CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which island is separated from the Scottish mainland by the Sound of Sleat?
Answer: skye
Question: Which TV programme has been presented by Lisa Riley, Jonathan Wilkes and Harry Hill?
Answer: you ve been framed
Question: In 1964 a song about Heloisa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto was a big hit around the world, what was its title?
Answer: girl from ipanema
Question: Elaine Page had a top ten hit in 1981 with which song from the musical 'Cats'?
Answer: memory
Question: In which war did the Battle of Blenheim take place?
Answer: spanish succession
Question: Which jazz singer was accompanied for nearly 30 years by John Chilton's Feetwarmers?
Answer: george melly
Question: In 1929 which American bootlegger and gangster lost seven members of his gang in the St Valentine's Day Massacre?
Answer: george bugs moran
Question: Name the British submarine that during the Falklands War sank the General Belgrano?
Answer: hms conqueror
Question: Which author's first work was 'Babbling April' and his last 'The Tenth Man'?
Answer: graham greene
Question: By what name was the mathematician 'Leonardo of Pisa' better known?
Answer: fibonacci
Question: Between 1397 and 1399, which English county became a principality under King Richard , the only English county to have been honoured in this way?
Answer: cheshire
Question: At which battle of 1403 did Henry 'Hotspur' Percy die?
Answer: shrewsbury
Question: Which London institution was founded at Jonathan's Coffee House in 1773?
Answer: stock exchange
Question: Who or what is known as 'Topolino' in Italy?
Answer: mickey mouse
Question: As a result of Spain winning the Football World Cup in 2010 how many different teams have now won the World Cup?
Answer: eight
Question: Whose wife was Queen Adelaide after whom the Australian city is named?
Answer: william iv
Question: Which fashion designer received a Royal Warrant in 1940 as the Queen's dressmaker?
Answer: norman hartnell
Question: Who played Arthur Seaton in the 1960 film "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"?
Answer: albert finney
Question: What is the first name of the character Ironside played by Raymond Burr?
Answer: robert
Question: Which British dress designer popularised the "mini skirt" in 1960's?
Answer: mary quant
Question: How many different political parties are there now in Parliament as a result of the General Election of May 2010?
Answer: ten
Question: Which chart topping band is made up of the Followill brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared and their cousin Matthew?
Answer: kings of leon
Question: What is the real first name of the character Jack Frost, played by David Jason
Answer: william
Question: In which month of the year is the Super Bowl final played in the USA?
Answer: february
Question: Who presents the TV quiz show a "Question of Genius"?
Answer: kirsty wark
Question: Who wrote the book "The Ghost" released as a film in 2010?
Answer: robert harris
Question: In which county is Burghley House venue for the Burghley Horse Trials?
Answer: lincolnshire
Question: Who is the husband of Harriet Harman who has just been elected as an MP (May 2010)?
Answer: jack dromey
Question: Which Liverpool Group had a top ten hit in the 1963 with the song "Hello Little Girl"?
Answer: fourmost
Question: Distilled in the hills of Kentucky since 1795 which brand of Bourbon takes its name from the man who rebuilt the business following prohibition?
Answer: jim beam
Question: In the J. M. Barrie play who was the resourceful butler to the Earl of Loam?
Answer: admirable crichton
Question: In 1961 who was enthroned as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: michael ramsey
Question: Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire form the only British Mainland colony for which bird?
Answer: gannet
Question: Whose portrait was painted by the fictional artist Basil Hallward?
Answer: dorian gray
Question: Which TV animated series features the comedic antics of Peter and Louis Griffin?
Answer: family guy
Question: Who lived and had a photographic studio at 59 Rodney Street, Liverpool?
Answer: edward chambre hardman
Question: John Shepherd-Barron who died in May 2010 is credited with being the inventor of what, which was first used in 1967 by Reg Varney?
Answer: atm
Question: In 1675 the Rev. John Flamsteed was the first person to hold which position?
Answer: astronomer royal
Question: The 2009 film "Telstar" told the story of which record producer?
Answer: joe meek
Question: In which US state is Fort Sumter where the first shots were fired in the American Civil War?
Answer: south carolina
Question: According to the book of Revelation on what horse does Death ride?
Answer: pale horse
Question: Who directed the 2010 film version of Alice in Wonderland?
Answer: tim burton
Question: What position was John Dryden appointed to in 1668?
Answer: poet laureate
Question: Raita is an Indian sauce or dip, what is always used as a base?
Answer: yoghurt
Question: Which small rodent highly valued for its fine silky fur lives almost exclusively in the Andes?
Answer: chinchilla
Question: Chris Haney who died in June 2010 aged 59 was co-creator of which board game?
Answer: trivial pursuit
Question: Which actress star of the film Georgy Girl died in May 2010?
Answer: lynn redgrave
Question: Who became the first Chancellor of the reunited Germany in 1990?
Answer: helmut kohl
Question: What is the name of the mausoleum near Windsor where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are buried?
Answer: frogmore
Question: Which character did Julia Roberts play in the Steven Spielberg film 'Hook'?
Answer: tinkerbell
Question: What was the name of the boat on which newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell was last seen alive?
Answer: lady ghislaine
Question: On which radio programme has Evan Davis been a regular presenter since April 2008?
Answer: today
Question: Who launched the SkyTrain air service on 26 September 1977?
Answer: freddie laker
Question: Which famous biblical character was born in Gath, according to the Book of Samuel?
Answer: goliath
Question: Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the UK, but which mountain comes next in height?
Answer: ben macdhui
Question: Which online bank was established by the Prudential in 1998?
Answer: egg
Question: Who won the 2010 World Professional Snooker Championship?
Answer: neil robertson
Question: Which Benjamin Britten opera was composed to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second?
Answer: gloriana
Question: By what name is the medical condition Pertussis more commonly known?
Answer: whooping cough
Question: Bathsheba Everdene is the female protagonist of which Thomas Hardy novel?
Answer: far from madding crowd
Question: Which daughter of Minos of Crete gave Theseus the thread which enabled him to find his way out of the labyrinth?
Answer: ariadne
Question: Who wrote the opera 'The Girl of the Golden West'?
Answer: giacomo puccini
Question: According to the nursery rhyme who 'kissed the girls and made them cry'?
Answer: georgie porgie
Question: Which musical features the song 'The Rhythm of Life'?
Answer: sweet charity
Question: Which championship golf course has holes named 'Flowering Crab Apple', 'Firethorn' and 'Azalea'?
Answer: augusta
Question: What is the name of the largest of Jupiter's moons?
Answer: ganymede
Question: In which James Bond film does Britt Ekland appear?
Answer: man with golden gun
Question: In which country did the Velvet Revolution of November 1989 take place?
Answer: czechoslovakia
Question: Which pop group had a number one hit record in the 1990s with 'Don't Look Back in Anger'?
Answer: oasis
Question: In which sport did Scot Graeme Obree twice become World Champion?
Answer: cycling
Question: What is the mascot for the 2012 London Paralympic Games called?
Answer: mandeville
Question: In the Bible, on the road to where did Cleopas encounter Jesus?
Answer: emmaus
Question: Who is the fictional detective, known as the female James Bond, created by Peter O'Donnell?
Answer: modesty blaise
Question: By what name is the steam locomotive wheel arrangement of 4-6-2 known?
Answer: pacific
Question: Which comedian's catchphrases included "Shut that door"?
Answer: larry grayson
Question: In which country did General Jaruzelski impose martial law in 1981?
Answer: poland
Question: What kind of acid is normally used in a car battery?
Answer: sulphuric acid
Question: Which composer's oratorios include 'The Kingdom' and 'The Dream of Gerontius'?
Answer: edward elgar
Question: Which Rugby League team is nicknamed 'The Wildcats'?
Answer: wakefield trinity
Question: Who chaired the 2010 Iraq Inquiry?
Answer: sir john chilcot
Question: Which newspaper did Piers Morgan edit from 1995 to 2004?
Answer: daily mirror
Question: Who in 2007 was appointed Britain's first ever female Home Secretary?
Answer: jacqui smith
Question: What does the acronym SWALK on an envelope mean?
Answer: sealed with loving kiss
Question: Which TV character is the British equivalent of Michael Scott played by Steve Carell on US television?
Answer: david brent
Question: Guy Garvey is the lead vocalist of which award-winning Bury-based band?
Answer: elbow
Question: In which town or city does the Rugby Union team Ospreys play its home games?
Answer: swansea
Question: Name the Dubai tower officially opened in 2010 which is now the world's tallest building.
Answer: burj khalifa
Question: What 9-letter word beginning with G means a local official in the German Nazi Party?
Answer: gauleiter
Question: PH Newby was the winner of the first what in 1969?
Answer: booker prize
Question: Name the police officer who commanded the operation leading to the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes and who has since been promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissioner.
Answer: cressida dick
Question: Who deposed Richard II in 1399, succeeding him as King of England?
Answer: henry iv
Question: Who in 2002 was the youngest man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer: adrien brody
Question: Actor Gary Webster took over as an eponymous character in which TV series of the 70s and 80s?
Answer: minder
Question: Which primates, whose name is derived from the Latin for 'spirits of the dead', are endemic to Madagascar and surrounding islands?
Answer: lemurs
Question: Who chaired the 2003-4 Inquiry into the suspicious death of MOD scientist. Dr David Kelly?
Answer: lord hutton
Question: Name the former Thailand Prime Minister (2001-6) who briefly owned Manchester City football club from 2007-8.
Answer: thaksin shinawatra
Question: Which former Royal Mail Chief Executive was appointed Chief Executive of ITV in 2010?
Answer: adam crozier
Question: Port Ellen is the chief town on which Scottish island, the most southern of the Inner Hebrides?
Answer: islay
Question: Name the Swedish tennis player who in recent years has ended long unbeaten records by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
Answer: robin soderling
Question: The Petronas Towers, the world's tallest twin towers, are in which Asian city?
Answer: kuala lumpur
Question: What 7-letter word beginning with J is a nickname for a US marine?
Answer: jarhead
Question: Name the former Metropolitan Police Commander convicted in 2010 of perverting the course of justice and sentenced to 4 years imprisonment.
Answer: ali dizaei
Question: What is the nationality of Manny Pacquiao, considered by many the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world.
Answer: filipino
Question: Titus Oates was a ringleader of the Popish plot to kill which English King in 1678?
Answer: charles ii
Question: The Torah and Talmud are holy books in which religion?
Answer: judaism
Question: The film 'The Shawshank Redemption' was based on a novella by which highly successful writer?
Answer: stephen king
Question: Which horse won his 4th consecutive King George VI Chase at Kempton in 2009, beating Desert Orchid's record of 4 wins in 5 years?
Answer: kauto star
Question: By what name is the building 30 St Mary Axe in the City of London colloquially known?
Answer: gherkin
Question: Film director Sam Mendes was married to which actress?
Answer: kate winslet
Question: Which former FA Chief Executive once played as a midfielder for Tranmere Rovers?
Answer: mark palios
Question: Trade union leader Jack Dromey is married to which politician?
Answer: harriet harman
Question: The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde was a no.1 hit in 1967 for which singer?
Answer: georgie fame
Question: For what does the 'J' stand in the computer file format jpeg?
Answer: joint
Question: Which element has the atomic number 55 and the chemical symbol Cs?
Answer: caesium
Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in 1883 and was first elected to parliament in 1922 as MP for Limehouse?
Answer: clement attlee
Question: In which English county are the towns of Wiveliscombe and Watchet?
Answer: somerset
Question: For what does the 'P' stand in the computer file format pdf?
Answer: portable
Question: In which country, which has a coastline on the eastern Mediterranean, is the red wine Chateau Musar produced?
Answer: lebanon
Question: Who drew the cartoon strip The Fosdyke Saga?
Answer: bill tidy
Question: Who wrote the poem How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix?
Answer: robert browning
Question: In which of the constellations of the Zodiac is the bright star Antares found?
Answer: scorpio
Question: At the 2010 football World Cup which was the only team not to lose a game?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which element has the atomic number 42 and the chemical symbol Mo?
Answer: molybdenum
Question: The malleus, incus, and stapes (the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup) are the three smallest bones in the human body, how are they collectively known?
Answer: ossicles
Question: Which fictional detective, created by Caroline Graham in novels such as Faithful Unto Death and The Killings at Badger Drift, features in a popular TV series?
Answer: chief inspector tom barnaby
Question: At the 2010 football World Cup who won the Golden Ball for best player?
Answer: diego forlan
Question: In Greek mythology, Elektra was the daughter of which king?
Answer: agamemnon
Question: The inscription 'Bleste be the man that spares these stones, and curst be he that moves my bones' appears on whose gravestone?
Answer: william shakespeare
Question: Which south coast town is served by the local radio station Arrow FM?
Answer: hastings
Question: In June 2010, Daniel Westling married Crown Princess Victoria of which country?
Answer: sweden
Question: During 2009, in order to highlight 'global warming', which country held an underwater cabinet meeting?
Answer: maldives
Question: The Monarch's Way is a long distance footpath, approximating to a route taken by which monarch?
Answer: charles ii
Question: Which type of soft undressed silk takes its name from the province of north-east China where it was originally made?
Answer: shantung
Question: How is 'King Rudolf 5th of Ruritania' known in the title of a book?
Answer: prisoner of zenda
Question: Which lighthouse stands 12 miles east of the Tay estuary?
Answer: bell rock
Question: In which English county are the towns of Daventry and Brixworth?
Answer: northamptonshire
Question: What name, that of a German soldier born at Rostock in 1742, has been given since the early 19th century to a style of strong leather half-boot?
Answer: blucher
Question: In July 2010, USA and Russia swapped prisoners charged with spying - at which city's airport did the exchange take place?
Answer: vienna
Question: In which of the constellations of the Zodiac is the star Aldebaran found?
Answer: taurus
Question: From which author's story was the opera 'The Barber of Seville' taken?
Answer: beaumarchais
Question: In World War 2, Admiral Gunther Lutjens was in command of which famous ship?
Answer: bismarck
Question: Which south coast town is served by the local radio station Splash FM?
Answer: worthing
Question: In which Shakespeare play does the character Antigonus "exit, pursued by a bear"?
Answer: winter s tale
Question: Bowman's Capsule is found in which organ of the body?
Answer: kidney
Question: Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet, which is the penultimate letter?
Answer: psi
Question: An obituary in the sporting times in 1882 lead to the creation of which trophy?
Answer: ashes
Question: How many countries were founder members of the EEC in 1957?
Answer: six
Question: In 1931 which Hungarian actor played Count Dracula in films?
Answer: bela lugosi
Question: The Coromandel coast is washed by which part of the Indian Ocean?
Answer: bay of bengal
Question: What does Al Jazeera (the TV Station) mean in English?
Answer: peninsula
Question: Dave Lamb is a commentator on which food orientated TV programme?
Answer: come dine with me
Question: Who composed the music for the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers?
Answer: arthur sullivan
Question: In 2009 who was elected speaker of the House of Commons?
Answer: john bercow
Question: Sturnus Vulgaris is the scientific name for which common bird?
Answer: starling
Question: Who played Hawkeye Pierce in the film version of MASH?
Answer: donald sutherland
Question: In the human body what is produced by the lachrymal glands?
Answer: tears
Question: What do we call the point in the orbit of a planet at which the planet is nearest to the Sun?
Answer: perihelion
Question: Born in 1585, who was known as the red eminence?
Answer: cardinal richelieu
Question: Who was the Spanish adventurer who conquered Peru in the 16th century?
Answer: francisco pizarro
Question: Which saint set up a community on the island of Iona?
Answer: st columba
Question: What was the name of the first Plantagenet monarch of England?
Answer: henry ii
Question: Which English King immediately preceded the Tudors and was effectively the last Plantagenet monarch?
Answer: richard iii
Question: In which country does the Zambezi river empty into the Indian ocean?
Answer: mozambique
Question: In which country is the confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile?
Answer: sudan
Question: At which university was Samuel Beckett from 1923 to 1927?
Answer: trinity college dublin
Question: Whose 1941 7th Symphony was called 'Leningrad'?
Answer: dmitri shostakovich
Question: Catherine Hogarth was the wife of which famous author?
Answer: charles dickens
Question: In which sport are penalties awarded to the opposing team for clipping, holding and hooking?
Answer: ice hockey
Question: What is the narne of the late playwright husband of the actress Maureen Lipman?
Answer: jack rosenthal
Question: Before he became an author, what was the original profession of Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: lawyer
Question: Which driver won the first Grand Prix Formula One World Motor championship in 1950?
Answer: guiseppe farina
Question: Which racing driver won the Formula One Championship in 1981, 1983 and 1987?
Answer: nelson piquet
Question: Who was the first woman to run for US Vice President in 1984?
Answer: geraldine ferraro
Question: Who was Indira Gandhi's father?
Answer: pandit jawaharlal nehru
Question: What is the popular name of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23?
Answer: appassionata
Question: Where would you find a pauldron and a vambrace?
Answer: suit of armour
Question: Which building complex in Liverpool was designed by Jesse Hartley in 1846?
Answer: albert dock
Question: What is the name of the rod on a sundial which indicates the time?
Answer: gnomon
Question: Who composed the opera 'Emilia di Liverpool' in 1824?
Answer: gaetano donizetti
Question: Which son of Sweyn Forkbeard became King of England in 1016?
Answer: canute
Question: Who designed the crypt and original design of the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in 1933?
Answer: edwin lutyens
Question: Who composed the oratorio 'Carmina Burana' in 1935?
Answer: carl orff
Question: Which pop group was co-founded by Syd Barrett in 1965/66?
Answer: pink floyd
Question: Whose first novel 'The Hunt for Red October' was published in 1984?
Answer: tom clancy
Question: At which resort did Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet in a major conference in February 1945?
Answer: yalta
Question: What is the oldest structure within the Tower of London, built by William the Conqueror in 1086?
Answer: white tower
Question: What is the name of the area in Central Park dedicated to the memory of John Lennon?
Answer: strawberry fields
Question: In which band did Ringo Starr play immediately before he joined the Beatles?
Answer: rory storm and hurricanes
Question: Who wrote the plays The Browning Version and Separate Tables?
Answer: terence rattigan
Question: In which modern day country would you have found the majority of the Hittite Empire?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which country is the largest producer of tungsten (75% of world's output)?
Answer: china
Question: Who played guitar and was a founder of the 'Hot Club of France' (Quintette du Hot Club de France)?
Answer: django reinhardt
Question: In the shape of which animal does the Hindu God Hanuman appear?
Answer: monkey
Question: In Italian cuisine what name is given to a turnover of pizza dough filled with vegetables meat or cheese?
Answer: calzone
Question: Who was Lieutenant Gerard Chasing for four years in the TV series The Fugitive?
Answer: richard kimble
Question: Which golfing accessory was patented by George Grant in 1899?
Answer: tee
Question: What is the name of the hero in the play Death of a Salesman?
Answer: willie loman
Question: Who was the first female to be the speaker of the House of Commons?
Answer: betty boothroyd
Question: Which aircraft company built a model called the Comet?
Answer: de havilland
Question: In which harbour did the Mary Rose sink in 1545?
Answer: portsmouth
Question: Border, Corriedale and Leicester are all breeds of which animal?
Answer: sheep
Question: Who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus boat in 1969-70?
Answer: thor heyerdahl
Question: Which London landmark now stands on the site of the Tyburn Tree/Gallows?
Answer: marble arch
Question: Which waterproof material was produced by Joseph Kagan in the 1950's?
Answer: gannex
Question: Which was the first London Street to be lit by gas lamp?
Answer: pall mall
Question: The Paris-Dakar rally stars in France but end in which country?
Answer: senegal
Question: Which British Foreign Minister, later Prime Minister, is associated with Gunboat Diplomacy?
Answer: lord palmerston
Question: Who said guns will make us powerful but butter will make us fat?
Answer: herman goering
Question: Which film classic was based around the Boxer Rebellion?
Answer: 55 days at peking
Question: When Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped by Israeli Agents, in which country was he found?
Answer: argentina
Question: What was the name of the faith healer employed by Glenn Hoddle for the 1998 England World Cup squad?
Answer: eileen drewery
Question: Phil Silvers wrote Nancy with the Laughing Eyes about which entertainer's daughter?
Answer: frank sinatra
Question: Who had a mistress called Clara Petacci?
Answer: benito mussolini
Question: The former Labour Minister Gerald Kaufman has his constituency in which city?
Answer: manchester
Question: Sir Humphry Repton achieved fame in the 18th century in which sphere of activity?
Answer: landscape gardening
Question: Name the Italian composer of 'The Pines of Rome'.
Answer: ottorino respighi
Question: Bigos, a form of sauerkraut, is a national dish from which country?
Answer: poland
Question: In the 20th century Henri Cartier-Bresson achieved fame in what area of activity?
Answer: photography
Question: The 12000 foot high volcano Semeru is the highest peak on which South-East Asian island?
Answer: java
Question: Who is the British director of the 1994 film 'Shallow Grave'?
Answer: danny boyle
Question: Which metal has a low-grade version called spelter, often used for sculptural casting?
Answer: zinc
Question: What is the name of Steven Spielberg's 1997 film telling the story of a slave ship mutiny?
Answer: amistad
Question: The former Labour minister Charles Clarke had his constituency in which English city?
Answer: norwich
Question: Which island, home to a monastery, lies off the coast of South Wales opposite Tenby?
Answer: caldey
Question: William Lamb was the family name of which 19th century titled British Prime Minister?
Answer: lord melbourne
Question: In which present day country did the Etruscan civilisation exist?
Answer: italy
Question: Cullet is a waste version with impurities of which material?
Answer: glass
Question: Chianti must contain at least 75% of which Italian grape variety?
Answer: sangiovese