CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which country is ruled by the holder of the Chrysanthemum throne?
Answer: japan
Question: For which 1967 film, based on a novel by Charles Webb, did Mike Nichols win the Oscar for Best Director?
Answer: graduate
Question: What is the seat of the Duke of Northumberland?
Answer: alnwick castle
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the line, "My salad days, when I was green in judgement." come?
Answer: antony and cleopatra
Question: Which Mozart opera of 1781 is set in the aftermath of the Trojan War?
Answer: idomeneo
Question: Who replaced James Harding in 2013 as editor of The Times?
Answer: john witherow
Question: Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the contiguous USA, is in which range?
Answer: sierra nevada
Question: Which series of novels by L M Montgomery is set on and around Prince Edward Island?
Answer: anne of green gables
Question: Which Scottish Premier League team play their home games at Fir Park?
Answer: motherwell fc
Question: How is the Dardanelles campaign of World War I, which took place between April' 1915 and January 1916 better known?
Answer: battle of gallipoli
Question: As at January 2015, which Rugby Union player has scored the most points in the Rugby World Cup final stages, with 277 between 1999 and 2011?
Answer: jonny wilkinson
Question: which actor was the maternal grandfather of actress Joely Richardson?
Answer: sir michael redgrave
Question: Mount Kosciuszko, the highest mountain in Australia is in which range?
Answer: snowy mountains
Question: Who starred in the title role of Clint Eastwood's 2011 film J Edgar?
Answer: leonardo dicaprio
Question: Which chemical element, number 31 in the Periodic Table, takes its name from the Latin for France?
Answer: gallium
Question: What type of pastry is traditionally used to make baklava?
Answer: filo
Question: Who starred in the title role of Mike Leigh's 2014 film Mr Turner?
Answer: timothy spall
Question: Which golfer is the most successful Ryder Cup player, having won 25 points over 11 Ryder Cups?
Answer: nick faldo
Question: How does the Latin phrase "Tabula rasa" translate into English?
Answer: clean slate
Question: Which playwright was the maternal grandfather of actress Geraldine Chaplin?
Answer: eugene o neill
Question: The most successful act at the Brit awards has won 17 times, 12 as a solo artist. Who is it?
Answer: robbie williams
Question: Which Scottish Premier League team play its home games at McDiarmid Park?
Answer: st johnstone fc
Question: How does the Latin phrase "Lapsus linguae" translate into English?
Answer: slip of tongue
Question: Who played President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing?
Answer: martin sheen
Question: Which company owns brands including Marmite, Wall's and Simple?
Answer: unilever
Question: Which Battle of 1944 was the inspiration for Cornelius Ryan's 1974 book A Bridge Too Far?
Answer: arnhem
Question: Melton Mowbray and Ashby-de-la-Zouch are towns in which English county?
Answer: leicestershire
Question: What name was given to the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki?
Answer: fat man
Question: What was the name of the Mercury spacecraft in which John Glenn orbited the Earth in 1962?
Answer: friendship
Question: Two Books of the Old Testament begin with the letter P. One is Psalms. What is the other?
Answer: proverbs
Question: What was the name of Gary Cooper’s character in the 1952 film High Noon?
Answer: will kane
Question: Which actor played Sergeant Neil Howie in the 1973 film The Wicker Man?
Answer: edward woodward
Question: Which group had a hit in 1962 with Telstar?
Answer: tornados
Question: What was the name of the pilot of Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Answer: paul tibbets
Question: Leighton Buzzard and Biggleswade are towns in which English county?
Answer: bedfordshire
Question: In which Dickens novel does Daniel Quilp appear?
Answer: old curiosity shop
Question: Molde and Rosenborg are football clubs from which country?
Answer: norway
Question: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' is the opening song from which musical?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: Braga and Belenenses are football clubs from which country?
Answer: portugal
Question: In which Dickens novel does Nathaniel Winkle appear?
Answer: pickwick papers
Question: Denis Papin is credited with inventing an early version of which kitchen device?
Answer: pressure cooker
Question: Who did Ban Ki-Moon succeed as Secretary-General of the United Nations?
Answer: kofi annan
Question: Which lake was formed by the construction of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado river?
Answer: lake mead
Question: In a one-day cricket match on January 6th 2012 against Bangladesh A the first six batsmen for England Lions, Roy, Root, Vince, Taylor, Bairstow and Buttler all have first names that begin with which letter?
Answer: j
Question: Which general interest magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace?
Answer: reader s digest
Question: Which town, later a city, was created to house the workers of the Hoover Dam project?
Answer: boulder city
Question: Which ITV crime drama series stars Brenda Blethyn as a Detective Chief Inspector in the fictional Northumberland and City Police?
Answer: vera
Question: Who was Editor of the News of the World from 2003 to 2007?
Answer: andy coulson
Question: Who was the Chancellor during German reunification in 1990?
Answer: helmut kohl
Question: The zygomatic bone is the medical name for which bone of the human body?
Answer: cheek bone
Question: In which country did the 1989 Velvet Revolution take place?
Answer: czechoslovakia
Question: In which country did the Orange Revolution take place in 2004-2005?
Answer: ukraine
Question: Whirligig and Longhorn are types of which creature?
Answer: beetle
Question: Who was Editor of the Daily Mirror from 1996 to 2004?
Answer: piers morgan
Question: John Bacchus played by Lee Ingleby is the sergeant to which TV police inspector?
Answer: george gently
Question: What is the medical name for the membrane that surrounds the heart?
Answer: pericardium
Question: Which former Prime Minister is a member of the Order of the Garter?
Answer: john major
Question: Joe Orton, Sue Townsend and the Elephant Man were all born in which English city?
Answer: leicester
Question: In 1986, what was the name of the European data gathering spacecraft that intercepted the path of Halley's Comet?
Answer: giotto
Question: Which English Football League club was originally founded as Singers FC?
Answer: coventry city
Question: Which English dish consists of soaked and boiled split peas, usually served with ham or pork?
Answer: pease pudding
Question: The Dandie Dinmont is a dog breed named after a character from which novel by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: guy mannering
Question: Opened in 1965, which is the oldest of Britain's long-distance footpaths?
Answer: pennine way
Question: In which Dickens' novel do the characters Aunt Rose, Charley Bates and Toby Crackit appear?
Answer: oliver twist
Question: In World War II, what was the allies' code name for the Anzio Landings?
Answer: operation shingle
Question: Which actress took the role originally played by Margaret Lockwood in the 1979 remake of the film The Lady Vanishes?
Answer: cybil shepherd
Question: Which English painter was born in Bury St, Edmonds, Suffolk in 1727?
Answer: thomas gainsborough
Question: What is the name of the whaleship in Melville's novel Moby Dick?
Answer: pequod
Question: Which former head of NKVD (The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) in USSR was executed in 1953 for treason after the death of Stalin?
Answer: lavrentiy beria
Question: In which film of the 1930's did child star Shirley Temple sing On the Good Ship Lollipop?
Answer: bright eyes
Question: Looking like a large grapefruit, which citrus fruit was once known as a shaddock?
Answer: pomelo
Question: Who is the actress mother of Melanie Griffith?
Answer: tippi hedren
Question: In November 2014, a European Space consortium succeeded in landing a vehicle on a comet after a 10 year journey. What was the name of the mission?
Answer: rosetta
Question: Kendal stands on a river that shares its name with which English county?
Answer: kent
Question: Shaddongate United was the original name of which English Football League club?
Answer: carlisle united
Question: Which actress took the role originally played by Janet Leigh in the 1998 re-make of Psycho?
Answer: anne heche
Question: Who, in January 2013, became the General Secretary of the TUC?
Answer: frances o grady
Question: Which English painter was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk in 1776?
Answer: john constable
Question: Which singer was known as 'Little Miss Dynamite'?
Answer: brenda lee
Question: The name of which type of wine glass is also the name of a musical instrument?
Answer: flute
Question: Who was the first woman to ride in the Epsom Derby in 1996?
Answer: alex greaves
Question: Who was the chief harpooner on Captain Ahab's whaleship?
Answer: queequeg
Question: The assassination of which Soviet politician in 1934 triggered Stalin's purge of the Communist Party?
Answer: sergei kirov
Question: Who wrote the sketch The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town for The Two Ronnies TV show?
Answer: spike milligan
Question: In which of her films did Shirley Temple sing Animal Crackers in my Soup?
Answer: curly top
Question: Which fruit is a cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine?
Answer: tangelo
Question: Stephen Hendry was the World Snooker Champion every year between 1990 and 1996 except for 1991. Who won the title in 1991?
Answer: john parrott
Question: TV's Peaky Blinders is set in which UK city?
Answer: birmingham
Question: In which Carry On film does Kenneth Williams play Captain Fearless and Bernard Cribbins Midshipman Albert Poopdecker?
Answer: carry on jack
Question: In which modern day country was the "Battle of Waterloo" fought in 1815?
Answer: belgium
Question: With whom did Lionel Ritchie duet on the 1981 hit "Endless Love"?
Answer: diana ross
Question: From which club did Tottenham Hotspur sign Christian Eriksen in 2013?
Answer: ajax
Question: The Kadjar and Twizy models of cars are produced by which company?
Answer: renault
Question: Which British general commanded the forces who defeated the French at Quebec in 1759 led by The Marquis de Montcalm?
Answer: general wolfe
Question: Which northern Irish singer-songwriters only UK top 20 hit was a duet with Cliff Richard, entitled "Whenever God Shines His Light"?
Answer: van morrison
Question: From which club did FC Barcelona sign Neymar in 2013?
Answer: santos
Question: Which fish is used in an Arbroath Smokie?
Answer: haddock
Question: Which battle of 23 June, 1757, was a major victory for the British East India Company's troops over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies?
Answer: battle of plassey
Question: The adjective "vulpine", appertains to which animal?
Answer: fox
Question: Who directed Robert De Niro in the film "Taxi Driver"?
Answer: martin scorsese
Question: Who was president of Malawi from 1966 to 1994?
Answer: hastings banda
Question: Who wrote the 1968 novel "A Kestrel for a Knave"?
Answer: barry hines
Question: In Greco-Roman mythology, who is the Muse of Tragic Poetry?
Answer: melpomene
Question: In which organ of the body can the Islets of Langerhans be found?
Answer: pancreas
Question: Which 1978 film starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson was an African - American adaptation of a 1939 film starring Judy Garland?
Answer: wiz
Question: Chablis is a white wine from which wine growing region of France?
Answer: burgundy
Question: Who deposed King Idris in a coup in Libya in 1969?
Answer: colonel gadhafi
Question: In the novel of the same name, the car "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", was built and driven by whom?
Answer: caractacus potts
Question: The foremost of the Nine Muses, according to Hesiod, who was the muse of epic poetry?
Answer: calliope
Question: Which is the main river flowing through the Portuguese capital of Lisbon?
Answer: tagus
Question: Brouilly, Morgon, Fleurie and Julienas are among the better classifications of wine from which popular wine-growing area of France?
Answer: beaujolais
Question: Who wrote the operetta, "The Merry Widow", first performed in 1905?
Answer: franz lehar
Question: In "The Prisoner of Azkaban" who was Harry Potter's godfather?
Answer: sirius black
Question: In 2001 Martin Creed notoriously won the Turner Prize, for an installation consisting of an empty room, with what happening every five seconds?
Answer: lights going on and off
Question: In which constellation is Arcturus, the fifth brightest star in the night sky, located?
Answer: bootes
Question: Who played Eliza Doolittle in the 1964 film "My Fair Lady"?
Answer: audrey hepburn
Question: Since 1843, in which town of southern England has Arkell's brewery been located?
Answer: swindon
Question: Who is the author of the books "Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Island of the Day Before"?
Answer: umberto eco
Question: On which river do Basle, Strasbourg and Cologne stand?
Answer: river rhine
Question: Damien Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", consisted of which creature preserved in formaldehyde?
Answer: shark
Question: Which 1952 musical about the introduction of talkies, has a title song which was once parodied by Morecambe and Wise?
Answer: singin in rain
Question: Which of Hector Berlioz's operas is based on "Much Ado About Nothing”?
Answer: beatrice et benedict
Question: The winner of the Nobel prize for Literature in 1932, who wrote "Forsyte Saga"?
Answer: john galsworthy
Question: According to the Holy Bible, in order to marry which woman did King David send her husband, Uriah the Hittite, to meet his death in battle?
Answer: bathsheba
Question: The "Sons of the Desert" is the international appreciation society of which cinematic duo?
Answer: laurel and hardy
Question: Prince Orlofsky, the maid Rosalinde, Dr Falke and the jailer Frosch, are all characters in which operetta, first performed in 1874?
Answer: die fledermaus
Question: Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun"?
Answer: lulu
Question: By what one-word name is the painter, born around 1260 in Siena with the surname di Buoninsegna, usually known?
Answer: duccio
Question: Who played King Henry the Eighth opposite Paul Scofield's "Sir Thomas More" in the 1966 film, "A Man for all Seasons"?
Answer: robert shaw
Question: Who wrote the book on which Tchaikovsky based his opera, "Eugene Onegin"?
Answer: alexander pushkin
Question: The late-medieval musical instrument known as a psaltery was an early form of what later stringed instrument?
Answer: zither
Question: Who was the first Chancellor of the re-united Germany in 1990?
Answer: helmut kohl
Question: In which UK town or City is the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts?
Answer: gateshead
Question: What was the name of the character played by Jodie Foster in the 1991 film “Silence of the Lambs”?
Answer: clarice starling
Question: Which premiership Football team have the nickname “The Cherries”?
Answer: bournemouth
Question: In which City is the Musical “The Flower Drum Song” set ?
Answer: sanfrancisco
Question: Which composer’s music is featured in the 1979 Woody Allen “Manhattan”?
Answer: george gershwin
Question: In which town or city is the oldest purpose built casino, being built in 1638?
Answer: venice
Question: With which sport is Dan Topolski (1945-2015) associated?
Answer: rowing
Question: Who directed the 2004 film The Aviator?
Answer: martin scorcese
Question: Who plays the title role in the TV sitcom “Uncle”?
Answer: nick helm
Question: Name the oil tanker which ran aground off the Cornish Coast in 1967.
Answer: torrey canyon
Question: Which European Politician was associated with “Ruby the Heart Stealer”?
Answer: silvio berlusconi
Question: Name the first French Formula One World Champion in 1985.
Answer: alain prost
Question: In Greek Mythology who was the son of Thetis?
Answer: achilles
Question: Jay McGuiness who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015 was a member of which Pop Group that took a “hiatus” in 2014?
Answer: wanted
Question: Who held the Government Post of Chancellor of the Exchequer during the 1926 General Strike?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Who was the first female President of the Irish Republic in 1990?
Answer: mary robinson
Question: What was the nickname of Major Houlihan in the film and TV series MASH?
Answer: hotlips
Question: Who was the architect of the United Nations Building in New York City?
Answer: le corbusier
Question: The Forest of Arden is the setting for which Shakespeare Play?
Answer: as you like it
Question: Who played Nessa in the TV Series Gavin and Stacey?
Answer: ruth jones
Question: Which cruise liner capsized off the island of Giglio in 2012?
Answer: costa concordia
Question: Which driver won the Formula One World Championship in 1964?\
Answer: john surtees
Question: Who was the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate in the USA 2008 Elections?
Answer: sarah palin
Question: In which UK County is the village of Stilton?
Answer: cambridgeshire
Question: Which pop group did Zayn Malik leave in March 2015?
Answer: one direction
Question: Who became the first King of a unified Italy in 1861?
Answer: victor emmanuel
Question: What was the treaty which concluded the War of Spanish Succession in 1713?
Answer: treaty of utrecht
Question: Whom did Idi Amin depose in the 1971 coup in Uganda?
Answer: milton obote
Question: Who was killed in Mexico by Ramon Mercador in 1940?
Answer: leon trotsky
Question: Who has won Best Leading Actor Oscars for his roles in ‘Milk’ and ‘Mystic River’?
Answer: sean penn
Question: Which country staged the final of the 2012 EUFA European Championship?
Answer: ukraine
Question: ‘All American Prophet’, ‘Baptize Me’ and ‘l am Africa’ are songs from which musical, currently playing at the Prince of Wales theatre?
Answer: book of mormon
Question: Which Irish-born ballerina, who died aged 102 in 2001, founded the Royal Ballet and the Birmingham Royal Ballet?
Answer: ninette de valois
Question: Which English engineer (1907-1996) is usually credited with inventing the jet engine?
Answer: sir frank whittle
Question: Which is the third most populous city in Scotland after Glasgow and Edinburgh?
Answer: aberdeen
Question: What is the capital of the former USSR republic of Tajikistan?
Answer: dushanbe
Question: Hamilcar Barca was the father of which famous general, born in 247BC?
Answer: hannibal
Question: Denis Waterman is the only original cast member still starring in which TV series about the Met’s Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad?
Answer: new tricks
Question: In which city can you see the original statue of Michelangelo’s David?
Answer: florence
Question: Who wrote the 1848 novel 'Vanity Fair’?
Answer: william makepeace thackeray
Question: In the SI system of units, which prefix indicates a unit 1,000 times smaller than the basic unit?
Answer: milli
Question: Widowed at 25, Martha Custis, nee Dandridge, later married which future American president?
Answer: george washington
Question: Adapted by Richard Bean from a 1743 original work by Goldoni, which play became a West End hit in 2011, and on Broadway in 2012, starring James Corden?
Answer: one man two guvnors
Question: Which building society, demutualised in 1997 and acquired by Santander in 2008, was once advertised by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie using a slogan claiming to attract to ‘a smarter investor’?
Answer: alliance leicester
Question: At the 2012 London Olympics, Mexico won only one gold medal - at which sport?
Answer: soccer
Question: K2 is the highest peak in which mountain range centred on the historic region of Kashmir? It is considered a sub-range of the Himalayas and one of the Greater Ranges of Asia.
Answer: karakoram
Question: Which Cabinet member is the MP for Chingford and Woodford Green?
Answer: ian duncan smith
Question: HDL and LDL, standing for high- and low-density lipoproteins, are popularly known as the good and bad forms of which organic molecules?
Answer: cholesterol
Question: Which country will host the UEFA Euro team championship tournament in 2016?
Answer: france
Question: In which town in Cumbria is Jennings Brewery located ?
Answer: cockermouth
Question: Who has won Best Leading Actress Oscars for her roles in ‘Million Dollar Baby’ and ‘Boys Don’t Cry’?
Answer: hilary swank
Question: Which Cabinet member is the MP for Runnymede and Weybridge?
Answer: philip hammond
Question: Which English engineer (1910-1999) is usually credited with inventing the hovercraft?
Answer: sir christopher cockerell
Question: Thackeray took his novel’s title ‘ Vanity Fair’ from which author’s work The Pilgrim’s Progress’?
Answer: john bunyan
Question: Whose book The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ won the Man Booker Prize of 2014?
Answer: richard flanagan
Question: Deacon Blue took their name from ‘Deacon Blues’, a song on the album ‘Aja’ by which American jazz/rock duo?
Answer: steely dan
Question: Which singer gave her first headline live performance in 35 years at the Hammersmith Apollo in August 2014?
Answer: kate bush
Question: Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston worked for the Cold Case unit in which police procedural TV series that ran from 2000-2011?
Answer: waking dead
Question: Whose accession to the throne of England created the Union of the Scottish/English Crowns in 1603?
Answer: james vi and i
Question: Tirich Mir is the highest peak in which mountain range of central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, which is considered a sub-range of the Himalayas and one of the Greater Ranges of Asia?
Answer: hindu kush
Question: Which is the third most populous city in Wales after Cardiff and Swansea?
Answer: newport
Question: One of two English dancers, along with Margot Fonteyn, to be recognised as a ‘prima ballerina assoluta’, who founded the English National Ballet in 1951?
Answer: alicia markova
Question: Which building society, mutualised in 2000 and nationalised and part sold to Abbey National in 2008, used a bowler hats logo in its marketing?
Answer: bradford and bingley
Question: What is the name of the Sky TV comedy sports panel game hosted by James Corden with Andrew Flintoff and Jamie Rednapp as team captains?
Answer: league of their own
Question: Which ventriloquist do you associate with Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey?
Answer: keith harris
Question: Although courted by his political opponent, Stephen Douglas, Mary Todd chose to marry which future American president?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: What is the capital of former USSR republic of Kyrgystan?
Answer: bishkek
Question: In which city can you see the original statue of the Venus de Milo?
Answer: paris
Question: At the 2012 London Olympics Ireland won only one gold medal - at which sport?
Answer: ladies boxing
Question: Which son of Eric the Red is considered to be the first European to land in North America?
Answer: leif erikson
Question: Who created the US animated series ‘Family Guy’ in 1998?
Answer: seth mcfarlane
Question: The Limehouse Declaration, issued on 25th January 1981, effectively launched which UK political party?
Answer: social democratic
Question: In the nursery rhyme, when Lucy Locket lost her pocket who found it?
Answer: kitty fisher
Question: Which word is missing from the title of the swimming event held at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in which Christopher Walker-Hebborn, Adam Peaty, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Francesca Halsall won the gold medal for Great Britain - 4 × 100 metre ______ medley relay?
Answer: mixed
Question: In The Planets by Gustav Holst, which planet is the Magician?
Answer: uranus
Question: What subatomic particle was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932?
Answer: neutron
Question: What is the name of the school in Croydon attended by Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, and Adele among many other performers?
Answer: brit school
Question: Which 1987 film concerns the experiences of disc jockey Adrian Cronauer?
Answer: good morning vietnam
Question: In John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, what is the name of the family whose journey across the USA is traced?
Answer: joad
Question: Which British scientist lived at Down House, Kent, now in the care of English Heritage?
Answer: charles darwin
Question: In the UK what kind of creatures are Eggar, Cinnabar and Herald?
Answer: moths