CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What colour was the medal ribbon on the Naval Victoria Cross until 1918?
Answer: blue
Question: Who became head of the KGB in May 1967?
Answer: yuri andropov
Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘Ars gratia artis’ translate to in English?
Answer: art for art s sake
Question: Vectis was the Roman name for which island off the coast of Britain?
Answer: isle of wight
Question: What was the name of William Shakespeare’s twins by Ann Hathaway?
Answer: hamnet and judith
Question: Which fictional character is known as ‘The boy who never grew up’?
Answer: peter pan
Question: What is the highest reward bestowed by the Royal Horticultural Society?
Answer: victoria medal of honour
Question: A tetrachordo bouzouki has how many pairs of strings?
Answer: four
Question: Colleen McLoughlin married which English footballer in 2008?
Answer: wayne rooney
Question: In December 2006 a version of the board game ‘Operation’ was released in which the player operates on which fictional superhero?
Answer: spider man
Question: Which US President was shot by assassin Charles J Guiteau in 1881?
Answer: james garfield
Question: Jacob Epstein and Barbara Hepworth were famous in which branch of the arts?
Answer: sculpture
Question: Which US psychologist and writer popularised the carchphrase ‘Turn on, tune in, drop out’?
Answer: timothy leary
Question: Brothers Tom and Ben Youngs joined which English rugby union club in 2006?
Answer: leicester tigers
Question: Known as ‘The Liberator of South America’, political leader Simon Bolivar became President of which country in 1813?
Answer: venezuela
Question: Who wrote the 1930 novel ‘The Maltese Falcon’?
Answer: dashiel hammett
Question: Which 1968 film is partially based on the novel ‘Sentinel’ by Arthur C Clarke?
Answer: 2001 space odyssey
Question: What was the pen-name of British writer Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch?
Answer: q
Question: Remy, Colette Tatou and Anton Ego are all characters in which 2007 Disney film?
Answer: ratatouille
Question: In which country was the radio telescope situated that transmitted pictures all over the world of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon in 1969?
Answer: australia
Question: Which Peanuts cartoon character is famous for saying ‘There is no heavier burden than a great potential’?
Answer: linus
Question: What is the title of the fourth Harry Potter film?
Answer: harry potter and goblet of fire
Question: Which English television presenter served as the High Sheriff of The Isle of Wight between 2008 and 2009?
Answer: alan titchmarsh
Question: Somen Banerjee and Paul Snider founded which male touring dance troupe in 1979?
Answer: chippendales
Question: What is the name of the official country residence of the British Prime Minister?
Answer: chequers
Question: In poetry, a quatrain is a stanza or complete poem consisting of how many lines of verse?
Answer: four
Question: Who wrote the 1921 book ‘Scaramouche’?
Answer: rafael sabatini
Question: Laguna del Carbon (Coal Lagoon) is the lowest point in which South American country?
Answer: argentina
Question: Which queen was the last British monarch to veto an Act of Parliament?
Answer: queen anne
Question: What was the name of the horse ridden by jockey Frankie Dettori in the 2007 Epsom Derby?
Answer: authorized
Question: Who played the father, Col. William Ludlow, in the 1994 film ‘Legends of the Fall’?
Answer: anthony hopkins
Question: What is the Zodiac sign of someone born on 31st May?
Answer: gemini
Question: Which town in Wales has been the home of the Royal Mint since 1968?
Answer: llantrisant
Question: What is a line called that goes straight from the centre of a circle to the circumference?
Answer: radius
Question: ‘Ebony and ‘what’ is the title of a 1982 hit single by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder?
Answer: ivory
Question: In 2001, protester Craig Evans was arrested after throwing what at politician John Prescott?
Answer: egg
Question: The name of which city translates into English as ‘River of January’?
Answer: rio de janeiro
Question: The musical ‘West Side Story’ is based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: romeo and juliet
Question: According to the Bible, whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt as soon as she looked back at Sodom?
Answer: lot s wife
Question: Terry McCann and Arthur Daley are characters in which UK television series?
Answer: minder
Question: Whose 1988 autobiography is entitled ‘Moonwalk’?
Answer: michael jackson
Question: How many dice are used in a standard game of ‘Craps’?
Answer: two
Question: Which character begins play in a standard game of Cluedo?
Answer: miss scarlett
Question: US Singer Bobby, Australian actor Bryan and British politician Gordon all share which surname?
Answer: brown
Question: Which animals are the subject of the novel ‘Watership Down’?
Answer: rabbits
Question: During which month of the year is the US PGA golf tournament held?
Answer: august
Question: Which US television sitcom, starring Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker, debuted in January 1971?
Answer: all in family
Question: In humans, Polyphagia is an excessive desire to do what?
Answer: eat
Question: Who became Secretary General of the United Nations in January 1972?
Answer: kurt waldheim
Question: The ‘Dinshaway Incident’ is the name given to a 1906 dispute between British military officers and the locals of which African country?
Answer: egypt
Question: The ‘Delta Works’ is a series of construction projects in which European country, to protect large areas of land from the sea?
Answer: netherlands
Question: Which is the only US state to have only one syllable in its name?
Answer: maine
Question: What is the name of the little girl who appears in the UK television series ‘The Magic Roundabout’?
Answer: florence
Question: In ancient history, which Carthagian general beat the Romans at Cannae in 216 BC?
Answer: hannibal
Question: Edward Woodstock, The Black Prince, was the eldest son of which English monarch?
Answer: king edward iii
Question: Which fashion designer opened his ‘Little Black Jacket’ photo exhibition in Paris in November 2012?
Answer: karl lagerfeld
Question: Situated in Piccadilly, what is the name of London’s oldest bookshop?
Answer: hatchards
Question: Who was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover?
Answer: queen victoria
Question: Singers Janis Joplin and Cee Lo Green both released singles with which title?
Answer: cry baby
Question: Protanopia is colour blindness resulting in insensitivity to which colour light?
Answer: red
Question: English monarch King John signed Magna Carta in which century?
Answer: 13th century
Question: Julian Casablancas is the lead singer in which US rock band?
Answer: strokes
Question: Which British golf course is known as ‘The Home of Golf’?
Answer: st andrews
Question: In music, what is the name of a whole note which has the time value of two minims or four crotchets?
Answer: semibreve
Question: Gephyrophobia is the irrational fear of crossing what?
Answer: bridges
Question: ‘What You See is What You Get’ is the autobiography of which British businessman?
Answer: alan sugar
Question: An eighth month ban on which Dire Straits song was lifted by Canadian radio in September 2011?
Answer: money for nothing
Question: What is the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: palm d or
Question: Hirudin is a naturally occurring peptide in the salivary glands of which creatures used in medicine?
Answer: leeches
Question: Which rugby union team play their home games at Salford City Stadium?
Answer: sale sharks
Question: In the animal kingdom, what is the world’s largest land predator?
Answer: polar bear
Question: Diablo, Jalpa, Urraco and Islero are all models made by which car manufacturer?
Answer: lamborghini
Question: Who played James Bond in the 1977 film ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’?
Answer: roger moore
Question: Blunging, Fettling, Saggar and Wedging are all terms used in which craft?
Answer: pottery
Question: The Cowal Highland Gathering (the Cowal Games) are held every August in which Scottish town?
Answer: dunoon
Question: ‘Triticum’ is the Latin name for which cereal crop?
Answer: wheat
Question: Jemima Goldsmith married which famous cricketer in 1995?
Answer: imran khan
Question: What is the surname of Eric in the animated television series ‘Stressed Eric’?
Answer: feeble
Question: In art, the Dada movement (Dadaism) originated in which European country during World War I?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Drugs baron Franz Sanchez is a character in which 1989 James Bond film?
Answer: licence to kill
Question: In Judaism, what is the name of the period of seven days of formal mourning for the dead, which begins immediately after the funeral?
Answer: shiva
Question: 18th Century philosopher, writer and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in which European city?
Answer: geneva
Question: Galle, Le Vernier, Lassell, Arago and Adams are all rings round which planet?
Answer: neptune
Question: ‘Ik hou van jou’ is Dutch for what?
Answer: i love you
Question: The novels ‘The Tropic of Cancer’ and ‘The Tropic of Capricorn’ were written by which author?
Answer: henry miller
Question: Baldy Mountain is the highest peak in which range of mountains in New Mexico?
Answer: cimarron range
Question: Attributed to Julius Caesar, what does the phrase ‘Alea iacta est’ translate to in English?
Answer: die has been cast
Question: In August 1960 Chad, in Central Africa, became independent from which country?
Answer: france
Question: Who plays Bob Barnes in the 2005 film ‘Syriana’?
Answer: george clooney
Question: Who wrote the 1939 novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’?
Answer: john steinbeck
Question: Sharm-el-Sheikh, Dahab and Taba are all resorts in which country?
Answer: egypt
Question: Sebastiano Carezo is credited with inventing which Spanish dance in 1780?
Answer: bolero
Question: Who was the first US President to appear on colour television?
Answer: dwight d eisenhower
Question: In 1963, in which country did operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti make his first appearance outside Italy?
Answer: ireland
Question: What is the name of Mrs Pumphrey’s dog in the television series ‘All Creatures Great and Small’?
Answer: tricki woo
Question: Which video game series follows the adventures of Sackboy?
Answer: littlebigplanet
Question: In December 1989 which Romanian dictator and his wife were executed after being found guilty for crimes against humanity?
Answer: nicolae ceausescu
Question: Which classic arcade game was released in Japan on 22nd May 1980?
Answer: pac man
Question: English musician Ian Curtis, who died on 18th May 1980, was best known as lead singer of which post-punk band?
Answer: joy division
Question: In November 1986, who won their first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas?
Answer: mike tyson
Question: What was the name of the 13 year old who achieved a Starred First in Mathematics at Oxford University in 1985, becoming the youngest British person ever to gain a First Class degree?
Answer: ruth lawrence
Question: Who was elected leader of the British Social Democratic Party in July 1982?
Answer: roy jenkins
Question: On 1st March 1981, which Provisional Irish Republican Army member began a hunger strike for political status in Long Kesh prison, resulting in his death on May 5th?
Answer: bobby sands
Question: Which British comedian suffered a heart attack on live television, and soon after died, in April 1984?
Answer: tommy cooper
Question: Which British pop group won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: bucks fizz
Question: Which former Gestapo boss was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1987 for crimes against humanity during World War II
Answer: klaus barbie
Question: Which former US pop singer was elected Mayor of Palm Springs, California, in April 1988?
Answer: sonny bono
Question: Which is the longest river in New Mexico, and runs through the entire length of the state?
Answer: rio grande
Question: How many nights are in the novel ‘Arabian Nights’?
Answer: 1 001
Question: English singer/songwriter Paloma Faith was born with which surname?
Answer: blomfield
Question: American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls and Horseshoe Falls are all part of which waterfall?
Answer: niagara falls
Question: The Welsh town of Aberystwyth lies on which bay?
Answer: cardigan bay
Question: The ‘Goose Fair’ is held annually in which English city?
Answer: nottingham
Question: Which circle of latitude on the Earth is also known as the Northern Tropic?
Answer: tropic of cancer
Question: English statesman Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, was executed during the reign of which English monarch?
Answer: king henry viii
Question: The AK Parti (the Justice and Development Party) is a political party in which country?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which computer company was founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation?
Answer: aol
Question: Who made his ‘I Am Prepared to Die’ speech in 1964 at the opening of the Rivonia Trial in South Africa?
Answer: nelson mandela
Question: In March 1975, which silent movie star was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: charlie chaplin
Question: In the late 19th Century, who brought a libel action against the Marquess of Queensbury who won a counterclaim?
Answer: oscar wilde
Question: US singer/songwriter Richard Wayne Penniman is better known by what name?
Answer: little richard
Question: In the nursery rhyme, who was unable to be put together again by all the kings men?
Answer: humpty dumpty
Question: Which country’s football team was runner up in the 1970 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: italy
Question: Which actress played ‘Bond girl’ Honey Ryder?
Answer: ursula andress
Question: What is the name of the male character in French pantomime who usually wears a loose white costume and a pointed hat and has a sad white-painted face?
Answer: pierrot
Question: Swedish actress Greta Gustafsson was better known by what name?
Answer: greta garbo
Question: Sam Walton founded which famous US retail chain in 1962?
Answer: walmart
Question: In the game of Bingo, ‘Knock at the door’ is the nickname of which number?
Answer: four
Question: The liqueur creme de cassis is made with which fruit?
Answer: blackcurrants
Question: Which English author wrote the 1928 novel ‘Orlando: A Biography’?
Answer: virginia woolf
Question: Which 1956 film starring Burt Lancaster was shot in Paris, including at the Cirque d’hiver?
Answer: trapeze
Question: Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney play brothers Seth and Richard Gecko in which 1996 film?
Answer: from dusk till dawn
Question: King John of England was the youngest son of which English monarch?
Answer: king henry ii
Question: Pinkie, Cubitt and Ida Arnold are all characters in which Graham Green novel?
Answer: brighton rock
Question: Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arabic language writer to win which Nobel Prize?
Answer: literature
Question: Which Looney Tunes cartoon character made their debut in April 1937?
Answer: daffy duck
Question: In May 1950, Celal Bayar became the third President of which European country?
Answer: turkey
Question: The mounted hide of which race horse is displayed at the Melbourne Museum in Australia?
Answer: phar lap
Question: A bust of which British Prime Minister was said to have been removed from the White House and taken to the British Embassy in Washington when Barack Obama took office?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: In humans, steatopygia is a high degree of fat accumulation in and around which part of the body?
Answer: buttocks
Question: Which word can go before Pot, Cup and Spoon to make three other words?
Answer: tea
Question: Which word can go after Black, Hard and Star to make three other words?
Answer: board
Question: Which word can go before Power, Hole and Date to make three other words?
Answer: man
Question: Which word can go before Box, Press and Head to make three other words?
Answer: letter
Question: Which word can go after King, Hair and Nine to make three other words?
Answer: pin
Question: Which month in 1985 saw the Live Aid concert, organised by Bob Geldof?
Answer: july
Question: Who did the Green Bay Packers defeat in the first Super Bowl in 1967?
Answer: kansas city chiefs
Question: What make and model car did Steve McQueen drive in a car chase through the streets of San Francisco in the film Bullitt?
Answer: ford mustang
Question: Who plays The Joker in the 2008 film ‘The Dark Knight’?
Answer: heath ledger
Question: Chinaman, Flipper and Leg-Break are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: cricket
Question: Which cheese is known as ‘The King of English Cheeses’?
Answer: stilton
Question: Actor and singer David Essex played Jesus Christ in which 1970’s London stage musical in?
Answer: godspell
Question: Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Savarin are two of the creators of which social networking service, launched in February 2004?
Answer: facebook
Question: In which US city is was the first skyscraper said to have been built in 1885?
Answer: chicago
Question: Michelle Pfeiffer plays teacher LouAnne Johnson in which 1995 film?
Answer: dangerous minds
Question: What flavour is the liqueur Creme de Noyaux?
Answer: almond
Question: The medical condition ‘Gingivitis’ affects which part of the body?
Answer: gums
Question: Actor Pierce Brosnan made his screen  debut in which British gangster film?
Answer: long good friday
Question: The Dukes of Beaufort are associated with which sport?
Answer: badminton
Question: Who was the only British Prime Minister to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: In which UK city is the television series ‘Hollyoaks’ set?
Answer: chester
Question: Which German-based group released a 1978 album entitled ‘Nightflight to Venus’?
Answer: boney m
Question: A ‘Granthi’ is the keeper and reader of the scriptures in which religion?
Answer: sikhism
Question: In August 1960, The Beatles began a residency in the Indra Club in which European city?
Answer: hamburg
Question: Who became the last state President of apartheid South Africa in August 1989?
Answer: f w de klerk
Question: What is the name of the teletext information service started by the BBC in September 1974?
Answer: ceefax
Question: Auskerry, Burray and Cava are part of which Scottish island group?
Answer: orkney islands
Question: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is the creation of which author?
Answer: rudyard kipling
Question: What was the nickname of American Civil War General Thomas Jackson?
Answer: stonewall jackson
Question: What is the English name of the American game of checkers?
Answer: draughts
Question: In the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, what word represents the letter ‘U’?
Answer: uniform
Question: Which Afro-Caribbean religion is also known as ‘The Rule of Osha’?
Answer: santeria
Question: Who was President of France from 1969 to 1974?
Answer: georges pompidou
Question: The Macroplaze (or La Gran Plaza), one of the largest plazas in the world, is located in which Mexican city?
Answer: monterrey
Question: Which was the first state in the US to ban smoking in public places?
Answer: california
Question: What is the name of the world’s first test-tube baby, born on 25th July 1978 in Manchester, England?
Answer: louise joy brown
Question: Who plays the title role in the US television series ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’?
Answer: sarah michelle gellar
Question: In 2012, which film director became the first solo diver to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a submarine?
Answer: james cameron
Question: The second full moon occurring within a calendar month is known as a ‘what’ Moon?
Answer: blue moon
Question: Which explorer took the three ships, Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria on his journey to the New World?
Answer: christopher columbus
Question: Cheeser, Six-er and Laggies are all terms used in which children’s game?
Answer: conkers
Question: What is the name of the fairy in the play ‘Peter Pan’ by J M Barrie?
Answer: tinker bell
Question: The ‘Turbo Terrific’ is driven by which fictional character in the television cartoon series Wacky Races?
Answer: peter perfect
Question: In humans, what is the name of the front cutting teeth?
Answer: incisors
Question: What is the name of the man in the 1969 5th Dimension hit single ‘Wedding Bell Blues’?
Answer: bill
Question: Which King of England was known as ‘The Unready’?
Answer: ethelred ii
Question: Which British singer/musician released a 2012 album entitled ‘Kisses on the Bottom’?
Answer: paul mccartney
Question: What is the name of the daughter of cartoon character Fred Flintstone?
Answer: pebbles
Question: Which English beer is known as ‘Newkie Brown’?
Answer: newcastle brown ale
Question: What was the first name of the sister of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: margaret
Question: Which English poet declined the post of Poet Laureate in 1757?
Answer: thomas gray
Question: In the Shakespeare play ‘Macbeth’ who kills Macbeth?
Answer: macduff
Question: David Wilkie, Karl Gunner Larson and Michael Phelps are all associated with which sport?
Answer: swimming
Question: ‘The Fenn Street Gang’ was a spin-off from which British television series?
Answer: please sir
Question: In which novel does fictional private eye Philip Marlowe first appear?
Answer: big sleep
Question: Who wrote the 1856 novel ‘Madame Bovary’?
Answer: gustave flaubert
Question: The Makapansgat Caves are in which African country?
Answer: south africa
Question: In which city is the 1997 film ‘The Full Monty’ set?
Answer: sheffield
Question: In the David Hockney painting ‘Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy’ what is Percy?
Answer: cat
Question: The sculpture of the ‘Winged Figure’ by Barbara Hepworth is on the side of which department store in London’s Oxford Street?
Answer: john lewis
Question: Everything Changes, Beautiful World and Circus are all albums released by which British band?
Answer: take that
Question: Which US President officially opened the Empire State Building in New York?
Answer: herbert hoover
Question: What was the name of the first human spaceflight to land on the moon, in July 1969?
Answer: apollo 11
Question: Benjamin Disraeli was British Prime Minister during the reign of which monarch?
Answer: queen victoria
Question: What is the title of the 1987 film in which Cher plays a widow who falls in love with the brother, played by Nicholas Cage, of her husband-to-be?
Answer: moonstruck
Question: A new Holy Thorn Tree was planted in 2012 in which Somerset town, to replace the one damaged by vandals in 2010?
Answer: glastonbury
Question: The first passenger fare-paying railway service was established in which European country in 1807?
Answer: wales
Question: Who played Mike Flaherty, the deputy mayor of New York, in the US television series ‘Spin City’?
Answer: michael j fox
Question: The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was formed in which century?
Answer: 18th century
Question: What is the title of the first number one hit released by the Tamla Motown record label?
Answer: please mr postman
Question: Which country’s football team did Germany beat in the 2002 FIFA World Cup semi-final?
Answer: south korea
Question: Trypanophobia is the irrational fear of which medical procedure?
Answer: injection
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’?
Answer: dan brown
Question: Kwame Nkrumah became the first President of which country in 1960?
Answer: ghana
Question: ‘Spondulicks’ is British slang for what?
Answer: money
Question: What is the first name of Arkwright, played by Ronnie Barker in the UK television series ‘Open All Hours’?
Answer: albert
Question: Arthur Upmore, Ernie Bragg and Major Leafe are all characters in which ‘Carry On’ film?
Answer: carry on behind
Question: In Greek mythology, Diomedes is the owner of which man-eating animals?
Answer: horses
Question: US actor Ed Harris directed and starred in which 2000 film about an American artist?
Answer: pollock
Question: What is the title of the 1985 film sequel to ‘Romancing the Stone’ starring Michael Douglas?
Answer: jewel of nile
Question: The Copo and the Laguna Blanco National Parks are in which South American country?
Answer: argentina
Question: What is the dot over a lower case ‘i’ called?
Answer: tittle
Question: Who directed the 1960 film ‘Spartacus’?
Answer: stanley kubrick
Question: In January 1977, which French President officially opened the Pompidou Centre in Paris?
Answer: valery giscard d estaing
Question: The colour sepia is named after the pigment from the ink sac of which marine creature?
Answer: cuttlefish