CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who is missing from this list of Artistic Directors of the National Theatre – Laurence Olivier, Peter Hall, Richard Eyre and Nicholas Hytner?
Answer: trevor nunn
Question: Which country became landlocked as a result of the War of the Pacific (1879 to 1883)?
Answer: bolivia
Question: By which two words is the chemical compound with the formula KMnO4 known?
Answer: potassium permanganate
Question: Who rowed the Atlantic in 1966 with John Ridgway?
Answer: chay blyth
Question: Which band is composed of three brothers and their cousin, all called Followill?
Answer: kings of leon
Question: Under what title has the series of fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire been adapted for TV?
Answer: game of thrones
Question: Who is the regular Chairman of “Any Questions?” on BBC Radio 4?
Answer: jonathan dimbleby
Question: Which College of Oxford University, founded in 1438, is the first alphabetically?
Answer: all souls
Question: Which was the third country after Australia and England to play test cricket?
Answer: south africa
Question: Complete the slogan used in a 1960s US Presidential Election – ‘All the Way with ___'.
Answer: lbj
Question: Viti Levu is the largest island in which Pacific nation?
Answer: fiji
Question: Which England cricket captain was born in Madras in 1968?
Answer: nasser hussain
Question: Who commanded the Spanish Armada in 1588?
Answer: duke of medina sidonia
Question: Which 2011 Woody Allen directed film is set in France?
Answer: midnight in paris
Question: Excerpts from The Nutcracker Suite are included in Disney’s Fantasia. Which work by Paul Dukas features Mickey Mouse attempting magic tricks?
Answer: sorcerer s apprentice
Question: Kenneth Clark, Neil MacGregor, Charles Saumarez Smith and currently Nicholas Penny have been Directors of which art museum?
Answer: national gallery
Question: Which capital city stands on the shore of the Caspian Sea?
Answer: baku
Question: Who is the only female driver to win a race in the IndyCar Series, the 2008 Indy Japan 300 - she also has the highest finishing place for a female in the Indianapolis 500 race when she was third in 2009?
Answer: danica patrick
Question: Green Pea, Turkey Noodle and Cream of Celery were among the 32 varieties of soup produced by which company in 1962 as shown in a famous artwork?
Answer: campbell s
Question: In the Harry Potter series what is the name of Harry’s pet owl?
Answer: hedwig
Question: Ian Fletcher, played by Hugh Bonneville, formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, has taken up the position of Head of Values at the BBC in which recent BBC2 comedy series?
Answer: w1a
Question: Who presented the BBC Radio 4 quiz Counterpoint until 2006?
Answer: ned sherrin
Question: What was the name of the home ground of Stoke City FC from 1878 until 1997?
Answer: victoria ground
Question: The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, built on the site of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, is in which Russian city?
Answer: st petersburg
Question: Andrew Lincoln plays deputy sheriff Rick Grimes in which TV horror drama series?
Answer: walking dead
Question: Name the Scottish island where granite for curling stones is quarried.
Answer: ailsa craig
Question: Which 2014 Tom Cruise film had the tagline Live, Die, Repeat?
Answer: edge of tomorrow
Question: Which European won the 2014 U.S Open Golf Championship?
Answer: martin kaymer
Question: In Egyptian mythology the god Sebek is associated with which creature?
Answer: crocodile
Question: What name is given to sewing or gluing patches of material onto a garment or piece of material for decoration
Answer: applique
Question: To which order of monks did Tomas De Torquemada belong?
Answer: dominican
Question: In which US state are the cities of Nogales, Surprise and Yuma?
Answer: arizona
Question: What name is given to the scientific study of the size and shape of the earth?
Answer: geodesy
Question: Who became UKIP's first MP when he won the Clacton by-election in October 2014?
Answer: douglas carswell
Question: In geological ages, which period was the first of the Mesozoic Era?
Answer: triassic
Question: In which English town or city would you find Meadowhall Shopping Centre?
Answer: sheffield
Question: “In The Mood” was which bandleader's signature tune?
Answer: joe loss
Question: Which comedy duo had a Number one hit with The Stonk in 1991?
Answer: hale and pace
Question: Which Australian animal gets its name from a native word meaning “No drink”?
Answer: koala
Question: What women was Time Magazine man of the year in 1952?
Answer: queen elizabeth ii
Question: Name the soft cloth made from silk that derives its name from the French word for rag.
Answer: chiffon
Question: Who played The Lone Ranger in the 1950's TV series?
Answer: clayton moore
Question: “Go Set A Watchman” is a long awaited sequel to which novel published in 1960?
Answer: to kill mocking bird
Question: Which Crystal Palace manager became the first casualty of this season's Premier League when he got sacked in December 2014?
Answer: neil warnock
Question: In which Canadian city is there a Nelson's Column erected in 1809, It has from time to time become controversial with some of the local people?
Answer: montreal
Question: What is a more familiar name for Deuterium Oxide?
Answer: heavy water
Question: Grand Mal and Petit Mal are two types of which illness
Answer: epilepsy
Question: Which two comedy actors had a hit in 1978 with you're the one that I want?
Answer: arthur mullard and hylda baker
Question: In which US state would you find the cities of Chesapeake, Roanoke and Fredericksburg?
Answer: virginia
Question: What sort of fish makes an Arbroath Smokie?
Answer: haddock
Question: In geological ages, which period was the Last of the Palaeozoic era?
Answer: permian
Question: Cosette, Marius and Fantine are characters in which book and film?
Answer: les miserables
Question: 'Cap de Formentor' is the northernmost point of which popular holiday island?
Answer: majorca
Question: Which composer's dying words were supposedly, "I shall hear in heaven"?
Answer: beethoven
Question: A fungus that thrives in wet Spring weather causes 'chocolate spot' on the leaves and stems of which vegetable?
Answer: broad bean
Question: In the original television run of 'Crossroads', which character was played by Roger Tonge?
Answer: sandy richardson
Question: Which 'Coronation Street' character was played for may years by Jean Alexander?
Answer: hilda ogden
Question: Which Canadian Province has Victoria as its capital, and is crossed by the River Fraser?
Answer: british columbia
Question: The youngest son of 'William the Conqueror' succeeded to the throne after his brother William. Who was he?
Answer: henry i
Question: Which Irish Rugby Union player scored a hat-trick of tries against France in the 2000 Six Nations Championships?
Answer: brian o driscoll
Question: Which Canadian Province, with a border on Hudson Bay, has Winnipeg as its capital?
Answer: manitoba
Question: Of what was 'Frey' the god, in Norse mythology?
Answer: fertility
Question: The 'Hallux' is the medical name for what, in the human body?
Answer: big toe
Question: Two members of the 'Thrush' family visit Britain in huge numbers during the winter. If one is the 'Fieldfare', what is the other?
Answer: redwing
Question: In 1994, Conchita Martinez became the first Spanish woman to win the Wimbledon singles title. Who did she beat in the Final?
Answer: martina navratilova
Question: The 'House Martin' is a common summer visitor to these shores, so too is which other 'Martin'?
Answer: sand martin
Question: What was the first item of non-stick cookware marketed by 'Teflon'?
Answer: frying pan
Question: Which European nation finished third in football's 1974 and 1982 World Cup Tournaments?
Answer: poland
Question: Besides Sir Anthony Hopkins, which other "Tony" starred in the 1998 swashbuckler, 'The Mask Of Zorro'?
Answer: antonio banderas
Question: Often used as bedding or house plants, how is Impatiens walleriana better known?
Answer: busy lizzie
Question: Which Roald Dahl novel features the 'Oompa Loompas'?
Answer: charlie and chocolate factory
Question: French mariner, Jacques Cartier, left home in 1534 to sail across the Atlantic, to explore which river?
Answer: st lawrence
Question: First sighted by Bartholomew Diaz in 1488, he named it then 'Cape of Storms'. What is it now called?
Answer: cape of good hope
Question: What was the name of the little girl in the popular children's novel by Johanna Spyri?
Answer: heidi
Question: Known scientifically as Triflorum hybridum and white or pink in colour, what type of flower is 'Alsike'?
Answer: clover
Question: Who replaced Dr. John Reid as Secretary of State for Scotland?
Answer: helen liddell
Question: Who marries 'Petruccio' in Shakespeare's, 'The Taming Of The Shrew'?
Answer: katherina
Question: In Shakespeare's, 'The Merchant Of Venice', who has servants named 'Balthasar' and 'Stefano'?
Answer: portia
Question: Nineteenth century Japanese artist, Hokusai, made a series of 36 prints of what?
Answer: mount fuji
Question: Which of the principal Canary Islands contains no peak higher than 700 metres?
Answer: lanzarote
Question: Which American city has baseball-playing 'Dodgers'?
Answer: los angeles
Question: What disease claimed the life of notorious American gangster, Al Capone?
Answer: syphilis
Question: From what disease did the English buccaneer, Sir Francis Drake, die?
Answer: dysentry
Question: What is the origin of the word 'chipping' in place names such as Chipping Norton?
Answer: marketplace
Question: Which intermittent wars between 1793 and 1815 included the battles of 'Aspern' and 'Austerlitz'?
Answer: napoleonic wars
Question: 'Petrology' is the study of the origin, structure and composition of what?
Answer: rocks
Question: Whose 1769 expedition included the task of observing the transit of the planet Venus over Tahiti?
Answer: james cook
Question: Which 10th century explorer founded an Icelandic colony which he named 'Greenland', to encourage people to settle there?
Answer: erik red
Question: What is the oldest order of knighthood still in existence in Britain?
Answer: order of garter
Question: Who wrote, 'Blott On The Landscape'?
Answer: tom sharpe
Question: Who painted "The Binding Of Samson" (1636) and "Jacob Blessing The Sons Of Joseph" (1656)?
Answer: rembrandt
Question: Which Scottish football team moved home from Broomfield Park to the Shyberry Excelsior Stadium?
Answer: airdrie united
Question: The name of which sport is used for a letter in the phonetic alphabet?
Answer: golf
Question: In the movie world, how is Nicholas Kim Coppola better known?
Answer: nicolas cage
Question: Which building in Paris did Richard Rogers and Enzo Piano design?
Answer: pompidou centre
Question: In which town or city would you find the 'Cairngorm Brewery'?
Answer: aviemore
Question: Which director won the 'Oscar' for Best Director for the picture 'Traffic' in 2000?
Answer: steven soderbergh
Question: For which king did Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester act as regent or protector?
Answer: henry vi
Question: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant were part of which English art movement in the 1920's and 30's?
Answer: bloomsbury group
Question: What name is given to the edge of a flag nearest the flagpole?
Answer: hoist
Question: Who was President of Poland from 1990 to 1995?
Answer: lech walesa
Question: Which American city is served by 'Blue Grass Airport'?
Answer: lexington
Question: Which boxer won the Olympic gold medal at Middleweight in 1976, and then went on to win the World Professional title at both Light-heavyweight and Heavyweight?
Answer: michael spinks
Question: Which group of mammals belong to the order Cetacea?
Answer: whales and dolphins
Question: In 'The Simpson's', what was the name of 'Ned Flanders' ' wife?
Answer: maude
Question: Which architect designed Regent's Park, Regent Street, and the Marble Arch?
Answer: nash
Question: Which group released the albums; 'Cloud Cuckoo Land' and 'Sense And Jollification'?
Answer: lightening seeds
Question: For which young king did Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, act as regent or protector?
Answer: edward vi
Question: What is the surname of 'Harry Potter's' schoolboy friend 'Ron'?
Answer: weasley
Question: Which Scottish football team moved home from Annfield to the Forthbank Stadium?
Answer: stirling albion
Question: Where in the human body is the 'Ileum'?
Answer: small intestine
Question: In the TV show 'The Simpsons', what is the name of the police chief?
Answer: clancy wiggum
Question: Which group had number one hits in the 1970's with 'Tiger Feet' and 'Oh Boy'?
Answer: mud
Question: """Createur d'automobiles"", is a slogan used by which car manufacturer?"
Answer: renault
Question: What is another name for the 'gullet'?
Answer: oesophagus
Question: Common salt is a compound formed from two elements, one is Sodium, which is the other?
Answer: chlorine
Question: Who has presented both 'Blue Peter' and 'The Money Programme'?
Answer: valerie singleton
Question: Which flavouring is added to Brandy and Egg yolk to make Advocaat?
Answer: vanilla
Question: Whose autobiography is entitled 'Memoirs Of An Unfit Mother'?
Answer: anne robinson
Question: On a standard 'Monopoly' board, what property is found between'Chance' and 'Super Tax'?
Answer: park lane
Question: 'Pixie', 'Hispi' and 'Primo' are all types of which vegetable?
Answer: cabbage
Question: Which Director links the films, 'Far And Away', 'Backdraft' and 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas'?
Answer: ron howard
Question: The 'Argun' and'Khotan' are rivers in which country?
Answer: china
Question: Where in the human body would you find the 'Inferior Concha'?
Answer: nose
Question: In 1937 which company introduced, in Switzerland, a greatly improved version of instant coffee?
Answer: nestle
Question: On which African country's flag would you see the emblem of the 'soapstone bird'?
Answer: zimbabwe
Question: What nickname is often used for a male with the surname of Miller?
Answer: dusty
Question: In knitting, what stitch is produced by Knitting a plain stitch backwards?
Answer: purl stitch
Question: Which British pop group appeared in the 1965 film 'Catch Us If You Can'?
Answer: dave clark five
Question: What in terms of area, is the smallest of the Canadian provinces?
Answer: prince edward island
Question: Who was the British Director of the film 'American Beauty'?
Answer: sam mendes
Question: Who first said or wrote"Science without religion is lame.Religion without science is blind"?
Answer: albert einstein
Question: The 'Bolan' and the 'Penner' are rivers in which country?
Answer: india
Question: Which US pop group starred in the 1968 film 'Head'?
Answer: monkees
Question: Maria Fitzherbert was mistress to which future British monarch?
Answer: george iv
Question: How is the painting 'The Militia Company Of Captain Frans Banning Cocq' better known?
Answer: night watch
Question: Traditionally with what were the seams of wooden sailing ships caulked?
Answer: oakum
Question: Which musical duo could have been billed as 'Hodges & Peacock'?
Answer: chas dave
Question: Which film actress was the sister of Olivia de Havilland?
Answer: joan fontaine
Question: What is the full name, including its sponsor, of the Millenium Wheel, standing on the banks of the River Thames?
Answer: british airways london eye
Question: The 1966 novel 'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys was written as a prequel to which 19th century novel?
Answer: jane eyre
Question: On the coast of which English county would you find the natural limestone arch known as 'Durdle Door'?
Answer: dorset
Question: What was the name of the Scottish physicist who wrote 'Treatise On Electricity And Magnetisim' in 1873?
Answer: james clerk maxwell
Question: The 'Derwent Valley Mills' is a World Heritage Site, in which English county?
Answer: derbyshire
Question: The 1993 novel 'Mrs. de Winter' by Susan Hill was a sequel towhich classic 20th century novel?
Answer: rebecca
Question: The last surviving example of which bird, once the most common bird in the world, died in Cincinnati Zoo in 1914?
Answer: passenger pigeon
Question: Which American television drama series, that originally aired between 2001 - 2005, was set in 'Fisher & Sons Funeral Home'?
Answer: six feet under
Question: Which rich sauce made fromegg yolks, butter, shallots, herbs and spices, is named after a region of south-west France?
Answer: bearnaise sauce
Question: What name is given to the wall of a Mosque that faces Mecca?
Answer: qibla wall
Question: Which large flightless bird, of the genus Pinguinis, was hunted to extinction in 1844?
Answer: great auk
Question: Who was the leader of the 'Gunpowder Plot', whose conspirators included Guy Fawkes?
Answer: robert catesby
Question: Who plays the title role in the 2008 film 'Iron Man'?
Answer: robert downey jr
Question: Which cartoonist who worked for the satirical magazine 'Punch', is best remembered for illustrating Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland'?
Answer: john tenniel
Question: Since 2004, 'The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands' has fought for independence from which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Which actress is reprising her role as 'M' in the upcoming Bond film 'Quantum Of Solace'?
Answer: judi dench
Question: What was the name of the castle lying on Tremadog Bay, within the Snowdonia National Park, that was built by Edward I in 1283?
Answer: harlech castle
Question: Between 1932 and 1990, the Russian city Nizhny Novgorod was named after which author?
Answer: maxim gorky
Question: What was the name of the Welsh village designed by Clough Williams-Ellis, that was used in the fiming of the television series 'The Prisoner'?
Answer: portmeirion
Question: In May 2008, which country voted in favour of abolishing its 240-year old monarchy?
Answer: nepal
Question: Which American group has had hit albums in the 21st. century with 'Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia' and 'Werlcome To The Monkey House'?
Answer: dandy warhols
Question: 'Sam's Town' was the critically acclaimed album released by which American rock group in 2008?
Answer: killers
Question: Which General and commander-in-chief led the 'New Model Army' at the Battle of Naseby in 1645?
Answer: thomas fairfax
Question: Because of Hull City's promotion, from next season (2009) which will be the largest city in England never to have had a top-flight football team?
Answer: plymouth
Question: Which real-life confidence trickster and forger was playedby Leonardo di caprio in the 2002 film 'Catch Me If You Can'?
Answer: frank abagnale jr
Question: According to the Book of Revelations, which city in modern-day Israel will be the site of 'Armageddon'?
Answer: megiddo
Question: Which branch of mathematics takes its name from the Latin for 'pebble'?
Answer: calculus
Question: According to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, who was compelled by the Romans to carry the cross of Jesus as he was taken to his crucifixion?
Answer: simon of cyrene
Question: Discarding definite and indefinite articles, which of Shakespeare's plays comes first when listed alphabetically?
Answer: all s well that ends well
Question: What name is given to the south-east coast of India that stretches from Point Calamire in the south to the mouth of the Krishna River in the north?
Answer: coramandel coast
Question: For which county did the cricketer garfield Sobers score his famous six sixes in one over?
Answer: nottinghamshire
Question: In the sit-com 'Absolutely Fabulous', which 1960's singer is the only steady client of the PR firm owned by 'Edwina Monsoon'?
Answer: lulu
Question: The Costa Smeralda (or Emerald Coast) is a feature of which Mediterranean island?
Answer: sardinia
Question: For which county cricket team was Brian Lara playing when he scored his world record 501 not out?
Answer: warwickshire
Question: Discarding definite and indefinite articles, which of Shakespeare's plays comeslast when listed alphabetically?
Answer: winter s tale
Question: Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes are this year's nominees for which prize?
Answer: turner prize
Question: What was the name of the cross-dressing potter who won the Turner Prize in 2003?
Answer: grayson perry
Question: By what name was the Spanish nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better known?
Answer: el cid
Question: Which sportsman married Erin Nordegren in 2004?
Answer: tiger woods
Question: What was the name of the robot in the 1951 film, 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'?
Answer: gort
Question: Who was Clive Ponting accused of leaking information to during his 1985 secrets trial?
Answer: tam dalyell
Question: Who was John McCain's running partner in the 2008 American Presidential election?
Answer: sarah palin
Question: The song 'When You Wish Upon A Star' featured in which film?
Answer: pinocchio
Question: In one word, what is the meaning of 'Glasnost'?
Answer: openness
Question: What movement was founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1881?
Answer: jehovah s witnesses
Question: Which German composer, born in 1776, wrote the opera 'Undine'. he shares his name with an American 'Oscar' winning actor born in 1937?
Answer: hoffman
Question: Ray Barneveld in 2005, Jelle Klaasen in 2006, and Martin Adams in 2007 were all World Champions in which field?
Answer: darts
Question: Which actor provided the television voice for 'Captain Scarlet'?
Answer: francis matthews
Question: 'Economo's Disease', or 'Trypanosomiasis' is better known as what?
Answer: sleeping sickness
Question: Who is missing from this list - 'Dancer', 'Dasher', 'Donner' ,Blitzen', 'Vixen', 'Prancer' and 'Comet'?
Answer: cupid
Question: Which sea area is south-east of Faroes, west of Viking, north-east of Hebrides and north-west of Forties?
Answer: fair isle
Question: What was Britney Spears' first number one, in 1999?
Answer: baby one more time
Question: Who was kidnapped and assassinated by the left-wing movement 'Brigate Rosse' in 1978?
Answer: aldo moro
Question: The song 'As Long As He Needs Me' comes from which show and film?
Answer: oliver
Question: Which painter married Hortense Fiquet and used her as the subject of many of his paintings?
Answer: paul cezanne
Question: Which French city held up the advance of British troops for over a month shortly after D-Day?
Answer: caen
Question: Who commanded the Royal Navy taskforce which destroyed much of the Italian fleet off Cape Matapan in 1941?
Answer: cunningham
Question: Which US President was imprisoned by the British and killed Charles Dickinson in a duel with pistols?
Answer: andrew jackson
Question: 'Edward Lewis' and 'Vivian Ward' were the principal characters in which popular 1990 film?
Answer: pretty woman
Question: Which Shakespeare play features 'Dogberry', a Constable?
Answer: much ado about nothing
Question: Which actor is the husband of Billie Piper?
Answer: laurence fox
Question: Albert II became King of the Belgians in 1993 on the death of his brother. What was his brother's name?
Answer: baudouin
Question: The Isle of Man Steam Railway runs from Douglas to which small seaside town?
Answer: port erin
Question: Which colour of jersey is worn by the leader in the points classification in the Tour de France?
Answer: green
Question: Who plays '2' in the 2010 ITV series 'The Prisoner'?
Answer: sir ian mckellen
Question: Which Emeritus Professor at Edinburgh University has written several series of novels including '2½ Pillars Of Wisdom' and '44 Scotland Street'?
Answer: alexander mccall smith
Question: Which 'rapper' has released albums entitled 'Mr. Smith' and 'Todd Smith'?
Answer: ll cool j
Question: Crowned o June 1st 1533, Anne Boleyn was the mother of which monarch?
Answer: elizabeth i
Question: Nicknamed 'The Staggies', which First Division team were runners-up in the 2010 Scottish FA Cup Final?
Answer: ross county
Question: In which 1970's police drama did Karl Malden play 'Detective Lieutenant Mike Stone'?
Answer: streets of san francisco
Question: In the 'Millennium Trilogy' by Stieg Larsson, all the novels begin with which two words?
Answer: girl
Question: In which West Central African country was Ali Bongo Ondimba elected President in 2009?
Answer: gabon
Question: 'Equivalent VIII' by Carl Andre is in Tate Modern in London. It comprises 120 of which item?
Answer: fire bricks