CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In 1915, which Balkan nation joined W.W.I., on the side of the Central Powers (i.e. Germany), by declaring war on Serbia?
Answer: bulgaria
Question: Which Roman Catholic sacrament consists of the anointing of a dying person with oil, which has been blessed?
Answer: extreme unction
Question: The "Bloody Sunday" massacre of 1972, took place in which Irish city?
Answer: london derry
Question: Shortly after World War I, the Kennel Club gave which new name to the "Deutsche Schaferhund", after a region, which had been taken from Germany?
Answer: alsatian
Question: Who opened the bowling alongside Wes Hall for the West Indies on the 1963 and 1966 test tours to England?
Answer: charlie griffith
Question: In the opera, "Tosca", by Puccini, what is the name of the heroine's beloved, who is executed by firing squad in the final scenes?
Answer: mario cavaradossi
Question: Who was lead singer with the 1960's pop group, "Amen Corner"?
Answer: andy fairweather low
Question: The Appian Way began in Rome and ends in which other Italian city?
Answer: brindisi
Question: Which Olympic city had the animal mascot called Amik the Beaver?
Answer: montreal
Question: Prior to Arsenal in 2004 which is the only other team to win the League (Div 1) without a defeat?
Answer: preston north end
Question: Primrose Day on 19Ih April celebrates which 19th Century statesman?
Answer: benjamin disraeli
Question: Prior to Zinedine Zidane being sent off in the world cup final of 2006 which other French player was also sent off in a World Cup Final (1998)?
Answer: marcel desailly
Question: The film 'Don't Look Now' with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland was adapted from a book by whom?
Answer: daphne du maurier
Question: In which country now within the EU was the fictional Hannibal Lector born?
Answer: lithuania
Question: What starts in Chepstow and ends in Prestatyn?
Answer: offa s dyke
Question: The codename 'Corporate' was give to which post war British military operation?
Answer: falklands war
Question: Which Dickens character was apprenticed to 'Old Fezziwig'?
Answer: ebenezer scrooge
Question: In Dickens who was jilted by Compeyson?
Answer: miss havisham
Question: Who composed 'The Firebird' and 'The Rite of Spring'?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: Who famously 'attacked' Russell Harty whilst being interviewed by him?
Answer: grace jones
Question: On a suit of armour, the poleyn would protect which part of the body?
Answer: knee
Question: Which London theatre was the first public building to be lit entirely by electricity?
Answer: savoy
Question: What kind of animal is a 'Bichon Frise'?
Answer: dog
Question: In which town or city is the 'Land of Green Ginger?
Answer: hull
Question: Name the leader of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission who spent time in Iraq looking for 'weapons of mass destruction' prior to the invasion of Iraq?
Answer: hans blix
Question: Who played the part of 'Jimmy' in the 1970s TV comedy 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin', going on to further success in 'As Time Goes By'?
Answer: geoffrey palmer
Question: Name the famous male ballet dancer who defected to the west in 1961 while dancing with the Kirov Ballet in Paris?
Answer: rudolph nureyev
Question: Before he became Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams was bishop of which see between 1991 and 2002?
Answer: monmouth
Question: What is the nickname of new Premiership football team Stoke City?
Answer: potters
Question: Who carried out the infamous interview with the Sex Pistols on the Today show in December 1976?
Answer: bill grundy
Question: Which government organisation is responsible for the maintenance of motorways and trunk roads?
Answer: highways agency
Question: Who was-head-of the Argentine military government at the time of the 1982 Falklands conflict?
Answer: leopoldo galtieri
Question: Who played the part of 'Joan' in the 1970s TV comedy 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin', going on to further success in 'Coronation Street'?
Answer: sue nicholls
Question: Which Yorkshire town or city has a daily newspaper called the Telegraph & Argus?
Answer: bradford
Question: What is the first name of Commander Dalgliesh, the character created by author PD James?
Answer: adam
Question: What is combined with potato to create the dish 'Pommes Dauphine'?
Answer: choux pastry
Question: On a suit of armour, the couter would protect which part of the body?
Answer: elbow
Question: Name the famous male ballet dancer who defected to the west in 1974 while dancing with the Kirov Ballet in Toronto?
Answer: mikhail baryshnikov
Question: What was the name of the Russian submarine lost in the Barents Sea in August 2000?
Answer: kursk
Question: In which Shakespeare play is 'Feste' a character?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: Who is Katharina's younger sister in Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew'?
Answer: bianca
Question: What is the first name of Detective Inspector Rebus, the character created by author Ian Rankin?
Answer: john
Question: Before he became Archbishop of York, John Sentamu was bishop of which see between 2002 and 2005?
Answer: birmingham
Question: Which pop song includes the lyrics "I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm"?
Answer: careless whisper
Question: Name the soldier, with whom Anna Karenina falls in love, their affair ending tragically in her death?
Answer: count vronsky
Question: Although he started and ended his career with Yorkshire, for which other county did Darren Gough play cricket from 2003-07?
Answer: essex
Question: Which woman, far more famous in another field, wrote the children's books, "Mr Peabody's Apples" and "The English Roses"?
Answer: madonna
Question: Who composed a set of 30 variations for the harpsichord which he named the "Goldberg Variations"?
Answer: j s bach
Question: For his role in which film did Al Pacino win the Oscar for best actor in 1992?
Answer: scent of woman
Question: In 2006, which planet in our solar system was re-classified as a dwarf planet and is now classified alongside Eris and Ceres?
Answer: pluto
Question: Which Mexican girl is currently the world's No.1 lady golfer?
Answer: lorena ochoa
Question: Perak and Perlis are both states of which South East Asian country?
Answer: malaysia
Question: On TV, which actor played the parts of Rebus and also D.I. Pat Chappell in "The Vice"?
Answer: ken stott
Question: Which pop singer, tragically killed in a car accident in 1960, sang the song, "Twenty Flight Rock" in the 1956 film, "The Girl Can't Help It"?
Answer: eddie cochran
Question: Who was on the English throne at the start of the Hundred Years War in 1337?
Answer: edward iii
Question: Who was on the English throne when the Hundred Years War ended in 1453?
Answer: henry vi
Question: Which pop singer, who survived the car crash in which Eddie Cochran died, sang with a backing group called, "The Blue Caps"?
Answer: gene vincent
Question: Who has been horse racing's National Hunt champion jockey every season since 1995-96?
Answer: tony mccoy
Question: Who has been nominated for the Oscar awards of best actress or supporting actress a record fourteen times, between 1979 and 2006, winning each award just once?
Answer: meryl streep
Question: Which actress, who played the part of Candice Stowe in "Coronation St.", joined the cast of "Heartbeat" in 2008, where she plays the part of Dawn Bellamy?
Answer: nikki sanderson
Question: Which government minister was shamed in 1992, when actress Antonio de Sancha told the press about his extra marital affair with her?
Answer: david mellor
Question: Who composed the music to the anthem, "Jerusalem", written by William Blake"?
Answer: hubert parry
Question: Which British actress was married to the actor Rod Steiger from 1959 until 1969?
Answer: claire bloom
Question: With which county did Lancashire fast bowler Dominic Cork start his career in 1990?
Answer: derbyshire
Question: In New Zealand, Tui and Kakapos are what type of creature?
Answer: birds
Question: Born in Argentina in 1942, which pianist and conductor has been has been music director of the Berlin State Opera since 1992, and was music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 2006?
Answer: daniel barenboim
Question: Which common expression comes from the act in 1887, of Lord Salisbury promoting his nephew, A J Balfour, to the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland?
Answer: bob s your uncle
Question: Which actor, who stars as Mac Taylor in the TV series, CSI New York, played the part of Lt. Dan Taylor in the 1994 film, "Forrest Gump"?
Answer: gary sinise
Question: In the bible, who was the son of King Saul, who befriended David, and saved him from being killed by the King?
Answer: jonathan
Question: Which famous film actress starred as Victoria Barkley in the TV series, "The Big Valley", the series which spawned the career of actor, Lee Majors?
Answer: barbara stanwyck
Question: Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical had the theme of romantic problems among immigrants in San Francisco's Chinatown?
Answer: flower drum song
Question: Born in Hungary in 1912, which pianist and conductor was music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1961-71, and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969-91?
Answer: georg solti
Question: Close to the village of St Just, what is the name of the only cape in England?
Answer: cape cornwall
Question: In the TV comedy series, "Dad's Army", which character spoke the line, "Mum won't like it Uncle Arthur"?
Answer: private pike
Question: Who did the Italian former model Carla Bruni marry in February 2008?
Answer: nicolas sarkozy
Question: Which is the only letter in the game of Scrabble to score five points?
Answer: letter k
Question: Which star of Hollywood musicals died in 1987; his straight roles included that of a con man in The Towering Inferno?
Answer: fred astaire
Question: In the Beverley Hills Cop films, what is the name of the character played by Eddie Murphy?
Answer: axel foley
Question: Whose theme song was 'Minnie the Moocher'?
Answer: cab calloway
Question: What is the first name of the wife of French president Nikolas Sarkozy?
Answer: carla
Question: """Suicide Is Painless"" Is associated with which American TV Show?"
Answer: mash
Question: Burkina Faso was known by which name until 1984?
Answer: upper volta
Question: On which Caribbean island were England dismissed for 51 in a test match in 2009?
Answer: jamaica
Question: As at 1.2.2009 who is the coach of St Helens RLFC?
Answer: mick potter
Question: Which horse won the 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup?
Answer: denman
Question: On which Caribbean island was a test match abandoned in 2009 after only 10 balls were bowled?
Answer: antigua
Question: Who is the only Croatian to win men's singles at Wimbledon?
Answer: goran ivanisevic
Question: As at 1.2.2009. Who is the coach of Warrington Wolves RLFC?
Answer: james lowes
Question: Who was the first Poet Laureate appointed in 1668?
Answer: john dryden
Question: In which Jane Austin novel are the characters Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth?
Answer: persuasion
Question: Which character in Shakespeare's Hamlet says "Beware of entrance to a quarrel but being in, bear't that the opposed may be aware of thee"?
Answer: polonius
Question: Who In 1963 became the first woman in space?
Answer: valentina tereshkova
Question: Who was the Greek sorceress who turned Odysseus' men into swine?
Answer: circe
Question: What was the name of the Dutch MP refused entry into the UK in early 2009?
Answer: gert wilders
Question: Which art movement was originally formed by Walter Gropius in 1918 in Weimar?
Answer: bauhaus
Question: Howard Schultz owner of Starbucks prompted which political figure to ask "Who the f**k is he?
Answer: peter mandelson
Question: Which art movement was formulated as an anarchic form of expressionism in Zurich in 1916 possibly by poet Tristan Tzara?
Answer: dada
Question: Which Country's Monarchs were crowned on the Hill of Tara?
Answer: ireland
Question: Who was King of England at the outbreak of the Hundred Years War?
Answer: edward iii
Question: The Ali/Frazier fight, billed as "The Thriller in Manila" took place in which city?
Answer: quezon city
Question: Catherine of Braganza, Portuguese princess, was married to which English king?
Answer: charles ii
Question: Pheidippides reportedly ran the first marathon during the war between Greece and which other country?
Answer: persia
Question: Which singer had the theme song 'Everybody Loves Somebody'?
Answer: dean martin
Question: Eve Pollard is the agony aunt from which daily newspaper?
Answer: daily mirror
Question: In which film did Clint Eastwood sing the song "I Talk To The Trees'?
Answer: paint your wagon
Question: Which spirit is mixed with orange juice to make the cocktail known as a screwdriver?
Answer: vodka
Question: In which war was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Answer: us war of independence
Question: Which football league club is known as "The Bees"?
Answer: brentford
Question: In which long running TV Programme did Trudie Goodwin and Graham Cole appear?
Answer: bill
Question: In which city were the Winter Olympic Games held when John Curry won a gold medal for men's figure skating?
Answer: innsbruck
Question: Who was King of England at the Battle of Bannockburn?
Answer: edward ii
Question: Catherine of Valois, French Princess was married to which English king?
Answer: henry fifth
Question: Which famous boxer had the nickname the 'Brockton Blockbuster'?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: In Western films what was the name of Hopalong Cassidy's horse?
Answer: topper
Question: In the film 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People' which actor not known as a singer, sang 'A Sweet Little Irish Girl'?
Answer: sean connery
Question: Which spirit is mixed with Drambuie to make the cocktail known as 'A Rusty Nail'?
Answer: whisky
Question: For which film did Julia Roberts win the Best Actress Oscar in 2001?
Answer: erin brochovich
Question: In which TV soap/drama did the actors Steve Halliwell and Mark Charnock appear?
Answer: emmerdale
Question: In music what is Dr Thomas Arne's most famous composition?
Answer: rule britannia
Question: On which National Radio Station would you listen to Shelagh Foggerty, Anita Anand and Richard Bacon?
Answer: radio 5 live
Question: On which national radio station would you listen to Jane Jones, Jamie Crick and John Brunning?
Answer: classic fm
Question: From which musical does the song "The Impossible Dream" come from?
Answer: man of la mancha
Question: From which western film starring John Wayne does the line "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"?
Answer: man who shot liberty valance
Question: What is the name of the canal opened in 1931 that circumvents Niagara Falls by linking Lakes Erie and Ontario?
Answer: welland
Question: In 2009 Michaela Tabb became the first female referee of which World Final?
Answer: snooker
Question: Craig Stirling, Sharon McCready and Richard Barrett were the central characters in which late 1960's TV series?
Answer: champions
Question: Which river is crossed by the bridge Ponte Vasco de Gama?
Answer: tagus
Question: In which US State did the Battle of Wounded Knee take place?
Answer: south dakota
Question: As at June 2009 who is the first Minister of Northern Ireland?
Answer: peter robinson
Question: Who is the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland?
Answer: hugh orde
Question: Which Gloucestershire town sits on the confluence of the Severn and Warwickshire Avon?
Answer: tewkesbury
Question: In which US State did the Gunfight at the OK Corral take place?
Answer: arizona
Question: Which musical is based on the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder?
Answer: hello dolly
Question: Who composed the opera Dido and Aeneas which was the first performed in London in 1689?
Answer: purcell
Question: Which musical is based on the novel Kipps by H. G. Wells?
Answer: half sixpence
Question: The Summer Olympics of 1956 were held in Melbourne. However in which city were the equestrian events held?
Answer: stockholm
Question: The Argentinean composer Astor Piazzola made an art form of which dance?
Answer: tango
Question: Which sporting technique was invented by the father of ITN newsreader Reginald Bosanquet?
Answer: googly
Question: In the rhyme 'The Owl and the Pussycat' which animal performed the wedding?
Answer: turkey
Question: What is the more common name for the shrub syringa?
Answer: lilac
Question: Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'Get thee to a nunnery'?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Who composed the piano piece 'Fur Elise' in 1810?
Answer: beethoven
Question: Haemotology is the study of which part of the body?
Answer: blood
Question: Who wrote the play 'Major Barbara' in 1905?
Answer: g b shaw
Question: Who was world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1950?
Answer: joe louis
Question: Who composed the orchestral work 'The Carnival of the Animals' in 1886?
Answer: camille saint saens
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Alchemist' in 1610?
Answer: ben jonson
Question: Who first said 'knowledge is power ('scientia potential est') in 1597?
Answer: francis bacon
Question: What is the better known name for the confectionary Rahat Lokum?
Answer: turkish delight
Question: Which musical instrument provides the leader of an orchestra with the concert pitch of the note 'A'?
Answer: oboe
Question: Oscar Niemeyer was the chief architect of which capital city from 1956 until 1960?
Answer: brasilia
Question: In which Scottish town, north of Stirling, was tennis player Jamie Murray born?
Answer: dunblane
Question: What name is given to the distance between the two rails of a railway track?
Answer: gauge
Question: Which composer, born in 1732, wrote the oratorios 'The Creation' and 'The Seasons'?
Answer: franz josef haydn
Question: Which musical instrument does President Bill Clinton play? He played this instrument in the Arkansas State Band.
Answer: saxophone
Question: Alfred Hitchcock made two films of the same name and virtually the same story in 1934 and 1956, the second starring Doris Day and James Stewart. Name the film. The Man Who Knew
Answer: too much
Question: On which island did the mutinous crew from the Bounty make their home?
Answer: pitcairn
Question: Who starred as the villain Max Cady in the 1991 remake of the film 'Cape Fear'?
Answer: robert de niro
Question: Which athlete won a gold medal for Great Britain in the 2009 World Championships in Berlin in the triple jump?
Answer: phillips idowu
Question: In which county would you find the stone circle known as 'Long Meg and her daughters'?
Answer: cumbria
Question: In which atmospheric city was the Daphne du Maurier short story 'Don't Look Now' set? It was later filmed in 1973.
Answer: venice
Question: Which bank acquired the Woolwich Building Society in 2000?
Answer: barclays
Question: Who was the principal guitarist with the Quintette du Hot Club de France?
Answer: django reinhardt
Question: What specific product is associated with the town of Lynchburg Tennessee?
Answer: jack daniel s
Question: Who is the narrator for the majority of R L Stevenson's book Treasure Island?
Answer: jim hawkins
Question: Two of the water signs are Cancer and Scorpio, what is the third?
Answer: pisces
Question: In the 1940 film Fantasia, who was the Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Answer: mickey mouse
Question: Rachel, a Hebrew name appears in the Old Testament, it means what?
Answer: ewe
Question: Two of the earth signs are Taurus and Capricorn what is the third?
Answer: virgo
Question: Who captained the first 'rebel' cricket tour of South Africa?
Answer: graham gooch
Question: Who wrote the opera Hansel and Gretel?
Answer: englebert humperdinck
Question: What was the name given to the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki in 1945?
Answer: fat man
Question: Name the dragon that guarded treasure in the Hobbit?
Answer: smaug
Question: Name the home of the giants visited in Gulliver's Travels?
Answer: brobdingnag
Question: The first five books of Hebrew Bible are contained in what Jewish Holy Book?
Answer: torah
Question: By what name is the bird the yaffle more commonly known?
Answer: green woodpecker
Question: Which branch of physics is concerned with the study of low temperatures?
Answer: cryogenics
Question: Which device did William Oughtred invent in 1621?
Answer: slide rule
Question: What is the name of the Edinburgh Cathedral to be found on the Royal Mile?
Answer: st giles
Question: Which musical contain the songs, 'Til There Was You and 76 Trombones?
Answer: music man
Question: What did the Ancient Greeks call the area that now contains Syria, Lebanon and Israel?
Answer: phoenicia
Question: In Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, who was the father of Bianca and Katrina?
Answer: baptista
Question: How is the statue by Chares of the Sun God Helios better known?
Answer: colossus of rhodes
Question: In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, to which Lady is Malvolio the steward?
Answer: olivia
Question: Easter Island is a territory of its nearest mainland neighbour, which country is that?
Answer: chile
Question: Hever Castle in Kent was the childhood home of which English Queen?
Answer: anne boleyn
Question: Standing for words meaning "The Senate and people of Rome", which 4 letters appeared on standards carried by Roman soldiers?
Answer: spqr
Question: What was the name of the first communications satellite, launched in 1962?
Answer: telstar
Question: At the 2008 European Football Championships Otto Rehhagel was coach of which country's team?
Answer: greece
Question: Which TV series features the characters 'Stanley Marsh' and 'Kyle Broflovski'?
Answer: south park
Question: Which fish is used to make an Arbroath Smokie?
Answer: haddock
Question: Which English writer, best known for his science fiction, published 'Outline of History' in the 1920s?
Answer: hg wells
Question: What type of weapon is a 'Katana'?
Answer: long single edged sword
Question: The island of Trinidad lies seven miles off the coast of which South American country?
Answer: venezuela
Question: Which US President was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize after his term in office?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: What was the name of the first nuclear submarine, launched in 1954?
Answer: nautilus
Question: Dawley New Town changed its name in 1968, how is it now known?
Answer: telford
Question: Which famous ex-sportsman provides the voice for the children's TV programme 'Roary the Racing Car'?
Answer: stirling moss
Question: Prasutagus was the husband of which famous woman?
Answer: boudicca
Question: At the 2008 European Football Championships Leo Beenhakker was coach of which country's team?
Answer: poland
Question: Which tenor created the title roles in Benjamin Britten's operas 'Peter Grimes' and 'Albert Herring'?
Answer: peter pears
Question: Theodore Roosevelt was the first US President to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, who was the second?
Answer: woodrow wilson
Question: Which Yorkshire headland is defended by the ancient Dane's Dyke?
Answer: flamborough head
Question: In which city is the book 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon set?
Answer: barcelona
Question: Who succeeded John Prescott as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in 2007?
Answer: harriet harman
Question: Which English writer, best known for his detective fiction, published a fantasy novel entitled 'The Man Who Was Thursday' in 1908?
Answer: gk chesterton
Question: Which Australian state capital was named after the man who was Governor of New South Wales 1821-25?
Answer: brisbane
Question: In which month of 1805 was the Battle of Trafalgar fought?
Answer: october
Question: Which singer was shot dead by his father in 1984?
Answer: marvin gaye
Question: Which famous soprano is married to the conductor Richard Bonynge?
Answer: joan sutherland
Question: Who wrote the 1798 treatise 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'?
Answer: thomas malthus
Question: In which month of 1815 was the Battle of Waterloo fought?
Answer: june
Question: Who was appointed deputy to Ian Paisley at the Northern Ireland assembly at Stormont in May 2007?
Answer: martin mcguiness
Question: Which South Wales town was formed in 1921 by the amalgamation of Aberavon and Margam?
Answer: port talbot
Question: Which Roman Genera is reputed to have been executed by having molten gold poured down his throat by his Parthian captors?
Answer: marcus licinius crassus