CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which daughter of a Czar is mentioned in the Rolling Stones song ‘Sympathy for the Devil’?
Answer: anastasia
Question: Which song by Elton John is about late actress Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: candle in wind
Question: Who is the first ‘hero’ mentioned in the Stranglers hit single ‘No More Heroes’?
Answer: leon trotsky
Question: Which Canadian singer/songwriter is mentioned in the song ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ by Lynryd Skynryd?
Answer: neil young
Question: In the single ‘Waterloo Sunset’ by The Kinks, what are the names of the two people who meet at Waterloo Station every Friday night?
Answer: terry and julie
Question: Which UK Christmas number one single featured ‘Two Ton Ted from Teddington’?
Answer: ernie fastest milkman in west
Question: Who is the fourth person to be mentioned in the Marvin Gaye hit single ‘Abraham, Martin and John’?
Answer: bobby kennedy
Question: The oldest known living tree in the world, a bristlecone pine, is situated in which US state?
Answer: california
Question: Ne Win was head of state of which country from 1962 to 1981?
Answer: burma myanmar
Question: Noodling is the Australian term for the mining of which gemstone?
Answer: opal
Question: What was the name of the online peer-to-peer audio file sharing service which operated between June 1999 and July 2001?
Answer: napster
Question: Sweyn Forkbeard was the father of which 11th Century English monarch?
Answer: king canute
Question: In 1957, which US President announced a two-year suspension of nuclear testing?
Answer: dwight d eisenhower
Question: The English resort of Blackpool lies on which body of water?
Answer: irish sea
Question: Sheading is each of the six administrative divisions of which European island?
Answer: isle of man
Question: In which 1999 Sam Mendes film is Kevin Spacey married to Annette Bening?
Answer: american beauty
Question: ‘Just One More Thing’ is a 2006 autobiography by which late US actor?
Answer: peter falk
Question: Who plays the blind man in the 1989 comedy film ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil’?
Answer: richard pryor
Question: In Greek mythology, which hero of the Trojan war committed suicide after the armour of the dead Achilles was awarded to Odysseus and not him?
Answer: ajax
Question: What was the name of the band formed by Paul McCartney after the break-up of The Beatles?
Answer: wings
Question: Circumlocution is the term for using several ‘what’ when less or only one will do?
Answer: words
Question: In the novel ‘Oliver Twist’ by Charles Dickens, what is the first name of Oliver’s mother?
Answer: agnes
Question: What is the title of late actor Charlie Chaplin’s last completed film, launched in the UK in 1967?
Answer: countess from hong kong
Question: Which English port in the county of Kent is the only one which has the right to call itself a Royal Harbour?
Answer: ramsgate
Question: Who plays Jean Valjean in the 2012 film ‘Les Miserables’?
Answer: hugh jackman
Question: The German dessert Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte is known by what name in Britain?
Answer: black forest gateau
Question: Which British city is known as ‘Copperopolis’?
Answer: swansea
Question: Chenjeh, Kakora, Beyti and Shami are all types of which food dish?
Answer: kebab
Question: Which World War II US General was given the nickname ‘Dugout Doug’?
Answer: general douglas macarthur
Question: What is the name of the concert venue in Glasgow, completed in September 2013, becoming the largest entertainment venue in Scotland?
Answer: sse hydro
Question: What is the name of the pet dog in the UK children’s television series ‘The Woodentops’?
Answer: spotty dog
Question: What was the middle name of former British Prime Minister William Gladstone?
Answer: ewart
Question: House, Hogline, Hacks and Button are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: curling
Question: Which spirit is traditionally used to make a Bronx Cocktail?
Answer: gin
Question: The harbour wall known as ‘The Cobb’ features in which novel by John Fowles?
Answer: french lieutenant s woman
Question: Former US President Ronald Regan’s ‘Strategic Defence Initiative’, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the USA from attack by nuclear missiles, was known in the media by what nickname?
Answer: star wars
Question: ‘The Rhubarb Triangle’, famous for producing early forced rhubarb, is in which English county?
Answer: west yorkshire
Question: Jack Worthing is the main character in which Oscar Wilde play?
Answer: importance of being earnest
Question: Who was the first British sovereign to take up residence at Buckingham Palace?
Answer: queen victoria
Question: Kosciuszko is the highest mountain in which Southern Hemisphere country?
Answer: australia
Question: In the game of chess, ‘en passant’ involves which chess pieces?
Answer: pawns
Question: What is the only city in the English county of Wiltshire?
Answer: salisbury
Question: In the Hebrew calendar, Yom Chamishi corresponds with which day of the week?
Answer: thursday
Question: ‘Have it your way’ was an advertising slogan for which fast-food outlet?
Answer: burger king
Question: Bonnie Brae, Eureka and Ponderosa are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: lemon
Question: The names of how many US states begin with the letter ‘L’?
Answer: one
Question: Spoon Curve, Casio Triangle and Dunlop Curve are all sections of the Formula One Grand Prix circuit in which country?
Answer: japan
Question: What is the surname of US television courtroom show host Judge Judy?
Answer: sheindlin
Question: Mintonette was the original name of which ball game?
Answer: volley ball
Question: Who plays the role of Lieutenant Aldo Raine in the 2009 film ‘Inglorious Basterds’?
Answer: brad pitt
Question: Fictional superhero Batman is known as ‘The Caped ‘what’?
Answer: crusader
Question: Succotash is a dish of mainly maize and usually what type of beans boiled together?
Answer: lima beans
Question: Which are the only two planets in our solar system that have no moons?
Answer: mercury and venus
Question: Lois Maxwell played which part in the first 14 James Bond films?
Answer: miss moneypenny
Question: Who was elected leader of the British Labour Party in October 1983?
Answer: neil kinnock
Question: Martial arts actor Lee Yuen Kam was better known by what name?
Answer: bruce lee
Question: Who played Cardinal Wolsey in the 1971 film ‘Carry On Henry’?
Answer: terry scott
Question: Which former US President was said for a time to be an FBI informant with the code name T-10?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: The first Winter Youth Olympic Games were held in which European country in January 2012?
Answer: austria
Question: Which actor played the title role in the 1960’s UK television series ‘Adam Adamant’?
Answer: gerald harper
Question: Yankee Stadium is located in which borough of New York City?
Answer: bronx
Question: Which two singers had their microphones switched off after running over the time limit during a concert in London’s Hyde Park in July 2012?
Answer: bruce springsteen and paul mccartney
Question: What is the title of the third ‘Road’ film starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?
Answer: road to morocco
Question: Which political figure was best man at the 1927 second wedding of Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi?
Answer: benito mussolini
Question: Marke Rutte became Prime Minister of which European country in 2010?
Answer: netherlands
Question: In 2006, which 19th Century American novelist was finally reunited with his wife, Sophia, when her remains were taken from London to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Massachusetts, and buried with him?
Answer: nathaniel hawthorne
Question: French explorers Pierre and Paul Mallet were the first Europeans to ‘discover’ which range of North American mountains in 1739?
Answer: rocky mountains
Question: In June 1970, which was the first band to perform rock music at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York?
Answer: who
Question: Late US jazz singer, born Eleanora Fagan, was better known by what name?
Answer: billie holiday
Question: Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe was the first President of which African country?
Answer: nigeria
Question: Established by US President Lyndon B Johnson, ‘The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy’ was unofficially known by what name?
Answer: warren commission
Question: Mary Bohun and Joan of Navarre were the wives of which English monarch?
Answer: henry iv
Question: If a person’s birthday falls on 1st November, what is their sign of the Zodiac?
Answer: scorpio
Question: Manchuria is a historical name for a large region of which continent?
Answer: asia
Question: Used in mathematics, the US term ‘slipstick’ is better known as what in the UK
Answer: slide rule
Question: The famous sculpture ‘Le Baiser’ is known by what name in English?
Answer: kiss
Question: The historical theme park Puy du Fou is in which European country?
Answer: france
Question: Which neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York is also known as Clinton and Midtown West?
Answer: hell s kitchen
Question: Laparoscopic, or minimally invasive surgery, is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: keyhole surgery
Question: Tom Verlaine, Billy Ficca, Fred Smith and Jimmy Rip are all members of which US rock band, originally formed in New York in 1973?
Answer: television
Question: Which English football club play their home games at Proact Stadium?
Answer: chesterfield fc
Question: Lloyd Embley became the editor of which British daily tabloid newspaper in May 2012?
Answer: daily mirror
Question: What type of lightning appears as a broad illumination of parts of a thundercloud, caused by the reflection of a lightning flash?
Answer: sheet lightning
Question: In the game of snooker, what is the inside edge of the table called, against which a ball can be played?
Answer: cushion
Question: What is the name of the main peak of the group of hills which form most of Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, Scotland?
Answer: arthur s seat
Question: What is the name of the unacknowledged, discriminatory barrier that prevents women and minorities from rising to positions of power or responsibility within a corporation?
Answer: glass ceiling
Question: What is the title of the 1998 romantic comedy-drama film, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, which alternates between two parallel universes?
Answer: sliding doors
Question: Who is the Greek god of the woods, fields and flocks, and the name of the satellite of Saturn that is closest to the planet?
Answer: pan
Question: What word means to hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch toward the batsman at the other, keeping the arm straight during delivery?
Answer: bowl
Question: Who did boxer Floyd Patterson defeat to regain the Heavyweight Championship in June 1960?
Answer: ingemar johansson
Question: Who was President of France from 1981 to 1995?
Answer: francois mitterand
Question: Three Kings Day is celebrated in Latin America during which month of the year?
Answer: january
Question: IN the UK during World War I female workers at munitions factories formed teams known as ‘Munitionettes’ who played against each other in which sport?
Answer: football
Question: In 1776, patriots and soldiers in New York pulled down a statue of which British monarch in celebration of the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: king george iii
Question: What is a temperature of 0 degrees Kelvin also known as?
Answer: absolute zero
Question: Which French philosopher and novelist wrote the novel ‘Nausea’ in 1938?
Answer: jean paul satre
Question: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali became President of which African country in November 1987?
Answer: tunisia
Question: Kate Winslet, Minnie Driver and Robert Carlyle have all played patients in which UK television drama series?
Answer: casualty
Question: Berengaria of Navarre was the wife of which English monarch?
Answer: king richard i
Question: What is the title of The Beatles last album, released in May 1970 before they split up?
Answer: let it be
Question: What is the name of the ‘Passage’ which is the body of water between the southern tip of South America at Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica?
Answer: drake passage
Question: Who was the first presenter of the UK television panel game show ‘Through the Keyhole’?
Answer: david frost
Question: The 16th Century Battle of Molodi was fought in which country?
Answer: russia
Question: Who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy?
Answer: guglielmo marconi
Question: In astronomy, a spectroheliograph is an instrument used for photographing or recording the image of what?
Answer: sun
Question: Which revolutionary was captured and executed by the Bolivian army in 1967?
Answer: ernesto che guevara
Question: The Dragon Boat Festival is held in Taiwan during which month of the year?
Answer: may
Question: Polish-born Wislawa Szymborska won the 1996 Nobel Prize in what?
Answer: literature
Question: Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical made its television debut when CBS broadcast the 1955 film version as a three-hour Thanksgiving special in 1970?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: In the human body, the buccal cavity is commonly known as what?
Answer: mouth
Question: The Khamaseen (or Chamsin) is what type of weather condition?
Answer: wind
Question: The main entrance of which London museum is situated on Great Russell Street?
Answer: british museum
Question: Which sculpture by Auguste Rodin was originally named ‘The Poet’?
Answer: thinker
Question: What is the title of British singer Gary Barlow’s album, released in 2012 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: sing
Question: Which actress played Jean Hope in the UK television series ‘Emmerdale’ in 2006?
Answer: susan penhaligon
Question: Late businessman and British politician Jan Ludvik Hoch was better known by what name?
Answer: robert maxwell
Question: Madaraka Day is celebrated in June to commemorate the attaining of self-rule of which African country in 1963?
Answer: kenya
Question: Who set a new land speed record in October 1983, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA?
Answer: richard noble
Question: The comet Shoemaker broke apart and collided with which planet in our solar system in July 1994?
Answer: jupiter
Question: The Sucre was the currency of which South American country between 1884 and 2000?
Answer: ecuador
Question: How many players in each team enter the field at the beginning of a game of the South Asian tag sport Kho Kho?
Answer: nine
Question: Who plays Auntie Angela in the UK television comedy series ‘Outnumbered’?
Answer: samantha bond
Question: Pouhon, Kemmel Straight and  Blanchimont are all sections of the Formula One Grand Prix circuit in which country?
Answer: belgium
Question: English monarch King Henry VIII was given which Palace when ‘owner’ Cardinal Thomas Wolsey fell out of favour with the king?
Answer: hampton court palace
Question: Which UK television presenter made his first tv appearance in an advertisement for Sure deodorant, featuring his ascent of Mount Everest?
Answer: bear grylls
Question: What was the name of the last battleship built for the British Royal Navy, which ran aground in Portsmouth Harbour?
Answer: hms vanguard
Question: Which legendary  English outlaw ‘stole from the rich to give to the poor’?
Answer: robin hood
Question: Who played Han Solo in the ‘Star Wars’ series of films?
Answer: harrison ford
Question: In July 2013, who revealed that they were the secret author Robert Galbraith?
Answer: j k rowling
Question: What is the first name of the older brother of British tennis player Andy Murray?
Answer: jamie
Question: Not including the cellar, how many rooms are there in the board game ‘Cluedo’?
Answer: nine
Question: What colour is Teletubby Po in the children’s television series’ Teletubbies’?
Answer: red
Question: In the Harry Potter series of books, what animal does Sirius Black turn into?
Answer: dog
Question: Which famous artist spent four years painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome?
Answer: michelangelo
Question: What colour ribbon was ‘tied around the Ole Oak Tree’ in a 1973 hit single by Tony Orlando and Dawn?
Answer: yellow
Question: Catherine of Braganza, wife of English monarch Charles II, was said to have introduced which cutlery item to the dining tables of England?
Answer: fork
Question: In April 1980, the St Pauls Riot broke out in which English city?
Answer: bristol
Question: Which newspaper has won the most Pulitzer Prizes for journalism?
Answer: new york times
Question: Haphephobia is the irrational fear of having what done to you?
Answer: touching
Question: What is the name of the matron of the workhouse where Oliver is born in the Charles Dickens novel ‘Oliver Twist’?
Answer: mrs corney
Question: Bump, Double Turn, Potato and Tap Out are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: wrestling
Question: Launched from Cape Kennedy in March 1972, what was the name of the first man-made satellite to leave the solar system?
Answer: pioneer 10
Question: What is the name of the character played by actor Neil Burgess in the television commercial for cleaning product Cillit Bang?
Answer: barry scott
Question: Ophthalmitis is the inflammation of which part of the body?
Answer: eye
Question: In 1961, who became the first non- American golfer to win The Masters?
Answer: gary player
Question: What is the name of the police car in the children’s television series ‘Roary the Racing Car’?
Answer: nick
Question: US outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Longabaugh were better known by what names?
Answer: butch cassidy and sundance kid
Question: Online social networking website Facebook was founded in 2004 in which US state?
Answer: massachusetts
Question: ‘Elmo’s World’ was a segment of which children’s television show?
Answer: sesame street
Question: What is the name of the tiger in the 2001 novel ‘Life of Pi’?
Answer: richard parker
Question: Painter and engraver Sir Edwin Henry Landseer was a favourite artist of which British monarch?
Answer: queen victoria
Question: Which was the first national football team to beat England after they won the 1966 World Cup?
Answer: scotland
Question: Double Dutch, Double Unders and Dipsy Doodles are all term used in which activity?
Answer: skipping
Question: Hester Prynnne is the main character in which novel by US author Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Answer: scarlet letter
Question: Paul Ford played Colonel John T Hall in which 1950’s US television series?
Answer: bilko phil silvers show
Question: What is the title of the Band Aid charity single, released in December 1984?
Answer: do they know it s christmas
Question: The 1908 Summer Olympic Games were hosted by which European city?
Answer: london
Question: Which American soccer team is known as the ‘Quakes’?
Answer: san jose earthquakes
Question: Who was the only US President not to live at the Whitehouse?
Answer: george washington
Question: What was the first name of 19th Century British explorer Stanley, who searched for David Livingstone in Africa?
Answer: henry
Question: Doris Day plays which 1920’s and 30’s singer and actress in the 1955 film ‘Love Me or Leave Me’?
Answer: ruth etting
Question: ‘Trelawny’ is the ‘national anthem’ of which English county?
Answer: cornwall
Question: Who won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest for the UK with their song ‘Save Your Kisses For Me’?
Answer: brotherhood of man
Question: Who wrote the Athenian tragedy ‘Oedipus Rex’?
Answer: sophocles
Question: Who was the last boxer to fight and defeat Muhammad Ali, in December 1981?
Answer: trevor berbick
Question: How many points is a ‘T’ tile worth in a game of Scrabble?
Answer: one point
Question: Who plays Freddie Krueger in the 1984 film ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’?
Answer: robert englund
Question: Whiteford, Stewart and Brabham are all corners on the Formula One Grand Prix circuit in which country?
Answer: australia
Question: What was the first name of 18th Century English cabinet maker and furniture designer Chippendale?
Answer: thomas
Question: According to the WHO (World Health Organisation), which country had the longest life expectancy in the world in 2011?
Answer: japan
Question: Which Greek goddess featured on the new five-euro banknote in 2013?
Answer: europa
Question: Who was announced as the new television Doctor Who in July 2013?
Answer: peter capaldi
Question: In 2013, Japanese scientists cloned what type of creature from a single drop of blood?
Answer: mouse
Question: Which actor, who played Tony Soprano on the US television series ‘The Sopranos’, died in June 2013?
Answer: james gandolfini
Question: In August 2013, scientists in Florence, Italy opened a tomb in order to extract DNA, hoping to identify the model for which painting?
Answer: mona lisa
Question: Who was the last UK Labour Prime Minister before Tony Blair?
Answer: james callaghan
Question: 11, Mafeking Parade is the address of the two main characters in which British television comedy series?
Answer: bottom
Question: A group of which birds is known as a ‘Tidings’?
Answer: magpies
Question: Extinct volcano Hallasan is the highest point in which Asian country?
Answer: south korea
Question: The 1992 Summer Olympic Games were hosted by which European city?
Answer: barcelona
Question: In the US animated television show ‘The Simpsons’ which actress voiced Maggie’s first word, which was ‘Daddy’?
Answer: elizabeth taylor
Question: What is the name of the boy in Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’?
Answer: mowgli
Question: Who directed the 2001 remake of the film ‘Planet of the Apes’?
Answer: tim burton
Question: In 2012, who became the first German driver, since Hermann Lang in 1939, to win a Formula One Grand Prix in a German car?
Answer: nico rosberg
Question: On 1st April 1977, bookseller Richard Booth declared which Welsh town to be an independent kingdom, with himself as monarch?
Answer: hay on wye
Question: What is the surname of brother and sister Samson and Sally in the novel ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’ by Charles Dickens?
Answer: brass
Question: If something is ‘aestival’ it belongs to or appears in which season of the year?
Answer: summer
Question: The towns od Grimsby and Cleethorpes are in which English county?
Answer: lincolnshire
Question: In September 1990, Geoffrey Palmer resigned as Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: ‘The Motherland Calls’ which commemorates the Battle of Stalingrad, is a statue in which Russian city?
Answer: volgograd
Question: Eddie Valiant, Judge Doom and Dolores are all characters in which Disney film?
Answer: who framed roger rabbit
Question: Where are the ossicones situated on the body of a giraffe?
Answer: head
Question: In which English city was singer Robbie Williams born in February 1974?
Answer: stoke on trent
Question: ‘Through Thick and Thin’ is a 2011 autobiography by which UK television presenter?
Answer: gok wan
Question: In March 1977, India’s Missionaries of Charity chose Sister Nirmala to succeed who as its leader?
Answer: mother teresa
Question: Who was US Secretary of State between 1997 and 2001?
Answer: madeleine albright
Question: Which is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees?
Answer: praying mantis
Question: Who was the longest serving BBC Radio One Breakfast Show presenter?
Answer: chris moyles
Question: A surcingle is a belt or girth used on which animal?
Answer: horse
Question: What is the surname of Norm in the US television series ‘Cheers’?
Answer: peterson
Question: Dishabiliophobia is a strong aversion to doing what in front of other people?
Answer: undressing
Question: Agnus Dei is a figure of which creature as an emblem of Christ?
Answer: lamb
Question: The rock musical ‘Rent’ is based on which opera by Giacomo Puccini?
Answer: la boheme
Question: US comedian, singer and actress Fania Borach, born in October 1891, was better known by what name?
Answer: fanny brice
Question: Rosy, Goose Foot and Northern are all types of which marine creature?
Answer: starfish
Question: Who won the 1976 UK Pipe Smoker of the Year Award, and was Pipeman of the Decade?
Answer: harold wilson
Question: In 1862, English explorer John Hanning Speke discovered the source of the Nile in which lake?
Answer: lake victoria
Question: St Cyril had which script/alphabet named after him?
Answer: cyrillic
Question: The Royal Albert Hall in London is name after the consort of which monarch?
Answer: queen victoria