CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What was Queen Victoria’s first name at birth, in May 1819?
Answer: alexandrina
Question: Which all-Pullman train ran between London and Brighton from 1931 to 1972?
Answer: brighton belle
Question: What is the most populous city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido?
Answer: sapporo
Question: When used as an artists’ pigment, the oxide of which metal is known as Chinese white?
Answer: zinc
Question: Edmund II, son of Æthelred the Unready, was known by what appellation?
Answer: ironside
Question: In the Christian festival of Christingle, which fruit is used to represent the world?
Answer: orange
Question: Which vegetable is used to layer a traditional Greek moussaka?
Answer: aubergine
Question: Who designed the modern glass pyramid that sits at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris?
Answer: i m pei
Question: Whose greatest work was laying out the plan for the city of New Delhi, India?
Answer: edwin lutyens
Question: An architect and playwright, who designed Blenheim House in Oxfordshire, England?
Answer: john vanbrugh
Question: What was the name of the prison setting for the TV comedy ‘Porridge’?
Answer: hmp slade
Question: What was the home state of character Tony Soprano in the TV series 'The Sopranos'?
Answer: new jersey
Question: Which square on a UK Monopoly Board comes between Pall Mall and Whitehall?
Answer: electric company
Question: Who was revealed to be the fourth Russian spy in the Burgess, Philby and Maclean affair?
Answer: anthony blunt
Question: Who was the author of the 1992 novel ‘Jurassic Park’?
Answer: michael crichton
Question: Who wrote the 1987 novel 'The Bonfire of the Vanities'?
Answer: tom wolfe
Question: Who wrote the picaresque American novel 'A Confederacy of Dunces'?
Answer: john kennedy toole
Question: Which town sits opposite Tynemouth at the mouth of the River Tyne?
Answer: south shields
Question: What is the name of the village on the Wirral originally built by William Lever for his workers?
Answer: port sunlight
Question: In terms of population, which is the second largest city in Austria?
Answer: graz
Question: In terms of population, which is the second largest city in Finland?
Answer: espoo
Question: Served with a steak, which sauce is made with butter, egg yolks, white wine vinegar, and tarragon?
Answer: béarnaise
Question: Above which castle did Charles I raise his Standard in 1642, effecting declaring war on parliament?
Answer: nottingham
Question: Which bloody 1651 encounter was the final battle of the English Civil Wars?
Answer: battle of
Question: Who revolutionized the high jump, inventing a unique "back-first" technique, named after him?
Answer: dick fosbury
Question: Which Mountain Pass provides a route between Kentucky and Tennessee via the Appalachians?
Answer: cumberland gap
Question: Which film opens with Bond performing a bungee jump from a dam?
Answer: goldeneye
Question: Who sang the theme for the film ‘You Only Live Twice’?
Answer: nancy sinatra
Question: Which film company did George Harrison create to finance ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’?
Answer: handmade films
Question: For which play did Shakespeare write the line: "All that glisters is not gold"?
Answer: merchant of
Question: What kind of marsupial is the titular video game character ‘Crash’?
Answer: bandicoot
Question: In the classic video game, what colour hair do the titular Lemmings have?
Answer: green
Question: In the painting ‘Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy’ by David Hockney, who or what is Percy?
Answer: cat
Question: At which celebrated German art school did the painters Kandinsky, Klee and Albers all lecture?
Answer: bauhaus
Question: Which freckled, red-headed actress has now had five nominations, this time around for 'Still Alice'?
Answer: julianne moore
Question: Spoken by J.K. Simmons, "not quite my tempo" is a noted line from which jazz-themed movie?
Answer: whiplash
Question: Almost unrecognisable with a prosthetic nose, who plays John E. du Pont in 'Foxcatcher'?
Answer: steve carrell
Question: Which movie did President Obama screen at the White House just before Martin Luther King Day?
Answer: selma
Question: A former ‘Bond Girl’, which UK actress is nominated for her leading role in 'Gone Girl'?
Answer: rosamund pike
Question: Which Best Picture nominated movie tells the story of US soldier, 'Chris' Kyle?
Answer: american sniper
Question: What was nominated for its song, 'Everything Is Awesome', but not in the best animation category?
Answer: lego movie
Question: Who became the first socialist President of France in 1981, being re-elected in 1988?
Answer: françois mitterand
Question: Who was the President of Argentina when it invaded the Falklands in 1982?
Answer: leopoldo galtieri
Question: What is the name of the strait linking the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman?
Answer: straits of hormuz
Question: Joab slew him as he was fleeing a battle, who was the rebellious third son of King David?
Answer: absalom
Question: Who many lines are there on a single, standard musical staff or stave?
Answer: five
Question: Which company made The Comet, the world’s first passenger jet airliner?
Answer: de haviland
Question: The famous ‘Route 66’ in America connected Los Angeles to which other city?
Answer: chicago
Question: Which Irish band provided the music for Harry’s Game and Robin of Sherwood?
Answer: clannad
Question: Where did the BBC set up permanent radio broadcasting facilities in April?
Answer: house of commons
Question: Which pioneering British photographer famously recorded the Crimean War?
Answer: roger fenton
Question: In 1975, which British band became the first to receive royalties for record sales in the USSR?
Answer: rolling stones
Question: Who had a 1974 UK No 1 hit with Ms Grace?
Answer: tymes
Question: From the Greek for "lazy", what property is an object’s resistance to change in its state of motion?
Answer: inertia
Question: Which metal with an atomic number of 31, melts at 30 degrees Centigrade?
Answer: gallium
Question: In which town in Ceredigion will you find the world's biggest Camera Obscura?
Answer: aberystwyth
Question: Masai, Reticulated, and Angolan are all species of which African mammal?
Answer: giraffe
Question: Which US author wrote the books on which The Hunger Games series of films are based?
Answer: suzanne collins
Question: An island group in the Pacific; which country administers the Chonos Archipelago?
Answer: chile
Question: The poisonous toadstool fly agaric usually has a cap of red and what other colour?
Answer: white
Question: Three Scottish kings, three Russian tsars and eight popes have all shared what name?
Answer: alexander
Question: Which Radio 4 programme calls itself ‘the antidote to panel games’?
Answer: i m sorry i haven t clue
Question: Which 80s sitcom starred Penelope Wilton as Ann Bryce and Peter Egan as Paul Ryman?
Answer: ever decreasing circles
Question: What corrosive liquid makes up about 38% of the electrolyte in a car battery?
Answer: sulphuric acid
Question: In which British city can you find the Roman temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva?
Answer: bath
Question: Ace of Base, The Cardigans and Roxette are all bands from which country?
Answer: sweden
Question: A smooth hill shaped by moving ice made up of glacial drift is known as a what?
Answer: drumlin
Question: Under what pseudonym did Theodor Geisel write over sixty books for children?
Answer: dr seuss
Question: The Frasch process is used to extract what chemical element from underground deposits?
Answer: sulphur
Question: With what type of transport would you associate the term ‘bow collector’?
Answer: trams
Question: Half the island of Timor belongs to East Timor. Which country owns the other half?
Answer: indonesia
Question: In nuclear science, what word used to follow ‘half-life’, before the term was shortened in the early 1950s?
Answer: period
Question: Who starred as Dan Matthews in ‘Highway Patrol’?
Answer: broderick crawford
Question: What was the name of the cow in ‘The Woodentops’?
Answer: buttercup
Question: What was the original, slightly controversial title of the Monkees’ hit ‘Alternate Title’?
Answer: randy scouse git
Question: Mythology. Who was said to be the husband of Helen of Troy?
Answer: menelaus
Question: The Bible. Who was the royal person who questioned the wisdom of Solomon?
Answer: queen of sheba
Question: What name is shared by a violet-coloured flower and a gastropod mollusc?
Answer: periwinkle
Question: According to the proverb, ‘None but the brave deserve …’ what?
Answer: fair
Question: Whose painting, ‘Benefits Supervisor Resting’, sold for £35.8million at auction?
Answer: lucian freud
Question: The Fitzroy shipping area, named after him, was previously known as what?
Answer: finisterre
Question: In 1831 he was re-appointed commander of which famous vessel?
Answer: hms beagle
Question: What is the name of SpongeBob SquarePants’ (sic) pet snail?
Answer: gary
Question: What name did Manuel give to his pet rat in ‘Fawlty Towers’?
Answer: basil
Question: Who wrote the play ‘Barefoot in the Park’, which premiered on Broadway in 1963?
Answer: neil simon
Question: What was the first name of the English painter Gainsborough, 1727-1788?
Answer: thomas
Question: Which musical features the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons?
Answer: jersey boys
Question: ‘The Perfect Year’ and ‘Surrender’ are songs from which musical?
Answer: sunset boulevard
Question: Who became the deputy leader of the Labour party in September 2015?
Answer: tom watson
Question: Umnak, Unimak and Unalaska are islands in which group, belonging to the USA?
Answer: aleutian islands
Question: What nationality was Trygve Lie, the first Secretary-General of the United Nations?
Answer: norwegian
Question: Weddell, Ross and Baikal are among the varieties of which mammal?
Answer: seals
Question: In 1599, in which market town was Oliver Cromwell born?
Answer: huntingdon
Question: In 1989, Hans-Adam II became the monarch and head of which European state?
Answer: liechtenstein
Question: Who was the World’s no.1 ranked male tennis professional from 1964 to 1970?
Answer: rod laver
Question: What part did the late Kevin Lloyd play in ‘The Bill’?
Answer: alfred tosh lines
Question: Classical. Zadok the Priest was composed in 1727 by whom?
Answer: george frideric handel
Question: Jazz. With what instrument do you associate Art Tatum, 1909-1956?
Answer: piano
Question: Pop. ‘Tubthumping’ was a 1997 no.2 hit for which group?
Answer: chumbawamba
Question: Which ‘Egghead’ published the book ‘The Great Railway Quiz’ in 1984?
Answer: chris hughes
Question: Who did Nick Clegg narrowly defeat in the LibDem leadership contest in 2007?
Answer: chris huhne
Question: Who led the Labour Party for 22 months from May 1992?
Answer: john smith
Question: Since 1886, Great Britain and USA have contested the Westchester Cup in which sport?
Answer: polo
Question: For which novel did Leslie Thomas win the 1966 Author’s Club ‘First Novel Award’?
Answer: virgin soldiers
Question: Dying in 1850, whose poems included 'Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey'?
Answer: william wordsworth
Question: In which county of England would you find the royal residence of Sandringham?
Answer: norfolk
Question: What is separated from the Essex mainland by Benfleet Creek and Easthaven Creek?
Answer: canvey island
Question: What is the name of the Greek dish derived from the words for fish roe and salad?
Answer: taramosalata
Question: Which of the elements, one of the noble gases, has the atomic number 10?
Answer: neon
Question: Which late Nobel Laureate once called for Tony Blair to be prosecuted for war crimes?
Answer: harold pinter
Question: Who wrote 'Notes on a Scandal' – later filmed with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett?
Answer: zoe heller
Question: What is the proper name for the Japanese art of flower arranging?
Answer: ikebana
Question: At which weight did both Randolph Turpin and Nigel Benn win boxing world titles?
Answer: middleweight
Question: Which darts player whose home town is Blackpool, has the nickname ‘The Rocket’?
Answer: ronnie baxter
Question: Who shaved her head to play the character Lt Ellen Ripley in the 1992 film ‘Alien3’?
Answer: sigourney weaver
Question: What was the title of the 2008 sequel to 2005’s ‘Batman Begins’?
Answer: dark knight
Question: Nicholas Cage is the nephew of which Oscar-winning film director?
Answer: francis ford coppola
Question: Which country's name in its own language is Druk Yul – i.e. 'Land of the Thunder Dragon'?
Answer: bhutan
Question: US singer-songwriter Adam Levine is lead singer with which band?
Answer: maroon 5
Question: The scene of bitter fighting in 1942-43, which is also the largest of the Solomon Islands?
Answer: guadalcanal
Question: The largest sub-species of brown bear takes its name from which archipelago off Alaska?
Answer: kodiak bear
Question: Which cocktail contains tequila, orange-flavoured liqueur, and the juice of lime or lemon?
Answer: margarita
Question: Which long drink cocktail linked with Venice is a mix of sparkling wine and peach puree?
Answer: bellini
Question: Who composed the 1791 opera entitled ‘La Clemenza di Tito’?
Answer: wolfgang amadeus mozart
Question: Which English County is known as The Land of The Prince Bishops?
Answer: county durham
Question: What mythical object did Sir Bedivere return to ‘The Lady of Avalon’?
Answer: excalibur
Question: He died aged 79 in 2005; who was the legendary host of US TV’s ‘The Tonight Show’?
Answer: johnny carson
Question: Which Shipping Forecast Area was formerly known as Heligoland?
Answer: german bight
Question: Which animal’s head has been the trademark of Colman’s Mustard for over 150 years?
Answer: bull
Question: In a special live edition of ‘East Enders’, which character was the Olympic torch bearer?
Answer: billy mitchell
Question: AKA pharyngeal tonsils, what are located in the passage linking throat and nasal cavity?
Answer: adenoids
Question: What do we call bands of flexible fibrous connective tissue that links bones together?
Answer: ligaments
Question: What do we call the fluid in the blood in which cells and corpuscles are suspended?
Answer: plasma
Question: William McGonagall penned a poem commemorating which December 1879 rail disaster?
Answer: tay bridge
Question: Which often controversial global fashion brand was founded in Treviso in 1965?
Answer: benetton
Question: What is the proper name of the 'stub' left in a chequebook once a cheque is detached?
Answer: counterfoil
Question: Mariano Rajoy became Prime Minister of which EU country in 2011?
Answer: spain
Question: Former probation officer Leanne Wood was elected leader of which party in March 2012?
Answer: plaid cymru
Question: Nicknamed the 'The Pearl of the Danube', which capital is overlooked by János Hill?
Answer: budapest
Question: Situated in Nevada, what is known as 'The Biggest Little City in the World'?
Answer: reno
Question: Nicknamed 'The Pearl of the Orient', which capital is bisected by the Pasig River?
Answer: manila
Question: What name is given to the events of 30 January 1972 in Londonderry?
Answer: bloody sunday
Question: A son, his dad is Dwight Yorke; what is the first name of Katy Price's eldest child?
Answer: harvey
Question: Which city hosted the opening stage of the Tour De France on 5 July 2014?
Answer: leeds
Question: Which of Elton John's singles was a tribute to a despatch rider killed in an accident?
Answer: song for guy
Question: Where was the last train going according to The Monkees in 1966?
Answer: clarksville
Question: Which muralist was married to fellow Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo?
Answer: diego rivera
Question: 40 days after Easter, by what name is ‘Holy Thursday’ also known to Christians?
Answer: ascension day
Question: In 1998, whose widow became Nelson Mandela's third wife?
Answer: samora machel
Question: Ashanti, referring to both a region and its peoples, is found in which African country?
Answer: ghana
Question: Whose face appeared with the word “Hope” on a poster created by Shepard Fairey?
Answer: barack obama
Question: Which glassy, dark volcanic rock was used by some to make edged tools and arrowheads?
Answer: obsidian
Question: Which pioneering Swiss psychologist proposed the theory of the collective unconscious?
Answer: carl jung
Question: Who painted ‘The Card Players’, one version of his selling for £154 million in 2011?
Answer: paul cezanne
Question: Which Russian playwright wrote ‘Uncle Vanya’ and ‘The Cherry Orchard’?
Answer: anton checkov
Question: What was the name of the artist who died in French Polynesia in 1903, aged 54?
Answer: paul gauguin
Question: In physics, the pivot about which a lever turns is generally known as a what?
Answer: fulcrum
Question: If you had queso in a Spanish restaurant, what would you be eating?
Answer: cheese
Question: Katherina is the headstrong leading female character in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: Battleship, thimble, iron, cannon, battleship and what else were the original six tokens?
Answer: top hat
Question: Who won the Best Director Oscar for the 2008 film, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’?
Answer: danny boyle
Question: Who was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the USA?
Answer: sir winston churchill
Question: What was Bangladesh called between 1947 and 1971?
Answer: east pakistan
Question: What ‘B’ was Daisy’s surname in ‘The Great Gatsby’?
Answer: buchanan
Question: What is the name of the character who is the protagonist in the ‘Die Hard’ film series?
Answer: john mcclane
Question: Who played Stephen Hawking in the 2014 film, ‘The Theory of Everything’?
Answer: eddie redmayne
Question: In honour of Bobby Moore, what shirt number was retired by West Ham in 2008?
Answer: six
Question: What was snooker player Cliff Thorburn’s nickname?
Answer: grinder
Question: Which prominent anti-war activist was born in Monmouthshire in 1872?
Answer: bertrand russell
Question: In the Royal Navy, what is the only rank higher than that of admiral?
Answer: admiral of fleet
Question: Who composed the 1870 ballet ‘Coppelia’?
Answer: leo delibes
Question: What do the initials represent in the name of the HSBC bank?
Answer: hong kong and shanghai
Question: From 2005 to 2007, Shane Warne captained which English county side?
Answer: hampshire
Question: Who got to no.7 in the UK charts in 1977 with ‘Lovely Day’?
Answer: bill withers
Question: What illness is an inflammation of the larynx and trachea, causing breathing difficulties?
Answer: croup
Question: With what invention do you associate the name of Mr. Whitcomb Judson?
Answer: zip fastener
Question: ‘Shamela’ (1741) was a parody of ‘Pamela’ (1740). Who wrote the latter?
Answer: samuel richardson
Question: In ‘Penny Lane’, who keeps a portrait of the Queen in his pocket?
Answer: fireman
Question: Who played the male lead in the Bond film ‘Never Say Never Again’?
Answer: sean connery
Question: Which boy band took its name from a character in the film Back To The Future?
Answer: mcfly
Question: Which TV family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace?
Answer: simpsons
Question: Which famous river was discovered and first crossed by Spaniard Hernando de Soto?
Answer: mississippi
Question: Which fruity title from their album Islands was a 1983 top ten hit for Kajagoogoo?
Answer: big apple
Question: Where did Fats Domino find his thrill in 1956?
Answer: blueberry hill
Question: Which fish is often mistakenly called the ‘pike-perch’?
Answer: zander
Question: Which fish, Tinca tinca, do anglers call the ‘doctor fish’?
Answer: tench
Question: The three Provinces wholly in the Republic are Leinster, Connaught and which other?
Answer: munster
Question: Which song from Mary Poppins won the Academy Award for Best Song?
Answer: chim chim cher ee
Question: Which heavenly body was Giotto sent to photograph in 1986?`
Answer: halley s comet
Question: The extinct Moa is believed to be the largest ever ………what?
Answer: bird
Question: Who was the ‘gentleman burglar’ created by E W Hornung?
Answer: raffles
Question: The sangiovese grape is chiefly used in the production of which Italian wine?
Answer: chianti
Question: Which sparkling wine is made chiefly in the Penedes region near Barcelona?
Answer: cava
Question: The winner of which famous race traditionally swigs milk from the bottle?
Answer: indianapolis 500
Question: A Lucy Stoner is a married woman who retains …….what?
Answer: her maiden surname
Question: What was the name of the computer that beat Gary Kasparov at chess in 1997?
Answer: deep blue
Question: What allegedly crashed at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947?
Answer: ufo
Question: Who committed what became known as the West Port murders in Edinburgh in 1828?
Answer: burke hare
Question: What profession was followed by Grace O’Malley, Mary Read and Anne Bonny?
Answer: piracy
Question: By what name was the architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret better known?
Answer: le corbusier
Question: Who seized the throne in 1135 on the death of Henry I?
Answer: stephen
Question: Which US Trade Union was led by the notorious Jimmy Hoffa?
Answer: teamsters
Question: Helen Gurley Brown was editor of which magazine for 32 years?
Answer: cosmopolitan
Question: Which novel tells the tragic story of displaced migrants George Milton and Lennie Small?
Answer: of mice and men
Question: Which part of a flower is responsible for the production of pollen grains?
Answer: anther
Question: What kind of footwear did Jimmy Nail have in 1994?
Answer: crocodile shoes
Question: Which film star began life as Michel Shalhoub?
Answer: omar sharif
Question: Which character was once played by Peter Dean in Eastenders?
Answer: pete beale
Question: Which film star began life as Issur Danielovitch?
Answer: kirk douglas
Question: Which character was once played by Ken Morley in Coronation Street?
Answer: reg holdsworth
Question: Who was the compere for the first National Lottery draw in 1994?
Answer: noel edmunds
Question: What do we call the elongated hill in the shape of a half-buried egg formed by glacial ice?
Answer: drumlin
Question: What is the capital of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region of France?
Answer: marseilles
Question: Ian Gillan, Graham Bonnet and David Coverdale sang for which band?
Answer: deep purple
Question: Who were the twin sons of Zeus and Leda?
Answer: castor pollux
Question: The Peppermint Lounge in New York was the launch pad for which 60’s dance craze?
Answer: twist
Question: Which inlet of the Irish Sea separates Cumbria from Dumfries & Galloway?
Answer: solway firth
Question: Which iconic gangster film begins with a Tony Bennett rendition of Rags To Riches?
Answer: goodfellas
Question: Where did Gabriel Byrne pretend to execute John Turturro?
Answer: miller s crossing
Question: Who composed the opera Cavalleria Rusticana?
Answer: mascagni
Question: What are the women’s trousers cut to look like a skirt?
Answer: culottes
Question: Which famous brewery is situated in Banbury, Oxfordshire?
Answer: hook norton
Question: Richard Ashcroft fronted which 1990’s band from Wigan?
Answer: verve
Question: The French town of Montelimar is famous for the production of which confection?
Answer: nougat
Question: Which creature has a symbiotic relationship with the Egyptian plover?
Answer: crocodile
Question: Which play begins ‘Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace’?
Answer: midsummer night s dream
Question: In Othello what did the bard mean by ‘the beast with two backs’?
Answer: sexual intercourse
Question: Who took the name Sebastian Melmoth while living in exile?
Answer: oscar wilde
Question: The Talmud was written in Hebrew and which other language?
Answer: aramaic
Question: Common and pygmy are the only species of which large mammal?
Answer: hippopotamus
Question: Helen Graham is the eponymous heroine of which Bronte novel?
Answer: tenant of wildfell hall
Question: Which 10-part Channel 4 drama starring Julie Walters depicts the 1930’s British Raj?
Answer: indian summers
Question: Which city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway?
Answer: vladivostok
Question: Brazil has one of the world’s largest soccer stadia – what is it called?
Answer: maracana
Question: In which capital city were the 1928 Summer Olympic Games held?
Answer: amsterdam
Question: What was the surname of Mamas and Papas singer Mama Cass?
Answer: elliot
Question: Lauren Bacall was married at different times to Humphrey Bogart and which other actor?
Answer: jason robards