CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What Swiss Alpine town hosts the annual World Economic Forum gathering of international leaders, financiers and business chiefs?
Answer: davos
Question: What is the term, of French origin, loosely translated 'into mouth', for using facial muscles and shaping the lips for the mouthpiece to play a woodwind or brass musical instrument?
Answer: embouchure
Question: Which European country found itself without a government from June 2010 into 2011 because of failed coalition talks between its seven political parties?
Answer: belgium
Question: In his 2011 memoir, Known and Unknown, which US ex-politician deflected blame onto others including Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice for Iraq War mistakes?
Answer: donald rumsfeld
Question: Which football club broke the British transfer record in January 2011 by paying Liverpool F C £50million for Fernando Torres?
Answer: chelsea
Question: English 17th century 'Hearth Money' was a tax on which part of a house?
Answer: chimney
Question: The Salmon River in Idaho USA is known by what nickname, (also the name of a 1954 film, whose title soundtrack was recorded by each of its stars, Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum)?
Answer: river of no return
Question: Which prolific 18th century German-British composer created Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks and the opera Serse?
Answer: george frideric handel
Question: An English folk name for the green woodpecker, based on an aspect of its behaviour is a?
Answer: yaffle
Question: A major critic of the conventional notion of God, who wrote the 1976 book, extending ideas of natural selection in evolution, The Selfish Gene?
Answer: richard dawkins
Question: British photographer Carl Warner's collection of landscapes went on display in London in October 2010. What did he use to create the landscapes?
Answer: food
Question: Brougham, Hackney, Buckboard, and Phaeton are horse-drawn vehicles with how many wheels each?
Answer: four
Question: Which World War II leader was captured in April 1945 trying to flee to Switzerland with gold and looted Ethiopian sovereigns which became known as The Treasure of Dongo?
Answer: mussolini
Question: In what country are/were violent demonstrations in 2011 against President Hosni Mubarak and his 30-year leadership?
Answer: egypt
Question: Who beat Andy Murray in final of the Australian Open tennis championship in January 2011?
Answer: novak djokovic
Question: What were the first names of retailer F W Woolworth, the second of which was a store brand?
Answer: frank winfield
Question: """Hale knew before he had been in Brighton three hours that they meant to murder him..."" are the opening words to which Graham Greene novel?"
Answer: brighton rock
Question: Actress Maria Schneider who died in 2011 age 58 was famous for her role in what iconic sexually explicit film?
Answer: last tango in paris
Question: Basrelief, cameo, restrike, and anaglyph and technical terms within what art form?
Answer: sculpture
Question: The Middle Eastern dish falafel or felafel usually contains onions, parsley, coriander and what main ingredient?
Answer: chickpeas
Question: In the story of Cinderella (the French medieval version, which gave us the modern Western version) what were Cinderella's slippers made from?
Answer: squirrel fur
Question: What type of animal inspired the creation of Bugs Bunny, Brer Rabbit, and the Easter Bunny?
Answer: hare
Question: What is the main fruit ingredient of the traditional (orange) Jaffa Cake biscuit?
Answer: apricot
Question: Who first devised the central relativity principle within Einstein's Theory of Relativity?
Answer: galileo
Question: Catgut (for old musical instrument strings and tennis rackets, etc) was usually made from the intestines of which animal?
Answer: sheep
Question: In what country was the game Chinese Checkers (or Chinese Chequers) invented?
Answer: germany
Question: A geography term from French and Arabic, what is an erg made of?
Answer: sand
Question: Which famous Belfast born guitarist, who played with Thin Lizzy for a while, died on 6th February 2011?
Answer: gary moore
Question: Ex-US president George W Bush cancelled a trip to which European country in February 2011 due to fears that he could be arrested for ordering the torture of prisoners?
Answer: switzerland
Question: What was the codename of the Iraqi agent who admitted lying to US intelligence services about the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and providing US/UK justification for the Iraq War?
Answer: curveball
Question: Clas Ohlson is a hugely popular DIY store chain based in which country?
Answer: sweden
Question: Hatha, Jnana, Bhakti and Karma are all branches of which activity?
Answer: yoga
Question: In British politics, what is the only one of the 'Four Great Offices of State' never (at at Feb 2011) held by a woman?
Answer: chancellor of exchequer
Question: A parody of Hitler and Nazism, what was Charlie Chaplin's first talking feature film?
Answer: great dictator
Question: Which European capital city is known as 'Pearl of the Danube'?
Answer: budapest
Question: What family of tectosilicate minerals, named from the German for 'field', is the most abundant in the Earth's crust?
Answer: feldspars
Question: Who won the American NFL Super Bowl in February 2011?
Answer: green bay packers
Question: Menudo, a soup-like dish featuring tripe (beef stomach) and chili peppers, is from which country?
Answer: mexico
Question: The charter for what international organization was signed in San Francisco, in June 1945?
Answer: united nations
Question: The ground-dwelling mesite bird is confined to which island, fourth-largest globally, behind Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo (given that Australia is regarded as a continent, not an island)?
Answer: madagascar
Question: In Arthurian and Welsh Romance legendary stories, who was the faithful wife of Geraint/Gereint?
Answer: enid
Question: Producing meibum, an oily sealant, where on the human head are the meibomian glands ?
Answer: eyelids
Question: By what name is Siddartha Guatama better known?
Answer: buddha
Question: The world's largest working waterwheel, the Lady Isabella (also known as the Laxey Wheel), is on which island, known in its national language as Ellan Vannin?
Answer: isle of man
Question: In which African country is the town of Lassa, where Lassa fever was first identified?
Answer: nigeria
Question: Englishman John Wycliffe's 14th century Lollardy movement addressed reform of what?
Answer: religion
Question: In UK politics, what flower is the emblem of the Labour Party?
Answer: rose
Question: According to the gospel of Luke, Zachariah and his barren wife Elizabeth were the parents of which great Biblical character?
Answer: john baptist
Question: What is an angle called which is larger than 180 degrees and smaller than 360 degrees?
Answer: reflex angle
Question: In which European country did the 16th Century St Bartholomews Day Massacre take place?
Answer: france
Question: What was the previous name of Taiwan, the island off the southeast coast of mainland China?
Answer: formosa
Question: Born Joseph Frank... by what name was the US silent film comic actor noted for his deadpan expression and pork-pie hats better known?
Answer: buster keaton
Question: Which island group is known by the French as Iles Normande?
Answer: channel islands
Question: From the Greek meaning 'against', and 'a name', what is a word called which has the opposite meaning to another word?
Answer: antonym
Question: What are the fertile South American lowlands covering more than 750,000 square kilometres in Argentina and most of Uruguay?
Answer: pampas
Question: Austrian monk and scientist Gregor Johann Mendel used which plant for the study and experiment of genetics and heredity of certain traits?
Answer: pea
Question: What is the name of the ship of (1960s UK TV) cartoon pirate Captain Pugwash?
Answer: black pig
Question: In the British honours system where a man is made a Knight (i.e., becomes 'Sir...') what is the female equivalent?
Answer: dame
Question: What does the cockney rhyming slang, Butcher's, traditionally mean?
Answer: look
Question: South African Ron Hickman, (1932-11), designer of classic Lotus cars including the Elan and Europa, also designed what multi-million-selling DIY gadget?
Answer: workmate
Question: Which fashion house sacked designer John Galliano in 2011, after his racist rant at fellow customers in a Paris cafe?
Answer: christian dior
Question: The defence minister of which European country resigned in 2011, after he was found to have copied large parts of his 2006 university doctorate thesis?
Answer: germany
Question: What 1790 poem by Robert Burns inspired the naming of a hat, and also indirectly the tea clipper Cutty Sark?
Answer: tam o shanter
Question: Born in 1678, which Italian composer of choral works, over forty operas, and notably The Four Seasons violin concertos, was known as The Red Priest because of his auburn hair?
Answer: antonio vivaldi
Question: Which Indian city, second largest in Rajasthan state behind capital Jaipur, after which styles of trousers and boots were named in the late 1800s, is known as 'Sun City' and the 'Blue City'?
Answer: jodhpur
Question: English cartoon character John Bull was provided with a sister called Peg (by creator Dr John Arbuthnott), representing which country of Great Britain?
Answer: scotland
Question: What does the Latin phrase 'Vox populi' (shortened often in media to vox pop) translate to in English?
Answer: voice of people
Question: The North African social uprisings of 2010-11 caused the successive departure of leaders Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Mohammed Ghannouchi from which country?
Answer: tunisia
Question: What religious term originally referring to the the most educated and literate officials and leaders within the church, evolved into a workplace title nowadays positioned at the other end of an organizational hierarchy?
Answer: clergy
Question: In which city was scientist Marie Curie born, whose residents are known as Varsovians?
Answer: warsaw
Question: Aviator and explorer, Richard Byrd, is said to have been the first person to reach where by air, in 1929?
Answer: south pole
Question: Which planet in our solar system is almost twice as far away from the Sun as Jupiter?
Answer: saturn
Question: What is Uganda's staple crop, of which each adult consumes over three-times bodyweight annually?
Answer: bananas
Question: The mummified ancient man, thought killed by an arrow 5,300 years ago, is known as '(who?).. the Iceman' ?
Answer: otzi
Question: Which hollywood sex symbol, star of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, died in 2011, aged 89?
Answer: jane russell
Question: Which online music service announced in March 2011 achieving one million paying subscribers across Europe, of a total exceeding 10 million users?
Answer: spotify
Question: Mattel Inc closed its vast flagship retail store for what iconic product/brand in Shanghai, China, two years after its launch in 2009?
Answer: barbie
Question: Which Jewish holiday is also known as the Day of Atonement?
Answer: yom kippur
Question: The Tinikling, a dance using bamboo poles, is the (or a) main national dance of which 7,000-island nation?
Answer: philippines
Question: The Hallé Orchestra, named after its Anglo-German founder (born Karl Halle) is based in which city?
Answer: manchester
Question: What 1986 disaster caused pollution across Europe by the radioactive isotope caesium-137, which at least 25 years later still required livestock to be scanned on some UK upland farms?
Answer: chernobyl
Question: Name the excessively cheerful optimistic heroine created by American author Eleanor H Porter in the famous 1913 eponymously titled book, and subsequent series, which became a term for someone of such attitude?
Answer: pollyanna
Question: The Scoville Scale is used to measure the heat of what?
Answer: chili peppers
Question: Eutrophication is the addition of natural or artificial nutrients to what, causing plant growth?
Answer: water
Question: Alberto Grando, who died in 2011 aged 88, was whose motorcycle companion in the 1950s?
Answer: che guevara
Question: Which US president in office 1945-53, is said to have coined the phrase 'If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen' ?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: Which long-standing cartoon characters made their debut in 'Puss Gets The Boot' in February 1940, called originally Jasper and Jinx?
Answer: tom and jerry
Question: Butoh, a ritualistic emotional dance involving extreme movement and stillness is from which country?
Answer: japan
Question: The huge American springtime festival of film, music and technology SXSW is held where?
Answer: austin texas
Question: Name Garry Trudeau's army-related cartoon strip?
Answer: doonesbury
Question: In the 2001 official UK national census what religion did 390,000 people incredibly claim to be?
Answer: jedi
Question: Name the US soldier arrested and imprisoned in 2010 in relation to Wikileaks' publication of thousands of secret US Defense documents, and subject to humanitarian protests about his treatment?
Answer: bradley manning
Question: Mixing blue, red, and green light produces what colour/color?
Answer: white
Question: Nate Dogg who died age 41 in 2011 found fame in what performance genre?
Answer: rap
Question: What is the main cereal component of UK flapjacks, known as Hudson Bay Bars in the USA?
Answer: oats
Question: What nation ended conscription to its Bundeswehr in 2011?
Answer: germany
Question: Recep Tayyip Erdogan took office in 2003 (2011 serves still) as prime minister of which country, connecting Europe and Asia?
Answer: turkey
Question: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president in 2005 of which war-torn African country, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire?
Answer: liberia
Question: What city, named after a month of the year, claims in recent tradition to host the largest street carnival in the world?
Answer: rio de janeiro
Question: US traitor Iva Toguri d'Aquino was better known by what name?
Answer: tokyo rose
Question: What is the subtitle of Shakespeare's play 'Twelfth Night'?
Answer: what you will
Question: The Hubbard Medal, whose past winners include Sir Ernest Shackleton, Charles Lindbergh, and the Apollo 11 crew, is awarded by which society?
Answer: national geographic society
Question: The World Heritage city of Kandy is on which Asian island, whose name means in Sanskrit 'venerable island', and whose previous colonial name is strongly associated with tea?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: What is Ananas Comosus, defined as as 'multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries'?
Answer: pineapple
Question: The D H Lawrence novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country, bordered on the south-east by Guatemala, Belize and the Caribbean Sea?
Answer: mexico
Question: Which publishing firm did Carmen Callil found in 1973, whose name means a domineering woman?
Answer: virago
Question: Roman Emperor Claudius was said to have been poisoned by a dish of what?
Answer: mushrooms
Question: What was the very Greek middle name of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis?
Answer: socrates
Question: What Russian word meaning 'restructuring' was a political movement in the 1980s?
Answer: perestroika
Question: What is an early sacrificial move in chess, usually of a pawn, to gain advantage, which has entered language with similar wider meaning?
Answer: gambit
Question: In 1901 the artists Wassily Kandinsky, Rolf Niczky, Waldemar Hecker, and Wilhelm Hüsgen founded the progressive Phalanx art group in which country?
Answer: germany
Question: Which strait, named after a famous Portuguese-Spanish explorer, separates Chile and Tierra del Fuego?
Answer: strait of magellan
Question: Cinnabar, having the symbol HgS, and being highly toxic, is the common ore of which metal?
Answer: mercury
Question: Which vegetable, of the species Brassica Oleracea, has the varieties Nevada and Canberra?
Answer: cauliflower
Question: Southern Distilleries Ltd, the world's most southern distillery, produces Hokonui Moonshine, named after the mountains where the illicit version of the drink first appeared, in which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: The game 'Spillikins' is commonly known by which other name?
Answer: jackstraws
Question: The Narcissus plant is otherwise known by which popular name?
Answer: daffodil
Question: Europe's largest solar power plant is at Sanlucar la Mayor in which country?
Answer: spain
Question: What UK-based organisation is (at 2011) the world's largest insurance market?
Answer: lloyds of london
Question: 18 year-old Fiona Butler, in an unpaid photoshoot, featured in Athena's iconic 1970's bare-bottom poster of what sport?
Answer: tennis
Question: Podagra is the technical term for which medical condition in humans, often associated with heavy drinking?
Answer: gout
Question: Thomas Seymour married the widow of which monarch in 1547, previously his brother-in-law?
Answer: henry viii
Question: A Novocastrian, is a native of which English and Australian cities?
Answer: newcastle
Question: The Turbine Hall, which hosts artwork of vast scale, is in which London art gallery?
Answer: tate modern
Question: In the Netherlands in 1932 Adriaan Van Well founded which acronymic international grocery chain business, represented by a fir-tree logo?
Answer: spar
Question: In the children's stories of Thomas the Tank Engine, what is the name of the Fat Controller?
Answer: sir topham hatt
Question: Ganesh, Murugan and their father Shiva feature in which religion?
Answer: hindu
Question: Who wrote the poems If, Gunga Din, Mandalay, and The Female of the Species?
Answer: rudyard kipling
Question: Where mega means a million (106) what commonly used prefix means a millionth (10-6)?
Answer: micro
Question: The Bodleian Library is part of which highly regarded universtity?
Answer: oxford
Question: The British Assured Food Standards scheme for food and farm quality is represented in its branding and website name by a?
Answer: red tractor
Question: Kebero, tabor, bodhran and cajon (pronounced cahon) are types of which musical instruments?
Answer: drums
Question: Porifera, meaning 'pore bearer' is a marine life form better known by what name, now strongly associated with its traditional human use?
Answer: sponge
Question: In which country is the Vatnajokull Glacier, covering 8% of its land, and the largest ice cap by volume in Europe?
Answer: iceland
Question: The Roscher System and the Henry Classification System are used by the police for what?
Answer: fingerprinting
Question: Alt, Bock, Dunkel and Helles are German varieties of what?
Answer: beer
Question: The Marble Mountains (locally, Ngu Hành Son) are five marble/limestone hills, Kim, Thuy, Moc, Hoa and Tho, in which country?
Answer: vietnam
Question: The communist government of which country was overthrown during the Velvet Revolution in 1989?
Answer: czechoslovakia
Question: On what form of transport would you find a pelorus, said to be named after Hannibal's pilot, c.200BC?
Answer: ship
Question: What is a traditional fastener which prevents a wheel from coming off its axle, and refers metaphorically to a crucial person or part?
Answer: linchpin
Question: Native to Mediterranean countries the ground beans and pod of the carob tree/shrub are used as a substitute for what?
Answer: chocolate
Question: Dr Harry Coover and Fred Joyner accidentally discovered what popular and generically named adhesive while working for Eastman Kodak on a gunsight project in the mid-1900s?
Answer: super glue
Question: The pungent essential oil eugenol comprises about 70-90% of the oil from which spice?
Answer: cloves
Question: Infrasound - sound lower than 20Hz (Hertz, or cycles per second) and typically undetectable by human hearing - is more commonly termed what?
Answer: subsonic
Question: Which Tropic divides Mexico into temperate and tropical zones?
Answer: tropic of cancer
Question: Which vegetable has the Latin name Allium Cepa?
Answer: onion
Question: Charmeuse, Noil and Shantung are all types of which fabric?
Answer: silk
Question: The enzyme pepsin is released by cells in which part of the human body?
Answer: stomach
Question: Deriving from, and in part meaning small, what is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: omicron
Question: If something is piscivorous, what does it generally feed on?
Answer: fish
Question: Previously deemed too dangerous, what Winter Olympics event will be open to women for the first time in the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi?
Answer: ski jumping
Question: Croquembouche is a dessert tower made of what?
Answer: profiteroles
Question: Which is the only country in Southeast Asia never to have been colonized by a European power?
Answer: thailand
Question: Abidjan is the former capital and a major battleground of what civil-war-torn nation in 2011?
Answer: ivory coast
Question: In relation to spiritual diety Pachamama, in 2011 Bolivia announced an new unusual Law of what?
Answer: mother earth
Question: 'Moon starer' is a fitting anagram of what specialised profession?
Answer: astronomer
Question: Little Willie and Big Willie were nicknames for the first and second models of what British WWI armament?
Answer: tank
Question: 'Roadhouse' is the ironic US Secret Service codename for what famous standard-setting luxury Art Deco hotel at 301 Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York City?
Answer: waldorf astoria hotel
Question: On a conventional piano keyboard, what note is the white key which immediately follows the two black notes together (as distinct from the three black notes together)?
Answer: e
Question: Name the 1959 instrumental piece by The Dave Brubeck Quartet - arguably the first ever mainstream jazz hit record - whose title referred to its unusual 5/4 time-signature?
Answer: take five
Question: What plant and source of starch, used in cooking and medicine, is named after the Arawak word aru-aru, meaning 'meal of meals', and also by association with its use in treating poisoned arrow wounds?
Answer: arrowroot
Question: On which British comedian's (technically comedienne's) US TV show did The Simpsons first appear?
Answer: tracey ullman
Question: Created in 1949 and used by the US Air Force, Sierra Sam was the first what?
Answer: crash test dummy
Question: What is the surname of the famous German brother fairy tale writers, Jacob and Wilhelm?
Answer: grimm
Question: Penthesilea, Myrine and Hippolyte were queens of which legendary warrior people?
Answer: amazons
Question: A solution of magnesium hydroxide in water is better known by what name?
Answer: milk of magnesia
Question: Latrodectism is a clinical syndrome caused by the bite of which creature?
Answer: spider
Question: Emily Watson played which famous cellist in the film 'Hilary and Jackie'?
Answer: jaqueline du pre
Question: What corporation (as at 2011) owns and operates the Norton internet security product range?
Answer: symantec
Question: Beehive, Chonmage and Hoxton Fin are types of what?
Answer: hairstyles
Question: The classic 1892 comedy novel written by George and Weedon Grossmith is 'Diary of a 'what'?
Answer: nobody
Question: Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) affects which insect?
Answer: bee
Question: What is the chemical formula for laughing gas (nitrous oxide)?
Answer: n2o
Question: Which chemical element, not found as a free element on Earth, has the atomic number 9 and the symbol F?
Answer: fluorine
Question: What is the (usually somewhat aspirational) meaning of Latin term Ad Astra, often used in slogans and marketing?
Answer: to stars
Question: The flower-gardened residence Giverny, in Normandy, France, was home to what impressionist painter, noted for his garden pond scenes?
Answer: claude monet
Question: What is the collective name for a flock of geese in flight, especially in V-formation?
Answer: skein
Question: How many petals do buttercup and columbine flowers commonly have?
Answer: five
Question: As at 2011 what car corporation owns the Rolls Royce and Mini marques?
Answer: bmw
Question: The slang term vajazzling refers to what increasingly popular decorative jewelled fashion?
Answer: vaginal
Question: What large computer software corporation, whose products include Acrobat and Photoshop, is named after a 2,000-year-old word meaning 'mud-brick'?
Answer: adobe