CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: A traditional gift for a 20th wedding anniversary should be made of what?
Answer: china
Question: In what county are both Woburn Abbey and Leighton Buzzard Light Railway?
Answer: bedfordshire
Question: In an 1883 novel, what was the first name of Mr. Hands, a sailor on The Hispaniola?
Answer: israel
Question: Chris Andrews got to no.3 in ’65 with a title whose initials were YM. What was it?
Answer: yesterday man
Question: ‘Let’s Dance’ and ‘The More I See You’ were top five hits for which Chris?
Answer: montez
Question: Sometimes called golden chain, which genus of small tree is poisonous in all its parts?
Answer: laburnum
Question: According to Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’, what can also be called ‘herb of grace’?
Answer: rue
Question: What genus of flowering plants in the carnation family is also known as ‘baby’s breath’?
Answer: gypsophila
Question: What motorway links the M1 at Rotherham to the M62 near Goole?
Answer: m18
Question: Object, Nature, Random, Person, Action and World are terms used in what game?
Answer: articulate
Question: In the world of equestrian sport, what does 3DE mean?
Answer: three day eventing
Question: In the Harry Potter books and films, what is the first name of Harry’s uncle?
Answer: vernon
Question: Which poet wrote about the charms of Miss Joan Hunter Dunn?
Answer: john betjeman
Question: Which 1979 film is based on Conrad’s story ‘Heart of Darkness’?
Answer: apocalypse now
Question: Which autumn-flowering bulbous plant is sometimes known as ‘the belladonna lily’?
Answer: amaryllis
Question: What can be a drink in Britain, a vegetable in the USA, and a leisure activity in both?
Answer: squash
Question: In Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’, what was the title character’s first name?
Answer: antonio
Question: The Adam’s Apple helps to protect the walls and the front section of what bodily part?
Answer: larynx
Question: What was the middle name of Mark Chapman, John Lennon’s killer?
Answer: david
Question: According to legend, which Greek philosopher slept in a tub?
Answer: diogenes
Question: ‘The Manassa Mauler’ was the nickname of which heavyweight boxing champion?
Answer: jack dempsey
Question: In which county is Bosworth Field, site of the famous battle of 1485?
Answer: leicestershire
Question: Charles Dickens was born in which English town in 1812?
Answer: portsmouth
Question: Which Asian city shares its name with a river on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: medina
Question: In which month in 2015 will the American Football Superbowl be played?
Answer: february
Question: WWII was brought to a close when Japan surrendered in what month?
Answer: september
Question: In the dead parrot sketch, what breed was the parrot?
Answer: norwegian blue
Question: In ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’, what was desired by the knights who say ‘Ni’?
Answer: shrubbery
Question: Which Scottish King was killed when his horse fell from a cliff at Kinghorn, Fife?
Answer: alexander iii
Question: In 1973, who joined the EEC at the same time as Britain and Ireland?
Answer: denmark
Question: By what name is hydrated magnesium sulphate better known?
Answer: epsom salts
Question: Whose law states that “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”?
Answer: parkinson
Question: What do the letters T.T. represent, in the Isle of Man T.T. Race?
Answer: tourist trophy
Question: Who has been the tallest British Prime Minister since WWI?
Answer: james callaghan
Question: What was the surname of the central family in the tv series ‘Bread’?
Answer: boswell
Question: What type of flower derives its name from the French for ‘lion’s tooth’?
Answer: dandelion
Question: Jai Alai is a variation of what court sport?
Answer: pelota
Question: Who won the 2014 Men’s US Open Golf Championship?
Answer: martin kaymer
Question: Jazz. Who had four Top 10 hits in the 60s, including ‘Sukiyaki’ and ‘Midnight in Moscow’?
Answer: kenny ball and his jazzmen
Question: What was the first name of the Ms. Loos who wrote ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’?
Answer: anita
Question: Which detective was in charge of the hunt for the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs?
Answer: jack slipper
Question: What C is the alternative name for the Water Moccasin,the U.S.A.’s only venomous water snake?
Answer: cottonmouth
Question: What was the name of the sheepdog in the Perishers cartoon strip?
Answer: boot
Question: What was the title used by the British Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830?
Answer: duke of wellington
Question: Around which city did Charles I make his H.Q. during the Civil War?
Answer: oxford
Question: Which river did the English cross to fight the Battle of Agincourt 700 years ago?
Answer: somme
Question: Which month of 2015 saw the 900th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta?
Answer: june
Question: Who were the puppets from Zog who were on the Big Breakfast?
Answer: zig and zag
Question: Frank Beard is the only clean shaven member of which group?
Answer: z z top
Question: Alphabetically which is the last element in the periodic table?
Answer: zirconium
Question: Which vegetable is present in a DuBarry soup?
Answer: cauliflower
Question: What pulse is used in an Indian dish Dhansak?
Answer: lentils
Question: Which type of bats generally do not use echolocation to find food?
Answer: fruit bats
Question: In 1941 Josef Jakobs was the last spy to be executed where?
Answer: tower of london
Question: In 1830 William Watts and George Davis were the last pirates to be hanged where?
Answer: execution dock
Question: In 1783 John Austin was the last highwayman to be hung where?
Answer: tyburn
Question: In 1802 which President of the Royal Society produced a crude electric light?
Answer: davy
Question: Which four words appeared under Dan Dare on the Eagle front page?
Answer: pilot of future
Question: What was the name of the evil robotic race in Transformers?
Answer: decepticons
Question: Who tried to destroy He Man from his base in Castle Greyskull?
Answer: skeletor
Question: Which organisation were the sworn enemies of G.I.Joe/Action Man?
Answer: cobra
Question: “Murder she said” is based on which story by Agatha Christie?
Answer: 4 50 from paddington
Question: Who had their twelfth UK No. 1 single with their cover of Mandy?
Answer: westlife
Question: Which girl did Hot Chocolate take to No.3 in the UK charts in 1973?
Answer: emma
Question: What nationality is the US Open 2013 winner Martin Kaymer?
Answer: german
Question: What is the current name for what used to be the Indian city of Madras?
Answer: chennai
Question: What name is given to a tall thin glass intended for champagne?
Answer: flute
Question: On whose radio show did Kenneth Williams play Rambling Sid Rumpo?
Answer: kenneth horne
Question: Which hero saved Andromeda from the sea monster Celus?
Answer: perseus
Question: Who was the stupidest member of the Bash Street Kids?
Answer: smiffy
Question: Which Formula 1 Grand Prix takes place on the Marina Bay circuit?
Answer: singapore
Question: Which World 1 American general was nicknamed “Black Jack”?
Answer: pershing
Question: Which Formula 1 circuit takes place on the Yas Marina circuit?
Answer: abu dhabi
Question: What colour overalls are worn by caddies during the US Masters golf tournament?
Answer: white
Question: Which Asian nation was the first to make it illegal to smoke in public or to sell tobacco?
Answer: bhutan
Question: In 2015, who replaced Dara Ó Briain as the presenter of The Apprentice: You’re Fired?
Answer: jack dee
Question: The theme music to which 1960s TV series was based on the folk song Johnny Todd?
Answer: z cars
Question: Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ was the 1973 debut album of which artist?
Answer: bruce springsteen
Question: Which chemical element can exist in white, red, violet, or black forms?
Answer: phosphorus
Question: ‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’ is the opening line of which poem?
Answer: anthem for doomed youth
Question: Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, was the mother of which king of England?
Answer: richard ii
Question: Asparagus Island lies off the coast of which English county?
Answer: cornwall
Question: Which Australian hard-rock band was formed by Angus and Malcolm Young?
Answer: ac dc
Question: Who was the nemesis of farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean?
Answer: fantastic mr fox
Question: Which is the only minor key signature that has no sharps or flats?
Answer: minor
Question: By what name is Delores Haze known in the title of a controversial book of 1955?
Answer: lolita
Question: How is Anne Catherick referred to in the title of a book by Wilkie Collins?
Answer: woman in white
Question: Who played consultant surgeon Mr Gordon Thorpe in Only When I Laugh?
Answer: richard wilson
Question: Who played Raquel’s former husband, ex-policeman Roy Slater in Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: jim broadbent
Question: Who played the mad legless Captain Rum in the second series of Blackadder?
Answer: tom baker
Question: Lieutenant Pinkerton is a character in which opera by Puccini?
Answer: madame butterfly
Question: The Bridal Chorus AKA ‘Here comes the Bride’ appears in which opera by Wagner?
Answer: lohengrin
Question: Which saint lived on a small platform at the top of a pillar in Aleppo for 37 years?
Answer: st simeon stylites
Question: Which 1985 treaty led to the abolition of border controls in much of Europe?
Answer: schengen agreement
Question: Who played Cilla Black in the 2014 ITV drama series Cilla?
Answer: sheridan smith
Question: What is the term for any playing card which can assume the value of another?
Answer: wild card
Question: Which body and its moons were visited and studied by the New Horizons probe in July?
Answer: pluto
Question: What is the name of the mother craft of Philae, the probe currently sitting on Comet 67P?
Answer: rosetta
Question: Part of the Pope’s regalia, what is the more common name for the Piscatory Ring?
Answer: fisherman s ring
Question: Which physical quantity is calculated by multiplying a body’s mass by its velocity?
Answer: momentum
Question: From which S.E. London open space do participants start the London Marathon?
Answer: blackheath
Question: Which five word title is engraved on the letter box at 10 Downing Street?
Answer: first lord of treasury
Question: Who led the ill-fated expedition which set sail in 1845 in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror?
Answer: sir john franklin
Question: Which religious group calls its places of worship Kingdom Hall?
Answer: jehovah s witnesses
Question: What is the memorable common name for the flower myosotis?
Answer: forget me not
Question: Echoing its Scottish equivalent, what new name did English Heritage adopt in April 2015?
Answer: historic england
Question: Who voiced Lady Penelope in the original Thunderbirds series?
Answer: sylvia anderson
Question: With eight active distilleries, which is the Hebrides’ most prolific whisky-producing island?
Answer: islay
Question: Which tube station locates and describes someone “eight stops short of Upminster”?
Answer: barking
Question: Which UK Prime Minister wrote 19 novels including Coningsby, Sybil and Endymion?
Answer: benjamin disraeli
Question: Which Yorkshire stately home was the main location for Brideshead Revisited?
Answer: castle howard
Question: Which flesh-and-blood actor played Popeye the Sailor on film?
Answer: robin williams
Question: Which Hampshire stately home is the main location for Downton Abbey?
Answer: highclere castle
Question: Who described his troops – the British army - as ‘the scum of the earth’?
Answer: duke of wellington
Question: Which beautiful youth of Greek myth was killed by a boar while out hunting?
Answer: adonis
Question: Which wading bird has varieties called ‘whooping’ and ‘demoiselle’?
Answer: crane
Question: In which war film did Richard Attenborough play ‘Big X’?
Answer: great escape
Question: Which fashion house produces the perfume ‘Bamboo’?
Answer: gucci
Question: Who made a cameo appearance in Die Another Day as fencing instructor Verity?
Answer: madonna
Question: Which double Oscar winner plays the villain in the latest film Spectre?
Answer: christoph waltz
Question: Who was the rich king of Lydia renowned for his wealth?
Answer: croesus
Question: Who rode from Boston to Lexington to warn US forces of a British Approach?
Answer: paul revere
Question: What name is given to the interference caused to wave patterns by an object or gap?
Answer: diffraction
Question: Which Scottish loch is deepest at the maximum depth?
Answer: loch ness
Question: Which condiment is made from reduced trebbiano grape juice?
Answer: balsamic vinegar
Question: Dr Tertius Lydgate is always plagued by financial troubles in which classic novel?
Answer: middlemarch
Question: In which adventure story does the magistrate Dr Livesey feature?
Answer: treasure island
Question: Who is to take over from Stephen Fry in the next series of Q.I.?
Answer: sandi toksvig
Question: In which French city does the Pont Saint-Benezet only partly span the river Rhone?
Answer: avignon
Question: In New York the Verrazano Narrows Bridge links Staten Island with which other borough?
Answer: brooklyn
Question: Johanna Konta is the new British female No.1 in which sport?
Answer: tennis
Question: What is the chief ingredient of a ‘dhansak’ curry?
Answer: lentils
Question: On a weather map ‘isohyets’ link places of equal ………what?
Answer: rainfall
Question: Which title was bestowed upon Oliver Cromwell in 1653?
Answer: lord protector
Question: Which fruit is used in the preparation of Eve’s Pudding?
Answer: apples
Question: In the West Indies which is the largest of the Leeward Islands?
Answer: antigua
Question: Which intra-continental ridge system runs right through Kenya from north to south?
Answer: great rift valley
Question: Which Smiths guitarist co-wrote many of the band’s hits with Morrisey?
Answer: johnny marr
Question: Which wartime nickname was shared by the 7th Armoured Division and the 8th Army?
Answer: desert rats
Question: What name is given to the area of large country houses around Worksop?
Answer: dukeries
Question: Who became manager of Melchester Rovers in 1978?
Answer: roy race
Question: Which black, igneous rock was used by the Mayans to make their sword blades?
Answer: obsidian
Question: Which shell-fish soup originated in the north-east of America?
Answer: chowder
Question: In 1962 who became Margot Fonteyn's dance partner?
Answer: nureyev
Question: Development of which aero-engine sent Rolls-Royce into receivership in 1971?
Answer: rb211
Question: What did Dirty Harry say was the most powerful handgun in the world?
Answer: 44 magnum
Question: Whiff-Whaff and Gossima lost out as brand names to which rival, according to Boris Johnson?
Answer: ping pong
Question: In which capital of the British Isles would you find the Royal Canal?
Answer: dublin
Question: Which canal links the Grand Union Canal to the Limehouse Cut in London?
Answer: regents
Question: The Royal Military Canal separates which area from the rest of England?
Answer: romney marsh
Question: The Arabic phrase 'As-salamu alaykum' is abbreviated to which word?
Answer: salaam
Question: What was the title of Stevie Wonder's 1977 tribute to Duke Ellington?
Answer: sir duke
Question: Darts had their last Top Ten hit in 1979 with which song?
Answer: duke of earl
Question: Which region of France was renamed after the apple brandy distilled there?
Answer: calvados
Question: In which 1980 film does Ted Striker describe his wartime experiences in Drambuie and Daiquiri?
Answer: airplane
Question: Manchester Trousers are made of Manchester cloth, which is another name for what?
Answer: corduroy
Question: Which British designer allegedly invented both the miniskirt and later hot pants?
Answer: mary quant
Question: Which model controversially wore a mini-dress to the Melbourne races in October 1965?
Answer: jean shrimpton
Question: Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello uses what term for sheep mating?
Answer: tup
Question: There are four types of wetland: swamp, marsh, bog and what?
Answer: fen
Question: Which of his marshals did Napoleon call 'the bravest of the brave'?
Answer: ney
Question: John Wayne played which part in the 1939 film 'Stagecoach'?
Answer: ringo kid
Question: If Wayne Morris played Kid Galahad in 1937, who played him in the 1962 remake?
Answer: elvis presley
Question: In which book does a boar named Old Major inspire a revolution?
Answer: animal farm
Question: Burke and Wills crossed which continent in an 1860 expedition?
Answer: australia
Question: 'London Calling' was a 1980 hit song for which group?
Answer: clash
Question: Blondie's hit song 'Call Me' comes from the soundtrack to which 1980 film?
Answer: american gigolo
Question: Henry Cavendish, whose tomb is in Derby Cathedral, discovered which element?
Answer: hydrogen
Question: Diplopodology is the study of which many-legged arthropods?
Answer: millipede
Question: In astronomy an ‘event horizon’ surrounds which kind of region?
Answer: black hole
Question: Who was the first Englishman to win the Formula One Drivers Championship?
Answer: mike hawthorn
Question: Which Chinese philosophical system translates into English as ‘Wind – Water’?
Answer: feng shui
Question: What are the water buses or water taxi’s in Venice called?
Answer: vaporetto
Question: Who made up the panel on Juke Box Jury on the only occasion it had 5 members not 4?
Answer: rolling stones
Question: Which herb is commonly used to flavour the tomato on pizza toppings?
Answer: oregano
Question: Ouzel is an old name for the turdus merula aka which common garden bird?
Answer: blackbird
Question: Who delivers the black spot to Billy Bones in Treasure Island?
Answer: blind pew
Question: In which film series does Keanu Reeves play a computer hacker with the alias Neo?
Answer: matrix
Question: Who played Ian Dury in Sex and Drugs and Rock n’ Roll?
Answer: andy serkis
Question: What was the name of Jodie Foster’s character in Bugsy Malone?
Answer: tallulah
Question: In Ancient Rome what was a ‘Lustrum?
Answer: period of five years
Question: Which flower appears on the crest of the Borough of Saffron Walden?
Answer: crocus
Question: Which country gave Idi Amin sanctuary from 1980 until his death in 2003?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: For which county was Gary Sobers playing when he hit six sixes in one over?
Answer: nottinghamshire
Question: Under which other name did King write novels in the 1970s?
Answer: bachman
Question: Which football club’s ground is closest to the river Mersey?
Answer: stockport county
Question: Which famous Elizabethan was executed for treason by King James in 1618?
Answer: sir walter raleigh
Question: Chicory Tip’s release Son of My Father was the first UK No.1 to feature which instrument?
Answer: synthesizer
Question: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were the leading characters in which drama series?
Answer: partners in crime
Question: What nationality was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
Answer: japanese
Question: Which river has Newport at its head and Cowes at its mouth?
Answer: river medina
Question: Which mammal has the alternative names of carcajou, Glutton or skunk bear?
Answer: wolverine
Question: What did President James Buchanan not do that all other presidents did?
Answer: marry
Question: Which future king landed at Torbay in 1688?
Answer: william iii
Question: ‘It’s Toasted’ was the advertising slogan for which cigarette brand?
Answer: lucky strike
Question: Whose portrait appeared on the back of the last one pound note?
Answer: isaac newton
Question: In which county are the towns of Malmesbury, Melksham and Chippenham?
Answer: wiltshire
Question: The waterfalls Cauldron Snout and High Force lie on which major river?
Answer: tees
Question: Bentley Drummle is a villainous character in which novel?
Answer: great expectations
Question: What was the stage-name of Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs?
Answer: bonehead
Question: In which film is the murder of Miriam Haines seen reflected in her (dropped) spectacles?
Answer: strangers on train
Question: Who sang improvised calypsos on That Was The Week That Was?
Answer: lance percival
Question: Which music star married Frances Tomelty in 1976?
Answer: sting
Question: What is the most notable invention of Hippolyte Mege-Mouries?
Answer: margarine
Question: In world War II what term was used to describe a group of German U-boats?
Answer: wolf pack
Question: In which battle of May 1982 did Colonel H. Jones win his posthumous V.C.?
Answer: goose green
Question: Which name was shared by 11 Pharoahs?
Answer: rameses
Question: In the Fellowship of the ring at which inn did the hobbits meet strider?
Answer: prancing pony
Question: Who was the victorious general at the battle of Cannae in 216 BC.?
Answer: hannibal
Question: In which major film of 2014 did Henry Cavill play the title character?
Answer: man of steel
Question: The Megalodon is the largest ever known type of which sea creature?
Answer: shark
Question: Giant squid reach 14 metres. What are their bigger cousins called?
Answer: colossal squid
Question: In which Australian state can you find the Derwent river?
Answer: tasmania
Question: By which name were the Dardanelles originally known?
Answer: hellespont
Question: Which spa town outside Derbyshire has an annual well dressing weekend?
Answer: malvern
Question: Malta and Gozo are two of the main three islands of Malta. What is the third?
Answer: comino
Question: Moore Marriot and Graham Moffat made eight films with which comedian?
Answer: will hay
Question: What does a welsh rarebit become with an egg on top?
Answer: buck rarebit
Question: Who won the Wimbledon’s Men’s singles in 1987?
Answer: pat cash
Question: Who won the second series of Strictly Come Dancing?
Answer: jill halfpenny
Question: In Blackadder II what alias was used by his fiancée when they met?
Answer: bob
Question: What was the original UK name of the chocolate bar which de-anglicised its name in 2006?
Answer: dime
Question: Which Italian had Beethoven, Liszt and Schubert as pupils?
Answer: salieri
Question: Where did Bilbo Baggins live in the Shire in the Hobbit?
Answer: bag end
Question: Who lived in a home called the Burrow in Harry Potter?
Answer: weasleys
Question: Who was the last driver to die during a Formula 1 championship race?
Answer: ayrton senna
Question: Perentophobia is an abnormal fear of which family member?
Answer: mother in law
Question: Car licence plates from which US state bear the slogan ‘The Last Frontier’?
Answer: alaska
Question: Which is the largest and most muscular of the four chambers of the human heart?
Answer: left ventricle
Question: Which Shipping Forecast area contains the Shetland and Orkney archipelagos?
Answer: fair isle
Question: Who wrote the pair of one-act plays collectively known as Separate Tables?
Answer: terence rattigan
Question: American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross are plays by which US playwright?
Answer: david mamet
Question: Which guitarist had a 1968 hit with the self-penned instrumental Classical Gas?
Answer: mason williams
Question: Which song was a UK number one for Harry Belafonte in 1957 and for Boney M in 1978?
Answer: mary s boy child
Question: Which character made his second appearance in the 1916 novel Greenmantle?
Answer: richard hannay
Question: Which mild analgesic drug is marketed under the trade name Nurofen?
Answer: ibuprofen
Question: In Round the Horn, which pair once ran a firm of solicitors called ‘Bona Law’?
Answer: julian and sandy
Question: Which type of cloth cap is named after the hero of a poem by Robert Burns?
Answer: tam o shanter
Question: Who became President following the assassination of James Garfield in 1881?
Answer: chester arthur
Question: Which trunk road in Lancashire is known as the ‘Devil’s Highway’?
Answer: a666
Question: Which composer’s Eighth Symphony is known as ‘The Symphony of a Thousand’?
Answer: gustav mahler
Question: In which Yorkshire town are the Royal Horticultural Society’s Harlow Carr gardens?
Answer: harrogate
Question: In which film did Sean Connery play a character called Henry Jones?
Answer: indiana jones and last
Question: Who played the title role the ITV series Ivanhoe, first broadcast in 1958?
Answer: roger moore
Question: Northland, Gisborne, and Marlborough are wine-growing areas in which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: In 2012, who became the first South African cricketer to score a test-match triple century?
Answer: hashim amla