CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, whose hand extends to the hand of Adam?
Answer: god
Question: What holds the records as the world's longest-running science fiction television show?
Answer: dr who
Question: What nickname was given to Mary Mallon, who infected a known 53 people working as a cook in New York and, in 1907, was the first healthy typhoid carrier to be identified?
Answer: typhoid mary
Question: Which amendment to the US constitution provides freedom of religion, assembly, speech and the press?
Answer: first
Question: The home of the drink called "bourbon" is Bourbon County. What state of the USA is it in?
Answer: kentucky
Question: Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered World War I, was a member of which family?
Answer: hapsburg
Question: Which Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Mdaille de la Rsistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation as part of the French resistance in World War II?
Answer: samuel beckett
Question: According to Greek mythology, "Hope" was the only thing left in what container after it had been opened?
Answer: pandora s box
Question: """Parsifal"" was the last opera by which composer?"
Answer: wagner
Question: The Hudson River forms the boundary between the states of New York and what other?
Answer: new jersey
Question: What natural ice 1,212.5 metre (3,978 ft) long racing sled run in the Swiss town of St. Moritz, based on a river, was built in 1884?
Answer: cresta run
Question: The English town of Hay-on-Wye is famous for a festival featuring what?
Answer: books
Question: """Poison arrow"" or ""poison dart"" is what type of creature?"
Answer: frog
Question: What is old Delhi's military fort, built by Shah Jahan, known as?
Answer: red fort
Question: The Individual World Championships for which sport, the first of which was in 2005 and are held every two years, include events called "Constant Weight", "Constant Weight Without Fins", "Free Immersion", "Variable Weight", "Static", "Dynamic" and "Dynamic No Fins"?
Answer: freediving
Question: What is the world's largest carnivore species found on land, which is native to the north of the northern hemisphere?
Answer: polar bear
Question: The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November with the removal of which Australian Labor Party Prime Minister by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, and the appointment of the Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser, as caretaker Prime Minister?
Answer: gough whitlam
Question: The Eddystone Rocks are 14 miles from which part of the UK?
Answer: plymouth
Question: What breed of dog was the subject of the 1992 film "Beethoven"?
Answer: st bernard
Question: What river flows under the Ponte Vecchio, a Medieval bridge noted for still having shops built along it?
Answer: arno
Question: In which US state did the siege of the Alamo take place?
Answer: texas
Question: Who married Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: Roger Bannister ran what distance in the record-breaking time of under 4 minutes at Oxford in 1954 over what distance?
Answer: mile
Question: Which US state consists of two separate peninsulas, separated by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile (8 km)-wide channel?
Answer: michigan
Question: What territory was sold by Russia under Tsar Alexander II in 1867, for about 1.9 per acre ($4.74/km2), a total of US$7.2 million?
Answer: alaska
Question: From the landing of Pedro lvares Cabral in 1500 until its independence in 1822, Brazil was a colony of which nation?
Answer: portugal
Question: Harry Osborn is the offsider to which comic book superhero?
Answer: spiderman
Question: Who was "the fourth man" in the Cambridge spy ring, whose name was not publicly known until 1979?
Answer: anthony blunt
Question: In World War I, what was the third battle of Ypres, from 31 July to 6 November 6, 1917, also known as?
Answer: battle of passchendaele
Question: What 1963 political scandal in the UK involved the Secretary of State for War, after he had a brief relationship with the mistress of a Russian spy (a showgirl named Christine Keeler), and lied to the House of Commons about it?
Answer: profumo affair
Question: The first nationally formalised rules for which sport were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland in 1884, and now has two sets of rules, the other being . administered by the NRA in Great Britain, which was formed in 1943?
Answer: rounders
Question: Where is the US National Archives, which holds the original documents of the US Constitution and the US Declaration of Independence?
Answer: washington dc
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, where does the Muffin Man live?
Answer: in drury lane
Question: Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Bourgogne, Bretagne, Limousin and Lorraine are all regions of which country?
Answer: france
Question: Where are the pleurae, bronchi and alveoli?
Answer: lungs
Question: What was the surname of the family who looked after Paddington Bear?
Answer: brown
Question: Who was the subject of a 4 week inquiry by the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1954 into his background, actions and associations, due to suspicions that he was a member of the Communist Party and might have spied for the Soviet Union, which resulted in his top secret security clearance being revoked?
Answer: j robert oppenheimer
Question: Before taking office, both US president George W Bush and his vice president Dick Chaney had both been convicted of what?
Answer: drink driving
Question: What nickname was given to German Chancellor Otto Van Bismarck?
Answer: iron chancellor
Question: The single "Sara" was from Fleetwood Mac's 12th studio album (that followed the album "Rumours"), released in 1979. What was the album?
Answer: tusk
Question: In the term "taxi-cab", the word cab" is an abbreviated form of what word?
Answer: cabriolet
Question: Which chapel in the Apostolic Palace (the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City), famous for its architecture and decoration, has been frescoed by the Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and Sandro Botticelli?
Answer: sistine chapel
Question: What was the name of the series of religiously sanctioned military campaigns between 1095 and 1291 waged by much of Latin Christian Europe to restore Christian control of the Holy Land?
Answer: crusades
Question: Who played the title role in the 2004 film "The Passion of Christ"?
Answer: jim caviezel
Question: In 1998 the Iroquois nation sent its first team to the world championships of which sport?
Answer: lacrosse
Question: What ambulance service is a common name used by a number of affiliated organisations in different countries dedicated to the teaching and practice of medical first aid and the provision of ambulance services, all of which derive their origins from an association founded in 1877 in England?
Answer: st john
Question: Which 1982 album by Dire Staits included the tracks "Telegraph Road", "Private Investigations" , "Industrial Disease" and "It Never Rains"?
Answer: love over gold
Question: Keith Urban, who has had 2 platinum albums and 11 #1 singles in the USA, and is a winner of 3 Grammy Awards, was born where?
Answer: whangarei new zealand
Question: Who has won the Women's Singles title at Australia's premier tennis tournament, with 10 wins?
Answer: margaret court
Question: In 1979, a World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of which human infectious disease, the first (and only) one to be completely eradicated from nature?
Answer: smallpox
Question: Who appeared in the films "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007), "Burn After Reading" (2008), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008) and "Inglourious Basterds" (2009)?
Answer: brad pitt
Question: The Battles of Alamein, Britain and the Bulge took place in which war?
Answer: world war ii
Question: Who wrote and performed the song "Rehab" that won the 2007 Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song, and Grammy Awards in 2008 for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance?
Answer: amy winehouse
Question: The Colossus, one of the seven wonders of the world, was built where?
Answer: rhodes
Question: Built in 1607, Pont Neuf spans what river?
Answer: seine
Question: The Supermarine Spitfires that were used by Britain in World War II were powered by engines from which manufacturer?
Answer: rolls royce
Question: In 2001, Karen England and Rebecca Knight, found busking in Covent Garden to support singing lessons, were invited to perform at the FA Cup Final & the UEFA Champions League final in Milan. Their album "Beyond Imagination" was #1 in the UK Classical Charts for 11 weeks and #4 in the USA. What are they better known as?
Answer: opera babes
Question: In which country, in 1984, did the Prime Minister bar nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from using its ports or entering waters?
Answer: new zealand
Question: What beverage was introduced to England from China by the Dutch in 1645?
Answer: tea
Question: In the middle ages, what infection was called "the king's evil", and, it was rumoured, could be cured by the touch of a king?
Answer: scrofula
Question: According to the Bible, who denied knowing Jesus 3 times "before the cock crowed twice"?
Answer: peter
Question: What was the first, and only complete, novel, published in 1788, written by 18th-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft?
Answer: mary fiction
Question: What name is given to a style of journalism that is written subjectively, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative?
Answer: gonzo
Question: Which English-born conductor worked with orchestras in Cincinatti, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Hollywood, New York and Houston, and collaborated with Walt Disney to produce the film "Fantasia"?
Answer: leopold stokowski
Question: What was the preoccupation of John Nash Jr, the subject of the 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind" starring Russell Crowe?
Answer: economics
Question: Which US president was a swimming instructor and lifeguard in Illinois?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: What name was given to the number 10 to the power of 100 (i.e. 1 followed by one hundred zeros) by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner?
Answer: googol
Question: What are the last words of the film "Gone With The Wind"?
Answer: tomorrow is another day
Question: Royal mistress Nell Gwynn famously sold what items?
Answer: oranges
Question: What artistic movement was brought to international attention at the World's Fair in Paris in 1925?
Answer: art deco
Question: Between 1979 and 1990, the Sandinistas and the Contras were participants in a Civil War in which country?
Answer: nicaragua
Question: The "Westminster", that is held annually at Madison Square Garden in New York, is what sort of event?
Answer: dog show
Question: What musical features the characters Frank N Furter and Riff Raff?
Answer: rocky horror show
Question: What did Captain James Cook take on his sea voyages, as experience had taught him that it was an effective preventative of scurvy (containing vitamin C and lactobacilli)?
Answer: sauerkraut
Question: Pilgrims visit the city of Santiago de Compostela because it is supposedly the site of the bones of which saint?
Answer: st james
Question: Which jazz bandleader disappeared in December 1944 while flying over the English Channel?
Answer: glenn miller
Question: What fictional football club was the centre for the UK TV series "Footballers' Wives"?
Answer: earl s park
Question: What is the name for the highly viscous layer of the earth that is about 2,890 km (1,800 miles) thick and makes up about 84 percent of Earth's volume?
Answer: mantle
Question: The "loop of Henle" is found where in the human body?
Answer: kidney
Question: What is the alternative title of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado"?
Answer: town of titipu
Question: Who is the co-director and co-writer of British television shows with Ricky Gervais?
Answer: stephen merchant
Question: What is the next in this sequence: Palatine Hill, Capitoline Hill, Quirinal Hill, Viminal Hill, Esquiline Hill, Caelian Hill, ... ?
Answer: aventine hill
Question: A Hellenist is an expert on subjects pertaining to what?
Answer: greece
Question: What role, first established in May 1947 with the appointment of Walter Winterbottom, was filled in 2008 by Fabio Capello, who replaced Steve McClaren?
Answer: england national football team manager
Question: After Mao Zedong, chairman of the Communist Party of China, launched the Cultural Revolution on 16 May 1966, he attempted to mobilise China's youth, who formed what groups around the country?
Answer: red guard
Question: What is the name of the cathedral in Krakow where Poland's kings and heroes are buried?
Answer: wawel
Question: When they had hits with "Bills, Bills, Bills" and "Say My Name", Beyonc Knowles, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett were known as what?
Answer: destiny s child
Question: The Unasur Constitutive Treaty, signed on 23 May 2008 in Braslia, Brazil, founded what international body?
Answer: union of south american nations
Question: John Cleese played what character in the film "The World is not Enough"?
Answer: q s assistant
Question: Whose address is 9 Downing Street, London, next to that of the Prime Minister of the UK?
Answer: chief whip
Question: The ball used in rugby, American football and Australian Rules football resembles what shape?
Answer: egg
Question: A referendum that took place in Quebec on 30 October 1995, which was defeated 49.42% "Yes" to 50.58% "No", concerned what?
Answer: quebec should secede from canada
Question: Which vehicle maker has marketed models called Transit, KA, Focus, Fiesta, Laser and Falcon?
Answer: ford
Question: Jason Lee Scott, Zack Taylor, Billy Cranston, Trini Kwan and Kimberly Hart were the orignal members of which group?
Answer: mighty morphin power rangers
Question: At what time of day does the church service called vespers take place?
Answer: evening
Question: In which country are members of parliament known, not as MPs, but TDs?
Answer: ireland
Question: Olympic gold medallists Paavo Nurmi, Ville Ritola, Clas Thunberg and Lasse Virn represented which country?
Answer: finland
Question: Which planet has 5 rings that are named for the astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle, Urbain Le Verrier, William Lassell, Franois Arago and John Couch Adams?
Answer: neptune
Question: What was the name given to a controversy about vivisection in England from 1903 to 1910 that involved the infiltration of University of London medical lectures by Swedish women activists, street battles between medical students and suffragettes, trade unionists and the police, police protection for the statue of a dog in Battersea Park, its removal by the authorities in 1910 (and its replacement in 1985), a libel trial and the establishment of a Royal Commission?
Answer: brown dog affair
Question: Which medal, originally called the Badge of Military Merit, was established by George Washington in 1782, awarded to only 3 Revolutionary War soldiers, and not proposed again officially until after World War I?
Answer: purple heart
Question: In Anglo Saxon Britain, what word described a magistrate and the regional representative of the king?
Answer: reeve
Question: The play "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie ran at the New Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End from 25 November 1952 until Saturday 23 March 1974, when it immediately transferred to which theatre next door, reopening on Monday 25 March?
Answer: st martin s theatre
Question: Avalon was the name of the island where, according to legend, which King was buried?
Answer: king arthur
Question: J.P.R. Williams played rugby union for which country between 1969 and 1981?
Answer: wales
Question: In the musical "Oliver!", who is the conniving career criminal who takes in homeless boys and teaches them to pick pockets for him?
Answer: fagin
Question: Who was president of the USA at the end of the Vietnam War when the last U.S. diplomatic, military, and civilian personnel were evacuated from Saigon by helicopter on 29 April 1975?
Answer: gerald ford
Question: Leighton Reece was the first world professional champion in what sport, in 1978?
Answer: darts
Question: What is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world?
Answer: angel falls
Question: What name is given to the ancient preserved dead bodies found in Egypt?
Answer: mummies
Question: Bodrum, Fethiye, Marmaris, Kuadas, Cesme, Didim and Alanya are tourist resorts in which country?
Answer: turkey
Question: The Elgin Marbles, currently in the British Museum, came from which building?
Answer: parthenon
Question: In 2010, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization announced that it expected to make a formal declaration in 2011 of the global eradication of "Rinderpest". What does Rinderpest attack, mostly?
Answer: cattle
Question: In Botticelli's painting "The Birth of Venus", what is she standing on?
Answer: shell
Question: Who made the British singles charts for the first time in 1964, backed by her band "The Luvvers"?
Answer: lulu
Question: What was the nickname for the Boeing B-17 long-range bomber used in World War II?
Answer: flying fortress
Question: On October 24, 1901, 63-year-old Michigan school teacher Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to go where in a barrel ?
Answer: over niagara falls
Question: Canaletto is famous for his 18th century paintings of which city?
Answer: venice
Question: Who created and played the character of Waldorf T Flywheel?
Answer: groucho marx
Question: Bruce Dickinson, the vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 1981 to 1993, represented England at what sport?
Answer: fencing
Question: Who worked at Betchley Park in World War II as one of the Enigma codebreakers and became known as "the father of modern computer science"?
Answer: alan turing
Question: What name is given to the programme of baseball and softball competitions organised for people aged 5 to 18 in the USA?
Answer: little league
Question: After Prime Minister Bishop had been executed by his Deputy, Bernard Coard, US President Reagan, publicly concerned for the security of 800 US students at St. George's School of Medicine, ordered the invasion of which British Commonwealth country?
Answer: grenada
Question: What was the nickname of the character played by Jeff Bridges in the 1998 film "The Big Lebowski"?
Answer: dude
Question: What was the name given to the line of German defences that ran across Italy from east to west, through the Apennine Mountains via the mountains behind the town of Cassino, to the mouth of the Sangro River in the east?
Answer: gustav line
Question: Where is the oldest whiskey distillery still operating, which was established in 1608?
Answer: northern ireland
Question: In 2010, when Tiger Woods announced that would change to a Scotty Cameron, he was referring to a type of what?
Answer: putter
Question: Whose relationships have been the subject of speculation in the celebrity press, and has been romantically linked with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Heidi Klum, Jessica Simpson, Minka Kelly and Jennifer Aniston?
Answer: john mayer
Question: The book "A Kestrel for a Knave" by Barry Hines was the basis for which 1969 film?
Answer: kes
Question: Traditionally, what are the black keys of a piano made of?
Answer: ebony
Question: What English custom practised from the late 17th until the early 20th century, was the backdrop for Thomas Hardy's novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge"?
Answer: wife selling
Question: Soccer player Dennis Bergkamp was well known for his fear of what?
Answer: flying
Question: Who made two series of engravings based on two series of his paintings, called "A Rake's Progress" and "A Harlot's Progress"?
Answer: william hogarth
Question: All or part of Eritrea, Somaliland, Tientsin, Libya, the Dodecanese Islands, Ethiopia and Albania were ruled by what country in 1942?
Answer: italy
Question: What was unusual about how George I, a 17 year old Danish prince, became King of the Hellenes, ruling from 1863 to 1913?
Answer: he was elected king by greek national assembly
Question: What is the name of the father in cartoon series "The Family Guy"?
Answer: peter griffin
Question: On 1 May 2010, where was a car bomb in a Nissan Pathfinder, which failed to ignite properly, disarmed with no casualties?
Answer: times square new york city
Question: Who won the World Surfing Championship in December 2009?
Answer: mick fanning
Question: Who was the first Westerner to discover the Victoria Falls?
Answer: david livingstone
Question: The air we breathe is made up of 78.09% of what gas?
Answer: nitrogen
Question: In 1920 the League of Nations set up its headquarters in which city?
Answer: geneva
Question: During his career from 1959 to 1993, who battled more than 2,000 fires in oil and natural gas wells, notably in 1962 when he tackled a fire at a gas field in the Sahara nicknamed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter, a 450-foot (137 m) flame?
Answer: red adair
Question: Which video game puts the player in the role of "the Stranger", uses special books written by an artisan and explorer named Atrus to travel to several worlds known as "Ages"?
Answer: myst
Question: Who became the youngest winner of the TV show "American Idol" when she won season 6?
Answer: jordin sparks
Question: In the 2000 film, who played "Billy Elliot"s dancing teacher?
Answer: julie walters
Question: The poem "The New Colossus" that begins "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses " is inscribed where?
Answer: statue of liberty
Question: """When shall we three meet again"" is the first line of which play?"
Answer: macbeth
Question: Seborrhea is a medical problem that affects which part of the body?
Answer: skin
Question: Who was an American serial killer active in various states between 1973 and 1978 who confessed to over 30 murders (estimates range from 26 to over 100)?
Answer: ted bundy
Question: What was the name of Simon Le Bon's maxi yacht, that lost her keel and capsized during the Fastnet race off Falmouth, on the southern coast of Cornwall, in 1985?
Answer: drum
Question: What peace treaty, signed on 28 June 1919, officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers after World War I?
Answer: treaty of versailles
Question: What was the bowling technique developed by English cricketer Harold Larwood?
Answer: bodyline
Question: What band released the single "The Importance of Being Idle" in 2005?
Answer: oasis
Question: Between 1821 and 1832 the Greeks fought to become free of which Empire?
Answer: ottoman
Question: Which famous landmark in Los Angeles, California, was created as an advertisement in 1923?
Answer: hollywood sign
Question: Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson had a hit with which song in 1985?
Answer: i know him so well
Question: What was the title of Gordon Ramsay's 2006 autobiography?
Answer: humble pie
Question: What country was never defeated during its participation in the FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa in 2010?
Answer: new zealand
Question: What is the name for an enthusiast for the TV series "Star Trek"?
Answer: trekkie
Question: The Mazda Cosmo, which began to be marketed in 1990, was the first car to be equipped with what as an option?
Answer: gps
Question: Who succeeded Lyndon Johnson as president of the USA on 20 January 1969?
Answer: richard nixon
Question: Five of Canada's fourteen UNESCO World heritage sites (Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Wood Buffalo National Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump) are in which Canadian province?
Answer: alberta
Question: What title, meaning "general", was held by Japan's military commanders from 1192 to 1867?
Answer: shogun
Question: """Service"" is the way the ball is put into play in which game?"
Answer: tennis
Question: The 2008 British film "Slumdog Millionaire" directed by Danny Boyle is an adaptation of what 2005 novel?
Answer: q by vikas swarup
Question: In October 2009, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that the 2016 Summer Olympics will be held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in what city?
Answer: rio de janeiro brazil
Question: In Britain in World War II, where did "land girls" work?
Answer: farms