CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: On children's television, which character lives in the fictional town of Pontypandy?
Answer: fireman sam
Question: According to legend Romulus and Remus, founders of the city of Rome, were raised by a she-wolf and fed by what bird?
Answer: woodpecker
Question: Of the original Cinque Ports, which was the only one not in Kent?
Answer: hastings
Question: Mary Todd became the wife of which President of the U.S.A.?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: Which English monarch was on the throne at the beginning of the Hundred Years War?
Answer: edward iii
Question: Which English composer produced the operas 'Artaxerxes', 'Love in a Village' and the 'Fairy Prince' in the decade 1761 to 1771?
Answer: thomas arne
Question: Marcus Bentley provides the voice-over for which TV show?
Answer: big brother
Question: Which boxer's image appeared on the cover of the Band on the Run album?
Answer: john conteh
Question: What was the name of the flagship of the English Commander, Lord Howard of Effingham, which faced the Spanish Armada?
Answer: ark royal
Question: In religion, by what name is the Decalogue better known?
Answer: ten commandments
Question: Bella Wilfer is a character in which of Charles Dickens' books?
Answer: our mutual friend
Question: Which London building was completed in 1977 from a design by Denys Lasdun?
Answer: national theatre
Question: Which English composer wrote the opera Dido and Aeneas, whose first public performance was in 1684?
Answer: henry purcell
Question: Who was the ruler of England when the War of the Spanish Succession began in 1701?
Answer: william iii
Question: Succeeding Kevin Rudd in 2013, who is the current Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: tony abbott
Question: Whose image was depicted on the first U.S. postage stamp?
Answer: benjamin franklin
Question: Usually represented by lower case n, which optical property is the ratio of the velocities of light in two adjacent media?
Answer: refractive index
Question: Which U.S. city saw the foundation in 1903 of the Harley-Davidson motor cycle manufacturer?
Answer: milwaukee
Question: Martha Dandridge was the 1st lady of which American President?
Answer: george washington
Question: Which town in Surrey gives its name to the common form of Hydrated Magnesium Sulphate?
Answer: epsom
Question: Which B.B.C. children's television programme featured the dolls Hamble and Jemima?
Answer: playschool
Question: Which river of Germany flows to the North Sea at Bremerhaven?
Answer: weser
Question: Mocha, a blend of chocolate and coffee made into a drink, originated in which country?
Answer: yemen
Question: What is the common name of the flowering shrub/tree Syringa?
Answer: lilac
Question: Who, in 1907, was the first woman to become a member of the Order of Merit?
Answer: florence nightingale
Question: In which US state are the cities of Spokane, Tacoma and Yakima?
Answer: washington
Question: Which Romanian car manufacturer was bought by Renault in 1999?
Answer: dacia
Question: Richard Addinsell's most famous piece of music was used in the 1941 film 'Dangerous Moonlight', what is its title?
Answer: warsaw concerto
Question: The currency units of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates share which name?
Answer: dirham
Question: In physics, which letter is used to represent Planck's Constant?
Answer: h
Question: Which group recorded the 2008 album 'Perfect Symmetry'?
Answer: keane
Question: In 2013 who became the first Englishman since Tony Jacklin in 1970, to win The US Open Golf Championship?
Answer: justin rose
Question: Which US President authorised the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: Inspector Japp is found in some novels featuring which detective?
Answer: hercule poirot
Question: Since 2000, three British cricket grounds have hosted their first test matches, two of them are the Riverside in Chester-Le-Street and the Rose Bowl in Southampton, name the third.
Answer: swalec stadium in cardiff
Question: What is the common name of the flowering plant Delphinium?
Answer: larkspur
Question: Kronos (or Cronus) was the Greek equivalent of which Roman god?
Answer: saturn
Question: In which US state are the cities of Billings, Great Falls and Missoula?
Answer: montana
Question: Which US President was a former World War 2 supreme commander?
Answer: dwight d eisenhower
Question: Which South Korean car company was bought by General Motors in 2001, its cars then being produced under the Chevrolet badge?
Answer: daewoo
Question: What is the name of the Italian owned bus company that specialises in transfers from airports such as Liverpool, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and Rome's airports, Fiumicino and Ciampino in to the city centres?
Answer: terravision
Question: The currency units of Iran, Oman and Yemen share which name?
Answer: rial
Question: Tony Stark is the alter ego of which comic book (and film) superhero?
Answer: iron man
Question: Which of the traditional Scotch whisky producing areas is on the Kintyre peninsula although only three distilleries survive, Glen Scotia, Glengyle and Springbank?
Answer: campbeltown
Question: The first council meeting of the League of Nations was held in January 1920, in which city?
Answer: paris
Question: How are the lovers Vrechen and Sali described in the title of a 1906 opera by Delius?
Answer: village romeo and juliet
Question: Makassar (the source of hair oil) is an alternative name of the port Ujung Pandang, in which country is it?
Answer: indonesia
Question: In 1818, the Austrian Franz Gruber composed his only published work, the music to a poem by the curate of his church; by what name do we know this Christmas carol?
Answer: silent night
Question: Tom Hanks co-stars with Emma Thompson in Saving Mr Banks, what part does he play?
Answer: walt disney
Question: Who recorded the 1968 album 'Astral Weeks'?
Answer: van morrison
Question: Selina Kyle is the alter ego of which comic book (and film) super heroine?
Answer: catwoman
Question: The Anti-Federalist League was the fore-runner of which political party?
Answer: ukip
Question: Who wrote the 1915 poem 'In Flanders Fields'?
Answer: john mccrae
Question: Who was the singer who had big hits with 'In The Midnight Hour' and 'Mustang Sally'?
Answer: wilson pickett
Question: Which famous group, that have had several instrumental hits in their own name, were Wilson Pickett's backing group in the 1960s?
Answer: booker t and mgs
Question: How is the Prince described in the title of a ballet by Bela Bartok first performed in 1917?
Answer: wooden
Question: In which zodiacal constellation is the bright star Aldebaran?
Answer: taurus
Question: Which element, atomic number 12, is named after a district in Greece?
Answer: magnesium
Question: Poundland started in 1990 as a single store, in which Midlands town?
Answer: burton on trent
Question: The yellow-Winged Darter is a species of which insect?
Answer: dragonfly
Question: Who was the Premier League player bitten by Luis Suarez?
Answer: branislav ivanovic
Question: Who was the leader of Albania from 1944 to 1985?
Answer: enver hoxha
Question: Where do Leicester Tigers R.U. side play home games?
Answer: welford road
Question: Which boxer was nicknamed 'The Ambling Alp'?
Answer: primo carnera
Question: In which city are the Petronas Twin Towers?
Answer: kuala lumpur
Question: From which musical was the song '76 Trombones'?
Answer: music man
Question: What was the name of the school in the TV sitcom 'Please Sir'?
Answer: fenn street
Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Good Companions"?
Answer: j b priestley
Question: Who directed the film 'The Aviator'?
Answer: martin scorsese
Question: Which American State has as a nickname 'The Last Frontier'?
Answer: alaska
Question: Who was the ruler of Albania from 1928 to 1939?
Answer: king zog
Question: Who was the 'Galloping Gourmet'?
Answer: graham kerr
Question: Who, together with Howard Greenfield, co-wrote the song 'Is this the way to Amarillo'?
Answer: neil sedaka
Question: What festival marks the end of Ramadan in the Muslim religion?
Answer: eid
Question: What name was shared by the wives of the English kings Edward IV and Henry VII?
Answer: elizabeth
Question: Cricket. Who was the batsman when Shane Warne bowled the so-called "ball of the century" on 4th June 1993?
Answer: mike gatting
Question: Which city's name is given to symphonies 82 to 87 inclusive by Haydn?
Answer: paris
Question: Newmarket racecourse straddles the border of Suffolk and which other county?
Answer: cambridgeshire
Question: Which Shakespeare play of 1591 opens with the funeral of King Henry V?
Answer: henry vi part 1
Question: In which language was the Communist Manifesto by Marx/Engels first published, in 1848?
Answer: german
Question: The present building opened in 1937-which London venue was used to stage the 2012 Olympic volleyball competition?
Answer: earls court
Question: At the Academy Awards, what was the first British film ever to win the Oscar for Best Film?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Popular with young British people, on which Mediterranean island is the resort of Faliraki located?
Answer: rhodes
Question: Which surrealist artist, 1898-1967, featured bowler hats in many of his paintings?
Answer: rene magritte
Question: Which TV cartoon character had the catchphrase "Drat and double drat"?
Answer: dick dastardly
Question: 1 Which cocktail consisting of tequila and triple sac and lemon or lime juice has a name which means "daisy" in Spanish?
Answer: margarita
Question: Which Cheshire town is thought to take its name from the fact if was considered a suitable location for crossing a river there by King Canute in 1017?
Answer: knutsford
Question: Which country's national anthem has verses sung{ in five different languages?
Answer: south africa
Question: Widely promoted on Radio Luxembourg in the late '50s and early 1960s, what was the name of the system, devised by Horace Batchelor, which increased your chances. of winning large sums of money on the football pools?
Answer: infra draw
Question: In terms of both population and area, which is the largest of the Canary Islands?
Answer: tenerife
Question: """Neither a borrower nor a lender be' is a line from which of Shakespeare's plays?"
Answer: hamlet
Question: An athlete wearing the initials KSA on his vest is representing which country?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: In which language did Samuel Beckett originally write and publish the play 'Waiting for Godot'?
Answer: french
Question: A second full moon in a single calendar month is now commonly given what name?
Answer: blue moon
Question: Which London park staged the 2012 Olympic equestrian events?
Answer: greenwich park
Question: Which city links Haydn's symphony number 104 and Vaughan Williams' symphony number 2?
Answer: london
Question: Ayers Rock (Uluru) in Australia is made of what type of rock?
Answer: sandstone
Question: What single word completes the title of Marie Lloyd's famous music hall song "She sits among the cabbages and . . . "?
Answer: peas
Question: Which Cambridgeshire town shares its name with a month of the year?
Answer: march
Question: Who was the first female president of the Republic of Ireland, elected in 1990?
Answer: mary robinson
Question: Which house did Harry Potter belong to in Hogwarts School?
Answer: gryffindor
Question: In football, Emlyn Hughes joined Liverpool and Alan Ball joined Everton from which club?
Answer: blackpool
Question: Only two horses beat Red Rum in the Grand National - L'Escargot and which other?
Answer: rag trade
Question: Cassis is a syrup made from which fruit?
Answer: blackcurrant
Question: Which Birmingham-based pop group had the first record played on BBC Radio One (`Flowers in the Rain') and evolved into the Electric Light Orchestra?
Answer: move
Question: In which film of the early 1940s were the main supporting characters Ilsa Lund, Victor Laszlo and Captain Louis Renault?
Answer: casablanca
Question: Which Dickens character was the illegitimate child of Edwin Leeford and Agnes Fleming?
Answer: oliver twist
Question: Who painted "Bubbles" in I 886, the picture used to advertise Pears soap?
Answer: john everett millais
Question: What is the common name of Vitamin B9, which is given to pregnant women?
Answer: folic acid
Question: Paramaribo is the capital of which republic in South America?
Answer: suriname
Question: Who had a number I hit in 1980 with "Together We Are Beautiful"?
Answer: fern kinney
Question: Who is the current presenter of the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show?
Answer: nick grimshaw
Question: In 1936 George Nissen developed which item of sports equipment that still bears his name?
Answer: trampoline
Question: Who won the World Snooker Championship in May 2014?
Answer: mark selby
Question: What type of Rolls Royce engine was used to power the later makes of Spitfire?
Answer: griffon
Question: Who was president of South Korea during the Korean War?
Answer: syngman rhee
Question: Four US states border Lake Michigan - Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and which other?
Answer: indiana
Question: Whose written works include "Strange Interlude" and "Mourning Becomes Electra?
Answer: eugene o neil
Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1980 with "What's. Another Year"?
Answer: johnny logan
Question: What two-word French term is given to the last competitor during each stage of the Tour de France?
Answer: lanterne rouge
Question: Which French novelist and philosopher won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature and played in goal as a junior footballer?
Answer: albert camus
Question: What is the title of the comic opera by Edward German set in the court of Queen Elizabeth I?
Answer: merrie england
Question: Which golfer won the US Masters Tournament in April 2014?
Answer: bubba watson
Question: Lester Piggott rode his first and last winners at which racecourse?
Answer: haydock
Question: Grenadine is a syrup made from which fruit?
Answer: pomegranate
Question: In a song by the Kinks, by which London station did Terry meet July at sunset?
Answer: waterloo
Question: In which film starring Humphrey Bogart did Peter Lorre play Joel Cairo and Sydney Greenstreet play Kasper Gutman?
Answer: maltese falcon
Question: Who was the first woman to be elected in 1992 as Speaker of the House of Commons?
Answer: betty boothroyd
Question: Which animals feature on the Coat of Arms of the Canary Islands?
Answer: dogs
Question: During his time of Hogwart's to which house did the villain Voldemort belong?
Answer: slytherin
Question: In football, Emile Heskey joined Liverpool and Gary Linker joined Everton from which club?
Answer: leicester city
Question: The Saffir-Simpson scale is used to measure which natural occurrence?
Answer: hurricanes
Question: Which Lloyd Webber musical is based on a book written by T S Eliot?
Answer: cats
Question: In Desperate Housewives, who played Susan Mayer?
Answer: teri hatcher
Question: -When George Formby sang the lines "It may be sticky, but I never complain; It's nice to have a nibble at it now and again", to what was he referring?
Answer: little stick of blackpool rock
Question: In Greek mythology Achilles was the son of Peleus and whom?
Answer: thetis
Question: The Norfolk town of Cromer is particularly famed for which seafood?
Answer: crab
Question: What was the nickname of Arsenal and Republic of Ireland footballer Liam Brady?
Answer: chippy
Question: Ruth Lee Jones was the real name of which American singer, popular in the. 1950s who died in 1963 aged 39?
Answer: dinah washington
Question: Which other climber disappeared with George Mallory on Mount Everest in June 1924?
Answer: andrew irvine
Question: Which American singer, songwriter and actress had the real name Norma Deloris Egstrom?
Answer: peggy lee
Question: Brown Clee Hill is the highest point in which English county?
Answer: shropshire
Question: What was the title of the first film that Elvis Presley appeared in?
Answer: love me tender
Question: By what name is the heritage Mid-Hants Railway known, taken from the salad plant that used to be transported on it to London?
Answer: watercress line
Question: Anthony Joshua and Nicola Adams both won gold medals at the 2012 Olympics in which sport?
Answer: boxing
Question: Which future king was the first Englishman to be given the title of Prince of Wales?
Answer: edward ii
Question: Which country in the Pacific was also known as The Friendly Islands?
Answer: tonga
Question: Who in 1965 became the first man to walk in space?
Answer: alexey leonov
Question: Which architect designed the 87-storey Shard Building in London?
Answer: renzo piano
Question: What is the title of the American adult animated sitcom, based in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas?
Answer: king of hill
Question: Which singer was the first artist to have a posthumous UK number one single?
Answer: buddy holly
Question: Robert Galbraith is the pen name of which famous novelist?
Answer: j k rowling
Question: What is the name of the prize awarded for the best film at the Venice Film Festival
Answer: golden lion
Question: The title of Poet Laureate as a royal office was first conferred on which poet in 1670?
Answer: john dryden
Question: What was the name of the fictional ship featured in the 1953 film The Cruel Sea?
Answer: hms compass rose
Question: Which county cricket team has its headquarters at the SWALEC Stadium in Sophia Gardens?
Answer: glamorgan
Question: Apart from The Beatles, which other group topped the UK singles charts on seven consecutive occasions?
Answer: westlife
Question: Which fashion designer was sacked by Dior in 2011 after being found guilty of making anti-Semitic comments?
Answer: john galliano
Question: 'The Colour of Magic' is the first novel in which comic fantasy book series?
Answer: discworld
Question: Give either Christian name of Russian composer, pianist and conductor Rachmaninoff?
Answer: sergei vasilievich
Question: What is the name of the footballer whose heart stopped during a match between Bolton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur in March 2012?
Answer: fabrice muamba
Question: What river, meaning 'plenty of eels', flows through Sydney, Australia?
Answer: parramatta
Question: Which comedy actor played Charlie Bind in the 1964 film Carry on Spying?
Answer: charles hawtrey
Question: Romney Marsh, Suffolk and Clun Forest, are all breeds of which animal?
Answer: sheep
Question: With which English band did Graham Nash make his name, before going on to greater success with Crosby, Stills and Nash?
Answer: hollies
Question: What name, derived from the Greek word for chalk, is given to hydrated calcium sulphate?
Answer: gypsum
Question: How many players are there in each team in a game of Gaelic Football?
Answer: fifteen
Question: Which chart-topping American band was fronted by Harry Wayne Casey?
Answer: kc and sunshine band
Question: What term for an area of characteristic limestone scenery is named after a region of Slovenia?
Answer: karst
Question: Which BAFTA award-winning scriptwriter created the TV series The Street, Accused, The Lakes and Cracker?
Answer: jimmy mcgovern
Question: Made law by the Senate in 1919, the National Prohibition Act is informally named after which Congressman who is considered to be its author?
Answer: andrew volstead
Question: Bridgeport is the largest city in which New England state?
Answer: connecticut
Question: Which BAFTA-nominated television writer has created the series Scott & Bailey. At Home with the Braithwaites for ITV and Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley for the BBC?
Answer: sally wainwright
Question: What is known as 'lättöl' in Scandinavia and `pivo' in most of the Balkan countries?
Answer: beer
Question: Which Democrat did George Bush defeat in order to become President in 1988?
Answer: michael dukakis
Question: If a dish is cooked a la soubise, the sauce primarily contains which vegetable?
Answer: onion
Question: The New York borough of Queens is named after which British Queen consort?
Answer: catherine of braganza
Question: Who, is buried in Westminster Abbey, not because he was a poet but because lie was clerk of works to the Palace of Westminster?
Answer: geoffrey chaucer
Question: Which of the four houses in Hogwarts has a badger as mascot?
Answer: hufflepuff
Question: What was the first name of the wife of Plantaganet Palliser in the 1974 series The Pallisers recently repeated on BBC Two?
Answer: glencora
Question: Born in 1897, who was the only future Dad's Army cast member to serve in the Home Guard.?
Answer: john laurie
Question: Which diamond, given by the Sikh ruler of the Punjab to Sir John Lawrence became the prize exhibit at the Great Exhibition?
Answer: koh i noor
Question: Which island home of the St Aubyn family in the South West is accessed by a causeway at high tide?
Answer: st michael s mount
Question: The constellation Carina is supposed to represent the keel of which mythical ship?
Answer: argo
Question: Which member of the Royal family also has the title Earl of Inverness?
Answer: prince andrew
Question: Which artist painted Lizzie Siddal floating in a bath as Ophelia?
Answer: john everett millais
Question: Who sculpted the Space Age Angel on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in 1912?
Answer: jacob epstein
Question: Archibald Ormsby-Gore was the teddy bear of which author?
Answer: john betjeman
Question: What is the capital city of the South African province of Gauteng?
Answer: johannesburg
Question: On which island is the city of Nagasaki in Japan?
Answer: kyushu
Question: What is the name of the device used to raise boats from the River Weaver in Cheshire to the canal system?
Answer: anderton boat lift
Question: In 1984 which Bruce Springsteen song was the first to win a Grammy for him? (He has won 20 in all)
Answer: dancing in dark
Question: Peak Forest, Macclesfield and Bridgewater are some of the canals that make up what network?
Answer: cheshire ring
Question: Who has managed Leicester City, Blackpool and Crystal Palace football clubs since 2007?
Answer: ian holloway
Question: Which children's novel published in 1865 was written by a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford?
Answer: alice in wonderland
Question: Which Wagnerian hero was the son of Parsifal?
Answer: lohengrin
Question: What was the name of the gang's van in the Scooby-Doo TV series?
Answer: mystery machine
Question: Which Rogers and Hammerstein musical first performed on Broadway in 1958 tells of the conflicts of a Chinese Immigrant family in San Francisco?
Answer: flower drum song
Question: The animal the ratel is better known by what other name?
Answer: honey badger
Question: What is the name of the thick soup popular in the southern states of the U.S.A. (One of the main ingredients is okra which gives the dish its smooth silky texture)?
Answer: gumbo
Question: Where in the human body are the 'Billroth Cords'?
Answer: spleen
Question: In World War II what was the British Operation 'Chastise' which took place in May 1943?
Answer: dambusters
Question: Milwaukie is the largest city by population in which state of America?
Answer: wisconsin
Question: What name, that of a mythological creature, is given to the smallest species of owl?
Answer: elf owl
Question: Which British explorer discovered the source of the River Nile in 1862?
Answer: john hanning speke
Question: Who starred in the TV series `Nice Guy Eddie' as a Liverpool Private Investigator?
Answer: ricky tomlinson
Question: Which 1953 film musical tells the romanticised story of frontiers woman Martha Jane Canary?
Answer: calamity jane
Question: Which 2004 film was released with the advertising tag line 'A romantic comedy with zombies'?
Answer: shaun of dead
Question: Who was the voice of Mr Wormsworth in the film Chicken Little?
Answer: patrick stewart
Question: Which football club replaced Barrow in the football league after the 1971-1972 season?
Answer: hereford
Question: What part of the human body is known to doctors as the hallux?
Answer: big toe
Question: Between 1795 and 1799, which English navigator surveyed the coast of Australia?
Answer: matthew flinders
Question: In which comedy film of the 1960's would you hear the line `Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room?
Answer: dr strangelove
Question: Which British monarch put the 'Regis' into Bognor?
Answer: king george v
Question: In which war film would you hear the line 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning'?
Answer: apocalypse now
Question: Which is the only British City which begins with the letter 'I'?
Answer: inverness