CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What series name is given to the trilogy of novels by Stieg Larsson which feature the character Lisbeth Salander?
Answer: millennium
Question: What was the name of the dog in the children,s TV show The Herbs?
Answer: dill
Question: Mahe, Praslin and Silhouette are part of which island group?
Answer: seychelles
Question: Which wine producing region of France is famous for its Medoc and St Emilion wines?
Answer: bordeaux
Question: Only two flags of the world are square, one is Switzerland, what is the other one?
Answer: vatican city
Question: Which composer wrote The Manfred Symphony in 1885?
Answer: tchaikovsky
Question: Which Frenchman first explored the St Lawrence River from 1534-1536 and 1541-1542?
Answer: jacques cartier
Question: Holland Lop, Flemish Giant and New Zealand White are breeds of which animal?
Answer: rabbit
Question: Taking its name from the Greek word for 'delight', which school of philosophy believes that pleasure is the only intrinsic good?
Answer: hedonism
Question: Whom did Peter Fleming partner when they won the Wimbledon men's doubles title in 1979, 1981, 1983 and 1984?
Answer: john mcenroe
Question: In the Iliad, which Greek hero killed the Trojan leader Hector?
Answer: achilles
Question: Who wrote the 1987 Booker Prize winning novel 'Moon Tiger'?
Answer: penelope lively
Question: Which wine producing area of France is famous for wines such as Beaune and Nuits Saint-Georges?
Answer: burgundy
Question: Of which sport is F.I.A. the ruling body?
Answer: motor racing
Question: Which composer wrote a Faust Symphony in 1857?
Answer: franz liszt
Question: Which branch of philosophy, derived from the Greek word for a porch was founded by Zeno of Citium?
Answer: stoicism
Question: Glenda Jackson won two Best Actress Oscars, one was for 'Women in Love' but which 1973 film earned her a second Oscar?
Answer: touch of class
Question: During the Trojan War, who was killed by the Trojans whilst wearing Achilles' armour?
Answer: patroclus
Question: Whom did Pam Shriver partner when they won the Wimbledon ladies doubles title in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1986?
Answer: martina navratilova
Question: Who played Blott, in BBC's 1985 adaptation of Tom Sharpe's novel 'Blott on the Landscape'?
Answer: david suchet
Question: Which domestic appliance was invented by H W Seeley in 1882?
Answer: electric iron
Question: Which duo's films included Rio Rita' and The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap'?
Answer: abbott and costello
Question: Which city did Rome destroy at the end of the Second Punic War?
Answer: carthage
Question: Who was the first Rugby Union player to play 100 games for England?
Answer: jason leonard
Question: Which biscuit company was founded in Reading in 1822?
Answer: huntley palmers
Question: What musical term means to glide from one pitch to another?
Answer: glissando
Question: Who commanded the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: george meade
Question: In Greek myth, who was the husband of Helen of Troy?
Answer: menelaus
Question: Who, in 1989, replaced Robin Day as presenter of BBC TV's Question Time?
Answer: peter sissons
Question: Which group had No.1 albums with Southside in 1989 and White on Blonde in 1997?
Answer: texas
Question: In which of the United States is the Iditarod Trail?
Answer: alaska
Question: Which daughter of the King of Tyre traditionally founded Carthage?
Answer: dido
Question: Who was the first cricketer to play 100 tests for England?
Answer: colin cowdrey
Question: Who in 1985, replaced Roy Plumley as presenter of Desert Island Discs?
Answer: michael parkinson
Question: In 1834 which British prime minister presented the Tamworth Manifesto. forming the basis of the modem Conservative Party?
Answer: robert peel
Question: Which author created The Toff , The Baron and Gideon of Scotland Yard? ,
Answer: john creasey
Question: Which group had No. 1 albums with OK, Computer in 1997 and In Rainbows in 2007?
Answer: radiohead
Question: Godthaab was the former name of which capital city?
Answer: nuuk
Question: What, by number of verses is the longest book in the Old Testament?
Answer: psalms
Question: On TV, who provides the voice for Bob the Builder?
Answer: neil morrissey
Question: 'Frailty thy name is woman' is a quotation from which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Established in 1386 which is the oldest university in Germany?
Answer: heidelberg
Question: Gangnam, made famous in the song 'Gangnam Style' by Psy, is a wealthy suburb of which city?
Answer: seoul
Question: Which famous race was first organised in 1903 to increase sales for the magazine L'Auto?
Answer: tour de france
Question: Which bottled sauce is made using malt vinegar, spirit vinegar, molasses, sugar, salt, anchovies, tamarind extract, onions, garlic, spice, and flavouring?
Answer: worcestershire sauce
Question: What is the 'collective name of the books included in the Roman Catholic Bible but not the Protestant Bible?
Answer: apocrypha
Question: What was the name of Scott's ship on his 1911 expedition to the South Pole?
Answer: terra nova
Question: Tom Hanks won the best actor Oscar in 1993 and 1994, who is the only other actor to win the award in successive years?
Answer: spencer tracy
Question: 60% of which country's wine is produced in the Mendoza region?
Answer: argentina
Question: Which Russian city reverted to its former name, Nizhniy Novgorod, in 1990?
Answer: gorky
Question: In the Tour de France, the leader of which classification wears the 'polka dot jersey'?
Answer: king of mountains
Question: 'Let me have men about me who are fat' is a quotation from which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: Which car manufacturer currently produces models called Cruze and Trax?
Answer: chevrolet
Question: Roy Williamson wrote which folk song, sung as an anthem before Scotland's Rugby Union matches?
Answer: flower of scotland
Question: What is the_ minimum number of darts needed to-complete a game of 501 (finishing but not starting with a double)?
Answer: nine
Question: What was the name of the western lawman in New York City played on TV by Dennis Weaver?
Answer: marshal sam mccloud
Question: McCloud was loosely based on which Clint Eastwood film?
Answer: coogan s bluff
Question: The Wachau (say Vak-ow) is a principal wine growing area of which country?
Answer: austria
Question: In which Puccini opera does Lieutenant Pinkerton appear?
Answer: madame butterfly
Question: Which car manufacturer currently produces models called Colt and Outlander?
Answer: mitsubishi
Question: What name is given in darts when a player hits a single, double and treble of the same number in his turn?
Answer: shanghai
Question: Off which island is there a group of rocks with a lighthouse called the Casquets?
Answer: alderney
Question: Which American folk singer wrote 'This Land is Your Land'?
Answer: woody guthrie
Question: Which novel begins with the line "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there"?
Answer: go between
Question: The garden centre group Dobbies is owned by which retail company?
Answer: tesco
Question: Which duo's films included 'Towed in the Hole', 'Pardon Us' and 'Blockheads'?
Answer: laurel and hardy
Question: The main show court at the Australian Open Tennis Championships held in at Melboume Park is named after which male player?
Answer: rod laver
Question: The Earl of Warwick, known as the 'kingmaker' was killed at which battle in 1471?
Answer: barnet
Question: What is the name of the monster killed by Beowolf in the Anglo Saxon poem?
Answer: grendel
Question: Which 19th century French painter's works include The Gleaners and The Angelus , both of which were extensively reproduced at the time?
Answer: jean francois millet
Question: In the ancient Roman calendar what were the Kalends?
Answer: 1st day of month
Question: Which film actor is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola?
Answer: nicholas cage
Question: Free Jazz and The Shape of Jazz to Come are landmark albums by which innovative jazz saxophonist?
Answer: ornette coleman
Question: Who captained 'The Beagle' on which Charles Darwin sailed to the Galapagos Islands?
Answer: robert fitzroy
Question: Whose first solo hit was Suedehead which reached No.5 in 1988?
Answer: morrissey
Question: In which island group is Scapa Flow to be found?
Answer: orkneys
Question: Who was the second athlete to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
Answer: john landy
Question: 'Descartes said "Cogito ergo sum". What does this Latin phrase mean?
Answer: i think therefore i am
Question: Ashgabat is the capital of which country, a former Soviet republic in Asia?
Answer: turkmenistan
Question: The Kingdom of Dahomey became which modem African republic?
Answer: benin
Question: The main show court at the French Open Tennis Championships held at Roland Garros in Paris is named after which female player?
Answer: suzanne lenglen
Question: At which battle of 1346 did Edward III's son win his spurs?
Answer: crecy
Question: Which French neo-impressionist painted Sunday Afternoon at the Island of La Grande Jatte?
Answer: georges seurat
Question: Steve McQueen had his first starring role in which 1958 cult horror/sci-fi film?
Answer: blob
Question: The jazz classic Mood Indigo is particularly associated with whose orchestra?
Answer: duke ellington
Question: What was the name of the house that Charles Darwin bought in 1842 and lived in for the rest of his life?
Answer: down house
Question: The lead singer of The Undertones later achieved success as a solo act, what was his name?
Answer: feargal sharkey
Question: Which Dickens novel features Pecksniff and Mrs Gamp?
Answer: martin chuzzlewit
Question: Dr Andrew Wakefield caused a stir when he associated the risk of autism with what?
Answer: mmr
Question: Born in 1940, by what name is the actor Ramon Estevez better known?
Answer: martin sheen
Question: """E Pluribus Unum"" appears on the seal of the US President. What does this Latin phrase mean?"
Answer: one from many
Question: Dushanbe is the capital of which country, a former Soviet republic in Asia?
Answer: tajikistan
Question: Who, in 1994, presented the first live UK lottery draw?
Answer: noel edmonds
Question: What is the title of Robert Browning's poem that begins "Oh, to be in England"?
Answer: home thoughts from abroad
Question: Triton and Nereid are moons of which planet?
Answer: neptune
Question: What is the name of the Microsoft Office product that provides users with an interface to design multimedia slides to be displayed on a projection system or personal computer?
Answer: powerpoint
Question: Bond girls - what character did Jane Seymour play in the film 'Live and Let Die'?
Answer: solitaire
Question: What is the name of the loincloth worn by male Hindus?
Answer: dhoti
Question: What is the name of the tune composed by Ronald Binge used by Radio 4 every evening before the last Shipping Forecast Bulletin?
Answer: sailing by
Question: Derived from the Italian word for large loaf, what is the name of the Milanese fruit cake traditionally eaten at Christmas and New Year?
Answer: panettone
Question: In fiction to which dub do Tracy Tupman, Nathaniel Winkle and Augustus Snodgrass belong?
Answer: pickwick club
Question: Which Shipping Forecast area lies south of South Utsire?
Answer: fisher
Question: Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera has the alternate title 'The Peer and the Peri'?
Answer: iolanthe
Question: In the Asterix books, what is the name of Asterix's closest friend?
Answer: obelix
Question: Which girl group took 'Manic Monday' to Number two in the UK charts in 1986?
Answer: bangles
Question: The site of Pompeii is dose to which city, the capital of Italy's Campania region?
Answer: naples
Question: What is the name of the 1971 Spielberg film which pits Dennis Weaver against an unseen truck driver?
Answer: duel
Question: In Greek mythology, who killed Medusa while looking at her in a mirror-like shield?
Answer: perseus
Question: According to the New Testament, on which Mediterranean island did St John write the Book of Revelation?
Answer: patmos
Question: In the TV series 'Rising Damp' what was the name of Rigsby's cat?
Answer: vienna
Question: What was the codename for the British/American landings in French North Africa, begun in November 1942?
Answer: operation torch
Question: What is the name of the Adobe software that is used to create PDF (portable document format) files?
Answer: acrobat
Question: In which Bond film does Claudine Auger play Domino?
Answer: thunderball
Question: What is the title of the signature tune, composed by Arthur Wood, of Radio 4's programme 'The Archers'?
Answer: barwick green
Question: Originally manufactured by Peek Freans, these biscuits were named after which patriot and soldier, following his visit to the UK in 1854?
Answer: garibaldi
Question: In The Pickwick Papers, what is the name of Pickwick's landlady who sues him for breach of promise?
Answer: mrs bardell
Question: In the Asterix books, what is the name of the 93-year-old, oldest inhabitant of the village?
Answer: geriatrix
Question: Which girl group took 'Robert de Niro's Waiting' to Number 3 in the UK pop charts of 1984?
Answer: bananarama
Question: Which artist created 'The Lobster Telephone' in 1936 and 'Mae West Lip Sofa' in 1937?
Answer: salvador dali
Question: For which film did Steven Spielberg win his first Oscar for Best Director?
Answer: schindler s list
Question: According to Greek mythology who killed Achilles by shooting him in the heel with a poisoned arrow?
Answer: paris
Question: According to Acts in the New Testament, on which Mediterranean island was St Paul shipwrecked?
Answer: malta
Question: Who invented the 'cat's eye' road safety device in 1934?
Answer: percy shaw
Question: What was the real name of 'Phiz', the illustrator of some of Charles Dickens' works?
Answer: hablot knight browne
Question: Who wrote the novel Villette' in 1853?
Answer: charlotte bronte
Question: In the TV series 'Rising Damp', which actress played Miss Jones?
Answer: frances de la tour
Question: The line "That's not the Northern Lights, that's Manderley" is said towards the end of which 1940 film?
Answer: rebecca
Question: What type of exhibits can be seen in the museum at Crich in Derbyshire?
Answer: trams
Question: What was the codename for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941?
Answer: operation barbarossa
Question: Which musical instrument did Bix Beiderbecke play?
Answer: cornet
Question: Who wrote the 1845 poem 'Home Thoughts from Abroad'?
Answer: robert browning
Question: Which Daphne du Maurier novel is centred around a coaching house on Bodmin Moor?
Answer: jamaica inn
Question: Which Verdi opera is based on the play Le Roi S'amuse by Victor Hugo?
Answer: rigoletto
Question: Give a year in the life of artist Vincent van Gogh.
Answer: 1853 1890
Question: In the Rugrats, who is Tommy Pickles' younger brother?
Answer: dil
Question: Which singer had No. 1 albums with Escapology in 2002 and Take the Crown in 2012?
Answer: robbie williams
Question: Sanditon is an unfinished novel by whom?
Answer: jane austen
Question: The Leyden Jar is an early form of what?
Answer: electrical capacitor
Question: In which country are the 2018 Commonwealth Games to be held?
Answer: australia
Question: The hymn The Sorrowful Mother Stood is better known by what Latin name?
Answer: stabat mater
Question: Who is the only British prime minister born outside the British Isles?
Answer: andrew bonar law
Question: From what London terminus station do you depart on a journey to Southampton?
Answer: waterloo
Question: What was advertised with the slogan "the totally tropical taste"?
Answer: lilt
Question: Which organisation's address is 'The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire'?
Answer: rspb
Question: What was the original profession of Yasser Arafat?
Answer: civil engineer
Question: Philip K Dick's short story We Can Remember It For you Wholesale was the basis for which 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: total recall
Question: The island of Murano in the Venice Lagoon is famous for what product?
Answer: glass
Question: Which football league club play their home games at Adams Park?
Answer: wycombe wanderers
Question: Whch British king had ten children by his mistress, the actress, Dorothea Jordan?
Answer: william iv
Question: What is the name of Spongebob Squarepants best friend?
Answer: patrick
Question: The natives of which English county are known as Moonrakers?
Answer: wiltshire
Question: Dave Gahan and Martin Gore are members of which British electronic band founded in the 1980s, they played the 02 Arena in 2013?
Answer: depeche mode
Question: The actor John Simm played the detective "Sam Tyler" in which BBC TV drama?
Answer: life on mars
Question: Which managing director of the "International Monetary fund" was forced to resign after a sex scandal in 2011?
Answer: dominique strauss kahn
Question: Hassan Rowhani, became the elected president of which country in June 2013, though ultimate power in the country is held by an unelected personage?
Answer: iran
Question: Who did Luis Suarez controversially bite in April 2013 costing him a 10 match suspension?
Answer: branislav ivanovic
Question: Which playwright wrote "The Winslow Boy", which was revived at the Old Vic theatre during 2013?
Answer: terence rattigan
Question: Which was the first country, in 1960, to elect a female prime minister?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: Which painter produced the works "The Death of Marat" and "Napoleon Crossing the Alps"?
Answer: jacques louis david
Question: The astronauts "Taylor", "Landon" and "Donovan" are characters in which 1969 science fiction film?
Answer: planet of apes
Question: Which TV series shown on BBC3 in 2013 stars Luke Newbury as "Kieren" a recovering zombie?
Answer: in flesh
Question: Which Norwegian dramatist wrote the plays "A Doll's House" and "Ghosts"?
Answer: henrik ibsen
Question: Which band was formed by former Housemartins members Paul Heaton and David Hemmingway, their only Number One UK hit was "A Little Time"?
Answer: beautiful south
Question: Which was the first country to give the vote to women, doing so in 1893?
Answer: new zealand
Question: What is the official nickname of the US state of Kentucky?
Answer: bluegrass state
Question: In 2013, Justin Rose became the first Englishman in 43 years to win golf's US Open, who won in 1970?
Answer: tony jacklin
Question: Sharleen Spiteri was the lead singer with which group, whose debut single in 1989 was entitled "I Don't Want a Lover"?
Answer: texas
Question: Which author wrote the political conspiracy thriller "House of Cards"?
Answer: michael dobbs
Question: Who played "The Jackal" in the 1973 film "The Day of the Jackal"?
Answer: edward fox
Question: How is the form of transport known in Japan as the Shinkansen, known as in the UK?
Answer: bullet train
Question: What was the name of the German who invented the first practical internal combustion engine?
Answer: nikolaus august otto
Question: Which Russian-American is credited with inventing the helicopter?
Answer: igor sikorsky
Question: Which class of submarines is currently being built at Vickers to replace Britain's "Trafalgar" class of submarines?
Answer: astute
Question: In which modern day country did the battles of the Kasserine Pass occur during World War 2 between the Allied and Axis forces?
Answer: tunisia
Question: Jean Claude Juncker resigned as prime minister of which country in July 2013, being at that point the longest currently elected serving Prime Minister in the world?
Answer: luxembourg
Question: Who played the title role in the 1997 film "The Jackal" a remake of "The Day of the Jackal?
Answer: bruce willis
Question: Who wrote the 1997 novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities"?
Answer: tom wolfe
Question: Which current BBC TV programme was first shown in 1977 with Angela Rippon and Tom Coyne as its original presenters?
Answer: top gear
Question: Which African mammal is also known as the ant bear?
Answer: aardvark
Question: Which artist painted "Bubbles", which was used in the advertising for Pears soap?
Answer: sir john everett millais
Question: Which author wrote the classic novel "Brideshead Revisited" later made into a television series?
Answer: evelyn waugh
Question: Who was the drummer with both "Cream" and "Blind Faith"?
Answer: ginger baker
Question: The astronauts "Dallas", "Ripley", "Kane", "Lambert", "Brett" and "Parker", are characters in which 1979 science fiction film?
Answer: alien
Question: In which modern day country did the Axis forces construct the defensive "Gustav Line" in the second world war?
Answer: italy
Question: Which actress played the detective "Alex Drake" in the BBC drama "Ashes to Ashes"
Answer: keeley hawes
Question: Which King of Belgium abdicated on July 21st 2013 in favour of his son Crown Prince Philippe?
Answer: king albert ii
Question: The Barisan National party has ruled which country since 1957, winning every election since then, winning its last election in 2013?
Answer: malaysia
Question: Which author has written the novels "My Beautiful Launderette" and the "Buddha of Suburbia"?
Answer: hanif kureishi
Question: The Quango, the CQC, reviews and audits hospitals and nursing homes in the UK. For what does the "Q" in CQC stand?
Answer: quality
Question: Which former Poet Laureate became the President for the Campaign to Protect Rural England in 2012?
Answer: andrew motion
Question: What name is given to the sash traditionally worn with a kimono?
Answer: obi
Question: In Celtic mythology a kelpie is a water spirit in the form of which animal?
Answer: horse
Question: Who wrote the book "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists?
Answer: robert tressell
Question: Which non-test playing cricket nation bowled out the West Indies for 25 runs in 1969?
Answer: ireland
Question: On which Mediterranean Island did the Knights Templars have the Fort of St Johns?
Answer: malta
Question: Which Oscar winning director was at one time married to James Cameron?
Answer: kathryn bigelow
Question: What is the name of Tom Cruise's daughter from his marriage to Katie Holmes?
Answer: suri
Question: Which county cricket team has the Prince of Wales feathers on its badge?
Answer: surrey
Question: What is Japanese golfer Masashi Ozaki's nickname?
Answer: jumbo
Question: Which Lionel Bart flop musical was based on Robin Hood?
Answer: twang
Question: Who was the Chairman of the White Star Line who was on the Titanic's Maiden Voyage?
Answer: joseph bruce ismay
Question: Which city in Delaware USA and town in Kent England share the same name?
Answer: dover
Question: Whose catchphrase was 'Can you hear me Mother'?
Answer: sandy powell
Question: Which World War II Operation 'Mincemeat' gave rise to a book and film of the same name?
Answer: man who never was
Question: Which member of the American Mafia was called 'The Teflon Don'?
Answer: john gotti
Question: Who was the first player to score five goals in one Champions League match?
Answer: lionel messi
Question: Who became the presenter of Countdown after Jeff Stelling left?
Answer: nick hewer
Question: What title is held by the Head of both the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches?
Answer: patriarch
Question: On which Mediterranean Island was the Minoan Civilisation based?
Answer: crete
Question: What name is given to a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet at least once?
Answer: pangram
Question: Which presenter was sacked from Blue Peter after it was discovered he had taken cocaine?
Answer: richard bacon
Question: Studio Ghibli produce award winning animation films but from which country do they originate?
Answer: japan
Question: Where specifically did James Cameron dive down to in 2012?
Answer: marianas trench
Question: Who played Sir James Bond in the original version of Casino Royale?
Answer: david niven
Question: Felix Baumgartner holder of the world freefall record was born in which country?
Answer: austria
Question: Which tough guy actor played a cross dressing pirate in the film Stardust?
Answer: robert de niro
Question: Which type of lady's hat was banned at Ascot in 2012?
Answer: fascinators
Question: By what name are Dave Myers and Simon King better known?
Answer: hairy bikers
Question: Who was the leading man in the film 'Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
Answer: george peppard
Question: What is the name of the bike used to set the pace in a Keirin race in any indoor cycling race?
Answer: derny