CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In Hoist's 'The Planets' suite, the movement 'Saturn' is also known by what subtitle, referring to the planet's astrological character?
Answer: bringer of old age
Question: Which Welsh golfer played in the 2014 Ryder Cup?
Answer: jamie donaldson
Question: Which 19th century gardener, architect and MP designed the Great Conservatory, a huge glasshouse, at Chatsworth House?
Answer: joseph paxton
Question: Who provides the voice for Sideshow Bob in The Simpson?
Answer: kelsey grammar
Question: Which French electronic dance music duo had a UK Number Number One single in 2013 with 'Get Lucky'?
Answer: daft punk
Question: Who won the Men's Singles at the 2014 US Open?
Answer: marin cilic
Question: The Battle of Poltava in 1709 was a victory by Peter the Great over which state?
Answer: sweden
Question: At which theatre was the National Theatre based before the new building opened on London's South Bank in 1976?
Answer: old vic
Question: Who is currently the head chef patron of Le Gavroche restaurant?
Answer: michel roux
Question: In which English town or city would you find the Hexagon theatre?
Answer: reading
Question: In Hoist's 'The Planets' suite, the movement 'Neptune' is also known by what subtitle, referring to the planet's astrological character?
Answer: mystic
Question: The Claude Francois song "Comme d'habitude" (translation "as usual") was a hit in English for Frank Sinatra under what title?
Answer: my way
Question: Jennifer Garner's husband Ben Affleck directed the film which won the Best Picture Oscar in 2013. What was its title?
Answer: argo
Question: Which spirit is mixed with white rum, triple sec and lemon juice in a 'Between the Sheets' cocktail?
Answer: brandy
Question: The siege of which territory between 1779 and 1783 by a Franco Spanish force ended in complete failure?
Answer: gibraltar
Question: Who is currently head chef of Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons hotel and restaurant?
Answer: raymond blanc
Question: 'Man Pointing' is a characteristically thin figure produced by which Swiss sculptor?
Answer: alberto giacometti
Question: The wines Latour and Margaux are produced in which region of France?
Answer: bordeaux
Question: Which Swedish DJ and record producer had a UK Number One single in 2013 with 'Wake Me Up'?
Answer: avicii
Question: The Bislett Games held in Oslo are part of the Diamond League in which sport?
Answer: athletics
Question: On which ship did Japan surrender to the USA in 1945?
Answer: uss missouri
Question: In which English town or city would you find the Marlowe theatre?
Answer: canterbury
Question: Who wrote the Booker prize-winning novel Moon Tiger?
Answer: penelope lively
Question: The Household Cavalry is made up of two regiments, the Life Guards and which other regiment?
Answer: blues and royals
Question: Who was the son born to Abram (as he was then known) and Hagar in the Old Testament?
Answer: ishmael
Question: Which king married Elizabeth of York, the daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville?
Answer: henry vii
Question: Who was voted the first BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1954?
Answer: chris chataway
Question: Who was British Prime Minister between 1924 and 1929?
Answer: stanley baldwin
Question: As which character did Peter Kay sing Once Upon a Christmas Song?
Answer: geraldine mcqueen
Question: Which cartoon character made his screen debut in 1940 in the animated short film A Wild Hare'?
Answer: bugs bunny
Question: In which castle was Mary Queen of Scots beheaded in 1587?
Answer: fotheringay castle
Question: 'Mrs Dalloway' and "To the Lighthouse' are among the works of which writer?
Answer: virginia woolf
Question: Which London theatre, that famously 'never closed', did finally close in 1964 before subsequently reopening as a cinema and a strip club?
Answer: windmill
Question: Predominantly which grape is used in the manufacture of sherry?
Answer: palomino
Question: 'Bye Bye Love' was which duo's first top ten single in the UK in 1957?
Answer: everly brothers
Question: Who successfully piloted the spacecraft Vostok Six in 1963?
Answer: valentina tereshkova
Question: Which store did Barbara Hulanicki open in Kensington in 1964?
Answer: biba
Question: Roger Daltrey is lead singer with which long-running band?
Answer: who
Question: Desmond Miles is the lead character and main protagonist of which series of video games?
Answer: assassin s creed
Question: How does Rene Descartes' philosophical proposition "Cogito ergo sum" translate into English?
Answer: i think therefore i am
Question: In the Bible St Paul's conversion to Christianity takes place on the road to where?
Answer: damascus
Question: How are the comedians Thomas Derbyshire and Robert Harper better known?
Answer: cannon and ball
Question: Which country became the 28th member of the European Union in July 2013?
Answer: croatia
Question: In which constellation would you find the star cluster known as the Plough or Big Dipper?
Answer: ursa major
Question: In a Punch and Judy show what traditionally is the name of the dog?
Answer: toby
Question: Who, in March 1912, famously said I am just going outside and may be some time"?
Answer: captain lawrence oates
Question: Proposed in 1983, what was President Reagan's 'Strategic Defense Initiative', or SDI, more popularly known as?
Answer: star wars
Question: Who won a gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in the women's skeleton bob?
Answer: lizzie yarnold
Question: According to the traditional nursery rhyme when did the Knave of Hearts steal the tarts?
Answer: on summer s day
Question: Which country did Emmelie de Forest represent in winning the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which Moscow building once housed the headquarters of the KGB and a notorious prison?
Answer: lubyanka
Question: Which vegetable is also known as the eggplant in the United States?
Answer: aubergine
Question: In the nursery rhyme, if Monday's child is 'fair of face', what is Wednesday's child?
Answer: full of woe
Question: Which TV cartoon series(later a film) features the children Pebbles and Bam Bam?
Answer: flintstones
Question: Which rugby union team plays its home fixtures at Welford Road?
Answer: leicester
Question: Which Pennsylvania nuclear power plant suffered a partial nuclear meltdown in 1979?
Answer: three mile island
Question: What is the name of the Newfoundland dog in the play/novel 'Peter Pan'?
Answer: nana
Question: Who was assassinated on 30 January 1948 by Nathuram Godse?
Answer: mohandas gandhi
Question: Which football league team plays its home matches at the Lamex Stadium?
Answer: stevenage
Question: According to the New Testament, which criminal was released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus?
Answer: barabbas
Question: 'The Lass that loved a Sailor' is the subtitle of which 1878 light opera?
Answer: hms pinafore
Question: Which Chinese city, the capital of Shaanxi province, is home to the Terracotta Army?
Answer: xi
Question: Which Premiership football club's kit was designed by Bruce Oldfield in 1997?
Answer: norwich city
Question: Where did the witches Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart and Sukie Rougemont live according to the title of a John Updike novel?
Answer: eastwick
Question: What is the name of the highest prize awarded at the annual Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: palme d or
Question: Which English rock band recently achieved their first number one album in 43 years when their latest release, 13, went straight in at the top of the chart?
Answer: black sabbath
Question: On which London thoroughfare are the Dorchester and Grosvenor House Hotels?
Answer: park lane
Question: Businessmen from which US city provided most of the financial backing for Charles Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight in 1927?
Answer: st louis
Question: Which English rock band's second album, BE, entered the charts at number two last month, the title being the initials of the band's name?
Answer: beady eye
Question: What was the name of Hitler's personal secretary who disappeared at the end of the War?
Answer: martin bormann
Question: Which composer was born in Leipzig in 1813 and died in Venice in 1883?
Answer: richard wagner
Question: Which actress was the first person to achieve ten Academy Award nominations for acting and, along with Greer Carson, is the only actress to have been nominated for Best Actress five years in a row?
Answer: bette davis
Question: Shane Meadows' documentary film about which band received its world premiere at Trafford Park last month and was also simultaneously broadcast live in many cinemas across the UK?
Answer: stone roses
Question: Where in North Carolina did the Wright brothers make their pioneering first flight in 1903?
Answer: kitty hawk
Question: Which 1898 Henry James novel features children named Miles and Flora?
Answer: turn of screw
Question: A documentary-biographical film about which US rock singer, produced by Ridley Scott, will be released this month simultaneously via a worldwide cinema broadcast in over 50 countries?
Answer: bruce springsteen
Question: In which European capital city would you find the Chrisriansborg and Amalienborg Palaces?
Answer: copenhagen
Question: Built in 1961, the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh was the first sports stadium in the world to feature what?
Answer: retractable roof
Question: Which actor holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations for acting without a win, having been nominated on eight occasions?
Answer: peter o toole
Question: The 1964 movie A Shot in the Dark was the sequel to which film?
Answer: pink panther
Question: The Italian dessert zabaglione is made from eggs, sugar and which fortified wine?
Answer: marsala
Question: Made in green and yellow varieties, which liqueur comes from the monastery which is the home of a monastic order founded by St Bruno?
Answer: chartreuse
Question: Which bird is sometimes referred to as the 'goatsucker'?
Answer: nightjar
Question: Run to the Hills and Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter have been hit singles for which band?
Answer: iron maiden
Question: Need You Tonight and Suicide Blonde have been hit singles for which band?
Answer: inxs
Question: Which bird is sometimes referred to as the 'philomel'?
Answer: nightingale
Question: Which writer, mother of a British politician, wrote Testament of Youth?
Answer: vera brittain
Question: The 1958 film The Matchmaker starring Anthony Perkins and Shirley McLaine was remade in 1969 as which musical?
Answer: hello dolly
Question: In which African country does the radical Islamist group Boko Haram mainly operate?
Answer: nigeria
Question: Which Formula One Racing driver is the cousin of 3-time Indianapolis 500 winner and current Indy car driver Dario Franchitti?
Answer: paul di resta
Question: The 1940 movie The Philadelphia Story starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart was remade in 1956 as which musical?
Answer: high society
Question: How is the woman born Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst in Stettin in 1729 more commonly known to history?
Answer: catherine great
Question: Which English cyclist finished second behind Bradley Wiggins in the 2012 Tour de France?
Answer: chris froome
Question: The 2003 Stephen Fry film Bright Young Things was based on which author's novel Vile Bodies?
Answer: evelyn waugh
Question: Who became Roman Emperor after Tiberius in 37AD?
Answer: caligula
Question: The shipping forecast area 'Fitzroy" was previously known as what?
Answer: finisterre
Question: Uttoxeter racecourse is in which English county?
Answer: staffordshire
Question: What was the name of the actress who appeared in most Monty Python shows?
Answer: carol cleveland
Question: In the novel 1984 what was the surname of Winston Smith's interrogator?
Answer: o brien
Question: What is the name of the Islamic militant group active in Nigeria?
Answer: boko haram
Question: Who wrote the play 'Fear and Misery of the Third Reich'?
Answer: bertolt brecht
Question: Sturnus Vulgaris is more commonly known as what bird?
Answer: starling
Question: Who has taken over from the late Hugo Chavez as Venezuelan President?
Answer: nicolas maduro
Question: The Battle of Culloden in 1746 was fought near which Scottish city?
Answer: inverness
Question: Who plays Captain Kirk in the 2013 Star Trek film?
Answer: chris pine
Question: In psychoanalysis what word describes the 'death instinct'?
Answer: thanatos
Question: Who is known as the founder of the science of genetics?
Answer: gregor mendel
Question: Lady Jane Grey was great granddaughter of which English king?
Answer: henry vii
Question: The lonicera plant is more commonly known as what?
Answer: honeysuckle
Question: Who directed the 2009 film 'The Hurt Locker'?
Answer: kathryn bigelow
Question: The singer Stefani Germanotta is better known as who?
Answer: lady gaga
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Playboy of the Western World?
Answer: j m synge
Question: Which is the only country to be listed in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
Answer: india
Question: Who played the title character in the 2012 film 'Lincoln'?
Answer: daniel day lewis
Question: Which World War 2 event of May 1943 was called Operation Chastise?
Answer: dambusters raid
Question: Name either of the US states bordering Chesapeake Bay?
Answer: maryland virginia
Question: For most of its length which river forms a natural boundary between Norfolk and Suffolk?
Answer: waveney
Question: In World War 2, in which country was the Mannerheim Line built?
Answer: finland
Question: Who wrote the 2003 novel 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' later made into a play, winning the best new play award in 2013?
Answer: mark haddon
Question: In the 2012 film 'Les Miserables', who plays Jean Valjean?
Answer: hugh jackman
Question: Which island is separated from the mainland by The Swale?
Answer: sheppey
Question: Which is the third most abundant elemental gas found in the Earth's atmosphere?
Answer: argon
Question: What was the surname of the father and son who were joint winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for their work on crystal structures?
Answer: bragg
Question: In an opera, whose lover was Cavaradossi?
Answer: tosca
Question: Which Glasgow born architect designed the Glasgow School of Art, built between 1897 and 1909?
Answer: charles rennie mackintosh
Question: In the passing of a Government Bill which stage follows after the bill has had a Third Reading in both Houses?
Answer: royal assent
Question: Name either of the US states having land borders with Rhode Island?
Answer: connecticut massachusetts
Question: Which building is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: lambeth palace
Question: The longest reigning living monarch is Rama 9th, ascending to the throne in June 1946, of which country is he king?
Answer: thailand
Question: Who wrote the poem 'Rule, Britannia!' set to music by Thomas Arne?
Answer: james thomson
Question: Which is the most northerly inhabited island in the British Isles?
Answer: unst
Question: Portsmouth is the UK's only island city, on which island does it stand?
Answer: portsea
Question: Which prolific Art Deco ceramics designer created a range named 'Bizarre'?
Answer: clarice cliff
Question: In which Dickens' novel does Mr Crummie's Acting Company appear?
Answer: nicholas nickleby
Question: The Gunpowder Plot was an attempt to kill which king of England?
Answer: james i
Question: What is the present name of the country formerly known as Upper Volta?
Answer: burkina faso
Question: What bird appeared on the reverse of the farthing from 1937 to 1960?
Answer: wren
Question: Who in April 1500 discovered Brazil for Portugal?
Answer: pedro alvares cabral
Question: What is the sauce made from adding cheese to a Bechamel sauce?
Answer: mornay
Question: Which poetic eponymous character lived by the Gitchee, Gummee River?
Answer: hiawatha
Question: Which European country's flag consists of 3 horizontal bands of blue, black and white?
Answer: estonia
Question: In legend, Vanderveken and his ship The Flying Dutchman are condemned to sail until the Day of Judgement off which headland?
Answer: cape of good hope
Question: What codename was given to the Allied invasion of Sicily in WW2?
Answer: husky
Question: By what name is the pre-historic animal the smilodon better known?
Answer: sabre tooth tiger
Question: Mount Aso has the world's largest active volcanic crater. In which country is it situated?
Answer: japan
Question: The WMO is an agency of the UN dealing with what?
Answer: meteorology
Question: The Rye House Plot was a plot against which king of England?
Answer: charles 2
Question: What is the forename of Captain Mainwaring's wife in the TV series Dad's Army?
Answer: elizabeth
Question: Which group was originally called the Pendletones and made one album as Carl and the Passions?
Answer: beach boys
Question: Of what are grapnel, bower and stockless all types?
Answer: anchors
Question: The loofah is the skeleton of a plant from which family?
Answer: gourd
Question: Which US poet wrote a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855?
Answer: walt whitman
Question: Which actor's name is missing in this title of Hogarth's? ". in the character of Richard the Third"; it is to be found in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
Answer: david garrick
Question: During World War 2 in which country was the Gothic defensive line?
Answer: italy
Question: On which earlier film of 1940 was the 1956 musical "High Society" based?
Answer: philadelphia story
Question: In the US children's TV show, 1968-1970, as what were Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky known?
Answer: banana splits
Question: Which port in Brittany is the base of the French Naval Atlantic fleet?
Answer: brest
Question: What office did Stephen Langton hold at the time of the Magna Carta?
Answer: archbishop of canterbury
Question: Which major river has its source at the confluence of the rivers Brigach and Breg in the Black Forest?
Answer: river danube
Question: At the Battle of Balaclava, how were the 93rd Highlanders described by the Times war correspondent William H. Russell?
Answer: thin red line
Question: Who composed the song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911?
Answer: irving berlin
Question: In which Northern Ireland county is the Giant's Causeway?
Answer: co antrim
Question: In which 1961 film did Audrey Hepburn appear as the character Holly Golightly?
Answer: breakfast at tiffanys
Question: Which DIY product originated the slogan 'does exactly what it says on the tin', in 1994?
Answer: ronseal
Question: Who was the first reigning British monarch to reside at Buckingham Palace?
Answer: queen victoria
Question: What make of helicopter, manufactured by Boeing, is named after a wind originating in the Pacific, northwest of the United States?
Answer: chinook
Question: Who composed the orchestral work Rhapsody in Blue in 1924?
Answer: george gershwin
Question: Laxton Superb and Chelmsford Wonder are varieties of which fruit?
Answer: apple
Question: Who is the main male character, a fairground barker, in the film "Carousel"?
Answer: billy bigelow
Question: Who was President of Germany from 1925 to 1934?
Answer: paul von hindenburg
Question: In which US town or city were the 1904 Summer Olympics held?
Answer: st louis
Question: Which soul group had a 1973 UK Top 10 hit with "Love Train"?
Answer: o jays
Question: In which Northern Ireland county are the Mourne Mountains, which contain the highest NI peak Slieve Donard?
Answer: co down
Question: In which 1957 film did Alec Guinness play the character Lt.-Col. Nicholson?
Answer: bridge on river kwai
Question: The World Men's Team Championship, the Thomas Cup, is a competition in which sport?
Answer: badminton
Question: Which English football team won soccer's First Division title in 1946/47 season, the first after World War Two?
Answer: liverpool
Question: In a motoring context, what is the English equivalent of the French 'peripherique'?
Answer: ring road
Question: Who provided the voice of cartoon character Bugs Bunny, from 1940 until his death in 1989?
Answer: mel blanc
Question: What name is given to the area between the two arms of the Rhone delta, famous for its flamingos, bulls and grey horses?
Answer: camargue
Question: In which country is the world's highest (uninterrupted) waterfall?
Answer: venezuela
Question: What starts at Cheriton and ends at Sangatte?
Answer: channel tunnel
Question: The airport Cristoforo Colombo is in which city?
Answer: genoa
Question: James Stewart was the real name of an English actor who was on stage from 1935. He was an officer in the British Army in WWII. His first starring film role was in The Man in Grey in 1943. What was his professional name?
Answer: stewart granger
Question: Who replaced Mickey Arthur as coach of the Australian cricket team in June?
Answer: darren lehmann
Question: In which castle was Charles I imprisoned from 1647 to 1648?
Answer: carisbrooke
Question: What is second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin's real Christian name?
Answer: edwin
Question: Who was the result of Zeus visiting Danae as a shower of gold?
Answer: perseus
Question: At this year's Oscars, Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress for her role in which film?
Answer: silver linings playbook
Question: Whose twelfth studio album Magna Carta Holy Grail released in July has topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic7.
Answer: jay z
Question: What is the only Shakespeare play with an animal in the title?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: Whose opera Un ballo in maschera premiered in 1859?
Answer: giuseppe verdi
Question: Which painter's works include the murals on the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere and The Resurrection, Cookham?
Answer: stanley spencer
Question: The US state of Michigan borders all of the Great Lakes except which one?
Answer: ontario
Question: Which future party leader was first elected to Parliament as MP for Plymouth Devonport in 1945?
Answer: michael foot
Question: Name the contemporary Scottish composer whose works include The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and Vent, Veni Emmanuel written for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie?
Answer: james macmillan
Question: What city or town is known in its own country's language as Lefkosia?
Answer: nicosia
Question: What was the English title of the TV crime drama, shown on BBC4 in 2012, set partly in Denmark and partly in Sweden?
Answer: bridge
Question: Who was the first Governor of the Bank of England (1694-1697)?
Answer: sir john houblon
Question: Whose opera La gazza ladra premiered in 1817?
Answer: gioachino rossini
Question: Name the contemporary English composer who after writing avant garde works such as The Whale and Celtic Requiem, turned to more mystical, Byzantine works such as The Protecting Veil.
Answer: john tavener
Question: Which writer born in Dublin in 1854 died in Paris in 1900?
Answer: oscar wilde
Question: In which country is Pula, home to one of the best preserved Roman amphitheatres outside Italy?
Answer: croatia
Question: Following what action in 1773 did the British Parliament pass The Intolerable Acts?
Answer: boston tea party
Question: Zeus' visit as a swan to whom resulted in the birth of twins Castor and Pollux?
Answer: leda
Question: Her real name was Virginia Katherine McMath, but this famous actress and dancing star of many films, which included Gold Diggers of 1933, was better known by what name?
Answer: ginger rogers
Question: The name of which boy band is a play on the last letter of the first name of the original members?
Answer: n sync
Question: What is the name of the druid in the English version of the Asterix books?
Answer: getafix
Question: Who in legend was the mighty hunter? It is also the name of an aircraft developed from the Comet.
Answer: nimrod
Question: The 'May' blossom flowers on which tree?
Answer: hawthorn
Question: In which Ian Fleming novel did the dog Edison appear?
Answer: chitty chitty bang bang
Question: In the children's TV animation, what is the name of Peppa Pig's brother?
Answer: george
Question: Which food was known as 'Liberty Cabbage' in the USA during World War 1?
Answer: sauerkraut
Question: In which Canadian city are the Oilers ice hockey team based?
Answer: edmonton
Question: Justin Welby was Bishop of which diocese prior to his move to Canterbury?
Answer: durham
Question: The story of Joseph featuring the coat of many colours, appears in which book of the Bible?
Answer: genesis