CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The Lines of Torres Vedras were lines of forts built in 1809-1810 during the Peninsular War to defend which city?
Answer: lisbon
Question: Which Australian Prime Minister disappeared, presumed drowned in 1967?
Answer: harold holt
Question: Who wrote the 17th century verse play Samson Agonistes?
Answer: john milton
Question: The memoirs of Jennifer Worth form the basis of which BBC TV drama series?
Answer: call midwife
Question: Which Scot won a Gold medal at the 1991 World Athletics Championships and a Silver medal at the 1988 Olympics in the 10000 metres – she also won the London Marathon in 1996?
Answer: liz mccolgan
Question: FOUR, released last year is a chart-topping album by which boy band, their last with five members?
Answer: one direction
Question: Who is the only ‘dragon’ to have appeared in every series of Dragons’ Den?
Answer: peter jones
Question: Which Football League club is known as the Spireites?
Answer: chesterfield
Question: What name is given to metals such as gold and silver which are unreactive and not readily subject to corrosion?
Answer: noble metals
Question: In which city is the Juilliard School of Music?
Answer: new york
Question: Which 1984 film relates the experiences of photographer Dith Pran?
Answer: killing fields
Question: Master of the House is a song featuring in which musical?
Answer: les miserables
Question: In Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women, what is the name of the family whose story is told?
Answer: march
Question: Which British politician lived at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, now in the care of the National Trust?
Answer: benjamin disraeli
Question: What is the title of the novel published this year that was originally the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: go set watchman
Question: Francis II was the last man to hold which imperial title, abolished in 1806?
Answer: holy roman emperor
Question: Which apple brandy is named after a district in Normandy?
Answer: calvados
Question: Which Swiss tennis player won three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in 2015 with her Indian partner Leander Paes?
Answer: martina hingis
Question: In Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev which instrument represents the cat?
Answer: clarinet
Question: Who won the Bermondsey by-election in 1983 for the Liberal Party – he held his seat until the 2015 General Election when he lost it as a Liberal Democrat?
Answer: simon hughes
Question: On which Scottish Island would you find the Callanish Standing Stones?
Answer: lewis
Question: In the nursery rhyme, where did Doctor Foster go in a shower of rain?
Answer: gloucester
Question: According to the writer Roald Dahl who is Champion of the World?
Answer: danny
Question: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a territory of which country?
Answer: india
Question: In which TV show did the character Frasier Crane first appear?
Answer: cheers
Question: Which architect designed the house Fallingwater near Pittsburgh, and the Robie House in Chicago?
Answer: frank lloyd wright
Question: According to the Bible’s New Testament, who replaced Judas Iscariot as one of Jesus’ twelve disciples?
Answer: matthias
Question: Which line on the London Underground links Euston and Waterloo?
Answer: northern
Question: Which 2013 film tells the story of P L Travers (authoress of Mary Poppins) meeting with Walt Disney?
Answer: saving mr banks
Question: Matteo Renzi became the youngest ever Prime Minister of which country in March last year?
Answer: italy
Question: The song La donna e mobile comes from which Verdi opera?
Answer: rigoletto
Question: Which novelist and critic, who was married to Iris Murdoch for over forty years, died earlier this year aged 89?
Answer: john bayley
Question: For which club did footballer Robert Lewandowski score five goals in nine minutes against Wolfsburg in September 2015?
Answer: bayern munich
Question: Who was the official court painter to Henry VIII of England?
Answer: hans holbein
Question: What is the name of the heroine in The Hunger Games?
Answer: katniss everdeen
Question: Who won Britain’s only 2014 Winter Olympics gold medal?
Answer: lizzy yarnold
Question: a Which river runs through Wensleydale in North Yorkshire?
Answer: ure
Question: What was the birth surname of the man who became to be known as Vladimir Lenin?
Answer: ulyanov
Question: Which soft drink, formulated by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas, was first marketed nationally in 1904?
Answer: dr pepper
Question: Leonora is the heroine of which opera premiered in 1805?
Answer: fidelio
Question: Which Swedish crime writer and dramatist died in October 2015 aged 67?
Answer: henning mankell
Question: The Waterloo & City Line on the London Underground links Waterloo to which other station?
Answer: bank
Question: Who became the second-youngest Prime Minister of Canada following the 2015 General Election?
Answer: justin trudeau
Question: Which river runs through the Cumbrian town of Kendal?
Answer: kent
Question: ‘Operation Valentine’was the World War II codename for the 1940 British occupation of which Danisislands?
Answer: faroe islands
Question: Lungs, released in 2009, was the first album by the band (who) and the Machine?
Answer: florence
Question: In Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend to which character does the title refer?
Answer: john harmon
Question: Founded in 1760 Hamley’s is the oldest of which type of shop in the world?
Answer: toy
Question: What is the English title of the Christmas carol originally written in Latin as Adeste Fideles?
Answer: o come all ye faithful
Question: Kitchener was one of the original members of the Order of Merit together with which surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery?
Answer: joseph lister
Question: Which area of Haringey, North London shares its name with the cluster of stars also known as The Pleiades?
Answer: seven sisters
Question: Sebastian Vettel won the Formula One championship four years running from 2010-2013 driving for which team?
Answer: red bull
Question: Which composer wrote the tune to which Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is sung?
Answer: mozart
Question: Which poet wrote the lines: “Theirs is not to question why, Theirs is but to do and die”?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: What is the alter-ego of the Marvel Comics super-hero Iron Man?
Answer: tony stark
Question: What was the name of the pop-up exhibition organised by street artist Banksy in a disused lido at Weston-Super-Mare? It was open to the public for a short time in Autumn 2015.
Answer: dismaland
Question: Benjamin Britten's last opera. Death in Venice, is based on a 1912 short story by which author?
Answer: thomas mann
Question: In which city did the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, known informally as The Earth Summit, take place in June 1992?
Answer: rio de janeiro
Question: What is the stage name of the English actor and comedian born in 1970 whose real name is Michael Pennington?
Answer: johnny vegas
Question: Between 1903 and 1905 who composed the orchestral composition La Mer?
Answer: debussy
Question: Rudolf Abel was exchanged by the Americans for the return of whom?
Answer: gary powers
Question: In the 2003 film Love Actually, which actor plays the part of the pop star Billy Mack who is first seen recording the song Christmas is All Around?
Answer: bill nighy
Question: What is the name of the former Bolton Wanderers footballer who survived the cardiac arrest he suffered during an FA Cup tie (against Spurs) in March 2012?
Answer: fabrice muamba
Question: What name is given to the bone and cartilage in the nose that separates the nasal cavity into the two nostrils?
Answer: nasal septum
Question: In 2008 who became the first British female jockey to ride one hundred winners in a calendar year?
Answer: hayley turner
Question: What was the name of the former Russian spy who died in London in November 2006 of polonium poisoning?
Answer: alexander litvinenko
Question: Which 1953 novel begins with the line “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”?
Answer: go between
Question: Which jockey was runner up to A P McCoy on fifteen of the twenty occasions when the latter won the National Hunt Jockeys’ championship?
Answer: richard johnson
Question: Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee are characters in which 1964 children’s novel?
Answer: charlie and chocolate factory
Question: Which mountain range stretches from Morocco, through Algeria and into Tunisia?
Answer: atlas mountains
Question: In which Country is the town of Schengen where the 1985 treaty was signed?
Answer: luxembourg
Question: Since July 2011, who has been the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund?
Answer: christine lagarde
Question: What is the stage name of the entertainer born in Bradford in 1982 whose real name is Stephen Frayne?
Answer: dynamo
Question: In which American state is Roswell, where it is claimed a U.F.O. crashed in 1947?
Answer: new mexico
Question: Who won a best supporting actor Oscar for his performance as Little Bill Daggett in the 1992 film “Unforgiven”?
Answer: gene hackman
Question: Actress Dakota Johnson is the daughter of actor Don Johnson and which actress?
Answer: melanie griffith
Question: Which Democrat did George W Bush defeat in the 2000 US Presidential Election?
Answer: al gore
Question: “If music be the food of love, play on” is the opening line from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: Phil Lynott was lead singer and bassist with which rock group from 1969 to 1983?
Answer: thin lizzy
Question: Who, in June 1963, became the first woman to go into space?
Answer: valentina tereshkova
Question: Which vegetable is known to Americans as Zucchini?
Answer: courgette
Question: Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was located at Ephesus?
Answer: temple of artemis
Question: In mythology, in which country is Benzaiten the Goddess of Love and Luck?
Answer: japan
Question: Nicky Morgan is the current Secretary of State of which Government Department?
Answer: education
Question: In the children’s animated TV series, who was the uncle and arch enemy of Noggin the Nog?
Answer: nogbad bad
Question: Black, White, Sumatran and Javan are varieties of which endangered species of animal?
Answer: rhinoceros
Question: A competitor in the 2000 Sydney Olympics - by what nickname was Equatorial Guinean swimmer Eric Moussambani known?
Answer: eric eel
Question: Who plays Father Brown in the 2013 BBC TV series of the same name?
Answer: mark williams
Question: Which Indian city, the capital of Rajasthan, is known as the ‘Pink’ city?
Answer: jaipur
Question: Which is the only current Football League team to play its home games in Kent?
Answer: gillingham
Question: ‘Blood and Fire’ is the motto of which charitable organisation?
Answer: salvation army
Question: Which feminist book label was established by Carmen Callil and others in 1973?
Answer: virago
Question: In which Royal Chapel situated in the Tower of London is Anne Boleyn buried?
Answer: st peter ad vincula
Question: What fictional place name connects a literary version of Salisbury and the comic cartoon character Roy of the Rovers?
Answer: melchester
Question: Michael Fallon is the current Secretary of State for which Government Department?
Answer: defence
Question: Which author wrote the comic play ‘The Admirable Crichton' in 1902?
Answer: j m barrie
Question: The Pollex is the anatomical name for what part of the human body?
Answer: thumb
Question: Derived from a word meaning ‘rows of lighted lamps’, what is the Hindu Festival of Lights called?
Answer: diwali
Question: Which actor provides the voice of Po the Kung Fu Panda in the two films in the series?
Answer: jack black
Question: Which organisation’s flag includes an image of the continents of the world flanked by olive branches on a blue field?
Answer: united nations
Question: In which fictional English county is the radio series ‘The Archers’ set?
Answer: borsetshire
Question: A sackbut was an early form of which musical instrument?
Answer: trombone
Question: Which chemical element, atomic number 35, takes its name from the Greek word for ‘stench’?
Answer: bromine
Question: What is the only malt whisky distilled on the Isle of Skye?
Answer: talisker
Question: Which Irish poet and dramatist was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature in 1923?
Answer: w b yeats
Question: Griffin Park is the home ground of which Championship Football League team?
Answer: brentford
Question: Which Italian dessert is usually made from egg yolks, sugar and Marsala?
Answer: zabaglione
Question: Which Robert L Stevenson novel of 1883 was originally entitled ‘The Sea Cook - A Story for Boys’?
Answer: treasure island
Question: Which American businessman presented the original TV series ‘The Apprentice’ which premiered in 2004?
Answer: donald trump
Question: At which Crimean port did F D Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet for a conference in February 1945?
Answer: yalta
Question: Who wrote the 1946 play ‘The Winslow Boy’?
Answer: terence rattigan
Question: Which media executive set up the TV channel CNN in 1980?
Answer: ted turner
Question: The Hallux is the anatomical name for what part of the human body?
Answer: big toe
Question: Under what pseudonym did Edith Pargeter create the detective Brother Cadfael?
Answer: ellis peters
Question: Which British Prime Minister did John Bellingham assassinate in 1812?
Answer: spencer perceval
Question: What is the name of the Queen’s great grandchild, daughter of Zara Tindall (nee Philips)?
Answer: mia
Question: Who wrote the novels "Shout at the Devil” and "When the Lion Feeds"?
Answer: wilbur smith
Question: Which band released albums called "His 'n' Hers" and "Different Class” in the 1990s?
Answer: pulp
Question: What symbol is used to denote a National Trail on footpath signs?
Answer: acorn
Question: Who was appointed Secretary of State for Education in David Cameron's May 2015 cabinet?
Answer: nicky morgan
Question: In which wars did the battles of Towton and Barnet take place?
Answer: wars of roses
Question: The medical condition rhinopharyngitis is more commonly called what?
Answer: common cold
Question: Fountains Abbey is situated three miles SW of which Yorkshire city?
Answer: ripon
Question: The Great Star of Africa, part of the Crown Jewels, is what type of precious stone?
Answer: diamond
Question: In the 1960-68 TV series, what was the character name of "Danger Man"?
Answer: john drake
Question: The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is situated at Bretton Hall near which city?
Answer: wakefield
Question: The name of which Old Testament prophet has come to mean a bringer of bad luck?
Answer: jonah
Question: What was the name the British flagship during the Falklands conflict?
Answer: hms hermes
Question: Who composed the music for the 1937 ballet "Checkmate"?
Answer: arthur bliss
Question: From what wood are the stocks of fine rifles and shotguns made?
Answer: walnut
Question: Which future king of England was born in Caernarfon Castle in 1284?
Answer: edward second
Question: Who wrote, the 2011 sequel to Pride and Prejudice, "Death Comes to Pemberley”?
Answer: p d james
Question: Prior to the introduction of the Euro which country's currency was the tolar?
Answer: slovenia
Question: Which film that won Oscars in April 2015, told the story of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement in 1965?
Answer: selma
Question: Which deposed king of England died in Pontefract Castle in 1400?
Answer: richard second
Question: Prior to the introduction of the Euro which country's currency was the litas?
Answer: lithuania
Question: Who wrote, the 2011 novel about Sherlock Holmes called, 'The House of Silk"?
Answer: anthony horowitz
Question: Which pop group consists of Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders and Nick O'Malley?
Answer: arctic monkeys
Question: Which evolutionary biologist wrote "The Ancestor's Tale" in 2004?
Answer: richard dawkins
Question: On which TV show did the band Electric Mayhem feature?
Answer: muppet show
Question: Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as President of France in 1969?
Answer: georges pompidou
Question: Who, in fiction, arrived in Whitby aboard the schooner Demeter?
Answer: dracula
Question: Which, now ubiquitous, markings first appeared on packs of Wrigley’s chewing gum in 1974?
Answer: bar codes
Question: Nancy Sinatra duetted with which singer on the songs ‘Jackson’, ‘Lady Bird’, 'Summer Wine’ and ‘Did You Ever’?
Answer: lee hazlewood
Question: In the original Genus edition of the game Trivial Pursuit, what colour is the Art & Literature category?
Answer: brown
Question: Three species of swan are commonly found in Britain, mute and whooper are two, what is the third?
Answer: bewick s
Question: In The Jungle Book, Colonel Hathi was the leader of which animals?
Answer: elephants
Question: Who first sailed out of Whitby aboard the collier Freelove - his later ships include HMS Eagle, HMS Solebay, HMS Grenville and HMS Endeavour?
Answer: captain james cook
Question: Created in 1337, which is the oldest dukedom in England?
Answer: cornwall
Question: Statues known as ‘Moai’ stand on which island?
Answer: easter island
Question: Which BBC TV comedy series was set in the French town of Nouvion?
Answer: allo allo
Question: The singer-songwriter, actress, model and dancer known as Solange is the sister of which famous singer?
Answer: beyonce
Question: Which is the county town and administrative centre of the Isle of Anglesey?
Answer: llangefni
Question: In a famous novel, who becomes governess of Thornfield Hall ?
Answer: jane eyre
Question: On which island is the holiday resort of Portinatx?
Answer: ibiza
Question: The Meteorological Office is part of the B.I.S., for what does the I stand?
Answer: business innovation
Question: Which acid used to be made by the lead chamber process but is now usually made by the contact process?
Answer: sulphuric
Question: George Fox founded which religious movement in the mid- 17th century?
Answer: society of friends
Question: The Hahnenkamm ski-run is part of which ski resort?
Answer: kitzbuhel
Question: What is the name of the annual rowing races held on the River Thames on the same course as the University Boat Race but in the opposite direction?
Answer: head of river race
Question: Prior to the 2015 General Election the Father of the House was Sir Peter Tapsell, who currently holds the post?
Answer: gerald kaufman
Question: Who was leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death in May 1994?
Answer: john smith
Question: Emmet Brickowski is the lead character in which 2014 film?
Answer: lego movie
Question: Which popular singer is the daughter of sitar player Ravi Shankar?
Answer: norah jones
Question: Fought in 1827 during the Greek War of Independence, what was the last major sea battle to be fought under sail?
Answer: navarino
Question: Who was the successor to Roy Plomley as host of Desert Island Discs?
Answer: michael parkinson
Question: Who, in 1947, was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound?
Answer: chuck yeager
Question: Which military leader had swords called ‘Tizona' and ‘Colada’?
Answer: el cid
Question: Which large land mammal features in a famous woodcut of 1515 by AIbrecht Durer?
Answer: rhinoceros
Question: The Meteorological Office was founded in 1854, which Vice-Admiral was its first head?
Answer: robert fitzroy
Question: Which 2014 Formula 1 motor racing team shared its name with a town in Surrey?
Answer: caterham
Question: On which river does Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, stand?
Answer: dnieper
Question: The M32 is a short stretch of motorway leading in to which city?
Answer: bristol
Question: Which actor plays Father Brown in the latest T.V. series?
Answer: mark williams
Question: Which actor played Sir Lancelot Spratt in the Doctor films of the 1950’s and 60s?
Answer: james robertson justice
Question: What kind of meat is used in the Italian dish saltimbocca?
Answer: veal
Question: Which car manufacturer produced the small car called the Lacetti?
Answer: chevrolet
Question: Who wrote the book first published in 1933 “The Shape Things to Come”?
Answer: h g wells
Question: The character Duke Vincentio appears in which of Shakespeare’s plays?
Answer: measure for measure
Question: In the film “The Man who Shot Liberty Valance”, who played Liberty Valance?
Answer: lee marvin
Question: To which bird family do puffins and guillemots belong?
Answer: auk family
Question: Which Island Nation was devastated by cyclone Pam in March 2015?
Answer: vanuatu
Question: At which racecourse does the Ebor Racing Festival take place?
Answer: york
Question: Who directed the 2015 film The Man from UNCLE?
Answer: guy richie
Question: In which poem by John Masefield does the “dirty British Coaster” appear?
Answer: cargoes
Question: In which town or city is Banksy’s Dismaland?
Answer: weston super mare
Question: Which of the biblical judges selected his army by how they drank from a stream?
Answer: gideon
Question: The flower known as the carnation is a member of which plant family?
Answer: dianthus
Question: Who was principal ballerina of the Royal Ballet from 1989 to 2006?
Answer: darcy bussell
Question: What code name was given to the temporary harbours towed to and anchored off the Normandy beachheads?
Answer: mulberry
Question: Who beat Andy Murray in the final of the Australian Open in 2015?
Answer: novak djokovic
Question: Which beer is advertised by actor Jean-Claude Van Damme?
Answer: coors
Question: In the play of the same name what was the name of the Merchant of Venice?
Answer: antonio
Question: Who took over from Ben Miller as the lead in TV’s Death in Paradise in 2014?
Answer: kris marshall
Question: Who portrays the Kray Twins in the 2015 film Legend?
Answer: tom hardy
Question: In 1981 the single “Girls on Film” was the first top ten entry for which group
Answer: duran duran
Question: Which bird a common summer visitor to the UK has the Latin name hirundo rustica?
Answer: swallow
Question: In which city in 1906 was the Rotary Club Organisation founded?
Answer: chicago
Question: The River Cam is the main tributary of which major river?
Answer: great ouse
Question: Which artist and sculptor who died in 2010 was nicknamed Spiderwoman?
Answer: louise bourgeois
Question: Marble is a metamorphosed form of which sedimentary rock?
Answer: limestone
Question: The plant genus known as ilex covers several species of shrub. They are commonly known by what name?
Answer: holly
Question: Which orange star forms the “eye” of Taurus, the Bull?
Answer: aldebaran
Question: As at June 2015 for which F1 team do Jensen Button and Fernando Alonso race?
Answer: mclaren
Question: Who became first President of Israel in 1948?
Answer: chaim weizmann
Question: The Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Arts is in which British city?
Answer: bristol
Question: Fuerteventura and La Gomera are two islands in which archipelago?
Answer: canary islands
Question: Which Italian renaissance painter (1485-1576) had the surname Vecellio?
Answer: titian
Question: In which American state is Fort Meade, the HQ of the National Security Agency?
Answer: maryland
Question: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You was a number one hit for Bryan Adams in 1991. In which film of that year did it feature?
Answer: robin hood prince of thieves
Question: Who played the title role in the TV sitcom Rhoda?
Answer: valerie harper
Question: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and who else made up the Gang of Four?
Answer: bill rodgers
Question: What is the principal ingredient of the dish baba ghanoush?
Answer: aubergine
Question: What is the name of the 15-minute news programme on BBC Radio 1 broadcast at 12 45 and 1745 on weekdays?
Answer: newsbeat
Question: Which architect designed the 2014 Stirling Prize nominated London Aquatics Centre, where the Olympic indoor water sports were staged?
Answer: zaha hadid
Question: What is the first name of the successful singer brother of the actor Anthony Head?
Answer: murray
Question: Who rode Don’t Push It to victory in the 2010 Grand National?
Answer: p mccoy
Question: In which film did Gordon McRae play Billy Bigelow after Frank Sinatra dropped out?
Answer: carousel
Question: Love is All Around was a number one hit for Wet Wet Wet in 1994. In which film of that year did it feature?
Answer: four weddings and funeral
Question: Who played the title role in the TV sitcom Ugly Betty?
Answer: america ferrera