CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The song Stranger in Paradise featured in which 1955 film musical?
Answer: kismet
Question: What Oscar nominated film was adapted from Noel Coward?s play Still Life?
Answer: brief encounter
Question: In the Arab Spring which country's uprising was called the Jasmine Revolution?
Answer: tunisia
Question: What was the former name, until 1976, of Ho Chi Minh City?
Answer: saigon
Question: Which French author declined to accept his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964?
Answer: jean paul sartre
Question: Mussorgsky's composition Pictures at an Exhibition was originally written for piano. Who produced the most popular orchestral version in 1922?
Answer: maurice ravel
Question: How is the Rembrandt painting 'The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out' more commonly known?
Answer: night watch
Question: Who plays Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: maggie smith
Question: The chemical symbol for which element is derived from hydrargyrum meaning watery silver?
Answer: mercury
Question: What is the full name of the policeman in the Scottish village of Lochdubh created by M C Beaton?
Answer: hamish macbeth
Question: Which Scottish king was killed in the Battle of Flooded Field?
Answer: james iv
Question: Tom Brady has been the starting quarterback for which NFL team since 2000?
Answer: new england patriots
Question: Of the fortyeight contiguous states in the USA, which contains the most northerly point?
Answer: minnesota
Question: Which Duke commanded the Government forces at the 1745 Battle of Culloden?
Answer: duke of cumberland
Question: Michael Jordan played for which NBA team from 1984 to 1998, except for a season of retirement in 1993-94?
Answer: chicago bulls
Question: Which state of the USA has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico between Florida and Mississippi?
Answer: alabama
Question: Falco subbuteo is the scientific name for which small falcon?
Answer: hobby
Question: Salem?s Lot published in 1975 was which writer?s second novel?
Answer: stephen king
Question: In which film did Noel Coward play Captain E V Kinross and Celia Johnson his wife Alix?
Answer: in which we serve
Question: KOH is the formula for which chemical compound?
Answer: potassium hydroxide
Question: What is the full name of Alexander McCall Smith?s 'No 1 Lady Detective'?
Answer: precious ramotswe
Question: Alexandr Borodin died before he could finish his opera Prince Igor. Who collaborated with Alexandr Glazunov to complete the work?
Answer: nikolai rimsky korsakov
Question: What is the name of four of the five cats owned by the family in The Simpsons?
Answer: snowball
Question: What is the title of the Holbein painting of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve?
Answer: ambassadors
Question: Who was the last South African to win the Open Golf Championship?
Answer: ernie els
Question: How was Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, bom in Jersey in 1853, better known?
Answer: lillie langtry
Question: Which Yorkshire football club plays home games at New York Stadium, having played at Millmoor until 2008?
Answer: rotherham united
Question: Three clues lead to a one word answer: 1 T.Pau song, 2 Syndrome, 3 Porcelain.
Answer: china
Question: Who was the author of the poem Home Thoughts From Abroad?
Answer: robert browning
Question: Who joined The Who as drummer in 1964 before they recorded their first single?
Answer: keith moon
Question: Who replaced Angus Deayton in 2009 as presenter of the BBC panel show Would I Lie to You?
Answer: rob brydon
Question: In 1993 two British boxers fought each other for the World Heavyweight title, Lennox Lewis won, who was the loser?
Answer: frank bruno
Question: James Stewart played the part of George Bailey in which film?
Answer: it s wonderful life
Question: In 1587 Francis Drake 'singed the King of Spain's beard' in the harbour of which city?
Answer: cadiz
Question: What male condition is classified on the Hamilton-Norwood scale?
Answer: male pattern baldness
Question: Running from Exeter to Lincoln, which was the longest Roman road in Britain?
Answer: fosse way
Question: Who partnered Andy Murray to win the 2012 Olympic tennis mixed doubles silver medal?
Answer: laura robson
Question: Which toy was originally called the Pluto Platter?
Answer: frisbee
Question: By what name is the Battle of Aboukir Bay (1798) more commonly known?
Answer: battle of nile
Question: Which government agency has its headquarters at Explorer House, Southampton?
Answer: ordnance survey
Question: In the New Testament, who demanded the head of John the Baptist?
Answer: salome
Question: The mineral stibnite is a source of which metallic element?
Answer: antimony
Question: In the Thomas the Tank Engine series of books, what is the name of the Fat Controller?
Answer: sir topham hat
Question: Name either of the two car companies that part of General Motors in the year it was founded (1908).
Answer: buick oldsmobile
Question: Pico d;Aneto is the highest point in which mountain range?
Answer: pyrenees
Question: Which organisation benefits from The Secret Policeman's Balls?
Answer: amnesty international
Question: What is the name of the bell that hangs in Lloyd's of London;s HQ in Lime Street, London?
Answer: lutine bell
Question: In the passing of a Government Bill, what follows the Third Reading?
Answer: royal assent
Question: According to the New Testament, who was the High Priest of the Jews to whom Jesus was taken when he was first arrested?
Answer: caiaphas
Question: In the Superman comics, who is the young photographer whoworks with and is friends with Clark Kent and Lois Lane?
Answer: jimmy olsen
Question: Who was the oldest British monarch at the time of ascending the throne?
Answer: william iv
Question: a Give either of the forenames of the author of Mary Poppins, PL Travers?
Answer: pamela lyndon
Question: Whose novel, set in 1745, is considered to be the first historical novel?
Answer: sir walter scott
Question: The prefix thio- refers to the presence of which element in a chemical compound?
Answer: sulphur
Question: Prior to 1905, when Cardiff became one, which was the only city in Wales?
Answer: bangor
Question: Which country was known to the Romans as Mauretania Tingitana?
Answer: morocco
Question: The Porteus Riots of 1736 took place in which city?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: Which nut is obtained from the tree Juglans Regia??
Answer: walnut
Question: Pendennis Castle and St Mawes Castle lie either side of the river close to which English town?
Answer: falmouth
Question: Which spirit is the base of a Sidecar cocktail?
Answer: brandy
Question: Nicknamed Old Grog, which Admiral ordered the watering down of rum rations in 1738?
Answer: edward vernon
Question: In the song by Merle Haggard the singer was proud to be a what from Muskogee?
Answer: okie
Question: Screen actresses Julie Christie and Merle Oberon were both born in which country?
Answer: india
Question: Frank Beard was the only beardless member of which three man rock band?
Answer: zztop
Question: Adam Afriyie is the conservative MP for which Berkshire constituency?
Answer: windsor
Question: """This was the most unkindest cut of ail"" is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: julius caesar
Question: The paramilitary group Alpha 66 was formed in Florida to oppose whom?
Answer: fidel castro
Question: Author Henry Fielding introduced a forerunner of which modern service in the18th century?
Answer: police
Question: Blaise Pascal introduced which public service to Paris in the 17th century?
Answer: public transport
Question: In 1901 who became the first Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: edmund barton
Question: In 1867 who became the first Prime Minister of Canada?
Answer: john macdonald
Question: Who plays Citizen Khan in the eponymous TV sitcom?
Answer: adil ray
Question: """Being and Nothingness"" was a 1946 work by which French philosopher?"
Answer: jean paul sartre
Question: """The Concept of Irony"" was a 1820s philosophical work by which Dane?"
Answer: soren kirkegaard
Question: Which poet guided Dante through Hell in "The Divine Comedy"?
Answer: virgil
Question: Which great Assyrian city is named in the opening line of the poem Cargoes by John Masefield?
Answer: nineveh
Question: Which Chuck Berry song is performed by Marty McFly at the end of the film Back to the Future?
Answer: johnny b goode
Question: To which Tom Jones song is the final striptease performed in the film The Full Monty?
Answer: you can leave your hat on
Question: What is the name coined by Arthur Cayley to a group of numbers displayed in rows and columns to form a rectangular array?
Answer: matrix
Question: Which is the 6th book of the New Testament following the four gospels and Acts of The Apostles?
Answer: romans
Question: The song "I Could Have Danced All Night" comes from which musical?
Answer: my fair lady
Question: The word poodle for the breed of dog originated from which language?
Answer: german
Question: Which breed of dog originated in Germany, and is known in that country as the German Mastiff?
Answer: great dane
Question: Who plays Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory"?
Answer: jim parsons
Question: Regan and Goneril are two of King Lear's daughters, who is the third?
Answer: cordelia
Question: The poem ?Funeral Blue? begins with the words "Stop all the clocks..". Who wrote it?
Answer: w h auden
Question: What is the county town of the Scottish county of Angus?
Answer: forfar
Question: Name either of the "Two Gentlemen of Verona".
Answer: valentine or proteus
Question: On which Scottish Island is the town of Lochmaddy?
Answer: north uist
Question: Which British football player was the most expensive transfer of 2013 going for second highest transfer fee in history?
Answer: gareth bale
Question: Which national organisation has its HQ at Sandy, Bedfordshire?
Answer: rspb
Question: Ted Hughes became Poet Laureate in 1984 after which other poet refused the honour?
Answer: philip larkin
Question: For which Formula One team do Roman Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado drive?
Answer: lotus
Question: By what name is singer Vera Margaret Welch better known?
Answer: vera lynn
Question: The fictional character Don Diego de la Vega is better known by what nickname?
Answer: zorro
Question: The various varieties of chilli pepper belong to which genus of plants?
Answer: capsicum
Question: Harold Harefoot (Harold l) was King of England from 1035 to 1040, who was his father?
Answer: king canute
Question: Rod Stewart was the lead singer of which band from 1969 to 1975?
Answer: faces
Question: Which imaginary creature was described by Lewis Carroll as with jaws that bite and claws that catch?
Answer: jabberwocky
Question: Which vegetable is the normal base for the dish moussaka?
Answer: aubergine
Question: What is the English name for the river known in Wales as Afon Dyfrdwy?
Answer: dee
Question: In 2008 for which player did Manchester City pay 32,500,000 pounds?
Answer: robinho
Question: In the early 1980s Marc Almond was half of which pop duo?
Answer: soft cell
Question: Which large bird of prey has the Latin name Pandion Haliaetus?
Answer: osprey
Question: Which TV series of the 1960s regularly features a white Volvo P1800?
Answer: saint
Question: In early children?s television who appeared regularly with Muffin the Mule?
Answer: annette mills
Question: What is the surname of the only father and son to both become Formula One World Champion?
Answer: hill
Question: In literature what was the real name of the Artful Dodger?
Answer: jack dawkins
Question: Which green vegetable belongs to the Brassica Oleracea Italica group of plants?
Answer: broccoli
Question: The River Avon has an old Celtic name, what does it mean?
Answer: river
Question: The Waltz of the Flowers and The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy are from which 19th century ballet?
Answer: nutcracker
Question: Who was the real-life sailor on whom Robinson Crusoe is allegedly based?
Answer: alexander selkirk
Question: What is the common name of the tree and shrub Salix?
Answer: willow
Question: 'Grace and Favour' was the follow-up to which BBCTV sitcom?
Answer: are you being served
Question: Which Irish dish consists of a mixture of mashed potato and cabbage (or kale)?
Answer: colcannon
Question: What type of lager takes its name from the Czech town where it was first brewed?
Answer: pilsner
Question: The remains of King Richard 3rd Were found under a car park in which city?
Answer: leicester
Question: What unusual means of transport connects North Greenwich to the Royal Docks?
Answer: cable car
Question: In a famous novel, how is Sir Percy Blakeney otherwise known?
Answer: scarlet pimpernel
Question: Which classic cocktail consists of whisky, sweet vermouth and angostura bitters?
Answer: manhattan
Question: In the title of a BBC2 TV programme, how are Antonio Carluccio and Genaro Contaldo known?
Answer: two greedy italians
Question: The Treaty of Windsor of 1386 resulted in the longest British alliance, with which country?
Answer: portugal
Question: What is the name of the mountain above Rio de Janeiro where the statue of Christ the Redeemer stands?
Answer: corcovado
Question: What is the name of the railway line that is being built through London to link Reading, Berkshire with Shenfield in Essex?
Answer: crossrail
Question: Edward of Woodstock who, as Prince of Wales, died before his father and so was never King of England, is better known by which name?
Answer: black prince
Question: Which English novelist had an early career as a policeman in Burma?
Answer: george orwell
Question: Who wrote the novels 'The Fog', 'The Dark' and 'The Rats'?
Answer: james herbert
Question: Which famous musical features the song 'There is Nothing Like a Dame'?
Answer: south pacific
Question: Who was Prime Minister of the UK at the end of World War 2?
Answer: clement attlee
Question: Who plays the part of Mrs Brown in the TV comedy Mrs Brown's Boys?
Answer: brendan o carroll
Question: Which 2007 treaty amended the Maastricht Treaty and Treaty of Rome?
Answer: lisbon
Question: The 15-a-side sport Camogie is the female equivalent of which sport?
Answer: hurling
Question: At 14.17 miles long, which is the longest circuit ever used for a Formula 1 motor race?
Answer: nurburgring
Question: In the Bible to where was the Good Samaritan traveling?
Answer: jericho
Question: In 1797 Horatio Nelson lost his right arm during a battle for which island?
Answer: tenerife
Question: Which 1924 Sigmund Romberg operetta features the Drinking Song?
Answer: student prince
Question: What was the first name of the silent film comedian Fatty'Arbuckle?
Answer: roscoe
Question: The WH Auden poem commonly known as 'Stop All The Clocks', is more properly known by what title?
Answer: funeral blues
Question: The Red River forms the boundary between Texas and which other US State?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: Who created the children's book character the Gruffalo?
Answer: julia donaldson
Question: In which Sherlock Holmes story do the 'Baker Street Irregulars' first appear?
Answer: study in scarlet
Question: In the West Indies, which fruit is known as a penguin?
Answer: pineapple
Question: The cachelot is an alternative name for which mammal?
Answer: sperm whale
Question: In which Shakespeare play does the clown, Feste appear?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: VVhich Pulitzer prize winning author and journalist was present at both the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris?
Answer: norman mailer
Question: Who played the adult Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?
Answer: ralph fiennes
Question: Which Impressionist artist painted The Card Players circa 1892-4?
Answer: paul cezanne
Question: The game Mah Jong takes its name from the Chinese for which small bird?
Answer: sparrow
Question: What is added to brandy to make a Sidecar cocktail?
Answer: cointreau
Question: Which country won the William Webb Ellis Rugby Union Cup in 1995?
Answer: south africa
Question: In which English county is Dunmow of Flitch fame?
Answer: essex
Question: In 1803, which European country was the first to outlaw slavery?
Answer: denmark
Question: What is the more common name for the South African mammal the ratel?
Answer: honey badger
Question: Which UK actress gave an acclaimed performance as a ballet teacher in the film Billy Elliott?
Answer: julie walters
Question: Mercutio and Tybalt appear in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: romeo and juliet
Question: Who provided the voice of Mr Fox in the animated film The Fantastic Mr Fox?
Answer: george clooney
Question: Which spirit gives the 'kick' in a Singapore Sling?
Answer: gin
Question: Which golf club can be referred to as a 'Texas wedge'?
Answer: putter
Question: Who had a hit albums in 1970s with Teaser and the Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman?
Answer: cat stevens
Question: In which English county is Tolpuddle - famous for the martyrs?
Answer: dorset
Question: In Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure, which city did he call Christminster?
Answer: oxford
Question: Which name is shared by the governor of the Bank of England from 2003-2013 and a current top British Darts player born in Ipswich?
Answer: mervyn king
Question: Nick Matthew and Laura Massaro are current British World champions in which sport?
Answer: squash
Question: Ketevan 'Katie' Melua was bom in 1984 in which Soviet Socialist Republic, now an independent country?
Answer: georgia
Question: Who was the architect of The Shard building in Southwark London?
Answer: renzo piano
Question: In botany, what name is given to a plant that grows on another plant non-parasitically?
Answer: epiphyte
Question: An oophorectomy is an operation to remove which part of the body?
Answer: ovary
Question: Which film director won the Oscar for Best Picture for the film 12 Years a Slave in 2013?
Answer: steve mcqueen
Question: Bradley Walsh plays Detective Sergeant Ronnie Brooks in which TV series?
Answer: law and order uk
Question: Valerie Trierweiler was the partner for some years of which politician?
Answer: francois hollande
Question: Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and which other metal?
Answer: silver
Question: In which British Overseas Territory does a Ceremony of the Keys take place every year?
Answer: gibraltar
Question: What is the more familiar name of Patrick Clifton, a character in an animated series for children?
Answer: postman pat
Question: Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and which other actor starred in both The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape films?
Answer: james coburn
Question: Which actor starred in both The Magnificent Seven and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly films?
Answer: eli wallach
Question: The MP4-12c super car is made by which manufacturer?
Answer: mclaren
Question: What was Britain's first designated New Town, established by the New Towns Act 1945?
Answer: stevenage
Question: During the Wars of the Roses, Richard Duke of York (father of Richard III) was killed at which battle of 1460?
Answer: wakefield
Question: Who was the director of the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall?
Answer: sam mendes
Question: What is indicated by the Eastern Slavic name suffix 'ovich'?
Answer: son of
Question: What is the more familiar name of Samuel Peyton Jones, a character in an animated series for children?
Answer: fireman sam
Question: Sophia Dorothea of Celle was married to which British king?
Answer: george i
Question: Where in the British Isles would you find Trinity Manor, Longueville Manor and Rosel Manor?
Answer: jersey
Question: Which fruit has varieties called Medjool and Deglet Nour?
Answer: dates
Question: Who was the architect of the Gherkin Building at 30 St Mary Axe, London?
Answer: norman foster
Question: What is the common name of birds of the genus Pica?
Answer: magpie
Question: Which Frenchman was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature but refused it?
Answer: jean paul sartre
Question: In the children?s TV series Dora the Explorer what is the name of the monkey who is Dora's best friend?
Answer: boots
Question: Which metal, atomic number 22, is used in the construction of parts for high speed planes, spacecraft and missiles?
Answer: titanium
Question: Which fruit has varieties called Lady de Coverly and Kishmish?
Answer: sultana
Question: William Wallace defeated the English forces of the Earl of Surrey at which battle of 1297?
Answer: stirling
Question: What is featured on the central yellow stripe of the flag of Ghana?
Answer: black star
Question: A cholecystectomy is an operation to remove which organ?
Answer: gall bladder
Question: Miriam Gonzalez Durantez married which UK politician in 2000?
Answer: nick clegg
Question: Who had a UK No. 1 hit in 1960 with Only the Lonely?
Answer: roy orbison
Question: In The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, what kind of creature is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi?
Answer: mongoose
Question: Who captained the England Women's cricket team in the 2014 T20 World Cup?
Answer: charlotte edwards
Question: Dublin, Glasgow, London, Petroleum, Coal, Wax, Stay and Jump are all towns in which US State?
Answer: kentucky
Question: Harris Biggs-Wither proposed to which writer in 1793?
Answer: jane austen
Question: 'O for amuse of fire that would ascend. The brightest heaven of invention' are the opening lines of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: henry v
Question: Longitude by Dava Sobel concerns the invention of what?
Answer: marine chronometer
Question: Name the Belfast vet who invented the pneumatic tyre?
Answer: dunlop
Question: Near which Lincolnshire village did the apple fall on Newton?s head?
Answer: woolsthorpe
Question: William Oughred invented which mathematical instrument in 1622?
Answer: slide rule
Question: In which country would you find the Test Cricket Ground of Sabina Park?
Answer: jamaica
Question: Asked 'Can you see anything'? who replied 'Yes, wonderful things'?
Answer: howard carter
Question: Squidward is the reluctant neighbour and workmate of which children's cartoon character?
Answer: spongebob squarepants
Question: Which Midlands city was formed when several towns joined together as a county borough in 1910, achieving city status in 1928?
Answer: stoke on trent
Question: What was the name of the Greenpeace ship sunk in Auckland harbour in 1985?
Answer: rainbow warrior
Question: Complete the World War 2 slogan Be like Dad......... ?
Answer: keep mum
Question: Which carnivorous mammal, native to Africa, SW Asia and the Indian sub-continent can also be known as the Honey Badger?
Answer: ratel
Question: In which Hitchcock film did James Stewart and Doris Day play Dr Ben and Jo McKenna?
Answer: man who knew too much
Question: Who was the last German to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon?
Answer: michael stich
Question: What was the name of the pleasure steamer sunk in a collision with the dredger Bowbelle on the Thames in 1989?
Answer: marchioness
Question: Who arranged an outing for temperance campaigners from Leicester to Loughborough on July 1841, the first organized holiday excursion?
Answer: thomas cook
Question: The disease epidemic parotitis is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: mumps
Question: Who is the lowest ranked man to win the men?s singles title at Wimbledon, he was 125th when he won in 2001?
Answer: goran ivanisevic
Question: Which small mammal, native to Central and South America, may also be called the Honey Bear or Potto?
Answer: kinkajou
Question: For which Premiership club was Anelka playing when his contract was terminated?
Answer: west bromwich albion
Question: Which company introduced the first travellers cheques in 1891?
Answer: american express
Question: Who was the 18th century underworld figure known as the Thief-taker general who was executed at Tyburn in 1725?
Answer: jonathan wild
Question: Ojos del Salado is one of the world's highest volcanoes, in which country is its peak?
Answer: chile
Question: In which Hitchcock film did Ingrid Bergman play Dr Constance Peterson and Gregory Peck play Dr Anthony Edwards?
Answer: spellbound
Question: With which traditional activity would a squire or foreman, a bagman, a fool and a beast or hobby be associated?
Answer: morris dancing
Question: The Jule Styne song Let Me Entertain You comes from which musical?
Answer: gypsy
Question: Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol and Richard Thompson were three of the founder members in 1967 of which British folk-rock group?
Answer: fairport convention