CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which cartoonist, whose caricatures of public figures were published in "Private Eye" in the 1960s and 1970s, worked for Pink Floyd on "The Wall" album (1979) and movie (1982)?
Answer: gerald scarfe
Question: The Russian city of Volgograd that was called Tsaritsyn from 1589 to 1925, changed its name in 1961 from what?
Answer: stalingrad
Question: """The sum of the squares of the lengths of the four sides of a parallelogram equals the sum of the squares of the lengths of the two diagonals"" is known as what?"
Answer: parallelogram law
Question: What led to Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, South Africa, Japan, New Zealand and Australia controlling the Cameroons, Togoland, Ruanda-Urundi, the Kionga Triangle, South West Africa, the Marshall Islands, the Carolines, the Marianas, the Palau Islands, Kiautschou, Western Samoa, part of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Nauru?
Answer: end of world war i
Question: """The Unsinkable Seven"" is a nickname given to the only competitors to finish what rally, in both 1963 and 1968?"
Answer: east african safari rally
Question: What 1936 film sets out a future to 2036, predicting World War II from 23 December 1940, bombing raids on cities, a plague ("wandering sickness") in 1966, and a civilization based in Basra, Iraq, that renounced war and outlawed independent nation-states?
Answer: things to come
Question: The eleventh studio album by Irish rock band U2, released in November 2004, was called How to Dismantle ..." what?
Answer: atomic bomb
Question: In 1988, why did English professional jockey Lester Piggott have his OBE (which had been awarded in 1975) taken away?
Answer: tax evasion
Question: What is the world's smallest (25 square miles / 60 square km) and oldest republic, that is in the Apennine Mountains, entirely surrounded by Italy?
Answer: san marino
Question: Where is the US Bullion Depository, a fortified building used to store US official gold reserves, and a US Army post that holds the US Army Armor Center and the US Army Armor School?
Answer: fort knox
Question: What subregion of Oceania includes Fiji, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Norfolk Island, the Solomon Islands, the Torres Strait Islands and Vanuatu?
Answer: melanesia
Question: What headwear is traditionally worn at Harrow, the English public school?
Answer: straw boater
Question: The nutmeg tree is important for two spices derived from the fruit: nutmeg and which other?
Answer: mace
Question: What are Gliese 876 d, OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, COROT-Exo-7b, Gliese 581 d and Gliese 581 c?
Answer: planets
Question: Who is the last person to die on stage in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer: juliet
Question: What structural element of a building protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface, creating usable space in the roof by adding headroom and usually enabling addition of windows?
Answer: dormer
Question: In an operation headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid (a cousin of then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein), Iraq used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against what minority in 1987 and 1988?
Answer: kurds
Question: David Mamet's plays "American Buffalo" (1975) and "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1982) are set in what city?
Answer: chicago
Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "feta"?
Answer: greece
Question: Ahmet Ertegun, who was born in Turkey and died in 2006 aged 83 in New York City, USA, was a founder of the New York Cosmos team of the North American Soccer League and which record label?
Answer: atlantic
Question: Which school is the setting for the 1939 film "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"?
Answer: brookfield public school
Question: What is the next in this series: 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude ... ?
Answer: book of revelation
Question: The "numbered treaties", a series of eleven treaties signed between the aboriginal peoples and the reigning Monarch (Victoria, Edward VII or George V) from 1871 to 1921, apply in which counry?
Answer: canada
Question: Jos Santos Zelaya, William Walker, Adolfo Daz, Emiliano Chamorro, Juan Bautista Sacasa, Anastasio Somoza Garca, Luis Somoza, Violeta Chamorro, Enrique Bolaos and Daniel Ortega are associated with the politics of which country?
Answer: nicaragua
Question: Who painted the famous painting known as "The Night Watch"?
Answer: rembrandt
Question: The following are the first few examples of what: (220, 284), (1184, 1210), (2620, 2924), (5020, 5564) & (6232, 6368)?
Answer: amicable numbers
Question: What is English cricketer Ian Botham's nickname?
Answer: beefy
Question: What Irish boyband formed in 1998 by Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Brian McFadden became the 3rd biggest selling pop band worldwide and biggest selling band of 2000-2009, with 14 number 1 singles in the UK?
Answer: westlife
Question: What country, with a population of around 12,000, is the third-least-populated sovereign state in the world behind Vatican City and Nauru, and at 26 square kilometres (10 sq miles) is the fourth smallest country in the world, behind those two and Monaco?
Answer: tuvalu
Question: What comic strip is about the family of Dagwood Bumstead (who works at J.C. Dithers & Company), his wife, their 2 children (Alexander, originally referred to as "Baby Dumpling", and daughter Cookie) and Daisy, the dog?
Answer: blondie
Question: Who was the Queen of the Iceni who led a rebellion against the Romans around 63 AD after they tried to take over her kingdom after her husband had willed his possessions to be shared equally between his daughters and Emperor Nero?
Answer: boadicea
Question: Which landlocked country in Southeast Asia is bordered by Burma, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand?
Answer: laos
Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "caerphilly"?
Answer: wales
Question: Between 2002 and 2008, where were Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul the judges?
Answer: american idol
Question: Miss Worlds 1999 and 2000 both represented which country?
Answer: india
Question: What is a transient psychological disorder encountered by some people visiting or vacationing in Paris, to which Japanese visitors are observed to be especially susceptible?
Answer: paris syndrome
Question: What was the last foreign invasion of Britain?
Answer: french invasion of wales 1797
Question: The first of what games was played in 1967, when the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35 to 10?
Answer: super bowl
Question: US President Reagan appointed two Republicans and one Democrat (John Tower, Brent Scowcroft and Edmund Muskie, known as the "Tower Commission") to investigate what?
Answer: irancontra affair
Question: What is the correct title for the country known as San Marino?
Answer: most serene republic of san marino
Question: What colour is the jacket that has been awarded to the winner of the US Masters Golf Tournament since 1949?
Answer: green
Question: In musical notation, what word means "lower in pitch by a semitone"?
Answer: flat
Question: What is the only country in Central America which is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and has English as its official language?
Answer: belize
Question: The Berkshire, Australian Yorkshire, Danish Landrace, Mulefoot, Wessex Saddleback and West French White are breeds of what?
Answer: pig
Question: In what country is the port town of Xai-xai, near the mouth of the Limpopo River?
Answer: mozambique
Question: What was Geri Halliwell's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: ginger
Question: What piece of music was used by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean when they won Olympic gold medals at Sarajevo in 1984?
Answer: ravel s bolero
Question: Which wonder of the ancient world was on the island of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt?
Answer: lighthouse
Question: What were the middle names of Oscar Wilde?
Answer: fingal o flahertie wills
Question: What is another name for "denatured alcohol", i.e. ethanol with additives (such as methanol, isopropyl alcohol, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone and denatonium), used as a solvent and as fuel for spirit burners and camping stoves?
Answer: methylated spirit
Question: Which 1929 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock is considered to be the first all-talkie feature British film?
Answer: blackmail
Question: The single largest collection of whose works (181 paintings) is at the Barnes Foundation, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Answer: pierre auguste renoir
Question: What part of the USA is known as "Tinseltown"?
Answer: hollywood
Question: Who, when he retired as heavyweight boxing world champion in April 1956, was the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: What is the highest number of stars that the Michelin Guide awards to restaurants?
Answer: three stars
Question: What 2009 film by Matt Tyrnauer documents the life of a fashion designer, his empire and his long-term companion between 2005 and 2007?
Answer: valentino last emperor
Question: Who wrote "The Rocky Horror Show", the long-running stage musical which opened in London in 1973?
Answer: richard o brien
Question: In 1895, William G Morgan, a YMCA physical education director in Massachusetts, USA, created "Mintonette", a game for older people as an indoor sport less rough than basketball. What is it called now?
Answer: volleyball
Question: What sport, the season for which is March to August, has been phased out in all states in Australia except for Victoria and South Australia, and will end in Victoria after the 2010 season?
Answer: steeplechase
Question: Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from bunions?
Answer: feet
Question: """Runaway Jury"" (2003), a film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, is an adaption of the book by which author?"
Answer: john grisham
Question: Who wrote "Futility" (1898) about an enormous "unsinkable" British passenger liner called the Titan, which hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of nearly all on board?
Answer: morgan robertson
Question: What scale measures the hotness or piquancy of a chili pepper, as defined by the amount of capsaicin it contains?
Answer: scoville scale
Question: What is the official news publication of the Salvation Army, the first edition of which was printed in December 1879 in London, England, and the first US edition in January 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri?
Answer: war cry
Question: Which American trumpeter and composer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1997, the first time it had been awarded for a jazz recording?
Answer: wynton marsalis
Question: Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from laryngitis?
Answer: throat
Question: Zhou Yang, gold medal winner at the Winter Olympics 2010, made the news again later by being chided by China's deputy sports minister Yu Zaiqing for thanking her parents, but not her country, for her win. She had won gold in what sport?
Answer: short track speed skating
Question: In the film "Basic Instinct" (1992) Detective Nick Curran and Catherine Tramell were played by which actors?
Answer: michael douglas and sharon stone
Question: Which music magazine edited by Geoff Barton, first published in 1981 as a one-off supplement to "Sounds" newspaper, was devoted to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of other hard rock acts such as AC/DC, who appeared on its first cover?
Answer: kerrang
Question: Which car company badge includes the City of Milan's emblem and that of the Visconti family in a circular motif, bordered by a dark blue metallic ring containing inscriptions, separated by two Savoy dynasty knots to honour the Kingdom of Italy?
Answer: alfa romeo
Question: Which song, in the best known translation, contains the words "Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, And he shows them pearly white, Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear, And he keeps it out of sight"?
Answer: mack knife
Question: After Sir William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 while in the garden of his house in Bath, England, he reported it as a what?
Answer: comet
Question: What sport will be played at Horse Guard's Parade when London hosts the 2012 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: beach volleyball
Question: If someone is dismissed from employment, what are they said to have been?
Answer: fired
Question: The "Don't Make a Wave Committee" founded in the early 1970s by Jim & Marie Bohlen, Irving & Dorothy Stowe, Paul Cote and Robert & Bobbi Hunter grew into what organisation?
Answer: greenpeace
Question: What equipment puts an object in rotation around a fixed axis, applying a force perpendicular to the axis, and uses the sedimentation principle to cause heavier particles to move out along the radius?
Answer: centrifuge
Question: Ouagadougou is the capital of which country?
Answer: burkina faso
Question: What was the name of the Ewing ranch in the TV series "Dallas"?
Answer: southfork
Question: Burning methane in the presence of oxygen produces water and what gas?
Answer: carbon dioxide
Question: Who painted two versions of "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" in 1890?
Answer: vincent van gogh
Question: On 12 June 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president of which country?
Answer: iran
Question: Whose autobiography was called "Unreliable Memoirs"?
Answer: clive james
Question: When Winston Churchill wrote "Before this, we had no victory and after it we had no defeats", which event was he talking about?
Answer: second battle of el alamein
Question: In 2009, which was the most dominant women's softball team, having won three of the last four Olympic tournaments and the last six Women's ISF XI World Championships?
Answer: united states
Question: Which sportsman appeared in the James Bond film "Octopussy" with Roger Moore?
Answer: vijay amritraj
Question: Which 1959 film, directed by Franois Truffaut with music by Jean Constatin, was the story of a 13 year old Parisian (played by Jean-Pierre Leaud) falling into delinquency?
Answer: 400 blows
Question: In musical notation, what word means "higher in pitch by a semitone"?
Answer: sharp
Question: In 1937 the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson were married in which country?
Answer: france
Question: Which English all-female pop trio based in London, consisting of Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen, was formed in 1998 by original members Siobhn Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan?
Answer: sugababes
Question: The islands of Tristan da Cunha are 2,816 kilometres (1,750 miles) from the nearest land. What country is closest to them?
Answer: south africa
Question: Who won a Best Actor Oscar for the 1996 film "Shine"?
Answer: geoffrey rush
Question: What scale, developed by Terence Meaden as an extension of the Beaufort scale, measures tornado intensity between T0 and T11?
Answer: torro scale
Question: What was the name given to Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's ex-wife), Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen, Chinese Communist Party officials who were prominent during the Cultural Revolution and were arrested in 1976, charged with treason?
Answer: gang of four
Question: At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Lee Chang-hwan of Korea broke the Olympic Record with a score of 117 points (though he didn't win a medal for it) in what sport?
Answer: archery
Question: In the TV series, what was Blackadder's first name?
Answer: edmund
Question: Who, an ironmonger by trade, created the first practical steam engine to pump water from mineshafts?
Answer: thomas newcomen
Question: What name was popularly given to the murder of Maria Marten in Polstead, England in 1827 by her lover, which inspired 5 films and songs such as those by the Albion Country Band (1971), Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan on the album "Bone Machine" (1992), and Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman on the album "2" (2004)?
Answer: red barn murder
Question: In golf, what is the term for "one stroke over par"?
Answer: bogey
Question: In medicine, which suffix denotes the surgical removal of something, usually from inside the body?
Answer: ectomy
Question: What 1918 Act of the US Congress forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the US government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the US government or its institutions with contempt, and allowed the Postmaster General to refuse to deliver mail that met those criteria?
Answer: sedition act
Question: What private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, was founded as a women's college in 1861, and became coeducational in 1969?
Answer: vassar
Question: At the 1st World Rowing Championships held at Lucerne in 1962, the International Federation of Rowing Associations did not recognise countries with similar names. Selection trials from 2 countries were held the day before the championships. Which "country" was this?
Answer: germany
Question: Where was the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting held in the year 2000?
Answer: brunei
Question: What did Ellen MacArthur achieve with "B&Q;/Castorama" on 7 February 2005?
Answer: broke world record for fastest solo circumnavigation of globe
Question: What word is used to describe a grotesque stone carving with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building?
Answer: gargoyle
Question: In England, what are Lloyds, Barclays, Westminster, Midland and National Provincial?
Answer: banks
Question: In Turkey, what is "Galatasaray Spor Kulb"?
Answer: soccer club
Question: What was a Roman road from York to Scotland near the Firth of Forth?
Answer: dere street
Question: The killing of 58-year-old Robert Krentz and his dog, shot on 27 March 2010 on his ranch roughly 19 miles (31 km) from the Mexican border, led to increased public support for a bill to combat illegal immigration in which US State?
Answer: arizona
Question: Who played eventual winners Atltico Madrid in the final of the 2010 UEFA Europa League soccer competition?
Answer: fulham
Question: What term is used to describe the layers of smells and aromas perceived in an aged wine?
Answer: bouquet
Question: The UK TV series "Doctor in the House", based on books by Richard Gordon, was set in which hospital?
Answer: st swithin s
Question: Who is the next in this series: Julie Stevens, Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson ... ?
Answer: joanna lumley
Question: The World Surfing Champion title is awarded annually to the best competition surfer for the year, based on points earned for placings at which events?
Answer: asp world tour
Question: The standard tuning of which instrument is one octave higher than a cello?
Answer: viola
Question: Which legendary couple are said to be buried at Glastonbury, Somerset, England?
Answer: arthur and guinevere
Question: Which instrument, with a range of around 4 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to G below middle C, with the others tuned in fifths?
Answer: violin
Question: Formula One world champions James Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button are all from which country?
Answer: united kingdom
Question: Badfinger, Black Dyke Band, Elephant's Memory, Grapefruit, Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax, Modern Jazz Quartet, Radha Krsna Temple, Ravi Shankar, Ronnie Spector, James Taylor and White Trash have all recorded for what label?
Answer: apple
Question: Which US TV programme is broadcast regularly from the Ed Sullivan Theatre?
Answer: late show with david letterman
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, what did little Jack Horner pull out of his Christmas pie?
Answer: plum
Question: What is the most populous city in Canada, the provincial capital of Ontario, which is on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario?
Answer: toronto
Question: Which TV series featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay that debuted in 2004 shows him visiting a failing restaurant and try to improve it in one week?
Answer: ramsay s kitchen nightmares
Question: In which country were elections planned for 1991 were stopped by the military (leading to Civil War), were held in 1995, and, in 1999, after a series of short-term military leaders, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president?
Answer: algeria
Question: What branch of biology, dating from the discovery of blood corpuscles by Marcello Malpighi in 1661, classifies and descibes the development of the forms of living organisms?
Answer: histology
Question: King George III signed The Instrument of Foundation on 10 December 1768 for (and made large grants from his private funds to) which independent, privately funded institution?
Answer: royal academy of arts
Question: Which poisonous compound can be a gas, solid or liquid, the most infamous application of which was use by the Nazi regime in Germany for mass murder in some gas chambers during the Holocaust?
Answer: cyanide
Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "Monterey Jack"?
Answer: usa
Question: Artists Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Frederic Edwin Church, Jane Frank and Thomas Cole painted in what style?
Answer: landscape
Question: What sport was part of the Olympic Games programme between 1896 and 1924, and returned as a full medal sport at the 1988 Olympics?
Answer: tennis
Question: John Boyd Dunlop was associated with the development of what item?
Answer: pneumatic tyre
Question: Marie Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911), was born where?
Answer: warsaw poland
Question: What are the first words of the US Declaration of Independence?
Answer: when in course of human events
Question: Which professional boxer from the USA, a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions between 1986 and 2001, was nicknamed "The Real Deal"?
Answer: evander holyfield
Question: The British version of the TV series "The Office", is set where?
Answer: slough
Question: The period of the French Revolution when the Girondists were guillotined, which ended with the guillotining of Robespierre, was known as what?
Answer: reign of terror
Question: What fabulous creature appears in the Heraldry of Wales, Japan and China and is typical of evil in Christian lore?
Answer: dragon
Question: Which musical term denotes a slide in pitch which moves in discrete steps, such as dragging a finger over the keys of the piano?
Answer: glissando
Question: What is the name for the area where tyres are changed, petrol is provided and minor repairs are carried out during a motor race?
Answer: pits
Question: What was the sequel to the John Travolta film "Get Shorty"?
Answer: be cool
Question: A play by Eugene O'Neill is "A Long ... what .... Journey into Night"?
Answer: day s
Question: What electricity voltage is provided as mains power in the USA?
Answer: 120 volts
Question: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a cartel of 12 countries: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and which other?
Answer: libya
Question: Which pole vaulter won 6 consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympic gold, broke the world record 35 times (17 outdoor and 18 indoor records), was the first to clear both 6.0 metres and 6.10 metres (20 ft)?
Answer: sergey bubka
Question: According to the Bible, who was told by God to build an ark to escape the Great Flood?
Answer: noah
Question: Helen Clark, who was appointed Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in 2009, is from which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: A station logo that TV broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area to identify the channel (known in the UK and New Zealand as a DOG and in the USA and Canada as a bug), is known as what in Australia?
Answer: watermark
Question: What is the name of the sterling silver salver awarded to the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles champion?
Answer: venus rosewater dish
Question: What was Melanie Brown's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: scary
Question: Which cartoonist, famous for his work for the British newspaper the "Daily Express", used a cartoon family (including Grandma, the enigmatic matriarch, and Chalkie, the tyrannical school teacher), to comment on current affairs?
Answer: giles