CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the given Christian name of the fashion designer 'Coco' Chanel?
Answer: gabrielle
Question: Upon which author's best-selling novel was the film 'Psycho' based?
Answer: robert bloch
Question: England beat Australia at Lords in 2009 for the first time at that venue since 1934. Who was the UK's Prime Minister then?
Answer: ramsey mcdonald
Question: Which actor, (the eighth Doctor Who) played the role just once in a 1996 TV movie?
Answer: paul mcgann
Question: Which city is the capital of the Central American Republic of Belize?
Answer: belmopan
Question: Which English king was married to Philippa of Hainault?
Answer: edward iii
Question: Led for 3 days by veteran Tom Watson, who finally won the 2009 Open Golf Championship?
Answer: stewart cink
Question: Which opera contains the famous Anvil Chorus in its second act?
Answer: il trovatore
Question: Which central American city is the capital of the Republic of Honduras?
Answer: tegucigalpa
Question: The name of which Spanish explorer who discovered the Missisippi river in 1539, was remembered in the make of a 1950s US automobile?
Answer: hernando de soto
Question: In Stevenson's Treasure Island, who was the coxswain of the Hispaniola?
Answer: israel hands
Question: Which painter, who reputedly sold only one work in his lifetime, had an art dealer brother called Theo?
Answer: vincent van gogh
Question: Who was the valet of Prince Romiro in Rossini's opera La Cenerentola, also a well-known pantomime character?
Answer: dandini
Question: In the Sikh religion, what name is given to the Holy Book ontaining the teachings of the gurus?
Answer: adi granth
Question: Who was the author of the best-selling novel on which the film The Exorcist was based?
Answer: william peter blatty
Question: What name is given to a stone anchor and also colloquially to a Leading Seaman in the Royal Navy?
Answer: killick
Question: Who starred in the title role of the boxing movie 'The Cinderella Man'?
Answer: russell crowe
Question: In which Dickens novel do the characters Thomas Traddles and James Steerforth appear?
Answer: david copperfield
Question: Which city was selected in 2009 as the venue for the 2016 Olympic games?
Answer: rio de janeiro
Question: Buried in neither Westminster nor Windsor, where is the tomb of Edward II?
Answer: gloucester cathedral
Question: In the Tour de France, which jersey is worn by the leader of the 'King of the Mountains' category?
Answer: polka dot
Question: Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' are 4 concertos for which instrument?
Answer: violin
Question: 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'Yellow Submarine' first appeared on which Beatles album of 1966?
Answer: revolver
Question: Who wrote the 2005 bestseller 'The Shadow of the Wind' set in post Spanish Civil War Barcelona?
Answer: carlos ruiz zafon
Question: Who was the Chief Medical Officer for England from 1998 to May 2010?
Answer: sir liam donaldson
Question: In York what were located originally in the famous street known as the Shambles?
Answer: butcher s
Question: Which European country's flag is a vertical tricolour black, yellow and red (in that order left to right)?
Answer: belgium
Question: John Adams, 2nd President of the USA, was the delegate to the Continental Congress for which American state?
Answer: massachusetts
Question: Which was the last country to join the G8 in 1997 (changing the G7 to G8)?
Answer: russia
Question: Who hosted the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Tournament?
Answer: west indies
Question: The 2009 film 'Nowhere Boy' concerns the teenage years of which singer?
Answer: john lennon
Question: Which author said 'Probably the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'?
Answer: george orwell
Question: Who is the TESCO boss who recently announced his intention to retire?
Answer: sir terry leahy
Question: Which cricketer has scored the most test runs without making a test century?
Answer: shane warne
Question: Who directed the 2004 Oscar winning film 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'?
Answer: peter jackson
Question: Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini' is a work for which solo instrument and orchestra?
Answer: piano
Question: 'Yesterday' and 'Ticket to Ride' first appeared on which Beatles album of 1965?
Answer: help
Question: Who wrote the 2006 best seller 'The Book Thief' set in Munich during World War II?
Answer: markus zusak
Question: In Edinburgh what name is given to the streets that link the Castle with Holyrood Palace?
Answer: royal mile
Question: Which European country's flag is a horizontal tricolour red, white and green (in that order top to bottom)?
Answer: hungary
Question: Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the USA, was the delegate to the Continental Congress for which American state?
Answer: virginia
Question: In which country will the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup be held?
Answer: new zealand
Question: The 2009 film `Inglourious Basterds' is set during which conflict?
Answer: world war ii
Question: Who is the BP Chief Executive recently quizzed by the US Congress?
Answer: tony hayward
Question: Beaune, Nuits St George and Chambertin are wines from which French wine region?
Answer: burgundy
Question: In a 2010 film Percy Jackson is the son of which Greek God?
Answer: poseidon
Question: Who directed the 2005 Oscar winning film 'Million Dollar Baby'?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the city of Messina, Sicily?
Answer: much ado about nothing
Question: Which group from Teignmouth has issued albums 'Black Holes & Revelations' and 'The Resistance'
Answer: muse
Question: Which French Football Ligue 1 team's name includes the title Girondins?
Answer: bordeaux
Question: Born in Chavaniac in France which general fought alongside General Washington in the American revolutionary war of 1776 - 1783?
Answer: marquis de lafayette
Question: Hobgoblin, Fidler's Elbow and Goliath are brewed by which brewer based at Witney in Oxfordshire?
Answer: wychwood brewery
Question: Name the Nigerian boxer who boxed in Liverpool from 1951, became the World Featherweight champion in Paris, in June 1957 stopping Cherif Hamia.
Answer: hogan kid bassey
Question: Taraxacum spp is the Latin name for which genus of common wild garden plant?
Answer: dandelion
Question: Later holding a cabinet post, who finished second to Edward Heath in the 1965 Conservative Party Leadership Election?
Answer: reginald maudling
Question: Who was the team principal of the Renault Fl team who resigned following the 'Crashgate scandal' in 2009?
Answer: flavio briatore
Question: In which city is Da Vinci's Last Supper on display?
Answer: milan
Question: Which chemical element, No 36, is named for the Greek for 'hidden one'?
Answer: krypton
Question: Which group from Abingdon has issued albums 'Hail to the thief and 'In Rainbows'?
Answer: radiohead
Question: The French Football Ligue 1 team Marseille have which other name in their title?
Answer: olympique
Question: Born at Pau in France which general later became King of Sweden?
Answer: jean baptiste bernadotte
Question: Bitter and Twisted, Old Engine Oil and Schiehallion are brewed by which brewer based at Alva in Clackmannanshire?
Answer: harviestoun brewery
Question: Who wrote the lyrics and music for A Little Night Music?
Answer: stephen sondheim
Question: Rumex spp is the Latin name for which genus of common wild garden plant?
Answer: dock
Question: Who played the male lead in the 1958 film 'Bell, Book & Candle'?
Answer: james stewart
Question: In the abbrevation CAFOD - for what does the 'O' stand?
Answer: overseas
Question: From which piece of literature do the following lines come? 'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way'
Answer: elegy written in country churchyard
Question: Whernside is the highest peak in which National Park?
Answer: yorkshire dales
Question: Later holding a cabinet post, who finished second to Harold Wilson in the 1963 Labour Party Leadership Election?
Answer: george brown
Question: What name is given to leather now usually made from shark and ray skin?
Answer: shagreen
Question: Dealing with the movement of particles, to which scientific process does Graham's Law refer?
Answer: diffusion
Question: Who was the head coach of Harlequins RUFC who resigned following the 'Bloodgate scandal'?
Answer: dean richards
Question: Who painted 'Liberty Leading the People' on display in the Louvre?
Answer: eugene delacroix
Question: What is the name of the UKTV digital channel based on repeats of recent BBC programmes such as Top Gear?
Answer: dave
Question: Which artist married Saskia van Uylenburg in 1634?
Answer: rembrandt
Question: Grupo Modelo and Femsit are the two major brewing companies in which country?
Answer: mexico
Question: Brad Pitt plays the part of Benjamin Button on film, who wrote the book on which the film is based?
Answer: f scott fitzgerald
Question: From 1981 to 2005, the Perrier Awards were made at which festival?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: Who was President of the USA between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson?
Answer: william h taft
Question: Which company was founded in 1998 by the merger of Grand Metropolitan and Guinness?
Answer: diageo
Question: Many cities, including Sofia, Tallinn, St Petersburg, Warsaw, Jerusalem and Belgrade, have cathedrals dedicated to which Russian saint?
Answer: alexander nevsky
Question: The Oscar winning film 'Aviator' was about which man?
Answer: howard hughes
Question: Which football club won the FA Cup' in 1951, 52 and 55 but haven't won a major domestic trophy since?
Answer: newcastle united
Question: Which chief's vision led to the Sioux's victory at the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn?
Answer: sitting bull
Question: Who was the US lawyer who defended John Scopes on charges of teaching evolution in 1925?
Answer: clarence darrow
Question: The Egyptian goddess of love, Hathor, has the head of which animal?
Answer: cow
Question: In which city would you find the following; Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Viminal?
Answer: rome
Question: Yes, No and which other word are found on an Ouija board?
Answer: goodbye
Question: Who played the part of Mel Hutchwright on 'Coronation Street'?
Answer: sir ian mckellen
Question: Which author wrote 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' and was known as the inventor of `gonzo' journalism?
Answer: hunter s thompson
Question: What was the name of the seat at King Arthur's Round Table that was reserved for the knight who would one day find the Holy Grail?
Answer: siege perilous
Question: What is the surname of the only father and son to have scored Test match centuries for England?
Answer: broad
Question: Who had a no. 1 hit in 2005 with the song 'You 're Beautiful'?
Answer: james blunt
Question: The winner of which particular sporting competition wins the Coupe des Mousquetaires?
Answer: french open tennis
Question: The words 'defend the children of the poor and punish the wrongdoer' are carved on the wall of which London building?
Answer: old bailey
Question: Whose novel "The Original of Laura" has finally been published 32 years after his death?
Answer: vladimir nabokov
Question: Which American singer died in Cardiff in April 2006, whilst on tour?
Answer: gene pitney
Question: Which US city is known as the 'Crescent City'?
Answer: new orleans
Question: In the Bible, who was 'eyeless in Gaza'?
Answer: samson
Question: Which private detective last appeared in the 1959 novel `Playback'?
Answer: philip marlowe
Question: Which artist (1844-1910) painted many jungle scenes (although he never left France) and landscapes of Paris?
Answer: henri rousseau
Question: In which country did the 'Carnation Revolution' take place in 1934?
Answer: portugal
Question: Which famous director's first film was 'Sugarland Express'?
Answer: stephen spielberg
Question: Who wrote the line 'The Child is Father of the Man'?
Answer: wordsworth
Question: In football, two men have each won the European Footballer of the Year Award on three occasions, Johann Cruff is one, name the other.
Answer: michel platini
Question: What was the real name of the criminal known as Papillon?
Answer: henri charriere
Question: Which German City was once head of the Hanseatic League, and is known for its marzipan?
Answer: lubeck
Question: Name Frank Sinatra's Oscar winning song from the 1959 movie, `A Hole in the Head'.
Answer: high hopes
Question: In which decade of the 20 century was the Sydney Harbour Bridge officially opened?
Answer: 1930 s
Question: The magazine 'Private Eye' gave the nickname 'The Bouncing Czech' to which man?
Answer: robert maxwell
Question: Which character was the most famous creation of cartoon film animator, Walter Lantz?
Answer: woody woodpecker
Question: There are two perennial vegetables, rhubarb and which other?
Answer: asparagus
Question: The Spanish drink calimocho consists of red wine mixed with what?
Answer: cola
Question: Which newspaper introduced the Sudoku Puzzle to the UK in 2004?
Answer: times
Question: What is the highest peak in the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: carrauntoohil
Question: Who composed the opera 'The Rape of Lucretia'?
Answer: benjamin britten
Question: In the Scottish Football League, in which City do St Johnstone play their home matches?
Answer: perth
Question: Who was four years late in collecting his Nobel Prize for Literature which was originally awarded in 1970?
Answer: solzhenitsyn
Question: Name the Prime Minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971 who fostered Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War?
Answer: john gorton
Question: Alphabetically, which is the first team in cricket's County Championship?
Answer: derbyshire
Question: In which film did Sean Connery play Franciscan Friar William of Baskerville?
Answer: name of rose
Question: From which club did Everton sign winger David Ginola in 2002?
Answer: aston villa
Question: The name of which European capital translates into English as 'Log Island'?
Answer: stockholm
Question: Name the Oscar winning song from Mary Poppins?
Answer: chim chim cher ee
Question: In which famous school was the game of squash invented in the 20th century?
Answer: harrow school
Question: Which stage and screen actor was born in Huyton, Liverpool in 1908?
Answer: rex harrison
Question: The Old Testament contains two instances of talking animals, the serpent in the garden is one, name the other?
Answer: balaam s ass
Question: Name the musician who succeeded Cherie Blair as Chancellor of the Liverpool John Moores University in 2007.
Answer: brian may
Question: In the Republic of Ireland, in which town or city are the administrative HQ for the County of Kerry?
Answer: tralee
Question: In which city is the novel and film 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' set?
Answer: nottingham
Question: In which city are the HQ of the University of Warwick located?
Answer: coventry
Question: Name the only Quaker to be elected President of the United States?
Answer: richard m nixon
Question: In the Scottish Football League, which team plays its home matches in Dumfries?
Answer: queen of south
Question: What is the name of the chief island of the Seychelles?
Answer: mahe
Question: Glen Ford played which legendary golfer in the 1950's Hollywood biopic, 'Follow the Sun'?
Answer: ben hogan
Question: Name the lake in Ethiopia which is the source of the Blue Nile?
Answer: lake tana
Question: Name the castle in the Isle of Wight where Charles I was imprisoned.
Answer: carisbrooke
Question: Which movie musical with songs by Tom Watts and Crystal Gayle did Francis Ford Coppola direct?
Answer: one from heart
Question: Which actor played the role of Osric uncredited in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Hamlet?
Answer: robin williams
Question: What is the name of Cristiano Ronaldo's designer label and boutique?
Answer: cr7
Question: The motor racing circuit of Mallory Park is in which county?
Answer: leicestershire
Question: Which tennis player holds the record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles?
Answer: margaret court
Question: The Rodgers and Hart musical 'The Boys from Syracuse' is based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: comedy of errors
Question: Ben Fogle, the TV presenter and adventurer is the son of which well-known actress?
Answer: julia foster
Question: Who speaks the only word in Mel Brooks' 1976 film 'Silent Movie'?
Answer: marcel marceau
Question: Name the science fiction author of 'I, Robot'.
Answer: isaac asimov
Question: Name the fashion designer murdered outside his Miami Beach home in 1997.
Answer: gianni versace
Question: Name the British cyclist who won 6 stages of the 2009 Tour de France.
Answer: mark cavendish
Question: Who was the creator of the TV comedy series Last of the Summer Wine?
Answer: roy clarke
Question: Name the landlocked country which has borders with Kosovo, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania.
Answer: macedonia
Question: What is the name of Prospero's daughter in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
Answer: miranda
Question: Who was the author of the literary work 'A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634' a work more commonly known as 'Comus'?
Answer: john milton
Question: In the traditional English language nursery rhyme 'Solomon Grundy', on which day did he 'take ill'?
Answer: thursday
Question: The motor racing circuit of Thruxton is in which county?
Answer: hampshire
Question: Name the photographer, stage and film designer, well-known for his fashion photography and society portraits. He won Academy Awards for costume design for 'My Fair Lady' & `Gigi'.
Answer: cecil beaton
Question: Alaska, Laxton's progress and Mr Big are varieties of what?
Answer: peas
Question: Who was appointed captain of the US golf team for the 2010 Ryder Cup?
Answer: corey pavin
Question: Dick Swiveller is a character in which Dickens novel?
Answer: old curiosity shop
Question: By what name is the medical term epistaxis more commonly known?
Answer: nosebleed
Question: Which European country has land borders with Austria, Hungary, Italy and Croatia?
Answer: slovenia
Question: In 'The Tempest' what is the name of the monster, son of Sycorax the witch?
Answer: caliban
Question: In the Scottish folk song and nursery rhyme, who was 'the man who lived in the moon'?
Answer: aiken drum
Question: Which novel of 1889 features a dog called Montmorency?
Answer: three men in boat
Question: Limestone is classed as which of the three main rock types?
Answer: sedimentary
Question: Which concert venue is the home of the Northern Sinfonia?
Answer: sage gateshead
Question: Who was the founder and first Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet?
Answer: dame ninette de valois
Question: What is the nationality of record-breaking sprinter Usain Bolt?
Answer: jamaican
Question: Which sporting event traces its roots to a match between Britain and the US at Gleneagles in 1921?
Answer: ryder cup
Question: Which stage musical features The Lambeth Walk and Leaning on a Lamp Post?
Answer: me and my girl
Question: Which tennis player won the "golden grand slam" of all four grand slam titles and an Olympic Gold in 1986?
Answer: steffi graf
Question: Which common wildflower has the Latin name Bellis Perennis?
Answer: daisy
Question: According to Homer, what was the name of the Cyclops blinded by Odysseus?
Answer: polyphemus
Question: Written in 1830 which composer's major symphony has the alternative title Episode in the Life of an Artist?
Answer: hector berlioz
Question: With what type of shop is Charing Cross Road in London traditionally associated?
Answer: bookshop
Question: In which English city was Isambard Kingdom Brunel born in 1806?
Answer: portsmouth
Question: Who painted The Ambassadors, which hangs in the National Gallery?
Answer: hans holbein
Question: Who had their first UK number one hit in May 1999 with Swear It Again?
Answer: westlife
Question: Which sauce gets its name from the Italian for "pound" or "crush"?
Answer: pesto
Question: Brideshead is the seat of which family in Evelyn Waugh's novel?
Answer: marchmain
Question: With which trade is Hatton Garden in London traditionally associated?
Answer: jewellery
Question: When Roger Federer achieved a career grand slam in 2009, he was the first man to do so since who in 1999?
Answer: andre agassi
Question: Which chemical element, atomic number 51, used to be called Stibium?
Answer: antimony
Question: What is the nationality of Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius?
Answer: south african
Question: Which surrealist experimental and fashion photographer was born in Philadelphia in 1890?
Answer: man ray
Question: Engineer, George Stephenson was born in a village outside which English city in 1781?
Answer: newcastle upon tyne
Question: Which concert venue is the home of the Halle orchestra?
Answer: bridgewater hall
Question: Who was the founder and first Director of the National Theatre?
Answer: sir laurence olivier
Question: Who had their first UK number one hit in July 1993 with Pray?
Answer: take that
Question: Who composed his first symphony, subtitled Winter Daydreams in 1866?
Answer: piotr ilyich tchaikovsky
Question: Which English football league club play their home games at Boundary Park?
Answer: oldham athletic
Question: Five Anglican Bishops automatically sit in the House of Lords: the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Bishops of Durham and London are four, what is the title of the fifth?
Answer: bishop of winchester
Question: Which common wildflowers belong to the Galanthus family?
Answer: snowdrop
Question: In mobile phone technology, for what does the G stand in 3G?
Answer: generation
Question: Who painted Diana and Actaeon, acquired for the nation by the National Gallery and National Gallery of Scotland in 2009?
Answer: titian
Question: Paper sizes are usually designated by the prefix A - what prefix do envelope sizes have?
Answer: c
Question: In which film of 1995 did Robert De Niro and Al Pacino appear on screen together for the first time?
Answer: heat
Question: Which 3 letter word beginning with S has the longest entry in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition)?
Answer: set
Question: On which TV programme has the voice of Marcus Bentley been regularly heard for the last ten years?
Answer: big brother
Question: Daniel Arap Moi became president of which country in 1978 on the death of the country's first president?
Answer: kenya
Question: At which racecourse did Lester Piggott ride both his first and last winners?
Answer: haydock park
Question: What is the common name of the lymphatic tissue between the back of the nose and the throat?
Answer: adenoids
Question: Which creature's name is also the term given to three strikes in a row in a game of ten-pin bowling?
Answer: turkey
Question: Half of the world's mountain gorillas live in the Virunga National Park, in which country?
Answer: democratic republic of congo
Question: How are `Mistress Ford' and `Mistress Page' known in the title of a Shakespeare play?
Answer: merry wives of windsor
Question: Whose single 'Evergreen' was the best-selling record in the UK in the decade to December 31st 2009?
Answer: will young
Question: Prior to World War 2, racing cars were painted in different colours according to which country they represented, what colour were cars representing Germany?
Answer: silver
Question: What name is given to the small metal discs around the frame of a tambourine?
Answer: jingles
Question: In Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', in which English town was Dracula washed ashore?
Answer: whitby
Question: At which battle of 1757 did Robert Clive defeat the Nawab of Bengal?
Answer: plassey
Question: Which 19th century writer wrote a collection of stories for children which included 'The Happy Prince' and 'The Selfish Giant'?
Answer: oscar wilde
Question: Which British scientist, working at CERN in 1994, developed and launched the World Wide Web?
Answer: tim berners lee
Question: What was the name of the car that featured in the TV programme `The Dukes of Hazzard'?
Answer: general lee
Question: Whose song, Only Want To Be With You', was the first to be played on 'Top of the Pops'?
Answer: dusty springfield
Question: 'Dusty Bin' featured on which popular 1980s TV game show?
Answer: 3 2 1
Question: How was the London hospital 'St Mary Bethlehem' better known?
Answer: bedlam
Question: 'Tucker's Luck' was a spin-off from which children's TV series?
Answer: grange hill