CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In which 1975 film directed by Milos Forman did Jack Nicholson play the lead character Randall McMurphy?
Answer: one flew over cuckoo s nest
Question: Whernside is the highest point in which national park?
Answer: yorkshire dales
Question: What is the name of the Pakistani cricket captain jailed for his part in a betting fix during a match against England in 2010?
Answer: salman butt
Question: The use of what widely used product was first demonstrated at Merstham Quarry, Surrey in 1867?
Answer: dynamite
Question: Which European Country has the oldest State Flag, dating back to the 14th century?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which poem by Keats and novel by Disraeli both have the same title?
Answer: endymion
Question: What species of rodent has the Latin name cavia porcellus?
Answer: guinea pig
Question: Which sauce derives its name from the Italian for "pounded"?
Answer: pesto
Question: What was the name of the oil tanker that ran aground in PrinceWilliam Sound off the Alaskan coast in 1989?
Answer: exxon valdez
Question: Which major political figure won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1957book "Profiles in Courage?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: Which English King was also crowned King of France in 1431?
Answer: henry vi
Question: Under what pseudonym did Dr Brooke Magnanti publish her notorious "Diary of a Call-Girl"?
Answer: belle de jour
Question: Which legendary World Champion Boxer dropped his surname of Barrow to box under his two Christian names?
Answer: joe louis
Question: Which British city has a railway station named after a series of novels written by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: Which actress played the parts of Sheila Grant in Brookside and Barbara Royle in the Royle Family?
Answer: sue johnston
Question: In which 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese did Robert De Niro play the head character Travis Bickell?
Answer: taxi driver
Question: Which national park is named after the Maasai term for 'endless plains'?
Answer: serengeti
Question: Whose 7th symphony is known as the Leningrad?
Answer: shostakovich
Question: What in 1985 did the oceanographer Robert Ballard discover 370 metres south west of Nistaken Point, Newfoundland?
Answer: wreck of titanic
Question: Which future Nobel Prize winner did Bill Clinton choose as his Vice President?
Answer: al gore
Question: Which former Portuguese African Colony joined the British Commonwealth in 1995?
Answer: mozambique
Question: What is the only surname to be shared by an American President and a British Prime Minister?
Answer: wilson
Question: Marilyn Monroe was born and died in the same American City which one?
Answer: los angeles
Question: Which Ukrainian City is known as the "Pearl of the Black Sea"?
Answer: odessa
Question: What food would you get if you ordered Albondingas in a Spanish restaurant or Frikadeller in a Scandinavian one?
Answer: meatballs
Question: In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales the pilgrims met at which inn?
Answer: tabard inn
Question: What was the name of the oil tanker that ran aground off the coast of Brittany in 1978?
Answer: amoco cadiz
Question: Which major political figure won, the Nobe1Prize for Literature for his 'History of the English Speaking Peoples'?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Which British monarch was 'Elector of Hanover' from 1698-1727?
Answer: george i
Question: Whose final live concert took place on 29th August 1969 Candlestick Park in San Francisco?
Answer: beatles
Question: In Holst's suite 'The Planets' who is the bringer of old age?
Answer: saturn
Question: How is the Gravelly Hill interchange more commonly known?
Answer: spaghetti junction
Question: What was the former name of Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe?
Answer: salisbury
Question: Who had number 1 hits in 1959 with 'Dream Lover' and 'Mack the Knife'?
Answer: bobby darin
Question: The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is a pro-am golf tournament played at St Andrews, Kingsbarns and which other course which features the Barry Burn?
Answer: carnoustie
Question: Ismene was an incestual daughter of Oedipus & Jocasta. Who was her better known sister?
Answer: antigone
Question: The Mexican beaded lizard is one of only two species of poisonous lizard. What is the other?
Answer: gila monster
Question: What was the name of the dog which won `Britain's Got Talent' in 2012?
Answer: pudsey
Question: Which currently running London musical holds the West End record for the longest continuous run?
Answer: les miserables
Question: Which physicist's principle asserts that no two electrons can occupy the same energy state simultaneously?
Answer: wolfgang pauli
Question: In the Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant what was the name of the boat carrying the Queen?
Answer: spirit of chartwell
Question: In the Patrick O'Brian novels about Jack Aubrey, who is his doctor companion?
Answer: stephen maturin
Question: What term is used to describe the furthest point of the moon from the Earth?
Answer: apogee
Question: Who played the part of Thomas Crown in the 90's remake of the film 'The Thomas Crown Affair'?
Answer: pierce brosnan
Question: On which United States ship did the Japanese sign surrender terms in Tokyo Bay?
Answer: uss missouri
Question: Ballasalla and Colby are railway stations on which British island?
Answer: isle of man
Question: On which British island are Brighstone Forest and Parkhurst Forest?
Answer: isle of wight
Question: In the 2012 Grand National, who became the first woman jockey to finish in the first three, riding the joint favourite Seabass?
Answer: katie walsh
Question: What word is used to descibe the position of a planet when it is closest to the sun?
Answer: perihelion
Question: Who played the parts of the twins in the 1998 remake of the film 'The Parent Trap'?
Answer: lindsay lohan
Question: In which town are the headquarters of Derbyshire County Council?
Answer: matlock
Question: Whose historical novels about the Royal Navy include the Richard Bolitho novels set during the Napoleonic era, written under the pseudonym Alexander Kent?
Answer: douglas reeman
Question: Which classic 1945 British film was turned into an opera by Andre Previn which premiered in 2009?
Answer: brief encounter
Question: The platypus and four species of which mammal are the only surviving monotremes?
Answer: echidna
Question: Which talent show was won in 2012 by Leanne Mitchell?
Answer: voice
Question: The African capital cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville lie on opposite banks of which river?
Answer: congo
Question: Who captained the US team in the 2012 Ryder Cup?
Answer: davis love
Question: During a 1973 boxing match, who broke Muhammad Ali's jaw?
Answer: ken norton
Question: What was the name of the double-decker bus designed by Douglas Scott and introduced into London Transport in the 1950s?
Answer: routemaster
Question: Regulus is the brightest star in which zodiacal constellation?
Answer: leo
Question: Who wrote the "Beggars Opera" in 1728?
Answer: john gay
Question: Which bandleader was known as "The sentimental gentleman of swing" because of his smooth trombone style?
Answer: tommy dorsey
Question: Antares is the brightest star in which zodiacal constellation?
Answer: scorpio
Question: At 52, who was the oldest man to play test cricket for England?
Answer: wilfred rhodes
Question: Ramsay McDonald was the first Labour Prime Minister of the UK. Who was the second?
Answer: clement atlee
Question: In which Dickens novel does Bob Sawyer appear?
Answer: pickwick papers
Question: Which woman is the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington?
Answer: diane abbott
Question: In Physics and Mathematics what name is given to a quantity that has magnitude but no direction?
Answer: scalar
Question: Which actress played the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's film "To Catch a Thief"?
Answer: grace kelly
Question: Which island, a former Dutch colony with its capital at Orangestad, continues to move slowly towards complete independence?
Answer: aruba
Question: From which football club did Liverpool sign TV pundit Mark Lawrenson in 1981?
Answer: brighton
Question: Which bird of the pigeon family was found in huge numbers in North America until the 19th century but then went into decline due to hunting and became extinct in 1914?
Answer: passenger pigeon
Question: Which mammal closely related to the zebra died out in the 1880s?
Answer: quagga
Question: Which French overseas department east of Madagascar has its capital at Saint-Denis?
Answer: reunion island
Question: Who was the President of the Republic of Ireland between 1959 and 1973?
Answer: eamon de valera
Question: In which Dickens novel does Newman Noggs appear?
Answer: nicholas nickleby
Question: Which actress played the title role in the film Barbarella?
Answer: jane fonda
Question: John Sebastian was a member of which 1960s folk rock group?
Answer: lovin spoonful
Question: Which former England wicketkeeper has his own art gallery in Chipping Sodbury?
Answer: jack russell
Question: St Boniface Down is the highest point of which British island?
Answer: isle of wight
Question: Sgurr Alasdair is the highest point of which British island?
Answer: skye
Question: Which sibling trio had top ten hits in 1984 with "Automatic" and "Jump"?
Answer: pointer sisters
Question: Which well known author was born David John Cornwell in 1931?
Answer: john le carre
Question: Which breakfast cereal was invented by Henry Perky in 1893?
Answer: shredded wheat
Question: In which sport did Britain's Peter Wilson win a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: shooting
Question: Which National Trust property in the north east of England was once owned by Lord William Armstrong?
Answer: cragside
Question: Which sub species of brown bear is the largest member of the bear family?
Answer: kodiak bear
Question: During the second Sudanese war in which battle in September 1898 did General Kitchener inflict a crushing defeat on the Dervishes?
Answer: omdurman
Question: During the Indian Mutiny in which town was the British Residency besieged by mutineers from June until November 1857 before being relieved by General Campbell?
Answer: lucknow
Question: Which subspecies of tiger is the largest member of the cat family?
Answer: siberian tiger
Question: Who wrote the play "Miss Julie" in 1888?
Answer: august strindberg
Question: During World War 2 North American Aviation built a fighter with a single Rolls Royce Merlin engine which proved to be the best long range fighter of the war. What was its name?
Answer: mustang
Question: Which author's first autobiography was entitled "Boy:Tales of Childhood"?
Answer: roald dahl
Question: Which former Labour MP and government minister contested the election for Mayor of London with Ken Livingstone?
Answer: frank dobson
Question: Who chairs the BBC radio and TV panel show 'Just A Minute'?
Answer: nicholas parsons
Question: Into which other war did the War of Jenkins Ear merge?
Answer: war of austrian succession
Question: Which musical features the song 'Getting to know you'?
Answer: king and i
Question: The song '76 Trombones' comes from which musical?
Answer: music man
Question: Which Shakespeare play is set during the Trojan War?
Answer: troilus and cressida
Question: Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure is mainly set in which city?
Answer: vienna
Question: In Dad's Army' what is the forename of Captain Mainwaring's wife?
Answer: elizabeth
Question: Who was the writer of the novels 'Sad Cypress', 'N or M' and 'Sparkling Cyanide'?
Answer: agatha christie
Question: Who wrote the novels The Light that Failed', 'Captains Courageous' and 'Stalky and Co'?
Answer: rudyard kipling
Question: In which town was Oliver Cromwell born, in 1599?
Answer: huntingdon
Question: In which city was Dr Samuel Johnson born, in 1709?
Answer: lichfield
Question: Who created the literary character Violet Elizabeth Bott?
Answer: richmal crompton
Question: Who was the oldest man to become Poet Laureate?
Answer: william wordsworth
Question: In the Bible who became leader of the Israelites after the death of Moses?
Answer: joshua
Question: Who succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union in 1964?
Answer: leonid brezhnev
Question: Who succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader in 1985?
Answer: mikhail gorbachev
Question: Who wrote the 1921 opera The Love for Three Oranges'?
Answer: prokofiev
Question: Who took over the Radio 2 breakfast show in 2010 succeeding Terry Wogan?
Answer: chris evans
Question: Walter Sickert was a leading figure in which group of London based painters?
Answer: camden town
Question: What is Papageno's occupation in the Mozart opera The Magic Flute'?
Answer: birdcatcher
Question: Which unit of the Territorial Army and Volunteer Reserve is abbreviated to HAC?
Answer: honourable artillery company
Question: If you had the initials FRIBA after your name, what would your profession be?
Answer: architect
Question: In another life Gyles Brandreth was an MP for which constituency?
Answer: chester
Question: Before being ennobled Lord Sebastian Coe was MP for which constituency?
Answer: falmouth
Question: On which West Indian island is the volcano Mount Pelee situated?
Answer: martinique
Question: In the recent London summer Olympics, where was the majority of the Triathlon event(s) held?
Answer: hyde park
Question: In the recent London Olympics where were the rowing events held?
Answer: eton dorney
Question: Which US space shuttle exploded shortly after take-off in January 1986?
Answer: challenger
Question: Who provided the voice of Charlie Townsend in TV's "Charlie's Angels"?
Answer: john forsyth
Question: What are the chemically identical species of atom with the same atomic number but different mass numbers called?
Answer: isotopes
Question: Who was UN chief weapons inspector in Iraq from January 2000-June 2003?
Answer: hans blix
Question: Who released the 1995 hit album "Jagged Little Pill"?
Answer: alanis morrisette
Question: Who, in 1642, constructed a mechanical calculating machine?
Answer: blaise pascal
Question: Who directed the 1939 film "Gone With The Wind"?
Answer: victor fleming
Question: Which Greek dramatist wrote the three Theban Plays?
Answer: sophocles
Question: Who had a 1995 hit album with "Stanley Road"?
Answer: paul weller
Question: Which NW Algerian town was the HQ of the French Foreign Legion?
Answer: sidi bel abbes
Question: Who directed the 1943 film "Casablanca"?
Answer: michael curtiz
Question: Which fruit is a hybrid between a raspberry and a blackberry?
Answer: loganberry
Question: Which Greek dramatist wrote "The Birds", "The Frogs", "The Wasps", etc?
Answer: aristophanes
Question: What is the unusual feature of the Canadian sphynx cat?
Answer: hairless
Question: (Stephen Patrick) Morrissey came to prominence in the 1980's with which alternative rock band?
Answer: smiths
Question: Which Italian cheese is made from cream, coagulated with citric acid or acetic acid?
Answer: mascarpone
Question: Roller (Inline) hockey comprises of how many members per team?
Answer: five
Question: The name of which pasta is sometimes thought to have a name derived from the Italian for little turnips?
Answer: ravioli
Question: Which Wiltshire town was twinned with Walt Disney World, Florida, in 2009?
Answer: swindon
Question: The entertainment company, Cirque de Soleil, has its HQ in which city?
Answer: montreal
Question: """Miss You Nights"" was a No. 3 hit single for which Irish group?"
Answer: westlife
Question: Opened in July, 1955, where is Disneyland Park, Disney's first?
Answer: anaheim ca
Question: Which Irish group released the albums "Talk on Corners", "Home", etc?
Answer: corrs
Question: What sport was founded at the George Hotel, Huddersfield in 1895?
Answer: rugby league
Question: Who directed the 1995 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'?
Answer: milos forman
Question: Which 2011 French romantic comedy-drama became the most awarded film in French film history?
Answer: artist
Question: Which American actress/singer, etc is the daughter of Maureen O'Sullivan?
Answer: mia farrow
Question: Which Cheshire born athlete has earned the accolades BBC Sports Personality of the Year; Laureus World Comeback of the Year etc? She was awarded the MBE in 2002.
Answer: paula radcliff
Question: Puffins are any of three small species of which seabird family?
Answer: auks
Question: Which Yorkshire born track and field athlete is the current Olympic heptathlon champion. She was awarded the CBE in 2013?
Answer: jessica ennis
Question: Which mammal of the order Pholidota is the only one to have keratin scales on its skin?
Answer: pangolin
Question: Jess Oakroyd, Elizabeth Trant and Inigo Jollifant are the central characters in which J.B Priestly novel?
Answer: good companions
Question: What was the maiden name of six famous sisters: Diana, Jessica, Unity, Nancy, Deborah, and Pamela?
Answer: mitford
Question: What was the name of the owner of Grand National legend Red Rum?
Answer: noel le mare
Question: In the medical procedure CT scan, for what does the letter T stand?
Answer: computerised tomography
Question: In the story of the creation in the Bible, what did God create first?
Answer: light
Question: What was the name of the character played by Penelope Keith in 'To the Manor Born'?
Answer: audrey fforbes hamilton
Question: The National Trust property Clouds Hill in Dorset was the home of which military man and writer?
Answer: t e lawrence
Question: The Princess Royal's daughter Zara is married to which English sportsman?
Answer: mike tindall
Question: What is the common name for plants of the cheiranthus and erysimum genera?
Answer: wallflower
Question: Seals, sea lions and walrus belong to which suborder of manunals?
Answer: pinnipedia
Question: What was the name of Robert Falcon Scott's ship on his ill fated Antarctic expedition?
Answer: terra nova
Question: Which ship rescued the majority of the survivors of the Titanic sinking in 1912?
Answer: carpathia
Question: Who is the regular appointed captain of the England Twenty20 cricket team as at September 2012?
Answer: stuart broad
Question: Which actor's roles include the 'Man from Atlantis' and Bobby Ewing in 'Dallas'?
Answer: patrick duffy
Question: King Idris was deposed by whom in 1969?
Answer: colonel gaddafi
Question: Which National Trust property in Northumberland was the home of inventor and engineer William Armstrong?
Answer: cragside
Question: What is the English name for plants of the Erica genus?
Answer: heath or heather
Question: In which classic novel does Bathsheba Everdene appear?
Answer: far from madding crowd
Question: Friendship with unofficial advisor Adam Werrity led to the resignation of which Cabinet Minister in October 2011?
Answer: liam fox
Question: Dodger, Oxford and Cobalt are shades of which colour?
Answer: blue
Question: In Gilbert and Sullivan's opera Iolanthe, a British institution is described in song as 'throughout the war did nothing in particular and did it very well'. What was the institution?
Answer: house of peers
Question: What was the pen name of the short story writer H H Munro?
Answer: saki
Question: In 1983 Jenny Pitman became the first woman to train the winner of the Grand National. What was the name of the horse?
Answer: corbiere
Question: In chemistry, the measure of acidity and alkalinity is the pH. For what does the letter H stand?
Answer: potential hydrogen
Question: Only two out of twelve countries in South America fail to share a land border with Brazil. Chile is one, what is the other?
Answer: ecuador
Question: Name the musical composer of 'The Mother Goose Suite'?
Answer: maurice ravel
Question: Which poem contains the line 'If winter comes can spring be far behind'?
Answer: ode to west wind
Question: In Canterbury Tales, who is the first pilgrim to tell their story?
Answer: knight
Question: What word was used by Billy Batson to change into Captain Marvel?
Answer: shazam
Question: Which Turner Prize-winning sculptor designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a 22m. sculpture, for the London 2012 Olympic Park?
Answer: anish kapoor
Question: What is the former name of the element Potassium, from which it takes its chemical symbol?
Answer: kalium
Question: Who is the only British Prime Minister to have taken office on the assassination of his predecessor?
Answer: lord liverpool
Question: The West Highland Highway runs from Milngavie, just outside Glasgow, to which town in the Highlands?
Answer: fort william
Question: Ralph M. Steinman won the 2011 Nobel Prize, despite having died before the prize was announced. In which Nobel field did he win?
Answer: medicine
Question: An omelette with smoked haddock and cheese was perfected at the Savoy Hotel, and named after which novelist?
Answer: arnold bennett
Question: In Ronald Searle's cartoons, which school was attended by Nigel Molesworth?
Answer: st custards
Question: Who was elected President of Ireland in November 2011?
Answer: michael d higgins
Question: Which actress has played Lady Dedlock and Miss Havisham in BBC adaptations of Dickens' novels?
Answer: gillian anderson
Question: Which garden plant or shrub belongs to the genus Lonicera?
Answer: honeysuckle
Question: In the CYMK colour model for printing, for what does the C stand?
Answer: cyan
Question: Sarah Lund is the central character in which Danish detective series, shown on BBC Four?
Answer: killing
Question: Which charity has been supported by the comedy called The Secret Policeman's Balls?
Answer: amnesty international
Question: Which space shuttle, it touched down in July 2011, brought NASA's shuttle programme to an end?
Answer: atlantis
Question: Which Australian-brn brothers played cricket for Surrey and England in the 1990's?
Answer: hollioake
Question: Jim Kerr is lead singer of which band, who had 1985 hit with "Don't You (Forget About Me)"?
Answer: simple minds
Question: According to Greek myth, which king was condemned by Zeus to be tied to an ever-spinning flaming wheel in Hades?
Answer: ixion
Question: Which of Beethoven's symphonies is known as 'The Choral"?
Answer: ninth
Question: Which former party leader is MP for Chingford and Woodford Green?
Answer: iain duncan smith
Question: Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, was the mother of two 15th c. Kings of England. Name either
Answer: edward iv and richard iii
Question: In measurement, which Greek letter is applied to the prefix micro-, equal to 10-6?
Answer: mu
Question: Who presents "I've Never Seen Star Wars" on BBC Radio 4?
Answer: marcus brigstocke
Question: What is the flavouring of the liqueur Kahlua?
Answer: coffee
Question: Which London borough was granted Royal Borough status marking the Queen's Silver Jubilee?
Answer: greenwich
Question: Who has played Jack Worthing and Lord Henry Wotton in films by Oscar Wilde?
Answer: colin firth
Question: Malawi is bordered by Zambia, Mozambique, and which other country?
Answer: tanzania
Question: Which Greek philosopher left Athens for the island of Euboea after the death of his pupil Alexander the Great, in fear of anti-Macedonian feeling?
Answer: aristotle
Question: Which Verdi opera includes 'The Anvil Chorus"?
Answer: il trovatore
Question: Which Premiership football side are nicknamed the Canaries?
Answer: norwich city
Question: What is the surname of the father and son English cricketers who have both played for Nottinghamshire and in successful Ashes series?
Answer: broad
Question: Who played headmistress Miss Fritton and her brother in the 2007 film 'St. Trinians"?
Answer: rupert everett
Question: Which African country has a flag which is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow and red, similar to the flag of Romania?
Answer: chad
Question: What is the common name of garden plants in the Tagetes genus and Calendula genus?
Answer: marigold
Question: Which of Mahler's symphonies is entitled 'The Resurrection'?
Answer: second
Question: Which British PM served for the longest time, his single term of 20 years, 314 days being longer than even the combined multiple terms of any other Prime Minister?
Answer: robert walpole
Question: Who wrote the novels "A Week in December" and 'Birdsong"?
Answer: sebastian faulks
Question: A dessert of peaches and raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream was created by Auguste Escoffier in honour of which performer?
Answer: dame nellie melba
Question: Vocalist Roland Orzabal had the 1985 hit "Everybody Wants to Rule the World' with which band?
Answer: tears for fears