CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Two of the planets in our Solar system don't have moons: Venus - and which other ?
Answer: mercury
Question: How much were you entitled to receive per week as a single pensioner , assuming you were over 70 and your income was less than £21 a year , when Old Age Pensions were introduced in 1909 ?
Answer: 5 shillings
Question: Which Scottish scientist is generally credited with the invention of the telephone?
Answer: alexander graham bell
Question: Which peace treaty ended the Russo-Japanes war?
Answer: portsmouth
Question: What was Lester Piggott's last Derby winner?
Answer: teenoso
Question: What name is given to the fur of the Coypu?
Answer: nutria
Question: Which sporting event takes place in Pasadena, California on New Year's Day?
Answer: rose bowl
Question: Which city was the interim capital of Pakistan while Islamabad was being constructed?
Answer: rawalpindi
Question: Which Dickens novel is subtitled "The Parish Boy's Progress"?
Answer: oliver twist
Question: The lack of which vitamin caused scurvy in the early days of the navy?
Answer: vitamin c
Question: Who succeeded to the English throne in 1422 at the age of nine months?
Answer: henry vi
Question: Which TV series featured Frank Drebin and Al, a seven foot tall cop whose face never appeared because he was too tall to fit on the screen?
Answer: police squad
Question: Which stand-up comedian has played football at semi-professional level and once worked full-time as a pharmaceuticals sales director?
Answer: john bishop
Question: Which family holds the hereditary right to the office of Earl Marshal of England?
Answer: howard family
Question: Which was the major battle of the Franco-Prissian war?
Answer: sedan
Question: Who, along with Leslie Bricusse, wrote the lyrics for the James Bond film song Goldfinger?
Answer: anthony newley
Question: Which Bavarian town stages a wagner festival every July and August?
Answer: bayreuth
Question: King Stephen (1135-54) was the only king of which royal house?
Answer: blois
Question: First used in America, what name is given to a pub or restaurant that combines seafood and meat, such as steak and scampi?
Answer: surf n turf
Question: Against which background is Dickens' novel 'A tale of two cities' based?
Answer: french revolution
Question: In which of the rooms of Buckingham Palace are investitures held?
Answer: ball room
Question: Which "Games" were first held in Buenos Aires in 1951 and then every four years?
Answer: pan american games
Question: Who is the only U.S. President to have been divorced?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: What name is given to a number system with base sixteen?
Answer: hexadecimal
Question: The Prairie Dog is a member of which family of rodents?
Answer: squirrel
Question: From what would you fear if you suffered from Gymnophobia?
Answer: nudity
Question: Which six letter word links the nickname of a now obsolete British coin and the surname of a tennis player who lost to Bjorn Borg in a men’s singles final at Wimbledon ?
Answer: tanner
Question: Who was President Of The USA at the time of the Wall Street Crash ?
Answer: herbert hoover
Question: Which famous novel, published in 1719 does the title character describe his home as "The Island Of Despair" ?
Answer: robinson crusoe
Question: Specifically, where on the human body is the Axilla ?
Answer: armpit
Question: Which small island, situated in the middle of the South Atlantic was named after the day it was discovered in 1503 by Portuguese navigator Afonso De Albuquerque ?
Answer: ascension
Question: Which famous film actor, singer, music composer and author provided the voice of Shere Khan the tiger in the 1967 Disney animated film The Jungle Book ?
Answer: george sanders
Question: Moses, Muriel, Mollie, Benjamin, Mr Whymper, Squealer and Minimus are all characters that appear in which famous novel of 1945 ?
Answer: animal farm
Question: Having a radius of 586 kilometres, what is the name of the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto ?
Answer: charon
Question: Which astronaut, part of the Apollo 12 mission on November 19th 1969 became the 4th person to walk on the moon after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Pete Conrad ?
Answer: alan bean
Question: Which astronaut, part of the Apollo 17 mission on December 11th 1972 became the last of two men to walk on the moon along with fellow astronaut Harrison Schmitt ?
Answer: eugene cernan
Question: Which chemical element, a strong, light metal with the atomic number 22 takes it’s name from the Greek for "First Sons On Earth" ?
Answer: titanium
Question: 23 out of the first 24 highest peaks in England lie in the Lake District with Scafell Pike being the highest. Which is the peak that does not lie in the Lake District, it is the 11th highest in England at 893 metres in height and is situated in the North Pennines ?
Answer: cross fell
Question: What is the name of the all female Russian punk band that in 2012 were jailed for two Years for staging an anti Vladimir Putin protest in a Moscow Cathedral ?
Answer: pussy riot
Question: An incident that occurred on November 19th 2002, in which European capital city did Pop star Michael Jackson create huge controversy when he dangled a baby from the fifth Floor of a hotel bedroom window ?
Answer: berlin
Question: What is the surname of the four children in the Children’s book The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe by C S Lewis ?
Answer: pevensie
Question: Which Gilbert And Sullivan opera set in Asia featured the famous saying "Let the punishment fit the crime" ?
Answer: mikado
Question: In which children’s comic did the character "Roy Of The Rovers" first appear in September 1954 ?
Answer: tiger
Question: Introduced in 2006, What two word term was given to the optical disc storing medium, designed to be the successor to DVD, offering a much larger capacity and picture quality ?
Answer: bluray
Question: Which Asian country’s flag consists of a single yellow star on a red background ?
Answer: vietnam
Question: Ex US President George H W Bush was born in 1924, the same year as which other still living ex US President ?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: Apart from it’s current presenter Kirsty Young, who has been the only regular female presenter of the radio show Desert Island Discs, doing so from 1988 to 2006 ?
Answer: sue lawley
Question: Which Gilbert And Sullivan opera that was introduced in 1889 opens to 24 Venetian young maidens binding white and red roses in posies to give to Marco and Giuseppe Palmeiri two persons that they all love ?
Answer: gondoliers
Question: Which Asian country’s flag consists of a large red disc on a green background ?
Answer: bangladesh
Question: Introduced in 2007 what six letter name is given to the device described as being an e – book reader or a software and hardware platform designed by Amazon for the rendering of e – books and other digital media., they are often able to download over 1,000 books ?
Answer: kindle
Question: Which county won the Cricket County Championship on six occasions during the 1960’s Including three consecutive titles in 1966, 1967 and 1968 ?
Answer: yorkshire
Question: Which county won the Cricket County Championship seven years in succession between 1952 and 1958 ?
Answer: surrey
Question: Clara Petacci, who lived from 1912 – 1945 was the mistress of which famous politician who lived from 1883 – 1945 ?
Answer: benito mussolini
Question: Which famous historical figure who lived from 1595 to 1617 was famously linked to English captain John Smith who arrived in her country with more than 100 settlers in April 1607 ?
Answer: pocohontas
Question: In 1971, the pop band Sakkarin under the production of Jonathan King reached number Twelve in the British pop charts with which record that had been a number one hit two Years earlier ?
Answer: sugar sugar
Question: Which famous novel, published in 1939 features the main family who are named Joad, a poor family of tenant farmers during the Great Depression ?
Answer: grapes of wrath
Question: Which famous novel, published in 1922 is the main character and protagonist named Leopold Bloom and follows his encounters in Dublin ?
Answer: ulysses
Question: What is the name of the Bridge in Southern France that opened in 2004, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central Mountains and with a height of 984 feet, it is the world’s highest Road bridge ?
Answer: millau
Question: Which renowned public school is situated in Godalming in Surrey ?
Answer: charterhouse
Question: Which renowned independent school is situated in Elgin in Moray ?
Answer: gordonstoun
Question: The song ‘ Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas comes from which musical ?
Answer: meet me in st louis
Question: Which was the first English football club that Liverpool legend Bill Shankly managed ?
Answer: carlisle united
Question: Which actor played the role of Milton Arbogast, the detective who is killed on the stairs in the Hitchcock thriller Psycho ?
Answer: martin balsam
Question: Deborah Kerr played the female lead in the film version of which musical ?
Answer: king and i
Question: In which European country are the head-quarters of the telecommunications company Nokia ?
Answer: finland
Question: In Greek mythology, whose wife was Clytemnestra ?
Answer: agamemnon
Question: Which Doctor Who actor did David Bradley play in the recent TV drama An Adventure In Space and Time ?
Answer: william hartnell
Question: What was the name of the street on which President Kennedy's limousine was travelling at the time of his assassination in 1963 ?
Answer: elm street
Question: Which member of Monty Python, who have announced they are planning a new stage show, was born in America ?
Answer: terry gilliam
Question: Which term was coined to denote the followers of the 14th-century churchman John Wycliffe ?
Answer: lollards
Question: In physics , which Greek letter is commonly used to denote torque ?
Answer: tau
Question: What is the literal meaning of the Japanese term 'hara-kiri', often used in the West as a synonym for ritual self-sacrifice ?
Answer: cutting belly
Question: What in physics is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction ?
Answer: quantum
Question: Where in Florida is the Flag Building, the recently completed 'cathedral' of Scientology ?
Answer: clearwater
Question: Deciduous dentition, seen in children, is better known by what name ?
Answer: milk teeth
Question: Which member of the Monty Python team died in 1989 ?
Answer: graham chapman
Question: Nellie Forbush is the female protagonist of which musical ?
Answer: south pacific
Question: Which of the territories of Canada has the city of Yellowknife as its capital ?
Answer: northwest territories
Question: The English stately home created for the Earl of Carlisle in 1699 is still owned by his descendents, and still known by the family name. Which stately home is it?
Answer: castle howard
Question: Ustinov, Van Mildert, and St Cuthbert's Society, are among the colleges which are constituent parts of which British university ?
Answer: durham
Question: The character of Hercule Poirot first appeared in which Agatha Christie story ?
Answer: mysterious affair at styles
Question: When Lord Salisbury left office as Prime Minister in 1902, he was succeeded by his nephew. Who was that ?
Answer: arthur balfour
Question: Which Austrian composer's works are given K numbers according to the 19th century Kochel catalogue ?
Answer: mozart
Question: In 1860, which Englishman invented an electric lamp some time before Edison registered his patent for the same device ?
Answer: sir joseph swan
Question: Upminster and Wimbledon are termini of which London Underground line ?
Answer: district
Question: Alcuin, Goodricke, Halifax, and Vanbrugh are among the colleges which are constituent parts of which British university ?
Answer: york
Question: The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank is named after which physicist and astronomer ?
Answer: sir bernard lovell
Question: Edgeware and Morden are termini of which London Underground line ?
Answer: northern
Question: The design of the Mathematical Bridge at Cambridge University is traditionally credited to which scientist (although he died some 20 years before the bridge was constructed) ?
Answer: sir isaac newton
Question: The Santuari de Liuc monastery is considered the most important pilgrimage site on which Mediterranean island ?
Answer: majorca
Question: Which city, the largest on the Australian west coast, is the capital of the state of Western Australia ?
Answer: perth
Question: The film simply known as Star Wars on its first release in 1977 became Episode 4 in the eventual sequence of six films, and acquired a subtitle. What was the subtitle ?
Answer: new hope
Question: Which spirit forms the basis of a Pina Colada cocktail ?
Answer: rum
Question: What name is given to the form of divination through books ?
Answer: bibliomancy
Question: Which stately home in Derbyshire formed the backdrop to the famous historical romance between Dorothy Vernon and Sir John Manners ?
Answer: haddon hall
Question: Curacao, off the Venezuelan coast, is a constituent country of which European kingdom ?
Answer: netherlands
Question: What type of animal is the South African dik-dik ?
Answer: antelope
Question: What type of pie is particularly associated with American Thanksgiving dinners?
Answer: pumpkin pie
Question: With which instrument is jazz musician 'Kid' Ory principally associated ?
Answer: trombone
Question: Which British city forms the background to the 2013 TV series The Fall starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Doran ?
Answer: belfast
Question: In the Bible who was the father of twin sons, Jacob and Esau ?
Answer: isaac
Question: The musical Man of La Mancha is based on the story of which hero ?
Answer: don quixote
Question: Which playwright was the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard ?
Answer: sir john vanbrugh
Question: Established in 1951, which was Britain's first National Park ?
Answer: peak district
Question: Which jazz singer was known as 'The King of Hi de Ho' ?
Answer: cab calloway
Question: Pashto and Dari are the two official languages of which country ?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: Who scored the winning goal of the 2013 FA Cup final ?
Answer: ben watson
Question: Which musical is based on the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder ?
Answer: hello dolly
Question: The four bronze lions that surround Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square were sculpted by which British artist ?
Answer: sir edwin landseer
Question: An orrery is a mechanical device used to illustrate what ?
Answer: solar system
Question: Which sporting event, first held in July 1903, was the idea of Geo Lefevre, a journalist on L'Auto newspaper ?
Answer: tour de france
Question: Which country declared war on Japan - the day before the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki ?
Answer: soviet union
Question: Which work by Elgar is dedicated to "My Friends Pictured Within" ?
Answer: enigma variations
Question: What is the name of Victoria and David Beckham's daughter ?
Answer: harper seven
Question: Which character in a novel by Charles Dickens lived at Satis House ?
Answer: miss havisham
Question: Which Conservative MP resigned as Government Chief Whip after the 'Plebgate' scandal ?
Answer: andrew mitchell
Question: In which Italian region is the port and city of Genoa located ?
Answer: liguria
Question: Which British cyclist's last words during the 1967 Tour de France are said to have been " Put me back on my bike " ?
Answer: tommy simpson
Question: Which Australian marsupial has 3 species, the Common, the Southern Hairy-nosed, and the Northern-Hairy nosed ?
Answer: wombat
Question: Where, in the strip cartoon, is the home village of Rupert Bear ?
Answer: nutwood
Question: On 60's TV who had the nickname 'The Galloping Gourmet'?
Answer: graham kerr
Question: Meles meles is the scientific name of which mammal ?
Answer: badger
Question: 'The Worm that Turned', where women ruled the world, was a serial from which TV sketch show ?
Answer: two ronnies
Question: Which city is called Baile Atha Cliath in its native language ?
Answer: dublin
Question: For which healing process does the body produce the soluble protein fibrin ?
Answer: blood clotting
Question: What part of a crustacean or turtle is the carapace ?
Answer: shell
Question: Who was appointed Governor of the Bahamas in 1940 ?
Answer: duke of windsor
Question: In Greek mythology, Stheno and Euryale were the immortal sisters of whom ?
Answer: medusa
Question: What , during the First World War, was renamed 'liberty cabbage' in the UK and the US because of anti-German feeling ?
Answer: sauerkraut
Question: What's the famous tourist attraction to be found at a castle founded by Cormac McCarthy in County Cork ?
Answer: blarney stone
Question: Who sculpted the figure of the Statue of Liberty ?
Answer: auguste bartholdi
Question: The Liverpool FC anthem You'll Never Walk Alone comes from which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ?
Answer: carousel
Question: What, in the US, became known as a 'Liberty Sandwich' in World War 1 ?
Answer: hamburger
Question: 'Gourmet Night' and 'The Kipper and the Corpse' were the titles of episodes from which TV series ?
Answer: fawlty towers
Question: The name of which chemical element derives from the Greek word for 'lazy'?
Answer: argon
Question: Ulysees is the Roman equivalent of which name from ancient Greek mythology ?
Answer: odysseus
Question: What name was given to the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938 ?
Answer: anschluss
Question: Which branch of mathematics is named after the Latin word for pebble ?
Answer: calculus
Question: Which sporting venue was known for a time as Billy Williams' Cabbage Patch ?
Answer: twickenham
Question: Which country has launched its Mars Orbiter spacecraft, also known as Mangalyaan, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre ?
Answer: india
Question: What was the name of the Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury ?
Answer: st augustine
Question: What was the title of the only UK No. 1 hit for Dusty Springfield ?
Answer: you don t have to say you love me
Question: In the Muppett shows, what is the name of Kermit the Frog's nephew ?
Answer: robin
Question: Which area of Czechoslovakia was transferred to Germany after the Munich conference of September 1938 ?
Answer: sudetenland
Question: Kielder Water is a large artificial reservoir in which English county ?
Answer: northumberland
Question: Who designed the National Theatre building on the South Bank in London ?
Answer: denys lasdun
Question: The formula pi times radius squared times height gives the volume of which three-dimensional geometric shape ?
Answer: cylinder
Question: Now the site of an airport, which former English racecourse staged the Grand National from 1916 to 1918 after Aintree was taken into use by the War Office ?
Answer: gatwick racecourse
Question: What was the title of the only U.K. No.1 hit for the group The Dave Clark Five ?
Answer: glad all over
Question: Which Conservative politician has used the pseudonyms Michael Green and Sebastian Fox in his business life ?
Answer: grant shapps
Question: Which was the last four funnelled liner to be operated by the Cunard line ?
Answer: aquitania
Question: Which three-funnelled White Star liner was originally known as the Bismarck ?
Answer: majestic
Question: George Osborne's family grew rich on the proceeds of what sort of business ?
Answer: wallpaper
Question: Which London landmark gave its name to a now disused station situated after Tottenham Court Road on the Central Line ?
Answer: british museum
Question: Which Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera has the alternative title The Town of Titipu ?
Answer: mikado
Question: What is the English title of Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus ?
Answer: bat
Question: What is the more familiar Biblical name for Lake Tiberias in Israel ?
Answer: sea of galilee
Question: In which Scottish town do the football team St. Mirren play ?
Answer: paisley
Question: In our Solar System, which planet is the hottest, with a mean surface temperature of around 464 degrees ?
Answer: venus
Question: What was Dorothy Parker's reply when informed of the death of former US president, Calvin Coolidge ?
Answer: how can they tell
Question: The name of which curry-flavoured soup of Anglo-Indian origin means "pepper water" ?
Answer: mulligatawny
Question: The existence of the planet Neptune was deduced in the 1840's from disturbances it caused in the orbit of which other planet ?
Answer: uranus
Question: Which African mammal, one of the first names in a dictionary, is also known as the ant bear ?
Answer: aardvark
Question: What role is played by Rupert Graves in TV's Sherlock ?
Answer: inspector lestrade
Question: Which pasta dish is the favourite food of Garfield in the comic strip by Jim Davis ?
Answer: lasagne
Question: The astronauts Dallas, Ripley, Kane, Lambert, Brett and Parker, are characters in which 1979 science fiction film ?
Answer: alien
Question: Of which of his successors as US President did Lyndon Johnson make the comment: "He can't fart and chew gum at the same time." ?
Answer: gerald ford
Question: What is the British name given to German white wines originally from the Rhine area ?
Answer: hock
Question: Arthur Thistlewood led which failed conspiracy in 1820 ?
Answer: cato street conspiracy
Question: In which South American country is Mount Chimborazo the highest mountain ?
Answer: ecuador
Question: Who wrote the melody of the song Keep the Home Fires Burning ?
Answer: ivor novello
Question: On a rail journey from London to Brighton, from which London terminus station do you depart ?
Answer: victoria
Question: Who was Home Secretary at the time of the Sydney Street Siege of 1911 ?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Who played the title role in the 1962 Hammer film version of The Phantom of the Opera ?
Answer: herbert lom
Question: Which Tuscan wine was traditionally packaged in a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco ?
Answer: chianti
Question: Which fashion designer famously brought out 'the Little Black Dress' ?
Answer: coco chanel
Question: Who wrote the song 'I'll See You Again' ?
Answer: noel coward
Question: Who replaced Mervyn King as Governor of the Bank of England ?
Answer: mark carney
Question: On a rail journey from London to Dover, from which London terminus station do you depart ?
Answer: charing cross
Question: What was the surname of the oil dynasty headed by JR in the TV series Dallas?
Answer: ewing
Question: In the George Orwell novel Animal Farm, what sort of animal was Napoleon ?
Answer: pig
Question: Which composer married the celebrated pianist Clara Wieck in 1840 ?
Answer: robert schumann
Question: Which piece of classical music was heard at the beginning of the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey ?
Answer: also sprach zarathustra
Question: Which Yorkshire model village is named after its founder, Victorian industrialist Titis Salt, and a local river ?
Answer: saltaire
Question: What is the name of the Cambridge University dramatic club whose presidents have included Peter Cook, Hugh Laurie and David Mitchell ?
Answer: footlights
Question: The process of Vulcanization , as applied to rubber, involves treating it with which chemical element before subjecting it to intense heat ?
Answer: sulphur
Question: For which government department did Anthony Trollope work before he became a full-time writer ?
Answer: post office
Question: What was the German codename for the proposed invasion of Great Britain in 1940 ?
Answer: operation sealion
Question: If the race goes to plan, how many obstacles do the runners in the Grand National have to jump ?
Answer: thirty
Question: Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major is often known nowadays by what nickname because of its use in a Swedish film of that name ?
Answer: elvira madigan
Question: In the Hans Christian Andersen tale, of what were the Emperor's new clothes made ?
Answer: nothing
Question: What is the more familiar name for vitamin B2 ?
Answer: riboflavin
Question: Prime Minister David Cameron is an alumnus of which Oxford college ?
Answer: brasenose
Question: Which restaurant chain employed waitresses known as 'Nippies' ?
Answer: j lyons co
Question: Which metal , with the atomic number 30, is used to coat iron or steel in the galvanizing process ?
Answer: zinc