CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: RMS Atlantic which ran aground off Nova Scotia in April 1873 with the loss of over 500 lives was the second ship built for which shipping line?
Answer: white star
Question: Which island is nicknamed ‘The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean’?
Answer: stromboli
Question: Which Pink Floyd album cover shows a prism reflecting a beam of light?
Answer: dark side of moon
Question: Who scored a record 156 for Australia in a Twenty20 International against England this summer?
Answer: aaron finch
Question: The title of which radio programme of the 1960s and 1970s always ended with the song ‘My name is Angus Prune and I always listen to ....................................’?
Answer: i m sorry i ll read that again
Question: Mary, Baroness Soames is the only current female member of the Order of the Garter. Who was her father?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Where are the headquarters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution?
Answer: poole
Question: Which Roman Emperor died in Eboracum in 211 AD?
Answer: septimius severus
Question: Which African country is divided into nine provinces including Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng?
Answer: south africa
Question: The Straits Times Index is the main index on the stock market in which Asian country?
Answer: singapore
Question: Which word is missing from the title of the sequel to ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ by John Updike –‘The ......... of Eastwick’ his final novel written thirty years after the original?
Answer: widows of eastwick
Question: Which Home Secretary resigned in 1972 as a result of the Poulson Affair?
Answer: reginald maudling
Question: On which motorway is Hartshead Moor services?
Answer: m62
Question: Which composer was born at Lowestoft in November 1913?
Answer: benjamin britten
Question: What nationality is Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who won both the 100 metres and 200 metres at the 2013 IAAF World Athletics Championships?
Answer: jamaican
Question: Which is the second and most famous of the Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper?
Answer: last of mohicans
Question: For which 2001 film did Julian Fellowes win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay?
Answer: gosford park
Question: Who created the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete?
Answer: daedalus
Question: What was the name of the high-speed shuttle train that ran during the Olympics and Paralympics from St Pancras to Ebbsfleet via Stratford?
Answer: javelin
Question: Which reporter claimed on the BBC ‘Today’ programme in 2003 that the government had ‘sexed up’ a dossier about Iraq?
Answer: andrew gilligan
Question: The cover of which album by Paul McCartney and Wings features celebrities including Clement Freud, Michael Parkinson and John Conteh?
Answer: band on run
Question: Which station on the Northern Line of the London Underground is the name of a game on the radio panel show ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue’?
Answer: mornington crescent
Question: Appointed in 1907 who was the first female member of the Order of Merit?
Answer: florence nightingale
Question: Carrauntoohil, the highest peak in the Republic of Ireland is in which mountain range?
Answer: macgillycuddy s reeks
Question: Who made his film debut playing Kasper Gutman in the 1941 film ‘Casablanca’?
Answer: sydney greenstreet
Question: In which sport did Precious McKenzie win three consecutive Commonwealth Gold medals for England from 1966 to 1974, then when representing New Zealand won a fourth in 1978?
Answer: weightlifting
Question: ‘The Last of England’ is an 1855 oil painting by which artist?
Answer: ford madox brown
Question: Who plays Violet, The Dowager Countess of Grantham in ‘Downton Abbey’?
Answer: maggie smith
Question: Which island, since the mid 1960s, is the southernmost point of Iceland?
Answer: surtsey
Question: ‘To me, to you’ is a catchphrase of Barry and Paul Elliott. Under what name do they perform?
Answer: chuckle brothers
Question: ‘Nessun dorma’ comes from which Puccini opera?
Answer: turandot
Question: Which former international full back was manager of Leeds United when they reached the European Cup Final in 1974-75, before working as a football summariser on BBC radio for over 30 years?
Answer: jimmy armfield
Question: What is the surname of Richard and Adam, the Welsh classical singers whose debut album topped the charts throughout August this year?
Answer: johnson
Question: In which city is Taksim Square, scene of recent protests?
Answer: istanbul
Question: This fever was first detected in West Africa in 1969. There is no known cure and it is spread by rats found only in that area. What is the Fever's name?
Answer: lassa fever
Question: The characters Don Alfonso and Dorabella appear in which Mozart opera?
Answer: cosi fan tutte
Question: Brabantio and Grantiano are characters in which Shakespearean play?
Answer: othello
Question: Which Shakespeare play has the characters Deiphobus and Alexander?
Answer: troilus and cressida
Question: The sucre was the official unit of currency of Ecuador until March 2000. What is now the official currency?
Answer: us dollar
Question: Which virus is responsible for causing the spectacularly fatal haemorrhagic fever?
Answer: ebola virus
Question: Tarom, established in 1920, is the national airline of which European country?
Answer: romania
Question: In the BBC comedy TV series 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' who played the part of Rangi Ram?
Answer: michael bates
Question: Which former West Indian fast bowler was nicknamed Whispering Death?
Answer: michael holding
Question: What is the western terminus of the West Highland Railway line in Scotland?
Answer: mallaig
Question: In the BBC comedy TV series 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum', who played the part of Gunner Beaumont?
Answer: melvyn hayes
Question: In which range of English hills is the town of Watlington?
Answer: chilterns
Question: Which fictional seafarer is the hero of Dudley Pope's novels?
Answer: nicholas ramage
Question: Malev was the national airline of which European country from 1946 to 2012?
Answer: hungary
Question: On a standard typewriter keyboard which letter appears between the letters Q and E?
Answer: w
Question: By what name is musician David Robert Hayward-Jones better known?
Answer: david bowie
Question: What was the name of the political statement made by four members of the Labour Party in January 1981 effectively launching the SDP?
Answer: limehouse declaration
Question: Who plays the part of Tommy Beresford in the BBC series "Partners in Crime", based on an Agatha Christie novel?
Answer: david walliams
Question: What name is given to the territory of one country that is inside the territory of another?
Answer: enclave
Question: With which sport would you associate with the "Toronto Raptors" and the Houston Rockets"?
Answer: basketball
Question: Chartwell, the former home of Winston Churchill is in which county?
Answer: kent
Question: Which Roman Emperor wrote "meditations'1 in the 2nd century AD?
Answer: marcus aurelius
Question: Sharing its name with a painter, what was the name of the dog that won Britain's Got Talent in 2015?
Answer: matisse
Question: Who sang the title theme song to the bond film "The spy who loved me"?
Answer: carly simon
Question: A monopoly is where there is only one seller of a goods or service, what word is used for only one buyer?
Answer: monopsony
Question: Which city was founded by Samuel De Champlain in 1608?
Answer: quebec
Question: Who bowled the one millionth ball in test cricket in England at the Ashes match at Trent Bridge in 2015?
Answer: ben stokes
Question: Which city, once the capital of Spain is now the regional capital of Castilla La Mancha?
Answer: toledo
Question: What was the name of the concealed tracks through Eastern Laos that was used as a supply route during the Vietnam War?
Answer: ho chi minh trail
Question: Who was wearing the Armour of Achilles when he was killed by Hector at the Siege of Troy?
Answer: patroclus
Question: In which town or city is the East Anglian Daily Times published?
Answer: ipswich
Question: Which assassin was the most famous member of the revolutionary group "Young Bosnia"?
Answer: gavrilo princip
Question: 19th century surgeon Dr Joseph Bell was the inspiration for which literary character?
Answer: sherlock holmes
Question: """I got rhythm"" and ""S'wonderful"" are songs from which musical?"
Answer: american in paris
Question: """It is this day three hundred and forty eight years, six months and nineteen days that the good people of Paris were awakened by a grand pealing from all the bells"" is the first line of which novel?"
Answer: hunchback of notre dame
Question: Which comedy actor said "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy" in the Life of Brian?
Answer: terry jones
Question: Julius Nyerere became the first leader of which African country in 1964?
Answer: tanzania
Question: Which is the largest of the Ionian Islands, it is also the setting for the Louis De Bernieres novel "Captain Correlli's mandolin?
Answer: cephallonia
Question: What is the more common name of the flowering plant Myosotis?
Answer: forget me not
Question: Which car manufacturer produces the models Ghibli and Levante?
Answer: maserati
Question: Which actor plays the part of John Snow in the TV series Game of Thrones?
Answer: kit harrington
Question: Where would you find the Tomb of the Venerable Bede?
Answer: durham cathedral
Question: Which actor spoke the line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning* in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now?
Answer: robert duval
Question: """Nil Satis Nisi Optimum"" or ""Nothing but the Best* is the motto of which Premiership Football Club?"
Answer: everton
Question: Which musical festival was founded by John Christie in 1934 in East Sussex?
Answer: glyndebourne
Question: At which naval battle did the Greeks defeat the Persians in 480BC?
Answer: salamis
Question: Which film star (1923 - 2008), was born John Carter in Evanston, Illinois?
Answer: charlton heston
Question: Europe’s first female President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was President of which country from 1980 to 1996?
Answer: iceland
Question: What is the term in economics for a market where there is only one buyer but many sellers, the opposite of a monopoly?
Answer: monopsony
Question: Who won the men’s long jump at the Olympics four times, from 1984 to 1996?
Answer: carl lewis
Question: Which country adopted the euro as its currency on January 1st this year?
Answer: lithuania
Question: Which type of quadrilateral has all sides equal but no right angles?
Answer: rhombus
Question: Which 1998 film tells a fictionalised account of the Battle of Mount Austen, part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Second World War?
Answer: thin red line
Question: In which spacecraft did Yuri Gagarin orbit the earth in April 1961?
Answer: vostok i
Question: Gander Airport was used as a refuelling stop for transatlantic flights between the 1940s and the 1960s. In which Canadian province is it?
Answer: newfoundland and labrador
Question: England has been runner-up in the ICC World Cup three times, to West Indies in 1979, to Australia in 1987 and to which country in 1992?
Answer: pakistan
Question: I Capuleti e i Montecchi is an opera by Vincenzo Bellini based on which story?
Answer: romeo and juliet
Question: England has twice been runner-up in the Rugby Union World Cup, to Australia in 1991 and to which country in 2007?
Answer: south africa
Question: Help the Aged merged with which other charity in 2009 to form Age UK?
Answer: age concern
Question: La Cenerentola is an opera by Gioachino Rossini based on which fairy story?
Answer: cinderella
Question: The Formula One Canadian Grand Prix is held at a circuit on Île Notre- Dame in Montréal, named after which former driver?
Answer: gilles villeneuve
Question: Which Indian was conductor for the Three Tenors concert in Rome in 1990 and in Los Angeles four years later?
Answer: zubin mehta
Question: Saint Peter was martyred in about 64AD during the reign of which Roman Emperor?
Answer: nero
Question: Which 1993 film is based on the story of the Guildford Four, wrongly accused of a 1974 pub bombing?
Answer: in name of father
Question: Which country, along with the UK, obtained special opt-outs from joining the euro in the original Maastricht Treaty?
Answer: denmark
Question: Uptown Girl and Queen of My Heart were Number Ones for which boy band in 2001?
Answer: westlife
Question: Which English footballer and plumber died in February last year aged 91?
Answer: tom finney
Question: At which castle created by P G Wodehouse is Sebastian Beach a butler?
Answer: blandings
Question: Smeaton’s Tower now stands on Plymouth Hoe. It was originally built as the third structure of which famous lighthouse?
Answer: eddystone
Question: Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, the citation reading ‘for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga’?
Answer: john galsworthy
Question: From the 1970s many international passengers on charter flights cleared US customs during a refuelling stop at Bangor Airport. In which state is it?
Answer: maine
Question: In the UK the detergent industry is an example of an oligopoly, where the market is dominated by a few sellers, in this case two, Unilever and which other company?
Answer: proctor gamble
Question: By what one-word name is the more famous older sister of singer Solange Knowles known?
Answer: beyoncé
Question: Who won the men’s long jump at the 1936 Olympics?
Answer: jesse owens
Question: Chandrika Kumaratunga was the first female President of which Asian country from 1994 to 2005?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: Idylls of the King is a collection of Arthurian-based poems by which poet laureate?
Answer: alfred lord tennyson
Question: Which chef created Melba toast and Peach Melba at the Savoy in London?
Answer: auguste escoffier
Question: Who launched the Skytrain as part of his low-budget airline in the 1970s?
Answer: freddie laker
Question: Which of the Mitford sisters was the mother of Max Mosley, former President of the FIA?
Answer: diana
Question: Who composed Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in 1748?
Answer: george frideric handel
Question: Dance of the Reed Flutes is part of which ballet first performed in 1892?
Answer: nutcracker
Question: Which of the Mitford sisters had the middle name Valkyrie?
Answer: unity
Question: Mrs Bridget McCluskey was headmistress of which school on TV for most of the 1980s?
Answer: grange hill
Question: Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. What nationality is he?
Answer: australian
Question: Which abstract expressionist painter married Lee Krasner in 1945?
Answer: jackson pollock
Question: Bridget Riley is one of the foremost exponents of which style of art?
Answer: op art
Question: Who did Neil Kinnock replace as Leader of the Labour Party in 1983?
Answer: michael foot
Question: The aardvark is a nocturnal mammal native to which continent?
Answer: africa
Question: Who played the title character in the 1937 comedy film Oh, Mr Porter!?
Answer: will hay
Question: Which mountain completes the title of a short story by Ernest Hemingway first published in 1936 - The Snows of ________?
Answer: kilimanjaro
Question: Boxers Randolph Turpin, Terry Downes and Alan Minter were British World champions at which weight?
Answer: middleweight
Question: In which battle on Palm Sunday 1461 in Yorkshire did the Yorkists beat the Lancastrians with over 28000 killed?
Answer: towton
Question: What are below the map of the island on the flag of Cyprus?
Answer: two olive branches
Question: In which Shakespeare play is Launcelot Gobbo the servant to Shylock?
Answer: merchant of venice
Question: Which two words complete the names of these financial institutions Furness, Principality and Skipton?
Answer: building society
Question: To which family do Max and his daughters Lauren, and Abi belong in EastEnders?
Answer: branning
Question: Poldark Pride and Kernow Imperial Stout are recent beers from Coastal Brewery in which county?
Answer: cornwall
Question: Who was inaugurated as US President on March 4th 1861?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: Charles Fortnum is the eponymous character in whose 1973 novel The Honorary Consul?
Answer: graham greene
Question: Who resigned as Prime Minister of Greece on August 27th?
Answer: alexis tsipras
Question: The works of which architect include Cumberland Terrace in Regent’s Park and Marble Arch?
Answer: john nash
Question: Yorkshire Bank is a division of Clydesdale Bank which itself is owned by NAB. For what does the A stand in the bank NAB?
Answer: national australia bank
Question: Which composer was born on this day in Prague in 1841 – his Symphony number 9 in E minor From the New World is one of his most famous works?
Answer: antonín dvořák
Question: To which family do Eileen and her sons Jason, and Todd belong in Coronation Street?
Answer: grimshaw
Question: What was the real surname of Hergé who wrote The Adventures of Tintin?
Answer: remi
Question: Which bridge across the River Thames comes next going downstream after Vauxhall and Lambeth?
Answer: westminster
Question: What same word can be a word for theatrical scenery, a list of songs performed at a concert or a sequence of legs in darts?
Answer: set
Question: In which battle in Yorkshire in September 1066 was Harald Hardrada killed?
Answer: stamford bridge
Question: The flag of Cambodia features a depiction of which temple complex?
Answer: angkor wat
Question: In which Shakespeare play is Miranda the fifteen year old daughter of Prospero?
Answer: tempest
Question: Michael Caine won a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role as Professor Frank Bryant in which 1983 film?
Answer: educating rita
Question: How is James Wormold described in the title of a 1958 novel by Graham Greene?
Answer: our man in havana
Question: Which US President was the first and only one to take the presidential oath on an aeroplane?
Answer: lyndon b johnson
Question: Who was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the 1992 General Election?
Answer: paddy ashdown
Question: The rivers Niger and Volta empty into which Gulf, part of the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: guinea
Question: Karren Brady is vice-chairman of which Premier League football club?
Answer: west ham united
Question: There are only two surviving examples of monotremes. One is the echidna (or spiny anteater). What is the other?
Answer: platypus
Question: The Beatles albums up to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band were released on which label?
Answer: parlophone
Question: “I hate you Butler!” was one of the catchphrases of Inspector Cyril Blake played by Stephen Lewis in which sitcom?
Answer: on buses
Question: Which division of Spain completes the title of the work by George Orwell published in 1938 – Homage to _________?
Answer: catalonia
Question: In which novel does a Martian invasion begin in Woking?
Answer: war of worlds
Question: Which herb is traditionally used to flavour Lincolnshire sausages?
Answer: sage
Question: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn is the title of chapter 7 of which children’s book by Kenneth Grahame?
Answer: wind in willows
Question: Alec Guinness and which other actor have played Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars films?
Answer: ewan mcgregor
Question: What is the name for large-scale musical works such as Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s The Creation?
Answer: oratorio
Question: McCaig's Folly in Oban, Scotland was built in the style of which more famous building?
Answer: colosseum
Question: Who directed the films; "The Fisher King" (1991), "12 Monkeys" (1995) and the "Brothers Grimm" (2005)?
Answer: terry gilliam
Question: From which club did Man Utd sign Memphis Depay for £25 Million in 2015?
Answer: psv eindhoven
Question: What nickname was given to the 93rd Regiment of Foot (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) after the Battle of Balaclava in 1854?
Answer: thin red line
Question: Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights" is used as the opening theme music for which reality TV show?
Answer: apprentice
Question: Much in the news recently, what job in the Government is held by James Brokenshire?
Answer: minister for security and immigration
Question: From which language do we get the words caramel, marmalade and tapioca?
Answer: portugese
Question: Who was the mother of Perseus? She was seduced by Zeus in the form of a shower of gold.
Answer: danae
Question: Which car manufacturer makes the models "Felicia", "Octavia" and "Superb"?
Answer: skoda
Question: """Say what you want"" (1997) and ""In our lifetime"" (1998) were hits for which group?"
Answer: texas
Question: Built by the Neville's in the 14th century, in which county is Raby Castle?
Answer: durham
Question: From which club did Manchester City sign Kevin De Bruyne for £55 million in 2015?
Answer: wolfsburg
Question: Which literary movement is associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau?
Answer: transcendentalists
Question: Which London building was the most famous work of architect Norman Shaw (1831-1912)?
Answer: new scotland yard
Question: In which constellation would you find the Crab Nebula?
Answer: taurus
Question: Which rapper was born Calvin Broadus in 1971?
Answer: snoop dog
Question: In which Dickens' novel would you find Barkis, Edward Murdstone and Mr Creakle?
Answer: david copperfield
Question: Madeleine, Thompson's Seedless and Waltham Cross are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: grapes
Question: Which is the smallest of the four inhabited Balearic Islands?
Answer: formentera
Question: Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay won the 1904 Nobel Prize for the discovery of which element?
Answer: argon
Question: Which biologist was known as "Darwin's Bulldog"?
Answer: thomas huxley
Question: Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, Bennet Drake and Captain Jackson are characters in which TV crime series?
Answer: ripper street
Question: """If music be the food of love, play on"", is a line from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: twelfth night
Question: In WW2 Operation Yellow was the codename for the German invasion of which country?
Answer: france
Question: What was the pen name of the illustrator Hablot Knight-Brown?
Answer: phiz
Question: Born Ferinand Joseph Lamenth in 1890 in New Orleans, by what name was the Jazz musician better known?
Answer: jelly roll morton
Question: Who gave Hampton Court Palace to Henry VIII as a gift in 1528?
Answer: cardinal thomas wolsey
Question: The Bear Inn in Oxford with a collection of over 4500 is a haven for cravatologists. What do they collect?
Answer: ties
Question: Which World Heavyweight Champion boxer (1944-2011) won Olympic Gold in 1964?
Answer: joe frazier
Question: Terrible Tudors and Awesome Egyptians are the first two titles in which series of illustrated books by Terry Deary?
Answer: horrible histories
Question: Which word completes the title of the jazz song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, "Minnie the _______"?
Answer: moocher
Question: The momentum of a body is calculated by multiplying its mass by its what?
Answer: velocity
Question: Which ‘Doctor Who’ played the title character in the film Carry On Sergeant?
Answer: william hartnell
Question: Whose first novel published in 1973 was The Rachel Papers?
Answer: martin amis
Question: What was the stage name of American ecdysiast Rose Louise Hovick (1911- 1970)?
Answer: gypsy rose lee
Question: In which 1958 film did Virginia McKenna play SOE agent Violette Szabo?
Answer: carve her name with pride
Question: The flag of Ethiopia from 1897 to 1975 featured which animal, with the crown removed in 1974?
Answer: lion
Question: The headquarters of which political party are in Newton Abbot, Devon?
Answer: ukip
Question: Dennis Waterman, the final member of the original cast of BBC TV show New Tricks left after episode 2 of the current, and final, series to be replaced by which actor playing retired detective Ted Case?
Answer: larry lamb
Question: An anti-emetic is a drug that is effective against what?
Answer: vomiting
Question: After whom was the tower block in Peckham, the home to the Trotters, in Only Fools and Horses named?
Answer: nelson mandela
Question: In which Shakespeare play does Dogberry, a constable, manage to uncover Don John’s plot to discredit Hero?
Answer: much ado about nothing
Question: Who has been the Leader of the SNP in the House of Commons since 2007?
Answer: angus robertson