CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet 'Petrushka'?
Answer: stravinsky
Question: Who wrote 'The Carpet People', 'Hogfather', 'The Last Continent', 'Men At Arms', and 'Mote'?
Answer: terry pratchett
Question: Which English soccer team are nicknamed 'The Hornets'?
Answer: watford
Question: In the Falklands War, which ship was the flagship of the Royal Navy Task Force?
Answer: h m s hermes
Question: Catherine Zeta Jones has a million pound per year contract with which cosmetics company?
Answer: elizabeth arden
Question: Into which river did a US airliner crash land in January of this year (2009)?
Answer: hudson
Question: What was the former name of 'The Spice Girls'?
Answer: touch
Question: What is the name of the mouthpiece on most woodwind instruments?
Answer: reed
Question: Which element-atomic number 14-is the second most abundant element in the earth's crust?
Answer: silicon
Question: Which London museum occupies part of the old Bethlehem Royal Hospital?
Answer: imperial war museum
Question: Who was the last World Heavyweight Boxing champion born in Great Britain?
Answer: lennox lewis
Question: Which pop singer played the part of 'Pauline Mole' in 'The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole'?
Answer: lulu
Question: Which 'palace' is located in Muswell Hill, London?
Answer: alexandra palace
Question: What is the medical namefor hives, or nettle rash?
Answer: urticaria
Question: Which English portrait painter, who lived from 1610 to 1646, succeeded Van Dyck as Court Painterto the exiled Charles II?
Answer: william dobson
Question: In America, which 'UP' is the largest freight railroad company?
Answer: union pacific
Question: Which 1954 film starring Ava Gardner and Humphrey Bogart, was about a Spanish dancer who becomes a Hollywood film star?
Answer: barefoot contessa
Question: Lee Marvin had a number one hit record with 'Wanderin' Star' in 1970, but which actor had a minor hit with the flipside - 'I Talk To The Trees'?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: What type of bomber dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945?
Answer: boeing b 29 superfortress
Question: Which French realist painter, who lived from 1814 - 1875, specialised in peasant life?
Answer: jean millet
Question: Which 1963 film starring Shirley Maclaine and Jack Lemmon was about a Paris policeman who falls in love with a prostitute, and becomes her minder?
Answer: irma la douce
Question: Which politician said of Margaret Thatcher, "She's the best man in England"?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: 'Herod', 'John the Baptist' and 'Nawabath' are characters in which opera by Richard Strauss?
Answer: salome
Question: 'Adallo', 'Fenena' and 'Abigaillon' are characters in which opera by Verdi?
Answer: nabucco
Question: What is the better known name of the 'ERW' or 'Enhanced Radiation Weapon'?
Answer: neutron bomb
Question: In Netball only two players can score a goal. One is Goal Shooter. Who is the other?
Answer: goal attack
Question: Which Cheshire constituency has been represented in Parliament by Neil Hamilton, Martin Bell and George Osbourne?
Answer: tatton
Question: In 'Coronation Street' which family has, over the years, included 'Valerie', 'Frank', 'Susan' and 'Peter'?
Answer: barlow
Question: Who was the leader of the Labour Party in Britain from 1980 to 1983?
Answer: michael foot
Question: Whose first solo number one single was 'Careless Whisper'?
Answer: george michael
Question: Which film, for which Carey Mulligan won a Best Actress BAFTA, is based on the memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber?
Answer: education
Question: Which oratorio by Joseph Haydn takes place over seven days, is in three parts, with the third part set in the 'Garden of Eden'?
Answer: creation
Question: Which musical that debuted in London in March is set in 'Phantasma', an attraction in Coney Island, New York?
Answer: love never dies
Question: In which European city can you visit Tiergarten Schonbrunn (Schonbrunn Zoo)?
Answer: vienna
Question: Who was the author of the 'Alan Quatermain' series and the 'Ayesha' series of novels, who was born on June 22nd. 1856?
Answer: h rider haggard
Question: Which of the Halogens, with the atomic number 17, is missing from - Flourine, Bromine, Iodine and Astatine?
Answer: chlorine
Question: In which Shakespeare comedy does 'Theseus' speak the opening line: "Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws apace"?
Answer: midsummer night s dream
Question: In which English city can you catch a tram at stops called Leppings Lane, Fitzalan Square/Ponds Forge and Attercliffe?
Answer: sheffield
Question: Which Yorkshireman is the longest serving male 'Blue Peter' presenter with over 12 years?
Answer: john noakes
Question: How are 'Jean de Dinteville' and 'Georges de Selve' referred to in the title of a 1553 Holbein painting?
Answer: ambassadors
Question: Which Shakespeare tragedy opens with a Prologue beginning: "Two households, both alike in dignity. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene"?
Answer: romeo juliet
Question: Who was the President of A.C. Milan Football Club from 1986 to 2004?
Answer: silvio berlusconi
Question: Which of the alkali metals, with the atomic number 19 is missing from - Lithium, Sodium, Rubidium, Caesium and Francium?
Answer: potassium
Question: Who painted the early sixteenth century triptych 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'?
Answer: hieronymous bosch
Question: On which TV show was Judith Hann the longest serving presenter, with over 20 years?
Answer: tomorrow s world
Question: On which sport did 'Whispering Ted Lowe' commentate on TV?
Answer: snooker
Question: In which religious denomination does 'Aldersgate Day' celebrate the day (24/05/1738) when John Wesley experienced his conversion in a meeting room in Aldersgate Street, London?
Answer: methodism
Question: In which Irish province are the counties of Cork, Waterford and Kerry?
Answer: munster
Question: Who wrote 'Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes', published in 1917?
Answer: beatrix potter
Question: In which 1956 film does Kirk Douglas play Vincent van Gogh?
Answer: lust for life
Question: Which German author, most famous for his anti-war novel 'All Quiet On The Western Front', was born on June 22nd. 1898?
Answer: erich maria remarque
Question: Who is the BBC Radio 2 commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: ken bruce
Question: Which BBC journalist was awarded the Golden Nymph Award at the Monte Carlo Festival in 1984 for his reports from Ethiopia?
Answer: michael buerk
Question: In which country was Daniel Libeskind, architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin born?
Answer: poland
Question: Who wrote the children's book 'Green Eggs And Ham', published in 1960?
Answer: dr seuss
Question: By what name do the Italians know the city of Florence?
Answer: firenze
Question: In Basketball, what is the term for the offence of carrying the ball for too many steps without dribbling?
Answer: travelling
Question: Who was the leader of the Liberal Party in Britain from 1967 to 1976?
Answer: jeremy thorpe
Question: Whose first solo number one single was 'When You Say Nothing At All'?
Answer: ronan keating
Question: If the names of the 'Spice Girls' (eg ‘Baby Spice’) are arranged alphabetically, which is the last?
Answer: sporty
Question: Which is the third largest island in Italy after Sicily and Sardinia?
Answer: elba
Question: Which Salford born comedian and sausage maker used the catchphrase "Right Monkey"?
Answer: al read
Question: What was the nickname of Ethiopian athlete Miruts Yifter?
Answer: yifter shifter
Question: Who directed the 1994 film 'Pulp Fiction'?
Answer: quentin tarantino
Question: Give the more common name for the plant, the Cranesbill?
Answer: geranium
Question: Which of Shakespeare's plays is set in Ephesus?
Answer: comedy of errors
Question: What is the popular name for the plant Convallaria majalis?
Answer: lily of valley
Question: What is the capital of the Southern African country of Botswana?
Answer: gaborone
Question: '.uk' is the network identifier for the United Kingdom. Which country uses the identifier '.jp'?
Answer: japan
Question: Which all-girl group had a hit with the song 'Lost In Music'?
Answer: sister sledge
Question: Which Conservative Party leader was once editor of the 'Church Times'?
Answer: edward heath
Question: Who wrote the song 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone'?
Answer: pete seeger
Question: Who directed the 2008 film 'Slumdog Millionaire'?
Answer: danny boyle
Question: Which actress, who died in 2002, played the part of 'Madame Edith Artois' in the TV series 'Allo, Allo'?
Answer: carmen silvera
Question: If micro is the S.I. prefix for '10 to the power of minus 6', which is the prefix for '10 to the 6th'?
Answer: mega
Question: Which town was the birthplace of the actor David Garrick?
Answer: lichfield
Question: What is added to Vermouth and Whisky to make a 'Manhattan' cocktail?
Answer: dash of bitters
Question: Which Conservative Party chairman was the son of actress Dinah Sheridan?
Answer: jeremy hanley
Question: In which British city are the areas Sneiton, Lenton and Colwick?
Answer: nottingham
Question: '.uk' is the network identifier for the United Kingdom. Which country uses the identifier '.za'?
Answer: south africa
Question: From which Disney animated picture does the song 'Circle Of Life' come?
Answer: lion king
Question: Which group had a top ten hit with the song 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me'?
Answer: travis
Question: What is the theatre equivalent of the US film industry's 'Oscar'?
Answer: tony
Question: Who did Arthur Bremer shoot and paralyse in an assassination attempt during the US Presidential Election of 1972?
Answer: george wallace
Question: Which 'A-road' connects London to Holyhead?
Answer: a5
Question: Which artist painted the picture, 'The Resurrection In Cookham Churchyard'?
Answer: stanley spencer
Question: What is the more common name of Allspice, a member of the Myrtle family?
Answer: pimento
Question: What is the state capital of North Carolina, sharing its name with the surname of a famous historical figure?
Answer: raleigh
Question: Which chain store founded by Terence Conran opened its first outlet in Chelsea in 1964?
Answer: habitat
Question: In which sport were the Bregamasco brothers, Mirco and Mauro stalwarts for Italy?
Answer: rugby union
Question: Who played the title role in the film 'Carry On, Columbus'?
Answer: jim dale
Question: The 'Bushwackers' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which London club?
Answer: millwall
Question: What is the state capital of North Dakota sharing its name with the surname of a famous historical figure?
Answer: bismark
Question: In the animated television cartoons, who was the partner of the Moose 'Bullwinkle'?
Answer: rocky
Question: Can you identify the play by William Shakespeare in which the quote: "If music be the food of love, play on" appears?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: Can you identify the play by William Shakespeare i which the quote; "Cowards die many times before their deaths" comes from?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: Aston Merrigold first entered the pop charts as a member of which boy band?
Answer: jls
Question: Nick Carter first entered the pop charts as a member of which boy band?
Answer: backstreet boys
Question: In the animated television cartoons who was the partner of the 'Morocco Mole'?
Answer: secret squirrel
Question: Which country issues a 10 Euro cents coin showing St. Stephens cathedral?
Answer: austria
Question: Which motor manufacturer produced the 'Scimitar' sports car?
Answer: reliant
Question: Her Roman equivalent was Diana, but who was the Greek goddess who was the virgin goddess of hunting?
Answer: artemis
Question: The 'Inter City Firm' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which London club?
Answer: west ham
Question: What is the name of 'Gandalf's' horse in the 'Lord Of The Rings' trilogy?
Answer: shadowfax
Question: In which novel is 'Nick Carroway' the narrator?
Answer: great gatsby
Question: The first two speakers in which Shakespeare play are Aegeon, a merchant of Syracuse, and Solinus, Duke of Ephesus?
Answer: comedy of errors
Question: Who composed the orchestral work “Danse Macabre”?
Answer: camile saint saens
Question: What was the first name of Rigsby in Rising Damp?
Answer: rupert
Question: For which party did Lan “Howling Laud” Hope receive 197 votes in the recent South Shields by-election?
Answer: monster raving loony party
Question: Which Nobel Prize has been won by William Ramsay, Fritz Haber and Otto Hahn?
Answer: chemistry
Question: The badge of West Bromwich Albion FC contains a bird together with the fruit and leaves of which shrub or small tree?
Answer: hawthorn
Question: Who directed the 2012 film Les Miserables?
Answer: tom hooper
Question: The Isle of Axholme, now crossed by the M180 motorway, is part of which traditional English county?
Answer: lincolnshire
Question: Burl Ives played “Big Daddy” in the original 1955 Broadway cast of which play?
Answer: cat on hot tin roof
Question: Which programme is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 10.45pm and 11.00pm each weekday evening?
Answer: book at bedtime
Question: Which co-founder of Hat-Trick Productions and a regular pundit on “They Think It’s All Over” wrote the 2008 book “Bearded Tit”?
Answer: rory mcgrath
Question: What is the family name of the Dukes of Westminster?
Answer: grosvenor
Question: Harlech Castle was built during the reign of which king?
Answer: edward i
Question: Born in Delft in 1632, he painted small detailed domestic scenes notable for their treatment of various tones of daylight. Who was he?
Answer: jan vermeer
Question: “A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms” is the fourth part of which literary work?
Answer: gulliver s travels
Question: Born in Paris in 1848, he pained many pictures of Polynesian life and died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903. Who was he?
Answer: paul gaugin
Question: What is the name of the consumer affairs programme broadcast on Radio 4 from 12.04pm each weekday?
Answer: you and yours
Question: Justin Timberlake has spent three weeks at number one this year with which song from the album “The 20/20 Experience”?
Answer: mirrors
Question: Who plays Madame Thenardier in the 2012 film Les Miserables?
Answer: helena bonham carter
Question: Charles VI, who ruled France from 1380 until his death in 1422, was a member of which royal house?
Answer: valois
Question: In which country were Nobel Prize winners Alan MacDiarmid, Maurice Wilkins and Ernest Rutherford born?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which element is between Uranium and Plutonium in the Periodic Table?
Answer: neptunium
Question: Stefan Gordy, a son of the founder of Motown Records, is known by which colourful stage name?
Answer: redfoo
Question: The first two speakers in which Shakespeare play are a shipmaster and a boatswain?
Answer: tempest
Question: Which is the main city in the New Zealand region of Canterbury?
Answer: christchurch
Question: Spain ceded Florida to Britain in the 1763 Treaty of Paris which ended which war? (The name by which it is known in Britain is required)
Answer: seven years war
Question: The first by-election of this Parliament was in January 2011 in …….. East and Saddleworth. Which town completes the name of the constituency?
Answer: oldham
Question: In 1993, who was the last Australian golfer to win the Open Championship?
Answer: greg norman
Question: In which African country does 100 pesetas equal 1 cedi?
Answer: ghana
Question: Whose statue in Merrion Square, Dublin is known to irreverent Dubliners as “The Fag on the Crag”?
Answer: oscar wilde
Question: Firenze (Florence) is the capital city of which Italian region?
Answer: tuscany
Question: Madeline Bray married which eponymous character in a Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: nicholas nickleby
Question: Who composed the songs “Old Folks at Home” and “Beautiful Dreamer”?
Answer: stephen foster
Question: Which British coin, first minted in 1817, is still being minted and is still legal tender but nowadays is minted for the Indian market?
Answer: gold sovereign
Question: If you ordered Homard in a French restaurant what shellfish would you be served?
Answer: lobster
Question: Which former leader of the Lib Dems was the MP for Yeovil?
Answer: paddy ashdown
Question: Which song was a top 40 hit for Soft Cell in 1981 and for Marilyn Manson in 2002?
Answer: tainted love
Question: In which Isle of Wight town can you find the History of Smuggling Museum/
Answer: ventnor
Question: Who said on splitting from Mick Jagger “I’m sure he can find someone else to be unfaithful to soon”?
Answer: jerry hall
Question: Which song was a hit for both Nilsson in 1972 and Maria Carey in 1994?
Answer: without you
Question: The town of Leek is situated in which English county?
Answer: staffordshire
Question: Which king did Henry Bolingbroke depose and then succees as Henry IV in 1399?
Answer: richard ii
Question: What name is given to the smallest species of hummingbird, it being names after the insect it is closest in size to?
Answer: bee hummingbird
Question: Which former leader of the Lib Dems is the MP for North East Fife?
Answer: menzies campbell
Question: Known as “England’s Darling”, who led resistance against William the Conqueror on the isle of Ely in 1070?
Answer: hereward wake
Question: In “Far from the Madding Crowd” who became Bathsheba Everdene’s first Husband?
Answer: sergeant troy
Question: Which European city was called Christiania frm 1624-1925?
Answer: oslo
Question: The town of Oswestry is in which English county?
Answer: shropshire
Question: Who starred in the TV series “Nice Guy Eddie” as a Liverpool private investigator?
Answer: ricky tomlinson
Question: What is thye common name of the plant Myosotis?
Answer: forget me not
Question: Which comedian and actor presents the Radio 4 programme “The Unbelievable Truth”?
Answer: david mitchell
Question: Which is the third inhabited island in the group with Malta and Gozo?
Answer: comino
Question: What name is given to Canada’s newest territory, created in 1999 , offering some self-determination to the Inuit people?
Answer: nunavut
Question: Which former province of North West India has the tributaries Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej?
Answer: punjab
Question: Which book of the Old Testament, other than Exodus, includes the story of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments?
Answer: deuteronomy
Question: Which striking building in the Manchester area has been designed by architect Daniel Libeskind?
Answer: imperial war museum north
Question: What is the capital of the French region of Picardy?
Answer: amiens
Question: Who played the roles of 'Verbal Klint' and 'Kaiser Sauzer'in the film 'The Usual Suspects'?
Answer: kevin spacey
Question: Who played the role of 'Jools' in the film 'Pulp Fiction'?
Answer: samuel l jackson
Question: Who partnered Robert Palmer as lead vocalist in the 1970'sband 'Vinegar Joe'?
Answer: elkie brooks
Question: Who played the part of 'Mrs. Onedin' in the TV series 'The Onedin Line'?
Answer: anne stallybrass
Question: In which American city do the 'Wizards' play Basketball?
Answer: washington
Question: At which port on the British mainland would you land if you caught a ferry at Yarmouth, I.O.W.?
Answer: lymington
Question: The airline 'Maersk Air' are based in which European city?
Answer: denmark
Question: The quarter day Michaelmas occurs on which date of the year?
Answer: 29th september
Question: In which north of Englandcity is 'Hallam FM' radio station situated?
Answer: sheffield
Question: Which Israeli Prime Minister was assassinated in Tel Aviv in 1995?
Answer: yitzhak rabin
Question: What is the common name for the bird Sturnus vulgaris?
Answer: starling
Question: What is the capital of the French region of Limousin?
Answer: limoges
Question: Who painted 'Rocky Mountains And Tired Indians', found in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh?
Answer: david hockney
Question: Who designed the 'Queen's House' at Greenwich, in the early 17th century?
Answer: inigo jones
Question: After the 'Crucifixion' in whose tomb was Jesus buried?
Answer: joseph of arimathea
Question: In Shakespeare's 'Two Gentlemen Of Verona', which character hasa servant called 'Speed'?
Answer: valentine
Question: Who played the part of the cook 'Mrs Bridges', in the TV series 'Upstairs, Downstairs'?
Answer: angela baddeley
Question: After Jesus had fallen on his way to Calvary, who helped himcarry his cross?
Answer: simon of cyrene
Question: In Einstein's e=mc ,what does the 'c' represent?
Answer: speed of light
Question: Ian Gillian and Dave Coverdale were both lead singers with which rock group?
Answer: deep purple
Question: Which oil tanker was wrecked off the Galapagos Islands in January 2001?
Answer: jessica
Question: Which TV series grew from sketches on the Jasper Carrot shows, and featured Robert Powell?
Answer: detectives
Question: Which Brazilian World Cup star was known as "the little bird"?
Answer: garrincha
Question: Which American General led the 'Confederate' armies in their early run of successes during the Civil War?
Answer: stonewall jackson
Question: Who was the actress who played the female equivalent of the "bionic man"?
Answer: lindsay wagner
Question: What are, 'Oarweed', 'Furbelows' and 'Dabberlocks', types of?
Answer: seaweed
Question: In which city might you make regular journeys on a 'Vaporetti'?
Answer: venice
Question: Which pop group's first album was 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'?
Answer: pink floyd
Question: In the Irish ballad, what did the 'Mountains of Mourne' do?
Answer: sweep down to sea
Question: Which opera house is found in New York's "Lincoln Centre"?
Answer: metropolitan opera house
Question: How many teeth are there in the first set of human 'milk' teeth?
Answer: twenty
Question: What was Cleo Laine's job when she first met Johnny Dankworth?
Answer: apprentice hairdresser
Question: Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and who, made up the rock band 'Queen'?
Answer: john deacon
Question: What is the name of the Kenyan game reserve set on the Serengeti Plain?
Answer: masai mara
Question: The matriach of the Kennedy family died in January 1995 at the age of 104, what was her name?
Answer: rose
Question: According to Irish mythology, which great warrior was responsible for the building of the 'Giant's Causeway' to link the shores of Scotland and Ireland?
Answer: finn mccool
Question: Which political group imposed dictatoriship in France after the revolution?
Answer: jacobins
Question: What was the name of the Kennedy brother who died in World War II, when his plane exploded while on a mission?
Answer: joseph
Question: Who introduced the science of psychoanalysis, the investigation of the unconscious mind?
Answer: siegmund freud
Question: 'Gunfight At The OK Corral' in 1957, Burt Lancaster stars as 'Wyatt Earp'. Who stars as 'Doc Halliday'?
Answer: kirk douglas
Question: In the film 'Tombstone', Kurt Russell plays Wyatt Earp. Who plays 'Doc Halliday'?
Answer: val kilmer
Question: O.J. Simpson's trial for murder monopolised the American media. What was his wife's name?
Answer: nicole
Question: What name is given to the joint at which leaves are borne on a stem?
Answer: node
Question: Which Polish astronomer put forward the theory that the earth revolved around the sun?
Answer: copernicus
Question: What name is generally given to unglazed porcelain?
Answer: biscuit
Question: From which country does the domesticated cat 'The Ragdoll' originate?
Answer: u s
Question: Which American President broadcast 'Fireside Chats' to the American people in the 1930's?
Answer: franklin d roosevelt
Question: St. Peter was the leader of the 'Apostles', he was given this name by Jesus. What did it mean?
Answer: rock
Question: From which country does 'Belleek' porcelain come?
Answer: northern ireland
Question: Which East German ice skater was 1984 Olympic Champion and by 1990 had won four World Titles?
Answer: katarina witt
Question: What was the name of Christopher Columbus' flagship on his expedition of 1492?
Answer: santa maria
Question: Which novelist when working for the Post Office was responsible for the introduction of the pillar box into Britain?
Answer: anthony trollope
Question: Tony Brittain and Nigel Havers played father and son doctors in which TV comedy series?
Answer: don t wait up
Question: Which Spanish 'conquistador' burnt his fleet off the coast of Mexico in order to stop his men deserting?
Answer: hernando cortez