CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which hunter is the arch-enemy of Bugs Bunny?
Answer: elmer fudd
Question: Whose mother-in-law is Pearl Slaghoople?
Answer: fred flintstone
Question: Which animal has species called Burchell’s and Grevy’s?
Answer: zebra
Question: Which is the only mammal able to kneel on all fours?
Answer: elephant
Question: What will be taking place in a town called Sochi in February?
Answer: winter olympics
Question: Which unlikely country qualified for the 2015 Cricket World Cup Finals by beating Kenya?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: Which England football manager has the highest win percentage (67%) of all?
Answer: fabio capello
Question: Who became chief editor of Cosmopolitan magazine in 1965?
Answer: helen gurley brown
Question: Which poet wrote The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Answer: robert browning
Question: Which form of textile-making uses knots rather than weaving or knitting?
Answer: macrame
Question: 1970’s TV. What was the forename of Reggie Perrin’s incompetent brother-in-law?
Answer: jimmy
Question: Who was the Secretary General from 1997 to 2006?
Answer: kofi annan
Question: Who was the first person to be voted off this year’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’?
Answer: tony jacklin
Question: Who wrote the 1924 poem ‘Leda and the Swan’?
Answer: w b yeats
Question: Who took over as Governor of the Bank of England on July 1st 2013?
Answer: mark carney
Question: Who was the first female D.J. on Radio 1?
Answer: anne nightingale
Question: Which socialist, federal republic existed from 1943 until 1992?
Answer: yugoslavia
Question: Who got to no.1 with ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’ in 1966?
Answer: walker brothers
Question: Mount Narodnaya is the highest peak in which mountain range?
Answer: urals
Question: Born in 1942, who had her greatest chart successes when a member of Blue Mink?
Answer: madeline bell
Question: Which P.R. first appeared in a 1902 book, in which he lost his jacket and shoes?
Answer: peter rabbit
Question: Which P.R. was Mitt Romney’s running mate in the 2012 Presidential election?
Answer: paul ryan
Question: In 1967, who got to no. 2 in the charts with ‘Excerpt from a Teenage Opera’?
Answer: keith west
Question: Who got to no. 6 with ‘Games People Play’ in 1969?
Answer: joe south
Question: Who wrote the 1911 novel ‘The Secret Garden’?
Answer: frances hodgson burnett
Question: Who was the gardener in the children’s tv series ‘The Magic Roundabout’?
Answer: mr mchenry
Question: ‘I See You, Baby (Shakin’ that Ass)’ is associated with which make and model of car?
Answer: renault megane
Question: This summer saw the appearance of which famous sportsman in Virgin Media ads?
Answer: usain bolt
Question: Whose catchphrases included ‘Hello, playmates’ and ‘Ay thang yaw’?
Answer: arthur askey
Question: In a Beatles’ track, who is mean Mr. Mustard’s sister?
Answer: polythene pam
Question: Born in 1902, which Briton composed ‘Façade’ and ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’?
Answer: sir william walton
Question: The village of Anatevka appears in which musical?
Answer: fiddler on roof
Question: Who is the mortal enemy of Captain Pugwash?
Answer: cut throat jake
Question: Whose madness presumably came about as the result of inhaling mercury fumes?
Answer: mad hatter
Question: What is the two-word name of Llandudno’s large limestone headland?
Answer: great orme
Question: In 1985, which funny man was the first UK citizen to make a mobile phone call?
Answer: ernie wise
Question: Which city is at the northern end of the Suez Canal?
Answer: port said
Question: Which Hollywood star died of a drug overdose in June 1969, aged 47?
Answer: judy garland
Question: Who had a hit with ‘Raining in My Heart’ in 1959?
Answer: buddy holly
Question: What state is governed by the Bishop of Urgell and the President of France?
Answer: andorra
Question: In the 1977 film Demon Seed what takes over the house in which Julie Christie is trapped?
Answer: computer
Question: What is the Japanese dish of (usually) beef and vegetables in soy sauce?
Answer: sukiyaki
Question: Which group was formed by Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty?
Answer: humblebums
Question: Hughie Jones, Cliff Hall, Mick Groves and Tony Davis comprised which top folk line up?
Answer: spinners
Question: Kelly Hoppen and Piers Linney were the new faces in series 11 of what TV programme?
Answer: dragons den
Question: What is the name of the part of a sundial that casts the shadow?
Answer: gnomon
Question: Where would you find the towns of Ramsey, Peel and Port Erin?
Answer: isle of man
Question: Where could you ride ‘The Smiler’ ‘Oblivion’ and ‘Nemesis’?
Answer: alton towers
Question: Andrea Begley of Northern Ireland was the winner of what TV competition last summer?
Answer: voice
Question: Which Ukip politician was in trouble for talking about ‘bongo, bongo land’ in the summer?
Answer: godfrey bloom
Question: The word ‘Shavian’ pertains to the work of which playwright?
Answer: george bernard shaw
Question: The famous French wine Chablis is made mainly from which grape variety?
Answer: chardonnay
Question: By what name was the notorious organisation run by the Kray twins known?
Answer: firm
Question: The Hungarian national dish goulash is chiefly flavoured with which spice?
Answer: paprika
Question: The American woodchuck or whistle-pigis also known by what name?
Answer: groundhog
Question: Which South American rodent yields what is said to be the most expensive fur?
Answer: chinchilla
Question: What was the band Madness’s only UK No.1?
Answer: house of fun
Question: In Heraldry what term describes a figure lying with head erect?
Answer: couchant
Question: A poem of 1735 saw the origin of which devoted couple?
Answer: darby and joan
Question: If a doctor gave you the Ishihara Test for what condition would he be testing you?
Answer: colour blindness
Question: When the original Top Twenty was compiled it wasn’t for records – what was it for?
Answer: sheet music
Question: Who fell in love with Heloise the beautiful 17-year-old daughter of Canon Fulbert?
Answer: peter abelard
Question: What do we call a quadrilateral with one pair of sides parallel?
Answer: trapezium
Question: What is the country of origin of the yeastless beer called ‘faro’?
Answer: belgium
Question: Which English club has won the European Cup more times than its own League Title?
Answer: nottingham forest
Question: Which creature has varieties called Chinook, Chum, Coho, Sockeye and Steelhead?
Answer: salmon
Question: Where in the British Isles is Ronaldsway Airport?
Answer: isle of man
Question: Which monarch moved the royal residence from St James Palace to Buckingham Palace?
Answer: queen victoria
Question: Which US Trade Union boss vanished in Bloomfield, Michigan in July, 1975?
Answer: jimmy hoffa
Question: Sir John Houblon was the first Governor of what?
Answer: bank of england
Question: Which crime used to be called ‘lese-majeste’ meaning injured majesty in French?
Answer: treason
Question: Sterling silver contains 92.5 parts silver and 7.5 parts ……what?
Answer: copper
Question: Which tourist resort of Croatia was formerly known as Ragusa?
Answer: dubrovnik
Question: Which European capital is situated at the point where Lake Malar joins the Baltic Sea?
Answer: stockholm
Question: Which relative of the giraffe has zebra-like stripes?
Answer: okapi
Question: What collective name is given to the children of Gaia and Uranus?
Answer: titans
Question: Polydactylism is distinguished by extra what?
Answer: fingers or toes
Question: Who won the 2013 series of TV’s Celebrity Masterchef?
Answer: ade edmondson
Question: Who announced his ‘Great Leap Forward’ in 1958?
Answer: mao tse tung
Question: In Hockney’s Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy – who or what is Percy?
Answer: cat
Question: Which instrument was played by jazz artist Benny Goodman?
Answer: clarinet
Question: Which of Beethoven’s symphonies was nicknamed ‘The Eroica’?
Answer: third
Question: In which fictional county is ‘The Archers’ set?
Answer: borsetshire
Question: Which British dramatist wrote the 1945 play ‘An Inspector Calls’?
Answer: j b priestley
Question: ‘Catriona’, also known as ‘David Balfour’, was the sequel to which novel?
Answer: kidnapped
Question: In 2012, Luis Suarez twice scored hat-tricks against which Premiership side?
Answer: norwich city
Question: In 2000 to 2002, which Grand Prix team won a hat-trick of constructors’ titles?
Answer: ferrari
Question: When the ads. finished, keeper Molly Badham welcomed them back to which zoo?
Answer: twycross
Question: What was the first name of Mark Knopfler’s brother in Dire Straits?
Answer: david
Question: Craig and Charlie Reid got together to form which band in 1983?
Answer: proclaimers
Question: Who wrote the 1946 work ‘The Winslow Boy’?
Answer: terence rattigan
Question: Apart from her husband, who is the best friend of Elizabeth Jean Rubble?
Answer: wilma flintstone
Question: Which 2007 Rihanna song topped the charts in fifteen countries?
Answer: umbrella
Question: What is the surname of Aleksandr, the chief meerkat in the comparethemarket.com ads?
Answer: orlov
Question: Rugby league. Which European Super League team are known as the ‘Giants’?
Answer: huddersfield
Question: Mt. Egmont, which also goes by another name, can be found in which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which straits separate Tierra del Fuego from mainland South America?
Answer: magellan
Question: In the heroic poem ‘The Song of Roland’, which ‘O’ is Roland’s best friend?
Answer: oliver
Question: What is the name of Andy Capp’s best friend?
Answer: chalkie white
Question: Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in which city and former Republic?
Answer: genoa
Question: In the TV show ‘Mrs. Brown’s Boys’, what is Mrs. Brown’s first name?
Answer: agnes
Question: Who is the first female in line of succession to the British throne?
Answer: princess beatrice
Question: In 1996, which duo got to no.11 in the UK pop charts with ‘Ocean Drive’?
Answer: lighthouse family
Question: Owned by J.D. Sports, which small British firm now provides the kit for the English RFU?
Answer: canterbury
Question: Born in 1911, whose real name was Virginia McMath?
Answer: ginger rogers
Question: The book and the musical ‘Phantom of the Opera’ are set in which city?
Answer: paris
Question: John Gilbert, Charles Buchel, Maurycy Gottlieb and others have all painted whom?
Answer: shylock
Question: Who linked ‘Only When I Laugh’ and ‘The Beiderbecke Affair’?
Answer: james bolam
Question: What is the name of the dog in the Secret Seven series of books?
Answer: scamper
Question: ‘On Stranger Tides’ is the fourth film in which series?
Answer: pirates of caribbean
Question: Dr Evil is the arch-enemy of which spoof film title character hero?
Answer: austin powers
Question: To which land did Cain go after killing Abel?
Answer: land of nod
Question: Sir John Oldcastle is said to be the model for which Shakespeare character?
Answer: falstaff
Question: Which children’s books character is known as ‘Oui Oui’ in France?
Answer: noddy
Question: Which famous World War II British invention had the codename ‘Upkeep’?
Answer: bouncing bomb
Question: Which anti-hero features in the Mervyn Peake novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast?
Answer: steerpike
Question: Who did Frank Bruno beat to win the WBC World Title in 1995?
Answer: oliver mccall
Question: Who did England beat by two runs in a 2005 Edgbaston Test Match?
Answer: australia
Question: Which 1932 novel is the most famous work of writer Stella Gibbons?
Answer: cold comfort farm
Question: What is the divine nickname for the elusive Higgs boson?
Answer: god particle
Question: What was the sequel to the sitcom Are You Being Served?
Answer: grace and favour
Question: Who composed The Resurrection Symphony and The Symphony of a Thousand?
Answer: mahler
Question: What name is given to the dried bummalo fish when crumbled over Indian cuisine?
Answer: bombay duck
Question: Which county was absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974?
Answer: huntingdonshire
Question: Which German word means low-brow, cheesy, mass-produced art in poor taste?
Answer: kitsch
Question: Which French phrase translates as ‘blow of mercy’?
Answer: coup de grace
Question: Which dynastic honour group is restricted to 24 members at any given time?
Answer: order of merit
Question: Under which Prime Minister were life peerages instituted?
Answer: harold macmillan
Question: Which is the highest order of chivalry in England?
Answer: order of garter
Question: Which element Atomic Number 19 was originally called Kalium?
Answer: potassium
Question: Who wrote The Tracks of My Tears and My Guy?
Answer: smokey robinson
Question: Who made the original recording of What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?
Answer: jimmy ruffin
Question: Which is the most northerly of the Met Office shipping forecast areas?
Answer: south east iceland
Question: Which Irish province includes the counties of Cork, Kerry and Limerick?
Answer: munster
Question: What is the administrative HQ of the Welsh region of Ceredigion?
Answer: aberystwyth
Question: Which body of water separates mainland Scotland and the Orkneys?
Answer: pentland firth
Question: Which educational movement was initiated by Robert Raikes in 1780?
Answer: sunday schools
Question: In Greek myth who won the beauty contest judged by Paris?
Answer: aphrodite
Question: The pagan festival Samhain is now better known as what?
Answer: halloween
Question: What was the name of the dog who accompanied the Three Men In A Boat?
Answer: montmorency
Question: Who was killed when Gloria Jones’ mini left the road and hit a tree in 1977?
Answer: marc bolan
Question: Which anti-Catholic insurgencies took place in London in 1780?
Answer: gordon riots
Question: Which economic law says ‘Bad money drives out good’?
Answer: gresham s law
Question: What herb, mentioned by Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’, is often used to flavour roast lamb?
Answer: rosemary
Question: What is the Italian for ‘None shall sleep’?
Answer: nessun dorma
Question: ‘I Predict a Riot’ (2004) and ‘Never Miss a Beat’ (2008) were Top 10 hits for whom?
Answer: kaiser chiefs
Question: What is the surname of the four sisters in ‘Little Women’ (1868-9)?
Answer: march
Question: In the hashtag ‘pogdogs’, who is ‘pog’?
Answer: paul o grady
Question: What is the surname of Jacques Alexandre Cesar, after whom a scientific law is named?
Answer: charles
Question: What was the name of Michael Bentine’s Bafta-winning tv show that ran from 1960-64?
Answer: it s square world
Question: What is the English for ‘Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite’?
Answer: i told you i was ill
Question: In 1979, which seaside town became the first in Britain to set up a nudist beach?
Answer: brighton
Question: Bewdley, Tenbury Wells, and Droitwich Spa are all towns in which English county?
Answer: worcestershire
Question: In 1952, who was knocked down for the first time in his career by Jersey Joe Walcott?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: Which famous literary character does governess Mary Morstan marry in 1889? (She is
Answer: dr watson
Question: Which actor in silent films, 1887-1933, had the first names Roscoe Conkling?
Answer: fatty arbuckle
Question: Who wrote the 1900 novel ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’?
Answer: frank l baum
Question: What is the name of the road that the horses cross in the English Grand National?
Answer: melling road
Question: Who is the long-time judo sparring partner of Arkady Rotenberg?
Answer: vladimir putin
Question: What is the singular form of the word ‘graffiti’?
Answer: graffito
Question: According to many sources, Aeschylus was killed by what falling from the sky and landing on his head?
Answer: tortoise
Question: Laura Massaro and Nick Matthew are 2016 British champions at which sport?
Answer: squash
Question: Which brand of whisky has an image of Lagopus lagopus scotica on the label?
Answer: famous grouse
Question: Who created the literary character Major-General Sir Richard Hannay?
Answer: john buchan
Question: Opera. Which Benjamin Britten opera is set in a fictional fishing village?
Answer: peter grimes
Question: In ‘Monopoly’, what is the first non-property square after ‘Go’?
Answer: community chest
Question: Baron Bomburst is a character in which British family film?
Answer: chitty chitty bang bang
Question: In which pantomime does the character Baron Hardup appear?
Answer: cinderella
Question: On which 2014 Richard Linklater film did production begin in 2002, but not end until 2014?
Answer: boyhood
Question: Which 1950 film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, an aging Broadway star?
Answer: all about eve
Question: Which actress was forced to leave ‘Coronation Street’ in 2007 because of poor health?
Answer: liz dawn
Question: What was the real name of Herman, from the pop group Herman’s Hermits?
Answer: peter noone
Question: ‘The Last King of Scotland’ (2006) was set in which country?
Answer: uganda
Question: What was the birth name of the woman who married Laurence Olivier in 1961?
Answer: joan plowright
Question: Born in Bolton in 1982, Jenny Ryan is the latest person to join which ITV programme?
Answer: chase
Question: Who preceded General Cornwallis as Governor-General of India?
Answer: warren hastings
Question: Who was the ecclesiastical figure who founded Winchester College in 1382?
Answer: william of wykeham
Question: In rugby union, the hooker wears no.2. What number is worn in rugby league?
Answer: nine
Question: For religious people, the shamrock is said to be a metaphor for what?
Answer: holy trinity
Question: Born in 1882, which famous Irishman left Sinn Fein in 1926, and founded Fianna Fail?
Answer: eamon de valera
Question: Where will you find the communities of Peel, Port St. Mary, Castletown and Ballabeg?
Answer: isle of man
Question: What is rugby union’s equivalent of a ‘fair catch’ in American football?
Answer: mark
Question: Which ‘jukebox’ musical ran at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre from 2004 until 2012?
Answer: mamma mia
Question: The uninhabited Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic is a dependency of what country?
Answer: norway
Question: Liberty Island in New York harbour was formerly known as what?
Answer: bedloe s island
Question: What method of demise is known medically as exsanguination?
Answer: bleeding to death
Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘lapsus linguae’ mean in English?
Answer: slip of tongue
Question: To where was Archbishop Makarios exiled by the British in the mid 50s?
Answer: seychelles
Question: Who did Jacques Santer replace as President of the European Commission in 1995?
Answer: jacques delor
Question: For which county side does record-breaking batsman Ben Stokes play?
Answer: durham
Question: Who is killed by Kylo Ren in a recently released movie?
Answer: han solo
Question: Who plays the title role in the film The Lady In The Van?
Answer: maggie smith
Question: What unofficial title was given to George Hudson MP in 1844?
Answer: railway king
Question: Which ancient story-teller was sentenced to death and thrown off a cliff?
Answer: aesop
Question: Torre Pendente is the local name for what world-famous visitor attraction?
Answer: leaning tower of pisa
Question: What was the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band split up?
Answer: abbey road
Question: In the human body what is the common name for the third molar teeth?
Answer: wisdom teeth
Question: Which mountain range stretches from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea?
Answer: caucasus
Question: Which is the main island of the Greek group the Dodecanese?
Answer: rhodes
Question: Chaim Weizmann was the first president of which country?
Answer: israel
Question: Who wrote The Interpretation of Dreams in 1899?
Answer: sigmund freud
Question: In wine production what is the syrah grape almost invariably called in Australia?
Answer: shiraz
Question: The tune Duelling Banjos featured in which 1972 film?
Answer: deliverance
Question: What was Casanova’s occupation at the time of is death?
Answer: librarian
Question: Which god rode an eight-legged horse called Sleipnir?
Answer: odin
Question: Who appeared for 30 years with the jazz outfit John Chilton’s Feetwarmers?
Answer: george melly
Question: What is the ancient Hebrew ceremonial wind instrument made from a ram’s horn?
Answer: shofar
Question: Who took the Leonard Cohen song Hallelujah to No.1 in 2008?
Answer: alexandra burke
Question: Who played detectives Charley Farley and Piggy Malone?
Answer: two ronnies
Question: Paul Cezanne, Paul Gaugin and Vincent van Gogh belonged to which school of painting?
Answer: post impressionists
Question: Which family was portrayed as the Magi in Botticelli’s Adoration of the Magi?
Answer: medici
Question: Which global company owes everything to an invention by Dr John S Pemberton?
Answer: coca cola
Question: What do we call the layer of the Earth between its crust and its core?
Answer: mantle
Question: Wordsworth, Coleridge – who was the third of the Lake Poets?
Answer: southey
Question: In a top ten hit for Dusty Springfield who was Billy Ray?
Answer: son of preacher man
Question: What word is used for the tail of a rabbit, hare or deer?
Answer: scut
Question: Which British commander was killed at Corunna in 1808?
Answer: sir john moore
Question: Australia has two flightless birds – the emu and which other?
Answer: cassowary
Question: A shubunkin is a variety of what kind of fish?
Answer: goldfish
Question: Who composed the symphonic poem Scheherezade?
Answer: rimsky korsakov
Question: In American criminal slang what is a ‘shamus’?
Answer: private detective
Question: What is the missing first word in the title of Rose Macauley's novel '… By An Idiot'?
Answer: told
Question: What does the prefix 'cry' mean in words such as cryogenics?
Answer: cold
Question: Who began her show-business career playing Sophie Tuckshop in ITMA on the wireless?
Answer: hattie jacques
Question: Who played the fairy godmother in Adam Ant's 'Prince Charming' video?
Answer: diana dors
Question: Ruth Jones played which part in 'Gavin and Stacey' on television?
Answer: nessa jenkins
Question: What is London's largest theatre, if its name has not already given it away?
Answer: coliseum
Question: Pepsico dropped the Smith's Crisps brand in favour of which other?
Answer: walker s
Question: The actor David Garrick was mentored by which schoolmaster from Lichfield?
Answer: samuel johnson
Question: Oscar Hammerstein mentored which librettist, who wrote the lyrics to 'West Side Story'?
Answer: stephen sondheim
Question: The Campsie Fells lie to the north of which Scottish city?
Answer: glasgow
Question: Which city would have been renamed 'Germania' if the Nazis had won World War 2?
Answer: berlin
Question: Which Royal Naval vessel was the subject of the Yangtze Incident in 1949?
Answer: hms amethyst
Question: In 1960 the first laser used which crystal as its lens, perhaps after 40 years of trying?
Answer: ruby
Question: In 1901 who became the last non-league winners of the FA Cup?
Answer: tottenham hotspur
Question: Crombie overcoats and Harrington jackets clad which youth movement?
Answer: skinheads
Question: Mod girls wore what type of quilted jacket on their partners' scooters?
Answer: parka
Question: 'The Professor' was a novel by which of the Bronte sisters?
Answer: charlotte
Question: Professor Otto Lidenbrock followed Arne Saknussemm where?
Answer: centre of earth
Question: What is the address of the White House in Washington DC?
Answer: 1600 pennsylvania ave
Question: In 1995 the Labour Party abandoned which part of its constitution?
Answer: clause iv
Question: Which amendment to the US constitution protects against self-incrimination?
Answer: fifth
Question: The title First Level Nurse replaced Registered General Nurse, which replaced what?
Answer: state registered nurse
Question: In 1917, which Queen received the first Damehood, the female equivalent of a knighthood?
Answer: mary
Question: In 1963 President Kennedy was shot in which square in Dallas?
Answer: dealey plaza
Question: In 1901 Queen Victoria died in which building on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: osborne house
Question: 'Elizabethan Serenade' was a pop hit for Boris Gardiner under what title?
Answer: elizabethan reggae
Question: What is the most northerly railway station on the Derwent Valley Line?
Answer: matlock
Question: The Roman Via Appia ends in which modern coastal city?
Answer: brindisi
Question: Lord Kitchener drowned when which ship hit a mine in 1916?
Answer: hms hampshire