CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which is the only position on a netball field designated with a single letter on the bib worn by each player?
Answer: centre
Question: On a cricket field which principal position is between Mid-on and Square leg?
Answer: mid wicket
Question: If you box in a left handed stance is described as southpaw.  How is the stance of a right handed boxer usually described?
Answer: orthodox
Question: Which US city is host to teams called the Penguins in Ice Hockey and the Pirates in Baseball?
Answer: pittsburgh
Question: Apart from Newcastle United, which other English Football League team plays their home matches at a ground called St James' Park?
Answer: exeter city
Question: Which 60s fashion icon gave it all up to run a hotel in Cornwall?
Answer: jean shrimpton
Question: Who was the first artistic director of the National Theatre, started at the Old Vic in 1963?
Answer: laurence olivier
Question: Which long-running television programme started on the day after President Kennedy's assasination?
Answer: doctor who
Question: The Beatles had an unbroken run of number one British singles from 1963 until, in March 1967, they were pushed into second place. By which singer?
Answer: engelbert humperdinck
Question: The Profumo affair is frequently blamed for bringing down the Conservative government in 1964. Who created the scandal by introducing John Profumo to Christine Keeler?
Answer: stephen ward
Question: Which famous piece of music was commissioned for the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral in 1962?
Answer: war requiem
Question: The Biba boutiques were at the heart of swinging London and at one time had the highest turnover of any British retail company. Who founded and ran Biba?
Answer: barbara hulanicki
Question: What is caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun on Earth?
Answer: tides
Question: In geology what is the term used for the layer between the Earth's crust and the core?
Answer: mantle
Question: The lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere, where we live, is called what?
Answer: troposphere
Question: What is the name of the effect that deflects winds and currents as a result of the Earth's rotation?
Answer: coriolus effect
Question: In the distant past what was the name given to the Super-Continent that made up the majority land mass of Earth?
Answer: pangaea
Question: What is the name for the study of Continental Drift?
Answer: plate tectonics
Question: Cullen Skink is a hearty soup made with potatoes, onion and which fish?
Answer: smoked haddock
Question: The Harvey Wall Banger cocktail contain Vodka, orange juice and what else?
Answer: galliano
Question: In Greek cuisine a vine or cabbage leaf with a savoury stuffing is called what?
Answer: dolma
Question: What was the name of the cavalry regiment raised and trained by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
Answer: ironsides
Question: William Howard Russell became famous as what during the Crimean War?
Answer: war correspondent
Question: The Bourbon dynasty began to rule which country from 1700 and still do?
Answer: spain
Question: Near which city in Russia did the greatest tank battle of World War II take place in July 1943?
Answer: kursk
Question: At the battle of Ashdown, in A.D 871, the Danes were defeated by forces under which famous king?
Answer: king alfred
Question: What did Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, die of?
Answer: typhoid
Question: Which World War II General was nicknamed The Desert Fox?
Answer: general erwin rommel
Question: Who was the English King at the Battle of Agincourt?
Answer: henry v
Question: Who were allied with the French Naval forces during The Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: spain
Question: Who was the Supreme Allied Commander during the D Day landings of 1944?
Answer: general dwight d eisenhower
Question: The Seiges of Ladysmith and Mafeking were military actions during which war?
Answer: second boer war
Question: In Finding Nemo, what was the name of Nemo's father.
Answer: marlin
Question: Which progressive rock band had a track called The Fish on their 1971 album Fragile, their 4th album, but the first to feature Rick Wakeman.
Answer: yes
Question: Which comedian, writer & actor had the character Loadsamoney' which he played on his TV shows?
Answer: harry enfield
Question: Which actress played Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films fourteen times, from Dr. No (1962) until her final performance of the character in A View to a Kill (1985).
Answer: lois maxwell
Question: True Cashmere is a product of which kind of animal?
Answer: cashmere goat
Question: Which 1964 film, starring Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins depicted the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift?
Answer: zulu
Question: These were "star-cross'd lovers" whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families.  What were their names?
Answer: romeo and juliet
Question: What is the name of the only Canadian province to have French as its sole official language?
Answer: quebec
Question: According to Greek Mythology, what was the name of the mountain nymph who falls in love with Narcissus?
Answer: echo
Question: A discovery by Professor Wilhelm Roentgen in the 1890s led to which amazing medical invention?
Answer: x ray
Question: Claude Monet, King Hussein of Jordan and Prince Charles all share the same birthday - the 14th .... of  which month?
Answer: november
Question: This word has seven letters, it came before god, is greater than god, more evil than the devil, poor people have it, rich people want it, if you eat it you would die. What is it?
Answer: nothing
Question: What is the fulkl name of the Headmaster of Hogwarts who is killed in book 6?
Answer: albus percival wulfric brian dumbledore
Question: Which British Blue Peter presenter is attempting, in January 2012, to get to the South Pole on a variety modes of transport - including a bike and kite ski?
Answer: helen skelton
Question: Which British explorer was the  first ship's captain to stop the disease scurvy (now known to be caused by a lack of vitamin C) among sailors by providing them with fresh fruits?
Answer: captain james cook
Question: Which Portuguese explorer discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East - thought to be impossible at the time - in 1497??
Answer: vasco da gama
Question: In the Old English saga Beowulf, what is the name of the monster?
Answer: grendel
Question: A village in North Wales is named for the grave of a legendary dog. What is it's name?
Answer: beddgelert
Question: Doncaster airport takes its name from which figure in folklore?
Answer: robin hood
Question: In Arthurian legend, who fought the Green Night?
Answer: gawain
Question: What is the name given to the collection of Welsh legends?
Answer: mabinogion
Question: St George is the patron saint of England, but in which country would you find his tomb?
Answer: israel
Question: Which group had a Top Ten hit in 1986 with 'Hunting High And Low'.
Answer: ha
Question: Who starred as Will Kane in the 1952 film 'High Noon'.
Answer: gary cooper
Question: What is the name of Frank and Betty Spencer's daughter in Some Mothers Do Have Em?
Answer: jessica
Question: Which sitcom starred Leonard Rossiter in the role of a supermarket manager?
Answer: tripper s day
Question: What is the name of the church in The Vicar of Dibley?
Answer: st barnabus
Question: In The Young Ones who shared the house with Rick, Vivian and Neil?
Answer: mike
Question: The Kipper and the Corpse was an episode from which classic comedy series?
Answer: fawlty towers
Question: What was the name of the character played by Alyson Hannigan in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
Answer: willow rosenburg
Question: The three commonest horse coats are: bay, grey and which other colour?
Answer: chestnut
Question: Who starred in the films: The Gold Rush, City Lights & Modern Times?
Answer: charlie chaplin
Question: Whose debut album released in 1998 was entitled The Voice of an Angel?
Answer: charlotte church
Question: Which actor, possibly best known for his portrayal of Clark Griswald, hosted the American Acadamy Awards Ceremony in both 1987 and 1988?
Answer: chevy chase
Question: Which actress played Monica Geller in the TV series Friends?
Answer: courteney cox
Question: Which fashion designer was chiefly responsible for the popularization of  the Little Black Dress?
Answer: coco chanel
Question: Which supermodel was married to Richard Gere between 1991 and 1995?
Answer: cindy crawford
Question: Which football club played at White City stadium in the 62-63 season as an experiment, deciding against a permanent move.
Answer: queens park rangers
Question: Who was the first foreign player to score a hat trick in the Premiership?
Answer: eric cantona
Question: 1981 film set in Russia, produced, directed and starring Warren Beatty. Also starring Dianne Keaton
Answer: reds
Question: 1978 song , sung by Warren Zevon.
Answer: werewolves of london
Question: What is the venue for the 2012 Olympic Badminton ?
Answer: wembley arena
Question: In which event did Boris Onischenko compete before being disqualified for cheating at the 1976 Montreal Games?
Answer: modern pentathlon
Question: Which is the only country to have hosted the winter and summer Olympics in the same year?
Answer: germany 1936
Question: Which was the first country to host the Olympic games for a second time?
Answer: france
Question: Which country were appearing at their first finals during Euro 2012 ?
Answer: ukraine
Question: Who was the only player to make the UEFA team of the tournament whose team was knocked out in the group stages?
Answer: zlatan ibrahimovic
Question: What was the nationality of Pedro Proenca who refereed the final?
Answer: portuguese
Question: What was the nickname of Captain Pierce in the TV series MASH
Answer: hawkeye
Question: Name the Captain of the Titanic when she sunk in 1912
Answer: edward smith
Question: Who made the album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Answer: elton john
Question: What was the first name of Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army.
Answer: george
Question: Which German statesman was known as the Iron Chancellor?
Answer: otto von bismarck
Question: Which U.S. artist was famous for his unique drip painting?
Answer: jackson pollack
Question: Who was the field marshal who commanded the 8th army during the Battle of El Alamein?
Answer: bernard montgomery
Question: Which celebrity chef who has appeared in Hell`s Kitchen and Kitchen Wars was born in Leeds?
Answer: marco pierre white
Question: Which English actress, married to Tim Burton starred in A Room With a View and Fight Club?
Answer: helena bonham carter
Question: Which cat spends most of his time chasing Tweety Pie?
Answer: sylvester
Question: What is the name of the cat on the show regularly watched by Bart and Lisa Simpson?
Answer: scratchy
Question: Sea, Black, Bald, Phillipine and Crested are all types of what?
Answer: eagle
Question: In which 2006 film does Mark Wahlberg try out for a University American Football team?
Answer: invincible
Question: Which UK manufacturer produced models such as Trident, Spitfire, Bonneville, Daytona and Dolomite?
Answer: triumph
Question: In nautical terms, what is the name of the extension of a ship's side above the level of the weather deck?
Answer: bulwark
Question: Which one word connects Elton John, Steptoe & Son and a Disney animated film?
Answer: hercules
Question: In which group of British Islands would you find the port of Sullom Voe?
Answer: shetlands
Question: Vaduz is the capital of which doubly land locked central European principality?
Answer: liechtenstein
Question: The International border of China and one other country runs across the precise summit of Mount Everest. What is the capital city of the other country?
Answer: kathmandu
Question: Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, shares his better known title with which Southern Hemisphere capital city?
Answer: wellington
Question: Amsterdam is the capital city of the Netherlands, but where is the Dutch Seat of Government based?
Answer: hague
Question: Hallertau, Tettnanger, Spalt, and Saaz all all varieties of what plant?
Answer: hops
Question: In Canada, the Molson family owns which NHL Team?
Answer: montreal canadiens
Question: Name the late 1970's cult TV programme, which was based on the 16th century Chinese novel, journey to the west?
Answer: monkey
Question: Which Peter Benchley novel was made into a film in 1975 by Steven Spielberg?
Answer: jaws
Question: Which song title connects Huey Lewis and the news, Jennifer Rush and Frankie goes to Hollywood?
Answer: power of love
Question: What was the name of the nuclear reactor that caused worldwide concern after the earthquake in Japan, 2011?
Answer: fukushima daiichi
Question: In April 2010, a drilling rig run by BP suffered an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.  Name that rig.
Answer: deepwater horizon
Question: On 13 January 2012, what ship hit a rock off Isola del Giglio?
Answer: costa concordia
Question: Which bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August, 1945
Answer: fat man
Question: Which musical group had the single New York Mining Disaster, 1941
Answer: bee gees
Question: This former BBC royal reporter proved popular with the public, finishing as runner-up in the third series of the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2004.
Answer: jenny bond
Question: Samantha Bond starred as Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films between 1995 and 2002. She also plays the recurring character of Auntie Angela in which BBC semi-improvised comedy series?
Answer: outnumbered
Question: OK, a James Bond question: how many actors have played James Bond in the official' movies?
Answer: seven
Question: What ship was the subject of the mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against Capt. William Bligh.
Answer: hms bounty
Question: what was Sir Francis Drake'sship during his global circumnavigation between 1577 & 1580.
Answer: golden hind
Question: Which ship gained notoriety when it spilt oil all over Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.
Answer: exxon valdez
Question: What was the worlds first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, still in commission with the US Navy
Answer: uss enterprise
Question: Worlds first nuclear powered sub & first to complete a submerged transit across North Pole.
Answer: uss nautilus
Question: Raft used by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl named after Inca Sun God.
Answer: kon tiki
Question: Launched in 1906 & became a generic term for modern battleships and the name of a class of battleships in the Royal Navy.
Answer: hms dreadnought
Question: In August 2009, the band Train released what hit, that made it to #3 on the American Billboard charts?
Answer: hey soul sister
Question: What make of car was used as the platform for the time machine in the Back to the Future franchise?
Answer: delorean
Question: The high speed network of bullet trains in Japan is known as what?
Answer: shinkansen
Question: Which legendary creature has the body,back legs and tail of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle?
Answer: griffin
Question: Who became the first British Formula 1 champion in 1958?
Answer: mike hawthorn
Question: What was the name of country music`s first superstar who died at the age of 29 from drink and drug abuse?
Answer: hank williams
Question: What popular drink was originally called `Brad`s Drink`?
Answer: pepsi
Question: Who did John Wilkes Booth assassinate in April 1865?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order. (Bonus point for to whom)
Answer: eric morecambe
Question: What is the proper name for the flag flown by the Merchant Navy sometimes known as a Red Duster?
Answer: red ensign
Question: What was the name of the ship commanded by Captain Pugwash?
Answer: black pig
Question: After the mutiny on the Bounty, where did Christan Fletcher and his mutineers settle?
Answer: pitcairn island
Question: Lucy Honeychurch is the heroine of which EM Forster novel later made into a film?
Answer: room with view
Question: Which famoust picture by Constable shows a wagon in the river near Flatford?
Answer: haywain
Question: Who is the author of the Game of Thrones series of novels?
Answer: george r r martin
Question: What is the title of the play by Arthur Miller set around the Salem Witch trials of 1692?
Answer: crucible
Question: Who won the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight's Children?
Answer: salman rushdie
Question: What are Pioneer, Challenger and Pilgrim varieties of?
Answer: varieties of hop
Question: Which beer was advertised in the 1980s using scenes from the film Ice Cold in Alex?
Answer: carlsberg
Question: What is used to flavour the Kriek beer from Belgium?
Answer: cherries
Question: What is the title of the first James Bond novel published in 1953?
Answer: casino royal
Question: The Chief Electrician responsible for lighting on a film or TV set is known as what?
Answer: gaffer
Question: Which farm animal appears on the flag of the Falklands Islands?
Answer: sheep
Question: In Norse mythology, what is the name of the dwelling place of the gods?
Answer: asgard
Question: In geometry, what is the name given to a triangle with two equal sides and angles?
Answer: isosceles
Question: The Kama Sutra was originally written in which ancient language?
Answer: sanskrit
Question: In the cartoon Roobarb and Custard, what colour is Custard?
Answer: pink
Question: Who was the 16th President of the United States of America?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: Who wrote the poem The Owl and the Pussycat?
Answer: edward lear
Question: What was the name of the experimental raft built by Thor Heyerdahl and named after an Inca Sun God?
Answer: kon tiki
Question: What was the name of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945?
Answer: fat man
Question: What is the name of the helicopter used to transport the President of the USA?
Answer: marine one
Question: What was the name of Francis Drake's ship in which he circumnavigated the world?
Answer: golden hind
Question: Which remote island in the Outer Hebrides was evacuated in 1930 and is no longer inhabited?
Answer: st kilda
Question: Who was the first person to cross the English Channel by aeroplane?
Answer: louis bleriot
Question: At Dettingen in 1743 who was the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle?
Answer: george ii
Question: At the 1908 Olympic Games, City of London Police defeated Liverpool Polce to win gold - at what event?
Answer: tug of war
Question: Who took Bonnie Prince Charlie disguised as a woman from Benbecula to Skye
Answer: flora mcdonald
Question: King Henry I reportededly died from eating a surfeit of .... what?
Answer: lampreys
Question: What is the largest of the three paired muscles in the buttocks?
Answer: gluteus maximus
Question: Which planet orbits the sun at a n average distance of approximately 150 million kilometers?
Answer: earth
Question: Graham Nash left which group in 1968 to join David Crosby and Stephen Stills?
Answer: hollies
Question: Who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mrs Robinson in The Graduate?
Answer: anne bancroft
Question: What film of 1968 set in the 41st Century starred Jane Fonda and Milo O'Shea?
Answer: barbarella
Question: Who sang  with Queen on their 1981 UK Number One Under Pressure?
Answer: david bowie
Question: Whose assassination on 28 June 1914 sparked the war?
Answer: archduke franz ferdinand
Question: Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of war?
Answer: herbert henry asquith
Question: Who wrote the music for the song Keep the Home Fires Burning?
Answer: ivor novello
Question: How many British troops were killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916?
Answer: 20 000
Question: In which country is Vimy Ridge, site of a battle in April 1917?
Answer: fracne
Question: Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F Kennedy, but who shot him?
Answer: jack ruby
Question: Who stabbed Jean-Paul Marat in his bath in 1793, an act which has later been seen as patriotic?
Answer: charlotte corday
Question: Which is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated?
Answer: spencer perceval
Question: Politician Airey Neave was assassinated in Westminster in 1979 - how was the killing carried out?
Answer: car bomb
Question: Which British jounalist was shot outside her home in Fulham 1999?
Answer: jill dando
Question: In which fictional county would you find DCI Tom Barnaby?
Answer: midsomer
Question: Which David Essex hit was co-written by Mike Batt & Tim Rice?
Answer: winter s tale
Question: A UK Number 1 for Diana Ross in March 1986 written by the Bee Gees?
Answer: chain reaction
Question: Who won an Academy Award for best supporting actor forThe Fighter?
Answer: christian bale
Question: An idiom meaning a no win situation came from which novel by Joseph Heller?
Answer: catch 22
Question: Tufted, Ruddy and Mandarin are types of which bird species?
Answer: duck
Question: Which 1949 British film featured the character of Harry Lime?
Answer: third man
Question: Who is known in Scotland as 'Duke of Rothesay' and has the middle names of Philip Arthur George?
Answer: prince charles
Question: Which actor has played Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Dr. Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986) and Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993)?
Answer: charles dance
Question: Carlos Irwin EstĂŠvez is better known by what stage name?
Answer: charlie sheen
Question: Which actor has been cast opposite Dakota Johnson to play Christian Grey in the film of Fifty Shades of Grey?
Answer: charlie hunnam
Question: Which hard-man American actor was married to Jill Ireland from 1968 until her death in 1990?
Answer: charles bronson
Question: What is the IATA airport code for the largest airport of France?
Answer: cdg
Question: For your eyes only was the 12th Bond film, and the 5th to star which actor in the lead role?
Answer: roger moore
Question: Which band sang the 1982 theme tune to Rocky III, 'Eye of the Tiger'?
Answer: survivor
Question: What was the final film directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in the lead roles?
Answer: eyes wide shut
Question: What is the more common name of the Peafowl, a species of flying birdbest known for the male's extravagant eye-spotted tail covert feathers?
Answer: peacock
Question: On Christmas day in 2000, which country officially established a new National Anthem?
Answer: russia
Question: Who wrote the poem Twas the night before Christmas also called "A Visit from St. Nicholas in 1822?
Answer: clement clarke moore
Question: Which comedy star plays the title character in the film Elf?
Answer: will ferrel
Question: Which ancient relic was stolen by Scottish Activists from Westminster Abbey and returned to Scotland on Christmas day in 1950?
Answer: stone of scone
Question: At the end of the novel 'The Day Of The Triffids', on what island do the two sighted protagonists Bill Masen and Josella Payton eventually find refuge?
Answer: isle of wight
Question: Which region in the Pacific ocean is also the name of a character in the Dr. Doolittle' stories?
Answer: polynesia
Question: Which artist is famous for his statue The Thinker'?
Answer: auguste rodin
Question: Who was the pilot hero of Captain W.E. Johns stories?
Answer: biggles
Question: Which Scottish golfer (aka Mrs Doubtfire) has won a record eight European Tour Order of Merit titles, including a streak of seven consecutively from 1993 to 1999?
Answer: colin montgomerie
Question: In which town is the cartoon series 'The Simpsons' based around?
Answer: springfield
Question: Since 1934, the annual Golf Masters tournament is the only major played each year at the same course. Name the course?
Answer: augusta national golf club
Question: What is the often used name of the political protest of throwing a beverage into a harbour in December 1773?
Answer: boston tea party
Question: Which American actor, who sadly passed on October 31st 1993 at the age of 23, was the older brother of Rain, Joaquin, Summer & Liberty?
Answer: river phoenix
Question: What was the name of the German Chancellor, the primary force behind the unification of Germany 1871, who also had a famous battleship named after him?
Answer: otto von bismarck
Question: A Stephen King 1975 horror fiction novel which involves a writer (named Ben Mears) who returns to the town where he lived as a boy, to discover that the residents are all becoming vampires?
Answer: salem s lot