CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which notable CEO stepped down on 27 June 2008 to concentrate on his charity work?
Answer: bill gates
Question: During Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Commons in December 2008 Gordon Brown amusingly and accidentally claimed his government had saved what? (instead of the banking system)
Answer: world
Question: Vodka, Galliano and orange juice are used to make which classic cocktail?
Answer: harvey wallbanger
Question: At which battle of 1314 did Robert The Bruce defeat the English forces?
Answer: bannockburn
Question: Consecrated in 1962, where is the Cathedral Church of St Michael?
Answer: coventry
Question: On TV, who did the character Lurch work for?
Answer: addams family
Question: How many arms/tentacles/limbs does a squid have?
Answer: ten
Question: Which reggae singing star died 11th May 1981?
Answer: bob marley
Question: Characters Charlie Allnut and Rosie Sayer appeared in which classic 1951 movie?
Answer: african queen
Question: For his part in which 1953 film did Frank Sinatra receive a Best Supporting Actor Oscar?
Answer: from here to eternity
Question: Who is the only man (at 2009) to have won motorbike and F1 car World Championships?
Answer: john surtees
Question: In which county is the UK prime minister's official country residence Chequers?
Answer: buckinghamshire
Question: Who created the UK TV spoof 007 character Basildon Bond?
Answer: russ abbott
Question: What is the policeman's name in Noddy stories?
Answer: pc plod
Question: In the 1963 film The Great Escape, what names were given to the three tunnels?
Answer: tom dick harry
Question: What liqueur bearing the letters D.O.M. on the bottle label was developed at Fecamp, France, in the 16th century?
Answer: benedictine
Question: What is the third major Balearic Island with Majorca and Minorca?
Answer: ibiza
Question: Who won six consecutive Wimbledon singles titles in the 1980s?
Answer: martina navratilova
Question: In which country did the Mau Mau uprising (1952-60) occur?
Answer: kenya
Question: Who captained Jules Verne's submarine Nautilus?
Answer: captain nemo
Question: In which 1979 film was the spaceship called Nostromo?
Answer: alien
Question: The Shatt-el-Arab (River of Arabia) is the confluence of which two other rivers?
Answer: tigris and euphrates
Question: In UK TV's 'Noel Edmund's House Party', the 'house' was situated near to which village?
Answer: crinkley bottom
Question: Alan Minter was undisputed World boxing champion at which weight?
Answer: middleweight
Question: What was the character name of TV's 'The Saint'?
Answer: simon templar
Question: In literature, who was the best known pupil of Greyfriar's School?
Answer: billy bunter
Question: Which actor appeared in Papillion and The Great Escape and died in 1980?
Answer: steve mcqueen
Question: What do the British call the vegetables that Americans call zucchini?
Answer: courgettes
Question: Which Cornish village claims to be the birthplace of King Arthur?
Answer: tintagel
Question: KAR120C was the registration of a yellow Lotus 7, in which 1960s cult UK TV series?
Answer: prisoner
Question: In which Dickens novel was Miss Havisham jilted on her wedding day?
Answer: great expectations
Question: Who had a 1985 hit with Saving All My Love For You?
Answer: whitney houston
Question: Which actor appeared to have a wooden leg in the 1956 film Moby Dick?
Answer: gregory peck
Question: In Roman mythology, Neptune is the equivalent to which Greek god?
Answer: poseidon
Question: Which TV character said, 'Live long and prosper'?
Answer: mr spock
Question: Which playwright wrote The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and The Cherry Orchard?
Answer: anton chekov
Question: What make of car was the time-machine in the film Back To The Future?
Answer: de lorean
Question: Which school featured in UK TV's 'Please Sir'?
Answer: fenn street
Question: Robin Hood & Friar Tuck appear in which well-known novel, by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: ivanhoe
Question: 'Mace is one of the spices obtained from the tree Myristica Fragrams - what is the other?
Answer: nutmeg
Question: Who hosted UK TV's 'Family Fortunes' after Bob Monkhouse and before Les Dennis?
Answer: max bygraves
Question: Which Dickens' character was always 'expecting something to turn up'?
Answer: mr micawber
Question: Which musical featured the song They Called The Wind Mariah?
Answer: paint your wagon
Question: Which pub in Nottingham claims to be the oldest in Britain?
Answer: trip to jerusalem
Question: Edward II was murdered in Berkeley Castle in 1327, in which county is Berkeley Castle?
Answer: gloucestershire
Question: Who plays Lynette Scavo in the TV series Desperate Housewives?
Answer: felicity huffman
Question: How many finger holes does a tin whistle (pennywhistle) have?
Answer: six
Question: What famous London building is officially called 1 Canada Square?
Answer: canary wharf tower
Question: Which tennis player was stabbed by a Steffi Graf fan while playing in Hamburg 1993?
Answer: monica seles
Question: What was the nuclear power station Sellafield previously known as?
Answer: windscale
Question: Which British organisation was founded by Octavia Hill in 1895?
Answer: national trust
Question: What was the name of the Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico in 1519?
Answer: hernando cortez
Question: Which US state is named on the label of a Jack Daniels bottle?
Answer: tennessee
Question: What type of animal was inside Sputnik 2 when launched into orbit in 1957?
Answer: dog
Question: What are the first names of English novelist G K Chesterton?
Answer: gilbert keith
Question: The song Luck be a Lady features in which musical?
Answer: guys and dolls
Question: In the city of Manchester (England) the Irk and Medlock join which river?
Answer: irwell
Question: The 1999 film Tea with Mussolini is based on whose autobiography?
Answer: franco zeffirelli
Question: Who designed the Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover?
Answer: peter blake
Question: What is the theme tune of the US basketball team, the Harlem Globetrotters?
Answer: sweet georgia brown
Question: Who was the first British Prime Minister not to have been privately educated?
Answer: david lloyd george
Question: Black Dog and Blind Pew are characters in which novel?
Answer: treasure island
Question: In which 1953 film did Marilyn Monroe play gold-digger Lorelei Lee?
Answer: gentlemen prefer blondes
Question: The London Promenade concerts were founded by which English composer/conductor?
Answer: sir henry wood
Question: Who captained the West Indies cricket team from 1974-85?
Answer: clive lloyd
Question: What was singer Tony Bennett's only No1 UK hit single (as at 2009)?
Answer: stranger in paradise
Question: In the human body what is the innominate bone more commonly known as?
Answer: hip bone
Question: Who became president of Uganda after Idi Amin was overthrown in 1980?
Answer: milton obote
Question: The Salk vaccine was developed in 1954 to be used against which disease?
Answer: polio
Question: The Battle of Balaclava was fought during which war?
Answer: crimean war
Question: In the UK children's TV series Playschool, what was the name of the black doll which replaced Hamble in the 1980s?
Answer: poppy
Question: What type of plastic was made from phenol and formaldehyde?
Answer: bakelite
Question: Which London Bridge designed by John Rennie was opened in 1817?
Answer: waterloo
Question: Who played the Sheriff John T Chance in the 1959 film Rio Bravo?
Answer: john wayne
Question: A detrusor is a muscle which forms a layer on the wall of which part of the human body?
Answer: bladder
Question: What is the score of 40-all called in a game of tennis?
Answer: deuce
Question: Which English poet died of tuberculosis in Rome in 1821?
Answer: john keats
Question: What were the first names of English novelist H E Bates?
Answer: herbert ernest
Question: Under the British Coal Mines Act of 1911 what age did a pit pony have to be before going underground?
Answer: four
Question: The Yas Marina Grand Prix circuit is in which country?
Answer: abu dhabi
Question: Who was the first black man to appear on the cover of American Vogue?
Answer: lebron james
Question: President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and which prime minister were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978?
Answer: menachen begin
Question: In a game of English draughts how many pieces does each player normally begin with?
Answer: twelve
Question: Duma is a legislative body in the ruling asesembly of which country?
Answer: russia
Question: A nap hand is a series of how many winning points or victories in a game or sport?
Answer: five
Question: What is the title of a British nobleman ranking above an earl and below a duke?
Answer: marquess
Question: Coprophagia is the eating (by insects and certain animals) of what?
Answer: dung
Question: Which city is the setting of 1950s musical Kismet?
Answer: baghdad
Question: Which London tube station was called Gillespie Road before adopting the name of a nearby football club in 1932?
Answer: arsenal
Question: Which Native American Indian tribe bought the Hard Rock chain for a reputed $965m in 2006?
Answer: seminoles
Question: Passat, the Volkswagen car model, is German for a type of what?
Answer: wind
Question: Which singer-songwriter released an album in 1983 called Hearts and Bones?
Answer: paul simon
Question: Who was the first woman Speaker of the UK House of Commons?
Answer: betty boothroyd
Question: In Greek mythology what was the name of the old man who ferried the souls of the dead across the River Styx to Hades?
Answer: charon
Question: In which 1963 film is Maureen O'Hara spanked by John Wayne?
Answer: mclintock
Question: The Copenhagen Criteria define eligibility for national membership of what organisation?
Answer: european union
Question: What is the grammatical term for words such as at, in, of, to, by, under, and with?
Answer: preposition
Question: Which city hosts the headquarters of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement?
Answer: geneva
Question: What is the Christian festival, meaning 'fiftieth day', celebrated on Whit Sunday?
Answer: pentecost
Question: What is Edward Hopper's famous night-time painting of customers in an American diner?
Answer: nighthawks
Question: On which island did Noel Coward spend the last 23 years of his life?
Answer: jamaica
Question: Who illustrated Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass?
Answer: john tenniel
Question: What is the highest rank of officer in the RAF?
Answer: marshall of royal air force
Question: What is the surname of Eddie played by Adrian Edmondson in the UK TV series Bottom?
Answer: hitler
Question: What famous battle began with the English on Senlac Hill?
Answer: battle of hastings
Question: Vodka, Cointrea (or Triple Sec), cranberry juice and lime-juice make up which cocktail?
Answer: cosmopolitan
Question: What metal, safely used in food colouring, has the E-Number 175?
Answer: gold
Question: Almeria, Merlot, and Waltham Cross are which fruit?
Answer: grapes
Question: What three-letter Latin term used commonly in English translated literally as 'road' or 'way'?
Answer: via
Question: Helvetia is the female personification of which country, appearing on its coins and stamps, etc?
Answer: switzerland
Question: In children's TV what is the name of Fireman Sam's fire truck?
Answer: jupiter
Question: Which English artist was the subject of the 1974 film A Bigger Splash?
Answer: david hockney
Question: What bridge connects Dawes Point to Milson's Point?
Answer: sydney harbour bridge
Question: The Bhagavad Gita is an important scripture of which religion?
Answer: hinduism
Question: Which British golfer won the 1969 British Open and 1970 US Open Championships?
Answer: tony jacklin
Question: Which Greek island is said to be the birthplace of the god Apollo?
Answer: delos
Question: The late 'Father of Chicago Blues', McKinley Morganfield, is better known by what name?
Answer: muddy waters
Question: Which King of England defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt?
Answer: henry fifth
Question: Who was shot dead by Jack McCall in 1876 at a poker table in Number Ten Saloon?
Answer: wild bill hickok
Question: Nel Gwyn was the mistress of which King of England?
Answer: charles second
Question: Tenzin Gyatso is more famously known by what name?
Answer: dalai lama
Question: What alcoholic drink is distilled from the agave plant?
Answer: tequila
Question: Which British prime minister resigned in 1957 after his failure to handle the Suez Crisis?
Answer: anthony eden
Question: Name the fraudulent chairman of Polly Peck who jumped bail and fled to Cyprus in 1993?
Answer: asil nadir
Question: What computer game invented by Alexi Pajtnov celebrated its 25th anniversary in June 2009?
Answer: tetris
Question: Raymond Babbitt is the title character in which 1988 film?
Answer: rainman
Question: The logo of the Yamaha corporation comprises three interlocking what?
Answer: tuning forks
Question: Vladimir Ulyanov was better known as which political activist and leader?
Answer: lenin
Question: Who starred as Trampas the 1960-70s TV series The Virginian?
Answer: doug mcclure
Question: Who was the youngest player (as at 2009) to win the Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?
Answer: boris becker
Question: What is the velvet fabric with a pattern formed by burning the pile away with acid?
Answer: devoré
Question: Holy Island off the English coast is also known by what name?
Answer: lindisfarne
Question: Whose Selected Papers on Hysteria, translated in 1909 by Abraham Brill, introduced the word libido into English?
Answer: sigmund freud
Question: What was the name of the mythical sculptor who fell in love with the statue of a woman he carved, as told by Roman poet Ovid, and inspiring George Bernard Shaw's play of the same name?
Answer: pygmalion
Question: Who wrote the 2009 novel, The Princess and the President, criticized for hinting at an unlikely affair between Diana Princess of Wales and the President of France?
Answer: giscard d estaing
Question: Who produced the 1983 hit record Relax, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
Answer: trevor horn
Question: Who famously said in the witness box, "Well, he would, wouldn't he?" when told that Viscount Astor denied having an affair with her (in relation to the 1963 Profumo scandal)?
Answer: mandy rice davies
Question: Bessie Wallis Warfield became better known as whom?
Answer: wallis duchess of windsor
Question: Presenter Bill Grundy flirted with which future punk singer during the Sex Pistols' swearing on the live TV Today show in 1976?
Answer: siouxsie sioux
Question: Oliver Barrett IV was the male lead character in what famous 1970 film?
Answer: love story
Question: What in 1972 was the first animated film to receive an X-rating in the USA?
Answer: fritz cat
Question: A delusional jealous belief that a partner is unfaithful is known in psychiatry as what syndrome, after a Shakespeare character?
Answer: othello syndrome
Question: Linda Lovelace starred in what 1972 film, whose title inspired the nickname for the Watergate informant?
Answer: deep throat
Question: Whose tale in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales tells of a knight sent away by his queen to discover what women want above all else?
Answer: wife of bath
Question: Brigitte Bardot originally duetted on and prevented the release of what 1960s song, which later became a hit when she was replaced by Jane Birkin?
Answer: je t aime
Question: Whose controversial activities were based at 32 Ambleside Avenue, Streatham, South London?
Answer: cynthia payne
Question: Who in 1953 appeared on the cover of the first issue of Playboy magazine?
Answer: marilyn monroe
Question: What colour berets do the New York City crime-fighters the 'Guardian Angels' wear?
Answer: red
Question: During the siege of which African city did General Gordon die?
Answer: khartoum
Question: Which rock band released an album Beggars Banquet?
Answer: rolling stones
Question: Mount Vinson Massif is the highest peak in which continent?
Answer: antarctica
Question: Who wrote the novel Bonfire of the Vanities?
Answer: tom wolfe
Question: Who played Professor Marcus in the 1955 film, The Ladykillers?
Answer: alec guinness
Question: Who was the first person to cross the English Channel in a plane?
Answer: louis bleriot
Question: In which Bavarian town is the Passion Play performed every ten years?
Answer: oberammergau
Question: What 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood was titled after the legend of a 17th century highwaywoman?
Answer: wicked lady
Question: Who was the first wife of poet Ted Hughes, who killed herself in 1963?
Answer: sylvia plath
Question: Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) founded what religious order?
Answer: society of jesus
Question: In which city is Hell Gate Bridge, said to have inspired Sydney Harbour Bridge?
Answer: new york
Question: The Bessemer process was invented in 1856 for the production of what material?
Answer: steel
Question: Sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials, which former chief of the Luftwaffe took cyanide the night before his scheduled hanging?
Answer: hermann goring
Question: The grandfather of which English actress was leader of the Labour Party 1931-35?
Answer: angela lansbury
Question: Who played the title role in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinnie?
Answer: joe pesci
Question: In Greek Mythology which King was condemned to stand near fruit and water which moved away when he reached for them?
Answer: tantalus
Question: In 2005 Yulia Tymoshenko became the first female Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: ukraine
Question: The Reverse Frankensteiner is a move in what performance art form?
Answer: professional wrestling
Question: Fucus (pronounced 'fewcus') is a type of what?
Answer: seaweed
Question: What car maker announced in early 2009 plans to reintroduce the iconic DS marque?
Answer: citroen
Question: What is a mazurka - a Polish folk dance; an Italian picnic table; a Chinese fighting snail; or a puppy or kitten born with only three legs?
Answer: polish folk dance
Question: Which music hall singer was famed for her rude songs, including 'I Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas'?
Answer: marie lloyd
Question: What was the Italian cruise liner hijacked by terrorists in October 1985?
Answer: achille lauro
Question: Which Shakespeare play features in the Cole Porter musical 'Kiss Me, Kate'?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: Which English cartoonist created the St Trinian schoolgirls?
Answer: ronald searle
Question: Who was wife to Henry II and mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John?
Answer: eleanor of aquitaine
Question: Sigourney Weaver portrayed which zoologist in the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist?
Answer: dian fossey
Question: Which Native American leader's real name was Goyathlay?
Answer: geronimo
Question: Titan and Ganymeade are what in our Solar System?
Answer: moons
Question: In the first episode of the TV series Dallas which character took his new wife home to meet his family?
Answer: bobby ewing
Question: Which Guns 'n' Roses song is based on a short story by Del James called Without You?
Answer: november rain
Question: Who runs the Greendale post office in the children's TV show Postman Pat?
Answer: mrs goggins
Question: In Greek mythology what is a nymph called who inhabits a wood or a tree?
Answer: dryad
Question: What is the fruit of the blackthorn (prunus spinosa)?
Answer: sloe
Question: What would a silkworm grow to become if permitted to do so?
Answer: silkmoth
Question: The Domesday Book was made by order of which English monarch?
Answer: william first
Question: Who played Dr Who in the 1965 film Dr Who and the Daleks?
Answer: peter cushing
Question: Who wrote the novel The Murders in the Rue Morgue?
Answer: edgar allan poe
Question: Which retail chain changed their corporate font in 2009 from Futura to Verdana?
Answer: ikea
Question: In the US and Canada, Labor Day falls on the first Monday of which month?
Answer: september
Question: What was the name and call-sign of the Apollo Eleven lunar module?
Answer: eagle
Question: What red-blooming Christmas plant came originally from Mexico?
Answer: poinsettia
Question: What was Girls Aloud's 2002 UK Christmas number one single?
Answer: sound of underground
Question: Which famous comedy double-act partner made the first ever UK mobile phone call, New Year's Day, 1985?
Answer: ernie wise
Question: What was the cyclone named that hit Darwin, Australia, in Christmas 1974?
Answer: tracy
Question: Choirboy Peter Auty sang the film version of which song later recorded as a hit record by Aled Jones?
Answer: walking in air
Question: What creature, noted for feeding on its berries, is linked by name to the mistletoe plant?
Answer: mistle thrush
Question: Which poem written by Clement Moore was originally titled A Visit from Saint Nicholas?
Answer: night before christmas
Question: What was the title of the first Christmas TV special Peanuts cartoon?
Answer: charlie brown christmas
Question: Which author and creator of Jekyll and Hyde, gave his birthday by formal deed to Anne Ide because she disliked her own birthday of December 25th?
Answer: robert louis stevenson
Question: What was Queen's 1984 Christmas single called?
Answer: thank god it s christmas
Question: American cartoonist Thomas Nast is credited with creating the traditional image of which popular Christmas character?
Answer: santa claus
Question: Jackie Wilson's re-issued song Reet Petite became the 1986 UK Christmas number one after helping to advertise what brand?
Answer: levi s
Question: What is the name of Dorothy Gale's dog in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: toto
Question: Born Christmas day 1908, by what name was gay icon author of The Naked Civil Servant popularly known?
Answer: quentin crisp
Question: What is a baby Turkey more correctly called, other than a chick?
Answer: poult
Question: La Befana is the legendary character who delivers Christmas presents to children in which country?
Answer: italy
Question: Who is the central businessman character in the film It's a Wonderful Life?
Answer: george bailey
Question: In technical astronomical terms what is the duration of the winter solstice; an instant, a day, three months, or six months?
Answer: instant
Question: What Christmas-time song did James Pierpont compose in 1857?
Answer: jingle bells
Question: Kiritimati, the first inhabited place to experience each New Year, is more commonly known as what?
Answer: christmas island
Question: What is Virgil Hilts' nickname in the film The Great Escape?
Answer: cooler king
Question: In which country is it a tradition to hide all brooms in the house on Christmas Eve?
Answer: norway
Question: Who wrote the songs for the 1954 film White Christmas?
Answer: irving berlin
Question: Lake Inari, within the Arctic Circle, is which European country?
Answer: finland
Question: Herman van Rompuy, the first President of the European Council, was previously prime minister of which country?
Answer: belgium
Question: What is the name of the seat used for riding on the back of an elephant?
Answer: howdah
Question: Who composed Pomp and Circumstance No.4 in 1907?
Answer: edward elgar
Question: In which London park does the annual Frieze Art Fair take place?
Answer: regents park
Question: Metachrosis is the ability of some animals to do what?
Answer: change colour
Question: Where on the human head would you find an epicanthic fold?
Answer: eyelid
Question: What is the name of the plant in the 1986 film the Little Shop of Horrors?
Answer: audrey ii
Question: From what island destination was HMS Bounty returning when its famous mutiny occurred?
Answer: tahiti
Question: What brand of raincoat was famously worn by British prime minister Harold Wilson?
Answer: gannex
Question: With which English county cricket club did Ian Botham finish his playing career?
Answer: durham
Question: Who were the runners up in the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final?
Answer: brazil
Question: Who was William Shakespeare's wife (other than Mrs Shakespeare)?
Answer: anne hathaway
Question: What is the name of the opera house which opened in Milan in 1778?
Answer: la scala
Question: WWII General Joseph Stilwell's nickname was also the name of what 1970s rock act fronted by Elkie Brooks?
Answer: vinegar joe
Question: The natural geological columns of Fingal's Cave and the Giant's Causeway are formed of which rock?
Answer: basalt
Question: What three-letter brand meaning 'flight' is the Polish national airline?
Answer: lot