CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The territorial area of Canberra is completely surrounded by which Australian State?
Answer: new south wales
Question: Who in 1979 released the record “Breakfast in America”?
Answer: supertramp
Question: Who chaired South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 – 1998?
Answer: archbishop desmond tutu
Question: The sea arch known as Durdle Door Ties on the coast of which county?
Answer: dorset
Question: At which racecourse did Tony McCoy have his last professional race on a horse called Box Office in April 2015?
Answer: sandown
Question: Which composer wrote an opera based on a series of Pictures by British artist William Hogarth?
Answer: stravinsky
Question: Who created and wrote the 2015 TV series Banished?
Answer: jimmy mcgovern
Question: Which British actor plays Donald Ducky Mallard in the long running US TV Series NCIS?
Answer: david mccallum
Question: Of which country did Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy became monarchs?
Answer: narnia
Question: At which sea battle in 1942 did the US defeat the Japanese despite their ships being outnumbered 3 to 1?
Answer: midway
Question: Who in the Bible sold his birth right for a Mess of Pottage?
Answer: esau
Question: Who is the GMB Union General Secretary who received a knighthood in June 2015?
Answer: paul kenny
Question: The half penny coin which went out of circulation in 1969 featured an image of which ship on the reverse?
Answer: golden hind
Question: What is the name of the stage musical featuring the songs of the Kinks?
Answer: sunny afternoon
Question: For which Broadway play did Helen Mirren win a 2015 Tony award?
Answer: audience
Question: Who preceded Neil Kinnock as leader of the Labour Party?
Answer: michael foot
Question: Whose early film roles included Estella, in David Lean’s "Great Expectations” and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet"?
Answer: jean simmons
Question: In which French region are the cities of Nancy and Metz located?
Answer: lorraine
Question: What was the name of the kind hearted orphan created in two books by Eleanor H Porter?
Answer: pollyanna
Question: The Gilbert and Sullivan opera "Patience" has what alternative title?
Answer: bunthorne s bride
Question: Which ground is the home of Premiership Rugby Union club, Exeter Chiefs?
Answer: sandy park
Question: In which American city are the Bruins Ice Hockey team and the Celtics Basketball team based?
Answer: boston
Question: In which National Park would you find Drake Howe on Cringle Moor the highest point of the Cleveland Hills?
Answer: north york moors
Question: What is the real name of the singer whose stage name was Shakin'Stevens?
Answer: michael barratt
Question: Who is the MP for Sevenoaks who was Defence Secretary at the end of the coalition government in May 2015?
Answer: michael fallon
Question: Who became the first Women's Marathon, Olympic Gold medallist?
Answer: joan benoit
Question: Which time travelling character did Nicholas Lyndhurst portray in the sitcom "Goodnight Sweetheart"
Answer: gary sparrow
Question: In fashion what name is given to leggings, styled to look like tight denim jeans?
Answer: jeggings
Question: The cocktail called a Negroni has three alcoholic ingredients, gin and sweet vermouth are two of them: what is the third?
Answer: campari
Question: Who was the King of France at the time of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre?
Answer: charles ix
Question: Who succeeded Michael Gove as Education secretary in the Coalition Government?
Answer: nicky morgan
Question: What colour jersey is worn by the leading young rider (under 26 years old) in the Tour de France?
Answer: white
Question: Paul Eddington played Jim Hacker in the original series of "Yes Prime Minister", but who played him in the 2013 remake?
Answer: david haig
Question: Which motor manufacturer produces the 7-seater MPV known as the Orlando?
Answer: chevrolet
Question: Nastro Azzurro is the flagship brand of which Italian brewer?
Answer: peroni
Question: What was the name of the holder of thee title "Earl of Essex" who was executed in 1501?
Answer: robert devereux
Question: Which Shropshire hill lies four miles to the west of Telford and rises to 1335 feet above sea level?
Answer: wrekin
Question: Limahl was the lead singer of which 1980's chart group?
Answer: kajagoogoo
Question: The holder of which bishopric is the third most senior person in the Church of England?
Answer: bishop of london
Question: What was the nationality of the 2000 Olympic swimmer nicknamed Eric the Eel?
Answer: equatorial guinea
Question: Which American Football team has a pirate ship at one end of the stadium, which fires a cannon each time it scores?
Answer: tampa bay buccaneers
Question: On clothing labels, what does a circle in a square with an x through it mean?
Answer: do not tumble dry
Question: The erne is a variety of which bird of prey, with an alternative name deriving from the fact that it tends to live in coastal locations?
Answer: sea eagle
Question: What was the first programme to be broadcast on BBC2, after a power cut cancelled the opening night's gala performance?
Answer: play school
Question: The Tour De France cycling race was originally sponsored by which French newspaper?
Answer: l auto
Question: What was the title of "Star Wars Episode III”?
Answer: revenge of sith
Question: The SUV model known as the Terios was introduced by which motor manufacturer?
Answer: daihatsu
Question: Whose book "We Need to Talk about Kevin" was made into a film starring Tilda Swinton?
Answer: lionel shriver
Question: What was the name of the holder of the title "Earl of Essex" who was executed in 1540?
Answer: thomas cromwell
Question: Which actor has released the blues albums "Let Them Talk" and "Didn't it Rain"?
Answer: hugh laurie
Question: In which Woody Allen film does a character walk off the screen and into the real world?
Answer: purple rose of cairo
Question: The Gilbert and Sullivan opera "The Yeoman of the Guard" has what alternative title?
Answer: merryman and his maid
Question: The pollex is the anatomical name for which part of the body?
Answer: thumb
Question: Also called a ventriculus, what name is given to a muscular pouch, in a bird's alimentary canal where food is ground down?
Answer: gizzard
Question: In which English city was Marks and Spencer founded in 1884?
Answer: leeds
Question: Who was the first actor to portray Robin Hood on British Television?
Answer: patrick troughton
Question: In Greek mythology the River Styx formed the boundary between Earth and where?
Answer: hades
Question: Whose 1984 novel "Neuromancer", was one of the first cyberpunk novels?
Answer: william gibson
Question: Who is the actress, daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia who played Amanda Carrington, nee Bedford in "Dynasty"?
Answer: catherine oxenburg
Question: Aqua Regis is a mixture of Sulphuric and which other acid?
Answer: nitric acid
Question: Which self-help organisation was founded by Bill Wilson and Dr Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio in 1935?
Answer: alcoholics anonymous
Question: Concerning a governess, what was the debut novel of Anne Bronte?
Answer: agnes grey
Question: Which gland in the human body secretes the hormone responsible for the body's growth?
Answer: pituitary
Question: What is the title of JG Ballard's autobiographical novel, set in Japanese occupied Shanghai in the second world war?
Answer: empire of sun
Question: As at January 2015 who is the only person to have held all the major offices of State in the UK – Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary
Answer: james callaghan
Question: Pinchbeck is an alloy of copper and which other metal?
Answer: zinc
Question: Who wrote the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Answer: edward albee
Question: Who wrote the novel The Riddle of the Sands'?
Answer: erskine childers
Question: Which musical instrument has a name which means bundle of sticks in Italian?
Answer: bassoon
Question: Who plays the part of Walter Keane in the Tim Burton film 'Big Eyes'. He has won two Oscars for best supporting actor?
Answer: christoph waltz
Question: Who plays the part of John Cairncross in the film The Imitation Game' about the life of Alan Turing. He has appeared regularly in 'Downton Abbey'?
Answer: allen leech
Question: Which author who died in 1998 wrote the thrillers 'The Mask of Dimitrios' and 'Journey into Fear'?
Answer: eric ambler
Question: Which author of children's books had the real name Theodore Geisel?
Answer: dr seuss
Question: Juliet and Cupid are moons of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: uranus
Question: What was the first name of Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army?
Answer: george
Question: Which European capital city lies at the confluence of the rivers Danube and Sava?
Answer: belgrade
Question: Which English king was deposed by his first cousin who became Henry the fourth?
Answer: richard ii
Question: Which football team have appeared in four FA Cup finals but lost them all?
Answer: leicester city
Question: In the human body where is the zygomatic bone?
Answer: cheek bone
Question: Which British actor plays the part of Martin Luther King in the 2014 film 'Selma'?
Answer: david oyelowo
Question: Which medical condition would be treated with drugs such as ramiprii and enalapril?
Answer: hypertension
Question: In the novel 'The 39 Steps' near which town are the 39 steps?
Answer: broadstairs
Question: With which sport are the players Ernests Gulbis and Milos Raonic associated?
Answer: tennis
Question: As at January 2015 who is the leader of the Green Party in the UK?
Answer: natalie bennett
Question: Which US band still active today had hits with September and After The Love Has Gone? They were founded by Maurice White.
Answer: earth wind and fire
Question: Which British PM was in office during the entire term of US President James Monroe?
Answer: lord liverpool
Question: Which British film and TV actor is the son of actress Wanda Ventham?
Answer: benedict cumberbatch
Question: What is considered to be the most likely cause of "The madness of King George"?
Answer: porphyria
Question: Which cartoonist produces The Far Side’ series of cartoons?
Answer: gary larson
Question: Which cartoonist produces the ‘If’ series in the Guardian?
Answer: steve bell
Question: Which US Army General said, in a speech in May 1944. “Americans love a winner who will not tolerate a loser”?
Answer: george patton
Question: Henry VIII described which teenage wife as his ‘Rose without a thorn’?
Answer: catherine howard
Question: Which event of 1962 is the subject of the 2000 film Thirteen Days’, starring Kevin Costner?
Answer: cuban missile crisis
Question: Who wrote the 1893 opera ‘Hansel and Gretel’?
Answer: engelbert humperdinck
Question: Hughtown is the largest settlement of which island group?
Answer: isles of scilly
Question: Leopold Bloom is the leading character in which 20th century novel?
Answer: ulysses
Question: Which US crime drama TV series ran from 2008-2013 and starred Bryan Cranston in the leading role?
Answer: breaking bad
Question: Joe Strummer was the lead singer of which punk band from 1976-1986?
Answer: clash
Question: Which footbail league club’s nickname is the Shrimpers?
Answer: southend united
Question: Which British writer married Harold Pinter in 1980?
Answer: lady antonia fraser
Question: Which 1813 battle was also known as the Battle of the Nations?
Answer: leipzig
Question: John Crome and John Sell Cotman were leading members of which school of painting, founded in 1803?
Answer: norwich
Question: Which 1982 film is based on the 1968 sci-fi novel by Philip K Dick “Do androids dream of electric sheep’?
Answer: blade runner
Question: What is the title of the 1866 operetta that Sullivan composed without Gilbert to a libretto by F C Burnand?
Answer: cox and box
Question: In which city was opera singer Maria Callas born in 1923?
Answer: new york
Question: Which French writer refused the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: jean paul sartre
Question: Who succeeded Alex Salmond as leader of the Scottish National Party and First Minister of Scotland in 2014?
Answer: nicola sturgeon
Question: Which musician’s touring schedule has been popularly named The Never Ending Tour’-it started in June 1988?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: What was Ike and Tina Turner’s last UK Top 20 single, reaching No.4 in 1973?
Answer: nutbush city limits
Question: Titanic and Olympic were two of the White Star Line’s trio of Olympic-Class ocean liners. What was the third, launched in 1914 and constructed by Harland and Wolf in Belfast?
Answer: britannic
Question: In which city is the baseball team ‘White Sox’l ocated? They play their home games at the US Cellular Field, formerly Comiskey Park.
Answer: chicago
Question: Which incident lasted 30 seconds on the 26th October 1881 in the United States inspired a 1957 film directed by John Sturges?
Answer: gunfight at ok corral
Question: What was the final destination of the first westward delivery by the Missouri- based Pony Express, which started in St Joseph in 1860?
Answer: sacramento
Question: In the book ‘the Sign of Four” Sherlock Holmes describes the cocaine with which he is injecting himself as a certain ‘percent solution’. It is also the title of a book by Nicholas Heyer published in 1974 and a film adaptation in 1976. What is the number of this percent solution?
Answer: seven
Question: The so-called ‘Acid Bath Murdere;d was executed in 1949 in Wandsworth Prison. What was nis name
Answer: john haigh
Question: The American fantasy crams series 'Game of Thrones' is based on the novels of which author?
Answer: george r r martin
Question: Which 2004 play, iater a 2006 film, is based in the fictional Cutlers Grammar School in Sheffield?
Answer: history boys
Question: Who currently presents ‘Desert Island Discs’ on BBC Radio 4?
Answer: kirsty young
Question: Which George Gershwin opera is adapted from a novel by DuBose Heyward?
Answer: porgy and bess
Question: In which British city was the pharmacy chain Boots established in 1849?
Answer: nottingham
Question: Which French king did Henry the Eighth meet at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520?
Answer: francis first
Question: In which English county is the air/sea rescue station Culdrose?
Answer: cornwall
Question: Which American Chief was stabbed and subsequently died whilst under a flag of truce at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, in 1877?
Answer: crazy horse
Question: Where are the HQ of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution?
Answer: poole
Question: What is the name of the RAF air rescue station on Anglesey?
Answer: valley
Question: What post in the House of Commons is held by Lindsay Hoyle, MP?
Answer: deputy speaker
Question: In which country are the Spenser Mountains and Garvie Mountains?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Sam Wheat and Molly Jensen are the central characters in which 1990’s romantic film?
Answer: ghost
Question: In the Bible, whose first husband was Uriah the Hittite?
Answer: bathsheba
Question: Who was the tallest President of the USA in the 20th century?
Answer: lyndon baines johnson
Question: Which former English referee was President of FIFA from 1961-1974?
Answer: sir stanley rous
Question: In which English town are the HQ of the Automobile Association?
Answer: basingstoke
Question: What do the Americans call what we know as a fillet steak?
Answer: tenderloin
Question: Which seventeenth century leader reputedly told his troops to ‘put your trust in God and keep your powder dry’?
Answer: oliver cromwell
Question: At the 2014 FIFA World Cup which German player became the top scorer, with a total of 16 goals?
Answer: miroslav klose
Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1977 with ‘I Feel Love’?
Answer: donna summer
Question: Which vegetable is present in dishes cooked ‘a la Crecy’?
Answer: carrots
Question: Which company is responsible for the tracks, bridges, tunnels etc, on railways in Britain?
Answer: network rail
Question: At the 2014 FIFAWorld Cup which now Real Madrid player won the Golden Boot as top scorer in the tournament?
Answer: james rodriguez
Question: What was the name of the world’s first teletext information service started by the BBC in 1974 and ceasing in October 2012?
Answer: ceefax
Question: What is the name given to the vertical posts that hold up the handrail of a staircase (sometimes simply called guards or spindles)?
Answer: baluster
Question: Which Buckinghamshire farm was used as a hideout by the Great Train robbers?
Answer: leatherslade
Question: Which vegetable is present in dishes cooked ‘a la Dubarry’?
Answer: cauliflower
Question: The wood from which common tree was traditionally used to make tennis racquets, snooker cues and hockey sticks
Answer: ash
Question: What was the name of the ITV network’s teletext information service started in the late 1970s which ceased in 1992?
Answer: oracle
Question: Which website was created by Steve and Julie Pankhurst in 1999 and now has the slogan ‘Millions of memories all in one place’?
Answer: friends reunited
Question: Enver Hoxha was the leader of which country between 1944 and 1985?
Answer: albania
Question: Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi appear as Celia and Alan, two childhood sweethearts reunited via Facebook, in which BBC TV drama series?
Answer: last tango in halifax
Question: Give the surname of the British father and son who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915?
Answer: bragg
Question: Fulgencio Batista was the leader of which country between 1952 and 1959?
Answer: cuba
Question: The Shenandoah National Park is in which US state?
Answer: virginia
Question: In October 2013, which country' was the last to leave the Commonwealth after 48 years of membership?
Answer: gambia
Question: Which comedian has written several children’s books including Gangsta Granny?
Answer: david walliams
Question: The phrase ‘tender is the night’ comes from one of whose poems?
Answer: john keats
Question: Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, Howard and Penny are characters in which US sitcom?
Answer: big bang theory
Question: Who was the commander of the Roman legions during the invasion of Britain in 43 AD and the first governor of the new province from 43 to 47?
Answer: aulus plautius
Question: Kirsten Mehr is the German bom wife of which prominent British politician?
Answer: nigel farage
Question: Which country was the last to join the Commonwealth, doing so in 2009?
Answer: rwanda
Question: Henry 4th is the only King of England to be buried in which cathedral?
Answer: canterbury
Question: The company TNT Post has changed its operating name in Britain to what?
Answer: whistl
Question: Which tree provides the very hard wood from which chopping blocks and shoe lasts are made, it is also used in parquet flooring?
Answer: hornbeam
Question: Sarah Lancashire plays Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood and Steve Pemberton plays accountant Kevin Weatherill in which BBC TV drama about a kidnapping in West Yorkshire?
Answer: happy valley
Question: Who led the resistance to the Roman invasion of Britain and was captured in 51 AD, sentenced to death but spared by Emperor Claudius?
Answer: cara c tacus
Question: Cape Farewell is the southernmost point of which large island?
Answer: greenland
Question: The Law concerning the distance and relative speeds of celestial bodies and said to confirm the Big Bang Theory is named after which American astronomer?
Answer: edwin hubble
Question: With which instrument do you associate the jazz musician Kid Ory?
Answer: trombone
Question: Which French Romantic artist painted "Liberty Leading The People" in 1830?
Answer: eugene delacroix
Question: """The Daughter of Time"" a novel by Josephine Tey, features an investigation into which real life historical mystery?"
Answer: princes in tower
Question: The Zimmerman telegram of 1917 was intended for which country?
Answer: mexico
Question: The Battle of Brandywine took place during which war?
Answer: american war of independence
Question: in popular literature who is the most well known herbalist in Shrewsbury?
Answer: brother cadfael
Question: With which instrument do you associate jazz musician Freddie Hubbard?
Answer: trumpet
Question: What name is given to the stretch of water between the west coast of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides?
Answer: minch
Question: To the nearest 5000, what is the crowd capacity of the new Wembley Stadium?
Answer: 90 000
Question: In Kipling's poem " For all we have and are", who is at the gate?
Answer: hun
Question: Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc were prominent members of which German Expressionist Art movement based in Berlin?
Answer: blue rider
Question: Who had a UK hit in the 1960s with the song" Juliet"?
Answer: four pennies
Question: Name the Confederate warship built at Birkenhead and sunk off Cherbourg.
Answer: css alabama
Question: in which battle of 1403 was Harry Hotspur killed?
Answer: shrewsbury
Question: What was the title of the Sex Pistol's first UK single?
Answer: anarchy in uk
Question: Which actor played Barnes Wallis in the film The Dambusters?
Answer: michael redgrave
Question: If a dish is described as "A La Lyonaisse" what must it contain?
Answer: onions
Question: To the nearest 1000, what is the crowd capacity on Centre Court at Wimbiedon?
Answer: 15 000
Question: Which actress played Annie Oakley in the film "Carry on Cowboy"?
Answer: angela douglas
Question: Alfred Butts created which board game in 1938?
Answer: scrabble
Question: Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, was known by what name when it was part of Yugoslavia?
Answer: titograd
Question: In which English town or city is the Titanic brewery?
Answer: stoke on trent
Question: With a character in which novel does Starbuck's coffee chain share its name?
Answer: moby dick
Question: Situated on Mars, what is the name of the iargest volcano in the Solar System?
Answer: olympus mons
Question: In which English city would you find Chamberlain Square and the Rotunda?
Answer: birmingham
Question: By what name was pop and rock singer Larry Lurex better known?
Answer: freddie mercury
Question: What is the name of the Gulf separating the coast of northern Vietnam from China and into which the Red River flows?
Answer: tonkin
Question: Which US city was ravaged by a Great Fire in 1871 that left thousands homeless?
Answer: chicago
Question: Many British hill tops have a trig point placed by the Ordnance Survey. What is the word 'trig' short for?
Answer: triangulation
Question: Who wrote the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?
Answer: tom stoppard
Question: Which constituency returned Douglas Carswell as the first UKIP MP in October 2014?
Answer: clacton
Question: Which chemical element comes next in order of atomic number: hydrogen, helium, lithium, ............?
Answer: beryllium
Question: Who was the gypsy guitarist who became a jazz virtuoso in the 1930s with the Quintette du Hot Club de France?
Answer: django reinhardt
Question: Which Missionaries of Charity founder was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979?
Answer: mother teresa
Question: Which British Prime Minister said, on first taking office, 'My mission is to pacify Ireland'?
Answer: william gladstone
Question: According to Shakespeare, which wood moved to defeat Macbeth?
Answer: birnam
Question: Who was the personal architect of Hitler and Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during the Second World War?
Answer: albert speer
Question: Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll were members of which Manchester group?
Answer: oasis
Question: In the early 1960s, US meteorologist Edward Lorenz worked on computer models of weather systems. What term did he use to describe the variations found?
Answer: butterfly effect
Question: Which Italian noblewoman was queen of France between 1547 and 1559, and ruled as regent in the years afterwards (full name needed)?
Answer: catherine de medici
Question: What was the name until 1975 of the country now called Benin?
Answer: dahomey
Question: Who did Australia beat in the final of the 2015 ICC World Cup?
Answer: new zealand
Question: According to Shakespeare, to who does the line 'Banish plump Jack and banish all the world' refer?
Answer: sir john falstaff
Question: Who was the Austrian Chancellor assassinated in 1934 by Nazis?
Answer: engelbert dollfuss
Question: Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar Linton appear in which book by one of the Brontë sisters?
Answer: wuthering heights