CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Rarely achieved, which six letter word in golf is used to describe a score of four under par on a hole, for example a hole in one on a par five or a two on a par six?
Answer: condor
Question: Which tennis player played in four men's singles finals at Wimbledon between 1967 and 1971, winning the title on three occasions?
Answer: john newcombe
Question: The Battle of Shiloh of 1862, also known as The Battle of Pittsburg Landing was a battle that took place during which war?
Answer: american civil war
Question: The remake of which popular TV series of the 1960s saw James Caviezel in the main role and was filmed in Swakopmund in Namibia?
Answer: prisoner
Question: Commonly found throughout the Southern USA and the Northern half of Mexico what type of creature is a Coachwhip?
Answer: snake
Question: Which female singer reached number one in the UK charts in October 1979 with a record entitles One Day At A Time?
Answer: lena martell
Question: The American TV series Three's A Crowd that ran from 1984 to 1985 was loosely based on which BBC series that featured Richard O'Sullivan?
Answer: robin s nest
Question: The Battle of Bomarsund of 1854 was a battle that took place during which war?
Answer: crimean war
Question: Which male singer reached number one in the UK charts in February 1977 with a record entitled When I Need You?
Answer: leo sayer
Question: The food dish 'Chicken Montmorency' includes which fruit?
Answer: cherries
Question: William Lyon Mackenzie King, more famously known as Bill King was Prime Minister of which country during World War II ?
Answer: canada
Question: Which moon of the planet Jupiter shares its name with the alias of the character Rosalind when she disguises herself as a man in Shakespeare's As You like It?
Answer: ganymede
Question: Taking place in 1513, the Battle of Flodden Field took place in which English county?
Answer: northumberland
Question: Which American author wrote the 1985 book The Cider House Rules?
Answer: john irving
Question: Taking place in 1644, the Battle of Marston Moor took place in which English county?
Answer: yorkshire
Question: Which moon of the planet Saturn shares its name with the name of the girlfriend of the book character Adrian Mole?
Answer: pandora
Question: Peter Fraser was the Prime Minister of which country for vast the majority of World War II ?
Answer: new zealand
Question: What nationality is tennis player Karen Hantze Susman who won the 1962 Ladies Singles title at Wimbledon, beating Vera Sukova in the final?
Answer: american
Question: Which American author wrote the book The Catcher In The Rye in 1951 ?
Answer: j d salinger
Question: Which children's animated character, a young boy first seen in 2005, was transformed when he found a mysterious device called 'The Omnitrix'?
Answer: ben 10
Question: Which popular animated characters, first seen in 1996 include many different characters including ones called Ash Ketchum, Tracy Sketchit and Gar Oak?
Answer: pokemon
Question: Which king of England, Denmark, Norway and parts of Sweden who died on November 12th 1035 is buried at Winchester Cathedral?
Answer: canute
Question: Which basalt tablet was famously rediscovered in 1799 by French Captain Pierre Francois Bouchard, bearing parallel inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian Hieroglyphic and demotic characters?
Answer: rosetta stone
Question: What was the name of the spy, created by author Len Deighton who was portrayed by Michael Caine in the films Funeral in Berlin, The Ipcress File abd The Billion Dollar Brain?
Answer: harry palmer
Question: In which famous film did Michael Caine play a character named Charlie Croker?
Answer: italian job
Question: Which four letter word can mean a shot in golf, a famous pirate or a law in physics?
Answer: hook
Question: Native to America, what type of creature is a 'Bobolink'?
Answer: bird
Question: With Michael Landon and Karen Grassle as the mother and father, what was the surname of the main family in the TV series Litle House on the Prairie?
Answer: ingall
Question: In Chinese cooking what would you be eating of you ordered Wantons?
Answer: dumplings
Question: Which popular building is situated at the address, Chester Road West, Queensferry, Flintshire CH5 1SA? It is the largest of its type in North Wales.
Answer: deeside leisure centre
Question: Which poem by Alexander Pope contains the famous line 'Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread'?
Answer: essay on criticism
Question: In Chinese cooking, what type of meat is the main ingredient in the dish Char Siu?
Answer: pork
Question: With Guy Williams and June Lockhart as the mother and father, what was the surname of the main family in the TV series Lost in Space?
Answer: robinson
Question: Which poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson contains the line 'Into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred'?
Answer: charge of light brigade
Question: What two word name was given to the British civilian organisation created during the first and second world wars that involved women working in agriculture, replacing men who had been called up to the military?
Answer: land army
Question: Gary Lightbody is the lead vocalist of which pop band formed in 1994 ?
Answer: snow patrol
Question: Chad Varah, a British Anglican priest who lived from 1911 to 2007 is probably best remembered for being the founder of which charity organisation in 1953 ?
Answer: samaritans
Question: William Booth, a former Methodist Preacher who lived from 1829 to 1912 is probably best remembered for being the founder of which charity organisation in 1865 ?
Answer: salvation army
Question: Which painting of 1851 by Sir Edwin Landseer features a great stag/deer which stands on a rise among cloud-covered mountains?
Answer: monarch of glen
Question: Which two word titled film of 1971 sees Barry Newman as a car delivery seviceman named Kowalski who takes control of a 1970 Dodge Challenger car to take him from Colorado to San Francisco?
Answer: vanishing point
Question: 'Erinaceus Europaeus' is the latin name for which common creature?
Answer: hedgehog
Question: Which actor played the part of Wayne the father in the 1989 film Honey I Shrunk the Kids?
Answer: rick moranis
Question: Which breed of Terrier gives its name to a farmer who appeared in the novel Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: dandy dinmont
Question: Which British city's airport is located in the suberb of Turnhouse?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: Which actor played the role of killer Max Cady in the 1991 film Cape Fear?
Answer: robert de niro
Question: Which cricket county finished runners-up in Division Two to Derbyshire this year, despite the fact that they never lost a match all season?
Answer: yorkshire
Question: On which comedian's radio show did Sid James star for almost six years beginning in 1954 as a character with the middle name Balmoral?
Answer: tony hancock
Question: What H was the Christian name of Mr Royce, founder of the car company Rolls Royce?
Answer: henry
Question: What C was the Christian name of Mr Rolls, founder of the car company Rolls Royce?
Answer: charles
Question: Brideshead Revisited, written in 1945, was a famous novel by which famous author?
Answer: evelyn waugh
Question: What is the name of the now 46 year old British man whose extradition to the USA, for breaking into American computer systems, was recently blocked by Home Secretary Theresa May?
Answer: gary mckinnon
Question: What is the name of the editor of BBC's Newsnight who recently resigned following a Panorama probe into the Jimmy Saville affair?
Answer: peter rippon
Question: """Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming"" are the opening words to which famous song?"
Answer: star spangled banner
Question: """The hills are bare now and Autumn leaves lie thick and still"" are the opening lyrics to the second verse of which famous song?"
Answer: flower of scotland
Question: Which member of the Royal Family has the title 'Baron Greenwich'?
Answer: prince philip
Question: Which pop group in June 1976 reached Number One in the UK charts with the record You To Me Are Everything?
Answer: real thing
Question: In the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony the comedy character Mr Bean appeared and jokingly played an instrument to which famous record?
Answer: chariots of fire
Question: In which series of books, first published in 1942, did many of the adventures take place on Kirrin Island?
Answer: famous five
Question: What is the much more common name of the British Royal named Baroness Marie Christine Anna Hedwig Ida Von Reibbitz?
Answer: princess michael of kent
Question: Which actor plays the title role in the ITV series Monroe?
Answer: james nesbitt
Question: Which famous company, founded in Los Angeles in 1923 is Bob Iger the Chairman and Chief Executive of?
Answer: disney
Question: What was the name of the actress and businesswoman famous for her affair with politician David Mellor that resulted in his resignation from the Cabinet in 1992 ?
Answer: antonia de sancha
Question: Which series of books, first published in 1922, sees the main character's friends named Ginger, Henry and Douglas who call themselves the Outlaws?
Answer: just william
Question: Which famous two word titled Beatles song did the band The Arctic Monkeys perform at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Answer: come together
Question: Which famous science fiction novel of 1898 is famous for its ending which states "After all that mankind had tried, the Earth was saved by the littlest things that God, in his wisdom, had put on this Earth?
Answer: war of worlds
Question: Which Australian Prime Minister famously disappeared whilst swimming off the coast of Victoria on December 17th 1967?
Answer: harold holt
Question: What nationality was Kel Nagle, winner of golf's British Open in 1960 ?
Answer: australian
Question: Which US President was assassinated on September 6th 1901 shortly after spending a morning visiting Niagara Falls with his wife?
Answer: william mckinley
Question: As in the film TORA TORA TORA which five letter word does the Japanes word Tora mean in English?
Answer: tiger
Question: What nationality was Bob Charles, winner of golf's British Open in 1963?
Answer: new zealand
Question: What is the well known two word name for the remote , higher reaches of the A57 road where it crosses the Peak District between Manchester and Sheffield?
Answer: snake pass
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born at 54 Albion Road, Broadstairs, Kent on July 9th 1916 ?
Answer: edward heath
Question: What was the three word name of the manwith the gong in the "yes or no" interlude in the 1960s game show Take Your Pick?
Answer: bob danvers walker
Question: Which band's first top ten single was the 10538 Overture in 1972?
Answer: elo
Question: Living from 1890 to 1963, what was the more famous name of American born Robert Franklin Stroud?
Answer: birdman of alcatraz
Question: Which English author wrote the 1934 novel Goodbye Mr Chips?
Answer: james hilton
Question: What nationality was artist Mark Rothko who lived from 1903 to 1970?
Answer: russian
Question: Which actor played the lead role in the 1986 remake of the horror film The Fly?
Answer: jeff goldblum
Question: Which English author wrote the 1925 novel 'The Great Gatsby'?
Answer: f scott fitzgerald
Question: Which actor played the role of psychiatrist Sam Loomis in the 1978 horror film Halloween?
Answer: donald pleasance
Question: What nationality was artist Alphonse Mucha who lived from 1869 to 1939 ?
Answer: czech
Question: What is the name of the female assistant to Sweeney Todd who supplies the pies in the famous story?
Answer: mrs lovett
Question: Launched in January 1993, which Ford model car won the award for European Car of the Year in 1994?
Answer: mondeo
Question: With a population of over one and a half million inhabitants, what is the capital city of Cameroon?
Answer: yaounde
Question: What is the name of the girlfriend of Bill Sykes who he murders in the Dickens novel 'Oliver Twist'?
Answer: nancy
Question: Launched in Autumn 1995, which Renault model car won the award for European Car of the Year in 2003 ?
Answer: megane
Question: Which Scottish football team share their name with the Christian name of a famous American criminal who died in 1934 ?
Answer: clyde
Question: 'The Town of Titipu' is the alternative name for which Gilbert and Sullivan opera?
Answer: mikado
Question: Which member is missing from the following list of the group The Jackson Five - Michael, Marlin, Jackie and Jermain?
Answer: tito
Question: What was the name of the London based street dance troupe who won the third series of ITV's 'Britain's Got Talent', narrowly beating Susan Boyle into second place?
Answer: diversity
Question: Who is the only Fulham player to win the award for Football Writer's 'Player of the Year', doing so in 1975.
Answer: alan mullery
Question: Three British towns were awarded city status in 2012. Perth and Chelmsford were two, which was the other one?
Answer: st asaph
Question: What 'M' was the name of the farm in the George Orwell book 'Animal Farm'?
Answer: manor
Question: Found in Venezuela, what is the name of the world's highest uninterupted waterfall?
Answer: angel falls
Question: What was the name of the then 14 year old street dancer from Warrington who won the second series of IV's 'Britain's got Talent', performing a big beat remix of the song 'Singing in the Rain'?
Answer: george sampson
Question: Whic male member i missing from the following list of the group 'The Osmonds' - Donny, Jimmy, Alan, wayne and Jay?
Answer: merrill
Question: Greater Horseshoe, Brandt's and Natterer's are all species of which type of creatures that are found in Britain?
Answer: bats
Question: Found in Chile, what is the name of the world's driest desert?
Answer: atacama
Question: Apart from Stanley Matthews in 1963, who is the only Stoke City player to win the award for Football Writer's Player of the Year, doing so in 1972?
Answer: gordon banks
Question: In 2002,Kevin Ashman from the BBC show 'Eggheads' took over as question setter on the radio series 'Brain of Britain'. He chose to be known as 'Jorkins' a character taken from which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: david copperfield
Question: Now aged 57, which British scientist is widely accepted as being the inventor of the World Wide Web?
Answer: tim berners lee
Question: What nickname links an entertainer who has the real name Victoria Hesketh and the Roman emperor Caligula?
Answer: little boots
Question: Living from 1891 to 1958 which Dane is credited with being the inventor of the toy Lego?
Answer: ole kirk christiansen
Question: For many years, Ian Gilles, a former winner of radio's 'Brain of Britain', was question setter for the series. He adopted which name that is associated with Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: mycroft
Question: Which Irish stick and ball team sport is almost identical to the game of Hurling except for the fact it is played only by women as opposed to men?
Answer: camogie
Question: A 'Lady's Slipper' is a variety of which type of flower?
Answer: orchid
Question: Which river. approximately 28 miles in length, flows into Morecambe Bay through Fleetwood?
Answer: wyre
Question: The frequent absences of King George I from England and Parliament led directly to the creation of which position in government?
Answer: prime minister
Question: What type of engine powered the first generation of Spitfire fighters in the 1930's ?
Answer: rolls royce merlin
Question: Which vegetable is usually mixed with potatoes to make the Irish dish, Colcannon?
Answer: cabbage
Question: Who played the title role in the long-running detective series Bergerac?
Answer: john nettles
Question: Pitchblende is the chief ore of which metallic element?
Answer: uranium
Question: How many masts does the vessel known as a Ketch have?
Answer: two
Question: What is the term for a triangle with three angles of 60 degrees?
Answer: equilateral
Question: Hepatic is a adjective relating to which organ of the body?
Answer: liver
Question: Which Englich king was the father of the two boys known as 'The Princes in the Tower'?
Answer: edward iv
Question: Which actress last year won an EMMY award for her role as Mildred Pierce?
Answer: kate winslet
Question: What's the common name for the curved knife or dagger traditionally used by the Gurkhas, with its sharp edge on the concave side?
Answer: kukri
Question: Which of the territories of Canada has the city of Yellowknife as its capital?
Answer: northwest territories
Question: Who wrote the melody of the song 'Swonderful'?
Answer: george gershwin
Question: What was the original name of the 'London Times' newspaper?
Answer: daily universal register
Question: Which actress said in the film All About Eve, "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night"?
Answer: bette davis
Question: The former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, which declared independence in 1991, has which city as its capital?
Answer: dushanbe
Question: Which politician was described by Neil Kinnock as, "a ditherer, a dodger, a ducker and a weaver"?
Answer: john major
Question: In the pop music world whose nickname is 'Madge'?
Answer: madonna
Question: What was the name of the publishing company founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Wolfe?
Answer: hogarth press
Question: In the 1933 film She Done Him Wrong, who was the actor to whom Mae West said, "Why don't you come up sometime and see me"?
Answer: cary grant
Question: Which northern English town is associated with the manufacture of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls?
Answer: wigan
Question: Who wrote the melody of the song 'Smoke Gets In your Eyes"?
Answer: jerome kern
Question: Dis and Orcus are alternative names for which Roman god of the Underworld?
Answer: pluto
Question: The carbonated soft drink generally known in the US as cream soda is flavoured with pods from plants of which genus?
Answer: vanilla
Question: In which US state is the town of Springfield which Simpson's creator Matt Groening has revealed was the inspiration for his fictional Springfield?
Answer: oregon
Question: Kashmir is a classic track on a 1975 album by which British rock band?
Answer: led zeppelin
Question: What is the English name of the dog belonging to cartoon character TinTin?
Answer: snowy
Question: Who was lead singer with late-Sixties rock group The Doors ?
Answer: jim morrison
Question: Which actress was married to Orson Welles from 1943 to 1948 ?
Answer: rita hayworth
Question: As well as John Paul the First , which other pope died in 1978 ?
Answer: paul vi
Question: Which type of suit , with tapering trousers and a long wide shouldered coat , became fashionable in the 1940's ?
Answer: zoot suit
Question: On which Test cricket ground is the Radcliffe Road end ?
Answer: trent bridge
Question: In the novel by Jules Verne , where did the expedition , led by Professor Linden-brock , set out to reach ?
Answer: centre of earth
Question: Which gas was once known as ' Fire Damp ' because it often caused explosions in mines ?
Answer: methane
Question: Who wrote the ' Ode to Joy ' on which Beethoven based the last movement of his Ninth Symphony ?
Answer: schiller
Question: The footballer John Charles played for two Italian football clubs: Roma and which other ?
Answer: juventus
Question: In which Hertfordshire town are the headquarters of the Wetherspoons pub chain ?
Answer: watford
Question: What was the name of the submarine in the novel ' 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ' by Jules Verne ?
Answer: nautilus
Question: Which American boxer's thunderous right hand punch was known as ' The Suzie Q ' ?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: The sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped takes its title from the girl the hero David Balfour falls in love with. What is its title ?
Answer: catriona
Question: Ludo is the children's version of which long-established board game ?
Answer: backgammon
Question: Which artist became the first President of the Royal Academy in 1768 ?
Answer: joshua reynolds
Question: Which Greek word meaning ' union ' refers to the proposed union of the island of Cyprus and Greece ?
Answer: enosis
Question: In the traditional game table skittles , what name is usually given to the ball or disc or ' lump ' cast at the pins ?
Answer: cheese
Question: Which of his silent film epics did Cecil B. De Mille remake in the 1950's ?
Answer: ten commandments
Question: What nickname was given to Lloyd George's budget of 1909 ?
Answer: people s budget
Question: Which 1925 film starring Ramon Novarro was reshot in 1959 , to much box office and Academy Award success ?
Answer: ben hur
Question: What term describes the point at which a celestial object in orbit around the Earth , such as the Moon , makes its closest approach to Earth ?
Answer: perigee
Question: Which actor's last TV appearance before his death in 1985 was as Daniel Reece in Dynasty ?
Answer: rock hudson
Question: Which county won Cricket's County Championship for the first time in its history in 1979 ?
Answer: essex
Question: Which Welsh town was granted city status in 2012 ?
Answer: st asaph
Question: The Blowfly is known in the UK by what other common name ?
Answer: bluebottle
Question: Which UK TV game show introduced us to Dusty Bin ?
Answer: 3 2 1
Question: In which country is the Kensington Oval cricket stadium ?
Answer: barbados
Question: Hadrian's Wall was completed in which century ?
Answer: 2nd century ad
Question: From which Shakespeare play do we get the quotation " hubble bubble toil and trouble fire burn and caluldron bubble " ?
Answer: macbeth
Question: What was the name of the U.S. Space station , launched into Earth orbit in May 1973 ?
Answer: skylab
Question: On which TV show did Mr Blobby first make his appearance ?
Answer: noel s house party
Question: In 2012 , which town became the first in Essex to be granted city status ?
Answer: chelmsford
Question: In which city will you find the cricket ground known as the Gabba ?
Answer: brisbane
Question: Under which Roman emperor did the Roman Empire reach its greatest extent, teritorially ?
Answer: trajan
Question: Who in the Bible's Book of Judges is the son of Manoah ?
Answer: samson
Question: Scamper is a dog in which series of Enid Blyton stories ?
Answer: secret seven
Question: What rank does an officer in the British Army hold who wears the insignia of a crown and two stars on his shoulder straps ?
Answer: colonel
Question: Which type of pastry canape's name literally means ' flight in the wind ' ?
Answer: vol au vent
Question: Which Russian revolutionary was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879 ?
Answer: leon trotsky
Question: What name did the Beckhams give to their fourth child and first daughter ?
Answer: harper seven
Question: Which was the second bridge to be built over the Thames in central London?
Answer: westminster
Question: Which singer duetted with Joe Cocker on their 1982 smash hit record ' Up Where We Belong ' ?
Answer: jennifer warnes
Question: By what name is the Russian city of Stalingrad now known ?
Answer: volgograd
Question: Which reptile's name comes from the Spanish ' el lagarto ' , meaning ' the lizard ' ?
Answer: alligator
Question: Which bridge in central London was originally known as the Strand Bridge when opened in 1817 ?
Answer: waterloo
Question: Which type of coal contains the highest carbon count and the fewest impurities ?
Answer: anthracite
Question: The Eiffel Tower has a restaurant named after which author ?
Answer: jules verne
Question: Who wrote the music of the oratorios The Apostles and The Kingdom ?
Answer: elgar
Question: Rudyard Kipling was the cousin of which British Prime Minister ?
Answer: stanley baldwin
Question: Which sister ship of the Titanic never entered commercial service and was sunk by a mine while serving as a hospital ship in 1916 ?
Answer: britannic
Question: What is the name of the ' world's highest ' restaurant , on the 122'nd floor of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai ?
Answer: atmosphere
Question: According to Dr Johnson , " Claret is the liquor for boys ; port , for men " , but he " who aspires to be a hero " must drink - what ?
Answer: brandy
Question: Who is the mother of the actor Toby Stephens ?
Answer: dame maggie smith
Question: Who wrote the music of the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons ?
Answer: haydn