CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Derived from the Greek for 'work', what is the CGS unit of energy?
Answer: erg
Question: What is the title of the novel by Ian McEwan set in February 2003 on the day of the demonstration against the invasion of Iraq?
Answer: saturday
Question: Who wrote the 'Young Bond' series of novels, the first being 'Silver Fin'?
Answer: charlie higson
Question: What was the first name of the younger brother of Ricky Hatton, also a professional boxer?
Answer: matthew
Question: In the Dewey Decimal Classification, books with a number beginning with 2 would be on which subject?
Answer: religion
Question: In which film does Russell Crowe play 'John Nash', a mathematician who worked at MIT and Princeton?
Answer: beautiful mind
Question: Which other US President died on July 4th 1826, the same day as John Adams?
Answer: thomas jefferson
Question: Who won the Eurovision Song Contest with 'What's Another Year'?
Answer: johnny logan
Question: 'Stormbreaker' is the first in a series of novels by Anthony Horowitz about which teenage spy?
Answer: alex rider
Question: What is the name of the National Anthem of New Zealand?
Answer: god defend new zealand
Question: Who played womaniser 'Michael James' in the 1965 film 'What's new Pussycat'?
Answer: peter o toole
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway' about a day in the life of 'Clarissa Dalloway' in post-World War One England?
Answer: virginia woolf
Question: In Greek myth, into what creature did Artemis transform Actaeon?
Answer: stag
Question: Which is the first movement in 'The Planets Suite' by Gustav Holst?
Answer: mars
Question: In the 'Star Wars' films, what species is 'Chewbacca'?
Answer: wookie
Question: In which town is the River Severn crossed by the English Bridge and the Welsh Bridge?
Answer: shrewsbury
Question: How are singers Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White and Rochelle Wiseman collectively known?
Answer: saturdays
Question: Which Tennis player lost to Pete Sampras in two Wimbledon finals?
Answer: goran ivanisevic
Question: Which chemical element, with the symbol 'Bi', takes its name from the German for 'white mass'?
Answer: bismuth
Question: Which Tennis player lost to Bjorn Borg in two Wimbledon finals?
Answer: jimmy connors
Question: In Norse mythology, what was the name of the rainbow bridge which connects Earth with Asgard, the realm of the gods?
Answer: bifrost
Question: Mario Echandi Jimenez, who died last month, served as President of which Central American country between 1958 and 1962?
Answer: costa rica
Question: Juan Maria Bordaberry, who died last month, served as President of which South American country between 1972 and 1976?
Answer: uruguay
Question: Making his debut for Sunderland the season before last, who is the only footballer from Albania ever to play in the Premier League?
Answer: lorik cana
Question: Located directly across the river Rhine from Wiesbaden is which city, the capital of the state of Rhineland- Palatinate?
Answer: mainz
Question: According to Norse mythology, what was the name of the tree located at the centre of the universe?
Answer: yggdrasil
Question: Ronald Ross won the 1902 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on which disease?
Answer: malaria
Question: 'Prince', 'Spandau Ballet', Beverley Knight and 'East 17' have all had hits with songs with which title?
Answer: gold
Question: From which city does the French stew 'Bouillabaisse' originate?
Answer: marseille
Question: 'Mud', Mark Morrison, 'Seal' and 'Eternal' have all had hit songs with which title?
Answer: crazy
Question: Who was the 11th century Anglo-Saxon rebel in England who led the resistance to the Norman Conquest from his base on the Isle of Ely?
Answer: hereward wake
Question: Gorgonzola cheese is named after the small town of Gorgonzola on the outskirts of which Italian city?
Answer: milan
Question: Robert Koch won the 1905 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on which disease?
Answer: tuberculosis
Question: Which Nazi was known as the 'Chief Executioner of the Third Reich' as he organised the transportation of people to the concentration camps?
Answer: adolf eichmann
Question: In which American sit-com did Ted Danson play the title character, a misanthropic doctor who operates a small practice and is constantly annoyed by his patients?
Answer: becker
Question: Akrotiri and Dhekelia are British Overseas Territories on which island?
Answer: cyprus
Question: In which American drama series does Michael C. Hall play the title character, a bloodstain pattern analyst for Miami Police who moonlights as a serial killer?
Answer: dexter
Question: Ceuta and Melilla are Spanish Overseas Territories in which country?
Answer: morocco
Question: Which Nazi leader avoided execution after being sentenced to death at the 'Nuremburg Trials' by committing suicide hours before he was due to hang?
Answer: hermann goering
Question: What was the name, deriving ultimately from the Berber for 'spear'. for the short spear used as a stabbing weapon by the Zulus?
Answer: assegai
Question: Who was the Aboriginal Australian athlete who won the women's 400m Gold Medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000?
Answer: cathy freeman
Question: Sometimes called the 'Gurkha blade', what is the more common name given to the curved knife used as part of the regimental weaponry of Gurkha fighters?
Answer: kukri
Question: Who was the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected President of the USA?
Answer: william mckinley
Question: Which American state shares borders with Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas?
Answer: louisiana
Question: Who was the last veteran of the American War of Independence to be elected President of the USA?
Answer: james monroe
Question: In which African country would you find the holiday destination of Sousse?
Answer: tunisia
Question: Perhaps best known for her role in 'The Devil Wears Prada', which actress provided the voice for 'Juliet' in 'Gnomeo and Juliet'?
Answer: emily blunt
Question: In which European country was the Estado Novo Regime overthrown in 1974 after the 'Carnation Revolution'?
Answer: portugal
Question: Released in 2011, 'The Kings Of Limbs' is the eighth studio album from which British rock band?
Answer: radiohead
Question: Released in 2011, 'Collapse Into Now' is the fifteenth studio album from which American rock band?
Answer: rem
Question: Which 16th century astronomer lost part of his nose in a duel as a student and had a metal replacement made which he wore for the rest of his life?
Answer: tycho brahe
Question: The 'Iron Guard' was a fascist movement and political party operating in which European country during the 1930's?
Answer: romania
Question: In David Hockney's famous painting 'Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy', what type of creature is 'Percy'?
Answer: cat
Question: On which fictional island was the sit-com 'Father Ted' set?
Answer: craggy island
Question: In the novel by EM Forster, in which Italian city was there 'A Room With A View'?
Answer: florence
Question: Which animal is the subject of Edwin Landseer's famous painting 'Monarch Of The Glen'?
Answer: stag
Question: In which US city do the Baseball team known as the 'Pirates' play their home games?
Answer: pittsburg
Question: SWAPO was the name of the guerrilla army that fought for independence for which African country?
Answer: namibia
Question: The 1997 film 'A Thousand Acres', directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, was a reworking of which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: king lear
Question: Which 1993 film was set on the fictional island of 'Isla Nubar', 120 miles off the coast of Costa Rica?
Answer: jurassic park
Question: Which late 19th and early 20th century aesthetic movement would you associate with the architects Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd-Wright and the artist William Morris?
Answer: arts crafts movement
Question: Bruce Dickinson, Blaze Bayley and Paul d'Anno have all been the lead singer of which rock group?
Answer: iron maiden
Question: The teachings of which philosopher are known as 'The Analects'?
Answer: confucius
Question: Which Brazilian footballer won the World Cup as a player in 1958 and 1962 and as a manager in 1970?
Answer: mario zagallo
Question: Which pop group, that had hits in the 1990's with 'Glory Box' and 'All Mine', are named after a small town in Somerset?
Answer: portishead
Question: What is the name of NASA's robotic rover that landed on Mars this month?
Answer: curiosity
Question: 'Princess Odette' is the central character in which of Tchaikovsky's ballet's?
Answer: swan lake
Question: Which fish is traditionally used in the Anglo-Indian dish known as Kedgeree?
Answer: haddock
Question: Which famous composer was the father-in-law of Richard Wagner?
Answer: franz liszt
Question: For which English county Cricket team was Brian Lara playing when he scored his world record 501 not out?
Answer: warwickshire
Question: Which organisation introduced the first commercial credit card in 1950?
Answer: diners club
Question: During which war was Shakespeare's play 'Troilus And Cressida' set?
Answer: trojan war
Question: In the poem by William Blake which animal was "Burning bright in the forests of the night"?
Answer: tyger
Question: In which city did Steve Redgrave win his first Olympic Gold Medal?
Answer: los angeles
Question: The practicing Mormon, Brandon Flowers, is the lead singer of which American rock group?
Answer: killers
Question: The name of which micro-organism is derived from the Greek for 'first animal'?
Answer: protozoa
Question: Which group had a hit in 1974 with 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us'?
Answer: sparks
Question: In the Book of Genesis, who died whilst giving birth to her son, Benjamin?
Answer: rachel
Question: On which British island in the South Atlantic would you find Wideawake Airfield?
Answer: ascension island
Question: In which English county could you visit Bolingbroke Castle?
Answer: lincolnshire
Question: Which former American President was nominated for re- election by the Bull Moose Party?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: Which French painter, who with his wife Sonia Terk, pioneered the art movement known as Orphism, is best known for his series of paintings of Paris and, in particular, of the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: robert delaunay
Question: Who was the American screenwriter who created, wrote, narrated and hosted the science fiction series 'The Twilight Zone'?
Answer: rod serling
Question: In the children's t.v. programme, who was the 'Wombles' cook?
Answer: madame cholet
Question: Which Israeli Prime Minister resigned in 1974 following the Yom Kippur War?
Answer: golda meir
Question: Following the death of Augustus in AD14, who became the second Roman Emperor?
Answer: tiberius
Question: Which Italian city was ruled by the Visconti family between 1277 and 1477?
Answer: milan
Question: Which engineer built the Menai Suspension Bridge and the Caledonian Canal?
Answer: thomas telford
Question: In Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', what is the name of the daughter of 'Prospero' who falls in love with 'Ferdinand'?
Answer: miranda
Question: Which city in New York State was settled by the Dutch in 1624 and originally known as Fort Orange?
Answer: albany
Question: Which Italian football club did Sven-Goran Eriksson leave in order to take over as manager of England?
Answer: lazio
Question: 'The Glorious Revolution' brought which monarch to the throne of England?
Answer: william iii
Question: Which city on the River Volga is the centre of the Caviar industry?
Answer: astrakhan
Question: An ally of Germany, of which country was Boris king until his murder in August 1943?
Answer: bulgaria
Question: Which bird is also known as the 'Adjutant Bird'?
Answer: stork
Question: In which Dickens novel do the characters 'Gaffer Hexam', 'John Harmon', and 'Bradley Headstone'?
Answer: our mutual friend
Question: In which country is the Kasserine Pass - scene of a decisive US Army defeat in World War II?
Answer: tunisia
Question: Which 20th century British Prime Minister lived the longest?
Answer: james callaghan
Question: Which actor starred with Angelina Jolie in the 1999 film 'The Bone Collector' in which a paraplegic detective had to pit his wits against a sadistic serial killer?
Answer: denzil washington
Question: Which element discovered by Cavendish in 1766, has a name that means 'water producing'?
Answer: hydrogen
Question: In which part of the body is the 'Talus'?
Answer: ankle
Question: In which Shakespeare play do the characters 'Hortensia', 'Bianca',and 'Baptista' appear?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: Which element, discovered by Nicolas Vauquelin in 1797, has the atomic number 24. Its name is derived from the Greek word for colour?
Answer: chromium
Question: Which Welsh 12 year old sang at Michael Jackson's memorial concert in the USA?
Answer: shaheen jafargholi
Question: In which fictional Cornish village is the television series 'Doc Martin' set?
Answer: portwenn
Question: In which 1993 film starring Sylvester Stallone, did a mountain rescue expert battle gangsters who had crashed in the Rocky Mountains with suitcases stuffed with money?
Answer: cliffhanger
Question: In the Bible, King David had three sons. Solomon, Nathan, and who else?
Answer: absalom
Question: Which 2009/10 Premiership soccer club, who have never won the FA Cup, were losing finalists in 1931 when they were beaten by West Brom., and 1956 when they lost to Manchester City?
Answer: birmingham city
Question: Who is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith?
Answer: tippi hedren
Question: In Greek mythology, which Cyclops had his only eye blinded by Odysseus?
Answer: polyphemus
Question: The songs 'How To Handle A Woman' and 'If Ever I Would Leave You' came from which show and film?
Answer: camelot
Question: Similarly, the songs 'Younger Than Springtime' and 'I'm In Love With A Wonderful Guy' came from which show and film?
Answer: south pacific
Question: Which English racecourse offers outstanding views of the Blackdown Hills?
Answer: taunton
Question: Which month is mentioned in the first line of Robert Browning's poem 'Home Thoughts From Abroad'?
Answer: april
Question: The adjective 'Crural' refers to which part of the body?
Answer: leg
Question: Which poem by John Masefield begins with the words "I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by"?
Answer: sea fever
Question: Actress Fenella Fielding is often wrongly credited with having a famous brother. Who is he reputed to be?
Answer: marty feldman
Question: Which king was on the throne at the time of 'Hereward the Wake's' resistance?
Answer: william i conqueror
Question: Which two word French phrase describes small, sweet pastries, often with icing, generally eaten after a meal?
Answer: petit fours
Question: Similarly, which two word Italian phrase used in cookery, means 'firm and bitter'?
Answer: al dente
Question: Who wrote the 1980 Booker Prize winner 'Rites Of Passage'?
Answer: william golding
Question: In which Indian city in 1984 was a toxic cloud of methyl isocynate accidentally released from a pesticide plant killing a least 15,000 people?
Answer: bhopal
Question: In the USA, the Colorado Beetle is a major pest that attacks which crop?
Answer: potato
Question: Who did Mohammed Ali fight in the 1974 boxing match dubbed 'The Rumble In The Jungle'?
Answer: george foreman
Question: In the USA, the Boll Weevil is a pest that attacks which crop?
Answer: cotton
Question: In Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', what is the name of the King of Norway who arrives to take the throne of Denmark after the death of the Danish royal family in the final act?
Answer: fortinbras
Question: The three 'Fates' of Greek mythology were 'Lachesis', 'Atropos' and which other?
Answer: clotho
Question: The three 'Graces' of Greek mythology were 'Euphrosyne', 'Thalia' and which other?
Answer: aglaea
Question: Which island group in the North Pacific was known as the Catherine Archipelago prior to 1867?
Answer: aleutian islands
Question: In Shakespeare's 'Othello', what was the name of the wife of 'Iago', who exposes her husband's villainy but is then murdered?
Answer: emilia
Question: From which tree is the spice 'Mace' obtained?
Answer: nutmeg
Question: Containing the singles 'Cigarettes And Alcohol' and 'Live Forever', what is the title of Oasis' debut album?
Answer: definitely maybe
Question: Containing the singles 'There's No Other Way' and 'Bang', what was the title of Blur's debut album?
Answer: leisure
Question: Which city was the capital of the ancient nation of Assyria?
Answer: ninevah
Question: Which actor played the title character in the films 'Ed Wood', 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Edward Scissorhands'?
Answer: johnny depp
Question: Located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, what is the name given to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: challenger deep
Question: 'Nude Descending A Staircase' is perhaps the most famous painting by which 20th century artist?
Answer: marcel duchamp
Question: The 'RMS Titanic' was built at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, in which city?
Answer: belfast
Question: Milwaukee Deep is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and is located in which oceanic trench?
Answer: puerto rico trench
Question: 'View Of Delft' is one of the best known works of which 17th century artist?
Answer: jan vermeer
Question: From which English city did the 'RMS Titanic' set sail on its ill-fated voyage to New York?
Answer: southampton
Question: Which actor played the title character in the films 'Johnny Suede', 'Meet Joe Black' and 'The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button'?
Answer: brad pitt
Question: Which county shares borders with Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire?
Answer: cambridgeshire
Question: Which country was created from the counties of Schellenberg and Vaduz in 1699?
Answer: liechtenstein
Question: Which singer had a number one hit in August 2010 with 'Beautiful Monster'?
Answer: ne yo
Question: Which 17th century allegorical novel is subtitled 'From This World To That Which Is To Come'?
Answer: pilgrim s progress
Question: In which country is the Rugby Union World Cup due to be held in 2011?
Answer: new zealand
Question: In which country is the Rugby League World Cup due to be held in 2013?
Answer: england
Question: In astronomy, what term describes the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is farthest from the Sun?
Answer: aphelion
Question: In which town in Greater Manchester is the TV series 'Waterloo Road' set?
Answer: rochdale
Question: In which part of a flower, found on top of a filament, is pollen contained?
Answer: anther
Question: In which English city is the TV series 'Being Human' set?
Answer: bristol
Question: Which English explorer was responsible for establishing the first English colony in the 'New World', in 1584 at Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina?
Answer: walter raleigh
Question: Which American invented the computer mouse whilst working at the Stamford Research Institute in 1964?
Answer: douglas englebart
Question: What name is given to the short bands of tough fibrous connective tissue composed mainly of long, stringy collagen fibres that connect bones to one another?
Answer: ligaments
Question: Which 17th century Italian scientist is best remembered for inventing the Mercury Barometer?
Answer: evangelista torricelli
Question: What name is given to the cord of strong fibrous tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone?
Answer: tendon
Question: Which English navigator, who dies in 1596, was buried at sea in a lead coffin off the coast of Panama?
Answer: francis drake
Question: At which stadium did Derby County play their home games prior to moving to Pride Park?
Answer: baseball ground
Question: From which fruit is the Balkan brandy Slivovitz made?
Answer: plum
Question: In 'Star Wars', what was 'Darth Vader's' name before he was seduced by the 'Dark Side of the Force'?
Answer: anakin skywalker
Question: What is the name of the Parisian cemetery at which Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf are buried?
Answer: pere lachaise
Question: What was the Japanese name, meaning 'divine wind', that was given to the tornadoes of 1274 and 1281 that destroyed the Mongol fleets carrying Kublai Khan's invasion armies?
Answer: kamikaze
Question: In the animated TV show 'The Simpsons', what was 'Marge Simpson's' maiden name?
Answer: bouvier
Question: Geoffrey Rush won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a mentally handicapped piano player in which film?
Answer: shine
Question: In C.S. Lewis' 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', what is the name of the faun who befriends 'Lucy' when she first enters 'Narnia'?
Answer: mr tumnus
Question: Which island in the Malay archipelago is divided politically between Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei?
Answer: borneo
Question: Which Belgian city is known as the 'diamond cutting capital of the world'?
Answer: antwerp
Question: On which planet in our solar system would you find the Maxwell Montes mountains?
Answer: venus
Question: According to Greek mythology, who was the woman who fell in love with Theseus and supplied him with the ball of thread by which he found his way out of the Labyrinth?
Answer: ariadne
Question: In 1971, Isaac Hayes became the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song with his theme from which 1971 film?
Answer: shaft
Question: Which lake and UNESCO World Heritage Site straddles the border between Macedonia and Albania?
Answer: lake ohrid
Question: Who was the wife of the Greek hero Agamemnon who murdered him on his return from Troy?
Answer: clytemnestra
Question: In which Central American country is Derian, the oldest European colony on the American continent?
Answer: panama
Question: 'Tom and Maggie Tulliver' are the central characters in which of George Eliot's novels?
Answer: mill on floss
Question: Which Spanish city in Castile-La Mancha has been renowned since the Middle Ages for its production of swords?
Answer: toledo
Question: Which influential writer of the French Renaissance, who helped to popularise the essay as a literary form , is perhaps best remembered for his 'Apology For Raymond Sebond'?
Answer: michel de montaigne
Question: Who was the American engine driver and folk hero on the Cannonball Express who died in 1900 trying to prevent his train from crashing into a freight train?
Answer: casey jones
Question: What was the name of the fictional paper company whose offices provide the setting for the British sit-com 'The Office'?
Answer: wernham hogg
Question: Which former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion won his first 48 fights before losing to Michael Spinks in 1985?
Answer: larry holmes
Question: With the scientific name Taurotragus oryx, which is the largest species of antelope?
Answer: eland
Question: Which American rock star survived the car crash that killed Eddie Cochran in April 1960?
Answer: gene vincent
Question: What was the name of the real-life castaway upon whom Daniel Defoe based 'Robinson Crusoe'?
Answer: alexander selkirk
Question: Who was the Iranian Ayatollah who sentenced Salman Rushdie to death in absentia after the publication of the novelist's 'Satanic Verses'?
Answer: ayatollah khomeini
Question: In which country would you find the Angkor Wat temple, the world's largest religious structure?
Answer: cambodia
Question: Who was both the last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech republic?
Answer: vaclav havel
Question: What was the name of the American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1994 debut album 'Grace', who drowned whilst swimming in a tributary of the Mississippi River in 1997?
Answer: jeff buckley
Question: In which 20th century novel do many of the central characters speak a teenage slang called 'Nadsat'?
Answer: clockwork orange
Question: Which French Revolutionary leader was assassinated whilst taking a bath in 1793?
Answer: jean paul marat
Question: In 1984, which Indian cricketer became only the second person to score six sixes from one over in first class cricket?
Answer: ravi shastri
Question: Which berry is used to make the Italian liqueur Sambuca?
Answer: elderberry
Question: Which famous sculpture, made approximately 150 BC, was found on the Aegean island of Melos in 1820?
Answer: venus de milo