CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What did Watson, Crick and Wilson discover in 1953, and for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962?
Answer: structure of dna
Question: John Harmon, Bella Wilfer and Noddy Boffin are characters in which of Charles Dickens' novels?
Answer: our mutual friend
Question: What was the name of the double agent convicted of spying for the Soviet nion in 1961, and who escaped from prison in 1966?
Answer: george blake
Question: What did Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain invent in 1947, and for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956?
Answer: transistor
Question: What is the main grape used in the production of Chianti wine?
Answer: sangiovese
Question: James and Henry Durie and the Lady Alison are characters in which of Robert Louis Stevenson's novels?
Answer: master of ballantrae
Question: Who painted 'Man in a Golden Helmet', in 1550 and 'Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer' in 1653?
Answer: rembrandt
Question: General Gordon, Michelangelo and Cardinal Richelieu have all been played on screen by which actor?
Answer: charlton heston
Question: Miu Miu is a brand of which fashion house?
Answer: prada
Question: Oscar Schindler, Michael Collins and Alfred Kinsey have all been played on screen by which actor?
Answer: liam neeson
Question: What sport was developed in the mid 19th century at Harrow School?
Answer: squash
Question: What name is given to the networking device that controls the flow of data packets between computers, peripherals and other networks?
Answer: router
Question: Created, by William G. Morgan, in 1895 what sport was originally called Mintonette?
Answer: volleyball
Question: Which British member of the grouse family turns white as a winter camouflage?
Answer: ptarmigan
Question: Who wrote 1892 farce 'Charley's Aunt'?
Answer: brandon thomas
Question: During which war did the Battle of the Ebro take place?
Answer: spanish civil war
Question: In the acronym ASBO, for what does the B stand?
Answer: behaviour
Question: In darts, a three dart finish requiring a treble, single and double of the same number is given what name?
Answer: shanghai
Question: In which country is the wine growing region, Hawkes Bay?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which car company is/was named after the man who invented the carburettor?
Answer: daimler
Question: Meetings of Tory backbenchers are known by what name?
Answer: 1922 committee
Question: Which film and comic ‘superhero’ has a ‘day-job’ as photographer with the Daily Bugle?
Answer: spiderman
Question: The Pillars of Hercules feature on either side of the coat of arms of which country?
Answer: spain
Question: Which director’s last film was Family Plot in 1975?
Answer: alfred hitchcock
Question: Papageno and Pamina are characters in which opera?
Answer: magic flute
Question: Cape Hatteras in North Carolina is the nearest land to which UK overseas territory?
Answer: bermuda
Question: During 2014, 74 year old Alexander Chancellor became the editor of which magazine?
Answer: oldie
Question: Pannage pork is considered a delicacy, on what are the pigs fed?
Answer: acorns
Question: Which Scottish group had UK top 20 hits with Real Gone Kid and Dignity?
Answer: deacon blue
Question: Which Swedish warship sank on her maiden voyage on 10th August 1628?
Answer: vasa
Question: Which actor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2007?
Answer: johnny depp
Question: Where in the body would you find Glisson’s capsule and Kupffer cells?
Answer: liver
Question: Holly Bleasdale is the holder of the British record in which athletics event?
Answer: pole vault
Question: Which city, the third largest in Denmark, is the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen?
Answer: odense
Question: Which British high street store is owned by the US chain Walgreens (not Walmart)?
Answer: boots
Question: England’s largest nature reserve is at Holkham, in which county?
Answer: norfolk
Question: Severely damaged by fire in May 2014, who deigned the Glasgow School of Art?
Answer: charles rennie mackintosh
Question: What in ancient Rome was the Cloaca Maxima?
Answer: main sewer
Question: Who was President of Russia from 2008-2012 while Vladimir Putin served as Prime Minister?
Answer: dmitri medvedev
Question: Which is the only Hitchcock film to win a Best Picture Oscar (in 1940)?
Answer: rebecca
Question: Vanessa Vankorn represented Thailand in a skiing event at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, under what professional name is she better known?
Answer: vanessa mae
Question: Which London hospital, the oldest in the country, is the only place in London with a statue of Henry 8th and in fiction was the first meeting place of Holmes and Watson?
Answer: st bart s
Question: ‘No 5, 1948’ was sold for $140 million in 2006, who painted it?
Answer: jackson pollock
Question: The author Andrea Camilleri created which Sicilian detective?
Answer: salvo montalbano
Question: Who painted "'Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers’ in 1888?
Answer: paul gauguin
Question: Bob Hoskins played crime boss Harold Shand in which film?
Answer: long good friday
Question: What was the first single released by Frankie Goes To Hollywood not to reach number 1 in the UK, although the album of the same name did?
Answer: welcome to pleasuredome
Question: Who plays Christian Grey in the 2015 film Fifty Shades of Grey?
Answer: jamie dornan
Question: The Gruffalo is a creation of which former children’s laureate?
Answer: julia donaldson
Question: Based in Washington DCs Eccles Building, what is the American equivalent of the Bank of England in the UK?
Answer: system
Question: According to the Women’s Institute, what flavour jam should be used in a Victoria sponge?
Answer: raspberry
Question: Which former Prime Minister held the title “Father of the House” (of Commons) between 1983 and 1987?
Answer: jim callaghan
Question: Which leader was born in present-day Hungary in about 406AD, murdered his co-ruler and brother, Bleda, in 445 and died on his wedding night in 453AD?
Answer: attila
Question: Roger Mellie ‘The Man on the Telly’ appears in which comic magazine?
Answer: viz
Question: In the title of a Shakespeare play, of which city in the Levant was Pericles the prince?
Answer: tyre
Question: Which composer, who lived from 1732-1809, wrote the music now used for the German national anthem?
Answer: franz joseph haydn
Question: Which former Labour cabinet minister headed the Better Together group campaigning for a No vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum?
Answer: alistair darling
Question: Which Italian TV chef was jailed for two years in the 1990s for burgling singer Paul Young’s house?
Answer: gino d acampo
Question: The Count di Luna, and his brother Manrico, vie for the love of Leonora in which Verdi opera, first performed in 1853?
Answer: il trovatore
Question: As well as being a Radio 2 newsreader, who provides the voiceovers for Strictly Come Dancing and, due to his work on various lottery shows, is known as “The Voice of the Balls”?
Answer: alan dedicoat
Question: Only three people served continuously in the Labour cabinet from 1997 to 2010; Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown were two, who was the third?
Answer: jack straw
Question: New Guinea and Borneo are the two largest “divided” islands in the world. What is the third largest island which is divided between two or more nations?
Answer: ireland
Question: Who was the architect of the Thiepval War Memorial to the Missing of the Somme?
Answer: edwin lutyens
Question: With its capital at Dusseldorf and its largest city of Cologne, what is the most populous state of Germany?
Answer: north rhine westphalia
Question: Handbags named in honour of Alexa Chung, Lana Del Rey and Cara Delevigne are all made by what manufacturer?
Answer: mulberry
Question: Helleborus niger is the scientific name for what evergreen flowering plant?
Answer: christmas rose
Question: What is the English translation of the Italian opera La Gazza Ladra?
Answer: thieving magpie
Question: Which Monty Python member’s autobiography is entitled So, Anyway?
Answer: john cleese
Question: Which title character in a Shakespeare play is a king of ancient Britain and has a daughter called Imogen?
Answer: cymbeline
Question: The national anthem of which European country has the same tune as that of the UK?
Answer: liechtenstein
Question: In which sport is Tracey Neville the coach of the England team?
Answer: netball
Question: The 1961 western One-Eyed Jacks was the only feature film to be directed by which actor?
Answer: marlon brando
Question: The National Gallery of British Art was renamed the Tate Gallery in 1932, to honour a major benefactor who made his fortune with what commodity?
Answer: sugar
Question: Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s consecutive singles record was broken in 1996-1997 by which group?
Answer: spice girls
Question: Who won the 2015 Formula 1 British Grand Prix?
Answer: lewis hamilton
Question: Who is the director of the 2015 film Cinderella?
Answer: kenneth branagh
Question: Currently held by John Kerry, what American governmental role is equivalent to that of Foreign Secretary in the UK?
Answer: secretary of state
Question: Marmalade originates from the word marmelo which is Portuguese for which fruit?
Answer: quince
Question: Which former Prime Minister held the title “Father of the House” (of Commons) between 1929 and 1945?
Answer: david lloyd george
Question: What city is regarded as the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
Answer: vladivostok
Question: In April 2014, Pope Francis canonised two former popes; John Paul II was one, who was the other?
Answer: john xxiii
Question: The blessings known as the Beatitudes were part of which address by Jesus?
Answer: sermon on mount
Question: In which Bond film did Judi Dench first play the role of M?
Answer: goldeneye
Question: In what war was the Battle of Blenheim fought?
Answer: war of spanish succession
Question: Who plays the part of Penny in The Big Bang Theory?
Answer: kaley cuoco
Question: Which football club has been managed in 2014 by Paul Ince, Barry Ferguson, Jose Riga and Lee Clark?
Answer: blackpool
Question: Who had a top ten hit in 1962 with Right Said Fred?
Answer: bernard cribbins
Question: Kate Winslet won an Academy Award for Best Actress in which 2008 film?
Answer: reader
Question: Which Roman emperor was known by a nickname that means Little Boot?
Answer: caligula
Question: In what type of aircraft did Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic crossing?
Answer: vickers vimy
Question: In the TV series Frasier who played the part of Daphne Moon?
Answer: jane leeves
Question: What is the middle name of Australian cricketer John Hastings who played for Durham in 2014? He is nicknamed The Duke.
Answer: wayne
Question: In Scottish legend kelpies are water spirits in the shape of which animals?
Answer: horses
Question: What word describes a young bird which has just learned to fly?
Answer: fledgling
Question: Which was the first jet aircraft to cross the Atlantic non-stop?
Answer: canberra
Question: Which road tunnel, the world?s longest between 1965 and 1978, links France and Italy?
Answer: mont blanc
Question: What is the first name of the young witch, heroine of The Wee Free Men and A Hat Full of Sky books in the Discworld series?
Answer: tiffany
Question: Who had a hit single in 1961 with Don't Jump Off The Roof, Dad?
Answer: tommy cooper
Question: Which actress appeared in the film Calendar Girls and the remake of Brighton Rock?
Answer: helen mirren
Question: According to the Acts of the Apostles what peak was the location for the ascension of Jesus?
Answer: mount of olives
Question: In 1960 who became President of the newly independent Cyprus?
Answer: archbishop makarios
Question: Ynys Mon is the Welsh name for which part of the Principality?
Answer: anglesey
Question: The Boy in The Dress and Gangsta Granny are books written by which actor/writer?
Answer: david walliams
Question: Edward Heath was the second bachelor Prime Minister of the UK in the twentieth century. Who was the first?
Answer: arthur balfour
Question: Kidney beans, runner beans and garden peas fall into which vegetable group?
Answer: pulses
Question: Which actor provides the voice for Gru in the film Despicable Me?
Answer: steve carrell
Question: Who wrote the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea?
Answer: hans christian anderson
Question: British Leyland and Seat have both produce a model of car with which name?
Answer: toledo
Question: Which is the most famous collection of games produced by Rovio Entertainment Limits?
Answer: angry birds
Question: World War I soldiers were called Tommies from which longer name did it originate?
Answer: tommy atkins
Question: Who played David Vincent in the TV series The Invaders?
Answer: roy thinnes
Question: In which language was the book Babar The Elephant originally written?
Answer: french
Question: Where would you find the Aqueduct Racecourse?
Answer: new york
Question: The mastodon, which was similar to the mammoth, was found on which continent?
Answer: north america
Question: Which is the missing name from this list Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams?
Answer: bill rodgers
Question: Which prototype drink recipe was formulated at Pemberton's Eagle Drug and Chemical House?
Answer: coca cola
Question: Which car model had the same name as a ship used by pirates or privateers?
Answer: corsair
Question: The Wilhelm Gustloft which sank in the Baltic in 1945 was compared to which other ship because of the loss of lives?
Answer: titanic
Question: Which club team is regarded as the first to have pioneered the concept of total football?
Answer: ajax
Question: Who was the author of the book The Winds of War?
Answer: herman wouk
Question: Who wrote and starred in the TV series Q7 and Q8?
Answer: spike milligan
Question: Which former Royal Navy ship, launched in 1938, is now moored in London and is a now a museum ship operated by the Imperial War Museum?
Answer: hms belfast
Question: Taking its name from the Latin for anvil, which is the smallest bone in the human body?
Answer: incus
Question: The California Institute of Technology (Cal-tech) features in which TV comedy series?
Answer: big bang theory
Question: Which type of four-wheeled open carriage shares its name with an English county?
Answer: surrey
Question: Who composed the Symphonie Fantastique?
Answer: hector berlioz
Question: Which island country's flag depicts the head of Neptune's trident on its national flag?
Answer: barbados
Question: Which city was the first to supply both finalists in a European Cup or Champions League Final?
Answer: madrid
Question: Which country's national flag features the Sun of May in a white canton (not in the centre of the flag)?
Answer: uruguay
Question: In which Midlands town will the National Civil War Centre open in Spring 2015?
Answer: newark
Question: Who was the commander of the besieged British troops at the Siege of Mafeking in May 1900?
Answer: baden powell
Question: Name the last battleship commissioned by the USA, it is now a museum ship in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii?
Answer: uss missouri
Question: In which town did the Gunfight at the OK Corral take place?
Answer: tombstone arizona
Question: After a 118 day siege, which town was relieved by General Buller on February 28th/March 1st 1900?
Answer: ladysmith
Question: In the activity known as BASE jumping, for what does the E stand?
Answer: earth
Question: Who played the lead role of Dr Gabriel Monroe in the TV series Monroe?
Answer: james nesbitt
Question: What was former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's hereditary title?
Answer: earl of beaconsfield
Question: Which country celebrates National Foundation Day on 11th February, the anniversary of the coronation of the first emperor, Jimmu, in 660BC?
Answer: japan
Question: Keith Relf was the singer with which 1960s group, three of their guitarists are some of the most famous in rock music?
Answer: yardbirds
Question: In which English county is the town of Wells-next-the-Sea?
Answer: norfolk
Question: In the Asterix stories, what is the name of the druid who brews the magic potion?
Answer: getafix
Question: Which Law of Physics defines the relationship between the pressure and volume of an ideal gas?
Answer: boyle s law
Question: In the Asterix stories, what is the name of the portly chief?
Answer: vitalstatistix
Question: Which eponymous Dickens character married Madeline Bray?
Answer: nicholas nickleby
Question: In Jeff Wayne's original musical version of 'War of the Worlds', which famous actor played the part of the Journalist?
Answer: richard burton
Question: The first woman to win Time Magazine's Man of the Year was in 1936, she was an American who became much better known in the UK, who was she?
Answer: wallis simpson
Question: Which US state is known as ?The Constitution State? as it was first to have a constitution in 1638-39?
Answer: connecticut
Question: Which eponymous Dickens character married Mary Graham?
Answer: martin chuzzlewit
Question: What was former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's title when he became a peer?
Answer: baron wilson of rievaulx
Question: Prior to forming the rock group Humble Pie, Peter Frampton had top ten 1960s hits with which group?
Answer: herd
Question: Mufasa, Nala and Pumbaa are characters in which Disney film?
Answer: lion king
Question: Who played Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth on TV?
Answer: robert carlyle
Question: The Dardanelles in north-western Turkey connect the Aegean Sea to which other sea?
Answer: sea of marmara
Question: Who won the Golden Boot at the 1966 World Cup, scoring 9 goals?
Answer: eusebio
Question: Who owned Estimate, the winner of the Ascot Gold Cup in 2013?
Answer: queen
Question: Writer and model, Sophie Dahl is married to which musician?
Answer: jamie cullum
Question: Tony Abbott was elected to which office in 2013?
Answer: prime minister of australia
Question: Name the spacecraft launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency to chase the comet 67P Churuyumov-Gerasimenko?
Answer: rosetta
Question: In the musical and T S Eliot's book Cats, which was the railway cat?
Answer: skimbleshanks
Question: Who was the comic script-writing partner of Marty Feldman?
Answer: barry took
Question: In September 2013, a plaque was unveiled at the Pier Head, Liverpool commemorating the loss of which ship, sunk in June 1940 with the loss of at least 4000 lives?
Answer: rms lancastria
Question: Who plays singer Paul Potts in the 2013 biopic One Chance?
Answer: james corden
Question: Name the last British winner, who was also the oldest winner, of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: doris lessing
Question: Which character is played by Peter Capaldi in The Thick of It?
Answer: malcolm tucker
Question: Which German fashion house, still trading today, allegedly supplied uniforms for the Hitler Youth and the National Socialist Party from 1928 until 1939?
Answer: hugo boss
Question: Who directed the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave?
Answer: steve mcqueen
Question: In Irish legend, what name is given to the Otherworld or Land of Promise, inhabited by fairies?
Answer: tir na nog
Question: Which hero of the 1956 F A Cup Final played for non-league side St. Helen's Town before joining Manchester City?
Answer: bert trautmann
Question: In Downton Abbey, who plays the Earl of Grantham?
Answer: hugh bonneville
Question: Bill de Blasio took which office on 1st January 2014?
Answer: mayor of new york
Question: Name the probe launched from Rosetta which landed on the comet 67P/C-G in November 2014.
Answer: philae
Question: In 1969, who took over from Dick Hills and Sid Green as a script?writer for Morecambe and Wise?
Answer: eddie braben
Question: The Mersey ferries Iris and Daffodil were both given Royal status after which World War I action?
Answer: raid on zeebrugge
Question: The cast of which Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine film also included footballers Bobby Moore, John Wark and Ossie Ardilles?
Answer: escape to victory
Question: Who played Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film A Long Walk to Freedom?
Answer: idris elba
Question: Name the British scientist who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Answer: peter higgs
Question: Who captained the English XI on the 1987 rebel cricket tour of South Africa?
Answer: graham gooch
Question: Who wrote the 1989 novel A Clear and Present Danger?
Answer: tom clancy
Question: Who directed the film The Hurt Locker, winner of the Oscar for Best Director in 2010?
Answer: kathryn bigelow
Question: The Grade 1 listed Pulteney Bridge spans which river?
Answer: avon
Question: Who was the President of France immediately before Jacques Chirac?
Answer: francois mitterand
Question: Which singer played the lead in the 1972 film, The Harder they Come?
Answer: jimmy cliff
Question: What is the straight line called which joins two points on the circumference of a circle but does not pass not through the centre?
Answer: chord
Question: Which of Dickens' novels is set at the time of the Gordon Riots?
Answer: barnaby rudge
Question: The National Gallery paid £1 lmillion in 1997 to buy a painting of the Marquess of Rockingham's racehorse Whistlejacket. Who was the artist?
Answer: george stubbs
Question: Charles X Gustav ruled which Kingdom from 1654 to 1660?
Answer: sweden
Question: Which land was Cain banished to after he slew Abel?
Answer: land of nod
Question: Taraxacum Officinale is the Latin name of which common wild flower?
Answer: dandelion
Question: Which A road that starts at Selby, North Yorkshire, runs through York and Middlesbrough and finishes just south of Jarrow?
Answer: a19
Question: Which group had a 1968 UK hit with Baby Come Back?
Answer: equals
Question: The Claret Jug is the name of the trophy awarded to the winner of which annual sporting championship?
Answer: open golf championship
Question: What is the name of the actress who is the mother of actor Rupert Penry-Jones?
Answer: angela thorne
Question: Who lived at the TV address, 698 Candlewood Lane, Cabot Cove, Maine?
Answer: jessica fletcher
Question: Which word completes the title of the trade union BECTU - Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union?
Answer: broadcasting
Question: Kinder Downfall is the tallest waterfall in which National Park?
Answer: peak district
Question: Bom in Brighton in 1894 Thomas Henry Sargent was a stand-up comedian - by what name was he better known?
Answer: max miller
Question: In scientific classification if Taraxacum Officinale is a species what is Taraxacum?
Answer: genus
Question: Which A road that starts at Holyhead in North Wales runs through Conwy and Colwyn Bay and finishes at Chester?
Answer: a55
Question: What is the name of the son of Cain born in the Land of Nod, after whom Cain named a city?
Answer: enoch
Question: The Germans call it the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal. What do we call it?
Answer: kiel canal
Question: Which group had a 1970 UK hit with Woodstock?
Answer: matthews southern comfort
Question: Who was the Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967 - he is remembered in the name of a trophy in the sport?
Answer: vince lombardi
Question: What is the name of the actress who is the mother of actress Rachael Stirling?
Answer: diana rigg
Question: Which Spanish football club plays its home games at Vicente Calderon Stadium?
Answer: atletico madrid
Question: According to Flanders and Swann what is the G-nicest work of G-nature in the zoo?
Answer: gnu
Question: Who preceded Menzies Campbell as Leader of the Liberal Democrats?
Answer: charles kennedy
Question: The Costa Smerelda is a feature of which Mediterranean island?
Answer: sardinia
Question: In which Shakespeare play would you find the character Touchstone?
Answer: as you like it
Question: Saint Mary's Hall, founded by the Jesuits, is the preparatory department for which Lancashire Independent school?
Answer: stonyhurst
Question: On a map, an isohaline is a line joining points of equal what?
Answer: salinity
Question: Who wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum est?
Answer: wilfred owen
Question: Which rock band did Dave Gilmour join in 1967?
Answer: pink floyd
Question: Who co-wrote the sitcom Gavin and Stacey and starred in the original cast of the stage play One Man, Two Guvnors?
Answer: james corden
Question: The Common Noctule is the largest type in Britain of what creature?
Answer: bat