CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which actor plays the title role in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: daniel radcliffe
Question: Which aircraft was designed initially by the British Aircraft Corporation as a replacement for the Canberra but was cancelled by the Labour Government in April 1965?
Answer: tsr 2
Question: Which car company was formed in 1908 by the merger of Buick and Oldsmobile?
Answer: general motors
Question: In which modem day country is the site of the Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: germany
Question: Which famous singer was once married to Renate Blauel?
Answer: elton john
Question: From which country does the popular Christmas plant, the Poinsettia, originate?
Answer: mexico
Question: The tune 'Johnny Todd' was the theme to which TV programme?
Answer: z cars
Question: Which is the shortest book in the Bible having only one chapter of twenty-one verses?
Answer: obadiah
Question: Piers Morgan is a former editor of which national daily newspaper?
Answer: daily mirror
Question: Which children's character was created by Jean de Brunhoff?
Answer: babar
Question: Joey Bishop, who died in October 2007, was the last survivor of a group of people known by which name?
Answer: rat pack
Question: Of which Oscar Wilde play is Mrs Arbuthnot the title character?
Answer: woman of no importance
Question: The pengo, subject to massive inflation, was the pre- World War 2 currency unit of which European country?
Answer: hungary
Question: Who released the new album 'Together through Life' and as a result has become the oldest male to have a no 1 hit album in Britain?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: In 1650 James Ussher calculated the date of the origin of the Earth, according to Biblical chronology, as 4004BC. Of where was Ussher the Archbishop?
Answer: armagh
Question: The Giotto space probe was launched in 1986 specifically to examine what?
Answer: halley s comet
Question: Which London museum was originally called the Museum of Ornamental Art?
Answer: victoria albert
Question: An isotope of which chemical element was used to poison Alexander Litvinenko?
Answer: polonium
Question: Which country declared itself the first atheist state when all religion was banned in 1967?
Answer: albania
Question: What was the original name of the city of Volgograd before it was called Stalingrad?
Answer: tsaritsyn
Question: Apart from Anne Boleyn, which other wife of Henry 8th was executed?
Answer: catherine howard
Question: Citrus Paradisi is the Latin name for which fruit?
Answer: grapefruit
Question: In Greek myth, what was the name of the winged horse?
Answer: pegasus
Question: Born 1888, who composed the song "There's No Business Like Show Business"?
Answer: irving berlin
Question: Who presents BBC Radio Two's "Good Morning Sunday" (7 am to 9 am)?
Answer: aled jones
Question: The traditional beef (or hare) stifado stew originated in which country?
Answer: greece
Question: The kissing disease (infectious mononucleosis) has what common name?
Answer: glandular fever
Question: Which supermarket chain instituted 'Computers for Schools' in 1992?
Answer: tesco
Question: Roquefort, Gorgonzola, and Stilton cheeses have what distinguishing factor?
Answer: blue veins
Question: What was the name of "RMS Titanic's" older sister ship?
Answer: rms olympic
Question: Who played the role of Philip Smith in TV's "Rising Damp"?
Answer: don warrington
Question: Which radioactive metallic element has the symbol Pu, atomic number 94?
Answer: plutonium
Question: """New York Mining Disaster 1941"" was the first US release for which group?"
Answer: bee gees
Question: Frank Richard's (Charles Hamilton) 'Billy Bunter' attended which school?
Answer: greyfriars
Question: Who was assassinated on April 4th 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee?
Answer: martin luther king
Question: Which actor played the role of John McClane in the "Die Hard" films?
Answer: bruce willis
Question: Alligator Alley (on Interstate 75) in which US state?
Answer: florida
Question: Bill Shankly signed Kevin Keegan from which club in 1971?
Answer: scunthorpe united
Question: In Greek myth, which three-headed dog guarded the gate to Hades?
Answer: cerberus
Question: Born 1892, who composed the song "Miss Otis Regrets"?
Answer: cole porter
Question: Originating in Eastern Europe, which pressed meat is seasoned with herbs and spices, smoked, and steamed after smoking?
Answer: pastrami
Question: Which American (1886-1956) founded the modern frozen food industry?
Answer: clarence birdseye
Question: Which group/act were the first Germans to have a UK No. 1 hit with "The Model/Computer Love'?
Answer: kraftwerk
Question: What was the first name of Stretford-born artist L. S. Lowry?
Answer: laurence
Question: Which Cunard Line ship first came to the aid of "RMS Titanic"?
Answer: rms carpathia
Question: Which chemical element has the symbol Hg, atomic number 80?
Answer: mercury
Question: Magellan, Galapagos, and Chinstrap are varieties of which animal?
Answer: penguin
Question: Clare Grogan was the lead singer with which '80's band?
Answer: altered images
Question: Which Welsh county is known as 'Little England beyond Wales'?
Answer: pembrokeshire
Question: Which incident occured near to Creddington, Buckinghamshire on 8th August 1963?
Answer: great train robbery
Question: Gerry Goffin was the husband of which singer?
Answer: carole king
Question: Which German battleship is being salvaged from the River Plate?
Answer: admiral graf spee
Question: Who wrote 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' in 2003?
Answer: bill bryson
Question: Who was the youngest President of the USA, taking office in 1901?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: Who was the first man seen on Channel 4 TV?
Answer: richard whiteley
Question: Who played the title role in the 1962 film 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'?
Answer: tom courtenay
Question: Which male film star's final film in 1961 was 'The Misfits'?
Answer: clark gable
Question: Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd, a TV star from the1960s, died in August 2009 aged 74. Who was he better known as?
Answer: simon dee
Question: In the Royal Navy what is the equivalent rank to a Field Marshal in the Army?
Answer: admiral of fleet
Question: Which actress has the real name Illiana Lydia Petrovna Mironova?
Answer: helen mirren
Question: In the RAF what is the highest non-commissioned officer's rank?
Answer: warrant officer
Question: The Roman road Ermine Street started in London and terminated in which city?
Answer: york
Question: `If music be the food of love play on' is the opening line of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: What was the Christian name of Bertie Wooster's manservant Jeeves?
Answer: reginald
Question: Who wrote and composed the opera Oedipus Rex in 1927?
Answer: stravinsky
Question: What is the most popular hymn written by Henry Francis Lyte, in 1844?
Answer: abide with me
Question: Who played the TV detective Maisie Raine?
Answer: pauline quirke
Question: Which company makes an MPV ('people carrier') model called Meriva?
Answer: vauxhall
Question: Which team won the 2009 Rugby League Challenge Cup?
Answer: warrington wolves
Question: Which company makes an MPV ('people carrier') model called Carens?
Answer: kia
Question: Which novelist created the characters of Dalziel and Pascoe?
Answer: reginald hill
Question: Who captained the England cricket team to victory in the 2009 Ashes series?
Answer: andrew strauss
Question: Who won an Oscar for the music for Chariots of Fire in 1981?
Answer: vangelis
Question: Which Battle of 1813 is also called the Battle of The Nations?
Answer: leipzig
Question: What is the title of the poem which begins "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck?
Answer: casabianca
Question: The Bactrian Camel is named after a region in which country?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: Which painter used his neighbours in the village of Cookham as the subjects of many of his works?
Answer: stanley spencer
Question: In the film "Goldfinger" what was the name of Shirley Eaton's character, fatally painted in gold?
Answer: jill masterson
Question: Jack Point is a character in which Gilbert & Sullivan opera?
Answer: yeomen of guard
Question: Which Pre-Raphaelite artist painted "The Death of Ophelia"?
Answer: john everett millais
Question: Who was elected by the Apostles to replace Judas?
Answer: matthias
Question: Sanditon was the novel left uncompleted at the time of the death of which author?
Answer: jane austen
Question: The plays 'The Barber of Seville' and 'Marriage of Figaro' were written by whom?
Answer: beaumarchais
Question: Who played the Ringo Kid in the 1938 film 'Stagecoach'?
Answer: john wayne
Question: 'Ophidian' refers to which kind of creatures?
Answer: snakes
Question: Michael Caine won his first Oscar for his role in which film?
Answer: hannah and her sisters
Question: Which horse racing bet entails a series of a multiple of 5 selections?
Answer: canadian
Question: Which disease used to be called infantile paralysis?
Answer: poliomyelitis
Question: Who is the current presenter of Radio 4s 'Desert Island Discs'
Answer: kirsty young
Question: The Primrose League referred to the supporters of which Prime Minister?
Answer: benjamin disraeli
Question: Who composed the incidental music to Ibsen's play 'Peer Gynt'?
Answer: edward grieg
Question: The Collegiate Church of St Peter, also known as Westminster Abbey, is an example of what type of place of worship falling under the direct jurisdiction of the British monarch?
Answer: royal peculiar
Question: Who wrote a novel based on the "Titanic" story entitled "Every Man For Himself'?
Answer: beryl bainbridge
Question: The Wokingham Stakes is run annually at which race course?
Answer: royal ascot
Question: John Galliano is the principal couturier for which fashion house?
Answer: dior
Question: Which make of rocket propels research hardware for the European Space Agency?
Answer: ariane
Question: In which overseas territory is the launch site for Ariane probes?
Answer: guyane
Question: The detective Albert Campion was created by which author?
Answer: margery allingham
Question: Who created the Private Detective in Imperial Rome, Marcus Didius Falco?
Answer: lindsey davis
Question: Mark Forrest and Nick Bailey are DJs on which Radio Station?
Answer: classic fm
Question: Who was the Republican candidate defeated by Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election?
Answer: john mccain
Question: Which composer, who died 200 years ago in 1809, wrote a series of 'London' symphonies?
Answer: haydn
Question: Folk/blues singer/guitarist Steven Gene Wold is known by which nickname?
Answer: seasick steve
Question: At the 2009 Academy Awards who won the Oscar for Best Director for his film 'Slumdog Millionaire'?
Answer: danny boyle
Question: Which Scottish malt whisky, sold in a distinctive bottle, is produced by William Grant's and 'made without compromise'?
Answer: glenfiddich
Question: A new sculpture, by Spaniard Jaume Plensa, is being completed alongside the M62 in St Helens, what is it called?
Answer: dream
Question: Of which nationalised industry was Peter Parker appointed Chairman in 1976?
Answer: british rail
Question: King Charles 2nd founded the Royal Hospital in 1682, how are the occupants known?
Answer: chelsea pensioners
Question: What name do sailors give to a rope that hoists up a sail?
Answer: halyard
Question: Which composer, born 200 years ago in 1809, wrote 'Scottish' and 'Italian' symphonies?
Answer: mendelssohn
Question: Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons are two of the National Parks in Wales, name the third?
Answer: pembrokeshire coast
Question: Under the rule of the White Witch it is always winter but never Christmas - in whose novel?
Answer: cs lewis
Question: Which colourful, noisy bird, found across Europe, northwest Africa and Asia, is found in a woodland habitat? The common variety has the scientific name Garrulus Glandarius?
Answer: jay
Question: Which jazz musician, he played the tenor sax and clarinet, was nicknamed 'Prez'?
Answer: lester young
Question: Whose 'Plays Pleasant' included `Candida' and 'You Never Can Tell'?
Answer: g b shaw
Question: Which North Yorkshire town is home to the Green Howards Regimental Museum, a castle and Fresh Radio?
Answer: richmond
Question: What name is given in geometry to two or more shapes that are identical?
Answer: congruent
Question: The borders of 4 African countries meet at one point, name any one of the 4 countries.
Answer: botswana namibia zambia and zimbabwe
Question: Which Scottish malt whisky is produced by 'the sixteen men of Tain'?
Answer: glenmorangie
Question: In 'The Box of Delights', the Bishop of Tatchester is rescued from his abductors in time for Christmas - who is the author?
Answer: john masefield
Question: Which jazz musician, he played the vibraphone, was nicknamed 'Bags'?
Answer: milt jackson
Question: The football club BATE Borisov made their debut in the European Champions League this season, in which country do they play?
Answer: belarus
Question: Which East Yorkshire town has squares called 'Saturday Market' and 'Wednesday Market', England's most impressive church that isn't a cathedral and England's oldest state school?
Answer: beverley
Question: Which famous novelist wrote the 1948 novel 'The Heart of the Matter' and the 1957 play 'The Potting Shed'?
Answer: graham greene
Question: In maths and physics, what name is given to any quantity that has both magnitude and direction?
Answer: vector
Question: The 19th century movement for the unification of Italy was known by what name?
Answer: risorgimento
Question: The cricket pavilion at the Queen's Park Oval has been named after which player, the island's most famous cricketer?
Answer: brian lara
Question: The seeds of the nux vomica tree contain which poison?
Answer: strychnine
Question: Which daily newspaper has a column called 'Mandrake'?
Answer: telegraph
Question: Which daily newspaper was first issued in 1900 at the price of ½d (halfpenny) and from 1914 came under the control of Lord Beaverbrook?
Answer: daily express
Question: In ice skating, what was the maximum mark that a judge could give to a competitor (in competitions up to 2006)?
Answer: six
Question: Which angel is reputed to have given the word of God (the Koran) to Mohammed?
Answer: gabriel
Question: Allium porrum is the scientific name of which vegetable?
Answer: leek
Question: In 'The Simpsons', who is headmaster of the school that Bart attends?
Answer: seymour skinner
Question: Which physicist is credited with the 'Quantum Theory'?
Answer: max planck
Question: In which city is the TV series 'Gray's Anatomy' set?
Answer: seattle
Question: Millfield and Downside are public schools in which English county?
Answer: somerset
Question: Which Shakespeare play begins 'If music be the food of love, play on'?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: Blackpool is found on the English coast as well as in Lancashire, in which county is it?
Answer: devon
Question: According to Arthurian legend, which knight returned Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake?
Answer: sir bedivere
Question: In 'The Simpsons', who has two children named Tod and Rod?
Answer: ned flanders
Question: Who was the first Prime Minister to live in 10 Downing Street?
Answer: sir robert walpole
Question: In which country did Kaiser Wilhelm II live from 1918 until his death in 1941?
Answer: netherlands
Question: In which films do the characters Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore appear?
Answer: ghostbusters
Question: In the 2009 Tour de France which British Olympic medallist finished 4th overall?
Answer: bradley wiggins
Question: The life of 15th century French serial killer Gilles de Rais is believed to be the basis of which story by Charles Perrault?
Answer: bluebeard
Question: Who created the character 'Sam Spade'?
Answer: dashiell hammett
Question: What was the real name of the pirate, Blackbeard?
Answer: edward teach
Question: In which city were the World Swimming Championships held in July 2009?
Answer: rome
Question: Wellingborough and Oundle are public schools in which English county?
Answer: northamptonshire
Question: In which country did Idi Amin settle and die after his exile from Uganda?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: In the 2009 Tour de France which British cyclist won six stages?
Answer: mark cavendish
Question: Which is the only body of water in Scotland to be called a lake as opposed to a loch?
Answer: lake of menteith
Question: Who wrote 'Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man'?
Answer: siegfried sassoon
Question: Which group released the album 'A Hundred Million Suns'?
Answer: snow patrol
Question: Henry Cecil Booth patented which household appliance in 1901?
Answer: vacuum cleaner
Question: What does the musical term 'pizzicato' mean?
Answer: plucked
Question: Which word is defined as 'an Arctic plain with permanently frozen subsoil'?
Answer: tundra
Question: The film Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey, is based on the book of the same name by which modern British writer?
Answer: danny wallace
Question: Which fruit has varieties called Concorde, Packham and Cornice?
Answer: pear
Question: The title of Agatha Christie's novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is taken from a line in which poem?
Answer: lady of shalott
Question: What specific part of the body is affected by blepharitis?
Answer: eyelid
Question: In the Beatles film Yellow Submarine what is the name of the land taken over by the Blue Meanies?
Answer: pepperland
Question: Who took over from Dermot Murnaghan as host of BBC2's Eggheads?
Answer: jeremy vine
Question: Which European country has land borders with Greece, Turkey, Romania, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia?
Answer: bulgaria
Question: In cricket, which English county one-day side is known as the Phantoms?
Answer: derbyshire
Question: Which artistic movement was led by Henri Matisse and André Derain?
Answer: fauvism
Question: Which popular garden bird has the Latin name Erithacus rubecula?
Answer: robin
Question: During which conflict was the battle of Blenheim fought?
Answer: war of spanish succession
Question: Which European city was the destination of the girls (and thus the boys) in the Cliff Richard film Summer Holiday?
Answer: athens
Question: Which fruit has varieties called Blue Tit, Czar and Early Laxton?
Answer: plum
Question: Who hosts the new version of ITV's The Krypton Factor?
Answer: ben shephard
Question: Which National Trail runs for 177miles from Sedbury Cliffs near Chepstow to Prestatyn?
Answer: offa s dyke path
Question: Which popular garden bird has the Latin name Cyanistes Caeruleus?
Answer: blue tit
Question: Which country won the most medals overall at the Beijing Olympics in 2008?
Answer: usa
Question: Which European country has land borders with Austria, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic?
Answer: slovakia
Question: Which artistic movement was led by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso?
Answer: cubism
Question: During which conflict was the battle of Creçy fought?
Answer: hundred years war
Question: Which metallic element, number 77 in the periodic table, takes its name from the Latin for "rainbow"?
Answer: iridium
Question: In Greek myth, who was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who killed his mother to avenge his father's death?
Answer: orestes
Question: Which British Prime Minister was the last to have been born in the nineteenth century?
Answer: harold macmillan
Question: Who wrote the incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt, first performed in 1876?
Answer: edvard grieg
Question: Whose first solo UK number 1 single was I'm Still Waiting in August 1971?
Answer: diana ross
Question: In which Paris square would you find an obelisk from the temple of Rameses II at Thebes?
Answer: place de la concorde
Question: Which metallic element, number 56 in the periodic table, takes its name from the Greek for "heavy"?
Answer: barium
Question: Which British city has cathedrals dedicated to St Philip and St Chad?
Answer: birmingham
Question: In 2008, which famous actor wowed critics in Stratford with his Hamlet, but had to pull out of the London production?
Answer: david tennant
Question: Who was the Premier League's top goal scorer for three consecutive seasons between 1994 and 1997?
Answer: alan shearer
Question: In Greek myth, who was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who was entombed alive by her uncle for trying to bury her brother Polyneices after the civil war in Thebes?
Answer: antigone
Question: Who set Cardinal Newman's poem The Dream of Gerontius to music in his 1900 oratorio?
Answer: edward elgar
Question: Who was the Premier League's top goal scorer for three consecutive seasons between 2004 and 2006?
Answer: thierry henry
Question: Who captained the USA to victory in the Ryder Cup in 2008?
Answer: paul azinger
Question: In which book do Mr Jones and The Battle of the Cowshed appear?
Answer: animal farm
Question: Which play has tramps Estragon and Vladimir as the main characters?
Answer: waiting for godot
Question: Which Shakespeare play features Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Who painted 'The Laughing Cavalier' in 1624?
Answer: frans hals
Question: Who painted 'The Blue Boy' in 1770?
Answer: thomas gainsborough
Question: Who did Sirhan Sirhan assassinate in 1968?
Answer: robert kennedy
Question: Who wrote 'The Trout Quintet' in 1819?
Answer: franz schubert
Question: Who wrote the music for the 1957 musical 'West Side Story'?
Answer: leonard bernstein
Question: La Giralda is the bell tower of which Spanish cathedral?
Answer: seville
Question: What is the name of the road/rail bridge opened in 2000 that links Copenhagen and Malmo?
Answer: oresund
Question: Which club won the UEFA Champions League Final the year before Liverpool's win in Istanbul in 2005?
Answer: porto
Question: Who commanded the French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805?
Answer: pierre villeneuve
Question: Which river comprised the boundary between Hades and Earth in Greek mythology?
Answer: styx
Question: Who wrote the operetta 'Orpheus in the Underworld'?
Answer: offenbach
Question: What popular name is given to the Infernal Galop from Act 2 of 'Orpheus in the Underworld'?
Answer: can can
Question: Who wrote the 1986 Booker Prize winning novel 'The Old Devils?
Answer: kingsley amis
Question: Who wrote the 1981 Booker Prize winning novel `Midnights Children?
Answer: salman rushdie
Question: Which female politician was assassinated in Pakistan in December 2007?
Answer: benazir bhutto
Question: An isotope of which metal was used to poison the Russian Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006?
Answer: polonium
Question: After the Latin name for which modern European capital is the element Hafnium named?
Answer: copenhagen
Question: After the Latin name for which modern European capital is the element Lutetium named?
Answer: paris
Question: Who was British Prime Minister when the Battle of Waterloo was fought?
Answer: lord liverpool
Question: Which 1942 film features the line "Play it Sam, play 'As time goes by'"?
Answer: casablanca
Question: Who designed the Bridgewater Canal, opened in 1761?
Answer: james brindley
Question: Who designed the Menai Suspension Bridge, completed in 1826?
Answer: thomas telford
Question: Who was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685?
Answer: duke of monmouth
Question: Which great battle between the Greeks and Persians took place in 490BC?
Answer: battle of marathon
Question: In which port did The Herald of Free Enterprise capsize in 1987?
Answer: zeebrugge
Question: What was the name of the VLCC tanker that split in two off the coast of Brittany in 1978?
Answer: amoco cadiz
Question: What nationality was the World War 2 military leader General Sikorski?
Answer: polish
Question: Who founded the Samaritans in 1953?
Answer: chad varah
Question: What was the name of the 14 year old boy whom Winnie Mandela was cleared of killing?
Answer: stompie moeketsi
Question: Name the American TV detective played by Gene Barry who had a chauffeur-driven Rolls in a 1960s series?
Answer: amos burke
Question: In the comic-strip "Batman and Robin" what is the Boy Wonder's real name?
Answer: dick grayson
Question: Which ship, during the Falklands conflict was nicknamed 'The Great White Whale'?
Answer: canberra
Question: Which is the only disease that has been eradicated by man?
Answer: smallpox
Question: Shirley Temple Black became US Ambassador to which African Country in 1974?
Answer: ghana