CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which of Thomas Hardy's novel which opens on Guy Fawkes Night takes place on Egdon Heath?
Answer: return of native
Question: 'Sitting on a comflake waiting for the van to come' is a line from which Beatles song from 'Magical Mystery Tour' album?
Answer: i am walrus
Question: Which actor has appeared in the films Invictus', 'The Departed', 'The Talented Mr Ripley' and 'Oceans Eleven'?
Answer: matt damon
Question: What is the English title of the first book of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy?
Answer: girl with dragon tattoo
Question: Who plays himself in the TV sitcom 'Episodes'?
Answer: matt leblanc
Question: Which Norwegian author created the detective Harry Hole in books such as 'The Redbreast' and 'The Snowman'?
Answer: jo nesbo
Question: In which Libyan city, his birthplace, was Colonel Gaddafi captured and killed in October 2011?
Answer: sirte
Question: In 1498 who painted 'The Last Supper', located in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan?
Answer: leonardo da vinci
Question: Who, in 1642, painted 'The Night Watch', now to be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam?
Answer: rembrandt
Question: In which Pakistani town was Osama bin Laden captured and killed in May 2011?
Answer: abbottabad
Question: Which Celtic quarter day falls on the 1st of May?
Answer: beltane
Question: Which vegetable has the Latin name Allium Porrum?
Answer: leek
Question: In 1993, Barbara Harmer became the first woman to pilot what?
Answer: concorde
Question: """Good Morning Starshine"" and ""Hare Krishna"" are songs from which 1967 musical?"
Answer: hair
Question: Who wrote the 1936 book "How To Win Friends and Influence People"?
Answer: dale carnegie
Question: What type of Rolls-Royce engines were used to power Concorde?
Answer: olympus
Question: Who is the youngest driver to win a Formula 1 World Championship?
Answer: sebastian vettel
Question: Operation Chariot was the code name for which British raid in March 1942?
Answer: dry dock at st nazaire
Question: Who wrote the 1947 book TheTheory and Practice of Gamesmanship?
Answer: stephen potter
Question: Who composed the music for the 1912 ballet "Daphnis et Chloe"?
Answer: maurice ravel
Question: A Black Russian cocktail consists of vodka and which liqueur?
Answer: coffee liqueur
Question: Which foodstuff is obtained from the root of the cassava plant?
Answer: tapioca
Question: What is the capital of the Austrian province of Tyrol?
Answer: innsbruck
Question: Who composed the 1862 opera "Beatrice et Benedict'?
Answer: hector berlioz
Question: What are the husks of grain separated from flour after grinding called?
Answer: bran
Question: The head and the abdomen are two of the three part of an insect's body - what is the third?
Answer: thorax
Question: Who, in the Old Testament, ordered the building of the Golden Calf?
Answer: aaron
Question: In "The Simpson", what is the name of Bart's school principal?
Answer: seymour skinner
Question: Who, in about 1759, painted the picture "The Shrimp Girl", now in the National Gallery, London?
Answer: william hogarth
Question: Which is the only Far Eastern country to have been a member of OPEC, being so from 1962 to 2008?
Answer: indonesia
Question: Who was the US Marine involved in arms sales to Iran and diverting money to the Nicaraguan Contras?
Answer: lt col oliver north
Question: Who, in 1856, painted the picture "The Blind Girl, now in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery?
Answer: john everett millais
Question: What, in 1985, was Madonna's first UK No. 1?
Answer: into groove
Question: What were invented by English chemist John Walker in 1826, and cost one shilling per hundred?
Answer: friction matches
Question: The organisation 'Mensa' takes its name from the Latin for which everyday object?
Answer: table
Question: Whose 2010 autobiography, is called "Decision Points"?
Answer: george w bush
Question: What, medically, was invented by Rene Laennec in 1816?
Answer: stethoscope
Question: In the British Police Force, what rank is indicated by a crown on each shoulder?
Answer: superintendent
Question: Which fictional detective lived at 56b Whitehaven Mansions?
Answer: hercule poirot
Question: Which Shakespeare play opens with the words "Now is the winter of our discontent"?
Answer: richard iii
Question: Which comedian, a director of Fulham FC, had the catch phrase "You Lucky People'?
Answer: tommy trinder
Question: In Green Mythology which god gave Perseus his winged sandals?
Answer: hermes
Question: On a Monopoly board how many property groups consist of only two properties?
Answer: two
Question: The writer of the book "The Cruel Sea" was born in Rodney Street, Liverpool. What was his name?
Answer: nicholas monsarrat
Question: In what county is the most northerly point in the island of Ireland?
Answer: donegal
Question: What was the nationality of Adolphus Sachs, the inventor of the Saxophone?
Answer: belgian
Question: Which South American country was formerly ruled by the Imperial House of Braganza?
Answer: brazil
Question: Who wrote the novels 'A Passage to India' and 'A Room with a View'?
Answer: e m forster
Question: Which proponent of Method acting directed the films 'On the Waterfront' and 'East of Eden'?
Answer: elia kazan
Question: In Greek mythology, how are Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos better known?
Answer: fates
Question: What is the unrhymed iambic pentameter style used by Milton in `Paradise Lost' and 'Wordsworth in 'The Prelude' better known?
Answer: blank verse
Question: In Arthurian legend, who was Sir Galahad's father?
Answer: sir lancelot
Question: Who directed the Western Rio Bravo which starred John Wayne and Dean Martin?
Answer: howard hawks
Question: Who lost his world heavyweight boxing title to Gene Tunney in 1926?
Answer: jack dempsey
Question: Which figures in Greek mythology were also called the Erinyes?
Answer: furies
Question: By what name was the Russian city of St Petersburg known from 1924 to 1991?
Answer: leningrad
Question: In which war was the Battle of Marston Moor fought?
Answer: english civil war
Question: Which English Benedictine monk and missionary is known as the Apostle of Germany?
Answer: st boniface
Question: Which parliamentarian soldier in the Civil War became Cromwell's son-in-law?
Answer: henry ireton
Question: Who drove the car 'Thrust SSC' that first broke the land speed record in September 1997?
Answer: andy green
Question: Who wrote the 1997 Number One Song 'A Perfect Day'?
Answer: lou reed
Question: Which illustrator and watercolourist is best known for his children's book illustrations such as Peter Pan in, 1906?
Answer: arthur rackham
Question: Which band had a hit with the song 'Brown Girl in the Ring'?
Answer: boney m
Question: Who played Grant Mitchell in 'EastEnders'?
Answer: ross kemp
Question: 'Lady's slipper' is a variety of which flower?
Answer: orchid
Question: The Erskine Bridge carries the A898 over which river?
Answer: clyde
Question: In which play does Lady Bracknell memorably say 'A handbag'?
Answer: importance of being earnest
Question: Who painted a number of paintings of water lilies in his garden at Giverny?
Answer: claude monet
Question: In the book 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', what is Charlie's surname?
Answer: bucket
Question: Which Ray Bradbury novel opens with the line 'It was a pleasure to burn'?
Answer: fahrenheit 451
Question: The only hovercraft service in Britain crosses which stretch of water?
Answer: solent
Question: Who painted his grandson in the famous work, `Bubbles'?
Answer: john everett millais
Question: 'London Pride' and 'Chiswick Bitter' are beers from which brewery?
Answer: fuller s
Question: In Greek mythology, who fell in love with a statue called Galatea?
Answer: pygmalion
Question: Who followed Roy Plomley as presenter of 'Desert Island Discs'?
Answer: michael parkinson
Question: Which woman tennis player has won the most grand slam titles with 62?
Answer: margaret court
Question: What is the more common name for the zygomatic bone?
Answer: cheekbone
Question: In which city is the soap opera `Hollyoaks' set?
Answer: chester
Question: Which actress is the mother of actresses Joely and the late Natasha Richardson?
Answer: vanessa redgrave
Question: Who in 1948 became the first American born poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: ts eliot
Question: Which rock star died in 1994 believing 'it's better to burn out than fade away'?
Answer: kurt cobain
Question: 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' is the best known work by which composer?
Answer: paul dukas
Question: Foinavon won the Grand National in 1967 at odds of 100-1. What was the next horse to win it at odds of 100-1?
Answer: mon mome
Question: Kenny Dalglish and Herbert Chapman have both won top flight English league championships with two different clubs. Who is the only other man to do this?
Answer: brian clough
Question: In which dale of the Peak District can Lover's Leap be found?
Answer: dovedale
Question: Who is the Italian born architect of The Shard in London?
Answer: renzo piano
Question: Mount Toubkal, at 13665 ft is the highest peak in which African mountain range?
Answer: atlas mountains
Question: At 2880 square miles which is the largest county in Ireland?
Answer: cork
Question: Who played Lewis in 'Morse' and also in its spin off 'Lewis'?
Answer: kevin whately
Question: Barbara Millicent Roberts first appeared on this planet in 1959. How is she better known?
Answer: barbie
Question: Which inlet of the Irish Sea separates Cumbria from Dumfries and Galloway?
Answer: solway firth
Question: Kwame Nkrumah was the first President of which African country?
Answer: ghana
Question: Where did Fiddler's Dram go on a day trip to in 1979?
Answer: bangor
Question: With which West German Chancellor is the policy of Ostpolitik associated?
Answer: willy brandt
Question: Christian Horner is team principal for which F1 racing team?
Answer: red bull racing
Question: What is the name of the soccer team in Los Angeles for which David Beckham plays?
Answer: galaxy
Question: Which famous British singer and songwriter, born at Smithdown Hospital in Liverpool, died on 28th January 1983?
Answer: billy fury
Question: Leila Williams was the first female presenter of which children's TV series?
Answer: blue peter
Question: In which month is 'The Last Night of the Proms' held?
Answer: september
Question: Which WW2 aircraft was known as 'The Stringbag'?
Answer: fairey swordfish
Question: `Fallopia japonica' is a perennial weed, very difficult to eradicate. How is it better known?
Answer: japanese knotweed
Question: Historically which Rugby League Super League side were known as 'The Loiners'?
Answer: leeds
Question: Who wrote the poem 'Ash Wednesday', published in 1930?
Answer: t s eliot
Question: Which Briton beat Oliver McCall to become WBC World Heavyweight champion in 1995?
Answer: frank bruno
Question: In which BBC radio series did Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister feature?
Answer: goon show
Question: Which American group is made up of will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo and Fergie?
Answer: black eyed peas
Question: Which element, atomic number 11, is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal?
Answer: sodium
Question: Cricketer James Pattinson made his test debut for Australia this year. What is the first name of his brother, a Nottinghamshire player who played one test for England in 2008?
Answer: darren
Question: Which Shakespeare play introduced the phrase 'Shuffle off this mortal coil'?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Which British band is made up of Aston Merrygold, Marvin Humes, Jonathan 'JB' Gill and Oritse Williams?
Answer: jls
Question: Which element, atomic number 82, a heavy metal, is soft and malleable, blue/white when freshly cut, but soon turns grey?
Answer: lead
Question: Which brewery is based in Wainfleet, Lincolnshire?
Answer: batemans
Question: William the Conqueror built a castle in York in 1068. Rebuilt in the 13th century, by what name is the ruined keep now known?
Answer: clifford s tower
Question: Historically which Rugby League Super League side were known as 'The Airlie Birds'?
Answer: hull fc
Question: Which children's TV series began with the narrative: 'In the lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea....! ?
Answer: noggin nog
Question: What is the surname of Doug who made his test debut for New Zealand this year? His father Brendan and uncle John were also New Zealand test cricketers.
Answer: bracewell
Question: Which Shakespeare play coined the phrase 'Salad Days' to describe a time of youth and inexperience?
Answer: antony and cleopatra
Question: Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson were Vice Presidents of which President of the USA?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: Venus and which other planet have a retrograde rotation (backward spin) around their axes?
Answer: uranus
Question: With which film do you associate Lara's Theme?
Answer: dr zhivago
Question: Which famous American singer-songwriter and musician, born in Vernon, Texas, died on 6th December 1988?
Answer: roy orbison
Question: What number completes the name of the Japanese team for which Gary Linker played, Nagoya Grampus
Answer: eight
Question: In crossing which body of water was King John reputed to have lost most of his Crown Jewels?
Answer: wash
Question: In Heraldry, what does 'Sinister' mean?
Answer: on left
Question: Which Turkish mountains have the same name as a sign of the Zodiac?
Answer: taurus
Question: Which comedian hosted BBC TV's 'One Show' for a three month period at the end of 2010?
Answer: jason manford
Question: Where did the first battle of the Wars of the Roses take place?
Answer: st albans
Question: Which golfer, the first to complete a career Grand Slam - winning the four Majors at some time during his career, achieved a hole-in-one in the 1973 Open at Troon at the age of 71?
Answer: gene sarazen
Question: Who is the storyteller in the 'One Thousand and One Nights'?
Answer: scheherazade
Question: Who formed the first Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: Viti Levu and Vanua Levu are the two major islands that make up which country?
Answer: fiji
Question: Which King of England was the son of Henry II and father of Henry III?
Answer: john
Question: All but three of the moons of Uranus are named after Shakespearean characters; the names of the other three are taken from a poem by whom?
Answer: alexander pope
Question: Which island is made up of three counties, Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey?
Answer: jamaica
Question: Paul McNamee, Mark Woodforde, Jonathan Stark and Leander Paes were the four men who partnered which woman to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon, in 1985, 93, 95 and 2003?
Answer: martina navratilova
Question: Which chemical element has the Atomic Number 4 and is the first of the Alkaline Earth metals?
Answer: beryllium
Question: The flag of which county has bands of four colours, a red vertical band at the hoist and horizontal stripes of green, white and black?
Answer: united arab emirates
Question: Which US President, in a State of the Union address, proposed four fundamental freedoms?
Answer: franklin d roosevelt
Question: Who composed the violin concerto 'The Four Seasons'?
Answer: antonio vivaldi
Question: The symbols known as the 'Five Ks' are central to which religion?
Answer: sikhism
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Slaughterhouse Five'?
Answer: kurt vonnegut
Question: 'Five Points' was the setting for which 2002 Martin Scorsese film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Liam Neeson?
Answer: gangs of new york
Question: In 2010 Channel Five was taken over by The Northern & Shell Publishing Group which includes the Daily Express and Daily Star, who owns the company?
Answer: richard desmond
Question: In the children's TV series who was the pilot of fireball XL5?
Answer: steve zodiac
Question: Which car company produced the Speed Six, famous for its race against the 'Blue Train', between 1926 and 1930?
Answer: bentley
Question: Who was the commander-in-chief of the German 6th Army when it surrendered at Stalingrad in February 1943?
Answer: friedrich von paulus
Question: Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World stood at Ephesus?
Answer: temple of artemis
Question: Which Dutch artist painted 'The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things' in approximately 1500?
Answer: hieronymus bosch
Question: The A7 road runs from Edinburgh to which English town or city?
Answer: carlisle
Question: In the Book of Proverbs who, in building her house, "hath hewn out her seven pillars"?
Answer: wisdom
Question: Complete the name of the shopping district in the Covent Garden area of London, Seven
Answer: dials
Question: 'Seven Tears' by The Goombay Dance Band reached no.1 in 1982, becoming only the second act from which European country to top the UK charts?
Answer: germany
Question: Which Shropshire town is named after a seventh century king of Northumbria?
Answer: oswestry
Question: What is the popular name of Mahler's Symphony no. 8?
Answer: symphony of thousand
Question: After-Eights are now made by Nestle, which company created them in 1962?
Answer: rowntree
Question: '8 Mile' was a 2002 film starring rapper Eminem, in which US city was it set?
Answer: detroit
Question: In Thomas Hardy's novels Casterbridge is based on which real town or city?
Answer: dorchester
Question: Which former England cricket captain wore the number 600 on his shirt?
Answer: michael vaughan
Question: In which town is the administrative headquarters of Wiltshire?
Answer: trowbridge
Question: In which town Is the administrative headquarters of Buckinghamshire?
Answer: aylesbury
Question: Which scientist was the first, in 1888, to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves?
Answer: heinrich rudolf hertz
Question: What name is given to the decorative articles made from marine animal's bones, teeth or tusks?
Answer: scrimshaw
Question: Who, in 1923, wrote 'Toward An Architecture'?
Answer: le corbusier
Question: Which Tory minister resigned in 1992 following the revelation of his affair with Antonia de Sancha?
Answer: david mellor
Question: The Kray twins were convicted of the murder of George Cornell in which East End pub?
Answer: blind beggar
Question: Prior to Steve McClaren who was the last Englishman appointed as permanent England Manager?
Answer: kevin keegan
Question: Who, in 1776, wrote "The Wealth of Nations"?
Answer: adam smith
Question: In the TV series 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" for which company did he originally work?
Answer: sunshine desserts
Question: In which industry is the "Kimberly Process Certification Scheme" used?
Answer: diamond
Question: Which English long distance path runs from Overton Hill near Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon?
Answer: ridgeway
Question: Which figure of speech is represented by such phrases as 'pretty ugly' and 'black Is white'?
Answer: oxymoron
Question: According to the latest census, in 2001, what is the second most spoken language In Australia?
Answer: chinese
Question: In the 2009 remake of "Reggie Perrin" who played the title role?
Answer: martin clunes
Question: Which of the United States was the first to give women the vote?
Answer: wyoming
Question: Which English long distance path runs from Hassle to Filey?
Answer: wold s way
Question: On which fictitious estate does the TV series "Shameless" take place?
Answer: chatsworth
Question: Who wrote the 1972 novel "Watership Down"?
Answer: richard adams
Question: Which sport was, allegedly, invented by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York in 1839?
Answer: baseball
Question: The Afon Hafren is Welsh name for which British river?
Answer: severn
Question: In WWII what name was given to the top secret material gained from the Enigma machines?
Answer: ultra
Question: William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts invented which sport in 1895?
Answer: volleyball
Question: Three of the stations on an English monopoly board are King's Cross, Marylebone and Liverpool Street what is the fourth?
Answer: fenchurch street
Question: Who played Cat Woman in the 1997 film "Batman Returns"?
Answer: michelle pfeiffer
Question: Which small European country's flag is two horizontal bands light blue over white with the nation's coat of arms in the centre?
Answer: san marino
Question: In the game of Scrabble how many blank files are there?
Answer: two
Question: Whom did Valerie Solanas shoot in 1968?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: Which of the United States is known as the "Garden" state?
Answer: new jersey
Question: Which lion did Hercules kill as one of his twelve labours?
Answer: nemean
Question: What type of motor cycle did Steve McQueen ride in the film " The Great Escape"?
Answer: triumph
Question: Who, in Greek myth, killed the gorgon Medusa?
Answer: perseus
Question: Which religious leader won the 1989 Nobel Prize for Peace?
Answer: dalai lama
Question: Which type of car did Steve McQueen drive in the film "Bullitt"?
Answer: mustang
Question: Which US President, along with Queen Elizabeth ,opened the St. Lawrence Seaway in June 1959?
Answer: dwight d eisenhower
Question: Which country were the first winners of FIFA's Women's World Cup?
Answer: united states
Question: Which character in Shakespeare "was more sinned against than sinning"?
Answer: king lear
Question: Who appeared on the first cover of "Playboy" magazine?
Answer: marilyn monroe
Question: Who had a UK No.1 album, in 2002, with "Escapology"?
Answer: robbie williams
Question: Which character in Shakespeare "loved not wisely but too well"?
Answer: othello
Question: Who, in 1954, were the first winners of Rugby League's World Cup?
Answer: great britain
Question: Which ice-cream business was founded by Rueben and Rose Mattus?
Answer: haagen dazs
Question: Steve Brookstein won the first series of which TV show in 2004?
Answer: x factor
Question: Who, between 1859-1885, composed the four Mephisto Waltzes?
Answer: franz liszt
Question: Who played the Prince Regent in "Blackadder the Third"?
Answer: hugh laurie
Question: Which US author wrote a series of novels about the Women's Murder Club?
Answer: james patterson
Question: Who, in 1887, composed the symphonic poem "Capriccio Espagnol"?
Answer: rimsky korsakov
Question: Lulu Guinness and Anya Hindmarch are principally associated with which fashion accessory?
Answer: handbags
Question: Fanny Brawne was betrothed to which English romantic poet?
Answer: john keats
Question: Which US author wrote a series of novels about the Camel Club?
Answer: david baldacci
Question: In which country will the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup be played?
Answer: england
Question: In which English county is the village of Tolpuddle?
Answer: dorset
Question: What is the thin muscular sheet that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity?
Answer: thoracic diaphragm
Question: An ARP detachment leader called Thomas Alderson was the first recipient of which award?
Answer: george cross
Question: The 'Daily Sketch' was taken over and merged with which other newspaper in 1971?
Answer: daily mail
Question: Since 1971, which US Federal holiday has held been on the second Monday in October?
Answer: columbus day
Question: What other, non-scientific, name is given to the extinct smilodon?
Answer: sabre toothed tiger
Question: What do Ballinsloe in Co. Galway and Appleby in Cumbria have in common?
Answer: horse fairs
Question: In which London building would you find the Jericho Parlour and the Jerusalem Chamber?
Answer: westminster abbey
Question: In 1565, which centre for commerce was created by Sir Thomas Gresham?
Answer: royal exchange
Question: The vibrations of which element formed the basis of the first atomic clock?
Answer: caesium
Question: The Ashanti people, and region, are a part of which country?
Answer: ghana
Question: Who portrayed Johnny Cash in the 2005 film "Walk the Line"?
Answer: joaquin phoenix
Question: Which English footballer was the first to be transferred for £1 million in 1979?
Answer: trevor francis
Question: Which element, atomic number 18, is named after the Greek for 'lazy' or 'the inactive one'?
Answer: argon
Question: Queen Victoria assumed which title on 1st January 1877?
Answer: empress of india
Question: Which footballer has played and scored in every season in the Premiership?
Answer: ryan giggs
Question: As whom were John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd known in the title of a 1980 film?
Answer: blues brothers