CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who was the first woman to complete the English Grand National horse race?
Answer: geraldine rees
Question: Marilyn Monroe played the character Sugar Kane in which film?
Answer: some like it hot
Question: Who played Hotlips in the film version of Mash?
Answer: sally kellerman
Question: Alvin Stardust first found fame under what name?
Answer: shane fenton
Question: In 20,000 leagues Under the Sea, what was the name Captain Nemo’s submarine?
Answer: nautilus
Question: Who wrote the 1949 play Death of a Salesman?
Answer: arthur miller
Question: Who did Lord Peter Wimsey marry in the novel Busman’s Honeymoon?
Answer: harriet vane
Question: Which drink did J.S. Bach like so much that he wrote a cantata for it?
Answer: coffee
Question: Born 384 BCE, which philosopher was a tutor to Alexander the Great?
Answer: aristotle
Question: Whose preserved head can be seen in a large glass case at University College London?
Answer: jeremy bentham
Question: In which Australian state did a gold rush begin in July 1851?
Answer: victoria
Question: Erect-Crested, Little Blue (or Fairy), Humboldt and Chinstrap are species of what?
Answer: penguin
Question: In which town was a public supply of electricity first made available in the UK?
Answer: godalming
Question: Who was the first to put steam engines in ships and build the first practical submarine?
Answer: robert fulton
Question: Written by William Boyd what was the last James Bond novel to be published?
Answer: solo
Question: The Doors song The End is heard at the end of which war film?
Answer: apocalypse now
Question: According to the children’s rhyme, What is Tuesday’s Child?
Answer: full of grace
Question: Which North African dish consists of semolina granules cooked by steaming?
Answer: couscous
Question: Who starred as Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the US TV series?
Answer: sarah michelle gellar
Question: Who directed the 1975 film Lisztomania?
Answer: ken russell
Question: The characters Captain Cuttle and Mrs MacStinger appear in which Dickins novel?
Answer: dombey son
Question: The doomed Royal Navy ship HMS Thunder Child appeared in which Sci Fi classic?
Answer: war of worlds
Question: Who was the only boxer to win a world title without ever having a manager?
Answer: jake la motta
Question: Which Soap screened the first transsexual character?
Answer: coronation street
Question: When she arrived in Eastenders, who was Binnie Roberts’ girlfriend?
Answer: della alexander
Question: First appearing in 1572, which country’s flag is the oldest tricolour in the world?
Answer: netherlands
Question: Having lived in exile for three years at Chiselhurst in Kent, who died in 1873?
Answer: napoleon iii
Question: Fernando Alonso drives for which F1 team?
Answer: scuderia ferrari
Question: In the TV series 'Lost', who played a rock musician from Manchester called Charlie Pace?
Answer: dominic monaghan
Question: Which place did Freddy Mercury & Montserrat Caballë sing about in 1987?
Answer: barcelona
Question: Which male star played the title role in the 2004 film 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'?
Answer: bill murray
Question: In which city are the districts of Didsbury and Moston?
Answer: manchester
Question: Inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell died and was buried in which country?
Answer: canada
Question: Mt Elbrus, Europe's highest, is in which country?
Answer: russia
Question: What nationality was the astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953)?
Answer: american
Question: What nationality is the TV company who created the popular animated TV series ‘Pingu’?
Answer: swiss
Question: The 1898 'Battle of Santiago' on the island of Cuba brought an end to which war?
Answer: spanish american war
Question: Which was the first of Jane Austen's novels completed for publication?
Answer: northanger abbey
Question: A Dzo is an Asian cross between which 'wild' and which domesticated animal?
Answer: yak and cow
Question: Who was the female lead in John Wayne's last film, 'The Shootist'?
Answer: lauren bacall
Question: Who sang the theme song to the film '9 to 5'?
Answer: dolly parton
Question: If, as is almost impossible now, you had variola, which disease would you have?
Answer: smallpox
Question: In Western tradition, Emerald is a birth stone for which month?
Answer: may
Question: In 1969, which Brit was the first person without doubt to reach the North Pole on foot?
Answer: sir wally herbert
Question: Which savage European war was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648?
Answer: thirty years war
Question: Ending humiliatingly for Italy, which country did Mussolini try to invade in October 1940?
Answer: greece
Question: Angela Ahrendts is CEO of which UK outfitter and clothing manufacturer loved by 'Chavs'?
Answer: burberry
Question: Besides Uranium, which extremely radioactive element is extracted from Pitchblende?
Answer: radium
Question: What building was home to novelist Mary Fisher in 'The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'?
Answer: lighthouse
Question: What does the Latin 'Caveat Emptor' mean?
Answer: let buyer beware
Question: Which N.W. club were thrown out of the FA Cup in 2006 for fielding an ineligible player?
Answer: bury
Question: Which god in Greek myth, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, is messenger of the sea?
Answer: triton
Question: On which Island did many of the mutineers from HMS Bounty famously settle?
Answer: pitcairn
Question: Who wrote the music for the ballets 'The Firebird' and 'The Rite of Spring'?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: Which classical composer wrote the 19 'Hungarian Rhapsodies' for piano?
Answer: franz liszt
Question: In 1871, Whitcome Judson created what - originally used for fastening shoes?
Answer: zipper
Question: Which 2 surnames are linked to a ‘60s terrorist group that became the Red Army Faction?
Answer: baader meinhof
Question: In which country did the world's first human heart transplant take place?
Answer: south africa
Question: In which region of Germany was the notorious Dachau concentration camp?
Answer: bavaria
Question: Which European country introduced the world's first diesel locomotive in 1912?
Answer: germany
Question: Nicknamed 'Scarlet Speedster', Barry Allen was the alter ego of which comic superhero?
Answer: flash
Question: Which often embattled city is the supposed resting place of OT patriarch Abraham?
Answer: hebron
Question: Which other English club did David Moyes manage before he was at Everton?
Answer: preston north end
Question: Which future Prime Minister was appointed UK chancellor of the exchequer in 1924?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Which black American singer was known as 'The Hi De Ho Man'?
Answer: cab calloway
Question: Which former home of the Earl of Shrewsbury is now an amusement park?
Answer: alton towers
Question: Who upset Elizabeth I by secretly marrying Elizabeth Throckmorton?
Answer: walter raleigh
Question: Which country star wrote the Patsy Cline hit Crazy?
Answer: willie nelson
Question: What is the name of the famous game reserve on the Serengeti Plain in Kenya?
Answer: masai mara
Question: Which poet’s love is like a red, red, rose that’s newly sprung in June?
Answer: robbie burns
Question: What was first founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee?
Answer: ku klux klan
Question: Who played the title character in Bugsy Malone?
Answer: scott baio
Question: Only two elements are liquid at room temperature – mercury is one – what is the other?
Answer: bromine
Question: What name is given to the outward force on a rotating body?
Answer: centrifugal
Question: Which BBC sitcom features various members of the Pearson family in Tyne and Wear?
Answer: hebburn
Question: Which record label turned down the Beatles after an audition in 1962?
Answer: decca
Question: What name is given to the long tongue or feeding tube of a butterfly?
Answer: proboscis
Question: Who failed three IQ tests on an LBC radio phone-in?
Answer: boris johnson
Question: The four Inns of Court are Gray’s Inn, Inner Temple, Middle Temple and which other?
Answer: lincoln s inn
Question: Who is the female presenter of the UK TV programme ‘Most Haunted’?
Answer: yvette fielding
Question: Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons make up what duo?
Answer: chemical brothers
Question: What is the nickname of Richard Rogers’ new Leadenhall building in London?
Answer: cheesegrater
Question: An armoire is a large ornate ……..what?
Answer: wardrobe
Question: Brewster, spoonback and fauteuil are all types of what?
Answer: chair
Question: Mount Toubkal is the highest peak in which range of mountains?
Answer: atlas
Question: Islam. What is the name of the festival which immediately follows the end of Ramadan?
Answer: id ul fitr
Question: Which ancient religion is followed by Parsees or Parsi?
Answer: zoroastrianism
Question: Who was the Roman counterpart of the Greek goddess Demeter?
Answer: ceres
Question: Who was the only driver to win a F1 World Championship in a car of his own design?
Answer: jack brabham
Question: Where might you go to visit the big gun called Mons Meg?
Answer: edinburgh castle
Question: Who, with his colleague Picasso, was credited with originating Cubism?
Answer: georges braque
Question: What is the one-word alternative name for the spiny anteater?
Answer: echidna
Question: As what is the barely navigable sea route from Baffin Bay to the Beaufort Sea known?
Answer: north west passage
Question: Under what stage name did rock’n’roller Richard Penniman perform?
Answer: little richard
Question: Which fleet was famously defeated and scattered at the Battle of Gravelines?
Answer: spanish armada
Question: In which British city did gangs in the 1980s fight a turf war dubbed the “Ice Cream Wars”?
Answer: glasgow
Question: Which month traditionally sees the start of the Isle of Man TT races?
Answer: may
Question: In which Irish county is the extensive area of limestone pavement known as The Burren?
Answer: county clare
Question: Which is the only club from outside Scotland to play in the Scottish Football League?
Answer: berwick rangers
Question: Which is the only club in the League of Ireland from outside the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: derry city
Question: Which composer’s “Minute Waltz” is used as theme music for ”Just a Minute”?
Answer: frédéric chopin
Question: Which folk band’s version of The Archers’ theme introduces the Sunday Omnibus Edition?
Answer: yetties
Question: The “Brain of Britain” theme music is adapted from which Mozart piece?
Answer: eine kleine nachtmusik
Question: Which life-saving natural hormone was first extracted by Banting and Best in 1921?
Answer: insulin
Question: Which Cumbrian town’s boundaries incorporate the 11-mile-long Walney Island?
Answer: barrow in furness
Question: Which town’s Horse Fair each June is notable as a gathering for Gypsies and Travellers?
Answer: appleby in westmorland
Question: Living from 1672 to 1769, which card games authority is known as “the father of Whist”?
Answer: edmond hoyle
Question: Under what pen name does novelist David Cornwell write?
Answer: john le carré
Question: Who is the medical examiner central to the crime novels of Patricia Cornwell?
Answer: kay scarpetta
Question: What is the nautical term for a staircase between two decks on a ship?
Answer: companionway
Question: Which long nonsense poem is subtitled: An Agony in 8 Fits?
Answer: hunting of snark
Question: Which eponymous operatic heroine leaps to her death from Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo?
Answer: tosca
Question: In which modern-day country is Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers” set?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: Of what breed was Schnorbitz, with whom Bernie Winters appeared in his later career?
Answer: st bernard
Question: Which Welsh town’s Esplanade Hotel was for 75 years The Barbarians’ headquarters?
Answer: penarth
Question: Which musician played Nikola Tesla in the 2006 film The Prestige?
Answer: david bowie
Question: Paradoxically, which city is the original home of the Harlem Globetrotters?
Answer: chicago
Question: Which country’s national flag is the only one which is not rectangular (or square)?
Answer: nepal
Question: Which fruit is often carved onto gateposts as a symbol of hospitality?
Answer: pineapple
Question: Which classic novel begins, “Call me Ishmael”?
Answer: moby dick
Question: Which species of wild goose, Anser anser, is the ancestor of all European domestic geese?
Answer: greylag goose
Question: What is the name of the coarse woollen textile used to cover snooker tables?
Answer: baize
Question: Off the coast of which country do the volcanic Westmann Islands lie?
Answer: iceland
Question: Of what species is Yggdrasil, the immense tree at the heart of Norse mythology?
Answer: ash
Question: Which nonsense poem is subtitled, An Agony in 8 Fits?
Answer: hunting of snark
Question: Of whose “pilgrimage” did Lord Byron write a long narrative poem?
Answer: childe harold
Question: Which breakfast cereal’s manufacturing process did Henry Perky patent in 1895?
Answer: shredded wheat
Question: What is the one-word name of the artificial sweetener sold as Candarel and NutraSweet?
Answer: aspartame
Question: Abbreviated to MVP, what is the American sporting equivalent of “Man of the Match”?
Answer: most valuable player
Question: Addresses in and around which British town or city have post codes beginning CA?
Answer: carlisle
Question: Who was the earliest King of England to be the title character of a Shakespeare play?
Answer: king john
Question: Which US composer wrote the 1976 opera, Einstein on the Beach?
Answer: philip glass
Question: What is the more modern name for the electrical device sometimes called a condenser?
Answer: capacitor
Question: Which drink is made from crème de cassis topped with white wine?
Answer: kir
Question: As what was Birmingham’s James Turner Street rechristened for a Channel 4 series?
Answer: benefit street
Question: Which small, remote island is known to its inhabitants as Rapa Nui?
Answer: easter island
Question: Referring to their feeding method, ducks can be diving ducks - or what other kind?
Answer: dabbling ducks
Question: Which “Tom” gave simultaneous 1958 hits to Lonnie Donegan and the Kingston Trio?
Answer: tom dooley
Question: Which 17th century scientist, also Irish-born, was the 14th son of the 1st Earl of Cork?
Answer: robert boyle
Question: Who played the role of Bamber Gascoigne in the 2005 feature film Starter for Ten?
Answer: mark gatiss
Question: In area, which is the largest island of the Inner Hebrides?
Answer: skye
Question: Which aliens in Doctor Who originate from Earth’s twin planet, Mondas?
Answer: cybermen
Question: Mel Brooks’ spoof of the Robin Hood films was called ‘Robin Hood, …’ .. what?
Answer: men in tights
Question: Band Aid II topped the Xmas charts in 1989, but who had the top spot in ’88 and ’90?
Answer: cliff richard
Question: The winner of ‘X Factor’ topped the Xmas charts in 2010 with ‘When We Collide’. What is his name?
Answer: matt cardle
Question: Formerly based in Ilkeston, which Newark brewery produces Christmas Cake Walk?
Answer: funfair
Question: ‘Rosey Nosey’ is a seasonal ale brewed by which Lincolnshire brewer?
Answer: batemans
Question: Which tv private investigator lived on the island of Oahu, Hawaii?
Answer: thomas magnum
Question: Who served as the ninth Governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009?
Answer: sarah palin
Question: Which former ‘TOWIE’ star thought that Ebola virus was the name of a pop group?
Answer: amy childs
Question: When sending an email, what would be meant by the letters ‘bcc’?
Answer: blind carbon copy
Question: What is the correct term for ‘a nose job’?
Answer: rhinoplasty
Question: Which Spanish city is famous for bull running during the eight-day San Fermin festival?
Answer: pamplona
Question: The calcaneus is the Latin name for which part of the body?
Answer: heel bone
Question: The outer whorl of a flower is called a calyx . What is the plural form of the word?
Answer: calyces
Question: Who played the title role in ‘Hamish Macbeth’?
Answer: robert carlyle
Question: Gaston Leroux wrote which 1911 novel, later a famous musical?
Answer: phantom of opera
Question: From what English port does the Hispaniola set sail in ‘Treasure Island’?
Answer: bristol
Question: Who played Violet Kray, the mother, in the 1990 film ‘The Krays’?
Answer: billie whitelaw
Question: Which character in ‘Oliver Twist’ is later revealed to be Oliver’s great uncle?
Answer: mr brownlow
Question: In Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, what M is the name of Prospero’s daughter?
Answer: miranda
Question: “I have lifted up mine eyes unto the hills” is the motto of which English county?
Answer: cumbria
Question: In 1985, the remaining members of which pop band changed their name to Starship?
Answer: jefferson starship
Question: In what figure of speech is understatement used to emphasize a point by denying the opposite?
Answer: litotes
Question: What word refers to a verb form which functions as a noun, ending in –ing?
Answer: gerund
Question: D.C.J. What part did Denise Richards play in ‘The World is not Enough’ (1999)?
Answer: dr christmas jones
Question: Six teenagers are aged 13, 13, 14, 16, 18, and 19. What is the median of their ages?
Answer: fifteen
Question: Which head of state was shot by firing squad on Christmas Day 1989?
Answer: nicolae ceausescu
Question: The USA. In which state is the geographic centre of the contiguous states?
Answer: kansas
Question: The building known as the Atomium can be found in which European city?
Answer: brussels
Question: Born in 1849, Edmund Barton became the first Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: australia
Question: What was the first name of Henry VIII’s elder sister, who married James IV of Scotland?
Answer: margaret
Question: Some Minions have two eyes, but many have only one. In which 2010 film did they first appear?
Answer: despicable me
Question: Who was the last Whig Prime Minister of the UK?
Answer: lord john russell
Question: According to legend who was the son of Uther Pendragon?
Answer: king arthur
Question: Which cocktail consists of vodka, Galliano and orange juice?
Answer: harvey wallbanger
Question: Opened in 1921, In which US city is the Wrigley Building?
Answer: chicago
Question: What fortification did the Romans build from the Forth to the Clyde?
Answer: antonine wall
Question: Who was the first woman jockey to complete the course?
Answer: geraldine rees
Question: Proverbially what does one need if one ‘sups with the Devil’?
Answer: long spoon
Question: Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is the title character in which famous novel?
Answer: idiot
Question: Which eponymous Dickens hero is a simpleton?
Answer: barnaby rudge
Question: Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA fame collaborated with Tim Rice on which hit musical?
Answer: chess
Question: What bird did sailors call Mother Carey’s Chicken?
Answer: stormy petrel
Question: What was the alter ego of Music Hall comedian Arthur Lucan in the inter-war years?
Answer: old mother riley
Question: The Household Cavalry consists of the Life Guards Regiment and which other?
Answer: blues and royals
Question: What is the name for the centre player in the front row of a rugby scrum?
Answer: hooker
Question: Which cartoon character says ‘Drat and double drat’?
Answer: dick dastardly
Question: Apart from the Sun which is the nearest star to Earth?
Answer: proxima centauri
Question: Who plays Martha Costello QC in the BBC’s legal drama Silk?
Answer: maxine peake
Question: Which school has famous old boys – Jeremy Clarkson, Roald Dahl and Graeme Garden?
Answer: repton
Question: Who was manager of Melchester Rovers when Roy Race joined the club?
Answer: ben galloway
Question: Brasilia is the capital but which city in Brazil has the largest population?
Answer: sao paulo
Question: Gordon Comstock is the chief protagonist in which Orwell novel?
Answer: keep aspidistra flying
Question: Between 1922 and 1927 Orwell lived in Burma – what was his job there?
Answer: policeman
Question: Which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta is subtitled The Merryman and his Maid?
Answer: yeoman of guard
Question: Which acid is produced by the Gay-Lussac process?
Answer: sulphuric
Question: Which pungent spice is called ‘jeera’ in Indian cooking?
Answer: cumin
Question: What was the first forename of the Russian composer Stravinsky?
Answer: igor
Question: Phillipe Sella was a great French star in which sport?
Answer: rugby union
Question: Which eponymous classical heroine goes to Lowood School?
Answer: jane eyre
Question: From which prison did Ronnie Biggs escape after serving only 19 months of his sentence?
Answer: wandsworth
Question: What are the elongated ‘whale shaped’ hills caused by glacial action?
Answer: drumlins
Question: The three basic types of rock are – igneous, metamorphic and which other?
Answer: sedimentary
Question: After the suicide of Ian Curtis his band Joy Division played on under which name?
Answer: new order
Question: Who told us to Rock The Casbah in 1982?
Answer: clash
Question: An IRA car bomb in 1973 damaged which famous London building?
Answer: old bailey
Question: Where in Pennsylvania in the USA did a partial nuclear meltdown occur in 1979?
Answer: three mile island
Question: What do we call the sweetmeat Rahat Lokum?
Answer: turkish delight
Question: Which Shakespearean character has a wife called Desdemona?
Answer: othello
Question: In which American sitcom did English actress Jane Leeves play a major character?
Answer: frasier
Question: Which peninsula lies to the east of the Suez Canal?
Answer: sinai peninsula
Question: What is the Southern equivalent of the Aurora Borealis?
Answer: aurora australis
Question: What is the Japanese dish of beef and vegetables in soy sauce?
Answer: sukiyaki
Question: What is the Italian dessert of egg yolks whipped with Marsala and sugar?
Answer: zabaglione
Question: Who did Jose Mourinho call ‘A specialist in failure’ because of an 8 year trophy drought?
Answer: arsene wenger
Question: What is the singular form of the word candelabra?
Answer: candelabrum
Question: What do native Cornish residents call Penwith?
Answer: land s end
Question: On a Monopoly board what makes up the set with Coventry Street and Leicester Square?
Answer: piccadilly
Question: Who played Bond Girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again?
Answer: kim basinger
Question: In which movie did Bond first drive an Aston Martin DB5?
Answer: goldfinger
Question: Which Roman God was the father of Romulus and Remus?
Answer: mars
Question: Which Elgar piece is dedicated ‘ to my friends pictured within’?
Answer: enigma variations
Question: Who wrote The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy?
Answer: brendan behan
Question: What is the name of the dog in Jerome K Jerome’s novel Three Men In A Boat?
Answer: montmorency
Question: What kind of creatures are loggerheads and hawksbills?
Answer: turtles
Question: Coprolite is the name given by archaeologists to fossilized ………..what?
Answer: faeces
Question: Which world-famous song was originally entitled ‘Good Morning To All’?
Answer: happy birthday to you
Question: Which legendary figure refused to bow to a hat in Burglen marketplace?
Answer: william tell
Question: Where in the British Isles can the Laxey Wheel aka Lady Isabella be seen?
Answer: isle of man
Question: Which town on the Isle of Mull was also the name of a Womble?
Answer: tobermory
Question: What term is used for chains of repeated groups of atoms e.g. DNA, proteins?
Answer: polymers
Question: Which band was formed in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith?
Answer: tears for fears
Question: By what name is Aragorn first known to the hobbits when they meet him in Bree?
Answer: strider
Question: Which member of Take That announced that he is to leave the group last month?
Answer: jason orange
Question: Which Cape is at the northernmost tip of the country in Queensland?
Answer: cape york
Question: Peter Pears was the life-long partner of which composer?
Answer: benjamin britten
Question: Which Italian violinist was believed to be in league with the devil?
Answer: paganini
Question: Who rode a horse called Binky in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels?
Answer: death
Question: What was Napoleon’s horse that he named after one of his victories?
Answer: marengo
Question: What is the first event on Day 2 of the Decathlon?
Answer: 110 metres hurdles
Question: What kind of rock is formed as a result of heat or pressure?
Answer: metamorphic rock
Question: To whom did Clive Anderson say ‘Is there no beginning to your talents’?
Answer: jeffrey archer