CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: For which Bond film, in which she has a cameo role as a fencing instructor, does Madonna sing the theme?
Answer: die another day
Question: Cosima, the younger daughter of Franz Liszt, became the second wife of which composer in 1870?
Answer: richard wagner
Question: The flag of which Republic that existed from the 7th century until 1797 contained the Lion head of Saint Mark with an open gospel?
Answer: venice
Question: Which mountain rises 10200 metres from its ocean base although it is only 4205 metres above sea level?
Answer: mauna kea in hawaii
Question: Who plays Edward Cullen in the ‘Twilight’ films?
Answer: robert pattinson
Question: How is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 usually known?
Answer: domesday book
Question: Travelling along the coast of South America – which country is next – Chile, Peru, .......?
Answer: ecuador
Question: Who won her only Singles title at Wimbledon in 2004 when she beat Serena Williams in the Final?
Answer: maria sharapova
Question: In which month of 1805 was the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: october
Question: The 81 mile Speyside Way runs from Buckie to which town and resort in the Cairngorms?
Answer: aviemore
Question: Who wrote the plays ‘Jumpers’ and ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’?
Answer: tom stoppard
Question: The Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha are the two Houses of the Parliament of which country?
Answer: india
Question: Which team did Spain beat in the Final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: netherlands
Question: How was the bird Pinguinus impennis commonly known?
Answer: great auk
Question: The 1993 film ‘The Pelican Brief’ was based on whose 1992 book?
Answer: john grisham
Question: Espoo and Tampere are the second and third largest cities by population in which European country?
Answer: finland
Question: Which of Picasso’s ‘periods’ came first - from 1901 to 1904?
Answer: blue
Question: What name is given to the long pole used to propel a punt?
Answer: quant
Question: There are four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Temperance, Justice and which other?
Answer: fortitude
Question: Who playe Mr Lucas in the TV sitcom “Are You Being Served”?
Answer: trevor bannister
Question: Who created the newspaper strip cartoon “The Perishers”?
Answer: maurice dodd
Question: Which county cricket team won seven consecutive county championships in the 1950’s?
Answer: surrey
Question: The Battle of the Boyne, the Glencoe Massacre and the Salem Witch Trial all occurred in which decade?
Answer: 1690 s
Question: Which constellation contains the bright start Arcturus and is known as “The Herdsman”?
Answer: bootes
Question: In which horserace did Lester Piggott ride his last English Classic winner?
Answer: 2000 guineas
Question: Which actor played the villainous swordsman Archie Cunningham in the 1995 film “Rob Roy”?
Answer: tim roth
Question: In World War Two, which aircraft company manufactured the Stuka?
Answer: junkers
Question: What name is given to the notoriously steep railway gradient south of Birmingham between Barnt Green and Bromsgrove?
Answer: lickey incline
Question: During World War Two, Operation Upkeep was the codename given by the Allies to the trials and testing of which weapon?
Answer: bouncing bomb
Question: Which Australian tennis player twice partnered Britain’s John Lloyd to win the mixed doubles at Wimbledon/
Answer: wendy turnbull
Question: Capnomancy is an attempt to foretell future events by studying the patterns made by what?
Answer: smoke
Question: Seymour is the family name of which English duke?
Answer: duke of somerset
Question: Besides Sandy Lyle, which other European golfer won a first ever major in 1985?
Answer: bernard langer
Question: Containing the bright star Capella, which constellation is known as “The Charioteer”?
Answer: auriga
Question: Meaning “cluster of eight” in the local language, what did the Ellice Islands change their name to upon gaining independence?
Answer: tuvalu
Question: Which American instrumental group had top 20 hit singles in the 60’s with “Perfidia” and “Walk Don’t Run”?
Answer: ventures
Question: Which type of spaniel takes its name from a stately home in Nottinghamshire?
Answer: clumber
Question: Which African animal has types called Kordofan, Nubian and Reticulated?
Answer: giraffe
Question: In which 1986 film did John Cleese play a schoolteacher anxiously trying to get to Norwich?
Answer: clockwise
Question: In the passing of a government bill, which stage follows the third reading?
Answer: royal assent
Question: What name is given to the full moon after a Harvest Moon?
Answer: hunter s moon
Question: Working for the Los Angeles Tribune, who played Lou Grant in the TV series of the same name?
Answer: ed asner
Question: What nationality was 16th century astrologer Nostradamus?
Answer: french
Question: What is the main alcoholic ingredient of a Sidecar cocktail?
Answer: brandy
Question: The Scottish coastal town of Stranraer stands at the head of which loch?
Answer: loch ryan
Question: What sort of creature was Lonesome George who died on Pinta Island in the Galapagos in 2012?
Answer: tortoise
Question: Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from March 1974 until May 1979?
Answer: denis healey
Question: In the Bible whose sons were Ham, Japheth and Shem?
Answer: noah
Question: In which African country are Serengeti and Kilimanjaro National Parks?
Answer: tanzania
Question: The original line-up of which girl band included Kerry Katona and Liz McClarnon?
Answer: atomic kitten
Question: What seven-letter word can be a gold coin, a forward slash, or the line between the numerator and denominator of a fraction?
Answer: solidus
Question: By what first name was the actress sister of John and Lionel Barrymore known?
Answer: ethel
Question: The Red Wings play in the National Hockey League at the Joe Louis Arena in which city?
Answer: detroit
Question: Titania is the largest moon of Uranus by diameter. Which is the second largest?
Answer: oberon
Question: What is the name of the loyalty card launched by Boots in 1997?
Answer: advantage
Question: Which rugby league club has been coached by Ces Mountford, Alex Murphy and Brian Johnson?
Answer: warrington
Question: Who wrote the collections of poems When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927)?
Answer: milne
Question: Which composer's Piano Concerto was famously conducted by Andre Previn on the 1971 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show?
Answer: edvard grieg
Question: In which recent film does Benedict Cumberbatch play Alan Turing?
Answer: imitation game
Question: The aye-aye, a small mammal with a thin extended middle finger used to find food, is a native of which island country?
Answer: madagascar
Question: Rita O'Grady is the leading character in which film, made into a musical that opened in London last year starring Gemma Arterton?
Answer: made in dagenham
Question: Which recent BBC TV drama set in Pagford opens with the death of a parish councillor?
Answer: casual vacancy
Question: By what one-word name is the Lockheed SR-71 aircraft known?
Answer: blackbird
Question: The king of which country lived in London from 1910 when the monarchy was abolished until his death in 1932?
Answer: portugal
Question: Who is the subject of the poem The Widow at Windsor, part of the Barrack-Room Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling published in 1892?
Answer: queen victoria
Question: The Battle of Flodden took place in September 1513 in which English county?
Answer: northumberland
Question: Which county cricket club has been captained by Percy Fender, Peter May and Micky Stewart?
Answer: surrey
Question: By what two-word name was the Boeing B-17 aircraft known?
Answer: flying fortress
Question: Who was King of Italy from 1900 until 1946 - regnal number not required?
Answer: victor emmanuel iii
Question: Which actor, comedian, writer and musician rowed for Cambridge in the 1980 Boat Race?
Answer: hugh laurie
Question: """An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!"" is the last line of the chorus of which of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads?"
Answer: mandalay
Question: Which word that begins 'sol' is a coil of wire that acts as a magnet when an electric current flows through it?
Answer: solenoid
Question: What name is given to a resident of Colchester?
Answer: colcestrian
Question: In which novel did James Hilton describe the 'mystical, harmonious valley' of Shangri-La?
Answer: lost horizon
Question: Three of the Galilean moons of Jupiter are Io, Europa and Callisto. Which is the fourth?
Answer: ganymede
Question: The Allied forces at the 1704 Battle of Blenheim were led by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of where?
Answer: savoy
Question: """Can't Sing!"" - a musical comedy written by Harry Hill that lasted 6 weeks and 3 days in London last year, was based on which TV reality show?"
Answer: x factor
Question: In which BBC TV drama is Doctor Thomas Chamberlain the Head of the Lyell Centre supported by pathologist Nikki Alexander and forensic scientist Jack Hodgson?
Answer: silent witness
Question: Wyndham Lewis was a major figure in which short-lived British avant-garde Art movement which had its only exhibition in 1915?
Answer: vorticism
Question: In the Hall of the Mountain King was composed by Edvard Grieg as part of which play by Henrik Ibsen?
Answer: peer gynt
Question: Which newspaper editor was played by Peter Capaldi in the film The Fifth Estate?
Answer: alan rusbridger
Question: Brooks's dyak, Keast's tube-nosed and Sulawesi naked-backed are fruit bats native to which country, an archipelago of thousands of islands?
Answer: indonesia
Question: What is the surname of sisters Elinor, Margaret and Marianne in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility?
Answer: dashwood
Question: Two twentieth century Prime Ministers were Home Secretary before they were Premier. One was Winston Churchill. Who was the other?
Answer: james callaghan
Question: Three African countries have a shoreline on Lake Malawi - Tanzania, Malawi and which other?
Answer: mozambique
Question: Atomic Kitten's second Number One was Eternal Flame, a cover of the 1989 Number One by which band?
Answer: bangles
Question: Who joined the cast of East Enders last year playing Stan Carter?
Answer: timothy west
Question: In which county is Borstal which gave its name to a youth prison?
Answer: kent
Question: Who was the manager of 'The Sex Pistols'?
Answer: malcolm mclaren
Question: What is a computer called that controls access to a network, as well as acting as a file storage device?
Answer: server
Question: Castleford Rugby League team are known by the name of which animal?
Answer: tigers
Question: Which animal has the scientific name 'dama dama'?
Answer: fallow deer
Question: Which English city has districts called Manningham, Horton and Heaton?
Answer: bradford
Question: Who won the 2001 Turner Prize for his exhibit of empty gallery space with lights turned on and off?
Answer: martin creed
Question: In the Bible, how long was Jonah in the belly of the whale?
Answer: three days
Question: Who was pardoned 12 years after his execution for murders carried out by John Christie?
Answer: timothy evans
Question: Which film director fist applied the word 'Paparazzi' to persistent newsmen?
Answer: federico fellini
Question: Who was hanged for the murder of a policeman because his cry of "Let him have it" was ambiguous?
Answer: derek bentley
Question: Who won Best Actress 'Oscar' for the 1962 film "The Miracle Worker"?
Answer: anne bancroft
Question: Which Paris landmark has 282 steps, and was planned as a monument to the military success of Napoleon I?
Answer: arc de triomphe
Question: Which historical event is illustrated by the Victorian painting "And When Did You Last See Your Father"?
Answer: english civil war
Question: The 'Nimrod' used by the RAF for search and early warning purposes, was developed from which airliner?
Answer: de havilland comet
Question: Who co-presents BBC TV's "Home Front" with Diarmuid Gavin?
Answer: lawrence llewellyn bowen
Question: An excess of which acid in the body causes 'gout'?
Answer: uric acid
Question: Whose law states that "the volume of a gas varies in proportion to its (Kelvin) temperature at a constant pressure?
Answer: charles law
Question: Which animal has the scientific name 'Sciurus carolinensis'?
Answer: grey squirrel
Question: Which English city has districts named Belgrave, Stoneygate and Aylestone?
Answer: leicester
Question: Which car manufacturer produces a model called then 'Forester'?
Answer: subaru
Question: The 'Lancaster' bomber of World War II was developed from which other aircraft?
Answer: avro manchester
Question: The principle that "the volume of a given quantity of gas varies inversely with the pressure when the temperature is constant", is whose law?
Answer: boyle s law
Question: Who won Best Actor 'Oscar' for the 1963 film "Lilies Of The Field"?
Answer: sidney poitier
Question: In the Bible, who was asked to interpret the 'writing on the wall'?
Answer: daniel
Question: What is the architectural term for a carved screen behind an altar?
Answer: reredos
Question: Who succeeded Anne Robinson as presenter of BBC TV's "Watchdog"?
Answer: nicky campbell
Question: What breed of dog was Supreme Champion at Cruft's 2001?
Answer: basenji
Question: Which actor was Nicole Kidman's co-star in 'Moulin Rouge'?
Answer: ewan mcgregor
Question: Which group recorded the song 'It's A Sin', which was number one for three weeks in July 1987?
Answer: pet shop boys
Question: What was the nationality of the racing driver Mario Andretti, who was World Champion in 1978?
Answer: american
Question: Trowbridge, Marlborough and Warminster, are three towns in which English county?
Answer: wiltshire
Question: The 'Taka' is the currency of which Asian country?
Answer: bangladesh
Question: In which Australianis Philip Island, a tourist attraction for its Penguins?
Answer: victoria
Question: How is the common shrub Ligustrum more usually known?
Answer: privet
Question: The West Somerset Railway runs from Bishop's Lydeard towhere?
Answer: minehead
Question: Which popular name isused for Beethoven's symphony No. 6 in F Major?
Answer: pastoral
Question: Which German city isserved by 'Schkeuditz Airport'?
Answer: leipzig
Question: Which Seaseparates the islands of Corsica and Sicily from mainland Italy?
Answer: tyrrhenian sea
Question: What was the firstname of the character played by John Thaw in 'The Sweeney'?
Answer: jack
Question: The 'Nineteenth Amendment' to the US Constitution provided for which change, in August 1920?
Answer: votes for women
Question: Whitchurch, Ludlow,Bridgenorth and Market Drayton, are towns in which English county?
Answer: shropshire
Question: 'Billy Bigelow' is the name of the tragic hero in which film musical?
Answer: carousel
Question: The chemical element 'Lutetium' is named after which city?
Answer: paris
Question: 'Andean' and 'Californian' are the only two species of which bird?
Answer: condor
Question: What was the nationality of the racing driver Jody Scheckter, who was World Champion in 1979?
Answer: south african
Question: Who was the 27th US President, assuming power in 1909?
Answer: william howard taft
Question: Where on the night of November 12th 1940, was the Italian fleet attacked and badly damaged, whilst atanchor?
Answer: taranto
Question: Which 'Pet Shop Boys' song went to number one for two weeks in January 1988?
Answer: always on my mind
Question: The 'Thirteenth Amendment' to the US Constitution provided forwhich change in March 1865?
Answer: abolition of slavery
Question: The 'Kip' is the currency of which Far Eastern country?
Answer: laos
Question: Who played the title role in the 1945 film 'Mildred Pierce'?
Answer: joan crawford
Question: Whose portrait preceded those of both Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens on the back of a British £10 note?
Answer: florence nightingale
Question: The North Yorkshire Moorsrailway runs from Grosmont to where?
Answer: pickering
Question: What is the name of the stretch of water that separates Java and Sumatra?
Answer: sunda strait
Question: How is the common shrub Syringamore usually known?
Answer: lilac
Question: What was the first name of the character played by George Wendtin 'Cheers'?
Answer: norm
Question: Which actress played opposite Nicholas Cage in the film 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'?
Answer: penelope cruz
Question: In naval history, who was the captain of the ship, the 'Bonhomme Richard'?
Answer: john paul jones
Question: At which port was the French fleet scuttled in November 1942, to stop it falling into German hands?
Answer: toulon
Question: 'Olfactophobia' is the morbid fear of what?
Answer: smells
Question: The chemical element 'Gallium' is named after the Latinword 'Gallia', which is what European country?
Answer: france
Question: In the Beatles cartoon 'The Yellow Submarine', who were the 'baddies'?
Answer: blue meanies
Question: What was the name of the pirate ship captained by 'Blackbeard'?
Answer: queen anne s revenge
Question: From which French club did Liverpool sign John Arne Riise?
Answer: monaco
Question: Which German composer's only opera was 'Fidelio'?
Answer: beethoven
Question: Which musical is based on 'The Taming Of The Shrew'?
Answer: kiss me kate
Question: What is the more common name for the minor medical complaint 'Epistaxis'?
Answer: nosebleed
Question: Which English explorer died off the coast of Canada in 1611 after being cast adrift by his mutinous crew?
Answer: henry hudson
Question: Starring Johnny Depp, which was the highest grossing film worldwide in 2007?
Answer: pirates of caribbean at world s end
Question: Which British explorer was buried on South Georgia Island in the Atlantic Ocean upon his death in 1922?
Answer: ernest shackleton
Question: What is the more common name of the medical condition 'Otalgia'?
Answer: earache
Question: Which South American country became landlocked after 'The War of the Pacific' in 1884?
Answer: bolivia
Question: Found in South East Asia, which is the world's smallest member of the bear family?
Answer: sun bear
Question: Against which Sout American country was Bolivia fighting during 'The War of the Pacific'?
Answer: chile
Question: Which tea growing region in India has a name meaning 'Land of the Thunderbolt' in Hindi?
Answer: darjeeling
Question: Originating in South America, which is the world's smallest breed of horse?
Answer: falabella
Question: Which Australian Prime Minister went missing while swimming in 1967?
Answer: harold holt
Question: What is the name of the alcoholic, chain-smoking robot in the television series 'Futurama'?
Answer: bender
Question: In July 1989, which former Celtic footballer became the first high-profile Roman Catholic Scotsman to sign for Rangers in 100 years?
Answer: maurice mo johnston
Question: What is the name of the 'Griffin' family's witty, talkingdog in the television series 'Family Guy'?
Answer: brian
Question: In September 1989,which Anglo-Irish footballer became the first non-Basque player to sign for Real Sociedad?
Answer: john aldridge
Question: Which Australian Prime Minister was dismissed by the Governor-General in 1975?
Answer: gough whitlam
Question: Evelyn Waugh's novel 'Black Mischief' was a satirical description of which 20th century Emperor?
Answer: haile selassie
Question: In which African country does the majority of the Kalahari Desert lie?
Answer: botswana
Question: Often seen in school science labs, what name is given to an electrostatic machine which uses a moving belt to accumulate very high voltages on a hollow metal globe?
Answer: van der graff generator
Question: In which American state is the majority of Yellowstone National Park?
Answer: wyoming
Question: Commonly used in the textiles industry, which unit of thermal resistance is used to measure the thickness of duvets?
Answer: tog
Question: Somerset Maugham's novel 'The Moon And Sixpence' is basedon the life of which painter?
Answer: paul gaugin
Question: With 64 tries, who is Australia's all-time Rugby Union test try scorer?
Answer: david campese
Question: Which Englishman led the 'Pilgrimage of Grace' in 1536?
Answer: robert aske
Question: With 38 tries, who is France's all-time Rugby Union Testtry scorer?
Answer: serge blanco
Question: On which planet is NASA's 'Phoenix' spacecraft due to land later this month?
Answer: mars
Question: In Norse mythology, what was the name of the 'rainbow bridge'that connected earth with 'Asgard'?
Answer: bifrost
Question: Which chemical element takes its name from the Swedish for'heavy stone'?
Answer: tungsten
Question: In which American state does the McDonald's fast food chain have its headquarters?
Answer: illinois
Question: Which American criminal was shot and killed by the FBI in 1934 after being betrayed by 'The Lady In Red'?
Answer: john dillinger
Question: Which American dancer died in 1927 after her scarf became caught in a car's wheel spokes?
Answer: isadora duncan
Question: Which English 'Indie' rock group had a top ten hit in April 2008 with 'Always Where I Need To Be'?
Answer: kooks
Question: What is the name of the heritage railway line that runs fornine miles along the border of East and West Sussex?
Answer: bluebell line
Question: Which actor and director was elected mayor of the Californian town Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1986?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: Three Brazilians have won the Formula One World Championship : Emerson Fittipaldi, Ayrton Sennaand which other?
Answer: nelson piquet
Question: What is the name of the pre-Roman ancient road that runs from Wallingford in Oxfordshire to Knettishall Heath in Norfolk?
Answer: icknield way
Question: Which television personality was elected the mayor of Cincinnati in 1977?
Answer: jerry springer
Question: Who was the 17th century English poet and Member of Parliament, who is best remembered for his poem entitled 'To His Coy Mistress'?
Answer: andrew marvell
Question: The chemical elements Erbium, Terbium, Ytterbium and Yttrum areall named after a village in which European country?
Answer: sweden
Question: Which Australian batsman scored a then world record 380 runs ina Test Match against Zimbabwe in 2003?
Answer: matthew hayden
Question: 'Just For Laughs' is afamous televised comedy festival held annually in which Canadian city?
Answer: montreal
Question: Which French painter famously designed a garden at his home in Giverny, in which he created many of his most famous paintings?
Answer: claude monet
Question: Located beneath 'Roald Dahl Plass', what is the name given to the team's headquarters in 'Torchwood'?
Answer: hub
Question: Against which country did England fight 'The War of Jenkins' Ear'?
Answer: spain
Question: Which Northampton-born actor will replace David Tennant as the eleventh 'Dr. Who', in 2010?
Answer: matt smith
Question: What is the name of the yoghurt-based did made with Cucumbers, Garlic, Salt, Olive Oil and Pepper, that is used in Greek cuisine?
Answer: tzatziki
Question: The Giralda Tower and the Alcazar Palace are famous landmarks in which Spanish city?
Answer: seville
Question: Based on a true story, which 2008 film starred Angelina Jolie as a woman who is reunited with a missing son, only to realise he is an imposter?
Answer: changeling
Question: Which Frank Kafka novel tells the story of a seventeen- year-old European emigrant named 'Karl Rossmann'?
Answer: amerika
Question: Which Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn novel tells the story of a group of patients in an Uzbekistani hospital?
Answer: cancer ward
Question: Elected in 2006, who is the current Prime Minister of Canada?
Answer: stephen harper
Question: Which is the sixth book of the 'Old Testament'?
Answer: book of joshua
Question: What is the name of the squirrel who carries messages up and down 'Yggdrasil', the world tree of Norse mythology?
Answer: ratatosk
Question: Although they are best known for their only number one hit, 'Mr. Raffles' and 'Here Comes The Sun' were other chart singles for which '70's group?
Answer: steve harley cockney rebel
Question: What is the name of the dragon who gnaws at the roots of 'Yggrasil', the world tree of Norse mythology?
Answer: nidhogg
Question: Based on a mythological tale, which 1689 opera by Henry Purcell is considered by many to be the first English-language operatic masterpiece?
Answer: dido and aeneas