CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: A Black or White what? refers to a company mounting respectively a hostile or a helpful takeover bid?
Answer: knight
Question: What is the term for a virtual barrier between two corporate departments, which often for legal reasons, must not share information? - Spanish fence; Chinese wall; Boston Barricade; or Bouquet of barbed wire.
Answer: chinese wall
Question: What is the title of the film in which Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter play a childless couple who kidnap on of a set of quintuplets?
Answer: raising arizona
Question: Owain Gwynedd of Wales defeated which English King in battle?
Answer: henry second
Question: In Italian cooking what are small dumplings made from potato, semolina, or flour?
Answer: gnocchi
Question: What dairy term is used to describe turnover or loss of customers, usually expressed as an annual percentage? - butter; churn; cream; or cheese.
Answer: churn
Question: In Greek mythology what is the name of the youth loved and accidentally killed by Apollo, and from whose blood Apollo caused a flower to grow?
Answer: hyacinth
Question: What Greek word is commonly given to the public test launch of a software version or website?
Answer: beta
Question: What was Jodie Foster's character in the 1991 film Silence of the Lambs?
Answer: clarice starling
Question: A company or product which has high market share and continues to produce good returns requiring minimal investment is called a 'cash...' what? - well; cow; machine; or potato?
Answer: cow
Question: What is the name of the triangle which has two equal sides and two equal angles?
Answer: isosceles
Question: Tolo TV is which country's leading independent TV company (as at 2010)?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: """Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night,"" is a Bette Davis line from which film?"
Answer: all about eve
Question: In 1791 George Hammond was appointed the first British envoy to which country?
Answer: usa
Question: The UK's Inns of Court is made up of how many legal societies?
Answer: four
Question: Pianist and composer Frederic Chopin was born in which country?
Answer: poland
Question: Ophidiophobia is an abnormal fear of what creatures?
Answer: snakes
Question: Gingivitis is the inflammation of which part of the human body?
Answer: gums
Question: An isohyet or isohyetal line on a map connects two points having the same what?
Answer: rainfall
Question: Lollo Rosso is a variety of which vegetable?
Answer: lettuce
Question: In Greek mythology how many labours did Hercules have to perform?
Answer: twelve
Question: Born James Newell Osterberg, who performed Lust for Life, used notably in the Trainspotting soundtrack?
Answer: iggy pop
Question: Hyalite is a variety of which semi-precious gemstone?
Answer: opal
Question: Who won the 2009 German Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: mark webber
Question: Domenikos Theotokopoulos is the real name of which painter and sculptor?
Answer: el greco
Question: Peter de la Mare was first to hold what office in the House of Commons?
Answer: speaker
Question: """All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players,"" is from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: as you like it
Question: In squash or racquetball what is the shot played into a side or back wall before hitting the front wall?
Answer: boast
Question: What traditional term from the late 1800s refers to the difference between a price paid for a company or business, and the actual (lower) 'book value' of its assets?
Answer: goodwill
Question: In what part of the human body are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
Answer: ear
Question: The volcanic mountain Chimborazo is in which South American country?
Answer: ecuador
Question: What warlike term refers to a person or agency operating in the field of executive search?
Answer: headhunter
Question: Whose paintings included Woman with a Hat, The Open Window, and Bathers with a Turtle?
Answer: henri matisse
Question: What past US president's autobiography is called Where's the Rest of Me?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Who was the only female character to appear in every series of UK TV's 'Auf Wiedersehn, Pet'?
Answer: brenda
Question: The word logo is thought ultimately to derive from the Greek word lógos; what does lógos mean?
Answer: word
Question: The Curzon Line was the demarcation line between which two countries?
Answer: russia and poland
Question: What is the Urdu-based western name for the tobacco water-pipe known in Arabic as a shisha and in Turkish as a nargile?
Answer: hookah
Question: Who became Secretary General of the United Nations in 2007?
Answer: ban ki moon
Question: In the Roman Catholic church what name is given to the form of prayers said on nine consecutive days?
Answer: novena
Question: What crowd-pleasing song and album title did British folk act Show of Hands derive from a 'reverse acronym' of the collapsed bank AIG?
Answer: arrogance ignorance and greed
Question: In what ocean are the Pitcairn Islands, where the Bounty mutineers settled?
Answer: pacific
Question: The words 'domo arigato' mean 'thank you' in what language?
Answer: japanese
Question: What hit song by the Crash Test Dummies comprised four three-letter words all containing the same letter?
Answer: mmm mmm mmm mmm
Question: What stage character is based on a real life medieval merchant, politician and Mayor of London?
Answer: dick whittington
Question: The Evzones (meaning 'well-girded', a word apparently first recorded by Homer) are an elite ceremonial infantry unit in which European country?
Answer: greece
Question: The 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio was signed by Napoleon Bonaparte of France and Count Ludwig von Cobenzl of which country?
Answer: austria
Question: Lazar Ludwick Zamenhof invented which language?
Answer: esperanto
Question: What is the full name of the leading scientific and technological research university referred to as MIT?
Answer: massachusetts institute of technology
Question: On a chess board at the start of play what piece is between the queen and its closest knight?
Answer: bishop
Question: What term describes computer software or its code which is free to use and adapt, based on a philosophy of improvement through sharing and collaboration?
Answer: open source
Question: What is the seven or nine branch candelabrum, of which the Jewish hanukiah (or chanukkiyah) is a type?
Answer: menorah
Question: In golf what slang refers to a free extra stroke sometimes allowed informally after a poor shot, typically off the first tee?
Answer: mulligan
Question: Blenny, damsel, hamlet, goby and grunt are varieties of what living things?
Answer: fish
Question: What is the Hindi greeting and salutation also used by many Westerners engaging in Indian cultural activities and philosophies?
Answer: namaste
Question: What one of these is a metallic chemical element? Brass, Barium, Steel, Sterling Silver, Pewter?
Answer: barium
Question: The energy of what is measured by the Richter magnitude scale?
Answer: earthquakes
Question: What is the German equivalent of the British 'Ltd' and the American 'LLC' company designations (meaning Limited Company)?
Answer: gmbh
Question: What trade union was deplored by Gordon Brown for its actions in the 2010 British Airways cabin staff dispute?
Answer: unite
Question: The 6th century book attributed to Sun Tzu often appied to leadership is called The Art of... what?
Answer: war
Question: Valentine and Proteus are the central characters in what Shakespeare play?
Answer: two gentlemen of verona
Question: Often called 'The Lost City of the Incas', the 15th century ruins of Machu Picchu are in which country?
Answer: peru
Question: ISO 9000 and its series of international quality management system standards used in industry and commerce, effectively superseded what British Standard number?
Answer: bs5750
Question: What country comprises the peninsula of Jutland and over 400 islands including Zealand and Funen?
Answer: denmark
Question: Sunningdale golf club is in which county of the UK?
Answer: berkshire
Question: What is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, and also a terrorist organization?
Answer: eta
Question: What health-related metaphor refers to a form of internet marketing which spreads from user to user on a wide scale?
Answer: viral
Question: What unusual and distinctive item of apparel does the Bazooka Joe bubblegum character wear?
Answer: eye patch
Question: Which artist is famous for painting at the Moulin Rouge?
Answer: toulouse lautrec
Question: What long-necked instrument, now usually with four pairs of strings, originated in Greece and is still popularly associated with Greek music?
Answer: bouzouki
Question: The Davis Strait lies between Baffin Island and which country (also considered a dependency)?
Answer: greenland
Question: Mount Elbrus (5,642 metres) is the highest mountain in which continent?
Answer: europe
Question: Nicholas Rowe's 1703 play The Fair Penitent originated what character, whose name has since referred to a seducer of women?
Answer: lothario
Question: Brothers Harry, Samuel, Albert and Jack established which film company in 1923?
Answer: warner brothers
Question: In Greek mythology what are the goddesses or spirits which inspire the creation of literature and the arts?
Answer: muses
Question: Coober Pedy, the largest opal mine in the world, is in which country?
Answer: australia
Question: The suffix 'stan' in a country's name such as Afghanistan derives from what early Indo-European meaning?
Answer: stand
Question: Selhurst Park is the home ground of which English football club?
Answer: crystal palace
Question: What is the name of the substance obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish, used in brewing and winemaking?
Answer: isinglass
Question: What memorable song line from American Pie by Don McLean refers to the day a plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper?
Answer: day music died
Question: Offaly, Westmeath, Carlow and Cavan are counties of which country?
Answer: ireland
Question: The Shore Durometer devised by Albert Shore in the 1920s measures what quality of materials such as rubber and plastics?
Answer: hardness
Question: A heptahedron is a solid figure with how many plane sides?
Answer: seven
Question: A cope is a long ceremonial cloak worn by a member of what profession?
Answer: clergy
Question: What element has the highest melting point of any metal - symbol W, otherwise known as wolfram?
Answer: tungsten
Question: Arthur Wellesley (1769-1845) is better known by what title?
Answer: duke of wellington
Question: Credited with popularising the girl's name Wendy in a famous children's book, who also wrote the stage play The Admirable Crichton?
Answer: j m barrie
Question: Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas are traditional English (and Welsh) seasonal names in what?
Answer: law courts
Question: Which painting was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911 and kept for two years by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia?
Answer: mona lisa
Question: Loperamide is used to treat what medical condition?
Answer: diarrhoea
Question: Technically a berry or fruit, brinjal is the Indian name for which 'vegetable'?
Answer: aubergine
Question: The cephalothorax and the opisthosoma are body sections of what?
Answer: arachnids
Question: Born Betty Joan Perske, which actress starred in The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not?
Answer: lauren bacall
Question: What nation won the European Football Championship after first failing to qualify for the finals tournament?
Answer: denmark
Question: US Aviator Lawrence Burst Sperry (1892-1923) has attracted suggestions of being the founder of the 'Mile High Club' due to his invention of which flight aid?
Answer: autopilot
Question: Which is the only Charles Dickens novel with a female narrator?
Answer: bleak house
Question: Who was the 20th US president, the second to be assassinated, and the second shortest serving?
Answer: james garfield
Question: Otoplasty is the surgical alteration of what external body parts?
Answer: ears
Question: What same three words are in the titles of biographical books about Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Ben Hogan, Benjamin Franklin, Condoleeza Rice and Dr Spock?
Answer: american life
Question: A Gibus or Chapeau Claque is what sort of top hat, originally popular at the opera?
Answer: collapsible
Question: In astrology the constellation Leo represents the Lion slain by whom?
Answer: hercules
Question: Whom did Pat Cash defeat in the 1987 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?
Answer: ivan lendl
Question: The Great Train Robbery of 1963 was close to what Buckinghamshire county town, which later hosted its criminal trial?
Answer: aylesbury
Question: The cauliflower was first cultivated on or in the region of what island?
Answer: cyprus
Question: What Munich festival, claimed to be world's largest Volksfest (People's Fair), attracts over six million visitors each year?
Answer: oktoberfest
Question: Which musician called his children Moon Unit and Dweezil?
Answer: frank zappa
Question: The 'Reign of Terror', 1793-94, was a particularly violent political period in which country?
Answer: france
Question: What York-based Quaker family created several substantial social reform trusts as a legacy of its chocolate business?
Answer: rowntree
Question: An expanded and renamed Schonefeld airport is a replacement for Tegel airport in which European city?
Answer: berlin
Question: In which large gland of the human body where are the Islets of Langerhans?
Answer: pancreas
Question: Au Poivre describes a dish involving what spice in its cooking or sauce?
Answer: pepper
Question: The Gaudi designed Sagrada Familia church, whose construction began in 1882 and is unlikely to finish before 2026, is in which European city?
Answer: barcelona
Question: Giles Andreae created which popular greeting card character, also used in a Vimto advertising campaign?
Answer: purple ronnie
Question: A mohel is a Jewish man trained in the practice of what?
Answer: circumcision
Question: Who carried the British flag at the closing ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: kelly holmes
Question: Which politician, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1833, campaigned for more than 50 years against British slavery?
Answer: william wilberforce
Question: Who wrote the lines, "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night..." ?
Answer: william blake
Question: Before 'Poppy Appeal' what words appeared on the central black buttons of poppies sold in Poppy Appeal in the UK every year?
Answer: haig fund
Question: Who first published and popularised the stories Snow White, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood?
Answer: brothers grimm
Question: Yukon and Nunavut are Federal Territories of which country?
Answer: canada
Question: Who against huge odds knocked defending champion John Higgins out of the 2010 World Snooker Championship?
Answer: steve davis
Question: Nicholas Briggs is the long-time voice of which TV evil force?
Answer: daleks
Question: The Chapman Root Glass Company was responsible for what 1915 iconic design nicknamed the 'hobble skirt' and 'Mae West'?
Answer: coca cola bottle
Question: Which of the Brontë sisters wrote the novel 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'?
Answer: anne brontë
Question: Which early British rock'n'roll star was Og the leprechaun in the 1968 film Finian's Rainbow?
Answer: tommy steele
Question: What is the name of the gland in the human body attached to the base of the brain important in controlling growth?
Answer: pituitary gland
Question: Chladni patterns are formed when a surface covered in what is made to vibrate?
Answer: sand
Question: Name the Rochdale pensioner whom Gordon Brown was heard to call 'a sort of bigoted woman' after meeting her on a pre-election walkabout?
Answer: gillian duffy
Question: USA athletes refused their silver medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in which men's sport?
Answer: basketball
Question: A diptych is a painting or altarpiece of how many panels, commonly hinged together?
Answer: two
Question: What Maryland presidential retreat, previously called Shangri-la, was renamed by Dwight D Eisenhower after his grandson?
Answer: camp david
Question: In the 1983 horror film 'Christine', what was Christine?
Answer: car
Question: Which part of a woman's body is named after German physician Ernst Grafenberg?
Answer: g spot
Question: In 1997 the Royal Academy of Art controversially exhibited a 1995 portrait of which convicted murderer, made from children's handprints, by Marcus Harvey?
Answer: myra hindley
Question: What is the most common natural pollinator of the pineapple?
Answer: hummingbirds
Question: A symbol comprising three dots, which if joined form an upright equilateral triangle, represents what word?
Answer: therefore
Question: What is the main element of pewter, used for tableware and vases, etc?
Answer: tin
Question: The tennis club which hosts the Wimbledon Championships was founded originally in 1868 for playing which sport?
Answer: croquet
Question: Who is the only woman, up until 2010, ever to have run for leadership of the British Labour Party?
Answer: margaret beckett
Question: Richard Beckinsale's character Alan Moore featured in which in UK TV series?
Answer: rising damp
Question: Which Caribbean island, especially capital city Plymouth, suffered long term devastation after the previously dormant Soufriere Hills Volcano began erupting in 1995?
Answer: montserrat
Question: Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what?
Answer: books
Question: Name the Green Party leader and its first parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in the UK May 2010 general election?
Answer: caroline lucas
Question: In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read?
Answer: louis braille
Question: What word, orginally meaning female slave in Greek, refers to a woman who gives support and help to a pregnant woman before, during and after childbirth?
Answer: doula
Question: What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village?
Answer: canada
Question: What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai?
Answer: bombay
Question: Which city, home to Coca-Cola HQ, hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games?
Answer: atlanta
Question: Name Francis Drake's ship, in which he circumnavigated the globe, 1577-80?
Answer: golden hind
Question: Hyacinthoides is the scientific name for what protected (in the UK) spring flowering plant?
Answer: bluebell
Question: The equal combination of green and blue light, and the C in CMYK color printing, are what?
Answer: cyan
Question: If this were a cryptic crossword clue it could be 'Poetic Irish county'?
Answer: limerick
Question: What sea has the port city Arkhangelsk (Archangel in English) and Onega Bay?
Answer: white sea
Question: What comes from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree?
Answer: chocolate
Question: What semi-precious stone decorated Tutankhamun's burial mask, and is the colour of the American Robin's eggs?
Answer: turquoise
Question: What is normally green, but can be yellow too, after a French herbal liqueur, introduced by Carthusian Monks in the 1700s?
Answer: chartreuse
Question: What colour is Tyrian, a dye highly prized by the Romans?
Answer: purple
Question: What pigment especially associated with oil painting, derives its name from heat treatment and a Tuscany city?
Answer: burnt sienna
Question: What college in New Cross is part of the University of London?
Answer: goldsmiths
Question: The Whirlwind is which snooker player's nickname?
Answer: jimmy white
Question: Which Formula One Grand Prix Circuit includes Maggotts Corner, Wellington Straight, and Farm Curve?
Answer: silverstone
Question: What is shade of brown derives from the Latin name for the European Mole, and is (according to Wikipedia) the most popular colour of leather sofas?
Answer: taupe
Question: What colour is a 'double-word' square on a Scrabble board?
Answer: pink
Question: What is prestigious and precious and has the ISO currency code of XPT?
Answer: platinum
Question: What is the dabbling duck whose Common 'eye-patched' variety is the smallest of all dabblers?
Answer: teal
Question: What instrument, named from the Italian word for small, is traditionally considered to be the highest-pitched in an orchestra?
Answer: piccolo
Question: What controversial artist designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo?
Answer: salvador dali
Question: What is the famous eastern seaboard of Nicaragua and south Honduras, named after its Native American Indian people, and more commonly known in its westernized misunderstood form?
Answer: miskito coast
Question: David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Ludovic Kennedy and David Dimbleby are among the past members of which exclusive and hedonistic Oxford club?
Answer: bullingdon club
Question: What nickname was given to the artificial life form created in 2010 by US biologist Craig Venter?
Answer: synthia
Question: Spencer Perceval (1762-1812) is the only British Prime Minister to have been what?
Answer: assassinated
Question: Which singer and actor's epitaph is 'The Best is Yet to Come'?
Answer: frank sinatra
Question: Name the exotic dancer who performed with the band Hawkwind in the 1970s?
Answer: stacia
Question: The Gaillard Cut is part of which canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
Answer: panama canal
Question: With varieties including Gutedel in Germany, and Pierre Galet in Switzerland, Chasselas is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: grape
Question: Native to Australia, what creature is a pardalote (which in Greek means 'spotted')?
Answer: bird
Question: The world's largest electricity generating plant (as at 2010), the Three Gorges Dam, is in which country?
Answer: china
Question: In the 1991 film Reservoir Dogs, Michael Madson played which character? Mr Blonde; Mr Orange; or Mr Brown?
Answer: mr blonde
Question: Russian musician Maxim Vengerov is famous for playing which instrument?
Answer: violin
Question: Which chemical element was once used (with hindsight, irresponsibly and dangerously) in luminous markings on watches, clocks and instrument dials?
Answer: radium
Question: English novelist William Godwin fathered which novelist daughter?
Answer: mary shelley
Question: Hangi is a traditional New Zealand Maori method of cooking using a?
Answer: pit
Question: Which famous 18th century English theologian and chemist pioneered the discovery of oxygen?
Answer: joseph priestley
Question: What colour is the No 5 engine James, featured in the Thomas the Tank Engine stories?
Answer: red
Question: Which Cornish castle is said to be the birth place of King Arthur?
Answer: tintagel
Question: Translating as 'place of the way' what Japanese word describes a facility for teaching physical skills such as martial arts?
Answer: dojo
Question: Kenneth Moore portrayed which famous 2nd World War fighter pilot in the 1956 film Reach for the Sky?
Answer: douglas bader
Question: Which English county is the setting for most of painter John Constable's works?
Answer: suffolk
Question: What is the name of Long John Silver's parrot in the novel Treasure Island?
Answer: captain flint
Question: Used in riot control, what is a lachrymator commonly known as?
Answer: tear gas
Question: The Blarney Stone is in which county of the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: cork
Question: """A floating object displaces its own weight in fluid"" is essentially what principle?"
Answer: archimedes principle
Question: Shah Jahan of India had what built as his wife's tomb?
Answer: taj mahal
Question: What did Irish Colonel Thomas Blood attempt to steal in May 1671?
Answer: crown jewels
Question: Which TV character worked for Gateman, Goodbury and Graves funeral parlour?
Answer: herman munster
Question: A flittermouse is an old term for which type of creature?
Answer: bat
Question: What modern technology term derives from the Czechoslovakian word for 'forced labour'?
Answer: robot
Question: The term perciforme, representing the largest order of vertebrates, refers to which backboned creatures?
Answer: fish
Question: In bullfighting, what is the specific name of the horseman who jabs the bull with a lance, mainly to weaken it?
Answer: picador
Question: In which James Bond film did the character Francisco Scaramanga appear?
Answer: man with golden gun
Question: Exophthalmic Goitre is the medical term for which disease?
Answer: graves disease