CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the claim to fame of the US millionaire Dennis Tito who soared high and achieved a first of sorts on April 28, 2001?
Answer: first space tourist
Question: In phonetics, what is a sound that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure above the glottis?
Answer: vowel
Question: During the 1970s, what name was given to the illegal immigrants/asylum seekers from Vietnam referring to their mode of transport?
Answer: boat people
Question: What Chan Buddhist monastery in the Henan province of China is best known to the world for its association with martial arts?
Answer: shaolin
Question: Which Shinto shrine located in Tokyo is dedicated to those who died fighting for the Emperor of Japan and is a source of considerable controversy?
Answer: yasukuni shrine
Question: Literally 'Practice of the Wheel of Law' in Chinese, what system of mind and body cultivation has been the focus of international attention since the Chinese government began a crackdown on it?
Answer: falun gong or falun dafa
Question: In 1994, Bill Gates bought The Codex Hammer at an auction for $30.8 million, making it the most expensive book ever. Whose writings does it contain?
Answer: leonardo da vinci s
Question: The Thomas Jefferson Building, The John Adams Building and The James Madison Memorial Building in Washington DC together make up what seminal institution?
Answer: library of congress
Question: What type of work is 99 Cent II Diptychon by Andreas Gursky which was sold for USD 3.3 million in 2007 and holds the record for the highest price paid for an artifact in that field?
Answer: photograph
Question: Who once described Tarzan as a major influence on her childhood and said that she would be a much better spouse for him than his fictional wife, Jane? Naturally, she spent time around apes like him!
Answer: jane goodall
Question: Presaged by a 1784 letter of Ben Franklin, what concept saw its first widespread use in 1916 as a wartime measure aimed at conserving coal?
Answer: daylight saving time
Question: If screw-driven steamships generally carry the prefix 'SS' before their names, what type of steamers carry the prefix 'PS'?
Answer: paddle steamers
Question: Awarded to applicants annually since 1902, the Rhodes Scholarships are for study at what institution?
Answer: university of oxford
Question: 'Janjaweed', an Arabic word that literally translates to 'devil on a horse' has achieved infamy by its association with a dubious group in which current day crisis in Sudan?
Answer: darfur conflict
Question: What paleontological hoax takes its name from a place in East Sussex, England where in 1912, discovered bone fragments were thought to be the remains of an unknown form of early man?
Answer: piltdown man
Question: Deviating from standard practice, the US patent office has a policy of refusing to grant a patent without a working model for what type of device?
Answer: perpetual motion machine
Question: Sharbat Gula, an Afghan woman of Pashtun ethnicity achieved world wide fame when her photograph was featured on the cover of which magazine in 1985?
Answer: national geographic
Question: George Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923) was an English aristocrat best known as the financier for the excavation of what?
Answer: king tut s tomb
Question: Which US agency has primary jurisdiction over the protection of the President, Vice President and other high ranking government officials?
Answer: secret service
Question: A form of government called by the Greek term 'thalassocracy' refers to a state with power in what realm?
Answer: sea
Question: The name of what versatile product was coined by US soldiers as they couldn't pronounce its original name, 'Offiziersmesser'?
Answer: swiss army knife
Question: """There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics."" Which 20th century philosopher-mathematician wrote this in his autobiography?"
Answer: bertrand russell
Question: Alexander Pope wrote this epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton: "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said 'Let Newton be' and all was light." To the above, Sir John Collings Squire added: "It did not last: the devil, shouting 'Ho. Let ___ be' restored the status quo." Whom did the devil add?
Answer: einstein
Question: What institution in New Jersey best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein and John von Neumann was established to foster research without the complications of teaching or funding or sponsorship?
Answer: institute for advanced study
Question: Just as The Lord of the Rings franchise gave a major fillip to New Zealand's tourism, the HBO hit Game of Thrones (predominantly) had a similar effect on what part of the world?
Answer: northern ireland
Question: In a journal entry of the 19th century, French naturalist Henri Mouhot who explored Southeast Asia compared what site to the pyramids?
Answer: angkor wat
Question: In the early days of Atlantic City in NJ, what was constructed to keep tourists from tracking beach sand all over town?
Answer: boardwalk
Question: Because it switched possession several times between Britain and France over multiple wars, the Caribbean nation of Saint Lucia has been compared to what beautiful person of myth with the sobriquet '... of the West'?
Answer: helen
Question: What country has the most time zones, with 12? Surprisingly, its not Russia or the US. Think of a country with far-flung territories and dependencies.
Answer: france
Question: The BAM railway (...-Amur Mainline) in remote Russia is named for the Amur river and what other geographic feature?
Answer: lake baikal
Question: What is the largest religious denomination for any religion in the world?
Answer: sunni islam
Question: Which country has 12% of the world's Muslim population but has not been allowed to join the Organisation of Islamic Conference, mainly due to the efforts of another country?
Answer: india pakistan
Question: In April 2014, which tiny nation became the first East Asian country to adopt Islamic sharia law?
Answer: brunei
Question: The town of Shibam in the Middle-East is known for its tower brick homes all of which have a minimum height. What country is it located in?
Answer: yemen
Question: In the world of geography, Scotland's Corryvreckan and Japan's Naruto are two of the noted ones and Old Sow is the largest of all in the Western Hemisphere. What are they?
Answer: whirlpools
Question: Rarotonga is the most-populated of the group of Pacific Islands named for which explorer?
Answer: james cook
Question: Not surprisingly, the name for what feature of geography means 'almost an island' in Latin?
Answer: peninsula
Question: UNESCO's World Heritage List originated in the effort to preserve historic sites that were being affected by the construction of what structure in the 1950s?
Answer: aswan dam
Question: The fictional Radiator Springs in Pixar's hit Cars is said to be based on several places the crew visited along what iconic American road?
Answer: route 66
Question: The volcanic island of Surtsey that started forming in the 1960s attracting worldwide scientific attention is nearest to what country?
Answer: iceland
Question: Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park in Zambia is adjacent with what other park that is also named for a famed attraction?
Answer: victoria falls
Question: Going-to-the-Sun Road is a prominent pathway in an American national park named for what geographical feature?
Answer: glacier
Question: Tafilalt in Morocco, Chebika in Tunisia and Huacachina in Peru are some of what? You are sure to quench your thirst at these locales!
Answer: oases
Question: Aokigahara forest in Japan is noted as a place where many people go for what purpose?
Answer: commit suicide
Question: A custom known as the kula exchange or kula ring where great risks are taken to exchange gifts is prevalent in what part of the world?
Answer: papua new guinea
Question: A mine in the town of Wieliczka in southern Poland that attracts millions of visitors is known for having produced what for centuries?
Answer: salt
Question: St. Pauli in Hamburg, Soi Cowboy in Bangkok, De Wallen in Amsterdam and Sonagachi in Kolkata, all of which I've only read about and never visited, are famous as what?
Answer: red light districts
Question: Hawaii, Easter Island and New Zealand are the three vertices of a hypothetical triangle used to designate what geographic region/area?
Answer: polynesia
Question: The Semperoper is the opera house of what European city? (hint: Slaughterhouse-Five)
Answer: dresden
Question: What waterway of South America that has the name of a robust wine is the largest tributary of Amazon?
Answer: madeira river
Question: The Semien Mountains whose highest peak is Ras Dashen lie in what African country?
Answer: ethiopia
Question: The Galata bridge spans what water body that is part of the Bosphorous strait and that has been a subject of numerous works of art?
Answer: golden horn
Question: What is the only U.S. state flag to feature the Union Jack?
Answer: hawaii
Question: The northern component of what enchanting geographic term is accepted as the Rock of Gibraltar but the southern component disputed and at various times claimed as Monte Hacho (in Ceuta) or Jebel Musa (in Morocco)?
Answer: pillars of hercules
Question: The Muslim observance of Arba'een attracts millions of visitors annually to what Iraqi city?
Answer: karbala
Question: Aguada, Varca, Vagator, Colva, Calangute, and Anjuna are some of the beaches in what state of India known for its Portuguese influence and for its spicy vindaloo?
Answer: goa
Question: Geographic features called rilles that come in sinuous, arcuate and straight types are a prominent part of the landscape where?
Answer: moon
Question: Fans of the band The Clash should know that what word meaning 'citadel' in Arabic refers to any walled enclosure but is mostly used for a specific area of Algiers?
Answer: casbah
Question: Petaloudes Valley, whose name translates to Valley of the Butterflies in Greek is a tourist attraction of what 'wondrous' Dodecanese island?
Answer: rhodes
Question: The historic Charles Bridge that crosses the Vlatava river connects which city's castle to its old town?
Answer: prague
Question: The Hiram Bingham luxury train has what magnificent location as its destination?
Answer: machu picchu
Question: The 2000-yr old Banaue rice terraces built largely by hand in the Ifugao mountains that cover 4000 square miles are in which country?
Answer: philippines
Question: Of the twenty two members of the Arab league, only three maintain diplomatic relations with Israel. They are Egypt, Palestine and what other country?
Answer: jordan
Question: A rock called Heel Stone that measures 16 feet above the ground and whose previous names include Friar's Heel and Sun-stone lies outside the main entrance to what monument?
Answer: stonehenge
Question: Tourists to the town of Oświęcim in Poland are most likely headed to see what?
Answer: auschwitz
Question: When the pioneering English settler John Smith explored the coastline of the region north of Virginia in 1614, what did he call the area?
Answer: new england
Question: If all the languages of the world are listed by the highest number of speakers, what is the first name that is not an official language of the UN?
Answer: hindi
Question: In the list of 25 countries ordered by the highest number of Spanish speakers, what is the only name that is not from the western hemisphere?
Answer: philippines
Question: What region in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the site of China's nuclear weapons tests?
Answer: lop nur
Question: Marangu, Rongai, Lemosho, Shira, Umbwe and Machame are the six official trekking routes for what 'uplifting' activity?
Answer: climbing mount kilimanjaro
Question: The Propylaea, which has now come to mean any gateway, was originally an entrance to what magnificent ancient construction?
Answer: acropolis in athens
Question: What city that is home to Africa's tallest building (the Carlton Centre) is the largest city in the world not on a lake, navigable river or by the coast?
Answer: johannesburg
Question: The name of what able-bodied ethnic group from the mountain regions of Nepal means 'people of the east' in Tibetan?
Answer: sherpa
Question: What region of China that has a border checkpoint called Posto Fronteiriço das Portas do Cerco ('Frontier Post of the Border Gate' in Portuguese) is both the first and last European colony in that country?
Answer: macau
Question: The visa that makes travel easy within twenty-six countries of Europe takes its name from an agreement signed in 1985 in what city of Luxembourg?
Answer: schengen
Question: What Bolivian city lies beneath a mountain dubbed the Cerro Rico ('rich mountain') named so for its famed mines that were a major source of silver for the Spanish Empire of the New World?
Answer: potosí
Question: Mashair Railway that opened in 2010 connecting the sites of Mina, Muzdalifah and Mount Arafat serves the visitors of what city?
Answer: mecca metro
Question: The Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya is contiguous with what famed national park of Tanzania?
Answer: serengeti
Question: What second-most populous nation in Africa is also the most populous landlocked nation in the world?
Answer: ethiopia
Question: The Wagah border often called the 'Berlin wall of Asia' is the only road border crossing between what two countries?
Answer: india and pakistan
Question: Which city's site was said to have been chosen by monks following the principles of feng shui for King Taejo, founder of the Joseon/Choson dynasty in 1394?
Answer: seoul
Question: The script of Thuluth, a variety of Islamic calligraphy, is seen on the flag of what country?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: What NATO country with a unique geographic position is the only one with no standing army? No navy either!
Answer: iceland
Question: Because of changes in the political geography of Africa in 2011, what is now the largest country in that continent?
Answer: algeria
Question: The Kagera river that became known for carrying bodies from the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 is the largest single inflow into what body of water?
Answer: lake victoria
Question: Cape Churchill in Wapusk National Park, Canada is renowned as the best location in the world to view what?
Answer: polar bears
Question: The economic grouping acronym BRIC that referred to Brazil, Russia, India and China was changed to BRICS in 2011 to include what country?
Answer: south africa
Question: With an average ground level of 1.5 meters above sea level, what Asian island nation is the lowest country in the world? (hint: it is also the smallest Asian country in both population and land area)
Answer: maldives
Question: What wild American feature begins at Springer Mountain in Georgia and ends at Katahdin in Maine for a total distance of 2,175 miles?
Answer: appalachian trail
Question: Francophonie is an international organization of 56 member states where there is a notable affiliation with the French language. What is the largest country in this group?
Answer: canada
Question: The artificial Gatun Lake that was created between 1907 and 1913 forms a major component of what water body?
Answer: panama canal
Question: A funnel cloud is nothing but condensed water droplets associated with a rotating column of wind which extends from the base of a cloud without touching the ground. If it touches the ground, what is it called?
Answer: tornado
Question: Primorsky Stairs, a stairway of 192 steps immortalized in film lore, is a formal entrance from the direction of the Black Sea into which European city?
Answer: odessa
Question: Juba is the capital of what autonomous African region that became an independent country on 9th July, 2011?
Answer: south sudan
Question: The plateau 'Cappadocia' with its spectacular landscapes, caves, and fairy chimneys is a popular tourist attraction of which country?
Answer: turkey
Question: In Jan 2011, Sri Lanka decided to discard all references to what British colonial name of the country from its state institutions?
Answer: ceylon
Question: The novel as well as the movie Girl with a Pearl Earring based on painter Vermeer's work was set in which Dutch city also known for its pottery?
Answer: delft
Question: Which scale that is used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake (not Richter!) quantifies its effects on humans, objects of nature, and man-made structures on a scale of I through XII with XII denoting total destruction?
Answer: mercalli intensity scale
Question: Located just 508 miles from the North Pole, Alert is said to be the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. In which Canadian province/territory is it located?
Answer: nunavut
Question: Which magnificent Tibetan landmark escaped damage during the Cultural Revolution of China in 1966 through the personal intervention of Zhou Enlai?
Answer: potala palace
Question: The Merlion, an imaginary creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish, is used as the mascot of which tiny Asian island nation?
Answer: singapore
Question: According to UNESCO, which Ethiopian city is considered 'the fourth holy city' of Islam with 82 mosques, three of which date from the 10th century, and 102 shrines?
Answer: harar
Question: Which land-locked country has the most official languages in the world at 34 including Spanish, Aymara and Quechua?
Answer: bolivia
Question: The US think tank Fund For Peace comes out with a Failed States Index every year. Which country topped the list for a fourth consecutive year in 2011?
Answer: somalia
Question: Which tiny European nation claims itself to be the oldest recorded sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world?
Answer: san marino
Question: If water bodies were left out and only land area were considered, what is the second largest country in the world after Russia?
Answer: china
Question: Landseer's Lions, a set of four sculptures of lions surround which London monument?
Answer: nelson s column in trafalgar square
Question: 'Pha That Lung', a large gold-covered Buddhist stupa is regarded as the most important monument and national symbol in which landlocked Asian country?
Answer: laos
Question: Located in Micronesia and covering just 21 square kilometres, what is the world's smallest island nation?
Answer: nauru
Question: Distributed across the three islands of Tutuila, Ofu-Olosega, and Ta‘ū, what is the only American national park located south of the equator?
Answer: national park of american samoa
Question: Which French city is home to the Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes) where several popes and antipopes lived from the early 14th to early 15th centuries?
Answer: avignon
Question: Bordered on three sides by Senegal and with a small coast on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, what is the smallest country on mainland Africa?
Answer: gambia
Question: The largest impact over land in Earth's recent history, how is the explosion that occurred in 1908 near the namesake river in Siberia commonly known?
Answer: tunguska event
Question: Located in northeast Caribbean, what is the smallest inhabited sea island that is divided between two nations?
Answer: saint martin
Question: During the apartheid era, what was the name for the territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) of which ten were established?
Answer: bantustan
Question: Which prominent mountain has three volcanic cones called Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira?
Answer: kilimanjaro
Question: The 19th century civic planner Baron Haussman is associated with the rebuilding of which city?
Answer: paris
Question: The Lake Mungo remains consisting of two fossils known as Mungo Lady and Mungo Man are located in the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region of which country?
Answer: australia
Question: With a total drop of 948 meters (3,110 feet) in five free-leaping falls, Tugela Falls is the world's second highest waterfall. They are located in the Drakensberg (Dragon's Mountains) range in which country?
Answer: south africa
Question: Which Spanish city, now home to a great mosque was probably the most populated city in Europe and perhaps in the world in the later half of the 10th century?
Answer: córdoba
Question: When combined with its headstreams the 'Peace' and the 'Finlay', what becomes the second longest river in North America at 4,241 kilometres (2,635 mi)?
Answer: mackenzie
Question: The Sigsbee Deep, named for the captain of the USS Maine which exploded in the harbor of Havana in 1898 is the deepest part of which body of water?
Answer: gulf of mexico
Question: Which Chilean city whose name comes from the Spanish for 'sandy point' is sometimes considered the southernmost city in the world?
Answer: punta arenas
Question: Which South Pacific territory named for its shores' similarities to the Scottish coastline will hold a referendum on independence from France between 2014 and 2019?
Answer: new caledonia
Question: Based on a 1995 realignment of the International Date Line, which Oceanic country with it's capital at South Tarawa is now the easternmost country in the world?
Answer: kiribati
Question: Which major German seaport on the Baltic sea was for several centuries the capital of the Hanseatic League and was also known as 'Queen of the Hanse'?
Answer: lübeck
Question: McMurdo Station can support only 1258 residents but is still considered as the largest community in what part of the world?
Answer: antarctica
Question: Due to its location in a time zone to the east of Europe, which French island in the Indian Ocean was the first region in the world where the euro became legal tender?
Answer: réunion
Question: Which coast off the Atlantic Ocean of Namibia and Angola is named for the bleached whale and seal bones which covered the shore during the days of the whaling industry as well as for the shipwrecks caused by rocks?
Answer: skeleton coast
Question: Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America is on which archipelago that translates as 'land of fire' in Spanish?
Answer: tierra del fuego
Question: Completely bordered by France on three sides, what is the world's most densely populated sovereign country as well as the smallest French-speaking country?
Answer: monaco
Question: The name of which Central Asian mountain range where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together and where the mighty rivers Irtysh, Ob and Yenisei have their sources literally means 'mountains of gold' in Turkic?
Answer: altai
Question: Scania, Zealand and Jutland have historically been the three lands of which country/kingdom?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which island, the third largest in the world, is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei?
Answer: borneo
Question: Since all time zones converge at the South Pole, there is no reason for placing it in any particular time zone. But as a practical convenience, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station keeps the time of which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: From the Greek for 'going downhill' and most commonly found in Antarctica and Greenland, what is the name of the wind that carries high density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity?
Answer: katabatic wind
Question: What is the exclave of Russia that is surrounded by Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic Sea?
Answer: kaliningrad oblast
Question: What is the longest river in the world that flows entirely in one country?
Answer: yangtze
Question: Located in Israel, what is the second-lowest lake in the world (after the Dead Sea) on whose shores much of the ministry of Jesus occurred?
Answer: sea of galilee
Question: Meaning 'place of sunset' or 'western' in Arabic, which word is generally applied to the geographic area of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia together?
Answer: maghreb
Question: Which renowned 20th century physicist was so fascinated by the current day Russian republic of Tuva (because of its obscurity) that he even wrote a book called Tuva or Bust! which chronicles his attempts to travel there?
Answer: richard feynman
Question: The summit of which mountain in Ecuador is generally regarded as the spot that is farthest from the center of the Earth?
Answer: chimborazo