CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who was re-elected Prime Minister of Canada in May 2011?
Answer: stephen harper
Question: Which 2011 BBC drama series, starring Romola Garai and Ben Wishaw, centred around a 1950's current affairs TV programme?
Answer: hour
Question: David Walliams swam 140 miles of the River Thames in 2011 to raise funds for which charity?
Answer: sport relief
Question: Who was the last winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to have been born in Britain?
Answer: harold pinter
Question: Which left-handed golfer won the US Masters three times, in 2004, 2006, and 2010?
Answer: phil mickelson
Question: Lucy Snow is the heroine of which Charlotte Bronte novel?
Answer: villette
Question: Give either of the real forenames of 'Count' Basie.
Answer: william james
Question: The luxury Maybach car models are to be discontinued in 2013, which car company produces them?
Answer: mercedes
Question: What is a cricket umpire signalling when he holds out one arm horizontally?
Answer: no ball
Question: In Shakespeare's Macbeth, King Duncan has two sons, one is Malcolm, name the other.
Answer: donalbain
Question: Who was the leader of the Labour Party when they were defeated in the 1979 General Election?
Answer: james callaghan
Question: Grey Street, named after Prime Minister Earl Grey, is a major street in which British city?
Answer: newcastle on tyne
Question: Which author, in 1859, founded the weekly magazine 'All The Year Round', a successor to 'Household Words'?
Answer: charles dickens
Question: Fleance appears in Shakespeare's Macbeth, whose son is he?
Answer: banquo
Question: Who was the captain of the Wales rugby union team who was sent off in the semi-final of the 2011 World Cup?
Answer: sam warburton
Question: The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct carries which canal over the River Dee?
Answer: llangollen canal
Question: In the Bible, which king of Israel was the husband of Jezebel?
Answer: ahab
Question: Give either of the real forenames of 'Bix' Beiderbecke?
Answer: leon bismark
Question: Who was the manager of Burnley FC when they won promotion to the Premier League in 2009?
Answer: owen coyle
Question: Which US TV series, originally broadcast in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was set in the offices of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak?
Answer: la law
Question: Who was the captain of the Pakistan Test cricket team sentenced in 2011 to 30 months imprisonment for betting irregularities?
Answer: salman butt
Question: On board a ship what is the name given to the rope used to pull a sail tight?
Answer: sheet
Question: Which US TV show, originally broadcast in the late 1990s and early 2000s, was set in the offices of Boston law firm Cage and Fish?
Answer: ally mcbeal
Question: Kett's Rebellion of 1549 took place in which county?
Answer: norfolk
Question: Who wrote the ballet 'The Three Cornered Hat' first performed in London in 1919?
Answer: manuel de falla
Question: Who was the director of 'Twelve Angry Men', 'Serpico' and 'Network' who died in 2011?
Answer: sidney lumet
Question: Which famous bridge, built in 1607, is the oldest bridge in Paris?
Answer: pont neuf
Question: The world's only swing aqueduct carries which British canal?
Answer: bridgewater
Question: In 260, who was the only Roman Emperor captured as a prisoner of war?
Answer: valerian
Question: The two black aces and the two black eights is called the 'Dead Man's Hand' in poker, who is said to have been holding it when he was shot in the back in 1876?
Answer: wild bill hickok
Question: What name is given to the graduated glass tube used to measure small precise amounts of liquids during titration in chemical analysis?
Answer: burette
Question: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes won an Oscar for best screenplay for which film?
Answer: gosford park
Question: Who wrote the ballet 'The Box of Toys' first performed in Paris in 1919?
Answer: claude debussy
Question: In which resort is the Cresta Run toboggan race run?
Answer: st moritz
Question: Which Welsh-born woman became Australian Prime Minister in June 2010?
Answer: julia gillard
Question: Situated in the Brecon Beacons, the village of Penderyn is the only location in Wales that makes what product?
Answer: whisky
Question: Which 8 times grand slam singles champion became Andy Murray's coach in 2011?
Answer: ivan lendl
Question: Which Bolton-born woman, the founder of Pall-Ex Ltd, replaced James Caan on BBC's Dragons Den?
Answer: hilary devey
Question: Cardinal Richelieu was known as the Red Eminence - by what name was his right hand man, Francois Leclerc du Tremblay known?
Answer: grey eminence
Question: What country moved west of the International Date Line in and dropped a day from the calendar in 2011?
Answer: samoa
Question: A character with what nickname appeared in "Absolutely Fabulous," "The Wire" and in the second series of Big Brother in 2001?
Answer: bubble
Question: What is the name of the so called "God Particle", evidence for the existence of which is being sought at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland?
Answer: higgs boson
Question: The name of the NRL rugby league club South Sydney is completed by what animal-related name?
Answer: rabbitohs
Question: Which is the only independent African country to have Spanish as an official language?
Answer: equatorial guinea
Question: The axolotl is the tadpole form of what creature found in Mexico and the USA. It is unusual in that it attains maturity and reproduces in the tadpole, or larval, stage of amphibian metamorphosis?
Answer: salamander
Question: Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding formed which Swindon band, whose albums include "Drums and Wire," "Oranges and Lemons" and "English Settlement"?
Answer: xtc
Question: In the BBC's 2011 reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes, who plays housekeeper Mrs Hudson?
Answer: una stubbs
Question: What is the alternative name of vitamin B2, useful in breaking down protein, fat and carbohydrates?
Answer: riboflavin
Question: Who replaced Jeff Stelling as host of Channel 4's Countdown?
Answer: nick hewer
Question: In human anatomy, what can be cervical or thoracic, amongst others?
Answer: vertebrae
Question: The 2011 Athletics World Championship took place in which Korean city?
Answer: daegu
Question: Which 2008 musical film directed by Phyllida Lloyd is the highest grossing movie of all time in the UK?
Answer: mamma mia
Question: Who was the professor of radio astronomy at Manchester University who founded the Jodrell Bank Observatory and after whom the telescope he built has been renamed?
Answer: sir bernard lovell
Question: Which festival originated in 1810 in celebration of the marriage of the crown prince of Bavaria, who later became King Ludwig I, to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen?
Answer: oktoberfest
Question: Which town in County Fermanagh has a famous pottery works?
Answer: belleek
Question: Since September 1997, what has been the rate of VAT on domestic fuel, the lowest permitted under EU law?
Answer: 5
Question: Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl were two thirds of which band, formed in Aberdeen (Washington State) whose albums include "Bleach" and "In Utero"?
Answer: nirvana
Question: The name of the NRL rugby league club Manly is completed by what animal-related name?
Answer: sea eagles
Question: Who succeeded Dale Winton as presenter of 'Pick of the Pops' in 2010?
Answer: tony blackburn
Question: Who was second oldest man in Bible living to the age of 962?
Answer: jarred
Question: Who plays Miranda Hart's mother in the TV series "Miranda" and is seen dancing with her in the closing credits?
Answer: patricia hodge
Question: 'Who was appointed Secretary of State for Work and Pensions after the 2010 General Election?
Answer: iain duncan smith
Question: What single word can be a piece in chess and in draughts and a playing card?
Answer: king
Question: The 2010 Winter Olympic skiing and sliding events took place in what town, approximately 75 miles north of Vancouver?
Answer: whistler
Question: What is the name of the rock from which traitors were hurled to their death in Ancient Rome?
Answer: tarpeian
Question: Portia Simpson-Miller became the first woman Prime Minister of which Commonwealth country?
Answer: jamaica
Question: What name for a female servant is taken from the wife of Nabal in the Old Testament, after whose death she married David?
Answer: abigail
Question: What veteran singer songwriter released the 2011 album "50 Words For Snow"?
Answer: kate bush
Question: St Mungo also known as St Kentigern is patron city of which UK city?
Answer: glasgow
Question: Which American painter and illustrator born in 1894, was famous for scenes of everyday life that appeared in Saturday Post magazine?
Answer: norman rockwell
Question: What form of food poisoning is derived from the Latin word for a sausage?
Answer: botulism
Question: Who is the regular presenter of 'The Official Chart' on Radio One?
Answer: reggie yates
Question: Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem claims to be the oldest pub in England, in which city is it?
Answer: nottingham
Question: In which city was the Alfa Romeo car company founded in 1910?
Answer: milan
Question: Which common English word is derived from the ancient Greek word meaning 'a place for viewing'?
Answer: theatre
Question: Who raised the land speed record to over 394mph driving the Railton Special in 1947, he died on Loch Ness in 1952 in an attempt to break the water speed record?
Answer: john cobb
Question: Who was the architect for the proposed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral begun in 1933 of which only the crypt was completed?
Answer: edwin lutyens
Question: Who, in 1947 at the age of 31, became the youngest Cabinet Minister since Pitt the Younger when he was appointed President of the Board of Trade?
Answer: harold wilson
Question: After whom is the oyster dish, invented in New Orleans in 1899, named because of the intense richness of the sauce?
Answer: oysters rockefeller
Question: What is the name of the huge pre-Roman hill fort near Dorchester?
Answer: maiden castle
Question: Bolivia is one of two landlocked countries in South America, name the other.
Answer: paraguay
Question: In which ballet does the Sugar Plum Fairy appear?
Answer: nutcracker
Question: In which sport or game is Judit Polgar the highest ranked female although she has never taken part in the Women's World Championship?
Answer: chess
Question: Who wrote the novel 'High Fidelity'?
Answer: nick hornby
Question: Which US singer has had albums called 'Daydream', 'Butterfly', 'Rainbow' and 'Glitter'?
Answer: mariah carey
Question: In which town has the statue 'Verity' by Damien Hirst been installed?
Answer: ilfracombe
Question: Who wrote the poetry collection 'The Whitsun Weddings'?
Answer: philip larkin
Question: Ye Olde Fighting Cocks appears in the Guinness Book of Records as England's oldest pub, in which town or city is it?
Answer: st albans
Question: Who won an Oscar for her role as 'Mammy' in 'Gone With The Wind'?
Answer: hattie mcdaniel
Question: From which musical does the song 'If My Friends Could See Me Now' come?
Answer: sweet charity
Question: Which runner, who died in 2011, broke the world marathon record by 2 minutes at her first attempt, she won the New York marathon nine times and London twice?
Answer: grete waitz
Question: Sephardic Jews were exiled from which country (Sepharad is the Hebrew name for that country)?
Answer: spain
Question: Wyatt's rebellion was raised to oppose a proposed marriage involving which monarch?
Answer: queen mary
Question: Who resigned from the post of Home Secretary in 1972 because of his involvement with the architect John Poulson?
Answer: reginald maudling
Question: What was the alias used by Salman Rushdie during his period in hiding after his 1989 fatwa? It is also the title of his latest book.
Answer: joseph anton
Question: What is the name given to the part of Australia's Highway 1 which runs from Port Augusta, South Australia to Darwin? It is named after the first European to cross Australia from south to north.
Answer: stuart highway
Question: Who was the first man to drive a car at over 200mph; he set his final land speed record in Golden Arrow in 1929. He died on Lake Windermere in 1930 in an attempt to break the water speed record?
Answer: sir henry segrave
Question: What kind of arcade machine might have flippers, bumpers and stand-up targets and be stopped by a 'tilt'?
Answer: pinball machine
Question: Which UK singer has had albums 'Spirit', 'Echo' and 'Glassheart'
Answer: leona lewis
Question: What is the name of the Lagoon that lies between Chesil Beach and the mainland?
Answer: fleet lagoon
Question: At the end of October 2012, New York and the east coast of America were battered by which hurricane?
Answer: sandy
Question: Name the only boxer to have held world titles in eight different weight divisions?
Answer: manny pacquiao
Question: Who created the Yorkshire detectives 'Dalziel and Pascoe'?
Answer: reginald hill
Question: Who was known as 'The Million Dollar Mermaid'?
Answer: esther williams
Question: The car company Auto Union was formed in 1932 by the amalgamation of four manufacturers, by what name is it now known?
Answer: audi
Question: What is the title of Hilary Mantel's book that won her a second Man Booker Prize?
Answer: bring up bodies
Question: In which constituency was Chris Huhne elected as MP in 2005?
Answer: eastleigh
Question: Which Liberal Democrat MP succeeded Chris Huhne as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in 2012?
Answer: ed davey
Question: Which chemical element is named after an asteroid, now also classified as a dwarf planet?
Answer: cerium
Question: Where in North Carolina did the Wright Brothers first flight take place?
Answer: kitty hawk
Question: St Aidan's, John Snow and Ustinov are colleges at which University?
Answer: durham
Question: 'Lungs' is the 2009 debut album by which indie rock band?
Answer: florence and machine
Question: Which American author, born in Des Moines, Iowa, was Chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011?
Answer: bill bryson
Question: In which film did George Lazenby star as James Bond?
Answer: on her majesty s secret service
Question: Which Master of the Rolls produced the 1963 report into the Profumo Affair?
Answer: lord denning
Question: The American TV series 'Elementary', featuring Sherlock Holmes in a modern setting, is set in which city?
Answer: new york
Question: What is the real name of Doris Day?
Answer: doris kappelhoff
Question: What is the English title of the Verdi opera `Un Ballo in Maschera'?
Answer: masked ball
Question: What is the English title of the Stravinsky ballet 'Le Sacre du Printemps'?
Answer: rite of spring
Question: The original TV series 'CSI' was set in which American city?
Answer: las vegas
Question: Who was the captain of the losing American team in the 2012 Ryder Cup?
Answer: davis love iii
Question: Which golfer sank the putt which ensured that Europe retained (not won) the Ryder Cup in 2012?
Answer: martin kaymer
Question: What is the name of the Royal Horticultural Society's garden in Surrey?
Answer: wisley
Question: In which British city would you find Shrub Hill railway station?
Answer: worcester
Question: Which Jane Austen novel begins 'The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex'?
Answer: sense and sensibility
Question: In which war did the battle of Coronel take place?
Answer: world war i
Question: Give a year in the life of the artist Anthony van Dyck.
Answer: 1599 1641
Question: Which cricket journalist and former Test Match Special broadcaster died in January this year?
Answer: christopher martin jenkins
Question: What is another name for the plant Deadly Nightshade?
Answer: belladonna
Question: Under what name were the cloth dolls designed in 1976 by Xavier Roberts as 'Little People' marketed?
Answer: cabbage patch kids
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Birdsong'?
Answer: sebastian faulks
Question: Larkspur is another name for which perennial plants?
Answer: delphiniums
Question: What is the name of the monument in the New Forest which is supposedly at the site of the death of King William II?
Answer: rufus stone
Question: Which actor played George Cowley in the ITV series 'The Professionals'?
Answer: gordon jackson
Question: Which Tamla Motown group had a hit in 1966 with '(I'm A) Road Runner'?
Answer: junior walker and all stars
Question: Which play that premiered in 1956, featured the character Jimmy Porter?
Answer: look back in anger
Question: Which 20th century conflict had the code name Operation Corporate?
Answer: falklands war
Question: The eighteenth century Treaty of Utrecht was signed by the belligerents of which war?
Answer: war of spanish succession
Question: The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended which war?
Answer: war of 1812
Question: Carried out on May 2nd 2011, what was the objective of Operation Neptune Spear?
Answer: killing of osama bin laden
Question: Newcastle United striker Demba Ba plays international football for which country?
Answer: senegal
Question: Which actress played Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in five films?
Answer: margaret rutherford
Question: What was the former name of the African city of Harare?
Answer: salisbury
Question: Who wrote the 1927 novel 'To the Lighthouse'?
Answer: virginia woolf
Question: Who was the author of the 1938 novel 'Scoop'?
Answer: evelyn waugh
Question: Droitwich and Kidderminster are towns in which English county?
Answer: worcestershire
Question: Which Charles Dickens novel follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather?
Answer: old curiosity shop
Question: Which blood group is known as the 'universal donor', because it can be given to all blood groups?
Answer: group o
Question: What was the first name of Italian statesman and writer Machiavelli?
Answer: niccolo
Question: Queens Park Rangers defender Jose Bosingwa plays international football for which country?
Answer: portugal
Question: Which actor plays Detective Inspector Alan Banks in the ITV series 'DCI Banks'?
Answer: stephen tompkinson
Question: If you landed at Linate Airport, which European city would you be in?
Answer: milan
Question: The song 'I Know Him So Well', is a song from which musical?
Answer: chess
Question: In the 1966 film 'Carry on Cowboy', who plays The Rumpo Kid?
Answer: sid james
Question: Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby are characters in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: hard times
Question: Who was the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Vulcan?
Answer: hephaestus
Question: Gainsborough and Stamford are towns in which English county?
Answer: lincolnshire
Question: Which Premiership rugby union team play their home games at Adams Park?
Answer: london wasps
Question: Who was the Chancellor of West Germany at the time of the reunification of East and West Germany?
Answer: helmut kohl
Question: In which part of the body would you find the zygomatic bone?
Answer: cheek
Question: Which actress won the Best Actress Oscar for the 1989 film 'Driving Miss Daisy'?
Answer: jessica tandy
Question: Which actor plays the Earl of Grantham in the ITV series 'Downton Abbey'?
Answer: hugh bonneville
Question: Nathan Bedford Forrest was the original leader of which American organisation?
Answer: ku klux klan
Question: In musical terminology, which word describes bouncing the bow lightly on the strings?
Answer: spiccato
Question: Which Premiership rugby union team play their home games at The Recreation Ground?
Answer: bath
Question: Who was the Government Chief Whip who resigned in October 2012, following accusation that he swore at police officers and called them 'plebs'?
Answer: andrew mitchell
Question: Paul Metcalfe is the real name of which Gerry Anderson puppet character?
Answer: captain scarlet
Question: In which Puccini opera does Minnie own a saloon called The Polka?
Answer: girl of golden west
Question: Proxima Centauri, the nearest known star to the Sun, is classified as what type of star?
Answer: red dwarf
Question: Which edible plant is also known as Lady's Fingers or Gumbo?
Answer: okra
Question: Whom did George Entwistle succeed as Director General of the BBC in 2012?
Answer: mark thompson
Question: Who was the captain of the victorious West Indies cricket team which won the 2012 T20 World Cup?
Answer: darren sammy
Question: The plant kniphofia is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: red hot poker
Question: Approximately 95% of the atmosphere of Mars consists of which gas?
Answer: carbon dioxide
Question: The columns of the Parthenon in Athens are a famous example of which architectural style?
Answer: doric
Question: Which Scottish King died in 1329 from a skin disease, rumoured to have been leprosy?
Answer: robert bruce
Question: Which British Prime Minister arranged for Sir Roger Casement's bones to be returned to Ireland?
Answer: harold wilson
Question: In mythology what was the name of the girl who wove so beautifully that the jealous goddess Athene turned her into a spider?
Answer: arachne
Question: Which professional baker is a judge on 'The Great British Bake-Off' alongside Mary Berry?
Answer: paul hollywood
Question: Who directed the 2011 Hollywood version of 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'?
Answer: david fincher
Question: Which South African batsman scored 311 not out against England at the Oval in July 2012?
Answer: hashim amla
Question: What is the more common name for the condition Circadian Dysrhythmia?
Answer: jet lag
Question: What was the name of the parrot who taught Doctor Dolittle to talk to the animals?
Answer: polynesia
Question: The name of the coffee shop chain Starbucks was inspired by a character in which book?
Answer: moby dick
Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Secret Agent', first published in 1907?
Answer: joseph conrad
Question: Which long-running Radio 4 panel game was created by Ian Messiter?
Answer: just minute
Question: Who replaced Chris Moyles as presenter of the Radio One Breakfast Show in September 2012?
Answer: nick grimshaw
Question: Which brewery produces the beer 'Spitfire'?
Answer: shepherd neame
Question: Which performer's signature tune was 'Mary From The Dairy'?
Answer: max miller
Question: Who composed the opera 'The Cunning Little Vixen'?
Answer: leos janacek
Question: Who composed the opera 'The Love For Three Oranges'?
Answer: sergei prokofiev
Question: On which Scottish island is the former Labour Party leader John Smith buried?
Answer: iona
Question: Who played the title role in the 2012 ITV drama series 'Mrs Biggs'?
Answer: sheridan smith
Question: In which country was BBC newsreader George Alagiah born?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: Which Welsh group, fronted by Dave Edmunds, had a hit single in 1968 with a version of Khachaturian's 'Sabre Dance'?
Answer: love sculpture
Question: Which golfer sank the crucial putt in the 2012 Ryder Cup to ensure that Europe retained the trophy?
Answer: martin kaymer
Question: What is the title of the BBC drama series starring Dominic West which centres on a current-affairs TV show in the 1950s?
Answer: hour
Question: Which ITV newsreader moderated the first ever UK leaders debate in April 2010 between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg?
Answer: alastair stewart
Question: Who painted 'A Bigger Splash' in 1967?
Answer: david hockney
Question: Which Scottish group took its name from the lead character in the film Paris, Texas?
Answer: travis
Question: Who was the US team captain at the 2012 Ryder Cup?
Answer: davis love
Question: In 1961, which British spy was sentenced to 42 years in prison, one of the longest sentences ever handed down by a British court?
Answer: george blake
Question: In chemistry, what is the term for a water-soluble base? It derives its name from the Arabic word for "ashes."
Answer: alkali
Question: What was the name of the owl in the children's BBC TV show 'he Herbs'?
Answer: sage
Question: Unst, Yell and Fetlar are part of which island group?
Answer: shetland
Question: Who was the first boxer to win the Olympic heavyweight title and go on to become the World Heavyweight Champion?
Answer: joe frazier
Question: Which group had a 1977 No 2 UK hit with a rock instrumental 'Fanfare for the Common Man'?
Answer: emerson lake and palmer
Question: Stephen Blackpool is a character in which Dickens novel?
Answer: hard times
Question: Havana Brown, Blue Russian and Devon Rex are varieties of which, animal?
Answer: cat