CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which, once successful hosiery company was set up by Asil Nadir?
Answer: polly peck
Question: Which was the first Gilbert and Sullivan opera to have its premiere at the new Savoy Theatre?
Answer: iolanthe
Question: What is the name of the butler portrayed by Jim Carter in Downton Abbey?
Answer: mr carson
Question: Fanny Sunesson was the regular and highly successful caddie for which major golfer between 1990 and 1999?
Answer: nick faldo
Question: What is the four letter prefix added to patronymic surnames of Anglo-Norman origin to mean 'son of'?
Answer: fitz
Question: Which of the Mitford sisters married Oswald Mosley and became a fascist?
Answer: diana
Question: Which is the fifth book of the Old Testament, following Numbers?
Answer: deuteronomy
Question: Bourbon whisky is produced mostly, though not exclusively, in an area known as Old Bourbon, in which US state?
Answer: kentucky
Question: Which Italian patriot put down the Two Sicilies rebellion in the south of the country prior to the unification of Italy in 1861?
Answer: giuseppe garibaldi
Question: What was the job of Chesley B Sullenberger III that made him famous on 15 January 2009?
Answer: airline pilot
Question: Madeline Bell was a singer in which pop group of the 1960s and 70s?
Answer: blue mink
Question: Of which TV series was Geraldine Granger the lead character?
Answer: vicar of dibley
Question: Which village lies to the north of Esthwaite Water, William Wordsworth was educated at the grammar school there?
Answer: hawkshead
Question: Caddie, Steve Williams suffered widespread condemnation after his ill-chosen words about which former employer at an awards dinner in Shanghai in November 2011?
Answer: tiger woods
Question: Downton Abbey is filmed at which stately home?
Answer: highclere castle
Question: Which deep inlet of the Ionian Sea separates Peloponnese from western mainland Greece?
Answer: gulf of corinth
Question: Which famous sea battle was fought in 1571 in the Gulf of Corinth although the Gulf had a different name at that time?
Answer: lepanto
Question: Which 1993 treaty established the European Union under its current name?
Answer: maastricht
Question: Which river forms most of the county boundary between Essex and Suffolk and flows in to the North Sea at Harwich?
Answer: stour
Question: Which animated characters live at 62, West Wallaby Street, Wigan?
Answer: wallace gromit
Question: Who is the only person to win an acting Oscar in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock?
Answer: joan fontaine
Question: Who did Andy Murray beat in the final to win the 2012 Olympic Gold Medal?
Answer: roger federer
Question: What is the first name of the Dickens character Micawber?
Answer: wilkins
Question: In the title of a BBC TV programme, which chef is 'Sweet Baby James'?
Answer: james martin
Question: Which German mathematician developed calculus at about the same time that Isaac Newton did so?
Answer: gottfried leibniz
Question: In 1998, Bentley was taken over by which other car manufacturer?
Answer: volkswagen
Question: Which artist painted 'The Singing Butler' in 1992?
Answer: jack vettriano
Question: Which naturalist conceived a theory of natural selection at about the same time that Charles Darwin did so and co-published a paper on the subject with Darwin in 1858?
Answer: alfred russel wallace
Question: What is the first name of the Dickens character Quilp?
Answer: daniel
Question: Which group released the album 'X & Y' in 2005?
Answer: coldplay
Question: Which French Revolutionary leader said before his execution in 1794: "Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing"?
Answer: george danton
Question: Basil Haliward painted which notorious portrait?
Answer: picture of dorian gray
Question: What is the capital of Guernsey, Channel Islands?
Answer: st peter port
Question: Which 20th century soldier and adventurer lived at Clouds Hill, Dorset?
Answer: t e lawrence
Question: Guy Montag is the protagonist in which 1953 Ray Bradbury novel?
Answer: fahrenheit 451
Question: Which rock band formed in 1994, is named after unexplained lights seen by WW2 pilots?
Answer: foo fighters
Question: The proverbially wealthy Croesus was king of where?
Answer: lydia
Question: By what name is Ted Kaczynski better known?
Answer: unabomber
Question: Which US hip hop group recorded the 2009 album the E.N.D., gaining three No. 1 hits?
Answer: black eyed peas
Question: Which 2003 Sofia Coppola film is set in the Park Hyatt Hotel, Tokyo?
Answer: lost in translation
Question: Singers Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding took what name in the early '80's?
Answer: fun boy three
Question: Which is the only country to feature the image of a Kalashnikov rifle on its national flag?
Answer: mozambique
Question: What is the name of the broad sash worn as part of traditional Japanese dress?
Answer: obi
Question: Which US boxing world champion founded 'Golden Boy Promotions' in 2001?
Answer: oscar de la hoya
Question: Which US city is home to the HQ of CNN, Coca Cola, and Delta Airlines?
Answer: atlanta georgia
Question: Which largely autobiographical 1957 novel is narrated by the character Sal Paradise?
Answer: on road
Question: The Stoop is the home of which Rugby Union team?
Answer: harlequins
Question: Which Paris Metro Line 1 station is named after a US President?
Answer: franklin d roosevelt
Question: Whose last literary work was the TV play "Karaoke and Cold Lazarus"?
Answer: dennis potter
Question: Brothers O'Kelly, Rudolph, Ernie, and Marvin were founder members of which US group?
Answer: isley brothers
Question: The BWV catalogue lists the works of which 17/18th century composer?
Answer: j s bach
Question: The 1998 Eurovision Song Contest was held in which English city?
Answer: birmingham
Question: Spurn Head (or Point) stretches across which estuary?
Answer: humber
Question: In the Broadway musical "Annie", who adopted her?
Answer: oliver daddy warbucks
Question: The Pilgrim's Way ends in Canterbury - where does it start?
Answer: winchester
Question: In sport, whose victory song is 'Under the Southern Cross I Stand"?
Answer: australian cricket team
Question: The musical "Jersey Boys" tells the story of which rock 'n roll group?
Answer: four seasons
Question: The US horse racing Triple Crown comprises the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and which othee?
Answer: belmont stakes
Question: When salted, smoked and cured, what fish is known as a bloater?
Answer: herring
Question: Where was the first Butlin's holiday camp opened in 1936?
Answer: skegness
Question: What collectively are Beas, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and the Sutlej?
Answer: five rivers of punjab
Question: What was the deadly cargo of the B-29 Bockscar?
Answer: bomb
Question: Which World War 2 operation (later known as Operation Jubilee) took place on 19th August 1942?
Answer: raid on dieppe
Question: Who had a not hit in 1983 with the song 'Electric Avenue'?
Answer: eddy grant
Question: Gibbons and orang-utans are types of which creature?
Answer: apes
Question: Which TV character had the catchphrases "Permission to speak, sir?" and "Don't panic"?
Answer: corporal jones
Question: Who resigned as CEO of Barclay's after the LIBOR tax rate scandal?
Answer: bob diamond
Question: Who, now an Honorary Professor of Media Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, wrote the autobiography 'Mid Term Report'?
Answer: phil redmond
Question: Which explorer discovered the Victoria falls on the River Zambezi?
Answer: david livingstone
Question: Which Wigan and GB rugby league player played for the Barbarians against Australian Wallabies in late 2011?
Answer: sam tomkins
Question: In the nursery rhyme, who saw the sparrow kill Cock Robin?
Answer: fly
Question: What nickname was given to Margaret Thatcher during her time as Prime Minister?
Answer: iron lady
Question: Joel Tomkins was transferred from Wigan to which rugby union club in 2011?
Answer: saracens
Question: Since leaving his radio show, Chris Moyles has taken on which part in the musical 'Jesus Christ Superstar'?
Answer: king herod
Question: Which scientist formulated the law of elasticity in 1660?
Answer: robert hooke
Question: The Analects, or Lunyu, dating back to approximately 450 BC is a collection of sayings and ideas of which philosopher?
Answer: confucius
Question: Which TV character had the catchphrase "Listen very carefully; I shall say zis only once"?
Answer: michelle
Question: Who had a hit in 2012 with the song and video 'Gangnam Style'?
Answer: psy
Question: Whistler painted 'Arrangement in Grey and Black', version no.1 was of his mother, which philosopher and historian was the subject of version no.2?
Answer: thomas carlyle
Question: In 2012, who became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound without vehicular power when he jumped from a helium balloon at a height of approximately 24 miles?
Answer: felix baumgartner
Question: Which explorer discovered Lake Victoria and the source of the Nile?
Answer: john speke
Question: Which ex-policeman, played by Denis Lawson is the new character in the TV series 'New Tricks'?
Answer: steve mcandrew
Question: Oryx, Kudu and Gnu are types of which creature?
Answer: antelopes
Question: In World War 2, what code name was given to the Allied airborne landings at Arnhem in 1944?
Answer: market garden
Question: Who was the Australian opening batsman who faced the first ball, scored the first run and the first century in Test cricket?
Answer: charles bannerman
Question: What is the English equivalent of the French pret-a-porter?
Answer: ready to wear
Question: The Salk vaccine is administered to combat which disease?
Answer: polio myelitis
Question: What nationality was the detective story writer Ngaio Marsh?
Answer: new zealander
Question: What is the name of the tides of smallest range, occurring after the moon's first and third quarter?
Answer: neap tides
Question: Who presided over the 'Bloody Assizes' of 1685?
Answer: judge jeffries
Question: Who wrote the novels 'Lord Jim' (1900) and 'The Secret Agent' (1907)?
Answer: joseph conrad
Question: Originally built on another site in 1850-51, which building burned down at Sydenham Hill in 1936?
Answer: crystal palace
Question: Completed in 1998 and looking down on Gateshead, Anthony Gormley's giant sculpture is called what "of the North'?
Answer: angel
Question: Who recorded the 1995 LP 'History - 'Past, Present and Future, Book 1'?
Answer: michael jackson
Question: In which Dodie Smith novel, twice filmed, does Cruella de Vil appear?
Answer: one hundred and one dalmatians
Question: Anne Frank wrote her diary in the loft of a house in which city?
Answer: amsterdam
Question: Who gave his first public demonstration of television in London on 27 January 1926?
Answer: john logie baird
Question: Which hominid is named after the valley near Dusseldorf; where the first skull was found in 1957?
Answer: neanderthal
Question: According to folklore, which plant shrieks when pulled from the ground?
Answer: mandrake
Question: In which of Dickens's novels do Pip Pirrip and Miss Havisham appear?
Answer: great expectations
Question: What was Judas' reward for betraying Christ?
Answer: 30 pieces of silver
Question: What is the name from a nursery rhyme, of the drink made from orange juice and bitter lemons?
Answer: st clements
Question: In which County are Wells, Bridgewater and Yeovil?
Answer: somerset
Question: Of which country was Juan Peron dictator from 1946 to 1955 and 1973 to 1974?
Answer: argentina
Question: Nicknamed "Little Mo" who was the first player to win the Grand Slam in women's tennis?
Answer: maureen connolly
Question: Who in 1968 founded the electronics company Amstrad?
Answer: alan sugar
Question: Which comedienne had the catchphrase 'She knows, y'know'?
Answer: hilda baker
Question: Into which city's subway system was the poison nerve gas sarin released on 20 March 1995?
Answer: tokyo
Question: Which capital city is on the banks of the Potomac River?
Answer: washington d c
Question: In which modern country was the capital of Aztec Empire sited?
Answer: mexico
Question: What is the name of the solid residue left after coal has been carbonised and almost all of its constituent volatiles removed?
Answer: coke
Question: Who played Henry Higgins in the 1964 film 'My Fair Lady'?
Answer: rex harrison
Question: According to the title of the 1964 hit by The Shangri-La's, who did the girl meet at the candy store?
Answer: leader of pack
Question: Which metal is extracted from the ore mined in a stannery?
Answer: tin
Question: What is the name of the ancient Highway which ran from Rome to Brindisi in Southern Italy?
Answer: appian way
Question: Which singer was born in Lubbock Texas in 1936?
Answer: buddy holly
Question: Steven Isserlis and Julian Lloyd Webber are leading British classical musicians, which instrument do they both play?
Answer: cello
Question: 'Clean and jerk' and 'snatch' are terms used in which sport?
Answer: weight lifting
Question: How many countries joined together to create the original European Economic Community following upon the Treaty of Rome in 1957?
Answer: six
Question: Galia and Cantaloupe are types of which fruit?
Answer: melon
Question: Which actor, who died in July 2012, made his film debut playing Fatso Judson who beat Frank Sinatra's character to death in 'From Here to Eternity'?
Answer: ernest borgnine
Question: By which of his Christian names is the French composer Debussy (1862-1918) known?
Answer: claude
Question: Which Ryder Cup golfer founded IJP Design, a golf clothing company?
Answer: ian poulter
Question: The mythical kingdom of Shambhala represents Paradise in which religion?
Answer: buddhism
Question: Which veins of the human body are the only ones to carry oxygenated blood?
Answer: pulmonary veins
Question: Which internationally renowned classical pianist and conductor collaborated with Morecambe and Wise in a 1971 TV show?
Answer: andre previn
Question: Which river forms part of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland?
Answer: river foyle
Question: Fort Sumter, scene of the opening shots of the US Civil War, is in which state?
Answer: south carolina
Question: Ernest Borgnine won one Best Actor Oscar, in 1955 for which film?
Answer: marty
Question: Which major Russian naval base is situated in the Republic of the Ukraine?
Answer: sevastopol
Question: Motu is a German liqueur made from vodka, lime juice and a very high proportion (66%) of which fruit?
Answer: strawberry
Question: Which Welsh railway became, in 1951, the first in the world to be preserved as a heritage railway by volunteers?
Answer: talyllyn
Question: Who wrote the novel 'The White Peacock'?
Answer: d h lawrence
Question: Who was lead singer with the group 'The Pretenders'?
Answer: chrissie hynd
Question: By which of his Christian names is the French artist Manet (1832-1883) known?
Answer: edouard
Question: Leaf, Goliath and cardinal are breeds of which insect?
Answer: beetle
Question: Which African country was successfully invaded and occupied by Italy in the period 1934-36?
Answer: abyssinia
Question: In 1942, Vic Oliver was the first guest on which radio interview programme?
Answer: desert island discs
Question: Which company's products include Dettol, Veet, Cillit Bang and Durex?
Answer: reckitt benckiser
Question: The Little Bighorn battlefield, scene of Custer's 1876 defeat, is in which US state?
Answer: montana
Question: What is the medical name for the large intestine of the human body?
Answer: colon
Question: David Attenborough, in 2012, became the second person to have appeared four times as a castaway on Desert Island Discs; which Liverpool born comedian was the first?
Answer: arthur askey
Question: Which politician wrote the diaries of his dog 'Buster'?
Answer: roy hattersley
Question: Which area of Czechoslovakia was transferred to Germany after the Munich Conference of September 1938?
Answer: sudetenland
Question: Which company's products include Bisto, Branton pickle, Hovis, Mr Kipling cakes and Robertson's jam?
Answer: premier foods
Question: What was the name of the former British naval base just to the south of Cape Town, South Africa?
Answer: simonstown
Question: Who published 'Unva Libro' (First Book) in 1887 in Warsaw?
Answer: dr l l zamenhof
Question: Which band leader adopted 'In The Mood' as his signature tune?
Answer: joe loss
Question: During the Roman Empire what was a 'murmillo'?
Answer: type of gladiator
Question: Discovered in 1988, the remains of what ancient structure lie beneath the Guildhall in London?
Answer: amphitheatre
Question: Who reached the FA Cup final in 2011 for the first time in the club's history?
Answer: stoke city
Question: Who were the first winners of the FA Cup at the new Wembley Stadium?
Answer: chelsea
Question: Give either of the two forenames of the author surnamed Lewis, who is famous for the Chronicles of Narnia books?
Answer: clive staples
Question: CS Lewis died on 22nd November 1963, the same day that President JF Kennedy was assassinated. Which other famous author also died that day?
Answer: aldous huxley
Question: What was 'the devil's porridge', manufactured near Dumfries,, in a factory the site of which extended for more than 20 miles?
Answer: cordite
Question: Which country did Charlene, now Princess of Monaco, represent at swimming in the 2000 Sydney Olympics?
Answer: south africa
Question: The strait of Magellan separates which island from South America?
Answer: tierra del fuego
Question: What is the name of the strait that separates the north and south islands of New Zealand?
Answer: cook strait
Question: Name the actress who died in July 2011 aged 94, who is probably best remembered for her role as the governor of a women's prison in Within These Walls?
Answer: googie withers
Question: Which former US First Lady died in July 2011 at the age of 93?
Answer: betty ford
Question: In heraldry, what colour is gules, when emblazoned on a coat of arms?
Answer: red
Question: Who founded the College of Arms or Herald's College in 1484?
Answer: richard iii
Question: Which horse won its fifth King George VI chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day 2011?
Answer: kauto star
Question: Who is the choirmaster of the 'Military Wives'?
Answer: gareth malone
Question: Lincoln's Inn, Middle Temple and Inner Temple are three of the four Inns of Court. What is the fourth?
Answer: gray s inn
Question: """Uberrimae fidei"" is the motto of Lloyds of London. What does it mean?"
Answer: utmost good faith
Question: Which World Heritage site is 3 miles north east of Bushmills in Northern Ireland?
Answer: giant s causeway
Question: Which restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, was at the centre of a novovirus scare in 2009?
Answer: fat duck
Question: For which clothing company did the former Kate Middleton work as an accessory buyer?
Answer: jigsaw
Question: Who created the works The Third of May 1808 and The Disasters of War?
Answer: francisco goya
Question: Fringillidae is the Latin name for which family of birds?
Answer: finches
Question: What was the name of the official mascot for the 2012 Olympic Games?
Answer: wenlock
Question: What is the more common name for Oil of Vitriol?
Answer: sulphuric acid
Question: Which island lies between North Uist and South Uist?
Answer: benbecula
Question: Which role in Parliament is held in 2012 by Amyas Morse?
Answer: comptroller and auditor general
Question: Which role in Parliament is held in 2012 by Dominic Grieve?
Answer: attorney general
Question: Who was the painter of the work The Treachery of Images, which includes the words "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"?
Answer: rene magritte
Question: What type of particle has 'flavours' known as top (or truth), bottom (or beauty), up, down, strange and charm?
Answer: quark
Question: Who won the Man Booker prize for The Finkler Question?
Answer: howard jacobson
Question: What is the title of the novel by Julian Barnes that won the Man Booker prize in 2011?
Answer: sense of ending
Question: Alpha particle radiation is equivalent to fast moving nuclei of which element?
Answer: helium
Question: In a lava lamp, of what type of substance is the 'lava'?
Answer: wax
Question: In Norse mythology, which event, preceded by Fimbulvetr, is the final battle between the gods and the Frost Giants?
Answer: ragnarok
Question: Who illustrated most of Roald Dahl's children's books?
Answer: quentin blake
Question: What was the name of the Roman festivities in mid to late December, elements of which were incorporated into Christmas?
Answer: saturnalia
Question: Which British landmark was climbed for the first time by Chris Bonnington, Rusty Baillie and Tom Patey over a three day period in 1966?
Answer: old man of hoy
Question: Which cyclist won GB's first Gold medal of the 2012 Paralympics, the first of her four?
Answer: sarah storey
Question: What is the name of Hercule Poirot's secretary?
Answer: miss felicity lemon
Question: Who was Harper Lee's childhood friend and neighbour, the inspiration for the character of Dill in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
Answer: truman capote
Question: Which cricketer, known as The Wall, who retired from first-class cricket in 2012, is second to Sachin Tendulkar in test runs scored?
Answer: rahul dravid
Question: Who wrote the 'Trout Quintet'?
Answer: franz schubert
Question: Which George Eliot character is a weaver in the village of Raveloe?
Answer: silas marner
Question: Who trained Ballabriggs to Grand National victory in 2011, following a family trend?
Answer: donald mccain
Question: What are Bruce, Danforth and Plough types of?
Answer: boat anchors
Question: The 1969 novel 'The Siege of Trencher's Farm', by Gordon Williams, was adapted into which controversial film?
Answer: straw dogs
Question: What is the surname of Charlie, the Senior Charge Nurse played by Derek Thompson in 'Casualty'?
Answer: fairhead
Question: A note from what instrument is used by an orchestra to tune up?
Answer: oboe
Question: The Red Sea is a submerged section of what 4000 mile long geographical feature?
Answer: great rift valley
Question: Which member of the tuba family is named after the American composer (1854-1932) who popularized its use in his band?
Answer: sousaphone
Question: This game park is so big it is divided into Tsavo East and Tsavo West, but in which country are they situated?
Answer: kenya
Question: What tool has a horn, a table, a face, a hardie hole, a heel, a waist and a foot?
Answer: anvil
Question: The novel 'A Good Year', about a City trader who inherits a vineyard in Provence, was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cottillard. Who wrote it?
Answer: peter mayle
Question: Which family live at Dorlcote Mill in a work by George Eliot?
Answer: tulliver
Question: Pupils of which school are known as Carthusians?
Answer: charterhouse
Question: T E Lawrence was riding which make of motorcycle in the accident that led to his death in 1935?
Answer: brough
Question: In the body which strong flexible tissue holds bones together where they form a joint?
Answer: ligament
Question: George Frideric Handel produced a piece of music for the coronation of George II and it has been used in each coronation since. What is its title?
Answer: zadok priest
Question: Which sovereign state comprises about 1% of the land area of Brneo?
Answer: brunei
Question: Dusty Springfield's biggest success in the US was to reach number 1 in the dance charts in 1987 when she featureed on 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?' with which duo?
Answer: pet shop boys
Question: Launched in 1981, what was the name of the first operational space shuttle?
Answer: columbia
Question: Which rowing race first rowed in 1715 is believed to be the oldest continually running sporting event in existence?
Answer: doggett s coat and badge
Question: Which famous pop duo originally went under the name of Tom and Jerry?
Answer: simon and garfunkel
Question: Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the Jarrow March?
Answer: stanley baldwin
Question: Who won the USA's only gold medal in boxing at Tokyo Olympic Games of 1964?
Answer: joe frazier
Question: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams created what in 2006?
Answer: twitter
Question: Which actor played the parts of Mick Shipman in Gavin and Stacey and Archie Mitchell in Easterners?
Answer: larry lamb