CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The TV cartoon "Scooby Doo, Where Are You" featured the adventures of Scooby Doo and his three human friends Daphne, Velma and Shaggy and which other character, famous for his strikingly blond hair?
Answer: freddie
Question: What was the name of the Nottinghamshire fast bowler appointed as the main bowler for England in the Bodyline series of 1932 and 1933?
Answer: harold larwood
Question: In which southern British city can you find St James' Park Railway Station?
Answer: exeter
Question: Which British businessman and Liberal party politician and fraudster was at the centre of an 1892 scandal when the Liberator Building Society which he had set up failed, leaving thousands of investors penniless? He later fled to Argentina before being extradited, tried and imprisoned for 14 years.
Answer: jabez balfour
Question: Which lavender-like colour takes its name from the French for mallow?
Answer: mauve
Question: Which actor played the roll of Fletcher Christian in the 1962 film "Mutiny on the Bounty"?
Answer: marlon brando
Question: Which island, famous for its monastery lies off the coast of South Wales just south of Tenby?
Answer: caldey
Question: Which famous politician is married to Miriam Gonzales Valladold and has three sons?
Answer: nick clegg
Question: Which actor played the role of Julius Caesar in the 1963 film "Cleopatra"?
Answer: rex harrison
Question: Which famous politician is married to Yvette Cooper and has three children, two boys and a girl?
Answer: ed balls
Question: Which small island, situated just off Holy Island on the north west coast of Anglesey is famous as being the location of one of Wales's most spectacular lighthouses?
Answer: south stack
Question: In which war did the Battle of Cabin Creek take place?
Answer: american civil war
Question: Which English monarch who reigned from 1422 to 1461 and then briefly from 1470 to 1471 was stabbed to death in the Tower of London in 1471?
Answer: henry vi
Question: Which English monarch who reigned from 1377 to 1399 met his death in Pontefract Castle in 1400, probably being starved?
Answer: richard ii
Question: Translated as "cluster of eight" and situated in the Pacific Ocean what name did the Ellice Islands adopt on gaining independence in 1978?
Answer: tuvalu
Question: Who, in 1989 sang the theme song to the James Bond film "Licence to Kill"?
Answer: gladys knight
Question: Which darts player won the BDO title in 2008 beating Simon Whitlock of Australia in the final?
Answer: mark webster
Question: Who, upon her execution on October 16th 1793 was known as the "Widow Capet"?
Answer: marie antoinette
Question: In the New Testament, which book follows Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
Answer: acts
Question: In the USA what is the value of a banknote sometimes referred to as a "Sawbuck"?
Answer: 10
Question: Which landlocked country in West Africa had previous names "French Upper Volta" and from 1958 to 1984 "Republic of Upper Volta"?
Answer: burkino faso
Question: In the Old testament which book follows Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers?
Answer: deuteronomy
Question: Who, on January 31st 1606, was executed along with three other prisoners - Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood and Robert Keys?
Answer: guy fawkes
Question: Which actress played the role of Morticia Addams in the TV series "The Addams Family"?
Answer: carolyn jones
Question: Which actress played the role of Lily Munster in the TV series "The Munsters"?
Answer: yvonne de carlo
Question: Which town in West Yorkshire takes it's name from the Latin for "Broken Bridge"?
Answer: pontefract
Question: What is the name of the Italian dessert that can vary with ingredients but mainly consists of coffee-soaked biscuit layered with sweetened cream?
Answer: tiramisu
Question: Taking office on May 4th 1979, who was Margaret Thatcher's first Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: geoffrey howe
Question: What is the name of the curved knife traditionally used by Gurkha soldiers?
Answer: kukri
Question: Designed in the USA and first created by knife maker James Black, which large knife, 6 to 24 inches in length frist became famous in an 1827 brawl that was entitled "The Sandbar Fight"?
Answer: bowie knife
Question: Taking office on May 27th 1993, who was margaret Thatcher's last Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: kenneth clark
Question: Which band in November 1984 reached number one in the UK charts with the record entitled "I feel for you"?
Answer: chaka khan
Question: Which 1948 Hitchcock film shares its name with a weapon in Cluedo?
Answer: rope
Question: Which 1966 Beatles album shares its name with a weapon in Cluedo?
Answer: revolver
Question: Which motorway in England, just over 30 miles in length, runs just south of Preston through the major junction of the M6 and M61 motorways, past Darwin, Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley and ends at Colne?
Answer: m65
Question: Which actor who had starred in a previous show called "Department S" went on to have his own series in 1971 called "Jason King"?
Answer: peter wyngarde
Question: Which male tennis player appeared in the final of the US Open singles for eight consecutive years between 1982 and 1989?
Answer: ivan lendl
Question: Who sang the theme song to the 1966 film 'Alfie', starring Michael Caine?
Answer: cilla black
Question: The Oval Portrait in 1842, The Masque of the Red Death in 1842 and The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841, were all works by which famous American author and poet?
Answer: edgar allan poe
Question: Which motorway in England, just over 11 miles in length connects the seaside resort of Blackpool to the M6 near Preston?
Answer: m55
Question: Who sang the theme song to the 1966 film 'Georgy Girl'?
Answer: seekers
Question: Which music festival that has been annually contested since 1994 and named after its main sponsor was originally held at Strathclyde Park in Scotland but since 1997 has used a disused airfield in Balado near Kincross in Perth and Kincross?
Answer: t in park
Question: Which male tennis player appeared in the final of the US Open for five consecutive years between 1974 and 1978?
Answer: jimmy connors
Question: Now the national dish of Switzerland, what type of food is Cervelat?
Answer: sausage
Question: Now the national dish of Georgia, what type of food is Khachapuri?
Answer: bread
Question: Containing the name of a US state capital, which female sang the very first record on 'Top of the Pops' back in 1964?
Answer: dusty springfield
Question: Deriving its name from an Icelandic word meaning erupt, what name is given to a natural hot spring that intermittently ejects a column of water and steam into the air?
Answer: geyser
Question: Living from 1537 to 1608, Mary Arden (her maiden name) was the mother of which famous British playwright?
Answer: william shakespeare
Question: In which range of mountains are the two highest peaks Aconcagua and Ojos Del Salado?
Answer: andes
Question: Which British author, born in Torquay on September 15th 1890 married her first husband Archibald who she divorced in 1928? She married her second husband Max Mallowan in 1930, a partnership that was to last for 46 years.
Answer: agatha christie
Question: What five letter name was given to the implement of corporal punishment used mainly in Scottish schools that consisted of a strap of leather with one end split into a number of tails?
Answer: tawse
Question: On a standard Monopoly board, which property makes up the orange set along with Vine Street and Marlborough Street?
Answer: bow street
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born on January 17th 1863 and is the only British Prime Minister to be born in Manchester?
Answer: david lloyd george
Question: Which jockey rode L'Escargot to victory in the 1975 Grand National?
Answer: tommy carberry
Question: Which Thames attraction shares its name with a brand of Scotch Whisky that was introduced in 1923?
Answer: cutty sark
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born on December 29th 1809 and is the only British Prime Minister to be born in Liverpool?
Answer: william gladstone
Question: On a standard Monopoly board which property makes up the light blue set along with Euston Raod and Pentonville Road?
Answer: angel islington
Question: Which jockey rode Red Alligator to victory in the 1968 Grand National?
Answer: brian fletcher
Question: In which book of the New Testament does the parable of the good samaritan occur?
Answer: luke
Question: Which ex Eastenders star won the award for the annually contested female 'Rear of the Year' in 1987?
Answer: anita dobson
Question: In which Midlands town can you find a large shopping centre called Westfield Merry Hill?
Answer: dudley
Question: Which modern day country was known as Northern Rhodesia until 1964?
Answer: zambia
Question: Which ex Coronation Street star won the award for the annually contested female 'Rear of the Year' award in 1996?
Answer: tracy shaw
Question: Which chemical element, listed as number 28 in the periodic table takes its name from a Swedish word meaning copper-coloured ore?
Answer: nickel
Question: Played by Brian Hall, what was the name of the chef in TV's 'Faulty Towers'?
Answer: terry
Question: In which English county are the towns of Kidderminster and Evesham?
Answer: worcester
Question: In which English county are the towns of Bridgewater and Glastonbury?
Answer: somerset
Question: Herbert Pocket and Bentley Drummle are characters that appear in which book by Charles Dickens?
Answer: great expectations
Question: Although it can come in colourless varieties what is the usual colour of the drink Absinthe?
Answer: green
Question: First performed at the La Scala opera house in Milan in 1817, which peice of music by Rossini translates as La Gazza Ladra?
Answer: thieving magpie
Question: Which brand of bread was advertised with the slogan 'Bread with nowt taken out'?
Answer: allinson s
Question: James Steerforth and Wilkins Macawber are characters from which book by Charles Dickens?
Answer: david copperfield
Question: Who, in 1934, was responsible for the creation of the children's book 'Mary Poppins'?
Answer: p l travers
Question: Which golfer won the British Open Championship in 1975, 1977, 1980, 1982 and 1983?
Answer: tom watson
Question: Which piece of classical music by Richard Strauss is famous for being the soundtrack to the 1969 film '2001 A Space Odyssey'?
Answer: also sprach zarathustra
Question: What ten letter word is given to the fish of the Goby family which frequently leave the water to jump on land using their adapted front fins to do so?
Answer: mudskipper
Question: Richard Wayne Penniman is the real name of which famous singer who was born on December 5th 1932?
Answer: little richard
Question: What two word name is commonly given to the heavy, slow moving lizard that grows up to two feet in length and along with the Mexican Beaded Lizard is the only venomous lizard that lives in North America?
Answer: gila monster
Question: What is the second most highly populated town on the island of Anglesey, Holyhead being the first?
Answer: llangefni
Question: Walden Robert Cassotto was the real name of which famous singer who died in December 1973 aged 37?
Answer: bobby darin
Question: Four letters of the Greek alphabet have a two letter name, Mu, Nu, Xi and which other, the 16th?
Answer: pi
Question: Which Spanish romantic painter who lived from 1746 to 1828 was responsible for works such as 'The Parasol' in 1777, 'Duchess of Alba' in 1795 and 'Witches Sabbath' in 1789 amongst others?
Answer: francisco goya
Question: Hanged at Wandsworth prison in 1949 for killing six people, which British criminal was known as 'The Acid Bath Murderer'?
Answer: john haig
Question: Which famous animated character, first seen in 1953 in a feature called 'Cat Tails for Two' was usually wearing an over-sized sombrero, white shirt and trousers and red kerchief?
Answer: speedy gonzales
Question: The musical play 'Over the Rainbow' first shown in 2003 is a celebration of the life and music of which singer who died in 1996?
Answer: eva cassidy
Question: What name is given to the Roman Road that links the cities of Exeter and Lincoln?
Answer: fosse way
Question: The annual Three Choirs Festival alternates between Gloucester, Worcester and which other cathedral?
Answer: hereford
Question: Hanged at Bedford prison in 1962, which British criminal was responsible for the murder of scientist Michael Gregston in a lay-by in Bedfordshire? He claimed an alibi saying he had been in Rhyl on the night of the murder.
Answer: james hanratty
Question: Which Swiss painter who lived from 1879 to 1940 was responsible for works such as 'The Red Balloon' in 1922, 'Landscape with Yellow Birds' in 1923 and 'Around the Fish' in 1926?
Answer: paul klee
Question: In which English town can you find a series of five roundabouts arranged in a circle known as The Magic Roundabout? In a 2009 poll by Britannica Rescue it was voted the 4th scariest junction in Britain.
Answer: swindon
Question: What was the name of the policewoman who was shot and killed outside the Libyan embassy in London on April 17th 1984?
Answer: yvonne fletcher
Question: Which English inventor was responsible for the introduction of the multi-spool spinning frame known as the Spinning Jenny in1764?
Answer: james hargreaves
Question: Which Welsh vocalist who lived from 1915 to 1998 married Roger Moore in 1953, a marriage that lasted until 1961 when Moore left her and moved in with Italian actress Luisa Mattioli?
Answer: dorothy squires
Question: Which British inventor was responsible for the introduction of the rubber band in 1845?
Answer: stephen perry
Question: What was the name of the 40 year old policeman who on October 6th 1985 was killed during a series of riots on the Broadwater Farm housing estate in London?
Answer: keith blakelock
Question: Which American film actress, born in 1947, had a 14 year relationship with Clint Eastwood, starring with him in several films before splitting up in 1989?
Answer: sondra locke
Question: Which British pop group reached number one in the UK charts for the only time in their career on July 2nd 1977 with the song 'So You Win Again'?
Answer: hot chocolate
Question: Which American pop group reached number one in the UK charts for the only time in their career with the record 'When Will I See You Again'?
Answer: three degrees
Question: Who won the Oscar for Best Film Director in 1986 for the film 'Out of Africa'?
Answer: sidney pollack
Question: What is the name of the National Lottery draw where players pick five numbers from a range of 1 to 39 and one number from a range of 1 to 14?
Answer: thunderball
Question: In mythology, what was the name of the Greek Goddess of Wisdom?
Answer: athena
Question: In jazz music, what instrument was Dizzie Gillespie famous for playing?
Answer: trumpet
Question: In mythology, what was the name of the Greek Goddess of Marriage and Birth?
Answer: hera
Question: What is the name of the National Lottery draw where players pick five main numbers which can be any number between 1 and 50, then the players selects two different lucky star numbers from a pool of eleven balls?
Answer: euromillions
Question: What was the surname of the East London gangsters, whose christian names were Charles and Eddie, who in the 1960's ran their own scrapyard business and were seen as the main rivals to the Kray twins?
Answer: richardson
Question: Ex Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher now holds the position of Baroness of where?
Answer: kesteven
Question: Which famous four part opera by Puccini ends with Musetta praying, Mimi dies, Schaunard discovers Mimi lifeless, Rodolfo cries Mimi's name in anguish and weeps helplessly?
Answer: la boheme
Question: Which Scottish criminal, born in 1944 in Glasgow's Gorbals, was one of the city's leading gangland figures during the 1960's. In 1967 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for murder. His autobiography and a TV show based on his life were entitles "A Sense of Freedom"?
Answer: jimmy boyle
Question: Isca Dumnoniorum is the Roman name for which southern city in England?
Answer: exeter
Question: Ex Prime Minister Tony Blair was a member of Parliament for which constituency from 1983 to 2007?
Answer: sedgefield
Question: """The Camels are Coming"" published in 1932 was the first book that featured which popular children's hero created by W.E.Johns?"
Answer: biggles
Question: What was the name of the IRA hunger striker who died in 1981 after a 66 day hunger strike?
Answer: bobby sands
Question: What was the name of the horse ridden by Herbert Jones that trampled and killed suffragette Emily Davison during the 1913 Derby?
Answer: anmer
Question: With a population of over 150,000 inhabitants, Trondheim is the third most highly populated city of which European country?
Answer: norway
Question: Which film starring Dustin Hoffman won the award for Best Picture Oscar for 1969?
Answer: midnight cowboy
Question: Ridden by a policeman named George Scorey, what was the name of the white horse used to clear the Wembley pitch at the 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton and West Ham?
Answer: billie
Question: Which film starring Robert De Niro won the Best Picture Oscar for 1978?
Answer: deerhunter
Question: With a population of over 170,000 inhabitants, Szeged is the third most highly populated city of which European country?
Answer: hungary
Question: The A12 road connects London to which coastal resort in Norfolk?
Answer: great yarmouth
Question: Which ex heavyweight boxing champion's last ever fight took place on June 11th 2006 and ended in a defeat by Ireland's Kevin McBride in Washington DC?
Answer: mike tyson
Question: What was the name of the boy in the book "The Railway Children" who was brother to Roberta and Phillys?
Answer: peter
Question: Which famous event that occurred on 30th January 1972 is sometimes called The Bogside massacre?
Answer: bloody sunday
Question: In the book "Tom Brown's Schooldays" what was the name of the school bully that Tom and his friend Harry eventually defeat in a fight after enduring several months of bullying?
Answer: flashman
Question: Which ex heavyweight boxing champion's last ever fight took place on November 22nd 1998 and ended in a defeat by American Shannon Briggs in Atlantic City?
Answer: george foreman
Question: The song "Leaving on a jet plane" was a number 1 hit for "Peter, Paul and Mary" in 1970. Which successful recording artist wrote this song?
Answer: john denver
Question: Royal Chantenay is a variety of what fruit or vegetable?
Answer: carrot
Question: Which author created the crime solving character Lord Peter Wimsey?
Answer: dorothy l sayers
Question: Champagne is a variety of what fruit or vegetable?
Answer: rhubarb
Question: The song "Mighty Quinn" was a number 1 hit for "Manfred Mann" in 1968. Which successful recording artist wrote this song?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: There are only three coniferous trees native to the British Isles. The Scots Pine and the Yew are two native species, what is the third?
Answer: juniper
Question: In which battle of 1513 was the Scottish king James IV killed?
Answer: flodden
Question: Before 1966 the Republic of Botswana was a protectorate of the British Government and was known as what?
Answer: bechuanaland
Question: Which two words complete the old proverb, "Dilligence is the mother of ........... ?
Answer: good luck
Question: The results of the 2012 RSPB national survey of birds shows the House Sparrow to be the most common bird to be seen in the UK. What is the second most common bird to be seen in the UK overall?
Answer: starling
Question: The House Sparrow was also found to be the most commonly seen bird in Wales and in Wrexham. The second most commonly seen bird to be seen in Wales and in Wrexham was not the Starling, whay was it?
Answer: blue tit
Question: Near which local village does the river Gwenfro rise?
Answer: bwlchgwyn
Question: Which coniferous species of tree now found in Britain, introduced from other countries, is unique in that it sheds its yellow needles in Autumn, making it Britain's only deciduous conifer?
Answer: larch
Question: In the Beijing Olympics Britain did particularly well in swimming and cycling but in other sports less well. Louis Smith won a Bronze medal, but was our only medal winner in which sport?
Answer: gymnastics
Question: Born in Holland, who is regarded as the finest woodworker to have worked in England. Noted for his Baroque garlands of still life framing mirrors and doorways, examples of his workmanship are seen in many buildings including St Paul's, Hampton Court and Bleheim palaces.
Answer: grinling gibbons
Question: In which battle of 1403 was Henry Percy, known as Hotspur, killed?
Answer: shrewsbury
Question: Before 1966, the kingdom of Lesotho was a British crown colony with what name?
Answer: basutoland
Question: Which two words complete the old proverb, "A mackerel sky is never ......?
Answer: long dry
Question: Sporting firsts - Who was the first British cyclist to win the "green jersey" in the Tour de France? (The green jersey is for the leader in the points classification and is awarded to the champion sprinter)
Answer: mark cavendish
Question: Ian Huntley was convicted of the murders of two schoolgirls in 2002. In waht village did the murders take place?
Answer: soham
Question: Which general introduced martial law in Poland in 1981?
Answer: jaruzelski
Question: Which group had number 1 hits in the 1980's with "It's a sin", "Heart" and " Always on my mind"?
Answer: pet shop boys
Question: The film director Oliver Stone won 2 "Best Director" oscars. His first in 1987 was for "Platoon". His second, in 1990, was for what film?
Answer: born on 4th of july
Question: Sporting Firsts - Who was the first golfer for 35 years to achieve an "albatross" at the US Masters tournament this year? (an albatross is a score of three under par at any hole)
Answer: louis oosthuizen
Question: Timothy McVeigh was executed in the United States in 2001 for a bombing atrocity in which 168 people were killed and over 800 injured. In which state capital city did the atrocity take place?
Answer: oklahoma city
Question: Who was the East German leader tried for high treason in 1993?
Answer: erich honecker
Question: Which group had number one hits in the seventies with "Tiger Feet", "Lonely this Christmas" and "Oh Boy"?
Answer: mud
Question: Which Italian composer who wrote church music, string quartets and symphonies, ws noted mainly for his many operas, among which were "Anne Boleyn" and "Lucretia Borgia"? He was born in Bergamo and joined the Austrian army at the end of the Napoleonic era.
Answer: donizetti
Question: On this day, April 17th, in 1961, which infamous conflict took place in the Caribbean with major immediate political repercussions?
Answer: bay of pigs
Question: The tombs of almost all British monarchs are located within the UK. One of the few exceptions is William I (The Conqueror). Near which French town or city is his burial place?
Answer: caen
Question: What is the name of the Scottish systems administrator, accused by the USA of computer hacking into US Army systems and currently fighting against extradition?
Answer: gary mckinnon
Question: Which is the largest landlocked country in the world with an area of over a million square miles?
Answer: kazakhstan
Question: The tombs of almost all Britih monarchs are located within the UK. One of the few exceptions is George I. Near which German town or city is his burial place?
Answer: hanover
Question: Who joined Roy Jenkins, Bill Rogers and Shirley Williams as the Social Democrats "Gang of Four"?
Answer: david owen
Question: Which politician was the first rail fatality, killed under the wheels of Stephenson's "Rocket" in 1830?
Answer: william huskisson
Question: In "Les Miserables", what is the name of the policeman who continually tracks down the hero Jean Valjean ?
Answer: javert
Question: Which world famous hotel shares its' name with a type of cabbage ?
Answer: savoy
Question: In "Les Miserables", what is the name of the little orphan girl adopted by the hero Jean Valjean ?
Answer: cosette
Question: Prime Minister Harold McMillan had what Christian name, although he preferred to be known by his middle name, Harold ?
Answer: maurice
Question: In which T.V. Detective series did "Charlie Hungerford" appear ?
Answer: bergerac