CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who were Bobby 'Boris' Pickett's backing group on his hit 'Monster Mash'?
Answer: crypt kickers
Question: Alban Berg's opera 'Lulu' ends with the appearance of which murderer?
Answer: jack ripper
Question: Where in Paris would you find the French foreign ministry?
Answer: quai d orsay
Question: The word 'refugee' first described which protestants fleeing from France to England?
Answer: huguenots
Question: In which eastern county is Holme Fen, the lowest point in the UK?
Answer: cambridgeshire
Question: Joe E Ross and Fred Gwynne starred in which comedy police series on TV?
Answer: car 54
Question: Who was Prime Minister during the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations?
Answer: callaghan
Question: Who was Prime Minister during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations?
Answer: salisbury
Question: Which of the Balearic Islands has a name that means 'biggest'?
Answer: majorca
Question: Which revealing item of clothing was invented by Louis Reard in 1946?
Answer: bikini
Question: In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein what is Frankenstein’s first name?
Answer: victor
Question: Which kiddies dolls were created by American art student Xavier Roberts in 1978?
Answer: cabbage patch kids
Question: Who is the hero of the novels Greenmantle and Mr Standfast?
Answer: richard hannay
Question: Published in 1960, Who wrote the novel A Kind of Loving?
Answer: stan barstow
Question: Which English comic regularly utilised the 1963 Boots Randolf composition Yakety Sax?
Answer: benny hill
Question: The Strait of Malacca separates the Malay Peninsula from what Indonesian island?
Answer: sumatra
Question: What is the name of the Barlow’s border terrier in Coronation Street?
Answer: eccles
Question: What was the name of the first pilot to break the sound barrier?
Answer: chuck yeager
Question: Which entrepreneur launched Skytrain in 1977 but went bankrupt in 1982?
Answer: freddy laker
Question: What is the sporting interest of a ‘wet bob’ at Eton?
Answer: rowing
Question: Where is the UK’s annual four-day Bestival music festival held?
Answer: isle of wight
Question: Which drink was once known as ‘the green fairy’?
Answer: absinthe
Question: Which prime minister launched the ‘I’m Backing Britain’ campaign?
Answer: harold wilson
Question: Which annual census takes place in the third week of July on the river Thames?
Answer: swan upping
Question: Which tradesmen performed most of the wedding ceremonies at Gretna Green?
Answer: blacksmiths
Question: What do we call a bell-tower not attached to a church?
Answer: campanile
Question: Which philosopher’s body was stuffed and placed in a case at University College, London?
Answer: jeremy bentham
Question: The song Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is about which singer’s wife?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: Boris Rankov was on the winning side six times in which famous event?
Answer: university boat race
Question: In which Asian state do the Karen people make up 7% of the population?
Answer: burma
Question: Who was President of the Screen Actor’s Guild in the 40s and 50s?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Whose first venture into ‘talkies’ was Anna Christie?
Answer: greta garbo
Question: Who did Jacqueline Kennedy marry on Skorpios in 1968?
Answer: aristotle onassis
Question: What is the V-shaped flying formation of a flock of wild geese called?
Answer: skein
Question: Egg; Larva; Adult – which stage of complete metamorphosis is missing?
Answer: pupa
Question: Francis Walsingham was the spy-master of which monarch?
Answer: elizabeth i
Question: Who wrote the songs Camptown Races and Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair?
Answer: stephen foster
Question: According to the old advert which beer ‘refreshes the parts other beers can’t reach’?
Answer: heineken
Question: Who wrote the songs Keep The Home Fires Burning and We’ll Gather Lilacs?
Answer: ivor novello
Question: In which county of Ireland would you find Blarney Castle, home of the Blarney Stone?
Answer: county cork
Question: At which establishment, famous in literature, was Benjamin a very sceptical donkey?
Answer: animal farm
Question: Which game show presenter was deputy headmaster of Caton School near Lancaster?
Answer: jim bowen
Question: Who wrote the 1516 work of fiction and political philosophy ‘Utopia’?
Answer: sir thomas more
Question: In 1969, who became Israel’s first woman Prime Minister?
Answer: golda meir
Question: A cronut is a cross between a doughnut and a what?
Answer: croissant
Question: In which cycling event did Victoria Pendleton win gold at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: keirin
Question: The last pair of which extinct flightless birds were killed in 1844? (Two words.)
Answer: great auks
Question: Zelda was the wife of which writer, born in Minnesota in 1896?
Answer: f scott fitzgerald
Question: Fanny Brawne was engaged to which noted British poet?
Answer: john keats
Question: Who played the part of Sybil Fawlty?
Answer: prunella scales
Question: What was the code name for the Normandy landings?
Answer: operation overlord
Question: Whose book, ‘Dreams From My Father’, was published in 1995?
Answer: barack obama
Question: What was the two-word title of Dawn French’s 2007 autobiography?
Answer: dear fatty
Question: In Chesterfield, the crooked spire is that of St. who, and All the Saints?
Answer: mary
Question: Who wrote the play ‘Waiting For Godot’, which premiered in 1953?
Answer: samuel beckett
Question: The Egyptian god Anubis had the head of which animal?
Answer: jackal
Question: Edward Bear is the alternative name for which character from children’s literature?
Answer: winnie pooh
Question: Which five-star luxury hotel on Park Lane has 250 rooms and 49 suites?
Answer: dorchester
Question: Which STD is colloquially known as ‘the clap’?
Answer: gonorrhea
Question: Who painted the portrait of Anne of Cleves that so impressed Henry VIII?
Answer: hans holbein
Question: Who played the male human lead in the 1951 film, ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Anna Mae Bullock is the real name of which singer, dancer, actress and author?
Answer: tina turner
Question: Na2SO4 is the chemical formula for what compound?
Answer: sodium sulphate
Question: What is the name of the professor of phonetics in G.B. Shaw’s play ‘Pygmalion’?
Answer: henry higgins
Question: What would the initials ANPR mean to a petrol station attendant?
Answer: automatic number plate
Question: What were the first two names of ‘Scott of the Antarctic’?
Answer: robert falcon
Question: Which British-American Oscar-winning actress died on the 15th, aged 96?
Answer: joan fontaine
Question: Cancer and Scorpio are two of the water signs. What is the third?
Answer: pisces
Question: What was the name of the girl that Tom Sawyer loved?
Answer: becky thatcher
Question: Whom did Colin Firth play when he won the Best Actor Oscar in 2011?
Answer: king george vi
Question: ‘Everybody’s Talkin’ featured prominently in the music for which 1969 film?
Answer: midnight cowboy
Question: Which genus of 422 species of flowering plants are often known as cranesbills?
Answer: geraniums
Question: Who was only 19 when he became the Stones’ manager and producer?
Answer: andrew loog oldham
Question: Tinca Tinca is the Latin name for which fish?
Answer: tench
Question: The Jagger-Richard song ‘As Tears Go By’ was the first hit for whom?
Answer: marianne faithfull
Question: Which actress played the lead role in the 1988 film ‘Gorillas in the Mist’?
Answer: sigourney weaver
Question: Which of the Canary Islands has the nickname ‘windy island’?
Answer: fuerteventura
Question: The extinct Moa was the largest ever what …. to live on Earth?
Answer: bird
Question: Which failed venture was led by the Duke of Medina Sidonia?
Answer: spanish armada
Question: Which Italian dish has a name meaning ‘pick-me-up’?
Answer: tiramasu
Question: Which Kathryn Bigelow directed film, centred on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden?
Answer: zero dark thirty
Question: Ivy League member Brown University is situated in which US state?
Answer: rhode island
Question: What artistic term was given to the music of Debussy, Ravel and Delius?
Answer: impressionist
Question: Premiered in 1834, Who composed Harold In Italy?
Answer: berlioz
Question: Who made a cameo appearance in Die Another Day as Verity a fencing instructor?
Answer: madonna
Question: The third day of the Hindu festival of Diwali honours which Goddess of Fortune?
Answer: lakshmi
Question: In which month does Rio’s Mardi Gras nearly always take place?
Answer: february
Question: Which gland produces the hormones that control the body’s metabolism?
Answer: thyroid
Question: The condition Ketosis would result from an inadequacy of what in the diet?
Answer: carbohydrates
Question: In which US state are the Sonoma and Nappa Valley wine growing areas?
Answer: california
Question: In Germany it is Landwein what is the French equivalent?
Answer: vin de pays
Question: In South Africa and Cape Town in particular, what do locals call a Cape Doctor?
Answer: wind
Question: James Brindley is chiefly remembered for building what?
Answer: canals
Question: Published in 1928, Who wrote the novel Point Counter Point?
Answer: aldous huxley
Question: What did scientist Wayne Szalinski do in a 1989 Disney movie?
Answer: shrunk kids
Question: Which vegetable is found in abundance in an Indian dopiaza?
Answer: onions
Question: In a band or orchestra what kind of instrument is a high hat?
Answer: cymbal
Question: The Third Foot and Mouth Regiment featured in which Carry On film?
Answer: carry on up khyber
Question: Which adventurer lived at 7 Savile Row?
Answer: phileas fogg
Question: At Cambridge the ‘Senior Wrangler’ is the top performer at what?
Answer: mathematics
Question: Which construction was officially titled the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart?
Answer: berlin wall
Question: In which film did Clint Eastwood play Will Munny?
Answer: unforgiven
Question: What name was given by the Sioux Indians to John J Dunbar?
Answer: dances with wolves
Question: For which paper merchants did David Brent work in The Office?
Answer: wernham hogg
Question: A ‘Boilermaker’ is whisky chased with what?
Answer: beer
Question: Who is commemorated by a museum at Alloway, Strathclyde?
Answer: robbie burns
Question: Which Blackadder cast member was knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours List?
Answer: sir tony robinson
Question: Which city does Islam regard as the next most holy after Mecca?
Answer: medina
Question: What is the youngest section of the Scouting movement, covering ages 6 to 8?
Answer: beaver scouts
Question: Which seaside resort extends either side of the Great Orme headland?
Answer: llandudno
Question: For which London football club did Rod Stewart have an unsuccessful trial?
Answer: brentford
Question: In which county is Malin Head, the most northerly point in all Ireland?
Answer: county donegal
Question: What is the name of the Teletubbies’ vacuum cleaner-like housekeeper and guardian?
Answer: noo noo
Question: Which university’s architecture originally inspired the term “red-brick university”?
Answer: liverpool university
Question: In which English city are Park Hill Flats, the largest listed building in Europe?
Answer: sheffield
Question: What phrase is used in the UK for that which North Americans often call a “Texas Gate”?
Answer: cattle grid
Question: Which EU country’s national anthem, “The Royal March”, has no official words?
Answer: spain
Question: a Victorian farce and a situation in which two people take turns to occupy a position?
Answer: box and cox
Question: Mercenary soldiers from which country were described as “Wild Geese”?
Answer: ireland
Question: Which major US city’s metropolitan area is clustered around Puget Sound?
Answer: seattle
Question: Which material when crushed for recycling is known as “cullet”?
Answer: glass
Question: Which country’s burgeoning film industry is nicknamed “Nollywood”?
Answer: nigeria
Question: Give any of the three words which might follow a so-called “Oxford comma”?
Answer: and or or nor
Question: Who, in August this year, was announced as the new “Dr Who” Doctor?
Answer: peter capaldi
Question: What visible features of a concert harp have the same function as a piano’s black keys?
Answer: pedals
Question: Which kingdom was formed by the 7th century unification of Bernicia and Deira?
Answer: northumbria
Question: Who was the first monarch to style himself “King of the English” and “King of All Britain”?
Answer: æthelstan
Question: Which baseball legend is the subject of the 2013 biopic, “42”?
Answer: jackie robinson
Question: Which 1989 baseball movie had the tagline “If you build it, he will come”?
Answer: field of dreams
Question: Also the name of the local dialect, what is the term for an inhabitant of Monaco?
Answer: monegasque
Question: Which band’s eponymous front man is married to BAFTA-winning actress Carey Mulligan?
Answer: mumford and sons
Question: Of which modern country does the former kingdom of Bohemia form a major part?
Answer: czech republic
Question: Of which longer mountain range do the Transylvanian Alps form the southern arm?
Answer: carpathians
Question: Which epic poem, attributed to Homer, tells a history of the Trojan Wars?
Answer: iliad
Question: Which Shakespeare play has the siege of Troy as its setting?
Answer: troilus and cressida
Question: Which poet laureate wrote “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks”?
Answer: nahum tate
Question: Which five words from a nursery rhyme were the first Edison recorded on a phonograph?
Answer: mary had little lamb
Question: What term can be both a piece of cartilage in certain joints and a feature of a liquid?
Answer: meniscus
Question: What term can be both a highly energised state of matter and a bodily fluid?
Answer: plasma
Question: Which chemical acid makes up around 0.5% of what is called gastric acid?
Answer: hydrochloric
Question: In the Just William stories by Richmal Crompton, what is the name of William’s gang?
Answer: outlaws
Question: Who was the first of the regular cast of ‘Dad’s Army’ to die?
Answer: james beck
Question: Sax Rohmer created which notorious, fictional criminal?
Answer: dr fu manchu
Question: Angela Merkel is the leader of which political party in Germany?
Answer: cdu
Question: In 1996, which New Zealand group got to no. 5 in the UK charts with ‘How Bizarre’?
Answer: omc
Question: Which ‘Eastenders’ character carried the Olympic torch on the programme?
Answer: billy mitchell
Question: At which indoor sport was TV presenter Matt Baker talented in his younger days?
Answer: gymnastics
Question: In The Scaffold’s ‘Lily the Pink’, which young lady “had terrible freckles”?
Answer: jennifer eccles
Question: In 1966, what replaced the Aust ferry?
Answer: severn bridge
Question: In which country is the cake known as ‘stollen’ traditionally eaten at Christmas?
Answer: germany
Question: Which British physicist and mathematician was born on 25/12/1642?
Answer: sir isaac newton
Question: In ‘Pickwick Papers’, where did Mr. Pickwick and friends have a fine time at Christmas?
Answer: dingley dell
Question: ‘Hollyoaks’ is set in which English town or city?
Answer: chester
Question: Who wrote the poem ‘A Visit From St. Nicholas’, aka ‘The Night Before Christmas’?
Answer: clement c moore
Question: Who were the runners up in the men’s rugby union 2012-13 Six Nations competition?
Answer: england
Question: On selling sites online, what does the acronym ‘BUMP’ represent?
Answer: bring up my post
Question: What is the name of the major seaport which serves Mexico City?
Answer: veracruz
Question: Which African country was known as South-West Africa, prior to 1968?
Answer: namibia
Question: Below the ‘out’ line, what is the only part of a squash court that is out of bounds?
Answer: tin
Question: On Sept. 20th 2013 , who were runners-up to Nottinghamshire in the YB40 final at Lords?
Answer: glamorgan
Question: In 1967, who became the first recipient of a human heart transplant?
Answer: louis washkansky
Question: Who wrote the series of children’s books about Dr. Dolittle?
Answer: hugh lofting
Question: The European prince Henry the Navigator was born in 1394 in which country?
Answer: portugal
Question: Which sport was played at Wimbledon prior to lawn tennis?
Answer: croquet
Question: Who wrote the 1927 poem ‘The Journey of the Magi’?
Answer: t s eliot
Question: The Bible. What is the fifth book of the Old Testament?
Answer: deuteronomy
Question: Which of Santa’s seven reindeer comes first in the alphabet?
Answer: blitzen
Question: Whose radio show can be heard on Radio 1 Mondays to Thursdays, 7-00 to 9-00 pm?
Answer: zane lowe
Question: Which Scottish Premiership association football club has Rugby Park for its home ground?
Answer: kilmarnock
Question: The 1954 film ‘White Christmas’ is set in which state of the USA?
Answer: vermont
Question: Who painted ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ (1624)?
Answer: peter paul rubens
Question: What is the name of the dog in ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ (2000)?
Answer: max
Question: Who composed ‘A Sea Symphony’ between 1903 and 1909?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: Strabismus is more commonly known by which one-syllable word?
Answer: squint
Question: Which king of England had the nickname ‘Beauclerc’?
Answer: henry i
Question: Turdus Merula is the scientific/Latin name for which bird?
Answer: blackbird
Question: The leaves of which tree are used as a symbol for the National Trust?
Answer: oak
Question: What was the title of the first ever 'Carry On' film?
Answer: carry on sergeant
Question: Who is the famous actress mother of the actress and playwright Amy Rosenthal?
Answer: maureen lipman
Question: War and Remembrance was the sequel to which US TV World War 2 saga?
Answer: winds of war
Question: If you had pogonophobia what would you be afraid of?
Answer: beards
Question: Which vegetable, a gourd-like squash, derives its name from the Greek for 'large melon'?
Answer: pumpkin
Question: In the film 'Psycho', what was Norman Bates' hobby?
Answer: taxidermy
Question: Who became Vice-President of the USA in 2001?
Answer: dick cheney
Question: What colour are the petals of the flower known as the Black-eyed Susan?
Answer: yellow
Question: Which London park lies between Horse Guards Parade and Buckingham Palace?
Answer: st james s park
Question: What was the title of the first feature film made in Cinemascope?
Answer: robe
Question: In the nursery rhyme 'Who Killed Cock Robin', "Who saw him die?"?
Answer: i said fly with my little eye
Question: Attributed to Saint Piran, the flag of which English county is a white cross on a black field?
Answer: cornwall
Question: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Brian Jones and Emperor ‘Barbarossa’ all died in what manner?
Answer: drowned
Question: In which European capital city is the Amalienborg Palace the main royal residence?
Answer: copenhagen
Question: Which Elton John hit of 1972 contains the line: "I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife"?
Answer: rocket man
Question: Hold Me Close and Gonna Make You a Star were UK No1 singles for which singer?
Answer: david essex
Question: A Scottish river, an English river and a Russian river all share which name ?
Answer: don
Question: Which TV celebrity chef's Jack Russell Terrier, Chalky, died aged 17 in January 2007?
Answer: rick stein
Question: In Hindu myth, which creature is associated with the god Hanuman?
Answer: monkey
Question: Who had a UK Top 10 chart hit in 1976 with 'Devil Woman'?
Answer: cliff richard
Question: Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were born in what would become which US state?
Answer: south dakota
Question: Which London market was moved in November to a new site at Nine Elms?
Answer: covent garden
Question: Born 1780 in Norwich, Which Englishwoman famously campaigned for prison reform?
Answer: elizabeth fry
Question: Which young woman fatally stabbed Jean Paul Marat while he was in his bath?
Answer: charlotte corday
Question: In which city were the crime series 'Homicide: Life on the Street' and 'The Wire' both set?
Answer: baltimore
Question: Which city is the setting for the original crime series 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'?
Answer: las vegas
Question: What is the name of the evil wizard who is always trying to catch the Smurfs?
Answer: gargamel
Question: Who’s the only major deity to have the same name in both Greek and Roman mythology?
Answer: apollo
Question: A deficiency in which trace element is a major cause of the condition called goitre?
Answer: iodine
Question: What name is given to an adult, Red Deer stag aged six years or older?
Answer: hart
Question: Who became President of France in the early summer of 2007?
Answer: nicolas sarkozy
Question: Which country was formerly nicknamed 'The Cockpit of Europe'?
Answer: belgium
Question: Which European country has often been referred to as the 'Playground Of Europe'?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mistress, Jane Burden, was the wife of which artist and poet?
Answer: william morris
Question: Which Russian man designed the legendary AK-47 assault rifle?
Answer: mikhail kalashnikov
Question: Which animal is "Me" in Roald Dahl's book, 'The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me'?
Answer: monkey
Question: What is the name of the traditional boat used for transport on the River Nile?
Answer: felucca
Question: In which country was the world's first international Air show held in 1909?
Answer: france
Question: The story setting of which Puccini opera is Paris in the 1830s?
Answer: la boheme
Question: Which vegetable is available in varieties such as 'Bok Choy' and 'Savoy'?
Answer: cabbage
Question: Politically speaking, what once linked Brazil, Uruguay, Mozambique and Angola?
Answer: portuguese colonies
Question: Which classic French sauce is made by whisking clarified butter into warm egg yolks?
Answer: hollandaise
Question: Which city is the home of the Spanish football team Real Betis?
Answer: seville
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, in which London street did the Muffin Man live?
Answer: drury lane
Question: Skagboys is a prequel to which novel by Irving Welsh?
Answer: trainspotting
Question: The three principal Uralic languages are Finnish, Estonian, and which other?
Answer: hungarian
Question: What was the title of Status Quo’s first UK hit single, a tribute to L. S. Lowry?
Answer: pictures of matchstick men
Question: The so-called “Curse of the Bambino” afflicted which team between 1918 and 2004?
Answer: boston red sox
Question: Tiger Woods wears a shirt of which colour for the final round of each tournament?
Answer: red
Question: Which play contains the famous stage direction “Exit, pursued by a bear”?
Answer: winter s tale
Question: Which group recorded the early heavy-metal classic Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble?
Answer: uriah heep
Question: What musical instrument forms one of the playing pieces in Buckaroo?
Answer: guitar
Question: An island purchased by Isaac Bedlow in 1667 is the site of which US National Monument?
Answer: statue of liberty
Question: Fictional character Selena Kyle is better known by what name?
Answer: catwoman
Question: Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem was the resident band on which TV show?
Answer: muppets
Question: In 1961, where did a CIA-sponsored group make an unsuccessful attempt to invade Cuba?
Answer: bay of pigs
Question: Who won an acting Oscar for a six-minute role in Shakespeare in Love?
Answer: judy dench
Question: Which canal forms a navigable link between New York and the Great Lakes?
Answer: erie canal
Question: Rimini Miramare airport has been renamed in honour of which noted film director?
Answer: federico fellini
Question: Both Hairy Bikers have tattoos on their right arms depicting which iconic figure?
Answer: che guevara
Question: Abbotsford House, on the banks of the Tweed, was the home of which author?
Answer: sir walter scott
Question: The 1953 Broadway musical Kismet is based on the works of which classical composer?
Answer: alexander borodin
Question: What is the official hymn of the US Marine Corps?
Answer: halls of montezuma
Question: Ride of the Valkyries is the official quick march of which branch of the British Army?
Answer: parachute regiment
Question: The area now rebranded as “Cardiff Bay” was formerly known by what name?
Answer: tiger bay
Question: Who was the only female competitor not to be given a sex test at the 1976 Olympics?
Answer: princess anne
Question: In 1918, who wrote the song God Bless America?
Answer: irving berlin