CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the name of the curved upper surface of a liquid in a tube?
Answer: meniscus
Question: Prior to Bill Clinton, who was the last Democrat President of the USA?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: In the original Beatles line-up, who was the bass guitarist?
Answer: stuart sutcliffe
Question: A party called VERITAS stood for seats in the 2005 General Election. Who was the Chairman of that party?
Answer: robert kilroy silk
Question: A party called RESPECT stood for seats in the 2005 General Election. Who was the Chairman of that party?
Answer: george galloway
Question: In Indian cuisine what vegetable is indicated by the word DAL?
Answer: lentils
Question: What was the name of the Chief Commissioner of the London Metropolitan police force who resigned in 2008?
Answer: ian blair
Question: Cricket - The leading run scorer in test match cricket is Sachin Tendulkar. What is the name of the Indian batsman who is second highest scorer of test match runs?
Answer: rahul dravid
Question: To what RAF base are the bodies of servicemen killed in the war in Afghanistan now transported?
Answer: brize norton
Question: Brookfield public boarding school for boys is the setting for what famous novel, which also became a famous film?
Answer: goodbye mr chips
Question: Florizel Street was the original working title of which famous British television soap?
Answer: coronation street
Question: Insomnia Cafe was the original working title of which famous American comedy series?
Answer: friends
Question: In Indian cuisine, what vegetable is indicated by the word SAG?
Answer: spinach
Question: What was the name of the Chief Commissioner of the London Metropolitan police force who resigned in 2011?
Answer: paul stephenson
Question: Which Australian cricketer is the third highest scorer of test match runs, after Tendulkar and Dravid?
Answer: ricky ponting
Question: Films - Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon starred in a remake of which famous western?
Answer: true grit
Question: In our solar system, which planet is the hottest, with a mean surface temperature of 457 degrees centigrade?
Answer: venus
Question: Which singer, originally successful as part of a pop group, had solo top ten hits in the 1970's with the records "Fallen Angel" and "My Eyes Adored You"?
Answer: frankie valli
Question: Who wrote the poem "The Darkling Thrush"? He is better known as a classic novelist?
Answer: thomas hardy
Question: Films - Russell Crowe and Christian Bale starred in a remake of which famous western?
Answer: 3 10 to yuma
Question: In our solar system, which planet is the coldest, with a mean surface temperature of minus two hundred degrees centigrade?
Answer: neptune
Question: The opera "The Cunning Little Vixen" and the song cycle "The diary of one who has vanished" are the works of which composer?
Answer: janacek
Question: Which country is bordered by Georgia to the north, Turkey to the west and Azerbaijan to the east?
Answer: armenia
Question: Andy Murray is the number one British male tennis player. Who is the British number two who first came to prominence by reaching the semi-final of this year's Queen's Club Tournament?
Answer: james ward
Question: Amoebas and some parasites, including those which cause malaria and sleeping- sickness are different forms of which microscopic single-celled organisms?
Answer: protozoa
Question: Which Italian liqueur is a key ingredient of the well known sweet, Tiramisu?
Answer: amaretto
Question: On this day, 8th November, which famous poet who was blind in his later years, died in his home in London in 1647?
Answer: john milton
Question: Which snooker player co-hosted the TV show "Big Break" with Jim Davidson?
Answer: john virgo
Question: What, exactly, is an S.U.V.?
Answer: sports utility vehicle
Question: Which gulf is an arm of the South China Sea, bounded by the coasts of China and Vietnam?
Answer: gulf of tonkin
Question: Which traditional Scottish soup is made with the principal ingredients of haddock and potatoes, served in fish stock and sometimes milk with onion added and garnished with parsley?
Answer: cullen skink
Question: Which composer wrote the opera 'Falstaff', based on the Shakespeare play 'The Merry wives of Windsor'?
Answer: guiseppe verdi
Question: The group 'Gorillaz' made a record which got to number 4 in the pop charts in 2001. The title of the record was the name of which film star?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: Sport - which tennis player has the nickname "BOOM-BOOM"?
Answer: boris becker
Question: The group 'Bananarama' made a record which got to number 3 in the pop charts in 1984. The title of the record contained the name of what film star?
Answer: robert de niro
Question: Which composer wrote the opera 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' based on Shakespeare's play?
Answer: benjamin britten
Question: Which traditional Scottish soup is made with the principal ingredients of leek, onions and chicken stew, and sometimes also with prunes?
Answer: cock leekie
Question: Who was the leader of the early christian church in Ephesus addressed by a letter from St Paul in the New Testament?
Answer: timothy
Question: Mythology - Prosperina was the Roman goddess of the underworld. Who was the Greek equivalent?
Answer: persephone
Question: In the children's programme 'The Magic Roundabout', shown on television in the 1960's , who was the narrator?
Answer: eric thompson
Question: Which playwright, with a three letter surname, wrote the plays The Lady's not for Burning and Venus Observed?
Answer: christopher fry
Question: The song 'If ever I would leave you' came from which musical?
Answer: camelot
Question: Who was the leader of the early Christian church in Crete addressed by a letter from St Paul in the New Testament?
Answer: titus
Question: Mythology - Diana was the Roman goddess of fertility and hunting. Who was the Greek equivalent?
Answer: artemis
Question: In the children's programme 'Paddington Bear' shown on television in the 1970's, who was the narrator?
Answer: michael horden
Question: Which novelist, with a three letter surname, wrote the novels 'The Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum'?
Answer: umberto eco
Question: The song "If I ruled the world" came from which musical?
Answer: pickwick
Question: In the famous American TV series, which actress played "Ally McBeal"?
Answer: callista flockhart
Question: In 2008, the 800th Formula One race was held at night. In which Grand Prix did this take place?
Answer: singapore
Question: Which German river flows 1159 kilometres from the Czech Republic flowing into the North Sea just north of Hamburg?
Answer: elbe
Question: In the famous American TV series "The Sopranos", which actor played Tony Soprano?
Answer: james gandolfini
Question: In 1994, the legendary Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna was killed when competing in which Grand Prix?
Answer: san marino
Question: Which German river flows 292 kilometres from Lower Saxony, flowing into the North Sea just north of Bremen?
Answer: weser
Question: Which famous composer, though better known for other works, wrote the music for several films including 'Bitter Springs' and 'Scott of the Antarctic'?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: 'Where Eagles Dare', 'The Guns of Navaronne' and 'Ice Station Zebra' were hugely successful films in the 1960's and 70's. Who wrote the novels on which these films were based?
Answer: alistair maclean
Question: Which English painter, the co-founder and first president of the Royal Academy, was the principal court painter to George III ?
Answer: sir joshua reynolds
Question: 'A Kiss Before Dying', 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'The Stepford Wives' were hugely successful films in the 1960's and 70's. Who wrote the novels on which these films were based?
Answer: ira levin
Question: Yale University took its anme from Elihu Yale because, as a very wealthy man he became its chief benefactor. Yale accumulated his substantial wealth while working for around 30 years for which organisation?
Answer: east india company
Question: Which horse, trained by the father of the jockey Ruby Walsh, won the 2000 Grand National?
Answer: papillon
Question: Who defeated Adlai Stevenson in the US Presidential Election in November 1952 ?
Answer: dwight d eisenhower
Question: Which two countries, who would come close to war in 1974, joined NATO on the same day in 1952 ?
Answer: greece and turkey
Question: In March 1952 General Fulgencio Batista re-took control of which Caribbean country after a military coup?
Answer: cuba
Question: Which town on the North Devon coast was devastated by a flash flood in August 1952 ?
Answer: lynmouth
Question: Which American colony became a self-governing commonwealth and an unincorporated territory of the USA in July 1952 ?
Answer: puerto rico
Question: Britain's first stretch of motorway, opened in December 1958, bypassed which town (now officially a city) ?
Answer: preston
Question: Russian Alexei Leonov was the first man to do what (albeit for just ten minutes) on 18th March 1965 ?
Answer: walk in space
Question: What is the three word collective name given to the first ten ammendments to the United States Constitution drafted in 1789 ?
Answer: bill of rights
Question: What was the name of the man who invented Shredded Wheat in 1893 ? Was it Charles E Pinky or Henry D Perky?
Answer: perky
Question: Which was Charles Dickens' first published novel, serialised in 20 monthly parts from April 1836 ?
Answer: pickwick papers
Question: Which Spanish conquistador successfully crossed Panama in 1513, thus becoming the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the New World?
Answer: balboa
Question: What was the well-known surname of the man who patented the ball-point pen in 1943 ?
Answer: lazlo biro
Question: Another Place, a piece of modern sculpture consisting of 100 cast-iron figures facing out to sea on Crosby beach near Liverpool, is by which artist?
Answer: antony gormley
Question: Who wrote the novels Riders (1984), Rivals (1988) and Polo (1981) ?
Answer: jilly cooper
Question: Glyndwr University's state-of-the-art conference and perfomance centre, opened in 2009, is named after which Welsh harpist?
Answer: catrin finch
Question: In The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst, which planet is described in the title of its movement as The Magician ?
Answer: uranus
Question: What was the poet W.H.Auden's first name?
Answer: wystan
Question: Which Liverpool art gallery, opened in 1877, was named after the local brewer and former Lord Mayor who financed it ?
Answer: walker
Question: """Call me Ishmael"" are the opening words of which famous 19th century novel?"
Answer: moby dick
Question: The Halle orchestra has been based in which English city since its formation in 1858 ?
Answer: manchester
Question: Who was the lead singer with Wet Wet Wet until he went solo in 1999 ?
Answer: marti pellow
Question: Which record producer and band leader, who died in 1979, was responsible for 27 number ones in the UK for various artists including Cliff Richard and Frank Ifield?
Answer: norrie paramour
Question: Who was the lead giutarist with Led Zeppelin?
Answer: jimmy page
Question: Which rock band did Jarvis Cocker form in Sheffield in 1978 - they had their big break in 1981 ?
Answer: pulp
Question: Billy don't be a Hero in 1974 was which group's only UK No 1?
Answer: paper lace
Question: Cricket - which Yorkshireman scored a then Test record 364 runs against Australia at the Oval in 1938 ?
Answer: len hutton
Question: At which Grand Prix was Ayrton Senna killed in 1994 ?
Answer: san marino
Question: Soccer - which is the only English club to have reached a EUFA Europa League Final ?
Answer: fulham
Question: Including the goalkeeper, how many players are there in a water Polo team ?
Answer: seven
Question: The most famous horse race in the USA, the Kentucky Derby, is traditionally run on the first Saturday of which month ?
Answer: may
Question: Stretching from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east which is England's newest National Park, established in April, 2011 ?
Answer: south downs
Question: Which river, which flows into the Irish Sea between Lytham St Annes and Southport, marked the northernmost extent of the ancient kingdom of Mercia?
Answer: ribble
Question: Which is the most easterly of the five boroughs that make up the metropolitan county of Merseyside?
Answer: st helens
Question: What is the name of the 28 acre recreational lake in hyde Park, London, created by George II's royal gardener in 1730 ?
Answer: serpentine
Question: There are just two towns in Rutland - Oakham, the county town and which other, best known for its 428 year old public school ?
Answer: uppingham
Question: Cleeve Hill, at 330m, is the highest point in which range of hills in south-western and west central England ?
Answer: cotswolds
Question: Which state has the longest coastline and 75% of the active volcanoes in the USA?
Answer: alaska
Question: In 2002, which Secretary of Defence explained about "known knowns", "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns" in a speech referring to terrorism?
Answer: donald rumsfeld
Question: In 1851 a club team led by John Cox Stevens won the world's oldest active sporting trophy. It was not until 1983 that an Australian team won the trophy thus ending a 132 year winning streak. What was the sport?
Answer: yachting
Question: 999 is the number for Police, Ambulance, Fire Service, Coast Guard, Mountain Rescue and which other emergency service?
Answer: cave rescue
Question: Lesley Griffiths, Wrexham's Assembly Member, holds which Welsh Cabinet post?
Answer: health
Question: Who was the leader of the forces defeated in the Battle of Watling Street in 61 AD?
Answer: boudicca
Question: Which other 230 mile pre-Roman road crosses Watling Street at a point called High Cross in Warwickshire?
Answer: fosse way
Question: Standing side by side in Stony Stratford on Watling Street are two ancient coaching inns. In the 18th century travellers tales became embellished as they passed between the two establishments, and the emanating tales began to be called after them, a pracitce continued to this day. What are the two inns called?
Answer: cock and bull
Question: In the 1990 Oscar winning film "Dances with wolves", John Dunbar befriends Indians calling themselves Lakota. To which tribe of plains Indians did Lakota belong?
Answer: sioux
Question: In the 70's Robert Lindsay played Citizen Wolfie Smith, the leader of the Tooting Popular Front. What was his four word catchphrase shouted out defiantly at the start of each programme?
Answer: power to people
Question: The Libyan flag had been green under Colonel Gadaffis rule. A flag of which three colours was first flown by the rebels and has now been adopted by the nation?
Answer: red black green
Question: What is the name of the so called God Particle that the Hadron Collider scientists claim to have found evidence of in December 2011?
Answer: higgs boson
Question: Which colour was the title of Coldplay's first top 5 hit in 2000 and the flag used in Formula 1 racing to indicate a hazard, slow down and not overtake?
Answer: yellow
Question: The title of Adam Ant's 3rd and last No 1 hit in 1982 and the title of John Newbery's children's story published in 1765 contain the same three words. It is now used as a derisory term about an excessively virtous or conformist person. What is it?
Answer: goody two shoes
Question: The brother of Zeus and Hades and married to Amphitrite, which of the twelve Olympian Gods had both the horse and bull as symbols and was beleived to cause earthquakes?
Answer: poseidon
Question: The 1981 film "Chariots of Fire" featured the achievements of Harold Abrahams and which Scottish missionary who refused to run in the 100m heats on a Sunday and instead won the 400m Gold Medal in the 1924 Olympics?
Answer: eric liddle
Question: In 1980 the Olympics were boycotted by countries led by the USA protesting against the Afghan war. In 1984 they were boycotted by countries led by the USSR protesting about America's attitude towards them. Only one country, which underwent a revolution in 1979 boycotted both years. Which country was this?
Answer: iran
Question: """The Haywain"" and ""Dedham Valley"" are paintings by Constable both feature which river that forms much of the border between Essex and Suffolk?"
Answer: stour
Question: The cyclepath/footpath in Devon which follows the Rivers Taw and Torridge is named after which eponymous persecuted animal in the 1926 book by Henry Williamson, made into a film in 1979?
Answer: tarka otter
Question: The Mekong river is the border between Laos and which other Asian country for about 1000km of its length?
Answer: thailand
Question: The song "Ol' Man River" from the 1927 musical "Showboat" was sung most famously by Paul Robeson. To which river does it refer?
Answer: mississippi
Question: Brittany ferries operate a direct service for Irish passengers from Cork to which French port in the Finisterre department?
Answer: roscoff
Question: Which controversial supermodel born in 1974 celebrated 10 years as the face of Rimmel last September? Her career revival, after police dropped charges against her through lack of evidence, has been viewed as a sign of moral and cultural decline by critics such as Peter Hitchens.
Answer: kate moss
Question: Which English author, who died in 1998, published Katie Hannigan in 1950 and The Bill Bailey Trilogy between 1986 and 1997?
Answer: catherine cookson
Question: Which small insect-eating marsupial takes its name from the Telugu word for Pig-Rat?
Answer: bandicoot
Question: Which James Bond film featured the main female villain Helga Brandt?
Answer: you only live twice
Question: Painted in 1905, the painting Garcon a la Pipe was a famous painting by which famous artist who died in 1973?
Answer: pablo picasso
Question: What nationality was tennis player Yvon Petra? In 1946 he became the first man to win the Men's Singles Title at Wimbledon since World War II when he beat Geoff Brown of Australia.
Answer: french
Question: Which country's national flag consists of a large white crescent and smaller star, the crescent being offset left of centre, on a red background?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which James Bond film featured the main female villain called Irma Bunt?
Answer: on her majesty s secret service
Question: Which carnivorous marsupial, the size of a small dog, now found in the wild mainly in one Australian state, is now the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the Thylacine in 1936?
Answer: tasmanian devil
Question: Which English author who died in 1991 published novels such as A Gun For Sale in 1936 and The Ministry Of Fear in 1943?
Answer: graham greene
Question: What nationality was tennis player Gottfried Von Cramme who lost in three successive Men's Singles Finals at Wimbledon in 1935, 1936 and 1937 - two of them to Britain's Fred Perry?
Answer: german
Question: Painted in 1881, the painting Luncheon Of The Boating Party was a famous painting by which famous artist who died in 1919?
Answer: pierre auguste renoir
Question: What was the name of the only female member of The Beano's Bash Street Kids; her outfit consisted of a black and blue hooped top and black skirt?
Answer: toots
Question: What was the name of the twin brother of the only female member of The Beano's Bash Street Kids; his outfit consisted of a black and blue hooped top and black shorts?
Answer: sidney
Question: Opened in 1969, in which city can you find the 344 metre tall John Hancock Centre?
Answer: chicago
Question: The three letter name of which creature can be spelt out using the first letter of the capitakl cities of Mali, Kazakhstan and Bhutan in that order?
Answer: bat
Question: Opened in 1981, in which city can you find the 309 metre tall AMP Centrepoint tower?
Answer: sydney
Question: Maxwell Reed, born on April 2nd 1919, was a British actor who rose to fame for being the first husband of which famous woman?
Answer: joan collins
Question: Originally screened in 1960 and a spin-off from The Army Gane, which ITV comedy series starred Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser in the main roles of Montague and Claude who frequent The Imperial Club?
Answer: bootsie and snudge
Question: Which planet in our solar syatem is situated approximately 228 million km from the Sun?
Answer: mars
Question: Whcih planet in our solar system is situated approximately 777 km from the Sun?
Answer: jupiter
Question: According to his creator, which famous fictional character retired to take up bee-keeping on the Sussex Downs in the early years of the 20th century?
Answer: sherlock holmes
Question: In Morse Code which letter is represented by four dots (dot, dot, dot, dot)?
Answer: h
Question: What is the name of the toy daschund with a metal body, who speaks with a southern accent, in the film Toy Story?
Answer: slinky
Question: Which famous hymn begins with the words'Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness, sowing in the noontide with the dewy eye'?
Answer: bringing in sheaves
Question: According to his creator, which famous fictional character, in 1941, lied about his age in order to enter the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during World war II from which he emerges as a commander?
Answer: james bond
Question: Sharing his surname with a type of building, which footballer scored the deciding goal in the 1966 F.A. Cup Final?
Answer: derek temple
Question: In terms of land area, which is the largest country to be situated wholly in Europe?
Answer: ukraine
Question: In Morse Code which letter is represented by dash, dash, dot, dot?
Answer: z
Question: Which highly toxic protein was present on the tip of the umbrella that was used to kill Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov in 1978?
Answer: ricin
Question: Which U.S. state has borders with Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana?
Answer: ohio
Question: Which actor in 2005 played the title role in the TV remake of Kojak?
Answer: ving rhames
Question: Unveiled on May 11th 2007, a bronze statue of which famous figure now stands outside Wembley Stadium? It features the character with arms folded and one foot resting on a ball.
Answer: bobby moore
Question: Which U.S. state has borders with Oklahoma,Colorado, Nebraska and Missouri?
Answer: kansas
Question: Which breakfast cereal, sold by Kellogs for many years, featured a character called Henry's Cat on the box until replaced by an astronaut called Colonel Rik in the 1980's?
Answer: ricicles
Question: Which group in 1971 had a top ten hit with the record The Pushbike Song?
Answer: mixtures
Question: Which christian name is shared by two title characters in the Dickens book Dombey and Son?
Answer: paul
Question: In English history, who was the legendary wife of King Leofric, Earl of Mercia?
Answer: lady godiva
Question: Which film duo met The Invisble Man, The Mummy and Frankenstein?
Answer: abbot and costello
Question: Which original ninth planet of our solar system was re-classified as a dwarf planet in 2006?
Answer: pluto
Question: Lockjaw is an old fashioned term for which affliction?
Answer: tetanus
Question: Which was the first of the 'Road' films starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour?
Answer: road to singapore
Question: Which scientist and inventor became known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park"?
Answer: thomas edison
Question: Which composer wrote the scores for the Errol Flynn swashbucklers such as Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood?
Answer: erich wolfgang korngold
Question: In Morse code, which letter of the alphabet is designated by a single dash?
Answer: t
Question: The name of which feature of a volcano comes from the Spanish for 'cooking pot'?
Answer: caldera
Question: On which place in Paris is the Arc de Triumphe from which several thoroughfares radiate?
Answer: place charles de gaulle
Question: Feste is a jester in which of Shakespeare's comedies?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: In astrology, which sign of the zodiac is known as The Maiden?
Answer: virgo
Question: What special infantry brigade was founded in the Far East by Orde Wingate in World war II?
Answer: chindits
Question: According to the Chinese, 2012 will be the year of which mythical creature?
Answer: dragon
Question: Which composer wrote the scores for the Hitchcock thrillers Psycho and Vertigo?
Answer: bernard hermann
Question: Who famously stole the 'Mona Lisa' in 1911?
Answer: vincenzo peruggia