CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who led barons to revolt against Henry III in 1263 established England's first elected parliament and was killed at the Battle of Evesham in 1265?
Answer: simon de montfort
Question: The piano piece, Fr Elise, well-known to music students, was written by whom?
Answer: ludwig van beethoven
Question: Francis Crick and James Watson did their research into DNA at what institution?
Answer: cambridge england
Question: Which English explorer commanded the ships "Discovery" and "Terra Nova" to explore the Antarctic?
Answer: robert falcon scott
Question: Which city about 200 km west of Madrid that has a university founded in 1218 (the oldest university in Spain and the 5th oldest western university) was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988?
Answer: salamanca
Question: On 15 April 1986, the USA launched a series of air strikes on what country because Ronald Reagan had "irrefutable proof" that it had directed a terrorist bombing in a Berlin discothque.
Answer: libya
Question: Sunday Rose are the names of the daughter of Nicole Kidman and whom?
Answer: keith urban
Question: In Michaelangelo's painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Adam's finger points to whom?
Answer: god
Question: Who died in 1658, was buried at Westminster Abbey, and was disinterred and hanged in 1660?
Answer: oliver cromwell
Question: What colour is turmeric, a key ingredient for many Indian, Persian, Thai and Malay dishes, often used in curry?
Answer: yellow
Question: Who are most likey to perform a "pas de deux"?
Answer: ballet dancers
Question: What became, In July 1959, the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere?
Answer: cuba
Question: What American TV serial, first broadcast between April 1990 and June 1991, followed an investigation headed by Special Agent Dale Cooper?
Answer: twin peaks
Question: Stainless steel is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5 to 11% content by mass of what element?
Answer: chromium
Question: What name is given to a brightly coloured and very wide tie?
Answer: kipper tie
Question: Iran and the United Arab Emirates together with Musandam, an exclave of Oman, are on either side of which stretch of water?
Answer: strait of hormuz
Question: The plot of the 1959 film "Some Like It Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, is triggered by what event?
Answer: saint valentine s day massacre
Question: Who is credited with the quote, famous in US history: "I have not yet begun to fight"?
Answer: john paul jones
Question: What was the occupation of Alex, the character played by Jennifer Beals, in the 1983 film "Flashdance"?
Answer: welder
Question: In early 2013 French actor Gerard Depardieu took on Russian citizenship and was registered as permanent resident of...?
Answer: saransk russia
Question: In 1986, which country was found guilty by the International Court of Justice (World Court) of war crimes against Nicaragua?
Answer: usa
Question: What Greek letter is used to denote the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?
Answer: pi
Question: What role was played by Robbie Coltrane in the 2005 film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"?
Answer: hagrid
Question: Temujin (1162-1227), who made his capital in Karakorum was better known as who?
Answer: genghis khan
Question: What is looked for in the blue-tinged igneous rock called "kimberlite"?
Answer: diamonds
Question: The islands of Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes are in which sea?
Answer: aegean
Question: What song title has been recorded by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse, Steve Winwood, Bad Company, Reel Big Fish, and Louisiana Red?
Answer: valerie
Question: What is the palace and fortress complex of the Moorish rulers of Granada in southern Spain constructed during the mid 14th century that occupies a hilly terrace on the southeastern border of the city of Granada, Spain?
Answer: alhambra
Question: Who wrote the books "Stark", "Gridlock", "This Other Eden", "Popcorn", "Blast from the Past", "Inconceivable", "Dead Famous", "High Society", "Past Mortem" and "The First Casualty"?
Answer: ben elton
Question: US TV personality Jerry Springer was once mayor of which city?
Answer: cincinatti
Question: The Cullinan, a 3106.75 carat diamond, was mined where in 1905?
Answer: pretoria
Question: Which German writer, one of the key figures of the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, produced the two-part drama "Faust", numerous poems and the novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther"?
Answer: goethe
Question: By what name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento better known to his fans?
Answer: pel
Question: Who played mobster Henry Hill in the 1990 film "Goodfellas"?
Answer: ray liotta
Question: Vulgaria is what in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Answer: land
Question: in 1853 while working on the synthesis and properties of various acid anhydrides, French chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt made acetylsalicylic acid by mixing acetyl chloride with a sodium salt of salicylic acid (sodium salicylate). He called the resulting compound "salicylic-acetic anhydride". What was this preparation later marketed as?
Answer: aspirin
Question: What Spanish city became famous in the middle ages for swords and fine steel?
Answer: toledo
Question: Belgian competitor Eddy Merckx, often referred to as the best of all time in his field, was involved in what sport?
Answer: cycling
Question: The "rig veda" is a collection of scriptures sacred to which religion?
Answer: hinduism
Question: What was the name of the paranoid android in the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams?
Answer: marvin
Question: In which city would you find Victoria Peak, Victoria Harbour, Tai Mo Shan, Lantau Island, Cheung Chau, Lamma Island, Peng Chau and Tsing Yi Island?
Answer: hong kong
Question: Which cartoon character is the adoptive father of Swee'Pea, an infant foundling left on his doorstep?
Answer: popeye
Question: Leif Ericson, a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America before Christopher Columbus, established a settlement at Vinland, which has been tentatively identified as being where?
Answer: newfoundland
Question: Who is the New Zealander who directed "Shrek", "Shrek 2", "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"?
Answer: andrew adamson
Question: Block, Fan, Horsetail, Plunge, Punchbowl and Segmented are types of what?
Answer: waterfall
Question: Where did Scottish patriot William Wallace lead soldiers to a defeat of the English in 1297?
Answer: battle of stirling bridge
Question: Where does the Guinness Book of World Records recognise the largest wave ever surfed, 78 feet (23.8 m), as having been ridden?
Answer: portugal
Question: Which 15th century Italian painted "The Adoration of the Magi" and "The Birth of Venus"?
Answer: sandro botticelli
Question: What is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and by some to be the largest naval battle in history, and the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carried out organized kamikaze attacks?
Answer: battle of leyte gulf
Question: In 1459, the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, England, 2 miles east of Market Drayton in Shropshire, was the first major battle of which campaign?
Answer: wars of roses
Question: In 1906, Lee de Forest developed a "triode" to amplify and convert alternating current to direct current, which played a major role in the development of which invention?
Answer: radio
Question: Which singer invested in the Ampex company in 1947 (which developed North America's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder), was the first to pre-record his radio shows and to master his commercial recordings on magnetic tape?
Answer: bing crosby
Question: The Gaelic name for which sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, is Uamh-Binn, meaning "cave of melody"?
Answer: fingal s cave
Question: What character has been played by Howard Marion Crawford, Jude Law, Nigel Bruce and, in 2012, Martin Freeman
Answer: dr watson
Question: Which orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician composed the film scores for "Brazil", "Highlander", "X-Men", "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", "Licence to Kill", the "Lethal Weapon" series, the first three "Die Hard"s and "Mr. Holland's Opus"?
Answer: michael kamen
Question: Lydia Ko who took the 2012 Canadian Women's Open as a 15 year old amateur, became the youngest person to win an LPGA Tour event. What is her nationality?
Answer: new zealander
Question: At a banquet, the ghost of whom enters and sits in Macbeth's chair?
Answer: banquo
Question: What message did Benito Mussolini famously send to the Italian soccer team before the 1938 World Cup?
Answer: win or die
Question: What public disturbance early in June 1780 in London, described by Charles Dickens in "Barnaby Rudge", was put down by the military and followed by the execution of 11 people?
Answer: gordon riots
Question: Which chemist, engineer, and armaments manufacturer invented dynamite and a detonator for it and then founded a longstanding series of world prizes for, among other things, promoting peace?
Answer: alfred nobel
Question: Who married actress Ta Leoni on 6 May 1997, announced their separation on 15 October 2008, and in September 2009 announced that they had reconciled?
Answer: david duchovny
Question: Which was the first Soviet Union republic to establish its independence when the Soviet Union was dissolving?
Answer: lithuania
Question: Which 15th century Portuguese navigator discovered the sea route around the Cape of Good Hope?
Answer: bartholomew diaz
Question: Which country has borders with Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and the People's Republic of China?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: What is an abacus-like finger counting method used to perform basic mathematical operations, by which it is possible to display all numbers from 0 to 99 with both hands?
Answer: chisanbop
Question: Elton John co-wrote 5 songs with Tim Rice for which Walt Disney musical?
Answer: lion king
Question: Who, legend has it, led Phoenicians to found Carthage?
Answer: dido
Question: A 19th century French physicist, chemist, botanist and teacher is particularly well-known for his seminal work in establishing entomology. What was his name?
Answer: jean henri fabre
Question: What kind of event is the Welsh word Eisteddfod applied to?
Answer: arts festival
Question: The Karnak Temple Complex, a conglomeration of ruined temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings, is near where?
Answer: luxor egypt
Question: What was the title of Britney Spears' second album (and the single that was released from it)?
Answer: oops i did it again
Question: Who created and hosts the TV series "America's Next Top Model"?
Answer: tyra banks
Question: What is the dish called "Picalilli"?
Answer: relish of chopped pickled vegetables and spice
Question: Which French singer and actress has been in a relationship with American actor Johnny Depp since 1998, with whom she has a daughter and a son?
Answer: vanessa paradis
Question: What British TV series was set at Maplins Holiday Camp?
Answer: hi de hi
Question: Which band performed at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia in 2009 and in the halftime show of the Super Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida in 2010?
Answer: who
Question: """You had me at 'Hello'!"" is a line from which film?"
Answer: jerry mcguire
Question: What was the name of the German fighter pilot known as the "Red Baron", officially credited with 80 confirmed air combat victories, who died in 1918, from wounds sustained in combat?
Answer: manfred albrecht freiherr von richthofen
Question: The orangutan is found on Sumatra and which other island?
Answer: borneo
Question: Which family of palaeoanthropologists is most associated with work in the Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania?
Answer: leakey
Question: The First Lady of which US president was known as Pat, though her first name was Thelma?
Answer: richard nixon
Question: Which one of these co-wrote with David Bowie, to a guitar riff written by Carlos Alomar, the song "Fame", which was released by Bowie in 1975 on his "Young Americans" album?
Answer: john lennon
Question: The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed on July 21, 356 BC in an act of arson committed by whom?
Answer: herostratus
Question: Which team defeated Pakistan in the 2007 inaugural ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament?
Answer: india
Question: According to Edward Lear, who went to sea in a sieve?
Answer: jumblies
Question: Which flowers are "in the hospital", according to a 1993 hit by the Manic Street Preachers?
Answer: roses
Question: What surface is tennis played on at The Australian Open at Melbourne Park?
Answer: hard court
Question: Glencoe, Praga, Peterloo, Waterloo Creek, and Hue are known as what?
Answer: massacres
Question: How often does a solar eclipse happens somewhere in the world?
Answer: every 18 months
Question: Which instrument originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian interpretation of a small guitar-like instrument taken there by Portuguese immigrants?
Answer: ukulele
Question: What major sporting event was held, also in London, shortly after the London 2012 Summer Olympics?
Answer: 2012 summer paralympics
Question: The "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests In The Atmosphere, In Outer Space And Under Water", known as the "Partial Test Ban Treaty", "Limited Test Ban Treaty" and "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty", introduced in 1963, was signed by a number of countries including the UK, the USA and which other?
Answer: ussr
Question: What tourist destination is near Owicim, Poland?
Answer: auschwitz concentration camp
Question: On 17 June 1994, what vehicle was O J Simpson driving in a slow-speed chase by police at 35 miles per hour (56 km/h)?
Answer: ford bronco
Question: In 1884 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical "Humanum Genus", which denounced a number of beliefs and practices such as popular sovereignty and the separation of church and state, in relation to which group in particular?
Answer: freemasons
Question: Which 2004 film, directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Natalie Portman concerns two obsessive couples whose intimacy pushes them further apart?
Answer: closer
Question: """Operation Market Garden"" took place in the Netherlands and Germany during which war?"
Answer: world war ii
Question: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, built by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn & Geoff Tootill that first ran on 21 June 1948, was an early form of what?
Answer: computer
Question: Which art museum, on the eastern edge of Central Park in New York City, USA, has a permanent collection containing more than two million works of art?
Answer: metropolitan museum of art
Question: What religious organisation was founded in England by William Booth in 1877?
Answer: salvation army
Question: The adjectival clause in the following sentence begins with which word: "Roger told his dog, which had just come inside, not to jump with such vigour on the brand new furniture"?
Answer: which
Question: In which city was the Reichstag burnt down in 1933?
Answer: berlin
Question: In 1972, who became the youngest Formula One Champion Racing Driver at the age of 25?
Answer: emerson fittipaldi
Question: Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, a Renaissance man of many talents, is well-known for his writings on politics but was also a well-known politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, letter writer, playwright, poet, songwriter, and what else?
Answer: historian
Question: Which country governs the islands called Crete, Lesbos, Rhodes, Corfu, Lemnos, Andros, Naxos and Kos?
Answer: greece
Question: In 2006, which country announced that it was withdrawing from test match cricket for 12 months?
Answer: zimbabwe
Question: What play has the characters Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism and Doctor Chasuble?
Answer: importance of being earnest
Question: A QR, or quick response, barcode is a machine-readable label, and encodes virtually any type of data including the standardised modes of alphanumeric, binary, numeric and what other kind?
Answer: kanji
Question: Why did Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German carpenter, make international news in 1936 when he was sentenced to death and executed for what became known as "The Crime of the Century"?
Answer: lindbergh kidnapping
Question: On the Christian calendar, what name is given to the 40 days before Easter?
Answer: lent
Question: The Basques are native people of France and which other neighbouring country?
Answer: spain
Question: After she beat Francesca Schiavone at the Sony Ericsson Tennis Championships in Doha, who was ranked World No. 1 on the WTA Tour?
Answer: caroline wozniacki
Question: What is the name of a measure that is equal to 42 US gallons, 158.9873 litres, or 34.9723 Imperial (UK) gallons?
Answer: barrel
Question: A "quack" is usually defined as someone who pretends to be an expert in what field?
Answer: medicine
Question: It was formed in 1885 by members of the Theosophical Society, was a major force in the Indian independence movement and is still a potent political party in India. What is it called?
Answer: indian national congress
Question: Which long-running TV series first aired on UK TV in 1963?
Answer: dr who
Question: Which band's seventh album "In Rainbows" was released through their website on 10 October 2007 as a download for which customers could make whatever payment that they wanted, even nothing?
Answer: radiohead
Question: Which snooker player, nicknamed "The Grinder", in 1980 became the first player from outside the United Kingdom to win the world snooker championship?
Answer: cliff thorburn
Question: Where, on 24 June 1314, did Robert Bruce defeat Edward II's army?
Answer: bannockburn
Question: Which country owns most of the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego?
Answer: chile
Question: Competitors from which country won the most medals at the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand?
Answer: great britain
Question: Who was thrown into the Tiber by his uncle, was suckled by a wolf, co-founded Rome and was killed by his brother?
Answer: remus
Question: The Kadima, Likud and Shas political parties are active in which country?
Answer: israel
Question: Lindsay Lohan starred in a film called "Confessions of a " what?
Answer: teenage drama queen
Question: Which musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on a book by Wilkie Collins?
Answer: woman in white
Question: Which country, a founder member of the Arab League in 1945 was suspended from the League from 1979 to 1989 after it signed a peace treaty with Israel?
Answer: egypt
Question: In the TV series "Extras", Stephen Merchant played what role?
Answer: agent darren lamb
Question: It is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal, with currently 14 countries contesting its World Championships. What is it called?
Answer: bandy
Question: In 1984 Anne Wood founded a company to produce children's shows for TV, the early shows from which included Pob's Programme, Playbox and Teletubbies. What was it called?
Answer: ragdoll productions
Question: Erik the Red was convicted of killing both Thorgest (after a dispute over a shovel) and Valthjof (who had killed some of his slaves) and banished from Iceland. He led a group of approximately 500 settlers to settle in what country?
Answer: greenland
Question: Kelly Slater is both the youngest and oldest person to hold the world title in what sport?
Answer: surfing
Question: David Marks, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton, Frank Anatole and Nic Bailey were the architects of which London landmark that was opened on 31 December 1999?
Answer: london eye
Question: Directly leading up to WW I (1914-18) were two other major European conflicts in 1912 and 1913, usually called the First and Second what?
Answer: balkan war
Question: A team from which country won the World Elephant Polo Association world championship in 2004 and 2005?
Answer: scotland
Question: Who was the first U.S. President to take residence in the White House, then known as the Executive Mansion?
Answer: john adams
Question: Who was the first left handed golfer to win one of the four majors?
Answer: bob charles
Question: Which country has the largest coal reserves in Latin America and produces most of the world's emeralds?
Answer: colombia
Question: What was the name of the TV doctor played by Richard Chamberlain in a US TV series in the 1960s?
Answer: kildare
Question: Who succeeded Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, after he was shot and killed on 27 June 1844?
Answer: brigham young
Question: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan border what area?
Answer: red sea
Question: In 2001, who began a relationship with director Tim Burton with whom she has two children: Billy (born 2003) and Nell (born 2007)?
Answer: helena bonham carter
Question: Who play the two lead characters in the UK TV 2010 series Sherlock?
Answer: benedict cumberbatch martin freeman
Question: Brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier were the inventors of a style of what?
Answer: hot air balloon
Question: The term "banana republic" was first used in 1904 by O Henry, to describe what country?
Answer: honduras
Question: Which trophy is affectionately called the Auld Mug?
Answer: americas cup
Question: What unusual item is used as an instrument in the chorus of Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore"?
Answer: anvil
Question: Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing are members of which fictional group?
Answer: fantastic four
Question: Who wrote the book "The Prince and the Pauper"?
Answer: mark twain
Question: Who created the framework for the Virginia Plan, that structured the US Government into three branches?
Answer: james madison
Question: Larry Hagman, the star of the TV drama that first ran from 1978 to 1991, "Dallas", is the son of which actress and singer who originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" and Maria in "The Sound of Music"?
Answer: mary martin
Question: In communication over two-way radios, in use by the military, police and fire despatching systems, and CB radio, what does "over" mean?
Answer: i have finished talking and i am listening
Question: The Anemone hupehensis (commonly known as the Japanese anemone, Japanese thimbleweed, or Japanese windflower) was originally native to where?
Answer: central china
Question: According to a story originating in the 9th century, and disputed by the Catholic Church, who was the first female Pope?
Answer: pope joan
Question: Where is the headquarters of the international broadcasting network CNN, "the CNN Center"?
Answer: atlanta georgia usa
Question: One of Canada's UNESCO World heritage sites is "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump", which was used for 5,500 years by which indigenous people to kill buffalo, by driving them off the 10 metre high cliff?
Answer: blackfoot
Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 muses was the muse of Tragedy?
Answer: melpomene
Question: The TT on the Isle of Man, first run in 1905, is for what?
Answer: motorcycles
Question: Edwin Budding invented a tool in 1827 in Thrupp, just outside Stroud in Gloucestershire in the UK which in one of its current forms is used throughout gardens, parks, and sports grounds worldwide. What was it?
Answer: lawn mower
Question: In the first century AD, which rebellious British chieftain, of the Catuvellauni, was taken to Rome in chains?
Answer: caratacus
Question: Who is the player who has come closest to meeting the modern definition of golf's Grand Slam by holding all four modern major championships simultaneously?
Answer: tiger woods
Question: Who composed the jazz / swing theme music for the television series Jeeves and Wooster?
Answer: anne dudley
Question: Which book of the Christian Bible's new testament comprises a letter from St Paul to members of a church that he had founded at Macedonia?
Answer: philippians