CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: A gastrectomy is the removal of which part of the human body?
Answer: stomach
Question: What are the names of the leather boxes, sometimes called phylacteries, worn by orthodox Jewish men on their head and arm during weekday morning prayers?
Answer: tefillin
Question: Who married Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey in November 1973?
Answer: princess anne
Question: Lady Day (The Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin) falls in which month of the year?
Answer: march
Question: Which US cartoon series first appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show in April 1987?
Answer: simpsons
Question: Swiss author Johanna Spyri wrote which famous children’s book about a young orphan girl in her grandfather’s care?
Answer: heidi
Question: Which British Merseybeat singer was born William Howard Ashton in 1943?
Answer: billy j kramer
Question: Who wrote the 1924 musical composition ‘Rhapsody in Blue’?
Answer: george gershwin
Question: Which UK supermarket chain has an in-store section called ‘Market Street’?
Answer: morrisons
Question: George Clooney, Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer have all played which fictional character on film?
Answer: batman
Question: Which English comedian was born Frederick Fowell in 1943?
Answer: freddie starr
Question: In the Shakespeare play ‘The Merchant of Venice’, who is Jessica’s father?
Answer: shylock
Question: Which modern-day country was formerly known as British Honuduras?
Answer: belize
Question: In the BBC television series Dr Who, the villain Davros was from which fictional planet?
Answer: skaro
Question: In the Harry Potter series of books, whose pets were named Fang and Fluffy?
Answer: rubeus hagrid
Question: Who played Pussy Galore in the 1964 James Bond film ‘Goldfinger’?
Answer: honor blackman
Question: Norwegian Omelette is another name for which dessert?
Answer: baked alaska
Question: In describing which city, author Tom Wolfe said ‘Culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather’?
Answer: new york
Question: The 1703 ‘Methuen Treaty’ was a military and commercial treaty between Britain and which other European country?
Answer: portugal
Question: The ‘Avesta’ is the book of sacred writings in which religion?
Answer: zoroastrianism
Question: Who was voted in as Mayor of London in May 2012?
Answer: boris johnson
Question: Who wrote, produced and directed the 2009 film ‘Avatar’?
Answer: james cameron
Question: What was the maiden name the mother of US astronaut Buzz Aldrin?
Answer: moon
Question: Great Leighs Race Course, which opened in 2007, is in which English county?
Answer: essex
Question: In 1973, which horse set new records at the US Kentucky Derby and a new world record at the Belmont Stakes?
Answer: secretariat
Question: Famous racehorse Seabiscuit was the grandson of which racehorse?
Answer: man o war
Question: In the Northern Hemisphere on which date do all racehorses celebrate their birthday?
Answer: january 1st
Question: In the Southern Hemisphere on which date do all racehorses celebrate their birthday?
Answer: august 1st
Question: The English Grand National Steeplechase is held annually at which race course?
Answer: aintree
Question: What is the name of the two-wheeled cart pulled by horses in harness races?
Answer: sulky
Question: Which Australian horse race is marketed as ‘The race that stops a nation’?
Answer: melbourne cup
Question: In 1983, who became the first woman to train an English Grand National winner?
Answer: jenny pitman
Question: Which English horse race is sometimes referred to as the ‘Blue Ribband’ of the turf?
Answer: epsom derby
Question: What were the first names of American novelist J D Salinger?
Answer: jerome david
Question: 18th Century anatomist Anna Manzolini was an expert at making anatomical models from which material?
Answer: wax
Question: In Januaury 1970, Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their farewell concert together at which Las Vegas hotel?
Answer: frontier hotel
Question: Which fish are traditionally used to make Stargazy pie?
Answer: pilchards
Question: Which was the first major battle of the English Civil War, that took place in October 1642?
Answer: battle of edge hill
Question: Which English Test Cricket captain retired from professional cricket in August 2012?
Answer: andrew strauss
Question: Which is the youngest book in the New Testament of The Bible?
Answer: book of revelations
Question: What is the title of English author Jane Austen’s first published novel?
Answer: sense and sensibility
Question: Which London football club is the subject of the novel ‘Fever Pitch’ by Nick Hornby?
Answer: arsenal fc
Question: In mythology, who pulled the thorn from the Lion’s paw?
Answer: androcles
Question: Which British X-Factor judge released a 2012 single entitled ‘Young’?
Answer: tulisa
Question: Who was the first person to report seeing craters on the moon using a telescope?
Answer: galileo
Question: American millionaire Leonard Jerome was the grandfather of which British Prime Minister?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Which line on the London Underground rail system has the longest distance between two stations?
Answer: metropolitan line
Question: Which bird has the poetic name ‘Halycon’?
Answer: kingfisher
Question: Brownsea Island is off the coast of which English county?
Answer: dorset
Question: What is the title of the Millais painting used to advertise Pears Soap?
Answer: bubbles
Question: Which US film director and actor said he wanted to ‘Achieve immortality through not dying’?
Answer: woody allen
Question: Dorothea Jordan was the mistress of which future British monarch?
Answer: william iv
Question: What was the the first name of 17th Century artist van Dyck?
Answer: anthony
Question: A splat is a single thin, flat piece of wood, often ornamental, which forms part of which piece of furniture?
Answer: chair
Question: Tom Church’s statue ‘Freedom’, in Stirling, Scotland, was inspired by which 1995 film?
Answer: braveheart
Question: Caroline, John and Patrick were the children of which US President?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: Late actor Larry Hagman played which character in the US television series ‘Dallas’?
Answer: j r ewing
Question: ‘The Rumble in the ‘what’ took place between boxers George Foreman and Muhammad Ali on 30th October 1974?
Answer: jungle
Question: Which late actor narrated the British children’s television programme ‘Willo the Wisp’?
Answer: kenneth williams
Question: Scottish playwright Sharman Macdonald is the mother of which famous English actress?
Answer: keira knightly
Question: Who wrote the 1890 play ‘Hedda Gabler’?
Answer: henrik ibsen
Question: Which late British Punk rocker had a city square named after him in Grenada, Spain?
Answer: joe strummer
Question: What is the name of the road which runs through the British Grand National race course at Aintree?
Answer: melling road
Question: Who plays alcoholic John Hancock in the 2008 film ‘Hancock’?
Answer: will smith
Question: ‘Alcea rosea’ is the Latin name for which common garden flower?
Answer: hollyhock
Question: ‘The Valley of the ‘what’ is a 1966 novel by US author Jacqueline Susann?
Answer: dolls
Question: Jess Wright, Chloe Sims, Lauren Pope and James Argent all appear in which British Television reality show?
Answer: only way is essex
Question: Euchre, Pinochle and Skat are all games played with what?
Answer: cards
Question: The ‘Wolf Moon’ is the name of the full moon which occurs during which month of the year?
Answer: january
Question: The name of which animal derives from the Native American word for ‘He who kills with one leap’?
Answer: jaguar
Question: ‘Rock Paper Scissors’ is the title of an exhibition which opened in London’s Waddington Custot Galleries in November 2012 in celebration of the 80th birthday of which British artist?
Answer: sir peter blake
Question: Who wrote the 1932 novel ‘Tobacco Road’?
Answer: erskine caldwell
Question: Which country is the only one to hold a Grand Slam Tennis Tournament on clay courts?
Answer: france
Question: What breed of dog is known as a ‘Sausage dog’?
Answer: dachshund
Question: Who was the first centrefold in the December 1953 issue of Playboy magazine?
Answer: marilyn monroe
Question: US singer Tony Christie sang ‘Is This the Way to – ‘where’ in 1971?
Answer: amarillo
Question: What is the name of a Telly Tubby and an Italian river?
Answer: po
Question: What colour shirts did the Italian Fascists wear under the leadership of Benito Mussolini?
Answer: black
Question: Pepe le Pew is what type of cartoon animal?
Answer: skunk
Question: Which theatre opened in Norfolk Street, Sheffield, England in 1971?
Answer: crucible theatre
Question: What was the name of the backing group of British singer Gerry Marsden?
Answer: pacemakers
Question: Who wrote the 1817 novel ‘Northanger Abbey’?
Answer: jane austen
Question: In which US city does Macaulay Culkin end up at Christmas time in Home Alone 2?
Answer: new york
Question: The ‘Althing’ is the national parliament of which country?
Answer: iceland
Question: How many people ride each elephant in the game of Elephant Polo?
Answer: two
Question: Sheppey and Canvey are islands in which English river estuary?
Answer: river thames
Question: Conglomerations of frozen ice crystals which fall through the Earth’s atmosphere are commonly known as what?
Answer: snowflakes
Question: Juan Velasco Alvarado became President of the Revolutionary Government in October 1968 in which south American country?
Answer: peru
Question: Celine Dion won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest for which country?
Answer: switzerland
Question: What is a score of 40-all otherwise known as in the game of tennis?
Answer: deuce
Question: Footballer Mario Balotelli joined which English football club in 2010?
Answer: manchester city
Question: In which country is the 2008 film ‘The Hurt Locker’ set?
Answer: iraq
Question: Holly Valance and Jason Donovan competed in which 2011 UK television show?
Answer: strictly come dancing
Question: Which planet in our solar system has a white cloud pattern in its atmosphere nicknamed ‘Scooter’?
Answer: neptune
Question: ‘Stone Cold Sober’ is the 2009 debut single of which English singer/songwriter?
Answer: paloma faith
Question: Scapa Flow is a body of water in which Scottish island group?
Answer: orkney islands
Question: What is the name of the alley in which cartoon character Top Cat lives?
Answer: hoagy s alley
Question: The world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945 in which US state?
Answer: new mexico
Question: US rock musician Carmine Appice is famous for playing which instrument?
Answer: drums
Question: In which 2001 film does Robert Redford play a court-martialled Lieutenant General who’s sent to jail?
Answer: last castle
Question: The 1914 poem ‘The Soldier’ was written by which English poet?
Answer: rupert brooke
Question: The oil tanker Exxon Valdes ran aground off which US state in 1989?
Answer: alaska
Question: Which English actor/singer was born Michael Dumble-Smith in 1942?
Answer: michael crawford
Question: What is the title of the fourth ‘Dirty Harry’ film, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood?
Answer: sudden impact
Question: Who defeated Edward Heath in 1975 for the leadership of the British Conservative Party?
Answer: margaret thatcher
Question: Which political leader married Austrian Archduchess Marie-Louise in 1810?
Answer: napoleon i
Question: Which French philosopher and mathematician has been dubbed ‘The Father of Modern Philosophy’?
Answer: rene descartes
Question: Who was the closing act at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival?
Answer: richie havens
Question: Getulio Vargas served as President of which South American country for 15 years from 1930?
Answer: brazil
Question: ‘The Road to ‘where’ is the fifth ‘Road’ film starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?
Answer: rio
Question: The United Arab Republic, which began in 1958 and ended in 1961, was a union of which two nations?
Answer: egypt and syria
Question: What is the name of the eagle in the children’s television show ‘The Muppets’?
Answer: sam
Question: Mescaline, a hallucinogenic compound, occurs naturally in several species of which plant?
Answer: cactus
Question: Who announced their resignation as leader of the British Labour Party in October 1980?
Answer: james callaghan
Question: British actress Alison Steadman married which film director/writer in 1973?
Answer: mike leigh
Question: Introduced in the 19th Century in Britain, what were Penny Black and Penny Red?
Answer: postage stamps
Question: ‘World in ‘what’ was a UK current affairs television programme which ran from 1963 to 1998?
Answer: action
Question: Late English actor Oliver Reed played Uncle Frank in which 1975 film?
Answer: tommy
Question: The Swiss pastry Carac is traditionally covered with which colour icing?
Answer: green
Question: The ‘Great Flag Debate’ took place in which country in 1964?
Answer: canada
Question: In January 1987, who became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Answer: aretha franklin
Question: Ommetaphobia is the irrational fear of which part of the body?
Answer: eyes
Question: Which US stadium was nicknamed the ‘House that Ruth Built’?
Answer: yankee stadium
Question: In a standard game of chess, how many queens does each player start with?
Answer: one
Question: The songs ‘Shall We Dance’, ‘Getting to Know You’ and ‘I’ll Whistle a Happy Tune’ are all from which 1956 musical film?
Answer: king and i
Question: In January 1973, the pilot episode of which British television comedy series, the longest-running sitcom in the world, was broadcast?
Answer: last of summer wine
Question: St Andrew’s Day, the patron saint of Scotland, falls in which month of the year?
Answer: november
Question: The song ‘Fashion for His Love’ by Lady Gaga is a tribute to which late fashion designer?
Answer: alexander mcqueen
Question: What is the first name of fictional character ‘Smiley’, created by the author John Le Carre?
Answer: george
Question: Singer David Bowie teamed up with UK band Queen on which 1981 hit single?
Answer: under pressure
Question: The asteroid belt lies roughly between which two planets in our solar system?
Answer: mars and jupiter
Question: During which month in 1666 did the Great Fire of London rage for four days?
Answer: september
Question: Who was billed as ‘Undefeated’ in a boxing match in December 2007 against Floyd Mayweather Jr?
Answer: ricky hatton
Question: In the final Harry Potter novel, who becomes headmaster of Hogwarts School?
Answer: severus snape
Question: What is the surname of Sam in the US television series ‘Cheers’?
Answer: malone
Question: Stermutation is the medical term for which involuntary action in humans?
Answer: sneezing
Question: In 1921, Edith Cowan was the first woman elected to any Parliament in which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Hyperemesis Gravidarum is severe what in females?
Answer: morning sickness
Question: Which character does Antonio Banderos provide the voice for in the 2010 film ‘Shrek Forever’?
Answer: puss in boots
Question: Which gas is used to make the bubbles in fizzy drinks?
Answer: carbon dioxide
Question: Juan Evo Morales Ayma became President of which South American country in 2006?
Answer: bolivia
Question: The Ngultrum is the basic currency of which Asian country?
Answer: bhutan
Question: ‘Ida May’ was the original title of which hit single by Chuck Berry?
Answer: maybellene
Question: In November 1966, which team defeated the New York Giants 72-41 in the highest-scoring game in NFL history?
Answer: washington redskins
Question: Which British band released an 1993 album entitled ‘Walthamstow’?
Answer: east 17
Question: In 1897, Theodor Herzl became the first President of the political form of which movement?
Answer: zionism
Question: Which is the only US state to begin with the letter ‘D’?
Answer: delaware
Question: Which Shakespeare character said ‘A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse’?
Answer: king richard iii
Question: Ben Macdui is part of which European mountain range?
Answer: cairngorms
Question: Johnny Depp plays John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, in which 2004 film?
Answer: libertine
Question: Who was the first foreign coach of the England football squad?
Answer: sven goran eriksson
Question: Jack Nicholson plays the role of private detective Jake Gittes in which 1974 film?
Answer: chinatown
Question: In Greek mythology, who was given asses ears by Apollo for preferring, in a contest, the music of Pan to that of Apollo?
Answer: king midas
Question: Which plant has the Latin name Ribes Rubrum?
Answer: redcurrant
Question: Which British rock band’s original line-up was Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright?
Answer: pink floyd
Question: Which 2010 film stars Mila Kunis as Lily and Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers?
Answer: black swan
Question: Adam Levine is the lead singer of which US pop rock band?
Answer: maroon 5
Question: Which baby pram company, founded in 1877, provided the baby carriage to King George VI for Princess Elizabeth?
Answer: silver cross
Question: What was the maiden name of Jemima, ex-wife of cricketer Imran Khan?
Answer: goldsmith
Question: Which plant, used as a herb, is also known as barbed-wire grass?
Answer: lemongrass
Question: What is the title of the 1984 film starring singer Prince as The Kid?
Answer: purple rain
Question: The original motto of which organisation was ‘Amidst War, Charity’?
Answer: red cross
Question: What is the name of a person who forges and shapes iron with an anvil and hammer?
Answer: blacksmith
Question: What is the name of the unofficial accolade given to passenger liners crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed?
Answer: blue riband
Question: Richard Attenborough played which gang member in the 1947 film ‘Brighton Rock’?
Answer: pinkie brown
Question: Who won their first Formula 1 race at the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix?
Answer: nico rosberg
Question: The ‘Heliocentric Model’ is a theory that places which object as the centre of the Universe?
Answer: sun
Question: Carl Fredricksen, Russell and Dug are all characters in which 2009 Disney film?
Answer: up
Question: Great Train robber Ronald Biggs spent over 20 years in which country before returning to Britain?
Answer: brazil
Question: The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in which US state?
Answer: montana
Question: Which 1968 film starring Marianne Faithful was also known as ‘Naked Under Leather’?
Answer: girl on motorcycle
Question: In the UK television quiz show ‘The Chase’ which chaser is is known as ‘The Beast’?
Answer: mark labbett
Question: Who plays architect Doug Roberts in the 1974 film ‘Towering Inferno’?
Answer: paul newman
Question: During which month of the year is the Crufts Dog Show held in the UK?
Answer: march
Question: The Banoffee Pie was invented at the Hungry Monk restaurant in which English county?
Answer: east sussex
Question: Who  played British fictional television detective Freddie Spender?
Answer: jimmy nail
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’?
Answer: ken kesey
Question: ‘The Stolen Generations’ were children of which country who were taken from their families to be adopted or brought up by the state?
Answer: australia
Question: ‘The Entertainer’ by Scott Joplin is the theme tune for which 1973 film?
Answer: sting
Question: ‘The Long March’ took place in which country in 1934-35?
Answer: china
Question: What is the title of the only published novel by J D Salinger?
Answer: catcher in rye
Question: The first Wendy’s restaurant was opened in 1969 in which US state?
Answer: ohio
Question: In 1497, John ‘who’ was said to have been the first European to have landed on mainland North America?
Answer: cabot
Question: With which song did Swedish pop group Abba win the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: waterloo
Question: In the game of English billiards, how many points does a cannon score?
Answer: two
Question: What is the title of singer Celine Dion’s first UK number one hit single?
Answer: think twice
Question: ‘Dog and Bone’ is Cockney rhyming slang for what?
Answer: phone
Question: Who wrote the trilogy of plays ‘The Norman Conquests’?
Answer: alan ayckbourn
Question: Heteropoda davidbowie is the name given to which rare yellow creature in 2009?
Answer: spider
Question: The 2008 film ‘Valkyrie’ depicts the 1944 plot to assassinate which political figure?
Answer: adolph hitler
Question: Tansu Ciller was the first woman Prime Minister of which European country?
Answer: turkey
Question: Elizabeth Anne Everest was the childhood nanny of which British Prime Minister?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Who wrote the 1902 autobiography ‘The Story of My Life’?
Answer: helen keller
Question: The John Bunn Lifetime Achievement is an annual prize given in which sport?
Answer: basketball
Question: US investigative reporter and author Clifford Irving is best known for his 1971 hoax autobiography of which reclusive businessman?
Answer: howard hughes
Question: Who plays the villainous Soviet agent Irina Spalko in the 2008 film ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’?
Answer: cate blanchett
Question: The Watford Gap service station is on which British motorway?
Answer: m1
Question: The story of the New York gang ‘The Dead Rabbits’ is told in which 2002 film?
Answer: gangs of new york
Question: An Insulinoma is a tumour of which organ of the body?
Answer: pancreas
Question: Who was the last person to leave the house in the first UK television show of Celebrity Big Brother in 2001?
Answer: jack dee
Question: What is the first name of Halley, after who the famous comet is named?
Answer: edmond
Question: The Shinkansen, a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan is also known as the ‘what’ Train?
Answer: bullet
Question: The SNCF is the state-owned railway company in which country?
Answer: france
Question: In May 1994, the Channel Tunnel was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II and which French President?
Answer: francois mitterrand
Question: In June 1883, the ‘Orient Express’ left Paris for which other European city?
Answer: vienna
Question: What was the name of the famous steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company in 1829?
Answer: rocket
Question: Wootten and Belpaire are types of ‘what’ found in steam locomotives?
Answer: firebox
Question: Of the four London stations on a Monopoly board, which was first to open?
Answer: fenchurch street station
Question: What is the name of the house to which the family move in the novel ‘The Railway Children’ by Edith Nesbit?
Answer: three chimneys
Question: Grand Central Terminal (or Grand Central Station) is located at 42nd Street and which Avenue in Midtown Manhatten in New York?
Answer: park avenue
Question: Which US President nationalized American railways in 1917 under the Federal Possession and Control Act?
Answer: woodrow wilson
Question: Which 1945 film, starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, was shot mostly at Carnforth Station in Lancashire?
Answer: brief encounter
Question: Who was named the Greatest Briton of All Time in a 2002 poll?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Which is the northernmost and westernmost station on the London Underground rail system?
Answer: chesham
Question: In which European city was Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale born?
Answer: florence
Question: Sir Edward Burgh was the first husband of which wife of English monarch King Henry VIII?
Answer: catherine parr
Question: Nancy Astley and Kitty Butler are the main characters in which historical novel by Sarah Waters?
Answer: tipping velvet
Question: A group of which birds is known as a ‘Charm’?
Answer: finches
Question: On which island is the former royal residence Osborne House, built for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert?
Answer: isle of wight
Question: In the children’s fairytale, what was transformed into a carriage for Cinderella?
Answer: pumpkin
Question: The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is named after the Roman goddess of what?
Answer: dawn
Question: ‘Forty Years On’ is the title of the first West End play by which British playwright?
Answer: alan bennett
Question: Tracey Thorn was the lead singer in which English pop duo?
Answer: everything but girl
Question: Which opera by Mozart is also known as ‘The Day of Madness’?
Answer: marriage of figaro
Question: What is the name of the island which lies in the middle of the Niagara Falls?
Answer: goat island