CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which comic and actor was seen and heard in the adverts for Money Supermarket?
Answer: omid djalili
Question: What was played at Wembley Stadium for the first time on 14th April 1991?
Answer: fa cup semi final
Question: In which film is Cary Grant seen running into a field being pursued by a biplane?
Answer: north by north west
Question: During the American Civil War as what were the battleships Monitor and Merrimac classed ?
Answer: ironclads
Question: During which War did the Battle of Corunna take place?
Answer: peninsular war
Question: In the film Cool Running which comic actor played the coach of the Jamaican Bobsleigh Team?
Answer: john candy
Question: Which predominantly American grape variety is genetically identical to the southern Italian grape Primitivo?
Answer: zinfandel
Question: Who cut off the tails of the Three Blind Mice?
Answer: farmer s wife
Question: What kind of bird appears on the flag of Papua New Guinea?
Answer: bird of paradise
Question: The Gracie Fields Theatre opened in which town in 1978?
Answer: rochdale
Question: Which science fiction author invented the 3 Laws of Robotics?
Answer: isaac asimov
Question: Who wrote the 1955 novel 'The Ginger Man'?
Answer: j p donleavy
Question: What was the former name of Suriname in South America?
Answer: dutch guiana
Question: In Greek Mythology what was the name of the prophetess daughter of Priam whose predictions were never believed?
Answer: cassandra
Question: Who in 1979 published a collection of short stories called 'Tales of the Unexpected'?
Answer: roald dahl
Question: Who became chief women's wear designer at Christian Dior in October 1996?
Answer: john galliano
Question: In Holst's Planets Suite which was the bringer of old age?
Answer: saturn
Question: Which fictional schoolboy is the eponymous subject of books by Francesca Simon?
Answer: horrid henry
Question: Which computer company was set up in 1968 by Alan Sugar?
Answer: amstrad
Question: What name was given to Mustapha Kemal after he became Dictator of Turkey in 1935?
Answer: ataturk
Question: Who married Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield in 1996?
Answer: david cameron
Question: What geological period, named after European mountains, was from 200-145 million years ago?
Answer: jurassic
Question: Who was British Prime Minister from 1922-23, shortly before he died?
Answer: bonar law
Question: In which opera does the character Lieutenant Pinkerton appear?
Answer: madama butterfly
Question: Who-succeeded Claudius as Emperor of Rome in AD 54?
Answer: nero
Question: In connection the US Constitution what was the effect of the 18th Amendment?
Answer: prohibition
Question: Which educational establishment did Thomas Arnold describe as 'the godless institution of Gower Street'?
Answer: university college london
Question: From which Shakespeare play do the lines 'Sans teeth, sans taste, sans everything' come?
Answer: as you like it
Question: In the forecourt of which Los Angeles theatre would you see the hand and footprints of famous film stars?
Answer: grauman s chinese theatre
Question: Which English poet was drowned in a boating accident off Leghorn, Italy in 1822?
Answer: p b shelley
Question: Nowroz Mangal is the captain of which international cricket team?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: The Rub' Al-Khali Desert is found mostly in which country?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: Who, in Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of books, is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'?
Answer: lisbeth salander
Question: Who directed the 2005 version of the film "King Kong"?
Answer: peter jackson
Question: What is the French name for the grape that the Australians call Shiraz?
Answer: syrah
Question: Who directed the 2010 film "127 Hours"?
Answer: danny boyle
Question: In Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" what is given as Robert Langdon's profession?
Answer: symbologist
Question: Who wrote the epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha"?
Answer: longfellow
Question: Which species of deer was introduced to Britain at Woburn in the early 20th century?
Answer: muntjac
Question: What is the name of 'Take That's' 2010 album which marked the return to the band of Robbie Williams?
Answer: progress
Question: The chemical element Potassium's symbol K, comes from which Latin word?
Answer: kalium
Question: The chemical element Sodium's symbol Na, comes from which Latin word?
Answer: natrium
Question: Which artiste had the best-selling single of 2009, with "Poker Face"?
Answer: lady gaga
Question: The Gulls is the nickname of which English Football League team?
Answer: torquay united
Question: The Luddite Riots appear in which of Charlotte Bronte's novels?
Answer: shirley
Question: The Bantams is the nickname of which English Football League team?
Answer: bradford city
Question: Which TV series was filmed in the Scottish village of Plockton?
Answer: hamish macbeth
Question: What name is given to the yellow fluid that surroundsand lubricates cartilages in joints?
Answer: synovial fluid
Question: The Curragh and Punchestown racecourses are in which Irish county?
Answer: co kildare
Question: In the USA, what date is Groundhog Day?
Answer: february 2nd
Question: What is the name of Ed Milliband's second son, born in 2010?
Answer: samuel
Question: The pop group, The Beautiful South' were formed by twomembers of which earlier group?
Answer: housemartins
Question: In the 1960's, whose band was the 'All Stars'?
Answer: junior walker
Question: Who played the part of US marshal Rooster Cogburn in the 2011 film "True Grit"?
Answer: jeff bridges
Question: Snails, squid, clams, scallops, mussels, etc., all belong to which phylum?
Answer: molluscs
Question: Shrimps, barnacles, scorpions, spiders, etc., all belong to which phylum?
Answer: arthropods
Question: In which US state did the Battle of the Little Bighorn take place in 1876?
Answer: montana
Question: In which US state did the Battle of Yorktown take place in 1781?
Answer: virginia
Question: Name one of the years in which Red Rum won the Aintree Grand National.
Answer: 1973 1974 1977
Question: Who was crowned by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day 800?
Answer: charlemagne
Question: Saint Emilion, Pomerol, Medoc and Graves are all sub-regions of which wine growing area?
Answer: bordeaux
Question: In the works of Beatrix Potter, what kind of creature is Jeremy Fisher?
Answer: frog
Question: From 1922-1933, with which School of Art was Wassily Kandinsky particularly associated?
Answer: bauhaus
Question: Apart from Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, what is the only other English county allowed to produce Stilton cheese?
Answer: derbyshire
Question: Which 1966/1973 US TV series featured the characters Jim Phelps, Cinnamon Carter and Rollin Hand?
Answer: mission impossible
Question: Who gave JFK a dog called Pushinka in 1961?
Answer: nikita krushchev
Question: Which sauce is created with butter, egg yolks, seasoning and lemon juice?
Answer: hollandaise
Question: In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female member of what in the United States?
Answer: us supreme court
Question: Which veteran British singer was born Clive Powell in Leigh, Lancashire in 1943?
Answer: georgie fame
Question: The House of Braganza was the last line of monarchs in which European country?
Answer: portugal
Question: In 1998, who, at the age of 77 became the eldest person ever to go into space?
Answer: john glenn
Question: Who won the 1978 Booker Prize with the novel The Sea, The Sea'?
Answer: iris murdoch
Question: Which South-East Asian country has nine state royal families, each of whose head takes it in turn to be King?
Answer: malaysia
Question: Which is the only Shakespeare play in which an animal's name appears in the title?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: The Italian wine-growing area which produces Soave, Bardolino, Valpolicella and Prosecco wines is centred on which Italian city?
Answer: venice
Question: Who was king of Libya when it obtained independence in 1951?
Answer: idris
Question: Which plant (Latin name crataegus) is also called the May Tree, since this is the month in which it blooms?
Answer: hawthorn
Question: What moved to Nine Elms in 1974?
Answer: covent garden market
Question: Which board game for two players originating in China and popular in Japan uses black/white stones on a 19x19 grid.
Answer: go
Question: Jose and Raul were the Christian names of which Chess player - World Champion from 1921-1927?
Answer: capablanca
Question: Who was the beautiful girl loved by Eros in Greek mythology? Her name means 'spirit' or 'life' in Greek.
Answer: psyche
Question: Which British athlete won gold medals in both the 800m and the 1500m at the 2004 Olympics?
Answer: kelly holmes
Question: According to legend, on which Mediterranean island did the Cyclops, Polyphemus, live?
Answer: sicily
Question: What was the name of the BP oil drilling rig which exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010?
Answer: deepwater horizon
Question: Which astronomer (1473-15.43) formulated the theory which is accepted as having first placed the Sun at the centre of the solar system?
Answer: copernicus
Question: William Foulke, Sheffield United's goalkeeper at the start of the 20th century, is reputed to be the first player to have what chanted at him?
Answer: who ate all pies
Question: Which war was ended by the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth?
Answer: russo japanese war
Question: What name is given to the wedge-shaped writing of the Sumerian and Hittite civilisations?
Answer: cuneiform
Question: Which German mathematician developed the theory of calculus at about the same time as, but independently of, Isaac Newton?
Answer: gottfried liebnitz
Question: In literature who was the weaver of Raveloe?
Answer: silas marner
Question: In 2009 Andy Murray became the first British man to win what tennis tournament since Bunny Austin in 1938?
Answer: queens
Question: Who played the title character in the 2010 film Harry Brown?
Answer: michael caine
Question: The 1971 Grammy award winning album Tapestry was recorded by which singer/songwriter?
Answer: carole king
Question: At the 2011 Oscars the song "We Belong Together" won the Oscar for best original song, from which film did it came?
Answer: toy story 3
Question: What was the only number 1 record for Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch?
Answer: legend of xanadu
Question: Which series of guide books was founded by Tony and Maureen Wheeler in 1973?
Answer: lonely planet
Question: Which major US Company started out as a single store in Seattle's historic Pike Place market in 1971?
Answer: starbucks
Question: Barney Gibson made history in April 2011 as the youngest individual to play in English first class cricket, for which county team did he play?
Answer: yorkshire
Question: In which country did the O.A.S. terrorist organisation operate in the late 1950's and early 1960's?
Answer: algeria
Question: Who is the only footballer to win the Footballer Writers Award three times?
Answer: thiery henry
Question: What was the name of the Dragon in the Walt Disney film Pete's Dragon?
Answer: eliot
Question: Who played the lawyer Tom Hagen in the film the Godfather?
Answer: robert duvall
Question: In the film The Great Escape who played the character Ashley Pitt, Dispersal?
Answer: david mccallum
Question: From which Shakespeare play does the line "and age cannot wither" her come from?
Answer: anthony and cleopatra
Question: What is the name of the stage nusical by Andrew Lloyd Webber that is the sequel to his musical Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: love never dies
Question: The Royal Marine Barracks, Lympstone, are in which county?
Answer: devon
Question: What was the name of the elephant that was removed from a circus and relocated in Longleat in April 2011?
Answer: anne
Question: In the nursery rhyme who made the shroud for Cock Robin?
Answer: beetle
Question: What is the stage musical that tells the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons?
Answer: jersey boys
Question: Mohamed Al Fayed erected a statue of whom outside Craven Cottage in 2011?
Answer: michael jackson
Question: Which official is sometimes referred to by the acronym POTUS?
Answer: president of united states
Question: What was the real name of Lewis Carroll?
Answer: charles lutwidge dodgson
Question: Guy Fawkes was born and schooled in which English city?
Answer: york
Question: What is the star sign for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: libra
Question: What mathematical instrument was invented by William Oughtred in 1622?
Answer: slide rule
Question: Flatmates Felix Unger and Oscar Madison are the central characters in which play, film and TV series?
Answer: odd couple
Question: Which large domesticated bird has the Latin name meleagris gallopavo?
Answer: turkey
Question: Naiad and Proteus are two of the thirteen moons of which planet?
Answer: neptune
Question: Element 112, Cn, is named after which astronomer?
Answer: copernicus
Question: What organisation was founded by William Alexander Smith in 1883 in Glasgow?
Answer: boys brigade
Question: The scientific suffix -ose indicates the presence of what type of carbohydrate?
Answer: sugar
Question: What sort of trees belong to the genus 'quercus'?
Answer: oaks
Question: Which candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2010 is MP for Leigh?
Answer: andy burnham
Question: The archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann Is most famous for his excavations of which ancient city?
Answer: troy
Question: In World War I, what name was given to the vast system of defences in N E France stretching from Lens to Verdun?
Answer: hindenburg line
Question: What is the title of the book (published 1954) which is considered to be a parody of Ballantyne's 'Coral Island'?
Answer: lord of flies
Question: What is the name of the first opera in Wagner's four opera Ring Cycle?
Answer: das rheingold
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in Canada in 1858, the only one born outside the British Isles?
Answer: andrew bonar law
Question: Which baseball star is mentioned in the lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel's hit "Mrs Robinson"?
Answer: joe di maggio
Question: What was the first Apollo mission to leave Earth orbit and orbit the moon, in 1968?
Answer: apollo 8
Question: What is the name of Harry Potter's godfather, played on film by Gary Oldman?
Answer: sirius black
Question: In which wine region is the Hospice de Beaune held annually where wines are auctioned in November?
Answer: burgundy
Question: Which insect-useful commercially-has the Latin name bombyx mori?
Answer: silkworm
Question: Element 101, Md, is named after which Russian chemist?
Answer: mendeleev
Question: The scientific suffix -ase indicates the presence of what type of protein?
Answer: enzyme
Question: Which candidate in the 2010 Labour leadership elections is MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington?
Answer: diane abbott
Question: The archaeologist SirArthur Evans is most famous for his excavations concerning which civilisation?
Answer: minoan
Question: 'Fish lizard' is the literal meaning of which extinct reptile's name?
Answer: ichthyosaur
Question: Where did Generals Ludendorff and Hindenburg crush the Russian armies in August 1914?
Answer: tannenberg
Question: Who was the predecessor of Cecil Day Lewis as Poet Laureate?
Answer: john masefield
Question: Which mammal has a name which means 'river horse' in Greek?
Answer: hippopotamus
Question: 'Hello darkness my old friend' are the first words of which Simon and Garfunkel song?
Answer: sound of silence
Question: In the film Psycho what is the name of the deranged murderer?
Answer: norman bates
Question: Who wrote the novel 'Fahrenheit 451' in 1953?
Answer: ray bradbury
Question: When 19th-century gangs called 'crimps' kidnapped men to work on board ships, what city was their most frequent destination?
Answer: shanghai
Question: Best known for 'The Gruffalo', who was appointed the new Children's Laureate in June 2011?
Answer: julia donaldson
Question: What kind of animal is examining the title character in Henri Rousseau's painting, 'The Sleeping Gypsy'?
Answer: lion
Question: In which movie does Sonny & Cher's song 'I Got You Babe' play on nine separate occasions?
Answer: groundhog day
Question: The Septuagint, Targum and Vulgate are all translations of what?
Answer: bible
Question: A church in Daresbury has a stained-glass window featuring a rabbit, a dodo and a lizard, because which man was born there in 1832, while his father was the parson?
Answer: lewis carroll
Question: What singer's backing group was named after the address of keyboardist David Sancious' mother's home in Belmar, New Jersey?
Answer: bruce springsteen
Question: The Sahara is Africa's largest desert, what is its second largest?
Answer: kalahari
Question: For what did the 'O' originally stand in the name of the breakfast cereal, Cheerios?
Answer: oats
Question: What Brooklyn landmark is named after the rabbits that over-ran it in the 17th century?
Answer: coney island
Question: The 'Saladin Tithe' was a tax levied to finance the third of nine what?
Answer: crusades
Question: In Greek myth, who led the quest to find the Chrysomallos?
Answer: jason
Question: With UK number one hits 'Right Round' and 'Club Can't Handle Me', what is both the stage name and home US state of rapper Tramar Dillard?
Answer: flo rida
Question: 'The Sons of the Desert' is the international fan club of which movie pair?
Answer: laurel and hardy
Question: Which singer has been known as 'The Red-Headed Stranger' since his 1975 album of that name?
Answer: willie nelson
Question: The second largest city in Queensland and the pre-1957 name for an African nation share what name?
Answer: gold coast
Question: 'One could change the world in 140 characters' is the motto of Jack Dorsey, the founder of which website?
Answer: twitter
Question: Only 69 men have ever held the top rank at sumo wrestling; by what name is that title known?
Answer: yokozuna
Question: Manuel Quezon was a founding father and early president of what nation?
Answer: phillipines
Question: What is the common name for a Cydia moth larva inside a seed of the Sebastiana shrub?
Answer: mexican jumping bean
Question: What movie star was nominated for acting awards for playing Anna Christie in 1930 and Anna Karenina in 1935?
Answer: greta garbo
Question: Geraldine Brooks' 2005 novel 'March' is narrated by the absentee father of which classic novel?
Answer: little women
Question: What country's economy melted down in 2008 following the collapse of banks Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupthing?
Answer: iceland
Question: Which man's 'second rebellion' was the Rum Rebellion, which deposed him as Governor of New South Wales in 1808?
Answer: william bligh
Question: Which moon of the solar system is named after the Greek god of fear?
Answer: phobos
Question: Musicians Sally and Ben Taylor are the children of James Taylor, and which other singer-songwriter?
Answer: carly simon
Question: Who is the author of the novel 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?
Answer: tracy chevalier
Question: Who was the 20th-21st century composer of the 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'?
Answer: henryk gorecki
Question: The Roman province of Dacia is now part of which modern day country?
Answer: romania
Question: Who, in 2010, became the first Green Party member of the House of Commons?
Answer: caroline lucas
Question: The TV series `Downton Abbey' was filmed largely at which stately house?
Answer: highclere
Question: 'The Night of the Hunter' in 1955 was the only film to be directed by which actor?
Answer: charles laughton
Question: Galah and Sulphur-crested are species of what kind of bird?
Answer: cockatoo
Question: What prize was won in 2010 by Liu Xiaobo?
Answer: nobel peace prize
Question: La Digue and Mahe are islands in which Indian Ocean group?
Answer: seychelles
Question: Who is the author of the children's book 'The Story of Tracy Beaker'?
Answer: jacqueline wilson
Question: Who created and wrote the TV series `Downton Abbey'?
Answer: julian fellowes
Question: Who is the author of 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard'?
Answer: j k rowling
Question: Who is the author of the novel 'The Horse Whisperer'?
Answer: nicholas evans
Question: Which 2004 Tom Hanks film centres around a stranded traveler from Krakozhia?
Answer: terminal
Question: The French writer Andre Breton initiated which artistic movement in the 1920s, based on Dadaism?
Answer: surrealism
Question: What was the venue near Newport for the 2010 Ryder Cup?
Answer: celtic manor
Question: The site of the 1461 Battle of Mortimer's Cross lies in which English county?
Answer: herefordshire
Question: 'Baby Come Back' was a number one hit in 1968 for which group?
Answer: equals
Question: The Dogon are a race of people resident in which African country?
Answer: mali
Question: Which 19th-20th century writer's first novel was 'The Napoleon of Notting Hill', published in 1904?
Answer: g k chesterton
Question: Who was the captain of the US Ryder Cup team in 2010?
Answer: corey pavin
Question: Compound and recurve are variations of which Olympic event's equipment?
Answer: archery
Question: Whose name is missing to make up the 1950s/1960s jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks and ?
Answer: ross
Question: Venta Belgarum was the Roman name for which English city?
Answer: winchester
Question: Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov from Manchester University won which Nobel Prize in 2010?
Answer: physics
Question: Joan, Countess of Salisbury, also known as The Fair Maid of Kent' and the mother of a King of England, was married to whom?
Answer: edward black prince
Question: Whose first hit was 'Rock Island Line'?
Answer: lonnie donegan
Question: Which warship, perfectly preserved in Stockholm, sank on her maiden voyage in 1628?
Answer: vasa
Question: Which Mediterranean island was conquered by Richard 1 in 1191?
Answer: cyprus
Question: Who has created the ITV serial 'Downton Abbey'?
Answer: julian fellowes
Question: Who, dying in 1282, was the last Prince of an independent Wales?
Answer: llewelyn
Question: What was the nickname of the WW2 aircraft - Fairey Swordfish?
Answer: stringbag
Question: In snooker, whose nickname is 'The Nugget'?
Answer: steve davis
Question: What American TV comedy of the 70s was based on Steptoe and Son?
Answer: sanford and son
Question: In 'Hamlet' whose grave is being dug when Yorick's skull is found?
Answer: ophelia
Question: Who was the mother of William 2nd and Henry 1st ?
Answer: matilda
Question: Who painted 'The Birth of Venus' and 'Primavera'?
Answer: botticelli
Question: In the 2010 film, Eat, Pray, Love who plays the part of the book's author?
Answer: julia roberts
Question: An atom which has become electrically charged by gaining or losing electrons is known as what?
Answer: ion
Question: Which country introduced the 'Cult of the Supreme Being' in 1794, intended to become the state religion?
Answer: france
Question: Flora Poste and the Starkadder family appear in which novel? (a parody of those by Mary Webb)
Answer: cold comfort farm
Question: Bert Hardy (1913-1995) was best known for what?
Answer: photography
Question: What is the worlds' largest carnivorous marsupial?
Answer: tasmanian devil
Question: In the world of rock music, how is Paul Hewson better known?
Answer: bono
Question: The Bible Student Movement founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1872 is now known by which name?
Answer: jehovah s witnesses
Question: In 2006 Lord Michael Levy earned himself which nickname?
Answer: lord cashpoint
Question: The state in some insects between the larva and the imago is known as what?
Answer: pupa
Question: 'Band of Joy' is the latest album (2010) for which artist?
Answer: robert plant
Question: The air sacs which make up most of the lungs of mammals are known as what?
Answer: alveoli
Question: Uncia Uncia is the Latin name for which animal?
Answer: snow leopard
Question: Which 2010 film is about a 1968 dispute when women machinists went on strike for equal pay?
Answer: made in dagenham
Question: Soft Ball' and 'Hard Crack' are stages in the making of what?
Answer: toffee
Question: Which great river flows though China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to the South China Sea?
Answer: mekong
Question: Which British composer wrote 'The Midsummer Marriage' and `The Knot Garden'?
Answer: sir michael tippett
Question: Which semi-aquatic carnivorous mammals belong to the genus `Lutra'?
Answer: otters
Question: Which sailing ship, named after the witch in Burns' poem 'Tam O'Shanter', is preserved in dry dock at Greenwich?
Answer: cutty sark