CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What name links Mary Shelly and the man who wrote the music for the California State song?
Answer: frankenstein
Question: At Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands there is a memorial statue to which branch of the British armed services?
Answer: commandos
Question: Who directed the films 'Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'?
Answer: peter weir
Question: Who did Sophie Rhys-Jones marry in 1999?
Answer: prince edward
Question: Who became Lord Protector of England in 1653?
Answer: oliver cromwell
Question: 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of which Jane Austen novel?
Answer: pride prejudice
Question: Stanley in the Falkland Isles is twinned with which North Yorkshire town?
Answer: whitby
Question: What was the name of the member of the crew of Apollo 11 who did NOT walk on the Moon in 1969?
Answer: michael collins
Question: Swansea City now play their home games at The Liberty Stadium. What was the name of their previous home venue?
Answer: vetch field
Question: Who in 1890, composed the music for the opera 'Ivanhoe'?
Answer: sir arthur sullivan
Question: Alfredo di Stefano, of Real Madrid fame was born in which country?
Answer: argentina
Question: In the Old Testament, TWO books are named after women. Ruth is one - name the other.
Answer: esther
Question: In 1978 who had their first UK Top Ten Hit with the song 'What A Waste'?
Answer: ian dury blockheads
Question: Who was Tsar of Russia when the serfs were emancipated?
Answer: alexander ii
Question: Who had number one hits in 1959 with "Side Saddle" and "Roulette"?
Answer: russ conway
Question: Who had a number one hit in 1955 with 'Give me your word' and in 1956 with 'Sixteen Tons'?
Answer: tennessee ernie ford
Question: Who was Prime Minister at time of the Battle of Waterloo?
Answer: lord liverpool
Question: In which Shakespeare play do the characters Duke Frederick and Charles the Wrestler appear?
Answer: as you like it
Question: Which Labour politician wrote a 1989 autobiography titled The Time of my Life'?
Answer: denis healey
Question: In which US city was the 1968 film 'Bullitt' set?
Answer: san francisco
Question: In which US state was the 1987 film 'The Big Easy' set?
Answer: louisiana
Question: What is the name of the Wiltshire house of the Marquis of Bath?
Answer: longleat
Question: Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the accession of Elizabeth II?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: In which 18th century war were the battles of Dettingen and Fontenoy?
Answer: war of austrian succession
Question: A 'Winter Nelis' is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: pear
Question: In which seaside town in the UK was a statue of a naked woman called Verity by Damien Hirst unveiled in 2012?
Answer: ilfracombe
Question: Which fish is traditionally used in the Cornwall dish 'Stargazy Pie'?
Answer: pilchards
Question: The Voice (UK) judge Will. I. Am was a vocalist in which group?
Answer: black eyed peas
Question: Alex Turner is the leader of which British group, winner of the 2006 Mercury Prize?
Answer: arctic monkeys
Question: Which author using the pen name Robert Markham wrote a James Bond book called 'Colonel Sun' after the death of Ian Fleming?
Answer: kingsley amis
Question: Which Eastern City was the second largest in England, after London, 1,000 years ago?
Answer: norwich
Question: What is the distance one eighth of a mile normally called, used especially in horse racing?
Answer: furlong
Question: In which radio show did Sandi Toksvig take over from Simon Hoggart in 2006?
Answer: news quiz
Question: What is the stage name of American rapper Curtis James Jackson?
Answer: 50 cent
Question: In May 2013 the BBC decided to ditch the DMI. For what does the M in DMI stand?
Answer: media
Question: Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633-45. As a staunch Catholic, he was beheaded in the midst of the English Civil War?
Answer: william laud
Question: Who married Brooke Shields in 1997?
Answer: andre agassi
Question: Which playwright wrote the plays Heartbreak House, The Devil's Disciple and Back to Methusaleh?
Answer: george bernard shaw
Question: Name the island separated from the mainland by the Juan de Fuca, Georgia and Queen Charlotte Straits?
Answer: vancouver island
Question: Who is this: An American President sometimes called the 'Father of the Constitution', during his term of office the Treaty of Ghent was signed ending the war between Britain and America. He was also responsible for seizing West Florida from Spain?
Answer: james madison
Question: What is considered the most successful (financially and most other ways) Australian film of the 1980's?
Answer: crocodile dundee
Question: Who, according to Pseudo-Apollodorus, was the only woman on the crew of the Argo?
Answer: atalanta
Question: What, in a word, are retinol, niacin, cobalamin and ascorbic acid?
Answer: vitamins
Question: Monte Marmolada is the highest peak in which mountain range?
Answer: dolomites
Question: Who won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 2013?
Answer: marion bartoli
Question: What links a famous Park Avenue store, Audrey Hepburn and the song 'I think we're alone now'?
Answer: tiffany
Question: To which dynasty did the Plantagenet kings from Henry II to Richard II belong?
Answer: angevin
Question: Whom did Ffion Jenkins many in 1997?
Answer: william hague
Question: What was the name of the 1990's sitcom featuring Joe McCann, Diana Weston and Honor Blackman?
Answer: upper hand
Question: In which of the Gulf States is Al-Jazeera based?
Answer: qatar
Question: A Jayhawker was a term applied to anti-slavery militant bands from a certain US state that clashed with pro-slavery factions from Missouri. Which state is this, sometimes referred to as the Jayhawk State?
Answer: kansas
Question: For what were Baffin, Frobisher and Franklin all searching?
Answer: northwest passage
Question: In pop record terms, what have Snow Patrol being doing to cars, Adele to pavements and Shed Seven to rainbows?
Answer: chasing
Question: According to the OED what American magazine title is also the most common noun in the English language?
Answer: time
Question: Which 1977 TV drama, starring Alison Steadman, is set in the living room of Beverley Moss?
Answer: abigail s party
Question: Who directed the films The Graduate, Silkwood and Primary Colours?
Answer: mike nichols
Question: Which ancient philosopher's works are collected in 'The Analects'?
Answer: confucius
Question: What do the national anthems of Spain and Kosovo have in common?
Answer: no lyrics
Question: Who founded the Hogarth Press in 1917?
Answer: leonard and virginia woolf
Question: In the 1957 film Pal Joey, who played Joey Evans?
Answer: frank sinatra
Question: The 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' comes from which Handel oratorio?
Answer: solomon
Question: What distance is an Olympic steeplechase?
Answer: 3 000 metres
Question: In which European country is the site of the Battle of Marengo?
Answer: italy
Question: What was the name of the spacecraft that took the first American woman, Sally Ride, into space?
Answer: challenger
Question: Who was snooker World Champion in 1990, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 & 99?
Answer: stephen hendry
Question: In cooking, the unpleasant smelling gas that is produced when you over-cook cabbage is a compound of which element?
Answer: sulphur
Question: Lobjoits, Webbs Wonderful and Winter Density are varieties of which summer vegetable?
Answer: lettuce
Question: In James Bond films who played Miss Moneypenny from 'Goldeneye' in 1995 to 'Die Another Day' in 2002?
Answer: saman tha bond
Question: Which Charles Dickens character lived in Satis House?
Answer: miss havisham
Question: Who founded the Kelmscott Press in 1891?
Answer: william morris
Question: 6 of the 10 tallest buildings in Europe are in which capital city?
Answer: moscow
Question: What is another name for the Chinese Gooseberry?
Answer: kiwi fruit
Question: In which London hotel was the Peach Melba invented in 1892?
Answer: savoy
Question: Which London team beat Manchester United at the quarter final stage of the Carling Cup in 2011?
Answer: crystal palace
Question: With which English university does the John Innes Centre share a campus?
Answer: east anglia
Question: The aria 'Let the Bright Seraphim' comes from which Handel oratorio?
Answer: samson
Question: In which European country is the site of the Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: germany
Question: What was launched in 1923 and was described as the "official organ of the BBC"?
Answer: radio times
Question: In which English cathedral will you find St. Bede's Tomb and St Cuthbert's Shrine?
Answer: durham
Question: What colour was invented by William Perkin in 1856?
Answer: mauve
Question: Who is the female presenter of the Channel 4 quiz show "Five Minutes to a Fortune"?
Answer: davina mccall
Question: Nora Barnacle was the muse and wife of which Irish writer?
Answer: james joyce
Question: Fanny Brawne was the muse and fiancée of which poet?
Answer: john keats
Question: Which US Civil War union general said "I am tired and sick of fighting, its glory is all moonshine. War is Hell"?
Answer: william sherman
Question: Mary Pickford, Kim Wilde and Sugar Ray Robinson were all born with which surname?
Answer: smith
Question: Gary Numan, Cliff Richard and Crystal Gayle were all born with which surname?
Answer: webb
Question: What is the title of the recent musical based on the music of the Spice Girls?
Answer: viva forever
Question: What is the title of the recent musical based on a book by Ben Elton with the music of Queen?
Answer: we will rock you
Question: For which high street clothing chain did Kate Middleton work as an accessory buyer in 2006?
Answer: jigsaw
Question: What is the name of the mail order company founded by Kate Middleton's parents in 1987?
Answer: party pieces
Question: Whose 2009 album 'Together through Life' made No.1 in the UK/US album charts, 39 years after his previous No.1 album in 1970?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: For what name does the 'E' stand in Richard E Grant?
Answer: esterhuysen
Question: For what does the 'L' stand in Samuel L Jackson?
Answer: leroy
Question: Which English county has the motto "Floreat Salopia"?
Answer: shropshire
Question: Who has been appointed as successor to Mervyn King as Governor of the Bank of England?
Answer: mark carney
Question: Merlyn Lowther, Andrew Bailey and Chris Salmon are the last three holders of which financial post?
Answer: chief cashier of bank of england
Question: Which halogen element, number 9 in the Periodic Table, is at standard pressure/temperature a pale yellow gas?
Answer: fluorine
Question: Who painted 'Mr and Mrs Robert Andrews', 'The Watering Place' and The Blue Boy'?
Answer: thomas gainsborough
Question: Who was Fred Astaire's female leading lady in the 1948 film `Easter Parade'?
Answer: judy garland
Question: Who was Fred Astaire's female leading lady in the 1957 film 'Silk Stockings'?
Answer: cyd charisse
Question: Who painted 'The Scapegoat', 'The Hireling Shepherd' and "The Light of the World?
Answer: william holman hunt
Question: Anne Hathaway won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2013 for her role in which film?
Answer: les miserables
Question: 'Hoochie Coochie Man' and 'Got my mojo working' were originally recorded by which Chicago blues singer?
Answer: muddy waters
Question: 'Smokestack Lightnin' and 'Red Rooster' were originally recorded by which Chicago blues singer?
Answer: howlin wolf
Question: Who wrote the detective novel 'The Nine Tailors' in 1934?
Answer: dorothy l sayers
Question: The United Nations Agency W.M.O. deals with what subject?
Answer: meteorology
Question: Who replaced Hilary Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State?
Answer: john kerry
Question: Pope Alexander VI who died in 1503 was a member of which family?
Answer: borgias
Question: Amelia Bullmore plays DCI Gill Murray in which TV crime drama?
Answer: scott and bailey
Question: The Medici's were rulers of which region of Italy from 1569 to 1739?
Answer: tuscany
Question: Who plays Detective Inspector Richard Poole in the crime drama 'Death in Paradise'?
Answer: ben miller
Question: Which Country won the men's hockey gold at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: germany
Question: The painting 'The Haywain' by Constable depicts a cart crossing which river?
Answer: river stour
Question: The song Burning Bridges by the Mike Curb Congregation is sung over the opening credits of which film?
Answer: kelly s heroes
Question: Who was the Prince of Wales killed by forces of Edward 1st in 1282?
Answer: llewelyn
Question: What was the name of Boycie's wife in 'Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: marlene
Question: Storm Thorgerson who died in April 2013 was particularly famous for designing what?
Answer: album covers
Question: Who was the first snooker player to have a maximum 147 break at the World Snooker Championships?
Answer: cliff thorburn
Question: Who was the famous Abbess of Whitby who played an important role in the conversation of Anglo Saxon England to Christianity?
Answer: hilda
Question: Which song especially written for the film version of Les Miserables was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song?
Answer: suddenly
Question: In the Pop Song 'Tell Laura I Love Her' what was the name of the young driver the lover of Laura who died?
Answer: tommy
Question: Which reality television programme was won by Natalie Coleman in 2013?
Answer: masterchef
Question: The Book 'Best Kept Secret' is the third instalment of the Clifton Chronicles saga who is the author?
Answer: jeffrey archer
Question: Apart from the oboe which other instrument in a standard orchestra has a double reed?
Answer: bassoon
Question: The song 'The Impossible Dream comes from which film and stage musical?
Answer: man of la mancha
Question: Who sponsored the First Division of the Scottish Football League for the 2012/13 Season?
Answer: irn bru
Question: The film and stage musical Hairspray is set in which US City?
Answer: baltimore
Question: In which County are Lulworth Cove and the natural limestone arch Durdle Door?
Answer: dorset
Question: Vaughan William's The Lark Ascending was written for which solo instrument accompanied by piano or orchestra?
Answer: violin
Question: What is the name of the 30ft sculpture by Paul Day what stands as the centre piece of the refurbished St Pancras Station in London?
Answer: meeting place
Question: Which company's original brief to Brian Eno was to compose a piece of inspirational music to last 3.25 seconds?
Answer: microsoft
Question: Who played Michael Murray in Alan Bleasdale's TV drama G.B.H.?
Answer: robert lindsay
Question: Charlotte Sophia was the Queen Consort to which King?
Answer: king george iii
Question: The Red Sea is a submerged section of which geographical feature?
Answer: great rift valley
Question: Who composed music for many Hitchcock films including Psycho, North by North and Vertigo?
Answer: bernard hermann
Question: On an Indian restaurant menu what ingredient is found in a dish with `aloo' in its name?
Answer: potato
Question: Who replaced Judas Iscariot as one of the twelve disciples?
Answer: matthias
Question: The Finch family of Maycomb, Alabama feature in which 1960 novel?
Answer: to kill mockingbird
Question: Sidney and Beatrice Webb founded which London educational establishment in 1895?
Answer: london school of economics
Question: Holden Caulfield is the main character in which 1951 novel?
Answer: catcher in rye
Question: Which TV presenter was married to Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the late Duke of Norfolk?
Answer: david frost
Question: What is the surname of singer Florence of 'Florence and the Machine'?
Answer: welch
Question: The fashion retailer 'Zara' has its headquarters in which country?
Answer: spain
Question: On an Indian restaurant menu what ingredient is found in a dish with `murgh' in its name?
Answer: chicken
Question: Scott Quigg is a current British World Champion, at which sport?
Answer: boxing
Question: Who succeeded Peter as Bishop of Rome, so becoming the second Pope?
Answer: linus
Question: Who wrote the poem that begins "April is the cruellest month"?
Answer: ts eliot
Question: What was patented in 1965 by Owen Finlay McLaren?
Answer: baby buggy
Question: Who wrote the 'Wedding March' taken from his incidental music to Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' written in 1842?
Answer: mendelssohn
Question: Which sauce is made by mixing and heating soy sauce, sake or mirin (rice wines) with sugar?
Answer: teriyaki
Question: Albert II abdicated as King of the Belgians in July 2013, what is the name of his son, the new king?
Answer: philippe
Question: Horus, the Egyptian god of the sun, war and protection had the head of which creature?
Answer: falcon
Question: The rock musical 'Rent' is based on which Puccini opera?
Answer: la boheme
Question: Give an alternative name for the flowering plant 'heartsease'?
Answer: wild pansy
Question: Which comedienne presents the Radio 4 panel game 'Dilemma' and co-presents 'The Great British Bake-Off'?
Answer: sue perkins
Question: Which TV policeman worked for the `Bureau des Etrangers'?
Answer: bergerac
Question: Who wrote the music commonly known as 'The Funeral March', it comes from his Piano Sonata No.2 written in 1837?
Answer: chopin
Question: Three people have featured on the reverse of the £5 note, the two most recent are George Stephenson and Elizabeth Fry, who was the first?
Answer: duke of wellington
Question: Scott Waites is a current British World Champion, at which sport?
Answer: darts
Question: In which Walt Disney film does the song 'When You Wish Upon a Star' appear?
Answer: pinocchio
Question: In 1970, Spencer Silver attempted to produce the strongest ever glue, he failed and as a result which product was born?
Answer: post it note
Question: In which TV police show do the cast work for `UCOS'?
Answer: new tricks
Question: Who presents the Radio 4 panel game 'The Unbelievable Truth' and is married to Victoria Coren?
Answer: david mitchell
Question: Which King of England had two wives, Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois?
Answer: richard ii
Question: In the Disney film 'Fantasia', who was the 'Sorcerer's Apprentice'?
Answer: mickey mouse
Question: In which war were the battles of Blenheim and Ramillies fought?
Answer: spanish succession
Question: Give the surname of the criminal Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde fame.
Answer: parker
Question: Which song written by Cole Porter in 1933 referred to "Fred Astaire, Mussolini, Mrs Sweeny and Camembert "?
Answer: you re top
Question: Who won the cricket county championship in both 2008 and 2009?
Answer: durham
Question: Give the Christian name of the son of Dick Francis who since his father' death has written thrillers based around horse racing.
Answer: felix
Question: The international board game Reversi is marketed in the UK by Pressman under what name?
Answer: othello
Question: Who wrote the cult books called "Chariots of the Gods" and "Return to the Stars"?
Answer: erich von daniken
Question: In what decade did cupro-nickel replace silver in British coins?
Answer: 1940 s
Question: What was the city of Harare called when Zimbabwe was called Rhodesia?
Answer: salisbury
Question: What is the name of Catherine Tate's famous schoolgirl character?
Answer: lauren
Question: Who has won 7 of the last 10 all Ireland senior hurling championships?
Answer: kilkenny
Question: The Sutherland Falls, the fifth highest waterfalls in the world are in which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which architect designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851?
Answer: joseph paxton
Question: Whose gang were the victims of the St Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929?
Answer: bugs moran
Question: Who came fifth in the 2012 Olympic medal table behind USA, China. GB and Russia?
Answer: south korea
Question: Who first translated the New Testament into English in 1526?
Answer: william tyndale
Question: What do we call the ancient Chinese board game known as weiqi in China? it is usually played on a board of 19 x 19 squares with black and white stones?
Answer: go
Question: What does the Latin phrase "cogito ergo sum" mean?
Answer: i think therefore i am
Question: Who was King of Denmark during world war two? A regnal number is not needed.
Answer: christian
Question: Name the book written in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln that according to its authors in a court case inspired Dan Brown to write "The Da Vinci Code"?
Answer: holy blood and holy grail
Question: What is the English name for what the Welsh call Llyn Tegid?
Answer: lake bala
Question: What sport was played at Horse Guards Parade in the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: beach volleyball
Question: Which us writer wrote "On The Road" in 1958?
Answer: jack kerouac
Question: What was the name of Harry Enfield's upper class twit character who is usually being ripped off?
Answer: tim nice but dim
Question: Who has competed in 7 of the last 10 all Ireland senior Gaelic football championship finals?
Answer: kerry
Question: In which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical does the character Nellie Forbush appear?
Answer: south pacific
Question: Which was the last club to lose in consecutive FA Cup Finals doing so in 1998 and 1999?
Answer: newcastle united
Question: Curly McLain is a character in which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: Which record by Connie Francis kept Cliff Richard from the No.1 spot with his first hit 'Move It' in 1958?
Answer: stupid cupid
Question: Who founded the 'Ballet Russes' in 1909?
Answer: sergei diaghilev
Question: What is the literal meaning of the Latin phrase in vino veritas?
Answer: in wine there is truth
Question: Which record by Bobby Darin kept Marty Wilde from the No. 1 spot in 1959 with 'A Teenager In Love'?
Answer: dream lover
Question: The film Schindler's List was based on whose Booker Prize winning novel of 1982?
Answer: thomas keneally
Question: Which novel by Iris Murdoch won the 1978 Booker Prize?
Answer: sea sea
Question: What is the main alcoholic content of the cocktail Cosmopolitan?
Answer: vodka
Question: Which US president had the shortest term of office, only 31 days?
Answer: william h harrison
Question: Who composed the music for the opera The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)?
Answer: gioachino rossini
Question: Who played the part of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister?
Answer: nigel hawthorne
Question: Who has scored the most test centuries (41) for Australia?
Answer: ricky ponting
Question: Which machine was invented by Hiram Moore in 1834?
Answer: combine harvester
Question: Who has scored the most runs in an innings (380) in tests for Australia?
Answer: matthew hayden
Question: Tabitha Babbitt is credited with which invention in 1813?
Answer: circular saw
Question: In which South American country is Mount Chimborazo the highest mountain?
Answer: ecuador
Question: Who created the fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh, played on TV by Roy Marsden?
Answer: p d james
Question: Which cabinet minister is MP for Chingford and Woodford Green?
Answer: iain duncan smith
Question: By what name is the tree Fagus sylvatica more commonly known?
Answer: beech
Question: Which jazz trumpeter and bandleader had the forenames John Birks?
Answer: dizzy gillespie
Question: Which Welshman defeated Chris Eubank to win the WBO Super Middleweight World Title in 1997?
Answer: joe calzaghe
Question: Which record by Culture Club was the best-selling UK single of 1983?
Answer: karma chameleon
Question: Prior to Barack Obama in 2009 who was the last US president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: Who won an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of composer Antonio Salieri in the film Amadeus?
Answer: f murray abraham
Question: Which artist painted A Wheatfield With Cypresses in 1889?
Answer: vincent van gogh
Question: Which US Air Force test pilot became the first man to break the sound barrier in a Bell X-1 rocket plane in October 1947?
Answer: chuck yeager
Question: Which was the last of Thomas Hardy's novels to be published?
Answer: jude obscure
Question: Who played Captain Renault in the film Casablanca?
Answer: claude rains
Question: Which original member of the Football League plays its home games at Deepdale?
Answer: preston north end
Question: Who wrote the play 'Long Day's Journey into Night'?
Answer: eugene o neill