CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What name was given to the 57 constituencies with very small electorates, such as Old Sarum with two MP's for 11 electors, which were abolished by the 1832 Reform Act?
Answer: rotten boroughs
Question: On which major river does Bamako, the capital of Mali stand?
Answer: niger
Question: With eight goals which Barcelona player was the leading scorer in the 2009-10 Champions League?
Answer: lionel messi
Question: Which character, who first appeared in 'Detective Comics' in 1948, has been played on TV in the 1960's by Frank Gorshin and John Astin and on film in 1995 by Jim Carrey?
Answer: riddler
Question: Which novelist whose original first names were Margaret Ann before she changed them, won the 2005 Orange Prize for the book 'We Need To Talk About Kevin'?
Answer: lionel shriver
Question: Which band, formed in 2001, includes Ana Matronic, Babydaddy and Jake Shears?
Answer: scissor sisters
Question: Which member of the Royal Family is known as 'Brian' in 'Private Eye'?
Answer: prince of wales
Question: Elizabeth of York, the mother of Henry VIII, was the daughter of which king?
Answer: edward iv
Question: Which sport, played with sticks and a ball, whose rules are governed by the Camanachd Association, is mainly played in the highlands of Scotland?
Answer: shinty
Question: On which material is the Hereford Mappa Mundi drawn?
Answer: vellum
Question: Which Russian Tsar, known as 'The Liberator', was assassinated in March 1881?
Answer: alexander ii
Question: In which US state is the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway?
Answer: colorado
Question: Which country is the setting for Alexander McCall Smith's series of novels 'The No 1. Ladies' Detective Agency'?
Answer: botswana
Question: Which king gave Royal Assent to the Parliament Act which asserted the supremacy of the House of Commons, by reducing the delaying powers of the House of Lords to two years, later amended to one year in 1949?
Answer: george v
Question: On which major river does Vientiane, the capital of Laos stand?
Answer: mekong
Question: With 302, cricketer Mahela Jayawardene was the leading run scorer in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20. What is his nationality?
Answer: sri lankan
Question: The Clore Gallery at Tate Britain in London contains work by which British artist (1775-1821)?
Answer: j m w turner
Question: Give either of the middle names of George Osbourne?
Answer: gideon oliver
Question: In 1843 stamps were issued in two more countries. Those from Switzerland were issued by the cities of Zurich and Geneva. Which country was the second to issue stamps, known as 'Bull's Eyes', which were valid throughout the entire country?
Answer: brazil
Question: In which decade was the Bernardo Bertolucci directed film 'Last Tango In Paris' released?
Answer: 1970 s
Question: Which Shakespeare play features 'Feste', a jester?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: What was the most used first name of the composer Mussorgsky (1839-1881).
Answer: modest
Question: Which singer and actress, married to Lee Mead, gave birth to baby Betsy on May 1st.?
Answer: denise van outen
Question: Albert II, the Sovereign Prince of Monaco is a member of which Royal House?
Answer: grimaldi
Question: In which city were the 2002 Winter Olympic Games held?
Answer: salt lake city
Question: Name the film starring Gwynneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes about an author who gets writers' block whilst writing 'Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter'?
Answer: shakespeare in love
Question: Give the middle name of former US Vice-President Hubert H. Humphries?
Answer: horatio
Question: Who launched the 'Today' newspaper in 1986?
Answer: eddy shah
Question: Which country is the home of football club Shakhtar Donetsk?
Answer: ukraine
Question: Who is the subject of the 1961 biography 'The Agony And The Ecstasy' by Irving Stone?
Answer: michelangelo buonarroti
Question: How were musical duo Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield known?
Answer: righteous brothers
Question: Who was Master of the King's Music from 1924 until 1934?
Answer: edward elgar
Question: Who played 'Sabrina Duncan' in the 1970's TV series 'Charlie's Angels'?
Answer: kate jackson
Question: Which Hungarian born Modernist was the architect of 2, Willow Road in Hampstead?
Answer: erno goldfinger
Question: In which subject did Margaret Thatcher obtain a B.Sc. at Oxford?
Answer: chemistry
Question: Which Rugby League club has been coached by Brian McClennan and Brian McDermott?
Answer: leeds rhinos
Question: The Hoover Dam is on the border of Arizona and which other state?
Answer: nevada
Question: """It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune, must be in want of a wife"", is the first line of which Jane Austen novel?"
Answer: pride and prejudice
Question: Which part does Matt Damon play in the film 'Invictus'?
Answer: francois pienaar
Question: Which 'Beatle' had a hit single with 'Photograph'?
Answer: ringo starr
Question: Which Middle East airline has an in-flight magazine called 'Oryx', the antelope which is on its logo?
Answer: qatar airways
Question: Who is the husband of Dutch model Lara Stone?
Answer: david walliams
Question: Which Spanish city is the home of football club 'Hercules'?
Answer: alicante
Question: Which newspaper was re-branded as 'The Sun' in 1964?
Answer: daily herald
Question: Who partnered Bill Medley on the hit single '(I've Had) The Time Of My Life'?
Answer: jennifer warnes
Question: What is the name of the Neurosurgeon played by James Nesbitt in a recent ITV drama series?
Answer: monroe
Question: Which Harvard Professor features in the novels 'Angels And Demons' and 'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown?
Answer: robert langdon
Question: Which member of the Royal Family married Katharine Worsley in 1961?
Answer: duke of kent
Question: In which city is the 'Sixth Floor Museum' at Dealey Plaza?
Answer: dallas
Question: Who commanded the 'USS Bonhomme Richard' which sank after the 'Battle of Flamborough Head' in 1779?
Answer: john paul jones
Question: What is 'Emma's' surname in the Jane Austen novel 'Emma'?
Answer: woodhouse
Question: Which cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his drawings of eccentric machines, was born on May 31st. 1872?
Answer: heath robinson
Question: Who designed 'The Willow Tearooms' at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow?
Answer: charles rennie mackintosh
Question: What was the title of the 1991 Channel 4 drama in which Robert Lindsay played 'Michael Murray' the militant Labour leader of a city council?
Answer: g b h
Question: Which musician, together with George Harrison, organised 'The Concert For Bangladesh' at Madison Square Garden in 1971?
Answer: ravi shankar
Question: Which school was founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham?
Answer: winchester
Question: The full title of which play by George Bernard Shaw is completed by 'A Romance In Five Acts'?
Answer: pygmalion
Question: 'ETIHAD Airways' is based in which of the United Arab Emirates?
Answer: abu dhabi
Question: Who was Poet Laureate from 1968 to 1972?
Answer: cecil day lewis
Question: What was the surname of the character known as 'Face' or 'Faceman' in the 1980's TV show 'The A-Team'?
Answer: peck
Question: Who founded 'Auto Trader' in 1975?
Answer: john madejski
Question: In which sport did Dave Prowse ('Darth Vader') represent England at the 1962 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: weightlifting
Question: For which British national newspaper did the cartoonist Giles produce his most famous work?
Answer: daily express
Question: Which French author wrote 'J'accuse', an open letter to the French government regarding the 'Dreyfuss Affair'?
Answer: emile zola
Question: Which SAS soldier wrote the book 'Bravo Two Zero', an account of a failed mission during the first Gulf War?
Answer: andy mcnab
Question: The 'Ridolfi Plot' was a Roman Catholic plot to kill which English monarch?
Answer: elizabeth i
Question: Which former British landmark is now the most famous tourist attraction in Lake Havasu City, Arizona?
Answer: london bridge
Question: Lying on the Sunzha River, what is the capital of the Chechen Republic?
Answer: grozny
Question: Pal Schmitt resigned as President of Hungary in 2012 as a result of allegations that he plagiarised his doctoral thesis. He won Olympic gold medals in 1968 and 1972, in which sport?
Answer: fencing
Question: Designed by Tim Tolkein, the great nephew of the author of 'The Lord Of The Rings', in which English city could you find the famous 'Sentinel' statue?
Answer: birmingham
Question: Yakutsk is the capital of which federal subject of Russia, that at 3,103,200 km2 (almost as big as India) is the largest subnational governing body by area?
Answer: sakha republic
Question: The majority of 'The Only Way Is Essex' is set and filmed in which Essex town?
Answer: brentwood
Question: An American mathematician, who engaged in a mail bombing campaign that spanned nearly 20 years, killing three people and injuring 23 others, by what name is Ted Kaczynski popularly known?
Answer: unabomber
Question: Which football club pipped Paris Saint Germain to win the French League 1 title in 2012?
Answer: montpellier
Question: Developed sometime before 1915 by a bartender named Ngiam Tong Boon, which cocktail contains Gin, Cherry Heering, Benedictine,and fresh Sarawak Pineapple juice?
Answer: singapore sling
Question: Which single-word title is shared by songs in the musicals 'The Sound Of Music' and 'West Side Story'?
Answer: maria
Question: The son-in-law of a British Prime Minister and the father of a former Minister of Defence, which Conservative politician served as the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia?
Answer: christopher soames
Question: Which team finished eight points clear of Bayern Munich to win the Bundesliga title in 2012?
Answer: borussia dortmund
Question: Found in birds, reptiles and some fish and insects, what name is given to the specialised stomach with a thick, muscular wall used for grinding up food?
Answer: gizzard
Question: Voted the greatest female athlete of the 20th century by 'Sports Illustrated for Women', which American athlete won gold medals in both the Heptathlon and Long Jump in 1988?
Answer: jackie joyner kersee
Question: What has been made by the Chicago manufacturer R.S. Owens & Company since 1983?
Answer: oscar statuettes
Question: The International Airport at the Cretan capital of Heraklion is named after which writer?
Answer: nikos kazantzakis
Question: Which 18th century Staffordshire-born potter, and grandfather of Charles Darwin, first developed Jasperware and Basaltware?
Answer: josiah wedgewood
Question: Which mathematician, whose ideas were important to the development of modern computer circuits, wrote the 1854 work 'Laws Of Thought'?
Answer: george boole
Question: Which was the only one of the four 'Grand Slam' Tennis titles that Bjorn Borg did not win?
Answer: u s open
Question: Which Merchant Ivory film, based on an acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, tells the story of 'Mr. Stevens', the butler at 'Darlington Hall'?
Answer: remains of day
Question: Also going by the name of Talmadge Hayer and his chosen Islamic name, Mujahid Abdul Halim, Thomas Hagan is best known as one of the assassins of which famous person?
Answer: malcolm x
Question: What name is given to the main area of a church, extending from the main entrance to the chancel, usually flanked by lower aisles?
Answer: nave
Question: He was England's first typographer and the first person to popularise the products of the printing press in England. Who was the Alsace-born printer brought to England by William Caxton in order to improve the quality of Caxton's products?
Answer: wynkyn de worde
Question: The flag of Cornwall is named after which Cornish abbot and saint traditionally held to be patron saint of the county, as well as tin miners?
Answer: saint piran
Question: What is the name of the upland tract in north-western Leicestershire, bounded by Leicester, Loughborough and Coalville, that is well known for its pre-Cambrians rocks and fossil beds?
Answer: charnwood forest
Question: What is the historically opposite pseudonymous name used by the libertarian blogger Paul Staines who blogs about "parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracies"?
Answer: guido fawkes
Question: When a sitting MP wishes to resign his seat, he can apply for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds or of which manor currently part of the Barrowcliff area of Scarborough?
Answer: manor of northstead
Question: What was the name of the Greenpeace trawler that was sunk off the coast of New Zealand by French secret intelligence officers in July 1985?
Answer: rainbow warrior
Question: Long the richest country in the Muslim world, which country has, according to the International Monetary Fund, replaced Luxembourg as the world's richest country per head of population?
Answer: qatar
Question: The gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent were created in the 1930's by which poet and gardening writer on the fringes of the 'Bloomsbury Group'?
Answer: vita sackville west
Question: What is the name of the Japanese martial art of fencing that uses bamboo swords called Shinai?
Answer: kendo
Question: What name is given to the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, visible to the naked eye during a solar eclipse?
Answer: corona
Question: Which English cartographer, printer and publisher has recently returned to prominence as a result of his 'Tourist Handbook' being used by Michael Portillo for the t.v. series 'Great British Railway Journeys'?
Answer: george bradshaw
Question: Now owned by Proton, which British car manufacturing company was formed by engineer Colin Chapman in 1952 and went on to produce models such as the 'Elise' and 'Exige'?
Answer: lotus
Question: Describing events in its capital of 'Laurania', as unrest against the dictatorial government turns to revolution, 'Savrola' published in 1899, was the only novel written by which Nobel Prize winner?
Answer: winston s churchill
Question: Which 1971 film starring Vincent Price tells the story of a disfigured musical genius seeking to avenge the death of his wife?
Answer: abominable dr phibes
Question: What name is given to a substance that breaks up into free ions when dissolved, to produce an electrical conductor?
Answer: electrolyte
Question: Which battle of August 4798 was fought in the spacious Abu Qir Bay?
Answer: battle of nile
Question: In the poem by Edgar Allen Poe, which word is repeatedly spoken by 'The Raven'?
Answer: nevermore
Question: In which English county is the small village of Burnham Thorpe, famous for being the birthplace of Admiral Nelson?
Answer: norfolk
Question: Which former New Zealand Rugby Union international, who made his debut in 1957, was nicknamed 'Pine Tree'?
Answer: colin meads
Question: Which British comedy actor, whose father took part in the 1948 Olympic Games, took part in the 1980 Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race?
Answer: hugh laurie
Question: Which Palestinian organisation murdered 11 Israelis at the 1972 Olympics?
Answer: black september
Question: What is the name of the thick soup popular in the southern states of the USA? One of the main ingredients is Okra which gives the dish its smooth silky texture.
Answer: gumbo
Question: Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1948 for his role in establishing the United Nations?
Answer: cordell hull
Question: Who is the famous mother of TV presenter Claudia Winkelman?
Answer: eve pollard
Question: Which British monarch put the “Regis” into Bognor?
Answer: george v
Question: What is the common name for the bird Alauda arvensis, which mounts the air almost vertically?
Answer: skylark
Question: “The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones” is a quote from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: In “Absolutely Fabulous”, who played Bubbles?
Answer: jane horrocks
Question: “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes” is a quote from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: macbeth
Question: The Russian city of St Petersburg stands on the River Neva, which runs into which gulf?
Answer: gulf of finland
Question: In which US State could you visit the Carlsbad Caverns National Park?
Answer: new mexico
Question: In WWII what was the British “Operation Chastise”, which took place in May 1943?
Answer: dambusters raid
Question: Which now common household item was invented and patented by Norwegian chemist Erik Rotheim in 1927, and developed by Americans Lyle Goodhue and William Sullivan as an aid in the fight against malaria?
Answer: aerosol spray
Question: Name the Frenchman who was one of the chief architects of the Common Market and is considered by many as the father of the Common Market.
Answer: jean monnet
Question: Which character has been portrayed on film by Andre Morell, Robert Duvall and Ben Kingsley?
Answer: dr john watson
Question: Which Britis explorer travelled disguised as a Muslim to Mecca and Medina in 1853?
Answer: sir richard burton
Question: In WWII, what was the allied Operation Husky, which began on 9th July 1943?
Answer: invasion of sicily
Question: Which French romantic artist painted “The Tiger Hunt” and “The Massacre at Chios”
Answer: ferdinand delacroix
Question: If you landed at Reina Sofia Airport, which island would you be on?
Answer: tenerife
Question: In the fashion label FCUK, for what does the FC stand?
Answer: french connection
Question: Astrakhan stands on the River Volga, leading to the shores of which sea?
Answer: caspian
Question: In which country did the 1798 Battle of Vinegar Hill take place?
Answer: ireland
Question: In which state is Lewiston, the furthest inland seaport on the west coast of America?
Answer: idaho
Question: Which Venetian artist, real name Jacopo Robusti, painted “The Origin of the Milky Way”?
Answer: tintoretto
Question: In “Keeping Up Appearances”, who played Onslow?
Answer: geoffrey hughes
Question: Which breed of dog’s name translates as “badger hound”?
Answer: dachshund
Question: Which sea bird found around the shores of Britain is a larger relative of the Shag?
Answer: cormorant
Question: Which exponent of Brit Art created works involving a bed, a tent and a beach hut?
Answer: tracey emin
Question: Which American President used the slogan: "It's morning again in America" for his presidential campaign?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Who received the best actor Oscar for the 1934 film ' It Happened One Night'?
Answer: clark gable
Question: What was Elvis's last No 1 record in the UK in his lifetime?
Answer: wonder of you
Question: Murray Gell-Mann developed a theory in 1964 that the smallest particle in the universe was called what?
Answer: quark
Question: From which 1950 film musical does the song "I Got the Sun in the Morning" come?
Answer: annie get your gun
Question: For which film did Gary Cooper win Best Actor Oscar in 1941?
Answer: sergeant york
Question: Which national radio station broadcasts on either 693 or 909 kHz Medium Wave?
Answer: radio 5 live
Question: How was Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin better known?
Answer: george sand
Question: Which French playwright's real name was Jean Baptiste Poquelin?
Answer: moliere
Question: Which group has released the albums "Fear Of Music", 'True Stories" and "Remain In Light"?
Answer: talking heads
Question: Which record went to No 1 after his (Elvis's) death in 1977?
Answer: way down
Question: In "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", which is the mystery cat and Napoleon of Crime?
Answer: macavity
Question: Mikhail Fokine was the chief choreographer to which ballet company from 1909 -1914?
Answer: ballet russes
Question: Which religion celebrates the festival of 'Baisakhi' or 'Vaisakhi'?
Answer: sikh
Question: What is the name of the race of black Jews who formerly inhabited Ethiopia?
Answer: falashas
Question: Which singer has released the albums "Nebraska", 'Tunnel Of Love" and "Lucky Town"?
Answer: bruce springsteen
Question: Henry Cooper controversially lost his British Tile in 1971 to which Boxer?
Answer: joe bugner
Question: In Arthurian legend who accepted the challenge of the Green Knight?
Answer: sir gawain
Question: Who rode the winner of the 1956 Grand National, when Devon Loch slipped on the run in?
Answer: dave dick
Question: Who wrote the play, "The Long and the Short and the Tall"?
Answer: willis hall
Question: In which Grimm's fairy tale does a prince climb up a maiden's hair?
Answer: rapunzel
Question: Which chess piece does Alice start off as in 'Through the Looking Glass'?
Answer: white pawn
Question: In which city would you find 'Commissioner Gordon' and 'Chief O'Hara'?
Answer: gotham city
Question: Name the actress, she died in August 2002, who played the part of 'Madame Edith Artois' in the TV series 'Allo, Allo'?
Answer: carmen silvera
Question: The 1920's art known as 'The Group of Seven' was formed in which country?
Answer: canada
Question: Which archipelago, off the coast of Newfoundland, is the last remaining French possession in North America?
Answer: st pierre miquelon
Question: What was the first name of the daughter of Pakistani politician Zulfiqir Ali Bhutto?
Answer: benazir
Question: Which is the most common element in the Earth's crust after oxygen?
Answer: silicon
Question: Who succeeded Kruschev as Soviet Prime Minister in 1964?
Answer: kosygin
Question: In which county are 'Leeds castle' and the 'Isle of Sheppey'?
Answer: kent
Question: Charlotte Dod was a fine skater, an international hockey player, the best woman archer in England, and a champion golfer; all after she gave up her first game for lack of effective opposition. What game was that?
Answer: tennis
Question: In the sci-fi book and film, by what other name was the planet 'Arakis' known?
Answer: dune
Question: In the sci-fi books, what was 'Dune's' principle export, making it so important to the 'Empire'?
Answer: spice
Question: Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine were amongst the leading exponents of which 1950's / 60's style of painting?
Answer: pop art
Question: Footballer George Best, made his name with Manchester United, but with which club did he finish his league career?
Answer: bournemouth
Question: Parr, Smolt Sprog, Skegger, Samlet, Mort, Grilse and Fingerling are all names used for the young of which fish?
Answer: salmon
Question: Which great composer, composed so many songs between 1815 and 1828 that the Oxford Dictionary of Music doesn't attempt to list them all?
Answer: schubert
Question: The islands of 'Ascencion' and 'Tristan da Cunha' in the South West Atlantic, are dependencies of which other British island colony?
Answer: st helena
Question: Fulgencio was the first name of which dictator, overthrown in 1959?
Answer: batista
Question: The largest man-made excavation in the world is a mine for which element?
Answer: copper
Question: Joe Strummer and Mick Jones were singers and guitarists with which band?
Answer: clash
Question: Which car manufacturer makes the 'Corsa' model?
Answer: vauxhall
Question: Who won his ninth 'Skol World Darts' title in January 2001?
Answer: phil taylor
Question: Which commentator said, "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey"?
Answer: brian johnston
Question: Which famous teacher taught at 'The Marcie Blain School For Girls'?
Answer: miss jean brodie
Question: What is the female equivalent of a Bar Mitzvah?
Answer: bat mitzvah
Question: Yarmulke is the Yiddish word for a skullcap, what is the Hebrew equivalent?
Answer: kippah
Question: What was the first Steven Spielberg movie to be shot completely (exteriors as well as interiors) on sound stages?
Answer: hook
Question: Who preceded Ariel Sharon as Israel's Prime Minister?
Answer: ehud barak
Question: Who at the age of 69 was the oldest US President to take the oath of office?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: What was silent film actor 'Fatty' Arbuckle's christian name?
Answer: roscoe
Question: Which Mediterranean island's two main beaches are called Ses Salines and Es Cavellet?
Answer: ibiza
Question: Which two words were used to promote Greta Garbo's 1930 film, 'Anna Christie'?
Answer: garbo talks
Question: Which English engineer built the Menai tubular girder bridge in the UK, opened in 1850, and the Victoria Bridge over the Hudson in Canada in 1859?
Answer: robert stephenson
Question: Jenny Pitman won the Grand National for the first time, with which horse?
Answer: corbiere
Question: Which aircraft manufacturer built the World war II fighter the 'Mustang'?
Answer: north american aviation