CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which controversial 1992 song by the punk band Body Count was co-written by the group's vocalist Ice-T and provoked a national debate about freedom of speech in the US?
Answer: cop killer
Question: The first album by the rock group Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) was named after a chapter in which children's classic?
Answer: wind in willows
Question: Which iconic opera stereotype plays in the background as helicopters swoop in to annihilate a village in one of the opening scenes of the movie Apocalypse Now?
Answer: ride of valkyries
Question: The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time was a special issue of Rolling Stone published in 2003 which had Jimi Hendrix at no.1. Which American Southern Rock band was the most represented with 4 of its guitarists making the list?
Answer: allman brothers band
Question: What song was written and performed by Billy Joel to underscore the plight of fishermen on Long Island?
Answer: downeaster alexa
Question: Which punk band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 but refused to attend the induction calling the museum a "piss stain"? Maybe they did not find any 'filthy lucre' there!
Answer: sex pistols
Question: A famous remark often attributed to Brian Eno is that while only a few thousand people bought a record of this band, almost every single one of the purchasers was inspired to start their own band. Which influential rock band was Eno referring to?
Answer: velvet underground
Question: In a Oct, 2014 interview to The Guardian, Prof. Peter Piot said the following. What's the missing word? "In 1976 I discovered ... - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy."
Answer: ebola
Question: In a letter written in 1924, who wrote "You will be interested to hear that I have found a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda Nebula" and transformed our view of the universe forever?
Answer: edwin hubble
Question: In the fall of 2013, The New England Journal of Medicine reported on a certain 'Mississippi Baby' whose case was thought of as a landmark event in medical history. The conclusions made about her were reversed in July 2014. She was in the news for what reason?
Answer: cured of hiv
Question: Oklo in Gabon, Africa is the only known place in the world where what reaction occurs naturally?
Answer: nuclear fission
Question: The Flammarion engraving that can be frequently seen on book covers sought to illustrate what belief system?
Answer: flat earth
Question: The modern-day cattle breed of 'Heck' came about when it was attempted to bring back what extinct species?
Answer: aurochs
Question: If the Solvay Conferences of the early 1910s set the tone for 20th century physics, the Dartmouth Conferences of 1956 have similar importance for what field of science?
Answer: artificial intelligence ai
Question: What is the name of the six-letter ore from which niobium and tantalum are extracted and whose mining is said to have fueled many modern day African conflicts?
Answer: coltan
Question: The 1610 book Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) that contained several sketches of the moon was published by whom?
Answer: galileo
Question: The Nice model, named for the French city, seeks to explain the formation of what?
Answer: solar system
Question: Usually named for the places where they are found, what are traditionally classified into three types as stony, iron and stony-iron?
Answer: meteorites
Question: Which scientific great's equation is seen in the field of quantum mechanics as the equivalent of Newton's Second Law?
Answer: erwin schrödinger
Question: Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize for his studies of inheritance and pioneered the use of which tiny organism?
Answer: fruit fly
Question: The Oscillating Universe Theory combines Big Bang and what other event to make-up a cycle?
Answer: big crunch
Question: German engineer Arthur Scherbius invented the first of what machines extensively used during WWII?
Answer: enigma machines
Question: English physician John Snow successfully traced the outbreak of what disease to a water pump?
Answer: cholera
Question: Philip Zimbardo of Stanford is best known for what experiment conducted in 1971 that highlighted the behavior of people when assigned roles?
Answer: stanford prison experiment
Question: As seen in a scene inspiring Robin Williams in the movie Awakenings, the chemical L-DOPA is widely used in the treatment of what disease?
Answer: parkinson s disease
Question: James Herrick is credited with the description of a genetic disease in which red-blood cells are in what shape instead of the normal disc shape?
Answer: sickle
Question: The sieve of Eratosthenes is an ancient method used to find what in mathematics?
Answer: prime numbers
Question: What 'continental' moon of the Solar System has become the focus of extra-terrestrial life studies because its smooth surface suggests the presence of an ocean underneath?
Answer: europa
Question: If Jupiter has the Great Red Spot, which planet has the Great Dark Spot?
Answer: neptune
Question: Redshift or blueshift that help us see which stars/galaxies are approaching or receding are determined by what effect named for an Austrian physicist?
Answer: doppler effect
Question: What mathematical theorem, the first major theorem to be solved using a computer, was proven in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken with a set of 1936 maps?
Answer: four color map theorem
Question: Schreger lines are the unique identifiers of what valuable substance whose usage has led to the dwindling numbers of something large?
Answer: ivory
Question: Which distinctive plant's genus is Dionaea (the mother of Aphrodite in Greek mythology) and species muscipula (Latin for 'mouse-catching device')?
Answer: venus flytrap
Question: What probability riddle originally published in American Statistician in 1975 gained popular attention after it was featured in Parade in 1990?
Answer: monty hall problem
Question: The baryon asymmetry problem in physics deals with the anomaly of why the universe has any matter at all and why it is not filled with photons only. This is because the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of what?
Answer: matter and antimatter
Question: Because all species of the manatee use fresh water in varying ways, what is the only strictly marine herbivorous mammal?
Answer: dugong
Question: What cell line used in research that was taken from an African-American woman who died in 1951 is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line?
Answer: hela cell line
Question: What type of creature was Lonesome George, who died in 2012 and who gained fame as the rarest creature in the world? (hint: he was aged perhaps more than 100 years)
Answer: pinta island tortoise
Question: A 15 meter long mechanical arm called the Canadarm was used to maneuver payloads through the 1980s to 2011 on what type of vehicles?
Answer: space shuttles
Question: Renal calculus is not a branch of mathematics but a fancy name for what painful affliction?
Answer: kidney stone
Question: The famed oil drop experiment performed by Millikan and Fletcher in 1909 helped determine what fundamental physical constant?
Answer: charge of electron
Question: Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania with its high levels of diversity that includes chimpanzee populations is best associated with which person?
Answer: jane goodall
Question: Similar to an eclipse, they are among the rarest predictable celestial phenomena. The last one for the 21st century occurred on 5/6 June 2012. They are historically of great scientific importance as they were used to gain the first realistic estimates of the size of the Solar System. Observation for the first time in 1639 provided an accurate estimate of the distance between the Sun and the Earth. Answer?
Answer: transits of venus
Question: The most recognized form of a jellyfish and a basic stage in its life cycle takes the name of what fearsome monster in mythology? (hint: stone!)
Answer: medusa
Question: A 2000s British musical by Mat Fraser whose plot is about the love affair of a guy with phocomelia (a birth defect that causes stunted limbs) is titled after what drug?
Answer: thalidomide
Question: The spacecraft New Horizons which is expected to be the first spacecraft to flyby Pluto (in 2015) contains on board whose ashes as a tribute?
Answer: clyde tombaugh discoverer of pluto
Question: The Goldbach's conjecture, one of the oldest unsolved problems in mathematics, states that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as a sum of what?
Answer: two prime numbers
Question: What systems are classified based on their visual appearance by the Hubble sequence?
Answer: galaxies
Question: The 1957 B2FH paper, named after the initials of the scientists that wrote it, is the source of Carl Sagan's famous quote "We are all ___ stuff." What is the missing word?
Answer: star
Question: The development of the immuno-suppressant drug ciclosporin in the 1980s gave a fillip to what type of surgeries?
Answer: organ transplants
Question: What was the subject of astronomer Fred Whipple's 'Dirty Snowball' hypothesis?
Answer: comets
Question: In physics, what is the more common term for the Einstein-Rosen bridge that has fascinating implications for time travel?
Answer: wormhole
Question: When Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discovered pulsars in 1967, they were baffled by the unnatural regularity of the radio transmissions. Jocularly suggesting that it was the work of extraterrestrials, they initially named their discovery as LGM-1 which expands to what?
Answer: little green men 1
Question: In 2010, Andre Geim became the first person to receive both the Nobel Prize and what other unusual prize whose ceremony closes with "If you didn't win a prize - and especially if you did - better luck next year!"?
Answer: ig nobel prizes
Question: Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo that was established in 1925 as Africa's first national park was created mainly to protect what animal?
Answer: gorilla
Question: The Montreal Protocol that went into force in 1989 and which was hailed by Kofi Annan as "... the single most successful international agreement to date ..." was aimed at protecting what?
Answer: ozone layer
Question: The terms anadromous and catadromous describe what type of living thing referring to its mode of migration? (hint: 'ana' is up and 'cata' is down in Greek)
Answer: fish
Question: On 25 December 1990 while working at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between a HTTP client and server via the Internet. In less than 10 years, Time named him as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century. Who?
Answer: tim berners lee
Question: A note written in 1637 in the margin of a book says that there are no positive integers x, y and z such that xn + yn = zn, where n is an integer greater than two. This wasn't proved until 1995. Who is the author of this note?
Answer: pierre de fermat
Question: Dendrochronology is the method of determining age/timeline by the counting of what 'circles'? (hint: 'dendron' in Greek is?)
Answer: tree rings
Question: In the hardware industry, what 'stirring' word describes the process of coating of iron/steel with zinc to prevent rusting?
Answer: galvanization
Question: What namesake thought experiment intended to demonstrate the limitation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics features a malevolent creature opening doors in a chamber?
Answer: maxwell s demon
Question: A hypothetical elementary particle called the Higgs boson that is the subject of studies using the Large Hadron Collider has been given what 'divine' name by the mainstream media?
Answer: god particle
Question: In biology, what 3-letter word derived from the Swedish for 'play' is a gathering of males of certain bird species for the purposes of mating display?
Answer: lek
Question: Global warming be damned. The 19th century biologist Louis Agassiz who studied Alpine glaciers was the first to propose that the Earth had been subject what phenomena in the past?
Answer: ice ages
Question: If Jane Goodall is to chimpanzees, Birutė Galdikas, who worked for a long time in Borneo is to what animal?
Answer: orangutan
Question: In biology, the theory that states that an animal's development from embryo to adult resembles the stages in the evolution of its ancestors is commonly expressed as what three word phrase?
Answer: ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
Question: The common basilisk is a lizard found in Central and South American rain-forests and is known for its ability to run on water. What is its appropriate nickname?
Answer: jesus christ lizard
Question: What is the only major planet of the Solar System that takes its English name from Greek mythology?
Answer: uranus
Question: The mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot is best known for his work on the geometry of what unusual shapes?
Answer: fractals
Question: What controversial theory in evolutionary biology proposes that most sexually reproducing species will experience little or no evolutionary change and remain in an extended state called stasis?
Answer: punctuated equilibrium
Question: The Danjon Scale is a five-point scale for measuring the appearance and luminosity of a particular heavenly body during what type of event?
Answer: lunar eclipse
Question: Mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer that develops from the protective lining of the body's internal organs (the mesothelium) is usually caused by exposure to what substance?
Answer: asbestos
Question: Which lady physicist was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission for which her colleague Otto Hahn won the Nobel and is often mentioned as the most glaring example of womens scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee?
Answer: lise meitner
Question: Named for a scientist who discovered it in 1961, what is the term for the number of times a normal cell population will divide before it stops?
Answer: hayflick limit
Question: There is no such thing as knowing this a little. The 'rabbit test' developed in 1927 by Bernhard Zondek and Selmar Aschheim was used to check for what?
Answer: pregnancy
Question: In chemistry, what is the common name for the alkane hydrocarbons with the general formula C(n)H(2n+2), the simplest form of which is the methane (CH4) gas?
Answer: paraffin
Question: Were he alive in 2006, the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh would have been disappointed as his discovery was 'dwarfed.' What did he discover in 1930?
Answer: pluto
Question: NASA's series of Great Observatories satellites are the following four powerful space-based telescopes. What is the missing word? (hint: An Indian-born American scientist known for his 'limit') 1. The Hubble Space Telescope 2. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory 3. The Spitzer Space Telescope 4. ___ X-ray Observatory
Answer: chandra
Question: What non-technical term is given to a condition where the thumb, when extended (as in a 'thumbs-up'), stretches backwards toward the nail and outwards?
Answer: hitchhiker s thumb
Question: Literally meaning 'on the kidney', what hormone that participates in the 'fight or flight' response of the body is produced by the adrenal glands?
Answer: epinephrine
Question: Woods Hole, Massachusetts is famous for having many institutes in what field of science?
Answer: marine science
Question: Meaning 'indicator' in Greek, what is the part of a sundial that casts the shadow called?
Answer: gnomon
Question: In 1931, the American physical chemist Harold Urey demonstrated the existence of what type of 'weighty' liquid that proved important in the development of the atomic bomb?
Answer: heavy water
Question: Taking its name from the Latin word for magpie, what medical disorder is characterized by an appetite for non-nutritive substances (e.g., clay)?
Answer: pica
Question: Until it was named for a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses, what deadly disease had been called the 'French disease' in Italy and Germany, and the 'Italian disease' in France? Guess nobody wanted to associate themselves with it!
Answer: syphilis
Question: What algebraic system taught in present-day schools is one of the legacies of the philosopher René Descartes to which he lent his name?
Answer: cartesian geometry
Question: What are the four Galilean moons of Jupiter that are named after the lovers of Zeus in Greek myth?
Answer: io europa ganymede and callisto
Question: What mathematical puzzle that consists of three pegs and a number of disks of different sizes in which the objective is to move the entire stack of disks from one peg to another is used in computer science to teach recursion to students of programming?
Answer: towers of hanoi
Question: When it launched the satellite Alouette 1 in 1962, which country became the first non-superpower to enter the space race?
Answer: canada
Question: What non-lethal weapon was named by its inventor Jack Cover after the teen science fiction character Tom Swift?
Answer: taser
Question: Also the title of a 1991 Ron Howard film, what is the term for a situation which can occur when oxygen is re-introduced to a fire that is starved of it resulting in an explosive effect?
Answer: backdraft
Question: Derived from the name of an ancient King of Pontus, what is the practice of Mithridatism?
Answer: protecting oneself against poison by gradually self administering non lethal amounts
Question: What term is given to the biological phenomenon where the size of animals isolated on an island increases dramatically over generations?
Answer: island gigantism
Question: What substance is the basis of the gold refining technique known as 'inquartation and parting' since it can dissolve silver and other base metals but not gold?
Answer: nitric acid
Question: What controversial form of alternative medicine that aims to treat 'like with like' traces its origins to the late 18th century when it was founded by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann?
Answer: homeopathy
Question: In mathematics, what is a statement that appears likely to be true but has not been formally proven to be true under the rules of mathematical logic?
Answer: conjecture
Question: When all their individual contributions are added up, what insects may constitute up to 15 to 25% of the total terrestrial animal biomass?
Answer: ants
Question: Who is the British astrophysicist who announced Einstein's Theory of General Relativity to the English-speaking world in 1919?
Answer: arthur eddington
Question: What biological term from the Greek for 'virgin creation' denotes the growth and development of an embryo or seed without fertilization by a male?
Answer: parthenogenesis
Question: What is the most abundant protein in mammals making up about 25% of their total protein content?
Answer: collagen
Question: What is the common name of the Adansonia species of tree native to Africa and Australia that is noted for its capacity to store enormous quantity of water?
Answer: boabab
Question: What organic compound is the primary structural component of green plants and also makes-up their primary cell wall?
Answer: cellulose
Question: Which element is added to rubber in the vulcanization process?
Answer: sulphur
Question: Because of his advocation for the use of direct current (DC) for electric power distribution, Thomas Edison developed a bitter rivalry with which other genius who advocated alternating current (AC)?
Answer: nikola tesla
Question: Due to its use by the ruling class to murder one another and for its potency and discreetness, which element has been called the 'Poison of Kings'?
Answer: arsenic
Question: What 'Z' mineral found in Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia with an age of 4.404 billion years might be the oldest mineral on earth?
Answer: zircon
Question: What nutrients required by the human body for metabolic reactions are classified as water-soluble and fat-soluble? Did you take yours today?
Answer: vitamins
Question: What is the largest species of the salmon family that also shares its name with an Indian tribe?
Answer: chinook
Question: What was discovered by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911 when he was studying the resistance of solid mercury at cryogenic temperatures?
Answer: superconductivity
Question: In 1949, what process developed by Willard Libby revolutionized archaeology?
Answer: radiocarbon dating
Question: Olympus Mons is the tallest known volcano and mountain in our Solar System. Where is it located?
Answer: mars
Question: Which element gets its name from the Greek for 'acid producer' because the scientist Lavoisier who named it erroneously thought that it was a constituent of all acids?
Answer: oxygen
Question: What rare form of headache whose name refers to its tendency to occur periodically has been called by some experts as the most painful condition known to medical science?
Answer: cluster headache
Question: The Klein bottle which has no distinction between inside and outside surfaces can be made by gluing two of what similar objects?
Answer: möbius strips
Question: What breed of sheep that is also the most numerous in the world is prized for its wool?
Answer: merino
Question: In the general theory of relativity, what is the term for a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect the observer?
Answer: event horizon
Question: Which phrase, also the title of a 2004 Ashton Kutcher movie, encapsulates the notion of 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions' of Chaos theory?
Answer: butterfly effect
Question: What scale measures cola at 2.5, orange juice at 3.5, beer at 4.5, coffee at 5.0, tea at 5.5, milk at 6.5 and blood at nearly 7.4?
Answer: ph scale
Question: The name of which artificial satellite constellation system was taken from the name of the element with atomic number 77?
Answer: iridium
Question: In the human brain, what is the area that is involved in language processing, speech production and comprehension?
Answer: broca s area
Question: What neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning is named after a Japanese city where it was first discovered?
Answer: minamata disease
Question: What is the term for the time that it takes an object to make one full orbit around the Sun, relative to the stars?
Answer: sidereal period
Question: True versatility! Which actress achieved her biggest success in Samson and Delilah and co-invented the first form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication?
Answer: hedy lamarr
Question: What appropriately named spacecraft launched in 1972 has become the first artificial object to leave the Solar System?
Answer: pioneer 10
Question: What did Edwin Land invent because of his daughters' wish for instant and 'snappy' results?
Answer: polaroid photography
Question: What type of diet is ophiophagy, notably practiced by the king cobra?
Answer: snake eating
Question: Endemic to New Zealand and currently listed as critically endangered, the kakapo is world's only flightless species of which common bird?
Answer: parrot
Question: The use of what equipment in cricket which has come to sad attention in Nov, 2014 was pioneered into regular usage by English batsman Dennis Amiss?
Answer: helmet
Question: Think outside Scandinavia. What is the only country that won a gold medal at every Winter Olympics?
Answer: usa
Question: What is the name of the Hungarian-born American professor whose rating system was approved at a meeting of the United States Chess Federation in St. Louis in 1960?
Answer: arpad elo
Question: Who along with Mel Hausner, Lloyd S. Shapley and Martin Shubik invented a board game called "So Long Sucker" in 1950 which involves game theory strategies?
Answer: john forbes nash
Question: Naismith's rule, not connected with basketball, is a rule of thumb that helps plan what popular activity?
Answer: hiking
Question: Which land-locked European country whose teams have excelled in water polo and fencing holds the record for having won the most medals of any nation to never host the Olympics?
Answer: hungary
Question: When legendary Finnish athlete Paavo Nurmi was asked about the reason for his success at the 1924 Olympics despite high-heat conditions, he mentioned what tradition of his country as part of his training?
Answer: sauna
Question: Nelson Mandela once gave the South African rugby player Francois Pienaar a copy of Theodore Roosevelt's "The Man in the Arena" speech for inspiration. In a 2009 movie adaptation however, what literary work was used instead of Roosevelt's speech?
Answer: poem invictus