CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which large plateau occupies most of the land area of Southern India?
Answer: deccan plateau
Question: Which member of the cast of Dad’s Army was born in Hayfield in 1915?
Answer: arthur lowe
Question: In 'Treasure Island' what was the name of the captain of the Hispaniola?
Answer: captain smollett
Question: The song 'Younger than springtime' was featured in which musical?
Answer: south pacific
Question: The song 'My favourite things' was featured inwhich musical?
Answer: sound of music
Question: Jim Peters was favourite for the 1952 Olympic Marathon when he dropped out through cramp whilst in the lead. Which famous runner went on to win?
Answer: emil zatopek
Question: Only one actor has played the part of Sherlock Holmes in every field of entertainment, that is stage, screen, radio, TV and records. What is his name?
Answer: basil rathbone
Question: Which Welsh castle was the last stronghold of Owain Glyndwr?
Answer: harlech
Question: Name the alleged I.R.A. bomber who escaped from Brixton prison in December
Answer: gerard tuite
Question: In which town was the famous 'Gunfight at the OK corral'?
Answer: tombstone
Question: Name the ex-dentist who aided the Earp brothers in the OK corral gunfight
Answer: doc holliday
Question: Basil Rathbone made 14 Sherlock Holmes films. Who played the part of Dr Watson?
Answer: nigel bruce
Question: Who wrote the children's novel 'Swallows and Amazons'?
Answer: arthur ransome
Question: Who composed the music for the opera 'Der Rosekavalier'?
Answer: richard strauss
Question: What is obtained from the seeds of the flax plant?
Answer: linseed oil
Question: Which famous artist painted such worls as 'A girl in the window', 'The man with the golden helmet' and 'Nightwatch'?
Answer: rembrandt
Question: Who has a current top ten hit with the record 'In the air tonight'?
Answer: phil collins
Question: What is the name of the fat substance used in ointments and cosmetics that is obtained from wool?
Answer: lanolin
Question: In which US city was the 192 metre tall Gateway Arch built on the west bank of the Mississippi river in the mid-1960s?
Answer: st louis
Question: Named after the Queen Consort of George III, which is the largest city in North Carolina?
Answer: charlotte
Question: Espoo, (population 248,000) is the second largest city in which European country?
Answer: finland
Question: The Bruce Highway, the longest in Queensland, runs for 1,700km from Brisbane to which other city?
Answer: cairns
Question: Which 7th century daughter of a Mercian king is the patron saint of Chester?
Answer: st werburh
Question: Who played oil baron Clayton Farlow in the 80's soap Dallas?
Answer: howard keel
Question: Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper, Jay Carwright and Nile Sutherland are the main characters in which C4 comedy first shown in 2008?
Answer: inbetweeners
Question: Who was the only Crossroads character to appear in both the first and last episodes of the original series (1964-88)?
Answer: jill
Question: Where Everybody Knows Your Name was the title of the theme music of which long-running US sitcom?
Answer: cheers
Question: Who won the first UK series of The X Factor in 2004?
Answer: steve brookstein
Question: Who plays ex-Detective Sergeant Gerry Standing in the long-running BBC 1 series New Tricks?
Answer: dennis waterman
Question: Which former winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Mastermind and Brain of Britain became the seventh member of the Eggheads quiz team in 2009?
Answer: pat gibson
Question: Which eponymous Shakespearean character was King of Scotland from 1040 until his death in 1057?
Answer: macbeth
Question: In 1468 Orkney was ceded to Scotland in lieu of an unpaid dowry by the king of which country?
Answer: norway
Question: The character played by Steve Carell in the US version of The Office and the current Vice Chancellor of Glyndwr University.
Answer: michael scott
Question: Leader of the Virginia colony in Jamestown in the early 17th century and a post-war leader of the Labour Party.
Answer: john smith
Question: 67-year-old US comedian who was an original cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live and an old English ballad which tells the story of the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.
Answer: chevy chase
Question: At which ground in Auckland will the final of the Rugby Union World Cup be played on the 23rd of this month?
Answer: eden park
Question: Since 1895 the Wooden Spoon for finishing bottom of cricket's County Championship has been won most often (15 times) by which county?
Answer: derbyshire
Question: Which species of python is the longest snake in the world and gets its name from the Latin for "net-like" because of the patterns on its skin?
Answer: reticulated
Question: Talisker distillery, which has produced a single malt whisly of the same name since 1820, is the only distillery on which Scottish island?
Answer: isle of skye
Question: What shape is the central tower of the Palace of Westminster and also the Central Lobby which is situated beneath it?
Answer: octagonal
Question: Which comes first in an alphabetical list of the plays of William Shakespeare?
Answer: all s well that ends well
Question: What sort of creature is the Shikra. Is it a bird, an antelope or a fish?
Answer: bird
Question: Which chemical compound is sometimes called baking soda or bread soda?
Answer: sodium bicarbonate
Question: Which member of the woodwind family of musical instruments, a sort of half-sized flute, gets its name from the Italian for small?
Answer: piccolo
Question: People travel to Goat Island in New York State, USA, to get spectacular views of which natural phenomenon?
Answer: niagara falls
Question: Ynys Gybi is the Welsh name for which island?
Answer: holy island
Question: Baltra, Floreanna, San Crystobal and Santa Cruz are the five inhabited islands in which Pacific group?
Answer: galapagos
Question: Which is the largest of the 7,107 islands that make up the Philippines?
Answer: luzon
Question: Which Pacific Island group changed to driving on the left in 2009 and also moved to the west of the International Dateline in 2011, thereby losing a day?
Answer: samoa
Question: Which chemical element is named after the island of Cyprus where it was extensively mined in the Roman era?
Answer: copper
Question: Who has played Dot Cotton in Eastenders since 1985?
Answer: june brown
Question: Which Faulty Towers character was played by Ballard Berkeley?
Answer: major gowen
Question: In the 2004 film Starsky and Hutch, if Ben Stiller played Starsky, who played Hutch?
Answer: owen wilson
Question: Which 1999 horror film tells the story of three students who disappeared in Maryland whilst making a documentary film about a local legend?
Answer: blair witch project
Question: Which cartoon strip by Charles M Schulz first appeared in the Washington Post and New York Times on this day in 1950?
Answer: peanuts
Question: Operation Typhoon, launched on this day in 1941, was a German strategic offensive designed to capture which capital city?
Answer: moscow
Question: What was the real christian name of the comedian Grougho Marx, born on this day in 1890?
Answer: julius
Question: Which US President suffered a massive stroke on this day in 1919 which severely incapacitated him for the remainder of his Presidency?
Answer: woodrow wilson
Question: Who led the Muslim forces who captured Jerusalem on this day in 1187, thus ending 88 years of crusader rule of the city?
Answer: saladin
Question: Born on this day in 1951, how is the pop singer Gordon Sumner better known?
Answer: sting
Question: Bigwig, Fiver and Hazel are the main characters in which 1972 novel?
Answer: watership down
Question: Which Marvel Comic's super-hero, a member of The Avengers group, is the alter ego of an originally frail young man called Steve Rogers?
Answer: captain america
Question: Becky Sharp was the central character in which mid 19th century novel?
Answer: vanity fair
Question: What was the surname of the title character in H.G.Wells; novel The Invisible Man?
Answer: griffin
Question: Which well-known fictional character, who first appeared in print in the 90's, has the rare ability to speak Parseltongue, the language of snakes?
Answer: harry potter
Question: Green politician Samantha Weinberg wrote a trilogy of novels under the alias Kate Westbrook in the noughties, based on the fictional diaries of which Ian Fleming character?
Answer: miss moneypenny
Question: Who is the elder sister of Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire?
Answer: blanche dubois
Question: Which famous fictional character retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 and took up the hobby of bee-keeping as his main occupation?
Answer: sherlock holmes
Question: Which ground was the venue for the first ever cricket Test Match between England and Australia in 1877 ?
Answer: melbourne cricket ground
Question: Which motor racing circuit was used for the cycling raod races at the 2012 London Paralympic Games?
Answer: brands hatch
Question: Which US Football team moved from the Three Rovers Stadium to the newly built Heinz Field in 2001 ?
Answer: pittsburgh steelers
Question: The Olympic Stadium in which city was completed in 1938 and has hosted two World Athletic Championships, three Europeans and one Olympics, but not the one it was built for?
Answer: helsinki
Question: What was the name of the circuit on which the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix was held from 1948 until its last running in 1985 ?
Answer: zandvoort
Question: At which football ground did Frank Bruno defeat Joe Bugner in October 1987 ?
Answer: white hart lane
Question: In which of New York's five boroughs is the New Yankee stadium located?
Answer: bronx
Question: After which famous American tennis player is the stadium at Flushing Meadow named, where the final of the US Open has been held each year since 1997 ?
Answer: arthur ashe
Question: In which Swiss resort is the famous bobsleigh track, the Cresta Run?
Answer: st moritz
Question: The name's the same - A small Norfolk town near the Suffolk border and a verb used by teenagers meaning "to show a lack of respect"?
Answer: diss
Question: Guy Lombardo and Oscar Peterson were the first inductees into which nation's newly instituted Music Hall of Fame in 1978 ?
Answer: canada
Question: Chemistry - which of the halogens has the lowest atomic number?
Answer: flourine
Question: Lady Day or, more properly, the Feast of the Anunciation of the Blessed Virgin, is celebrated on the 25th of which month?
Answer: march
Question: Which common British mammal has the scientific name Erinaceous Europaeus?
Answer: hedgehog
Question: Sri Lanka has two official languages - Sinhala or Singhalese is one, what is the other?
Answer: tamil
Question: Which wrexham company was formed in 1931 by the merger of Soames Brewery, Island Green Brewery and the Oswestry firm of Dorsett Owen?
Answer: border breweries
Question: Which oscar-winning film director directed the 1960's classic movie 'Doctor Strangelove'?
Answer: stanley kubrick
Question: Which oscar-winning film director directed the 1960's classic movie 'Doctor Zhivago'?
Answer: david lean
Question: For what television series was the theme tune "I could be so good for you"?
Answer: minder
Question: A Bandicoot belongs to which order or class of animals?
Answer: marsupials
Question: Pop music - which one hit wonder group had a number one hit with 'Something in the Air' in 1969?
Answer: thunderclap newman
Question: Which Englishman, born in 1791, is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer , that eventually led to more complicated designs?
Answer: charles babbage
Question: With what biblical location would you associate Shadrach, Meschak and Abednego?
Answer: fiery furnace
Question: From the fur of which animal is a camel's hair brush made?
Answer: squirrel
Question: A Capybara belongs to which order or class of animals?
Answer: rodents
Question: The novelty hit record "The Birdie Song" was in the top twenty for 23 weeks in 1981. Who recorded this record?
Answer: tweets
Question: At the 2012 Cheltenham Festival of National Hunt racing who was the top winning jockey, with 5 winners?
Answer: barry geraghty
Question: The song "Nobody Does it Better" by Carly Simon provided the theme for which James Bond film?
Answer: spy who loved me
Question: In the animated film classic "Toy Story", which film star voiced the character of Woody?
Answer: tom hanks
Question: Religous reformers - which 14th century Oxford scholar, initially famous for translating the Bible from Latin into English, later criticised the wealth and power of the church, questioning the scriptural basis of the papacy? His followers were known as Lollards.
Answer: john wycliffe
Question: On which date in 1945 was VE Day (victory in Europe), the day on which Germany surrendered in World War II ?
Answer: 8th may
Question: On which day in 1945 was VJ Day (victory over Japan), the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II ?
Answer: 15th august
Question: Religous reformers - which 16th century Oxford scholar was the first to translate the Bible into English from the original Greek texts? He was charged with heresy, strangled and burned at the stake in 1535 by the Roman Catholic Church.
Answer: william tyndale
Question: Who was the Iranian religous leader who returned to Iran from exile in 1979 to establish a fundamentalist Islamic republic? He supported the seizing of the US embassy and the Iran-Iraq war.
Answer: ayatollah khomeini
Question: At the 2012 Cheltenham Festival of National Hunt racing , who was the top trainer? His total of 7 winners this year enabled him to become the most winning trainer in Cheltenham history.
Answer: nicky henderson
Question: The song "We have all the time in the World" by Louis Armstrong provided the theme for which James Bond film?
Answer: on her majesty s secret service
Question: In the animated film classic "Shrek" which film star voiced the character of Donkey?
Answer: eddie murphy
Question: Which American, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, proved that lightning is a form of electricity?
Answer: benjamin franklin
Question: John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, became the effective ruler of England during the reign of Richard II in the 14th century. Later the father of Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV, what was John of Gaunt's official title?
Answer: duke of lancaster
Question: Who wrote the opera "The Bartered Bride"?
Answer: smetana
Question: Simon de Montfort led the Barons Revolt against King Henry III and became the effective ruler of England in the 13th century. Later defeated and killed at the Battle of Evesham what was Simon de Montfort's official title?
Answer: earl of leicester
Question: Which 1st World War battle of 1914 occured as opposing German and allied armies raced each other to gain access to the North Sea? Later the British had to hold out against German sieges.
Answer: battle of ypres
Question: In what film did the character Vincent Vega played by John Travolta appear?
Answer: pulp fiction
Question: Which Irish comedian had the catchphrase "It's the way I tell 'em"?
Answer: frank carson
Question: In which famous film love story did the lovers meet in a railway station?
Answer: brief encounter
Question: Which recording artist, originally a folk singer had top ten hits in the early 1970's with "Amazing Grace" and "Send in the Clowns"?
Answer: judy collins
Question: What is the name of the only British M.P. to be a member of the Green Party?
Answer: caroline lucas
Question: What is the name of the leader of the British UKIP Party?
Answer: nigel farage
Question: Which recording artist, originally a folk singer, had top ten hits in the early 1970's with "There but for fortune" and "The night they drove old Dixie down"?
Answer: joan baez
Question: Which Irish comedian had the catchphrase "and there's more"?
Answer: jimmy cricket
Question: Which British artist painted "The Light of the World" and "The Scapegoat"?
Answer: holman hunt
Question: On whic racecourse does the Irish Derby take place each year?
Answer: curragh
Question: The Ashmolean Museum is Britain's oldest public museum. In which city is it located?
Answer: oxford
Question: Who is the chairman of Newcastle United who also owns the chain of sports shops known as Sports Direct?
Answer: mike ashley
Question: Who is the chairman of Wigan Athletic who also owns the chain of sports shops known as JJB Sports?
Answer: dave whelan
Question: Who composed the music for the ballet "Spartacus"?
Answer: khachaturian
Question: On which racecourse does the Irish Grand National take place?
Answer: fairyhouse
Question: Mathematical Formulae - What is the mathematical formula expressing Einstein's relativity theory?
Answer: e mc2
Question: Petra Kvitova won the Wimledon Ladies Championship in 2011. What nationality is she?
Answer: czech
Question: Medicine: What is a patient suffering from based on the following description - a spread of infection into the blood, which thereby carries the infecting agent throughout the body?
Answer: septicaemia
Question: Which sculptor created the classical marble statue "The Threee Graces"? He carved two separate versions, one stands in the Hermitage Museum and the other is jointly shown by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Gallery of Scotland.
Answer: canova
Question: Which cathedral is the tallest in the UK with a spire height of 123 metres or 404 feet?
Answer: salisbury
Question: Sam Stosur won the American Open Ladies Tennis Championship in 2011. What nationality is she?
Answer: australian
Question: Which actor, who died in 2011, became famous when referred to as the best actor in the world by Steven Spielberg? He starred in a succession of movies including "The Usual Suspects", "Brassed Off", "Last of the Mohicans" and "The Constant Gardener"?
Answer: pete postlethwaite
Question: Medicine: What is a patient suffering from, based on the following description - Partial or complete blockage of a blood vessel by a blood clot?
Answer: thrombosis
Question: Which sculptor created the famous statue "St Michael and the Devil" which is shown on the facade of Coventry Cathedral?
Answer: epstein
Question: Sheila Hancock was the wife of which deceased actor?
Answer: john thaw
Question: What was the first book to be written by Charles Dickens, completed in 1837?
Answer: pickwick papers
Question: """The 59th Street Bridge Song"" was an early successful recording by Simon and Garfunkel. What is its better known alternative title?"
Answer: feelin groovy
Question: Paul McCartney had a record commonly known as "The Frog Chorus" in the top ten for 13 weeks in 1984. What was the formal title of this record?
Answer: we all stand together
Question: What is the name of the American student who was convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher, along with her Italian boyfriend and released in 2011 after an appeal?
Answer: amanda knox
Question: On this day, 31st January , in 1943, the German army surrendered to the Russians. who was the Commander-in-Chief of the German forces who offerred the surrender?
Answer: field marshall paulus
Question: During the Battle of Stalingrad who was Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Red Arny forces?
Answer: marshal zhukov
Question: What name is given to the flowers of Willow and Poplar trees?
Answer: catkins
Question: In an 1890 novel, Basil Hallward paints whose portrait?
Answer: dorian gray s
Question: Bourbon Whisly is named after a county in which American state?
Answer: kentucky
Question: According to archive figures (and quoted by Wikipedia), how many casualties were suffered by the "Red Army" (excluding civilians) in The Battle of Stalingrad? Casualties comprise soldiers who were killed, wounded or captured.
Answer: 1 130 000
Question: Which chemical element, a gas, derives its name from the Greek for "sun"?
Answer: helium
Question: What title is used in Scotland for the chief magistrate or convener of a burgh council, the equivalent of a mayor in other parts of the English speaking world?
Answer: provost
Question: From which opera does the "Humming Chorus" come?
Answer: madam butterfly
Question: In the war in Afghanistan many lives have been lost due to IEDs planted by the Taliban. What is an IED ?
Answer: improvised explosive device
Question: The northern extremity of Offa's Dyke is in which Welsh town?
Answer: prestatyn
Question: The southern extremity of Offa's Dyke is in which Welsh town?
Answer: chepstow
Question: What title is used in Scotland for a public prosecutor who investigates sudden and suspicious deaths and conducts fatal accident enquiries, the equivalent of a coroner in other legal systems?
Answer: procurator fiscal
Question: In the cartoon series 'Asterix the Gaul' what is the name of the chief druid of Asterix's Gaulish village who makes all of the potions and medicines?
Answer: getafix
Question: What name is given to the flat, oven-baked Italian bread, related to, but different from Pizza? It is usually seasoned with olive oil, salt and sometimes herbs.
Answer: focaccia
Question: What name is given to the branch of Christianity followed by Jews in Israel and the U.S.A.?
Answer: messianic
Question: In the cartoon series "Asterix the Gaul", what is the name of the oldest man in Asterix's Gaulish village who still has an eye for the ladies?
Answer: geriatrix
Question: What name is given to the sweet French bread, enriched with a high egg and butter content? It is commonly eaten with breakfast or as a snack, and has numerous uses in cuisine.
Answer: brioche
Question: """I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky"" was a line written by the poet John Masefield. What was the title of the poem?"
Answer: sea fever
Question: Controversy at the Oscars - Which film director created a stir at the 2003 Oscars ceremony? There was a loud and prolonged booing when he won the award for best director for his film "The Pianist", becasue the director was a convicted rapist.
Answer: roman polanski
Question: Which tree, noteed for the richness of the colour of its leaves, has the Latin name "Fagus Purpurea"?
Answer: copper beech
Question: Old television quiz shows - who was the original presenter of the TV quiz show "Going for Gold"?
Answer: henry kelly
Question: Old television quiz shows - who was the original presenter of the TV quiz show "Blockbusters"?
Answer: bob holness
Question: Which tree noted for the beauty of its form, has the Latin name Salix Babylonica?
Answer: weeping willow
Question: The album "Good Girl Gone Bad" was the number 1 selling album in the UK in 2009 with sales of 1.5 million. Who was the singer?
Answer: rihanna
Question: """Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack butting through the channel in the mad March days"" were lines written by John Masefield, from what poem?"
Answer: cargoes
Question: Controversy at the Oscars - Which film director created a stir at the 2003 Oscar ceremony? There was a loud and prolonged booing after he won the award for best documentary for his film "Bowling for Columbine", because in his acceptance speech he had delivered a tirade of abuse against George Bush.
Answer: micheal moore
Question: Which Lancashire novelist, who came from Leigh, wrote the novels "Goodbye Mr Chips", "Random Harvest" and "Lost Horizon"?
Answer: james hilton
Question: Pop Music - The group called "The Attractions" was the backing group for which pop singer?
Answer: elvis costello
Question: Which British actor plays the lead part of George Smiley in the new film version of John Le Carre's "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy"?
Answer: gary oldman
Question: The mother and son of which British monarch were both beheaded?
Answer: james i
Question: Which British actor played the lead part in the film of one of John Le Carre's more recent novels "The Constant Gardener"?
Answer: ralph fiennes
Question: Who is the founder of Facebook, doing so at the age of 20? He was named by Time magazine as "Person of the Year" in 2010. His personal fortune is estimated at over 17 billion dollars.
Answer: mark zuckerberg
Question: Who is the founder of Wikipedia, the on-line non-profit encyclopaedia? He was named as one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine in 2006 and was recognised by the prestigious Swiss Gottlieb award in 2011.
Answer: jimmy wales
Question: What is the name of Rupert Murdoch's worldwide media company?
Answer: news international