CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Give a year in the life of Flemish artist Anthony Van Dyck?
Answer: 1599 1641
Question: Which is the only country in Central America that does not have a border on the Caribbean Sea?
Answer: el salvador
Question: Lucie Manette married Charles Darnay in which Dickens novel?
Answer: tale of two cities
Question: To what global branded name did "Opal Fruits" change?
Answer: starbursts
Question: Which pop artist won the Oscar for the best original song for Skyfall in 2013?
Answer: adele
Question: Which is the only country in Central America that does not have a border on the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: belize
Question: Which author created the fictional character "Tracey Beaker"?
Answer: jacqueline wilson
Question: Which ITV crime drama series stars Brenda Blethyn in the title role?
Answer: vera
Question: Which spirit is the main alcoholic ingredient of a Tom Collins cocktail?
Answer: gin
Question: What is the better known or more common name of the pharmaceutical SILDENAFIL?
Answer: viagra
Question: For what does the "E" stand in the authors' name E L James?
Answer: erika
Question: Which horse won the 2013 Epsom Derby at 7 to 1?
Answer: ruler of world
Question: Which French composer composed the 1830 work Symphonie Fantastique?
Answer: hector berlioz
Question: Norman Pitkin was one of the best-known characters of which British comedian?
Answer: norman wisdom
Question: Which Scottish author wrote the books known collectively as The Waverley Novels?
Answer: sir walter scott
Question: What was abolished by the 13th Amendment to the US constitution in 1865?
Answer: slavery
Question: Which Austrian composers 8th symphony which premiered in 1910 and was nicknamed "Symphony of a Thousand'?
Answer: gustav mahler
Question: Who preceded Tennyson as Poet Laureate, being awarded the accolade in 1843 at the age of 73?
Answer: william wordsworth
Question: What was abolished by the 21st Amendment to the US constitution in 1933?
Answer: prohibition
Question: Which author created the fictional character "Horrid Henry"?
Answer: francesca simon
Question: In March 2006 Jack Dorsey created and was one of the co-founders of which social networking website?
Answer: twitter
Question: What was the name of the American pilot captured by the Soviet Union when they shot down his U2 spy plane in 1960?
Answer: gary powers
Question: Which BBC crime drama stars Idris Elba in the title role?
Answer: luther
Question: On which motorway are Beaconsfield and Cherwell valley services located?
Answer: m40
Question: Which spirit is combined with rum, triple sec and lemon juice to make a Between the Sheets?
Answer: brandy
Question: What was the nationality of the artist Rene Magritte?
Answer: belgian
Question: Which 1980's group took its name from a Vulcan priestess from Star Trek?
Answer: t pau
Question: Sandy Park is the home of which Premiership Rugby Union club?
Answer: exeter chiefs
Question: In cricket, a batsman's score of 111 is considered to be unlucky. What is it called?
Answer: nelson
Question: In which sport did Scunthorpe Scorpions win a premiership title in 2012?
Answer: speedway
Question: Miss Twinkleton, Canon Crisparkle and John Jasper are characters in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: mystery of edwin drood
Question: Which actor founded the Mermaid Theatre at Puddle Dock in London in 1959?
Answer: bernard miles
Question: What was the name of the high school that featured in the musical 'Grease'?
Answer: rydell high
Question: Who, in Autumn 2012, broke the sound barrier in free fall from a balloon, at an altitude of 23 miles?
Answer: felix baumgartner
Question: In the Scottish Premier League, in which town do Ross County play?
Answer: dingwall
Question: In Greek myth, who was the husband of Hecuba and father of fifty children?
Answer: priam
Question: Which golfer sank a six foot putt to retain the Ryder Cup for Europe in 2012?
Answer: martin kaymer
Question: Which actor, who appeared in the Harry Potter series of films, also had prominent roles in the films 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' and 'Midnight Express'?
Answer: john hurt
Question: Who wrote the play 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' ?
Answer: dario fo
Question: Which songwriter penned the classic songs 'A Fine Romance' and 'Smoke gets in your Eyes'?
Answer: jerome kern
Question: Where, in the strip cartoon, is the home village of Rupert Bear?
Answer: nutwood
Question: In R.L. Stevenson's novel 'Treasure Island' which of the pirates was the ship's cook?
Answer: long john silver
Question: To which island paradise in Celtic mythology was King Arthur taken after his death?
Answer: avalon
Question: Who succeeded Brendan Barber as the T.U.C's General Secretary on January 1st 2013?
Answer: frances o grady
Question: In Scotland, which town is the home venue of Albion Rovers FC?
Answer: coatbridge
Question: Which actor played the part of Lestrade in the TV series Sherlock first screened in 2010?
Answer: rupert graves
Question: In Robert Louis Stevenson's novel 'Treasure Island', which of the pirates is trampled to death by a horse?
Answer: blind pew
Question: Which artist designed the sleeve for the Beatles album 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'?
Answer: peter blake
Question: The operas 'La Cenerentola' by Rossini and 'Cendrillon' by Massenet are based on the fairy tale Cinderella by whom?
Answer: charles perrault
Question: Who was the literary creator of children's favourite Paddington Bear?
Answer: michael bond
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui'?
Answer: bertolt brecht
Question: Who wrote the songs 'I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy' and 'Give my Regards to Broadway'?
Answer: george m cohan
Question: In which Italian region is the port and city of Genoa located?
Answer: liguria
Question: Name the donkey that accompanied Robert Louis Stevenson on his journey in the book Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes'.
Answer: modestine
Question: Who was the architect of the Shard, the highest building in Europe when it was opened in 2013?
Answer: renzo piano
Question: In 2012, Trenton Oldfield received a custodial sentence for disrupting what?
Answer: university boat race
Question: Which actor, who appeared in the Harry Potter films, also appeared in 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' and 'JFK'?
Answer: gary oldman
Question: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is an iconic fantasy car driven by whom?
Answer: caractacus potts
Question: From 2002-2005 John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, was Bishop for which English city?
Answer: birmingham
Question: Which notorious figure in history was mother to three French kings - Francis II, Charles IX and Henri III?
Answer: catherine de medici
Question: On television which actor played Onslow in 'Keeping up Appearances' and Vernon Scripps in 'Heartbeat'?
Answer: geoffrey hughes
Question: Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island, lies north-east of which Australian city?
Answer: brisbane
Question: Which whales are nicknamed 'sea canaries' because of their birdlike sound?
Answer: beluga
Question: Which city on the Adriatic Sea was known to the Romans as Ragusa?
Answer: dubrovnik
Question: In which film did Gary Cooper win an Oscar in 1941 playing the title role?
Answer: sergeant york
Question: Which is the only letter in Scrabble worth 5 points?
Answer: k
Question: Which Major League Baseball team play home games at the Rogers Centre (formerly known as Skydome)?
Answer: toronto blue jays
Question: Who wrote 'The Rights of Man' in 1791?
Answer: thomas paine
Question: In the Dickens novel 'Dombey and Son' what is the name of the son?
Answer: paul
Question: What was the name of the cat who was an enemy to the mice Pixie and Dixie?
Answer: mr jinks
Question: Kept in Edinburgh Castle, what are the Honours of Scotland?
Answer: scottish crown jewels
Question: Which fashion house designed the costumes for Kylie Minogue's 'Aphrodite Les Folies' world tour?
Answer: dolce gabbana
Question: N'Djamena is the capital of which land-locked African state?
Answer: chad
Question: In 2002 what two words were added to the name of Battersea Dogs Home?
Answer: and cats
Question: According to Spike Milligan, 'Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented...' which food?
Answer: custard
Question: Who, in 1792, wrote the book 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'?
Answer: mary wollstonecraft
Question: Who was the star name behind the founding of Rocket Records?
Answer: elton john
Question: The space station 'Deep Space Nine' is encountered in which TV series?
Answer: star trek
Question: Which NFL American Football team play their home games at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome?
Answer: new orleans saints
Question: What was the name of the scarecrow in 'Bob the Builder'?
Answer: spud
Question: Which trophy is awarded to the Man of the Match in the Rugby League Super League Grand Final?
Answer: harry sunderland trophy
Question: In which 1957 film did Alec Guinness win an Oscar for his portrayal of an English officer?
Answer: bridge on river kwai
Question: 'The Walthamstow Tapestry', measuring 15 metres by 3 metres, is a 2009 work by which Turner Prize winner?
Answer: grayson perry
Question: Who is the only man in the 20th century to have held the offices of Chancellor, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary before becoming Prime Minister?
Answer: james callaghan
Question: The origin of which religious order can be traced to a mountain in Palestine where it was established near the fountain of Elijah in the 12th century?
Answer: carmelite
Question: John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, was born in 1949 in which country?
Answer: uganda
Question: On television which actor played Neville Hope in 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet' and Robbie Lewis in 'Morse'?
Answer: kevin whately
Question: Which 1953 play by Arthur Miller is based on the Salem witch trials?
Answer: crucible
Question: Which country's national anthem is known in English as 'The March of the Volunteers'?
Answer: china
Question: Name the actress who played the title role in the 1998 film 'There's Something about Mary'.
Answer: cameron diaz
Question: In which Scandinavian city are the headquarters of the Volvo manufacturing company?
Answer: gothenburg
Question: Which 1969 Elvis Presley hit was also a hit for the group Fine Young Cannibals in 1985?
Answer: suspicious minds
Question: Which Greek god is the son of Zeus and Leto and twin brother of Artemis?
Answer: apollo
Question: The Sultanate of Brunei forms part of which island?
Answer: borneo
Question: What was the name of the son in the TV series 'The Munsters' played by Butch Patrick?
Answer: eddie
Question: In which European city are the headquarters of the Fiat manufacturing company?
Answer: turin
Question: Name the actress who played the title role in the 1976 film 'Carrie'.
Answer: sissy spacek
Question: Who wrote and recorded the original version of the song Blue Suede Shoes which was a hit single for Elvis Presley in 1955?
Answer: carl perkins
Question: Which King of Greece flew to Rome in exile following a 1967 military coup?
Answer: constantine
Question: What was the name of the son in the TV series 'The Addams Family' played by Ken Weatherwax?
Answer: pugsley
Question: Give either the year or the venue when Jean Claude Killy won 3 Olympic Alpine Skiing Gold medals.
Answer: 1968 grenoble
Question: Native to Australia, what type of creature is a pademelon?
Answer: marsupial
Question: Ackee and saltfish is widely considered as the national dish of which island?
Answer: jamaica
Question: In Arthurian legend Lancelot was the father of Galahad - but who was his mother?
Answer: elaine
Question: Leonard Bernstein wrote the music for the musical 'West Side Story'. Who wrote the lyrics?
Answer: stephen sondheim
Question: Native to Australia, what type of creature is a bandy-bandy?
Answer: snake
Question: A Luau is a traditional feast or party celebrated on which islands?
Answer: hawaii
Question: In Arthurian legend who threw the sword Excalibur into the lake, at Arthur's request, after his death?
Answer: bedivere
Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in the 1984 film 'Amadeus'?
Answer: f murray abraham
Question: Which word means a device to aid memory e.g. "Richard of York gave battle in vain"?
Answer: mnemonic
Question: Which England cricketer holds the record for the highest individual score for his country - 364 versus Australia in 1938?
Answer: sir len hutton
Question: Buster Bloodvessel was the lead singer of which pop group - popular in the early 1980s?
Answer: bad manners
Question: Which cocktail allegedly gets its name from the practice of 1950's American engineers stirring vodka into their cans of orange juice with this tool?
Answer: screwdriver
Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in the 2008 film 'Milk'?
Answer: sean penn
Question: Which singer was lead singer with band Frankie Goes to Hollywood in the mid 1980s?
Answer: holly johnson
Question: Who was the Arsenal captain when they won the 2005 FA Cup -on penalties against Manchester United?
Answer: patrick viera
Question: Arundel Castle in Sussex is the family seat of which Dukes?
Answer: dukes of norfolk
Question: Kyle MacLachlan played agent Dale Cooper in which early 1990s US TV series?
Answer: twin peaks
Question: Name the author of the novel 'Shame', shortlisted for the 1983 Booker Prize.
Answer: salman rushdie
Question: Which naturalised American electrical/mechanical engineer and inventor (1856-1943) has given his name to the SI unit of magnetic flux density?
Answer: nikola tesla
Question: Who was the Arsenal captain when they won the 2003 FA Cup - beating Southampton 1-0?
Answer: david seaman
Question: Name the family seat of the Dukes of Marlborough.
Answer: blenheim palace
Question: In the Bible, which Philistine city was the home of Goliath?
Answer: gath
Question: Steve Pemberton played shopkeeper Tulip 'Tubbs' Tattsyrup in which British TV series which ended in 2002?
Answer: league of gentlemen
Question: Which island is referred to by its inhabitants as Kalaalit Nunaat?
Answer: greenland
Question: in which city do the football team Atalanta of the Italian league play their home games?
Answer: bergamo
Question: In the Bible, which prophet is usually accepted as the author of the book of Lamentations?
Answer: jeremiah
Question: Members of the Wormwood family are some of the leading characters in which 2011 musical that won an Olivier award?
Answer: matilda
Question: Which Labour MP has been Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee since 2007?
Answer: keith vaz
Question: Which scientist first described the laws of planetary motion between 1609 - 1612?
Answer: johannes kepler
Question: Which celestial body is the only dwarf planet and largest asteroid found in the inner solar system?
Answer: ceres
Question: Which is the last British monarch to have been born outside the British Isles?
Answer: george ii
Question: Who wrote the best selling books Pillars of the Earth and World Without End?
Answer: ken follett
Question: Which is the only film of the fantasy genre ever to win the best picture Oscar - full name required?
Answer: lord of rings return of king
Question: Which philosopher is famous for his paradoxes, most notably Achilles and the tortoise?
Answer: zeno
Question: The painting 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergere' c1882 displayed at the Cortauld Gallery, London is by which artist?
Answer: edouard manet
Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the first years of the newly established Roman Republic?
Answer: coriolanus
Question: Which British artist active since the 1970's has released albums entitled Never for Ever and Aerial?
Answer: kate bush
Question: In which city do German football team Schalke 04 play their home games?
Answer: gelsenkirchen
Question: Which spirit is used as the base for a Mai Tai cocktail?
Answer: rum
Question: In the Christian Old Testament of the Bible, which book immediately follows the Pentateuch?
Answer: joshua
Question: Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock are two of the leading characters in which 2001 musical that won an Olivier award?
Answer: producers
Question: In Arthurian legend, what is the name of Lancelot's castle?
Answer: joyous gard
Question: Which British scientist formulated a set of equations that describe electricity, magnetism and optics as manifestations of the same phenomenon, namely the electromagnetic field, in 1873?
Answer: james clark maxwell
Question: What name is given to the region of the solar system that lies immediately beyond Neptune but inside the scattered disc region?
Answer: kuiper belt
Question: Who narrated the English version of the Spanish animated children's series Pocoyo?
Answer: stephen fry
Question: On a human body, what are known medically as ephelides?
Answer: freckles
Question: Who wrote the narrative poem The Rape of the Lock between 1712 1717?
Answer: alexander pope
Question: What colour is the 'artist's colour' called cerulean?
Answer: blue
Question: Which country's flag is a horizontal bicolour of red over green in a 2:1 ratio with a red ornamental pattern on a white vertical stripe at the hoist?
Answer: belarus
Question: Which vegetable Daucus spp has varieties called Autumn King and Pamex?
Answer: carrot
Question: What was the last film in the western genre to win a best picture Oscar?
Answer: unforgiven
Question: Which philosopher is famous for his wager that states though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should 'wager' as though God exists, because so living has everything to gain, and nothing to lose?
Answer: blaise pascal
Question: Which British monarch is the only one to have been born at Buckingham Palace?
Answer: edward vii
Question: Who built the first cotton spinning factory in Derbyshire in 1771?
Answer: richard arkwright
Question: Although a term coined many centuries after his death, which philosopher is famous for his 'razor'?
Answer: william of ockham
Question: Who was the 14th President of the United States from 1853-1857?
Answer: franklin pierce
Question: To do with medicine what was extracted from a terebinth tree?
Answer: turpentine
Question: Which country was actor Leslie Howard travelling from when his plane was shot down?
Answer: portugal
Question: The village of Castle Combe used in the filming of Dr Doolittle is in which English county?
Answer: wiltshire
Question: """The Sin of Harold Diddleback"", 1947 was the last film of which silent film star?"
Answer: harold lloyd
Question: Squids, cuttlefish and octopus belong to which class of marine mollusc?
Answer: cephalopod
Question: What is the Greek name for Bacchus the god of wine and revelry?
Answer: dionysus
Question: Which singer/songwriter released the 1972 album 'One Man Dog'?
Answer: james taylor
Question: The book 'The one that got away' is a book about which WWII pilot?
Answer: franz von werra
Question: Brendan and Nathan McCullum play international cricket for which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: The 1964 film, simply called 'Film', written by Samuel Beckett, starred which actor?
Answer: buster keaton
Question: Portmeirion used as a setting for the Prisoner TV series is in which Welsh county?
Answer: gwynedd
Question: Published in 2013 who wrote the novel 'An Officer and a Spy'?
Answer: robert harris
Question: The triangle film corporation was formed in 1915 by Thomas Ince, D. W. Griffith and which other director?
Answer: mack sennett
Question: Whales, porpoises and dolphins belong to which group of aquatic mammals?
Answer: cetaceans
Question: What was the occupation of Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)?
Answer: garden designer
Question: Which singer/songwriter released the 1975 album Playing Possum?
Answer: carly simon
Question: The uncle of a pop star, scored a goal and broke his leg in the 1959 F.A. Cup Final, what is the uncle's name?
Answer: roy dwight
Question: Who painted 'The Death of Chatterton' in 1856?
Answer: henry wallis
Question: Hans Lippershey applied for a patent in the Netherlands in 1608 for an early form of which scientific instrument?
Answer: telescope
Question: What is the name of Heston Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray?
Answer: fat duck
Question: Which county on the West coast of Ireland lies between County Limerick and County Galway?
Answer: county clare
Question: The musical Jersey Boys features the music of which group?
Answer: frankie valli and four seasons
Question: Which planet was originally called Georgium Sidus by its discoverer before it was renamed by German astronomer Johann Bode to ensure that its name conformed with other planetary names?
Answer: uranus
Question: In which book would you find the characters Scout and her father Atticus Finch?
Answer: to kill mocking bird
Question: Who is the American lead male singer in the Canadian band Arcade Fire?
Answer: win butler
Question: Which pair of writers initiated the Steptoe and Son sitcom?
Answer: ray galton and alan simpson
Question: Chetham's School in Manchester is famous in what field?
Answer: music teaching
Question: What was the name of the character played by John Wayne in the film True Grit?
Answer: rooster cogburn
Question: Which author has written novel series that include The Warlord Chronicles and the Grail Crest trilogy?
Answer: bernard cornwell
Question: Which miracle is the only one to appear in all four Gospels?
Answer: feeding of 5000
Question: Which Briton was brought in as replacement tactician and helped the USA to victory in the 2013 America's Cup?
Answer: sir ben ainslie
Question: Which county on the East coast of Ireland lies between County Dublin and County Louth?
Answer: county meath
Question: In which country were the British victorious at the Battle of Plassey in 1757?
Answer: india
Question: Which city is the capital of the German state of Schleswig Holstein?
Answer: kiel
Question: Which county won the County Cricket Championship for seven consecutive seasons in the 1950s?
Answer: surrey
Question: In which city can the Graham Sutherland tapestry Christ in Glory be found?
Answer: coventry
Question: In the TV sitcom The Good Life, what was the surname of Tom and Barbara's neighbours Margo and Jerry?
Answer: leadbetter
Question: Which author created the Alex Rider books and the Power of Five series?
Answer: anthony horowitz
Question: In the Bible which of the tribes of Israel received no land and were appointed to be priests?
Answer: levites
Question: What fictional Scottish village featured in a Lerner and Loewe musical?
Answer: brigadoon
Question: Jamie Foxx won an Oscar for playing which man in a 2004 film?
Answer: ray charles
Question: What is the name of the play performed by the rude mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Answer: pyramus and thisbe
Question: Which planet, because of changes in visibility at different times, was in fact thought to be 2 separate bodies, known as Phosphorous an Hesperus by the Greeks and Lucifer and Vesper by the Romans?
Answer: venus
Question: In which Dickens novel would you find the character Noah Claypole?
Answer: oliver twist
Question: Which Asian country won six of the seven table tennis gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: singapore
Question: What was the name of the stricken cruise ship on which the salvage operation began in September 2013 on the Italian coast?
Answer: costa concordia
Question: Okells Brewery is based in which part of the British Isles?
Answer: isle of man
Question: On which English town did Thomas Hardy base the town of Casterbridge?
Answer: dorchester
Question: Which type of barometer that does not involve liquid was invented by Lucien Vidi in 1844?
Answer: aneroid
Question: What is the married surname of Catherine in Wuthering Heights?
Answer: linton
Question: In which old children's TV programme did the character Mike Mercury feature?
Answer: supercar
Question: The song "Tomorrow belongs to me" features in which musical show?
Answer: cabaret
Question: A cast of which Rodin sculpture is in Victoria Tower Gardens in London?
Answer: burghers of calais
Question: The wine-producing region of Hunter Valley is in which Australian state?
Answer: new south wales
Question: What phrase was first used in print in 1951 by Frank Nicklin of the Manchester Evening News in a report on a Liverpool v Manchester United game? The game saw the debuts of two young Manchester United players.
Answer: busby babes
Question: In February 2013 Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar for her role in which film?
Answer: silver linings playbook