CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Alluded to by Alexander Pope in his An Essay on Criticism, in Greek mythology it was believed that drinking from what body of water would bring you great inspiration?
Answer: pierian spring
Question: What is the illustrated manuscript produced by Celtic monks around 800 AD that has been described as the zenith of Western calligraphy and illumination?
Answer: book of kells
Question: What is the Japanese equivalent of the Chinese art of penjing?
Answer: bonsai
Question: What valuable commodities were called as 'sweat of the sun' and 'tears of the moon' by the Incas?
Answer: gold and silver
Question: When this great artist was once criticized for creating unrealistic art, he asked his accuser "Can you show me some realistic art?" The man showed him a photograph of his wife. The artist observed: "So your wife is two inches tall, two-dimensional, with no arms and no legs, and no colour but only shades of gray?" Who is this artist who went through a 'Blue Period' and a 'Rose Period'?
Answer: pablo picasso
Question: What is the name of the ritual practiced by some Bedouin tribes for the purpose of lie detection in which the accused is asked to lick a hot object?
Answer: bishaa
Question: Western Red Cedar trees are typically used by the indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America to carve what distinctive artifacts?
Answer: totem poles
Question: What is the name of the water management system developed in ancient Persia that is used to provide a reliable supply of water in hot and arid climates?
Answer: qanat
Question: Until the 80s, visitors to Disneyland would purchase books of coupons that were in different alphabetical denominations with the highest one being the most expensive and reserved for the most popular rides. What expression for a thrilling situation originates from this practice?
Answer: e ticket ride
Question: The Temple of the Tooth which houses the only surviving relic of Buddha (a tooth) is located in the city of Kandy in which Asian country?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: During the canonization process of the Roman Catholic Church, what was the lawyer who argued against the canonization of a candidate called?
Answer: devil s advocate
Question: Made famous by the movie Midnight Express, what is the punishment of 'falaka' or 'bastinado'?
Answer: soles of feet
Question: In a slogan that became popular in Costa Rica, it is claimed that which advertising character prefers that country's coffee implying his preference over Colombian coffee?
Answer: juan valdez
Question: The name of American businessman and ex-CEO of Union Carbide Warren Anderson who died in Sep, 2014 is associated with the industrial disaster of which city?
Answer: bhopal
Question: In his 1999 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, in what came to be known as the Golden Arches theory, Thomas L. Friedman wrote that no two nations with a McDonald's franchise had ever gone to war. He upgraded this theory in The World is Flat taking the name of what technology company to further underscore the link between strong economic ties and peace?
Answer: dell
Question: The firm Sterling Cooper featured in the hit TV series Mad Men is located in what part of New York?
Answer: madison avenue
Question: What famous 3-word ad line of an apparel company was coined by Dan Wieden who got it from the final words of executed murderer Gary Gilmore?
Answer: just do it nike
Question: US Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson is known for saying that what's good for which company is also good for his country?
Answer: general motors
Question: An unidentified Satoshi Nakamoto is credited with what concept that has taken the financial world by storm?
Answer: bitcoin
Question: Unimate which worked in a General Motors assembly line in 1961 has what distinction in the world of business?
Answer: first industrial robot
Question: Structures called yakhchals in Persia may be called the ancient versions of what modern contraption?
Answer: refrigerator
Question: When engineer Percy Spencer discovered that his chocolate bar became a mess when near a magnetron, it lead to the invention of what modern convenience?
Answer: microwave
Question: The automobile SEAT 600 made from 1957 to 1973 is associated with the economic boom of what country?
Answer: spain
Question: The idea for what company originated when Reed Hastings paid $40 in fine for returning Apollo 13 well past its due date?
Answer: netflix
Question: What municipality in Switzerland, also the highest city in Europe, is the annual host of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meet?
Answer: davos
Question: In the year 1636 during the Dutch Golden Age, what unlikely item became the fourth leading export after gin, herring and cheese causing a journalist to write a book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds?
Answer: tulip bulb
Question: The name of what entertainment business has its origin in that Texas, in its roller-coaster history, was governed by half a dozen entities?
Answer: six flags
Question: The ruins of a large complex of shops near the Colosseum that have been called the world's oldest shopping mall is named for what Roman emperor?
Answer: trajan
Question: What giant corporation headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland was listed as the world's most profitable in 2011 by Fortune?
Answer: nestlé
Question: The logo of what company has recently been named after the NBA legend Larry Bird? The answer is less than 140 characters!
Answer: twitter
Question: Created by a Canadian Nobel laureate, a Vickrey auction is one where bidders submit secret written bids and in which the highest bidder wins, but the price paid is that of what?
Answer: second highest bid
Question: The executive Malcolm T. Stamper is best known for leading 50,000 people in a huge plant at Everett, Washington in the 1960s for the construction of what engineering marvel?
Answer: boeing 747
Question: If Manhattan is the financial hub of New York, the area of Pudong is the similar equivalent for which city?
Answer: shanghai
Question: What giant that operates as Asda in the United Kingdom, Seiyu in Japan and Best Price in India is also the biggest private employer in the world?
Answer: walmart
Question: Since the 1960s, what advertising objects come in three models called GZ-19, GZ-20 and GZ-22?
Answer: goodyear blimps
Question: The discovery of Metallica's song "I Disappear" on a file sharing network in 2000 started a chain of events that led to the demise of the original incarnation of what company?
Answer: napster
Question: Arthur's Day refers to events first organised in 2009 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of what brewing company, the name Arthur being the first name of the founder?
Answer: guinness
Question: In 2010, which company reportedly bought the domain name of a farm bureau for $8.5 million, clearly interested in the F and the B?
Answer: facebook
Question: Which American tycoon and publisher of a magazine was known for his lavish life-style that included a collection of special shape hot air balloons?
Answer: malcolm forbes
Question: What is the name of the oil rig that sank and caused the largest offshore oil spill in US history and gave BP a bad rep in 2010?
Answer: deepwater horizon
Question: Which dot-com company that had its heyday in the 90s is credited with the development of the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol for secure online communication as well as with JavaScript?
Answer: netscape
Question: Which company/product connected with transportation is associated with the immensely successful 'Think Small' ad campaign?
Answer: volkswagen
Question: Which 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen is known for the industrial production of steel and armaments and has been known as the 'Arsenal of the Reich'?
Answer: krupp family
Question: Which influential author of Economics: An Introductory Analysis, the largest-selling economics textbook of all time is also the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: paul samuelson
Question: In 1984, while filming a commercial for which company did Michael Jackson suffer second degree burns after pyrotechnics set his hair on fire?
Answer: pepsi cola
Question: Appropriately, which company's NYSE symbol is 'BID'?
Answer: sotheby s
Question: The children's literature section of the publisher Penguin Books works under what name?
Answer: puffin books
Question: The American inventor Douglas Engelbart is best known for inventing which ubiquitous 'clicking' device?
Answer: computer mouse
Question: Which company was responsible for the Bhopal disaster in 1984 that is frequently cited as the world's worst industrial disaster?
Answer: union carbide
Question: The name of which company is supposedly derived from the transcandental god of Zoraastrianism?
Answer: mazda
Question: Harald ___ Gromson was the king of Denmark in the 10th century and is regarded as having united Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. How is his name popular in the technological world?
Answer: bluetooth
Question: In the 1970s, 'The Chicago Boys' were a group of 25 economists working under which South American dictator's administration to create a free market economy?
Answer: augusto pinochet
Question: Marshall McLuhan was named as the 'patron saint' of which magazine that had his quote on its masthead for the first ten years of its publication?
Answer: wired
Question: What 'nuclear' nickname was given to Jack Welch in the 1980s for eliminating employees while leaving the office buildings intact?
Answer: neutron jack
Question: The design of Nike's Air Jordan basketball shoe was reportedly inspired by which deadly African slithering creature?
Answer: black mamba
Question: Composer Frode Fjellheim was praised by Norway's president in a New Year's speech for his contribution to what 2013 hit film that amply features elements of the country's native culture?
Answer: frozen
Question: If you see the name of the organization American Humane Association in the credits of a movie or a television show, what 4-word phrase are you also most likely to see?
Answer: no animals were harmed
Question: Performers called benshi in Japan provided what service to film-goers particularly in the days of silent cinema?
Answer: live narration
Question: What 1956 film was to be called The Reno Brothers when a hit song passing the one million sales mark was noticed by the producers causing a change in the title?
Answer: love me tender
Question: Reginald Rose was once part of a jury that debated a manslaughter case for eight hours. This incident inspired him to create what drama that has seen multiple adaptations?
Answer: twelve angry men
Question: In the 1983 thriller WarGames, the protagonists prevent nuclear war by directing a computer to play what game against itself?
Answer: tic tac toe
Question: The Sapphire Affair of 1962 connected with the Cuban Missile Crisis was the basis of what similarly titled 1969 Hitchcock thriller?
Answer: topaz
Question: In what film does General George Marshall read the Bixby letter, a real-life missive sent by Abraham Lincoln to a bereaved mother of five sons, before flagging off the titular mission?
Answer: saving private ryan
Question: Introducing what eventual Best Picture winner at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony in 2004 did host Billy Crystal quip that it received eleven nominations, one for each ending?
Answer: return of king
Question: What 3-word term is given to the genre of kitschy Italian films of the mid 20th century that sought to emulate the historic epics of Hollywood like Spartacus?
Answer: sword and sandal
Question: The 1994 book Lost Moon is the basis of what subsequent year's Hollywood hit?
Answer: apollo 13
Question: In which 2008 movie of Clint Eastwood are the Hmong people prominently featured?
Answer: gran torino
Question: In Caddyshack, Bill Murray as Carl Spackler fantasizes winning the Masters golf tournament while comparing himself to which character in his monologue?
Answer: cinderella
Question: In The Motorcycle Diaries, at what location does Che Guevera muse how a civilization capable of creating such beauty could be destroyed by the creators of the urban decay of a nearby city?
Answer: machu picchu
Question: The 1952 movie Bwana Devil that had on its poster the lines "A lion is in your lap!" and "A lover is in your arms!" is known for sparking what craze?
Answer: 3 d
Question: A 1999 movie starring Peter O'Toole as Father Damien had the name of what island of the Hawaiian archipelago as its title?
Answer: molokai
Question: What phrase used by Jack London in John Barleycorn to describe alcoholism was later referenced in Dumbo when the elephant hallucinates after drinking water spiked with champagne?
Answer: seeing pink elephants
Question: What connects Martin Scorsese to the names The Dead Rabbits, The Daybreak Boys, and The Whyos (among others)?
Answer: gangs of new york
Question: A sword called Green Destiny occupies a prominent spot in the story of what 2000 world-wide hit movie?
Answer: crouching tiger hidden dragon
Question: The executive producer of what 2004 biopic stated that the main character in the movie "is more akin to Jack Kerouac or Neal Cassady than Marx or Lenin"?
Answer: motorcycle diaries
Question: In 1995, two Stanford researchers came up with a selected list of film clips able to elicit a single emotion. What 1989 film's scene that takes place in Katz's Delicatessen was the top-rated clip for amusement? (hint: what was she really having?)
Answer: when harry met sally
Question: If The Quiet American (2002) is to Vietnam, The Killing Fields (1984) is to Cambodia, then The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) is to what country?
Answer: indonesia
Question: What invention of Garrett Brown that 'smoothens' movie viewing experience saw its debut in Bound for Glory and subsequently in the chase scenes of Marathon Man?
Answer: steadicam
Question: The English actress Diana Dors once called herself "the only sex symbol Britain has produced since" which person? No peeping or you'll go blind.
Answer: lady godiva
Question: What Hitchcock classic is said to use the Madonna-whore complex to represent a lead figure, the same woman simultaneously representing virtue and debasement?
Answer: vertigo 1958
Question: The 1985 Japanese comedy Tampopo was publicized as not sphagetti, but what type of western?
Answer: ramen
Question: Cheoah Dam in North Carolina was the real-life location of the 'dive scene' in what 1993 movie in which the protagonist is wrongly accused of murder?
Answer: fugitive
Question: Pintel and Ragetti are a recurring comedy pair in a 2000s adventure film franchise set on high seas. What possession of Ragetti that is repeatedly hit by a fork is he usually seen to be searching for?
Answer: wooden eye
Question: The producer of what 1970s film wanted to call it The Sidewalk Vigilante as he felt the title (which stayed) was too morbid?
Answer: death wish
Question: For an American Express ad, Tiger Woods once donned the role of Carl Spackler, a character from what 1980 comedy set at the Bushwood Country Club?
Answer: caddyshack
Question: The 2-word title of what 2005 documentary about the moon landings comes from how Buzz Aldrin described the moonscape while conversing with Neil Armstrong?
Answer: magnificent desolation
Question: Called the biggest regular cultural event on the African continent, FESPACO, the largest African film festival takes place in the capital of which country? (hint: formerly Upper Volta)
Answer: burkina faso
Question: Rick Baker won the inaugural Oscar award for make-up for his showcasing of beastly transformation in which 1981 John Landis' cult classic?
Answer: american werewolf in london
Question: After the duet "Sull'aria...che soave zeffiretto" from The Marriage of Figaro plays on loudspeakers in a film, a voice-over goes: "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. [...] I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. [...] It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in ___ felt free." What is the missing word?
Answer: shawshank
Question: Editor Thelma Schoonmaker's successful collaboration with which director fetched her three Oscars in 1980, 2004 and 2006? (hint: the director won only once till date in one of these years)
Answer: martin scorsese
Question: In 1978 following a public campaign to restore it, the following nine gave $27,777 for each of its components: Terrence Donnelly, Giovanni Mazza (Italian movie producer), Les Kelley, Gene Autry, Hugh Hefner, Andy Williams, Warner Bros. Records, Alice Cooper and Thomas Pooley. It was a campaign to preserve what nine letter symbol?
Answer: hollywood sign
Question: What frightening sci-fi film character, also called a xenomorph, was designed by H. R. Giger from a lithograph titled Necronom IV?
Answer: alien
Question: The set piece of what classic 1955 one-word French film is a 30-min heist scene filmed in near silence and which has inspired real crimes around the world?
Answer: rififi
Question: In 1954 the British genius Alan Turing was found dead with a half-eaten apple next to his body. Although the apple was not tested for cyanide, the cause of his death was established as cyanide poisoning. It was suggested that Turing was re-enacting a scene from which 1937 film that was based on his favorite (and universally loved) fairy tale?
Answer: snow white
Question: The main setting in what 1994 classic is modeled after Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya where crew members of the film spent time to study on the film's setting and observe the animals?
Answer: lion king
Question: According to imdb.com, the title of what Michael Douglas 1984 hit that is set in South America refers to a step in the preparation of a gem for use in jewelry?
Answer: romancing stone
Question: The 1998 Canadian movie The Red Violin that traces the story of a mysterious violin across Vienna, Oxford, Shanghai, and Montreal starts off in what Italian location?
Answer: cremona
Question: What video-distribution company known for standardizing features like letterbox ratio, bonus features, and special editions started in 1984 with the releases of Citizen Kane and King Kong?
Answer: criterion collection
Question: In June 2011, FBI arrested Boston mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger near Los Angeles after a 16 year manhunt. He was the inspiration behind the character of Frank Costello in which Oscar-winning film?
Answer: departed
Question: What 1920 horror classic from Germany that tells the story of a doctor and his sidekick Cesare in the village of Holstenwall is said to have introduced the concept of twist ending in cinema?
Answer: cabinet of dr caligari
Question: What runs for about 1.3 miles on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles county and is said to attract 10 million tourists every year?
Answer: hollywood walk of fame
Question: The Bengali films Pratidwandi, Seemabaddha and Jana Aranya directed by the Oscar winning Satyajit Ray are known as the trilogy of what Indian city to which he was strongly associated?
Answer: calcutta
Question: The authentic Nazi submarine used in Raiders of the Lost Ark was rented from the production of what 1981 epic war film that tells the fictional story of the crew of U-boat U-96?
Answer: das boot
Question: Paul Brickhill, an Australian pilot during WWII was shot down over Tunisia and became a POW in Germany; his experiences at the camp, which not every Tom, Dick or Harry could have had were dramatized in what 1963 'break-out' drama?
Answer: great escape
Question: The 1973 Japanese film Lady Snowblood that is about a woman seeking vengeance upon her parents' killers was the inspiration behind what 2000s 2-part blockbuster?
Answer: kill bill
Question: The title of what poignant 1971 drama film set in Anarene, Texas refers to the fact of the town's only cinema closing forever?
Answer: last picture show
Question: Which 1992 romantic-thriller that had two Oscar nominated songs in "I Have Nothing" and "Run to You" has spawned the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time?
Answer: bodyguard
Question: What Oscar nominated 2010 movie was adapted from the book The Accidental Billionaires and advertised with the tagline "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"?
Answer: social network
Question: The 1996 movie The Evening Star starring Shirley MacLaine who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway is a sequel to which Oscar-winning movie of the 1980s?
Answer: terms of endearment
Question: Hammer Film Productions, the British company which made a series films from the mid-1950s until the 1970s is best known for which genre?
Answer: horror
Question: Which 1979 Russian movie that tells the story of three women who come to the titular city was watched by Ronald Reagan prior to his meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev in order for him to gain a better understanding of the 'Russian soul'?
Answer: moscow does not believe in tears
Question: The 2009 biographical film The Last Station starring Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren is about the last year in the life of which literary figure who died in 1910 at Astapovo train station?
Answer: leo tolstoy
Question: What 1997 science fiction drama that deals with eugenics takes its title from a combination of the initial letters of the four DNA bases of Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine?
Answer: gattaca
Question: Which 2001 film is based on the story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss that deals with the age of machines where child creation is controlled?
Answer: i artificial intelligence
Question: If you are given the words - City Slickers and push-ups, can you name the person?
Answer: jack palance
Question: The title of what classic 1959 French film that details the life of a troubled adolescent named Antoine Doinel refers to an expression 'faire les quatre cents coups' which means 'to raise hell'?
Answer: 400 blows
Question: Directed by Baz Luhrmann, the three films Strictly Ballroom (1992), William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! are called as what type of trilogy referring to their theatrical motifs?
Answer: red curtain trilogy
Question: In what 1949 classic English comedy from Ealing Studios does Alec Guinness play 8 roles?
Answer: kind hearts and coronets
Question: With 11 wins and 34 nominations, which country holds the record for most honors in the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars (as of 2009)?
Answer: france
Question: Which French comedian is best known for his portrayal of an irascible Italian village priest at war with the town's Communist mayor in the Don Camillo series of motion pictures?
Answer: fernandel
Question: Which classic 1966 film by Gillo Pontecorvo was shown in the Pentagon in 2003 with the flyer reading as follows? How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film.
Answer: battle of algiers
Question: What series of documentary films directed by Michael Apted follow the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old?
Answer: up series
Question: David Chase, the creator of which super-hit TV series called the movie Goodfellas his inspiration?
Answer: sopranos
Question: It's not just the title, even the profits were corpulent. What ethnic 2002 romantic comedy is the highest-grossing film to never have been number one on the weekly North American box-office charts?
Answer: my big fat greek wedding
Question: Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of the Charles de Gaulle Airport from 1988 until 2006 may have been the inspiration behind what 2004 movie?
Answer: terminal
Question: The title of which 2003 movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall who sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed it upon death?
Answer: 21 grams
Question: In The Matrix films, the hovercraft of Morpheus is named after which ancient ruler of Babylon?
Answer: nebuchadnezzar