CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which 'French Impressionist' painter, famed for his portrait, 'The Bar At The Folies Bergere', was born in Paris in 1832, and died of a gangrenous leg in 1883?
Answer: edouard manet
Question: What is the name of the Highwayman featured in John Gay's musical play, 'The Beggar's Opera'?
Answer: macheath
Question: Which actor played the title role in the 1939 film "Young Mr. Lincoln"?
Answer: henry fonda
Question: In a mechanical clock or watch, what mechanism ensures that the hands are driven at an even rate?
Answer: escapement
Question: What was the capital of the ancient Assyrian civilisation?
Answer: nineveh
Question: What was made by the now defunct companies 'Delarge', 'Delahaye' and 'Hotchkiss'?
Answer: cars
Question: Which Prime Minister persuaded Queen Victoria to take the title 'Empress Of India'?
Answer: disraeli
Question: In Greek mythology, name the ship in which Jason sailed, in search of the 'Golden Fleece'?
Answer: argo
Question: What is the main vitamin found in fish liver oils, egg- yolks, etc.?
Answer: vitamin d
Question: Which cartoon character lived on 'Sweetwater Island' and was the son of 'Poopdeck Pappy'?
Answer: popeye
Question: What would you do if you found the instruction 'Da Capo' on a piece of music?
Answer: repeat from beginning
Question: In Greek mythology, who gave 'Theseus' the ball of thread with which he found his way out of the 'Labyrinth'?
Answer: ariadne
Question: What is the name of the 'theme park' near Ripon in Yorkshire?
Answer: lightwater valley
Question: Apart from sugar and eggs, what is marzipan made from?
Answer: ground almonds
Question: Who was the female star of the Rome-set film, 'La Dolce Vita'?
Answer: anita ekberg
Question: Pulex irritans is the Latin name for which creature?
Answer: human flea
Question: Which ballerina, born in Ireland, was the founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet?
Answer: ninette de valois
Question: Which common sal\d ingredient is a member of the same family as 'Deadly Nightshade'?
Answer: tomato
Question: In which country does the Ferencvaros team play club football?
Answer: hungary
Question: Astrakhan is a port in the delta of which major river?
Answer: river volga
Question: Who was the author of 'Moll Flanders'?
Answer: daniel defoe
Question: Who wrote the children's book 'National Velvet'?
Answer: enid bagnold
Question: Who, born in Gloucestershire, composed 'On Wedlock Edge' in 1909?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: Name the Roman equivalent to the Greek goddess, Pallas Athena?
Answer: minerva
Question: In which Parliamentary constituency did Frank Field replace Edmund Dell as MP in 1979?
Answer: birkenhead
Question: When Muhammad received the word of god at Hira, near Mecca. Where exactly was he?
Answer: in cave
Question: Who was the first husband of film actress Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: jim dougherty
Question: On TV and radio, which 'couple' were the inhabitants of the village of 'Stackton Tressell'?
Answer: hinge bracket
Question: Which British river is spanned by the Pulteney Bridge?
Answer: avon
Question: The airport in Orange County, California is named after which famous film star?
Answer: john wayne
Question: In which northern city is the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television?
Answer: bradford
Question: John Wayne turned down the role of which Marshall, James Arness eventually playing the role for 20 years?
Answer: matt dillon
Question: Who was Eisenhower's Democratic opponent in the 1952 and 1956 US Presidential campaigns?
Answer: adlai stevenson
Question: In which country is Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute' set?
Answer: egypt
Question: Singer Jiles Perry (JP) Richardson was better known as who?
Answer: big bopper
Question: 'Stag' and 'Carib' beers are made in which country?
Answer: trinidad
Question: Which Cricket county's 'Twenty/20' team are known as 'The Crusaders'?
Answer: middlesex
Question: Who was the author of 'Fanny Hill'?
Answer: john cleland
Question: Of which group of Greek islands is Naxos the largest?
Answer: cyclades
Question: Which 1960's American group originally comprised Neil Young, Steven Stills, Richie Furay, Dewey Martin and Bruce Palmer?
Answer: buffalo springfield
Question: Which Russian naval officer composed 'Capriccio Espagnole' in 1887?
Answer: rimsky korsakov
Question: Which large marsh, once a haunt for smugglers, lies between Hythe and Rye on the south coast?
Answer: romney marsh
Question: On TV, who are the inhabitants of the village of 'Royston Vasey'?
Answer: league of gentlemen
Question: In the nursery rhyme, what description is given to 'Wednesday's Child'?
Answer: full of woe
Question: Singer-songwriter Carole Klein was better known by what name?
Answer: carole king
Question: Marble Arch and Lancaster Gate are stations on which London Undeground line?
Answer: central line
Question: The island of Trinidad lies opposite the delta of which major river?
Answer: river orinoco
Question: After which famous man (known as 'Oklahoma's favourite son') is Oklahoma City's airport named?
Answer: will rogers
Question: In which country is Puccini's opera 'Turandot' set?
Answer: china
Question: Which Cricket county's 'Twenty/20' team are known asthe 'Gladiators'?
Answer: gloucestershire
Question: Which Dublin born writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925?
Answer: g b shaw
Question: What form did Zeus take when he seduced Gannymede?
Answer: eagle
Question: Which English king used a 'White Lion' as his heraldic symbol?
Answer: edward iv
Question: What is the common name for the fruit Fragaria vesca?
Answer: wild strawberry
Question: Which astronomer is credited with discovering that the Universe is expanding?
Answer: edwin hubble
Question: Which economic doctrine, popular in the 1980's, was propounded by Milton Friedman?
Answer: monetarism
Question: Which London Underground line has a terminus at Bermondsey Station?
Answer: jubilee
Question: Where in the body would you find the 'Canal of Schlemm'?
Answer: in eye
Question: Which 1954 Gene Kelly musical film featured the song 'Almost Like Being In Love'?
Answer: brigadoon
Question: Which singer who sang '24 Hours From Tulsa' died April 2006 at the age of 65?
Answer: gene pitney
Question: In the 1970's TV series 'The Partridge Family', which actress played the part of the children's mother?
Answer: shirley jones
Question: On board which Royal Navy ship did Napoleon sign the Peace Treaty after the Battle of Waterloo?
Answer: bellerophon
Question: Grenada, St. Vincent, St.Lucia, Martinique, and Dominica, are all part of which West Indian island group?
Answer: windward islands
Question: Which eminent mathematician is credited with inventing the Roulette wheel?
Answer: blaise pascal
Question: Which English king used a 'White Hart' as his heraldic symbol?
Answer: richard ii
Question: On which American warship did the Japanese sign the surrender treaty to end World War II?
Answer: u s s missouri
Question: Which 1951 Gene Kelly musical film featured the song 'Love Is Here To Stay'?
Answer: american in paris
Question: In the USA, FD Roosevelt's 'New Deal' was based on the views of which economist?
Answer: maynard keynes
Question: On which Caribbean island are the counties of Surrey Middlesex and Cornwall?
Answer: jamaica
Question: Which rock star, who died in 1971 aged 36, survived the car crash in which Eddie Cochran died in 1962?
Answer: gene vincent
Question: When 'Magic Roundabout' was revived on Channel 4 in 1992, which actor provided the voices?
Answer: nigel planer
Question: Which famous Jewish fortress was captured by the Romans 10th Legion in 73AD?
Answer: masada
Question: In 1960, Kwame Nkruma became the first President of which African country?
Answer: ghana
Question: In 1966, Seretse Khama became the first President of which African country?
Answer: botswana
Question: Which band had hits in the 1990's with 'The Riverboat Song', 'You've Got It Bad' and 'The Day We Caught The Train'?
Answer: ocean colour scene
Question: What is the name of the Mexican forward that Manchester United have signed this summer from Chivas de Guadalajara for £6 million?
Answer: javier hernandez balcazar
Question: Which Samuel Becket play tells the story of 'Hamm', who is unable to stand, and his servant 'Clov', who is unable to sit down, and their lives with 'Hamm's' parents who live in rubbish bins in the corner of the house?
Answer: endgame
Question: Which legendary American Football player, who played his entire 15-year career with the Los Angeles Rams and
Answer: merlin olsen
Question: Which chemical element is named after the Danish physicist who developed the theory that electrons travel in discrete orbits around the atom's nucleus?
Answer: bohrium
Question: Which chemical element is named after the German physicist who discovered X-Rays?
Answer: roentgenium
Question: Which river has its source in Zambia and flows through Angola, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe before emptying into the Indian Ocean in Mozambique?
Answer: zambesi
Question: With 53 tries from 77 caps, who is the leading try scorer for the Welsh national Rugby Union team?
Answer: shane williams
Question: With 41 tries from 109 caps, who is the leading try scorer for the Irish national Rugby Union team?
Answer: brian o driscoll
Question: Which river has its source in Guinea and flows through Mali, Niger and Benin before emptying into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria?
Answer: niger
Question: Which internet company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998?
Answer: google
Question: Sharing it with the surname of a well known football pundit, what is the SI unit of absorbed dose?
Answer: gray
Question: The fashion designer Philip Treacy is best known for designing which item of clothing?
Answer: hats
Question: 'Sunny Side Up' was a 2010 UK number one album for which singer?
Answer: paolo nutini
Question: Which internet company was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001?
Answer: wikipedia
Question: Which ancient dog breed was originally bred in Siberia to assist in the herding of reindeer?
Answer: samoyed
Question: Umberto Boccioni and Carlo Carra are associated with which artistic movement founded by Filippo Marinetti in the early 20th century?
Answer: futurism
Question: Which actor portrays 'Freddie Krueger' in the 2010 remake of 'Nightmare On Elm Street'?
Answer: jackie earl haley
Question: Which ancient dog breed was originally bred in Tibet to act as sentinels in Buddhist monasteries?
Answer: lhasa apso
Question: Lawrence Atkinson and David Bomberg are associated with which artistic movement founded by Wyndam Lewis in the early 20th century?
Answer: vorticism
Question: Which actor plays 'Mr. Han' - the new name for 'Mr. Miyagi' - in the 2010 remake of 'The Karate Kid'?
Answer: jackie chan
Question: Which South African golfer won the 2010 Open Championship last month?
Answer: louis oosthuizen
Question: Which American Nobel Laureate wrote 'The Grapes Of Wrath' and 'East Of Eden'?
Answer: john steinbeck
Question: The Dove, Derwent, Erewash and Soar are all tributaries of which river, the third longest in the UK?
Answer: trent
Question: How is 'Hanna Glawari' known in the title of an enormously popular Franz Lehar operetta of 1905?
Answer: merry widow
Question: Which American Nobel Laureate wrote 'The Sound And The Fury' and 'As I Lay Dying'?
Answer: william faulkner
Question: The Lugg, Marteg, Monnow and Trothy are all tributaries of which river, the fifth longest in the UK?
Answer: wye
Question: Which British golfer finished runner-up to Oosthuizen at this year's Open Championship?
Answer: lee westwood
Question: Which city, known for its manufacture of swords and knives, is the capital of the Spanish region of Castile-La- Mancha?
Answer: toledo
Question: Which Belorusian-born artist designed the scenery and costumes for Stravinsky's 'The Firebird'?
Answer: marc chagall
Question: Which Latvian-born artist painted 'The Seagram Murals'?
Answer: mark rothko
Question: Elected in 2007, Cristina Kirchner is the female President of which country?
Answer: argentina
Question: Which city, known for its bull run, is the capital of the Spanish region of Navarre?
Answer: pamplona
Question: In which city do the baseball team known as the 'Astros' play their home games?
Answer: houston
Question: Which Italian city was rules by the Visconti family between 1277 and 1477?
Answer: milan
Question: In which Irish mountain range does the River Liffey rise?
Answer: wicklow mountains
Question: Which chemist discovered oxygen in 1774, calling it 'dephlogisticated air'?
Answer: joseph priestly
Question: The 'running of the bulls' is part of the San Fermin Festival held in which Spanish city?
Answer: pamplona
Question: To which 'Hogwarts' school house does 'Harry Potter' belong?
Answer: gryffindor
Question: What was the name of the US Space Shuttle that exploded upon take-off in 1986, killing all seven crew members?
Answer: challenger
Question: What was the name of the US Space Shuttle that disintegrated over Texas during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in 2003, killing all 7 crew members?
Answer: columbia
Question: Which batsman got the first ever Test century for England, when he scored 152 in a Test versus Australia at The Oval in 1876?
Answer: w g grace
Question: In which German town has a month-long festival celebrating the music of Richard Wagner been held every summer since 1876?
Answer: bayreuth
Question: Which ancient Greek mathematician, known as 'The Father Of Geometry', wrote the hugely influential book 'Elements' that dominated European mathematics until the 19th century?
Answer: euclid
Question: Which French village is known for its exceptionally dense collection of megalithic standing stones that were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany?
Answer: carnac
Question: Based on an idea by Steven Spielberg and created by Diablo Cody, which American TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 2009, stars Toni Collete as a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder?
Answer: united states of tara
Question: Considered one of the best examples of Roman ruins in North Africa and particularly noted for its Triumphal Arch, which archaeological site in Morocco is situated near to Meknes?
Answer: volubilis
Question: Which American comedy-drama detective television series broadcast between 2002 and 2009 starred Tony Shalhoub as the title character, a private detective
Answer: monk
Question: Who was the 18th century Swiss mathematician and physicist, who published more papers than any other mathematician in history and pioneered the theory of trigometric and logarithmic functions?
Answer: leonard euler
Question: The American Football team are the 'Cardinals', the Baseball team are the 'Diamondbacks', and the Basketball team are the 'Suns'. Which city?
Answer: phoenix arizona
Question: The American Football team are the 'Redskins', the Baseball team are the 'Nationals', and the Basketball team are the 'Wizards'. Which city?
Answer: washington d c
Question: Which London area is mentioned in the opening line of the lyrics to 'The Kinks' hit 'Lola'?
Answer: soho
Question: Which city on the south coast of the Gulf of Sidra, halfway between Tripoli and Benghazi, was the birthplace, in 1942, of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi?
Answer: sirte
Question: Saddam Hussein was born, in 1937, in the village of Al Awja, on the outskirts of which large Iraqi town northwest of Baghdad on the River Tigris?
Answer: tikrit
Question: In a mobile phone, for what do the letters SIM, as in SIM card, stand?
Answer: subscriber identity module
Question: The highest-grossing film of the year, so far, what is the title of the latest instalment in the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' film franchise?
Answer: pirates of caribbean on stranger tides
Question: In May 1521, Pope Leo X presided over which assembly at which Martin Luther was summoned to renounce the views expressed in his 95 theses?
Answer: diet of worms
Question: The third highest-grossing film of the year, so far, what is the title of the latest instalment in the 'Transformers' film franchise?
Answer: transformers dark of moon
Question: Which 'Lady Gaga' hit was the UK's best selling single of 2009?
Answer: poker face
Question: The architect Louis Kahn designed which Asian capital's Government Assembly complex in 1962?
Answer: dhaka
Question: Edith of East Anglia was the wife of which pre-Norman English king, born in c. 993 AD?
Answer: edmund ironside
Question: Which 'Eminem and Rhianna' hit was the UK's best selling single of 2010?
Answer: love way you lie
Question: Edith of Wessex was the wife of which pre-Norman English king, born c. 1003 AD?
Answer: edward confessor
Question: What is the name of the Spanish goalkeeper signed by Manchester United from Atletico Madrid this summer?
Answer: david de gea
Question: What was the name of NASA's last Space Shuttle that landed at the Kennedy Space Centre last week?
Answer: atlantis
Question: Despite not being the capital, which is the largest city by population in Kansas?
Answer: wichita
Question: What is the name of the man who committed the horrific murders seen in Norway last week?
Answer: anders behring breivik
Question: Despite not being the capital, which is the largest city by population in Kentucky?
Answer: louisville
Question: Which is the only one of Shakespeare's plays to feature an animal in its title?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: Which English inventor, born in London in 1937, is best remembered for inventing the modern clockwork radio?
Answer: trevor baylis
Question: For which newspaper did Winston Churchill work as a correspondent during the Boer war?
Answer: morning post
Question: Which historical figure is the subject of Jean Anouilh's play 'L'Alouette'?
Answer: joan of arc
Question: What was the name of the Minister, portrayed by Paul Eddington, in the sit-com 'Yes, Minister'?
Answer: jim hacker
Question: What was the name of the Government scientist at the centre of the controversy surrounding the so-called 'dodgy dossier' who was found dead in an Oxfordshire wood in July 2003?
Answer: david kelly
Question: Addison's Disease is a rare chronic disorder brought about by the failure of which glands?
Answer: adrenal glands
Question: In the American sit-com 'Two And A Half Men', which actor plays the newly introduced character 'Walden Schmidt'?
Answer: ashton kutcher
Question: The 'Serpents Mouth' is a stretch of water separating Trinidad from which country?
Answer: venezuela
Question: The author John Buchan, who wrote 'The Thirty Nine Steps', was Governor-General of which commonwealth country?
Answer: canada
Question: The Japanese capital of Tokyo is located in which of the five regions of Honshu? This region gives its name to an earthquake of 1923.
Answer: kanto
Question: What was the name of the school attended by 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'?
Answer: sunnydale high
Question: What is the name of the legendary sea monster, with a name meaning 'Octopus', that was said to have dwelled off the coasts of Norway and Iceland?
Answer: kraken
Question: The films 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' and 'Double Indemnity' were both based on novels written by which author of hardboiled school of American crime fiction?
Answer: james m cain
Question: What name is given to the chord of strong fibrous tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone?
Answer: tendon
Question: Which once popular ballroom dance was named in 1914 after the comedian and vaudeville actor who invented it?
Answer: foxtrot
Question: Several associates of which gangster were killed by Al Capone's gang in the 'St. Valentine's Day Massacre' in 1929?
Answer: bugs moran
Question: Which word refers to a secondary school in German and a sports hall in English?
Answer: gymnasium
Question: What collective name is given to creatures with segmented bodies, such as insects, arachnids and crustaceans?
Answer: arthropods
Question: Which Pakistani cricketer married the English socialite Jemima Goldsmith in 1995?
Answer: imran khan
Question: In 1997, which American politician became the first woman to hold the post of Secretary of State?
Answer: madeline albright
Question: 'Vorsprung Durch Technik' is a slogan used to promote which car manufacturer?
Answer: audi
Question: Taking the role of the baritone, what is the name of the professional bird catcher in Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute'?
Answer: papageno
Question: Deriving from the Italian for 'trouser leg', what name is given to a folded pizza?
Answer: calzone
Question: In the human body, bile is secreted by the liver and stored in which organ?
Answer: gallbladder
Question: What was the name of the Greek shipping tycoon, sometimes known as 'The Golden Greek', who built the first supertankers capable of transporting large quantities of oil?
Answer: stavros niarchos
Question: In the Book of Genesis, what is described as 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high?
Answer: noah s ark
Question: Meaning 'Death To Spies', what was the name of the specialised counterintelligence department in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet Union, a fictionalised version of which was made famous in the 'James Bond' books by Ian Fleming?
Answer: smersh
Question: Who was the Roman Emperor at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius?
Answer: titus
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the mother of the Cretan king, Minos?
Answer: europa
Question: The Pont d'Arc is a massive natural stone arch spanning which river that gives its name to a French department?
Answer: ardeche
Question: Which actor spoke the only word in Mel Brooks' 1976 comedy film 'Silent Movie'?
Answer: marcel marceau
Question: Which English city lies between the mouths of the rivers Test and Itchen?
Answer: southampton
Question: Which North Sea oil production platform was destroyed by fire after an explosion in July 1988?
Answer: piper alpha
Question: In which American state is the Daytona motor racing circuit found?
Answer: florida
Question: Which fruit would you find in the centre of a Sussex Pond Pudding?
Answer: lemon
Question: According to the Bible, on which mountain did Moses receive 'The Ten Commandments'?
Answer: mount sinai
Question: The 1979 film 'Quadrophenia' featured a battle between mods and rockers in which British seaside town?
Answer: brighton
Question: What was the title of Madonna's first number one single in the UK?
Answer: into groove
Question: Which disease do the English know as 'The French Disease' and the French call 'The English Disease'?
Answer: syphilis
Question: The most famous version of Modest Mussorgsky's composition 'Night On A Bald Mountain' was arranged by which fellow composer?
Answer: nikolai rimsky korsakov
Question: Bisected by Minnesota Glacier to form the northern Sentinel Range and the southern Heritage Range, which is the highest mountain in Antarctica?
Answer: vinson massif
Question: Which author used the pseudonym Richard Bachman when writing such books as 'Rage', 'The Running Man' and 'Thinner'?
Answer: stephen king
Question: Cardinal Richelieu served as chief minister to which French king?
Answer: louis xiii
Question: The Pura Cup, formerly known as the Sheffield Shield, is a Cricket tournament contested annually in which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Which famous singer featured, although uncredited, with 'Meat Loaf' in the duet 'Dead Ringer For Love'?
Answer: cher
Question: Who won the 1954 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film 'Country Girl'?
Answer: grace kelly
Question: A contestant from which country won the first Miss World in 1951?
Answer: sweden
Question: Which novel did Charles Dickens leave unfinished upon his death in 1870?
Answer: mystery of edwin drood
Question: Which Welsh seaside resort is linked to Birmingham by the A44 road?
Answer: aberystwyth
Question: Which US State achieved statehood in 1858 and is known as the 'Gopher' state?
Answer: minnesota
Question: Which artist painted “A Bar at the Folies Bergeres” and “The Spanish Singer”?
Answer: manet
Question: George J Tenet was the head of which US government department from 1997 to 2004?
Answer: cia
Question: Niklas Zennstrom was a co-founder which internet company?
Answer: skype
Question: Who or what was described by Ken Livingstone as “The greatest threat to life on this planet that we’ve most probably ever seen?
Answer: george w bush
Question: Which car manufacturer produced models called ‘The Hawk’ and ‘The Super Snipe’?
Answer: humber