CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The Great Western Railways City of Truro was unofficially recorded as the first steam locomotive to reach a speed of 102.3 mph (164 km/h) on 9 May 1904, but the 100 mile per hour (160 km/h) record was not officially recorded until 30 November 1934, by which locomotive?
Answer: flying scotsman
Question: Which ship, the largest and fastest in the world, with steam turbine propulsion, then a revolutionary development in ocean liner design, was launched on 20 September 1906?
Answer: mauretania
Question: An American TV series starring Molly Shannon and Selma Blair is based on which Australian comedy series?
Answer: kath and kim
Question: What is the affectionate Spanish language diminutive that Mara Eva Duarte de Pern, the second wife of President Juan Domingo Pern of Argentina, was known by?
Answer: evita
Question: Which trophy, damaged by Benjamin Peri Nathan with a sledgehammer in March 1997, was restored to its original condition, free of charge, by London silversmiths Garrard & Co., who had made it in 1848?
Answer: americas cup
Question: The initial slogan for the American War of Independence was "No taxation without " what?
Answer: representation
Question: Which long-running show spawned several television series, including "Laverne & Shirley", "Mork & Mindy", and "Joanie Loves Chachi"?
Answer: happy days
Question: Ignis fatuus, a faintly luminous flame which hovers over marshy places is known as a Jack O' Lantern or what?
Answer: will o wisp
Question: King Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 when an arrow went into what part of his body?
Answer: eye
Question: Which UK TV series, set in Peckham, London, over 7 years chronicled the attempts of an ambitious market trader and his younger brother to get rich?
Answer: only fools and horses
Question: What is the name of the mountain range that runs for 870 miles for the full length of Italy?
Answer: apennines
Question: The first official World Cup for which sport, that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, was held in 1986?
Answer: orienteering
Question: What is the name of a whirlpool between two islands of the Lofoten Group north west of Norway, which is the result of opposing tidal currrents sweeping through a narrow channel?
Answer: maelstrom
Question: Which book of the Bible contains the story of the visit of the Queen of Sheba to the court of King Solomon?
Answer: 1 kings
Question: Who was the star of "8 Mile" (2002) a hip-hop drama film which was a fictionalized account of his growing up in Detroit and early career in rap?
Answer: eminem
Question: At the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich, which 16-year-old Soviet gymnast won three gold medals?
Answer: olga korbut
Question: What secret organisation of Irishmen in the Scranton Anthracite Mining district of Pennsylvania 1865 - 1875, was in violent conflict with the mine owners?
Answer: molly maguires
Question: The term "musket" strictly refers to a firearm with what?
Answer: smooth bore
Question: In which 1925 silent film, directed by Fred Niblo, were extras offered a prize of $100 to the winner to make a race more exciting, resulting in a horrendous crash that remains in the movie?
Answer: ben hur
Question: What is the name of the result of the complete census of England carried out under the instructions of William I in 1086?
Answer: domesday book
Question: Who won the Women's Cricket World Cup played at Sydney, Australia, in 2009?
Answer: england
Question: Samoa, Hawaii and the Tokelau Islands are part of which geographic area?
Answer: polynesia
Question: The last line of which 1939 film, spoken by Judy Garland, is "If I ever again go looking for my heart's desire, I won't go looking any further than my own backyard"?
Answer: wizard of oz
Question: Which Scottish sailor was rescued four years after being put ashore by William Dampier at Juan Fernandez in 1703, for insubordination?
Answer: alexander selkirk
Question: Where are The Kerguelen Islands, a territory of France, also known as Desolation Island?
Answer: indian ocean
Question: Which band had a hit record in 1980 with "London Calling"?
Answer: clash
Question: Which country was represented by Hanni Wenzel, who won the women's giant slalom and slalom at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in 1980?
Answer: liechtenstein
Question: What gambling game is based on a wheel with 37 compartments?
Answer: roulette
Question: Which country would you go to in order to travel up the Amazon River?
Answer: brazil
Question: Where, 25 miles West of Knoxville, Tennessee, was an Atomic Bomb Research Station set up in 1942?
Answer: oak ridge
Question: What are the 26 areas called that make up The Swiss Confederation?
Answer: cantons
Question: In which country was there a civil war between 1936 and 1939, which was won by General Franco's forces?
Answer: spain
Question: Where is the House of Keys the governing body, with 24 elected members?
Answer: isle of man
Question: In the 7th to 9th century, which kingdom of England was between the Thames and the Trent?
Answer: mercia
Question: The English version of "The Magic Roundabout", a children's television programme created in France was broadcast from 18 October 1965 to January 1977. It was narrated by the father of which actress?
Answer: emma thompson
Question: What is the name for a straight line drawn from the centre of a circle to the circumference?
Answer: radius
Question: Who succeeded Lenin as the leader of the Soviet Union when he died in 1924?
Answer: joseph stalin
Question: A painting by Sandro Botticelli that depicts a goddess, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore on a sea shell is called "The Birth of ... " who?
Answer: venus
Question: Which mountain range runs through the US states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico?
Answer: rocky mountains
Question: What name is given to the rocks that orbit the sun mainly between Mars and Jupiter?
Answer: asteroids
Question: What was the first name of "Rumpole of the Bailey"?
Answer: horace
Question: Who became the King of Sweden on 15 September 1973?
Answer: king carl xvi gustaf
Question: Where does kapok, use for stuffing mattresses and cushions, come from?
Answer: trees
Question: Sun Myung Moon is known as the founder of what movement?
Answer: unification church
Question: Near the end of August 2009, Australia lost to England by 197 runs in what sport?
Answer: cricket
Question: Which province of Ireland comprises the counties of Clare, Kerry, Cork, Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford?
Answer: munster
Question: Which German is responsible for driving the Russians out of Germany at the Battle of Tannenburg in 1914, became head of all German armies in 1916, and was elected President of the Republic in 1925?
Answer: von hindenburg
Question: Who wrote children's books featuring Noddy and Big Ears, and the Famous Five?
Answer: enid blyton
Question: According to a fragment of "The Achilleid", written by Statius in the first century AD, when Achilles the mythological Greek hero was born, his mother tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx. Where was he left vulnerable?
Answer: heel
Question: The Neckar, Main and Ruhr are tributaries of which river?
Answer: rhine
Question: Who formally became Emperor of Japan in 1926 and became its constitutional monarch in 1946?
Answer: hirohito
Question: Which band, comprising David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth, had hit records including "Burning Down the House" and "Psycho Killer"?
Answer: talking heads
Question: Which Canadian portrait photographer of Armenian heritage photographed Winston Churchill in his studio in Ottawa on 30 December, 1941, which, it is claimed, is the most reproduced photographic portrait in history?
Answer: yousuf karsh
Question: To an imaginary observer above the North Pole, which way would the earth appear to rotate?
Answer: anti clockwise
Question: What was ordered by Pope Paul IV in 1555 to be set up on the left bank of the Tiber?
Answer: ghetto
Question: During World War II, in north Africa, who was known as "The Desert Fox"?
Answer: erwin rommel
Question: What colours are on the flag used to signify the finish of a Formula One motor race?
Answer: black and white
Question: If you travelled downstream from the Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, which country would you be in when you reached the ocean?
Answer: mozambique
Question: Idris el Senussi, Emir or Cyrenu, was made the first king of what "United Kingdom" on 24 December 1951?
Answer: libya
Question: What is the name for the area of the Atlantic Ocean south east of Bermuda distinguished by the mass of brown seaweed that floats there?
Answer: sargasso sea
Question: In May 2009, suspected NAZI death camp guard John Demjanjuk was deported from where to Germany?
Answer: ohio usa
Question: What famous picture was stolen from its frame in the Louvre in 1911, was recovered in Florence and returned in 1913?
Answer: mona lisa
Question: What town 16 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, dominated by the Puritans in the 17th century, was famous for its witchcraft trials?
Answer: salem
Question: What device found on ships from the 18th century, consists of a telescope, a graduated arc and two mirrors, one of which is attached to a moveable arm?
Answer: sextant
Question: What is the next in the series: Antwerp; Paris; Amsterdam; Los Angeles?
Answer: berlin
Question: Casts of Sir George Frampton's statue of "Peter Pan" are in Kensington Gardens, London; Sefton Park, Liverpool; Camden, New Jersey, USA; Perth, Australia; Toronto, Canada; Bowring Park, St. John's, Canada and which other location?
Answer: brussels belgium
Question: What is the east coast of Nicaragua, fronting the Caribbean Sea, called?
Answer: mosquito coast
Question: Who made the first solo non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in 1927?
Answer: charles lindbergh
Question: Which US TV show, where the star appeared as a fictionalised version of himself with his friends George Costanza, Elaine Benes and Cosmo Kramer, ran for 9 seasons?
Answer: seinfeld
Question: What preparation, consisting mainly of citron, orange, bergamot, neroli and rosemary, was first prepared by Johann Maria Farina soon after 1700?
Answer: eau de cologne
Question: Which city was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles as a trading settlement in 1819?
Answer: singapore
Question: The Greek tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides wrote dramas dealing with which legendary woman?
Answer: electra
Question: What is the name of the classic English horse race run at Epsom, two days after the Derby?
Answer: oaks
Question: With what do artists working in oils wash their brushes?
Answer: turpentine
Question: In 1978, after escaping from Iran, where was the Ayatollah Khomeini granted political asylum?
Answer: france
Question: What is the name of the obelisk brought from Heliopolis, Egypt, that now stands in London?
Answer: cleopatra s needle
Question: In tennis, the annual Grand Slam season consists of the French Open, the U.S. Open, the Wimbledon Championship and which other?
Answer: australian open
Question: Who has been Prime Minister of France twice and President of France once?
Answer: jacques chirac
Question: Which islands mostly belong to the USA, since they were purchased from Denmark in 1917?
Answer: virgin islands
Question: Nathan, Caleb, Matthew and Jared Followill are better known as which pop group?
Answer: kings of leon
Question: The last time that anyone spoke to Adolf Hitler, he was in what city?
Answer: berlin
Question: For which novel, a study of provincial life published in 1856, was the author, Gustave Flaubert, and his publisher prosecuted for "an offence against morals"?
Answer: madame bovary
Question: Which harbour, a US naval base, was attacked by Japanese aeroplanes on 7 December 1941?
Answer: pearl
Question: Bayonet and screw are types of fitting for what?
Answer: light bulb
Question: What card game, also known as Trente-et-Quarante, is played with 6 packs of cards, some of which are dealt in two rows?
Answer: rouge et noir
Question: What is another name for the second magnitude star "Alpha" in the Little Bear Constellation which is the nearest conspicuous star to the north celestial pole?
Answer: pole star
Question: Which Ohio-born woman joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and was known as "the greatest woman marksman of all time"?
Answer: annie oakley
Question: Which golfer was named as Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year in 1996?
Answer: tiger woods
Question: Who is the star of TV series "The F Word" and "Hell's Kitchen"?
Answer: gordon ramsay
Question: Which capital city is on the northern bank of the La Plata estuary?
Answer: montevideo
Question: When the Olympic flame is about to be taken to the venue for the next Olympic Games, it is lit in which city?
Answer: athens
Question: What is the name of the multi-sport event for athletes with physical and visual disabilities, including athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy, that are held every 4 years, following the Olympic Games?
Answer: paralympic games
Question: What is the smallest interval in European music, of which 12 make an octave?
Answer: semitone
Question: What is the name of the blocks that support rails for railway tracks?
Answer: sleepers
Question: What city was founded on the island of Manhattan by Peter Minuit in 1626?
Answer: new amsterdam
Question: Before 1945, what was the city of Gdansk called?
Answer: danzig
Question: Which Sultan of Egypt ruled an expanding empire that included Syria, Mesopotamia, and most of Asia Minor until stopped in 1192 by Richard I in the first Crusade?
Answer: saladin
Question: Where was a battle fought between General Robert E Lee and General Meade from 1 to 3 July 1863, which is generally accepted as the turning point of the American Civil War?
Answer: gettysburg
Question: What was invented by Elias Howe in 1846 and improved by Isaac Merritt Singer?
Answer: sewing machine
Question: In a film script, what do the letters POV mean?
Answer: point of view
Question: Laurence Olivier directed and starred in a 1944 film, which began in the Globe Theatre and then gradually shifted to a realistic evocation of the Battle of Agincourt, which was adapted from which one of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: henry v
Question: Who was Queen of England between 1837 and 1901?
Answer: victoria
Question: What name was given to Nepalese soldiers recruited into the Indian army?
Answer: gurkhas
Question: Which river, the longest in France, empties into the Atlantic at St. Lazaire?
Answer: loire
Question: In a TV series, who lived in the town of Bedrock?
Answer: flintstones
Question: Eamon de Valera was a politician in which country?
Answer: republic of ireland
Question: What is the name of the square in the UK TV series "EastEnders"?
Answer: albert square
Question: What standard distance was selected because it was expected to be "one ten millionth of the quadrant of the earth's meridian"
Answer: metre
Question: Which section of the British forces made a famous charge against Russian forces at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War?
Answer: light brigade
Question: In Israel in 2009, what did they call the world outbreak of swine flu?
Answer: mexico flu
Question: In 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in the USA for spying for which country?
Answer: soviet union
Question: What sort of animals were "Lady and The Tramp", the main roles in a Walt Disney cartoon released in 1955?
Answer: dogs
Question: Who nailed a paper with 95 theses as a basis for debate with Friar John Tetzel to a church door at Wittenberg on 31 October 1517?
Answer: martin luther
Question: Cotswold, Southdown, Dorset, Lonk and Lincoln are breeds of what animal?
Answer: sheep
Question: Which sport, a version of which had been a medal sport in 1924, and a demonstration sport in 1928, 1936 and 1948, became an official Winter Olympic sport in 1960?
Answer: biathlon
Question: FINA announced in November 2008 that the cities that had expressed interest in hosting the 2013 World Aquatics Championships were Belgrade (Serbia), Budapest and Balatonfred (Hungary), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Hamburg (Germany), Hong Kong (China), Madrid (Spain), and which other?
Answer: moscow russia
Question: What is the capital of the archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean called The Falkland Islands?
Answer: stanley
Question: The "Saucy Jacky" postcard, received by Scotland Yard in 1888, was claimed to have been written by whom?
Answer: jack ripper
Question: What is the generic name for all of the greater festivals of the Christian Church?
Answer: sacraments
Question: Irish is one of the official languages of the Republic of Ireland. What is the other?
Answer: english
Question: The excavation of what city, destroyed in 79AD, was begun in 1748?
Answer: pompeii
Question: Whose trademark wardrobe included a bowler hat and cane?
Answer: charlie chaplin
Question: If Guy Berryman and Will Champion are the rhythm section, what is the band?
Answer: coldplay
Question: The theatres for which war included North Africa, the Philippines, Italy, Germany and Crete?
Answer: world war ii
Question: Mount Etna and the Plain of Catania are on which island?
Answer: sicily
Question: Which Irish dramatist wrote "The Rivals" and "The School for Scandal"?
Answer: richard brinsley butler sheridan
Question: Who released an album in May 2009 called "21st Century Breakdown"?
Answer: green day
Question: What was the name given to a type of xylophone consisting of large stones, dating from 2,500 - 4,000 BC found in China?
Answer: lithophone
Question: Who starred in "Mogambo", "Dial M For Murder", "Rear Window" and "High Society" before giving up her film career for marriage in 1956?
Answer: grace kelly
Question: Which Irish born British admiral and hydrographer created a standard scale in 1805 by which naval officers could report wind speed?
Answer: sir francis beaufort
Question: Which team won the eighth World Polo Championship in Mexico in May 2008?
Answer: chile
Question: Joseph Smith is known as the founder of what movement?
Answer: church of jesus christ of latter day saints
Question: Michael Keaton starred in which film as a spirit who makes a living from scaring people?
Answer: beetlejuice
Question: At the opening ceremony of every Olympic Games when the athletes parade into the stadium, what is traditionally the first nation to enter?
Answer: greece
Question: Which monotheistic, Abrahamic religious movement accepts Haile Selassie I, the former and final Emperor of Ethiopia, as the incarnation of God, called Jah?
Answer: rastafarian
Question: Muhammad Ali (who was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) is associated with which sport?
Answer: boxing
Question: Where was the first McDonalds outlet opened in 1955?
Answer: chicago
Question: Which avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906, revolutionized European painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music and literature?
Answer: cubism
Question: What is the musical term for playing each note separated from the rest?
Answer: staccato
Question: Matt Damon played which role in a trilogy of films about an amnesiac who also suffers from PTSD who is attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA to track him down and arrest or kill him?
Answer: jason bourne
Question: Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the world's oldest and most famous cricket club (founded in 1787), is based where?
Answer: lord s cricket ground
Question: The Belgian Revolution, that began after a performance at the Brussels opera in 1830, led to the secession of the Southern provinces of which kingdom to establish an independent Kingdom of Belgium?
Answer: united kingdom of netherlands
Question: What was the capital city of Russia from 1712 to 1918?
Answer: saint petersburg
Question: The islands Santa Ysabel, Choiseul, Guadalcanal, Malaita and San Cristbal are in which group?
Answer: solomon islands
Question: Which astronomer, born in West Yorkshire, England in 1915 and dying in 2001 in Bournemouth, England, was a science fiction writer, whose output includes the novel "The Black Cloud", a TV series "A for Andromeda" and a play "Rockets in Ursa Major"?
Answer: sir fred hoyle
Question: What is the name given to the planet Venus when it appears in the West after sunset?
Answer: evening star
Question: Who unknowingly slew his father and married his mother, and, when he discovered his true identity, blinded himself when his mother hanged herself?
Answer: oedipus
Question: What was the dolphin that accompanied vessels near French Pass, a channel used by ships sailing between Wellington and Nelson, New Zealand between 1888 and 1912?
Answer: pelorus jack
Question: Which island group between the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean was discovered in 1521 by Magellan, was taken by Spain, ceded to the USA in 1898 and became an independent republic in 1946?
Answer: philippines
Question: What is the name for the point on the ecliptic when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator?
Answer: solstice
Question: In the 2003 film "What A Girl Wants", Amanda Bynes played the illegitimate daughter of a British politician played by whom?
Answer: colin firth
Question: According to Virgil's Latin epic poem "The Aeneid", who, during the Trojan War, made a wooden horse and filled it with soldiers that the Trojans took through the gates of Troy?
Answer: greeks
Question: What modern sport can trace its origin back to a Scramble that took place at Camberley, Surrey England in 1924?
Answer: motocross
Question: The Greek mathematician, mystic and scientist Pythagoras is best known for the Pythagorean theorem, which concerns what?
Answer: triangles
Question: In the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove ... ", the doctor, working as national security consultant to the president, was a sinister character with a heavy Germanic accent and darkly Teutonic attitudes. Who had the nickname "Dr Strangelove" when in public office in the 1970s?
Answer: henry kissinger
Question: What is the name for a poem of 14 lines that first appeared when written by Giacomo da Lentini in 1220, for which various rhyme schemes were developed?
Answer: sonnet
Question: What was the name given to the group of people in the English Midlands who destroyed machinery in 1811 - 1812, believing it to be the cause of their unemployment?
Answer: luddites
Question: What song was played at the end of the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb"?
Answer: we ll meet again
Question: Who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, which he proposed in "Stenographic Soundhand" in 1837?
Answer: isaac pitman
Question: What medium had its first test with a recording of Richard Strauss's "Eine Alpensinfonie" by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan in 1981, and its first commercial pressing with "The Visitors" by ABBA a year later?
Answer: compact disc
Question: """A Little Night Music"" by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler and Harold Prince, was based on which 1955 film directed by Ingmar Bergman?"
Answer: smiles of summer night
Question: Who designed the white chiffon one-shoulder gown worn by Michelle Obama at the series of 10 balls celebrating Barack Obama's inauguration?
Answer: jason wu
Question: From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, what was considered to be the Solar System's ninth planet?
Answer: pluto
Question: What name is given to a cocktail consisting mainly of vodka, Galliano, and orange juice?
Answer: harvey wallbanger
Question: Which ballet, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky under impresario Serge Diaghilev, caused a riot at its 1913 premire in Paris by The Ballets Russes because the music and choreography were considered barbaric and sexual?
Answer: rite of spring
Question: In which country did the USA enter a war by sending military advisors in 1950, escalating their involvement until finally combat units played an active part between 1965 and 1975?
Answer: vietnam
Question: Which Italian island in the Mediterranean is to the south of Corsica?
Answer: sardinia