CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The Minster Way is a walking path linking York and which town in the East Riding of Yorkshire?
Answer: beverley
Question: In which industry did a Saggar Maker’s Bottom Knocker work?
Answer: pottery
Question: Which bird is missing from the title of the 1895 tone poem by Jean Sibelius: The _____ of Tuonela?
Answer: swan
Question: Who played the title character in the 1976 film “The Outlaw Josey Wales”?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: What is the seven letter common name of the mammal Suricata suricatta which is native to southern Africa (but not Russia)?
Answer: meerkat
Question: Which word completes the title of the recent album by Paolo Nutini - Caustic ____?
Answer: love
Question: Which character was played by James Beck in the TV sitcom Dad’s Army?
Answer: private joe walker
Question: The hypnotist Svengali is a character in which 1894 novel by George du Maurier?
Answer: trilby
Question: “Dora Maar au Chat” and “The Weeping Woman” are both portraits by which artist of his lover?
Answer: pablo picasso
Question: Umbriel and Ariel are moons of which planet?
Answer: uranus
Question: Seretse Khama was the first President of which country (from 1966 to 1980)?
Answer: botswana
Question: Which river is the primary inflow and the primary outflow of Lough Derg, the second largest lake in the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: shannon
Question: With which club does Coventry City FC currently share a ground?
Answer: northampton town
Question: In which German city did lens maker Carl Zeiss start making microscopes full-time in 1847?
Answer: jena
Question: Who wrote the children’s book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”?
Answer: eric carle
Question: Who was the star of wartime films “Spare a Copper”, “He Snoops to Conquer” and “Turned Out Nice Again”?
Answer: george formby
Question: Who commanded the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916?
Answer: sir john jellicoe
Question: What is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guinea?
Answer: conakry
Question: The 1798 Battle of the Nile is also known as the Battle of which Bay?
Answer: aboukir
Question: Torquay United and which other team were promoted from the Conference to the Football League Division Two at the end of the 2008/9 season?
Answer: burton albion
Question: Which family has lived at Alnwick Castle since 1309?
Answer: percy family
Question: What is the first Christian name of astronaut 'Buzz' Aldrin?
Answer: edwin
Question: Who wrote 'Harry's Game', 'The Glory Boys' and 'Holding The Zero'?
Answer: gerald seymour
Question: Who played the part of 'Constance Colby' in 'The Colbys'?
Answer: barbara stanwick
Question: 'Simply Red' had their only UK number one in September 1995 - what was the name of the song?
Answer: fairground
Question: Which composer, born in Grenoble in 1803, married an Irish actress. His first opera was 'Benvenuto Cellini'?
Answer: hector berlioz
Question: Other than Margaret Thatcher, which Prime Minister, in the last 100 years, has spent the longest term in office?
Answer: tony blair
Question: """If you want to find Cherry Tree Lane, all you have to do is ask a policeman at the crossroads"", is the first line of which children's novel?"
Answer: mary poppins
Question: Which vocal group consisted of Tim Hauser, Laurel Masse, Alan Paul, and Janis Siegel?
Answer: manhattan transfer
Question: Since World War II, which United States President has been awarded a Nobel prize?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: Which British group was formed by former members of 'The Housemartins', Paul Heaton and David Hemingway?
Answer: beautiful south
Question: Which composer was born in Italy in 1792, but is buried in Paris. He had the nickname 'Monsieur Crescendo'?
Answer: rossini
Question: In medicine, which joint is controlled by the Radial Nerve?
Answer: wrist
Question: In which film did Sidney Poitier play a disruptive pupil, and Glenn Ford a harassed teacher?
Answer: blackboard jungle
Question: In Norse mythology, what was the name of Odin's eight legged horse?
Answer: sleipnir
Question: Stretching for 94 miles, off the coast of which country is the Bay of Fundy?
Answer: canada
Question: Which bird has nostrils at the tip of its beak?
Answer: kiwi
Question: Who drowned close to Catalina Island, California, in 1981?
Answer: natalie wood
Question: In January 1985, the rock group 'Foreigner' had their only UK number one. What was the name of the song?
Answer: i want to know what love is
Question: In 1998 David Trimble and which other Northern Ireland politician jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the 'Good Friday Agreement'?
Answer: john hume
Question: Which New York park lies in the south-west of Manhattan Island, and faces the Hudson River?
Answer: battery park
Question: Which public school had Russell Harty as a teacher, and Richard Whiteley as a pupil?
Answer: giggleswick
Question: Who wrote 'Imajica', 'Coldheart Canyon' and 'Galilee'?
Answer: clive barker
Question: Mary Queen of Scots was executed in Fotheringhay Castle, but which county is it in?
Answer: northamptonshire
Question: Although he used several aliases, what was the better known name of Henry McCarty?
Answer: billie kid
Question: 'Simon Legree' is a character in which book?
Answer: uncle tom s cabin
Question: 'Rock Salmon' or 'Dogfish' is a member of which family of fish?
Answer: shark
Question: The Pacific island of Bora Bora is a dependency of which country?
Answer: france
Question: By what name is the drug MDMA more commonly known?
Answer: ecstacy
Question: Which common salad ingredient is a member of the same family as Deadly Nightshade?
Answer: tomato
Question: 'The Popish Plot' was an alleged conspiracy to murder which English monarch?
Answer: charles ii
Question: Which inventor of the 'Spinning-Frame' set up a large water-powered factory at Cromford in Derbyshire?
Answer: richard arkwright
Question: Which country's flag is divided diagonally red and black with a yellow 'Bird of Paradise' in the red, and white stars of the 'Southern Cross' in the black?
Answer: papua new guinea
Question: The best selling video game, TV and trading card series 'Pokemon' is hugely popular in Japan and the rest of the world. What does 'Pokemon' mean?
Answer: pocket monster
Question: 'Radames' and 'Princess Amneris' are characters that appear in which Verdi opera?
Answer: aida
Question: By what first name is West Indian cricketer Chanderpaul known?
Answer: shivnarine
Question: In 'Dad's Army' what was the first name of 'Private Walker'?
Answer: joe
Question: Yersinia pestis is the bacterium that causes which disease?
Answer: bubonic plague
Question: What is the name of the only Italian who has won the world motor racing drivers championship?
Answer: alberto ascari
Question: Gary Lightbody is the lead singer with which pop band?
Answer: snow patrol
Question: In 'Dad's Army' what was the first name of 'Private Godfrey'?
Answer: charles
Question: Who was King of England when the 'Stone of Scone' was removed to England in 1296?
Answer: edward i
Question: By what name is Diamorphine Hydrochloride more commonly known?
Answer: heroin
Question: 'Marcello' and 'Mimi' are characters that appear in which Puccini opera?
Answer: la boheme
Question: The Spanish called them 'Moors', but what name was used by Europeans in the Middle Ages for people of Arab origin?
Answer: saracens
Question: In geometry, what is the name given to an angle greater than 180 degrees and less than 360 degrees?
Answer: reflex
Question: Rastafarianism is based on the ideas of which former Jamaican?
Answer: marcus garvey
Question: In which city are the HQ of the West Mercia Constabulary?
Answer: worcester
Question: 'Terrible Tudors' and 'Awesome Egyptians' were the first two titles in which series of illustrated books?
Answer: horrible histories
Question: In which country is the village of Ytterby, after which four chemical elements are named?
Answer: sweden
Question: Which island is the burial place of many Scottish kings and Labour leader John Smith?
Answer: iona
Question: Which national newspaper has been edited by William Rees-Mogg, Charles Douglas-Home and Peter Stoddard?
Answer: times
Question: The film 'Murder, She Said' is based on which Agatha Christie book in which 'Miss Marple' witnesses a passenger on a train being strangled?
Answer: 4 50 from paddington
Question: The FINA World Championships contain five sports - diving, swimming, open water swimming, synchronised swimming and which other?
Answer: water polo
Question: Who is the new judge on 'Dragon's Den'?
Answer: hilary devey
Question: Who designed Park Guell in Barcelona, in the early years of the last century?
Answer: antoni gaudi
Question: In which city is the largest football stadium in Germany, home to the 2010-2011 Bundesliga champions?
Answer: dortmund
Question: In which opera does 'Turiddu', a young villager return to Sicily to find his fiancee, 'Lola', has married 'Alfio', the prosperous village teamster?
Answer: cavalleria rusticana
Question: At which circuit in 1955 did Stirling Moss win his first British Grand Prix, the race's debut at that circuit?
Answer: aintree
Question: Who wrote the book, now a successful play, 'War Horse'?
Answer: michael morpurgo
Question: Who lost his seat as MP for Enfield Southgate at the 1997 General Election?
Answer: michael portillo
Question: Who wrote the play 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstein Are Dead'?
Answer: tom stoppard
Question: Which isotope of Carbon is used in 'Carbon Dating'?
Answer: carbon 14
Question: Who was the leader of the LiberaL Democrats at the 1997 General Election?
Answer: paddy ashdown
Question: Which Italian region is surrounded by four others - Lazio, Tuscany, Marche and Abruzzo?
Answer: umbria
Question: Which badly behaved children's character was created by Francesca Simon, hates his brother 'Perfect Peter' and has an arch enemy 'Moody Margaret'?
Answer: horrid henry
Question: Which chemical element is named after the Latin for Copenhagen where it was discovered?
Answer: hafnium
Question: Who led the forces of the British East India Company at the 1757 Battle of Plassey?
Answer: robert clive
Question: The largest Scottish island is Lewis and ...... Which name completes the title?
Answer: harris
Question: Who has been the editor of the Daily Mail since 1992?
Answer: paul dacre
Question: Who played 'Edward Beddoes', the victim's valet in the 1974 film 'Murder On The Orient Express'?
Answer: john gielgud
Question: In which Asian city were the 2011 FINA World Championships held?
Answer: shanghai
Question: Who has twice been Prime Minister of Italy - from 1996 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2008?
Answer: romano prodi
Question: Which Dickens novel features a Cricket match between 'All-Muggleton' and 'Dingley Dell'?
Answer: pickwick papers
Question: In which opera does the eponymous heroine love a painter 'Mario Cavaradossi'?
Answer: tosca
Question: Stirling Moss also won the next British Grand prix held at Aintree, in 1957, to give which British team its first Grand Prix victory?
Answer: vanwall
Question: Who plays ex-policeman 'Gerry Standing' in 'New Tricks'?
Answer: denis waterman
Question: Who did the first Duke of Northumberland employ to landscape the parkland adjoining Alnwick Castle, in order to create Alnwick Garden?
Answer: lancelot capability brown
Question: Which Football League club shares its home ground with non-league Kingstonian FC?
Answer: afc wimbledon
Question: In which Commonwealth country is 'Fiordland National Park'?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which Dickens novel is set in 'Coketown'?
Answer: hard times
Question: Who was Home Secretary from 1979 to 1983?
Answer: william whitelaw
Question: Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1979 to 1983?
Answer: geoffrey howe
Question: Which football team finished bottom of the Premier League in 2010-2011?
Answer: west ham united
Question: The 'White Horse Bridge' leads to which English sports stadium?
Answer: wembley
Question: Spargel is the German name for which vegetable?
Answer: asparagus
Question: Who wrote the book 'The Kalahari Typing School For Men'?
Answer: alexander mccall smith
Question: Which car company produces the 'Lanos' model'?
Answer: daewoo
Question: Which artistic movement was founded in 1911 by Walter Sickert?
Answer: camden town group
Question: Which explorer, in 1541 was the first European to discover the Mississippi River?
Answer: hernando de soto
Question: Which explorer, in 1858, was the first European to disciver Lake Victoria?
Answer: john speke
Question: Who in his play "The Birds" first wrote about 'Cloudcuckoo Land'?
Answer: aristophones
Question: Which artistic movement was founded around 1920 in Russia and was associated with Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner?
Answer: constructivism
Question: Which car manufacturer produced the models, Laurel, Maxima and Scarab?
Answer: datsun
Question: Which building society was the first to relinquish mutuality?
Answer: abbey national
Question: Which pre-decimal coin, never minted after decimalisation, was still legal tender until 1980?
Answer: sixpence
Question: Which cheese, made from ewe's milk, comes from the Aveyron region of France?
Answer: roquefort
Question: Which building society has kept its mutual status despite the being three votes on the subject (the last in 1998)?
Answer: nationwide
Question: What was formed as a result of the Continental Congress of 1775?
Answer: united states of america
Question: The Greeks called her Athena, what was the Roman name for this Goddess?
Answer: minerva
Question: Who was offered, but declined, the post of Poet Laureate in 1984 after the death of Sir John Betjeman?
Answer: philip larkin
Question: Who composed the title music to the film "The Deerhunter"?
Answer: stanley myers
Question: On board which ship did explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton die in 1922?
Answer: quest
Question: The Greeks called her Artemis, what was the Roman name for this Goddess?
Answer: diana
Question: The town of Oswestry is situated in which English county?
Answer: shropshire
Question: Which British actor plays a zombie fighting lawman in the TV series "The Walking Dead"?
Answer: andrew lincoln
Question: In which battle of 1709 did the allied English army under Marlborough defeat a French force led by Marshal Villars?
Answer: malplaquet
Question: Who shot Ronald Reagan on 30th March, 1981?
Answer: john w hinckley
Question: Who disappeared from Bootle Strand on 12 February 1993?
Answer: jamie bulger
Question: What food was not rationed in Britain during World War 2 but was rationed after it?
Answer: bread
Question: What letter is at the top of an optometrist's eye chart?
Answer: e
Question: In which English cathedral were scenes of The Da Vinci Code filmed?
Answer: lincoln
Question: At 76 miles which is the longest river entirely in Northern Ireland?
Answer: bann
Question: Which punishment involved the beating of the soles of the feet with a baton or stick?
Answer: bastinado
Question: The 1979 film 'Apocalypse Now* was based on which story by Joseph Conrad?
Answer: heart of darkness
Question: Which heavyweight boxing champion was known as The Cincinnati Cobra'?
Answer: ezzard charles
Question: Martin Roberts and Lucy Alexander are regular presenters on which BBC T.V. property programme?
Answer: homes under hammer
Question: Which rodent is known as The Nutria Rat?
Answer: coypu
Question: Vulcan was the Roman equivalent of which Greek god?
Answer: hephaestus
Question: How many Victoria Crosses were won at Rorke's Drift in 1879?
Answer: eleven
Question: Who wrote the book 'The Prisoner of Zenda'?
Answer: anthony hope
Question: Bornite and Azurite are ores of which metallic element?
Answer: copper
Question: Recently promoted to the Premier League which 43 year old is the manager of Burnley football club?
Answer: sean dyche
Question: Which short-lived soap set in Manchester starred Helen Shapiro as Viv Harker?
Answer: albion market
Question: Said by John Peel to be the best pop song ever written, which group had a Top Forty hit in 1978 with 'Teenage Kicks'?
Answer: undertones
Question: Who played Vincent Van Gogh in the 1956 film 'Lust for Life'?
Answer: kirk douglas
Question: Which unit merged with the Royal Flying Corps to form the R.A.F in 1918?
Answer: royal naval air service
Question: What flavour of jam is used to make a traditional Sachertorte cake?
Answer: apricot
Question: Which member of the royal family is the current Earl of Inverness?
Answer: prince andrew
Question: The Coronation Stakes are run annually at which English racecourse?
Answer: ascot
Question: In which short-lived soap set on a North Sea ferry did Kate O'Mara play Catherine Laker?
Answer: triangle
Question: Which Swindon pop group were 'Making Plans for Nigel' in 1979?
Answer: xtc
Question: What was the codename given to the British Commando raid on St Nazaire in March 1942?
Answer: operation chariot
Question: 'The Fensman' was a regular train service from East Anglia to which London Mainline rail terminus?
Answer: liverpool street
Question: Siderite and Limonite are ores of which metallic element?
Answer: iron
Question: Now in the Premier League who is the manager of Leicester City Football Club?
Answer: nigel pearson
Question: At over 3000 feet Lugnaquilla is the highest peak in which Irish mountains?
Answer: wicklow mountains
Question: The 1968 film '2001: A space Odyssey' was based on which story by Arthur C Clarke?
Answer: sentinel
Question: Which French artist painted 'Liberty Leading the People'?
Answer: eugene delacroix
Question: In the church calendar what name is given to the first Sunday after Easter Sunday?
Answer: low sunday
Question: Which composer's second symphony is known as The Resurrection Symphony'?
Answer: gustav mahler
Question: Which tennis player was known as The Bounding Basque'?
Answer: jean borotra
Question: The Eclipse Stakes are run annually at which English racecourse?
Answer: sandown park
Question: After which battle did King Charles the Second famously take refuge in an Oak tree?
Answer: worcester
Question: Which English football league team are nicknamed The Irons'?
Answer: scunthorpe united
Question: Who plays Fred's mother-in-law in the 1994 film The Flintstones'?
Answer: elizabeth taylor
Question: In which battle did Edward the Black Prince 'win his spurs'?
Answer: crecy
Question: Which six letter word is the alternative name for the European bison?
Answer: wisent
Question: In terms of population, Tripoli is the second largest city in which middle-eastern country?
Answer: lebanon
Question: Which football team from Barcelona played home matches at the 1992 Olympic Stadium until 2009 when they moved to the 'Estardi Cornella-El Prat'?
Answer: espanyol
Question: 'The Sunshine Tour' is a men's professional golf tour where most of the events are staged in which country?
Answer: south africa
Question: Disregarding Australia as it's a continental land mass, which is the largest island crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn?
Answer: madagascar
Question: In which continent was the 'Songhai Empire', one of the largest empires in history?
Answer: africa
Question: Which baseball team play home games at Atlanta's 1996 Olympic Stadium that was converted and renamed 'Turner Field'?
Answer: atlanta braves
Question: Which US state has nicknames including 'The Birthplace of Aviation' and 'The Buckeye State'?
Answer: ohio
Question: Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced a death sentence in 1989 on Salman Rushdie as a result of what book, published the previous year?
Answer: satanic verses
Question: 'Fox River State Penitentiary' and the 'Federal Penitentiary of Sona' in Panama feature in which American serial drama television series?
Answer: prison break
Question: From which Greek word for a plant cultivated in the Nile delta does the word 'paper' derive?
Answer: papyrus
Question: 'Cold Mountain Penitentiary' features in which book and film? In the book it is in Maine, but in the film it is in Louisiana?
Answer: green mile
Question: Which study in magic and religion by James George Frazer took its name from an incident in 'The Aeneid'?
Answer: golden bough
Question: In which continent was the 'Kushan Empire' one of the largest empires in history?
Answer: asia
Question: From which grape variety are almost all Chablis wines made?
Answer: chardonnay
Question: Paper is one of the 'Four Great Inventions' of which country?
Answer: china
Question: Which US state has nicknames including 'The Cyclone State', 'The Land Of The Rolling Prairies' and 'The Hawkeye State'?
Answer: iowa
Question: For which book published in 1981, did Salman Rushdie win Britain's oldest literary award, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as the Booker Prize?
Answer: midnight s children
Question: 'The Aeneid' by Virgil tells the story of which Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans?
Answer: aeneas
Question: Which English king was married to both Isabel of Gloucester and Isabella of Angouleme?
Answer: john
Question: Gladwyn Jebb served as acting Secretary-General of which organisation until the election of Trygve Lie in 1946?
Answer: united nations
Question: Which bowler was hit for 5 sixes and a four in a single over by Frank Hayes in 1977, nearly a decade after a more famous incident?
Answer: malcolm nash
Question: At what location, the largest of its type, were the German actors Max Ehrlich, Kurt Gerron and Dora Gerson all murdered?
Answer: auschwitz birkenau concentration camp
Question: The line "To be, or not to be: that is the question" comes from Act 3, Scene 1 of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Which chemical element, with the atomic number 107, is named after a Danish scientist?
Answer: bohrium
Question: Which female Mexican painter was responsible for 'Tree Of Hope', 'Henry Ford Hospital' and 'The Dream'?
Answer: frida kahlo
Question: Which mode of transport was invented by Sir Christopher Cockerell?
Answer: hovercraft
Question: As a result of what conflict were the artists Luiz Ortiz Rosales, Domingo Lopez Torres and Ramon Acin all murdered?
Answer: spanish civil war
Question: The line "Parting is such sweet sorrow" comes from Act 2, Scene 2 of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: romeo juliet
Question: Which landlocked West African country has a name which means 'Land of the upright men'?
Answer: burkina faso
Question: Complete the 'Bullseye' quote: "Stay out of the black and into the red, nothing in this game for....."what?
Answer: two in bed
Question: Which landlocked Asian country has a name that means 'Land of the Thunder Dragon'?
Answer: bhutan
Question: Off the coast of which English county is the Bronze Age monument known as 'Seahenge'?
Answer: norfolk
Question: Who composed the operas 'La Cenerentola' and 'The Barber of Seville'?
Answer: gioacchino rossini
Question: Yaounde is the capital and second largest city of which country?
Answer: cameroon
Question: Who painted 'The Last Supper' on the back wall of the
Answer: leonardo da vinci
Question: What is the nationality of the Tennis player Ivo Karlovic?
Answer: croatian
Question: Who was the American serial killer, nicknamed 'The Green River Killer', who at his trial in 2003, confessed to the murders of 48 women in Washington state?
Answer: gary ridgway
Question: What was the name of the 6/7th century Welsh-language poet who wrote 'The Gododdin'?
Answer: aneirin
Question: Which 1968 film, starring Meryl Streep, told the true story of Lindy Chamberlain, a mother, convicted of killing her baby, who maintained that a Dingo had killed it?
Answer: cry in dark
Question: Historically known as 'Spirit of Amber', which acid is procured from Amber by pulverising and distilling it?
Answer: succinic acid
Question: Which famous Hollywood actor was used as the narrator on Michael Jackson's 1982 number one single 'Thriller'?
Answer: vincent price
Question: In which Spanish city would you find the Giralda Tower and the Alcazar Palace?
Answer: seville
Question: Which famously misogynistic Roman satiric poet of the first and second centuries wrote 'The Woes Of A Gigolo' and 'Roman Wives'?
Answer: juvenal
Question: In which river was Rasputin drowned in 1916?
Answer: neva
Question: In 1919, which French artist created his own version of the 'Mona Lisa', on which he drew a goatee and a moustache?
Answer: marcel duchamp
Question: Which mountain in the Sequoia National Park is the highest peak in the contiguous states of the USA (ie. excluding Alaska & Hawaii)?
Answer: mount whitney