CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Mae West said of sex and bridge "If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good (What?)
Answer: hand
Question: Hosni Mubarak was ousted as leader in 2011 from which nation?
Answer: egypt
Question: The process of becoming a (What?) begins with Aspirancy, then Postulancy and Novitiate?
Answer: nun
Question: 'Pas de deux' in dressage and ballet equates to a what?
Answer: duet
Question: Wagner, Verdi, Bellini and Rossini are famous composers of particularly what type of music?
Answer: opera
Question: Englishman Eric Arthur Blair, who fought for the Spanish Workers' Party of Marxist Unification against Franco's forces in 1936 was later known by what famous pen-name?
Answer: george orwell
Question: American jazz musician Chet Baker was a virtuoso player of the?
Answer: trumpet
Question: Popular in Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and increasingly elsewhere, which unripened brined cheese can be fried due to its high melting-point?
Answer: halloumi
Question: Which large-flowered plant is named after Paeon/Paean, Greek god of medicine and healing?
Answer: peony
Question: Who painted 'Women of Algiers', sold at auction for a record $160m in 2015?
Answer: picasso
Question: Hitsville, in Detroit, is the original recording studio of which famous record label?
Answer: motown
Question: Which technology corporation launched major music streaming services including Beats1 radio in 2015?
Answer: apple
Question: On which Mediterranean island is the famous nightlife holiday resort of Magaluf?
Answer: majorca
Question: What are metal rope-fixings on a boat and cyclist's shoes?
Answer: cleats
Question: The 1974 book Helter Skelter, co-written by lawyer Vincent Bugliosi, recounts whose famous crime?
Answer: charles manson
Question: Which king signed the Magna Carta and died in Newark having lost his treasure in the salt marshes of eastern England?
Answer: john
Question: What activity would you find at Philippe Chatrier, Roland Garros?
Answer: tennis
Question: The sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, 'stolen' before its release in 2015, is titled?
Answer: grey
Question: Psilocybin (pronounced 'sillasybin') is the natural active ingredient of?
Answer: magic mushrooms
Question: The onomatopoeic Greek originating borborygmi refers medically to?
Answer: stomach rumble
Question: Poets' Corner, which commemorates and contains remains of writers, is in which London building?
Answer: westminster abbey
Question: Name the celebrity entrepreneur who sought to be US Republican presidential candidate in 2015?
Answer: donald trump
Question: Inspired largely by John Calvin, the Hugeunots minorities of the 16th century were?
Answer: protestants
Question: The piddock (Pholadidae and 'angelwings') is a rock-boring?
Answer: mollusc
Question: Lorelei is a famous 120 rock, and its mermaid-like water spirit, on/associated with which German river?
Answer: rhine
Question: Diegesis refers to what in a film, play, story, etc? Cast of characters; Plot; Suspense; or Laughter coefficient?
Answer: plot
Question: Orson Welles' iconic character in the film The Third Man is?
Answer: harry lime
Question: The Defender is a longstanding model of which automotive company? Landrover; Lotus; Toyota; or Bentley?
Answer: landrover
Question: What was the location of London's famous 17th century 'Frost Fairs'?
Answer: river thames
Question: Which controversial US icon's three versions are The.. 'Stars and Bars', 'Stainless Banner' and 'Blood-Stained Banner'?
Answer: confederate flag
Question: What is the famous scenic wooded area of SW Germany which gave its name to a locally originating chocolate and cherry cake?
Answer: black forest
Question: A loofah (or luffa) bath sponge is previously a sort of?
Answer: cucumber
Question: The famous tea brandname Typhoo, created c.1903 by the Sumner pharmacy/grocers in Birmingham UK, is from the Chinese word for?
Answer: doctor
Question: Which European nation's flag has nine horizontal blue and white stripes, and top-left a white cross on a blue square?
Answer: greece
Question: A sudden unofficial walkout or industrial action by workers is called informally a (What?) strike?
Answer: wildcat
Question: Mnemosyne (pronounced 'nemmoseeny') is the Greek goddess Mother of the Muses and also goddess of?
Answer: memory
Question: Which city, mythically founded by a twin saved by a she-wolf, was built on the seven hills, east of the River Tiber called Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Viminal?
Answer: rome
Question: What expression meaning 'ok' or 'all well', and a David Bowie album, derives partly from Dutch 'honk' for home or base?
Answer: hunky dory
Question: A Gaelic sliotar/sliothar features in several field sports as a type of?
Answer: ball
Question: Which nation acquired sovereignty of Carribean archipelago Puerto Rico in 1898, ongoing as its territory to 2010s?
Answer: usa
Question: Which nation's Supreme Court legalized same sex marriage in June 2015?
Answer: usa
Question: The seahorse (Hippocampus) is technically a Fish; Mollusc; Reptile; or Plant?
Answer: fish
Question: The Bodleian, George Peabody, Congress, and Vatican are famous?
Answer: libraries
Question: The 1956 fictional movie of the discovery of rock'n'roll featuring Bill Haley and the Comets is Rock Around the (What?)?
Answer: clock
Question: The 'puri/poori/puree' in the Indian dish 'prawn puri' refers to what aspect?
Answer: bread
Question: In the iconic 1962 western film, the fictional character Liberty Valance features in the story/title as the man who is?
Answer: shot
Question: The North American Gold Rush of 1849 brought vast immigration to?
Answer: california
Question: In what 1986 Neil Jordan film is Bob Hoskins a driver for Cathy Tyson's prostitute?
Answer: mona lisa
Question: Russian billionaire industrialist Roman Abramovich's investment corporation is called '(What?) Capital'?
Answer: millhouse
Question: The word Eintracht in German soccer/sports club names equates to?
Answer: united
Question: Choppy, Fannings, Golden Flowery, and Tippy are grades of?
Answer: tea
Question: Built 1406-1420 as a political HQ/palace, The Forbidden City is in?
Answer: beijing
Question: What human joint, in Latin 'cubitum', has a pit and bony protrusion called olecranon?
Answer: elbow
Question: Ginger Baker is considered one of the greatest ever virtuoso players of the?
Answer: drums
Question: The Fiestas de San Firmin, held every July in Spain, is famed for what risky public event?
Answer: running of bulls
Question: Go Set a Watchman is the 55-years-after sequel to what famous work?
Answer: to kill mockingbird
Question: When drawing the musical the treble (G) clef symbol, the line crosses itself how many times?
Answer: three
Question: 2,000 years ago Nanjing was what in China?
Answer: capital city
Question: Called the IPK, the standard (What?) is a platinum-iridium cylinder at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres France?
Answer: kilogram
Question: The Silfra fissure, in the Pingvallavatn valley, uniquely offering scuba-diving between the N American and Euroasian tectonic plates is in?
Answer: iceland
Question: Which Czech-born Swiss won two Wimbledon championships in 2015, 17 years after her previous Championship victory?
Answer: martina hingis
Question: What Eurasian winged-fruit maple tree is named after the Greek words sukon (fig) and moron (mulberry)?
Answer: sycamore
Question: What Native American Apache Indian chief's name became an exclamation of exhilaration?
Answer: geronimo
Question: What note is produced at the 5th fret of the 5th string (ie the 2nd lowest pitched) of a conventionally tuned guitar?
Answer: d
Question: In physics, the motions of particles within matter is understood by (What?) theory?
Answer: kinetic
Question: The old English tithe, was a tax taken for the church/clergy equating to a?
Answer: tenth
Question: An opsimath is a person who begins to do what later in life?
Answer: study
Question: Olibanum is the medieval Latin alternative English word for which Biblical aromatic resin?
Answer: frankincense
Question: Phylum porifera is the technical name for what organic cleaning device?
Answer: sponge
Question: Mandrax is a 1963 French-originating trademark for a?
Answer: sedative drug
Question: A mythical Arctic whirlpool west of Norway, came to be what Anglicized Dutch word, meaning a violent water whirl or metaphorically extreme turmoil?
Answer: maelstrom
Question: Utilitarian and utilitarianism refer primarily to the major quality/effect of something being?
Answer: useful
Question: Apple Inc's 'digital wallet' virtual banking service is called Apple?
Answer: pay
Question: The founder of Wikipedia is Graham India; Jimmy Wales; Mario Brazil; or Nigel Nigeria?
Answer: jimmy wales
Question: What is the historically Moorish Spanish capital of Andalusia, famous for oranges and flamenco?
Answer: seville
Question: What chemical element, symbol Cr, is named due its colourful/colorful compound effect?
Answer: chromium
Question: What quick punctuation mark has two versions known technically as 'en rule' and 'em rule'?
Answer: dash
Question: Deezer, Tidal, Onerpm, and Tunecore operate in what industrial sector?
Answer: music
Question: What is the main component of blood besides cells and clotting/glycoprotein factors? Serum; Water; Mucus; or Sweat?
Answer: serum
Question: Explorers and mountaineers have for many decades eaten high-energy 'Kendal (What?) Cake'?
Answer: mint
Question: The essential constituent of the Chinese culinary delicacy 'Bird's Nest Soup' is?
Answer: saliva
Question: Copper takes its name from which country, where it was mined in Roman times?
Answer: cyprus
Question: The medieval-originating 'patten' is a type of (What?) designed for mud? Shoe; Shovel; Bucket; or Pig?
Answer: shoe
Question: The ancient Thracian peltasts and Greek hoplites were large units of infantrymen mainly armed with?
Answer: spears
Question: What colour/color is produced by mixing equal amounts of red and green paint?
Answer: brown
Question: The Elvis Presley song Hound Dog was originally written about a?
Answer: gigolo
Question: In August 2015 Hamas claimed to have intercepted an Israeli (What?) equipped for spying and armed attack?
Answer: dolphin
Question: Which modern nation was home to the Aztec people, notably 14-16th centuries?
Answer: mexico
Question: The comic book franchise behind Spiderman, Hulk, X-Men, and Fantastic Four is?
Answer: marvel
Question: London's 'pedicabs', which came under new regulatory controls in 2015, are?
Answer: cycle rickshaws
Question: A 2015 study by China's Dalian University found that owls fly silently because their feathers convert a biproduct of mechanical energy into (What?) instead of noise?
Answer: heat
Question: The American Mastodon is an ancient long-extinct relative of the?
Answer: elephant
Question: Ilya (pronounced 'eelya') Kuryakin is a?
Answer: man from uncle
Question: The 18C legal term 'Ragman Roll', a record of crimes, originated what modern word for a long complex procedure?
Answer: rigmarole
Question: What term was popularised by the eponymous 1979 film about a nuclear reactor meltdown hypothetically 'burning' from the US through Earth to other side?
Answer: china syndrome
Question: What informal boxing term arose from Muhammad Ali's defeat of George Foreman in 1974, in which Ali covered up against the ropes, causing Foreman's exhaustion from sustained ineffectual punching?
Answer: rope dope
Question: What historic UK county part-comprises East Ridings and West Ridings? Northumberland; Yokshire; Kent; or Cork?
Answer: yorkshire
Question: The Australian wombat marsupial has what unusually adapted feature for burrow-digging?
Answer: backwards facing pouch
Question: Which famous corporate logo changed to a flat colour/color sans serif font in its first major change since 1999?
Answer: google
Question: Developed by Swedish company Mojang, Minecraft is a popular?
Answer: video game
Question: What icon dominated the 2015 shortlisted designs for a potentially new national flag of New Zealand?
Answer: fern
Question: A maze of what plants was built to celebrate the opening of the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, 2015?
Answer: sunflowers
Question: Tahini paste, for example used in houmous, is made from which seeds?
Answer: sesame
Question: The Speyside or (locally called Strathspey) area of NE Scotland is famous for its '(What?) Trial' and longstanding traditional production of?
Answer: whisky
Question: Japan's NTT DoCoMo mobile phone company developed which texting icon 'pictograph' series, Japanese for 'picture' and 'character'?
Answer: emoji
Question: In computer gaming what famous and controversial franschise does GTA represent?
Answer: grand theft auto
Question: The band/sheet of connective tissue under the skin in human anatomy, chiefly of collagen, which stabilizes/supports organs and muscles, is?
Answer: fascia
Question: The arctic mountain 'ptarmigan' which changes to white in winter, is a?
Answer: bird
Question: """Spokoynoy nochi, malyshi!"" (""Good Night, Little Ones"") is a long-running (since 1964) famous children's TV program in?"
Answer: russia
Question: What metallic element has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity, and reflectivity?
Answer: silver
Question: British Queen Victoria (1819-1901) is what relation to Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: great great grandmother
Question: What completely non-infectious neurodegenerative disease was misreported as being 'infectious' by most mainstream UK news media in September 2015?
Answer: alzheimer s
Question: Boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony and tellurium are commonly considered the six primary chemical element?
Answer: metalloids
Question: Coccinellidae, whose common name variants suggest a female form, are?
Answer: beetles
Question: Deriving from 'Tagalog' Austronesian language 'bundok' (mountain) the US-English word 'boondocks' (and 'boonies') refers disrespectfully to?
Answer: remote rural area
Question: Rocna, Spade, Bulwagga, Grapnel and Admiralty/Fisherman are varieties of?
Answer: anchor
Question: Facebook confusingly announced in 2015 the introduction of a '(What?) button'?
Answer: dislike
Question: Kenkojuku, Shotokan, Chito-ryu, and Wado-ryu are styles/types of Japanese?
Answer: karate
Question: The Vouvray district of the French Loire Valley is famous for its white?
Answer: wine
Question: Technically known as 'the vernacular', an old term for the day-to-day native language of a people/region is The ?
Answer: vulgar tongue
Question: The female former Hewlett-Packard CEO who vied to be US Rebublican Presidential candidate 2015/16 is Carly?
Answer: fiorina
Question: Araneus diadematus is the widely-found European garden?
Answer: spider
Question: Matzo(h) or matza(h) is an unleavened bread traditionally eaten by which people?
Answer: jews
Question: 'Ballroom' and 'Latin' definitions determine which one of these is not a Latin dance?
Answer: tango
Question: What is the original and alternative Latin title of the Catholic prayer called Hail Mary, also its first line?
Answer: ave maria
Question: Which vast technology corporation brand has used (c.1977-modern day) the typefaces Motter Tektura, Garamond, Myriad, Helvetica and San Francisco?
Answer: apple
Question: Sphenisciformes, whose wings evolved into flippers, are an order of creatures called?
Answer: penguins
Question: In electronics, what is the basic function of a capacitor in relation to electrical energy?
Answer: storing
Question: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska standard and Hawaii-Aleutian standard are the six official USA?
Answer: time zones
Question: Tagine, a North African meat and vegetable stew, originally/also refers (Arabic tajin) to a?
Answer: frying pan
Question: The radioactive chemical element made for the first time in the 1940s, named after the place of its discovery is?
Answer: americium
Question: The significant ancient Egyptian diety Horus (a man with a falcon's head) features the related '(What?) of Horus' symbol of protection/good health?
Answer: eye
Question: The Austrian Nazi/SS member and engineer whose creations included the VW Beetle, Tiger/Panzer tanks, V1 flying bomb, and a car company which bears his name is Ferdinand (Who?)?
Answer: porsche
Question: What's the state capital of Mississippi USA, originally Le Fleur's Bluff, later named after a US president?
Answer: jackson
Question: What is the line on a weather chart which joins points of equal pressure?
Answer: isobar
Question: What colour of a single rainbow is on the inside of the rainbow's arc, given the generally defined seven-colour rainbow?
Answer: violet
Question: What common term refers to the amount of water vapour that is held in the air?
Answer: humidity
Question: What shipping forecast area lies immediately South of Forties off the British Isles?
Answer: dogger
Question: What common term refers to the movement of air from a high pressure to a low pressure zone?
Answer: wind
Question: What is the circulating Atlantic ocean current which warms Western Europe?
Answer: gulf stream
Question: What's the more exotic name of the 'Northern Lights' visible under certain conditions in the Northern Hemisphere night sky?
Answer: aurora borealis
Question: What is the childlike name given to the significant weather activity linked to sea temperature rise in the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: el nino
Question: What is the 'ology' term for the study or science of the weather (that's short-term weather systems and effects, not long-term climatology)?
Answer: meteorology
Question: Towards which direction (North, East, South or West) is a rainbow normally seen in the afternoon?
Answer: east
Question: The 'Inter-tropical Convergence Zone', where the trade winds meet near the equator to produce a band of relatively very still air, which can strand sailing ships, is known more prosaically as what?
Answer: doldrums
Question: What type of cloud is normally associated with thunderstorms?
Answer: cumulonimbus
Question: In 2014, age 17, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest winner of?
Answer: nobel prize
Question: The mountain town of Berchtesgaden is the location of whose fortified retreat?
Answer: adolf hitler
Question: Latin 'Juglans' refers to what tree used in cabinet-making, with large two-sided nuts inside green fruit?
Answer: walnut
Question: Zarathustra, also called Zoroaster, is a Persian?
Answer: prophet
Question: Caroline/Gothic, Humanist, Round, and Bastarda, are styles, called 'hands', in medieval?
Answer: calligraphy
Question: The never-used internet top-level domain '.dd' was for which nation?
Answer: east germany
Question: The predicted online connectivity of 50 billion smart gadgets by 2020 is called The Internet of?
Answer: things
Question: The rotator cuff is a tough sheath of tendons and ligaments which supports the human?
Answer: shoulder
Question: ZrO2 is the formula for what diamond substitute?
Answer: zirconia
Question: In Australia and New Zealand a charity shop or thrift store is also known as a (What?) shop?
Answer: opportunity
Question: In 2015 Nasa discovered on the surface of Mars?
Answer: flowing water
Question: Oyster, Portobello, Button, Chestnut and Flat are varieties of what?
Answer: mushrooms
Question: Technically called the masseter, what is the common name of the human muscle able to exert the most force?
Answer: jaw
Question: What currency is abbreviated to SAR, and contains 100 Halalas and 20 Qirsh?
Answer: saudi riyal
Question: Name the town in the city district of Milan which gave its name to a famously strong blue-veined cow's-milk cheese?
Answer: gorgonzola
Question: What is the common name for the inflammatory arthritis called podagra when frequently affecting the big toe joint?
Answer: gout
Question: Obelix and Dogmatix are companions of which eponymous Frenco-Belgian comic book character?
Answer: asterix
Question: The Baden Aniline and Soda Factory is more commonly known as what world-leading brand?
Answer: basf
Question: Spelter is an old/industrial term for what metal element, and alloys containing it, notably brass?
Answer: zinc
Question: Chlorophyll/chlorophyl, critical for photosynthesis enabling plants to absorb energy from light, is a pigment of?
Answer: green
Question: The terms boobook, morepork and mopoke all refer onomatopoeically to a small Australasian?
Answer: owl
Question: Braeburn, Jazz, Gala, and Fuji are varieties of what?
Answer: apple
Question: In 2015 a joint Turkish/Greek Cyrpiot campaign sought PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) for what national cheese?
Answer: halloumi
Question: Brahmanism, or Vedism, is a religion emerging around 900BC in?
Answer: india
Question: The 1927 animated character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is considered the precurser to which more famous icon?
Answer: micky mouse
Question: Kolkata Metro is what nation's famous first metro/underground railway network?
Answer: india
Question: London's black taxi-cab training is called 'The (What?)'?
Answer: knowledge
Question: Since Ancient Rome, lime mortar (masonry cement) includes for reinforcement/moisture flexibility?
Answer: horse hair
Question: Latin/anotomical 'Pes', what part of the body contains the talus and calcaneus bones?
Answer: foot
Question: Name the popular 1970s Kenner Products' 15" toy body-builder figure of latex rubber filled with corn syrup, elastic to c.five feet?
Answer: stretch armstrong
Question: Zome, K'Nex, Erector Set, Lincoln Logs and Kre-O are/were major brands in which consumer product sector?
Answer: construction toys
Question: Willy Loman is the lead character in Arthur Miller's famous 1949 play 'Death of a (What?)'?
Answer: salesman
Question: The South American 'Feve Tonka' vanilla-like spice popularized in French cuisine is a?
Answer: bean
Question: Author/entrepreneur Cynthia Payne (1933-2015) famously provided what personal service for men of status/authority in 1980s London?
Answer: brothel
Question: Named after its town of origin, Marsala fortified wine originated on which island, the largest of its surrounding sea?
Answer: sicily
Question: The old Anglicized-French occupational word 'colporteur' was a distributor of?
Answer: bibles
Question: Aquae Sulis is the Roman name for what aptly renamed English spa city?
Answer: bath
Question: A Muscovite refers to a native of where in the world?
Answer: moscow
Question: Sage, thyme, rosemary, and marjoram are members of the plant genus?
Answer: mint
Question: In Shakespeare's Richard III, King Richard's horse (killed prior to Richard's plea 'My kingdom for a horse') is called?
Answer: surrey
Question: What eponymous brand, founded1946, re-established Paris as world-centre of women's fashion?
Answer: dior
Question: Thermae and Balneae are Ancient Roman large and small facilities for?
Answer: bathing
Question: What famous French endurance motor racing track/city is named after the early inhabiting Cenomani Celtic people?
Answer: le mans
Question: Horace Walpole created a popular term for unexpected lucky events/discovery in his 1754 fairy story 'The Three Princes of (Where?)'?
Answer: serendip
Question: Bammy (Jamaica), Bannock (Scotland), Blaa (Ireland), Bublik (Poland), and Boule (France) are types of?
Answer: bread
Question: What word features in stonemasonry, cabinet-making and carpentry; and strategies to combat stress?
Answer: coping
Question: Research (Newcastle University 2015) suggests that Type-2 diabetes is reversible by a very small reduction of fat in the human?
Answer: pancreas
Question: The Cuban/Puerto Rican music/dance 'Salsa' means what in Spanish?
Answer: sauce
Question: What affectionate word is a Blackadder TV character and famous English sea rescue heroine?
Answer: darling
Question: What discipline contains 'asanas' including names such as Half boat, Full boat, Tree, and Happy Baby?
Answer: yoga
Question: The Almeria region, driest in Europe, used for filming many famous Cowboy/Western films, is in?
Answer: spain
Question: French lawyer Jules Rimet (1873-1956) became the longest serving president (1921-54) of?
Answer: fifa
Question: The Forth Road Bridge connects which major city to the 'Kingdom of Fife'?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: The American term 'sharecropper' refers to a?
Answer: tenant farmer
Question: Ares, equating to the Roman god Mars, is the Greek god of?
Answer: war
Question: Lisa Gherardini (aka Lisa del Giocondo) is better known as the?
Answer: mona lisa