CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who was the last Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain (1846- 1852)?
Answer: john russell
Question: In which American city do the Timberwolves play basketball?
Answer: minnesota
Question: Which comedian and actor presents the Radio 4 Programme 'The Unbelievable Truth?
Answer: david mitchell
Question: Philip Glennister played the part of DCI Gene Hunt in the series Life on Mars, who played detective sergeant Ray Carling?
Answer: dean andrews
Question: Which US State achieved statehood in 1889 and is known as the 'Evergreen' state?
Answer: washington
Question: Gibraltar was ceded to Britain under the terms of which treaty?
Answer: treaty of utrecht
Question: In which Classic book and film does the character the Michael Henchard appear?
Answer: mayor of casterbridge
Question: Which Welsh seaport is linked to London by the A40?
Answer: fishguard
Question: Which football manager wrote the autobiography "Farewell but not Goodbye"?
Answer: sir bobby robson
Question: In which German town did Napoleon decisively defeat the Prussian army in 1806, and Carl Zeiss open an optical workshop in 1846?
Answer: jena
Question: The Order of The Elephant is an order of Knighthood in which European country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Name the South African who became the second 'space tourist'?
Answer: mark shuttleworth
Question: Which is the most recent of the four Presidents carved into Mount Rushmore?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: Which TV Chef has a seafood restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall?
Answer: rick stein
Question: Which musical instrument is best associated with 20th Century Musician Andres Segovia?
Answer: guitar
Question: At which 1403 battle was Sir Henry Percy, commonly known as Hotspur, killed?
Answer: battle of shrewsbury
Question: Which city, a former capital of its country, is served by Jinnah International Airport?
Answer: karachi
Question: Which word completes the title of the 1784 portrait by Joshua Reynolds – “Mrs Siddons as the Tragic ????????”
Answer: muse
Question: What was the full title of the men’s magazine which was re-branded to just GQ in 1967?
Answer: gentlemen s quarterly
Question: What is the first name of Mrs Brown in the sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys?
Answer: agnes
Question: Which record by Terry Jacks was Number One in 1974?
Answer: seasons in sun
Question: At which stroke did David Wilkie, Duncan Goodhew and Adrian Moorhouse win Olympic Gold medals?
Answer: breaststroke
Question: In 1814 who completed the two paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808, both now exhibited in the Prado in Madrid?
Answer: francisco goya
Question: Which Poet Laureate was born at Mytholmroyd in Yorkshire?
Answer: ted hughes
Question: Seven matches in the 2014 FIFA World Cup are scheduled to be played at a stadium in Brasilia named after a former player known by what name?
Answer: mané garrincha
Question: Who played the title role in the 2004 film The Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: gerard butler
Question: Whose oratorio The Seasons was first performed in 1801?
Answer: joseph haydn
Question: Which country won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, 1993 and 1994?
Answer: ireland
Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury compiled the first two editions (1549 and 1552) of the Book of Common Prayer?
Answer: thomas cranmer
Question: In which E M Forster novel does Adela Quested travel abroad to marry magistrate Ronny Heaslip?
Answer: passage to india
Question: Goat Fell is the name of hole number 8 on the Ailsa Course at which Open Championship Golf venue?
Answer: turnberry
Question: Cut-Throat Jake, captain of the Flying Dustman, is the enemy of which fictional pirate?
Answer: captain pugwash
Question: Which town is mentioned in the first verse of the hymn O Come, All Ye Faithful?
Answer: bethlehem
Question: The Pitmen Painters is a play by Lee Hall about a group of mostly miners from which town in Northumberland?
Answer: ashington
Question: Which city, known as Florence on the Elbe, is home to the Semper Opera House?
Answer: dresden
Question: Which day of the week completes the name of Detective Inspector Fred ???????? in the TV crime drama Endeavour?
Answer: thursday
Question: The Duke of Windsor was Governor of which British colony between 1940 and 1945?
Answer: bahamas
Question: Daniel Barenboim is the conductor for life of the Berlin State Opera whose permanent home is on which boulevard in the Mitte district of the city?
Answer: unter den linden
Question: In 1814 who wrote the poem which was originally called The Battle of Fort McHenry, now used as the words of the National Anthem of the USA?
Answer: francis scott key
Question: The Brontë sisters were born in the village of Thornton, now part of which Yorkshire city?
Answer: bradford
Question: On which Formula 1 circuit do cars travel along Avenue d’Ostende and Avenue des Beaux Arts?
Answer: monaco
Question: Dupond et Dupont, Professeur Tryphon Tournesol and Milou assist which character in the French version of his adventures?
Answer: tintin
Question: The 1453 Battle of Castillon is considered to be the last battle in which war?
Answer: hundred years war
Question: Which city was the capital of the Republic of Vietnam, which governed the southern half of Vietnam until 1975 – the name at the time is needed?
Answer: saigon
Question: Whose 1954 portrait of Winston Churchill was given to the subject and destroyed on the orders of his wife?
Answer: graham sutherland
Question: Anna Wintour since 1988 and Alexandra Shulman since 1992 have been the editor-in-chief of the American version and the British version of which women’s magazine?
Answer: vogue
Question: Which record by Carl Douglas was Number One in 1974?
Answer: kung fu fighting
Question: Prince Escalus, the Prince of Verona appears in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: romeo and juliet
Question: Which Greek cake is made from filo pastry, nuts, fruit and honey?
Answer: baclava
Question: Which word can be a musical instrument or a quarter bottle of Champagne?
Answer: piccolo
Question: The aria "Vesti La Giubba" (on with the Motley) comes from which Opera?
Answer: i pagliacci
Question: In which musical would you hear the songs "Too darn Hot" and "Brush up your Shakespeare"?
Answer: kiss me kate
Question: Named after a bird which scenic railway line runs from Norwich to Cromer and then onto Sheringham?
Answer: bittern line
Question: A crown and two pips signify which rank in the British Army?
Answer: colonel
Question: Which plant has the botanical name "Saintpaulia"?
Answer: african violet
Question: Fashion designer Schiaparelli was famous for popularising which colour?
Answer: shocking pink
Question: In the 1969 Sam Pekinpah western "The Wild Bunch", who played Pike Bishop the leader of an aging outlaw gang?
Answer: william holden
Question: Which American President (not at the time) married Claudia Taylor in 1934?
Answer: lyndon b johnson
Question: What was the name of the rollercoaster involved in the accident at Alton Towers in June 2015?
Answer: smiler
Question: Which country won the Copa America football championship for the first time in 2015?
Answer: chile
Question: Roland Gift was the lead singer with which group of the 80's and 90's?
Answer: fine young cannibals
Question: Which month in the French Revolutionary Calendar was equivalent to June and had a name meaning "harvest"?
Answer: messidor
Question: Operation "Moonlight Sonata" was a German air raid on which City in December 1940?
Answer: coventry
Question: In which TV cop series of the 1980's, did Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber play the lead roles?
Answer: dempsey and makepeace
Question: Which Indian curry dish has a name meaning "Intense heat"?
Answer: rogan josh
Question: Castoreum is used as a food additive and in some perfumes. It is obtained from the scent glands of which member of the rodent family?
Answer: beaver
Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during the Zulu War?
Answer: benjamin disraeli
Question: In "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan, what is the name of the Mikado's son who is disguised as a wandering minstrel?
Answer: nanki poo
Question: Elizabeth Richardson (1921-27), Pauline Pfeiffer (1927-40), Martha Gellhorn (1940-45) and Mary Welsh (1946-61) were all wives of which American writer?
Answer: ernest hemingway
Question: Which scientist discovered the elements Calcium, Barium and Potassium?
Answer: humphrey davy
Question: """My girl"", ""Just my imagination"" and ""Papa was a rolling stone"" were No1 hits in the 60's and 70's for which Tamla-Motown group?"
Answer: temptations
Question: In which country will the 2018 Winter Olympics be held?
Answer: south korea
Question: What is the name of the Space Probe launched in 2006 to study Pluto?
Answer: new horizons
Question: Born Adeline Stephen in 1882, which writer lived at Monks House in Sussex until her death in 1941?
Answer: virginia woolf
Question: Who is the host of the TV series "Dragon's Den"?
Answer: evan davis
Question: Of which 1960's South London gang was 'Mad Frankie' Fraser a notorious member?
Answer: richardsons
Question: The actress who played 'Mrs. Robinson' in the film 'The Graduate' died in June 2005, what was her name?
Answer: anne bancroft
Question: Beatrix Potter wrote a tale about a Grey Squirrel, what was its title?
Answer: timmy tiptoes
Question: In rowing, what is the action of turning the oar blade flatto reduce wind resistance called?
Answer: feathering
Question: An Act of Parliament instigated by artist William Hogarth,established which commercial principle?
Answer: copyright
Question: In which American city do the 'Rockets' play their home basketball games?
Answer: houston
Question: Which Shipping Weather Forecast Area covers the Shetland Isles?
Answer: fair isle
Question: Who succeeded Brezhnev as President of the USSR in 1982?
Answer: yuri andropov
Question: In which country are Leeds Castle and the Isle of Sheppey?
Answer: kent
Question: Which US World War II General commanded the US forces in China and Burma?
Answer: joseph stilwell
Question: Which English city has districts called 'Manningham', 'Great Horton'and 'Heaton'?
Answer: bradford
Question: In which television programme did the character 'Detective Saperstein' appear?
Answer: kojak
Question: Although humans feature in several Beatrix Potter tales, which is the only one to have a human as the title character?
Answer: tailor of gloucester
Question: In rowing, what name is given to the race in which losing crewsin the heats have a second chance to qualify for the next round?
Answer: repechage
Question: What word can mean either a type of ribbed cloth or a measure of cut wood?
Answer: cord
Question: Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree were members of which pop group?
Answer: blur
Question: In which American city do the 'Supersonics' play their home basketball games?
Answer: seattle
Question: Which English city has districts named 'Belgrave', 'Stoneygate',and 'Aylestone'?
Answer: leicester
Question: In which film does Jack Nicholson persistently write"Allwork and no play makes Jack a dull boy"?
Answer: shining
Question: In which county are Corfe Castle and the Isle of Purbeck?
Answer: dorset
Question: Of which African country, the most populous on the continent, is Abuja the capital?
Answer: nigeria
Question: What, in the Jewish religion, is the 'Scroll of Mosaic Law'called?
Answer: torah
Question: Film actress Harlean Carpentier was better known by what stage name?
Answer: jean harlow
Question: Copyright did not extend to music and lyrics until the 1880's. Which creative Victorian brought about this change?
Answer: w s gilbert
Question: Whose 41st symphony is known as the 'Jupiter'?
Answer: mozart
Question: Associated with a famous incident of 1789, which Pacific island has Adamstown as its main settlement?
Answer: pitcairn
Question: Whose most famous poem is 'The Tay Bridge Disaster of 1880'?
Answer: william mcgonagall
Question: By which work is novelist Laurence Sterne best remembered?
Answer: tristram shandy
Question: During World War I, what was the occupation of E.E. Cummings, Walt Disney, Ernest Hemmingway and Somerset Maugham?
Answer: ambulance drivers
Question: Who played the 'Scarecrow' in the Judy Garland film, 'The Wizard Of Oz'?
Answer: ray bolger
Question: Who played the part of 'Paganini' in the film, 'The Magic Bow'?
Answer: stewart grainger
Question: Who played the Resident Magistrate in Channel Four TV's 'The Irish R.M.'?
Answer: peter bowles
Question: Which American actor played a submarine 'skipper' in the films 'Operation Petticoat' 1959 and 'Destination Tokyo'?
Answer: cary grant
Question: What was the name of the American spy-ship captured by the North Koreans on 24th January 1968?
Answer: u s s pueblo
Question: In Kenneth Graham's book, 'The Wind In The Willows', what is the full name of 'Mr. Toad'?
Answer: j thaddeus toad
Question: To which native American tribe did the great war leader Geronimo, belong?
Answer: apache
Question: Who portrayed the rugby-playing miner in the film, 'This Sporting Life'?
Answer: richard harris
Question: On which river does the legendary 'Lorelei' lie in wait?
Answer: rhine
Question: The Queen and Princess Margaret were referred to as 'Brenda and Yvonne' by which magazine?
Answer: private eye
Question: Who achieved fame for his ,'Confessions Of An English Opium Eater'?
Answer: thomas de quincey
Question: Who wrote the 1948 novel, 'The Heart Of The Matter'?
Answer: graham greene
Question: Who did Jeremy Thorpe replace as leader of the Liberal Party?
Answer: jo grimmond
Question: Dressed in similar fashion to Alan Glazier, which current Darts player throws out replicas of bats at the beginning of his competitions?
Answer: ted hankey
Question: Who sang, 'Autumn Almanac' in 1967?
Answer: kinks
Question: Which metal is alloyed with iron to make Stainless Steel?
Answer: chromium
Question: 'Vision Of A Knight' was the work of which Italian painter?
Answer: raphael
Question: What was the name of the Archangel referred to in the Book of Daniel as "the guardian of Israel"?
Answer: michael
Question: Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera is subtitled, 'A Merryman And His Maid'?
Answer: yeoman of guard
Question: Which playing card is sometimes called 'The Black Lady'?
Answer: queen of spades
Question: Who was the nymph who changed into a Laurel bush to save herself from Apollo?
Answer: daphne
Question: Which character was played by Michelle Collins in 'Eastenders'?
Answer: cindy beale
Question: Who was on the English throne at the time of the 'Battle of Trafalgar'?
Answer: george iii
Question: Elvis Presley, with over abillion sales, has sold more records than anyone in the history of pop music.The Beatles are second, who is third?
Answer: michael jackson
Question: 'Arthur Clennam', 'Jeremiah Flintwinch', and 'Edward Sparkler' are all characters in which Dickens' novel?
Answer: little dorrit
Question: Who wrote "Musichath charms to soothe a savage beast"?
Answer: william congreve
Question: Which iconic British author, an MD for eight years in Southsea, who was born in 1859 and dies in 1930, was knighted for his defence of British policy in South Africa?
Answer: sir arthur conan doyle
Question: 'The Night They Invented Champagne' and 'Thank Heaven For Little Girls', are songs from which musical?
Answer: gigi
Question: Which pop singer survived the car crash that killed Eddie Cochran?
Answer: gene vincent
Question: In the nursery rhyme, what was used to bind 'Jack's' head after he had fallen down the hill?
Answer: vinegar and brown paper
Question: In which country did the 'Graf Spee' take refuge after its epic battle with British warships?
Answer: uruguay
Question: What, in Cambridgeshire, is known as 'the ship of the fens'?
Answer: ely cathedral
Question: Which 1991 film starring Billy Crystal and Jack Palance, was about three friends from New York taking part in a modern cattle drive?
Answer: city slickers
Question: From which London railway station do trains leave for Paris and Brussels?
Answer: st pancras
Question: Who was on the British throne at the time of the 'Spanish Armada'?
Answer: elizabeth i
Question: Taken from the title of a book, which perfume house was founded by Florence Graham in 1910?
Answer: elizabeth arden
Question: Which artisan, who was born in Otley in 1718, has a statue erected in his honour outside the Grammar School. He also has a full size sculpted figure on the facade of the Victoria and Albert Museum?
Answer: thomas chippendale
Question: What word could be a hunter in Greek Mythology, a model of car, or a constellation?
Answer: orion
Question: Which author wrote"God is in his heaven, all's rightwith the world"?
Answer: robert browning
Question: 'Bertram Count of Roussillon', 'Lavatch the Clown' and the 'King of France' appear in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: all s well that ends well
Question: 'Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered', 'The Lady Is A Tramp' and 'My Funny Valentine', all featured in which musical?
Answer: pal joey
Question: Which artist had a 'Blue Period' from 1901 to 1904 and a 'Rose Period' from 1904 to 1906?
Answer: picasso
Question: From which position did Wendy Alexander resign on June 28th.2008?
Answer: leader of scottish labour party
Question: Which military courtroom drama of 1992 starred Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore?
Answer: few good men
Question: What may be described as 'a tropical tree or shrub that grows in swamps and shore mud, having many tangled roots above ground'?
Answer: mangrove
Question: In 'Z Cars' who played 'Detective Inspector Barlow'?
Answer: stratford johns
Question: Esau sold his birthright for a 'mess of pottage'. What is the main ingredient of this dish?
Answer: lentils
Question: Which group sang about 'Mrs. Brown's lovely daughter' in 1965?
Answer: herman s hermits
Question: What sort of bird may be described as 'tic-eyed'
Answer: pigeon
Question: Which town in Buckinghamshire is famous for its annual 'pancake race'?
Answer: olney
Question: Of all the rugby teams to have participated in the 2008- 2009 Guinness Premiership, which team is the furthest north?
Answer: newcastle falcons
Question: Who was the President of the USA on 1st. January 1800?
Answer: john adams
Question: On this day in 1993 (4th Aug.), two Los Angeles police officers were sentenced to jail for their brutal assault of which African-American motorist?
Answer: rodney king
Question: In which Latin American country was President Manuel Zelaya arrested and exiled in June 2009?
Answer: honduras
Question: Who was the President of the USA on 1st. January 1900?
Answer: william mckinley
Question: Playing for West Ham United between 1998 and 2001, Javier Margas was the first footballer from which country to appear in the Premier League?
Answer: chile
Question: Which British artist is best known for his painting 'And When Did You Last See Your Father'?
Answer: william frederick yeames
Question: By what name is JS Bach's cantata 'Schweigt Stille, Plaudert Nicht' better known as a result of the drink to which one of the characters is addicted?
Answer: coffee cantata
Question: Released this year (2009), what is the full name of the sequel to the 2007 film 'Transformers'?
Answer: transformers revenge of fallen
Question: Who had a number one hit in July 2009 with 'Evacuate The Dancefloor'?
Answer: cascada
Question: In 'Monopoly', which of the red properties has the shortest name of any property?
Answer: strand
Question: Released this year (2009),what is the full name of the sequel to the 2006 film 'Night At The Museum'?
Answer: night at museum battle of smithsonian
Question: Which British artist is best known for his painting 'The Reverend Robert Walker Skating On Duddingston Loch'?
Answer: henry raeburn
Question: Because the fourth movement is a variation on one of the composer's earlier works concerning a particular creature, by what name is Franz Schubert's 'Piano Quintet in A major' better known?
Answer: trout quintet
Question: Which town in Cumbria is famous for its annual horse fair?
Answer: appleby in westmorland
Question: Which country assumed the Presidency of the European Union on 1st. July 2009?
Answer: sweden
Question: Hibernation is the name given to a period of dormancy experienced by an animal during the Winter months. What name is given to a similar period of dormancy experienced by an animal during the Summer months?
Answer: aestivation
Question: Which chemical element takes its name from the Arabic word for 'yellow'?
Answer: sulphur
Question: Who is the only British Prime Minister whose mother tongue was not English?
Answer: david lloyd george
Question: Playing for Newcastle United and Everton between 1994 and 1997, Marc Hottiger was the first footballer from which country to appear in the Premier League?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Named after the river by which it is made, 'Dovedale' cheese is produced only in which county?
Answer: derbyshire
Question: Signed in 1905, the Treaty of Portsmouth ended which war?
Answer: russo japanese war
Question: Which author has been nominated for the Booker Prize for the novels 'Flaubert's Parrot', 'England' and 'Arthur And George', but is yet to win the award?
Answer: julian barnes
Question: In the 2009 series of 'Big Brother', by what name is the housemate Freddie Fisher better known?
Answer: halfwit
Question: What name is given to the elementary particle that carries the electromagnetic force?
Answer: photon
Question: Which is the only one of Shakespeare's comedies in which 'Falstaff' appears?
Answer: merry wives of windsor
Question: The theme tune of which TV series was arranged by Fritz Spiegl from the traditional folk-song 'Johnny Todd'?
Answer: z cars
Question: Signed in 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht ended which war?
Answer: war of spanish succession
Question: Which nation has the longest coastline of any country located entirely within Europe?
Answer: norway
Question: What name is given to the elementary particle that carries the strong nuclear force?
Answer: gluon
Question: In the 2009 series of 'Big Brother', by what name is the housemate Sophie Reade better known?
Answer: dogface
Question: What was the name of the ship upon which John Cabot sailed to Newfoundland in 1497?
Answer: matthew
Question: Which Swede did Roger Federer defeat to win his first French Open Men's Singles title in 2009?
Answer: robin soderling
Question: The theme tune of which TV show is 'Approaching Menace' by the British composer Neil Richardson?
Answer: mastermind
Question: In Shakespeare, what is 'Falstaff's' first name?
Answer: john
Question: 'Broadcast Yourself' is the slogan of which internet site?
Answer: you tube
Question: Which of the moons of Uranus is named after the queen of the fairies in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?
Answer: titania
Question: On which island could you find an active volcano called 'Hekla'?
Answer: iceland
Question: Who wrote the song 'This Wheel's On Fire', later to be used as the soundtrack to 'Absolutely Fabulous'?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: Which mathematical shape has four sides of equal length, but no right angles?
Answer: rhombus
Question: Which musical features the songs 'Springtime For Hitler', 'Along Came Bialy' and 'In Old Bavaria'?
Answer: producers
Question: Who was the manager of Manchester United FC between 1972 and 1979?
Answer: tommy docherty
Question: In the 'Harry Potter' books, players in the game of 'Quidditch' can be a 'Seeker', 'Chaser', 'Keeper' or.... Which other position?
Answer: beater
Question: In which mountain range is Carrauntoohil, the highest mountain in Ireland?
Answer: macgillycuddy s reeks
Question: Who presents 'Sounds Of The Sixties' on BBC Radio 2 on Saturday mornings?
Answer: brian matthew
Question: For which firm did 'Reggie Perrin' work in 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin'?
Answer: sunshine desserts
Question: In which city is the Victoria Quarter shopping area, the first outside London to feature a Harvey Nicholls store?
Answer: leeds
Question: Which team won the 2010 NBA Finals, beating the Boston Celtics by 4 games to 3?
Answer: los angeles lakers
Question: In 'Moby Dick', what was the name of the captain of the 'Pequod'?
Answer: ahab
Question: Which English king was the son of John O'Gaunt?
Answer: henry iv
Question: In which TV series did Alison Janney play 'C.J. Cregg', a Press Secretary?
Answer: west wing
Question: Who is the voice of 'King Harold' in the film 'Shrek 2'?
Answer: john cleese