CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who was the last Viceroy of India prior to India gaining independence?
Answer: earl mountbatten
Question: What's the name of the actor who played 'Huggy Bear' in the Starsky and Hutch TV series?
Answer: antonio fargas
Question: In which English county was the 1970's TV series 'Poldark' set?
Answer: cornwall
Question: Who played the original 'Granddad' in Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: lennard pearce
Question: Which child actress starred in Tiger Bay (1959), Pollyanna (1960) and The Parent Trap (1961)?
Answer: hayley mills
Question: Can you name the actress who links 'The Darling Buds of May' and 'Rosemary and Thyme'?
Answer: pam ferris
Question: In the 'Disney' film the Lion King, who provided the voice of the evil lion 'Scar'?
Answer: jeremy irons
Question: Which band recorded the soundtrack to the 1986 film, 'Highlander'?
Answer: queen
Question: Which war was said to be 'The war to end all wars'?
Answer: world war i
Question: A tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families?
Answer: romeo and juliet
Question: After appearing in 11 films together, including: The Long, Hot Summer (1958) Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) From the Terrace (1960) Paris Blues (1961) A New Kind of Love (1963) What a Way to Go! (1964), the couple lived their private life together away from Hollywood's glare?
Answer: paul newman and joanne woodward
Question: A British married couple who are both television presenters and columnists. They are well known for presenting the daytime television programme This Morning from 1988 until 2001 and are still regulars on our screen?
Answer: richard madeley and judy finnigan
Question: This couple were iconic dance partners who made motion pictures together from 1933 - 1949. They made a total of 10 movies?
Answer: fred astaire may 10 1899 june 22 1987 and ginger rogers july 16 1911 april 25 1995
Question: The 'Society of Friends' are more commonly known as what?
Answer: quakers
Question: Who sang 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' with Elton John?
Answer: kiki dee
Question: Who wrote the play containing the mythical 'Bunbury'?
Answer: oscar wilde
Question: What's the Charles Dickens novel in which you would find the character 'Smike'?
Answer: nicholas nickleby
Question: What is the name of the Italian lake with the town of Stresa on it's shores?
Answer: lake maggiore
Question: A film star/director who won an Oscar for 'Reds' - Who is he?
Answer: warren beatty
Question: Kiss Me Kate is a musical version of which of Shakespeare's works?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: What tree produces 'Conkers' each autumn (fall)?
Answer: horse chestnut
Question: What is the German name of Hitler's book about his life?
Answer: mein kampf
Question: What is the Hebrew name for the 'Jewish Day of Atonement?
Answer: yom kippur
Question: From where did the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales start?
Answer: kensington palace
Question: Eric Faukner; Derek Longmuir and Les McKeown were members of which 70's pop group?
Answer: bay city rollers
Question: Who starred in 'A Countess From Hong Kong', his last film, in 1966?
Answer: charlie chaplin
Question: Who succeeded Giscard D'Estaing in the French Presidential election of 1981?
Answer: francois mitterand
Question: Who did Rocky Marciano beat to take the world heavyweight championship in 1952?
Answer: jersey joe walcott
Question: The bells were ringing for Chuck Berry when this song made it to No1. His first and only British No. 1. What song?
Answer: my ding ling
Question: Which English football club won the league title the most during the 1980s?
Answer: liverpool
Question: For which well known 60s pop group did Reg Presley sing?
Answer: troggs
Question: Who piloted the first aeroplane to cross the English Channel from Calais to Dover in 1909?
Answer: louis bleriot
Question: In what town was the Royal Navy College founded in 1903?
Answer: dartmouth
Question: Who became the owner of The Times newspaper in 1981?
Answer: rupert murdoch
Question: Which city should have hosted the 'cancelled' Summer Olympics, in 1944?
Answer: london
Question: Many of us know of 'Mel C' or Sporty Spice. What's her real name?
Answer: melanie chisholm
Question: Which team held on to the European Cup for the fifth consecutive year in 1960?
Answer: real madrid
Question: Name the 17 year old player who scored two goals in the 1958 World Cup Final?
Answer: pele
Question: What is the name of the home of Clydebank?
Answer: kilbowie park
Question: What other title is given to 'The First Lord of the Treasury'?
Answer: prime minister
Question: England World Cup trio: Bobby Moore; Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters, came from which team?
Answer: west ham
Question: Grace Kelly met Prince Rainier whilst filming which movie in Monaco?
Answer: to catch thief
Question: In which city would you find 'Copacabana Beach' and 'Ipanema'?
Answer: rio de janeiro
Question: Which character was played by Nyree Dawn Porter in 'The Forsyte Saga'?
Answer: irene
Question: Who played 'Doyle' in the TV series The Professionals?
Answer: martin shaw
Question: Who played 'Holly Golightly' in Breakfast at Tiffany's?
Answer: audrey hepburn
Question: In which sport would you see a Redskin or a Dolphin score three points for a field goal?
Answer: american football
Question: In which equestrian event would you compete in the puissance?
Answer: show jumping
Question: On a golf course, what is normally the only place you would be allowed to mark, lift and clean your ball?
Answer: on putting green
Question: Which London football club installed an artificial pitch, which was later banned, in the 1980s?
Answer: queens park rangers
Question: Which word is given to a winning tennis serve that the opponent can’t return?
Answer: ace
Question: Name the New Zealand middle distance runner who claimed both the 800m and 1500 m Gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics?
Answer: peter snell
Question: Who was the US swimmer who won 7 gold medals and created a new world record for each event at the Munich Olympics in 1972?
Answer: mark spitz
Question: Boxing 1975. Who did Muhammad Ali beat in the 'Thrilla in Manila'?
Answer: joe frazier
Question: Name the Dick Francis mount that collapsed approaching the finishing line in the 1956 'Grand National'?
Answer: devon loch
Question: Which 'Royal' won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2006?
Answer: zara phillips
Question: Who was the first man to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year twice?
Answer: henry cooper
Question: On which horse did David Broome win the 1966 King George V Gold Cup?
Answer: mister softee
Question: On which London Underground line would you find 'Heathrow Airport?
Answer: piccadilly
Question: What was the full name of the infamous German 'SS'?
Answer: schutz staffel
Question: Which actress starred in 'Funny Girl'?
Answer: barbra streisand
Question: Featuring a pig named Napoleon! Who wrote 'Animal Farm?
Answer: george orwell
Question: Name the 1972 musical starring David Essex as Jesus Christ?
Answer: godspell
Question: Who starred in the 1933 comedy satire film 'Duck Soup'?
Answer: marx brothers
Question: What character was played by Gary Cooper in 'High Noon'?
Answer: will kane
Question: There are only two landlocked countries in South America. Which are they?
Answer: paraguay and bolivia
Question: In which American city will you find the 'Guggenheim Museum'?
Answer: new york
Question: Remember the song' Where Do You Go To My Lovely'? Who wrote it?
Answer: peter sarstedt
Question: What was the former name of the famous ship 'The Golden Hind'?
Answer: pelican
Question: Which actor played the title roll in 'Dixon of Dock Green'?
Answer: jack warner
Question: Who was Bristol born Archibald Leach better known as?
Answer: cary grant
Question: Which English all-rounder announced his retirement from cricket in July 1993?
Answer: ian botham
Question: What attraction opened its gates for the first time in Mame-la-Vallee, Paris in 1992?
Answer: euro disney
Question: Which world record did Jonathon Edwards smash in 1995?
Answer: triple jump
Question: Who was the author of 1990 novel 'House of Cards'?
Answer: michael dobbs
Question: Who married Elizabeth Taylor in 1991 to become her eighth husband?
Answer: larry fortensky
Question: At which racecourse will you find the grave of racehorse 'Red Rum?
Answer: aintree
Question: In what country will you find the 'Giants Causeway'?
Answer: northern ireland
Question: Who was the first female tennis player to win $1 million for a match?
Answer: chris evert
Question: Which 11 year old British actress had a part in the 1943 film 'Lassie Come Home'?
Answer: elizabeth taylor
Question: Which American President along with his Soviet Union counterpart signed the 1974 SALT Treaty?
Answer: richard nixon
Question: The 1988 album 'First of a Million Kisses' was the first album by which group?
Answer: fairground attraction
Question: Which State became the 11th of the United States in 1788?
Answer: new york
Question: If you were a numismatist, what would you be studying?
Answer: coins and medals
Question: Who created the character 'Count Dracula'?
Answer: bram stoker
Question: Where in London will you find the Cenotaph memorial?
Answer: whitehall
Question: Which musical film soundtrack was in the charts for a staggering 382 weeks?
Answer: sound of music
Question: Which actress played Cathy Gale in 'The Avengers'?
Answer: honor blackman
Question: Mariah Carey was joined by which group on the 2000 single 'Against All Odds'?
Answer: westlife
Question: Lancelot Brown,"England's greatest gardener". Born: August 30, 1716, Northumberland. By what name was he better Known?
Answer: capability brown
Question: Who wrote the book Schindler's Ark which was also an (Oscar winning film)?
Answer: thomas keneally
Question: George Stubbs, 1724 - 1806, famous English artist, is remembered mainly for painting what?
Answer: horses
Question: What sporting club is based at Smiths Lawn, in Windsor Great Park?
Answer: guards polo club
Question: Born Farrokh Bulsara on 24th of September 1946 and died in November 1991. Who do we remember him as?
Answer: freddie mercury
Question: The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by which English author?
Answer: rudyard kipling
Question: In what movie did Elvis Presley play a Red Indian?
Answer: stay away joe
Question: Drakes ship the Golden Hind(e) was originally called what?
Answer: pelican
Question: What is the name of the passage of water between North and South Island, New Zealand?
Answer: cook strait
Question: Which US entertainer had a nickname derived from the words 'satchel mouth'?
Answer: louis armstrong
Question: In a Shakespeare play, who murders 'King Duncan'?
Answer: macbeth
Question: A 'plant' in snooker involves a minimum of how many balls?
Answer: three
Question: In the movie 'The Longest Day' who played the part of General Norman Cota?
Answer: robert mitchum
Question: What is the name of the professor in the board game Cluedo?
Answer: professor plum
Question: In what card game would you see Stamen, Blackwood and Gerber?
Answer: bridge
Question: What breed was John Steinbeck's dog Charley?
Answer: standard poodle
Question: The male of what species explodes his internal genitalia on mating - then dies?
Answer: honeybee
Question: Born Erik Weisz in Budapest Hungary. By what name did he become famous?
Answer: harry houdini
Question: In the novel 'Call of the Wild' by Jack London, what was the dogs name?
Answer: buck
Question: In what HG Wells book did we meet the  Eoli and the Morlocks?
Answer: time machine
Question: Charles Bingley was a character in what classic Jane Austen novel?
Answer: pride and prejudice
Question: 15Â  Which city is the setting for Shakespeare's (comedy) play 'Measure for Measure'?
Answer: vienna
Question: Vodka, Galliano and orange juice make up which cocktail?
Answer: harvey wallbanger
Question: The Great Blue Hole is a large submarine sinkhole off the coast of which Central American country?
Answer: belize
Question: What was the operational name of the Battle of Iwo Jima?
Answer: operation detachment
Question: Ray Bolger played who in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: scarecrow
Question: Percy LeBaron Spencer invented what in 1945 in USA?
Answer: microwave oven
Question: What was the name of the bear in the Muppet Show?
Answer: fozzie
Question: What was the name of the taxi company, shown on TV's TAXI?
Answer: sunshine cab company
Question: The oil of which spice is traditionally used for the cure of toothache?
Answer: cloves
Question: What kind of monkey gives it's name to a type of blood group?
Answer: rhesus
Question: In which Shakespeare play will you find the line 'Beware the Ides of March'?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: In which 1969 film did Michael Caine play Charlie Croker?
Answer: italian job
Question: Who is the central character in the film series 'The Hunger Games?
Answer: katniss everdeen
Question: What was the name of the female police officer, shot outside the Libyan Embassy?
Answer: yvonne fletcher
Question: What was David Jason's character called in 'Porridge'?
Answer: blanco
Question: Little Marvel and Kelvedon Wonder are types of which vegetable?
Answer: pea
Question: Who became the leader of the Labour party in 1980?
Answer: denis healey
Question: In the Bible, which miracle can be found in all four Gospel's?
Answer: feeding of five thousand
Question: In the nursery rhyme, who found Lucy Locket's lost pocket?
Answer: kitty fisher
Question: What was the name of the little girl who owned Bagpuss?
Answer: emily
Question: On which Apollo mission did Armstrong and Aldrin land on the moon?
Answer: apollo 11
Question: In which country was former motor racing driver Ayrton Senna born?
Answer: brazil
Question: Irvine Welsh wrote which novel about Scottish heroin addicts?
Answer: trainspotting
Question: Sardines and pilchards belong to which family of fish?
Answer: herring
Question: In 1923 who was the 1st American to swim across the English Channel?
Answer: henry sullivan
Question: In 1927 who played the lead role in the 1st talking motion picture, "The Jazz Singer"?
Answer: al jolson
Question: In the song, Solomon Grundy was born on Monday, what happened to him on Thursday?
Answer: took ill
Question: Who played Vivien in the BBC comedy The Young Ones?
Answer: adrian edmondson
Question: The explorer Abel Tasman gave his name to the island of Tasmania - but what nationality was he?
Answer: dutch
Question: Who played Alison in At Home With The Braithwaiteâs?
Answer: amanda redman
Question: What daytime job did Corporal Jones have in Dadâs Army?
Answer: butcher
Question: Best selling author, Mary Westmacott, is better known as whom?
Answer: agatha christie
Question: Who wrote the 'Brer Rabbit' books?
Answer: joel chandler harris
Question: The leaves of which plant are said to heal a nettle sting?
Answer: dock leaves
Question: Who returned as president of Uganda after the fall of Idi Amin?
Answer: milton obote
Question: Which football competition awards the Henri Delaunay trophy to the winner?
Answer: uefa european football championship
Question: Whose ear did Mike Tyson bite in Las Vegas 1997?
Answer: evander holyfield
Question: Which musical instrument is associated with jazz musician Kid Ory?
Answer: trombone
Question: Which vegetable is called rutabaga in the USA and neeps in Scotland?
Answer: swede
Question: Who played the part of Cathy Gale in the Avengers?
Answer: honor blackman
Question: What is the name of Nottingham's test cricket ground?
Answer: trent bridge
Question: The 'Toreador's Song' comes from which well known opera?
Answer: carmen
Question: Who did Rocky Marciano beat in his last World Heavyweight title fight?
Answer: archie moore
Question: What is the surname of the character played by Windsor Davis in 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum'?
Answer: williams
Question: In the song Waltzing Matilda - What is a Jumbuck?
Answer: sheep
Question: What was the name of the character played by Dustin Hoffman in 'The Graduate?
Answer: benjamin braddock
Question: Who played 'The Hudson Sisters' in the 1962 film 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane'?
Answer: bette davis and joan crawford
Question: Who played 'Marty McFly in the film 'Back to the Future'?
Answer: michael j fox
Question: The actor William Henry Pratt born in 1887 was better known as whom?
Answer: boris karloff
Question: In which film did Sharon Stone play the character 'Catherine Tramell?
Answer: basic instinct
Question: Nancy Davis and Jane Wyman were the wives of which late actor?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Which Disney movie first featured the song 'When You wish Upon A Star'?
Answer: pinocchio
Question: Can you name the only actor to appear as a main character in both 'The Magnificent Seven' and 'The Dirty Dozen'?
Answer: charles bronson
Question: What is the name of Dennis the Menace's dog?
Answer: gnasher
Question: Can you name the singer of the title track for 'You Only Live Twice'?
Answer: nancy sinatra
Question: Can you name the singer of the title track for '1965 - Thunderball,'?
Answer: tom jones
Question: Can you name the singer of the title track for '1974 - The Man With The Golden Gun'?
Answer: lulu
Question: Can you name the singer of the title track for '1981 - For Your Eyes Only'?
Answer: sheena easton
Question: Can you name the singer of the title track for '1989 - Licence to Kill'?
Answer: gladys knight
Question: Ringo Starr narrates which children's TV series?
Answer: thomas tank engine
Question: What was the first Beatles song licensed for use in a Nike advert?
Answer: revolution
Question: Who won the Tour de France 4 times 1961 to 1964?
Answer: jacques anquetil
Question: Quinsy is the inflammation of which body organ due to abscess?
Answer: tonsils
Question: Which English King was known as ' (name) The Great'?
Answer: alfred great
Question: Can you name the London theatre named after Queen Victoria's husband?
Answer: royal albert hall
Question: When you are ironing clothes, which require the greatest heat, wool, linen or nylon?
Answer: linen
Question: 'Better to die than to be a coward' is the motto of which famous Army fighting force?
Answer: ghurkhas
Question: What do sumo wrestlers throw in the ring before they engage in combat?
Answer: salt
Question: What was the operational squadron number of the Dambusters?
Answer: 617 squadron
Question: Where on the human body is the skin the thinnest?
Answer: eyelids
Question: Who received a medal in 1838 for assisting her lighthouse keeper father rescue five people from a shipwreck ?
Answer: grace darling
Question: What was the name of the Brighton hotel bombed by the IRA in 1984?
Answer: grand
Question: Which two tribes combined to defeat General Custer's forces at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Answer: sioux and cheyenne
Question: Which was the only state in the USA to be named after a President?
Answer: washington
Question: On what date was John Lennon murdered in New York?
Answer: 8 december 1980
Question: In which city is the house where 'Anne Frank and her family' hid from the Nazis during WW2?
Answer: amsterdam
Question: What was the name of France's longest serving King who died in September 1715?
Answer: louis xiv
Question: In the book 'Lost Horizon' by James Hilton, what was the name of the imaginary paradise created in the book?
Answer: shangri la
Question: Charles Cruft organised his first dog show to promote what?
Answer: dog biscuits
Question: Which Irish actor played 'Macbeth at 'The Old Vic in 1980?
Answer: peter o toole
Question: In the 1987 film 'Cry Freedom' which character was played by Denzel Washington?
Answer: stephen biko
Question: What was the full name of poet T.S. Eliot?
Answer: thomas stearns eliot
Question: You would use Whisky and Sweet Vermouth to make which cocktail?
Answer: manhattan
Question: You would use Crème de Cacao, Cream and Brandy to make which cocktail?
Answer: brandy alexander
Question: A 'xenophobe' dislikes or is afraid of what?
Answer: strangers
Question: What six letter 'B' word means Violation of a law or contract?
Answer: breach
Question: Capuchin, Spider and Colobus are types of what?
Answer: monkey
Question: Born Lucille Fay LeSueur, by what name was she better known?
Answer: joan crawford
Question: In the film 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' What character was played by Bob Hoskins?
Answer: eddie valiant
Question: In 1961 Marilyn Monroe and Clarke Gable both made their final movie. What was the name of the film?
Answer: misfits
Question: What character did Dustin Hoffman play in 'The Graduate'?
Answer: benjamin braddock
Question: Who wrote the songs for the classic film 'Oklahoma'?
Answer: rodgers hammerstein
Question: Alfred Hitchcock made this movie twice, the first time in 1934 and again in 1956. What's the film ?
Answer: man who knew too much
Question: In the Disney movie 'Aladdin', what kind of pet does Jasmine have?
Answer: tiger
Question: Who played 'Gertie' in the film 'E.T.'?
Answer: drew barrymore
Question: What famous cartoon character made his debut in the film 'Steamboat Willy'?
Answer: mickey mouse
Question: Which actress took the lead roll in the 1988 film 'Working Girl'?
Answer: melanie griffith
Question: Which Rock star joined Mel Gibson in the film 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'?
Answer: tina turner
Question: Born on the 21st July 1899, who wrote the novel 'A Farewell To Arms'?
Answer: ernest hemingway
Question: Which American gangster was said to have been shot by FBI agents outside a Chicago cinema on July 22nd 1934?
Answer: john dillinger
Question: He was born in 1913 and was Labour Party Leader from: 1980 - 1983. Who was he?
Answer: michael foot
Question: Who was he: First to swim the English Channel and later died attempting to swim across Niagara Falls?
Answer: captain matthew webb
Question: Premiered in 1965, what is the title of the Beatles second film?
Answer: help
Question: Who wrote the classic novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
Answer: emily brontë
Question: What was Tony Benn's title before disclaiming his peerage in 1963?
Answer: viscount stansgate
Question: Bob Dylan; Eric Clapton and George Harrison performed a charity concert in aid of which country in 1971?
Answer: bangladesh
Question: Who played the title role in the film 'Lawrence of Arabia'?
Answer: peter o toole
Question: Opened in August 1778, what is the name of Milan's famous opera house?
Answer: la scala
Question: Who reached the top spot in the UK charts with 'Please Don't Tease' in August 1960?
Answer: cliff richard and shadows
Question: Who won his first Wimbledon Men's Singles Crown in 1993?
Answer: pete sampras
Question: Who was the original Beatles drummer who left the group in 1962?
Answer: pete best
Question: Who played the leading roll in the film 'Dirty Dancing'?
Answer: patrick swayze
Question: First shown in London in 1964, which musical is based on the legend of King Arthur?
Answer: camelot
Question: Which England cricketer scored a massive 364 at the Oval in August 1938?
Answer: len hutton
Question: Who was the only Heavy weight boxing champion to retire undefeated?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: Who became the World Chess Champion after beating Boris Spassky in 1972?
Answer: bobby fischer
Question: In 1893 which country were the first to allow women to vote?
Answer: new zealand
Question: First shown in 1984, which sit-com featured the characters Cliff and Clair Huxtable?
Answer: cosby show
Question: What is the name of Cleo Laine's husband who died in February 2010?
Answer: johnny dankworth
Question: After only 33 days in office, which Pope died in 1978?
Answer: pope john paul 1
Question: Who played James Herriot in the TV drama series 'All Creatures Great and Small'?
Answer: christopher timothy
Question: Who played Anna in the film version of 'The King and I'?
Answer: deborah kerr
Question: In the TV series 'Rawhide', what was Clint Eastwood's character called?
Answer: rowdy yates
Question: The 'Battle of Waterloo' was fought in which country?
Answer: belgium
Question: What song did Cliff Richard sing in the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest in which he came third?
Answer: power to all our friends
Question: Whitney Houston reached No.1 in the UK charts in October 1988 with what song?
Answer: one moment in time
Question: Which 'Blue Peter' presenter was once a Dr. Who assistant?
Answer: peter purves
Question: Which English Palace was almost destroyed by fire in 1834?
Answer: palace of westminster