CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the first line of the speech by the 3 witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth that ends "toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble"?
Answer: double double
Question: What is the name of the prehistoric figure, of a man holding a club, that is carved into the chalk near Dorchester, England?
Answer: cerne giant
Question: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are the moons of which planet?
Answer: jupiter
Question: Who had his first prize fight in 1914, became world heavyweight champion at Toledo in 1919 and was champion until defeated in 1926?
Answer: jack dempsey
Question: What name was given to the statues dating from 210 BC, which include warriors, chariots, horses, officials, acrobats, strongmen, and musicians belonging to Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China, that were discovered in 1974 by some local farmers near Xi'an, Shaanxi province?
Answer: terracotta army
Question: Who played the title role in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992)?
Answer: gary oldman
Question: Which Serbian-Australian female professional tennis player reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 in 2002, but after several family-related difficulties (mostly involving her father), she slowly slipped down the rankings in 2006?
Answer: jelena dokic
Question: Which 1972 film, set in the 1930s, involved American Sally Bowles dreaming of becoming a movie star while working at "The Kit Kat" in Berlin?
Answer: cabaret
Question: What was the motto of the arms of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Anne?
Answer: semper eadem
Question: What region of the Mediterranean Sea separates Italy from Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Answer: adriatic
Question: In "Through the Looking Glass", Alice uses a mirror to read which poem?
Answer: jabberwocky
Question: Who was exiled to Siberia three times, was active in the plot that overthrew Kerensky in 1917, and became Secretary of the Russian Communist Party?
Answer: stalin
Question: Which company made the Zero fighter that Japan used in World War II?
Answer: mitsubishi
Question: What was the title of John Wayne's last movie, made in 1976?
Answer: shootist
Question: Which establishment owes much to the offer by Sir Hans Sloane in 1758 for England to purchase his collections?
Answer: british museum
Question: French intelligence service (DGSE) agents Captain Dominique Prieur and Commander Alain Mafart were convicted of the manslaughter of photographer Fernando Pereira and sinking a ship, Greenpeace's the "Rainbow Warrior", in 1985, in which harbour?
Answer: auckland new zealand
Question: In Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and among Persian-speaking populations of Central Asia, what is the sport called that involves two teams of horse riders, a dead goat and few rules?
Answer: buzkashi
Question: Who was the author of the plays "The Professor's Love Story", "Quality Street", "The Admirable Crichton" and "Peter Pan"?
Answer: j m barrie
Question: What is the "First Law of Robotics" devised by Isaac Asimov in his science fiction stories?
Answer: robot may not injure human being or through inaction allow human being to come to harm
Question: What was the capital of the Inca Empire from 1438 to 1532 which, at its peak, dominated a territory that included (from north to south) Ecuador, part of Colombia, the northern half of Chile, and the north-west part of Argentina, and (from west to east) from Bolivia to the Amazonian forests and Peru?
Answer: cuzco
Question: Which author and playwright wrote "An Inspector Calls", "When We Are Married" and "Dangerous Corner"?
Answer: j b priestley
Question: In "The Hobbit", what type of creature was Smaug?
Answer: dragon
Question: What card game, played usually between 2 players or teams who try to build up collections of cards of the same value, uses 2 packs with 2 additional jokers?
Answer: canasta
Question: Who led the first expedition to successfully circumnavigate the earth between 1519 and 1522, and was killed during the voyage?
Answer: magellan
Question: Which ship transported the English Separatists, better known as the Pilgrims, from Southampton, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620?
Answer: mayflower
Question: Which country, the capital of which is Asmara, had the King of Ethiopia as its king from 1952?
Answer: eritrea
Question: What is the name of the group of 140 islands 25 miles south west of Lands End, Cornwall, England?
Answer: scilly isles
Question: At which battle, which began on 4 May 1942, were Japanese losses at least 7 warships, with over 20 others damaged, and USA losses included the aircraft carrier "Lexington" and two other ships?
Answer: battle of coral sea
Question: The experimental new village of Poundbury in England, much of which has been built to traditional lines, is built on land belonging to whom?
Answer: prince charles
Question: Which mystic symbol among Buddhists was adopted in reverse by the Nazi party in Germany?
Answer: swastika
Question: What is the English name for the red wines of Bordeaux, especially from vineyards in the Medoc district of the Gironde?
Answer: claret
Question: Portuguese rule of which country ended in 1975, with the appointment of Samora Machel as its first president?
Answer: mozambique
Question: The "galop" from Offenbach's "Orphe aux Enfers" is generally associated with what?
Answer: can can
Question: Which river runs through the cities of St. Louis, Saint Charles, Jefferson City and Kansas City?
Answer: missouri
Question: Which cricket commentator, who began his broadcasting career at the BBC in 1960 and commentated in Britain to 2005 and Australia from 1964, announced his 2010 retirement on 18 February 2009?
Answer: richie benaud
Question: Which 19th century French physicist erected a pendulum 200 feet high in the Pantheon in Paris to demonstrate the earth's rotation?
Answer: jean foucault
Question: According to Burt Bacharach's theme for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", what "keep fallin' on my head"?
Answer: raindrops
Question: What is the name for the British manufacturing district that includes Birmingham, Wolverhampton, West Bromich, Dudley, Smethwick and Walsall?
Answer: black country
Question: What part of mainland Europe was English territory for 200 years from the mid 14th century?
Answer: calais
Question: Who was an 8 year old English girl murdered on 24 August 1867 by solicitor's clerk Frederick Baker in Alton, Hampshire: the body was found in a hop field, her head and legs severed, her eyes put out, her torso emptied and her organs scattered?
Answer: fanny adams
Question: LeeAnne Rimes and Carrie Underwood are associated with what sort of music?
Answer: country
Question: Who was Hugh Grant's female co-star in the film "Music and Lyrics"?
Answer: drew barrymore
Question: Who sang while Ray Manzarek, Robbie Kreiger and John Densmore played?
Answer: jim morrison
Question: Which English classic horse race for 3 year olds held at Doncaster every September began in 1776?
Answer: st leger stakes
Question: Which race, the first of which was in 1829 and held annually since 1856 (with the exception of the two world wars) is rowed each spring on the Thames in London?
Answer: oxford and cambridge boat race
Question: The 520 men and 197 women who arrived in 11 ships at Botany Bay, Australia, on 26 January 1788, were mostly what?
Answer: convicts
Question: What is always on the label of a bottle of the green liqueur "Benedictine"?
Answer: d o m
Question: Who became Roman emperor after the murder of Caligula, and, after the death of his wife, married his niece Agrippina, who poisoned him?
Answer: claudius
Question: Swiss legendary hero William Tell was instrumental in rescuing his land from the tyranny of which country in 1307?
Answer: austria
Question: Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born American sports coach and innovator, invented which sport in 1891?
Answer: basketball
Question: Which female impersonator, Daniel Carroll, whose career began in 1945 and whose most famous role was in the lead of a major production of "Hello Dolly!", died in June 2009?
Answer: danny la rue
Question: Who led the first expedition that reached the South Pole?
Answer: roald amundsen
Question: Since 2002, the awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been broadcast from which venue?
Answer: kodak theatre
Question: Andreas Thorkildsen set a new Olympic record at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing for throwing what?
Answer: javelin
Question: What peninsula on the north coast of the Black Sea is connected to the mainland by the isthmus of Perekop?
Answer: crimea
Question: The naval battle fought on 2 April 1801 known as the Battle of Copenhagen was fought between Denmark and a navy from where?
Answer: britain
Question: A New Zealand squash player who dominated the sport in the late 1980s and early 1990s, winning the World Open 4 times, is Susan who?
Answer: devoy
Question: Which London landmark was designed by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Great Fire of London?
Answer: monument
Question: What changed its name as a result of the Treaty of Maastricht in 1991?
Answer: european community
Question: What do members of the Gideon Society leave in hotel bedrooms?
Answer: bibles
Question: The object of which card game is to make, for example, pairs, sequences, and 15 and 31 points, where scores are marked by means of pegs in a board?
Answer: cribbage
Question: For which sport, now banned in Britain by the Hunting Act 2004, was the "Waterloo Cup" 3 day event run annually at Great Altcar in Lancashire, England from 1836 to 2005?
Answer: hare coursing
Question: Which heavenly body was discovered by astronomer Clyde W Tombaugh on 18 February 1930?
Answer: pluto
Question: What is the base of the cocktail Margarita?
Answer: tequila
Question: """The Blockheads"" released a new album in 2009 after nine years' silence. Who used to be their frontman?"
Answer: ian drury
Question: Which film that won an Oscar for Best Picture, explores prejudice against Jews and Afro-Americans over the period 1948 to 1973?
Answer: driving miss daisy
Question: Which 18th century German composer wrote over 40 operas including "Orfeo" and "Alceste", comic operas and instrumental music?
Answer: christoph willibald gluck
Question: The men travelling as whose crew were the first known humans to reach and cross the Antarctic Circle in 1773?
Answer: captain james cook
Question: Which singer and songwriter of the 1970s and 1980s was the first to have three consecutive double albums hit #1 on the Billboard charts, and was the first female artist to have four number-one singles in a thirteen-month period?
Answer: donna summer
Question: What relish originating in the Far East, is prepared from sweet fruits, to which acidulous flavours, hot seasoning, peppers and spices are added?
Answer: chutney
Question: In Britain, by an act of 1541 (repealed in 1845) artificers, labourers, apprentices and servants were forbidden to play which sport at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence, or be fined 6s. 8d?
Answer: bowls
Question: With what art form is Frenchman Paul Czanne associated?
Answer: painting
Question: Which family includes Louis, a television journalist, his father Paul, a travel writer and novelist, his elder brother Marcel, a writer and television presenter and his cousin Justin, an American actor?
Answer: theroux
Question: What was the Japanese name for Manchuria after they occupied it in 1931?
Answer: manchukuo
Question: When Edward the Confessor ruled over England, royal petitions became so frequent that they were referred to the Chancellor. Which special court was set up to hear them?
Answer: chancery
Question: Who was elected president of the southern states of the USA when they seceded from the Union in 1861?
Answer: jefferson davis
Question: Which team was the runner-up at the 3rd American Football World Cup in Kawasaki, Japan, in 2007?
Answer: japan
Question: What is the name for a method of enamel decoration where the design is outlined with soldered metal fillets which are filled with enamel paste or powder, which is vitrified and ground smooth?
Answer: cloisonn
Question: Plato and Xenophon are the most famous pupils of which Greek philosopher?
Answer: socrates
Question: What island was occupied by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Goths, Saracens, Normans, and the Angevin, Hapsburg and Bourbon dynasties until it became part of United Italy in 1861?
Answer: sicily
Question: Where was gold discovered by James Wilson Marshall on January 24, 1848, that led to the California Gold Rush (18481855)?
Answer: sutter s mill
Question: Phobos and Deimos are the moons of which planet?
Answer: mars
Question: Who was president of the Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), when, on 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship?
Answer: jules rimet
Question: Which Welsh mountain system runs from the Black Mountains to Snowdon?
Answer: cambrian
Question: Susan Mayer, Lynette Scavo, Bree Van de Kamp, Gabrielle Solis, Edie Britt, Mary Alice Young, Betty Applewhite, Katherine Mayfair and Karen McCluskey have all lived in which street?
Answer: wisteria lane
Question: Who was the Philistine warrior, famous for his battle with David, the future king of Israel, as described in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament and, more briefly, in the Quran?
Answer: goliath
Question: What was the name of the representative body in pre-revolutionary Russia that was revived in 1905?
Answer: duma
Question: What is the name for the position in the orbit of a heavenly body when it is nearest the sun?
Answer: perihelion
Question: In which country, which was neutral in World War II, was there a revolution which deposed the monarchy in 1910, then a military coup d'tat in 1926, followed by a right-wing dictatorship?
Answer: portugal
Question: Who was the sister of the Emperor Augustus and great niece of Julius Caesar who married Mark Anthony?
Answer: octavia
Question: What is the name given to copper bars arranged in a cylinder, insulated from each other which rotates to connect each section of the armature in turn (in a motor) or to the external current (in a dynamo)?
Answer: commutator
Question: The first series of which BBC sitcom series, set in Billericay, Essex and Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, chronicled the developing romance of the two leads and ended with their becoming Mr. and Mrs. Shipman?
Answer: gavin stacey
Question: Thomas de Torquemada is famous for his part in which event?
Answer: spanish inquisition
Question: Who was a co-founder of The Undertones in 1976 (which had hits with "Here Comes The Summer", "My Perfect Cousin", "Wednesday Week" and "It's Going To Happen") and then went solo, releasing the singles "Listen To Your Father", "A Good Heart" (1985), "You Little Thief" (1986) and in the early 1990s moved into the business side of the music industry?
Answer: feargal sharkey
Question: In which series are FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) the investigators of cases involving paranormal phenomena?
Answer: x files
Question: Who was separated from her husband in June 2009 to film "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" in Australia?
Answer: katie holmes
Question: All of the gold medals at the 2009 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were won by Evgenia Kanaeva, who was representing which country?
Answer: russia
Question: What was the name of the unofficial mascot of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which has a statue as part of an official Olympic memorial outside the Sydney Olympic Stadium?
Answer: fatso
Question: When Robert Falcon Scott reached the south pole in June 1912, he discovered that who had reached it before him?
Answer: roald amundsen
Question: Porfirio Diaz resigned from the presidency of which country in May 1911?
Answer: mexico
Question: According to the proverb, people who sup with whom should use a long spoon?
Answer: devil
Question: To whom was David Rizzio the secretary, when he was stabbed to death by her husband, Lord Darnley in 1566 at Holyrood House, Edinburgh?
Answer: mary queen of scots
Question: Whose career was re-ignited with the release of his album "American Recordings", which included songs writen by Tom Waits, Nick Lowe and Leonard Cohen, when it won the 1994 Contemporary Folk Album Grammy Award?
Answer: johnny cash
Question: Seas and oceans make up roughly what proportion of the earth's surface?
Answer: 70
Question: What name is given to the silvery aureole enveloping the sun's chromosphere?
Answer: corona
Question: The main characters of which play by Henrik Ibsen are Dr. Thomas Stockmann, his wife and three children, and Peter Stockmann, the Mayor, who is his elder brother?
Answer: enemy of people
Question: What nationality was J Landy, who broke Roger Bannister's record for the mile of 3 minutes 59.4 seconds by recording 3 minutes 58 seconds on 21 June 1954?
Answer: australian
Question: Tansu Ciller became the first female Prime Minister of which Muslim country in 1993?
Answer: turkey
Question: Making their record debut in 1989, what were Squire, Mani, Reni and Brown collectively known as?
Answer: stone roses
Question: In 1818 Bernadotte became King Charles XIV of Sweden due to the influence of whom?
Answer: napoleon i
Question: The capital of which French island in the West Indies between Dominica and Santa Lucia, St Pierre, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902 and moved to Fort de France?
Answer: martinique
Question: Who was president of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress in England and the author of books on sexual hygiene published between 1918 and 1935 including "Married Love", "Radiant Motherhood" and "Marriage in My Time"?
Answer: marie stopes
Question: What was the popular name for the Paris prison at 232 Rue Saint-Antoine that was stormed during the French Revolution in 1789?
Answer: bastille
Question: In botany, what is the word for the scar left on a tree or plant after a leaf falls?
Answer: cicatrix
Question: In March 1918, the capital of Russia was moved to where?
Answer: moscow
Question: The planet Mercury was photographed in 1974 and 1975 by which spacecraft?
Answer: mariner 10
Question: According to the title of a song from the musical "The Sound of Music", who was lonely?
Answer: goatherd
Question: In London, where are the trials of the pyx held?
Answer: hall of worshipful company of goldsmiths
Question: What object, which had been brought to Westminster Abbey in 1296 and placed under "St Edward's chair", was stolen and taken to Scotland in December 1950 and returned the following April?
Answer: coronation stone
Question: In the 2009 FA Cup Chelsea v Everton which player received a record 5th winner's medal?
Answer: ashley cole
Question: Who was the Puritan leader and first governor of the Pilgrim Fathers, who organised the voyage of the Mayflower to Plymouth, New Hampshire?
Answer: john carver
Question: Which religion has about 119 million known adherents in Japan?
Answer: shinto
Question: Which country is made up of 176 islands, 36 of them inhabited, in 3 groups (called Vava'u, Ha'apai, and Tongatapu) which stretch north-south for 800 kilometers (500 miles)?
Answer: tonga
Question: Which of the Hindu Trimurti is "The Creator"?
Answer: brahma
Question: Atlantic equatorial currents pushed westward by the Trade Winds unite in the Gulf of Mexico and then flow northward. What is the north-flowing current called?
Answer: gulf stream
Question: Which country returned to a democratic form of government after the death of dictator Juan Vincente Gomez in 1935?
Answer: venezuela
Question: What is the name of the index of average daily prices on the New York Stock Exchange?
Answer: dow jones
Question: Who are the two main characters in the TV series "The Big Bang Theory"?
Answer: sheldon and leonard
Question: Where was the first motor race to regularly carry the name Grand Prix, the first of which took place in 1906 on a circuit roughly triangular in shape, each lap covering 105 kilometres (65 miles)?
Answer: le mans
Question: If you travelled down the Yarra River in Australia, which city would you be in when you reached the ocean?
Answer: melbourne australia
Question: In the southern hemisphere, the winds associated with a cyclone, a region of low pressure, blow in which direction?
Answer: clockwise
Question: Which TV series followed the exploits of Father Ted Crilly, Father Dougal McGuire and the retired Father Jack Hackett, who preside over a parish on Craggy Island?
Answer: father ted
Question: Where was a nuclear reactor accident that resulted in a severe release of radioactivity following a massive power excursion which destroyed the reactor on 26 April 1986 at 01:23:45 a.m.?
Answer: chernobyl
Question: Goidelic is one type of the Celtic language. What is the other?
Answer: brythonic
Question: Nelson Piquet Jnr was accused of deliberately crashing at which F1 race in 2008 that paved the way for Renault's Fernando Alonso to win?
Answer: singapore
Question: What has been the motto of the Prince of Wales since the 14th century?
Answer: ich dien
Question: What is the only Southeast Asian nation that has never been colonised, mainly because it had a long succession of able rulers in the 1800s, and was able to exploit the rivalry between the French and the British?
Answer: thailand
Question: What shape are the 8 faces of an octahedron?
Answer: triangles
Question: According to the legend, Peeping Tom was looking at whom?
Answer: lady godiva
Question: Which long-running British TV series which began as a one-off drama entitled "Woodentop" revolves around the lives of policemen stationed at Sun Hill?
Answer: bill
Question: What is the next in the series: Chamonix, France; St. Moritz, Switzerland; Lake Placid, United States; Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany?
Answer: st moritz switzerland
Question: The "Ring of Fire" is an area of seismic activity around which ocean?
Answer: pacific
Question: In 1389, Queen Margaret ruled over Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Iceland and which other country?
Answer: finland
Question: Who did Venus Williams defeat in 2001 to win her second consecutive US Open tennis title?
Answer: serena williams
Question: Cayenne pepper is a condiment prepared from the dried and pounded pods of several species of what?
Answer: capsicum
Question: The term "tessellated" refers to what type of art?
Answer: mosaic
Question: What was the name that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to his package of economic programs in the mid 1930's with the goals of "the 3 R's": Relief to the unemployed & farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and Recovery of the economy?
Answer: new deal
Question: What is the name of an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theatre and comedy that was created by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois?
Answer: harlem globetrotters
Question: What name is given to a section of the Alps located mostly in the province of Belluno, and extending into the provinces of Bolzano-Bozen and Trento?
Answer: dolomites
Question: Where is the world's longest toughest horse race of over 1000 km in the footsteps of Genghis Khan?
Answer: mongolia
Question: What is the name of the dot on a lower case "i" and "j"?
Answer: tittle
Question: What name was given to the accidental destruction caused to British trawlers and fishermen by ships from the Russian navy on 21 October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War?
Answer: dogger bank incident
Question: What Three Laws were formulated by Johannes Kepler in the early 1600s?
Answer: planetary motion
Question: Which 18th century writer produced "She Stoops To Conquer" and "The Vicar Of Wakefield"?
Answer: oliver goldsmith
Question: What is the name of the pet dog in the 1962 cartoon TV series "The Jetsons"?
Answer: astro
Question: Who was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement who was assassinated on 4 April 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee?
Answer: martin luther king jr
Question: Where does Harry Potter have a scar in the shape of a bolt of lightning?
Answer: on his forehead
Question: Which make of car has won the most 24 Hour races at Le Mans?
Answer: porsche
Question: What festival is known as Yom Kippur?
Answer: day of atonement
Question: What is the richest horse race in Europe?
Answer: prix de l arc de triomphe