CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the name of the longest bone in the upper arm?
Answer: humerus
Question: Which English composer lived from 1872 to 1958. His last opera was 'Pilgrim's Progress'?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: Which book of the Bible describes the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse' and gives the 'number of the beast' as 666?
Answer: revelations
Question: Who trained 'Red Rum' to win three Grand Nationals?
Answer: ginger mccain
Question: Who played the part of 'Clayton Farlow' in 'Dallas'?
Answer: howard keel
Question: In which small Welsh village were over 100 children killed by a coal mine slag heap in 1966?
Answer: aberfan
Question: Which medical condition is caused by a lack of red blood cells or haemoglobin in the blood?
Answer: anaemia
Question: Which meringue dessert, decorated with whipped cream and fresh fruit, originated in Australia and New Zealand, and was named after a famous early 20th century Russian ballet dancer?
Answer: pavlova
Question: Which disease, caused by an increased level of Bilirubin in the blood, derives its name from the French for yellow?
Answer: jaundice
Question: Who was the American serial killer, nicknamed 'The Green River Killer', who, at his trial in 1983, confessed to the murders of 48 women in Washington State?
Answer: gary ridgeway
Question: In 'South Park', what is the name of the boy's teacher who had a sex change in series 9 before deciding he was male after all in series 12?
Answer: mr garrison
Question: What was the name of the paycock in Sean O'Casey's play 'Juno And The Paycock'?
Answer: jack boyle
Question: Cape Farewell is a headland which constitutes the southernmost part of which island?
Answer: greenland
Question: In 'South Park', which former head of state is depicted as the lover of Satan?
Answer: saddam hussein
Question: Who was the English dressmaker, nurse and housekeeper who was hanged in 1873 for the murder of 20 people, including 3 of her husbands, by arsenic poisoning?
Answer: mary ann cotton
Question: Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings led military coups in which African country in 1979 and 1981?
Answer: ghana
Question: Which singer had a number one hit in April 2010 with 'OMG'?
Answer: usher
Question: In which ex-Soviet state was Eduard Shevardnadze displaced as President after the 'Rose Revolution' of 2003?
Answer: georgia
Question: According to legend, who was King Arthur's illegitimate son who fought against Arthur at the Battle of Camlann?
Answer: mordred
Question: Which German footballer won the Golden Boot award for scoring the most goals at the finals of the 2006 Football World Cup?
Answer: miroslav klose
Question: Which architect designed the Monument to the Great Fire of London on Pudding Lane in London?
Answer: christopher wren
Question: Which 'New Town' in Hertfordshire was founded in 1903 as the world's first 'Garden City'?
Answer: letchworth
Question: Which architect designed the Roman Catholic basilica known as La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona?
Answer: antoni gaudi
Question: Which town in Hertfordshire was designated the UK's first 'New Town' in 1946?
Answer: stevenage
Question: Which professional Snooker player from Canada was known as 'The Grinder' because of his slow determined style of play?
Answer: cliff thorburn
Question: A 'Dobson Unit' is a measurement of the thickness of what?
Answer: ozone layer
Question: Which pretender to the English throne landed in England in 1495 in an attempt to overthrow King Henry VII, and was hanged at Tyburn?
Answer: perkin warbeck
Question: Which American writer shot and killed his ex-wife during a drunken party game in Mexico City in 1951?
Answer: william s burroughs
Question: In meteorology, what is measured in 'Oktas'?
Answer: cloud cover
Question: Who was the ten-year-old child pretender to the throne of England during the time of Henry VII who claimed, falsely, to be the Earl of Warwick?
Answer: lambert simnel
Question: For what did the 'S' stand in the name of American author William S. Burroughs?
Answer: seward
Question: Which former postman won the World Snooker Championship at his first attempt in 1979?
Answer: terry griffiths
Question: Which religious denomination was founded by John Thomas in 1848?
Answer: christadelphians
Question: Which English poet, known as the 'Northamptonshire Peasant Poet', was committed to an asylum from 1837 until his death?
Answer: john clare
Question: Deriving from the Turkish for 'black ear' because of its distinctive black ears, what is the common name for the cat that is also known as the 'Persian or African Lynx'?
Answer: caracal
Question: Which Victorian painter, noted for his pictures of fairies and other supernatural creatures, murdered his father in 1843 and was committed to a lunatic asylum for the remaining 43 years of his life?
Answer: richard dadd
Question: Which ecumenical Christian community was founded by the Scottish clergyman Reverend George MacLeod in 1938?
Answer: iona community
Question: To what did the Gilbert Islands change its name after gaining independence from Britain in 1979?
Answer: kiribati
Question: Jeff Bridges won this years 'Oscar' for Best Actor for his role as 'Otis Blake', in which film?
Answer: crazy heart
Question: What term describes the point at which a celestial object in orbit around the Earth, such as the Moon, makes its closest approach to Earth?
Answer: perigee
Question: Which Liberal Democrat has been appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in David Cameron's first Cabinet?
Answer: chris huhne
Question: To what did the New Hebrides change its name after gaining independence from France and Britain in 1980?
Answer: vanuatu
Question: In which country is the popular coffee-flavoured liqueur 'Tia Maria' produced?
Answer: jamaica
Question: In terms of area, which is the world's largest landlocked country?
Answer: kazakhstan
Question: What is the name of the special agent played by Keifer Sutherland in the drama series '24'?
Answer: jack bauer
Question: Which English cricketer scored a then world record 364 runs against Australia at the Oval in 1938?
Answer: len hutton
Question: Prior to the break-up of the Soviet Union, which was the world's largest landlocked country in terms of area?
Answer: mongolia
Question: In 1990, which New Zealand bowler became the first cricketer to take 400 wickets in Test Cricket?
Answer: richard hadlee
Question: 'Dookie' and '21st. Century Breakdown' are albums by which American rock band?
Answer: green day
Question: Which of the Romantic Poets wrote 'The Revolt Of Islam'?
Answer: percy bysshe shelley
Question: Which legislation, passed in 1701, banned Roman Catholics from the British throne?
Answer: act of settlement
Question: The Cotswold Way runs from Chipping Camden to which city?
Answer: bath
Question: Who was the first player to score seven hundred centuries in Snooker?
Answer: stephen hendry
Question: From which Disney animated picture does the song 'Go The Distance' come?
Answer: hercules
Question: In which Charles dickens novel does the character 'Esther Summerson' appear?
Answer: bleak house
Question: Who directed the 2008 film 'The Hurt Locker'?
Answer: katheryn bigelow
Question: The 'Oregon Trail' finished in the Columbia River area of Oregon, where did it start?
Answer: independence missouri
Question: Who directed the 1957 film 'The Bridge On The River Kwai'?
Answer: david lean
Question: In which of Dickens' novels does 'Jerry Cruncher' appear?
Answer: tale of two cities
Question: Who in a novel, first published in 1848 was 'Mrs. Helen Graham'?
Answer: tenant of wildfell hall
Question: Which legislation, passed in 1534 declared Henry VIII the Head of the Church of England?
Answer: act of supremacy
Question: Who wrote the Whitney Huston number one hit 'I Will Always Love You'?
Answer: dolly parton
Question: Four Irishmen have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yeats, Shaw and Becket are three, name the other?
Answer: heaney
Question: Which British writer's epitaph ends, "Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill"?
Answer: robert louis stevenson
Question: Which French artist, 1848 - 1903, painted 'The Yellow Christ' and 'Two Women On A Beach'?
Answer: paul gaugin
Question: Which American poet's epitaph is "Quotes The Raven Nevermore"?
Answer: edgar allan poe
Question: From which film, for which Chaplin wrote the music, did Petula Clark have a number one with 'This Is My Song'?
Answer: countess from hong kong
Question: Which river rises on the Tibetan Plateau, flows northwest and then south and southwest to enter the Arabian Gulf in the Seven Rivers area south of Karachi?
Answer: indus
Question: In which Dickens novel does 'Eugene Wrayburn' marry 'Lizzy Hexam'?
Answer: our mutual friend
Question: Who wrote the 'Roxy Music' number one hit 'Jealous Guy'?
Answer: john lennon
Question: Which ruler's name translates from the Egyptian for 'Great House'?
Answer: pharaoh
Question: What in World War II was 'Operation Torch'?
Answer: allied invasion of north africa
Question: 'Will's Neck' is the highest point in which range of English hills?
Answer: quantocks
Question: Her 2009 album is called 'Quiet Nights', so which Canadian jazz singer and pianist is married to Elvis Costello?
Answer: diana krall
Question: According to 'Acts', what peak was the location of the 'Ascension of Jesus'?
Answer: mount of olives
Question: Which writer created the character of 'Detective Inspector Jack Frost'?
Answer: r d wingfield
Question: Which French footballer was World Footballer of the Year in 1998 and 2000?
Answer: zinadine zidane
Question: Near which town or city is the 'Legoland' theme park?
Answer: windsor
Question: The character 'James Bond' was created by Ian Fleming, but who wrote the book 'Carte Blanche' featuring 'James Bond'?
Answer: jeffery deaver
Question: Who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John Hulme in 1998?
Answer: david trimble
Question: 'Charolais' and 'Semental' are both breeds of what?
Answer: cattle
Question: In the classic 1933 film 'King Kong', what is the name of the island where 'Kong' is discovered?
Answer: skull island
Question: In the 1897 novel 'Dracula', at which seaport in England does the title character make landfall in a violent storm?
Answer: whitby
Question: Justin Timberlake first entered the pop charts in 195 as a member of which boy band?
Answer: nsync
Question: 'The Pleiades' and 'Crab Nebula' are in which constellation?
Answer: taurus
Question: What name is given to a large semi-circular or polygonal recess in a church, arched or with a domed roof and situated typically at the church's eastern end?
Answer: apse
Question: Preceding 'Cubs', what name is given to the youngest section of the Scouting movement in the UK?
Answer: beavers
Question: Near which town or city in the 'Lightwater Valley' theme park?
Answer: ripon
Question: What is the North African dish of crushed wheat or course flour steamed over broth called?
Answer: couscous
Question: The 'Daiquiri' cocktail was named after a town in which country?
Answer: cuba
Question: Which mountain in Europe do the French call 'Mount Cervin', and the Italians 'Monte Silvio'?
Answer: matterhorn
Question: Which volcano, one of the Lipari Islands, is nicknamed 'The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean'?
Answer: stromboli
Question: Which starchy staple food of Africa, used to make 'Farofa Flour', also known as 'Manioc'?
Answer: cassava
Question: The 'Stratocaster' is a model of which make of guitar?
Answer: fender
Question: Which was the only 'Wonder of the Ancient World' located in what is now Iraq?
Answer: hanging gardens of babylon
Question: 'Operation Jubilee' was the World War II codename for the attack on which seaport in 1942?
Answer: dieppe
Question: One of the 'Seven Wonders of the Ancient World' was the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. Near which modern tourist resort is the site located?
Answer: bodrum
Question: Which writer created the character of 'Detective Inspector Jane Tennyson'?
Answer: lynda la plante
Question: Which part of a church building, situated near the altar, is reserved for the clergy and choir, and is typically separated from the nave by steps or a screen?
Answer: chancel
Question: If you ordered “Homard” in a French restaurant, which shellfish would you be served?
Answer: lobster
Question: Which capital city is known to its inhabitants as Lefkosia?
Answer: nicosia
Question: What was the name of Cutthroat Jake’s ship in the Captain Pugwash TV series?
Answer: flying dustman
Question: Which book by Andrea Levy was the Booker Prize winner of the year in 2004?
Answer: small island
Question: Which book by Mark Haddon was the Booker Prize winner in 2003?
Answer: curious incident of dog in night time
Question: Which comedian died on stage during the TV show “Live From Her Majesty’s” in April 1984?
Answer: tommy cooper
Question: What is the more common name of the garden plant Calendula?
Answer: marigold
Question: Who starred in and directed the 1993 film “A Bronx Tale”?
Answer: robert de niro
Question: Which famous architect designed the unbuilt Roman Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool?
Answer: edwin lutyens
Question: Who directed and starred in the 2008 film “Grand Torino”?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: With which instrument do you associate jazz musician Erroll Garner?
Answer: piano
Question: What is the parliamentary constituency of Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party?
Answer: brighton pavilion
Question: Who created the cartoon strip “The Perishers”?
Answer: maurice dodd
Question: Which element, atomic number 5, has the chemical symbol B?
Answer: boron
Question: Whose statue, in Merrion Square, is known to irreverent Dubliners as “The Fag on the Crag”?
Answer: oscar wilde
Question: What is the more common name for the garden flower Antirrhinum?
Answer: snapdragon
Question: As at September 2012, who presents Radio 2’s “Pick of the Pops” an Sundays from 2:30 to 4:30pm?
Answer: tony blackburn
Question: Which group, prominent in the 1990’s, featured Chris Novoselic on bass and Dave Grohl on drums/
Answer: nirvana
Question: Sage Moonblood is the child of which action film actor and director?
Answer: sylvester stallone
Question: Which British Prime Minister is buried in Spynie churchyard, Lossiemouth?
Answer: ramsay mcdonald
Question: Which British Prime Minister attended Chatham House School in Ramsgate?
Answer: ted heath
Question: Which group, prominent in the 1980’s, featured Johnny Marr on guitar, Andy Rourke on bass and Mike Joyce on drums?
Answer: smiths
Question: As of September 2012, who presents Radio 2’s “Good Morning Sunday” show from 7:00 to 9:00am?
Answer: clare balding
Question: What is the parliamentary constituency of Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party?
Answer: banff and buchan
Question: Which song was a top 40 hit for both Oasis and Mike Flowers Pops in 1995?
Answer: wonderwall
Question: Which element, atomic number 15, has the chemical symbol P?
Answer: phosphorus
Question: Which comic actor died on stage (literally) at the Sunderland Empire in April 1976?
Answer: sid james
Question: In 1995 the company National Breakdown changed its name – to what?
Answer: green flag
Question: Which female vocalist had a 2001 hit with the song “Here With Me”?
Answer: dido
Question: Which Chancellor, executed in 1535, became the patron saint of politicians?
Answer: sir thomas more
Question: A costermonger sells fruit and vegetables, usually from a barrow. Which particular item did a costermonger originally sell?
Answer: apples
Question: The daughter of which famous author of many children’s books wrote “A Childhood at Green Hedges”?
Answer: enid blyton
Question: The domed folly known as the Ashton Memorial overlooks which English city?
Answer: lancaster
Question: Which World War Two general was nicknamed ‘Vinegar Joe’?
Answer: joseph stillwell
Question: In which American state does the Mississippi river enter the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: louisiana
Question: Which Thames dredger made the headlines in 1989 when it rammed the Marchioness pleasure boat?
Answer: bowbelle
Question: Which powerful illuminant gas is produce from the action of water on calcium carbide?
Answer: acetylene
Question: Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew was reprimanded after head butting a player from which Premier League team?
Answer: hull city
Question: What is the more common name of hydrated magnesium silicate?
Answer: epsom salts
Question: Trappist monks are a stricter version of which religious order?
Answer: cistercian
Question: Emil Zatopek won the 5000 and 10000 metres at the 1952 Olympics. In which event did his wife Dana also win a gold medal?
Answer: javelin
Question: The Lempira is the main unit of currency in which central American country?
Answer: hondura
Question: Which golfer won the British Open, US Open and Canadian Open in 1971?
Answer: lee trevino
Question: What is the name of the traditional stiff skirt worn by Greek and Albanian men?
Answer: fustanella
Question: What name is given to the point of a planet’s orbit furthest from the sun?
Answer: aphelion
Question: When the rock band Free disbanded, Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke went on to form which other group?
Answer: bad company
Question: Which Austrian racing driver was the posthumous Formula One world champion in 1970?
Answer: jochen rindt
Question: Which French cyclist won the Tour de France four consecutive times in the 1960’s?
Answer: jacques anquetil
Question: Which fashion designer, girlfriend of Mick Jagger, committed suicide in New York earlier this year?
Answer: l wren scott
Question: Which motorcycle company made models called the Manx, the International and the Dominator?
Answer: norton
Question: Once punningly depicted on a British coin, the sea pink is an alternative name for which flower?
Answer: thrift
Question: In Judaism, what name is given to the ram’s horn blown in a synagogue as a call to repentance?
Answer: shofar
Question: In the Chinese zodiac, 2014 is the year of which animal?
Answer: horse
Question: Which rock group did Steve Marriot form with Peter Frampton after leaving The Small Faces?
Answer: humble pie
Question: The Bishop of Durham signs himself “Dunelm”. Similarly, which name is used by the Bishop of Rochester?
Answer: roffen
Question: Invar is an alloy chiefly consisting of iron and which other metallic element?
Answer: nickel
Question: Which Coronation Street character has been played fro several years by Chris Gascoyne?
Answer: peter barlow
Question: Which Yorkshire Rugby League club were the first team to retain the Challenge Cup/
Answer: batley
Question: Which lone gunman went on the rampage around the town of Hungerford in 1987?
Answer: michael ryan
Question: Who played scout Flint McCullough in the TV western series “Wagon Train”?
Answer: robert horton
Question: In mythology, which female gave Theseus a ball of thread to guide him out of the labyrinth?
Answer: ariadne
Question: Which is the only state of the USA to share a land border with Maine?
Answer: new hampshire
Question: How are the lovers Vrechen and Sali described in the title of a 1906 opera by Frederick Delius?
Answer: village romeo and juliet
Question: In November 1943 Winston Churchill met the other allied leaders for a conference in which capital city?
Answer: tehran
Question: Former West Bromwich Albion footballer Nicholas Anelka made an apparently anti-Semitic gesture after scoring a goal against which Premier League club?
Answer: west ham united
Question: Mount Narodnaya is the highest point in which dividing range?
Answer: urals
Question: Which former sportsman, now a BBC presenter, provides the voice for the children’s TV programme “Underground Ernie”?
Answer: gary lineker
Question: Who wrote “Tree and Leaf” and “Farmer Giles of Ham”?
Answer: jrr tolkein
Question: Who designed the cover of the album The Velvet Underground & Nico?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: The last holder of which post, abolished in 1964 was the second Earl Jellicoe – previous holders include Winston Churchill (from 1911 to 1915 and 1939 to 1940)?
Answer: first lord of admiralty
Question: Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker is a sculpture by Louise Walsh on Great Victoria Street near to the Europa Hotel in which British city?
Answer: belfast
Question: What is the English title of the French police drama Engrenages shown on BBC4?
Answer: spiral
Question: At which school were actors Eddie Redmayne, Damian Lewis and Dominic West educated?
Answer: eton college
Question: The city known as Stalingrad from 1925 to 1961 stands on which major river?
Answer: volga
Question: Complete the full title of the 1776 publication by the economist Adam Smith An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of ______________________.
Answer: wealth of nations
Question: Which club resigned from the Football League in 1962 to be replaced by Oxford United? A new club was formed with the same name and won promotion to the League in 2006. One of the two clubs they replaced was Oxford United.
Answer: accrington stanley
Question: EY is the name of one of the Big Four professional service companies (tax, audit etc.). What was its full name before a rebranding in 2013?
Answer: ernst young
Question: Known by his initials F U, what is the name of the Old Etonian Conservative politician created by Michael Dobbs and played on British TV by Ian Richardson?
Answer: francis urquhart
Question: If the elements in the periodic table are arranged alphabetically which is the first with four letters in its name?
Answer: gold
Question: The title of the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner comes from a line in the Odyssey by which Greek poet?
Answer: homer
Question: Which composer, born on this date in 1928, wrote the music for the songs Magic Moments and Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa?
Answer: burt bacharach
Question: Beat It and Billie Jean are singles from which Michael Jackson album?
Answer: thriller
Question: Chance Meeting is a sculpture by Tom Murphy at Liverpool Lime Street Station of Ken Dodd and which female politician who lived from 1899 to 1970?
Answer: bessie braddock
Question: Of which country does Brigitte Nyborg become the first female Prime Minster in the drama Borgen shown on BBC4?
Answer: denmark
Question: The city known as Titograd from 1946 to 1992 is the capital of which modern day country?
Answer: montenegro
Question: The Swale is an inlet of sea that separates which island from Kent?
Answer: sheppey
Question: What is the middle name, her stage name, of Barbadian born singer Robyn Fenty?
Answer: rihanna
Question: Three of the four nominations for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in 1982 were John Gielgud, Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews (who won) for their roles in which period drama?
Answer: brideshead revisited
Question: In which country are the global headquarters of the professional services company KPMG?
Answer: netherlands
Question: Which organisation has won the Nobel Peace Prize three times, in 1917, 1944 and 1963?
Answer: red cross
Question: The world record for which athletics event is 8.95 metres for men?
Answer: long jump
Question: Which Carry On film features characters The Khasi of Kalabar, Private James Widdle and the 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment?
Answer: carry on up khyber
Question: Who wrote the recent book for children Awful Auntie?
Answer: david walliams
Question: The flag of Vietnam is a yellow star on a background of what colour?
Answer: red
Question: Which TV drama was set in the offices of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak?
Answer: l law
Question: Who was the time keeper when Roger Bannister ran the first sub four- minute mile?
Answer: norris mcwhirter
Question: What name is given to the position of the Moon in it's orbit, when it is closest to the Earth?
Answer: perigee
Question: What is the main ingredient of the traditional Scottish soup, 'Partan Bree'?
Answer: crab
Question: What was the name of New York's 'JFK Airport' before it was renamed in honour of the assassinated President?
Answer: idlewild
Question: Who was the first Soviet leader not to be buried in Moscow's 'Red Square'?
Answer: nikita kruschev
Question: What is the setting for Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio'?
Answer: prison
Question: The Isle of Man's 'Laxey Wheel' is the largest water wheel in the world. What name is it known by?
Answer: lady isabella
Question: On which river is the Cabora Bassa dam situated?
Answer: zambesi river