CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The Owl and the Pussycat sailed away to the land where what grows?
Answer: bong tree
Question: A relic that is claimed to be Jesus Christ's burial sheet is associated with which city?
Answer: turin
Question: Which band had a hit record in 1980 with "Smells Like Teen Spirit"?
Answer: nirvana
Question: Which movement was begun in 1909 by Richard Schirrmann, a German schoolteacher, and Wilhelm Mnker, a conservationist?
Answer: youth hostels
Question: What Hindi song composed by A. R. Rahman & Gulzar won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Song for a Motion Picture in 2008?
Answer: jai ho
Question: Former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik, appointed US homeland security chief in 2004, was imprisoned for 4 years in February 2010 for what reason?
Answer: tax fraud
Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by a goat?
Answer: capricorn
Question: What was the occupation of Edmund Hilary, the first man (with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay) to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1953?
Answer: beekeeper
Question: Which film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni showed the nature and emotions of the characters when Claudia (played by Monica Vitti) searched with her lover Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti) for her sister Anna (Lea Massar)?
Answer: l avventura adventure
Question: Which country occupies the islands called Luzon, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Mindanao, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi?
Answer: philippines
Question: The Academy Award-winning song "Mona Lisa", written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the film "Captain Carey, U.S.A", was a 1950 hit for which artist?
Answer: nat king cole
Question: What relation were Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole to each other?
Answer: father and daughter
Question: About 90% of the world's extractable material, used for the manufacture of ornamental objects and jewellery, is in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia on the Baltic Sea. What type of material is this?
Answer: amber
Question: A famous opera by Rossini is about the barber of where?
Answer: seville
Question: Which American became a professional golfer in 2005 at 16 years of age after, in 2000 aged 10, being the youngest player to qualify for the Women's US Amateur Public Links Championship, and, in 2002, the youngest player to qualify for a LPGA tour event ?
Answer: michelle wie
Question: What country surrounds the self declared "Principality of Hutt River" (founded in April 1970 by His Royal Highness Prince Leonard who rules with his family including his wife Princess Shirley and their son, Crown Prince Ian), which issues its own car registrations and currency and pays no taxes?
Answer: australia
Question: George Gershwin wrote a piece of music called "Rhapsody in ..." what?
Answer: blue
Question: What subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean, includes Guam, the Northern Marianas, Wake Island, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Kiribati?
Answer: micronesia
Question: The first 3 winners of which road bicycle race were Emile Rogiers (BEL) in 1948, Gerrit Schulte (NED) in 1949 and Henk Lakeman (NED) in 1950?
Answer: ronde van nederland
Question: Who provided the voice of "Charlotte" in the 2007 film "Charlotte's Web"?
Answer: julia roberts
Question: The Cultural Revolution was a period of widespread social and political upheaval between 1966 and 1976, resulting in nation-wide chaos and economic disarray in which country?
Answer: peoples republic of china
Question: What is the name for the branch of astronomy that relates to precise measurements and explanations of the positions and movements of celestial bodies?
Answer: astrometry
Question: What mountain-based military camp in Frederick County, Maryland, is used as a country retreat of the President of the USA and his guests?
Answer: camp david
Question: Where did retired three-time World Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali light the Olympic flame?
Answer: atlanta
Question: What was the name of the live-in cook for Ben, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe Cartwright in a long running TV series?
Answer: hop sing
Question: What is the subject of the "Zhou Bi Suan Jing", one of the oldest and most famous Chinese texts dating from the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC256 BC), and added to into the Han Dynasty (202 BC 220 BC)?
Answer: mathematics
Question: After the World Cup in 1962, the government of Brazil declared which player an "official national treasure" to prevent him from being transferred out of the country when wealthy European clubs tried to sign him?
Answer: pel
Question: A song from the musical "Evita" is "Don't cry for me ... " where?
Answer: argentina
Question: In South Slavic (Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian and Slovenian) mythology, what is raskovnik?
Answer: magical herb
Question: Which of Britain's Labour Prime Ministers was in office for the longest continuous term and the longest time overall?
Answer: tony blair
Question: What is the name for the longest side of a right angled triangle?
Answer: hypotenuse
Question: What is the relationship between Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist Christy Moore and Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter Luka Bloom?
Answer: brothers
Question: Which country became independent from the United Kingdom on 14 August 1947, and became a republic in 1956?
Answer: pakistan
Question: Olympic gold medallists Chris Hoy, Rebecca Adlington, Bradley Wiggins and Kelly Holmes represented which country?
Answer: great britain
Question: Who was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei, one of his many mistresses?
Answer: lucrezia borgia
Question: Who were Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty?
Answer: spice girls
Question: The Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (Op. 55) by Ludwig van Beethoven is known as what?
Answer: eroica
Question: Which fermented liquid condiment used for flavouring, especially of grilled meats (and also used as an ingredient in cocktails and drinks) was first made by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins?
Answer: worcestershire sauce
Question: Where was the 1997 film "The Full Monty" based?
Answer: sheffield
Question: What ship is commanded by the fictional pirate Jack Sparrow?
Answer: black pearl
Question: Peter Phillips, the only son of The Princess Anne, The Princess Royal and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, and the eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, married Autumn Kelly in 2008. Where did they meet?
Answer: montreal quebec
Question: Which world welterweight boxing champion was reported in April 2010 to be standing for the Philippine Congress, for the political party called "the People's Champ Movement"?
Answer: manny pacquiao
Question: What city is divided into 20 administrative areas which include Louvre, Temple, Htel-de-Ville, Panthon, Luxembourg, Elyse, Opra, Popincourt, Gobelins, Observatoire and Mnilmontant?
Answer: paris
Question: In 1867, William George Beers, a Canadian dentist, codified which sport (shortening the game and reducing the number of players to 12 per team), with the first game played under these rules at Upper Canada College between Upper Canada College and the Toronto Cricket Club?
Answer: lacrosse
Question: What is the tallest known volcano and mountain in the Solar System?
Answer: olympus mons on mars
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Quantum of ... "
Answer: solace
Question: What country was forced to withdraw from the British Commonwealth in 1961 and was reinstated in 1994?
Answer: south africa
Question: Where was the industrial accident on 2-3 December 1984 that caused the deaths of 3,000 to 16,000 people, for which 7 ex-employees were convicted in June 2010 and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment & a fine of about US$2,000 each?
Answer: bhopal india
Question: What is the colloquial name for people from Wiltshire, a county of South West England, that arose from a folk tale?
Answer: moonrakers
Question: A substance that attracts water molecules from the environment through either absorption or adsorption is called what?
Answer: hygroscopic
Question: Following the publication of a story in the "News of the World" on 2 May 2010, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association announced the immediate suspension of 3 time World Champion John Higgins. What was Higgins accused of?
Answer: match fixing
Question: Which rock musical includes the songs "Skid Row (Downtown)", "Somewhere That's Green", and "Suddenly, Seymour"?
Answer: little shop of horrors
Question: What is the title of the head of government of Ireland, similar to that of a Prime Minister, who is nominated by the lower house and appointed by the President?
Answer: taoiseach
Question: What English football club lost 8 players and 3 officials in the Munich air disaster of 1958?
Answer: manchester united
Question: From 1925 to 1935, what did the letters "MG" on a make of English sports car signify?
Answer: morris garages
Question: Banff National Park and Jasper National Park, which are connected by the Icefields Parkway, are in which Canadian province?
Answer: alberta
Question: On 25 June 1991, Slovenia and Croatia became the first republics to declare independence from which country?
Answer: yugoslavia
Question: What is the name for an area of land, of which there are about 310 in the USA, managed by a Native American tribe under the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Answer: indian reservation
Question: Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast and Jean Grey were the original members of which group of fictional characters?
Answer: x men
Question: Who was the first person to be recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations as running the 1500 metres in under 3 minutes 30 seconds?
Answer: steve cram
Question: The "New Model Army" was formed to fight in which war?
Answer: english civil war
Question: The lands of Castile, which came to prominence in Europe in the 13th century, make up much of which modern country?
Answer: spain
Question: What is the name for a site serving as the final resting place of human skeletal remains, which is frequently used where burial space is scarce?
Answer: ossuary
Question: Where are the islands called Amherst, Bayfield, Greene, Simcoe, High Bluff, Nicholson, Waupoos and Wolfe?
Answer: lake ontario
Question: The Rocky Mountains stretch over 3,000 miles from New Mexico to where?
Answer: british columbia
Question: What was the name given to actions by Timothy McVeigh on 19 April 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
Answer: oklahoma city bombing
Question: What is the name for a period that occurs about every 11 years when the sun's magnetic field lines are the most distorted?
Answer: solar maximum
Question: Which musical term denotes a repetitive oscillation about a single pitch that occurs in rapid cycles?
Answer: vibrato
Question: What is the stage name of Victoria Hesketh, an English electropop musician who sings and plays the keyboard, piano, stylophone and the Tenori-on?
Answer: little boots
Question: Women's judo and what other sport debuted in the Olympic Games programme in 1992?
Answer: badminton
Question: Penfold is the sidekick of which British animated super hero / secret agent?
Answer: dangermouse
Question: Which story by Hans Christian Andersen involves Kai, Gerda and a splintered mirror?
Answer: snow queen
Question: In Olympic archery, the outer 2 circles on the target (called 1 ring and 2 ring) are what colour?
Answer: white
Question: Who plays Preston Burke in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: isaiah washington
Question: Beginning in the late 15th century, expeditions mainly from Britain and which other country explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast of Canada?
Answer: france
Question: Which school is the setting for the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle"?
Answer: north manual high school
Question: Julie Burchill, Peter Arnett, P J O'Rourke and John Pilger are associated with which activity?
Answer: journalism
Question: Whose works include "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) and a parody of the "Mona Lisa" (1919) which shows a moustache and goatee attached to a cheap reproduction of the painting?
Answer: marcel duchamp
Question: A 1969 American western film that tells the story of two bank robbers is "Butch Cassidy and the ... what ... Kid"?
Answer: sundance
Question: Louis Goldenberg and Alva J. Fisher have been credited with the invention of what device?
Answer: electric washing machine
Question: What is the largest city in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada?
Answer: saskatoon
Question: Susan Brown was the first woman to take part in what event, in 1981?
Answer: oxford and cambridge boat race
Question: According to the Bible, Ham, Shem and Japheth were whose sons?
Answer: noah
Question: Where is the world's largest cave system with 345 km of mapped passageways?
Answer: kentucky usa
Question: In the words of the old song, "My old man said 'Follow the van, and don't ... what ... On the way' "?
Answer: dilly dally
Question: What is a word for a computer user's representation of themselves, usually in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games?
Answer: avatar
Question: What causes the sting caused by a nettle or an ant?
Answer: formic acid
Question: What airline, with a fleet of 55 aircraft, the flag carrier of Poland, was established in 1929, and is one of the world's oldest airlines still in operation?
Answer: polskie linie lotnicze
Question: First released in 1928, which animated cartoon was the first to feature Mickey & Minnie Mouse?
Answer: plane crazy
Question: Marti Pellow was the lead singer of which band?
Answer: wet wet wet
Question: Vellum, a type of parchment, was originally made from the skin of which animal?
Answer: calf
Question: Who was the first person to defeat Muhammad Ali during his professional career?
Answer: joe frazier
Question: Who is the lead singer of the American rock / ska-pop / reggae band "No Doubt", winners of 2 Grammy Awards, which was formed in Anaheim, California, in 1986?
Answer: gwen stefani
Question: Who were the two main characters in "Bringing Up Father", a comic strip created by George McManus that ran from January 1913 to May 2000 about an Irishman who comes into wealth in the USA but wants to live much as he used to?
Answer: jiggs and maggie
Question: What annual three day event held near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, was first organised by the 6th Marquess of Exeter in 1961?
Answer: burghley horse trials
Question: In about 1,000 AD, it is believed that explorer Leif Ericson discovered North America and named it what?
Answer: vinland
Question: Who invented infinitesimal calculus independently of Newton (and his notation has been in general use since then), invented the binary system, and promoted his philosophy of "optimism", that the universe is the best possible that God could have made?
Answer: gottfried leibniz
Question: The viola is tuned one fifth below the violin and therefore they have three strings tuned in common: G, D, and which other?
Question: Which city's bid to hold the 2012 Olympics came second to London's?
Answer: paris
Question: What highly flammable metal, easy to ignite when powdered, producing a brilliant white light, and difficult to extinguish, being able to burn in both nitrogen and carbon dioxide, was used in incendiary weapons for firebombing cities in World War II and as a source of illumination in the early days of photography?
Answer: magnesium
Question: Laura was the name of the First Lady of which US president?
Answer: george w bush
Question: What is the title of a 2001 award winning documentary film directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews trying to reconcile their sexuality with their faith?
Answer: trembling before g d
Question: Who has been married to actress Patricia Arquette (1995 to 2001), singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Elvis Presley, 2002 to 2004) and is now married to former waitress Alice Kim, with whom he has a son, Kal-El?
Answer: nicholas cage
Question: David Seaman and David Beckham are connected with which sport?
Answer: soccer
Question: Which folk band formed by Randy Sparks in 1961 had several Top 40 hits, including "This Land Is Your Land", "Green, Green", "Today" and "Ramblin'"?
Answer: new christy minstrels
Question: Who was best known for his role as Dracula, a role he first took on in film in 1931?
Answer: bela lugosi
Question: In 1956, a major uprising in Hungary was put down by forces from where?
Answer: ussr
Question: In 2003, which planet passed 55.76 million km from earth, the closest since the Stone Age?
Answer: mars
Question: Who stars in the TV series "Californication"?
Answer: david duchovny
Question: What day was proclaimed in 1945 as "VE Day"?
Answer: 8 may
Question: What is a type of jukebox featuring 16 mm film, for which films were made between 1958 [notably for songs by the Kessler Sisters ("Quando Quando"), The Tornados ("Telstar"), Neil Sedaka ("Calendar Girl"), Procol Harum ("A Whiter Shade of Pale"), Dionne Warwick ("Walk On By") and Nancy Sinatra ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'")] until 1978?
Answer: scopitone
Question: Cassius Chaerea led the assassination of which Roman emperor during the Palatine games in January 41AD?
Answer: caligula
Question: What is a starched, open-weave fabric, much like cheese cloth, that is used to wipe the ink off a plate during the intaglio inking process?
Answer: tarlatan
Question: Which 1945 Italian film about the Italian Resistance Movement, made on location during the war to a script by Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Amidei and Frederico Fellini, was virtually unnoticed in Italy but caused a stir when smuggled to New York and London?
Answer: rome open city
Question: Buckey O'Neill Cabin, Kolb Studio, El Tovar Hotel, Hopi House, Verkamp's Curios, Lookout Studio, Desert View Watchtower and Bright Angel Lodge are historical buildings located at which tourist destination?
Answer: grand canyon
Question: Barack Obama is the first US president born outside the contiguous states of the USA. Where was he born?
Answer: hawaii
Question: Who became world Middleweight boxing champion by beating Sugar Ray Robinson in London on 10 July 1951 and lost the title to Robinson in New York on 12 September 1951?
Answer: randy turpin
Question: What became the world's largest passenger ship by gross tonnage when it was delivered in October 2009?
Answer: oasis of seas
Question: A best-selling album by Bruce Springsteen was "Born in ..." what?
Answer: usa
Question: What sport is played in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup Final, that has been held since 1914?
Answer: soccer
Question: Which president of the USA faced impeachment proceedings over his activities with Monica Lewinsky?
Answer: bill clinton
Question: For what was Thomas Bewick renowned in the 18th century?
Answer: wood engraving
Question: Which old London market for cloth goods, founded by a charter from Henry I in 1133 and held annually at Smithfield and then Islington, was abolished in 1855 due to the disorderly rabble?
Answer: bartholomew fair
Question: An ombrophobe or ombrophobous plant cannot withstand much what?
Answer: rain
Question: """Silly mid on"" and ""gully"" are positions in which sport?"
Answer: cricket
Question: What is an annual holiday in some parts of the world, celebrated on 31 October, that has its roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints?
Answer: halloween
Question: Which construction, designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947, that stands 630 feet (192 m) tall and is 630 feet (192 m) wide at its base, is called "the tallest monument in the USA"?
Answer: gateway arch in st louis missouri
Question: Who is the boss of the fictional Inspector Clouseau of the French Sret in the "Pink Panther" series of films?
Answer: chief inspector dreyfus
Question: New York businessman and gambler Arnold Rothstein was believed to have been behind baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which the 1919 World Series was fixed, giving the series to which team?
Answer: cincinnati reds
Question: In January 2006, what space probe was sent to investigate Pluto?
Answer: new horizon
Question: Who headed up the "Rolling Thunder Revue", a US concert tour consisting of a travelling caravan of musicians including Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Kinky Friedman & Bob Neuwirth, that took place in late 1975 / early 1976?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: What word would you expect to find "Lobster" described as on a French menu?
Answer: langouste
Question: Where was Expo 2010 held from 1 May to 31 October 2010, the most expensive Expo in the history of world's fairs with the largest site (5.28 square km), with more than 190 countries and over 50 international organisations participating?
Answer: shanghai china
Question: It is believed that the first of what type of business was opened in 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas by Noah Brannen?
Answer: washateria
Question: The modern Oxford-Cambridge University boating course runs from Putney to where?
Answer: mortlake
Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of Dance?
Answer: terpsichore
Question: What was the name of the ship used by Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the east coast of the American colonies from 1717 to 1718?
Answer: queen anne s revenge
Question: According to Greek legend, Leander was visited nightly by whom, who swam across the Hellespont?
Answer: hero
Question: Dodge Morgan, who became famous in 1986 at age 54 when he sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days (breaking the record of 292 days), had become a millionaire by operating a company that manufactured what from 1971 to 1983?
Answer: radar detectors
Question: In Greek mythology, which winged horse sprang from the body of Medusa after her death?
Answer: pegasus
Question: Which film, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, John Carradine and Claire Trevor, was indirectly based on Guy de Maupassant's story "Boule de Suif"?
Answer: stagecoach
Question: The village of Zermatt is close to what geographical feature?
Answer: matterhorn
Question: What is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies, consisting mainly of psalms, said around 3 p.m.?
Answer: none
Question: The counties of Clinton, Delaware, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Nassau, Ontario, Orange, Orleans, Saratoga, Seneca, Ulster, Washington, Westchester and Wyoming are in what state of the USA?
Answer: new york
Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of epic poetry?
Answer: calliope
Question: Ernest Lawrence of the University of California, Berkeley, is credited with the development in 1929 of what type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage in a perpendicular magnetic field, causing them to spiral and encounter the accelerating voltage many times?
Answer: cyclotron
Question: What was the occupation of William Kidd, who was hanged for it in 1701?
Answer: pirate
Question: What area was claimed as a colony by the German Empire in the late 19th century, became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand and the UK after World War I, was occupied by Japanese troops during World War II, and became a trusteeship until it was declared independent in 1968?
Answer: nauru
Question: Raymond Blanc, Rick Stein and Graham Kerr are all associated with what activity?
Answer: cooking
Question: """Dae Jang Geum"" (2003), an internationally telecast TV series from South Korean TV channel MBC (entitled ""Jewel in the Palace"" in English-speaking countries) and loosely based on the Annals of Joseon Dynasty of Korea, focuses on a character with what occupation?"
Answer: physician
Question: In geometry, there is a name for convex polyhedrons that are regular, of which there are 5 types. Generically, what kind of solid are they called?
Answer: platonic
Question: Which abolitionist was hung in 1859 for his role in the Harper's Ferry Raid and played a major role in starting the Civil War?
Answer: john brown