CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which character in The Archers kept a Staffordshire bull terrier called Captain?
Answer: jack woolley
Question: Which TV character referred to his wife as ’Er Indoors?
Answer: arthur daley
Question: In a 1965 to 1975 sitcom, which actress’s character was mocked as a Silly Moo?
Answer: dandy nichols
Question: What is the term for the strong magnetism associated with cobalt, nickel and iron?
Answer: ferromagnetism
Question: Who discovered electromagnetic induction, so facilitating the transformer and dynamo?
Answer: michael faraday
Question: Which James Bond film title derives from Non Sufficit Orbis, motto of Philip II of Spain?
Answer: world is not enough
Question: What post does Welshman Mark Sampson hold in English football?
Answer: england women s
Question: Which cathedral is known locally as “The Ship of the Fens”?
Answer: ely
Question: Which cathedral’s spires have earned it the name, “The Ladies of the Vale”?
Answer: lichfield
Question: Which King of England died after falling from his horse, Sorrel?
Answer: william iii
Question: Which feature on the River Thames marks the upper limit of its tidal waters?
Answer: teddington lock
Question: Which region’s name is Persian for Five Waters, alluding to five tributaries of the Indus?
Answer: punjab
Question: Which Northern English city incorporates five river valleys and by tradition seven hills?
Answer: sheffield
Question: In cricket, if a batsman had been victim to a Mankad, as what would his dismissal be recorded?
Answer: run out
Question: Of which 1969 film was 15-year-old Billy Casper the central character?
Answer: kes
Question: Which real-life baseball manager and former player was the central character of the 2011 film Moneyball?
Answer: billy beane
Question: What name specifically describes an inhabitant of Galway?
Answer: galwegian
Question: Which metallic element is the essential additive to steel when making stainless steel?
Answer: chromium
Question: The Appalachian and Hammered are two types of which traditional musical instrument?
Answer: dulcimer
Question: In which field was Marie Stopes (1880-1958) a pioneer?
Answer: birth control
Question: “It’s the way I tell ‘em!” was one of the catchphrases of which comedian?
Answer: frank carson
Question: What do the Argentinians call what we call the Falkland Islands?
Answer: las malvinas
Question: In card games such as Whist and Bridge, what word is used for just one card in a suit?
Answer: singleton
Question: What word was common to three of the titles of the Beatles’ first six Top 20 hits?
Answer: love
Question: Who wrote the 1969 novel ‘The Godfather’?
Answer: mario puzo
Question: In ‘Treasure Island’, what is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot?
Answer: captain flint
Question: Who plays the title character in the 2013 remake of ‘The Great Gatsby’?
Answer: leonardo dicaprio
Question: Who directed the 1942 film, ‘Casablanca’?
Answer: michael curtiz
Question: ‘Please, Sir’ (1968-72) was set in which fictional school?
Answer: fenn street
Question: Which English Premiership rugby club play home games at The Twickenham Stoop?
Answer: harlequins
Question: In 1979, where in Pennsylvania was there a partial nuclear meltdown accident?
Answer: three mile island
Question: What element is third in the periodic table of the elements, after hydrogen and helium?
Answer: lithium
Question: In 1973, Britain joined at the same time as Ireland and which other country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Who composed ‘Finlandia’ (1899) and the ‘Karelia Suite’ (c 1893)?
Answer: jean sibelius
Question: Bedrich was the first name of which Czech composer, 1824 to 1884?
Answer: smetana
Question: In which month did Browning long to be in England, in ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’?
Answer: april
Question: In the name of the unpleasant bacterium c. difficile, what does the ‘C’ represent?
Answer: clostridium
Question: The character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based on whom?
Answer: alexander selkirk
Question: Somaliland and Eritrea were both colonized by which European nation?
Answer: italy
Question: The coypu, or nutria, was originally native to which continent?
Answer: south america
Question: Sometimes called a beaver dam, what is the more customary name for a beaver’s home?
Answer: lodge
Question: Music. In which country is the song ‘Dominick the Donkey’ set?
Answer: italy
Question: In the ‘Star Wars’ films, what sort of creature is Chewbacca?
Answer: wookiee
Question: Who starred as Vera Drake on TV, and as Professor Umbridge in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: imelda staunton
Question: Which of the seven actors who have played James Bond once polished coffins for a job?
Answer: sean connery
Question: Born in 1955, who wrote ‘The Firm’, ‘The Client’ and ‘The Chamber’?
Answer: john grisham
Question: In 1520, what was the name given to the meeting held between Henry VIII and Francis I?
Answer: field of cloth of
Question: By what title was British Prime Minister Robert Banks Jenkinson otherwise known?
Answer: earl of liverpool
Question: In which European country does/did the late Norman Wisdom have a huge cult status?
Answer: albania
Question: What is missing from this list of ingredients for Hollandaise sauce? Egg yolks, butter,
Answer: lemon juice
Question: What was the first name of Dick Van Dyke’s Cockney character in ‘Mary Poppins’?
Answer: bert
Question: The drink known as ‘Ice pick’ consists of cold tea, lemon juice, and which spirit?
Answer: vodka
Question: In the late 70s, which Cockney played the male lead in the tv programme ‘Yus, My Dear’?
Answer: arthur mullard
Question: What is the name for the Parliament on the Isle of Man?
Answer: tynwald
Question: Who was the first poet to be buried in Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey?
Answer: chaucer
Question: Which fish is included in the ingredients of Worcestershire Sauce?
Answer: anchovies
Question: Blueberry Jelly Beans were created for which US president?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: What is the name of the Creole stew made with okra, rice, shellfish or pork?
Answer: gumbo
Question: What word from German means ‘delighting in another’s misfortune’?
Answer: schadenfreude
Question: The Yiddish word ‘schmuck’ meaning a contemptible person, literally means what?
Answer: penis
Question: What was the nickname of Stephen Lewis’s character in Last of the Summer Wine?
Answer: smiler
Question: The tune Duelling Banjos features in which 1972 film?
Answer: deliverance
Question: Who was Britain’s Defence Secretary at the time of the Falklands War?
Answer: john nott
Question: Where did German teenager Matthias Rust land his small plane in 1987?
Answer: red square
Question: Which 1976 Derek Jarman film was dialogued entirely in Latin?
Answer: sebastiane
Question: Which crooner’s only UK No.1 was Memories Are Made Of This in 1956?
Answer: dean martin
Question: What was the name of Sonny Crockett’s pet alligator in Miami Vice?
Answer: elvis
Question: Who were the ascetics who lived on the top of pillars or columns?
Answer: stylites
Question: Mr Elton, a vicar, is a character in which Jane Austen novel?
Answer: emma
Question: Torch was the final code name for the 1942 Allied landings ……..where?
Answer: north africa
Question: In which conflict did the Battle of Pork Chop Hill take place?
Answer: korean war
Question: Which international football team are known as ‘The Albiceleste’?
Answer: argentina
Question: What is the name of the dragon that guards the treasure in The Hobbit?
Answer: smaug
Question: Dr Claw is the arch-enemy of which children’s cartoon title character?
Answer: inspector gadget
Question: Benvolio is the cousin and friend of which Shakespearian hero?
Answer: romeo
Question: Which African country is regarded as the spiritual home of Rastafarianism?
Answer: ethiopia
Question: Someone feigning unconsciousness or death is said to be playing which animal?
Answer: possum
Question: The three types of chemical matter are – element, mixture and which other?
Answer: compound
Question: Who has taken over from Sandi Toksvig as presenter of The News Quiz?
Answer: miles jupp
Question: Who played the Chief Petty Officer in The Navy Lark?
Answer: jon pertwee
Question: Which modern currency is derived from the old European coin the ‘thaler’?
Answer: dollar
Question: Apart from the Bolshoi which is Russia’s other famous touring ballet company?
Answer: kirov
Question: Which opera did Verdi supposedly compose for the opening of the Suez Canal?
Answer: aida
Question: Upon which war did he report as a foreign correspondent for the Morning Post?
Answer: boer war
Question: Which hormone is called epinephrine in the USA?
Answer: adrenalin
Question: What was Elvis Presley’s first film – the only one in which he did not get top billing?
Answer: love me tender
Question: What is added to Scotch to make a Whisky Mac?
Answer: ginger wine
Question: In olden-day police parlance what were ‘darbies’?
Answer: handcuffs
Question: Which form of strangulation was for years the official method of execution in Spain?
Answer: garotte
Question: To which Mediterranean island were UN peacekeepers sent in 1964?
Answer: cyprus
Question: Which American author created Tarzan Of The Apes?
Answer: edgar rice burroughs
Question: Which T Rex hit was called 'Bang A Gong' when it was released in the USA?
Answer: get it on
Question: Athlete Florence Griffith was given which nickname after her marriage in 1987?
Answer: flo jo
Question: Mary of Modena was the second wife of which of our monarchs?
Answer: james ii
Question: Pope Gregory XI was the last Pope to live in which French city?
Answer: avignon
Question: Adrian IV, the first English Pope, was educated in which city named after the first English martyr?
Answer: st albans
Question: What was Reginald Perrin's middle name?
Answer: iolanthe
Question: The name of which Titan was given to a large flightless bird of South America?
Answer: rhea
Question: Named after Mrs Gamp, a character in a Dickens' novel, what is a Gamp?
Answer: umbrella
Question: Which meal is regarded as the Spanish national dish, although it is more specific to Valencia?
Answer: paella
Question: What was Esther and Abi Ofarim's only number one single in Britain?
Answer: cinderella rockefella
Question: Which disease, now known to be a virus, was first identified in Germany in 1814?
Answer: rubella
Question: In 1910 Leo Tolstoy died in what type of building?
Answer: railway station
Question: When explaining the Doppler Effect which suffix follows the words 'Red' and 'Blue'?
Answer: shif
Question: Who played Catherine of Aragon in 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII' AND Queen Victoria in 'Edward VII'?
Answer: annette crosby
Question: Kate Philips played which wife of Henry VIII in 'Wolf Hall'?
Answer: jane seymour
Question: What does the Morrison's supermarket chain call its delicatessen counters?
Answer: market street
Question: Which French port has namesakes in both Derby and Nottingham?
Answer: dunkirk
Question: The taste of which Chinese beer reminds you that its city of origin was a German concession?
Answer: tsingtao
Question: In Urbana Illinois on the 12th January 1992 Mr Langley taught a HAL 9000 computer which song?
Answer: daisy
Question: Played by Patrick Newell, who was John Steed and Tara King's boss in The Avengers?
Answer: mother
Question: Which industrialist born in Wirksworth in 1803 opened Matlock Hydro in 1853?
Answer: john smedley
Question: Born in Denby in 1646, who was the first Astronomer Royal?
Answer: john flamsteed
Question: Christians pilgrims to which Spanish city returned wearing a scallop shell in their hat bands?
Answer: santiago de compostela
Question: Until recent times Muslim men returned from the Haj wearing turbans of which colour?
Answer: green
Question: FIFA's annual award for most beautiful goal is named after which Real Madrid player?
Answer: ferenc puskas
Question: What type of port can be found at Pegwell Bay in Kent and at Ryde on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: hoverport
Question: What is the nickname of Football Premiership club Bournemouth?
Answer: cherries
Question: Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell in Yorkshire are the three corners of which triangle?
Answer: rhubarb
Question: What is the Kiwi Fruit commonly called in New Zealand?
Answer: chinese gooseberry
Question: What is the name of actress Gwyneth Paltrow's oldest child?
Answer: apple
Question: If satsumas were Japanese and mandarins were Chinese, which oranges were North African?
Answer: tangerines
Question: Bowie's video for 'Let's Dance' was recorded in which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Live Aid featured a video of Bowie duetting with which rock star?
Answer: mick jagger
Question: Any direct route from New York state to Wisconsin transects which Canadian province?
Answer: ontario
Question: In 1886 Franz von Soxhlet suggested that which wine process could be applied to milk?
Answer: pasteurisation
Question: 'Paro' was the largest moai erected on which island?
Answer: easter island
Question: Deborah, Diana, Jessica and Pamela were some of the members of which family?
Answer: mitford
Question: The sisters of Dixon of Dock Green's Jack Warner performed as which characters?
Answer: gert and daisy
Question: Hadfield near Glossop became the fictional town of Royston Vasey in which TV series?
Answer: league of gentlemen
Question: Which actor, born in Hayfield in 1915, supplied the voices of the Mr Men on TV?
Answer: arthur lowe
Question: What is the third word of the motto adopted by France in 1946?
Answer: fraternity
Question: In 2006 TV host Victoria Coren won half a million pounds playing which card game?
Answer: poker
Question: On 1st January 2014, which country became the 18th member of the Eurozone?
Answer: latvia
Question: Disney’s recent animated film Frozen is based on which tale by Hans Christian Andersen?
Answer: snow queen
Question: Which knighted actor directed the 2011 superhero movie Thor?
Answer: kenneth branagh
Question: Which member of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning side was born in Shirebrook?
Answer: ray wilson
Question: Who was Joseph Stalin’s immediate successor as Premier of the Soviet Union?
Answer: georgy malenkov
Question: Helen Graham is the eponymous protagonist of which 19th-century novel?
Answer: tenant of wildfell hall
Question: Which restored castle in West Sussex is the seat of the Duke of Norfolk?
Answer: arundel castle
Question: Which Derbyshire railway station has the three-letter code CMF?
Answer: cromford
Question: The Vasco da Gama Bridge, the longest in Europe, spans which river?
Answer: tagus
Question: Which is the most southerly city to have hosted the Winter Olympics?
Answer: nagano
Question: Which is the most southerly of the Met Office’s shipping forecast areas?
Answer: trafalgar
Question: Spoken by Gloucester, what are the first seven words of Shakespeare’s Richard III?
Answer: now is winter of our
Question: The song Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend comes from which musical?
Answer: gentlemen prefer blondes
Question: Mentioned in the title of Cole Porter’s Begin the Beguine, what is a beguine?
Answer: dance
Question: Which fictional division of the Jersey police employed the services of Jim Bergerac?
Answer: le bureau des étrangers
Question: What is the name of the fictional island that provides the setting for Death in Paradise?
Answer: saint marie
Question: Which island is the birthplace of Cristiano Ronaldo?
Answer: madeira
Question: What name is given to natives of the second-largest island of the Maltese archipelago?
Answer: gozitans
Question: The island of Foulness lies off the coast of which English county?
Answer: essex
Question: Which guest chose a stuffed Michael Palin as his luxury to take to the Island?
Answer: john cleese
Question: What title is currently held by Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger?
Answer: pope emeritus
Question: Which bodily fluid is secreted by the parotid glands?
Answer: saliva
Question: What trade name did Bayer give to the analgesic drug diamorphine?
Answer: heroin
Question: Which 1988 film was subtitled From the Files of Police Squad?
Answer: naked gun
Question: In which national park does the annual Green Man festival take place?
Answer: brecon beacons
Question: Used as launch mascots for BBC2 in 1964, what were Hullaballoo and Custard?
Answer: kangaroos
Question: If California is “The Golden State”, what is New York state?
Answer: empire state
Question: Who was the first of the Mr Men characters to be created by Roger Hargreaves?
Answer: mr tickle
Question: What is the traditional form of address when first meeting the Queen?
Answer: your majesty
Question: As PM, William Lamb, aka Viscount Melbourne, mentored and served which monarch?
Answer: victoria
Question: Which London club did Holmes' brother Mycroft co-found?
Answer: diogenes
Question: Although she represented the UK in ‘Eurovision’, what nationality was Gina G?
Answer: australian
Question: Who is unique in being named Billboard's ‘Woman of the Year’ twice, in 2011 & 2014?
Answer: taylor swift
Question: James Braddock won the title from which boxer whose son was in The Beverly Hillbillies?
Answer: max baer
Question: Which regal title does Daenerys Targaryen acquire by marrying a Dothraki horse lord?
Answer: khaleesi
Question: Who plays the President in the 2013 Roland Emmerich thriller 'White House Down'?
Answer: jamie foxx
Question: Who played Freddie Krueger in no fewer than seven horror movies?
Answer: robert englund
Question: Who played the character Roy Batty in the 1982 movie 'Blade Runner'?
Answer: rutger hauer
Question: In the classic movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', who appeared as the Wicked Witch of the West?
Answer: margaret hamilton
Question: Which of the Greek muses had a name that can be translated as "delight in dancing"?
Answer: terpsichore
Question: Which Baltic nation adopted the Euro currency, becoming the 17th Eurozone country?
Answer: estonia
Question: Which country applied to the UK courts for the extradition of Julian Assange?
Answer: sweden
Question: Who completes this Old Testament group of friends; Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and…?
Answer: abednego
Question: Who is the little boy in the 1963 children's book 'Where The Wild Things Are'?
Answer: max
Question: Convicted in 1987 of war crimes, who was known as the ‘Butcher of Lyon’?
Answer: nikolaus klaus barbie
Question: From which popular musical do we get the songs ‘The Impossible Dream’ and ‘Dulcinea’?
Answer: man of la mancha
Question: What is the given name of the daughter born to Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise?
Answer: suri
Question: Which former Playboy model was the subject of an opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage?
Answer: anna nicole smith
Question: During a Papal visit, which nation observed Good Friday for the first time in 50 years?
Answer: cuba
Question: Which author of ‘Jonathon Livingston Seagull’ was injured, ironically, in a flying accident?
Answer: richard bach
Question: Which Christian Socialist politician became chancellor of Austria in 1932?
Answer: engelbert dollfuss
Question: Which moon of Jupiter is roughly three-quarters of the size of Mars?
Answer: ganymede
Question: In which US State do teams play baseball in the Cactus League?
Answer: arizona
Question: December 2011 saw her appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy. Who?
Answer: tracey emin
Question: Who allegedly killed his pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina, by kicking her in the stomach?
Answer: nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus
Question: Who composed the music for the films 'Gandhi' and Satyajit Ray's revered 'Apu Trilogy'?
Answer: ravi shankar
Question: Admiral Américo Tomás became president of which NATO-member nation in 1958?
Answer: portugal
Question: Which country is home to Lake Balaton, the largest lake in central Europe?
Answer: hungary
Question: Which bone in the human forearm is slightly thicker than its pair?
Answer: radius
Question: What is removed in a procedure called an oophorectomy?
Answer: ovary or ovaries
Question: Who coined the term 'Big Bang' for a cosmic theory with which he did not himself agree?
Answer: sir fred hoyle
Question: The EU's student exchange programme is named for which Dutch, Renaissance figure?
Answer: erasmus of rotterdam
Question: The calendar of which Mesoamerican people led to a fixation with the year 2012?
Answer: maya
Question: In Greek myth what was the name of Orpheus's wife trapped in Hades?
Answer: eurydice
Question: By what name was a member of the serf underclass known in Ancient Sparta?
Answer: helot
Question: Barium chlorate is used as an oxidiser in fireworks to produce which colour?
Answer: green
Question: In 1984, which Cosmonaut became the first woman to perform a spacewalk?
Answer: svetlana savitskaya
Question: What is found in the middle of a Sussex Pond pudding?
Answer: lemon
Question: To which family of birds does the chiffchaff belong?
Answer: warbler
Question: Who will captain the European team in the 2010 Ryder Cup?
Answer: colin montgomery
Question: Who played the character Solitaire in Live and Let Die?
Answer: jane seymour
Question: Which fictional detective lived at 110A Piccadilly, W1?
Answer: lord peter wimsey
Question: “Wish You Were Here” are a tribute band for which group?
Answer: pink floyd
Question: In which sitcom did a Jack Russell terrier called Eddie appear?
Answer: frasier
Question: Who was born Vera Margaret Welsh on 20th March 1917?
Answer: vera lynne
Question: In which city was the first Disney theme park opened in 1955?
Answer: anaheim
Question: In which town is the Devonshire Campus of the University of Derby?
Answer: buxton
Question: Where in England is the Ceremony of the Keys held every evening?
Answer: tower of london
Question: Which British fabric has an ‘Orb’ trade mark?
Answer: harris tweed
Question: Born 1917, which Australian painter is well known for his portraits of outlaw Ned Kelly?
Answer: sidney nolan
Question: In The Mikado who does Nanki-Poo love and eventually marry?
Answer: yum yum
Question: Cassegranian, Gregorian and Schmidt are all types of what?
Answer: telescope
Question: What was the nickname of the American gangster and bank robber Charles Floyd?
Answer: pretty boy
Question: What is produced by the larva of ‘bombyx mori’?
Answer: silk
Question: Which is the only Dickens novel to have a female narrator?
Answer: bleak house
Question: What is the common name of the small flowering tree ‘syringa’?
Answer: lilac
Question: In desert regions what is a ‘haboob’?
Answer: sandstorm
Question: What was the name of the robot played by Ian Holm in Alien?
Answer: ash
Question: The character Katniss Everdeen is a protagonist in which series of films?
Answer: hunger games
Question: Which musical is based on the Puccini opera Madame Butterfly?
Answer: miss saigon
Question: What word was used for the costume or outfit of a Court Jester?
Answer: motley
Question: Born 1801, who led the Mormons into Utah and co-founded Salt Lake City?
Answer: brigham young
Question: Francis Walsingham was the spymaster for which monarch?
Answer: elizabeth i
Question: Which musical instrument has a name that translates as ‘jumping flea’?
Answer: ukulele
Question: Which palace is the London home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge?
Answer: kensington palace
Question: What sitcom title character is the TV alter ego of Adil Ray?
Answer: citizen khan
Question: What was the title of the latest David Attenborough offering on BBC1?
Answer: life story
Question: Which hero of legend lived at Joyous Guard?
Answer: sir lancelot
Question: Which Russian city was formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad?
Answer: volgograd
Question: A Russian rouble is divided into 100 …..what?
Answer: kopeks
Question: Whose band was famous for recording ‘One O’Clock Jump’ and ‘April in Paris’?
Answer: count basie
Question: Which type of geographical feature can be block, chute, plunge, funnel, horsetail or fan?
Answer: waterfall
Question: Which stage musical is based on two characters taken from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
Answer: wicked
Question: Lydia the Tattooed Lady was a theme tune of which comedian?
Answer: groucho marx
Question: Which book by Eric Carle was inspired by a hole punch?
Answer: very hungry caterpillar
Question: A deemster is a legal official in which part of the British Isles?
Answer: isle of man
Question: Which large British mammal has the Latin name Cervus elaphus?
Answer: red deer
Question: Who was the hostess of The Golden Shot between 1969 and 1975?
Answer: anne aston
Question: Who was the original base guitarist of the Kinks?
Answer: peter quaife