CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the name of the Indian political party led by Mahatma Ghandi for 20 years prior to India's independence?
Answer: indian national congress party
Question: In Alfred Hitchcock's film 'North By Northwest', which actress was Cary Grant saving from James Mason?
Answer: eva marie saint
Question: In the comedy series 'Rising Damp', what was 'Rigsby's' christian name?
Answer: rupert
Question: 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blood On The Tracks' were both albums released by which popular singer?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: Which Pete Seeger song did Marlene Dietrich record in 1962?
Answer: where have all flowers gone
Question: Which American President represented his country at the 'Yalta Summit' at the end of World War II?
Answer: franklin d roosevelt
Question: Which German aircraft company invented the 'ejector seat' in 1942?
Answer: heinkel
Question: Which stretch of water off the southern tip of South America is the point where the South Atlantic meets the South Pacific?
Answer: drake s passage
Question: Who directed the 1946 film, 'The Best Years Of Our Lives'?
Answer: william wyler
Question: Which American newsman broke the news of JFK's death to the nation?
Answer: walter kronkite
Question: David Lean directed the 1945 film 'Brief Encounter', but who composed the incidental music and also produced the film?
Answer: noel coward
Question: In 1993 which football team lost in both the FA Cup Final and League Cup Final?
Answer: sheffield wednesday
Question: On which island is Nagasaki the recipient of the second 'Atomic Bomb'?
Answer: kyushu
Question: Which football team in 1995 lost their last game of the season to Liverpool, but were still winners of the Premiership title?
Answer: blackburn rovers
Question: Where in the human body is the Carotid Artery situated?
Answer: in neck
Question: Which former Prime Minister of France became his country's President after the resignation of Charles de Gaulle?
Answer: georges pompidou
Question: Which British driver was the winner of the Monaco Grand Prix in 1963, 64, 65, 68 and 1969?
Answer: graham hill
Question: Which fashion designer was responsible for the trend of slogan-bearing T-shirts in the 1980's?
Answer: katherine hamnett
Question: What is the occupation of a 'Funambulist'?
Answer: tightrope walker
Question: Who drove in 256 Grand Prixs between 1977 and 1993, winning six races?
Answer: ricardo patrese
Question: Who was Russian President after Yuri Andropov?
Answer: konstantin chernenko
Question: Dundalk is the county town of which county in the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: louth
Question: Who wrote the novel, 'The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall'?
Answer: anne bronte
Question: The Aran Islands stand in the mouth of which Irish Bay?
Answer: galway bay
Question: in which novel does 'Rawdon Crawley' marry 'Becky Sharpe'?
Answer: vanity fair
Question: In which 1994 film does Jim Carey play the part of 'Stanley Ipkiss'?
Answer: mask
Question: Which rock star and actor was born Marvin Lee Aday?
Answer: meatloaf
Question: What does the legal term 'Caveat Emptor' mean?
Answer: let buyer beware
Question: To which English monarch was Mary of Teck, consort?
Answer: george v
Question: Who played the part of Steve Biko in the film 'Cry Freedom'?
Answer: denzil washington
Question: In which African National Park is the tourist camp of Skukuza?
Answer: kruger national park
Question: John Piper was the designer of the stained-glass window in which English cathedral?
Answer: coventry
Question: 'Beauty Of Bath', 'Discovery', 'James Grieve', and 'Lord Lambourne' are all varieties of which fruit grown outdoors in the UK?
Answer: apple
Question: She and her alto egofirst appeared in 1941 in 'All Star Comics', the creation of Chester Gould. Who is she?
Answer: wonder woman
Question: In 1997, Plymouth the capital of the Caribbean island of Montserrat was virtually buried after the eruption of which volcano?
Answer: soufriere hills
Question: Created by Alex Raymond, this futuristic character first appeared in 1934. Who is he?
Answer: flash gordon
Question: In Arthurian Legend of English source, three knights of Arthur achieved The Holy Grail, Sir Bors and Sir Galahad are two, who was the third?
Answer: sir percival
Question: Which football club did 'Big Sam' Allardice leave to manage Bolton?
Answer: notts county
Question: What name links the Apollo 15 space ship with that of seafarer Captain Cook?
Answer: endeavour
Question: Steve Bruce left his role as player-manager of Sheffield Wednesday to manage which club?
Answer: huddersfield town
Question: Bywhat name was Sir Francis Drake's ship known before he circumnavigated the world?
Answer: pelican
Question: Who played the part of 'Valerie Barlow's' uncle in 'Coronation Street'?
Answer: jack howarth
Question: In which conflict did the Battle of Towton take place?
Answer: war of roses
Question: In which organ of the body are the 'Islets of Langerhans'?
Answer: pancreas
Question: Who played the original landlord of the 'Rovers Return' in 'Coronation Street'?
Answer: arthur leslie
Question: 'Janus' was discovered in 1966.It is a moon of which planet?
Answer: saturn
Question: In which part of the body is the 'Hypothalamus'?
Answer: brain
Question: The Whitsunday Islands lieoff the coast of which Australian state?
Answer: queensland
Question: Darts. Who in 1984, achieved the first televised nine- dartfinish?
Answer: john lowe
Question: What type of bird is a 'Lammergeier'?
Answer: vulture
Question: In which sport is the 'Swaythling Cup' contested?
Answer: table tennis
Question: Who was the drummer with the 1970's rock band 'Led Zepplin'?
Answer: john bonham
Question: Which English dramatistwrote 'Hobson's Choice'?
Answer: harold brighouse
Question: What is the Army rank equivalent to Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy?
Answer: major general
Question: What rank in the RAF is equivalent to Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy?
Answer: air vice marshal
Question: Which famous battle of 1645 took place when the Parliamentary Army led by Fairfax defeated the Royalist Army led by Prince Rupert?
Answer: naseby
Question: With a 'Beaufort Scale' number of 11, and a wind speed of 64 -72 mph.How is this wind force described?
Answer: storm
Question: Which actress was the elder sister of Joan Fontaine?
Answer: olivia de havilland
Question: Who wrote the music for the hymn 'Onward Christian Soldiers'?
Answer: sir arthur sullivan
Question: Who in 1977 shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Miraid Corrigan?
Answer: betty williams
Question: Which British composer wrote 'On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring'?
Answer: frederick delius
Question: Who played the lead male role in the 1939 film-western, 'Dodge City'?
Answer: errol flynn
Question: Which Greek hero of the 'Trojan War' killed himself when the armour of Achilles was given to Odysseus?
Answer: ajax
Question: What may be described as "a leguminous plant bearing pods that ripen underground, and contain seeds used for food and oil"?
Answer: peanuts
Question: The buccaneer Henry Morgan was pardoned and knighted by which king?
Answer: charles ii
Question: The 'Brickfielder' is a hotdry wind in which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Similarly, in which country does the 'Diablo' blow?
Answer: u s
Question: Who was dismissed as manager of Derby County on November 21st. 2007?
Answer: billy davies
Question: In which suburb of Los Angeles were there major riots in 1965?
Answer: watts
Question: Which film of 2004 is about an insurnace man and his family who are forced to abandon their quiet suburban life and revert to their 'superhero' guises in order to save the world?
Answer: incredibles
Question: Who wrote 'Cocaine Nights', 'The Drowned World', and 'High Rise'?
Answer: j g ballard
Question: What nationality was the winner of the 2007 Tour de France?
Answer: spanish
Question: Who so far, has been the only bachelor President of the U.S.A.?
Answer: james buchanan
Question: Who wrote 'Down And Out In Paris And London', and 'The Lion And The Unicorn'?
Answer: george orwell
Question: What name is given to atoms of any given element which have the same number of protons and electrons, and the same chemical qualities, but differ in the number of neutrons in their nuclei?
Answer: isotopes
Question: What may be described as a 'primula with fragrant yellow flowers, which grow in pastures and meadows'?
Answer: cowslip
Question: Which pop group have had UK number one hits with 'Bring It Back', 'Never Had A Dream Come True', 'Don't Stop Movin'', and 'Have You Ever'?
Answer: s club 7
Question: The 'Greek Orders' are the three original classic orders of architecture, namely 'Doric', 'Ionic' and which other?
Answer: corinthian
Question: 'I'm In Love With A Wondeful Guy' comes from which musical?
Answer: south pacific
Question: Which Scottish queen had the sobriquet 'The Maid of Norway'?
Answer: queen margaret
Question: What is the maximum number of people allowed in a Tug-Of-War team?
Answer: eight
Question: The invention of which home recreational item is attributed to John Spilsbury in 1760?
Answer: jigsaw puzzle
Question: Which organ of the body produces hormones controlling the rate of chemical reactions in the body's cells?
Answer: thyroid gland
Question: In which American city do the 'Celtics' play professional Basketball?
Answer: boston
Question: Which breed of dog takes its name from a state in Mexico?
Answer: chihuahua
Question: Which rare species of water bird has one of its few breeding sites at Leighton Moss in Lancashire?
Answer: bittern
Question: Which element, of pale greenish-yellow colour, has the atomic number 9?
Answer: fluorine
Question: In which stretch of water - which became known as 'Bomb Alley' -was the British fleet anchored during the Falklands campaign?
Answer: san carlos water
Question: Three new cities were created in the UK in 2000, Brighton, Wolverhampton, and which other?
Answer: inverness
Question: Which bluish-white metallic element has the atomic number 30?
Answer: zinc
Question: As what is the 'bulb' of a Crocus more correctly known?
Answer: corm
Question: The character 'Thomas Sweeney' appeared in which British soap from 1984 to 2000?
Answer: brookside
Question: Born near Saragossa, who became court painter to Charles III of Spain in 1786?
Answer: goya
Question: The Argentinean invasion of which island in 1982 started the 'Falklands War'?
Answer: south georgia
Question: Which UK band had hits with 'You Really Got Me' and 'Sunny Afternoon'?
Answer: kinks
Question: 'Officer Alex J.Murphy' became better known by what name in the title of a 1987 film?
Answer: robocop
Question: The Iris has a thick-stemmed root instead of a bulb. By what name is this 'root' known?
Answer: rhizome
Question: Under what name did actress Vivien Hartley achieve fame?
Answer: vivien leigh
Question: Which battle of the Napoleonic Wars is sometimes referred to as the 'Battle of the Three Emperors'?
Answer: austerlitz
Question: In World War II, the US Marine Corps used members of which native American tribe as code senders?
Answer: navajo
Question: In which US National Park is the geyser known as 'Old Faithful'?
Answer: yellowstone
Question: In the Bible, who was thrown out of a window and eaten by dogs?
Answer: jezebel
Question: What type of insect is a Lampyris noctiluca?
Answer: glow worm
Question: Which English motorway runs from Rotherham to Goole?
Answer: m18
Question: Which English motorway runs from Ross to Tewkesbury?
Answer: m50
Question: In which novel by Charles Dickens does 'Seth Pecksniff' appear?
Answer: martin chuzzlewit
Question: Who won the 2010 'Oscar' for Best Actress for the film 'The Blind Side'?
Answer: sandra bullock
Question: What name is given to a barrel that has the capacity to hold 54 gallons of beer?
Answer: hogshead
Question: Of which British monarch was Alice Keppel the mistress?
Answer: edward vii
Question: From which musical does the song 'I Dreamed A Dream' come?
Answer: les miserables
Question: Who was sworn in as Vice President of the USA on 20th January 2009?
Answer: joe biden
Question: Who was the sheriff of 'Four Feather Falls'?
Answer: tex tucker
Question: What is or was the real first name of the newspaper owner Eddie Shah?
Answer: selim
Question: Which game uses 64 cards, with no card below 7?
Answer: bezique
Question: Which artist painted 'The Old Woman Cooking Eggs' and 'The Rokeby Venus'?
Answer: velasquez
Question: In which country would you find the Angostura Suspension Bridge?
Answer: venezuela
Question: In Norse mythology, of what was 'Aegir' the god?
Answer: sea
Question: Who was 'Dan Dare's' assistant and co-pilot?
Answer: digby
Question: From which musical does the song 'The Impossible Dream' come?
Answer: man of la mancha
Question: Which company produced a motor car called the 'Scimitar'?
Answer: reliant
Question: What is the name of 'Bob the Builder's' cement mixer?
Answer: dizzy
Question: How often is the Oberammergau Passion Play performed?
Answer: every ten years
Question: Name the company featured in TV's 'Drop The Dead Donkey'?
Answer: globelink news
Question: Jeff Bridges was nominated for the 'Oscar' for Best Actor this year for his role as 'Rooster Cogburn' in which film?
Answer: true grit
Question: Which of the noble gases takes its name from the Greek for 'hidden'?
Answer: krypton
Question: In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm', what is the name of the pig who emerges as the leader of the farm following the overthrow of 'Farmer Jones'?
Answer: napoleon
Question: Jesse Eisenberg was nominated for the 'Oscar' for Best Actor this year for his role as 'Mark Zuckerberg' in which film?
Answer: social network
Question: Which of the noble gases takes its name from the Greek for 'stranger'?
Answer: xenon
Question: In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm', what is the name of the loyal but dim-witted cart-horse who carries out many of the orders handed down by 'Napoleon'?
Answer: boxer
Question: Which American film director of Czech origin twice won the Academy Award for Best Director for his films 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Amadeus'?
Answer: milos forman
Question: Which German-born French composer left his most famous opera 'Tales of Hoffmann' unfinished at his death in 1880?
Answer: jacques offenbach
Question: Which Sri Lankan batsman ended the 2011 Cricket World Cup as the highest run scorer?
Answer: tillakaratne dilshan
Question: What name is given to the mass killing of Danes in England that was ordered by King Ethelred the Unready and occurred on 13th November 1002?
Answer: st brice s day massacre
Question: Which American film director of Greek origin has twice won the Academy Award for Best Director for his films 'Gentleman's Agreement' and 'On The Waterfront'?
Answer: elia kazan
Question: The novel 'Dead Souls' and the play 'The Government Inspector' are two of the best known works of which Russian author?
Answer: nikolai gogol
Question: 'Grenade' was a 2011 UK number one hit for which singer?
Answer: bruno mars
Question: Who was the President of France at the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Answer: charles de gaulle
Question: The novels 'The Gulag Archipelago' and 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich' are two of the best known works of which Russian author?
Answer: alexsandr solzhenitsyn
Question: Which god of wisdom in Egyptian mythology is usually portrayed with the head of a Falcon?
Answer: horus
Question: After the city of Valencia, which tourist resort on the Costa Blanca is the next largest city in the Spanish autonomous region of Valencia?
Answer: alicante
Question: Named after a German inventor, what is the SI unit of electrical conductance?
Answer: siemens
Question: After Seville, which tourist resort on the Costa Del Sol is the next largest city in the Spanish autonomous region of Andalusia?
Answer: malaga
Question: Named after a French physicist, what is the SI unit of electrical charge?
Answer: coulomb
Question: Which god of embalming in Egyptian mythology is usually portrayed with the head of a Jackal?
Answer: anubis
Question: Which American actor and singer has joined Amanda Holden as one of the judges on the current series of 'Britain's Got Talent'?
Answer: david hasselhoff
Question: Who was the King of Persia who led the armies that triumphed over the Greeks at the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium?
Answer: xerxes
Question: Also found in Spinach and similar plants, which organic acid is the primary acid found in Rhubarb leaves?
Answer: oxalic acid
Question: Who was the King of Epirus who defeated the Romans at the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC at the cost of his army being almost entirely destroyed?
Answer: pyrrus
Question: Which English comedian has joined Amanda Holden as one of the judges on the current series of 'Britain's Got Talent'?
Answer: michael mcintyre
Question: Which English king was born in Le Mans in 1133?
Answer: henry ii
Question: Which Caribbean island nation is thought to take its name from the Spanish for "shallow seas"?
Answer: bahamas
Question: In the King James Version, which eponymous book of the Old Testament follows 'Isaiah' and precedes 'Lamentations'?
Answer: jeremiah
Question: Which Caribbean island nation is thought to take its name from the Spanish for 'ancient and bearded'?
Answer: antigua barbuda
Question: Which English king was born in Bordeaux in 1367?
Answer: richard ii
Question: Which South African golfer won this month's US Masters tournament with a score of 14 under par?
Answer: charl schwartzel
Question: Dilma Rousseff was elected as the first female President of which South American country, in 2011?
Answer: brazil
Question: Which Rolf Harris song was the last UK number one hit of the 1960's?
Answer: two little boys
Question: Named after a French author and statesman, what name is given to a thick steak, cut from a grilled fillet of beef that is regularly served with mushrooms and potatoes?
Answer: chateaubriand
Question: Sold for $106.5 million in 2010, 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' is which artist's most expensive painting?
Answer: pablo picasso
Question: Sold for $100 million in 2008, 'Eight Elvises' is which artist's most expensive painting?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: In which US city do the American Football team known as the 'Browns' play their home games?
Answer: cleveland
Question: In which American state are the headquarters of the fast- food chain McDonalds located?
Answer: illinois
Question: What is the medical name for the allergy of the skin known commonly as nettle rash or hives?
Answer: urticaria
Question: Which author's works feature 'Blandings Castle' and 'The Drones Club'?
Answer: p g wodehouse
Question: Who was President of France between Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Jacques Chirac?
Answer: francois mitterand
Question: Formerly the capital, which is the largest city in Tanzania?
Answer: dar es salaam
Question: 'One O'Clock Jump' was the theme song fro which jazz musician and his orchestra?
Answer: count basie
Question: Which band are photographed outside Salford Lads Club on the inside cover of their album 'The Queen Is Dead'?
Answer: smiths
Question: The name of which former US Treasury Secretary completes this banking corporation 'J P Morgan ......'?
Answer: chase
Question: Which actor, most famous for the TV series 'Spooks' was the first to play the 17-year-old 'Alan Strang' in the play 'Equus' in 1973?
Answer: peter firth
Question: Who plays 'Ian Fletcher' 'Head of Deliverance of the Olympic Deliverance Commission' in the BBC TV comedy 'Twenty Twelve'?
Answer: hugh bonneville
Question: Which US Senator who ran for the White House in 2008 was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936?
Answer: john mccain
Question: Moving to Australia when he was 4, in which country was Russell Crowe born?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which team won the FA Cup in 1975 - Alan Taylor scoring two goals in the final, as he had in the quarter- final and semi-final replay?
Answer: west ham united
Question: The SI unit of Inductance is named after which American who lived from 1797 to 1878?
Answer: joseph henry
Question: In music, which note is equal to two crotchets?
Answer: minim
Question: Which sign of the zodiac comes between Leo and Libra?
Answer: virgo
Question: Whose resignation speech to the House of Commons in 1988 included "It is rather like sending your opening batsman to the crease, only for them to find, as the first balls are being bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain"?
Answer: geoffrey howe
Question: Which drinks company is the sponsor of the Grand National at Aintree?
Answer: john smith s
Question: Which sign of the zodiac comes between Scorpio and Capricorn?
Answer: sagittarius
Question: Following the awarding of city status to St. Asaph earlier this year, there are now six cities in Wales. Which city is first alphabetically?
Answer: bangor
Question: Which symbol on a musical score raises the pitch by one semitone?
Answer: sharp
Question: Which river can be crossed using the Scotswood Bridge or the Shields Ferry?
Answer: river tyne
Question: French actress Catherine Deneuve was the second wife of which photographer?
Answer: david bailey
Question: Which actor, one of the stars of the t.v. series 'New Tricks' was the first to play the innkeeper 'Thenardier' in 'Les Miserables' in 1985?
Answer: alun armstrong
Question: Which fish is used in the dish 'gravlax' (or 'gravadlax')?
Answer: salmon
Question: In which ITV comedy do Steve Pemberton and Siobhan Finneran play 'Mick' and 'Janice Garvey'?
Answer: benidorm
Question: John McCain and Barry Goldwater, the defeated candidate in the 1964 US Presidential Election, were both Senators for which state?
Answer: arizona
Question: Which Manchester band formed in 1976 by Mark E Smith and three others was named after the English title of a novel by Albert Camus?
Answer: fall
Question: For what does the 'w' stand in 'PwC', one of the 'Big Four' accountancy firms in the world?
Answer: waterhouse
Question: The 'Maxilla' is the upper jawbone. What is the name of the lower jawbone?
Answer: mandible
Question: The most famous piece performed by which jazz quartet is 'Take Five'?
Answer: dave brubeck quartet
Question: 'Marianne Dashwood', 'Fanny Price' and 'Anne Elliot' are characters created by which author?
Answer: jane austen
Question: In 2010 who was created Baron Bannside of North Antrim, in the County of Antrim?
Answer: ian paisley
Question: How are Oldham born comedy duo Thomas Derbyshire and Robert Harper known professionally?
Answer: cannon ball
Question: Who was Chancellor of Germany between Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel?
Answer: gerhard schroder
Question: The museum in Crich, Debyshire is dedicated to which form of transport?
Answer: trams
Question: Who wrote the plays ‘The Entertainer’ and ‘Look Back in Anger’?
Answer: john osborne
Question: In which month of 1789 was the Storming of the Bastille?
Answer: july
Question: Complete the name of the 13th President of the USA Millard ..............
Answer: fillmore
Question: All stations on the National Rail network have a 3-letter code. Which London station has the code LST?
Answer: liverpool street
Question: What is the one-word stage name of 16 year old singer Jasmine van den Bogaerde, who won ‘Open Mic UK’ in 2008 as a 12 year old?
Answer: birdy
Question: Who did Andrew Waugh succeed as Surveyor General of India, Waugh naming Peak XV in the Himalayas after him?
Answer: george everest
Question: For which book did Margaret Mitchell win the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Answer: gone with wind
Question: Which religious figure lived at Auckland Castle until last year, although his office is still there?
Answer: bishop of durham
Question: What is the original title of the book translated into Spanish as ‘Harry Potter y el Cáliz de Fuego’?
Answer: harry potter and goblet of fire
Question: Travelling along the coast of Africa – which country is next – Somalia, Kenya, ..........?
Answer: tanzania
Question: Name the first Formula 1 driver to win his first three titles consecutively?
Answer: sebastian vettel
Question: In which sport did Sarah Storey win four gold medals at the 2012 Paralympics?
Answer: cycling
Question: On which game show of the 1980s was Una Stubbs a regular team captain?
Answer: give us clue
Question: What is the one-word nickname of Michael Balzary, the bass player with the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
Answer: flea
Question: Which of Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’ was a dog?
Answer: timmy