CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which of the four Gospels in the Christian New Testament is not a synoptic gospel?
Answer: john
Question: What is the name for the protein which is the main constituent of hair, horns, nails, claws and hooves of mammals?
Answer: keratin
Question: What was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, first isolated on 19 October 1943 by Albert Schatz, a graduate student, in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University?
Answer: streptomycin
Question: In the film "Home Alone", what is the name of the character who is left alone at Christmas, played by Macaulay Culkin?
Answer: kevin
Question: The smallest internationally recognised country on mainland Africa is completely surrounded by what other country?
Answer: senegal
Question: Who is credited with overseeing the development of the computer mouse?
Answer: douglas engelbart
Question: Classical Greek theatre, and several current theatre spaces, such as La Boite in Australia, The Globe in Canada, Blue Orange Theatre in the UK, L'Europen in France and Theatre '47 in the USA, specialise in what style of performance?
Answer: theatre in round
Question: In which part of the body would you find the bone called the trapezium?
Answer: wrist
Question: In the stories by Enid Blyton, what is the name of the best friend of Big Ears?
Answer: noddy
Question: David Furnish, Canadian filmmaker and former advertising executive is the husband of which performer?
Answer: elton john
Question: Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom, war and the liberal arts?
Answer: pallas athene
Question: Who is a saxophone player from Slaton, Texas, who has performed with musicians such as Bobby Vee, Buddy Holly, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen?
Answer: bobby keys
Question: The Angus, Australian Lowline, Blue Albion, Florida Cracker, Hereford, Romagnola, Tasmanian Grey and Whitebred Shorthorn are all types of what?
Answer: cattle
Question: It premiered at the Olivier Theatre in the Royal National Theatre in London, UK, using life-size, non-human puppets. What was the play?
Answer: war horse
Question: Which point on the African coast stands most closely to the point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: cape spartel
Question: What 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma, scripted by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, is based on Howard Hawks's 1932 biopic of Al Capone?
Answer: scarface
Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess of nature and mother of the earth, Demeter?
Answer: ceres
Question: Writers of episodes for the UK comedy TV series "Doctor in the House" (1969-70) included comic artists Graham Chapman, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Bernard McKenna and who else?
Answer: john cleese
Question: The ports of Astrakhan and Baku are on which body of water?
Answer: caspian sea
Question: Who was the subject of the film "I'm Not There", and did not appear in it?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: Tenzing Norgay was famous for his activities in what field?
Answer: mountaineering
Question: Sigmund Freud coined the term Oedipus complex to describe the tendency for a male to want to kill his father and marry his mother. What did he call the female equivalent (of a female being attached to her father and wishing to replace her mother)?
Answer: electra complex
Question: According to Christian tradition, which angel will blow his trumpet on judgement day?
Answer: gabriel
Question: Who, known primarily for dreamy, other-worldly scenes, painted his first album cover in 1968 for "Gun", in 1971 began a partnership with the progressive rock band "Yes" and created covers for "Budgie", "Uriah Heep" & "Gentle Giant"?
Answer: roger dean
Question: What is a symbol of food and abundance dating back to the 5th century BC, which is classically depicted as a goat's horn filled with fruits and flowers?
Answer: cornucopia
Question: What links French dramatist Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) and actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008)?
Answer: el cid
Question: In 2009 three women - an Australian, a Norwegian and a Venezuelan - created a record for the Venezuelan at Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, doing what?
Answer: base jumping
Question: Who was found guilty by the High Court of Admiralty, London, on five counts of piracy and for the murder of William Moore, was hanged on May 23, 1701, at 'Execution Dock', Wapping, London?
Answer: william kidd
Question: What type of creature can be called earth, round, flat, butt, arrow, jaw, horsehair, ribbon, velvet, horseshoe, peanut and tape?
Answer: worm
Question: Who wrote "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" between 1772 and 1787 (published from 1776 to 1789) in 6 volumes?
Answer: edward gibbon
Question: Africa is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and which other major body of water?
Answer: red sea
Question: Reginald Rose wrote a play adapted from his 1957 teleplay, and later film, script of the same name. The film became famous with Henry Fonda in the lead role as foreman of a jury. What was the play?
Answer: 12 angry men
Question: Who plays Gabrielle Solis in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives"?
Answer: eva longoria parker
Question: What type of land does Bogota, Columbia, have most of?
Answer: mountains
Question: What is the next city in the series Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro ...?
Answer: tokyo
Question: Lcio Costa was the principal urban planner, Oscar Niemeyer was the principal architect, and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer for which purpose-built capital city?
Answer: brasilia brazil
Question: On the Christian calendar, what is the name for the Sunday before Easter?
Answer: palm sunday
Question: It was called by one government the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" and by a neighbouring government the "Wall of Shame", what was it and when was construction started?
Answer: berlin wall 1961
Question: In 2010, Iyad Allawi and Nuri Al-Maliki contested an election in which country?
Answer: iraq
Question: The northernmost USA state on the eastern seaboard lies partly north of its neighbouring Canadian territory. Which is the state?
Answer: maine
Question: The American TV miniseries "Shogun", based on the book by James Clavell, was set in which country?
Answer: japan
Question: In their raiding, exploring, trading and settling in the 9th century Scandinavian Vikings took which city, and grew it into the capital of what became known as the Land of the Rus?
Answer: kiev
Question: Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood's clothing shop in Chelsea, London was called "Let It Rock" when it opened. The name was changed to "Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die" 1972, and was next called what?
Answer: sex
Question: Who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"?
Answer: john keats
Question: Who wrote the 1955 novel "The Quiet American"?
Answer: graham greene
Question: The Tuareg are the principal inhabitants of which area?
Answer: sahara desert
Question: If you went directly south from France, which sea would you meet first?
Answer: mediterannean
Question: Who is the ringmaster in the UK TV series "QI"?
Answer: stephen fry
Question: Who was the US president when women got the vote in the USA due to the ratification of The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
Answer: woodrow wilson
Question: Who created the comic strip "Doonesbury"?
Answer: garry trudeau
Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 muses was the muse of Comedy?
Answer: thalia
Question: John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their famous "bed ins" for peace In which two cities in 1969?
Answer: amsterdam and montreal
Question: Antonia Robinson and Anna Valentine, London designers who work under the name Robinson Valentine, designed a cream-coloured dress and coat worn by whom at her wedding to Prince Charles on 9 April 2005?
Answer: camilla parker bowles
Question: Obsidian, caused naturally when lava cools very quickly, is what type of substance?
Answer: glass
Question: She has figured in plays by John Lyly, Sir W.S. Gilbert, Lawrence Aronovitch, and George Bernard Shaw as well as in novels, opera, painting, and a video game as well as in place and ship names. Who is she?
Answer: galatea
Question: Who is the main character in "Blondie", a comic strip which appeared around 1933, who was originally heir to a fortune but was disowned when he married a flapper, Blondie Boopadoop?
Answer: dagwood bumstead
Question: The Kalahari Desert in Africa stretches across South Africa, Botswana and which other country?
Answer: namibia
Question: At the 1925 Wimbledon Championships, the finals of the Men's Singles were contested by Ren Lacoste who defeated Jean Borotra and the finals of the Women's Singles by Suzanne Lenglen who defeated Joan Fry Lakeman. Three of these players were French: what nationality was the other?
Answer: english
Question: An astrolabe was used for astrology, navigation and what else?
Answer: astronomy
Question: Which country, after Sultan Hussein Shah signed a treaty with the British East India Company on 6 February 1819, officially became a British colony on 2 August 1824 by a new treaty with the Sultan and the Temmenggong?
Answer: singapore
Question: Colombia's shores are in the Caribbean Sea and which other body of water?
Answer: pacific ocean
Question: One of the forms of music usually sung a capella is...?
Answer: madrigal
Question: Kathleen Brennan produced albums for which musician, starting with his 1983 album "Swordfishtrombones"?
Answer: tom waits
Question: Adriano De Souza, Joel Parkinson, Adam Robertson, Bobby Martinez, Kelly Slater, Damien Hobgood, Mick Fanning, Dane Reynolds, Bede Durbidge, Chris Davidson & Taj Burrow are international competitors in what sport?
Answer: surfing
Question: The word "Scandinavian" refers to which part of the world?
Answer: northern europe
Question: After a military coup on 21 March 2009, in which country did Andry Rajoelina became the youngest of the current heads of state in the world and the youngest head of state in Africa?
Answer: madagascar
Question: In Greek mythology Argus Panoptes, guardian of the heifer-nymph Io and son of Arestor, was a primordial giant described as having multiple, often one hundred, what?
Answer: eyes
Question: What name is given to ducks which feed mainly at the surface rather than by diving?
Answer: dabbling ducks
Question: The Fast5 World Netball Series, first contested in October 2009 under modified rules, was scheduled to be held in Manchester, England, initially but was played where in 2012?
Answer: auckland new zealand
Question: Who wrote the historical romances "The White Company" and "Brigadier Gerard"?
Answer: arthur conan doyle
Question: Austro-Hungarian Theodore Herzl was the first leader of what international movement?
Answer: zionism
Question: What is the name for the movement of water across a partially permeable membrane from an area of high water potential (low solute concentration) to an area of low water potential (high solute concentration)?
Answer: osmosis
Question: What play is seldom referred to in theatre by its own name but called instead "the Scottish play"?
Answer: macbeth
Question: Which British actor debuted on the West End stage in 1956 in "Look Back in Anger", a role he had originated at the Royal Court which made him a star, and made his film debut in 1960 in "The Entertainer" opposite Laurence Olivier?
Answer: alan bates
Question: What sea between Israel and Jordan is 1,385 feet (422 metres) below sea level?
Answer: dead sea
Question: Which African kingdom, founded by Osei Tutu in the 1670s, was increased until 1701, fought 4 wars against Britain between 1823 and 1896 until, in 1900, it was incorporated into the Gold Coast colony as a protectorate?
Answer: ashanti
Question: Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain during the Edward VIII abdication crisis?
Answer: stanley baldwin
Question: Forty hours before he committed suicide in 1945 Adolf Hitler married whom?
Answer: eva braun
Question: What is used in the technique for opening a champagne bottle called "sabrage"?
Answer: sword
Question: What paradise was created by James Hilton in his book "Lost Horizon"?
Answer: shangri la
Question: Who is the main character in a film whose plotline begins in 1845 in Canada, when young James Howlett kills a groundskeeper named Thomas Logan, who was John Howlett's murderer?
Answer: wolverine
Question: What is the name for the outer covering of the shell of a coconut which is made into yarn used to make matting and brushes?
Answer: coir
Question: What is the street term for the drug Gamma-Hydroxibutyric acid (GHB)?
Answer: fantasy
Question: During the late 1960s and early 1970s, "Easy Rider", "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Graduate" helped to begin what film-making phase?
Answer: new hollywood
Question: The centre of a well-known UK TV series was a doctor, but was not a medical series. What was the name of the doctor?
Answer: who
Question: Which US president occupied 2 executive mansions in New York City [at 3 Cherry Street (April 1789 February 1790) & 3941 Broadway (February August 1790)], and 1 in Philadelphia at 190 High Street (November 1790 to March 1797)?
Answer: george washington
Question: Which 1987 film stars Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer?
Answer: witches of eastwick
Question: While performing on TV on "Saturday Night Live" in 1992, singer Sinead O'Connor tore up a picture of whom?
Answer: pope
Question: What is the name of the wife of Andy Capp, a British comic strip character created by Reg Smythe, first published in August 1957?
Answer: flo
Question: The sea which lies immediately north of Norway and Russia is known by what name?
Answer: barents sea
Question: US author Sara Paretsky created which fictional detective?
Answer: v i warshawski
Question: Max is a little boy who appears in which children's story by Maurice Sendak?
Answer: where wild things are
Question: The Atacama area on the Pacific coast of South America is best characterised as what?
Answer: desert
Question: By what name were followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea better known?
Answer: khmer rouge
Question: A television film released by Disney Channel Original Movie in 2006 was "High School ..." what?
Answer: musical
Question: What was the name of ten Kings of Denmark between 1448 and 1947?
Answer: christian
Question: Who played the title role in Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall"?
Answer: diane keaton
Question: In the movie 'Miracle on 34th Street', Kris Kringle is hired to play Santa Claus in what large department store?
Answer: macy s
Question: What is the Greek name for the Roman god known as Cupid?
Answer: eros
Question: What's the next city in this series: Salt Lake City, Turin, Vancouver, ...?
Answer: sochi
Question: Which 13th century Mogol Emperor of China set up his capital in Peking?
Answer: kublai khan
Question: What was the title of a 2005 film biography of Johnny Cash, starring Joaquin Phoenix?
Answer: walk line
Question: Which British fashion designer spent his working life from 1934 to 1979 at 26 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London, and designed for the Royal family, notably the wedding dress of Princess Elizabeth in 1947 for her marriage to Prince Philip, the 1953 Coronation Dress of Queen Elizabeth II and those of all the major royal ladies, including the wedding dress of HRH Princess Margaret in 1960?
Answer: norman hartnell
Question: Edward I of England defeated whose forces at Falkirk on 22 July 1298?
Answer: william wallace
Question: Vehicles that can operate on both land and water are called what?
Answer: amphibious
Question: In the 1967 film "Belle de Jour", based on a 1928 novel by Joseph Kessel and directed by Luis Buuel, what part-time work is carried out by the main character played by Catherine Deneuve?
Answer: prostitute
Question: The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Zanzibar are in which ocean?
Answer: indian
Question: In 2004, who released his long awaited album, "Smile"?
Answer: brian wilson
Question: What is the name of the strait which links the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea?
Answer: bab el mandeb
Question: According to the Hebrew bible who was the oldest man ever to live?
Answer: methuselah
Question: Who was the magistrate in Athens who codified its laws around 600 BC?
Answer: draco
Question: Who has been a game show host on US television for "The Neighbors" (1975), "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (from 1999), "Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire" (from 2004), "America's Got Talent" (2006) and "Million Dollar Password" (2008 to 2009)?
Answer: regis philbin
Question: What is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshade family?
Answer: mandrake
Question: Marlborough and Hawke Bay are wine producing regions of what area?
Answer: new zealand
Question: The seven hills which lay within ancient Rome are the Capitoline, Caelian, Aventine, Palatine, Quirinal, Esquiline and which other hill?
Answer: viminal
Question: The title of a 1999 film was "Being John ... " who?
Answer: malkovich
Question: Who was the first British monarch to be named "Empress of India"?
Answer: victoria
Question: What part of Pinocchio's body extended when he told a lie?
Answer: nose
Question: Which country's dissolution in 1993 was known as the Velvet Divorce?
Answer: czechoslovakia
Question: In which country, on June 1, 2001, was there a massacre in the royal palace when King Birendra, Queen Aiswarya, Crown Prince Dipendra and 7 other members of the royal family were killed?
Answer: nepal
Question: A way of looking at mathematical relationships and operations using abstract symbols instead of specific numbers is called what?
Answer: algebra
Question: The endocrine glands secrete their products directly into what rather than through a duct?
Answer: blood stream
Question: The death of which dictator, closely associated with revolution and with World War II, happened in 1953 while he was in office as leader of his country?
Answer: josef stalin
Question: The Kuril island archipelago lies between the Pacific Ocean and which other sea?
Answer: sea of okhotsk
Question: The marshmallow was first created as a medicinal substance when extracts from what part of the marsh mallow plant were used as a remedy for sore throats?
Answer: root
Question: Which playwright wrote the musical "Mamma Mia"?
Answer: catherine johnson
Question: """The Leader of the Pack"" was a #1 hit record world-wide between 1972 and 1976 for which group?"
Answer: shangri las
Question: New Zealand celebrates Matariki, Maori New Year in late May or early June, marking the rising in the southern hemisphere of the seven stars of what?
Answer: pleiades
Question: The Joad family appear in which novel and 1940 film directed by John Ford?
Answer: grapes of wrath
Question: In what region do the Sahel droughts occur?
Answer: west and central africa
Question: When the Badminton World Federation was first formed in 1934 (initially as the International Badminton Federation) where was it located?
Answer: cheltenham uk
Question: Africa is considered to have been part of which early landmass?
Answer: gondwana
Question: According to the Masters of Foxhounds Association of America, the first fox hounds were imported into America in 1650; what nationality was the man who imported them?
Answer: british
Question: What stitch, also called a whip stitch (when done by machine) or a crochet stitch (when done by hand), is used to reinforce the edge of thick materials?
Answer: blanket stitch
Question: By what name was US president Andrew Jackson affectionately known?
Answer: old hickory
Question: What Roman road ran from London to Weymouth, via Silchester, Old Sarum and Dorchester?
Answer: portway
Question: Barbara is the name of the First Lady of which US president?
Answer: george h bush
Question: Wargaming in one form or another has gone through surges of use and popularity but one form is both ancient and still greatly popular; which is it?
Answer: chess
Question: Which political figure's assassination was among the events which precipitated World War I?
Answer: archduke franz ferdinand
Question: What is the name of Thomas Gray's most famous poem?
Answer: elegy written in country churchyard
Question: Which book of the Christian Bible provides the details of the Apocalypse?
Answer: revelation
Question: A hit song of 1960 by Brian Hyland concerned an itsy bitsy teenie weenie polka dot bikini of what colour?
Answer: yellow
Question: Who plays Dr. Addison Montgomery in the US TV series "Private Practice"?
Answer: kate walsh
Question: In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published "Futility", a short novel about an enormous British passenger liner, which, thought to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats and on a voyage in April, hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. What was the name of the ship in this story?
Answer: titan
Question: What was the original prize for winning golf's Open Championship (the British Open)?
Answer: belt
Question: Until the Simpsons came along, what was the most successful TV cartoon series?
Answer: flintstones
Question: What is the name of the calms and light baffling winds in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans?
Answer: doldrums
Question: What is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets?
Answer: torino scale
Question: Who was an English record producer for The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Lulu, Nancy Sinatra, The Yardbirds, Suzi Quatro, Kim Wilde and the Jeff Beck Group?
Answer: mickie most
Question: The sign language used in some stock exchanges to buy and sell is called what?
Answer: arb
Question: In 2003, Britain's first what was opened just north of Birmingham?
Answer: toll motorway
Question: Az, buky, vd and glagoli and dobro are the first 5 letters of which alphabet?
Answer: glagolitic
Question: What was the setting for "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", a 2008 film directed by Mark Herman starring Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, and Vera Farmiga, based on the book by John Boyne?
Answer: concentration camp
Question: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Catalonia and Navarre are all autonomous communities of which country?
Answer: spain
Question: Who led English barons in an attempt to influence Henry III, called a parliament in 1265 and was defeated at the Battle of Evesham?
Answer: simon de montfort
Question: Suriname's three neighbouring countries are Guyana, French Guiana and which other?
Answer: brazil
Question: Which pantomime is about a boy who discovers a magic lamp?
Answer: aladdin
Question: Why was the Olympic flag raised upside down at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia?
Answer: mistake
Question: Where is Dan Brown's book "Angels and Demons" mainly set?
Answer: vatican
Question: Who led the Dutch colony of New Netherlands in America until surrendering it to the British in 1664?
Answer: peter stuyvesant
Question: Ding Junhui is a rising star in which sport?
Answer: snooker
Question: Originally a UK TV series using string puppets it first aired in 1952 with an idiosyncratic version of English called Oddle Poddle; what was the series?
Answer: flower pot men
Question: Who entitled his autobiography "Memoirs of a Professional Cad"?
Answer: george sanders
Question: Who is the next in this series: Rajiv Gandhi, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Chandra Shekhar Singh, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ... ?
Answer: h d deve gowda
Question: Who was declared president by both houses of the US Congress because there was no precedent or clear constitutional rule for a vice president to assume the office of president upon the death of his predecessor?
Answer: john tyler
Question: What name was given to a series of treaties between Scotland and France, aimed specifically against England, that began in 1295 and lasted until 1560?
Answer: auld alliance
Question: What is the word for an asexual form of reproduction found in females where growth and development of embryos occurs without fertilisation by a male?
Answer: parthenogenesis
Question: Which prophetess, the daughter of Priam, King of Troy, was killed following the fall of Troy by Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra?
Answer: cassandra
Question: Who, in 1901, won the Triple Crown in Major League baseball?
Answer: nap lajoie