CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In which small Pennine town could you see the Britannia Coconut dancers on Easter Saturday?
Answer: bacup
Question: In which English town or city are the Christmas Steps and the SS Great Britain?
Answer: bristol
Question: The ancient Trinacria symbol features on the flag of which Mediterranean island?
Answer: sicily
Question: Which Mediterranean island features a single Saracen's head on its flag?
Answer: corsica
Question: The religious festival Mawlid al-Nabi marks whose birthday?
Answer: mohammed
Question: The Beatles recorded only one song from a Broadway musical Till There Was You, from which musical did it come?
Answer: music man
Question: Which British daily newspaper was first published in March 1986 and ceased publication in November 1995?
Answer: today
Question: Which TV series was about a pop group called The Majestics featuring Robbie Coltrane and Emma Thompson?
Answer: tutti frutti
Question: What was the name of the debonair French highwayman prolific in England in the 1660s, he was executed at Tyburn in January 1670?
Answer: claude du val
Question: The religious festival Eid al-Fitr marks the end of what?
Answer: ramadan
Question: In which English town or city are the Piece Hall and the Eureka Museum?
Answer: halifax
Question: John Renboum, Bert Jansch and Danny Thompson were three of the founder members in 1967 of which British folk-rock group?
Answer: pentangle
Question: The Red Special electric guitar was custom-buiit by which musician?
Answer: brian may
Question: The F1 Circuit of the Americas (CoTA) is in which US State?
Answer: texas
Question: The River Ganges empties into what body of water?
Answer: bay of bengal
Question: Nicolai Petrovich Poliakov became better known as who?
Answer: coco clown
Question: Which geologic period is between Triassic and Cretaceous?
Answer: jurassic
Question: Who was Britain?s first female DJ on BBC Radio 1?
Answer: anne nightingale
Question: Holby City was a spin-off from which BBC medical drama?
Answer: casualty
Question: Raki, Pernod and Ouzo contain what aromatic herb?
Answer: aniseed
Question: Which US city, known as the Athens of the South, has a full-scale replica of the Parthenon?
Answer: nashville tn
Question: What is France's second largest city (it's in the Rhone-Alpes region)?
Answer: lyon
Question: Which Scottish pop band, formed 1985, released albums including Raintown, Fellow Hoodlums, Walking Back Home?
Answer: deacon blue
Question: The memoirs of which US politican are called Decision Points?
Answer: george w bush
Question: Which stately home is near the towns of Warminster and Frome?
Answer: longleat
Question: What condiment is made of boiled beans, roasted grain and brine?
Answer: soy sauce
Question: Which US born blues musician has a Gibson guitar called Lucille?
Answer: b b king
Question: Princess Aurora, Prince Philip, and Maleficent feature in which pantomime?
Answer: sleeping beauty
Question: Who founded Gordonstoun Boarding School in 1934?
Answer: kurt hahn
Question: What is the newest geologic period (ratified 2004) it refers to 635-541 million years ago?
Answer: ediacaran
Question: The Ponderosa was a spin-off of which TV series?
Answer: bonanza
Question: Which Irish sitcom, produced by Hat Trick Productions, was mostly filmed in County Clare?
Answer: father ted
Question: West Ham FC?s new ground, the former Olympic Stadium, is in which London district?
Answer: stratford
Question: Heel flip, kick flip, and ollie are tricks in which action sport?
Answer: skateboarding
Question: What is the name of the dog in Enid Blyton?s novels The Famous Five?
Answer: timmy
Question: What is Germany"s second largest city (it's on the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula)?
Answer: hamburg
Question: Which Irish group, from Dundalk, released albums, including Forgiven Not Forgotten, Talk on Corners, In Blue?
Answer: corrs
Question: Which former US President's real name is William Jefferson Blythe III?
Answer: bill clinton
Question: Which Royal residence is situated between Dersingham and King's Lynn?
Answer: sandringham house
Question: According to the words of the song, at what time does Burlington Bertie rise?
Answer: ten thirty
Question: How was Derek McCulloch known to listeners of BBC?s Children's Favourites and Children's Hour?
Answer: uncle mac
Question: The first head of state to win a Nobel Prize won the Peace Prize in 1906, what was his name?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: BBC's Children's Favourites became Junior Choice when Radio 1 and Radio 2 were formed, who presented it?
Answer: ed stewart
Question: Which US city is known as the Big Pineapple?
Answer: honolulu
Question: Author lain Banks died in 2013, what initial did he add to his name for his science fiction books?
Answer: m
Question: What name is given to a phase of the moon when the moon's disc as seen from the earth is larger than a semi-circle (but not full)?
Answer: gibbous
Question: The bakery chain Gregg's is based in which city?
Answer: newcastle
Question: 1985 was the last year that the Scottish football league title was not won by either Celtic or Rangers, which team won it that year?
Answer: aberdeen
Question: Harry Hole appears as a policeman in the best-selling books by which author?
Answer: jo nesbo
Question: What was the occupation of Cliff Clavin in the American TV sitcom ?Cheers??
Answer: postman
Question: By winning the best supporting actor Oscar in 2007, who became Spain?s first winner of an Academy Award? He played a Bond villain in ?Skyfall?.
Answer: javier bardem
Question: Leigh Francis is the real name of which TV entertainer, the character first appeared in ?Whatever I Want? then ?Bo Selecta??
Answer: keith lemon
Question: Pelleas and Melisande is the only opera by which composer?
Answer: debussy
Question: Which lake was created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam?
Answer: lake nasser
Question: Oscar Deutsch founded which cinema chain in 1930, taking the name from the Greek word for amphitheatre?
Answer: odeon
Question: What was the name of the photographer in the film La Dolce Vita?
Answer: paparazzo
Question: The USA bought the American Virgin Islands in 1917, from which country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Who wrote the 46 volume county-by-county guide Buildings of England between 1951 and 1974?
Answer: nikolaus pevsner
Question: The single shortest term as Prime Minister was a period of 22 days in 1834, who was in office?
Answer: duke of wellington
Question: Who was the Emperor of Rome at the time of the invasion of Britain in 43 AD?
Answer: claudius
Question: What is the more common name for the confection rahat lokum?
Answer: turkish delight
Question: Whole-leaf, broken-leaf, fannings and dust are grades of which commodity?
Answer: tea
Question: Ann Cleves wrote the novel Red Bones, which BBC TV drama, screened in 2013 and 2014, was based on it?
Answer: shetland
Question: According to tradition, The Pied Piper of Hamelin drowned the town?s rats in which river?
Answer: weser
Question: Which Football League club moved into its new home in 2011 at the Falmer Stadium, now known as the Amex Stadium for sponsorship purposes?
Answer: brighton hove albion
Question: Which musical instrument has a name which derives from the Greek for good sound or sweet voice?
Answer: euphonium
Question: Named by Captain Cook for a Lord Commissioner of the Royal Navy, what name is given to the inlet of the Tasman Sea that forms a large natural harbour and includes Sydney Harbour and its environs?
Answer: port jackson
Question: Who is the English film director of The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93 and Captain Phillips?
Answer: paul greengrass
Question: Which country became the 28th member of the EU on 1st July 2013?
Answer: croatia
Question: What is the alternative name of The Battle of Sharpsburg fought on 17th Septermber 1862, the bloodiest single day in the US Civil War, with 22,717 dead wounded or missing?
Answer: antietam
Question: Which is Charles Dickens' third published novel, its characters include: Madame Mantalini, Newman Noggs and Vincent Crummles?
Answer: nicholas nickleby
Question: Which large Roman villa in West Sussex was accidentally discovered by Aubrey Barrett, an engineer for the Portsmouth Water Company, while laying a pipe across a field?
Answer: fishbourne
Question: The German national anthem Der Deutschlandlied with words by Hoffman, has a tune by which composer?
Answer: haydn
Question: Guinea-Bissau is a former colony of which country, represented in its official language?
Answer: portugal
Question: According to the New Testament, shortly after the resurrection Jesus appeared to two disciples and took supper with them at which town north of Jerusalem?
Answer: emmaus
Question: What is the alternative name of The First Battle of Manassas fought on 21st July 1861, the first major land battle in the US Civil War?
Answer: bull run
Question: In 1916 the USA purchased the Virgin Islands from which country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which Football League club moved into its new home in 2007 at the New Meadow, now known as the Greenhous Meadow for sponsorship purposes?
Answer: shrewsbury town
Question: Which is Charles Dickens' thirteenth published novel, its characters include: Uncle Pumblechook, Bentley Drummle, John Wemmick and Biddy?
Answer: great expectations
Question: Which cocktail is made by muddling sugar with bitters, adding whisky or brandy and a twist of citrus rind?
Answer: old fashioned
Question: What model name was assigned to the classic Land Rover design after the introduction of the Discovery and Freelander models in the 1980's and 1990's?
Answer: defender
Question: In 2013 Yahoo purchased which pictures and video microblogging website business that was founded in 2007 in New York City by David Karp?
Answer: tumblr
Question: What type of bridge structure comprising one or more towers with the deck supported by wires from each tower, has two types, the harp and the fan? Notable examples are the Millau Viaduct, Second Severn Crossing and the elevated sections of the Oresund.
Answer: cable stayed
Question: What is the first forename of David and Victoria Beckham's fourth child, a girl born in 2011 in Los Angeles?
Answer: harper
Question: What is the most common name of the British bird Pandon Haliaetus, also known as the sea hawk, fish eagle or fish hawk?
Answer: osprey
Question: Under what name does author Daniel Handler write children's fiction?
Answer: lemony snicket
Question: The insignia of King John of Bohemia, killed at the Battle of Crecy, has now become the crest of which noble Englishman?
Answer: prince of wales
Question: What is the most common name of the British bird Falco Columbarius, a pigeon hawk, the males having a blue grey back?
Answer: merlin
Question: Equivalent to English counties or French departements, Voivodships (pronounced VOY-VOD-SHIPS) are the top level administrative subdivisions or provinces of which country, an EU member since 2004?
Answer: poland
Question: Which racehorse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2007 and 2009, the first to win in non-consecutive years and the King George VI Chase five times?
Answer: kauto star
Question: The flag of South Africa has six colours. Red, white and blue are on the old South African flag. Green, yellow and black are the colours of which South African political organisation?
Answer: african national congress
Question: Weird Al Yankovic, Phil Cunningham, Benny Andersson of Abba and Sharon Shannon are all noted exponents of what musical instrument?
Answer: accordion
Question: Named for a Shakespearean queen, which is the largest of the moons of Uranus?
Answer: titania
Question: Who is the English film director of The King's Speech and Les Miserables?
Answer: tom hooper
Question: As in Neandertal, the German word tal translates as what word in English?
Answer: valley
Question: Which cocktail is made by adding drambuie to scotch whisky served on the rocks in a stemmed glass?
Answer: rusty nail
Question: Twihards are Twitter followers of which movie franchsie based on a series of novels?
Answer: twilight
Question: Coventry Cathedra! is dedicated to which Saint?
Answer: st michael
Question: Which station was the southern terminal of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, and the only underground?
Answer: dingle
Question: Which station was the northern terminal of the Liverpool Overhead Railway?
Answer: seaforth sands
Question: Bela Fleck, Earl Scruggs, Barney MacKenna of The Dubliners and Pete Seeger are all noted exponents of what musical instrument?
Answer: banjo
Question: Which country joined the European Common Market with the UK and Ireland in 1973?
Answer: denmark
Question: In professional wrestling, an audience favourite is referred to as 'a face'', but what name, also a body part, is given to a cheating, hated performer, whose every move is usually booed?
Answer: heel
Question: Which classic fairy tale was first published in written form by Poet Laureate Robert Southey in 1837?
Answer: goldilocks
Question: In 1500, Vicente Yanez Pinzon, became the first European to explore what river?
Answer: amazon
Question: Zayn Malik left which boy band in March 2015?
Answer: one direction
Question: Which North Sea port lies at the mouth of the Riyer Esk?
Answer: whitby
Question: Which planet in the solar system has a mass which is 318 times that of the earth?
Answer: jupiter
Question: To which university did Elias Ashmole donate his ‘cabinet of curiosities’ in 1677?
Answer: oxford
Question: What is the name of Captain Ahab’s ship in Moby Dick?
Answer: pequod
Question: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played 20 seasons in which sport?
Answer: basketball
Question: How was Frenchman Armand Jean du Plessis (1585-1642) known more familiarly?
Answer: cardinal richelieu
Question: Whose philosophical ideal of ubermensch or superman was adopted and distorted by the Nazis?
Answer: friedrich nietzsche
Question: Who is the lead singer with Procol Harum?
Answer: gary brooker
Question: The flag of which African country, adopted on the fall of the government in 2011, is that used when the country was a kingdom from 1951 to 1969?
Answer: libya
Question: Fantasie released in 2009 was the fourth studio album by which Scottish violinist?
Answer: nicola benedetti
Question: Which city has been selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games? ;
Answer: beijing
Question: Which Earldom was common to to Simon de Montfort and Robert Dudley, the favourite of Elizabeth I?
Answer: leicester
Question: In August 2014 Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal. For work is which discipline is the Fields Medal awarded?
Answer: mathematics
Question: Cardinal Richelieu was Chief Minister of the French King from 1624 to 1642. Which king (name and regnal number)?
Answer: louis xiii
Question: What nationality was the philosopher and religious thinker Soren Kierkegaard?
Answer: danish
Question: Which island republic off the coast of West Africa gained independence from Portugal in 1975?
Answer: cabo verde
Question: In 1998 which was the first Asian city to host the Commonwealth Games?
Answer: kuala lumpur
Question: The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was set during which war?
Answer: spanish civil war
Question: Romantic Cello Concertos is a 2009 CD by which English cellist?
Answer: julian lloyd webber
Question: Which isotope of hydrogen with a half-life of 12.32 years has a nucleus that contains one proton and two neutrons?
Answer: tritium
Question: Who played Flash Harry in the St Trinians films of the 1950s and 1960s?
Answer: george cole
Question: Dan Marino played 17 seasons for the Miami Dolphins in which position?
Answer: quarterback
Question: Minster FM is a local radio station based in which English city?
Answer: york
Question: Psychology Professor Daniel Kahneman, author of the 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow jointly won which Nobel Prize in 2002?
Answer: economics
Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury officiated at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation?
Answer: geoffrey fisher
Question: Who is the lead singer with Wet Wet Wet?
Answer: marti pellow
Question: In 2011 Prince Albert II of Monaco married Charlene Wittstock who represented South Africa at which sport?
Answer: swimming
Question: What is the name of the ship that sails to the island in Treasure Island?
Answer: hispaniola
Question: Who plays Dr Evil the nemesis of Austin Powers in the Austin Powers series of films?
Answer: mike myers
Question: Which Scottish football team plays home games at Pittodrie?
Answer: aberdeen
Question: The band McFly formed a supergroup in 2013 with members of which other band?
Answer: busted
Question: Which river flows through Carlisle and empties into the Solway Firth?
Answer: eden
Question: Which planet in the solar system has an equatorial diameter closest to that of the earth?
Answer: venus
Question: What is the surname of the twin brothers who founded The Guinness Book of Records?
Answer: mcwhirter
Question: Who is the current question master on Radio 4's 'Brain of Britain?
Answer: russell davies
Question: In law, what name is given to a civil wrong causing loss or harm, enabling legal action against the party who carried out the act?
Answer: tort
Question: Goalkeeper Simon Mignolet who signed for Liverpool in 2013 has international caps for which country?
Answer: belgium
Question: Which 1461 battle of the Wars of the Roses, the bloodiest fought on English soil, took place between Leeds and York?
Answer: towton
Question: What name is usually given to symphony no. 45 by Joseph Haydn, from the musicians gradually leaving the concert platform during the final movement?
Answer: farewell
Question: Samsung Electronics was established in 1938 in which modern day country, in which it still has its international HQ?
Answer: south korea
Question: On whose BBC Radio 2 show could you take part in the 'Pop Master' quiz game?
Answer: ken bruce
Question: Founded in 1816 the Fitzwilliam Museum of art and antiquities is in which English city?
Answer: cambridge
Question: In 1699, William Paterson (the founder of the Bank of England) promoted what scheme, a trading colony in Panama, for the people of Scotland? It proved to be a ruinous failure for the Scottish economy, giving eventual rise to the Act of Union in 1707,
Answer: darien scheme
Question: Name the governor of Roman Britain 77-85 AD and commander of the 20th legion, who subdued much of northern Britain and encouraged leading Britons to adopt Roman customs and language?
Answer: gnaeus julius agricola
Question: Which office of state has been held at various times since 1992 by the constituency MPs for Blackburn, Redditch, Rushcliffe and Maidenhead?
Answer: home secretary
Question: What is the name of the Broadway musical, written by Sting, which closed early in 2015 after a short run, in which Sting himself replaced Jimmy Nail in the lead role in a bid to increase sales?
Answer: last ship
Question: Turner Contemporary, a gallery and visual arts centre, is situated in which British town, the birthplace of Tracy Emin?
Answer: margate
Question: Which mountain range stretches for 1600 miles and has Mount Toubkal as its highest point at 13,671 feet?
Answer: atlas
Question: Miley Cyrus came to prominence playing which title role on TV as a teenager who leads a double life as a singer?
Answer: hannah montana
Question: Striker Samuel Eto'o who signed for Everton in 2014 has represented which country in the FIFA World Cup?
Answer: cameroon
Question: Paul Staines blogs about 'parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy' under what name, that of the real name of an historically significant plotter?
Answer: guido fawkes
Question: The title of TV show Strictly Come Dancing is based upon the name of a previous BBC show and which 1993 Baz Luhrman film?
Answer: strictly ballroom
Question: What is the better known name of the Antoinette Perry Awards?
Answer: tony awards
Question: From which language do we take the words commando and marmalade?
Answer: portuguese
Question: Which palatial villa, located just over a mile west of Chichester, is believed to have been the residence of king Cogidubnus, a 1st century ally of the Romans?
Answer: fishbourne
Question: After a dispute about rent, Coventry City moved from the Ricoh Arena in 2013 to share with which Football League club?
Answer: northampton town
Question: The Emperor Showa was known by what name during his lifetime?
Answer: hirohito
Question: Whose mother was the subject of a boy's infatuation in a top 20 hit single by the Fountains of Wayne in 2003?
Answer: stacy
Question: Between 1090-1273, which Nizali Ismailis sect of Muslims operated as terrorists, renowned for tracking and killing targeted individual leaders?
Answer: assassins
Question: Plovdiv and Varna are respectively the second and third biggest cities in which European country?
Answer: bulgaria
Question: Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara are respectively the second and third biggest cities in which European country?
Answer: romania
Question: Chicago Tribune newspaper headlines wrongly trumpeted which candidate's victory over Truman in the 1948 US Presidential election?
Answer: thomas e dewey
Question: In which Irish institution is the Book of Kells normally exhibited?
Answer: trinity college
Question: The name of which Australian city is a word that means meeting place in aboriginal?
Answer: canberra
Question: What nickname is usually given to symphony no. 101 by Joseph Haydn? The name alludes to the metronomic qualities of the opening movement.
Answer: clock
Question: Writer and film director Kathryn Bigelow was married between 1989-91 to which film director, a winner of the Oscar for Best Director?
Answer: james cameron
Question: Which German city is the state capital of Saxony? Its famous Frauenkirche celebrates the 10th anniversary of its restoration in 2015.
Answer: dresden
Question: In which country was singer and 'The Voice' presenter Rita Ora born? Either its name at the time or now is acceptable.
Answer: yugoslavia
Question: Which 2008 Pixar film is about a robot left abandoned on an uninhabited Earth to deal with the waste and rubbish that caused mankind to leave?
Answer: wall e
Question: Which of Shakespeare's plays is concerned with the efforts of Baptista to find husbands for his daughters, Bianca and her sister?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: Nuclear-powered, named after a famous Frenchman and launched in 1994, which is the French navy's only aircraft carrier?
Answer: charles de gaulle
Question: Highciere Castle is the main exterior location of which ITV TV series?
Answer: downton abbey
Question: 100 kobo equalling 1 naira are the units of currency of which African country?
Answer: nigeria
Question: Name the author of the 1982 Booker Prize-winning novel 'Schindlers Ark'.
Answer: thomas keneally
Question: Catherine of Braganza was the wife of which English king?
Answer: charles ii
Question: Of which band was Lionel Richie a member until 1982?
Answer: commodores
Question: Who played the male lead with Goldie Hawn in the 1987 film comedy?
Answer: kurt russell
Question: Cristina Kirchner has been the President of which country since 2007?
Answer: argentina
Question: Which racecourse hosts the Scottish Grand National in April each year?
Answer: ayr
Question: Which North Yorkshire stately home was used in the making of the Granada TV serial 'Brideshead Revisited'?
Answer: castle howard
Question: 100 pesewas equalling 1 cedi are the units of currency of which African country?
Answer: ghana
Question: Daniel Ortega has been the President of which country since 2007?
Answer: nicaragua
Question: Which city, located 7 miles to the southwest, serves as the port of Athens?
Answer: piraeus
Question: Which golf course was the first Scottish venue to host the Ryder Cup in 1973?
Answer: muirfield
Question: In the eponymous Channel 4 TV comedy what was the surname of Father Ted?
Answer: crilly
Question: Who won the 1951 Best Actress Oscar for her role as Blanche du Bois in the film 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
Answer: vivien leigh
Question: At which golf course did Europe win the Ryder Cup for the first time in 1985?
Answer: belfry
Question: In the animated children's TV series, what is the surname of the character Postman Pat?
Answer: clifton
Question: Which 1989 film set during the American Civil War starred Denzel Washington and Matthew Broderick?
Answer: glory