CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: The second longest river in China, the Yellow River, is known locally as what?
Answer: huang ho
Question: Which country, which is surrounded by South Africa, gained its independence from Britain in 1966?
Answer: lesotho
Question: Actor Lloyd Bridges is what relation to actors Beau and Jeff Bridges?
Answer: father
Question: Which country was granted its independence from colonial rule on 4 July 1946, after being controlled since 1521 by Spain, Britain, the USA, Japan, and the USA (again)?
Answer: philippines
Question: What name is given to art that depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, where sky is almost always included, and weather is usually an element of the composition?
Answer: landscape
Question: Guitarist Brian Rankin is better known as who?
Answer: hank marvin
Question: As what does "vermicelli" literaly translate from the Italian?
Answer: little worms
Question: The Hesketh racing team, with its Union Jack Teddy Bear logo, founded by Lord Hesketh and Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley, had its greatest successes in Formula One when they employed which driver?
Answer: james hunt
Question: Whose 2006 album "Back to Black" had 6 Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made her the first British singer to win 5 Grammys?
Answer: amy winehouse
Question: How much treacle was there in the nursery rhyme "Pop! Goes the Weasel"?
Answer: half pound
Question: Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written about their experiences in what?
Answer: prison
Question: Which British awards for songwriting and composing, a solid bronze sculpture of Euterpe, the Muse of lyric poetry, are named after a Cardiff-born entertainer?
Answer: ivor novello awards
Question: Where was the first zoo in the United States, which opened on 1 July 1874 with 1,000 animals and an entry fee of 25 cents?
Answer: philadelphia
Question: Which song by John Mayer, written for the Rob Reiner film "The Bucket List", is his highest charting single to date, and won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards in 2009?
Answer: say
Question: Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of World War I?
Answer: woodrow wilson
Question: In the 1950s, which country on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal was bordered by Pakistan, India, Tibet, China, French Indo China and Siam?
Answer: burma
Question: The flag of which country, consisting of three horizontal stripes of red, white and blue (almost identical to that of the Netherlands), was first used in 1845 and officially adopted on June 23, 1972?
Answer: luxembourg
Question: Who organised an Arab revolt against the Turks and wrote "The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom" about his experiences?
Answer: t e lawrence
Question: Who did Johnny Depp play in the film "Public Enemies"?
Answer: john dillinger
Question: Small coloured dots on a squash ball indicate its "bounciness". Which colour, introduced in 2000, is the international competition standard?
Answer: double yellow dot
Question: In which country was "The Tunguska Event" on 30 June 1908, believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment of 510 kilometres (36 miles) above the Earth's surface?
Answer: russia
Question: Normally called a wolverine in North America, what is the largest carniverous mammal in the weasel family, which, it is said, has a habit of hiding articles which are no use to it?
Answer: glutton
Question: What 2003 film was about a murdered Irish journalist played by Kate Blanchett?
Answer: veronica guerin
Question: Which country was controlled by Sweden from 1814 (following the Napoleonic wars) until 1905 when Sweden recognised its independence?
Answer: norway
Question: Who played Frank Spencer in the British TV series "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em"?
Answer: michael crawford
Question: Until 1965, it was thought that which planet was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and keeping the same face directed towards the Sun at all times, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth?
Answer: mercury
Question: What airport was known as "Idlewild Airport" when planned in the late 1930s, was renamed "Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport" when construction began in 1943, then "New York International Airport, Anderson Field" when flights began in 1948, had another name change in 1963?
Answer: john f kennedy international airport
Question: In which country, following Napoleon's final defeat in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo, was the monarchy re-established, ending with the Revolution of 1848?
Answer: france
Question: The Equitable Life Assurance Building in New York City, built in 1870, and 130 feet (40 m) high, was the first office building to be equipped with what?
Answer: passenger elevators
Question: In 1799, who discovered nitrous oxide, that made patients insensible to pain, the first true anaesthetic?
Answer: sir humphrey davy
Question: Daley Thompson is an Olympic gold medallist in what sport?
Answer: decathlon
Question: Who took the role originated by Jodie Foster in films about Hannibal Lechter?
Answer: julianne moore
Question: In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach which area by sea?
Answer: india
Question: What is the seven-branched candlestick, based on the candelabrum that was used in the Temple in Jerusalem in ancient times, that is the national symbol of the State of Israel?
Answer: menorah
Question: Which scientist has the following geographical features named after him: a sound in Tierra del Fuego, a mountain in the Andes, a sound in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands and an Australian state capital?
Answer: charles darwin
Question: Who wrote the book "Studies in Hysteria" and "Interpretation of Dreams"?
Answer: sigmund freud
Question: Broken Arrow, Edmond, Enid, Lawton, Midwest City, Moore, Norman, Stillwater and Tulsa are 9 of the 10 largest cities in which state of the USA?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: Where is a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings consisting primarily of realistic images of large animals?
Answer: lascaux
Question: What invention in the 17th century revolutionized mathematics by providing the first systematic link between Euclidean geometry and algebra, describing geometric shapes as algebraic equations involving the coordinates of the points lying on it?
Answer: cartesian coordinates
Question: Which Frenchman was the first to navigate the St Lawrence River in Canada in 1535?
Answer: jacques cartier
Question: What is the inner core of the Earth believed to consist of?
Answer: iron nickel alloy
Question: Figure skating was first contested as an Olympic sport at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. There were 5 events: Mens & Ladies singles, Special figures, Mixed pairs, and Ice Dancing. Which country won the most medals (6)?
Answer: great britain
Question: Yvette Williams, Mary Rand, Willye White and Kathy McMillan are all medal winners in which Olympic sport?
Answer: long jump
Question: Who secured the contract from the British government in 1838 to carry mail between Liverpool Halifax and Boston and formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company with 4 ships?
Answer: samuel cunard
Question: What name is given to lung-breathing aquatic mammals such as whales, porpoises and dolphins?
Answer: cetacea
Question: In Victorian times, what was an item of wardrobe known as a "stovepipe"?
Answer: hat
Question: In 1964, what did University of Oregon grad. student Carolyn Davidson design for $35?
Answer: nike swoosh
Question: According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had "a long grey beard and a glittering eye"?
Answer: ancient mariner
Question: What is the unit of force which, acting upon a mass of 1 gramme, will produce acceleration of 1 centimetre per second per second?
Answer: dyne
Question: Archery was included in the Olympic Games in 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1920, and every time since 1972. Which country has won the most gold medals?
Answer: south korea
Question: Which German was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF & UHF radio waves?
Answer: heinrich rudolph hertz
Question: In "Kill Bill", who played the character of Black Mamba?
Answer: uma thurman
Question: In which sport have Chinese players won the men's World Championship 60% of the time since 1959, and in the women's competition, all but two of the World Championships since 1971?
Answer: table tennis
Question: Who, in 1916, was the first woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives, the first female member of the Congress, and the only woman to be elected to Congress from Montana?
Answer: jeannette rankin
Question: Which country won the most gold medals for the Olympic Marathon, the first 25 times that it was run (1894 - 2004)?
Answer: ethiopia
Question: Which American TV series (2000 to 2004) centred on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts, had the slogan "Every day is a fight. For respect. For dignity. For sanity."?
Answer: boston public
Question: """Omnibus"" is a word for a common form of public transport taken directly from Latin. What does it mean?"
Answer: for all
Question: Who, co-founders of the Spartacist League in January 1916, were executed in Berlin in January 1919?
Answer: rosa luxemburg and karl liebknecht
Question: In 2009, The Mongoose Bat was introduced into which sport, with the aim of providing 20% more power and 15% more bat speed?
Answer: cricket
Question: Which company was founded and named after the inventor of vulcanised rubber in 1898, almost 4 decades after his death, by Frank Seiberling?
Answer: goodyear
Question: Which holy book consists of two parts, the Mishnah and the Gemara, the latter of which differs between the Jerusalem and Babylonian versions ?
Answer: talmud
Question: Who did Jon Venables and Robert Thompson kidnap from a shopping centre in Bootle, Liverpool on 12 February 1993?
Answer: james bulger
Question: Who first employed his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest in 1906 while a lawyer in South Africa during the Indian community's struggle for civil rights to protest against registration laws in the new state of Transvaal?
Answer: mohandas ghandi
Question: Where is "The Royal Tennis Court", a "real tennis" court built for Henry VIII of England who played there from 1528, that is still home to an active "real tennis" club?
Answer: hampton court
Question: What colour does red litmus paper turn when in contact with alkaline?
Answer: blue
Question: Who was Mel Gibson's co-star in the "Lethal Weapon" series of films?
Answer: danny glover
Question: What is the deepest known part of the world's oceans, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust?
Answer: mariana trench
Question: Bill Bryson called his 2006 autobiography "The Life and Times of .. " who?
Answer: thunderbolt kid
Question: Who was the first driver to complete all 1,100 racing miles (1,800 km), and finish in the top six for both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day (The Double)?
Answer: tony stewart
Question: As a first step to manufacturing steel, iron is extracted from ore by removing oxygen and combining it with what element?
Answer: carbon
Question: Which sport, that involves running through an obstacle track 253.5 metres long, has major competitions held in Sonkajrvi (Finland) and in the USA in Monona and Minocqua (both in Wisconsin) and Marquette (Michigan)?
Answer: wife carrying
Question: In August 1830, the audience were so stirred by a performance of Auber's "La Muette de Portici" at their capital's opera house, that it led to what successful fight for independence?
Answer: belgian revolution
Question: The London market at Billingsgate, now situated close to Canary Wharf in Docklands, London, deals in what?
Answer: fish
Question: """Let's Get It Started"" (2003) by the Black Eyed Peas was originally recorded with what offensive word in the title, making it unsuitable for play on some radio stations and at sports games?"
Answer: retarded
Question: Who was the youngest player to appear in a major league game in the modern era, pitching 2/3 of an inning for the Cincinnati Reds against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1944 when not quite 16 years old?
Answer: joe nuxhall
Question: Dan Quayle was Vice President to which president of the USA?
Answer: george h bush
Question: Which 1956 film, filmed in an early version of modern widescreen, starred David Niven and Cantinflas, with guest appearances by Noel Coward, Frank Sinatra, John Gielgud, Buster Keaton and Marlene Deitrich?
Answer: around world in 80 days
Question: The Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" was stereo-typical of milliners making felt hats, who used what chemical to separate the fur from the pelt and mat it together?
Answer: mercury
Question: The Vatican erected a statue inside the Vatican's walls of which person who was convicted by the Catholic Church of heresy in 1633 and sentenced to house arrest for life?
Answer: galileo
Question: Nicholas II was the last Emperor of which country until he abdicated following the February Revolution of 1917?
Answer: russia
Question: What is the proper term for the # symbol, often referred to as a "number sign", "hash" or "pound sign"?
Answer: octothorpe
Question: What is the most southerly town in Chile, on the Straits of Magellan?
Answer: punta arenas
Question: The stars Betelgeuse, Rigel, Bellatrix, Mintaka, Alnilam, Mintaka, Alnitak, Alnitak and Saiph are found in which constellation?
Answer: orion
Question: Whose hit records include "Gold Digger" (feat. Jamie Foxx) "Stronger" and "Heartless"?
Answer: kanye west
Question: What is shouted by the first person to have a full card in a game of bingo?
Answer: house
Question: Which British sitcom about the Home Guard in World War II was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast between 1968 and 1977, running for 80 episodes?
Answer: dads army
Question: What US policy introduced in 1823, that efforts by European governments to colonise land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed by the USA as acts of aggression requiring US intervention, became one of the longest-standing tenets of US foreign policy?
Answer: monroe doctrine
Question: What did Bayer name its new over the counter drug in 1898, developed and advertised as a morphine substitute and cough suppressant that did not have its addictive side-effects?
Answer: heroin
Question: Which 1962 film, directed by Tony Richardson from a script by Alan Sillitoe, is about a boy (played by Tom Courtenay) in Borstal and his defiance of the accepted norms of British society?
Answer: loneliness of long distance runner
Question: English couple Fred and Rosemary West were famous as what?
Answer: serial killers
Question: What equation is considered to be remarkable for its "mathematical beauty", because 3 basic arithmetic operations occur exactly once each (addition, multiplication, and exponentiation), and it links five fundamental mathematical constants: (the numbers 0, 1, , e, and i)?
Answer: euler s identity
Question: What is the championship game of the US National Football League, the premier association of professional American football, that was first played in 1966?
Answer: super bowl
Question: Which scholar and lawyer who became Speaker of the House of Commons and Treasurer of the Exchequer was beheaded for treason in 1534 after disagreeing with Henry VIII being head of the church?
Answer: sir thomas more
Question: Which English sculptor's famous works in London are the lions at the British Museum, "Peter Pan" in Kensington Gardens and "Edith Cavell Memorial" outside the National Portrait Gallery?
Answer: sir george frampton
Question: What system of musical notation, originating in the 16th century, shows the fingering of notes on a fretted fingerboard?
Answer: tablature
Question: What system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances from the point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines?
Answer: cartesian coordinate system
Question: Which country was ruled between 1971 and 1986 by Idi Amin, Milton Obote, General Tito Okello and Yoweri Museveni?
Answer: uganda
Question: Duffel coats were named after a town in which country?
Answer: belgium
Question: The term "Royal Ascot" is associated with which sport?
Answer: horse racing
Question: What is an eye defect due to the abnormal formation of the cornea or lens resulting in an inability to see horizontal and vertical objects clearly, simultaneously?
Answer: astigmatism
Question: Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the Deutsche Mark as its basic currency unit?
Answer: germany
Question: The matched grip, Moeller method, Open, Rudiment and Traditional grip are terms used in playing what instrument?
Answer: drums
Question: Which Scottish ballerina made her international debut in 1941, married Ludovic Kennedy in 1950, appeared in films from 1948 to 1960, and died in 2006?
Answer: moira shearer
Question: Where did Malcolm Campbell set a water speed record of 141.74 m.p.h. in 1938?
Answer: coniston water
Question: Which team won the inaugural tournament of the Rugby World Cup in 1987, which was hosted by both Australia and New Zealand?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which city is at the Eastern end of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
Answer: vladivostok
Question: Lon de Lunden killed 21 of what to win his gold medal at the 1900 Olympic Games?
Answer: pigeons
Question: What was the name of The Beatles' manager who died from a drug overdose in 1967?
Answer: brian epstein
Question: What shape are the 20 faces of a icosahedron?
Answer: triangles
Question: Which country was established in 1822 by the American Colonization Society (A.C.S.)?
Answer: liberia
Question: What coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, near the River Ouse, has the highest generating capacity of any power station in the UK and Western Europe?
Answer: drax
Question: What specially built city has been the capital of Nigeria since 1991, when it was moved from Lagos?
Answer: abuja
Question: What was the name of the house where William Wordsworth and his sister lived in Grasmere in the Lake District?
Answer: dove cottage
Question: What chemical compound of 1 carbon and 4 hydrogen atoms is the simplest alkane, and the principal component of natural gas?
Answer: methane
Question: Which Pope was carried off into France by Bonaparte's troops in 1798?
Answer: pius vi
Question: Who was an American-born Greek soprano opera singer who had a public love affair with Aristotle Onassis?
Answer: maria callas
Question: Which country has 6 time zones called Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern, Atlantic and Newfoundland?
Answer: canada
Question: Which play and film was adapted from a story by Christopher Isherwood and later adapted as the musical and film "Cabaret"?
Answer: i am camera
Question: What causes a screeching sound when a live microphone is put too close to a speaker?
Answer: feedback
Question: Which ancient country to the south west of the Caspian Sea had rulers called Deioces, Phraortes, Cyaxares and Astyages?
Answer: media
Question: In both Greek and Roman mythology, who was the twin of Castor?
Answer: pollux
Question: Leopold of Saxe-Coburg was invited to be the first king of what country in 1831 after it gained independence from the Dutch?
Answer: belgium
Question: Which fictional rock band was previously called "The Originals", "The New Originals", "The Originals" again, and the "The Thamesmen"?
Answer: spinal tap
Question: What motto, coined by Thomas J. Watson while managing the sales and advertising departments at the National Cash Register Company became a motto for IBM?
Answer: think
Question: On the Christian calendar, what name is given to the first Sunday after Easter?
Answer: low sunday
Question: Who discovered the moons of Saturn called Rhea, Iapetus, Dione and Tethys, between 1671 and 1684?
Answer: cassini
Question: Which photographer who emigrated to Canada in 1937 is best known for his photographs of the Ottawa region (his picture of floating logs on the Ottawa River was on the 1969-1979 series Canadian $1 bill), and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996?
Answer: malak karsh
Question: In 1588 Francis Drake led the English navy against the Spanish what?
Answer: armada
Question: Triathlon has been an Olympic sport since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Which country has won the most medals in the men's event in the first 3 Olympiads to 2008?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who played Elvis Presley in the TV series "Elvis", went on to play Henry VIII in what British TV series?
Answer: tudors
Question: Except for 1978, which team won every World Lacrosse Championship between 1967 and 2002?
Answer: usa
Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "8th King's Royal Irish Hussars"?
Answer: crossbelts
Question: What annual event, held on a Monday for children and their parents, that was started in 1814 by First Lady Dolley Madison in the grounds of the Capitol, Washington DC, USA, is now held on the White House lawn?
Answer: easter egg roll
Question: What branch of mathematics was founded from a paper "On a Characteristic Property of All Real Algebraic Numbers" (1874) by Georg Cantor, who built on the work of Zeno, Bernard Bolzano & Richard Dedekind, which, in turn was followed up by Bertrand Russell, Ernst Zermelo, Abraham Fraenkel & Henri Lebesgue?
Answer: set theory
Question: Alberta is one of two Canadian provinces that is land-locked. What is the other?
Answer: saskatchewan
Question: What British TV series, that aired between 1967 and 1972 starred Edward Woodward as a reluctant professional killer for a branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section', and Russell Hunter as his unwilling assistant ?
Answer: callan
Question: According to the fairytale, Cinderella's coach was made from what?
Answer: pumpkin
Question: The ship "The Beagle" became famous for carrying which scientist on a voyage of discovery?
Answer: charles darwin
Question: In 1957 the inaugural Uber Cup, the most important women's badminton team competition in the world, was won by competitors from which country?
Answer: usa
Question: Which song from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" was recorded in 1963 by Gerry & The Pacemakers and became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club?
Answer: you ll never walk alone
Question: The name of what product, also known as paraffin, a combustible hydrocarbon liquid, was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854?
Answer: kerosene
Question: The first concrete-steel composite arch bridge in the USA that links the states of Nevada and Arizona by spanning the Colorado River is near which other man-made construction?
Answer: hoover dam
Question: According to the song, who loved Puff, the magic dragon?
Answer: little jackie paper
Question: What system, available on the internet, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes?
Answer: facebook
Question: The first act of organised opposition to British rule after the declaration of independence by the Indian National Congress was The Satyagraha, a campaign of nonviolent protest which began with a March to Dandi in March 1930, to protest about tax on what?
Answer: salt
Question: What sport is featured in the musical "The Beautiful Game" by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton?
Answer: soccer
Question: In November 1986, US President Ronald Reagan set up the Tower Commission to investigate what?
Answer: iran contra scandal
Question: What is the name of the place where water comes out of the ground?
Answer: spring
Question: In the 1990 film "Dick Tracy", which starred Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo, who played the role of "Breathless Mahoney", an entertainer at Club Ritz who tries to steal Tracy from Tess Trueheart?
Answer: madonna
Question: How did John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., the elder son of US President John F. Kennedy, die in 1999?
Answer: plane crash