CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: If you ate the fruit of a Malus tree what would you be eating?
Answer: apple
Question: Appointed Feb 1942, Who was Minister for War Production and Armaments?
Answer: albert speer
Question: Who played Andy McNab in the BBC dramatisation of Bravo Two Zero?
Answer: sean bean
Question: Who won the 2013 World Touring Car Championship?
Answer: yvan muller
Question: In 2014 Carl Crutchlow will ride what make of Moto GP bike?
Answer: ducati
Question: In which East European country did the 2006 Jeans revolution take place?
Answer: belarus
Question: Who topped the UK charts in 1977 with ‘Yes, Sir, I Can Boogie’?
Answer: baccara
Question: The vegetable we call chicory is known as what in the USA?
Answer: endive
Question: In which 1971 film did Clint Eastwood play the d.j., and Jessica Walter the disturbed fan?
Answer: play misty for me
Question: TV. Which TV family lives at 0001 Cemetery Lane?
Answer: addams family
Question: Who wrote the famous children’s book ‘Heidi’, published in 1880?
Answer: johanna spyri
Question: D.A.T.T. is what alternative name for bar skittles, or table skittles?
Answer: devil among tailors
Question: In 1980, who briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to perform solo?
Answer: enya
Question: Aka zinc blende, and consisting largely of zinc sulphide, what is the chief ore of zinc?
Answer: sphalerite
Question: Who was sacked as Cardiff City manager on December 27th, 2013?
Answer: malky mackay
Question: Who played the title character in ‘Father, Dear Father’ (1968 – 1973)?
Answer: patrick cargill
Question: Since 2009, who has played Lee Mack’s character’s father in ‘Not Going Out’?
Answer: bobby ball
Question: Camden Town, Edgware and Burnt Oak are all on which line?
Answer: northern
Question: On Nov. 7th 2013, what landmark did A.P. McCoy reach, in terms of number of winners?
Answer: 4 000
Question: With which 1750 poem do you associate the village of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire?
Answer: gray s elegy written in
Question: On February 7th, in which English town or city was a statue of Charles Dickens unveiled?
Answer: portsmouth
Question: Which of the presidents depicted on the Mt. Rushmore Memorial was the last to be born?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: Which beast did Hera raise to kill Hercules, but ended up being slain by him?
Answer: lernaean hydra
Question: What type of fruit was involved in his Twelve Labours?
Answer: apples
Question: Near which small town in Berkshire was the Royal Military Academy founded in 1799?
Answer: sandhurst
Question: What word describes a triangle where all three sides are of different lengths?
Answer: scalene
Question: What sort of animal was the invisible Harvey, in the 1950 film of that name?
Answer: rabbit
Question: What were the first names of the hugely wealthy J.P. Getty, 1932-2003?
Answer: john paul
Question: Who wrote ‘The Solitary Reaper’ (1805) and ‘The World Is Too Much With Us’ (1802)?
Answer: william wordsworth
Question: Who co-starred with Eric Idle in the 1990 film ‘Nuns on the Run’?
Answer: robbie coltrane
Question: What is the name of Hyacinth and Richard’s son in ‘Keeping Up Appearances’?
Answer: sheridan
Question: Which was the only Elvis Presley UK no. 1 to have a one-word title?
Answer: surrender
Question: In which country can you see the world famous Alhambra Palace?
Answer: spain
Question: What is the given name of the wife of Conservative leader David Cameron?
Answer: samantha
Question: Which European country is 'double-landlocked' (landlocked by land-locked countries)?
Answer: liechtenstien
Question: Rila at 2,925 m is the highest mountain range in the Balkans. It stands in which country?
Answer: bulgaria
Question: Who designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851?
Answer: joseph paxton
Question: Doctor Doom is the arch-enemy of which group of Marvel superheroes?
Answer: fantastic four
Question: Who was named the new host of Channel 4's Countdown?
Answer: des o connor
Question: Which art gallery is located at Bankside, London SE1?
Answer: tate modern
Question: What familiar name is most commonly given to the fruiting body of a fungus?
Answer: mushroom or toadstool
Question: What is the more common name for the 'European' or 'Great' Maple?
Answer: sycamore
Question: Which former Italian Prime Minister was kidnapped and murdered in 1978?
Answer: aldo moro
Question: Created by Frank Mason Robinson in 1885, what is possibly the world's best known logo?
Answer: coca cola
Question: Which American was awarded a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973?
Answer: henry kissinger
Question: Also the proper first name of Milly-Molly-Mandy, what is the doll, Barbie's middle name?
Answer: millicent
Question: Which landlocked African country has a population of nearly 88 million?
Answer: ethiopia
Question: Which car company has featured in the name of cricket's 'Kennington Oval' since 2011?
Answer: kia oval
Question: Its driver Jules Bianchi still in intensive care; which F1 team went bust on 7th Nov 2014?
Answer: marussia
Question: Which Scandinavian capital hosted the 2012 European Athletics Championships?
Answer: helsinki
Question: He famously ignored his orders, who was Nelson's superior at Copenhagen?
Answer: sir hyde parker
Question: A name featuring a Greek letter, what is the US Army's equivalent to the SAS?
Answer: delta force
Question: Which musical instrument's name comes from the German word meaning 'bell-play'?
Answer: glockenspiel
Question: Who did God order to preach at Nineveh, but he ran away, with scary consequences?
Answer: jonah
Question: In telescopes and microscopes, what is the alternative name for the ocular lens?
Answer: eyepiece
Question: What name is given to molten rock located beneath the surface of the Earth?
Answer: magma
Question: The Assyrian Empire was mostly located in which modern day, middle-east country?
Answer: iraq
Question: Which hi-tech company has its main assembly plant in Everett, Washington?
Answer: boeing
Question: Aimed at home audiences (1946-67) which popular show was on the 'Light Programme'?
Answer: housewives choice
Question: Which programme uses Penguin Cafe Orchestra's 'Scherzo and Trio' as its theme music?
Answer: round britain quiz
Question: Which famous sculptor was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire?
Answer: henry moore
Question: Which 'John' directed (and had a cameo in) the film 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'?
Answer: john huston
Question: Who went from Radio 5 Live to 'The One Show' with Nadia Sawalah on BBC TV?
Answer: adrian chiles
Question: In 'Allo 'Allo', what was the surname of the British soldier who dressed as a Gendarme?
Answer: crabtree
Question: Which of the PanHellenic Games was held on territory owned by the city state of Elis?
Answer: olympic games
Question: July 16 in our Western calendar coincides with the first day of which other calendar?
Answer: islamic
Question: In which 1996 live-action/animation movie did basketball icon Michael Jordan star?
Answer: space jam
Question: What was the title of the first single released by The Beatles in October 1962?
Answer: love me do
Question: In which English county is the port town of Fleetwood?
Answer: lancashire
Question: By what name was the city of York known when under Viking occupation?
Answer: yorvik
Question: The Kamchatka Peninsula lies within the territory of which nation?
Answer: russia
Question: By what alternative name is the Mariinsky theatre of St Petersburg much better known?
Answer: kirov ballet
Question: Messenger to the Greek gods, who was the son of Zeus and Maia?
Answer: hermes
Question: Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of what?
Answer: number 13
Question: Terry Deary is the author of which series of children's books that were adapted for TV?
Answer: horrible histories
Question: Which ex 'Neighbours' star played Ed Exley in the movie adaptation of 'LA Confidential'?
Answer: guy pearce
Question: Which Cabinet minister fathered Flora Keays by his secretary?
Answer: cecil parkinson
Question: Complete the saying ‘Whom the Gods love die ……..’?
Answer: young
Question: Built by Rama 1st. Which capital city is home to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha?
Answer: bangkok
Question: In trigonometry what is calculated by the adjacent over the hypotenuse?
Answer: cosine
Question: Which Marks and Gran sitcom returned in the new year after 15 years off screen?
Answer: birds of feather
Question: Is the mountain range in Ireland in which the river Liffey rises?
Answer: wicklow mountains
Question: In a greyhound race where does a dog finish if it makes ‘a show’?
Answer: third
Question: In a book recto is the right-hand page – what is the left?
Answer: verso
Question: Which tennis star was sued for palimony by Judy Nelson?
Answer: martina navratilova
Question: What was the Oxford Dictionaries ‘New Word of the Year’?
Answer: selfie
Question: Whose head is to appear on a new £2 coin to commemorate the start of World War I?
Answer: lord kitchener
Question: In Botticelli’s famous Birth of Venus – in what is Venus standing?
Answer: sea shell
Question: Which 1960’s art vogue was based on optical illusion?
Answer: op art
Question: To west country folk what people are ‘emmets’ and ‘grockles’?
Answer: tourists
Question: In the words lithograph, lithium and Paleolithic – what does ‘lith’ mean?
Answer: stone
Question: What is special about the species of mammal called monotremes?
Answer: they lay eggs
Question: Who were the first ever winners of the English Football League in 1889?
Answer: preston north end
Question: What was the collective name of the children of Uranus and Gaea?
Answer: titans
Question: Who plays Vic Reeves aka Jim Moir’s wife in the comedy Hebburn?
Answer: gina mckee
Question: Snape Maltings Hall is home to which annual festival, first held in 1948?
Answer: aldeburgh festival
Question: Karl Elsener invented which multitool in 1894?
Answer: swiss army knife
Question: Who is the Great Architect of the Universe in Masonic ritual?
Answer: god
Question: In the movie Carry On Dick – who was the Dick referred to?
Answer: dick turpin
Question: Who was the bass player and youngest member of the original line-up of Queen?
Answer: john deacon
Question: In 1948, which Vickers aircraft became the first turboprop airliner to enter active service?
Answer: vickers viscount
Question: Which Channel Four game show was remade in the USA under the title Junkyard Wars?
Answer: scrapheap challenge
Question: Ellis Achong’s style of left-arm wrist spin gave rise to what term in the cricket vocabulary?
Answer: chinaman
Question: Edmond Dantès is the eponymous protagonist of which novel of 1844?
Answer: count of monte cristo
Question: Which poet was shot in the wrist by his lover, fellow poet Paul Verlaine?
Answer: arthur rimbaud
Question: Voiced by Steve Carell, Gru is the supervillain in which animated film and its sequel?
Answer: despicable me
Question: Which city hosted the first stage of the 2014 Giro d’Italia?
Answer: belfast
Question: Which Scottish border village lies at the northernmost end of the Pennine Way?
Answer: kirk yetholm
Question: Which moorland plateau is the highest point in Derbyshire?
Answer: kinder scout
Question: Who played the title role in the recent ITV biographical drama Cilla?
Answer: sheridan smith
Question: In July 2014, Judith Weir became the first woman to be appointed to which post?
Answer: master of queen s music
Question: Which English chemist published the first scientific study on colour blindness?
Answer: john dalton
Question: According to Shakespeare, who was drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine?
Answer: duke of clarence
Question: Voiced by Nicholas Parsons, Tex Tucker was the hero of which Supermarionation series?
Answer: four feather falls
Question: Who acted as coach to Jermain Jackson, the 2014 winner of The Voice UK?
Answer: will i am
Question: Who was the President of the USA at the start of the 20th Century?
Answer: william mckinley
Question: In his eponymous TV show, which comedian and actor played obstetrician Cliff Huxtable?
Answer: bill cosby
Question: Who played Ensign Wesley Crusher in Star Trek, The Next Generation?
Answer: wil wheaton
Question: For which film of 1948 did father and son Walter and John Huston both win Oscars?
Answer: treasure of sierra madre
Question: Who wrote the 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
Answer: truman capote
Question: Who wrote the 1957 poem Not Waving but Drowning?
Answer: stevie smith
Question: Who released the critically acclaimed albums Blue and Court and Spark?
Answer: joni mitchell
Question: What was the B-side of Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 single Substitute?
Answer: i will survive
Question: Who was the principal female figure in the scandal that became known as ‘Zippergate’?
Answer: monica lewinsky
Question: Which BP rig sank in April 2010, causing a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: deepwater horizon
Question: In the world of Private Eye, Ron Knee is the manager of which football club?
Answer: neasden fc
Question: What is the minimum period for which scotch whisky can be aged?
Answer: three years
Question: In the Loop was a film spin-off from which satirical television series?
Answer: thick of it
Question: Which date has been unofficially designated “Star Wars Day”?
Answer: may fourth
Question: Played by Laila Rouass, Amber Gates was a major character in which ITV drama series?
Answer: footballer s wives
Question: Who designed the PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles on which the match was played?
Answer: jack nicklaus
Question: Who played the U-boat commander in the ‘Don’t tell him, Pike’ scene from Dad’s Army?
Answer: philip madoc
Question: The holder of which post is also the Minister for the Civil Service?
Answer: prime minister
Question: Count Duckula was a spinoff from which other children’s animated series?
Answer: danger mouse
Question: What is the maximum permitted length of an entry in the Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: three minutes
Question: What is the name of the river on which Bakewell stands?
Answer: wye
Question: Who wrote the novels The Sicilian and The Last Don?
Answer: mario puzo
Question: The St. Leger and the Lincoln Handicap are both run at which racecourse?
Answer: doncaster
Question: Anatomy. Why is it that cartilage grows and repairs more slowly than other tissues?
Answer: does not contain blood
Question: Planktology, malacology and primatology are all branches of which science?
Answer: zoology
Question: Who became the first Earl of Chatham in 1766?
Answer: william pitt elder
Question: In 1990, Barbara Castle became Baroness Castle of where?
Answer: blackburn
Question: Born in 1898, which important figure did M.E. Clifton James closely resemble?
Answer: field marshall montgomery
Question: Who was the first British monarch to live in Buckingham Palace?
Answer: queen victoria
Question: In 1984, who topped the US charts, and got to no. 9 in the UK, with ‘Missing You’?
Answer: john waite
Question: Who topped the charts with ‘He’s Not Heavy, He’s My Brother’ in 1969?
Answer: hollies
Question: When eating out, what French phrase is effectively the opposite of ‘a la carte’?
Answer: table d hote
Question: Which King was killed by Neoptolemus at the fall of Troy?
Answer: priam
Question: Which ‘C’ was the Roman version of the Greek goddess Demeter?
Answer: ceres
Question: Who had sisters named Stheno and Euryale?
Answer: medusa
Question: Born in 1941, which legendary (and now retired) squash player lives in Morwenstow?
Answer: jonah barrington
Question: Born in Newquay in 1911, who is the author of ‘The Spire’ and ‘Pincher Martin’?
Answer: william golding
Question: All Scotch whisky must be aged in oak barrels for at least how many years?
Answer: three
Question: What was the name of the prostitute in the 1986/7 Jeffrey Archer scandal?
Answer: monica coghlan
Question: What is the name of the only lake in the Lake District?
Answer: bassenthwaite
Question: What is the alternative name for Puck, in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’?
Answer: robin goodfellow
Question: To which minor character does Hamlet refer as a ‘waterfly’?
Answer: osric
Question: What was the first name of Don Warrington’s character in ‘Rising Damp’?
Answer: phillip
Question: In 1936, who composed ‘Carmina Burana’, the first part of a trilogy?
Answer: carl orff
Question: Who painted ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’, 1880-1?
Answer: pierre auguste renoir
Question: What is the chemical formula for the substance commonly known as ‘laughing gas’?
Answer: n2o
Question: A simple quadrilateral whose sides are all of the same length is known as a what?
Answer: rhombus
Question: Charles Darwin was born on Feb. 12th, 1809. Which US president was born on that day?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: Who took over from Jeff Stelling as the host of ‘Countdown’?
Answer: nick hewer
Question: Who composed the Oscar-winning song, ‘Moon River’?
Answer: henry mancini
Question: Houdun and Light Sussex are types of which farmyard creature?
Answer: chicken
Question: Khaki Campbell and Rouen are types of which farmyard creature?
Answer: duck
Question: Which gas, indicating the presence of possible life forms, has been discovered on Mars?
Answer: methane
Question: Francis II 1792-1835 was the last person to hold which 1000-year-old title?
Answer: holy roman emperor
Question: Which creature was used as a symbol of Christianity in the early days of persecution?
Answer: fish
Question: In Jaws what was the name of the shark-hunting captain of the boat Orca?
Answer: quint
Question: Nephrite is one of the two forms of which ornamental rock?
Answer: jade
Question: To which secret society did Gavrilo Princip, Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassin belong?
Answer: black hand
Question: The kakapo is the world’s only flightless type of which bird?
Answer: parrot
Question: Which cowboy was played by Ty Hardin?
Answer: bronco layne
Question: The Stoop is the home of which Premiership club?
Answer: harlequins
Question: In which film does Meg Ryan simulate orgasm in a crowded restaurant?
Answer: when harry met sally
Question: Which is the only city on the river Wye, which follows the England/Wales border?
Answer: hereford
Question: St Michael’s Mount is situated three miles east of which Cornish town?
Answer: penzance
Question: What was initiated by Pope Urban II’s sermon at Clermont in 1095?
Answer: first crusade
Question: What did Usain Bolt supposedly describe as ‘a bit shit’?
Answer: commonwealth games
Question: Who presents the Radio 4 panel game Just A Minute?
Answer: nicholas parsons
Question: The 2014 UK Christmas No.1 record was Something I Need – who was the performer?
Answer: ben haenow
Question: Who plays Mr Brown in the new Paddington Bear movie?
Answer: hugh bonneville
Question: In which layer of the atmosphere does the ‘ozone layer’ occur?
Answer: stratosphere
Question: After whose execution in 1794 was the apparatus of ‘The Terror’ in France dismantled?
Answer: robespierre
Question: Which vegetable is the chief ingredient in a Spanish Omelette?
Answer: potato
Question: In 2008 Great Leighs became the first new venue for which sport for 80 years?
Answer: horse racing
Question: Which castle is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports?
Answer: walmer castle
Question: What medical term is used for an extreme life-threatening allergic reaction?
Answer: anaphylaxis
Question: World Championships in which sport took place at Frimley Green recently?
Answer: darts
Question: Raclette is a mild cheese – what is its country of origin?
Answer: switzerland
Question: What do we call a quadrilateral with just two sides parallel?
Answer: trapezium
Question: Who painted The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Tulp?
Answer: rembrandt
Question: Who did Marcel Duchamp paint complete with a moustache?
Answer: mona lisa
Question: A rat called Splinter trained which quartet?
Answer: teenage mutant ninja turtles
Question: Who was the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot?
Answer: matthias
Question: What was the site of Jesus’ ascension into heaven 40 days after the resurrection?
Answer: mount of olives
Question: In which capital city is the stadium nicknamed ‘The Birds Nest’?
Answer: beijing
Question: What did Sherlock Holmes keep in the toe of a Persian slipper?
Answer: tobacco
Question: Who wrote ‘Not Waving But Drowning’?
Answer: stevie smith
Question: Performing which move can a chess player move two pieces at the same time?
Answer: castling
Question: Which vertical take-off jet made its first flight in 1966?
Answer: harrier
Question: The original ‘Gang of Four’ was a political group in which country?
Answer: china
Question: Trinidad sits only 6.8 miles from the coast of which South American country?
Answer: venezuela
Question: A Wayzgoose is an annual outing or party in which industry?
Answer: printing industry
Question: In Scottish courts three verdicts are allowed – guilty, not guilty and which other?
Answer: not proven
Question: Henry VIII had six wives, but which of his wives had four husbands?
Answer: catherine parr
Question: Hatha, Jnana and Karma are all forms of which activity?
Answer: yoga
Question: Who traded places with Eddie Murphy in the film Trading Places?
Answer: dan akroyd
Question: In which way did the crucifixion of St Peter differ from that of Jesus?
Answer: he was crucified upside down
Question: In 1972 Mother and Child Reunion was the first solo UK hit for which artist?
Answer: paul simon
Question: Who topped the charts in 1996 with Breathe and Firestarter?
Answer: prodigy
Question: Softly scrambled egg spread on toast and coated in anchovy paste is called what?
Answer: scotch woodcock
Question: Jana Gana Mana is the National Anthem of which country?
Answer: india
Question: In which novel was Aunt Ada Doom shocked by something nasty in the woodshed?
Answer: cold comfort farm
Question: Which musical has characters Columbia, Magenta and Dr Everett Scott?
Answer: rocky horror picture show
Question: In which musical did Michael Ball play Edna Turnblad in the West End?
Answer: hairspray
Question: What is the occupation of Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady?
Answer: dustman
Question: Which character said ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk’?
Answer: mad hatter
Question: Who won the Women’s Singles at the 2015 Australian Open Tennis Championships?
Answer: serena williams
Question: To which school of art did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rotho belong?
Answer: abstract expressionism
Question: To which school of art did Matisse and Vlaminck belong?
Answer: fauvism
Question: ... a mineral, varieties of which include emerald and aquamarine?
Answer: beryl
Question: James Joyce’s Ulysses ends with an extended monologue by which character?
Answer: molly bloom
Question: Maureen ’Mo’ Tucker was the drummer in which seminal 1960s rock band?
Answer: velvet underground
Question: Classical musician Alison Balsom is a virtuoso player of which instrument?
Answer: trumpet
Question: Who is the lead female protagonist of Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana?
Answer: queen elizabeth i
Question: Who composed the tone poem The Swan of Tuonela?
Answer: jean sibelius
Question: Which scientific law can be expressed in the form V = IR*? (*QR: vee equals eye are.)
Answer: ohm s law
Question: What comes next in this sequence: butane, propane, ethane, ... ?
Answer: methane
Question: What nationality is Richard Flanagan, winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction?
Answer: australian
Question: Snooker cues, baseball bats, and cricket stumps are traditionally made from which wood?
Answer: ash
Question: In which board game is the ‘huffing’ rule sometimes adopted?
Answer: draughts
Question: What is the signature feature of footwear designed by Christian Louboutin?
Answer: red soles
Question: Star Beast was the working title for which 1979 blockbuster film?
Answer: alien
Question: ‘Stop all the clocks’ are the opening words of which poem by W. H. Auden?
Answer: funeral blues
Question: Which poem by Philip Larkin describes a train journey on a hot bank-holiday Saturday?
Answer: whitsun weddings
Question: The first ball of the 2014 Major League Baseball season was pitched in which stadium?
Answer: sydney cricket ground
Question: Who played Watson in Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: jude law
Question: Which two islands are linked by the 33 and a half-mile-long Seikan rail tunnel?
Answer: honshu and hokkaido
Question: Which two cities form the termini of the passenger train known as The Ghan?
Answer: darwin and adelaide