CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The French commune town Laguiole in south-central Midi-Pyrénées region of France is known for what eponymously named tool?
Answer: knife
Question: What, related etymologically to the Chinese Yuan and the Japanese Yen, is the currency of North and South Korea?
Answer: won
Question: Former butler Paolo Gabriele was convicted in 2012 of stealing documents, and subsequently leaking secrets, of what major international leadership headquarters?
Answer: vatican
Question: A costermonger was/is a traditional street-seller of?
Answer: fruit and vegetables
Question: The traditional 'proof' measure of beverage alcoholic strength derives from the maritime method of 'proving' that rum was not waterered down, by dousing what with the rum and igniting it?
Answer: gunpowder
Question: Who is (at 2012) the only person to have won a Nobel Prize for physics and chemistry?
Answer: marie curie
Question: Chinese corporation Huawei, controversially blacklisted in 2012 by the US Government Intelligence Committee, is (at 2012) the world's largest equipment manufacturer in which sector?
Answer: telecoms
Question: In what US state was 'Custer's Last Stand'?
Answer: montana
Question: The Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) pioneered and made his vast fortune in which industry in late 1800s USA?
Answer: steel
Question: What is the English translation of the German news magazine title Der Spiegel?
Answer: mirror
Question: What is Africa's 2nd-largest country, abbreviated to DRC?
Answer: democratic republic of congo
Question: Likud, meaning 'the consolidation', is the leading conservative political party (at 2012) of which country?
Answer: israel
Question: In what sport do Indian states and city teams compete for the Ranji Trophy?
Answer: cricket
Question: The human brain represents roughly what percentage of the body's resting metabolic rate (energy expended)?
Answer: 20
Question: Lebanese-American professor/author Nassim Taleb coined the term '(What colour/color What creature?)' referring to an unpredictable random event that has a vast societal/political/economic impact?
Answer: black swan
Question: What was ex-Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi's first criminal conviction (Oct 2012)?
Answer: tax evasion
Question: Who created the controversial 66ft statue Verity, loaned to UK seaside town Ilfracombe in 2012?
Answer: damien hirst
Question: Research published in 2012 by the University of Rio de Janeiro identified what capability as the fundamental enabler of increased brain size in human evolution?
Answer: cooking
Question: The attempted assassination of 15 year old Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban, in response to her championing the right of girls to education, took place in what (her home) country?
Answer: pakistan
Question: The astronomical term 'quasi-stellar radio source' is more commonly expressed as what abbreviated word?
Answer: quasar
Question: The Chalara Fraxinea fungal disease afflicts?
Answer: trees
Question: Clawhammer is a playing style most often associated with which instrument?
Answer: banjo
Question: Accounting for c.30% of total global tax revenues, what form of tax did France introduce in 1954, W Germany 1968, UK 1973 and China 1984?
Answer: vat
Question: The process by which cardinals meet to elect a new Pope is called the Papal (what?)?
Answer: conclave
Question: What famous French film production/newsreel brand, established in 1896, was the first major movie corporation?
Answer: pathé
Question: 'The Continental Army' became what in 1784?
Answer: united states army
Question: Who is the famous husband of the also famous Chinese singer Peng Liyuan?
Answer: xi jinping
Question: 'The Law of the Instrument' referring to having just one 'tool' (i.e., approach or method) and so treating every situation the same is known popularly as 'Maslow's (what)'?
Answer: hammer
Question: The beat of what aptly titled 1970s disco hit is suggested by the British Heart Foundation (and others) as an ideal CPR rhythm?
Answer: stayin alive
Question: The famous BBC Greenwich Meantime hourly signal 'pips' are closest to which musical note (according to ISO 16)?
Answer: b
Question: Name the autonomous region of NE Spain which periodically is subject to strong independence lobbying?
Answer: catalonia
Question: DNA evidence supports the idea that what people were the original colonizers of North America?
Answer: asians
Question: Earliest human use of fire for cooking has been dated at how many years ago?
Answer: one million
Question: What is the common name for the chemical process by which glue, varnish, filler, etc., hardens when polymer chains become linked following UV radiation, mixing, heat, etc?
Answer: curing
Question: QR, Aztec, Cyber, and Data Matrix are types of what?
Answer: barcodes
Question: In 1515 the Court of Aldermen of the City of London established what trade as top (based on economic/political power) of an enduring list of livery companies?
Answer: mercers
Question: Litmus, used in acidity testing, is extracted from?
Answer: lichen
Question: Auger, reel, fan, sieves, stripper-beater, and cutter-bar are parts of what large piece of machinery?
Answer: combine harvester
Question: The Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) is otherwise defined as the empire of what modern nationality?
Answer: turkish
Question: What branch of alternative medicine using natural oils derives its name from ancient Greek for spice?
Answer: aromatherapy
Question: The New Model Army and The Levellers were groups in which war?
Answer: english civil war
Question: (Up to) what degree of Neanderthal DNA is found in modern non-African people?
Answer: 4
Question: Nintendo's Wii console launched in 2012 is the?
Answer: u
Question: Largely Indian-owned corporation ArclelorMittal (a merger/acquisition of the two names by the latter) is the world's biggest producer of?
Answer: steel
Question: A censor was an officer of what civilization, responsible for public census, morality, finances, etc?
Answer: roman
Question: The 21st century's second and last solar transit (across the Sun) of what planet happened in 2012?
Answer: venus
Question: What Sesame Street character featured in anti-Romney advertising in the 2012 US election?
Answer: big bird
Question: Among Time magazine's 2012 100 Most Influential Persons in the World, Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller was elected leader for the second time of what Caribbean island?
Answer: jamaica
Question: Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland, granddaughter to King Carl XVI Gustaf, became 2nd in line to what nation's throne when born in 2012?
Answer: sweden
Question: A project led by broadcaster NHK and Tobu Railway Co, which city's 'Skytree' opened as the world's tallest self-supporting tower and 2nd largest building in 2012?
Answer: tokyo
Question: Name the ex-construction worker who died in 2012, whose video-taped beating by Los Angeles police and their initial subsequent acquittals sparked the 1992 Los Angeles Riots?
Answer: rodney king
Question: In 2012 'The Orphan of Zhao' became the first play of which country to be produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company?
Answer: china
Question: Name the French president who began his term in 2012?
Answer: francois hollande
Question: Which famous hairdresser who died in 2012 created the wedge-bob?
Answer: vidal sassoon
Question: Who in 2012 made the first submarine solo dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the lowest point of the oceans (subsequently to release a 3D film of the dive)?
Answer: james cameron
Question: A Judy Garland dress which sold for $302,000 in 2012 was worn in which movie?
Answer: wizard of oz
Question: Who began his speech, "Where is Dave?.." at the 2012 UK Conservative Party Conference?
Answer: boris johnson
Question: What nationality is Carlos Slim, the richest person in the world according to Forbes 2012?
Answer: mexican
Question: British actor Brian Cobby (1929-2012) provided the first male voice for what British announcements?
Answer: speaking clock
Question: Davy Jones (1945-2012) fronted what popular 1960s pop group?
Answer: monkees
Question: Name the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover which landed on Mars in 2012?
Answer: curiosity
Question: Justin Welby was appointed to what famous old position in 2012?
Answer: archbishop of canterbury
Question: In which 2012 sporting event was the Chinese Ren Cancan defeated by its first ever female Olympic Gold medal winner?
Answer: womens boxing
Question: What city hosted the richest (biggest prize) horse race in 2012?
Answer: dubai
Question: In 2012 fossils of 1.9m years-old Homo rudolfensis were discovered in?
Answer: kenya
Question: Who famously accused Tony Abbott of sexism and misogyny in 2012?
Answer: julia gillard
Question: The American Football Super Bowl final in 2012 is branded by what Roman numerals?
Answer: xlvi
Question: Sir Patrick Moore, world-leading expert on astronomy for six decades who died in 2012, was technically qualified at what academic level?
Answer: amateur
Question: In which nation's London embassy did Wikileaks founder Julian Assange seek diplomatic asylum in 2012?
Answer: ecuador
Question: Which American singer, actress and model, said by Guinness World Records to be the most awarded ever, died in Los Angeles in 2012?
Answer: whitney houston
Question: Who was appointed US Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States Jan 2012?
Answer: paul ryan
Question: Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends are books by which hugely popular Irish writer who died in 2012?
Answer: maeve binchy
Question: In which city did the Rolling Stones play a 2012 surprise gig at Le Trabendo club to 350 fans for £12 each?
Answer: paris
Question: What nationality is Felix Baumgartner, who skydived through the sound barrier in 2012?
Answer: austrian
Question: Who played the part of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony?
Answer: kenneth branagh
Question: In 2012 British MP Nadine Dorries controversially appeared on what reality TV show?
Answer: i m celebrity get me out of here
Question: Which Eastern European nation saw protests against Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Jan 2012?
Answer: hungary
Question: Chile experienced large and violent protests by whom in 2012, invoking comparisons with similar 2006 action called (after the protestors' uniforms) The Penguins' Revolution or The March of the Penguins?
Answer: students
Question: The effective discovery of what particle was announced by CERN at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012?
Answer: higgs boson
Question: Name the TV/movie actor who died in 2012 and starred in 1960s fantasy sitcom I Dream of Jeannie?
Answer: larry hagman
Question: Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson are better known as what 2012 record-breaking unit?
Answer: one direction
Question: Which famous character from computing tweeted 'This is for everyone' in the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony?
Answer: tim berners lee
Question: Who wrote the 2012 Man Booker prizewinning novel Bring Up the Bodies?
Answer: hilary mantel
Question: In 2012 Price Nayef became the second crown prince, after Prince Sultan, to die before ascending to the throne in which country?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: Enrique Pena Nieto became president of which country in 2012?
Answer: mexico
Question: 2012 is the 200th anniversary of the what European capital city's status, moved from Turku by Czar Alexander I of Russia?
Answer: helsinki
Question: Who wrote the 200 year-old letter auctioned for 150,000 euros in 2012, expressing a wish to destroy the Kremlin?
Answer: napoleon bonaparte
Question: Who coached/managed both the England and Russia football teams during 2012?
Answer: fabio capello
Question: What internet/computing term derives from Old Norse hlekkr, related to Old German gelenk, meaning joint?
Answer: link
Question: The famous Castilian military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (1043-99) is better known by what name?
Answer: el cid
Question: Banana Island is the most expensive property in a special edition of monopoly based on which Nigerian city?
Answer: lagos
Question: In 2012 Shinzo Abe became which nation's eighth prime ministerial appointment in six years, 2006-12?
Answer: japan
Question: What, having extremes of 'thick' and 'thin', is the measure of a fluid's internal friction/resistance under stress?
Answer: viscosity
Question: Name the famous guitarist whose collaboration with the Gibson company produced their first and eponymous solid electric guitar in 1952?
Answer: les paul
Question: What rejection is shared by LS Lowry, John Lennon; Philip Larkin, Benjamin Zephaniah, and Danny Boyle? Chivalric order; US-visa; Blood donation; or Driving licence?
Answer: chivalric order
Question: What is Mexico's largest state, and also a famously small dog breed?
Answer: chihuahua
Question: The globally widely used Wechsler Scale assesses what in children?
Answer: intelligence
Question: What event caused Twitter's servers to crash on 25 June 2009?
Answer: michael jackson s death
Question: Hyperemesis gravidarum is an extreme form of what commonly named medical condition?
Answer: morning sickness
Question: Thraex, murmillo, and hoplomachus are types of?
Answer: roman gladiators
Question: What surname appeared most in the UK Leveson Inquiry Report about media/press privacy and phone hacking?
Answer: murdoch
Question: From Greek for gadfly/frenzy, what word refers to the recurring period of sexual receptivity in female mammals?
Answer: oestrus
Question: Blair Athol, Dalwhinnie, Knockando, Glenmorangie and Tamdhu are types of what?
Answer: whisky
Question: 'Motion Pictures Experts Group Format I (or II), Audio Layer III' is better known as what three-characters?
Answer: mp3
Question: William the Conqueror (William I of England, 1027/8-87, reigned 1066-87) was also known unflatteringly as 'William the (What)'?
Answer: bastard
Question: The Italian food/word bruschetta refers originally and specifically to which of its characteristics?
Answer: toasted
Question: Wayne LaPierre is known for his 20-plus-years' controversial leadership of what organization?
Answer: nra
Question: Typically used in law, the Latin term 'Ipso Facto' means?
Answer: by fact itself
Question: What iconic historically semi-military people, recognized by Russia in 2010 as an ethinicity, are named after the old Cuman/Turkic word meaning 'free man'?
Answer: cossacks
Question: Antipasto (plural antipasti) refers to what part of an Italian lunch/dinner?
Answer: before meal
Question: The term 'ex libris' is traditionally found on a label-plate indicating ownership of a?
Answer: book
Question: What was the three-letter two-number prefix code in the full name of The Haçienda nightclub in Manchester UK?
Answer: fac51
Question: Mariachi is a style of Mexican 'street (what?)'?
Answer: music
Question: In language the term ellipsis refers to missing/omitted what?
Answer: words
Question: 'Il Duce' - subject of revivalist support in Italy in the 2000s - is better known by what name?
Answer: benito mussolini
Question: What's the world's oldest amateur rowing club (now at Henley-on Thames, UK) named after the Greek mythological lover of the priestess Hero, who drowned swimming the Hellespont to visit her?
Answer: leander
Question: What seabird is named from Norse 'stinking gull' because of vomiting when disturbed?
Answer: fulmar
Question: The historic (at 2012, three-branch-line) San Francisco cable car system comprises how many actual cables in total?
Answer: four
Question: Extraversion/introversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, and Openness to experience and are the 'Big Five' dimensions of what popular acronymically-named personality analysis theory?
Answer: ocean
Question: Frettabladid is (early 2000s) the leading newspaper of which island nation?
Answer: iceland
Question: Name the Utah USA salt flats famous for land-speed records and a Triumph motorbike model?
Answer: bonneville
Question: Operation Serval refers to France's military intervention in which former colony's civil war?
Answer: mali
Question: In 2013, 29% of what meat was found in Tesco's value beefburgers?
Answer: horse
Question: White chocolate consists of sugar, milk solids, salt, and specifically what other main ingredient?
Answer: cocoa butter
Question: Name the form of carbon considered (early 2000s) the strongest material ever, which having a thickness of one atom has just two dimensions?
Answer: graphene
Question: What is the modern-day name of the once colonial nation French Sudan?
Answer: mali
Question: A burning truckload of 'brunost' - brown (what?) - caused a 5-day fire in a Norwegian road tunnel in Jan 2013?
Answer: cheese
Question: The 1923 Great Kanto earthquake was until 2011 which nation's biggest?
Answer: japan
Question: Which global-reaching organization was revealed in 2013 to hold property investments exceeding £½bn derived from 'recognition' payments received in 1929 from Benito Mussolini?
Answer: vatican
Question: What ingredient causes a can of cola to sink in water, whereas a can of diet cola floats?
Answer: sugar
Question: (Before Jurassic Park) the word raptor technically refers to what sort of carnivorous creature?
Answer: bird
Question: The Republic of Upper Volta was renamed what (two-words) in 1984, meaning respectively 'men of integrity' and 'fatherland' in its two native languages?
Answer: burkina faso
Question: Name the UK seaside town famous for jet stone, and whose St Mary's Church featured in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Answer: whitby
Question: In physics, the elementary exchange particles ('gauge bosons') between quarks are called?
Answer: gluons
Question: The six soft alkali metals (lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and francium) react with water to produce what gas?
Answer: hydrogen
Question: In terms of actions, activities, projects, etc., the word hiatus means a?
Answer: pause
Question: The Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet broke up and impacted where, in 1994, to huge astronomical and media interest?
Answer: jupiter
Question: What is the only 'big cat' found wild in the Americas which roars?
Answer: jaguar
Question: The name of what workwear was derived from the Dongri area in South Mumbai India?
Answer: dungarees
Question: Which pottery pioneer produced 'creamware' and 'jasperware' in the mid-late 1700s?
Answer: josiah wedgwood
Question: The Roman settlement of Arausio in SE France later became what significantly named town and subsequent principality/emblem in Dutch, English, southern African and Irish history?
Answer: orange
Question: How many points are on Twitter's 2012-introduced tweeting flying bird logo (wings, tail and beak)?
Answer: six
Question: The Chicxulub crater is a prehistoric impact crater buried underneath the Yucatan Peninsula in what country?
Answer: mexico
Question: What eponymous 1969 theory blames organizations for promoting managers to levels at which they are incompetent?
Answer: peter principle
Question: What Rome-founded fashion house and handbag specialist sponsored a 2m euro restoration of the Trevi Fountain in 2013?
Answer: fendi
Question: Bardiche, Bill, Glaive, Halberd, and Voulge are types of?
Answer: weaponry
Question: Italian Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is regarded as the inventor of?
Answer: opera
Question: What chocolate, biscuit and raisin confection, otherwise known as 'fridge cake', is named after an Indian-English word for a light snack?
Answer: tiffin
Question: What is the extremely strong natural glucose-derived polymer of fungi cell walls, crustacean/insect exoskeletons, etc., also used in pharmacy and industry?
Answer: chitin
Question: Ikebana, English Garden, and High Style are styles of what?
Answer: flower arranging
Question: What sort of implement has a heel and toe and is characterized by variable features including kerf, gullet, fleam, rake, and points per inch?
Answer: saw
Question: What is the female equivalent of the Oedipus complex in Jungian/Freudian psychosexual theory?
Answer: electra
Question: Cape, Katanga, Masai, Barbary and Asiatic are generally considered sub-species of what 'apex' predator?
Answer: lion
Question: A metal ring or grommet in a sail or other nautical attachment, through which a rope passes is a?
Answer: cringle
Question: Charles Stent practised what surgery, for which he invented his eponymous technique?
Answer: dental
Question: From Greek words meaning 'flesh preserver' what coal-tar oil was widely used in wood treatment and medicine?
Answer: creosote
Question: The nickname of 9th century Islamic mathematician Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa ('al-Kwarizmi' - the man of Kwarizm) is the etymological source of what computing term?
Answer: algorithm
Question: What was the name given in Ancient Greek mythology to the time/situation before the creation of the universe?
Answer: chaos
Question: Name the fictional suburb in Ira Levin's 1972 novel which became an expression for a wife who submissively obeys her husband?
Answer: stepford
Question: What logical common name is given to the cells which initiate cardiac contraction and so control heart rate?
Answer: pacemaker
Question: What informal rule, named after Intel Corp's co-founder, predicts the doubling of transistors on microchips every two years?
Answer: moore s law
Question: What is the formal (systematic) chemical name for the alcohol in intoxicating drink?
Answer: ethanol
Question: What political speech/campaign term derives from the tradition of cutting down a tree to make a platform for the speaker?
Answer: stump
Question: Béchamel, Espagnole, Velouté, Hollandaise, Tomate are the five 'mother (what?)' of classical French cuisine?
Answer: sauces
Question: Founded in 1827 by Karl Baedeker and run by his family until 1984, the eponymous German company is famous for?
Answer: travel guides
Question: Nits, Blondels, Skots, Lamberts, and Footlamberts are measures of?
Answer: luminance
Question: What popular food comes from the Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima plants?
Answer: rice
Question: A 'sinkhole' is a collapse of the ground into a void below caused by?
Answer: water
Question: Poached eggs on muffins with hollandaise sauce, and ham or bacon are popularly called 'eggs (What?)'?
Answer: benedict
Question: What metaphorical torture chamber reference derives from George Orwell's 1949 book Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Answer: room 101
Question: Name the vast global accountancy firm which effectively ceased after criminal involvement in the 2001 Enron corporate fraud?
Answer: arthur andersen
Question: Whose famous old Brown Ale (still made) was first brewed in Whitechapel, London, in 1902?
Answer: mann s
Question: Name the illness caused by a reaction to gliadin, a gluten protein in wheat, barley, rye, etc?
Answer: coeliac disease
Question: The Innocent smoothie drinks business was wholly acquired by which more famous drinks corporation in 2013?
Answer: coca cola
Question: The handtool which may be struck or bowed as a musical instrument is a 'singing (what)'?
Answer: saw
Question: Bort or boart refers to waste/inferior what, used for industrial purposes?
Answer: diamonds
Question: What 2nd World War US pilot's alliterative expression for an unidentified flying object, from the 'Smoky Stover' cartoon strip, inspired the name of a rock band?
Answer: foo fighter
Question: What was the first element discovered in space (actually at the Sun)?
Answer: helium
Question: What smartphone operating system increased its market share from 4% in 2009 to 70% in 2013?
Answer: android
Question: The famously gruelling c.1,100mile (1,800km) Iditarod Trial Dog Sled Race is run annually each March where?
Answer: alaska
Question: The prefix 'neo' (neocon, Neolithic, neo-Nazi, neonatal, etc) means?
Answer: new
Question: Hydromel is a very old alcoholic drink made with fermented what?
Answer: honey
Question: The flammable intoxicating compound Hydroxyethane (C2H6O) is better known as what chemical?
Answer: ethanol
Question: Originating in art around 500BC, what is the more common modern name for a nimbus, aureole, glory, or gloriole?
Answer: halo
Question: Which 1949 novel featured the ironically named Ministries of the Peace, Plenty, Love, and Truth?
Answer: nineteen eighty four
Question: What cocktail, named in Cuban Spanish, comprises white rum, lime/lemon, sugar and mint?
Answer: mojito
Question: At a conference a 'plenary session' refers to a session which involves?
Answer: everyone