CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The song 'The Rain In Spain' comes from which Lerner & Loewe musical?
Answer: my fair lady
Question: Which group recorded the 70s and 80s albums 'Street Life' and 'Avalon'?
Answer: roxy music
Question: The Ffestiniog Railway runs from Blaenau Ffestiniog to which other Welsh town?
Answer: porthmadog
Question: With which sport are/were Liam Tancock, Gemma Spofforth and Missy Franklin associated?
Answer: swimming
Question: On which TV programme do Kelly Hoppen and Piers Linney appear?
Answer: dragon s den
Question: Who was the chairman of the Banco Ambrosiano, found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, London in 1982?
Answer: roberto calvi
Question: Which lake, the largest by volume in the USA after the Great Lakes, lies on the border of California and Nevada?
Answer: lake tahoe
Question: Who writes novels about Botswanan detective Precious Ramotswe?
Answer: alexander mccall smith
Question: The equipment used by which member of a musical group (particularly pop/rock or jazz) might be broken down into 'breakables', 'shells', extensions' and 'hardware'?
Answer: drummer
Question: Who wrote the book 'A Song of Ice and Fire', adapted for TV as 'Game of Thrones'?
Answer: george rr martin
Question: Founded in 1838, which Edinburgh store was the oldest independent department store in the world until it became part of House of Fraser in 2005?
Answer: jenners
Question: Alexandra, the Queen of Edward VII, was the daughter of the king of which country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced 'Cheek to Cheek' in which musical?
Answer: top hat
Question: The melon flavoured liqueur 'Midori' originated in which country?
Answer: japan
Question: The aniseed flavoured liqueur 'Sambuca' originated in which country?
Answer: italy
Question: Mt Baker, the snowiest place on Earth, is in which mountain range?
Answer: cascades
Question: The area with the world's lowest rainfall (less than 0.2mm per year is the Antofagasta region, of which country?
Answer: chile
Question: Debrecen is the second largest city and a former capital of which European country?
Answer: hungary
Question: Affecting approximately 1 in 25 children, how is the optical condition amblyopia commonly known?
Answer: lazy eye
Question: Richard Neville (Warwick the Kingmaker) died at which battle of 1471?
Answer: barnet
Question: Opened in 2002, the world's only rotating boat lift is on the Forth & Clyde Canal; what is its name?
Answer: falkirk wheel
Question: Anne of Cleves was a wife of Henry 8th, in which country is Cleves?
Answer: germany
Question: In 2012, Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in jail for war crimes, of which country had he been president?
Answer: liberia
Question: In Greek mythology who was the wife of Priam and mother of Paris?
Answer: hecuba
Question: Who wrote the operas Salome and Elektra?
Answer: richard strauss
Question: What is the name of the family in the TV sit-com Outnumbered?
Answer: brockman
Question: During WW II what was Operation Pied Piper?
Answer: evacuation of british children
Question: Which US President coined the phrase "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?
Answer: f d roosevelt
Question: The painters Filippo Marinetti and Umberto Boccioni were leading figures of which early 20th century art movement?
Answer: futurism
Question: Rhode Island in the USA borders two states, Massachusetts and which other?
Answer: connecticut
Question: Sometimes known as the true bugs, which order of insects includes the cicadas, aphids and leafhoppers?
Answer: hemiptera
Question: Who won the Oscar for best actress for her role in the film Boys Don't Cry in 1999?
Answer: hilary swank
Question: Washington State in the USA borders two states, Oregon and which other?
Answer: idaho
Question: The painters Henri Matisse and Andre Derain were leaders of which early 20th century art movement?
Answer: fauvism
Question: Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol were founder members of which English folk-rock group?
Answer: fairport convention
Question: Which Roman philosopher and statesman was tutor to the Emperor Nero?
Answer: seneca
Question: Who won the Oscar for best actress for her role in The Hours in 2003?
Answer: nicole kidman
Question: What is the title of Stephen Ambrose's book which followed the .exploits of Easy Company following the D Day landings in 1944?
Answer: band of brothers
Question: The scientific principle which explains that in fluid flow an increase in velocity is associated with a decrease in pressure is named after which family of mathematicians and physicists?
Answer: bernoulli
Question: An Arundel Tomb; the inspiration for Philip Larkin's poem of the same name is in which English cathedral?
Answer: chichester
Question: Robin Williamson and Mike Heron were founder members of which influential, but commercially unsuccessful, 1960's/70's band?
Answer: incredible string band
Question: What is the capital of the Caucasian state of Chechnya?
Answer: grozny
Question: What spirit is added to white creme de menthe to make a stinger cocktail?
Answer: brandy
Question: Lumley Castle overlooks a cricket ground used by which county?
Answer: durham
Question: In Greek mythology who was abducted and raped by Zeus when he was disguised as a bull?
Answer: europa
Question: Which American actor also performs with the band Dogstar?
Answer: keanu reeves
Question: Abkhazia, recognised as independent by Russia, is a breakaway region from which former Soviet republic?
Answer: georgia
Question: The single word 'prepared' is the motto found on the crest of whichcEnglish football club?
Answer: aston villa
Question: What spirit is added to Drambuie to make a Rusty Nail cocktail?
Answer: whisky
Question: The A59 road runs from Liverpool to which English town or city?
Answer: york
Question: Alfred Wainwright's coast-to-coast walk starts from which point in Cumbria?
Answer: st bee s head
Question: Who was the founder of the Flavian dynasty of Roman emperors?
Answer: vespasian
Question: Famous for one best-selling novel, which American writer also wrote a series of novels featuring the Glass family?
Answer: j d salinger
Question: Which highway, also known as the Will Rogers Highway, was part of the original US Highways System and ran from Chicago Illinois to Los Angeles, California?
Answer: route 66
Question: The National Tank Museum is in Bovington, in which county?
Answer: dorset
Question: The name of which type of wineglass is also the name of a musical instrument?
Answer: flute
Question: The President of the USA sometimes travels in Marine One what kind of vehicle is this?
Answer: helicopter
Question: The name of which type of beer glass is also the name of a flower?
Answer: tulip
Question: Stansted Airport is accessed from junction 8 of which motorway?
Answer: m11
Question: Which famous English painter (1776-1837) was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk?
Answer: john constable
Question: The Autoroute du Soleil is the name given to the A6 from Paris to Lyon, it continues from there as the A7, to which city?
Answer: marseilles
Question: Who played the title role in the modern day pirate film 'Captain Philips'?
Answer: tom hanks
Question: Which famous English painter (1727-1788) was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk?
Answer: thomas gainsborough
Question: In 1794 Horatio Nelson lost the sight of his right eye during a battle for which island?
Answer: corsica
Question: Located in the Lake District and with a maximum depth of 79 metres, what is the deepest freshwater lake in England?
Answer: wastwater
Question: Who played the title character in the TV series 'Wycliffe'?
Answer: jack shepherd
Question: Which young singer/songwriter was born Jake Edwin Kennedy in Nottingham in 1994, he has released two albums, the first self titled and the second called `Shangri La?
Answer: jake bugg
Question: The fifteen highest peaks in the Carpathian Mountains are all in which country?
Answer: slovakia
Question: Which wheat is not suitable for bread making because of its low gluten content but is ideal for pasta?
Answer: durum
Question: Napoleon Bonaparte is associated with the 'Hand-in-waistcoat' pose as he was portrayed many times like that by which famous artist?
Answer: jacques louis david
Question: The mountains formerly known as Mt Communism and Lenin Peak are in which mountain range?
Answer: pamirs
Question: In English law, what name is given to a written statement of fact voluntarily made by a person under oath or affirmation?
Answer: affidavit
Question: His works including 'L'Orfeo' and 'The Coronation of Poppea', who is considered to be the Father of the Opera?
Answer: claudio monteverdi
Question: The first album to be at No 1 in the UK chart (in 1956) was `Songs For Swingin' Lovers', who recorded it?
Answer: frank sinatra
Question: The 1000th album to be at No 1 in the UK chart was 'Swing Both Ways' in 2013, who recorded it?
Answer: robbie williams
Question: Which philosopher founded the 'Academy' in Athens around 355 BC?
Answer: plato
Question: By what name was the Democratic Republic of the Congo known between 1971 and 1997?
Answer: zaire
Question: Which young singer/songwriter was born near Halifax in 1991 but was raised in Suffolk, he has released two albums, + (plus) and x (multiply)?
Answer: ed sheeran
Question: How is the bird Erithacus rubecula more commonly known?
Answer: robin
Question: Ken Livingstone was runner-up to Boris Johnson in both of the last two elections for Mayor of London, who is the former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Liberal Democrat candidate who finished third and fourth?
Answer: brian paddick
Question: What was the title of the Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical about the Profumo Affair that flopped in early 2014?
Answer: stephen ward
Question: In English law, what name is given to the defence whereby an accused alleges that he or she was unlawfully pressured to perform the act in question?
Answer: duress
Question: What was the surname of the married couple executed for espionage in Sing Sing in June 1953?
Answer: julius and ethel rosenberg
Question: What was claimed by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583 as Britain's first overseas colony?
Answer: newfoundland
Question: According to the RSPB which is the most commonly found wild bird in Britain?
Answer: wren
Question: Which premiership football club has a badge showing gold lion rampant above the motto "prepared"?
Answer: aston villa
Question: Name Stevie Wonder's only solo No. 1 hit in the UK.
Answer: i just called to say i love you
Question: In which English county would you find the towns of Blandford Forum, Sherborne and Bridport?
Answer: dorset
Question: Who has presented the BBC Radio 2 programme Sounds of the Sixties for over 20 years?
Answer: brian matthew
Question: At which sporting event were 3 people killed by a terrorist bomb on 15 April 2013?
Answer: boston marathon
Question: Which is the only Anglican cathedral located in the present day county of Lancashire?
Answer: blackburn
Question: Which poet wrote the 1936 poem which begins "Stop all the clocks, Cut off the telephone, Give the dog a juicy bone" ?
Answer: w h auden
Question: The unified atomic mass unit is defined as being one 12th the mass of an atom of which element?
Answer: carbon
Question: The rivers Kennet, Lea, Brent and Pang are all tributaries of which English river?
Answer: thames
Question: Which soul singer, writer of the song Papa's Got a Brand New Bag died on Christmas Day 2006?
Answer: james brown
Question: What is the name of Australia's premier thoroughbred horse race, run on the first Tuesday in November?
Answer: melbourne cup
Question: In which 2013 film did Ben Stiller reprise a role played by Danny Kaye in a 1949 film?
Answer: secret life of walter mitty
Question: VVhich author created the character Dr Tony Hill in the 1995 novel The Mermaids Singing?
Answer: val mcdermid
Question: Which band released the albums Regatta de Blanc and Ghost in the Machine?
Answer: police
Question: In which city would you find the tallest cathedral tower in France?
Answer: rouen
Question: Who replaced Carol Vorderman as co-host of Countdown in 2009?
Answer: rachel riley
Question: Which country joined the Commonweath in 1996, the only member never to be part of the British Empire?
Answer: mozambique
Question: According to the RSPB which is the most commonly found bird of prey in Britain?
Answer: buzzard
Question: In which English county would you find the towns of Saffron Walden, Great Dunmow and Waltham Abbey?
Answer: essex
Question: Which Dan Brown novel was the best selling fiction book in the UK in 2013, selling over 228,000 copies in its 1st week of publication?
Answer: inferno
Question: In which city were 62 people killed in a terrorist attack on a shopping mall on 21st September 2013?
Answer: nairobi
Question: The county of West Yorkshire has two Anglican cathedrals, one is in Bradford, where. is the other?
Answer: wakefield
Question: Which poet wrote the 1937 poem which begins "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, It isn't fit for humans now"?
Answer: john betjeman
Question: What was the world's first supersonic airliner to fly commercially?
Answer: tupolev
Question: A particle of alpha radiation is a nucleus of an atom of which element?
Answer: helium
Question: The rivers Tame, Dove, Derwent and Soar are tributaries of which English river?
Answer: trent
Question: Which country music star, writer of the song Your Cheatin' Heart, died on New Year's Day 1953?
Answer: hank williams
Question: Which race run at Chantilly in June is often referred to as the French Derby?
Answer: prix du jockey club
Question: In which 2013 film did Leonardo Di Caprio reprise a role played by Robert Redford in a 1974 film?
Answer: great gatsby
Question: In which English county would you find the towns of Bedworth and Kenilworth?
Answer: warwickshire
Question: In June 2013, which Asian telecommunications company unveiled the world's slimmest Smartphone, called the Ascend P6?
Answer: huawei
Question: Liberty Bell was the theme tune for which British TV show?
Answer: monty python s flying circus
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the brother of both Zeus and Poseidon and was God of the Underworld?
Answer: hades
Question: Which company's advertising slogan states: "It does exactly what is says on the tin."?
Answer: ronseal
Question: The 'Arab Spring' uprising in Egypt during 2011 was inspired by the 'Jasmine Revolt' that had taken place in which country?
Answer: tunisia
Question: Who is the only professional heavyweight boxer to have retired undefeated?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: Which English football team began playing their home matches at Gresty Road in 1898 and are nicknamed 'The Railway Men'?
Answer: crewe alexandra
Question: What name is given to the yellow fluid that surrounds and lubricates cartilages in joints?
Answer: synovial fluid
Question: Which popular singer is the daughter of former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis?
Answer: sophie ellis bextor
Question: By what name was William Joyce better known in the 1940's?
Answer: lord haw haw
Question: In the film 'The Hunt for Red October' what was 'Red October'?
Answer: submarine
Question: Who was the first person to be seen on Channel 4?
Answer: richard whiteley
Question: In 2013, the World's smallest stop-motion film 'A Boy And His Atom', was created by researchers at which company?
Answer: ibm
Question: Thomas Harris's 1988 novel 'The Silence of the Lambs' was actually a sequel - what was the name of the first book in the series?
Answer: red dragon
Question: In which country is Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" set?
Answer: vietnam
Question: Who was the Roman Goddess of the hunt and wild animals? She later took over from Luna as the Goddess of the moon.
Answer: diana
Question: According to their advertising slogan who are: "The world's local bank."?
Answer: hsbc
Question: Pearl Roundabout was the scene of political protests during 2011, in which country is it?
Answer: bahrain
Question: Which letter of the Greek alphabet is used as the trademark of a Swiss luxury watchmaker?
Answer: omega
Question: Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was executed in October 1917, by what name is she better known?
Answer: mata hari
Question: Which stand-up comedian ran 43 marathons in 52 days in 2009 in order to raise money for Sport Relief?
Answer: eddie izzard
Question: b Who was the country music singer who gave up his seat to the Big Bopper on the plane that crashed, killing Buddy Holly in 1959?
Answer: waylon jennings
Question: Which important battle took place in North Eastern Ireland on 12th July 1690?
Answer: boyne
Question: Which author lived at Abbotsford House near Galashiels in the Scottish borders?
Answer: sir walter scott
Question: Which Brazilian won the Wimbledon Women's Singles title in 1959, 1960 and 1964, and was runner-up in 1965 and 1966?
Answer: maria bueno
Question: For which film did Jack Lemmon receive the Best Actor Oscar in 1973?
Answer: save tiger
Question: Which composer wrote the 1944 oratorio "A Child of our Time"?
Answer: michael tippet
Question: Through which artery does deoxygenated blood flow from the heart to the lungs?
Answer: pulmonary
Question: General Suharto was the 2nd president of which country from 1967 to 1998?
Answer: indonesia
Question: In Greek mythology, which King of Lydia (560-547BC) was noted for his fabulous wealth?
Answer: croesus
Question: Which battle of 1805 is also known as "The Battle of the Three Emperors"?
Answer: austerlitz
Question: What title did Sophie Rhys-Jones receive after her marriage to Prince Edward?
Answer: countess of wessex
Question: In 2003 the National Trust opened a house called 'Mendips' to the public. Which famous person grew up there?
Answer: john lennon
Question: Who overthrew the regime of King Idris of Libya in 1969?
Answer: muammar gaddafi
Question: In the novel 'Wuthering Heights', in which city is the waif Heathcliff found and adopted by Mr Earnshaw?
Answer: liverpool
Question: Which French king was known as 'The Sun King'?
Answer: louis xiv
Question: Who was manager of the England football team from 1946 to 1962?
Answer: walter winterbottom
Question: As mentioned in the title of an Arthur Miller 1949 play, what was Willie Loman's occupation?
Answer: salesman
Question: Which car manufacturer's badge and logo depicts a prancing black horse on a yellow background?
Answer: ferrari
Question: Which Swedish prime minister was assassinated in February 1986 in Stockholm?
Answer: olaf palme
Question: What is the common name of the flowering plant Helianthus Annuus?
Answer: sunflower
Question: Which arteries supply the head and neck with oxygenated blood?
Answer: carotid
Question: In Greek Mythology, which son of Demeter was the god of wealth and riches?
Answer: plutus
Question: In Paris, Louis XV I and many others were guillotined in the Place De La Revolution? How is it now known being renamed in 1795?
Answer: place de la concorde
Question: What is the common English name for the flowering plant Delphinium?
Answer: larkspur
Question: Who succeeded Hitler in April 1945 as Head of State and President of Germany?
Answer: karl doenitz
Question: 'The Million Dollar Quartet' was the name given to an impromptu jam session in December 1956, at Sun Record Studios Memphis. Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis were three taking part - who was the fourth?
Answer: johnny cash
Question: In which religion is the Rig Veda a collection of ancient myths, hymns and poems?
Answer: hinduism
Question: Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire was the birthplace and family home of which famous scientist and mathematician?
Answer: sir isaac newton
Question: Which horse was first past the post in the 1993 Grand National which was declared void due to a starting mix-up?
Answer: esha ness
Question: In which state is Fort Sumter, the battle for which marked the start of the American Civil War in April 1861?
Answer: south carolina
Question: Which 1967 Beatles song contains the lines "On the corner is a banker with a motor car; the little children laugh at him behind his back"?
Answer: penny lane
Question: Antonio Salazar was the virtual dictator of which country from 1932 to 1968?
Answer: portugal
Question: Tribeca, the name of a neighbourhood of Lower Manhattan, is a portmanteau word made up how?
Answer: triangle below canal
Question: The Stratosphere Tower is the highest building in which US city?
Answer: las vegas
Question: Who came to power as Prime Minister of Italy in 1922?
Answer: mussolini
Question: Which film features the Mos Eisley Cantina?
Answer: star wars
Question: How was Alf Tupper known in the boy's comic 'Victor'?
Answer: tough of track
Question: Connie Fisher won a TV competition to find the lead for Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of which musical?
Answer: sound of music
Question: Bass player 'Flea' is part of which pop group?
Answer: red hot chilli peppers
Question: Which Prime Minister died in 10 Downing Street in 1908?
Answer: henry campbell bannerman
Question: Ginger McCain won the Grand National three limes as a trainer with Red Rum, which horse gave him his fourth victory in 2004?
Answer: amberleigh house
Question: What is the name of the farm central to the radio programme 'The Archers'?
Answer: brookfield
Question: Which Apollo 14 astronaut played golf on the moon?
Answer: alan shepard
Question: Which football manager, now at Monaco, was known as 'the Tinkerer' or 'Tinkerman' during his time in England?
Answer: claudio ranieri
Question: Who was the CBS News anchor-man known as 'the man Americans most trust'?
Answer: walter cronkite
Question: Which children's character is a fry cook at the Krusty Krab restaurant?
Answer: spongebob squarepants
Question: In 2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf defeated ex-footballer George Weah to become the first female president of which African country?
Answer: liberia
Question: In which country do the majority (over 1 million) of Dromedary camels live in the wild, having been introduced there in the 1840s?
Answer: australia
Question: Which event takes place nearly every year at Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset?
Answer: glastonbury festival
Question: Established in 1948, the Bodil Award is one of the oldest film awards in Europe, in which country is it awarded?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which cocktail is a mixture of brandy and crème de cacao, often with cream?
Answer: brandy alexander
Question: Amy Whitehouse had two albums, 'Back to Black' and her first which had which male name as its title?
Answer: frank
Question: The railway nicknamed the 'Watercress Line' got the name because it carried the crop to London from which county?
Answer: hampshire
Question: What can be mouse-eared, long-eared or whiskered?
Answer: bats
Question: How was the American gangster and bank-robber Lester J Gillis, associated with John Dillinger, better known?
Answer: baby face nelson
Question: Carmen Polo was the wife of which 20th century dictator?
Answer: franco
Question: Mozambique was the first country with no historical ties to Britain to be accepted into the Commonwealth, which was the second?
Answer: rwanda
Question: Who is the only person to refuse a Nobel Peace prize (in 1973)?
Answer: le duc tho
Question: Which name is shared by the former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party and MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark and the Channel 5 TV cricket analyst and former Middlesex and Durham player?
Answer: simon hughes
Question: Which group were one hit wonders with the 1983 hit 'It's Raining Men'?
Answer: weather girls
Question: Which German City is home to the headquarters of the Volkswagen car manufacturer?
Answer: wolfsburg
Question: Stokes' Law describes the force on objects passing through a fluid. It includes which property of the fluid usually represented by the Greek letter eta?
Answer: viscocity
Question: Who designed the Mount Rushmore monument in the U.S.A. to four presidents?
Answer: gutzon borglum
Question: The image of which boxer appears on the cover of the Beatles 'Sergeant Pepper' album?
Answer: sonny liston
Question: Who in 1588, commanded the English fleet that confronted the Spanish Armada?
Answer: lord howard of effingham
Question: Who played the role of U.S. Vaudeville artist Eddie Foy in the 1955 biographical movie "The Seven Little Foys"?
Answer: bob hope
Question: Which group sharing its name with a military aircraft had hits with 'Rock Lobster and 'The Love Shack'?
Answer: b52 s