CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Invented by Alexander Parkes in about 1856 and originally called Parkesine, what was the first thermo-plastic?
Answer: celluloid
Question: Which of the UK shipping forecast areas is named after the founder of the Meteorological Society?
Answer: fitzroy
Question: Which London landmark was built to commemorate Lord Nelson's and the Duke of Wellington's victories?
Answer: marble arch
Question: How are Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham known collectively?
Answer: medway towns
Question: In 'The Lord of the Rings' what are Sting and Glamdring?
Answer: swords
Question: Which orchestra traditionally plays at the 'Last Night of the Proms' each September?
Answer: bbc symphony
Question: Which American rock and roll pianist had a hit with song `Blueberry Hill'?
Answer: fats domino
Question: Which is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Bootes?
Answer: arcturus
Question: Which European country contains the ski resorts of Davos and Klosters?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Which daughter of King Priam prophesied the fall of Troy, but was not believed?
Answer: cassandra
Question: By what name is the Australian echidna also known?
Answer: spiny anteater
Question: Which Italian town, at the foot of a hill containing a Benedictine Monastery was destroyed during heavy fighting in 1944?
Answer: cassino
Question: In which European country is the resort of Antibes known for Roman remains?
Answer: france
Question: What is the wind of force 12 or more on the Beaufort scale called?
Answer: hurricane
Question: Which word, Italian for air, is used to describe a solo song with instrumental accompaniment in opera?
Answer: aria
Question: Which fungal disease of trees was first described in the Netherlands?
Answer: dutch elm disease
Question: What was the sequel to Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventure in Wonderland?
Answer: through looking glass
Question: Which acrobatic garden bird has the Latin name parus caeruleus?
Answer: blue tit
Question: Which breed of dog, bred for hare coursing and racing, can reach speeds of over 40mph?
Answer: greyhound
Question: Which hard dark wood is traditionally used for the black keys on a piano?
Answer: ebony
Question: Who starred as unconventional English teacher John Keating in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society?
Answer: robin williams
Question: Who wrote children's stories Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden?
Answer: frances hodgson burnett
Question: Which English prison reformer campaigned for the improvement of conditions at Newgate in the early 19th century?
Answer: elizabeth fry
Question: To which genus of plants does the snapdragon belong?
Answer: antirrhinum
Question: Which unsuccessful plot of 1820 was led by Arthur Thistlewood?
Answer: cato street conspiracy
Question: Which British philologist was hanged for the murder of Daniel Clark in 1759?
Answer: eugene aram
Question: Which former MP wrote The Four Feathers and stories featuring Inspector Hanaud?
Answer: e w mason
Question: James Hutton is generally regarded as the founder of which scientific discipline?
Answer: geology
Question: What sort of instruments are Timbal, tabla and bodhran?
Answer: drums
Question: For which British contralto singer did Elgar write his Sea Pictures?
Answer: dame clara butt
Question: Which US Vice President killed his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel?
Answer: aaron burr
Question: In the Old Testament, who was the father of Rehoboam?
Answer: solomon
Question: Which county won the 1997 County Championship in cricket for the first time?
Answer: glamorgan
Question: In the Bible, the Acts of the Apostles was written by which Evangelist?
Answer: luke
Question: In which English county is Dunkery Beacon, at 1705 foot, the highest point?
Answer: somerset
Question: What have Hinkley Point, Trawsfynydd and Hunterston in common?
Answer: nuclear power stations
Question: Selden, an escaped convict, was a character in which Sherlock Holmes novel by Conan Doyle?
Answer: hound of baskervilles
Question: In which English county are the towns of Letchworth, Cheshunt and Bishop's Stortford?
Answer: hertfordshire
Question: What is the name of the Government laboratory at the centre of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in 2007?
Answer: pirbright
Question: Mae West's immortal line "Come up and see me sometime" was spoken to which Hollywood actor?
Answer: cary grant
Question: In which county in Northern Ireland are the towns of Ballymena, Larne and Carrickfergus?
Answer: county antrim
Question: Where, in the novel "The Count of Monte Christo, by Alexandre Dumas, does the Abbe Faria befriend Edmond Dantes during his time in prison?
Answer: chateau d if
Question: Tommy Steele went to No 1 in the UK charts in 1956 with his cover version of the song "Singing the Blues". Which American singer also reached No 1 in the U.K. with his version of the same song?
Answer: guy mitchell
Question: Which popular British comedian had as his catch-phrase, "You Lucky People"?
Answer: tommy trinder
Question: What have Fawley, Stanlow and Milford Haven in common?
Answer: oil refineries
Question: Who composed the music to the ballet, "Sylvia", first performed in 1876?
Answer: leo delibes
Question: Which 1965 Beatles song was re-released in 1989 by Bananarama in aid of Comic relief?
Answer: help
Question: In which English county is Westonbirt, home of the Forestry Commission National Arboretum?
Answer: gloucestershire
Question: Which German born super-model, actress and singer currently hosts the TV show, "Germany's Next Top Model"?
Answer: heidi klum
Question: The Battle of Culloden, in 1746, was fought close to which Scottish city?
Answer: inverness
Question: What name is given to the official in the Roman Catholic Church, appointed to state the case for the opposition, when considering beatification or canonisation of a candidate?
Answer: devil s advocate
Question: Two European golfers won their first majors titles in 1985. Sandy Lyle won the Open Championship at Sandwich, but which man won the U.S. Masters that year?
Answer: bernhard langer
Question: Which war was ended in 1648 with signing of the Treaty of Westphalia?
Answer: thirty years war
Question: In March 2005, 25 year old Johnson Beharry became the first new owner of which item for nearly 25 years?
Answer: victoria cross
Question: What name is given to the Aboriginal device, which is used to propel a spear more forcibly and accurately?
Answer: woomera
Question: Hors D'Oeuvres, usually consisting of marinated vegetables, or cured meats, are known by what name in Italy?
Answer: antipasti
Question: What was the name of the horse ridden by the famous cowboy actor, Gene Autry?
Answer: champion
Question: In July 2005, who was the Brazilian electrician killed by the Metropolitan Police at Stockwell tube station?
Answer: jean charles de menezes
Question: The signing of which treaty in 1902 ended the Second Boer War?
Answer: treaty of vereeniging
Question: Which African country was known, from 1960 until 1971 as the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Answer: zaire
Question: Which American golfer, winner of three majors, was tragically killed in a plane crash in 1999? At the time of his death, he was the reigning U.S. Open champion?
Answer: payne stewart
Question: The liqueur, Chartreuse, is named after the monastery situated near which city in S.E France?
Answer: grenoble
Question: Which Afro American super model, TV personality and singer hosts the TV show, "America's Next Top Model" and also has her own daytime TV chat show?
Answer: tyra banks
Question: In which part of the British Isles is Scapa Flow, where the UK 's chief naval base was situated during the two World Wars?
Answer: orkneys
Question: Which US crime writer also wrote under the name of Evan Hunter?
Answer: ed mcbain
Question: Who became the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury in 1961?
Answer: dr michael ramsey
Question: What was the name of King Harold of England's brother who fought against him at the Battle of Stamford Bridge?
Answer: tostig
Question: In the TV sitcom 'Friends' what is the name of Phoebe's twin sister?
Answer: ursula
Question: The son of Hannah, his name meaning 'Name of God' who was the last of the Old Testament Hebrew judges?
Answer: samuel
Question: In the Old Testament who led the Israelites into the Promised Land?
Answer: joshua
Question: The Bunyip is a mythical creature in the folklore of which native people?
Answer: australian aborigine
Question: Originating in 1956, what is the double-barrelled name of the US Antarctic research station situated at the South Pole?
Answer: amundsen scott
Question: In Norse mythology who is the queen of the underworld and the daughter of Loki?
Answer: hel
Question: Who was the AC Milan coach when they lost the 2005 Champions League final to Liverpool?
Answer: carlo ancelotti
Question: France, Holland and which other country fought on the American side in the US War of Independence?
Answer: spain
Question: In French what is a bergere, as in Les Folies Bergere?
Answer: shepherd ess
Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury conducted the queen's coronation ceremony in 1953?
Answer: geoffrey fisher
Question: Which European female singer's albums have included 'Debut', 'Post', 'Homogenic' and 'Saved By Magic'?
Answer: bjork
Question: Which former children's laureate was Kirsty Young's first castaway on 'Desert Island Discs'?
Answer: quentin blake
Question: In Egyptian mythology, the brother of Horus and Isis, who was the god of storms, and often represented as a hippopotamus?
Answer: set
Question: """No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs,"" is the autobiography of which punk rocker?"
Answer: john lydon
Question: One of the most frequent symptoms presented to medics, what is cephalalgia?
Answer: headache
Question: Which US singer was born Alecia Moore in 1979, her hits include 'Get the Party Started', 'Family Portrait', 'Stupid Girls' and 'Who Knew'?
Answer: pink
Question: Which composer, whose most famous opera is 'Der Freischutz,' died of tuberculosis in London in 1826?
Answer: carl maria von weber
Question: At which battle of 1298 was William Wallace defeated by the English?
Answer: falkirk
Question: Who was the coach of Bayern Munich when they lost the 1999 Champions League final to Manchester United, before winning it in 2001?
Answer: ottmar hitzfeld
Question: What is the popular name of the dance performed to the 'Galop Infernal' from 'Orpheus in the Underworld' by Offenbach?
Answer: can can
Question: The writing form known as Linear B was a graphic representation of which specific ancient language?
Answer: mycenaean
Question: What treaty signed in March 1918 between Russia and Germany ended Russia's participation in World War 1 and the loss of its Baltic and Ottoman territories?
Answer: brest litovsk
Question: Sentenced to 8 years in 2006 for crimes committed over 25 yrs earlier, by what name was John Humble known to the police?
Answer: wearside jack
Question: What spirit drink is the base of a screwdriver cocktail?
Answer: vodka
Question: In the TV sitcom 'Frasier' what is the forename of Frasier's producer played by Peri Gilpin?
Answer: roz
Question: Guinea-Bissau was until 1973 a colony of which country?
Answer: portugal
Question: What river rises in Russia and flows through Belarus before reaching the sea in the Ukraine?
Answer: dneiper
Question: In the 2006 Formula 1 season Jenson Button and which other driver won his first ever Grand Prix?
Answer: felipe massa
Question: In French what is a moulin, as in Moulin Rouge?
Answer: windmill
Question: In the telecoms term 3G, for what does the letter G stand?
Answer: third generation
Question: The national anthem of which European country has the same tune as 'God Saves The Queen'?
Answer: liechtenstein
Question: Under what name is bummalo fish served in a restaurant?
Answer: bombay duck
Question: In a Disney film, which character is befriended by Timothy Q. Mouse?
Answer: dumbo
Question: What were introduced to the British calendar by Sir John Lubbock, Governor of the Bank of England?
Answer: bank holidays
Question: Who was the first man to win tennis's Grand Slam, winning all four major championships in 1938?
Answer: donald budge
Question: Which now defunct car company manufactured the models Hunter, Husky and Wizard?
Answer: hillman
Question: What was the name of John Mayall's band which included, at various times, Eric Clapton, John McVie, Peter Green and Mick Taylor?
Answer: john mayall s bluesbreakers
Question: Which Grade 1 listed attraction in the north-west was opened in 1894, having been built by Heenan and Froude?
Answer: blackpool tower
Question: Which major trunk road runs south from Wick to just north of Stirling where it then becomes a motorway?
Answer: a9
Question: Which famous singer was a member of 'Bluesology' in the early 1960s, leaving in 1967 and changing his name to one that was a combination of the names of two members of the group?
Answer: elton john
Question: Which now defunct car company manufactured the models Horizon, Samba and Solara?
Answer: talbot
Question: Only one man since Donald Budge has won the tennis Grand Slam, achieving this feat twice, who is he?
Answer: rod laver
Question: Where were the first shots fired at the start of the American Civil War?
Answer: fort sumter
Question: Benidorm and Alicante are on which Spanish Costa?
Answer: blanca
Question: Who was replaced by Jonathan Ross as presenter of BBC TV's 'Film Review'?
Answer: barry norman
Question: The Saffir-Simpson Scale estimates the damage done by what phenomenon?
Answer: hurricanes
Question: 'The World of Crinkley Bottom', a tourist attraction based on Noel Edmund's TV show opened and closed within 13 weeks in 1994, in which seaside resort?
Answer: morecambe
Question: Who won the Booker Prize twice for his novels 'The Life and Times of Michael K' and 'Disgrace'?
Answer: j m coetzee
Question: Oxford and Cambridge were England's first two universities, which was the third founded in 1832?
Answer: durham
Question: In which Verdi opera is 'Gilda' the jester's daughter?
Answer: rigoletto
Question: At whose feast did the 'writing on the wall' appear?
Answer: belshazzar
Question: What was the name of the Norse God of or spirit of Mischief?
Answer: loki
Question: Sir Mark Thatcher was arrested and prosecuted for assisting a coup in which African country?
Answer: equatorial guinea
Question: Which mountain pass, from Innsbruck to Bolzano, is the lowest Alpine pass and is usually open all year?
Answer: brenner pass
Question: The Scoville Scale measures the "hotness" of what?
Answer: chilli peppers
Question: The adjective 'ophidian' refers to which creatures?
Answer: snakes
Question: Who won the Booker Prize twice for his novels 'Oscar and Lucinda' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'?
Answer: peter carey
Question: Which sea, an arm of the Indian Ocean, lies to the North and West of Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territories?
Answer: timor sea
Question: Which English King was married to Edith Swan-Neck, also known as Edith the Fair?
Answer: harold ii
Question: Which TV screenwriter created the science fiction shows, "Survivors" and "Blake's Seven"?
Answer: terry nation
Question: Which comedian sang about the difficulties of being a cowboy in Rochdale Cowboy?
Answer: mike harding
Question: Which canal was constructed to link the Great Lakes Erie and Ontario, thus bypassing the Niagara Falls?
Answer: welland canal
Question: In which 1997 Ridley Scott film was Demi Moore forced to shave her head?
Answer: gi jane
Question: Brodick is the main town on which Scottish island?
Answer: isle of arran
Question: Which ship ran aground in 1846, on its maiden voyage, in Dundrum Bay, Co. Down?
Answer: ss great britain
Question: In which 1993 film did Robin Williams pretend to be a female housekeeper for his ex wife, in order to spend time with his children?
Answer: mrs doubtfire
Question: In Indian cuisine, what is the main vegetable ingredient in a saag dish?
Answer: spinach
Question: Which American TV producer created the series. "The Invaders" and "Cannon"?
Answer: quinn martin
Question: """Sedgemoor"" and ""Frankley"" service areas can be found on which of Britain's motorways?"
Answer: m5
Question: What was the name of William the Conqueror's eldest son, who, on his father's death, became Duke of Normandy?
Answer: robert
Question: The Vedas are the ancient, most sacred writings of which religion?
Answer: hinduism
Question: Who, in 1872, composed the opera, "Boris Godunov", based on the drama by Aleksandr Pushkin?
Answer: modeste mussorgski
Question: Which sea, separated from the Black Sea by the Strait of Kerch, suffered an ecological disaster in November 2007, when a fierce storm wrecked numerous oil tankers?
Answer: sea of azov
Question: In the 1996 film, "Mars Attacks", which actor played the part of the US President?
Answer: jack nicholson
Question: """The Buck Stops Here"" was the maxim of which US President?"
Answer: harry s truman
Question: The fleet of which nation sailed up the Thames, and then the Medway in 1667, successfully attacking and burning English ships, laid up in Chatham naval base?
Answer: holland
Question: What name is given to the character, not unlike a comma, which is placed underneath the letter C in French to denote its pronunciation as an S and not a K?
Answer: cedilla
Question: Who scored a spectacular goal in extra time in the 1971 F.A. Cup Final to win the trophy for Arsenal?
Answer: charlie george
Question: The two major ingredients of Daiquiri cocktails are rum and the juice of which fruit?
Answer: lime
Question: Which ancient civilisation had its capital at Knossos on the island of Crete?
Answer: minoan
Question: Who was the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, commonly believed to have murdered her second husband, Lord Darnley?
Answer: earl of bothwell
Question: Which island is the setting for Bizet's opera, "The Pearl Fishers"?
Answer: ceylon now sri lanka
Question: The dessert zabaglione is traditionally prepared by whipping together a mixture of sugar, egg yolks and which alcoholic drink?
Answer: marsala
Question: Who scored an equalising goal for Coventry City against Spurs in the 1987 F.A. Cup Final, with a spectacular diving header, which enabled his side to go on and win the trophy in extra time?
Answer: keith houchen
Question: In the film "Calamity Jane" staffing Doris Day, who was the owner of the Golden Garter saloon, mentioned in the song, "The Deadwood Stage"?
Answer: henry miller
Question: The ore, cassiterite, is the chief source of which metal?
Answer: tin
Question: The percheron, a breed of heavy carthorse, originated in which country?
Answer: france
Question: What is the name of the character, consisting of two dots, placed over a vowel, especially in German, which changes the sound of that vowel in pronunciation?
Answer: umlaut
Question: On November 1st 1914, which naval battle took place in the South Atlantic, in which a squadron of British ships were routed by the Germans, under Maximilian von Spee?
Answer: coronel
Question: Which of the four U.S. Presidents carved into Mt. Rushmore is wearing spectacles?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: The third movement of Debussy's "Suite Bergamasque" is better known by which name?
Answer: clair de lune
Question: In the 1997 film, "Independence Day", which actor played the part of the US President?
Answer: bill pullman
Question: Which group had a UK No I hit in 1967 with their song, "Massachusetts"?
Answer: bee gees
Question: The Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland is made up from which type of rock?
Answer: basalt
Question: Which country lies between Zaire to the north and Namibia to the South?
Answer: angola
Question: What was destroyed at Bamiyan on the orders of the Taliban in 2001?
Answer: statues of buddha
Question: .North Yorkshire in terms of area is England's largest county. Which is the second largest?
Answer: cumbria
Question: Which one of Harold Wilson's peers went to jail for fraud?
Answer: lord kagan
Question: Fritz Kreisler who died in 1962, was a virtuoso on which musical instrument?
Answer: violin
Question: Which TV serial of 1984 was based on the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott?
Answer: jewel in crown
Question: What is the full name of the Super 12 Rugby Union side, from Canterbury, New Zealand?
Answer: crusaders
Question: In which 1950 film, did Howard Keel and Betty Hutton sing the duet, "Anything you can do"?
Answer: annie get your gun
Question: Which politician was portrayed in the satirical magazine, Private Eye, as The Vicar of St Albion?
Answer: tony blair
Question: Which foodstuff is made by coagulating soy milk, and pressing the resultant curd into blocks?
Answer: tofu
Question: Tannenberg and The Masurian Lakes, were early battles in which war?
Answer: world war i
Question: Which country in S. E. Asia consists of 17,508 islands, one of the larger ones being Sulawesi?
Answer: indonesia
Question: Who composed the music for the ballet, "Petrushka"?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: A portrait of the Duke of Wellington, by which artist, was stolen from the National Gallery in London in 1961, and recovered four years later?
Answer: francisco goya
Question: The premiere of which ballet by Stravinsky, in Paris in 1913, provoked a riot among the audience?
Answer: rite of spring
Question: In which American, science fiction TV series of the 1990's, did Jennifer Lien play the part of Kes?
Answer: startrek voyager
Question: Of which common item was a Daguerreotype an early example?
Answer: photograph
Question: Jean Alexander played which part in the TV series, "Last of the Summer Wine"?
Answer: auntie wainwright
Question: Antietam and Fredericksburg were high casualty battles in which war?
Answer: american civil war
Question: For whose murder was James Hanratty hanged in 1962, a case which became known as the A6 murder?
Answer: michael gregsten
Question: What name is given to the cooked and clarified butter, much used in Indian cuisine?
Answer: ghee
Question: In the song "Anything you can do", despite the many claims of their achievements, which task did both hero and heroine confess to be unable to do?
Answer: bake pie
Question: What is the full name of the Australian National Rugby League team from Melbourne?
Answer: melbourne storm
Question: Which knighted British composer wrote the musical score for the 1957 film, "Bridge on the River Kwai"?
Answer: malcolm arnold
Question: Maureen Cox was the first wife of which famous musical personality?
Answer: ringo starr
Question: In Egyptian mythology, who was the God of the Sky, depicted as a man with the head of a falcon?
Answer: horus
Question: The three Chappell brothers, who played test cricket for Australia, were the grandsons of which Australian test cricketer, who captained his country in the 1930's?
Answer: vic richardson
Question: Stephen Dedalus, is the main character and fictional alter ego of which author, in the 1916 book, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"?
Answer: james joyce
Question: Which American folk singer / songwriter, wrote the classic songs, "Where have all the flowers gone", and "Turn, Turn, Turn"?
Answer: pete seeger
Question: General Manuel Noriega, was overthrown in 1989, as leader of which Central American country?
Answer: panama
Question: Which music hall actor invented the character of Old Mother Riley, a part he was to play in 16 films?
Answer: arthur lucan
Question: What word is used to describe a small, square tile of stone or glass, used in mosaics?
Answer: tessera
Question: What word is used to describe a text, written for and set to music, in an opera?
Answer: libretto
Question: Part of the plot of the novel, "Lorna Doone", revolves around which famous English battle?
Answer: battle of sedgemoor
Question: In flowering plants, what name is given to the terminal part of a stamen, where pollen is produced?
Answer: anther
Question: Peggy Seeger, half sister to the American folk singer Pete Seeger, was the third wife of which British poet, playwright and folk singer?
Answer: ewan maccoll
Question: Although Stephen Dedalus is an important character in James Joyce's novel, "Ulysses", who is, in fact, the main character in the story?
Answer: leopold bloom
Question: When he won the US Open in 2005, which man became only the second New Zealander, after Bob Charles, to win one of golf's major championships?
Answer: michael campbell