CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Cuba and Jamaica are part of which group of West Indian islands?
Answer: greater antilles
Question: Who was the expedition leader when Edmund Hillary became the first person to climb Mount Everest?
Answer: john hunt
Question: In the Christian church in Britain, which feat day falls on the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday?
Answer: corpus christi
Question: Which scale is used to measure the intensity, not the magnitude, of earthquakes?
Answer: modified mercalli intensity scale
Question: What is the name of the national UK charity that was founded by Sir Arthur Pearson in 1915 to help blind ex- servicemen and women?
Answer: st dunstan s
Question: Which opera does the famous aria 'Nessun Dorma' come from?
Answer: turandot
Question: Which is the only one of New York's five boroughs that is situated on the mainland?
Answer: bronx
Question: Which American disc jockey is credited with putting the name to 'Rock 'n' Roll' music?
Answer: alan freed
Question: Which military operation of World War II had the codename 'Operation Dynamo'?
Answer: evacuation of dunkirk
Question: Which London station did the 'Flying Scotsman' depart from on it's daily journey to Edinburgh?
Answer: king s cross
Question: What was the title of the only painting that Vincent van Gogh sold during his lifetime?
Answer: red vineyard
Question: The 'Battle of Agincourt' took place during which war?
Answer: hundred years war
Question: In 1799, which British Prime Minister introduced a new Income Tax to help finance the war against France?
Answer: william pitt younger
Question: Which planet in our soar system spins on its axis faster than any of the other planets?
Answer: jupiter
Question: By which name does the oil company, Esso, trade as in America?
Answer: exxon mobil
Question: On which ship did Price Andrew serve during the Falklands War?
Answer: h m s invincible
Question: What was the name of the horse that was made a Consul by Caligula when he was Emperor of Rome?
Answer: incitatus
Question: What is the correct name for Birmingham's 'Spagheti Junction'?
Answer: gravelly hill interchange
Question: Which organisation was founded by Reverend Chad Varah in 1953?
Answer: samaritans
Question: What is the bonus for placing a letter of a word on a red square in a game of 'Scrabble'?
Answer: triple word score
Question: Who was the female actress that starred with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in the famous 'Road To' films?
Answer: dorothy lamour
Question: When asked why he wanted to climb Everest, which famous mountaineer replied. "Because it' there"?
Answer: george mallory
Question: What was the pseudonym of the Swiss born architect, Charles Edouard Jeanneret?
Answer: le corbusier
Question: The first five books of the Bible, the Five Books of Moses, are known by which name in the Jewish religion?
Answer: torah
Question: Which computer programming language was named after Charles Babbadge's assistant, Lady Lovelace?
Answer: ada
Question: Spurn Point Lighthouse is situated at the mouth of which river estuary?
Answer: humber
Question: Which was the first British postage stamp to be issued with perforations?
Answer: penny red
Question: Which Japanese mountaineer was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
Answer: junko tabei
Question: Who is the only U.S. President to have held a patent?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: Which lingerie and hosiery makers were named after a horse that won the Oaks, St. Leger and the 1000 Guineas?
Answer: pretty polly
Question: Which member of the 'The Spice Girls' released the 2001 single, 'Lullaby'?
Answer: mel b
Question: Which actress plays 'Lynn Bracken' in the 1997 film, 'L.A. Confidential'?
Answer: kim bassinger
Question: What is the correct verbal title used when addressing a Cardinal?
Answer: your eminence
Question: What wasthe 'Prisoners Temporary Discharge For Ill- Health Act of 1913' better known as?
Answer: cat and mouse act
Question: On which holiday island are the peaks of 'Ruivo' and 'Arieiro', and the airport of 'Santa Cruz'?
Answer: madeira
Question: On June 11th 1903, King Alexander and Queen Draga were murdered in their bedroom. Of which European country were they the reigning monarchs?
Answer: serbia
Question: On which Mediterranean island is the World Heritage Site of 'Dalt Vila'?
Answer: ibiza
Question: The 'Balfour Declaration' of December 1917 set out the British government's full support fora permanent homeland, for who?
Answer: jewish people
Question: In which television 'soap' would you once have found the character 'Darcy Tyler'?
Answer: neighbours
Question: Which British city was known to the Romans as Magnus Portus?
Answer: portsmouth
Question: Which town and moor in Yorkshire was known to the Romans as Olicana?
Answer: ilkley
Question: In which opera by Rimsky-Korsakov does 'King Dodon' appear?
Answer: golden cockerel
Question: Who rode the 1978 Derby winner 'Shirley Heights'?
Answer: greville starkey
Question: On which holiday island will you find the towns of Maliaand Sitia?
Answer: crete
Question: Which classic horserace, run annually at Epsom, was won by 'Love Divine' in 2000?
Answer: oaks
Question: Lake Balaton is the largest lake in central Europe, in which country is it?
Answer: hungary
Question: Whose stories include 'The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow'?
Answer: washington irving
Question: What is the title of the opera by Wagner, that makes up the third part of the 'Ring Cycle'?
Answer: siegfreid
Question: Who was the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer's 'Odyssey'?
Answer: penelope
Question: On a standard typewriter keyboard, which is the only vowel that does not appear on the top row?
Answer: letter
Question: In mythology, who was poisoned by the blood from Nessus tainted with toxin from Hydra?
Answer: hercules
Question: On a standard typewriter keyboard, what is the last letter on the right of the middle row?
Answer: letter l
Question: Which actor starred with Sigorney Weaver and Melanie Griffithsin 'Working Girl'?
Answer: harrison ford
Question: Who won the Booker Prize for 'The Old Devils'?
Answer: kingsley amis
Question: Who wrote 'Sexus', 'Nexus'and 'Plexus' that collectively make up 'The Rosy Crucifixion'?
Answer: henry miller
Question: What was the name ofthe character played by Richard Griffiths in the TV series 'Pie In The Sky'?
Answer: henry crabbe
Question: In Greek mythology, which mountain nymph fell in love with Narcissus?
Answer: echo
Question: Which Tennis player beat Serena and Venus Williams inconsecutive matches at the 2001 Australian Open?
Answer: martina hingis
Question: Which carbohydrate is also called 'milk sugar'?
Answer: lactose
Question: Who won the Men's Singles at the 2001 Australian OpenTennis Championships?
Answer: andre agassi
Question: Which British philosopher's books include, 'Principles Of Mathematics'?
Answer: bertrand russell
Question: What was the name of the underground movement in rural France that fought against the Germans in WW II?
Answer: maquis
Question: What colour is the cheek-patch of the European Goldfinch?
Answer: red
Question: Who was the secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1975 - 97?
Answer: sonny ramphal
Question: What colour are the feetand legs of a Greylag Goose?
Answer: pink
Question: Which terrorist organisation was responsible for the hijacking of the cruise ship 'Achille Lauro'?
Answer: palestinian liberation front
Question: Which artist painted 'Dancer At The Barre'?
Answer: edgar degas
Question: In mythology, which creatures had the heads of women and the bodies of birds?
Answer: harpies
Question: Which song was written by Arthur Sullivan in sorrow at the death of his brother?
Answer: lost chord
Question: Which ship rescued most of the survivors of the 'Titanic'?
Answer: s s carpathia
Question: In which part of southern Afghanistan are most of the British troops deployed?
Answer: helmand province
Question: In an opera by Wagner, which eponymous group held a song contest, the prize being the hand of 'Eva'?
Answer: meistersingers
Question: In the Bible, from what was 'Eve' created?
Answer: adam s rib
Question: What was the name of the character played by Anna Wing in 'Eastenders'?
Answer: lou beale
Question: In which opera by Offenbach does a poet relate three stories about the loves of his life?
Answer: tales of hoffman
Question: In astrology, name the only star sign not represented by aliving creature?
Answer: libra
Question: What is the name of the 'pre-Roman Road' that runs from Norfolk to Wiltshire?
Answer: icknield way
Question: In which Dickens novel do 'Bitzer', 'Sleary', and 'James Harthouse' appear?
Answer: hard times
Question: Which pop group was named for the schoolboy hero of the film 'Back To The Future'?
Answer: mcfly
Question: From which ship did Grace Darling and her father rescue seven survivors in 1838?
Answer: forfarshire
Question: Cliff Richard's 'Living Doll' featured in which 1959 film?
Answer: serious charge
Question: On March 22nd 2007, naval personnel from which British warship were arrested and imprisoned by the Iranian navy?
Answer: h m s cornwall
Question: Which is the most northerly lake in the Cumbrian 'Lake District'?
Answer: bassenthwaite
Question: Which 1997 film starring Danny de Vito, Russell Crowe, Kim Bassinger and Kevin Spacey was about a woman whose similarity to Veronica Lake involves her in a murder investigation?
Answer: l confidential
Question: Which cartoon featured 'Benny the Ball', 'Spook' and 'Officer Dibble'?
Answer: top cat
Question: If Pluto is no longer recognised as a planet, which is the smallest planet in the solar system?
Answer: mercury
Question: What was the 'Boston Strangler's' real name?
Answer: albert de salvo
Question: Name the dragonthat guarded the treasure in 'The Hobbit'?
Answer: smaug
Question: Which Italian spaghetti literally means "little worms"?
Answer: vermicelli
Question: Who was the better known wife of Earl Leofric of Chester?
Answer: lady godiva
Question: Which everyday objects are featured in the painting 'The Persistence Of Memory'?
Answer: clocks and watches
Question: In which film were 'Dan Gallagher', 'Beth Gallagher' and 'Alex Forrest' the main characters?
Answer: fatal attraction
Question: Inuktitut and Danish are the official languages of which island country?
Answer: greenland
Question: In which sport was Graeme Obree briefly world record holder in 1993, only to lose it to another Briton shortly afterwards?
Answer: cycling
Question: Who won the Best Supporting Actor 'Oscar' for his role in 'An Officer And A Gentleman'?
Answer: louis gossett jr
Question: Which artist painted the picture, 'The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp' in 1632?
Answer: rembrandt
Question: Which twentieth century US President once said, "They say hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance"?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: By what other name is the 'Battle of the Nile' (1798) known?
Answer: aboukir bay
Question: In the 2008 Olympics, Mark Hunter won a gold medal in which sport?
Answer: rowing
Question: Who wrote 'The Leatherstocking Stories'?
Answer: james fenimore cooper
Question: Drill, Poplin and Velour are all types of what?
Answer: fabric
Question: Who is credited with the design of the 'Mini skirt'?
Answer: mary quant
Question: Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the 'American Declaration of Independence'?
Answer: lord north
Question: The magnificent altarpiece in the Cathedral of Ghent and the 'Arnolfini Wedding' are masterpieces painted by which 15th.century Flemish artist?
Answer: jan van eyck
Question: In which Irish city does the Salmon Weir Bridge span the River Corrib?
Answer: galway
Question: Jose Socrates has been Prime Minister of which country since 2005?
Answer: portugal
Question: What is the distinctive feature of birds of the class 'ratites'?
Answer: flightless
Question: Which European country was ruled by the House of Braganza, 1640-1910?
Answer: portugal
Question: In Greek mythology, who was abducted by Zeus disguised as a bull?
Answer: europa
Question: Donald Tusk has been the Prime Minister of which country since 2007?
Answer: poland
Question: In the 2008 Olympics, Louis Smith won Britain's first ever medal (bronze) in which sport?
Answer: gymnastics
Question: Which stretch of water lies between North and South islands, New Zealand?
Answer: cook strait
Question: The name of which part of the former Roman province of Dacia, translates into English as 'land beyond the forest'?
Answer: transylvania
Question: The 'Foumart' or 'Foul-Marten', is an old name for which creature?
Answer: polecat
Question: Who won the Best Supporting Actor 'Oscar' for his role in 'Jerry Maguire'?
Answer: cuba gooding jr
Question: After which film star is the airport in Orange County, California named?
Answer: john wayne
Question: In which Irish city can one stroll along the Mardyke Wall, between the north and south channels of the River Lee?
Answer: cork
Question: Which American poet, translator and critic born in 1885 was indicted for treason for making Fascist radio broadcasts during World War Two?
Answer: ezra pound
Question: In 1938 at the age of 19, which jockey became the youngest ever winner of the Grand National?
Answer: bruce hobbs
Question: According to Tobias Smollet, who was "the great cham (ruler) of literature"?
Answer: dr johnson
Question: In the 13th century French tales about 'Reynard the Fox', what is the name of the cockerel?
Answer: chanticleer
Question: Who rules in the form of government known as 'Stratocracy'?
Answer: military
Question: Who won the 2010 'Oscar' for Best Actor for the film 'Crazy Heart'?
Answer: jeff bridges
Question: The New England range of mountains (highest point Ben Lomond) are in which Commonwealth country?
Answer: australia
Question: New Britain, the largest island of the Bismark Archipelago, is part of which country?
Answer: papua new guinea
Question: Excluding Sir Alex Ferguson, who is the most recent Scottish manager to lead his team to victory in the English FA Cup Final?
Answer: george graham
Question: Which operetta, first performed in 1874, features the character 'Gabriel von Eisenstein', who is given a prison sentence for insulting an official, and is then conspired against by, amongst others, a notary called 'Dr. Falke'?
Answer: die fledermaus
Question: What was the name of the Irish dancer who founded the Royal Ballet School?
Answer: ninette de valois
Question: In which British city would you find Perry Bar Greyhound Stadium?
Answer: birmingham
Question: In which modern-day African country was the author Wilbur Smith born?
Answer: zambia
Question: Mikhail Fokine was the chief choreographer to which ballet company from 1909-1914?
Answer: ballet russe
Question: In Greek mythology who was the sister of Helen and wife of Agamemnon?
Answer: clytemnestra
Question: Who designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome?
Answer: michelangelo
Question: In which British city would you find Shawfield Greyhound Stadium?
Answer: glasgow
Question: Who was the Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1892 to 1894?
Answer: william gladstone
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the following line come "All that glisters is not gold"?
Answer: merchant of venice
Question: Which book of the Old Testament includes the Ten Commandments?
Answer: deuteronomy
Question: In Greek mythology who was the son of Poseidon and God of the Wind?
Answer: aeolus
Question: Where in the human body can you find the 'Choroid'?
Answer: eye
Question: Founded in France in 1945 and with currently 39 international editions, which monthly women's fashion magazine published its first UK edition in 1985?
Answer: elle
Question: Owned by the Mondadori arm of the Berlusconi empire, which women's weekly fashion magazine was established in Italy in 1938 with its British edition starting in 2005?
Answer: grazia
Question: Which one word can mean the following: a hound used for hunting hares, a long slender bird of prey, and one who persistently carries out attacks on an enemy?
Answer: harrier
Question: Trevor Eve played 'Eddie Shoestring' on TV, which British actor a former TV soldier played the boss of the radio station he worked for?
Answer: michael medwin
Question: In which 2009 TV series did actors Larry Lamb and Alison Steadman appear?
Answer: gavin and stacey
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the following line come, "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players"?
Answer: as you like it
Question: Who painted the 'Marriage Of The Virgin' found in the Pinacoteca di Brera of Milan?
Answer: raphael
Question: Which author wrote a series of books about the private investigator 'Jemima Shore'?
Answer: antonia fraser
Question: What was built in Berlin in 1778, after a victory of the Prussian Army?
Answer: brandenburg gate
Question: Which of Christ's 'Twelve Apostles' is buried in Spain?
Answer: st james great
Question: Which cruise liner caught fire and burned out in Gladstone Dock, Liverpool in 1953?
Answer: empress of canada
Question: Who left BBC TV to become ITV's chief political editor, replacing Michael Brunson?
Answer: john sergeant
Question: Cauliflower and Broccoli belong to which family of vegetables?
Answer: brassicas
Question: In which opera is the heroine a Druid priestess?
Answer: norma
Question: Which European city is served by 'Malpensa Airport'?
Answer: milan
Question: In which Charles Dickens novel does the character 'Bentley Drummle' appear?
Answer: great expectations
Question: Which bird is also known as the 'Yaffle', an imitation of its cry?
Answer: green woodpecker
Question: Who directed the 1968 film 'The Producers'?
Answer: mel brookes
Question: Which city was the capital of the Untied States from 1790 to 1800?
Answer: philadelphia
Question: Give the name of the villain from the 'Friday the 13th.' series of movies?
Answer: jason vorhees
Question: From which Disney animated picture does the song 'When You Wish Upon A Star' come?
Answer: pinocchio
Question: Which city was the capital of the Philippines from 1946 to 1975?
Answer: quezon city
Question: Emma Thompson has won an 'Oscar' as Best Actress and for which other category?
Answer: adapted screenplay
Question: Which 1956 science fiction film was based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
Answer: forbidden planet
Question: Which rider was the first to win the Tour de France six times?
Answer: lance armstrong
Question: Who directed the 1951 film 'The African Queen'?
Answer: john huston
Question: Who was Mrs. Larry Fortensky until early 1996?
Answer: elizabeth taylor
Question: Dunkery Beacon is the highest point of which moorland in the UK?
Answer: exmoor
Question: From which Disney animated picture does the song 'The Bare Necessities' come?
Answer: jungle book
Question: Which chemical element, number 67 takes its name from the Latin for Stockholm?
Answer: holmium holmia
Question: What is L. Frank Baum's most famous story?
Answer: wonderful wizard of oz
Question: Which French artist, 1839-1906, painted 'The Card Players' and 'Mont Sainte Victoire'?
Answer: paul cezanne
Question: Give the full name of the villain from the 'Nightmare On Elm Street' series of movies?
Answer: freddie kruger
Question: Who was Athina Roussel's multi-millionairess mother?
Answer: christina onassis
Question: Which former chart topping British duo re-formed in 1999 to record an album titled 'Peace'?
Answer: eurythmics
Question: Which country does the pop group 'Savage Garden' come from?
Answer: australia
Question: At which sport is Briton Nick Matthew the current World Champion?
Answer: squash
Question: Who presented the weekday mid-morning show on BBC Radio 1 from 1967 to 1973, moving to Radio 2 until his retirement in 2002?
Answer: jimmy young
Question: Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1997?
Answer: kenneth clarke
Question: What is the two-word name of the airport at Castle Donington in Leicestershire?
Answer: east midlands
Question: Who had the 'Christmas Number One' in 1986 with 'Reet Petite'?
Answer: jackie wilson
Question: In which Welsh county are Rhyl, Llangollen and Prestatyn?
Answer: denbighshire
Question: The hymn 'I Vow To Thee My Country' is sung to music from which of 'The Planets' by Gustav Holst?
Answer: jupiter
Question: How are the poems 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding' by TS Eliot known collectively?
Answer: four quartets
Question: Which 17th century painting in the National Gallery was slashed in 1914 by suffragette Mary Richardson?
Answer: rokeby venus
Question: Which Orrell winger scored a hat-trick of tries against Scotland, helping England to win the Rugby Union Grand Slam in 1980?
Answer: john carleton
Question: Which London thoroughfare runs between Hyde Park Corner and Marble Arch?
Answer: park lane
Question: 'Cio-Cio San' and her maid 'Suzuki' appear in which Puccini opera?
Answer: madame butterfly
Question: Who won a Best Actor 'Oscar' for playing the character 'Charles Edward Chipping'?
Answer: robert donat
Question: Which novel is set in Dublin on June 16th 1904?
Answer: ulysses
Question: John Crome and John Sell Cotman were associated with which provincial art movement founded in 1803?
Answer: norwich school
Question: Which London Underground line runs from West Ruislip to Epping?
Answer: central
Question: 'Gilda' is the daughter of which eponymous character in a Verdi opera?
Answer: rigoletto
Question: Sid Weighell, Jimmy Knapp and Ray Buckton were trade union officials in which industry in the 1970's and 1980's?
Answer: railways
Question: Which is the largest town in the County of Anglesey?
Answer: holyhead
Question: The hymn 'Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind' is usually sung to which tune by Hubert Parry?
Answer: repton
Question: Which event completes the indoor Pentathlon - 60 metre hurdles, high jump, long jump, 800 metres and ...........?
Answer: shot put
Question: Who won a Best Actor 'Oscar' for playing the character 'Charlie Allnut'?
Answer: humphrey bogart
Question: 'Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure' is the original title of which frequently banned book?
Answer: fanny hill
Question: 'Well done @vika7 in Melbourne' was a tweet about which Tennis player earlier this year after she won her first Grand Slam singles title?
Answer: victoria azarenka
Question: Laurel and Hardy's only Academy Award together was for which short film featuring the moving of a piano?
Answer: music box
Question: How are the novels 'Justine', 'Balthazar', 'Mountolive' and 'Clea' by Lawrence Durrell known collectively?
Answer: alexandria quartet
Question: In 2002 Paul Kelleher attempted to decapitate a marble statue of Margaret Thatcher using what 'weapon', he failed, but succeeded using a metal rope support stanchion?
Answer: cricket bat
Question: Based at Poolstock Greyhound Stadium, in which sport did the 'Wigan Warriors' compete in the 1947 National League, before becoming the Fleetwood Flyers' the following year?
Answer: speedway
Question: Which English actor plays US Marine Sergeant 'Nicholas Brody', who was rescued after eight years held by Al- Qaeda as a prisoner-of-war, in the drama 'Homeland' shown on Channel 4?
Answer: damien lewis
Question: In which event did Chris Hoy win a Gold Medal at the recent World Track Cycling Championships?
Answer: keirin
Question: Who was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 1997 to 2001?
Answer: robin cook
Question: What is the two-word name of the airport at Yeadon in West Yorkshire?
Answer: leeds bradford
Question: Who had the Christmas number one in 1990 with 'Saviour's Day'?
Answer: cliff richard
Question: In 1742 Willian Pulteney was created the first Earl of which city?
Answer: bath
Question: Which entertainer is married to 1975 'Miss World' Wilnelia Merced?
Answer: bruce forsyth
Question: Which Manchester building was home to the Halle Orchestra until 1996?
Answer: free trade hall
Question: What nationality was the mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707- 1783)?
Answer: swiss
Question: Which female singing voice has a range between soprano and contralto?
Answer: mezzo soprano
Question: In which decade did W B Yeats and G B Shaw win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: 1920s
Question: Which 2008 Woody Allen directed film is set in Spain?
Answer: vicky cristina barcelona
Question: Who was the last Old Etonian Prime Minister before David Cameron?
Answer: alec douglas home