CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In the nursery rhyme "sing a song of sixpence", what kind of bird plucked off a nose?
Answer: blackbird
Question: Which mountain range stretches from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west?
Answer: alps
Question: If someone is narcoleptic, what do they tend to do?
Answer: fall asleep
Question: The state of Tabasco, where the sauce gets its name, is in which country?
Answer: mexico
Question: What 2007 film is an over-the-top send-up of action movies, featuring a large amount of violence (including killing by carrots), starring Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci & Paul Giamatti?
Answer: shoot em up
Question: """Someone Who'll Watch Over Me"" and ""Factory Girls"" are plays by whom?"
Answer: frank mcguiness
Question: During the reign of which English king was there a succession crisis between his supporters and those of his cousin, the Empress Matilda?
Answer: stephen
Question: A "triple peel" is a manoeuvre that is common in what sport?
Answer: croquet
Question: Kickflips, ollies, Nollies and nosediving are moves in what sport?
Answer: skateboarding
Question: In Norse mythology, which plant killed the god Baldur?
Answer: mistletoe
Question: What are the last words of the film "The Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: there s no place like home
Question: Which Scotsman, a self-made man, merchant and yachtsman who created a tea brand, was a persistent challenger for the America's Cup?
Answer: sir thomas lipton
Question: What name was given to Colleen LaRose, who was accused of conspiring with fighters overseas and pledging to commit murder in the name of a Muslim holy war, and pleaded not guilty in court in Philadelphia in March 2010?
Answer: jihad jane
Question: From which continent are native tribes and ethnic groups called the Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Amhara, Somali, Fula, Shona, Zulu, Hutu, Maasai, Tutsi and Nubians?
Answer: africa
Question: Who directed the allied forces at the second Battle of El Alamein?
Answer: montgomery
Question: What astronomical instrument was used in Classical Antiquity and through the medieval Islamic world, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by astronomers, navigators, and astrologers to locate and predict the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars, determine local time or latitude, for surveying and to cast horoscopes?
Answer: astrolabe
Question: What 1965 film was credited with saving 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy?
Answer: sound of music
Question: Who formulated the "Law" that, in a paramagnetic material, the magnetization of the material is (approximately) directly proportional to an applied magnetic field, but if the material is heated, the magnetization is (approximately) inversely proportional to temperature?
Answer: pierre curie
Question: In which state of Australia would you find the area known as the Katherine Region?
Answer: northern territory
Question: What is the name for someone who engages in the scientific study of fermentation?
Answer: zymurgist
Question: On 1 November 2010, the San Francisco Giants won the baseball World Series 41, their first World Series since 1954. Who did they defeat?
Answer: texas rangers
Question: What award is the equivalent of the Oscars for live American theatre?
Answer: tonys
Question: In 2006, Michelle Bachelet became the first female president of which country?
Answer: chile
Question: Who was the female star of the 1984 film "Ghostbusters"?
Answer: sigourney weaver
Question: Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the guilder as its basic currency unit?
Answer: netherlands
Question: When a snooker game is set up, what ball is set closest to the centre of the table?
Answer: blue
Question: Grounation Day (April 21) and Coronation Day (November 2) are important holy days in which religion?
Answer: rastafarian
Question: Tic-tac-toe is another name for which game?
Answer: noughts and crosses
Question: What caused 12,000 deaths in 4 days in London in 1952?
Answer: smog
Question: The tributaries of which river are the Olifants River (Elephant River), the Shashe River, Mzingwane River, Crocodile River, Mwenezi River and Luvuhu River?
Answer: limpopo
Question: Who famously put his telescope to his blind eye to ignore the orders of his superiors at the Battle of Copenhagen?
Answer: lord nelson
Question: What is "UDFy-38135539" which was calculated in October 2010 to be 13 billion light years away?
Answer: galaxy
Question: In cricket, what fielding position is on the boundary behind the wicket keeper, on the off side?
Answer: third man
Question: What was the largest empire in history, that began with maritime exploration in the 15th century, and by 1921 governed about 458 million people and covered about 36.6 million km (14.2 million square miles), about a quarter of the world's population and of the Earth's area?
Answer: british
Question: Peruvian Lina Medina, aged 5, made history in 1939 as the youngest person to do what?
Answer: give birth
Question: Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann was talking about what when he said "I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. ?
Answer: lysergic acid diethylamide lsd
Question: In Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting For Godot", which 2 characters appear together, briefly, once in each act?
Answer: pozzo and lucky
Question: In which country did the idea of Father Christmas coming down the chimney and leaving presents originate?
Answer: usa
Question: From 1935 to 1946, the Philippines was officially called The Commonwealth of the Philippines when the country was a commonwealth of which nation?
Answer: usa
Question: In golf, the Ryder Cup and the biennial Presidents Cup for teams representing the USA and International (non-European) players are unusual in that they use what scoring system?
Answer: match play
Question: Besides Meredith Vieira, who has been the host of the US version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" since it began airing in 1999?
Answer: regis philbin
Question: Who featured on the 2006 UK #1 single "Thunder in My Heart Again" by Meck SP?
Answer: leo sayer
Question: What novel, alternatively entitled "There and Back Again", is a fantasy novel by J R R Tolkien, published in September 1937?
Answer: hobbit
Question: Since 1961, with what group have Eric Baker, Sean MacBride, Martin Ennals Dirk Brner, Thomas Hammarberg, Jos Zalaquett, Suriya Wickremasinghe, Wolfgang Heinz, Franca Sciuto, Peter Duffy, Annette Fischer, Ross Daniels, Susan Waltz, Mahmoud Ben Romdhane, Colm O Cuanachain, Paul Hoffman, Jaap Jacobson, Hanna Roberts, Lilian Gonalves-Ho Kang You, Peter Pack, Peter Benenson, Ian Martin, Pierre San, Irene Khan and Salil Shetty been associated?
Answer: amnesty international
Question: What sport is featured in the play "Foreskin's Lament" by Greg McGee?
Answer: rugby
Question: On 11 May 2010 David Cameron was asked by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government and, as Prime Minister of the UK, announced that he wished to lead a formal coalition of the Conservative Party and which other party?
Answer: liberal democrats
Question: Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot was the "real" name of which Batman villain?
Answer: penguin
Question: The historically significant "Wind of Change" speech was made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on 3 February 1960 to the Parliament of which country?
Answer: south africa
Question: Who wrote "The Naked Ape" and "The Human Zoo"?
Answer: desmond morris
Question: What is the name of the song by Kenny Rogers that includes the lines "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away and know when to run"?
Answer: gambler
Question: What name was given to the predominant type of 20th-century battleship, with an 'all-big-gun' armament & steam turbine propulsion, that was named after the first of the kind, launched by the Royal Navy in 1906?
Answer: dreadnought
Question: Pirates operating off the coast of which country took over $100 million in ransom payments between 2007 and 2009?
Answer: somalia
Question: P B S Pinchback was the first non-white and first person of African American descent to become governor of a US state, serving for 35 days from 9 December 1872, to 13 January 1873. Which state was this?
Answer: louisiana
Question: The annual rock festival at Roskilde is held in which country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Whose body was buried in 1543 in an unnamed tomb in the Catholic church of Frombork, Poland, exhumed in 2005, and buried there for a second time in May 2010 in a ceremony conducted by the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland?
Answer: nicolaus copernicus
Question: What is the name of the 12 levels of proficiency in judo and karate?
Answer: dan
Question: Which religion is based on the teachings of Siddartha Gautama?
Answer: buddhism
Question: The statue called "Manneken Pis", of a small boy relieving himself, is in which city?
Answer: brussels
Question: Which British TV soap opera ran from 2 November 1964 to 4 April 1988 with minor changes of name, was revived on 5 March 2001, went into hiatus from August 2002 to January 2003, with the final episode broadcast on 30 May 2003?
Answer: crossroads
Question: When Winston Churchill said "Now this is not the end, nor is it even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning", which event was he talking about?
Answer: second battle of el alamein
Question: What disease reached epidemic proportions in Haiti late in 2010?
Answer: cholera
Question: In 1932 the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd unified with the principal regions of Al-Hasa and Qatif to form which country?
Answer: kingdom of saudi arabia
Question: Which TV series contained the characters Sybil, Polly, Basil and Manuel?
Answer: fawlty towers
Question: The term "rope-a-dope" is from what sport?
Answer: boxing
Question: The flag of which country is a horizontal tricolour of "deep saffron" at the top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom with, in the centre, a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes?
Answer: india
Question: Billy Blaze, an 8-year-old genius who constructed a spaceship in his backyard from old soup cans and other household objects called "The Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket" puts on his brother's football helmet and becomes what character in a video game series?
Answer: commander keen
Question: In the Bible, Goliath was a member of what group?
Answer: philistines
Question: Who, before being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003, was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice?
Answer: j m coetzee
Question: Who is a former British triple jumper who held the Olympic, Commonwealth, European and World records, and has held the world record in the event since 1995?
Answer: jonathan edwards
Question: Who wrote, often with Howard Greenfield, the songs "Oh! Carol" (1959), "Calendar Girl" (1960), "Little Devil" (1961), "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (1961), "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1962) and "Next Door to an Angel" (1962)?
Answer: neil sedaka
Question: On 1 September 2010, In the Iraq War, the USA replaced the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" by what?
Answer: operation new dawn
Question: What term applies to an engine comprising two banks of four cylinders inclined towards each other, with a common crankshaft?
Answer: v8
Question: Which football team returned home from the 2010 African Nations Cup in Angola after their bus was shot at and three people were killed?
Answer: togo
Question: The "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" signed into law in the US state of Arizona on 23 April 2010 to take effect on 28 July 2010, concerns what?
Answer: illegal immigration
Question: Whose autobiography was entitled "A Long Walk to Freedom"?
Answer: nelson mandela
Question: Tofu is made by coagulating what, and compacting the resulting curds into blocks?
Answer: soy milk
Question: Who wrote "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, it isn't fit for humans now"?
Answer: sir john betjeman
Question: What is the term for reactions some people have that are severe and life-threatening allergies (to environmental or dietary allergens or to medication)?
Answer: anaphylactic
Question: What was the name of the British Royal Yacht that entered service in 1953 and decommissioned on 11 December 1997?
Answer: britannia
Question: In 1314, who led the Scottish forces at the Battle of Bannockburn?
Answer: robert bruce
Question: A theory of the workings of the human body adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and believed until the 19th century was that it was filled with 4 basic substances (black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood). These were collectively known as what?
Answer: humours
Question: Which New Zealand cricketer, a left-handed batsman who captained New Zealand in 4 Tests in the early 1950s, was one of Wisden's cricketers of the year for 1950?
Answer: bert sutcliffe
Question: Where are the 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, to be held?
Answer: pyeongchang south korea
Question: What city, founded around 1048 by King Harald III, was largely destroyed by fire and rebuilt from 1624 by King Christian IV and named Christiania, and reverted to its original name in 1925?
Answer: oslo
Question: Who was shot dead on 9 October 1967 while trying to organise a revolution in Bolivia?
Answer: che guevara
Question: Which card game, originating in Spain and introduced to England in 1861, is played between 2 persons with 2 packs of cards (with sixes and below removed) who are dealt 8 cards each?
Answer: bezique
Question: Where is Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" set?
Answer: spain
Question: Commander Shepard, Jacob Taylor, Miranda Lawson, Thane Krios, Grunt, Jack, Mordin Solus, Samara, Morinth, Legion, Zaeed Messani, Garrus Vakarian and Tali'Zorah Vas Neema are characters in which computer game?
Answer: mass effect 2
Question: What is another name for the "Aurora Borealis"?
Answer: northern lights
Question: What international consumer item does the "Economist" use to compare purchasing power between countries?
Answer: big mac
Question: Whose 33rd album was called "In Search of the Fourth Chord"?
Answer: status quo
Question: Who, as US Secretary of State under President Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959, advocated an aggressive stance against communism, supported France in the war in Indochina, and played a major role in the CIA operations to overthrow democratic governments in Iran in 1953 and in Guatemala in 1954?
Answer: john foster dulles
Question: During World War II, what was the name given to deliberately created simulations of burning towns that were constructed in Britain to decoy German night bombers away from bombing real towns?
Answer: starfish sites
Question: According to the nursery rhyme "Polly put the kettle on", who took it off again?
Answer: sukey
Question: Salvador Dali was a principal figure in what artistic movement?
Answer: surrealism
Question: On what day in 1066 was William I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey?
Answer: christmas day
Question: What Texas city stands on the Rio Grande (Ro Bravo del Norte), across the border from Ciudad Jurez, Chihuahua, Mexico?
Answer: el paso
Question: What is it called when a surfer falls off the surfboard while riding a wave?
Answer: wipeout
Question: Who defeated the British army in 1879 at the Battle of Isandlwana?
Answer: zulus
Question: What name was used for two forests in J. R. R. Tolkien's "Hobbit"/ "Lord of the Rings" saga, the first under Morgoth's control, and the second under the influence of Sauron?
Answer: mirkwood
Question: What gas is used to make carbonated soft drinks and soda water?
Answer: carbon dioxide
Question: Which war pitted anarchists, socialists, and Communists supported by the Soviets and international volunteers, against conservatives, monarchists, nationalists and fascists, with the support of Portugal, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany?
Answer: spanish civil war
Question: Which country occupies the islands called Palawan, Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate, Batanes, Bohol, Leyte and Samar?
Answer: philippines
Question: Which wonder of the ancient world was at Halicarnassus, Persia?
Answer: mausoleum of mausolus
Question: What organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917, 1944 and 1963?
Answer: international committee of red cross
Question: At the 1988 Olympics, the team from Great Britain defeated West Germany to win gold in which sport?
Answer: field hockey
Question: Who was shot by Valery Solanas on 3 June 1968?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: Clive Owen starred in the title role of which 2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni, with Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley and Ivano Marescotti?
Answer: king arthur
Question: In which sport is a contest called honbasho or basho?
Answer: sumo wrestling
Question: Which country withdrew from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2008 after it became a net importer of oil?
Answer: indonesia
Question: Abraham Ortelius, a Flemish cartographer and geographer, is generally recognised as the creator of the first what in 1570 ?
Answer: modern atlas
Question: When is Shakespeare's play "Troilus and Cressida" set?
Answer: trojan war
Question: David Leadbetter and Butch Harmon are coaches in which sport?
Answer: golf
Question: Who was on the throne of England when Francis Drake fought the Spanish Armada in 1588?
Answer: elizabeth i
Question: Who was the female lead in the film "Casablanca"?
Answer: ingrid bergman
Question: Cautley Spout, Gocta, Hannoki, ShirAbad, and Shoshone are the names of what?
Answer: waterfalls
Question: In golf, what is the term for "four strokes under par"?
Answer: condor
Question: What basic food can be evaporated, condensed, pasteurised or dried?
Answer: milk
Question: Which Jewish festival, celebrated on the 14th and 15th of March, is to commemorate the preservation of the Jews in Persia from the destruction threatened by Haman?
Answer: purim
Question: Competitors from which country won the most medals at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Rotterdam, Netherlands from 16 to 24 October 2010?
Answer: people s republic of china
Question: What 2005 science fiction-thriller film starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea and John Hurt, is an adaptation of a comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd?
Answer: v for vendetta
Question: What is the current name of the country that was ruled by the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1979?
Answer: iran
Question: The sausage tree, Kigelia or Worsboom is native to which continent?
Answer: africa
Question: The islands of Kos, Leros, Nisyros, Patmos and Rhodes are in what sea?
Answer: mediterranean
Question: What is a medical term referring to the presence of pathogenic organisms in the bloodstream, leading to blood poisoning?
Answer: septicemia
Question: Members of what family were killed in the Massacre of Glencoe in Scotland, on 13 February 1692?
Answer: mcdonald
Question: Which fictional character referred to his wife as "She Who Must Be Obeyed"?
Answer: rumpole of bailey
Question: What is the name of the leg action used in breaststroke?
Answer: frog kick
Question: The boundaries of four states of the USA, known as the Four Corners states, meet at one point, the only such geographic point in the USA. They are Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and which other?
Answer: utah
Question: What was the occupation of Anna Politkovskaya, who was found dead in the elevator of her apartment in central Moscow on 7 October 2006, shot twice in the chest, once in the shoulder, and once in the head at point blank range?
Answer: journalist
Question: What fictional island off the coast of Sumatra that first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" is the home of King Kong and other creatures?
Answer: skull island
Question: What meteorological phenomenon is named after the Arabic word for "season"?
Answer: monsoon
Question: What is the middle name of Sir Austin Powers, KBE, a fictional character who first appeared in "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (1997) and is portrayed by Mike Myers?
Answer: danger
Question: Which Australian, a winner of Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild and Australian Film Institute awards, became, in 2009, one of 17 people to have won an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award?
Answer: geoffrey rush
Question: A US TV series (1974 to 1982) was called "The Little House ... " where?
Answer: on prairie
Question: """A pitch"" is the way that the ball is put into play in which game?"
Answer: baseball
Question: What genre did Howard L. Chace, a professor of French, use when he wrote "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut", the story of Little Red Riding Hood written using English words (but never the correct ones) to demonstrate that the intonation of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves?
Answer: homophonic transformation
Question: Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward all became infamous in the UK for their part in what event in the 1960s?
Answer: profumo affair
Question: What is a variation of the standard card game of poker which consists of two cards being dealt face down to each player and then 5 community cards being placed by the dealer (3 as "the flop" then 1 called "the turn", then 1 called "the river"), with players having the option to check, bet or fold after each deal?
Answer: texas hold em
Question: The seven brightest stars of which constellation form the asterism known as the Big Dipper in the United States and Canada, or the Plough in the United Kingdom and Ireland?
Answer: ursa major
Question: From 14 November 1994 when services began until 14 November 2007, from where did "Eurostar" trains leave London for Paris?
Answer: waterloo
Question: In Greek mythology, Hera sent two serpents to kill which baby?
Answer: heracles
Question: The Forest of Arden appears in which Shakespearean play?
Answer: as you like it
Question: In 2008, who became the first female recipient of the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year award?
Answer: gloria estefan
Question: What was the setting for the British TV series "Taggart"?
Answer: glasgow
Question: What needlework technique incorporating features of embroidery, cutwork and needle lace, popular in England in the 19th century, is characterised by patterns composed of small holes or eyelets bound with overcast or buttonhole stitches?
Answer: broderie anglaise
Question: What did the British nickname the V1 rocket during the London Bitz during World War II?
Answer: doodlebug
Question: What area of Paris is served by the metro stations of Anvers, Blanche, Pigalle, Abbesses, Lamarck - Caulaincourt and Jules Joffrin?
Answer: montmartre
Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays is Brutus described as "the noblest Roman of them all"?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: What, the largest of its type at the time, was destroyed by fire at Alexandria in the first century BC?
Answer: library
Question: In 1984, who had a hit single snging about how he "got my first real six-string, bought it at the five-and-dime, played 'til my fingers bled. It was summer of '69"?
Answer: bryan adams
Question: What name was given to a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005?
Answer: orange revolution
Question: In February 2010, Joseph Stack, a 53 year old software engineer, crashed his light plane into Internal Revenue Service offices in which city?
Answer: austin texas
Question: Who created the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"?
Answer: brant parker and johnny hart
Question: In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who was with a fiddle?
Answer: cat
Question: Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland?
Answer: anne boleyn
Question: Who married Ethan Hawke in 1998?
Answer: uma thurman
Question: In what country were measures announced on 22 April 2010 by the Prime Minister to cut consumption of power, affecting the length of the official weekend, signs, government offices, air conditioners, street markets, commercial centers, weddings and wells?
Answer: pakistan
Question: What religious organisation was formed under the leadership of George Fox in the mid 17th century?
Answer: quakers
Question: What are the bottom-most 3 to 5 fused vertebra of the backbone called?
Answer: coccygeal