CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which Swedish tennis player never won the men's singles title at Wimbledon, but during the 1980s won the US Open once, the French Open twice and the Australian Open three times?
Answer: mats wilander
Question: Graham McPherson was lead singer of a famous 1980s pop group, by what name is he usually known?
Answer: suggs
Question: Which Ealing comedy featured Alec Guinness, Alfie Bass, Sid James and Stanley Holloway as a gang of crooks?
Answer: lavender hill mob
Question: What name is given to the day 40 days after Easter?
Answer: ascension day
Question: Which 19th century English poet wrote "Home Thoughts from Abroad"?
Answer: robert browning
Question: In Greek mythology, which character carried a rod called "a caduceus"? (kad-oo-see-us)
Answer: hermes
Question: Which British actress (and DBE) wrote an autobiography, entitled "No Turn Unstoned"?
Answer: diana rigg
Question: In which US state did "The Battle of the Little Big Horn" take place?
Answer: montana
Question: Which car manufacturer makes a model called the "Tiguan"?
Answer: volkswagen
Question: From which English writer did Ernest Hemingway get the title for his book "For Whom the Bell Tolls"?
Answer: john donne
Question: In Greek mythology which king was the father of Ariadne?
Answer: minos
Question: Who was the first female presenter of BBCTV's Grandstand sports programme?
Answer: helen rollason
Question: Rosa Parkes' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger caused a riot in which US city in 1955?
Answer: montgomery
Question: Who was responsible for the creation of the decoration the "Legion D'Honneur"?
Answer: napoleon
Question: On which London thoroughfare would you find the Savoy Hotel, Charing Cross Station and the Adelphi Theatre?
Answer: strand
Question: """The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing"" is a quote by which famous Greek philosopher?"
Answer: socrates
Question: On which London thoroughfare would you find the Royal Academy, Apsley House and Fortnum and Masons?
Answer: piccadilly
Question: Who was responsible for the creation of the decoration the "Purple Heart"?
Answer: george washington
Question: In 1902 which British car manufacturer invented "disc brakes"?
Answer: lanchester
Question: Which specific instrument did US jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke play?
Answer: cornet
Question: Lancelot Gobbo is a servant of which major Shakespearean character?
Answer: shylock
Question: For which specific type of painting was Nicholas Hilliard famous?
Answer: miniatures
Question: Who succeeded the late David Vine as presenter of BBC's Ski Sunday"?
Answer: hazel irvine
Question: Dayron Robles of Cuba broke which athletic world record in 2008?
Answer: 110m hurdles
Question: What decimal number is represented by the binary 101 (read as one zero one)?
Answer: five
Question: In the TV comedy "Dad's Army", what was the name of Captain Mainwaring's wife?
Answer: elizabeth
Question: Which London station was designed by Brunel and completed in 1854?
Answer: paddington
Question: Which American terrorist group of the early 1970s took its name from a line in a bob Dylan song?
Answer: weathermen
Question: Who wrote "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in 1885?
Answer: francis hodgson burnett
Question: In a film of the 1950s, what was the name of the car in which Kenneth Moore and Dinah Sheridan travelled from London to Brighton?
Answer: genevieve
Question: Who wrote the novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" in 1891?
Answer: thomas hardy
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, when did the Queen of Hearts make some tarts?
Answer: all on summer s day
Question: Who is the current holder (May 2009) of the Olympic and World record for the 100 metres at 9.69 seconds?
Answer: usain bolt
Question: Whose words are used in the 1916 hymn "Jerusalem" composed by Hubert Parry?
Answer: william blake
Question: In London, HMS Belfast is moored between Tower Bridge and which other bridge?
Answer: london bridge
Question: In which of Grimm's fairy tales does the wicked witch end up in the oven?
Answer: hansel and gretel
Question: The city of Cleveland in the USA stands on which of the Great Lakes?
Answer: lake erie
Question: Which orchestral instrument is the smallest member of the flute family?
Answer: piccolo
Question: In which card game can one score "one for his knob"?
Answer: cribbage
Question: Which French World War I general later headed the pro-German Vichy Government in World War II from 1940-1944?
Answer: henri petain
Question: What is the name of the new British steam locomotive No. 60163 built in Darlington and the first mainline locomotive built in the UK since 'Evening Star'?
Answer: tornado
Question: Which rock group was founded by Lou Reed and John Cale?
Answer: velvet underground
Question: In which book of 1920 did Hercule Poirot make his first appearance?
Answer: mysterious affair at styles
Question: Which English king was known as "Longshanks" or "The Hammer of the Scots"?
Answer: edward i
Question: What is the small independent state in the High Pyrenees, between Spain and France?
Answer: andorra
Question: Whose first symphony of 1917 is known as "The Classical Symphony"?
Answer: sergei prokofiev
Question: a Which 1750 poem begins "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day"?
Answer: gray s elegy
Question: What kind of gemstone is the "Star of India"?
Answer: blue star sapphire
Question: Which pedestrian bridge in London connects the Tate Modern Art Gallery and St Paul's Cathedral?
Answer: millennium bridge
Question: From which opera by Mascagni does the famous Easter Hymn come?
Answer: cavalleria rusticana
Question: In the soap opera, The Colbys, which Hollywood legend played Jason Colby?
Answer: charlton heston
Question: Which orchestral musical instrument had 46 or 47 strings?
Answer: concert harp
Question: What is the "Via Lactea" of the night sky?
Answer: milky way
Question: Sandringham House, the private residence of the monarch, is in which English county?
Answer: norfolk
Question: Which Greek mathematician claimed that the earth was a sphere, revolving on its own axis?
Answer: pythagoras
Question: Which Roman poet is most renowned for his poetry about love, seduction and adultery?
Answer: ovid
Question: What is the name of the butler in "Upstairs Downstairs"?
Answer: mr hudson
Question: Who wrote the operas 'The Queen of Sheba" and "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer: charles gounod
Question: Into which body of water does the River Ganges flow?
Answer: bay of bengal
Question: What was the name of the sea nymph who imprisoned Odysseus on her island for 7 years?
Answer: calypso
Question: In Norse mythology what name is given to the rainbow bridge that leads from the mortal realm to Asgard?
Answer: bifrost
Question: What is the name of the skin test used to determine susceptibility to diphtheria?
Answer: schick test
Question: In the drug type known as NSAID for what does the S stand?
Answer: steroidal
Question: Which English King was born at Caenarvon Castle in 1284?
Answer: edward ii
Question: The Habanero is a variety of which vegetable?
Answer: chilli pepper
Question: Who had a hit in 1961 with Poetry in Motion?
Answer: johnny tillotson
Question: Which Roman emperor is known by a name which translates as 'Little Boots'?
Answer: caligula
Question: Who in 1938 invented the game of Scrabble (although he called it Criss-Crosswords)?
Answer: alfred butts
Question: Who painted the "Adoration of the Magi" now in the Uffizi Gallery?
Answer: sandro botticelli
Question: Who was the last Englishman before Lewis Hamilton to win the Formula One World Championship?
Answer: damon hill
Question: In the 2004 film of the same name who played the part of 'Vera Drake'?
Answer: imelda staunton
Question: Children's author Mrs Darrell Waters was better known under which name?
Answer: enid blyton
Question: Matter is thought to contain two classes of particles, Hadrons and which other?
Answer: leptons
Question: What physical fact was proven by Foucault's pendulum?
Answer: that earth rotates
Question: Which war was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia?
Answer: thirty year war
Question: On which pipe of a set of bagpipes is the tune fingered?
Answer: chanter
Question: The style of singing known as Fado comes from which European country?
Answer: portugal
Question: In Greek mythology who was the Muse of Tragedy?
Answer: melpomene
Question: Who, in legend, commanded the Greeks during the Trojan War?
Answer: agamemnon
Question: 'Kim', the 1901 novel by Rudyard Kipling, is about an Irish orphan named Kim O'Hara. Kim is short for which name?
Answer: kimball
Question: Which state surrounds the Australian Capital territory including the capital Canberra?
Answer: new south wales
Question: Name the writer known as 'Denmark's most famous son', his birthplace in Odense is now a museum?
Answer: hans christian anderson
Question: Who played the part of Michael Douglas's wife in the film 'Fatal Attraction'?
Answer: anne archer
Question: What is the name of the traditional Scottish pudding, often eaten at Hogmanay, made with suet, currants and, sultanas and named from the cloth in which it is wrapped for cooking?
Answer: clootie dumpling
Question: What was the surname of the Danish father and son who both won Nobel Prizes for Physics, in 1922 and 1975?
Answer: bohr
Question: In which Beatles song does 'the barber shave another customer'?
Answer: penny lane
Question: In Greek mythology, Thanatos represented Death who was his twin brother who represented Sleep?
Answer: hypnos
Question: Discovered in 1824, which chemical element, Atomic Number 14, has a name derived from the Latin for 'flint'?
Answer: silicon
Question: The name of which classic film (starring Audrey Hepburn) was also the title of a 1996 hit record for the group 'Deep Blue Something'?
Answer: breakfast at tiffany s
Question: 'Take My Breath Away' was the theme to which film?
Answer: top gun
Question: What was the family name of Lord and Lady Marchmain in 'Brideshead Revisited'?
Answer: flyte
Question: Which well known liqueur, usually served in a distinctive manner, is flavoured with elderberry and liquorice?
Answer: sambuca
Question: In which town is St Magnus' Cathedral, the most northerly in Britain?
Answer: kirkwall
Question: Which popular Scottish dessert is made with oats, cream, berries and whisky and often eaten at a Burns Supper?
Answer: cranachan
Question: Which Asian country's flag consists of three vertical stripes of black, red and green with a picture of a mosque in the centre?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: The Everett Factory in Washington state, USA is the world's largest building, which company own it?
Answer: boeing
Question: Who wrote the major choral work 'All Night Vigil', better known as the 'Vespers' which was sung at his funeral in 1943?
Answer: rachmaninov
Question: On which Aegean island is the lively resort of Faliraki?
Answer: rhodes
Question: Who was the heroine of Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey?
Answer: catherine morland
Question: The summer Olympic Games of 1912 were held in which city?
Answer: stockholm
Question: In which Shakespeare play does the character Mercutio appear?
Answer: romeo and juliet
Question: In which Shakespeare play does the character Goneril appear?
Answer: king lear
Question: The summer Olympic Games of 1988 were held in which city?
Answer: seoul
Question: How many hours did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spend walking on the moon in 1969?
Answer: two hours
Question: How many years does it take for Halley's Comet to reappear?
Answer: every 76 years
Question: At the Restoration in 1660, whom did Charles II appoint as Governor of Windsor Castle?
Answer: prince rupert
Question: In 1707 a fleet of Navy ships was wrecked off the Scilly Islands. Who was the commander who lost his life in the disaster?
Answer: sir cloudesley shovel
Question: In 1939 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was called "the most dangerous woman in Europe". By whom?
Answer: adolf hitler
Question: Which present-day US state was known officially in the 19th century as Indian territory?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: Which flightless bird was found in Britain until nearly 200 years ago?
Answer: great auk
Question: According to the Old Testament of the Bible, who consulted the witch of Endor?
Answer: saul
Question: In which British county are the rivers Taw, Torridge and Teign?
Answer: devon
Question: The village of Borstal that gave its name to institutions for juvenile criminals is in which British county?
Answer: kent
Question: According to the book of Revelations in the New Testament of the Bible, where were the kings of the earth gathered for battle?
Answer: armageddon
Question: According to the New Testament of the Bible, where is referred to as the town of David?
Answer: bethlehem
Question: Who wrote the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936?
Answer: john maynard keynes
Question: Gala, Jonagold and Pink Lady are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: apple
Question: The Hall of Arts and Sciences that was opened in 1871 is better known now as what?
Answer: royal albert hall
Question: In 1927 the capital of Australia was established in Canberra. Where had it the previous capital been?
Answer: melbourne
Question: Which former African leader once declared himself 'The Last King of Scotland'?
Answer: idi amin
Question: Which of the four teenage mutant Ninja turtles would come first alphabetically?
Answer: donatello
Question: What is the nickname of the local mafia boss voiced by Joe Mantegna in 'The Simpsons'?
Answer: fat tony
Question: Gisbome, Hawkes Bay and Marlborough are wine producing districts in which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Robertson, Constantia and Pearl are wine producing districts in which country?
Answer: south africa
Question: Which 1980 cult film, directed by John Landis, starred John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd?
Answer: blues brothers
Question: John Landis directed a famous video for which of Michael Jackson's hits?
Answer: thriller
Question: Io, Callisto and Europa are moons of which planet?
Answer: jupiter
Question: Which monarch said Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest'?
Answer: henry ii
Question: In the Harry Potter books, which house at Hogwarts has a serpent as its emblem?
Answer: slytherin
Question: In the children's books by Francesca Simon, 'Perfect Peter' is the younger brother of which character?
Answer: horrid henry
Question: Who collaborated with Karl Marx to produce 'The Communist Manifesto' in 1848?
Answer: frederick engels
Question: In 1706, the Duke of Marlborough won the Battle of Ramillies. In which modem country is it?
Answer: belgium
Question: Which entertainer had a statue erected in his memory in his home town of Caerphilly in 2008?
Answer: tommy cooper
Question: What are the tiny blood vessels called which connect the smallest arteries and veins in the body?
Answer: capillaries
Question: Protons and neutrons are made up of what smaller objects?
Answer: quarks
Question: Which Nottinghamshire fast bowler who died in 1995 was best known for implementing the 'Fast Leg Theory' in the Bodyline Ashes Test series in 1932/33?
Answer: harold larwood
Question: To what was John Keats referring in his line "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness"?
Answer: grecian urn
Question: What is the name of the colourless plum brandy which is made in several Balkan and Eastern European countries?
Answer: slivovitz
Question: Which dramatist wrote 'The Alchemist in 1610?
Answer: ben jonson
Question: Which law, originating during the reign of Clovis, prevents a woman from succeeding to a throne?
Answer: salic law
Question: Where was the first fossil 'Homo Erectus' found?
Answer: indonesia
Question: Which geological period is popularly named the 'Coal Age'?
Answer: carboniferous
Question: The endangered kakapo of New Zealand is the world's largest member of which bird family?
Answer: parrot
Question: Who was the East German leader ousted in 1989?
Answer: erich honecker
Question: Which Slovak was elected Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in January 1968?
Answer: alexander dubcek
Question: Which film won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director Robert Zemeckis and Best Actor Tom Hanks?
Answer: forrest gump
Question: Which film won Oscars for Best picture, Best Director Barry Levinson and Best Actor Dustin Hoffman?
Answer: rain man
Question: The Pula is the monetary unit of which African country?
Answer: botswana
Question: In what did the Owl and the Pussycat keep their money and honey?
Answer: five pound note
Question: About which bird did Wordsworth write "Is it a bird, or but a wandering voice?
Answer: cuckoo
Question: What is the name of the tar-like substance produced from petroleum?
Answer: bitumen
Question: Complete the title of this 1960's Group - 'Bachman Turner ....'
Answer: overdrive
Question: Who played the part of Mildred Roper on television?
Answer: yootha joyce
Question: What part was played by Patrick Newell in 'The Avengers' TV series?
Answer: mother
Question: Which bone in the human body is at the front but sounds like its at the back?
Answer: sternum
Question: When 'Titanic' left Southampton in April 1912, where was her first port of call?
Answer: cherbourg
Question: Who plays 'Auntie Wainwright' in Last of the Summer Wine?
Answer: jean alexander
Question: Whish gas forms bubbles in the bloodstream when someone gets the bends?
Answer: nitrogen
Question: Who was the founder and conductor of the 'Black and White Minstrels?
Answer: george mitchell
Question: Which part of the human eye may be removed and kept in an eye bank?
Answer: cornea
Question: Who or what is the subject of an iconic 1960 photograph by Alberto Korda?
Answer: che guevara
Question: In Greek Mythology, Pasiphae gave birth to which creature?
Answer: minotaur
Question: Which English King's coronation was postponed because he was suffering from appendicitis?
Answer: edward vii
Question: Who, in Greek myth, after being slain gave birth to the winged horse 'Pegasus'?
Answer: medusa
Question: Which chemical element emits a greenish glow in the air, and unless kept in water, burns of its own accord?
Answer: phosphorus
Question: Which single word connects Beethoven, 'Terry's of York and Glenn Miller?
Answer: moonlight
Question: Where was the venue for the hare-coursing 'Waterloo Cup'?
Answer: altcar
Question: What is the name of the Buckinghamshire Estate where the German 'Enigma' codes were cracked during WW2?
Answer: bletchley park
Question: In which city was the first of the 'Rocky' films shot?
Answer: philadelphia
Question: Which city is the closest Meriden which claims to be the geographical centre of England?
Answer: coventry
Question: What was the name of the slumbering princess in the tale of 'Sleeping Beauty'?
Answer: aurora
Question: Whose hit 'We Are Family' because an anthem for Gay Rights?
Answer: sister sledge
Question: An Astronomical Unit is a standard measurement taken from the earth to where?
Answer: sun
Question: After Malta itself and Gozo, what is the third largest island in the country of Malta?
Answer: comino
Question: In July 1963, Gerald Durrell set up a Wildlife Conservationist trust on which island?
Answer: jersey
Question: Which English composer gave the Italian title "Sinfonia Antartica" to his seventh symphony?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: Who, with 18 dismissals, was England's leading wicket taker in the 2009 Ashes series versus Australia?
Answer: stuart broad
Question: Stomatitis is an inflammation of which part of the human body?
Answer: mouth
Question: In which European city is Shakespeare's play, "Measure for Measure" set?
Answer: vienna
Question: In August 2009, British athlete, Philip Idowu, won the World Title in Berlin in which event?
Answer: triple jump
Question: In Welsh place names, what does the word, "Ynys" signify?
Answer: island
Question: Which museum stands on the site of the Royal Bethlehem, (or Bedlam), hospital in London?
Answer: imperial war museum
Question: As a teenager, Manchester United footballer, Ryan Giggs adopted his mother's maiden surname as his own. What had been his birth surname?
Answer: wilson
Question: What is the surname of the rap artist who goes by the pseudonym Eminem?
Answer: mathers
Question: Who had a No 1 single, "Fight For This Love", and a No.1 album, in the UK charts in the same week, in November 2009?
Answer: cheryl cole
Question: Ryan Giggs father, Danny Wilson, left Rugby Union in Wales, and signed professional forms for which Rugby League club?
Answer: swinton
Question: In September 1950,where, in Korea, did UN troops land, prior to the recapture of Seoul?
Answer: inchon
Question: British athlete, Jessica Ennis, is currently World Champion in which women's event?
Answer: heptathlon
Question: What is the geographical setting for Shakespeare's play, "As You Like It"?
Answer: forest of arden
Question: Which actor played the part of the vicar, the Reverend Timothy Farthing in the TV comedy series "Dad's Army"? He later was "promoted" to play Bishop Charles in "You Rang M'Lord" in the 1990's
Answer: frank williams
Question: Who, with 448 runs, was Australia's leading run scorer in the 2009 Ashes series?
Answer: michael clarke
Question: After Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza, what is the fourth largest of the Balearic Islands?
Answer: formentera
Question: Who was the first wife of the Lawn Tennis player, John McEnroe?
Answer: tatum o neal
Question: """The Mona Lisa of the North"" or ""The Dutch Mona Lisa"" are two soubriquets for which painting by Dutch master, Jan Vermeer?"
Answer: girl with pearl earring
Question: The playwright, Harold Pinter was married to which authoress from 1980, until his death in 2008?
Answer: lady antonia fraser
Question: During the reign of which British King did Columbus discover the New World?
Answer: henry vii
Question: Which 1992 film featured Whitney Houston's version of the Dolly Parton song, "I Will Always Love You"?
Answer: bodyguard
Question: Which Shakespeare play opens with the line, "If music be the food of love, play on"?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: In the radio series, "Hancock's Half Hour", in which street did Hancock live?
Answer: railway cuttings
Question: In the TV series, "Steptoe and Son", in which street did the Steptoe's live?
Answer: oil drum lane
Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays does the title of Aldous Huxley's novel, "Brave New World" originate?
Answer: tempest
Question: What is the main ingredient of the French soup, "Bouillabaisse"?
Answer: fish
Question: Who sang the theme tune, "My Heart Will Go On", in the 1997 film, "Titanic"?
Answer: celine dion
Question: During the reign of which British monarch was the American Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: george iii
Question: Which gas is produced when water is mixed with Calcium Carbide?
Answer: acetylene
Question: In which 1951 Alec Guinness film does an inventor create a fabric, which never gets dirty or wears out, thus creating panic in the clothing industry?
Answer: man in white suit
Question: In 1883, which French impressionist artist, painted the picture "Les Parapluies", which depicts several people carrying umbrellas?
Answer: pierre auguste renoir
Question: Who is the subject of the one-man show, "Hurricane", performed by Richard Dormer?
Answer: alex higgins
Question: Which super-group did Eric Clapton join, after the pop group, "Cream" split up?
Answer: blind faith
Question: Who is the 2009 World Snooker Champion?
Answer: john higgins
Question: In a 1965 film, by what name is Eric Stoner better known?
Answer: cincinnati kid
Question: From which country does the word "Duffel", as in coat, come?
Answer: belgium
Question: Who was the most famous wife of baseball player Joe DiMaggio?
Answer: marilyn monroe
Question: In which Shakespeare play does Orsino, Duke of Illyria, appear?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: In which Shakespeare play does Prospero, Duke of Milan, appear?
Answer: tempest
Question: Which Dickens novel is partly set in America?
Answer: martin chuzzlewit
Question: A collection of which birds is sometimes called a "stare"?
Answer: owls
Question: Who played "M" in the Bond film Goldeneye?
Answer: judi dench
Question: In which jail did John Bunyan write Pilgrim's Progress?
Answer: bedford
Question: Who was the mother of Achilles, who dipped him into the River Styx?
Answer: thetis
Question: Which film was based on the story The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke?
Answer: 2001 space odyssey