CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In which modern day country is Yalta, the site of the famous meeting during World War II?
Answer: ukraine
Question: Which fruit is affected by the benevolent fungus known as 'Noble Rot'?
Answer: grape
Question: The Holy Roman Empress Matilda was the daughter of which English king?
Answer: henry i
Question: Which tree usually provides the wood used to make Highland Games cabers?
Answer: larch
Question: In the fashion label DKNY, for what does either the ‘D’ or the ‘K’ stand?
Answer: donna karan new york
Question: Which figure from Greek mythology was depicted on the title page of the first publication of the map maker Mercator?
Answer: atlas
Question: One player from Sheffield Wednesday was in the 1966 World Cup winning squad who was he?
Answer: ron springett
Question: One player from Wolverhampton Wanderers was in the 1966 World Cup winning squad who was he?
Answer: ron flowers
Question: Actor Toby Stephens is the son of which famous actress?
Answer: maggie smith
Question: Which Spanish airport is the regular destination for holidays in Benidorm?
Answer: alicante
Question: How are comedians Paul & Barry Elliot better known?
Answer: chuckle brothers
Question: Which fictional detective, created by Caroline Graham in novels such as 'Faithful Unto Death' and 'The Killing at Badgers Drift' features in a popular TV series?
Answer: tom barnaby
Question: For which film in 1950, starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter, did British actor George Sanders win the Oscar as Best Supporting Actor?
Answer: all about eve
Question: If you drove a AMG performance luxury saloon car what make of car would you drive?
Answer: mercedes benz
Question: In church architecture what is the upper storey of the nave wall, pierced by windows, known as?
Answer: clerestory
Question: Which wood was the one mainly used by Thomas Chippendale?
Answer: mahogany
Question: The Russian rouble is made up of 100 what?
Answer: kopecks
Question: Which British author wrote the 1996 Booker winning novel “Last Orders”?
Answer: graham swift
Question: The Austrian schilling was made up of 100 what?
Answer: groschen
Question: What was first published in Edinburgh between 1768 and 1771 thanks to the efforts of the 'Society of Gentlemen in Scotland'?
Answer: encyclopaedia britannica
Question: Which group had a 1967 hit with “Night of Fear”?
Answer: move
Question: Which group had a 1967 hit with “Paper Sun”?
Answer: traffic
Question: Which writer wrote novels based on his own youthful experiences, science fiction and, in 1920, the massive "The Outline of History"?
Answer: h g wells
Question: Which British author wrote the 1995 Booker winning novel “The Ghost Road”?
Answer: pat barker
Question: What is the transverse portion of a cross shaped church known as?
Answer: transept
Question: Which novelist was a King's Scholar at Eton, a policeman in Burma, a dishwasher in Paris and a Republican soldier in Spain?
Answer: george orwell
Question: Which English brewery produces a beer called 'Old Peculiar'?
Answer: theakston s
Question: What is the name of the wooden pavement which is a feature of Atlantic City, USA?
Answer: boardwalk
Question: Which precious stone can be described as being 'of the first water'?
Answer: diamond
Question: In which one of the five towns of the Potteries is there a statue to Sir Stanley Matthews?
Answer: hanley
Question: Who was the hero of several Sir Arthur Canon Doyle stories, first introduced in "The Lost World"?
Answer: professor challenger
Question: What name is given to a mechanical model of the Solar System?
Answer: orrery
Question: Who played Frank Spencer’s long suffering wife Betty in the TV series “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em”?
Answer: michelle dotrice
Question: Which football team beat Benfica on penalties to win the Europa League in 2014?
Answer: sevilla
Question: Which fictitious riverboat gave Credence Clearwater Revival their first hit single in Britain?
Answer: proud mary
Question: Which stretch of water do the Germans call the Bodensee?
Answer: lake constance
Question: Considered to be a possible location for the fabled Camelot, in which county is Cadbury Castle?
Answer: somerset
Question: The prefix “thio” indicates the presence of which chemical element?
Answer: sulphur
Question: Of the many Livery Companies which one is considered to be the most prestigious?
Answer: mercers
Question: Which duo had top five hits in the 1980’s with “Torch” and “Say Hello Wave Goodbye”?
Answer: soft cell
Question: Which gap-toothed comedy actor was drained of blood by Vincent Price in the 1971 film “The Abominable Doctor Phibes”?
Answer: terry thomas
Question: Which snooker player is nicknamed “The Jester from Leicester”?
Answer: mark selby
Question: Who composed the opera “The Girl of the Golden West”?
Answer: giacomo puccini
Question: What is the more familiar name of the house plant Ficus elastica?
Answer: rubber plant
Question: Which duo had top five hits in the 1980’s with “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”?
Answer: tears for fears
Question: On which horse did Lester Piggott ride the first of nine Epsom Derby winners?
Answer: never say die
Question: Historically associated with George Washington, in which English county is Sulgrave Manor
Answer: northamptonshire
Question: In the famous novel by Charles Dickens, what is Little Dorrit’s first name?
Answer: amy
Question: The TV documentary “Death of a Princess” caused a diplomatic rift between Britain and which other country?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: The poet John Suckling is credited as the inventor of which card game?
Answer: cribbage
Question: Which football team beat Dundee United to win the Scottish FA Cup for the first time in their history?
Answer: st johnstone
Question: Muriatic acid is an alternative name for which acid?
Answer: hydrochloric
Question: Which former chart topping song for Frankie Laine gave the Jimi Hendrix Experience their first British hit?
Answer: hey joe
Question: Who composed the opera “The Silken Ladder”?
Answer: gioachino rossini
Question: Which stretch of water is known in Welsh as Llyn Tegid?
Answer: lake bala
Question: Which footballer scored a late goal in this season’s playoff final to take QPR back into the Premier League?
Answer: bobby zamora
Question: Electrum is an alloy chiefly consisting of gold and which other metal?
Answer: silver
Question: If the eight Royal Parks in London are arranged alphabetically which comes last?
Answer: st james s
Question: His father was an MP. His mother was an MEP. His wife is a Prime Minister. Who was elected MP for Aberavon in the 2015 General Election?
Answer: stephen kinnock
Question: Morland Brewery, brewers of Old Speckled Hen, was bought in 2000 by which other brewery?
Answer: greene king
Question: Who plays Cedric Diggory in the film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"?
Answer: robert pattinson
Question: A man and a woman sitting in a Paris bar — who painted L 'Absinthe in 1876?
Answer: edgar degas
Question: The first international cricket match was played in Pakistan last month since 2009 when in March of that year the team bus of which country was attacked in Lahore?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: Which Shakespeare play could be summarised as 'The magician Prospero shipwrecks the enemies that originally ousted him from Italy, but when Ferdinand falls for his daughter Miranda he finally faces them down and learns to forgive'?
Answer: tempest
Question: Which member of the Royal family is Earl of Carrick and Baron of Renfrew?
Answer: prince charles
Question: Whose thirteenth studio album released in March this year is Rebel Heart?
Answer: madonna
Question: Sir Seretse Khama was from 1966 to 1980 the first President of which African country?
Answer: botswana
Question: Which is the only one of the Great Lakes which does not border the US state of Michigan?
Answer: lake ontario
Question: What is the nickname of the character Henrietta played by Anna Chancellor in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Answer: duckface
Question: Who owns the Empress of Blandings the creation of P G Wodehouse
Answer: lord emsworth
Question: Which word beginning with 'o' is the branch of medical science that deals with pregnancy and childbirth?
Answer: obstetrics
Question: Complete the title of the 1933 book by Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B …?
Answer: toklas
Question: Complete the title of the 1934 book by Evelyn Waugh A Handful of.
Answer: dust
Question: What are the first four words of the poem Funeral Blues by W H Auden read at the funeral of Gareth in film 2Four Weddings and a Funeral"?
Answer: stop all clocks
Question: Lewis Hamilton signed a new three year contract last month with which motor racing team?
Answer: mercedes
Question: The peninsula of Istria is shared between Italy, Slovenia and which other country which has about 89%?
Answer: croatia
Question: Errol Brown who died last month was best known as a member of which band?
Answer: hot chocolate
Question: Ali Bongo Ctadimba is the President of which African country - his father Omar Bongo held the position from 1967 to 2009?
Answer: gabon
Question: Lake Ontario is bounded by the Canadian province of Ontario and which US state?
Answer: new york
Question: What is the name of the four-wheeled horse-drawn convertible carriage, named after a town in Germany, used in Blackpool?
Answer: landau
Question: Which architect, President of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011, is responsible for the National Space Centre in Leicester and the Eden Project in Cornwall?
Answer: sir nicholas grimshaw
Question: Which heavyweight boxer retired in 1956 with a record of 49 wins from 49 fights?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: Who edited The Sun between 1981 and 1994?
Answer: kelvin mackenzie
Question: Name the twin city to Minneapolis on the other side of the Mississippi.
Answer: st paul
Question: The town of Coober Pedy in South Australia is a major source of which gemstone?
Answer: opal
Question: Not to be confused with the Burma campaign of World War II, which Far Eastern war of the mid-twentieth century is often called by the survivors, "The Forgotten War"?
Answer: korean war
Question: By what name are Football League team Heaton Norris now known?
Answer: stockport county f c
Question: In the book of Genesis where did the Land of Nod lie?
Answer: east of eden
Question: Which famous musician owned a film company called Handmade Films?
Answer: george harrison
Question: Which of Marilyn Monroe'sfilms included her version of the song, 'I Want To Be Loved By You'?
Answer: some like it hot
Question: Who Directed the 2000 film 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'?
Answer: ang lee
Question: Who played detective 'Alex Cross' in the 2000 film 'Along Came A Spider'?
Answer: morgan freeman
Question: Which 'Grease' track was covered by Hilda Baker and Arthur Mullard?
Answer: you re one that i want
Question: What is the name given to a young Salmon that returns to fresh water after one Winter at sea?
Answer: grilse
Question: Which British boxer lost a world title fight to Roberto Duran in June 1972?
Answer: ken buchanan
Question: Who duetted with Celine Dion on the song 'Tell Him'?
Answer: barbra streisand
Question: Which opera singer duetted with Celine Dion on the song 'Let's Talk About Love'?
Answer: pavarotti
Question: 'Simon Tappertit' appears in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: barnaby rudge
Question: If a tree is balaniferous, what does it bear?
Answer: acorns
Question: What place near Lewes in Sussex was the site of a famous scientific forgery of 1912?
Answer: piltdown
Question: From which British port did John Cabot set sail in the 'Mathew' in 1497?
Answer: bristol
Question: Who played vampire hunter 'Van Helsing' in the film 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'?
Answer: sir anthony hopkins
Question: In Western Australia, what object might be known as a 'Kylie'?
Answer: boomerang
Question: Who played the title role in the 1955 film 'Davy Crockett, King Of The Wild Frontier'?
Answer: fess parker
Question: Which city in Cambridge shire was the stronghold of Anglo-Saxon rebel 'Hereward the Wake'?
Answer: ely
Question: What type of foodstuff is a Red Savina Habanero?
Answer: chilli pepper
Question: What does the Latin phrase 'Vox Populi' mean?
Answer: voice of people
Question: What was the name ofthe sports label bought out by JJB Sports in 2002?
Answer: patrick
Question: Who preceeded Herbert Hoover as President of the USA?
Answer: john calvin coolidge
Question: What line follows "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be", from the Beatles song 'Yesterday'?
Answer: there s shadow hanging over me
Question: Complete this list of nations for Group 10 in football's 'Euro 2004' tournament - Albania, Republic of Ireland, Georgia, Russia and ...?
Answer: switzerland
Question: In 1936, Germany re-occupied the officially demilitarised province of the 'Rhineland', in defiance of which treaty?
Answer: treaty of versailles
Question: What follows the Elephant and Rhinoceros as Africa's third heaviest land mammal?
Answer: hippopotamus
Question: Complete the list of nations for Group 9 in football's 'Euro 2004' tournament - Italy, Wales, Azerbaijan, Yugoslavia, and ...?
Answer: finland
Question: Which American leader's Vice-President was Hubert Humphrey?
Answer: lyndon b johnson
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the sky god, son and husband of Gaia?
Answer: uranus
Question: Who wrote the books, 'Lost Horizon' and 'Goodbye Mr. Chips'?
Answer: james hilton
Question: For which US President did Walter Mondale serve as Vice-President?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: 'New Bats In Old Belfries' and 'Mount Zion' are works by which famous poet?
Answer: john betjeman
Question: Raymond Massey starred as which character in the TV medical drama 'Doctor Kildare'?
Answer: dr gillespie
Question: Which was the first non-capital city after the second World War to stage the Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: melbourne 1956
Question: William and Mary were joint rulers of England during the last decade of which century?
Answer: seventeenth
Question: The first decade of which century witnessed the succession to the throne of Edward II?
Answer: fourteenth
Question: Who played the mentally unstable, 'Chief Inspector Dreyfuss', in the 'Pink Panther' films?
Answer: herbert lom
Question: 'The Fellowship Of The Ring' opens with the news that someone in the Shire is planning a birthday party. Who?
Answer: bilbo baggins
Question: Who played 'Sir Charles Lytton's' American-born nephew, 'George', in the original 'Pink Panther' movie?
Answer: robert wagner
Question: How is American actor, Issur Danielovitch, better known?
Answer: kirk douglas
Question: Stephen Hendry won his first World Snooker title in 1990 when beating which Englishman in the final?
Answer: jimmy white
Question: Which Welshman did Steve Davis defeat in the final to win his first Snooker World Championship?
Answer: doug mountjoy
Question: What do Americans call the Guard's Van at the rear of a train?
Answer: caboose
Question: Which Central American country boasts the active volcanoes, 'Santa Maria' and 'Pacaya'?
Answer: guatemala
Question: 'Manam' and 'Bagana' are active volcanoes of which South-East Asian country?
Answer: papua new guinea
Question: In America, the triangular road sign meaning "Give Way", displays only one word. What is it?
Answer: yield
Question: What cat-like African mammal has spotted fur and is noted for the powerful-smelling fluid from its anal glands, from which it bears its name?
Answer: civet
Question: What family of South American, forest-dwelling mammals has an elongated snout, three-toed hind legs and four- toed forelegs?
Answer: tapir
Question: Bobby Darin and The Four Tops had top ten hits with which song?
Answer: if i were carpenter
Question: Which song by 'The Wurzels' was set top the music 'Paloma Blanca'?
Answer: i am cider drinker
Question: The electric starter for motor cars was introduced in 1911, by which great American manufacturer?
Answer: cadillac
Question: Which British manufacturer introduced the 'XK 120' sports car in 1948?
Answer: jaguar
Question: Which TV comedy series starred Richard Briers and Prunella Scales and ran from 1963 to 1966?
Answer: marriage lines
Question: Which republic, part of the former Soviet Union, lies between Estonia and Lithuania?
Answer: latvia
Question: Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer were the stars of which TV sit-com, which ran from 1978 to 1982?
Answer: butterflies
Question: In 1999, who became King of Jordan following the death of King Hussein?
Answer: prince abdullah
Question: Which part of the former Soviet Union is sandwiched between the Ukraine and Romania?
Answer: moldova
Question: Whom did 'Sherlock Holmes' describe as "The Napoleon of crime"?
Answer: professor moriarty
Question: The largest natural lake in Wales is known locally as Llyn Tegid. What is its English name?
Answer: lake bala
Question: 'Devil's Apron', 'Purple Laver' and 'Thong Weed' are all types of what?
Answer: sea weed
Question: Which Boy Scout badge is awarded for skill at tracking and reading signs?
Answer: woodcraft
Question: Which part of the south-west of Portugal shares its name with that given to Nelson's first great naval victory?
Answer: cape st vincent
Question: UNITA was founded in 1966 by Joseph Savimbi, its original aim being the independence of which country?
Answer: angola
Question: Made in 1981, which was Jimmy Cagney's last film, in which heplayed the part of a police commissioner?
Answer: ragtime
Question: Which gas, composed of carbon and hydrogen, burns with an intensely brilliant flame, and is used extensively in welding?
Answer: acetylene
Question: Which bird, also known as the 'Mountain Cock', may be described as "the largest of the grouse family", and was extinct in Britain for most of the 19th century?
Answer: capercaillie
Question: What is the name of the chocolate coated nutty biscuit named after the Italian city where it was firstmade?
Answer: florentine
Question: Which city in Uzbekistan was formerly Tamurlane's capital?
Answer: samarkand
Question: Which parkland overlooking London lies at the southern end of Hampstead Heath?
Answer: parliament hill
Question: Which volcanic French island in the Indian Ocean has Saint Denis as its capital?
Answer: reunion
Question: In mythology, who was theGreek youth who drowned at night while swimming to meet 'Hero'?
Answer: leander
Question: What is the name of the main South African naval base near Cape Town?
Answer: simonstown
Question: After independence, who became the first Prime Minister of Tanzania?
Answer: julius nyrere
Question: (Tigran) Petrosian was world champion at what from 1963 to 1969?
Answer: chess
Question: Which gum resin produced in Sri Lanka is used in medicine, and also in the production of a shiny yellow colour of paint?
Answer: gamboge
Question: Which Conservative Party Club in London was damaged by an IRA bomb in 1960?
Answer: carlton club
Question: What was the name of Julie Walter's character in 'Acorn Antiques'?
Answer: mrs overall
Question: What type of creature is a 'Rorqual'?
Answer: whale
Question: What is the name given to an attack on a fort, castle etcusing ladders?
Answer: escalade
Question: 'A white wading bird with a black patterned head and back, and an upturned beak', describes which bird?
Answer: avocet
Question: In 1976 Concorde flew its first scheduled passengerflights.One route was from Paris to Rio, the other was from London towhere?
Answer: bahrain
Question: What is the full name of Dawn French's character in 'The Vicar Of Dibley'?
Answer: geraldine grainger
Question: What was the name of the Swiss-born US racing driver who designed a make of car that was named after him?
Answer: louis chevrolet
Question: What is the name of the stadium which hosted the Champions League Cup Final between Chelsea and Manchester United?
Answer: luzhniki stadium
Question: Who is missing from this Greek mythology group of sisters;Stheno, Euryale and who else?
Answer: medusa
Question: The southern most town in mainland South America lies at the southern tip of Chile. What is it called?
Answer: punta arenas
Question: Who is Mel Gibson's partner in the 'Lethal Weapon' series?
Answer: danny glover
Question: Which fictional character lives at '32 Windsor Gardens, London'?
Answer: paddington bear
Question: Which medieval organisation had the 'skull and crossbones' as a flag on their ships in the Middle Ages?
Answer: knights templar
Question: What are rolled in bacon on toast to make 'Angels On Horseback'?
Answer: oysters
Question: Who was the Tory Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1783 to 1801?
Answer: william pitt younger
Question: Who, often portrayed pulling the devil's nose with hot tongs, is the patron saint of blacksmiths?
Answer: st dunstan
Question: Who became the first President of the newly independent Ghana in 1957?
Answer: kwame nkrumah
Question: With which branch of the arts would you associate Barbara Hepworth?
Answer: sculpture
Question: Which car manufacturer produces models called 'Aveo' and 'Epica'?
Answer: chevrolet
Question: Which US sit-com featured the 'Cafe Nervosa'?
Answer: frasier
Question: From which club did Chelsea FC sign Didier Drogba?
Answer: marseille
Question: Much in the news this year (2009) from which bank did Sir Fred Goodwin resign?
Answer: royal bank of scotland
Question: In which US state is the 'Mammoth Cave National Park' situated?
Answer: kentucky
Question: From which club did Arsenal FC sign Francesc Fabregas?
Answer: barcelona
Question: What is the administrative centre for the Scottish Unitary Authority of Clackmannanshire?
Answer: alloa
Question: Which TV cartoon character gave Ken Barrie his only chart hit in 1982?
Answer: postman pat
Question: Which romantic film comedy reunited 'Pretty Woman' co- stars Richard Gere and Julia Roberts?
Answer: runaway bride
Question: Near which Cumbrian lake is Aira Force?
Answer: ullswater
Question: Who, because he was roasted on a gridiron, is the patron saint of cooks?
Answer: st lawrence
Question: In World War I, what did the Allies call the defence line that was known as the 'Siegfried Line' by the Germans?
Answer: hindenburg line
Question: Which Irish writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923?
Answer: w b yeats
Question: Who said of Liz Taylor: "Her arms are too fat, her legs are too short, and she is too big in the bust"?
Answer: richard burton
Question: In which US state is the 'Carlsbad Caverns National Park'?
Answer: new mexico
Question: Who got to number three in 1968 with 'Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)'?
Answer: john fred playboy band
Question: Which 1962 musical film featured the song 'Coming Up Roses'?
Answer: gypsy
Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1765 to 1766?
Answer: marquis of rockingham
Question: Which Cole Porter musical featured the song 'Just One Of Those Things'?
Answer: paris
Question: In Chinese philosophy, what are the terms for contrasting and complementary forces or principles of the universe?
Answer: yin yang
Question: Which Frenchman did John Isner memorably defeat 70- 68 in the fifth set of this year's Wimbledon Championship?
Answer: nicholas mahut
Question: Which composer wrote the operas 'The Pearl Fishers' and 'Carmen'?
Answer: georges bizet
Question: By what name is the Jewish Day of Atonement also known?
Answer: yom kippur
Question: Which Russian did Serena Williams defeat in straight sets in the Ladies Singles Final at this year's Wimbledon Championship?
Answer: vera zvonareva
Question: Which composer wrote the operas 'Lohengrin' and 'Tannhauser'?
Answer: richard wagner
Question: For what do the letters 'ICI' stand in the name of the British company?
Answer: imperial chemical industries
Question: In May 2010, 98 people were killed when terrorists attacked two mosques in which Pakistani city?
Answer: lahore
Question: Which Spanish football team plays its home games at the Stadio Riazor?
Answer: deportivo la coruna
Question: The name of which chemical element, with the symbol 'Ac', is derived from the Greek for 'ray'?
Answer: actinium
Question: Which French football team plays its home games art Stade Velodrome?
Answer: marseille
Question: What was the capital city of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen until 1990?
Answer: aden
Question: 'Teardrop', by the British hip-hop duo 'Massive Attack', is the theme tune to which American drama series?
Answer: house