CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The TV series 'Heartbeat' was largely set in which fictitious Yorkshire village?
Answer: aidensfield
Question: The Order of the White Lion is an honour bestowed in which East European country?
Answer: czech republic
Question: In Kipling's 'The Jungle Book' what kind of creature is Akela?
Answer: wolf
Question: In place names what is the original meaning of `thwaite' as in Satterthwaite?
Answer: clearing or meadow
Question: The element ytterbium takes its name from a locality in which country?
Answer: sweden
Question: What is the common name for the garden flower whose botanical name is hemerocallis?
Answer: daylily
Question: Who was the British composer of 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: In English place names what is the meaning of 'bourne' as in Sittingboume?
Answer: stream
Question: In mathematics what name is given to the portion of a circle between the centre and two points on the circumference?
Answer: sector
Question: Who had number one hits with 'Genie in a Bottle' in 1999 and 'Lady Marmalade' in 2001?
Answer: christina aguilera
Question: 'Relight my Fire' was a number one in 1993 for Take That with which female singer?
Answer: lulu
Question: Which Football League Division One club is based at the New York Stadium?
Answer: rotherham united
Question: In 2013 who became the first Australian to win the US Masters in golf?
Answer: adam scott
Question: Who plays the title character in the TV series 'Mrs Brown's Boys'?
Answer: brendan o carroll
Question: Which Football League Division One club's ground is the Matchroom Stadium?
Answer: leyton orient
Question: Which nineteenth century novelist wrote 'Mary Barton, A Tale of Manchester Life'?
Answer: elizabeth gaskell
Question: The Brockman family's home was the setting for which BBC TV comedy series?
Answer: outnumbered
Question: Much used in Mediterranean cuisine, what is `aceite de oliva' on a Spanish menu?
Answer: olive oil
Question: Which river was immortalised by Rudyard Kipling as 'The Road to Mandalay'?
Answer: irrawaddy
Question: In which English city is the Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Chad?
Answer: birmingham
Question: What is the capital of the French region of Midi-Pyrenees?
Answer: toulouse
Question: Writer of films such as 'Love Actually' and 'Notting Hill', which long-term partner of Emma Freud co-founded Comic Relief with Lenny Henry?
Answer: richard curtis
Question: Alvin Stardust's debut chart hit, 'My Coo Ca Choo', only reached number 2 in the charts. What was his follow-up, his only number 1?
Answer: jealous mind
Question: What term is used in the House of Lords as a synonym for 'for' in support of a vote?
Answer: content
Question: By what patriotic name was the tower containing Big Ben renamed in 2012?
Answer: elizabeth tower
Question: Half of a long-term comedy double-act, who hosted an annual telethon for muscular dystrophy for over 40 years in the USA?
Answer: jerry lewis
Question: Which painting technique generally involves the use of egg yolk as a binding medium?
Answer: tempera
Question: A-ha's debut chart hit, 'Take On Me', only reached number 2 in the charts. What was their follow-up, their only number 1?
Answer: sun always shines on tv
Question: 8th June 2013 marked the centenary of the death of which suffragette, 4 days after colliding with the King's hors; Ammer, at the Epsom Derby?
Answer: emily davison
Question: The George M Cohan song 'Over There', as seen in 'Yankee Doodle Dandy', has been used in recent years - with different lyrics - in which company's TV advertising?
Answer: gocompare
Question: Joey is the name of the main protagonist in which 1982 Michael Morpurgo book, made into a hit movie in 2011?
Answer: war horse
Question: What is the name of the Jack Russell who stole the show in the 2011 movie 'The Artist' in his role as Jack?
Answer: uggie
Question: Also the names of races at the local racecourse, Woodditton and Cheveley Park are villages close to which English town or city?
Answer: newmarket
Question: As studied by both David Cameron and Ed Miliband, for what does the E in the university degree course PPE stand?
Answer: economics
Question: Named after their 1998 number one single, what is the name of the stage musical based on the works of the Spice Girls?
Answer: viva forever
Question: Robert Shaw played primary baddie Donald 'Red' Grant in which James Bond film?
Answer: from russia with love
Question: The colour silver (or white) is given what name in heraldry?
Answer: argent
Question: Named after their 2004 number one album, what is the name of the stage musical based on the works of Green Day?
Answer: american idiot
Question: The Seychelles is the smallest African country, but what is the smallest country on mainland Africa?
Answer: gambia
Question: Adolfo Celi played primary baddie Emilio Largo in which James Bond film?
Answer: thunderball
Question: Responsible for such films as 'Pulp Fiction' and 'The Crying Game', which film Production Company was founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 1979?
Answer: miramax
Question: The Tom Jones hit 'Delilah' has, in recent years, been taken up as a team song by supporters of which Premier League football club?
Answer: stoke city
Question: The highest circulation newspaper in the USA, what New York-based paper is known as the WSJ?
Answer: wall street journal
Question: Which traditional English county was historically divided into 'Rapes'?
Answer: sussex
Question: In police slang, who or what are `Darbies'?
Answer: handcuffs
Question: By population, what is the largest town in Buckinghamshire?
Answer: milton keynes
Question: Former radio DJ 'diddy' David Hamilton has, in recent years, been the stadium announcer for which Premier League football club?
Answer: fulham
Question: Responsible for such films as 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Gladiator', which film Production Company was founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen in 1994?
Answer: dreamworks
Question: What part of the British Isles was historically divided into 'Sheadings'?
Answer: isle of man
Question: The global edition of the New York Times, what Paris-based newspaper is known as the IHT?
Answer: international herald tribune
Question: By population, what is the largest town in Wiltshire?
Answer: swindon
Question: The only sitcom created solely by Johnnie Mortimer, which 1981-1991 sitcom starred Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as warring antique dealers?
Answer: never twain
Question: A wisent is one of the two living species of what animal?
Answer: bison
Question: Thomas DeCarlo Callaway, half of group Gnarls Barkley, got to number one with 'Forget You' in 2010 under what stage name?
Answer: cee lo green
Question: Who introduces the Radio 4 quiz 'Counterpoint'?
Answer: paul gambaccini
Question: In the 2012 Olympics, who won the gold medal in the Men's Singles at tennis?
Answer: andy murray
Question: In Norse mythology, what is the name of the rainbow bridge between Heaven and Earth?
Answer: bifrost
Question: In Norse mythology, what is the name of the huge ash tree that binds the earth, heaven and hell together?
Answer: yggdrasil
Question: Which animals have types named Plains, Mountain and Grevy's?
Answer: zebra
Question: Who is the current UN Secretary General, in office since 2007?
Answer: ban ki moon
Question: What is the name of Burma's Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader of the opposition National League for Democracy?
Answer: aung san suu kyi
Question: In 'the Simpsons' TV show, who is the Principal of Springfield Elementary School?
Answer: seymour skinner
Question: Who was President of the United States in the year 1800?
Answer: john adams
Question: Who was President of the United States in the year 1900?
Answer: william mckinley
Question: Which element is last alphabetically in the Periodic Table?
Answer: zirconium
Question: In October 1571, what was the last naval battle in the Mediterranean fought entirely between galleys?
Answer: lepanto
Question: In the First World War, what other name is given to the third battle of Ypres of June 1917?
Answer: passchendaele
Question: Who composed the 1843 opera 'The Flying Dutchman'?
Answer: richard wagner
Question: Who composed the 1951 opera 'The Rake's Progress'?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: Name the English female referee involved in the 'sexism' controversy in January 2011 which resulted n Andy Gray and Richard Keys leaving Sky Sports network?
Answer: sian massey
Question: Who was the first female to referee the World Snooker Championship Final, in May 2009?
Answer: michaela tabb
Question: Who wrote the collection of autobiographical short stories- 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog' in 1940?
Answer: dylan thomas
Question: Who wrote the comedy play 'Arms and the Man' in1894?
Answer: george bernard shaw
Question: What spirit is mixed with Scotch whisky to make a Rusty Nail cocktail?
Answer: drambuie
Question: In the USA, which city is known as the 'Mile High City'?
Answer: denver
Question: To date, what is Stevie Wonder's only British No.1 solo single?
Answer: i just called to say i love you
Question: Which football club did David Moyes manage before Everton, from 1998-2002?
Answer: preston
Question: Willy Loman is the central character in which 1949 play?
Answer: death of salesman
Question: What is the super-hero alter ego of DC comic book character Billy Batson?
Answer: captain marvel
Question: What is the super-hero alter ego of Marvel comic book character Steve Rogers?
Answer: captain america
Question: 'The Slave of Duty' is the subtitle of which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?
Answer: pirates of penzance
Question: 'The Witch's Curse' is the subtitle of which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?
Answer: ruddigore
Question: In his orchestral suite, which planet did Gustav Hoist call 'the Mystic'?
Answer: neptune
Question: Which Roman Emperor was the son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder?
Answer: caligula
Question: In which British city is the National Media Museum (formerly National Museum of Photography, Film and Television)?
Answer: bradford
Question: In Arthurian legend, who encounters and beheads the Greene Knight?
Answer: sir gawain
Question: In Arthurian legend, of which region was King Mark the King?
Answer: cornwall
Question: In which county is the town of Royal Wootton Bassett?
Answer: wiltshire
Question: The 2014 Commonwealth Games.will be held in which city?
Answer: glasgow
Question: Who, along with Mary Berry, is a judge on 'The Great British Bake-Off?
Answer: paul hollywood
Question: A 'rollmop' is a food dish containing which fish?
Answer: herring
Question: American Theodore Geisel wrote children's books under what name?
Answer: dr seuss
Question: What do we call what was known to the Romans as Mare Nostrum?
Answer: mediterranean sea
Question: What is the name of the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, constructed in 1813/14 by William Hedley for use at Wylam Colliery, Newcastle-on-Tyne?
Answer: puffing billy
Question: What is the name of the pop festival held annually over the August Bank Holiday weekend at Daresbury, Warrington?
Answer: creamfields
Question: Catherine Bigelow was the first woman to win an Oscar as Best Director, for which film did she win the award?
Answer: hurt locker
Question: The airport of Arrecife serves which of the Canary Islands?
Answer: lanzarote
Question: What is the name of the new England Football Centre of Excellence near Burton-on-Trent?
Answer: st george s park
Question: Which river flows through Northwich before joining the Mersey west of Runcorn?
Answer: weaver
Question: Who was the original female judge on the TV programme `Strictly Come Dancing'?
Answer: arlene philips
Question: Which TV detective was assisted by Geoffrey Shawcross?
Answer: hetty wainthropp
Question: By what name do we call the herb known as cilantro by the Americans?
Answer: coriander
Question: The Battle of Solferino, which led to the formation of the International Red Cross, was fought in 1859 in which country?
Answer: italy
Question: Paul Jones was succeeded by Mike D'Abo as singer with which 60s group?
Answer: manfred mann
Question: Who wrote 'Jurassic Park' and created the TV series ER?
Answer: michael crichton
Question: The capital symbol for which letter of the Greek alphabet resembles the letter P in our alphabet?
Answer: rho
Question: What name is given to the word puzzle in which a phrase, quotation or fact must be deduced from numbers and letters in the clue (eg 52 C in a P = 52 cards in a pack)?
Answer: ditloid
Question: In semaphore what letter is represented by one arm held vertically upwards?
Answer: d
Question: Which letter is at the right hand end of the middle row of a computer or typewriter keyboard?
Answer: l
Question: Which rock group was founded in Seattle in 1994 by David Grohl after the break-up of Nirvana?
Answer: foo fighters
Question: 'Does Anything Eat Wasps?', 'Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?' and 'How to Fossilise Your Hamster' are books based on articles from which magazine?
Answer: new scientist
Question: Which city is served by Rhine-Ruhr airport, the third largest airport in Germany?
Answer: dusseldorf
Question: The inconclusive 'Battle of the Solent' against the French on July 18/19 1545 was most notable for the loss of which ship?
Answer: mary rose
Question: What shadow cabinet post did David Cameron hold immediately prior to becoming leader of the Conservative party?
Answer: education
Question: Who wrote the 1993 novel "Trainspotting"?
Answer: irvine welsh
Question: Now a brand of General motors what is oldest active American car make?
Answer: buick
Question: In golf what is the trophy contested for between teams of amateur women from the United States and Europe?
Answer: curtis cup
Question: Which breed of sheep did Beatrix Potter breed at Hilltop Farm and help to save from extinction?
Answer: herdwick
Question: Who wrote the horror stories "The Fog", "The Dark" and "The Rats"?
Answer: james herbert
Question: After the moon, what was the second body in the solar system visited by a spacecraft from earth?
Answer: venus
Question: Founded in 1932 by J.R.D. Tata as Tata Airlines what is it now called?
Answer: air india
Question: What is added to gin to make a "Gimlet" cocktail?
Answer: lime
Question: Jamaican born nurse Mary Seacole was a heroine of what war?
Answer: crimean
Question: Who painted "The Light of the World" and "The Lady of Shallot"?
Answer: william holman hunt
Question: What, according to the alchemists, was capable of turning base metal into gold?
Answer: philosopher s stone
Question: A "Tom Collins" cocktail consists of gin, soda water, sugar and what other ingredient?
Answer: lemon juice
Question: The serial killer Albert de Salvo was given what nickname?
Answer: boston strangler
Question: Who played Sheriff Sam McCloud in the 1970s TV series "McCloud"?
Answer: dennis weaver
Question: Which jazz musician had the forenames Leon Bismark?
Answer: bix beiderbeck
Question: Where, in 1977, did a KLM 747 collide with a Pan Am 747 resulting in nearly six hundred fatalities?
Answer: tenerife
Question: On the death of Christian Dior in 1957, who succeeded him as head of the House of Dior?
Answer: yves st laurent
Question: Sharing its name with a European capital, with which ship did the Italian liner Andrea Doria collide in 1956 with the loss of forty six lives?
Answer: stockholm
Question: Which Football League team plays its home games at Huish Park?
Answer: yeovil town
Question: With what is Beurre Noisette flavoured?
Answer: hazelnuts
Question: Who captained HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's voyage, and is remembered in the name of a shipping forecast area?
Answer: robert fitzroy
Question: Who composed, in 1909, "A Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis"?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: Inspector Bucket is a policeman in which Charles Dicken's novel?
Answer: bleak house
Question: Following the 1420 Treaty of Troyes, which king became Regent of France and successor to the French throne?
Answer: henry fifth
Question: Who, in 1831, composed "Symphonie Fantastique"?
Answer: hector berlioz
Question: Which actress played the victim in the shower scene in the 1960 film "Psycho"?
Answer: janet leigh
Question: Because of its location in Washington DC which US government department is nicknamed "Foggy Bottom"?
Answer: state department
Question: Liam Gallagher is the lead singer of which group?
Answer: beady eye
Question: In Arthurian legend, which knight accepts a challenge from the Green Knight?
Answer: gawain
Question: In the Bible, who was the son of Abraham and Hagar?
Answer: ishmael
Question: Who is the mother of Finty Williams, the actress who provides the voice of the cartoon character 'Angelina Ballerina'?
Answer: judi dench
Question: Comic schoolboy Billy Bunter was a pupil at which school?
Answer: greyfriars
Question: In the Gerry Anderson TV series who piloted Stingray?
Answer: troy tempest
Question: Who was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy in December 2011?
Answer: tracey emin
Question: What was first framed in 1864 and ratified in 1906 concerning the conduct of warfare?
Answer: geneva convention
Question: In which U.S. state were Henry Ford, Magic Johnson and Berry Gordy all born?
Answer: michigan
Question: What was the first name of the boy who had an unfortunate encounter with Panthera Leo in a famous monologue of 1930?
Answer: albert
Question: Guaqui and Puno are ports on the world's highest navigable waterway. What is it?
Answer: lake titicaca
Question: Who had the original 1958 hit with the song 'Magic Moments'?
Answer: perry como
Question: What specially adapted item was used to deliver a lethal injection to the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in 1978?
Answer: umbrella
Question: In which US city did the Beatles perform their last live concert, in August 1966?
Answer: san francisco
Question: Which American soul singer had a backing group called the Famous Flames?
Answer: james brown
Question: 'Aquatint' is a process of etching which alloying metal with acid?
Answer: copper
Question: Brooke Magnante wrote a blog and book entitled 'Diary of a Call Girl' under which pseudonym?
Answer: belle de jour
Question: In the UK game of Monopoly, what colour card is the property Pentonville Road?
Answer: light blue
Question: Who is the mother of Samuel West, the actor whose film roles include Leonard Bast in Howard's End?
Answer: prunella scales
Question: In the Gerry Anderson TV series, who piloted Fireball XL5?
Answer: colonel steve zodiac
Question: Senna and Ammonia were minor characters in which BBC TV comedy series?
Answer: up pompeii
Question: What name is shared by cities in Ontario and Bermuda as well as a town near Glasgow?
Answer: hamilton
Question: 32 cards are used in Euchre, Skat and which other popular card game?
Answer: piquet
Question: Which actor played the part of Mike Gambit in the ITV TV series, The New Avengers?
Answer: gareth hunt
Question: In September 2012, which Nobel prizewinner seriously proposed that Tony Blair and George W Bush should be tried in the International Court of Justice for their role in the Iraq war?
Answer: desmond tutu
Question: A radioactive form of which element was responsible for the death of the former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko in 2006?
Answer: polonium
Question: Who is the principal host of the BBC TV quiz 'Pointless'?
Answer: alexander armstrong
Question: Teddy Pendergrass was the lead singer of which soul group?
Answer: harold melvin and bluenotes
Question: Which is third most abundant element and most abundant metal in the earth's crust?
Answer: aluminium
Question: Mekele and Adama are the 2nd/3rd most populous cities in which African country?
Answer: ethiopia
Question: What is the most successful literary work to date of the writer E L James?
Answer: fifty shades of grey
Question: John Travolta's character in 'Grease' had the surname Zuko but what was his first name?
Answer: danny
Question: Tower Hill, Barbican, Notting Hill and Baker Street are stations on which London underground line?
Answer: circle
Question: What was the up-market fast-food chain started in 1986 by Sinclair Beecham and Julian Metcalfe?
Answer: pret manger
Question: In February 2011 an earthquake killed over 180 people in which New Zealand city?
Answer: christchurch
Question: Ariel, Gillette, Duracell and Oral-B are all brands of which global giant?
Answer: proctor and gamble
Question: Conrad Black, jailed in the USA in 2007 for fraud, was the former publisher of which UK daily newspaper?
Answer: daily telegraph
Question: In which Caribbean country did an earthquake kill thousands in January 2010?
Answer: haiti
Question: What is the grape distillate, lower in alcohol than cognac, which is traditionally made in the Gers region in Gascony?
Answer: armagnac
Question: Whose first novel in a famous series was 'The Colour of Magic' in 1983?
Answer: terry pratchett
Question: Who was sacked as a judge on 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2009 in favour of a younger panellist?
Answer: arlene phillips
Question: 'Into the Woods' is a musical with music and lyrics by which composer?
Answer: stephen sondheim
Question: Thirty years after he painted the Sistine chapel's ceiling, what is the title of the fresco painted by Michelangelo, also in the chapel?
Answer: last judgement
Question: 'Up in the Sky', 'Supersonic' and 'Shakermaker' are three of the tracks on which Oasis album?
Answer: definitely maybe
Question: Which prominent Mexican painter was married to Frida Kahlo?
Answer: diego rivera
Question: Which 1997 album, voted the best ever by readers of Q magazine, contains tracks let Down', 'No Surprises' and 'Paranoid Android'?
Answer: ok computer
Question: Which Football League Two club play home games at the Pirelli Stadium?
Answer: burton albion
Question: In which state of the USA is the Badlands National Park?
Answer: south dakota
Question: What is the name of the 'rover' that landed on Mars in August 2012?
Answer: curiosity
Question: What TV detective was Pierce Brosnan contracted to play, which meant that he had to refuse the offer to play James Bond in 1986?
Answer: remington steele
Question: According to Greek myth, whose eyes were placed in the peacock's tail?
Answer: argus
Question: Which goddess in Greek myth helped to guide Odysseus on his way home from the Trojan War?
Answer: athena
Question: What more common name is given to the famous uprising of the Righteous Harmony Society Movement?
Answer: boxer rebellion
Question: What name is usually given to the giant red star Alpha Orion?
Answer: betelgeuse
Question: Which was the only EU country to reject the Lisbon Treaty after holding a referendum?
Answer: ireland
Question: The Department of Constitutional Affairs combined with some functions of The Home Office to form which present government department?
Answer: ministry of justice
Question: The larva of the carpet beetle is better known by which common two-word common name?
Answer: woolly bear
Question: Greg Heffley is which eponymous character in the Jeff Kinney novels for children?
Answer: wimpy kid
Question: At which bay in East Sussex did William of Normandy land to start his invasion of England?
Answer: pevensey
Question: Which South African city is the judicial centre of the country?
Answer: bloemfontein
Question: David Walliams is to appear in a TV adaptation of which of his books, playing the Prime Minister?
Answer: mr stink
Question: What collective name is given to the stars Dubhe and Merak in Ursa Major?
Answer: pointers
Question: Which US city was known as Yerba Buena until 1847?
Answer: san francisco
Question: The War of Jenkins' Ear occurred during the reign of which English King?
Answer: george second
Question: How is singer Francesco Castelluccio, born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934 better known?
Answer: frankie valli
Question: Paul Pond, pop and blues singer and radio presenter is better known by which stage name?
Answer: paul jones
Question: What is the name of Nicholas Nickleby's rascally uncle in the eponymous novel by Dickens?
Answer: ralph
Question: What is the common name of plants of the genus Galanthus, which is Greek for 'milk flower'?
Answer: snowdrop
Question: What is the popular name for the flower Strelitzia?
Answer: bird of paradise
Question: Which sport in the 2012 London Olympics took place at Lord's Cricket Ground?
Answer: archery