CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which band released a 1977 album entitled ‘Aja’?
Answer: steely dan
Question: Who invented the Miners Safety Lamp in 1815?
Answer: humphrey davy
Question: Which playing card is known as ‘The Death Card’?
Answer: ace of spades
Question: Mirin is a type of wine used for flavouring the cuisine of which country?
Answer: japan
Question: Emerald and aquamarine are varieties of which gemstone?
Answer: beryl
Question: What is a district called which is under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian church?
Answer: diocese
Question: Which World War ll criminal died of suicide by asphyxiation in Spandau Prison in 1987?
Answer: rudolph hess
Question: Who is the narrator at the beginning and end of each episode of the children’s tv programme ‘Roary the Racing Car’?
Answer: stirling moss
Question: Who wrote the books ‘The Good Companions’ and ‘An Inspector Calls’?
Answer: j b priestly
Question: Who played the title role in the 1977 film ‘Annie Hall’?
Answer: diane keaton
Question: Navigator Fred Noonan disappeared with who, after taking off in their plane from New Guinea?
Answer: amelia earhart
Question: Which actor plays a chain-smoking, womanising angel in the 1996 film ‘Michael’?
Answer: john travolta
Question: US comedian and actor Nathan Birnbaum, born in 1898, was better known by what name?
Answer: george burns
Question: Which former England rugby union player was nicknamed ‘Squeaky’?
Answer: rob andrew
Question: Used in cooking, Royal, Fondant, Buttercream and Foam are all types of what?
Answer: icing
Question: A carillon is a set of at least 23 what, often located in a tower, each producing a musical note and usually played from a keyboard?
Answer: bells
Question: In 1879, the Zulu War ended after which battle?
Answer: battle of rorke s drift
Question: What is the name of the two-handled, narrow-necked jar, used by ancient Greeks and Romans for holding oil or wine?
Answer: amphora
Question: Which British Prime Minister introduced income tax, to help offset a reduction in revenue caused by a decline in trade?
Answer: william pitt younger
Question: Borachio is a villain in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: much ado about nothing
Question: Which English-born businessman and politician was Rhodesia named after?
Answer: cecil rhodes
Question: St Mawes and Pendennis Castles in Cornwall were built by which English monarch to defend the coast against a French invasion?
Answer: henry viii
Question: The islands of La Gomera and Tabarca belong to which European country?
Answer: spain
Question: Which American dancer died in 1927 when the scarf she was wearing caught in the wheel of her car breaking her neck?
Answer: isadora duncan
Question: Pisiform and hamate are bones in which part of the human body?
Answer: wrist
Question: In which French cathedral were the kings of France crowned until 1825?
Answer: notre dame de reims
Question: The Rosetta stone was used to decipher the hieroglyphics in which country?
Answer: egypt
Question: Which European country is often referred to as ‘The Hexagon’,  because of its geometric shape?
Answer: france
Question: Italian companies Ferretti and Azimut manufacture which luxury items?
Answer: yachts
Question: ‘Roligans’ are well-mannered football fans from which European country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Olympus Mons is the highest mountain on which planet in our solar system?
Answer: mars
Question: Renaissance astronomer Nicolas Copernicus was born in which modern day European country?
Answer: poland
Question: In the game of golf, a Bo Derek is a score of what at any hole?
Answer: ten
Question: In the film ‘Ben Hur’, what was the title character’s first name?
Answer: judah
Question: In the nursery rhyme ‘The House That Jack Built’, what did the rat eat?
Answer: malt
Question: Sabena Airlines was the national airline of which European country 1923 – 2001?
Answer: belguim
Question: On a clothes label, what does a square with a circle inside it indicate?
Answer: tumble dry
Question: In World War ll, what type of planes were used by the Dambusters?
Answer: lancasters
Question: Jalousie, Bay and Palladian are all types of what?
Answer: windows
Question: ‘Hector the Cat’ is a fictional mascot created for teaching children what in Australia?
Answer: road safety
Question: The first stock market in which city was established in 1792 with 24 stock brokers meeting at the Tontine Coffee House?
Answer: new york
Question: The New York city of Yonkers is on which river?
Answer: hudson river
Question: Two members of which group were the only people to perform on both Band Aid charity singles?
Answer: bananarama
Question: In UK politics, what position did Labour politician Manny Shinwell hold from 1950-51?
Answer: minister of defence
Question: Which 19th Century English poet wrote ‘Ode to  a Grecian Urn’?
Answer: john keats
Question: In Greek mythology,what was left in Pandora’s Box after the rest of the contents had been released?
Answer: hope
Question: In the folklore of which country does a goat named Ukko help Santa Claus?
Answer: finland
Question: In English football, from which team did Aston Villa buy footballer Dion Dublin in 1998?
Answer: coventry city
Question: Great Aunt Ada Doom is a character in which novel by Stella Gibbons?
Answer: cold comfort farm
Question: The Order of the Falcon, established in 1921, is a national order, or badge, of which country?
Answer: iceland
Question: In which English town is the University of Teesside?
Answer: middlesbrough
Question: Dame Mary Lesley Perkins is a co-founder of which chain of UK opticians?
Answer: specsavers
Question: Former Wimbledon tennis player John McEnroe was born in which country?
Answer: germany
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘Across the River and Into the Trees’?
Answer: ernest hemingway
Question: ‘Good ‘Ol Boys’ by Waylon Jennings was the theme tune to which US tv series?
Answer: dukes of hazzard
Question: In the UK, what was the first Welsh football team to play in the Premier League?
Answer: swansea city
Question: Which part of Peter Pan was kept in a drawer in the Darling household?
Answer: his shadow
Question: Who was the first US President to speak in Westminster Hall in London?
Answer: barack obama
Question: Which English comedian’s real name is Royston Vasey?
Answer: roy chubby brown
Question: Which country’s national football team was knocked out of the 1998 FIFA World Cup despite scoring six goals in their last match?
Answer: spain
Question: In medicine, exsanguination is commonly known as what?
Answer: bleeding to death
Question: What is Beauty’s name in the Disney film ‘Beauty and the Beast’?
Answer: belle
Question: Moorfield’s Hospital in London specialises in the treatment of which part of the body?
Answer: eyes
Question: Dakahlia, Ghabia and Helwan are governorates of which country?
Answer: egypt
Question: Former French President Charles de Gaulle said ‘How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of ‘what’?
Answer: cheese
Question: Pattie Boyd, George Harrison’s first wife, was cast as a schoolgirl fan in which Beatles film?
Answer: hard day s night
Question: July 1938 saw the first ascent of the North Face of which Alpine mountain?
Answer: eiger
Question: The famous ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech is delivered in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: as you like it
Question: What was known as the ‘National Razor’ during the French Revolution?
Answer: guillotine
Question: What was the name of  the consort of Britain’s Queen Victoria?
Answer: prince albert of saxe coburg and gotha
Question: The charreada, or charreria, rodeo originated in which country?
Answer: mexico
Question: The city of Belgrade lies at the confluence of the River Sava and which other river?
Answer: danube
Question: Japanese baseball player, Ichiro Suzuki, joined which US baseball team in 2001?
Answer: seattle mariners
Question: Who did the former British king, Edward Vlll marry in June 1937?
Answer: wallis simpson
Question: Which ex-Playboy Bunny sang in a band called ‘Wind in the Willows’ before becoming the singer in one of the most famous bands of the 1970’s and 80’s?
Answer: debbie harry
Question: Lee Brilleaux was the vocalist in which 1970’s band?
Answer: dr feelgood
Question: LADE (Lineas Aereas del Estado) is the national airline of which country?
Answer: argentina
Question: ANZAC Day, Australia’s annual holiday to remember its war dead, is held during which month of the year?
Answer: april
Question: In the book ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’ by C.S. Lewis, what type of creature is Maugrim?
Answer: wolf
Question: Sir Robert Chiltern, Viscount Goring and Mrs Marchmont are characters in which Oscar Wilde play?
Answer: ideal husband
Question: Who was murdered with an ice pick in 1940 by Ramon Mercader?
Answer: leon trotsky
Question: What is the capital of the Yukon Territory in Canada?
Answer: whitehorse
Question: In which religion do people worship communally in a Fire Temple?
Answer: zoroastrianism
Question: Which English poet was buried upright in London’s Westminster Abbey in 1637?
Answer: ben johnson
Question: Which fashion designer re-designed the UK hospital gown in 2010?
Answer: ben de lisi
Question: In Afrikaans, which city is called Kapstad?
Answer: cape town
Question: In the human body, which vitamin helps the blood to clot?
Answer: vitamin k
Question: The Caloris Basin, a large impact crater, is on which planet in our solar system?
Answer: mercury
Question: Elvis Presley played the role of Clint Reno in which 1956 film?
Answer: love me tender
Question: In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the letter ‘Z’ is represented by which word?
Answer: zulu
Question: Indian politician Sonia Gandhi was born in which country in 1946?
Answer: italy
Question: In 1997, what was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell?
Answer: dolly sheep
Question: Which Irish musician released a 1988 album entitled ‘Watermark’?
Answer: enya
Question: A pneumonectomy is the removal or part-removal of which part of the human body?
Answer: lung
Question: Which US President ordered the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to Russia (USSR) detonating its first atomic bomb?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: The ‘Harvester Judgement’ was a benchmark legal case for ensuring workers in which country were paid a fair basic wage?
Answer: australia
Question: Which UK children’s tv show, launched in 1968, had a mascot called Murgatroyd?
Answer: magpie
Question: The Antionette Perry Awards for Excellence are better known by what name?
Answer: tony awards
Question: In which board game do players use a ‘doubling cube’, which has the numbers 2,4,8,16,32,64 on it?
Answer: backgammon
Question: In which mountain range is the 2000 film ‘Vertical Limit’ set?
Answer: himalayas
Question: In paleontology, a coprolite is fossilised what?
Answer: animal dung
Question: Haddonfield, Illinois is the setting for which 1978 horror film?
Answer: halloween
Question: The Mackinac Bridge connects the Upper and Lower peninsulas of which US state?
Answer: michigan
Question: What was the title of the 1967 black comedy war film starring Michael Crawford and John Lennon?
Answer: how i won war
Question: Which jazz pianist, bandleader and composer was backed by the Red Hot Peppers?
Answer: jelly roll morton
Question: In space, the ‘Big Bang Machine’ is another name for what?
Answer: large hadron collider
Question: In Greek mythology, who tore his eyes out when he discovered that he had married his mother?
Answer: oedipus
Question: Adele Casagrande founded which Italian fashion house in 1925 in Rome?
Answer: fendi
Question: Who played Will Scarlet in the 1980’s UK tv series ‘Robin of Sherwood’?
Answer: ray winstone
Question: In the UK, which item of furniture in the House of Commons at Westminster was originally designed by Augustus Welby Pugin in the 19th Century?
Answer: speaker s chair
Question: In the game of scrabble, how many points is the ‘F’ tile worth?
Answer: four
Question: Which US actress was born Edna Gillooly in 1932?
Answer: ellen burstyn
Question: Who played lawyer Andrew Beckett in the 1993 film ‘Philadelphia’?
Answer: tom hanks
Question: What was the name of the first US steam locomotive, built in 1830, to be operated on a common-carrier railroad?
Answer: tom thumb
Question: Bukit Timah is the highest point in which Republic of Southeast Asia?
Answer: singapore
Question: Which country defeated England 1-0 on 29th June in the 1950 FIFA World Cup ?
Answer: usa
Question: ‘Marianne’ is a national emblem of which European country?
Answer: france
Question: In the novel ‘The Lord of the Rings’, Barliman Butterbur is the proprietor of which inn?
Answer: prancing pony
Question: In May 1940, who became British Prime Minister after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Which US poet wrote the 1864 poem ‘Christmas Day’, after he had received news that his son had been seriously injured fighting in the American Civil War?
Answer: henry wadsworth longfellow
Question: Lord Gnome is purported to be the proprietor of which fortnightly British publication?
Answer: private eye
Question: In February 1906, which type of British battleship was launched for the first time?
Answer: dreadnought
Question: What was the name of the daughter of the Native American chief of the Powhatan Confederacy who married English settler John Rolfe in 1613?
Answer: pocahontas
Question: What is the name of the private yacht that golfer Tiger Woods gave as a wedding gift to his ex-wife Elin?
Answer: privacy
Question: Inauguration Day in the US is held during which month of the year?
Answer: january
Question: Who played barmaid Michelle Connor in the UK tv soap ‘Coronation Street’?
Answer: kym marsh
Question: The novel ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is set on which English moor?
Answer: dartmoor
Question: In Norse mythology, what type of creature did the dwarf king’s son Fafnir become?
Answer: dragon
Question: Which cabinet position did British MP Andrew Bonar Law hold between 1916 and 1919?
Answer: chancellor of exchequer
Question: What is the acidic juice called of crab apples or other sour fruit, such as grapes?
Answer: verjuice
Question: Which forest features in the Shakespeare play ‘As You Like It’?
Answer: forest of arden
Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘ab initio’ translate to in English?
Answer: from beginning
Question: A millipede has how many legs on each segment of its body?
Answer: four
Question: Julia and Alfred were the names of parents of which member of British pop band The Beatles?
Answer: john lennon
Question: Under what names were Janet and John books sold in the US?
Answer: alice and jerry
Question: Which is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the states of America?
Answer: q
Question: In the the tv cartoon series ‘The Simpsons’ what is Grandpa Simpson’s first name?
Answer: abraham
Question: In Greek mythology, what is the name of the giant watchman with 100 eyes, also adopted as the name of a UK retail chain?
Answer: argos
Question: Mizaru, Mikazaru and Iwazaru are the names of the three what?
Answer: wise monkeys
Question: ‘The Heater from Van Meter’ was the nickname of which American Major League Baseball pitcher?
Answer: bob feller
Question: In December 2007, The Empire State Building in New York was illuminated yellow to promote which film?
Answer: simpsons movie
Question: According to the bible, what was the name of the murderer who was released by Pontius Pilate in preference to Jesus?
Answer: barabbas
Question: What is the name of the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band split up?
Answer: abbey road
Question: What disability did the wife and mother of inventor Alexander Graham Bell both suffer?
Answer: deafness
Question: Pink Fairy and Nine Banded are species of which animal?
Answer: armadillo
Question: What were the first names of English novelist R.D.Blackmore?
Answer: richard doddridge
Question: The Iroquois Cup is competed for in which sport?
Answer: lacrosse
Question: Don Diego de la Vega is the secret name of which Spanish fictional character?
Answer: zorro
Question: The Sipi Tau is performed by which national rugby union team before each of their international matches?
Answer: tonga
Question: Which English Premier League football club has the motto ‘Audere est Facere’ (To Dare is to Do)?
Answer: tottenham hotspur
Question: Which 1930’s US gangster, upon being admitted to Indiana State Prison, is quoted as saying ‘I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here’?
Answer: john dillinger
Question: ‘Shazam’ is the favourite word of which comic book hero?
Answer: captain marvel
Question: Which wife of English monarch King Henry Vlll was imprisoned in the Tower of London in May 1536?
Answer: anne boleyn
Question: In 1954, who was the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship?
Answer: peter thomson
Question: Which British Prime Minister negotiated the Munich Agreement with Hitler, Mussolini and Daladier?
Answer: neville chamberlain
Question: The Solovetsky Islands lie in which body of water?
Answer: white sea
Question: The drink Caipirinha is the national cocktail of which South American country?
Answer: brazil
Question: The Fynbos, an area of grassland and thicket, lies in which African country?
Answer: south africa
Question: What was the name of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s envoy, who was taken hostage in Lebanon in 1987?
Answer: terry waite
Question: John Dryden became the first official British what during the reign of King Charles ll?
Answer: poet laureate
Question: Which British female singer released a double A-side, featuring ‘Footprints in the Sand’ and ‘Better in Time’, in aid of Sport Relief?
Answer: leona lewis
Question: The Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Station is in which country?
Answer: iceland
Question: Which US actor is the voice of Mr Fox in the 2009 animated film ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’?
Answer: george clooney
Question: Which English King was known as ‘The Hammer of the Scots’?
Answer: edward l
Question: If a person is born on 10th January, what zodiac sign do they have?
Answer: capricorn
Question: Which famous racehorse is buried next to the finishing post of the Aintree Racecourse?
Answer: red rum
Question: The Clarin is the best-selling daily newspaper in which South American country?
Answer: argentina
Question: Winston Churchill’s tribute ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few’, was paid to which of the UK’s armed forces?
Answer: royal air force
Question: The painting, La Jaconde, is better known by what name?
Answer: mona lisa
Question: Sandra Bullock played FBI agent Gracie Hart in which 2000 film?
Answer: miss congeniality
Question: A lumpectomy is the surgical removal of a lump from which part of the body?
Answer: breast
Question: In June 1938, Action Comics #1 was published, featuring which comic book hero for the first time?
Answer: superman
Question: What is the name of the flag that has been seriously considered by some as an alternative to the Australian flag, because of its association with with democracy and nationalism?
Answer: eureka flag
Question: The company Starbucks is reportedly named after a character in which novel?
Answer: moby dick
Question: In November 1952, which Agatha Christie murder-mystery play opened at the Ambassadors Theatre, London?
Answer: mousetrap
Question: What is the only number in the English language which is spelt using the same number of letters as the number itself?
Answer: four
Question: Canadian jockey John ‘Red’ Pollard was famous for riding which well known racehorse?
Answer: seabiscuit
Question: Actor Eddie Bunker played which ‘colour’ in the 1991 film ‘Reservoir Dogs’?
Answer: mr blue
Question: In Greek mythology, which mortal woman did Zeus visit in the form of a swan and seduce, making her the mother of Helen of Troy?
Answer: leda
Question: In British royalty, what title did Camilla Parker Bowles take on marrying the Prince of Wales in 2005?
Answer: duchess of cornwall
Question: Apart from Geoff Hurst, which footballer scored a goal for England in the 1966 World Cup Final against Germany?
Answer: martin peters
Question: Lord Peter Wimsey is a fictional character created by which author?
Answer: dorothy l sayers
Question: Darryl Virostko is a ‘Maverick’s Champion’ in which sport?
Answer: surfing
Question: In which African country did New Zealand refuse to play in the 2003 Cricket World Cup, because of a terrorist threat?
Answer: kenya
Question: In the Irish language ‘Eanair’ is which month of the year?
Answer: january
Question: In Morse Code, which vowel is represented by a single dot?
Answer: e
Question: In 2004, the Pentagon budgeted $1 million to bring a modernised version of which Shakespeare play to military bases?
Answer: othello
Question: Which US comic strip was created by Mort Walker in September 1950?
Answer: beetle bailey
Question: Which actor offered Demi Moore $1 million to sleep with him in the 1993 film ‘Indecent Proposal’?
Answer: robert redford
Question: In December 1935, Anthony Eden took up which government post in Britain?
Answer: foreign secretary
Question: Who wrote the 1940 novel ‘Fanny By Gaslight’?
Answer: michael sadleir
Question: Henry Vlll became heir to the English throne on the death of which brother in 1502?
Answer: arthur
Question: Who played Danny Ocean in the 1960 film ‘Ocean’s Eleven’?
Answer: frank sinatra
Question: In November 1936, who was elected US President for a second term in office?
Answer: franklin d roosevelt
Question: Which artist is the subject of the 1956 film ‘Lust For Life’?
Answer: vincent van gogh
Question: The medical condition Herpes Zoster is commonly known as what?
Answer: shingles
Question: What is the sub-title of the 1984 film ‘Star Trek 3’?
Answer: search for spock
Question: The alcoholic drink Perry is made from the fermented juice of which fruit?
Answer: pears
Question: Who wrote the children’s stories ‘The Clangers’, ‘Noggin the Nog’ and ‘Bagpuss’?
Answer: oliver postgate
Question: A Gurdwara is a place of worship in which religion?
Answer: sikhism
Question: Sevastopol, in the Crimea, lies on the shore of which body of water?
Answer: black sea
Question: According to the Bible, what was the first bird to be sent out of the Ark by Noah?
Answer: raven
Question: Which Hollywood actress appeared on the centrefold of the first issue of ‘Playboy’ magazine?
Answer: marilyn monroe
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘Brideshead Revisited’?
Answer: evelyn waugh
Question: What is Mr Rochester’s first name in the novel ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte?
Answer: edward
Question: Glassine, Azure Laid and Chromo are all types of what?
Answer: paper
Question: Who played the role of Brian of Nazareth in the 1979 film ‘The Life of Brian’?
Answer: graham chapman
Question: Who duetted with Madonna on the 2008 single ‘Four Minutes’?
Answer: justin timberlake
Question: National Doctors Day is celebrated in the USA during which month of the year?
Answer: march
Question: What was the name of the cross-eyed lion in the tv series ‘Daktari’?
Answer: clarence
Question: Tommy Lee plays which instrument in the band Motley Crue?
Answer: drums
Question: Sir Humphrey Davy, the inventor of the miners safety lamp, was born in which English county?
Answer: cornwall
Question: US singer Aliane Thiam is better known by what name?
Answer: akon
Question: Danish Navigator, Vitus Bearing, discovered which US state in 1741?
Answer: alaska
Question: Carlos Menem was made president of which South American country in July 1989?
Answer: argentina
Question: What is a line on a map called that connects two points which have the same average summer temperature?
Answer: isothere
Question: How many gold medals did the USA win in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: nine
Question: Chiswick Eyot is a small island in which body of water in England?
Answer: river thames
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘The Mayor of Castorbridge’?
Answer: thomas hardy
Question: Which coastal town in North Yorkshire, England, is twinned with Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands?
Answer: whitby
Question: Donwell Abbey is the home of George Knightly in which novel by Jane Austen?
Answer: emma
Question: The ‘Wisden Almanack’ relates to which sport?
Answer: cricket
Question: In Greek mythology, who fired the arrow that hit Achilles in the heel?
Answer: paris