CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Ascorbic acid is a vital part of the diet, how is it commonly known?
Answer: vitamin c
Question: In Greek myth, who was the wife of Odysseus who remained faithful during his long absence?
Answer: penelope
Question: Which English King was married to Catherine of Valois?
Answer: henry 5th
Question: Who is the Roman equivalent to the Greek God, Dionysus?
Answer: bacchus
Question: Who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Anita in the 1961 film, "West Side Story"?
Answer: rita moreno
Question: William Frawley and Vivian Vance played Fred and Ethel Mertz in which popular 1950's American TV comedy show?
Answer: i love lucy
Question: Which tennis player beat Boris Becker in the all German men singles final at Wimbledon in 1991?
Answer: michael stich
Question: The title of Frederick Forsyth's novel, "The Dogs of War" is taken from a line in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: In which US State is Jamestown, site of the first settlement in 1609?
Answer: virginia
Question: Name of the character, played by Clint Eastwood, in the 1960's TV series, "Rawhide"?
Answer: rowdy yates
Question: """Camelot"" in 1960 was the last Broadway musical of which famous duo?"
Answer: lerner and loewe
Question: The wine "Lachryma Christi" is made from grapes grown on the slopes of which mountain?
Answer: vesuvius
Question: Which King of England, from 1399-1413, was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincoln shire in 1366?
Answer: henry iv
Question: For which county did Harold Larwood play cricket from 1924-38?
Answer: nottinghamshire
Question: What was the name of the Nottinghamshire fast bowler, who, together with Harold Larwood, took part in the infamous Bodyline tour in Australia, in 1932-33?
Answer: bill voce
Question: Born in Rouen in France in 1442, who was King of England from 1461 to 1483?
Answer: edward iv
Question: Who played the title role in the 1959 film, "Our Man in Havana"?
Answer: alec guinness
Question: The green coloured melon liqueur, Midori, was originally produced in which country?
Answer: japan
Question: Who played the part of Major Seth Adams in the 1950's TV series, "Wagon Train"?
Answer: ward bond
Question: Jamestown is the major seaport and capital of which island colony?
Answer: st helena
Question: Sir Joseph Porter and Ralph Rackstraw are characters in which Gilbert and Sullivan opera?
Answer: h m s pinafore
Question: The character of Archie Bunker in the American comedy series, "All in the Family", was based on which character from a BBC series?
Answer: alf garnett
Question: Who won the Oscar for best actress in 1977, for her title role in the film, "Annie Hall"?
Answer: diane keaton
Question: Who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman God, Cupid?
Answer: eros
Question: Litmus is a mixture of dyes used as an indicator. It is extracted from which types of plant?
Answer: lichens
Question: The Ministry for State Security of Communist East Germany was more commonly known by which abbreviated name?
Answer: stasi
Question: Original Mock Turtle soup is made from the head of which animal?
Answer: calf
Question: Who was the husband of Elizabeth Taylor, killed in an air crash in 1958?
Answer: mike todd
Question: What name is usually given to the larvae of insects, such as the dragonfly or mayfly?
Answer: nymphs
Question: Which common, gaseous element has the atomic Number 8, and an Atomic Weight of 16?
Answer: oxygen
Question: Allan Quartermain is the hero of which adventure novel, first published in 1895?
Answer: king solomon s mines
Question: Gymnasium instructors often use a machine to determine a person's BMI reading. For what does the letter B stand?
Answer: body
Question: The Bloody Assizes under Judge Jeffries occurred during the reign of which English King?
Answer: james ii
Question: Alan Breck Stewart is one of the leading characters in which adventure novel, first published in 1886?
Answer: kidnapped
Question: With the Atomic Number 3, which is the first metal in the Periodic Table of elements?
Answer: lithium
Question: Who was the actress wife of Clark Gable, killed in an air crash in 1942?
Answer: carole lombard
Question: What name is given to the underwater plateaus, which lie off the South East coast of Newfoundland, and which form a fishing area of major importance?
Answer: grand banks
Question: Who wrote the book on which the 1959 film, "Ben Hur' was based?
Answer: lew wallace
Question: Which English athlete became the first woman to run a sub five-minute mile in 1954?
Answer: diane leather
Question: Who succeeded David Lloyd George as British Prime Minister in 1922?
Answer: andrew bonar law
Question: Which is the only miracle mentioned in all four gospels?
Answer: feeding of five thousand
Question: What name is given to a ring shaped reef, enclosing a lagoon?
Answer: atoll
Question: Because of its appearance, what common alternative name is given to iron pyrites?
Answer: fool s gold
Question: Which was the 50th and last state to become part of the USA?
Answer: hawaii
Question: What is the common name for the flower Bellis Perennis?
Answer: daisy
Question: What nationality was the pirate William 'Captain' Kidd who was hanged in 1701?
Answer: scottish
Question: In which city are the headquarters of OPEC (Organisation of Petrol Exporting Countries)?
Answer: vienna
Question: Which pirate commanded the ship the Queen Anne's Revenge?
Answer: blackbeard
Question: Who was shot by Mehmet Ali Agca in 1981?
Answer: pope john paul ii
Question: In Greek myth which was the sacred mountain of Apollo, and home to the muses?
Answer: parnassus
Question: In Greek myth who solved the Riddle of the Sphinx?
Answer: oedipus
Question: Which member of the Royal Family also has the titles Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich?
Answer: duke of edinburgh
Question: Until 31.12.2005, the tolar was the currency of which European country?
Answer: slovenia
Question: What was the maiden name of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor?
Answer: warfield
Question: b In the Flintstones cartoons what is the name of Fred and Wilma's daughter?
Answer: pebbles
Question: Botswana was until 1966 known as what?
Answer: bechuanaland
Question: Which fictional family live at 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield?
Answer: simpsons
Question: Which was the first X-rated film to have won the Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: midnight cowboy
Question: Which musician, 1890-1967, was known as 'The King of Jazz'?
Answer: paul whiteman
Question: The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) founded in 1942 was a precursor to which security organisation?
Answer: cia
Question: With what activity do you associate the names Bernard Leach and Clarice Cliff?
Answer: pottery
Question: What would a French musician be playing if he was using a batterie?
Answer: drum kit
Question: What is the modern equivalent of the medieval musical instrument the sackbut?
Answer: trombone
Question: In 1968 Gary Sobers was the first cricketer to hit six sixes in an over. Who was the bowler?
Answer: malcolm nash
Question: Which future PM was the eldest son of Lord Dunglass?
Answer: alec douglas home
Question: To which school of art did the painters Derain, Viamink and the young Matisse belong?
Answer: fauves
Question: Who was the housekeeper in Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca'?
Answer: mrs danvers
Question: Apart from the USA, Canada and British possessions, which other country from the Americas actively took part in WW2, declaring war on the Axis countries in 1942?
Answer: brazil
Question: Which unit of measurement was originally defined as one minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth?
Answer: nautical mile
Question: Whose theme tune was 'Take the A Train'?
Answer: duke ellington
Question: What does 'Carpe diem' translate as?
Answer: seize day
Question: Who said 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'?
Answer: mao tse tung
Question: b Name one of the 3 'J's for which Dundee is traditionally known?
Answer: jute jam and journalism
Question: Who wrote 'The Birds' in 1952, a short story on which Hitchcock based his film?
Answer: daphne du maurier
Question: Which Bombay-born former Daily Telegraph journalist is the BBC sports editor?
Answer: mihir bose
Question: In what make of aircraft did Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier in October 1947?
Answer: bell
Question: The Seminole native tribe of Indians are indigenous to which American state?
Answer: florida
Question: Which Labour Party leader was described as 'a desiccated adding machine' by Aneurin Bevan?
Answer: hugh gaitskell
Question: Which English football league team's nickname is the Millers?
Answer: rotherham
Question: Which car company produced the Elf and Kestrel models?
Answer: riley
Question: Which company produced the WW1 aircraft the 'Camel'?
Answer: sopwith
Question: Which famous.cricket player was born on 7th March 1952 in St Johns, Antigua?
Answer: sir viv richards
Question: What is the name of the system used to determine the winning scores, in rain-interrupted one day cricket matches?
Answer: duckworth lewis
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in Rodney Street, Liverpool?
Answer: w e gladstone
Question: Which Shakespeare play has the stage direction 'Exit pursued by a bear'?
Answer: winter s tale
Question: 'I am a man more sinned against than sinning' is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: king lear
Question: From which musical does the song 'Till There Was You' come?
Answer: music man
Question: What was the name of the last steam locomotive to be commissioned by British Railways, in 1960?
Answer: evening star
Question: Mrs Fitzherbert was the mistress of which English king?
Answer: george iv
Question: What nickname is given to the Australian Association Football International team?
Answer: socceroos
Question: Who in Greek mythology was the mother of Clytemnestra and Helen?
Answer: leda
Question: Which planet has moons called Triton and Nereid?
Answer: neptune
Question: People hoping to follow which career are trained at Norland College?
Answer: nannies
Question: In the Rupert Bear stories, what was the name of the pug dog?
Answer: algy
Question: Which German novelist, a Nobel prize winner in 1999, wrote 'A Wide Field' and 'The Tin Drum'?
Answer: gunther grass
Question: What common name is given to the lowest temperature at which a material gives off enough flammable vapour for it to ignite?
Answer: flash point
Question: What was the word for an Indian soldier serving under the British in India?
Answer: sepoy
Question: In Norse mythology, what is the name of Odin's eight-legged horse?
Answer: sleipnir
Question: In warfare, what name is given to a hastily constructed temporary defence or a parapet a few feet high, the name deriving from the approximate height that it is built to?
Answer: breastwork
Question: In which children's TV programme did you see Mrs Goggins and Tom Pottage?
Answer: postman pat
Question: In which Shakespeare play would you find the characters Gertrude, Laertes and Horatio?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Whose wedding was the main event of the last episode of Dad's Army?
Answer: corporal jones
Question: Which architect worked with Sir Charles Barry on the new Palace of Westminster?
Answer: augustus pugin
Question: From which musical does the song 'Anything you can do' come?
Answer: annie get your gun
Question: Which American won the discus Gold medal at four consecutive Olympics between 1956 and 1968?
Answer: al oerter
Question: Which French author wrote 'Nana', 'Germinal' and `J'Accuse'?
Answer: emile zola
Question: Iqualuit is the capital of which Canadian autonomous Inuit territory created in 1999?
Answer: nunavut
Question: Which herb is usually used in the tomato base for a pizza?
Answer: oregano
Question: Which philosopher wrote the 'The Critique of Pure Reason'?
Answer: immanuel kant
Question: What device did US computer engineer Douglas Englebart invent in 1969?
Answer: computer mouse
Question: Who wrote the short story on which the 2006 film 'Brokeback Mountain was based?
Answer: e annie proulx
Question: What, in the world of computing, did Larry Page and Sergey Brin found?
Answer: google
Question: Which common tree has the Latin name Aesculus Hippocastanum?
Answer: horse chestnut
Question: What was the name of the 'Acid Bath Murderer'?
Answer: john haigh
Question: By what Treaty in 1713 was Gibraltar ceded to Britain in perpetuity?
Answer: treaty of utrecht
Question: What was the name of the 'Brides in the Bath Murderer'?
Answer: george smith
Question: The hallux is the medical term for which part of the body?
Answer: big toe
Question: In 1947, a research physicist Chester Carlson set up which company to sell his invention, an office machine?
Answer: xerox
Question: Who wrote the screenplay for the film 'The Madness of King George'?
Answer: alan bennett
Question: As a figure of speech, what is something hinted or implied without being definitely stated?
Answer: innuendo
Question: Who originated the philosophy of 'Utilitarianism'?
Answer: jeremy bentham
Question: Barbara Hulanicki founded which chain of fashion shops, famous in the 1960s?
Answer: biba
Question: Which common tree has the Latin name Acer pseudoplatanus?
Answer: sycamore
Question: Which actor played the lead in the film 'Air Force One'?
Answer: harrison ford
Question: Which word is defined as 'an Arctic plain of permanently frozen subsoil, with dwarfed vegetation'?
Answer: tundra
Question: Which league football dub are nicknamed 'The Bantams'?
Answer: bradford city
Question: The mesosphere, at 50km to 80-90km altitude above Earth's surface, is directly above which other layer?
Answer: stratosphere
Question: Which English Poet Laureate wrote "The Faerie Queene"?
Answer: edmund spencer
Question: Who was the third President of the USA; he died on July 4th, 1826?
Answer: thomas jefferson
Question: Which Irish rock band released the albums "Boy", "October", and "War"?
Answer: u2
Question: Fagus sylvatica is the botanical name for which common forest tree?
Answer: beech
Question: Who composed the oratorio "A German Requiem", also a quintet for clarinet and strings, etc?
Answer: johannes brahms
Question: A boxer between 155-160 lb. (72.6 kg) is classed in which weight?
Answer: middleweight
Question: Which Old Testament prophet was summoned by the Witch of Endor?
Answer: samuel
Question: Which English chemist isolated the metals sodium and magnesium, etc?
Answer: sir humphry davy
Question: Who directed the 1990 film "Dances With Wolves"?
Answer: kevin costner
Question: The flag of which European country is a red-white-green horizontal tricolour?
Answer: hungary
Question: Which now retired English football referee booked Croatian Josip Simunic three times (playing against Australia) in the 2006 World Cup?
Answer: graham poll
Question: Which unit of dry volume was defined as containing eight gallons?
Answer: imperial bushel
Question: Which dish usually contains apple, nuts, celery, and a mayonnaise-based dressing?
Answer: waldorf salad
Question: What is the name of the baker in TV's "Camberwick Green"?
Answer: mickey murphy
Question: Which daughter of Agamemnon was sacrificed for a fair wind?
Answer: iphigenia
Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in both Bohemia and Sicily?
Answer: winter s tale
Question: What is the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere, which may be 2 km high above the Earth's surface?
Answer: troposphere
Question: Who wrote "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy"?
Answer: laurence sterne
Question: Which English rock band's albums included "Communique", "Love Over Gold", "On Every Street"?
Answer: dire straits
Question: The WW2 Guadalcanal Campaign was on which of the Pacific islands?
Answer: solomon islands
Question: Who composed the oratorio "Elijah" and an "Italian Symphony"?
Answer: felix mendelssohn
Question: Which English author wrote a trilogy of fantasy novels entitled "His Dark Materials"?
Answer: philip pullman
Question: Who wrote the lines of poetry 'Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert"?
Answer: percy bysshe shelley
Question: Who won the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for the 1982 film "Gandhi"?
Answer: richard attenborough
Question: Which late actress (real first names Ruth Elizabeth), said: "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night"?
Answer: bette davies
Question: Chrissie Hynde is a vocalist/guitarist with which rock band?
Answer: pretenders
Question: Which Latin phrase means 'sincere' or 'in good faith'?
Answer: bona fide
Question: In the first verse of the nursery rhyme 'Old King Cole', what did he call for besides his pipe and bowl?
Answer: his fiddlers three
Question: Jacques Cousteau's famous boat shares its name with which form of West Indian music?
Answer: calypso
Question: Travelling west along the M4 motorway, which county would you enter as you left Berkshire?
Answer: wiltshire
Question: Which film featured the hit song "I've had the time of my life"?
Answer: dirty dancing
Question: Who won the Booker Prize in 1998 with the novel 'Amsterdam'?
Answer: ian mcewan
Question: Who wrote symphonies nicknamed 'Paris' and 'Prague'?
Answer: mozart
Question: In cookery, what name is given to a cooked mixture of equal parts of butter and flour?
Answer: roux
Question: Who won the Booker Prize in 1990 with the novel 'Possession'?
Answer: s byatt
Question: By what name was model Lesley Hornby better known?
Answer: twiggy
Question: Which British Prime Minister was a cousin of Rudyard Kipling?
Answer: baldwin
Question: The alcoholic drink 'Mirabelle' is flavoured with which fruit?
Answer: plums
Question: Who said that in the future everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: Which 2003 film is based on the activities of Rylstone Women's Institute?
Answer: calendar girls
Question: Apart from London, in which other British city is there a place called Charing Cross?
Answer: glasgow
Question: Travelling north along the M1 motorway, which county would you enter as you left Hertfordshire?
Answer: bedfordshire
Question: Who was King of Scotland between Duncan and Malcolm Canmore?
Answer: macbeth
Question: At which sport do Great Britain and USA play for the Westchester Cup?
Answer: polo
Question: In cookery what is the chief ingredient along with egg in making mayonnaise?
Answer: olive oil
Question: What was the code name for the German invasion of Russia in World War 2?
Answer: barbarossa
Question: Which film featured the hit song "Take My Breath Away"?
Answer: top gun
Question: Which admiral assumed command at Trafalgar after the death of Nelson?
Answer: collingwood
Question: A dish described as la Bretonne' is garnished with which vegetable?
Answer: beans
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Hungry as the Sea'?
Answer: wilbur smith
Question: What name is commonly given to the theatre produced by the playwrights Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter and others?
Answer: theatre of absurd
Question: Which English King married Henrietta Maria, the daughter of Henry 4th of France?
Answer: charles 1st
Question: A dish described as 'Parmentier' includes which vegetable?
Answer: potato
Question: Name the ancient civilised region bordered by the two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates?
Answer: mesopotamia
Question: In American Football, how many points are awarded for a 'safety'?
Answer: two
Question: In which county is the National Nature Reserve of Barton Hills?
Answer: bedfordshire
Question: A new 50p coin was issued in 2007 showing a fleur-de-lys embossed on a globe, it was issued to celebrate the anniversary of what?
Answer: scouting
Question: Britain's oldest working theatre, built in 1766, is called the 'Old Vic', in which city is it?
Answer: bristol
Question: Which was the first European country to give women the vote when they voted in the National elections of 1906?
Answer: finland
Question: What is the popular name of Tchaikovsky's Symphony no.6 in B minor?
Answer: pathetique
Question: Which band of the 1960s and 1970s had the following line-up: Graeme Edge, Mike Pinder, John Lodge, Ray Thomas and Justin Hayward?
Answer: moody blues
Question: In 1972, Hawkwind had their only UK top ten hit with which song?
Answer: silver machine
Question: Who threatened to "thcream and thcream and thcream until I'm thick"?
Answer: violet elizabeth bott
Question: How is the Chief Gentleman Usher to the Sovereign and Usher to the Order of the Garter more commonly known?
Answer: black rod
Question: Which American TV sitcom featured the families of sisters Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell?
Answer: soap
Question: The Pink Sea Fan is an endangered species found in the sea around the coast of Britain, what is it?
Answer: coral
Question: Which 2002 Martin Scorsese film, set in the Five Points district, is loosely based on a 1928 novel by Herbert Asbury?
Answer: gangs of new york
Question: Which car company make an SUV (sports utility vehicle) called the `RAV 4'?
Answer: toyota
Question: Which was the last European country to give full voting rights to women, in 1989?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Which car company make an SUV (sports utility vehicle) called the 'CRY'?
Answer: honda
Question: Achilles and Hector appear as characters in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: troilus and cressida
Question: Who was the actor, who died in July 2006, who starred as the TV detective 'Crane' and appeared in the advertising campaign for Barrett Homes?
Answer: patrick allen
Question: The Hedge-Sparrow is more properly known by which name?
Answer: dunnock
Question: Which country joined the EEC at the same time as UK and Ireland in 1973?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which singer recorded the very successful album 'Back to Black'?
Answer: amy winehouse
Question: The Shuttleworth Collection, based in Bedfordshire, is an important National Museum; of what is it a collection?
Answer: aeroplanes
Question: Haddon Hall in Derbyshire was used by the BBC to represent which property in a 2006 classic serial?
Answer: thornfield hall
Question: Which 1854 opera was the first in Wagner's Ring Cycle?
Answer: das rheingold
Question: Who wrote the book 'Tobacco Road'?
Answer: erskine caldwell
Question: Who was Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967?
Answer: john masefield
Question: Which 1951 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis became even more controversial when Martin Scorsese's film of the book was released in 1988?
Answer: last temptation of christ
Question: The 'merle' is another name for which common bird?
Answer: blackbird
Question: The Thirty Years War was a conflict between France, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands on one side against Austria, who were supported by which other country?
Answer: spain
Question: Which river, the fifth longest in Europe, is Portugal's longest?
Answer: tagus
Question: Who wrote the play 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
Answer: tennessee williams
Question: In the children's TV programme 'The Flowerpot Men', what was the name of the tortoise?
Answer: slowcoach
Question: In which county is the preserved heritage steam railway the 'Watercress Line'?
Answer: hampshire
Question: Which nymph kept Odysseus on an island for seven years?
Answer: calypso
Question: Which golfer was the first British winner of the US Masters, winning in 1988?
Answer: sandy lyle
Question: Which children's TV programme featured a toad named Gabriel and a rag doll named Madeleine?
Answer: bagpuss
Question: Named after the Belgian-born chemist who invented it in about 1907, what was the first commercial plastic (made from formaldehyde and phenol)?
Answer: bakelite
Question: Who had a hit with 'What becomes of the broken hearted' in 1966 and again in 1974?
Answer: jimmy ruffin
Question: What was the title of the Ronnie Barker sitcom in which he played a Welsh photographer?
Answer: magnificent evans
Question: Who won her first Best Actress Oscar in 1934 and her last in 1982?
Answer: katherine hepburn
Question: What product is made by the company 'Crocs Inc'?
Answer: shoes
Question: What is the most southerly of the UK shipping forecast areas?
Answer: trafalgar
Question: What part of the body is affected by Meniere's Syndrome?
Answer: inner ear
Question: Who was the first British golfer to win the World Match-Play Championship, beating Sandy Lyle in the final in 1987?
Answer: ian woosnam
Question: Alberto Contador won which major sporting event in 2007?
Answer: tour de france
Question: Which Sussex hill is the site of the Battle of Hastings?
Answer: senlac
Question: Who wrote the children's classic 'Charlotte's Web'?
Answer: e b white