CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the pre-Columbian civilisation that thrived in southern Mexico in 1400 BC, generally considered the first meso-American civilisation?
Answer: olmec
Question: In which French town, did Jean Claude Killy achieve a clean sweep all of the men's alpine events in the 1968 Winter Olympics?
Answer: grenoble
Question: 'Captain Hoseason' of the ship the 'Covenant' features in which Robert Louis Stevenson novel, which was made into a film starring Michael Caine?
Answer: kidnapped
Question: Which prize-winning series of books by Julia Donaldson tell the story of a mouse taking a walk in a dark wood?
Answer: gruffalo
Question: Who was the Danish philosopher (1813-1855), who was both a theologian and social critic, he is chiefly remembered today for the primary influence which he exerted upon the philosophical ideas of Existentialism?
Answer: soren kierkegaard
Question: What are the irregularly-shaped, colourless bodies present in blood whose sticky surface lets them, along with other substances, form clots to stop bleeding when exposed to air?
Answer: platelet s
Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Billy Wilder's 1953 film "Stalag 17"?
Answer: william holden
Question: In which TV comedy has fictional actor Andy Millman cried on "Celebrity Big Brother," his agent Darren Lamb suggested anyone other than his only client for roles and Ross Kemp tried to steal sweets off the BBC?
Answer: extras
Question: What is the first name of the ballet dancer Nijinsky, who was unsuccessfully treated by Eugene Bleuler in Switzerland when diagnosed with schizophrenia?
Answer: vaslav
Question: Who was President of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972, who made the decision to continue the 1972 Munich Olympic Games despite a terrorist attack?
Answer: avery brundage
Question: Of the exclusive London clubs which one was founded in 1824, has its address at 107, Pall Mall, SW1 and shares its name with a club in Liverpool?
Answer: athenaeum
Question: Which bird was the subject of an ode by John Keats?
Answer: nightingale
Question: Which 1968 film starring Jane Fonda was based on the French comics created by Jean-Claude Forest?
Answer: barbarella
Question: Anne Boleyn was one of the two wives of Henry 8th to be executed, who was the other?
Answer: catherine howard
Question: On a traditional Monopoly board, Marylebone, King's Cross and Liverpool Street are three of the stations, name the fourth.
Answer: fenchurch street
Question: By what name is the medical condition adhesive capsulitis more commonly known?
Answer: frozen shoulder
Question: Of the teams playing in the current (2011-12) Premiership, which was the first to win the FA Cup, winning in 1884?
Answer: blackburn rovers
Question: Which 1980s pop group, lead singer Dave Gahan, took its name from a French fashion magazine?
Answer: depeche mode
Question: Titan, Rhea and Hyperion are all satellites of which planet?
Answer: saturn
Question: What is the occupation of Figaro in the opera by Rossini?
Answer: barber
Question: According to the Bible who was the mother of Esau and Jacob?
Answer: rebekah
Question: What was the name of Benjamin Britten's opera about a lonely, isolated fisherman?
Answer: peter grimes
Question: Before embarking on her solo career, Nicole Scherzinger was best known as the lead singer in which girl group?
Answer: pussycat dolls
Question: In which country is Mount Ararat (where Noah's Ark is reputed to have come to rest) the highest peak?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which company manufactured the World War 2 `Stuka' dive- bomber?
Answer: junkers
Question: Stanislas Wawrinka represents which country in international tennis?
Answer: switzerland
Question: As one of his twelve Labours, Heracles was sent to Mount Erymanthos to capture which animal?
Answer: boar
Question: According to the Bible, Nebuchadnezzar was the King of which region or empire?
Answer: babylon
Question: The Churn, the Windrush, the Cherwell and the Mole are all tributaries of which major river?
Answer: thames
Question: The satellites of which planet are nearly all named after Shakespearean characters?
Answer: uranus
Question: On a traditional Monopoly board, Regent Street and Bond Street are two of the green properties, name the third?
Answer: oxford street
Question: Which is the only vertebrate animal, not a bird that is able to maintain flight for any duration?
Answer: bat
Question: The 'Arab Spring' uprising in Egypt during 2011 was inspired by the 'Jasmine Revolt' which took place in which country?
Answer: tunisia
Question: Which city stands at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers?
Answer: belgrade
Question: Before embarking on her solo career, Beyonce Knowles was best known as the lead singer in which girl group?
Answer: destiny s child
Question: Who has played Dick Tracy, Bugsy Siegel and Clyde Barrow on film?
Answer: warren beatty
Question: Pearl Roundabout has been a scene of political protests, in which city is it?
Answer: manama
Question: Which TV period drama is based on the writings of Flora Thompson and features the characters Dorcas Lane, Thomas Brown and Laura Timmins?
Answer: larkrise to candleford
Question: Which company manufactured the World War 2 'A6M Zero' fighter aircraft?
Answer: mitsubishi
Question: Which model of Ford car took its name from an Italian alpine resort?
Answer: cortina
Question: Whose film roles include Terry Malloy, Stanley Kowalski and Vito Corleone?
Answer: marlon brando
Question: Who was the first chairman of Radio 4's 'The News Quiz' in 1977, a role later filled for many years by Barry Took?
Answer: barry norman
Question: At 325m Beacon Batch is the highest point in which range of English hills?
Answer: mendips
Question: As one of his twelve Labours, Heracles was sent to steal which animals from Diomedes?
Answer: mares
Question: Used in cookery in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, what is `Jaggery'?
Answer: sugar
Question: John Galliano was dismissed from his post as chief designer at which fashion house?
Answer: dior
Question: What month in 1961 did the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba take place?
Answer: april
Question: 'Windmills of your mind' was hit in 1969 for which artist?
Answer: noel harrison
Question: Who composed the opera "The Merry Widow"?
Answer: franz lehar
Question: A quagga, now extinct, bore qresemblance to which other mammal?
Answer: zebra
Question: Who played the role of the 'Riddle? in the 1960s TV series Batman?
Answer: frank gorshin
Question: Who wrote the play "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf'?
Answer: edward albee
Question: Name the cricketer who played for Gloucestershire and England who scored 7,249 runs and 22 centuries in test matches?
Answer: wally hammond
Question: Lady's Slipper is a member of which plant family?
Answer: orchid
Question: What is the name of the strait separating Norway and Denmark?
Answer: skagerrak
Question: The cult film "Assault on Precinct 13" was directed by whom?
Answer: john carpenter
Question: Gordon Brown is MP for which constituency?
Answer: kirkcaldy and cowdenbeath
Question: What was the nationality of 2011 Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship winner?
Answer: czech
Question: Which artist headlined final day of Glastonbury festival 2011?
Answer: beyonce
Question: Miriam Karlin who died recently had a cameo role in which 1970's Stanley Kubrick film?
Answer: clockwork orange
Question: Adele has had several recent album successes, in which English city was she born?
Answer: london
Question: What is the name of the French underground resistance who fought against Germany in WWII?
Answer: maquis
Question: On which West Indian island was cricketer Gary Sobers born?
Answer: barbados
Question: In Greek mythology who drowned while swimming the Hellespont?
Answer: leander
Question: As illustrated on its label, Marmite gets its name from the French word meaning what?
Answer: cooking pot
Question: What name is given to the group of French speaking people living in areas of Southern Belgium?
Answer: walloons
Question: How are the first ten amendments to the US Constitution collectively known?
Answer: bill of rights
Question: In which English building is the world's oldest working clock, dating back to 1386?
Answer: salisbury cathedral
Question: The famous Viennese dessert `Sachertorte' is a type of what?
Answer: chocolate cake
Question: Ascorbic acid is an essential dietary requirement, how is it more commonly known?
Answer: vitamin c
Question: Who was the elder brother of Henry 8th who died before he could become king?
Answer: prince arthur
Question: The 'Short' and the 'Long' Parliaments were both in the reign of which monarch?
Answer: charles 1st
Question: Who plays Reggie Perrin in the BBC TV remake of the classic comedy series?
Answer: martin clunes
Question: What, on an aircraft, is the 'empennage'?
Answer: tail or tail assembly
Question: What name is given to the tail of a rabbit or hare?
Answer: scut
Question: What is the popular name given to Beethoven's Piano Sonata number 23?
Answer: appassionata
Question: Which battle took place on 21st October 1805?
Answer: trafalgar
Question: Who, in 1811, postulated that 'when at the same temperature and pressure, equal volumes of gases contain equal numbers of molecules'?
Answer: avogadro
Question: Who made his directorial debut with the 1998 film 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'?
Answer: guy ritchie
Question: In Greek myth who was the mother of Oedipus?
Answer: jocasta
Question: What is the major ingredient in the curry dish 'Dopiaza'?
Answer: onion
Question: Who introduces the weekly jazz music show on Radio 2 every Tuesday evening at 7.00pm?
Answer: jamie cullum
Question: Which Edinburgh physicist has given his name to a sub-atomic particle which has not yet been observed?
Answer: peter higgs
Question: In which ballet is there a 'sugar plum fairy'?
Answer: nutcracker
Question: Which island lies off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness?
Answer: walney
Question: Who was the original presenter of BBC TV's 'A Question of Sport'?
Answer: david vine
Question: Against which football team does Barcelona contest the 'local derby'?
Answer: espanyol
Question: In which ballet is Swanhilde jealous of a mechanical doll?
Answer: coppelia
Question: Who was the first Governor of a southern US state to go on to become President after the Civil War?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was famous for her work in which field?
Answer: gardens
Question: Which was the last space shuttle to fly, completing its last mission in July 2011?
Answer: atlantis
Question: What was the name of the United Arab Emirates before the end of the protectorate in 1971?
Answer: trucial states
Question: Which fictional character travelled on a ship called 'Antelope'?
Answer: gulliver
Question: Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club is based in which English city?
Answer: birmingham
Question: Which US tennis player won the Australian, Wimbledon and French Women's Singles in 1999, also the Gold Medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games?
Answer: lindsay davenport
Question: Which British alternative rock band won the Mercury Prize in 2008 with the album "The Seldom Seen Kid"?
Answer: elbow
Question: Which US composer, conductor and pianist has written the music for over 100 films, starting with "Daddy-O" in 1958, his latest is the 2012 film "Lincoln"?
Answer: john williams
Question: Which M62 spur runs from Cleckheaton to Bradford?
Answer: m606
Question: Which 2009 Formula One Grand Prix was run at night time?
Answer: singapore
Question: Gillian Gilks (nee Perrin, later Goodwin) was an exponent in which sport?
Answer: badminton
Question: The EGX 30 index is the name of which country's stock market?
Answer: egypt
Question: Which US actor/comedian originally sung "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again"?
Answer: george burns
Question: Which BBC Radio Lancashire presenter succeeded Tim Gudgin as reader of the sports results on Grandstand and Final Score?
Answer: mike west
Question: In which Italian city are the HQ of Ducati motorcycles?
Answer: bologna
Question: The rivers Axe, Brue, Cary, Parrett, eta, are in which English county?
Answer: somerset
Question: Who took over from Gordon Burns on BBC TV's North West Tonight?
Answer: roger johnson
Question: Which American rock band took its name from a pickup truck?
Answer: reo speedwagon
Question: Which patron saint was believed to have lived on locusts and honey?
Answer: st john baptist
Question: Which US president vetoed the Volstead Act in 1919?
Answer: woodrow wilson
Question: The Dutch Super Cup, played between the Eredivisie winners and the winner of the KNVB Cup, is named after which footballer?
Answer: johan cruyff
Question: Plovdiv and Varna airports, et al, are in which European country?
Answer: bulgaria
Question: Which aircraft is the largest passenger airliner currently in service?
Answer: airbus 380
Question: Allium sativum is the Latin name for which vegetable?
Answer: garlic
Question: The daily newspaper The Tennessean' is published in which city?
Answer: nashville
Question: Sant Francesc Xavier is the capital of which Balearic island?
Answer: formentera
Question: Which English poet (1608-1674) wrote the opening line: "When I consider how my light was spent"?
Answer: john milton
Question: Lod airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport) serves which Asian city?
Answer: tel aviv
Question: Philippa of Hainault was the wife of which English king?
Answer: edward third
Question: Ringing Roger and Grindslow Knoll are features in which English National Park?
Answer: peak district
Question: Give the name of the character played by Oscar winning actor Edmund Gwenn in the 1947 film "Miracle on 34th Street".
Answer: kris kringle
Question: What is the family name of the Earl of Harewood?
Answer: lascelles
Question: Who had 1960's Top Ten hits with "A Hundred Pounds of Clay", "Time" and "Our Favourite Melodies"?
Answer: craig douglas
Question: Ludlow, Shropshire lies on the bend of which river?
Answer: teme
Question: The artists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, and Patrick Heron are primarily associated with which English seaside resort?
Answer: st ives
Question: The American TV series 'The Wire" is set in which city?
Answer: baltimore
Question: Which German city was the target of the first 1000 bomber raid in 1942?
Answer: cologne
Question: Hlobane and Isandhlwana were battles in which 19th century conflict?
Answer: anglo zulu war
Question: Which American baseball team was formed in 1962 to replace the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants?
Answer: new york mets
Question: Which Scottish author wrote "A Good Man in Africa", "The New Confessions", and his most recent novel "Ordinary Thunderstorms"?
Answer: william boyd
Question: Which former American baseball player currently holds the records for both most home runs in a season, and most career home runs?
Answer: barry bonds
Question: How many checkers (pieces) does each player start with in a game of backgammon?
Answer: fifteen
Question: Where was the specific location of the nuclear accident in the USA in 1979?
Answer: three mile island
Question: What is the 10th letter in the Greek alphabet and is equivalent to the English letter "K"?
Answer: kappa
Question: What name was given to the followers of John Wycliffe?
Answer: lollards
Question: Who played Jean Harlow in the 1965 film "Harlow"?
Answer: carroll baker
Question: Who painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring" circa 1665?
Answer: johannes vermeer
Question: Who directed the 1980 film "Ordinary People"?
Answer: robert redford
Question: Near which city did Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" take place?
Answer: athens
Question: What is the meaning of the Latin phrase "Agnus Dei"?
Answer: lamb of god
Question: Verulamium is the Roman name for which English city?
Answer: st albans
Question: Which is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet and is equivalent to the English letter "L"?
Answer: lambda
Question: Which religious body was originally called Russelites?
Answer: jehovah s witnesses
Question: Which actress caused a sensation by appearing naked in the 1933 film "Ecstasy"?
Answer: hedy lamarr
Question: Which disease of the central nervous system is named after the Englishman who wrote "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy" in 1817?
Answer: parkinson s disease
Question: Who was Poet Laureate for the longest period (42 years 1850-1892)?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: Who painted "The garden of earthly delights" circa 1504?
Answer: hieronymus bosch
Question: Which Oscar-winning actress directed the film "Little Man Tate" in 1991?
Answer: jodie foster
Question: Which Australian partnered John Lloyd to three Grand Slam Mixed Doubles titles in the 1980s?
Answer: wendy turnbull
Question: In which city does the majority of the Shakespeare play "The Taming of the Shrew" take place?
Answer: padua
Question: Aqua Sulis was the Latin name for which English city?
Answer: bath
Question: What nationality was Formula 1 motor racing champion Juan Fangio?
Answer: argentinian
Question: Which Scotsman invented the vacuum flask in 1892?
Answer: james dewar
Question: According to the Talmud who was the first wife of Adam?
Answer: lilith
Question: Who was the Irish dancer who was the founder of the Bluebell Girls?
Answer: margaret kelly
Question: How long is allowed between games in an APT (professional) tennis match?
Answer: 90 seconds
Question: Who wrote the Elvis Presley song "Blue Suede Shoes"
Answer: carl perkins
Question: How long is allowed between serves in an APT tennis match i.e. between 1st and 2nd serve?
Answer: 20 seconds
Question: Travelling outward from the sun which is the first planet with a satellite?
Answer: earth
Question: Which rank in the British Army was abolished in 1907?
Answer: commander in chief
Question: What name is traditionally given to the hangman in a Punch and Judy Show, named after Charles 1st executioner?
Answer: john ketch
Question: Which trees were the subject of paintings by Monet in 1891?
Answer: poplar
Question: The cornet, trombone, tuba and euphonium are instruments in a brass band. Name one other?
Answer: flugelhorn
Question: Banjo Patterson is credited with writing which song a national favourite of its country?
Answer: waltzing matilda
Question: Which drink has major commercial types called Robusta and Arabica?
Answer: coffee
Question: Who is the patron saint of the Order of the Garter?
Answer: st george
Question: """Building Better Worlds"" Weyland-Yutani Corp features in which sci-fi film series?"
Answer: alien
Question: The cricketer Derek Randall had which, racehorse -related, nickname?
Answer: arkle
Question: Which sport is supervised in Scotland by the Camanachd Association?
Answer: shinty
Question: What is the name of the Speaker of the House of Commons?
Answer: john bercow
Question: Aqua Fortis is another name for which liquid?
Answer: nitric acid
Question: Which US President's portrait appears on the US $5 bill?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: Which philosopher said that the life of man was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"?
Answer: thomas hobbs
Question: By which treaty was Gibraltar formally ceded to Great Britain in 1713?
Answer: treaty of utrecht
Question: Who wrote the music for Berthold Brecht's `The Beggars Opera'?
Answer: kurt weill
Question: Which rank in the Royal Navy is the equivalent to the rank of Colonel in the British Army?
Answer: captain
Question: From which city do the groups Human League and Def Leppard originate?
Answer: sheffield
Question: The Starlight Barking was a 1967 sequel to which children's novel?
Answer: 101 dalmatians
Question: What is formed by the confluence of the Ouse and Trent rivers?
Answer: humber
Question: What is the name of the diacritical mark in Spanish which is placed over a letter 'n' to soften its pronunciation, e.g. in the word 'señor'?
Answer: tilde
Question: What was ended by the Treaty of Vereeniging?
Answer: second boer war
Question: The first Butlin's holiday camp opened in 1936 in which resort?
Answer: skegness
Question: What is the only Scrabble tile with a value not shared by any others?
Answer: k
Question: What was the first name of the French artist Poussin (1594-1665)?
Answer: nicolas
Question: For what product is the city of Carrara in Italy most famous?
Answer: marble
Question: What was Michelangelo's family name?
Answer: buonarroti
Question: Who sculpted the figure of Eleanor Rigby in Liverpool's Stanley Street?
Answer: tommy steele
Question: Which of the United States was the 14th to join the Union (i.e. the first to join after the original 13)?
Answer: vermont
Question: According to Winston Churchill, in a speech of 1946, the Iron Curtain ran from Stettin in the Baltic to which other port?
Answer: trieste
Question: In the books by Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole was supposedly born in which English county?
Answer: leicestershire
Question: Who wrote the 19th century detective novel "The Moonstone"?
Answer: wilkie collins
Question: In Shakespeare's Macbeth which character speaks the last words of the play?
Answer: malcolm
Question: In Mathematics on a 2-dimensional graph, what is the name given to the point of intersection of the x and y axes?
Answer: origin
Question: In the Enid Blyton stories-what is the name of Noddy's house?
Answer: house for one
Question: Which British city's assay office uses a castle as its hallmark for precious metals?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: Which unit of length is equal to 3.26 light years?
Answer: parsec
Question: What was the exact London address of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: 221b baker street
Question: In 1805 Mungo Park was sent to trace the course of which river?
Answer: niger
Question: Cornish Yarg cheese is wrapped in the leaves of which plant?
Answer: nettle
Question: Which musician lived at 9 Madryn Street Liverpool?
Answer: ringo starr
Question: Who sculpted "The Gates of Hell" depicting a scene from Dante's Inferno from 1880 until his death in 1917?
Answer: auguste rodin
Question: Who wrote the poem The Wreck of the Hesperus"?
Answer: henry wadsworth longfellow
Question: Who composed and sang the theme tune for "One Foot in the Grave"?
Answer: eric idle
Question: In which Shakespeare play will you find the jester "Touchstone"?
Answer: as you like it
Question: In which 2002 film did Richard Gere play the part of Billy Flynn?
Answer: chicago
Question: Who painted "The Boyhood of Raleigh'?
Answer: john everett millais
Question: In the Royal Navy which rank is below Commodore and above Commander?
Answer: captain
Question: Which chemical element, atomic no. 41, is named after the daughter of King Tantalus?
Answer: niobium
Question: Which team were the last winners of football's First Division before the formation of the Premier League?
Answer: leeds united
Question: Who plays the part of Charlie Fairhead in TV's "Casualty"?
Answer: derek thompson
Question: Which US state is bordered by Massachusetts, New York and New Hampshire?
Answer: vermont
Question: Which letter is represented in Morse code by 'dot dot'?
Answer: letter i
Question: Who directed the 1947 film "It's a Wonderful Life"?
Answer: frank capra
Question: Who wrote the poem "Samson Agonistes"?
Answer: john milton
Question: The Battle of Shiloh took place during which war?
Answer: us civil war
Question: What is the name of the theme tune for "Monty Python's Flying Circus"?
Answer: liberty bell
Question: In which Shakespeare play will you find the servant 'Lancelot Gobbo'?
Answer: merchant of venice
Question: Who lit the Olympic flame at the Atlanta Games in 1996?
Answer: muhammed ali
Question: In which 1980 film did John Hurt play the part of John Merrick?
Answer: elephant man
Question: In the Army, which rank comes below Major General and above Colonel?
Answer: brigadier
Question: Winston Churchill was MP for which constituency from 1924-1945?
Answer: epping
Question: Which chemical element, atomic no. 97, is named after a US university?
Answer: berkelium
Question: Who were the first winners of the Football League in 1889?
Answer: preston north end
Question: Which US state is bordered by Massachussetts, Rhode Island and New York?
Answer: connecticut
Question: Which letter is represented in Morse code by 'dash dash'?
Answer: letter m
Question: Coulrophobia is the fear of what type of entertainers?
Answer: clowns
Question: Which car company makes the model 'Zafira'?
Answer: vauxhall
Question: Who directed the 2011 film "The King's Speech"?
Answer: tom hooper