CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: By what name is the medicine consisting of a suspension of magnesium hydroxide in water called?
Answer: milk of magnesia
Question: What was the profession of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
Answer: architect
Question: Which area of the USA is generally accepted to be north of the Ohio River, west of Lake Eyre and east of the Great Plains?
Answer: midwest
Question: Which genus of plants includes "busy lizzie" and "touch-me- not"?
Answer: impatiens
Question: Which bird is also called the peewit or green plover?
Answer: lapwing
Question: Who was Hitler's personal secretary who was sentenced to death in absentia at Nuremberg?
Answer: martin bormann
Question: Which river passes through Tonbridge, Maidstone, Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham?
Answer: river medway
Question: Which American actor starred in the films Bullitt, Papillon and The Great Escape?
Answer: steve mcqueen
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the goddess of the moon, sometimes identified as Artemis?
Answer: selene
Question: In the celestial hierarchy, what is the highest order of angels?
Answer: seraphim
Question: Which French writer published the collection of fairy tales `Contes de ma mere l'Oye', better known as Mother Goose?
Answer: charles perrault
Question: In which sea can the island group known as the Sporades be found?
Answer: aegean
Question: To which genus of plants do "Sweet William" and "Carnations" belong?
Answer: dianthus
Question: Which American author wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winner 'A Death in the Family?
Answer: james agee
Question: Which of the Gospels records the Sermon on the Mount including the Beatitudes and the Lords' Prayer?
Answer: matthew
Question: Which British artist painted a portrait of Winston Churchill that was destroyed on the instructions of Lady Churchill?
Answer: graham sutherland
Question: What name is given to the southern landmass formed by the splitting of a single world continent over 200 million years ago?
Answer: gondwanaland
Question: In which country would you find Chobe National Wildlife Park?
Answer: botswana
Question: What was the real name of 'The Birdman of Alcatraz'?
Answer: robert stroud
Question: Polygamy is the state of having more than one wife but what word describes the state of having more than one husband?
Answer: polyandry
Question: Which pop group of the 60's and 70's released albums entitled `Days of Future Passed' and 'A Question of Balance'?
Answer: moody blues
Question: What name is given to the Northernmost belt of coniferous forest stretching from Scandinavia to Siberia?
Answer: taiga
Question: Who was the last British tennis player to win the men's singles at Wimbledon?
Answer: fred perry
Question: Which English novelist wrote 'The Rachel Papers' and 'Money'?
Answer: martin amis
Question: Which US inventor designed the Clermont, one of the earliest steamships?
Answer: robert fulton
Question: Which infectious viral disease of domestic poultry is also called Newcastle disease?
Answer: fowl pest
Question: Ellen Douglas is the heroine of which poem by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: lady of lake
Question: To which family of birds does the chiff-chaff belong?
Answer: warbler
Question: Television: Which American police series of the 1960s starred Broderick Crawford?
Answer: highway patrol
Question: In which American state are the cities of Bethlehem, Allentown and Pittsburgh?
Answer: pennsylvania
Question: What was the name of the dog on the HMV record labels?
Answer: nipper
Question: Which British singer was the second wife of actor Roger Moore?
Answer: dorothy squires
Question: In the television sitcom "Hi-de-Hi", which actor played Ted Bovis?
Answer: paul shane
Question: Who led the unsuccessful uprising against Henry VII in 1497? He was hanged in 1499?
Answer: perkin warbeck
Question: Who was the first gymnast to score a perfect ten in modern Olympic competition?
Answer: nadia comaneci
Question: Of which American city was Richard Daley the mayor from 1955 to 1976?
Answer: chicago
Question: Television: in 2011, who returned to present Gardeners World, having previously presented the programme from 2003 to 2008?
Answer: monty don
Question: Which treaty of 1929 established the Vatican City as an independent sovereign state?
Answer: lateran treaty
Question: In the Christian religion, how many traditional stations of the cross are there?
Answer: fourteen
Question: Derived from Latin, what is the name of the pole used to propel and steer a punt?
Answer: quant
Question: On which lake was Sir Donald Campbell killed in 1967 while attempting to break the World water-speed record?
Answer: coniston water
Question: In July 1946, which hotel in Jerusalem was bombed by Jewish terrorists because it was the HQ of the British administration?
Answer: king david hotel
Question: Who was the first non-American golfer to win the US Masters?
Answer: gary player
Question: Which comedian's catchphrase was "Can you hear me, Mother?"?
Answer: sandy powell
Question: The phrase "There's a sucker born every minute" is generally attributed to which US showman (1810-1891)?
Answer: p t barnum
Question: What type of meat is the main ingredient of traditional Wiener Schnitzel?
Answer: veal
Question: Which king was on the throne in 1381 when Wat Tyler led the Peasants Revolt?
Answer: richard ii
Question: Who wrote the poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus" in 1842?
Answer: henry wadsworth longfellow
Question: Television: which British police series of the 1960s starred Raymond Francis as Chief Superintendent Lockhart?
Answer: no hiding place
Question: Who was the only World Heavyweight Boxing Champion to finish his career undefeated when he retired in 1956?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: What was the name of the dog which found the football World Cup, the Jules Rimet Trophy, in 1966?
Answer: pickles
Question: Which British actress was married to Sir Laurence Olivier at the time of his death?
Answer: joan plowright
Question: In which American state are the cities of Dayton, Akron and Cincinnati?
Answer: ohio
Question: What are the metal discs on a tambourine called?
Answer: jingles
Question: In the Spanish Civil War, what name was given to the band of volunteers from 53 nations who fought against Franco between 1936 and 1939?
Answer: international brigade
Question: In the famous Headingley test match in 1981, which English bowler took 8 wickets for 43 runs against Australia?
Answer: bob willis
Question: Which comedian's catchphrase was "I won't take me coat off, I'm not stopping"?
Answer: ken platt
Question: Which treaty of 1713 ended the War of Spanish Succession and ceded Gibraltar to Britain?
Answer: treaty of utrecht
Question: In the Muslim religion, how many times a day does the muezzin call the faithful to prayer?
Answer: five
Question: Who broke the World land-speed record in 1939 at Bonneville Flats in his "Railton Special"?
Answer: john cobb
Question: In the Bible, who had sons called Ham, Shem and Japheth?
Answer: noah
Question: Who wrote the novel "The Painted Veil"?
Answer: somerset maugham
Question: Which spirit is used as the base for a Sea Breeze cocktail?
Answer: vodka
Question: Velma Kelly and Billy Flynn are two of the leading characters in which 2002 musical?
Answer: chicago
Question: Which country is bordered by Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia?
Answer: kenya
Question: Which British playwright wrote "Stags and Hens"?
Answer: willy russell
Question: Who had a 1978 hit with "Love is in the Air"?
Answer: john paul young
Question: Which pop group comprised David van Day and Thereza Bazar?
Answer: dollar
Question: Which Scottish island is separated from the mainland by the Firth of Lorn(e)?
Answer: mull
Question: Snow, Bean, White-fronted, and Pink-footed are species of which bird?
Answer: goose
Question: Slieve Donard is the highest summit in which Irish mountain range?
Answer: mountains of mourne
Question: What was the name of the sister ship to the Titanic, nicknamed The Old Reliable'?
Answer: rms olympic
Question: Who wrote and directed the 2003 film "Love Actually"?
Answer: richard curtis
Question: What type of food is a Berliner Pfannkuchen?
Answer: doughnut
Question: The 'Free Officers Movement' took control of which country in a 1952 coup?
Answer: egypt
Question: Who beat Andy Murray in the final of the Australian Open in January 2011?
Answer: novak djokovic
Question: Who was the female assistant referee criticised by Andy Gray and Richard Keys, leading to both men's departure from Sky TV?
Answer: sian massey
Question: The Canadian province of Manitoba has a north east border with which body of water?
Answer: hudson bay
Question: Which Scottish island is separated from the mainland by Kilbrannan Sound?
Answer: arran
Question: How is the chemical sodium thiosuiphate, used as a fixer in photography, better known?
Answer: hypo
Question: In the USA, motor neurone disease is often named after which baseball player?
Answer: lou gehrig
Question: Odense and Aarhus are major cities in which European country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which straits separate Corsica and Sardinia?
Answer: straits of bonifacio
Question: Which human rights group appointed Sharmishta (Shami) Chakrabati as director in 2003?
Answer: liberty
Question: Which internet service was set up by David Filo and Jerry Yang in 1994?
Answer: yahoo
Question: """Bound for Glory"" is the 1943 autobiography of which singer-songwriter?"
Answer: woody guthrie
Question: Lugnaquilla is the highest summit in which Irish mountain range?
Answer: wicklow mountains
Question: In the Sudanese wars, which British general was killed at Khartoum?
Answer: charles george gordon
Question: Which Italian city is the capital of the region Emilia-Romagna?
Answer: bologna
Question: The journalist Polly Toynbee writes for which national newspaper?
Answer: guardian
Question: Which US actor, who appeared in the film "The 40 year old Virgin", also played the lead role in the US version of "The Office"?
Answer: steve carell
Question: What name is given to a Papal legate or ambassador to a civil government?
Answer: nuncio
Question: What was Cliff Richard's first UK number one single in 1959?
Answer: living doll
Question: What term is given to the moon when it is between half and full?
Answer: gibbous
Question: Which company built the USA's first turbojet-powered combat aircraft, the P-80 Shooting Star, which entered service in 1945?
Answer: lockheed
Question: In the French original of 'Magic Roundabout, the character Pollux had a sweet tooth, what name did the character have in the English version?
Answer: dougal
Question: Ramon Mercader assassinated which C20th leader?
Answer: leon trotsky
Question: Who has written a series of books featuring the character Jack Reacher?
Answer: lee child
Question: In 1942, which American painted 'Nighthawks'?
Answer: edward hopper
Question: In Greek mythology who fell from Pegasus as he attempted to fly to Mount Olympus, the realm of the gods?
Answer: bellerophon
Question: In the books about Tin Tin - the dog Snowy is known by what name in the original French?
Answer: milou
Question: Name the theatre in Scarborough associated with Alan Ayckborn.
Answer: stephen joseph theatre
Question: Who bowled Don Bradman for a duck in his last Test Innings?
Answer: eric hollies
Question: In which 1953 film does the song 'Secret Love' first appear?
Answer: calamity jane
Question: Johnston McCulley created which character in 1919? The character became famous in comics, books, film and on TV.
Answer: zorro
Question: Which king appointed John Dryden as the first official Poet Laureate?
Answer: charles ii
Question: Myron Bolitar appears in a number of thrillers by whom?
Answer: harlan coben
Question: Which comedian's catchphrase was 'You Lucky People?
Answer: tommy trinder
Question: What was the name of the comet which crashed into Jupiter in 1994?
Answer: shoemaker levy
Question: Who invented the first effective vaccine against polio, introduced in 1955?
Answer: dr jonas salk
Question: Which country left the Commonwealth in 1972 and rejoined in 1989?
Answer: pakistan
Question: Lucie Manette is the heroine of which Dickens Novel?
Answer: tale of two cities
Question: Who was buried at Grytviken, South Georgia in 1922?
Answer: ernest shackleton
Question: The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing is also known as what?
Answer: shakers
Question: In Italian sport, what name is given to the fanatical groups of supporters, particularly of the Ferrari motor racing team?
Answer: tifosi
Question: Who was sent as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia in 1957 by Khrushchev?
Answer: molotov
Question: In 1911 who led the first successful expedition to reach the South Pole?
Answer: roald amundsen
Question: What is the more common name for the group of rebels who called themselves 'The Fists of Righteous Harmony' at the turn of the 20th century?
Answer: boxers
Question: In 1450, Jack Cade led a rebellion against which King?
Answer: henry vi
Question: The 1940s US fighter plane the 'Bearcat' was built by which company?
Answer: grumman
Question: The 1997 play 'Gross Indecency' by Moises Kaufman was about the three trials of which man in the late 19th century?
Answer: oscar wilde
Question: Name the film based on the Noel Coward play "Still Life", the theme music is Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 7 and the railway station featured in the film was Carnforth?
Answer: brief encounter
Question: In astronomy what name is given to a cloud of gas and dust in space?
Answer: nebula
Question: The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration in Britain, what is the highest civilian decoration?
Answer: george cross
Question: From which film does the song 'How are things in Glocca Morra?' come?
Answer: finian s rainbow
Question: The cha-cha-cha is a dance developed from the mambo in 1950 in which country?
Answer: cuba
Question: Which Eire county is surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic Ocean and has Lifford as the county town?
Answer: donegal
Question: Which invention in 1891 made Whitcomb L Judson famous?
Answer: zip fastener
Question: Name the 1978 TV programme in which Lorne Green played Commander Adama and Dirk Benedict plays Lieutenant Starbuck?
Answer: battlestar galactica
Question: Name the film infamous for a controversial scene where a knickerless Sharon Stone crosses her legs?
Answer: basic instinct
Question: Which former TV personality committed suicide in her bathroom in October 1980, one week after being found guilty of shoplifting?
Answer: lady isobel barnett
Question: Name the novel in which the main characters Leopold and Molly Bloom live in Dublin in 1904?
Answer: ulysses
Question: Who was Earl Spencer's best man who was jailed for fraud?
Answer: darius guppy
Question: The tango is a dance originated in 1920 in which Country?
Answer: argentina
Question: Which Eire county in the province of Leinster has the county town of Trim and has Tara as its main attraction?
Answer: meath
Question: Which football league team has the nickname 'The Cherries'?
Answer: bournemouth
Question: 'Korma' is an Indian cooking instruction to do what?
Answer: braise
Question: Name the TV programme in which Stuart Damon played Craig Stirling and William Gaunt played Richard Barrett?
Answer: champions
Question: Who were 'Glad All Over' in their No. 1 hit of 1965?
Answer: dave clark five
Question: What is the name of the enormously obese man who explodes in Monty Python's 'The Meaning of Life'?
Answer: mr creosote
Question: In 1983 Sarah Jane Hutt was the last UK winner of which title?
Answer: miss world
Question: Which island separates the American and Canadian Falls at Niagara?
Answer: goat island
Question: Who wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?
Answer: samuel taylor coleridge
Question: Name the actress who left Eastenders in 2011 after 25 years in the show, she played Pat Evans (also Beale, Wicks and Butcher)?
Answer: pam st clement
Question: Who was proclaimed Emperor of Rome whilst in York in 306AD?
Answer: constantine
Question: In particle physics there are six 'flavours' of quarks; up, down, top and bottom are four of them, name either of the other two.
Answer: strange and charm
Question: In French it is Mont Cervin, how is known in English?
Answer: matterhorn
Question: Who is the producer of shows including Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins and Cats?
Answer: cameron mackintosh
Question: Lucha Libre is a popular form of wrestling, in which country did it originate?
Answer: mexico
Question: What is the modern name of the Turkish town Halicarnassus?
Answer: bodrum
Question: The new Hepworth Gallery is in which town, the birthplace of sculptor Barbara Hepworth?
Answer: wakefield
Question: Who is the former Chief Constable of Merseyside, now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police?
Answer: bernard hogan howe
Question: Who promoted Barclaycard in a TV advert by not having one?
Answer: rowan atkinson
Question: Who hosts the new (Challenge TV) version of the TV quiz show 'Blockbusters'?
Answer: simon mayo
Question: In which US state is Deadwood, scene of the shooting of Wild Bill Hickok?
Answer: south dakota
Question: Which author's characters include Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance?
Answer: jeffrey deaver
Question: The London Philharmonic Orchestra is based in which venue?
Answer: royal festival hall
Question: Which actress appeared as a barmaid in over 2,800 episodes of 'Coronation Street' until her death in 2011?
Answer: betty driver
Question: According to the proverb (as in Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament) a live dog is better than what?
Answer: dead lion
Question: What is the common name of the creature Asterias Rubens?
Answer: starfish
Question: Who wrote the poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: Who won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for his book 'The Sense of an Ending'?
Answer: julian barnes
Question: Charlene, Princess of Monaco, was an Olympic swimmer for which country?
Answer: south africa
Question: The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz is about which character?
Answer: sherlock holmes
Question: Who, when aged 42 years and 103 days, is the oldest footballer to play for England?
Answer: stanley matthews
Question: In which US state is Tombstone, scene of the Gunfight at the OK Corral?
Answer: arizona
Question: Who, in an ancient myth, removed a thorn from a lion's paw?
Answer: androcles
Question: Who sculpted 'The Angel of the North"?
Answer: anthony gormley
Question: By what first name was Tiger Woods legally known until at least his 21st birthday?
Answer: eldrick
Question: Which South African bullion coin is named after a 19th century President of the South African Republic?
Answer: krugerrand
Question: At the end of 2011, which Pacific island nation advanced a whole day by adjusting its time zone?
Answer: samoa
Question: Who writes the series of novels about Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin?
Answer: m c beaton
Question: Which Scottish king was killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513?
Answer: james iv
Question: Germinal and Messidor are months in which calendar?
Answer: french revolutionary calendar
Question: Mia Farrow is the daughter of which actress?
Answer: maureen o sullivan
Question: Malus sylvestris is the Latin name of which fruit?
Answer: crab apple
Question: Austrian born but naturalised Briton Otto Frisch 1904-1979 achieved fame in which field?
Answer: physics
Question: What was discovered at Alta Mira in Northern Spain in 1879?
Answer: cave paintings
Question: Historically an Essex market town, what is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Havering?
Answer: romford
Question: Who played Michelangelo in the 1965 film 'The Agony and the Ecstasy'?
Answer: charlton heston
Question: Which artist's portrait of Churchill was destroyed by Lady Churchill?
Answer: graham sutherland
Question: Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of the present queen's coronation?
Answer: geoffrey fisher
Question: What is the appropriately named Canadian bullion coin containing one troy ounce of gold?
Answer: maple
Question: Robert the Bruce's son succeeded him as King of Scotland. Who was he?
Answer: david ii
Question: Puccini's opera La Boheme was first performed in which decade?
Answer: 1890 s
Question: Toussaint Louverture led a revolution in 1791 in what present day country?
Answer: haiti
Question: Adjutant, maribou and white are types of which bird?
Answer: stork
Question: Despina and Thalassa are two satellites of which planet?
Answer: neptune
Question: Pyrus communis is the Latin name of which fruit?
Answer: european pear
Question: The wading birds, curlew and snipe belong to which family of birds?
Answer: sandpipers
Question: If you travelled due west from Punta Arenas in Chile you would make landfall in which South American country?
Answer: argentina
Question: Who played Mortimer Brewster in the 1942 film Arsenic and Old Lace?
Answer: cary grant
Question: Rosemarie Frankland was the first British winner of what in 1961?
Answer: miss world
Question: Who won the 2011 South American football championships (Copa America)?
Answer: uruguay
Question: Which singer is the only one to record three James Bond themes?
Answer: shirley bassey
Question: In WWII in Germany there was the Siegreid Line; in France the Maginot Line, in Finland the Mannerheim Line, but in which other European Country was the Gustav Line?
Answer: italy
Question: What is the name of the Editor in Chief of Wikileaks?
Answer: julian assange
Question: What is the name of the Idiot Abroad in the programme of the same name?
Answer: karl pilkington
Question: Charles Saatchi once bought a sculpture of a head made from which unusual substance?
Answer: blood
Question: What is the name of the artist who painted the picture of the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies as featured in TV series Allo Allo?
Answer: van klomp
Question: In the bible what name is given to the following Michael, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jegudiel and Barachiel known as?
Answer: archangels
Question: In which religion is the Baron Samedi a prominent figure?
Answer: voodoo
Question: In which European region is the flag red, green and white and is similar to the Union Jack?
Answer: basque region
Question: Eliza Manningham Buller was the former Director General of which organisation?
Answer: mi5
Question: Apart from South Africa which other African nation played in the 2011 Rugby World Cup?
Answer: namibia
Question: In France this sport is known as Parkour by what name is it better known in Britain?
Answer: free running
Question: In which country was the 2009 Indian Premier League played?
Answer: south africa
Question: During the mid 90's the baldy man with the bad comb-over was in the adverts for which products?
Answer: hamlet cigars
Question: The Olympics of London, Berlin, Tokyo and Helsinki were all postponed because of what?
Answer: world wars
Question: In which harbour is the area 'called The Sandbanks found?
Answer: poole
Question: Suzy Perry is a presenter on which Channel 5 programme?
Answer: gadget show
Question: Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegel founded which refreshment company in 1971?
Answer: starbucks coffee
Question: Who was the director of the Hitchcock spoof film "High Anxiety"?
Answer: mel brooks
Question: How often are the Oberammergau Passion Plays held?
Answer: every ten years
Question: Vicki Butler Henderson is a presenter on which Channel 5 programme?
Answer: fifth gear
Question: The Golden Temple at Amritsar is sacred to members of which religion?
Answer: sikh ism
Question: Scapa Flow is situated in which part of the British Isles?
Answer: orkney islands
Question: The M5 motorway runs from Birmingham to which city in Devon?
Answer: exeter
Question: Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky plays for which international team?
Answer: czech republic
Question: Who is to play Miss Havisham in the 2012 film version of Dickens' Great Expectations'?
Answer: helena bonham carter
Question: Who is to play the role of Bilbo Baggins in the 2012 film of Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'?
Answer: martin freeman
Question: What is the mathematical name for series such as 2, 6, 18, 54 etc where the next term in the sequence is obtained by multiplying the previous one by a fixed number?
Answer: geometric
Question: For what does the B stand in the acronym COBRA?
Answer: cabinet office briefing
Question: Which actor has appeared in the films `Se7en', 'Fight Club', 'Inglourious Basterds' and 'Oceans Eleven'?
Answer: brad pitt