CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the name of the RSPB reserve just to the north of Flamborough, famous for its nesting seabirds?
Answer: bempton cliffs
Question: Which Shakespearean character was the daughter of Brabantio?
Answer: desdemona
Question: In which mid west state is the first Primary of the US Presidential election traditionally held?
Answer: iowa
Question: Which children's author created Tracey Beaker?
Answer: jacqueline wilson
Question: Which comedian is married to Pamela Stephenson?
Answer: billy connolly
Question: Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald after his arrest for the assassination of John F Kennedy?
Answer: jack ruby
Question: The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy are works by which writer?
Answer: frances hodgson burnett
Question: Where in London can statues of George IV, Sir Henry Havelock and Sir Charles Napier be found?
Answer: trafalgar square
Question: Who was known as 'The King of Ragtime' composing such works as Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer?
Answer: scott joplin
Question: Which 1973 film used The Entertainer as its theme music?
Answer: sting
Question: Which river rises in the Pennines, flows through Settle and Preston before reaching the sea at Lytham St Annes?
Answer: ribble
Question: What is the full name of the youngest of the Spice Girls?
Answer: emma bunton
Question: What was the name of the otter in Henry Williamson's famous 1927 novel?
Answer: tarka
Question: The 1990 film The December Bride starring Donal McCann, Saskia Reeves and Ciaran Hinds, is set in which country?
Answer: ireland
Question: Sir Joshua Reynolds was the first president of which institution, founded in 1768?
Answer: royal academy
Question: Which comedy series, running from 1989 to 1994, starred Anton Rodgers as a solicitor who falls for a much younger woman, played first by Eve Matheson and subsequently by Lesley Dunlop?
Answer: may to december
Question: In which country did the failed Decembrist uprising take place in 1825?
Answer: russia
Question: The House of Braganza ruled which country from 1640 to 1910?
Answer: portugal
Question: Which actor, who achieved worldwide fame in a television series of the late 1970s and 80s was the son of the actress and singer Mary Martin?
Answer: larry hagman
Question: Who compiled the significant 1942 report 'Social Insurance and Allied Services'?
Answer: sir william beveridge
Question: Which composer has won Academy Awards for Best Original Score for Born Free, Out of Africa, and Dance with Wolves?
Answer: john barry
Question: What is the name of the railway company that operates services between St Pancras, the East Midlands and South Yorkshire?
Answer: midland mainline
Question: Who starred as Paul Kersey in the five Death Wish films?
Answer: charles bronson
Question: In western astrology, to which element do Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces belong?
Answer: water
Question: Alfredo Stroessner was a dictator of which South American country from 1954 to 1989?
Answer: paraguay
Question: John Goodman played Dan Connor, in which American TV comedy series?
Answer: roseanne
Question: Which board game is based around European power politics leading up,to the First World War?
Answer: diplomacy
Question: Who was the Democratic candidate who lost to George Bush in the US Presidential election in 1988?
Answer: michael dukakis
Question: Who was World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1978 to 1985, defending his title 20 times before losing to Michael Spinks?
Answer: larry holmes
Question: Which film had the tagline 'just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water'?
Answer: jaws ii
Question: In Greek mythology, how are the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne collectively called?
Answer: muses
Question: In The Tempest, what is the name of Prospero's daughter?
Answer: miranda
Question: Sandwich, Little Whiskered and Arctic are all types of which bird?
Answer: tern
Question: Which 1937 film about boxing, starring Edward G Robinson, was remade in 1962, as a musical, starring Elvis Presley?
Answer: kid galahad
Question: In Greek mythology, who saved Andromeda from the Kraken, a large sea monster?
Answer: perseus
Question: Whereabouts in the human body is the zygomatic bone situated?
Answer: cheek
Question: Which author wrote the lines, "Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter, home from the hill"?
Answer: r l stevenson
Question: Which treaty ended the Franco-Prussian war in 1871?
Answer: treaty of frankfurt
Question: The M32 motorway connects the M4 to which English town or city?
Answer: bristol
Question: Gannymede is the largest moon, orbiting which of the planets?
Answer: jupiter
Question: Which instrument is played by the American classical musician, Carlo Curley?
Answer: organ
Question: Which film actress, born Tula Finklea in Texas in 1922, died in June 2008, aged 88?
Answer: cyd charisse
Question: In the 1960's, which car company, part of BMC, made models called the Kestrel and the Elf?
Answer: riley
Question: The M606 motorway connects the M62 to which English town or city?
Answer: bradford
Question: In which city was the congress held in 1814-15, which agreed the settlement of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars?
Answer: vienna
Question: A native of South America, the pudu is the smallest known species of which animal?
Answer: deer
Question: Whereabouts in the human body is the calcaneus bone situated?
Answer: heel
Question: In Greek mythology, which Queen of the Amazons was accidentally killed by her ally, Amazon Queen Penthesilea?
Answer: hippolyte
Question: Which American big band leader had as his theme song, the tune, "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"?
Answer: tommy dorsey
Question: The Great Land Rush of 1889 took place in which state of the USA?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: Which tree is also known as the Trembling Poplar?
Answer: aspen
Question: The flag of Venezuela is divided into three bands. Two of the colours are red and yellow. What is the third?
Answer: blue
Question: Which author wrote the classic Russian novel, "The Brothers Karamazov"?
Answer: fyodor dostoevsky
Question: Who was the Scottish Labour Party leader, who resigned in June 2008, after failing to declare donation to her leadership campaign in 2007?
Answer: wendy alexander
Question: Hawkes Bay is a wine-growing region in which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Who is the leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party, and currently, the First Minister of Scotland?
Answer: alex salmond
Question: What was the name of the comic book character, "The Tough of The Track"?
Answer: alf tupper
Question: Etihad is the national airline of which Middle Eastern country?
Answer: united arab emirates
Question: The flag of Hungary is divided into three bands. Two of the colours are red and white. What is the third?
Answer: green
Question: Originating in Italy, what kind of food is pecorino?
Answer: cheese
Question: Name the German born, British art historian, who wrote a series of books entitled, "The Buildings of England", between 1951 and 1974?
Answer: nikolaus pevsner
Question: According to the bible, Zaccariah was the father of which New Testament figure?
Answer: john baptist
Question: The Battle of Bull Run, also called the 1st battle of Manassas, was fought in 1861, in which state of the USA?
Answer: virginia
Question: Ceratopsian dinosaurs are so named because they had what physical feature?
Answer: horn
Question: Which horse, ridden by Kevin Manning, won the 2008 Epsom Derby?
Answer: new approach
Question: The Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean are a territory of which country?
Answer: australia
Question: In an alphabetical list of world countries, what comes between The Maldives and Malta?
Answer: mali
Question: Which fellow rocker, whose biggest hit was "Be-Bop-A-Lula", survived the car crash which killed Eddie Cochrane in 1960?
Answer: gene vincent
Question: Which actor played US President James Dale in the 1996 film "Mars Attacks!"?
Answer: jack nicholson
Question: Which actor played US President Andrew Shepherd in the 1995 film "The American President'?
Answer: michael douglas
Question: Which former PM wrote the memoirs "The Downing Street Years" and "The Path to Power"?
Answer: margaret thatcher
Question: The wife of which former PM has written books on the soprano Joan Sutherland and the PM's country house, Chequers?
Answer: john major
Question: In 1924, which was the first country ever to host the Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year?
Answer: france
Question: In 1936, which was the last country ever to host the Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year?
Answer: germany
Question: Which model was married to photographer David Bailey for 10 years, from 1975?
Answer: marie helvin
Question: Which model was married to singer Billy Joel for 9 years, from 1985?
Answer: christie brinkley
Question: Which late 1990's pop duo was made up of Karen and Shellie, the daughters of 1960's singer Brian Poole?
Answer: alisha s attic
Question: Which early 1990's pop trio was made up of Carnie, Wendy and Chynna, the daughters of members of 1960's bands The Beach Boys and The Mamas and the Papas?
Answer: wilson phillips
Question: What is the common name for the part of the human bone with the comparatively unprotected ulnar nerve?
Answer: funny bone
Question: Found in the human body, what is the more common name for myeloid tissue?
Answer: bone marrow
Question: The football chant "Here We Go" is sung to the tune of which Sousa march?
Answer: stars and stripes forever
Question: The football chant "Who Ate All The Pies" is sung to which music-hall tune?
Answer: knees up mother brown
Question: What variety of grape is used to produce the Italian red wine Chianti?
Answer: sangiovese
Question: What variety of bean is used to produce beansprouts, popular in Oriental cuisine?
Answer: mung
Question: Berengaria of Navarre was the queen of which English King?
Answer: richard i
Question: Catherine of Braganza was the queen of which English King?
Answer: charles ii
Question: Which comic actor had two top ten hits, both in 1962, with "Hole in the Ground" and "Right Said Fred"?
Answer: bernard cribbins
Question: Which one-man band had two top ten hits, both in 1968, with "Rosie" and "Blue Eyes"?
Answer: don partridge
Question: Which former US First Lady founded, in 1982, a well-known drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre?
Answer: betty ford
Question: Directed by John Lasseter, what was, in 1995, the first film to be entirely computer-generated?
Answer: toy story
Question: Journalist and writer Martha Gellhorn was the first wife of which author?
Answer: ernest hemingway
Question: Writer Roald Dahl was the husband of which Oscar-winning actress?
Answer: patricia neal
Question: South African rugby winger Bryan Habana was named after which famous English sportsman?
Answer: bryan robson
Question: Singer Alecia Moore first hit the charts in 2000 under what one-word name?
Answer: pink
Question: In 1994, Sannie Carlson became the first ever non-British singer to make a chart debut at number one - under what one word name?
Answer: whigfield
Question: The ancient cities of Leptis Magna and Cyrene can be found in which modern-day country?
Answer: libya
Question: The ancient cities of Troy and Ephesus can be found in which modern-day country?
Answer: turkey
Question: When Muttiah Muralitharan took his record-breaking 709th test wicket, which England player was the victim?
Answer: paul collingwood
Question: Which snooker player has scored a record 709 centuries in professional tournaments?
Answer: stephen hendry
Question: Scotsman Ivor Robson introduces the competitors in which annual sporting event?
Answer: open golf championship
Question: From the Arabic for "path", what is the name given to Islamic law?
Answer: sharia
Question: Which country's currency changed from the Pound to the Euro in January 2008?
Answer: cyprus
Question: Which country's currency changed from the Lira to the Euro in January 2008?
Answer: malta
Question: Which Scotland Yard detective is frequently upstaged by the crime-fighting abilities of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: inspector lestrade
Question: Featured more regularly on TV than in the original books, which Scotland Yard detective is regularly helped (or hindered) by the efforts of Hercule Poirot?
Answer: chief inspector japp
Question: Luxardo is the most widely-available brand of which alcoholic spirit?
Answer: sambuca
Question: What name is given to an island of coral that surrounds a lagoon?
Answer: atoll
Question: Who composed the scores for the Alfred Hitchcock movies "North By Northwest" and "Psycho"?
Answer: bernard herrmann
Question: Which city, the fourth largest in the Czech Republic, is renowned for its beer production and is the home of Skoda?
Answer: plzen
Question: Named after a service station on the M4, which chef is proprietor of "The Fat Duck" and has been "In Search of Perfection" in print and on the media?
Answer: heston blumenthal
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Middlemarch' in 1869?
Answer: george eliot
Question: On a Monopoly board, what lies between Vine Street and The Strand?
Answer: free parking
Question: What name is given to a straight line that joins any two points on the circumference of a circle?
Answer: chord
Question: What was the Christian name of the character played by Tim Healy in 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet'?
Answer: dennis
Question: Which football league club plays its home games at the Weston Homes Community Stadium?
Answer: colchester united
Question: Who succeeded Robin Day as regular presenter of Question Time, in June 1989?
Answer: peter sissons
Question: What was the first Martin Scorsese film that Robert De Niro appeared in, released in 1973?
Answer: mean streets
Question: In which war was the Battle of the Ebro (Batalia del Ebro) fought?
Answer: spanish civil war
Question: How was Lev Davidovitch Bronstein better known?
Answer: leon trotsky
Question: In terms of surface area, which is the largest body of water in the British Isles?
Answer: lough neagh
Question: Which 1910 comic novel by H G Wells features the Potwell Inn in Sussex?
Answer: history of mr polly
Question: Which UK group's fourth and final number one was 'Beat Surrender' in 1982?
Answer: jam
Question: Which London thoroughfare gave its name to a 2003 novel by Monica Ali?
Answer: brick lane
Question: Who wrote the novels "Rosemary's Baby", "The Stepford Wives" and "The Boys from Brazil"?
Answer: ira levin
Question: What was the name of the junior TV Times magazine that ran from 1971 to 1994?
Answer: look in
Question: In 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II was exiled to which country?
Answer: netherlands
Question: Which sunken ship lies on the floor of Pearl Harbour as a memorial to those killed in the attack of 7 December 1941?
Answer: uss arizona
Question: Which gas makes up 95% of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
Answer: carbon dioxide
Question: What brand name was registered by the Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Company in 1961?
Answer: hush puppies
Question: In which city is the Roslin Institute, the location of the cloning of 'Dolly the Sheep'?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: Which structure links the English towns of Barton and Hessle?
Answer: humber bridge
Question: Which English football league team play their home games at Griffin Park?
Answer: brentford
Question: Since 1991, where has the annual Crufts Dog Show taken place?
Answer: nec birmingham
Question: The Impressionist movement got its name from a painting "Impression Sunrise" exhibited in 1874; who was the artist?
Answer: claude monet
Question: The young soldier Paul Baumer is the narrator and central character in which 1929 novel?
Answer: all quiet on
Question: In which series of children's books, first published in 1930, would you encounter the Blackett family and the Walker family?
Answer: swallows and
Question: Who played the character Gene Hunt in the UK TV series 'Life on Mars' and 'Ashes to Ashes'?
Answer: phillip glenister
Question: Who starred in the TV series Tarzan between 1966 and 1969?
Answer: ron ely
Question: What does the Spanish word 'tapas' literally mean?
Answer: cover or lid
Question: Hindu god Brahma emerged from which part of the body of Vishnu?
Answer: navel
Question: England's longest waterfall, Cauldron Snout, lies on which river?
Answer: river tees
Question: """The course of true love never did run smooth"" is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: midsummer nights dream
Question: What do the Americans call what we call noughts and crosses?
Answer: tic tac toe
Question: 'I'll be there for you' is the theme tune for which TV programme?
Answer: friends
Question: Who was the Greek God of Rain and Cupbearer to the Gods, son of King Tros of Troy?
Answer: ganymede
Question: In which English County is Fortheringay Castle?
Answer: northamptonshire
Question: 'Up Where We Belong' was an Oscar winning song from which film?
Answer: officer and gentleman
Question: Caroline of Brunswick, a German Noblewoman was married to which British King?
Answer: george iv
Question: Damon Alban, Graham Coton, Alex James and Dave Roundtree were members of which pop group?
Answer: blur
Question: What was the previous occupation of actor Clint Eastwood?
Answer: swimming instructor
Question: 'Neither a lender nor a borrower be' is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: hamlet
Question: What is the alternative name for the Gravelly Hill interchange?
Answer: spaghetti junction
Question: Drum Majorette was until 1970 the theme tune for which long-running TV programme?
Answer: match of day
Question: Who was the Greek Goddess of the Moon, daughter of Hyperion and Thea?
Answer: selene
Question: To whom is the following quotation attributed "A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke"?
Answer: rudyard kipling
Question: In which TV drama/soap would you find the actress Deena Payne?
Answer: emmerdale
Question: 'Take my breath away' was an Oscar winning song from which film?
Answer: top gun
Question: Caroline of Ansbach, a German noblewoman, was married to which British King?
Answer: george ii
Question: Which famous golfer had the nickname Super Mex?
Answer: lee trevino
Question: Who wrote the TV series 'Bread' and 'Butterflies'?
Answer: carla lane
Question: Who was Walter Mondale's female running mate in the 1984 US Presidential election?
Answer: geraldine ferraro
Question: Which Russian composer 1882-1971, wrote the ballets 'Firebird' and 'Petrushka'?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: Which sea lies between European and Asian Turkey and between the Bosporus and the Dardanelles?
Answer: marmara
Question: Who wrote the 'Cadfael' series of novels?
Answer: ellis peters
Question: Which female candidate was beaten by Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 French Presidential election?
Answer: segolene royale
Question: In which South American country is Europe's Spaceport, Kourou?
Answer: french guiana
Question: Name the famous American pioneer who was involved in marking out the Wilderness Trail in the west and founded the first settlement in Kentucky which was named after him?
Answer: daniel boone
Question: Keswick stands at the northern end of which Lake District lake?
Answer: derwent water
Question: Which sea lies to the northwest of the Crimea?
Answer: sea of azov
Question: Which company produces the fragrances 'Opium' and 'Kouros'?
Answer: yves st laurent
Question: Distances from Paris are measured from Kilometre Zero, at which building is this situated?
Answer: notre dame
Question: In the 'Goon Show', what is the name of the blustering major?
Answer: bloodnock
Question: Which singer had a number 1 hit album in 2008 entitled 'Home Before Dark'?
Answer: neil diamond
Question: Glenridding stands at the southern end and Pooley Bridge at the northern end of which Lake District lake?
Answer: ullswater
Question: Which Russian composer 1844-1908, wrote the operas 'The Snow Maiden' and 'The Golden Cockerel'?
Answer: rimsky korsakov
Question: Name the 14 year old British girl who won the Wimbledon Girl's Championship in 2008.
Answer: laura robson
Question: Which river forms part of the border between Namibia and South Africa?
Answer: orange
Question: Which Danish born physicist won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922 and devised an atomic model?
Answer: niels bohr
Question: Which newspaper was founded in 1909, merged with the Daily Graphic and finally closed and merged with the Daily Mail in 1971?
Answer: daily sketch
Question: After which legendary character is the airport at Finningley near Doncaster named?
Answer: robin hood
Question: Which weekly newspaper was founded by Robert Maxwell in 1990 and folded in 1998 when owned by the Barclay brothers?
Answer: european
Question: Which Hollywood Producer produced the films King of Kings (1960) El Cid and 55 Days at Peking?
Answer: samuel bronston
Question: Brian Fletcher won the Grand National on Red Rum and which other horse?
Answer: red alligator
Question: Who in 1965 was the first presenter of Tomorrow's World?
Answer: raymond baxter
Question: In which English Country did the Battle of Flodden Field take place?
Answer: northumberland
Question: What is the hunting dog usually a cross between a collie and a greyhound called?
Answer: lurcher
Question: At which location in London is the Mermaid Theatre?
Answer: puddle dock
Question: The Battle of Sedgemoor took place in which English County?
Answer: somerset
Question: Hairdresser Raymond who died in 1992 owned two Grand National winners, Ayala and which other?
Answer: rag trade
Question: Michael Winner writes a column called Winners Dinners for which Sunday newspaper?
Answer: sunday times
Question: Which bridge in Scotland replaced the much loved ferry at the Kyle of Lochalsh?
Answer: skye
Question: Who was the first US President to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: Which famous aircraft producer designed the synchronized machine gun to fire through propeller blades?
Answer: fokker
Question: The teacher Miss Hooley and P.C. Plum appear in which children's TV series?
Answer: balamory
Question: What was the name of the 1970 number one hit record by Matthews Southern Comfort which was their only hit?
Answer: woodstock
Question: Which comic book hero made his debut in issue 27 of Detective in 1939?
Answer: batman
Question: Who in the 1960's had a number 1 hit with "Come Outside"?
Answer: mike sarne
Question: Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Suez Crisis?
Answer: anthony eden
Question: Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: harold macmillan
Question: At which Olympics, city or year, did Eddie the Eagle take part?
Answer: calgary
Question: The boundary between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire runs through which racecourse?
Answer: newmarket
Question: Which American comic book hero was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appeared in Marvel Comics in 1962?
Answer: spiderman
Question: Who had a number 2 hit in the 60's with Speedy Gonzales?
Answer: pat boone
Question: What was the name of the actor who played Jack Sugden in Emmerdale and who died in July 2008?
Answer: clive hornby
Question: Who created the Detective Dangerous Davies as played on television by Peter Davison?
Answer: leslie thomas
Question: What was the name of the BBC Correspondent who died in July 2008 aged 85?
Answer: charles wheeler
Question: Who seized power from King Idris in a military coup in 1969?
Answer: gaddaffi
Question: The Venus de Milo is a statue of which Greek goddess?
Answer: aphrodite
Question: Which Swiss town is at the foot of the Matterhorn?
Answer: zermatt
Question: Which is the only London Borough to include land on both sides of the River Thames?
Answer: richmond
Question: Lorena. Ochoa, the world's number one woman golfer, is from which country?
Answer: mexico
Question: Which bands two albums to date are 'Employment' and 'Yours Truly, Angry Mob'?
Answer: kaiser chiefs
Question: Who was Emperor of Rome when Boudicca, queen of the Iceni, led her famous revolt?
Answer: nero
Question: There are three snakes native to Britain, the adder, the grass snake and which other?
Answer: smooth snake
Question: Which Romantic artist painted "Liberty Leading the People"?
Answer: eugene delacroix
Question: Phillips Idowu and Nathan Douglas represent Great Britain in which athletics discipline?
Answer: triple jump
Question: The wedding processional known as "Here Comes the Bride" is by which famous composer?
Answer: richard wagner