CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which Hampshire castle was used for the exterior shots of the UK television series ‘Downton Abbey’?
Answer: highclere castle
Question: In fashion Peter Pan, Wing, Eton and Fichu are all types of what?
Answer: collar
Question: What is the surname of Scottish-born singer and musician Donovan?
Answer: leitch
Question: Which planet in our solar system is known as ‘The Blue Planet’?
Answer: earth
Question: Kielce, Olsztyn and Opole are cities in which European country?
Answer: poland
Question: Who played the title role in the 1996 film ‘Michael Collins’?
Answer: liam neeson
Question: Welsh rugby clubs Swansea and Neath joined to form which club?
Answer: ospreys
Question: The then fictional ‘Sarah Siddons Award’, now a real award, is first referred to in the opening scene of which film starring Bette Davis?
Answer: all about eve
Question: Which singer released a 2009 album entitled ‘Crazy Love’?
Answer: michael buble
Question: The first Summer Paralympic Games were hosted by which European city in 1960?
Answer: rome
Question: ‘Twittering Machine’, declared ‘degenerate art’ by Adolph Hitler, was the 1922 work of which Swiss-German painter?
Answer: paul klee
Question: The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of which country?
Answer: usa
Question: The HP-35, launched in 1972, was Hewlett-Packard’s first what?
Answer: pocket calculator
Question: Sir Leicester Dedlock is a character in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: bleak house
Question: In 1964 who became the first black actor to win an Academy Award in the category ‘Best Actor in a leading Role’?
Answer: sidney poitier
Question: The 1985 film ‘A Room With a View’ is set in which European country?
Answer: italy
Question: Which US President was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: Which American poet and novelist used the pen name Victoria Lucas?
Answer: sylvia plath
Question: Which London Mayor declared war on the pigeons in Trafalgar Square in 2000?
Answer: ken livingstone
Question: How many books make up the ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ by C S Lewis?
Answer: seven
Question: Which spice is known as the ‘Master Spice’?
Answer: pepper
Question: ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ is a hit song from the cast of which television series?
Answer: glee
Question: Which famous historic figure tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London in 1605 in ‘The Gunpowder Plot’?
Answer: guy fawkes
Question: Which 2009 animated film features a floating house suspended by helium balloons?
Answer: up
Question: Which fruit from Seville in Spain is usually used to make marmalade?
Answer: orange
Question: Singer Beyonce Knowles married which rapper in 2008?
Answer: jay z
Question: Which American football team did David Beckham sign up to in 2007?
Answer: los angeles galaxy
Question: Who played Captain Jack Sparrow in the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ series of films?
Answer: johnny depp
Question: Pug, Boxer and Chow are all breeds of which animal?
Answer: dog
Question: Swiss-born architect, designer and writer Charles-Edouard Jeanneret was better known by what name?
Answer: le corbusier
Question: Actress Rachel Weisz married which actor in 2011?
Answer: daniel craig
Question: ‘How To Talk Dirty and Influence People’ is the title of which US comedian’s autobiography?
Answer: lenny bruce
Question: Which British band released a 2002 album entitled ‘A Rush of Blood to the Head’?
Answer: coldplay
Question: What does ‘Son et Lumiere’ translate to in English?
Answer: sound and light
Question: Who plays Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the UK television series ‘Downton Abbey’?
Answer: maggie smith
Question: What is the name of the electric vehicle invented by Clive Sinclair and launched in the UK in 1985?
Answer: c5
Question: The novel ‘The Day of the Jackal’ is about the attempted assassination of which political figure?
Answer: charles de gaulle
Question: What colour Cat’s Eyes mark the offside (right) of a British motorway?
Answer: amber
Question: How many letters of the English alphabet are used as Roman Numerals?
Answer: seven
Question: Who wrote the 19th Century play ‘Hedda Gabler’?
Answer: henrik ibsen
Question: In 2012 the Austrian Mint brought out a 5 coin gold series to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of which artist?
Answer: gustav klimt
Question: What was the name of the favourite warhorse of the 1st Duke of Wellington?
Answer: copenhagen
Question: By what name is Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, known in the satirical magazine ‘Private Eye’?
Answer: keith
Question: Max de Winter is a fictional character in which novel by Daphne du Maurier?
Answer: rebecca
Question: If a skateboarder is ‘goofy-footed’, which foot is closest to the front of the board?
Answer: right foot
Question: Which 1993 film is about the affair between author C S Lewis and poet Joy Grisham?
Answer: shadowlands
Question: What were the first names of poet W H Auden?
Answer: wystan hugh
Question: Who was the first British Prime Minister to serve under Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: What is the all-seated capacity of Wembley Stadium in London?
Answer: 90 000
Question: Which US President is depicted on a $50 banknote?
Answer: ulysses s grant
Question: Who had a 1963 hit with the song ‘Little Boxes’?
Answer: pete seger
Question: Milt is the sperm-filled reproductive gland of which type of creature?
Answer: fish
Question: In the US television series ‘Spin City’, who played Randall Winston, the dim-witted Mayor of New York City?
Answer: barry bostwick
Question: Almere, Tilburg and Breda are all cities in which European country?
Answer: netherlands
Question: Which US adult film actor is nicknamed ‘The Hedgehog’?
Answer: ron jeremy
Question: The headquarters of the International Ice Hockey Federation is in which European city?
Answer: zurich
Question: Which English darts player has the nickname ‘Old Stoneface’?
Answer: john lowe
Question: In the children’s book ‘King of the Wind’ by Marguerite henry, what is the name of the little golden Arabian stallion?
Answer: sham
Question: ‘When are you gonna come down, When are you going to land’, are the opening lyrics to which Elton John song?
Answer: goodbye yellow brick road
Question: The Imperial Crown of India was created when which British monarch visited Delhi as Emperor of India?
Answer: king george v
Question: Which bird was depicted on a British pre-decimal farthing?
Answer: wren
Question: Which northern Spanish city is famous for the ‘Running of the Bulls’?
Answer: pamplona
Question: In the human body, Skeletal, Smooth and Cardiac are all types of what?
Answer: muscle
Question: In which European country was industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie born in 1835?
Answer: scotland
Question: Thomas Percy, the 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, was executed during the reign of which English monarch?
Answer: queen elizabeth i
Question: Which human rights activist delivered a speech in Cleveland, Ohio in April 1964 entitled ‘The Ballot or the Bullet’?
Answer: malcolm x
Question: The ‘Aeneid’, an epic poem in 12 books, is the work of which ancient Roman?
Answer: virgil
Question: Howard Kirk is the fictional university lecturer in which Malcolm Bradbury novel?
Answer: history man
Question: Which English club is nicknamed ‘The Cottagers’?
Answer: fulham fc
Question: Which British city has areas called Anfield and Toxteth?
Answer: liverpool
Question: Osteology is the study of which part of the human body?
Answer: bones
Question: Equus Ferus Callabus is the scientific name for which animal?
Answer: horse
Question: How many bronze lions are at the base of Nelson’s Column in London?
Answer: four
Question: Named after his eight year old daughter, Dave Thomas founded which chain of US restaurants in 1969?
Answer: wendy s
Question: Which US President is depicted crossing the Delaware River in the 1851 painting by Emanuel Leutze?
Answer: george washington
Question: What is the name of the Gloucestershire home of the Duke of Beaufort?
Answer: badminton house
Question: Which British designer made the miniskirt popular in the 1960’s?
Answer: mary quant
Question: Iva Toguri D’Aquino, a US citizen who participated in propaganda broadcasts to allied soldiers during World War II, was better known by what name?
Answer: tokyo rose
Question: Who plays Cinna in the 2012 film ‘The Hunger Games’?
Answer: lenny kravitz
Question: A ‘What’…..boom’ is an explosive noise caused by the shock wave of an aircraft travelling faster than the speed of sound?
Answer: sonic
Question: Which British composer based an opera on Henry James novella ‘The Turn of the Screw’?
Answer: benjamin britten
Question: Who plays Mrs Kay Miniver in the 1942 film ‘Mrs Miniver’?
Answer: greer garson
Question: In which English county did the 1963 Great Train Robbery take place?
Answer: buckinghamshire
Question: How many prisoners were locked in the Bastille in Paris when it was stormed by the people in 1789?
Answer: seven
Question: In medicine, septicaemia is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: blood poisoning
Question: Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck are all types of which fictional characters?
Answer: hobbits
Question: What is the name of the park in San Francisco where, in 1966, the Beatles performed their final official live concert?
Answer: candlestick park
Question: For the 2003 film ‘The Italian Job’ actor Jason Statham received driving tuition from which Formula One World Champion?
Answer: damon hill
Question: In 1692, on the orders of William III, nearly 80 members of which Scottish clan were massacred at Glen Coe?
Answer: macdonald
Question: In medicine, a rhinologist is concerned with which part of the human body?
Answer: nose
Question: In November 2011, a copy of the first issue of Action Comics, featuring the debut of which action hero, sold for 2.6 million dollars?
Answer: superman
Question: Pozole is a soup or stew which originated in which country?
Answer: mexico
Question: In January 1994, US President Bill Clinton and which Russian President signed a series of treaties known as the ‘Kremlin Accords’?
Answer: boris yeltsin
Question: The 2003 documentary drama ‘Touching the Void’ recounts the story of two mountaineers on which mountain range?
Answer: andes
Question: What was the title of The Beatles first single for EMI, released in 1962?
Answer: love me do
Question: Which US golfer’s first names are Eldrick Tont?
Answer: tiger woods
Question: How many triple-word squares are there on a standard Scrabble board?
Answer: eight
Question: In which 1966 Alfred Hitchcock film did Julie Andrews star with Paul Newman?
Answer: torn curtain
Question: Which US singer released a 2000 album entitled ‘Music’?
Answer: madonna
Question: Omonia, Enosis and Anorthosis are football clubs in which European country?
Answer: cyprus
Question: Meadowhall Retail Park is in which English city?
Answer: sheffield
Question: Arbor, Bullet Sinker, Reaper and Wobbler are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: fishing
Question: Which former English cricketer is known by the nickname ‘Bumble’?
Answer: david lloyd
Question: ‘Unobtanium’ is the fictional precious mineral mined in which 2009 film?
Answer: avatar
Question: Ionic, Doric, Tuscan and Corinthian are all types of which structure?
Answer: column
Question: In World War II, what were the Maquis part of?
Answer: french resistance
Question: Which cartoon character is the official mascot of the Walt Disney company?
Answer: mickey mouse
Question: Deborah Kerr plays governess Anna Leonowens in which 1956 film?
Answer: king and i
Question: In the International Morse Code, which letter of the alphabet is represented by one dash?
Answer: t
Question: What is the raised ridge down the centre of a Backgammon board called?
Answer: bar
Question: On a clothing care label, what does a circle denote?
Answer: dry clean only
Question: Major Metcalf, Detective-Sergeant Trotter and Mollie Ralston all feature in which play by Agatha Christie?
Answer: mousetrap
Question: What was the name of the New York City club which launched ‘The Twist’ in the early 1960’s and and where Go-Go dancing originated?
Answer: peppermint lounge
Question: What is the name of Captain Jack Aubrey’s ship in the 2003 film ‘Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World’?
Answer: hms surprise
Question: What is the name of the main character featured in the books ‘Chances’, ‘Lady Boss’ and ‘Dangerous Kiss’ by Jackie Collins?
Answer: lucky santangelo
Question: In medicine, polydipsia is a non-medical symptom  in which a patient displays an excessive what?
Answer: thirst
Question: Who plays Judge Turpin in the 2007 film ‘Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street’?
Answer: alan rickman
Question: In Greek mythology, what is the region beneath the Underworld, where the wicked were sent as punishment for their sins?
Answer: tartarus
Question: Which British fashion designer married Lars von Bennigsen in 2002?
Answer: alice temperley
Question: Which 1965 pop song by The Toys is based on ‘Minuet in G Major’ by J S Bach?
Answer: lover s concerto
Question: Which boxer defeated Muhammed Ali at Madison Square Garden in March 1971?
Answer: joe frazier
Question: In March 1977, the rings of which planet in our solar system were discovered?
Answer: uranus
Question: Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded which company in Albuquerque, New Mexico in April 1975?
Answer: microsoft
Question: Who resigned as Vice President of the United States in October 1973?
Answer: spiro t agnew
Question: In December 1979, which human disease was certified to be eradicated, the first driven to extinction?
Answer: smallpox
Question: Which nation’s football team won the 1970 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: brazil
Question: Which ‘army’ was discovered at Xi’an in China in 1974?
Answer: terracotta army
Question: The ‘tea house’ Mellow Yellow opened in which European city in 1972, pioneering the legal sale of cannabis?
Answer: amsterdam
Question: In February 1973, which US state became the first to post distance in metric signs?
Answer: ohio
Question: In September 1972, who did Bobby Fischer defeat to become the first American World Chess Champion?
Answer: boris spassky
Question: In September 1978, which Pope died after only 33 days of Papacy?
Answer: pope john paul i
Question: Which bridge crossing The River Thames did Queen Elizabeth II open on 17th March 1973?
Answer: london bridge
Question: Pop band ABBA wrote the song ‘Chiquitita’ to commemorate the 1979 ‘International Year of the….’what’?
Answer: child
Question: Footballer David Beckham, born 2nd May 1975, played for which English football club between 1993 and 2003?
Answer: manchester united
Question: What is the name of the farm in the 1995 film to which orphan Flora Poste, played by Kate Beckinsale, is sent to live with her relatives?
Answer: cold comfort farm
Question: The toy ‘Metal Lazy Spring’ is better known by what name?
Answer: slinky
Question: Which nation’s football team prevented England from competing in the 1974 FIFA World Cup finals?
Answer: poland
Question: Which world championship darts player walks onto the stage to the tune of ‘Rabbit’ by Chas and Dave?
Answer: eric bristow
Question: In 1665, Thomas Willett was appointed the first Mayor of which city?
Answer: new york
Question: Sara Lownds was the first wife of which US singer/songwriter?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: In which Charles Dickens novel does the fictional character Sam Weller appear?
Answer: pickwick papers
Question: Swedis-born Nicklas Lidstrom is associated with which sport?
Answer: ice hockey
Question: Who invented the hovercraft in the 1950’s?
Answer: christopher cockerell
Question: Richard Block and David Quayle founded which British-based DIY retailing company in 1969?
Answer: b q
Question: Which band released a 2007 album entitled ‘Minutes to Midnight’?
Answer: linkin park
Question: Which English football club is nicknamed ‘The Toffees’?
Answer: everton fc
Question: Singer Katy Perry married which British comedian in 2010?
Answer: russell brand
Question: What was the name of the missionary who is the subject of the 1958 film ‘Inn of the Sixth Happiness’?
Answer: gladys aylward
Question: Who was the only female competitor in the 1976 Montreal Olympics not to have been subjected to a sex test?
Answer: princess anne
Question: The 2011 film ‘The Hangover Part II’ is set in which country?
Answer: thailand
Question: The Pushkin Prize, established in 1881, is awarded for the highest standard of literary excellence to authors from which country?
Answer: russia
Question: Which make-up brand is advertised as ‘The make-up of make-up artists’?
Answer: max factor
Question: Batterhead, Flam and Rimshot are all terms associated with which musical instrument?
Answer: drum
Question: What is the name of the famous London museum which houses the most famous collection of wax figures in the world?
Answer: madame tussauds
Question: Harris, Lewis and Donegal are all types of which fabric?
Answer: tweed
Question: Who played Squadron Leader Peter Carter, who cheated death, in the 1946 film ‘A Matter of Life and Death’?
Answer: david niven
Question: What is the name of the python in Rudyard Kipling’s novel ‘The Jungle Book’?
Answer: kaa
Question: Who won the 1994 Men’s Singles Finals at Wimbledon?
Answer: pete sampras
Question: Erica Roe, Michael O’Brien and Mark Roberts are all famous for doing what at sports venues?
Answer: streaking
Question: Who’s got ‘A Lovely Daughter’ in the 1965 hit by Herman’s Hermits?
Answer: mrs brown
Question: The ‘Palmer Method’, developed by Austin Palmer, is a system used in what?
Answer: handwriting
Question: In 1979, which nation was the first to give limited rights to same-sex couples in a scheme called ‘Unregistered Cohabitation’?
Answer: netherlands
Question: Actresses Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith all hold which title?
Answer: dame
Question: How many players are on the field at one time in an American Football team?
Answer: eleven
Question: SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) is located in which European country?
Answer: belgium
Question: What is the name of the holiday camp in the UK television series ‘Hi De Hi’?
Answer: maplins
Question: In 1966, in an interview with a London Evening Standard reporter, which Beatle stated that they had become ‘More popular than Jesus’?
Answer: john lennon
Question: What was the name of the Belfast shipyard in which RMS Titanic was built?
Answer: harland and wolff
Question: Which actor became the 38th Governor of California, USA in 2003?
Answer: arnold schwarzenegger
Question: In astronomy, the ‘Aurora Borealis’ is better known by what name?
Answer: northern lights
Question: The James Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’ is set in which country?
Answer: japan
Question: Which two English footballers had a hit single with ‘Diamond Lights’ in 1987?
Answer: glenn hoddle and chris waddle
Question: Who played Phil Archer in the BBC radio series ‘The Archers’?
Answer: norman painting
Question: ‘Lovers of the Stinking Rose’ have a great fondness for what?
Answer: garlic
Question: Broken Heart, Charley Horse, Wish Bone and Brain Freeze are all parts of which board game?
Answer: operation
Question: In a standard game of chess, how many bishops does each player start with?
Answer: two
Question: Oil of Cloves is traditionally used to treat the pain in which part of the human body?
Answer: teeth
Question: What is the surname of Del-boy and Rodney in the UK television series ‘Only Fools and Horses’?
Answer: trotter
Question: What colour ‘Haze’ is the title of a 1967 hit by Jimi Hendrix?
Answer: purple
Question: Who is the voice of Princess Fiona in the Shrek series of films?
Answer: cameron diaz
Question: Which English artist painted ‘The Hay Wain’?
Answer: john constable
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’?
Answer: mark twain
Question: Bill Oddie, Tim Brook Taylor and Graeme Garden created and starred in which UK television sketch show?
Answer: goodies
Question: ‘Mince Pies’ is Cockney rhyming slang for which part of the body?
Answer: eyes
Question: How many holes are there, usually, in a ten-pin bowling ball?
Answer: three
Question: An older woman who is attracted to, and often has sex with, much younger men is named after which member of the cat family?
Answer: cougar
Question: Serendip was an old name for which modern Asian country?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: David Vine, David Coleman and Sue Barker have all hosted which BBC television quiz show?
Answer: question of sport
Question: Which motorcycle stuntman set a world record in February 1971, by jumping 19 cars?
Answer: evel knievel
Question: The US citizenship of which American Civil War General was restored in 1975?
Answer: general robert e lee
Question: What is the title of the only ‘Dirty Harry’ film directed by Clint Eastwood?
Answer: sudden impact
Question: The drug MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamin) is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: ecstasy
Question: What colour ‘Cadillac’ did Bruce Springsteen sing about in 1984?
Answer: pink
Question: The ‘Shuttlecock Club’ is an exclusive society for anyone who has crashed and survived on which racing track?
Answer: cresta run
Question: The LED (light-emitting diode) started life in 1962 as a single illumination in which colour?
Answer: red
Question: Which lake has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in the world?
Answer: lake superior
Question: Who played Bill Sykes in the 1968 film ‘Oliver’?
Answer: oliver reed
Question: What does the statue of Eros, in Piccadilly Circus in London, hold in his left hand?
Answer: bow
Question: Myology is the scientific study of which part of the human body?
Answer: muscles
Question: Who starred as Jim Bowie in the 1960 film ‘The Alamo’?
Answer: richard widmark
Question: In the Bible, who is the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth?
Answer: noah
Question: Fictional character Sir Percy Blakeney is better known by what name?
Answer: scarlet pimpernel
Question: In the children’s television series ‘The Magic Roundabout’, who is the operator of the roundabout?
Answer: mr rusty
Question: A bronze statue of Paddington bear is situated in which London station?
Answer: paddington station
Question: Mount of Venus, Plain of Mars and Mount of Jupiter are all found on which part of the body?
Answer: hand
Question: In which mountain range did fictional character Rip Van Winkle sleep for twenty years?
Answer: catskill mountains
Question: Who plays Isobel Crawley in the UK television series ‘Downton Abbey’?
Answer: penelope wilton
Question: The Jigsaw Serial Killer is a fictional character in which series of horror films?
Answer: saw
Question: Rubber, Boxing and Gardening are all types of what?
Answer: glove
Question: How many coins in one ‘turn’ does each player use in a game of Shove Ha’penny?
Answer: five
Question: ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ is from which sonnet by Emma Lazarus?
Answer: new colossus
Question: What was the first name of late US actor Steve McQueen?
Answer: terence
Question: Which fictional doctor is the central character in a series of books by Hugh Lofting?
Answer: doctor dolittle
Question: What is the name of the drink consisting of Cider and lager in equal proportions?
Answer: snakebite
Question: The Magic Fountain of Montjuic is in which European city?
Answer: barcelona
Question: All the proceeds from J M Barrie’s novel ‘Peter Pan’ are bequeathed to which London hospital?
Answer: great ormond street hospital for sick children
Question: Which type of cheese is traditionally used in a Cobb Salad?
Answer: roquefort
Question: ‘Whispering’ Ted Lowe was a commentator for which sport?
Answer: snooker
Question: Which US President had a new one-lane bowling alley installed at The Whitehouse in the 1960’s?
Answer: richard nixon
Question: US singer and musician William James Adams is better known by what name?
Answer: will i am
Question: What value, in points, is the purple ball in a game of ‘Snooker Plus’?
Answer: ten
Question: Which sport is the subject of the 1996 film ‘Happy Gilmour’?
Answer: golf
Question: Which US actor is the voice of Gru in the 2010 animated film ‘Despicable Me’?
Answer: steve carell
Question: Which racing driver won the 1994 Formula One Championship?
Answer: michael schumacher