CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Based in Swindon, which is thge largest building society in the world ?
Answer: nationwide
Question: What was the name of the cinema, situated next to the Seven Stars in Lampit Street which closed for business in 1956 ?
Answer: empire
Question: When Corporation Tax was first introduced in 1965, what was the basic rate? Was it 20%, 30% or 40% ?
Answer: 40
Question: What was the surname of the German chemist who, in 1867, established the chemical works in Cefn Mawr, which later became part of Monsanto and then Flexsys ?
Answer: robert graesser
Question: Which soft drink manufacturer launched a new formula version of its most popular product in 1985, but withdrew it three months later after a massively negative reaction from the public ?
Answer: coca cola
Question: Which 30 year old pop diva gave birth to daughter called Blue Ivy Carter on 7th January 2012 ?
Answer: beyonce
Question: Which instrument did Larry Mullen Jr play in the band U2 ?
Answer: drums
Question: Loreen, singing Euphoria, won the 2012 Europvision Song Contest for which country ?
Answer: sweden
Question: """No more carefree laughter, Silence ever after"" are the opening lines of which Abba Number One hit ?"
Answer: knowing me knowing you
Question: Released last month, People, Hell and Angels is a posthumous album made up of songs recorded by which artist in 1969 ?
Answer: jimi hendrix
Question: A cover of which Buddy Holly song gave glam rock band Mud their third and final UK Number One in 1975 ?
Answer: oh boy
Question: Which British pop star was born Jessica Ellen Cornish on March 27th 1988?
Answer: jessie j
Question: Henry Charles Albert David are the christian names of which famous 28 year old ?
Answer: prince harry
Question: Later this year, Jonathon Sacks (aka the Lord Sacks) is due to retire from which religous position that he has held in Britain since 1991 ?
Answer: chief rabbi
Question: Cheers actress Rhea Perlman has been married to which Hollywood actor and comedian for over 30 years ?
Answer: danny de vito
Question: In which city was London Mayor, Boris Johnson born ? Was it New York, Calcutta or Warsaw ?
Answer: new york
Question: What is the first name of the mother of Jemima Khan and widow of Sir James Goldsmith, after whom one of London's most exclusive night clubs was named?
Answer: annabel
Question: Cristina Kirchner is currently the President of which South American country?
Answer: argentina
Question: Which celebrity chef is the owner of the three Michelin-starred restaurant, The Fat Duck, in Bray, Berkshire, which has been voted the Best Restaurant in the UK for the past six yearsby The Good Food Guide ?
Answer: heston blumenthal
Question: Which Swedish actress has been married twice - to Peter Sellers in 1964 and to Slim Jim Phantom in 1984 ?
Answer: britt ekland
Question: Who holds the record for the most Ladies Singles titles at Wimbledon, winning nine times between 1978 and 1990 ?
Answer: martina navratilova
Question: Who trained a record 50th Cheltenham Festival winner last month, when his Bob's Worth won the Gold Cup ?
Answer: nicky henderson
Question: Which ground in West London is shared by Harlequins (rugby union) and London Broncos (rugby league) ?
Answer: twickenham stoop
Question: What natural phenomenon caused the late postponement of the third game of Baseball's World Series between San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics ?
Answer: earthquake
Question: Limoges, Metz and Mulhouse are cities in which European country ?
Answer: france
Question: In which country is Raciborz, which emtereed a twinning agreement with Wrexham County Borough Council in 2002 ?
Answer: poland
Question: Which mountain range forms an arc that stretches from the Czech Republic inj the northwest to the border of Romania and Serbia in the south ?
Answer: carpathians
Question: Since the abolition of the monarchy in 1870, French Presidents have also automatically become co-princes of which independent Europian principality?
Answer: andorra
Question: Which colour is on the left of the three colours on the flag of Italy ?
Answer: green
Question: Which former Yugoslav state will become the 28th member of the European Union on July 1st this year ?
Answer: croatia
Question: At 1,038 km long and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon, which is the longest river on the Iberian peninsula ?
Answer: tagus
Question: Which two-word name is given to INVICTA, the symbol of Kent ?
Answer: white horse
Question: Along which road from Capua to Rome were 6000 slaves crucified in 71BC after defeat in then Servile War led by Spartacus ?
Answer: appian way
Question: Named after the 16/17th century fancy collar that made a fortune for Robert Baker, which London street starts at Hyde Park Corner and ends at a famous statue ? It is the 6th most expensive property in Monopoly.
Answer: picadilly
Question: The southwest coastal footpath starts at Poole in Dorset. Going around Devon and Cornwall, at which West Somerset resort, famous for its Butlin's holiday camp, does it end 630 miles later ?
Answer: minehead
Question: Ian, Gregory and Trevor are the grandsons of Vic Richardson. The four men nearly 200 caps between them in the 1920s, 30s, 70s and 80s. Give the surname of the three grandsons.
Answer: chappell
Question: In October 2012 Trenton Oldfield was sentenced to 6 months in prison for going for a swim on Saturday, 7th April at 2.25pm. In which river was hge swimming ?
Answer: thames
Question: Which letter from the Greekalphabet is the symbol of the most penetrating type of radiation containing no particles ?
Answer: gamma
Question: In which track from the 1975 album, Still crazy after all these years, are people advised to "slip out the back", "hop on the bus" and "drop off the key" ?
Answer: 50 ways to leave your lover
Question: Originally based on the Roman fable The Rape of the Sabine Women which 1954 musical contains the songs "Bless Your Beautiful Hide" and "Spring, Spring, Spring" ?
Answer: seven brides for seven brothers
Question: Born in 1913 and dying in 1994 who is the only person to be elected twice for the post of Vice President and also twice for the post of President of the USA ?
Answer: richard nixon
Question: Which city's social services department recently caused outcry after removing foster children from 2 UKIP members ?
Answer: rotherham
Question: Declared First Citizen of Athens, which statesman, orator and general was leader in its Golden Age, between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars in the 5th Century BC ?
Answer: pericles
Question: Found in the title of a 1945 Benjamin Britten opera, what is the surname of the Jedward twins, who finished 6th in the 2009 X Factor ?
Answer: grimes
Question: Banco is the sequel to which book, made into an Oscar nominated film starring Steve McQueen in 1973 ?
Answer: papillon
Question: Who is the only British Actress, from a large theatrical family, to have won an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards?
Answer: vanessa redgrave
Question: SUPERCALEYGOBALISTICCELTICAREATTROCIOUS was a headline in the Sun in February 2000 after a shock cup win. To which , then 3rd Division, football club, now flying high in the SPL, did it apply ?
Answer: inverness caledonian thistle
Question: """Lord of all beasts of the Earth"", ""Conqueror of the British Empire"" and ""King of Scotland"" are all self-given titles to which despotic 20th century African dictator?"
Answer: idi amin
Question: The birthplace of Andy Murray, an event in which town gave rise to the Cullen Report followed by the Firearms Amendment Act in 1997 ?
Answer: dunblane
Question: In November, the 5,855,533rd and last machine to be made in a Ruabon factory was sent to The Science Museum. What was it ?
Answer: typewriter
Question: A recent recording by Gary Barlow, which song from War of the Worlds was originally a hit for the Moody Blues in 1978 and contains the lines, "Like the sun through the trees you came to love me, like a leaf on a breeze you blew away" ?
Answer: forever autumn
Question: Disastrously affected by the Chalkara Fraxinea fungus, the wood from which tree is most widely used to make cricket stumps ?
Answer: ash
Question: In the Radio quiz Just a Minute, contestants must talk for a minute without repetition, hesitation and .. what else ?
Answer: deviation
Question: Which gas constitutes the majority of the mass in the four giant planets of the Solar System ?
Answer: hydrogen
Question: Which Cornish engineer demonstrated one of the first steam locomotives called "Catch Me If You Can" giving rides on a circular track near Bloomsbury in 1808 ?
Answer: richard trevithick
Question: Which product was advertised by a giant red and white hot air balloon carrying a young lady, who was eating the product to the sound of "I Can't Let Maggie Go", in the 1970s ?
Answer: nimble
Question: Which liquid gas is used by Heston Bloomental to make ice cream ? It recently destroyed part of the stomach of a young lady when consumed in a cocktail.
Answer: nitrogen
Question: Sharing a name with a main character in Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd and originally the wife of Uriah the Hittite, who, in the Bible, was the mother of King Solomon ?
Answer: bathsheba
Question: Who played Scrooge in the Muppets' Christmas Carol ?
Answer: michael caine
Question: Screened on ITV from 1976 to 1977 and starring Norman Beaton and Isabelle Lewis, which British sitcom became the first to contain an all-black cast?
Answer: fosters
Question: Which football team recently knocked Everton out of this season's Capital One Cup?
Answer: leeds united
Question: Screened on BBC 1 from 1966 to 1971 which British sitcom saw William Mervyn as Bishop Cuthbert Hever and Derek Nimmoas Reverand Mervyn Noote?
Answer: all gas and gaiters
Question: Published in 2008 and written by Daily Mirror columnist Brian Reade, the autobiographical book 43 Years with The Same Bird centres on the author's lifelong following of which English football club?
Answer: liverpool
Question: Which English King was married to Elizabeth Woodville from 1464 to 1483?
Answer: edward iv
Question: Usually served hot in a mug or bowl, which traditional Christmas cocktail that shares it's name with a famous animated TV show consists of eggnog with brandy an rum and occassionally uses egg-whites beaten stiff?
Answer: tom and jerry
Question: Which historical 17th century event was recorded by diarists samuel Pepys and John Evelyn who reecorded the events and their own reactions day by day?
Answer: great fire of london
Question: In which country can you find the cities of Salta, Corrientes and Rosario?
Answer: argentina
Question: What 9 letter word is used to describe someone watches or clocks?
Answer: horologist
Question: Which African country's flag is mainly red in colour and has a green interlocking star in the centre?
Answer: morocco
Question: Which English town is the home of te comic-strip character, Andy Capp?
Answer: hartlepool
Question: Which English city is the setting for the comic Viz character Sid the Sexist?
Answer: newcastle
Question: The English word "wig", referring to an artificial hairpiece, is a shortened form of which word for the same object?
Answer: periwig
Question: Which English novelist is probably best remembered for his 1957 novel Room At the Top?
Answer: john braine
Question: Which English actor played the title role in the 19768 family film Blackbeard's Ghost?
Answer: peter ustinov
Question: Which Scottish novelist is probably best remembered for his 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows?
Answer: kenneth grahame
Question: Which family film of 1957 starring Dorothy McGuire and Fes Parker centres on the story of a youg boy and his love for his dog on thier family ranch home during the 1860's which ends tragically after the dog contracts rabies following a fight with a wolf?
Answer: old yeller
Question: Which famous stage musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Weber contains the numbers Rolling Stock and Call Me Rusty?
Answer: starlight express
Question: The 43 mile long Llangollen Canal links the town of Llangollen to which Civil Parish situated in Cheshire?
Answer: hurleston
Question: Probably best remembered for his role as Charles Dreyfuss, the boss of Inspector Clouseau in the films A Shot in the Dark and The Return of the Pink Panther, which Czech born actor sadly passed away on September 27th 2012 aged 95 ?
Answer: herbert lom
Question: Wooley Edge and Markfield are service stations situated on which British motorway?
Answer: m1
Question: Also known as a Lower Gastrointestinal Series, what is the better known two-word name of the medical procedure used to examine and diagnose problems with the human colon. X-Ray pictures are taken whilst a white liquid fills the colon and rectum?
Answer: barium enema
Question: By what name is the TV character Colt Seavers more famously known?
Answer: fall guy
Question: Which author was responsible for the series of short comic books Brigadier Gerard?
Answer: arthur conan doyle
Question: In which US state can you find the area named "The Valley of the 10,000 Smokes"?
Answer: alaska
Question: What are salmon usually called during the first two years of their life?
Answer: parr
Question: Alice Perrers was the mistress of which English king?
Answer: edward iii
Question: Which breakfast food is named after the Roman goddess of corn and agriculture?
Answer: cereal
Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'?
Answer: stieg larson
Question: Rabbinic and Sephardic are denominations of which religion?
Answer: judaism
Question: What's the third book in the Fifty Shades trilogy by E.L.James/
Answer: fifty shades freed
Question: What role was played by Doreen Mantle in TV's One Foot In The Grave?
Answer: mrs warboys
Question: What is the name of the strait which divides the city of Istanbul?
Answer: bosporous
Question: In which film did the Frankenstein monster sing 'Puttin on the Ritz'?
Answer: young frankenstein
Question: By what name is Oil of Vitriol known today?
Answer: sulphuric acid
Question: Which metaphysical poet famously wrote 'No man is an island'?
Answer: john donne
Question: In 1983, Lady Donaldson was the first woman to be elected as what?
Answer: lord mayor of london
Question: What was the work of a 'dhobi wallah'?
Answer: laundry
Question: In which Scottish castle was Mary Stuart crowned Queen of Scots in 1543?
Answer: stirling
Question: At which place in Devon will you find the Britannia Royal Naval College?
Answer: dartmouth
Question: An incident in the life of naval cadet George Archer-Shee was the main inspiration for which play by Terence Rattigan?
Answer: winslow boy
Question: Which former 'Have I Got News For You' presenter made an occassional appearance as Patrick in 'One Foot In The Grave'?
Answer: angus deayton
Question: Which singer, along with Buddy Holly and 'The Big Bopper' was killed in a plane crash in 1959?
Answer: ritchie valens
Question: Nominated by Bill Clinton, who, in 1993, became the first female Attorney General of the USA?
Answer: janet reno
Question: What is depicted in a stretched out form at the bottom of Holbein's painting The Ambassadors?
Answer: skull
Question: Who is said to have designed the maze in which the mythical Minotaur was confined?
Answer: daedalus
Question: Moneymaker, beefsteak and plum are varieties of which fruit?
Answer: tomato
Question: Which iconic U.S. detective agency used the motto 'We Never Sleep'?
Answer: pinkertons
Question: Which stagework, the most performed of all Arthur Miller's plays, was inspired by the so-called McCarthy witchhunts in 1950's America?
Answer: crucible
Question: What type of foliage is used for the fences on the Grand National course at Aintree?
Answer: spruce
Question: In which town or city are the hadquarters of CAMRA - the Campaign For Real Ale?
Answer: saint albans
Question: Which poet wrote the 1817 poem 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving'?
Answer: byron
Question: Said to be the fastest creature on the planet, which is Britain's largest Falcon?
Answer: peregrine
Question: Who composed the tone poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Answer: dukas
Question: Prior to his election as President, Barack Obama was a Senator for which US state ?
Answer: illinois
Question: In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , what is the job of the ' rude mechanical ' Bottom ?
Answer: weaver
Question: The Simpsons cartoon series was originally part of who's TV show ?
Answer: tracy ullman
Question: Which composer and pianist, usually included as one of the Three B's of classical music, wrote A German Requiem ?
Answer: brahms
Question: What legal verdict is available in Scotland but not in England and Wales ?
Answer: not proven
Question: The adjective ' caprine ' refers to which type of animal ?
Answer: goat
Question: Who is to succeed Hilary Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State ?
Answer: john kerry
Question: Which Welsh Rugby Union team plays its home games at the Gnoll ?
Answer: neath
Question: What was the name of Oasis's first UK No. 1 hit single ?
Answer: some might say
Question: In the forthcoming trilogy of films based on Tolkien's The Hobbit , which British actor plays Bilbo Baggins ?
Answer: martin freeman
Question: Which coffee chain opened its first branch in Seattle in 1971 ?
Answer: starbucks
Question: Andy Murray's victory over which sporting rival made him Britain's first male grand slam tennis champion for 76 years ?
Answer: novak djokovic
Question: For how long does Rip Van Winkle sleep in Washington Irving's story ?
Answer: 20 years
Question: Which magician was the first TV partner of Basil Brush ?
Answer: david nixon
Question: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better is a song from which show ?
Answer: annie get your gun
Question: What is the rugby union equivalent of a throw-in in football ?
Answer: line out
Question: Which island is the source of the fortified wine , Marsala ?
Answer: sicily
Question: What's the name of King Lear's eldest daughter in the Shakespeare play ?
Answer: goneril
Question: Which actor plays the villain, Silva, in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall ?
Answer: javier bardem
Question: Give the title of the second U.K. No. 1 hit single for the Spice Girls.
Answer: say you ll be there
Question: In the Bible it is said that Noah's Ark was grounded on which mountain ?
Answer: mount ararat
Question: Which Roman emperor is said to have made his horse Incitatus a senator ?
Answer: caligula
Question: The title of the TV programme Torchwood is an anagram of which two words ?
Answer: doctor who
Question: What nickname was given to the Junkers 87 aeroplane in World War 2 ?
Answer: stuka
Question: What type of English dessert is made from mixing whipped cream, sugar and pureed fruit, often gooseberry ?
Answer: fool
Question: Which fruit traditionally forms part of the dessert known as Eton Mess ?
Answer: strawberries
Question: On TV, what is the name of Peppa Pig's younger brother ?
Answer: george
Question: What island lies immediately to the south of Martinique in the Caribbean ?
Answer: saint lucia
Question: Buckingham Palace was formerly known by what name before its redesign by the architect John Nash in the 1820's ?
Answer: buckingham house
Question: Whose first two hit albums were No Parlez and The Secret of Association ?
Answer: paul young
Question: Which Monty Python comedian wrote and sang the theme tune to BBC's One Foot In the Grave ?
Answer: eric idle
Question: Which farm dog watches over the home of Shaun the Sheep ?
Answer: bitzer
Question: Which James Bond film features two female bodyguards named Bambi and Thumper ?
Answer: diamonds are forever
Question: Which six-a-side game was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan ?
Answer: volleyball
Question: Which cast member played the piano in the original Beyond the Fringe satirical revue of the early Sixties ?
Answer: dudley moore
Question: Who was British Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905 ?
Answer: arthur balfour
Question: Which retail guru presented the TV series Mary Queen of Shops ?
Answer: mary portas
Question: With the exception of its short coastline, The Gambia is bordered on all sides by which other West African country ?
Answer: senegal
Question: Who played the title role in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man ?
Answer: andrew garfield
Question: Alan Strang is the tortured hero of which award-winning 1973 stage play by Peter Shaffer ?
Answer: equus
Question: In Roman myth , what type of animal suckled Romulus and Remus ?
Answer: wolf
Question: What name for a self-propelled airship or balloon comes from the French ' to steer ' ?
Answer: dirigible
Question: In which book of the Bible is the story of Lot's wife recounted ?
Answer: genesis
Question: What , in the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the code word for M ?
Answer: mike
Question: Who was British Prime Minister between 1894 and 1895 ?
Answer: earl of rosebery
Question: Which character in Irish folklore stores a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow ?
Answer: leprechaun
Question: Sir Billy Butlin was raised in Canada ; but in which country was he born ?
Answer: south africa
Question: In which street in the City of London did the Great Fire of London break out in 1666 ?
Answer: pudding lane
Question: What was the name of the King's horse that caused the death of suffragette Emily Davison at the Epsom Derby in 1913 ?
Answer: anmer
Question: The Cavendish Laboratory houses the Physics Department of which major British university ?
Answer: cambridge
Question: Which British playwright wrote the works Absence of War , Racing Demons and Teeth 'N' Smiles ?
Answer: david hare
Question: Who wrote the music of the light opera Orpheus in the Underworld ?
Answer: offenbach
Question: What nickname for an Englishman is first said to have been used in the 1712 satire Love Is a Bottomless Pit by Dr John Arbuthnot ?
Answer: john bull
Question: What was the surname of the French brothers who invented the hot - air balloon in the 18'th century ?
Answer: montgolfier
Question: Which leader of the Peasants' Revolt was killed by the Lord Mayor of London at Smithfield in June , 1381 ?
Answer: watt tyler
Question: For which 1988 a cappella song is Bobby McFerrin best known ?
Answer: don t worry be happy
Question: Which British astronomer - a proponent of the steady state theory of the universe - is usually credited with having coined the term ' big bang ' ?
Answer: sir fred hoyle
Question: What type of dog is Beethoven in the film franchise of that name ?
Answer: st bernard
Question: In the children's show Trumpton, what was the profession of Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub ?
Answer: firemen
Question: Which Manchester City player scored the winning goal against Queen's Park Rangers to win the Premier League in 2012 ?
Answer: sergio aguero
Question: Who was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 ?
Answer: eleanor roosevelt
Question: Each September at Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire , men perform an ancient animal dance holding what ?
Answer: antlers
Question: What was adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956 ?
Answer: in god we trust
Question: Which fish, with the scientific name Pleuronectes platessa , is a flatfish immediately identifiable by the reddish or orange spots on its upper side ?
Answer: plaice
Question: On which river does the city of Lisbon stand , just before it reaches the Atlantic Ocean ?
Answer: tagus
Question: What word is given to the thin leather straps used in falconry to tether the bird ?
Answer: jesses
Question: In 1960 , Alberto Korda took an iconic photograph of which revolutionary leader ?
Answer: che guevera
Question: Which German composer wrote the music of the overture Rienzi, often heard in the concert hall ?
Answer: wagner
Question: In the British and American armies, what rank is between a General and a Major-General ?
Answer: lieutenant general
Question: Which Monty Python film features the exploding Mr Creosote ?
Answer: meaning of life
Question: Clara Petacci was the mistress of which dictator ?
Answer: mussolini
Question: Which is the only London borough on both sides of the Thames ?
Answer: richmond upon thames
Question: Which composer , when just 17, wrote the Overture A Midsummer Night's Dream ?
Answer: mendelssohn
Question: The novel Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Hugo, is better known by what title in the English-speaking world ?
Answer: hunchback of notre dame