CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which cricketer has scored the most first class centuries in history?
Answer: jack hobbs
Question: What tax was current in ancient Athens, in Jerusalem more than 2,000 years ago, in Egypt, in Europe and England from time to time (leading in 1381 to Wat Tyler's rebellion), including Charles I's, Charles II's, and Margaret Thatcher's governments, in Canada and the USA, and in NZ among others?
Answer: poll tax
Question: What word is applied to a Muslim devotee, usually a monk or wandering mendicant?
Answer: dervish
Question: Which Roman goddess is the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite?
Answer: venus
Question: The now-extinct Elephant Bird, believed to have been 3 metres tall and weigh 500 kg, was believed to have inhabited what area?
Answer: madagascar
Question: Who wrote the play "Still Life", on which the 1945 film "Brief Encounter" was based?
Answer: noel coward
Question: In September 2010, The Beach Boys allegedly threatened a lawsuit due to a line in which song by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg?
Answer: california gurls
Question: In jazz, what kind of singing is vocal improvisation with nonsense syllables or without words at all, whereby singers have the ability to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice?
Answer: scat
Question: Which musical by Elton John and Lee Hall, which revolves around a motherless boy who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes and is based on a 2000 film, opened in London's West End in 2005?
Answer: billy elliot musical
Question: Who was the first to be quoted as saying "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics"?
Answer: benjamin disraeli
Question: What is the fluid in which the human foetus grows?
Answer: amniotic fluid
Question: The Tuareg and the Berber inhabit which desert?
Answer: sahara
Question: Gregory Peck played attorney Sam Bowden in what 1962 film?
Answer: cape fear
Question: Which country, between 1964 and 1973, became the most bombed country in the world?
Answer: laos
Question: The Australian species of what bird has the longest beak in the world?
Answer: pelican
Question: On a roulette wheel, what colour is the number 5?
Answer: red
Question: The Pilton Festival that started in 1970 and is held annually is now called what?
Answer: glastonbury festival
Question: What was the alliance of Eastern European nations, the counterpart of NATO, during the Cold War?
Answer: warsaw pact
Question: On 3 July 1844, which bird became extinct when the last two were killed by hunters?
Answer: great auk
Question: In the 1989 film "Batman", the Joker revealed his real name, which was ?
Answer: jack napier
Question: """Wild geese"" was the name given to soldiers who fought as mercenaries in continental armies in the 16th to 18th centuries who were from which country?"
Answer: ireland
Question: What rock band played together for the first time in over 20 years at the London Live Eight Concert in 2005?
Answer: pink floyd
Question: The Summer Olympic Games 2016 will be held where?
Answer: rio de janeiro brazil
Question: Where was "the Bhopal disaster" that took place at a pesticide plant owned and operated by Union Carbide (UCIL), when the plant released methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins in December 1984, exposing over 500,000 people?
Answer: madhya pradesh india
Question: In 1954, in a television adaptation of a book by Ian Fleming, Barry Nelson was the first person to appear on a screen as which fictional character?
Answer: james bond
Question: In 1469, the crowns of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were united by the marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand. This was an important event in the history of which country?
Answer: spain
Question: The asteroid belt is a series of rocks that orbit the sun between Mars and which other planet?
Answer: jupiter
Question: The lead character in the TV series "Lovejoy", which was based on stories by John Grant (under the pen name Jonathan Gash), was an expert in what?
Answer: antiques
Question: In 1978 George Moscone, the mayor of which city, and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by ex-supervisor Dan White?
Answer: san francisco
Question: The painting that has the words "ceci n'est pas une pipe" written on it, is by which artist?
Answer: magritte
Question: What world leader surprisingly announced his resignation on 31 December 1999?
Answer: boris yeltsin
Question: What was Victoria Beckham's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: posh
Question: Which term was coined by the US computer scientist Grace Hopper in 1945?
Answer: bug
Question: Kanukai Jackson represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games at what sport?
Answer: gymnastics
Question: In November 1963, a place called Dealey Plaza become famous for what event?
Answer: assassination of john f kennedy
Question: Artists Chuck Close, Henri-Edmond Cross, John Roy, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce and Vincent van Gogh painted in what style?
Answer: pointillism
Question: What was the setting for the 1960s children's TV adventure series "Daktari"?
Answer: east africa
Question: Which country occupies the islands called Euboea, Kefalonia, Khos, Zakynthos, Thassos, Lefkada, Karpathos and Kythira?
Answer: greece
Question: The satellite "Aryabhata", launched on 19 April 1975, to conduct experiments in X-ray astronomy, aeronomics, and solar physics, was built by which country?
Answer: india
Question: Which inn that stood on the east side of Borough High Street in Southwark accommodated pilgrims headed on annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral, and is mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"?
Answer: tabard
Question: In 1958, the Dodgers baseball team moved to Los Angeles from where?
Answer: brooklyn new york
Question: At which city was Kai Tak airport replaced by Chek Lap Kok in 1998?
Answer: hong kong
Question: On the buttons of a tape, VCR or DVD player, what does the sign in the shape of a single right pointing arrow mean?
Answer: play
Question: Edward Elgar's March no 1 in D contains the tune of what song?
Answer: land of hope and glory
Question: In the musical "West Side Story", where have about half of the characters (including "Maria" and her family) emigrated from?
Answer: puerto rico
Question: Who is the protagonist in the Tomb Raider series of computer games?
Answer: lara croft
Question: Who is the author of the fiction books "Lace" (published in 1982), "Lace 2" (1985), "Savages" (1987), "Crimson" (1992), "Tiger Eyes" (1994), "Revenge of Mimi Quinn" (1998) and "The Amazing Umbrella Shop" (1990)?
Answer: shirley conran
Question: What was the first name of the "Rambo" character created by Sylvester Stallone?
Answer: john
Question: What German engineer led the design teams for the V2 rocket that blitzed London and the Saturn V rocket for the US space programme?
Answer: werner von braun
Question: The first playoff tiebreaker in Major League Baseball history was held on 1 & 3 October 1946, a best-of-three playoff to decide the winner of the MLB National League (NL) conference, between which 2 teams?
Answer: st louis cardinals and brooklyn dodgers
Question: In the British TV series "Til Death Do Us Part", who played Alf Garnett's wife?
Answer: dandy nichols
Question: What are Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, The Inner Temple and The Middle Temple, all in London?
Answer: inns of court
Question: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are mentioned in what 1982 hit song?
Answer: key largo by bertie higgins
Question: Who plays Mark Sloan in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: patrick dempsey
Question: The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. in 1949 by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, UK, US, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Canada and which other country?
Answer: iceland
Question: Which artist was the architect for the dome of St Peter's Basilica, Rome?
Answer: michelangelo
Question: Marie Curie named which element in homage to her homeland?
Answer: polonium
Question: Which US president declared the first national Mother's Day in the USA?
Answer: woodrow wilson
Question: What device enables a player to use the same chord shapes on a guitar to be played a number of frets higher to raise the key uniformly?
Answer: capo
Question: The Abominable Snowman, a mythological ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet, is also known as what?
Answer: yeti
Question: Magnus Carlsen, at the age of 18, became the world's youngest what?
Answer: chess champion
Question: A song written by Chuck Berry is "Roll Over ... " who?
Answer: beethoven
Question: What district in the south of Rio de Janeiro has a beach 4km long?
Answer: copacabana
Question: Who worked on the film scripts for "Barbarella", "Dr Strangelove ", "Easy Rider", "Candy" and "The Magic Christian"?
Answer: terry southern
Question: Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the assassination of whom?
Answer: robert kennedy
Question: What is "mightier than the sword" in the old saying?
Answer: pen
Question: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) by Kurt Weill was based on which work?
Answer: beggars opera
Question: Which comic strip has the characters Violet Gray, Linus, Rerun and Lucy van Pelt, Schroeder, Marcie, Franklin and Frieda?
Answer: charlie brown
Question: On 24 July 2010 at least 19 people are killed and 100 others injured in a stampede at which music festival in Duisburg, Germany?
Answer: love parade
Question: Which constellation, that lies between Taurus to the west and the dim Cancer to the east, with Auriga and Lynx to the north and Monoceros and Canis Minor to the south, is associated with the myth of Castor and Pollux, collectively known as the Dioscuri?
Answer: gemini
Question: In the SI system, what is the basic unit for the measurement of electric current?
Answer: ampere
Question: The words of the national anthem for which country were written by Francis Scott Key?
Answer: usa
Question: In depictions of the Hindu God Rama, he is famously holding what in his right hand?
Answer: bow and arrow
Question: Christiaan Huygens has been credited with inventing what in the 1650s?
Answer: pendulum clock
Question: Who of these is supposedly buried in the town of Santiago de Compostela, in North Western Spain?
Answer: st james
Question: Spinoff TV series from "Beverly Hills, 90210" included "Melrose Place", "90210" and which other?
Answer: models inc
Question: Which organisation was involved in a scandal in the 1980s, concerning the 1982 $3.5 billion collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, has been the subject of a US government report which accused it of funding the Solidarity Polish trade-union and the Contras, and managing US covert funds, was reported in 2009 of being investigated for money laundering transactions worth 180 million (US$ 218 million) and in September 2010 came under investigation for other money laundering charges?
Answer: institute for works of religion
Question: Who won the Tour de France every year from 1991 to 1995?
Answer: miguel indurain
Question: Who, after a distinguished cricketing career, in his last ever test match innings was bowled out for a duck by Eric Hollies?
Answer: don bradman
Question: Who played the title role in the 1975 film "The Man Who Fell to Earth"?
Answer: david bowie
Question: In which famous piece of music by Tchaikovsky does the French national anthem appear?
Answer: 1812 overture
Question: What is a specific learning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics, similar to dyslexia?
Answer: dyscalculia
Question: What region lies mainly in the Dinaric Alps, ranging to the southern borders of the Pannonian plain, with the rivers Sava and Drina marking its northern and eastern borders?
Answer: bosnia
Question: What was the subtitle of the 1904 play "Peter Pan" by J M Barrie?
Answer: boy who wouldn t grow up
Question: Which playwright wrote the plays that won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 & 2002 and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, 1975 & 1994, and gained nominations for Tony Award for Best Play in 1964, 1965, 1967 & 1975, Tony Award for Best Author of a Play in 1965, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001 & 2003 and a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2005?
Answer: edward albee
Question: Who was sent by the African Association in 1795 to find the source of the River Niger?
Answer: mungo park
Question: The French and what other nation sent colonists to New Zealand in the 1830s?
Answer: great britain
Question: What TV series contained the frequent line "Let's be careful out there"?
Answer: hill street blues
Question: What is the name of the test cricket venue in Leeds, England?
Answer: headingley
Question: Francis Drake captained the ship "Revenge" during naval engagements concerning what?
Answer: spanish armada
Question: What caused Richard I of England to be out of the country between 1190 and 1194, when his younger brother John tried to take control?
Answer: third crusade
Question: Where was "the Maccabiah bridge collapse", the failure of a pedestrian bridge over the Yarkon River on 14 July 1997 which killed 4 and injured 60?
Answer: tel aviv israel
Question: What is the name of the lighthouse off the coast of Angus at the mouth of the Firth of Tay, which is also called Bell Rock?
Answer: inchcape
Question: What was the stage name of Brenda Mae Tarpley, an American singer of rockabilly, pop and country music who had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s (a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis) and was best known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry"?
Answer: brenda lee
Question: After 2007, which boat class was not run as a World Rowing Championship event?
Answer: coxed fours
Question: Stories about what fictional heroes were written under the pen name of Franklin W Dixon?
Answer: hardy boys
Question: During World War II, Operation Sealion was the codename for the invasion of which area?
Answer: britain
Question: What board game is played with 24 pieces on a board marked with 64 squares, where the object is to capture an enemy piece by passing over it to a vacant square behind it?
Answer: draughts
Question: The last element to be discovered in nature, rather than synthesized, was discovered In 1939. What was it?
Answer: francium
Question: """Nimrod"" is a piece of music written by Edward Elgar as part of what larger work?"
Answer: enigma variations
Question: In which country did a suicide bombing take place in Taksim Square on 31 October 2010, resulting in at least 32 injuries, 15 of whom were police officers?
Answer: istanbul
Question: According to Greek mythology, what was the deepest part of hell?
Answer: tartarus
Question: The word "Droogies" was coined in which novel, made into a film directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick in 1971?
Answer: clockwork orange
Question: """Whispering"" Ted Lowe was associated with which sport?"
Answer: snooker
Question: Who portrays the fictional character Captain Jack Sparrow on film?
Answer: johnny depp
Question: Who was Indiana Jones' 11 year old Chinese sidekick in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?
Answer: short round
Question: What is a word game where paragraphs are written in which a particular letter or group of letters is omitted?
Answer: lipogram
Question: The Ishtar Gate, constructed around 575BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II, was a gate to which city?
Answer: babylon
Question: Which famous English model of the 1960s was once romantically linked to '60s photographer David Bailey and actor Terence Stamp, but married photographer Michael Cox, with whom she runs a small hotel in Penzance, Cornwall?
Answer: jean shrimpton
Question: Ashkenazic and Sephardic are the two divisions of what cultire?
Answer: jewish
Question: Which member of the UK Parliament and member of the IRA died on hunger strike while in prison at The Maze near Belfast in 1981?
Answer: bobby sands
Question: Who released an album in 2005 called "Confessions on a Dance Floor"?
Answer: madonna
Question: Who painted "Red Car Crash" as a part of his 196263 "Death and Disaster" series?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: Which part of the cardamom plant is used as a spice?
Answer: seed
Question: Vemont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire & Maine are collectively known as what?
Answer: new england
Question: Compared to playing the string open, placing a finger behind the 12th fret on a guitar finger board raises the note by how much?
Answer: octave
Question: What is a voluntary association of mainly former British colonies that co-operate with common values and goals that include the promotion of democracy, human rights, good governance, the rule of law, individual liberty, egalitarianism, free trade, multilateralism and world peace?
Answer: commonwealth of nations
Question: Until 1997, the Group of Eight (G8), a forum for powerful governments, was the G7. Which country was the last to join, making it G8?
Answer: russia
Question: Who is the engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR and a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex?
Answer: ray dolby
Question: Which Indonesian volcano erupted in October / November 2010, forcing 70,000 people from their homes?
Answer: mount merapi
Question: What did British comedian Benny Hill use as his signature tune?
Answer: yakkety sax
Question: Ranidaphobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: frogs
Question: Which of king of England was overthrown in the "Glorious Revolution" that occurred in Britain in 1688?
Answer: james ii
Question: Who of these was a US senator for the state of New York from 2000 to 2008?
Answer: hilary clinton
Question: The Oregon Treaty of 1846, which divided "the Oregon Country" along the 49th parallel, gave the USA land which later became parts of Montana and Wyoming, and the states of Washington, Oregon and which other?
Answer: idaho
Question: Which singer had a "wardrobe malfunction" at the half time show at the 2004 Super Bowl?
Answer: janet jackson
Question: Tianhe-1A, the supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, China which in October 2010 became the world's fastest supercomputer, uses what operating system?
Answer: linux
Question: Early in 2010, Norway's Magnus Carlsen, at 19 years old, became the youngest person to top the world ranking in what?
Answer: chess
Question: Before it was changed to "Washington D.C." after his death, what had George Washington named Washington D.C.?
Answer: federal city
Question: What is the name of the fictional character in the land of Oz created by L. Frank Baum as "the Good Witch of the South" who, in the 1939 film version of "The Wizard of Oz" was called "the Good Witch of the North"?
Answer: glinda
Question: What is the name of the stretch of water between India and Sri Lanka?
Answer: palk strait
Question: Who did "True Blood" star Anna Paquin marry on 21 August 2010?
Answer: stephen moyer
Question: Which coach of the Notre Dame american football team was killed in a plane crash in 1931?
Answer: knute rockne
Question: During World War I, US president Woodrow Wilson raised an army through conscription and gave total command to whom?
Answer: general john j pershing
Question: What did Elvis Presley tell people not to step on in 1956?
Answer: blue suede shoes
Question: What type of speech includes the words "for", "and", "nor", "but", "or", "yet", and "so"?
Answer: conjunction
Question: The plot of the book and films entitled "The Day of the Jackal" concerns an attempt to kill the leader of which nation?
Answer: france
Question: Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins and Dolly Parton are associated with what style of music?
Answer: country
Question: What was the first name of Madame Tussaud, who founded a wax museum in London?
Answer: marie
Question: What was the name of the English law court, subsequently abolished in 1641, that had a mandate from Henry VII to deal with nobles who were too powerful to be punished by ordinary courts?
Answer: star chamber
Question: What former Grand Prix motorcycle racer from New Zealand published his autobiography in late 2010?
Answer: graeme crosby
Question: What Louisiana Creole dish is traditionally made with meats, vegetables, stock and rice?
Answer: jambalaya
Question: What is the name for the five long bones in the foot that are numbered from the big toe (the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth) and are analogous to the metacarpal bones of the hand?
Answer: metatarsals
Question: What was the name of the line of fortification that ran across Italy during World War II from just north of where the Garigliano River flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, through the Apennine Mountains to the mouth of the Sangro River on the Adriatic coast in the east via Monte Cassino and Monte Cairo?
Answer: gustav line
Question: Chester Gould created which comic character, which first appeared in 1931?
Answer: dick tracy
Question: What name is given to 7 mathematics problems stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000, for which a US$1,000,000 prize will be awarded for a correct solution to any of them?
Answer: millennium prize problems
Question: With what instrument are Charlie Christian, Les Paul, Tiny Grimes, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Jimmy Raney, Tal Farlow, Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, and Jim Hall associated?
Answer: guitar
Question: What land, a British colony for 155 years, and occupied by Japan briefly in WW II, was ceded to the People's Republic of China in 1997?
Answer: hong kong
Question: What was the Giotto spacecraft sent to investigate in 1985?
Answer: halley s comet
Question: What is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, Canada?
Answer: saint john
Question: What is the name of the Jewish New Year festival?
Answer: rosh hashanah
Question: Which 1959 film starring Charlton Heston won a record 11 Academy Awards?
Answer: ben hur
Question: Who played the role of Howard Hughes in the 2004 film "The Aviator"?
Answer: leonardo dicaprio
Question: Which cartoon series relies on the voices of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria & Harry Shearer?
Answer: simpsons
Question: What chemical element with atomic number 55 is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 C (83 F), and one of only five metals that are liquid at or near room temperature?
Answer: caesium
Question: What colour connects 29 October 1929, 19 October 1987 and 22 November 1963?
Answer: black
Question: At the start of "Scream 2", what was the name of the film that was shown about the "Woodsboro Murders"?
Answer: stab
Question: In the Bible's book of Genesis, which of Jacob's sons was sold into slavery by his brothers?
Answer: joseph
Question: The symptoms for which poisoning include seizures, a "sawhorse" stance, rigid extension of all four limbs and respiratory paralysis?
Answer: strychnine
Question: In the film "Batman Forever", released in 1995, who played the villain called "The Riddler"?
Answer: jim carrey
Question: Early raids by British Commando units between March 1941 and April 1943, Operations "Claymore", "Anklet", "Archery", "Musketoon" and "Checkmate", destroyed fish-oil factories, petrol dumps, sank ships, damaged factories and warehouses, resulted in permanent closure of a hydroelectric power plant and an aluminium plant, and captured German troops, encryption equipment and codebooks; where were they carried out?
Answer: norway
Question: Leaders in a cub scout pack are named after the characters in which book?
Answer: jungle book by rudyard kipling
Question: Whose famous painting, "The Potato Eaters", is of five peasants sitting down to dinner?
Answer: vincent van gogh
Question: What is the name of a family of satellites launched since 1995 and operated by Eutelsat, located at 13E over the Equator (orbital position) with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East?
Answer: hot bird
Question: The first band-specific game in the "Rock Band" series of music video games, where players simulate playing music using controllers shaped like musical instruments was "The Beatles: Rock Band". Who was the subject of the next one to be released?
Answer: green day
Question: The blend of tea known as Earl Grey was named after someone in what profession?
Answer: british prime minister