CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: 'Sir Anthony Absolute' is a principal character from which play by Richard Sheridan?
Answer: rivals
Question: What name is given to the broad sash, worn with a Kimono?
Answer: obi
Question: The grand champion in which sport is known as a Yokozuna?
Answer: sumo wrestling
Question: What was the forename of the fictional detective, 'Inspector Maigret'.
Answer: jules
Question: In the 'Planets Suite' by Holst, which planet is the 'bringer of jollity'?
Answer: jupiter
Question: Bolton Wanderers won the first Cup Final played at Wembley, who won the second?
Answer: newcastle united
Question: What name is given to the pads of tissue in the upper part ofthe throat, behind the nasal passages?
Answer: adenoids
Question: Which British architect designed the 'Senedd' (the Welsh Assembly building).
Answer: richard rogers
Question: What name is given to a geometrical figure with four equal sides, but no right angles?
Answer: rhombus
Question: Name the saint who as abbot of Lindisfarne promoted the cause of Celtic Christianity at the Great Synod of Whitby.His body lies in Durham Cathedral?
Answer: cuthbert
Question: Which manufacturer makes the engines for the McLaren Formula One cars?
Answer: mercedes benz
Question: Which is the only English city on the River Wye?
Answer: hereford
Question: In TV's 'The Magic Roundabout', who rides around on a tricycle?
Answer: mr mchenry
Question: Berengaria, wife of Richard I of England, was a princess of which European kingdom, now part of Spain?
Answer: navarre
Question: Which major river of the USA forms the border between the states of California and Arizona?
Answer: colorado
Question: Preston North End were football League Champions in the first two years of its existance, which team won the third year?
Answer: everton
Question: Which striped or checked cotton cloth takes its name from the Malay word for striped?
Answer: gingham
Question: Which cricket county's 'Twenty/20' team are known as the 'Spitfires'?
Answer: kent
Question: 'Marmande','Tiny Tim', 'Harbinger', and 'Delicante' are all types of what?
Answer: tomato
Question: Name the only county in Southern Ireland (Irish Rep.) that begins with the initial letter 'S'?
Answer: sligo
Question: Which major river of the USA forms the border between the states of Nebraska and Iowa?
Answer: missouri
Question: The characters 'Odette' and 'Odile' are featured in which ballet?
Answer: swan lake
Question: What name is given to the tube which runs from the ear to the back of the nose?
Answer: eustachian tube
Question: Which port lies at the mouth of the Great Ouse?
Answer: king s lynn
Question: What name is given to a four sided geometrical figure, with only one pair of sides parallel?
Answer: trapezium
Question: For what product is the town of Honiton, Devon, famous?
Answer: lace
Question: Name the monk, born a few years after the death of St. Cuthbert, whose great work was his 'Ecclesiastical History of England'?
Answer: bede
Question: Catherine, wife of King Charles II of England, was a princess from which Portuguese Royal House?
Answer: braganza
Question: What was the name of the first make of Rolls Royce car?
Answer: silver ghost
Question: In Egyptian mythology, what was the name of the cow- headed goddess of love?
Answer: hathor
Question: In the 'Planets Suite' by Holst, which planet is 'The Magician'?
Answer: uranus
Question: Which king did Henry Bolingbroke depose, and then succeed as Henry IV in 1399?
Answer: richard ii
Question: Name the only county in Southern Ireland (Irish Rep.) that begins with the initial letter 'T'?
Answer: tipperary
Question: Which children's TV series, created by Oliver Postgate, features the 'Soup Dragon'?
Answer: clangers
Question: Name the witch who is the best friend of 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'?
Answer: willow
Question: Which American singer-songwriter's only British hit was in 1965 with 'Eve Of Destruction'?
Answer: barry mcguire
Question: According to Tobias Smollet, who was "the great cham(ruler) of literature"?
Answer: dr samuel johnson
Question: Which US boxing champion had the nickname 'Hit Man'?
Answer: thomas hearns
Question: What was the name of the first ship to circumnavigate the world?
Answer: victoria
Question: In 2007, who was considered to have been racially abused by Jane Goody and others in the TV show 'Big Brother'?
Answer: shilpa shetty
Question: Only one standard gauge branch line survived in the Lake District. It runs from Oxenholme to which terminus?
Answer: windermere
Question: In which town do the Celtic Crusaders Rugby League team play their home matches?
Answer: bridgend
Question: Which television presenter was sacked by the BBC in February for comparing someone to a 'Golliwog'?
Answer: carol thatcher
Question: 'The Curse Of The Black Pearl' was the first of which series of films?
Answer: pirates of caribbean
Question: Who stabbed 'Carmen' in the opera of the same name?
Answer: don jose
Question: Who wrote the children's novel 'What Katy Did' and the 'Katy' series of books?
Answer: susan coolidge
Question: The 'Battle of Stamford Bridge' was fought in 1066 – which is the nearest city to the battlefield?
Answer: york
Question: Canaletto famously painted views of Venice and which other city?
Answer: london
Question: Lorraine Chase used to say "Nice ere innit" when advertising which product?
Answer: campari
Question: What food was named after a composer by the French chef Escoffier?
Answer: tournedos rossini
Question: There are two Household Cavalry regiments. Name either?
Answer: life guards and blues and royals
Question: Which 2004 film was about Che Guevara's early days traveling across South America?
Answer: motorcycle diaries
Question: """She is a woman, therefore may be wooed, she is woman, therefore may be won, she is Lavinia therefore must be loved"" is a quotation from which of Shakespeare's plays?"
Answer: titus andronicus
Question: In 'Eastenders', what part is played by Patsy Palmer - full name required?
Answer: bianca jackson
Question: From what type of tree do we get Turpentine?
Answer: pine trees
Question: Which English cathedral has three spires named 'The Ladies of the Vale'?
Answer: lichfield
Question: Which two French words on an envelope indicate that a letter is to be sent by Air Mail?
Answer: par avion
Question: In baseball, what word is used when a batsman completely misses the ball?
Answer: strike
Question: In which US state is the atomic and space research centre at Los Alamos?
Answer: new mexico
Question: In 1999 who became the First Minister of Scotland?
Answer: donald dewar
Question: Which South African scored the first goal in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals?
Answer: siphiwe tshabalala
Question: What is the title of the first novel by Robert Ludlum featuring 'Jason Bourne'?
Answer: bourne identity
Question: Who played 'Chandler Bing' in the US TV series 'Friends'?
Answer: matthew perry
Question: Which of Henry VIII's wives had previously been married twice, to Edward Borough and John Neville?
Answer: catherine parr
Question: Which politician did English actress Thandie Newton play in the 2008 film 'W' (pron. Dubya)?
Answer: condoleeza rice
Question: Which South African choral group first came to prominence after featuring on the Paul Simon album 'Graceland'?
Answer: ladysmith black mambazo
Question: In which class did boxer Amir Khan win the Silver medal at the 2004 Olympics?
Answer: lightweight
Question: The 'Pet Shop Boys' are Neil Tennant and who?
Answer: chris lowe
Question: In which country is Grossglockner (Big Bell) the highest mountain?
Answer: austria
Question: Which monastery founded by St. Benedict was bombed by the Allies in February 1944?
Answer: monte cassino
Question: Which civil servant at the Ministry of Defence was tried and acquitted in 1985 of leaking documents to Tam Dalyell MP about the sinking of the 'Belgrano' during the Falklands War?
Answer: clive ponting
Question: Whose recent book is called 'At Home: A Short History of Private Life'?
Answer: bill bryson
Question: Which star of the 1970's sitcom 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin' has been a regular in 'Coronation Street' since the 1980's?
Answer: sue nicholls
Question: At which RAF base in Lincolnshire were 617 Squadron 'The Dambusters' based in 1943?
Answer: scampton
Question: What was the first name of 'Captain Darling' in the TV series 'Blackadder Goes Forth'?
Answer: kevin
Question: How are the duo comprising Marc Almond and David Ball known?
Answer: soft cell
Question: In which country was the first Formula One Grand Prix of 2010 held?
Answer: bahrain
Question: Who plays the title role in the 1995 film 'Jefferson In Paris'?
Answer: nick nolte
Question: What was the name of the group formed by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel in 1957?
Answer: tom jerry
Question: In which cycling event did Rebecca Romero win the Gold medal at the 2008 Olympics?
Answer: individual pursuit
Question: Brittany Ferries run a service from Plymouth to which Spanish port?
Answer: santander
Question: Of which Caribbean Commonwealth country, named by Columbus after the Italian for Sunday, is Nicholas Liverpool the Prime Minister?
Answer: dominica
Question: After the death of Henry VIII, Catherine Parr married Thomas, the brother of which of Henry's other wives?
Answer: jane seymour
Question: With atomic number 40, which is the last element alphabetically in the Periodic Table?
Answer: zirconium
Question: Who played 'Sam Malone' in the US TV series 'Cheers'?
Answer: ted danson
Question: In 1999 who became First Minister of the Northern Ireland Executive?
Answer: david trimble
Question: Which is the sixth book of the Old Testament, immediately following the Pentateuch?
Answer: joshua
Question: What name completes these lyrics from a hit by 'The Crystals': "I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still, Da-do ron-ron-ron, da-do ron-ron, somebody told me
Answer: bill
Question: How are 'Jean de Dinteville' and 'Georges de Selve' described in a famous painting by Holbein?
Answer: ambassadors
Question: Who was the headline act on the 'Pyramid Stage' on Sunday at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival?
Answer: beyonce
Question: The novels of Jo Nesbo which feature detective 'Harry Hole' were originally written in which European language?
Answer: norwegian
Question: By what two word name was the Rugby Football League known between 1895 and 1922?
Answer: northern union
Question: Which heritage railway runs seven miles inland from a station on the Cumbrian coast to Dalegarth Station?
Answer: ravenglass eskdale railway
Question: Of what is 'Pogonophobia' a fear?
Answer: beards
Question: Which is the largest of the five former Soviet Republics in Central Asia?
Answer: kazakhstan
Question: Which fictional character, born at 'Daisy Hill Puppy Farm', has two sisters and five brothers including 'Marbles', 'Olaf' and 'Spike'?
Answer: snoopy
Question: In which 1947 film starring Deborah Kerr, were a group of nuns sent to the Himalayas to set up a convent?
Answer: black narcissus
Question: Who became known as 'The Rochdale Cowboy' after a record of 1975?
Answer: mike harding
Question: What is the term for the act of throwing someone or something out of a window?
Answer: defenestration
Question: 'Scheelite' and 'Wolframite' are ores of which metal?
Answer: tungsten
Question: In which north west town do councillors represent wards called Werneth, Saddleworth South and Shaw?
Answer: oldham
Question: The 1996 film 'Space Jam' centres on which sport?
Answer: basketball
Question: 'Prog Rock' developed in the late 60's and early 70's. For what word is 'Prog' a short version?
Answer: progressive
Question: What is the reflexive form of the singular personal pronoun 'I', where 'me' is the objective form?
Answer: myself
Question: In which north west town do councillors represent wards called Bispham, Squires Gate and Bloomfield?
Answer: blackpool
Question: 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' released in 1967 was the debut album by which group?
Answer: pink floyd
Question: In German history 1888 is known as the 'Year of the Three Emperors' (or Kaisers). What was the name of the third Kaiser?
Answer: wilhelm ii
Question: Which national Sunday newspaper is published in 'Berliner format'?
Answer: observer
Question: Piers Gaveston was a favourite of which king, who made him the first Earl of Cornwall?
Answer: edward ii
Question: Who sculpted the Pieta in the north aisle of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City?
Answer: michelangelo buonarroti
Question: Who was the England wicketkeeper in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Final?
Answer: craig kieswetter
Question: What is the name of the farm on which the Glastonbury Festival is held?
Answer: worthy
Question: Which actress played 'Captain Emma Ridley' in the 1980's ITV comedy series 'Hallelujah !', set in a Salvation Army citadel?
Answer: thora hird
Question: Which portmanteau word describes the fans of the TV show 'Glee'?
Answer: gleeks
Question: Which word completes the name of these British butterflies - 'Lulworth', 'Chequered' and 'Grizzled'?
Answer: skipper
Question: For which Rugby League club did Neil Fox play over 550 games between 1956 and 1974, apart from one season with Bradford Northern?
Answer: wakefield trinity
Question: In the comic strip 'Peanuts', how is 'Patricia Reichardt' usually known?
Answer: peppermint patty
Question: The Caspian Sea has borders with five countries. Which is missing from this list - Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan?
Answer: iran
Question: The 1618 'Defenestration of Prague' triggered which war?
Answer: thirty years war
Question: Where were the minerals 'Pyroxferroite', 'Armalcolite' and 'Tranquillityite' first discovered in 1969 and 1971?
Answer: moon
Question: What was the B-side of Jasper Carrott's hit record of 1975 - 'Funky Moped' - banned by the BBC?
Answer: magic roundabout
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Mr. Norris Changes Trains', published in 1935?
Answer: christopher isherwood
Question: In which US state is 'Blue Grass Airport', in Fayette County?
Answer: kentucky
Question: Jessica Taylor was a member of 'Liberty X'. Which sportsman did she marry in 2007?
Answer: kevin pietersen
Question: Which Rugby Union team won the 2011-2012 Heineken Cup?
Answer: leinster
Question: What is the name of the drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, which is a study of the proportions of the human body?
Answer: vitruvian man
Question: Who played King Edward I of England in the 1995 film 'Braveheart'?
Answer: patrick mcgoohan
Question: Which African country, a former Belgian colony, joined the Commonwealth in 2009?
Answer: rwanda
Question: In which city is the 'Morse Bar' at the Randolph Hotel?
Answer: oxford
Question: What was the name of the skiffle group formed by John Lennon in March 1957?
Answer: quarrymen
Question: 'The Voyage Of The Dawn Trader' was, in 1952, the third book published in which series?
Answer: chronicles of narnia
Question: Midland Bank became part of which larger Bank in the 1990's?
Answer: hsbc
Question: In which debtors' prison was John Dickens, the father of Charles Dickens imprisoned in 1824?
Answer: marshalsea
Question: Released last year, 'Mylo Xloto' is an album by which British band?
Answer: coldplay
Question: Which book (and film) records the events of 'Harry Potter's' sixth year at 'Hogwarts'?
Answer: harry potter and half blood prince
Question: What is the home ground of Paris St. Germain FC?
Answer: parc des princes
Question: In which Kent castle did Ann Boleyn grow up?
Answer: hever castle
Question: In which city can you visit Michaelangelo's 'Statue of David' in the Piazza della Signoria?
Answer: florence
Question: In which series of films did Mel Gibson play L.A. detective 'Martin Riggs'?
Answer: lethal weapon
Question: Joe Anderson became the first directly elected Mayor of which city in May this year?
Answer: liverpool
Question: Which American playwright has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the most times-four-including posthumously in 1957?
Answer: eugene o neill
Question: Which position in American Football is denoted by the letters 'LB'?
Answer: linebacker
Question: Yorkshire Bank is a division of Clydesdale Bank, which is itself a subsidiary of which country's National Bank?
Answer: australia
Question: """..A tale of the riots of eighty"" completes the title of which work by Charles Dickens?"
Answer: barnaby rudge
Question: Which 2008 film is a sequel to the 2005 film 'Batman Begins'?
Answer: dark knight
Question: Which group did Ringo Starr leave to join 'The Beatles'?
Answer: rory storm hurricanes
Question: Which of the apostles was crucified on a diagonal or X- shaped cross?
Answer: andrew
Question: In which small Asian country was television first introduced in 1999?
Answer: bhutan
Question: Which 1968 film features the character 'Truly Scrumptious'?
Answer: chitty chitty bang bang
Question: The 1815 Battle of New Orleans was part of which war?
Answer: war of 1812
Question: Which architect's works include the Queen's House at Greenwich and the Banqueting House in Whitehall?
Answer: inigo jones
Question: Who painted the famous picture the Laughing Cavalier?
Answer: frans hals
Question: In Greek mythology who was the son of Zeus and Alcmene?
Answer: heracles
Question: In which English seaside resort would you find Peasholm Park?
Answer: scarborough
Question: Who in 1962 became the first Prime Minister of a fully independent Uganda?
Answer: milton obote
Question: If a plastic milk bottle in the UK has a green top, what type of milk is normally contained inside?
Answer: semi skimmed
Question: The 1961 film One-Eyed Jacks was the only one directed by which famous actor?
Answer: marlon brando
Question: Murano in Italy has been famous since the middle ages for the production of what?
Answer: glass
Question: Who co-wrote “Some Other Rainbow” with Jill Morrell?
Answer: john mccarthy
Question: What is the common name of the disease Herpes zoster?
Answer: shingles
Question: What was the real surname of British science fiction writer John Wyndham?
Answer: harris
Question: What is the common name of the disease Tinea pedis?
Answer: athlete s foot
Question: Name the Nuclear powered submarine which sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano on May 2nd 1982.
Answer: hms conqueror
Question: Which former Beirut hostage wrote “An Evil Cradling”?
Answer: brian keenan
Question: Which Sunday newspaper, renowned for stones about aliens, was founded by David Sullivan?
Answer: sunday sport
Question: In Greek mythology who was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter?
Answer: persephone
Question: Which battle of July 1685, ended the Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion against James VII of Scotland (Second of England) ?
Answer: battle of sedgemoor
Question: Who in 1964 became the first president of a fully independent Zambia?
Answer: kenneth kaunda
Question: What is comedian Jasper Carrot's real name?
Answer: robert norman davis
Question: Name the Royal Navy destroyer commissioned 1939 that was commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten that was sunk during the battle for Crete on May 23rd 1941.
Answer: hms kelly
Question: On television which actor played Alan B'stard MP?
Answer: rik mayall
Question: Which railway station in London, designed by Edward Wilson and opened in 1874, serves East Anglia?
Answer: liverpool street
Question: Which catholic saint is associated with the pilgrimage site of Lourdes in France?
Answer: st bernadette
Question: Who was Elton John's collaborator in most of his early hits, such as "Yellow Brick Road", "Candle In The Wind", etc.?
Answer: bernie taupin
Question: In which Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta does the Character of Bunthorne appear?
Answer: patience
Question: Tony Hawkes wrote a book about how he beat the Moldovan football team at what?
Answer: tennis
Question: Eve Pollard is an 'Agony Aunt' for which newspaper?
Answer: daily mirror
Question: Which British Formula One World Motor Racing Champion was also World Motorcycling Champion?
Answer: john surtees
Question: What name is given to the traditional dessert served in American Thanksgiving Day?
Answer: pumpkin pie
Question: Which pop group consisted of Huw Bunford, Clan Caren, Dafydd Leuan, Guto Price and Gryff Rhuys?
Answer: super furry animals
Question: In 1899 Churchill lost his first election to become an MP.In which Lancashire town did he stand?
Answer: oldham
Question: Alphabetically, which is the second country in South America (not Central America)?
Answer: bolivia
Question: Who, for much of the Second World War, was Governor of the Bahamas?
Answer: duke of windsor
Question: Six of the world's top ten highest waterfalls are in which country?
Answer: norway
Question: 'Varicella' is better known as what?
Answer: chicken pox
Question: Who, according to legend, was 'King Arthur's'treacherous son?
Answer: sir mordred
Question: Elgar's 'Pomp And Circumstance Marches' were the basis for which patriotic piece of music?
Answer: land of hope and glory
Question: Epidemic Parotitis is the medical name for what disease?
Answer: mumps
Question: In the first television series 'Men Behaving Badly', who played the part of 'Dermot'?
Answer: harry enfield
Question: Who was the military commander of 'EOKA' - the Greek terrorist organisation in Cyprus?
Answer: general grivas
Question: Which pop group consists of Tom Evans, Mike Gibbons, Peter Ham, and Joey Malland?
Answer: badfinger
Question: Who played the part of the vulcanologist who warned of impending disaster in the film 'Dantes Peak'?
Answer: pierce brosnan
Question: Who in the 20th century served as US President and Vice-President, but was elected to neither post?
Answer: gerald ford
Question: What is the name of the 'Artist's Quarter' in Paris?
Answer: monmartre
Question: Which peer was arrested by police in connection with the 'Cash For Honours' investigation?
Answer: lord levy
Question: What is the process called whereby a chemical matter changes directly from solid to gas without first becoming a liquid?
Answer: sublimation
Question: Which Lancashire railway station was used for much of the'action' in the film 'Brief Encounter'?
Answer: carnforth
Question: Who was Governor General of the Falkland Islands at the time of the 1982 invasion?
Answer: sir rex hunt
Question: What sort of fish is an 'Arbroath Smokie'?
Answer: haddock
Question: What spirit is made by fermenting and distilling the juice of the 'Blue Agave' plant?
Answer: tequila
Question: Who played the dole of 'George Armstrong Custer' in the 1941 film 'They Died With Their Boots On'?
Answer: errol flynn
Question: The cocktail 'Pina Colada' is made by mixing White Rum with Pineapple juice, and which other ingredient?
Answer: coconut milk
Question: Which actor played the part of 'King Henry II' in both 'Becket' in 1964 and 'The Lion In Winter' in 1968?
Answer: peter o toole
Question: Which famous 'Coronation Street' actress died on Boxing Day, 1983?
Answer: violet carson ena sharples
Question: During World War II, "Operation Gomorrah" was the codename given to the bombing raids on which German city, by the RAF in July and August 1943?
Answer: hamburg
Question: Who was the original printer of 'Parliamentary Debates', a verbatim record of Parliamentary speeches?
Answer: thomas hansard
Question: In Norse mythology, whose chariot was drawn across the sky by two goats called 'Toothgrinder' and 'Toothgnasher'?
Answer: thor s
Question: What was the codename given to the invasion of French North Africa in November 1942?
Answer: operation torch
Question: Which British engineer built the Caledonian Canal and the Gotha Canal in Sweden?
Answer: thomas telford
Question: Which American newspaper first exposed the 'Watergate Affair'?
Answer: washington post
Question: What was the name of the newspaper featured in the TV series 'Lou Grant' starring Ed Asner?
Answer: los angeles tribune
Question: In the 'Harry Potter' books, 'Hogwarts school' has four houses, 'Gryffindor', 'Slytherin' and 'Ravenclaw' are three, what is the fourth?
Answer: hufflepuff
Question: Which composer wrote the song, "Keep The Home Fires Burning"?
Answer: ivor novello
Question: In the 'Harry Potter' books pupils of 'Hogwarts' compete at 'Quidditch', each team consists of seven players, three 'Chasers', a 'Keeper', two 'Beaters', and which other player?
Answer: seeker
Question: The 'Ten Commandments' are listed in Exodus and which other book of the Bible?
Answer: deuteronomy
Question: Who wrote the story on which the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film 'The Birds' was based?
Answer: daphne du maurier