CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: A food dish dubbed 'chasseur' contains which vegetable?
Answer: mushrooms
Question: What is the name of the family in the TV series Outnumbered?
Answer: brockman
Question: Which of Beethoven's symphonies is also known as the Pastoral Symphony?
Answer: symphony no 6
Question: Edmond Dantes is the protagonist of which famous French novel?
Answer: count of monte cristo
Question: Which substance, found in many fruits, makes jam and jellies set?
Answer: pectin
Question: Which of Dennis Potter's plays for television was about a group of 7 year old children playing in the woods, all of whom were played by adults?
Answer: blue remembered hills
Question: Flourine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine and Astatine comprise which group of chemical elements?
Answer: halogens
Question: Which English royal palace was largely destroyed by fire in 1698?
Answer: whitehall
Question: As played by Bob Hoskins, what was the name of the sheet music salesman in the TV series Pennies from Heaven scripted by Dennis Potter?
Answer: arthur parker
Question: In Heraldry, how is a 'lion couard' depicted?
Answer: with its tail between its legs
Question: To which song does Bill Murray wake up to each day in the film Groundhog Day?
Answer: i got you babe
Question: In which spoof science fiction film are the invading aliens repelled by Slim Whitman's recording of The Indian Love Call?
Answer: mars attacks
Question: Which calamity in Ireland was a major factor in Sir Robert Peel's decision to repeal the Corn Laws in 1846?
Answer: irish potato famine
Question: For the manufacture of what did Sir Alistair Pilkington develop the 'float process'?
Answer: glass
Question: Which town in Hertfordshire was built in 1903 as England's first garden city?
Answer: letchworth
Question: Originally standing in front of Buckingham Palace, what was removed to Hyde Park in 1851?
Answer: marble arch
Question: Which system of physical fitness that increases the strength and flexibility of the body was originally known by the term 'contrology'?
Answer: pilates
Question: Which ancient city in the Middle East did poet John William Burgon describe as 'a rose-red city half as old as time'?
Answer: petra
Question: Who played Scottish police officer Hamish Macbeth on TV in the 1990's?
Answer: robert carlyle
Question: Which British zoo took delivery of two giant pandas from China last year?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: What is the main spirit used in a Cosmopolitan cocktail?
Answer: vodka
Question: The Virgin's House and the ruins of the Temple of Artemis can be found in which city in Turkey?
Answer: ephesus
Question: Which tennis player was stabbed by a spectator in 1993?
Answer: monica seles
Question: By what name was the B-24, the most numerous allied heavy bomber of World War II, better known?
Answer: liberator
Question: On exhibition since 1802, what is believed to be the most visited object in the British Museum?
Answer: rosetta stone
Question: Which organ that develops in pregnant women provides the unborn baby with nourishment and oxygen?
Answer: placenta
Question: What was the more common name for the German World War II dive bomber the Junkers Ju 87?
Answer: stuka
Question: Which inventor said in 1876 "Mr watson, come here, I want you"?
Answer: alexander graham bell
Question: What species of animal was 4 year old Knut, who died in Berlin zoo last year?
Answer: polar bear
Question: Often referred to by trainers in gyms, for what do the letters BMI stand in regard to physical fitness?
Answer: body mass index
Question: In which English county is Borstal, which gave its name to young offenders' institutions?
Answer: kent
Question: Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion are the band mates of which lead vocalist?
Answer: chris martin
Question: Which type of zebra was hunted to extinction in the 19th century?
Answer: quagga
Question: Which English novelist who lived from 1883 to 1959 is probably best remembered for the creation of master criminal Fu Manchu?
Answer: sax rohmer
Question: Which North West football club have won the FA Cup on two occasions, the years in question being 1889 and 1938?
Answer: preston north end
Question: Who was the director of the 1997 blackbuster film Titanic?
Answer: james cameron
Question: Which novelist, now aged 46, was responsible for the 2003 best selling book The Kite Runner?i
Answer: khaled hosseini
Question: Which British media personality, now aged 48, is probably best remembered for his interview with Princess Diana on the TV show Panorama in 1995?
Answer: martin bashir
Question: Eleanor of Castille was the queen consort of which English king?
Answer: edward i
Question: Who was the director of the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code?
Answer: ron howard
Question: What is the name of the strait that separates Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria?
Answer: bass strait
Question: Which North West football club have won the FA Cup on two occasions, the years in question being 1900 and 1903?
Answer: bury
Question: Born in Dublin in Ireland on July 6th 1936 what was the more famous name of the TV entertainer David Tynan O'Mahoney?
Answer: dave allen
Question: Which actor, from 1980 to 1982 played the roll of Yosser Hughes in the TV comedy series Boys from the Black Stuff?
Answer: bernard hill
Question: In relation to phobias, which word describes the fear of heights?
Answer: acrophobia
Question: Which actor from 1979 to 1984 played the role of James Shelley in the TV comedy series Shelley?
Answer: hywel bennett
Question: What is the name of the British former teacher who, in December 2007 turned up at a West End police station five years after he was thought to have died following a canoeing accident?
Answer: john darwin
Question: On which English motorway can you find services called Heston, Membury and Leigh Delamere?
Answer: m4
Question: On which English motorway can you find services called Baldock, Wetherby and Washington?
Answer: m1
Question: Which English author who died in 1870 had the middle names John Huffam?
Answer: charles dickens
Question: Sticky Fingers and Goat's Head Soup were number one albums in the 1970's for which famous band?
Answer: rolling stones
Question: What is the christian name of the title character in the 1857 novel Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens?
Answer: amy
Question: Joseph Jagger, born in 1830 earned himself which long nickname when, in 1873, he hired six clerks to record the outcomes of six roulette wheels at a casino called The Beaux Arts? He discovered that one of the wheels showed a clear bias in that nine of the numbers occured more frequently than others and then went on to win over £65,000 over the next three days.
Answer: man who broke bank at monte carlo
Question: Which influential American painter, born in 1912, died at the age of 44 in 1956 in an alcohol related car accident along with a passengger, Edith Metzger?
Answer: jackson pollock
Question: What is the Christian name of the title character in the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens?
Answer: samuel
Question: Which famous figure married 36 year old Daniel Chatto on July 14th 1994?
Answer: sarah armstrong jones
Question: Which Australian actor, born in 1979, died at the age of 28 in 2008 after being found unconscious by his housekeeper Teresa Solomon?
Answer: heath ledger
Question: Which heavyweight boxing champion of 1915 shares the same surname as a current Manchester City player who has the squad number 11?
Answer: johnson
Question: On which Wrexham Street could you once have visited a popular shop named Walter Roberts?
Answer: hope street
Question: Now named Apatosaurus, which huge dinosaur, known more famously by its previous name, took its name from the phrase 'Thunder Lizard'?
Answer: brontosaurus
Question: In which Sheffield Theatre is the World Snooker Championship held each year?
Answer: crucible theatre
Question: Which American author, born in 1922, wrote the novel "Slaughterhouse Five" in 1969?
Answer: kurt vonnegut
Question: Who, from 1977 to 1981, was Vice President of the USA to Jimmy Carter?
Answer: walter mondale
Question: Which English artist, who lived from 1874 to 1948 is probably best remembered for the creation of Rupert Bear in 1920?
Answer: mary tourtel
Question: Literally meaning 'a beating', which Brazilian dance was introduced to the British Pop Charts in 1989 by the group Kaoma?
Answer: lambada
Question: Who, from 1989 to 1993 was Vice President of the USA to George H W Bush?
Answer: dan quayle
Question: Formed in the 1980s and having the leader Hassan Nasrallah, which radical Shi-ite Muslim organisation in Lebanon has, for years, been involved in guerilla warfare against Israel?
Answer: hezbollah
Question: First produced by W M Santus and Co in Wigan in 1898, what was the family sounding name of the mint balls that are described as keeping you all aglow? They carry a mascot featuring a smiling man wearing a top hat, on the tin.
Answer: uncle joe s
Question: Which English novelist who lived from 1825 to 1890 is probably best remembered for the novel "Lorna Doone" in 1869?
Answer: r d blackmore
Question: Which actor played the title role in the 1972 film "Young Winston", the story of the early years of the British Prime Minister?
Answer: simon ward
Question: Which radio programme, released as a direct replacement for Mrs Dale's Diary in 1969, was set in a fictional cul-de-sac between Hampstead village and Belsize Park in North London and began with three young women in their early twenties flat sharing in a large Victorian house in the area?
Answer: waggoner s walk
Question: Which famous battle that took place in Pennsylvania betwen 1st and 3rd of July 1863 produced the greatest number of casualties of the American Civil War?
Answer: gettysburg
Question: Which famous battle that took place in Scotland on 23rd and 24th June 1314 was seen as one of the most spectacular of the Scottish wars of Independence?
Answer: bannockburn
Question: Which book of the Old Testament contains the story of the plagues of Egypt?
Answer: exodus
Question: What name links the nickname of a teacher in TV's Grange Hill and the name of Roy Rogers' dog?
Answer: bullet
Question: Who were the first team to beat Manchester United in a Premiership league match in the present season?
Answer: manchester city
Question: Apart from Stoke on Trent which is Staffordshire's only other city?
Answer: lichfield
Question: Which book of the Old Testament contains the story of Joseph and his coat of many colours?
Answer: genesis
Question: Who is the principal actor who plays a character Albert Naracott in the 2011 film "War Horse"?
Answer: jeremy irvin
Question: Which pop band, formed in Edinburgh and who had many chart hits in the 1970s took their name by randomly throwing a dart at a map of the USA - it landed in a city in the state of Michigan?
Answer: bay city rollers
Question: Who were the first team to beat Manchester City in a Premeirship league match in the present season?
Answer: chelsea
Question: What nickname links the surname of a teacher in TV's Grangehill and the alterego of a British criminal who has the real name Michael Gordon Peterson?
Answer: bronson
Question: Who, since 2003, has been the Governor of the Bank of England?
Answer: mervyn king
Question: Created by P G Wodehouse, what is the christian name of the character Jeeves?
Answer: reginald
Question: Which hotel group, founded in 1919, became famous between March 25th and March 31st 1969 when, at it's Amsterdam branch, John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their first "bed-in for peace" protest in room 902. This hotel has now become a popular tourist destination.
Answer: hilton
Question: Created by Arthur Conan Doyle, what is the christian name of the famous character, professor Moriarty?
Answer: james
Question: First published in 1936 in the Sunday Post, which Scottish comicstrip young boy character is famous for having spiky hair and dungarees - his friends include Fat Boab, Wee Eck and Soapy Soutar?
Answer: oor wullie
Question: Which hotel group which opened its first hotel - a 60 room facility on US Route 66 at Flagstaff, Arizona in 1954 - takes its name from the Spanish term meaning 'branch'?
Answer: ramada
Question: Founded in 1920 by Hans Riegel in Bonn and whose name translates as "makes children happy and adults just as well", which global confectionery company is known particularly for its range of gummy and jelly sweets?
Answer: haribo
Question: Which fruit is the principal ingredient of the traditional pudding 'Brown Betty'?
Answer: apple
Question: In the film Avatar, what is the name of the paradise-like planet on which most of the action takes place?
Answer: pandora
Question: After the Conquest who was the fist Welshman to occupy the English throne?
Answer: henry vii
Question: What style of jazz was pioneered by 'Dizzie' Gillespie and Thelonius Monk?
Answer: bebop
Question: What was the name of the spacecraft in the 1979 film Alien directed by Ridley Scott?
Answer: nostromo
Question: Which part of the human brain coordinates muscles and movement and is also responsible for balance and posture?
Answer: cerebellum
Question: 26 year old adrian Lewis has claimed a second successive world title in which sport?
Answer: darts
Question: In the Anglicised versions of the Asterix cartoons, what's the name of the village druid whose speciality lies in preparing magic potions?
Answer: getafix
Question: Who was known as the 'King of Swing'?
Answer: benny goodman
Question: Who is traditionally credited with writing most of the Psalms found in the Bible?
Answer: king david
Question: Pat Murphy was the first presenter of which flagship BBC 1 current affairs programme, usually seen on Mondays since 1957?
Answer: panorama
Question: Which British liner was torpedoed and sunk near the Old Head of Kinsale in May 1915?
Answer: rms lusitania
Question: Which of H G Wells's novels ends with the hero settled down with 'The Fat Woman at the Potwell Inn'?
Answer: history of mr polly
Question: Which is the only radioactive element which occurs naturally as a gas?
Answer: radon
Question: What type of professional person did Mark Twain describe , but wants it back again when it starts to rain"?
Answer: banker
Question: In which film was Marilyn Monroe's skirt seen billowing in the air over a subway vent?
Answer: seven year itch
Question: In the Lake District, which pass joins Windemere to Ullswater?
Answer: kirkstone pass
Question: In which film did Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr have a passionate clinch on a beach?
Answer: from here to eternity
Question: What soluble form of Aspirin was invented during World War II?
Answer: disprin
Question: Which isolated British island is half way between Easter Island and Tahiti?
Answer: pitcairn island
Question: In Italian cooking, what kind of food is spiced to make Pancetta?
Answer: pork
Question: Which political leader, who came to a sticky end last year, set out his 'Third Universal Theory of Governing' in his so-called 'Little Green Book'?
Answer: colonel gadaffi
Question: Which Oasis album became a million seller within days of its release in 1997?
Answer: be here now
Question: The City of London Police are the reigning Olympic Champions in which sport, although the sport hasn't been held at the games since 1920?
Answer: tug of war
Question: The films The Spy with the Green Hat and The Spy with my Face were big-screen spin-offs from which popular TV series of the 1960s?
Answer: man from u n c l e
Question: What was the name of the cruise liner that capsized off the coast of Tuscany in January 2012?
Answer: costa concordia
Question: Who painted the canvas known as Bubbles, later used in adverts for Pears Soap?
Answer: millais
Question: Which popular TV series of the 1960s and 1970s developed from an earlier programme called Police Surgeon?
Answer: avengers
Question: The Marlowe Theatre, recently refurbished, can be found in which English town or city?
Answer: canterbury
Question: Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger is said to have been the last book read by whose assassin around the time of his murder?
Answer: john lennon
Question: Which was the only track from Michael Jackson's Thriller album to top the UK singles charts?
Answer: billie jean
Question: In the Christian Calendar what name is given to the Sunday which follows Whit Sunday?
Answer: trinity sunday
Question: Lord Randolph Churchill suggested that Gladstone's nickname of GOM (Grand Old Man) should be changed to MOG - meaning what?
Answer: murderer of gordon
Question: What phrase is derived from the promotion by the Prime-Minister, Lord Salisbury, of his nephew A.J.Balfour to the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland?
Answer: bob s your uncle
Question: What is the name of the theatre in Scarborough which has staged the premieres of Alan Ayckbourn's plays?
Answer: stephen joseph
Question: Which multi-coloured hairstyle is one of the most recognisable attributes of Rastafarian men?
Answer: dreadlocks
Question: Which country are the reigning Olympic Rugby Union champions, the sport last being part of the official programme in 1924?
Answer: usa
Question: Which drug was first isolated in 1921, by Sir Frederick Banting and Dr C H Best, and first synthesised in 1964?
Answer: insulin
Question: With which other shipping line did Cunard merge in 1934?
Answer: white star
Question: What name is given to the group of drugs which stimulate urine production, commonly known as water tablets?
Answer: diuretics
Question: In Greek mythology, which favourite of Aphrodite became a hunter and died after being gored by a boar?
Answer: adonis
Question: The Swaythling Cup for men and the Corbillon Cup for women are the World Team Championships in which racket sport?
Answer: table tennis
Question: Which Scottish monarch was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513?
Answer: james iv
Question: There is one family of mammals that contains only two species: the Okapi and which other?
Answer: giraffe
Question: Described in some versions of the myth as the daughter of Nyx, goddess of the night, who was the Greek goddess of divine retribution?
Answer: nemesis
Question: Terry played his most famous role in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. What part did terry play in that film?
Answer: toto
Question: Which town on the Tweed has a ruined Cistercian abbey that is supposedly the burial place of the heart, though not the rest of the remains, of Robert the Bruce?
Answer: melrose
Question: In modern technology SatNavs use the GPS system. For what do the letters GPS stand?
Answer: global positioning system
Question: In transport terms what is the British equivalent of the American 'Divided Highway'?
Answer: dual carriageway
Question: During which song from the show 'Me and My Girl' is it customary to shout "Oi !" at the appropriate point?
Answer: lambeth walk
Question: What is the title of the presiding judge in the United States Supreme Court?
Answer: chief justice
Question: On clothing care symbols what is meant by a crossed-out triangle?
Answer: do not bleach
Question: By what name do the British know First World War battle that became known as the "Victory of the Skaggerrak"?
Answer: battle of jutland
Question: From which 1945 novel does the quote "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" come?
Answer: animal farm
Question: """It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..."" are the opening words of which novel by Charles Dickens?"
Answer: tale of two cities
Question: Who, in the Bible, was the wife of King Ahab?
Answer: jezebel
Question: Who composed the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis ?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: Who plays the aged waitress in Victoria Wood's classic 'Two Soups' sketch?
Answer: julie walters
Question: Which controversial footballer recently did a naked film shoot for The Big Issue to promote his new column in the magazine?
Answer: joey barton
Question: Which actor's creations include Nice-but-dim Tim and Loadsamoney?
Answer: harry enfield
Question: What was the original title of Radio's The Goon Show'?
Answer: crazy people
Question: In the NATO phonetic alphabet, which word represents the letter Y ?
Answer: yankee
Question: What is the title of the first Sherlock Holmes novel, published in 1887?
Answer: study in scarlet
Question: Which brother of Sherlock Holmes - supposedly even smarter - was first introduced in the story entitled The Greek Interpreter ?
Answer: mycroft
Question: Who composed the march-like tune 'St Gertrude' used for the hymn 'Onward Christian Soldiers' ?
Answer: arthur sullivan
Question: In the Bible, which son of Cush and grandson of Ham is described as 'a mighty hunter before the Lord'?
Answer: nimrod
Question: Which car manufacturer produced models including the XJS and the E-type?
Answer: jaguar
Question: Which supposed Chinese dish, whose name means 'odds and ends', is said to have been invented in San Francisco in the 19th century?
Answer: chop suey
Question: What item of marine equipment may comprise a stock, a shank and a fluke?
Answer: anchor
Question: Which highly alcoholic spirit, historically referred to as 'the green fairy' was linked with Bohemian culture?
Answer: absinthe
Question: Who is creditied with coining the phrase 'lateral thinking'?
Answer: edward de bono
Question: What name did the alchemists give to the hypothetical substance that would convert all base metals into gold?
Answer: philosophers stone
Question: Which singer won the TV contest "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria"?
Answer: connie fisher
Question: In films, which actress was the object of the original King Kong's affections?
Answer: fay wray
Question: Which band member is organising this year's Diamond Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace?
Answer: gary barlow
Question: What was the fifth classical element after earth, fire, water and air?
Answer: aether
Question: How many aircrew formed the complement of a Lancaster Bomber in World War II ?
Answer: seven
Question: The adjective 'Punic' refers to which ancient city?
Answer: carthage
Question: Who played both Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers on film in the 1930s?
Answer: buster crabbe
Question: In Devonshire and Cornwall, what items are traditionally made at harvest-time from the last sheaf of corn?
Answer: corn dollies
Question: Which singer and actress first performed the role of Christine in Phantom of the Opera in the West End in 1986?
Answer: sarah brightman
Question: If a capstan is a winding machine on a vertical axis, what is the equivalent on a horizontal axis?
Answer: windlass
Question: In which U.S. state is Yosemite National Park?
Answer: california
Question: What did U.S. inventor Thomas Edison describe as "1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration"?
Answer: genius
Question: What service did both Iris and Hermes perform for the Gods of Olympus?
Answer: messengers
Question: If an animal uses thanatosis as self-protection, what does it do?
Answer: feign death
Question: Of the eight British kings called Edward, which one had the longest reign?
Answer: edward iii
Question: Which planet's two largest moons have the suitably watery names of Triton and Nereid?
Answer: neptune
Question: Which is the largest moon of the dwarf planet, Pluto
Answer: charon
Question: What role on film has been played by Lon Chaney, Claude Raines and Herbert Lom, amongst others?
Answer: phantom of opera
Question: What service did Hebe and her successor, Ganymede, perform for Zeus on Mount Olympus?
Answer: cupbearer
Question: Which international relief agency, formed in 1863, has it's headquarters at 17, Avenue de la Paix, Geneva?
Answer: red cross
Question: Which Greek mathematician is best remembered for his formulation of a hydrostatic principle?
Answer: archimedes
Question: What name, from the Greek for 'in low relief', is given to a plain white wallpaper with a raised pattern which can be painted over?
Answer: anaglypta
Question: What was on the banned 'B' side of Jasper Carrot's 1975 hit record Funky Moped?
Answer: magic roundabout
Question: During which crisis did the then American Secretary of State Dean Rusk make the comment "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked"?
Answer: cuban missile crisis
Question: What role on film has been played by Colin Clive, Peter Cushing and Kenneth Branagh among others?
Answer: dr frankenstein