CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Ian Gillan replaced Ronnie James in which pop group?
Answer: black sabbath
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Duchess Of Malfi'?
Answer: john webster
Question: Which best selling American author includes 'The Piranhas' and 'Descent From Xanadu' amongst his works?
Answer: harold robbins
Question: Can you identify the play by William Shakespeare in which the following quote appears, "If music be the food of love, play on"?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: What was the first name of the song-writing brother of George Gershwin?
Answer: ira
Question: In the 1974 comedy TV series 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum', who played the part of 'Rangi Ram'?
Answer: michael bates
Question: In which 'James Bond' film did Michelle Yeoh play the part of 'Bond girl - Wai Lin'?
Answer: tomorrow never dies
Question: Can you identify the play by William Shakespeare in which the following quote appears, "Cowards die many times before their deaths"?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: Which American President used the slogan 'It's Morning Again In America' for his 1984 Presidential campaign?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Which was the only team in the 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa not to lose a match?
Answer: new zealand
Question: In which opera do the characters 'Annina', 'Alfredo Germont' and 'Duophol' appear?
Answer: la traviata
Question: What is the alternative name for the bird Philomel?
Answer: nightingale
Question: In 'Thunderbirds', If 'Alan Tracy' was named after Alan Shepard and 'John Tacy' after John Glenn, after whom was 'Virgil Tracy' named?
Answer: virgil gus grissom
Question: In the 1974 comedy TV series 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' who played the part of 'Gunner Beaumont'?
Answer: melvyn hayes
Question: Which flower has the Latin name Convallaria majelis?
Answer: lily of valley
Question: In which 'James Bond' film did the character 'Honey Ryder' appear?
Answer: dr no
Question: Who was the lyricist partner of Richard Rogers prior to Oscar Hammerstein?
Answer: lorenz hart
Question: 'Mr. Lockwood' rents 'Thrushcross Grange' and asks the housekeeper 'Nelly Dean' to tell him about the landlord and his family. This is the basis of which novel?
Answer: wuthering heights
Question: Which city completes, and is the site of the main campus of '........ Solent University'?
Answer: southampton
Question: Who played 'Trigger' in 'Only Fools And Horses'?
Answer: roger lloyd pack
Question: Which British rock band comprises Romeo Stodart and his sister Michelle, together with Angela Gannon and her brother Sean?
Answer: magic numbers
Question: For which film did Emma Thompson win an Academy Award for Best Actress?
Answer: howards end
Question: Give the title of the Wilfred Owen poem that begins: "What passing-bells for those who die as cattle? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid fire. Can patter out their hasty orisons"?
Answer: anthem for doomed youth
Question: Darren Clark is the second winner of the Open Golf Championship from Northern Ireland. Who was the first winner, in 1947?
Answer: fred daly
Question: In 1956 which Welsh peninsula became the first 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty' in the U.K.?
Answer: gower
Question: For what does the second 'M' stand in the Manchester based University known as 'MMU'?
Answer: metropolitan
Question: 'Charles Bingley' rents 'Netherfield Park'. He and his friend attend a dance where they meet the 'Bennet sisters'. This is the basis for which novel?
Answer: pride and prejudice
Question: Which motorway links the M6 north of Preston to Blackpool?
Answer: m55
Question: The 'Potemkin Stairs' are a feature of which Ukranian city?
Answer: odessa
Question: Which political party does Australian prime Minister Julia Gillard represent?
Answer: australian labour party
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Howards End'?
Answer: e m forster
Question: Which US rock band comprises brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill with their cousin Matthew?
Answer: kings of leon
Question: Give the word that completes the fourth line of this poem: " Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye. Could frame thy fearful .........."?
Answer: symmetry
Question: 'Pour Moi' is the first French trained winner of the Derby since 'Empery' in 1976. Who rode 'Empery' in that race?
Answer: lester piggott
Question: On which British island can you walk the 'Tennyson Trail' from Carisbrooke to Alum Bay?
Answer: isle of wight
Question: How are 'Oscar Madison' and 'Felix Ungar' described in the title of a 1960's play, later a film and TV series?
Answer: odd couple
Question: The name of which mammal comes from the Afrikaans for 'earth pig'?
Answer: aardvark
Question: Lee Kuan Yew became Prime Minister of which country in 1959?
Answer: singapore
Question: Which composee was born in Leipzig in 1813 and died in Venice in 1883?
Answer: richard wagner
Question: Who is the regular presenter on BBC Radio One on Monday to Friday from 10.00am to 12.45pm?
Answer: fearne cotton
Question: Known as the 'City of Roses', which is the most populous city in the US state of Oregon?
Answer: portland
Question: Who is the regular presenter on BBC Radio Two on Monday to Friday from 5.00pm to 7.00pm?
Answer: simon mayo
Question: Which river forms most of the boundary between the US states of Oregon and Washington?
Answer: columbia
Question: Which 1994 film is based on the true life story of 'The Guildford Four'?
Answer: in name of father
Question: On which Scottish island is Goat Fell the highest point?
Answer: arran
Question: The Aztecs called them 'azotochtli', which is Nahuatl for 'turtle-rabbit'. Which mammal has species including nine- banded, seven-banded and screaming hairy?
Answer: armadillo
Question: How are 'Max Bialystock' and 'Leo Bloom' described in the title of a 1960's film ,later a stage musical?
Answer: producers
Question: The capital city of which European country lies on the River Ljubljanica?
Answer: slovenia
Question: By tradition what is drunk by the winner of the 'Indianapolis 500' motor race?
Answer: milk
Question: Who was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1925 to 1945?
Answer: j r r tolkein
Question: Which word completes the title of a story by Roald Dahl - 'Charlie And The Great Glass .....'?
Answer: elevator
Question: Which musical features the song 'The Worst Pies In London'?
Answer: sweeney todd
Question: In which t.v. series was 'George Cowley' the head of 'C15'.
Answer: professionals
Question: Which socialist society was founded in London in January 1884?
Answer: fabian society
Question: Which country in 1930 became the fifth to play Test Cricket, not winning their first match until they beat the West Indies in 1956?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which word completes the titles of these Neil Simon plays: 'Plaza ......', 'California ......' and 'London .......'?
Answer: suite
Question: Which current presenter of 'Today' on BBC Radio 4 joined the programme in 1987?
Answer: john humphrys
Question: In Greek myth who was the leader of the Titans, who overthrew his father Uranus and was then overthrown by his son Zeus?
Answer: cronus
Question: 'The Sarah Jane Adventures' was a spin-off from which t.v. programme?
Answer: doctor who
Question: Who won the 1952 Pulitzer Fiction Prize for 'The Caine Mutiny'?
Answer: herman wouk
Question: What is the title of the novelty song by 'Black Lace' which reached number two in 1984?
Answer: agadoo
Question: Who was the son of Darius and King of Persia from 486 to 465 BC?
Answer: xerxes
Question: What name is given to Scottish mountains which are over 3000 feet?
Answer: munros
Question: Who painted 'The Light Of The World', the original being in Keble College, Oxford?
Answer: william holman hunt
Question: Xerxes led the Persian forces at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. His enemy was an alliance of the Greek city-states led by Leonidas. Of which city-state was he king?
Answer: sparta
Question: At which circuit in Italy was the San Marino Grand Prix staged?
Answer: imola
Question: Which Pre-Raphaelite painted 'Ophelia', which can be seen in Tate Britain?
Answer: john everett millais
Question: Elgar's Second Symphony was dedicated to the memory of which king?
Answer: edward vii
Question: What is the title of the BBC Radio 4 early evening programme similar to 'Today'?
Answer: pm
Question: In Greek myth who was the Titan of memory and remembrance, and mother of the nine Muses?
Answer: mnemosyne
Question: Which ballerina who defected to the West in 1970 won a Tony Award for her Broadway performance in 'On Your Toes' in 1983?
Answer: natalia makarova
Question: What was the occupation of 'Keith Barrett', played by Rob Brydon, in the t.v. comedy 'Marion and Geoff'?
Answer: taxi driver
Question: Who is the mother of t.v. presenter Rebecca Wilcox?
Answer: esther rantzen
Question: Who won the 1948 Pulitzer Fiction Prize for 'Tales Of The South Pacific'?
Answer: james michener
Question: Who founded a model village on the River Aire near Bradford in 1851?
Answer: titus salt
Question: In which English county is the town of Wells-next-the- Sea?
Answer: norfolk
Question: Who captained the England Cricket team 15 times in the early 1930's, winning 9 of the matches?
Answer: douglas jardine
Question: What is the chemical formula for Copper Sulphate?
Answer: cuso4
Question: One of Michel Ball's earliest roles was as 'Marius' in the original London production of which musical?
Answer: les miserables
Question: Which seeded player did Lukas Rosol beat in the second round at Wimbledon in June?
Answer: rafael nadal
Question: What is the surname of the Roald Dahl character 'Matilda'?
Answer: wormwood
Question: In 1993 who, with Mike Stroud, completed 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents, although bad weather meant the Antarctic race was held on the Falklands?
Answer: ranulph fiennes
Question: Which singer recorded the 1969 hit album "Hot Buttered Soul"?
Answer: isaac hayes
Question: What was the title of Japp Stam’s autobiography, which led to his departure from Manchester United?
Answer: head to head
Question: In which year did Mohammed’s flight from Mecca to Medina take place?
Answer: 622 ad
Question: Who won series 11 of "Strictly Come Dancing" in 2012?
Answer: louis smith
Question: Which spirit is the characteristic ingredient of "Planter’s Punch"?
Answer: rum
Question: Who is the author of the 2006 novel “Shalimar the Clown”?
Answer: salman rushdie
Question: In Norse mythology, who guards the Bifrost against the coming of the frost giants at Ragnarok?
Answer: heimdall
Question: The men’s fragrances “Fahrenheit” and “Eau Sauvage” are made by which company?
Answer: christian dior
Question: In which country is Rosario, a port on the River Parana?
Answer: argentina
Question: Rastafarianism is based on the ideas of which Jamaican?
Answer: marcus garvey
Question: Which actor starred in 'High Fidelity' (2000), 'Being John Malkovich' (1999) and 'Con Air' (1997)?
Answer: john cusack
Question: Which TV comedy series of the 1970s was actually filmed at Wooburn Grange, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire?
Answer: fawlty towers
Question: In which town or city is the principal site of the University of the Highlands and Islands?
Answer: inverness
Question: In which town is the principal campus of the University of Ulster?
Answer: coleraine
Question: The 4th brightest star in the sky is also the brightest star of the Northern Hemisphere. It is contained in the constellation Bootes (the Herdsman). What is its name?
Answer: arcturus
Question: Which horse won the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in 1984 and went on to a complete double by winning the Gold Cup there in 1986?
Answer: dawn run
Question: Which comic book hero, with an alter ego of Steve Rogers, did Joe Simon and Jack Kirby create in 1940?
Answer: captain america
Question: Which pop group recorded the 1996 album "High on the Hog"?
Answer: band
Question: Which horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup five times in the 1930s?
Answer: golden miller
Question: The men’s fragrances “Kouros” and “Jazz” are made by which company?
Answer: yves saint laurent
Question: Which beer was first brewed in Leuven in 1366?
Answer: stella artois
Question: What was the real name of the murderer known as the 'Boston Strangler'?
Answer: albert de salvo
Question: What is Force 11 (eleven) on the Beaufort Scale?
Answer: storm
Question: On which English racecourse is the 1000 Guineas classic race run?
Answer: newmarket
Question: Fanny price is the heroine of which novel by Jane Austen?
Answer: mansfield park
Question: Luis Suarez was later banned from the 2014 world cup for biting which Italian defender?
Answer: giorgio chiellini
Question: The clock tower which houses Big Ben in London is dedicated to which saint?
Answer: st stephen
Question: The 1966 song "All Or Nothing" was which group's only number 1 single?
Answer: small faces
Question: The animal welfare charity The National Canine Defence League changed its name to what?
Answer: dogs trust
Question: Which state of the USA is known as the Hoosier state?
Answer: indiana
Question: Which two word name is given to a mixture of nitric acid and sulphuric acid?
Answer: aqua regis
Question: The fictional character Rip Van Winkle slept through which war?
Answer: american war of independence
Question: Which golfer is the captain of the European team in 2014 Ryder cup?
Answer: paul mcginley
Question: To which James Bond film did Nancy Sinatra sing the theme tune?
Answer: you only live twice
Question: What was the name of the trail boss in TV series Rawhide?
Answer: gil favor
Question: Who was the secretary and mistress of disgraced MP John Stonehouse?
Answer: sheila buckley
Question: Who wrote the classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Answer: harriet beecher stowe
Question: In mythology who was the Greek equivalent of Vulcan?
Answer: hephaistos
Question: Lulu sang the theme tune to which James Bond film?
Answer: man with golden gun
Question: Which stately home in Buckinghamshire is the official residence of the chancellor of the exchequer?
Answer: dorneywood
Question: Who was the original wagon-master in the classic TV western series “Wagon Train"?
Answer: major seth adams
Question: Which tanker was in the news when it ran aground off the Pembrokeshire coast in 1996?
Answer: sea empress
Question: Which Hollywood star's last film was "Cuban Rebel Girls" in 1959
Answer: errol flynn
Question: Give either Christian name of the novelist GK Chesterton.
Answer: gilbert keith
Question: Founded in 1897, which animal welfare charity was formerly known As "Our Dumb Friends League"?
Answer: blue cross
Question: The old codgers were a fictional pair who answered readers' letters for 54 years in which newspaper?
Answer: daily mirror
Question: Catherine Norland is the central female character of which novel by Jane Austen?
Answer: northanger abbey
Question: What was the name of the "major" at the centre of the 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" controversy?
Answer: charles ingram
Question: The stormcock is an alternative name for which bird?
Answer: mistle thrush
Question: Who was the president of America for the majority of the 1920's?
Answer: calvin coolidge
Question: Vega is the brightest star of which zodiacal constellation?
Answer: lyra
Question: What was the name of the dog in the secret seven books by Enid Blyton?
Answer: scamper
Question: In world war two who was successfully targeted by the allies in operation Anthropoid?
Answer: reinhardt heydrich
Question: Bearing the legs and wings what name is given to the intermediate division of an insect?
Answer: thorax
Question: In June 1965 who became the first American to walk in space?
Answer: ed white
Question: Urquhart castle in Scotland overlooks which famous stretch of water?
Answer: loch ness
Question: Who had the first ever Christmas number one single in the British charts?
Answer: al martino
Question: Which English city has stations called Shrub Hill and Foregate Street?
Answer: worcester
Question: What name is given to the central division of a backgammon board?
Answer: bar
Question: Which breed of dog derives its name from the German for "splash"?
Answer: poodle
Question: What is the capital city of the Spanish autonomous community of Cantabria
Answer: santander
Question: Which of the March sisters from Little Women by Louisa M Alcott is missing - Meg, Jo, Beth and?
Answer: amy
Question: Complete the partnership who won seven Grand Slam doubles titles from 1979 to 1984 including four at Wimbledon — Fleming and?
Answer: mcenroe
Question: Which legal drama starring Martin Shaw ran for six series on BBC TV from 2001?
Answer: judge john deed
Question: The opera The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten is based on whose novella
Answer: henry james
Question: The Bet Lynch Mob and the Rainy City Roller Girls are roller derby teams from which city
Answer: manchester
Question: Which character played by Janet Brown appears at the end of the Bond film For Your Eyes Only?
Answer: margaret thatcher
Question: In which city is the Gateway to India, built to commemorate the visit of George V in 1911
Answer: mumbai
Question: Goat Fell is the highest point on which Scottish island?
Answer: arran
Question: Who painted Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer in 1907, sold in 2006 for $135 million?
Answer: gustav klimt
Question: What is the English name for the German dessert Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte?
Answer: black forest gateau
Question: Under which treaty of 1713 was control of Gibraltar ceded to Britain?
Answer: utrecht
Question: Drake Circus is a shopping centre opened in 2006 in which English city?
Answer: plymouth
Question: Who plays Brutus, a bar owner, in the recent BBC comedy Sun Trap?
Answer: bradley walsh
Question: Pon de Replay in 2005, and SOS and Unfaithful in 2006 all reached Number Two in the UK singles chart for which singer before she had her first Number One?
Answer: rihanna
Question: Which poet played for Harrow in the first Eton v Harrow cricket match in 1805?
Answer: lord byron
Question: The titles of whose later symphonies (1778-1791) include Paris, Linz and Prague?
Answer: wolfgang amadeus mozart
Question: Who was the only English player to score in the 2015 FA Cup Final?
Answer: theo walcott
Question: Workshop and Digital are visual effects companies named after which large insects native to New Zealand?
Answer: weta
Question: Chasing Pavements in 2008 and Rolling in the Deep in 2010 both reached Number Two in the UK singles chart for which singer before she had her first Number One?
Answer: adele
Question: Who wrote the poem that begins: There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night Ten to make and the match to win A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in.?
Answer: henry newbolt
Question: The predominant cause of rickets is a deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: d
Question: Which football team won the Scottish Cup in 2015?
Answer: inverness caledonian thistle
Question: In which modem day African country was Roman Emperor Septimius Severus born?
Answer: libya
Question: What is the name given to a mountain in Scotland with a height that is over 3000 feet?
Answer: munro
Question: What was the family name of the first Viscount Rothermere and his brother the first Viscount Northcliffe, founders of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror?
Answer: harmsworth
Question: Which novelist (1879-1980) wrote the libretto for the Benjamin Britten opera Billy Budd with Eric Crozier?
Answer: em forster
Question: The Great City Games is an athletics event in Manchester with a track laid on which thoroughfare?
Answer: deansgate
Question: Who plays Denis Thatcher in the 2011 film The Iron Lady?
Answer: jim broadbent
Question: Which Mughal Emperor commissioned the building of the Red Fort in Delhi when he moved his capital from Agra to Delhi?
Answer: shah jahan
Question: The Purple Revolution: The Year That Changed Everything is a memoir by which current politician
Answer: nigel farage
Question: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ended which war, known in North America as the French and Indian War
Answer: seven years war
Question: In November 1982 Eltham Little Theatre in London was renamed after which performer born in Eltham in 1903 who raised funds for the theatre?
Answer: bob hope
Question: Who was simultaneously Father of the House and Prime Minister from May 1907 until shortly before his death in April 1908?
Answer: henry campbell bannerman
Question: Recently in the news, which is the largest of the Italian Pelagie islands in the Mediterranean Sea
Answer: lampedusa
Question: In which city did Torvill and Dean win their Olympic Gold in 1984
Answer: sarajevo
Question: Which ITV soap that ran from 1964 to 1988 made a comeback in 2001 (lasting until 2003)?
Answer: crossroads
Question: Brittany Ferries run services from Portsmouth to Santander and which other city in Spain
Answer: bilbao
Question: Waterloo Sunset was a 1967 hit for which band?
Answer: kinks
Question: King Claudius and Queen Gertrude appear in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: hamlet
Question: D WL is the code of which railway station in Devon?
Answer: dawlish
Question: What is the common name of Fagus sylvatica?
Answer: beech tree
Question: By what nickname was the comic book character 'Alf Tupper' known?
Answer: tough of track
Question: Who had a top ten hit in 1992, with the song 'Achy, Breaky Heart'?
Answer: billy ray cyrus
Question: Terry Gene Bollea is the real name of which wrestler turned actor?
Answer: hulk hogan
Question: In which English county is the Lightwater Valley Theme Park?
Answer: north yorkshire
Question: Which French Impressionist painter, famed in later life for his portraits of nudes, was born in Limoges in 1841, and died in Cagnes in the south of France in 1919?
Answer: pierre auguste renoir
Question: In which BBC crime series did the characters 'Ray Carling', 'Chris Skelton' and 'Alex Drake' appear?
Answer: ashes to ashes
Question: To where was Saul heading when he had a vision from God, thus becoming St. Paul?
Answer: damascus
Question: Which Scottish city isserved by 'Riverside Airport'?
Answer: dundee
Question: Which terrorist group were responsible for the killing the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics?
Answer: black september
Question: The result of dividing a number into one is called the what, of that number?
Answer: reciprocal
Question: Which product was advertised with the slogan "Good to the last drop"?
Answer: coffee maxwell house
Question: Dwayne Johnson is the real name of which wrestler turned actor?
Answer: rock
Question: Which French Impressionist painter, famed for his portrait 'The Bar At The Folie Bergere', was born in Paris in 1832, and died of a gangrenous leg in 1883?
Answer: edouard manet
Question: Which stretch of water joins the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara?
Answer: dardanelles
Question: The Britannia Monument, correctly called the Norfolk Pillar, in Great Yarmouth is a memorial to who?
Answer: horatio nelson
Question: 'Stephen Blackpool', a mill worker, is a character in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: hard times
Question: In Greek myth Prometheus was punished by an eagle eating which part of his body every day, which then grew back every night?
Answer: liver
Question: Murray Gold has been musical director for which TV series since it was revived in 2005?
Answer: doctor who
Question: In the 'Star Wars' films, who was the twin sister of 'Luke Skywalker'?
Answer: princess leia
Question: Which ITV series, set in Africa, stars Hayley Mills and in 2009 also featured her sister Juliet?
Answer: wild at heart
Question: Known as 'The Rochdale Cowboy', who wrote 'Napoleon's Retreat From Wigan'?
Answer: mike harding
Question: Who won the Heptathlon Gold Medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships?
Answer: jessica ennis
Question: Which future President was the inaugural Ambassador to the UK, called at the time, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James?
Answer: john adams
Question: Who played 'Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt' in the 1958 film 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof'?
Answer: burl ives
Question: Which geographical feature completes '......... of Benin', ' Great Australian.....' and 'German......'?
Answer: bight
Question: Mount Vesuvius began to erupt most famously on August 24th in which year?
Answer: 79 ad
Question: Which company has supplied all of the balls for FIFA World Cup Finals since 1970?
Answer: adidas