress Lou Doillon, the half-sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg?
Answer: jane birkin
Question: Who plays the title role in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom?
Answer: idris elba
Question: Which word completes the tile of a Kerry Greenwood novel about a visit to Sydney to watch cricket by her detective character Phryne Fisher – Death before ________?
Answer: wicket
Question: Which county town stands at the confluence of the A5 and A49?
Answer: shrewsbury
Question: The three main constituents of glass are sand, soda, and what else?
Answer: limestone
Question: The last major battle using oared ships was fought in the sixteenth century. What was the name of the battle?
Answer: lepanto
Question: Which composer who lived from 1833 -1897 wrote four symphonies and four concertos including the 'German Requiem'?
Answer: brahms
Question: A card game using 32 cards and a Formula One racing champion share the same name. What is it?
Answer: piquet
Question: Which monster is mentioned in the Book of Job as a sea serpent?
Answer: leviathan
Question: Three US states have 13 letters in their names, North and South Carolina are two - what is the third?
Answer: massachusetts
Question: Who was the Persian god of wisdom, who shares his name with a make of motor car?
Answer: mazda
Question: """Well Price, so Genoa and Lucca are now just familyestates of the Bonapartes"", is the first line of which novel?"
Answer: war and peace
Question: From which musical did the song 'Chim Chim Cheree' come?
Answer: mary poppins
Question: Which 'E.L.' by the Simon Park Orchestra was No.1 in the UK for four weeks in 1973?
Answer: eye level
Question: In which Dickens novel did the principal villain, 'John Carker', meet his end by falling under a train?
Answer: dombey and son
Question: In which television programme did the Wine Bar 'Pomeroy's' feature regularly?
Answer: rumpole of bailey
Question: Which actress appeared as a gangster's mollin 'Singing In The Rain' and also starred with Fred Astaire in 'Silk Stockings'?
Answer: cyd charisse
Question: A similar question. Alphabetically, which would be the last of London's main line railway termini?
Answer: waterloo
Question: In 'Drag Racing' a series of lamps indicate a countdown sequence to the start. What is this instrument called?
Answer: christmas tree
Question: What is the name of the fast, erotic Brazilian dance in which couples frequently touch hips?
Answer: lambada
Question: In September 1812, Napoleon defeated Kutuzov's army in which battle?
Answer: borodino
Question: 'Maggie' and 'Brick Pollitt' are husband and wife in which play and film?
Answer: cat on hot tin roof
Question: In which long-running TV programme did Elizabeth Carling and Emma Amos take over the leading female roles from Dervla Kirwan and Michelle Holmes?
Answer: goodnight sweetheart
Question: Who won a BBC 1 competition called 'How Do You Solve A Problem Called Maria'?
Answer: connie fisher
Question: In Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. what name is given to the 'play within a play'?
Answer: pyramus and thisbe
Question: """Peace in our time"", was one of the famous quotes by which British Prime Minister?"
Answer: neville chamberlain
Question: Which British Prime Minister once declared that "one man's wage rise is another man's price increase"?
Answer: harold wilson
Question: 'All My Loving' and 'Can't Buy Me Love', featured in which Beatles film?
Answer: hard day s night
Question: In 1884, Lewis Waterman was responsible for the invention of what literary aid?
Answer: fountain pen
Question: How are 'Zuga' and 'Nadir' better known in the title of an opera by Bizet?
Answer: pearl fishers
Question: On July 10th 1943, 'Operation Husky' saw the landing of British and American troops on which island?
Answer: sicily
Question: What was the codename of the military operation of June 22nd. 1941, in which German troops invaded Russia?
Answer: barbarossa
Question: Which post-war Prime Minister was MP for Warwick and Leamington?
Answer: anthony eden
Question: Kinross and West Perthshire was the constituency of which post-war Prime Minister?
Answer: alec douglas home
Question: Which US state, bordered by Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts, is nicknamed the 'Granite State'?
Answer: new hampshire
Question: What gift is presented to 'Prince Tamino' in the title of a Mozart opera?
Answer: magic flute
Question: What was the name of 'Rene Artois's' wife in the TV comedy series 'Allo, Allo'?
Answer: edith
Question: In which month of 1969 did Neil Armstrong become the first moon-walker?
Answer: july
Question: 'Galileo', 'Shatoush' and 'King Of Kings' were all Classic winners ridden by which jockey?
Answer: michael kinane
Question: In horse racing, whose Classic-winning mounts include, 'Quest For Fame', 'Moonax' and 'Zafonic'?
Answer: pat eddery
Question: Which month of 1963 witnessed the assassination of President J.F. Kennedy?
Answer: november
Question: Tennis's French Open Men's Singles Champion of 1986 and 1987, never won a Wimbledon title. Who is he?
Answer: ivan lendl
Question: 'Die Fledermaus' was one of the best known operas by which composer?
Answer: johann straus
Question: If a bird is described as 'Turdoid', to which family does it belong?
Answer: thrush
Question: To what family of mammals does a creature belong if it described as 'Murine'?
Answer: mouse
Question: Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz were the stars of which 1999 horror film and its 2001 sequel?
Answer: mummy
Question: Which 1997 horror film saw John Voigt and Jennifer Lopez in the lead roles?
Answer: anaconda
Question: Which silvery, radioactive metal, Atomic Number 93, was named after one of the major planets?
Answer: neptunium
Question: Name the Dutch grain liqueur, flavoured with Cumin and Aniseed?
Answer: kummel
Question: Which liqueur, flavoured with the Marasca cherry, has a taste of bitter Almonds?
Answer: maraschino
Question: 'Touchstone' a jester, and 'Phoebe' a shepherdess, appear in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: as you like it
Question: Which Shakespearean play features a merchant named 'Balthazar' and a Goldsmith named 'Angelo'?
Answer: comedy of errors
Question: The second movement of J.S. Bach's 'Orchestral Suite Number 3 in D', is better known as what?
Answer: air on g string
Question: How is Beethoven's 'Symphony Number 3 in E Flat Major', better known?
Answer: eroica
Question: Which Oliver Goldsmith play features 'Squire Hardcastle', his wife and his daughters?
Answer: she stoops to conquer
Question: In the 1968 film, 'The Lion In Winter', if Peter O'Toole was Henry II, who was Eleanor of Aquitaine?
Answer: katherine hepburn
Question: In the sport of Curling, what name is given to the target area of concentric circles?
Answer: house
Question: Who was the last king from the House of Plantagenet?
Answer: richard ii
Question: In the 1976 film, if Sean Connery was 'Robin', who was 'Marian'?
Answer: audrey hepburn