CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In anatomy, the dorsum is better known as which part of the body?
Answer: back
Question: In 1947, who was the first person to break the sound barrier?
Answer: chuck yeager
Question: Meaning 'heavenly woman', from the Greek word after which an element and planet are named, who was the Greek muse of astronomy?
Answer: urania
Question: The twisted tusk of which sea creature is said to protrude from a unicorns head?
Answer: narwhal
Question: Which US president, known commonly by his initials, was born in Stonewall, Texas in 1908?
Answer: lyndon b johnson
Question: Actor and comedian, and half of a famous double-act, Arthur Stanley Jefferson was better known by which name?
Answer: stan laurel
Question: David Beckham was shown a red card during England's game against which national team during the 1998 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: argentina
Question: What is the name of the small arrangement of flowers worn on the bodice of a dress or on the wrist?
Answer: corsage
Question: What is the medieval from of chemistry concerned with attempting to change base metals into gold?
Answer: alchemy
Question: In tennis, what is the term for an untouchable and unreturnable legal point-scoring serve?
Answer: ace
Question: In the UK, who was elected president of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1981?
Answer: arthur scargill
Question: What is the device in a car which mixes petrol with air in correct proportions before it enters the engine?
Answer: carburettor
Question: Referring to a mountain range, derived from the Spanish word for saw, what word represents the letter 'S' in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
Answer: sierra
Question: The Dettifoss Waterfalls are in which country?
Answer: iceland
Question: Which city, whose name means 'fortification at Eidyn', was the first to host the Commonwealth Games twice?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: In the game of Scrabble, how many points is a 'V' tile worth?
Answer: four
Question: In the Bible's Old Testament Book of Proverbs, what is stated to be more precious than rubies, better than silver and gold, and "...all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her..."?
Answer: wisdom
Question: What is the process in which hair and small blemishes are removed from the body by the application of heat using electric current?
Answer: electrolysis
Question: What is the edible sea snail of the genus Haliotis, which has an ear-shaped shell with a pearly interior?
Answer: abalone
Question: The fundamental philosophical and devotional epic stories Mahabharata and Ramayana originated in Sanskrit in which ancient country?
Answer: india
Question: What was the tribe of ancient Britons of Eastern England whose queen was Boudica (Boadicea)?
Answer: iceni
Question: What is the African antelope whose male of the species have lyre-shaped horns?
Answer: impala
Question: What is the code of silence which prohibits speaking about, or divulging information about, criminal activities, used by the Mafia?
Answer: omerta
Question: What is the flat round cake made from flaky pastry and filled with currants, named after a town in Greater Manchester, England?
Answer: eccles
Question: What is the inner and larger of the two bones in the human forearm?
Answer: ulna
Question: What food has the varieties Elstar, Almata and Cortland?
Answer: apple
Question: What is the scarlet banner of Saint Dennis used by early French kings when setting out for war?
Answer: oriflamme
Question: What is a dish sprinkled with breadcrumbs or grated cheese and browned?
Answer: au gratin
Question: What is the play by Shakespeare featuring the court jester Touchstone?
Answer: as you like it
Question: What is the final and longest section of the human small intestine?
Answer: ileum
Question: The Royal Navy flagship aircraft carrier, which along with its Harrier jump jets was withdrawn from service late 2010, is HMS what?
Answer: ark royal
Question: Which Cuban dictator was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959?
Answer: batista
Question: Which fruit is used in the flavouring of the cognac-based liqueur Grand Marnier?
Answer: orange
Question: A statue of which British prime minister stands outside Huddersfield railway station?
Answer: harold wilson
Question: After nearly 40 years of TV advertising, what Kimberly-Clark brand replaced a real animal with a CGI (computer generated imagery) in late 2010?
Answer: andrex
Question: What geographical feature is shared by the nine nations of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana?
Answer: amazon rainforest
Question: Marnie Geneva Doud was the wife of which US president, the country's 34th?
Answer: dwight d eisenhower
Question: In June 1935, which well-known but discreet support organization was founded by William G Wilson and Dr Robert Smith in Akron, Ohio?
Answer: alcoholics anonymous
Question: A hazzan, or chazzan, leads the congregation in songful prayer in which religion?
Answer: jewish
Question: French farmer's wife, Marie Harel, reputedly invented which cheese in 1791?
Answer: camembert
Question: If an insect is micropterous it has small or reduced what?
Answer: wings
Question: Which strait separates Wales form the island of Anglesey?
Answer: menai strait
Question: According to the Bible, in which river did Pharaoh's daughter find the baby Moses in a basket?
Answer: river nile
Question: In what country, the world's seventh largest by geographical area, is Christmas known as Bada Din (the big day)?
Answer: india
Question: Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is a territory of which country?
Answer: australia
Question: 'Three Kings Day' is known by what numerical name (that's 'name', not 'date') in Britain?
Answer: twelfth night
Question: The North Pole, said to be Santa's home, is located in which ocean?
Answer: arctic ocean
Question: Marzipan is made (conventionally in the western world) mainly from sugar and the flour or meal of which nut?
Answer: almond
Question: What is the technical name of Mistletoe plant genus, and also Latin for glutinous?
Answer: viscum
Question: Which Christmas slogan was introduced by Clarissa Baldwin of Dogs Trust in 1978?
Answer: dog is for life not just for christmas
Question: Which British monarch (born 1865, died 1936) introduced the custom of giving thousands of Christmas puddings to staff?
Answer: king george v
Question: What is the surname of the family in the 1989 film 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'?
Answer: griswold
Question: Which southern central US state, whose capital city has the same name, was the last to recognize Christmas as an official holiday?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: What day of the week was Christmas day in the year 2000 (in the conventional western calendar)?
Answer: monday
Question: Under which Puritan leader did the English parliament pass a law banning Christmas in 1647?
Answer: oliver cromwell
Question: Very loosely related to Christmas, the predatory animal 'uncia uncia' is better known by what name?
Answer: snow leopard
Question: In the song 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas', how many swans were a-swimming?
Answer: seven
Question: The first singing radio commercial, which aired in the US on Christmas Eve 1926, was for which brand?
Answer: wheaties
Question: Driving Home For Christmas was a 1988 hit single for which singer?
Answer: chris rea
Question: The Latin word meaning 'coming' gave us what term which still refers to the coming Christmas period, and also to a particular tradition popular with children?
Answer: advent
Question: In which country does Santa have his own personal postcode HOH OHO?
Answer: canada
Question: In 2004, the post office of which country (international dialling code 49) gave away twenty million free scented stickers, to make Christmas cards smell like fir trees, cinammon, gingerbread or honey wax?
Answer: germany
Question: 'Olive the Other... (what?)', is a Christmas book by Vivian Walsh and J Otto Seibold?
Answer: reindeer
Question: The surname Chandler derives from the making or selling of what?
Answer: candles
Question: Name the pin-up celebrity who appeared on a provocative poster for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in 2010, with her body marked as if for cuts of meat?
Answer: pamela anderson
Question: Name the long-standing Rwanda president in the news during 2010 after human rights criticisms?
Answer: paul kagame
Question: What state in Mexico was hit by a devastating mudslide in September 2010?
Answer: oaxaca
Question: With which country did France agree a 50 year treaty in November 2010 entailing joint forces, and sharing an aircraft carrier and nuclear technology?
Answer: uk
Question: What island nation was hit by an earthquake and tsunami disaster in October 2010?
Answer: indonesia
Question: What was Tony McCoy's winning mount in the 2010 Grand National?
Answer: don t push it
Question: What iconic London institution was sold to the Qatar Investment Authority (Qatar's sovereign wealth fund) in May 2010?
Answer: harrods
Question: Name the controversial leader of the Dutch right-wing Freedom Party which won 24 seats in the Dutch elections, who was refused entry into the UK for his 'racist views'?
Answer: geert wilders
Question: What capital city was devastated by the 2010 Haiti earthquake?
Answer: port au prince
Question: Freedom of expression blogger Hossein Derakhshan was sentenced in September 2010 to nineteen years prison for 'anti-state activities' in which country?
Answer: iran
Question: A plane crash close to Smolensk airport in western Russia killed almost half the leadership of which country?
Answer: poland
Question: Who bought Channel 5 TV in the UK, resisting objections that his pornography interests made him unsuitable?
Answer: richard desmond
Question: Charles Taylor, in court (along with witnesses Naomi Campbell and Mia Farrow) at the Hague in 2010, the first African president to face trial for war crimes, led which nation?
Answer: liberia
Question: Food writer and critic Egon Ronay, who died in 2010, was born in what country, which offers a food related pun?
Answer: hungary
Question: Singer Jimmy Dean, who died in 2010 age 81, sang (in a very deep voice) what hit song about about a heroic 6'6" coal miner?
Answer: big bad john
Question: Giant George, at 7'3" from nose to tail, and 43" shoulder high, was announced the world's tallest what in 2010 by Guinness World Records?
Answer: dog
Question: The 1600cc Thunderbird, voted 2010 Bike of the Year in the USA, is made by which iconic motorbike manufacturer?
Answer: triumph
Question: Name the popular writer, who died in 2010, and who rode the Queen Mother's horse Devon Loch when it inexplicably belly-flopped out of contention in the 1956 Grand National?
Answer: dick francis
Question: Which environmental campaigner, whose band's 2010 European tour required 120 lorries to transport it, pulled out of the 2010 Glastonbury headline spot due to a back injury?
Answer: bono
Question: Peter O'Donnell, who died in 2010, created what globally syndicated newspaper comic strip heroine, later featuring in books and movies, whose name equates to 'understated fire'?
Answer: modesty blaise
Question: What Danish discount grocer did Walmart's Asda buy for £778m in 2010?
Answer: netto
Question: British Airways announced a merger with which other airline in 2010?
Answer: iberia
Question: Name the US general and commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan sacked by Barack Obama in 2010?
Answer: stanley mcchrystal
Question: Which England football player was sent off on his 2010/11 season debut for Liverpool?
Answer: joe cole
Question: A war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, coinvicted chief jailer Kaing Guek Eav (also called Kang Kek Iew or Kaing Kek Iev) of what regime, responsible for the 1.7m deaths in the 1970s 'Killing Fields' genocide?
Answer: khmer rouge
Question: Name the journalist and writer and leader of the influential Work Foundation research organization, bought by Lancaster University in 2010?
Answer: will hutton
Question: Born Hermine Santruschitz in Vienna, adopted as Miep Gies in Amsterdam, who died age 100 in 2010, helped protect which famous writer?
Answer: anne frank
Question: An adaptation of which classic 1905 story by E Nesbit received rave reviews when it was performed with dramatic real effects at London's Waterloo Station in Summer 2010?
Answer: railway children
Question: Ex-world champion boxer Alan Rudkin, who died in September 2010, fought at what weight?
Answer: bantamweight
Question: Name the sixteen year old Australian who completed her (claimed youngest ever) round-the-world sailing in May 2010?
Answer: jessica watson
Question: Patricia Neal, winner of best actress Oscar for her role in the film Hud with Paul Newman, and who died in 2010 age 84, was married to which famous author?
Answer: roald dahl
Question: Welsh rugby union flanker Andy Powell was banned from driving after celebrating his team's Six nations win over Scotland by driving what vehicle on the M4 motorway while drunk?
Answer: golf buggy
Question: Andy Serkis starred in the film Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll as what singer?
Answer: ian dury
Question: Name the UK Tory Party donor and deputy chairman pressurised about his 'non-dom' tax status during 2010?
Answer: lord ashcroft
Question: Internet hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army interrupted service of which Chinese search engine in January 2010?
Answer: baidu
Question: What is Burj Khalifa notable for becoming in 2010?
Answer: world s tallest building
Question: What Big European bank's name replaced those of Abbey, and Bradford & Bingley, in an extensive 2010 rebranding of its acquired branches?
Answer: santander
Question: An inquiry in which European country became the first to judge that the Iraq war had no lawful justification within international law?
Answer: netherlands
Question: Name the Yorkshireman who refereed the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final?
Answer: howard webb
Question: Hospitalised in Saudi Arabia towards the end of his life, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was president of where, from 2007 until his death in 2010?
Answer: nigeria
Question: English and French scientists argued publicly in 2010 over the existence of what, originally identified and named after German gynaecologist Ernst Grafenberg?
Answer: g spot
Question: Who was appointed official wedding photographer to Prince William and Kate Middleton?
Answer: mario testino
Question: A 2010 study published in the Lancet suggested what medicine, recently found to reduce cancer development, aside from giving protection against strokes and heart attacks, is "...the most amazing drug in the world..."?
Answer: aspirin
Question: What popular cereal brand has for decades featured a kilted athlete on its box?
Answer: scott s porage oats
Question: Which European country is known as 'The Cockpit of Europe'?
Answer: belgium
Question: Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Crick and Watson (DNA discoverers), the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the comedian John Cleese are among the notable alumni of which university?
Answer: cambridge
Question: What type of food is Sapsago, also called Sap Sago and Schabziger?
Answer: cheese
Question: Name the Google phone and software system which, according to some news reports in 2010, ended Nokia's 10 years' of market dominance?
Answer: android
Question: The move called 'en passant' features in what board game?
Answer: chess
Question: Named after its inventor, what is the signal lamp used to transmit Morse Code, devised in the late 1800s and still used today on naval ships?
Answer: aldis lamp
Question: Who - UK cabinet minister for culture - had his name unspeakably 'spoonerised' live on air by BBC Radio 4 journalist James Naughtie (pronounced 'Nockty') in December 2010?
Answer: jeremy hunt
Question: Which Scottish castle did Queen Victoria and husband Prince Albert buy in 1852?
Answer: balmoral
Question: Which bird, which lays the largest egg in proportion to its body size of all birds, is an apteryx?
Answer: kiwi
Question: Who is the twin sister of Sebastian in William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'?
Answer: viola
Question: In which South American country is the region and its regional capital city called Arequipa, the nation's second largest city (as at 2010)?
Answer: peru
Question: What, alluding to a piece of broken glass, became London's tallest building when under construction during 2010?
Answer: shard
Question: The Shatt-al-Arab River is formed by the confluence of which two rivers, at Al-Qurnah, Iraq near Basra?
Answer: tigris and euphrates
Question: Also a comic book character, what is an orderly assigned to serve a British Military Officer?
Answer: batman
Question: Who in May 1935 for Boston Braves played his last career baseball game?
Answer: babe ruth
Question: What at the end of 2010 was Amazon's biggest ever selling product?
Answer: kindle
Question: An important Biafran army base in the 1967-70 conflict then known as the Biafran War, in which African country is Lake Oguta?
Answer: nigeria
Question: The term Paraskavedekatriaphobia informally refers to an irrational fear of what time-related concern?
Answer: friday 13th
Question: The Attan, a Pashtun ethnic dance, is the national dance of which country?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: Diplopia is the medical term for which condition of the human body?
Answer: double vision
Question: Battement tendu, Grand écart, Entrechat, Hortensia, and Sissonne are terms in what art form?
Answer: ballet
Question: Who captained England's last Ashes winning cricket team in Australia prior to their 2010 victory?
Answer: mike gatting
Question: By which other name (alias) was the American outlaw Robert LeRoy Parker better known?
Answer: butch cassidy
Question: What British coin, whose nickname strangely alludes to the leather industry, ceased to be legal tender in June 1980?
Answer: sixpence
Question: What degrees temperature is the same in Centigrade/Celsius as it is in Fahrenheit?
Answer: 40
Question: In what form does keratin, the substance human fingernails and hair are made from, sell for more than gold, and endanger a species?
Answer: rhino horn
Question: The nuclear disaster site at Chernobyl, to which tourist visits begin/began in 2011, is in which country?
Answer: ukraine
Question: What is a filbert nut more commonly called, from the name of the tree bearing it?
Answer: hazelnut
Question: What important river in south-west France and north-west Spain gives access to Bordeaux, and links the Mediterranean Sea to the Bay of Biscay?
Answer: garonne
Question: Name the Scottish singer-songwriter (notably of Baker Street and as co-writer of Stuck in the Middle with You) who died early in 2011 age 63?
Answer: gerry rafferty
Question: Which US president had the nickname 'King of Camelot'?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: What is generally suggested to be the fourth spatial dimension in addition to the first three (of length, area and volume)?
Answer: time
Question: What is iron pyrites (iron disulfide, FeS2) commonly called, because it resembles a precious metal?
Answer: fool s gold
Question: Related to the early development and measurement of steam engines what traditional unit of energy equates typically to between 735-746 watts?
Answer: horsepower
Question: In the conventional game of pool ('eight-ball', or 'spots and stripes') what colour are the 3 and 11 balls?
Answer: red
Question: On a chessboard what square (using modern letter and number reference) would the white king pawn occupy if its first move was two squares forward?
Answer: e4
Question: Abraham Maslow's fundamentally meaningful theory of motivation, popularly shown as a pyramid of motivational factors in a person's life, is known widely as Maslow's what?
Answer: hierarchy of needs
Question: What is the vein running along the centre of a leaf called?
Answer: midrib
Question: The disease beriberi is caused by the deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: b1
Question: 24 Sussex Drive is the official residence of the Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: canada
Question: Hyperion and Rhea are two moons of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: saturn
Question: Which English poet is associated with Dove Cottage in Grasmere?
Answer: william wordsworth
Question: What does the well known Latin phrase 'cogito, ergo sum', commonly attributed to René Descartes, translate as in English?
Answer: i think therefore i am
Question: In which country was astronomer and scientist Nicolaus Copernicus born?
Answer: poland
Question: Which country is referred to as 'The Land of the Long White Cloud'?
Answer: new zealand
Question: The Capuchin Catacombs are on which Mediterranean island?
Answer: sicily
Question: Which English king, who lived from about 988-993 to 1016, was nicknamed Ironside?
Answer: edmund ii
Question: Which artist painted the 'Man in a Red Turban'?
Answer: jan van eyck
Question: 'The Landlord's Game', patented in the US by Elizabeth Magie in 1904, was a form of which now popular board game?
Answer: monopoly
Question: Which musical note has the same value as half a semibreve or two crochets?
Answer: minim
Question: Which sportswear company was founded as 'Blue Ribbon Sports' by Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight in 1964?
Answer: nike
Question: In which controversial novel and film does the Korova Milk Bar appear?
Answer: clockwork orange
Question: What is the ancient axe-like hand tool used for shaping wood, especially in boat-building, with a curved blade at right angles to the line of the handle (unlike a conventional axe whose blade is in line with the handle)?
Answer: adze
Question: The England footballer Nat Lofthouse, who died age 85 in 2011, earned what nickname (an animal of a city) after his courageous match-winning performance against Austria in 1952?
Answer: lion of vienna
Question: Brabantio is whose father in Shakespeare's play Othello?
Answer: desdemona
Question: In April 1940, author and political leader Booker T Washington became the first African American to be depicted on an American what?
Answer: postage stamp
Question: The village of Tolpuddle, the home of the 19th century Tolpuddle Martyrs, is in which English county?
Answer: dorset
Question: The Pictish language was spoken in which nation in early medieval times?
Answer: scotland
Question: What is the name of the Japanese plant, used as a condiment in cooking, with a thick green root which tastes like strong horseradish?
Answer: wasabi
Question: Algeria became independent from which European country in 1962 after over 100 years of rule?
Answer: france
Question: In 2011 the notorious ex-dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier returned to and was arrested in which country?
Answer: haiti
Question: What was the name of the American pioneer whose son was killed when a party of pioneers was led into Kentucky in 1773?
Answer: daniel boone
Question: In Greek mythology, Algaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne are the three what?
Answer: graces
Question: Reportedly written by Julius Caesar in 47BC, what do the words 'Veni, vidi, vici,' translate to in English?
Answer: i came i saw i conquered
Question: In January 2011 British government sports minister Hugh Roberts asserted what to be the "...worst governed sport in the country.."?
Answer: football
Question: What flowers prompted William Wordsworth write (and title) a poem about after seeing them at Lake Ullswater in 1802?
Answer: daffodils
Question: Eric Schmidt announced in 2011 stepping down from CEO to Executive Chairman of what corporation, whose vast growth in the 2000s he oversaw?
Answer: google
Question: 'Dancer' was the American Secret Service code name for the wife of which US president?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: Buried in Highgate in London and subsequently immortalised in economic and social theory, who wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848?
Answer: karl marx
Question: Name the fantasy North Wales village used in film and TV (notably the 1960s 'The Prisoner' series), at one time directly related to a porcelain company of the same name which now owns the Spode and Royal Worcester brands?
Answer: portmeirion
Question: Which UK football team is nicknamed 'The Posh'?
Answer: peterborough united
Question: Jamaica Inn, made famous by writer Daphne du Maurier, lies on which moor?
Answer: bodmin
Question: What is the longest side of a right-angled triangle called?
Answer: hypotenuse
Question: Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of what?
Answer: fungi