CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: How is the cocktail consisting of vodka, cranberry juice and grapefruit juice known?
Answer: sea breeze
Question: Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" was composed as incidental music to which Shakespeare play?
Answer: midsummer night s dream
Question: In which opera does Wagner's Bridal Chorus (popularly known as "Here comes the bride") feature?
Answer: lohengrin
Question: Near which city is Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' set?
Answer: athens
Question: Appropriately, which animal appears on the flag of the city of Berlin?
Answer: bear
Question: In which city was the artist Vermeer born in 1632? It features in many of his paintings.
Answer: delft
Question: For which French rugby union club does Jonny Wilkinson play?
Answer: toulon
Question: For which Italian side did Graeme Souness play from 1984 to 1986?
Answer: sampdoria
Question: Who was the English archaeologist (1874-1939) noted as the primary discoverer of Tutankhamen's tomb?
Answer: howard carter
Question: In which county is Hay on Wye of bookshops fame?
Answer: powys
Question: Which prison features in Dickens's 1855 novel 'Little Dorrit'?
Answer: marshalsea
Question: Who wrote the 1952 play 'The Crucible'?
Answer: arthur miller
Question: In the 1985 film which actress was 'Desperately Seeking Susan'?
Answer: rosanna arquette
Question: In the 1986 film 'Hannah and her Sisters' who played Hannah?
Answer: mia farrow
Question: In which 1987 film did Robert De Niro portray the gangster Al Capone?
Answer: untouchables
Question: Which 1965 Bob Dylan album features the songs `Mr Tambourine Man', 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' and 'Maggie's Farm'?
Answer: bringing it all back home
Question: Which 1984 Bruce Springsteen album features the songs 'Dancing In The Dark', 'Glory Days' and 'My Hometown'?
Answer: born in usa
Question: In which city did the final of the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League take place?
Answer: london
Question: Which character in Eastenders is played by the actress Cheryl Fergison?
Answer: heather
Question: Which character in Coronation Street is played by the actress Katherine Kelly?
Answer: becky
Question: Which Egyptian president was toppled from power due to popular unrest in 2011?
Answer: hosni mubarak
Question: Which American authoress wrote the novels 'Ethan Frome' and 'The Age of Innocence'?
Answer: edith wharton
Question: Which American author wrote the novels 'Sophie's Choice' and 'The Confessions of Nat Turner'?
Answer: william styron
Question: In which 1973 Terence Malick film did Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek play a couple of psychotic murderers?
Answer: badlands
Question: In Arthurian legend, who returns Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake?
Answer: sir bedivere
Question: In Arthurian legend, who was the father of King Arthur?
Answer: uther pendragon
Question: Which surname connects a current cabinet minister, a Formula 1 World Champion of the 1970s and a former Liverpool striker?
Answer: hunt
Question: Which surname connects a current member of the cabinet, an Open Golf Champion and a former Leeds United striker?
Answer: clarke
Question: Who composed the 1830 work `Symphonie Fantastique'?
Answer: hector berlioz
Question: Who is the current manager of West Bromwich Albion football club?
Answer: roy hodgson
Question: Who was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for the US Presidency in the 1996 Presidential Election?
Answer: bob dole
Question: Who was the unsuccessful Democrat nominee for the US Presidency in the 1984 Presidential Election?
Answer: walter mondale
Question: The UK's highest recorded temperature of 38.5 degrees centigrade occurred on 10-8-2003, in which county?
Answer: kent
Question: Who owned the Rolls Razor washing machine company which crashed in 1963?
Answer: john bloom
Question: Who became the first Chancellor of West Germany in 1949 and was a founder of The Christian Democrats?
Answer: konrad adenauer
Question: In 1994 who was the last Formula One driver to be killed in a racing accident on the track?
Answer: ayrton senna
Question: Howard Hughes designed the underwired bra for Jane Russell for which film?
Answer: outlaw
Question: Which film won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in April 2011?
Answer: toy story 3
Question: Who played Mo Mowlam in the 2009 television drama, Mo?
Answer: julie walters
Question: Who for 17 years from 1976 presented "One Man and His Dog?
Answer: phil drabble
Question: Which Carry On film Starred Phil Silvers?
Answer: carry on follow that camel
Question: Which Archers character was killed in 2010 when he fell from the roof of Lower Loxley?
Answer: nigel pargetter
Question: Which sport is featured in the 1951 film, Follow The Sun?
Answer: golf
Question: Which TV celebrity is married to Charles Saatchi?
Answer: nigella lawson
Question: Which BBC journalist has been revealed as the secret son of the late Peter Woods?
Answer: justin webb
Question: Which BBC Local Radio Station began as Radio Blackburn in 1971?
Answer: radio lancashire
Question: Which Member of The SDP failed to win the 1981 Warrington By-Election?
Answer: roy jenkins
Question: The Urbis Centre in Manchester is soon to be the home of which national museum?
Answer: national football museum
Question: Who was General Secretary of SOGAT from 1983 to 1985, the first woman to lead a major trade union?
Answer: brenda dean
Question: Which Pacific Island is known as Rapa Nui to the local inhabitants?
Answer: easter island
Question: When Sunderland won the 1973 FA Cup, under Bob Stokoe, who did they defeat in the final?
Answer: leeds united
Question: Which was the only one of his own films that Hitchcock ever remade?
Answer: man who knew too much
Question: Give the name of the restaurant charity formed by Jamie Oliver to help disadvantaged young people?
Answer: fifteen
Question: Which poet wrote the children's fantasy novel, The Box of Delights?
Answer: john masefield
Question: Name the TV chat show hosted by John Freeman and later by Jeremy Isaacs, which ran on BBC television 1958 to 62 and 89 to 98 with one guest each week?
Answer: face to face
Question: Apart from The Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia, which is the other National Park in Wales?
Answer: pembrokeshire coast
Question: Clare Grogan, singer with "Altered Images" first found fame as an actress in which film?
Answer: gregory s girl
Question: Who plays Nelson Mandela in the 2009 film Invictus?
Answer: morgan freeman
Question: Who directed the 2009 film Invictus?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: Apart from George, who was the only other Beatle to appear at the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square?
Answer: ringo starr
Question: Where in London was the venue of the first FA Cup Final in 1872?
Answer: oval
Question: Which pop group was named after a fictional band in the film "A Clockwork Orange"?
Answer: heaven 17
Question: Which film about the founding of Facebook won the Best Motion Picture Drama at the 2011 Golden Globe awards?
Answer: social network
Question: Who plays King George VI in the award winning film The King's Speech?
Answer: colin firth
Question: In which radio comedy series does Andy Hamilton play The Devil?
Answer: old harry s game
Question: Graham Napier has hit a record 16 sixes in an innings both in a Twenty20 match in 2008 and a County Championship match in 2011, for which county does he play?
Answer: essex
Question: Terry Deary and Peter Hepplewhite write which series of entertaining and educational books for youngsters?
Answer: horrible histories
Question: Who plays the part of detective DI Richard Poole in the TV series `Death in Paradise'?
Answer: ben miller
Question: In November 2011, 'Piccadilly Circus, London', one of the very few paintings of London by which artist, sold at auction for £5.6 million?
Answer: ls lowry
Question: Which group had a 1980 hit with 'Turning Japanese'?
Answer: vapors
Question: Where in London is the Bomber Command Memorial to be built in 2012?
Answer: green park
Question: Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, is currently head of state of which country?
Answer: egypt
Question: Who composed the ballet 'Ocean's Kingdom' first performed in 2011?
Answer: paul mccartney
Question: Who played Fu Manchu in the 1960s films based on the books by Sax Rohmer?
Answer: christopher lee
Question: How would any one of Anne Hegarty, Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace and Paul Sinha be described on a TV programme?
Answer: chaser
Question: Marton, Sally Brass and Christopher Nubbles are characters in which Dickens novel?
Answer: old curiosity shop
Question: Formed in 2001, Myleene Klass, Kym Marsh and Suzanne Shaw were members of which pop group?
Answer: hear say
Question: What name is given to the pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca?
Answer: hajj
Question: Name the Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan from where Russian space missions are launched?
Answer: baikonur
Question: Klaus Voorman created the cover of which 1966 Beatles album?
Answer: revolver
Question: Who composed the oratorio 'The Dream of Gerontius'?
Answer: edward elgar
Question: One of the most widespread of all butterflies, Vanessa Cardui has orange-brown wings with black and white corners. How is it commonly known?
Answer: painted lady
Question: In the Bible to where was Saul heading when he was blinded by the light and converted to Christianity?
Answer: damascus
Question: Which early US President said "if you want something that you've never had, you must be willing to do something that you've never done"?
Answer: thomas jefferson
Question: What name is given to the place of worship in the Sikh religion?
Answer: gurdwara
Question: Richard Hamilton, who died in September 2011, was famous for the design of the cover of which Beatles album?
Answer: beatles
Question: Who composed the cantata 'Belshazzar's Feast', first performed in 1931?
Answer: william walton
Question: What is the common name of the butterfly 'Apatura Iris', the male is the most beautiful found in the British Isles. It has black/brown wings with white bands and a coloured sheen that gives it its name?
Answer: purple emperor
Question: In the Bible parable of the Good Samaritan, to where was the traveller heading when he was attacked?
Answer: jericho
Question: Which British Prime Minister said "in the case of war, it's not who is right but who is left"?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: In a series of films based on the books by Donald Hamilton, who played the character Matt Helm?
Answer: dean martin
Question: Who, along with Rachel Riley and Susie Dent, will host the 2012 series of Countdown?
Answer: nick hewer
Question: Squaw Valley, the venue for the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, is in which US state?
Answer: california
Question: Nadgett, Elijah Pogram and Tom Pinch appear in which Dickens novel?
Answer: martin chuzzlewit
Question: In the early 1970s, Lynne Paul and Eve Graham were the lead singers in which group?
Answer: new seekers
Question: In Greek mythology, who is the twin sister of Helenus?
Answer: cassandra
Question: Which group had a 1981 hit with 'Tainted Love'?
Answer: soft cell
Question: What name is given to the migration of a solvent from a dilute solution to a more concentrated solution across a semi-permeable membrane?
Answer: osmosis
Question: In a TV advert, Mr T (from the programme 'The A-Team') takes a tank on to a football pitch to promote which brand?
Answer: snickers
Question: Who became the third wife of Paul McCartney in October 2011?
Answer: nancy shevell
Question: In which Disney film do the fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather appear?
Answer: sleeping beauty
Question: Francesca Simon writes which series of books for young readers?
Answer: horrid henry
Question: Who played the detective Aurelio Zen in the BBC TV series of January 2011?
Answer: rufus sewell
Question: Which car company produce a model called the 'Kangoo'?
Answer: renault
Question: Give either of the forenames of the artist LS Lowry.
Answer: laurence stephen
Question: Who in athletics was known as the "Flying Housewife?
Answer: fanny blankers koen
Question: Who wrote the music for the 2002 film The Hours?
Answer: philip glass
Question: Who wrote the music for the 1993 film The Piano?
Answer: michael nyman
Question: Which politician faked his own death in Florida in 1974?
Answer: john stonehouse
Question: In which hospital was the first heart and lung transplant performed by Sir Magdi Yacoub?
Answer: harefield hospital
Question: What is the name of the Chilean mine in Copiapo, Chile, where 33 miners were trapped in 2010?
Answer: san jose
Question: Who was the first host of the TV show Pets Win Prizes?
Answer: danny baker
Question: Which vegetable has the Latin name brassica oleracea gemmifera?
Answer: brussels sprout
Question: Where were the Bee Gees twins Maurice and Robin Gibb born?
Answer: isle of man
Question: Which fictional girls' school did Ronald Searle create?
Answer: st trinian s
Question: What is the name of The Vicar of Dibley?
Answer: geraldine grainger
Question: What is the name of the heroine in Steig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy?
Answer: lisbeth salander
Question: What do the cities of Turku in Finland and Tallinn in Estonia have in common in 2011?
Answer: european capitals of culture
Question: What was the first full-length animated film?
Answer: snow white and seven dwarfs
Question: Which castle guards the main route through Purbeck Hills?
Answer: corfe castle
Question: The Pyg and the Miners' tracks and the Watkin Path are routes up which mountain?
Answer: snowdon
Question: How are Bob Ferris and Terry Collier known collectively?
Answer: likely lads
Question: Who wrote The Iceman Cometh, and disowned his daughter for marrying Charlie Chaplin?
Answer: eugene o neill
Question: Which protein is a major component of hair, skin, nails and tooth enamel?
Answer: keratin
Question: What is the title of a novel by A J Cronin, a ballet by Kenneth Macmillan and has the Latin name cercis canadensis?
Answer: judas tree
Question: Running for 46 miles, which line of the London Underground has the longest track?
Answer: central
Question: In which town in Greater Manchester did Harold Shipman practise as a GP before murdering at least 15 of his patients?
Answer: hyde
Question: Which BBC nightly news programme was presented by Cliff Michelmore, with Fyfe Robertson and Magnus Magnusson?
Answer: tonight
Question: Who changed his name from Gideon, and became MP for Tatton in 2001?
Answer: george osborne
Question: Who was wrongly convicted in 2001 of the murder of Jill Dando?
Answer: barry george
Question: The tune of the British national anthem appears within which composer's Jubilee Overture?
Answer: carl maria von weber
Question: Which composer (1822-1890) wrote a symphony in D and a symphonic poem called Le Chasseur Maudit (The Accursed Huntsman)?
Answer: cesar franck
Question: Britain, USA, Japan, Germany and France hold the five permanent executive directorships of which financial organisation?
Answer: world bank
Question: Who was stripped of his Saudi Arabian nationality in 1994, being considered a threat to the ruling House of Saud?
Answer: osama bin laden
Question: Death of a Princess, a TV drama based on a real event, caused a diplomatic incident between Britain and which country in 1980?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: Which artist painted 'The Opening of the Fifth Seal' in about 1610?
Answer: el greco
Question: Which son of King Agenor is the reputed founder of the city of Thebes in Ancient Greece?
Answer: cadmus
Question: In the Bible, who was the elder daughter of Laban who became the first wife of Jacob and the mother of Dinah?
Answer: leah
Question: Who in 1711 wrote the line 'A little learning is a dangerous thing'?
Answer: alexander pope
Question: Which TV cartoon series is about CIA agent Stan Smith and his family?
Answer: american dad
Question: Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2010 for his role as Otis Blake in the film 'Crazy Heart'?
Answer: jeff bridges
Question: Which British group released the albums `Definitely Maybe' and 'Be Here Now' in the 1990s?
Answer: oasis
Question: Which Italian composed the 1832 opera 'The Elixir of Love' (L'elisir d'amore')?
Answer: donizetti
Question: Which English king was born at Dunfermline Palace in 1600?
Answer: charles i
Question: Which artist painted 'Allegory on the Blessings of Peace' in about 1630?
Answer: rubens
Question: According to Virgil, who was the reputed founder of the city of Carthage?
Answer: dido
Question: In the Bible, who was the servant of Sarah who became the concubine of Abraham and mother of Ishmael?
Answer: hagar
Question: Who was the first Irish poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923?
Answer: w b yeats
Question: What is the name of the disc shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune, discovered in 1992, which contains dwarf planets and small icy bodies?
Answer: kuiper belt
Question: Who was the only US President to serve two non-consecutive terms of office?
Answer: grover cleveland
Question: Who plays the part of Charles Xavier in the 2011 film `X-Men First Class'?
Answer: james mcavoy
Question: Which British Prime Minister wrote a novel 'Savrola' in 1898, while serving as an army officer in India?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Which English crime writer coined the 'Guinness is good for you' slogan while working as a copywriter?
Answer: dorothy l sayers
Question: Which horse, trained by Jonjo O'Neil, won the 2010 Grand National?
Answer: don t push it
Question: Which TV cartoon series features the Griffin family of Quahog, Rhode Island?
Answer: family guy
Question: Who won the Best Actress Oscar in 2010 for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in the film 'The Blind Side'?
Answer: sandra bullock
Question: Which British group released the albums 'Pablo Honey', 'The Bands' and 'OK Computer' in the 1990s?
Answer: radiohead
Question: Which German composed the 1911 opera 'Der Rosenkavalier'?
Answer: richard strauss
Question: In which Irish county would you find the Cliffs of Moher?
Answer: clare
Question: What are the elements with atomic numbers from 57 to 71 in the periodic table called?
Answer: lanthanides
Question: Which American Football team won the 45th Superbowl on 6 February 2011?
Answer: green bay packers
Question: Which was the first Liverpool group to have their first three singles reach number one in the charts?
Answer: gerry and pacemakers
Question: Named after a-Dutch astronomer; what is the name of the spherical cloud of comets, which lies about 1 light year from the sun?
Answer: oort cloud
Question: Who was the US President who sought a third term of office when he ran as a Bull Moose or Progressive candidate?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: Who won the 2010 Wimbledon Men's Singles title?
Answer: rafael nadal
Question: Who plays the part Green Lantern in the 2011 film 'Green Lantern'?
Answer: ryan reynolds
Question: Which Booker Prize winner coined the advertising slogan 'Naughty by nice'?
Answer: salman rushdie
Question: Which horse, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, won the 2010 Epsom Derby?
Answer: workforce
Question: Which was the second Liverpool group to have their first three singles reach number one in the charts?
Answer: frankie goes to hollywood
Question: Who wrote the screenplay for 'You Only Live Twice'?
Answer: roald dahl
Question: In which Irish county would you find the Hill of Tara?
Answer: meath
Question: Which Spanish City was known by the Romans as "Hispalis"?
Answer: seville
Question: Which fashion designer born in New York introduced the "Polo" label in 1967?
Answer: ralph lauren
Question: Which City in France was known to the Romans as 'Argentoratum'?
Answer: strasbourg
Question: Which landlocked country in Africa was formerly called Nyasaland?
Answer: malawi
Question: Which is the most southerly golf course in Britain that the British Open can be played at?
Answer: royal st georges
Question: Which Roy Orbison song featured in the 'Only Fools and Horses' episode called 'Stage Fright'?
Answer: cryin
Question: Which American lost in a play off in 2009 British Open (golf)?
Answer: tom watson
Question: Which of the Goodies wore union jack underwear?
Answer: tim brooke taylor
Question: In French cookery, a dubarry sauce contains which vegetable?
Answer: cauliflower
Question: Which other flag was raised on Mount Everest alongside the flags of Great Britain and Nepal by Hillary and Tensing in 1953?
Answer: united nations
Question: Which Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced Premium Bonds?
Answer: harold macmillan
Question: The flag of which of the United States of America incorporates a Union Jack?
Answer: hawaii
Question: Which German footballer won the Golden Boot at the 2010 World Cup?
Answer: thomas muller
Question: The Latin 'Dunelm' relates to which Church of England diocese?
Answer: durham
Question: From 1881 Russian Jews and their property were subjected to periodic mob attacks. What were these attacks called?
Answer: pogroms
Question: Which actor played Dr Who between 1974 and 1980?
Answer: tom baker
Question: The artists Beardsley, Klimt, and Tiffany were leading figures in which art movement?
Answer: art nouveau
Question: Which artistic style is described as "The exploration of colour and technique to capture the transience of light"?
Answer: impressionism
Question: Before becoming an entertainer, what was the profession of George Formby?
Answer: jockey
Question: Which Shakespearian character's last words were "The Rest is Silence"?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Which chief executive of News International resigned in July 2011 over the phone hacking scandal?
Answer: rebekah brooks
Question: In the traditional rhyme on which day did Solomon Grundy die?
Answer: saturday
Question: What was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
Answer: lewis carroll
Question: The Scilly Isles are under the authority of which English county?
Answer: cornwall
Question: At which race circuit did Ayrton Senna die, in 1994?
Answer: imola
Question: Which comedian/entertainer had the catchphrase "You Lucky People"?
Answer: tommy trinder
Question: What was Abba's only Number One single in the USA?
Answer: dancing queen
Question: On leaving Number 10 Margaret Thatcher became which Baroness of where?
Answer: kesteven
Question: What was Abba's last Number One single in the UK?
Answer: super trouper
Question: Which legendary actress spoke for the first time on screen in the 1930 film "Anna Christie"?
Answer: greta garbo
Question: Who wrote the book "The French Lieutenant's Woman" in 1969?
Answer: john fowles
Question: The Brandy Kirsch is distilled from which fruit?
Answer: cherries
Question: The 1956 film "Forbidden Planet" was based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: tempest
Question: Which 1961 film musical was based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: west side story
Question: Which US city, originally named Fort Duquesne, is now named after a British Prime Minister?
Answer: pittsburgh
Question: Which US President was nicknamed 'The Little Magician'?
Answer: martin van buren
Question: The deadly poison, Ricin, is produced from which plant?
Answer: castor oil plant
Question: Fullerite is a man-made allotrope of which chemical element?
Answer: carbon
Question: Malin Head, the most northerly point in Ireland is in which county?
Answer: donegal
Question: Who rode Shergar to victory in the 1981 Derby?
Answer: walter swinburn
Question: On which horse did Lester Piggott ride his last Derby winner in 1984?
Answer: teenoso
Question: """Suicide is Painless"" is the theme music to which film and long running TV series?"
Answer: m s h
Question: The music of which classical composer was used as the theme of "The Lone Ranger"?
Answer: rossini
Question: From which ballet company did Rudolph Nuryev defect to the west?
Answer: kirov
Question: Rudolph Hess has the distinction of being the last prisoner in Spandau and which other historical prison?
Answer: tower of london
Question: """O Brave new world that has such people in it"" is from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: tempest
Question: What was the name of the punk character played by Kenny Everett?
Answer: sid snot
Question: Java and the Malayan Peninsula are separated by which stretch of water?
Answer: strait of malacca
Question: The game of "conkers" goes back to Roman times, using what?
Answer: shells
Question: Pica Pica is the scientific name for which common bird?
Answer: magpie
Question: Sternus vulgaris is the scientific name for which common bird?
Answer: starling