CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What mountain was officially known as Mount McKinley until 2015?
Answer: denali
Question: What did the United States buy from France in 1803?
Answer: louisiana territory
Question: What pioneer trail started in Independence, Missouri and ended in the Willamette Valley?
Answer: oregon trail
Question: What U.S. territory in the Pacific was taken from Spain?
Answer: guam
Question: What volcano famously erupted on May 18, 1980?
Answer: mount st helens
Question: What city's Presidio was at one time a Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. fort - and is now a park?
Answer: san francisco
Question: What New Hampshire mountain is famous for having the highest wind speed ever recorded in the U.S.?
Answer: mount washington
Question: What city in Rhode Island is famous for its many mansions built during the late 1800's?
Answer: newport
Question: What city is served by O'Hare and Midway airports?
Answer: chicago
Question: What cave, located in Kentucky, has over 400 miles of passages?
Answer: mammoth cave
Question: What activity makes Aspen, Vail, and Breckenridge famous?
Answer: skiing
Question: What National Park borders the city of Gatlinburg, Tennessee?
Answer: great smoky mountains
Question: Other than corn, what is most commonly grown crop in the United States?
Answer: soybeans
Question: What blue-green rock is the state gemstone of Arizona?
Answer: turquoise
Question: What type of moss commonly grows on Live Oak and Bald Cypress trees in the southeast?
Answer: spanish moss
Question: In what city would you find Beale Street, famous for its blues clubs?
Answer: memphis
Question: In what city might you visit the Alamo or take a stroll on the River Walk?
Answer: san antonio
Question: On what "strip" in Los Angeles would you find famous clubs such as the Roxy and the Viper Room?
Answer: sunset strip
Question: What bridge, between Manhattan and New Jersey, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge?
Answer: george washington bridge
Question: What U.S. territory includes the islands of Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas?
Answer: u s virgin islands
Question: What desert, starting with the letter M, can be found in southeast California?
Answer: mojave desert
Question: Which major city has the highest percentage of African-American residents (82%)?
Answer: detroit
Question: What small city in the Ozark mountains is famous for its musical theatres?
Answer: branson missouri
Question: What country is located 70 miles due east of Palm Beach, Florida?
Answer: bahamas
Question: What ocean gulf borders 5 states, including Florida and Texas?
Answer: gulf of mexico
Question: Sarawak is the largest of the thirteen states, which comprise which Asian country?
Answer: malaysia
Question: Michael O'Hehir (pronounced O'Hair) was, for many years, a commentator for the BBC on which sporting event?
Answer: grand national
Question: Which WWII aircraft was known as, "The Flying Porcupine"?
Answer: sunderland flying boat
Question: Part of the Rootes group, which car company produced a model called the Chamois in the 1960's?
Answer: singer
Question: Which TV series featured the characters, Tinker, Eric Catchpole and Lady Jane Felsham?
Answer: lovejoy
Question: In 1982, Sarah Jane Hutt was the last English winner of which title?
Answer: miss world
Question: What name is given to the naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, often used in bygone days in the manufacture of coins?
Answer: electrum
Question: Which spice is produced from the dried leaves of wild marjoram?
Answer: oregano
Question: On which island is the city of Syracuse, ancient home to the mathematician and scientist, Archimedes?
Answer: sicily
Question: What is the more common name for Vibrissae, found on all feline creatures?
Answer: cats whiskers
Question: What name is given to the long "whiskers" found on some fish of the carp family?
Answer: barbels
Question: Which human facial feature is properly known as a diastema?
Answer: gap between front teeth
Question: How is the priest described in the nursery rhyme, "The House that Jack Built"?
Answer: all shaven and shorn
Question: When used in the manufacture of jewellery, which metal is usually alloyed with Platinum?
Answer: iridium
Question: What was the name of James Onedin's ship in the TV series "The Onedin Line"?
Answer: charlotte rhodes
Question: Part of British Leyland, which car company produced a model called the Ital in the 1980's
Answer: morris
Question: Who was the last man to win the British Open Golf Championship on three consecutive occasions?
Answer: peter thomson
Question: Adam's Peak, (also called Buddha's or Siva's Peak), stands in which island country?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: During which astronomical phenomenon, would a person see Baily's Beads?
Answer: total solar eclipse
Question: The film, "High Society" was a musical version of which 1939 comedy film, starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant?
Answer: philadelphia story
Question: Which French wine region, North of Lyons, produces Chiroubles and Saint Amour red wines?
Answer: beaujolais
Question: Who were Manchester Utd's opponents in January 1948, when the highest ever attendance at a Football League match was recorded?
Answer: arsenal
Question: In the bible, which prophet was taken up to Heaven in a fiery chariot?
Answer: elijah
Question: Which actress was married to comedy actor Peter Sellers at the time of his death in 1980?
Answer: lynn frederick
Question: What is the Latin name for the element Sodium, giving rise to its chemical formula Na?
Answer: natrium
Question: In the TV series, "Enterprise", first aired in 2001, what was the name of the ship's captain, played by actor Scott Bakula?
Answer: jonathan archer
Question: Which British playwright sprang to fame in 1936 with his comedy, "French Without Tears"?
Answer: terence rattigan
Question: During World War II, which of the German leaders was head of the SS?
Answer: heinrich himmler
Question: Who was the unusual duettist with Bing Crosby, on his 1977 Christmas Show, singing their version of "Little Drummer Boy"? The recording became a big hit five years later.
Answer: david bowie
Question: The Western Roll, is a long disused technique, once practised in which sporting event?
Answer: high jump
Question: Which British musician had U.K. No 1 hits with his instrumental versions of the tunes, "Oh Mein Papa" in 1954, and in 1955 with, "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"?
Answer: eddie calvert
Question: Joseph Goebbels was the head of which Nazi ministry from 1933 until 1945?
Answer: propaganda
Question: Which award winning play, written by Alan Bennett, later made into a film, is set in the fictional Cutler's Grammar School in Sheffield?
Answer: history boys
Question: Which classical singer sang the theme song "Where My Heart Will Take Me", for the TV series, "Enterprise"?
Answer: russell watson
Question: The Recreation Cricket Ground in St John's, on the island of Antigua, is also known by the name of which famous West Indian cricketer?
Answer: sir vivian richards
Question: Which actor, star of the 1950 film, "Sunset Boulevard", died after a fall at his home in Santa Monica in 1981?
Answer: william holden
Question: The temple of which of their gods was destroyed by Samson, as his last act of war against the Philistines?
Answer: dagon
Question: Which creature appears on the current English £10 note alongside Charles Darwin?
Answer: hummingbird
Question: Who won the Rugby League Challenge Cup in 1954, beating Halifax in a replay at Odsal Stadium, before a world record crowd for a Rugby League match of 102,000?
Answer: warrington
Question: Which wine area, in the Bordeaux region, lies between the River Gironde and the Atlantic coast?
Answer: medoc
Question: The 1942 film, "Casablanca" was based on which play, written by Joan Alison and Murray Burnett?
Answer: everybody comes to ricks
Question: Which Queen Consort of England was tried for adultery, and barred from her husband's coronation in 1821?
Answer: caroline of brunswick
Question: On which racecourse did Frankie Dettori win all seven races on the card in 1996?
Answer: ascot
Question: The rap star Marshall Mathers is better known by which stage name?
Answer: eminem
Question: Mrs Maria Fitzherbert illegally married which future King of England in 1785?
Answer: george iv
Question: In which Australian City is St Paul's Cathedral sited opposite Flinders Street station?
Answer: melbourne
Question: Gloucester and England Rugby Union player, Lesley Vainikolo, was born in which country?
Answer: tonga
Question: In the 1960's, which jazz pianist wrote the pieces, "It's a Raggy Waltz", "Unsquare Dance" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk"?
Answer: dave brubeck
Question: In the 1968 film, "The Odd Couple", the part of Oscar Madison was played by Walter Matthau. Which actor played the part in the TV adaptation?
Answer: jack klugman
Question: Who was the Greek God of wine, equivalent to the Roman God Bacchus?
Answer: dionysus
Question: Thojib Suharto was President and dictator of which Asian country from 1968 to 1998?
Answer: indonesia
Question: In Neolithic times, what was the purpose of a dolmen?
Answer: tomb
Question: In Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest", which character has the title, "Duke of Milan"?
Answer: prospero
Question: What was the name of Russia's first permanently manned space station, launched in 1988?
Answer: mir
Question: In 1976, which Italian town was the scene of a toxic gas leak, containing the poison, Dioxin?
Answer: seveso
Question: Which firm owned the factory in Bhopal in India, devastated by a poison gas leak in 1984?
Answer: union carbide
Question: In which Asian Capital City is the Potala Palace, now converted to a museum?
Answer: lhasa
Question: Who was the first female presenter of ITV's, "News at Ten"?
Answer: anna ford
Question: In Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet", what is the name of Hamlet's uncle, who usurps the throne, marries Hamlet's mother and becomes King of Denmark"?
Answer: claudius
Question: What is the name of the famous Neolithic passage tomb, situated just east of Navan town, in County Meath, Ireland?
Answer: newgrange
Question: Who was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority in January 2005?
Answer: mahmoud abbas
Question: Riding both Papillon in 2000, and Hedgehunter in 2005, which is the only jockey to ride two Aintree Grand National winners in the 21st century?
Answer: ruby walsh
Question: Who was the Roman goddess of the Moon, equivalent to the Greek Goddess Selene?
Answer: luna
Question: In the 1950's and 60's, which jazz pianist wrote the pieces, "Misterioso", "Ruby My Dear" and "Round Midnight"?
Answer: thelonius monk
Question: St Helens and Gt. Britain Rugby League player, Maurie Fa'asavalu was born in which country?
Answer: samoa
Question: In which New Zealand city, at the head of the Otago peninsular, is St Paul's Cathedral?
Answer: dunedin
Question: Who was the mistress of Charles II and mother of the Duke of Monmouth?
Answer: lucy walter
Question: Which Hollywood legend directed The Godfather trilogy of films and the Vietnam War film, "Apocalypse Now"?
Answer: francis ford coppola
Question: First published in 1887, which was the first book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to feature Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: study in scarlet
Question: Which artist painted the picture, "Bubbles", which was used in an advertisement for Pears Soap?
Answer: millais
Question: Name the song, sung by Katrina and The Waves, which was last British entry to win the Eurovision Song Contest.
Answer: love shine light
Question: Which stretch of water, off the S.E. coast of Italy, separates the Adriatic and Ionian Seas?
Answer: straits of otranto
Question: In his youth, actor Leslie Grantham served ten years in prison for which crime?
Answer: murder
Question: Which English authors works include, "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"?
Answer: alan sillitoe
Question: In 1994, the Hutu and the Tutsi tribes waged a war of mass genocide in which African country?
Answer: rwanda
Question: Which famous explorer was killed by natives in the Philippines in 1521?
Answer: ferdinand magellan
Question: The Olduvai Gorge, famous for its archaeological finds, is in which African country?
Answer: tanzania
Question: Titania is the largest moon of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: uranus
Question: Which Shakespeare play contains the line, "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania"?
Answer: midsummer night s dream
Question: The village of Piltdown, scene of the infamous hoax find of a prehistoric skull in 1912, is in which English county?
Answer: east sussex
Question: Which famous explorer contracted malaria shortly after his arrival in Goa in 1524, and died on Christmas Eve 1524 at Cochin?
Answer: vasco da gama
Question: Darfur, scene of mass genocide over the last few years, is part of which African country?
Answer: sudan
Question: Early works of which English playwright include, "Chicken Soup with Barley" and "Roots"?
Answer: arnold wesker
Question: In the 1933 film "The Private Life of Henry VIII", starring Charles Laughton, the part of Anne of Cleves was played by Laughton's wife in real life. Can you name this actress?
Answer: elsa lanchester
Question: Which American actress, who committed suicide in Paris in 1979, played the leading female role in the film, "Paint Your Wagon"?
Answer: jean seberg
Question: Which metallic element, the lightest one known, has the Atomic Number 3?
Answer: lithium
Question: Which group won the Eurovision Song contest in 1981 with the song, "Making Your Mind Up"?
Answer: bucks fizz
Question: What name is given to the rectangular piece of cloth wrapped round the waist and legs, knotted at the waist, and worn by Hindus in India?
Answer: dhoti
Question: In the novel by Edgar Allan Poe, who solved the "Murders in the Rue Morgue"?
Answer: c auguste dupin
Question: Which actress, who played the part of Rocky Balboa's wife, alongside Sylvester Stallone, in the "Rocky" films of the 1980's, is the sister of Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola?
Answer: talia shire
Question: How were the comedy duo Ian and Janette Tough better known?
Answer: krankies
Question: What is the name of the blind beggar in R.L.Stevenson's Treasure Island?
Answer: pew
Question: Which British athlete won the 100 metres gold medal at the 1924 Olympics?
Answer: harold abrahams
Question: Which palace in Spain takes its name from the colour of its sun-dried red bricks?
Answer: alhambra
Question: Who was the only English King to be crowned on the field of battle?
Answer: henry vii
Question: Which work by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weil is based on a work by John Gay?
Answer: threepenny opera
Question: Who was World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1978-1985, defending his title 20 times before losing to Michael Spinks?
Answer: larry holmes
Question: What is the name of the mongoose in Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book'?
Answer: rikki tikki tavi
Question: What product is obtained form the tree 'Hevea Braziliensis'?
Answer: latex
Question: Who played 'First Voice' in the original BBC radio production of 'Under Milk Wood' (and also in the film version)?
Answer: richard burton
Question: The dialect of which Semitic language was spoken by Jesus Christ?
Answer: aramaic
Question: Grandpa Frost is the equivalent of Father Christmas in which country?
Answer: russia
Question: During WW2, which building was the headquarters of Fighter Command?
Answer: bentley priory
Question: Which boxing Champion was known as 'The Fighting Marine'?
Answer: gene tunney
Question: Jean Valjean is the central character in which classical novel?
Answer: les miserables
Question: Where, on the Baltic coast, was the German missile site where V1 rockets were designed and built?
Answer: peenemunde
Question: The opera ' Beatrice and Benedict' by Berlioz is based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: much ado about nothing
Question: In a children's' book, if Elphaba is the wicked witch of the west, who is the good witch of the South?
Answer: glinda
Question: In the title of the detective story by Dorothy L.Sayers, what are the 'Nine Tailors'?
Answer: church bells
Question: In which childrens' TV programme, narrated by Derek Jacobi, would you see Iggle-Piggle & Upsy-Daisy?
Answer: in night garden
Question: In art, Lisa Gherardini became better known as whom?
Answer: mona lisa
Question: In Australia, what is referred to as a 'brumby'?
Answer: wild horse
Question: On what Saint's day was the Battle of Agincourt fought in 1415?
Answer: st crispin
Question: What is name of the piece of leather on which a barber sharpens a cut-throat razor?
Answer: strop
Question: What is the name of the theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?
Answer: dollywood
Question: Which of the Four Gospels is thought to be based on eyewitness information?
Answer: st mark
Question: In which Shakespeare play is the heroine called Rosalind?
Answer: as you like it
Question: What is another name for the bird usually called the shrike?
Answer: butcher bird
Question: Which county won crickets county championship 6 times in the 1960's?
Answer: yorkshire
Question: Who is reputed to have said, 'Today, I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon'?; after discoveries at Mycenae?
Answer: heinrich schliemann
Question: In 1889, who painted the picture 'Starry Night'?
Answer: vincent van gogh
Question: In which war did the Battle of Ramillies take place?
Answer: war of spanish succession
Question: On which island is the children's' TV programme Balamory set?
Answer: mull
Question: A monument begun in 1948, in the Black Hills of South Dakota , when finished, will be of which American Indian Lakota chief?
Answer: crazy horse
Question: The film 'Infamous' is about which author?
Answer: truman capote
Question: What is the second brightest star in the constellation Orion?
Answer: betelgeuse
Question: What was the name of William Wordsworth's sister, who was also a poet and pianist?
Answer: dorothy
Question: Which actor, famous for his portrayal of gangsters, was born Emmanuel Goldenberg in Romania in 1893?
Answer: edward g robinson
Question: Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of which American mountain range?
Answer: appalachian mountains
Question: Which film of 1958 starred Ingrid Bergman as missionary Gladys Aylward?
Answer: inn of sixth happiness
Question: Who succeeded John Quincy Adams as president of the USA in 1829?
Answer: andrew jackson
Question: What was the Christian name of Judge Jeffreys (1645-1689)?
Answer: george
Question: Which dramatist and poet was murdered by Ingram Frazer in Deptford in 1593?
Answer: christopher marlowe
Question: Which US female singer who died in 2008 had hits with 'Shrimp Boats' and 'You Belong To Me'?
Answer: jo stafford
Question: Which UK female singer who died in 2008 had hits with 'How much is that doggie in the window' and 'Jimmy Unknown'?
Answer: lita roza
Question: What was Elvis Presley's first No. 1 record in the UK?
Answer: all shook up
Question: Which famous Hollywood actor was born Roy Harold Scherer in Illinois in 1925?
Answer: rock hudson
Question: Which 1972 film starred Diana Ross as Billie Holiday?
Answer: lady sings blues
Question: Name the writer of The History Boys, winner of the 2006 Tony award for best play?
Answer: alan bennett
Question: Which stretch of water separates the North and South islands in New Zealand?
Answer: cook strait
Question: Who succeeded Andrew Johnson as US President in 1869?
Answer: ulysses s grant
Question: 'It's Oh So Quiet' and Venus as a Boy' were hit singles for which female artist?
Answer: bjork
Question: What name was given to the type of art particularly associated with Jackson Pollock?
Answer: abstract expressionism
Question: In the Addams Family what type of pet was Pugsley's Aristotle?
Answer: octopus
Question: From whom did Henry Cooper first win the British heavyweight title in 1959?
Answer: brian london
Question: Which former US world heavyweight champion knocked out Henry Cooper in four rounds in 1966?
Answer: floyd patterson
Question: Which US oceanographer led the teams which discovered the wrecks of the Titanic in 1985 and the Bismarck in 1989?
Answer: robert ballard
Question: Which football team play their home games at the Don Valley Stadium?
Answer: rotherham united
Question: Which British comedian was born in Hall Green, Birmingham in 1924 and died in Sydney in 1968?
Answer: tony hancock
Question: What was the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog to whom she famously addressed a poem?
Answer: flush
Question: Which side finished bottom of the 1st division of the County Cricket Championship in 2008?
Answer: surrey
Question: When the Marie Celeste left New York on her ill-fated voyage, which Italian port was her destination?
Answer: genoa
Question: What nationality was Trygve Lie, the first Secretary General of the United Nations?
Answer: norwegian
Question: On the human body, as what is a furuncle more commonly known?
Answer: boil
Question: Which poet wrote the line, "If winter comes, can spring be far behind"?
Answer: percy shelley
Question: Which American state has Boise as its capital, and is known as the Gem State or Potato State?
Answer: idaho
Question: The independent girls' school, Roedean, is situated near which south coast town?
Answer: brighton
Question: Which Midlands club did Sam Allardyce manage, before he took up the position of manager at Bolton Wanderers in 1999?
Answer: notts county
Question: Which Canadian born folk singer wrote and recorded the hit song, "Big Yellow Taxi"?
Answer: joni mitchell
Question: Donald Neilson, convicted of four murders in 1975, was known by which nickname?
Answer: black panther
Question: The Wurzels No 1 hit record, "Combine Harvester", was a parody on which song, a No 1 hit for the singer Melanie in 1971?
Answer: brand new key
Question: Which English football club won the European Cup in 1982. beating Bayern Munich, 1-0 in Rotterdam?
Answer: aston villa
Question: Which comedian actor played the part of Ron Glum in the radio programme 'Take It From Here'?
Answer: dick bentley
Question: Which famous public school is situated n the village of Street in Somerset?
Answer: millfield
Question: According to Catholic legend which saint mopped the brow of Jesus on his way to Calgary?
Answer: veronica
Question: Which south coast resort has its own symphony orchestra, founded in 1893 and now based in Poole Arts Centre?
Answer: bournemouth
Question: Which artist, a member of the modern school of art, and noted for his paintings of violinists, was born in Russia in 1887, and died in Paris aged 97?
Answer: marc chagall
Question: Which British composer, together with the tenor Peter Pears, founded the annual music festival at Aldeburgh?
Answer: benjamin britten
Question: Created in the 1990's, as a satire of James Bond, what was the name of the character in a number of films, who was originally termed, "The International Man of Mystery"?
Answer: austin powers
Question: Which TV producer and scriptwriter, created the TV series, 'Grange Hill'?
Answer: phil redmond
Question: Who, in 1678, along with Israel Tonge, fabricated the "Popish Plot", a fictitious conspiracy to murder Charles II?
Answer: titus oates
Question: The salts of which metal are used in the manufacture of calamine lotion?
Answer: zinc
Question: Who was the mother of the Roman emperor, Nero, who was murdered on nis orders in A.D. 59?
Answer: agrippina
Question: What nationality is the international Rugby Union referee, Alain Rolland?
Answer: irish
Question: One Australian term for a fool is the word "galah". What type of bird is a galah?
Answer: cockatoo
Question: Who was the third wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, noted for her cruelty and debauchery?
Answer: valeria messalina
Question: The salts of which poisonous acid are found in rhubarb leaves?
Answer: oxalic acid
Question: Because of the outrage caused by the Popish Plot, which Archbishop of Armagh, was executed at Tyburn in 1681, the last Roman Catholic martyr to die in England? In 1975, he was canonised, and became the first new Irish saint for almost 700 years.
Answer: st oliver plunke tt
Question: Which local born actor/writer won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1981, for his work on the film, "Chariots of Fire"?
Answer: colin welland
Question: Creator, Nat Hiken gave which original title to the "Phil Silvers Show", it being changed after a couple of months?
Answer: you ll never get rich