CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The original terms of reference of the International Whaling Commission were to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry"; what did the Commission do in 1982?
Answer: adopted moratorium on commercial whaling
Question: Its capital is Monrovia, its first settlements were founded in 1822 on land bought from local tribal leaders, it was initially a protectorate of the USA but independent from 1847; what country is it?
Answer: republic of liberia
Question: What was the first feature film under its new persona by the studio formed from The Graphics Group of Lucasfilm?
Answer: toy story
Question: Which king of England was called "the wisest fool in Christendom"?
Answer: james i
Question: Who, called the "King of Jazz", was the leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, commissioned and debuted George Gershwin's jazz-influenced "Rhapsody In Blue" in 1924?
Answer: paul whiteman
Question: In 2007, the largest known specimen of what, weighing 495 kg (1,091 lb) and measuring 4.2 m (14 ft) in length, was caught in the Ross Sea?
Answer: colossal squid
Question: Herodotus, Josephus, Michael King, Simon Schama and Edward Gibbon share what common focus?
Answer: history
Question: Which way is it likely that the head of the successor of Queen Elizabeth II will face on a British coin?
Answer: left
Question: Who wrote "Ann Veronica", a novel first published in 1909 that deals with contemporary political issues of the time, concentrating specifically on feminist issues?
Answer: h g wells
Question: The Olympic Hymn at the opening ceremony at the 1992 Summer Olympics was sung in what language or languages?
Answer: spanish and catalan
Question: Which scandal involving an oil well on public land occurred during the presidency of Warren Harding?
Answer: tea pot dome scandal
Question: What island group may be described as a triangle with its corners at Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island, including the island groups Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Niue?
Answer: polynesia
Question: The first editions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice ..." books were given a special flavour by illustrations by which 19th century graphic humourist and political cartoonist?
Answer: sir john tenniel
Question: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, served in what service in World War II?
Answer: navy
Question: The Everglades are a subtropical wetland in which U.S. state?
Answer: florida
Question: Oculus Story Studio, formed employing a handful of Pixar Animation Studios veterans released their first interactive Virtual Reality short at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. What was it?
Answer: lost
Question: Who wrote "Quentins", "Nights of Rain and Stars", "Whitethorn Woods" and "Heart and Soul"?
Answer: maeve binchy
Question: """Immersive journalism"", of the kind presented by Nonny de la Peas ""Hunger in Los Angeles"" in 2012 uses what technique?"
Answer: virtual reality
Question: The music soundscape of three out of the four "Dirty Harry" films is associated with what Argentine pianist, composer, arranger and conductor?
Answer: lalo schifrin
Question: The two UK TV series "The Sweeney" (1975-78) and "Inspector Morse" (1987-2000) share which actor?
Answer: john thaw
Question: Which actor is a link between the outstanding psychological UK crime series, "Cracker", and the eight Harry Potter films?
Answer: robbie coltrane
Question: The film "O21" (2014) is made under the banner of what country?
Answer: pakistan
Question: Mostar Bridge, completed in 1566, destroyed in 1993 and rebuilt in 2004, stands in which country?
Answer: federation of bosnia and herzegovina
Question: When Gerald Ford was president of the USA, who was his vice president?
Answer: nelson rockefeller
Question: When Michael Clarke resigned his captaincy of the Australian team in the course of a 2015 competition between Australia and the UK, to take effect when the series was finished, what sport were the teams competing in?
Answer: cricket
Question: Which group from New York City released an eponymous album in 1973 with the personnel of David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, Arthur "Killer" Kane, Jerry Nolan and Johnny Thunders?
Answer: new york dolls
Question: What was the name of Han Solo's spacecraft in the first "Star Wars" film to be released?
Answer: millenium falcon
Question: In what TV series was the family butler called Lurch?
Answer: addams family
Question: """Pollywog"" is another name for what?"
Answer: tadpole
Question: The caffeine-rich infused drink, mate, is prepared from a species of South American holly called what?
Answer: yerba
Question: Where was Chiang Kai-Shek leader until 1949?
Answer: china
Question: In WCF, an international body formed in 1986 which is associated among other things with the MacRobertson Shield, what does the "C" stand?
Answer: croquet
Question: Which group, named after its keyboardist, had its first hit record when the members included Mike Hugg, Mike Vickers, Tom McGuinness and Paul Jones?
Answer: manfred mann
Question: Who resigned his army commission in 1858 to write music, such as the opera "Boris Godunov" and "Pictures at an Exhibition"?
Answer: modest mussorgsky
Question: What did the Festival International du Film become in 2002?
Answer: festival de cannes
Question: Cyrus the Great of Persia, for his religious tolerance, power and skill the only non-Jew to be acclaimed as the Messiah, founded the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE which stretched how far?
Answer: asia minor in west to northwestern areas of india in east
Question: What is missing in the sequence: French Guiana, the Republic of Suriname, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela?
Answer: co operative republic of guyana
Question: In 2015 pop artist Taylor Swift won a disagreement over pay with what organisation?
Answer: apple
Question: The mediaeval wind instrument called a shawm typically had a cover over its keys called what?
Answer: fontanelle
Question: What was the nickname of the defending champion in the 2014 World Snooker Championship?
Answer: rocket
Question: He is a playwright, screenwriter, film director and essayist with a Pulitzer Prize (1984) and Tony and Oscar award nominations; he is married to singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon; what is his name?
Answer: david mamet
Question: The Armagnac region of France lies between the Adour and Garonne rivers and near which other feature?
Answer: pyrenees
Question: In 1892, who became the first heavyweight boxing champion to fight under the Marquess of Queensberry rules?
Answer: jim corbett
Question: What is the official language of the principality of Andorra?
Answer: catalan
Question: It is generally accepted that the first true "Beat" novel was "Go" by John Clennon (1952) followed by "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg (1956). The Beat culture entered its heyday with the publication of what novel by Jack Kerouac?
Answer: on road
Question: On 2 February 2015 who became the youngest person to be ranked No 1 in professional golf?
Answer: lydia ko
Question: Who coined the expressions 'a curate's egg' and 'bedside manner', and wrote three novels, including "Peter Ibbetson" (adapted to a 1935 film starring Gary Cooper and an opera), and another which gave its name to the trilby, a type of hat?
Answer: george du maurier
Question: Which country, after 500 years of Ottoman domination, became independent in 1912, adopted a republican form of government in 1920, became a kingdom in 1928, came under Italian control in 1939, became a Communist state after World War II, and is now a parliamentary democracy established under a constitution renewed in 1998?
Answer: albania
Question: Paribas, formed in 1872 from two companies respectively in Paris and Amsterdam, operated in what field?
Answer: finance
Question: Michael Caine appeared as which character in 5 films?
Answer: harry palmer
Question: Who co-starred with Kevin Costner in "Bodyguard" and released a song from the movie, "I Will Always Love You", which became a hit?
Answer: whitney houston
Question: """Falling in love does not mean you love to fall"" is an example of chiasmus and what other figure of speech?"
Answer: metaphor
Question: Which musical with book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot opened in October 1967 at Joseph Papp's Public Theater?
Answer: hair
Question: Which club drug, particularly popular, and fatal, in some areas, was originally developed as an anaesthetic and painkiller and used mainly by veterinary surgeons?
Answer: ketamine
Question: In mediaeval years what would the regular occupants of a charterhouse be?
Answer: monks
Question: Who was World Superbike Champion in 1994, 1995, 1998 and 1999?
Answer: carl fogarty
Question: What nut is used in making marzipan, nougat, and amaretti?
Answer: almond
Question: Who wrote and directed the Bafta Award winning short film "Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life" (1993)?
Answer: peter capaldi
Question: The series "Marvel's Daredevil" was created as what?
Answer: web television
Question: One of the rarest reptiles, a species of crocodile, is found in the wild exclusively where?
Answer: orinoco river
Question: In 1956 who wrote and introduced the song, ranked by the magazine Rolling Stone as #97 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, "Roll Over, Beethoven"?
Answer: chuck berry
Question: In George Orwell's book "Animal Farm", "Boxer" was what kind of animal?
Answer: horse
Question: Whose last compositions, composed in 1948 when the composer was 84, were called "Four Last Songs"?
Answer: richard strauss
Question: Who had the lead roles in the TV series "Callan" and "The Equaliser"?
Answer: edward woodward
Question: On 1 May 1707, who became the first sovereign of the "Kingdom of Great Britain"?
Answer: queen anne
Question: Which Italian poet and librettist was known under the name of Metastasio?
Answer: pietro antonio domenico trapassi
Question: What organisation was initially behind the first Geneva Convention signed in 1864?
Answer: international committee for relief to wounded
Question: What is the name of 100 novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, a medieval allegorical work known for its bawdy tales of love from the erotic to the tragic, which were probably written in the 1350s?
Answer: decameron
Question: Dean Martin starred in 4 films as which fictional US government counter-agent, created by Donald Hamilton?
Answer: matt helm
Question: A 1951 film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Kasey Rogers and Patricia Hitchcock was called "Strangers on a ... what"?
Answer: train
Question: What was the subtitle of the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood"?
Answer: this bird has flown
Question: The Terracotta Army marched underground frozen in time from the burial of an emperor in the third century BCE until 1974 CE, where?
Answer: china
Question: What disco hit of 1975 by Donna Summer was banned by the BBC because of the background noises?
Answer: love to love you baby
Question: Cambodia, which over the course of 1841 to 1953 was under the joint suzerainty of Thailand and Vietnam then was a monarchy under the protection of France which included an occupation by Japan, was steered to independence in 1953 by whom?
Answer: king norodom sihanouk
Question: Over its thousands of islands Indonesia officially recognises the religions of Christianity (Protestantism and Catholicism), Confucianism, Islam, Hinduism and what other?
Answer: buddhism
Question: When was the last death penalty carried out, by guillotine, in France?
Answer: september 1977
Question: Which place, used by Russians in 1814 to bombard Paris, became a popular entertainment area in the 19th and 20th centuries, outside the city limits, free of Paris taxes (and where the local nuns made wine)?
Answer: montmartre
Question: The American TV series "The Big Bang Theory" is an example of what genre?
Answer: comedy
Question: Who is an Australian convicted murderer, currently serving 35 life sentences for murdering 35 people and injuring 21 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a shooting spree in Tasmania in 1996?
Answer: martin john bryant
Question: Who are Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and Dave?
Answer: chipmunks
Question: Up until 1869 where was the city known as Edo?
Answer: japan
Question: The Royal Residence of George III of England and before him his father was at Kew Gardens, falling into disrepair in the early 19th century, and was known as what?
Answer: white house
Question: In 1999, King Abdullah II and Queen Rania became the rulers of which country?
Answer: jordan
Question: """Vichysoisse"" is a type of what?"
Answer: soup
Question: What is a violet variety of quartz used in jewellery, that the ancient Greeks and Romans believed protected its owner from drunkenness?
Answer: amethyst
Question: What 1976-9 UK TV series, written by David Nobbs, frequently featured brief footage of a hippopotamus?
Answer: fall and rise of reginald perrin
Question: The island of Runion, Mauritius, is closest to which other country to its west?
Answer: madagascar
Question: Which melodramatic opera depicting graphic scenes of torture, murder and suicide, set in Rome in June 1800 when the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome was threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy, contains some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias?
Answer: tosca
Question: A 2005 remix of the song "Axel F", music originally released in 1984 as the theme for American TV series "Beverley Hills Cops", became known as what?
Answer: crazy frog song
Question: Where was BBC presenter and journalist Ade Adepitan born?
Answer: lagos nigeria
Question: After the game of Australian Football was formulated in 1857 which was the first club (formed the following year)?
Answer: melbourne football club
Question: Who was the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah who succeeded his father Asa, ruling for twenty-five years until 849 BC, until his son Jehoram succeeded him?
Answer: jehoshaphat
Question: What is the title of a 2004 book co-written by Paris Hilton and Merle Ginsberg?
Answer: confessions of heiress
Question: The passport of what lawyer, sportsman, singer, actor and civil rights activist was withdrawn by the US State Department in 1950 because of his alleged affiliation with the Communist Party?
Answer: paul robeson
Question: Which Dickens character was visited by the ghost of Bob Marley?
Answer: scrooge
Question: The Rance Barrage is the first example of what?
Answer: tidal power station
Question: """Why don't you come up sometime and see me"" was a famous line by Mae West in the 1933 film ""She Done Him Wrong"". Which actor did she say it to?"
Answer: cary grant
Question: In 2005 Karina Hollekim performed what, the first woman to do so?
Answer: ski base
Question: Which American swing and jazz guitarist's single string technique combined with amplification, while with Benny Goodman's bands between 1939 and 1941, helped bring the guitar out of the rhythm section and into the forefront as a solo instrument?
Answer: charlie christian
Question: Irish-born Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is known in what field?
Answer: painting
Question: Modern versions of which appliance (commonplace by the 1970s in domestic residences in the USA) are descended from the 1886 invention of Josephine Cochrane which she unveiled at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
Answer: dishwasher
Question: Which 1964 film, written by Terry Southern and Stanley Kubrik and directed by him, starred Peter Sellers (in three roles), George C Scott, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens?
Answer: dr strangelove or how i learned to stop worrying and love bomb
Question: Demi Moore shaved her head for the title role in which 1997 film?
Answer: gi jane
Question: Where was the starting point for the 2015 Tour de France?
Answer: utrecht netherlands
Question: The royal wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling on 19 June 2010, described as "Europe's biggest royal wedding since the Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer", took place in which country?
Answer: sweden
Question: What is the title of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Slater's sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera"?
Answer: love never dies
Question: Which creature is best qualified to serve as a model for the mythical unicorn, having its the main distinguishing characteristic?
Answer: rhinoceros
Question: Which play, developed in the Vineyard Arts Project at Martha's Vineyard in the USA and premiering on Broadway in 2014, was based on the autobiography of Broadway writer and director Moss Hart?
Answer: act one
Question: In England, the "dissolution of the monasteries" occurred under the reign of which king?
Answer: henry viii
Question: Which 1967 film, directed by Stuart Rosenberg starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy, was about the fate of a man sent to prison for vandalising parking meters?
Answer: cool hand luke
Question: Who wrote "Desperate Remedies" (1871) and "Under The Greenwood Tree" (1872)?
Answer: thomas hardy
Question: First used in western medicine in the 17th century what was the drug developed from the bark of the cinchona tree used to treat?
Answer: malaria
Question: On 29 May 1954, who sent a message to the aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance, saying "Thank you for the original forgery"?
Answer: queen elizabeth ii
Question: In what country is the white wine grape Pinot grigio, a clone of Pinot gris, traditionally grown?
Answer: italy
Question: A road system running down the west coast of the Americas, apart from a short gap across the south part of Central America, from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, is called what?
Answer: pan american highway
Question: Louis Comfort Tiffany was particularly well-known for his work in what?
Answer: stained glass
Question: What dish consists of chicken pan-fried in a skillet and covered tightly after the initial browning so that the chicken steams as well as frying, with milk or cream added to the pan juices to create a white cream gravy?
Answer: chicken maryland
Question: Who is reputed to have survived over 55 assassination attempts, the most notable of which (the only time in modern history when a Head of State has personally exchanged fire with a potential assassin) was in 1931?
Answer: king zog of albania
Question: According to the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who raised Tarzan after he was orphaned?
Answer: apes
Question: Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the prize for, among others, determining the chemical structure of what, which she published in 1949?
Answer: penicillin
Question: U Thant (Myanmar), Kurt Waldheim (Austria) and Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru) successively held the same office; what was the office?
Answer: secretary general of united nations
Question: Whose first book, published in 1920, was "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"?
Answer: agatha christie
Question: King Idris I was deposed in 1969 as king of where?
Answer: libya
Question: Bannock, brioche, pita, focaccia and roti are varieties of what?
Answer: bread
Question: In the final Test match of his career, international cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan became the first bowler to take 800 Test wickets. What nation did he represent?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: Who wrote "A Room With A View", "Howard's End" and "A Passage To India"?
Answer: e m forster
Question: Prominent UK philanthropist Dr Naim Dangoor CBE set up and heads which charitable foundation?
Answer: exilarch s foundation
Question: What Jewish celebration commemorates an event concerning children and lamb's blood?
Answer: passover
Question: Mike Leigh directed what 1999 film, starring Jim Broadbent and Timothy Spall, about a famous music theatre partnership?
Answer: topsy turvy
Question: Raymond Briggs, English graphic novelist, artist, illustrator and cartoonist, first found enduring popularity with what work?
Answer: snowman
Question: Despite being named for the Ebola River in Congo the virus was first isolated some distance away; where?
Answer: yambuku
Question: What musical has the characters Christian, Satine, Harold Zidler, The Duke of Monroth, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Narcoleptic Argentinean, The Doctor, China Doll, Audrey, Nini Legs-in-the-Air and La Petite Princesse?
Answer: moulin rouge
Question: Which Roman poet wrote "The Aeneid" and "The Eclogues"?
Answer: virgil
Question: What is an alcoholic apritif, a type of bitters, obtained from the infusion of bitter herbs, aromatic plants and fruit in alcohol and water?
Answer: campari
Question: Which Italian opera singer, considered to be one of the finest tenors in the recorded history of music rose to international prominence after the death of Italian tenor Enrico Caruso in 1921, and was often called "Caruso Secondo"?
Answer: beniamino gigli
Question: In India, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Transcaucasus, the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia, Burma and Bangladesh, what is a tandoor (also known as a tonir and a tone) used for?
Answer: cooking
Question: Who was given a personalised iPod by Barack Obama when he visited in April 2009?
Answer: queen elizabeth ii
Question: The Kalandula Falls, one of the largest waterfalls by volume in Africa, are in which country?
Answer: angola
Question: Where would the phenomenon reported by locals as Naga Fireballs be found?
Answer: mekong river
Question: What instrument is played by blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite and Junior Wells?
Answer: harmonica
Question: What was the musical work by Mike Oldfield released as an album, containing only one track on each side, in 1973?
Answer: tubular bells
Question: In 2015 palaeontologists from Edinburgh and Beijing announced the discovery of the fossil of an almost complete feathered and winged, although almost certainly flightless, theropod which is an ancestor of what?
Answer: velociraptor
Question: On 15 December 1940, whose remains (except for his heart, intestines and viscera) were transferred from Vienna to the dome of Les Invalides in Paris as a "gift" to France by Adolf Hitler?
Answer: napoleon ii
Question: How did Shakespeare in his play "Cymbeline" end the line, "Golden lads and girls all must as chimneysweepers come to..."?
Answer: dust
Question: A small sandbar island emerged in the Bay of Bengal in the aftermath of the Bhola cyclone in 1970, but in 2010 it was discovered it had been completely submerged by rising water levels. Which 2 countries had claimed sovereignty?
Answer: india and bangladesh
Question: Who is the lawyer in Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations"?
Answer: jaggers
Question: Which entertainment American cable TV network is owned by Time Warner Inc.?
Answer: adult swim
Question: Who wrote the 1998 novel "About A Boy"?
Answer: nick hornby
Question: Its capital city is Chiinu, and it is surrounded by the Ukraine and Romania; which country is it?
Answer: moldova
Question: Who wrote the song to which Miley Cyrus famously twerked in 2013?
Answer: j dash
Question: Which US president was re-elected with the slogan "Don't change horses in mid-stream"?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: Which club won UEFA's inaugural European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1956?
Answer: real madrid
Question: The period known as "The Time of Troubles" 1598-1613 refers to which country?
Answer: russia
Question: Which classic poem contains the line "Far from the madding crowd"?
Answer: elegy in country churchyard
Question: In Raymond Chandler's comment in the book Farewell My Lovely "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was ..." what figure of speech was he using?
Answer: anaphora
Question: Which Irish-born novelist wrote the satire "Gulliver's Travels"?
Answer: jonathan swift
Question: Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss's publisher, wagered $50 that Seuss could not write a book using only fifty different words. Seuss won by writing which book?
Answer: green eggs and ham
Question: The liver of a goose or duck, when made into food, is called what?
Answer: foie gras
Question: Who created the character of Horatio Hornblower?
Answer: c s forester
Question: Who wrote "Farewell To Arms" (published 1929), "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (1940), and received a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature for "The Old Man And The Sea" (1952)?
Answer: ernest hemingway