CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Following the Battle of Borodino, fire raged for four days, destroying an estimated three-quarters of which city?
Answer: moscow
Question: An axolotl is the larva or early form of what?
Answer: salamander
Question: For which painting was Edouard Manet condemned as incompetent and subversive by critics, which damaged his reputation for years?
Answer: olympia
Question: Which architect died after being hit by a tram in the streets of Barcelona?
Answer: antoni gaudi
Question: What is the next in the series: Williamsburg Bridge, Rutgers Street Tunnel, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge?
Answer: cranberry street tunnel
Question: What name was given to people who believed that James II and his descendants were the rightful rulers of Britain?
Answer: jacobites
Question: What was the original name of the board game invented by Elliot Rudell, similar to Scrabble, whereby letters can be stacked on top of others to create new words?
Answer: upwords
Question: What is the name for the masses of lymphoid tissue between the nose and throat that are sometimes removed by an operation in cases where enlargement is having a detrimental effect on health?
Answer: adenoids
Question: Who, after making a living painting porcelain and sun blinds, became well known due to such paintings as "Portrait of William Sisley" and "Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne"?
Answer: renoir
Question: Who was the Greek goddess of victory daughter of Pallas represented as a winged figure wreathed or palm bearing sometimes guiding victors' horses?
Answer: nike
Question: Which Delta blues musician, according to legend, met the Devil at a crossroad and received mastery of the guitar in return for his soul?
Answer: robert johnson
Question: Michelangelo's famous frescoes are on the ceiling of what area of the Vatican?
Answer: sistine chapel
Question: What is the name of the mythical beast that roams the Himalayan Alps?
Answer: yeti
Question: The United States deployed combat units in 1965 into which war to prevent a communist takeover of Southeast Asia, part of a wider strategy called containment?
Answer: vietnam war
Question: Which chemist and physicist established the basis for the magnetic field concept, discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, laws of electrolysis, and benzene, invented devices that are the basis of electric motor technology, and popularised words such as anode, cathode, electrode, and ion?
Answer: michael faraday
Question: Who was the driver of the car in which co-driver Michel Perin broke his arm when they crashed during the Dakar Rally in January 2009?
Answer: carlos sainz
Question: Which branch of astronomy studies radiation with wavelengths greater than approximately one millimetre?
Answer: radio astronomy
Question: Which German-American structural engineer and designer was Chief Engineer for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco?
Answer: joseph strauss
Question: What game involves throwing rings to get them on or near a pin?
Answer: quoits
Question: Which German-born composer became a naturalised Englishman, wrote 30 operas in the 18th century, and is more famous now for his oratorios such as "The Messiah"?
Answer: george handel
Question: What word best describes a triangle where all angles are less than 90 degrees?
Answer: acute
Question: Which 1973 British horror film, directed by Robin Hardy starring Edward Woodward and set on a remote Scottish island, was remade in 2006, directed by Neil LaBute and starring Nicolas Cage, set on an island in Puget Sound, Washington?
Answer: wicker man
Question: What is the name for the 7 kingdoms into which England was supposedly divided in the early Middle Ages?
Answer: heptarchy
Question: Which film, that opens at the annual presentation of the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement, focusses on the personality clash of two stage actresses played by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter?
Answer: all about eve
Question: Which state donated the land occupied by the US capital city, Washington, District of Columbia?
Answer: maryland
Question: Who created the characters of Willy Loman, Joe Keller and Eddie Carbone?
Answer: arthur miller
Question: Which film, released at the end of 2008, starred Kate Winslett and Leonardo DiCaprio?
Answer: revolutionary road
Question: What is the second largest organ in the human body, located under the diaphragm on the right hand side?
Answer: liver
Question: Which category of instrument includes the flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon?
Answer: woodwind
Question: What was the name given to the Minardi Formula One team after it was bought by Red Bull in 2005?
Answer: scuderia toro rosso
Question: Which mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis, plays an important role in Homer's Iliad?
Answer: ajax
Question: By what name is Domenico Theotocopuli better known?
Answer: el greco
Question: John McCain's running mate for the 2009 USA presidential election was the governor of which state?
Answer: alaska
Question: What range of mountains separates Europe from Asia and runs from the Arctic to the Caspian Seas?
Answer: ural mountains
Question: The 2009 Super Bowl, played at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, was between the Arizona Cardinals and what other team?
Answer: pittsburg steelers
Question: The Houston Ship Channel connects the city of Houston, Texas, to what body of water?
Answer: gulf of mexico
Question: Which English composer wrote "The Planets", "Somerset Rhapsody" and the ballet "The Perfect Fool"?
Answer: gustav holst
Question: Around 1910, the White Star Line was building three sister ships: The Titanic, The Gigantic (later named the Britannic) and which other?
Answer: olympic
Question: Which one of these characters is from the TV series "ER"?
Answer: dr elizabeth corday
Question: Whispering Ted Lowe is best known as a commentator for which sport?
Answer: snooker
Question: The story of which 1944 film starring Elizabeth Taylor involved a horse called "The Pie"?
Answer: national velvet
Question: Which German Nazi leader flew solo from Ausberg in 1941 and landed by parachute near Glasgow on a private peace mission?
Answer: hess
Question: Which country won the most races in the A1GP championship in its first 3 years (2005-06, 2006-07 & 2007-08)?
Answer: france
Question: Who was the daughter of Mahomet and his first wife Kadijah?
Answer: fatima
Question: What was Greta Garbo's first sound film (advertised as "Garbo speaks!"), in a filmed version of a play by Eugene O'Neill?
Answer: anna christie
Question: Which country, whose chief port is La Guaira, became a republic after seceding from the Republic of Colombia in 1830?
Answer: venezuela
Question: What is the capital of Mongolia, on the Tuul River?
Answer: ulan bator
Question: Who abdicated on 30 April 1980, the day of her 71st birthday, and was succeeded by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands?
Answer: queen juliana
Question: Which Tennessee city has the same name as the ancient Egyptian city named after King Menes?
Answer: memphis
Question: Which English computer scientist and MIT professor implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet on 25 December 1990 and is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
Answer: sir timothy john berners lee
Question: The "Entente Cordiale", signed on 8 April 1904, was a pact to resolve all outstanding issues that were outstanding between France and which other country?
Answer: great britain
Question: What type of aircraft powerplant uses a gas turbine to drive a propeller?
Answer: turbo prop
Question: What is the name for radiations of a wavelength longer than and immediately next to the visible spectrum?
Answer: infra red
Question: Where did Colonel James Bowie and Davy Crockett die fighting Mexican forces?
Answer: alamo
Question: Besides crosswords, where is the only place that you could see an emu in its native environment?
Answer: australia
Question: A film released in 1971, starring David Hemmings and Michael Kitchen, based on a 1958 radio play by Giles Cooper, was called "Unman, Wittering and " who?
Answer: zigo
Question: Which American author wrote "The Call Of The Wild", "White Fang", "The Sea Wolf" and "The Game"?
Answer: jack london
Question: Humidity measures the quantity of water vapour in the air as a percentage by what?
Answer: volume
Question: The film actor Maurice Micklewhite is better known by what name?
Answer: michael caine
Question: Which racquet sport game is played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball?
Answer: squash
Question: The Boston Tea Party, where tea was tipped into the harbour to protest taxation, precipitated what historical event?
Answer: american revolution
Question: The musical "West Side Story" is associated with which geographical area?
Answer: new york
Question: What is the branch of the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and the Balkans, with ports such as Bari, Venice, and Trieste?
Answer: adriatic sea
Question: What mathematical tabular system was invented in 1614 by John Napier that changes calculations of, for example, multiplication and finding square roots to addition and division respectively?
Answer: logarithms
Question: Who perfected a process in 1880 for making sensitive gelatine dry plates for photography, and patented photographic roll film in 1884?
Answer: george eastman
Question: What infectious disease is characterised by catarrh of the respiratory tract and paroxysms of coughing?
Answer: whooping cough
Question: The song "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" is from which musical?
Answer: gentlemen prefer blondes
Question: The USS "Constitution", launched in 1797, earned the nickname of "Old Ironsides" when she defeated the British warship HMS Guerriere in the War of 1812. What is her hull made of?
Answer: wood
Question: Who directed "Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid", "Convoy", "The Wild Bunch" and "Cross of Iron"?
Answer: sam peckinpah
Question: Who captained the Nautilus in "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"?
Answer: nemo
Question: In England, the Estates of the Realm are the Clergy, the Lords and the Commons. What is known as the "Fourth Estate"?
Answer: press
Question: Which one of the four provinces of Ireland includes Northern Ireland, and three counties in the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: ulster
Question: What does "in vino veritas" mean?
Answer: in wine there is truth
Question: What is the name of the bird in the Peanuts comic strip?
Answer: woodstock
Question: Three members of which family, between 1781 and 1850, discovered Uranus, compiled a star catalogue, mapped all the stars in the Northern hemisphere and founded an observatory to map those in the Southern?
Answer: herschel
Question: Which country, the capital of which is Monrovia, was founded by the American Colonisation Society in 1820 as a home for freed slaves?
Answer: liberia
Question: In what film did Mae West as Lady Lou (starring with Cary Grant) first say "why'n'cha come up and see me sometime?"?
Answer: she done him wrong
Question: What is an affliction of nose, throat, upper air passages and eyes caused by over-sensitivity to proteins of pollen in certain plants?
Answer: hay fever
Question: As whom did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi become better known?
Answer: shah of iran
Question: Giuseppe Rossi, who was born and raised in Clifton, New Jersey, USA, was the top scorer with 4 goals in the men's association football tournament at the 2008 Olympics. Which team did he play for?
Answer: italy
Question: Which planet has a diameter of 7,700 miles and a mass 0.83 times that of the Earth?
Answer: venus
Question: Benjamin Franklin once wrote that nothing was certain in this world except death and what?
Answer: taxes
Question: Who referred to her quarter final match against Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 2009 Australian Open as "an out of body experience"?
Answer: serena williams
Question: The band currently touring as "Eric Burdon & The Animals" has which of the original Animals as one of Eric Burdons backing musicians?
Answer: hilton valentine
Question: Which author disappeared on a walk along the River Ouse near Monk's House, Rodmell, Sussex, England, in March 1941, leaving letters for her husband Leonard and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell?
Answer: virginia woolf
Question: Which delta blues musician wrote "Love in Vain", "Cross Road Blues", and "Rambling on My Mind"?
Answer: robert johnson
Question: In which film does Tom Cruise play Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg?
Answer: valkyrie
Question: Which US state borders Canada and the Connecticut River, and has the Green Mountains running through its centre?
Answer: vermont
Question: Which German mathematician and scientist, sometimes called the "Prince of Mathematicians", completed "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae", in 1798 at the age of 21?
Answer: carl friedrich gauss
Question: Which month appears last in the rhyme "30 days have September "?
Answer: february
Question: In which film was Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" used to underscore a helicopter attack?
Answer: apocalypse now
Question: The US state of Kentucky is known "the (what) Grass State"?
Answer: blue
Question: Which railway, covering 4,607 miles from Chelyabinsk to Vladivostok, was completed in July 1904?
Answer: trans siberian
Question: The trophy for which event, presented since 1936, has a bas-relief sculpture of the likeness of each winning driver, along with the driver's name, date of victory and average speed?
Answer: indianapolis 500
Question: What treaty was signed in Paris in 1815 after the overthrow of Napoleon, whereby Alexander I of Russia, Francis II of Austria and Frederick William II of Prussia agreed to apply Christian principles to the government of their countries?
Answer: holy alliance
Question: What was the first film made especially as a musical comedy, which included the songs "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" and "You Were Made For Me", by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed?
Answer: broadway melody
Question: Who died in 1972, which led to the accession of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark?
Answer: king frederik ix
Question: The Belgian artist Georges Remi is better known by what name?
Answer: herg
Question: Complete Joseph Stalin's famous quotation "One death is a tragedy, one million deaths is a "
Answer: statistic
Question: What is the next in this series: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, ?
Answer: lithuania
Question: The symbol of the Olympic Games is made up of 5 interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and what other colour?
Answer: red
Question: In which British sitcom does recently-widowed Audrey fforbes-Hamilton have to sell her manor house, which is bought by Richard DeVere, a nouveau riche millionaire supermarket owner?
Answer: to manor born
Question: What tree and its fruit is also known as the butter pear and alligator pear?
Answer: avocado
Question: The most southern part of the South American continent is on which Chilean archipelago?
Answer: tierra del fuego
Question: By 1922 Fred Astaire and his sister Adele were so popular that George and Ira Gershwin wrote "Funny Face" and what other show especially for them?
Answer: lady be good
Question: Who was the star of the 1970's TV programme "Policewoman"?
Answer: angie dickinson
Question: Which US holiday commemorates either a celebration by Spaniards on 8 September 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida, the arrival of 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred on 4 December 1619, or the Pilgrims activities in Plymouth in 1621?
Answer: thanksgiving
Question: The first of what event, organised by journalist Henri Desgrange in 1903, was won by Maurice Garin?
Answer: tour de france
Question: From 1781 until the adoption of the Constitution on 17 September 1787, the US government operated in terms of what document?
Answer: articles of confederation
Question: What small green fish with blue reflections (due to a silver longitudinal stripe that runs from the base of the caudal fin) is found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans?
Answer: anchovy
Question: Which 20th century painter claimed to have invented a new technique called "action painting" and was called by the contemporary press "Jack The Dripper"?
Answer: jackson pollock
Question: According to the Bible, who was the son of Isaac and Rebeckah, the twin brother to Esau, the husband of Leah and Rachel, and the father of Joseph?
Answer: jacob
Question: Who founded "Answers" in 1888, and later founded Amalgamated Press in the UK which, at various times, owned "The Evening News", "The Daily Mail", "The Daily Mirror", "The Observer" and "The Times"?
Answer: lord northcliffe
Question: The food of the Gods is ambrosia: what is the drink of the Gods?
Answer: nectar
Question: After Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the 100 metre dash at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, why was his gold medal taken away and awarded to runner-up Carl Lewis?
Answer: he failed drug test
Question: Who starred with Bette Davis in the 1962 film "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane"?
Answer: joan crawford
Question: To where, between June 1948 and May 1949, was over 1 million tons (up to 13,000 tons per day) of food, coal and other supplies transported by the aircraft of the USA, UK and France?
Answer: berlin
Question: Who was the Bulgarian dissident poisoned with ricin when jabbed in the leg with an umbrella on Waterloo Bridge, London, on 7 September 1978?
Answer: georgi markov
Question: Which painter, born in Delft, produced works including "The Woman With A Water Jug", "The Pianist" and "The Lacemaker"?
Answer: jan vermeer
Question: Producer Alex Korda engaged Anton Karas to score which entire film, after it had been edited together, using only one instrument?
Answer: third man
Question: In baseball, what is the name of the position where the pitcher stands to throw the ball to a batter of the opposing team?
Answer: mound
Question: Which painting of five figures by Pablo Picasso in 1907 was criticised for breaking the rules of composition, perspective and truth to nature, showing dislocated shapes seen simultaneously from different angles?
Answer: les demoiselles d avignon
Question: According to The Bible, who was the older brother of Moses, who set up a golden calf on Mt Sinai for people to worship?
Answer: aaron
Question: What is the English borough and market town on the River Otter in Devonshire, famous for lace making?
Answer: honiton
Question: Where was Skype, the software that enables telephone calls to be made via the Internet, developed?
Answer: estonia
Question: In the Christian calendar, Maundy falls on which day of Holy Week?
Answer: thursday
Question: The hero of which film starring Alec Guinness was a mousy bank clerk with steel-rimmed glasses and bowler hat who devised a plan to smuggle gold bars out of England disguised as small souvenir replicas of the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: lavender hill mob
Question: After the signing of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, Mubarak Al-Sabah was recognised by the Ottomans and British as the ruler of the autonomous caza of which city and its hinterlands?
Answer: kuwait
Question: In L M Montgomery's book, where was Anne of Green Gables brought up?
Answer: avonlea
Question: City Of Dreams was the second casino owned by James Packer to open in which European ex colony?
Answer: macau china
Question: Which overweight knight from three Shakespearean plays was the subject of an opera by Verdi?
Answer: sir john falstaff
Question: Which residence of Scots kings was built next to a ruined abbey by James IV, and rebuilt by Charles II?
Answer: holyrood
Question: Who was the first US president to travel outside the USA while in office?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: Which Beatle invested heavily in Handmade Films, the production company that made "Life Of Brian", "Monty Python In Search Of The Holy Grail" and "A Fish Called Wanda"?
Answer: george harrison
Question: In which film starring Edward G Robinson are the main character's dying words "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico"?
Answer: little caesar
Question: Symptoms of what disease include fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anaemia, hemoglobinuria, retinal damage, and convulsions, with cyclical occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigour, fever and sweating?
Answer: malaria
Question: Which card game involves 2 teams of 2 players aiming to reach 7 points, with each trick taken above 6 counting as 1 point, using 52 cards, all dealt except the last, which is turned up as trumps?
Answer: whist
Question: What is a feud where the relatives of a murdered man take vengeance on the family of those who killed him, for generations?
Answer: vendetta
Question: What is the subject of the study of "limnology"?
Answer: inland waters
Question: Leo Joseph Ryan Jr., the first US congressman to be killed in the line of duty, was murdered where?
Answer: guyana
Question: Which sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia, bounded on the west by Novaya Zemlya and to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya?
Answer: kara sea
Question: Which Grand Prix, that had taken place for 31 years at the same circuit, was dropped from the 2009 Formula One Championship?
Answer: canadian grand prix
Question: Which Greek poet (1200 - 850 BC) is famous for the poems popularly attributed to him about the siege of Troy and the wanderings of Ulysses?
Answer: homer
Question: Which American TV sitcom, originally aired from 1974 to 1984, presented an idealized vision of life in 1950s and early 1960s America?
Answer: happy days
Question: On what does the cast of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical "Starlight Express" perform?
Answer: roller skates
Question: What is the national park in Wyoming covering 3350 square miles that was opened in 1872?
Answer: yellowstone national park
Question: The first of which make of car came off the assembly line at Fisherman's Bend in September 1948?
Answer: holden
Question: What strait connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf Of Oman?
Answer: hormuz
Question: What name is given to a compound of carbon and hydrogen in various proportions?
Answer: hydrocarbon
Question: Who was the son of King John and Isabella of Angoulme who became King of England when 9 years old?
Answer: henry iii
Question: Which country, once part of the Republic of Colombia under Simon Bolivar, became independent in 1830 and annexed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?
Answer: ecuador
Question: What is the science that deals with the principles and construction of timepieces?
Answer: horology
Question: In 1874 the Teddington Cricket Club began to draw up rules that were formally published by the Wimbledon club in 1883, for which game?
Answer: hockey
Question: What 1939 film, set during the American Civil War, starring Clark Gable and Vivienne Leigh, was based on a book by Margaret Mitchell?
Answer: gone with wind
Question: Which town in Lincolnshire, UK, is the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher, and has connections with Isaac Newton, Nicholas Parsons and Richard Todd?
Answer: grantham
Question: Which political organisation was founded by Jos Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1933, during the Second Spanish Republic?
Answer: falange
Question: Which film starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton was set mainly on a ship at sea?
Answer: mutiny on bounty
Question: Which Greek mathematician, active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I and often referred to as the "Father of Geometry", published the textbook Elements?
Answer: euclid
Question: Which country was proclaimed an independent republic under the leadership of Bernardo O'Higgins on 12 February 1818 after an army led by him and Jos de San Martn defeated the royalists?
Answer: chile
Question: Honeycomb is made of wax cells in what shape?
Answer: hexagon
Question: Hadrian's Wall, built following 122 AD, stretches for 73 miles from Solway Firth to where?
Answer: wallsend on tyne
Question: Who was the first General Secretary of the International Olympic Committee and later became its President, serving until 1924?
Answer: baron de coubertin
Question: What British sitcom, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders and co-starring Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks, was first broadcast by the BBC in 1992?
Answer: absolutely fabulous
Question: Which US-born naturalised Briton wrote "Murder In The Cathedral", "The Cocktail Party" and "The Wasteland"?
Answer: t s eliot