CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: On which planet did NASA's Curiosity rover complete its first year, equal to 687 Earth days, in June 2014?
Answer: mars
Question: Name the Rolling Stones' saxophonist and session player who died in 2014?
Answer: bobby keys
Question: The mysteriously lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March 2014 was bound from Kuala Lumpur to where?
Answer: beijing
Question: Charity executives Justin Forsyth and Jonathan Powell attracted 'crony' jibes when their organization gave a controversial 'global legacy award' to whom, their previous boss?
Answer: tony blair
Question: Betty Joan Perske, who died in 2014, was better known as which famous film star, from the 1940s-2000s?
Answer: lauren bacall
Question: In 2014 Belgium became the first country in the world to legalize what controversial treatment of terminally ill people?
Answer: euthanasia
Question: Narendra Modi became prime minister of which country in May 2014?
Answer: india
Question: Which famous Portuguese single-named footballer and top scorer of the 1966 World Cup died in 2014?
Answer: eusébio
Question: Which regional territory experienced the Umbrella Revolution in autumn 2014, being a protracted protest against electoral constraints?
Answer: hong kong
Question: Which male artist won most awards at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards?
Answer: justin timberlake
Question: In May 2014 the World Health Organization declared an international emergency due to major outbreaks of what nearly-eradicated disease?
Answer: polio
Question: Which name is shared by the two popes made saints by the Vatican in April 2014?
Answer: john
Question: Which city, previously made famous in 2014, hosted the first Russian F1 Grand Prix for over 100 years?
Answer: sochi
Question: Buddhist politician and businessman Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan briefly, until a military coup in 2014, acted as prime minister of which nation, once known as Siam?
Answer: thailand
Question: A 2014 cardiology study (Taborsky/ESC) found that wine reduces cardiovascular disease only in people who?
Answer: exercise
Question: Which country replaced President Viktor Yanukovych with Oleksandr Turchynov in Feb 2014 after lethal riots in Kiev?
Answer: ukraine
Question: Sony and Emirates Airlines withdrew their sponsorship in 2014 from which global organization after ongoing corruption scandals?
Answer: fifa
Question: Which Baltic state replaced its Lats currency with Euros on 1st Jan 2014?
Answer: latvia
Question: Lord Richard Attenborough, who died in 2014, played which serial killer in his early acting career, in 10 Rillington Place?
Answer: john christie
Question: Who triumphed playing 2014 Glastonbury Festival's 'legends' Sunday teatime slot?
Answer: dolly parton
Question: Geographically, Guantanamo Bay is located in?
Answer: cuba
Question: What kitchen-related term refers to a major music publishing/retailing street, notably Manhattan's West 28th Street and London's Denmark Street?
Answer: tin pan alley
Question: Which sugar confectionery adopted the slogan 'Taste the Rainbow' in 1994?
Answer: skittles
Question: The Golden Spurtle is an annual world championship, held at Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, for?
Answer: porridge making
Question: What commodity value is benchmarked in the USA and elsewhere according to (among more technical terms) 'Texas Light Sweet'?
Answer: oil
Question: The dinosaur Archaeopteryx or (German) 'Urvogel' is considered a main ancestor of modern?
Answer: birds
Question: If five baskets contain respectively 7, 6, 5, 4 and 3 apples, what is the average number of apples in two baskets?
Answer: ten
Question: The coffin of which famous assassin, buried in 1963 and exhumed in 1981, was sold at auction for $87,500 in 2010?
Answer: lee harvey oswald
Question: What disease causes the human immune system to attack healthy tissue, named/believed originally from the bite of a wolf?
Answer: lupus
Question: Dr Dre became the highest earning musician in 2014 by selling his headphones company (What?) to Apple for c.$600m?
Answer: beats
Question: A Weihnachtsbaum or Tannenbaum in Germany is a Christmas?
Answer: tree
Question: What's the only major traditional British pantomime based on a real life person?
Answer: dick whittington
Question: What sort of song takes its name from old French for a circle dance?
Answer: carol
Question: Anser is the genus name for which family of creatures whose fat is traditional in cooking?
Answer: goose
Question: The notable drinks brands/makers Warninks, De Kuyper and Bols all originated in what country?
Answer: netherlands
Question: In the Christian calendar the 1st of January is traditionally a feast celebrating Christ's what?
Answer: circumcision
Question: According to biblical tradition the three 'magi' (wise men or kings) came from the?
Answer: east
Question: What's the traditional name for a cockerel or rooster that's been castrated, to improve the quality of its meat?
Answer: capon
Question: The 'Last Adam' is an alternative name for whom or what?
Answer: jesus christ
Question: Named after a German physicist, what is the international (SI) unit of frequency, defined as one cycle per second?
Answer: hertz
Question: In maths/logic, the process of using one or more statements/facts to achieve a logical conclusion is known as?
Answer: deduction
Question: Who wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867)?
Answer: karl marx
Question: The original meaning of capital (financial/money) referred to 'caput', head, specifically head of?
Answer: cattle
Question: In categorizing workplace skills, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) typically represents (What?) skill?
Answer: soft
Question: What (at 2015) is the only major nation of the world which charges income tax on its citizens working overseas?
Answer: usa
Question: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are collectively known as (What?) religions, referring to their founding biblical character?
Answer: abrahamic
Question: Vande Mataram (I praise thee, Mother) is the national song of which BRIC nation?
Answer: india
Question: Author Malcolm Gladwell popularized the notion (2000s) that to become truly expert at something a minimum of how many hours practice is required?
Answer: 10 000
Question: The Indian wind instrument, the pungi (also been or bin), is associated with what street activity?
Answer: snake charming
Question: The emblem of the Rainforest Alliance, which promotes and certifies sustainable rainforest business globally, is a green?
Answer: frog
Question: Expressed traditionally as N s, what in physics is the product of mass and velocity?
Answer: momentum
Question: The German Imannuel Kant, Englishman Bertrand Russell, and American John Dewey, were notable?
Answer: philosophers
Question: What is a feature of wood, sand, cereal, and also 0.0648 grams?
Answer: grain
Question: The long-standing flag of New Zealand (to 2015) has how many stars, based on Crux, the Southern Cross constellation?
Answer: four
Question: What US city is originally associated with Dixieland (jazz)?
Answer: new orleans
Question: 15 June 2015 is the 8th centenary of what seminal governance and human rights instrument?
Answer: magna carta
Question: From Greek for wing and lizard, what name was given to a flying reptile of the Jurassic/Cretaceous periods?
Answer: pterosaur
Question: The sepals or calyx of a plant initially surround and generally give way to the?
Answer: petals
Question: Alnwick Castle, Northumberland UK, featured in a popular movie franchise as which institution?
Answer: hogwarts school
Question: What's the more common name for a megagram (Mg)?
Answer: tonne
Question: The Italian term 'Intermezzo' refers to a piece of (What?) between two larger related creations?
Answer: music
Question: The main filling of a Scotch pie, (or shell pie) is traditionally?
Answer: mutton
Question: The price of which metal commodity is traditionally considered an indicator of global economic buoyancy?
Answer: copper
Question: What popular food takes its name from Italian for 'twine'?
Answer: spaghetti
Question: What's the surname of award-winning movie making brothers Joel and Ethan?
Answer: coen
Question: Oxbridge General Hospital featured in what famous UK TV medical series, 1957-67, regarded as a seminal soap opera?
Answer: emergency ward 10
Question: In corporate finance, 'gearing' refers to an organization's ratio of?
Answer: debt to equity
Question: Monsieur Rapide (French), Don Ocupado (Spanish), Meneertje Druk (Dutch), Unser Herr Schnell (German), and Bay Hýzlý (Turkish) are international versions of which character, from a children's book series?
Answer: mr busy
Question: Fowler's Vacola, Kilner, Mason, and Weck are brands/designs of what?
Answer: glass jars
Question: Menchie's is a popular US international chain founded to supply what frozen product?
Answer: yoghurt
Question: The 'river herring' fish, or genus Alosa, which lives in sea and spawns in rivers, is popularly known as a?
Answer: shad
Question: ISO 9407 Mondopoint, Brannock, and Paris Point are systems for sizing?
Answer: shoes
Question: 'Tam o' Shanter' in Scottish poet Robert Burns' 1790 poem of that name is a?
Answer: farmer
Question: Name the Soviet Russian orbiting space station, continuously occupied 1989-99 until its replacement by the International Space Station?
Answer: mir
Question: Pinchbeck, a 1700s alloy of copper and zinc, was a popular alternative for?
Answer: gold
Question: In geometry a lozenge is alternatively called (What?)-shaped?
Answer: diamond
Question: Used widely today, Irish Capt William Sankey devised his eponymous flow-(what?), for a steam engine in 1898?
Answer: diagram
Question: Name the debatably categorized celestial body that NASA's New Horizons probe targeted in 2015 after 9 years and 3bn miles?
Answer: pluto
Question: Which famous pottery city is a (1910) merger of its original town and the adjacent Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Fenton and Longton?
Answer: stoke on trent
Question: Reggae evolved from what three-letter Jamaican music genre?
Answer: ska
Question: Led by Ethan Allen, The Green Mountain Boys, c.1764-1776, established which US state, defeating the British provinces New York and New Hampshire?
Answer: vermont
Question: Amitabh Bachchan is a famous Indian?
Answer: film star
Question: Who, more known for detective stories, popularized the term 'The Lost World' in his 1912 book of that name?
Answer: arthur conan doyle
Question: State the recall aim of the mathematical mnemonic "How I wish I could recollect (what?) easily today" ?
Answer: pi
Question: Which famous vehicle has used licence plates SCV 00919 and SCV 1 (through to SCV 9)?
Answer: popemobile
Question: The Gini coefficient (or index or ratio), devised by Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini in 1912, is a common measure of?
Answer: wealth inequality
Question: What fundamental physics term derives from Greek 'not cut' (a temnein)?
Answer: atom
Question: Geococcyx, a ground cuckoo of southern US and Mexico, is the basis of which popular cartoon, its common name?
Answer: roadrunner
Question: Pernio (or perniosis), a human medical condition caused by exposure to cold and humidity, is commonly known as what?
Answer: chilblains
Question: What marketing term derives from the centuries-old practice of burning an owner's mark on a beast?
Answer: brand
Question: The world's bitterest chemical Denatonium, branded 'Bitrex' and 'Aversion', is used in?
Answer: shampoo
Question: The famous song Una Paloma Blanca means in Spanish a white?
Answer: dove
Question: Which South-Asian curry dish is named from Persian 'two onions'?
Answer: dopiaza
Question: What famous striped creature shares the same genus as the onager and kiang?
Answer: zebra
Question: K'ung Futse (Venerated Master Kong) is better known as which major philosopher and religious founder?
Answer: confucius
Question: Scorpion W2 (USA), Woodland Pattern (USA), Flecktarn (Germany), and Multi-Terrain Pattern (UK) are notable designs of what?
Answer: camouflage
Question: What informal term for illicit or counterfeit product derives from smuggling liquor in footwear?
Answer: bootleg
Question: Oslo University claimed in 2015 that the Bubonic plague outbreaks of the middle ages were caused by flea-carrying?
Answer: gerbils
Question: The successful and regionally dominant people called Goths in medieval times were?
Answer: east germanic
Question: What's the largest capital city without a river, and also the oldest capital of its continent?
Answer: mexico city
Question: What hyphenated surname was adopted for members of British Queen Elizabeth II's family?
Answer: mountbatten windsor
Question: Who became the fastest-selling Playmobil toy figure, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017?
Answer: martin luther
Question: In 1895 German company Bayer created what genericized trademark for a diacetylmorphine cough suppressant, alluding to the Greek god/goddess of bravery and self-sacrifice?
Answer: heroin
Question: The flags of China, Japan, Argentina, Uruguay, Greenland and Bangladesh share what common feature?
Answer: sun
Question: Circumvallate papilla, fungiform papilla, and foliate papilla are commonly called?
Answer: taste buds
Question: In the conventional game of darts, 'madhouse' is the name given to a 'Double-(What?)' finish?
Answer: one
Question: Which dog breed was popularized in the Oscar winning 2012 silent film The Artist?
Answer: jack russell
Question: The byssal threads of a water-dwelling mussel which attach to a surface are commonly called its?
Answer: beard
Question: Mate (or maté, yerba mate, or chimarrão) is a popular South American-originating?
Answer: drink
Question: Amazon's next-day delivery service censured for breaching UK advertising standards is?
Answer: prime
Question: What medieval war cry, popularised by Shakespeare with the phrase 'dogs of war', means destruction?
Answer: havoc
Question: Which profession (western world) traditionally wears a toque blanche with a hundred folds?
Answer: chef
Question: What West African Republic, on the river of the same name, is a narrow 200 mile east-west strip within Senegal?
Answer: gambia
Question: What metal, whose symbol is its first and third letters, is loosely called spelter?
Answer: zinc
Question: The 2013 Disney animation Frozen is based on what Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, in Danish 'Snedronningen'?
Answer: snow queen
Question: US president Theodore Roosevelt's quote (from which a style of state foreign policy is named), is "Speak softly and carry a big..."?
Answer: stick
Question: What seed-eating bird, genus fringilla, native to Europe/Asia/N Africa, is named after cereal crop waste from which it forages?
Answer: chaffinch
Question: Noted for his humilty and rejection of personal wealth/benefits Jose Mujica was the former guerrilla fighter and popular president of which South American country 2010-15?
Answer: uruguay
Question: Lafarge, Holcim, and Heidelberg are among the world's leading producers of?
Answer: cement
Question: Jean-Marie and daughter Marine Le Pen are leading figures in French extreme?
Answer: politics
Question: Sabatier, Victorinox and Füritechnics are leading makers of Kitchen?
Answer: knives
Question: Sugar melted to its hottest confectionery stage naturally produces?
Answer: caramel
Question: Taisho (1st World War), and Heisei (late 1900s/early 2000 - 'the lost decade') are periods of which nation's history?
Answer: japan
Question: Founded c1940 by art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, and still expanding, Pevsner Guides are major reference for British?
Answer: architecture
Question: Which popular BBC children's TV characters ate 'blue string pudding', The... ?
Answer: clangers
Question: South Korea's national dish 'kimchi' (kimchee/gimchi), with variants in nearby countries, is seasoned aged pickled/fermented?
Answer: cabbage
Question: """I wandered lonely as a cloud"" is William Wordsworth's poem about?"
Answer: daffodils
Question: Prince Charles' private letters to government ministers, made public by the UK Supreme Court in 2015, are known as the '(What?) memos', due to his handwriting style?
Answer: black spider
Question: Contralto refers to a singing voice/range equating to?
Answer: lowest female
Question: Name Warren Buffett's investment corporation, which he bought in 1964, ostensibly to sack its boss who had made him angry?
Answer: berkshire hathaway
Question: The areca nut (often with betel leaf), a popular stimulant in Asia, is traditionally prepared for?
Answer: chewing
Question: The Italian word 'scuderia' typically referring to a motor racing team, eg Scuderia Ferrari, means?
Answer: stable
Question: Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, who first appeared in Detective Comics No27 in May 1939?
Answer: batman
Question: The Ryman Auditorium (also called the Union Gospel Tabernacle) is the home of what major music institution?
Answer: grand ole opry
Question: Commonly used in batteries, what is the lightest metal and least dense solid element?
Answer: lithium
Question: Name the fantasy flat world on which the 2015 posthumously published novel The Shepherd's Crown is set?
Answer: discworld
Question: What word commonly follows Plastic, Food, Saran, Glad and Cling in its geographical variations?
Answer: wrap
Question: Australia's Liberal National, USA's Democratic, and Israel's Likud political parties are all traditionally branded what colour/color?
Answer: blue
Question: The 1957 'Synchrocyclotron' near Geneva was the forerunner for what world's biggest machine, 'LHC' built 1998-2008?
Answer: large hadron collider
Question: Name the artist-owned music streaming service launched in 2015 by rapper Jay-Z?
Answer: tidal
Question: 'Badi Bhabhi', meaning ‘eldest brother’s wife’, refers typically to the senior female in family groups common in?
Answer: india
Question: What medieval term, whose venues are now mostly 'town' halls (UK, Netherlands, Belgium) refers to a merchant association?
Answer: guild
Question: What concept, originated by the Duke of Wellington for military study, was named in 1959 in referring to Palo Alto's Center for Behavioral Sciences?
Answer: think tank
Question: Pat Pending, Rufus Ruffcut, the Slag Brothers and Sergeant Blast are lesser known characters in what popular 1960s TV franchise?
Answer: wacky races
Question: The 1880-founded Northamptonshire UK company Loake Brothers, whose products unusually comprise up to 75 parts, is famed for making high quality?
Answer: shoes
Question: European Union production quotas, established in 1984, were abolished in 2015 for?
Answer: milk
Question: In 490BC Pheidippides ran fatally from Athens to Sparta to ask for help in the Battle of 'Where'?
Answer: marathon
Question: US billionaire publisher and 3-term New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly targeted which role for 2016?
Answer: london mayor
Question: Mathematicians Leonhard Euler and Augustus Mobius pioneered 'geometria situs' ('geometry of place'), later called?
Answer: topology
Question: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's famous 1969 personal change concept is called the Five Stages of?
Answer: grief
Question: What ancient instrument did Orpheus play to charm creatures, rivers, and Hades in the Underworld?
Answer: lyre
Question: What pluralised food term and allusion to Hansel and Gretel refers to a website navigation feature?
Answer: breadcrumbs
Question: US mathematician Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow referred to a seagull, which he subsequently changed to (What creature?), representing his chaos theory observation?
Answer: butterfly
Question: What US popular culture magazine title, founded 1967 by Jann Wenner, was inspired by three so-named 1950s/60s musical sources?
Answer: rolling stone
Question: Maltese physician Edward de Bono is noted for his pioneering work on?
Answer: lateral thinking
Question: Name the live video streaming app bought by Twitter for $100m in 2015?
Answer: periscope
Question: What process improvement method, pioneered by Motorola Corp in the 1980s, is named after a number and the Greek letter 's'?
Answer: six sigma
Question: New York housewife Jean Nidetch (1923-2015) founded which global organization, sold to Heinz in 1978 for $71m?
Answer: weight watchers
Question: What controversial politician sought to sell AC Milan in 2015 to finance his quest for rehabiliation and power?
Answer: silvio berlusconi
Question: Which vehicle tyre/tire corporation sold Citroen to Peugeot in 1976?
Answer: michelin
Question: Which famous political brother became president of the International Rescue Committee in 2013?
Answer: david miliband
Question: What is note is produced at the 10th fret for both the highest and lowest pitch strings on a conventionally-tuned standard guitar?
Answer: d
Question: The American pika, closely related to rabbits and hares, is commonly called a?
Answer: coney
Question: Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao famously oppose/opposed each other in?
Answer: boxing
Question: The Leffe beer company was founded and is headquartered in?
Answer: belgium
Question: In January 2015 economist Yanis Varoufakis became a leading debt-restructuring negotiator for?
Answer: greece
Question: The famously rebuilt Shakespeare's theatre on London's River Thames South Bank is the?
Answer: globe
Question: Plaid Cymru (roughly pronounced 'plied cumrie') is the nationalist poltitical party of which nation?
Answer: wales
Question: What does the 'Real' mean in the names of Real Madrid and Real Sociedad Spanish footbal clubs?
Answer: royal
Question: Italian Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) was a composer and virtuoso player of the?
Answer: violin
Question: Sterlet, Ossetra, Sevruga and Beluga are main types of what?
Answer: caviar
Question: Name the mountains across north-western Africa ranging c.1,600miles through Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia?
Answer: atlas mountains
Question: Which iconic 'hippie' fragrance, from the Pogostemon cablin plant, did Mattel use in making the 1985 'Stinkor' Masters of the Universe toy action figure?
Answer: patchouli
Question: Named after a Scottish village near where it was discovered in 1790, what soft metal element, symbol Sr, was used to make cathode ray TV tubes?
Answer: strontium
Question: According to legend, the sheltering of a Spanish ship in Dundee, late-1700s, prompted James and Janet Keiller to buy its cargo of (What?), thus founding a major new product/business?
Answer: oranges
Question: Which 12-15C royal household was named after French Geoffrey d'Anjou's association with the broom shrub, medieval Latin 'planta genista'?
Answer: plantagenet
Question: The Latin 'Tabula Rasa' (a term covering various philosophical concepts, e.g., humans minds are 'empty' at birth) translates literally to mean what?
Answer: blank slate
Question: The open fourth string (4th highest) note of a conventionally tuned guitar is?
Answer: d
Question: What vast Japanese corporation, with a red initial logo, was founded in Hamamatsu in 1909?
Answer: suzuki
Question: The informal term for a gangster, especially belonging to the Mafia is?
Answer: goodfella
Question: The occupational surname Fuller, referred to a worker (who used 'Fuller's Earth') of?
Answer: wool
Question: What is a female outer garment, a cut of meat; and a part of a hovercraft and saddle?
Answer: skirt
Question: The Virginia Native American, Matoaka, aka Amonute, captured by the English 1613, becoming Rebecca Rolfe (c1595-1617), is better known by what name (also a 1995 Disney film)?
Answer: pocahontas
Question: The Harlem Globetrotters, founded 1920s, perform in which field?
Answer: basketball
Question: Winston Churchill referred to what event as the 'Miracle of Deliverance'?
Answer: dunkirk
Question: The Up! and Eos and CC are models of which car brand?
Answer: volkswagen
Question: Which automobile brand was officially adopted in 1900 after the Spanish name of racing entrepreneur Emil Jellinek's daughter?
Answer: mercedes
Question: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Martin Balsam had cameo roles in the 1991 remake of what 1962 film in which they starred?
Answer: cape fear
Question: What is a seed-eating songbird family and festive decoration?
Answer: bunting
Question: The Cunard organization's Elizabeth, Victoria, and Mary 2 are?
Answer: cruise ships
Question: In 2015 Norway unveiled the world's tallest statue (10m) of a what, 30cm higher than Canada's?
Answer: elk