CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What favorite of Queen Elizabeth tried to colonize Virginia and popularized smoking?
Answer: sir walter raleigh
Question: And what religious movement views Haile Selassie as the Second Coming of Jesus?
Answer: rastafarian
Question: In what city was Abraham Zapruder living on November 22, 1963?
Answer: dallas
Question: What empire, based in Cusco, once controlled much of the Andes?
Answer: inca empire
Question: What country imported an estimated four million slaves before finally banning slavery in 1888?
Answer: brazil
Question: What trade did the Dutch East India Company dominate in 17th and 18th centuries?
Answer: spice
Question: What island chain did Charles Darwin famously visit, inspiring his theory of natural selection?
Answer: galápagos islands
Question: What "generalísimo" ruled Spain from 1939-1975?
Answer: francisco franco
Question: What nation was ruled by King Nebuchadnezzar II?
Answer: babylon
Question: What Native American confederacy is composed of six tribes including the Mohawk and Seneca?
Answer: iroquois
Question: Who commissioned the Domesday Book to survey his conquests?
Answer: william conqueror
Question: What island chain did Captain Cook discover before being killed by the people who already lived there?
Answer: hawaii
Question: What "plot" was Guy Fawkes involved in?
Answer: gunpowder plot
Question: What was the first name of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first lady?
Answer: eleanor
Question: What is the name for a Viking warrior who fought in a trance-like, nearly uncontrollable fury?
Answer: berserker
Question: What crop was "king" in the antebellum U.S. South?
Answer: cotton
Question: What country still denies its slaughter of over a million Armenians that happened in 1915?
Answer: turkey
Question: Who "invented" the hang glider, parachute, and diving suit?
Answer: leonardo da vinci
Question: What Parisienne was the first person to win multiple Nobel Prizes?
Answer: marie curie
Question: What war was depicted in Picasso's painting "Guernica"?
Answer: spanish civil war
Question: Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during WWII?
Answer: dwight eisenhower
Question: What paper-like writing material was used by the ancient Egyptians?
Answer: papyrus
Question: On what famous statue is it written "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses"?
Answer: statue of liberty
Question: What "stick-thin" model became a symbol of Swingin' Sixties London?
Answer: twiggy
Question: What Russian princess, murdered in 1918, did many imposters claim to be?
Answer: anastasia
Question: What name is given to the Japanese suicide pilots of WWII?
Answer: kamikaze
Question: What African-American athlete defied Hitler's theories of racial superiority by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics?
Answer: jesse owens
Question: In what city did Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier have a "thrilling" fight?
Answer: manila
Question: What became the 50th U.S. state in 1959?
Answer: hawaii
Question: Whose advisors included Sir Thomas More, Cardinal Wolsey, and Thomas Cromwell?
Answer: king henry viii
Question: On what ship did English sailors mutiny against Captain Bligh?
Answer: hms bounty
Question: What started on October 29, 1929 and lasted for a decade?
Answer: great depression
Question: What name is given to the ancient region in the area of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Answer: mesopotamia
Question: On what Pacific island did islanders build giant statues called moai?
Answer: easter island
Question: What fermented food product was called "liberty cabbage" during WWI?
Answer: sauerkraut
Question: In which modern-day country was the Anglo-Boer war fought?
Answer: south africa
Question: Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" was partially responsible for the ban of what insecticide?
Answer: ddt
Question: What country was ruled by "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc" Duvalier?
Answer: haiti
Question: What modern-day country was once the largest and most profitable Dutch colony?
Answer: indonesia
Question: What did Karl Marx and the Unabomber both write?
Answer: manifestos
Question: What Mexican general defeated the Texans at the Alamo?
Answer: antonio lópez de santa anna
Question: What 1950's subculture was famous for wearing berets, playing bongos, and snapping?
Answer: beatniks
Question: Who famously lived at Robben Island prison from 1964-1990?
Answer: nelson mandela
Question: What group of French-speaking people settled in Louisiana after being forced out of eastern Canada?
Answer: acadians
Question: Who was the main author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence?
Answer: thomas jefferson
Question: Which country was divided near the 38th parallel in 1953?
Answer: korea
Question: Who said "the die is cast" as he crossed the Rubicon?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: Who abdicated in 1936 in order to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson?
Answer: king edward viii
Question: What duo did Sacagawea help on their famous journey to the Pacific?
Answer: lewis and clark
Question: Where were Walter Raleigh, Anne Boleyn, and Guy Fawkes imprisoned?
Answer: tower of london
Question: England will never fall as long as what type of bird can be found in London Tower?
Answer: ravens
Question: What lady supposedly rode naked through the streets of Coventry, seen only by Peeping Tom?
Answer: lady godiva
Question: Who was the first European to reach India by sea?
Answer: vasco da gama
Question: Phrenologists believed they could determine a person's character by measuring their what?
Answer: skull
Question: What Roman dome, commissioned by Agrippa in ancient times, still stands today?
Answer: pantheon
Question: What giant bird was hunted to extinction by Māori people on New Zealand?
Answer: moa
Question: What canal opened in 1869 after 10 years of excavation using forced labor?
Answer: suez canal
Question: What was the name of Dorothy's dog in "The Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: toto
Question: What movie starred Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis?
Answer: black swan
Question: What movie took place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania?
Answer: groundhog day
Question: What object was used as a murder weapon at the end of the movie "There Will Be Blood"?
Answer: bowling pin
Question: Who starred as Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Twin"?
Answer: danny devito
Question: What was the name of the snowman in the movie "Frozen"?
Answer: olaf
Question: In what movie did Gene Kelly dance with a streetlight?
Answer: singin in rain
Question: What was the name of the villain in the movie "Die Hard"?
Answer: hans gruber
Question: What type of animal did the crew of the USS Enterprise need to rescue in "Star Trek IV: The Journey Home"?
Answer: humpback whales
Question: In what city did the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" take place?
Answer: mumbai
Question: What "physical" actress starred alongside John Travolta in "Grease"?
Answer: olivia newton john
Question: What golf movie starred Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Rodney Dangerfield?
Answer: caddyshack
Question: What was the intellectual faction in the movie "Divergent"?
Answer: erudite
Question: What was the name on the fake ID in the movie "Superbad"?
Answer: mclovin
Question: Who did Brad Pitt dump for Angelina Jolie?
Answer: jennifer aniston
Question: Who starred as identical twins in the 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap"?
Answer: lindsay lohan
Question: Who once enjoyed eating human liver, fava beans, and a nice chianti?
Answer: hannibal lecter
Question: What sculpture appeared at the end of the movie "Planet of the Apes"?
Answer: statue of liberty
Question: In what movie did Will Ferrell say "We're gonna skate to one song and one song only"?
Answer: blades of glory
Question: What singer starred as a man with boobs in the movie "Fight Club"?
Answer: meat loaf
Question: In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. What movie did she win for?
Answer: hurt locker
Question: In what movie did John Cusack serenade a girl by holding a boom box above his head?
Answer: say anything
Question: Who did Meryl Streep portray in the movie "The Iron Lady"?
Answer: margaret thatcher
Question: What movie is about an a cappella girl's group called The Barden Bellas?
Answer: pitch perfect
Question: What is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: palme d or
Question: Who has starred opposite Tom Hanks in three different romantic comedies?
Answer: meg ryan
Question: What actor starred in "Batman" and "Birdman"?
Answer: michael keaton
Question: What famous actress is the daughter of Jon Voight?
Answer: angelina jolie
Question: In what John Candy movie did the U.S. invade Canada?
Answer: canadian bacon
Question: What activity is the subject of the movie "Bring it On"?
Answer: cheerleading
Question: What city was the destination of Harry and Lloyd in the movie "Dumb and Dumber"?
Answer: aspen
Question: Who wrote the score to "Star Wars", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and "Jurassic Park"?
Answer: john williams
Question: Who dated Ellen Degeneres from 1997-2000?
Answer: anne heche
Question: What 2013 Martin Scorsese film set a record for the most F-bombs dropped in a mainstream movie?
Answer: wolf of wall street
Question: In what country was "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy filmed?
Answer: new zealand
Question: What Hollywood family had/has members Lionel, John, Ethel, and Drew?
Answer: barrymore
Question: What kid's movie had a "Squeakquel"?
Answer: alvin and chipmunks
Question: Who has starred as Madea in 8 different movies?
Answer: tyler perry
Question: Who is the only person to have won 3 Oscars for Best Actor? (His first was for "My Left Foot")
Answer: daniel day lewis
Question: What does Mike Wazowski study in the movie "Monsters University"?
Answer: scaring
Question: What movie was named after a city in North Dakota but actually took place mostly in Minnesota?
Answer: fargo
Question: What actor has portrayed Malcolm X, Frank Lucas, and Rubin Carter?
Answer: denzel washington
Question: Who died in 1791 in Vienna, while working on a Requiem?
Answer: wolfgang amadeus mozart
Question: Complete the lyric: Come, Mister tally man, tally me ...
Answer: banana
Question: What type of shoes did Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley sing about?
Answer: blue suede shoes
Question: What song by Billy Joel is frequently requested at dueling piano bars?
Answer: piano man
Question: What are Glastonbury, Coachella, and Bonnaroo?
Answer: music festivals
Question: Who wrote the album "No Jacket Required" in response to being denied entrance to a fancy restaurant for not wearing a proper jacket?
Answer: phil collins
Question: What 1985 song featured dozens of famous artists and raised $100 million for charity in Africa?
Answer: we are world
Question: What voice-altering technology was famously used by T-Pain and Cher?
Answer: auto tune
Question: Who originally wrote the song "All Along the Watchtower", famously covered by Jimi Hendrix?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: What is either a popular heavy metal band or a Medieval torture device?
Answer: iron maiden
Question: What Christmas ballet was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
Answer: nutcracker
Question: Who partnered with Jay-Z to record "Watch the Throne"?
Answer: kanye west
Question: What Neptunes producer and N*E*R*D member became a popular solo artist?
Answer: pharrell williams
Question: What type of musical instrument has a chanter and a drone?
Answer: bagpipes
Question: What Spanish music form often features palmas (clapping) and pitos (finger snapping)?
Answer: flamenco
Question: What singer was discovered in 2007 by Scooter Braun? (although many wish he hadn't been)
Answer: justin bieber
Question: Who famously ate peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwiches?
Answer: elvis presley
Question: Nirvana's most famous song is probably "Smells Like Teen Spirit". What is Teen Spirit?
Answer: deodorant
Question: What band did Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello play in?
Answer: rage against machine
Question: What movie featured the songs "Danger Zone" and "Take My Breath Away"?
Answer: top gun
Question: In what music video did NSYNC dance like marionettes?
Answer: bye bye bye
Question: What stringed instrument starts with Z, and is traditionally found in parts of Eastern Europe?
Answer: zither
Question: What song by Michael Jackson asks "Annie are you O.K."?
Answer: smooth criminal
Question: Who recorded the rap album "good kid, m.A.A.d city"?
Answer: kendrick lamar
Question: Delta, Chicago, and Kansas City are subgenres of what type of music?
Answer: blues
Question: Who wrote music for a "Well-Tempered Clavier"?
Answer: j s bach
Question: What type of dance was famously performed at the Moulin Rouge?
Answer: can can
Question: What, according to Kanye West, was one of the best music videos of all time?
Answer: single ladies put ring on it
Question: What percussion instrument was prominently featured in the song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"?
Answer: cowbell
Question: What, according to Gil Scott-Heron, will not be televised?
Answer: revolution
Question: What genre of music was New York's "Studio 54" most associated with?
Answer: disco
Question: What British rock band recorded "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "Fluorescent Adolescent"?
Answer: arctic monkeys
Question: What 1990's hip hop group had a DJ named Spinderella?
Answer: salt n pepa
Question: What Italian violin virtuoso was rumored to have sold his soul to the devil?
Answer: niccolò paganini
Question: What is the name for the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca?
Answer: hajj
Question: What series of wars was an attempt by European Christians to retake the holy land?
Answer: crusades
Question: According to Islamic law, what can a man have no more than four of at any one time?
Answer: wives
Question: In Indian religions, what is the word for the state of enlightenment and freedom from suffering?
Answer: nirvana
Question: Who was the Egyptian sun god? (Hint: his name is only two letters long)
Answer: ra
Question: In what ancient country did Zoroastrianism originate?
Answer: persia
Question: What Jamaican religious tradition was practiced by Bob Marley?
Answer: rastafari
Question: What is the name of the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony?
Answer: bar or bat mitzvah
Question: What is the name for a person who is a member of the Church of England?
Answer: anglican
Question: What Arabic word means "struggle" but is often interpreted as "Holy War"?
Answer: jihad
Question: What Jewish relic contained the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written?
Answer: ark of covenant
Question: In what religion can you become an "Operating Thetan"?
Answer: scientology
Question: Ganesh is depicted as having the head of what type of animal?
Answer: elephant
Question: What is the name for a system of law based on Islamic principles?
Answer: sharia
Question: What is the most common Protestant denomination in Scandinavia and Germany?
Answer: lutheranism
Question: What river was Jesus baptised in? (Hint: It is on the eastern border of modern-day Israel)
Answer: river jordan
Question: In Jewish folklore, what is the name for a monster made of clay?
Answer: golem
Question: Who was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms?
Answer: grover cleveland
Question: What model of Chevy, discontinued in 1987, was a car in front and a pickup truck in back?
Answer: el camino
Question: What U.S. state was the end point of the Trail of Tears?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: What holiday on June 19th celebrates the abolition of slavery in Texas?
Answer: juneteenth
Question: What TV host would pretend to be a psychic swami named Carnac the Magnificent?
Answer: johnny carson
Question: Who did Anita Hill accuse of sexual harrassment?
Answer: clarence thomas
Question: What "ageless" TV star used to host "New Year's Rockin Eve"?
Answer: dick clark
Question: What African-American Christmas alternative was first celebrated in 1966?
Answer: kwanzaa
Question: What position in the U.S. government has been held by Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell, and Henry Kissinger?
Answer: secretary of state
Question: What song is commonly played when the President of the United States enters a room?
Answer: hail to chief
Question: What type of hat did Davy Crockett famously wear?
Answer: coonskin cap
Question: Who did Dennis the Menace irritate more than anyone else?
Answer: mr wilson
Question: On what avenue would you find the flagship location of Saks department store?
Answer: fifth avenue
Question: Who is the U.S. interstate highway system named for?
Answer: dwight eisenhower
Question: What are the three biggest cities in Montana that start with the letter B?
Answer: billings
Question: What type of animal appeared on the "don't tread of me" flag?
Answer: rattlesnake
Question: Who sang "Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got / I'm still Jenny from the block"
Answer: jennifer lopez
Question: Hope, Arkansas is the birthplace of two well-known politicians. One is Mike Huckabee. Who is the other?
Answer: bill clinton
Question: In the "Peanuts" comic strip, what Halloween spirit does Linus believe in?
Answer: great pumpkin
Question: Who jumped from the balcony of Ford's Theatre yelling "Sic semper tyrannis"?
Answer: john wilkes booth
Question: What American fairy tale character fell asleep for twenty years?
Answer: rip van winkle
Question: What county of Iowa is famous for its covered bridges, and was featured in a movie starring Clint Eastwood?
Answer: madison county
Question: What country did 15 of the September 11th hijackers come from?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: What TV character said "I am the one who knocks"?
Answer: walter white
Question: What Crayola crayon color, starting with the letter P, is a pale blue?
Answer: periwinkle
Question: Who finished 3rd in the 1992 Presidential election?
Answer: ross perot
Question: What product is "Dolphin Safe" in the U.S. but not necessarily in other countries?
Answer: tunafish
Question: What was once described by a U.S. senator as "a series of tubes"?
Answer: internet
Question: What recent Broadway hit is about the life of one of the founding fathers?
Answer: hamilton
Question: What city did Brandon and Brenda Walsh move to in high school?
Answer: beverly hills
Question: What reality TV show did the villainous Omarosa appear in?
Answer: apprentice
Question: What is either an album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers or a show starring David Duchovny?
Answer: californication
Question: Whose likeness did Republicans propose putting on the dime, in 2003?
Answer: ronald reagan s
Question: What, according to Yogi Berra, ain't worth a dime anymore?
Answer: nickel
Question: What is the second most valuable crop in the U.S. - after corn?
Answer: soybeans
Question: What is the only U.S. state where prostitution is legal?
Answer: nevada
Question: What type of surgery do the main characters of "Nip/Tuck" practice?
Answer: plastic surgery
Question: Whose grave is marked by an eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: What body has been led by John Jay, John Marshall, and Earl Warren?
Answer: supreme court
Question: What company's 2012 bankruptcy caused a brief halt in the production of Twinkies?
Answer: hostess
Question: Whose statue was removed from public view in State College, Pennsylvania?
Answer: joe paterno
Question: What were Big Brown, War Emblem, and Seattle Slew?
Answer: racehorses
Question: Which TV show starred James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler?
Answer: sopranos
Question: Complete the analogy. Sooner is to Oklahoma as _______ is to Indiana.
Answer: hoosier
Question: What famous billionaire investor lives in Omaha, Nebraska?
Answer: warren buffett
Question: What is the best-selling band whose name is a U.S. state?
Answer: alabama
Question: What TV show was created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker?
Answer: south park
Question: What dialect did the Oakland school district once propose teaching classes in?
Answer: ebonics
Question: What type of horses are prominently featured in Budweiser advertisements?
Answer: clydesdale
Question: What invasive species has been blamed for reducing mammal populations in the Everglades?
Answer: burmese python
Question: What round comes after Double Jeopardy?
Answer: final jeopardy
Question: What former prison, located in San Francisco Bay, is called "The Rock"?
Answer: alcatraz
Question: What type of fighting knife is named after a frontiersman who died at the Battle of the Alamo?
Answer: bowie knife
Question: What composer's "Hoe-down" might you also remember from the commercial "Beef, it's what's for dinner"?
Answer: aaron copland
Question: What politician had great hair - and served as John Kerry's running mate in 2004?
Answer: john edwards
Question: What state symbol of Ohio is similar to a chestnut - except that it is poisonous?
Answer: buckeye
Question: Who flips the tiles on "Wheel of Fortune"?
Answer: vanna white
Question: What proposed amendment was approved by Congress in 1972, and ratified by 35 of the necessary 38 states?
Answer: equal rights amendment
Question: What German-born Secretary of State served under Presidents Nixon and Ford?
Answer: henry kissinger
Question: Who starred as AC Slater in "Saved by the Bell"?
Answer: mario lopez
Question: What AOL catchphrase is also the name of a Tom Hanks movie?
Answer: you ve got mail
Question: Who replaced Charlie Sheen on "Two And A Half Men"?
Answer: ashton kutcher
Question: What is the most popular TV show that took place in the city of Albuquerque?
Answer: breaking bad
Question: What 1954 Supreme Court case made school segregation illegal?
Answer: brown v board of education
Question: What type of moss typically grows on Live Oak and Cypress trees?
Answer: spanish moss
Question: Who, according to the Chicago Tribune, did Thomas Dewey defeat in 1948?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: What Native American warrior is the subject of an unfinished outdoor sculpture that dwarfs Mount Rushmore?
Answer: crazy horse
Question: Complete the John F. Kennedy Quote: "Ich Bin Ein ......"
Answer: berliner
Question: What came to an end in Appomattox Court House, Virginia?
Answer: civil war
Question: What syndrome did Corky have on the show "Life Goes On"?
Answer: down syndrome
Question: Who hosted the show "No Reservations" on the Travel Channel?
Answer: anthony bourdain
Question: What gemstone has a blue-green color and is common in the Southwest United States?
Answer: turquoise
Question: Fill the blank in the quote: Will it ____ in Peoria?
Answer: play
Question: What were the Spruce Goose and the Spirit of St. Louis?
Answer: airplanes
Question: What is forbidden by the Fifth Amendment, but happens on a game show hosted by Alex Trebek?
Answer: double jeopardy
Question: What fraternal organization is known for wearing fezzes and driving miniature cars?
Answer: shriners
Question: What city in Kansas did people need to "get the hell outta"?
Answer: dodge city
Question: What TV program once concluded with "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney"?
Answer: 60 minutes
Question: What were installed on the White House roof by Jimmy Carter (but removed by Ronald Reagan)?
Answer: solar panels
Question: What singer, nicknamed Bocephus, sang the theme song to "Monday Night Football"?
Answer: hank williams jr
Question: What criminal was famously pursued by Eliot Ness?
Answer: al capone
Question: What 2008 Presidential candidate was not born in a U.S. state?
Answer: john mccain
Question: What alien was over 200 years old, wanted to eat the family cat, and had a girlfriend named Rhonda?
Answer: alf
Question: Who was the original host of "America's Funniest Home Videos"?
Answer: bob saget
Question: Who tried to jump over Snake River Canyon in a rocket-powered motorcycle?
Answer: evel knievel
Question: What is the highest level of security clearance in the United States?
Answer: top secret
Question: Who is Kermit the Frog's girlfriend?
Answer: miss piggy
Question: What type of animal was the subject of the movie "Blackfish"?
Answer: killer whale
Question: Who did Gerald R. Ford famously pardon in 1974?
Answer: richard nixon
Question: What are all the children in the town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota?
Answer: above average
Question: In the show "The A-Team", what was the only thing that B.A. Baracus was afraid of?
Answer: flying
Question: Who was at the center of the square in the opening credits to "The Brady Bunch"?
Answer: alice
Question: In what Colorado ski town does the average home sell for over $5 million?
Answer: aspen