CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: 'Last of the Summer Wine' is the creation of which comic writer?
Answer: roy clarke
Question: What was the function of an Aquilifer in the Roman Army?
Answer: standard bearer
Question: 'Out Of The Silent Planet' and 'The Screwtape Letters' are works of which author, better known for his children's books?
Answer: c s lewis
Question: Frances Gumm was the real name of which famous actress?
Answer: judy garland
Question: In World War II who designed the Mosquito Fighter/Bomber?
Answer: geoffrey de havilland
Question: Which British athlete won the 100 m. at the 1924 Olympics?
Answer: harold abrahams
Question: Which palace in Spain takes its name from the colour of its sun dried red bricks?
Answer: alhambra
Question: Who was the only British King to be crowned on the field of battle?
Answer: henry vii
Question: What is the name of the mongoose in Rudyard Kipling' s 'The Jungle Book'?
Answer: rikki tikki tavi
Question: 'The Monkey Bread tree' is another name for which African tree?
Answer: baobab
Question: Musician Evelyn Rothwell (Lady Barbirolli) died in January 2008, what instrument did she play?
Answer: oboe
Question: In the title of the detective story by Dorothy L Sayers, what are the 'Nine Tailors'?
Answer: church bells
Question: In which children's TV programme, narrated by Derek Jacobi, would you see Iggle-Piggle and Upsy-Daisy?
Answer: in night garden
Question: What is name of the piece of leather on which a barber sharpens a cut throat razor?
Answer: strop
Question: What word for a straw or wicker basket was used as a unit of measurement, and in the north for a coal-scuttle or a beehive?
Answer: skep
Question: Who is reputed to have said, 'Today, I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon'? after discoveries at Mycenae?
Answer: heinrich schliemann
Question: Which American Indian Lakota chief is the subject of a monument, begun in 1948, in the Black Hills of South Dakota?
Answer: crazy horse
Question: Which country is bordered by Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Ukraine?
Answer: romania
Question: Tempranillo is the main grape used in which Spanish wine?
Answer: rioja
Question: Who played Aragorn in the film "Lord of the Rings"?
Answer: viggo mortensen
Question: What is the name of Heston Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray, Berkshire?
Answer: fat duck
Question: The "Daily Sketch" merged with which newspaper in 1971?
Answer: daily mail
Question: Which Englishman is credited with the discovery of oxygen?
Answer: joseph priestley
Question: Which British chemist/inventor first isolated the chemical element sodium?
Answer: humphrey davy
Question: The Egyptian god Anubis has the head of which creature?
Answer: jackal
Question: The Hindu god Ganesh(a) or Ganapati has the head of which creature?
Answer: elephant
Question: Which Scottish-born physician and author wrote "A Study in Scarlet"?
Answer: sir arthur conan doyle
Question: Who played country singer Johnny Cash in the film "Walk the Line"?
Answer: joaquin phoenix
Question: Who was the husband of Helen of Troy (or Sparta)?
Answer: menelaus
Question: Which American playwright/screenwriter wrote "The Odd Couple"?
Answer: neil simon
Question: Who won the 2010 Open Golf Championship at St. Andrews?
Answer: louis oosthuizen
Question: Who won the 2010 World Snooker championship in Glasgow?
Answer: neil robertson
Question: How many players are there per side in a GAA hurling team?
Answer: fifteen
Question: How many players of each side are on the field of Australian Rules football?
Answer: eighteen
Question: Who is the Patron Saint of lost or hopeless causes?
Answer: st jude
Question: What is the value of the pink ball in the game of snooker?
Answer: six points
Question: Who is the voice of Po in the Kung Fu Panda films?
Answer: jack black
Question: Give the common name for the plant `Kniphofia'.
Answer: red hot poker
Question: Who had a hit in 1966 with 'Pretty Flamingo'?
Answer: manfred mann
Question: Who was the only Englishman actually on the pitch in the FIFA World Cup Final of 2010?
Answer: howard webb
Question: Knothead and Splinter are the nephew and niece of which cartoon character?
Answer: woody woodpecker
Question: Which word for a non-Christian or heathen is derived from the Latin for peasant or rustic?
Answer: pagan
Question: Which tennis player was stabbed hi the back in Hamburg in 1993?
Answer: monica seles
Question: Who wrote 'The Allegory of Love' and 'Mere Christianity' in the 20th century?
Answer: c s lewis
Question: Cowcaddens and Hillhead are underground stations in which city?
Answer: glasgow
Question: What are Duke of Burgundy, White Admiral and Essex Skipper?
Answer: butterflies
Question: 'La donna e mobile' is from which Verdi opera?
Answer: rigoletto
Question: Who won the 2011 Booker Prize for 'The Sense of an Ending'?
Answer: julian barnes
Question: Travis Beckum plays American Football for the New York Giants in which position, denoted by the letters T E?
Answer: tight end
Question: Who won the 2011 Turner Prize for his installation 'Do Words Have Voices'?
Answer: martin boyce
Question: Which famous British explorer went in search of El Dorado?
Answer: sir walter raleigh
Question: Which famous actor played a character called Ron Jenkins in Coronation Street?
Answer: ben kingsley
Question: Which opera by Offenbach features the barcarole entitled 'Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour'?
Answer: tales of hoffman
Question: Starr Gate and Imperial Hotel are stops on which tram system?
Answer: blackpool
Question: 'People will say we're in love' comes from which musical?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: Who wrote the poem 'Easter 1916'?
Answer: w b yeats
Question: The cartoon character Norville Rogers is better known by what name?
Answer: shaggy
Question: The Yas Marina Grand Prix circuit is in which city?
Answer: abu dhabi
Question: What is the title of the novel about Barnsley schoolboy Billy Casper which features PE teacher Mr Sugden?
Answer: kestrel for knave
Question: Which proportional representation system was the subject of the 2011 Referendum?
Answer: alternative vote
Question: The Tropic of Capricorn crosses the Atlantic coast of Africa in which country?
Answer: namibia
Question: There are 2 letters of the alphabet which are not the initial letter of chemical elements. One is Q. Name the other.
Answer: j
Question: Who had a hit in 1968 with 'Baby Come Back'?
Answer: equals
Question: Who is the voice of the title character in the recent film 'Puss in Boots'?
Answer: antonio banderas
Question: 'Ranunculus' is the species name of which common wild flower?
Answer: buttercup
Question: Who played 'Two-Face' in the 1995 film 'Batman Forever'?
Answer: tommy lee jones
Question: According to the UN, what round figure did the world population reach on October 31st 2011?
Answer: 7 billion
Question: During the wars between the US Government and the Native Americans in the 1860s and 70s, Sitting Bull was one of the two great leaders of the Sioux; who was the other - victorious at the Battle of the Rose Bud and murdered whist in captivity in September 1877?
Answer: crazy horse
Question: Which entertainer was born Stevland Judkins (his surname later changed to Morris) in Saginaw, Michigan in 1950?
Answer: stevie wonder
Question: Who is the most successful non US golfer in Major Championships with 9 wins?
Answer: gary player
Question: The Hahnenkamm mountain and ski runs are part of which European ski resort?
Answer: kitzbühel
Question: Which group had a 1967 hit with 'Night of Fear'?
Answer: move
Question: At which battle of 1403 was Sir Henry Percy aka Hotspur killed?
Answer: shrewsbury
Question: Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'Neither a borrower or a lender be'?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Name the bear, the comedian from the 'Muppet Show'.
Answer: fozzie
Question: What is the name of British Columbia's most popular ski resort, which was home to the alpine skiing events in the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Answer: whistler
Question: What honour was conferred on shoe designer Jimmy Choo in 2002?
Answer: obe
Question: At which battle of 1471 was Richard Neville aka Warwick the Kingmaker killed?
Answer: barnet
Question: 'All that glisters is not gold' is a line from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: merchant of venice
Question: In the Lake District National Park, as what are Pavey Ark, Harrison Stickle and Pike of Stickle collectively known?
Answer: langdale pikes
Question: Who owned a teddy bear called Archibald Ormsby-Gore?
Answer: john betjeman
Question: After China, India and the USA, what is the world's most populous country?
Answer: indonesia
Question: Of what type of bird did Darwin observe 12 different species in the Galapagos islands?
Answer: finch
Question: Of which native American tribe were Geronimo and Cochise warrior leaders?
Answer: apache
Question: Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954 and the Peace Prize in 1962?
Answer: linus pauling
Question: Which singer was played by Diana Ross in the 1972 film 'Lady Sings The Blues'?
Answer: billie holliday
Question: Who was Prime Minister of the UK at the time of the abdication of Edward VIII?
Answer: stanley baldwin
Question: Dustin Hoffman played the role of an autistic savant in the film 'Rain Man'. Who played the part of his younger brother Charlie?
Answer: tom cruise
Question: Which type of gas is obtained by the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking'?
Answer: shale gas
Question: The oldest extant version of the Bible made by Jerome in the 4th century is known by which name?
Answer: vulgate
Question: Which US city is the setting for the TV drama series 'Treme' (pronounced Tremmay)?
Answer: new orleans
Question: How high, in feet, is a hockey goal (not ice hockey)?
Answer: seven
Question: Who was Commander-in-Chief of American ground forces in planning the invasion of France in 1944 and Commander of the US 1st Army on D Day?
Answer: omar bradley
Question: What substance crystallises in the gall bladder to form gall stones?
Answer: cholesterol
Question: In the Second World War, what was Operation Avalanche?
Answer: allied invasion of italy
Question: Who is chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra?
Answer: vasily petrenko
Question: Kelly Sotherton won an Olympic bronze medal in which athletics event in the 2004 games?
Answer: heptathlon
Question: What was the name of JFK Airport in New York prior to 1963?
Answer: idlewild
Question: Which literary heroine was played in a 2011 film by Mia Wasikowska?
Answer: jane eyre
Question: Before petroleum was first commercialized in 1859, which oil was most commonly used for lubrication and lighting?
Answer: whale oil
Question: Which fictional town was the setting for the TV series 'Z-Cars'?
Answer: newtown
Question: In which country is Verdi's opera 'Aida' set?
Answer: egypt
Question: How high is the post on which the ring and net are suspended in netball?
Answer: ten
Question: Which organ in the body secretes insulin and glucagon to regulate blood sugar levels?
Answer: pancreas
Question: Which Russian general led the defence of Moscow and the relief of Stalingrad during World War II?
Answer: georgy zhukov
Question: The Vinson Massif is the highest mountain area in which continent?
Answer: antarctica
Question: Found on bottles, what is the meaning of A.B.V.?
Answer: alcohol by volume
Question: Which title is held by Princess Margaret's son David Armstrong Jones?
Answer: viscount linley
Question: Known in English as "The Soldiers Song" is the national anthem of which European country?
Answer: republic of ireland
Question: Known in English as "Royal March", the national anthem of which country has no words?
Answer: spain
Question: Hagiology is a branch of Literature dealing with the lives and stories of whom?
Answer: saints
Question: In which English county can the Prime Minister's country house Chequers be found?
Answer: buckinghamshire
Question: Which is generally considered to be Shakespeare's last play, written in 1611?
Answer: tempest
Question: 'Barwick Green' is the theme tune to which radio serial?
Answer: archers
Question: 'Approaching Menace' is the theme tune to which TV quiz show?
Answer: mastermind
Question: In Star Wars what alien species is Chewbacca?
Answer: wookiee
Question: Number One Canada Square, London, is better known as what name?
Answer: canary wharf
Question: The Olympic Games of 1944 were cancelled - where would they have taken place?
Answer: london
Question: In Mohs scale of hardness which mineral is rated Number One - i.e. the softest?
Answer: talc
Question: What cut of beef is found between the rump and the fore rib?
Answer: sirloin
Question: In The Jeeves Stories by P. G. Wodehouse, one of the characters was called Mrs Spenser Gregson. What did Bertie Wooster usually call her?
Answer: aunt agatha
Question: The Hill of Tara, ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland, lies in which Irish county?
Answer: meath
Question: Which is usually considered to be the 6th book of the Old Testament?
Answer: joshua
Question: Which species of deer, originally from South Asia but now with a large, feral population in England, is sometimes known as 'the barking deer'?
Answer: muntjac
Question: Patrick Clifton is a popular fictional character on children's television. By what name is he better known?
Answer: postman pat
Question: Aristide Bruant and Jane Avril feature in the art of which French painter?
Answer: henri de toulouse lautrec
Question: St Clare of Assisi is the Patron Saint of which everyday thing?
Answer: television
Question: Who replaced Steve Bruce as Manager of Sunderland in December 2011?
Answer: martin o neill
Question: In October 2011 which militant separatist organisation declared an end to violent protest after 43 years?
Answer: eta
Question: Asti Spumante is a white bubbly wine from Asti in Northern Italy. What is the name of the red wine from the same area?
Answer: barbera
Question: Margaretha Zelle was shot as a spy in Paris in 1917, how was she better known?
Answer: mata hari
Question: What is the nickname of Chopin's short piano piece 'Waltz in D flat, Op.64, No.1'?
Answer: minute waltz
Question: Haliaeetus albicilla is the Latin name for the largest bird of prey in the UK. By what name is it normally known?
Answer: white tailed sea eagle
Question: In Greek mythology, by what collective name are the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne better known?
Answer: muses
Question: Who plays the part of Sergeant Hathaway in ITV's detective series 'Lewis'?
Answer: lawrence fox
Question: Barbara Euphan Todd wrote a series of children's books about which popular character later the star of several TV series?
Answer: worzel gummidge
Question: At which Washington monument, in August 1963, did Martin Luther King deliver his historic "I have a dream" speech?
Answer: lincoln memorial
Question: What name is given to the swim bladders of certain fish when used in cookery and brewing?
Answer: isinglass
Question: Which Italian painter is known for his images of human faces made up of such things as flowers, vegetables and fish?
Answer: giuseppe arcimboldo
Question: Which of the saints was martyred by being stoned to death?
Answer: st stephen
Question: Ballabriggs won the 2011 Grand National. Who was his jockey?
Answer: jason maguire
Question: Which Roman wrote 'Ars Poetica' and the 'Odes'?
Answer: horace
Question: The 'Occupy...' movement started in September 2011 and now has camps in more than 80 countries. But which was the first camp?
Answer: occupy wall street
Question: What kind of bird has varieties called tawny, short-eared and little?
Answer: owl
Question: What is the name of the bus in the 'Thomas the Tank Engine' stories?
Answer: bertie
Question: Which city is near the Hawkesbury river and is served by Kingsford-Smith airport?
Answer: sydney
Question: Who was the first Prime Minister of an independent India in 1947?
Answer: jawaharlal nehru
Question: Who composed 'Belshazzar's Feast' cantata?
Answer: william walton
Question: What was the name of the French government from 1870 to 1940 when it collapsed and was replaced by the Vichy Government?
Answer: third republic
Question: What is the name of the long, thin muscle that runs down the thigh, the longest muscle in the human body?
Answer: sartorius
Question: Which city is served by Carrasco airport and was the last port of call for the German battleship Graf Spee?
Answer: montevideo
Question: What was the title of Elton John's first solo No. I hit?
Answer: sacrifice
Question: Who won the Best Actress Oscar in 1990 for her role as Annie Wilkes in the film 'Misery'?
Answer: kathy bates
Question: The name of which ribbon pasta can be translated as 'little ribbons' or 'little slices'?
Answer: fettuccini
Question: Which composer won an Oscar for the music score in the film 'Bridge on the River Kwai'?
Answer: malcolm arnold
Question: Who was the first Governor-General of Pakistan from August 1947 to his death in September 1948, he is known as the 'Father of the Nation'?
Answer: muhammad ali jinnah
Question: 'I Could be so Good For You' was the theme song to which TV programme?
Answer: minder
Question: Which 1960 play has as its title character, a tramp named 'Davies'?
Answer: caretaker
Question: What was the capital of the independent republic of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1975?
Answer: saigon
Question: Namibia, then known as South-West Africa, became a colony of which country in 1884?
Answer: germany
Question: The Pleiades and Hyades star clusters are in which constellation?
Answer: taurus
Question: The Green Man Music Festival takes place every August in which National Park?
Answer: brecon beacons
Question: A 104 metre long 'Tapestry' depicting the early campaign of Bonnie Prince Charlie was completed in 2010, it is named after which town/battle?
Answer: prestonpans
Question: Danny O'Donoghue was a judge on the TV show 'The Voice'; he is the singer with which group?
Answer: script
Question: Which seaside town is the venue for the Latitude Music Festival every July?
Answer: southwold
Question: 'That's Livin' Alright' was the theme song to which TV programme?
Answer: auf wiedersehen pet
Question: Prince Harry has three other forenames, give any one of them?
Answer: charles albert david
Question: On which island are the 'Standing Stones of Callanish'?
Answer: lewis
Question: Rigel and Betelgeuse are in which constellation?
Answer: orion
Question: Who was the New Zealander killed during a protest against the National front in London in 1979?
Answer: blair peach
Question: Which treaty of 1783 ended the US War of Indepencence?
Answer: peace of paris
Question: What was the name of the brother of the six Mitford sisters?
Answer: thomas
Question: In which country did the so called "Arab Spring" uprisings commence in 2011?
Answer: tunisia
Question: Whose operatic works include Lucia di Lammermoor and Ann Boleyn?
Answer: gaetano donizetti
Question: Who referred to the House of Lords as "Mr Balfour's Poodle"?
Answer: david lloyd george
Question: In Greek mythology, what was the name of the winged horse which sprang from the dead body of Medusa?
Answer: pegasus
Question: The film Throne of Blood (1957) was based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: macbeth
Question: According to Greek mythology, what was the name of the three headed dog which guarded the entrance to the underworld?
Answer: cerberus
Question: In which town was Colonel Gaddafi killed in 2011?
Answer: sirte
Question: Which county cricket team were the first winners of the Sunday League in 1969?
Answer: lancashire
Question: Which county cricket team were the first winners of the Gillette Cup in 1963?
Answer: sussex
Question: Which Sam rode the winner of the 2011 Cheltenham Gold Cup, Long Run?
Answer: sam waley cohen
Question: The flight of which space shuttle in 2011 successfully concluded Nasa's space shuttle programme?
Answer: atlantis
Question: Which European country's flag is a vertical tricolour of black, gold (yellow) and red?
Answer: belgium
Question: Which artist's work includes The Merry Drinker and The Laughing Cavalier?
Answer: franz hals
Question: Which country moved from east to west on the international date line in 2011 to align its time zone better with its main trading partners?
Answer: samoa
Question: For which US President did Richard Nixon serve as Vice President?
Answer: dwight eisenhower
Question: In which country was actor Basil Rathbone born?
Answer: south africa
Question: In which Pakistan city was Osama Bin Laden killed in 2011?
Answer: abbottabad
Question: In literature, whose servant was Sancho Panza?
Answer: don quixote
Question: Which is the lightest metallic element with Atomic Number 3?
Answer: lithium
Question: Which UK shipping forecast area is named after the founder of the Meteorological Office?
Answer: fitzroy
Question: In 1842, which German socialist came to work in one of his father's mills, where sewing threads were made, in Weaste, Salford?
Answer: friedrich engels
Question: The first woman to win an Olympic gold medal was Charlotte Cooper in Paris in 1900, in which sport?
Answer: tennis
Question: Amiens is the largest city and capital of which region of France?
Answer: picardy
Question: Michelangelo's statue 'David' is in the Galleria dell'Accademia in which city?
Answer: florence
Question: Which religion has Five Pillars (the Shadahad, Salah, Zakah, Sawma and Hajj)?
Answer: islam
Question: Which gaseous element has the lowest melting and boiling points of all the elements?
Answer: helium
Question: Complete the name of the album 'Noel Gallagher's '?
Answer: high flying birds
Question: The museum at Avebury Stone Circle was established by an archaeologist who was the heir to which marmalade company (the original commercial brand of marmalade)?
Answer: keiller
Question: Who starred as Matt Dillon in the TV programme 'Gunsmoke'?
Answer: james arness
Question: James Arness had a brother Peter who starred in the TV series 'Mission Impossible', under what surname did he act?
Answer: graves
Question: Who was British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the First World War?
Answer: asquith
Question: In which opera does a hunchback jester help his master, the Duke of Mantua, to seduce the daughter of a courtier?
Answer: rigoletto
Question: What is the name of the main character in John Osborne's 'Look Back In Anger'?
Answer: jimmy porter
Question: Which 'major-winning' golfer has the real first names Gerry Lester?
Answer: bubba watson
Question: Clock, Klondike and Aces Up are variations of which group of card games?
Answer: patience
Question: Which Salford landmark appeared as a backdrop for the Smiths 1986 album cover 'The Queen is Dead'?
Answer: salford lads club
Question: Name either of the entertainers who played the roles of two Britons accused of faking a documentary in the film 'Alien Autopsy'?
Answer: ant dec
Question: The trophy awarded to the winner of the Ladies Singles at the French Open tennis championships is named after which famous player?
Answer: suzanne lenglen
Question: A Tequila Sunrise is made with tequila, orange and which other fruit ingredient?
Answer: grenadine
Question: Which-singer's voice was of the leading actress in the films 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', 'The King and I', 'West Side Story' and 'My Fair Lady'?
Answer: marni nixon
Question: Who was the son of Mani Nixon who died in 2011, his hits include 'Lonely Boy', How Can This Be Love' and 'Never Let Her Slip Away'?
Answer: andrew gold
Question: What is the title of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 Booker Prize winning novel which was made into a 1993 film of the same name starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson?
Answer: remains of day
Question: Which religion has Five K's (Kesh, Kangha, Kachera, Kara and Kirpan)?
Answer: sikh ism
Question: Which range of hills lie at the northern end of the Pennine Way?
Answer: cheviots
Question: What is the name of the group formed by Liam Gallagher after the break-up of Oasis?
Answer: beady eye
Question: Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' is in a church in which city?
Answer: milan
Question: Which novelist won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"?
Answer: solzhenitsyn
Question: Which UK shipping forecast area is the most southerly, lying off the coast of Spain?
Answer: trafalgar
Question: Ernst Lindemann was the captain of which World War 2 German battleship?
Answer: bismarck