CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the pasta that is made in very thin strips called (little worms)?
Answer: vermicelli
Question: In the American sitcom Cheers what was the name of Norm's wife?
Answer: vera
Question: Who had a number one in 1999 with We're Going To Ibiza?
Answer: vengaboys
Question: If you had your vas deferens cut, what operation would you have had?
Answer: vasectomy
Question: A regatta is a boat race, where was the original regatta?
Answer: venice
Question: Who designed Liz Hurley's famous safety pin dress?
Answer: versace
Question: Who were the only female priests in the ancient Roman religion?
Answer: vestal virgins
Question: What is the title of the wife of a viceroy?
Answer: vicereine
Question: In which of his operas did Rossini use the alpenhorn?
Answer: william tell
Question: What was the real name of the WW 2 traitor Lord Haw Haw?
Answer: william joyce
Question: Which film star was known as the million dollar mermaid?
Answer: esther williams
Question: Which former Welsh rugby international full back once won junior Wimbledon?
Answer: jpr williams
Question: Which playwright wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Camino Real?
Answer: tennessee williams
Question: Who had a number one in 2000 with Rock DJ?
Answer: robbie williams
Question: What is the name of the bridge that connects Manhattan and Brooklyn?
Answer: williamsburgh bridge
Question: What is the correct name of the Rugby World Cup trophy?
Answer: william webb ellis trophy
Question: What is the name of the high school in the TV series Glee?
Answer: william mckinley high school
Question: What was Harold Wilson's secretary's name before she took the title Lady Falkender?
Answer: marcia williams
Question: Which English composer wrote A Sea Symphony and A London Symphony?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: By what name is 'William Michael Albert Broad' better known?
Answer: billy idol
Question: Who played Keith Partridge in 'The Partridge Family'?
Answer: david cassidy
Question: 'We Didn't Start the Fire' was a 1989 hit for which singer?
Answer: billy joel
Question: 'Poetry In Motion' was the only No. 1 hit for which singer?
Answer: johnny tillotson
Question: The Wombles had two hits in 1974. The title of one is 'Banana Rock' what's the title of their other hit?
Answer: minuetto allegretto
Question: Queen's mid 70's albums 'A Night at the Opera' and 'A Day At the Races', got their titles from who's films?
Answer: marx brothers
Question: Who had a hit in 1983 with 'It's Raining Men'?
Answer: weather girls
Question: Who had their biggest British hit with 'Don't Leave Me This Way' in 1986?
Answer: communards
Question: On which London street would you find the famous 'Harrods' store?
Answer: brompton road
Question: On which London street would you find the Selfridges store?
Answer: oxford street
Question: What is the name of the lake in London's Hyde Park?
Answer: serpentine
Question: Where in London can you find the 'Rosetta Stone'?
Answer: british museum
Question: Madame Tussaud's and it's neighbour the London Planetarium are to be found on which London Street?
Answer: marylebone road
Question: Who, traditionally, lives at 'Lambeth Palace'?
Answer: archbishop of canterbury
Question: Where in London can you find 'Nelson's Column'?
Answer: trafalgar square
Question: By what name is the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster better known?
Answer: westminster abbey
Question: In which Indian city can you find the 'Taj Mahal'?
Answer: agra
Question: Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 jointly with F W de Klerk?
Answer: nelson mandela
Question: The population of Malta is reputed to be descended from which ancient people?
Answer: carthaginians
Question: In the Vietnam War, what was the name of the North Vietnam communist forces?
Answer: vietcong
Question: Who attended schools in Cheam, Surrey, Gordonstoun, Scotland, and Timbertop, Australia?
Answer: prince charles
Question: These Boots are Made for Walkin?
Answer: 1966 nancy sinatra
Question: Who was the most prolific Wimbledon Women's singles champion in the 1980s?
Answer: martina navratilova
Question: Who presented the first ever 'Top of the Pops'?
Answer: jimmy saville
Question: Who was the French novelist - nearly 100 books all La Comedie Humaine?
Answer: honor e de balzac
Question: Shakespeare - Antony, Romeo, Othello - what did the characters all have in common?
Answer: suicide
Question: Which author published 59 new books in 1955?
Answer: enid blyton
Question: In which cop show did Petrie and Isbecki appear?
Answer: cagney and lacey
Question: In what movie did Sinatra sing My Kind of Town?
Answer: robin and 7 hoods
Question: PG Woodhouse books Bertie Wooster used what London Club?
Answer: drones
Question: Marduk was the creator of the world to what ancient people?
Answer: babylonians
Question: Who played Basil Fawlty in 'Fawlty Towers'?
Answer: john cleese
Question: In a game of chess, what is the only piece able to jump over other pieces?
Answer: knight
Question: At which racecourse is the Derby and the Oaks traditionally run?
Answer: epsom
Question: Who had a hit single with 'Crocodile Rock`'n 1972?
Answer: elton john
Question: A.A. Milne is most famous for creating which Bear?
Answer: winnie pooh
Question: The name of which football club is an anagram of 'Red Admiral'?
Answer: real madrid
Question: In the TV show 'Fawlty Towers' from which city does the waiter Manuel hail?
Answer: barcelona
Question: In which famous film would first have come across the character of Dorothy Gale?
Answer: wizard of oz
Question: A recent announcement of the discovery of a possible finger bone on tiny island of Nikumaroro is thought to be associate with whom, who was officially declared dead on January 5, 1939, having first gone missing on July 2, 1937?
Answer: amelia earhart
Question: Which country was known as Democratic Kampuchea when it was ruled by the Khmer Rouge From 1975 to 1990?
Answer: cambodia
Question: The nations highest military decoration, what medal is awarded to members of the armed forces, who ho distinguish themselves "conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in a action against an enemy of the United States."
Answer: medal of honor
Question: January 5, 1993 saw the execution of total asshat, serial killer Westley Allan Dodd, the last man to be executed by what means?
Answer: hanging
Question: A day of perpetual mourning, January 6, 1919 saw the death of what former US President, the 26th, whom the BSA gave the title of Chief Scout Citizen, the only such person to hold that honor, shortly before his death?
Answer: teddy roosevelt
Question: Signed on Sept 8, 1951, the Treaty of San Francisco officially ended what?
Answer: world war ii
Question: Which basketball team played its first game on January 7, 1927, having lost a total of 345 games out of the 22,000+ that they've played?
Answer: harlem globetrotters
Question: January 2nd, saw the enactment of a bill mandating the lowering of the national speed limit to 55 mph, in an attempt to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. Who was the president that signed the bill?
Answer: richard m nixon
Question: What TV staple, introduced on Jan 6, 1973, featured such episodes as: My Hero, Zero, Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here, I'm Just a Bill, and Inter-planet Janet?
Answer: schoolhouse rock
Question: Which U.S. president introduced a recovery plan popularly known as The New Deal?
Answer: franklin d roosevelt
Question: What is the common name for the liquid secreted by your lacrimal glands?
Answer: tears
Question: In Scrabble, whats the value of the blank tile?
Answer: zero
Question: January 3, 1938 saw Franklin D. Roosevelt found the charity March of Dimes. What epidemic disease was it targeting?
Answer: poliomyelitis
Question: What is the name of Tiny Tim’s father in the story, ‘A Christmas Carol’?
Answer: bob cratchit
Question: In the world of ungulates, if it's called a reindeer in Europe, what is it called in North America?
Answer: caribou
Question: In the classic holiday movie Home Alone, where is the McCallister family heading for vacation?
Answer: paris france
Question: What did the cowboy ride on the Island of Misfit Toys in the 1964 classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
Answer: ostrich
Question: Who's missing: Hermey; Yukon Cornelius; King Moonracer; Clarice; Bumble
Answer: rudolph
Question: In grammar, what word is used to describe a pair or group of words that consist of a subject and a predicate?
Answer: clause
Question: The world's first themed amusement park, Holiday World, originally called Santa Claus Land, is located in what aptly named Indiana town?
Answer: santa claus
Question: What is the name of the town that is host to It's a Wonderful Life?
Answer: bedford falls
Question: What US Defense Department agency is responsible for tracking Santa each Christmas eve?
Answer: norad
Question: What product uses the advertising slogan "I liked it so much, I bought the company!"?
Answer: remington electric shaver
Question: Blood and Fire is the motto of what international movement, quasi-military in structure, that focuses on evangelical, social and charitable work?
Answer: salvation army
Question: In the film 'Die Hard 2', which airport did the terrorist take over on Christmas Eve?
Answer: washington dulles international airport
Question: For a point each, name the characters in a bottle of Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
Answer: fred flintstone wilma flintstone pebbles flintstone barney rubble betty rubble bamm bamm rubble dino and great gazoo
Question: Which nanny did Julie Andrews win an Oscar for playing?
Answer: mary poppins
Question: Which character was described as part man, part machine, all cop?
Answer: robocop
Question: What legendary Universal Studios horror star, the Eighth Wonder of the World, had his home on Skull Island before filmmaker Carl Denham drags his hairy ass back to New York?
Answer: king kong
Question: What are the 6 official documental languages of the UN?
Answer: arabic chinese english french russian and spanish
Question: Oh my God, they killed Kenny! You bastards! is frequently heard on what tv classic?
Answer: south park
Question: Name the artist and song title: Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis, Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans, But I never saw the good side of the city, Until I hitched a ride on a river boat queen.
Answer: proud mary by creedence clearwater revival
Question: Who is credited with inventing the first mass-produced helicopter?
Answer: igor sikorsky
Question: What was the name of the cliched hunchback assistant to Dr. Victor Frankenstein, tasked with fetching a brain for the good doctors creation?
Answer: igor
Question: In what 80s arcade game were you armed with a lance and mounted upon an ostrich or a stork?
Answer: joust
Question: Minnesotan Walter "Fritz" Mondale, born on Jan 5, 1928, was the vice president for which US President?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: What product is advertised with the slogan: "The best a man can get"?
Answer: gillette
Question: January 4, 2010 saw the official opening of the worlds tallest building, at 2717 feet (828 meters). In what country is it built?
Answer: dubai u e
Question: The counterpart to Tokoyo Rose, what was the common name given to Mildred Gillars, the American born radio personality who broadcast propaganda for the Germans during WWII?
Answer: axis sally
Question: In the nursery rhyme “The Farmer in the Dell,” what does the child take?
Answer: nurse
Question: Who's missing: Greg Knapp; Bill Lazor; Kasey Dunn; Robert Prince; Mike DeBord; Mike Solari; Chris Beake
Answer: jim mora
Question: Executed in 2005, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Stanley “Tookie” Williams co-founded what L.    A. gang?
Answer: crips
Question: Jan 4, 1966 saw a military coup take place in the African country Upper Volta. By what name do we know the country now?
Answer: burkina faso
Question: What college football bowl is known as The Grandaddy of them all, having been continuously played since 1916?
Answer: rose bowl
Question: Newspaper editor Britt Reid, along with his sidekick Kato and their well appointed car Black Beauty, dons a mask and fights crime under what name?
Answer: green hornet
Question: What is the most abundant metallic element in Earths crust?
Answer: aluminum
Question: What part of your body is inflamed if you have encephalitis?
Answer: brain
Question: In the TV and computer game franchise, ACME detective agency members are always asking the question "Where in the World/Time/Earth is" who?
Answer: carmen san diego
Question: January 15, 1967 saw the first ever Super Bowl as the Kansas City Chiefs lost to whom, by a score of 35-10?
Answer: green bay packers
Question: Who starred along side Glen Campbell in the 1969 movie True Grit, based on a 1968 novel by Charles Portis?
Answer: john wayne
Question: What comic strip character’s favorite interjection was “leapin’ lizards!”?
Answer: little orphan annie
Question: January 11, 2008 saw the death of what New Zealand explorer, who along with Tenzing Norgay became the first known people to reach the top of Mt. Everest?
Answer: sir edmund percival hillary
Question: The Chukchi, Beaufort, and Barents are all seas in which ocean?
Answer: arctic
Question: A known anti-oxidant and a co-factor in at least 8 enzymatic reactions, what vitamin is known as L-ascorbic acid?
Answer: vitamin c
Question: Heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio first gained major fame after replacing vocalist Ozzy Osbourne in what band?
Answer: black sabbath
Question: January 11, 1843 saw the death, in Baltimore, Maryland, of what American lawyer, author, and poet, who wrote the classic poem The Defence of Fort McHenry?
Answer: francis scott key
Question: January 10, 1883 saw the death of what American physician, who was convicted in 1865 for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: samuel mudd
Question: In what casino card game is the goal to get the sum of the cards in a hand, modulo 10, to be as close to 9 as possible. The 10, jack, queen and king are each worth 0 points, and the ace is worth 1 point. The rest of the cards are worth their face value of 2 through 9. If the player has an initial total of 6 or 7, the player does not draw additional cards, while the banker follows a complex set of rules to determine if he draws additional cards.
Answer: baccarat
Question: The Gremlin, Matador, Pacer, and AMX were models produced by what car company?
Answer: amc
Question: What is the common name for Fairy Floss, which William Morrison and John Wharton dreamed up in 1897 and introduced to the world at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904?
Answer: cotton candy
Question: Brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice (before his untimely death on Jan 12, 2003) Gibbs were better known as what band, who hit their peak during the disco era?
Answer: bee gees
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, if Polly put the kettle on, who took it off?
Answer: sukey
Question: The axiom that "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" is commonly known as what?
Answer: murphy s law
Question: We all knew him as Radar, but was the actual first name of the pride of Ottumwa, Iowa, Corporal O'Reilly on the TV series MASH?
Answer: walter
Question: What position/title comes between apprentice and master craftsman/master tradesman?
Answer: journeyman
Question: Patented by it's inventor in 1916, what type of bed folds from the wall?
Answer: murphy bed
Question: What is the common name for a poker hand that consists of all the cards in your hand being of the same suit, not in rank order?
Answer: flush
Question: What legendary blues guitarist, best known for his hit "The Thrill Is Gone" , played a guitar he dubbed Lucille?
Answer: b b king
Question: The mechanism of using 2 flags held in different positions to communicate between ships at sea is called what?
Answer: semaphore
Question: What famous John Steinbeck novel featured the travels of Tom Joad?
Answer: grapes of wrath
Question: What is the name of Lisa's saxophone playing mentor with the Faberge egg addiction?
Answer: bleeding gums murphy
Question: January 17, 1942 saw the birth of one Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. Nicknamed The Louisville Lip, under what name did he achieve boxing immortality?
Answer: muhammad ali
Question: The 1933 ratification of the 20th Amendment moved the day of the inauguration of the President of the United States from March 4 to what date?
Answer: january 20th
Question: The rules for what 2 player card game state: 2 opposing players are dealt ten cards each, with the rest being placed face down between the two. The top card is turned face up. Players take turns taking a card from either the stock or discard pile and discard one from their hand. The object is to end the game, or ‘knock’, when one of the two players has completed their hand of cards. This is done by arranging their cards into ‘sets’ or ‘melds’ of three or more cards of either the same value or a same suited straight. A player can knock if the total value of the cards not used in sets is equal to ten or less. Upon knocking, points are awarded for the difference in value between the unused cards held by the players. If a player manages to get 0 points when knocking, or holds a lower value than the opponent when the opponent knocks, extra points are awarded.
Answer: gin rummy
Question: What SI unit of power, equivalent to one Joule per second, is named after a Scottish Inventor who was born on January 19, 1736?
Answer: watt
Question: One of 110 recipients during the Spanish American war, which total bad-ass did President Bill Clinton award a posthumous Medal of Honor to on January 16, 2001?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: Bowline, clove hitch, square, and sheepshank are all types of what?
Answer: knots
Question: Which state, the second to join the union, is known as the Keystone State?
Answer: pennsylvania
Question: Which of the 4 annual Grand Slam tennis events is played first?
Answer: australian open
Question: John Schnatter is the founder and chairman of what pizza chain, the 3rd largest takeout and delivery pizza chain in the United States?
Answer: papa johns
Question: The name for what alcohol translates from the Gaelic as "Water of life"?
Answer: whisky
Question: Jill Munroe, Kelly Garrett, and Sabrina Duncan, along John Bosley were found on what late 1970s TV series?
Answer: charlie s angels
Question: According to Elvis Presley, what do you find at the end of Lonely Street?
Answer: heartbreak hotel
Question: What Shakespeare tragedy features the House of Capulet and the House of Montague, sworn enemies all?
Answer: romeo and juliet
Question: What month is: Native American Heritage Month, Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, COPD Awareness month, National Novel Writing Month, Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month, American Diabetes Month, Lung Cancer Awareness Month, National Homeless Youth Awareness Month, Crohn's & Ulcerative Colitis Awareness Month, and National Pomegranate Month?
Answer: november
Question: The 52nd, who is the current mayor of Seattle?
Answer: mike mcginn
Question: The steps for what ballroom dance are: Basic forward, Basic backward, Rock left turn, Forward progressive, and Promenade?
Answer: foxtrot
Question: Which Sesame Street character calls a trash can him home?
Answer: oscar grouch
Question: Which word describes the flat area of alluvial deposits on the mouth of some rivers, such as the Nile, Mississippi, and the Ganges?
Answer: delta
Question: With over a billion adherents worldwide, what Asian country is home to the largest Hindu population?
Answer: india
Question: The Palmer Cup, Lexus Cup, Solheim Cup, and Ryder Cup are all events in what sport?
Answer: golf
Question: Who "stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni"?
Answer: yankee doodle
Question: Sunday saw the 67th showing of the Golden Globes Awards, hosted by comedian Ricky Gervais. What group is responsible for hosting the booze fest, err, awards ceremony?
Answer: hollywood foreign press association
Question: What unit of measurement was originally defined as “one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole along Paris Meridian” but is now the “distance travelled by light in free space in 1299,792,458 of a second”?
Answer: metre
Question: Which PGA golfer, considered one of the best of all times, was nicknamed "The Golden Bear"?
Answer: jack nicklaus
Question: According to the 20th Amendment to the US Constitution, on what date are the president and vice president begin their terms?
Answer: january 20th
Question: January 18, 1778 saw explorer Captain James Cook make landfall at the islands he dubbed The Sandwich Islands. By what name do we know them today?
Answer: hawaii
Question: With a record 22 guest appearances, who has been Saturday Night Live's most frequent guest host?
Answer: steve martin
Question: Scheduled to do it's flyby on July 14, 2015, the NASA launched probe New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006 to do explore what heavenly body?
Answer: pluto
Question: Who pondered The Road Ahead and advocated Business at the Speed of Thought?
Answer: bill gates
Question: “There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s” what?
Answer: mastercard
Question: Frontier legend William H. Bonney, ultimately killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett, gained notoriety under what pseudonym?
Answer: billy kid
Question: Before being overthrown by Zeus and the Olympians, what race of powerful deities ruled the Greek world during the legendary Golden Age?
Answer: titans
Question: Of the 4 types of Treasury Securities issued, Treasury Bills, Treasury Notes, Treasury Bonds, and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, which one has the shortest maturation date of only a year?
Answer: treasury bills
Question: If young female horses are called fillies, what are young male horses called?
Answer: colts
Question: If adult female sheep are called ewes and castrated adult males are wethers, what are the uncastrated male sheep called?
Answer: rams
Question: One of the new seven wonders of the modern world, in what country is the carved city of Petra located?
Answer: jordan
Question: January 16 saw the passing of Glen Bell, at the age of 86, founder of what major fast food chain?
Answer: taco bell
Question: Who's missing: Alice Walton, Jim Walton, Christy Walton, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett
Answer: bill gates
Question: Still in operation 7 years later, January 25, 2004 saw the Opportunity Rover land on what planet?
Answer: mars
Question: An Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska, Johnny Carson, who died on Jan 23, 2005, hosted what NBC show from 1962 to 1992?
Answer: tonight show
Question: Which space shuttle, the second to be put in service, was lost on January 28, 1986 as the result of a faulty o-ring, 73 seconds after launch?
Answer: challenger
Question: In printing, orientation such that the height of the display area is greater than the width is known as portrait. What is it called when the width is greater than the height?
Answer: landscape
Question: What Russian city had its name changed first to Petrograd, then Leningrad, before returning to its original name?
Answer: st petersburg
Question: The least densely populated country in the world, what is the largest island in the world, by area, that is not a continent?
Answer: greenland
Question: Jan 24, 1848 saw the start of the California Gold Rush when James W Marshall discovered gold at what California Location?
Answer: sutter s mill
Question: On January 26, 1879, who was granted a patent for r an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires"
Answer: thomas edison
Question: L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, died on Jan 24, 1986, but is best known developing the self-help system called Dianetics, and for founding what religion?
Answer: scientology
Question: What is the name of the wizard who runs the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter books and films?
Answer: dumbledore
Question: On January 24, 1935, Kreuger Brewing Company, of Newark, NJ, became the first to produce beer in what?
Answer: cans
Question: Vodka can be made either from grain, or what vegetable?
Answer: potatoes