CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who wrote the novel 'The White Queen', on which the BBC TV series is based?
Answer: philippa gregory
Question: Who released an album in 2013 called simply 'New'?
Answer: paul mccartney
Question: In the nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence', what was the queen eating?
Answer: bread and honey
Question: In the Sermon on the Mount, what was promised to the poor?
Answer: kingdom of heaven
Question: Portia Simpson-Miller was sworn in as Prime Minister of which country in January 2012?
Answer: jamaica
Question: In the nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence', what pecked off the maid's nose?
Answer: blackbird
Question: Through which organ does food pass from the mouth through the pharynx to the stomach?
Answer: oesophagus
Question: What was the name of the boat that included Ben Ainslie in its crew that came from 8-1 down to win the America's Cup 9-8?
Answer: oracle
Question: Which Greek hero was husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laertes and Anticlea?
Answer: odysseus
Question: Which US state was the title of a no. 1 hit for the Bee Gees in 1967?
Answer: massachusetts
Question: Which US state was the title of a no. 1 hit for Pussycat in 1976?
Answer: mississippi
Question: Which Greek hero was the son of the nymph Thetis, and Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons?
Answer: achilles
Question: Which muscle separates the thoracic cavity (heart, lungs & ribs) from the abdominal cavity?
Answer: diaphragm
Question: Which 1914 battle was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force, delaying the German advance?
Answer: mons
Question: What is the name of the Greenpeace ship involved in protests at the Gazprom oilrig in the Pechora Sea in September 2013?
Answer: arctic sunrise
Question: At which venue did Civil Service FC lose an amateur league match 2-1 to Polytechnic FC early in the 2013-14 season?
Answer: buckingham palace
Question: David McCallum played the character Illya Kuryakin in which TV series?
Answer: man from uncle
Question: Name the author of the Jack Ryan series of books who died in 2013?
Answer: tom clancy
Question: Which music is traditionally played as the final encore at the New Year's Day concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra?
Answer: radetzky march
Question: Which author, whose books included 'A Song of Stone', 'Espedair Street' and 'Whit', died in 2013?
Answer: iain banks
Question: David McCallum played the character Dr Daniel Westin in which TV series?
Answer: invisible man
Question: What is the surname of the three brothers selected in the England Rugby League squad for the 2013 World Cup?
Answer: burgess
Question: Who assassinated Mahatma Ghandi on 306 January 1948?
Answer: nathuram godse
Question: Which organisation won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: organisation for prohibition of chemical weapons
Question: Who was assassinated by Yigal Amir on 4th November 1995?
Answer: yitzhak rabin
Question: Brown Panther, the winner of the Goodwood Cup in 2013, is owned by which ex-footballer?
Answer: michael owen
Question: Which Greek hero was the son of King Telamon of Salamis?
Answer: ajax
Question: On 'Super Saturday' Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah won athletics gold for Team GB, who was the third gold medalist on the day?
Answer: greg rutherford
Question: In 2012, which female Paralympian won 4 gold medals in cycling to add to the 7 golds from previous games she won for swimming? She was awarded a DBE in December 2012.
Answer: sarah storey
Question: Give the surname of the brothers who won gold and bronze in the triathlon for Team GB?
Answer: brownlee
Question: The Beatrix Potter Gallery, run by the National Trust, is in which Lake District village?
Answer: hawkshead
Question: Which artist did Valerie Solanas shoot and wound in New York in 1968?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: The title of the Agatha Christie story The Mirror Cracked comes from which poem by Tennyson?
Answer: lady of shallot
Question: Sharing its name with another name for the city of Troy, what is the largest bone in the pelvis called?
Answer: ilium
Question: In which city would you find the Charles River, Fenway Park and the ship USS Constitution?
Answer: boston
Question: The Danube flows through 4 capital European capital cities: Budapest, Vienna, Belgrade and which other?
Answer: bratislava
Question: The Java Sea is bound by Java to the south and which island to the north?
Answer: borneo
Question: Found near Woodbridge, Suffolk what is the name of the Anglo Saxon burial site, excavated in 1939, which contained a ship and other priceless artefacts?
Answer: sutton hoo
Question: Spitfire beer is brewed in Faversham, by which company?
Answer: shepherd neame
Question: Which BBC series of 2012/13, set in the 1950's is centered around Nonnatus House in the East End of London?
Answer: call midwife
Question: Which film director's credits include Memento, Insomnia, Inception and The Dark Knight Rises?
Answer: christopher nolan
Question: In 2012, Octavia Spenser won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as a domestic servant in which film?
Answer: help
Question: Which series of 2011/12, set in the 1950's is centred around a weekly BBC TV current affairs programme?
Answer: hour
Question: In 2011, Christian Bale won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as an assistant to his half-brother in which boxing related film?
Answer: fighter
Question: Which film director's credits include Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi?
Answer: ang lee
Question: What is the name of the steam yacht, owned by the National Trust, which offers cruises on Coniston Water?
Answer: gondola
Question: Which public school counts CB Fry, Jeremy Clarkson and Roald Dahl amongst its alumni?
Answer: repton
Question: Which politician did Violet Gibson shoot and wound in Rome in 1926?
Answer: mussolini
Question: On 2nd September 31 BC, Octavian's forces overcame those of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra in which decisive sea battle?
Answer: actium
Question: The title of the Agatha Christie story By the Pricking of my Thumbs is a quote taken from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: macbeth
Question: Since South Sudan ceded from Sudan in 2011, what has been the largest country, by area in Africa?
Answer: algeria
Question: The Cuban-born coach of Mo Farah, a former winner of the New York and Boston marathons, shares which surname with a former Prime Minister of Portugal 1936-68?
Answer: salazar
Question: Which planet, whose largest moon is Triton, was discovered in 1846?
Answer: neptune
Question: In which city would you find the Neva River, Nevsky Prospect and the ship The Aurora?
Answer: st petersburg
Question: Found near Avebury, Wiltshire, what, at 40 metres is Europe's highest pre-historic mound?
Answer: silbury hill
Question: ln 1972, Laslo Toth damaged which sculpture of 1499, by Michelangelo in St Peter's, Rome?
Answer: pieta
Question: What US dollar note has Andrew Jackson on the front and the White House on the rear?
Answer: 20
Question: Which ancient Roman festival, which ran until the 4th century AD involved sacrifices, partying and owners serving their slaves and was partly subsumed into Christmas?
Answer: saturnalia
Question: Which country has a currency of a Quetzal divided into 100 centavos?
Answer: guatemala
Question: Which team won the Formula 1 Constructors' Championship in 2010?
Answer: red bull
Question: Which national newspaper has been edited by Bill Deedes, Max Hastings and Charles Moore?
Answer: daily telegraph
Question: In which team sport did Imran Sherwani and Sean Kerly win Olympic Gold for Great Britain in 1988?
Answer: hockey
Question: Which Hollywood director made his debut in 1941 with 'The Maltese Falcon'?
Answer: john huston
Question: The shawm was a predecessor of which modem musical instrument?
Answer: oboe
Question: Strigiformes is the name of the order of which group of birds?
Answer: owls
Question: What is the capital city of Brunei?
Answer: bandar seri begawan
Question: Two Yorkshire venues have hosted test match cricket. Headingley at Leeds is one. Name the other.
Answer: bramall lane
Question: Van Mildert, Trevelyan and St Chad's are constituent colleges of which university?
Answer: durham
Question: Which European country includes a representation of an armillary sphere on its national flag?
Answer: portugal
Question: Glenda Jackson won Best Actress Oscar in 1971 for her role in 'Women In Love' and again in 1974 for a role in which film?
Answer: touch of class
Question: By which Christian name is the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart usually known?
Answer: leopold
Question: In which collection can you view 'The Laughing Cavalier' by Frans Hals?
Answer: wallace
Question: Which county was the setting for the ITV drama 'Broadchurch'?
Answer: dorset
Question: The university in Linz, Austria, known as JKU is named after which scientist who wrote one of his major works there?
Answer: johannes kepler
Question: Which European country includes a representation of a black double-headed eagle on its national flag?
Answer: albania
Question: Three former Labour Chancellors of the Exchequer are still alive - Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown and which other?
Answer: denis healey
Question: Two London venues hosted matches at the 1966 Football World Cup. Wembley Stadium was one. Name the other.
Answer: white city
Question: `Guernica' by Pablo Picasso is on show at the Museo Reina Sofia in which city?
Answer: madrid
Question: 'A Touch of Glass', 'Friday the 14th' and 'The Miracle of Peckham' were episodes in which classic sitcom?
Answer: only fools and horses
Question: What title is given in the French Navy to a seaman of the lowest rank?
Answer: matelot
Question: Who was Children's Laureate between Michael Morpurgo and Michael Rosen?
Answer: jacqueline wilson
Question: The English horn is an alternative name for which orchestral instrument?
Answer: cor anglais
Question: In Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' who is the uncle of Olivia?
Answer: sir toby belch
Question: Emma Thompson won the Best Actress Oscar in 1993 for a role in which film?
Answer: howards end
Question: Who was the last Welshman to win the World Snooker Championship?
Answer: mark williams
Question: Which national newspaper has been edited by Roy Greenslade, Colin Myler and Piers Morgan?
Answer: daily mirror
Question: On which ship did the Japanese sign surrender terms in Tokyo Harbour in September 1945?
Answer: uss missouri
Question: In which city was the first public performance of Handel's 'Messiah'?
Answer: dublin
Question: Which Polish leader was killed in a plane crash in Gibraltar in 1943?
Answer: general sikorski
Question: Which brothers were linked with the resignation of Peter Mandelson in 2001?
Answer: hinduja
Question: In March 2013, which former MP was found guilty of perverting the course of justice by having his then wife take speeding points on his behalf ten years earlier?
Answer: chris huhne
Question: Who composed the theme music for 'Coronation Street'?
Answer: eric spear
Question: Which English King was imprisoned and died at Pontefract Castle in 1400?
Answer: richard ii
Question: Swimming, show jumping, pistol shooting and cross-country running are four of the sports which make up the Modern Pentathlon. Name the other.
Answer: fencing
Question: In which US state is Plymouth Rock, the site of disembarkation of the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620?
Answer: massachusetts
Question: In which country was Nick Leeson when his unauthorised trades on the futures market brought about the collapse of Barings Bank?
Answer: singapore
Question: According to the version of the rhyme used in the vintage children's television series Magpie, what did six magpies signify?
Answer: gold
Question: At the age of sixty-four, who was the oldest person to accede to the British throne?
Answer: william iv
Question: Who directed the 1985 film 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' and the 2011 film 'Midnight in Paris'?
Answer: woody allen
Question: To what did the insurance company Norwich Union change its name in 2009?
Answer: aviva
Question: Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands and West Germany were five of the original members of the European Economic Community. Name the sixth.
Answer: luxembourg
Question: Which country was the birthplace of Mo Farah, Olympic and World Champion over 5,000 and 10,000 metres?
Answer: somalia
Question: From which language do we get the words 'apartheid' and 'yacht'?
Answer: dutch
Question: Who is the only American to be honoured in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey?
Answer: henry wadsworth longfellow
Question: In the human body, what is produced by the islets of langerhans in the pancreas?
Answer: insulin
Question: What is the name of the 2002 film directed by Steven Spielberg in which Leonardo DiCaprio starred as real life con man Frank Abagnale?
Answer: catch me if you can
Question: Baklava, a pastry sweetened with honey, originated in which country?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which song, which opened The Beatles first album in 1963, has the opening line 'Well, she was just seventeen - you know what I mean'?
Answer: i saw her standing there
Question: How many Tour de France titles did Lance Armstrong "win" only to be stripped of them again in August 2012?
Answer: seven
Question: Who became acting leader of the Labour Party following the death of John Smith in 1994?
Answer: margaret becket
Question: What is the name of the American composer whose work includes the film scores for 'Jaws", "E.T.' and the first three in the 'Harry Potter' series?
Answer: john williams
Question: Born Jack Hoggan in Fife in 1951, what is the professional name of the self-taught artist, prints of whose works outsell Dali, Monet, and Van Gogh?
Answer: jack vettriano
Question: In which English Cathedral is the Mappa Mundi kept?
Answer: hereford
Question: Who replaced Barbara Castle as MP for Blackburn in 1979?
Answer: jack straw
Question: What was the name given to the 'Missing Link' which Charles Dawson claimed to have discovered in a gravel pit in Sussex in 1912?
Answer: piltdown man
Question: Which playwright's works include 'The Madness of George III' and 'The History Boys'?
Answer: alan bennett
Question: Who was the Irish Premier at the time of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998?
Answer: bertie ahern
Question: In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus had to sail between a monster and a whirlpool. The monster was called Scylla. What was the name of the whirlpool?
Answer: charybdis
Question: In which county is Greenham Common, scene of the peace camp from 1981 to 2001?
Answer: berkshire
Question: What is the name of the American former stockbroker and financial advisor who created a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, considered to be the largest financial fraud in US history?
Answer: bernie madoff
Question: What was the name of the single issue political party founded by Sir James Goldsmith to fight the 1997 General Election?
Answer: referendum party
Question: In which cathedral were all but six of the Kings of France crowned?
Answer: rheims
Question: Which fictional detective made a first appearance in the 1916 novel 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles'?
Answer: hercule poirot
Question: In the Jewish religion what is the Day of Atonement called?
Answer: yom kippur
Question: Who is the author of a series of 21 historical novels featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin?
Answer: patrick o brian
Question: The Marina Bay Street Circuit, used in Formula 1 for the first time in 2008, is the venue for which Grand Prix?
Answer: singapore
Question: What is added to whisky to make a whisky mac?
Answer: ginger wine
Question: Who replaced Judas Iscariot as the twelfth disciple?
Answer: matthias
Question: Which Labour Party shadow cabinet member is married to trade union activist Jack Dromey?
Answer: harriet harman
Question: Superintendent Mullet, played by Bruce Alexander, was the boss of which 'TV detective?
Answer: frost
Question: On the 2014 Winter Olympic Games who did the British men's curling team play in the final?
Answer: canada
Question: In which country did actor Clive Dunn die in 2012?
Answer: portugal
Question: Which English rugby union club plays its home matches at Kingston Park?
Answer: newcastle falcons
Question: Who wrote the series of 21 historical novels featuring Richard Sharpe?
Answer: bernard cornwell
Question: The Yas Marina circuit used in Formula 1 for the first time in 2009, is the venue for which Grand Prix?
Answer: abu dhabi
Question: Which Labour Party shadow cabinet member is married to fellow MP Ed Balls?
Answer: yvette cooper
Question: Chief Superintendent Strange, played by James Grout, was the boss of which TV detective?
Answer: morse
Question: Which property completes this group of 3 on the Monopoly board? Piccadilly, Coventry Street and where?
Answer: leicester square
Question: In the 2014 Winter Olympic Games who did the British women's curling team defeat to win a bronze medal?
Answer: switzerland
Question: What is the first name of Edna Everage's much put upon travelling companion and bridesmaid?
Answer: madge
Question: In which country did DJ John Peel die in 2004?
Answer: peru
Question: Who was Playboy's first Sweetheart (later Playmate) of the month in 1953?
Answer: marilyn monroe
Question: For which TV programme was the Liberty Bell March the theme tune?
Answer: monty python s flying circus
Question: Who plays Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham in `Downton Abbey'?
Answer: hugh bonneville
Question: Which was the host city of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: vancouver
Question: Which football team formerly played their home games at Roker Park?
Answer: sunderland
Question: Viscount Severn is the son of which member of the royal family?
Answer: prince edward
Question: 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' is a line written by which poet?
Answer: elizabeth barrett browning
Question: Orchestral conductor Leopold Stokowski was born in 1882 in which capital city?
Answer: london
Question: In Tony Blair's cabinets who successively held the positions of Secretary of State for Scotland, Northern Ireland, Minister without Portfolio, Leader of the Commons, Health, Defence and Home Secretary?
Answer: john reid
Question: The site of Pompeii is close to which modern city?
Answer: naples
Question: In which country did the First Taranaki War start on March 17th 1860?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which female crime writer is an occasional crime-solving companion to Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's novels?
Answer: ariadne oliver
Question: Complete the title of the debut novel by Marina Lewycka 'A Short History of.in Ukrainian'.
Answer: tractors
Question: Kate Winslet won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in which 2008 film?
Answer: reader
Question: Which Shipping Forecast area lies south of South Utsire and north of German Bight?
Answer: fisher
Question: Rhea and Iapetus are the second and third largest moons of which planet?
Answer: saturn
Question: Bernie Brewer, Billy the Marlin and the Phillie Phanatic are team mascots in which US sport?
Answer: baseball
Question: What was the first name of the Nobel Prize winning scientist (1901-1954)Fermi?
Answer: enrico
Question: What is the surname of Tommy and Tuppence - the married sleuths, who appear in several novels and short stories by Agatha Christie?
Answer: beresford
Question: Which rugby league team formerly played their home games at Hilton Park?
Answer: leigh
Question: Who is alleged to have said in his writing 'A little learning is a dangerous thing'?
Answer: alexander pope
Question: In the pre-nationalisation period which railway company is missing from the 'Big Four' - GWR, LMS, LNER and.?
Answer: southern
Question: Who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter around 1610?
Answer: galileo
Question: Which King of Scotland was born on March 17th 1473? He died 40 years later.
Answer: james iv
Question: Which British composer died in 1983 on the island of Ischia?
Answer: sir william walton
Question: In 1841 who was the first US Vice President to take office as President after his predecessor died in office?
Answer: john tyler
Question: Who plays CIA Officer Carrie Mathison in 'Homeland'?
Answer: claire danes
Question: Which venue was called the North Greenwich Arena during the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: o2 arena
Question: What is the name of the 170 metre high observation tower beside Portsmouth Harbour, opened in 2005?
Answer: spinnaker tower
Question: On the Isle of Man for what do the letters MHK stand?
Answer: member of house of keys
Question: Which British army officer invented artillery shells containing bullets to inflict more casualties?
Answer: henry shrapnel
Question: Who composed a symphony with a sudden fortissimo chord at the end of the opening which gives it the nickname Surprise Symphony?
Answer: joseph haydn
Question: Which was the last horse to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup 3 years in succession?
Answer: best mate
Question: The Battle of Dettingen in which George II led the British troops occurred during which War?
Answer: war of austrian succession
Question: Which fashion house introduced a youth-oriented line Miu Miu in 1992?
Answer: prada
Question: Miss Joan Hunter Dunn is praised in which poem by John Betjeman?
Answer: subaltern s love song
Question: What is the more common name for the species Panthera Onca?
Answer: jaguar
Question: Which Dallas actor also appeared in the MGM musicals Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate?
Answer: howard keel
Question: Which is the only single malt whisky distilled on the Isle of Skye?
Answer: talisker
Question: In the periodic table which metal follows lithium and sodium in the alkali metals (valency 1)?
Answer: potassium
Question: Actor Larry Hagman was the son of which Broadway musical star?
Answer: mary martin
Question: Which post-impressionist painted The Card Players in 1892?
Answer: paul cezanne
Question: Violet Millar became the wife of which future UK Prime Minister in 1922?
Answer: clement attlee
Question: The Great Bear Lake and the Great Slave Lake are in which country?
Answer: canada
Question: The Battles of Missolonghi in 1823 and 1826 occurred during which country's War of Independence?
Answer: greece
Question: Who is the only man to have trained the winner of the Grand National in 3 consecutive years?
Answer: vincent o brien
Question: The works of which composer, born in Hamburg in 1833, include a series of 21 Hungarian Dances?
Answer: johannes brahms
Question: Therevada and Mahayana are the two main branches of which religion?
Answer: buddhism
Question: Becky Sharp is the heroine of which novel by William Makepeace Thackeray?
Answer: vanity fair
Question: Which play by Robert Bolt was made into a film starring Paul Scofield in the lead role?
Answer: man for all seasons
Question: Who became the youngest player to score a hat-trick for England versus Croatia in September 2008?
Answer: theo walcott
Question: Nemorino sings the aria Una Furtiva Lagrima in which opera by Donizetti?
Answer: l elisir d amore
Question: Which album by Dire Straits was the best-selling album of 1985?
Answer: brothers in arms
Question: Perca fluviatilis is the scientific name for which fish?
Answer: perch
Question: Tom Hanks won Oscars for Best Actor in consecutive years for Forrest Gump in 1994 and which other film in 1993?
Answer: philadelphia
Question: Who created the fictional detectives Dalziel and Pascoe?
Answer: reginald hill
Question: Fynbo cheese is named after the island of Fyn in which European country?
Answer: denmark
Question: For which 1989 film did Daniel Day-Lewis win his first Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer: my left foot
Question: Which album by Madonna was the best-selling album of 1986?
Answer: true blue
Question: Gilda sings the aria Caro Nome in which opera by Verdi?
Answer: rigoletto
Question: Which Roman Emperor, son of Vespasian, died of the plague in 81 AD?
Answer: titus
Question: Who won Best Actress Oscars for the years either side of Louise Rainer (for 1934 & 1937) for her roles in Dangerous and Jezebel?
Answer: bette davis
Question: Angel Clare is a character in which novel by Thomas Hardy?
Answer: tess of d urbervilles
Question: Which small island lies between the two larger islands of Malta and Gozo?
Answer: comino
Question: Who wrote the story of the Ugly Duckling?
Answer: hans christian andersen
Question: Which group released the album 'Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy' in the 1970s?
Answer: who