CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The Wanderers Stadium is a cricket venue in which South African city?
Answer: johannesburg
Question: The tallest cathedral in France is to be found in which Northern city?
Answer: amiens
Question: Hilary Mantel won the 2009 Man Booker Prize with which novel?
Answer: wolf hall
Question: Which actor played Inspector George Gently in the TV series of that name?
Answer: martin shaw
Question: Which English King was imprisoned and died in Pontefract Castle?
Answer: richard ii
Question: Stefani Germanotta is better known in the pop music world as whom?
Answer: lady gaga
Question: 'The Potato Eaters' was a work of which famous artist?
Answer: vincent van gogh
Question: 'Charlotte Rhodes' was the name of the ship which featured regularly in which TV series?
Answer: onedin line
Question: Which group had a number one hit in 1983 with 'True'?
Answer: spandau ballet
Question: The grape variety `syrah' takes its name from which town in Iran?
Answer: shiraz
Question: In which present day country was the bulk of the Hittite Empire situated?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which horse was the winner of the 2010 Cheltenham Gold Cup?
Answer: imperial commander
Question: What is the surname of Florence of the pop group Florence and the Machine?
Answer: welch
Question: The ship Earl of Pembroke renamed in 1768 for its new role became famous by what name?
Answer: endeavour
Question: Which is the oldest of London's present Football League and Premiership clubs?
Answer: fulham
Question: Horatio Nelson lost his arm in an abortive attack on which island?
Answer: tenerife
Question: Who was the trainer of the 2010 Grand National winning horse Don't Push It?
Answer: jonjo o neill
Question: In a Stinger cocktail what spirit is added to crème de menthe?
Answer: brandy
Question: Which is the largest of London's theatres, i.e. has the most seats?
Answer: coliseum
Question: The TV series 'Lark Rise to Candleford' is based on whose stories?
Answer: flora thompson
Question: Which artist produced many paintings of Jane Avril at The Moulin Rouge?
Answer: henri toulouse lautrec
Question: In which town in Southern England is the grave of Pocahontas?
Answer: gravesend
Question: Who won the 1940 Presidential election in the Philip Roth novel 'The Plot Against America'?
Answer: charles lindbergh
Question: Held during the Boer War, what nickname was given to the UK General Election of 1900?
Answer: khaki election
Question: 'Sup up your beer and collect your fags' is the opening line to which 1979 Top 5 hit single?
Answer: eton rifles
Question: The flower Campanula rotundifolia is commonly known as the bluebell in Scotland; how is it known in England?
Answer: harebell
Question: Which astronaut, on whose book the movie was based, was played by Tom Hanks in the 1995 film `Apollo 13'?
Answer: jim lovell
Question: The flower Dianthus barbatus is commonly known as Stinking Billy in Scotland; by what more pleasant-sounding name is it known in England?
Answer: sweet william
Question: Although approaching his 30th birthday, in which 1953 film did Marlon Brando play the part of the teenage leader of a motorcycle gang?
Answer: wild one
Question: Which board game was invented by part-time clown, Anthony E Pratt?
Answer: cluedo
Question: At which point on the Cumbrian coast does Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk start?
Answer: st bees
Question: In which country was the board game Trivial Pursuit devised?
Answer: canada
Question: Who will appear on the new £50 bank note along with his business partner James Watt?
Answer: matthew boulton
Question: At which place in the Peak District does the Pennine Way start?
Answer: edale
Question: Where do celebrity panellists sit in the Channel 4 TV game show 'Countdown'?
Answer: dictionary corner
Question: Natasha Khan is better known by which stage name?
Answer: bat for lashes
Question: To what was the 17th Century Lord Mayor of London Sir Thomas Bloodworth referring when he disparagingly declared "A woman might piss it out", before going back to bed?
Answer: great fire of london
Question: Which driver won the 2010 British Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: mark webber
Question: It was founded in 1379 as St Mary's College of Winchester in Oxford, but as there was already a St Mary's College at Oxford as what has it been known ever since?
Answer: new college
Question: Passat - the Volkswagen car model, is German for a type of what?
Answer: wind
Question: The Childe of Hale visited which Oxford College, named after a door knocker, where an imprint of his hand could be seen in the plaster until the 1880s?
Answer: brasenose
Question: Which theme park in North Yorkshire has the longest roller coaster in the UK, 'The Ultimate'?
Answer: lightwater valley
Question: Which was the last film to win all 5 major Oscars (Best Director, picture, screenplay, actor and actress)?
Answer: silence of lambs
Question: By what name is the white Florentine Iris known when used in perfumery?
Answer: orris
Question: Which acid found in wood sorrel and rhubarb leaves is traditionally used in dyeing and bleaching?
Answer: oxalic
Question: Which sub-region of Aquitaine in South West France is known for its brandy?
Answer: armagnac
Question: Which US comedian and actor shares his name with a traditional English ballad and an area of the Eldon Square Shopping Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne?
Answer: chevy chase
Question: Who composed an opera about the Shakespeare character Sir John Falstaff?
Answer: verdi
Question: Who wrote the play `Hobson's Choice' in 1916?
Answer: harold brighouse
Question: Hashim Amla has played test cricket for which country?
Answer: south africa
Question: In January 2010 Cadburys advised shareholders to accept a bid from which food company?
Answer: kraft
Question: Who was the leader of the British Liberal Party before Jeremy Thorpe?
Answer: jo grimmond
Question: Who wrote the musicals "Annie get your Gun" and "Call Me Madam"?
Answer: irving berlin
Question: For which minor sport do the USA and Europe compete annually for the Mosconi Cup?
Answer: pool
Question: In the sitcom "Some Mothers Do Have Them" what was the name of Frank & Betty Spencer's baby?
Answer: jessica
Question: In which English county would you find the site of the Battle of Bosworth Field?
Answer: leicestershire
Question: Wednesday is named after the god Woden but with which Roman god is Woden associated?
Answer: mercury
Question: Before embarking on his Presidential campaign for which state did Barack Obama represent in the US Senate?
Answer: illinois
Question: In modern technology SatNays use the GPS system. For what does the "P" stand in GPS
Answer: positioning
Question: By what name has the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal been known since 1948?
Answer: kiel canal
Question: Brer Rabbit stories originated as Cherokee myths but which author compiled the Brer Rabbit stories?
Answer: joel chandler harris
Question: The pop rock quartet "The Monkees" formed in 1966 featured Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and which other member?
Answer: peter tork
Question: In Greek Mythology who was the Goddess of the Underworld?
Answer: persephone
Question: In Indian cuisine what is aloo as in dishes saag aloo?
Answer: potato
Question: Who in 1984 had a hit record with 'Time After Time"?
Answer: cyndi lauper
Question: With regards to the Isle of Man who currently holds the title "Lord of Mann"?
Answer: queen elizabeth ii
Question: In music what note is equal to a quarter of a minim?
Answer: quaver
Question: In which English county would you find the site of the Battle of Naseby?
Answer: northamptonshire
Question: Friday is named after the goddess frig but in some parts of Europe with which Roman goddess is this day associated?
Answer: venus
Question: Before Hilary Clinton became Secretary of State under Barack Obama for which state was she a US Senator?
Answer: new york state
Question: In 1825 Simon Bolivar was president of 3 South American countries. Columbia and Bolivia were two of the countries. What was the third?
Answer: peru
Question: Which manmade waterway features the Gatun and Milafiores Locks?
Answer: panama canal
Question: Which children's comic strip character was created in 1928 by Mary Tourtel?
Answer: rupert bear
Question: Levi Stubbs, Abdul Fakir, Renaldo Benson and Lawrence Peyton were collectively known as which Motown group of the 60's?
Answer: four tops
Question: Victoria is the Roman Goddess of Victory but who is her Greek equivalent?
Answer: nike
Question: Both St. David's and St. Patrick's Days fall under which sign of the astrological zodiac?
Answer: pisces
Question: What type of creatures would you find in the reptilian order "Ophidia"?
Answer: snakes
Question: Which long distance footpath runs from Chepstow to Prestatyn?
Answer: offa s dyke path
Question: In WW2, what name was given to the attempted Allied liberation of the Netherlands in September 1944?
Answer: operation market garden
Question: Bernis Leadon and Randy Meisner were among the founder members of which American group?
Answer: eagles
Question: Who won the 2009 Open Golf Championship at Turnberry?
Answer: stewart cink
Question: Which Scottish Loch is the deepest freshwater lake in the British Isles?
Answer: loch morar
Question: In which Alfred Hitchcock film of 1956 did Doris Day sing 'Que Sera, Sera'?
Answer: man who knew too much
Question: Which was Alfred Hitchcock's last film made in 1976?
Answer: family plot
Question: John Illsley and Pick Withers were among the founder members of which predominantly British group?
Answer: dire straits
Question: In WW2 the name Operation Plunder Varsity was given to the Allied crossing of what in March 1945?
Answer: river rhine
Question: What is the top knot of stiff, spiky leaves on a pineapple called?
Answer: crown
Question: Who was the first woman to run for the vice-presidency of the United States?
Answer: geraldine ferraro
Question: Who plays Sergeant Hathaway in the television series Lewis?
Answer: lawrence fox
Question: In which Shakespeare play do the characters Ajax, Achilles and Ulysses appear?
Answer: troilus and cressida
Question: In Norse mythology, who was the consort of Odin?
Answer: freya
Question: The Louis S. St. Laurent' and the 'John G. Diefenbaker' are specifically what kind of ships?
Answer: icebreakers
Question: William Hague, Tony Benn, Hilaire Belloc and Giles Brandreth are but four past holders of which prestigious but non-political office?
Answer: president of oxford union
Question: Able seaman Kate Nesbitt, a medical assistant, became the first woman in the RN to receive which award in Nov. 2009?
Answer: military cross
Question: The 6,700 ton St. Helena is one of only two vessels to still carry which designation?
Answer: royal mail ship
Question: In which British city is there a district called The Jericho?
Answer: oxford
Question: The national Needle Museum is to be found in which Worcestershire town?
Answer: redditch
Question: All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The opening lines of which great novel?
Answer: anna karenina
Question: Which company made the 1950's car the Mayflower?
Answer: triumph
Question: Who is the most infamous old boy of St. Peter's School in York?
Answer: guy fawkes
Question: Which composer's A minor piano concerto was premiered in 1846 with his wife as soloist?
Answer: schumann
Question: Stockport in Greater Manchester has a museum dedicated to what item of clothing?
Answer: hats
Question: What was the name of John Cabot's ship in which he set off in 1497 to reach Asia, finishing up in Newfoundland?
Answer: matthew
Question: Which form of sentence was introduced to the UK by the 1972 Criminal Justice Act?
Answer: community service
Question: Who won the Oscar for Best Director at the 2010 awards?
Answer: kathryn bigelow
Question: Who occasionally hosts BBC TV's Eggheads in the absence of Dermot Murnaghan?
Answer: jeremy vine
Question: What name is given to the French version of the Tote betting system?
Answer: pari mutuel
Question: What is the name of the 'social networking' website, on which messages are restricted to 140 characters, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in 2006?
Answer: twitter
Question: Which novelty swing dance, derived from the Charleston, was named following Charles Lindberg's crossing of the Atlantic in 1927?
Answer: lindy hop
Question: Who painted 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' in 1504?
Answer: hieronymus bosch
Question: Chicago has baseball teams called 'Cubs' and 'White Sox', what is the name of Milwaukee's baseball team?
Answer: brewers
Question: Who hosts the BBC TV quiz show 'Pointless'?
Answer: alexander armstrong
Question: Who was the famous Scottish rugby union commentator who died in January 2010?
Answer: bill mclaren
Question: Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades were operas by which composer?
Answer: tchaikovsky
Question: What are High Spy, Barf, Knott Rigg and Lord's Seat?
Answer: lake district fells
Question: In 2010, Carlos Slim became the first non-American since 1994 to top Forbes list of billionaires, what is his nationality?
Answer: mexican
Question: Which English football league club are nicknamed 'the Brewers'?
Answer: burton albion
Question: What is the name of the music website founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon and launched in 2008?
Answer: spotify
Question: In the Stephen King book 'Christine', who or what is Christine?
Answer: car
Question: In 2002, Plantlife, a conservation charity, selected flowers or plants to represent each county. Humulus Lupulus was selected for Kent, how is it commonly known?
Answer: hop
Question: The Lake District mountain Great Gable is connected by the pass Windy Gap to which other peak?
Answer: green gable
Question: Which African country is bordered by Ivory Coast to the west, Burkina Faso to the north and Togo to the east?
Answer: ghana
Question: When he published his Theory of Special relativity in 1905, Albert Einstein was working as a patent clerk in which Swiss city?
Answer: berne
Question: Who was the Test Match Special scorer who died in January 2009?
Answer: bill frindall
Question: According to Kenneth Graham (in Wind in the Willows) there is "nothing - absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as ..." what?
Answer: simply messing about in boats
Question: Who painted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' in 1665?
Answer: johannes vermeer
Question: Who served as the 19th President of the USA from 1877 to 1881 despite receiving fewer votes than his opponent in the election?
Answer: rutherford b hayes
Question: Who was Poet Laureate for the longest period (42 years from 1850 to 1892)?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: Which South American country is bordered by Guyana to the west and French Guiana to the east?
Answer: suriname
Question: Which river rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine and flows through both France and Germany into the Moselle at Konz?
Answer: saar
Question: In 2002, Plantlife, a conservation charity, selected flowers or plants to represent each county. Viscum album was selected for Herefordshire, how is it commonly known?
Answer: mistletoe
Question: Who served as the 29th President of the USA from 1921 to 1923 with the largest popular vote in any Presidential election?
Answer: warren harding
Question: Albert Einstein was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at which Ivy League University in 1933?
Answer: princeton
Question: Who was Poet Laureate for 37 years, from 1930 to 1967?
Answer: john masefield
Question: Which form of dementia is named after a German psychiatrist who first described it in 1906?
Answer: alzheimer s disease
Question: Two Tree Island, Frog Island and Eel Pie Island are all in which river?
Answer: thames
Question: What make of car does Inspector Morse drive in the TV series?
Answer: jaguar
Question: Prohibition in the USA was enacted into law by the 'National Prohibition Act'. By what name was this popularly known?
Answer: volstead act
Question: Which common garden flower, often used in salads, belongs to the genus Tropaeolum?
Answer: nasturtium
Question: If a piece of music is described as 'adagio' how should it be played?
Answer: slowly
Question: Which group had a hit in 1982 with "Pass the Dutchie"?
Answer: musical youth
Question: On which island of New York City is the borough of Brooklyn located?
Answer: long island
Question: At which British ground was the 2002 Champions League final held?
Answer: hampden park
Question: Which of the 'big cats' has the Latin name `Panthera Onca'?
Answer: jaguar
Question: In which Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta would you hear the song "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General"?
Answer: pirates of penzance
Question: Which island lies midway between the Orkney islands and the Shetlands?
Answer: fair isle
Question: According to Ian Fleming which real-life public school did the fictional James Bond attend?
Answer: eton
Question: Which was the only No. 1 hit for Pink Floyd?
Answer: another brick in wall
Question: Who wrote the books on which TVs Inspector Alleyn was based?
Answer: ngaio marsh
Question: In which Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta would you see Ralph Rackstraw and Sir Joseph Porter?
Answer: hms pinafore
Question: Which French painter painted 'The Death of Socrates' in 1787 and 'Leonidas at Thermopylae in 1814?
Answer: jacques louis david
Question: Which famous statue by Michelangelo is held in the Galleria dell' Academia in Florence?
Answer: david
Question: Which singer wrote the hit songs 'My Way' for Frank Sinatra and 'She's A Lady' for Tom Jones?
Answer: paul anka
Question: In France it would be a cirque, in Scotland a corrie, what would it be called in Wales?
Answer: cwm
Question: Symond's Yat is a prominent rock feature on the banks of which British river?
Answer: wye
Question: John Harmon is the main protagonist in which Dickens novel?
Answer: our mutual friend
Question: Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck were pretenders to the English throne during the reign of which King?
Answer: henry vii
Question: Alfred Hitchcock's film "The Birds" was inspired by a short novel by which authoress?
Answer: daphne du maurier
Question: Who was the hero of several Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories first introduced in 'The Lost World'?
Answer: professor challenger
Question: In the TV drama GBH written by Alan Bleasdale what was the occupation of Michael Palin's character Jim Nelson?
Answer: school teacher
Question: What was the name of the Wright brothers' first aeroplane?
Answer: flyer
Question: Who won the 1997 World Snooker Championship?
Answer: ken doherty
Question: In the Bible who was the long lived son of Enoch mentioned in Genesis?
Answer: methuselah
Question: Where are the administrative headquarters of the county of Northumberland?
Answer: morpeth
Question: What is the name of the Japanese verse form of 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines?
Answer: haiku
Question: In the world of transport what is a VLCC?
Answer: very large crude carrier
Question: Which 1992 Quentin Tarantino film featured the song 'Stuck in the middle with you'?
Answer: reservoir dogs
Question: In the Royal Navy what is the equivalent rank to a Flight Sergeant in the Royal Air Force?
Answer: chief petty officer
Question: In 1964 what was the Kinks' first chart success which reached Number 1?
Answer: you really got me
Question: Which culinary vegetable has the Latin name "Allium Sativum"?
Answer: garlic
Question: Churchill described Montgomery as "in defeat, unbeatable, in victory . . . " what?
Answer: unbearable
Question: Which music hall performer was best known for his songs 'Boiled beef and carrots' and 'Any Old Iron'?
Answer: harry champion
Question: Prometheus Bound was written by Aeshylus (524-556BC). Who wrote Prometheus Unbound in 1820AD?
Answer: percy bysshe shelley
Question: The mandible is more commonly known as the lower jaw bone. What is the correct name for the upper jaw bone?
Answer: maxilla
Question: What was the name of the first Rolls Royce model?
Answer: silver ghost
Question: On which novel by HG Wells was the 1963 musical 'Half a Sixpence' based?
Answer: kipps
Question: In the Bible, in the book of Kings, who was the evil wife of King Ahab?
Answer: jezebel
Question: In cooking what is the name given to thin strips of bacon used for flavouring?
Answer: lardons
Question: What is the state capital of the New England state of New Hampshire?
Answer: concord
Question: In law what name is given to a written voluntary statement given under oath?
Answer: affidavit
Question: What is the lowest of the commissioned ranks in the Royal Air Force?
Answer: pilot officer
Question: In 1963 what was the first chart success of the Rolling Stones which reached number 21 in the charts?
Answer: come on
Question: Which culinary vegetable has the scientific name `solanum tuberosum'?
Answer: potato
Question: What is the more common name of the disease pertussis?
Answer: whooping cough
Question: Which instrument is most closely associated with jazz musician Charlie Mingus?
Answer: double bass
Question: The Galton-Henry system is a method of classifying what?
Answer: fingerprints
Question: What is the nearest national capital city to Bratislava, only 35 miles away?
Answer: vienna
Question: Modelled on the Spanish bullfight, in which country did the Paso Doble dance originate?
Answer: france
Question: 'Disko Troop' is the captain of the We're Here' fishing vessel in which Rudyard Kipling novel, which was made into a film starring Spencer Tracy?
Answer: captains courageous
Question: What was the first name of Stradivari, who lived 1644-1737, and is famous as a manufacturer of stringed musical instruments?
Answer: antonio
Question: There are three types of muscle in the human body: Skeletal, Smooth and which other?
Answer: cardiac
Question: Which footballer has won a record 111 caps for Colombia? He is best known for his distinctive blond afro hairstyle and he played in Europe between 1988 and 2001, first for Montpellier and latterly for Real Valladolid.
Answer: carlos valderrama
Question: Which Luftwaffe bomber was withdrawn from the Battle of Britain because of heavy losses although it was used successfully elsewhere throughout the war?
Answer: stuka
Question: What name is given to non-volatile computer memory that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed which is primarily used in memory cards, memory sticks etc?
Answer: flash
Question: Which 2009 movie is a biopic of Ian Dury, starring Andy Serkis in the title role and Ray Winstone as his father?
Answer: sex drugs rock roll
Question: What type of cake kicked off Proust's reminiscences in "Remembrance of Things Past"?
Answer: madeleine
Question: In which Charles Dickens novel do we meet the minor characters: Startop, Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick?
Answer: great expectations
Question: Who was the first woman to win the TIME Man of the Year award in 1936?
Answer: wallis simpson
Question: Which native American tribe were famously used as "Code Talkers" during WW2, due to the fact that so few people talked their language?
Answer: navajo
Question: In which Charles Dickens novel do we meet the minor characters: Tom Pinch, Mark Tapley and Paul Sweedlepipe?
Answer: martin chuzzlewit
Question: With which type of wine did Hannibal Lecter say he was going to wash down his Liver and Fava beans?
Answer: nice chianti
Question: What-is the official residence of the Mayor of New York City?
Answer: gracie mansion
Question: What is the national epic poem of Finland (usually translated as 'Land of Heroes'). Sibelius set some of its myths to music in his tone poems.
Answer: kalevala
Question: Which philosopher, who was born in Algerian in 1930, originated the deconstruction theory?
Answer: jacques derrida
Question: The US flag contains the most stars, having 50, but which country's flag has the second most, with 27 stars?
Answer: brazil
Question: Which shipping forecast area lies to the south of Fair Isle and to the west of Forties?
Answer: cromarty
Question: What is the name of the Jewish mystical interpretation of Scripture, which comprises the Sepher Yezirah (Book of Creation) and the Zohar (Splendour) that has become popular with new age types?
Answer: kabbalah
Question: Which Test Match Special commentator has a son who has been a bowler for Sussex CCC since 1994?
Answer: christopher martin jenkins