CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: As what is the game of 'petanque' better known?
Answer: boules
Question: On which Scottish golf course was the first British Open played in 1861?
Answer: prestwick
Question: Who wrote the Dream of Gerontius which Elgar later set to music?
Answer: cardinal newman
Question: There are three kingdoms in Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland are two. Which is the third?
Answer: morocco
Question: Anthony Kiedis is the lead singer of which US alternative rock band?
Answer: red hot chilli peppers
Question: Which rank in the Royal Navy is the equivalent of an army brigadier?
Answer: commodore
Question: b The drunken midwife Sarah Gamp appears in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: martin chuzzlewit
Question: Which detective featured in the film "The Maltese Falcon"?
Answer: sam spade
Question: Which bright orange star is the 'eye' of Taurus the Bull?
Answer: aldebaran
Question: In Norse mythology who killed Baldur with a spear made from mistletoe?
Answer: loki
Question: Which large bird of prey, fairly common in Wales, and now becoming more widespread elsewhere, has the Latin name 'milvus milvus?
Answer: red kite
Question: In which small Middle Eastern Country were women only granted the right to vote in 2006?
Answer: kuwait
Question: The artist Matisse was a member of which school of painting?
Answer: fauvism
Question: What series of children's books is written by Eoin Colfer?
Answer: artemis fowl books
Question: Which British women achieved gold in the 400 metres at the 2007 World Athletics Championships?
Answer: christine ohuruogu
Question: Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March' was. originally written as incidental music for which Shakespeare play in 1842?
Answer: night s dream
Question: In music what name is given to a note which is half the length of a crochet?
Answer: quaver
Question: The people of which English county are known as Moonrakers?
Answer: wiltshire
Question: Which rank in the Army equates to a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy?
Answer: lieutenant general
Question: Gilian Anderson starred as Lady Dedlock in the 2005 BBC adaptation of which story by Charles Dickens?
Answer: bleak house
Question: Who writes the books featuring detectives Dalziel and Pascoe?
Answer: reginald hill
Question: Who wrote the novels 'Resurrection Men' and 'Fleshmarket Close'?
Answer: ian rankin
Question: What was the surname of the poet Dante, author of the Divine Comedy?
Answer: alighieri
Question: What did the British Museum purchase for £35,000 in 1816 from the aristocrat Thomas Bruce?
Answer: elgin marbles
Question: For which cricket county does former England test batsman Mark Ramprakash play?
Answer: surrey
Question: Which North African dish consists of crushed semolina, which can be steamed and served with vegetables, chicken or fish?
Answer: couscous
Question: Grand-mal and petit-mal are terms used in connection with which medical condition?
Answer: epilepsy
Question: """Christ in the House of his Parents"" is one of the best known paintings of which artist?"
Answer: sir john everett millais
Question: What is the rank of a British Army officer who wears a crown and two pips on his epaulettes?
Answer: colonel
Question: Who was the daughter of Zeus and Hera, cupbearer to the gods?
Answer: hebe
Question: During which monarch's reign did the Act of Union with Scotland take place?
Answer: queen anne
Question: Who composed the opera 'Albert Herring' in 1947?
Answer: benjamin britten
Question: Which British monarch was incarcerated in Pontefract Castle where he died of starvation in January 1400?
Answer: richard ii
Question: Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film 'The Spy Who Loved Me' in 1977?
Answer: carly simon
Question: Which element, atomic number 47, has the highest electrical thermal conductivity of any metal?
Answer: silver
Question: What was the name of the Cyclops blinded by Odysseus?
Answer: polyphemus
Question: Which musical features the son's 'I'd Do Anything' and 'Be Back Soon'?
Answer: oliver
Question: Synovial fluid is a lubricant for which parts of the body?
Answer: joints
Question: For which cricket county does England test cricketer Ian Bell play?
Answer: warwickshire
Question: In the US sitcom 'Frasier' what was Frasier's surname?
Answer: crane
Question: Who composed the musical work 'Harold In Italy' in 1834?
Answer: berlioz
Question: Which musical features the songs 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare' and 'From This Moment On'?
Answer: kiss me kate
Question: Which British monarch was murdered at Berkeley Castle in September 1327?
Answer: edward ii
Question: Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film 'Goldeneye'?
Answer: tina turner
Question: Which poisonous element can be either grey, yellow or black and combines with sulphur as realgar?
Answer: arsenic
Question: What name meaning "to hide away" is given to the books that provide an appendix to the Old Testament in some versions of the Bible?
Answer: apocrypha
Question: Which group recorded the albums 'Gaze' and 'Painting It Red' and 'Blue is the colour'?
Answer: beautiful south
Question: In Greek mythology who was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter who became the wife of Hades and Queen of the Underworld?
Answer: persephone
Question: Who won the 2007 Best Actor Oscar for his role in the film 'The Last King Of Scotland'?
Answer: forest whitaker
Question: Which horse ridden by Frankie Dettori won the 2007 Epsom Derby?
Answer: authorized
Question: Who composed the opera 'The Rake's Progress' in 1951?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: What name is given to the larvae of the cranefly?
Answer: leatherjacket
Question: Which American President acquired the nickname 'The Gipper'?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: In a very well-known novel, who owns the house called Manderley?
Answer: maxim de winter
Question: Sir Joseph Bazalgette contributed to the better health of Londoners by building what?
Answer: sewer system
Question: Who wrote the music for the 1948 film 'Scott of the Antarctic'?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: Who made a series of television programmes from River Cottage?
Answer: hugh fearnley whittingstall
Question: On a musical score, what does 'da capo' mean?
Answer: from beginning
Question: In Jules Veme's 'Around the World in 80 Days', Phileas Fogg starts and finishes his journey at which London club?
Answer: reform club
Question: Which literary work, completed in 1353, contains the tales of ten travellers escaping from the plague in Florence?
Answer: decameron
Question: In a Dickens novel, who lived at Satis House?
Answer: miss havisham
Question: Who wrote the medieval poem 'Piers Plowman'?
Answer: william langland
Question: Which actor appeared in the first and the last episodes of 'Grange Hill'?
Answer: todd carty
Question: Which TV cook is married to presenter Fern Britton?
Answer: phil vickery
Question: Who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford in 1975?
Answer: lynette squeaky fromme
Question: Who designed the Avro Vulcan Bomber?
Answer: roy chadwick
Question: Who wrote the music for the films 'Dancing with Wolves' and 'Out of Africa'?
Answer: john barry
Question: Architect Frank Matcham (1854-1920) specialized in designing which kind of building?
Answer: theatres
Question: In science, what is the name given to a substance with characteristic reactions used as a chemical test?
Answer: reagent
Question: What name was given to the proletariat of the French Revolution?
Answer: sans culottes
Question: Of what institution was Sir John Houblon the first governor in 1694?
Answer: bank of england
Question: Which group had a hit in the 1960's with 'Keep on running'?
Answer: spencer davis group
Question: Ernest Shepard was the original illustrator of which children's stories?
Answer: winnie pooh
Question: In 1944, in which New Hampshire town was an agreement drawn up to establish the IMF and World Bank?
Answer: bretton woods
Question: Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker prize for 2008 - what was the title of the book?
Answer: white tiger
Question: Who shared the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize (the first) with Frederic Passy, for his work which inspired the creation of the Red Cross and the Geneva Convention?
Answer: henri dunant
Question: In 1894, Marks and Spencer opened their first 'Penny Bazaar', in which town or city?
Answer: manchester
Question: In mathematics, what is the correct term for the answer to a multiplication calculation?
Answer: product
Question: Harmsen Van der Beek is the original illustrator of which books by Enid Blyton?
Answer: noddy
Question: Australian Douglas Mawson, 1882-1958, was famous for exploration on which continent?
Answer: antarctica
Question: Which British bank issued the first credit card in 1966?
Answer: barclays
Question: Which group had a hit in the 1970's with 'Love Grows Like My Rosemary Grows'?
Answer: edison lighthouse
Question: Who directed the 2008 film 'Burn after Reading'?
Answer: coen brothers
Question: Traditional wattle hurdles were made from the wood of which tree?
Answer: hazel
Question: Mount Marmolada is the highest peak in which European mountain range?
Answer: dolomites
Question: Which National Trust property in Cheshire includes a mansion and a Tudor hall that was once owned by the Egerton family?
Answer: tatton park
Question: Who lost most Ladies Singles Finals at Wimbledon in the 1980's?
Answer: chris evert
Question: Which famous poet wrote the line 'we are the hollow men'?
Answer: t s eliot
Question: Which band had a top ten in 1996 with Cosmic Girl?
Answer: jamiroquai
Question: In which Shakespeare play do we find Touchstone, a jester?
Answer: as you like it
Question: Which author created the fictional detective C Auguste Dupin?
Answer: edgar allen poe
Question: Who assassinated the Duke of Buckingham in 1628?
Answer: john felton
Question: Who defeated Martina Navratilova in her last Wimbledon Singles Final?
Answer: conchita martinez
Question: John Crome (1768-1821) founded which School of Painting?
Answer: norwich school
Question: Which African country takes its name from the Shona for 'house of stone'?
Answer: zimbabwe
Question: 'Live Forever' was the first UK top ten single for which band?
Answer: oasis
Question: King Alexander I, assassinated in Marseilles in 1934, was king of which country?
Answer: yugoslavia
Question: Whish 1996 multi Oscar winning film was based on a novel by Michael Ondaatje?
Answer: english patient
Question: Which element discovered in 1782 has the symbol Te?
Answer: tellurium
Question: Who wrote the opera Wozzeck in 1922?
Answer: alban berg
Question: What was the first name of notorious murderer Doctor Crippen?
Answer: hawley
Question: Alex Waugh, brother of Evelyn, wrote a first novel about life at a public school, what was it?
Answer: loom of youth
Question: On which island is Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas?
Answer: new providence
Question: Which Canadian/American novelist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976?
Answer: saul bellow
Question: Who won the Best Director Oscar for the film 'Out of Africa'?
Answer: sydney pollack
Question: Which element discovered in 1879 has the symbol Tm?
Answer: thulium
Question: What poet wrote this epitaph for his own grave 'Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman pass by'?
Answer: w b yeats
Question: Who presented the first ever edition of ITV's News at Ten?
Answer: alastair burnet
Question: Who sang the theme song for the Bond film 'Tomorrow Never Dies'?
Answer: sheryl crow
Question: What title is earned by a Moslem who makes a pilgrimage to Mecca?
Answer: hajj
Question: What name was given to the regime in France from July 1940 to August 1944?
Answer: vichy
Question: Which dish is a confection of sugar, egg yolks and Marsala wine?
Answer: zabaglione
Question: Sir Titus Salt, the first manufacturer of alpaca fabrics in this country, built a model village to house his employees, what name did he give to it?
Answer: saltaire
Question: Kerry McCarthy, Doug Naysmith, Dawn Primarolo and Stephen Williams are MPs representing constituencies in which city?
Answer: bristol
Question: Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'?
Answer: dostoyevsky
Question: Cotopaxi in Ecuador and Paricutin in Mexico are examples of which geographical feature?
Answer: volcano
Question: Aurora was the Roman goddess of the dawn, who was her Greek counterpart?
Answer: eos
Question: Who wrote 'She' and 'King Solomon's Mines'?
Answer: h rider haggard
Question: At which port do the rivers Rhine and Maas reach the sea?
Answer: rotterdam
Question: Jenny Willott, Julie Morgan, Alun Michael and Kevin Brennan are MPs representing constituencies in which city?
Answer: cardiff
Question: What title is earned by a Moslem who learns the entire Koran?
Answer: hafiz
Question: What was the title of the aptly named first song to be played on MTV in Britain?
Answer: video killed radio star
Question: The theme to which Bond film was sung by A-Ha?
Answer: living daylights
Question: Which best-selling author wrote the novel 'A Painted House'?
Answer: john grisham
Question: Who painted 'The Bathers' and 'Umbrellas'?
Answer: renoir
Question: In the context of law and order, for what does the C stand in the acronym ACPO?
Answer: association of chief
Question: In which Shakespeare play does Sir Lancelot Gobbo appear?
Answer: merchant of venice
Question: Who was the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, consecrated in 1533 during the reign of Henry 8th?
Answer: thomas cranmer
Question: Who had hit records with The Move, ELO and Wizzard?
Answer: roy wood
Question: Knightsbridge and Hyde Park Corner are stations on which London Underground line?
Answer: piccadilly
Question: Smithsonite is a carbonate of zinc, by what name is it commonly known?
Answer: calamine
Question: Vulcanisation involves heating rubber latex with which yellow, very brittle, fusible and inflammable non-metallic element?
Answer: sulphur
Question: Marble Arch and St Paul's are stations on which London Underground line?
Answer: central
Question: Admiral Togo was a commander at which major battle of 1905?
Answer: tsushima
Question: Who is the clown in Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'?
Answer: feste
Question: The world's first iron bridge was completed in 1781 at Coalbrookdale, which river does it span?
Answer: severn
Question: What was founded by the Rev. William and Catherine Booth in 1878?
Answer: salvation army
Question: What is/was a seller of Papal indulgences called?
Answer: pardoner
Question: By what name was the singer Ronnie Wycherley better known?
Answer: billy fury
Question: Who wrote the book "The Brothers Karamazov"?
Answer: dostoyevsky
Question: What did William Addis invent whilst in Newgate Prison?
Answer: toothbrush
Question: In mythology, which winged horse did Bellerophon ride?
Answer: pegasus
Question: Who was the last prisoner in Spandau Jail, Berlin?
Answer: rudolph hess
Question: In children's literature, which car did Commander Caractacus Potts drive?
Answer: chitty chitty bang bang
Question: What was the first name of the character "Rigsby" in the TV comedy "Rising Damp"?
Answer: rupert
Question: Who designed the statue "Angel of the North" which stands alongside the M1 motorway?
Answer: anthony gormley
Question: What was the first name of the boxer Sonny Liston?
Answer: charles
Question: Who wrote the 1930's books "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn"?
Answer: henry miller
Question: In which European city is the criminal society called the "Camorra" based?
Answer: naples
Question: Who said "In the Country of the Blind The One-eyed Man is King?
Answer: h g wells
Question: Paul Tortlellier and Mistislav Rostropovich are associated with which musical instrument?
Answer: cello
Question: Who played Jim Morrisson in Oliver Stone's film "The Doors"?
Answer: val kilmer
Question: Whose ghost was at the dinner table in "Macbeth"?
Answer: banquo s
Question: Who, apart from Geoff Hurst, scored in the 1966 World Cup Final for England?
Answer: martin peters
Question: Which U.S. state known as "The Mainland State" or "The Last Frontier" has the forget-me-not as its state flower?
Answer: alaska
Question: What, in Buddhist theology, is the highest level of attainment?
Answer: nirvana
Question: Which music legend was the subject of Don McLean's song - "American Pie"?
Answer: buddy holly
Question: What type of whisky has the same name as a French royal family?
Answer: bourbon
Question: Which day of the week is traditionally associated with "Ladies Day" at Royal Ascot?
Answer: thursday
Question: What is the only non-fictional country visited by Gulliver in his travels?
Answer: japan
Question: What was the first Elvis Presley single to reach number one in the UK?
Answer: all shook up
Question: On which island did the Dodo become extinct in about 1681?
Answer: mauritius
Question: Which English romantic poet, (1795-1821), wrote the poem, "The Eve of St Agnes"?
Answer: john keats
Question: In which country was Adolf Eichmann a resident, when captured by the Israelis in 1960?
Answer: argentina
Question: Which famous actor of his day, played the Hunchback of Notre Dame in the 1923 silent film?
Answer: lon chaney
Question: What is the main ingredient in the Indian drink, "lassi"?
Answer: yoghurt
Question: Kerstin Hakansson, winner of the first Miss World contest, came from which country?
Answer: sweden
Question: Name the American winner of the 1973 Miss World contest, whose reign lasted just 104 days, before she was sacked, following a series of high profile liaisons with various famous men of the day.
Answer: marjorie wallace
Question: John Jarndyce and Honoria, Lady Dedlock are major characters in which Dickens novel?
Answer: bleak house
Question: Who played Esmeralda, to Charles Laughton's Quasimodo, in the 1939 version of the film, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"?
Answer: maureen o hara
Question: Which English poet, (1770-1850), wrote, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey?
Answer: william wordsworth
Question: The Guardian cartoonist, Steve Bell, always portrayed which politician with his Y-fronts outside his trousers?
Answer: john major
Question: Which American Formula One motor racing driver, heir to part of the vast family fortune made in the cosmetics industry, won the British Grand Prix in 1973, but was killed during the South African Grand Prix, in 1974?
Answer: peter revson
Question: A person who writes the music for an opera is called a composer. What name is given to the person who writes the words?
Answer: librettist
Question: Which famous historical event was featured in the novel, "Lorna Doone"?
Answer: monmouth rebellion
Question: In the TV comedy series, "Absolutely Fabulous", which actress played the part of Edina's dim-witted assistant, "Bubble"?
Answer: jane horrocks
Question: What is the name of the Australian actor/comedian who created the character Dame Edna Everage?
Answer: barry humphries
Question: Which British city was once said to be famous for Jam, Jute and Journalism?
Answer: dundee
Question: The author, George Orwell was shot in the throat whilst fighting in which war?
Answer: spanish civil war
Question: Which heavyweight boxing World Champion was born in Brockton Massachusetts in 1923, and died in a plane crash in 1969?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: Although losing all three fights, which British boxer, between 1973 and 1975, went the distance with Joe Frazier and twice with Muhammed Ali?
Answer: joe bugner
Question: In which Yorkshire town was the opera singer Lesley Garrett born in 1955?
Answer: doncaster
Question: What is the name of the drunken, uncouth character, created by Barry Humphries, who is the Australian cultural attaché and minister for the arts?
Answer: sir les patterson
Question: Which actress played the part of Brenda Furlong in the TV comedy series, "Dinner Ladies"? The same actress also wrote and produced the series.
Answer: victoria wood
Question: Which Dickens novel features the Gordon anti Catholic riots in London in 1780?
Answer: barnaby rudge
Question: What name is given to the members of the religious denomination, founded in the 17th century, who are also known as The Society of Friends?
Answer: quakers
Question: Which disease, the victims of which are nearly always men, (females are asymptomatic carriers of the disorder), is sometimes known as "The Royal Disease"?
Answer: haemophilia
Question: In which country was the British Formula One racing driver Jim Clark killed in 1967?
Answer: germany
Question: The West Indian island of Hispaniola consists of The Dominican Republic and which other country?
Answer: haiti
Question: Which common spring flower has the Latin name Galanthus?
Answer: snowdrop
Question: Made in 1961, what was the last film of both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable?
Answer: misfits
Question: Which famous American jazz singer was born Eleanora Fagan in Baltimore in 1915?
Answer: billie holiday
Question: Where are Trinity, Michaelmas and Hilary used as divisions of time?
Answer: oxford
Question: Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard'?
Answer: anton chekhov
Question: Where in the UK are the towns of Sandown and Shanklin?
Answer: isle of wight
Question: Which football team is nicknamed the Seagulls?
Answer: brighton and hove albion
Question: Who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914?
Answer: gavrillo princip
Question: Which salad vegetable is one of the main ingredients of the Greek sauce, Tzatziki?
Answer: cucumber
Question: Who sang the theme song for the 1974 Bond film, "The Man with the Golden Gun"?
Answer: lulu
Question: Which army officer, later a Confederate General led the attack, which captured John Brown and his band of rebels at Harpers Ferry in 1859?
Answer: robert e lee
Question: The film, "Bridget Jones's Diary" was based on the novel by which English authoress?
Answer: helen fielding
Question: Which Lancashire wicketkeeper scored a century in only his 4th first class match in 1987?
Answer: warren hegg
Question: Nollywood is the colloquial name given to the film industry of which country?
Answer: nigeria
Question: Which British comedian used the catchphrase, "Can you hear me mother"?
Answer: sandy powell
Question: At which location did Captain Matthew Webb die in 1883?
Answer: niagara falls
Question: Which airline, founded as Jersey European Airways in 1979, has its largest base at Southampton Airport?
Answer: flybe
Question: The TV detective series, "Cold Case" deals with unsolved murders in which American city?
Answer: philadelphia
Question: The first stations on the three railway lines out of which Scottish city are Beauly, Carrbridge and Nairn?
Answer: inverness
Question: King Gama and King Hildebrand are monarchs in which Gilbert and Sullivan opera?
Answer: princess ida
Question: The first stations on the four railway lines out of which city are Saxilby, Hykeham, Metheringham and Market Rasen?
Answer: lincoln
Question: Who is the head of the CSI team, in the TV series of that name? The series is set in Las Vegas, and the character played by American actor, William Petersen.
Answer: gil grissom
Question: Which colloquial name is given to the Pakistani film industry, after the city where it is based?
Answer: lollywood
Question: """The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"", was written by which English authoress?"
Answer: sue townsend
Question: What was the name of the general, and political leader, who led the Mexican forces at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836?
Answer: antonio santa anna
Question: Which Ivy League university is situated in the city of Ithaca, in New York state?
Answer: cornell university
Question: Name the actress, who played the part of Nurse Chappel in the original TV series, "Star Trek", and married the creator Gene Roddenberry in 1969.
Answer: majel barrett
Question: The Carly Simon song, "Nobody Does It Better", was the theme song for which 1977 Bond film?
Answer: spy who loved me
Question: When served with an alcoholic drink, what is the Turkish word for appetisers or small dishes, equivalent to the Spanish word Tapas?
Answer: meze
Question: Whom did Bernard Montgomery replace as head of the Eighth Army in North Africa in 1942?
Answer: claude auchinleck
Question: What name is given to the large cask which holds 54 imperial gallons of beer?
Answer: hogshead
Question: Elected to office in November 2008, who is currently the Prime Minister of New Zealand?
Answer: john key
Question: Standing on the shores of Loch Linnhe, which Scottish town lies at the southern end of the Great Glen?
Answer: fort william