CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is a 1938 crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart, directed by Anatole Litvak and written by John Wexley and John Huston, based on a play by Barr Lyndon?
Answer: amazing dr clitterhouse
Question: It has been a boy's name, is usually a girl's name, and is well known as the name of Peter Pan's friend in a J.M. Barrie play. What is it?
Answer: wendy
Question: The name "Subbuteo" is most associated with a table-top version of what game?
Answer: soccer
Question: """Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives"", which won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, was made where?"
Answer: thailand
Question: What is the former name of the area that is now called Belize?
Answer: british honduras
Question: Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian naturalist and explorer explorer of what area between 1842 and 1848?
Answer: northern and central australia
Question: In anatomy, what word refers to a difference in coloration, usually of the iris but also of hair or skin?
Answer: heterochromia
Question: Who was the first person (and only person, except for "Sergeant Pepper") other than The Beatles themselves, to have their image on the front cover of a Beatles LP?
Answer: klaus voorman
Question: What mountain range separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau?
Answer: himalayas
Question: Who won the 1996 Formula One Driver's championship?
Answer: damon hill
Question: The Hollywood sign, a landmark for Mount Lee in Los Angeles, California, originally said what when it was erected in 1923?
Answer: hollywoodland
Question: Who won the World Rally Championship 9 times in a row from 2004 to 2012?
Answer: sebastian loeb
Question: Which cartoon series relied on the voices of Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Gerry Johnson, Don Messick, Harvey Korman & John Stephenson?
Answer: flinstones
Question: What is the word for an oblique-angled parallelogram with 4 equal sides?
Answer: rhombus
Question: On 15 July 2004, which country imposed diplomatic sanctions against Israel after two Israeli citizens, Uriel Zosha Kelman and Eli Cara, suspected of being Mossad agents, were convicted of attempting to obtain local passports fraudulently?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which English author and model, the grand-daughter of author Roald Dahl, actress Patricia Neal and actor Stanley Holloway, married singer and pianist Jamie Cullum in 2010?
Answer: sophie dahl
Question: Which country is divided into thirteen administrative districts (Lautm, Baucau, Viqueque, Manatuto, Dili, Aileu, Manufahi, Liqui, Ermera, Ainaro, Bobonaro, Cova Lima and Oecusse Ambeno), one of which is separated from the rest by part of Indonesia?
Answer: east timor
Question: What ballroom dance, recognised by the World Dance Council in the category of "International Latin", comes from Brazil?
Answer: samba
Question: The plot of which play by William Shakespeare, whereby the King of Sicilia becomes convinced that his wife and his childhood friend have committed adultery and borne a daughter, was taken from Robert Greene's "Pandosto" (1588), but given a happy ending?
Answer: winter s tale
Question: What is the formal title of Guernsey, the British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy?
Answer: bailiwick of guernsey
Question: From 1894 to 1960, all of the Mosquito Coast was part of which country?
Answer: nicaragua
Question: Who leads "The CBS Orchestra", the house band for "The Late Show with David Letterman"?
Answer: paul shaffer
Question: """Aegrotocatellus jaggeri"" an extinct marine arthropod which disappeared about 250 million years ago, is named after whom?"
Answer: mick jagger
Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 7 points?
Answer: black
Question: Which American revolutionary leader wrote the influential pamphlet "Common Sense" in 1776?
Answer: thomas paine
Question: In a 1996 film John Travolta played what character ?
Answer: angel
Question: The American TV serial "Twin Peaks" was set in what state of the USA?
Answer: washington
Question: What colour is the medal presented for winning an event at the Olympic Games from 1904 onwards?
Answer: gold
Question: The "Missouri Compromise" allowed which state to join the USA in 1820 to balance the admission of Missouri?
Answer: maine
Question: A tirade by Christian Bale directed at Shane Hurlbut, director of photography was on the set of which 2009 film?
Answer: terminator salvation
Question: What is a surgical procedure to improve the function or the appearance of a human nose?
Answer: rhinoplasty
Question: Between 500 and 850 AD, often referred to as the Dark Ages, the 7 kingdoms into which England was supposedly divided (the Heptarchy) were Wessex, Mercia, Kent, Essex, East Anglia, Sussex and which other?
Answer: northumbria
Question: Which epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia is believed to have originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about a hero-king, which were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem much later?
Answer: epic of gilgamesh
Question: What country would you get to first if you went due West from the port of Bari, Italy?
Answer: albania
Question: What series of toys, aimed at little girls, was released by Hasbro in 1983?
Answer: my little pony
Question: A piece for cornet, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, was composed and used as theme music for which TV show?
Answer: coronation street
Question: In the 19th century, Chief Shaka was the leader of which group?
Answer: zulus
Question: Who plays Arizona Robbins in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: jessica capshaw
Question: Who won the golfing Open Championship 3 times between 1979 and 1988?
Answer: seve ballesteros
Question: John Milton created what name for the capital of Hell in his poem "Paradise Lost"?
Answer: pandemonium
Question: What is another name for the childhood disease called laryngotracheobronchitis?
Answer: croup
Question: What strait is between the Russian island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaid?
Answer: la perouse strait
Question: Which honour was conferred by James II on John Dryden in 1630?
Answer: poet laureate
Question: The national flag of which country features a map of it in a copper-yellow colour, symbolising large deposits of copper ore, with, to symbolise peace, two olive branches below on white?
Answer: cyprus
Question: Who wrote "A Brief History Of Time" and "Black Holes and Baby Universes"?
Answer: stephen hawking
Question: A 1962 film was called "The Mutiny on the ... " what?
Answer: bounty
Question: What computer operating system that can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware (including mobile phones, smartphones, wristwatches, mainframes & supercomputers) is an example of free and open source software collaboration?
Answer: linux
Question: Where is the "Scenic Railway", built in 1911, the oldest continually-operating roller coaster in the world, and one of only two in existence that require a brakeman to stand in the middle of the train?
Answer: luna park melbourne australia
Question: In any version of the TV series "Law & Order", the opening credits start with the actors playing what parts?
Answer: police
Question: What is the study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time?
Answer: etymology
Question: Rogaining, a sport of long distance cross-country navigation or orienteering, is recognised as originating where?
Answer: australia
Question: Khalid Al Qassimi, Daniel Sorda, Sebastien Ogier, Franois Duval & Jar-Matti Latvala regularly competed in 2010 in which championship?
Answer: world rally championship
Question: A book by Ernest Hemingway is "The Snows of " where?
Answer: kilimanjaro
Question: In French cuisine, what is the name for a baked dish originating in Germany that is based on a custard made from eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust, which usually is blind baked before the other ingredients are added for a secondary baking period?
Answer: quiche
Question: What bridge, between Millers Point and Milsons Point, opened on 19 March 1932?
Answer: sydney harbour bridge
Question: The names Corbett and Brambell are most associated with which well-known UK TV series?
Answer: steptoe and son
Question: Bile is made in the liver and discharged into the duodenum. Where is it stored and conentrated on this journey?
Answer: gall bladder
Question: Who was president of the USA when Chiang Kai-shek and his National Revolutionary Army fled to Taiwan from mainland China, during the "House Un-American Activities Committee" under Senator Joseph McCarthy, and during most of the US involvement in the Korean War?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: The head of state of the Isle of Man, which is a Crown dependency and not part of the United Kingdom, is Queen Elizabeth II. She rules there because she holds what title?
Answer: lord of mann
Question: What was the Muse d'Orsay in Paris used for before it was an art gallery?
Answer: railway station
Question: What was the occupation of the George Eliot character of Silas Marner?
Answer: weaver
Question: According to Greek legend, who was the king of Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had made and married her after Aphrodite brought her to life?
Answer: pygmalion
Question: In 2005, who became the youngest Formula One Champion Racing Driver at the age of 24?
Answer: fernando alonso
Question: In their original Greek version, what architectural style of fluted column stood directly on the flat pavement (the stylobate) of a temple without a base, topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam (entablature) that they carried?
Answer: doric
Question: In 1779 Captain James Cook, having surveyed the West Coast of the continent of North America, was killed at which islands?
Answer: hawaiian islands
Question: Who married British actress and producer Trudi Styler in 1992?
Answer: sting
Question: What name is given to fluctuations in the curvature of spacetime that were predicted to exist by Albert Einstein in 1916 on the basis of his theory of general relativity?
Answer: gravitational waves
Question: What was the real name of the fictional character Jason Bourne, the main character in 3 films based on stories by Robert Ludlam?
Answer: david webb
Question: What is the name of the engraved stone, discovered in 1799, that provided a key to deciphering the languages of ancient Egypt?
Answer: rosetta stone
Question: Who is the native American subject of a poem by Longfellow?
Answer: hiawatha
Question: What is the generic title of a series of French comic strips that first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959?
Answer: adventures of asterix
Question: What is the name of the cross-pieces on a guitar fingerboard?
Answer: frets
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the multi-headed dog, encircled by a serpent, that guarded the portal to the underworld?
Answer: cerberus
Question: The Broads, a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes, are mainly in which English county?
Answer: norfolk
Question: What was the first name of Dr. Watson, Sherlock Homes' assistant?
Answer: john
Question: Who was the Formula One racing driver's champion in 1963 and 1965?
Answer: jim clark
Question: Which country on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal is bordered by China, Laos, Thailand, Bangladesh and Nepal?
Answer: burma
Question: Who is killed by the Shakespearean character Macduff?
Answer: macbeth
Question: Who had the title role in the 1996 film "The Nutty Professor"?
Answer: eddie murphy
Question: Claudius is the murderous uncle of which character in a Shakespearean play?
Answer: hamlet
Question: Michael J Fox played which character in the "Back to the Future" trilogy (1985-1990)?
Answer: marty mcfly
Question: What body of water between Israel and Jordan fed by the Jordan River has no outlet stream?
Answer: dead sea
Question: Who was Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, was then imprisoned for over two years and burnt at the stake for heresy?
Answer: thomas cranmer
Question: Countries which in the 19th century permanently abolished the death penalty were the Roman Republic (1849), Venezuela (1854), San Marino (1865), and which other?
Answer: portugal
Question: What 2003 film, starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, was based on a book by John Grisham?
Answer: runaway jury
Question: Which 19th century American writer is best known for his "Tales of Mystery and Suspense", "Tales of the Arabesque and the Grotesque", and his poems "The Raven", "The Bells" and "Annabel Lee"?
Answer: edgar allan poe
Question: Which country between the Andes mountain range and the Atlantic Ocean has borders with Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay?
Answer: argentina
Question: The Dalai Lama is a high lama in which religion?
Answer: buddhism
Question: The first successful public operation under which anaesthetic was carried out at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846 by William Morton?
Answer: ether
Question: In May 2010, what store was sold to Qatar Holdings by Mohammed Al Fayed for 1.5 billion?
Answer: harrods
Question: The phrase "The Dashing White Sergeant" refers to ...?
Answer: dance
Question: In 1642, Cardinal Mazarin succeeded whom as Chief Minister of France?
Answer: cardinal richelieu
Question: In which conflict between 1455 and 1485 were there battles at St Albans, Northampton, Wakefield, Towton, Barnet, Tewksebury and Bosworth?
Answer: wars of roses
Question: Who played the title role in the 1998 film "Blade"?
Answer: wesley snipes
Question: Who wrote the music forthe 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance patter song "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"?
Answer: sir arthur sullivan
Question: What is an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight, distorted body image and an obsessive fear of gaining weight which has an incidence of between 8 and 13 cases per 100,000 persons per year, and largely affects young adolescent women?
Answer: anorexia nervosa
Question: What was the first name of the English Prime Ministers known as Pitt the Elder and Pitt the Younger?
Answer: william
Question: What is the name for the shape of a proscenium in a theatre?
Answer: proscenium arch
Question: Which group of 6 women in ancient Rome each had a term of office of 30 years (10 to be trained, 10 to work, including keeping a flame alive, and 10 to educate others)?
Answer: vestal virgins
Question: An American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, is Edgar Rice who?
Answer: burroughs
Question: In 1936, prototypes of a car called "strength through joy", with a round shape and air-cooled, flat-four, rear-mounted engine, appeared and was developed to become which car that is still recognisable?
Answer: volkswagen beetle
Question: Which area, which translates as "the land of five rivers", is on the border between India and Pakistan?
Answer: punjab
Question: At the Battle of Bannockburn, an army led by Robert the Bruce defeated troops led by whom?
Answer: edward ii
Question: What is a dish that originated in 19th-century Russia, of sauted pieces of beef served in a sauce with sour cream?
Answer: beef stroganoff
Question: Which autonomous region within the Kingdom of the Netherlands is a 33-kilometre (21 mile) long island with a land area of 193 km2 (75 sq miles) in the southern Caribbean Sea?
Answer: aruba
Question: What Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor was granted a peerage in 1917, was the first Minister of Information responsible for allied propaganda in allied and neutral countries in 1918 and, during World War II, was Minister of Aircraft Production and Minister of Supply?
Answer: lord beaverbrook
Question: Which cricketer scored 158 runs in 2005 to secure the ashes for England?
Answer: kevin pietersen
Question: What does FRCP after someone's name mean?
Answer: fellow of royal college of physicians
Question: In the American War of 1812 against Great Britain the ship now known as Old Ironsides defeated five British warships (HMS Guerriere, HMS Java, HMS Pictou, HMS Cyane and HMS Levant). She is still afloat. What name was she commissioned under?
Answer: uss constitution
Question: In which sport do participants compete for "the Auld Mug"?
Answer: yachting
Question: Who played "Charlie" in the 2005 film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?
Answer: freddie highmore
Question: What is the name of the killer rat that features in the 1973 film "Willard"?
Answer: ben
Question: What nationality is Richard O'Brien, the writer of the stage musical "The Rocky Horror Show"?
Answer: new zealander
Question: In which state of Australia would you find the Snowy Mountains?
Answer: new south wales
Question: In Greek mythology, what was left in Pandora's box after the evils, ills, diseases, and burdensome labour had escaped?
Answer: hope
Question: A film released in 2000 starring Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson tells the life story of which painter?
Answer: jackson pollock
Question: What name is given to a railway in which a cable attached to a pair of vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other?
Answer: funicular
Question: Ronnie Scott's club in London is the venue for what kind of music?
Answer: jazz
Question: What is the name for the largest of the living primates, that are ground-dwelling and predominantly herbivorous, inhabiting the forests of central Africa?
Answer: gorilla
Question: What nationality is Marat Safin, who won his first Grand Slam tennis tournament at the US Open in 2000?
Answer: russian
Question: What is the title of Geri Halliwell's 1999 autobiography?
Answer: if only
Question: What date is famous for four co-ordinated terrorist attacks in the USA on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the United States Capitol?
Answer: september 11 2001
Question: Four countries have observer status to the Arab League, which entitles them to express their opinion and give advice but denies them voting rights. They are Eritrea, Brazil, Venezuela and which other?
Answer: india
Question: In a 1956 interview with the American journalist Anna Louise Strong, Mao Zedong described the USA as a paper what?
Answer: tiger
Question: The iron pillar of Delhi, India, a 7 meter (22 feet) high pillar that is 98% pure wrought iron, has withstood corrosion in the open air for how long?
Answer: over 1 600 years
Question: Which squash player was unbeaten for over 150 consecutive matches between 1981 and 1986?
Answer: jahangir khan
Question: What name was given to the conflict between Great Britain and Spain from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742?
Answer: war of jenkins ear
Question: In 1997 at the World Snooker Championship, who made the fastest-recorded maximum break of 147?
Answer: ronnie o sullivan
Question: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Op. 125) is known as what?
Answer: choral
Question: Golfer Vijay Singh, who was number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005, was born where?
Answer: fiji
Question: What real person did Martin Landau portray when he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the 1994 film "Ed Wood"?
Answer: bela lugosi
Question: David Palmer, Amr Shabana, Thierry Lincou and Ramy Ashour have been World Open Champions in which sport in this century?
Answer: squash
Question: Who was in all of these films: "Alfie", "The Man Who Would Be King", "Educating Rita", "Little Voice", "Batman Begins", "The Dark Knight", "Last Orders" and "The Quiet American"?
Answer: michael caine
Question: Which English soccer player, whose career playing first class soccer ran from 1956 to 1973, was England's most capped player (106) when he retired from the England team in 1970?
Answer: bobby charlton
Question: Susan, Lucy, Edmund and Peter Pevensie are children who appear in what 2005 film, based on the novel by C. S. Lewis?
Answer: lion witch and wardrobe
Question: Derek Jacobi played Claudius in which BBC TV series?
Answer: i claudius
Question: What was the name of a set of 3 treaties signed between the USA and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho between 21 and 28 October 1867, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma?
Answer: medicine lodge treaty
Question: What was the subject of the referendum held in Australia 1999?
Answer: to become republic
Question: A 1986 film starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann, described as "one of Britain's biggest cult films", is what " ... and I"?
Answer: withnail
Question: What field of work is Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) best known for?
Answer: electricity
Question: In 1284, Prince Edward (later King Edward II of England), the first son born to Edward I of England, was the first English-born what?
Answer: prince of wales
Question: Who had her first major movie role in "Crossroads" (2002), a comedy-drama film that also starred Dan Aykroyd and Kim Cattrall?
Answer: britney spears
Question: What dish would you expect if you asked for Fettuccine in an Italian restaurant?
Answer: pasta
Question: """The Grand Old Duke Of York"" was whose son?"
Answer: george iii
Question: What film studio was founded by Cecil B De Mille and J L Lasky in 1913?
Answer: paramount
Question: Polocrosse is a sport combining polo and what else?
Answer: lacrosse
Question: Who is the only US president to have served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as both the 22nd and 24th president?
Answer: grover cleveland
Question: """Shock Treatment"" was the sequel to which musical?"
Answer: rocky horror picture show
Question: Who was made Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, introduced 2 prayer books under Edward VI, and was executed for heresy under Mary I?
Answer: thomas cranmer
Question: What worldwide movement describing itself as "a fellowship of men and women" was co-founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio?
Answer: alcoholics anonymous
Question: Which team won the inaugural Fast5 World Netball Series, first contested in October 2009, which had modified rules (and was compared to Twenty20 cricket and rugby sevens)?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Who directed the films "Miracle's Boys", "Inside Man", "When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts", "Miracle at St. Anna", "Passing Strange" and "Kobe Doin' Work"?
Answer: spike lee
Question: If you were to fly due east from the southernmost pont of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego what is the next land mass, bigger than the island you set out from, which you would meet?
Answer: tierra del fuego
Question: What is a mixture of saturated aliphatic and alicyclic C7 to C12 hydrocarbons with a maximum content of 25% of C7 to C12 alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons, which is used as an extraction, cleaning and degreasing solvent, and as a solvent in aerosols, paints, wood preservatives, lacquers, varnishes, and asphalt products?
Answer: white spirit
Question: Who is known for his law of elasticity, his book, "Micrographia", and for first applying the word "cell" to describe the basic unit of life?
Answer: robert hooke
Question: Who played the first doctor in the UK TV series "Dr Who"?
Answer: william hartnell
Question: What philosopher, sometimes known by the honorific of "K'ung Fu-tzu" and born in BCE 551, has recently had his name given to a Peace Prize ?
Answer: confucius
Question: What is the more common name for Chopin's "Waltz in D Flat Major"?
Answer: minute waltz
Question: What was the last royal capital of the Burmese kingdom before its annexation by the British in 1885 when King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat were exiled after the Third Anglo-Burmese War?
Answer: mandalay
Question: What was the stage name of Bernard Jewry?
Answer: alvin stardust
Question: Where was the first IOC-run Olympics held in the 21st century?
Answer: salt lake city usa
Question: In Greek legend, what were Stheno, Euryale and Medusa, winged female monsters with snakes for hair who turned mortals to stone if they looked directly at them?
Answer: gorgons
Question: The left and right ventricles and the left and right atriums are found where in the human body?
Answer: heart