CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the name of the highly toxic protein obtained from the pressed seeds of the castor oil plant?
Answer: ricin
Question: Which former British Prime Minister played cricket for Middlesex?
Answer: sir alec douglas home
Question: What is  the name of the dog in the children’s tv programme ‘The Herbs’?
Answer: dill
Question: What is the name of the official Scottish residence of the British monarch?
Answer: palace of holyroodhouse
Question: Convict George Joseph Smith was known as the ‘Brides in the ‘what’ murderer’?
Answer: bath
Question: Which US author wrote the novel ‘Get Shorty’?
Answer: elmore leonard
Question: In the human body, Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis is commonly known by what name?
Answer: hayfever
Question: Italian musician David Rizzio was private secretary to which British monarch?
Answer: mary queen of scots
Question: Who was World Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1919 to 1926?
Answer: jack dempsey
Question: How many players are on the field at one time in a men’s lacrosse team?
Answer: ten
Question: What is the name  of the dark, dense German bread made from coarsely ground rye?
Answer: pumpernickel
Question: Asturias, Aragon and Murcia are regions in which European country?
Answer: spain
Question: ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’ was written by which British author?
Answer: george orwell
Question: What was the name of the late King’s jester in Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’?
Answer: yorick
Question: Who assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
Answer: john wilkes booth
Question: Which is the only novel by Charles Dickens to have a female narrator (Esther Summerson)?
Answer: bleak house
Question: Which racing circuit held the 2011 British Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: silverstone
Question: Nancy Shevell married which English singer/songwriter in October 2011?
Answer: paul mccartney
Question: In August 2011 NASA announced that photographic evidence had been captured of possible liquid water of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: mars
Question: The Puyehue volcano erupted in which South American country in June 2011?
Answer: chile
Question: Which film won the 2011 Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film?
Answer: toy story 3
Question: An ‘E coli’ outbreak, said to be caused by bean sprouts, killed over 30 people in which European country in June 2011?
Answer: germany
Question: What is the title of the novel which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for Julian Barnes?
Answer: sense of ending
Question: What was the name of the hurricane which hit the East Coast of America in August 2011?
Answer: irene
Question: The 2011 IAAF World Championships in Athletics took place in which country?
Answer: south korea
Question: Which national team won the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup?
Answer: new zealand
Question: The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival was held in which country in January 2011?
Answer: china
Question: Which actress won the 2011 Best Actress Oscar for her role in the film ‘Black Swan’?
Answer: natalie portman
Question: What is the name of the Space Shuttle launched into orbit for the last time from the Kennedy Space Station in July 2011?
Answer: atlantis
Question: Which member of Take That replaced Simon Cowell as a judge on the British ‘X Factor’?
Answer: gary barlow
Question: On 11th March 2011 a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of which country?
Answer: japan
Question: Which British model married Jamie Hince in July 2011?
Answer: kate moss
Question: The day following Thanksgiving in the US, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, is called ‘What’ Friday?
Answer: black
Question: Which team won the 2011 US Super Bowl?
Answer: green bay packers
Question: During which month in 2011 was the 100th annual International Women’s Day?
Answer: march
Question: Which Glasgow-based sculptor, whose works include artificial trees and a leaning litter bin, won the 2011 Turner Prize?
Answer: martin boyce
Question: Which 2011 Nobel Prize was jointly awarded to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman?
Answer: nobel peace prize
Question: Which tennis player won the 2011 Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship?
Answer: novak djokovic
Question: On January 1st 2011, which country became the 17th Eurozone country, when it adopted the Euro as its currency?
Answer: estonia
Question: On 7th July 2011, the world’s first artificial organ transplant was achieved, using which artificial part of the body coated with stem cells?
Answer: windpipe
Question: Which English rock band released and album in March 2011 entitled ‘Build a Rocket Boys’?
Answer: elbow
Question: A contestant from which South American country won the 2011 ‘Miss World Contest’?
Answer: venezuela
Question: Which dictator returned to Haiti in January 2011, after an absence of two decades of self-imposed exile in France?
Answer: jean claude baby doc duvalier
Question: Which horse won the 2011 Grand National at Aintree?
Answer: ballabriggs
Question: British actress Susannah York, who died in January 2011, was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of Alice LeBlanc in which 1969 film?
Answer: they shoot horses don t they
Question: Who won the 2011 Formula One Grand Prix Championship?
Answer: sebastian vettel
Question: Kurt Waldheim, U Thant, Trygvie Lie and Boutros Boutros Ghali have all held which post?
Answer: secretary general of united nations
Question: In humans, the atlas and axis bones are found in which part of the body?
Answer: neck
Question: In cookery, what are ‘albondigas’?
Answer: meatballs
Question: School Master Thomas Gradgrind is a character in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: hard times
Question: Which playing card is known as ‘Hector’?
Answer: jack of diamonds
Question: Campolina, Gidran and Monchino are breeds of which animal?
Answer: horse
Question: What is the name of the US writer and lecturer who wrote ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’?
Answer: dale carnegie
Question: In the Bible, what sign did God give Noah that the earth would not be flooded again?
Answer: rainbow
Question: Which 1945 film was adapted from Noel Coward’s play ‘Still Life’?
Answer: brief encounter
Question: Grace Anna Goodhue was the wife of which US President?
Answer: calvin coolidge
Question: What was the name of Australian tv’s ‘Crocodile Hunter”?
Answer: steve irwin
Question: In medicine, ‘singultus’ is more commonly known as what type of involuntary action in humans?
Answer: hiccup
Question: What is the nickname of Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, the first Ghanian to compete in a Winter Olympic Games, in 2010?
Answer: snow leopard
Question: In which European city are the headquarters of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)?
Answer: vienna
Question: ‘Fidelio’ is the only opera written by which composer?
Answer: beethoven
Question: Who wrote the children’s book ‘The Snowman’?
Answer: raymond briggs
Question: Which English rugby union team play their home games at Vicarage Road?
Answer: saracens
Question: In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was the king of which Island?
Answer: cyprus
Question: Dr John Arbuthnot created which well-known cartoon character, which was used on World War I recruitment posters?
Answer: john bull
Question: Theo and Karl Albrecht were the original owners of which supermarket chain?
Answer: aldi
Question: George Cowling presented the first what on British television in 1954?
Answer: weather forecast
Question: Jerzy Buzek was elected Prime Minister of which European country in October 1997?
Answer: poland
Question: The regions of Bago, Magway and Yangon are in which Asian country?
Answer: burma myanmar
Question: Which US state is known as the ‘Hawkeye State’?
Answer: iowa
Question: Which opera did Guiseppe Verdi supposedly compose for the opening of the Suez Canal?
Answer: aida
Question: In the UK, who was the first female speaker of The House of Commons?
Answer: betty boothroyd
Question: In Arthurian legend, who was the faithful wife of Geraint?
Answer: enid
Question: What is the tune hummed by David Brent during his infamous dance routine in the UK tv series ‘The Office’?
Answer: disco inferno
Question: Eamon de Valera founded which political party in 1926?
Answer: fianna fail
Question: The islands of Bass and Pelee lie in which of North America’s Great Lakes?
Answer: lake erie
Question: In UK politics, who defeated Ted Heath in the Tory leadership campaign of 1975?
Answer: margaret thatcher
Question: Guadalupe Island, in the Pacific Ocean, belongs to which country?
Answer: mexico
Question: The Bridalveil Waterfall is in which US national park?
Answer: yosemite
Question: What is the name of Alan Alda’s character in the US tv series M*A*S*H?
Answer: hawkeye pierce
Question: Irish actress Mrs Dorothea Jordan was the mistress of which British monarch?
Answer: william iv
Question: Which female singer starred as Astrid Peth in the 2007 ‘Dr Who’ Christmas special?
Answer: kylie minogue
Question: Which writer invented the fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin?
Answer: edgar allan poe
Question: What is the name of the short-sleeved midriff-baring bodice worn under a sari?
Answer: choli
Question: Which professional golfer is known as ‘The Big Easy’?
Answer: ernie els
Question: Who directed the 2002 film ‘Minority Report’, which is set primarily in the year 2054?
Answer: steven spielberg
Question: The Corbillon Cup is played for by women in which sport?
Answer: table tennis
Question: In the UK, ‘The Trial of the …’what’, is the procedure for ensuring that newly minted coins conform to required standards?
Answer: pyx
Question: English monarch King John, who died in 1216, was the youngest son of which king?
Answer: henry ii
Question: John Patrick ‘Jack’ Ryan is a fictional character who appears in many novels by which author?
Answer: tom clancy
Question: Who wrote the opera ‘The Barber of Seville’?
Answer: gioachino rossini
Question: Which late actress played Elsie Tanner in the UK tv soap ‘Coronation Street’?
Answer: patricia phoenix
Question: Digambara and Svetambara are the two major sects in which religion?
Answer: jainism
Question: Illusionist Ehrich Weiss was better known by what name?
Answer: harry houdini
Question: What is the name of the headquarters of the US Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia?
Answer: pentagon
Question: The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in the history of which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Robert Timothy French created which type of condiment, which debuted at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904?
Answer: mustard
Question: In Greek mythology, musician and poet Arion was kidnapped by pirates and saved by which creatures?
Answer: dolphins
Question: Which US actor’s film company founded the Sundance Film Festival?
Answer: robert redford
Question: Who became the youngest World Heavyweight Boxing Champion in 1956?
Answer: floyd patterson
Question: Who was the first unseeded tennis player to win the Wimbledon Men’s Finals?
Answer: boris becker
Question: Which British comedian was known as ‘The Cheeky Chappie’?
Answer: max miller
Question: Which US organisation has the motto ‘Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity’?
Answer: fbi
Question: In Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ who does Beatrice agree to marry in the end?
Answer: benedick
Question: In religion, who traditionally sits on the Sedia Gestatoria?
Answer: pope
Question: In June 1940, who was officially recognised by Britain as the ‘Leader of all free Frenchmen, wherever they may be’?
Answer: general charles de gaulle
Question: What is composer Offenbach’s ‘Galop Infernal’ better known as?
Answer: can can
Question: Which two creatures are supporting the shield on the Australian coat of arms?
Answer: kangaroo and emu
Question: Which US First Lady had an English Springer Spaniel called Millie?
Answer: barbara bush
Question: Who was the first presenter of UK tv’s ‘National Lottery Live’ on 19th November 1994?
Answer: noel edmonds
Question: In medicine, Hansen’s Disease is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: leprosy
Question: Which athlete became ‘The world’s fastest man’ at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
Answer: usain bolt
Question: Beamer, Flipper and Rabbit are terms used in which sport?
Answer: cricket
Question: In May 1938, which South American country withdrew from the League of Nations?
Answer: chile
Question: The islands of Falster and Bornholm are part of which European country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Who wrote the children’s poem ‘How the Leopard Got His Spots’?
Answer: rudyard kipling
Question: Which American boxer was known as ‘The Manassa Mauler’?
Answer: jack dempsey
Question: Who directed the 1988 film ‘The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’?
Answer: terry gilliam
Question: Which island in the Ionian Sea has the Greek name Kerkira?
Answer: corfu
Question: Who created the comic strip ‘Blondie’, published in newspapers since 1930?
Answer: chic young
Question: In the game of Scrabble, how many points is a ‘D’ tile worth?
Answer: two
Question: Who wrote the 1936 novel ‘Jamaica Inn’?
Answer: daphne du maurier
Question: According to the Bible, what was the name of Noah’s second son?
Answer: ham
Question: At which temperature do Fahrenheit and Celsius meet?
Answer: 40 degrees
Question: Port-of-Spain is the capital of which Caribbean republic?
Answer: trinidad tobago
Question: Which famous British author used the pen name Mary Westmacott?
Answer: agatha christie
Question: What are the names of Peter Rabbit’s sisters in ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ by Beatrix Potter?
Answer: flopsy mopsy cottontail
Question: What are the name of the veins on each side of the neck which drain blood from the head and neck to larger veins passing to the heart?
Answer: jugular
Question: Who wrote the novel ‘The Invisible Man’, published in 1897?
Answer: h g wells
Question: In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungary throne, was assassinated in which Bosnian province?
Answer: sarajevo
Question: Which band’s 2007 album is entitled ‘Send Away the Tigers’?
Answer: manic street preachers
Question: Who directed the 1987 film ‘Full Metal Jacket’?
Answer: stanley kubrick
Question: The magazine Marie Claire was first published in 1937 in which country?
Answer: france
Question: Bridgeport is the largest city by population in which US state?
Answer: connecticut
Question: Army Day, the memorial day for the foundation of the People’s Liberation Army, is celebrated in China during which month of the year?
Answer: august
Question: What is the title of the film in which Joaquin Phoenix plays country music legend Johnny Cash?
Answer: walk line
Question: Digger, Plasterer and Orchid are all types of which creature?
Answer: bees
Question: Which two countries jointly hosted the 2002 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: south korea and japan
Question: In mathematics, whose theorem states that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal in area to the sum of the squares on the other two sides?
Answer: pythagoras
Question: Kopi Luwak coffee beans, the most expensive in the world, come from the dung of which animal, after it has partially digested the berries which contain the beans?
Answer: civet
Question: Which English monarch was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485?
Answer: richard iii
Question: Habib Bourguiba became the first President of which North African country in 1957?
Answer: tunisia
Question: Which Charles Dickens novel was set during the Gordon riots?
Answer: barnaby rudge
Question: Ricki Lake played the character Tracy Turnblad in which 1988 film?
Answer: hairspray
Question: Which date is Groundhog Day in the USA?
Answer: february 2nd
Question: What is the sediment at the bottom of a wine barrel called after fermentation?
Answer: lees
Question: Which singer plays Chicago police officer Sharon Pogue in the 2001 film ‘Angel Eyes’?
Answer: jennifer lopez
Question: Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud was the first king of which Asian state?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: Which tennis player won the 2011 Women’s Wimbledon Championship?
Answer: petra kvitova
Question: Which English sailor made the first solo voyage around the world by the clipper route?
Answer: sir francis chichester
Question: In Greek mythology, Boreas, Eurus, Notus and Zephryus were all what?
Answer: winds
Question: Enid Lyons was the first woman to be appointed to the federal cabinet in which country?
Answer: australia
Question: In the children’s tv series, what is the name of Bob the Builder’s cat?
Answer: pilchard
Question: Mr Barkis, Edward Murdstone and Tommy Traddles are all characters in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: david copperfield
Question: Vladimir Kramnik became World Champion in November 2000 in which game?
Answer: chess
Question: German army officer Erwin Rommel was known by what nickname?
Answer: desert fox
Question: The US tv show ‘All in the Family’ was based on which British tv sitcom?
Answer: till death us do part
Question: Effie Crockett was said to have composed which lullaby in 1886?
Answer: rock bye baby
Question: ‘Papaver’ is the Latin name for which flower?
Answer: poppy
Question: What was the first name of Russian monk Rasputin, who befriended Nicholas II and his family?
Answer: grigori
Question: Who wrote the ‘Canterbury Tales’ in the 14th Century?
Answer: geoffrey chaucer
Question: In which James Bond film did Rowan Atkinson make his film debut?
Answer: never say never again
Question: Which British musician hosts their Annual Hootenanny on television on New Year’s Eve?
Answer: jools holland
Question: Who wrote the children’s story ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’?
Answer: hans christian anderson
Question: What was the middle name of US Vice President Spiro Agnew?
Answer: theodore
Question: ‘Songs of Love’ by The Divine Comedy is the theme tune to which UK tv comedy series?
Answer: father ted
Question: Which Mediterranean island do Kevin and Perry holiday on in the 2000 film ‘Kevin and Perry Go Large’?
Answer: ibiza
Question: What is the medical term for abnormally low blood pressure?
Answer: hypotension
Question: Cassandra, Grizabella and Skimbleshanks are all characters in which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?
Answer: cats
Question: In the game ‘Mortal Kombat’, what phrase is heard when Scorpion uses his spear?
Answer: get over here
Question: In video gaming, what is the name of the princess whom Mario repeatedly stops Bowser from kidnapping?
Answer: princess peach
Question: What is the name of the gang member that video game ‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ revolves around?
Answer: carl cj johnson
Question: How many square blocks is each game piece composed of in the game of ‘Tetris’?
Answer: four
Question: What is the name of the fictional English archaeologist in the game ‘Tomb Raider’?
Answer: lara croft
Question: In the game ‘Doom’, which planet is the space marine posted to after assaulting his commanding officer?
Answer: mars
Question: Who plays Mario Mario in the 1993 film ‘Super Mario Bros’?
Answer: bob hoskins
Question: Which Playstation 2 game, released in 2003, was banned by several countries and implicated by the media in a murder, due to its graphic violence?
Answer: manhunt
Question: Launched in North America in 1998 Playstation game’s opening song is a Chemical Brothers remix of the Manic Street Preachers song ‘Everything Must Go’?
Answer: gran turismo
Question: ‘Black Ops’ is the subtitle of which game?
Answer: call of duty
Question: Pikachu is one of the species of creatures in which series of games?
Answer: pokemon
Question: Jumpman’s goal is to save the Lady from the giant ape in which 1981 arcade game?
Answer: donkey kong
Question: Who played the title role in the 1971 film ‘Klute’?
Answer: donald sutherland
Question: Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and Lady Margaret Beaufort were the parents of which Engllish monarch?
Answer: henry vii
Question: Red Max, Professor Pat Pending and Blubber Bear are characters in which children’s tv series?
Answer: wacky races
Question: Edouard Daladier became Prime Minister of which country in 1933?
Answer: france
Question: Ascham, Clout and Limbs are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: archery
Question: Which British author and campaigner for women’s rights, born in 1880, was a pioneer of birth control?
Answer: marie stopes
Question: The Pontipines and the Tombliboos appear in which UK children’s tv programme?
Answer: in night garden
Question: What is the name of the sea which lies between the Philippines and Borneo?
Answer: sulu sea
Question: Singer Sertab Erener won the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest for which country?
Answer: turkey
Question: In the Bible, what are the names of the two cities destroyed by God for their sins?
Answer: sodom and gomorrah
Question: What is the name of the sharp-toothed wheel inserted into the end of a spur?
Answer: rowel
Question: What is name of cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants pet snail?
Answer: gary
Question: Pico da Neblina is the highest mountain in which South American country?
Answer: brazil
Question: Who did actress Marilyn Monroe marry in January 1954?
Answer: joe dimaggio
Question: Who composed ‘Water Music’ in 1717?
Answer: george frederic handel
Question: What is the name of the absent-minded inventor in the 1968 film ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’?
Answer: caractacus potts
Question: Which chemical element does ‘Li’ represent in the Periodic Table?
Answer: lithium
Question: Reggie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica were members of which fictional band?
Answer: archies
Question: Which country is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest and Cambodia to the southwest?
Answer: vietnam
Question: Basque, Aranese and Galician are all languages spoken in which European country?
Answer: spain
Question: What is the name of the light porous form of solidified lava used a skin abrasive?
Answer: pumice
Question: A surgeon would perform brachioplasty on which part of the body?
Answer: arms
Question: In astronomy, ‘The Big Dipper’ is another name for which constellation?
Answer: plough
Question: Which World War II battle was officially known as ‘The Ardennes Offensive’?
Answer: battle of bulge
Question: In England and Wales, what is the date of the legal birthday for someone born on 29th February?
Answer: 1st march
Question: In which Gilbert and Sullivan opera does Frederic only count his Leap Year birthdays, so his apprenticeship would not end until he is in his eighties?
Answer: pirates of penzance
Question: People born on 29th February have which Zodiac sign?
Answer: pisces
Question: The town of Anthony in which US state was known as ‘The Leap Year Capital of the World’?
Answer: texas
Question: In which country in the UK did it used to be considered unlucky to be born on a Leap Day?
Answer: scotland
Question: Babies born on 29th February are known as what?
Answer: leaplings
Question: Sadie Hawkins Day, usually celebrated in the US on 29th February, is named after a character in which Al Capp comic strip?
Answer: li l abner
Question: Which Roman Emperor was said to be behind the origin of the Leap Year?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: Who played the role of dance instructor, Mrs Wilkinson, in the 2000 film Billy Elliot?
Answer: julie walters
Question: Which English snooker player is nicknamed ‘The Rocket’?
Answer: ronnie o sullivan
Question: Which word represents the letter ‘E’ in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?
Answer: echo
Question: Who played the role of Mrs Lovett in the 2007 film ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’?
Answer: helena bonham carter
Question: Late opera singer Luciano Pavarotti was born in which Italian city?
Answer: modena
Question: Which popular board game was originally called ‘Criss Cross Words’?
Answer: scrabble
Question: What was the name of Jim Carrey’s pet Jack Russell Terrier in the 1994 film ‘The Mask’?
Answer: milo
Question: What is the name of the Tropic which lies approximately 23.5 degrees south of the Equator and runs through Australia, Chile, Brazil and South Africa?
Answer: tropic of capricorn
Question: Who was the original presenter of the UK tv show ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’?
Answer: mark lamarr
Question: Apart from the moon, which planet in our solar system is the brightest natural object in the night sky?
Answer: venus
Question: Aquae Sulis was the Roman name for which English city?
Answer: bath
Question: Balestra, Derobement and Florentine are terms used in which sport?
Answer: fencing