CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In "Alice in Wonderland", what type of pipe did the caterpillar smoke?
Answer: hookah
Question: Which Greek word meaning 'hidden writings' first appeared in the Luther Bible of 1534?
Answer: apocrypha
Question: John Maus died in May 2011, of which pop group had he been a member?
Answer: walker brothers
Question: Which novelist is known as 'The Queen of the Aga saga'?
Answer: joanna trollope
Question: Which French General and statesman took part in the Battle of Yorktown?
Answer: lafayette
Question: Which power station building was adapted to become the Tate Modern Art Gallery?
Answer: bankside
Question: What is the name of the straight line joining any two points on the circumference of a circle?
Answer: chord
Question: 'In truth I know not why I am so sad' is the first line of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: merchant of venice
Question: In which modern Olympic Games were women allowed to compete for the first time? (Date or venue)
Answer: paris 1900
Question: What title is held by the heir to the Spanish throne?
Answer: prince of asturias
Question: Who, better known as an actor and comedian, released his debut blues album in 2011 called 'Let Them Talk'?
Answer: hugh laurie
Question: Which group released the album 'Tango in the Night' in 1987?
Answer: fleetwood mac
Question: In Shakespeare's 'As you like It', what name does Rosalind take when she poses as a boy?
Answer: ganymede
Question: Which author writes about the Italian policeman Aurelio Zen?
Answer: michael dibdin
Question: 'Someone like You is a 2011 song on whose 2nd studio album?
Answer: adele
Question: To whom was Catherine of Aragon married before she married Henry 8th?
Answer: prince arthur
Question: 'Leave it to luck' or 'leave luck to heaven' is the translation from Japanese of which company's name?
Answer: nintendo
Question: In 'Dads Army' what did Hodges call Captain Mainwaring?
Answer: napoleon
Question: Where was the armistice which halted the Korean War signed in 1953?
Answer: panmunjon
Question: Which current Premier League football club are the only club to have won all four top divisions and both major cups in English football?
Answer: wolverhampton wanderers
Question: In 'Last of the Summer Wine' what character did Brian Wilde play?
Answer: foggy
Question: Founded in 1999 by BBC4 TV, for what is the Samuel Johnson Prize awarded?
Answer: non fiction
Question: Opened in 1914, what is Edinburgh's main concert hall?
Answer: usher hall
Question: Which artist (1518-1594), born Jacopo Comin, also known as Jacopo Robusti, is known by a nickname taken from his father's occupation as a dyer?
Answer: tintoretto
Question: Stoke City FC now play their home games at the Britannia Stadium. What was the name of their previous stadium?
Answer: victoria ground
Question: Who is the Chief of Police in Puccini's opera 'Tosca'?
Answer: baron scarpia
Question: Who is the wife of King Cepheus, found opposite to him in the night sky?
Answer: cassiopeia
Question: The states of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae in the Western Pacific are collectively known as the Federated States of ................. where?
Answer: micronesia
Question: For a constituency in which town is Ed Miliband an MP?
Answer: doncaster
Question: What decoration, a Cross, was instituted on 1st July 2009 to commemorate UK armed forces personnel who have died on operations or as a result of an act of terrorism?
Answer: elizabeth
Question: Derived from the Etruscan calendar and persisting for around 500 years, into how many days was the Roman week divided prior to the adoption of the Julian calendar?
Answer: eight
Question: 'E20' is an internet spinoff from which soap opera?
Answer: eastenders
Question: Which 1926 record by Charles Penrose became a cult classic on BBC 'Children's Favourites' from the 1950s to the 1970s?
Answer: laughing policeman
Question: Which poet wrote the line 'T'is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all'?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: What nationality is Petra Kvitova the 2011 Ladies Singles winner at Wimbledon?
Answer: czech
Question: Who in 1912, after not being invited to perform in the first Royal Command Performance, staged a rival show advertised 'by command of the British public'?
Answer: marie lloyd
Question: In the Hellenistic system the weekdays were named after the 7 classical planets (Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars etc), which planet is commemorated by the day we call Friday?
Answer: venus
Question: Which song, recorded by Mandy Miller, a regular request on 'Children's Favourites', begins 'To Bombay a travelling circus came'?
Answer: nellie elephant
Question: Which poet wrote the line 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know'?
Answer: john keats
Question: Which member of the Cabinet has been the MP for Maidenhead since 1997?
Answer: theresa may
Question: How are the states of Ajman, al-Fujairah, Ras-al Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwain and two others collectively known?
Answer: united arab emirates
Question: Which religious faith was founded in the 19th century, in what is now Iran and has its headquarters in Haifa(Israel)?
Answer: baha i
Question: Swansea City FC now play their home games at the Liberty Stadium. What was the name of their previous stadium?
Answer: vetch field
Question: What sort of Tuesday did the Rolling Stones sing about in their 1967 hit?
Answer: ruby
Question: Ownership of which worldwide publishing concern gave Conrad Black control of the Daily Telegraph?
Answer: hollinger internation
Question: Which group was Jimmy Page in immediately before forming Led Zeppelin?
Answer: yardbirds
Question: In "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", what was the name of the castle housing the four thrones and from where the kings/queens of Narnia rule?
Answer: cair paravel
Question: Who followed Henry Campbell Bannerman as Prime Minister in 1908?
Answer: h h asquith
Question: Who fought Muhammed All in the 'Rumble in the Jungle' in 1974?
Answer: george foreman
Question: Which alcoholic drink is added to brandy to make a Sidecar cocktail?
Answer: cointreau
Question: Which company's red triangle trademark was the first to registered in England (in 1876)?
Answer: bass
Question: Which fashion designer opened a boutique with Malcolm McClaren, and was at the forefront of 'punk' fashion in 1971?
Answer: vivienne westwood
Question: George Cornell was shot by Ronnie Kray in which East End pub in 1966?
Answer: blind beggar
Question: What was the name of Lester Piggott's first Derby winner in 1954?
Answer: never say die
Question: Which religious group publishes a magazine called "The Watchtower"?
Answer: jehovah s witnesses
Question: In the Harry Potter series, what is the name of the soul sucking guards from Azkaban?
Answer: dementors
Question: Whose first number one album in the UK was "Every Picture Tells a Story" in 1971?
Answer: rod stewart
Question: Who was Jimmy Carter's Vice-President from 1977-1981?
Answer: walter mondale
Question: Which bird has the Latin name Erithacus Rubecula?
Answer: robin
Question: Which saint, also known as Thaddeus, is the patron saint of lost causes?
Answer: st jude
Question: Who was guest drummer for Led Zeppelin at the Live Aid concert in 1985?
Answer: phil collins
Question: In "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", how is Jadis better known?
Answer: white witch
Question: Which TV detective series is based on books by Caroline Graham?
Answer: midsomer murders
Question: Who followed Lloyd George as Prime Minister in 1922?
Answer: andrew bonar law
Question: Who wrote the 1989 Booker Prize winning novel "The Remains of the Day"?
Answer: kazuo ishiguro
Question: What specifically is the alcoholic ingredient of the drink Cuba Libre?
Answer: white rum
Question: Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence, is in which English county?
Answer: buckinghamshire
Question: In which Gilbert and Sullivan opera do fairies take over Parliament?
Answer: iolanthe
Question: In which early 90's TV series did scientists Dr. Sam Beckett and Admiral Al Calavicci appear?
Answer: quantum leap
Question: Traditionally, what kind of meat is used in the dish Osso Bucco?
Answer: veal
Question: Which English county did Ian Botham join after leaving Somerset in 1987?
Answer: worcestershire
Question: Which daily newspaper was founded in 1909, but closed in 1971 when it merged with the Daily Mail?
Answer: daily sketch
Question: What was the name of the first horse to win the Derby in 1780?
Answer: diomed
Question: Which religious organisation's newspaper is called "The War Cry"?
Answer: salvation army
Question: In the Harry Potter stories, what is Hagrid's first name?
Answer: rubeus
Question: In which 1949 movie did James Cagney say the lines 'Made it Ma - Top of the world', before being killed?
Answer: white heat
Question: Who succeeded Richard Nixon as President of the USA in 1974?
Answer: gerald ford
Question: In addition to the emu, which other flightless bird is native to Australia?
Answer: cassowary
Question: Who played a character called Rachel Marron in a famous 1992 film?
Answer: whitney houston
Question: Cusco (Cuzco) was the historical capital of which Empire?
Answer: inca
Question: In which country did the Carnation Revolution take place in 1974?
Answer: portugal
Question: Which MP represents the constituency of Doncaster North?
Answer: ed miliband
Question: What is the name of the soft boot, usually sealskin, worn by the Inuit and Yupik?
Answer: mukluks
Question: Which punctuation mark, used in computing, etc., is called the 'solidus'?
Answer: forward slash
Question: Matthew Flinders led the first circumnavigation of which land mass?
Answer: australia
Question: Prior to Howard Webb in 2010, who was the last Englishman to referee a World Cup Final?
Answer: jack taylor
Question: Sal volatile (spirit of hartshorn) is a solution commonly known as what?
Answer: smelling salts
Question: What did Henry Cavendish describe as 'inflammable air'?
Answer: hydrogen
Question: What food is known as an 'alligator pear'?
Answer: avocado
Question: Similar to shepherd's pie, Bobotie is a national dish of which country?
Answer: south africa
Question: Where was the painter, illustrator, etc, Marc Chagall born in 1887?
Answer: russia
Question: Under which tree did the swagman camp in the song "Waltzing Matilda"?
Answer: coolibah tree
Question: What instrument was played by jazz musician (Edward) Kid Ory?
Answer: trombone
Question: The new Boeing 787 jet is also known as what?
Answer: dreamliner
Question: Which eponymous teacher taught at Brookfield Boarding School?
Answer: mr chips
Question: The Battle of Palmito Ranch (Hill) was the last major clash of which 19th century war?
Answer: american civil war
Question: Singer Rihanna, and cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers are from which island?
Answer: barbados
Question: Which species of bird has Andean and Californian varieties?
Answer: condor
Question: """Gates of Hell"" and ""The Burghers of Calais"" are by which sculptor?"
Answer: auguste rodin
Question: Julia Gillard, elected Australian PM in 2010, was born in which country?
Answer: wales
Question: The Straits Times Index is the stock market of which Asian republic?
Answer: singapore
Question: Which novel is set on one day - 16th June 1904?
Answer: ulysses
Question: The girls' name Vanessa was invented by which 18th century Anglo-Irish writer?
Answer: jonathan swift
Question: Which alcoholic spirit is made from the blue agave plant?
Answer: tequila
Question: Which city is at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers?
Answer: montreal
Question: Dili is the capital of which state that became independent on 20 May 2002?
Answer: east timor
Question: What name, also given to the spacecraft used, was given to the American space program that ran from 1959 to 1963, with the aim of putting a man in earth orbit?
Answer: mercury
Question: In which English county are the National Space Centre and the Foxton canal locks?
Answer: leicestershire
Question: What is the name of Atticus Finch's daughter, the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: scout
Question: Which cooking utensil is called a skillet in America?
Answer: frying pan
Question: What was the name of the 1990s TV series starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as flatmates Eddie and Richie?
Answer: bottom
Question: Asmara is the capital of which state that became independent on 24 May 1993?
Answer: eritrea
Question: Which American playwright wrote The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night?
Answer: eugene o neill
Question: Which author was born in 1812 in Landport, which is now part of Portsmouth?
Answer: charles dickens
Question: In the TV programme '24', what is the name of the character played by Kiefer Sutherland?
Answer: jack bauer
Question: Occurring on 21 July 1861, on what was the first major land battle of the American Civil War?
Answer: first bull run
Question: In the book and film The Railway Children, who was the sister of Peter and Phyllis?
Answer: bobbie
Question: What is the title of Private Eye's regular page of political news?
Answer: hp sauce
Question: In which of his books does George Orwell recount his experiences in the Spanish Civil War?
Answer: homage to catalonia
Question: In which Virginia town, in April 1865, did Robert E Lee sign the Confederate surrender at the end of the American Civil War?
Answer: appomattox
Question: Alan Hansen joined Liverpool from which club in 1977?
Answer: partick thistle
Question: Which actor/director's production company is called Malpaso Productions?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: Which Tottenham Hotspur manager signed Ossie Ardiles?
Answer: keith burkinshaw
Question: What was the name of the month in the French Revolutionary Calendar which corresponded to parts of July and August? The same word describes a lobster dish.
Answer: thermidor
Question: Which river forms most of the border between Laos and Thailand?
Answer: mekong
Question: Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in May 1980, was the vocalist with which group?
Answer: joy division
Question: John Wayne won his only Oscar for his role in which film?
Answer: true grit
Question: Eddie Reader had a Number 1 hit in April 1988 with which group?
Answer: fairground attraction
Question: Which famous author spent 5 years in the 1920's as a police officer in Burma?
Answer: george orwell
Question: Which directing partnership remade the film True Grit in 2010?
Answer: coen brothers
Question: Which Israeli leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978?
Answer: menachem begin
Question: What was the name of the month in the French Revolutionary Calendar which corresponded to parts of March and April, and has the same name as a 1993 film starring Gerard Depardieu based on a Zola novel?
Answer: germinal
Question: Which river forms the border between Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana?
Answer: limpopo
Question: The subject of a 1970 Ken Russell film, which Russian composer's first symphony was nicknamed Winter Daydreams?
Answer: tchaikovsky
Question: What did the poet Homer frequently describe as 'wine-dark'?
Answer: sea
Question: In Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons, what was the name of the amorous French skunk?
Answer: pepe le pew
Question: Which band did Mick Jones form on leaving the Clash?
Answer: big audio dynamite
Question: What was the name of Jodie Foster's character in the film 'Bugsy Malone'?
Answer: tallulah
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' in 1932?
Answer: stella gibbons
Question: Who played the Skipper in the 1960s US TV sitcom 'Gilligan's Island'?
Answer: alan hale
Question: Which Liberal Democrat MP was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury in David Cameron's Cabinet in May 2010, only to resign the same month over an expenses claim?
Answer: david laws
Question: The steel pan (or drum) is the national instrument of which island nation, where it was invented?
Answer: trinidad and tobago
Question: Which of the halogens has the lowest atomic number (9)?
Answer: fluorine
Question: Which Shakespeare play is set in Sicilia and Bohemia?
Answer: winter s tale
Question: Which historic region of France, roughly corresponding to the Dordogne, gives its name to black truffles?
Answer: perigord
Question: Created by Sega in the 1990's, what type of creature is the video game character Sonic?
Answer: hedgehog
Question: On which London thoroughfare is the Cenotaph situated?
Answer: whitehall
Question: What name is given in English to a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, eg deeply superficial?
Answer: oxymoron
Question: Who was British Prime Minister when the American Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776?
Answer: lord north
Question: In Australian Rules football, how many points are awarded for a field goal?
Answer: six
Question: Who was the Queen consort of King Charles the Second of England?
Answer: catherine of braganza
Question: Which car marque produces the 'Insignia' model?
Answer: vauxhall
Question: Which nocturnal animal has the Latin name `meles meles'?
Answer: european badger
Question: For what does the G stand in P. G. Wodehouse?
Answer: grenville
Question: Which character of "The Archers" died in a fire on the day that ITV began broadcasting in 1955?
Answer: grace archer
Question: It was announced in 2010 that which American crime author was to write a new "James Bond" novel?
Answer: jeffery deaver
Question: Developed from the instruments brought by Portuguese soldiers, with which island group is the ukulele particularly associated?
Answer: hawaii
Question: Four US states border Lake Michigan - Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin are three. Which is the fourth?
Answer: indiana
Question: In which Shakespeare play does most of the action place in the Forest of Arden?
Answer: as you like it
Question: Which common British garden bird has the Latin name cyanistes caeruleus or parus caeruleus'?
Answer: blue tit
Question: Which northern region of Italy is particularly associated with white truffles?
Answer: piedmont
Question: Created by Nintendo in the 1980's, what is the profession of the video game character (Super) Mario?
Answer: plumber
Question: For what does the R stand in the acronym UNHCR?
Answer: refugees
Question: How is the building 30 St. Mary Axe better known?
Answer: gherkin
Question: According to Homer, who was Queen of Troy and mother of Paris and Hector?
Answer: hecuba
Question: Besides cookery, on which other topic has Delia Smith written books?
Answer: religion
Question: Who was the Queen consort of King George the Fourth of England?
Answer: caroline of brunswick
Question: The Suez Canal has its southern terminus at Port Tawfik, Suez. Where is its northern terminus?
Answer: port said
Question: For what does the G stand in G. K. Chesterton?
Answer: gilbert
Question: What was the code name given to the Dam Busters raids of May 1943?
Answer: operation chastise
Question: It was announced early in 2011 that which British author and screen writer will write a new "Sherlock Holmes" novel?
Answer: anthony horowitz
Question: According to Muslim tradition, who revealed the Qur'an to Mohammed?
Answer: angel gabriel
Question: Who is the British designer responsible for the design of many iconic Apple products?
Answer: jonathan ive
Question: Who plays speech therapist Lionel Logue in the hit British film "The King's Speech"?
Answer: geoffrey rush
Question: Specifically, on which island is the Franz Josef Glacier?
Answer: south island new zealand
Question: Who is Pip's secret benefactor in 'Great Expectations'?
Answer: magwitch
Question: In pre-decimal currency, what was depicted on the back of a farthing from 1936 until it was withdrawn in 1960?
Answer: wren
Question: Which theory states that 'people tend to rise to their own level of incompetence'?
Answer: peter principle
Question: In May 2011 who became Chairman of the BBC Trust?
Answer: chris patten
Question: Cosette, Marius and Fantine are characters in which book and musical?
Answer: les miserables
Question: What is the name of the dog in Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' books?
Answer: timmy
Question: Name the son of Marcus Aurelius who succeeded him as Roman Emperor from 180-192 AD.
Answer: commodus
Question: Who painted 'And When Did You Last See Your Father' in 1878?
Answer: william frederick yeames
Question: Who wrote 'Capriccio Italien' in 1880?
Answer: tchaikowsky
Question: Who painted The Boyhood of Raleigh' in 1870?
Answer: john everett millais
Question: What is the name of the track cycling event, originating in Japan, in which the racers sprint for victory after having been paced for several laps?
Answer: keirin
Question: On a staircase, what is the vertical part of the step called?
Answer: riser
Question: Name the Cup presented to the winner of the Men's Singles at the French Open Tennis Competition.
Answer: coupe des mousquetaires
Question: Whose Symphony No. 1 in D Major is sometimes known as The Titan'?
Answer: gustav mahler
Question: By winning the 2009 PGA Championship who became the first Asian to win a major golf tournament?
Answer: y e yang
Question: Who wrote the music for 'Billy Elliot'?
Answer: elton john
Question: Who was the first President of Tanzania? (1961-1985)
Answer: julius nyerere
Question: In 'Bob the Builder' what is the name of the cat?
Answer: pilchard
Question: What is the name of the new group, founded in 2010 by Liam Gallagher and other members of Oasis?
Answer: beady eye
Question: In medicine, how was a tincture of opium known?
Answer: laudanum
Question: Who benefits from the royalties from 'Peter Pan'?
Answer: great ormond street children s hospital
Question: Michael Schumacher had his first F1 win in 1992, for which team was he driving?
Answer: benetton
Question: The 2002 film The Road to Perdition' was the last film appearance of which actor?
Answer: paul newman
Question: Simoon, haboob and tramontane are types of what?
Answer: winds
Question: Who is the architect of the new Turner Margate Gallery?
Answer: david chipperfield
Question: What was the name of the human powered aircraft which crossed the Channel in 1979?
Answer: gossamer albatross
Question: In 1978, who created the poster 'Labour isn't working'?
Answer: saatchi saatchi
Question: John Fogerty was lead singer for which group from 1967 until 1972 when the group disbanded?
Answer: creedence clearwater revival
Question: Who launched The Big Issue' in 1991 to help the homeless?
Answer: john bird
Question: What is the principal constituent of the cell wall in soft plant tissue?
Answer: cellulose
Question: Which horse, at 100-1, won the 2009 Grand National?
Answer: mon mome
Question: Which airline bought both BMI and Alitalia in 2008?
Answer: lufthansa
Question: The Latitude Festival of music, theatre and comedy is held annually in which county?
Answer: suffolk
Question: Who owns the world's largest private yacht 'Eclipse' and three other yachts `Pelorus', Ecstasea' and `Sussurro'?
Answer: roman abramovich
Question: St Dunstan's is an organisation that deals with which disability?
Answer: blindness
Question: For which country was Emanuel Adebayor playing football when they withdrew from the African Cup of Nations in 2010?
Answer: togo
Question: The rivers Gowy, Goyt and Bollin are tributaries of which larger river?
Answer: river mersey
Question: What was the apt name of the largest armoured vehicle that the Germans had in World War II?
Answer: elefant
Question: What was first created in 1890 and then credited to Arthur Wynne in 1913 and is now seen everywhere?
Answer: crossword puzzle
Question: Warner Oland, Sydney Toler and Roland Winters have all played which fictional detective?
Answer: charlie chan
Question: During the 2010 Rugby League World Cup Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand played but which other nation were the fourth team?
Answer: papua new guinea
Question: Kings Lynn and Great Yarmouth were once members of which larger trading organisation?
Answer: hanseatic league
Question: Which Oscar winning film was based on the life of killer Aileen Wuornos?
Answer: monster
Question: Which mythical creature had the head and body of a lion and eagles wings?
Answer: griffin
Question: Which World War II aircraft was designed in 1937 by Sydney Camm?
Answer: hawker hurricane
Question: Which restaurant chain was founded in 1998 by Simon Woodroffe?
Answer: yo sushi
Question: Singer Crispian Mills is the son of which famous actress?
Answer: hayley mills