CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy played the title roles in which UK 1970s TV sitcom?
Answer: george and mildred
Question: What are the first names of writer J R R Tolkien?
Answer: john ronald reuel
Question: Which British cyclist crashed out of the 1998 Tour de France while wearing the Yellow Jersey?
Answer: chris boardman
Question: What pub paraphernalia does a tegestologist collect?
Answer: beermats
Question: Musician Dizzy Gillespie most famously played what instrument?
Answer: trumpet
Question: Deoxyribonucleic acid is commonly known as what?
Answer: dna
Question: Who was the voice of the genie in the 1992 animated Disney film Aladdin?
Answer: robin williams
Question: A Dagwood is what type of snack, named after cartoon character Dagwood Bumstead?
Answer: sandwich
Question: The 'Mach' speed measurement (for example Mach 1, or Mach 2, etc) is based essentially on multiples of the speed of what?
Answer: sound
Question: What is the name of the village near Birmingham, UK, established by George and Richard Cadbury?
Answer: bournville
Question: Veronica Lario was much in the news as the angry wife of which womanising European leader?
Answer: silvio berlusconi
Question: Cartoonist and screenwriter Millard Kaufman, who died in March 2009, created which short-sighted character?
Answer: mr magoo
Question: In two minutes, Amanda Dutta Tumuly achieved a new Guinness world record by eating fifty-one what in two minutes, each rated over one million on the Scoville Scale?
Answer: chillies
Question: Which monarch's 500th anniversary of accession was featured on a 2009 commemorative £5 coin?
Answer: henry eighth
Question: In 2009 the Tamil Tigers conceded defeat as a rebel force in which country's civil war?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 became the first Latino or Hispanic person to be selected for which US institution?
Answer: supreme court
Question: What successful Broadway musical written by Mel Brooks opened controversially in Berlin?
Answer: producers
Question: Who in 2009 became Britain's first individual diving world champion?
Answer: tom daley
Question: Mir Hossein Mousavi was the beaten opponent in which country's presidential election?
Answer: iran
Question: American doctor George Tiller was shot dead in Kansas in June 2009 by an activist protesting against what?
Answer: abortion
Question: Who beat seven foot tall boxer Nikolay Valuev to become the new WBA heavyweight champion?
Answer: david haye
Question: The 2009 UK budget announced what tax rate (effective April 2010) for earners of more than £150,000 per year?
Answer: 50
Question: in 2009 campaigners in Barcelona heightened demands to clean up what famous avenue?
Answer: las ramblas
Question: What famous sportsman starred in the 2009 film Looking for Eric?
Answer: eric cantona
Question: What UK government minister claimed, received and subsequently paid back parliamentary expenses of £500 for painting a summer house?
Answer: gordon brown
Question: Caster Semenya was subjected to a badly handled inquiry into what?
Answer: her gender
Question: Who beat Tom Watson in the 2009 British Open Golf Championship play-off?
Answer: stuart cink
Question: Who fought extradition to the US for allegedly hacking into Pentagon and NASA computers while investigating UFOs?
Answer: gary mckinnon
Question: Real name Alecia Moore, which colourful US diva sold out three London O2 dates in May 2009?
Answer: pink
Question: Tidjane Thiam became the first black FTSE 100 CEO when appointed to head what UK financial services company?
Answer: prudential
Question: Which government minister agreed to pay £13,332 in capital gains tax owed from the sale of a second home, whose avoidance was revealed during the parliamentary expenses scandal?
Answer: hazel blears
Question: John Towers, Nick Stephenson, John Edwards, and Peter Beale (the Phoenix Four) were criticised in a 2009 UK Government report for making vast personal gain while presiding over the collapse of which company?
Answer: mg rover
Question: What street dance group won the UK 2009 Britain's Got Talent TV competition?
Answer: diversity
Question: What London attraction features on the 2009 commemorative British 50p coin?
Answer: kew gardens
Question: Which team lost the 2009 Superbowl to the Pittsburgh Steelers?
Answer: arizona cardinals
Question: Rachel Riley succeeded which long-standing UK TV gameshow celebrity in January 2009?
Answer: carol vorderman
Question: Jacob Zuma led the ANC party to election victory in which country's 2009 election?
Answer: south africa
Question: Which boxer won a £1.8m claim against promotor Frank Warren in March 2009?
Answer: joe calzaghe
Question: Which celebrity fronted the successful campaign to grant UK residency rights to Gurkha soldiers?
Answer: joanna lumley
Question: In what country was the Black Thursday of Action in January 2009?
Answer: france
Question: The tragic videoed killing of Neda Agha-Soltan became iconic following what city's demonstrations?
Answer: tehran
Question: Jan Kaplicky the architect who died in 2009 designed the space-age-like building at what sports ground?
Answer: lords cricket ground
Question: Ferenc Gyurcsany resigned as prime minister of which country in March 2009?
Answer: hungary
Question: Who resigned in 2009 as Speaker of the UK House of Commons?
Answer: michael martin
Question: Which famous music manager of the Beatles and Rolling Stones died in 2009?
Answer: allen klein
Question: Who won the 2009 Australian men's tennis Open Championship?
Answer: rafael nadal
Question: Who was nominated for the best actress Oscar in the film Doubt?
Answer: meryl streep
Question: Which writer, whose works include Rumpole of the Bailey, died in January 2009?
Answer: john mortimer
Question: Actor Laurence Payne who died in February 2009, aged 89, played which fictional detective on TV?
Answer: sexton blake
Question: Andy Murray became the first British man to win what tennis tournament since Bunny Austin in 1938?
Answer: queen s
Question: Dorothy Hughes and Winifred Phillips became at 85 years old the first what?
Answer: chelsea pensioners
Question: Which football club bought Ronaldo from Manchester United for £80m?
Answer: real madrid
Question: Utegate was a political scandal involving a car dealer and the prime minister of which country?
Answer: australia
Question: What leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) admitted ironically to receiving over £2m expenses in ten years from the EU, used chiefly for UKIP's promotion of anti-EU policies?
Answer: nigel farage
Question: Which country won the 2009 rugby Six Nations Grand Slam?
Answer: ireland
Question: What was the first predominantly muslim country visited by Barak Obama after becoming US president?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which controversial politician resigned as Governor of Alaska in July 2009?
Answer: sarah palin
Question: Manuel Zelaya was ousted by military coup as leader of what Central American country?
Answer: honduras
Question: John Lydon (Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) fronted which dairy product ad campaign?
Answer: country life
Question: Who was appointed European Ryder Cup Captain in 2009?
Answer: colin montgomerie
Question: US Jazz guitarist Huey Long who died aged 105 was a member of which famous 1940s male vocal group?
Answer: inkspots
Question: Iftikhar Chaudrey was reinstated as Minister of Justice of which country after massive protests?
Answer: pakistan
Question: Which Swedish ex-world heavyweight boxing champion died in February 2009?
Answer: ingemar johansson
Question: Which actor returned to ER in 2009 to huge acclaim?
Answer: george clooney
Question: What politician nicknamed 'the big beast' returned to the Conservative party shadow cabinet?
Answer: kenneth clarke
Question: Which UK pornographer and news mogul lost a libel action against biographer Tom Bower in July 2009?
Answer: richard desmond
Question: The town of Winnenden, where a deranged teenager massacred 15 school children, is in which country?
Answer: germany
Question: Name the convicted Lockerbie bomber released in August 2009?
Answer: abdelbaset al megrahi
Question: Which film won the 2009 Bafta for best special visual effects?
Answer: curious case of benjamin button
Question: Which soccer player maintained his record of playing and and scoring in every Premier League season?
Answer: ryan giggs
Question: In Killarney, Ireland, Mark Davis became the the first 'Six-Red' world champion in which sport?
Answer: snooker
Question: Which car's 50th anniversary was featured on a Royal Mint 2009 commemorative coin?
Answer: mini
Question: Who in 2009 ended Rafael Nadal's 4 year run of 31 wins in the French Open Championship?
Answer: robin soderling
Question: As Corpus Christi captain in the University Challenge quiz show who made the news for her remarkable points-scoring?
Answer: gail trimble
Question: French wine makers objected to EU plans to allow the blending of which sort of wine?
Answer: rosé
Question: Australian novelist Harry Nicholaides was jailed in January 2009 for insulting the monarchy in which country?
Answer: thailand
Question: Who brought a legal suit against Michael Jackson in early 2009 claiming a share of profits from the Thriller video?
Answer: john landis
Question: Which Welsh town had its first public showing of the film Life of Brian in March 2009 afer a 30 year ban?
Answer: aberystwyth
Question: Tzipi Livni led her Kadima party in what country's elections?
Answer: israel
Question: What website founded by Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey was never out of the news in 2009?
Answer: twitter
Question: Indian coporation Tata launched a 100,000 rupee (£1,350) new what in 2009?
Answer: car
Question: Name the British mercenary given a presidential pardon from his 34 year jail term for his part in a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea?
Answer: simon mann
Question: Which comic strip footballer was re-published in a classic collection in April 2009?
Answer: roy of rovers
Question: In what country did President Hugo Chavez disagree with Coca-Cola about land for housing?
Answer: venezuela
Question: Which fast bowler took five wickets for eleven runs in England's 51 all out against the West Indies?
Answer: jerome taylor
Question: What was the name of the British submarine which collided with the French submarine Le Triomphant in February 2009?
Answer: hms vanguard
Question: What did Eric Holder (new US Attorney General) define as torture that Dick Cheney said was not?
Answer: waterboarding
Question: Who replaced BBC Radio 1's daily morning show DJ Jo Wiley in 2009?
Answer: fearne cotton
Question: Carol Ann Duffy became the UK's first female what?
Answer: poet laureate
Question: A US Airways Airbus ditched into which river after hitting a flock of birds in January 2009?
Answer: hudson
Question: In what sport did Miyabiyama defeat Chiyotaikai in Osaka in March 2009?
Answer: sumo wrestling
Question: Which singer made the news for objecting to her songs being sold on a compilation CD by the British National Party?
Answer: dame vera lynn
Question: The 2009 'Bloodgate' rugby union scandal centred on which club?
Answer: harlequins
Question: What TV show became the first cartoon series nominated for an Emmy since the Flintstones?
Answer: family guy
Question: Who lost 2-1 to Chelsea in the 2009 FA Cup?
Answer: everton
Question: Which UK government minister claimed parliamentary expenses for an 88p bath plug and porn movies?
Answer: jacqui smith
Question: Which singer-songwriter of Baker Street was mistakenly reported missing?
Answer: gerry rafferty
Question: Tycoon Allen Stanford, whose business empire collapsed in 2009, was chiefly associated with which sport?
Answer: cricket
Question: Ngati Toa, a New Zealand tribal group won the intellectual property rights to what?
Answer: maori haka
Question: Farah Fawcett, who died in 2009, played which character in TV's Charlie's Angels?
Answer: jill munroe
Question: Who was the first female president of the Philipines, who died in August 2009?
Answer: corazon cory aquino
Question: Which club did Thierry Henri play for in the 2008-9 European Champions League?
Answer: barcelona
Question: In December 2009 Ford agreed to sell which famous car subsidiary to China's Zhejiang Geely group?
Answer: volvo
Question: Which past heavyweight world champion boxer visited his great grandfather's birthplace, Ennis, Ireland?
Answer: muhammad ali
Question: Ryan Tubridy took over which Irish (and world's longest running) TV chat show?
Answer: late late show
Question: Which South Pacific island nation became the first in the 21st century to change its driving on the road from right to left?
Answer: samoa
Question: A large statue of Apollo was discovered at a Unesco Heritage site in which country?
Answer: turkey
Question: What international organization did Albania and Croatia join on 1st April 2009?
Answer: nato
Question: What Israeli war film, named after the country of conflict featured in it, won the Golden Lion at the 2009 Venice Film Festival?
Answer: lebanon
Question: Which Belgian won the 2009 US Open Women's Tennis Singles Championship?
Answer: kim clijsters
Question: For her performance in what film did Kate Winslet win her 2009 best actress Oscar?
Answer: reader
Question: The Raptorex Kriegsteini, as smaller version of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, was discovered in which country?
Answer: china
Question: Becky Simmon of Guernsey and Lisa Cummings of Ireland were first from their islands to swim what stretch of water respectively once and both ways?
Answer: english channel
Question: Who in 2009 became the oldest person to have an album in the UK charts?
Answer: dame vera lynn
Question: Arthur's Day celebrated the 250th anniversary of the signing of the lease for which brewery?
Answer: guinness
Question: A painting by which surrealist artist was stolen from a Brussels museum?
Answer: rene magritte
Question: Which US city lost its bid to host the Summer 2016 Olympics?
Answer: chicago
Question: What was the name of the typhoon which hit the Philippines in October 2009?
Answer: parma
Question: The painting La Bella Principessa was attributed to which artist and inventor using fingerprint evidence?
Answer: leonardo da vinci
Question: Which island nation held the world's first underwater cabinet meeting to publicize global warming?
Answer: maldives
Question: What was Jenson Button's championship-clinching finishing place in the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix?
Answer: fifth
Question: Whose 2009 tour titled The Red Piano was partly cancelled due to ill health?
Answer: elton john
Question: What Tory MP was found to have claimed unsuccessfully on his parliamentary expenses for a floating duck island?
Answer: sir peter viggers
Question: Which band performed a massive controversial concert at the Brandenberg Gate celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Answer: u2
Question: Ratu Epeli Nailatakau was sworn in as president of which country?
Answer: fiji
Question: Which US actor and film director was made a Commander of the Legion d'Honneur in 2009?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: Human rights activist Kumi Naidoo became the first African to head which organization?
Answer: greenpeace
Question: The Original of Laura, an incomplete novel by which Russian author was published 32 years after his death?
Answer: vladimir nabokov
Question: Who apologised for his handball foul which helped eliminate Ireland from the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals?
Answer: thierry henri
Question: The European Court of Justice ruled airlines must compensate passengers for delays exceeding how many hours?
Answer: three
Question: What is big particle accelerator on the French-Swiss border, restarted in 2009 after extensive repairs?
Answer: large hadron collider
Question: Oasis of the Seas became the world's largest what, when completed in 2009?
Answer: cruise ship
Question: Which country saw court battles surrounding gay marriage and specifically the ceremony for Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Bello?
Answer: argentina
Question: A Ryanair jet slid off the runway at which Scottish airport?
Answer: prestwick
Question: From whom did Susan Sarandon announce a split after a long partnership?
Answer: tim robbins
Question: Porfirio Lobo Sosa was elected president of which central American nation?
Answer: honduras
Question: Who famously withdrew from his own Chevron World Challenge charity sports event?
Answer: tiger woods
Question: Who won a third term as Mayor of New York City in 2009?
Answer: michael bloomberg
Question: Which English town became the first to be twinned with Walt Disney World in Florida?
Answer: swindon
Question: What invertebrate species what filmed for the first time using a tool?
Answer: octopus
Question: In what TV soap did Tony confess to murdering Liam?
Answer: coronation street
Question: What was Dan Brown's 2009 bestselling and Christmas number one book?
Answer: lost symbol
Question: Michale Schumacher announced his Formula One 2010 comeback would be with what team?
Answer: mercedes
Question: Who was announced as the eleventh Dr Who, replacing the outgoing David Tennant?
Answer: matt smith
Question: Nashville based Mac McAnally was named for the second consecutive year Musician of the Year at which 2009 awards event?
Answer: cma awards
Question: Discovered in 1996, element 112, symbol Cp, was added to the periodic table with what name, in honour of a famous astronomer?
Answer: copernicium
Question: Which football club was the first to win the sextuple of all possible major competitions?
Answer: barcelona
Question: What was the destination city of the plane carrying Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 'underpants bomber'?
Answer: detroit
Question: A hugely valuable little sculpted guitar recently recovered by police in Italy was made by which cubist artist for his daughter Paloma?
Answer: pablo picasso
Question: What irreverent publication founded by Chris Donald celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009?
Answer: viz
Question: Which performer opened the 1969 Woodstock festival?
Answer: richie havens
Question: What is cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants' starfish friend called?
Answer: patrick star
Question: Who played Commodus in the 2000 film Gladiator?
Answer: joaquin phoenix
Question: The Japanese company Ajinomoto (meaning 'essence of taste') was formed in 1909 to market which popular food ingredient?
Answer: monosodium glutamate
Question: What was serial killer John Christie's London address, and the title of the 1970 film about him starring Richard Attenborough?
Answer: 10 rillington place
Question: Forefathers Day is celebrated in the US on which date?
Answer: 21 december
Question: Joseph Addison and Richard Steele founded (in 1711), and Boris Johnson edited, which British magazine?
Answer: spectator
Question: Who was burned at the stake, age 19, in Rouen in 1431?
Answer: joan of arc
Question: How many times did Martina Navratilova reach the Women's Singles Final at Wimbledon?
Answer: twelve
Question: The British road sign of a red diagonal cross on a blue background in a red circle means what?
Answer: no stopping
Question: In Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, what is the name of Shakespeare's sister?
Answer: judith
Question: The plant Nicotiana tabacum is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: tobacco
Question: Mr Wopsle is a character in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: great expectations
Question: What big disastrous English event happened in 1666?
Answer: great fire of london
Question: What formal two-word term refers to the investigation before completing a business investment or acquisition?
Answer: due diligence
Question: What note is the second (second highest) string on a guitar when tuned to standard concert pitch?
Answer: b
Question: Donald Tusk became the prime minister of which country in November 2007?
Answer: poland
Question: Called Coleoptera, meaning sheathed wing, what commonly known order of creatures contains more species than any other?
Answer: beetles
Question: The symbol ∞ (sideways 8) means what in mathematics?
Answer: infinity
Question: In which English midlands city was author Alan Sillitoe born?
Answer: nottingham
Question: Who was the target of an assassination plot in the 1978 film Foul Play?
Answer: pope
Question: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in which city in 1780?
Answer: boston
Question: What word, meaning something left in a will, refers to an old and incompatible organisational computing system?
Answer: legacy
Question: What was the name of the Space Shuttle which exploded after take-off in January 1986?
Answer: challenger
Question: What is the medical condition Herpes Zoster commonly called?
Answer: shingles
Question: What breed of dog is known as the Carriage Dog (because they were trained to run with horse-drawn carriages as guard dogs)?
Answer: dalmatian
Question: Genuphobia is the irrational fear of what part of the body?
Answer: knee
Question: The Greek word Xero (pronounced zero) in xerography and related terminology means what?
Answer: dry
Question: Who was the prime minister of Rhodesia from 1965-79?
Answer: ian smith
Question: In the 2001 film Black Hawk Down what is the Black Hawk?
Answer: helicopter
Question: Which actor was the puppet character from TV's Stingray said to have been modelled on?
Answer: james garner
Question: Former FBI director W Mark Felt revealed himself in 2005 to be what codenamed whistleblower?
Answer: deep throat
Question: What is the name of the blue rose unveiled by Japanese company Suntory in October 2009?
Answer: applause
Question: Who produced, directed and narrated the best film Oscar winning 1952 movie The Greatest Show On Earth?
Answer: cecil b demille
Question: What was the submarine developed by US engineer Robert Fulton in 1803?
Answer: nautilus
Question: Who captained the 2009 England women's cricket team?
Answer: charlotte edwards
Question: The Buddy Holly song That'll Be the Day is said to have been inspired by what John Wayne film?
Answer: searchers
Question: What is the tenth and final day of the Hindu festival of Navrati called?
Answer: dussehra
Question: Who wrote the classic two-part 19th century German play Faust?
Answer: goethe
Question: Which British politician became MP for Finchley in 1959?
Answer: margaret thatcher
Question: What term did former Yahoo! vice-president and author Seth Godin originate whereby potential customers 'opt-in' to receive advertising?
Answer: permission marketing
Question: To whom are the words 'Veni Vidi Vici' attributed, after he defeated Pharnaces the Second of Pontus?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: Which tough-guy actor was the voice of the dog Charlie B Barkin in the 1989 animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven?
Answer: burt reynolds
Question: What term describes the now generally illegal practice requiring people to be members of a trade union before being employed by an organization?
Answer: closed shop
Question: In which part of the human body is the Eustachian Tube?
Answer: ear
Question: What is the craft of cutting and polishing stones or gems?
Answer: lapidary
Question: By which name was American artist Anna Mary Roberston Moses, who began painting in her 70s, better known?
Answer: grandma moses
Question: Anna Kournikova, Michelangelo, ILOVEYOU, and Melissa were examples of what?
Answer: computer virus
Question: What was the first Monty Python feature film?
Answer: and now for something completely different
Question: What is the name of one full point in a Judo contest?
Answer: ippon
Question: What is Niccolo Machiavelli's famously fascinating book on the art of political leadership, published in 1532?
Answer: prince
Question: Miliaria is the medical name for what condition?
Answer: prickly heat
Question: What colour are the flowers of the various plants known as Celandines?
Answer: yellow
Question: The Swiss Re Tower in London is commonly known by what name?
Answer: gherkin
Question: What is the profession of Peter Kingdom in the UK TV series 'Kingdom'?
Answer: solicitor
Question: What type of headwear is named after a hero in a Robert Burns poem?
Answer: tam o shanter
Question: Which 1950s-60s sex symbol is reputed to have said, "I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one"?
Answer: brigitte bardot
Question: Whose enormous yacht Eclipse launched in June 2009?
Answer: roman abramovich
Question: Which singer was born Steven Demetre Georgiou?
Answer: yusuf islam