CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the name of the horse ridden by PC George Scorey, who gave his name to the FA Cup's 'White Horse Final' of 1923?
Answer: billie
Question: The 'Mezuzah', which is affixed to the doorframe of Jewish homes, is inscribed with Hebrew verses taken from which book of the 'Torah' ('Old Testament')?
Answer: deuteronomy
Question: According to the opening line of T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Wasteland', which is "the cruellest month"?
Answer: april
Question: If there are 100 pennies in a Pound, then there are 100 what in a Russian Rouble?
Answer: kopeks
Question: Which Nottinghamshire-born stocking-maker was hanged after leading the 'Pentrich Revolution' of 1817?
Answer: jeremiah brandreth
Question: If there are 100 pennies in a Pound, then there are 100 what in an Indian Rupee?
Answer: paisa
Question: According to the closing line of T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Hollow Men'," the world ends not with a bang but with a ...", what?
Answer: whimper
Question: Which English archaeologist held the first Chair in Archaeology in the UK and is best known for discovering the 'Merneptah Stele' in 1896?
Answer: flinders petrie
Question: Who was offered, but declined, the Presidency of Israel in 1952?
Answer: albert einstein
Question: In April, the President of Poland was killed in a plane crash near which Russian city?
Answer: smolensk
Question: 'Down Down' was the first number one hit single for which band?
Answer: status quo
Question: Who won the 2010 US Masters Golf Tournament?
Answer: phil mickelson
Question: Which was the only US state formed by seceding from a Confederate state during the American Civil War?
Answer: west virginia
Question: Deuterium and Tritium are isotopes of which chemical element?
Answer: hydrogen
Question: 'Dr. Who's' assistant played by Karen Gillan is called 'Amy'. What is her surname?
Answer: pond
Question: Euphorbia pulcherrima is the botanical name for the plant Poinsettia, named after Joel Poinsett. To which country was he the first United States Minister, before they had ambassadors?
Answer: mexico
Question: In which country is 'Waitangi Day' celebrated on February 6th each year?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which British airport has the IATA code, seen on luggage labels, LBA?
Answer: leeds bradford
Question: In which Surrey town were 'The Jam' founded in 1972?
Answer: woking
Question: Which Farnworth (Bolton) born ex-England footballer played for Blackpool from 1963 to 1966 before moving to a Merseyside club?
Answer: alan ball
Question: Who played 'Ellen Ripley' in the films 'Alien' and 'Aliens'?
Answer: sigourney weaver
Question: In 2009 which Swedish tennis player became the first to beat Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros?
Answer: robin soderling
Question: Who directed the 2005 film 'Brokeback Mountain'?
Answer: ang lee
Question: Which composer left his Tenth Symphony unfinished on his death in 1911? It has been made into performable form most notably by Deryck Cooke in the 1960's?
Answer: gustav mahler
Question: Which future Prime Minister first entered Parliament as MP for Ormskirk in 1945?
Answer: harold wilson
Question: In 2009 which Swiss tennis player played the first match in The Championships at Wimbledon under the closed Centre Court roof, against Andy Murray?
Answer: stanislas wawrinka
Question: Who directed the 2002 film 'The Pianist'?
Answer: roman polanski
Question: Libya is the only country which has a flag with just one colour. Which colour is used?
Answer: green
Question: Which composer left his Third Symphony unfinished on his death in 1934? Anthony Payne completed the work in 1997?
Answer: edward elgar
Question: Later a TV presenter and founder of his own political party, who was MP for Ormskirk from 1974 to 1983?
Answer: robert kilroy silk
Question: Which US state, formed partly from Indian Territory, was the first to achieve statehood in the 20th century?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: In athletics, which is the tenth and final event of the Decathlon?
Answer: 1500 metres
Question: '9 Dragons' is a 2009 novel featuring LA detective ‘Hieroymous (Harry) Bosch’. Who wrote this novel, his fifteenth about this detective?
Answer: michael connelly
Question: Which city is the setting for the 'Dr. Who' spin-off series 'Torchwood'?
Answer: cardiff
Question: In which country is 'Malvinas Day' celebrated on April 2nd each year?
Answer: argentina
Question: In 'HMS Pinafore' by Gilbert and Sullivan, the Captain wants his daughter 'Josephine' to marry 'Sir George Porter'. What position does 'Sir George' hold?
Answer: first lord of admiralty
Question: Which British airport has the IATA code, seen on luggage labels, LCY?
Answer: london city
Question: In which English city were 'Duran Duran' formed in 1978?
Answer: birmingham
Question: In the USA who is the General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters?
Answer: james p hoffa
Question: Which Barrow-in-Furness born ex-England footballer played for Blackpool from 1964 to 1967 before moving to a Merseyside club?
Answer: emlyn hughes
Question: Who played 'Marty McFly' in the 'Back To The Future' films?
Answer: michael j fox
Question: An omelette made with smoked haddock invented at the Savoy Hotel was named after which author?
Answer: arnold bennett
Question: 'Bye Bye Baby' was the first number one hit single for which band?
Answer: bay city rollers
Question: What nationality is Herman Van Rompuy who was appointed as the first full-time President of the European Council in 2009?
Answer: belgian
Question: Which jockey rode the winner of the 2010 Grand National?
Answer: p mccoy
Question: Who is the valet of 'Lord Peter Wimsey' in the novels by Dorothy L. Sayers?
Answer: mervyn bunter
Question: Which character in children's literature is "blown by the East Wind" to '17 Cherry Tree Lane, London'?
Answer: mary poppins
Question: What is the title of the film sequel to 'Nanny McPhee'?
Answer: nanny mcphee and big bang
Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Prussia from 1862 to
Answer: otto von bismark
Question: Which was the first film made by 'The Beatles'?
Answer: hard day s night
Question: Who was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit?
Answer: florence nightingale
Question: Which model of Ferrari is named after the Italian word for 'redhead'?
Answer: testarossa
Question: In which English city can you drive on Maid Marian Way?
Answer: nottingham
Question: Which Liverpool born comedian, author and actor's 2010 autobiography is entitled 'Stalin Ate My Homework'?
Answer: alexei sayle
Question: Moorfields Hospital in London is the oldest and largest hospital in the world caring for which part of the body?
Answer: eye
Question: Which club won a 1960's FA Cup Final with defenders Dowd, Book, Pardoe, Doyle, Booth and Oakes?
Answer: manchester city
Question: Musically, how are twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid known?
Answer: proclaimers
Question: Which 1980's BBC drama was set on a North Sea ferry?
Answer: triangle
Question: Which English county has districts called Bromsgrove, Wyre Forest and Malvern Hills?
Answer: worcestershire
Question: To whom was Mike Todd married when he was killed in a plane crash in 1958?
Answer: elizabeth taylor
Question: Which company is the tyre supplier for all teams in Formula One in 2011?
Answer: pirelli
Question: Which singer's 2011 album is called '21'?
Answer: adele
Question: In Yorkshire what are the 'Huddersfield Broad' and the 'Huddersfield Narrow'?
Answer: canals
Question: What was the name of the actor brother of Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave who died last year?
Answer: corin
Question: Actor James McArthur who died in October last year was most famous for playing 'Danny Williams' in which police series?
Answer: hawaii five o
Question: In Physics, using Newton's Second Law of Motion, force is the product of mass and which other quantity?
Answer: acceleration
Question: Which 32 mile canal runs from the Bridgewater canal in Manchester to join the Aire and Calder Navigation Canal at Sowerby Bridge in Yorkshire, passing through the town that gives the canal its name?
Answer: rochdale canal
Question: Clarissa, Countess of Avon, aged 90 is the widow of which Prime Minister?
Answer: anthony eden
Question: What was the name of the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave who died in 2009?
Answer: natasha richardson
Question: Musically, how are brothers Ron and Russell Mael known?
Answer: sparks
Question: Which 1950's/60's ITV series was set in the fictional 'Oxbridge General Hospital'?
Answer: emergency ward 10
Question: Founded in 1879, what is the official news publication of the Salvation Army?
Answer: war cry
Question: Which fictional work features the 'Seven Commandments', which are summarised by the statement "four legs good, two legs bad"?
Answer: animal farm
Question: The principal Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons has the official title Chairman of Ways and Means. Who is the current holder of the post, the MP for Chorley?
Answer: lindsay hoyle
Question: Which English county has districts called Blaby, Charnwood and Melton?
Answer: leicestershire
Question: In the 1978 film 'International Velvet', who plays the character 'Velvet Brown'?
Answer: nanette newman
Question: Valencia was the venue for the 2007 and 2010 America's Cup, as the defending yacht was from which landlocked country?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Nigel Ogden presents a BBC Radio Two programme featuring music played on which instrument?
Answer: organ
Question: Give either of the first names of Blackpool footballer DJ Campbell?
Answer: dudley junior
Question: Which Lerner and Lowe musical is based on the TH White novel 'The Once And Future King'?
Answer: camelot
Question: In the comic strip 'Calvin and Hobbs', what sort of animal is 'Hobbs'?
Answer: tiger
Question: On which river, a tributary of the Avon, does the town of Leamington Spa stand?
Answer: leam
Question: Which Pope made Henry VIII 'Defender of the Faith' in 1521?
Answer: leo x
Question: In which town was the first 'Ikea' store in the UK opened
Answer: warrington
Question: Sent as a gift to King James II of Scotland in 1457, what is the alliterative name of the medieval bombard siege gun located outside of Edinburgh Castle?
Answer: mons meg
Question: Traditionally, athletes from which country lead the parade at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games?
Answer: greece
Question: Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, which 2011 drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese, tells the story of a boy who lives alone in a Paris railway station?
Answer: hugo
Question: The 'Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults' is a British charity better known by what acronym?
Answer: mencap
Question: Which English author famously helped to create the "Go to work on an egg" advertising slogan used by the United Kingdom's Egg Marketing Board during the 1950's?
Answer: fay weldon
Question: Eric Coates' light orchestral serenade 'By The Sleepy Lagoon' is the appropriately titled introductory music to which long running radio show?
Answer: desert island discs
Question: Capturing light energy to conserve free energy in the form of ATP, which organelles found in plant cells conduct photosynthesis?
Answer: chloroplasts
Question: The final plate of William Hogarth's 'A Rake's Progress' series depicts a scene inside which institution, founded in London in 1247?
Answer: bethlehem hospital
Question: According to Greek mythology, who was the mother of the twins Apollo and Artemis?
Answer: leto
Question: Consisting of several RNA and protein molecules arranged into two subunits, which component of cells coordinate synthesis by reading the messenger RNA copy of the DNA and assembling the appropriate amino
Answer: ribosomes
Question: Which female East Anglian mystic wrote 'Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love', a 14th century work documenting a series of intense visions of Jesus Christ experienced during a severe illness?
Answer: julian of norwich
Question: Which English football club, who currently play in the Northern Premier League Division One South, are the world's oldest football club, having been founded in 1857?
Answer: sheffield f c
Question: What is the name given to the botanical gardens near Mevagissey in Cornwall that were created by members of the Cornish Tremayne family, over a period from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the 20th century?
Answer: lost gardens of heligan
Question: Which restoration dramatist was also responsible for designing Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard?
Answer: john vanbrugh
Question: Which American Football player, who played for the 'Chicago Bears' between 1985 and 1993, was nicknamed 'The Refrigerator'?
Answer: william perry
Question: What was the popular name of the prison, close in 2000, that was situated in the former Royal Air Force station of Long Kesh, on the outskirts of Lisburn?
Answer: maze
Question: Which chemical element is named after the Scottish village in which it was discovered in 1787?
Answer: strontium
Question: Ted Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 on the refusal of which prominent poet?
Answer: philip larkin
Question: In the human body, what do the lachrymal glands produce?
Answer: tears
Question: Which American statesman and scientist almost killed himself whilst demonstrating the electrical nature of lightening by flying a kite in a thunderstorm?
Answer: benjamin franklin
Question: In which country would you find the ruins of the ancient Inca city known as Machu Picchu?
Answer: peru
Question: In 1844, Samuel Morse used which four-word Biblical quote when he sent the world's first public telegraph message?
Answer: what hath god wrought
Question: First climbed by Chris Bonnington in 1966, what is the name of the 449ft. high sea stack off the coast of the Orkney Islands?
Answer: old man of hoy
Question: Prior to gaining enormous success in his own right, which comedian played 'George Dawes', the scorekeeping baby, in the t.v. comedy series 'Shooting Stars'?
Answer: matt lucas
Question: She is the mother of Morgan le Fay by her first husband Gorlois and mother of King Arthur by her second husband Uther Pendragon. What is her name?
Answer: igraine
Question: Which American Vice-President killed his political rival, Alexander Hamilton. in a duel in 1804?
Answer: aaron burr
Question: Today a senior Police rank in both Italy and Romania, what name was given to the public official in the Roman Republic's Cursus honorum system, who supervised financial affairs?
Answer: quaestor
Question: Who was the King of Bulgaria who, during World War II, declared a symbolic war against the UK and the USA but, much to Hitler's annoyance, refused to declare war against the Soviet Union?
Answer: boris iii
Question: A distant relative of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was the American boarding house owner who became the first woman executed by the United States federal government after her conviction for taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: mary surrat
Question: Which American singer, songwriter and actress was born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson in Santa Barbara, California in 1984?
Answer: katy perry
Question: What was the name of the Royal Navy submarine responsible for the sinking of the General Belgrano during the Falklands War?
Answer: h m s conqueror
Question: Which castle is the official residence of the Duke of Northumberland?
Answer: alnwick castle
Question: What is the name, after its chairman, of the ongoing public enquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press following the News International phone hacking scandal?
Answer: leveson enquiry
Question: In which city did Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff launch the unsuccessful 'Beer Hall Putsch' in 1923?
Answer: munich
Question: The periodontal ligaments are the supporting tissue for which parts of the human body?
Answer: teeth
Question: Which famous Roman was assassinated in 48 BC by two men named Achillas and Septimus who were acting upon the orders of King Ptolemy XIII's chief eunuch Pothinus?
Answer: pompey
Question: From the 14th to the 19th centuries, the 'Janissaries' were the infantry units that formed the household troops and bodyguards of the Sultans of which Empire?
Answer: ottoman empire
Question: The third largest town in the Scottish Highlands, which burgh on the Isle of Lewis is also home to one third of the population of the Western Isles?
Answer: stornoway
Question: Which actor and comedian played 'Phileas Fogg' in the 2004 film 'Around The World In Eighty Days'?
Answer: steve coogan
Question: In terms of population, Oslo is the largest city in Norway. Which is the second largest?
Answer: bergen
Question: Which 1997 film starred Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave and Jennifer Ehle?
Answer: wilde
Question: Which song was a top 40 hit for both Nina Simone in 1974 and Muse in 2001?
Answer: feeling good
Question: In which country did the Battle of Majuba Hill take place in 1881?
Answer: south africa
Question: To highlight global warming, which country held a cabinet meeting underwater in 2009?
Answer: maldives
Question: The heist in the 2003 remake of “The Italian Job” takes place in which US City?
Answer: los angeles
Question: Fallopia japonica is a pernicious weed spreading through roots and tubers found in various wild places, particularly damp ones, in the UK. What is its more common name?
Answer: japanese knotweed
Question: Heraclium mantegazzianum is a weed thought to be the largest in western Europe. What is its common name?
Answer: giant hogweed
Question: Who wrote the song “Where have all the flowers gone”?
Answer: pete seeger
Question: Which novel by Peter Carey won the Booker Prize in 1988?
Answer: oscar and lucinda
Question: Which London underground station was gutted by fire in 1987?
Answer: kings cross
Question: By what name is the actor born John Carter better known?
Answer: charlton heston
Question: Which Middle Eastern city is served by Queen Alia airport?
Answer: amman jordan
Question: Which book by Phillip Pullman was awarded the 2001 Whitbread Prize for Literature?
Answer: amber spyglass
Question: In the TV series Red Dwarf, one character was called Arnold J Rimmer. For what did the “J” stand?
Answer: judas
Question: In which country did the Battle of Vinegar Hill take place in 1798?
Answer: ireland
Question: Which US state is known as the “Tar-heel” state?
Answer: north carolina
Question: Which group of the 1970’s featured Tony Iommi on guitar, “Geezer” Butler on bass and Bill Ward on drums?
Answer: black sabbath
Question: Which group of the 1970-80’s featured Mick Jones on guitar, Paul Simonon on bass and Nicky “Topper” Headon on drums?
Answer: clash
Question: Which 1998 film, starring Lynn Redgrave, Ian McKellan and Brendan Fraser centred on the life of film director James Whale?
Answer: gods and monsters
Question: In which Australian state is the town of Wagga Wagga?
Answer: new south wales
Question: In which classic book and film does the character Miss Trunchbull appear?
Answer: matilda
Question: Who, in 1884, invented the flexible film roll for cameras?
Answer: george eastman
Question: Which poet wrote “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: Which Irish poet’s epitaph ends “Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman pass by”?
Answer: william butler yeats
Question: In the 1974 TV comedy “It Ain’t Half Hot Mum”, who played the part of Gunner Beaumont?
Answer: melvyn hayes
Question: Who wrote “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”?
Answer: robert browning
Question: Which famous actress provided the voice of Maggie in “The Simpsons” when she uttered her first word?
Answer: liz taylor
Question: By what nicknames was Edward, eldest son of Edward III known?
Answer: black prince
Question: What was the name of the character played by Ade Edmondson in the 1990s sitcom ‘Bottom’?
Answer: edward elizabeth hitler
Question: Who created the artwork Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 which was destroyed in the 2004 Momart London warehouse fire?
Answer: tracey emin
Question: Complete the title of one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales – ‘The _________ of Bath’s Tale’.
Answer: wife
Question: Whose Liverpool Oratorio released in 1991 was composed in collaboration with Carl Davis?
Answer: paul mccartney
Question: The Battle of Rain, or Lech, on April 15th 1632 in which the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus beat the forces of the Holy Roman Empire was part of which war?
Answer: thirty years war
Question: Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, the largest in North America, is in which US state?
Answer: alaska
Question: The Reading Festival held over the August Bank Holiday weekend shares its line-up with which other Festival?
Answer: leeds
Question: Who wrote the plays The Sunshine Boys and The Odd Couple?
Answer: neil simon
Question: The name of which musical instrument is a French word for ‘paperclip’?
Answer: trombone
Question: In which 1944 film does Felix Aylmer play the Archbishop of Canterbury, Max Adrian play the Dauphin and John Laurie play Jamy, a Scottish Captain in the English Army?
Answer: henry v
Question: The smallest ground in the Football League Championship Huish Park is home to which club?
Answer: yeovil town
Question: What was the first name of the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria, in 1944 the last of her children to die?
Answer: beatrice
Question: Which canal passes through the centre of Lymm in Cheshire?
Answer: bridgewater
Question: Who is the wife of cartoon character Hagar the Horrible?
Answer: helga
Question: Which duo had a Number Two hit in 1984 with Agadoo?
Answer: black lace
Question: Which city in the German state of Saxony has the largest population?
Answer: dresden
Question: Who was appointed the first Minister of Technology in 1964 – he was General Secretary of the TGWU at the time?
Answer: frank cousins
Question: What is the capital city of the Italian region of Liguria?
Answer: genoa
Question: Which gas makes up about 96% of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
Answer: carbon dioxide
Question: Who was found dead in the first episode of ‘East Enders’?
Answer: reg cox
Question: Complete the title of the 1976 Number One by Paper Lace - Billy, don’t be a _______ .
Answer: hero
Question: The Guardian Fiction Prize was replaced in 1999 by the Guardian First Book award. Whose novel White Teeth was the second winner?
Answer: zadie smith
Question: Ray McAnally won a posthumous BAFTA in 1990 for his role as Paddy Brown in which film, his last, released the previous year?
Answer: my left foot
Question: What is the hyphenated name of the lemur, Daubentonia madagascariensis, the world’s largest nocturnal primate?
Answer: aye aye
Question: Who died in the Petersen House at 516 10th Street NW in Washington DC on April 15th 1865?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: The Russian port of Murmansk lies on Kola Bay, an inlet of which sea?
Answer: barents sea
Question: Victoria Eugenie the daughter of Princess Beatrice married the King of which European country in 1906?
Answer: spain
Question: What is the two-letter postcode for addresses in Birkenhead and Wallasey?
Answer: ch
Question: ‘Seventy-Six Trombones’ is a song from which Meredith Wilson musical?
Answer: music man
Question: Who plays Yorick in the 1996 film version of ‘Hamlet’, played in flashback?
Answer: ken dodd
Question: In ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ what is the surname of the character with given names Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau, known as Patsy?
Answer: stone
Question: Which of The Canterbury Tales, the first, features cousins Arcite and Palamon and their pursuit of Emily?
Answer: knight s tale
Question: Where was the ship SS Great Britain from 1886 until 1970, when it was returned to Bristol?
Answer: falkland islands
Question: Which African country has land borders with Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti?
Answer: eritrea
Question: 2 Willow Road is part of a terrace of three houses in Hampstead London designed by which architect with the same surname as a Bond villain – Ian Fleming was one of those who objected to the demolition of the previous properties on the site?
Answer: ernő goldfinger
Question: The International New York Times was known by what title until last October?
Answer: international herald tribune
Question: In which Australian state is one of the southern hemisphere's most remarkable sites, Ayers Rock?
Answer: northern territory