CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In which American state was Edward Snowden working as a contractor to the National Security Agency when he decided to leak secrets?
Answer: hawaii
Question: What was the nickname of the East End murder victim Jack McVitie?
Answer: hat
Question: Who was the youngest of the Mitford sisters who died in 2014 aged 94?
Answer: deborah
Question: Who has presented Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2 since 2010?
Answer: tony blackburn
Question: Who did Tim Farron beat for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats this year?
Answer: norman lamb
Question: Who was the famous RAF Bomber Command representative who observed the dropping of the atom bomb on Nagasaki?
Answer: leonard cheshire
Question: Actress Talia Shire is the sister of which film director and producer?
Answer: francis ford coppola
Question: Known as the Valley Isle, which is die second largest of the Hawaiian islands?
Answer: maui
Question: The gifted female artist Marietta Robusti was the daughter of which painter?
Answer: tintoretto
Question: In April 2008 PEP accounts automatically became stocks and shares ISAs. For what did the letter E stand?
Answer: personal equity
Question: Who composed Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini?
Answer: sergei rachmaninoff
Question: Which member of the grouse family is colloquially known as the snow chicken in the USA?
Answer: ptarmigan
Question: In which children’s television programme did Professor Yaffle appear?
Answer: bagpuss
Question: Martello Towers, the line of defensive fortifications in south-east England were based on similar designs found on which Mediterranean island?
Answer: corsica
Question: Who is the current presenter of Desert Island Discs on Radio 4?
Answer: kirsty young
Question: Which European geographical feature was known to the Romans as Mons Calpe?
Answer: gibraltar
Question: England Rugby Union player Steffon Armitage, who was European Player of the year in 2014, plays for which French club?
Answer: toulon
Question: Who played PCI Stella Gibson in the BBC 2 series The Fall?
Answer: gillian anderson
Question: Which English cathedral was the world's tallest building between 1311 and 1549?
Answer: lincoln
Question: Who portrayed the eponymous painter in the 2014 film Mr Turner?
Answer: timothy spall
Question: Which French artist (1748-1825) painted The Death of Marat?
Answer: jacques louis david
Question: In which country was Che Guevara executed in 1967?
Answer: bolivia
Question: Which Cole Porter musical of 1934 includes the songs You're the Top and I Get a Kick Out of You?
Answer: anything goes
Question: Future British Chancellor of the Exchequer Francis Dashwood founded which club in the 18th century?
Answer: hellfire
Question: In the periodic table which element has the symbol Zr?
Answer: zirconium
Question: The home of The Royal Concertgebouw is in which city?
Answer: amsterdam
Question: Hail to thee, Blythe Spirit is the first line of which poem of 1820?
Answer: to skylark
Question: Which name is shared by the composer of the opera Norma and a cocktail?
Answer: bellini
Question: Which English city was known to the Romans as Luguvalium?
Answer: carlisle
Question: In 2014, Sam Burgess left South Sydney Rugby League Club to join which English Premiership Rugby Union Club?
Answer: bath
Question: Which Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador was a tireless social reformer who spoke out against corruption and repression and was assassinated n 1980 while saying mass?
Answer: oscar romero
Question: What was the tallest building in London from 1710 until 1960?
Answer: st paul s cathedral
Question: Who portrayed Alan Turing in the 2015 film The Imitation Game?
Answer: benedict cumberbatch
Question: For what does the P stand in the name of the body, the PRA, which is responsible for the regulation of banks and building societies in the UK?
Answer: prudential
Question: Which artist born in what is now Belgium (c. 1380-1441) painted the Ghent Altarpiece?
Answer: jan van eyck
Question: Which UNESCO World Heritage Site, built mainly by Abraham Derby is found in Shropshire?
Answer: ironbridge gorge
Question: Which football team plays its home games at Ewood Park?
Answer: blackburn rovers
Question: Which Irving Berlin musical of 1946 includes the songs Anything You Can Do and I Got Sun in the Morning?
Answer: annie get your gun
Question: Which flower and girl’s name is the equivalent of the French name Marguerite?
Answer: daisy
Question: In the periodic table, which element has the symbol Rn?
Answer: radon
Question: The home of The Simon Bolivar Orchestra is in which city?
Answer: caracas
Question: The Glazer family, who own Manchester United also own which NFL American Football team?
Answer: tampa bay buccaneers
Question: Hubert Humphrey served as Vice-President to which US President?
Answer: lyndon baines johnson
Question: Which chemical element, the first of the halogens, has the atomic number 9?
Answer: fluorine
Question: In which Marx Brothers film does much of the action centre on the theft of a painting, during a party given in honour of Groucho's character, the explorer Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding?
Answer: animal crackers
Question: William Cavendish-Bentinck served twice as Prime Minister, briefly in 1783 and from 1807 to 1809: by what title is he better known?
Answer: duke of portland
Question: By what name is the bird which countrymen call the "water ouzel and which has the Latin name cinclus cinclus, generally known?
Answer: dipper
Question: Which organisation (perhaps surprisingly to some) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012?
Answer: european union
Question: Who is the super villain in the James Bond book and film Moonraker?
Answer: hugo drax
Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek God of Love, Eros?
Answer: cupid
Question: What name was given to the policy of reconstruction in the Soviet Union adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev?
Answer: perestroika
Question: The star "Bellatrix", whose name comes from a Latin word meaning "warrior", can be found in which constellation?
Answer: orion
Question: Which dessert consists of a meringue cake with a crisp crust topped with whipped cream and fruit?
Answer: pavlova
Question: Which Pope commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine chapel?
Answer: julius ii
Question: Polaris, also called the North Star or the Pole Star, is located in which constellation?
Answer: ursa minor
Question: In The Simpsons what position is held by Joe Quimby?
Answer: mayor
Question: What name is given to a savoury jelly made with meat stock, used as a mould for meat, seafood or eggs?
Answer: aspic
Question: Who was the President of the USA at the outbreak of the First World War?
Answer: woodrow wilson
Question: Which author created, in a work of 1893, the fictitious gentlemen's club called "The Diogenes Club"?
Answer: sir arthur conan doyle
Question: In Greek Mythology, who was the Mother of Andromeda?
Answer: cassiopeia
Question: Which Swiss city was the base for the early Protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli?
Answer: zurich
Question: Which series of books is set on the island of Sodor?
Answer: thomas tank engine
Question: In 2014 Stephen Harper was the prime minister of which country?
Answer: canada
Question: Which Heritage railway runs between Caernarfon and Porthmadog?
Answer: welsh highland railway
Question: Chartreuse liqueur can be found in two colours. Yellow is one what is the other?
Answer: green
Question: In a nursery rhyme, where did Dr Foster step into a puddle right up to his middle?
Answer: gloucester
Question: Daniel Ortega at the beginning of 2015 is the president of which country?
Answer: nicaragua
Question: Which flowers form the majority of the genus Helianthus?
Answer: sunflowers
Question: The Hector Berlioz opera "Les Troyens" is based on which of Virgil's poems?
Answer: aeneid
Question: Who had a UK number One hit single with "I Feel Love" in 1977?
Answer: donna summer
Question: Who served as senator for Massachusetts from 1962 until his death in 2009?
Answer: edward kennedy
Question: Which Marx Brothers film centres on a football-match between two US colleges, with Groucho playing the president of Huxley College, Quincy Adams Wagstaff?
Answer: horse feathers
Question: What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh City immediately before it changed its name?
Answer: saigon
Question: The bird whose Latin name is turdus viscivorous, and which ountrymen call "the stormcock" because of its habit of singing in rainy weather, is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: mistle thrush
Question: Boney M's UK chart topping hit of 1978 was a double A-side, "Rivers of Babylon" was on one side, which song was on the other?
Answer: brown girl in ring
Question: What was the name of the military nobility of medieval and early modern Japan?
Answer: samurai
Question: Which Gilbert and Sullivan Opera has the alternative title "The Town of Titipu"?
Answer: mikado
Question: Lottie Dod was Wimbledon ladies singles champion five times and also represented England in which sport?
Answer: hockey
Question: Which international organisation was founded in Cairo on 22nd March 1945?
Answer: arab league
Question: When the Venus de milo was discovered in 1930 what did the fragments along the broken statue show what had been held in the left hand?
Answer: apple
Question: Paul. Mark and Stephen are three of the McGann acting family from Liverpool name the fourth brother.
Answer: joe
Question: Who was the last British male athlete to hold the World Mile record?
Answer: steve cram
Question: In which country did the 1974 Carnation Revolution take place>
Answer: portugal
Question: The Vauxhall Astra replaced which Vauxhall car model?
Answer: chevette
Question: Which fictional RAF Station gave its name to a post war radio comedy starring Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne?
Answer: much binding in marsh
Question: What name was given to the heir apparent to the throne of France from 1350 - 1791 and then from 1824-1830?
Answer: dauphin
Question: Which famous bronze statue was created by Edvard Eriksen in 1913 and stands in a European capital city?
Answer: little mermaid
Question: Against which side did Wayne Rooney score a penalty to beat Bobby Charlton’s England goal scoring record?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Who played the title role in the 2015 film Mr Holmes?
Answer: ian mckellen
Question: What is the surname of Florence of “Florence and the Machine”?
Answer: welch
Question: Which member of the royal family resides at Anmar Hall Norfolk?
Answer: duke of cambridge
Question: Which character sings the song “I don’t know how to love him” in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar?
Answer: mary magdelene
Question: Windlock and 2 Foot were types of which weapon used in the Middle Ages?
Answer: crossbow
Question: Blencathra Mountain 2850feet high in the Lake District, because of its shape is better known by what name?
Answer: saddleback
Question: What was rediscovered in 1799 by a member of Napoleon’s expeditionary force near the town of Rashid in the Nile Delta?
Answer: rosetta stone
Question: Alec, William and Daniel are 3 of the Baldwin acting family from New York who is the fourth brother?
Answer: stephen
Question: Three female trainers have won the Grand National, Jenny Pitman is one name either of the other two,
Answer: venetia williams
Question: In which country did the Velvet Revolution take place in 1989 ?
Answer: czechoslovakia
Question: What is the name of the north American Swan the heaviest living bird native to North America that became almost extinct in the 1930’s but has since recovered significantly?
Answer: trumpeter
Question: The Bridge referred to locally as The Blinking Eye Bridge, or the Winking Eye Bridge spans which river?
Answer: tyne
Question: What was the name of the Royal Navy Frigate featured in the Radio Comedy Series The Navy Lark?
Answer: hms troutbridge
Question: La Vuelta is the Spanish equivalent of which famous sporting event?
Answer: tour de france
Question: Who did England play in the opening game of the 2015 Rugby World Cup?
Answer: fiji
Question: In which US State is Dayton, where the Dayton Agreement was signed in 1995?
Answer: ohio
Question: Which cathedral houses the bones of the Venerable Bede?
Answer: durham
Question: In which English County is RAF Scampton home of the Red Arrows?
Answer: lincolnshire
Question: Which character sings the song ”As long as he needs me” in the musical Oliver?
Answer: nancy
Question: In Morse code, a single dot represents which letter of the alphabet?
Answer: e
Question: What name is given to a medicinal extract in a solution of alcohol?
Answer: tincture
Question: The Contra Dam, also known as the Verzasca Dam, is in which country?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Who was appointed as shadow Home Secretary in September 2015?
Answer: andy burnham
Question: Who was the Greek goddess of the hunt, the equivalent of the Roman goddess Diana?
Answer: artemis
Question: Band leader Glenn Miller was an accomplished player of which musical instrument?
Answer: trombone
Question: Only You was a 1982 hit single, reaching No.2 in the UK charts for which group?
Answer: yazoo
Question: Who was the UK Prime Minister when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space?
Answer: harold macmillan
Question: England cricketer, James Taylor plays for which county side?
Answer: nottinghamshire
Question: In Morse code, which letter of the alphabet is represented by a single dash?
Answer: t
Question: Who was the first monarch to use Buckingham Palace as their official residence?
Answer: victoria
Question: Who is the presenter of Sounds of the Sixties on BBC Radio 2?
Answer: brian matthew
Question: The Potala Palace is a place of interest in which Asian city?
Answer: lhasa
Question: Alabama 3 performed the theme song for which major American TV series?
Answer: sopranos
Question: Which horse won the Aintree Grand National in 2015?
Answer: many clouds
Question: Band leader Benny Goodman was an accomplished player of which instrument?
Answer: clarinet
Question: England cricketer Jos Buttler plays for which county side?
Answer: lancashire
Question: """All that glisters is not gold"" is a quote from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: merchant of venice
Question: Alex Polizzi is known as the Hotel Inspector on Channel 4, how is she known in a series on BBC2?
Answer: fixer
Question: The native British tree generally known as the Mountain Ash has which alternative name?
Answer: rowan
Question: Who held the post of First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of the First World War and was appointed to the post again two days after the outbreak of the Second World War?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Which element in the periodic table has atomic number 8 - it is the lowest numbered element to begin with a vowel?
Answer: oxygen
Question: David Beckham retired in 2013 after playing 10 games for which French club?
Answer: paris saint germain
Question: The 2010 film Money Never Sleeps is the sequel to which 1987 film?
Answer: wall street
Question: Which American author wrote The Witches of Eastwick?
Answer: john updike
Question: The River Rhone enters which European lake in Switzerland before exiting the same lake in France - English name needed?
Answer: geneva
Question: Which group had a number one hit in 1977 with Chanson D’amour?
Answer: manhattan transfer
Question: What is the maximum number of horses allowed to race in the Grand National?
Answer: forty
Question: Who is the current presenter of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue?
Answer: jack dee
Question: Who is the daughter of Leontes in The Winter’s Tale?
Answer: perdita
Question: In which city is the Potala Palace, the traditional home of the Dalai Lama?
Answer: lhasa
Question: What word can be the title of a 1970’s/1980’s Japanese TV programme, a type of primate, or slang word for £500?
Answer: monkey
Question: In art, what name is given to the technique of mural painting on wet plaster?
Answer: fresco
Question: What is the surname of the American acting brothers Alec, Stephen, Daniel and William?
Answer: baldwin
Question: What nationality is tennis player Agnieszka Radwanska?
Answer: polish
Question: Who was the last British Prime Minister to have a double letter in their surname (as in Pitt)?
Answer: james callaghan
Question: Which European city stands on fourteen islands at the mouth of Lake Mälaren?
Answer: stockholm
Question: What name is given to the winding route through Jerusalem from the Antonia Fortress to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
Answer: via dolorosa
Question: Also in the Musée d’Orsay, who painted Bedroom in Arles in the 1880s?
Answer: vincent van gogh
Question: Which jockey, with 20, has ridden in the Grand National most times?
Answer: p mccoy
Question: The theme song of which Bond film was composed by Paul and Linda McCartney?
Answer: live and let die
Question: Which motorway links Cadnam, west of Southampton to Portsmouth?
Answer: m27
Question: Who is the famous brother of the actress Shirley MacLaine?
Answer: warren beatty
Question: What is the name of Sebastian Flyte’s teddy bear in Brideshead Revisited?
Answer: aloysius
Question: Who composed the operas Oedipus Rex and The Rake’s Progress?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: Which group had a number one hit in 1966 with Reach Out I'll Be There?
Answer: four tops
Question: The garden flower Kniphofia sometimes known as the ‘Torch Lily’ is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: red hot poker
Question: In the build-up to World War One, what was the Dual Monarchy?
Answer: austria hungary
Question: Which England Rugby Union international retired in 2014 after playing five seasons for Toulon?
Answer: jonny wilkinson
Question: For which film did Catherine Zeta-Jones win an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress?
Answer: chicago
Question: Which American General later President won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?
Answer: andrew jackson
Question: Which actress played a woman whose timeline gets split into parallel paths in the 1998 film Sliding Doors?
Answer: gwyneth paltrow
Question: Which 1989 Andrew Lloyd Weber musical is based on a 1955 novella by David Garnett?
Answer: aspects of love
Question: What is the more popular name for the plant impatiens?
Answer: busy lizzie
Question: In 2015 which London museum rejected the Thatcher family’s offer to display memorabilia belonging to the former Prime Minister?
Answer: victoria and albert
Question: Which mythical Titan shares his name with the first cervical vertebrae in humans?
Answer: atlas
Question: Mace is made from the dried outer covering of which seed, which itself is used as a spice?
Answer: nutmeg
Question: What is the name of the Edinburgh Detective created by Ian Rankin?
Answer: john rebus
Question: From which counry did Cameroon gain independence in 1960?
Answer: france
Question: At the 2016 Oscars which film won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?
Answer: inside out
Question: Who painted Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, and a Bigger Splash?
Answer: david hockney
Question: Which actress played the title role in the 1976 film Carrie?
Answer: sissy spacek
Question: Which English actor/singer played the role of P.T. Barnum in the musical Barnum when it opened on Broadway in 1980?
Answer: jim dale
Question: In which English county was RAF Greenham Common, famous for its peace camp which was closed down in 1993?
Answer: berkshire
Question: With which British band did singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn first come to prominence in the late 1980’s?
Answer: blur
Question: The three largest cruise ships in the world are own by which cruise line?
Answer: royal caribbean
Question: A brick laid lengthways in wall construction is called a stretcher, what is a brick laid crossways called?
Answer: header
Question: Which actor played Pierre in the 1970’s TV series of War and Peace?
Answer: anthony hopkins
Question: What was the name of the detective created by Ruth Rendell who lived in Kingsmarkham?
Answer: wexford
Question: Which 1847 book tells the story of the four orphaned Beverley children who are saved by gamekeeper Jacob Armitage?
Answer: children of new forest
Question: Jonny and Colin Greenwood are members of which alternative rock band?
Answer: radiohead
Question: At which Battle of 1812 did the British and allied forces under Wellington defeat a French Army led by Marmont?
Answer: salamanca
Question: In Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf what animal does the clarinet represent?
Answer: cat
Question: Which star, the brightest in the constellation Lyra, is the fifth-brightest of all the stars visible in the night sky?
Answer: vega
Question: Who founded the Order of the Thistle in 1687?
Answer: james ii of england
Question: Who wrote the 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time”?
Answer: anthony powell
Question: What was the name of the Celtic fire festival, which marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter?
Answer: samhain
Question: The brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor is also the eighth brightest in the whole night sky. What is its name?
Answer: procyon
Question: Which team caused the first major upset in the Rugby World Cup when they beat Wales 16-13 in a pool match at Cardiff Arms Park in 1991?
Answer: western samoa
Question: Which 1961 film starred Paul Newman as pool shark "Fast" Eddie Felson?
Answer: hustler
Question: Which novel, first published in the UK in 1921, was the first to feature Agatha Christie's detective, Hercule Poirot?
Answer: mysterious affair at styles
Question: Chris Gittins played which character in BBC Radio's "The Archers" for thirty five-years between 1953 and 1988?
Answer: walter gabriel
Question: Who was the Ireland rugby coach when they achieved the Grand Slam in 2009?
Answer: declan kidney
Question: The Harrow and Halifax bomber-aircraft, which saw service with the R.A.F. during the Second World War, were built by which company?
Answer: handley page
Question: What do the Americans call the vegetable known in the UK as a courgette?
Answer: zucchini
Question: Which waterway was developed by Ferdinand de Lesseps and opened in 1869?
Answer: suez canal
Question: Which fictional character, in books and on TV, often spoke of dealing with the Penge Bungalow Murders as the great event of a long career?
Answer: horace rumpole
Question: Which opera singer was known as the "Swedish Nightingale"?
Answer: jenny lind
Question: Which Avro delta wing bomber entered service in the RAF in 1956 and was retired in 1984?
Answer: vulcan
Question: Mendoza and La Rioja are wine regions in which country?
Answer: argentina
Question: King Albert II abdicated as monarch of which country on July 21st 2013 in favour of his son Crown Prince Phillipe?
Answer: belgium
Question: Peter Benson appeared in over two hundred episodes of TV's "Heartbeat" between 1995 and 2010, playing which role?
Answer: bernie scripps
Question: Anthony Trollope's character, Plantagenet Palliser, sits in the House of Lords under what title?
Answer: duke of omnium
Question: Who was the heavily-moustached, gun-toting cowboy who sometimes pitted his wits against Bugs Bunny in Warner Brother's cartoons?
Answer: yosemite sam
Question: Which artist sang the soundtrack to the Bond film "Spectre"?
Answer: sam smith
Question: Which department store chain claims to be "never knowingly undersold"?
Answer: john lewis
Question: The Gulf of Aqaba is an inlet of which sea?
Answer: red sea
Question: Which fruit, with the botanical name Rubus idaeus, has varieties called “Lloyd George”, "Hailsham” and "Malling Jewel"?
Answer: raspberry
Question: Which German-born, French composer, wrote "Orpheus in the Underworld1' and "The Tales of Hoffmann”?
Answer: jacques offenbach
Question: What was the name of the lasagne loving cat created by Jim Davis?
Answer: garfield
Question: Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film "Thunderball"?
Answer: tom jones
Question: Under what name does US singer-songwriter Elizabeth Grant perform, her albums include 'Born to Die' and 'Honeymoon'?
Answer: lana del rey
Question: What is the name of the fruit which has varieties called "Royal George", "Rochester" and "Peregrine" and the botanical name Prunus persica?
Answer: peach
Question: Who starred in the role of The Mariner in the 1995 film "Waterworld"?
Answer: kevin costner
Question: Roy in 'The Old Guys" and Richard Bucket pronounced "Bouquet") in "Keeping Up Appearances" were major TV roles for which Liverpool-born actor?
Answer: clive swift