CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which is the only letter in the English alphabet never (as at 2011) to appear in the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements?
Answer: j
Question: What is the gamekeeper's name in D H Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover?
Answer: mellors
Question: What large media corporation suffered a serious hacking attack on its popular gaming and entertainment websites in May 2011, compromising personal details of over 100 million users?
Answer: sony
Question: The Imperial War Museum in London was originally based in which building at Sydenham Hill, famously destroyed by fire in 1936?
Answer: crystal palace
Question: The Stanley Cup, for which various USA and Canada clubs compete and said to be the oldest sports trophy in N America, is awarded in which sport?
Answer: ice hockey
Question: The Latin phrase 'Ecce Homo' means Behold the what?
Answer: man
Question: Completed in 1985 what City of London banking centre became the subject of opposing demolition and architectural heritage protection efforts in 2011?
Answer: broadgate
Question: What political first lady appeared in Woody Allen's 2011 film Midnight in Paris?
Answer: carla bruni sarkozy
Question: In the Mood and Moonlight Serenade were popular hits during the 2nd World War for which band leader's orchestra?
Answer: glenn miller
Question: The fungal infection dermatophytosis is better known by what misleading name?
Answer: ringworm
Question: In geology, particles of what range from 0.0625mm to 2mm?
Answer: sand
Question: Which compound, from the bark of the Cinchona tree, and used in tonic water, was the first effective drug used to treat malaria?
Answer: quinine
Question: In the Bible, after killing his brother Abel, Cain fled to the land of where?
Answer: nod
Question: Which metallic element is refined from Cassiterite, SnO2?
Answer: tin
Question: A cachalot - an old French word for tooth - is better known as what creature, the largest living toothed animal?
Answer: sperm whale
Question: Created by the Hoover Dam, what is the largest manmade lake/reservoir in the US?
Answer: lake mead
Question: In geometry and mathematics, what is an angle of less than 90 degrees?
Answer: acute
Question: Greek jeweller Sotirio Voulgaris founded which luxury goods brand, noted for its capitalized branding including Latin-style V for a U?
Answer: bulgari
Question: Where are the Carnac Stones, the largest megalithic site of its kind anywhere, containing over 3,000 huge rocks erected by pre-Celtic people c.4,000-3,300BC?
Answer: brittany
Question: How many litres (or liters) are in a cubic metre?
Answer: 1 000
Question: Which planet (in terms of its orbit) is between Saturn and Neptune?
Answer: uranus
Question: Name the founder of psychoanalysis who wrote the The Interpretation of Dreams, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle?
Answer: sigmund freud
Question: In 1968 the Treaty of Tlatelolco was drafted by the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean to keep their region of the world free of what?
Answer: nuclear weapons
Question: The team sport Bandy (or Russian Hockey) is played on what surface?
Answer: ice
Question: Stephen Covey's first hugely popular guide to business and life is called The Seven 'what' of Highly Successful People?
Answer: habits
Question: The Han ethnic group of people, the largest in the world, is native to which country?
Answer: china
Question: What is Tesco's US 'neighborhood' grocery chain brand, founded in 2007 with HQ in California?
Answer: fresh easy
Question: Traditionally the largest book publishers trade show in the world, where in Germany is the (city name) Book Fair held each October?
Answer: frankfurt
Question: The traditionally shaped sound-holes in instruments such as violins and cellos are referred to by what letter of the alphabet?
Answer: f
Question: What animal normally represents the box of low market share and low market growth in the Boston Matrix (or 'BSG Matrix' or 'Growth-Share Matrix') marketing model?
Answer: dog
Question: To what note is the fourth string (fourth highest in pitch) on a standard six-string guitar normally tuned?
Answer: d
Question: What famous 1945 book includes the first of seven commandments, "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy."?
Answer: animal farm
Question: Yandex, in 2011 probably the largest internet company flotation after Google in 2004, was founded and dominates web searching in which country?
Answer: russia
Question: The fourth film in what movie series is subtitled 'On Stranger Tides'?
Answer: pirates of caribbean
Question: What country announced a sales ban on the yeast extract Marmite in 2011 due to its law forbidding vitamin additives?
Answer: denmark
Question: As at 2010, how many bicycles are in the world, compared to motor cars?
Answer: double
Question: The elusive and increasingly rare omnivorous bird, tetrax tetrax, nicknamed in French 'the farting chicken', is more commonly called the Little what?
Answer: bustard
Question: Christine Lagarde emerged as a candidate to succeed 'DSK' as head of what organization following his 2011 arrest on rape charges?
Answer: imf
Question: What, mainly, is the 'lava' in a conventional lava lamp?
Answer: wax
Question: The quirky activity in the news in Australia due to its first fatality, previously called 'the lying down game', became an internet photo craze now known by what less obvious name?
Answer: planking
Question: Tamara Mellon co-founded (with the person after whom the company is named) what fashion label, sold for £500m in 2011?
Answer: jimmy choo
Question: Manal al-Sherif was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2011 for posting a protest video of herself doing what, which is effectively banned for women?
Answer: driving
Question: What 2008 internet start-up company did Twitter buy in 2011 that enables customized use of its microblogging service?
Answer: tweetdeck
Question: What colour/color is used to describe a seared steak (of beef) - cooked very quickly and very rare, just one stage from being raw?
Answer: blue
Question: Originating in French, from the French word for bicycle and the Greek word for course, what is a track cycling arena called?
Answer: velodrome
Question: What world renowned academy, originated in 1741, relocated to Camberley, Surrey in 1947, has the motto, "Serve to Lead"?
Answer: sandhurst
Question: When acid rain is caused by power generation plants, normally what acid does it contain?
Answer: nitric acid
Question: Female vocalist Omara Portuondo became famous in what internationally popular Cuban group of musicians?
Answer: buena vista social club
Question: In 2006, Romania banned sturgeon fishing in which river?
Answer: danube
Question: In what Shakespeare play does the character Marcellus say, 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark' ?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Campione d'Italia, is an Italian enclave in which European country?
Answer: switzerland
Question: What large dangerous short-snouted variety of creature, from India, is a mugger?
Answer: crocodile
Question: Name the South African record-breaking Paralympic sprinter known as the 'Blade Runner' (referring to his carbon-fibre artificial limbs)?
Answer: oscar pistorius
Question: On which part of the body would Russian valenki normally be worn?
Answer: feet
Question: Norwegian politican, Trygve Lie, was the first Secretary General of which organisation?
Answer: united nations
Question: The Royal House of Chakri has (at 2011) ruled which country since 1782?
Answer: thailand
Question: Sir Reginald Dorman Smith, former British Minister of Agriculture, instigated which campaign during World War II to encourage people to convert land for growing more fruit and vegetables?
Answer: dig for victory
Question: Once used as a currency in several parts of the world, what are cowries?
Answer: sea shells
Question: 'The Persistence of Memory', featuring images of a melting pocket-watch, is a work by which artist?
Answer: salvador dali
Question: Name the American 'godfather of rap' who died in May 2011, noted especially for his 1970 poem-song 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised',?
Answer: gil scott heron
Question: Which US state is said to be named in honour/honor of British monarch Queen Elizabeth I?
Answer: virginia
Question: What did Frenchman Dr Pierre Dukan devise which bears his name, and after achieving great popularity in France, began to spread internationally in the early 2000s?
Answer: dukan diet
Question: What popular sci-fi creations were described by Dr Who's executive producer in 2011 as "...the most reliably defeatable enemies in the universe..." ?
Answer: daleks
Question: In what video game brand does the Lara Croft character most famously feature?
Answer: tomb raider
Question: What convicted fraudster's underpants were auctioned in 2011 for $200, with other belongings, to compensate victims of his $65m Ponzi scheme swindle?
Answer: bernard madoff
Question: A blue circle with a white centre was introduced in 2006 as the international symbol for what human metabolic disease?
Answer: diabetes
Question: What multinational high street vendor's logo was developed from an old Norse woodcut of a twin-tailed siren or mermaid with flowing hair and crown?
Answer: starbucks
Question: What is Julia Donaldson's hugely successful character and book, based on a Chinese folk tale of a fox that borrows the terror of a tiger?
Answer: gruffalo
Question: What childplay and teaching-aid modelling product did William Harbutt devise and produce in 1900, in an old flour mill near Bath, UK?
Answer: plasticine
Question: What controlled recreational drug has the chemical formula C20H26N2O?
Answer: lsd
Question: What is the traditional primary ingredient of coleslaw (also slaw in the US)?
Answer: cabbage
Question: The nautical term fo'c'sle (pronounced foxel) is a common shortening of what word referring to the forward part of a ship where sailors live?
Answer: forecastle
Question: What small Scottish border town is famously associated with marriages of English runaway couples?
Answer: gretna green
Question: Teutonic/Teutons refers mostly and typically to what ancient race of people?
Answer: germanic
Question: The word harem, referring to a women's part of a dwelling, and especially to its female occupants, originated in which ethnic people?
Answer: muslim
Question: A limited company (e.g., in the UK 'Ltd', US 'LLC', Germany 'GmbH') has limited what?
Answer: liabilities
Question: Sinhalese (or Singhalese) is the language and people originating in north India now largely populating which country?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: Abbrieviated to PIE, what is the ancient Eurasian reconstructed language and origin of wide-ranging modern languages including English, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Urdu and Farsi?
Answer: proto indo european
Question: For what ethnic group are Misnah and Gemara the two main parts of Talmud law?
Answer: jews
Question: The organic chemical compound C12H22O11 is better known as what additive?
Answer: sugar
Question: Dyscalculia is less technically known as (what?)-blindness?
Answer: number
Question: Refraction is the change of direction of a wave such as light due to change of its what when passing from one medium to another?
Answer: speed
Question: The becquerel (Bq) is a unit of measurement of what?
Answer: radioactivity
Question: What is the chess playing robot called in TV's Thunderbirds?
Answer: braman
Question: It takes roughly how long for the Earth's rotating axis to complete a full circle (precession)?
Answer: 26 000 years
Question: In Greek mythology, name the Gorgon monster with snakes for hair, slain by Perseus?
Answer: medusa
Question: A dosimeter measures human absorption of what over a time period?
Answer: ionizing radiation
Question: What is a big acoustic guitar, a type of old battleship, and a thick coat cloth, which means 'fear nothing'?
Answer: dreadnought
Question: South Korean Ban Ki-moon was reappointed unopposed in June 2011 as head (secretary-general) of what organization?
Answer: un
Question: The word 'Torchwood' is what in relation to 'Doctor Who'?
Answer: anagram
Question: How many sides (different straight outer edges, excluding shadow) does each '2' have in the London 2012 Olympics logo?
Answer: eight
Question: Which pottery company originally developed the designs Kutani Crane, Wild Strawberry and Jasperware?
Answer: wedgwood
Question: What is the common name of aluminium/aluminum oxide crystals used in grinding?
Answer: corundum
Question: Lachryma Christi, an old Italian sweet red wine translates to mean 'whose what'?
Answer: christ s tear
Question: A ploughman's lunch traditionally features what main foodstuff with bread?
Answer: cheese
Question: Scuppernong, named after a N Carolina USA river, is a variety of what?
Answer: grape
Question: What widely used solvent and compound with the symbol (CH3)2CO smells of pear-drops and is in nail polish remover?
Answer: acetone
Question: Sulphur/sulfur dioxide and (various) nitrogen oxides are the main contributory factors in what unhelpful environmental effect?
Answer: acid rain
Question: What structural modification of oxygen is an air pollutant in the lower atmosphere but beneficial in the upper atmosphere?
Answer: ozone
Question: What highly toxic element was traditionally used in thermometers, posing a substantial safety and disposal risk?
Answer: mercury
Question: The 1987 Montreal Protocol concerns specifically, and includes in its full title, substances that deplete what?
Answer: ozone layer
Question: Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulphur/sulfur hexafluoride are widely referred to by what collective metaphorical term?
Answer: greenhouse gases
Question: From the Greek root words for 'house' and 'study of' what term refers to the scientific study of the relationship between living things, and their natural environment?
Answer: ecology
Question: An 'R number' identifies what sort of substance having potentially significant impact on global warming when used in heating/cooling applications?
Answer: refrigerant
Question: The DuPont trade name Freon has become an alternative name for which abbreviated compound name strongly associated with global warming?
Answer: cfc
Question: The 'R-value' used in the building and construction industry is a measure of what quality of a materials?
Answer: thermal resistance
Question: Omnia Omnibus Ubique. (All Things, For All People, Everywhere.)
Answer: harrods
Question: Nullius in verba. (On the word of no one.)
Answer: royal society
Question: Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are constellations known respectively more commonly as Great and Little what?
Answer: bear
Question: What common name is given to medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS)?
Answer: shin splints
Question: Of these sedimentary rocks, which one is not organic, being instead 'clastic'?
Answer: shale
Question: On the Beaufort Scale of wind force what wind name is given to number 8, which "...Breaks twigs off trees and impedes progress..."?
Answer: gale
Question: What notable leader was born in Ranshofen, near Braunau, Austria, in 1889?
Answer: adolf hitler
Question: A piece of what monument forms part of Ronald Reagan's statue in London's Grosvenor Square?
Answer: berlin wall
Question: Derived from French pantomime, what is a clown with a white face, white garments, and pointed hat?
Answer: pierrot
Question: Teams competing in what famous annual July event include THC, Movistar, Leopard, BMC and Quick-Step?
Answer: tour de france
Question: What is the organic compound acid, chemical formula CH3COOH, and main component of vinegar?
Answer: acetic acid
Question: The failed Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s preceded eventual independence from British colonial rule of what nation in 1963?
Answer: kenya
Question: Formed after national revolution in 1917 the NKVD was the public and also ruthless secret police of which country until 1946?
Answer: russia
Question: Gramophone records are made of, and sometimes called, what popular name for the polymer material in question?
Answer: vinyl
Question: What is the compound, NH4NO3, commonly used in fertilizers and improvised bombs?
Answer: ammonium nitrate
Question: What metallic element element is named after an asteroid discovered in 1802, itself named after (an alternate name of) the Greek goddess Athene?
Answer: palladium
Question: The stone, flint, is a form of what near-to-pure compound, formula SiO2?
Answer: silica
Question: Name the German tribe which settled in Britain during the 5-6th centuries, whose name persists in a region of Denmark?
Answer: jutes
Question: The genocide of Tutsi people by Hutu militia in 1994 was in which country?
Answer: rwanda
Question: What Japanese word meaning 'person born before another' refers to a teacher or master of a subject, for example martial arts?
Answer: sensei
Question: What on a bird has a calamus, rachis and barbs?
Answer: feather
Question: University of Portsmouth (UK) psychologists researching the quality of juries determined what to be the optimum number of people for effective debate?
Answer: four
Question: Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Firefox are among the most globally popular what (in early 2000s)?
Answer: internet browsers
Question: Who led the Muslim army to victory against the Meccans in the Battle of Badr, 624AD?
Answer: muhammad
Question: Arthroscopy refers to surgery performed on what parts of the human body?
Answer: joints
Question: Chutzpah is Yiddish slang for?
Answer: audacity
Question: What Italian term, adopted into English, refers to a mixed language enabling communication between different national groups?
Answer: lingua franca
Question: Talaq is a form of what under Islamic (sharia) law?
Answer: divorce
Question: Founded in 1853 by London tailor John Emary, what famous raincoat/trenchcoat brand was popularised in the mid-1900s by film stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Sophia Loren?
Answer: aquascutum
Question: What is the Latin term for a reigning queen, often shown after first name as a formal title?
Answer: regina
Question: What corporation acquired the major UK-based online retailer, The Book Depository, in 2011?
Answer: amazon
Question: Dame Evelyn Glennie, who is profoundly deaf, is a world-renowned what?
Answer: percussionist
Question: On a conventionally tuned guitar, what chord is made by fretting just the fifth (A) string on its 2nd fret?
Answer: em7
Question: What country controversially won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: qatar
Question: The Al Jazeera broadcasting organization is owned by and headquartered in what country?
Answer: qatar
Question: From Greek, meaning generation and knowledge, what word commonly refers to the study of family history?
Answer: genealogy
Question: The New Caledonia archipelago in the south Pacific is a 'special collectivity' territory of which nation?
Answer: france
Question: Flipkart was founded and became a major online retailer, notably of books, in which country?
Answer: india
Question: What is the fruit of the tree technically known as Phoenix Dactylifera?
Answer: dates
Question: The 18th Duchess of the House of Alba, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, holder of arguably more nobility titles than anyone globally, is what nationality?
Answer: spanish
Question: The FischerSaller scale, used in anthropology and medicine, determines the colour/color shades of what?
Answer: hair
Question: Under the ABO blood group system, what blood type can receive blood transfusions from all other groups?
Answer: ab
Question: What is the medical word, from Greek meaning 'nasal mucus', for inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, typically a symptom of a head cold or hay fever?
Answer: coryza
Question: What German pharmaceuticals corporation developed the first Aspirin medication in 1897, and retains the trademark in much of the world today?
Answer: bayer
Question: The MartinSchultz scale is commonly used in physical anthropology to determine the colour/color of what in humans?
Answer: eyes
Question: How many new states were created when the USSR collapsed in 1991?
Answer: fifteen
Question: Name the former News of the World royal correspondent whose 2007 letter, published in 2011, (allegedly) seriously implicated NOTW leadership in the phone hacking scandal and cover-up?
Answer: clive goodman
Question: The staging of what enormous annual Afro-Caribbean cultural gathering was put in doubt following the London riots of August 2011?
Answer: notting hill carnival
Question: The port city of Latakia was besieged during 2011 by its own government forces, of what nation?
Answer: syria
Question: Under the ABO blood group system, what blood type can donate for blood transfusions safely to all other groups?
Answer: o
Question: Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi are sub-groups of what ethnoreligious people?
Answer: jews
Question: What 6-hours-per-day activity did researchers in Australia's Queensland University announce (in 2011) reduces life expectancy by five years?
Answer: watching tv
Question: What airline postponed adverts claiming to '...go the extra mile to make you feel special...' after a photo of (allegedly) a pilot and crew member having sex in an aircraft cockpit became public in Aug 2011?
Answer: cathay pacific
Question: What is the English translation of the ironically-named Ratón, a fearsome bull who killed three men in Spanish festivals?
Answer: mouse
Question: At $12.5bn, what phone corporation became Google's biggest acquisition in Aug 2011?
Answer: motorola
Question: From Latin meaning border, or edge, what traditional term refers to the brain structures including the hippocampus and amygdala, which support functions of emotion, behaviour, long term memory, and smell?
Answer: limbic system
Question: What is the fuller name of the road surfacing material, tarmac?
Answer: tarmacadam
Question: What style of cooking is named after a province of south-western China, and is noted for its spicy taste, especially from garlic, chili peppers, peanuts, sesame, and ginger?
Answer: szechuan
Question: John Stacey Adams' 1963 motivational concept, which suggests people's motivation (and attitude) is strongly influenced by assessing effort and reward in a comparative outward sense, is called Adam's (what) Theory?
Answer: equity
Question: What species of shark featured as the killer in the book/film Jaws?
Answer: great white
Question: On what island did tycoon Richard Branson's holiday retreat burn down in August 2011?
Answer: necker island
Question: In the mid 1700s Swede Carl Linnaeus devised the modern day taxonomy (category structure) for, and was first to catalogue what?
Answer: life on earth
Question: What geological term refers to granular material sized between sand and clay, derived from soil or rock?
Answer: silt
Question: What item of clothing, known as a 'topi', was popularised by Indian leaders Mahatma Gandhi, Jaraharlal Nehru, and later by anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare?
Answer: cap
Question: What six-letter two-word French expression was adopted into English in the mid 1700s referring to a witty remark?
Answer: bon mot
Question: What is the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey?
Answer: hinny
Question: The 'Travel Bookshop' bookstore in North London served as a location for what successful 1999 film?
Answer: notting hill
Question: Jerry and Mike are the first names of what famous pairing of 1950s hit songwriters?
Answer: leiber and stoller
Question: On a standard English 'qwerty' keyboard, which key is between Z and C?
Answer: x
Question: Most commonly what note is the highest pitch open (unfretted) string on a standard/soprano ukulele?
Question: A pneumatic motor converts potential energy in the form of what into mechanical work?
Answer: compressed air
Question: What marketing term, a portmanteau word, refers to a news or information article which also carries publicity or promotion for the organization which provided it?
Answer: advertorial
Question: 'Via Dolorosa' is the (how many) Stations of the Cross, the Christian ritual tracing the key stages of the death of Jesus, beginning with his condemnation and ending with his being laid in the tomb?
Answer: fourteen
Question: How many unique dominoes are in a standard 'double six' set?
Answer: twenty eight
Question: The Marvel Comics superhero team led by Mr Fantastic was the Fanstastic (what)?
Answer: four
Question: Conventionally how many books are in the Bible's New Testament?
Answer: twenty seven