CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who wrote "Devil May Care", a James Bond novel, at the request of the trustees of the estate of original 007 author Ian Fleming?
Answer: sebastian faulks
Question: When is The Sundance Film Festival, that began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival, held annually?
Answer: january
Question: What is a Russian name for a type of savoury pancakes?
Answer: blinis
Question: In Australia, what name is given to two different kinds of crustacean: a type of crayfish and a type of shrimp?
Answer: yabby
Question: How could the majority of the land in Laos be described?
Answer: mountainous
Question: Which golfer won the US Open for two years in a row, in 1988 and 1989, and in 1988 became the first man to win a million dollars in official money on the PGA Tour in a season?
Answer: curtis strange
Question: Who founded the 1960s R 'n' B group "Steam Packet" with vocalist Rod Stewart and went on to form "Trinity", who Julie Driscoll sometimes sang with?
Answer: brian auger
Question: In 1980 Lech Walesa co-founded what trade union in Poland?
Answer: solidarity
Question: What was the surname of Marie, double Nobel laureate, and Pierre, also Nobel laureate?
Answer: curie
Question: On 3 June 2010, an episode of which British soap opera, which featured a hostage situation involving guns, was postponed after it was due to air on the same day as a a man shot 12 people dead and injured several more in Cumbria, England?
Answer: coronation street
Question: If, in expressing the past tense of sinking, the word "have" is not used as part of the verb, what is the correct form?
Answer: sank
Question: Who married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones in 2000?
Answer: michael douglas
Question: What band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth?
Answer: talking heads
Question: The Crusaders from western Europe during their fourth crusade destroyed what major Orthodox Christian city in 1204?
Answer: constantinople
Question: What appears on the usual logo for the musical "West Side Story" and is the setting for Maria and Tony's duet, "Tonight"?
Answer: fire escape
Question: Artist Ai Weiwei is resident, in 2014, in what country?
Answer: people s republic of china
Question: What is a species of marmot, also called a groundhog, found in parts of the USA?
Answer: woodchuck
Question: Who sings the theme song to the UK TV series "One Foot in the Grave"?
Answer: eric idle
Question: In 800AD, who became the first Holy Roman Emperor?
Answer: charlemagne
Question: Which NASA space shuttle was lost after exploding 73 seconds after lift off in 1986?
Answer: challenger
Question: Jill Munroe, Sabrina Duncan, Kelly Garrett, Kris Munroe, Tiffany Welles and Julie Rogers were characters in which US TV series?
Answer: charlie s angels
Question: """Silverback"" is the name given to a dominant male what?"
Answer: gorilla
Question: When British navigator James Cook arrived at what are now called Cook Islands what did he name them?
Answer: hervey islands
Question: Who was made an honorary citizen of Haslach, Austria, in 1938, an honour withdrawn in 2004?
Answer: adolf hitler
Question: Who was the London-based Australian music impresario who managed John Leyton, Cream, Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees?
Answer: robert stigwood
Question: Inspector Morse of the TV series (1987-2000) of the same name was very reticent about his first name; the name eventually revealed then became the title of a current prequel, but what was it?
Answer: endeavour
Question: What were the first names of the Irish poet and dramatist W B Yeats?
Answer: william butler
Question: A lastingly popular game released in 1991 by Psygnosis was called what?
Answer: lemmings
Question: What does the expression "e and oe" mean?
Answer: errors and omissions excepted
Question: What is the name of the main character, a senior bank clerk, in Franz Kafka's unfinished novel "The Trial"?
Answer: josef k
Question: What city was the sewerage system built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette in the late 19th century designed to serve?
Answer: london uk
Question: Who was the director of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The African Queen"?
Answer: john huston
Question: In 2008, Keira Knightley played the title role in which film?
Answer: duchess
Question: A well-known Scottish actor, born Anthony Robert McMillan, took his stage name in honour of which jazz musician?
Answer: john coltrane
Question: Dick York, Dick Sargent, David White and Paul Lynde worked together on what US TV serial in the 1960s and 1970s?
Answer: bewitched
Question: The De Beers company is an important company in the trading of what commodity world-wide?
Answer: diamonds
Question: What type of opera is Puccini's Gianni Schicchi?
Answer: comedy
Question: Where is the 337,000 km2 Taklamakan Desert?
Answer: china
Question: The ancient sport of Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu involves riding or taming what?
Answer: bulls
Question: A "fingerplate" is a piece of metal used to deter fingermarks appearing on what?
Answer: doors
Question: Gouache, pointillism, and sable are terms which can be found in what discipline?
Answer: painting
Question: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group purchased which historic London theatre in 2000?
Answer: palladium
Question: Who, in the 19th century, was commissioned by King Ludwig II of Bavaria to complete his "Ring Cycle"?
Answer: richard wagner
Question: Kazakhstan was the home country of which fictional eponymous film character?
Answer: borat
Question: Which country became independent from imperial China in 938 AD in the Battle of Bch ng River?
Answer: vietnam
Question: A major canal link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was named what?
Answer: panama
Question: Harry Webb, who performs under the name of Cliff Richard, was born where?
Answer: india
Question: Who released the album "The Transformed Man" in 1968?
Answer: william shatner
Question: Who is the 2014 World Snooker Champion?
Answer: mark selby
Question: Which 1962 film directed by Roman Polanski shows the differences in economic status of an unemployed youth and a successful older man, played out as a psychological contest to possess the older man's wife?
Answer: knife in water
Question: Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko were political figures in which country?
Answer: ukraine
Question: What was the setting for the novel "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery?
Answer: prince edward island
Question: Who directed the pilot episode of the award-winning US TV series "Boardwalk Empire"?
Answer: martin scorsese
Question: Who is the only 20th century US president carved into Mount Rushmore?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: In 1291 a number of mainly alpine European communities formed a protective alliance which with the later addition of others became what is now known as what?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Which Nobel prize-winning British playwright died in December 2008?
Answer: harold pinter
Question: What 1973 film, based on a novel by French ex-convict Henri Charrire, starred Steve McQueen & Dustin Hoffman?
Answer: papillon
Question: The influential 1848 Cambridge University rules for football were drawn up with the participation of what groups?
Answer: english public schools
Question: The Victoria Falls are on the border of Zimbabwe and which other country?
Answer: zambia
Question: Famous in NBA Basketball, Michael Jordan first retired in 1993 to develop a career in what?
Answer: baseball
Question: What pollinates the tubular, bright red flowers of the Salvia coccinea (known as Texas Sage, Scarlet Sage, or Blood Sage), a species of flowering plant native to the south of North America, the Caribbean, and the north of South America?
Answer: hummingbirds
Question: What is used in paper or textile making, and to form a protective coating on a canvas or other surface to be used for some art techniques?
Answer: size
Question: What play does the character Blanche Dubois appear in?
Answer: streetcar named desire
Question: Renowned sportsman Michael Phelps decided in 2014 to come out of retirement and compete in what sport?
Answer: swimming
Question: What name is given to the external set of floral leaves or sepals in a flower?
Answer: calyx
Question: Who wrote the poem "The Love Song of J Albert Prufrock"?
Answer: t s eliot
Question: The Richter Scale used for measuring the energy released by earthquakes, mostly replaced since 1979 by the MMS (moment magnitude scale), was developed by Charles Richter and which other scientist?
Answer: beno gutenberg
Question: Which album by Fleetwood Mac including the single releases "Go Your Own Way", "Don't Stop", "Dreams" and "You Make Loving Fun" was #1 on album charts in Australia, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK & the USA?
Answer: rumours
Question: What town is the setting for the film "It's a Wonderful Life"?
Answer: bedford falls
Question: Who plays the role of Hagrid in the Harry Potter series of films?
Answer: robbie coltrane
Question: Founded in 1934, the IBF was the international governing body for what?
Answer: badminton
Question: When Britain fought the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the forces it opposed were from France and which other country?
Answer: spain
Question: December 31 1960 was the last day for which coin, first minted in England in the 13th century, to be legal tender in the United Kingdom?
Answer: farthing
Question: The 1984 Winter Olympics were the first conducted under the presidency of whom?
Answer: juan antonio samaranch
Question: What programme would feature James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson as presenters?
Answer: top gear
Question: What is the name for Government House, Canberra, the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia?
Answer: yarralumla
Question: Which English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets, was praised because "his experimental explorations in prosody ... and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse"?
Answer: gerard manley hopkins
Question: Who did Rock Hudson play opposite in a series of romantic comedy films in the 1960s?
Answer: doris day
Question: What name is given to the stage of a butterfly's life when it lives in a chrysalis?
Answer: pupal
Question: Mascagni's one act opera Cavalleria Rusticana is often performed as a double bill with which other opera?
Answer: i pagliacci
Question: In Los Angeles, California, USA, African-American Rodney Glen King III was beaten severely by police after leading them on a high speed chase and resisting arrest, leading to massive rioting by African-Americans in the Los Angeles area when the police officers involved were acquitted. When did the beating happen?
Answer: march 3 1991
Question: If someone is said to have "kissed the Blarney Stone" what qualities are they being described as having?
Answer: eloquence or skill at flattery
Question: The wife of Humphrey Verdon Roe, with whom she founded a ground-breaking clinic in Britain, was also an author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for women's rights. What was the field in which she is known for pioneering effective, widespread and consistent action?
Answer: birth control
Question: Where would be the best place to see the Andean Condor in its native environment?
Answer: peru
Question: What state, earlier known as the Bohemian Kingdom and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time of the Empire's dissolution at the end of World War I, was formed in 1918?
Answer: czechoslovakia
Question: In the 1960s Tom Elwes instituted which championship in Congham in Norfolk, England?
Answer: world snail racing championship
Question: Who destroyed the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem?
Answer: nebuchadnezzar
Question: A spinoff from the BBC TV series In the Thick of It was which 2009 film, also starring Peter Capaldi?
Answer: in loop
Question: The National Gallery of British Art, built on the site of Millbank Prison and opened in 1897, became commonly known as the Tate Gallery. What was it officially renamed in 2000, and now displays only historical and contemporary British art?
Answer: tate britain
Question: What is the city, founded in the 8th century AD and for more than 400 years a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual centre for the Islamic world until it was destroyed by the Mongols in 1258?
Answer: baghdad iraq
Question: Which country in Southeast Asia, and bordering Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei, consists of 13 states and 3 Federal Territories which are separated by the South China Sea into two regions?
Answer: malaysia
Question: Ted Sorensen was an advisor, lawyer and writer, best known as special counsel and adviser, speechwriter and alter ego to which US president, whom he called his intellectual blood bank?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: The musical "Calamity Jane" is set in which town?
Answer: deadwood south dakota
Question: A kukri is a crooked knife traditionally used by which regiment in the British army?
Answer: brigade of gurkhas
Question: If water is described as "brackish" it has a high concentration of what?
Answer: salt
Question: Which film, directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, was about a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas?
Answer: red river
Question: Who was Governor of South Australia 1841-1845, Governor of New Zealand 1845-1854 & 1861-1868, Governor of Cape Colony 1854-1861 and Premier of New Zealand 1877-1879?
Answer: george grey
Question: What area became an independent country from Australia in 1975?
Answer: papua new guinea
Question: Who was on the British throne when Balmoral Castle was bought for their use?
Answer: victoria
Question: When is the Chinese New Year, and the Spring Festival, for 2015 as dated in the western Gregorian Calendar?
Answer: 19 february
Question: Who published almost 100 books on many subjects, including his autobiography "My Life and Times" (10 vols, 1963-1971), "The Four Winds Of Love" (6 vols, 1937-45), "Whisky Galore" (1947) and "Monarch of the Glen" (1941)?
Answer: compton mackenzie
Question: US basketballer LeBron James caused headlines in 2010 and 2014 by first leaving and then returning to what team?
Answer: cleveland cavaliers
Question: What vehicle was driven by Starsky and Hutch in the US TV programme?
Answer: ford torino
Question: The children's book "Swallows and Amazons" by Arthur Ransome is set in what area of Great Britain?
Answer: lake district
Question: Started as early as 1888, professional competitions offering trophies testing and displaying cowboy and vaquero skills are called what?
Answer: rodeo
Question: Palinka, made from various kinds of fruit, most commonly plums, pears, apricot, or peaches, is a traditional type of what?
Answer: brandy
Question: Who was the wife of Richard I of England (the Lionheart)?
Answer: berengaria of navarre
Question: John Mills won an Oscar in 1970 for his role in which film?
Answer: ryan s daughter
Question: The Tumuc-Humac Mountains are between Brazil and where else?
Answer: suriname and french guiana
Question: If The Beatles were listed in a 1969 telephone book, who would be the last to be listed?
Answer: ringo
Question: The 1996 Port Arthur massacre, carried out by a single gunman, took place where?
Answer: port arthur tasmania australia
Question: Who is the king of the title of "The Return of the King"?
Answer: aragorn
Question: Which British comic strip character who appeared from September 1954 as a feature in "Tiger" magazine, had his own weekly comic from September 1976, which ran for 853 issues until March 1993?
Answer: roy of rovers
Question: In Jules Verne's book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", who captained the submarine the "Nautilus"?
Answer: captain nemo
Question: In 1979 Briton Anthony Blunt was exposed as a Soviet spy. What was his area of interest?
Answer: art
Question: Who entitled his autobiography "My Wicked, Wicked Ways"?
Answer: errol flynn
Question: What name was given to teenage boys who wore drainpipe trousers and liked rock and roll in 1950s Britain?
Answer: teddy boys
Question: Who composed "The Ride of the Valkyrie" which premired in Munich in 1870?
Answer: richard wagner
Question: Who was the guitarist for David Bowie's recording and performing band from 1970 to 1974?
Answer: mick ronson
Question: Who sings the theme song for the UK TV series "New Tricks"?
Answer: dennis waterman
Question: Who was the main character in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels "A Study In Scarlet", "The Sign of Four" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?
Answer: sherlock holmes
Question: Who played the character of Alex P. Keaton in all seven series of a 1980s sitcom?
Answer: michael j fox
Question: The phrase to be in the "limelight" refers to burning of what as a brilliant light source in old theatre and music hall performances?
Answer: quicklime
Question: What is an American food made from small pieces of cornmeal bread that are deep fried or baked, the ingredients of which include cornmeal, flour, eggs, salt, baking soda, milk, and water, and sometimes kernel corn, onion, spring onion and peppers?
Answer: hushpuppies
Question: Chris O'Dowd plays the imaginary friend of a young boy in rural Ireland in which TV series?
Answer: moone boy
Question: What was the most famous work of writer L. Frank Baum, who wrote from 1897 to 1912?
Answer: wonderful wizard of oz
Question: Who wrote the story on which Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film "The Birds" was based?
Answer: daphne du maurier
Question: What would you mainly expect to see on the US TV series "The Jeff Probst Show"?
Answer: talking
Question: Which American country music singer-songwriter, born in 1934, won two Grammy Awards of 2005, (Best Country Album and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals) for her album "Van Lear Rose", which was produced by Jack White of the White Stripes?
Answer: loretta lynn
Question: In what field would the terms Nikkei, Dow, and DAX be used?
Answer: financial
Question: What are the missing words in this phrase from the UK TV series starting in 1952 "Bill and Ben, the .... Men"?
Answer: flower pot
Question: The characters of Doris Schwartz and Leroy Johnson appeared in what 1980s TV series?
Answer: fame
Question: What river falls over the Angel Falls, Venezuela, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall?
Answer: gauja river
Question: The first Sovereign to reign over England, Scotland, and Ireland simultaneously was James who ruled in Scotland as James VI from the age of 18 months, and in England and Ireland as James I from 1603. He was the first King of England of which Royal House?
Answer: stuart
Question: What breed of dog was the film star "Lassie"?
Answer: collie
Question: In a coup in 2006, who seized power in Fiji?
Answer: frank bainimarama
Question: Which film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was about a young ballet dancer who defies the producer by being in love with a composer, and starred Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann and Marius Goring?
Answer: red shoes
Question: Who did Peter Sellers marry in 1964?
Answer: britt eklund
Question: Who wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"?
Answer: washington irving
Question: Eric Clapton recorded an album with whom called "Riding With the King"?
Answer: b b king
Question: Hippocrates who lived in the 5th century BCE is remembered for his work and knowledge in what area?
Answer: medicine
Question: Who first demonstrated his safety mechanism for elevator operation at the 1853 New York World's Fair?
Answer: elisha otis
Question: What was the name of the taxi company in the US TV series "Taxi"?
Answer: sunshine cab company
Question: Hertz is the standard SI unit for the measurement of what?
Answer: radio frequency
Question: When was the spacecraft Rosetta launched to make contact with comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko (67P)?
Answer: march 2004
Question: Who had a hit in 1967 with "Silence is Golden"?
Answer: tremoloes
Question: Who released the albums "Hounds of Love" and "The Red Shoes"?
Answer: kate bush
Question: Which Walt Disney animated feature film bombed when it was first released in 1940, only eventually reaching profit in 1945?
Answer: pinocchio
Question: Who wrote the book "Angela's Ashes"?
Answer: frank mccourt
Question: What was the title of John Denver's song about Jacques Cousteau's boat?
Answer: calypso
Question: In 1854, John Snow proved that what was transmitted by infected water?
Answer: cholera
Question: Whose novel "Wives and Daughters", about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a doctor in a provincial English town in the 1830s, was completed by Frederick Greenwood when the author died suddenly in 1865?
Answer: elizabeth gaskell
Question: Which 20th century musical is based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer: west side story
Question: This actor is the youngest of 5 children, his great-grandfather was blind and a piano tuner and music teacher, he acts frequently with his wife, he won a Primetime Emmy Awards 2014 for Outstanding Actor, and among many films and TV series starred in the film version of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"; who is he?
Answer: martin freeman
Question: Which team beat Australia 34 - 20 in the Rugby League World Cup final in 2008?
Answer: new zealand
Question: What country was the first country in Oceania, and fifteenth overall, to legalise same-sex marriage?
Answer: new zealand
Question: What was the name of spacecraft which created history on 12 November 2014 and landed a probe on a comet?
Answer: rosetta
Question: The annual International Tree Climbing Championship is held under the auspices of which organisation?
Answer: isa
Question: Where in the UK is the only remaining Hanseatic warehouse, built to house the trade which operated out of that harbour under the Hanseatic League?
Answer: king s lynn
Question: What term is used to describe the nesting place of colony forming seabirds, some seals and sea lions, and even some turtles?
Answer: rookery
Question: """Everything's All Right"" and ""Heaven on Their Minds"" are songs from which musical?"
Answer: jesus christ superstar
Question: Limes became part of the British Royal Navy's diet in an attempt to prevent what?
Answer: scurvy
Question: The main ingredients of advocaat (or advokat), a rich and creamy liqueur with a smooth, custard-like flavour, are sugar, brandy and what else?
Answer: eggs
Question: What was the subtitle of the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley?
Answer: modern prometheus
Question: What kind of film is director/writer Jacques Tati known for?
Answer: comedy
Question: Who is the latest actor to portray Alan Turing's fiance, Joan Clarke, in film?
Answer: keira knightley
Question: Who created the "Piet" in St Peter's Basilica, the "Doni Tondo" in the Uffizi Gallery, and the sequence of poems written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri?
Answer: michelangelo buonarotti
Question: What type of land constitutes most of the country of Gabon on the west coast of Africa?
Answer: rainforest
Question: With what film company did Tom and Jerry make their first appearance in animated film cartoons?
Answer: mgm
Question: Which American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress who made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, married him in 1993, separated in 1997, and married actor & rapper Nick Cannon in 2008?
Answer: mariah carey
Question: The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations was licensed in 2006 as what?
Answer: national securities exchange
Question: What name is given to the age at the end of which the extinction event happened which saw the end of the dinosaur?
Answer: cretaceous
Question: A 2002 romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick is "My Big Fat Greek ..." what?
Answer: wedding
Question: Who is the only president of the USA to have been elected four times?
Answer: franklin d roosevelt
Question: What is the language most commonly spoken in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan?
Answer: urdu
Question: In 1990 a strip of land seceded from its then parent country and called itself Transnistria, or Trans-Dniester; what is the parent country?
Answer: moldova
Question: The discovery of the process of vulcanisation is most closely associated in the modern context with whom?
Answer: charles goodyear