CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who plays Mary in the film 'There's something about Mary'?
Answer: cameron diaz
Question: In which US State did the Hindenburg Airship crash?
Answer: new jersey
Question: For which band did Bon Scott, who died in 1980, sing?
Answer: ac dc
Question: In which city is Corriere Della Sera the daily paper?
Answer: milan
Question: What type of animal is Bagheera in 'The Jungle Book'?
Answer: panther
Question: What was the name of the lioness in the book 'Born Free'?
Answer: elsa
Question: Who played Daphne in the TV series Frasier?
Answer: jane leeves
Question: Which TV show featured the character Carrie Bradshaw?
Answer: sex and city
Question: Who shot songwriter and producer Lana Clarkson in 2003? He was convicted in 2009.
Answer: phil spector
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Glass Menagerie'?
Answer: tennessee williams
Question: Who was the English monarch from 1399 to 1413?
Answer: henry iv
Question: Who played the title role in the film 'Cat Ballou'?
Answer: jane fonda
Question: In which 1960's TV series did Clarence the cross-eyed lion appear?
Answer: daktari
Question: Who was the green skinned Egyptian God of the underworld and afterlife?
Answer: osiris
Question: Who is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web?
Answer: tim berners lee
Question: What was the former name of Sellafield Nuclear Power Station?
Answer: windscale
Question: Who played Niles in the TV series Frasier?
Answer: david hyde pierce
Question: Which American President sanctioned the use of atomic weapons against Japan?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: Which town in Greater Manchester has a railway station called Mumps?
Answer: oldham
Question: Who played Rooster Cogburn in the remake of the film 'True Grit'?
Answer: jeff bridges
Question: In which of Charles Dickens' novels does Dick Swiveller appear?
Answer: old curiosity shop
Question: What company was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998?
Answer: google
Question: Who directed Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2011 film 'J Edgar'?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: Which sporting event, first held in July 1903, was the idea of Geo Lefevre, a journalist on L'Auto newspaper?
Answer: tour de france
Question: For what does the A stand in the acronym for the organisation UCAS?
Answer: admissions
Question: Which country established a new capital at Naypyidaw in 2005?
Answer: myanmar
Question: Of which State was Mitt Romney the governor from 2003-2007?
Answer: massachusetts
Question: Which Russian composer moved to France in 1920 and then to the USA in 1939 where he later became a naturalised citizen?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: Who is the pop lyricist, and former husband of Carole King, who has been responsible for nearly sixty US Top 40 hits?
Answer: gerry goffin
Question: Who, in October 2012, became the first British player in 24 years to win a Women's Tennis Association Tour singles title?
Answer: heather watson
Question: Which river rises near Rivington and flows through Wigan and Parbold to the Ribble near Tarleton?
Answer: douglas
Question: Alexander MacEwan was the first leader of which political party?
Answer: scottish national party
Question: 'A Handful of Dust' by Evelyn Waugh and 'The Grass is Singing' by Doris Lessing have their titles taken from lines written by which poet?
Answer: t s eliot
Question: What name is given to the moveable curved top part of a padlock?
Answer: shackle
Question: Which R & B duo had 10 consecutive US Top 20 singles for the STAX label between 1965 and 1968?
Answer: sam and dave
Question: Which Queen of England was the mother of Henry III?
Answer: isabella of angouleme
Question: Of what will Keith Bristow become the first head in 2013?
Answer: national crime agency
Question: The western part of the island of Timor belongs to which country?
Answer: indonesia
Question: Which former Presidential candidate was a US Navy pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and endured ill treatment and torture until his release in 1973?
Answer: john mccain
Question: Who were Australia's opponents in the first One Day International cricket match at the MCG in January 1971?
Answer: england
Question: Which science fiction film of 1956 was loosely based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
Answer: forbidden planet
Question: The singer/songwriter Tulisa, an X Factor judge, was a member of which hip-hop group formed in 2000?
Answer: n dubz
Question: What name is given to the form of divination through books?
Answer: bibliomancy
Question: Which native British wildlife includes species called Field, Bank and Short-tailed?
Answer: vole
Question: What is the surname of the Detective Sergeant, played by Lee Ingleby, in the Inspector George Gently TV series?
Answer: bacchus
Question: In which English county is the village of Stilton?
Answer: cambridgeshire
Question: According to von Clausewitz, War is the continuation of what, by other means?
Answer: politics
Question: Bertha Mason is a barely seen but important character in which 19th Century novel?
Answer: jane eyre
Question: What company was founded by Jerry Young and David Filo in 1994?
Answer: yahoo
Question: Which very successful Australian Director's first American film was 'Witness' in 1985, starring Harrison Ford?
Answer: peter weir
Question: The singer and songwriter Ketevan (Katie) Melua was born in which now-independent country in 1984?
Answer: georgia
Question: Manganese Bronze Holdings of Coventry is famous for the production of what sort of vehicle?
Answer: london taxis
Question: Graham Seed played which character in 'The Archers' for almost thirty years?
Answer: nigel pargetter
Question: Which country was featured in the first of the Rough Guide travel series published in 1981?
Answer: greece
Question: Which country declared war on Japan - the day before the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki?
Answer: soviet union
Question: The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank is named after which physicist and astronomer?
Answer: sir bernard lovell
Question: Who wrote the plays The Caretaker' in 1959 and 'The Birthday Party' in 1957?
Answer: harold pinter
Question: What was the Christian name of the character played by Felicity Kendal in The Good Life' TV series?
Answer: barbara
Question: The Irish town of Drogheda in Ireland is situated on which river?
Answer: river boyne
Question: Who built the first cast iron bridge at Coalbrookdale, opened in 1780?
Answer: abraham darby
Question: In which city was Muhammed Ali born in 1942?
Answer: louisville
Question: Who did the then Cassius Clay defeat to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world in 1964?
Answer: sonny liston
Question: Which former Nazi war criminal was the subject of Ira Levin's 1976 novel The Boys from Brazil'?
Answer: josef mengele
Question: What is the name of the alternative medicine involving applying pressure to the feet and hands?
Answer: reflexology
Question: Name the world's first commercially operational jet passenger plane. It first operated from London to Johannesburg in 1952.
Answer: de havilland comet
Question: What was the RAF's first operational jet, first flying in 1943?
Answer: gloster meteor
Question: How is the Japanese Shinkansen train, better known in the UK?
Answer: bullet train
Question: Upminster and Wimbledon are termini of which London Underground line?
Answer: district
Question: Which was the British Army's main battle tank of the post VVWII period? It was replaced by the Chieftain tank in 1967.
Answer: centurion
Question: Of which country was Edith Cresson prime minister from 1995 to 1999?
Answer: france
Question: Who directed the 1975 film 'Jaws'?
Answer: steven spielberg
Question: Which 1956 film starred Gregory Peck as a captain obsessed with a great white whale?
Answer: moby dick
Question: In the cartoon TV series, what was the name of Captain Pugwash's enemy, the captain of the "Flying Dustman"?
Answer: cut throat jake
Question: Which England cricketer is the most capped English player in test matches?
Answer: alec stewart
Question: Agrippina the Younger was the mother of which Roman Emperor?
Answer: nero
Question: In the Monty Python TV sketch, what type of dead parrot did John Cleese return to the pet shop?
Answer: norwegian blue
Question: In the TV series Friends, what is the name of Phoebe's twin sister, also played by Lisa Kudrow?
Answer: ursula
Question: By what collective name were the comedy act Moe Howard, Shemp Howard and Larry Fine known?
Answer: three stooges
Question: Which ballerina is best known for the creation of the role 'The Dying Swan' in 1905?
Answer: anna pavlova
Question: Which Oscar-winning actress was born Susan Abigail Tomalin?
Answer: susan sarandon
Question: Why were British policemen known as "Peelers" in the nineteenth century?
Answer: after sir robert peel
Question: Which character was voiced by Isaac Hayes in the TV cartoon series South Park?
Answer: chef
Question: Which Portuguese navigator (1467-1520) is regarded as the discoverer of Brazil?
Answer: pedro alvares cabral
Question: In which city did the original jazz club Birdland open in 1949?
Answer: new york
Question: Which tree has the botanical name Acer Pseudoplatanus?
Answer: sycamore
Question: What is the country of origin of the supermarket chain Aldi?
Answer: germany
Question: In the cartoon series, whose girlfriend is named Olive Oyl?
Answer: popeye
Question: What was the surname of the Haitian dictator Papa Doc?
Answer: francois duvalier
Question: Which opera house in New York is located in the Lincoln Centre for Performing Arts?
Answer: metropolitan opera house
Question: Wiki, as in Wikipedia, is a word that means fast or quick - in what language?
Answer: hawaiian
Question: Which site, a location for one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, is near the modern city of Bodrum in Turkey?
Answer: halicarnassus
Question: Which ancient calendar predicted that the world would end on 21st December 2012?
Answer: mayan
Question: David Livingstone was brn in which Scottish mill town in 1813?
Answer: blantyre
Question: Name the bandleader who died in March 2013, his biggest hits were 'Samantha' and 'Midnight In Moscow'?
Answer: kenny ball
Question: Which manufacturer returned to Formula 1 as a supplier in 1993 and a constructor in 2010 after having withdrawn from the sport in 1955?
Answer: mercedes
Question: Aldebaran is the brightest star in which Zodiacal constellation?
Answer: taurus
Question: At the end of the 2012-13 season, The New Saints and Airbus UK finished first and second in which football league?
Answer: welsh premier league
Question: Actresses Virginia Cherrill, Betsy Drake and Dyan Cannon all married which actor?
Answer: cary grant
Question: Which island, cormected to the mainland by the Jubilee Bridge, is the largest of the Furness Islands in the Irish Sea?
Answer: walney
Question: Whose resignation prompted the Eastleigh by-election in February 2013?
Answer: chris huhne
Question: What is added to Prosecco to make a Bellini?
Answer: peach
Question: The Frank Loesser musical 'Guys & Dolls' is based on characters created by whom?
Answer: damon runyan
Question: 'Sauce bigarade' is a traditional French sauce to accompany which meat?
Answer: duck
Question: Who wrote the opera 'A Masked Ball' in 1859?
Answer: verdi
Question: Which famous early steam locomotive was built by William Hedley?
Answer: puffing billy
Question: Who played the title role in Stephen Spielberg's film 'Lincoln'?
Answer: daniel day lewis
Question: At which lock does the Manchester Ship Canal join the River Mersey?
Answer: eastham
Question: What name is given to the coast between Orcombe Point near Exmouth and Old Harry Rocks near Swanage?
Answer: jurassic coast
Question: Who was the only King of England to belong to the House of Blois?
Answer: stephen
Question: Which singer had a no 1 hit in 1985 with a duet singing with Barbara Dickson?
Answer: elaine paige
Question: Wales won the Rugby Union Six Nations competition in 2013, which country finished bottom?
Answer: france
Question: Who replaced Mike Harding as the presenter of Radio 2's Folk Show?
Answer: mark radcliffe
Question: At the end of the 2012-13 season, Cove Rangers and Formartine Utd finished first and second in which football league?
Answer: highland league
Question: The Schick skin test is used to check immunity to which disease?
Answer: diphtheria
Question: Which singer had a no I hit in 1987 with a duet singing with George Michael?
Answer: aretha franklin
Question: Which essential part of ballet training, still in use, was devised by Pierre Beauchamp in the late 17th century?
Answer: five positions of feet
Question: Which Conservative MP resigned as Government Chief Whip after the 'Plebgate' incident?
Answer: andrew mitchell
Question: The railway line between Exeter and Barnstaple is named after the title character of which Henry Williamson book?
Answer: tarka
Question: The miracle substance Graphene was developed by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at which university?
Answer: manchester
Question: The Battle of Towton is believed to be the longest and bloodiest battle on English soil, in which war did it take place?
Answer: wars of roses
Question: Which TV series of the 1950s, one the first 'soaps' on British TV, featured Jill Browne, Desmond Carrington, Richard Thorp and John Alderton?
Answer: emergency ward 10
Question: The locomotive Mallard, the holder of the World Steam Speed record, was designed by which engineer?
Answer: sir nigel gresley
Question: The Stephen Sondheirn musical 'Sunday in the Park with George' is based on the life of which artist?
Answer: georges seurat
Question: The Jane Austen Museum is in which Hampshire village where she spent the last eight years of her life?
Answer: chawton
Question: Which very famous actor had three wives, Josephine Alicia Saenz, Esperanza Baur and Pilar Pallete?
Answer: john wayne
Question: Who played the title role of Jack Reacher in the 2012 film of Lee Child's novel 'One Shot?
Answer: tom cruise
Question: Englishmen Jonny Wilkinson and Delon Amiitage between them scored all of their team's points in winning the 2013 Heineken Cup with which team?
Answer: toulon
Question: In which Zodiacal constellation is the bright star Regulus?
Answer: leo
Question: Who wrote the opera 'Girl of the Golden West' in 1910?
Answer: puccini
Question: Who presents the Radio 2 Rhythm & Blues Show at 7.00pm every Monday?
Answer: paul jones
Question: With which privately owned team did James hunt enter Formula 1 in 1973?
Answer: hesketh
Question: Which island lies two miles off the tip of the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales?
Answer: bardsey
Question: How is the new Leadenhall Building in London colloquially known?
Answer: cheesegrater
Question: The 1932 film 'Taxi' is famous for which line of dialogue?
Answer: you dirty rat
Question: Which French Republic ruled France between the 1870s and the 1940s?
Answer: third republic
Question: The UK is to spend approximately £1 million before 2015 on Project Hougoumont, where is it to be spent?
Answer: waterloo
Question: What 1960's LA band took their name from the title of one of Aldous Huxley's books?
Answer: doors
Question: Which Author wrote 'Burmese Days' in 1934 and 'Coming Up For Air' in 1939'?
Answer: george orwell
Question: What title was bestowed upon Harold Wilson's Secretary, Marcia Williams, in 1974?
Answer: baroness falkender
Question: Broccoli, sprouts and cauliflower are all members of which family of plants?
Answer: brassica
Question: What northern city was the site for a victory for Oliver Cromwell in 1648 and a defeat for the Jacobites in 1715?
Answer: preston
Question: Who wrote the opera Lucia Di Lammermoor in 1834?
Answer: gaetano donizetti
Question: Which tennis record did Australian Samuel Groth break in May 2012?
Answer: fastest serve
Question: Who walked out of an interview with Robin Day in 1982 about defence cuts after the Falklands War?
Answer: john nott
Question: Which town is the administrative centre of Powys?
Answer: llandrindod wells
Question: As at April 2013, who presents the Saturday afternoon Radio 2 show 'Pick of the Pops'?
Answer: tony blackburn
Question: What was the name of the ground-breaking 'thought experiment' proposed by an Austrian Scientist in 1935?
Answer: schrodinger s cat
Question: Who wrote 'Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis'?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: Which presenter of the BBC Radio 4's daily news magazine 'PM' became a stand-in presenter for the Andrew Marr show following Marr's stroke?
Answer: eddie mair
Question: Who became U.S. Secretary of State early in 2013, replacing Hilary Clinton?
Answer: john kerry
Question: Who wrote the children's book The Gruffalo?
Answer: julia donaldson
Question: What 153 mile footpath goes from Farnham to Dover?
Answer: north downs way
Question: Which was the only French metropolitan department never visited by the Tour de France, prior to the 100th tour in 2013?
Answer: corsica
Question: Born James Newell Osterberg Jr. in 1947, which pop star fronted a TV campaign for car insurance in 2009?
Answer: iggy pop
Question: First published in 1929, for which character is Belgian George Remi best known?
Answer: tintin
Question: In The Goodies TV series a martial art form known as 'Eckythump' was practised using which foodstuff as a weapon?
Answer: black pudding
Question: Which group performed the first ever song in the first episode of Top of the Pops in 1964?
Answer: rolling stones
Question: Which Welsh professional Rugby player, who was capped 100 times for his country, became the first openly gay rugby playerin 2009?
Answer: gareth thomas
Question: Under whose leadership did the RMT become one of Britain's fastest growing Trade Unions between 2002 and 2008?
Answer: bob crow
Question: Who is known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the middle ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Comer of Westminster Abbey?
Answer: geoffrey chaucer
Question: Which word describes a painting or sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead Christ?
Answer: pieta
Question: Which range of mountains in France and Switzerland gives its name to the middle period of the Mesozoic era?
Answer: jura
Question: The supermodel Jodie Kidd represented England at which sport?
Answer: polo
Question: Which former member of the Clash formed the Justice Tonight Band to promote awareness of the Hillsborough Justice campaign?
Answer: mick jones
Question: A targeted group of assassinations in France on St Bartholomew's Day in 1572 led to which word entering the English language?
Answer: massacre
Question: What name is given to the Jewish candlestick with special religious meaning?
Answer: menorah
Question: The concept of 'cloud-cuckoo land' originated with which Ancient Greek playwright?
Answer: aristophanes
Question: The President of France and the Bishop of Urgell are the joint rulers of which country?
Answer: andorra
Question: Which group of medieval people traditionally wore the emblem of a cockleshell in their hats?
Answer: pilgrims
Question: Which mixed drink, popular at parties, takes its name from the Hindi or Sanskrit word for 'five'?
Answer: punch
Question: If Monday's child is fair of face what is Saturday's child?
Answer: works hard for living
Question: In which Shakespeare play are the following characters, Mistress Margaret Page and Master George Page?
Answer: merry wives of windsor
Question: Name the character played by Bruce Willis in the 'Die Hard' films?
Answer: john mcclane
Question: Name the film where a knickerless Sharon Stone crosses her legs.
Answer: basic instinct
Question: The 'Notting Hill Mystery' is aometimes claimed to be what?
Answer: first detective novel
Question: Name the ship on the voyage in 1907 in which Ernest Shackleton located the magnetic South Pole?
Answer: nimrod
Question: California is bordered by 3 states, Arizona and Nevada are two name the third,
Answer: oregon
Question: 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you' is the first line of which piece of work by Rudyard Kipling?
Answer: if
Question: Who had the nickname the Galloping Gourmet?
Answer: graham kerr
Question: On whish river does Newport (Isle of Wight) stand?
Answer: medina
Question: Name the film where a Scottish Village awakens only once every hundred years?
Answer: brigadoon
Question: Which film did the Oscar winning song 'Secret Love' come from?
Answer: calamity jane
Question: The Lord Temporal, The Lord Spiritual and the House of Commons are known as the 3 estates, what is the fourth?
Answer: press
Question: Which artist painted 'The Cardplayers'?
Answer: paul cezanne
Question: In the acronym OFSTED, what one word do the letters ST represent?
Answer: standards
Question: Who, in 1974, was the first PFA Player's Players of the Year?
Answer: norman hunter
Question: 'Whoever controls the Ohio and Mississippi rivers controls the continent' which American Civil War general said this?
Answer: william t sherman
Question: What was the name of the resort in the film 'Dirty Dancing'?
Answer: kellermans
Question: Which sea battle was the first in which aircraft carriers engaged each other and also the first in which the opposing ships never directly saw each other?
Answer: battle of coral sea
Question: Which Puccini opera contains the aria 'Nessun Donna'?
Answer: turandot
Question: If Calvin Coolidge was number 30, who was number 31?
Answer: herbert hoover
Question: The Lollard uprising and the Battle of Agincourt took place in the reign of which English monarch?
Answer: henry v
Question: Who played the young Bilbo Baggins off to adventure in the 2012 film 'The Hobbit - an Unexpected Journey'?
Answer: martin freeman
Question: In Norse mythology who or what was Mjollnir?
Answer: thor s hammer
Question: What is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major?
Answer: sirius
Question: Symond's Yat is a high rock outcrop on the bend of which British river?
Answer: wye
Question: James Arthur was the winner of which TV reality programme in December 2012?
Answer: x factor
Question: Which major waterfall lies on the River Tees at Forest-in-Teesdale?
Answer: high force
Question: 'Rodeo', 'Billy the Kid' and 'Fanfare for the Common Man' are all works by which composer?
Answer: aaron copland
Question: No.5, 1948 was the world's second most expensive painting (after 'The Card Players') when it was sold in 2006. Who was the American artist?
Answer: jackson pollock
Question: Who, in 2013, released the hit album 'Our Version of Events'?
Answer: emeli sande
Question: In Greek mythology who gave Theseus the ball of thread so he could find his way out of the Minotaur's Labyrinth?
Answer: ariadne
Question: What nationality is Yann Martel who won the Mann-Booker prize in 2002 for 'Life of Pi'?
Answer: canadian
Question: The Koran contains 114 sections; by that name are these usually known?
Answer: suras
Question: In the Bible what was bought with the 30 pieces of silver returned to the Chief Priests by Judas?
Answer: potter s field
Question: Which England player was sent off during the England/Ukraine game in September 2012?
Answer: steven gerrard
Question: In which English country is the Neolithic henge monument of Avebury?
Answer: wiltshire
Question: The American Civil War battle known as Manassas by the Confederacy was more widely known by that other name?
Answer: bull run
Question: In terms of English brewery cast units, how many gallons are in a beer firkin?
Answer: 9 imperial gallons
Question: Which English city is said, like Rome, to be built on seven hills?
Answer: sheffield
Question: Which American general commanded the allied forces in the first Gulf War in 1991?
Answer: norman schwartzkopf
Question: In 1759 two generals died as a result of the battle of Quebec, General Wolfe was one, name the other.
Answer: general montcalm
Question: Who in the summer of 2012 resigned as CEO of Barclays?
Answer: bob diamond
Question: In medical science for what does the "I" stand in MRI scans?
Answer: imaging
Question: For what does the "K" stand in the author's name J.K. Rowling?
Answer: kathleen
Question: Which horse won the 2013 Grand National at 66 to 1?
Answer: auroras encore
Question: Which Dickens character married Dora Spenlow?
Answer: david copperfield
Question: By what name is the comedian Leigh Francis currently better known on TV?
Answer: keith lemon