CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What condition, first described by Reginald Fitz in 1886 and characterised by inflammation of the blind-ended tube connected to the cecum, requires an immediate operation to prevent rupture of the tube and death from (mainly) peritonitis and shock?
Answer: appendicitis
Question: FEI, established 1921, is the international body governing what kind of sports?
Answer: equestrian
Question: Which 1952 Hollywood musical film starring Danny Kaye includes many most famous stories such as "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid"?
Answer: hans christian andersen
Question: Teal, mallard, muscovy and mandarin are all types of what?
Answer: duck
Question: Who was the first serving U.S. President to survive being shot in an assassination attempt?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Which Australian composer became particularly well-known for his theme, and incidental, music for the UK television series "Inspector Morse"?
Answer: barrington pheloung
Question: When Johnny Weissmuller left a championship career in sport to star in "Tarzan" films, what sport did he leave?
Answer: swimming
Question: Where is Parma, which is famous for its cured ham?
Answer: northern italy
Question: Which of the core cast of the TV series "Friends" also appeared in the 2000 film "The Whole Nine Yards" with Bruce Willis?
Answer: matthew perry
Question: The father of Charlemagne, who was later to become a major force in Europe and Holy Roman Emperor, seized the Frankish throne from what dynasty in 751 CE?
Answer: merovingian
Question: The US television serials "The Good Wife", "Canterbury's Law" and "ER" all have or have had which actor as one of the leads?
Answer: julianna margulies
Question: Which mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer is credited with introducing the technology of the screw in the 3rd century BCE?
Answer: archimedes
Question: In 2009 Terry Herbert found a hoard of Saxon warrior metal artefacts on land owned by Fred Johnson, which has become known as the Staffordshire Hoard. Which ancient kingdom do the objects come from?
Answer: mercia
Question: Who joined the Five Nations Rugby Union Tournament to make it the Six Nations in 2000?
Answer: italy
Question: Which was the youngest of these four solo acts to reach number one on Billboard magazine's weekly pop singles chart?
Answer: donny osmond
Question: Who includes in his repertoire since 2009 films as different as "Fantastic Mr Fox", "The Men Who Stare At Goats", "The Ides of March", and "Gravity"?
Answer: george clooney
Question: What is the setting for the John Carpenter film "Halloween"?
Answer: haddonfield illinois
Question: What particular type of cheese is made from the milk of water buffalo raised in designated areas of Lazio and Campania on the west coast of Italy?
Answer: mozzarella
Question: The US television series "NCIS" (2003-now) focuses on criminal investigations involving what?
Answer: us navy and marine corps
Question: The band Aqua, well-known for their chart-topping single "Barbie Girl", released three albums - Aquarium in 1997, Aquarius in 2000 and which other?
Answer: megalomania
Question: Where is the Mose Project, construction work on which began in 2003, being carried out?
Answer: venice italy
Question: Where did Harold of England fight William of Normandy in 1066?
Answer: hastings
Question: Where is the 250km (150 miles) long Offa's Dyke?
Answer: wales
Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1990 with "Opposites Attract"?
Answer: paula abdul
Question: Which is a definition of hardwood?
Answer: wood from dicot angiosperm trees
Question: Who created the character of Doctor Finlay in the British TV series (1962-1971) "Dr Finlay's Casebook"?
Answer: j cronin
Question: Who performed "I Will Always Love You", the song played at the end of the film "The Bodyguard"?
Answer: whitney houston
Question: Who wrote an autobiography called "Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights"?
Answer: burt ward
Question: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch and Giotto were based in what city in the first half of the 14th century?
Answer: florence
Question: In which country was the Battle of Vinegar Hill fought in 1798?
Answer: ireland
Question: In popular tales what bowler famously caught the eye of Elizabeth I of England when the Spanish Armada was sighted off the British coast?
Answer: sir francis drake
Question: The city of Irkutsk, Russia, lies at the southern tip of which body of water?
Answer: lake baikal
Question: Argentina encouraged a massive wave of immigration from Europe starting in 1857; between then and 1940 people from which country formed the bulk of the influx?
Answer: italy
Question: Considered by many to be the saltiest lake in the world, Don Juan Pond is found where?
Answer: victoria land antarctica
Question: Which actress began her professional film career aged six in "Bright Eyes" in 1934?
Answer: shirley temple
Question: The Visigoth army led by Alaric famously sacked what city in 410 CE?
Answer: rome
Question: According to NASA where do the majority of meteorites found on Earth originate from?
Answer: asteroids
Question: Where is the Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro designed by Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, and built in 1589?
Answer: entrance to havana bay in havana cuba
Question: Who founded the Prince's Trust in 1976 to give special help to Britain's youth, especially those who are unemployed?
Answer: prince charles
Question: Which pop group, initially a studio only band for Tony Burrows and songwriter/record producers Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason, are best known for their 1970 record, "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"?
Answer: edison lighthouse
Question: What book includes the characters Dill, "Boo" Radley, Scout Finch, her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus?
Answer: to kill mockingbird
Question: Who wrote "The Sheep Pig", that was made into the film "Babe"?
Answer: dick king smith
Question: The first English prince to bear the title "Prince of Wales" eventually became which King?
Answer: edward ii
Question: In 1962, retired American racing driver Carroll Shelby got a licence to import a British sports car made by AC Motors of England and installed an American Ford engine rather than its original Bristol engine. He introduced the car to the American public as what model of car?
Answer: cobra
Question: United Artists, formed in 1919 as a reaction from commercial film companies of the time, was an alliance between actors Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks and who else?
Answer: director d w griffith
Question: Fairy rock chimneys are a feature of Colorado and the Badlands in North America, the south of France, Taiwan, and Serbia and also, with houses carved from the formations, where?
Answer: cappadocia turkey
Question: Guru Nanak established what in India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries?
Answer: sikh religion
Question: Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were better known as what when they hit #1 in 1984 in the UK, Canada and the USA?
Answer: pet shop boys
Question: Barabas is the central character in what 16th century play?
Answer: jew of malta
Question: Who is the most recent actor, up to 2015, to play the part of James Bond in films?
Answer: daniel craig
Question: What is the title of Mike Leigh's 2014 film, featuring Timothy Spall in the title role in a biopic of a celebrated British painter?
Answer: mr turner
Question: An oil used in cosmetics is produced in the seed of which shrub?
Answer: jojoba
Question: Who had hit records with "Tragedy" and "You Win Again"?
Answer: bee gees
Question: The Columbia Pictures logo in 1924 was a female figure, as now, but with a shield in her left hand and what in her right hand?
Answer: stick of wheat
Question: The team from which country won the 2014 ICU World Cheerleading Championship?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Who was IBF Light Welterweight Champion from 4 March 1987 until he retired in December 1987, and was accused of being the masked gunman who shot Frank Warren, his former manager, twice in the chest in November 1989 outside the Broadway Theatre, Barking, England?
Answer: terry marsh
Question: Fanta Four are one of what country's top hip hop bands?
Answer: germany
Question: What was the first name of the 19th century Russian composer Mussorgsky?
Answer: modest
Question: On whose book did Walt Disney base his 1940 feature film "Pinocchio"?
Answer: carlo collodi
Question: Which actor and musician, born in 1935, won a scholarship to study organ at Magdalen College, Oxford?
Answer: dudley moore
Question: Which British politician won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: What is the name of the cat that appeared in Warner Brothers cartoons?
Answer: sylvester
Question: In "Speed The Plough" by Thomas Morton (1798) which character never appeared, but became a symbol of public prudery and conventional morality?
Answer: mrs grundy
Question: Who was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed by his wife Isabella in 1327 and made to abdicate in favour of his son?
Answer: edward ii
Question: Which comic character first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 in August 1962?
Answer: spiderman
Question: What strait separates the South Island of New Zealand from the more southerly Stewart Island?
Answer: foveaux strait
Question: The House of Bourbon, a European royal house one of whose monarchs was famously guillotined in France in 1792, has descendants currently on the throne of which country or countries?
Answer: spain and luxembourg
Question: Which 19th century American author went to sea aged 17 in a whaler, deserted twice, was captured by cannibals and joined a man of war before writing novels such as "White Jacket" and "Billy Budd"?
Answer: herman melville
Question: Which American novelist wrote over 30 books, including "The Pathfinder", "The Deerslayer" and "The Last of the Mohicans"?
Answer: james fenimore cooper
Question: Who investigated Bill Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater Land Transactions and his role in the Monica Lewinsky affair?
Answer: kenneth starr
Question: What police drama TV programme starring William Shatner in the title role as the 15-year veteran police sergeant was first aired in the USA from March 1982 to May 1985?
Answer: tj hooker
Question: Who won the 1975 Wimbledon men's singles title?
Answer: arthur ashe
Question: Which popular song from 1972 told the story of the aftermath of an incident at a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention when someone fired a flare gun?
Answer: smoke on water
Question: The Walt Disney animated 1949 feature "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" is based on "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame and which other work?
Answer: legend of sleepy hollow by washington irving
Question: The highlights of which British General's career include the Battle of Dettingen and the Battle of Lauffeld during the War of Austrian Succession, the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden during the Jacobite uprising, and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec during the Seven Years War?
Answer: james wolfe
Question: The night of 9 March 1945 saw, according to historians, the most devastating World War II bombing raid on what city?
Answer: tokyo japan
Question: The 12th century Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth is known for his writings on what?
Answer: history
Question: Who played Johnny Fontane in the film "The Godfather" and was previously known as a singer of hits such as "Here In My Heart", "Spanish Eyes", "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Volare"?
Answer: al martino
Question: Who hit the top spot in 2002 with "U Got it Bad"?
Answer: usher
Question: Charity and Mercy Pecksniff appear in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: martin chuzzlewit
Question: Who wrote "Banished Misfortune", "Fighting With Shadows" and "A Goat's Song"?
Answer: dermot healy
Question: Who is the present wife of golfer Greg Norman?
Answer: interior decorator kirsten kutner
Question: Who was nicknamed "The Sweater Girl" after she appeared in the 1937 film "They Won't Forget"?
Answer: lana turner
Question: Zeami, also called Kanze Motokiyo, (1363 - 1443) is considered the greatest playwright and theorist of which type of Japanese theatre in its current form?
Answer: noh
Question: A French/American/British coproduced film focussing on German and Italians in one of the Greek islands in 1943, based on the novel by Louis de Bernires, was "Captain Corelli's ..."?
Answer: mandolin
Question: Belgian Thierry Boutsen, winner of the 1989 Canadian Grand Prix and the 1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, drove for the Formula One teams of Benetton, Williams-Renault, Ligier, Jordan-Hart and what other?
Answer: arrows
Question: What communist military junta came to power in Ethiopia following the ousting of Haile Selassie I on 12 September 1974 and although officially coming to an end on 22 February 1987, was not formally abolished until September?
Answer: derg
Question: Who directed the films "Clerks", "Mallrats" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back "?
Answer: kevin smith
Question: In which 1973 thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg was there an explicit sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie?
Answer: don t look now
Question: Between 1985 and 1991 a number of demonstrations and protests led to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania variously taking back their independence from the USSR and (later) Russia; what overall name has characterised the revolution?
Answer: singing revolution
Question: Who, as president of Argentina, ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982?
Answer: general leopoldo galtieri
Question: Which Spanish author served as a soldier at Lepanto (where he lost the use of his left hand), was captured by pirates in 1575 and imprisoned in Algiers until 1580, and was then employed in government work in Madrid?
Answer: miguel cervantes
Question: What was the title of Martin Scorsese's 2008 documentary about the Rolling Stones?
Answer: shine light
Question: Who was born in 1812 near Porstmouth, spent his childhood in Chatham and London, married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, separated from her in 1858, had much of his work published serially in journals, and died in 1870?
Answer: charles dickens
Question: Where was the first Women's World Cup, at that time called Women's World Championship, held?
Answer: china
Question: Who is the director for "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens"?
Answer: j j abrams
Question: Jessye Norman, Jos Carreras and Giuseppe Verdi are associated with what style of music?
Answer: opera
Question: Which two Gibb brothers in the Bee Gees were twins?
Answer: robin and maurice
Question: Which team came third in the 2002 men's basketball world championships in Indianapolis?
Answer: germany
Question: What date in the western Gregorian Calendar is currently the date for the Russian Orthodox Church Christian New Year?
Answer: 14 january
Question: Escamillo, a bullfighter, is a character in which opera?
Answer: carmen
Question: What family name is next in the series Ivanievi, Hewitt, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, and Murray?
Answer: djokovic
Question: The version of Magna Carta signed by King John of England at Runnymede was annulled shortly afterwards by Pope Innocent III; who issued the version which then survived to become the basis of much of modern Western law?
Answer: henry iii
Question: Which Russian composer wrote the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrouchka" and "the Rite of Spring"?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: What is the name of the garden created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson that is designed as a series of "rooms", each with a different character of colour and/or theme, divided by high clipped hedges and pink brick walls?
Answer: sissinghurst
Question: An organisation formed in 1890 to promote cooperation across the countries of Latin America and the U.S was established under what name?
Answer: international union of american republics
Question: France's largest international airport and one of the world principal aviation centres, also known as Roissy, is usually known by the name of what historical figure?
Answer: charles de gaulle
Question: The famous armless statue of Venus, or Aphrodite, was first discovered in CE times (in 1820 CE) in what ancient city ruins?
Answer: milos
Question: Paul Galdone illustrated a series of children's books written by Eve Titus about a mouse called what?
Answer: anatole
Question: Who wrote under the pseudonym of "Elia" and, with his sister Mary, wrote "Tales From Shakespeare"?
Answer: charles lamb
Question: Wackford Squeers, headmaster of "Dotheboys Hall", appears in which book by Charles Dickens?
Answer: nicholas nickleby
Question: What word is applied to the cutting down of trees in, e.g., the Amazon basin?
Answer: deforestation
Question: Kelly Slater and Layne Beachley are multi world champions in which sport?
Answer: surfing
Question: Before it was moved to the purpose-built city of Brasilia, what city was Brazil's capital?
Answer: rio de janeiro
Question: Twitch.tv, where people can among other things watch gamers playing online, was generated by what other site?
Answer: justin tv
Question: What is the name for the phenomenon that occurs, e.g., in magnetic and ferromagnetic materials and in the elastic, electric, and magnetic behaviour of materials, in which a lag occurs between the application or the removal of a force or field and its subsequent effect?
Answer: hysteresis
Question: How does history better know Ioseb Jughashvili, who changed his surname to mean "steel"?
Answer: joseph stalin
Question: The Meuse River rises in France and flows through which other country or countries?
Answer: belgium and netherlands
Question: What is the name for the ceremonial meal which breaks the fast each evening in Ramadan?
Answer: iftaar
Question: The religious movement known as the Doukhobors was oppressed and circumscribed in Russia where it first developed; when its members were eventually allowed to leave what country welcomed them?
Answer: canada
Question: Gamma-coniceine and coniine are the two principles which contribute most to the poisonous effect of what plant?
Answer: hemlock
Question: The TV series "Peaky Blinders", aired first in 2013, is based on late 19th and early 20th century urban youth gangs in what city?
Answer: birmingham uk
Question: Carl Stotz began an organisation in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1939 to promote what sport to youth?
Answer: baseball
Question: As part of a long career on stage, writing songs (recorded by Herman's Hermits, Adam Faith, Billy Fury) and musicals, and in TV and film working with Franco Zeffirelli, Bob Hoskins and Patrick Stewart, the actor Trevor Peacock stars in what UK TV series?
Answer: vicar of dibley
Question: Violet Carson made her last appearance as Ena Sharples in 1980 in which British TV series?
Answer: coronation street
Question: Who played with the "Runaways" and the "Blackhearts"?
Answer: joan jett
Question: Some parts of the Amazon rainforest are being devastated by activities, including deposits of mercury, as part of what?
Answer: gold mining
Question: Which UNESCO World Heritage Site in India covers the greatest land area, and is considered one of the "hottest hotspots" of biological diversity ?
Answer: western ghats
Question: Prince William left St Andrews University in 2005 with a degree in what subject?
Answer: geography
Question: T S Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (1939) formed the basis for which long-running musical show?
Answer: cats
Question: Ambergris, once commonly used as a fixative in perfumery, is produced in the digestive system of what?
Answer: sperm whale
Question: Telly Savalas played Theo Kojak in a TV series that first aired from 1973 to 1978. What confectionery is associated with the character?
Answer: lollipop
Question: In what country was Johnny Depp, at least until May 2015, filming the 5th chapter in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series?
Answer: australia
Question: What is Britain's richest horse race in 2015?
Answer: epsom derby
Question: What Is the title of Somerset Maugham's book that is based on the life of Paul Gauguin?
Answer: moon and sixpence
Question: Who wrote "J'accuse", an open letter to Flix Faur, President of France, accusing the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus (a French officer sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage) that was published on 13 January 1898, in the newspaper "L'Aurore"?
Answer: mile zola
Question: The mathematician, al-Khwarizmi, in the royal court of Baghdad in the 9th century CE gave his name to what procedure or formula for solving a problem?
Answer: algorithm
Question: What was the name of the group of friends that Ken Kesey, the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", took on a trip from California to New York in a school bus nicknamed "Furthur"?
Answer: merry pranksters
Question: Well known in the 1960s, what was the profession of Holland-Dozier-Holland?
Answer: songwriters
Question: Who was the other half of the Bouquet household, played by actor Clive Swift, in the UK TV comedy series "Keeping Up Appearances"?
Answer: richard
Question: The Galapagos Islands are subject to continuing volcanic activity, and are situated where in relation to tectonic plates?
Answer: at galapagos triple junction
Question: Leo Zulueta is a notable artist in what field?
Answer: tattoo art
Question: What are the narrows called between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic?
Answer: drake passage
Question: Which is the preposition in the tongue twister "She sells sea shells by the sea shore"?
Answer: by
Question: Who wrote "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van"?
Answer: roddy doyle
Question: Who created the English schoolboy hero "Jennings"?
Answer: anthony buckeridge
Question: What is the name of the mascot for the cereal Cocoa Puffs?
Answer: sonny
Question: What is the variety of coffee bean grown almost exclusively world-wide?
Answer: coffea arabica
Question: The character "Eliza Doolittle" in "My Fair Lady" was originally created by whom?
Answer: george bernard shaw
Question: Who lived with his father (Howard), his mother (Marion), and his sister Joanie and had friends called Potsie Weber, Ralph Malph and Arthur Fonzarelli?
Answer: richie cunningham
Question: Which comic character first appeared in Action Comics #1 in June 1938?
Answer: superman
Question: With which sport are Rodney Eyles, Peter Nicol, Susan Devoy and Cassie Campion associated?
Answer: squash
Question: What about an 11 stringed lute resonates with a type of mushroom?
Answer: chanterelle
Question: Who was Vice President to US President Ronald Reagan during his terms from 1981 to 1989?
Answer: george h w bush
Question: A 1982 film directed by Ingmar Bergman, initially prepared for television as a 4 part serial, was what?
Answer: fanny and alexander
Question: Niccol Machiavelli, Thomas Carlyle, and Thomas Macaulay share a scholarly interest in what?
Answer: history
Question: Glacier-formed fjords can be found on the coasts of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, north east Siberia, the Kerguelen Islands, New Zealand, British Columbia, Nunavut, Washington and where else?
Answer: chile
Question: The liqueur Grand Marnier contains the distilled essence of what fruit?
Answer: bitter orange
Question: Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and what other country feature in this order as the least corrupt countries in Transparency International's 2014 Corruptions Index?
Answer: switzerland
Question: In 1906 which country became the second in the world since the 18th century to grant full suffrage to all adult citizens, and the first country in the world to grant all women full political rights?
Answer: finland
Question: What was the sporting fixture called Baku 2015?
Answer: inaugural european games
Question: The organising committee of the 1960 Winter Olympic games decided to exclude which sport due to the expense of building a track?
Answer: bobsleigh
Question: What was the name of the otter, the subject of a novel by Henry Williamson that was first published in 1927?
Answer: tarka
Question: Who was killed when a helicopter crashed in dense fog on 27 August 1990 in East Troy, Wisconsin?
Answer: stevie ray vaughan