CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In the Dickens novel, "The Pickwick Papers", who is Mr Pickwick's manservant?
Answer: sam weller
Question: Which Hungarian airline, (IATA code W6), flies from Liverpool to Gdansk, Katowice, Prague and Warsaw?
Answer: wizz
Question: Mostar and Banja Luka are the two largest cities in which country?
Answer: bosnia herzegovina
Question: """April is the cruellest month"" is the opening line of which poem by T S Eliot?"
Answer: wasteland
Question: Who hosts the TV comedy panel show, "Argumental"?
Answer: john sergeant
Question: In which 1956, film musical did Gordon MacRae sing about the attributes of "My Boy Bill"?
Answer: carousel
Question: In 1930, who discovered the planet Pluto, now re-designated an asteroid?
Answer: clyde tombaugh
Question: Which Impressionist artist painted a series of pictures in the 1890's, depicting haystacks?
Answer: claude monet
Question: With which part of the body is the medicinal science of orthodontics concerned?
Answer: teeth
Question: Yerba Buena, was the original Spanish name of which Major American City?
Answer: san francisco
Question: Which American actor, who died in 2009, played the middle aged husband of teenage temptress, Carol Baker, in the 1956 film, "Lolita"?
Answer: karl malden
Question: """The Red Badge of Courage"", a novel by Stephen Crane is set during which war?"
Answer: american civil war
Question: What was the Christian name of Sherlock Holmes partner Dr. Watson?
Answer: john
Question: In which 1970 film, did Dustin Hoffman play the part of a hundred year old survivor of the Battle of The Little Big Horn?
Answer: little big man
Question: Peter Stuyvesant, born in Holland, became Governor of which American city in 1647?
Answer: new york
Question: In which region of Israel, is the village of Cana, where Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine?
Answer: galilee
Question: In which 1950 film musical did Howard Keel and Betty Hutton argue in song, that each of them could "Do Anything Better Than You"?
Answer: annie get your gun
Question: Who succeeded Carol Vorderman on the TV quiz show, "Countdown" in 2009?
Answer: rachel riley
Question: Which John Masefield poem begins, "Quinquereme of Nineveh, from distant Ophir"?
Answer: cargoes
Question: Which battle of the American Civil war took place in Tennessee on the 6th/7th April 1862?
Answer: shiloh
Question: Which "battle" took place in South Dakota on 29th December 1890?
Answer: wounded knee
Question: Who wrote, in translation, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"?
Answer: jean jacques rousseau
Question: What was the name of the first nuclear powered civilian vessel, an icebreaker?
Answer: lenin
Question: Who, starting in 1962, created a series of silkscreen paintings of Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: In the Old Testament, which of the twelve tribes of Israel, to which Moses and Aaron belonged, was not given territory in the Promised Land?
Answer: levi
Question: Who wrote, in translation, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"?
Answer: karl marx
Question: In the Old Testament, to which the twelve tribes of Israel did Saul, David, and the prophesied Messiah belong?
Answer: judah
Question: Who had a UK No. 1 hit in 1970 with "Yellow River"?
Answer: christie
Question: Which company manufactured the WW2 plane, the B17, known as the Flying Fortress?
Answer: boeing
Question: Which fur is traditionally used to trim the robes of peers and judges?
Answer: ermine
Question: The main ingredients of the dish vichysoisse are potato and which other vegetable?
Answer: leek
Question: In which country would you find the Mato Grosso plateau?
Answer: brazil
Question: In the 1966 film "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", who played Tuco, "the Ugly"?
Answer: eli wallach
Question: As what was the Isle of Wight known to the Romans?
Answer: vectis
Question: What was the forename of the Hungarian composer Kodaly?
Answer: zoltan
Question: What name is given in English law to a minor legally placed under the care of a guardian?
Answer: ward
Question: Which company manufactured the RAF's first operational jet fighter the Meteor?
Answer: gloster
Question: The main ingredients of the Irish dish colcannon are potato and which other vegetable?
Answer: cabbage
Question: Who played Malcolm X in the 1992 film of the same name?
Answer: denzel washington
Question: Created in 1903, what became England's first 'garden city'?
Answer: letchworth
Question: Which Pulitzer Prize winning novel, by Alice Walker, was the subject of numerous attempts to have it banned, on the grounds of violence and racism?
Answer: color purple
Question: What name is given to the arc of bright spots seen during a solar eclipse, and caused by the uneven surface of the moon?
Answer: baily s beads
Question: In which musical do the characters Rusty, Dinah, and Poppa appear?
Answer: starlight express
Question: Created in 1946, what became the first New Town in England?
Answer: stevenage
Question: Which book, by former MI5 operative Peter Wright, was banned by the British government on the grounds of national security?
Answer: spycatcher
Question: What was the name of Freddie Laker's cheap trans-Atlantic airline from 1977 to 1983?
Answer: sky train
Question: Howard Kirk is the eponymous hero of which 1975 Malcolm Bradbury novel?
Answer: history man
Question: What name was given to a Roman gladiator who fought with a weighted net, a 3-pointed trident and a dagger?
Answer: retiarius
Question: Which winner of X Factor had the best selling single of 2008?
Answer: alexandra burke
Question: Which is the only horse racing course in Northamptonshire?
Answer: towcester
Question: In medicine, what name is given to inflammation of the protective membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord?
Answer: meningitis
Question: The national flag of Germany is a tricolour with three horizontal bands. What colour is the top band?
Answer: black
Question: Which Greek word meaning "curdling" is used in medicine for the formation of a blood clot?
Answer: thrombosis
Question: In his famous poem, precisely how many daffodils did Wordsworth see "at a glance"?
Answer: ten thousand
Question: Which 1790 Mozart opera features the heroines Dorabella and Fiordiligi?
Answer: cosi fan tutte
Question: Which British cyclist won four stages of the 2008 Tour de France?
Answer: mark cavendish
Question: Which English king married the sister of the "Princes in the Tower"?
Answer: henry vii
Question: What name was given to Haydn's symphony No. 96 as a result of a chandelier falling and narrowly missing the audience at its first performance?
Answer: miracle symphony
Question: Who started off selling newspapers, became the First Lord of the Admiralty in the 1870s and was immortalised in Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore?
Answer: w h smith
Question: What was the title of Sir Walter Scott's first novel of 1814 which he set around the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion?
Answer: waverley
Question: Which Glen Miller recording of 1941 was the first record ever to be awarded a gold disc?
Answer: chattanooga choo choo
Question: What is the only US state capital to have a 3-word name?
Answer: salt lake city
Question: Who represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1975 with the song "Let me be the one"?
Answer: shadows
Question: Which George Bernard Shaw play is subtitled 'A Metabiological Pentateuch'?
Answer: back to methuselah
Question: Which English king was the son of Lord Darnley and Mary Queen of Scots?
Answer: james i
Question: For which professional rugby league club did athlete Dwain Chambers play one match in 2008?
Answer: castleford
Question: In which organ of the body are worn-out red blood cells removed and antibodies synthesised?
Answer: spleen
Question: For his portrayal of which real life character did Philip Seymour Hoffman win the 2006 Best Actor Oscar?
Answer: truman capote
Question: """Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"" is a line written by which poet?"
Answer: thomas gray
Question: The moons of Uranus are named after characters in the works of Shakespeare and which other English writer and poet?
Answer: alexander pope
Question: Who represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with the song "Long Live Love"?
Answer: olivia newton john
Question: A photograph of which actress did Judge Roy Bean always carry in his wallet?
Answer: lily langtry
Question: What is the name of the carbohydrate found in the cell walls of fruits and used in the setting of jams and jellies?
Answer: pectin
Question: What is the name of the structure under a balloon or airship that holds the crew and passengers?
Answer: gondola
Question: Which pie-making company in Baxenden in Lancashire, has bright insect-green wagons delivering to chippies across the region?
Answer: holland s
Question: In which magazine can Billie the Fish, Roger Mellie and Sid the Sexist appear?
Answer: viz
Question: What is the name of the estuary at the mouths of the rivers Ouse and Trent?
Answer: humber
Question: What record did Jeanne Calment reach in 1995?
Answer: oldest human being
Question: What is the most common name for the eggplant?
Answer: aubergine
Question: What is the name of the blue or white cheese, made from full cream milk and manufactured in the parts of Leicestershire around Melton Mowbray?
Answer: stilton
Question: To which religious group did the chocolate manufacturing families Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree all belong?
Answer: quakers
Question: Which band leader's theme tune was 'Somebody Stole my Gal?
Answer: billy cotton
Question: What structure was moved from Hyde Park to Sydenham in 1854?
Answer: crystal palace
Question: Which Worcester-based firm is the main manufacturer of Worcester Sauce?
Answer: lea perrin
Question: British Airways was formed between 1971 and 1974 by the merger of two airlines - name either.
Answer: bea or boac
Question: Which Scottish soup's name derives from its main ingredients, chicken and leeks?
Answer: cockaleekie
Question: Which Russian jeweller of French decent is famous for his intricate Easter Eggs of gold and diamonds, which he made for the Russian Tsars?
Answer: peter faberge
Question: In the Church of England, which office is below that of a bishop, but is the head of the chapter of a cathedral?
Answer: dean
Question: What was the punishment of the six Trade Unionists, the Tolpuddle Martyrs?
Answer: transportation
Question: Roy Plomley was, in 1944, the creator and first presenter of which radio programme?
Answer: desert island discs
Question: In France, a charcuterie is a shop specialising in which meat?
Answer: pork
Question: Which actor played Al Jolson in The Jolson Story and it sequel?
Answer: larry parks
Question: Which town in Southwest Belgium, twinned with Bootle in 1967, was on 21 August 1914, the site of the first World War I battle between British and German forces?
Answer: mons
Question: In the TV series 'Upstairs Downstairs' what was the name of the butler played by Gordon Jackson?
Answer: hudson
Question: In melodrama, who was the supplier of fillings for Mrs Lovatt's pies?
Answer: sweeney todd
Question: What did Letchworth become in 1963 and Welwyn in 1969?
Answer: garden cities
Question: Which winner of the 1953 Best Film Oscar is set in a Honolulu barracks immediately before and during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour?
Answer: from here to eternity
Question: In the 18th century a thief on horseback was a highwayman, what was the name of his pedestrian counterpart?
Answer: footpad
Question: The athletic event the triathlon consists of running, swimming and what other event?
Answer: cycling
Question: What was the name of the character played by Alec Guinness in the TV series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
Answer: george smiley
Question: Which South Atlantic island suffered a volcanic eruption in 1963, forcing the inhabitants to be evacuated to Britain?
Answer: tristan da cunha
Question: What was the title of the 1975 TV series starring Peter Strauss and Nick Nolte as the brothers Rudy and Tom Jordache?
Answer: rich man poor man
Question: Which 1960s TV series featured the spymaster Alexander Waverley, played by Leo G Carroll?
Answer: man from u n c l e
Question: According to myth, which monster eventually killed by Theseus, inhabited and guarded the labyrinth of King Minos at Knossos?
Answer: minotaur
Question: Which name is common to both a type of snake and she dragon of Mount Parnassus that protected the Oracle at Delphi?
Answer: python
Question: Which singer had a 1970s number one hit with the song "When I Need You?
Answer: leo sayer
Question: Which authoress lived at Chawton House in Hampshire in the early years of the 19th century?
Answer: jane austen
Question: The Catalan Dragons Rugby League team is based in which town in Southern France?
Answer: perpignan
Question: The Alexandre Dumas play, "La Dame aux Camelias" was the inspiration for which Verdi opera?
Answer: la traviata
Question: Which spice, of Asiatic origin, is commonly used as a cheaper substitute for saffron?
Answer: turmeric
Question: """The Ladies of the Vale"" is the popular name for the three spires of which cathedral in central England?"
Answer: lichfield
Question: In which English town or city is the Meadowhall shopping centre located?
Answer: sheffield
Question: In which Australian state is the location of the TV show, "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here"?
Answer: queensland
Question: What is the surname of the twins, Raphael and Fabio, who play football for Manchester Utd?
Answer: da silva
Question: Which cathedral in South West England is the only one to house a 24 hour clock, the second oldest surviving clock in England?
Answer: wells
Question: What was the name of Dan Dare's co-pilot, in the comic strip adventures in the Eagle comic?
Answer: digby
Question: Which Puccini opera remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1924?
Answer: turandot
Question: In the children's TV programme, "The Magic Roundabout", what was the name of the snail?
Answer: brian
Question: In 1964, Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, was born in which major US city?
Answer: new york
Question: Who wrote the poem, which begins, "She walks in beauty like the night. Of cloudless climes, and starry skies"?
Answer: lord byron
Question: Which famous author lived at Bateman's, a Jacobean house in East Sussex, in the first half of the 20th century?
Answer: rudyard kipling
Question: Which herb is an essential ingredient in the Swedish salmon dish, Gravlax?
Answer: dill
Question: Who played the part of Private Ryan in the 1998 film, "Saving Private Ryan"?
Answer: matt damon
Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays is Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, one of the main characters?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: Which American golfer gained his first major title, when he won the 2009 US Open?
Answer: lucas glover
Question: Who wrote most of the operetta, "The Tales of Hoffman", which although unfinished at his death, was completed by Ernest Guiraud?
Answer: jacques offenbach
Question: The statue of Eros, in Piccadilly in London, was the work of which sculptor?
Answer: sir alfred gilbert
Question: Catherine of Braganza was the Queen of which British monarch?
Answer: charles ii
Question: What nationality are people born in the state of Carinthia?
Answer: austrian
Question: Eleanor of Castille was the first Queen Consort of which English monarch?
Answer: edward i
Question: Who sculpted the statue of Christ of the Andes which stands above Rio de Janeiro?
Answer: paul landowski
Question: Which American golfer beat Tom Watson in a play-off to win the 2009 Open Golf championship at Turnberry?
Answer: stewart cink
Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays does the character, Mustardseed, appear?
Answer: midsummer night s dream
Question: Who played the part of General Omar Bradley opposite George C Scott in the 1970 film, "Patton"?
Answer: karl malden
Question: Liverpool FC co-owner, George Gillett, also owns which Canadian National Hockey League team?
Answer: montreal canadians
Question: Extending from the caecum to the rectum, the ascending, transverse, descending and sigmoid are four sections of which part of the large intestine?
Answer: colon
Question: Which herb is a distinctive ingredient in Bearnaise sauce?
Answer: tarragon
Question: Which rapper is the husband of R and B superstar singer, Beyoncé?
Answer: jay z
Question: Born in 1457, who was the last English King to be born in Wales?
Answer: henry vii
Question: Which chef was the winner of the 2009 show, "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here"?
Answer: gino d acampo
Question: The film Kes is based on which book by the author Barry Hines?
Answer: kestrel for knave
Question: The Cato Street Conspiracy was a plot to kill which British Prime Minister?
Answer: lord liverpool
Question: Kungsholmen, Norrmalm, Sodermalm and Ostermalm are the four districts of which European city?
Answer: stockholm
Question: Which band's name was inspired by a novel by Herman Hesse?
Answer: steppenwolf
Question: Which English football league club is based in Cleethorpes?
Answer: grimsby town
Question: Frenchman Henri Mouhot rediscovered which Cambodian religious monument in 1860?
Answer: angkor wat
Question: Moshe Dayan, Danger Mouse and James Joyce were all noted for wearing what?
Answer: eyepatch
Question: Which actor played dodgy author Mel Hutchwright in Coronation Street?
Answer: sir ian mckellen
Question: The Jordanian capital Amman formerly had the same name as which American city?
Answer: philadelphia
Question: Traditionally made for agricultural workers, which elongated suet crust dumpling has a meat filling at one end and a jam one at the other?
Answer: bedfordshire clanger
Question: Which company originally produced the 'Matchbox' series of die cast toys?
Answer: lesney
Question: First used for test match cricket on 10 November 2000, the Bangabandhu National Stadium is in which country?
Answer: bangladesh
Question: Which European capital city was a city-state known as Ledra in ancient times?
Answer: nicosia
Question: Meles meles is the Latin name for which British mammal?
Answer: badger
Question: Which song was a hit for Rose Royce in 1978 and for Jimmy Nail in 1985?
Answer: love don t live here anymore
Question: From which children's book did Pink Floyd take the title of their 1967 album 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn'?
Answer: wind in willows
Question: What name for the Internet, the World Wide Web etc was popularised by fiction author William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer?
Answer: cyberspace
Question: Anna Smashnova played which sport professionally until 2007?
Answer: tennis
Question: The film Apocalypse Now is based on which novella by the author Joseph Conrad?
Answer: heart of darkness
Question: The Ridolfi Plot planned the assassination of which British monarch?
Answer: queen elizabeth i
Question: Which band was named after the 18th century agriculturalist credited with inventing the seed drill?
Answer: jethro tull
Question: What name is shared by a leader of the Peasants' Revolt in the 1300's and a Labour politician born in 1946?
Answer: jack straw
Question: Which company was founded by David Quayle and Richard Block in Southampton in 1969?
Answer: b q
Question: Originating in the Scottish town of Forfar, which pie is made from minced beef, and sometimes onions, in shortcrust pastry folded into a semi-circular shape?
Answer: bridie
Question: In the Latin American version of The Simpsons which character is known as Jefe Gorgory?
Answer: chief wiggum
Question: In the Disney film Peter Pan what colour is Tinkerbell's dress?
Answer: green
Question: Which medical device, used for auscultation was invented by Rene Laennec in 1816?
Answer: stethoscope
Question: Which European capital city was known as Vindobona in Roman times?
Answer: vienna
Question: Which song was a hit for Eddie Floyd in 1967 and for Amii Stewart in 1979?
Answer: knock on wood
Question: Who had world concert tours entitled 'Drowned World', 'Confessions' and 'Blond Ambition?
Answer: madonna
Question: The song "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" appears on the 1997 album 'The Healing Game', by which artist?
Answer: van morrison
Question: Who played `Wolfie' Smith in the TV comedy series Citizen Smith?
Answer: robert lindsay
Question: In which Yorkshire town are the famous Five Rise Locks on the Leeds-Liverpool canal?
Answer: bingley
Question: Whose first solo no. 1 hit was Fight for this Love, released in 2009?
Answer: cheryl cole
Question: The name of which English county is part of the name of the Queen Mother's unfortunate 1957 Grand National horse?
Answer: devon
Question: Ramshaw Rocks and Hen Cloud are in which National Park?
Answer: peak district
Question: What position is no.1 in rugby league and no.15 in rugby union?
Answer: full back
Question: Which American composer wrote the music for the songs Stardust and Georgia on my Mind?
Answer: hoagy carmichael
Question: Which letter of the Greek alphabet, when written as a capital, looks like our letter P?
Answer: rho
Question: Who left this message to James Callaghan in 1964 "Good luck, old cock, sorry to leave it in such a mess"?
Answer: reginald maudling
Question: In which state is the waterfront in the film On the Waterfront?
Answer: new jersey
Question: Inspector Japp appears in novels featuring which detective?
Answer: hercule poirot
Question: Which 16 century French navigator is credited with the discovery of the St Lawrence Seaway?
Answer: jacques cartier
Question: Which word means an interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association usually to the advantage of both?
Answer: symbiosis
Question: What position is no.9 in rugby league and no.2 in rugby union?
Answer: hooker
Question: In 1993, Arsenal won both the FA Cup and League Cup, beating which team in both finals?
Answer: sheffield wednesday
Question: Yellowstone National Park lies mainly in Wyoming, partly in Montana and also in which other state?
Answer: idaho
Question: Which author said "A classic is something everyone wants to have read but nobody wants to read"?
Answer: mark twain
Question: Which letter of the Greek alphabet, when written as a capital, looks like a triangle?
Answer: delta
Question: Which American actress said of herself "I'm as pure as the driven slush"?
Answer: tallulah bankhead
Question: The line 'The course of true love never did run smooth' appears in which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: midsummer night s dream
Question: Who was the first man to circumnavigate Australia in his ship The Investigator between 1796 and 1803, the largest island in Bass Strait is named after him?
Answer: matthew flinders
Question: What name is given to the passage of a solvent from a less concentrated into a more concentrated solution through a semi-permeable membrane?
Answer: osmosis
Question: In 1997, which team lost in both the FA Cup and League Cup finals, to Leicester City in the League Cup and Chelsea in the FA Cup and were also relegated from the Premier League?
Answer: middlesbrough
Question: The Admiral Benbow Inn features in Stevenson's novel Treasure Island; what was the name of the other inn referred to in the book?
Answer: spyglass
Question: Which town in Northamptonshire houses the Alfred East Art Gallery?
Answer: kettering
Question: Which star is the brightest in the constellation Taurus?
Answer: aldebaran
Question: Having subsequently released a CD single called The Climb, who won the 2009 X Factor?
Answer: joe mcelderry
Question: On view in London's National Gallery, the work The Supper at Emmaus is the work of which painter?
Answer: caravaggio
Question: Who was the first chairman of BBC TV's Call My Bluff?
Answer: robin ray
Question: Which country was chosen by FIFA to host the football world cup in 2014?
Answer: brazil
Question: Which actress was born Marjorie Robertson in 1904?
Answer: dame anna neagle
Question: The majority of English Monarchs since the Norman Conquest were interred in either Westminster or Windsor, but where was King John buried?
Answer: worcester cathedral
Question: In which novel by Charles Dickens do the characters Susan Nipper and Captain Cuttle appear?
Answer: dombey and son
Question: Which former World Heavyweight boxing champion was nicknamed the 'Cinderella Man'?
Answer: james j braddock
Question: What is the collective name of the four holy books of the Hindu religion?
Answer: vedas