CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The 1992 film Hear My Song involves a search for which tenor?
Answer: josef locke
Question: In which ocean is the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya?
Answer: arctic
Question: Which painter was born Jacopo Comin, later changed to Jacopo Robusti?
Answer: tintoretto
Question: The Goddess of Protection and daughter of Ra, Bastet had the head of which creature?
Answer: cat
Question: Which Rolls-Royce engine was fitted into the Spitfire fighter plane?
Answer: merlin
Question: In which city are the brewers S A Brain & Son based?
Answer: cardiff
Question: Which Premiership football club started out as Ardwick FC?
Answer: manchester city
Question: Iodine is necessary for the functioning of which gland?
Answer: thyroid
Question: What was Lester Piggott’s first Derby winner?
Answer: never say die
Question: After Ben Nevis which is the second highest mountain in the British Isles?
Answer: ben macdhui
Question: At which Grand prix circuit was Ayrton Senna killed in 1994?
Answer: imola
Question: What is the Italian culinary version of hors d’oeuvre?
Answer: antipasto
Question: Hedra Carlson played by Jennifer Jason Leigh?
Answer: single white female
Question: Helen Clark became the first woman Prime Minister of which country in 1999?
Answer: new zealand
Question: In the USA an FBI agent is often called a G-Man – for what does the G stand?
Answer: government
Question: What is the white knee-length pleated skirt worn by men as traditional dress in Greece?
Answer: fustanella
Question: Who are the base and deformed humanoids he meets in the land of the Houyhnhnms?
Answer: yahoos
Question: When Perseus slew the Medusa what sprang up out of her blood?
Answer: pegasus
Question: In which comedy does Frances de la Tour play a secret drinking headmistress?
Answer: big school
Question: What is the name of the Jewish candlestick with special religious meaning?
Answer: menorah
Question: Which tradesman performed most of the runaway marriages in Gretna Green?
Answer: blacksmith
Question: Which Belgian sportsman was nicknamed ‘The Cannibal’?
Answer: eddy merckx
Question: The droppings of which British mammal are called ‘spraints’?
Answer: otter
Question: The X and Y axes on a graph are called the abscissa and ………what?
Answer: ordinate
Question: Who has appeared as a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats since its inception in 2005?
Answer: sean lock
Question: Who is Prince Myshkin in a Dostoevsky novel?
Answer: idiot
Question: The Iditarod from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska is a race for what?
Answer: dog sleds
Question: Which rock legend was born on the island of Zanzibar?
Answer: freddy mercury
Question: Who is the current chairman of Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue?
Answer: jack dee
Question: Which Scottish hero was executed as a traitor in 1305?
Answer: william wallace
Question: Which maker of fashionable outdoor wear was founded in Basingstoke in 1865?
Answer: burberry
Question: Which relatively common affliction is known formally as ‘hemicrania’?
Answer: migraine
Question: Which creature is considered to be the natural host of the Ebola virus?
Answer: fruit bat
Question: Which English town/city did the Romans call Camulodonum?
Answer: colchester
Question: Who had a 1985 UK hit with West End Girls?
Answer: pet shop boys
Question: Who had a 1985 UK hit with I’m Your Man?
Answer: wham
Question: Which legendary Scottish town appears for just one day every 100 years?
Answer: brigadoon
Question: Who was the minstrel in Robin Hood’s band of men?
Answer: alan dale
Question: What is the nickname of his Symphony No.41 – considered to be his greatest?
Answer: jupiter
Question: Who played Cathy in Ken Loach’s ground-breaking drama Cathy Come Home?
Answer: carol white
Question: Pimm’s No.1 is based on which spirit?
Answer: gin
Question: Which English bridge was the world’s longest suspension bridge from 1981 to 1998?
Answer: humber bridge
Question: Vanessa Redgrave plays a sexually repressed nun who causes big trouble for a priest?
Answer: devils
Question: The first Garden City was established in 1903 – which was it?
Answer: letchworth
Question: Which common flavouring is obtained primarily from a Mexican variety of orchid?
Answer: vanilla
Question: Which football team ended Glasgow Celtic’s 10-month unbeaten league run?
Answer: aberdeen
Question: What is the every-day name for the condition Daltonism?
Answer: colour blindness
Question: Gertrude Ederle in August 1926 was the first woman to do what?
Answer: swim channel
Question: Who went ‘Beyond Breaking Point’ in a Sport Relief challenge in March?
Answer: davina mccall
Question: What were the V-1 rockets nicknamed by the man in the street during the Blitz?
Answer: doodle bugs
Question: Who produced the V12 powered Miura – the fastest production car around in the 1970s?
Answer: lamborghini
Question: Villa Park in 1999 was the scene of the very last ….what?
Answer: cup winner s cup final
Question: At which city do the Blue and White Niles meet?
Answer: khartoum
Question: Which recent ITV three-part drama was based on real-life wife killer Malcolm Webster?
Answer: widower
Question: The BBC satire W1A starring Hugh Bonneville is a follow-up to which show?
Answer: twenty twelve
Question: USAF Boeing VC-25 is also known as what when Barack Obama is on board?
Answer: air force one
Question: What region did Khrushchev gift to Ukraine in 1954?
Answer: crimea
Question: Who defeated the Spartans and their allies at Thermopylae in 480 BC?
Answer: persians
Question: Steve Martin and Martin Short were two of The Three Amigos – who was the other?
Answer: chevy chase
Question: A Shot In The Dark was the follow-up to which successful 1963 comedy?
Answer: pink panther
Question: What type of cat can be Classic, Mackerel, Spotted or Ticked?
Answer: tabby cat
Question: What do we call the lake that the Germans call Bodensee?
Answer: lake constance
Question: In which book did Miss Marple first appear?
Answer: murder at vicarage
Question: In which book did Hercule Poirot first appear?
Answer: mysterious affair at styles
Question: Who dedicated his Kreutzer Sonata to a violinist who refused to play it?
Answer: beethoven
Question: Which of the nine rooms in ‘Cluedo’ contains the fewest letters in its name?
Answer: hall
Question: What part of a bird might also be a term for a magistrate?
Answer: beak
Question: Which four-letter word means ‘the prong of a fork’?
Answer: tine
Question: ‘Hey, Jude’ topped the charts in 1968. Who was ‘Jude’?
Answer: julian lennon
Question: Which chemical element takes its name from the Greek for a shade of green?
Answer: chlorine
Question: ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is the most famous work of which of the metaphysical poets?
Answer: andrew marvell
Question: ‘Bootsie and Snudge’ was a spin-off from which successful comedy series?
Answer: army game
Question: In ‘The Blue Lamp’, who plays the young villain who shoots George Dixon?
Answer: dirk bogarde
Question: Which 1930 film instantly catapulted Marlene Dietrich to international stardom?
Answer: blue angel
Question: Classical. Who composed ‘Carnival of the Animals’ in 1886?
Answer: camille saint saens
Question: How many medals, and of what colour, did Rebecca Adlington win in the 2008 Olympics?
Answer: two gold
Question: In 1946, what useful gadget was invented by Percy Spencer?
Answer: microwave oven
Question: Who was British Chancellor of the Exchequer at the start of this century?
Answer: gordon brown
Question: Who was the next leader of the Soviet Union after Kruschev?
Answer: leonid brezhnev
Question: What do the initials of the charity P.D.S.A. represent?
Answer: people s dispensary for
Question: What was the name of the vicar in ‘Dad’s Army’?
Answer: timothy farthing
Question: In the strip cartoon ‘Peanuts’, Schroeder prefers to play the work of which composer?
Answer: beethoven
Question: The President of the USA fired General MacArthur in April. Who was the President?
Answer: harry truman
Question: What completes a set with Fleet Street and Trafalgar Square?
Answer: strand
Question: Who got to no. 5 in the UK singles chart with ‘Hungry Like the Wolf’ in 1982?
Answer: duran duran
Question: Anatomy. What is the more scientific name for the breastbone?
Answer: sternum
Question: Who was admitted to Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, as ‘Patient 24740, white male’?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: What word describes an area of open water separated from the open sea by a coral reef?
Answer: lagoon
Question: Carats measure the purity of gold. What does the same for pearls?
Answer: grains
Question: Before going solo, Belinda Carlisle was lead singer with which all-girl group?
Answer: go gos
Question: “There’s a row going on, down in Slough” is a line from which no. 3 hit from 1979?
Answer: eton rifles
Question: What was the real name of the romantic hero ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’?
Answer: sir percy blakeney
Question: In ‘Treasure Island’, who was the captain of the Hispaniola?
Answer: captain smollett
Question: After a 1952 film, who became known as ‘the million-dollar mermaid’?
Answer: esther williams
Question: Which activity is sometimes called sailboarding or boardsailing?
Answer: windsurfing
Question: Who starred in the title role of ‘The Admirable Crichton’ in a 1957 film?
Answer: kenneth more
Question: What one-word name is given to the Russian dish of stuffed pancakes?
Answer: blini
Question: Which former king won a gold medal for yachting at the 1960 Olympics?
Answer: constantine
Question: What name is given to the Irish dish of potato and cabbage, sometimes served as a stew?
Answer: colcannon
Question: In which event did Nero participate in the ancient Olympics, circa AD 60?
Answer: chariot racing
Question: What was the last film directed by David Lean, cast included Peggy Ashcroft & Judy Davis?
Answer: passage to india
Question: What was Stanley Kubrick's last film, which starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman?
Answer: eyes wide shut
Question: 'Go ahead, make my day' is a catchphrase from which 1983 film?
Answer: sudden impact
Question: In which war film is John Wayne's character killed by a Japanese sniper?
Answer: sands of iwo jima
Question: Which blond actor who died in 2008 played Jim Bowie in the 1960 film 'The Alamo'?
Answer: richard widmark
Question: Which was King Arthur’s last battle, where he either died or was fatally wounded?
Answer: camlann
Question: Also known as Annonaria; in Roman mythology, who was the personification of luck?
Answer: fortuna
Question: 'The Trumpet Hornpipe' was its signature tune, who was this TV show’s title character?
Answer: captain horatio pugwash
Question: Which character did the diminutive John Louis Mansi play in the TV series ''Allo 'Allo'?
Answer: von smallhausen
Question: Which ace nicknamed ‘Dogsbody’ was a prisoner in Colditz as WW2 came to an end?
Answer: douglas bader
Question: In which county are Hailes Abbey, Sudeley Castle and Berkeley Castle?
Answer: gloucestershire
Question: Which Frenchman won the Alpine triple-crown at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
Answer: jean claude killy
Question: In the context of food, Eccles in Lancashire is famous for what?
Answer: cakes
Question: Which former EastEnders actor was once married to Colleen Nolan of The Nolans?
Answer: shane ritchie
Question: Which popular, free computer operating system owes its existence to Linus Torvalds?
Answer: linux
Question: Kept in many schools, in which landlocked Asian country did the Gerbil originate?
Answer: mongolia
Question: Which 1993 Disney film starred Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker as witches?
Answer: hocus pocus
Question: Ruby Catherine Stevens first became famous in the 1930s under which name?
Answer: barbara stanwyck
Question: Whose music looms large in the novel (and its film version) 'A Clockwork Orange'?
Answer: ludwig van beethoven
Question: Which hot drink did J S Bach enjoy so much he wrote a cantata for it?
Answer: coffee
Question: In 1643 Evangalista Torichelli invented the world's first what?
Answer: barometer
Question: Whom did a jealous Athena turn into a spider?
Answer: arachne
Question: Who was the beautiful sister of the twins Castor and Pollux and mother to Hermione?
Answer: helen of troy
Question: Jocasta was the wife of Laius and the mother of which other famous individual?
Answer: oedipus
Question: In the 'Eagle', who was Dan Dare's greatest enemy?
Answer: mekon
Question: As leader of the Teen Titans, ‘Robin’ aka Dick Grayson took on which other identity?
Answer: nightwing
Question: Agrippina married her uncle, later having him poisoned. Which Roman Emperor was he?
Answer: claudius
Question: In 1934, who wrote 'The Thin Man'?
Answer: dashiell hammett
Question: Who was the author of 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Answer: jonathon swift
Question: Who wrote the stories 'Billy Budd' and 'Moby Dick'?
Answer: herman melville
Question: Who was nicknamed 'Queen of the Blues', but was later elevated to 'Empress'?
Answer: bessie smith
Question: Who famously set James Thomson's poem, 'Rule, Britannia' to music?
Answer: thomas arne
Question: At the beginning of a game of chess, which pieces are found on b1, b8, g1 and g8?
Answer: knights
Question: Which poker variant features cards referred to as 'the flop' or 'the river'?
Answer: texas hold em
Question: Now at 38 St Mary Axe, London, which ‘exchange’ started in a coffee house in 1744?
Answer: baltic exchange
Question: By what other name is La Giaconda much better known?
Answer: mona lisa
Question: Between 1901 and 1904 Which painter’s career was described as his 'Blue period' ?
Answer: pablo picasso
Question: Which 17th century Dutch painter did the forger Hans van Meegeren most often copy?
Answer: jan vermeer
Question: Based on real events, which 2005 film earned Steven Spielberg his 6th Oscar nomination?
Answer: munich
Question: Which Oscar winner played the title role in the 1964 Hollywood film 'The Pawnbroker'?
Answer: rod steiger
Question: He died in 1965, who has a statue in Dockwray Square, North Shields (erected in 1989)?
Answer: stan laurel
Question: Which order in the class Insecta includes the butterflies, skippers, and moths?
Answer: lepidoptera
Question: What 1-word name is used as an alternative for the creature also called 'Snow Leopard'?
Answer: ounce
Question: Which festival in the Western Church gave its name to a bay and city of S.W. Texas?
Answer: corpus christi
Question: The 'Giant's Causeway' and nearby Bushmills, famed for its distillery are in which county?
Answer: antrim
Question: Which Yorkshire city has two city-centre railway stations, Kirkgate and Westgate?
Answer: wakefield
Question: At the Kennington Oval in 1872, who did Wanderers beat in the very first FA Cup final?
Answer: royal engineers
Question: Built in 1776, which T was the name of the first submarine used for military purposes?
Answer: turtle
Question: Which 1980 historical novel is narrated by a young Benedictine monk, Adso of Melk?
Answer: name of rose
Question: Which late, regular on Radio 4's 'Just a Minute' had served as Liberal MP for Isle of Ely?
Answer: clement freud
Question: Which regular on Radio 4's 'Just a Minute' has served as Tory MP for the City of Chester?
Answer: giles brandreth
Question: Which animal forms the body of the great sphinx of Giza in Egypt?
Answer: lion
Question: Who sang the theme for the James Bond film ‘Thunderball’?
Answer: tom jones
Question: According to Coleridge, where did Kubla Khan decree his pleasure dome?
Answer: xanadu
Question: What is the minimum number of smaller cubes required to make a larger cube?
Answer: eight
Question: What is Stephen Fry’s nickname for the researchers/writers on the tv programme ‘Q.I.’?
Answer: elves
Question: What was the four-word title of Katrina and the Waves’ winning entry in 1997?
Answer: love shine light
Question: Flight-lieutenant Jerry Rawlings ruled which African country from 1981-2001?
Answer: ghana
Question: Who was King of Scotland from 1040-1057?
Answer: macbeth
Question: Who wrote the 1924 adventure novel ‘Beau Geste’?
Answer: p c wren
Question: What is the name of Pip’s brother-in-law in ‘Great Expectations’?
Answer: joe gargery
Question: What is the full surname of the title character in ‘Goodbye, Mr. Chips’?
Answer: mr chipping
Question: Who has been praised for his portrayal of the gay Barton Scully in ‘Masters of Sex’?
Answer: beau bridges
Question: Which group had a no.5 hit with ‘Arms of Mary’ in 1976?
Answer: sutherland brothers and
Question: Who wrote the poem ‘The Village Blacksmith’, in 1840?
Answer: henry w longfellow
Question: After the assassination of Rasputin, his body was thrown into what river?
Answer: neva
Question: ‘Hey, Big Spender’ comes from which musical?
Answer: sweet charity
Question: In the metric system, the unit prefix ‘mega’ denotes a factor of what?
Answer: million
Question: If you are suffering from myalgia, what part/parts of your body is/are affected?
Answer: muscles
Question: Which bird flies the greatest distance to migrate? (Two words.)
Answer: arctic tern
Question: Who directed ‘Alien 3’ (1992), ‘Fight Club’ (1999) and ‘The Social Network’ (2010)?
Answer: david fincher
Question: Who stars as the suicidal alcoholic in the 1995 film, ‘Leaving Las Vegas’?
Answer: nicolas cage
Question: What Italian dish is made with fried beaten eggs, resembling a Spanish omelette?
Answer: frittata
Question: What is the name of the TOWIE star who was reported missing at the end of August?
Answer: james argent
Question: What was the name of the British family who adopted Paddington Bear?
Answer: brown
Question: Which band took the Floral Dance to no.2 in the charts in 1977?
Answer: brighouse and rastrick
Question: What was the favourite food of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Answer: pizza
Question: Which of Henry VIII’s wives had twice been widowed when they married?
Answer: katharine parr
Question: What is the full, four-word name of the Statue of Liberty?
Answer: liberty enlightening
Question: In 2002, the statue of whom was given its first wash since 1873 at its Florence gallery?
Answer: david
Question: Who played the part of Raquel in ‘Only Fools and Horses’?
Answer: tessa peake jones
Question: In which 1976 film does Laurence Olivier play dentist Dr. Christian Szell?
Answer: marathon man
Question: Which Japanese island is missing – Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, and …. ?
Answer: hokkaido
Question: Which planet takes the equivalent of 11.86 Earth years to orbit the sun?
Answer: jupiter
Question: A deciduous tree of the genus Betula is more commonly known as what?
Answer: birch
Question: Pat Nevin was a favourite at which London association football club in the 1980s?
Answer: chelsea
Question: In a 2014 Classic FM poll, which Vaughan Williams piece was voted the UK’s favourite?
Answer: lark ascending
Question: What number Beethoven symphony includes ‘Ode to Joy’ in its final movement?
Answer: ninth
Question: What was the first forename of the German composer Herr Orff?
Answer: carl
Question: In 1978, who released her debut album ‘The Kick Inside’?
Answer: kate bush
Question: The first what in the UK took place on the night of Nov. 19th, 1994?
Answer: national lottery draw
Question: Since 1999, which manufacturer has won Le Mans on all but two occasions?
Answer: audi
Question: The Bruins ice hockey team and the Celtics basketball team are based in which US city?
Answer: boston
Question: In ‘Lovejoy’, what was the occupation of the title character?
Answer: antiques dealer
Question: What was the name of the skunk in Disney’s version of Bambi?
Answer: flower
Question: Who married Amal Alamuddin on September 29th 2014?
Answer: george clooney
Question: In ‘Hamlet’, what was the name of the title character’s mother?
Answer: gertrude
Question: What part did Clark Gable play in ‘Gone With The Wind’?
Answer: rhett butler
Question: In which 2006 film did he play the part of Theodore Roosevelt?
Answer: night at museum
Question: Which English town or city lies on the rivers, Eden, Caldew, and Petteril?
Answer: carlisle
Question: In 1066, on which hill did Harold deploy his troops for the Battle of Hastings?
Answer: senlac
Question: Which country were runners-up to Germany in the association football World Cup?
Answer: argentina
Question: Greta Garbo uttered her most famous line in ‘Grand Hotel’ (1932). What was it?
Answer: i want to be alone
Question: On which pop hit classic did Bob Holness famously not play the sax solo?
Answer: baker street
Question: Mama Cass did not choke to death by eating what? (Two words.)
Answer: ham sandwich
Question: In 2009, which judge on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ was told to Foxtrot Oscar?
Answer: arlene phillips
Question: Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman co-starred in which 1995 film?
Answer: seven
Question: With which type of foodstuff do you associate the name of Levi Roots?
Answer: reggae reggae sauce
Question: ‘Love Fool’ was the first UK Top 10 hit for which group, in 1997?
Answer: cardigans
Question: A type of cancer arising from the melanocyte cells of the skin is known as what?
Answer: malignant melanoma
Question: Which historic Derbyshire building is said to be ‘more glass than wall’?
Answer: hardwick hall
Question: In ‘The Big Bang Theory’, what are Amy’s other names?
Answer: farrah fowler
Question: Which retro film character frequently referred to his ‘Number One son’ in his films?
Answer: charlie chan
Question: With which song did Pharrell Williams top the charts in ten countries in 2013?
Answer: happy
Question: Whose real name is revealed to be Oscar Diggs, in a 2013 prequel to a 1939 film?
Answer: wizard of oz
Question: What is the name of the orphan girl raised by Miss Havisham in ‘Great Expectations’?
Answer: estella
Question: Which noted French writer lived in exile in the Channel Islands from 1855-1870?
Answer: victor hugo
Question: Which former US President accepted the challenge on August 21st?
Answer: george w bush
Question: What is the first name of Bottom, in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’?
Answer: nick
Question: In 1968, in which city was Malcolm Nash hit for six sixes in an over by Gary Sobers?
Answer: swansea
Question: Which British general captured Quebec in 1759, but lost his life in the battle?
Answer: wolfe
Question: Which Italian word meaning ‘little book’ is applied to the text of an opera?
Answer: libretto
Question: Who was the bridesmaid at Dame Edna Everage’s wedding?
Answer: madge allsop
Question: What two colours can be seen on the flag of the Islamic State, previously known as Isis?
Answer: black and white
Question: Market Drayton and Church Stretton are towns in which English county?
Answer: shropshire
Question: What is the name of the biological study of fungi in all its forms?
Answer: mycology
Question: What type of fish is used in the Scottish dish ‘Cullen Skink’?
Answer: haddock
Question: What was the first name of Regency fashion icon Beau Brummell?
Answer: george
Question: Elvis Costello’s father wrote and sang the jingle for an ad featuring which product?
Answer: r white s lemonade
Question: What was the first name of Mr. Bond, elder brother of the fictional James?
Answer: henry
Question: Who wrote the book A Farewell to Arms?
Answer: ernest hemmingway
Question: Name the Caribbean island country which is named after a day of the week?
Answer: dominica
Question: The Phantom Punch or The Punch That Never Was cost who his title?
Answer: sonny liston
Question: Where did the failed US backed landing in Cuba take place in 1961?
Answer: bay of pigs
Question: Which novelist was exiled to Jersey and then Guernsey?
Answer: victor hugo
Question: Where on Prince Edward Island, Canada, is Anne of Green Gables located?
Answer: avonlea
Question: The Chinese New Year has just occurred, what is it the year of?
Answer: horse
Question: Who was the first Mayor of Casterbridge in the Thomas Hardy novel?
Answer: michael henchard
Question: Who played John Christie in 1960’s film 10, Rillington Place?
Answer: richard attenborough
Question: In the film The Dirty Dozen, which actor played Samson Posey?
Answer: clint walker
Question: In the sitcom Terry and June, what was the title characters surname?
Answer: medford
Question: In Hi De Hi who was Peggy’s never seen supervisor?
Answer: miss cathcart
Question: Ignoring Cardiff (not difficult), which capital city is closest to London?
Answer: brussels
Question: Brazil are hosting the next World Cup but who is their coach?
Answer: phil scolari
Question: Who played the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone With The Wind?
Answer: leslie howard