CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which fruit is traditionally used in the recipe for Liverpool Tart?
Answer: lemon
Question: After the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ Captain Bligh and several of his crew were set afloat in a small boat in which they journeyed to which island?
Answer: timor
Question: Lake Mamry and Lake Drawsko are in which European country?
Answer: poland
Question: ‘Waverley’ is the title of the first prose novel by which British historical novelist/poet?
Answer: sir walter scott
Question: In the first Harry Potter novel who is the headmaster of Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Answer: professor albus dumbledore
Question: In October 1977 three members of which US rock band died in a plane crash in Mississippi, three days after the release of their album ‘Street Survivors’?
Answer: lynryd skynyrd
Question: What is the title of the 2001 film in which Russell Crowe plays mathematician John Nash?
Answer: beautiful mind
Question: Lonicera is the Latin name for which garden plant?
Answer: honeysuckle
Question: In nature, Greco, Ostro, Libeccio and Sirocco are all types of what?
Answer: winds
Question: Who plays Seymour Parish in the 2001 film ‘One Hour Photo’?
Answer: robin williams
Question: What type of meat dish is known as ‘Savoury Ducks’?
Answer: faggots
Question: Dungeness is a headland on the coast of which English county?
Answer: kent
Question: A Sachertorte is a type of cake which traditionally has a layer of which flavour jam?
Answer: apricot
Question: Spud-gun, Dave Hedgehog, Dick Head and Mr Harrison are all characters in which UK television series?
Answer: bottom
Question: Urtication is the use of which plant to stimulate the skin?
Answer: nettle
Question: Mr and Mrs Spoon, Tina Teaspoon and Eggbert are all characters in which UK children’s television series?
Answer: button moon
Question: US author Truman Strekfus Persons is better known by what name?
Answer: truman capote
Question: Which English county is known as ‘The Red Rose County’?
Answer: lancashire
Question: Stan and Francine Smith are the parents in which US television cartoon series?
Answer: american dad
Question: Which opera by Mozart is said to have revealed secrets of The Freemasons?
Answer: magic flute
Question: What was the former name of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton?
Answer: marine pavilion
Question: The 1987 autobiography ‘They Made a Monkee Out of Me’ is by which member of The Monkees?
Answer: davy jones
Question: ‘I’ll eat my ‘what’ is a favourite expression of Mr Grimwig in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens?
Answer: head
Question: The Grey Cup is awarded to the champions of the Football League in which country?
Answer: canada
Question: The 2010 memoir ‘Life’ is by which member of the Rolling Stones?
Answer: keith richards
Question: Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, was elected as Conservative MP for which London borough in 1959?
Answer: finchley
Question: Wet Chemical, Dry Powder, CO2, and Foam are all types of which appliance?
Answer: fire extinguisher
Question: Da Nang International Airport and Tan Son Nhat International Airport are located in which Asian country?
Answer: vietnam
Question: Bikram, Anusara, Kundalini and Iyengar are all types of which activity?
Answer: yoga
Question: What is the name of Rose’s granddaughter in the 1997 film ‘Titanic’?
Answer: lizzy calvert
Question: What relation was British monarch Queen Victoria to Prince Albert before their marriage?
Answer: first cousin
Question: Meles Zenawi was elected Prime Minister of which African country in 1995?
Answer: ethiopia
Question: Which US television fantasy drama series is set in the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros?
Answer: game of thrones
Question: Zuniga, Escamillo and Frasquita are characters from which opera?
Answer: carmen
Question: In the Bible, Apollyon is the angel of the ‘what’?
Answer: bottomless pit
Question: Baby, Ginger, Scary, Sporty and Posh were all members of which girl band?
Answer: spice girls
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘Nicholas Nickleby’?
Answer: charles dickens
Question: Actor Jack Nicholson won his first Best Actor Oscar for which film?
Answer: one flew over cuckoos nest
Question: What is the name of the Jack Russell dog in the US television series ‘Frasier’?
Answer: eddie
Question: Cato is the manservant of which fictional character?
Answer: inspector jacques clouseau
Question: Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote the 1911 novel ‘The Secret ‘what’?
Answer: garden
Question: Billy Batson is the alter-ego of which fictional superhero?
Answer: captain marvel
Question: The late media proprietor Robert Maxwell became Member of Parliament for which UK constituency in 1964?
Answer: buckingham
Question: Who wrote the 1898 book ‘The War of the Worlds’?
Answer: h g wells
Question: Pernio is the Latin name for which medical complaint?
Answer: chilblain
Question: In the ‘Harry Potter’ series of books what is the American version of the game of Quidditch?
Answer: quodpot
Question: Which Egyptian Pharoah was known as ‘The Boy King’?
Answer: tutankhamun
Question: In the game of Bingo ‘Kelly’s Eye’ is the nickname for which number?
Answer: one
Question: In our solar system which is the 5th planet from the Sun?
Answer: jupiter
Question: Robert Stephen Rintoul was the founding editor of which British magazine, first published in 1928?
Answer: spectator
Question: What were the first names of the characters played by Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue in the Australian series ‘Neighbours’?
Answer: scott and charlene
Question: Which 1959 film, starring Hayley Mills, is based on a short story by Noel Calef called ‘Rodolphe et le Revolver’?
Answer: tiger bay
Question: Malia and Natasha are the daughters of which US President?
Answer: barack obama
Question: Hinge, Saddle, Pivot and Gliding are all types of what in the human body?
Answer: joint
Question: The Golden Cage is an annual award given to the best goalkeeper in football in which European country?
Answer: denmark
Question: What is the first name of US actor and film director Spike Lee?
Answer: shelton
Question: Which country is bordered by the Gaza Strip, Israel, Libya and Sudan?
Answer: egypt
Question: In humans, citguatera is an illness caused by eating contaminated what?
Answer: fish
Question: Which is the only planet in our solar system to have water in three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas?
Answer: earth
Question: The majority of the Amazon Rainforest is contained within which country?
Answer: brazil
Question: What is the name of the US electric car manufacturer, founded in 2003, whose cars include the Model S and the Model X?
Answer: tesla motors inc
Question: Which Chinese dish is traditionally used in a St Paul Sandwich, which originated in a Chinese restaurant in Missouri?
Answer: egg foo yung
Question: Who conducted interviews lying on a bed in the UK television show ‘The Big Breakfast’?
Answer: paula yates
Question: Galanthus nivalis is the Latin Name for which garden flower?
Answer: snowdrop
Question: ‘Balls of ‘what’ is a UK television comedy series hosted by Mark Dolan?
Answer: steel
Question: Siderodromophobia is the irrational fear of which mode of transport?
Answer: trains
Question: Pieter, Griet, Maria Thins and Cornelia Vermeer are all characters in which 2008 play?
Answer: girl with pearl earring
Question: A ‘classical’ guitar is popularly referred to as what nationality?
Answer: spanish
Question: Who sang with James Taylor on hits Mockingbird and How Sweet It Is?
Answer: carly simon
Question: Name the USSR world-beating 1959-76 Moon program/craft?
Answer: luna
Question: What was S Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City called before 1976?
Answer: saigon
Question: The mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, and its berry is called what?
Answer: rowan
Question: A mouflon is a Coriscan wild species of what domesticated creature?
Answer: sheep
Question: The nymph Daphne became a laurel tree escaping which Greek god?
Answer: apollo
Question: Rene Descartes’ quote ‘Cogito ergo sum’ means what in English?
Answer: i think therefore i am
Question: St Moritz in Switzerland has what famous Bobsled track?
Answer: cresta run
Question: What marten, Martes zibellina, was a prized fur and erroneously a fine paintbrush?
Answer: sable
Question: What orange black and white creature is Vanessa cardui?
Answer: painted lady butterfly
Question: Galilean, Keplerian, Newtonian and Conde are types of what instrument?
Answer: telescope
Question: What type of lens bends parallel rays inwards: convex or concave?
Answer: convex
Question: The arbalest/arblast is a medieval more powerful developed version of which weapon?
Answer: crossbow
Question: What mineral caused the founding of S Africaâs Johannesburg in 1886?
Answer: gold
Question: In the greeenhouse effect ultraviolet light is reradiated and absorbed as what invisible energy?
Answer: infrared
Question: Insurgents of what nation took part in the Easter Rising of 1916?
Answer: ireland
Question: A red giant star typically evolves when its central hydrogen has converted to what gas?
Answer: helium
Question: The 2005 US film ‘Fever Pitch’, starring Drew Barrymore, is about which sport?
Answer: baseball
Question: What was the first name of Irish author Bram Stoker?
Answer: abraham
Question: Templeton Peck is a character in which US television series?
Answer: team
Question: What is the name of the paranoid android in the novel ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams?
Answer: marvin
Question: Who designed the wedding dress worn by Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge?
Answer: sarah burton
Question: ‘A ‘what’ in the Sun’ is a 1959 play by Lorraine Hansbury?
Answer: raisin
Question: Who plays Edward Cullen in the ‘Twilight’ film series?
Answer: robert pattinson
Question: Used in church advent services, a Christingle is made using which fruit?
Answer: orange
Question: What is the title of the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle?
Answer: sign of four
Question: Comedian Larry David starred in the US television show ‘Curb Your ‘what’?
Answer: enthusiasm
Question: In the novel ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’ by Charles Dickens, what is the name of the inn run by Mrs Lupin?
Answer: blue dragon inn
Question: Coulrophobia is the fear of what type of people?
Answer: clowns
Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, what is the first name of Salvatore Bonpensiero’s (Big Pussy) wife?
Answer: angie
Question: In March 1990 who was elected as the first-ever President of the Soviet Union?
Answer: mikhail gorbachev
Question: The Frog Cake was created in 1922 by Balfours Bakery in which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Saga and Stichelton are types of which foodstuff?
Answer: cheese
Question: Gunnersaurus Rex is the mascot of which English football club?
Answer: arsenal fc
Question: Who became the presenter of the UK television show ‘Antiques Roadshow’ in 2008?
Answer: fiona bruce
Question: The letter ‘Z’ is worth how many points in the Polish edition of the board game Scrabble?
Answer: one point
Question: ‘Blue Monday’, said to be the most depressing day of the year, falls during which month?
Answer: january
Question: Former Formula One racing driver Nelson Piquet was born in which country?
Answer: brazil
Question: Which English city is known as ‘The Faithful City’?
Answer: worcester
Question: Emetophobia is the irrational fear of which bodily function?
Answer: vomiting
Question: Suzy and the Red Stripes was a pseudonym used by which English band for the release of the 1977 single ‘Seaside Woman’?
Answer: wings
Question: Spokes, Ribs, Rim Row and Lashing are all terms used in which handicraft?
Answer: basket weaving
Question: The cultivation of which crop was banned in France in 1748 because it was thought to cause leprosy?
Answer: potato
Question: The Dally M Awards are held annually for players of which sport?
Answer: rugby league
Question: Who played the title role in the 1996 film ‘The English Patient’?
Answer: ralph fiennes
Question: In the Scottish expression ‘Lang may yer lum reek’, what is a ‘lum’?
Answer: chimney
Question: With whom are pirates having an adventure in the title of a 2012 animated film?
Answer: scientists
Question: Politics. Who was Leader of the Opposition in the U.K. from 1994 to 1997?
Answer: tony blair
Question: Ayrton Senna’s nephew is himself a famous Formula 1 driver. What is his first name?
Answer: bruno
Question: Which actress and former model is the mother of Melanie Griffith?
Answer: tippi hedren
Question: In which English county will you find Wisbech?
Answer: cambridgeshire
Question: In the UK these books are called ‘Where’s Wally?’ What is his name in the USA?
Answer: waldo
Question: What was the name of the dwarf who is a chief character in ‘Lord of the Rings’?
Answer: gimli
Question: What bird is mentioned in the lyrics of ‘My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)’?
Answer: linnet
Question: Which mountain range is often described as “the backbone of England”?
Answer: pennines
Question: Born 1899, died 1947 (cardiac arrest). Indicted for tax evasion in 1931. Who was he?
Answer: al capone
Question: Who was the creator of the St. Trinian’s schoolgirls?
Answer: ronald searle
Question: A Shavian is a big fan and aficionado of which famous playwright?
Answer: george bernard shaw
Question: Which modern musical instrument used to be called the 'sackbut'?
Answer: trombone
Question: In which novel does William Dobbin finally win the hand of Amelia Sedley?
Answer: vanity fair
Question: The word ‘haptic’ relates to which of the five senses?
Answer: touch
Question: What name is given to the negative electrode of an electrolytic cell?
Answer: cathode
Question: Of whom did Princess Diana say ‘Yes I adored him’. ‘Yes I was in love with him’?
Answer: james hewitt
Question: Which baronet had an eight-year affair with Princess Margaret in the 1970s?
Answer: roddy llewellyn
Question: What name is given to areas of land in Holland that have been reclaimed from the sea?
Answer: polders
Question: Which Northumberland heroine was the daughter of the keeper of the Longstone lighthouse?
Answer: grace darling
Question: Which branch of medicine is concerned with providing artificial limbs for the human body?
Answer: prosthetics
Question: Which 60s chart-topping band were originally called The Alan Price Combo?
Answer: animals
Question: Who has the Jack Regan role in the new movie version of The Sweeney?
Answer: ray winstone
Question: Which king was the target of the Popish Plot and the Rye House Plot?
Answer: charles ii
Question: In which county is there an area called The Fylde?
Answer: lancashire
Question: Which comedian co-stars with fellow comic Lee Mack in TV’s Not Going Out?
Answer: tim vine
Question: Which creature has a variety known as the 'Bottlenosed'?
Answer: dolphin
Question: Which seasonal song was written by Robbie Burns?
Answer: auld lang syne
Question: In World War Two Operation Avalanche was the Allied Invasion of which country?
Answer: italy
Question: What opened in 1958 in Marylebone Rd next to Madame Tussauds?
Answer: planetarium
Question: Tower Bridge was for many years the last of London’s bridges before the sea – what is now?
Answer: queen elizabeth ii
Question: Which son of King David was caught by his hair in a tree while fleeing on a mule?
Answer: absalom
Question: Who plays the chief villain in the new James Bond film Skyfall?
Answer: javier bardem
Question: Which city state led the beaten Greek forces at the Battle of Thermopylae?
Answer: sparta
Question: Which familiar word is derived from the Greek for “mother city”?
Answer: metropolis
Question: The name of which musical instrument is German for “bell play”?
Answer: glockenspiel
Question: Which fictional detective married author Harriet Vane?
Answer: lord peter wimsey
Question: Who, according to the Goodies, was the “Queen of Northern Soul”?
Answer: black pudding bertha
Question: The Rutshire Chronicles is a series of romantic novels by which author?
Answer: jilly cooper
Question: What venue links the first FA Cup final and the first cricket test in England?
Answer: oval
Question: Created in 1872, what was the name of the world’s First National Park?
Answer: yellowstone
Question: LS What is the name of the famous Opera House in Milan, opened in 1778?
Answer: la scala
Question: Who was the first President of the Royal Academy in 1768?
Answer: joshua reynolds
Question: Which character fell asleep in The Catskills for 20 years?
Answer: rip van winkle
Question: Tom, Tom the piper’s son could only play which tune?
Answer: over hills and far away
Question: Which 1993 film saw Sly Stallone battle against John Lythgoe?
Answer: cliffhanger
Question: From which mountain did Moses descend with the Ten Commandments?
Answer: sinai
Question: Near which city did Julie Andrews sing ‘The Hills are alive to the sound of music’?
Answer: salzburg
Question: Dr. Who’s companion as played by Billie Piper?
Answer: rose tyler
Question: Which three Quaker families dominated early British manufacturing?
Answer: cadbury rowntree and fry
Question: In the musical “The King and I”, who is or was “I”?
Answer: anna leonowens
Question: Which major domestic trophy eluded Brian Clough as both player and manager?
Answer: fa cup
Question: In which castle did Edward II receive his final and fatal treatment?
Answer: berkley castle
Question: Hephaestion was the very close, personal friend & companion of which King?
Answer: alexander great
Question: Which is the only state of the USA that is named after an American President?
Answer: washington
Question: Known as “la Superba”, which seaport is the capital of Liguria?
Answer: genoa
Question: Corundum, widely used as an abrasive, is a crystalline form of an oxide of which metal?
Answer: aluminium
Question: Which actress played Mrs June Monsoon in TV’s 'Absolutely Fabulous'?
Answer: june whitfield
Question: Which Benjamin Britten opera is based on a short novel by Herman Melville?
Answer: billy budd
Question: Sable is the correct name for which ‘colour’ in heraldry?
Answer: black
Question: In September 2006, which Welshman captained Europe's victorious Ryder Cup team?
Answer: ian woosnam
Question: To which particular order of mammals do shrews and moles belong?
Answer: insectivora
Question: What is the technical term for a coral island consisting of a reef surrounding a lagoon?
Answer: atoll
Question: Which year 2000 BBC TV reality show was set on the Scottish island of Taransay?
Answer: castaway
Question: In which county is the Prime Minister’s country retreat Chequers?
Answer: buckinghamshire
Question: Barry George spent 8 years behind bars before being cleared in a retrial of the murder of whom?
Answer: jill dando
Question: Which national bird of France can be seen on the shirt badges of that country’s Rugby players?
Answer: cockerel
Question: What is the collective name for the writers of the four gospels?
Answer: evangelists
Question: Which is the country of origin of Martha and the Muffins, Crash Test Dummies and Rush?
Answer: canada
Question: Who played bongos on the Shadows 1960 No.1 Apache?
Answer: cliff richard
Question: Which Umberto Eco adaptation won him a British Academy Award?
Answer: name of rose
Question: In which movie did Connery play a character called Marko Ramius?
Answer: hunt for red october
Question: What is the strong material found in the cell walls of plants?
Answer: cellulose
Question: In the 1920’s, which French designer created the ‘little black dress’?
Answer: coco chanel
Question: Who stars in the TV NHS black-comedy Getting On and has appeared on QI 29 times?
Answer: jo brand
Question: By what name did the Germans call the Polish port of Gdansk?
Answer: danzig
Question: Which Neopagan religion is often called ‘witchcraft’ or simply ‘the craft’?
Answer: wicca
Question: What religion was accepted in the Roman Empire in AD313 by the Edict of Milan?
Answer: christianity
Question: What was invented and first described by Dr Ludovic Zamenhof in 1887?
Answer: language esperanto
Question: Arthur Wynne of Liverpool invented which teaser in 1913?
Answer: crossword puzzle
Question: Which organisation refers to God as ‘The Great Architect of the Universe’?
Answer: freemasons
Question: In Sikhism men take the last name Singh – what name do women take?
Answer: kaur
Question: Which term is commonly used for members of the Unification Church?
Answer: moonies
Question: Who invented the lightning conductor after flying a kite in a storm?
Answer: benjamin franklin
Question: Which 1973 thriller film features a malevolent dwarf in a red coat?
Answer: don t look now
Question: In which county of Northern Ireland is the Giant’s Causeway?
Answer: antrim
Question: Which current BBC drama sees Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi rekindle an old romance?
Answer: last tango in halifax
Question: Haneda Airport is one of the busiest in the world - which city does it serve?
Answer: tokyo
Question: In which country did the protests break out at the Pearl Roundabout?
Answer: bahrain
Question: Hanged in 2010 Ali Hassan al-Majid had what nickname?
Answer: chemical ali
Question: Which world figure is married to quantum chemist Joachim Sauer?
Answer: angela merkel
Question: Who thought Sebastian Moran ‘the second most dangerous man in London?
Answer: sherlock holmes
Question: According to Voltaire who was shot ‘to encourage the others’?
Answer: admiral byng
Question: Which Dickens hero went to Salem House School under headmaster Mr Creakle?
Answer: david copperfield
Question: Who plays Miss Havisham in Mike Newell’s latest film adaptation of Great Expectations?
Answer: helena bonham carter
Question: Which Shakespeare play was set in Ephesus probably 14century?
Answer: comedy of errors
Question: Which boxer was The Brockton Blockbuster?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: Which 19 century Prime Minister is the only PM to have served 4 terms ?
Answer: william gladstone
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the phrase “Brave New World” come from ?
Answer: tempest
Question: MASH, the character Frank Burns was replaced by which rather smug character ?
Answer: charles winchester
Question: Which President abolished racial segregation in the Armed Forces & the Civil Service ?
Answer: harry truman
Question: Whose real name was falsely stated to be Camille Javal ?
Answer: brigitte bardot
Question: Which method of strangulation was once the official method of execution in Spain?
Answer: garotte
Question: In which country have 9 missing episodes of Dr Who been discovered?
Answer: nigeria
Question: Which important person’s arrival at events is announced by playing Hail to the Chief?
Answer: president of usa
Question: Which member of the German army was not so secretly in love with Rene in Allo Allo?
Answer: lieutenant gruber
Question: Like Rome, which Yorkshire city is said to be built on seven hills?
Answer: sheffield
Question: A sign with a red circle and red diagonals on a blue background means what?
Answer: no stopping
Question: In which opera does Mimi fall for Rodolfo?
Answer: la boheme
Question: From 1978 to 1984, who were coached by a lady called Betty Callaway?
Answer: torvill dean
Question: In which film did Michael Caine say ‘not a lot of people know that’?
Answer: educating rita
Question: What was created by the Limehouse Declaration of 1981?
Answer: sdp
Question: Which country is home to the majority of species of Bird of Paradise?
Answer: new guinea
Question: The New Zealand kea is known for attacking sheep – what kind of bird is it?
Answer: parrot
Question: Who has written several successful novels about DS Roy Grace of the Brighton force?
Answer: peter james
Question: Created by Leslie Thomas, Who was ‘The Last Detective’?
Answer: dangerous davies
Question: Which ship was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in the Mediterranean in 1985?
Answer: achille lauro
Question: Which is the traditional English dish of pork trimmings and pig’s head?
Answer: brawn
Question: Which TV series is based on the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ book series?
Answer: game of thrones
Question: The Golden Wattle is one of the national symbols of which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Dying aged 28, who is considered the first great white jazz musician?
Answer: bix beiderbecke
Question: What was the stage name of jazz pianist Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe?
Answer: jelly roll morton
Question: Who was the leader of the famous Creole Jazz Band, which first performed in 1922?
Answer: king oliver