CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Arreciffe is the capital of which of the Canary Islands ?
Answer: lanzarote
Question: Which British-born aviatrix is credited with being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west ?
Answer: beryl markham
Question: Coir is the name given to the fibre from which fruit ?
Answer: coconut
Question: Whose new solo album - his first in 14 years - is called Since I Saw You Last ?
Answer: gary barlow
Question: In which town or city are the headquarters of the Wetherspoons pub chain ?
Answer: watford
Question: For which ancient ruler was the Mausoleum at Harlicarnassus built ?
Answer: mausolus
Question: Who is the mother of the actor and director Samuel West ?
Answer: prunella scales
Question: The Statue of Zeus, sculpted by Phidias , was located at which place in Greece ?
Answer: olympia
Question: Which island group in the Indian Ocean, a popular tourist destination, has the city of Victoria as its capital ?
Answer: seychelles
Question: Which herb is principally associated with Bearnaise sauce ?
Answer: tarragon
Question: Which sport, known as jeu de paume in France , is still played at Hampton Court Palace ?
Answer: real tennis
Question: The American microbiologist Albert Bruce Sabin is noted for his invention of a vaccine, usually known by his name, for which once-common condition?
Answer: polio
Question: In Indian houses, what word denoted a primitive type of ceiling fan consisting of a large flap of cloth operated by a rope ?
Answer: punkah
Question: Name the only English monarch to belong to the House of Blois.
Answer: stephen
Question: Who wrote the orchestral work Carnival of the Animals in 1886 ?
Answer: saint saens
Question: The films of which director include Moulin Rouge and Strictly Ballroom ?
Answer: baz luhrmann
Question: Who chairs the Radio 4 comedy panel game The News Quiz ?
Answer: sandi toksvig
Question: The original 'Star Trek' TV series was set in which century ?
Answer: 23rd
Question: The Egyptian god Anubis has the head of what type of creature ?
Answer: jackal
Question: Henrietta Maria of France was queen consort of which English monarch ?
Answer: charles i
Question: Which eating disorder is named after the Greek for 'ox hunger' ?
Answer: bulimia
Question: Which Enterprise captain in Star Trek: The Next Generation had the catchphrase 'Make it so' ?
Answer: jean luc picard
Question: The Triskelion is used as the symbol for which part of the British Isles ?
Answer: isle of man
Question: Every January , the inhabitants of Lerwick on the Shetland Islands burn a full-size replica of what ?
Answer: viking longship
Question: In which country was Manchester United's new 18-year old signing Adrian Januzaj born ?
Answer: belgium
Question: From which plant is the Mexican drink tequila distilled ?
Answer: blue agave
Question: Who chairs the Radio 4 programme Round Britain Quiz ?
Answer: tom sutcliffe
Question: What was the host city of the 1984 Summer Olympics ?
Answer: los angeles
Question: In which of London's Royal Parks is Speakers' Corner located ?
Answer: hyde park
Question: In Shakespeare's Richard III, the Duke of Clarence is famously drowned in a vat of what type of wine ?
Answer: malmsey
Question: Before entering government, Neville Chamberlain was lord mayor of which city ?
Answer: birmingham
Question: What was the name of Scooby Doo's nephew, whose catchphrase was 'Puppy Power' ?
Answer: scrappy doo
Question: What item of playground equipment is known in North America as a teeter-totter ?
Answer: see saw
Question: Tower Bridge in London is an example of what kind of bridge ?
Answer: bascule
Question: What drink, a type of fortified wine, was a favourite tipple of Shakespeare's Falstaff ?
Answer: sack
Question: The Australian kookaburra is one of the largest species of which bird ?
Answer: kingfisher
Question: Which fastening system was developed by Swiss inventor George de Mestral?
Answer: velcro
Question: How many masts does the vessel known as a Ketch have ?
Answer: two
Question: Who became the 120th Briton to win a Nobel Prize by winning this year's prize for physics ?
Answer: peter higgs
Question: Which British Prime Minister was nicknamed 'The Grocer' by Private Eye magazine ?
Answer: edward heath
Question: The birth of which Roman goddess is famously the subject of a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli ?
Answer: venus
Question: In which city was the International Committee of the Red Cross founded in 1863 ?
Answer: geneva
Question: A tiger called Richard Parker appears in which novel by Yann Martel ?
Answer: life of pi
Question: Which was the second James Bond film to star Daniel Craig in the title role ?
Answer: quantum of solace
Question: Who was Britain's first female Foreign Secretary and the first female leader of the Labour Party ?
Answer: margaret becket
Question: In Virgil's Aeneid, who was the Queen of Carthage who fell in love with Aeneas?
Answer: dido
Question: What nickname were the British Parachute Regiment given by the Germans during the Second World War ?
Answer: red devils
Question: Telly Savalas played the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in which James Bond film?
Answer: on her majesty s secret service
Question: Which capital city was planned by Pierre l'Enfant in the 1790s ?
Answer: washington dc
Question: Which geological era, spanning the massive time-period between 245 million and 65 million years ago, is divided into three periods named the Triassic, the Jurassic and the Cretaceous ?
Answer: mesozoic era
Question: Which Radio 2 programme was presented for many years by Alan Keith ?
Answer: your hundred best tunes
Question: The giant Jurassic plant-eating dinosaur now known as the Apatosaurus was formerly known by what name ?
Answer: brontosaurus
Question: Which country is home to a train service known as the Ghan ?
Answer: australia
Question: In literature, what was Lady Chatterley's first name ?
Answer: constance
Question: Which American guitar-maker, who died in 1991, introduced models known as the Telecaster, and the Stratocaster, favoured by many rock guitarists since the 1950s ?
Answer: leo fender
Question: What was Mr Darcy's first name in Pride and Prejudice ?
Answer: fitzwilliam
Question: Once known as 'the Jerusalem of the North', which city is the capital of Lithuania ?
Answer: vilnius
Question: Who was the first British Labour Prime Minister to serve for a full parliamentary term ?
Answer: clement attlee
Question: Who replaced Hilary Clinton as US Secretary of State in 2013 ?
Answer: john forbes kerry
Question: The beggar at the gate of the rich man's house is the only character in any of Jesus's parables to be given a proper name. What name ?
Answer: lazarus
Question: What new name was given to the Chinese Gooseberry by farmers from New Zealand when they started exporting it to the USA in the 1960's ?
Answer: kiwi fruit
Question: Films. Give the next title in the following sequence: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause - ?
Answer: giant
Question: The line "Off with his head ! So much for Buckingham" was added by Colly Cibber in the eighteenth century to which Shakespeare play ?
Answer: richard iii
Question: The character of Beryl the Peril originally appeared in which comic ?
Answer: topper
Question: According to a 16th-century law, what colour must all Venetian gondolas be painted ?
Answer: black
Question: Films. At which educational establishment, in the 1950s and 1960s was there blue murder , pure hell and a train robbery ?
Answer: st trinian s
Question: Which children's comic was named after the son of Andy Capp ?
Answer: buster
Question: The verbal exchange "Papa! Nicole!" was associated with TV advertisements for which make and model of car ?
Answer: renault clio
Question: Which scientist became Master of the Royal Mint in 1699 ?
Answer: sir isaac newton
Question: This word was on all decimal coins when they were introduced in 1971, and was removed from all decimal coins in 1982. What word ?
Answer: new
Question: Who became prima ballerina at the Maryinsky Theatre in 1906 ?
Answer: anna pavlova
Question: Under the Presidential Act of 1947, who is next in line for the U.S. Presidency after the Vice-President ?
Answer: speaker of house of representatives
Question: Which classic film ends with the line " .... After all, tomorrow is another day."?
Answer: gone with wind
Question: In Greek mythology , who was the god of flocks and herds ?
Answer: pan
Question: In American football, who won the most Super Bowls in the 1980's ?
Answer: san francisco 49ers
Question: By what name is acetylsalicylic acid more commonly known when kept in the medicine cupboard ?
Answer: aspirin
Question: Which Italian city is served by Gallileo Galilei airport ?
Answer: pisa
Question: In which Dickens novel do the Cheeryble Brothers appear ?
Answer: nicholas nickleby
Question: Who was British Prime Minister when Captain Scott reached the South Pole?
Answer: asquith
Question: Karl Landsteiner won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of what ?
Answer: blood groups
Question: The city of Carrara, in the Italian region of Tuscany, is most famous for the production of what ?
Answer: marble
Question: Who wrote the lyrics for the musical Starlight Express ?
Answer: richard stilgoe
Question: Which Oxford college was founded in 1899 to provide education specifically for working people ?
Answer: ruskin
Question: Which famous actor played the killer of PC Dixon in the film The Blue Lamp?
Answer: dirk bogarde
Question: What name did the artist Michelangelo Merisi adopt ?
Answer: caravaggio
Question: Which English king was known as 'Old Rowley' ?
Answer: charles ii
Question: What name is usually given to the larva of a click beetle ?
Answer: wireworm
Question: On which US navy vessel did Japanese forces make their official surrender in 1945 ?
Answer: missouri
Question: Which city is home to the 8th century 'Book of Kells' ?
Answer: dublin
Question: Which firth separates Orkney from the Scottish mainland ?
Answer: pentland firth
Question: In Norse mythology, what is the hall of the slain known as ?
Answer: valhalla
Question: Which river, situated near the mouth of the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway, hosts over 5000 weddings each year ?
Answer: gretna
Question: Y Gogarth (or Pen Y Gogarth) is the welsh name for which prominent geographic feature in North Wales ?
Answer: great orme
Question: Which town in Northern Spain, once the seat of the Basque Parliament, was bombed bt German planes in 1937a and immortalised by a famous Picasso painting ?
Answer: guernica
Question: Which Lincolnshire town on the River Trent was at one time England's most inland port being over 55 miles from the North Sea ?
Answer: gainsborough
Question: In which 2006 film did Tom Hanks play a character called Robert Langdon, a professor of religous iconography ?
Answer: da vinci code
Question: In which 1959 film did an opera singer called Claude Heater play Jesus Christ, but was not creedited as his face was never shown ?
Answer: ben hur
Question: Which 1988 action movie - the first in a series of five - was based on a novel called Nothing lasts forever by Roderick Thorpe ?
Answer: die hard
Question: Which fairytale character did the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas voice in the Shrek sequels ?
Answer: puss in boots
Question: Of the five Marx brothers who appeared on film, who was the oldest ?
Answer: chico
Question: Who was crowned Queen of England at Westminister Abbey on this day in 1553 ?
Answer: mary i
Question: In which modern day country is the Sudetenlan, annexed by Nazi Germany on this day in 1938 ?
Answer: czech republic
Question: Which former US President will be celebrating his 89th birthday today ?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: The first Japanese bullettrain ran on October 1st 1964 between Tokyo and which other city ?
Answer: osaka
Question: Which organisation was founded on the 1st October 1946 at Lincoln College, Oxford by Ronald Berrill and Dr Lancelot Ware ? The first of its three declared purposes being "to identify and to foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity" ?
Answer: mensa
Question: Keith Duffy, who celebrates his 39th birthday today, was a founder ember of which band in 1994 ?
Answer: boyzone
Question: Which chemical element, Atomic Number 17, gets its name from the Greek word for green ?
Answer: chlorine
Question: Which geological epoch started about 12,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene, and continues to this day ?
Answer: holocene
Question: In geometry, which unit is defined as being equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc equal in length to the radius ?
Answer: radian
Question: Which unit of length is equal to 1.8288 metres ?
Answer: fathom
Question: Which painful condition is caused by the deposition of urates or uric acid into the joints of the body, most commonly in the big toe ?
Answer: gout
Question: Which city was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympics last month, beating Istanbul and Madrid ?
Answer: tokyo
Question: Who did Wigan beat 16 - 0 to win the 2013 RL Challenge Cup at Wembley?
Answer: hull fc
Question: Bill Hoskyns, who died in August, was the first Briton to compete at six Olympic Games - 1956 to 1976 inclusive. He won the team bronze in Rome and an individual silver in Tokyo, in which sport ?
Answer: fencing
Question: The highest partnership for England in a test match for any wicket is 411 at Edgbaston against the West Indies in 1957. Name either of the batsmen involved.
Answer: colin cowdrey and peter may
Question: Which Aviva Premiership Rugby Union side play their home games at Adams Park, High Wycombe ?
Answer: london wasps
Question: What is the German name for the Polish city of Gdansk ?
Answer: danzig
Question: Which European capital city was known as Kristiana from 1877 to 1925 ?
Answer: oslo
Question: What name has been given to the new intitution created by the merger of Deeside College and Wrexham's Yale College earlier this year ?
Answer: coleg cambria
Question: What was the stage name of the operatic soprano who was born Helen Porter Mitchell in 1861 ?
Answer: nellie melba
Question: By what name is the Gravelly Hill Interchange better known?
Answer: spaghetti junction
Question: Who succeeded Sir Clive Woodward as England's rugby union coach?
Answer: andy robinson
Question: In the US TV comedy show Everybody Loves Raymond, what is Raymond's brother's first name?
Answer: robert
Question: Who played the Ringo Kid in the original Stagecoach film?
Answer: john wayne
Question: Which singer's original name was Elaine Bookbinder?
Answer: elkie brooks
Question: A methuselah of wine holds the equivalent of how many bottles?
Answer: eight
Question: Launched in 1960, what was the name of the first US communications satellite?
Answer: echo 1
Question: What is the green pigment found in most plants that is responsible for absorbing light energy?
Answer: chlorophyll
Question: Yeomen Warders at the Tower of London are commonly known by what other name?
Answer: beefeaters
Question: Which actress appears with Jarvis Cocker in Pulp's video, Common People?
Answer: sadie frost
Question: In which London pub did Ronnie Kray murder George Cornell?
Answer: blind beggar
Question: What was the first name of Dustin Hoffman's female character in Tootsie?
Answer: dorothy
Question: How did soul singer Otis Redding die in 1967?
Answer: plane crash
Question: Bafana Bafana, the South African nickname for its national football team means?
Answer: boys
Question: What is the bodyguard character played by Kevin Costner in the 1992 film 'The Bodyguard'?
Answer: frank farmer
Question: The 2,228m high Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mainland mountain of which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Farringford House on the Isle of Wight was the home of which poet?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is better known by what DuPont brand name?
Answer: teflon
Question: The white sea-borne floating mineral (magnesium silicate) called meerschaum, used in making tobacco pipes, takes its name from the German meaning of what?
Answer: sea foam
Question: What primarily causes an ice-skate to melt ice, creating lubricated contact helpful for skating?
Answer: pressure
Question: Cuisses were medieval armour worn to protect which part of the body?
Answer: thigh
Question: The Battle of Antietam was fought during which war?
Answer: american civil war
Question: What is produced in the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas?
Answer: hormones
Question: Which country's old name is Kemet, meaning 'black land', a reference to the fertile soil of its vast flood plains?
Answer: egypt
Question: In 2010, Asda (owned by Walmart) bought the UK stores of which discount grocers for £778m?
Answer: netto
Question: What internationally popular competitive activity features a 'Racing Homer'?
Answer: pigeon racing
Question: Amy Winehouse and the brand of which famous 1930s sportsman announced a joint collection in 2010?
Answer: fred perry
Question: William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847 novel Vanity Fair, a satire of early 1800s British society, has the extended title, 'A Novel without a ...' what?
Answer: hero
Question: What Dutch Brewery arranged an 'ambush marketing' appearance of 36 orange-clad dancing women in the Denmark v Netherlands 2010 World Cup game audience, attracting complaints from FIFA, and massive publicity?
Answer: bavaria
Question: What car company faced major problems over a sticking accelerator fault in 2010?
Answer: toyota
Question: In chemistry and physics, volatility is the tendency of a substance to what?
Answer: vaporize
Question: Sir Joseph Paxton designed which notable 1851 Hyde Park building, re-located in 1854, where its name persists since accidental destruction in 1936?
Answer: crystal palace
Question: In March 2010, which country passed a law banning all strip clubs and made it illegal for any business to profit from the nudity of employees such as topless waitresses?
Answer: iceland
Question: The religious slot Thought for the Day features in which BBC Radio show?
Answer: today
Question: What is the process by which an insect undergoes distinct physical change from immaturity (typically larva or nymph) to adulthood?
Answer: metamorphosis
Question: Spaniard Juan Antonio Samaranch, who died in April 2010, was head of which organization from 1980-2001?
Answer: ioc
Question: What chemical element's symbol derives from the Latin word aurum, meaning 'shining dawn'?
Answer: gold
Question: A handwritten transcript of a coroner's inquest in 1881 that was rediscovered in Bisbee, Arizona, USA in 2010, revealed additional notes about what dramatic incident?
Answer: gunfight at ok corral
Question: Derived from the Greek word meaning perimeter, what is the text form of the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: pi
Question: The structural integrity of the Howrah Bridge in Kolkata (Calcutta) India, which daily carries 60,000 vehicles and 50,000 pedestrians, was reported (2010) to be under corrosive attack from what?
Answer: human spitting
Question: Diastema is the medical term for the gap between what in the human body?
Answer: two teeth
Question: What placename derives from the twelfth and last of the Eleanor Crosses, erected 1291-1294 by Edward I in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castille?
Answer: charing cross
Question: Jibbons and scallions are alternative words for which vegetables?
Answer: spring onions
Question: Which instrument was American bandleader Glenn Miller famous for playing?
Answer: trombone
Question: Name Charles Dickens' first novel, featuring the characters Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass and 'the fat boy' Joe?
Answer: pickwick papers
Question: Sir Edmund Barton became the first prime minister of which country in 1901?
Answer: australia
Question: Photophobia is extreme sensitivity to, or fear of, what?
Answer: light
Question: In medicine, carditis is the inflammation of which organ of the human body?
Answer: heart
Question: In early UK beer production what is a kiln for drying hops popularly called?
Answer: oast
Question: What is the surname of Truman, played by Jim Carrey, in the 1998 film The Truman Show?
Answer: burbank
Question: The lakes Van, Tuz, Uluabat, and Beysehir are among the largest in which country?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which phobia is colloquially associated with the disease rabies?
Answer: hydrophobia
Question: Which region and river in the north of South America, now part of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, gave its name to a sweetener produced from local crops?
Answer: demerara
Question: In the Bible, who was the sister of Mary and Lazarus?
Answer: martha
Question: Inferno, Paradiso and Purgatorio are sections of which epic poem by Italian Dante Alighieri?
Answer: divine comedy
Question: What naturally occurring common substance containing lactose may scientifically be described as an emulsion of butterfat globules within a water-based fluid?
Answer: milk
Question: Neat, kine, and beeves are old collective words for what?
Answer: cattle
Question: Ben Drew achieved a 2010 number one album fronting which band?
Answer: plan b
Question: Ehud Barak succeeded Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister of which country in 1999?
Answer: israel
Question: What word for a monstrously large creature or organization derives from the original Egyptian meaning of 'water-ox', and more specifically, probably the hippopotamus?
Answer: behemoth
Question: Oxford Boat Race squad twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss became multi-millionaires after a court battle with what website that they claimed stole their idea?
Answer: facebook
Question: How many horns does the British minotaur dung beetle have?
Answer: three
Question: In which country did a military coup overthrow president Juan Peron in 1955?
Answer: argentina
Question: Globo Esporte, which carried the headline 'HAHAHAHAHAHAHA' following Argentina's 4-0 defeat by Germany in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is a newspaper in which country?
Answer: brazil
Question: What is the vivid blue semi-percious stone, historically mined in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province and prized by the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Greeks and Romans?
Answer: lapis lazuli
Question: A 'bible bump' is an old colloquial term for what medical condition?
Answer: ganglion cyst
Question: What element, whose symbol derives from its Greek name hydrargyrum, meaning watery silver, melts at minus 38.83 °C and yet boils at 356.73 °C ?
Answer: mercury
Question: Who was the first female presenter on UK TV's Top of The Pops, who made only one appearance in 1982 to celebrate BBC Radio One's 15th birthday?
Answer: annie nightingale
Question: What colourless odourless liquid, E number E422, is used in foods as a sweetener, thickener and humectant (to maintain moistness)?
Answer: glycerol
Question: The Galapagos Islands lie in which body of water?
Answer: pacific ocean
Question: UK politicians David Owen, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers, known as The Gang of Four, defected from the Labour Party in 1981 to form which party?
Answer: social democratic party
Question: What board game name is the Latin word meaning 'I play' ?
Answer: ludo
Question: Potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur (sulfur, US-English) are the traditional ingredients of what substance?
Answer: gunpowder
Question: What make of Wellington boots did Samantha Cameron buy President Obama's children for the 2010 British Prime Ministerial visit to the USA?
Answer: hunters
Question: Name the refugee camp near Calais close to the French side of the Chanel Tunnel?
Answer: sangatte
Question: A nanosecond equates to what fraction of a second?
Answer: billionth
Question: Angelos Epithemiou ex-burger-van proprietor, replaced what quirky drumming baby character on a popular UK TV comedy quiz show?
Answer: george dawes
Question: If an atom were the size of a football pitch its nucleus would be approximately the size of a?
Answer: football
Question: What is the name of the trimmed tree trunk tossed in competition in the Highland Games?
Answer: caber
Question: Who wrote the poem 'Jabberwocky', which originally featured in one of his novels?
Answer: lewis carroll
Question: In July 2010 Amazon announced that their quarterly volume sales of digital books (ebooks) had exceeded their sales of what in the US for the first time?
Answer: hardback books
Question: A philtre (in US-English, philter) - pronounced 'filter' - is a potion for what?
Answer: love