CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the first name of the father of Frasier and Niles Crane in the TV series 'Frasier'?
Answer: martin
Question: What is the name of Liam Fox's friend, whose friendship caused him to resign?
Answer: adam werritty
Question: In which city was the nightclub Copacabana in Barry Manilow's song?
Answer: new york
Question: Which King of England's mother and first wife were both called Eleanor? He subsequently married Margaret of France.
Answer: edward i
Question: What collective name is often used for Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester and Strood?
Answer: medway towns
Question: What was the name given to shantytowns built in the US by the unemployed during the Great Depression?
Answer: hooverville
Question: Who designed the Banqueting House in Whitehall, scene of the execution of Charles I?
Answer: inigo jones
Question: The Lena River, the Ob River and the Yenisei River in Russia flow into which large body of water?
Answer: arctic ocean
Question: Complete the name of the 1960s group 'Junior Walker and the
Answer: all stars
Question: The 'Ventura' is a cruise liner operated by which company?
Answer: p o
Question: Which poet wrote a sonnet 'On first looking into Chapman's Homer'?
Answer: john keats
Question: 7377 of which Avro bomber were manufactured during the course of World War 2?
Answer: lancaster
Question: Who made the phrase 'Famous for fifteen minutes' famous?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: Which 'EastEnders' family has had members called Archie, Courtney and Ben?
Answer: mitchell
Question: Who is the only MP of the Green Party, representing Brighton Pavilion?
Answer: caroline lucas
Question: Who became Governor of New South Wales in 1806 where his conduct led to his imprisonment for two years?
Answer: captain william bligh
Question: In the news in January 2011 for the murder of 37 people in a bombing incident, in which country is Domodedovo Airport?
Answer: russia
Question: Who had hits in the 1960s with 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' and 'Mellow Yellow'?
Answer: donovan
Question: In the Bible, which was the first miracle performed by Jesus?
Answer: water into wine
Question: Who played both Eddie Shoestring and Peter Boyd on TV?
Answer: trevor eve
Question: What was the title of the only novel written by Oscar Wilde?
Answer: picture of dorian gray
Question: 'Poison', 'Dune' and `J'Adore' are all fragrances from which perfume house?
Answer: christian dior
Question: The Halle Orchestra now plays at the Bridgewater Hall, which Manchester building was its former home?
Answer: free trade hall
Question: St Florian is the patron saint of people working in which occupation?
Answer: fire fighters
Question: Crime fiction writer Carolyn Keene created which sleuth?
Answer: nancy drew
Question: What name is given to a quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides?
Answer: trapezium
Question: Carthage was founded about 3000 years ago by which people?
Answer: phoenicians
Question: Who played Ray Doyle, John Deed and George Gently on TV?
Answer: martin shaw
Question: Which French composer wrote 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'?
Answer: paul dukas
Question: Who was the 'one-man band' who had hits in the 1960s with 'Rosie' and 'Blue Eyes'?
Answer: don partridge
Question: What name is given to a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides but not at right angles?
Answer: rhombus
Question: Who was captain of the British brig 'Rebecca' in 1731 when it was boarded by the Spanish coastguard 'La Isabela' so starting an international incident?
Answer: robert jenkins
Question: The War of Jenkins' Ear was part of which bigger war?
Answer: austrian succession
Question: Bellis perennis is the Latin name of which common flower?
Answer: daisy
Question: Who, in 1961, founded Amnesty International?
Answer: peter benenson
Question: Which dice board game originated as a Hindu journey of enlightenment?
Answer: snakes and ladders
Question: Hammurabi was a king of which people in about 1750BC?
Answer: babylon
Question: Which company, best-known as a manufacturer of luxury cars, also made buses, such as the Freeline and Fleetline models?
Answer: daimler
Question: In Greek mythology who was the mother of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades?
Answer: rhea
Question: Who, in 1960, founded the Hospice movement in Britain?
Answer: cicely saunders
Question: Taraxacum officinale is the Latin name of which common flowering plant?
Answer: dandelion
Question: La Vuelta is the Spanish equivalent of which major sporting event?
Answer: tour de france
Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the Forest of Arden?
Answer: as you like it
Question: Which chemical element atomic number 45 is named for the Greek for rose?
Answer: rhodium
Question: By winning the Mercury Music Prize in 2011 who is the only artiste to have won this prize twice?
Answer: p j harvey
Question: Which Scottish league team have the nickname 'The Bairns'?
Answer: falkirk
Question: The WW2 allied invasion of where was codenamed Operation Shingle?
Answer: anzio landings
Question: At what weight did Alan Minter win his boxing world title?
Answer: middleweight
Question: Who originally played the title role in the musical 'Heathcliff on the London stage?
Answer: cliff richard
Question: Who directed the 2010 Disney film Alice in Wonderland?
Answer: tim burton
Question: Daltonism is usually better known as which medical condition?
Answer: colour blindness
Question: Who wrote the poems Idylls of the King?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: Who wrote, directed and played the devil in the radio 4 series 'Old Harry's Game?
Answer: andy hamilton
Question: Who is the author of novels titled Charlotte Grey and The Girl at the Lion d'Or?
Answer: sebastian faulks
Question: Which composer is best known for his works Requiem in D minor and Pavane in F sharp minor?
Answer: gabriel fauré
Question: How is the Chilean Pine or auricaria known more familiarly in the UK?
Answer: monkey puzzle tree
Question: Who in Greek mythology was the cupbearer to the gods and Goddess of eternal youth and was later replaced by Ganymede?
Answer: hebe
Question: Which British artist's most famous works are The Shadow of Death and The Scapegoat?
Answer: william holman hunt
Question: Troglodytes is a genus of small passerine birds in which bird family?
Answer: wren
Question: Which Shakespeare play is mainly set in a forest outside Athens?
Answer: midsummer night dream
Question: Which goup released their second album 'Ceremonials' in 2011 follow up to their album Lungs?
Answer: florence and machine
Question: The WW2 allied invasion of where was titled Operation Dragoon?
Answer: southern france
Question: At what weight did Jim Watt win his boxing world title in 1979?
Answer: lightweight
Question: Who originally played the title role in the Phantom of the Opera on the London stage?
Answer: michael crawford
Question: In antiquity the power of what profession was symbolized by a bundle of sticks called a fasces?
Answer: magistrate
Question: Ormolu was orginally the gilding of which metal in its nitrate form to copper, brass or bronze?
Answer: mercury
Question: Which animated film won an Oscar in 2010 at the 82nd Academy Awards honouring films released in 2009?
Answer: up
Question: Who, appointed in 2008, is the Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales?
Answer: keir starmer
Question: Christmas Disease is another name for one of the forms of which hereditary genetic disorder?
Answer: haemophilia
Question: Who is the current chairman of the radio 4 panel game 'I'm sorry I haven't a clue'?
Answer: jack dee
Question: Who is the author of the Nursery Crime and Thursday Next series of books?
Answer: jasper fforde
Question: If you were in Japan eating wakame, what would you be eating?
Answer: edible seaweed
Question: Erythrophobia is the irrational fear of?
Answer: blushing
Question: Passer is a genus of small passerine birds in which bird family?
Answer: sparrow
Question: Rigel and Betelgeuse are two stars in which constellation?
Answer: orion
Question: King Edward III founded this premier order in about 1349, what is it called?
Answer: order of garter
Question: It was known as Tsaritsyn, then Stalingrad and in 1962 its name was changed to what?
Answer: volgograd
Question: Rick Allen is the one armed drummer of which English rock band?
Answer: def leppard
Question: The Lupercal is a cave at the foot of which hill in Rome?
Answer: palatine
Question: What is the term for the change of a vowel sound in German and the diacritical mark which indicates it?
Answer: umlaut
Question: Created by John Lawson Johnston "Johnston's Fluid Beef' was renamed what?
Answer: bovril
Question: The Battle of Ligny, June 1815 was which man's final military victory?
Answer: napoleon
Question: The Architect Clough Williams-Ellis designed which Welsh village?
Answer: portmeirion
Question: Pulex irritans is a parasitic insect. What is.it more commonly known as?
Answer: flea
Question: Who was the only British King of the House of Saxe-Coburg?
Answer: edward vii
Question: Which actress played both Estella and Miss Havisham in 1946 and 1985 respectively?
Answer: jean simmons
Question: The gamay grape is most notably used in the production of which French wine?
Answer: beaujolais
Question: In which constellation is the star Sirius, also called the Dog Star, the brightest in the Northern Hemisphere?
Answer: canis major
Question: The "Penguin News" is a local newspaper in which island group?
Answer: falklands
Question: The 'Battle of Marengo' was fought between Napoleon's army and which European Country?
Answer: austria
Question: Which town in the Cotswolds is known as the 'Little Venice of the Cotswolds"?
Answer: bourton on water
Question: Who beat Maria Sharapova in the 2012 Australian Open Tennis?
Answer: victoria azarenka
Question: At which battle of 1403 was Henry Percy (Hotspur) killed?
Answer: shrewsbury
Question: Making its final flight in July 2011, what was the name of the last space shuttle?
Answer: atlantis
Question: In which film did Mae West say 'Why don't you come up sometime, see me"?
Answer: she done him wrong
Question: In Greek myth, what was the name of the infinite space existing before creation?
Answer: chaos
Question: From which opera does the aria "O Caro Nome" come?
Answer: rigoletto
Question: In which battle of 1898 did Kitchener defeat the Mahdi?
Answer: omdurman
Question: In which film did Greta Garbo say "I want to be alone"?
Answer: grand hotel
Question: What was the name of the United States first satellite, launched in January 1958?
Answer: explorer
Question: Who, by winning the 1904 Prize for Medicine, became the first Russian to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: ivan pavlov
Question: In Milton's "Paradise Lost" what is the capital of Hell?
Answer: pandemonium
Question: What is the sequel to Robert Grave's novel "I Claudius"?
Answer: claudius god
Question: Which artist's studio was known as "the Factory"?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: Which German, together with Ernst Abbe, developed and produced many new lenses and heat resistant glasses?
Answer: carl zeiss
Question: Which nightclub and music venue in Manchester was largely financed by the record label "Factory Records"?
Answer: hacienda
Question: Which jazz pianist and composer composed "Ain't Misbehavin"' and "Honeysuckle Rose"?
Answer: fats waller
Question: Who, in a poem, wrote "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty"?
Answer: john keats
Question: What is the name of the fluid that surrounds the embryo in the womb?
Answer: amniotic
Question: Who was king of Wessex from 871 to 899?
Answer: alfred great
Question: Which jazz pianist and composer 1917-1982 composed "Round Midnight" and "Criss Cross"?
Answer: thelonius monk
Question: Which blood vessel carries blood from the heart to the lungs?
Answer: pulmonary artery
Question: Which European country's flag consists of three horizontal bands of red, white and red?
Answer: austria
Question: Which British rider won the World Superbike championship four times in the 1990s?
Answer: carl fogarty
Question: Who succeeded Nehru as the second Prime Minister of India?
Answer: lal shastri
Question: What is the signature tune of the Archers radio programme?
Answer: barwick green
Question: Three Mile Island, scene of a 1979 radio-active disaster, is in which US state?
Answer: pennsylvania
Question: Which Italian, winner of nine Motor Cycling Grand Prix World Championships is known as "The Doctor"?
Answer: valentino rossi
Question: Which Premiership football club has an area called "The Holte End"?
Answer: aston villa
Question: Which actress played the part of Cassandra in 'Only Fools and Horses'?
Answer: gwyneth strong
Question: Which English king was shot by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest in 1100?
Answer: william ii
Question: In the film 'The Wizard of Oz', what is Dorothy's surname?
Answer: gale
Question: High Willhays is the highest point of which upland area?
Answer: dartmoor
Question: Which biscuit is named after an Italian patriot who died in 1882?
Answer: garibaldi
Question: In horse riding, what comes between a trot and a gallop?
Answer: canter
Question: Who was the first host of the TV game show 'The Golden Shot'?
Answer: jackie rae
Question: On which motorway is the Thelwall Viaduct?
Answer: m6
Question: Which former transatlantic liner was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong in 1972?
Answer: queen elizabeth
Question: Which entertainer's catchphrases included "It's turned out nice again"?
Answer: george formby
Question: Which barbarian king was known as "the Scourge of God"?
Answer: attila hun
Question: Which film actor's daughter is actress Angelina Jolie?
Answer: jon voight
Question: Whose epitaph on his tombstone reads "That's All Folks"?
Answer: mel blanc
Question: Which celebrated fishing river flows from near Basingstoke to Southampton Water?
Answer: test
Question: As well as white, what colour appears on the cap of a water polo goalkeeper?
Answer: red
Question: Which political leader commanded the watercraft PT109 in WW2?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: Which German pocket battleship was scuttled off Montevideo in 1939?
Answer: graf spee
Question: According to the advertising slogan-which product "does exactly what it says on the tin"?
Answer: ronseal
Question: Which de Havilland World War II fighter-bomber had a fuselage made of wood?
Answer: mosquito
Question: In UK greyhound racing, what colour is worn by the dog in Trap Two?
Answer: blue
Question: Who led his followers on a 'Long March' in 1934?
Answer: mao tse tung
Question: Which Premiership football club's ground has an area called The Gallowgate End'?
Answer: newcastle united
Question: Who plays Betty Suarez in the TV series 'Ugly Betty'?
Answer: america ferrera
Question: Who was attacked in the American press in 1972 as `Hanoi Jane'?
Answer: jane fonda
Question: What is the name of the highest point in the Peak District?
Answer: kinder scout
Question: Which biscuit has the same name as Queen Victoria's house on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: osborne
Question: Who was the author of the 1910 novel 'The Secret Garden'?
Answer: frances hodgson burnett
Question: Which London bridge built 1856-1894 is a combined bascule and suspension bridge?
Answer: tower bridge
Question: Traditionally, on what day does a Mardi Gras Festival take place?
Answer: shrove tuesday
Question: Who adopted the song 'Thanks for the Memory' as a signature tune'?
Answer: bob hope
Question: In which war was the Battle of Antietam fought?
Answer: american civil war
Question: Who composed the music to the comic opera The Bartered Bride'?
Answer: bedrich smetana
Question: Which author won the Booker Prize in 1995 for The Ghost Road'?
Answer: pat barker
Question: In which US state is Dodge City, the famous frontier town of the wild west?
Answer: kansas
Question: Which English king was born in Beaumont Palace in Oxford in 1157?
Answer: richard i
Question: The flag of which Asian country contain an image of the mythical Thunder Dragon holding jewels?
Answer: bhutan
Question: The Dove, Derwent, Erewash and Soar are all tributaries of which UK river?
Answer: trent
Question: In which American state is the animated TV series Family Guy set?
Answer: rhode island
Question: Which SI unit is named after a scientist born in Belfast in 1824?
Answer: kelvin
Question: Magner's cider originates from which county in Ireland?
Answer: tipperary
Question: Which Beatles song opens with the lyric "Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical science in the home"?
Answer: maxwell s silver hammer
Question: Which city, home to the oldest working opera house in France, is the capital of the Lorraine region and the Moselle department?
Answer: metz
Question: Which country has top tier football league teams called FC Thon and FC Sion?
Answer: switzerland
Question: What name is given to a triangle in which all 3 sides are of different lengths?
Answer: scalene
Question: Of which South American country has Juan Manuel Santos been president since 2010?
Answer: colombia
Question: Which BBC local radio station with its main studios in Luton covers Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire?
Answer: bbc three counties
Question: Obesity hypoventilation syndrome is also known by a name that refers to which Charles Dickens novel in which the 'fat boy' Joe exhibits the symptoms?
Answer: pickwick papers
Question: Which work by Tchaikovsky includes a sequence called The Rose Adagio'?
Answer: sleeping beauty
Question: Which author won the Booker Prize in 1991 for his novel 'The Famished Road'?
Answer: ben okri
Question: In 1960 Kwame Nkrumah became the first President of which African country?
Answer: ghana
Question: Which English king was born in Pembroke Castle in Wales in 1457?
Answer: henry vii
Question: The flag of which African country contains the image of an AK-47 rifle?
Answer: mozambique
Question: The Chelt, Frome,Teme and Vyrnwy are all tributaries of which UK river?
Answer: severn
Question: In which American state is the animated TV series King of the Hill set?
Answer: texas
Question: Which SI unit is named after an engineer born in Greenock in 1736?
Answer: watt
Question: Stella Artois originates from which Belgian city, the name being shown on its bottles and cans?
Answer: leuven
Question: Of which US rock band is Steven Tyler a founder member and lead singer?
Answer: aerosmith
Question: Which city, home to the tallest and largest Gothic cathedral in France is the capital of Picardy region and the Somme department?
Answer: amiens
Question: Which country's top tier soccer league has teams called Helsingborgs IF and Kalmar FF?
Answer: sweden
Question: What name is given to a triangle in which two sides are equal in length?
Answer: isosceles
Question: Which nickname for Haydn's Symphony Number 94 comes from a sudden loud chord at the end of a quiet opening theme of the second movement?
Answer: surprise symphony
Question: Which BBC local radio station based in Southampton covers Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight?
Answer: bbc radio solent
Question: Giving his name to an adjective meaning sanctimonious and hypocritical, Seth Pecksniff appears in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: martin chuzzlewit
Question: Who wrote the 2006 novel The Road?
Answer: cormac mccarthy
Question: Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
Answer: john steinbeck
Question: Slain by Hercules, which monster lived in the swamps near the city of Lerna?
Answer: hydra
Question: Who played The Prisoner on TV in the 1960s?
Answer: patrick mcgoohan
Question: Appointed in 2012, who is the President of the Fifth French Republic?
Answer: francois hollande
Question: Who did Ramon Mercador kill in 1940?
Answer: leon trotsky
Question: Who directed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: danny boyle
Question: For which event did Greg Rutherford win gold for GB in 2012?
Answer: long jump
Question: Who, in 1799, wrote the poem Lamia?
Answer: john keats
Question: What name is now given to the area of Paris where the guillotine used to execute Louis 16th was situated?
Answer: place de la concorde
Question: Which Football League club share the Keepmoat Stadium with the town's rugby league club?
Answer: doncaster rovers
Question: Dawley, the birthplace of channel swimmer Matthew Webb, is in which New Town?
Answer: telford
Question: What is the British name given to German white wines originally from the Rhine area?
Answer: hock
Question: The book 'Red Bones' by Anne Cleeves was dramatised by the BBC, on which islands is it set?
Answer: shetlands
Question: The largest state or territory by area in Australia is Western Australia, which is second?
Answer: queensland
Question: What is the name of the police officer in the TV comedy series 'Allo 'Allo?
Answer: crabtree
Question: What was discovered at Qumran in 1947?
Answer: dead sea scrolls
Question: Who wrote the novella on which the film 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' was based?
Answer: truman capote
Question: Monica Rose was a hostess of which 1960s TV quiz show?
Answer: double your money
Question: The exclusive right to breed Gressingham Ducks was bought by Gressingham Foods in 1996, and the ducks they now produce are all from their farms in East Anglia, however the village of Gressingham is in which Lancashire town or city?
Answer: lancaster
Question: Which Football League club share the John Smith's Stadium with the town's rugby league club?
Answer: huddersfield town
Question: What was the name of the Space Shuttle that flew the last US mission to the International Space Station in July 2011?
Answer: atlantis
Question: The wartime code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, is in which New Town?
Answer: milton keynes
Question: Australian Heather McKay was undefeated for a period of almost 20 years until her retirement in 1981, in which sport?
Answer: squash
Question: Which US bridge was designed by John Roebling (who died of tetanus during its construction) and completed by his son in 1883, until 1903 it was the longest suspension bridge in the world?
Answer: brooklyn bridge
Question: A Canadian-born former Lord Privy Seal, he represented Ashton-Under-Lyne in parliament. He founded a Sunday newspaper and served in the governments of both Lloyd-George and Churchill, by what title was he known?
Answer: lord beaverbrook
Question: The HQ of the International Olympic Committee is in which Swiss town or city?
Answer: lausanne
Question: Name the French artist (1798-1863) whose painting 'Liberty Leading The People' is in the Louvre?
Answer: eugène delacroix
Question: Who wrote the book from which Sir Benjamin Britten created the opera 'Billy Budd'?
Answer: herman melville
Question: The HQ of UEFA is in which Swiss town or city, on the shores of Lake Geneva?
Answer: nyon
Question: The largest state or territory by area in Canada is Northwest Territories, which is second?
Answer: quebec
Question: At least one of which series of spacecraft is docked to the International Space Station at all times for use as an escape craft in the event of an emergency?
Answer: soyuz
Question: Which Tuscan wine was traditionally packaged in a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco?
Answer: chianti
Question: Darrowby was the fictional setting for which TV series of the 70s, 80s and 90s?
Answer: all creatures great and small
Question: Who directed the 2012 film 'Zero Dark Thirty'?
Answer: kathryn bigelow
Question: Billy the Badger is the mascot for which London Premier League football club?
Answer: fulham
Question: Britain's Charlotte Dujardin won a 2012 Olympic gold in which individual event?
Answer: dressage
Question: The author Theodor Geisel wrote under which pen name?
Answer: dr seuss
Question: Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is a possession of which country?
Answer: norway
Question: At which battle in 1471 did Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, die?
Answer: barnet
Question: The 2007 film 'Cinderella Man' is a biopic of which boxer?
Answer: james j braddock
Question: The island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea belongs to which country?
Answer: yemen
Question: Who directed the 2012 film 'Django Unchained'?
Answer: quentin tarantino
Question: Which Briton won the Men's Triathlon at the 2012 London Olympics?
Answer: alistair brownlee
Question: Corazon Aquino succeeded which President in the Philippines in 1986?
Answer: ferdinand marcos
Question: The 2004 film 'The Aviator' starring Leonardo DiCaprio is a biopic of whom?
Answer: howard hughes
Question: Which author wrote using the pen name Mary Westmacott?
Answer: agatha christie