CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In August 2012, three members of which Russian feminist punk-rock collective were sentenced to two years in jail for hooliganism?
Answer: pussy riot
Question: A Bellini cocktail is made with the sparkling wine prosecco and which fruit juice?
Answer: peach
Question: Martello Towers derive their name from a fortress on which island?
Answer: corsica
Question: Which Italian opera has a title meaning 'The strolling players (or clowns)'?
Answer: i pagliacci
Question: Who is the main character in the series of stories called 'Adventures of a Black Bag"?
Answer: dr finlay
Question: Who painted the self portraits 'Self-Portrait with Palette' and 'Self-Portrait with Cap'?
Answer: manet
Question: Admiral Lord Nelson was created Duke of Bronte, on which island is Bronte?
Answer: sicily
Question: What is the title of Graham Swift's 1996 Booker Prize winning novel which was made into a 2001 film of the same name starring Michael Caine and Helen Mirren?
Answer: last orders
Question: Which former Chancellor of the Exchequer wrote 'The Chancellor' about all his predecessors from Randolph Churchill to Hugh Dalton?
Answer: roy jenkins
Question: The intensity of what is measured on the Saffir-Simpson scale?
Answer: hurricanes
Question: Which politician married barrister Justine Thornton in May 2011 in Nottingham?
Answer: ed miliband
Question: Which dish, its name meaning literally "pick me up", comprises among other things, ladyfingers, egg yolks and mascarpone?
Answer: tiramisu
Question: Ted Hughes became Poet Laureate in 1984 on the death of John Betjeman, but which poet declined the offer to succeed Betjeman?
Answer: philip larkin
Question: Catherine of Valois, Matilda and Margaret Beaufort were all mothers of English Kings with which first name?
Answer: henry
Question: At which Buckinghamshire estate did the National Museum of Computing open in 2007?
Answer: bletchley park
Question: In which part of the world are the Berber people indigenous?
Answer: north africa
Question: What should have been launched on April 20th 1964, but was delayed until the following day because of an fire at Battersea power station?
Answer: bbc2
Question: Kielder Water is the largest artificial lake in the UK. In which county would you find it?
Answer: northumberland
Question: Karl Pilkington is the central character in which TV series, first broadcast in September 2010?
Answer: idiot abroad
Question: In the history of the British army, what were the Baker, the Brunswick and the Ferguson?
Answer: rifles
Question: What is the most common name for the animal found in North America which is also known as the woodchuck or land beaver?
Answer: groundhog
Question: Which American rock band, formed in 1964, included amongst its members David Crosby and Roger McGuinn?
Answer: byrds
Question: In which state of the USA would you find the cities of Chattanooga and Knoxville?
Answer: tennessee
Question: For his performance in which film did Gregory Peck win the Best Actor Oscar?
Answer: to kill mockingbird
Question: Which mountain makes up the Yorkshire "Three Peaks", along with Ingleborough and Pen-y-Ghent?
Answer: whernside
Question: In the American army, what is an M1 Abrams?
Answer: tank
Question: Which prominent British politician has children named Lara Lettice, Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches and Theodore Apollo?
Answer: boris johnson
Question: Which American band, formed in 1965, included amongst its members John and Michelle Phillips?
Answer: mamas and papas
Question: In which state of the USA would you find the cities of Macon and Savannah?
Answer: georgia
Question: Which creature has three species: plains, mountain and Grevy's?
Answer: zebra
Question: At which London station was a statue of John Betjeman unveiled in 2007?
Answer: st pancras
Question: Who won Best Actor Oscars for the roles of Father Edward Flanagan and Manuel Fidelio?
Answer: spencer tracy
Question: Who was the only man to serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer under both Harold Wilson and James Callaghan?
Answer: dennis healey
Question: In the Tin Tin stories, how do we know the character who is called Professeur Tournesol in the original French works?
Answer: professor calculus
Question: By what name are David Myers and Simon King known in the title of several TV series?
Answer: hairy bikers
Question: Which group of Lakeland peaks includes Pavey Ark and Harrison Stickle?
Answer: langdale pikes
Question: Not counting the City of London, which is the smallest city in England by population?
Answer: wells
Question: Russia is the largest republic which emerged from the former Soviet Union; which is the second largest?
Answer: kazakhstan
Question: Up until 1959, Karachi was the capital of Pakistan. Which city was capital from 1959 to 1969 whilst Islamabad was being built?
Answer: rawalpindi
Question: What kind of bird is a kakapo, which is endemic to New Zealand?
Answer: parrot
Question: Klaipeda is the main port sewing which EU country?
Answer: lithuania
Question: Which group had a 1968 number 1 hit with 'Baby, Come Back'?
Answer: equals
Question: Which Austrian composed the opera 'La Clemenza di Tito'?
Answer: wolfgang amadeus mozart
Question: In James Fenimore Cooper's novel who is 'The Last of the Mohicans'?
Answer: uncas
Question: Which country's team won the 2011 Women's Football World Cup?
Answer: japan
Question: In Thai cuisine kapi is a paste made up of what?
Answer: shrimps
Question: The wording R. Mutt on a urinal appears in a work of art by which artist?
Answer: marcel duchamp
Question: Who is the subject of the biopic film 'Great Balls of Fire!'?
Answer: jerry lee lewis
Question: Krubera, the deepest known cave at over 2000 metres deep, is in which country of south-east Europe?
Answer: georgia
Question: Which chemical element takes its name from the Greek for 'inactive'?
Answer: argon
Question: Name the English general who surrendered to American forces at Saratoga in 1777.
Answer: john burgoyne
Question: Who won the Booker Prize in 2001 with 'True History of the Kelly Gang'?
Answer: peter carey
Question: The film 'De-Lovely' is a biopic on which musician's life?
Answer: cole porter
Question: Name the 19th century American artist famous for his illustrated book 'The Birds of America'.
Answer: john j audubon
Question: Who was captain of the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia in 2011, who abandoned his ship?
Answer: francesco schettino
Question: Which Npower Football League Division 2 club plays at home at the Kassam Stadium?
Answer: oxford united
Question: 'Sanditon' was an unfinished novel by which 18th/19th century author?
Answer: jane austen
Question: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the first female African head of state - in which country?
Answer: liberia
Question: In New Zealand Aoraki is the native name for which natural feature?
Answer: mount cook
Question: Mr Jaggers and the clerk Wemmick appear in which of Dickens' novels?
Answer: great expectations
Question: Which island lies off the coast of South Wales opposite Tenby?
Answer: caldey
Question: In the 2008 film 'Charlie Wilson's War' which actor took the title role?
Answer: tom hanks
Question: The town of Ystad and its area are largely the setting for the exploits of which literary and TV detective?
Answer: wallander
Question: The site of the old English and pirate harbour of Port Royal is to be found where in the Caribbean?
Answer: jamaica
Question: 'Look into my face Marie-Claire and remember just who you are' is a line from which 1969 hit record?
Answer: where do you go to
Question: Benghazi is the chief town of which province in Libya?
Answer: cyrenaica
Question: What is the common name of the purple flowering garden plant Lunaria valued for its seed pods?
Answer: honesty
Question: According to mythology Hermes wore talaria to aid him. What were they?
Answer: winged sandals
Question: Who plays Holmes in the recent TV series entitled 'Sherlock'?
Answer: benedict cumberbatch
Question: Mulhacen, the highest peak on mainland Spain, lies in which range?
Answer: sierra nevada
Question: Miss Pross and Jarvis Lorry are characters in which of Dickens' novels?
Answer: tale of two cities
Question: The International Airlines Group was formed from a merger of British Airways and which other airline?
Answer: iberia
Question: In Greek mythology by what name are mountain nymphs known?
Answer: oreads
Question: Who was the jazz trumpet musician leading the Tijuana Brass?
Answer: herb alpert
Question: Who was the Russian author of 'Taras Bulba' and 'Dead Souls'?
Answer: nikolai gogol
Question: Which hit song by Roy Orbison begins "A candy coloured clown they call the sandman"?
Answer: in dreams
Question: Which cricketer holds the record of being the longest serving captain of his country?
Answer: w g grace
Question: Which Shakespeare's play does the character Petruchio appear?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: What is the alternative name for the flower digitalis purpurea?
Answer: foxglove
Question: What mythical creature has a dragon's head, a serpent's tail and a body with wings and legs?
Answer: wyvern
Question: Which poet famously wrote 'Tis better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all'?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: What is the alternative name for the flower belladonna?
Answer: deadly nightshade
Question: Who was manager of Manchester United, when they were last relegated?
Answer: tommy docherty
Question: Which classical composter wrote 'The Snow Maiden' and 'The Golden Cockerel'?
Answer: rimsky korsakov
Question: """When you happen to know today is Wednesday and starts like sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere"" is the opening line of which John Wyndham novel?"
Answer: day of triffids
Question: Which make of car was the first to be powered by gas turbine?
Answer: rover
Question: What is the longest winning distance in the Epsom Derby?
Answer: 10 lengths
Question: Who first said or wrote "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: The British hit parade was first published in 1952, what was the first record to be number one?
Answer: here in my heart
Question: Which is the longest river in Asia that flows through only one country?
Answer: yangtze
Question: Which black tea is known as the 'Champagne of Tea'?
Answer: darjeeling
Question: UK, USA, Russia and China are four of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, which country is the fifth?
Answer: france
Question: In 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to which general?
Answer: ulysses s grant
Question: The 'Kilmarnock Volume' features whose poetry?
Answer: robert burns
Question: In which US city did Clint Eastwood's character 'Dirty Harry' fight crime?
Answer: san francisco
Question: The rugby union teams of Neath and Swansea amalgamated and now play under what name?
Answer: ospreys
Question: How are the planets Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus collectively described?
Answer: gas giants
Question: In 2010, actress Ayda Field married which British entertainer?
Answer: robbie williams
Question: What name is given to the road in Jerusalem said to be the path that Jesus took carrying his cross?
Answer: via dolorosa
Question: Which was the last British coin to cease to be legal tender?
Answer: decimal half penny
Question: Which group released the album 'Zooropa' in 1993?
Answer: u2
Question: What is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler who wrote the children's book 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'?
Answer: lemony snicket
Question: Three Counties Radio covers Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and which other county?
Answer: hertfordshire
Question: In which county of the Republic of Ireland are Connemara National Park and the country's largest lake, Lake Corrib?
Answer: galway
Question: Lawrence Olivier won only one Oscar, for which film in 1948?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Which food company, still in existence today, was founded in 1902 in a disused malthouse in Burton-on-Trent?
Answer: marmite
Question: What name is given to the female equivalent of the Oedipus Complex?
Answer: electra complex
Question: The Al Khalifa family has ruled which country since 1783?
Answer: bahrain
Question: What common name is given to Chopin's 'Waltz in D Minor'?
Answer: minute waltz
Question: Which prominent European politician was injured by a shot fired by Violet Gibson in 1926?
Answer: benito mussolini
Question: Which Russian man won both the 100 and 200m gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games?
Answer: valery borzov
Question: Of which US city was Jerry Springer the mayor in 1977-78?
Answer: cincinnati
Question: Which Italian composer claimed that he could "set a laundry list to music"?
Answer: rossini
Question: At which Paris airfield did Charles Lindbergh complete the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927?
Answer: le bourget
Question: Which chemical element gets its named from the Greek for 'bringer of light'?
Answer: phosphorus
Question: The Primate of All Ireland is the Archbishop of which City?
Answer: armagh
Question: Archibald Primrose was Prime Minister 1894-95, what was his title?
Answer: lord rosebery
Question: The global collection of what is stored in a vault in Svalbard on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen?
Answer: seeds
Question: The bell, Great Peter is in the northwest tower of which cathedral?
Answer: york minster
Question: Which county cricket team play home games at Wantage Road?
Answer: northants
Question: Which future president escaped from Lincoln Prison in 1919 when a key to his cell was smuggled in to him in a cake?
Answer: eamonn de valera
Question: Which opera features a 'Prisoner's Chorus'?
Answer: fidelio
Question: Which Scottish football team is nicknamed the 'Pars'?
Answer: dunfermline athletic
Question: On which precise day of the month in November does the USA celebrate Thanksgiving?
Answer: fourth thursday
Question: Which bird has the Latin name Pica Pica?
Answer: magpie
Question: Under what name does Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta perform?
Answer: lady gaga
Question: Who was Chancellor of Germany immediately before Angela Merkel?
Answer: gerhard schroeder
Question: Who, along with Karl Ferdinand Braun, won a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 for their work on wireless telegraphy?
Answer: guglielmo marconi
Question: Which Fleetwood Mac album of 1977 sold 15 million copies and remained in the UK charts for more than eight years?
Answer: rumours
Question: The liner Mauretania was launched in 1906 as a sister ship to which other liner?
Answer: lusitania
Question: What feature of British life is owned by "Lord Gnome"?
Answer: private eye
Question: Who presents Radio 4's I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue?
Answer: jack dee
Question: """Arise, children of the Fatherland, the day of glory is here"" are the first words of which country's national anthem?"
Answer: france
Question: Which castle is the seat of the Dukes of Northumberland?
Answer: alnwick
Question: Which bathe took place on October 25th 1415?
Answer: agincourt
Question: Which castle is the seat of the Dukes of Norfolk?
Answer: arundel
Question: Which 1959 film comedy featured a European country called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick?
Answer: mouse that roared
Question: Claire Skinner plays a wife and mother in which TV comedy?
Answer: outnumbered
Question: The Laughing Song comes from which Johann Strauss operetta?
Answer: die fledermaus
Question: Closing Time was a sequel to which famous novel of 1961?
Answer: catch 22
Question: Which post in Gordon Brown's government was held by David Miliband?
Answer: foreign secretary
Question: Which London Underground line would you take to get directly to Heathrow Airport?
Answer: piccadilly
Question: Under what name does Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha play Premiership football?
Answer: nani
Question: Who was President of France immediately before Nicolas Sarkozy?
Answer: jacques chirac
Question: In 1962, Maurice Wilkins and two others won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of what?
Answer: structure of dna
Question: Peter Adamson played which character in Coronation Street?
Answer: len fairclough
Question: Which was Status Quo's only not hit single, which came in 1974?
Answer: down down
Question: The Grand National has been run at Aintree since 1839 except for 1916-18 when it was run where?
Answer: gatwick
Question: The Midlands Grand National is run on which racecourse?
Answer: uttoxeter
Question: What is the capital of the southern Italian region of Puglia?
Answer: bari
Question: The Trilby hat derives its name from the stage adaptation of a 1894 novel by which author?
Answer: george du maurier
Question: In which 1952 Howard Hawks film did Marilyn Monroe co-star with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers?
Answer: monkey business
Question: Which is the smallest, most westerly and most southerly of the Canary Islands?
Answer: el hierro
Question: At which football ground was the FA Cup Final played the year prior to the 1923 opening Wembley final?
Answer: stamford bridge
Question: Who is the Greek equivalent of Aurora, the Roman Goddess of the Dawn?
Answer: eos
Question: Who played the female lead in Howard Hawks' 1959 film 'Rio Bravo'?
Answer: angie dickinson
Question: Which US president died of pneumonia 31 days after his inauguration in 1841?
Answer: w h harrison
Question: Which Bradford Bulls Rugby League player scored a hat trick of tries in the 1996 Wembley Challenge Cup Final, and was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy?
Answer: robbie paul
Question: 'Endless Love' is a song duet by Diana Ross and which singer/composer?
Answer: lionel richie
Question: The 72-hole British Open Golf scoring record is 267 posted in 1993 at Royal St George's. Who holds that record?
Answer: greg norman
Question: 'II Dolce' refers to what in an Italian restaurant?
Answer: dessert
Question: In 1949 who became the first post-WW2 World Heavyweight Boxing Champion?
Answer: ezzard charles
Question: Which is the largest of the Ionian Islands off the Greek west coast?
Answer: cephalonia
Question: L'Aquila, scene of the 2009 earthquake, is the capital of which central Italian region?
Answer: abruzzo
Question: Prior to 2005 Alesha Dixon was a member of which girl band?
Answer: mis teeq
Question: Under which monarch did Lanfranc become Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: william i
Question: In the 1957 Frank Sinatra / Rita Hayworth musical 'Pal Joey', what was Joey's surname?
Answer: evans
Question: In 'My Fair Lady' what is the occupation of Eliza Doolittle's father?
Answer: dustman
Question: The Wizard of Wishaw' is better known as which sportsman?
Answer: john higgins
Question: 'It Takes Two' was a 60s duet for Kim Weston with which male US singer?
Answer: marvin gaye
Question: Who played Wycliffe in the 1990s ITV detective series?
Answer: jack shepherd
Question: Which painter's works include 'Judith beheading Holofernes' in 1598 and 'Supper at Emmaus' in 1602?
Answer: caravaggio
Question: Who played Bret's brother, Bart Maverick in the 1957-62 Warner Bros TV western?
Answer: jack kelly
Question: What is the name of the main concert hall that houses the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk?
Answer: snape maltings
Question: In which Ayrshire village was Robert Burns born in 1759?
Answer: alloway
Question: Who is the Greek equivalent of Pax, the Roman Goddess of Peace?
Answer: irene
Question: Who wrote the 1980 children's book 'The Twits'?
Answer: roald dahl
Question: What does the word 'vodka' literally mean in Russian?
Answer: little water
Question: Which boxer did Muhammad Ali beat in September 1978 to become the only 3-time world heavyweight champion?
Answer: leon spinks
Question: Which French word- derived from an old French word for "paw"-means dialect?
Answer: patois
Question: 'Bring It All Back' was the debut single for which group in 1999?
Answer: s club 7
Question: Which US president was shot and killed in Buffalo, New York state in 1901?
Answer: william mckinley
Question: Where does the annual pop festival 'T in the Park' take place?
Answer: balado
Question: Who wrote the 1968 children's book 'The Wombles'?
Answer: elizabeth beresford
Question: Which composer wrote the musicals 'Rose Marie' and 'The Vagabond King'?
Answer: rudolf friml
Question: Which pop group had a hit in 1972 with the song 'Sylvia's Mother'?
Answer: dr hook
Question: Which well known comedian starred in the 2010 film 'Route Irish' directed by Ken Loach?
Answer: john bishop
Question: Which singer and actress first performed the role of Christine on stage in the musical Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: sara brightman
Question: Against which country did Sachin Tendulkar score his 100th test century?
Answer: bangladesh
Question: Who was the British Boxer involved in a fracas with Derek Chisora in February 2012?
Answer: david haye
Question: Who directed and starred in 2011 film "The Ides of March"?
Answer: george clooney
Question: In Greek Mythology what was the name of Odysseus's wife?
Answer: penelope
Question: Which former leader of the Labour Party is buried on Iona?
Answer: john smith
Question: Which sitcom starred Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox?
Answer: lovers
Question: In comedian Tony Hawks' 1997 book with what domestic item did he hitchhike around Ireland to win a bet?
Answer: fridge
Question: Which actress played Nerys Hughes's mother in the sitcom The Liver Birds?
Answer: molly sugden
Question: At which battle of 1513 was King James IV of Scotland killed?
Answer: flodden
Question: Which former newsreader presided over the TV programme Treasure Hunt?
Answer: kenneth kendal
Question: Which of the characters in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland advises Alice 'to start at the beginning and go on till you get to the end then stop'?
Answer: king of hearts
Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1960 with the record 'Running Bear'?
Answer: johnny preston
Question: Which 15th Century Italian painter's name means little barrel?
Answer: botticelli
Question: With which sporting event of April 2012 do you associate Trenton Oldfield?
Answer: boat race
Question: Which group had a number 3 hit.in 1959 with the record Red River Rock?
Answer: johnny and hurricanes
Question: Which of the characters in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland asked Alice the riddle "why is a raven like a writing desk"(which there is no answer to)?
Answer: hatter
Question: Which film director dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in March 2012?
Answer: james cameron
Question: Which 20th century composer wrote Fanfare for the Common Man?
Answer: aaron copeland
Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury declared Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon null and void?
Answer: thomas cranmer
Question: Which film featured the song 'I've had the time of my life'?
Answer: dirty dancing
Question: Which composer died at Bayreuth in Germany in 1886?
Answer: liszt
Question: The US Presidential Call Sign Air Force One was established for security purposes during the administration of which President?
Answer: dwight d eisenhower
Question: During which decade was the Hollywood Walk of Fame established?
Answer: 1950 s
Question: Who created the character Dirk Pitt?
Answer: clive cussler
Question: The High School in the TV series Glee is named, after which US President?
Answer: mckinley
Question: Berlin's song "Take my Breath away" came from which film'?
Answer: top gun
Question: The bunyip is a mythical creature to which group of people?
Answer: australian aborigines
Question: Which character in the TV programme Red Dwarf is a hologram?
Answer: rimmer
Question: The Colour of Magic, published in 1983, was the first of which series of novels?
Answer: discworld
Question: What collective name is given to those members of the House of Lords who are not Lords Spiritual?
Answer: lords temporal
Question: In 1984 who became the first woman to walk in space?
Answer: svetlana savitskaya
Question: The 1916 Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Somme offensive, saw the first use of which weapon?
Answer: tanks
Question: The Neva, Vistula and Oder rivers flow into which sea?
Answer: baltic
Question: Which singer played the part of Johnny Fontaine in 'The Godfather'; he had the first no. 1 hit 'Here in my Heart'?
Answer: al martino
Question: What was the name of the horse that Zara Philips rode to win the World Equestrian Three Day Event Gold in 2006?
Answer: toytown
Question: Which singer is /was known as the 'Thin White Duke'?
Answer: david bowie