CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who, at 95 years of age, supposedly waved the Union flag out of the window of her house in Frederick, Maryland while Stonewall Jackson's troops were passing, and is the subject of a 1864 poem: "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said."?
Answer: barbara fritchie
Question: Three shepherd children had sightings of the Virgin Mary on the 13th day of 6 consecutive months in 1917, starting on 13 May, near a town called Fatima, which is in what country?
Answer: portugal
Question: An American singer-songwriter, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, was nicknamed what (which was also the name of their last album, in 1971)?
Answer: pearl
Question: Castoreum, which comes from a beaver, is used as an ingredient in what?
Answer: perfume
Question: Which US President was assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz at the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York?
Answer: william mckinley
Question: What was the common name of the Volkswagen Type 14, a 2+2 sold from 1955 to 1974 in coupe and convertible bodystyles, which was then the car most imported to the USA?
Answer: karmann ghia
Question: What is the name for a raised block of the earth's crust thrown up between two faults?
Answer: horst
Question: What is the occupation of the title character in "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce?
Answer: hod carrier
Question: Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the lira as its basic currency unit?
Answer: italy
Question: The songs "Aquarius" and "Good Morning Starshine" are from which musical?
Answer: hair
Question: What did Napoleon Bonaparte I establish in 1804, a measure which has had worldwide effect?
Answer: napoleonic code
Question: Loihi Seamount, an active undersea volcano, is around 35 km (22 miles) off the southeast coast of where?
Answer: hawaii
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, whose lamb followed her to school?
Answer: mary
Question: Who wrote "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?
Answer: douglas adams
Question: Which film is the story of Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) who starts with well meaning ambition to enter politics, is corrupted by power on his way to becoming a US state governor, and is assassinated?
Answer: all king s men
Question: Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner starred in what TV series, first broadcast from 1966 to 1969?
Answer: star trek
Question: What is the main material out of which a pool cue is usually made?
Answer: wood
Question: What is the name for the movement formed by John Nelson Darby and colleagues in the 1830s?
Answer: plymouth brethren
Question: What association, currently of 27 members, holds over just 7% (in 2011) of the global population and generates approximately 20% of global GDP when thought of in terms of purchasing power parity?
Answer: eu
Question: What type of rock is formed by the solidification of molten magma?
Answer: igneous
Question: Who was the subject of an unsuccessful kidnapping attempt on Pall Mall, London, on 20 March 1974 by Ian Ball, who shot Inspector James Beaton (a bodyguard), Alex Callender (chauffeur), Brian McConnell (a passerby who intervened) and Police Constable Michael Hills?
Answer: princess anne
Question: Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, and Dr. Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, founded which international organsation in the UK in 1946?
Answer: mensa
Question: Who played Ava Gardner in "The Aviator"?
Answer: kate beckinsale
Question: """Easter Parade"" (1948), starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featured songs by whom?"
Answer: irving berlin
Question: When did Channel Four and the Welsh language channel SC4 first broadcast in the UK?
Answer: november 1982
Question: What river, that passes through Turin, is the longest river in Italy?
Answer: po
Question: Who is thought to have first invented gunpowder?
Answer: chinese alchemists
Question: Where did Portuguese traders begin to settle in the 16th century, administering the area until 20 December 1999?
Answer: macau
Question: Blue Mountain Coffee, noted for its mild flavour and lack of bitterness (the beans of which are the flavour base of Tia Maria coffee liqueur), is grown in which country?
Answer: jamaica
Question: Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson competed against each other in the 1940s in which sport?
Answer: golf
Question: Inspired by lucid dreaming and corporate espionage, it won Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Cinematography. Which film is it?
Answer: inception
Question: Who created the character of the detective priest known as Father Brown?
Answer: g k chesterton
Question: In the Bible, who was the apostle chosen by the remaining 11 to replace Judas Iscariot following his betrayal of Jesus and suicide?
Answer: matthias
Question: Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north are known as what?
Answer: ashkenazi
Question: A non-SI unit of radioactivity is named after ...?
Answer: marie and pierre curie
Question: The Gregorian calendar was named after what public figure at the time?
Answer: pope
Question: The formula for World Rally Championship cars changed for the 2011 championship, with engines limited to many litres?
Answer: 1 6
Question: Who reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later, the shortest reign in papal history since 1605?
Answer: john paul i
Question: Which Biblical temptress has inspired plays by Oscar Wilde and Nick Cave, operas by Richard Strauss and Antoine Mariotte, a ballet by Florent Schmitt, films, a sculpture by Tilman Riemenschneider and numerous paintings, including those by Sandro Botticelli, Titian, Caravaggio, Caracciolo, Gustave Dor, James Tissot, Aubrey Beardsley and Robert Henri?
Answer: salome
Question: What was the title of a 1996 American disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as "storm chasers"?
Answer: twister
Question: In snooker, what is the name of the shot where a ball goes into a pocket after hitting the opposite cushion?
Answer: double
Question: Of the 5 Presidents of Egypt since it was declared a republic in 1953 who has served the longest?
Answer: hosni mubarak
Question: Who is a central figure in Homer's "Iliad"?
Answer: achilles
Question: What is an Afrikaans and South African English word for a roughly circular enclosure for livestock, surrounded by fencing?
Answer: kraal
Question: The Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 was decisive in which conflict?
Answer: wars of roses
Question: Who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. who has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, and his social and political activism?
Answer: michael stipe
Question: By what name was the Castle of St Antoine that was built in Paris in 1369 as a fortress better known?
Answer: bastille
Question: During the Great, or Western, Schism from 1378, there were two or more Popes recognised in the Catholic Church. Who was elected in 1417 and eventually recognised by the majority as the single Pope?
Answer: martin v
Question: In the James Bond film "Dr. No" who played Bond girl Honey Rider?
Answer: ursula andress
Question: Sometimes called elephant or chinese chess, what is this game known as in the Asian Games?
Answer: xiangqi
Question: What is the Fijian word for a wood-and-straw hut, sometimes similar to a cabin?
Answer: bure
Question: In which country, in June 2010, were there clashes between the two main ethnic groups, the Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, a state of emergency declared and troops deployed, inciting fears that the country could be heading towards a civil war?
Answer: kyrgyzstan
Question: Where was the TV series Stargate-SG1 filmed?
Answer: vancouver canada
Question: Which band, led by Mick Hucknall, released its first single, "Money's Too Tight (To Mention)", in 1985?
Answer: simply red
Question: Who was the literary character behind the play Man of La Mancha?
Answer: don quixote
Question: What character did Sharon Stone play in the 1992 film "Basic Instinct"?
Answer: catherine
Question: A 1973 James Bond film was entitled "Live and Let ... " what?
Answer: die
Question: In May 1909, Oscar Slater was sentenced to death for murder and released in 1928 with 6,000 compensation. People who campaigned for his release included William Roughead (who published his "Trial of Oscar Slater" in 1910), William Park (who published his "The Truth about Oscar Slater" in 1927) and by which other author who published "The Case of Oscar Slater" in 1912?
Answer: sir arthur conan doyle
Question: Luge and skeleton racing were developed in the late 19th century in which country?
Answer: switzerland
Question: It was a highly popular music hall song in 1910, a signature tune of Harry Champion, and was revived and popularised by Joe Brown and by Herman's Hermits, and is...?
Answer: i m henery eighth i am
Question: What gas is the main component of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
Answer: carbon dioxide
Question: Shah Jahan directed the construction of which from 1632 to 1648?
Answer: taj mahal
Question: What substance in the human body causes blood vessels to dilate when released as part of an allergic reaction?
Answer: histamine
Question: Which London station does the "Eurostar" leave from?
Answer: st pancras
Question: In 2004, Barbie dumped Ken for an Australian. What was his name?
Answer: blaine
Question: In 2010, who became the first person to win the Women's Singles title at the Australian Open tennis tournament 5 times?
Answer: serena williams
Question: What river rises in the Black Forest and travels 1,775 miles to empty into the Black Sea?
Answer: danube
Question: In Roman mythology, when, on the dethronement of Saturn, Jupiter and his brothers divided his dominions, who got the realms of the dead?
Answer: pluto
Question: In the time of the British Empire, India was referred to as what?
Answer: jewel in crown
Question: What is the next in this series: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts ... ?
Answer: romans
Question: Football Golf has annual World and European Championships, as well as Open Tournaments in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and what other country?
Answer: spain
Question: Who was the leader of 617 Squadron, formed during World War II and known as the Dambusters?
Answer: guy gibson
Question: Who were the Persians defeated by in the sea battle at Salamis in 480BC?
Answer: greece
Question: The musical term "scherzo" takes its name from the Italian word for what?
Answer: joke
Question: A Russian political satirist, later exiled, who wrote the plays "Dead Souls" and "The Government Inspector" was..?
Answer: gogol
Question: Who was awarded FIFA's Ballon D'Or in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012?
Answer: lionel messi
Question: What war, begun in 1740 when Austrian Emperor Charles VI died and his daughter Maria Theresa came to the throne, involved attacks by Prussia, Bavaria, France, Spain, Sardinia and Saxony, and ended in 1748?
Answer: war of austrian succession
Question: In which James Bond film does he have to defeat shipping magnate Karl Stromberg?
Answer: spy who loved me
Question: Bangladesh declared independence from which country on 26 March 1971?
Answer: pakistan
Question: Who was the lead guitarist of the band "Guns N' Roses" between 1985 and 1996?
Answer: slash
Question: Who refused to enter the US army, saying "I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong. No Vietcong ever called me nigger"?
Answer: muhammad ali
Question: What was the last James Bond film made that starred Roger Moore?
Answer: view to kill
Question: The Massacre of Aleppo in 1850 in Syria was carried out during which rule?
Answer: ottoman empire
Question: Which bridge across the Thames is closest to the Houses of Parliament in London?
Answer: westminster bridge
Question: Piggyback, fireman's, and Estonian-style are holds in what sport with Championships in North America, Finland, and (in 2011) India?
Answer: wife carrying
Question: The initiative for what current unit of the British Army began during World War II in 1941 by David Stirling as a commando force operating behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa and Europe?
Answer: sas
Question: Tony Kushner wrote the award-winning play "Angels in...?
Answer: america
Question: Which English soccer player, whose career in first class soccer ran from 1958 to 1976, was captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup and was England's most capped player (108) when he retired from the England team in 1973?
Answer: bobby moore
Question: In 1968, which book by Philip K Dick was published that became the basis for the 1982 film "Blade Runner"?
Answer: do androids dream of electric sheep
Question: Which issue in the state of Western Australia has been defeated each time it has been put to a plebiscite in 1975, 1984, 1992 & 2009?
Answer: daylight saving
Question: In which 1981 television series did Kenneth Williams voice at least 13 characters, and together with one other actor voice all of the characters in the series?
Answer: willo wisp
Question: Who of these is most associated with Fleetwood Mac?
Answer: stevie nicks
Question: Who was killed on 4 January 1967 when his jet propelled boat, Bluebird K7, somersaulted and disintegrated on Coniston Water?
Answer: donald campbell
Question: Who played the title role in the film "Saving Private Ryan"?
Answer: matt damon
Question: In chess, what term is given to the situation where a king is under direct attack and cannot avoid being captured?
Answer: checkmate
Question: What is the Japanese delicacy that consists of the poisonous puffer fish with the poisonous parts (hopefully) removed?
Answer: fugu
Question: The federal government of Australia moved to what new, purpose-built, planned, capital city in 1927?
Answer: canberra
Question: By what name is Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus better known?
Answer: caligula
Question: What was the nickname of snooker player Ray Riordan?
Answer: dracula
Question: The nomadic Mongol tribes in Mongolia, Manchuria and Siberia united under which leader in the 1100s?
Answer: genghis khan
Question: The semi-arid region called The Sahel separates what from the rest of Africa?
Answer: sahara desert
Question: A series of political protests against the government in Thailand in 2010 were organised by a group calling themselves what?
Answer: red shirts
Question: What is the transparent front part of the eye which, while contributing most of the eye's focusing power, has a fixed focus?
Answer: cornea
Question: Who were Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory, Orinoco, Bungo, Tomsk, Wellington and Madame Cholet?
Answer: wombles
Question: Which English MP, Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King Charles II and King James II, kept a detailed private diary during 16601669 which contained personal revelations and eyewitness accounts of great events and, after publication in the 19th century, became a primary source for study of the English Restoration period?
Answer: samuel pepys
Question: What country has an official residence called Blair House, kept for guests of the leader of the country?
Answer: usa
Question: What sort of art work is the "Venus de Milo"?
Answer: sculpture
Question: What is the setting for the 1993 film "Alive", which stars Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano and Josh Hamiltonset and is narrated by John Malkovich?
Answer: andes
Question: What pigment found in plant leaves uses energy from sunlight to provide food?
Answer: chlorophyl
Question: The following people died from what cause: Eva Braun, Wallace Carothers, Odilo Globocnik, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Gring, Heinrich Himmler, Gnther von Kluge, Erwin Rommel, Alan Turing and the residents of Jonestown?
Answer: cyanide poisoning
Question: Which country held the most gold medals in the Men's European Volleyball Championship from 1948 to 1999?
Answer: ussr
Question: The Crucible, a 1953 play by Arthur Miller, was set in what city?
Answer: salem
Question: Who was the first person to win "The Big Four" Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year & Best New Artist) in one year?
Answer: christopher cross
Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 4 points?
Answer: brown
Question: The Peloponnesian War, fought around 430 to 405 BC, was primarily a conflict between the city state of Athens and people from where?
Answer: sparta
Question: What major city lies on a line joining Toledo, Monroe, Wyandotte, Windsor and London?
Answer: detroit michigan usa
Question: The Hindu temple complex of Angkor Wat, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city, is in which country?
Answer: cambodia
Question: In rugby union, which position wears the number 2 jersey?
Answer: hooker
Question: Who was the third wife of King Henry VIII who died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her son, who briefly reigned as Edward VI?
Answer: jane seymour
Question: Sergei Rachmaninoff was a virtuoso on which instrument?
Answer: piano
Question: Who appeared in her first film for 15 years, "Monster In Law", in 2005?
Answer: jane fonda
Question: According to a song by Billy Idol "It's a nice day for a white ..." what?
Answer: wedding
Question: Which South American water rat is the world's largest rodent, growing to over 4 feet long?
Answer: capybara
Question: Which city in the Zou Department of The People's Republic of Benin was formerly the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey?
Answer: abomey
Question: John the Baptist lived in the wilderness of Judea between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, "his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins; and his meat was ..." what?
Answer: locusts and wild honey
Question: Who was famously shot dead while playing cards in Deadwood, South Dakota, on 2 August 1876?
Answer: wild bill hickok
Question: In 2003, a congestion charge was introduced to reduce traffic volumes in which city centre?
Answer: london
Question: A hit for the Marvelettes, the Beatles and the Carpenters was "Please Mr who?
Answer: postman
Question: Who plays Susan Mayer in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives"?
Answer: teri hatcher
Question: Chainmail was a precursor to what popular board game first published in 1974?
Answer: dungeons and dragons
Question: Between April and July 1997 Andrew Cunanan killed 5 people (beginning with Jeffrey Trail in Minneapolis, David Madson, near Rush City, Minnesota, Lee Miglin in Chicago, William Reese in Pennsville, New Jersey) before shooting himself. Who was his 5th victim, shot in Miami Beach, Florida?
Answer: gianni versace
Question: What was the title of the 2001 film that was a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs?
Answer: hannibal
Question: The phrase "Crossing the Rubicon" is associated with which historical figure?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: In which country are the cities of Bishkek, Batken, Karakol, Naryn, Osh and Jalal-Abad?
Answer: kyrgyzstan
Question: In 1768, Joshua Reynolds became the first president of what British institution?
Answer: royal academy
Question: What is the process of decreasing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field, a term first used by Commander Charles F. Goodeve, RCNVR, during World War II while trying to counter German mines?
Answer: degaussing
Question: What was the popular name for Joseph Stalin by Americans during World War II?
Answer: uncle joe
Question: """The Bowery"" is a street in which US city?"
Answer: new york
Question: Where was the 2012 annual G8 leaders summit held?
Answer: usa
Question: What is the common name for Anagallis known for the opening and closing of the flowers in response to environmental conditions?
Answer: pimpernel
Question: What 1973 film starring Al Pacino, John Randolph and Tony Roberts is based on the true story of New York City policeman who went undercover to expose the corruption of his fellow officers?
Answer: serpico
Question: The Mawlawyah (Sufi Order) in Turkey are also known as what?
Answer: whirling dervishes
Question: What was the capital of Yugoslavia from 1918-2006?
Answer: belgrade
Question: According to the English nursery rhyme, who "called for his pipe and called for his bowl and called for his fiddlers three"?
Answer: king cole
Question: In what is often called boxing's biggest upset ever Buster Douglas beat who in the world unified Heavyweight title fight in 1990 ?
Answer: mike tyson
Question: The Hanseatic League was a union of ports on which sea?
Answer: baltic sea
Question: What type of apple was adopted by The Beatles' "Apple Records" as its symbol?
Answer: granny smith
Question: In golf, what is the term for "two strokes under par"?
Answer: eagle
Question: What is the name for the open areas of country in South Africa?
Answer: veldt
Question: In 1935 Count Basie, composer, jazz pianist and band leader, with his newly formed band developed his signature tune, which was what?
Answer: one o clock jump
Question: In Scandinavian mythology, who were the maidens who rode through the sky on horses, sword in hand, to influence the outcome of battles and select the bravest fighters to live in Valhallah?
Answer: valkyries
Question: What compound in the human body acts as a neurotransmitter and helps to regulate temperature?
Answer: serotonin
Question: Where is the "Day of Skulls" celebrated on 8 November?
Answer: bolivia
Question: Who married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997, divorced him in 2002, had a daughter by Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, married musician Seal in 2005, and had 3 three more children with him between 2005 and 2009?
Answer: heidi klum
Question: The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) was fought between which two countries?
Answer: china and japan
Question: The white fumes that form when hydrogen chloride dissolves in water consist of what?
Answer: hydrochloric acid
Question: What was the first US Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, passed in 1890, that still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the United States federal government?
Answer: sherman act
Question: What was the nickname of Lawrence Peter Berra, a former Major League Baseball player and manager who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972?
Answer: yogi
Question: In 1957 Luxembourg, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy joined together to form what?
Answer: eec
Question: Which golfer was continuously ranked as the world's number one golfer on "McCormack's World Golf Rankings" from its inception in 1968 to 1977?
Answer: jack nicklaus
Question: According to the Bible's Genesis 32:28, 30 and Hosea 12:3, 5, God wrestled with whom all night?
Answer: jacob
Question: What are Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium?
Answer: alkali metals
Question: What is a soft cheese made from skimmed milk curds?
Answer: cottage cheese
Question: What were the first names of comedians Abbott and Costello?
Answer: bud and lou
Question: In the Pink Panther series of films, who is Clouseau's house boy, an expert in martial arts, who frequently unexpectedly attacks him?
Answer: cato fong
Question: What are Proxima Centauri, Sirius A, Pollux, Arcturus and Betelgeuse?
Answer: stars
Question: Who played "One Punch Mickey" in the 2005 film "Snatch"?
Answer: brad pitt
Question: At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards Show in February 2013 New Zealand singer Kimbra won two Grammies for her part in an album with Gotye. What were they?
Answer: record of year and best pop duo group performance
Question: Which is the largest of the salt lakes of Salt Lake City?
Answer: great salt lake
Question: What nickname is applied to the Western coast of Namibia, home to many shipwrecks?
Answer: skeleton coast
Question: The catastrophic disaster at a plant in Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986 is described as what kind of accident?
Answer: nuclear
Question: What is the word for bending at least one knee to the ground, a gesture of deep respect for a superior that was introduced in 328 BC by Alexander the Great into his court, a practice then already followed in Persia?
Answer: genuflection
Question: Who created the international competition called the Goodwill Games, that were held between 1986 and 2001?
Answer: ted turner