CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Name the constellation in the Northern hemisphere that contains the very bright star Vega, a part of the summer triangle?
Answer: lyra
Question: Which Roman Emperor who ruled from 300-377 AD was the first to be converted to Christianity?
Answer: constantine
Question: Discovered by the Curies in 1898, what is the chemical symbol of the element polonium?
Answer: po
Question: Professor Wallofski was a comic creation of which English comedian and actor?
Answer: max wall
Question: Terry Gene Bollea is the real name of which actor and professional wrestler?
Answer: hulk hogan
Question: First artificially synthesised in 1944 - what is the chemical symbol of the element Curium?
Answer: cm
Question: In 43AD which Roman Emperor personally took part in the invasion of Britain?
Answer: claudius
Question: Basildon Bond and C U Jimmy were the comic creations of which stage and TV comedian?
Answer: russ abbot
Question: Which European country's flag displays an image of its highest peak Mount Triglav?
Answer: slovenia
Question: Which Asian capital city stands on the Bagmati river?
Answer: kathmandu
Question: Which UKIP MEP quit the party in 2014 over problems with "Bongo Bongo Land" and "women in the kitchen"?
Answer: godfrey bloom
Question: Which group of medical workers became Time Magazine Person of the Year 2014?
Answer: ebola fighters
Question: Which American artist painted Nighthawks in 1942?
Answer: edward hopper
Question: Ron Hickman invented a much used DIY aid after damaging a chair while sawing wood?
Answer: black decker workmate
Question: In 2014 Cate Blanchett won an acting Oscar for which film?
Answer: blue jasmine
Question: Together with the figure Liberty, who is also the French symbol for liberty and reason?
Answer: marianne
Question: Introduced in 1894 how is Bibendum better known?
Answer: michelin man
Question: Who is the presenter of the Radio 4 show The News Quiz?
Answer: sandi toksvig
Question: Which country became the European Union's 28th member in 2013?
Answer: croatia
Question: The French wine growing areas of Macon, Beaujolais and Chablis are in which region?
Answer: burgundy
Question: Which heritage railway runs from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster?
Answer: severn valley railway
Question: What is the setting for the Shakespeare play As You Like It?
Answer: forest of arden
Question: Fuller’s beer is brewed in the Griffin brewery in which London district?
Answer: chiswick
Question: Depicting a father and daughter, who painted the picture American Gothic in 1930?
Answer: grant wood
Question: Born in 1972 with which two words is the tenor Wynne Evans popularly associated?
Answer: go compare
Question: If you were involved the craft of tatting what would you be making?
Answer: lace
Question: Which forename is the writer JM Barrie credited with having invented?
Answer: wendy
Question: Who is the presenter of the Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs?
Answer: kirsty young
Question: Hans-Gert Pottering first elected in 1979 is the longest serving member of what?
Answer: european parliament
Question: Which French region produces Camembert cheese, Benedictine and Calvados?
Answer: normandy
Question: Which constellation is named after the mother of the legendary Greek princess Andromeda?
Answer: cassiopeia
Question: Which Shakespeare character's final words are "The Rest is Silence"?
Answer: hamlet
Question: The world number 1 ranked tennis player in March 2013, Novak Djokovic is a national of which country?
Answer: serbia
Question: In Mathematics what is the ratio of the adjacent to the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle called?
Answer: cosine
Question: Which bird, best known for its singing, has the scientific name "luscinia megahynchos"?
Answer: nightingale
Question: In which English county is the site of the Civil War Battle of Naseby to be found?
Answer: northamptonshire
Question: Which actor and comedian co-starred with Simon Pegg in the "Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy"?
Answer: nick frost
Question: Sleeping sickness is caused by the bite of which insect?
Answer: tsetse fly
Question: Upminster and Ealing Broadway are respectively the eastern and western termini or which London Underground line?
Answer: district line
Question: Which actor's film roles include Charlie Chaplin and Sherlock Hoimes?
Answer: robert downey junior
Question: Nephrolithiasis is the medical name for which condition?
Answer: kidney stones
Question: Under the 1996 Treasure Act, found property which might be classed as Treasure Trove must be reported to whom?
Answer: coroner
Question: Which 1993 novel by Sebastian Faulks is set during the First World War?
Answer: birdsong
Question: Who composed the musical work "Pictures at an Exhibition"?
Answer: modest mussorgsky
Question: Which comedian played the title role in the 1963 film, "The Punch and Judy Man"?
Answer: tony hancock
Question: Which preserved railway runs services between East Grinstead and Sheffield Park, in Sussex?
Answer: bluebell railway
Question: On which French racecourse is the "Prix de I'Arc de Triomphe” run?
Answer: longchamp
Question: The TV soap Eastenders is set in which fictional London borough?
Answer: walford
Question: """Prelude a I'apres-midi d'un faune"" and ""La Mer"" are amongst the works of which impressionist composer?"
Answer: claude debussy
Question: In England and Wales, the investigation of sudden or unexplained deaths is handled by the Coroner. Which officer performs this function in Scotland?
Answer: procurator fiscal
Question: With a population of over 380,000, what is the largest city in Switzerland?
Answer: zurich
Question: Which Nick Hornby book concerned his being a fan of Arsenal?
Answer: fever pitch
Question: Which Marx Brothers film was set in the fictional country of "Freedonia"?
Answer: duck soup
Question: In British Horse racing the Triple Crown is regarded of being the 2,000 Guineas, Derby and which other race?
Answer: st leger
Question: Which poet wrote the work "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3rd 1802"?
Answer: william wordsworth
Question: Inspired by the fairy-tale "Cinderella" Gioacchino Rossini composed which opera in 1816-17?
Answer: la cenerentola
Question: Who played chemistry teacher Waiter White in the American TV series "Breaking Bad"?
Answer: bryan cranston
Question: In which constellation, visible from the UK, is the bright star Regulus to be found?
Answer: leo
Question: The Ray Bradbury novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes” takes its name from a line in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: macbeth
Question: In Greek legend what creature did Theseus kill in the labyrinth?
Answer: minotaur
Question: Founded in 1975, ECOWAS is a regional economic community, comprising 15 states. Where in the world is it to be found?
Answer: west africa
Question: Who wrote the musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"?
Answer: steven sondheim
Question: Named after an American scientist, what is the SI derived unit of Inductance?
Answer: henry
Question: In a feudal castle what name is given to the outer wall, hence the outer court, or any court within the walls?
Answer: bailey
Question: What is the nickname of snooker player Jimmy White?
Answer: whirlwind
Question: Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Answer: harriet beecher stowe
Question: Who directed the films Deliverance, Hope and Glory and the Tailor of Panama?
Answer: john boorman
Question: In which US town or city is the United States Naval Academy located?
Answer: annapolis
Question: Which New York Stadium was home to the New York Mets from 1964-2008, and was demolished in 2009?
Answer: shea stadium
Question: Nucky Thompson was the central character in which US TV drama series?
Answer: boardwalk empire
Question: What Is the nickname of snooker player Cliff Thorburn?
Answer: grinder
Question: The Velazquez painting "The Toilet of Venus" is also known by what name?
Answer: rokeby venus
Question: Who is the author of ‘‘The Uncie Remus" stories?
Answer: joel chandler harris
Question: Who directed the films Mississippi Burning, Evita and Angela's Ashes?
Answer: alan parker
Question: Who bad a number 1 in the 1980's with Circle in the Sand?
Answer: belinda carlisle
Question: Which was the first place to host the Winter Olympics, twice?
Answer: st moritz
Question: What is the capitaI of the Yukon Territory?
Answer: whitehorse
Question: In which US town or city is the United States Air Force Academy located?
Answer: colorado springs
Question: Who created the fictional detective Roderick Alleyn?
Answer: ngaio marsh
Question: By what other name is the bird the landrail known?
Answer: corncrake
Question: Which National Trust property was once owned by the Egerton family?
Answer: tatton park
Question: In the Arthur Conan Doyle stories about Sherlock Holmes who was the housekeeper at 221B Baker Street?
Answer: mrs hudson
Question: In Peter Pan what is the name of the Red Indian Princess rescued by Peter?
Answer: tiger lily
Question: Who became the 2015 PDC World Darts Champion after beating Phil Taylor in the final?
Answer: gary anderson
Question: What is the name of the family dog in the animated TV series ‘Family Guy?
Answer: brian
Question: in the BBC Children’s TV programme The Woodentops, what was the name of the cow who lived on their farm?
Answer: buttercup
Question: Derived from the name of a Chinese village and hill, what is the alternative name for China Clay?
Answer: kaolin
Question: What animal can be found surrounded by bees on tins of Lyles Golden Syrup?
Answer: lion
Question: On 1st January 2015 which Baltic state became the latest country to start using the Euro as its currency?
Answer: lithuania
Question: In which 1949 film noir did James Cagney say the line “Made it Ma -Top of the World” as flames engulfed him?
Answer: white heat
Question: Which artist did Chariton Heston play in the 1965 film ‘the Agony and the Ecstasy?
Answer: michelangelo
Question: In Superman comic books, what is the name of the editor of the Daily Planet?
Answer: perry white
Question: The song ‘Happy’ by Pharrel Williams first appeared on the soundtrack of which computer animated film of 2013?
Answer: despicable me 2
Question: In which county is the town and fishing port of Padstow?
Answer: cornwall
Question: What is the essential vegetable ingredient of a dish cooked ‘a la florentine’?
Answer: spinach
Question: The name of which organ of the human body is derived from the Greek words for all and flesh?
Answer: pancreas
Question: In the human body, where are the intercostal muscles located?
Answer: between ribs
Question: Author Harper Lee announced the sequel in 2015 of her only ever book, what was the name of that sequel?
Answer: go set watchman
Question: Under what name does Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre act and sing?
Answer: cher
Question: Which singer's albums have included Aerial (2005) and Red Shoes (1993)?
Answer: kate bush
Question: In a 1997 WBA Heavyweight Championship Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting the ear of which opponent?
Answer: evander holyfield
Question: On the standard UK Monopoly board, what colour is the property Bow Street
Answer: orange
Question: On which racing circuit would you find Ginger Hall and Kate’s Cottage?
Answer: isle of man tt
Question: Which well-known actor did the actress and theatre director Sophie Hunter marry in 2015?
Answer: benedict cumberbatch
Question: Which mountain range extends through Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, with its highest peak at Mount Jebel Toubkal?
Answer: atlas mountains
Question: Which battle cruiser was sunk by the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen on May 24, 1941?
Answer: hms hood
Question: In the children’s animated TV series, of which ship was Captain Pugwash the captain?
Answer: black pig
Question: Which US TV musical comedy drama series is set in the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima Ohio?
Answer: glee
Question: Which country won the African Cup of Nations Trophy in 2015 beating Sudan on penalties in the final?
Answer: cote d ivoire
Question: Which soul singer's backing group were cailed The Famous Flames?
Answer: james brown
Question: Which chemical element has the atomic number 83 and symbol Bi?
Answer: bismuth
Question: Who was captain of the England men's cricket team during the 2015 One Day International World Cup?
Answer: eoin morgan
Question: Who, in the Old Testament, sold his birthright for a piece of bread and a potage of lentils?
Answer: esau
Question: Which car company has the six brightest stars of the constellation Pleiades as its badge?
Answer: subaru
Question: Who created the private investigator Kinsey Millhone?
Answer: sue grafton
Question: How was the entertainer Nicolai Poliakoff better known?
Answer: coco clown
Question: Which motor-cycle company has three tuning forks as its badge?
Answer: yamaha
Question: Which artist painted 'Three Dancers (1925) and "Weeping Woman" (1937)?
Answer: pablo picasso
Question: In 2001, which comedian was the first winner of Celebrity Big Brother?
Answer: jack dee
Question: Who commanded the Confederate forces at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: robert e lee
Question: b In which film did Pierce Brosnanfirst play James Bond?
Answer: goldeneye
Question: Who commanded the Union forces during the 1864 March to the Sea?
Answer: william sherman
Question: What is the last LETTER on a computer keyboard, i.e. bottom right?
Answer: m
Question: From what London station does the Eurostar train depart?
Answer: st pancras
Question: In which Yorkshire town is Eureka the National Children's Museum situated?
Answer: halifax
Question: In the cartoon show "The Wacky Races" who drove the Mean Machine?
Answer: dick dastardly
Question: Which title character, from a children's animated TV series, lives in Pontypandy?
Answer: fireman sam
Question: The Chinese Year commencing in February 2016 is the year of which creature?
Answer: monkey
Question: Jane Seymour played the character "Solitaire" in which Bond Film?
Answer: live and let die
Question: """Marcus Tullius"" are the forenames of which Roman lawyer, politician and philosopher, killed during the power-struggle after the murder of Julius Caesar?"
Answer: cicero
Question: From which Rogers and Hammerstein musical, filmed in 1956, do the songs "If I loved you" and "June is bustin' out all over" come?
Answer: carousel
Question: Which order of friars is also known as the "Black Friars"?
Answer: dominicans
Question: Taking its name from a Portuguese dish of meat, garlic and wine, which hot curry originated in Goa?
Answer: vindaloo
Question: John Adams and which other American president died on the Fourth of July 1826?
Answer: thomas jefferson
Question: The characters James Wormold, Charles Fortnum, Holly Martins and Pinkie Brown were created by which British author, who died in Switzerland in 1991?
Answer: graham greene
Question: The Hector Berlioz opera "Les Troyens" is based on a poem written by whom?
Answer: virgil
Question: Which multi purpose tool was first produced in 1891 by Karl Elsener, founder of the company Victorinox?
Answer: swiss army knife
Question: The device shaped like a human foot, which cobblers use to make and repair shoes is called what?
Answer: last
Question: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in which theatre in April 1865?
Answer: ford s
Question: The Hector Beriioz opera "Beatrice et Benedict" is based on which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: much ado about nothing
Question: Who presents three hours of music on Classic FM, on weekdays between 10.00 am and 1 pm?
Answer: john suchet
Question: What pub chain was founded by Tim Martin in 1975?
Answer: wetherspoon s
Question: Of what does someone suffering from brontophobia have an irrational fear?
Answer: thunder
Question: With which long running folk-rock band have fiddlers Dave Swarbrick and Ric Sanders been associated?
Answer: fairport convention
Question: On Classic FM, Saturday morning music, 9.00 am to 12.00 noon, is in the hands of which presenter?
Answer: alan titchmarsh
Question: In which artistic movement, formed in 1911 and taking its name from the London district forming the subject of many of their works, was Walter Sickert a leading figure?
Answer: camden town group
Question: Completed in 1973 and made into a World Heritage site in 2007, which building was designed by Jorn Utzon on Bennelong Point?
Answer: sydney opera house
Question: The Survivor song "Eye of the Tiger" was the theme tune to which film?
Answer: rocky
Question: The word "jute", describing the fibre used in the making of canvas, gunny and similar materials, is derived from which Asian language?
Answer: bengali
Question: To which family of birds do the Razorbill and the Guillemot belong?
Answer: auks
Question: Which motor manufacturer produces the Berlingo MPV and van?
Answer: citroen
Question: Ellen Terry was painted by Lady Macbeth in a celebrated work by which artist?
Answer: john singer sargent
Question: Perth, in Scotland, stands on the banks of which river?
Answer: river tay
Question: In which 1986 film did Patsy Kensit star alongside Eddie O'Connell?
Answer: absolute beginners
Question: From what Asian language is the word "batik", to describe a means of dyeing cloth using wax to shield certain areas from the process, derived?
Answer: javanese
Question: Now in the "Galleria dell'Accademia" in Florence, the Renaissance masterpiece, 'The Statue of David" is by which sculptor?
Answer: michelangelo
Question: Which actor has appeared in the most "Carry On" films making a total of 26 appearances?
Answer: kenneth williams
Question: Which battle, the first major engagement of the Crimean War took place on 20th September 1854?
Answer: battle of alma
Question: After rising near Mallerstang in the Yorkshire Dales, which river flows through Kirkby Stephen arc Appleby-in-Westmoreland on its way to the sea?
Answer: river eden
Question: In mythology, the Maenads {pronounced 'my-nads') were frenzied followers of which god or goddess?
Answer: bacchus
Question: What commissioned rank in the British Army is equivalent to that of Air Commodore in the Royal Air Force?
Answer: brigadier
Question: Designed by Edvard Eriksen, which bronze statue in Copenhagen is based on a Hans Christian Andersen character?
Answer: little mermaid
Question: What is the name of the international appreciation society of Laurel and Hardy?
Answer: sons of desert
Question: """Mr Tom Piperson"" features in which of Beatrix Potter's stories?"
Answer: tale of pigling bland
Question: Near which northern town, now a city, did the last battle of the English Civil War take place, in 1648?
Answer: preston
Question: Which dancing troupe was founded by irishwoman Margaret Kelly at the Folies Bergere, France in 1932?
Answer: bluebell girls
Question: In a tale from Apuleius's "The Golden Ass", who did Cupid fall in love with and eventually marry?
Answer: psyche
Question: The Quetzal is the principal unit of currency of which country?
Answer: guatemala
Question: The songs 'Too darn hot" and "True love" come from which Cole Porter musical which was filmed in 1956 starring Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly?
Answer: high society
Question: Which actor was born David McDonald in Scotland in 1971, taking his stage name from a member of the Pet Shop Boys?
Answer: david tennant
Question: What is traditionally given to celebrate the 60th wedding anniversary in the UK?
Answer: diamond
Question: Which film and TV actor is the son of actress Wanda Ventham?
Answer: benedict cumberbatch
Question: More famous for a series of crime stories, who wrote the 1891 adventure story ‘The White Company’?
Answer: sir arthur conan doyle
Question: Who played Captain Phillips in the 2013 film of that name?
Answer: tom hanks
Question: In 1981, which was the first Space Shuttle to be launched into orbit?
Answer: columbia
Question: Graham Moffatt played Albert alongside which comedian in a series of films in the 1930s?
Answer: will hay
Question: Who did Francois Hollande succeed as French President in 2012?
Answer: nicolas sarkozy
Question: In Hans Anderson’s tale, the princess could feel the presence of a pea under how many mattresses?
Answer: twenty
Question: Charles Guiteau assassinated which US President in 1881?
Answer: james garfield
Question: What is the name of the eponymous hunch-backed court jester in Verdi’s opera of 1851?
Answer: rigoletto
Question: What is the name of the Swedish arms manufacturing company formed in 1646 and located in Karlskoga?
Answer: bofors
Question: The late James Avery played Uncle Phil in which 1990s US TV series?
Answer: fresh prince of bel air
Question: Which European country has had four kings named Valdemar in the Middle Ages?
Answer: denmark
Question: In which US city is the Alamo, the site of the 1836 battle and siege located?
Answer: san antonio
Question: What form of carbon was first isolated by Dr Andire Geim and Kostya Novoselov of Manchester University - ts development earned them a Nobel Prize in 2010?
Answer: graphene
Question: In Malay it means muddy estuary; what is the capital of Malaysia?
Answer: kuala lumpur
Question: Which film and TV actress is the daughter of Dame Diana Rigg?
Answer: rachel stirling
Question: Which French author wrote the 1850 adventure story The Black Tulip ?
Answer: alexandre dumas
Question: In the Bible who was “comforted” by Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar?
Answer: job
Question: In the 2013 film, who played The Railway Man’ of the title?
Answer: colin firth
Question: What was the last Space Shuttle to orbit the Earth, doing so on the 21st July 2011?
Answer: atlantis
Question: Who was the leader and pianist of the group ‘Brasil 66’?
Answer: sergio mendes
Question: Which town is on the A6 almost midway between Buxton and Matlock?
Answer: bakewell
Question: For which Rugby Union club does Leigh Halfpenny play?
Answer: toulon
Question: According to Shakespeare which king rode a horse called ‘White Surrey’?
Answer: richard iii
Question: Which French singer/songwriter and former model is married to Nicolas Sarkozy and was romantically linked to Mick Jagger in the early 1990s?
Answer: carla bruni
Question: In the Washington Irving short story, for how many years did Rip van Winkle sleep in the Catskill Mountains?
Answer: twenty
Question: Leon Frank Czolgosz assassinated which US president in 1901?
Answer: william mckinley
Question: Which company -whose factory was in North London-made the standard 303 British Army issue rifle?
Answer: lee enfield
Question: On television who played Dr Elizabeth Corday in the medical drama ER, and River Song in Dr Who?
Answer: alex kingston
Question: What was the Christian name of the Bond villain Goldfinger?
Answer: auric
Question: Appearing for the first time in 1946, who, l say who, was the rooster featured in a series of Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons?
Answer: foghorn leghorn
Question: Henri IV was the first French king of which House in 1589?
Answer: bourbon
Question: Buckminster-Fullerene, made up of spheres of 60 atoms is an allotrope of which element?
Answer: carbon
Question: Which Rolling Stones 1964 No.1 hit was a cover of a 1956 blues recording made by Howlin’ Wolf?
Answer: little red rooster
Question: There are 4 novels (as opposed to short stories) featuring Sherlock Holmes; A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and which other?
Answer: valley of fear
Question: David Frost was once married to which of Peter Sellers four wives?
Answer: lynn frederick
Question: Go Set a Watchman is a sequel to which famous book?
Answer: to kill mockingbird
Question: Which group in 1994 released the live Album “Hell Freezes Over”?
Answer: eagles
Question: In January 1984 Michael Jackson suffered 2nd degree burns whilst making a commercial for which company?
Answer: pepsi cola
Question: Gracepoint is the US version of which British drama series?
Answer: broadchurch
Question: Which Booker prize winning writer wrote the slogan “That’ll do nicely” for American Express?
Answer: salman rushdie
Question: Who was the owner of Manchester’s Hacienda Club and Factory Records?
Answer: tony wilson
Question: Into what was Daphne changed as a means of avoiding the advances of the God Apollo?
Answer: laurel tree
Question: In which war was Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida set?
Answer: trojan
Question: Which composer founded the institution now known as the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig in 1843?
Answer: mendelssohn
Question: Tom Wilkinson played Lyndon Baines Johnson in which 2014 film?
Answer: selma