CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the name of the rock group formed by former 'Nirvana' drummer Dave Grohl that had hits with 'This Is A Call', 'Learn To Fly' and 'The Pretender'?
Answer: foo fighters
Question: Which 'Oscar'-nominated actress is the mother of Carrie Fisher?
Answer: debbie reynolds
Question: In which city was Gianni Versace murdered in 1997?
Answer: miami
Question: Who won the Turner Prize in 1994 with his cast-iron work entitled 'Testing A World View'?
Answer: anthony gormley
Question: Which duo won the Turner Prize in 1986 with a photo- piece entitled 'Coming'?
Answer: gilbert george
Question: Which rock group had a hit album in 1975 with 'Toys In The Attic'?
Answer: aerosmith
Question: Socotra is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean belonging to which country?
Answer: yemen
Question: What is the title of the 2010 film that is the sequel to the 1999 film East is East?
Answer: west is west
Question: In which sport did Liberal Democrat MP Menzies Campbell compete in the 1964 Olympics
Answer: athletics
Question: Which poem by John Masefield begins 'Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine'?
Answer: cargoes
Question: Published in 2009 and set in 2006-2007 complete the title of the last book in the series Adrian Mole:
Answer: prostrate years
Question: Which city lies at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile?
Answer: khartoum
Question: The album So Long, See You Tomorrow, based on the novel of the same name by William Maxwell, was a number one earlier this year for which band? Their name sounds like they could be a sports group from India.
Answer: bombay bicycle club
Question: Who hosted the celebrity version of Fifteen to One which had one episode last September and four in June this year?
Answer: adam hills
Question: Which spice is obtained from the plant Crocus sativus
Answer: saffron
Question: Who won the Ladies' Singles Championship at Wimbledon this year?
Answer: petra kvitova
Question: Which Bridge in Central London, completed in 1945, is often referred to as 'The Ladies' Bridge'
Answer: waterloo
Question: Who wrote the three plays known as the Eugene Trilogy - Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound?
Answer: neil simon
Question: Leland Stanford, Earl Warren and Pat Brown (father of the current holder) have held the position of Governor of which US state?
Answer: california
Question: The James Joyce novel Ulysses is set on one day in Dublin in 1904 in which month
Answer: june
Question: Which British driver has 31 Formula One victories, the most by a Briton?
Answer: nigel mansell
Question: The music key signature C Major has no sharps or flats. What is the equivalent minor key?
Answer: minor
Question: Boggis, Bunce and Bean are three wealthy fanners who are the targets of the title character in which Roald Dahl novel filmed in 2009?
Answer: fantastic mr fox
Question: Which salad plant has the scientific name Nasturtium officinale
Answer: watercress
Question: Which European golfer was joint runner-up in the 2014 Open Golf Championship?
Answer: sergio garcia
Question: The Boys from Syracuse is a musical based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: comedy of errors
Question: Which character was played by Peter Capaldi in the recent TV drama The Musketeers?
Answer: cardinal richelieu
Question: Cleopatra's Needle in London had stood in which Egyptian city since 12 BC
Answer: alexandria
Question: In which month is the Feast of the Annunciation in the Christian church
Answer: march
Question: Author Candida Lycett Green died in August. Which poet was her father
Answer: john betjeman
Question: Published in 2013 Mad About the Boy is the third book about which character who is then 51 and a widow with two children?
Answer: bridget jones
Question: The album If You Wait reached number two last year for which band? Their name sounds like it could be the name of a school in the capital.
Answer: london grammar
Question: Which is the only letter in an English Scrabble set which has 3 tiles
Answer: g
Question: The logo of which General Motors car brand is on the shirts of Manchester United FC
Answer: chevrolet
Question: Who was the Democratic candidate in the 1984 US Presidential Election?
Answer: walter mondale
Question: Clarissa is the eponymous protagonist of which Virginia Woolf novel set on one day in post World War One London?
Answer: mrs dalloway
Question: The six elements including Beryllium and Magnesium are described in the periodic table as 'alkaline (what) metals'?
Answer: earth
Question: Who was the drummer for the band Nirvana before founding the Foo Fighters?
Answer: dave grohl
Question: Where was cartographer Gerardus Mercator born - the modern name of the country where he was born?
Answer: belgium
Question: What was the name of the only female emperor of China (690 to 705) to rule the country in her own right?
Answer: wu
Question: In which city is Monkwearmouth Station Museum?
Answer: sunderland
Question: In 1985 which was the last non-Glasgow team to win the Scottish Football League title
Answer: aberdeen
Question: In which English city is the arts and media centre called The Custard Factory
Answer: birmingham
Question: Which post was held by Reginald Pole from 1556 to 1558
Answer: archbishop of canterbury
Question: Emile Ford and the Checkmates had a UK number one in 1959 with a song whose title included which parts of the body?
Answer: what do you want to make those eyes at me for
Question: Which Rugby League club play their home games at the Hive Stadium?
Answer: london broncos
Question: The tui and the weka are birds native to which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Who wrote the 1980 Booker Prize winner Rites of Passage!
Answer: william golding
Question: Who wrote the 1990 Booker Prize winner Possession?
Answer: as byatt
Question: Rugby Union club London Wasps play their home games at Adams Park in which town?
Answer: high wycombe
Question: What is the name of the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico subjected to an explosion in April this year?
Answer: deepwater horizon
Question: 'Bingo Little', 'Gussie Fink-Nottle' and 'Catsmeat Potter- Pirbright' are friends of which fictional character?
Answer: bertie wooster
Question: Aisgill Summit is the highest point on which railway line?
Answer: settle to carlisle
Question: Who was the French Prime Minister at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 which led to the Treaty of Versailles?
Answer: georges clemenceau
Question: Which sport did Larry Bird, Wilt Chamberlain and 'Magic' Johnson play?
Answer: basketball
Question: The Tom Stoppard play 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' is based on characters from which play by Shakespeare?
Answer: hamlet
Question: At which Grammar School is 'Mr. Cleaves' a bizarre teacher, in the first series of 'Little Britain'?
Answer: kelsey grammar school
Question: Who played computer expert 'Professor Simon Peach' in the 1969 film 'The Italian Job'?
Answer: benny hill
Question: Who composed 'The Lark Ascending'?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: Located between the A580 and the Bridgewater Canal, at which former colliery now a museum, is the only surviving pit headgear and engine house in the Lancashire coalfield?
Answer: astley green
Question: At which decisive battle in 31 BC did the forces of Octavian defeat the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra?
Answer: actium
Question: Which is the northernmost German state, with capital Kiel and bordering Denmark?
Answer: schleswig holstein
Question: How are the bright stars 'Alnitak', 'Alnilam' and 'Mintaka' known collectively?
Answer: orion s belt
Question: In which TV series did cousins 'Bo' and 'Luke' drive a car called the 'General Lee'?
Answer: dukes of hazzard
Question: Who wrote the children's book 'Heidi'?
Answer: johanna spyri
Question: In which newspaper are official notices relating to matters of state, Parliament, planning, transport and public finance, as well as insolvency and bankruptcy published in Scotland ?
Answer: edinburgh gazette
Question: Theodore Roosevelt won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation leading to the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended which war?
Answer: russo japanese war
Question: Which sport did Ian Taylor, Martyn Grimley and Sean Kerly play?
Answer: hockey
Question: In which 2010 film are the main characters played by Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson and Sharlto Copley?
Answer: team
Question: 'Beatrice et Benedict' is an opera by Berlioz, based on which play by Shakespeare?
Answer: much ado about nothing
Question: In 'The Beverley Hillbillies', what did 'Granny' call the swimming pool?
Answer: cement pond
Question: What is the name of the daily broadsheet newspaper published in Leeds?
Answer: yorkshire post
Question: Who composed 'On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring'?
Answer: frederick delius
Question: The sculpture 'Dream' by Jaume Plensa, which overlooks the M62, is sited at which former colliery?
Answer: sutton manor
Question: At which major battle in 216 BC did the army of Carthage under Hannibal defeat the Romans under the command of consuls Varro and Paullus?
Answer: cannae
Question: Which ship suffered an oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1989?
Answer: exxon valdez
Question: Which river flows over High Force Waterfall, one of the highest in England?
Answer: river tees
Question: Which actor rowed for Cambridge in the 1980 Boat Race?
Answer: hugh laurie
Question: In 2002 'Miss Hissy' a snake, 'Tiffo' a dog, 'Bilbo' a sailor, and 'Orbie' a yellow-and-blue ball joined the original three characters in which children's TV series originally made in the 1950's?
Answer: andy pandy
Question: Who wrote the 1897 poem 'Drake's Drum'?
Answer: henry newbolt
Question: Which Nobel Prize did Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams win in 1976?
Answer: peace
Question: Which TV Game Show has been presented by Bob Monkhouse, Max Bygraves and Les Dennis?
Answer: family fortunes
Question: Which TV Game Show has been presented by Leslie Crowther, Bruce Forsyth and Joe Pasquale?
Answer: price is right
Question: Which Rugby Union team plays home games at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea?
Answer: ospreys
Question: In London, trains cross Hungerford Bridge in to which station north of the River Thames?
Answer: charing cross
Question: Which US bank filed for bankruptcy on September 15th 2008?
Answer: lehman brothers
Question: Which US stockbroker was arrested in December 2008 charged with securities fraud and later jailed for 150 years?
Answer: bernard madoff
Question: In which English city was the Spinnaker Tower opened in 2005?
Answer: portsmouth
Question: Which Spanish naval base was subjected to a siege by the French from February 1810 to August 1812?
Answer: cadiz
Question: Stephen Fry played the title role in the television series 'Kingdom', in which English county was the series set?
Answer: norfolk
Question: Which Cricket county's Twenty20 team are known as the 'Royals'?
Answer: worcestershire
Question: Which vegetable has the following varieties: 'Boltardy', 'Cylindra' and 'Forono'?
Answer: beetroot
Question: Which Cricket county's Twenty20 team are known as the 'Bears'?
Answer: warwickshire
Question: In which was the Battle of Tewkesbury fought?
Answer: war of roses
Question: Which former Beirut hostage wrote 'An Evil Cradeling'?
Answer: brian keenan
Question: What was the name of the fictional pair of old men who answered readers letters in the Daily Mirror for 54 years from 1936 to 1990?
Answer: old codgers
Question: Which US state was originally going to be called the 'Territory of Columbia'?
Answer: washington
Question: Liverpool-born Bill Harry was responsible for which '60's pop publication?
Answer: mersey beat
Question: Who was the chief architect in the creation of New Delhi by the British, commencing in 1911?
Answer: sir edwin lutyens
Question: Which British ship was sunk on the 4th May 1982?
Answer: h m s sheffield
Question: Which Cricket county's Twenty20 team are known as the 'Hawks'?
Answer: hampshire
Question: What was the forename of Mr. Bentley, founder of the famous car company?
Answer: walter
Question: In World War II, how was the Japanese aircraft, the Mitsubishi A6M known to the Allies?
Answer: zero
Question: In which Shakespeare play will you find 'Dull', 'Costard' and 'Moth'?
Answer: love s labour s lost
Question: What name is given to any chemical that fixes a dye to the fibres of a textile by combining with both?
Answer: mordant
Question: Brian Huggett, the father of 'Casualty' actress Sandra Huggett is a former star at which sport?
Answer: golf
Question: 'Eric the Eel' and 'Paula the Trawler' represented which country at the Sydney Olympics?
Answer: equatorial guinea
Question: Which jockey rode 'Devon Loch' in the 1956 Grand National?
Answer: dick francis
Question: Who in 1830 founded the Mormon religion in the USA?
Answer: joseph smith
Question: 'Juice FM 107.6' broadcasts from which town/city?
Answer: liverpool
Question: 'Air Pacific' is the national airline of which Pacific island country?
Answer: fiji
Question: 'Copa Airlines' is the national airline of which Central American country?
Answer: panama
Question: About which of her fellow actresses did Bette Davis say "She's slept with every star in Hollywood except Lassie"?
Answer: joan crawford
Question: Who wrote the Elvis Presley hit 'Blue Suede Shoes'?
Answer: carl perkins
Question: Which shrub is commonly known as the 'Butterfly bush'?
Answer: buddleia
Question: Which horse led the 1973 Grand National field for most of the race only to be beaten by 'Red Rum'?
Answer: crisp
Question: Who am I, I was born in 1936 in Czechoslovakia, was a playwright and became a politician being the last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003)?
Answer: vaclav havel
Question: Who designed and built the 'Labyrinth' in Crete for King Minos to house the 'Monotaur'?
Answer: daedalus
Question: Who is credited with inventing the Sewing Machine in 1846?
Answer: elias howe
Question: What kind of bread takes its name, because of its appearance from the Italian for slipper?
Answer: ciabatta
Question: Who is credited with inventing the Cotton Gin in 1793?
Answer: eli whitney
Question: Independent radio station 'Galaxy FM 102' broadcasts from which town/city?
Answer: manchester
Question: The presence of which vitamin in the body is necessary for blood to clot?
Answer: vitamin k
Question: What was the name of the queen of King John 1199- 1216?
Answer: isabel
Question: The Persian word for bread is now used for any flat bread baked in a tandoor oven?
Answer: naan
Question: What in Greek mythology, was designed and built by Epeius?
Answer: trojan horse
Question: 'Great Horned', 'Snowy' and 'Pygmy' are all species of which bird?
Answer: owl
Question: Who am I, 1901-1994: I was an American scientist who won Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and late Peace?
Answer: linus pauling
Question: Who wrote the Tony Christie hit 'Is This The Way To Amarillo'?
Answer: neil sedaka
Question: What is the name of the cross-eyed Lion in 'Daktari'?
Answer: clarence
Question: What is the town called in which 'Clark Kent' grew up?
Answer: smallville
Question: What was 'Don Diego De La Vega's' secret identity?
Answer: zorro
Question: Which Nintendo arcade game first introduced the character of 'Mario'?
Answer: donkey kong
Question: What is the London counterpart of the Grevin Museum in Paris?
Answer: madame tussauds
Question: Which popular confection was first launched as 'Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp' in 1935
Answer: kit kat
Question: In the film 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe', who is the voice of 'Aslan'?
Answer: liam neeson
Question: The 'Seaburn Casuals' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which North East club?
Answer: sunderland
Question: Who supplied the voice for 'Zeebad' in the 'Magic Roundabout' movie?
Answer: tom baker
Question: What wood was traditionally used to make Chippendale furniture?
Answer: mahogany
Question: Which French Hussar is the hero of several short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Answer: brigadier gerard
Question: Who was the Conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1874 to 1880?
Answer: benjamin disraeli
Question: Who was the Tory Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1809 to 1812?
Answer: spencer percival
Question: Lisbeth Salander is the name of which eponymous literary character?
Answer: girl with dragon tattoo
Question: Who voiced the character of Bruce the shark in Finding Nemo?
Answer: barry humphries
Question: Lack of vitamin B1 causes what disease in humans?
Answer: beri beri
Question: What is the real name of wrestler turned actor "The Rock"?
Answer: dwayne johnson
Question: Which Australian group had a top 40 hit in Britain in 2006 with "Truly Madly Deeply"?
Answer: savage garden
Question: With what instrument would you associate the classical performer Murray Perahia?
Answer: piano
Question: Until 1999 what was the trophy played for in cricket by the Australian states?
Answer: sheffield shield
Question: What was the first name of Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan?
Answer: leonard
Question: Which of the Mitford sisters wrote the semi-autobiography Pursuit of Love in 1945?
Answer: nancy
Question: In which sport do Scotland play Canada for the Strathcona Cup?
Answer: curling
Question: Which Australian group had a top 40 hit in Britain in 1992 with "Weather with You"?
Answer: crowded house
Question: Which album featuring 30's crooner Al Bowlly got to no 10 in the charts in 1978? (With a little help from a TV serial)
Answer: pennies from heaven
Question: Which King of England was imprisoned by Leopold of Austria in Durenstein Castle?
Answer: richard i
Question: What now common device was proposed by Townes in 1958 and built by Maiman in 1960? (Townes got the Nobel Prize and Maiman filed the patent)
Answer: laser
Question: What was seen and recognised for the first time by Johann Galle in 1846?
Answer: neptune
Question: Which office has been held by Horace King, Selwyn Lloyd and George Thomas?
Answer: speaker of house of commons
Question: What is the first name of Andy Murray's brother who won the Mixed Doubles at Wimbledon in 2007 with Jelena Jankovic?
Answer: jamie
Question: Chapter titles of which classic novel include 'Nantucket', 'Ambergris' and 'Ahab's Leg'?
Answer: moby dick
Question: Which Spaniard led an expedition which reached Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital in 1519?
Answer: hernan cortes
Question: The African Fish Eagle is the emblem of which team in the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup?
Answer: namibia
Question: Suzanne Packer who plays 'Tess Bateman' in 'Casualty' is the sister of which now retired, World Champion athlete?
Answer: colin jackson
Question: Which period in the Mesozoic era came between the Triassic and the Cretaceous?
Answer: jurassic
Question: Which nineteenth century conflict is the background to the novel 'Cold Mountain' by Charles Frazier?
Answer: american civil war
Question: The US state of Pennsylvania has a coastline on which of the Great Lakes?
Answer: erie
Question: Give the two words that complete the line of the poem 'Night Mail' by W. H. Auden. "This is the Night Mail crossing the border. Bringing the cheque and the ..... ..... ".?
Answer: postal order
Question: Which harbour is the setting for the painting 'Impression, Sunrise', which gave rise to the name of the art movement?
Answer: le havre
Question: Who is the lead writer for 'Doctor Who', succeeding Russell T. Davies?
Answer: steven moffat
Question: Which castle dominates the landscape of Castletown on the Isle of Man?
Answer: castle rushen
Question: What number completes the title of the last book in Arthur C. Clarke's 'Space Odyssey' series: '...... The Final Odyssey'?
Answer: 3001
Question: Who directed the 1961 film 'Breakfast At Tiffany's'?
Answer: blake edwards
Question: In Buckinghamshire which word completes the town High ......, and the village West .....?
Answer: wycombe
Question: Which Salford born physicist and brewer, who has an SI unit named after him, lived from 1818 to 1889?
Answer: james joule
Question: The Sir Tom Finney Sports centre, opened last month, is on which university campus?
Answer: university of central lancashire
Question: What is the one word title of the 2010 drama series, co- written by Steven Moffat, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, supported by Martin Freeman?
Answer: sherlock
Question: Which castle overlooks the village of Castleton in Derbyshire?
Answer: peveril castle
Question: What is the name of the Cricket ground which hosted its first England Test Match this year?
Answer: rose bowl southampton hampshire
Question: Which composer (1913 to 1976) wrote the music used in the 1936 GPO film 'Night Mail'?
Answer: benjamin britten
Question: The book 'A Walk In The Woods' describes Bill Bryson's attempt to hike which trail in the eastern USA?
Answer: appalachian trail
Question: In the 2003 film 'Sylvia', Blythe Danner played 'Aurelia Plath', the mother of the title character. Who is her daughter who played 'Sylvia' in the film?
Answer: gwyneth paltrow
Question: The US state of Nevada has borders with Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah and which other state?
Answer: idaho
Question: Who led the Portuguese expedition which was the first to reach India by sea in 1498?
Answer: vasco da gama
Question: 'Banyana Banyana' which translates as 'Girls Girls' is the nickname of which nation's women's football team?
Answer: south africa
Question: Tom O'Connor is the father-in-law of which, now retired, Olympic champion athlete?
Answer: denise lewis
Question: Who won the Men's 100 metres at the 2011 World Athletics Championships?
Answer: yohan blake
Question: Which French mathematician and physicist, who has an SI unit named after him, lived from 1623 to 1662?
Answer: blaise pascal
Question: In which Nottinghamshire town, the largest in the county, is the Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre?
Answer: mansfield
Question: What type of creature is 'Great A 'Tuin' which swims through space supporting four huge elephants, which themselves support 'Discworld' in the Terry Pratchett novels?
Answer: turtle
Question: Which policeman is the main character in the Blake Edwards directed 1964 film 'A Shot In The Dark'?
Answer: chief inspector clouseau
Question: The group of Buckinghamshire villages known as 'The Chalfonts' comprises Little Chalfont, Chalfont St. Peters and Chafont St... What?
Answer: giles
Question: Chapter tiles of which classic novel include 'I Am Sent Away', 'Dora's Aunts' and 'Mr. Micawber's Transactions'?
Answer: david copperfield
Question: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall made an appearance on the 60th anniversary of which programme earlier this year?
Answer: archers
Question: The smallest province in South Africa is Gauteng. Which city is its capital?
Answer: johannesburg
Question: Which office has been held by Stuart Blanch, Donald Coggan and Michael Ramsey?
Answer: archbishop of york
Question: Of which football club was Sammy McIlroy Caretaker Manager, then Manager from 2005 until this year?
Answer: morecambe
Question: Which play began life as the radio play 'Three Blind Mice' broadcast in 1947?
Answer: mousetrap
Question: Which children's character lives in 'Bikini Bottom'?
Answer: spongebob squarepants
Question: Which children's character lives in 'Pontypandy'?
Answer: fireman sam
Question: Which actor, famous for 'Please Sir!' and 'Sykes' has 'acted' in every performance of 'The Mousetrap' reading a news bulletin via a recording?
Answer: deryck guyler
Question: Of which football club has John Coleman been Manager since 1999 when they were a non-league club?
Answer: accrington stanley
Question: When James Garfield was US President, who was his Vice-President?
Answer: chester arthur
Question: Which instrument is played by classical musician Yo-Yo Ma?
Answer: cello
Question: Complete the name of the Church of England diocese 'Sodor and .....'?
Answer: man
Question: Footballers Phil Jones and Clarke Carlisle are former pupils of Balshaw's High School. In which Lancashire town is the school?
Answer: leyland
Question: Which word completes the full title of the book, 'The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy ....... '?
Answer: gentleman
Question: Who presents the ITV quiz show ‘Take on the Twisters’?
Answer: julia bradbury
Question: ‘La donna è mobile’ comes from which Verdi opera?
Answer: rigoletto