CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the name of the store in "Are You Being Served?"?
Answer: grace brothers
Question: Who was the "Last King of Scotland" in the film of that name?
Answer: idi amin
Question: What was the surname of Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: trotter
Question: In which island group is the oil terminal of Sullom Voe?
Answer: shetlands
Question: Who played the outlaw Josey Wales in the 1976 film?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: Which UK football team plays home games at the Stadium of Light?
Answer: sunderland
Question: In 1979 which English art historian was exposed as a one-time Soviet spy?
Answer: anthony blunt
Question: Which Irish boxer was nicknamed the Clones Cyclone?
Answer: barry mcguigan
Question: Social reformer Frank Pakenham was better known as whom?
Answer: lord longford
Question: Which widely known song was composed by one-time docker Jim Connell in 1889 on a No 28 London bus?
Answer: red flag
Question: With Sellers, Seacombe and Milligan, who was generally thought of as 'the fourth Goon'?
Answer: michael bentine
Question: Who regularly delivered the monologue 'Albert and the Lion'?
Answer: stanley holloway
Question: Who played John Wilder in TV's The Plane Makers?
Answer: patrick wymark
Question: What was Alan Sugar's catchphrase during the TV series The Apprentice?
Answer: you re fired
Question: Who has the nickname of the thinking man's crumpet?
Answer: joan bakewell
Question: In which country will the 2010 FIFA World Cup be held?
Answer: south africa
Question: Who, in Greek myth, was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sacrificed at Aulis by her father to ensure a safe passage to Troy?
Answer: iphigenia
Question: Which chemical element (atomic number 15) derives its name from the Greek for "light bearing"?
Answer: phosphorus
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the line "The course of true love never did run smooth" come?
Answer: midsummer night s dream
Question: Who presents 'Any Questions' on BBC Radio 4?
Answer: jonathan dimbleby
Question: Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, is in which country?
Answer: tanzania
Question: Which day of the week features in the title of a novel by G K Chesterton?
Answer: thursday
Question: For what does the W stand in the name of Rev W Awdry, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine?
Answer: wilbert
Question: In cookery, what is the main flavouring of aioli?
Answer: garlic
Question: In which country will the 2010 Winter Olympic Games be held?
Answer: canada
Question: Of which Verdi opera is Violetta the heroine?
Answer: la traviata
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the, line "I am a man more sinned against than sinning" come?
Answer: king lear
Question: Of which Puccini opera is Mimi the heroine?
Answer: la bohème
Question: In cookery, which herb is the traditional main ingredient of pesto?
Answer: basil
Question: Who won a Best Actor Oscar in 1993 for Scent of a Woman, after four previous nominations in the same category?
Answer: al pacino
Question: Frederick Gibberd won the competition to design which Liverpool building?
Answer: metropolitan cathedral of christ king
Question: Which tree, common in Britain, has the Latin name Larix Decidua?
Answer: european larch
Question: Which English novelist won the Nobel prize for literature in 2007?
Answer: doris lessing
Question: In physics, whose third law of motion states that "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"?
Answer: isaac newton
Question: The Battle of Blenheim was fought during which war?
Answer: war of spanish succession
Question: The Supper at Emmaus, painted in 1601 and now part of the National Gallery's collection, is by whom?
Answer: michelangelo merisi da caravaggio
Question: Who created The Office and Extras with Ricky Gervais?
Answer: stephen merchant
Question: Harvey Lonsdale Elmes won the competition to design which Liverpool building?
Answer: st george s hall
Question: Which native British tree has the Latin name Taxus Baccata?
Answer: common yew
Question: Which English Playwright was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2005?
Answer: harold pinter
Question: Who created Are You Being Served and Allo Allo with David Croft?
Answer: jeremy lloyd
Question: Which film franchise was based on a ride at Disney theme parks?
Answer: pirates of caribbean
Question: The Claret Jug is awarded to the winner of which competition?
Answer: open championship
Question: b Which London landmark was designed by David Marks and Julia Barfield?
Answer: london eye
Question: Politician Herbert Morrison was the grandfather of which member of Tony Blair's cabinet?
Answer: peter mandelson
Question: The aria "La Donna e Mobile" comes from which opera?
Answer: rigoletto
Question: In Greek mythology, which youth fell in love with his own reflection?
Answer: narcissus
Question: I Which ocean liner rescued the majority of the Titanic's survivors?
Answer: carpathia
Question: Marita was the codename given to the German invasion of Yugoslavia and which other country?
Answer: greece
Question: Which former Blue Peter presenter went on to present darts coverage on television?
Answer: peter purves
Question: What name is given to a vent on a volcano that emits smoke and gas?
Answer: fumarole
Question: Which organisation has the motto "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity"?
Answer: fbi
Question: In which American city did Martin Luther King make his famous "I have a dream" speech?
Answer: washington dc
Question: b Which actor played the US president in the TV series "The West Wing"?
Answer: martin sheen
Question: Who was the court jester in Shakespeare's "As You Like It"?
Answer: touchstone
Question: What was the title of Cliff Richard's only UK number one hit during the 1970s?
Answer: we don t talk anymore
Question: What was the name of the character played by Geoffrey Palmer in "Butterflies"?
Answer: ben parkinson
Question: In which British city was Europe's first purpose-built prison opened in 1786?
Answer: liverpool
Question: The bands R.E.M. and the B52s both come from which town in Georgia?
Answer: athens
Question: Emil Zatopek won the Olympic gold medal in the marathon in 1952. In which event at the same games did his wife Dana also win gold?
Answer: javelin
Question: Which man-made material was first marketed in the USA in the 1950s as Dacron?
Answer: terylene
Question: Who wrote the Irish classic play "Cock A Doodle Dandy"?
Answer: sean o casey
Question: Which Duran Duran song was the theme of a Bond film?
Answer: view to kill
Question: The song "Send in the Clowns" comes from which musical?
Answer: little night music
Question: What was the name of Honor Blackman's character in the TV series "The Avengers"
Answer: cathy gale
Question: What name is given to the historical meeting site of King Henry VIII and King Francis I in 1520?
Answer: field of cloth of gold
Question: Which actor plays the title character in the TV series "Judge John Deed"?
Answer: martin shaw
Question: With which song did Brotherhood of Man win the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: save all your kisses for me
Question: Who wrote the novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?
Answer: harper lee
Question: Who originally illustrated A A Milne's Winnie the Pooh' stories?
Answer: e rnest h oward shepard
Question: What is the Royal Navy rank equivalent to Air Marshal in the Royal Air Force?
Answer: vice admiral
Question: For what medical condition would a doctor administer an antitussive?
Answer: coughs
Question: 'The Road to Xanadu' by Simon Callow is a biography of which actor?
Answer: orson welles
Question: In the place names Chipping Norton and Chipping Sodbury what does 'Chipping' mean?
Answer: market
Question: Sister Sledge got to number 1 in June 1985 with which song?
Answer: frankie
Question: Who wrote the opera 'Boris Godunov' in 1874?
Answer: modest mussorgsky
Question: Who was editor of Private Eye before Ian Hislop?
Answer: richard ingrams
Question: Which US TV cartoon features a cat and a chihuahua?
Answer: ren and stimpy show
Question: Who wrote the book 'Trainspotting'?
Answer: irvine welsh
Question: What is the name of the Queen's bodyguard in Scotland?
Answer: royal company of archers
Question: The illustrator Donald McGill is most famous for which type of 'art' work?
Answer: seaside postcards
Question: What is the highest rank in the Royal Air Force?
Answer: marshal of royal air force
Question: Who dominated women's swimming in the mid-70s winning 4 gold medals in the 1976 Olympics?
Answer: kornelia ender
Question: What form of poem can be Petrarchan or Elizabethan depending on its structure?
Answer: sonnet
Question: Which South American country will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: brazil
Question: In Egyptian mythology who was the god of embalming who also watched over the dead?
Answer: anubis
Question: Professor Robert Langdon is the hero in which best-selling novel?
Answer: da vinci code
Question: What was the name of Billy J Kramer's backing group in the 1960s?
Answer: dakotas
Question: Which country's national flag features a black two-headed eagle on a red background?
Answer: albania
Question: What is added to gin to make a pink gin pink?
Answer: angostura bitters
Question: In opera, how is the character Cio-Cio San better known?
Answer: madame butterfly
Question: Which was the first X-rated film to win an Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: midnight cowboy
Question: What was the last silent film in which Chaplin's little tramp appeared?
Answer: modern times
Question: Which common male Christian name derives its name from the Greek for horse lover?
Answer: philip
Question: With which sport would you principally associate the commentator Ted Lowe?
Answer: snooker
Question: With which sport would you associate the commentator Sid Waddell?
Answer: darts
Question: Who as at August 2008 is the Lord Chancellor?
Answer: jack straw
Question: The TV series 'Angel' is-a spin off from which other
Answer: buffy vampire slayer
Question: In the 1966 film 'The Good the Bad and the Ugly' who played the Ugly?
Answer: eli wallach
Question: What is the name of the electronic line judge at Wimbledon?
Answer: cyclops
Question: What links the English towns of Barton and Hessle?
Answer: humber bridge
Question: In which country can the world's largest deposit of nickel be found?
Answer: russia
Question: Which male singer, in 2008, topped the UK/USA album charts with album 'Home before Dark'?
Answer: neil diamond
Question: Which composer wrote 'The Rite of Spring' in 1913?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: Who wrote the books 'The Devil Wears Prada' and 'Chasing Harry Winston'?
Answer: lauren weisberger
Question: On television who live at 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield?
Answer: simpsons
Question: What is the name of the Italian dessert made from coffee soaked biscuit, layered with sweetened cream cheese?
Answer: tiramisu
Question: The Eustachian tube links the pharynx to which other part of the body?
Answer: ear
Question: What was the name of the hardworking horse in the George Orwell book 'Animal Farm'? Its character represented the proletariat.
Answer: boxer
Question: Which elite car company manufacture the Carrera GT model of car?
Answer: porsche
Question: What is the name of the apple-based liqueur from Normandy?
Answer: calvados
Question: Seoul is the capital of South Korea. What is the capital of North Korea?
Answer: pyongyang
Question: Which female singer, in 2008, topped the UK and US album charts with the album 'Spirit'?
Answer: leona lewis
Question: Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1923-1924?
Answer: stanley baldwin
Question: In the Bible, what book comes immediately after Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
Answer: acts
Question: Which composer wrote 'The Threepenny Opera' (Die Driegroschenoper) in 1928?
Answer: kurt weill
Question: What was the name of the dog that belonged to the cowboy Roy Rogers?
Answer: bullet
Question: Lindholme Prison is situated dose to which English town or city?
Answer: doncaster
Question: What colour is a UK domestic 3 amp electrical appliance fuse?
Answer: red
Question: Which Mexican plant is sometimes called the Flower of the Holy Night or Mexican Flame Leaf?
Answer: poinsettia
Question: Who won the best actress award at the 2008 Oscar awards ceremony for her role in the film 'La Vie En Rose'?
Answer: marion cotillard
Question: Who said in 1935 'Guns will make us powerful, butter will only make us fat'?
Answer: hermann goering
Question: Which actor was married to Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright?
Answer: sir laurence olivier
Question: Which American football team won the first Superbowl in 1967?
Answer: green bay packers
Question: In the novels by Baroness Orczy what was the real name of the Scarlet Pimpemel?
Answer: sir percy blakeney
Question: In the TV sitcom Frasier, what was the name of Martin Crane's dog?
Answer: eddie
Question: In the Batman films, how is Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot better known?
Answer: penguin
Question: Whose plays included 'Design for Living' and 'Present Laughter'?
Answer: noel coward
Question: Who released an album in 1973 called Billion Dollar Babies?
Answer: alice cooper
Question: Angelina Jolie is the daughter of which film actor?
Answer: jon voight
Question: Which modem "A" road mainly follows the Roman road Watling Street?
Answer: a5
Question: Which astronaut hit a golf ball on the moon in February 1971?
Answer: alan shepard
Question: Who married Liam Gallagher in 1997?
Answer: patsy kensit
Question: Who played Boromir in the film version of The Lord of the Rings directed by Peter Jackson?
Answer: sean bean
Question: Who was known as the Acid Bath Murderer?
Answer: john george haigh
Question: What is the name of the nightclub singer who is the central character of the musical 'Cabaret'?
Answer: sally bowles
Question: What was the name of the steep cliff on the Capitoline Hill in ancient Rome which was used as an execution site for murderers/traitors?
Answer: tarpeian rock
Question: What was the name of the gentleman thief created by E.W.Hornung?
Answer: raffles
Question: In the TV sitcom Rising Damp, what was the name of Rigsby's cat?
Answer: vienna
Question: In the Spiderman films, how is his enemy Norman Osborn better known?
Answer: green goblin
Question: Which jockey won the Derby two years running in 2003 and 2004?
Answer: kieron fallon
Question: Who wrote the plays 'Forty Years On' and 'The History Boys'?
Answer: alan bennett
Question: Who released the 1970 album called Atom Heart Mother?
Answer: pink floyd
Question: Which Star Wars actress was the daughter of Debbie Reynolds?
Answer: carrie fisher
Question: In which religion is the Tibetan Book of the Dead a revered text?
Answer: buddhism
Question: Which perfume house produces Opium and Rive Gauche?
Answer: yves st laurent
Question: What was the name of the dog that in 1957 became the first mammal in space?
Answer: laika
Question: Who was England's football manager from 1947 to 1963?
Answer: walter winterbottom
Question: Who is the main male character of the musical Carousel?
Answer: billy bigelow
Question: Which prison is guarded by the Dementors in the Harry Potter books?
Answer: azkaban
Question: Who played the Waco Kid in the spoof Western "Blazing Saddles"?
Answer: gene wilder
Question: In which novel is the character Alan Breck a fugitive from the English?
Answer: kidnapped
Question: Who plays the part of Jessica Fletcher in the TV series 'Murder She Wrote'?
Answer: angela lansbury
Question: Sheerness is the main town on which island in the Thames estuary?
Answer: sheppey
Question: In the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons', which bells sing 'I owe you five farthings'?
Answer: st martins
Question: What was the given name of the wife of Prime Minister James Callaghan?
Answer: audrey
Question: Bundesliga football team Schalke 04 plays home games in which German town or city?
Answer: gelsenkirchen
Question: The discount supermarket chain, Aldi, has its HQ in which country?
Answer: germany
Question: 'Good Wives' and 'Jo's Boys' were sequels to whose most famous novel?
Answer: louisa may alcott
Question: In the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons', which bells sing 'When I am rich'?
Answer: shoreditch
Question: Which tree is highly valued for gunstocks and decorative veneers for furniture?
Answer: walnut
Question: Which island in New York harbour was the processing centre for immigrants in the first half of the twentieth century?
Answer: ellis island
Question: What is the name of the TV detective played by Tony Shaloub?
Answer: monk
Question: Which SS commander died as a result of an assassination attempt in Prague in 1942?
Answer: reinhard heydrich
Question: Which motorway runs from the M5 near Bromsgrove to a junction with the A44 and A42 near Burton-on-Trent?
Answer: m42
Question: 'One Night in Bangkok' and 'I Know Him So Well' are songs from which musical?
Answer: chess
Question: La Liga football team Real Sociedad plays home games in which Spanish town or city?
Answer: san sebastian
Question: An island in the Bristol Channel gives its name to which shipping area?
Answer: lundy
Question: Who was the mountaineer who in 1970, together with Don Whillans, was the first person to scale the south face of Annapurna?
Answer: dougal haston
Question: Which religious sect was founded by Ann Lee in Manchester in 1747?
Answer: shakers
Question: The discount supermarket chain Netto has its HQ in which country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Who wrote the poem 'A Subaltern's Love Song' about Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, "Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun"?
Answer: john betjeman
Question: On which famous motor racing track is the Mulsanne Straight?
Answer: le mans
Question: What is the main ingredient of the drink 'Lassi'?
Answer: yoghourt
Question: England's first road congestion charge was introduced in 2002, in which city?
Answer: durham
Question: In 1975, which was the first city in the world to introduce congestion charges?
Answer: singapore
Question: George Wigram, Benjamin Wills Newton and John Nelson Darby were three of the founders of which religious sect founded in south-west England in 1831?
Answer: plymouth brethren
Question: In the Bible who was the father of the disciples James and John?
Answer: zebedee
Question: Which SS officer was nicknamed 'the Angel of Death'?
Answer: josef mengele
Question: In which country was the West Indian cricket captain Sir Vivian Richards born?
Answer: antigua
Question: Who was the singer who gave up his seat on the plane that crashed, killing Buddy Holly?
Answer: waylon jennings
Question: Who was the leader of the conspirators involved in the Gunpowder Plot in 1605?
Answer: robert catesby
Question: What is the name of the central keep of the Tower of London?
Answer: white tower
Question: Of which band was guitarist Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs a founder member?
Answer: oasis
Question: Which US swimmer won 8 medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 6 of which were gold?
Answer: michael phelps
Question: Which king had daughters named Cordelia, Regan and Goneril?
Answer: king lear
Question: 'While we were marching through Georgia' is a song of the American Civil War. Which union general led the march through Georgia in 1864?
Answer: sherman
Question: In which country was West Indian cricket captain Sir Garfield Sobers born?
Answer: barbados
Question: What does 'Chipping' indicate in a place name such as Chipping Norton?
Answer: market
Question: The post-modern arts complex, built in Paris in 1977, is named after which French president?
Answer: georges pompidou
Question: In which American state is the United States military academy at West Point?
Answer: new york
Question: In the comedy series 'Rising Damp', what was the Christian name of Miss Jones?
Answer: ruth
Question: Which poet wrote 'The Lady of the Lake' in 1810?
Answer: sir walter scott
Question: 'The Million Dollar Quartet' was an impromptu jam session in December 1956. Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis were three taking part. Who was the fourth?
Answer: johnny cash
Question: Apart from the Sun, which is the nearest star to our planet?
Answer: proxima centauri
Question: What was the Christian name of the founder of the Birdseye frozen food company?
Answer: clarence
Question: Katherina Minola features in the title of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: Michael Douglas won Best Actor Oscar in 1987 for which film?
Answer: wall street
Question: Who famously proclaimed 'Ich bin ein Berliner' on 26 June 1963?
Answer: j f kennedy
Question: Who had a hit with the song Copacabana in 1978?
Answer: barry manilow
Question: What does the prefix `xylo' mean, as in xylophone?
Answer: wood
Question: The Swilkin Bridge is a famous feature of which Scottish golf course?
Answer: st andrews
Question: Who composed the ballets, "Billy the Kid" and "Rodeo"?
Answer: aaron copeland
Question: Who played Sally opposite Billy Crystal in the 1989 film, "When Harry Met Sally"?
Answer: meg ryan
Question: Licence plates from which U.S. state, include the phrase, "Great Faces, Great Places"?
Answer: south dakota
Question: On the desk of which American President was there a sign which read, "The Buck Stops Here"?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: Which, chronologically, is the first of the "Chronicles of Narnia", although it was the sixth of the series of books written by author C. S. Lewis?
Answer: magician s nephew
Question: Which transport feature disappeared from the Liverpool waterfront in 1956?
Answer: overhead railway
Question: In which European city is the Pergamon Museum, which houses the Ishtar Gate?
Answer: berlin
Question: On TV, which actor played the part of C.J., the boss of Reginald Perrin?
Answer: john barron
Question: In which U.S. TV series did Alison Janney play the part of C.J. Cregg, a press secretary?
Answer: west wing
Question: In which European city is the Maurithuis Museum, which houses Vermeer's, "Girl with a Pearl Earring"?
Answer: hague
Question: The song, "I Whistle A Happy Tune", comes from which stage and film musical?
Answer: king and i
Question: Who was the original question master on the TV quiz show, "A Question of Sport"?
Answer: david vine
Question: In 1896, a short extension was built on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, from Herculaneum Dock to which final destination on the line?
Answer: dingle
Question: Which was the title of the 7th and final book in the "Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis?
Answer: last battle
Question: Which supermarket owner coined the phrase, "Pile 'em high, Sell 'an cheap"?
Answer: jack cohen
Question: Licence plates from which U.S. state, include the phrase, "Sweet Home"?
Answer: alabama
Question: Who composed the ballet, "Daphnis et Chloe" and a "Piano Concerto for the Left Hand"?
Answer: maurice ravel
Question: Amen Corner is a three-hole section on the back nine of which famous American golf course?
Answer: augusta national
Question: In which Irish county is the district of Connemara and the town of Athenry?
Answer: galway
Question: In the monologue, "Albert and The Lion", what was the name of the lion?
Answer: wallace
Question: According to the 18th century nursery rhyme, after Lucy Locket lost her pocket, which famous courtesan of the day found it?
Answer: kitty fisher
Question: Which 18th century English artist and engraver painted "The Shrimp Girl", held in The National Gallery in London?
Answer: william hogarth
Question: Britain, France and which other country were the main opponents of Russia in the Crimean War?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which singer/songwriter wrote the song, "Hello Mary Lou" based on a song called, "Merry, Merry, Lou", which became a big hit for Ricky Nelson in 1961?
Answer: gene pitney
Question: Which actress played the title role in the 1945 film, "Mildred Pierce"?
Answer: joan crawford
Question: Which powerful poison is extracted from the seeds of the Castor Oil plant?
Answer: ricin
Question: Which Bulgarian dissident was poisoned on Waterloo Bridge in 1978, with an umbrella into which had been inserted a pellet containing ricin?
Answer: georgi markov
Question: Which breed of white or grey horse is used exclusively at The Spanish Riding School in Vienna?
Answer: lipizzaner
Question: Who wrote and recorded the song, "Blue Suede Shoes", later a hit record for Elvis Presley?
Answer: carl perkins
Question: In which 1960's play, revived in London in 2007, does a Parisian architect have three air-hostess fiancees?
Answer: boeing boeing