CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Give one of the forenames of 'Lenin'?
Answer: vladimir ilyich
Question: In the film 'Jason and the Argonauts', who played the title role?
Answer: todd armstrong
Question: In which 1950s TV series was the leading character's name Peter Brady?
Answer: invisible man
Question: What name is given to a mixture of coffee, steamed milk and powdered chocolate?
Answer: cappuccino
Question: What kind of creature's largest species is called a 'Goliath'?
Answer: frog
Question: Which artist painted 'The Birth of Venus'?
Answer: sandro botticelli
Question: According to Greek mythology, who gave birth to the winged horse 'Pegasus'?
Answer: medusa
Question: Who starred in, wrote the screenplay and directed the film 'The Railway Children'?
Answer: lionel jeffries
Question: What kind of creature may be 'bottle-nosed'?
Answer: dolphin
Question: Which Roman orator was slain by Mark Anthony's soldiers in 43 B.C.?
Answer: cicero
Question: The actress Laila Ward, who played Dr Who's assistant, married which of the Doctors?
Answer: tom baker
Question: To which animal does the adjective 'leporine' refer?
Answer: hare
Question: The world's largest diamond at 530 carats is 'The Star of Africa'. In which of the Crown Jewels can it be found?
Answer: sceptre
Question: Who is the ex-actress wife of disgraced former war minister John Profumo?
Answer: valerie hobson
Question: As what does the German word 'Donner' translate into English?
Answer: thunder
Question: What is the name of the hormone which is said to give males their aggressiveness?
Answer: testosterone
Question: Who is the Greek equivalent to the Phoenician goddess Astarte, and the Babylonian goddess Ishtar?
Answer: aphrodite
Question: Pedro Ximenes is a grape usually used in the production of which drink?
Answer: sherry
Question: In the grounds of which building is the cannon called 'Mons 'Meg'?
Answer: edinburgh castle
Question: Which folk song has the refrain 'Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme'?
Answer: scarborough fair
Question: One end of the Pennine Way is 'The Nag's Head' in Edale, where is the other?
Answer: kirk yetholm
Question: The 2008 film The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button' was adapted from a short story by whom?
Answer: f scott fitzgerald
Question: Which sportsman married Elin Nordgren in 2004?
Answer: tiger woods
Question: The company Antofagasta is the world's largest producer of what?
Answer: copper
Question: What was the last possession of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, lost to Islam in 1291?
Answer: acre
Question: Xavier Rolet succeeded Clara Furse to a major job in which establishment during May 2009?
Answer: london stock exchange
Question: Which walking path runs for 42 miles from Osmotherley to Ravenscar?
Answer: lyke wake walk
Question: In 1959, who led the 26th July revolutionary movement?
Answer: fidel castro
Question: In wine making, 'botrytis' is also known as what?
Answer: noble rot
Question: Which sportsman did tennis,player Chris Evert marry in 2008?
Answer: greg norman
Question: The Battle of Blenheim,1704, is described as the turning point in which war?'
Answer: war of spanish succession
Question: In which Dickens novel would you find a lawyer named Jaggers?
Answer: great expectations
Question: What name is given to the largest side of a right-angled triangle?
Answer: hypotenuse
Question: Landmarks such as Angel's Landing, Three Patriarchs and The Great White Throne are to be found in which American National Park? '
Answer: zion
Question: In the folk song 'All Around My Hat' what will the singer have arranged round the hat?
Answer: green willow
Question: Whose signature tune was 'One O'clock Jump'?
Answer: count basie
Question: In the play 'King Lear, what is the name of the youngest daughter of the king?
Answer: cordelia
Question: Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan appears in the novels of which crime-writer?
Answer: kathy reichs
Question: Which city, whose name means 'Southern Capital', was the capital of China before Beijing became the capital in 1949?
Answer: nanking
Question: Give another name for halite, the mineral form of sodium chloride.
Answer: rock salt
Question: In USA, what do they call the silencer of a car?
Answer: muffler
Question: 'Night of the Hunter'(1955),was the only film directed by which famous actor?
Answer: charles laughton
Question: Which group won the Mercury Prize in 2008 for their album 'The Seldom Seen Kid'?
Answer: elbow
Question: Before Kabul, what was the capital city of Afghanistan?
Answer: kandahar
Question: Apart from being Groundhog Day in USA, what Christian festival is observed on.February 2nd?
Answer: candlemas
Question: 'Barwick Green' is the signature tune for which radio programme?
Answer: archers
Question: Who was the landlord of 'The Spyglass Inn' at the beginning of 'Treasure Island'?
Answer: long john silver
Question: Which film was the directorial debut of Clint Eastwood in 1971?
Answer: play misty for me
Question: Who wrote the Manfred Man hit 'The Mighty Quinn'?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: The phenomenon known as Baily's Beads occurs during which event?
Answer: solar eclipse
Question: Element 94, first synthesized in 1940, was given what name?
Answer: plutonium
Question: Who played Flash Gordon in the 1936 film of that title?
Answer: buster crabbe
Question: With which art form do you associate Ansel Adams and Robert Mapplethorpe?
Answer: photography
Question: From which Cole Porter musical do the songs Wunderbar and Too Darn Hot come?
Answer: kiss me kate
Question: In which 1974 blockbuster movie did O J Simpson play a security guard?
Answer: towering inferno
Question: Who helped Theseus escape from the Labyrinth?
Answer: ariadne
Question: The island of Rapa Nui is better known as what?
Answer: easter island
Question: Who supposedly bought the Grail to Britain and founded Glastonbury Abbey?
Answer: st joseph of arimathea
Question: Near which village in Lincolnshire is the Royal Air Force College?
Answer: cranwell
Question: What is the name of the spicy, curry-flavoured soup the name of which when translated from Tamil means 'pepper water'?
Answer: mulligatawny
Question: Which Cole Porter musical includes the songs True Love and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Answer: high society
Question: In which piste sport did Mussolini, Oswald Mosley, Juan Peron and Himmler all participate -(not necessarily with each other!)?
Answer: fencing
Question: Who was Muffin the Mule's human sidekick on TV in the 1950s?
Answer: annette mills
Question: In which TV establishment were Miss Gatsby and Miss 'Tibbs residents?
Answer: fawlty towers
Question: What temperature is the same on both Celsius and Fahrenheit scales?
Answer: 40°
Question: The Simon and Garfunkel song Mrs Robinson makes reference to which famous American sportsman?
Answer: joe di maggio
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the line 'Now is the winter of our discontent' come?
Answer: richard iii
Question: In which Lincolnshire town did the BBC film Middlemarch in the early 1990s?
Answer: stamford
Question: What name is given to the Japanese art of paper-folding?
Answer: origami
Question: What was the name of the Cuban dictator overthrown by Fidel Castro?
Answer: fulgencio batista
Question: Who played General George Custer in the film They Died with Their Boots On?
Answer: errol flynn
Question: How many red balls are on the table at the start of a game of snooker?
Answer: fifteen
Question: Which office was Nicolas Breakspear the first Englishman to hold, in the twelfth century?
Answer: pope
Question: Which once-successful hosiery company was set up by Asil Nadir?
Answer: polly peck
Question: Which part did Honor Blackman play in the film Goldfinger?
Answer: pussy galore
Question: In which Irish park was Lord Cavendish assassinated in 1882?
Answer: phoenix
Question: Which local group included a track called `99% Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd' on their 1985 album 'Back in the DHSS'?
Answer: half man half biscuit
Question: I am the egg man' is a line from which Beatles song?
Answer: i am walrus
Question: At what battle was the Mexican general Santa Anna defeated by Sam Houston in 1836?
Answer: san jacinto
Question: In the human body what name is given collectively to the five long bones of the foot?
Answer: metatarsus
Question: Who painted the Rake's Progress series of paintings, in 1721/1723?
Answer: william hogarth
Question: What name is given to the arc of brilliant points seen round the moon after a total solar eclipse, named after an English astronomer?
Answer: bailey s beads
Question: At what battle did Hannibal defeat the Romans in 216 BC?
Answer: cannae
Question: Who painted "A Bar at the Folies Bergeres" in 1882?
Answer: edouard manet
Question: Who was the president of the USA at the time of the Wall Street Crash?
Answer: herbert hoover
Question: Tommy Lee, who was formerly married to Pamela Anderson, was the drummer in which successful 1980s heavy metal band?
Answer: motley crue
Question: In Roman mythology who was the god of gates, doors and entrances?
Answer: janu
Question: Who wrote the novel "Madame Bovary"?
Answer: gustave flaubert
Question: Declan MacManus is the real name of which rock star?
Answer: elvis costello
Question: In the Shakespeare play, who is Othello's trusted advisor, husband of Emilia?
Answer: iago
Question: What Spanish name is given to a spicy pork sausage seasoned with garlic?
Answer: chorizo
Question: What was the Beatles' first chart single success, released in October 1962?
Answer: love me do
Question: Which American actor starred in the film 'The Magnificent Seven' and on TV in 'The Man From Uncle'?
Answer: robert vaughn
Question: Who was the first person to be officially called British Prime Minister, 5 days after he took office in 1905?
Answer: henry campbell bannerman
Question: Who provided the voice for the Genie of the Lamp in the 1992 Disney film 'Aladdin'?
Answer: robin williams
Question: What type of military weapon was the MGR-1, known as Honest John?
Answer: surface to surface missile
Question: Who directed the 1954 film 'On the Waterfront'?
Answer: elia kazan
Question: Who was the first presenter of 'Ready Steady Go', in August 1963?
Answer: keith fordyce
Question: Who wrote the 1964 play 'Entertaining Mr Sloane'?
Answer: joe orton
Question: Rafael Trujillo was dictator of which state for nearly 20 years?
Answer: dominican republic
Question: Which other composer said of Wagner's music that it had "lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour"?
Answer: rossini
Question: What was the last Inspector Morse novel called? It was published in 1999.
Answer: remorseful day
Question: Which poet wrote The Wild Swans at Coole, in 1917?
Answer: w b yeats
Question: The Swaythling Cup is competed for in which sport?
Answer: table tennis
Question: Who in 1986 wrote the novel 'Wolves Eat Dogs'?
Answer: martin cruz smith
Question: What was the name of the squire in Treasure Island?
Answer: trelawney
Question: In a suit of armour which part of the body was protected by the 'poleyn'?
Answer: knee
Question: In terms of population, Cordoba is the second largest city of which country?
Answer: argentina
Question: Which UK pop group was formed in London in 1989 by the singer Damon Albarn?
Answer: blur
Question: Who directed the first two Batman films that starred Michael Keaton?
Answer: tim burton
Question: Which group had a No. 1 hit in 2001 with their version of Billy Joel's' Uptown Girl'?
Answer: westlife
Question: For which film did Oliver Stone win his second Best Director Oscar in 1989?
Answer: born on fourth of july
Question: In a suit of armour which part of the body was protected by the rerebrace?
Answer: upper arm
Question: Who directed the first Superman film in 1978 starring Christoper Reeve?
Answer: richard donner
Question: Which UK pop group was formed in Sheffield in 1978 by singer Jarvis Cocker?
Answer: pulp
Question: Which horse won the 2009 Cheltenham Gold Cup?
Answer: kauto star
Question: What is the name of the holy book of the Sikh religion?
Answer: adi granth
Question: The Galapagos Islands are a province of which South American country?
Answer: ecuador
Question: Which English king founded the Order of the Garter in 1348?
Answer: edward iii
Question: Which ancient site was excavated by Sir Arthur Evans from 1900 to 1925?
Answer: knossos
Question: Which gas is produced by the action of water on Calcium Carbide?
Answer: acetylene
Question: For which 2004 film did Clint Eastwood win his second Best Director Oscar?
Answer: million dollar baby
Question: Which British author wrote the novel 'The Antiquary' in 1816?
Answer: sir walter scott
Question: Who became the drummer of The Who after the death of Keith Moon in 1978?
Answer: kenny jones
Question: What was the first novel in the Inspector Morse series of novels, published in 1975?
Answer: last bus to woodstock
Question: 'Life is like a box of chocolates' is a quote from which 1994 film?
Answer: forrest gump
Question: Which famous playwright used the pseudonym 'Como di Bassetto' when he worked as a music critic?
Answer: george bernard shaw
Question: The Orkney Islands are located in which Shipping Forecast Area?
Answer: fair isle
Question: In the Simpsons cartoon series what is the first name of Principal Skinner'?
Answer: seymour
Question: Whose right to the English throne did Lady Jane Grey challenge in 1553?
Answer: mary i
Question: What word meaning doorway in Punjabi is the name of a Sikh place of worship?
Answer: gurdwara
Question: Easter Island (Rapa Nui) belongs to which country?
Answer: chile
Question: Macaroni, Chinstrap and Rockhopper are all species of which bird?
Answer: penguins
Question: Which Prime Minister was once the MP for Bootle from 1911 until 1918?
Answer: andrew bonar law
Question: Who replaced Brian Jones in the Rolling Stones in 1969?
Answer: mick taylor
Question: 'I'll have what she's having' is a quote from which 1989 film?
Answer: when harry met sally
Question: What was the last novel in the Inspector Rebus series of novels, published in 2007?
Answer: exit music
Question: The Farne Islands are located in which Shipping Forecast Area?
Answer: tyne
Question: Whose right to the English throne did the Duke of Monmouth challenge in 1685?
Answer: james ii
Question: In the Simpsons cartoon series what is the name of Police Chief Wiggum's son?
Answer: ralph
Question: Which team won the 2009 Superbowl?
Answer: pittsburgh steelers
Question: Bute House is the official residence of which politician?
Answer: first minister of scotland
Question: In which TV 'soap' did the character Charlene Mitchell appear?
Answer: neighbours
Question: What name is given to the Japanese dish in which fish or vegetables are deep fried in butter?
Answer: tempura
Question: In the book 'Tom Brown's Schooldays', what is the name of the bully?
Answer: flashman
Question: Which city has sports teams known as the 'Maple Leafs' and the 'Blue Jays'?
Answer: toronto
Question: In Greek mythology, what sort of creature was Polyphemus?
Answer: cyclops
Question: The fortified wine 'Marsala' is produced on which island?
Answer: sicily
Question: In mathematics, what is a quarter of a circle called? (an area bounded by two radii at right angles to each other)
Answer: quadrant
Question: With more than 60,000 of them, which country is known as 'the Country of a Thousand Lakes'?
Answer: finland
Question: Which comedian starred in the 1961 film 'The Rebel'?
Answer: tony hancock
Question: In which TV 'soap' did the character Benny Hawkins appear?
Answer: crossroads
Question: The trademark of which famous Austrian chocolate cake was registered by a Viennese hotel in the 1870's?
Answer: sachertorte
Question: Which European capital city has districts called Alfama and Baixa?
Answer: lisbon
Question: In a circle what name is given to a part of the circle bounded by a chord and an arc?
Answer: segment
Question: The name Malmsey is now used almost exclusively for a sweet variety of wine from the Malvasia grape produced on which island?
Answer: madeira
Question: The paradise `Shangri La' was created by James Hilton in which book?
Answer: lost horizon
Question: Throughout his political career Enoch Powell held only one ministerial post, which was it?
Answer: minister of health
Question: Which record producer of the early 1960s is the subject of the film 'Telstar'?
Answer: joe meek
Question: Which city has sports teams known as the 'Starters; the 'Pirates' and the 'Penguins'?
Answer: pittsburgh
Question: Which European capital city has districts called Ottakring and Leopoldstadt?
Answer: vienna
Question: Which first- class county cricket club has its HQ at the Rose Bowl?
Answer: hampshire
Question: The Costa Smeralda is on the northeast coast of which island?
Answer: sardinia
Question: Which book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle related the story of Professor Challenger's explorations?
Answer: lost world
Question: Enoch Powell's political career ended in 1987 as a member of which party?
Answer: ulster unionist
Question: Tamara Mellon co-founded which famous shoe company?
Answer: jimmy choo
Question: John Aldridge was the first player to miss a penalty in an FA Cup final at Wembley, which Tottenham Hotspur player was the second?
Answer: gary lineker
Question: Name the singer who, along with Vince Clarke, made up the pop group Erasure?
Answer: andy bell
Question: Which first- class county cricket club has its HQ at the Riverside Ground?
Answer: durham
Question: I Who commanded the German fleet at the Battle of Jutland?
Answer: admiral scheer
Question: Who was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009?
Answer: carol ann duffy
Question: Which philosopher wrote 'The Flies' and 'Being and Nothingness' in 1943?
Answer: jean paul sartre
Question: In which shipyard was Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, built?
Answer: chatham
Question: Who was Home Secretary at the time of the Sidney Street Siege?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Who played the male lead in the film 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'?
Answer: george peppard
Question: From which English football club did Rupert Lowe resign when the club was placed into administration in 2009?
Answer: southampton
Question: Who assassinated Arch duke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914?
Answer: gavrilo princip
Question: Mary Lennox is the central character of which 1911 Frances Hodgson Burnett novel?
Answer: secret garden
Question: Who won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the structure of DNA along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins?
Answer: francis crick
Question: Chablis is the northernmost district of which French wine growing region?
Answer: burgundy
Question: On which novel was the 1995 Clueless loosely based?
Answer: emma
Question: What was the forename of F Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby"?
Answer: jay
Question: The India Pale Ale "Old Empire" is brewed by which company?
Answer: marstons
Question: What was the nickname of Queen Joan the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain?
Answer: mad
Question: The painting "the Girl with the Pearl Earring" is by which artist?
Answer: vermeer
Question: Who wrote the novel "The Wide Sargasso Sea" inspired by the novel Jane Eyre?
Answer: jean rhys
Question: Who was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 to 1966?
Answer: hendrik verwoerd
Question: """Love Changes Everything"" is the best known song from which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?"
Answer: aspects of love
Question: Alfred Sisley was an exponent of which school of painting?
Answer: impressionism
Question: Who wrote the political treatise called "The Prince" in 1513?
Answer: niccolo machiavelli
Question: Which British newspaper was mainly responsible for exposing the MP's expenses scandal in 2009?
Answer: daily telegraph
Question: The "Generalife" is a villa with gardens in the grounds of which famous tourist attraction in Spain?
Answer: alhambra
Question: What is the name of the "Plum Pudding" shaped island in the outer Firth of Clyde where granite is quarried to make curling stones?
Answer: ailsa craig
Question: In which country did the dance "The Czardas" originate?
Answer: hungary
Question: During the 2008 Proms series of concerts one was based upon the music written by composer Murray Gold for which TV series?
Answer: dr who
Question: The first Olympic Games in three decades without a boycott of some sort was held in 1992 in which city?
Answer: barcelona
Question: Who as at March 2009 chairs the Radio 4 programme "The News Quiz"?
Answer: sandi toksvig
Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1972 with "Mouldy Old Dough"?
Answer: lieutenant pigeon
Question: Who wrote the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
Answer: truman capote
Question: As at March 2009 who is Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: kevin rudd
Question: To which religious group did the victims of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre belong?
Answer: huguenots
Question: Of which African mountain range is Jbel Toubkal the highest peak?
Answer: atlas mountains
Question: Which war poet wrote "Dulce Et Decorum Est"?
Answer: wilfred owen
Question: With which musical instrument is Theolonius Monk best associated?
Answer: piano
Question: Which English king was married to Charlotte of Mecklenberg?
Answer: george iii
Question: Who wrote the novel "The Other Boleyn Girl"?
Answer: philippa gregory
Question: Which country refused to take part in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest on the grounds that "It was a monument to drivel" - sore losers?
Answer: france
Question: In which group of islands are Stronsay, Hoy and South Ronaldsay?
Answer: orkneys
Question: In which English town or city is the Special Air Service (SAS) based?
Answer: hereford
Question: What is the first line of the poem 'Home thoughts from Abroad' by Robert Browning?
Answer: oh to be in england
Question: What name is given to two vowel-sounds pronounced as one syllable?
Answer: diphthong
Question: Divine Comedy performed the title song to which very popular TV comedy series?
Answer: father ted
Question: Which ancient trackway runs from St Albans to Canterbury?
Answer: watling street
Question: In which group of islands are St Mary's, St Agnes and Bryher?
Answer: scillies
Question: What name is given to a number sequence in which each term is the sum of the two preceding terms?
Answer: fibonacci
Question: In `Winnie the Pooh', who lived in the 'House at Pooh Corner'?
Answer: eeyore
Question: In which English port is the Special Boat Service (SBS) based?
Answer: poole
Question: The Alabama Three performed 'Woke Up This Morning', the title song to which very popular crime series?
Answer: sopranos
Question: In which Ealing film comedy did Dennis Price kill off various members of the D'Ascoyne family?
Answer: kind hearts and coronets
Question: Name either of the other two goddesses who were beaten by Aphrodite in the 'Judgement of Paris'?
Answer: hera athena
Question: Which 20th century British Prime Minister was born in Broadstairs, Kent?
Answer: edward heath
Question: Who was Les Dennis's partner on 'The Laughter Show' before his early death in 1986?
Answer: dustin gee
Question: Which Swedish tennis player won the men's singles title at Wimbledon from 1988 to 1990?
Answer: stefan edberg
Question: In meteorology what name is given to the technique of using substances such as silver iodide to increase precipitation?
Answer: cloud seeding
Question: What name is given to the Sunday at the start of Holy Week?
Answer: palm sunday
Question: Rubies and sapphires are varieties of which mineral?
Answer: corundum
Question: Hans Wilhelm Langsdorf was captain of which German Battleship in World War 2?
Answer: graf spee
Question: In which daily newspaper does the political cartoon 'Nature Notes' appear?
Answer: times
Question: In the Bible, who was the third son of Noah along with Ham and Shem?
Answer: japheth
Question: The Battle of Blenheim (1704) took place in which war?
Answer: spanish succession
Question: Which group has reformed after 25 years but without founder member, songwriter and keyboard player Jerry Dammers?
Answer: specials
Question: When Gracie Fields sang the words: `...you're more than the whole world to me', to whom was she referring?
Answer: sally
Question: Les Dennis's first TV appearances were as a stooge on which comedian's regular show?
Answer: russ abbot
Question: Which popular chocolates are named after a play by JM Barrie?
Answer: quality street