CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Name either of the songwriters who won an Oscar for the theme song to the film 'Skyfall'?
Answer: adele adkins paul epworth
Question: Dr Emmett Brown was a character in which series of films?
Answer: back to future
Question: Whose novel 'Omerta' was completed shortly before his death in 1999?
Answer: mario puzo
Question: Which Danish scientist won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922 for his work on atomic structure and quantum theory?
Answer: niels bohr
Question: Who was the last British Prime Minister to be buried in Westminster Abbey?
Answer: clement attlee
Question: Which musical note is the longest, at 8 crotchets?
Answer: breve
Question: Who is the only post World War 2 Conservative Prime minister not to win a general election?
Answer: alec douglas home
Question: Which singer appears as bar-owner 'JD' in the film 'Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels'?
Answer: sting
Question: What is the other name for the bird sometimes known as a 'stormcock'?
Answer: mistle thrush
Question: Who played Ellie May in the Beverley Hillbillies?
Answer: donna douglas
Question: What is the common name of the garden weed taraxacum officinale?
Answer: dandelion
Question: In which book did Aunt Ada Doom see 'something nasty in the woodshed'?
Answer: cold comfort farm
Question: The FARC are the largest rebel group operating in which South American country?
Answer: colombia
Question: Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861-1909) specialised in the painting and drawing of what?
Answer: old american west
Question: Which character appeared for the first time in the book 'Call For The Dead'?
Answer: george smiley
Question: Which railway terminal in Paris takes its name from one of Napoleon's victories?
Answer: gare d austerlitz
Question: At 135 metres tall (443 feet) where is Europe's largest ferris wheel?
Answer: london
Question: Vocalist, guitarist and harmonica player Guy Garvey is with which group?
Answer: elbow
Question: Country music singer Keith Urban-is married-to which Australian actress?
Answer: nicole kidman
Question: Which American author wrote The Lost Symbol, Angels and Demons, etc?
Answer: dan brown
Question: In 1988 Ukrainian Sergey Bubka won Olympic Gold in what event?
Answer: pole vaulting
Question: Ruth Handler introduced what toy for young girls in 1959?
Answer: barbie doll
Question: Comedy duo Janette and Ian Tough have what stage name?
Answer: krankies
Question: The sassafras plant (or bark) provides the primary flavour of what?
Answer: root beer
Question: The contrology fitness programme was invented and promoted by which German-born gymnast of Greek ancestry (1883-1967)?
Answer: joseph pilates
Question: 'Live well for less' is the slogan of which supermarket chain?
Answer: sainsbury s
Question: The Bluebell Railway and Arundel Castle are in which English county?
Answer: sussex
Question: Which mainly Scottish game has the nickname 'Chess on Ice'?
Answer: curling
Question: Yeovil, Somerset, was once noted for the manufacture of what item of clothing?
Answer: gloves
Question: Which Asian country has Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the east?
Answer: republic of yemen
Question: The cocktail 'blue lagoon' includes what alcoholic spirit?
Answer: vodka
Question: The 2012 film "Argo" was directed by which US-born actor?
Answer: ben affleck
Question: What was the first advert shown on commercial TV in September, 1955?
Answer: gibbs sr toothpaste
Question: The flag of which Commonwealth country includes an AK-47 rifle?
Answer: mozambique
Question: Which US football team is based in East Rutherford, New Jersey?
Answer: new york giants
Question: Which actor made his film debut in the title role of the 1981 film Popeye?
Answer: robin williams
Question: What network of roads, with a small break in the middle, runs from Fairbanks, Alaska to Quellon, Chile?
Answer: pan american highway
Question: Richard Roundtree played the part of which detective in three films in the 1970s?
Answer: shaft
Question: In which novel does the character Hannibal Lecter first appear?
Answer: red dragon
Question: According to the proverb, the road to hell is paved with what?
Answer: good intentions
Question: Which sculptor is famous for designing the Statue of Liberty?
Answer: frédéric auguste bartholdi
Question: What was the name of the cattle route from Texas to the rail head in Kansas?
Answer: chisholm trail
Question: What is the common name of the bird with the Latin name 'Falco Subbuteo'?
Answer: hobby
Question: According to the title of the 2011 film and the book by Lionel Shriver, "We Need To Talk About .", who?
Answer: kevin
Question: In which film did Gary Cooper play a farmer who became a war hero?
Answer: sergeant york
Question: Who painted 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'?
Answer: hieronymus bosch
Question: In which country did Sandinista rebels overthrow the government in 1979?
Answer: nicaragua
Question: Which savoury dish is made with the dried Bummalo fish?
Answer: bombay duck
Question: Which Dickens' novel features Captain Cuttle, Mr Toots and Carker?
Answer: dombey son
Question: To which of his wives did Henry 8th have the shortest marriage?
Answer: anne of cleves
Question: In 7th century Britain, which kingdom stretched from the Welsh border across the Midlands to the North Sea?
Answer: mercia
Question: Which spirit is produced from the fermented juice of the Blue Agave plant?
Answer: tequila
Question: In the Amish culture young people are allowed to leave the strict life for a time in order to decide on their faith, what is this period called?
Answer: rumspringa
Question: Who was the head of RAF fighter command during the Battle of Britain?
Answer: hugh dowding
Question: General Cornwallis was defeated at which battle, the final battle of the American War of Independence?
Answer: yorktown
Question: Which island lies two miles off the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula?
Answer: bardsey
Question: In a book and film, which title character taught at the 'Marcia Blane School for Girls'?
Answer: miss jean brodie
Question: Who was defeated at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 and later captured and executed in 1305?
Answer: william wallace
Question: Which product 'does exactly what it says on the tin'?
Answer: ronseal
Question: What name connects a novel by Herman Hesse and a 1970s rock band?
Answer: steppenwolf
Question: Dr Wilson Greatbatch died in 2011; he was responsible for the development of which device, inserted into the human body to aid survival?
Answer: heart pacemaker
Question: Which Swede writes the Inspector Wallender series of novels?
Answer: henning mankel
Question: Which artist designed the 'Chupa Chups' logo?
Answer: salvador dali
Question: W. Mark Felt was revealed in 2005 to have been which mysterious character more than 30 years earlier?
Answer: deep throat
Question: What name is given in electrical engineering to the opposition that is presented by a circuit to the flow of alternating current?
Answer: impedance
Question: What name is given in physics to a collision in which no kinetic energy is lost?
Answer: elastic
Question: Which daughter of Zeus and Demeter became Queen of Hades?
Answer: persephone
Question: The Schick Test indicates susceptibility or immunity to which disease?
Answer: diphtheria
Question: Which company introduced the CV2000, the first practical home video recorder in the 1960s?
Answer: sony
Question: The ferry terminal at Stranraer has now been transferred a few miles north to which small port on the eastern coast of Loch Ryan?
Answer: cairnryan
Question: In June 1867 who performed the first operation under antiseptic conditions on his sister Isabella?
Answer: joseph lister
Question: The Devil's Darning Needle is a country name for which insect of the odonata order?
Answer: dragonfly
Question: Which member of the royal family was the most famous owner of the house Broadlands, in Hampshire?
Answer: lord louis mountbatten
Question: The great all round sportsman and polymath C B Fry was once reputedly asked to, and turned down, the opportunity to be King of which country in the 1920's?
Answer: albania
Question: What was the first name of Captain Mainwaring in the TV Series Dad's Army?
Answer: george
Question: Tim Curry played Dr Frank-N-Furter in which 1978 musical film?
Answer: rocky horror picture show
Question: What was the name of the ship that picked up over 700 survivors from the Titanic?
Answer: carpathia
Question: Which English bowler has taken the most wickets (46) in an Ashes series?
Answer: jim laker
Question: Who lived under the name of Sebastian Melmoth at the Hotel d'Alsace?
Answer: oscar wilde
Question: The Jaffa Gate or Bab al-Khalil is an entrance to which famous city?
Answer: jerusalem
Question: Juliet, Cupid and Desdemona are moons of which planet?
Answer: uranus
Question: Which salad dressing is named after an archipelago in the St Lawrence River?
Answer: thousand island
Question: In the pantomime, what told Dick Whittington to turn again?
Answer: bells of london
Question: Whose diary was first published in 1947 under the title 'Het Achterhuis'?
Answer: anne frank
Question: Which TV show has been presented by Bob Monkhouse, Max Bygraves and Les Dennis?
Answer: family fortunes
Question: Under what name is the American singer/songwriter Barry Alan Pincus better known?
Answer: barry manilow
Question: Which former Chief Executive of Barclays Bank did Peter Mandelson call 'The Unacceptable Face of Banking'?
Answer: bob diamond
Question: What was the title of J. K. Rowling's first novel for adults, - following the Harry Potter series?
Answer: casual vacancy
Question: The Poet's Percy Shelley and John Keats are both buried in which European capital's Protestant cemetery?
Answer: rome
Question: Who was voted Time Magazine person of the century in 1999?
Answer: albert einstein
Question: Only 3 sportsmen have won BBC's Sports Personality of the Year twice. Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill are two, who is the other, winning in 1967 and 1970?
Answer: henry cooper
Question: In 1952 Albert Einstein was offered, and turned down, the Presidency of which country?
Answer: israel
Question: Now known as Cobh, which Irish town was the Titanic's last port of call?
Answer: queenstown
Question: Which 20th century leader had an Alsatian called Blondi?
Answer: adolf hitler
Question: What was the surname of the US Medical Corp Army Captain nicknamed Hawkeye in the TV Series MASH?
Answer: pierce
Question: The drama critic Kenneth Tynan devised which controversial 1969 musical revue?
Answer: oh calcutta
Question: Which English batsman holds the record for the highest score in an Ashes Test Match (364)?
Answer: len hutton
Question: Who lived under the name of Private Thomas Shaw at Clouds Hill, Dorset, where he eventually died following a motorcycle accident in 1935?
Answer: t e lawrence
Question: What precious stone would you associate with the cities of Seattle, Sydney and Wichita?
Answer: emerald
Question: Which Asian Country is an archipelago of 17,504 islands?
Answer: indonesia
Question: In which pantomime does the character Maid Marian appear?
Answer: babes in wood
Question: Which TV show has been presented by Jeremy Beadle, Lisa Riley and Jonathan Wilkes?
Answer: you ve been framed
Question: Which former Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland was stripped of his knighthood, having been blamed for the collapse of the bank?
Answer: fred goodwin
Question: Who is the author of the best-selling Fifty Shades of Grey series?
Answer: e l james
Question: Which poet and author served in Oliver Cromwell's Government for Foreign tongues?
Answer: john milton
Question: Who was voted Times Magazine's man of the year in 1939 and 1942?
Answer: joseph stalin
Question: Four footballers have won the 'Balloon d'Or' three times, but only two have done so in consecutive years. Lionel Messi is one, who is the other?
Answer: michel platini
Question: Which Surrey and England cricketer retired in 1934 after making 199 first class centuries?
Answer: jack hobbs
Question: Which actress played Hazel the Witch in the children's TV programme "Rentaghost"?
Answer: molly weir
Question: Which fashion designer created the uniforms for the 2012 Olympic Team GB?
Answer: stella mccartney
Question: Shirley Bassey has sung three Bond themes: "Goldfinger", "Diamonds are Forever", and what other?
Answer: moonraker
Question: Who is the mother of TV presenter and model Chloe Madeley?
Answer: judy finnigan
Question: In the US animated cartoon series "Rocky and Bullwinkle" what type of animal was Rocky?
Answer: flying squirrel
Question: At the beginning of the 2013-14 season, which former international player is manager of Championship team Blackpool FC?
Answer: paul ince
Question: Which two-word French phrase, used in English to mean a controversial issue, literally translates as 'famous case'?
Answer: cause celebre
Question: Pieter van Musschenbroek received the first recorded electric shock in 1746 whilst inventing which electrical storage device?
Answer: leiden jar
Question: In Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", which character tells the first tale?
Answer: knight
Question: What is the name of the cafe/tea room, founded by Frederick Belmont in 1919 in Harrogate, and now a tourist attraction?
Answer: betty s
Question: Which comedian's TV characters include Bubbles Devere and Vicky Pollard?
Answer: matt lucas
Question: Tchiakovsky's "1812 Overture" was written to commemorate which battle, fought around 60 miles west of Moscow?
Answer: borodino
Question: Which English film actor and comedian starred in such films as "Trouble in Store" (1953) and "The Square Peg" (1958)?
Answer: norman wisdom
Question: Which country was the first to experience civil uprisings in 'The Arab Spring', the then existing government being overthrown in January 2011 after 23 years in power?
Answer: tunisia
Question: The 2012 release "GRRR!" is the latest compilation from which band?
Answer: rolling stones
Question: The artificial language Esperanto was devised in 1887 by Lazarus Ludwig who?
Answer: zamenhof
Question: Which fashion designer created uniforms for the American 2012 Olympic team?
Answer: ralph lauren
Question: Which group released the soundtrack for the 1980 film "Flash Gordon"?
Answer: queen
Question: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Belle are among the children of which Hollywood actor, formerly married to Demi Moore?
Answer: bruce willis
Question: What type of animal is Hobbes in the syndicated cartoon strip "Calvin and Hobbes"?
Answer: tiger
Question: At the beginning of the 2013-14 season, which former international player is manager of Championship side Watford FC?
Answer: gianfranco zola
Question: Which English poet died in a house at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome. It is now a museum dedicated to his memory?
Answer: john keats
Question: What is the first name of the diplomat after whom Downing Street is named?
Answer: sir george
Question: Who was murdered by John Bellingham in 1812?
Answer: spencer percival
Question: Which American film actor and comedian starred in such films as It's a Gift (1934) and 'What a Man" (1941)
Answer: w c fields
Question: Who replaced Rowan Williams to become the new Archbishop of Canterbury in February 2013?
Answer: justin welby
Question: Who was elected to replace Hosni Mubarak as President of Egypt in 2012, but was later deposed in July 2013?
Answer: mohammed mursi
Question: Which (liquid) foodstuff has the chemical formula CH3COOH?
Answer: vinegar
Question: What was the title of the debut single by the Rolling Stones. It reached No. 21 in the UK pop charts in 1963?
Answer: come on
Question: Which is the only place in the UK to have a post code beginning with the letter 'Z'?
Answer: shetland
Question: Whose first husband was Conrad Hilton Jnr., heir to the hotel empire?
Answer: elizabeth taylor
Question: Who, in 1979, was the 1st British footballer to be transferred for £1 million?
Answer: trevor francis
Question: In medicine, what is the more common name for otalgia?
Answer: earache
Question: 90% of the species of the bird of paradise are indiginous to which island?
Answer: new guinea
Question: What is denoted on a weather map by a line with a row of solid semi circles attached?
Answer: warm front
Question: What city was sacked by Alaric and the Visigoths in 410 AD?
Answer: rome
Question: Which organisation won its 3rd Nobel Peace Prize in 1963?
Answer: international red cross
Question: From which London station do you depart on a train journey to Cardiff?
Answer: paddington
Question: Who played Nelson Mandela in the 2009 film lnvictus?
Answer: morgan freeman
Question: Who is currently the creative director at the House of Chanel?
Answer: karl lagerfeld
Question: Composed in 1831, what was Rossini's last opera?
Answer: william tell
Question: Which motor manufacturer makes the models Roomster and Superb?
Answer: skoda
Question: Which English city has parliamentary constituencies named Moor View and Sutton & Devonport?
Answer: plymouth
Question: Who wrote To the Devil, a Daughter and The Haunting of Toby Jugg?
Answer: dennis wheatley
Question: To which family of birds does the kookaburra belong?
Answer: kingfisher
Question: The BBC's shipping forecast starts with Viking and finishes with what?
Answer: south east iceland
Question: Which battle, of 1836, saw the capture of General Santa Anna and marked the end of the Texan Revolt?
Answer: san jacinto
Question: Which singer released the albums Aladdin Sane in 1973 and Let's Dance in 1983?
Answer: david bowie
Question: The Ancient wonder of the Lighthouse on the island of Pharos was situated at the entrance to which harbour?
Answer: alexandria
Question: From which London station do you depart on a rail journey to Glasgow?
Answer: euston
Question: Who played Alfred Hitchcock in the 2012 film Hitchcock?
Answer: anthony hopkins
Question: Which vegetable is used in the dip baba ghanoush?
Answer: aubergine
Question: Who played the father of Indiana Jones in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'?
Answer: sean connery
Question: Rickets is a disease associated with a deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: vitamin d
Question: Sine, cosine and tangent are the three most familiar functions in which branch of mathematics?
Answer: trigonometry
Question: In Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' a flamingo and a hedgehog were used to play which game?
Answer: croquet
Question: The 1812 Overture was written to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon in which city?
Answer: moscow
Question: Which musical instrument does Lisa play in the TV cartoon 'The Simpsons'?
Answer: saxophone
Question: What food might also be called Norway Lobster or Dublin Bay Prawn?
Answer: scampi
Question: Who wrote the science fiction novel 'Stranger In A Strange Land'?
Answer: robert heinlein
Question: Which part of the British Isles is divided into six areas called sheadings?
Answer: isle of man
Question: In which city was the first US Presidential inauguration held, prior to Washington DC becoming the capital?
Answer: new york
Question: Who wrote the plays 'Cavalcade', 'Bitter Sweet' and 'Hay Fever'?
Answer: noel coward
Question: Which north-west venue is considered to be the spiritual home of Northern Soul music from 1973 until its closure in 1981?
Answer: wigan casino
Question: Which chocolate and toffee assortment shares its name with the title of a play by JM Barrie?
Answer: quality street
Question: Who replaced 'Sid & Dick' as the main writer for Morecambe and Wise?
Answer: eddie braben
Question: Levens Hall in Cumbria is famous for what sort of garden, claimed to be the world's oldest?
Answer: topiary garden
Question: In 1847, which Bristol company was the first British company to make a chocolate bar?
Answer: fry s
Question: What was the surname of father Pierre Auguste, a painter, and his film director son, Jean?
Answer: renoir
Question: Who composed the music for the 2011 ballet 'Ocean's Kingdom'?
Answer: paul mccartney
Question: Frenchman Robert Hubert was executed in England during the latter part of the 17th century after he falsely confessed to have committed which crime?
Answer: starting great fire of london
Question: Which hat is named after an 1894 novel by George du Maurier?
Answer: trilby
Question: An annual New Year's Day concert is held in the 'Golden Hall' of the Musikverein, in which city?
Answer: vienna
Question: Clifford's Tower is all that remains of the castle in which British town or city?
Answer: york
Question: Nureyev, Makarova and Baryshnikov all defected from which ballet company?
Answer: kirov
Question: The coral island of Niue is a self-governing state in free association with which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which Benedictine monk wrote 'Chronica Majora', a history of the world from the creation to 1959?
Answer: matthew paris
Question: Who wrote 'The Hunting of the Snark'?
Answer: lewis carroll
Question: Which 1957 treaty paved the way for the European Union?
Answer: treaty of rome
Question: What was the first battle in the American Revolution?
Answer: battle of lexington and concord
Question: Which Indian novelist wrote 'The Man-Eater of Malgudi'?
Answer: r k narayan
Question: Founded in 1636 which university claims to be the oldest in the USA?
Answer: harvard
Question: Who was King of England from 1272 to 1307?
Answer: edward i
Question: Which US actor starred in the film 'The Public Enemy' and 'The Roaring Twenties'?
Answer: james cagney
Question: Which US President pursued a programme of social reform called the 'Fair Deal'?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: In which state of the USA can the city of Omaha be found?
Answer: nebraska
Question: Which film musical starred Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg?
Answer: paint your wagon
Question: By what name is anarchic comic Jim Moir better known?
Answer: vic reeves
Question: Which legendary King of Mycenae was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus?
Answer: agamemnon
Question: Who was the King of Albania from 1928 to 1939?
Answer: zog i
Question: Which British composer wrote the opera Troilus and Cressida?
Answer: sir william walton
Question: Which sugary solution produced by flowers attracts insects, birds or bats and encourages pollination?
Answer: nectar
Question: Which US novelist wrote 'Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings'?
Answer: joel chandler harris
Question: Which scientist half-cousin of Charles Darwin coined the term 'eugenics'?
Answer: sir francis galton
Question: Which Argentinean motor-racing driver was World Champion a record five times during the 1950's?
Answer: juan manuel fangio
Question: Which Jewish religious movement was founded by Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov?
Answer: hasidism
Question: Which avant-garde US composer wrote the piece 4'33"?
Answer: john cage
Question: Which incompetent police force featured in the silent film comedies produced by Mack Sennett?
Answer: keystone cops
Question: According to Greek legend, who was the father of Telemachus?
Answer: odysseus
Question: Which British novelist wrote 'Brideshead Revisited'?
Answer: evelyn waugh
Question: What is the largest lake in the British Isles?
Answer: lough neagh
Question: Which British novelist wrote 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'?
Answer: baroness orczy
Question: Which Armenian composer wrote the ballets Gayaneh and Spartacus?
Answer: khachaturian
Question: The characters Dame Caruthers and Jack Point appear in which Gilbert & Sullivan opera?
Answer: yeomen of guard
Question: In 2013 the drinks brands Lucozade and Ribena were bought by which Japanese company?
Answer: suntory
Question: Who, in 2013, became King of Belgium on the abdication of his father King Albert II?
Answer: philippe
Question: Who, in 2013, became King of the Netherlands on the abdication of his mother Queen Beatrix?
Answer: willem alexander
Question: The characters Mad Margaret and Robin Oakapple appear in which Gilbert & Sullivan opera?
Answer: ruddigore
Question: Who painted 'The Adoration of the Magi' and 'The Last Supper'?
Answer: leonardo da vinci
Question: Who, between 1032 and 1048, became the only man to become Pope more than once and also the only one to sell the papacy? (name only required)
Answer: benedict
Question: The last Pope prior to Benedict 16th to resign did so in 1415, what was his name? (name only required)
Answer: gregory
Question: Which singer released the album 'Closer to the Truth' in 2013, twelve years after her previous album 'Living Proof?
Answer: cher