CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Garments of which famous clothes label were found being made by child labour in India in October 2007?
Answer: gap
Question: Which organization announced euphemistically it would 'transition' its modestly performing '360' social networking website?
Answer: yahoo
Question: What Richard Dawkins' book attracted huge popularity and controversy throughout 2007?
Answer: god delusion
Question: The live album Beauty and the Beat featured pianist George Shearring and which singer?
Answer: peggy lee
Question: Who were the famous backing singers on most of Elvis Presley's early hits?
Answer: jordanaires
Question: Who made the highly rated 1959 jazz album Kind of Blue?
Answer: miles davis
Question: The founding brother members of the Kinks were Ray and Dave what?
Answer: davies
Question: Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen's 1962 hit was called March of the ... what?
Answer: siamese children
Question: John Mayall's band which helped launch Eric Clapton's career was called what?
Answer: bluesbreakers
Question: Which comedy actor had a novelty hit with My Boomerang Won't Come Back?
Answer: charlie drake
Question: Colin Blunstone fronted which 1960s group?
Answer: zombies
Question: What Eastenders star sang on the novelty hit Come Outside?
Answer: wendy richard
Question: Which later-to-be-famous solo singer and guitarist toured as a member of the Beach Boys in the mid 60s?
Answer: glen campbell
Question: What song, released to promote the film The Millionairess, featured its stars Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren?
Answer: goodness gracious me
Question: Who managed the Beatles' prior to his early death in 1967?
Answer: brian epstein
Question: What's the name of the motorbiker who dies in the Shangri-Las' hit The Leader of the Pack?
Answer: jimmy
Question: Which singing-songwriting founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers died age 26, after which his body was 'stolen' by a friend and burnt in the Joshua Tree National Park?
Answer: gram parsons
Question: Which American singer and entertainer was nicknamed Schnozzola, because of his large nose?
Answer: jimmy durante
Question: What city hosted the Beatles as the resident band at the Kaiserkeller and Top Ten Club?
Answer: hamburg
Question: American DJ Robert Weston Smith was better known by what stage name?
Answer: wolfman jack
Question: What was Emile Ford and the Checkmates' 1959 hit, supposedly the longest ever question in a UK No1 song title?
Answer: what do you want to make those eyes at me for
Question: Which Rolling Stones guitarist died in a swimming pool in 1969?
Answer: brian jones
Question: What was Hugo Montenegro's instrumental hit, composed by Ennio Morricone for the film of the same name?
Answer: good bad and ugly
Question: Who won (barefoot) the British Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 with Puppet on String?
Answer: sandie shaw
Question: The 1956 inaugural Eurovision Song Contest featured Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy and which other country?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Which singer played Alfie's girlfriend Siddie in the 1966 film?
Answer: millicent martin
Question: What name was given to the 1950-60s mainstream country music style of artists including Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Jim Reeves, and Charlie Rich?
Answer: nashville sound
Question: Which motor city was the original the base of Tamla Motown?
Answer: detroit
Question: Peter Potter in the USA and David Jacobs in the UK presented which pop music TV show?
Answer: juke box jury
Question: What was the 1962 space-age instrumental hit by the Tornados?
Answer: telstar
Question: Who wrote and sang the novelty hit Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh, about Camp Granada?
Answer: allan sherman
Question: Who was the famous rock guitarist in the group Love Sculpture, notably featuring on their breakneck hit version of Khachaturian's classical piece Sabre Dance?
Answer: dave edmunds
Question: Rolf Harris endorsed what new musical instrument, which supposedly features on David Bowie's hit Space Oddity?
Answer: stylophone
Question: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Junior were among several entertainers given what collective nickname?
Answer: rat pack
Question: Simon and Garfunkel's song Mrs Robinson featured in what 1967 film?
Answer: graduate
Question: Which gravel-voiced English singer was previously a gas-fitter from Sheffield?
Answer: joe cocker
Question: Who sang the title song of the film The Girl Can't Help It?
Answer: little richard
Question: Lulu sang the theme song to which 1967 film about an inner-city school, starring Sidney Poitier?
Answer: to sir with love
Question: What Eddie Cochran song, covered by the Who, told of frustrations with his boss and his congressman?
Answer: summertime blues
Question: Who was the main singing star in the musical Half a Sixpence?
Answer: tommy steele
Question: Which comedian's recordings featured hilarious telephone routines about King Kong and the introduction of Tobacco?
Answer: bob newhart
Question: What long-running BBC Radio chart show began on the Light Programme in 1955, and later becoming hugely popular when presented by Alan Freeman?
Answer: pick of pops
Question: Who had a 1960s hit with Step Inside Love?
Answer: cilla black
Question: The record label and music company name HMV stood for what?
Answer: his master s voice
Question: Which singer's Eurovision Song Contest entry was Knock Knock (Who's There?)?
Answer: mary hopkin
Question: Who wrote the instrumental A Swingin' Safari and led the orchestra which played the original hit version?
Answer: bert kaempfert
Question: Who made the hit comedy version of the Banana Boat Song, and other similar spoofs including versions of Presley's Heartbreak Hotel and Johnnie Ray's Cry?
Answer: stan freberg
Question: Which 1960s easy-listening Irish crooner was famed for his rocking chair and knitted jumpers?
Answer: val doonican
Question: Which fruit is the cordial grenadine primarily made from?
Answer: pomegranates
Question: Blepharitis is the medical term for the inflamation of which part of the body?
Answer: eyelid
Question: The 2003 film Lost in Translation is set in which city?
Answer: tokyo
Question: What is the name of the casino on the reservation of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe in Connecticut?
Answer: foxwoods
Question: Artist and musician Chris Sievey is better known as whom?
Answer: frank sidebottom
Question: Exodus, the second book of the Bible, recounts the departure of the Israelites from which country?
Answer: egypt
Question: What was the nationality of Lazlo Josef Biro, inventor of the ballpoint pen?
Answer: hungarian
Question: Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for what subject?
Answer: literature
Question: The Taj Mahal is on the bank of which river?
Answer: jumna
Question: What is the prehistoric fish considered extinct until found living off the African coast in the 20th century?
Answer: coelocanth
Question: What was Pamela Anderson's character in the TV series Baywatch?
Answer: c j parker
Question: What is a word puzzle comprising a picture or symbol plus individual letter or letters - and also the name of a UK TV detective?
Answer: rebus
Question: In which century did Cleopatra VII (lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony) rule Egypt?
Answer: first century bc
Question: What is the word for the upright shadow-casting part of a sundial?
Answer: gnomon
Question: Who was the leader of the Trojans in the Trojan war?
Answer: hector
Question: What metallic element typically makes up between 10% and 25% of stainless steel?
Answer: chromium
Question: What Cape is Great Britain's most North Westerly point?
Answer: cape wrath
Question: Who was the prolific writer of theme music for 1960s TV shows including Steptoe and Son, Dr Who, The Prisoner, Dangerman and Tales of the Unexpected?
Answer: ron grainer
Question: Which cricket commentator, who mistakenly called Monty Panesar 'Monty Python', was awarded an OBE in 2003?
Answer: henry blofeld
Question: Apia is the capital of which independent island nation in the South Pacific?
Answer: samoa
Question: Nob Hill is an affluent area in which city in the United States?
Answer: san francisco
Question: Which American female soul singer made the 1996 hit song Un-break My Heart?
Answer: toni braxton
Question: Name London Zoo's Giant Panda from 1958 until her death in 1972?
Answer: chi chi
Question: Who became president of Egypt following the assassination of Anwar El Sadat in 1981?
Answer: hosni mubarak
Question: Of which 19th century movement were William Lovett and Feargus O'Connor leading figures?
Answer: chartism
Question: What international standard paper size (denoted by the letter A plus a number) has the dimensions of 297 x 420mm?
Answer: a3
Question: What was the original use of the building which now houses the Tate Modern art museum in London?
Answer: power station
Question: Libraries, schools, writing, the wheel, the aqueduct and alcoholic beer are inventions generally credited to which country?
Answer: iraq
Question: Who played female agent Cinnamon Carter in the 1960s TV series Mission Impossible?
Answer: barbara bain
Question: What was the name of shark-hunter Quint's boat in the novel and film Jaws?
Answer: orca
Question: As at 2008 which corporation owns the brands Duracell, Braun and Gillette?
Answer: procter gamble
Question: Who was the first artist to appear at the new Wembley Stadium?
Answer: george michael
Question: In which country was Imry Nagy twice Prime Minister, executed for treason in 1958 and reburied as a hero in 1989?
Answer: hungary
Question: Who succeeded James Callaghan as leader of Britain's Labour Party?
Answer: michael foot
Question: Chiromancy is the technical name for what pseudoscience (claimed but not proven to be scientific)?
Answer: palmistry
Question: Nanga Parbat, meaning 'naked mountain', the 9th highest in the world, is part of which mountain range?
Answer: himalayas
Question: The ghost of great Dane dog Kabur, said to haunt Los Angeles Pet Cemetery, belonged to which 1920s screen idol?
Answer: rudolph valentino
Question: Who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
Answer: robert pirsig
Question: What country temporarily renamed its currency Bolivar Fuerte (meaning strong Bolivar) while phasing out the use of the previous Bolivar alongside it?
Answer: venezuela
Question: What did Colonel Thomas Blood attempt to steal in 1671?
Answer: crown jewels
Question: Who wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade?
Answer: lord alfred tennyson
Question: In bookmaking how many times would an quarto sheet be folded?
Answer: twice
Question: Who wrote the seminal 1936 self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People?
Answer: dale carnegie
Question: Who in 1450 invented movable type, thus revolutionising printing?
Answer: johannes gutenberg
Question: Which Polish-born naturalised British novelist's real surname was Korzeniowski?
Answer: joseph conrad
Question: Which short-lived dramatist is regarded as the first great exponent of blank verse?
Answer: christopher marlowe
Question: What is the Old English heroic poem, surviving in a single copy dated around the year 1000, featuring its eponymous 6th century warrior from Geatland in Sweden?
Answer: beowulf
Question: What relatively modern school of philosophy, popular in literature since the mid 1900s, broadly embodies the notion of individual freedom of choice within a disorded and inexplicable universe?
Answer: existentialism
Question: What was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
Answer: lewis carroll
Question: Who wrote the significant scientific book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687?
Answer: isaac newton
Question: Who wrote the 1845 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Answer: robert browning
Question: Which American poet and humanist wrote and continually revised a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass?
Answer: walt whitman
Question: The period between 1450 and 1600 in European development is known by what term, initially used by Italian scholars to express the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture?
Answer: renaissance
Question: What is the main dog character called in Norton Juster's 1961 popular children's/adult-crossover book The Phantom Tollbooth?
Answer: tock
Question: Who detailed his experiences before and during World War I in Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?
Answer: siegfried sassoon
Question: What significant law relating to literary and artistic works was first introduced in 1709?
Answer: copyright
Question: Who wrote the 1891 book Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra)?
Answer: friedrich nietzsche
Question: What word, meaning 'measure' in Greek, refers to the rhythm of a line of verse?
Answer: metre
Question: Stanley Kubrick successfully requested the UK ban of his own film based on what Anthony Burgess book?
Answer: clockwork orange
Question: The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) code was increased to how many digits from 1 January 2007?
Answer: thirteen
Question: What is the female term equating to a phallic symbol?
Answer: yonic symbol
Question: James Carker is a villain in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: dombey and son
Question: Which pioneering American poet and story-teller wrote The Fall of the House of Usher?
Answer: edgar allen poe
Question: According to Matthew 27 in the Bible what prisoner was released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus?
Answer: barabbas
Question: What was the 1920s arts group centred around Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the district of London which provided the group's name?
Answer: bloomsbury group
Question: What were the respective family names of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: montague and capulet
Question: Who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking in 1953?
Answer: norman vincent peale
Question: Around 100AD what type of book construction began to replace scrolls?
Answer: codex
Question: Who wrote the 1866 book Crime and Punishment?
Answer: fyodor dostoevsky
Question: Who wrote the 1513 guide to leadership (titled in English) The Prince?
Answer: niccolo machiavelli
Question: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey are commonly referred to as the 'what' Poets?
Answer: lake poets
Question: What word, which in Greek means 'with' or 'after', prefixes many literary and language terms to denote something in a different position?
Answer: meta
Question: """Reader, I married him,"" appears in the conclusion of what novel?"
Answer: jane eyre
Question: Philosopher and writer Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832, is associated with what school of thought?
Answer: utilitarianism
Question: What influential American philosopher and author wrote the book 'Walden, or Life in the Woods'?
Answer: henry david thoreau
Question: The ancient Greek concept of the 'three unities' advocated that a literary work should use a single plotline, single location, and what other single aspect?
Answer: time
Question: Who is the second oldest of the Pevensie children in C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Answer: susan
Question: Who wrote the plays Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard?
Answer: anton pavlovich chekhov
Question: What is the pen-name of novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-80)?
Answer: george eliot
Question: What simple term, alternatively called Anglo-Saxon, refers to the English language which was used from the 5th century Germanic invasions, until (loosely) its fusion with Norman-French around 12-13th centuries?
Answer: old english
Question: Laurens van der Post's prisoner of war experiences, described in his books The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970) inspired what film?
Answer: merry christmas mr lawrence
Question: With which troubled son are parents Laius and Jocasta associated?
Answer: oedipus
Question: Which Russian writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970?
Answer: aleksandr solzhenitsyn
Question: Legal action by J K Rowling and Warner Brothers commenced in 2007 against which company for its plans to publish a Harry Potter Lexicon?
Answer: rdr books
Question: In 1969, P H Newby's book Something to Answer For was the first winner of what prize?
Answer: booker prize
Question: French writer Sully Prudhomme was the first winner of what prize in 1901?
Answer: nobel prize for literature
Question: Who wrote Naked Lunch, (also titled The Naked Lunch)?
Answer: william burroughs
Question: What was Christopher Latham Scholes' significant invention of 1868?
Answer: typewriter
Question: Japanese author and playwrite Yukio Mishima committed what extreme act in 1970 while campaigning for Japan to restore its nationalistic principles?
Answer: suicide
Question: Which American philosopher, and often-quoted advocate of individualism, published essays on Self-Reliance, Love, Heroism, Character and Manners in his Collections of 1841 and 1844?
Answer: ralph waldo emerson
Question: Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, printed in Bruges around 1475 is regarded as the first book to have been what?
Answer: printed in english language
Question: In what city does Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace begin?
Answer: saint petersburg
Question: What is the land of giants called in Gulliver's Travels?
Answer: brobdingnag
Question: What was the original title of the book on which the film Schindler's List was based?
Answer: schindler s ark
Question: Who was the first man to appear on the cover of the American Vogue?
Answer: richard gere
Question: Who directed the 2005 Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home?
Answer: martin scorsese
Question: Salpingitis is the medical term for the inflammation of which part of the body?
Answer: fallopian tubes
Question: Who won the 1987 British Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: nigel mansell
Question: The first chamber of commerce in Britain was founded in which city in 1783?
Answer: glasgow
Question: In astronomy what is the outermost region of a planet's atmosphere called?
Answer: exosphere
Question: Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn played an architect and waitress in which 1992 film?
Answer: housesitter
Question: Which British rock band leased a six-acre section of Shepperton Studios in 1977 under the name of Ramport Enterprises?
Answer: who
Question: In US politics who replaced Spiro Agnew as Richard Nixon's vice-president in 1973?
Answer: gerald ford
Question: Who resigned as Ireland's Taoiseach (pronounced 'teeshock' - it is the head of government) in May 2008 after more than ten years in the position?
Answer: bertie ahern
Question: In 2008 billionaire financier Carl Icahn joined the board of what large internet corporation in a deal which saw him cease his fight to oust its leaders?
Answer: yahoo
Question: The South Ossetia war was fought between Russia and which other country?
Answer: georgia
Question: Who in 2008 was re-elected Prime Minister of Canada?
Answer: stephen harper
Question: George Tupou V was crowned monarch of which country in August 2008?
Answer: tonga
Question: Chinese Democracy was the long awaited 2008 album release of which band?
Answer: guns n roses
Question: Who was Fiona Shackleton representing when she had a jug of water poured over her in February 2008?
Answer: paul mccartney
Question: For which national team did the cricketer play who was alleged to have called an Australian opponent a monkey, resulting in the suspension of the Australian tour of that country?
Answer: india
Question: Which film director, with successes including Cold Mountain and The Talented Mr Ripley, died on 18 March 2008?
Answer: anthony minghella
Question: In which city did the Newseum museum of news and journalism re-open in April 2008?
Answer: washington dc
Question: Who wrote the much covered and 2008 hit song Hallelujah?
Answer: leonard cohen
Question: On Rudy Giuliani's withdrawal from the contest for the Republican 2008 US presidential election nomination who received Giuliani's endorsement?
Answer: john mccain
Question: Which original and long lost member of the Manic Street Preachers was declared dead on 24 November 2008?
Answer: richey edwards
Question: What is the name of Google's web browser, launched in September 2008?
Answer: google chrome
Question: Which country won the most medals in total at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Answer: usa
Question: Which Eastern guru to the Beatles died on 5 February 2008?
Answer: maharishi mahesh yogi
Question: What venue hosted the 2008 Superbowl?
Answer: university of phoenix stadium
Question: Which American entertainer famously parodied Sarah Palin during the 2008 US presidential elections?
Answer: tina fey
Question: What hip-hop artist was controversially chosen to headline the 2008 Glastonbury Festival?
Answer: jay z
Question: Who won the UK 2008 Apprentice TV show and the resulting job with Sir Alan Sugar?
Answer: lee mcqueen
Question: Which club won the Coca Cola Football League Championship for the 2007-08 season?
Answer: west bromwich albion
Question: Which secretive artist's supposed real identity was 'outed' in 2008 as Robert Gunningham by the Mail on Sunday?
Answer: banksy
Question: What successful 2008 film starring Angelina Jolie did Clint Eastwood direct?
Answer: changeling
Question: Nelson Evora won which country's only gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Answer: portugal
Question: Who won 3 gold medals for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and was named 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
Answer: chris hoy
Question: Which country ended its combat role in Iraq on 1 June 2008 with the withdrawal of its 500 troops from Nasiriyah?
Answer: australia
Question: Who won best actor at the 80th Academy Awards of 2008?
Answer: daniel day lewis
Question: Who resigned as Prime Minister of Pakistan on 18 August 2008?
Answer: pervez musharraf
Question: In what city did Barack Obama formally accept the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election?
Answer: denver colorado
Question: Which driver did Louis Hamilton overtake in the final seconds of the Brazilian Grand Prix to clinch fifth place and thereby win the 2008 F1 Championship?
Answer: timo glock
Question: What were Bertha, Cristobel and Dolly on 20 July 2008?
Answer: storms
Question: Which country won the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations (the African international soccer championship)?
Answer: egypt
Question: In which country did the world's largest ferris wheel (as at 2008) open for rides in March 2008?
Answer: singapore
Question: Who did the government appoint as executive chairman of Northern Rock after its nationalisation?
Answer: ron sandler
Question: G Kennedy Thompson was fired in June 2008 from which US bank and early victim of the credit crunch?
Answer: wachovia
Question: In March 2008 the Shin Bet secret service of what country launched a blog written by four of its agents?
Answer: israel
Question: The Detroit Redwings beat the Pittsburgh Penguins to win the 2008 Stanley Cup in which sport?
Answer: ice hockey
Question: What political correspondent voluntarily removed himself from the UK Strictly Come Dancing celebrity talent show for fear of undersevedly winning it?
Answer: john sergeant
Question: Which club won the 2008 Australian Football League Grand Final?
Answer: hawthorn
Question: Quentin Bryce became the first woman to hold what office in September 2008?
Answer: governor general of australia
Question: Which jazz musician and presenter of BBC Radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue died on 25 April 2008?
Answer: humphrey lyttelton
Question: Which UK member of parliament resigned in June 2008 to fight the Haltemprice and Howden election on a civil liberties platform?
Answer: david davis
Question: Who won the 2008 American Idol TV talent show?
Answer: david cook
Question: What candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2008 US election withdrew from the contest on 10 January 2008?
Answer: bill richardson
Question: Which country did cyclone Nargis devastate on 2 May 2008?
Answer: burma
Question: What stadium nicknamed 'The House That Ruth Built' closed in November 2008?
Answer: yankee stadium
Question: Who did Tiger Woods beat in a play-off for the 2008 US Open Championship?
Answer: rocco mediate
Question: Who led Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change opposition against Robert Mugabe in 2008?
Answer: morgan tsvangirai
Question: The sales and reputation of what cheese were affected when toxins were believed to have contaminated buffalo milk?
Answer: mozzarella