CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who directed the 1945 film, 'Brief Encounter'?
Answer: david lean
Question: In which city did Sally Lunn sell the tea cakes that bear her name?
Answer: bath
Question: Who in 1966, became the first footballer to receive the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year?
Answer: bobby moore
Question: What is the name of the nest in which a Hare breeds?
Answer: form
Question: Who did Peter Shreeves replace as manager of Sheffield Wednesday in 2000?
Answer: danny wilson
Question: The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty signed in 1850, concerned the construction of what?
Answer: panama canal
Question: For which Premier League side did veteran goalkeeper Neville Southall appear in the 1999/00 season?
Answer: bradford city
Question: In the 'Sharpe' TV series, what was the name of the character played by actor Daragh O'Malley?
Answer: patrick harper
Question: In which month of 1936 did King Edward VIII, abdicate?
Answer: december
Question: Who was Chancellor of West Germany from 1969-74?
Answer: willy brandt
Question: Which fictional detective first appeared in the book 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles', in 1920?
Answer: hercule poirot
Question: Which detective features in the stories, 'The Nine Tailors' and 'Murder Must Advertise'?
Answer: lord peter wimsey
Question: Which band recorded the 1999 single 'No Distance Left To Run'?
Answer: blur
Question: Who succeeded James Polk in 1849, as US President?
Answer: zachary taylor
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the King of Cyprus who fell in love with an ivory statue of a woman he carved?
Answer: pygmalion
Question: Who was the King of Egypt who was overthrown by a military coup led by Gamel Abdul Nasser in 1952?
Answer: farouk i
Question: In which sport did Jahingir Khan win the British Open in consecutive years from 1982 to 1991?
Answer: squash
Question: According to Greek mythology, who solved 'The Riddle Of The Sphinx'?
Answer: oedipus
Question: Complete the title of this famous novel by George and Weedon Grossmith,'Diary Of A ...'?
Answer: nobody
Question: Commonly seen in insects such as Crickets and Grasshoppers, what name is given to the act of producing sound by rubbing certain body parts together?
Answer: stridulation
Question: Which singer had a 2008 number one hit with the song 'Mercy'?
Answer: duffy
Question: What was the name of the German Nazi military officer and doctor who personally selected prisoners who would die in the gas chambers at Auschwitz?
Answer: josef mengele
Question: What is the scientific name given to the ability of some animals, such as lizards, to self-amputate a partof their body in order to elude a predator?
Answer: autotomy
Question: Which prominent Nazi was known as 'The Butcher Of Lyon'?
Answer: klaus barbie
Question: Which creature features on the logo of the French clothing company Lacoste?
Answer: crocodile
Question: Which traditional Greek dish is made from salted and cured fishroe mixed with bread crumbs, lemon juice, onions and garlic?
Answer: taramosalata
Question: Who is the British evolutionary theorist who wrote 'The Selfish Gene'?
Answer: richard dawkins
Question: What was the name of the woman with whom John Profumo had an affair that ended his political career?
Answer: christine keeler
Question: Which eminent zoologist wrote the books 'The Naked Ape' and'The Human Zoo'?
Answer: desmond morris
Question: In terms of area, which is the smallest of Ireland's counties?
Answer: louth
Question: In 'Keeping Up Appearances', what is the name of 'Hyacinth Bucket's' unseen son?
Answer: sheridan
Question: The Calcaneusis the medical name for which bone in the human body?
Answer: heel bone
Question: In 'The Munsters' what was 'Herman Munster's' twin brother called?
Answer: charlie
Question: Which American rock star was killed whilst touring the UK when his taxi hit a lampost in Chippenham in April 1960?
Answer: eddie cochran
Question: During World War II, by what name was William Joyce better known?
Answer: lord haw haw
Question: What was the name of the oil tanker that ran aground in Alaskain March 1989 spilling over 10 million gallons of oil?
Answer: exxon valdez
Question: Which British city lies between the mouths of the rivers Test and Itchen?
Answer: southampton
Question: Making his debut for Southampton in 1998, who was the first Moroccan footballer to play in the Premier League?
Answer: hassan kachloul
Question: What was the name of the Columbian-French politician who was rescued from FARC by Columbian security forces in July 2008?
Answer: ingrid betancourt
Question: Making his debut for Southampton in 1998, who was the first Latvian footballer to play in the Premier League?
Answer: marian pahars
Question: Which Biblical prophet was shown 'The Valley Of Dry Bones' in a vision sent by God?
Answer: ezekiel
Question: Which town in Hertfordshire was founded in 1903 as the world's first Garden City?
Answer: letchworth
Question: Who Directed the 2008 film 'Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull'?
Answer: steven spielberg
Question: In the Bible, what was the name of the prisoner whom Pontius Pilate freed, instead of Jesus, at the Passover feast?
Answer: barabbas
Question: In which English castle was the 10th century King Edward The Martyr, murdered?
Answer: corfe castle
Question: Which composer wrote the opera 'The Flying Dutchman'?
Answer: richard wagner
Question: The 'Folketing' is the name of the parliament of which country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which composer wrote 'TheGoldberg Variations'?
Answer: johann sebastian bach
Question: Who wrote the novellas 'The Cricket On The Hearth' and 'The Battle Of Life'?
Answer: charles dickens
Question: Which is the only English city to have two separate cathedrals built in the 20th century?
Answer: liverpool
Question: Roland Gift was the lead singer of which English band of the 1980's and early 1990's?
Answer: fine young cannibals
Question: Puccini's opera 'Madame butterfly' tells of the tragic relationship between the heroine, and which American naval officer?
Answer: lieutenant pinkerton
Question: 'The New Yardbirds' and 'The Birmingham Water Buffalo Society' were former names of which famous pop group?
Answer: led zeppelin
Question: What is the common name for the herb Mentha piperita?
Answer: peppermint
Question: Which US city is home to the football team 'The Browns'?
Answer: cleveland
Question: Who was the defeated Republican candidate in the 2008 US Presidential Election?
Answer: john mccain
Question: Which 'Oscar' winning actor's last film was 'The Naked Edge' in 1961?
Answer: gary cooper
Question: John Gay's musical play, 'The Beggar's Opera' features a highwayman, who is known by which surname?
Answer: macheath
Question: Who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Clement Attlee's government from 1947 to 1950?
Answer: stafford cripps
Question: Which Act of 1765 (repealed 1766) levied duties on American colonies?
Answer: stamp act
Question: Which artist was born in 1746, died in 1828, and produced a series of satirical paintings entitled 'The Disasters Of War'?
Answer: goya
Question: Which 1944 musical film featured the song 'Have Yourselves A Merry Little Christmas'?
Answer: meet me in st louis
Question: Which 'Oscar' winning actress's last film was 'Ship Of Fools' in 1965?
Answer: vivien leigh
Question: Who said "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind"?
Answer: albert einstein
Question: Who was the Indian cricket captain who was banned for life for his part in match fixing in 2000?
Answer: mohammed azharuddin
Question: In which west of England city is 'Severn Sound FM' radio station located?
Answer: gloucester
Question: What is the name of the official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: lambeth palace
Question: Complete the sequence: Attlee, Churchill, Eden ...?
Answer: harold macmillan
Question: In which UK town is the 'Hat Works', the only museum of hats in the country?
Answer: stockport
Question: On television, what is the name of the Panda that advertises Fox's biscuits?
Answer: vinnie
Question: Jethou, Henn and Lithou are part of which island group?
Answer: channel islands
Question: For her performance in which film did Halle Berry win an 'Oscar'?
Answer: monster s ball
Question: What type of creatures are 'Passerines'?
Answer: perching birds
Question: From which Peter Gabriel hit do these lyrics come: "My heart going boom, boom, boom. Son, he said, grab your things I've come to take you home"?
Answer: solsbury hill
Question: Unst, Yell, and Mainland are part of which island group?
Answer: shetland
Question: What does the musical term 'Pianissimo' mean?
Answer: very soft
Question: What is the name of the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London?
Answer: mansion house
Question: Which '60's pop group new line-up included Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham and Robert Plant?
Answer: yardbirds
Question: In which film did Cary Grant play a war-time coast watcher called 'Walter Eckland'?
Answer: father goose
Question: In which American state would you find the city of Duluth?
Answer: minnesota
Question: The Aysgarth Falls can be found in which English National Park?
Answer: yorkshire dales
Question: Which author wrote a series of books about the police or private investigator 'Jemima Shore'?
Answer: antonia fraser
Question: In which north of England city is 'Hallam FM' radio station situated?
Answer: sheffield
Question: What would be the occupation of a member of the trade union BALPA?
Answer: british airline pilots association
Question: Which actor won an 'Oscar' for the film 'A Fish Called Wanda'?
Answer: kevin kline
Question: Which instrument did the jazz musician 'Dizzy' Gillespie play?
Answer: trumpet
Question: From which European country did the 'Dorians' originate in the 11th century BC?
Answer: greece
Question: Which religious order was founded by St. Robert, Abbot of Molesme, near Dijon in 1098?
Answer: cistercians
Question: What was the name of the mini-skirted cartoon character created in 1915, who first appeared on the film 'Dizzy Dishes' in 1930?
Answer: betty boop
Question: Who is the fictional seafarer in Dudley Pope's novels?
Answer: nicholas ramage
Question: Which all-girl group had a hit with 'Sound Of The Underground' in 2003?
Answer: girls aloud
Question: At which battle just north of London was the Earl of Warwick killed in 1471?
Answer: barnet
Question: Three famous English composers died in 1934. Gustav Holst and Edward Elgar are two, name the third?
Answer: frederick delius
Question: Which all-girl group had a hit with 'Manic Monday' in 1986?
Answer: bangles
Question: In Greek mythology who was the 'Muse of Music'?
Answer: euterpe
Question: Who is the fictional naval Captain, hero of Alexander Kent's novels?
Answer: richard bolitho
Question: Who did Bobby Fischer defeat to win the World Chess Championship in 1972?
Answer: boris spassky
Question: What is the common name of the drug Acetaminophen?
Answer: paracetamol
Question: The Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea are located on which continent?
Answer: antarctica
Question: If you were attending a 'local derby match' between HSV and St Pauli, in which city would you be?
Answer: hamburg
Question: From which Disney animated picture does the song 'I Wonder' come?
Answer: sleeping beauty
Question: .uk (dot uk) is the network identifier for the United Kingdom, which country uses the identifier .es (dot es)?
Answer: spain
Question: From which Disney animated picture does the song 'Colours Of The Wind' come?
Answer: pocahontas
Question: In which town or city would you find the headquarters of 'Everards Brewery'?
Answer: leicester
Question: Which English king was believed murdered in Pontefract Castle in 1399?
Answer: richard ii
Question: Which notable 19th century poet was a Jesuit priest?
Answer: gerald manley hopkins
Question: Who wrote the novel 'From Here To Eternity'?
Answer: james jones
Question: Now well known to children all over the world, 'The Moomins' were first created in which European country?
Answer: finland
Question: A high chest with seven or more drawers is called a 'Tallboy' in Britain. What is it called in the USA?
Answer: highboy
Question: The most visited city in the western hemisphere stands on Guanabara Bay. What is it?
Answer: rio de janeiro
Question: The 'Urchins' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which North West club?
Answer: liverpool
Question: Which bird was extinct in Scotland at the end of the 18th century but was re-introduced at Taymouth in 1837?
Answer: capercaillie
Question: Who directed the 1969 film 'Easy Rider'?
Answer: dennis hopper
Question: Who directed the 1968 film 'Finnian's Rainbow'?
Answer: francis ford coppola
Question: What is the 'Dunnock' more commonly known as?
Answer: hedge sparrow
Question: The 'Suicide Squad' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which North West club?
Answer: burnley
Question: Who composed the piece 'Four Minutes and Thirty Three Seconds' which is 44 minutes and 33 seconds of silence?
Answer: john cage
Question: Which composer wrote the symphonies with the nicknames 'The Schoolmaster', 'The Farewell' and 'The Miracle'?
Answer: haydn
Question: Which newly-formed African nation became the 193rd. member state of the United Nations in July 2011?
Answer: south sudan
Question: Who composed the theme music for the film 'Jaws'?
Answer: john williams
Question: Who first said or wrote "A little learning is a dangerous thing"?
Answer: alexander pope
Question: Apart from Hammersmith, which other Thames bridge does the Boat Race course pass under?
Answer: barnes
Question: Which building did the Empire State Building succeed as the world's highest building?
Answer: chrysler tower
Question: Which explorer, together with his partner Speke, explored the lakes of Africa for the source of the Nile and translated the '1001 Arabian Nights' and the 'Kama Sutra'?
Answer: richard burton
Question: Who played 'Juliet' opposite Leonardo Di Caprio in the 1996 film 'Romeo And Juliet'?
Answer: clare danes
Question: Which British explorer was the first westerner to have recorded seeing the River Niger?
Answer: mungo park
Question: Although better known by his surname, what was the first name of the t.v. detective 'Monk'?
Answer: adrian
Question: What is the main ingredient of Hoisin Sauce?
Answer: soya beans
Question: Who created the fictional character of 'Walter Mitty'?
Answer: james thurber
Question: Which bay found on the Atlantic coast is the biggest estuary in the USA?
Answer: chesapeake bay
Question: In which play by William Shakespeare does the quote "The course of true love never did run smooth" appear?
Answer: midsummer night s dream
Question: Which country principally administers the Turks and Caicos Islands?
Answer: united kingdom
Question: The highest waterfall in the Southern Hemisphere is located in which country?
Answer: south africa
Question: Which rugby union team defeated Saracens to win the Heineken cup in 201A?
Answer: toulon
Question: Later used to advertise Yellow Pages on T.V. which group's most successful hit single was Yellow River?
Answer: christie
Question: In the Charles Dickens novel 'A Tale of Two Cities' Sidney Carton exchanges places with which other character?
Answer: charles darnay
Question: On the maps of the London Underground which line is coloured brown?
Answer: bakerloo
Question: The okta is a unit used by meteorologists to measure which aspect of the weather?
Answer: cloud cover
Question: Which former Middle East hostage wrote the book 'An Evil Cradling'?
Answer: brian keenan
Question: Before moving to the city of Metropolis in which American town did Superman grow up
Answer: smallville
Question: Used to suckle the infant Jupiter what name is given in mythology to the Horn of Plenty?
Answer: cornucopia
Question: Who played the leading role in the T.V Western series 'Branded'?
Answer: chuck connors
Question: Which golfer won the U.S. Masters in 2014?
Answer: bubba watson
Question: Who wrote the plays The Rose Tattoo' and The Night of The Iguana'?
Answer: tennessee williams
Question: What name is given to the point in a planet’s orbit when it is closest to the Earth?
Answer: perigee
Question: Which former 'Liverbird' went on to play The District Nurse' on T.V?
Answer: nerys hughes
Question: What did the English dancer Margaret Kelly found in 1932?
Answer: bluebell girls
Question: Who played the diver Mike Nelson in the T.V. series 'Sea Hunt’?
Answer: lloyd bridges
Question: For which film did screen tough-guy Lee Marvin win a Best Actor award at the 1966 Oscars?
Answer: cat ballou
Question: Which T.V competition was won in 2014 by Collabro?
Answer: britain s got talent
Question: Which is the westernmost of the six African countries on the equator?
Answer: gabon
Question: In which capital city are the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund?
Answer: washington dc
Question: Which two word Latin phrase means 'Seize the Day?
Answer: carpe diem
Question: Which actor, a former hospital patient in the T.V. comedy series 'Only When I Laugh' went on to play the Irish R.M.?
Answer: peter bowles
Question: Later used to advertise Nimble bread which group's most successful single was 'I Can't Let Maggie Go'?
Answer: honeybus
Question: Who wrote the plays 'Biloxi Blues' and The Sunshine Boys'?
Answer: neil simon
Question: What was the name of the wise owl in the children's T.V. Programme The Herbs'
Answer: sage
Question: The Wind of Change speech in 1960 by Harold Macmillan was made to the parliament of which country?
Answer: south africa
Question: The flag of Cornwall is a white cross on a background of what colour?
Answer: black
Question: What is the meaning of the Latin word diluvium as used in the word antediluvian?
Answer: flood
Question: In which Dutch city did the 2015 Tour de France start?
Answer: utrecht
Question: Who wrote the song Mr Tambourine Man which reached Number One for The Byrds in 1965?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: What is the family name of Dmitri, Ivan and Alexei in an 1880 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
Answer: karamazov
Question: Who was the female star of the Alfred Hitchcock directed films The Birds and Mamie?
Answer: tippi hedren
Question: In 1774 who named Norfolk Island after Mary Howard Duchess of Norfolk?
Answer: captain james cook
Question: At the recent Tony Awards who won the award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in the play "The Audience" by Peter Morgan?
Answer: helen mirren
Question: What type of cars compete in the FIA WTCC as indicated by the T in the name?
Answer: touring cars
Question: What term do we use for the style of art known in German as "Jugendstil"?
Answer: art nouveau
Question: In the sitcom Porridge what was the middle name of Norman Fletcher, played by Ronnie Barker?
Answer: stanley
Question: Which musical note is equal to one-eighth of a semibreve?
Answer: quaver
Question: Who led a rebellion from Kent against the government of England in 1450?
Answer: jack cade
Question: """Baronet with Sam Chifhey Up"" is a painting by which artist born in Liverpool in 1724?"
Answer: george stubbs
Question: Which paper size measures 210 mm by 297 mm?
Answer: a4
Question: At which battle of May 1455 was King Henry VI captured, leading to Richard Duke of York being declared Lord Protector?
Answer: st albans
Question: The painting And When Did You Last See Your Father? by William Frederick Yeames is set in the middle of which century?
Answer: seventeenth
Question: The Mystical Boudoir of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel was the final regular episode of which sitcom?
Answer: open all hours
Question: At the recent Tony Awards The King and I won the Best Revival of a Musical. Which word completes the title of the novel on which it is based – "Anna and the King of …….."?
Answer: siam
Question: What is the surname of former rally driver Roger Albert after whom the RAC Rally which began in 2004 is named - it follows a route based on the "classic" RAC Rally first organised by the Royal Automobile Club in 1932?
Answer: roger albert clark
Question: Who was appointed as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor after the recent General Election?
Answer: michael gove
Question: In which country are Milford Sound and Doubtful Sound?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which film director is the uncle of actor Jason Schwartzman?
Answer: francis ford coppola
Question: Where was the Marquis de Sade imprisoned after the Chateau de Vincennes closed in 1784, until he was transferred to an asylum on July 4th 1789?
Answer: bastille
Question: Gary Player is one of three golfers to win both the Open and the Senior Open. New Zealander Bob Charles and which American, a five-time Open winner in the 1970s and 1980s are the others?
Answer: tom watson
Question: What was the name of Hanna-Barbera's space-age counterpart to The Flintstones?
Answer: jetsons
Question: """Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"" and ""I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"" were both Number Ones in the USA in 1965 for which band formed in Manchester in 1962, although neither was released as a single in this country?"
Answer: herman s hermits
Question: A Tale of the Christ is the sub-title of which 1880 novel by Lew Wallace?
Answer: ben hur
Question: For which 1988 Mike Nicholls directed film was Melanie Griffith nominated for a Best Actress Oscar?
Answer: working girl
Question: The Sinews of Peace speech in 1946 by Winston Churchill that introduced the phrase 'iron curtain' was made at Westminster College in Fulton in which US state?
Answer: missouri
Question: The ruins of the ancient city of Carthage are in which modern country?
Answer: tunisia
Question: What was the name of "She who must be obeyed" in the novel She by H Rider Haggard?
Answer: ayesha
Question: In which sport did Malcolm Cooper win Gold medals for Great Britain at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics?
Answer: shooting
Question: From which musical did the sing 'Get Me To The Church On Time' come?
Answer: my fair lady
Question: Of what is 'Pogonophobia' the morbid fear?
Answer: beards
Question: What does the name 'Chipping' as in Chipping Norton mean?
Answer: market place
Question: 'Metis', 'Callisto', and 'Sinope' are three of the satellites of which planet?
Answer: jupiter
Question: Who wrote the poems "The Solitary Reaper"and"Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3rd. 1802"?
Answer: william wordsworth
Question: 'Atlas', 'Mimas' and 'Calypso' are three of the satellites of which planet?
Answer: saturn
Question: What does the name 'Pont' as in Pontefract or Pontypoolmean?
Answer: bridge
Question: Who wrote the poems "Hyperion"and"To Autumn"?
Answer: john keats
Question: What does 'Holden Caulfield' say he will be, in the title of a famous novel?
Answer: catcher in rye
Question: Which record-breaking film marked Clint Eastwood's directorial debut?
Answer: play misty for me
Question: Who was the Polish dockyard worker who went on to become his country's President?
Answer: lech walensa
Question: If Clint Eastwood was 'The Good', Lee Van Cleef 'The Bad',who was 'The Ugly'?
Answer: eli wallach
Question: Which war was contested between 1775 and 1783 and was concluded by the 'Treaty of Paris'?
Answer: american war of independence
Question: Hong Kong was ceded to Britain by the 'Treaty of Nanking', which ended which war that had lasted from 1839 - 1842?
Answer: opium war
Question: Nanak (Dev) was born in 1469, he dies in 1583.He was a teacher and founder of which religious belief?
Answer: sikhism
Question: Who was the recipient of the 1981 Booker Prize for their novel 'Midnight's Children'?
Answer: salman rushdie
Question: Tomas de Torquemada born 1420 died 1498, was a prominent leader of what?
Answer: spanish inquisition
Question: Whose first volume of war memoirs was called 'Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall'?
Answer: spike milligan
Question: In the Elvis song, what was the name of his 'latest flame'?
Answer: marie
Question: What is the English termfor the dish the Italians call 'Zuppa Inglese'?
Answer: trifle
Question: Which demonic name means'Lord Of The Flies'?
Answer: beelzebub
Question: Who wrote the three novels featuring 'Gormenghast'?
Answer: mervyn peake
Question: What is the name of the 'theme park' near Windsor?
Answer: legoland
Question: Which is the main vitamin found in Liver Worts, butter-fat, green leaves etc.?
Answer: vitamin