CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the name used by the aircraft hijacker who, in 1971, leapt from the back of a Boeing 727 over the American Pacific Northwest, after collecting a $200,000 ransom, and was never seen again?
Answer: d b cooper
Question: The 1980 film 'Coal Miner's Daughter', starring Sissy Spacek. portrayed which country singer's rise to fame?
Answer: loretta lynn
Question: What is the SI unit of force, equal to one kilogram metre per second squared?
Answer: newton
Question: Who was the Colombian footballer who was murdered after scoring an own goal whilst playing for his country during the 1994 World Cup?
Answer: andres escobar
Question: The original Route 66 highway ran from Los Angeles to which city?
Answer: chicago
Question: In Roman Catholicism, what name is given to the transportation of the Virgin Mary's body and soul to heaven?
Answer: assumption
Question: Which Scottish castle, near Dundee, is thought to have been the setting for Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'?
Answer: glamis castle
Question: The 2001 film 'Black Hawk Down' told the story of a US military campaign in which country?
Answer: somalia
Question: Who was awarded the 100m Olympic Gold Medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 after the disqualification of Ben Johnson?
Answer: carl lewis
Question: According to folklore, what was the name of the monster slain by 'Beowulf'?
Answer: grendel
Question: Who was the Augustinian monk who is known as 'The Father Of Modern Genetics' because of his study of inheritance in peas?
Answer: gregor mendel
Question: In 1969, the 'Football War' was fought between Honduras and which neighbouring country?
Answer: el salvador
Question: Who was the American writer and counterculture icon who coined the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out"?
Answer: timothy leary
Question: What is the name of the inn owned by the parents of 'Jim Hawkins' featured in Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island'?
Answer: admiral benbow
Question: In which country is 'Waitangi Day' celebrated as a public holiday on 6th February each year?
Answer: new zealand
Question: In which of the Marx Brothers' films did Groucho Marx play the character 'Rufus T. Firefly, Prime Minister of Freedonia'?
Answer: duck soup
Question: Which country declared independence from France after the 'August Revolution' of 1945?
Answer: vietnam
Question: Its name deriving from the Sinhalese for 'I cannot, I cannot', which disease, caused by a deficiency of Thiamine induces in the sufferer terrible symptoms including weight loss, emotional disturbance, an irregular heartbeat and, in advance cases, death?
Answer: beriberi
Question: Which Spanish poet and playwright, who was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, wrote 'Blood Wedding' and 'The Curse Of The Butterflies'?
Answer: federico garcia lorca
Question: In the poem 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe, which word is repeatedly spoken by the titular bird?
Answer: nevermore
Question: Which title, deriving from the Latin word for 'leader', was given to the elected chief of state in the historical city- states of Venice and Genoa between the eighth and eighteenth centuries?
Answer: doge
Question: Rudy Hartono won the All England Open Championship seven years in a row from 1968 to 1974, in which sport?
Answer: badminton
Question: What was the name of the ferry that capsized in Zeebrugge harbour in 1987, killing 186 people?
Answer: herald of free enterprise
Question: In which American city was the sit-com 'Happy Days' set?
Answer: milwaukee
Question: Which Roman Emperor was married to Livia Drusilla for 51 years?
Answer: augustus
Question: The Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea are both arms of which larger sea?
Answer: mediterranean sea
Question: In 1937, Salvador Dali designed a sofa in the shape of the lips of which famous Hollywood actress?
Answer: mae west
Question: In which city does the Jacques Cartier Bridge span the St. Lawrence River?
Answer: montreal
Question: Which cross was the symbol of both Joan of Arc and of the Free French Forces during World War II?
Answer: cross of lorraine
Question: What type of creature was Amaltheia, who suckled the infant Zeus in a cave on Crete?
Answer: goat
Question: Which Soviet politician and diplomat was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939?
Answer: vyacheslav molotov
Question: Nutria is the name given to the sought-after fur of which rodent?
Answer: coypu
Question: The actress Isabella Rossellini, who appeared in the 2006 films 'The Architect' and 'Infamous', is the daughter of which famous actress?
Answer: ingrid bergman
Question: Bon Scott was the lead singer of which rock group until his death in 1980?
Answer: ac dc
Question: Who patented the electric, or dry razor in 1928?
Answer: jacob schick
Question: Which Frenchman was Formula One World Champion three times in the 1980's?
Answer: alain prost
Question: Which author created the characters 'Veruca Salt', 'Augustus Sloop' and 'Arthur Slugworth'?
Answer: roald dahl
Question: In which month of 1066 was the Battle of Hastings?
Answer: october
Question: What was the first name of the character played by Connie Booth in 'Fawlty Towers'?
Answer: polly
Question: 'Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by' are words from the first verse of which Christmas carol?
Answer: o little town of bethlehem
Question: In which classic 'western' does 'Marshal Will Kane' marry 'Amy Fowler' and turn in his badge, only for events to change on the arrival of a train?
Answer: high noon
Question: Who was the US President when Clement Attlee was the UK Prime Minister?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: Which British poet was announced in July as the winner of the 2012 PEN/Pinter Prize?
Answer: carol ann duffy
Question: Which constellation is named after the daughter of Cassiopeia who was chained to a rock to be eaten by the sea monster Cetus?
Answer: andromeda
Question: 'Point Guard' and 'Centre' are positions in which sport?
Answer: basketball
Question: On which course is the 'Irish Oaks' horse race run?
Answer: curragh
Question: On which island in 1191 did King Richard I marry Berengaria?
Answer: cyprus
Question: In the first act of which opera set in Paris at Christmas 1830, does 'Mimi' knock at the door of 'Rodolfo's' flat who then holds her frozen hand?
Answer: la boheme
Question: What sort of animal is 'Marty' in the 'Madagascar' series of animated films?
Answer: zebra
Question: What was the signature song of Edith Piaf - she wrote the lyrics - and the title of a 207 film about her?
Answer: la vie en rose
Question: Which Press Secretary to Margaret Thatcher was described by John Biffen MP as " a rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin"?
Answer: bernard ingham
Question: Which opera, set in 1930 Seville, opens in a factory where workers make cigarettes all day?
Answer: carmen
Question: What sort of animal is 'Pumbaa' in 'The Lion King' film and stage show?
Answer: warthog
Question: George Entwistle was announced in July as the next Director-General of which organisation?
Answer: b b c
Question: The constellation Mensa was created in the eighteenth century and named in honour of which African mountain?
Answer: table mountain
Question: In which classic film is businessman 'George Bailey' on the brink of suicide when 'Clarence Oldbody' shows him what the world would have been like without him?
Answer: it s wonderful life
Question: Which Yorkshire town between Scarborough and Bridlington is at the eastern end of the Cleveland Way and the northern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way?
Answer: filey
Question: Which arts series which ran on ITV for over 30 years has recently been revived on 'Sky Arts'?
Answer: south bank show
Question: In 1969 which MP was described by Stratton Mills MP as "Fidel Castro in a miniskirt"?
Answer: bernadette devlin
Question: Who also writes using the pseudonym 'Richard Bachman'?
Answer: stephen king
Question: Renzo Piano is the architect of a new main building, due to open in 2015, for the Whitney Museum of American Art in the meatpacking district of which city?
Answer: new york
Question: Which horse, ridden by Brian Fletcher, won the Scottish Grand National in 1974?
Answer: red rum
Question: """She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalot"" is spoken by which Arthurian Knight at the end of Tennyson's poem?"
Answer: lancelot
Question: In which county was Laszlo Biro, the inventor of the ballpoint pen, born?
Answer: hungary
Question: Which small people from an isolated Atlantic island does 'Willy Wonka' invite to work in his chocolate factory?
Answer: oompa loompas
Question: Complete the name of the Roam Catholic diocese 'Hexham and ......'?
Answer: newcastle
Question: Odo, the half-brother of William the Conqueror who supported him at the Battle of Hastings, was Bishop of ....., where?
Answer: bayeux
Question: Which island, which gives its name to an area in the Shipping Forecast, lies halfway between Orkney and Shetland?
Answer: fair isle
Question: 'Wherever You Are' last year's Christmas number one is by 'Military Wives and .......', who?
Answer: gareth malone
Question: What was the first name of the handyman played by Paul Henry in the t.v. soap 'Crossroads'?
Answer: benny
Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet 'The Three Cornered Hat'?
Answer: manuel de falla
Question: Which P.G. Wodehouse character has a surname that begins with a 'silent P'?
Answer: psmith
Question: '4.50 From Paddington' and 'Murder At The Vicarage' are novels featuring which detective?
Answer: miss marple
Question: For her performance in which film did Meryl Streep win the Best Actress 'Oscar' earlier this year?
Answer: iron lady
Question: For which film did Woody Allen win the 'Oscar' for Best Original Screenplay earlier this year?
Answer: midnight in paris
Question: Who was the first Italian boxer to be World Heavyweight Champion?
Answer: primo carnera
Question: 'The Dead Of Jericho' and 'Last Bus To Woodstock' are novels featuring which detective?
Answer: inspector morse
Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hephaestus?
Answer: vulcan
Question: In which country was Alexander Dubcek First Secretary of the Communist Party in 1968-1969?
Answer: czechoslovakia
Question: Which musical instrument completes the title of the 1968 top ten hit by the 'Lemon Pipers', 'Green ........'?
Answer: tambourine
Question: Which Welshman was proclaimed Prince of Wales by his supporters on September 16th 1400?
Answer: owain glyndwr
Question: Manhattan is surrounded by three rivers, the East, Harlem and which other
Answer: hudson
Question: Which novel by Dickens features Mr Wackford Squeers' Academy in the village of Dotheboys near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire?
Answer: nicholas nickleby
Question: In which sport did Southport-born Francesca Halsall win three gold and two bronze medals for Great Britain in the 2014 European Championships?
Answer: swimming
Question: Which word completes the title of MOCA in Los Angeles: Museum of???????????? Art?
Answer: contemporary
Question: Which 1936 novel tells the story of 20-year old Mary Yellan who was brought up on a farm but has to and live with her Aunt Patience in Cornwall after her mother dies?
Answer: jamaica inn
Question: In which German city, is the tomb of Charlemagne?
Answer: aachen
Question: Wroxeter, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum, is in which English county?
Answer: shropshire
Question: Which city that became famous following an incident in 1984 is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh?
Answer: bhopal
Question: What is the common name for the laryngeal prominence in the body?
Answer: adam s apple
Question: Harold Pinter's play Betrayal was inspired by his seven-year affair in the 1960s with which BBC TV presenter, referred to by Frank Muir as 'the thinking man's crumpet'?
Answer: joan bakewell
Question: Which photographer has had four wives including Catherine Deneuve and Marie Helvin
Answer: david bailey
Question: What is the first name of Doctor Zhivago in the Boris Pasternak novel
Answer: yuri
Question: Nicknamed the Snow Leopard, for which country was Kwame Nkrumah- Acheampong the first representative in the Winter Olympics? (He finished 53rd in the slalom in 2010)
Answer: ghana
Question: Which Massachusetts delegate was President of the Second Continental Congress and his large signature on the 1776 Declaration of Independence?
Answer: john hancock
Question: Who organised the original 1985 Live Aid concert with Bob Geldof?
Answer: midge ure
Question: Which American photographed the Queen on her visit to the USA in 2007 and Demi Moore nude and pregnant for Vanity Fair in 1991?
Answer: annie leibovitz
Question: By what pen name was Belgian cartoonist Georges Prosper Remy known
Answer: herge
Question: Ascot Gavotte and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face are songs from which film?
Answer: my fair lady
Question: What is the four-letter name of the island, the second largest in Wales, that lies just off the west coast of Anglesey?
Answer: holy island
Question: Who organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden with Ravi Shankar?
Answer: george harrison
Question: Which street in Wigan is the home of Wallace and Gromit?
Answer: west wallaby street
Question: In which sport have Ted Copeland, Hope Powell and currently Mark Sampson managed England Women?
Answer: football
Question: Roskilde Cathedral has been the burial site of the monarchs of which European country since the 15th century?
Answer: denmark
Question: What was the name of Joe Brown's backing group in the 1960s?
Answer: bruvvers
Question: Which ancient road linked Wroxeter to Dover via St Albans
Answer: watling street
Question: What is the name of the Territory of India whose two main islands, after whom it is named, are separated by the Ten Degree Channel?
Answer: andaman and nicobar islands
Question: Who plays Kincade the estate gamekeeper in the Bond film Skyfall?
Answer: albert finney
Question: Who won the Marathon T54 for wheelchair athletes at the 2012 Paralympics?
Answer: david weir
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in the colony of New Brunswick on September 16th 1858?
Answer: andrew bonar law
Question: In which US city do the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers join to form the Ohio River?
Answer: pittsburgh
Question: Which planet was discovered by William Herschel in 1781?
Answer: uranus
Question: In which novel by Dickens is Stephen Blackpool a power loom weaver in Josiah Bounderby's mill?
Answer: hard times
Question: What was the first name of the character played by Geoffrey Hughes in the TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances'?
Answer: onslow
Question: 1969 was the first year of what was known as the Sunday League in cricket. Which county won?
Answer: lancashire
Question: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the ruler of which of the United Arab Emirates
Answer: dubai
Question: The SRN1 was the first practical design of what type of vehicle
Answer: hovercraft
Question: Ibadan and Port Harcourt are large cities in which African country
Answer: nigeria
Question: Which S S is a Cambridge College founded in 1596?
Answer: sidney sussex
Question: The album Menlove Ave, released posthumously in 1986, is by which musician?
Answer: john lennon
Question: The Great Pretender is an album released in the USA in 1992 to mark the first anniversary of the death of which musician?
Answer: freddie mercury
Question: Which C C is an Oxford College founded in 1517? (Christ Church was not founded until 1546.)
Answer: corpus christi
Question: Who was King of France from 1643 to 1715?
Answer: louis xiv
Question: Hans Holbein the Younger was court painter to which King?
Answer: henry viii
Question: Which capital city is served by Keflavik International Airport
Answer: reykjavik
Question: Marie Antoinette, the wife of King Louis XVI, was born in the Hofburg Palace in which city
Answer: vienna
Question: Following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon surrendered to the British aboard which warship?
Answer: h m s bellerophon
Question: Situated on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, what is the 'Musee d'Orsay'?
Answer: art gallery
Question: What sort of sauce is created by combining Bechamel sauce with grated cheese?
Answer: mornay sauce
Question: What name connects a small beetle with a publisher of children's books?
Answer: ladybird
Question: """Theirs not to reason why"" is a line from which poem?"
Answer: charge of light brigade
Question: Which Sir Walter Scott novel has the same name as a Scottish football team?
Answer: heart of midlothian
Question: Which 1993 film starring Whoopie Goldberg and Ted Danson, was about a black teenager conceived by artificial insemination, who discovers her father is a white car salesman?
Answer: made in america
Question: Which 19th century composer shares his surname with a character from the TV show 'Are You Being Served'?
Answer: brahms
Question: Which group had their only UK number one with 'I Owe You Nothing'?
Answer: bros
Question: Which is the most famous building on the Ile de la Cite in Paris?
Answer: notre dame
Question: Lord Longford was the best man at the wedding of which criminal, whose real name is Michael Gordon Peterson?
Answer: charles bronson
Question: Which film starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson is about a lawyer defending two Marines on a charge of murder?
Answer: few good men
Question: Who created the 'Daleks' in 'Dr. Who' as well as the science fiction series 'Blakes's Seven'? He died in 1997.
Answer: terry nation
Question: Which saint, whose feast day is on October 25th., was made even more famous in a speech by Shakespeare's king 'Henry V'?
Answer: st crispin
Question: Dr. Buck Ruxton, who distributed the body parts of his murdered victims throughout Scotland, practiced in which city?
Answer: lancaster
Question: Which new racecourse in Wales opened in June 2009?
Answer: ffos las
Question: What sort of creatures may be described as 'Caprine'?
Answer: goats
Question: Which member of the Royal Family has the title 'Earl of Inverness'?
Answer: prince andrew
Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the start of the first Boer War?
Answer: w e gladstone
Question: What position is currently held by Martin Lees, Baron Lees of Ludlow?
Answer: astronomer royal
Question: Alphabetically, which is the last book of the New Testament?
Answer: titus
Question: Who had a number one hit 2001 with 'Queen Of My Heart'?
Answer: westlife
Question: Following the Battle of the River Plate, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles blockaded the estuary of the river. Which Royal Navy warship subsequently joined them?
Answer: h m s cumberland
Question: What was the name of the second 'Harry Potter' film?
Answer: harry potter chamber of secrets
Question: What colour of flowers does the 'Fennel' plant have?
Answer: yellow
Question: The pheasant shooting season finishes on the first of which month?
Answer: february
Question: What courtesy title is given to the sons and daughters of the peerage?
Answer: honourable
Question: What was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879?
Answer: christian scientists
Question: The Battle of Naseby took place in which English county?
Answer: northamptonshire
Question: Which group had a UK hit in August 1966 with the song 'With A Girl Like You'?
Answer: troggs
Question: Who directed thee 1982 film 'Tootsie'?
Answer: sydney pollack
Question: In which Shakespeare play do the characters 'Beatrice' and 'Benedick' appear?
Answer: much ado about nothing
Question: Who composed the music for the opera 'Parsifal'?
Answer: wagner
Question: What was the name of the craft in which John Glenn first orbited the Earth in 1962?
Answer: friendship 7
Question: Who directed the 1997 film 'Titanic'?
Answer: james cameron
Question: Who devised the TV series 'Last Of The Summer Wine'?
Answer: roy clarke
Question: 'Launcelot Gobbo', the clown, features in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: merchant of venice
Question: Who composed the music for the opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor'?
Answer: donizetti
Question: After St. Paul's and York Minster which is the third largest cathedral in England?
Answer: lincoln
Question: Where in Merseyside would you find two large Yew trees nicknamed 'Adam & Eve'?
Answer: speke hall
Question: What was the name of the last manned mission to the Moon?
Answer: apollo 17
Question: Which stretch of water joins the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmera?
Answer: dardanelles
Question: Who directed the 1982 film 'E.T.'?
Answer: steven speilberg
Question: Who directed the 1995 film 'Braveheart'?
Answer: mel gibson
Question: Which city did Delhi replace as capital of India in 1912?
Answer: calcutta
Question: Which playwright wrote the screenplay for the 1982 film 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'?
Answer: harold pinter
Question: What does the name of the art group 'Les Fauves' translate into English?
Answer: wild beasts
Question: In which city are the headquarters of OPEC, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
Answer: vienna
Question: Which Australian tennis player did Goran Ivanisevic defeat in the 2001 Wimbledon final?
Answer: pat rafter
Question: Which of the Romantic poets wrote the epic semi- autobiographical poem 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'?
Answer: lord byron
Question: Which Russian composer wrote the opera 'Prince Igor'?
Answer: alexander borodin
Question: In which country did the 'Sepoy Mutiny' of 1857 take place?
Answer: india
Question: The independentist forces led by Antonio Jose de Sucre, which country's independence was won at the 1824 'Battle of Ayacucho '?
Answer: peru
Question: Playing on the title of another of the director's films, which 1984 movie starred Robert de Niro and James Woods as Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York City's world of organised crime?
Answer: once upon time in america
Question: Anatolijs Gorbunovs became the first President of which former Soviet state in 1990?
Answer: latvia
Question: The day in 1896 that he was executed is now a national holiday. Jose Rizal was a nationalist and polymath and a national hero of which country?
Answer: philippines
Question: Leonid Kravchuk became the first President of which former Soviet state in 1991?
Answer: ukraine
Question: What name is given to a plant that has a stem that grows horizontally below the surface of the soil?
Answer: rhizome
Question: The 'Cerne Abbas Giant' is a 180 foot high carved hill figure located in which county?
Answer: dorset
Question: Which French tennis player did Pete Sampras defeat in the 1997 Wimbledon final?
Answer: cedric pioline
Question: The 'Uffington White Horse' is a 370 foot-long prehistoric hill figure located in which county?
Answer: oxfordshire
Question: Which dramatist wrote the trilogy of plays known collectively as 'The Norman Conquests'?
Answer: alan ayckbourn
Question: During the eighth century, of which kingdom was Offa the king?
Answer: mercia
Question: Salix babylonica is the Latin name for which British tree?
Answer: willow
Question: From which country does 'Kronenbourg' lager originate?
Answer: france
Question: Which common British tree has the Latin name Fraxinus excelsior?
Answer: ash
Question: Which Californian blues-influenced boogie rock band of the 1960's took their name from the title of a Tommy Johnson blues hit of 1928 that told the story of an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking cooking fuel?
Answer: canned heat
Question: Although best known for his novels and essays, Gore Vidal, who died in 2012, also co-wrote the screenplay for which extremely successful film of the 1950's?
Answer: ben hur
Question: Teddy Roosevelt was climbing this mountain when William McKinley died (and had therefore become President). Which mountain is both the highest in the Adirondacks and the highest in New York State?
Answer: mount marcy
Question: This summer, Arsenal signed Santi Cazorla for £16 million from which Spanish football club?
Answer: malaga
Question: This summer, Manchester United signed Shinji Kagawa for £17 million from which German side?
Answer: borussia dortmund
Question: In which American state is the successful t.v. drama series 'Boardwalk Empire' set?
Answer: new jersey
Question: Who was the Emperor of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest?
Answer: montezuma
Question: In the English translations of the 'Asterix' comics, what is the name of the village Druid with a white gown and red cloak, usually seen carrying a golden sickle?
Answer: getafix