CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which funambulist was the first to cross Niagara Falls?
Answer: charles blondin
Question: Which Irish writer married an ex-chambermaid called Nora Barnacle?
Answer: james joyce
Question: Who was the lead singer with the group Amen Corner?
Answer: andy fairweather low
Question: Daisy Hawkins was a working title of which Beatles song?
Answer: eleanor rigby
Question: Whom did Barack Obama defeat in the 2008 US Presidential election?
Answer: john mccain
Question: Who was Obama's running mate in the 2008 US Presidential election?
Answer: joe biden
Question: Araucaria, Shed and Paul are names connected with which pastime?
Answer: crosswords
Question: Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2009?
Answer: slumdog millionaire
Question: In which town or city is the University of Abertay?
Answer: dundee
Question: Who was replaced in 2008 by Rachel Riley?
Answer: carol vorderman
Question: What name is given to scoring a single, double and treble of the same number in three darts?
Answer: shanghai
Question: Nitro-hydrochloric acid was traditionally called what?
Answer: aqua regia
Question: Which Poet Laureate lived at Dove Cottage?
Answer: william wordsworth
Question: Which American vocal group was made up of Tim Hauser, Laurel Masse, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel?
Answer: manhattan transfer
Question: John Bercow, speaker of the House of Commons is MP for which constituency?
Answer: buckingham
Question: The Bay of Fundy lies off the eastern coast of which country?
Answer: canada
Question: What was the name of the last surviving "Tommy", from World War I, who died in 2009, aged 111?
Answer: harry patch
Question: Complete the name of the Caribbean island group, "Antigua and ..."
Answer: barbuda
Question: What was the name of the horse that highwayman, Dick Turpin, was reputed to have ridden?
Answer: black bess
Question: The family seat of which English Duke is at Bradley House in Wiltshire, with a secondary estate at Berry Pomeroy in Totnes?
Answer: duke of somerset
Question: Whereabouts in Scotland, is the ancestral home of the Duke of Argyll?
Answer: inverary castle
Question: """Lark Rise to Candleford"" is a popular BBC TV series. Which authoress wrote the books on which it is based?"
Answer: flora thompson
Question: Which Championship football league team is based at the Keepmoat Stadium?
Answer: doncaster rovers
Question: Complete the name of the Caribbean island group, "St Vincent and..."
Answer: grenadines
Question: In Japanese cooking, what kind of food is Nori?
Answer: seaweed
Question: Which book of the Bible recounts Paul's missionary travels?
Answer: acts of apostles
Question: In hich constellation can the star Antares be found?
Answer: scorpius
Question: Which position is currently held by Liam Donaldson?
Answer: chief medical officer of england
Question: Which British group was formed in the late 1980's by ex-members of The Housemartins, Paul Heaton and David Hemingway?
Answer: beautiful south
Question: In Gustav Holst's work "The Planets Suite" which planet is termed "The Mystic"?
Answer: neptune
Question: Millport, home to the smallest cathedral in the British Isles, is the main community on which island, in the Firth of Clyde?
Answer: great cumbrae
Question: Russell Harty was an English teacher and Richard Whiteley his pupil at which public school?
Answer: giggleswick
Question: Tavel and Hermitage wines are produced in which French wine growing area?
Answer: rhone valley
Question: In which western town, in South Dakota, did Jack McCall shoot and kill Wild Bill Hickok in 1876?
Answer: deadwood
Question: As what is an anti-pruritic drug used to act against?
Answer: itching
Question: In 2009, who became only the second woman to train a Grand National winning horse?
Answer: venetia williams
Question: Which Dutch Renaissance artist painted "The Hunters in the Snow", in 1565?
Answer: peter bruegel
Question: Captain Dobbin and Amelia Sedley are characters from which 19th century novel?
Answer: vanity fair
Question: England's highest sea cliff, Great Hangman, is in which county?
Answer: devon
Question: Which big band leader used, as his signature tune, "One O'clock Jump"?
Answer: count basie
Question: Who is the male star of the 2009 film, "The Invention of Lying"?
Answer: ricky gervais
Question: In which city, then in Poland, but now in Belarus, did Germany and Russia sign a peace treaty in 1918?
Answer: brest litovsk
Question: In a railway carriage near which city in Northern France did the allies and the Germans sign the Armistice which ended WWI?
Answer: compiegne
Question: """Somebody Stole My Gal"", was the theme tune of which band leader?"
Answer: billy cotton
Question: Leith Hill is the highest point in which county in Southern England?
Answer: surrey
Question: The characters, General Woundwart and Hazel , appear in which 20th century literary work?
Answer: watership down
Question: Which French neoclassical artist painted "The Death of Marat" in 1793?
Answer: jacques louis david
Question: In the TV series "The Vicar of Dibley" who played the role of the verger, Alice Tinker?
Answer: emma chambers
Question: Who, in 1882 shot and killed Jesse James in St Joseph, Missouri?
Answer: robert ford
Question: Vouvray and Sancerre wines come from which wine region of France?
Answer: loire valley
Question: Which boarding school, near Tunbridge Wells, was attended by both Princess Anne, and the actress Rachel Weisz?
Answer: benenden
Question: The port of Ullapool, in the Scottish highlands, lies on which loch?
Answer: loch broom
Question: In Gustav Hoist's work, "The Planet Suite", which planet is known as "The Magician"?
Answer: uranus
Question: Who is the American financier, who is nicknamed "The Sage of Omaha"?
Answer: warren buffet
Question: In the stories by Michael Bond, which family finds Paddington Bear, and adopts him?
Answer: browns
Question: """Mama, just killed a man"", is the opening line of which hit song by Queen?"
Answer: bohemian rhapsody
Question: Who is the writer and star of the BBC TV comedy series, "Not Going Out"?
Answer: lee mack
Question: In 1967, the Republic of Biafra declared independence from which country?
Answer: nigeria
Question: Which instrument is used to examine the interior of the human eye?
Answer: ophthalmoscope
Question: Who is the only African footballer, to have won the FIFA World Player of the Year award?
Answer: george weah
Question: Which former college of the University of London became independent in July 2007?
Answer: imperial college
Question: Colonel Nicholson is one of the main characters in which famous 1957 war film?
Answer: bridge on river kwai
Question: What is the better known name of St Sylvester's Day?
Answer: new year s eve
Question: In which month of the year is Walpurgis Night celebrated in Europe and Scandinavia?
Answer: april
Question: What is the name of the convict in Charles Dickens novel, "Great Expectations"?
Answer: magwitch
Question: Which composer, born in Pesaro, in Italy, in 1792, was known by the nickname, Monsieur Crescendo?
Answer: rossini
Question: At which sport did Theodore "Ted" Kennedy, who died aged 83 in 2009, play fourteen seasons for the Toronto Maple Leafs?
Answer: ice hockey
Question: In which town is the Devonshire Royal Hospital, now the Devonshire campus of the University of Derby?
Answer: buxton
Question: In 1967, French Somaliland became the French Territory of the Afars and Issas. To what did the country change its name on gaining independence in 1977?
Answer: djibouti
Question: Which musician and actor played the part of Wayne Norris in the TV series, "Auf Wiedersehen Pet"?
Answer: gary holton
Question: In the hit record "Bohemian Rhapsody", by Queen, who is asked to do the fandango?
Answer: scaramouche
Question: With which antique dealer did Paddington Bear have his elevenses each day?
Answer: mr gruber
Question: Which Canadian singer was born, Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943?
Answer: joni mitchell
Question: Which actress played the title role of Sylvia Broome on the 2005 'The Interpreter'?
Answer: nicole kidman
Question: What was the family name of the Italian artist, Michelangelo?
Answer: buonarotti
Question: Who was Lord Admiral of the English Fleet at the time of the Spanish Armada, Sir Francis Drake being his second in command?
Answer: lord howard of effingham
Question: Who became the first President of the newly formed Republic of Tanzania in 1964, a position he held until his retirement in 1985?
Answer: julius nyerere
Question: In the TV comedy 'Last of the Summer Wine', what is the name of Nora Batty's husband?
Answer: wally
Question: In classical mythology, of what was Plutus, (not to be confused with Pluto), the God?
Answer: wealth
Question: In 2009, Yas Marina was the circuit for which country's first ever Formula One motor race?
Answer: abu dhabi
Question: Which 19th century classical composer had the Christian name of Bedrich?
Answer: smetana
Question: Who was the Greek God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, his Roman equivalent being Bacchus?
Answer: dionysus
Question: To travel from Manhattan to new Jersey, one may ride the PATH train. For what does the H in PATH stand?
Answer: hudson
Question: FRELIMO was a political organisation that fought for independence from European rule in which African country?
Answer: mozambique
Question: Who wrote the poem, "In Memoriam", which contains the lines, "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all"?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: Which admiral was executed in 1759, for "failing to do his utmost", during the Battle of Minorca?
Answer: admiral john byng
Question: Who chaired the convention, which was established by the European Council in December 2001, to produce a draft Constitution for the European Union?
Answer: valery giscard d estaing
Question: Which 1962 film, starring Robert Mitchum in the role of Max Cady, was remade in 1991, with the part being played by Robert de Nero?
Answer: cape fear
Question: What is the name of the main thoroughfare in Barcelona, which runs from the Placa de Catalunya to the sea?
Answer: las ramblas
Question: Who eventually broke Bob Beamon's 23 year-old long jump record, in 1991?
Answer: mike powell
Question: From 559 BC until 530 BC, Cyrus the Great was the leader of which ancient empire?
Answer: persia
Question: Which actor played the roles of Fagin in the 1948 version of Oliver Twist, and King Charles I in the 1970 film, "Cromwell"?
Answer: alec guinness
Question: Which group had a hit record in 1967 with the tune, "A Whiter Shade of Pale"?
Answer: procol harum
Question: The name of which metallic, chemical, element is derived from the German word for goblin?
Answer: cobalt
Question: Who was twice French Minister of the Interior? First between May 2002 and March 2004, and then between May 2005 and March 2007?
Answer: nicolas sarkozy
Question: In the Bible, where did Jesus perform his miracle of turning water into wine?
Answer: cana
Question: What is the name of the new racecourse, opened in June 2009, about five miles north of Llanelli?
Answer: ffos las
Question: Who was Britain's longest serving Prime Minister, holding office from 1812-27?
Answer: lord liverpool
Question: Which title was given to the series of books by Roger Hargreaves, which featured the female counterparts of the Mr Men?
Answer: little miss books
Question: Which city is the capital of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan?
Answer: peshawar
Question: Who, in 1936, said, "Guns will make us powerful. Butter will only make us fat"?
Answer: hermann goering
Question: Which British Prime Minister died in office in 1827, just 199 days after assuming the title? His is the shortest term of office of any British P.M.
Answer: george canning
Question: The title of which Verdi opera translates as, "The Fallen Woman"?
Answer: la traviata
Question: Which politician held the post of Mayor of Paris from March 1977 until May 1995?
Answer: jacques chirac
Question: In Roman times, where was the metallic element Copper chiefly mined, giving rise to its present name?
Answer: cyprus
Question: """Go Now"", in 1964, is the only No 1 U.K. hit record for which famous group?"
Answer: moody blues
Question: Which actor played the roles of Lord Nelson in the 1941 film, "That Hamilton Woman", and Heathcliff in the 1939 version of "Wuthering Heights"?
Answer: laurence olivier
Question: The explorer and navigator, Christopher Columbus, was born around 1451, in which city?
Answer: genoa
Question: Featured on a British commemorative stamp in October 2009, Judy Fryd formed the Association of Parents of Backward Children in 1946. As what is it now known?
Answer: mencap
Question: What is the more common name for gypsum cement?
Answer: plaster of paris
Question: Which long running TV series was introduced by a piece of music, entitled, "The Funeral March of a Marionette", by Gounod?
Answer: alfred hitchcock presents
Question: Hedley Verity was an international star in which sport, during the 1930's?
Answer: cricket
Question: Which single malt Scotch whisky is handcrafted by, "The Sixteen Men of Tame?
Answer: glenmorangie
Question: What was the first forename of the infamous, French revolutionary leader Robespierre?
Answer: maximilien
Question: On 7th August 2008, which region was invaded by Georgian troops, prompting Russian retaliation?
Answer: south ossetia
Question: In the TV series, "Rumpole of the Bailey", what was the name of Rumpole's wife?
Answer: hilda
Question: Derived from the Greek word "erythros", which colour does the prefix erythro describe?
Answer: red
Question: Derived from the Greek word, "xanthos, which colour does the prefix xantho describe?
Answer: yellow
Question: Which agreement, signed by ten members of the European Community, removed border controls between them?
Answer: schengen agreement
Question: In the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Speckled Band", what is the speckled band?
Answer: snake
Question: Which actress plays the role of Christine Collins, the unfortunate mother in the 2008 film, "Changeling"?
Answer: angelina jolie
Question: At which sport was Martine Le Moignan a leading exponent, in the 1980's and early 90's?
Answer: squash
Question: Goitre, or enlarged thyroid gland, is caused by a deficiency of which trace element in the human body?
Answer: iodine
Question: What is the chemical name for the substance known as heavy water?
Answer: deuterium oxide
Question: What was the title of the last Rolling Stones record to top the U.K. charts, doing so in July 1969?
Answer: honky tonk women
Question: Featured on a British commemorative stamp in 2009, which woman writer and feminist philosopher, wrote, in 1792, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"?
Answer: mary wollstonecraft
Question: Who beat Walter Mondale in the U.S. Presidential election in 1984?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Batavia was the former name, up until 1942, of which Asian city?
Answer: jakarta
Question: Ilex aquifolium is the botanical name for which tree?
Answer: common holly
Question: In opera 'The Marriage of Figaro' who does Figaro marry?
Answer: susanna
Question: Who, in the Old Testament, was born at Gath one of the 'five cities of the plains'?
Answer: goliath
Question: From which language do we get the words dinghy, shampoo and dungarees?
Answer: hindi
Question: Who was the Commander of the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: george meade
Question: Striding Edge is a ridge leading to which Lakeland mountain?
Answer: helvellyn
Question: Gaius Octavius (Octavian) is better known as which Roman Emperor?
Answer: augustus
Question: Which British territory was captured by the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941?
Answer: hong kong
Question: The Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanica was better known by which nickname?
Answer: caligula
Question: In naval warfare for what is a paravane used for?
Answer: mine sweeping
Question: Who was the original quizmaster of the TV series 'They Think It's All Over'?
Answer: nick hancock
Question: Which of the United States is known as the Wolverine State'?
Answer: michigan
Question: The Guiness brewery now specialises in producing stout, but which other traditional dark beer, weaker in alcohol, was also originally brewed there?
Answer: porter
Question: Who was the original quizmaster of the TV series 'A Question of Sport'?
Answer: david vine
Question: Which of the United States is known as the 'Badger State'?
Answer: wisconsin
Question: In Greek myth into what was Daphne turned whilst being pursued by Apollo?
Answer: laurel tree
Question: Which poet, killed in World War One, wrote the poems 'Adlestrop' and 'Celandine?
Answer: edward thomas
Question: Who was the last Prime Minister of the Great Britain to sit as Prime Minister in the House of Lords?
Answer: marquess of salisbury
Question: Which poet, who died during World War One, wrote the poems 'Peace' and 'Tiare Tahiti'?
Answer: rupert brooke
Question: In Greek myth who was the beautiful youth, loved by Aphrodite and killed by a boar?
Answer: adonis
Question: Who is the only man to have won the US Open singles tennis title on three different surfaces (grass, clay, and hardcourt)?
Answer: jimmy connors
Question: Whose was the shortest British premiership of the twentieth century?
Answer: andrew bonar law
Question: Who, in 1632, painted 'The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp'?
Answer: rembrandt
Question: Who had the catchphrase 'Can you hear me mother'?
Answer: sandy powell
Question: As what were Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder known in the title of a 1968 film?
Answer: producers
Question: The Braemar Gathering is the most famous event of what type?
Answer: highland games
Question: What name is given to the part of a flag nearest the flag pole?
Answer: hoist
Question: What was the name of the record label founded by Frank Sinatra in 1960?
Answer: reprise
Question: During the nineteenth century what name was given to Indian soldiers serving under British command?
Answer: sepoys
Question: From 1901-1903, Edmund Barton was the first Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: australia
Question: The 'Road to the Isles' runs from Fort William to which port?
Answer: mallaig
Question: In which country were the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed in 2001?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: What was the name of the Cartwright's ranch in the TV western `Bonanza'?
Answer: ponderosa
Question: What sport was played by the legendary character Rudolph Wanderone, better known as Minnesota Fats?
Answer: pool
Question: Who was acting leader of the Lib Dems after the resignation of Sir Menzies Campbell?
Answer: vince cable
Question: Which composer (1874 - 1951) first used the Dodecaphonic Scale in his later works?
Answer: arnold schoenberg
Question: Who wrote the Jimi Hendrix hit 'All Along the Watchtower'?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: Nicknamed the 'King of Soho' his publications included Mayfair and Razzle magazines, he died in March 2008, by what name was he known?
Answer: paul raymond
Question: In which battle did the 'Thin Red Line' feature?
Answer: balaclava
Question: On which Shakespeare play is the musical 'The Boys From Syracuse' based?
Answer: comedy of errors
Question: Which old British coin was known as a 'tester'?
Answer: sixpence
Question: What name was given to small balls used as a charge in a cannon that scattered when fired?
Answer: grapeshot
Question: What is the fruit of the plant ananas comosus?
Answer: pineapple
Question: The exotic flower strelitzia is also known by which more common name?
Answer: bird of paradise
Question: Who composed the 1912 ballet 'Daphnis et Chloe'?
Answer: ravel
Question: What was the surname of the British father and son who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1915?
Answer: bragg
Question: Norman Cook, known as Fat Boy Slim, began his music career as a member of which chart-topping group?
Answer: housemartins
Question: Which authoress (1890-1969), surname Lamburn, was born in Bury?
Answer: richmal crompton
Question: What is the name of the organic food company founded by Prince Charles?
Answer: duchy originals
Question: Which 1985 agreement between many EC states led to the removal of border controls between those countries?
Answer: schengen
Question: The song 'O Fortuna' is to be found in which Carl Orff musical work?
Answer: carmina burana
Question: The Nazi regime was Germany's Third Reich, which was the First Reich?
Answer: holy roman empire
Question: Sisters Kate and Bianca appear in which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: From 1956 until his death in 2008 in which country did Arthur C Clarke live?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: Which film saw Sean Connery's last portrayal of James Bond?
Answer: never say never again
Question: In which country does the factual series Ice Road Truckers take place?
Answer: canada
Question: Which famous mountain is known as the Six Grandfathers to the Lakota Sioux Indians?
Answer: mount rushmore
Question: Who was Britain's youngest Olympian at the 2008 games?
Answer: tom daley
Question: By what name is the Music of Black Origin Awards better known?
Answer: mobo awards
Question: Defeat at which battle caused the French to leave Vietnam in the 1960's?
Answer: dien bien phu
Question: Where in England beside Liverpool would you find a regional Tate Gallery?
Answer: st ives
Question: What is the name for the "Code of Living" followed by the Samurai?
Answer: bushido
Question: Who made his last film appearance in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets?
Answer: richard harris
Question: Which famous US actor made his last film appearance in the film Solyent Green?
Answer: edward g robinson
Question: Which stretch of water runs around Iran, Oman and The United Arab Emirates?
Answer: straits of hormuz
Question: Which man other than Billy McNeill and Martin O'Neil has managed both Aston Villa and Celtic?
Answer: dr josef venglos
Question: Which ancient structure ran from Old Kirkpatrick, Dumbartonshire to Bo'ness Falkirk?
Answer: antonine wall
Question: In 1995 Dave Grohl formed which pop band?
Answer: foo fighters
Question: Who is the only 20th century president to be carved onto Mount Rushmore?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: In which English city would you find a district called Portishead?
Answer: bristol
Question: St Catherine's Point is the most southerly tip of which British island?
Answer: isle of wight
Question: Dundee cake is a rich fruit cake with which traditional topping?
Answer: almonds
Question: In The Lord of the Rings trilogy to where did Frodo have to return the ring?
Answer: fires of mount
Question: Where did Thomas Cook organise his first package holiday to go to?
Answer: loughborough
Question: In most parts of the world castrated bulls are called bullocks what are they called in USA?
Answer: steers
Question: In 1979, Trevor Francis became the first footballer to be transferred for a fee of £1 million, when he moved from Birmingham City to which club?
Answer: nottingham forest
Question: In the Dickens novel, "The Pickwick Papers", who sued Mr Pickwick for breach of promise?
Answer: mrs bardell
Question: Nadezhda von Meck was the patron of which great composer, and to whom he dedicated his fourth symphony?
Answer: tchaikovsky
Question: Which English Renaissance dramatist and poet wrote the 17th century play, "Volpone"?
Answer: ben jonson
Question: Which political commentator and writer published a controversial biography of Prince Charles in 1995, much of it concerning the collapse of his marriage to Princess Diana?
Answer: jonathan dimbleby
Question: Which nickname was given to the American WWII general, George Patton?
Answer: blood and guts
Question: In which BBC magazine style TV programme do John Craven, Julia Bradbury and Matt Baker take part?
Answer: countryfile
Question: Who has taken over the TV role of Doctor Who, from actor David Tennant?
Answer: matt smith
Question: Who conducted the famous Panorama interview with Princess Diana in 1995?
Answer: martin bashir
Question: Which Kent batsman has the same surname as a two-syllable point of the compass?
Answer: sam northeast
Question: In which modern day country is the site of the 1704 Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: germany
Question: What is the profession of Ricky Gervais character, Bertram Pinkus, in the 2008 film, "Ghost Town"?
Answer: dentist
Question: Which English novelist and poet, wrote the 19th century novel, "The Woodlanders"?
Answer: thomas hardy