CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What chemical element takes its name from the Roman name for Paris?
Answer: lutetium
Question: In 2010 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, who beat England's Jonny Wilkinson's record for scoring 1178 points in test match rugby?
Answer: dan carter
Question: The "Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an old English folk song about what event?
Answer: battle of otterburn
Question: Which British political party led by John Hargrave wore green shirts as a uniform?
Answer: social credit
Question: The "Authorised" English translation of the Bible was named after whom?
Answer: james i
Question: Where is the "Summer Palace" which is also known as the "Garden of Nurtured Harmony"?
Answer: beijing
Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 2 points?
Answer: yellow
Question: What military slang term for members of the US Marine Corps was derived from a special collar once worn around the neck by both American and British Marines and soldiers from 1798?
Answer: leathernecks
Question: What is the media nickname of Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who was said to be the inspiration for Nicolas Cage's character in the 2005 film "Lord of War"?
Answer: merchant of death
Question: By what name were Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale collectively known when they appeared before Judge Julius Hoffman in 1969?
Answer: chicago eight
Question: Who signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year's day 1863?
Answer: abraham lincoln
Question: Which of North America's Great Lakes has the same name as a province of Canada?
Answer: ontario
Question: Where did the old woman who "had so many children she didn't know what to do" live?
Answer: shoe
Question: In April 2010, after riots in the capital which overthrew the government, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev left which country, leaving the way clear for the head of the new provisional government, Roza Otunbayeva?
Answer: kyrgyzstan
Question: Who was tried for treason on 17 November 1603 for trying to remove James I from the Engish throne?
Answer: walter raleigh
Question: The Garonne river passes through Toulouse and Bordeaux after rising where?
Answer: pyrenees
Question: Who is second in the line of US presidential succession, following the Vice President?
Answer: speaker of house of representatives
Question: Longacre Square, a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets, has been known as what since April 1904?
Answer: times square
Question: In snooker, what colour ball is spotted on the centre of the table?
Answer: blue
Question: More than 99% of the mass of our solar system is contained within what?
Answer: sun
Question: What temperature scale is referenced to absolute zero (i.e. where there is the theoretical absence of all thermal energy)?
Answer: kelvin
Question: A synapse is a space where a nerve impulse travels between what?
Answer: neurons
Question: Who, in Formula One, between 2006 and 2010, was the youngest Formula One driver to: drive at a Grand Prix meeting, score points, lead a race, secure pole position, win a race and win the championship?
Answer: sebastian vettel
Question: Who directed the 2003 film starring Ewan McGregor, Billy Crudup and Albert Finney called "Big Fish"?
Answer: tim burton
Question: Which musical was written by Tim Rice with two ex-members of ABBA?
Answer: chess
Question: The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 due to its occupation by troops from what country?
Answer: china
Question: The Jewish festival of the Passover is held around the same time as which Christian festival?
Answer: easter
Question: On 13 November 2010, who became the first boxer to win world titles in eight different weight divisions and the first boxer to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes?
Answer: manny pacquiao
Question: What type of music is Handel's "Messiah"?
Answer: oratorio
Question: The element cobalt gets its name from the German word for what?
Answer: goblin
Question: Which country was proclaimed a People's Republic on 1 October 1949, following the defeat of forces led by Chiang Kai-shek?
Answer: china
Question: Which company designed the "safety pin dress" worn by Liz Hurley to a 1994 Los Angeles film premiere?
Answer: versace
Question: Memorial Day, formerly known as Decoration Day, a US federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May to commemorate US men and women who died while in the military service, was first commemorated to honour soldiers in which war?
Answer: american civil war
Question: What was the setting for the 1980 film "Fame"?
Answer: new york high school of performing arts
Question: Who led a team to make the Cumberland Gap, a way through the Appalachian Mountains, accessible to pioneers, who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee?
Answer: daniel boone
Question: Between 1903 and 1904, sites in the Australian townships of Albury, Tumut, Orange, Bombala and Dalgety were considered for what purpose?
Answer: capital of australia
Question: In what TV series was Oceanic Airlines flight 815 a critical factor?
Answer: lost
Question: Where is the 82,000 seat Maracana Stadium?
Answer: rio de janeiro
Question: What is the title of Geri Halliwell's autobiography, published in 1999?
Answer: if only
Question: What was the only single by ABBA to reach number 1 on the US "Billboard" charts?
Answer: dancing queen
Question: If Prince William of Wales, the elder son of Charles and Diana, Prince and Princess of Wales, becomes "King William", what number will he be?
Answer: william v
Question: The musical "The Sound of Music" is set in what city?
Answer: salzburg
Question: The stress that causes a metal object to break is called metal what?
Answer: fatigue
Question: What is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community?
Answer: excommunication
Question: From 1885 to 1908, a corporate state of 2,344,000 km (905,000 square miles), privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians, became infamous for mistreatment of the local peoples and exploitation of natural resources. What was this area known as?
Answer: congo free state
Question: Who caused the crash of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, near Cayucos, California, USA on 7 December 1987, by shooting the pilots and killing all 43 people on board?
Answer: david burke
Question: What was the first black and white short cartoon film produced by Walt Disney?
Answer: steamboat willie
Question: Which American explorer claimed to have been the first person, on 6 April 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole?
Answer: robert e peary
Question: What was the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by Germany in World War II?
Answer: channel islands
Question: What sport is featured in "Chariots of Fire", a 1981 film starring Ben Cross?
Answer: running
Question: The migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to the city of Medina in 622, which marked year one of the Islamic calendar, was known as what?
Answer: hijra
Question: Which King of Macedon created one of the largest empires in ancient history between 336 and 323BC, including most of the city-states of mainland Greece and the (then) Persian-ruled Asia Minor?
Answer: alexander great
Question: What name was given to the political and social movement that united the states of the Italian peninsula into the single country of Italy in the 19th century?
Answer: il risorgimento
Question: In freestyle skiing, what are the large bumps on the piste called?
Answer: moguls
Question: After the Battle of Landriano, French monarch Franois I was forced to concede defeat in which war?
Answer: war of league of cognac
Question: On the Christian calendar, what is the day before Ash Wednesday?
Answer: shrove tuesday
Question: Reed Richards, Susan "Sue" Storm (Reed's wife), Johnny Storm (Sue's younger brother), and Ben Grimm are the secret identities of which fictional group?
Answer: fantastic four
Question: In Greek mythology, who were the children of Uranus and Galatea?
Answer: titans
Question: Who was Marlon Brando's co-star in the 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris", directed by Bernardo Bertolucci?
Answer: maria schneider
Question: Between 1989 and 2002, the UK's Dalton Grant was a gold medal winner in what sport?
Answer: high jump
Question: Andrea Jaeger of the US had a successful career in professional tennis, becoming World Ranked number 2, between the ages of 15 and 19, but it ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. What profession did she take up in 2006?
Answer: nun
Question: What was the name of the "state" that was never officially admitted into the Union of the USA after delegates from some North Carolina counties declared independence from North Carolina in 1784, and, in 1788, went back to being part of North Carolina?
Answer: franklin
Question: What name was given to a narrative poem typically sung by trouvres (medieval minstrels)?
Answer: lay
Question: In cricket, what name is given to a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play, to maintain most of the strike until the close of play and so protect other, more capable batsmen from being out cheaply in what may be a period of tiredness or in poor light?
Answer: nightwatchman
Question: In Greek mythology, Zeus disguised himself as a swan to seduce whom?
Answer: leda
Question: Which band played a free concert with a claimed 1.5 million attendance at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on 18 February 2006?
Answer: rolling stones
Question: Where is it that Roman Catholics believe souls are held after death for purification to be made fit for heaven?
Answer: purgatory
Question: French actress Catherine Deneuve has been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to whom?
Answer: photographer david bailey
Question: In Greek mythology, who thought up the idea of the Trojan Horse?
Answer: odysseus
Question: Balsam and cottonwoods are species of what?
Answer: poplar
Question: What was name of the last English monarch from the House of Hanover?
Answer: victoria
Question: Who was Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government and Prime Minister of Russia from 21 July 1917 (following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II) to 8 November 1917 (the Bolshevik revolution), who is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery, London?
Answer: alexander kerensky
Question: Marti Pellow was the lead vocalist of what group?
Answer: wet wet wet
Question: The USA won the most medals at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Out of these countries, which one won the most?
Answer: australia
Question: What is the title of a detective crime novel by Robert B. Parker, written as an authorised sequel to "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler?
Answer: perchance to dream
Question: Which suit is the most powerful, i.e. apart from no trumps, in Contract Bridge?
Answer: spades
Question: What is the name of the supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, China, one of the few petaFLOP-level supercomputers in the world, that in October 2010 became the world's fastest supercomputer, performing at peak computing rate of 2.507 petaflops?
Answer: tianhe 1a
Question: In 1965, who became the first person to summit Mount Kennedy, at the time the highest mountain in Canada that had not yet been climbed, that had been named in honour of John F Kennedy after his assassination?
Answer: robert kennedy
Question: Who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont, which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC?
Answer: lysander
Question: What device, invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt in 1902 and obsolete by 1975 with the introduction of devices such as the silicon diode and thyristor, converts alternating current to direct current by means of putting electricity through vapor?
Answer: mercury arc rectifier
Question: La Plata is the capital city of which province of Argentina?
Answer: buenos aires
Question: Where is the Palazzo Farnese (the Farnese Palace), in which, in Puccini's opera "Tosca", the heroine confronts Scarpia, the malevolent Chief of Police?
Answer: rome
Question: The Bombay duck or bummalo is what type of creature?
Answer: lizardfish
Question: Which cocktail has scotch whisky and vermouth as a base?
Answer: rob roy
Question: In 300 BC, the country now known as Spain was part of which empire?
Answer: roman
Question: Bear Grylls is the only person to appear in what TV series?
Answer: man v wild
Question: Where was the capital of the Roman Empire in 400 AD?
Answer: ravenna
Question: What country was divided at the 38th parallel in 1945?
Answer: korea
Question: What was the name of the character played by George Clooney in the "Oceans" film series released from 19 to 19?
Answer: danny
Question: """Die Fledermaus"" is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II. What is a ""fledermaus""?"
Answer: bat
Question: What actress, born in Muscat, Oman, began acting on Australian television on "Paradise Beach" and "Home and Away" and is known for her roles in "Wedding Crashers" (2005), "Hot Rod" (2007), "Definitely, Maybe" (2008) and "Confessions of a Shopaholic" (2009)?
Answer: isla fisher
Question: The Romanov Dynasty (Peter I, Catherine I, Peter II, Anna, Ivan VI, Elizabeth, Peter III, Catherine II the Great, Paul I, Alexander I, Constantine I, Nicholas I, Alexander II , Alexander III and Nicholas II) ruled which country?
Answer: russia
Question: The parliament of which country has met at the Binnenhof since 1446?
Answer: netherlands
Question: Where was the Battle of Hastings, which took place on 14 October 1066 between the Norman army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army of King Harold II?
Answer: senlac hill
Question: Who produced the film "12 Angry Men", which was scripted by Reginald Rose, starred Henry Fonda and was directed by Sidney Lumet?
Answer: henry fonda
Question: What murderer lived at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London?
Answer: john christie
Question: What was the code name for the German invasion of Russia in World War II?
Answer: operation barbarossa
Question: What type of story begins "once upon a time" and ends "they lived happily ever after"?
Answer: fairy tale
Question: What was the first land passage between Manhattan Island and Brooklyn that, on its opening in 1883, became the longest suspension bridge in the world and its towers the tallest structures in the Western Hemisphere?
Answer: brooklyn bridge
Question: Which medieval work of literature, sometimes called the world's first novel, is still available today?
Answer: tale of genji
Question: What is the name of Janet Jackson's (deceased) superstar brother?
Answer: michael
Question: What multi-user adventure game was developed from 1978 by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle from 1980, students at Essex University in the UK, that revolved around gaining points till one achieved the wizard rank, giving the player immortality and certain powers over mortals?
Answer: mud multi user dungeon
Question: """The Gorbals"" is an area in which city?"
Answer: glasgow
Question: At the start of a game of chess, there are 16 of which pieces on the board?
Answer: pawns
Question: In which state of Australia would you find the area known as the Barkly Tableland?
Answer: northern territory
Question: What spoken word competition, which has been organised for many years by Gary Hallock, has been held every May since 1978 in Austin, Texas?
Answer: o henry pun off
Question: What is the generic title of a series of French comic strips that follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation by means of a magic potion brewed by their druid, which gives them superhuman strength?
Answer: adventures of asterix
Question: Clive Owen played "Dwight" in which 2005 film?
Answer: sin city
Question: The team from which country won the tennis tournament for the Davis Cup in 2010?
Answer: serbia
Question: Who wrote the stage play "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice"?
Answer: jim cartwright
Question: In biology, what word is given to the change in the genetic material of a population of organisms from one generation to the next?
Answer: evolution
Question: World War I took place mostly on what continent between 1914 and 1918?
Answer: europe
Question: Who wrote the books "Fourplay" (published in 2001), "The Ex Files" (2003), "dot.homme" (2004), "Second Wives Club" (2005) and "Love @ First Site" (2005)?
Answer: jane moore
Question: What was the occupation of the character called Ross Geller in the TV series "Friends"?
Answer: palaeontologist
Question: The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for King Khufu as a what?
Answer: tomb
Question: What bird is nicknamed "man of war" because it steals food from other birds in the air?
Answer: frigate bird
Question: Who created the work "A Thousand Years", consisting of a cow's head, maggots and an insect electrocutor?
Answer: damien hirst
Question: The "Byzantine Empire" is the term used since the 19th century to describe the Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centred on its capital, where?
Answer: constantinople
Question: """Well you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk"" are lyrics from which song by the Bee Gees?"
Answer: stayin alive
Question: Appenzeller, Bndner Bergkse. Casalina, Crava, Dorset Blue Vinney, Giglio Sardo, Labneh. Piave, Sage Derby and Strica are all types of what?
Answer: cheese
Question: Anthony Wilding is the only New Zealander in what sport's Hall of Fame?
Answer: tennis
Question: Where did the Phnom Penh stampede occur, on 22 November 2010 when 378 people died and upwards of 755 more were injured?
Answer: on bridge
Question: Which professional surfer who died on 2 November 2010, the only surfer to have won a title at every venue on the ASP calendar, had won 3 world titles (2002, 2003, 2004) and as recently as 3 September 2010 had won the Billabong Pro in Tahiti?
Answer: andy irons
Question: In the English legal system, what does a lawyer become when he "takes silk"?
Answer: qc
Question: The Bretton Woods Agreements, signed by 44 nations in 1944, were about what?
Answer: international finance
Question: What is the British Engineerium, in Hove?
Answer: engineering and steam power museum
Question: The first Transit of Venus in the 21st century took place on 8 June 2004. What is the date of the next one?
Answer: june 2012
Question: What did the band S Club 7 change their name to when Paul Cattermole left in June 2002?
Answer: s club
Question: What fictional ship, with black hull and sails, was originally named "Wicked Wench"?
Answer: black pearl
Question: Jean Todt, Morrie Chandler,Graham Stoker and Brian Gibbons have been recently involved in the adminstration of which sport at an international level?
Answer: motorsport
Question: Who discovered and named the element francium in 1939?
Answer: marguerite perey
Question: The name of which board game means "I play" in Latin?
Answer: ludo
Question: What name is given to the murder of 7 people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929?
Answer: saint valentine s day massacre
Question: Project Habakkuk was a plan by the British in World War II to construct what from ice?
Answer: aircraft carriers
Question: In 2009, what name was proposed for the bridge connecting roads for a new route across the Colorado River for U.S. Route 93, known as the Hoover Dam Bypass?
Answer: mike o callaghan pat tillman memorial bridge
Question: What land was recorded by the American captain Benjamin Morrell of the schooner Wasp in March 1823, in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica, the existence of which was not disproved until during Antarctic expeditions in the early 20th century?
Answer: new south greenland
Question: Where is the opera house "La Fenice" that reopened in 2003 after its second fire in just under 200 years?
Answer: venice
Question: What generic term describes food traditionally favoured by southern black Americans such as country fried chicken, chitterlings and black-eyed peas?
Answer: soul food
Question: In 1961 in Paris, the French police attacked a peaceful but illegal demonstration of around 30,000 people, killing between 40 and 200, who were protesting about what?
Answer: algerian war
Question: According to Greek mythology, who spent eternity in the underworld with food and drink just out of reach?
Answer: tantalus
Question: What is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level, on a ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru?
Answer: machu picchu
Question: Until Tony Blair, which of Britain's Labour Prime Ministers was in office for the longest overall time?
Answer: harold wilson
Question: Which English King died of dysentery while campaigning in France?
Answer: henry v
Question: LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade play what sport professionally for the Miami Heat?
Answer: basketball
Question: The first vice-president of the USA to be elected President, the father of a future President, assistant in drafting the Declaration of Independence and negotiating peace with Great Britain, and architect of vital government loans from the Netherlands, was who?
Answer: john adams
Question: What is a common nickname for the English city of Oxford?
Answer: city of dreaming spires
Question: Which 2003 drama film, named after a painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and directed by Peter Webber, stars Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson & Cillian Murphy?
Answer: girl with pearl earring
Question: Who is the only president of the USA to serve non-consecutive terms?
Answer: grover cleveland
Question: In 1961 US President John F Kennedy negotiated for the release of the 1,189 survivors out of 1,500 men directed and trained by the USA who had tried to invade which country?
Answer: cuba
Question: What is the name for an angle greater than 180 degrees and less than 360 degrees?
Answer: reflex
Question: Since its debut in the UK in 1998, international versions of which TV programme have spawned in over a hundred countries, more than any other game show?
Answer: who wants to be millionaire
Question: Since 14 November 2007, from where do "Eurostar" trains leave London for Paris? on Eurostar services in London transferred from Waterloo to the brand new St Pancras International
Answer: st pancras
Question: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declared himself King and was crowned in Chard and in Taunton in 1685 in an attempt to overthrow whom?
Answer: james ii
Question: What is the word for a document issued by a political party before an election that sets out party policies?
Answer: manifesto
Question: Michael Jordan was with which team when they won 6 National Basketball Association titles?
Answer: chicago bulls
Question: """Massacre in Korea"", a 1951 expressionistic painting by Pablo Picasso which is seen as a criticism of American intervention in the Korean war is drawn from the painting ""The Third of May 1808"", which shows Napoleon's soldiers executing Spanish civilians, by whom?"
Answer: francisco goya
Question: What was invented by Rene Laennec in the early 19th century?
Answer: stethoscope
Question: London Bridge, bought for US$2.5 million from the City of London when the bridge was replaced in 1968, crosses a 930ft (280m) long man-made canal in Lake Havasu City in which US state?
Answer: arizona
Question: What is the early morning or night prayer service in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox churches, used in some Protestant denominations to describe morning services?
Answer: matins
Question: The head of state of Jersey and Guernsey, which are both Crown dependencies and not part of the United Kingdom, is Queen Elizabeth II. She rules there because she holds what title?
Answer: duke of normandy
Question: Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of World War II?
Answer: franklin d roosevelt
Question: What is the name of the surface used to play a game of curling?
Answer: sheet
Question: Who painted "Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer", which sold at auction for $US135 million in 2006?
Answer: gustav klimt
Question: What role is played by Elizabeth Hurley in the 2000 film "Bedazzled"?
Answer: devil
Question: What was the capital of West Germany from 1945 to 1999?
Answer: bonn